The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-31
new FILM SHOWS
SOVIET RUSSIA
tAT WORK AND PLAY
Showings Will Begin on
March First

picture presentation of the history
a Soviet Russia will begin its show
ngs shortly after March first. Fiji
teen thousand feet of film taken in
Russia and Germany, by VIM. f.
Kruse are being edited and titled to
make an eight reel picture of intense
interest.
The first Of these films, RUSSIA
Through the Shadows" showed the
bloody days of war and revolution,
and the worst period Of the 1921
famine. The second, "The Fifth
Year." showed the beginning of i'm
provement in conditions and gave,
in general, an excellent survey of
the major happenings during the
year 1923. The third picture, just
taken, Russia and Germany" will
show the land of the Soviets as it
looked in the fall Of 1929 to Amer
lean eyes.
Shows Reconstruction Work.
This film shows the reconstruction
program well on the road tS success
and delivers its message, not thru
great parades and pageants, but thru
the everyday life Of the workers
themselves. Not merely the big cit
les are shown, but also the small
villages. Industries Of all sorts are
depicted iron shelters, oil wells,
shoe factories, cigarette factories, To-
connective works, fisheries and many
others, all in the process Of opera
ton, proving untrue the ridiculous
charge that only one "modeP' plant
is being shown.
Nor can the charge that the film
presents only "show places, main
tanned for the benefit of foreign Wis
itors," hold water, for the picture
shows a great government operated
asbestos plant on the borderline of
Siberia where it took four hours on
a freight car and five hours more
by wagon over rough mountain trails
to reach.
The promise of regeneration held
out by Russia's youth Is shown in
the elf-governing children's COM
munes at work and at play. These
children are for the most part, or
phans saved from death by Ameri-
can and other friends of Soviet Rus
STA. The Youth Parade on Inter
national Youth Day is followed by
athletic shows in the great agricul-
tural Exposition which is shown with
its 100000 visitors from the prov
inces.
No Note of Sadness.
There is not note of sadness in
the entire Russian section of the film
because that note was not heard
by the cameraman in all the ID weeks
of his travels. It is otherwise, how
ever, when the German border is
crossed.
Here are hungry children, and
charity seeking old people. Here are
food kitchens, where the Interna-
tional Workers Relief makes use Of
the German army kitchens to serve
Russian food to starving German un-
employed. Here we see the workers
guards, the "Armed Hundred" work.
ers revolt, the Rex Saxon govern
ment crushed by the force Of the
steel helmet, the Reichswehr march
ing in, Selling the Parliamentary
buildings and the reign of Law
and Order" once more.
The film is attractive from all
angles, and applications for its show
ing should be sent to the Commit
tee for International Workers Aid,
friends of Soviet Russia, Room 700,
SO South Wabash Ave-, Chicago, ILL.,
One of the most encouraging
phases of the drive now being con-
Quoted in behalf of the German
workers by the Friends of Soviet Rus
STA and Workers Germany, is that
the locals are getting new timber
into their conferences.
Big Drive Gains Momentum.
Cities which have Joined in the
German drive are: Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago,
Flint, Mich; Grand Rapids, New Ha-
ven. New York, Milwaukee, Superior,
Spokane, Seattle, San Francisco, and
Washington, d. c..
The drive has gained momentum
and the national Office is receiving
letters with remittances at the rate
, of about 100 daily. During the Rus
sian famine this organization col
lected S930,000 in cash and about
$250,000 worth of old clothing and
medicine. 1t is expected that much
will be collected for the German
workers, also.
An interesting item is the fact that
Local No. 419, Carpenters Union,
of Chicago, was the first to make
contribution to this German drive.
They sent in $50 to the National Of
fee. In addition to this sum, the
treasurer, Richard Karhl, collected
$40. Comrade Karhl stated that the
local will send more money and that
II has already about $23 to be turned
over, in addition to this fifty dollars,
which was appropriated from the
treasury. At each meeting a collec-
ton is taken for the German work.
ers. As soon as they will have a
large enough sum they will send
their check.