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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
WHAT'S ON

MONDAY -
ALL MEMBERS Of the old Unity Co.
operative Organization are called to a
membership meeting to be held at the
Workers Center. IS East 18th St., Room
204, on Wednesday, June Goth at 800 pm.
OPEN AIR NETTING pm. at Union
Square, by Tom Mooney Br. LID. Of 3ll
E. 18th st.
TO ALL MEMBERS, sympsthizers and
friends Of the I.LD-The Labor Defender
is organizing a chorus. The first meeting
will be held Monday night pm, Finnish
Hall is w. i26th st.
THEATRE ARTS WORKSHOP Of League
OF Workers Theatres. John E. Bonn, Ex-
ecutive Director Of Theatre Collective
speaks on: Practical Solutions of Re-
pertory Problem" Monday $3.50 pm, at
Theatre Collective, So w, 18th st.
BOAT RIDE and Picnic, Sunday, June
oath to Hook Mountain on SIS. Islander.
Dancing. games, baseball. Buffet at city
prices. Tickets s1.00 on sale at F.S,U..
799 Broadway, Room 233 Boat leaves Pier
Battery Park $50 am. Return II pm.
BANQUET June 2srd at Ambassador
Hall. 1875 Third Ave. celebrating 9th An
niversary LID. Leon Blum guest OF
honor. Speakers, R. B. Moore Allan Taub
and others Entertainment. Hot supper,
Admission so cents. Auspices Bronx Sec
ton LID.
FIRST ANNIVERSARY of the death of
Rose Pastor Stokes and Clara zetkin,
Wednesday, June 20 $3.50 pm. at Victorian
Room, Irving Plaza. East 18th st. and
Irving Place. Speakers, Carl Brodslly. Rose
Wortis, Richard B. Moore. Louis LYMAN
Also Pierre Degeyter Quintette, Freiheit
Chorus, New Dance soloists Admission Csc.
WOMEN'si mass meeting Monday night
$3.50 pm, at Arverne Community Center,
Beach 6Tth and Larkin SITS, Arverne. L. I.
against war and fascism. Auspices. Rock
away League Against War and Fascism
and Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom. Admission 10 cents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Stage and Screen
"Her Majesty, the Widow"
Opens Tonight At Ritz

"Her Majesty, the Widow" COM
edy by John Charles Brownell, au-
thor of Brain Sweat" will open this
evening at the Ritz Theatre with
Pauline Frederick in the star role.
o her players include Charles
Mitchell Harris, Thomas Beck,
Grayce Hampton and Laurette Bull
livant.
Gypsy Blonde" will be the title
of the revival of Balfe's operetta,
"the Bohemian Girl" which the
American Civic Opera Company will
present on Monday evening, June
25 at the Lyric Theatre. George
Trabert, Isabelle Henderson, John
Quincy, John Hendricks and Gloria
Vera will play leading roles.
The Bill Rose Music Hall, for
merly known as the Manhattan
Theatre, will open on Thursday
evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
III.
Franz Braun

THIS is an entirely new type of
writer: dramatically opposite to
the petty bourgeois picture. He
has become hard and disciplined.
Today in a cellar he edits an ille-
gal newspaper-on leave from
death. Tomorrow he composes
political couplets. The day after
tomorrow he prints them or
pastes them on walls and in the
midst of all this he sees the ma
terial which will form the basis
of a novel or a great piece Of re-
porting. No theatrical first night
resounds with ovations for this
author. No prizes are awarded to
him. No big royalties are accu-
mulated for the likes of him. No
newspapers blazon his name. Or
if at all, then in small type from
some official government news
service, a notice.
July 14th-FranZ Braun, edi-
tor of the newspaper, Peoples
Guardian, of Stettin, found
dead in his cell. -.
And on the next day, some one
else takes his place.
What does the world know of
Franz Braun? Very little. He is
one Of many who some fine day
bob up out Of the obscurity of the
working class carrying under his
arm a manuscript in fine clean
handwriting: a novel which de-
picts the development of young
Catholic worker to freethinker
and class conscious worker. The
young Catholic worker-that is
himself, Franz Braun; it is his
own life which he describes. This
novel appears on the feature page
of a freethinkers' newspaper, and
Franz Braun remains in the group
of revolutionary writer's, organ
ICES, writes short stories and arti-
Giles, learns. and is active here and
there: he lives in one of Berlin's
suburbs; he goes hungry; and
when he wants to attend lit
erary event, or to go to meet
ing of fellow writer's, he has to
walk for hours, because he hasn't
the money for street car ride.
And on July IA the official Nazi
news services sent out notice:
Frame Braun, Editor Of the
newspaper, Peoples Guardian,
of Stettin, found dead in his
cell.
And the fight goes on. Another
springs into the gap which Braun
has left. We do not write this
simply because we assume it to
be true. No, we know it is so. The
illegal literature printed on HEX
tographs or mimeographed, the
newspapers and pamphlets repro
duced by means of photography
and the press-all testify to this.
The stream continues!
In our youth. Emil Zola's "J'ac-
cuse" was for all of us the very
essence of a writer's hcroism. He
accused the heads of society; he
exposed himself to the danger of
being sent to Jail for months, per-
haps even for several years.
But see how severe are the de-
mands which life today makes on
the heroism of the anti-fasciSt
writer! If he is captured at his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18

I experienced the trial. For six years
Erich Muehsam was incarcerated in
the Bavarian penitentiary before the
efforts of his friends could win re-
lease for him.
These years of Imprisonment could
not influence Muehsam's attitude.
This man, who wrote the workers
drama, Judas" whose malicious
satirical poems hit and hit de-
structively, whose song of the re-
formist Lamp Cleaner Lampen-
putzer) has become an inseparable
part of German political literature
took up once again in his maya
zine, Fanal, the fight exactly at the
point where imprisonment had in
terrupted him.
For years in all Berlin gatherings
of cultural, humanitarian, and left
list political organizations, tn e
characteristic head of the old anar-
chist was to be seen. His dynamic
eloquence and his wild humor were
proverbial in Berlin.
THIS man was arrested on the
night of the Reichstag fire. His
captors plucked out his beard, cut
a swastika in his hair; for weeks
on end they thrashed inhumanly
this sick man, more than fifty years
old, whose body was weakened by
privation.
In the face of all these atrocities,
bought journalists had the face to
assert that Erich Muehsam was
drinking coffee, smoking cigars, and
in the best of health in prison.
Friends who accidently saw him in
his confinement, were horror struck
at the sight. In a few months
Muehsam had become almost COM
pletely deaf.
The justice of the Nazi Third
Reich which has perpetrated the
shameless farce of the Reichstag
trial, had cooked up against Much
sam an accusation which is obvi-
ously nonSensical they want to
hold him responsible for the execu-
ton of bourgeois hostages by the
Red Army in Munich in 1919. Long
ago in his trial it was proved def
nitely that Muehsam had neither
known anything of the original ar
rest of the hostages, nor had he
anything to do with their execu-
ton. He had been arrested on
April 10, 1919, and not till four
weeks later were the hostages ex-
ecuted.
AS these lines are being written, we
learn that, short time ago in the
Sonnenberg concentration camp,
Erich Muehsam was commanded to
sing the Nazi Horst Vessel Song
Though the sick old man had al
ready undergone the most terrible
exper len C es under the rubber
truncheons of the Storm Troopers,
he valiantly refused to obey the or
DIR. Finally exhausted by the hid
eous experiences Of the day, he COL
lapsed on his straw pallet. But in
the middle of the night he stood up
and sang-The International! He
sang it through three times. Then
his tormentors took him off to a
mental sanitorium.
S.O.S,-Help, for Erich Muehsam
Ito be continped.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Communist Candidate
In Pittsburgh Spent
Years in Steel Mills

War Day speech in Monessen. In
October Of the same year, he was
arrested, finger printed, and fined
for a senatorial candidate speech
on the steps Of the City County
Building.
Since August. 1892, as president
of the S. M. w. I. o.. Cush has
led picket lines in strikes Of the
union at Warren, Ohio, McKees
Rock, and Greensburg, and when
Madame Frances Perkins sat in
Homestead to hear objections to the
pending steel code, he broke through
a Gordon Of steel company gunner
and thugs to present to the madame
the Steel and Metal Workers code
and demand the release of Borich,
Marenich, Thomas, and other class
war prisoners. In October, 1888,
he was active in the Ambridge
strike and protested the murder Of
Adam Pietrusish to the labor board.
MARCH, 1884, again found Cush
VI making life miserable for Wash
ington officials, when he appeared
at the capital to present the S. NJ
w I. U. grievances against the new
deal and denounce the N. r. A. as
an open attack on the workers. Later
he presented the Steel and Metal
Workers case against the strike
breaking Wagner bill.
AS Communist Party candidate
for governor of the steel-ridden
Keystone State, Cushs platform is
for the immediate enactment of the
Workers Bill III. R. 1899; full
guarantee to workers of the right
to organize, strike and picket; the
6-hour day and the 5-day week in
all industries; equal rights for Ne
groes; abolition Of sweatshops and
child labor; abolition Of deputizing
of company gunner and thugs, and
Of coal-and-iron police; and against
war and fascism.
In his May Day speech on the
North Side, Cush promised as his
first official move as governor, to
abolish the Pennsylvania State
Constabulary, strike breaking Co.'S
sacks of the steel trusts.
He has been attacked, beaten,
kidnapped, Jailed time and again,
by the ruling class lackeys, and only
few weeks ago a cash was laid
open in his skull by the blackjack Of
j. g. L.-hired thug, who slugged
him down as he was about to enter
union meeting on the South Side.
But none of these attacks daunt
the courage of this 67-year old vet
eran Of the class war, who carries
into his gubernatorial candidacy on
the only workers party ticket, the
benefit of over fifty years expert
ence in the van of struggles of the
American working class, and cpl
tomizes its best traditions Of mill
tant leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

IINDERa fierce sum- tar frying all the great
shpyrd and acres of red lead paint dazzled the eye
1t uy afternoon Coils of rusty cable, and rudders
old fywes and stacks of lumber cuttered the dock
the cashiers shack The steaming waited for their
grumed shifted
enormous rehistorc monster, the skeleton Of ship"
-sn glied on the blue Water and there was southwest
% be7 beautiful day for the fishing and hundred row.
bo scattered They stakes,
thu bobhd the lighthouse like flock of gus"
he the opening the chapters
world
Any mother embryo impOr
tan must the involved to finish such job The
nay poor msshapen parent involved must
and Dies
TIE child may kind of Walter
Ippmn or it may only be another creduOus member of the A.
the system, whatever the future hold.
Why the Explanation
given
Gan who familiar to the readers of the Daily Worker will
conduct the column in absence.
These explanations lay
of for a while there amazing
there people nges
Of the Communist movement and down like vres whenever
there is break Of any kind.
With true carrion instinct these Trotzky Socialist
liberals refuse to believe that the Communist Party living thing
1t bleed it suffer from blows but it
will understand anxiety
find signs of decay is really nauseaing
pet writer or intellectual
cannot function in the Communist
Whenever writer swollen with his Importance
finds that the Communist will him the generahip
he thinks him Phi Kappa
busy vutures offer him and welcome
The socaed American Workers Party
kind group senfated cyclists
Trotzkytes
dcpining people bringing out
of their selfish ndivduaic bourgeois pattern
modesy loyalty working class the
vures hatter their weakness and whatever
in these misfts.
said the last time took leave of this column
supreme of them spread the
the brutal Santes proving
the American Communist
could stand the State Building and know
aat carried
ech them AS it u.s. only Gentlemen
III There only place in the world where revolutionary writer
n creative that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
Brains Behind Barbed Wire!
Collective Report Persecution in Nazi Germany

work, no public opinion can raise
its voice, no release pending trial,
no long winded court proceedings,
no sentence of a dozen or so
months Of political arrests. Only
short report in the official Nazi
news service:
Franz Braun found dead in
his cell.
In the world outside of Ger
many there is something called
public opinion. If public opinion
once supported Emile lola in his
fight, with what force should it
today support these Franz
BraunS, who in Germany-dead
men on leave-f1ing their "J'ac-
cuse" in the very face of fascisn.
Gregor Cog
THERE are rebels who reject the
existing social order by putting
themselves beyond it, by becoming
outsiders. The early years of go
ing on the bum" in the lives of
Maxim Cork and Jack London re-
suited from this kind of attitude.
Vagabonding constitutes only an
episode in the lives of many. Gregor
Cog, too, began as tramp. But
even after he had long since given
it up, he never lost his feeling for
the life. One of the decisive turn
ing points in his life was his trip
to the Soviet Union. There this
romantic anarchist experienced the
ascent Of world which is built up
on the basis of scientific Marxism
and the struggle of the entire work.
ing class.
His love for tramps did not
diminish. On the contrary, he bent
his energies to the task of organiz-
ing the homeless. He founded the
Association of Tramps" (Bund der
Vagabunden), held a great Congress
of Tranps in Stuttgart, and despite
the severest material sacrifices, pub
ished his paper, THE Tramp" der
Vagabund). Around this publica-
ton gathered many people of lit
erary and artistic talent, whom
Cog spurred on and led to creative
production. Two big exhibitions
showed important results.
Today Cog is in the concentration
camp at Neuberg. He is seriously
i'll. Last winter he could only get
about with the aid of crutches.
Weak, sick, and sensitive of spirit,
will he come alive out of this camp
in which he is subjected to a con-
centrated regime of heavy labor,
miserable food, humiliations and
mistreatment?
Erich Muehsam
In 1919, as the Soviet government
in Munich, Bavaria, was drowned in
a sea of blood, among thousands of
others the anarchist writer's, Gus
tav Laundauer and Erich Muehsam
were arrested. Landauer was litter
ally trampled to death by Reichs-
wehr soldiers in the Stadelheim pri-
son. He died with curse against
"swinish nilitarisn" on his lips. His
fellow partisan, Erich Muehsam was
put on trial and sentenced to ten
years penitentiary. His speech be-
fore the court, the audacity and
sarcasm with which he flung his
charges in the faces of the judges
was unforgettable for everyone who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
TUNING In

oo-wEAF-Baseball Resume
WOR-sports Talk-Ford Prick
WJZ-Amos n Andy-Sketch
T:l5-wEAF-Gene and Glenn-Sketch
woR-Crime Investigation-Deputy
Chief Inspector John J. O'onnen
wJz-Coleman Orchestra
WABC-Just Plain Bill-Sketeh
3o-wEAF-shirley Howard, Sons; Trio
VORTEX Fletcher, Songs
wJz-Present Status Of the Refugee
James c. Mcdonald, High Com
missioner for Refugees from Ger
many
wABc-Armbruste Orch; Jimmy
Kemper, Songs
7:45-wEAF-The Goldbergs-Sketch
WOR-Jack Arthur, Baritone
WJz-Mario Cozzi, Baritone
wABC-Boake Carter. Commentator
-WEAF-An Honest Deal-Sketeh
WOR-Al and Lee Reiser, Piano
WJz-Afnev Orchestra
WABC-Voice Of Experience
s:lS-WOR-Lucky and Lefty-Sketch
wABC-Edwin c. Hill. Commentator
3o-wEAF-symphony Orchestra; Gladys
swarthout, Soprano
WOR-Wallenstein's Sinfonietts
wJZ-Commodores Quartet
wABC-Lillian Roth. Sons; Edward
Nell. Jr. Baritone; Dance Orch
s:45-WJZ-Bsbe Ruth
oo-wEAF-Gypsies Orchestra; Robert
wOR-Dance Orchestra
Simmons. Tenor
WJz-Mnstrel Show
WABC-R osa Ponselle, Soprano;
Kostelanetz Orchestra
e:s0-WEAF-Joe Cook, Comedian: Donald
Novis Tenor; Frances Langforo,
Contralto; voorhees, Orchestra
WOR-The ONeills-Sketoh
WJz-Pasternack Orchestra, PHI
Duey, Baritone
WABC-Gertrude Nissen, Songs;
Rapee Orchestra; Sketch, With
s:45-WOR-Jane Froman, Songs
Helen Menken
:0O-WEAF-Eastman Orchestra; Lullaby
Lady; Gene Arnold NARRATOR
Amelita Galli-Curci, Soprano
WOR-Same as WIZ
WJZ-Annral Convention, Advertise
ing Federation of America Hotel
Pennsylvania; Speaker H. V. Kali
tenboJl
wABC-Little Orchestra
lo:30-wEAF-Mixed Chorus
wOR-Studio Concert
wABC-Mary Eastman, Sopranoi
Evan Evans. Baritone
i0:45-wJz-The N.R.A-Charles Garvin,
Secretary National Stationers As
scciation
f:OO-WEAF-News; Mary CORTLAND Songs
woR-weather; Moonbeams Trio
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18

Oracle Allen and George Burns,
the vaudeville "hoofers" who have
battered their way to success on
screen and radio are going to look
over Sovietland.
More likely they heard what a
good time "Harpo' Marx and the
Lunts had romping with Moscow's
famous theatre people last year.
George expressed a great interest
in the Moscow theatre and opera.
Intourist, the State Travel Com
pany of the Soviet Union, will look
after them in Moscow and Lenin-
grad where they will spend fifteen
days. The Barons wife, Mrs. Jack
Pearl is going along.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
SUMMER DYNAMO" OUT

NEW YORK.-An enlarged sum-
mer issue of Dynamo" journal of
revolutionary poetry, is now out. 1t
contains poems by Isidor Schneider,
Guggenheim Poetry Prize winner;
w. H. Auden, the English radical
poet; Ben Maddow, Andre Spire,
Orrick Johns, Hector Rella, Joseph
Freeman. Essays and reviews by
Wallace Phelps, Herman Spector,
and Charles Henry Newman. Dy-
namo is published at "a Horatio
St., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
And an Appeal!

BEFORE close should like appeal project
y think has a high revolutionary Importance.
Certain comrades trying to establish paper
Workers Voice."
All of the Communist important
sacrifices the workers make keep their
to the Communist journals
Importance should first, the
the steel workers. then the wkes the dggers
ployed movement and the
then, the New Masses and then the
this kind foolish
that is hard to discriminate necessary
times the masseffort not to be wasted
the present moment believe
of the Irish workers
interest
Murray Party,
lip movement the strategic value of the Irish
Hold positions holds
key position in the world fight imperialism.
If the two issues linked exploitation
America and the mpera of the
land, big sections of the Irish workers b
indispensable
rebel spirit that necessary they
have political role second only to that of the
Ishmen in America than Every
America If will study this Irish question cuousy
Enough that the Irish workers
If the Soviet Union
I urge strongly for this new
the Irish Workers Voice At
comrades that Negroes
Of America the moment has
sary great sections of workers
Carn will conduct
this toward the Irish
yyedanno Revolution
hell with the sourbeles.
MIKE GOLD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
BY T. w. SHANE, Jr.


PTTTSBURGH-A glance back
ward over the lifelong activities Of
E. Patrick Cush, Communist Party
candidate for governor of the state
of Pennsylvania, tells a story OF
unbroken participation in struggles
Of the working class against op-
preston, from his first strike in the
Jones and Laughlin chain mill at
the age of IL, in 1879, up to his duty
at the present time Of keeping
eagle-eyed watch on the maneu-
vers Of Roosevelt cohorts in Wash
ington to break the steel strike
AS national president of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, Cush's time is completely
taken up with union work in con-
nection with the impending steel
struggle, but he will begin an &C
tive campaign Immediately on his
return from Washington.
From 1886, when he joined the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel, and Tin Workers at the age
of 10, until 1929, Cush worked for
better wages and working conditions
within the A. F. Of L. union, tax
ing also the lead in the fight against
the trade union bureaucrats for
rank and file control.
In 1879 he was blacklisted by the
]. & L. company and ten years
later, at the age of 81, he was fired
and blacklisted by the Carnegie
Steel Company for his activities as
president of the Homestead AA.
lodge, in which capacity he led the
militant opposition to the tyran-
nical rule of Charley Schwab, at
that time superintendent of the
Homestead mill.
From 1890 to 1892 Cush devoted
his energies to organizing the Rocky
Mountain lodge Of the AA., for
which he was duly rewarded by the
Colorado Coal and Iron Co. by be-
ing fired, blackisted, and evicted
from his home in the fall Of '92.
Returning to Pittsburgh, Cush
found work for a time with the
Carnegie Steel and j. & l.. COM
panies, but was soon removed again,
this time permanently, from the
payrolls of both companies, and was
forced to conf1ne his efforts to the
smaller of the iron and steel COM
panies in and around Pittsburgh.
One Of the latter, the Moorehead
Co. of Sharpsburg, discharged him
in 1918 for refusing to buy Liberty
Bond.
IN 1919 Cush accomplished the I'M
1 usual task of organizing both
finishers and puddlers in the Wayne
Iron Co. into one lodge, and was
named president of this local. He
was active in the steel strike in
this year, being assigned to the
Homestead territory, and was a
leading member of the Legal De-
Tense Committee during the strug
gle.
AS president of the North Side
lodge of the AA. he was sent as a
representative of the "A. rank and
file in the first American delegation
to the Soviet Union, there making
a report to Losovsky on working
conditions in the U. S. mills.
In 1929 Cush was a candidate for
Mayor of Pittsburgh, and at the
Cleveland Convention Of the Trade
Union Unity League he was elected
as a member of the committee to
organize the Metal Workers Indus
trial League.
He was arrested and jailed for
thirty days, in 1890, for an Anti
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-18
"TdnhduSer" To Be Added
To HippOdrOn,e Wednesday

Wagner's "Tannhauser" will be
added to the repertoire of the Hip
podrome Opera Company on We'd
nesday evening. Charlotte Ryan,
Dreda AYES, Louis Dorne, and Carl
Schiffeler will sing the principal
roles. Harry Ladek will conduct
and the Mildred Schneider Ballet
will dance. Other operas of the
week are I'll Trovatore," Tuesday
evening with Richter and Lindi;
Samson and Dalila," Thursday
night with Castagna and Ferrara;
La Traviata," Friday evening with
Lola Monti-Gorsey and Power;
"Manon Lescaut." Saturday night
with Cont and Radaelli and Bar
Der of Seville" on Sunday evening.