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| _many critics say—they want * whole book! INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHER ae re WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD T PAYS a dollar-a day, this job. And you have to be physically fit to get it. No flatfeet, no weak-eyes, no punk-chested men need apply. You’ve got to be healthy, in the pink of condition to get it, and you’ve got to be sble to: lug fifty to a hundred pounds on your back for days. ; You get a buck a day for the work. It includes murder, gassing, stabbing, wounding, mutilating men. It includes bombing, dynamiting, torpedoing, shelling towns, villages, ships, and factories. It includes killing women and children. It includes laying waste, destroying for- ever, fields that grow food and factories that create goods. The job has risks that go with it, of course. Instead of you doing all the gassing, stabbing, wounding, shooting, the wounding, shooting, gassing, mutilating might be done to you. In fact, you'll be lucky if it isn’t done to you. * * For a Dollar a Day Ba this more active work, the job includes lying in trenches with old rain water making the.earth a sea of mud and filth for days. You'll have to crawl out into. the center of fields where bombs and rockets and machine guns are eating the air to fix a few broken stray barbed wires. You'll have to go down on your hands and knees and dig out the earth with the blade of your bayonet for a hole in which to hide yourself from the bullets. Sometimes, you'll have to sit up all night fighting the rats off. Big rats that feed on corpses. It’s that kind of a job. And when you're not busy burying yourself from the shells bursting in your dug- out, or splicing the ends of barbed wire (you may be electrocuted do- ing this) or organizing raids on machine gun nests, the officers will see to it that you're kept busy. For examplé, your job might include seeing to it that every morning the major’s boots are shined up bright and clean. Or they might have you sweeping up the mess hall of the captains and the colonels. You won’t get too much to eat. The Goyernment will see to that. Mostly beans. Beans are cheap. After all, wouldn't it be stupid for your Government to waste good, nourishing food on a guy who might be bumped off, blown to bits, five minutes after he finishes eating an expensive supper? Think of all that good food gone to waste. Therefore you'll get beans. You'll get all this for a buck a day. That's what they pay the soldiers, that’s the fixed rate for the boys in khaki. That's the wages for capitalist murder. * . . The Salestalk jes it’s nof the: money -you'll be getting that counts. That’s what they tell you. That’s what the Y.M.C.A. chaplain will tell you. So will the major and the major general and the colonel major and the brigadier general.. It’s not the buck a day you're out there fighting for. You're out there -fighting for your country. You won't have to wait until then to find that out. They're telling it to you now. They're getting you ready for it. Every day, in the movies, over the radio, in the papers, in the magazines, they’re telling it to you. The, Chief of Staff_is telling it to you. Good old F. D. R. is telling dt to you. Sloan of. General Motors {& telling it to you. Herbie, the Hoover, told it to you for a long time. Maybe tomorrow morning, you'll be reading in the papers that the du Pont brothers are telling it to you. All together they're saying: We need a big navy. We need a big army. We need more munitions. We need more air planes. We need more submarines. We need better and bigger laws for the mobilization of men. We need new conscription laws.. We néed more C.C.C. camps. They just bought 110 new airplanes. They just drafted a bill providing for a dozen new destroyers. What do you think the army intelligence is for? What do you think the navy intelligence is for? Do you think a general can become famous through peace? Do you think J. P. Morgan and Company will permit those foreign bankers to get away with all that money they borrowed from J. P. Morgan? Do you think that the duPont brothers and Bethlehem Steel and General Motors can sell guns or gas or airplane motors for big’ profits ‘when ‘there >is no war? War is profitable. But “not for you. It would be a bad piece of salesmanship to ‘try and sell you the war idea by telling you we got to get’ those bonds back for J, P., or we got to beat those bastards because Irenee du Pont had losses on his books three months running. You got to be sold on the “country” idea. You got to go out and murder, slaughter, wound, gas, mutilate on a good sales talk. You got to believe what you're doing is what you should be doing. Even though you get only a buck a day and Irenee du Pont gets millions, t * . * War—Cheap 'HEY’LL be telling you:that war is really exaggerated. Somebody will get up in the Senate, or at a formal dinner,-a renowned chemist, and he'll tell you that the whole idea of the terrors of poison as in the coming war is grossly exaggerated. He will assure you that poison gas, and chemicals and bacteria warfare is a childish nightmare in- vented by alarmists, or pacifists, or conscientious objectors or reds. Really, gas is much less harmful than the explosion of a big shell. And so much cheaper, he will add. So much legs expensive, Therefore, you should go to war because it is really a very cheap experience. But what will you do? There are the war clouds everywhere. Europe is like the hold of a ship carrying dynamite. Every time some one moves, the. fuse begins to sputter. And hate is everywhere. Hate deliberately fostered, deliberately worked-up by the warring imperial- ists.. The ruling classes of the world are at each other's throats. They hate each other, and they: fear their workers. Only this prevents them from hurling: the world into the bloody trenches of a new holocaust. When they feel that they have sufficient control, when they feel they have sufficiently aroused national hatreds in their workers, they will try to strangle each other. For a buck a day, and a cheap sales talk about “country” will you Jet them send you to slaughter, wound, gas, stab, bomb, destroy? We stand on the brink of a great war, a new flame that will burn the world like a torch among straw. There is only one way to stop it—only when “the buck-a-day’s” turn the fight into a struggle for their own rights, and their own world. THEATRE UNION’S great play stevedore f For the Benefit of Chicago United Workers Organizations SELWYN THEA., Dearborn & Lake Sts., Chicago, Ill. 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This town |is composed of men whom the New |Deal has “benefitted” most—men | without |jobs, without homes and without a future under capitalism. |These men have built miserable | These men are the “forgotten” |men about whom Mr. Roosevelt | the workers. | Shacks near the river, overshad- owed by the skyscrapers of the! Windy City. | once shed crocodile tears—but that was before élection. Now his eyes have run dry and he also has for- gotten these men—even in words. This is only an éxample of how much Mr. Roostvelt’s promises | mean. But not only Mr. Roosevelt. In 1932, when Hoover was in office, many such towns, known as Hoover- villes, sprang up. As far as the workers ‘are concerned, it makes no difference whether a Republican or Democrat is in office; these people carry out the policies of their bosses, the Wall Street bankers. But let us see how Communists act when in office. In the Red Vil- lage of Taylor Springs in southern Illinois, five Communists have been elected to the Village Board. These five Communists were elected on the platform of the following de- mands: Unemployment Insurance, ' @ public works program, higher wages, shorter working hours, for the Tight of the workers to organ- ize, strike, etc. But, unlike Hoover and Roosevelt, these Communists have not forgotten th€ir program | after elections. They immediately proceeded to lead demonstrations of the unem- | ployed, struggles for better condi- | tions for the workers. The result was that these Communist village board members, together with other workers, have been arrested and charged with Criminal Syndicalism, and are faced with a 20-year sen- | tence in jail. They were released | on bail and immediately continued | their work—leading demonstrations | for unemployment relief and insur- | ance, and for better conditions for | irae Bae | |OW, before the elections, the Re- | publicans and Democrats in Chicago are again coming out with promises. But thére is one Party in Chicago which has put up can- Chicago’s ‘¥ Joseph Smith and his shack in “Misery Town”—desolate “home” of |5, 6, and 7, to present to Congress | hundreds of victims of unemploym are the towering symbols of capitalist greed and brutality. lisery Town’ ent in Chicago. In the background didates who do not make promises only before election. For instance, the Communist Party has put up Karl Lockner as candidate Mayor, pee | Who is Karl Lockner? He is the | #cipated in many local struggles at | Secretary of the Unemployment Councils of Cook County. He has led ‘many struggles of the unem- ployed for relief and in many cases | a Negro worker, has also had a his- | the Washington Congress to fight | has won increases in relief. Karl Lockner took a leading part in the |active part in the struggle for the | huge Hunger March on October 31,| rights of Negroes to swim at Jack- | representatives 1932, which defeated cent cut in relief. He participated in the Hunger March to Washing- ton in 1933. He participated in the | Hunger ‘March to Springfield in March 31, 1934. Finally, he was the active leader in the big United for | Front Hunger March on November | | 24th, 1984. Besides this, he par- | relief stations. | Another candidate, Herbert New- |ton, who is running for City Clerk, | story of struggle. Newton took an the 50 per|son Park Beach. He was also ac-|class—those who know what | tive in the struggle for the right of | free speech, especially in Ellis Park, |which later came to be known as hicago Communist Party Candidates | Show Way to Wipe Out ‘Misery Towns a 'C.P. Candidates in Fore- Front of Workers’ | Struggles Newton Park to the workers of the South Side, because of the excellent | fight he put up there rec—lting in the establishment of a reguiar open forum in that park. Newton has also purt many struggles at the re tions on the Souh Side. | present time he is in jail for having | fought against his eviction from a | Jim Crow house. Newton is well- | known to the workers of the South Side as a fighter for Negro rights and for better conditions for the workers generally. | @AM HAMERSMARK is the third | candidate of the . Communist | | Party, running for the post of City | ; Treasurer.. Comrade Hamersmark | has had 40 years of activity in the | labor movement and has partici- |Pated in many struggles of the | | workers. He is widely known for j having spread more literature and | educated more people in the city of | Chicago than any other persort. | Such are the candidates that the Communist Party is putting up. From their militant records it is }easy to judge in whose interests | | these workers are fighting. There | is no danger of their forgetting | their program after the elections, because their program has been | one of struggle for the interests of the workers for years and years. | One of the immediate election | | struggles in which these Commu- |nists are involved at the present | time is preparation for the Hunger | March to Washington on January | ' |the demands for the passage of the | | Workers’ Unemployment and So- | |cial Insurance Bill H. R. 7598. This | bill provides for $10 per week for a |family of two, and $3 additional | |for each dependent, for $8 per week | \for single men, and for other de- |mands of the workers which would |eliminate these despicable Hoover- | villes, Misery Towns, and Roose-_| bare New Deal Towns. | All workers’ organizations, as | |well as workers in shops and neigh- |borhoods must elect delegates to | |for these demands. | Elect Communists to office! Elect | of the working it | Means to suffer and those who are |in the forefront of the struggles of the workers. Expose of Militarist and Fascist Movement in Japan in New Book Authoritative answers to questions proveked by Japan’s expansionist policy, its role’in the war danger} and especially in the drive against | the Soviet Union are provided by O. Tanin and E. Yohan in “Mili- | tarism and Fascism in Japan,” just off the press of International Pub- lishers. Written by noted Soviet students of Far Eastern affairs, the book is the first comprehensive study, from the Marxist viewpoint, of the forces which give rise to Fascism in Japan. The authors explain the formative period of Japanese fi- nance capital, the beginnings of the colonial conquest policy, the effect of the world war on class antag- | onisms in the post war crisis. | The personnel of every jingoistic group is analyzed and its class base exposed. While they trace in detail commercial jealousies between dif- ferent sections of the Japanese rul- ing class, the authors prove that the ruling class is prepared to sink its internal differences to push pro- vocative measures against the Soviet Union. Hails Publication In Cheap Edition as Joyous Event) By A. B. MAGIL DETROIT. — The publication of Stalin’s “Fountations of Leninism” in. an edition of 100,009 copies, to sell for 10 cents each, is a joyous event in the life of the revolution- ary movement. This basic textbook of the theory and practice of Len- inism has become an indispensable part of the arsenal of the workers of the world, taking its place be- sides such classics as the “Com- munist Manifesto,” “Wage Labor and Capital,” “Socialism Scientific and Utopian,” “What Is to be Done?”, “Imperialism” and “State and Revolution.” With the air filled with all sorts of pseudo-revolutionary, semi-fas- cist and mystical trial balloons that confuse the masses and lead them astray, now as never before is it necessary to make known to the broadest sections of the toiling pop- ulation those basic scientific Marx- ist-Leninist principles under whose of ‘Foundations’ banner the workers and farmers jover one-sixth of the earth’s sur- | face have conquered and are build- | ing a new life of freedom and pros- | perity. We in Detroit feel this especially |Keenly. Detroit has been the foun- tain-head of all sorts of sectarian {distortions of Marxism-Leninism as represented by the Proletarian and Socialist-Labor Parties, whose ideas |have infected large sections of the labor movement. Detroit and Mich- igan have also been the stamping- |Srounds of such semi-fascist organ- jizations as the Direct Credits So- | elety and now of Father Coughlin’s | National Union for Social Justice. Stalin’s “Foundations of Leninisny” sold at a price which every worker can afford, will help to clear away these reactionary cobwebs and pro- vide that clear understanding and guide to action in the daily strug- gles without which the working class cannot conquer. Newark To See ‘Three Songs About Lenin’ During Holiday Week NEWARK.—As a special holiday offering the Little Theatre will pre- sent to its patrons the great new Soviet film “Three Songs About Lenin,” direct from its Broadway run. This is to be the only showing in New Jersey. Heralded as Russia’s tribute to its leader, “Three Songs About Lenin” has been praised throughout the world. It is a feature length camera record taken from the archives of Moscow with photography said to excel anything that has ever before been sent to these shores from the U. S. S. R. The musical score by Chaporin and the direction by Dzega Vertov has been praised by every musical critic upon its pre- miere on Broadway a few weeks ago. As an additional attraction the Little Theatre management is of- fering this picture at prices within reach of everyone, Running con- tinuously from 1 p. m. to 11 p. m., daily and Sunday, the prices will be 30c from 1 p, m. to 5 p, m., and 40c from 5 p. m. to closing, with a 15c price for children at all times. | There. will be only a slight increase A scene from the stirring Soviet film, “Three Sengs About Lenin,” opening Saturday at the Little Theatre, Newark, Haill the 11th Anniversary and Lenin Memorial Edition of the Daily Worker, January 19, 1935! I send revolutionary greeting of the American working class, Name . City .. to the Daily Worke~, the organizer +... State. . (All greetings, which must be accompanied by cash or money for holidays, Saturday and Sunday. Little Lefty =| WON'T BACK: sence Ae MAKE OF ORGANIZED PROTEST OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN, MR. GIGE IS COMPELLED “IO PROMISE FREE. FOOO “To ALL NEEDY CHILOREN M/ VICTOR y/ HOWE VER— PROPOSE. To, EXAMPLE OF WHAT NLHAPPENS “0 DIS — a. “TEACHER: order, will be published in the Daily Worker.) TAKE YOU WWE ACCEPT YouR “TERMS — AND “THANKS FOR, SHOWING ME |B weer you MEAN “BY “LOYALTY™ You AN — WHY YOUR INES LOYALTY BILL IS NOYHING BUY A FASCIST N. Y. Workers’ School | | Announces Formation | Of Classes in Music The Workers School of New York, | in conjunction with the Workers Music League, announces the forma- | tion of classes in Music. Courses | will be offered in theory, music ap- preciation, choral singing, piano, | violin and other instruments. Instruction in the above courses | will be planned with a view to prac- | tical work in the revolutionary | movement. They will be under the supervision of the School Division | of the Workers Music League. Information and registration at the Workers Music League head- quarters, Room 531, 799 Broadway, daily, between 3 and 4 p. m. and by mail, | TUNING IN 1:00-WEAF—Himber Orchestra WOR—Sports Resume—Stan Lomax WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Matge—Sketch 1:15-WEAF—Talk—John B. Kennedy WOR—Oomeédy; Music WIZ—Concert Orchestra ‘WABS—Just Plain Billi—Sketch 7:30-WEAF— Minstrel Show WOR—Larry Taylor, Baritone WABC—Nick Lucas, Songs 7:45-WOR—Dance Music WiZ—Shirley Howard, Songs WABO—Boake Carter, Commentatcr 8:00-WEAF—Valle’s Varieties WOR—Little Symphony Orchestra, Philip James, Conductor; New York University Mixed Chorus WJZ—Cottingham’s Last Bansheo— Musical Drama ‘WABC—Troopers id 8:15-WABC—From Callandar, Out.; scription Rotitine in Caring for Dione Quintuplets at Dafoe Hos- pital | 8:30-WJZ—Charles Sears, Tenor; Ruth Lyon, Soprano | WABC—Johnson Orchestra; Edward Nell, Baritone; Edwin C. Hill, Nar- rator; Speaker, James F. Bell, Chairman of the Board, General | Mills, Inc. | 9:00-WEAF—Captain Henry’s Show Boat WOR—Hillbilly Music WJZ—Death Valley Days—Sketch WABC—Gray Orchestra; Annette Hanshaw, Songs; Walter O'Keefe) 9:30-WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch WJZ—Robert Childe, Piano; Larry Larsen, Organ; Mixed Octet WABC—Waring Orchestra 9:45-WOR—Garber Orchestra 10.00-WEAF—Whiteman’s Music Hall; Helen Jepson, Soprano WOR—William Larkin, Tenor WJZ—Montreal Concert Orchestra WABC—Forty-five Minutes in Holly- wood; Music; Sketches 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WOR—Dance Orchestra WJZ—Our Changing Economics— Levering Tyson, Director National Advisory Council on Radio in Education; Harry W. Laidier, Exec- utive Director, League for Indus- trial Democracy 10:45-WABC—Voice of the Crusader :00-WEAF—Mixed Chorus De- | MEASURE “10 SILENCE “TeACHERS| | WHO WANT 40 EXPOSE HWE SHAMEFUL CONDITIONS IN OUR SCHOOLS J // Yip dy iy & | race-track bookmakers who turned Page 5 Life of Mack Sennet ; Reflects Mediocrity Ot Movie Industry FATHER GOOSE, the B Mack Sennett Gene York. Rae Reviewed by HARRY KERMIT TT is no ac which Holly world has long er 1 AST © ing movie-goe: mediocrit, I aphorism borne out as ly as in the history of ican cinema But are no nes which have been California studios phenomena, their g bourgeois art in Fowler’s pungent the Story of Mack tended as an eulogy o stick impresario is an tertainment forms. Consider the o: nett (Michael Si who shaped the become a ch American cinema illiterate ham sin: played the hind legs of a burlesque skit, Sennett drif into the movie ind 'y when tt infant was just be! received his early under to training D. W. Griffith and then went Hollywood where he became a “pro- ducer” backed by two Brooklyn to the movies when betting cn horse races was illegalized in New York State. The indust teeming with shoe-string capita “5 with big money ideas and Mack | Goose.” You will also get an Sennett was a fit flunkey for the! of the type of men who founde: new moguls. movie indust: ica an What a father of the lighter muse | contro! learn too, was this pioneer movie Moliere! An| wh le of any artistic worth can uncouth, bar-room bouncer type of! ever come out of Hollywood. WORLD of MUSIC More About Roy Harris ed to imply understanding of | the Ma tanding in By CARL SANDS | the modern sense he word as OMRADE SANDS: being eviden: in action, not mere- ly protestations in words. I must Your article on Roy Harris in last Thursday's “Daily” [Dec. 6] add that a sentence was somehow keenly disappointed me... . In one paragraph you stated the following: “If he lives long enough, he will discover the Communist Manifesto. He has it in him to be on the left side of the barriandes.” Do you know that Mr. Harris taught Marxism to the students in the University of California? Even as bourgeois a critic as Lawrence Gil- man has been informed of that fact. Surely, by now Mr. Harris has had some contact with the Mani- or other deleted from the end of my paragraph, viz.: “The only fear is that he will discover it too late.” is a fundamental fault in It shows in his music and in his talk about mu: One by one, slowly and blindly (it almost seems) he discovers things that have already been discovered and that everyone else knows. His con- ceit is really a kind of timidity—a hesitation that ents him from taking a forem ‘ace in musical criticism in favor to the Harris review. students of the University of Cali- tising—a most un-Marxian proceed- movement. Had I known the facts | This | contacts at all. | Harris's music, as well as the hear-| duced music for LEFTY ANO PEANUTS RUSH TO “THe WINDOW “tO SCREAM “He NEWS wr WE victory // of a fence-sitting compromise and playing too safe, I wrote as‘E did because I thought | (and still think) that that way is the best way to help him find his comrade. But through such out-| Tight place and direction. I would right antagonism he will remain | Welcome any further criticism. merely a potential. | CARL SANDS. HILDA MARSH. EAR Comrade Marsh: Thanks for your frank reaction festo. What in Mr. Copland’s music convinces you of his sincerity? In Mr. Harris we have a potential “Sut . ‘Symposium and Concert at John Reed Club LARGE and enthusiastic audi- I agree with. you that Harris is a ence greeted an unusual sym= potential co-worker. He has been) posium and concert at the John that for a long time. But also, he) Reed Club on Sunday night. The has been lost a long time in a naive’ Daily Worker Cho: led by Gio- opportunism and hob-nohbing with! yanni Camajani, presented a choral the social “elect,” and shows no/arrangement of “Sez Ahm Boun;” signs of giving up either. If he did,/a Negro work song, one of many as you say, teach Marxism to the collected by Laurence Gellert. It would be very gratifying to see and hear more of these still unpublished songs, which number in the hun- dreds. “The Modern,” a trio well known for their concert and radio work, ing. consisting of Mercedes Bennett, Our business must be to uncover|piano, Dorothy Minty, violin, and this particularly deadly acid Se eae cello, ws se by ever it appears in or near our) ‘ina and a suite by Dalfont. nsec 4 finely balanced ensentble farris’s teaching that you|Should be playing much better Seater I would hae been far| Music than that which they played. more cutspoken. For to have| Participating in the symposium fornia (I should like to know the particulars of this—can you inform me?) we have here simply one more example of “teaching” without prac- “taught Marxism” and written such |“Modern Music and Revolution” a work as the “Song of Occupa-| were Charles Seeger, eminent mu- tions” is decidedly worse than hav- | sicologist, critic and compose! ing written it without any Marxian | Henry Cowell, editor of New Music, ‘member of the League of Com- I believe that a man like Harris | POsers,, oe Elie Sareea com= spoken to fairly | Poser, lecturer an merican corre= Cre paereanacs ” BA use alin | Spondent of Sovietskaia Musicka. him. He has been coddled too much! Seeger dealt with the growing already. He must finally take sides. | effort of the working class to create A comparison of Copland's and| its own music, after having pro- the exploiting ing of both men talking under! Class for several hundred years... He Gnesi similar circumstances, con-| particularly stressed the impor~ vinces me of the directness of the|tance of the successful mass song former and the indirectness and be-|in the present revolutionary period, muddlement of the latter. (It is not} Cowell discussed theories of So- a question of either man’s “sincer-|cialist realism advanced by some ity,” which I do not doubt for aj critics of m.sic both here and in moment.) the Soviet Union. He disagreed Copland is beginning to get rid with their present view that it is of the contradictions in his music Decessary to write with the sim- between bourgeois art tendencies) Plicity of the folk style in order to and proletarian content. This gives Create music that beri be an increased sharpness and clear-|"nderstand. He contended, on the cut quality to it that is conspic- uously absent in Harris’s safe, usu-| ally boring, though in some respects | admirable, work. As to the quotation: if Harris, “lives long enough he will discover) the Communist Manifesto,” I| contrary, that technical innovations. must be steadily and slowly intro- duced into workers’ music and that the workers appreciate it. His playing of two of his own piano works met with an ovation. These compositions disclosed the hidden sonorities and amazing dynamic possibilities of the instrument, jus- tifying, at least in this instance, his contention. Siegmeister told of the groping of the Soviet composers, of their at- tempt to find a new base for their composing which will adequately express and refiect their triumph in ears -ANO Zo “HE | CURTAIN CLOSES | | ON € TRUE the building of socialism. He con- Wai prsligeaen Ss trasted the ease with which Soviet INTRIGUE} | composers secure publication and SUSPENSE , AND performance of their works, with Rama ORS the almost insurmountable difficul- ANY OF THE. CooKED4 | ties of composers here. He ex= UP HoKUM OF pressed the opinion that Shosta- “HE MOVIES. kovitch was the most important | Soviet composer of the day, in that he was willing to take the complex | technique wrought sby bourgeois musicians, just as the engineers had taken complicated machines, and put it to use in the workers’ fatherland. His performance of the | first movement of Shostakovitch's piano sonata was enthusiastically e MISS GOOOHART'S OUNTERPART IN RERL| | LIFE HAS Sewr US Bs LETTER ff x received.—A. B, y