The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1935, Page 5

By MICHAEL GOLD ) J? WAS a day of blinding steel winds and icy pavements. New York had returned to the primitive, and looked more like a howling waste in the arctic circle than a big city. I drifted into a coffee pot and thawed out. Some of the usual taxi hacks hung around one of the tables, forgetting their troubles. At an- other table were a bunch of cold, muffled-up men, drinking coffee and arguing over the Lindbergh case. They were from the snow shovelling gang that was fighting the storm outside the door. Their noses were red, their eyes bleary and haggard. They looked exhausted, like men who have just run away from a battle that has been lost. Some wore rubbers, others wore leaky shoes stuffed with paper. They were dressed like over- stuffed scarecrows; some in two old patched coats, or sweaters; you could see they had put on every- thing they owned. In their old threadbare clothes, with a cup of coffee and two crullers under the belt, after months of bad, thin, imitation food, after years of unem- ployment, these men were out in the worst storm New York has seen for twenty years, shovelling snow. Many of them were on the relief rolls. And the Mayor, who is straining every nerve to pay the Wall Street bankers their interest (this is what he thinks he is in office for), had forced them to go snow shovelling, The papers said several men had died of ex- posure on the job. How many went to the hospitals with pneumonia or flu will mever be investigated by the statisticians of Wall Street or City Hall. Human suffering is the cheapest and most common- Place think in America today. Somewhere in a steam-heated editorial office, a fat, boozy prostitute of a newspaperman was scold- ing and sneering at these people in the following editorial words: “A lot of relief recipients, listed as ready for snow removal work as soon as there should be any snow, didn’t turn out—because half of their 50 cents an hour snow removal pay would be deducted from their relief checks. Worse, a lot of hard-up men who have managed to keep off relief applied for snow removal jobs, but were turned away because relief people have the preference for these jobs. “There is a widespread feeling that relief is one of the less successful features of the Fusion Ad- ministration; that the soft-boiled attitude of some relief officials is letting too many cadgers, fakers and born deadbeats get on the relief rolls and stay on them, When relief becomes more attractive than work, as in this snow removal episode, it is time for a showdown.” * . . Taunting the Unemployed WOULD be a pleasure to meet the man who wrote this editorial, and make a try at the button in his loose jaw. Newspanermen are divided up into two camps; the hard-working, hard-pressed, decent variety, making the best of a bad job; and the willing flunkeys and hirelings, the born scabs such as this editorial writer. Is there anyone meaner and cheaper than the man who taunts the millions who must starve and suffer on relief, and wants them treated even worse than they are being treated? And he isn’t even a banker, who might profit by such cruelty; but he is an editorial hack working for wages on a pre- carious job, here today and there tomorrow, a man who may be on the breadlines himself in a year. (I have met at least a dozen former newspaper- men in the Bowery flophouses and Hooverilles.) . . Little Flower LaGuardia 1 bavag was an Italian of about 50 sitting next to me in the coffee pot. He had brought along his lunch, a piece of bologna and a hunk of bread. He had bought a cup of coffee, however, and was trying to warm his shivering body with this tiny portion of heat. He was short, haggard and bald-headed, and was half asleep. He took a bit of sausage and shut his eyes, then came to with a start. I offered him a cigarette, and he smiled and began to talk, hungrily. “Jeez, I’m tired. Didn’t sleep at all last night. I have a very bad knee. Fell down some steps last month and I’m still sick. Look at it.” He rolled up his pants and showed me his leg. It was a horrible sight, blue and swollen to balloon size almost down to the ankle. “You ought to be in bed, instead of shovelling snow,” I said. “That's what the doctor told me,” he said, “stay in bed for a month, keep the knee warm. But who's gonna give me my food, I answered him? Who's gonna go out and pick up wood for my stove? I lost my wife two years ago, and have one kid. Who will take care of her? So the doctor only said, you must stay in bed. I didn’t want to come out shovelling but people said they would put me off relief if we didn’t—no excuses for Mr. Little Flower LaGuardia. He is a Napoleon, that man, and will hear no excuses.” And while these starved men were shovelling snow in the bitter streets, at the Waldorf-Astoria an elaborate entertainment entitled the “Snow Ball” was being held in the grand ballroom for the benefit of a hospital. Evergreen trees by the hundreds were strung everywhere, and there were long icicles of cello- phane, and imitation snow drifts, with hundreds of imitation snow-balls thrown by the dancers. A vaudeville show was given, all based on the themes of ice-skating and skiing at St. Moritz, with imita- tion blizzards and fake moonlight. Ready February 5th! HUNGER and REVOLT: Cartoons by BURCK This beautiful, DeLuxe edition is limited to 100 numbered and signed copies. Printed on heavy art paper, in large folio size and con- taining 248 pages. Bound in heavy buckram boards, attractively stamped. Orders accepted now. Five dollars, postpaid. DAILY WORKER, 50 F, 13th St., N. Y. LITTLE LEFTY DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935 BAYH ON ACCOUNT A GIRL TOLD ME to |} | HOPE “THe GANG DON'T HEAR UNOLE OF PAPERS ARE NOW SUST A PILE OF ASHES — ANDO HE GoES ON~1O | | te more oRastic PART OF PRTSY'S ORDERS o—> ABOUT “This / | World Wideliuiry ‘Of Working Class ‘Keynote of C. I. |THE COMMUNIST INTERNA- TIONAL, Vol. XII, No. 1; Organ of the Executive Committee of the Communist International; 10 cents, Reviewed by BEATRICE BLOSSER ‘HE first issue of The Communist International for 1935 contains a wealth of material on the developing struggles for unity of the working class throughout the world, and on | ternational social-demoeracy. |at the Barricades,” by A. Peres, analyzes the heroic struggle of the young workers of all political groups | during the period of preparation as | well as during the October revolu- tionary period itself. The story of | how the clear political line of the Communist Party and Y. C. L. won over the hesitating Socialist youth is an inspiration to workers in every country. The editorial, “For the United | Front of Struggle of the Interna- | tional Proletriat,' displays a vivid | contrast it, the point-blank refusal jof the Second International and |most ofits parties to support their brothers in Spain. The editorial dis- cusses the negotiations which Com- rades Cachin and Thorez carried on for the C. I. with the repre- | sentatives of the Second Interna- \tional and reveals how these So- cialist gentlemen maneuvered to avoid joint action in support of the | Spanish proletariat which was at | that very moment fighting valiantly against fascism with arms in its hands. History of United Front In the article by A. Martynov, “Citizen Vandervelde’s Reply,” new light is thrown on the history of the united front, with special refer- lence to that old claim of the So- \cialists that they offered unity to the C. I. just previous to Hitler's \taking power in Germany. In this article, Martynov provides a Lenin- ist guide through the maze of words in Vandervelde’s reply to Cachin’s | original proposal. The bitterness of the Swedish 8S. |P. leaders against the united front is forcefully exposed in the article, “The Role of Swedish Social-De- mocracy in the Second Interna- | tional,” by M. M. One of these | Swedish leaders, Vogt, berated the Second International for greeting the Spanish revolution, which, he wailed, “breathes the spirit of the century.” The manner in which the Social- |ist workers forced the changing of |the blanket decision of the Second International against the united | front, hy simply breaking the deci- | sion in country after country, is an | object lesson to Socialist branches | and locals here who find themselves hampered by similar decisions, Chinese Red Army's Fight No. 1 of “The Communist Inter- national” contains a valuable article on “The Struggle of the Chinese Red Army Against Chiang Kai- shek’s Sixth Drive,” by Wan Ming. There is also a section on the Fif- teenth Anniversary of the Young Communist International which in- cludes three articles. This issue of the C. I. magazine offers such excellent material to all workers—Communists struggling for the united front, Socialists who wish to know just what their lead- ers are doing, and non-Party work- ers who have yet to decide which party to support—that its sale should be given a real push by all eee units and workers’ organiza- ions. 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 sub- ject. Preface by L, Rudas. Cloth, 75 cents. MARX-ENGELS-MARXISM, by V. I. Lenin. The actual ap- plication of dialectical materi- alism to the complicated con- ditions of the modern world. Cloth, $1.25. TWENTY YEARS IN UNDER- GROUND RUSSIA, by Cecilia Bobrovskaya. A picture of Russian society under the Tsar, The underground printing press, “unlawful” workers’ study circles, strikes, banishment, imprisonment, torture—the de- tails, the dangers, the excite- ment of illegal revolutionary activity. Cloth, 86 cents. THE LAST DAYS OF TSAR NICHOLAS, by P. M. Bykov. Shows how the execution of the Romanoffs was a measure of social defense taken by the Soviet government. Boards, 50 cents, Ofsets x These books can be purchased at all Workers Bookshops, or from Workers Library Publishers, P. Bs Box 148, Station D, New York, re: 3 the role and recent activities of in- | “The Communist Youth of Spain} pure, naive barricade fights of last | written by an old Bolshevik. || On the Rampage WELL NOW |'VE DONE WHAT SHE! WANTED AND SHE'S GoT TO ~YELL ME WAY SHE SNUBBED Me IF IT'S BECAUSE I'M A NEWSGOY I'LL BREAK MY HEART-— Jailed Fighter for Haiti's Freedom Calls for Support By LUCILE PERRY Colonial Department International Labor Defense “"FEN officers armed with machine guns brought Roumain into Court!” The speaker was Antonio Mar- tinez, a seaman who had come up |to the National Office of the In- ternational Labor Defense to tell the story of his own arrest in Haiti and that of Jacques Roumain, youthful leader of the Communist Party of Haiti, recently sentenced to three years imprisonment, with whom he shared a cell. Martinez was arrested last August in Port au Prince, one day before the arrest of Roumain, when he went on shore- leave from a ship of the Columbia Line on which he had shipped from New York, “They guarded him as if he were a wild animal,” Martinez continued. He went on to tell of the farcical trial Roumain was given by the military tribunal. The young rev- olutionary leader was charged with importing arms and munitions into Haiti. This charge was made by Chief of Detectives Mode, who had investigated Roumain’s home and gathered the “incriminating” evi- dence. It consisted of such explo- sive things as books and papers, “Roumain asked Mode if he found any arms, Mode said ‘No.’ But they sentenced him to three years at hard labor for introducing arms into Haiti.” Just a Frame-up “Of course there weren’t any arms,” Martinez added, “it was a plain frame-up.” Later Roumain won an appeal before the Court of Appeals. But the court was afraid of the military tribunal and upheld the decision. After the trial, Roumain was taken to the national penitentiary where he was held incommunicado for 55 days. He is still there, to- gether with J. Jolibois, G. Petit, M. Collard, M. Hudicourt and two other political prisoners who were arrested shortly before Roumain and sen- tenced to two years hard labor and $1,000 fine each for having printed and distributed an article from the French paper, “Cri des | Negres.” I asked Martinez about his own Life and The Daily Worker is printing serially the extremely valuable and popular booklet by R. Palme Dutt, “Life and Teachir of V. I, Lenin,” published by Inter- | national Publishers, CHAPTER III. Teachings of Lenin VIII. T the center of Lenin’s teaching on the tactics and organization | of the revolution is the conception | jof the party, or conscious and or- ganized vanguard of the working | class. This conception reaches a | development far more complete |than was possible in the epoch of | Marx. In the period of the prole- | |tarian revolution the workers’ rev- jolutionary party or Communist Party has to face enormously more ‘developed tasks than in the pre- ceding epoch. The party requires to be “the organized political lever by means of which the more ad- vanced section of the working class Jeads the whole proletarian and semi-proletarian mass” (‘Theses of the Second Congress of the Com- | munist International”). The essence of the conception of the party is the conception of | leadership; not leadership by a! handful of individuals, but leader- | ship by an organic section of the working class, the most conscious, revolutionary section, fighting in the | front rank and leading the entire | struggle, both before the revolution, during the revolution, and after the | revolution, Without such leadership to unify and guide the struggle the -forces of the workers are inevitably de- feated by the highly organized and | centralized forces of the bourgeoisie and of the bourgeois stave. The working class, In order to vonquer, requires to develop a Communist Party. In order to be able to agcomplish this task of leadership, the Com- munist Party requires to unite within its ranks all the most con- scious, revolutionary, active, self- sacrificing workers; to be based on ,clear revolutionary theory with constant critical alertness to the | Situation; to be closely united with |the mass of the workers and with ‘all the exploited masses; to com-| bine the s:vongest centralized dis- ‘cipline as a fighting organization arrest, He told me he had been met by detectives when he went off his ship at Port au Prince. He was @ dangerous Communist, they told him, and hauled him off to fail. With the consent of the captain of the ship, they broke into Mar- tinez’ locker where they found two letters he had been asked to de- liver in New York and some Haitian newspapers. Nothing more. But it was sufficient for the Haitian au- thorities to hold Martinez in jail for more than four months. “The day after my arrest, that was the day they brought Roumain in, the Minister of Justice visited me and asked who had written the letters. When I refused to tell, he threatened to have me _ lashed,” Martinez said. The next day he was visited by the Chief of Detectives who told him he would be kept in jail 26 or 25 years if he refused to tell who had written the letters. When Mar- tinez still refused to tell, they placed him in solitary confinement and held him incommunicado for forty days. At the end of that period he was transferred to the National Penitentiary where Roumain was held. I asked Martinez about conditions in the jails, For example, how are the beds? The question was a little too naive for him. He smiled | patiently and pointed to his shirt. Slept on Wet Floor “This was my bed in the first | jail.” Forty days sleeping on a shirt on the floor! No one to talk with! In addition, I was wld, the windows and walls leaked badly and since it rained most of the time, the floor was constantly wet.” Martinez continued, “I the Na- tional Penitentiary things were much more luxurious. They gave us fibre mats to sleep on. For pil- lows, we used our shoes and for bedding, our clothes.” And the food—how was it? The seaman made a wry face. “As a special favor, they let me have the same food given the guards. But it was so terrible, I couldn't eat most of the time, so you can imagine what the regular prison food is like.” Roumain and the other prisoners managed to subsist only because | with democracy in the election and control of higher organs and con- scious participation of every mem- ber in the formulation and discus- sion of policy, This in turn requires corresponding forms of organization, the basing of the party primarily in the factories, the strongholds of the industrial working class, and in the mass organizations of the trade unions, etc, ae Ser LL this conception marks a def- inite break with the old, loose | type of parliamentary Social- Democratic parties common in the pre-War Second International. In the period after 1914 Lenin deliber- ately broke with the name “Social- Democratic Party,” which had al- ways been declared incorrect by Marx and Engels, and which had now become identified with the traitor parties, and brought into use again the original name used by Marx and Engels and always de- clared py them to be alone scien- tifically correct, the “Communist Party.” A long process of working class struggle and experience, of partial battles, victories and retreats, of developing organization, of conflicts of tendencies, is necessary before the working class forces are strong and ready, and before the mass Com- munist Party with effective leader- ship has developed out of the strug- gle, to be able to advance at the favorable moment to the final over- throw of bourgeois power. The lead- | ing Communist Party adequate to Ks From American Workers | Young Revolutionary Leader Charged With Importing Arms and Munitions Into Haiti on “Incriminating” Evidence of Books and Papers their families sent food to them regularly, Because of the filth in the jails and the fact that there is |no soap, many of the prisoners have contracted skin diseases. There is a prison hospital, but not a drop of | medicine in it. Thousands of Bed Bugs The prison cells are alive with Vermin. Martinez described it: “About ten thousand bed bugs and lice to each cell . . . but no cock- roaches. There was nothing for |them to eat. Or, perhaps the bed |bugs ate them.” He told me that Roumain and |the six other Haitians held with {him had gone on strike December | 20, refusing to see visitors in protest |against the action of the author: in compelling visitors to stay so far | away from the prisoners that a con- | Versation could be carried on only | | by shouting. All writing material jand books had been taken away |from the prisoners and they were | permitted to send out letters only |if they were approved by the warden. When Martinez left, Roumain was very sick with malaria. Message from Roumain Just before Martinez was released, |Roumain asked him to bring the | following message to the Interna~ tional Labor Defense. “I was arrested because I fought | for the freedom of Haiti. Only mass | protest, especially on the part of workers and intellectuals in the country whose imperialism op- presses Haiti, the United States, will |force the release of myself and the | other victims of the Haitian terror. |I am sure that the International |Labor Defense will rally every friend of freedom in the United States to answer our appeal for help.” There {s widespread resentment throughout Haiti against the frame- up of Roumain and the other pris- joners. With elections approach- ing, President Vincent is especially alarmed at the proportions of the protest movement, A simultaneous fight in the United States would help tremendously in making the Haitian gentleman who carry out orders for Wall Street release the valiant fighters for the freedom of Haiti. | [its tasks does not come into being |ready-made from the moment of the formation of the first nucleus ; towards such a party. The proletarian revoltionary party does not deserve the name until it learns to connect leaders, class, masses, into one indissoluble whole, (“Left-Wing” Commu- nism, Ch, VI.) | The Communist Party is not the first, but the “last, highest form of proletarian class organization.” It grows and develops with the growth and development of the working class struggle. | It is in this pre-revolutionary process of the marshaling and or- ganizing of the working class forces, partial preparatory battles, crystal- |lizing of the revolutionary advance- | guard and winning of leadership in | the working class against the oppor- |tunist trends, that develop the mul- tifarious problems of tactics of the |Pre-revolutionary period which |Lenin worked out in close detait |in the experience of the Bolshevik Party up to 1917, and thereafter transmitted this experience through working class in other countries. HIS experience and guidance covers a series of problems, cen- tering round the relationship of the party to the masses, and the con- quest of the majority of the work- ing class: in particular, the role of the trade unions and the rela- tion of the party to the trade unions and other mass organizations of the working class; the relation of the party to the semi-proletarian masses; the combination of legal and illegal activity; the utilization of bourgeois parliaments and eles- tions, not for the purpose of spread- ing parliamentary illusions, but for the development of revolutionary working class propaganda and or- ganization; the role of partial strug- gles and demands, of reforms (‘‘by- products of the revolutionary class struggle”), or retreats and maneu- vers; the methods of the fight against opportunism, etc. The great part of these tactical problems, which come to the front and are of decisive importance for advance in the pre-revolutionary period, continue and develop through new forms also in the revolutionary | and post-revolutionary periods, (To be continued) — AND IF SHE BREAKS W) MY HEART I'LL BREAK the Communist International to the | by del HER NECK / I Theatre ee Problems Treated! In New Theatre NEW THEAERE, February, 1935. Published monthly by New Thea- tre, 114 West 14th Street, New York City. Organ of the New The- atre League, National Film and Photo and Workers Dance | Leagues. 19¢ on New York City newsstands, -—— | Reviewed by | ARTHUR DOUR EW THEATRE appears this month as the publication of the newly formed “New Theatre League,” which supersedes the old | League of Workers Theatres. This change, made possible by the steady | advance of the theatrical front, is ;Teflected in the new high standard |set by the current issue of New Theatre, The contents are led off by Black | Taylor's “Broadway, Inc., vs. the | Unions.” An answer to Morton Eu- stis's book, “B’way, Inc.,” Taylor's article is proof that the New The- atre League can now go beyond ab- stract political and dramatic theo- ries to where these theories find root in the daily experience of theatre workers, The concretizing of the theatrical struggle is noteworthy throughout |the magazine. Tom Langley con- tributes an estimate of Will Hayes, | | the $150,000-per-year movie czar, | who once suggested, concerning | |“this criminal thing, the I. W. W.| or what not,” that “There is a rem- | edy—it is taken against the wall— | standing.” Hayes’ job as servant of | |the bankers who own the moving | Pictures, is to draw off the fire of | “immorality” charges and to con- | vince the more obtuse reactionaries | that the Hollywood films are al-| | ready a perfect medium for stulti- | fication of the masses. | “Waiting for Lefty,” Clifford | | Odets’ short play about taxi strik- | ers, is printed in full. The play has already demonstrated its unusual | merit in production by actors of the |Group Theatre, of which Odets is also an actor-member. The charac- | | ters, particularly in the Union Hall scenes, have an uncanny reality, and the play itself has turoulence, raffish proletarian humor, and a convincing scenic form which com- bines theatre of action with the |conventions of the minstrel show and the Arabian Nights Tales. In | walking onto a labor-union platform | Odets opens a new region to the| | American theatre. | ees: | AROLD EDGAR aptly uses) Broadway's own yardstick of | Professionalism in his analyses of Teachings of Lenin | » By R. PALME DUTT recent Broadway productions. Like the other writers in New Theatre, he shows a growing responsiveness to the merits and admirable quali- ties of certain workers in the bour- geois theatre, as well as of certain phases of that theatre. An excep- tion is his review of “The Chil- dren’s Hour,” which reveals the} | play’s defects, bui ignores the beau- tiful work of the director and the players. | Nathaniel Buchwald’s article on) \the Artef’s Broadway season re-| |minds us that this forerunner of the Theatre Union has also pro- | duced three outstanding plays in succession. They are “Egor Bulit-| | schev,” “Recruits” and “Dostiga-| yev.” The Artef now faces a difficult | transition period from amateur to| professional standing, and from | Chassidic to American proletarian ideology and methods of staging The experiences of the Artef are| important especially for those for- leign-language groups which are ‘overcoming their sectionalism and are entering the larger arena of the | American revolutionary theatre. Dancers will find the present number of New Theatre highly pro- | Yocative. Edna Ocko's review of the } Workers Dance League recital at | Town Hall on Dec. 23, draws a line between dances intended for “the untrained eyes of thousands of peo- ple who have never seen dancing | before,” and those which are in- |tended for the concert platform, whose developed audiences find the first type “crude and wearisome.” In the same number Emmanuel Eisenberg insists that most revolu- jtionary dancers are still only “ladies” who display all the bour- geois-idealistic poses of the yurple days of Nietzsche. All these evidences of a concrete, informed and authoritative ap- proach, combined with the regular news pages of united-front develop- | ments in the amateur groups, prove | that New Theatre has become a real | weapon “for the mass development of the American theatre to its high- jest artistic and social level.” Wanted: Items from The Hearst Press Readers are urged to send us clippings, cartoons and editorials from all Hearst newspapers— particularly items about the So- viet Union and the Communist Party, Indicate name of news- paper and date of publication in sending in this material. Address: Feature Editor, Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St., New York. Questions and Answers This department appears daily on the feature page. All questions showid be addressed to “Ques- tions and Answers,” ¢ /o Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. Love of Country Question: In his speech at Meeting in Madison Square Gard: Earl Browder ‘We Communists love our coun- try, ate love which Lenin bore for Ri his mean that Commu- nists stand nationalism"?—S. S., Chicago. Answer: Ss are opposed to jingois nationalism a al expression of the rui for the international union of class. They fight all toilers into an In ational Soviet. But they Lenin Memorial lew York City, for Comm are not opposed to a of country, and all that is fine and b: ir country’s culture and tions. It is the workers who really love their co! it is t who, in Co: words, are “the unchallenged heirs tionary traditions of America Capitalists have no 1 rade Browder’s to the revolu- To them it is something to be plur d for the sake of profits. The talists are sell- ing munitions and ott as nese i d against Amer- During the last were kiiled by shel sold to the Ge by British companies, just as Ger n soldiers were butchered by guns sold to the Allied forces by the German munitions makers. The capitalists do not love their country or its traditions. They will at any moment sacrifice them both for the sake of an extra dollar. Their jingo- istic slogans are raised for the purpose of mobiliz- ing the nation behind their plans for imperialist expansion and war. Against this reactionary na- tionalism Communists fight. They point out to the workers that to succumb to the kind of “patriotism” preached by the Hearsts and other capitalist jingoes is to aid in the enslavement of the working class. We must oppose the greed for profit common to the ruling classes of all capital- ist countries with the international solidarity of the working class of the world. And to rescue our country from the disaster which the capitalists are plunging it into, the workers of the United States will employ the revolutionary solution that is not something foreign to American history, but repre- sents the only vital and progressive trend in the hort ave Radio News The SWRC of Manhattan has rented a large loft at 124 West 21st Street, two flights up, as a full-time headquarters. The meeting tonight will assemble at 42 Union Sauare from 7:30 till 9 p. m. during which time there wili be code practice. At 9 p. m. those present will march in a body to the headquarters. If the readers of this column haye any odd radios or radio parts to donate to the club, it will be happy to call for them—just drop the club a postcard. There is also a sad lack of furniture, partitions and heating equipment—offers are an= xiously welcome. At their next meeting, Brooklyn radio clubs are asked to take up the matter of help- ing to equip the Manhattan headquarters, imy "a The national situation may be summed up as follows: one club in Manhattan, four in Brooklyn, one in Cleveland and one in Chicago. The last one has never chosen to write to us despite specific requests; there are new indications, however, that one is in existence there. We would be thankful to any reader for information on this club and on the radio group in the Hinsdale Youth Club at 568 Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn; the latter also seems to consist of a shy bunch. . . . Another Brooklyn club meets Friday nights at the home of M. Starkopp, apt. D-3, 30 Bay 25th Street. The Williamsburg club at 198-B Lewis Avenue, Brooklyn (the Workers’ Handicraft League machine shop) meets Sundays, 4 p.m. At the last (second) meeting there were present one ham, two ex-hams and nine enthusiastic would-be’s. The club is al- ready indulging in code practice; they are sure to complete a short wave receiver by the time of the next meeting, and expect to go on the air in a short time with a small, single control (TNT) ckt TPTG job. * * . The American Youth Club radio group of 1813 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, meets Thursday nights, Last week, at their first meeting, 22 (twenty-two) were present. The equipment at present consists of a code practice set and a sw revr. An experienced commercial op is in technical charge. TUNING IN | | 8:18-WEAF — Ranch Boys, | WJZ—English Stage | American Stage—Dame | Sybil Thorndike, Br: | _Aherne, Edmund Gwenn, WABC—Bobby Benson — Sketeh 8:30-WEAF—Press-Radio News WOR—Resume, Hauptmann | ‘Trial WJZ—Press-Radio News | WABC—Current Events—H. V. Kalten 6:35-WEAF- Cle: wii 6:45-WEAF—Billy B: WOR—Talks and | WiZ—Lovw mentator WABC—Beauty—Margaret WABC—Edwin ©. Hill, Come mentator | 8:30-WOR—Katzman Orch.; | “Lucille Peterson, Songs; Choristers Quartet WJZ—Goodman Orch.; Jane Froman, Songs; Bob Hope, Comedian WABC—Court of Human Relations 9:00-WEAF—Lyman Orch.; Frank Munn, Tenor; Vie vienne Segal, Songs WOR—Hilibilly Music WJZ—Beatrice Lillie, Comes dienne; Perrin Orchestra; Cavaliers Quartet WABC—March of Time— | 9:30-WEAP—Bonime Orches- tra; Pic and Pat, Comes Brainasa dians 6:35-WABC—Press-Radio News | WOR—Al and Lee Reiser, | 7:00-WEAF—To Be Announced Piano WOR—Sports Resume—Stan Lomax WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy— |_ WABC—Myrt and Marge— 1:15-WEAF—Stories of the | Black Chamber | WOR—Lum and Abner— WJZ—Plantation Echoes; Robison Orch.; Southern- aires Quertet WABC—Just Plain Bill— | 1:30-WEAF—Hirsch Orchestra WOR—Mystery Sketch WJZ—Red Dayis—Sketch WABC—The O'Neills—Sketch 1:45-WEAF — Uncle Ezra— WOR—Front-Page Drama | WJZ—Dangerous Paradise— WABC—Boake Carter, Com- mentator 8:00-WEAF—Bourdon Orches- tra; Jessica Dragonette, Soprano; Male Quartet WOR—Lone Ranger—Sketch WJZ—Dramatic Sketch, with Irene Rich, Actress WABC—Variety Musicale 8:25-WJZ—Dick Leibert, gan; Armbruster and Kraus, Piano; Mary Courtland, Songs; Male Quartet WJZ—Phil Baker, Comedian; Gabrielle de Lys, Songs; Belasco Orch. 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