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DAILY WORKER, NEFt IORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1934 Page Five Artists in Boston Magazine of N. Y. Organize to Probe TO COMRADE John Reed Club to Do Workers Want Culture? CHANGE lj* Waft. LENIN CWA Art Project ========= By ISIDOR SCHNEIDER ========== Appear Jan. 29th Yes, Say Theatre Union Spokesmen. Citing . Own =THE= BOSTON, Jan, 22.—Boston artists.; “The Tartar eyes . i The John Reed Club of New York " . members of a committee elected at a 1 cold ... inscrutable .. Asian mystery . announces the publication of Parti- Experience With 'Worker-Audience** san Review, a bi-monthly magazine mass meeting of artists Thursday - By PAUL PETERS ■. night, today notified Francis Henry The paid pens pour out their blots lof revolutionary literature and criti- cism, to appear on Jan. 29th. The WORLD! to hide you from us. JAN. 11 the Theatre Union pre- press. That was the first step. A Taylor, New England Regional Chair- I will The janitors of History magazine contain fiction, poetry, sented “Peace cn Earth,” of rtio man for the Public Works of Art Marxist criticism and reviews expres- ON the corps volunteer speakers By Michael Gold through i Project, that they would call upon work to drag you their halls ...of Fame anti-war play by George Skiar and were imbued with the idea of the sing the revolutionary direction of was the his committee next Tuesday at the wreathed with cartridge clips, haloed in gun blasts.— the American workers and intellectu- Albert Maltz, for the fiftieth time. theatre nevt step. They spoke at two or throe meetings a Is Ben Gold a Poet? Yes! Gardner Museum. you the builder to be put with the destroyers, als in integrated literary forms. By that date 50.000 people had seen the play and night, explaining the aim of the The committee of artists will pre- .. heard the triumphant Napoleon Cromwell .. Caesar ... Genghis Khan The John Reed Club has long felt Theatre Union to create I AM always being asked, are you related to Ben Gold? I have otten been sent a of to cry of the workers at its final cur- a workers series questions relating jthe necessity of having an organ of drama in America. 4 worker in comer the administration of the art project its own, and now, with the definite tain, “Fight with us, fight against mistaken for him by some earnest who’d take me a They cannot take you from us. Comrade Lenin. 1 war!” Leaders of unions and mass or- in this district and they will report . of the the shop working, and action Forever to us you are the leading comrade! publication magazine, ganizations were and tip me off about some fur where scabs were the information supplied by Mr. Tay- invited to see hopes and enthusiasm of the club are This is a record for working class “Peace on Earth.” They liked it and needed. lor’s committee to a second meeting Mystery man?— : running “With the was high. new pro- culture never before achieved in offered immediate support. They sent of Boston artists next Thursday, Jan. Only to those whom darkness prospers, only to gram for the New Masses,” writes Workers Union. i America. It has been achieved in out leaflets in They Ben is the secretary of the Needle Trades Industrial 25, 8 p.m., at the John Reed Club, the clouded minds who, till they foul them, cannot . their mails. I Granville Hicks, noted literary critic, spite of a barrier of contempt and hung posters in their offices. They the leader of Fur Union. Himself a fur 825 Boylston St. the clear; only to corrupters of who brew ! “there is not For years he was the Workers ideas, only a place but a real silence erected by the capitalist press. made announcements at their meet- worker, he was a member of the Central Executive Committee of that At the first meeting, Boston artists, the dyes of mystery that discolor color. need for such a periodical.” It happened because the organiza- ing. For some of them special leaf- including applicants for work under The first issue of Partisan Review tion sponsoring the play set about lets were printed to be union at the age of 16. All his life has been spent in fighting on picket contains distributed the C.W.A. project, discussed the Comrade, how can you be a Mystery to us, short stories by James T. its Job with some definite convic- among their members. The National strong the New York workers in the problems Farrell, Ben Field, Grace Lumpkin tions on play to pre- lines, in building a union, in leading ®f unemployed and em- whom, when we were drowning in illusion, what kind of Student League, for Instance, left a ployed artists. In addition to secur- and Arthur Pense; poetry by Stan- sent and how to reach its audience special every daily struggle. He has lived on a battlefield; but like all union leaders, it you up steep of reality. student circular on ing information from the Regional led the banks I ley Bumshaw, Joseph Freeman. Al- The play, a militant antt-war docu- bench of every college as well. Ben’s mind is filled with the II classroom in ;ias been a matter of bookkeeping Committee, the artists committee was fred Hayes and Edwin Rolfe; critical ment, presented by a professional the city. Through such channels, all many technicalities of his industry. He is a master executive, and in the instructed to prepare plans for the Up the steep banks, on the safe land you .led us. articles and reviews by Obed Brooks, cast in a large theatre, has been in all, over a hundred thousand Soviet Union, undoubtedly would be managing the Trans-Siberian Rail- establishment of an artists’ protec- In the campfires of the revolution we scorched oui Granville Hicks, Wallace Phelps, discussed here before. The Theatre leaflets were distributed. tive association. Rahv, David Ramsey, two planks in its toad or some enormous factory- to the last vapor the Capitalist illusions. j Philip Water union had other Workers Flock to Play Free and strong, with uncompromised arms Snow and Waldo Tell. platform—cheap seats that workers Yet, he has told me, nice old ladies often come up to him at the con- A single copy of this 64 page maga- could afford to buy, and a plan of Once apprised of the existence of we built with you, in Russia, the workers’ stave a workers’ a workers' clusion one of his meetings, and with quavering voice, tell him: “Oh, Music From Ether-Wave zine will sell for 15 cents. A year’s organization which would be famil- play, suddenly of The land obeyed us, and tolled with us; audience—a thing undreamed of by Mr. Gold, I did like that last poem of yours.” In other words, I am often subscription is 75 cents, a dollar for iar to the workers. Instrument Will Be where the miners went the mountains kneeled; issues. All Broadway producers, an idea sneered mistaken for that superb labor leader, Ben Gold, and, he In turn U mis- eight communications are Warmly Received by Workers’ Press at in the factories we stepped solidly like men in their h to be addressed to Partisan warm by the critics—began to flock into for Gold, aspiring poet. So accounts are even. Played at I. W. O. Ball Review, The play met tilth a and the taken Michael the and the hearty reception Civic Repertory Theatre to see sounds of machines are peaceful 430 Sixth Ave., N, Y. C. In the workers’ ” » “Peace on Earth • .. They singly, f like purring of came NEW YORK.—Electrons, tiny specks the cats at firesides. they came in bodies. During the truth is, Comrades, we are not related by the old bourgeois blood- jof electricity which can either be first six weeks of “Peace on Earth,” THErelationships. We are firmly related, however. In the bonds of some- i made to whistle like a picolo, make In America tlie task waits to be done 73 workingclass organisations gave thing new and deeper. We are soldiers in the same proletarian cause, we i sonorous sounds like a cello, roll like Lead us, Comrade Lenin, we will follow. theatre parties, bringing 15,128 peo- ple are sons of Marx and Lenin and the Working Class. the boom of a drum or imitate the Here the earth is against us, pitted with debt into the theatre. Some of them human voice, will MUSIC had not been in a “regular” be heard next Sat- Men pray for drouths, and cheer when cattle drcr i: theatre And as It also happens, beside this, I am proud to call myself one of urday, Jan. 27, when Bar-Levy for years, some of them never at plays and curse their crops, and leave the land Ben Gold’s friends and admirers for these past ten year* on the remarkable ether-wave instru- bald. all. Until the advent of the Theatre In Washington, oflicials willingly would go Union, many * * ment at the Costume Ball and Con- of them had been un- *t guides cert celebrating the fourth anniver- to the cyclone, pilots to the flood. Appreciation Among Workers able to afford it. 40 Days in Jail sary of the International Worker's From the mines the coal, the ores, shoot out, Overnight, “Peace on Earth," with Order at the 69th Regiment Armory, the gas fumes up, the oil coats us, in the old war “standing room only,” became one of GOLD sentenced to serve 40 days in jail at Wilming- masses of words the hits of New A has just been Lexington Ave.