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Illll&P / Tue only sill “To stop HE LiSTeN<5 1b AaSo t Find iy rS Vtsk;TEk/ i-ll m - flMiS"NoY tions and Answers,” c/o Daily Worker, 50 East IN'* Oi>TSeN(*S HER. to the point where he wants to I3th Street, . around • flSSiSTfmr, EDWARD * • have every Communist shot, A. B. Magil - HE 'o Question: Is there equality of pay in the Soviet reports. Norman Thomas is a nice man, ANN &DRLRK'£ INfR^DUC* Union? If there is economic inequality, will net and the good Father says he can work with -ORV REMAPS the better-paid individuals accumulate enough to him, but the Communists are atheists and free- invest for profit?—J. D. lovers, unpatriotic, blood-thirsty monsters, and Answer: In the workers perform Father Coughlin wants their blood for his coffee. different functions, and their pay varies in accord- So now we know what this man of God and Artef Presents ance with their skill and training. But the ex- follower of the meek and lowly Christ really is after. Magnificent by Burck ploitation of the toilers by an enemy class is im- He has never said that he would like any of the Features Herndon Fine Production possible. The workers have abolished the private Wall Street buccaneers shot. He has bellowed many Mooney Interiew ownership of the means of production. Individuals of J Os Gorki Plav cannot own factories, machines, land, etc., and by a mock-heroic attack on the financial wolves Depict Soviet Achievements means of exploit workers. New York, but it was only for the record. This THE LABOR DEFENDER, official this private ownership DOSTIGAYEV, a drama in three money market him- organ of the International Labor humble priest has played the acts Gorki, by The remnants of exploitation that the Soviet Defense, January, 1935, 10 cents. EXHIBITION OF MURALS, by j by Maxim Yiddish self, many personal stakes in the * L. Feinberg; presented by the Union from Czarism are being system- and he has other * * Jacob Burck, Art Students’ inherited Theatre, by Benno business racket. herndon interviews League Gallery, 215 West 57th SOVIET EDUCATION Artef directed atically destroyed. Production is organized and Angelo Street, until January 2«th. Schneider. up Tom Mooney,” is the title of planned satisfy masses, and But to build a mass following today, as Hitler * * * to the needs of the the leading article in the January Reviewed by sentiment not to pile up wealth for the exploiters. The work- well knew, one has to appeal to the of issue of the Labor Defender. Be- Reviewed by LEON ALEXANDER ers are building Socialism wherein sll those factors discontent of the hungry masses. Father Coughlin hind the bars of San Quention j LOUIS LOZOWICK "Recruits” the Artef showed He has prison, where the innocent Mooney 1 that make for class oppression and exploitation will is America’s most capable demagogue. outlines of a proletarian cul- WITHwhat it could do with a play is now spending his eighteenth ’’ disappear. built up his mass-following, by a confused, incoher- year in jail, these two met—Mooney, THEture are assuming definite shape j fa -£s? that required seml-stylized acting with remarkable vigor and direction. Given now a drama ent radical-sounding platform that has dazzled mil- whose name has become the chief and rapidity, j This does not mean that everyone in the Soviet symbol of the frame-up practices In poetry and the novel, in criticism I of phychological realism, they have lions of people of little political experience. Now receives pay. are ac- of the American rulers, and Hern- and the theatre, in graphic art and i created a production that Ls aware Union equal Workers paid he prepares to use this following in a slaughter don, leader of the newest genera- the dance, the revolutionary cul- I of every conflicting mood, even' cording to work performed and according to skill a motivation of character. At the groups tion of fighters, member of an op- tural movement can record achieve- j subtle of the real radicals, only in this coun- the same time, direction and training. The new society carried over with pressed nation whose fate is tied up ments that compare favorably with under the I are deadly earnest about the abolition Schneider, it in its emergence from capitalism the economic, try who in wdth the fate of the working class. the best in contemporary bourgeois ! of Benno they have! culture whose blood is beginning to fashioned an acting company that moral and intellectual birthmarks of the old society of the capitalist system. Herndon tells us, in this article, j '®*r ,1 none in what they had to say to an- run thin with the years. •*4WLfy . is second to its individual from which it sprang, and these are being eradicated m 9 9 one playing. other. It was a momentous inter- In this movement toward a prole- [ M|BP|Pkfe * as t of a class. However, skilled categories of workers. They are encouraged ** with Scottsboro boys, are now In the per, Ellis, Burck and others, known, tegration bergh baby, after being caught red-handed it plays but little part in every Supreme Court of the United exhibited, reproduced and admired J| ? % Wg though to educate themselves; they have opportu- of his ■•■' the the ransom money hidden in the walls garage, States. tljree cases up on both sides of the Atlantic, is .e.*s* •# •••■'. .c. JM f* \ 2p *&mp «K'‘c"^s^VjSfe the physical action of the play, nity to obtain better jobs, and they never have to These sum in the now bases his defense on the fact that this money the chief struggles of the workers certainly more than a match for revolution is always present j fear the specter of economic insecurity. on the defense front in America, the capitalist cartoonists in minds and in the heartbeats of the given him by Isidore Fisch, a Jewish furrier even batter- like the was during past year. technique alone; as characters, an inescapable, | The better-paid individuals poorer-paid the But besides for their WKfrmM*M£k £ who has since safely died, and who cannot deny these struggles, were 1934 ideology it towers in its assertive, ing torrent before which the world ones elevate their living standards; raise their cul- there in of Dostigayev, industrialist, is grave. literally fighting clarity above the confused the tural level. But there is no place in Soviet eco- the story, therefore, from his hundreds of others. The crumbling. Labor Defender sums up the record hesitant liberalism or time-serving nomy where savings can be used to accumulate are up y„T 's(m3l %i \i. g-. The play takes place In a pro- j The Nazi papers in Germany playing for the year—terror, action, victory. obscurantism of the bourgeois car- profits. Remnants of speculation still exist. These vincial town of White Russia; the this angle as another argument against the . The year 1934 was a year of toonists. time begins with July, 1917, The j are being carefully uprooted, and the workers' and great against par- Their picture of the case is that here is a fearless terror the workers: In painting, however, more collapse of the provisional Kerensky farmers' government constantly watches for any were killed, 25 lynchings 57 strikers ticularly in painting, the government has begun; the revolu- j attempt by fragments of the old regime to introduce and superior Nordic, pure as the snows on Mont of over Negroes came to light, 5,000 proletarian artists have thus far not tionary stream rising. any men, is The shadow j capitalist exploitation in form. Blanc, who has been caught in the web of another women and children were ar- been equally successful. Bourgeois of the coming November is already rested activity. private pub- J diabolical Jews’ plotting. for strike institutions, whether or upon Dostigayev and his class. In the Soviet Union the toilers are building a But 1934 w'as also a year of great lic, cannot be expected to lend their It is at such times that the mettle classless Socialist society in which every form of * * • defense for revolutionary painting, One of the series of mural paintings on the Five-Year Plan by struggles, and these the walls of a man and of a class come the exploitation of man by man will have been triumphantly organizations too , Jacob Burck. The murals will be permanently housed in Moscow by These Gentle Aristos! Labor Defender re- and workers’ are forth: in Ryabinin, Oe Bolshevik, ] abolished, but people will still be paid according to cords. In freeing Dimitrov and his poor in most cases to afford fresco Intourist, Inc., for whom they were done. certainty, determined will, quiet the kind of work that they do. It ls only when WHITE GUARD lady by the name of Tatiana three co-defendants in the Reich- or even canvass or to compensate faith and resolution; among the stag the meagerly. Neverthe- mankind will pass from the stage of Socialism to A Tchernevina writes a book called "Escape From fire trial from the clutches of artist even murals he has tackled a new theme, drawing is in most cases superior bourgeoisie, the Nyetrashnis, the j German fascism, the American less, despite these difficulties, a j socialist construction in the Soviet to the painting with inde- the higher stage of , when the develop- the Soviets.” It is a lurid piece of fiction, done which Burck Troyerukovs, the Lisonogovs, j workers, under-the leadership of the number of interesting attempts ! Union, under the Five Year Pan. seems still to be experimenting, and cision, hysteria, selfishness, futility ment of the social productive forces will provide in the Hollywood style adopted by all these emigres. j International Labor Defense, played have been made in New York and The murals show with great clar- those panels are most successful in and rampant brutality: the face more than enough for everyone's needs, that the hand, the brutal, bewhiskered Bolshevik the On the one an Important part. In August, other cities. Such have been ity the giant strides in the con- which the ideas are the simplest, of the fascist beast which the So- present division of labor will have disappeared and hand, of Gellert the Cooper- ruffians, out for buckets of gore; on the other after a mass campaign for funds murals for struction of machinery, the indus- as the interior of a machine shop viet Union crushed, and which the mankind will set up the standard: "From each ac- these gentle and innocent aristos, stripped of al) which showed the measure of the ative Cafeteria, the paintings of trialization of agriculture, the uni- and the exterior of a farm collec- rest of the world allowed to breed, j for Red Builders, cording to his abilities; to each according to his their moujiks, and jewelry, and champagne, and devotion of the working class, An- Phil Bard the versalization of education; they tive. Dostigayev, however, is intelligent for the old court- j needs.” (A reading of Marx’s Critique of the Gotha culture. A real melodrama! getlo Herndon was freed from Joe Jones’ work depict with emphasis how the study The whole story is unfolded In and shrewd. He has nothing but i Fulton Tower Prison in Atlanta, house in St. Louis and now, per- of theory goes hand in hand with the five panels with a conviction contempt for the members of his j Program will show that the Soviet Union on the Tatiana poses as sort of liberal. So does haps the most ambitious of all, carry- some Georgia, on bail of $15,000. In practical achievements; they pic- which is contagious. It would be own class; he realizes the strength] point of "equality” as In all other points, is the Grand Duchess Marie and the former - Detroit, Burck’s murals for Intourist. ture the worker, the peasant, the excellent if, before they leave Amer- of the Bolsheviks; he wants to j ing out the principles of Socialism laid down by James Victory, Negro, was * • • ists and peasant-killers who want the Czar restored. freed by the International Labor engineer, the political leader (Stal- ica, they were to be shown to Urge compromise with them, to find a Marx and Engels.) course, Kalinin) Like Father Coughlin, they know you must bait Defense. He was the first is best known, of in, all at one in the effort working class audiences for the “modus vivendi" with the onrush- j victim to the country. they ing It fate that the masses with radical honey these days, and not of organized jim-crow by BURCKas a revolutionary cartoonist. transform contrast reveal between what revolution. Ls his an drive handling happens compromise with the old reactionary poison. the Detroit bosses. The year closed As such he has been engaged in The of the theme ex- when workers are in con- the Revolution will not la- firmness, a daily of be by with the boys fighting the battles of American hibits a even certain trol and the experiences the with him, will not fooled his | And the Rand School Socialist leaders invite Scottsboro still alive, hardness, corresponding with the American workers under Ryabinin, whom cases | bor, delivering heavy blows to its the bless- liberal pretenses. Short Wave Radio open by and their once more forced every logic of conception. The ings the New Deal. Dostigayev in calling, Tatiana to her American tour speaking Supreme ! enemies on front. In the clear the of insists half- before the Court by na- jestingly, half-respectfully: "Com- there. Yes, these so-called Socialists hate the So- protest. And in j i tion-wide mass rade Ryabinin,” orders the arrest There is certainly a great number of amateurs viet Union so intensely that they prefer white- Canada, Tim Buck, last of the of the industrialist. And as the last \ in the United States who are unable to afford the guard liberals to Communists. Canadian "eight,” jailed for lead- cowed, curtain falls, Dostigayev, his j kilowatt, or crystal control, all bands, break-m When the capitalist nations prepare to invade ing the workers, was freed from of American subtle arguments useless, faces the Call for W. nice-sounding conveni- prison by the efforts of the Congress operation, C. and other the Soviet Union, where can we expect such Social- Cana- New Russia —a tall Red Guard, j dian large ists to be found, except in the invading armies, Labor Defense League. good humored, sure in his strength : ences. There is a still number of workers who Also in this issue of the Labor are interested in amateur radio and could get the where the Russian Socialists were to be found in and in his peasant common sense. | Defender, is an extended discussion • well-known kick out of it if not for a lack of funds. 1918? of the present status on * * * of the Scotts- Writers stated, of groups course, Revolutionary May 1 I have already the pro- Both these could use a good radio boro case, by Richard B. Moore. ASduction is an artistic triumph each within its own scope. A workers’ radio club, Calling Louis Colman has an article en- Name for the Artef. It is the first play i while basing itself on the amateur proper, naturally titled "Facing 1935,” in which he that T have seen this season in item: William Green gives some Congress to Discuss Participation of Writers in Struggle Against War, is the answer for both of the above groups. It is ANOTHER attacks the work- In detail the plans of which I find an unwavering unity of " in a workers’ radio club that parts can be pooled ers’ bill for unemployment and social insurance the boss class to crush the work- conception Preservation of Liberties, and Destruction of Fascist Tendencies that extends from the power as a Communist plot. ers’ struggles—plans for a federal Civil written word to the acting, to the for most and for most pleasant operation criminal law, a and experimentation; money for new parts * * • sedition federal red direction, to the settings. The whole the squad, special laws to make easier capitalist system crumbles so not yet so convinced. tion) and against the persecution is cast in one integrated mood, : can be pooled and invested cooperatively at greatly AND whenever a worker asks for a raise in wages. the deportation of militant aliens. THErapidly before our eyes that, This Congress will be devoted to \ of minority groups and of the for- bearing clearly the mark of a man reduced prices; the unemployed electrical engineers ** the boss a calls him Bolshevik. Whenever the The center pages of the magazine whereas ten years ago scarcely exposition of all phases of a writer’s : eign-born; solidarity with colonial of culture as well as of a man of can teach theory to the hams and they in turn unemployed protest against the starvation deserve special mention. in their for free- theatre. Under relief These are more than a handful of writers participation in the struggle against [ people struggles the the direction can teach operating technique to the uninitiated handed them by grafting politicians, picture pages, giving for each war, dom; against the influence bour- of Benno Schneider, the Artef is they are were sufficiently far-sighted and the preservation of civil liber- j of on a basis of cooperation and mutual exchange. slugged and called Communists. month of 1934 a picture of some courageous to take a stand for pro- ties, and the destruction of fascist geois ideas in American literature; the first of our revolutionary dra- outstanding event in the matic organizations to have at last In the face of the five years of the crisis, the false # * * workers’- letarian revolution, today hundreds tendencies everywhere. It will de- against the imprisonment of revo- of hams, their struggles, particularly against terror of poets, novelists, dramatists, crit- velop the possibilities for wider dis- j lutionary writers and artists, as well reached artistic maturity. individualism some denial of pos- AMONG some groups of the intellectuals of New and frame-ups. E. L. ics, short story writers and jour- tribution of revolutionary books and as other class-war prisoners The settings are frankly theatri- sibility of cooperative activity, must break down. “ York, whoever defends th,e Soviet Union is nalists recognize the necessity of the improvement of the revolution- throughout the world. cal, in the best sense of the word; A successful workers’ short wave club in Manhattan personally helping ary press, as they go beyond the merely repre- spread workers’ America. sneered at as a base "Sta-linite,” and whoever sland- to accelerate the as well the relations By its very nature organiza- I must radio clubs all over Exhibition of Soviet destruction of capitalism and the between revolutionary writers and our j sentational and realistic to become ers, denigrates, defames belittles the • * • or great tion would not occupy the time and a carrier of the mood of the play, of the Soviet Union, is termed an establishment of a workers’ govern- bourgeois publishers and editors It achievements Posters at J. R. Club energy of its members in adminis- j and at the same time, like all good Tonight, Friday, the Short Wave Radio Club open-minded, liberty-loving ment. will provide technical discussion of trative tasks: instead, it will reveal, hero of intellect, even by literary applications settings, they never obtrude. The of Manhattan meets at 42 Union Square. A standard may An exhibition of entirely We are faced two kinds of the of Marxist through collective discussion, the though he happen to be working for William new So- First, use use of color is especially effec- viet Posters is being problems. the problems of philosophy and of the relations be- effective ways in which writ- evening schedule has been found workable since Randolph Hearst. shown at the tween It most tive: florid like the blotched face of John Reed 430 effective political action. The critic and creator. will ers, as writers, can in last week, when it was first tried out; it is as fol- * * * Club. Sixth Avenue, function the a drunkard and "gourmand'’ in the dangers of and fascism solidify our ranks, until Tuesday, Jan. 21. These post- war are rapidly developing crisis. first act, which is laid in the Mer- lows: 7:30, code practice; 9, business meeting; 10, everywhere apparent; we * * * The Line-up ers spread a message of work, prog- all can undersigned have chants’ Club; purple, red and green a popular lecture