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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1934 £ Page Five Workers Arrested "House of Greed” On Coast Kept Angelo Herndon’s Bail Portrays Decay in l|» W: ' : LABORATORY CHANGE In 'Drunk Tanks’ By MICHAEL BLANKFORT J Russia of the Czar In Vermont there stands a fanner, eyes uneasy on the sun. THE (The following letter from a This hour, he says, I’ll put aside and sell what I have done. Reviewed fcy AND SHOP worker in jailed the Sacramento This hour belongs to Herndon. TOM BRANDON "Bed raids” was received by a tens of thousands of followers Bv DAVID RAMSEY member of the Workers’ Ex-Ser- i r(Eof New League New York.— And said, I guess Til have to wait for another one this time. the Soviet Cinema in vicemen’s in York and throughout the United A New Weather System kept secret or confidential be* WORLD! Note.) And said, I kuess 111 have to wait for time. •be Editor's another this erne States will be glad to know that . ' cause it gave our fleet absolute as- By SENDER GARLIN City JaU, This one belongs to Herndon. This month witnessed the intro- another Soviet film has been re- duction of a new system of weather . surance of choosing their fighting Sacramento, Calif. leased. “House of Greed,” based on forecasting weather to the discomfiture of an we provided a more revealing August 7, 1934. in the United Btates. SELDOM have been with Around Santa Clara valley, Tuscaloosa, Sante Fe, a section of the novel about the It is called “air-mass analysis” and adversary.” Dear P : • • U self-portrait of the official mind of the capitalist gen- The pickers grunt and bend again, and bend again and say, decay of a family of feudal ex- is believed to be an unusually ac- If you will recall, in my last letter This time it is for Herndon. ploiters in old Czarist Russia, is curate method for predicting same source also reveals that darme of the U. S. than in a letter sent to the editor of I told you of the raids that were being presented in New York as the weather changes. THEthe Navy tested the new system going on In this State and that our first of a whole crop of new Soviet i, in several cruises and in non-stop San Pedro stevedores stopped to ask with doubled fists and The method of air-mass analysis the Daily Worker by the superintendent of the Missouri headquarters was most likely to red; sound films, which will come as an was employed by Norw'egian airplane flights. Two of the big- Fur workers with their wives and kids, first i be raided also. Well, It happened the jobless still unfed. oasis in the desert of Hollywood weather forecasters during the war gest air transport lines routed their prisons, a gentleman audi- ■ named V. T. Adamson. and here I am. Talk about fascism, In Chicago, in in Manhattan the clerks and teachers said, movie creations. First-day when the network of weather re- . j planes by the same method. The got ence at the Acme gave the film . ! Despite fact that Mr. courteously we’ve it and it’s here. The This much belongs to Herndon. porting stations from other Euro- close tleup between the aviation the Adamson defied comrades here are determined as and its magnificent cast a hearty pean countries broke down. The . companies and the military services you guts” hell that Its life in this State be as welcome. made Besides, ex- us to print his letter, saying that “I know haven’t the to Muscle-minted out of slavery, from farm and mine and mill, fisheries of the peninsula were de- this inevitable. short as possible. “House of Greed” follows In the pendent upon sort of weather cept for special refinements in do so, we are hereby offering it as a valuable social study. So here Workers, white and black united, paying ransom at the tiff. distinguished path some ■ We were arrested on July 19, of earlier Soviet prediction. To satisfy their technique, the method oould not bo (Czar needs, Paying ransom, buying freedom, striking hard until , . historical films goes: about 36 of us. The damned cops Ivan the this method of gauging climatic • kept an absolute secret, since it is * Terrible, * * and the authorities are trying to The world frees all the Herndons. Village of Sin, etc,) with changes by vertical rather than i \ employed in the Scandinavian coun- make it as tough as possible. We the same fullness of characteriza- horizontal observatories was devel- ; tries and to some extent in the “I Say, Mr. Editor” were thrown Into a concrete room, tion, the same honest depiction of oped. ! Soviet Union. historical relationships: • • * called the “Drunk Tank” which is reminding Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 8, 1984. movie-goers in the capitalist coun- Air-mass analysis deals with the about 25 x 30, which can decently great air masses which move in Both the Army and Navy are | "Editor,Daily So. Carolina Socialist Leaders tries that only In a society owned ; using analysis, not only Worker, accommodate about 15 people. In fairly regular directions. Appa- air-mass this room there is a hole in the and run by the workers and farm- ' for weather forecasting, but for dis- 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. Y. history be honestly, rently the malm- changes in weather wall where one may naturally re- Tell Why They Fear United Front ers can accu- are covering the most favorable at* "Sir: rately and vitally recreated. “House due to interaction of air masses big lieve oneself, one water spigot and of polar tropical origin. ’ mospheric conditions for firing of Greed” with its ruthless por- and The guns. Daily Worker,’ to my three wooden platforms. At night By SID TRENT | turned toward themselves. They air ; It k known that air con- “Your publication, “The has been drawn trayal gen- masses are formed by the earth's we are compelled to sleep on ITNDER a huge sign proclaiming were afraid join of the life of a whole ’; ditions have a decided effect on the attention in such a peculiar and (since I have perused a copy of a the | and refused to us para- air circulation system, and are from platforms and on the cold concrete U Party,” in a struggle against eration of decadent, feudal range and accuracy of heavy artil- recent issue) a most fitting manner, that I am sure you will be “The Socialist we en- | j united front lived by one to eight miles high and from floor. headquarters; war Fascism; for sites who exploiting the " i lery Are. tered the convention and release of all Russian peasantry, is in sharp 500 to 5,000 miles wide. Although interested in details. only at High Point, N. class war prisoners; support of con- they Dr. Willis R. Gregg, head of the Not are we confined to this C. I had come i trast to the violence committed sometimes move north and they with ! workers' strike struggles; for un- prevailing ; U. S. Weather Bureau, believes that “Intrigued by a most unusually vicious and destructive cartoon "tank” but continually throw to this convention much against history in the capitalist south, their movement is in drunks. One there curiosity. Scarcely a year ago I employment insurance and old age eastward. The within five years there will be two of President Roosevelt appearing in this sheet, I recovered a copy Sunday night, Christina”, of Roth- earth in rotating ■ were exactly 92 men in one of pensions; to “Queen “House from great, weather networks In the along and gutter the tank. had been these socialist or- I for immediate relief child,” (How fitting west to east gives them a sort from where it lay, with other trash filth, in the of impoverished etc. would the world, covering the northern, We made certain of this figure. ganizers in the south. I had seen ! fanners, and in sup- title “House of Greed” have of boot in this direction. one a street of this city. I quickly decided that a prone posture in this men, say, been ! and the other, the southern hemi- Some they can hold their the Socialist Party leadership's ! port of the struggles of the Negro for a real portrayal of the “House Accurate weather analysis de- gutter would be the correct position amid ideal surround- and sphere. These would incorporate selfsame liquor well others can’t. Those policy of splitting workers, jim-! people against lynching and dis- of Rothchild”!) pends upon knowledge of the char- ings I might that all the national weather systems for absorbing the contents of this publication. add that couldn’t, well, they just vom- crowing the Negroes, and spouting {| crimination and for equal rights! In the role of Proflri Golovleff, acteristics of these air masses and j since then, consigned the paper back to the gutter from where, ited over themselves and others. a lot of radical I left to Now at a time when Fascism is “bloodsucker,” especially i into an international system, sup- I have words. it the who expropri- upon their point of inter- plying the whole world I’m sprung Other drunks were so helplessly join the only true working class ; not only a world menace, but is relatives action. When with neces- sure, it must have into existence. ates his and drives them the meterorologist j ! sary drunk they couldn’t walk to the Party—the Communist Party! raising its bloody fist over the heads to Siberia R.
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