r WORKER. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1984 Page Five FLASHES and What’s Doing in the John On Saturday’s Fascist Groups Out to '-t: CLOSE-UPS CHANGE Reed Clubs of the U. S. Feature Page Save U.S. "Reds” LENS from By By ALAN CALMER [ including Joshua Kunitz, Louis Lo- THE To S. Kaufman: George following Thanks John Reed Club of New York. I zowick. Malcolm Cowley and Meyer ! The outstanding for that sw'ell announcement of Schapiro, books will be reviewed the expectation of doubling the THEthe first revolutionary cultural have spoken on prole- on this By JOHN L. SPIVAK It forthcoming Film and Foto League tarian art and literature for feature page of the Daily Worker within a week. group in this country, was formed I the Movie Costume Ball over radio club. An important symposium, on next Saturday. April 21: In this body. I believe, is the real station WOR . at the beginning of the present “The by LOR ANGELES, Cal.—The WORLD! last. Wednesday. , . ■ : Writers and the Crisis, was given Hour of Decision.” Os- economic crisis. By MICHAEL GOLD I think our own Jimmy Cagney Since then the i by a number of authors, including wald Spongier. Reviewed by 1 organizational activities of thef merely lookinc for dollars from . revolutionary cultural movement has I will be there. And that a nick- Josephine and Wexley. Harry penetrated Herbst John Cannes. Communist-led Cannery and elodeon show will be one of the into numerous sections as well as the "Labor B In an extra BROWDER, in his masterly keynote speech to the j of the U. S. Philadelphia critic, and Steel." by Horace end taken to Itself, legal many surprise features. May Albert Mordsll. Davis. by Joseph | Agricultural Workers Union fashion, power county Many Sender Garlin will I Reviewed 1 the of the EARLrecent Communist Convention in Cleveland, pointed out First will witness the initiation of of the John Reed Clubs apeak in Philadelphia on Da.llet, organizer among: were started as I “John of the Steel the migratory workers and the state. what is described as "a war-time general cultural as- Reed—His Life and Work,” early and that the American Communists have seriously underesti- sociations and discussion societies. Metal Workers’ Industrial | has brought to life a mushroom propaganda drive to familiarize in May. Union. growth type mated importance of the Communist press. In addition to acting as auxiliary i of fascist organizations. THIS of fascism has. for its the i the American public with w'hat the One of the artists in the Phila- “The Shadow Before.” a textile members men who believe their organizations in mass work, the J. R. C. Here, than in His chief proof was the fact that the Daily Worker | National Recovery Administration delphia was instructor at strike novel by William Rol- more any place I own economic security is at stake John Reed Clubs are building cen- the Workers visited far, has thus far.” . International Relief so Communis!-led accomplished . has not yet attained by half what should be, under present social revolutionary lins. Jr. Reviewed by Edwin union and are thus ready to fight to keep Hugh S. Johnson’s idea pro- ters of literature and camp at Lumberville, Pa., last Sum- activities have not only been wide- conditions, its normal circulation of 100,000. , is to art around magazines in Hollywood, Rolfe. out “red agitators.” Helping them | duce a co-opera- mer. Later the club held a public Is spread, but have been very effec- , I may another example of this failure to understand series of shorts in Chicago, Philadelphia, as as “Such My Beloved.” a novel are the American Legion posts, most think we add . well exhibition of the tive in tion with Hollywood. Now. drawings of the by Morley Callaghan. Re- winning strikes; and the of members are for a powerful press. New York. New poets and fiction- children in whose either well- lithe necessity say you . this class. On invitation, growth of don’t weren’t warned. ists are developing within I viewed by George Lewis. Communist activity was to-do farmers, small business men its weekly New Masses, now printing its sixteenth issue, has also Variety’s own sweet way of the ranks these drawings were entered foUowed almost Immediately the ™ The com- in the —a of "The i by of the Communist movement. Spirit Also review New or local politicians who cannot act been badly neglected. It is true that in four months it has built itself menting on this “war-time drive.” of Youth exhibition, held by Quarterly,” by Nathan AdIPT. i intensive development of fascist Through their work in these maga- bourgeois in legal guise. Those who do not . philanthropic and j activity. to a circulation of 16,000 copies, of which over five thousand are . "Washington's savants are dis- i educa- any these classes zines. and through the medium of tional organizations, they come within of subscriptions. is that it has demonstrated a remarkable cussing the modus operandi for plays where won Be sure to get a copy of next Open are expecting favors from those It also true and art exhibits, the revolu- ! first prize as well as ‘ fascist organizations like the who of propagandizing and it’s generally four lndi- Saturday's "Dally” for a Commu- do and the a for quality, and has published consistently as fine a collection strike tionary cultural movement in this ! vidual prizes. Stiver Shirts are, so far as I have $5 day they get essays, agreed that the screen becomes the country is driving home nist evaluation of these books! able strike duty—which 500 took advan- reporting, short stories, economical and critical and other revo- lessons of In January, Red Pen (later heen to ascertain, weak and most effectual means for visual the class tage of last year. lutionary journalism as we have had in this country. The American struggle to a rapidly ex- ; changed to Left Review) issued, Impotent as directors of fascism. ... was education along these lines." panding audience. The Silver is (Tn b* continued) Communist movement may well be proud of this magazine. Tt un- the aim of the magazine is to in- Shirts simply a racket- Now dope this one out. Under News of the work of these clubs eering organization trying doubtedly beoome, as the editors of the Mosocw "International terpret the local scene from the Anti-War and Soviet to get has the N. R. A. code the 17.000 extras will appear as a regular feature on much money as possible one of or four revolutionary maga- revolutionary viewpoint. Early this las from Literature” call it, the best three listed in the Hollywood Central this page. year a group, are the "suckers.” Capt. Eugene R, Case, * photo including Features today. Casting Bureau have been reduced * * pro- Cycles Stage and Screen zines in the world fessional photographers, was formed leader of the Silver Shirts in Cali- circulation is as only 16,000. to a mere 1,500, “in order to guar- But Its yet This means that the How the Club The second annual exhibition of at Recital on Friday fornia, frankly admitted to me. steady . Started antee work.” , The well- magazine cannot become self-supporting, and leads a precarious finan- the artists group opened 7, “ ” proposal snow In on April This organization, Friends of New Stevedore Opens At Civic known that be Indianapolis * means, also, our comrades have not realized • • NEW The cial existence. This that years ago a YORK. anti-war Germany, the Crusader shoveled with teaspoons to put the two group of cycle and White Repertory Theatre Tonight that here is a weekly teacher, debater, champion and guide of Commu- a by the Theatre Union Dance Shirts which are active in and jobless to work was sound solu- ABOUTprofessional and white-collar Activity in the of features "Stevedore." by Paul Peters and nism that should be in the hands of at least 25,000 more readers. one, workers Group will be one the around Los Angeles are all tion compared to that don’t formed a discussion circle in at the dance of the Workers' weak George Sklar. a gripping drama of in America. New, Southwest recital in numbers and | great house of Communism is being built you . Indianapolis, have incompetent The think? Wallace Thurman “cross roads of the na- Dance League to be presented Negro and white w’orkers on the well-tempered are ready among only Negro or typical this leadership. They are scarcely ac- modem tools for the builders, chief is the writer allowed to tion.” In this more less Carlisle, one of the Friday evening at Brooklyn docks of New Orleans, will be pre- in Hollywood. American city, large Harry the tive at all in other sections of the them being such newspapers as the Rally Worker, such magazines work under contract with its middle charter members of the Holly- Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave., sented by the Theatre Union this . par- class and state. Unless I am very much mis- . The Hays organization is bourgeois wood at , as the New Masse*. Club, came to Sante Fe, New Brooklyn. evening the Civic Repertory ticipating in the International ideology, these people served first Mexico, Inst, year taken these groups, with the pos- But the workers, for some reason, let these tools rust unused, and to complete his j On the same program will be sible Theatre as its second production of Visual Educational Convention as a forum for revolutionary sub- speond novel. There he exception of the Friends of the The cast, which work with ancient hammers of stone.