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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Garlin to Lecture on
Press in Middle West
Cities for New Masses

NEW YORK,-sender Garlin,
staff writer of the Daily Worker
and contributor to the New Masses.
leaves soon for q one-week speak
ing tour under the auspices of
the New Masses. The meetings
have been arranged by the John
Reed Clubs, Pen and Hammer and
National Students League.
Garlin's schedule follows: CIeve-
land-Workers School. 1924 Pros
pect Ave, Sunday night, May 20:
Detroit-Hotel Fort Wayne, Temple
and Cass Ave. Monday night. Ann
Arbor, Mich.-National Student
League, Tuesday night; Chicago
Medical and Dental Arts Building
Auditorium, 1876 Wabash Ave,
Wednesday night; MiIwauke
John Reed Club, 312 West State
St. Thursday night.
DO You Believe What You
Resd?" is the subject of Gsrlin's
lectures in all the cities except
Detroit where he speaks on RE
form or Revolution in American
Literature?"
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TUNING In

TOO P. M,-wEAF-Bssebau Results
WOR--5ports Fesume-Ford Prick
WJZ-Anios N Andy-Sketch
WABC-Sylvia Froos, Songs
7.l5-wEAF-Gens and Glenn-skstch
WOR-Jsek Arthur, Baritone
WED Lowry. Comedian
WABC-Jus tPlain Bill-Sketch
7:so-W EAF-shirIey Howard, Songs; Trio
-ssgerquist Orchestra. Don
Ameohs and Sally Wsrd-Sketeh
wABC-serenaders Orchestra
wEAF-The Goldbergs- Sketch
WABC-Boake Carter, Commentator
s:00-WEAF-Vsllee Orchestra; Soloists
WOR-Little Symphony Orchestra,
Philip James, Conductor
WJZ-Grits and Gravy-Sketch
WABC-Emery Deutsch, Violin
WABC-Easy Aces-Sketch
$50 WABC-R affles-Sketch
WJZ-From Vadso, Norway; Music
800 WEAF-Captain Henry's show Boat
WOR-Variety Musicale
WJZ-Death Valley Dsys-sketeh
WABC-waTnow Orchestra; Claude
Refs. Tenor; Alexander semmier,
Piano
15-WOR-Studio Recital
s30-WOR-s uccess-Harry Balkln
WJz-Duchin Orchestra
WABC-waring Orchestra
WOR-The Witch's Tale-Sketch
10;o0-W EAF- whitemsn Orchestra, Nikits
Ballet In Sketches
WJz-Europe-Pesce Or wsr-Dr.
Philip Noel-Bsker; Thomas W La
mont. at Students International
Union Dinner
WABC-Gray Orchestra; StoopnsgI
and Budd, Comedians; Connie Bos-
we'll, Songs
l5-WOR-Current Events-H z. Read
10! -WOR--wsrren Orchestra
WJz-Jesef Lhevine, Pianist
WABC-Wheeler Orchestra; Doris
Lorraine, Songs
10: 5-WABC-Peabody Quartet
0-WEAF-Leaders Quartet
WOR-Weather; Moonbesms Trio
wJz-Cavaliers Male Quartet
WABC-Vera Van, ContraIto
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Trial Performance of
Workers Newsreel by
Film League Sunday

NEW York; trial perform
ance of the new Workers Newreel
Theatre will take place on Sunday,
May 20, at the Film and Photo
League, 10 E. 18th St., from pm.
continuously. until II pm.
There will be dozens Of shots"
never before released. including the
only film record of the scene out
side of Madison So. Garden Just
after Clarence Hathaway, editor of
the Daily Worker, was assaulted as
well as thrilling pictures Of the May
Day parade taken from an airpIane.
In addition, movies will be shown
Of the freighter Kim, of the recent
New York taxi strike, the farmers
strike and conference in Washing
ton, the Ambridge massacre, the
Scottsboro trial, and numerous
other scenes of working class strug-
gle. The proceeds Of this perform
ance will go to the Communist
Party.
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Thursddy
Reviewed by
ROBERT HAMILTON

OPEN FORUM at Pen Il Hammer, ia
W 3ist st. at $40 pm. Philosophy in
Fsscsim' by Jack Librome. Adm. Csc,
s. SKLAROFF speaks on The Jew in
Germany and the Jew in the Soviet
Union" 1880 wilkins Ave. near Freeman
st. sta, $50 pm. Auspices: East Bronx
Br F.sU
UNEMPLOYED WORKERS Pack Court
Room Magistrates Court, Fiatbush and
Snyder Ave, Brooklyn, ? am, to pro-
test arrest Of four unemployed workers
at home relief bureau. Ella May BIZ, LID
WESLEY Everest Br. LID. open meet
ing at 81 Henry st., Brooklyn. Joseph
Tauber speaker.
SOVIET CHINA. Strike Struggles IN
China, lecture by John Phillips at Friends
Of the Chinese People 1853 W. 2srd ST.,
Room Ia. Adm 1sc
MEETING Of Arrangement Committee
for Daily Worker Excursion at IS z. f2th
ST.. Sth floor. pm All who wish TO
volunteer on this committee should he
present.
woMEN,s Mass Meeting Against War
and Faseisrn, Boro Park, at Finnish Hall,
764-4oth St., 8 p. m, Speakers: Anna
Schultz, Ray CLARK, Hans johnson, Evi
suvantoo. Adm. l0c.
ALL STUDENTS Potamkin Film School
urged to attend last session $50 D. m.
Film shot by school will be shown.
IRISH Workers Club, lot W. Tooth st.
Open Forum on 'Fascism or Freedom
Why the Bius Shirts in Ireland; $50
pm. Adm. free.
GENERAL Membership Meeting Steve
Katoyis Br. LID. at Manhattan Lyceum,
So f. 4th St., 8 pm.
Two Br, $40 meets at the Red Nook.
2s0e Bronx Park East. Discussion will
follow short business meeting.
ITJTJ9TR ATFD Lecture IN Soviet TJnfop
by Mrs. Susan H. Woodruff AT Chinese
Workers Center, % w. nth St, $40 pm.
Adm. free.
THEODORE BAYER, lecture on First
and Second Five-Year Plans" Last OF
SERIES History Of Russian Revolution Mid
town Br, F.s.U., IL W. 18th ST. Adm. Toe
MEETING Animated Film Group. Ali
interested invited 81 g. 9th St. $40 pm.
PHILIP RAHV, OF the John Reed Club
speaks on Culture and Fsseism" at Edith
Berkman Br. LID at Boro Park Workers
Club, 47o4-lst Ave, Brooklyn, $50 pm,
Friday
S-DAy MAY Festival and Bazsar. Final
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The manager blurts out, "Ra-
tions. And-and money. That va
RES
WE THANK him for his time. He
= hurries back to his Office more
than glad for having gotten rid of
this wasp with a tongue like a
parslyzing sting, this clean-cut
young worker who can use his fists
like iackhammers at the proper
time.
Pepper SAYS. THE men here, few
get more than IS a week. They
work for rations. There's a lot of
opposition to this Commissary by
the local stores because the Com
n1issary gets its stock cheap from
the packers, millers, big Wholesale
houses It's Mrs. Pinchot who gave
that flye-cent dinner to the first
lady she's mostly to blame for this.
You saw the cans. They were in a
fire. We sent delegation to Mrs.
Pinehot's mansion with a sample
Of one Of those cans. She kept our
delegation waiting till they we're
footsore. Finally they forced her
to see them.
"All she could talk about was the
sweatshop conditions in eastern
Pennsylvania where you come from
now and where she's been parading.
And the delegation was taken in by
her. When they came back. we sent
her telegram to show we were
also interested in sweatshop condi-
tons. We said the worst sweatsnop
conditions in the country prevailed
in her darling Commissary where
men work 10 hours a day, She
never answered that"
Pepper smiles again. His face has
the mobility of melted iron that
can take any shape, any hardness
under discipline that keeps the
inner fire to fine point. we
haven't done so much in York vet. .
he says. but We keep our heads on
our necks and our hands busy
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Music, Dancing Among
Features at the District
Bazaar May % to 27

NEW YoRK,-Great interest is
being aroused by the entertain
ment at the five-day Festival and
Bazaar. which the New York Dis
trict of the Communist Party is
holding at Manhattan Lyceum, Sc
F, 4th St, from May % through
May 27.
On Wednesday evening. May %,
Andre Cibulski, the distinguished
singer, is appearing in a program
of stirring revolutionary songs. The
Two. Symphony Orchestra, under
Irving Korenmans direction, and
the Kotkin trio, piano, violin and
cello. will offer music of high
quality Dancers will appear in a
new program.
Many workers will come to the
bazaar primarily to buy the various
articles they need for summer wear
and vacations. Since a wide va
Iiety of goods will be on sale. the
Festival and Bazaar Committee
urges all comrades to concentrate
during the next week on collecting
articles which can be turned into
cash at the bazaar.
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w H A T. ON

meeting, all delegates Friday, May is, $50
p m. Room 2o3, 50 z. 18th st. AL Red
Honor Rolls, greetings and ads must be
in at this meeting.
FREMONT PROG. CLUB, sse e. Ire
mont Ave Lecture by John Philips, on
"Imperialist Struggles in China and the
Significance Of the Chinese sovists in
These Struggles"
ILLUSTRATED Lecture By Sender Gsr-
lin, DO You Believe What You Readp--
Behind the Headlines from 1895 to 1884
John Reed Club, 43o-sth Ave. 9 m. AUS
piees, Press League. Adm use.
THE NEW DANCE Group is nov located
at II =, 14th St, ] flight Up New
classes are still open for membership.
Meets on Tuesday, pm. and Wednesday
3 pm.
Boston, Mass.
GEORGE wIsHNAcK. Business Manager
Of the Daily Worker, will speak al the
Conference arranged BY District Daily
Worker Comm for Saturday, May 10, al
3 pm at ii3 Dudley St All sympathetic
delegates.
Philadelphia
BANQUET and Concert for Daily Worker
saturday May y, $50 pm, az lI0a Iaskef
st. Spaghetti Dinner. Nelli Browns Or
ehestrs. Award OF Red Banner to best
worker in circulation drive Adm. s5c.
Auspices DIV. Comm. Sect. CP.
CieUeIdnd, Ohio
THE OHIO Dist. Two is having IT'S
state picnic Sunday. August as, 1894, at
White stumps Picnic Grounds Stop IS
Kinsmsu Rd The Two. is appealing 20
other organizations in c1r movement not
to occupy this date.
THE Communist Party Dist is having
Its picnic July at Hasgs Grove, 5sz7
Broadview Rd
Chicago, III.
F.s.U Mass Meeting What Is The
Real Meaning Of the Latest Move Against
the Soviet Union7" Speakers. Robert
Minor. Carl Hsessler. Friday, MAY Is, a.
8 pm, Peoples Auditorium, PAST Chicago
Avenue.
DenUer, Colo.
DAILY WORKER affair. Sunday. Msv
81, at Eagles Hall Io3o-isth 81 Music,
Workers Play. Dancing Adm t5e, With
Unemployment Council Card Sc
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Defend the Public Schools!

DON'T think comrade Davis familiar with the organizing
work that has already this peded
of tHped and quadrpd these whecor
receptive today the Communist redemption
struggle the ntelecuals Russia
And 1t true believe that the
added steps popularize this fight thrilling
and educational thing it might
the revolutionary
certain day to the public
of the do1ar-fascts
It the American working fought
through their trade unions establish public system
IT would be in the proearan tradition they again
to defend their institutions.
sight
of the wood because Of the
The Communist Party fights the
artists and professionals veteran the
farmer other class capitalism
But its main task to channel this Mississippi suffering
and struggle into the direction of socialist
for all swa-
lows all the lesser
And has its strategy fight workers
world in which production will furnish
the industries of America the
conflict
The basic today to the Industries
to Communism. Without them all only
professionals their to under
stand this necessary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17

Mrs. Governor Pinchot's pet, the
Cornmissary.
DEEPER takes us over to the Com
,nlissary, which is In back alley.
A state trooper squats on chair
near the door reading q paper, We
ask the guide whether there's no
other reading room for state troop
ers. The guide, who is also the
manager Of the Commissary. saws.
This is a state project. So it's
natural to have a state trooper
around. Just as natural to have in
this town a policeman on a corner"
Pepper is recognized by every
body. ooh, I've been here once or
twice before"
The elevator man, cigar stub fu-
nigating the air. brings us up
stairs. We inspect flour. frigid-
aires, meat. The meat is bright red
as If it had been artiheially COL
ored. No tubs of butter. only but
terine. Lots Of canned stuff. labels
gone cans rusty and bent. Pep
per says, Fire sale"
The manager raises his voice.
Here's enough spaghetti to feed
the town, This is bag for four
people. How many families can eat
so much in one week? This Is a
portion for one, this for two, this
for three"
The portion for two is not double
that for one.
We pass the investigators room
with a table around which two men
are thumbing papers. "Hows bust
ness?''
A peaked little man with wrin-
kles round his face and head as if
he'd been wrapped and bound with
hamstrings, mutters: Bout the
same. No increase
Peppers eyes sparkle. Increase
Of so cases this week alone"
Downstairs on the main floor the
unemployed are strung out as If
they are waiting to go through hop
psrs-TB. Diet. Prenatal, Old Age,
etc. Pepper ssys. There. amt the
great difference here they want you
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to believe" He walks over to the of
flee. One Of the Office help wants
his advice about a certain case.
A CASE shoves over to us with
a whisper Bloodless face, thin as
bone splinter, mouth smelling like
an infested wound. "Wife's sick
They won't give her fruit or any,
thing. The doctors got to okey
everything. He says she's got an
appetite. That means, he says, she's
all right. Jesus. you got to die be-
fore they give you anything they
call special"
The fat manager hurries over.
The ease" clans up and moves
away.
The manager explains the sign
that reads so much like bibli-
cal injunction: The Man of the
House Should Get His Own Food. .
He says. TT amt the woman's Job
to carry the load back. Women CAB
too much. Yah, they got to regis
ter in their churches. People come
from all parts of the town, from
the bullfrog end of York, That's
the poorest part of the town.
Pepper looks at the sign, That
keeps the rope on the men"
Do the unemployed ever ask for
cash relief?
Some do. They're the kind who
never worked and don't want to
work. They won't ever work"
Pepper has his hands on his hips.
That's not SO, It's those whove
had fruit and candy and know what
good eating is who kick the most"
The manager f1ushes. Anyway,
it's the most economical way. Here
l am a taxpayer, a property owner,
and sooner or later I'm going to
pay for all this
Pepper says. THE workers and
the unemployed have paid and pay
and pay"
Anyway, I'm not kicking because
it's the cheapest way"
1T is the cheapest way
How much do the Conlnissary
workers get2
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York Unemp loyed Council : B, Ben Field

WOODEN frame building near the
" railroad crossing. Walls peeling.
Rooms bare No inside toilet. But
workers coming in and out, And
upstairs working on leaflet, Sin
gleton and Pepper, two Of the most
active members Of the Council.
Pepper is young man, examiner.
with large ears and shy smile.
He talks Council.
The Council helped the farmers
win two fights. First time the milk
was raised from $1.20 to $1.70.
Showing like hell one Saturday
when the Council marshalled 400
men to help picket. Milk was dis
tributed among the unemployed.
Some of the milk had to be dumped.
Roads were so slippery with milk
the cops had to spread cinders on
them. Some of the COPS were
knocked about like Mexican Jump
ing beans. All but three dealers
signed. And then tailend of win
ter they helped fight the last big
dealer who was holding out. About
so members we're in the fight this
time. One of the boys stopped a
speeding truck by rushing in front
of 1t with a rock. That rock gave
the farmers the hold on the bull
nose of the dealer.
Most of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis Work is naturally done in
York. Fighting one eviction, they
moved the furniture back a dozen
times, So the landlady removed the
windows and doors of the fiat. They
moved the furniture back again.
She called in the city police, con-
stables, deputies, special officers.
They lost that fight. Then the city
would not grant them a May Day
parade permit in 1888. They de-
cided to march without one. The
police picked the Council leaders
off on their way to the parade. 18
Of them, and slugged them. Special
he1 session was held Sunday. And
so three were sentenced to so days
or fine of 500 The rest were re-
leased with suspended sentences.
The Council has also been fighting
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cred $4,000 signatures. protesting
the action and demanding the or
der be reversed. Cohen. the secre-
tary Of the City Committee set up
for this purpose, was able to swing
many students Of his school into
the movement. This so enraged
Fran Nieweg, the principal, that he
expelled Cohen.
Nieweg Is being flooded with tel
egrams from various mass organiza-
lions, teacher-parent associations.
etc, denouncing his action, and de-
handing both the Reinstatement
of Cohen and the re-opening of the
summer schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Protest Expulsion of
Philadelphia Student

PHILADELPHIA. - Nathan Co
hen, student at South Philadelphia
High School for Boys was expelled
for his activity in the fight to force
the Board of Education to reopen
the summer schools.
After an announcement that the
schools would not be open this
summer, the National Student
League sections In the various high
schools issued petition, and gath
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Work
By J.R.C. Writers
On the West Coast
THE PARTISAN, No. 5. April, 1894.
Box 29sS, Hollywood, Cal. cents.
Reviewed by
PHILIP RAHY

THAT the John Reed Clubs are
fast learning how to organize
their work along specific channels
Of literary and artistic activity Is
evidenced by the growing number
Of magazines they publish and the
definite progress to be observed in
the contents of these magazines.
The fifth issue of The Partisan" a
literary Journalistic monthly COM
ing to us from California. helps us
realize this fact all the more
clearly.
The present issue, as the previous
ones, contains number Of lively
articles on themes of immediate
interest, besides stories, poems, art.
theatre and film reviews. and short
notices Of books. Richard Bransten
contributes series of political por-
traits, simply written and much to
the point. The collectively created
Pacific Coast News Reel is an ex-
cellent journalistic feature, dealing
blows to such jingoes as William
Randolph Hearst and his creature,
Easley Of the National Civic Fed
Grafton, who Is an expert In pro-
noting the red scare. Harry Car
Isle writes on Dumping the
Dumps" and Philip Stevenson on
Ben Franklin vs.. Modern America. -
This latter article is the only
feature in the paper which seems
rather out of order, If not alto
gether damaging to the theological
clarity Of this militant publication.
Stevenson goes out OF his way to
prove by scraps of quotations that
If Franklin were alive today he
would take a stand against capt.
talisn-and all this on the basis
OF a few general remarks in Frank
Inns writings in which he pro-
tested against the exploitation of
the poor. Such an approach to
Franklin seems to me to wipe out
historical boundaries, representing
gFatuitous attempt to psycholo-
gize Franklin rather than to see
MN historically as one Of the lead
ing protagonists in the American
bourgeois-colonial revolution.
News Item" the story of an I'M
employed worker who commits sui
eide, by Alex Spartan. has enough
punch to 1t to outweigh its lack of
direct political content, which we
must expect from stories appearing
in the type of magazine THE Par
tisan" is. However, the poems bv
Orrick Johns in this issue make up
for whatever faults we might find
in the magazine on its literary side.
His two poems, WAR April" and
THE Poets Today" exelnplify the
considerable growth which this
poets work shows since he has come
over to the side of the revolution.
The art, film and theatre reviews
are particularly good, being rooted
in the local conditions of Cslifor-
MIA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

THE following letter. calling for Communist organization
L among the whte-coar classes of America. is written
with heat Probably is because the writer is closest
to the whe-colar worker and that Amer
problem in all its present seriousness and intensity
It is only short while ago. few years. in fact since
groups like the Fellowship debating
the middle should cast its sympathy with the fac
capitalism whether they ought
to remain neutral as God
There always pstronang debates. When
ddeca would decide to 30 something for the workers
unlovey settlement house who
brings something from above.
unvrrng economic struggle it
they supported strikes worngclass movements out Of
grauous generosity and only for the most soulful reasons
No Subject for GIoating
TODAY group depression lost
feelings of security and superiority They being
aanized Karl Marx predicted And lest any
fool Communist goang let
it but that Communists regard this great
spiritual tragedy what Of the most damning
indictments capitalism major why it
be rooted out of the world like cholera other fatal pe
ence.
For group up borne the burden of sci
not the j. Mogsns Henry Fods William
Randolph the coondges and Roosevel who wrote
poems symphonies who invented machines taught
built the houses and charted the planets
1t was the millions of undergrad teachers
nicans they really
building proAteers they
sinking into the harbrm Of the dollar
hunters.
depression things made plain, and of
the capitalists enemies OF culture
they making drive the public schools
social welfare organizations and the institutions for art and science
things not pay" cash returns But it the
wngass that fights for this civilization and many Of these pro-
nteecals this and joining hands
with the
And they don't nasty patronng spirit Of
Christian They their only
they that this their fight they
organizing protective Thousands of them
have marched protest paads they have become aaors and
time American
tory, many of the recent May demonstrations.
doesn't think this historic change going
thinks been neglectng
this group. is his letter:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Writers and Trade Union Leaders to
Speak at Symposium on "SteVedore"

will be Paul Peters, co-author of
''Stevedore," Michael Blanlfort,
director of the play; James Ford
member Of the National Bureau of
the Trade Union Unity League; An
drew Overgaard, secretary of the
TUUC., and others. Georgette
Harvey, who plays the role of Bin
ME- in the play, will sing Negro and
Russian songs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17

NEW YORK.-As the result of
the enthusiasm aroused among
trade union members by the play
"Stevedore, " the Trade Union Unity
Council has arranged q synposi-
UNI on Friday evening. May 1a, at
Labor Temple, Second Ave. and
14th ST., In which prominent speak
ers will discuss the problems raised
by the play. Among the speakers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Organize the Professionals!

Comrades
Concerning per professionals ne1ectuss
workers the feet their
effective getting the other
allies? This matter of trivial importance
that stated that revolution
cessy carried unless the allies
from the ranks Of the professionals, etc.
group9
It is that there has groups
phases
struggle initiating and leading cultural activities literary
fc clubs theatre groups struggle
professionals
against the attacks which being made against them7
example rapidly
that there than
proletarian brothers Granted that the majority
IDLY stupid compared to their Wanted ntegenee)
left to in their miserable pots working
class elements them that allies
has the Party done concretely to assist them7
Economy is the current
ot the first las attack their and living conditions
why openly through pages Daily
pathzers to lombard their
of protest The Econom
will happen Party permits banking groups to
off the teachers civil service against the poorly
paid workers unempoyed groups
fascistoP OF If the Party above
es in the recent past they will surely the other
barbados the decisive moment
financial aid the literary artistic
organzaonal groups potentially us
Let US not neglect them. To do anti-Bolshev1k.
"Comradey yours
GEORGE DAVIS"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
BACK CARLOS FIGHT

NEW YORK - The Hungarian
Cultural Federation, composed OF
writer's, artists, professionals and
other intellectuals, at its executive
meeting April %, endorsed the work
OF the Committee for the Protec-
ton of Foreign-Born. and pledged
its cooperation with the Gardos De-
Tense Committee.