The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1935, Page 5

— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1995” Page 3 By MICHAEL GOLD MNHIS Father Coughlin has at last got around to the point where he wants to have every Communist shot, A. B. Magil reports. Norman Thomas is a nice man, and the good Father says he can work with him, but the Communists are atheists and free- lovers, unpatriotic, blood-thirsty monsters, and Father Coughlin wants their blood for his coffee. So now we know what this man of God and follower of the meek and lowly Christ really is after. He has never said that he would like any of the Wall Street buccaneers shot. He has bellowed many a mock-heroic attack on the financial wolves of New York, but it was only for the record. This humble priest has played the money market him- | self, and he has many other personal stakes in the | business racket. But to build up a mass following today, as Hitler well knew, one has to appeal to the sentiment of discontent of the hungry masses. Father Coughlin is America’s most capable demagogue. He has built up his mass-following, by a confused, incoher- ent radical-sounding platform that has dazzled mil- lions of peovle of little political experience. Now he prepares to use this following in a slaughter of the real radicals, the only groups in this coun- try who are in deadly earnest about the abolition of the capitalist system. Diabolical Plot |AUPTMANN, accused of kidnapping the Lind- bergh baby, after being caught red-handed with the ransom money hidden in the walls of his garage, now bases his defense on the fact that this money was given him by Isidore Fisch, a Jewish furrier who has since safely died, and who cannot deny | the story, therefore, from his grave. The Nazi papers in Germany are playing up this angle as another argument against the Jews. Their picture of the case is that here is a fearless | and superior Nordic, pure as the snows on Mont Blanc, who has been caught in the web of another diabolical Jews’ plotting. These Gentle Aristos! A WHITE GUARD lady by the name of Tatiana Tchernevina writes a book called “Escape From the Soviets.” It is a lurid piece of fiction, done in the Hollywood style adopted by all these emigres. On the one hand, the brutal, bewhiskered Bolshevik ruffians, out for buckets of gore; on the other hand. these gentle and innocent aristos, stripped of al) their moujiks, and jewelry, and champagne, and culture. A real melodrama! Tatiana poses as some sort of liberal. So does the Grand Duchess Marie and the former pogrom- ists and peasant-killers who want the Czar restored. Like Father Coughlin, they know you must bait the masses with radical honey these days, and not with the old reactionary poison, And the Rand School Socialist leaders invite Tatiana to open her American tour by speaking there. Yes, these so-called Socialists hate the So- viet Union so intensely that they prefer white- guard liberals to Communists, When the capitalist. nations prepare to invade the Soviet Union, where can we expect such Social- ists to be found, except in the invading armies, where the Russian Socialists were to be found in 1918? * . * Name Calling NOTHER item: William Green attacks the work- ers’ bill for unemployment and social insurance as a Communist plot. * * yon whenever a worker asks for a raise in wages, the boss calls him a Bolshevik. Whenever the | unemployed protest against the starvation relief | handed them by grafting politicians, they are slugged and called Communists, + MONG some groups of the intellectuals of New York, whoever defends the Soviet Union is sneered at as a base “Stalinite,” and whoever sland- ers, denigrates, defames or belittles the great achievements of the Soviet Union, is termed an open-minded, liberty-loving hero of intellect, even though he may happen to be working for William Randolph Hearst. . * * * * * The Line-up 'O IT SHAPES up, the classic battle of our time, Tt is basically a battle between Communism and capitalism, though it takes a myriad of confusing forms. The book critic for a capitalist paper who fancies himself a great, free, liberal soul, and yet finds it somehow easier to praise books like Tatiana’s than books like those of Agnes Smedley and Anna Louise Strong, has lined up in the fight, has chosen sides. William Green is unquestionably defending capi- talism, with its war, poverty and unemployment, against the assaults of its enemies, the revolution- ary working class. Father Coughlin may have begun as an honest critic of the system, but at a certain stage in his growth, he discovers that: he really hates Commu- nism more than he does capitalism, and finds him- self ripe for fascism. The bourgeois Socialist leaders, after playing around for years with the Socialist idea, are ap- palled by some of the stern necessities that are Jaid on Socialists if they are in earnest about it, as one has seen in the Soviet Union. And so they, too, return to their own capitalist side of the bar- rieade. Liberal-minded bosses find that in a depression they can no longer afford to keep up the liberal pretense. And every striker becomes a deliberate enemy, @ Bolshevik. ‘It is everywhere. The time is approaching rapidly in America, as in Germany, when everything that | Little Lefty LEFTY AND UNCLE JOHN ARE WITH He DELEGATION-TO SEE MADAM FANNIE PERKINS AND ASK HER SuPPoRT oF SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL 29321 | CFORMERLY 4.R. 7598) “He MADAM 15 “NOT IN* BUT SENDS HER ASSISTANT, EDWARD MaGeany — HE LISTENG~1O ANN | | BURLAK'S. InrRopuc- TORY Remanns — / THE ONW BILL “To STOP THIS TERRIBLE MISERY \ ANO HUNGER (SH.R,Z827- \ LISTEN 10 -he WORKERS “THEMSELVES / Big Hearted! HE LISTENS % A SAGA OF STARK BRUTALITY, PRIVATION ANO SUFFERING, A BENEVOLENT LOOK SPREADS OVER HE FACE OF THE NoToRIOUS S1a\Kxe- BREAKER— (RL Pal IMPOSSIBLE FOR P| ME IN MY POVERTY {4 © PROPERLX CARE. FoR MN CHILDREN (TSKITSK VLE Fix THIS RIGAT \ NOW. I'LLSEND \ You A 600K ON CHILD CRRE // So | FIND IY 1S wi THE WORKERS | ARE STUNNED | 6Y He BRAZEN HN POCRISY Stoo.- PIGEON AND LABOR fl FAKER .. z MR. MaGRADY-— WE CAN'T SQUEEZE FOOD OR MILK OUT OF YouR B00KSs //* J “THE CLEAR VOICE OF ANN BURLAK CUTS THRU LIKE a KNIFE | L ne a ‘Labor Defender Features Herndon Mooney Interiew THE LABOR DEFENDER, as organ of the International Labor | Defense, January, 1935, 10 cents.! esi Ro | | ANGELO HERNDON Interviews | Tom Mooney,” is the title of | the leading article in the January; | issue of the Labor Defender. Be- {hind the bars of San Quention | prison, where the innocent Mooney |is now ‘spending his eighteenth; |year in jail, these two met—Mooney, | | whose name has become the chief symbol of the frame-up practices of the’ American rulers, and Hern- don, a leader of the newest genera- tion of fighters, member of an op- | pressed nation whose fate is tied up} with the fate of the working class. Herndon tells us, in this article, what they had to say to one an- other. It was a momentous inter- view. The case of Mooney and Herndon, and the cases of two of the nine Scottsboro boys, are now in the Supreme Court of the United | States. These three cases sum up | the chief struggles of the workers on the defense front in America, during the past year, But besides these struggles, there were in 1934 literally hundreds of others. The Labor Defender sums up the record | for the year—terror, action, victory. |The year 1984 was a year of |great terror against the workers: 57 strikers were killed, 25 lynchings | of Negroes came to light, over 5,000 | men, women and children were ar-! rested for strike activity. But 1934 was also a year of great defense struggles, and these the Labor Defender triumphantly re- |cords. In freeing Dimitrov and his | three co-defendants in the Reich- stag fire trial from the clutches of German fascism, the American workers, under-the leadership of the International Labor Defense, played an important part. In August, after a mass campaign for funds | which showed the measure of the | devotion of the working class, An- |getlo Herndon was freed from | Fulton Tower Prison in Atlanta, | Georgia, on bail of $15,000. In | Detroit, James Victory, Negro, was freed by the International Labor Defense. He was the first victim | of an organized jim-crow drive by the Detroit bosses. The year closed | with the Scottsboro boys still alive, | and their cases once more forced before the Supreme Court by na- | tion-wide mass protest. And in| Canada, Tim Buck, last of the! | Canadian “eight,” jailed for lead-| ing the workers, was freed from | prison by the efforts of the Cana-| | dian Labor Defense League. | Also in this issue of the Labor | Defender, is an extended discussion | of the present status of the Scotts- boro case, by Richard B. Moore. Louis Colman has an article en- | titled “Facing 1935,” in which he gives in some detail the plans of the boss class to crush the work- ers’ struggles—plans for a federal | criminal sedition law, a federal red squad, special laws to make easier | the deportation of militant aliens. The center pages of the magazipe | deserve special mention. These are | picture pages, giving for each {month of 1934 a picture of some outstanding event in the workers’ struggles, particularly against terror |and frame-ups, — E. L, Exhibition of Soviet Posters at J. R. Club; An exhibition of entirely new So- viet Posters is being shown at the John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Avenue, until Tuesday, Jan, 21. These post- | ers spread a message of work, prog- ress, education. They popularize ac- tivities and achievements: in the Soviet Union, The sporting scenes especially present a contrast to/| capitalist countries. Events that usually would interest only million- aire sportsmen are publicized in the Soviet Union as part of every work- er's life by means of these dynamic posters. The posters are also unus- ual for their quality. The walls con- taining forty large posters seem like @ beautiful pattern of bold and declorative color, The design in each is original and could teach our rev- olutionary poster men a great deal. The gallery 1s open daily from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, and Fri- day evening till 9 p.m. MUSIC Philharmonic Symphony Both those who listened and those who played at Sunday's Philhar- monic concert caught the contagion of the fluent lyrical music’ and it would be difficult to say who en- joyed the program more. It in- cluded Mozart's Concerto in D Minor, with Bruno Walter at the Piano, the Rosamunde overture and ballet music by Schubert, the Over- ture to La Belle Galathee by our friend of the brasses, Von Suppe, Depict EXHIBITION OF MURALS, by Jacob Burck, Art Students’ League Gallery, 215 West 57th Street, until January 26th. oer Reviewed by LOUIS LOZOWICK 'HE outlines of a proletarian cul- with remarkable vigor and rapidity. In poetry and the novel, in criticism and the theatre, in graphic art and the dance, the revolutionary cul- tural movement can record achieve- the best in contemporary bourgeois run thin with the years. In this movement toward a prole- tarian culture the American graphic The work of Minor, Gellert, Grop- per, Ellis, Burck and others, known, exhibited, reproduced and admired on both sides of the Atlantic, certainly more than a match for the capitalist cartoonists even in technique alone; as for their ideology it towers in its assertive, fighting clarity above the confused hesitant liberalism or time-serving obscurantism of the bourgeois car- toonists. In painting, however, more par- ticularly in mural painting, the proletarian artists have thus far not been equally successful, Bourgeois | institutions, whether private or pub- lic, cannot be expected to lend their walls for revolutionary painting, and workers’ organizations are too poor in most cases to afford fresco or even canvass or to compensate the artist even meagerly. Neverthe- less, despite these difficulties, a number of interesting attempts have been made in New York and other cities. Such have been the murals of Gellert for the Cooper- ative Cafeteria, the paintings of Phil Bard for the Red Builders, Joe Jones’ work for the old court- house in St. Louis and now, per- haps the most ambitious of all, Burck’s murals for Intourist, a) ele URCK is best known, of course, as a revolutionary cartoonist. As such he has been engaged in fighting the battles of American la- bor, delivering heavy blows to its o- ture are assuming definite shape , ments that compare favorably with | culture whose blood is beginning to | artists were among the pioneers. | is | | \ Jacob Burck, The murals will be | One of the series of mural paintings on the Five-Year Plan by | Intourist, Inc., for whom they were done, permanently housed in Moscow by murals he has tackled a new theme, Socialist construction in the Soviet Union, under the Five Year Pan. ‘The murals show with great clar- ity the giant strides in the con- struction of machinery, the indus- trialization of agriculture, the uni- versalization of education; they depict with emphasis how the study of theory goes hand in hand with practical achievements; they pic- ture the worker, the peasant, the engineer, the political leader (Stal- in, Kalinin) all at one in the effort to transform the country. The handling of the theme ex- hibits a firmness, even a certain hardness, corresponding with the | Snemies on every front. In the |clear logic of the conception. The drawing is in most cases superior to the painting with which Burck seems still to be experimenting, and as the interior of a machine shop and the exterior of a farm collec- tive, The whole story is unfolded in which is contagious. It would be ica, they were to be shown to Marge working class audiences for the contrast they reveal between what happens when workers are in con- lings of the New Deal. Call for Congress of American Revolutionary Writers on May 1 Congress to Discuss Participation of Writers in Struggle Against War, Preservation of Civil Liberties, and Destruction of Fascist Tendencies ‘HE capitalist system crumbles so rapidly before our eyes that, whereas ten years ago scarcely more than a handful of writers were sufficiently far-sighted and courageous to take a stand for pro- letarian revolution, today hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, crit- nalists recognize the necessity of personally helping to accelerate the destruction of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ govern- ment. We are faced by two kinds of problems. First, the problems of effective political action, The dangers of war and fascism are everywhere apparent; we all can see the steady march of the na- tions towards war and the transfor- mation of sporadic violence into or- ganized fascist terror. ‘The question is: how can we function most successfully against these twin menaces? In the second place, there are the problems peculiar to us as writers, the problems of presenting in our work the fresh understand- ing of the American scene that has come from our enrollment in the revolutionary cause. A new Renais- sance is upon the world; for each writer there is the opportunity to proclaim both the new Way of life and the revolutionary way to at- tain it. Indeed, in the historical perspective, it will be seen that only these two things matter. The revolutionary spirit is penetrating the ranks of the creative writers. a ayes ANY revolutionary writers live virtually in isolation, lacking op- portunities to discuss vital prob- lems with their fellows. Others are so absorbed in the revolutionary cause that they have few opportu- nities for thorough examination and analysis, Never have the writ- ers of the nation come together for fundamental discussion. We propose, therefore, that a Congress of American revolution- ary writers be held in New York ies, short story writers and jour- | not yet so convinced. This Cangress will be devoted to exposition of all phases of a writer’s participation in the struggle against war, the preservation of civil liber- ties, and the destruction of fascist tendencies everywhere. It will de- velop the possibilities for wider dis- tribution of revolutionary books and the improvement of the revolution- ary press, as well as the relations | between revolutionary writers and) bourgeois publishers and editors It will provide technical discussion of the literary applications of Marxist philosophy and of the relations be- | tween critic and creator. It will solidify our ranks, et eee. E BELIEVE such a Congress should create the League of American Writers, affiliated with the International Union of Revolu- tionary Writers. In European coun- tries, the I. U. R. W. is in the van- guard of literature and political ac- tion, In France, for example, led by such men as Henri Barbusse, Romain Rolland, Andre Malraux, Andre Gide and Louis Aragon, it has been in the forefront of the magnificent fight of the united militant working class against Fas- cism, The program for the League of American Writers would be evolved at the Congress, basing itself on the following: fight against imperialist war and fascism; defend the So- viet Union against capitalist ag- gression; for the development and strengthening of the revolutionary labor movement; tion) and against the persecution of minority groups and of the for- {people in their struggles for free- geois ideas in American literatur | against the imprisonment of revo- lutionary writers and artists, as well as other class-war prisoners throughout the world. jthose panels are most successful in | which the ideas are the simplest, | |the five panels with a conviction | excellent if, before they leave Amer- | | trol and the daily experiences of the | | American workers under the bless- | ‘eign-born; solidarity with colonial | dom; against the influence of bour- | |Artef Presents | Fine Production Soviet Achievements 01 Gorki Play DOSTIGAYEV, a drama in three acts by Maxim Gorki, Yiddish by L. Feinherg; presented by the Artef Theatre, directed by Benno Schneider. | Reviewed by | | LEON ALEXANDER | ITH “Recruits” the Artef showed what it could do with a play | that required semi-stylized acting and direction. Given now a drama of phychological realism, they have created a production that is aware lof every conflicting mood, every | subtle motivation of character. At the same time, under the direction of Benno Schneider, they have fashioned an acting company that lis second to none in its individual and ensemble playing. “Dostigayev” is not so much the drama of the onrushing revolution as of the moral and cultural disin- \tegration of a class. However, | though it plays but little part in | the physical action of the play, the revolution is always present in the minds and in the heartbeats of the | characters, an inescapable, batter- |ing torrent before which the world of Dostigayev, the industrialist, is crumbling: | The play takes place in a pro- vincial town of White Russia; the time begins with July, 1917. The} collapse of the provisional Kerensky | | government has begun; the revolu- tionary stream is rising. The shadow | |of the coming November is already | | upon Dostigayev and his class. It is at such times that the mettle of a man and of a class come forth: in Ryabinin, wie Bolshevik, | | determined will, quiet certainty, | faith and resolution; among the | bourgeoisie, the Nyetrashnis, the | | Troyerukovs, the Lisonogovs, inde- | |cision, hysteria, selfishness, futility and rampant brutality: the face of the fascist beast which the So- viet Union crushed, and which the rest of the world allowed to breed. | Dostigayev, however, is intelligent | and shrewd. He has nothing but} contempt for the members of his {own class; he realizes the strength of the Bolsheviks; he wants to} compromise with them, to find a “modus vivendi” with the onrush- ing revolution. It is his fate that | the Revolution will not compromise with him, will not be fooled by his liberal pretenses. Ryabinin, whom Dostigayev insists in calling, half- | jestingly, half-respectfully: “Com- |rade Ryabinin,” orders the arrest | of the industrialist. And as the last | curtain falls, Dostigayev, cowed, his | subtle arguments useless, faces the |New Russia—a tall Red Guard, | good humored, sure in his strength and in his peasant common sense. eee as | AS I have already stated, the pro- | duction is an artistic triumph | for the Artef. It is the first play | that T have seen this season in | which I find an unwavering unity of | conception that extends from the written word to the acting, to the| | direction, to the settings. The whole is cast in one integrated mood, | bearing clearly the mark of a man | of culture as well as of a man of} |the theatre. Under the direction | of Benno Schneider, the Artef is the first of our revolutionary dra- matic organizations to have at last | reached artistic maturity. | The settings are frankly theatri- | |cal, in the best sense of the word; | |they go beyond the merely repre- Questions and Anmswers | Shor Fielding Burke Kenneth Burke Erskine Caldwell Alan Calmer Robert Cantwell Lester Cohen Jack Conroy Malcolm Cowley Edward Dahlberg ‘Theodore Dreiser Joseph Freeman Michael Gold Eugene Gordon Horace Gregory Henry Hart Clarence Hathaway Josephine Herbst Nelson Algren Arthur Kallet A Arnold B. Armstrong Herb Kline As for the acting, it would prob- Nathan Asch Joshua Kunitz ably be unfair to choose anyone Maxwell Bodenhelm JohnHowardLawson | for special commendation in a cast oo Tillle emer eur [that is uniformly excellent. The Bob Brows seetin Gavy minor characters are given quick Guy Endore Paul Romaine James T. Farrell Isidor Schneider Ben Field Edwin Seaver Waldo Prank Claire Siften _ By its very nature our organiza- | sentational and realistic to become | tion would not occupy the time and |g carrier of the mood of the play, | energy of its members in adminis-| and at the same time, like all good | trative tasks: instead. it will reveal, | settings, they never obtrude. The through collective discussion, most effective ways in which writ- ers, as writers, can function in the rapidly developing crisis. The undersigned have already responded to this call. the | use use of color is especially effec- | tive: florid like the blotched face of | a drunkard and “gourmand” in the | first act, which is laid in the Mer- | chants’ Club; purple, red and green lige a poisonous mushroom in the last uct, Dostigayev’s drawing room. life and reality by characteristic make-ups, gestures, intonations—as the Young Man in a black shirt | (M. Schaff), the Young Man with | a notebook (H. Bender). M. Gold- stein’s Dostigayev is shrewd, not without dignity, and projects ad- mirably a sense of wasted power. The bafflement of the younger gen- eration finds clealy individualized | portrayal in the Shura of Amelia | Babad, the Antonina of Bella Dorf- man, the Taysia of Goldie Rusller. Among the revolutionists, Pyotr | Ryabinin is played with quiet au- | thority and an amused self-assur- ance by M. Schneiderman; S. Levin, Louis Lozowick Grace Lumpkin Edward Newhouse Joseph North Moissaye Olgin Samuel Ornitz Myra Page Paul Peters Harold Preece William Rollins Paul Sifton George Sklar John L. Spivak Lincoln Steffens Bernhard J. Stern Genevieve Taggard Alex. Trachtenberg 7:00 P.M.-WEAF—To Be An- ‘WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy— Sketch ‘WABC—The O'Neills— 8:00-WEAF—Bourdon Orch.; Jessica Dragonette, So- against white | John Herrmann bit or as the bearded Red Guard, has rich chauvinism (against all forms of|fangston Hughes Ella ‘Winter muscular strength and a peasant Negro discrimination or persecu-! Orrick Johns Richard Wright | good-nature. Poe Ne NG rN nounced Sketch Relations WOR—Sports Resume—Stan WABC—Boake Carter, 9:00-WEAF—Lyman Ore Lomax Commentator WABC—Court of Human Robson, Guest 9:45-WOR—Singin’ Sam 10:00-WEAF—Dramatic Sketch WOR—Elaine Jordan, Songs WJZ—Dramatic Sketch 10:15-WOR—Current Events— | Frank Munn, Tenor; Viv. jenne Segal, Songs WOR-—Hillbilly Music This department appears daily on the featusr page. All questions should be addressed to “Ques- tions and Answers,” c/o Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. Question: Is there equality of pay in the Soviet If the better-paid Union? there is economic inequality, will not individuals accumulate enough to invest for profit?—J. D. Answer: In the Soviet Union workers perform different functions, and their pay veries in accord- But the ex- ploitation of the toilers by an enemy class is im- possible. The workers have abolished the private ownership of the means of production. ance with their skill and training. Individuals cannot own factories, machines, land, etc., and by means of this private ownership exploit workers. The remnants of exploitation that the Soviet Union inherited from Czarism are being system- atically destroyed. Production is organized and planned to satisfy the needs of the masses, and not to pile up wealth for the exploiters. The work- ers are building Socialism wherein all those factors that make for class oppression and exploitation will disappear This does not mean that everyone in the Soviet Union receives equal pay. Workers are paid ac- cording to work performed and according to skill and training. The new society carried over with it in its emergence from capitalism the economic, mora! and intellectual birthmarks of the old society from which it sprang, and these are being eradicated by the dictatorship of the proletariat. What is important, however, is that the Soviet state pays special attention to poorer-paid and un- skilled categories of workers. They are encouraged to educate themselves; they have every opportu- nity to obtain better jobs, and they never have to fear the specter of economic insecurity. The better-paid individuals like the poorer-paid ones elevate their living standards; raise their cul- tural level. But there is no place in Soviet eco- nomy where savings can be used to accumulate profits. Remnants of speculation still exist. These are being carefully uprooted, and the workers’ and farmers’ government constantly watches for any attempt by fragments of the old regime to introduce capitalist exploitation in any form. In the Soviet Union the classless Socialist society in which every form of the exploitation of man by man will have been abolished, but people will still be paid according to the kind of work that they do. It is only when mankind will pass from the stage of Socialism to the higher stage of Communism, when the develop- ment of the social productive forces will provide more than enough for everyone's needs, that the toilers are building a | present division of Jabor will have disappeared and mankind will set up the standard: “From each ac- cording to his abilities; to each according to his needs.” (A yeading of Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program will show that the Soviet Union on the point of “equality” as in all other points, is carry- ing out the principles of Socialism laid down by Marx and Engels.) t Wave Radio There is certainly a great number of amateurs in the United States who are unable to afford the kilowatt, or crystal control, all bands, break-in operation, C. W. and other nice-sounding conveni- ences. There is a still large number of workers who are interested in amateur radio and could get the well-known kick out of it if not for a lack of funds. Both of these groups could use a good radio course, each within its own scope. A workers’ radio club, while basing itself on the amateur proper, naturally is the answer for both of the abcve groups. It is in a workers’ radio club that parts can be pooled for most power and for most pleasant operation and experimentation; the money for new parts can be pooled and invested cooperatively at greatly reduced prices; the unemployed electrical engineers can teach theory to the hams and they in turn can teach operating technique to the uninitiated on a basis of cooperation and mutual exchange. In the face of the five years of the crisis, the false individualism of some hams, their denial of pos- sibility of cooperative activity, must break down. A successful workers’ short wave club in Manhattan must spread workers’ radio clubs all over America, Tonight, Friday, the Short Wave Radio Club of Manhattan meets at 42 Union Square. A standard evening schedule has been found workable since last week, when it was first tried out; it is as fol- lows: 7:30, code practice; 9, business meeting; 10, a popular lecture (Arthur Blumenfeld on “The History and Development of Microphones’’); 10:30, discussion; 11, official adjournment. Last week's lecture by Yale A. Golobe on the history of radio transmitters evoked an interesting discussion and unanimous anvroval of holding a popular half-hour lecture at each meeting. * Tomorrow, Saturday night is one of great im- portance in the history of the cooperative short- wave hobby movement. An all-electric party will be held at the above address. In order that the party insure the obtaining of full-time headquarters, the club members have done their best to obtain entertaining and novel entertainment for the eve- ning. The entertainment committee plans the dem- onstration of transcsivers (radio conversation with @ person on the Square), a theremin (ether wave instrument) recital, reproduction of a personal re- cording of a Moscow broadcast, and dancing to sixteen inch broadcast studio records! Y. L.’s es- pecially welcome. Watch next Friday's column for the announce- ment of the new full-time headquarters. Is the Cleveland club burning up? How about some So- cialist competition? . * * Attention, Brooklynites: Organizational meeting of a workers’ radio club will be held tonight at the home of M. Starkopp, apt. D-3, 30 Bay 25th Street. | \f - We have been informed second-hand that from and Tales from the Vienna Woods | City on May 1, 1935; that to this Meith 2 cnc SCO Sonn ates -eeetel |S aasenrrnmerin Cech | ancaecirmncete juled bears the faintest trace of progress or democracy | and Overture to the Fledermaus by| Congress shall be invited all writ- 1:15-WEAF—Currency In- Wz—Dramatie “Sketch, oevcdass aoetat S| ne eae Bee, Jan. 23 to 31 there is sched a conlels, Ot Me Bs will be assailed as being Communist. Hearst is already doing that, and Coughlin is joining him. It is a tragic prospect, and yet in some ways a heartening one. For it will make the issues plain as daylight, and all the rats of the labor and liberal S. R. hams, day and night watch being held. The bands used will be 20 m. and 160 m. with Irene Rich, Actress WABC—Variety Musicale | 8:15-WJZ—Dick Leibert, Or- gan; Armbruster and Kreus; Piano; Mary Courtlandt, Songs; Male | Johann Strauss. Some day the Philharmonic will give such concerts for workers at low admission charge. In the mean- while, an occasional. program of stead of Bonds—Rep. ‘WABC—March of Time— Drama 9:30-WEAP—Bonime Orch.; Pie and Pat, Comedians WOR—Kemp Orch. WdZ—Phil Baker, Cond.; Mixed Chorus WOR—Variety Musicale WJZ—Facts About the Jew- ish People—Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner WABC—The O'Flynn—Mu- ers who have achieved some stand- ing in their respective fields; who have clearly indicated their sym- pathy to the revolutionary cause; who do not need to be convinced | Wright Patman of Texas | WOR—Lum and Abner— Sketch WJZ—Plantation Echoes; Robison Orch,; Southern- | Orci | During the coming week, Tuesday to Friday, Comedi- 4 res Quartet Quartet | an; Gabrielle de Lys, sical Drama the American Institute of Electrical Engineers is + world will scurry where they bel: this type by the Pierre Dogeyter | of the decay of capitalism, of the WABC—Just Plain Bill— WABC--Edwin ©. Hill, Com-| Songs; Belasco Orci | Holmes, Chief, Washing- ; Pete ae symphony orchestra would bs re- inevitability ot resolute ” Subse- Sketch montator S WABC- Hollywood Hotel | 11:00-WEAP—Tall—George Bolding ite Snpual, Wilts Ce ee ee masses free of illusion, and ready for the final struggle, ceived with gratitude and cnthu-| quently, we will seck to influence | 720-WEAF—Hirsch Oren. 8:30-WOR--Katzman Oreh.: Sketch, with Dick Powell, ton Bureau, INS 39th Street, N. Y. ©. Many of the lectures and WOR-—M. Jane Froman, Songs; i ti eed VA slasm, |, — 8. F. land win to our side those writers! wiz—Red Davie Sketch Hope, comediar | Bite pectin ay May | Wie—Dushyp Orch, | trips scheduled are of interest to amateurs, “ ‘ ir ¥ i |