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. knows what are climatic information. What- and suicide. V. Gardin they like and where j ever progress may made “The English Language hols no single word adequately express- hole In the wall. Ventilation is very Yes, it was the crowd. j of us American workers, these So- gives a performance they other, | be in this old Same memorable will run into each then destroyed ing my opinon of your ignoble sheet. However, having nothing better poor and between odors of the body, old boys a year ago. I cialist leaders continue their policy j direction will be the I’d known i that reminds you of his masterly he can forecast weather changes j moment imperialist is following you the vomiting matter and urine, I Lawrence, ; of splitting the ranks of the wo: k- with a high degree accuracy. J a new war in my vocabulary than the word, let me assure it is There was Alton state j portrayal of the old non-Party of This important experienced the worst headache of secretary, ing class! They afraid of a The system of launched. devel- ’lousy.’ Furthermore, Brother Editorvitch, or whatever you call your- who comes from New j are worker in “Shame”! One cannot old weather fore- opment towards accurate weather my life. York. There | united front! casting provided only for self, when I say lousy, I refer to lice. Lice those minute para- was Jack Fies, the! help feeling that his art and the predic- forecasting, and regional atmos- are We have only one cup to drink j tion at ground level. financial backbone of the North And why do they do this? Be- direction of his art stem basically The new : pheric probably go sites which, existing in filth, do little damage other than annoy, but from. types method gives control could All of men are here, Carolina Socialists. Fies has in- cause they are afraid to oppose the from the fact that he can release a vertical as well as 1 far toward preventing drought and draw plenty of attention to themselves nevertheless. such as perverts, syphilitics, a horizontal picture weather,, etc. vestments in Alabama. His uncle j capitalist bosses in a real struggle himself for a creative portrayal of of the | flood stricken areas—if all scien- One’s health is always In danger. of thus providing invaluable data for ! “Never before have I read anything so Un-American as your is one of the big coal barons [forj the workers; because, as their the “bloodsucking” feudal exploiter | tifle advance under capitalism were As for food, every morning we get Birmingham where the coal miners a united unhampered by "Legions of airplane travel. publication. However, I am not surprised at the Sheet’s policy con- 1 own chairman put it, front De- not bound up with destruction. The a chunk of bread with cheap black have been waging such a fierce with the Communist Party would cency,” Will Hays or Wall St. National air-mass analysis j sidering the scource. From the initial, embryonic struggles of these coffee. takes 1 full benefits and potentialities of This Is without exception. struggle against police clubs, gun j "put them the movie magnates; that such art as reports from weather bureau ! For on spot!” sta- this discovery, as is the case with United States of America to the present period, history records the our mid-day meal, we get beans, thugs, National Guards and his, like all other forms of art, can tions, and from Soviet, Canadian bread, tough star- But the Communist Party still ex- so many others, will come only un- treasonable actions and utterances of your breed. Driven out as boiled beef with vation! Dividends from this Ala- really flourish only in a land of and Mexican stations. These re- I either or rice, [ tends the united front invitation der socialism. undesirables from your mother country, crying persecution instead of macaroni and black bama murder pen help finance the ! Soviets where the “movie-audience” port the speed and direction of the * • • coffee. Lest I forget, we ] to all sincere rank and file Socialist j the truth, prosecution, you have formed great scabs of foreign humanity also get, North Carolina Socialist Party! decides whether or not it can “take aim-masses which are moving over A Droughty August Predicted that is once a week, beef-stew, i workers. We urge them to unite on of Here, We went into the office. I in- . it.” them, and other essential facts. On j the otherwise healthy face our nation. instead of giving with us in struggle against • • • The rest of August will be hot bread and black coffee. Never do our common the basis of these reports which for a refuge and turning every effort towards becoming Ameri- we troduced Communist District | j our common enemy. The Commu- and dry in the central drought re- thanks receive sugar or milk for our tell the shapes air- ■ Organizer, Paul Crouch, a native' many the direction of Ivanov- sizes and of the ; gions, to Charles canized, you remain loyal to the country that kicked you out. Mean- coffee. We are fed twice a day nist Party knows that rank masses, the according D. North Carolina mountaineer. His | are UNDERsky the film effectively pictures central wnather bu- Reed, meterorologist while, your howls rise louder and louder, your struggles and and the above is our menu. I and file Socialist workers eager make senior of the curses people were among the first pioneers to join hands with decay and degeneration of a feudal reaus their forecast. And Des Moines Weather Bureau. Suf- even are, to Naturally put up Communist The method, according to government become stronger and, like the aliens you you continue we a "Tight to break dirt in these southern workers for this family. however, is experts, fering crops and livestock do not against conditions, so united struggle! are correct a •bite the hand that is feeding you’ until that hand is ripped into a such terrible hills. I thought of our Y. C. L. more descriptive than analytical. their forecasts to have a particularly consoling pros- they moved ten of to Its a standing invitation. hitherto unbelievable mass of raw bloody ribbons. You pray for justice? Your prayers are us cells. I Organizer, one who went through Such dynamics as the film lacks are degree. pect for relief. was one of the fortunate ones to the Gastonia struggles, due to insufficient use of the new • • • answered. Justice is here. That poor mangled piece of flesh, hardly get a We stayed one who has It Is becoming more and mora cell. there about always Artists Are Invited rising merchant and manufactur- THE importance of this new recognizable as a hand, is slowly tightening into an avenging monster, ten days. The other known the drab music of evident that the criminal agricul- comrades spindles and looms rattling in ing class and neglect of the spo- *■ method for transportation, farm- an iron like claw of sinew and bone, which, with one mighty blow stayed in the tank all this while. a To tural policies of the Roosevelt re- southern cotton mill. And my Participate in John radic peasant uprisings of the ing and industry, if it is as gime responsible sweep Yesterday we stood The own success- are for the human will all alien dogs back into that mother country of their birth. trial. background quite period. It is by magnificent char- ful as its sponsors claim, Is incalcul- crop (which judge termed us as "high class was similiar to Reed Club Exhibition suffering and the losses these, of native mountain people, acter description that “House of able when you consider the im- higher gov- “I say, Mr. Editor, if you don't like the N. R. A., if you don't like vags,” therefore it is necessary to will run far than the Scotch-Irish mixed with Cherokee Greed” succeeds in becoming a portance of weather conditions. But of $5,000,000,000 >. our president, if you don’t like the good old U. S. A., get out! Go have a special prosecuting attorney, NEW ernment’s estimate Indian. Our other organizers—- YORK.—An exhibition of vivid portrait of the Golovleff It is significant that this method, The administration has minimized back you you and I’ll you costing this city SSOO for his fees. murals, paintings, drawings, sculp- where came from. No, can’t tell why. native born mill workers and share family as symbol of feudalism in which could do so much for man- the ravages of the drought from The case is nothing other than a woodcuts, Should you step a foot from the soil of the country that protects you, croppers, Negro and white. the ture, lithographs, etch- decline. To this end, the Soviet kind, and which to a considerable start. Most of the frame-up charge. We defend- But and 1 the suffering you’d find yourself rotting in the depths of dungeon. That’s what are ings posters, will be held at conception of film casting is ad- degree depends upon the interna- avoided a ing ourselves and are now select- Socialists had cried "Outlanders!”, headquarters of could have been by prompt your you. your kind repeating of the John Reed mirably realized: the cast is not tional cooperation of experts, has large-scale actions; but the mother country thinks of She doesn’t want and ing the jury. We all are under a the stock phrase the i A. A. capitalist Club. 430 Sixth Ave., from Novem- chosen as "actors” in the Holly- from its initial stages been inextric- A., like the drought, the chinch- neither does America. bail of SI,OOO on the vag charge. bosses. ber 9 to December 7, 1934. All ably they wood sense, but as “types” who in bound up with war and war " bug weevil, is We are also charged with "criminal “No,” told us, we couldn’t larger i and the boll the "I will not attempt to take issue with you on any particular depart- work submitted must be not physical apparance, preparations. enemy of poor syndicalism” and our bail has present our united front proposals by 50 inches, mannerisms i the and tenant been than 50 inches frame The aerologists of the U. S. Navy ’. farmer, destruction, not ment of your paper, be it the warped, one-sided statements slyly ■set at $3,000 each. On this mat- to the body of the convention. It included, and must be delivered and in creative abilities can best since and hard reveal the characterization. have been using this method for " relief, is its major objective. appearing here and there among the news articles, or the vicious, ter I will write to you again in was so to get any “intelligent October 24. 25 and 26th, shipping That I some time, especially dirigibles • * • greater a body people! is why the entire cast from Jardin the illogical arguments set forth in your editorial column, or yet the detail. As soon as the trial action” from of at the expense of the artist. Ex- of the lighter-than-air division. ended, (Lawrence later referred the (the Soviet Emil Jannings) down Scientific Dignity numerous audacious pleas for money for the cause, for the paper we all were led back into to hibition fee is 25 cents. The jury of They were interested in air-mass the tank again and here southern workers as “dumb brutes.” to the musicians, police, and din- Bourgeois prate in its entirety stinks to high heaven. we must i artists will include two non-mem- party analysis chiefly because In time of scientists like to stay, I suppose, until the of That bought a mighty bad personal ner roues actually come to “scientific dignity,” they end | bers of the club. life throughout war the big airships would be de- about which “My heart bleeds for these poor, deluded, American-born the trial. reaction from me, because I re- the entire film. is "outraged” in the Soviet workers In connection with this exhibi- of prived of reports from the ground claim At time, cell, membered when the | “House Greed” unquestionably who so much as for an ingtant pause to listen to your demands for one while in t.he I in mountains tion. the following statement has observation stations for fear of re- Union, where workers attend scien- took very we merits and will receive enthusiastic money. Let me tell you, Mr. Editor, there may not be a law sick. My left side around would have beat an “outlander” been issued by the John Reed Club vealing their own position to the tific congresses. The best answer to curtail my heart felt that.) reception. Workers who have al- very heavy and I up for less than Exhibition Committee: enemy. Therefore, there was the , to this bit of fluff is contained in treasonable utterances in the Press, but there is a law against exploit- ... j ready shown that there is a great felt a severe dull pain. Comrades “The year brought for the story that the first Weather ing beings. I hope your 1934 has tre- mass audience in America for need weather forecasting from human you find that out to sorrow. thought I had contracted pleurisy WE WERE told to come back in growth revolption- Soviet Convention, sponsored mendous to the movies should rescue their shop- their own isolated, vertical observa- Forecasters’ and I was indeed frightened. The ” and present ary America, by L. Bamberger