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you fellers get tired awful quick"
Then he set the sea watches. You
take the 4 to 8, with Lag and the kid
here" he called to Slim The other
new man was put on the IL to 4.
He looked all popped, but had to
turn right to again and stand a
4-hour watch. The picture of Windy
Johnson tapping him on the shoul-
der, This mans OK. bos'n," came
back to Slim.
In the focastle, Lag was snoring
in his dungarees, stretched out on a
bench. Most of the other sailors
were already asleep in their hunks.
Shoes and socks and seaboots lay
scattered around on the deck, which
was wet and filthy. Slim took his
shoes off and climbed into his bunk
without undressing or washing. He
was dog tired, and weak from under
nourishment. He had been living on
occasional hamburgers for over a
month, and today's first square meal
had been well sweated out of him.
After a minute Of resting his stom-
ach began to bark with hunger, and
he hunted up the messroom again.
The pale oiler was still sitting there,
in, half daze. Slim thought of the
Ordinary's tomato bouillon. But
there was no ketchup left. The
breadloaf bore the greasy imprints
of the whole blackgang. All the
smells Of the fo'castle seemed to have
settled on the butter plate: boiled
dungarees, steampipe, stale beer,
toilet, sweat, Stops.
Better wait for Breakfast, sug-
gested the oiler, coming out of his
daze
Slim went back to his bunk. There
were ten hunks in the fo'castle, and
they were all occupied. That was
too damn many for such a small
room. It couldn't be called a room,
it was just a space. Slim glanced at
the riveted plates, where the damp
had caused. the paint to peel off.
Lloyd's underwriters would never al
low perishable cargo to be slowed in
such a hole. But there was no in
surance risk on sailors, so that was
alright. In the toilet the shower
was out of commission, the seats
missing, not enough washbuckets, but
that was alright too. Slim swal-
lowed a bitter grin. His glance fell
on the lockers. There were only 7
for the ten men, but he had been
lucky to get one for himself. That
reminded him of something. Quietly
getting down and opening his sea
bag, he pulled out a pile of maya
zines, booklets, newspapers and put
them on the bookshelf.
Dynamite, he whispered looking
around at his sleeping comrades, ito
blow the dust out of your brains"
CONFINED TOMORROW
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
I'VE Gather Strength Shows
Growth OF Revolutionary Verse

tific Communism, we find not mere
lyriciSing, but calls to battle. In
both poems the heritage of the rev.
olutlonary traditions of the past are
linked with the militant work Of the
present and the future. The first
'escribes the revolutionary Kentucky
lners as the heirs of the pioneers
the state. In the second:
Now, fifty years since his days
met their last midnight, we-his
countless heirs-rise dauntIeSs in
all lands, his wisdom in our brain,
the added lessons of half century,
to impregnate the earth with newer
life, to win the final battle; and,
elas3iess, to assume the final right
to our supremacy.
In Funaroff's long poem, What the
Thunder Said: A Fire Sermon, and
in his Dnieprostroi with its in
genious use of the lines from Blake's
Tiger. Tiger.) we find the slogans
and achievements of the international
Communist movement transformed
i-AVo FSioC VI q illSll OIQGTs
We gather strength in the springs
of tho iron mountains,
We take for ourselves and our flu
lures the fcrges of Vulcan,
We. toilers of the white fires of
aif youth, we dare
And we leap! :.
These poems are devastating refu-
tations. of the war-cry of the
aesthetics that ''propag anda" vitiates
art; on the contrary, they show that
the class-conscious proletarian move
ment can inspire poetry of high
character. Despite the youth and
comparative inexperience of these
poets, their work already rivals the
bourgeois poetry produced during the
same period. Spector's Timeclock,
Kalar's Papermill, Rolfe's Homage to
Karl Marx, and Funaroff's Dniepros-
troi easily belong to the best Amer
lean poems written in the past few
years.
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see if there's any more mail for you
fellers. Nope Say Lag, did I get
your dues yet?"s
The seaman named was lying in
his bunk, half asleep. Too much
needle beer. He picked himself up
heavily 81 amt got dollar left,
johnson. I'll fix it up with you next
trip"
Johnson laughed loud, pretending
to make a joke of it. "Still drunk?
Hey bos'n, if / was you, I'd fire a
guy like that. There's plenty of good
union men hanging around the hall,
with dues all paid up, waiting to
ship OUT Then he turned to the
standbys. How about you fellers,
all lined up?" The first sailor pulled
out an old blue-covered I. S. U. book.
How about the dues, all paid up?"
mo, I been in the hospital ten
weeks with stomach cancer, and on
the beach since June I'll settle up
after this trip. That is, if I get on"
The man nodded towards the bosn,
meaningly.
johnson looked the book over.
"T'his mans OK. bos'n.a Then he
came over to Slim. How about
you? Got a book?"
''Sure I got book" answered
Slim, I'm union man"
Johnson caught the dig, and looked
sharp yeah? Can / see it?"
Slim felt like showing the fink
something entirely different, but re-
alizing the I. S. U. was the official
blackball agency for this line, he
pulled out his little black book
M. w. l. u Marine Workers Indus
trial Union.
ooh, that outfit sneered the
agent. That's not a union, that's
social club and reading room"
Everybody in the focastle perked up.
The bos'n shifted his snuffball SIS
Well, that's more like my idea of a
union than some other places know
Of, where all sailor gets for his
dues is place to park his baggage.
And he'd better insure it first, at
that"
"Are You a Red?"
A couple of the men laughed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
Theatre Guild To Present
TWo NeU Eugene O'NeiH
Plays This Season

Two new Eugene O'Neill plays are
scheduled for production by the The
atre Guild this season. The two
manuscripts have been received from
ONeill, who has been at work at his
home off the coast of Georgia. This
is his first writing since his Mourn
ing Becomes Electra" which the
Guild produced.
The first play to be staged, open
ing the sixteenth subscription season
in october, will be "Ah wilderness, y
described as folk play, and which
takes place shortly after the turn of
the century. 1t will go in rehearsal
in few weeks.
days Without End" the second
play, is called by the author a mod
ern miracle play. 1t is planned to
stage the production in November or
December. Moliere's satirical COM
edy, 1.-THE School For Husbands"
which was planned to open the cur
rent Theatre Guild season, will prob
ably come in later in the year.
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Johnson shifted the subject: Say
you must be one of them Reds"
Never mind what I am You got
yourself to look after"
Slim eyed Windy up and down.
And it looks like you're doing il
pretty well, too. But you and your
scab outfit don't see any of my
money, even if I never get another
ship"
The bos'n scratched his bald head
with the peak of his cap like he was
enjoying the excitement, looked at
his watch, and got up.
zone o'clock. All hands turn to-
Cover up No. 2 hatch"
The crew got up one by one and
went out. Johnson followed the
bos'n. Slim started to pick up his
seabag, figuring it was all over now
But then his Irish" prompted him
to put it down again and stick
around to see what happened.
Up back of the galley, the union"
agent was holding onto the bos'n's
sleeve, telling him something. Slim
felt like going up and chucking the
fink over the railing down No. 4
hatch. He cussed under his breath
and went into the messroom for a
cup of coffee.
Hello Slim, what the hell are you
doing on herel"
well, for the love of Jumping
faced Jesus, if it amt FRITZ"
They shook hands warmly. Ship
mates from the West Coast.
Going to make a trip on here,
Slim?"
Trying to, but I don't think I'll
get on"
whats the matter? They need a
couple of ABS"
Yeah, the mate told me to stand
by alright, but that crunmyfaced
Windy johnson gunlmed UP the works
with the bos'n."
How Gomez"
Slim related what had taken place
in the fo'castle.
Never mind that. You wait till
that guy gets down the gangplank.
The bos'n's been bellyaching all the
last trip because they put fellers on
here that don't know a marlin spike
from a meat chopper Did he see
your discharges yet?"
Slim shook his head. mo, he
didn't ask for them"
Fritz finished wiping the tables.
He was game little German, with
sharp, steel-blue eyes and big teeth.
Slim knew him to be a crank for
cleanliness, who didn't take any CUFF
from anybody.
The Library
The fo'castle was empty when
Slim went back, and this gave him a
chance to look cver tha '70ol- 7half
The usual assortment of midwest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
WE GATHER STRENGTH. Poems
by Herman SpectOr, JoseTh Kaiar,
Edwin Rolfe, S. Funaroff Liberal
Press, Inc.-35 cents.
Reviewed by ALAN CAIwrR

Revolutionary poetry, as Michael
Gold oi'1ts out in
to t. .-c1-let, is ilc1ne ,-5-2cl in
character It is dcdin2ted to the
task of putting into literature the
struggles of the world working
class movement.
But it does not develop with uni
form sire 7th in all countries. Ma
turally it. has attained its most ma
ture form in Soviet Russia and
Germany, where the most highly
developed Communist movements
exist. Yet even in countries like
Japan there is already growing
body of ripened proletarian verse.
In the United States, revolution
airy poetry, as the title and con-
tents of this booklet indicate, is
gathering strength" From its
troubled birth several decades ago
Gin the crude songs of Joe Hill, the
I. w. w. hobo poet and martyr, and
in the rugged free verse OF Arturo
Giovannitti, who was then a mill
tant labor agitatoD, American reyo-
lutionary poetry has stumbled for
ward, passing through its Adde'S
cence during the period of Coolidge
prosperity" and the beginning of
Hooverian depression Today, in
the period when the stability OF
world capitalism has collapsed, our
revolutionary poetry is coming of
age.
One Of the most promising indi-
cations of this growth is this slender
volume Of verse. In it We can trace
the recent development of our revo-
lutionary literature, from the early
poems Of desolation and revolt
dated 1s28-2e) by Spector and
Kalar, to their more mature eff
forts like Timeclock and Worker
Uprooted, which were written sew
eral years later. Spector's Time
clock is an ilnpeccable portrait of
the awhite-collar worker. Kalar's
Worker Uprooted is deeply moving
picture of the unemployed indus
trial worker.
"Now alien, move forIorn, an
uprooted tree,
Feel the pain of hostile eyes
Lighting up no more for me;
The forced silence, the awkward
laugh,
Comrade no more in laughter
and pain.
But it is in the work of the two
younger poets, Edwin Rolfe and S.
Funaroff, that we find the express
sion of ripened, class conscious
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14

and movie junk, and some slobbery
novels of the type donated by the
daughters. of American racketeers to
the seamen. He heaped them up in
a nice pile, then, making sure the
coast was clear, quickly chucked the
printed poison out Of the port hole.
Then he rolled another cigarette and
laughed to himself wen have a
real reading room on here, too, if I
can help it."
About 3 o'clock the deckboy came
back and yelled for everybody to go
up 'midships to sign on. Outside the
saloon, the boS'n looked over the
four stand-bys for a minute. Slim
was the biggest man in the lot. The
bos'n approached him first.
Lets see your discharges"
Slim pulled out a wad of them,
and picked out one off a square rig
ger on which he had made a trip to
Australia.
That's the kind of men I want"
grunted the bos'n with satisfaction.
Got your gear with your"
"Yup."
Alright. You and that other Teller
signs on"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
Music
Metropolitan Opera House
Chorus and Taniiris
At Stadium, This Week

Willem van Hoogstraten's program
this evening at the Stadium will in
elude Relationships Fifth Symphony
Beethoven's "Coriolanus" Overture,
Mozart's Gavotte from "Idomeneo,' .
Pimsleur's Symphonic Ballade," and
Brahms Variations on Theme of
Haydn.
Tuesday and Wednesday the Me-
tropolitan Opera House Chorus, as
sisted by the soloists Alice Kurk jan,
soprano, and Alfredo Gandolfi, bari
tone, will combine with the Philhar-
monic-Symphony Orchestra under
the baton of Hans LANCE in pro-
gram of operate excerpts from "The
Battered Bride Faust" "Pagliacci,"
"Cavalleria Rusticana," Carmen"
Norma" and Boris Godounoff."
On Thursday Van Hoogstraten will
conduct the "Fugue for Violins in
Nine Parts" by Dubensky; Fantasy
on Two Hebrew Folk Tunes and "a
Night in Bagdad" of Boris Lovenson;
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony; We
ber's Overture to "Oberon."
On Friday and Saturday evenings
there will be the last dance program
of the season at which Tamiris and
the Bahama Negro Dancers will join
in program featuring the primitive,
ritualistic origins of the dance which,
born on the East Coast Of Africa,
are preserved in the folk life and
customs OF the Bahamas.
Sundays program will include the
following: Symphony No. ] in B-flat,
Schumann; Brandenburg Concerto
No 3 in G for Strings, Bach; Suite
from Sylvia" Delibes; ia Valse,"
Ravel; Prelude and Finale from
Tristan and Isolde" Wagner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
Theatre Collective to
Produce Three Plays
During Coming Season

THE coming season will witness
L intensive activity in the work.
ers theatre movement and promises
to be one Of the highlights o the
cultural front. The Theatre Collec-
tive, alive and busting, may be
relied upon to continue its efforts
to establish itself as the first
permanent workers theatre in the
country, worthy of the support of
every class conscious worker and
intellectual.
Its plans for the comig season, the
Theatre Collective announces, in
clude the production of three
plays, "Dirt Farmer" bp Paul
Peters,, a satirical musical revue
as yet unnamed and Paul and
Claire Sifton's 1881" The The
atre Collective made its bow to the
public last season. Because of
requests for its continued perform
ance from many labor organiza-
lions it remains in the repertory
of the collective.
Projects for a school of the the
atre, on broad basis, are also
afoot. Courses in Acting, Play
writing, Scenic Design and others
will be given in conjunction with
and as part of those in The Social
Basis of the Theatre, Historical
Materialism, etc. The student will
be prepared for work in the the
atre with correct knowledge of
the needs of the theatre today as
well as the needs OF that vast po-
tential audience, the working
masses, which heretofore has been
neglected.
The Theatre Collective will
shortly call a conference OF mass
organizations at which it's relation
to the movement will be discussed
as well as production plans, the
necessity of mutual cooperation,
etc.
A subscription drive will soon be
launched to enable the Collective
to carry on its work. One may
become subscriber for fifty cents,
emitting him to a rs per cent
reduction on all productions of
season as well as free admission
to the various symposiums, parties,
ETC., which are frequently held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14

Signing On.

"VOU amt afraid of getting your
hands warm, are you?" The
mate, a cocky Yankee named Calder,
looked the A. B. over. The seaman
grinned and held his hands out,
palms out. Big, horny hands, cal
loused and SCARED from years of
sea -going.
alright, go back aft and tell the
bos'n l told you to stand by" The
mate turned and went back into the
saloon
= Slim got out onto the deck, and
rolled a cigarette The ship was a
4,o00-ton well decker, Hog Island
built, IL or 10 knots. This type had
been turned out by the dozen by the
Shipping Board during the war, and
Slim knew them like his own pocket.
No. 3 hold was loading rubber tires
for Stockholm. A couple more sings
and she'd be ready for the hatch
covers. Two men in dungarees came
over to Slim. Competition. "Know
where the mate is?" Slim pointed
his thumb over his shoulder, and
went aft to hunt up the bos'n. He
had been on the beach five months
already, and was itching to get a
ship. .:s2A4 ~
In the Focastle.
In the focastle, about dozen men
were sitting around. Three or four
among them we're standbys. A hulk
of salt, elbows on his knees, with
sea-boots on, sat resting on the end
of the bench. He had a square, good
natured face. grizzly and sea- beaten,
and was chewing Copenhagen snuff,
Slim took him for the Dutch bos'n.
You the bos'n?" =.
We'll, what do you. want?"
Mate told me to stand by"
There's three hands standing by
already. Tell the mate he's crazy
Ten minutes to one. Three o'clock
the. commissioner was coming to sign
the. crew on. Pretty soon a white
coilar-and-t.e gent stepped into the
fo'castle. Hello fellersl" Slim rec
ognized Windy johnson, delegate of
the international Seamens Union.
He pulled out wad Of papers. Lets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
By MICHAEL GOLD

Without a doubt, the Labor De-
fender, organ of the International
Labor Defense, is the most effective
magazine in the revolutionary move
ment of this country.
1t is the nearest thing to a mass
journal that has been developed, cor
responding to the famous AIz ma
gazine of the German movement.
The Labor Defender, to those who
have not yet read it, may be de-
scribed as journal which does its
propaganda through the use of short,
pithy articles and many photographs.
The pictures are handled sxillfully,
with telling captions and dramatic
contrasts. They are as striking as
good cartoons, and do Job that
words cannot rival.
Is Credit to LID.
The current issue (August) marks
the 9th year Of the existence Of the
Labor Defender. Here is a 24-page
magazine, printed on a good stock of
paper, with some fifty interesting
photos of the revolutionary move
ment, reproduced by modern roto-
grayure process. The whole job is
thoroughly professional, and credit
to its editors and organization.
1t sells for nickel, a price within
every workers reach. This low price
is also an achievement, for 1t means
mass distribution.
The August issue is given over to
the anti-war fight, and to such la
Dor struggles as the Sacco-V anzetti,
Scottsboro and Tom Mooney cases.
The workers are stirred to action on
the great events now changing the
world.
Almost from its beginning, the La
Dor Defender found its true func-
ton in the labor movement, and did
its job with professional pride and
competence. The journalism Of the
American revolutionary movement
has suffered generally from confu-
sion, sloppy workmanship amateur
ish experimentation and lack Of in
telligent direction.
For years one has seen fitful ges-
lures made toward an improved liter
allure, but with unsatisfactory re-
suits. I have attended scores of
these committee meetings. Resull:
Most of our papers look today as
they have always, like the products
of the same sausage machine. They
have no color, no personality, no
sparkle of life. One has to go to the
Soviet Union to see what a rich vari-
ETY. of drama, hunor, struggle and
human interest the journalism Of the
revolution can be. And it is not only
because the workers have the re-
sources there, but it is because they
have acquired living, free and flex-
ible attitude toward labor journal
ism.
Popular and Effective
Through all these years the Labor
Defender has pursued its own path,
ever interesting, simple, realistic and
popular Its only rival for func-
tional effectiveness in our moment,
I should say is the New Pioneer,
another splendid job of editing.
These two journals are still cap
able of Improvement; they still con-
tain too many politically -sophistic-
ated phrases But in the main, the
Labor Defender and the New Pioneer
are the best papers we have that
can be given to worker as an in
PRODUCTION to the movement. He will
not need a college degree, a die
tionary, thesaurus, and a set Of
burglars tools in order to jimmy any
oommon-sense meaning out of what
he reads
Let US support the Labor Defender
and give it the mass circulation it
desarYeSl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
Five Year Plan" Playing
At Park. ,R0U Theatre

The FYe-Year Plan: Russia's Re-
making" an Ankino film, will be
shown today at the Park Row The
atre, 223 Park Row. The film is a
telling portrayal of the economic and
cultural progress being effected I'M
der the system Of socialist state plan
ming. It shows the development of
industry where many of the largest
Giants in Europe are being built and
modern industrialized nation being
levin out of one of the most back
ward agrarian lands in Europe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
"JelUs Without Luck" NelD
Anikin0 Film in September

Worldkino Corporation, now rel
easing THE Return of Nathan Beck
err" the first all-Yiddish talking pict-
ure made in Soviet Russia, has OBJ
tanned from the Amkino Corporation
the American and Canadian rights
to Jews Without Luck" a sound
film based on novel by Sholom Ale
ichem, the noted Jewish writer of
humorous fiction. The picture is the
second Yiddish film produced in Sow
let Russia. Jews Without Luck"
stars ssx-year old boy, who is
knos in Soyic'land as the Russian
JewA "SdpNt Cooper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
Student Expelled in Strike
Answers S. P. Leaders Boast
About an Arkansas Utopia
Commonwealth "Non-Factional Labor School"
Fired All Radical Students Last December

Commonwealth College, located
at Mena, Arkansas, was the scene
Of a student strike last December.
Today the school is being glori-
fed by leaders Of the Socialist
Party. Nathan Fine, teaching
there during the summer session,
wrote an enthusiastic article on
the school in the New Leader of
July Is. In the accompanying
article, a student who was there
during the strike gives an account
of the school and its policies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
"Yeomen of the Guard"
Opens at Majestic Tonight

Milton Aborn will present his sec
ond Gilbert and Sullivan operetta
The Yeomen of the Guard" at the
Majestic Theatre this evening. The
cast is headed by Roy Chopper Her
bert Waterous, Frank Moulan, Vivian
Hart, Vera Ross and William Dan
forth
The Chalk Circle Chinese fan
tasy by Klabund tr7rsls'.t by /. S.
hltcner, WI CRY te~, = 1t at
.ne riayinlllefs Z. '-rs West
48th .resa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
BY GEORGE WRIGHT

COMMONWEALTH EGE,
v which Nathan Fine, writing in
a recent issue of the New Leader,
took occasion to glorlfy as zone of
the most interesting experiments
in the whole field of American Ia
Dor education" is known to class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14
WHAT'S on,
NOTICE FROM EDITORS :

NOTICE FROM EDITORS:
All announcements intended for
the "Whats On" column must be
in the office Of the Daily Worker
before IL o'clock noon the day
preceding publication.
WORKERS LAB. THEATRE MEM
BERS-Past and present, you are
invited to reunion party and en-
tertainment at the Kavkaz Res
taurant, 312 E. 14th ST., N. Y. c.,
on Friday, August Is, at 8 D. m.
Help improve the DAILY Worker"
ssid in your suggestions md criticism,
Le rs know what thu workers in
yoa shcp think about c., raaily."