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i 7 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JA JARY 14,1935 * Page 5 By MICHAEL GOLD 'WO cops were recently arrested .for burglary in New York. In full uniform, they had raided a little candy store and made off with a hundred Hershey bars. They were stripped of their shields, and will undoubtedly be fired from the force, Much righteous indignation, horror and surprise Was expressed by the police cantain who arraigned them. He did not see how they could do such a thing. But most of us know that cops do worse things than such pétty lafceny. And they do it under the orders of their captains and chiefs; it is all legal and part of their job. I don’t mean the vice squad kind of thing, where cops ih civilian dress pick un young girls on the street, then seduce them, then arrest them as pros- titutes. If there is anything lower in the world than this kirtd of treachery, none of us has ever met it. Many an innocent girl has been ruined for life by these vice-squads. There is also the petty grafting that many cops indulge in—chiselling free drinks, cigars and food out of small businessmen. All this is minor. The great crime of the police force is its brutality toward the workers, a brutality that is carefully inflamed by propaganda speeches and atrocity stories told them by their superiors. Before each workers’ demonstration the cops are lined up in their station houses, usually, and given a furious soap-box speech in which they are told such lies as that the “Reds” want to destroy the church, want to nationalize women, and are es- pecially anxious to injure every cop they meet. The cops are incited to go the limit. And they do. Anyone who has seen the way cops will beat men, women and children indiscriminately, even old, defenseless people who are present in defion- strations, marvels at the depths to which people ean sink. Can such brutes be human? “Yes, they are human. Off duty the average cop likes to drink beer like other human beings, go to bowling alleys or Turkish baths with his friends, sing Sweet Adéline, and play with his kids. This is incredible, but true. Once, living in a suburb, I had a cop for a Neighbor. He was accustomed to throwing a lively party once a week for his friends. Once someone in my home was sick with flu, and he told me he would not hold a party that week, so as not to disturb us. Also he warned his kids not to make any noise around our place. He was kindly, soli¢itious and neighborly. He would want to buy me a beer every time he met mé at the local beer-hall. A year later he was transferred to New York, and I happened to see him in action at a demonstration. His face was red with pathological rage, and he was slugging an old woman after he had knocked her down with his club. I saw him kick her in the ribs. He turned around and made a swipe at me as I came up. Our eyes met for a shocked moment, and then I was carried on in the confusion. ‘ * * Cops and Economics ‘AT did that look in his eyes tell me? I have often reflected upon it, and have come to the deliberate idea that most cops are a little insane. The average husky young chap who comes on the force has all the feelings of any human be- ing. In a few years of work he has changed. He e hes been turned into a dangerous and abnormal machine for the protection of capitalism and profit. Just as watchdogs are trairied for a single pur- pose, disciplined until all the natural instincts are under control, so a cop is nurtured in a cold, de- liberate hate. Most of them are sons of working class fathers. When they are Irish, as many are, they come from a long and honorable line of revolutionary peasants. Revolt is their heritage. They know about the Trish famines their forbears died in, the cruelty of British landlords and British imperialists. They are sons of starvation, and of a revolution against capitalism that has been going on for hundreds of years. If there were much in heredity, this rebel and working class blood in his veins should hold the average cop back from his fiendish atrocities against the working class. But economics is more important than heredity. A cop may be defined as a working class youth who has been given the best-paying job such a youth can find under capitalism, He is really an atistocrat of labor, with his good, permanent salary and the pension that awaits him. He has been bribed to betray his mother, the working class. It is the job that makes him what he is. In capitalist society, for fifty dollars a week and even less, you can hire people to do anything—yés, any- thing at all. This is the most horrible indictment one can bring against the system — it distorts humanity out of its good-natured, honest, gregari- ous mold. It makes thieves and cops, prostitutes, stool-pigeons and Hearst journalists. * A Dog and His Master r. IS FOLLY to think you can influence the cops; humanize them, or educate them to understand, for example, what the unemployed are fighting for today. Can one influence millionaires? Cops are the servants of the millionaires, and have been trained by them as watchdogs. Both are part of the same class. The army, the national guard, the navy, can never succeed in as completely twisting the mind of the working class youth who are found there, The military forces ate told they are to be used against a foreign enemy, and are not customarily fed on hate of the working class enemy within the nation. History is full of examples in recent times of where the military forces of the nation have come over to the side of the working class. Never “have the police been thus influenced. They are really formed into a special pattern, and I doubt that even a cop's wife or mother could ever make him give up his loyalty to the masters of wealth, It is a “good job” for a working class boy. But he must surrender his human soul to keep it. He must crush his instinctive working class loyalties. He must become the enemy of his father and mother, his brothers and sisters and cousins. Is it worth the price? No, a thousand times no! Here and there one may find a cop who doesn’t like what he is forced to do for his daily bread, who has escaped the machine. But he is as rare as a waterhole in a great desert where only the white death rules. Most cops seem to love their jobs and the sweet joy of maiming strikers and battering unconscious the unemployed. One of our proletarian writers ought to do a novel describing the mental evolution of one of these cops. It would be a Dostoievskian portrait. (DER 1S Seeay) LevSdo/ War and Peace and ihe Soviet | Union, by Gore Graham, pub- lished by Victor Gollancz, Ltd., London. Sold at Workers’ Book | Shop, 50 East 13th Street, New York City, $1.50. Reviewed by A. A. HELLER IN HIS foreword to the book, Lord Marley says: “The world is faced with the very real danger of another war—one, moreover, which will be | as widespread as that of 1914 but far more horrible in its destructive effects.” The truth of this state- ment is being confirmed more and more from day to day, not only in | Europe and Asia, but in America as | well, ‘That Nazi Germany and the Jap- anesé militarists are putting on the final touches to their wat programs, | hardly anyone will deny, Nor that | the other capitalist powers, includ- ing the United States, are rapidly Placing themselves on a war foot- ing. The governments of these countries attempt to disguise the military and naval preparations by statements that it is for “national defense.” But if a nation is arm- ing in order to defend itself, then it must be evident that it expects } an attack from some quarter. Thus | the governments themselves admit, the existence of a war menace. The Pope, only the other day, warned the world of the “rumblings of war,” and President Roosevelt | said as much in his message to | Congress on January 5th. This threatening situation should be clear to any intelligent person, to any worker, who is not under the | spell of the agents of the war makers. Such agents as William R. Hearst and his like are loudest in étying “Stop thief,” when they are getting ready to get away with the steal, Also it must be clear to every in- telligent person that in the threat- ening-world war there will be no neuttfals, since all countries are too involved with one another to be able to stay out of the conflict; and | the possibility of war being directed |against the Soviet Union is very grave. Neither Germany nor Japan makes any secret of their plans to fight the only Socialist State, “to ve the world from the menace of Sommunism.” In fact, it is on this basis that they seek support from the other capitalist countries. one ‘ORE GRAHAM wrote the book a year ago, but its analysis and conclusions are as applicable now as though it were written yester- day. The developments which have taken place during the year confirm | the soundness of the author's de- ductions. He makes out a clear case of the inevitability of war in capitalist society, of the impending attack on the Soviet Union, and of the Soviet Union’s persistent efforts to prevent the conflict. He examines in detail, with a Wealth of documentary evidence, the prevailing conditions in every major countty, and exposes the eco- nomic and political forces which operate below the surface to drive the world into the greatest catas- trophe it has ever experienced, As an Englishman, Graham knows Great Britain and its policies very well, He speaks at length of Brit- ish relations with the Soviet Union, and shows the consistent hostility of the British imperialists, ever since 1917, to the land of the workers. Equally sound is the author’s de- scription of the policies of Japan, Germany, Poland and France. He emphasizes the point, not common- ly held, that the Nazis “possess a clear and definite foreign political strategy,” which consists, in the first place, of “securing the support of Britain as the prerequisite of any foreign political success”; and in the second place, that the German drive to capture Austria, to secure the return of the Saar, are “no more than light snacks,” but that the main objective is “expansion east- NEW PAMPHLETS PUBLISHED THE ARCHITECHT OF SO- CIALIST SOCIETY, by Karl Radek. A lively appreciation of Joseph Stalin by one of the most brilliant Soviet pub- licists. 10 cents. RED CHINA — President Mao- Tse~" reports on the prog- ress of the Chinese Soviet Re- public. 5 cents. J, LOUIS ENGDAHL — Revolu- tionary Working Class Leader, by Harriet Silverman, An ac- count of the life and work of one of the foremost fighters against capitalist exploitation in the United States. 5 cents. GUNS ARE READY, by Seymour Waldman. A concrete exposure of the war preparations of the Roosevelt government, written by one of the Washington cor- respondents of the Daily Worker. 5 cents. reper eres These pamphlets can be pur- chased at all Workers Bookshops, or from Workers Library Publish- ers, P. O. Box 148, Sta. D, New | York City. Hit Where It Hurts Most! NOW EVERY - Sooy JUST QUIETLY Six | AND ORDER a gio meat! t | _Union’s Peace Policy | Undergo Keen Analysis wards, the dismemberment of thu Ukraine and the bringing back of Russia into the sphere of capitalist economy.” The discussion of Franco-Soviet | relations is very illuminating. “France,” says Graham, acknowl- | edging the powerful role which the strong end rapidly developing Soviet Union plays in international affairs, began to see the added strength ot friendlier relations with | the U.S. S. R.” And he very justly | points out that “though France is| antagonistic to Germany, it is nev- ertheless a capitalist France, that | would not at all mind Germany's | expansion eastwards if she were | convinced that it would mean a/| lessening of German menace in the West.” Thus there can be no ques- tion of any military alliance be- tween France and the U.S. S. R. While France, “for obvious diplo- metic reasons,” is attempting to create such an impression, the Soviet Union merely takes advan- tage of the fierce antagonisms be- tween capitalist states to prevent the formation of a world-wide mili- tary block against her and for the maintenance of peace. i < Be 'HE United States in relation to | the Soviet Union and the rival- ries of the U. 8. A. with its imperi- alist competitors are analyzed, a bit too sketchily perhaps, but yet with Sufficient insight and a mustering of facts which prove the point that | the United States is by no means a disinterested observer of the war maneuvers of other nations. | Section V of the book, dealing | with the peace policy of the Soviet Union, is a thorough analysis of Soviet aims and a masterly ref- utation of misrepresentations and Slandets against Soviet diplomacy, especially by Socialist and reformist trade union leaders. If the Soviet Union were to deviate from its course in striving by all means to maintain peace, “it would give the longed-for ¢hance to the whole pack of jackals that are waiting to spring at the Soviet Union; it would play into the hands of reac- tion everywhere.” Already, “the pack of jackals” have attempted to stage a provocation through the assassination of Kirov. But the Soviet workers have promptly and sternly punished the provocateurs as a warning to all jackals to desist | from terrorist and aggressive acts | against the Socialist Fatherland. The Daily Worker is printing serially the extremely valuable and popular booklet by R. Palme Dutt, “Life and Teachings of V. I. Lenin,” published by Interna- tional Publishers. January 21 will be the eleventh anniversary of the death of Lenin. uring these ten years the teach- ings of Lenin have spread to ever wider sections of the globe, inspir- ing the workers and oppressed to greater assaults on capitalism. The Daily Worker considers it a great service to its readers to be able to present this clear and ex- céllent portrayal of the life and teachings of the great leader of the working class, V. I. Lenin. CHAPTER I. The Life of Lenin Ix, IN this way a regime of a “dual power” was established. On the one side, the Provisional Government of bourgeois ministers carried on the old Tsarist machine and imperialist war aims, but with diminishing obedience from the workers and soldiers. On the other side, the Soviets, which had far more real power, voted decisions which aroused the horror of the Pro- visional Government and of the General Staff, but which were obeyed, such as the famous Order No. 1, establishing control by elected soldiers’ committees in the army. Meanwhile the right-wing leaders of the Soviets continued to dance attendance on the Provisional Gov- ernment, begged them to adopt “democratic” war aims, ete. PRRE Es WAS obvious that this dual power could not continue long. One class or the other must rule. The eight months constituted, in fact, a succession of shocks and at- tacks from either side, in the course of which it became increasingly clear that there were only two alter- natives: either complete conquest of power by the workers and peas- ants, the establishment of the So- viet power, as advocated by the Bolsheviks, or complete counter- counter-revolution, as plotted by General Korniloy and Kerensky. The * * petty-bourgeois representatives, the Menshevik and Socialist - Revolu- tionary leaders, who vacillated be- } if Hi WHAT'S ALL HESE ANIMALS IN THE SOUP? OX AULS NY MOCK “uRTLES? Gimme ROAST —\ BUCK , PLANK STEAK. =. BLUE Points, WE REFUSE fo TOUCH OR PAY ) FOR F000 IN ANY Jim- CROW EN al WARY a BILL THEY'RE RUNNIN' UP! 18 GRERY BIG DINNERS! WONDER WHY “THEY Set Him Free! By Henry George Weiss—— Down with the Fascisti! Comrades, clench the fist, Let the Nazis know Thaelmann shail not die. ‘Thunder fori:: our anger, Let them h-ir our clamor, Let the tread of marching feet Echo to the sky. Put the fear of workers In the bloody butchers, Let them see our hammers Raised aloft to fall, Let the Hitlers know Toil can strike a blow With a gleaming sickle That can fell them all, Comrades, all together, Show the murderers whether Labor is a power They can dare to mock: Mass and demonstrate, Swing the prison gate, Bring Thaelmann forth in safety From the shadow of the block. Thaelmann! mann! Bring him forth you jailmen! This the cry we thunder, Ring it in their ears. Thaelmann! Thaelmann! mann! ‘Woe to you, you jailmen, For every sear upon his flesh, For every blow he bears! Thaelmann! Thael- Thael- Sadists, tyrants, butchers! Death to Hate that tortures! Thaelmann is our leader, Flesh of us and bone. Thaelmahn! Thaelmann! Thaelmann! Set him free, you jailmen! We are Labor massing World-wide to claim our own! Philadelphia Theatre Group Offers Courses PHILADELPHIA. The Theatre of Philadelphia, a collec- tive, non-profit making enterprise, announces the opening of its classes in action technique.and playwriting, beginning tonight, The © acting classes meet on Tuesday and Wed- nesday evenings at 8 p. m. Play- wright’s group meets on ‘Monday | evenings at 8:30 p. m. New Theatre offers two yearly scholarships to membets of trade unions and other cultural organi- zations, recommended by their re- spective groups. Those interested | are invited to call Locust 9045 ot write 311 North 16th Street for in- formation concerning admission. New Theatre's first production “Too Late to Die,” by Christopher Wood, will be presented in March. Life and Teachings of Lenin By R. PALME DUTT tween the two, inevitably lost more and more their foothold, Lenin arrived in Petrograd from Switzerland on April 16. The En- tente Powers, who facilitated the passage to Russia of a host of tame “Socialist” leaders in their service, such as Henderson, Thorne, Albert Thomas, etc, and the return of all right-wing Menshevik and So- cialist-Revolutionary emigres, did all in their power to block the passage of the revolutionary So- cialist in exile, and, in particular, of the Bolshevik leaders. Lenin and his fellow emigres yet compelled to take advantage of the contradictions of imperialism and, after elaborate negotiations, and with a signed document of approval from prominent international So- cialist leaders, to pass through Germany in a sealed train. This incident was made abundant use of by his political enemies after his return, including the Kerensky Government, to prove that Lenin and the Bolsheviks were “German agents.” The fact is only worth noticing as ® measure of the in- tellectual level of bourgeois propa- ganda against the Bolsheviks. It may be noted that Ludendorft in his Memoirs subsequently re- corded that he had in fact hoped that the passage of the Bolsheviks would assist the disruption of the Russian military power, but that he only too late realized his error, that its final consequence was the dis- ruption of the German Empire. The meaning of revolutionary interna- DON'T STARY Chae A Library of Communi | RESTAURANT! st Party Literature tor Units And Mass Organizations Lenin Sets | HE publication of Lenin’s “Col- lected Works” in an amazingly low-pdiced edition at $8 has been called, and justly so, a landmark ot achievement in revolutionary pub- lishing. It was greeted with joy, organizations as well as by groups of intellectuals and others of The distribution of the Lenin Set presents an entirely different prob- lem from that of Stalin’s “Founda-) tions,” The Lenin Set is before all| a nucleus around which organiza- tions can build libraries of revolu- tionary literature. This is why we put forward the slogan, “A Lenin Set in Every Party Unit and Work- ers’ Organization,” | Throughout our work on the | Lenin Set, this must remain as the | major direction ot our distridution— (1) to check up on Party units to; see that they buy a Lénin Set for) | their unit libraries, and (2) to ap-| | proach trade union locals, I.W.O.| | branches, workers’ clubs, women’s | | councils, and all other organizations of workers, explaining to them the | value of Lenin’s teachings, and urg- ‘ing them to buy a set of Lenin’s | “Collected Works” for their mem-| | and collectively in study groups. | members and sympathetic elements | around our Party, mostly by in- |stallment payments, can bring fruitful results if approached in the right manner. The example of Sec- | tion 3 of Cleveland, printed in this | column two weeks ago, shows what | can be done. This section, which has | 6 units, has already sold 16 Lenin sets By persistent driving, our slogan, “A Lenin Set in Every Party Unit and Workets’ Organization” can be | one hundred percent fulfilled. This ; month, when interest in Lenin's | works is being raised to its highest | level, we have our best opportuhity | tionalism, fighting for a new world | order, remains a closed book to the | bourgeoisie, . | jy had from the first, already | before he left Switzerland, a) |ocmpletely clear view of the rela- | tion of class forces in the Revolu- tion, and of the necessary path for- | ward. In a letter of March 16, on| the receipt of the first scanty tele- grams of news of the Revolution, he wrote that the task now was “the conquest of power by the So- viets of Workers’ Deputies.” On | he wrote: basing itself, first, on the vast majority of the peasant popula- Poorest peasants; second, on an alliance with the revolutionary workers of the warring countries, can give peace, bread and com- plete freedom to the people. On April 7, in his “Letters from Afar,” he defined the task. (1) To find the surest road lead- ing to the next stage of the revo- lution or to the second revolution, which revolution (2) shall trans- fer the state power from the gov- ernment of landowners and capi- talists (the Guchkovs, Lvovs, Milyukovs, Kerenskys) to a gov- ernment of the workers and poor- es peasants. (3) The latter gov- eenment must be organized on the model of the Soviet of Workers’ and Peasants’ Deputies. . . . Only such a government, he wrote, could carry through the fight for peace, the confiscation of the| land from the landowners, the con- | trol of industry, all which steps | would represent the TRANSI- TION TO SOCIALISM, which in Russia cannot be realized immedi- ately, directly, without transition measures, which, however, is per- fectiy realizable and urgently needed as a result of such transi- tion measures, At the time of his arrival in Rus- the first revolution, Lenin was faced with ‘he position that the So- viets were overwhelmingly domi- nated by the petty-bourgeois Men- | shevik and Socialist-Revolutionary | leaders, who in their turn hung at. the tail of the bourgeois govern-— ment, (To Be Continued.) | bers to read ahd study individually | The sale of Lenin Sets to Party, | with imagination, enthusiasm and | March 17th, in his first draft theses, | Only a workers’ government, | tion, the rural workers and the | sia, five weeks after the victory of | {to reach every working Class or- Banization and many advanced Lenin Sets. workers with the eae | “Foundations of Leninism” ‘ARLY in November, witen the 10- cent edition of Stalii “Founda- not only by, tions of Leninism” was issued, the a * Party members, Literature Com- m3 put also by mission sét itself workers’ mass f the task of tributing the en- tire edition of 100,000 in three months’ time— the middle that is, by Lenin strata who are Memorial. A spe- beginning to look cial distribution to Lenin’s teach- and publicity ings as the road campaign was out of the misery oi started, and LENIN and horror of STALIN quotas were as- the capitalist system. signed to the districts. The following results have been achieved thus far: District Qudta Bought up to Jan. [ | 1—Boston 5,000 2,500 | 2—New York 40,000 25,000 i} 3—Philadeiphia 5,000 3,170 i} 4—Buffalo 500 280 5—Pittsburgh 2,500 2,305 6—Cleveland 7,000 4.185 1—Detroit 5,000 2,305 8—Chicago 10,000 7,535 9—Minnesota 4.000 1,340 10—Omaha 200 130 11—Bismarck 200 cy 12—Seattle 4,000 0 | 13—San Francisco 10,000 a2 | 14—Newark 1,500 1,810 | New Haven 1,500 1,575 i harlotte 200 145 rmingham 300 181 18—Milwaukee 1,800 680 19—Denver 500 462 20—Houston 100 50 21—8t. Louis 400 a 22—West Virginia 100 100 23—Kentucky 199 24—New Orleans 200 200 25—Florida 100 26—South Dakota 100 ‘Total 100,000 5 2 It will be seen from this list that | |the Newark, New Haven, West Vir- |ginia, New Orleans and So. Dakota | | districts have already fulfilled their | quotas, and that Pittsburgh and| Denver have almost completed | theirs. But the bigger quotas have Still to be fulfilled. These latter, | | especially New York, Chicago, Cleve- jJand and San Francisco must re- {double their efforts to distribute |“Foundations’ and place orders to complete their quotas béfore the | end of the month. | The results achieved thus far | prove that the bold step taken in| publishing 100,000 copies of this im- | portant Leninist classic has been | justified by our distribution abilities. | | But what has already been done in- | dicates what our Party is capable of Once it sets about its job properly, | energy. Although a big distribution has |been achieved, we are far from our | goal of 100,000 copies. Two weeks are | left before the month is up, and in| these two weeks we must renew our plans, re-fire our enthusiasm, and redouble our efforts to get every one of these 100,000 copies out among the masses of American toilers. This is already one of the best means ot celebrating Lenin’s Memorial. | Enthusiasm and energy for the completion of this task can be gen- erated among our Party members by again discussing with them the importance of revolutionary theory and its inseparable connection with | revolutionary activity, and by bring- | ing forward again the particular | | Significance of Stalin's classi¢, | | “Foundations of Leninism.” in the | present period approaching a new round of revolutions and wars. NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED || LUDWIG FEUERBACH, by | Friedrich Engels. The classic | exposition of dialectical ma- || terialism, presented now for the first time in complete, un- garbled English translation. Includes other material by Marx and Engels on the stib- ject. Preface by L. 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All questions should be addressed to “Ques- tions and Answers,” ¢ 6 Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. Question: Has the Soviet government demanded that Trotzky be deported from France? How strong an opposition groub are they in this country? What role do they play in the revolutionary movement? —J.R Answer: (1): The Soviet government has in no Way interested itself in Trotzky’s doings or where- abouts in France. The French Foreign Office has officially admitted that there have been no Se viet requests for Trotzky, who is not a Soviet citizen, It is significant that he enjoys the gtacious hospi- tality of the Preich governmént which deports Spanish revolutionaries back to their death at the hands of the Spanish fascists. (2) The Trotzkyites in the United States before their amalgamation With the little group led by Muste numbered not more than 250. After their Marfiage with Musté, the self-styled “Workers Party” comprised not above 500 members. (3) The Trotzkyites have been characterized by Stalin as “the advance troops of the counter-revo- lution.” Their chief roie is to slander and attack the achievements of the Soviet Union and the Communist International. They are utilized by the bourgeoisie (see Heafst and the New York Times), who play up Troteky as the “greater revolutionist,” as against Stalin, who through his deeds has become the leader of the interhational working class moves ment Troteky attacked the Five Year Plan; denounced the Chinese Soviets as “bandits;” and in a guarded way the Trotzkyites have calléd for a civil war in the Soviet Union. They organize the counter-revo- lutionaty ideology of the bourgeoisie against the workers’ fatherland. The logical culmination of their position was the participation of former mem- bers of the Zinoviev-Trotzky bloc in the assassina- tion of Kirov and the plot against the Soviet Union. In this country the Trotzkyites have distinguished themselves by betraying the two strikes whieh they controlled—the foot workers’ strike in New York and the strike of the Minneapolis truck drivers. They even gave up the label of Communism for the marked nationalist tendencies of Muste and his associates. They now number among their members Sidnéy Hook, who in the name of “Marxism” attacks the fundamental concepts of Marxism-Leninism and the international revolutionary movement which is | fighting for the destruction of capitalism. Another “distinguished” Trotekyite is Max Eastman who | openly attacks the philosophy of Marxismn as childish and mystical and is in the foreftont of the bour- | geois attack against proletarian culture. These parasites on the body of the revolution- Ary movement must be as effectively guarded against | @8 a virulent disease. Their venom inoreases in Proportion to their isolation from the revolutionary movement. Burck Murals on Exhibit Until Saturday, January 26th, the walls of the League Gallery of the Art Students’ League, 215 West 57th Street, will be covered by latge murals loaned by Jacob Burck and Edward Laning. Of the murals by Burck there will be five panels on the Five-Year Plan. These were ordered by In- tourist, Inc., when they had their offices at 545 Fifth Avenue. During the time the murals were being painted, Intourist, Inc., moved their offices, Now the paintings are to be mounted in their travel- ling agency office in Moscow. Burck will leave for Moscow early in March to be present at the installa- tion of the murals in Moscow. These miirals are considered to be an outstanding representation of the Five-Year Plan. Through the courtesy of the Hudson Guild Neighborhood House, Laning will exhibit two tem- pera panéls and a large cartoon executed fot the Guild. He will also show a freseo panel (detail Study for a projected fresco design) and a cartoon for an over mantel. 7:00 BP. 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