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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-29
August 1st (which Literature
to Use and How

THE Central Committee Direc-
tives on August First include
directives on literature. In this
article we want to show which lit
erature should be used, and how it
should be used. The directives
say:
"Our daily activities in mob
ilZlng the masses tor struggle
against imperialist war, in our
preparations for August First,
must. be based on the sharpest
realization that we already are in
the midst of an imperialist war
against the Chinese people, that
any day imperialist war against
the Soviet Union may break out,
that new imperiaL-t world war
is impending
Shall we prove this to the
masses? Nothing easier. Have them
read Japanese Imperialism Strip
ped" to show designs on the Soviet
Union-the secret memorandum of
Tanaka, Premier of Japan. Have
them read the Communist" July
issue, which is entirely devoted to
the struggle against war.
The Forces At Play.
The directives say:
In all our anti-war activities we
must clearly bear in mind the
analysis of the 14th Plenum of
our Party, that "the great i'm
perialist powers, especially Japan
and the United states, are at
present more and more involved
in the sharpest conflict for their
share in the exploitation and
division of China, and concen-
trating their war forces for, an
immediate armed struggle in the
Pacific"
Do you want the workers to I'M
derstand this play of imperialist
forces in China? Give them our
pamphlets to read, which analyze
this situation: WAR in China by
Ray Stewart Q0c), and Soviet
China" by M. James and r. Doom
ping.
The Socialist Party.
The directives say:
Especially must we expose the
role Of the Socialist Party, which
uses the slogan Recognition of
the Soviet Union in order TO
cover up the direct war prepare
tons on the part of American
Imperialism against the Soviet
Union and to cover up the at
tacks of the Socialist Party on
the Soviet Government and the
dictatorship Of the proletariat."
Unfortunately there Is nothing at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-29
August LIST Demonstrations Will Demand Free
dom of All Class War prisoners

on an unprecedented scale, it is an
unforgettable sensation to read
how you workers are constructing
new land and a new life.
$50 build your land. Rest assured
that though entombed as we are by
concrete and steel, our vision is
not blinded We are watching you
closely. We glory in your achieve
ments. We are with you in your
struggles, as we know it is difficult
to build where there was nothing
before. We are thrilled to see
arising out of the muck and filth
and ignorance and superstition
that was old Russia, the new land
of the Soviets, the homeland of
the worlds proletariat. ] express
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-29

present to help the workers I'M
derstand the problem as it con-
fronts them today. A short, clear
pamphlet on the subject of war,
which will include the stand of
the Socialists, as one of the series
for the election campaign, is now
being written, and will shortly be
available. However, a study of
Lenin's writings, in the Little Lenin
Library No. 2, 1.-THE War and the
Second International (2Oc.), will
explain to any worker what the
stand of the Socialists is, exposing
their sham struggle against war,
their immediate capitulation in
the face of reality when war has
broken out, and their complete be-
trayal of the working class to the
lmperialist war-makers.
Struggle Against Pacifism.
The directives say:
In our struggle against social
fascism we must be guided by
the statement of the 14th Plen-
UNI, which says: Under the ban
ner of pacifism they social fas-
cists) are trying to keep the
masses from fighting against
war, and support the war policy
of the Hoover government, League
of Nations, disarmament swindle,
war debts, Laval visit, ETC."
This is further explained in
Bltteiman's Revolutionary Strug-
gle Against War Versus Pacif-
ISM
Thorough theological Under
standing.
The directives say.
"The feminist teachings on war
must receive the widest popu-
larization in line with the reso-
luton of the 18th Plenum of the
Executive Committee of the Com
munist International"
Read this resolltion--it Will tach
every comrade some very funda-
mental truths about war and how
to struggle against it. 1t is in
cluded in the new pamphlet "To-
ward Revolutionary Mass Work"
Q0co. Then there are Lenin's
works, and for those to whom these
works are not as yet available
there are the two smaller PAM
phlets: War and the Second IN
ternational," Little Lenin Series No.
2 (20c), and Socialism and War"
Little Lenin Series No. d5cD.
One of the most important theo-
retical works on the anti-war
struggle is the Sixth Congress
Resolution on war, contained in
the pamphlet: THE struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-29

the Red Army, workers on the
state and collective farms, as well
as in the factories of the Soviet
Union, are continually writing to
Tom Mooney of their tremendous
achievements. Some letters, or
scraps of letters pass the prison
censorship. Such a letter came
from far-off Siberia and Mooney
replied in part as follows:
Sat a time when the capitalist
world is experiencing a crisis which
is shaking it to its foundations;
when death is raining on workers
! and their families in far-off Shang-
hal and Manhcuria; when i'm
perialism is getting ready to cut
loose with another mass slaughter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-29
COPS FIGHT SOLIDARITY
by Worker Correspondent
Kansas City.

Kansas City.
Dear Editor:
Certain Negro workers living in my
neighborhood, knowing me as 8
radical" and being hard pressed for
food and clothes, have been in the
habit Of coming to my house to read
literature that I have and to discuss
their problems with me. AS a result
someone reported it to the police, and
they came and visited me and warned
me not to admit Negroes to my
house. 1t happens that these cops
were under the rule of the Repub-
lican administration of Governor
Caulfield.
Since then the control of the Kan
sas City police department has gone
into the hands of the Democrats
And last night couple of Demo-
cratic cops came to my house. They
asked me if came from the North.
I answered: Yes. They then said:
you are in Missouri now and we
don't like niggers. The next time
one Of them comes up these steps,
we will take you all down."
/ belong to no political party, but
will vote Communist in the coming
elections. A.
PHHL1PSPORT, N. "a group
OF comrades who have given up their
homes in New York (not being able
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-29
Letters from Our Readers
New York City.

New York City.
To the Daily Worker:
I have been a socialist for man,
years. Recently have been listen
ing to the Communists.
AS socialist rank and filler I cal
down the New Leader for its lie that
the rank and file Communists il
Germany followed the S. p. leader.
ship to demonstrate against the BAN
ming of the "Vorwarts." It is ridic-
ulous to expect the Communist rank
and filters to give up their leadership
because of the capitalist Dictatorship
of the Won Papen ministry estab.
lished by Won Hindenburg, whom the
socialists supported in the last cleo.
ton.
Besides, the N. Y. Times reports
daily armed struggles between the
Communists and the fsacists which
usually results in several deaths. 'Ths
Communist Party fights fascism. Ti1e
Socialist Party talks about it and
acts otherwise. I WILL VOTE COM
MUNIST! ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-29

The rallying cry, Defense Of
the Soviet Union" is rallying thou
sands and millions of workers.
Why? Because the Soviet Union
is making every effort to maintain
peace In the world. Read Litvinov's
speech at Geneva: 1.-THE Soviet
Union Stands for Peace" Zone cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-29
BY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL

July 26, 1882, marked the sixteenth
y anniversary of the arrest and
imprisonment of Tom Mooney, the
best known among all the class
war prisoners in the world today.
The American bourgeois demo
crazy alone among all the cap
italist nations in the world holds
working class prisoners in chains,
dating back into the period of the
last world war. In fact, the lesser
known working-class leaders in
California, Mcnamara and Schmidt,
were confined to the same living
tombs that now hold Mooney and
many other working class prisoners,
as long ago as 1911.
MONEYS Imprisonment spans the
period between the two imperialist
world wars, the war of 1914-18, and
the war of 1882 against the Soviet
Union rapidly in the making. Free
dom for Tom Mooney, for his fellow
prisoner, Warren K. Billings, for
the Scottsboro Negro boys, for ON
neSty-the liberation of all working
class political prisoners-thus be-
come major slogan of the anti
war struggles on the 18th anniver-
sary of the beginning of the world
war, 1914.
The Maneuver of Mayor Walker
The sixteenth year of MONEYS
imprisonment was emphasized by
the ruling class effort to rob the
Mooney case of its working class
character through the hypocritical
appeal of Mayor James J. Walker
of New York City, upon Governor
James j. Rolph, Jr., of California,
for MONEYS release. Mooney could
have been free man today, insofar
as the prison regime itself is con-
cerned, if he had consented to the
conditions laid down to him by the
agents of the boss class that wanted
this j7sue divorced from the work.
ing class struggle in the period of
the still deepening economic crisis,
$50 that we wouldn't have so many
and so large red demonstrations in
New York City," in the words of
Mayor Walker himself. These con-
ditions among others were: %
reputation of the Communist
Party and all militant working
class organizations, especially that
the red trade unions: ca An at
tack upon the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics; 90 His pledge
not to return to trade union ac-
tivities.
MONEYS reply was uncomprising.
Governor Rolphs reply to Mayor
Walkers appeal declared that
Mooney must continue to rot in the
infamous San Quentin prison until
released only by death itself.
MONEYS reply to Governor Rolphs
decision was a clarion call to new
working-clas mass struggles. He
declared:
Il am ready and willing today
as always to give my life to the
cause of the toilers of the world
regardless of race, creed, color
or nationality. This decision
(Rolph's) in the face of world
wide protest against my brutal
frame-up Is an insolent and
sinister challenge hurled by a
doomed capitalist system into the
teeth of the entire working class.
I call upon the militant working
class Of the entire world to ac-
cept this challenge. They must
also demand that the frame-up
Scottsboro Negro boys do not die.
and defend the Kentucky pris-
oners and all proletarian political
prisoners"
Letter from Siberia
Through the barred windows of
San Quentin's dungeons breaks
the sunlight of Soviet power in the
First Workers Republic. Units OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-29

to pay the high rents) and who have
no job anyway are out here for the
summer.
We have established a Women's
Council, a pioneers group, and camp
fire meetings at which we explain the
Communist program to visitors 1rom
other farms.
The Washington times., 1932-12-08
AN-EnsIish Cast Chosen by Whale

before a travel bureau and Stuart
Erwin's in front of five-and-ten-
cent store. Interesting to note
that Mickey Mouse is represented,
also the dead Rin-Tin-Tin and
Peter The Hermit.
The only tie-up accomplished is
the predominance of Warner stars
in the block where this company's
Hollywood theater is located. The
western extremity of the Christ
mas lane is the Roosevelt Hotel
corner, just beyond the famous
Grauman'S Chinese theater. The
first two photos-on opposite
sides of the boulevard-are Mary
Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
Back to back with them are
Ronald Colman and Greta Garbo.
The eastern extremity of the
lane is the important artery, Vine
Street, on which are located two
of HollyWood's favorite eating
places, the Brown Derby and al
Levy's Tavern. First two pictures
at this end are Harold Lloyd and
Rex Bell. Back to back with
them are Norma Shearer and
Clara Bow. To date several fend-
ers have been crushed along the
boulevard by movie-minded motor
lists, who craned their necks once
too often in the thickening Christ
mas traffic.
The Washington times., 1932-12-08
Helen Hoerle Here

Real go-getters are the woman
advance agents of the theater.
They are in a highly competi-
tive business where there are at
least 100 applicants for every
ballyhoo job and they have to de-
liver the goods in box office fig
ures to keep UP with the process
sion.
Helen Hoerle who arrived in
town yesterday to play the type
overture for Student Prince" and
Blossom Time" is one of Broad
ways ace >publicists. She is
also a successful author. Her
latest book, The Girl and Her
Future is best seller on the
non-fiction list and it has a fore
word written by none other than
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Miss Hoerle can give you 1000
reasons why you should hear and
see THE Student Prince" with
its lovely and limpid Romberg
tunes which wear SO gracefully.
She also is ready to convince
any and all that the group of
principals who will sing these
operettas Christmas week at the
National Theater are among the
finest vocalists in the American
theatHr. .
The Washington times., 1932-12-08
Church Drama Group
to Give Miracle PIay

"The Nativity" Chantilly mir
acle play of the fifteenth century,
translated from the French and
adapted by Eduardo Sanchez and
Donald Fay Robinson, will be
presented by the Religious Drama
Committee of the Washington
Federation of Churches, on Sun
day afternoon, December 18, at
4:30 o'clock, in the Church of the
Holy City; Sunday evening, De-
cember Is, at o'clock, in the
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church,
and Tuesday evening, December
20, at O'Clock, in the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, by
group of church drama players
of the Capital city.
The Washington times., 1932-12-08
Abbey Players Shine in O'Casey's
Juno and the Paycock'

ing in quaint charm and homely
humors. His climax is as grim
and Sardonically powerful as
though penned by the moody
Eugene O'Neill, yet the play ends
on a contrasting note of signifi-
can't laughter.
Barry Fitzgerald who plays
Captain Jack Boyle offers as racy
and satisfying a portrait of a sly
and worthless lazybones as you
Will see in generation of theater.
going. His wit is dry and COM
pelling and even in that moment
Of sorrow when he is exposed as
a despicable craven, running to
the saloon for the comforts of the
bottle, he generates a bit of
sympathy for a pitifully weak fig
ure. All laurels to Mr.. Fitzgerald.
He is great character actor.
F. j. Mccormick, as Joker
DAILY, boon companion of the
Paycock, is runner-up for hon
ors. In this company of all round
excellence splendid scores were
recorded for Kate Curling. Eileen
Grove, Arthur Shields, Maureen
Delany, P. j. Carolan, Michael j.
Dolan, and u. Wright.
Comedy Tonight
At the Wednesday matinee
Lennox Robinson's comedy, 1.-The
White Headed Boy" was pre-
Sented. This is the story of the
favorite child, of the son who
can do no wrong in his mothers
eyes and of the revolt of the
other children. 1t is a rollicking
piece which gives all the prin-
cipals congenial roles.
Tonight, another of the Lennox
Robinson's comedies, "The Far
Off Hills" will be presented by
the players.
The Washington times., 1932-12-08
They Play With o'Neill

Another movie has a little fun
with the Eugene O'Neill "asides."
One Of the entertaining scenes in
ME and My Girl" which comes
to the Fox Theater tomorrow, has
Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett
"necking" on the parlor sofa.
Instead of carrying out the
conversation that their conduct
would indicate, the characters
recite their secret thoughts for
a highly amusing reaction.
The Washington times., 1932-12-08
A Pretty Good List

One of Washington's better
known theater executives, who
for obvious reasons chooses to
hide under the pseudonym Pro
Bono Publico suggests an ALL
American eleven of finest movie
performances and starts off the
controversy with this list:
Helen Hayes in "Sin of Made
lon Claudet."
Jackie Cooper in "The Champ" I"
Wallace Beery in "The Champ"
Irene Dunno in Back Street. >
Lowell Sherman in What Price
Hollywood"
Frederic March in "Dr. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde"
Lionel Barrymore in Grand
Hotel"
Paul MUM in I'm A Fugitive" :"
Lee Tracy in BLESSED Event"
Walter Houston in "The Wet
Parade"
Norma shearer R "smilin'
Pretty good, I'd say. Except
that I'd toss out Lee Tracy to
make room for George Arliss in
Man Who Played God" A
further substitution would be
Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai
Express" for Norma Shearer
Somewhere on any all-America
should be a place for Maurice
Chevalier who makes pictures I
like even though they don't make
any money.
The Washington times., 1932-12-08
When the Feature Is
Shown On the Screen

PALACE-Janet Gaynor in
'"Tess of the Storm Country" at
11:15 a. M. 100, 1925, $50. 7::35
and 9:4O p. m.
EARLE - Loretta Young in
''They Call It Sin." at II a. M,
1:40, 4:30, 7:2O. and 1904 pm.
Stage shows at 1887, 3.28. $40
and 9:02 p. m.
METROPOLITAN - Richard
Barthelmess in cabin in the
Cotton, at II a. M, 12:45, 2:3O,
A:20. sos. 1850 and $40 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Joan Blondell in
'sBig City Blues" at HAS a m,
1:25, sos. 1850, $3.50, S:15 and
0:55 p. m.
FOX-All-star cast in IF l
Had a Million" at 10:45 a. m,
1870, 4:20, 7:10 and 10 p. m.
Stage shows at 1885, $40 sos
and $3.50 p m.
RK-O-KEITH'S Constance
Bennett in "Rockabye," at II
q. m. 12:48, 2:36, 4:24. 6:12. 8
The Washington times., 1932-12-08
PICKED UP IN THE LOBBIES
Bv ANDREW r. KELLEY

In Sean O'Casey's dramatic
masterpiece, Juno and the Pay
cock" the Abbey Theater Players
last night demonstrated to an en-
thusiastic audience at the National
Theater why critics salute them as
the worlds greatest acting COM
pany.
Here was a. beautiful perform
ance, combining writing that is
a marvellous blend of native
comedy and stark tragedy, so ex-
pertly acted and directed, it was
a 10y to watch, the whole making
an evening in the theater one
loves to treasure in memorys
book. Truly, as George Jean
Nathan says, these are the only
living actors worth paying more
than So to see.
Juno and the Paycock" pre-
sents a simple story Of Dublin
peasants; of the shiftleSs old
fraud, Capt. Jack Boyle (the Pay
cock), and the joy that the
thoughts of family legacy
brought to his tenement: how this
humble home was transformed by
good luck and installments into a
domicile of joy only to have it
come tumbling down in the light
of bitter truths. Troubles pyramid
for the Boyle family and curtain
falls on as grotesquely ironical a
scene as was ever put upon the
contemporary stage.
Laughs and TRAGEDY
Playwright O'Casey has touched
his three acts with genuinely
comic and intensely human situa-
tions, with characterizations that
are rounded and lovable, appeal
The Washington times., 1932-12-08
An All Raft Week

BY one of those strange quirks
OF booking, Actor George Raft
will provide his own screen oppo-
sition in F Street and vicinity
the week of December. 16. That
is, he will be the shining star
of "Undercover Man" at the Fox
Theater at the same time that
he is the scintillating figure in
Might After Night" at the Earle
Theater. Both are Paramount
pictures.
In New York, right at this very
moment, George Raft is showing
on three Broadway first-run
screens, for, besides appearing in
the pictures enumerated above,
he is a leading actor in IF I
Had a Million"
The Washington times., 1932-12-08
Club Prudhon Band
to Entertain Shut-Ins
!::::.

The Club Prudhom band will
journey out Georgia Avenue today
to entertain the patients of Wal
ter Reed Hospital. With them
will be the stars from the floor
show, including Ray Moore, Blon-
dina Sterns, Doris Career, and
Wade Simmons. The Club Prud-
>hom will probably inaugurate
this as a bimonthly feature.
The Washington times., 1932-12-08

censors to grace the silver screen
with their swarthy comeliness
revealed.
According to Censor Freshman,
one of the movies most valuable
contributions to the cultured arts
is the reproduction of reality.
Anything in the nature of a
travelogue she holds to be worth
while.
She says further that pictures
depicting life in the South Sea
Islands, although they often lack
characters or stories which are
true to life, do present authentic
scenery and background. There
fore they are entertaining and
instructive at one and the same
time
The Washington times., 1932-12-08
|ROADWAYS
OF The WORLD
BY Mark HeIIinger-
EXCELSIOR HOTEL, re

EXCELSIOR HOTEL, ROME, ITALY.
Last night stood in the lobby of the Excelsior Hotel in
power of Mussolin the foolish hats that
ing and the best way dogs of ricketts, 1t purely
international conversation.
You have been here for time, Mr.. Hellnger, he
said suddenly ''When do you intend to leave us?''
looked at him closely until l remembered that had
The Washington times., 1932-12-08

lin e), Joseph
Patrick T u m
ulty, Senator
H e nry Foun-
tain Ashurst of
Arizona, Father
c a r twright of
st. P a t r ick's,
Secretary Theo-
dore os in
from the White
House and Sen
aLOr FaC ndT-
rison of MiSSiS-
S ippi W e r e
a m ong those
who e nj oy ed
".Tllno and the
The Washington times., 1932-12-08

"Oh, 1 don't know" I re-
turned. Pretty soon now. I
guess. I'm making Tunis, over
in North Africa, my next stop.
Maybe I'll hop down to Naples
the day after tomorrow, and
then catch a boat to Tunis the
next morning."
II am afraid, Mr.. Hellinger,"
he asserted, that you should
have inquired about such a
course before this. There is but
one boat a week from Italy to
Tunis-and that leaves Naples
tomorrow night at 10 o'clock"
Too Much Rome
That hit me right between the
eyes. I like Italy and I have
grown very fond of Rome. Two
or three days more wouldn't
have given me the measles. But
seven days! Too much is more
than enough, as Otto Kahn
once said.
On rare occasions, Hellinger
is a man of action. This was one
of the occasions. phoned Mr..
Cozine, my picture director, and
Signor Romognoli, my camera
man, and urged them to take
the midnight train for Naples.
1t was necessary for me to be
at the bank in the. morning. So
] told them I would them in
Naples in the early afternoon,
we would shoot some scenes
there-and then catch the boat
for Africa at night.
Mr.. Cozine said "okay." Mr..
Romognoh said, "how!" And
that much was settled. turned
to the porter again.
MAKE reservations for me-"
I stated rapidly, ION a train
that leaves for Naples around
II o'clock tomorrow morning.
I've got to get there while the
sun is still out. So l."
He shook his head.
"There is no such train, sir.
But if I might venture a sug-
gestion, there is a fast plane
that leaves here exactly at
noon. You catch the bus at
11-and you are in Naples at
1870. Will I reserve a place
for you in that plane?"
I gulped. In all my life,
had never been in an airplane.
I've had, of course, thousand
invitations to fly. Air-minded
people have proven to me by
figures that it's safer to fly
than it is to walk along Fifth
Avenue or get married. But
somehow or other, the ground
had always looked a trifle more
solid than the air. And I
ducked all my airplane invita-
tions as gracefully as possible.
To Fly or Not
But this was something else
again. Either I had to fly-or
I would have to wait another
seven days before leaving for
Africa. I decided to fly. So
! coughed Importantly.
"Of course" I returned. "Re-
serve the place for me as early
as possible. Queer I didn't
think of flying until you men,
toned it. I love to fly. Crazy
about it. You too, suppose?"
The porter shook his head.
''You couldn't get me in the
air for any price," he stated.
II buy plenty of tickets for
different passengers from this
hotel, and every time I say
goodby to them. I have a feel
ing that I'll read about them
having crashed the next morn
ing"
He put out his hand.
"Goodby, SIR he said.
I tossed him a nervous glance,
picked up my copy of the Paris
edition of the New York Her
aid and took the elevator to
my room. On the way up,
glanced at the headline.
give Killed" it read, in
Plane Crash"
Inasmuch as I am now writ
ing this column in my hotel