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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
7:oo-wEAF-Basebal Resume

00-WEAF-Baseball Resume
WoR-sports Resume-Ford Prick
WJz-To Be Announced
WABC-Theodore Ernwood Baritone
T:15-WEAF5Gene and Glenn-Sketch
WOR-Front Page Drama
WJz-To Be Announced
wABC-Just Plain Bill-Sketch
7: o-wEAF-Three x Sisters, Songs
WOR-The O'Neills-Sketch
WJz-Actors Dinner Club
WABC-Armbruste Orch.
7:45-WEAF-The Goldbergs-Sketch
WOR-Jack AUTHORIZATIONS
WJZ-Amos m Andy-Sketch
wABC-Boake Carter. Commentator
00-WEAF-Bourdon Orch; Olga Albani,
Soprano; Revelers Quartet;
Speaker: Colonel Louis McHenry
Howe, Secretary to the President
WOR-Selvin Orch.
WJZ-Walter O'Keefe, Comedian;
Ethel Shutta, Songs; Dolan Orch.
wABC-Mary Eastman. Soprano
8:15-WABC-Easy Aces-Sketch
S;3o-WOR-Novelty Orch; Slim Timblin,
Comedian; Cavaliers Quartet
WJz-Paying the Piper-V. A. Leslie,
Economist
wABC-Court of Human Relations
s:45-wJZ-Baseball Commemorate Ruth
:00-WEAF-Lyman Orch; Frank Mum,
Tenor; Vivienne Segal, Soprano
WOR-Italics-H. S. Lott Jr.
WJZ-Harris Orch; Leah Ray, Songs
9:15-WABC-To Be Announced
:3oWEAF-Bonime Orch; Pic and Pat,
Comedians
WOR-Dance Orch.
WJZ-Phil Baker, Comedian
WABC-Green Orch.
10:0 0-WEAF-Crime Conscious-Sketch
WOR-Dave Vine, Comedian
WJz-Stories That Should Be Told
Fulton Oursler. Author
WABC-Young Orch; Everett Mar
shall, Baritone; Frank Crumit,
Songs: Stoopnagle and Budd
acknowledgements Events-H. E. Read
WJz-Mario Cozzi, Baritone
10 3o-WEAF-Jack Benny. Comedian;
Grier Orch: Frank Parker. Tenor
WOR-Robison Orch
WJz-Chicago Symphony Orch.
1o:45- WABC-Carlile and London, Piano.
Warwick Sisters, Songs
II 00-WEAF-George r. Holmes Chief
Washington Bureau, l. N S.
WOR-Weather; Irwin Orch.
WJZ-Kahn Orch.
WA2G-Edith Murray, Songs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06

in two weeks and although the few
dollars he gets is insufficient salary
TO keep them fed, no relief organ
ization is supplementing their in
come. They take their misery very
patiently They see by kerosene
lamps, cook by coal fires, and warm
themselves at the kitchen stove,
though there are gas jets in the
house which they can't afford to
use because of the high cost of gas.
Although all six persons live, eat
and sleep in the one room, they
still manage to pay the rent for
three rooms (two of which are I'M
inhabited and uninhabitable).
I'VE go into the home of another
W worker in the same plant. He
has worked for the steel company
for % years, but for the last four
years he has received no cash for
his work. He, too. can never pay
off his embarrassing debt to the
company store. Some of the chill
dren get shoes and clothes from the
relief agencies; others are barefoot.
The floors of the two rooms are
bare, as are the walls. The gas has
been turned off for nonpayment Of
the bills, and here, too, the only
light comes from smoky kerosene
lamp.
A salesman in a general store
told us that they can never keep a
stock Of kerosene lamps on hand
sufficient to satisfy the ever grow
ing demand for them. The wife
here has thyroid goiter one Of
the children has some glandular
trouble that makes his enormous
head look queer on his week, puny
body, son is in the hospital with
lung trouble, daughter at home is
so sick that she can hardly drag
herself around. The children who
are in school occasionally get milk.
but all of them and the adults too
are hungry.
Pittsburgh-the steel center!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
We Visit Some Homes of
Steel Workers in PITTSBURGH

sweater was like an awkward,
wrinkled envelope around him.
When we asked if any Of the
children were given milk in the
schools, the mother burst into tears.
Not even the two youngest, one
year and half old, the other two
and a half years old, were drinking
milk. The youngest had had milk
in the hospital when there with
pneumonia, but not since. The
Oldest girl, aged 8, broke in: Il
was sick and I was coughing and
I asked my teacher for milk, but
she said No, you weigh enough,
you can't have milk
What was the use Of asking them
if they ever had any recreation, if
they read newspapers or saw
movies, when the mother wore no
stockings and therefore rarely left
the house in the sub-zero cold spell.
THE Spanish woman's husband
worked in a steel mill for 10
years-he now gets three days work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
Not Mere Discussion Groups

of COURSE these groups differed fundamentally from
American revolutionary cultural units organizations
not discussion Many the members participate
lively the struggles the working demonstrations
marches at anniversary meetings delegations protesting
against attacks the While nts of bourgeois bohemian
ism still through individuals in these the membership
composed large extent of generation who throwing
off the Of bourgeois dadence and training themselves
become artists of the class struggle Of the coming
luton These have their value by winning
whte-colar elements revolutionary
activity.
organizations demonstrated
value organizations by political of
Milwaukee John Reed Club instance successful recently
preventing the State College
Germany They organized statewide protest enisng the
of outstanding ineectas and professionals According
Purn director of the University
and OF the of the tour the trip called off because
of the objections raised by various radical organizations
John Reed Club the
beginning to play important role this offensive
against fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
How the Radio Marine
Operators Held Their
Picket Line Intact

As the picket line was stralghten-
ing itself out for its southwark
march, a burly, blue-coated cop
came around the corner. He stood,
arms akimbo, a savage, surly froWn
on his ugly face. He strobe toward
the rear-guard Of the line and spat
out, Who's the boss Of this?-
The rear-guard captain answered,
There is no boss in our ranks"
mo? Well, you and your gang
get the he'll out Of here. Under
stand? That's American. Break this
gOd-damned line up. Get me?"
I get you all right But this
line is not going to be broken up. +"
said the rear-guard captain. we
have civil right to walk up and
down here"
To hell with your rightsl" roared
the laws representative. IN give
you right, and a left tool"
Il suppose you will, if you can,
replied the captain as he ran after
the end Of his marching line.
When the captain reached the
end Of the line, he said to the men
in front. Pass the word along.
Keep your mouths shut. March
peacefully. Hold this line"
THE word rippled down the line
l to its head. The mems chins went
higher. They we're in the right;
they have right to march The
new feeling of the marching men
was caught up by the bystanders,
who sensed the new determination.
The line reaching its southern
point, bent on itself and started
north. Midway Of the march, the
men were met by the cop, who had
stamped down to meet them. I'll
show EN- who's boss" he growled.
The head of the line halted in
front of the policeman, who snarled.
IF you bastards don't break up this
line, I'll knock your god-damned
brains outl'
The leader quietly spoke, You're
invading our civil rights. We have
right to march"
I'm show you your rights, you
son Of a bitch! You gonna get out
of here?"
mol"
Up and down the line ran the
cry, Hold the line"
The cop plunged into the front
ranks of the line, punching at the
faces nearest to him. The men held
their positions determined not to be
provoked. He pulled out his black
jack swung at the men. There was
wild melee. A surge of men flowed
over him. Down on the ground, the
cop lost his fighting ardor, tried to
cover up, to protect himself. Res
cuing police charged into the churn-
ing mass. Laying about with black
jacks and night-sticks they dis
persed the men.
A SMALL group of the picket line
marched up and down, holding that
line.
The police, bent on securing a
victim, arrested an innocent by
stander who had been nowhere near
the fracas. They corralled two
more men, and pulled them inside
the pier shed, but they let the picket
line alone. They well knew the de-
termination of that line and the
sympathy of the longshoremen.
The line held, marched up and
down, carried their placards, Strike
on the American Merchant Line"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
BY M. XETCR

LIE looks handsome enough-almost
~ romantic-or he would be in a
new suit of clothes. Tall. dark eyes,
wavy black hair and face full of
bitterness. We hardly believe him
when he tells us that he is behind
in his rent to the extent of 5000 and
has been threatened with eviction.
Rent Of SIC per month for this ugly
little hut of three rooms whose
doors can't close, whose cracked
windows have sunk into the rotting
wood.
Why, it's impossible to heat a
place like this, because the floor
and walls are so full of cracks and
holes. The plaster is off the cell
ing and when the people upstairs
wash their floor the water leaks
into the middle of the beo below.
eve visited the home in February
AS a matter of fact, they don't
try to heat the three rooms, but
have moved all their belongings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
SCOTTSBORO-I934
BY RUTH FITCH BOYD

= BY RUTH FITCH BOYD -
Nine living men-already turned into
Dark symbols of mans darkest avenue
But prisons are real God knows, as lice
And courthouseS with other things are packed
Than abstract justice trials sweating fact
To men whose life blood freezes when the ice
Clicks in jury's January eyes,
Narrowed y hate, and walled and crossed by lies
Nine living men Protest because their death
VIII let oppression draw deeper breath
With its asthmatic lungs its brutal toe
Trampling the pyramids we built by inches
To ant-hills. Decry system that wars and lynches!
Call this one dire example, know know
Yet nine live and if these nine should die
Who holds the rope, my friends but you and I?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
Are Cultural Groups Necessary?

MUCH larger number of revolutionary writer's do not look down
n literature the existence of cultural They
don't necessity organization which writers and
other cultural that be
carried out coectiveke magazines art exhibitions plays Even
they functions they discussing their
sacred" problems with other writer's
individuals this take the opposite road Of the
author studies theory part
pate working struggles; they take in such struggles with
out bothng investigate the peculiar theoretical problems of proe
writer's bunder paths long
time until they by method correct their
faults talented writer's who attempt
to poasn literature frequently commit the mistake of
trying political form; they labor
the impression that it important political
toes in their work than drive home the intrinsic meaning of labor
through ngated aesthetic discussions
exceedingly the creative artist
admitted that dislike
rule not based principle represents dislike for
dull organzaonal meetings this cultural
organizations which themselves exclusively
practical questions
For obviously there nothing wrong with cultural workers unc
tionng collective is there anything collective
discussion essentially
literary that
of the twenties indication this Moreover
literally spread
the smaller cities
during the years before the great economic crisis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
CHANGE
WORLD!
BY ALAN CALMER

livery day cultural movement runs up against new
II experiences. Some of them trivial Others are
really important Many of them would give anybody
headache But all of them signs of growth Our dra
matte dance film, music painting and writing groups
stepping against problems that
pretty tough to crack.
course, lot of trouble to the fact that it isn't simple
revolutionary cultural worker Not only do
your craft; you to struggles
really to understand Not only do
have to know something about the basic principles of a they
apply life Do have find time to create works
you your talents everyday work like reporting
chalktakng If become involved in organiza
tona routine that have time to study paint you'll
proletarian artist all time writing
organonsl and practical work then you're negecng
your front these things missing
then something is bound to be
don't the complex Of their Not only
find shut themselves of from society
themselves off erael
hng chlds play While it is that
writing revolutionary novel usually less important than organizing
shop middle usually
izers and crackerjack novelsts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
JRC Art Students
Spring Exhibition
Shows Progress
By JACK KAINEN

oTUDENTS Of the New York John
" Reed Club School of Art are
showing their work Of the spring
term at JR.C. headquarters, 430
Sixth Ave. This marks the fourth
year of the schools existence. De-
spite the hasty hanging Of exhibits,
the JR.C. School of Art energies
from this exhibition as a permanent
institution for the instruction and
development Of young revolutionary
artists.
First in Importance is probably
the work Of the political cartoon
class. This class most consciously
develops the political perception of
the students and prepares them for
active work for revolutionary pub
locations. Unfortunately, in too
many cases, it would have been
more fruitful had the students at
tended the life class first. Some
work, notably that of johnson and
Serrano, is quite mature.
This class should be attended by
some Of the first-rate artists Of the
John Reed Club, who while tech
nically proficient, cannot translate
political events into graphic terms.
Anton Refregier teaches this class.
Guest instructors include Robert
Minor, Jacob Burck, Phil Bard and
other revolutionary cartoonists.
The classes in oil painting are
conducted by Raphael Soyer and
Nicolai Cikovsky. While Comrades
Soyer and Cikovsky are able artists,
and students develop rapidly under
their guidance, we feel that it is
not enough for revolutionary art
school to develop students tech
nically. Home work in composition
should be introduced on themes of
the class struggle and regular Pc
RODS set aside to criticize the com
positions technically and ideologi-
cally. In this way the students
technical development as a painter
will be linked closely to his ideo-
logical and congressional improve
ment.
II Glintenkamp and Louis Ribak
keep the students life drawings
simple and vigorous. However, it
would aid the student in under
standing the human figure if a
class or two a month were devoted
to lectures on specific anatomical
parts.
The children's class conducted by
Marya Morrow and Paul Curtis has
produced some of the most note
worthy work in the show. A large
collective mural in pastel, showing
the conditions of existence of work
ers' children under capitalism, has
refreshing directness of vision and
color. Some of our mature artists
should cast more than a sidelong
glance at 1t.
The Autograph class should be
attended by J.R.C. artists. Knowl-
edge of reproductive processes is
essential to all revolutionary art
lists. This knowledge is ably given
Dy JACOB FTledlano ana LOUIS Lo-
zowick.
1t Is unfortunate that the work of
the fresco class is not on exhibition.
Many fine fresco pieces have been
produced under the guidance of
Hideo Noda, Alfredo Crimi and
guest instructor Reginald Marsh.
For the summer term, classes in
painting, drawing, fresco, political
cartoon and composition will be
continued. Glasses will take place
Tuesday and Thursday evenings
and week-ends. For specific in
formation call at or write to: Ex-
ecutive Secretary, John Reed School
of Art, 430 Sixth Ave-, N. Y. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06

NEVERTHELESS the revolutionary cultural country
~ has failed to entirely the suspicion
ing class for nteectu this dust incontesable
fact that American nteua generally welded
capitalist instruments of culture
addition there still exists in the American labor
seated undereStmaon OF the Importance culture
the class struggle particularly the
fascist propaganda The cultural
down this aitude-by participation
the effectiveness their
within the Communist movement has already
the aid of Communist Party leaders equipped thorough
Mrxs feminist understanding of the
this attitude is being broken by leading
who have Joined the doing
work, especially in agt-prop departments
In instances members cultural groups
take leading basic struggles
of the st.
the famous Nut Pickers' strike city
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06

into one room and concentrated
their bit Of coal on making that
room habitable. We shivered as we
talked even in that one heated
room. The door and windows were
lined with rags hung everywhere to
keep out drifts of air.
This Porto Rican worker with his
sick wife are ready enough to tell
their tale of misery, indeed it comes
out with a rush of anger. He had
been working nine years in steel
mill-it was a good job once, he
comments. Now he works two or
three days every two weeks, just
enough to keep him off the relief
list. But the wages for these days
Of work never comes to him in cash
every bit of it is deducted to pay
his long overdue bill at the COM
pany general store.
Prices are high at this store and
workers purchase food there only
because their pay is too small to
enable them to buy sufficient for
their needs elsewhere, and the COM
pany store is the only place where
they can get credit. So each week
sees them deeper in debt, with no
money in their hands as result
of their days labor. Still, he had
no children and was thus better off
than the Spanish family which
lived nearby.
THE first thing that struck us
1 when we saw the four children
was that none of them was wearing
children's clothes. The girls were
wearing old dresses of their mother,
looped up two or three times with
a rope to keep them from dragging
on the floor. The baby sat on the
bed in his fathers torn sweater CHS
father wore no sweater though the
room was icy), unable to get up
and run around because the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
Jules BIedS0e To Sing In
"The Emperor Jones"

THE Emperor Jones" the Amer
lean opera based on Eugene O'Neill's
play, which was produced at the
Metropolitan Opera House, will be
sung on July 10, II and IL at the
Mecca Auditorium on 55th Street,
with Jules Bledsoe, noted Negro
baritone, in the leading role. Mr..
Bledsoe has already appeared in
the O'Neill play, but this was before
it was set to music by Louis Gruen-
berg. Last February he was heard
in the American opera in Amster-
dam, Holland. The orchestra at
the Mecca will consist of forty mu-
sicians of the Metropolitan Opera
Company The Emperor Jones"
will have an al-Negro cast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
By WILLARD BLISS


THE slogging feet Of Is pairs Of
1 men beat up and down on the
slush outside the piers. Silently
they walked their beat from one end
Of the piers to the other. Doggedly
they hunched inside the collars Of
their coats, fighting off the zero
cold. They were warmed by the in
ner heat Of their resolve: Keep the
picket line going.
Strike on the American Mer-
chant Line" DO not scab on your
fellow sailors" Longshoremen and
seamen, rally to our support"
The red-e mblazoned word
STRIKE" bound the so men into
one whole. Strikers and sympa-
thizers, all we're bent on getting
their message to the longshoremen
streaming out through the pier
gates.
The organizers, quietly passing
out their leaflets, we're saying,
Read this and see what the bosses
are doing. You'll be the next to be
cut"
Here and there, longshoremen
stood in groups, watching the line,
talking over the strike. You're
god-dsmn right; We'll be the next
ones cut. Look what they're trying
to do now with this decasualiza-
ton"
AT THE end of the pier -frontage,
n the line bent back on itself,
marched down the length Of the
piers. Their heads held high; their
determination flowed over the long
shoremen. Here and there new
corners joined the line; the rear
guard captain adjusted his partner
and himself to the increasing size
Of the line. 1t steadily grew
Up and down, up and down, in
creasing and increasing went the
line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
TUNING In
BY S. w. r. C. Of A.

For the last month the Moscow
Short Wave Radio Station, RV-59,
was experimenting on 25 meters
for U.SA. So far we have not had
report of reception.
For July, the broadcast will be
as follows on 50-meter band. Broad
casts in English on Sundays, Mon
days, Wednesdays, and Fridays
from SIS pm, EST. Also on Sun
days, HIP am, on 25-meter band.
From the It'll to the 18th of July
they will give test broadcast on
the 15-meter band.
NOTICE-The Short Wave Radio
Club of Chicago will have their
meetings on Tuesdays at pm. at
209 North Ave. Code and construc-
ton lessons will be given by expert
comrades. All comrades interested
in radio are asked to join the club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
Contents:

COnLentS.
The Darrow Report, Editorial.
The Socialist Party Convention
A Communist Estimate, by
v. J. Jerome.
The Lessons Of the Toledo
Strike, by John Williamson.
Unity the Forces Of All Steel
Workers for Aggressive Union
ism, Statement of the Central
Committee of the c. P. U. S. A.
The Great West Coast Mari
time Strike, by Sam Darcy.
The Communist Party in the
Birmingham Strikes, by Nat
Ross.
For Improving the Work of the
Party Among the Foreign
Born Workers, by F. Brown.
Check-Up on Control Tasks in
the Chicago District, by Bill
Gebert.
The I. L. D. Faces the Future,
by William L. Patterson.
Figures on the American Eco
nomic Crisis. as of MAY, 1884.
by John Irving and Phil
Mayer labor Research Asso-
ciation).
Book Review.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
Regarding the Steamhammersong

rONAE MacURROUGH wants
Bekowz Sitting Halapy they
Mike Gold for the Steamhammersong recently published
Daily Worker Unable himself he
to consult the Transforming
into cadenced will results
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
Chicago Artist Faces Lynch Terror

RECENT that of Wittenber prominent
"A OF the founders of the Chicago John Reed
southern Illinois charges of melting conspiracy
throw the u s. Government Together with John Adams
Masses and number of others held
nal Syndical Law, which the
early red raids in 1920 beaten
dragged out of the drunken
of protests have been sent to Sheriff Saaho Horo
funds the Jan Witenbe Defense Committee
D1 w. North Ave, Chicago n pressure
brought to they will spend the hoogow
waiting the November Circuit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06

Editorial NOte;-Although the
following incident in the strike of
the Radio Marine Operators
against the American Merchant
Line occurred some months ago,
we think II is still interesting in
view Of the present longshoTe
striker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-06
WHAT'S ON
Friday


PARTY AND DANCE at Vanguard Cen
ter, 2s5 W 135th St., $50 pm. to ! am.
Auspices Harlem womens Anti-war Com
mittee. Adm. l0c.
PEN & HAMMER MEMBERS and their
friends are to meet at $50 pm. sharp
on SW. corner 9th Ave. " Sand St, to
attend the Madison Square Garden meet
ing en- masse.
DR.. g. LEROY speaks on Soviet Trade
Unions VS. MIRA. Codes" at 14O1 Jerome
Ave cor 10th St. $3.50 pm. Very cool,
free lemonade Adm 1oc. Auspices Mt.
Eden Br. F.S.U.
Saturday
MOONLIGHT DANCE and Entertainment
at Manhattan Beach Hotel Garden. 1856
West End Ave, 800 pm. Auspices ocean
Side Br. F,S.U. Fine program will be
presented including Workers Lab. Theatre
and Jean Phillip, Paramount Theatre
performer.
STATEN ISLAND SECTION LID. Picnic
Sunday, July 9th, at Scandinavian Work
ers Summer Home, Poillon Ave. near
waterfront, Annadale, 81. Sports, dane
ing, swimming Special bus leaves st.
George Ferry II am. and pm. Come
early and bring your friends. Donation
25c.
LAST CALL for the 2o-50qe Discount
Sale at the Workers Book Shops Sale
ends July 7th. Saturday, 7 pm. so z.
NJ n