r WORKER. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1984 Page Five FLASHES and What’s Doing in the John On Saturday’s Fascist Groups Out to '-t: CLOSE-UPS CHANGE Reed Clubs of the U. S. Feature Page Save U.S. "Reds” LENS from By By ALAN CALMER [ including Joshua Kunitz, Louis Lo- THE To S. Kaufman: George following Thanks John Reed Club of New York. I zowick. Malcolm Cowley and Meyer ! The outstanding for that sw'ell announcement of Schapiro, books will be reviewed the expectation of doubling the THEthe first revolutionary cultural have spoken on prole- on this By JOHN L. SPIVAK It forthcoming Film and Foto League tarian art and literature for feature page of the Daily Worker within a week. group in this country, was formed I the Movie Costume Ball over radio club. An important symposium, on next Saturday. April 21: In this body. I believe, is the real station WOR . at the beginning of the present “The by LOR ANGELES, Cal.—The WORLD! last. Wednesday. , . ■ : Writers and the Crisis, was given Hour of Decision.” Os- economic crisis. By MICHAEL GOLD I think our own Jimmy Cagney Since then the i by a number of authors, including wald Spongier. Reviewed by 1 organizational activities of thef merely lookinc for dollars from . revolutionary cultural movement has I will be there. . . And that a nick- Josephine and Wexley. Harry penetrated Herbst John Cannes. Communist-led Cannery and elodeon show will be one of the into numerous sections as well as the "Labor B In an extra BROWDER, in his masterly keynote speech to the j of the U. S. Philadelphia critic, and Steel." by Horace end taken to Itself, legal many surprise features. . . . May Albert Mordsll. Davis. by Joseph | Agricultural Workers Union fashion, power county Many Sender Garlin will I Reviewed 1 the of the EARLrecent Communist Convention in Cleveland, pointed out First will witness the initiation of of the John Reed Clubs apeak in Philadelphia on Da.llet, organizer among: were started as I “John of the Steel the migratory workers and the state. what is described as "a war-time general cultural as- Reed—His Life and Work,” early and that the American Communists have seriously underesti- sociations and discussion societies. Metal Workers’ Industrial | has brought to life a mushroom propaganda drive to familiarize in May. Union. growth type mated importance of the Communist press. In addition to acting as auxiliary i of fascist organizations. THIS of fascism has. for its the i the American public with w'hat the One of the artists in the Phila- “The Shadow Before.” a textile members men who believe their organizations in mass work, the J. R. C. Here, than in His chief proof was the fact that the Daily Worker | National Recovery Administration delphia was instructor at strike novel by William Rol- more any place I own economic security is at stake John Reed Clubs are building cen- the Workers visited far, has thus far.” . . International Relief so Communis!-led accomplished . has not yet attained by half what should be, under present social revolutionary lins. Jr. Reviewed by Edwin union and are thus ready to fight to keep Hugh S. Johnson’s idea pro- ters of literature and camp at Lumberville, Pa., last Sum- activities have not only been wide- conditions, its normal circulation of 100,000. , is to art around magazines in Hollywood, Rolfe. out “red agitators.” Helping them | duce a co-opera- mer. Later the club held a public Is spread, but have been very effec- , I may another example of this failure to understand series of shorts in Chicago, Philadelphia, as as “Such My Beloved.” a novel are the American Legion posts, most think we add . . well exhibition of the tive in tion with Hollywood. . Now. drawings of the by Morley Callaghan. Re- winning strikes; and the of members are for a powerful press. New York. New poets and fiction- children in whose either well- lithe necessity say you . . . this class. On invitation, growth of don’t weren’t warned. ists are developing within I viewed by George Lewis. Communist activity was to-do farmers, small business men its weekly New Masses, now printing its sixteenth issue, has also Variety’s own sweet way of the ranks these drawings were entered foUowed almost Immediately the ™ The com- in the —a of "The i by of the Communist movement. Spirit Also review New or local politicians who cannot act been badly neglected. It is true that in four months it has built itself menting on this “war-time drive.” of Youth exhibition, held by Quarterly,” by Nathan AdIPT. i intensive development of fascist Through their work in these maga- bourgeois in legal guise. Those who do not . . philanthropic and j activity. to a circulation of 16,000 copies, of which over five thousand are . "Washington's savants are dis- i educa- any these classes zines. and through the medium of tional organizations, they come within of subscriptions. is that it has demonstrated a remarkable cussing the modus operandi for plays where won Be sure to get a copy of next Open are expecting favors from those It also true and art exhibits, the revolu- ! first prize as well as ‘ fascist organizations like the who of propagandizing and it’s generally four lndi- Saturday's "Dally” for a Commu- do and the a for quality, and has published consistently as fine a collection strike tionary cultural movement in this ! vidual prizes. Stiver Shirts are, so far as I have $5 day they get essays, agreed that the screen becomes the country is driving home nist evaluation of these books! able strike duty—which 500 took advan- reporting, short stories, economical and critical and other revo- lessons of In January, Red Pen (later heen to ascertain, weak and most effectual means for visual the class tage of last year. lutionary journalism as we have had in this country. The American struggle to a rapidly ex- ; changed to Left Review) issued, Impotent as directors of fascism. ... was education along these lines." panding audience. The Silver is (Tn b* continued) Communist movement may well be proud of this magazine. Tt un- the aim of the magazine is to in- Shirts simply a racket- Now dope this one out. . . . Under News of the work of these clubs eering organization trying doubtedly beoome, as the editors of the Mosocw "International terpret the local scene from the Anti-War and Soviet to get has the N. R. A. code the 17.000 extras will appear as a regular feature on much money as possible one of or four revolutionary maga- revolutionary viewpoint. Early this las from Literature” call it, the best three listed in the Hollywood Central this page. year a group, are the "suckers.” Capt. Eugene R, Case, * photo including Features today. Casting Bureau have been reduced * * pro- Cycles Stage and Screen zines in the world fessional photographers, was formed leader of the Silver Shirts in Cali- circulation is as only 16,000. to a mere 1,500, “in order to guar- But Its yet This means that the How the Club The second annual exhibition of at Recital on Friday fornia, frankly admitted to me. steady . . Started antee work.” , The well- magazine cannot become self-supporting, and leads a precarious finan- the artists group opened 7, “ ” proposal snow In on April This organization, Friends of New Stevedore Opens At Civic known that be Indianapolis * means, also, our comrades have not realized • • NEW The cial existence. This that years ago a YORK. anti-war Germany, the Crusader shoveled with teaspoons to put the two group of cycle and White Repertory Theatre Tonight that here is a weekly teacher, debater, champion and guide of Commu- a by the Theatre Union Dance Shirts which are active in and jobless to work was sound solu- ABOUTprofessional and white-collar Activity in the of features "Stevedore." by Paul Peters and nism that should be in the hands of at least 25,000 more readers. one, workers Group will be one the around Los Angeles are all tion compared to that don’t formed a discussion circle in at the dance of the Workers' weak George Sklar. a gripping drama of in America. New, Southwest recital in numbers and | great house of Communism is being built you . . . Indianapolis, have incompetent The think? Wallace Thurman “cross roads of the na- Dance League to be presented Negro and white w’orkers on the well-tempered are ready among only Negro or typical this leadership. They are scarcely ac- modem tools for the builders, chief is the writer allowed to tion.” In this more less Carlisle, one of the Friday evening at Brooklyn docks of New Orleans, will be pre- in Hollywood. American city, large Harry the tive at all in other sections of the them being such newspapers as the Rally Worker, such magazines work under contract with its middle charter members of the Holly- Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., sented by the Theatre Union this . . par- class and state. Unless I am very much mis- . The Hays organization is bourgeois wood at , as the New Masse*. Club, came to Sante Fe, New Brooklyn. evening the Civic Repertory ticipating in the International ideology, these people served first Mexico, Inst, year taken these groups, with the pos- But the workers, for some reason, let these tools rust unused, and to complete his j On the same program will be sible Theatre as its second production of Visual Educational Convention as a forum for revolutionary sub- speond novel. There he exception of the Friends of the The cast, which work with ancient hammers of stone. Isn't there something dangerous met Philip presented the Soviet Cycle by the New Germany, will season. includes held in Rome and under Mussolini's jects and a distributing agency for Stevenson, another novelist. eventually go a large group of white in such technical backwardness? Without a press you cannot have a They New Duncan Dancers.! Both groups the way of the Klan, with the Negro and . . revolutionary literature. The mem- wing . This is America's first clubs organized a local J. R. C. At their of dances w players, Is headed by Millicent Green, mass movement. In Nazi Germany the workers know this, and make gradually developed into a r ere received enthusias- bership being absorbed by participation in one of these little cultural first meeting, Boardman Robin,son tically at the last Workers Dance some Jack Hartley, Dodson Mitchell, Neill the most terrible sacrifices to maintain their underground press. But thrown by the Butcher Bov body sponsoring lectures by M. Top- presented other, as yet unborn, fascist or-; parties a colorful, first-hand ac- j League recital held before an au- O'Malley, Edna Thomas, A1 F. Watts one can say definitely, revolutionary press is to out bigger and ways shevsky, formerly associate of Diego count of John ganization. in America, the still dope better Reed, with whom he \ dience of 1.600 at City College Au- and Georgette Harvey, the movie to further the Rivera, Chariot, and Montenegro, had in underestimated by those to whom it is so vitally important. of using worked Central Europe dur- ditorium last January. Nevertheless, these groups are an f! "Broadw'ay Interlude,” by William * * * and a member of R. , . the Chicago interests o 4 the imperialists . ing the war. Fe Alf, noted German dancer, interesting phenomena, Almon Wolff and Achmed Abdullah, newsreel In R. C.; and by Paul Romaine, a capable of And don’t miss the Sante Fe is a village of no more present "Summer Witchery” doing considerable damage the. dramatized from the novel by The Significance of the Daily Worker 80-year-old Milwaukee J. R. C. member who 54111 to Faith which an scrubwoman than ten thousand, of which a and two numbers from her cycle. labor movement at the present time, Baldwin and Mr. Abdullah, will open are many well-edited revolutionary journals throughout Amer- Welfare Island is told that studied in Europe with Pitoeff, large part is composed' from ; of Spanish “The City”; “Slavery” and “Fllle and their very existence shown a on Thursday evening at the Forrest THERE a a someone else is cutting into her Craig, and Reinhardt. natives and ica. There should be more. It is pity that even better local sl7 Mexicans. The mem- de Joie.” trend which cannot be overlooked ! Theatre. Robert Emmett Keane, per salary . . . a The writers’ group of the In- bers press hasn't been developed—mass organs to reach every miner, every month There’s of the club distribute literature | addition there will be the fol- and I shall touch upon them Suzanne Caubaye, Whitney little documentary sidelight on a dianapolis J. R. C. compose leaflets among the workers In more Claire steel worker, sailor and farmer. Enough technical thought and skill for all in the Madrid lowing dances: “Uprising” and fully in subsequent articles. and Sail*’ Starr are in the cast. system in the last stages of putre- local revolutionary organi- coal mines. The club played hasn’t been given to a study of this local press, and how to make it including a "Van der Lubbe's Head," by the "Are You Decent?,” a new play by faction and continuing only because zations farmers' and tax- prominent part In the state The real fascist organizations j effective. payers’ leagues; these leaflets are unem-! New Dance Group; “Life and | Crane Wilbur will be presented at . ; more . you ployed here—organizations we permit it to . Did notice convention held in Sante Fe and Feet, Black w’hich are not the Ambassador The fact remains, however, that there must be also one national painful abruptness which models of mimeograph work, neat early in February. Death” "Black rackets in the strict sense Theatre on Thurs- the with Hands,” by Modem Negro of the ! day with Dressier, organ of with and shots of strike throughout and spicy. Rebecca Pitts, whose "Year in the word—are the evening Eric Les- Communism that speaks political authority, that scenes and out. Santa Fe is a Dance "Scottsboro” and vigilante committees were unusual approach to the problems veritable foreign of Group: and these are increasing at a ter Vail, Zamah Cunningham and unites all the industrial regions of America into a living relationship the country cut in last week’s legion painters, and White,” by Red rapid in . of Communism in a “Black the Beatrice Hendricks the leading . . recent article poets, -writers, pace not only numbers, in with the international working class. newsreel editions? And don’t musicians, dilettantes, and "March of the Pion- in but roles. to see in the New Masses has aroused aesthetes, socialists, Dancers: activities and effectiveness. This organ, of course, is the Daily Worker, which has first claim fail “Riptide” because M. G. polo-players, eers,” by the Theatre Union Dance M.’s press informs me that wide comment, is a member of the ultra-modems, and bourgeois on all our loyalty. It Is more than a newspaper; It is the national release eclec- Group. In 1932, when the Cannery and Norma Shearer is bringing back group. | tics,” writes the secretary of the Sophie Braslau Soloist W ith • * • j Agricultural Workers co-ordinator and organizer, and a bulletin of the general stall of the of Irene Castle wear- | club. A few of these people Union became the days by are now I active among the migratory Philharmonic Thursday militant working class of the world, and the foundation head of the floor-length skirt slashed al- attending a class In work- ing "a Phila. Club Nears Marxism- ers, the employing Sophie Braslau, contralto, will be line of proletarian struggle victory. most the knee for freedom in Leninism conducted by the J. C. class were caught general and to R. unawares, soon rallied to \ the on Thursday evening and . Third Anniversary A but fight soloist . sketch . given On the cultural field, and in the troubled world of the bankrupt movement” Buster Crabbe class is by Jim Friday claims that he quit the business of Philadelphia club is approach- Morris, who has exhibited in TUNING IN unton Inroads. Today vigilante afternoon with the Philar- middle-class of the white-collar workers, the New Masses is now per- various: committees organized ! monic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, life-saving because he earned “less THEing its third anniversary. It in- cities, and a fresco-class is are being forming the same function. It is the Daily Worker of thousands of con- months in advance in under the direction of Arturo Tosca- than ten oents per person rescued” cludes groups of writers, artists, and ducted by a non-member of the some regions school teachers, engineers, authors, artists, and other professionals. theatre workers who all seri- in preparation for the harvesting nini. The program: “Tragic” Over- ... A fourth of those saved were are club. Several of Philip Stevenson's class the out the Hitlers and Mussolinis ously engaged in creating revolu- WEAF—66O Kc. season and possible organizational ture. Brahms; “Le Fest.in de l'Araig- This is reservoir of which millionaires, he claims . . . The one-act plays on social and economic I r. Resume nee.” Roussel; “El Amor find their troops. Ruined and proletarianized by the crisis, this class prize for the most unnecessary re- tionary culture. Last August the themes have been produced by the 7:00 M.—Baseball activity. Brujo,” De club held an Anti-War Night, in- Atalaya 7:ls—Billv Batchelor—Sketch until last Falla and Franck’s Symphony in D has become desperate all over the capitalist world. The fascist dema- mark of the W'eek goes to Mitchell Players, a local theatre 7:3o—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jester* Trio Up week, though these cluding original writings, chalk- group. ! minor. gogues promise them a new prosperity and a new world. Every kind Leisen, director of Paramount’s 7:4s—The Goldbergs—Sketch committees were active In suppress- j r talks, and mass recitations, all on Pearl, organizing Saturday evenng who . B:oo—Jack Comedian ing activities, the various On Toscanini of bait is dangled before their eyes—"national socialism,” and "social "Murder at the Vanities,” . . stated that "There is no such thing anti-war themes. Numerous critics, For additional news of the acti- B:3o—Wayne King Orth. vigilantes groups were comparatively j will offer the Brahms Overture, the rtedit,” the "corporative state,” and other such bright baubles that vities 9:oo—Hayton Orch.; Fred Alien. Come- as a perfect motion picture” . . . E. St., 8 p.m. Every of the clubs, together with Webb, Baritone weak because they W'ere confined;: Roussel composition, the Franck glitter with fine rhetoric on the surface but a,re hollow' and gassy 12th sth floor, mem- dian: Theodore And I’ve been asked to see “Viva ber is asked to come. ! notes on contemporary revolution-! 10:00—Hillbilly Mu»lc to their own counties. They did Symphony and Wagner’s Siegfried Ai within. Villa!” because Edgcomb Pinchon. OPEN FORUM. Paul Miller speaks on I culture, read the national J. R. c. 10:30—Ghost Stories—Sketch not cross county boundary lines. i Idyl. Sunday afternoon program—- Iri America we can still stop fascism. There are over 100 author, claims longest "Social and Economic Conditions in the Bulletin, obtainable 11:00—Ferdlnando Orch. During Wagner concert—will ft organized its the name Soviet Union and in the U.S.A." at 430 Sixth! But this is now changed. the second in- Ai' groups at Tom <3c). 1 of these victims of the great fascist lie. It is necessary to in Hollywood . . . Ernest Wylfred Mooney Br. 1.L.D., 323 E. 13th St., 8.15 Avenue WOR—7IO Kc. the period when I was in Los An- j clude Hans Clemens, Richard Bonelli p.m. * • * com- and reach these victims, and the bankrupt class that has produced them. Pierre Mount Edgcomb Pinchon . . . 7 ;imi p. m.—Sport? Resume geles the scattered, vigilante j Emanuel Lst. The Metropol- Jean Harlow temper HIGHLIGHTS of the Week's News Dis- New work by J. R. C. 15—Harry in Imperial Valley Opera And this is the function of the New Masses, and job that And loses her Oroup members: 7 Hershfleld mittees the took itan Chorus will assist in the a it has cussion at 1401 Macombs Road, 3(V_AI Reiser, Piano Duo when she fails to find chicken a la near St,. John Wexley’s "They Shall Not Die." 7 and Lee the first step towards the moulding program. begun to do with courage, clarity and skill. Week after week, it 170th Bronx. Adm. free; 8:30 7-45—Stories of the Sea. king on the menu . . . And atten- p.m Auspices Mt Br and Maltz and Sklars "Peace on of a strong fascist organization exposes patiently every new puzzling Eden F.S.U. 8 00—To B*» Announced and manifestation of the great on Photography by Earth” have just published boundary dance figures continue to drop LECTURE Miniature been in 8 30—Concert Orch. with no county lines to “Broken Coming To fascist swindle. It can be, and is becoming, the gathering point and Karl A Barleben at Film and Photo book Jr, Shoes” throughout the U. S. . . . And form. Mordecai Gorelik, who 9 S Lott League, 12 90—Italics—H disturb their work. The four vigi- j actual organizer of the hosts of honest intellectuals who already E. I7th St., 9 p.m. Film and designed the sets several 9 30—Success— Harry Baikin Acme Theatre Saturday are the free-dish racket has been re- Photo Sections meet 8:30 and 8 respec- for cur-! lante committees which had been your tively. rent plays, is in 9:4s—Robison Orch. aligned against fascism, and who begin to understand that only in rived In neighborhood dump represented the 10:15—Current, Event? the most active combined to form Following the run of "Chalut- alliance with the working class can they crush the Nazi snake. And the Film and Foto League SACCO-VANZETTI Br. 1.L.D.. 792 E. International Theatre Art Exhibi- 10:30—Dorothy Miller And Garfield Swift, the Imperial Valley Anti-Communist zim” (Pioneers of Palestine), the supply speakers Tremont Ave. Special meeting 8 p.m, to tion which was held at j will on all aspects for Bronx the Museum Bones Association, with headquarters in Hebrew talkie with the Habirna * arrange Scottsboro Mass Dem- ! of Art 11:00—Moonbeams Trio Only erf the movie for your organization Friday night. Modem and which is now | Brawley. Their initial membership Players now current at the Acme Not for Intellectuals onstration touring J “Two Thieves” will be shown at the the country . . . Melvin P. j WJZ—76O Kc. was as 3,000 and with Theatre, the management will offer DUT the New Masses doesn’t only find way library of Washington announced I its into the the Heights Workers Center. 4040 Levy’s new novel, "The Last Pio- 7:00 p. M.—Amos ’n’ Andy on Saturday morning “Broken f “ intellectual. Sailors buy to read in the bunks sea; Broadway, corner 170th St. Also newsreels,! neer,” is to 7:15-—Public Works and National Recovery : at taxi drivers 8:30 p.m. about be released by a j Shoes,” a new Soviet talkie produced W HAT’S OTS New —Mayor Frank Couzens of Detroit Orch.; Jimmy Kemper, V in New York are seen riding with copies of magazine Prog. York publisher. Edward New- 7:3o—Armbruster in the S. S. R. the in their FORDHAM Club. 7 West Burnside ! 7:3o—Ramona, Songs Songs U. by Mejrabpomfilm Ave., p.m. house Is on a pockets; Southern mill workers and share croppers' buy it at the 8:30 Discussion "Role of the working revolutionary- 7:4s—Second Honeymoon—Sketch 7:4s—News—Boake Carter and directed by Margarita Barskaya. rare Club as a Organization." novel will carry Mass First which has just been accepted B:oo—The Terrible Dark—Sketch 8:00—Men About Town Trio; Vivien Ruth. | program will newsstands in Dixie that the “only revolutionary w'eekly Wednesday meeting at new club rooms. —Dangerous Paradise The same include the by a New York publisher. Leon 8:30 Songs Soviet News for in America.” It is passed from hand to hand, and copy consumed DR. REUBENS 8. on B:4s—Baseball—Babe Ruth latest its premiere each YOUNG lecture* Thursday Dennen’s book on "The Jews in the B:ls—News—Edwin C. Hill by or eager “A Doctor Looks at the Soviet Union” at 9:oo—Raymond Knight s Cuckoos Conrad showing. Highlights of the film in- ten twenty proletarian minds. CORLISS LAMONT lectures on “Under- 1 Soviet Union.” will be published in B:3o—Albert Spalding, Violin: I Labor Temple, 247 E. 84th St., 8.30 p.m. standing Soviet Russia" at 9:3o—John Charles Thomas, Baritone: Thibault. Baritone: Voorheea Orch. clude of The is not far De Witt Clin- I . . : scenes George Dtmltroff, reason to seek. The New Masses happens to be Auspices Br. U, the fall by King .. Hugo Daly Orch. Yorkville F.S ton High School. Mosholu Parkway Sub- ! Gellert’s 9 00—Nino Martini, Metropolitan Op*™ Popoff from "DIALECTICS AND 10:00—Lopez Orch.; Male Trio; Talk—Ed and Tanev, the Bulgarian intensely interesting the revolutionary viewpoint, and is written MUSIC." lecture bv way Station. 830 p.m Auspice*. Bronx “Karl Marx: In Lithographs” Is to Tenor M M. Agranov at F.ft.U, , Sullivan ; prisoners acquitted in the Leipsig with a. high literary skill, besides. Mtdtown Br Boro Branches F.S.U. Adm. 25c. Balalaika be published in a Soviet edition by 9:Bo—Lombardo Orch Burns and All*n 168 w. 23rd St... B:3d p.m. Adm. lSc. Orchestra. 10:30—Denny Orch.: Franklyn Baur, Tenor Comedy trial, on their arrival tn Moscow'; the Marx-Engels-Lenin Sones The New Masses is a continuation of the old Masses and. Liberator, MEETING of all delegates t.o Festival OPEN FORUM Pen Institute. 11:00—Pickens Sisters. 10 oo—Florita Orch.: Dick Powell. Songs j meeting at Hammer Club. 114 Siegel Dimitroff’s with the hero on a and Basaar Committee. N, Y District,, w. 31st St., 8:30 p m Housing William and Anton Refreeier 10:30—The Republican Repre- and carries brilliant tradition of revolutionary journalism 7:30 p.m . Lecture on WABC—B6O Kc. Reaction of the first stratosphere flight. that SO E. 13th St. Room 205 and Jobs” by an of at sentative D A. of N*w York Pro- is I Leonard Gross of Economics i have exhibit their work P. M.—Myrt and Marge Reed over twenty years old. have been connected editorially with this REHEARBAL Dally Worker Chorus, 8S Comm. Adm, 7:00 10 Orch kofev; The Red Army on parade in 10c. the New School for Social Research. 1 7:ls—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 45 —Columbians j journal, in one or another of its reincarnations, for over ten years; 11:00—Nick Lucas, Songs ' • Red Bquare. etc,, etc. and I will testify here and now, that the current weekly New Masses Is the sturdiest of the whole family line. fc * AMUSEMENTS I It Is Doing Vital Work ■■■ a and The Rflth DEING weekly, not a monthly, as heretofore, it has been able Scamper Away By Nathaniel Honig D up with to keep political events as they happen. It has covered I Opens Tonight 8:45 the events of the w'eek, and commented from the Communist view- on THE Eagle Oil Works sprawled cousin’s wife could point such recent events as the air-mail scandals, the Nazi night- * | be heard mut- whole Shop Committee met wife of Shad Patton walked over so much earth mares of old Dr. Wirt, the automobile strikes. has along the | tering about the lateness of the THEthat The It printed some . Bay that the Company had to hour, and night. Shop Committee THEthrough the market place, with of the best reporting I have ever di- | the voice of Joe's cousin was composed of a each a bag In her Twro read, John L. Spivak's surveys of vide it into districts. Somewhere in quieting her man from full shopping arms. down. ! department—a delegate body women followed seized proletarian America under the N.R.A. There have been notable features j that wide expanse, rats were whose her. They the at Suddenly Joe snapped off the ra- members were elected six A NEW PLAY BY PACT. PETF-SS ANT> GEORGE SHEAR like Bill Dunne’s piercing and authoritative analysis of the first year work who were slowly gnawing j each market bag and spilled its contents. stevedore dio. “I got it," he said. | months by the members of the de- don’t deserve to they of the N.R.A.; and the bi-weekly letters from London of the gifted away the careful structure that Joe “Rats eat.” partment Its " ' '' Oomy a had The men paid attention. “We tell committees. members said. “Tell that to your rat hus- says: " Bv SH , aos ho,h N'sr John Strachey, who Is the British and few others built (A-’lLiO ” * FORI) correspondent of ,1JAMES 1 A'IAAS J „„ y the magazine. up. ieaeh member of both department were all tried men, who had lost band.” Shad Patton's wife began to W and r ert Stool-pigeons were gumming up struggle* Negro The literary criticism is under the direction of Granville Hicks, committees,” said, their impetuosity this vivid drama of ihe and life of and white for Joe “that there’s In the steady scream, but a smack closed her workers the wharves of Now Orleans." and has never, in my the works the department com- grind on experience, been more solid and constructive. In goin’ to be an important meeting of building up their commit- mouth. The same thing happened It marks the consolidation mittees the Crude Stills and In tees. of Marxist criticism in America; what has the Grease Plant. j tomorrow' night, see? We give each to the wives of the other stool- gone There oould be CIVIC hitherto, has been the rather rough-and-readv pioneer work. no further doubt, ; one a different address. The places Joe Oomy told them the purpose pigeons. REPERTORY THEATRE * of it. ■ . behind night inspection wasn't, | where the dicks show up, well, that the strategem of the When Shad Patton's wife, or Mike PRICES 30c —4sc Locker due for before, —6oc—sl.oo and $1.50 —No Tax A Sample Issue another six weeks, yet It came on tells us who the rats are. Get it? a.nd told them W'ho the stool Schube's, or Flagen's, or Rockzo's |P(p- For special rates to organizations call WAT. 7-2451 It’s a process of ee-limination, like pigeons were. The men swore, and into the grocery store, HERE is a sample of one issue. In the April 3 number there was the day when a leaflet distribution women went 11 the detective guy says.” their knckles itched. they could longer buy anything. the usual brilliant comment was made In the lockers of the no editorial on the political events of the Joe said, “You, know, we could grocers had been THE THEATRE GUILD presents , grease men. And the Crude Stills “It listens good." said Pete Mo- The told they —RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL week; a page cartoon by Gropper the N.R.A. "no beat, the livin’lights outa EUGENE O'NEILL'S Comedr 50 St & 6 Ave—Show on bread and bad Executive not lochoko. “But get these rats. would be boycotted, and more than Place of the Nation circus;” a story on Committee could where do we Opens A. Soviet bonds; a stirring report of the New York meet because enough guys to ad- That’s one way, and they got it likely, their places wrecked, if they AH. WILDERNESS! 11:30 M. its members found watch all the cornin’, too. I’m all taxi strike by Joseph North; a report of the Detroit strike situation Puckefmouth Sweeney and another dresses?” for It. teachin’ dealt with the stool-pigeons’ wives. with GEORGE M. COHAN them a lesson. But it ain’t C' T ITT TA Thea., ,v>d St. W. es B'Fay Irene “THIS MAN by Jeremiah Kelly; a letter from England by John Strachey; Company dick perked in “Easy. We need thirty We enough. The only way the latter could get IxUII-/UEv.*.;o * corres- j front of fellas. We got make Mats.Thur.Aßat.S.iO pondence; a theatrical review by the writer Joe Gamy’s house, got twelve right here, and we got I to them rats so sick food was to go to one of the other Dunne IS of this column; the first of themselves they’ll feel like MINE” half of a remarkable new play on the j The Executive Committees of at least eighteen more we kin trust towms for it. MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Fla» Constance Cummings—Ralph Bellamy Kentucky miners, by Samuel bumpin’ themselves off. Now, here’s and Omitz (and Is remarkable); both departments, in a cold sweat, in the other departments.” In school the children of the OF SCOTLAND” a Springtime Music Hall it a study of Revolution and the Novel, an idea for you. scabs “MARY Stage Show | held a Joint meeting about the They drew up a list of all the had their arms twisted, their with HELEN PHILIP 'i'. ky Granville Hicks; an article, which for first “Some of you guys com- in HELEN the time analyzes the problem. They locked themselves In members of the Grease and Crude been noses rubbed mud-pies, their HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN 1 Irish genius James Joyce, from a plainin’. we don’t get the women books stolen Thea 52d st •w- Soviet Marxist viewpoint by the former at the farm owned by Joe’s cousin Stille Department Committees. Op- and torn, and their A T VIN • of Russia's Great Satire On Prince Mirsky, who is now' a Communist; a summary of the best books ! three miles of posite an interested in onr work. Some say necks stung with pea-shooters. They Ala-V Ev.«.‘»oMats.thur.ASat.?.*!o Disarmament! Last 3 Day* out Oilport. Each i each name address was their old women is published thus in man raisin’ hell be- could find no one to play with them ” far 1934; a literary note by Earl Browder; a review had come alone, so as not to placed. "‘Let s Have Pence . attract Joe cause they spend so much time Shad Patton’s wife cried bitterly rs rerent Soviet literature by that best-informed undue attention. They Gomy’s “process of ee-ltmi- Produced in the s 5.8 of all critics’on Soviet away from home, at meetings. at home. gave Shad rest; u literature, Joshua, Kunitz; a poem wouldn't even let. Joe’s cousin’s wife nat.inn” thrilled the men on the She no by Maxwell Bodenheim; reviews “Well, our women Is O.K. Only he couldn’t sit a paper FOLLIES also “CHALUTZIM” leave the farmhouse, and gnim- two executive committees. down to read • by Robert Simmons, Louis Hacker, and Genevieve she Real de- they don’t with BRICE Pioheers of Palestine' Taggard; Ben Field ! bled plenty. work. understand like we do in peace: he couldn't eat tn peace, ZIEGFELDFANNIE of tective Willi* A- F«tgene HOWARD, Hebrew Talkie the Workers !r> on various books of the farmers’ struggle; a movie criticism by Por why we got to do what we doin’. and finally, he In Bartlett SIM- Palatine iEnglish Titles' Ken- three solid hours scheme after The next morning the addresses re couldn’t sleep MONS, Jane FROMAW Patricia BOWMW neth Burke: and a most valuable “Well, we’ll let the take peace. reading list for beginners in Marxism, scheme was proposed and discarded were passed out in the two depart- women WTNTFR GARDEN. R war A- mh. Er? S 3* care how. Mats. & ACME THEA. by Oakley Johnson; many pictures and cartoons. They had looked to Joe for a sure ments, and eighteen reliable men of them rats. And here’s Shad came to Joe Oomy and Monday, Thursday Saturday 2:30 : The rats have wives, too. Our wives fumed. This magazine, like everything that genuinely lives and solution, for Joe was their leader, picked out to watch that evening. blustered and But the oil breathes, will make it so tough for their were adamant, and & has its defects. It tends, I believe, and many disagree whose cool guidance had slowly Dicks showed up at four of the workers the lives GILBERT SULLIVAN will with me, wives, they’ll come beggin’ for of the stool-pigeons and MADISON SQ. GARDEN too often in the direction of a Communist built up committees In the Crude places: 1853 Bay Head—this was the their This Week 'H. M. S PINAFORE academicism, and some- Stills, mercy. In the market place, on the women and grew Double Bill | and BY times the smell the Grease Plant, among the address given to Shad Patton; 1022 children more "TRIAL JURY" mouldy of the Republic Week 64 -• New and the Nation rises agitator men, in the Cooperage Sycamore blocks, they’ll give ’em damn little miserable each day. Next TU If ’l 1 jussk and Mike Schube; By Popular lne unui from its pages. Perhaps this is a better fault than 3303 peace.” Shad Demand UlKano j some of the former Pipe Departments, and among North Ninth—Qus Flagen. went to the Superintendent MAJESTIC THEA., W. crudeness; though I the These A grease good 44th St., evgs 5.30. for one believe that a revolutionary journal tank cleaners. was in man had another with his troubles. He asked the Su- 50c to 53.00. & should Joe a blue were two men who always talked plan. Mats. Wed Sat. 50c to *1.50 W Doors open 1 &7 pm Nun never be placid, tight-minded, or over-refined. funk. It felt rotten to let the about mysterious bombings “What about the kids in perintendent to fire Gorny and the men they school? We’ll have our kids torment But this weekly is one which the revolutionary workers of down without a plan that would had participated in in Germany. rest. GLADYS ADRIENNE RATMOND America the hell outa the rats’ kids.*’ The “I you. COOPER ALLEN can well be proud of. They must throw their give them at least a fighting chance And finally, 1904 Schooler Street, assure Shad, I’m more MASSEY weight behind it, and two plans were adopted. anxious than you are RUM against where BtSSS push it over top along the thing that menaced three dicks gathered to fire those THE the with the Daily Worker. It is their serious and The wives of the oil workers trouble-makers. SHINING HOUR them. nodded to Frank Roczo, But I’d have a BOOTH THEATRE, IT. St. 5 40 responsible fighting * who nosed 45th Eras. and national organ. I * * might And would close with a around, rang raise hell about their men strike on my hands in no time, and Matinees: Thnrsda, * word to some of those In the John the bell, and walked Satnrdsr «-40 CIRCUS Reed Clubs and other ONE spoken a in staying out late at meetings, but we can’t afford a right groups; cultural MO had word for away disgust. The rats had been strike now.” your local papers for " when It came to a question of driv- One BKO Rt- * ALL NEW THIS YEAR are important developing young waiters, half an hour. Then one of the smoked out. fine day. the oil workers and I Jefferson mh b,lt if y°« ing out stool-pigeons, that was a 3rd Are. Notv I| w npgiect building a national cultural organ, if you fall to men switched on the radio, figur- The their wives and children stood by K BIGGER THAN EVER! men in the tWt> departments different SPENCER TRICV * MADGE EVANS view the New Maws in Its broader aspect ing if they got away from the matter. They entered into and jeered while Shad Patton. Gus 1000 NEW FOREIGN FEATURFB as the voice of the whole prob- felt a bit sore about their wlld- the with Movement, you are still lem for a while, might plan enthusiasm. Rats Flagen, Mike Schube and Frank in “THE Tickets Admitting to (including afflicted with what Lenin called the "infantile ; an Idea come anos» chase of the night before Joe SHOW-OFF*’ Seats) Fvervthin* to them later. took bread out of their mouths The Roczo moved their baggage and aIso:*—“MOULIN sl.lO to $3.50 Including Tax ’kness of left Communism.» promised them, Why : RO’PGf* wtth Children 12 Every Outside, “You 11 find out children w'ere all eager for a grand their breed. The rats scurry- Cortstape* Bennett d* Frsn*het Tab* under Half Price After* in the living room, Joe's were poon except Saturdays » we did It.” lark. ing out of Oilport,. i TICKETS at Garden, Macy'a and A*- pci*