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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
Silver Shirt Chief Saw
andHeard Many Things

wide spread; people cannot get
work; those who had some money
lost it by the decline in values Of
their possessions; the farmer is
restless; taxes are running many
small farmers and business men.
To the citizen heavily burdened
with taxation he offers a heavenly
light, direct word from God. no
more taxation.
To the property owner who has
shaved all his life to buy z home
or farm and who saw Il taken
away by the state he offers no more
foreclosures.
To the farmer who has always
led hazardous existence, who has
been ignored and despised he offers
the status of 3 statemsn and the
glory Of being the msinstay Of the
state, the Big Boss, in other words,
and no taxes and no foreclosures.
In Southern California. In Los
Angeles particularly, we find nu-
merous farmers who had retired to
live on their income. They had
come down here to enjoy life lei
surely in the sunshine, to play and
forget their life time Of labor. When
the crash came and their property
was sold for payment of taxes
they felt bitter and along came
Policy who had a private talk with
God and said mo more taxes
There was pathetic hope in the
hearts Of these lost souls. They did
not want to see their farms collec-
tivized, either the property sense
being strong in them, 50 they OBJ
posed Communism, And the Great
Pyramid offered them their farms.
the glory Of statesmen, no taxes. no
foreclosures. And since many of
these farmers are deeply religious
and some are nuts anyway, thew
tiocked TO the Silver Shirt meetings.
This explains the weekly presence
of 1000 or more and why they all
shell out" in contributions to keep
up the good work.
OF course, a lecturer cannot con-
tinue indefinitely just passing on
private talks with God; sometimes
he has to be practical. And Cod is
somewhat nebulous, anyway so the
Jews came in handy as Capt. Case
pointed out.
So Policy talks with Cod and
collects the "coconuts" Cmoney) from
the nuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
Police Reporter re The
Myth of Front Page

upon the lack Of news. when a
middle-aged couple entered the
station house.
The lieutenant looked up. ~Yes?"
he asked.
You could see that the man and
woman we're frightened. Finally the
man summoned his courage and
walked up to the desk. Please, your
honor" he said to the lieutenant.
my wife amt got where to sleep
tonight"
whats wrong9" the lieutenant
asked.
The man fixed his eyes upon the
floor. He explained slowly that he
and his wife had been elected from
their furnished room that morning.
He had worked as a night watch
man in factory until several
months ago when the factory closed
down and since then had been out
of work. He said he didn't mind
about himself, he intended to spend
the night on park bench, but the
park was no place for a woman.
The lieutenant was moved. That's
tough, brother" he said. Have you
tried the city shelter?"
The man shook his head.
The lieutenant reached down into
the desk drawer, opened a small d.
rectory and then wrote something on
q slip Of paper. He handed the slip
to the man and said, Here's the
address of the city shelter for wo-
men. They'll take care Of your wife. +"
When the couple had left I went
back to the reporters shack" across
the street. I asked the other re-
porters if they wanted the story.
They shook their heads. TT happens
every night" one of the men said
Then I called my office. The buffer
man-assistant to the night city edi-
tor-listened while I tried to explain
the drama of the story. After I had
finished, he said, We're tight to-
night. Anyway, I don't see anything
exciting in the story, Forget it"
ok" I said. But I never forgot
il.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26

Party, its support of the N,R.A. and
the treaehery of the leaders of the
German Social Democratic Party.
He drew laughter and applause
when he said: II agree with Mr..
Davidow that the Republican and
Democratic Parties are two wings
of the same Wall Street bird of
prey. And it seems to me that the
Socialist Party is the tail"
Dealing with certain widespread
distortions of Communist aims.
Magil said: I'VE are accused of
being opposed to democracy, What
we oppose is only bourgeois demo-
cracy. The proletarian dictatorship
means democracy for the great
masses of the people, but ruthless
dictatorship against the handful of
exploiters and plunderers, Bourgeois
democracy is the reverse--democracy
for the rich. dictatorship over the
poor by the rich.
They say we are opposed to
American traditions. Well, we do
not make fetish of anything simply
because it is old. But the Commu-
mist Party does not intend to yield
the revolutionary traditions of the
American people to any of the par
ties of capitalism. The traditions of
the War for Liberation, of Shays'
and Derr's Rebellions, of the Negro
slave revolts, of the abolitionist
movement, of the war that destroyed
chattel slavery-the workingclass is
today the only rightful heir OF these
traditions"
Magil ended his 20-minute talk by
showing concretely what a Soviet
government would do in the city of
Detroit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26

him merely as an anti-sernitic
sadist.
One painting in particular reveals
how impossible it is to use any form
of art as a political instrument
without q clear understanding of
social forces. 1t is a painting by
Simeon H. Pickering entitled THE
Man Our Civilization Forgot"
The coloring is crude. So is the
form. The whole thing descends
without an effort to the level of
the cartoons on the editorial page
of the New York Daily News, or
to the grandiose stupidities of Mr.
Hearst's Windsor MacKay.
In the center is large figure of
Christ. Surrounding him are small
panels representing the chief evils,
as Mr.. Pickering sees them. of our
civilization. Each one of the
panels. by the way, is neatly Ia
belled in the best Hearst cartoon
style. And what is Mr., chickering's
conception of our civilization? This
is best indicated by his labels.
Wall Street Wolves" Rape and
Murder of Little Children" Dill
linger and His Gunmen," Bread
lines" and Unemployment" Gin
separate panels as though they had
no relation to each other.) At the
bottom are two panels, one dealing
unsympathetically with Austria
and the Socialists" and the other
labelled Red Riots" in which iso-
lated individuals march about with
placards ingeniously labelled Red
Rot" Red Hokum," Red Apple
sauce" etc.
But discounting such idiocies.
wander about the Eighteenth An
nual Exhibition Of the Independent
Society Of Artists and you'll find
among the maze of still life. nudes,
and landscapes plenty of evidences
that even artists are beginning to
think.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
Music Olympiad This
Sunday; May ] Poem
Is One of Features

NEW YORK-A contest sponsored
by New Masses for the creation of
a mass song has resulted in the
award being made to Aaron Cop
land for his setting Of an adapta-
ton Of Alfred Hayes poem Into
the Streets May First"
Many songs from leading Ameri-
can composers were submitted, in
GLIDING Isadore Freed, Wallingford
Riegger Mitya Stillman. members
Of the Composers Collective Of the
Pierre Degeyter Club, and others.
Coplsnds setting of Into the
Streets May First" is to receive its
first performance Sunday evening,
April 2eth, at the Workers Music
Olympiad, City College Auditorium,
23rd st. and Lexington Ave, and is
to be published in the May LIST issue
Of New Masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

E of the chief of labor unions in this country is that mighty
! y octopus named General Motors.
Recently president
ca that ought the of American workers
corporation reported earnings s832865 year
1883 This gain 5000 earnings the
year 1882
It the of NAs this swollen booty
which nothing than legal Of the
the really produce the
this year fabulous profit the
INVENT Sloan; year yielded
frase exactly SO for than third cent
working day
the parasites stockholders and bosses 5000
conveyo
than per cent.
this they call National Recovery,
aas statement to trade unions however He said the
CLOSED the erection the
existed any country in the world
Yes the of biggest monopoIes wealth
and exploitation in this country fears the monopoly
afraid they dollars millions
and his elowrobbers What DO with
faced hypocre like hat7 strike the only he
be made
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
TUNING In

TOO P. NJ. baseball Resume
-Sports-Ford Prick
wJZ-Amos n Andy-5kstch
WABC-Myrt and Marge-Sketch
T:lB-WEAF-Gens and Glenn--Sketch
WOR-Comedy Program; Music
War Debts-Rep. Hamilton Fish
WIZ Foreign Trade Agreements and
Jr Of New York
wEAF-shirley Howard Songs; Trio
wOR-The Lone Ranger-Sketch
wJz-sagerquist orch; Don Ameche
and sally wsrd-sketch
wABC- Serenaders Orchestra
.4s-WEAF-Ths coIdbergs-Sketch
s:oo-wEAF-vsllee Orchestra; Soloists
WJz-Grits and GRAVY Hillbilly
Sketch
wABC- Raffles. Cracksman-Skstch
s:3o-wJz- Concert orch; Luorszit Bort,
Soprano
wABc-concert orch. Alexander
Gray, Baritone; Mary Eastman,
Soprano
O-wEAF-Captain Henry's Show Boat
wOR-variety Musicale
wJz-Desth Valley Days-Sketch
WABC- Warnow Orch; Evelyn Mac
Gregor Contralto; Quartet
9:15-WOR-Jack Arthur, Baritone
9:30-WOR- Success-Harry Balkin
WJz-Duchin Orchestra
wABC-Waring Orch; Demonstration
Of Radio Police System
eA5-wOR-The Witchs Tale-skstch
10: 90 wEAF- Whitemsn Orch; Nikits Ba-
lief in Sketches
wJz-Canadisn Program
wABo-Gray Orch; stoopnagls and
Budd, Comedians; Connie Boswell,
Songs
tofs-wOR- Current Events-Hsrlsu ~
Read
wJZ-Americs Must Choose
1890 OR-Fisher Orchestra
MolinesuE. Editor Texas Weekly
Matthew VOL, Vice President
American Federation Of Labor
WABC-wheeler Orch; Doris Lorraine
Songs
1o:4s- wARC-Jamee Thurber, Commentator
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
Communist Exposes Capitalist Parties
In Detroit Symposium

DETROIT. = Blasting the empty
phrases Of the representatives of the
three capitalist parties with facts
and figures that exposed their true
role, A. B. Magil, speaking for the
Communist Party in a symposium
ct Bedford High School Monday
night, presented the Partys pro-
gram as the only way out for the
masses Of the people of this coun-
try.
Though the great majority of the
audience of about 800 had never be-
fore heard q Communist speaker or
come in contact with Communist
literature, they gave the greatest APP
hplause to the speaker for the Com
I rnunist Party.
The other speakers we're Patrick
J. O'Brien, attorney general of
Michigan, for the Democratic Party:
Edward N. Barnard, former chair
man of the Wayne County Repub-
lican Party; and Larry Davidow,
Socialist lawyer.
Replying to O'Brien's speech, in
which he depicted Roosevelt as
fighter against Wall Street and his
program as aiming toward a re
distribution of wealth among the
people" Magil said: Il agree that
There has been q redistribution of
wealth under the New DEAL and
then proceeded to cite with telling
irony official government statistics
to show that the Roosevelt govern
ment has cut taxes and boosted sub
sides and profits for the rich, while
Increasing taxes and cutting wages
for the masses.
Y Magil exposed the anti working
Ass character Of the Socialist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
By PHILIP STERLING

NEW YORK.-During the past
four years, the collectively conceived
murals hung by the John Reed Club
in the annual exhibition of the
Society of Independent Artists (no
jury-no prizes) have become almost
as much of tradition as the shows
themselves.
In the current show, which will
continue at Grand Central Palace,
46th st. and Lexington Avenue, until
May S, the John Reed Club artists
present their most ambitious and
their most impressive undertaking
a perturbation in tempera of the
forces of the class struggle.
A. J. Liebling, World-T Telegram
staff man who specializes in human
interest stories with German dialect.
disnlisses the painting. which is en-
titled simply. THE Class Struggle, +"
as q work featuring Lenir in a sym
pathetic role supported by cast of
capitalist atrocities
Mr.. Liebling's cynical reaction is
representative, no doubt, Of others
who have visited the Independents
show, but anyone who looks at the
painting for purposes other than a
newspaper assignment, cannot dis
miss it with irresponsible wise
crackery.
OF the 1,024 cases In the current
exhibit, there are many paintings
and monochrome drawings of great
merit from any viewpoint, but the
John Reed Club piece stands out for
its strength in concept and execu-
ton.
Earlier John Reed Club exhibits
in the Independent shows limited
themselves to less ambitious themes.
The current piece, some ten feet
square is divided vertically by the
arrangement of the subject matter
itself,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26

child in her arms. From this point
in the composition and leading back
into the center of the picture the
motif of class struggle is repeated in
smaller scenes and by single figures
even to such detail as a worker read
ing the Daily Worker.
Nor does the painting fail to
expose and Satirize the role of cap
italist art by scene picturing the
recent municipal art exhibition in
Radio City Barriers lab ellie d
&c. c. c." IN. R. A." "P. w. A."
&C. w. A." ETC., keep the masses
from the immaculate steps of Radio
City which are being mounted by
sleek bourgeois men and women,
while in the foreground of the
scene q green faced cadaverous
Rockefeller presides of the wreck
age of Rivera's murals, Next to him
stands LaGuardia, pudgy and glee-
full, waving aloft a painting of q
heefy nude.
This, roughly, is the painting
and the concept behind it. The
execution may have been q bit
hasty but no ons can honestly
question the capabilty with which
it was done. Credit, and that's
exactly the word to use, for the
actual painting goes largely to
Hideo Nota, formerly an associate
of Diego Rivera in California.
IT is noteworthy that the John
Reed Club piece is not the only
frankly propagandistic painting in
the exhibition. There are many
others. Several of them, the work
of individual members of the club,
are good and show understanding of
the problems they attack. Most Of
them, however. are bad as paintings
and meaningless as propaganda.
There are several paintings dealing
with Hitler, but all these picture
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
California's Next Governor

THE for the Democratic nomination governor
getting hotter Reports
down between George Cre former Socialist and chief
government propaganda during war
minisrator and Upton Sinclair Socialist partisan
of against the Hun, and famous novelist.
It possible that these
may be elected If California is in for time Upton Sinclair
running platform which he
fora If he will to the library and history
Socialism he will discover that deceng himself
never be ended under capitalism he will
tracts he will discover the facts
slightest dent capitalism
What will happen under Cree Sinclair in California
hunger marches will be broken bray police
sentenced long prison TERMS there will be lower
and big indusiasts; ercer persecution Communists
tempt to crush labor with kindness
then clubs Thus in Bridgeport Milwaukee
Socialist have dubbed the unemployed Communists
while fratenzng with visiting Nad
lief in those finds America Words
wordand Sinclair
glierng dea1sic a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
Kansas Editor

EWING HERBERT editor of country weekly in swaha Kan
The farmers broke these that they
subscriptions potatoes wanus alfalfa
and barrels Of sauerkraut.
Recently old subscriber turned with horse and snapped
for the paper The day another with
the subscription lists.
We don't know what this Kansas weekly is like but the
country weekly with boiler plate inside shabby
written for the benefit of the local its political
fnagng and its columns of reports strawberry
other qualification and its patent medicine ads and the like
ss helpful to bankrupt farmer dose of arsenic.
The best price for of these propaganda
action would be skunk with active glands
How many of these weekes higher
and political level? them the fingers
One Of the best in the country that valiant little
Bruce Crawford in Norton Virginia Here
brave and intelligent do in community
small country with the wide history
few thousand editors like Bruce Crawford this country
at capitalism fasciSm and the
despair would be subscriptions
farmer would be benefited by the DEAL being gypped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
RY HARRY KERMIT

ny HAhh1 kEhNlI
EVER since Hildy johnson caught
l. the public eye in Front Page a
good deal Of tripe has been written
about the police reporter or district
man as he is known in the news
paper industry. The police reporter
has been plugged by stage, screen
and radio as colorful character,
independent and above the crowd.
For this classification there is not
the slightest basis in fact. The
truth is he is usually an unimagina-
tive lackey Of the city desk, who
has acquired most of the charac-
teristics of the thick-headed cops
and detectives who are his daily
associates.
No person-and this includes the
professional social worker as well
as the organizer of the unemployed
is as close to the misery and pri-
vation spawned by the capitalist
system of society as is the police
reporter. Yet he remains COM
paratively ignorant Of the cause and
impervious to the implication of
most of the items recorded on the
police blotter.
Ask any New York police re-
porter who has troubled to make
the appraisal and he will tell you
at least 100 persons take or attempt
to take their lives in the metro
politan area each month for rea-
sons chiefly economic. And this is
conservative enough an estimate. 1t
does not include the alleged "bums"
shipped to the public morgues, the
unidentified man or woman found
dead in some furnished room and
the countless persons who merely
disappear. To understand why
very few of these tragedies are ever
made public, you must be familiar
with the manner in which the re-
porters work and with their relation
to the city desk.
In New York City the "headquar-
ters" reporters depend upon the
police slips for most of their news
sources. The slips are sent down to
them by the telegraph bureau of the
Police Department. These slips spell
simple words: death, violence, illness,
accident. They read "-th precinct;
unidentified man, no home, i'll in
front of - st. Taken to Belle
vue Hospital. Nothing suspicious. y
The slip does not tell why the man
was homeless or whether he col
lapsed from hunger. And the police
reporter does not bother to inves-
tigate.
THE reporter has learned that de
l preston" police stories are rarely
used by his newspaper. To the city
editor the familiar Respondent
over failure to find employment" has
long ceased to contain news value
This lack of concern for the plight
of the jobless has in turn been COM
municated to the police reporter. The
result is that unless the numerous
D. o. A. dead on arrival and gas
Suicide by gas) cases occur in other
than working-class neighborhoods
the stories are never told.
I remember a lesson in news value
which myself received about year
ago. 1t was in the summer of 1913
and I was doing q relief trick one
August night at Police Headquarters
Aside from the dog bite and minor
accident cases nothing had come
down from the telegraph bureau and
the reporters we're marking time
until their shifts we're completed
Shortly after II o'clock I walked
across the street to the local precinct
desk and started q conversation with
the lieutenant, I was commenting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
Spring Festival to
Aid Workers School

NEW YORK.-For the purpose Of
raising funds to enable the Work
efs School to expand its activities,
the Student Council, in coopera-
ton with the Friends of the Work
ers School, is arranging a Spring
Festival on Saturday evening, April
27, at Manhattan Lyceum, SIS f.
Fourth St,
The entertainment will include
the Unity Theatre, the New Dun
can Dancers, Mara Tartar, and the
Latvian Group Chorus. Buddy
Walls and his Brown Buddies will
supply the dance music.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
Stage and Screen
Ibsen's Lady From The Sea"
OPENS At Little May First

THE Lady From The Sea-" re-
vival of the Ibsen play, is announced
to open next Tuesday night at the
Little Theatre. Richard Whorf, Gle
ment Wilenchick, Margaret English
and Rose Keane head the cast.
Picnic" by Gretchen Damrosch,
will be presented by A. j. Beckhard
on May 2, at the National Theatre.
Leading players include Joanna
Roos, Percy Waram, Hugh Rennie,
Jean Adair and Millard Mitchell.
Love Kills" by Ida Bublenski
Enrich, is another opening sched-
uled for next Tuesday. The play
will be housed at the Forrest Thea
tire and the cast includes Vivienne
Giesen, Marion Green, Bran Nossen
and John Parrish.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
Author of Novel on
Indian Exploitation
Guest at Movie Ball

NEW YORK. 49, Robert Gessner,
author of 'UpsUrge," g novel which
exposes the degradation Of the
American Indian at the hands Of
the white ruling class, will be
among the guests at the Motion
Picture Costume Ball of the Film
and Photo League, at Webster Hall,
Friday, April 9th, to finance the
further production Of workers films
and help the campaign against
Nazi films which threaten to be
released in America.
Ed. Note: In a recent issue the
date Of the Ball was incorrectly
given as April 25th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
'Stevedore' Symposium
at Pen-Hammer Tonight

NEW YORK.-A symposium on
"Stevedore. the Theatre Unions
second play, arranged by the Arts
Committee of the Pen and Ham,
mer, will take place tonight at $50
at ia w. 21st st. A member Of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
will also speak on his reaction to
the drama.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
cago Pen and Hammer Adm. $50.
Boston, Mass,

LECTURE by j. Dawson on "Commu-
mist Position on Negro Question" at
Scottsboro Br LID, 1929 fremont st.
Boston, Thursday, April 26, pm.
Gary, Ind.
BANQUET and Dance given by all Rus
sian Workers Organizations of Gary for
benefit Labor Press, Saturday, April 90,
pm. at Washington Hall, 1545 Washing
ton st, Supper Dancing -Music. Adm. SOC,
at door CSC
Cleveland, Ohio
SPRING Dance Auspices Communist
League, Sunday night, April 90, at Idthu-
anian Hall, 900 E. 10th st. Proceeds part
for Young Worker and part for National
Youth Day Preparations
Richmond Hill, N. Y.
LECTURE by Prof Mum Of Dana Col
lege, Newark. N j. on what Is Fsscism--
Who Is Backing 1t" at Civic Hall ia and
Liberty Ave, Adm. free, Friday, April o.
q pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
A Call for Help

COMRADES getting tougher this
out help We poems comments
print here Write about shops and ships
happening of proletarian
than about 500
editorials wantedat paper
Where are all those John Reed Club
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26

QACK of Pelley's insanity are some
" interesting points: in the first
place there are vast numbers of spir-
itualists in this country, men and
women who believe in that sort of
stuff and the vision" appeals to
them, and secondly and. more prac-
tical, Policy makes his appeal to the
somewhat unbalanced followers by
pointing out things that are self
evident and offering solution that
Is their hearts desire: starvation is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26

Down Tools. Demonstrate NAV
LIST IN force the adoption of the
Workers Unemployment Insur-
anee Bill. H. r. 1898,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
PHILADELPHIA, Penn.
Detroit. Mich.

GLASS in Elementary Photography opens
at Workers School, May 8, to run for u
weeks. Glass meets Tuesday 7:50-e:30 pm
No experience or equipment required. Re
gister now at 32S Erskine st. Fee 50. Aus
pieces Film and Photo League Of Detroit
WORKERS Educational Group will hold
Party and Dance at 2645 National Ave,
Inctrnif SatrrHau Anri e