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Evening star., 1933-08-17

BY the Associated Press.
Latest tables showing 19-year-olds
topped the lists of arrests for serious
offenses in the first six months of
1888 brought suggested solutions to-
day from a number of persons espe-
cially alive to the problem.
The Justice Departments report
showed that from January to June it
examined 159,493 finger-print records
of arrests individuals aged 19 out
numbered all others.
The 19-year-olds exceeded 18-year-
olds by only 10 per cent in total ar
rests, but their offenses were graver
Age 19 exceeded age 18 by IA per cent
in homicide, 81 per cent in carrying
weapons, "a per cent in assault and
27 per cent in robbery.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's analy-
sis was that youthful crime has risen
largely because the adventures of GRIM
inai life have been localized.
The right kind of education has to
come back!' was her solution.
The youthful crime trend is not
new 1t has been going on for years.
Many things have contributed. Partly
it's love Of adventure. not turned to
Evening star., 1933-08-17
MED|ATORS SEEK
TO SETTLE STRIKES
WhaIen Hopes for Truce in
Garment Industry-Packers
in West Raise Pay.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Mediators, some of them backed by
the N R. A., sought today to settle
strikes in such widely differing occu-
pations as needle work and fruit pick
ing.
A major industrial conflict tore the
Eastern garment business at the height
of its peak season Union leaders an
nounced that 10000 dressmakers in
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and
PENNSYLVANIA answered a strike call
yesterday in fight against ''sweatshor
conditions"
Grover A. Whalen, N. r. A. chief fol
New York, was authorized to mediate
and called a meeting for noon today
He hoped for at least temporary set
tlement pending adoption of code fol-
the industry.
Fruit Wages Increased.
Strikes in several fruit and vegetable
areas of the Pacific Coast occupied
the attention of authorities seeking nor
malcy The California Packing Corpora
ton announced wages would be in
creased from 1712 to Is cents an hour
Strikers at corporation ranches at At
water and Tuttle, Calf, had demanded
80 cents
In Philadelphia more than 1000 hos
iery workers paraded yesterday at the
Cambria Hosiery Mills. where a strike
is in progress, and later announced that
the mill had ceased operations.
Charges of violence came from scat
tered localities Two sticks Of dynamite
were hurled. police saio, at the home
of a Philadelphia cleaning and dyeine
plant owner, whose employees have beer
on strike. In New York, several mer
pushed into a dress firm, turned of
electric power and are said to havs
cuffed the owner.
Industry Paralyzed.
The International Ladies Garment
Workers Union announced that tht
dressmakers strike had paralyZed the
industry in the area centering arounc
New York The union described the
wa,kout as "one of the greatest or
record in the history of the industry"
The National Dress Manufacturers
Association, jobbers' organization, has
Continued on Page 2. Column 1)
Evening star., 1933-08-17
BROOKLYN MANAGER
ANDLOPEZSUSPENDED
Carey Fined $50 Also for Run-in
With Umpire in Game With
Pittsburgh.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 17.-Manager
Max Carey and Catcher Al Lopez of
the Brooklyn Dodgers today were sus-
pended for three days by President
John Heydler of the National Base
Ball League for their run-in with Um-
pire Ted McGrew IN the second game
of the double-header with the Pitts
burgh Pirates at Ebbets Field yester-
day. Carey also was fined $50
In announcing the suspension, Heyd-
Ter said the fine was imposed because
Carey pushed McGrew.
The incident occurred when McGrew
called Floyd Vaughan, Pirate short
stop, safe at home, when Lopez thought
he had tagged him. The Brooklyn
catcher rushed at the umpire, throwing
his mask and glove in the air, and
Carey joined him. Both were banished
from the game.
Evening star., 1933-08-17

earnings continued to increase on the
same average of that from March to
July, industrial wage earnings would
average approximately $500, 100000 fol-
the 12-month period ending March /
1894.
She said $50 manufacturing establish
ments in SO industries reported in
creases in wage rates during the period
of from June is to July Is, affecting
202,371 workers, and averaging 1O.7 pei
cent. These increases represent volun-
tary raises in practically all instances
as the National Recovery Administra-
ton codes did not become effective
until after July IS, she pointed out
The number Of establishments report
ing wage decreases continued to de-
cline, she said, only 1924 workers be-
ing affected in the 38 establishments
reporting wage cuts.
The cabinet official said the increase
of 7.9 per cent in pay roll earnings. as
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
Welsh Strike End Seen.

SWANSEA, Wales. August II R1.-
Hope that tomorrow would bring an end
to the Welsh anthracite miners strike
was seen today when union delegates
meeting decided to recommend negotia-
tions for a settlement with the owners.
The strike has been in progress since
Monday.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
ESCAPES ASSASSIN
Former Bulgarian Leader Not Hurt
by Two Bombs.

SOFIA. Bulgaria, August II P)-
An unsuccessful attempt was made to-
day to assassinate Alexander Tzankoft,
former president of the Council OF Dep
uties and originator of the coup detat
which overthrew the regime OF Pre-
mier Alexander Stambouliski in 1928.
Tzankoff, who is spending vacation
In Southern Bulgaria, was not hurt by
two bombs thrown at him. One OF his
bodyguards was injured.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
SWASTIKA CAUSES RIOT
Crowd Mills About Emblem Dis
| played on Canadian Hill.

played on Canadian Hill.
TORONTO. August II (P.-After a
large sWastika had been displayed on
the side of a hill here last night a
crowd estimated at 10000 milled about
Willowvale Park and several hundred
youths clashed.
Order was restored by police reserves,
but only after a number had been in
jured, not seriously.
Evening star., 1933-08-17

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Evening star., 1933-08-17

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
THE NEW FILM
R.K.O.'s Contribution to the
Worst Pictures of the Year

"Deluge," a screen drama, based on
the novel of the same name by S.
Fowler Wright; directed by Felix E.
F'eist; an RKO Radio Picture, at the
Rialto, with the following cast Peggy
Shannon, Sidney Blackmer, Lois VIII
son, Matt Moore, and Fred Kohler.
%
The Rialto Theatre is going in for
meteorology the science of the
weather. Last week is was Thunder
Over Mexico" and this week it is a
"Deluge" over the United States.
This is a thoroughly bad job: direc-
ton, acting, idea, dialogue, trick
photography, and papier-mache sky
scrapers. The first part of the pic
ture shows New York and the rest
of these United States destroyed by
huge tidal wave. A great deal Of
celluloid is taken up at an attempt
to show with detail the destruction
of New-York. Hundreds Of paper sky
scrapers which were made for King
Kong" are scrapped like so many doll
houses by huge out-of-focus waves.
The second part has nothing to do
with the first.
A man, a beautiful and extraordin-
airy swimmer, and a villain. The man
fights for the swimmer and so does
the villain. The man and the swim
mer are saved from the clutches of
the villain by some other survivors
of the storm. They are brought to
a village. Here the man meets his
wife and kiddies whom he thought
had persisted in the storm. The re-
suit is the inevitable triangle which
ends happily For our swimmer grace
fully swims out of the film. There is
long shot Of the water and the final
fadeout, with dramatic music.
This is RKO's contribution to the
worst pictures of the year.
IRVING LERNER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
BY ALAN CALMER.

These two periodicals indicate what
is happening to the little magazines
in America. Until very recently, little
magazines were usually issued by
small groups of minor but sincere
writer's who, 'diSillusioned with bour-
geois society, tried to hide from it In
the depths of bohemianiSm or in the
heights of the ivory tower. Today,
with the powerful impact of social
forces, number of these writers are
being driven out into the streets and
are turning to confront the social
problems from which they once fled.
Thus we find many of the new little
magazines identifying themselves COM
pletely with the revolutionary pro-
letariat, or at least devoting part of
their contents to this vital subject.
The literary historian of the future
will have to trace the evolution of
the little magazine movement in this
country from arty periodicals, to con-
fused transition magazines, to pub
locations like "The Anvil ("Stories
for Workers0 and 'BIast" pro
letarian Short Stories') ito more
mature revolutionary magazines.
For it must be admitted that the
contents of these slender collections
are far from measuring up to even
the present level of our revolutionary
literature. OF all the stories In this
issue of "The Anvil for example,
only two-"The Doctor" by Edwin
Seaver, and 1.-THE Machine" by Louis
~ Fof,-1xr ary,,yAatat,f 4.
literary point of view, although there
is little to distinguish them from the
work of many bourgeois fictionists
One other story, "Open HEARTH" by
John May, reveals an understanding
| of the inside Of steel mill and a
flare for description, but is ruined by
a number of aesthetic mistakes. 1t is
difficult to understand how the editor
of 1.-THE Anvil" Jack Conroy-who
has written some of the best revo-
| lutionary short stories in America -
could print most of the other stories
in their present form in a little maya
zine, which is generally symbol of
scrupulous literary writing and re-
writing.
The verse is also poor One single
exception, which compensates for
the others, Is the two-page poem,
For Defense" by Vladimir Pillin, a
remarkably successful attempt at
weaving the slogans for the defense
of the Soviet Union into an artistic
pattern, while still retaining simple,
instructive message that the most
intellectually backward person can
understand.
In addition, there is good sketch
of "Stchekino, Lower Moscow Coal
Basin" by the American revolutionary
writer and miner, Ed Falkowski, who,
| together with q number Of other
talented American prose writer's are
creating a sort Of American revolu-
tionary emigre literature IN Soviet
Russia.
The short stories in BLAST" are
in the main, better written. But
most Of them seem to be the work OF
authors who give the impression Of
being remote and aloof from actual
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
M U SIC
Chicago Opera To Present
Wdgnerian Operas

Beginning this Sunday afternoon,
the Chicago Opera Company at the
Hippodrome, will present a special
series of Wagnerian operas, four in
number, as follows: Sunday, Oct. IS,
"Lohengrin" Sunday, Oct. %, Tam
hauser'; Sunday, Oct. 20, "Valkyrie";;
Sunday, Nov IL, Tristan and Isolde.
The Chicago Opera Company also
announces a special matinee per-
Torrance of Carmen" on Columbus
Day, Thursday, with Bernardo De
Muro, tenor, and Bruna Castagna,
in the title part.
The Gordon String Quartet will
open the Chamber Music Course of
the Peoples Symphony Concerts this
Friday evening, at the Washington
Irving High School, presenting a
program of Beethoven, Mozart and
Rietti-Rossi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Stage and Screen
"Jodn of Arc" and "YOutb
Demonstration in Leningrdd"
at Acme Theatre Thursday


Carl Dreyers screen classic, THE
Passion of Joan of Arc" in new
form, with narrative dialogue in
English and musical interpreta ion,
will open for a limited engagement
at the Acme Theatre, 18th 81. and
Union Square, tomorrow.
Adapted from Joseph Delteil's book,
Jeanne Dare" which created a
literary sensation in France and
America and which was awarded the
Prix Femina Vie Honoreuse, the
highest award given to biographical
novel, 1.-The Passion of Joan of Arc"
deals with the last hours of Joan's
turbulent life-her Imprisonment in
1929 at Rouen, her delusive trial, con-
domination and execution at the
stake.
Mile. Falconetti, of the Coincide
Franchise, is seen as Joan. The
judges are also of the Coincide Fran
caise, one of the foremost acting
groups of Europe. Director Dreyer
has captured in this film the spirit
of the Medieval ages to powerful
degree, with monks, mystic, ignorant
and cruel. The film was voted by
the National Board Of Review as an
Exceptional Photoplay" and "One Of
the -Four Greatest Films of All Time I"
AS a special added attraction, the
Acme will present Soviet Youth in
Demonstration in Leningrad" This
is its first showing in America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11

participation in the revolutionary
movement itself. One possible excep-
ton is 'Pipe Lines: Bayonne," by P.
T. Turner, the musings of Jailed
unemployed leader. Perhaps the best
story Is by the editor, Fred r. Miller
His Happy New Year, is an init
mate picture Of down-and-out
family.
What one looks for and fails to find
in "Blast" are stories revealing the
same familiarity with the inside Of
the revolutionary movement as Mil
ler's sketch of an unemployed couple.
These are the kind of stories that
abound in Japanese proletarian
literature, for instance-close- ups of
militant strikes and party work.
There is such material crying for ex-
preston in America-materia to be
found in meetings, demonstrations,
party gatherings, strikes. Our young
men Of letters must inmerse them
selves in these activities, must be-
come an intrinsic part of the Com
munist movement, If they are to de-
velop into mature proletarian authors,
II their work is really to become
weapon In the class struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11

Within the last two or three years
the problem of the relations of the
so-called intellectualS to the radical
labor movement has been widely dis
cussed. Many people. in discussing
the problem, forget that it is not a
new one; twenty years ago, gust as
today, a large proportion of the more
vigorous writers and artists were, at
least in their own minds, well over
on the left. Floyd Dell was one of
them, and in Homecoming" he tells
us part of the story of what hap
pened to him and good many others.
The story will serve to enlighten the
younger generation of left-wing intel
lectuals, and it may help workers to
understand some things that have
mystified and irritated them.
Floyd Dell was born in the Middle
West. His father was a petty bour-
geois who was suddenly dumped into
the ranks Of the proletariat, and Dell
grew up in an atmosphere of down.
right poverty and ostentatious res
probability. He didn't belong much Of
anywhere, and he came to hate the
traditions of the middle class to
which he was supposed to belong. His
revolt was vague, but he struck out
against the three great dogn1as of the
bourgeoisie: the Sanctity Of marriage,
the necessity of church attendance,
and the inevitability Of a business
career. Fortunately for him, this per-
sonal revolt became tied up with So
cialism, and he gained historical per-
Spective and began to see little way
beyond the bounds of his romantic
ego.
But Dell wanted to be writer,
and he didn't see how he could be a
Socialist writer. Socialist propa-
ganda," he says, Offered to my tall
ents as worthy task only a kind of
poetry which could not write and a
kind of fiction which, though vastly
admired it in Upton Sinclair and
Frank Norris, I did not really want
to write" In other words, his So
ciaism had nothing to do with the
elements of experience, the interests,
and the imaginative processes out of
which his poems and short stories
grew. This is not to accuse Dell Of
insincerity. So far as he was a So
cialist, he was sincere; but only 10 per
cent of him, so to speak, was Social
list. The other 80 per cent was inter-
ested in literary success and in sex.
In 1913 he went to Greenwich vii
lage, where dozens of other writer's
were taking their Socialism and their
sex in about the same proportions
as he. Somehow the intellectuals had
to settle the rights and wrongs of
sleeping arrangements before they
could turn their attention to other
problems. They devoted their nights
to breaking the seventh command
ment and their days to justifying, in
prose and poetry, the way they had
spent their nights, The renaissance
of 1913-25 was largely based on this
need for justification. And all this
was somehow bound up with the over
throw of capitalism and the estab-
lishment Of Socialism. The Masses,
says Dell, stood for fun, truth, beau
ty, realism, freedom, peace, feminisnl,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Try to Railroad Framed Negro
!. Worker to Insane Asylum

-eRUSTBURG, Va, Oct. l02The
court before which Reginald Left
witch, Negro farm laborer framed on
charges of murder, is being tried, has
ordered that Leftwitch be sent to a
mental institute to be examined
This move is seen as preparation
either for railroading Leftwftch { to
an insane asylum for life, or for a
continuation of the lynch fra1e-up
through court assumption of his guilt
and railroading through death SEN
tenee on the basis Of q sanity report.
The representatives Of the LID.
who are defending Leftwitch in the
court are waging a preliminary fight
to demand the inclusion Of Negroes
on the trial jury and are exposing
the brutal conditions Of peonage in
the South, rpS
o.uTne town Of Rustblirg, where the
trial is being held, Is swarming with
deputies armed with rifles and, ma
chine guns. Not even the barest pre-
tense Of protecting the lives Of the
victim or his representatives has been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
A Retired Literary Radical:
Floyd Dell's Autobiography

revolution" 1t did stand for revolu-
ton, and a good deal more reso-
lutely than many more official organs
Of Socialism. 1t stood for peace eff
fectively enough to bring its editors
into court with the threat of 20-year
sentences over their heads. And yet
one gets the impression, which is
probably quite accurate, that most of
the time Dell was thinking of one
or another Of the young women who,
in the most discreet nameleSsness,
parade through the pages Of the book.
After the war Dell, according to
his own account, grew up. First Of
all, he was psycho-analyzed and dis
covered he had a -fixation.
Secondly, he wrote a book that de-
scribed, in romanticized form, his
own experiences, and was popular be-
cause many Americans had had or
were having the same experiences.
And finally he got married, and
settled down, and had child. This
is the climax; this is what the book
is all about; this is his Homecoming!
What about his Socialism, Oh, he
still believes in the revolution and
praises Soviet Russia, but he wants
to refresh his restless mind by CON
facts with the ageless and timeless
aspects of nature"
There is one thing about it: Dell
neither takes a superior attitude to-
wards the quasi-radicalisim of his
past, as some of his contemporaries
do, nor attempts to set forth his par
ticular brand of treachery as the lat
est, simon-pure brand Of Marxism, as
other contemporaries have done, At
least so far as this book is concerned.
he seems to recognize pretty clearly
what he is and why. He offers no
excuses, and he does not need to-, for
his whole story is his only and best
excuse. American intellectual life had
to go through the Masses stage. but
now it is over and done with. There
is no place and no excuse for Floyd
Dells in the revolutionary movement
today. The revolution has need of
intellectuals, but not of moon-calves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
w or kers' Dramatic
Group to Perform at
New School Soon

A gala performance of workers
dramatic groups is scheduled for
Oct. %, at the New School for Social
Research, 66 West 18th st.
On this evening a series of short
plays will be presented by five or
six typical workers professional
dramatic groups, and the program
will be supplemented with represen-
tative dances by members of the
workers Dance League. The pro-
gram is under the auspices of the
League of Workers Theatres of the
U. S. A.. n
The performance will be titled
"The Theatre of Action on Parade, :"
and will signify the development Of
the workers theatre movement 10 a
higher level. The early so-called
"agit-prop" style is rapidly giving
way to short theatrical form of real
artistic value, which, while preserv-
ing the fundamental yigor, clarity
and militancy Of the earlier period,
ties les TO the awakening cc~ 3cious-
ness Of the worker artist that propa-
ganda must be artistic, and that the
cultural demands of the worker-spec-
tator must also be satisfied.
Tickets on sale at the Workers
Bookshop, so East 18th Street, New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Soviet Theatre Thirty Years
Ahead OF Any Other
Country, Says Staiitngs

1.-THE Soviet Theatre is Is to 30
years ahead Of the theatre of any
other country" stated Laurence
Stallings noted playwright and CO.
author of what Price Glory?" in a
recent interview in Moscow. He also
remarked that his chief interest dur
ing his stay in Moscow was the
theatre.
Il was thrilled by my first sight of
the Soviet audience OF workers." he
said. 'Tt is remarkable to one COM
ing from capitalist country to see
workers thronging to the ballet, the
opera and the theatre"
At the Bolshoi Theatre, he declared,
he noted rather different tone to
the audience. The overwhelming ma
jority of the workers in the audiences
amazed him. He commented also on
the fine appointments of the thea
tres, particularly the Cork Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
The Inheritance

O. man bowed by laborous years,
Cast off with empty and broken hands,
With nothing to show for life of toll,
No prospect of peace, no vision of rest
Out of the grave for your tired bones:
Fear not no drop of your sweat is lost,
The sinews of struggle have taken them all.
Fear not; each pulse of your terrible hate
Beats in the hearts of us younger men.
How mighty for triumph your Children are
Who behind us for all our Inheritance have
The strength of your empty and broken hands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Two Poems by Martin R,sssak-
Harsh Prelude

No sane and gentle harmony in us,
All rough with battle and a-sweat with toll!
We are attuned to fighting turbulence
Which gathers our cries Of anger and OF pain
And every rattle of our chains
Into manifesto shouting loud
That Instruction is the Highest Art
Strike harder, comrades, bring more iron, more hre
Clang out the fighting discord of our songs,
Hammer on STEEL steam-shove on rafting earth,
Shrill proclamation of machine and forget
For battle is rough and noisy thing:
Harsh prelude of the music that is to be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Thursday
RussEKs FIGHTS COMMUNISM

NEW YORK.-Russeks on Fifth
Ave, told the workers that no one
holding Communist views would be
tolerated. I'VE want no Communism
in this store, we want 100 per cent
Americanism," was approximately
what he said. He meant, of course,
abject and absolute submission to
their slave conditions. He pointed to
the example of a worker who was
fired solely for that reason.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-11
Daily Theatre VIII Present
Wilma Bunky In "The Rebel

The Daily Theatre, fremont Ave,
near Southern Boulevard, Bronx, an
nounees the return of Wilma Banky
to the screen in 1.-THE Rebel" which
will be shown on its screen tomor-
row and Friday.