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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
Course in Revolutionary Art
and Literature To Be G-7en
at Chicago Workers School

CHICAG o. Among the new
courses being presented at the Chi
cago Workers School, 1922 So. Michi-
gan Ave, during its winter term
dec. IS to Feb. "a, 1891 there will
be lecture and discussion course
conducted by the John Reed Club on
Currents in Revolutionary Art and
Literature" Glasses will begin on Fri
day, Dec. %, and will continue on
subsequent Fridays for period Of
ten weeks, covering in its survey the
currents and movements in contem-
porary art and literature, it's histori-
cal backgrounds, the effects of the
crisis and upsurge in the revolution
airy mass movement on art and litera-
ture, and the new culture Of social
ism in the US.S.R.
Registration for this course, as we'll
as other classes at the Chicago Work.
ers School, opens on Dec. 8. No
registration will be accepted two
weeks after classes begin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
Mary of Scotland" Opens
At AIUin Theatre NOU. ~

MARY of Scotland" Maxwell An
iersdal's new drama. will be presented
by the Theatre Guild as its third
production Of the season, opening at
The calvin Theatre nsxt Monday
hight. The cast is headed by Helen
Hayes in the title role, Philip Meri-
Yale as Bathwell and Helen Menken
rs Queen Elizabeth.
F. Carter Burgher will replace
George Macready this evening in
The School for Husbands" the Mo-
liere comedy at the Empire Theatre.
Victor Killian, last seen here in
ia Divine Drudge" will play an inn
soortant role in Peace on Earth"
swi oh opens Noy. 20 at the Civic
Ire ertory Theatre.
HOLLY Picon will be starred In
Birdie" which Jacob Kalich placed
n rehearsal yesterday. Roscoe Allies,
Bruce Evans, Jack Leslie and Phoebe
Fulton will play important roles in
The comedy which is due on Broad
way soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
An Odyssey of Midwestern
Labor in the Past 20 Years
Jack Conroy's First Novel, The Disinherited,'
Tells Story of a Midwest Coal Camp

face is now speekled with blue Jumps
of coal under the skin, whose should
ers are stopped, breathing tortured by
miners asthma and ears growing deaf
so that he can't hear rocks that We're
about to slip down.
The stamp Of inevitability is on
every page of this grim pageant of
the working class under capitalism.
Entirely logical and unexaggerated
seem the sudden deaths, the dragging
strikes, the abject poverty, the chill
dren reared to hate scabs and i'm
bued with the hope that schooling
will enable them to rise to a nistiiy
conceived security, the people seek
ing escape through marriage, drink,
sordid affairs, new jobs. 1t is a
chronicle of repeated defeats but, as
Conroy says, Somehow the miners
seemed to lose the individual strike,
but steadily to progress along the
far-f1ung battle Inc Of their goal.
Author Understands Workers
Even after the coal camp TRACE
dies and after he was blacklisted for
the railroad shopmen's strike, that
faith remained doggedly with Larry
Donovan. He became q migratory
worker toiling in steel mill, q rub
Der plant, automobile factories, pipe
lines and paving gangs. 1t should
be especially stressed that Conroy's
novel is no monotonous litany of
woe. Numerous quieter interludes,
fragrant with the breath Of green
fields, spiced with Rabelaisian lunch
hour Jokes and impregnated with
systematic understanding of work.
ers' pastimes and aspirations, relieve
the main theme and intensity sub
sequent tragedies.
At first Larry hoped that he could
rise from the uncertain future of in
diyidual members of his class by
mastering correspondence school
courses. But the economic crisis of
1929 made him one of Americas dis
inherited, Hoover City denizen. Tt
eventually sent him back to Monkey
Nest, where he again met Karl Lieb-
knecht's follower, the crippled ex-
rubber plant worker, Hans, who
showed him new Berizon and con-
WINGED him that he could rise only
with his entire class.
A Minor Weakness
One minor weakness Of the novel
Is that Larry's constant companion,
Ed Warden, supposedly worker scep-
teal Of all attempts at lettering la
boring conditions, is very sketchily
portrayed. Only in two Good Sa-
marian incidents does he come alive.
But all the other characters, and
they are many in number, are we'll
rounded persons. Occasionally a de-
seription Of the workings of new ma
chinery becomes overly technical: this
criticism, however. applies to only a
few isolated paragraphs.
The careful craftsmanship of the
book, as whole. is source of per-
petual delight. Everywhere one en-
counters pithy phrases, SMILES that
clean like miners lard-oiI lamps in
the murky depths of coal pits, and
metaphors that are relentless hunger
marches. 1.-THE Disinheritedp is the
work Of a man who can really write
and who tells the epic of our class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
BY WALTER SNOW
THE DISINHERITED, by Jack Con-
roy. Covici- Friede, 81.


Here is a novel that towers like
a gaunt, unforgettabie coal tipple
above all other recent American pro-
letarian fiction.
During the past few years, mem
bers of the Communist literary move
ment have been so anxious to foster
working class literature that many
books, about which we had secret
reservations, won our acclaim pub
licly. If an author could eteh few
realistic factory or strike scenes, if
he had an ear for native dialect flaw
ored with tobacco cud, if he attempt
ed to be vigorously honest, we felt
that he was one of ours.
Knowing that these writers faced
largely hostile receptions from bour-
geois critics, who are principally &C.
cupied in log-rolling for their friends
and leading advertisers, we assumed
membership In a radical mutual adj
miration society. After all, such tao
tics might boom sales figures enough
to make publishers willing to gamble
on more proletarian literature.
But "The Disinherited." like the
class it portrays, can stand on its
own calloused feet. Even those who
have followed all the work of Jack
Conroy in magazines like New
Masses" THE Left" "Pagany," THE
American Mercury" and "Interna-
tional Literature" where parts of this
novel first appeared, will be amazed
to learn how forcibly this Missouri
migratory worker has woven his auto
biographical experiences into COM
pact, dynamic whole that has the
surge of power Of a well-disciplined
picket line.
In this odyssey of Western
labor during the past twenty-odd
years Conroy not only fulfiils def
mite theme (What faces the children
of the Monkey Nest coal camp?) but
also achieves the highest goal of any
novelist, the creation of liveable
human beings. No American labor
novel since 'The Jungle" has pre-
sented such gallery Of figures as
the elder Donovan, ex-priest and
miners leader; young Larry Dom
ovans mother, who desired that at
least one Of her sons would get
schooling and escape from Monkey
Nest; Peg-leg Mike Riordan, the shot
firer; Bonny Fern; Aunt Jessie and
her husband, .Rollie Weems, who
would never admit as long as he lived
that the railroad strike was crushed;
Bun Grady, industry's aged cast-off
who placed his faith in Rescue Mis-
sions.
Then there are Nat Moore with his
two siclly wives, Lena and Emma;
Helen Baker, who becomes prosti-
tute; Paul Stafford and his half wit
brother whose father was determined
that they would never be entombed
in mines; and Hans, the one-time
follower of Karl Iiebknecht, who
eventually arouses the farmers in
penny foreclosure sales. These char
acters are endowed with the breath
of life. They linger in ones mind
like memories of childhood.
Boyhood OF Larry Donovan
'sThe Disinherited" opens with the
boyhood of Larry Donovan in the
Monkey Nest coal camp. He is the
son OF an ex-Catholic priest whose
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Friends of Russian
Music to Perform
in Chicago Sunday

CHICAGO.-The Friends of Rus
sian Music, with DR.. H. M. Richter
as chairman, will present the noted
dramatic soprano, Sonia Radina, in a
Russian concert on Sunday evening,
Nov. rs, at the Masonic Temple, 80
w. Randolph st.
Josef Rosenstein, young Chicago
violinist, will appear as assistant
artist, with an entirely new pro-
gram.
This concert is given for the pur-
pose of acquainting the loving
population of Chicago with the cree-
tons of the cultural field of the old
and new Russia.
Tickets can be secured at Lyon
and Healy, Jackson and Wabash;
Kroch Book Shop, FOG N. Michigan
Ave, Royale Cafe, 3845 w. Roose-
welt Road, and the Workers Book
shop, 20ls w. Division St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
Robinson LETTERS, Poet of
Individual Decay and Death
"His Visions Are the Nightmares of Sick
Soul in Sick and Dying Society

Brown and Fuel Lee. These are leaders
OF the oppressed and the oppressed
victims OF those social bandits whose
principles Jeffers ideali7es and cam
ouflsges with a folk image. He
clothes in the name Of humanity
crime against humanity. Robinson
LETTERS poetic religion OF the IN
dividualist Is hostile to the forces of
revolution and human progress. II
is the enemy Of science, industrialism
and socialism. For LETTERS. it is the
poets affair TO call the hawks
serve God, who is very beautiful, but
hardly a friend Of humanity" The
poet listens TO the "splendor of God,
the exact poet, the sonorous santi-
strophe Of desolation to the strophe
multitude In the poem "Intellectu-
ais" Jeffers takes his stand as an
individualist and questions those in
tellectuals who have become social
minded and have allied themselves
with the proletariat,
ut is so hard for men to stand by
themselves
They must hang on Marx o. Christ,
or Progress?"
These intellectuals have already re-
piled.
The new heroes OF the people are
being sung in the songs of working
class poets. Humanity is also brave.
1t is brave, new humanity Of mill
tant working-class people. The work
ing class, in its revolutionary for
ward march, thrusts aside and de-
stroys superstitions and beliefs which
are obstacles in the way of its prog
ress. 1t is an affair of the poet to
reflect the life of the proletariat and
also to inspirit his comrades with
revolutionary ardor and hope,
A corrupt class on its death-bed
finds necessary such imaginative fig
ments as god to expiate its crimes
The proletariat does not need a god
as an asylum for its weakness. The
proletariat overcomes its weakness by
destroying the roots of its weakness.
1t destroys those social roots which
nourish poverty, ignorance, religion
and slavery and degrade the human
being. 1t emancipates itself and pre-
pares to build classics society.
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BY Joseph Freeman:

THE proIetarian
acter The great historic of Marx and Ege known us Eng
languages The phrase is roetarns of all lands un The work
m struggles in country insprabe the workers struggles
In other
paude of course But that an idea patude to say
it is SO true that people take it for granted.
Right there the Nothing
keep constantly battles
in this country but in Europe Asia Africa Latin America We must
participate in them In possible must aid comrades
"a other lands
HAVE just finished reading of the terrific pamphlets Of
violent Unfortunately yet appeared
understand that translation is being prepared
The pamphlet entitled slaughterhou Mem describes
one Of the eruest and most dc regimes the world the blood
soaked fascist regime of Marshal PisudsN
Poland lies in the heart surrounded nations
their lofty culture In the midst of this lofty culture Polish workers
vracked and destroyed indbaby besta manner The most
de9isc and heroic Of the of them the
thrown into rivers infected with syphilis tortured until they remain
physical and mental wrecks life,
And this Of political merely
siona thugs but
cross agents The director of this bloody is that hnsane
monster Marshal Plsudski This secret The whole of Poland
knows it.
cannot think of any words adequate to describe the barpaes of
Polish Fascisn call
derstete the These adecves describe the fortunes of the
medieval nquion they possibly describe the
Psuds aughteruse Polish brought
to q level undreamed of by Torquenada.
potADs kept press orgies
times when they cannot be entirely concealed the
ers imprisoned Ik for demonstrating last
reached other European countries It became known that their er
raped the women prisoners pumped urine into their lungs deliberately
of European nlectual pro-
compelled Investigate Polish Cabinet nerpolated
very, very politely And the matter ended right there.
No help could completely
heel parliament of hckkuled
Fpeced from the fascist
bent of the black
The Polish speak pamphlet
on fudskfs aughterou The author SsSnd ey lifts
ON the in the Uann villages Polish
some modification of Gacia
and like Shtiter and other young workers
RuT higher mgher than
ism of their victims Beautiful against the background barbariy
and blood
revolution that enables Them capitalist
despadoes unittng Poland too
has It's Dnntroffs.
WHAT gives these wongcass strength
endurance contemporary
faith the proetaap revolution
symptom of the rot which corroding polite
capitalism They know that Pudk
Jack They well that his supported
plaIsts Of France, England
They know too that they
ateeoua in other countries will aid them against
fascist
New York there raising
political prisoners in Poland They the
stoSov Relief Committees Polish these
committees which Poands
fascist and these the committees
phet translated English
When this is done let the
the horror described in the Lev
indignation and fury which these result in
effective action aid the Polish
stroy Piudskis slaughterheue
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Cowell Performs
OWn COMPOSITIONS
in Piano Recital

NEW YORK.-Henry Cowell, pian-
list, composer and lecturer, gave a
program of original compositions for
the piano, last Friday night, at the
Pierre Degeyter Club.
For This concert, Henry Cowell es-
sayed something new--in his own
words: Il wish to try this expert
ment of not having any program
matte titles. 1 want to see whether
the music means anything to the
listeners, or whether it is only the
title that means something" The
program, indicating solely mood and
tempo, reads: 81. Slow, powerful; 2,
Fast, bright; 3. Slow, delicate, etc."
In his Introductory remarks, again
quoting Cowell: zone of the great
faults in the field of workers music
has been that of combining revolu-
tionary lyrics with traditional music
music which can by no means be
termed revolutionary. One of the
purposes of the Compoers' Collective,
of the Pierre Degeyter Club, of which
I am member, is to create music
that is revolutionary in form and in
content"
Cowells performance cannot be
judged as other piano recitals are,
for he has invented new piano
technique, that brings into play not
only the fingers but also the fist,
the open hand and the forearm, some
times striking entire oetaves stimuli
taneously creating what he calls tone
clusters" Here is music that in
method is definitely revolutionary. He
obtains tonal effects from the piano
that, until his researches, were I'M
known to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
effects that, despite innumerable
hearings are still fresh and aston
ishing.
Although these piano works OF Cowell
were written prior to his connection
with the revolutionary movement,
there are unquestionable signs of his
turning cleft" particularly in his mo.
10, Fast, vehement"
A large and enthusiastic audience
applaudsd generously both his play
ing and comments on music.
a T..
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BY s. FUNARoFF

10y y
GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE
HAWKS, and other poems. by
Robinson LETTERS. Random House.
$3.50.
Robinson LETTERS is significant ss
clear and intense expression of in
dividual and social desolation. He
is poet who is spiritually i'll. His
poetry deals with death, fratrieide,
suicide, sadisnn, murder and incest,
and is tuned to a religious moral
note. His characters are psyche
logical portraits of christ completes
or they embody an individualist phil
osophy. Often, these two traits play
dual and conflicting role in the
poetic life of a character. The poets
visions are the Nightmares of a sick
soul in sick and dying society.
They are the visions of a man who
is sick of life, who finds humanity
is needless" and longs for death as
a final and beautiful peace. Here is
a poem fashioned with lines selected
from a few poems in the latter part
Of the book. 1t simplifles and sums
up what LETTERS says in the group of
poems called Descent to the Dead"
1t Is an obituary for all humanity.
Splendid was life.
Now all is decayed, all corrupted,
all gone down.
The heroes are gone"
Enough of humanity has been.
But in a peasants tu+
Eat bread bitter with the dust Of
dead men :"
But deaths nothing, and life.
Is nothing either.
How beautiful are both these moth
ings."
AS a craftsman, Jeffers is uneven
in his work. His situations are often
unreal and melodramatic. His senti-
ments are sometimes mawkish.
In Jeffer's philosophy, Nature is
the expression of God. This explains
the symbolism of the title poem,
Give Your Heart to the Hawks" In
an earlier poem, THE Coast Range
Christ" Robinson Jeffers wrote:
God was hawk in the glow of the
morning 49," The hawk is also a
symbol of the individualist who is
not a sparrow. not flock bird" but
is separate as a gray hawk" The
poet cries: Give your heart to the
hawks instead of humanity, which is
corrupt and cowardly. LETTERS loves
this Nature God who is ruthless and
cruel as a hawk towards its victims,
the flock birds. In the revivified
images Of the New Testament, he de-
elares that civilization has once again
trapped and crucified its Christ.
This Christ is the poetic projection
Of LETTERS, the individualist. The
contradiction appears ironical, par
ticularly when one realizes that JET
fers' work is an expression of class
which glorif:es its cut-throat, COM
petitive life with cut-throat bandit
ideals.
In our time, the true, peoples mar
tyrs are men like Sacco and VAN
setti, Mooney and Billings, John
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Film Showing to Aid "Steel
and Metal Worker"

NEW YORK-The Steel Union Aid
Committee is arranging series of
showings of exclusive films, the first
of which, 1.-THE Fragments of an En-
pire" will be shown at 345 e. 18th
St., first floor, on Monday, Nov. az,
at pm.
The proceeds of these performances,
which will be accompanied by lee
lures by prominent individuals. will
go to THE Steel and Metal Worker, +"
official publication of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis.-The Jewish
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$500 for the Daily Worker $4,000
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Wis, Melted s3l.25.
Activity here is being intensified
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TOO P.M--Amos n, Andy
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John G.. Winant of New Hampshire;
Mayor Howard W. jackson of Baltimore
7:45-Dog Chat-Don Carney
800-The Paper Ears-Sketch
8:3o-Adventures in Health-Dr. Henry
Bundesen
s;45-Billy Hillpot and scrappy Lambert
Songs
s:o0-Alice Mock, Soprano; Edgar Guest,
Poet
s:50-Men Of Daring-Dramatic Sketch
10.00-Variety Musicale
030-Cottingham's Last Banshee-Sketch
1l08--Leaders Trio
11:15-Anthony Frome, Tenor
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1890 A.M,-Chilis Orch.
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Tuesday

JOHN REED CLUB School Of Art. 4so
Sixth Avenue, announces an exhibition of
Paintings, Drawing and Sculpture by mem
bers Of the faculty from today TO Nov. 26
inclusive. Work by Minor, Geller. Lee
Refreiger, soyer, Cikovsky, Becker, Marsh,
Lozowick, Dinner, crimi. Noda. Hours, from
2 to pm. Saturday and Sunday from 3
to 6 pm.
LID Chorus meets at Al Chester Ave,
Brooklyn t36th st. near 18th Ave at s:l5
pm.
STARTING Wednesday, Nov az, a class
In Fundamentally Of Communism will be
held at 26l Schnectady Ave, Brooklyn. BY
cemrade =. Taft. Auspices of Council 81
of the U.C.W.C.W.
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5;30-Frank and Flo, Songs
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GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE
HAWKS, and other poems, by
Robinson LETTERS. Random House.
$3.50.