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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
Mooney Council
of Action Scores
Boycott of Film

NEW YORK.--The National Tom
Mooney Council of Action has is
sued a singing indictment of motion
picture houses in the west for their
failure to show the sensational film,
'The Strange Case of Tom Mooney"
thus flouting the hundreds of trade
unions which have asked that the
picture be shown.
There has been a boycott of the
Mooney film in many sections of the
country, especially in the west, &C
cording to reports made to us by the
distributors" the council statement
said.
1.-The distributors explain that there
is bankers boycott on the film be-
cause it bares the frameup against
Tom Mooney so effectively. We have
answered that there are a lot more
union workers than bankers and that
the theatres which prefer bankers to
workers will find themselves with only
bankers as patrons. We know by the
letters that pour into our office that
the labor movement Of the country
is aroused and wants to see the film.
1.-THE Strange Case of Tom Mooney
has made a sensation In the east,
where it has been shown to some
two million people. 1t is a short pic
ture, two reels, but tells its gripping
story so graphically that it leaves
an audience gasping. In the sense
that it records pictorially the facts
of this world-famous case, it is prop
uganda; but It is stranger, more dra-
matte and more appealing than 80
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WHAT'S ON
Wednesday

JOHN REED SCHOOL OF ART-Second Of
series Of illustrated lectures on "a
MARKHAM History OF Art" by Louis Lozowick
at 4so Sixth Avenue, at, s:15 PM Admis-
sion 35c.
REHEARSAL OF DAILY WORKER
CHORUS at IS E. 18th St, 5th floor, at 8
PM. All invited.
IMPORTANT MEMBERSHIP MEETING Of
LID. Clara zetkin Branch at Labor Tenn
pie, 243 e. saith St., at $40 PM.
CLARTE-F2ENCH WORKERS CLUB will
hold lecture In French at 304 w S8th ST.,
at 8:30 PM.
ALL RED FRONT BANNER MEMBERS
report at General Headquarters, g5 Avenue
B, at PM, for the Banquet Engagement
in Newark
Thursday
ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE given by
the Domestic workers Union at Estonian
workers Home, 20 West li5th ST., at $50
PM. Good music, refreshments. Admission
CSC at door; 15c in advance.
SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF
Film Photo League, 1l6 Lexington Ave, at
$3.50 PM. All members urged to attend this
important session.
LOS ANGELES: Workers Film and Photo
League will present an evening Of Workers
Films on Sunday, Nov. 18th, at 8 PM, at
54S South Los Angeles Street.
OPENING OF LABOR UNITY HALL on
November 10th will be celebrated with En-
tertainment and Dance.
PORT CHESTER, N. z: Celebration Of
10th Anniversary at Finnish Workers Club
% North Water Street, on Nov. 18th.
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M u S C
Philharmonic Orchestra to
ReUiUe Strauss elizabeth"

On Thursday evening and Friday
afternoon at Carnegie Hall, Bruno
Walter will revive Richard Strauss
tone poem, Macbeth" Other num-
bers on the program include MOI
arts Symphony in G major ("Jupi-
ter') and Tchaikovsky's Symphony
No. in B minor. The Pathetic"
will be played in commemoration Of
the 40th anniversary of the compos-
er's death.
Next Sunday the Philharmonic will
present an -Tchaikovsky program
including Francesca da Rimini,
the letter scene from the opera Ell
gen Onegin" and Symphony No. in
E minor Crete Stueckgold, soprano,
will be the Soloist.
Felix Salmond, cellist, will appear
at the Peoples Symphony concert on
Saturday night at the Washington
Irving High School, presenting pro-
gram of Beethoven, Cesar Franck,
Faure and Granados.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
PrOIetarian Symphony
Orchestra Plans First
Rehearsal on Saturday

NEW YORK.-Tne first rehearsal
of the Proletarian Symphony Or
chestra organized by the Youth Sec
ton of the International Workers
Order will be held on Saturday, Nov.
II, at pm, at the Harlem Center
of the I. w. O., AIS Lenox Ave, COR
ner w. 131st st. This orchestra is
under the direction of Irving r.
FOREMAN, well-known pianist and
music director.
All workers and students are in
vited to join the orchestra. All those
DESTROYS of joining the Symphony
Orchestra should bring their instru-
mentS and music stands. Non-men-
bers Of the International Workers
Order, youth and adult musicians,
are all requested to attend the first
rehearsal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
PEACE TIME SOLDIER

WE we're strung along the life line,
w cynically watching the new batch
Of boots coming aboard. Green from
the farms, mines, and factories. More
suckers. Top lined them up and called
the roll:
williams, Paresti, Salesman,
Kane"
Eyes, SIR
We laughed. This boot was extra
green.
"Kane!"
eyes, sir"
"Cut that sir out. The only ones
you sir in this mans outfit wear
bars on their shoulders"
Eyes, sir"
Eyes what"
| "Yes-yeS-why yes
Top was sore. He turned around DO
us.
"All right--When these men 90
below want you all to go with them,
find them locker and show 'em how
to fix it up"
singled Kane out. There was an
air Of helplessneSs about him that
didn't seem to fit with his giant
frame. Nor could I fathoin the empty
look on a face possessed of such
earth-like strength. I found locker.
Come on, Kane, grab your sea bag.
Here, dump it on the deck. Put your
civieS on the left, shirts on the right"
right"
We worked silently.
What did you do before you
joined?"
What d'ya mean2"
"Work-what kind of work."
"Oh Farmin' mostly"
What the hell made you join2"
He was silent for while. Gazing
at his hands.
We'll, 1t got tough back home I
wasn't much good around. What with
four younger brothers, an they do a
mans job, an three sisters, an any
way always had hankerin' to see
this blamed old world. I got picture
| of my ma and pa and the rest of us
kinds. Want to sc it?"
lie fished around. His answer to my
III question had a hideous monotony
that I'd heard too often. Invariably
it was the same. Well, things got too
tough-and Immediately the same fu-
tile attempt to hide behind veil of
romance. always had hankerin' to
see the world
We saw world. A real world
Norfolk with its diseased prostitutes
-Pershing So, Boston Common, Rit-
tenhouse So, traditional hunting
ground for uueers-malaria In Mica
ragua-brawls with linevs in Shang-
hai-Tin Can Alley in Honolulu
Kane had found the picture. I
LOOKED it over In front Of worn.
broken shack stood family group A
| tattsred wisp Of woman next to a
bent old man. surrounded by EIGHT
of the hungriest looking kids I ever
saw. Kane must have seen some
thing on nv face.
ma and Pa look kind Of heckled
but they're good people" I didn't
saw ANYTHING
Ship's routine went along as usual
Gunnerv drills, abandon shin drills,
quarters. irspections, landing forces,
-drills. drills. drills-
One day right after mail call was
! sounded, Kane came over to me.
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Stage and Screen
Musical Version of Negro
Play, "Porgy" to be Pre-
scented by Guild

The Theatre Guild, according to
an announcement sent out yesterday
will present a musical version OF
"Porgy," the Negro play by Duboss
ana Dorothy Hayward, which the
Guild presented here in October
1927. George Gershwin will provide
the score, Dubose Hayward the lib
retto and Ira Gershwin and Hay
ward the lyrics. "Porgy'' had run
here of almost five hundred per-
formances and more than three hun
bred on tour. No date has been set
as yet for the production.
Lynn Starlings comedy, "The First
Apple" in which Conrad Maggie and
Irene Purcell are starred, will open
In New Haven on Nov. 10 and will
play in Philadelphia for two weeks
before coming TO New York.
Growing Pains" new comedy by
Aurenia Rouveral, is now in rehear-
sal. The cast is headed by Junior
Durkin, Edith King, Jean Rouverol,
Johnny Downs and Joan Wheeler.
Pola Neg-i plays the leading role
in "A Trip to Pressburg," a new play
by Leo Perutz, which opened in
Pittsburgh on Monday. Following its
run in Washington and Boston, the
attraction will come to New York.
John McManus will be musical
director of the new "Ziegfeld Fol-
lies" which win be presented on
Broadway the latter part of this
month.
Maurice -Shcwartz's dramatization
Of Lion Feuchtwanger's "Josephus
will be the second offering of the
Yiddish Art Theatre at their play
house on Second Ave. "The Wise
Men of Chelm" is now playing from
Friday to Sunday and 'Yoshe Kalb,"
last seasons success, Is given during
the week.
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A Story

but his picture. I kept that.
A COUPLE of months went by. We
n pulled into Norfolk to enter dry
dock. We were more or less happy.
What with leave coming up, no
damned drills, better food and on the
whole, a pleasanter life.
| I was doing an 8 to u gangWay
watch one morning when a police
car pulled up. A cop got out.
rs this the US.S. -, sentry?"
Yeah
He turned around and shouted,
ok, Bill Another con rot o''t,
holding on to a ragged individual. AS
they got close to come a0oa.I !
gasped 1t was Kane. His clothes were
shot to hell, and he looked as if he
hadn't eaten for a month. AS he
walked by me, he gave me a sickly
smile AS soon as I was relieved,
ate my chow and went to see him.
Luckily the master Of arms was out
ard Ricky had the brig watch.
Let me speak to Kane a few min
utes, will you, Rick?"
/
I went in. He was sad looking. We
shook hands, There was a heavy 81
lence All we could hear was Rick
pacing up and down. finally broke
the ice.
How do you feel, Kane?"
OK, 1 guess"
"How's things back home"
st don't know"
'You don't know? Didn't you see
your folks at all"
mo. When I went over the hill I
was afraid the cops would be after
me if I went home. I wrote my sis
ter where I was at, and sure enough
she told me to stay away. They'd
been lookin' for me-"
But have you been doing nothing
all this time, Kane?"
o-nothin'-unless you call goin'
hungry nothin', bein cold nothin'-
ridin' the rods from town to town
! loolSin' for a Stinkin' job, hidin' in
every lousy hole in creation for fear
O. being pinched, avoidin' people, ex-
cept my kind and eye'in the likes of
me suspicious-like. I'll get a general
and they'll send me up for Is months.
Well, let 'em. I'll at least eat and
sleep. And when I get out"
1t didn't take long. He was given
! a general court martial and read off
before the crew. He got 10 months at
Portsmouth. An armed guard took
him away one day and that was the
last I ever saw Of him. In due time I
was discharged from the Marine
Corps. What little money had didn't
last long. Sixth Ave. saw my face
often.
ONE day walked over to the IL
brary was tired of tramping in
search of work. stopped to listen
to a group arguing heatedly Talk
talk-I walked away and sat down
On stone bench. Near me was a
newspaper I picked it up. Strikes
miners out on Strike-lyeedle workers
stop all work-Farmers in Middle
West battle deputieS-Three killed,
many wounded I read further
Suddenly the print seemed to fly at
me. Among those killed were:
Joseph w Kane, farm strike leader
- put the PAPER down. Kane's
words rank in my ears:
One of these days I'll find out
whose fault it is, ard let me tell you,
some one viii pay for it,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
BY BEN STEIN


Somebody always growls on these
particular breakfast days. We were
eating quietly when a commotion
started at the. table behind me. Sud
denly heard
"You sonofagun, if you don't eat
those beans, I'll ram 'em down your
throatP' s'D.
It was Kane He'd grabbed Wilson
by the neck and had showed his face
into dish Of beans. Kane's face was
crazy mad Sergeant Kidd came over.
Break it up, Kane. Where the he'll
do you think you're at?"
was afraid Kane would slough
Kidd. But he controlled himself. Ev-
erything settled down. I hung
around until everybody had gone and
sat down beside Kane.
whats the Scorer"
Score! There amt no score,
Whenever I see those bastards turn
ing UP their noses at the chow they
get and think Of my people havin'
nothin', I get 50 mad I could kill
EN-"
"It isn't their. fault, Kane, that
your people go hungry"
mo damn IL, I know it amt, but
one OF these days I'll find out whose
fault it is and let me tell you, some
one will pay for It,"
That evening was standing by for
colors. saw Kane go ashore and
happened to catch his eye as the lib
erty boat pulled away. He waved
Next morning Kane hadn't appeared
Liberty was up at 1880. Three days
went by. Top. called me into the Of
flee and told me to put Kane's
clothes in his sea bag and store it
down below. put everything away
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After the train startSto pull out from
the station, I hop on the first car
after the engine Then I hide behind
the blinds between the car and the
engine where they're hooked to-
gether" That is the way the present
generation secs America first"
His luck was not so good on this
trip and he had to ride the freight
trains. Between Galesburg, III, and
Cleveland, he found freight loaded
with kids There must have been
thirty or forty Some OF them looked
lonesome and hungry. They came
from all oveF---California, Alabama,
Georgia, all over" These are our
children, this is their heritage. Rid
ing the rods with the tough guys
when they should be in school; learn
ing to bum a meal with an expert
whine in their voices; going to Cali
fornia in order to turn around and
go back to New York--to fill time.
When John Webb arrived, his
brother had lost his job. AS capt.
talist paper puts it: unless his
brother can get a job to support him,
authorities of the Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Children
said he would be held for Juvenile
Court as runaway % and returned
to Lowell" And that, of course, will
solve Johns problem. So simple.
W. C,
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"Rsed this" and handed me q letter,
Dear Joe:
Things amt so good back here.
Mas pretty sick. We had pretty
good harvest but pa can't get for
what 1t cost him to grow Ii. Hes 50
blamed mad he sez he'd rather burn
1t than sell II for what he can git,
for 1t. Our Iivestock's about gone,
except for = couple a stray chicks.
Reckon we'll have to kill the dogs
soon for somethin' to eat. Pops got
the interest to pay soon. If you got
some money you'd better send it
quick. Your loving sister,
NAN.
gave back the letter. He looked
at me appeallingly.
"Ill tell you, Kane, you see the TOP
and tell him you want mess duty
With SIS a month extra for mess duty,
you can send SIS month to your
people"
Fifteen a month"; What the he'll
good will that do 'em. Ma needin' a
doctor, pas interest fallin' DUE
damn iti"
LIE walked away. Next day he was
- mess striking. I watched him
closely these days. For about a week
he got a letter every day. He'd hide
in a corner, read 1t and, when
through. tear it to bits. With every
letter there was a marked increase
in surliness. His temper became ugly.
He was bound to bust loose. It hap
pened on a Wednesday morning, On
Wednesdays and Saturdays we got
beans for breakfast, and sooner or
later beans became nauseating.
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per cent Of thefeatures on the screen.
Hundreds Of local unions have
asked their local theatres to show the
film and now we are writing them
suggesting that if their asking
didn't get results, they demand that
the film be shown. Organized labor
will smash this anti-Tom Mooney
boycott" --.-
The Tom Mooney National Coun-
cil's address is. Box 1876, Station D,
New York City,
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CONFERENCE FARMERS
BY BEN FIELD

THE mule team is in the field
1 loading with a hayloader. The
other team is on the barn floor. Two
hired men are in the NOW. I climb
up the ladder to see if 1 can give a
hand.
Pete is on the load. He iabs the
single needle Of the harpoon FORK into
the hay. He catches the trip rope.
A small boy leads the horse that lifts
the hay into the NOV. Ten years
old. One Of eleven children. Hires
out for the summer.
Pete's a lanky Lithuanian. He is
what you'd call a middle farmer. He
carries his head on one side, regard
ing the world as an old rooster does
grain Of corn or a hen. He was in
Washington at the first farmers con-
ference. He marched with the del
egation to see Vice President Garner.
He grabbed Gamers buttonhole and
waved his milk check before his eyes.
Look at my milk check" That was
bringing the politician from Texas
face to face with the farm problem.
"And how's your milk check now?"
Pete cusSeS. He gets down from
the wagon and wipes the sweat and
hayseed off his face. The milk check
is less than half what he used to get
And feeds shot up again. That
means he's actually getting about
one fourth on his milk. Gluten that
was IS cents is now s1.45, cake feed
jumped to s2,10, and 81 bran went
up As cents.
The milking machine clatterS
down in the constable. The exhaust
starts drumming. It's his husky
apple-faced wife tending to the ma
chimes and stripping all alone.
Pete picks at his soaked shirt. 1--WE
hire men only for hay and oats. You
can't afford the rest of the time" He
goes into the stables to attend to his
chores.
A COUPLE Of days later, there i.
II a picnic on Ruhes farm given BY
the Red Hill local of the United
Farmers Protective Association Of
Pennsylvania. The farmers cal
such picnicS summer festivals Of
struggle to know each other better
and fight together better" These are
the times when the farmers straight.
en- up from leaning over their knife
bars "a Scythes. This coming to-
gether whets them up like a rifle.
Pete is there at the stand where
beer, soda pop, hot dogs and ham
burgers are being sold. Firing ava,
from a truck at the crowd is bis
Bohemian farmer who had also beer
at the Washington conference.
The chairman Of the Red Hill loca
sells tickets for the refreshments
Pete buys some for himself and me
''Hah," he says, "Niezney and me wa,
two Of the bidders in the Haense
Sf.18 penny sale. Now the court say,
the sale was nonlegal. The sheriff.
man been trying to return the money
to me-"
The chairman says, 81 amt tool
my money back"
The two farmers grin at each other
What do they owe you, Peter"
1.-TWO bits for five cows, q heifer
and bull. But I don't take tn;
money back"
We ask him about his wife. mo
she wouldn't come She got to.
much work. She must hang rount
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
TONIGHTS PROGRAMS
WEAF-660 &c

1ioo p. M.-Roxanne Wallace, Songs;
Southernaires
7:15-Billy Bachelor-Sketch
7:30-Lum and Abner
7:fS-Tre Goldbergs-Sketch
8:00-F st Lahr, Comedian; Olsen Orch.
8:30-f rani- Mum, Tenor; Lyman Orch.
800 cuJaeours Orch; Marion Harris,
Snsi
9:3c-3,,l Duey, Baritone; Reisman Orch.
10:00--c'--l Cob Pipe Club
10:3o-TTr President and Our People Under
Ex-senator J. Hamilton Lewis Of
Illinois
1l:00-Dance Music
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WOR-710 Kc

700 p. M.--Sports-Ford Prick
:15-News--Gabriel Heater
7:30-Terry and Ted-Sketch
7:45-Talk-Harry Hershfeld
800-Detectives Black and Biue-Mystery
Drama
8:15-Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs
8:30-Main Street-Sketch
9:oo-Jack Arthur, Baritone; Gilman and
Arden, Piano
9:i5-Studio Concert
l0:oo-De Marco Sisters; Frank Sherry,
Tenor
10:15-Current Events-Harlan Eugene Read
l0:30-Market and Halsey Street Playhouse
11:00-Weather Report
11:02-Moonbeams Trio
l1:3o-Dance Orch.
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TUNING I'm
WJZ--76O Ks

TOO p. M.-Amos IN Andy
7:15-John Herrtct Songs
7:30-PotaSh and Perlmutter
Neutrality-suspicious. Rich
a:00-Crime Clues
8:30-Dangerous Paradse-Sketch
S;45-Red Davis-Sketch
9;0o-Warden Lewis E. Lawes in 90 900
Years in Sing, Sing-Sketch
9:30-John Mccormack, Tenor; DAILY Orch.
10:o0-Pedro Via Orch.
10:3o-Ruth Lyon, Soprano; Edward Davies,
Baritone 80. a
110o-Macy and Smalle, Songs; wirges
Orch.
11:15-The Poet Prince
II: 30-Dance Music
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WABC--S60 Kc

WABC-S60 &c
700 p. M.--Myrt and Marge
7:15-Just Plain Bill---Sketch
7:30-Travelers Ensemble
Observation-Disclosures Carter
8:00-Green Orch; Men About Town Trio
8:l5-News-Edyin,aC Hill
8:30-Albert SPEEDING, Violin; Conrad
Thibault, Baritone voorhees, Orch.
9:Oo-Irvin s, cobb, Stories; Goodman
Orch. 5n9J
9:15-Dance Orch.
9:3o-Lombardo Orch; Burns and Allen,
I0:0o-Waring Oroh.;- Moran and Mack,
Comedian5 al
1030-Alexander Woollcott-Town Crier
tO:45-warncw Orch Gertrude Niesen,
Songs; ClubhAen Quartet
1I:15-Eews: Music
1880 A. M.--Dance Orch.
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How John Webb, Is ears Old,
Travelled to "See America"

LOWELL, S
ship by
outside, usually passenger
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By Michael Gold
The Fight Is Still On

HE FlBht SUI On
the Daily they enough
The drive intensified This byhoo ansm 1t is the
plain truth times to lqddate
enable maintain its credit
This quite half-raed
Reed believing they
theatre and culture groupsP
should raise certain for
Daily newspaper vital Importance the
workers cultural
The Washington times., 1933-02-08
JUNGLE BEAUTY
PREFERS WHITE

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 8 QN.S0
Girls who paint and powder them
selves from head to foot, who
bring as much as $4,000 from
prospective husbands and whose
sweet smiles belly their skill in
the use Of poisoned arrows, form
the main theme of research notes
that Mrs. Anna Mae McGrath has
brought to the University Of Ari'
zona from an expedition among
the head-hunting Indians Of Vene'
zuela.
The first white woman ever to
penetrate the jungles where the
Goajira tribes live, she has brought
back thousands of feet Of film.
She said:
"The GOajiras worship white.
They believe it excelS all cOlOrS.
So the girls, naked save for q
covering about their lOinS, paint
themselves in white from head
to foot and undergo a bleach.
ing process. The more bleached
they are, the more valued by
the men,"
The Washington times., 1933-02-08
ASK
INTEREST CUT

BERLIN, Feb. 8 GN.S0.-Car.
rying out the doctrines of DR..
Alfred Hugenberg, minister OF
economics in Chancellor Hitler's
cabinet, German representatives
at the "standstill" conference to-
day formally demanded reduc-
ton of interest rates on Ger.
man private debts.
In addition, the government
spokesmen insisted upon CONVEX
sion of short-term loans into
long-term obligations.
Indicative of the militant ma
tionalism which has become Ger
many's credo since the elevation
of the Nazi leader to the chan
cellorship, the government dele
gates to the conference asked for
conversion of so per cent of the
existing short-term loans into
long-term loans at reduced rates
of interest, as we'll as reduction
of the interest on the remaining
40 per cent.