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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
BALTIMORE
SEAMEN Win
F Rec D 0 M

BALTIMORE, Md, Oct 25.-
Five leaders of Baltimore unem-
ployed seamen, arrested on Sept.
80, for leading a demonstration
against relief cuts, were found
guilty on the charge of melting
to riot, and disorderly conduct, and
sentenced to two years in the peni-
Tertiary. Sentence was then sus-
pended. w. c. McCuistion, one of
the leaders in the recent strike,
was in addition charged with as
saulting an officer, and his sus-
pended sentence was of four years.
Brought before the labor hating
Judge Stanton, the five, Yates,
Wagner, Davis, McCuistion and
Allen, demanded jury trial, and
announced that they will defend
themselves with the assistance of
Bernard AIDES, Communist cam
didate for governor.
A parade of police officers was
placed on the stand, but they
squirmed under the cross examina-
ton of the defendants who ably
exposed the frame-up and police
brutality. The same followed for
long list of relief takers.
Seamen brought in as witnesses
were subject to sarcastic remarks
by the judge. my father sailed
around the horn on Sailing ships,
and got along quite well on salt
pork" he said.
McCuistion, making the closing
speech for the defense stated, at
is true that sailors sailing around
the Horn on sailing ships lived ON
salt pork, but they had no union
in those days. Today we are Or
ganized in a union, have bettered
our conditions already and will do
still more in the future
1t was clearly shown that the
standard of relief had decreased
while the expenditures had in
creased since control of relief on
the Baltimore waterfront was taken
away from the seamen and placed
in the hands of social workers"
In fifteen minutes the jury
brought in a verdict of guilty.
Stanton sentenced each of the five
to two years in the penitentiary,
with an additional two years for
McCuiStion. He then suspended
the sentences, specifying that all
five would be sent to the house
Of correction if they stayed on the
waterfront and were again ar
rested. When the sentences were
pronounced, the entire packed
court room walked out behind the
five workers, whom they helped
keep out of prison
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the United States with the exception that in place
of a kslg and the house Of lords the Senate and
the President would still function as of old All of
the oppressive forces, which insure and guarantee
the capitalists st-anglehold on the wealth of the
nation and their domination over the workers, the
Army the Navy the Courts, the militia, the police
would not be changed.
Can Socialism be achieved this way? 1t never
has and it never will In Germany and Austria
the Socialist leaders proceeded gradually to build
Socialism within the framework OF the capitalist
state They looked forward to the day when they
would buy out" the big trusts. But what hap
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26

support Party candidates. the Central
Committee they Immediately Communist Party
the the cacOnscious militant
fighters working Len
Stain belong who strike blows
capitalist slavery
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26

Wall banks
and monOpOlies.
Party fights living
masses revolutionary
capitalist
people to ife of misery
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26

join class. Fight by the
side your struggle sharpening Take
your place the Party against
capitalism.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE c. P, L. 5. A.
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present campaign daily of the
workers. itself to be the sole
capitalist policies of the Roosevelt New
boldly proclaimed that the
mediate masses the
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DRIVE ACTIVITY REPORTS WANTED FROM
DISTRICTS, SECTIONS, UNITS!
Total to Date ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SIS, O07.6S
Press Run Yesterday-47,4 400
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18
Anti-War and Soviet
Cycles are Features
at Recital on FRIDAY

NEW YORK. 49, The snti-war
cycle by the Theatre Union Dance
Group will be one Of the features
at the dance recital of the Workers
Dance League to be presented this
Friday evening at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave,
Brooklyn.
On the same program will be
presented the Soviet Cycle by the
New Duncan Dancers4 Both groups
Of dances were received enthusiast
ticslly at the last Workers Dance
League recital held before an su-
dience of 1900 at City College Au-
ditorium last January.
Fe ALI, noted German dancer,
will present Summer Witchery"
and two numbers from her cycle,
"The City; slavery" and "FiIle
de JOie."
In addition there will be the fol-
lowing dances: Uprising" and
Van der Lubbes Head" by the
New Dance Group; Life and
Death and BLACK Feet, Black
Hands," by the Modern Negro
Dance Group; "Scottsboro" and
BLACK and White" by the Red
Dancers; and March of the Pion-
GERS" by the Theatre Union Dance
Group,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18

THE wife of Shsd Patton walked
through the market place, with
full shopping bag in her arms. Two
women followed her, They seized the
market bag and spilled its contents.
Rats don't deserve to eat" they
said. Tell that to your rat hus-
band" Shad Patton's wife began to
scream, but a smack closed her
mouth. The same thing happened
to the wives Of the other stool
pigeons.
When Shad Patton's wife, or Mike
Schube's, or Flagen's, or Rockzo's
women went into the grocery store,
they could no longer buy anything,
The grocers had been told they
would be boyeotted, and more than
likely, their places wrecked, if they
dealt with the stool-pigeons' wives.
The only way the latter could get
food was to go to one of the other
towns for it.
In school the children of the
scabs had their arms twisted, their
noses rubbed in mud-pies, their
books stolen and torn. and their
necks Stung with pea shooters. They
could find no one to play with them.
Shad Patton's wife cried bitterly
at home. She gave Shad no rest:
he couldn't sit down to read a paper
in peace: he couldn't eat in peace,
and finally, he couldn't sleep in
peace.
Shad came TO Joe Gorny and
clustered and fumed. But the oil
workers were adamant and the lives
of the stool-pigeons and their
women and children grew more
miserable each day.
Shad went to the Superintendent
with his troubles. He asked the SUI
perintendent to fire Gorny and the
rest.
Il assure you, Shad, I'm more
anxious than you are to fire those
trouble-makers. But I'd have a
strike on my hands in no time, and
we can't afford strike right now"
One fine day. the oil workers and
their wives and children stood by
and ieered while Shad Patton. Gus
Flagen, Nike Schube and Frank
Roc5o moved their baggage and
their breed. The rats were scurry-
ing out of Oilport.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18
How the Club Started
In INDIANAPOLIS

ABOUT two years ago a group of
n professional and white collar
workers formed a discussion circle in
Indianapolis, Gross roads of the ma
ton" In this more or less typical
American city, with it's large middle
class and preponderately bourgeois
theology, these people served first
as a forum for revolutionary sub
jects and distributing agency for
revolutionary literature. The clubs
gradually developed into a cultural
body sponsoring lectures by NJ. Top
shevsky, formerly associate of Diego
Rivera, Chariot, and Montenegro,
and a member of the Chicago R.
R. c.; and by Paul Romano, a
Milwaukee J. R. G. member who
studied in Europe with Pitoeff,
Craig, and Reinhardt.
The writer's group of the In
dianapolis J. r. G, compose leaflets
for all local revolutionary organi-
cations including farmers and tax
payers leagues; these leaflets are
models of mimeograph work, neat
and spicy. Rebecca Pitts, whose
unusual approach to the problems
of Communism in recent article
in the New Masses has aroused
wide comment, is member Of the
group.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18
Broken Shoes" Coming To
Acme Theatre SATURDAY.

Following the run Of "Chalut-
zin" pioneers Of Palestine). the
Hebrew talkie with the Habin1a
Players now current at the Acme
Theatre, the management will offer
on Saturday morning Broken
Shoes" a new Soviet talkie produced
in the U. S. S. r. by Meirabpomflm
and directed by Margarita Barskaya.
The same program will include the
latest Soviet News for it's premiere
showing Highhghts of the film in
clude scenes Of George Dinnitroff.
Popoff and Tsnev, the Bulgarian
prisoners acquitted in the Leipsig
trial, on their arrival in Moscow;
Dinitroff's meeting with the hero
of the first shakespeare flight, Pro-
kofev; The Red Army on parade in
Red Square. etc, etc.
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cousins wife could be heard NUT
tering about the lateness of the
hour, and the voice of Joe's cousin
quoting her down.
Suddenly Joe snapped off the ra-
do. II got it." he said.
The men paid attention. I'VE tell
each member of both department
committees" Joe said, that there's
goin' to be an important meeting
tomorrow night, see? We give each
one different address. The places
where the dicks show UP, well, that
tells us who the rats are. Get itP
It's process of ee-linination, like
the detective guy says"
ut listens good" said Pete Mo-
lochoko. But where do we get
enough guys to watch all the ad-
dresses?"
Easy. We need thirty fellas. We
got twelve right here, and we got
at least eighteen more we kin trust
in the other departments.
They drew up list of all the
members of the Grease and Crude
Stille Department Committees. Op-
posite each name an address was
placed.
Joe Gorny's process of ee-limi-
nation" thrilled the men on the
two executive committees. Real de-
tective work.
The next morning the addresses
were passed out in the two depart
ments, and eighteen reliable men
picked out to watch that evening.
Dicks showed up at four of the
places: 1858 Bay Head--tf1is was the
address given to Shad Patton; 1922
Sycamore - Mike Schube; 1903
North Ninth-Gus Flagen. These
were two men who always talked
about mysterious bombings they
had participated in in Germany.
And finally, 1904 Schooler Street.
where three dicks gathered and
nodded to Frank Rocco, who nosed
around, rang the bell, and walked
away in disgust. The rats had been
smoked out.
The men in the two departments
felt a bit sore about their Wild
goose chase of the night before. Joe
promised them, You'll find out why
We did It,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18
BY ALAN CALMER

THE John Reed Club Of New York,
the first revolutionary cultural
group in this country, was formed
at the beginning of the present
economic crisis. Since then the
revolutionary cultural movement has
penetrated into numerous sections
Of the U. S.
Many of the John Reed Clubs
we're started as general cultural as
sociations and discussion societies.
In addition to acting as auxiliary
organizations in mass work, the
John Reed Clubs are building cen
ters of revolutionary literature and
art around magazines in Hollywood,
Chicago, Philadelphia, as well as
New York. New poets and fiction
lists are developing within the ranks
of the Communist m ov e m e n t.
Through their work in these maya
zines, and through the medium OF
plays and art exhibits, the revolu-
tionary cultural movement in this
country is driving home lessons of
the class struggle to a rapidly ex-
panding audience.
News of the work of these clubs
will appear as a regular feature on
this page.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18
Sophie Brdsldu SOIoist With
Philharmonic Thursday

Sophie Braslau, contralto. will be
the soloist on Thursday evening and
Friday afternoon with the Pillar
monte Orchestra at Carnegie Hall,
under the direction Of Arturo Tosca-
mini. The program: Tragic" over
ture, Brahms; lie Festin de TAraig-
nee" Roussel; Eel Amor Bruio," De
Falla and Franck's Symphony In D
minor.
On Saturday evening Toscsnini
will offer the Brahms Overture, the
Roussel composition, the Franck
Symphony and Wagner's Siegfried
Idyl. Sunday afternoon program
the second Wagner concert-will in
clude Hans Clemens, Richard Bonelli
and Emanuel LIST. The Metropol-
itan Opera Chorus will assist in the
program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18
Fascist Groups Out to
Save US. from Reds

the expectation Of doubling Il
within week.
In this body, I believe. is the real
fascism - fascism which is not
merely looking for dollars from
suckers but one which has armed
and taken to itself, in an extra legal
fashion, the power Of the county
and the state,
THIS type Of fascisn has. for its
members men who believe their
own economic security is at stake
and are thus ready to fight to keep
out red agitators." Helping them
are the American Legion posts. most
Of whose members are either we'll
to-do farmers, small business men
or local politicians who cannot act
in legal guise. Those who do not
come within any Of these classes
are expecting favors from those who
do and the IS day they get for
strike duty-which 500 took advan-
tage Of last year.
TO he continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18
On Saturdays
Feature Page

The following outstanding
books will be reviewed on this
feature page Of the Daily Worker
next Saturday. April 81:
The Hour Of Decision" by Os-
wald Spengler. Reviewed BY
Harry Cannes.
Labor and Steel" by Horace 2.
Davis. Reviewed by Joseph
ballet, organizer Of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union.
The Shadow Before" a textile
strike novel by william Rol-
Inns, Jr. Reviewed by Edwin
ROlfe.
Such Is Ny Beloved" a novel
by Morley Callaghan. Re-
viewed by George Lewis.
Also-a review Of The New
Quarterly" by Nathan Adler.
Be sure to get copy Of next
Saturdays Daily" for a Comrnu-
mist evaluation Of these booksl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18

THE whole Shop Committee met
that night The Shop Committee
was composed of man from each
Department. delegate body whose
members were elected each six
months by the members of the de-
( partment committees. It's members
were all tried men, who had lost
their impetuosity in the steady
grind of building up their commit
/ tees.
Joe Gorny told them the purpose
behind the strategen1 of the night
before, and told them who the stool
pigeons were. The men swore, and
their knckles itched.
Joe said, you, know, we could
beat the Twin lights outa these rats.
That's one way, and they got it
comm, too. I'm all for it. teachin'
them lesson, But it amt enough.
We got to make them rats so sick
of themselves they'll feel like
bumpin' themselves off. Now, here's
an idea for you.
Some of you guys been COM
plainin', we don't get the women
interested in our work. Some say
their old women is raisin hell be-
cause they spend so much time
away from home. at meetings.
We'll, our women is OK. Only
they don't understand like we do
why we got to do what we're dom.
We'll, we'll let the women take
care of them rats. And here's how.
The rats have wives, too. Our wives
will make it so tough for their
wives, they'll come Begin for
mercy. In the market place, on the
blocks, they'll give EN- damn little
peace"
A grease man had another good
plan. what about the kids in
school? Well have our kids torment
the hell outa the rats kids" The
two plans were adopted.
The wives of the oil workers
might raise hell about their men
staying out late at meetings, but
when it came to a question of driv-
ing out tool-pigeons, that was
different matter, They entered into
the plan with enthusiasm, Rats
took bread out of their mouths. The
children were all eager for 3 grand
lark.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18
The Rats Scamper Away---B, Nathaniel Hons

THE Eagle Oil Works sprawled
over SO much earth along the
Bay that the Company had to di-
vide it into districts. Somewhere in
that wide expanse, rats were at
work who were slowly gnawing
away the careful structure that Joe
Gorny and few others had built
up. Stool pigeons we're cumming UP
the works for the department COM
mittees In the Crude Stills and in
the Grease Plant. There could be
no further doubt of IL.
Locker inspection wasn't due for
another six weeks, yet it came on
the day when leafet distribution
was made in the lockers of the
grease men. And the Crude Stills
Executive Committee could not
meet because its members found
Puckermouth Sweeney and another
Company dick parked in front of
Joe Gorny's house.
The Executive Committees of
both departments, in a cold sweat,
held a Joint meeting about the
problem. They locked themselves in
at the farm owned by Joe's cousin
three miles out OF Oilport Each
man had come alone. so as not to
attract undue attention. They
wouldn't even let Joe's cousins wife
leave the farmhouse, and she gr1lm-
bled plenty.
For three solid hours scheme after
scheme was proposed and discarded.
They had looked to Joe for a sure
solution, for Joe was their leader.
whose cool guidance had slowly
built up committees in the Crude
Stills, the Grease Plant, among the
ag1tator men, in the Cooperage and
Pipe Departments, and among the
tank cleaners. Joe was in a blue
funk. It felt rotten to let the men
down without a plan that would
give them at least a fighting chance
against the thing that menaced
them.
NO ONE had spoken q word for
Az half an hour Then one Of the
men switched on the radio, f1gur-
ing If they got away from the prob
lem for q while, an idea might come
to them later.
Outside, in the living room, Joe's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18
FLASHES and
CLOSE-UPS
BY LENS

To George s. Kaufman: Thanks
for that swell announcement of the
forthcoming Film and Foto League
Movie Costume Ball over radio
station WOR last Wednesday. g.
! think our own Jimmy Cagney
will be there. And that a nick
elodeon show will be one of the
many surprise features. May
First will witness the initiation of
what is described as "a wartime
propaganda drive to familiarize
the American public with what the
National Recovery Administration
has accomplished thus far" q.
Hugh S. Johnson's idea is to pro-
duce a series of shorts in co-opera-
ton with Hollywood. Now,
don't say you weren't warned. q.
Variety's own sweet way Of COM
menting on this wartime drive"
"Washington's savants are dis
cussing the modus operandi for
propagandizing and it's generally
agreed that the screen becomes the
most effectual means for visual
education along these lines" E.
Now dope this one out. Under
the N. r. A. code the 1900 extras
listed in the Hollywood Central
Casting Bureau have been reduced
to a mere 1900, in order to guar
antee steady work" The we'll
known proposal that snow be
shoveled with teaspoons to put the
iobless to work was a sound solu-
ton compared to that one, don't
you think? Wallace Thurman
is the only Negro writer allowed to
work under contract in Hollywood.
The Hays organization is par
ticipating in the International
Visual Educational Convention
held in Rome and under Mussolini's
wing This is Americas first
participation in one of these little
parties thrown by the Butcher Boy
to dope out bigger and better ways
of using the movie to further the
interests of the imperialists g.
And don't miss the newsreel in
which an 80-year old scrubwoman
from Welfare Island is told that
someone else is cutting into her SIT
per month salary There's a
little documentary sidelight on a
system in the last stages of putre-
faction and continuing only because
we permit it to -. Did you notice
the painful abruptness with which
shots of strike scenes throughout
the country were cut in last weeks
newsreel editions2 H.. And don't
fail to see "Riptide" because M. G.
Ms press release informs me that
Norma Shearer is bringing back
the days OF Irene Castle by wear
ing "a f1oor-length skirt slashed al
most to the knee for freedom in
movement" Buster Crabbe
claims that he quit the business of
life-saving because he earned '1ess
than ten cents per person rescued"
A fourth of those saved we're
millionaires, he claims The
prize for the most unnecessary re-
mark of the week goes to Mitchell
Lessen, director of Paramounts
Murder at the Vanities," who
stated that There is no such thing
as perfect motion picture"
And I've been asked to see viva
Villal" because Edgcomb Pinchon,
its author, claims the longest name
in Hollywood Ernest Wylfred
Pierre Mount Edgcornb Pinchon
And Jean Harlow loses her temper
when she fails to find chicken la
king on the menu And atten-
dance figures continue to drop
throughout the U. S. And
the free-dish racket has been re-
vived in your neighborhood dump
And the Film and Foto League
will supply speakers on all aspects
Of the movie for your organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18

E. 12th St., 5th floor, pm. Every mem
Der Is asked to come
OPEN FORUM. Paul Miller speaks on
Social and Economic Conditions in the
Soviet Union and in the U.SA." at Tom
Mooney Br. LID, 323 F. 18th st., s:15
pm.
H1GHLIGHTS Of the Weeks News Dis
cussion Group at i401 Mscombs Road.
near 10th St, Bronx. Adm free; $50
pm, Auspices Mt Eden Br, FS.U.
LECTURE on Miniature Photography by
Karl A Barleben at Film and Photo
League, IL E, 18th st.. 9 pm. Film and
Photo Sections meet $50 and respec-
lively.
sACCo-vANzETTI Br. LID. 1872 E.
fremont Ave. Special meeting 8 p.m. to
arrange for Bronx Scottsboro Mass Dem
onstration Friday night,
Two Thieves" Will be shown at the
Washington Heights Workers Center, 4o4e
Broadway, corner 10th SIT. Also newsreels.
$50 pm.
FORDHAM Prog. Club. 7 West Burnside
Ave, $50 pm. Discussion Role of the
Club as Mass Organization" First
meeting at new club rooms.
Thursday
coRLISS LAMONT lectures on "Under-
standing Soviet Russia" at De witt Gin
ton High School, Mosholu Parkway Sub
way Station, $50 pm Auspices. Bronx
Boro Branches F.S.U. Adm Csc. Balslaiks
Orchestra
OPEN FORUM Pen & Hammer Club, ia
W, 2lst St, $40 pm. Lecture on Housing
and Jobs" by Leonard Gross of Economics
Comm, Adm. 15c
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18

7:sO-Armbruster Orch; Jimmy Rempsr,
Songs
7:45-News-Boake Carter
s;00-Men About Town Trio; Vivien Ruth,
Songs
S.15-News-Edwin C. Hill
s.30-Albert spalding, Violin: Conrad
Thibsut. Baritone; Voorhees, orch.
9;o0-Nino Martini, Metropolitan Opera
Tenor
e30-Lonlbardo Orch, Burns and Allen,
Comedy
lo00-Florita Orch; Dick Powell. Songs
to:3o-The Republican Reaction 49, Repre-
sentative D. A, Reed Of New York
l0.45-Columbians Orch
Il .o0-Nick tucas. Songs