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DIMITROV to Development of the Crisis, Vari- Economic with the Schutzbund, I Think That County Bear out Fully DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1934 Page Five JRC Art School How 1917 Revolution CHINA'S RED To Open Fifth LABORATORY Season October 1 Influenced Him Told ARM/ MARCHES NEW YORK. —The John Reed AND SHOP Club School of Art, 430 Sixth Ave., > fifth Ist, Bv AGNES SMEDLEY » opens its season 'October By Isidor Schneider ■■ ■ ■ By DAVID RAMSEY with a complete schedule of morn- ing, afternoon, evening and The following are selections “White” for the militarists and week- Defense They Anally eliminate themselves end The school offers Poet Foresees Future for Writers Whose Against from Agnes Smedley’s dramatic landlords! and "red” for the peo- classes. now Healthy by gradual dissiptation into space full in Poison Gas ple! time instruction painting, Audience and by absorption into the ground book. “China's Red Army drawing, sculpture, fresco and other Consists of Revolutionary Workers (which They began to pour questions It is a grim paradox that re- produces an acid condition by branches mural and po- Marches,” published Interna- upon him. The other men in the of painting search scientists in the munitions in the soil) or into the exterior sur- litical cartoon, and is the only art On the occasion of the recent of its pits. Sinclair Lewis believed tional Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave. tea-house gathered about. The factories are seeking to perfect faces of buildings, particularly school in the country that trains Soviet Writers Congress, the Sec- that reducing idealized American i Note. woman who kept the place came newer and poisonous gases those constructed of limestone. —Editor's a retariat of the International types to absurdity would draw at- i more over and stood listening. She was students to take practical and ac- ; for use against strikers against Rarely do these gases go higher ♦ ♦ ♦ Union of Revolutionary Writers tention to somebody or a stocky woman in black trousers tive part in the development of an the artist as non-combatant civilian populations, than 50 feet of their own momen- addressed three questions to healthy and a blue cotton jacket. Her black art which will advance the interests it would be to imitate. H. L.j while other research technicians tum. Workers who are attacked Scouts prominent writers in a number of Mencken to with | hair formed a glistening surface of the working class. sought save us are at work on devices designed to should seek the comparative safety countries. The were: ? PEASANT wearing grass san- and was combed back from the In addition to the large faculty of questions cynicism and exaggerated hedonism counteract or neutralize these of hill tops or the upper floors and What influence the Bolshe- corruptions the de- A dals and with a conical-crowned forehead and knotted at the nape last year, which includes such artists has to the abundant of structive Inventions. roofs of buildings five stortee a? vik Revolution had Upon your system ' hat down his back wandered into a of her neck. A metal pin was stuck as Nicolai Cikovsky, H. Glinten- and to hand over sex and more in height. Avoid low places work? What do you think of So- art business Behind the desperate search for like subways cellars. small town in eastern Hunan. His through the knot. On one side of kamp. Louis Lozowick, Hideo Noda, to exploitation. gas valleys, and viet literature? What problems ISIDOR SCHNEIDER defense is not only the desire clothing was clean and his trousers her head was a little red four- G. Pioooli, Anton Refreiger, and • • • enemy’s gas at- petalled cloth flower lying so flat interest you most at this time? A patched with bright patches. Raphael Boyer, the following names of tacks, but also the great fear of Truth Tester new. pasted Among the American writers to the men of my own you Halting at a street stand where a that it looked as if it were have been addded to the teaching age—! .cu gscirie poison When question a person he whom these questions were ad- MANYmen fifteen to thirty years thirty years of literary training that the may you man was baking sweet potatoes in on her hair. staff for this term; Aaron Goodel- ■ were gases, unless kept under some con- not tell the truth, but his • • • dressed are Joseph Freeman, younger than those I have men- a clay jar with a fire burning man, James Guy. A. Harriton, Ben of value to the revolution. trol. will be as injurious to the in- involuntary muscle movements will Theodore Dreiser. Malcolm Cow- tioned above—took a different stand. hr'-’r'-ly under it. he bought a po- stranger replied carefully to Shahn. In addition to the regular In the movement habitants of ritzy apartments along betray his falsehoods. Soviet psy- ley, Louis Adamic. Isidor Schnei- They had. without realizing it, no revolutionary tato and began eating. THEthe questions put him, accom- instructors there be I Park Ave. to the workers the chologists have utilized this fact to will guest in- der, Granville Hicks, Corliss La- faith in our system, no hope for it. am finding subject matter that as on After gossiping for a time with anying his answers with questions structors in the various classes East Side. It is true that gas masks develop a psychological method of mont, Kalar, James They did not want to reform it. to draws out of me energies and emo- Rhe potato vendor, he passed down about those present. To such cau- throughout the year. Joseph are effective enough as safeguards, trapping liars. These will in- have already reprinted bother with it. In effect they tions that before have been stag- .the street and entered the village tiousness. the young peasant an- Steele. We but after all they are a nuisance When a subject is questioned ha clude Phil Bard, Jacob Burck, Ken- the answers of Freeman, seceded, culturally, from the bour- nating and fermenting into poisons. [tea-house. He seated himself at a swered directly, saying: Joseph to wear to teas or to banquets or is also asked to press an electno neth Chamberlain, Hugo Gellert, Malcolm Cowley, and Louis Ada- geois capitalist society they ■ Some of my writing of that period, lone rough table and looked about that de- i to "victory celebrations.” Much key at the same time. If the ques- "There are no spies of the land- William Gropper, Edward Laning, mic. Today we arc nublifi'iing spised so deeply; and as I read it now, has a tainted the dim little room. There were every it is signifi- more convenient would be tion relates to some guilt on his lords here! We know man B. Limbach, Robert Minor. Walter the answer of Isidor that of quality. equip- about a dozen men at the other Schneider, cant two of the leading ment which could be installed in part, the fact is often revealed in in this village!” Quirt, William Siegel and others to author of the novel "Doctor Tran- magazines of the movement, tables. Some were drinking tea or spies here before the one In the revolutionary movement I mansions or office buildings with a the record of his muscular reactions “But came be announced later. sit,” the volume of verse “The was named Secession Broom eating watermelon seeds and troops landlords returned!” and the find a living, reacting audience. guarantee to produce a fresh and as he presses the key—or as in his and the A feature of the school is the well Temptation of St. Anthony,” and (with a motto to the effect throwing the shells on the hard woman insisted, that it Having made my living as a worker chemically pure atmosphere for preoccupation he may forget to press the little nodding equipped fresco room where profes- other bonks. The answers of intended sweep scene).! mud floor. knowingly. to clean the in a publisher's office and as a book their occupants. it at all. sional artists are offered thorough others of the writers mentioned They issued manifestos which, when All had turned to stare suspi- “Yes,” the young peasant replied. reviewer, I know what the bourgeois Since there training in this and other branches will appear In subsequent issues we read them today, are large profits to ciously at the stranger. Was he a “We were stupid and let them pass. sound absurd audience was. It was a dead audi- be made in selling such protective Broadcasting of mural painting. This class will of the Daily Worker.—Editor’s because they struck at the wrong ence, spy for the landlords and milita- One had a gun. But when he went an uninterested audience, devices to those who can afford to Train Power be under the direction of Hideo Noda Note. thing like an animal who bites the anxious only to be in fashion. and Ben Krahn, and will be con- pay for such protection, the air- Experiments are being conducted • • • arrow, instead of attacking the bow-. conditioning ducted as a workshop class, with the man. But the workers’ audience knows manufacturers, ac- on a branch line of the Atchison, open what it wants and gives to its read- cording to confidential reports, are Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, studios to members of the class By ISIDOR SCHNEIDER It not till the capitalist beginning day was crisis j ing the ardor that it gives to all its to turn to the market which open up the possibility of all and evenings. began to being up the news of the October occurred that these writers activities. To write for these read- which is drummed for propelling trains by means of power The growth of the school from by Revolution came to America, I understand the situation.
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