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Two Year Advanced
Study Course Offered
By Workers School

NEW YORK-In line with its
policy of providing more thorough
training in Marxism-Leninism for
its students, the Workers School is
Offering in the fall term two-year
course of study. Special records will
be kept and students will be required
to pass an examination after the
completion of each term. After two
years of study, the student will re-
ceive certificate from the Workers
School.
The two-year course will include
Principles of Communism, Political
Economy, Marxism, Leninism, His
torical Materialism, Negro Prob
lens, Imperialism, Trade Union
Strategy, Organization Principles,
History OF Glass Struggles, Social
and Political Forces in American
History, and Revolutionary Jour-
nalism.
Students who complete this two
year course will be equipped to teach
groups and classes. Mass organiza-
tons, unions, and units Of the Com
munist Party and the Young Com
munist League are urged to assign
members Immediately to enroll for
this two-year course, in order to fill
the great need for theoretically
developed comrades in these organi-
cations.
Registration is now going on at the
Workers School Office, room 301, IS
e. 18th st.
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pie who were not treated as humans.
One of the most terrible and disturb
ing moments of my life was when I
was 16. A white man showed me a
shrivelled object that he carried as
a pocket souvenir. It's the ear off a
Niger we lynched at San Angelo,
said the man."
Stere0typer at 20
At 20 Minor got job as assistant
stereotyper on the San Antonio Ga
zette on the strength of his state
ment that he could make cartoons.
His cartoons, published by the pa
per with neither credit nor extra
pay for him, won city-wide popu-
larity and when one of his fellow
workers suggested that he ought to
go to st. Louis and try to get a job
as a regular cartoonist on the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, Minor quit his
job and headed northeast.
His first assignments on the Post
Dispatch were the routine of any
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12

newspaper artist, put his self-ac-
quired skill in drawing won him an
opportunity to do what he wanted
most to do then, draw cartoons.
Meanwhile he came into contact
with a man who, he says, did more
to influence his life than any other
except Lenin. ut was Leo Captain, a
tall, gaunt, serious Jew, and the no.
blest man I had ever known. At last
from him got to understand the
Socialist movement"
Caplan, doctor, got Minor inter-
ested in the trial of william D. Hay
wood, general secretary of the West
ern Federation of Miners, who was
at that time on trial for his life in
the Colorado labor wars. Minor read
aVidly, and whena the HayWood-Pet-
tibone-M Meyer frame-up stirred the
American labor movement to re-
doubled struggle, Bob Minor joined
the Socialist Party, became regu-
lar distributor of the appeal to Rea-
son" and after a while became a
member of the City Central Commit
tee of the st. Louis S. P. local.
Wanted to Read Marx
Once in the Socialist Party, Minors
torturing interest in the question Of
persecution Of Negroes reawakened.
He volunteered to organize Negroes
as members Of the Socialist Party
of st. Louis and sought to interest
the other socialist leaders in the
problem. There were no Negroes in
the Party. The beginnings of his dis
1llusionment with the Socialist Par
ty, however, came almost at the mo-
ment he joined. The green, small
town Texan heard of Karl Marx and
wanted to read his. works. Otto Paul,
local leader advised him against
reading Marx and Engels because
they were "out of date" Instead he
offered such works as Socialism and
the Family" by the Reverend Father
McGrady, and the writings on So
cialism of another preacher, Rev.
c. H. Vail.
Still Minor remained active in St.
Louis. But when the Socialist Party
divided into two camps on the cues
ton of direct action" and big BiIl'
Haywood was expelled from the Ma
tional Executive Committee, Minor
dropped out, too ~
Don't miss tOmOrrow's install
ment of this fascinating life story
of Robert Minor.y
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the Professor. Him"
This was surprise. The Professor
was perhaps the most, surprised, but
he jumped out of his bunk:
That's a go with me, if you men
don't object!"
The Professor looked real militant.
Nobody objected
I'll show him if I'm ashamed of
myself or not"
Fritz raped on the door. He stuck
his head in and said quickly: THE
mates coming again. He and the
skipper and the Baltic pilot have
been putting their heads together up
there. Sparks is sleeping"
Fritz ducked. The men resumed
their positions; everybody was taut.
The little Finn was getting awful
nervous. He looked sick.
You better lay down." Gunnar adj
vised him, land don't say nothing"
Mr.. Mate came in again, stiff and
tight-lpped as an admiral. This time
his tail remained outside the focastle
door.
well, men," he began in court
martial voice. you still refuse to turn
to?"
Nobody answered. Slim was on the
point of speaking up, but decided to
let the enemy spin himself out.
Nobody change their mind YETI"
repeated the mate darby.
Silence. Everything was tense.
Gunnar squirted an oyster into the
spittoon.
very well, then" He sounded
threatening. you will each take the
consequences. This ship is at sea now.
and the captain has commanded ey-
cry man who refuses orders to re-
port to him at once!"
Now Slim spoke up. 1.-THE crew has
elected committee of three men to
represent them. This committee will
go up and see the captain"
The mate raised his eyebrows. so
that's 1t, Ell? You and your God
damn bolshevik agitation started all
this, hey? Well, we will see about
you!" The mate became ferocious
and shook his fist. ITO hell with
your Goddamn committees. This amt
no bolshevik ship you're on now!"
Turning to the men he scowled.
Every man here who's standing with
this bolshevik, every man who re-
fuses to do duty now, go up and re-
port to the captain AT ONCE!'
A couple of the men started to get
up out of their hunks. The mate
turned quickly on his heel and went
out. His tail, surprised and worried
by this unexpected stubborn mill
fancy, drapped Imply behind.
CONTINUED TOMORROW
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Screen Notes

berkeley Square," screened by Fox
from the play by John Balderston,
win have its premiere on Wednesday
evening at the Gaiety Theatre with
Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie
Taylor and Colin Keith Johnston 10
the cast.
The screen feature this week at
xoew's State Theatre Is '"rugboat An
ME" with Maris Dressler and Wallace
Berry.
The Roxy Theatre is now showing
new Fox picture, THE Man Who
Dared" In which Preston Foster ana
zita Johann have the leading roles.
Penthouse" the film version Of
Arthur Somers Roche's story, is the
new picture at the Capitol Theatre,
with Myrna 10y and Warner Baxter
heading the cast.
Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter
in Paddy, The Next Best Thing
is the screen feature at the Palace
Theatre this week. The stage show
is headed by Bernioe Claire, Frank
Gaby, jeanette Hackett and Dan
Carthay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12

The sparkling Overture to der
Freischutz" will open an all
Weber concert to be. broadcast by
the Columbia Symphony Orches-
ira, under the direction of Howard
Barlow, tomorrow, from 10:45 to
11:15 p. M, over the WABC-Col-
umbia network. The Overture in
cludes a beautiful horn quartet,
which does not appear in the OPP
era, as well as the familiar themes
which form a prelude to the story.
Weber's attractive Larghetto
will be played as a violin solo by
Eugene Dubois. Other orchestral
numbers include the famous SIN
vitation to the Dance" and the
Imaginative Overture to "Oberon,"
one Of the most remarkable COM
binations of fantasy and techni-
cal skill in 10th Century music.
W. c. Spain, M. D. Associate
Professor of Medicine at the New
7 ork Post Graduate Medical
School of Columbia University, will
be the speaker on the Academy of
Iedicine program to be broadcast
over WARC and a nationwide Col
uinbia network, Thursday, Sept.
Ia, from 11:45 a. m. to 1906 Noon,
DR.. Spain will discuss the disease,
asthma,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
500 in Los Angeles
Put Back Furniture
of a Sick Negro

Los ANGELES Five hundred re-
lief workers and members of the I'm
employed Council put the furniture
back into the home of Mrs. Rose
Finelsen, 1911 E. Adams, an unem-
ployed Negro worker who had been
evicted from her home, while she
was sick in bed. The workers turned
on the gas, lights and water and the
next morning sent down large COM
mittee to the welfare office and
forced the county to pay the rent
and furnish medical aid. They also
got the gas, water and light bill paid
and a grocery order.
When worker came to the meet
ing of Local 7 of the Relief Workers
Protective Union and reported that a
sick worker had been evieted and was
lying sick in the street, the meeting
was adjourned and about 500 workers
vent en- nlasse to the evicted worker
1ome and put the furniture back
Workers from several other locals of
he r. W. P. U. also came and DEM
onstrated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
Widow of Wilson
Calls for High err
Prices Under NRA
BY JEAN Lands.

I'm 1917, when the men of our
country were asked to take up arms
and go into the trenches, how gal
lantly our women met the sacri-
flee is one of Americas epics that
has never been fully told"
This quotation is from the letter
of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, the widow
of the President who was elected ito
keep us out Of war;. No word here
of the campaign promises Of Wilson
that there would be no war if he
were elected. No word here of the
killing and wounding Of hundreds Of
thousands of Americans in "a war
to end all wars. To Mrs. Wilson the
wives and mothers of America took
the news of the death of their loved
ones without lament or repining."
Zone Big Family"
And in the same spirit she calls
upon the women of America in this
letter, made public recently, to carry
on behind Roosevelt and the NRA
drive. In the same spirit of self
sacrifice which she says character
lied the women in 1917 are they to
sacrifice today, SO that the Blue
Of the bosses To Mrs. Wilson we
are all one big family, the bosses,
the profiteers, and the workers. She
wants US to forget that the Blue
Eagle is the bird that protects the
profits of the employers, she wants
US to forget that this bird is driving
his beak into the bodies of our chill
dren, that his wings are used to
beat back the resistance of the work
ers to wages that cannot keep up
with the cost of living. She wants us
to forget that this bird gobbled up
the Massachusetts law which pro-
hibited night work for women and
that in this birds shadow six strik-
ing picketS were arrested for fight
ing for higher wages.
Raises Cost Of Living.
She wants us to forget that these
same MIRA codes are the instrument
for raising prices on necessary foods
that our children need. The price
of bread has already gone up under
the Blue Eagle. The cut in percent
in gas and electric rates in New
York City has been stopped because
the public utilities claim that their
profits will be eaten up under the
MIRA if this cut goes through Borden
and Sheffield, two large milk COM
panies, have already announced that
they will raise the price of milk from
IS to Is cents quart. These are
the blessings Of the MIRA and the
Blue Eagle This is what Mrs. viii
son wants the women to fight for.
For higher prices for the boss, for
wages that do not meet the cost of
living, for higher prices for clothing,
and higher rent.
The Women's Answer.
But working class women are
learning which side their bread is
buttered on. They are learning, as
the women in McKees Rock, Pa.
showed during the recent successful
strike that they belong beside their
husbands on the picket line. They
are learning that by proper organiza-
ton, as in the st. Louis women nut
pickers' strike, they are solving the
problem Of how to get higher wages.
better working conditions. Their side
is with the working class against the
Blue Eagle, and. not with it on the
side of the bosses and the police. That
is their answer to Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
INSf,ALLMENT rs
Illustrations By Philip Wolfe

now impossible since he wasn't called
on to work, and Slim explained that
he had other very important duties.
1.-THE first thing you must do, Ed
die, is when the Swede comes off the
wheel, tell him what took place and
get him to strike with us. In case
they want you to relieve him at the
wheel, you refuse. Can you steer?"
eyes, last trip I steered."
"Well, this trip you don't know
how, understand? Deck boys amt
supposed to steer anyway, according
to the Shipping Rules"
The men began to have more conf
,dence in Sims leadership.
"But the main thing, Eddie, is to
pull the blackgang and stewards out
in case anything happensl"
The kid suddenly realized what a
serious job this meant, and looked
embarrassed Slim proposed that Ed
die be allowed to choose someone to
replace him on the committee. The
men liked this democratic procedure
and agreed. The kid looked on the
deck a minute, then walked over to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
WJz-7so Kc

7:00-P. M.--Amos IN Andy.
7;l5-Merit vs. Subsidiary B. Mitchell,
chairman U. S. Civil Service Commits
sion; Professor Clyde L. King, chairman
Public Utilities Commission of Pennsyl-
vania. ,,
7:4e-Dog Chat-Don Carney.
S:00-Crime Clues--It Couldn't Happen.
8:3o-Adventures in ,Health-Dr. Herman
Bundesen
8:45-NRA Mass Meeting, Madison So. Gar
den: speakers, General Hugh S. johnson,
MIRA Administrator: Governor A. H.
Moore of New Jersey, Governor Wilbur
L. Cross OF Connecticut and others.
1o:0o-Koestner Orch; Alice Mock, soprano:
Edgar A. Guest, poet
10:30-Miniature Theatre
ll:oo-Pauline Alpert, piano; Larry Adler,
harmonica.
1I:15-Poet Prince.
1l3o-Holst Orch. faos,,.
12:o0-Harrs Orch
12:30-A.M.-Fisher Orch.
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TONIGHTS PROGRAMS
WEAF--660 Kc

7:00-P. M.-Mountaineers Music
7:l5-Chemistry and Modern Lfe-Dr II.
E. Howe. editor; DR.. J. M. Bromstead Of
Denmark.
730-Lum and Abner-Sketch.
7:45-The Goldbergs-Sketch.
S;oo-Julia sanderson and Frank Crumit,
Songs.
830-Kine Orch.
9:00-Berne Orch.
9:3o-Voorhees Band; Male Quartet: Eddie
East and Ralph Dumke, comedians;
John Hale, tenor.
1o:00-Lives at Stake--Major Whittlesey-
sketch.
10:30-National Forum.
1l:o0--Stern Orch.
11:15--Meroff Orch
11:3o-Talkie Time-sketch
12:o0-Ralph Kirbery. songs
1e0S-A. M.--Davis Orch.
IL: 30-Childs Orch.
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This Amt No BoIsheyik
Ship!" 80

THE men waited a minute, then
4 everybody came up for air. Stan
ley started off: FOR Christ's sake,
Gunnar,. what was you telling him
about coffee and all that? What we
want is dollar an hour overtime "
yeah" added the Polack, : @@you
gummedrup the works" -,o
Gunnar tried to defend himself by
declaring the mate cut him or.
Wait a minute" called Slim.
There was nothing lost in. letting
him know about this morning, too.
Well get plenty of chance to talk
about that dollar an hour yet"
what do you think the Skipper
will do?" queried the Professor.
Slim smiled quietly. Put us in
irons maybe" m
But the Professor wasn't scared.
Eddie jumped over and shook him
by the hand. Fritz came in. looted
around, then signalled out the alley
way. Bobbie pretended to be going
into the toilet. Fritz motioned him to
come in. Tthen came Shorty, with a
mug of coffee III his hand as blind,
They wanted to know what had taken
place and the men explained. Stanley
covered the door again.
Fritz, you take walk up to the
galley and see what you can see"
ordered Slim. Then on second
thought wait! Take couple of
empty beer bottles or something and
20 up to the boat deck. See. What
Sparks is doing"
Fritz smiled and whispered. You're
giving me all the sweet jobs! What
do J get for it?" His sharp little
eyes we're sparkling with excitement.
Stanley showed him good naturedly
through the door: You're conhrade,
amt you?" 4. Pm
Slim turned to Shorty and Bobbie.
"You fellows better clear out. Know
what to do now, don't your" Y :.
well. don't know If can get
the Others" offered Shorty, "but I'm
with youse."
ME, too," added Bobbie. "But I'm
going down below now. I'll talk to
the other men, but how will we know
what happens?" 1c,- re
Eddie will come DOWN and keep
you men informed"
THE machinist and firemen left. EC.
die started to protest about NJ
being on the committee but this W.
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The Men Stick


THEY didn't have to wait long
Rugged out in his dress uniform
and most Official manner, the mate
came into the fo'castle, followed by
the bos'n. 1t locke d like the mate
had put his Sunday uniform on to
make an impression on the men:
Whats wrong here?" Silence. 'The
boS'n tells me you men refuse to
turn to. What's the matterp"p no
= Gumnar spoke up. Plenty, Get us
UP 4:3O in the morning on Sunday
and then keep us standing over, an
hour for nothing. No coffee made or
nothing." o
The mate broke in: ct gave orders
that the mess was to havereoffee
made for you. And if the tugs didn't
show up, that wasn't my fault either.
We, the skipper, myself, and all Of
us,-had to wait around, just like
you did"
He stopped, waiting for Gunner
to answer, but Gunnar said nothing
further. The mate turned, to, the
bos'n: "Who started all this, anyway,
him?" ,,a,
The bos'n shook his head. ct don't
know anything about it, except what
told you'
"All right" promised the mate,
"we1l see.H ''''
Turning to the first bunk; Which
was Sims, he asked: go,
you, Rogers, do you refuse to
turn TOP"
YES" answered Slim, crisp as
toast. @1 oy
Next was Lag. "Yoaf"
Yes, SIR" ~eg
Next, Gunnar. fvTIe didn't bother
asking Gunnar bat Gunnar said
''Yes" anyhow. Next was the little
Finn. 81
How about your" rnsr,or
well, I'll do whatever the Others
do" answered he.
The first crack in the ice. Next
was Eddie. The mate started to ask
him then changed his mind:
mo, you were night Waterman.
You get some Sleep" :. 80
Next was the Polack.
How about you?" sz
I'm with the rest of the gaug."
And last came the Professor. The
mate almost considered it unneces-
sary, feeling sure he had the Profess
SCR in his hands, but asked anyway:
And your" -
m with the rest of the sellers,
10.
The mate, Mr.. Charles Calder,
opened his eyes wide. What. you,
tooP Well, YOU ought to be named
of YOURSELF"
The Professor had at first looked
as though he was, but this remark,
in front of the whole gang, rubbed
him the wrong way. He wasn't Glass
conscious,-he didn't really belong to
the working class,-but he had pride
He surprised everybody by flinging
back:
Never mind about my being
ashamed of myself. AS Iung N
back here, working and liya Vith
these men, I'll stick with til !. too. -
That stopped the mate This all
around militancy took him down a
peg or two, but he quickly recovered
himself and resumed his stern, Off
cial tone. e got
Very well. I shall report this to
Captain Hortense. This is your final
word, is it?" X
He waited to see If anybody would
change his mind But nobody did.
The mate turned and went out. And
the Bosn followed him ike the tail
between a DOES legs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
We Shall
Not Forget
To T. E. Barlow, District Or
ganizer Of the Communist Party,
murdered by police in Fort Worth,
Texas.
D. NMArnn III rtnr-nrAn-
By WALDO H. COFFMAN-

Texas.
BY WALDO H. CoFFMAN-I
The plains you loved lie
parching in the sun,
The streets you tramped are
sweltering in the heat;
The fertile fields are arid with
the drouth,
The forests thick with
smoldering fires and smoke.
Red and demagogue,
Wanton breeder of dis
content
That is what they called
you--
These towards, who con-
demned lawful assembly
And hide themselves
Not only behind masks and
cloaks
But behind all the armored
positions
Of property and prejudice
and the law.
Staunch friend and comrade,
Soldier of Solidarity
Like some bitter magic
The tale of your tragic death
Has spread thruout the land
And from a million minds
Has torn the last shreds of
doubt
Concerning Might and Right.
Young and viriIe and
strong
Like grim sentinels they
stand
Awaiting each opportunity
To break another
Of slavery's chains.
For whatever stroke is
needed
They are preparing.
SO shall you be avenged.
our hearts is smolder-
ing a heat
Fierce than that which
parches fields and plains;
Your memory, like a torch,
shall light the Flames
Of Revolution! We shall not
forget!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
Music
N0scoU To Broadcast
100 Symphonic Concerts
On Air This Season

MOSCOW, U.S.SR.-One hundred
symphonic concerts will be broad
casted the coming fall and winter
season by the Radio Center of Mos
COW. Two of the symphonies, Haydn's
Seasons of the Year" and Stravin-
skis "Sacre du Printemps," will re-
quire AN orchestra of 400 to 500 mu-
sicians. To perform these two SYM
phonies it will be necessary for the
Radio Center to employ the orches-
tras of the Bolshoi Theatre and Mos
fiji Moscow Philharmonic Orchestral
besides that. of its own.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
ITALIANS ORGANIZE

PROVIDENCE, r. For the sec
ond consecutive time Communist
Party meetings on Feral Hill have
gone thru unmolested as result of
mass sentiment for the Party in this
italian section. An Italian club has
been formed here and promises to
grow rapidly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
By Philip Sterling

Such incidents, common in the
life OF the Southwest, forced me to
think" said Minor, land some years
later, when became a Socialist, I
believed for while that I had found
the real instrument for overthrowing
the conditions under which Negro
workers live, But during all of my
early youth worried and wondered
about this strange question of peo-
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s:15-De Marco sisters; Frank sherry,
tenor.
S;3o-Eddy Brown, violin; Symphony Orch
s;oo-Gordon Graham, baritone; Gilman
and Arden, piano duo.
9;15-Grenadiers Revue.
9:30-Footlight Echoes.
10:00-Organ RecitaIs -
1o:15-Current Events Harlan Eugene Read
I0:30-Same as WEAF.
II 00-Time weather.
1l:02-Cutler Orch.
l1:30-Coleman ORCH
l2:00-Dantzig Orch
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
WABC--Seo Kc.

7:00-P MIRA Talk
7:05-Cypsy Nina, songs.
715-Dance Orch.
7so-Mills Brothers, songs.
7:45-News--Boal.e Carter
so0-Boswell Sisters, songs.
8;15--Singin' Sam .-.a ,oaH
8:3o--Voice OF Experience.
8:45-Kate Smith, Songs
9:00-Westphal Orch.
9;15-Poetry Readings.
9:30-Nino Martini, tehor; Symphony Orch
i0:o0-Calfornia Melodies.
l0:30-Belasco ORCH; Sports-Ted Husing.
Barbara Maurel, songs
l0:45--Ltght Opera Gema--Ruddigore
11:15-Phil Regain tenor.
II 30-Freeman Orch.
u 0o-Gerun Orch
I2:30-A.M.--Ham Orch!
1:oo--Russell Orch. ~.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
Famous Painter Does
New Pamphlet Cover

Reginald Marsh, the well-known
American painter, contributed a
photo of his painting on steel work.
ers to be used on the cover of DAN
gerous Jobs" by Grace M. Burnham,
which will be published soon by In
ternational Publishers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
BANQUET IN PROVIDENCE

PROVIDENCE, R. IA Commu-
nist Party banquet to celebrate the
l4th anniversary will be held Sunday.
eptember II, 8 PM, at Swedish
I'll, SO Chestnut st. Comrade NJ.
'arks. district organizer, will speak
iere viii be good food, music and
sncing.