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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30

of water, Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace called the situation
"a blessing" AS he dived deeper
into plans to further reduce the
Surplus" in Texas alone one
thousand persons per DAY were
being added to the relief rolls.
Nearly two million cattle have
been taken from Texas herds
ranging from the famous Long
horns to the Jerseys. Forty thou
sand were on hand at one time
when there were shipping orders
for only 10000 head. State Ad-
ministrator Adam johnson fairly
tore his hair. The feed bill for the
cattle was costing $4,000 day,
and this was more than was per-
mirSed for the unemployed.
Cattle Slaughtered
Cattle condemned as unfit for
consumption were slaughtered on
the spot wherever possible. Long
pits were dug, and the carcasses of
fresh meat thrown into them and
covered with quicklime and earth
while the hungry unemployed stood
about and begged for it. 1t is re-
ported that in many cases where
the cattle we're not Immediately
buried, the unemployed slipped out
at night to gather some, although
the meat might be polluted, so great
was their hunger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
FLASHES and CLOSEUPS
B Y L E n s

HERE is a letter from an office
"A worker which hope will serve
as the first popular blast against
that ace among unprinciple &
straddlers. Andre Sennwald of this
New York Times:
After reading Andre Semi
wald's glib rhapsodic praise of
Lawrence Stallings' The First
World War, and after having seen
this film recently shown at the
Rialto Theatre, find myself
unable to refrain from expressing
my personal reactions to this
picture.
'When Hollywood varies its
usual monotonous presentation
of the themes of sex and crime
which make up nine-tenths of its
entire output, it finds a very fer
tile field for sensation mongering
in the theme of war. But there
is little that is new, and less that
is significant, in this latest Of
fering of the Fox Film Cor
poration.
after a hodge podge of news
reel items showing the gathering
war-cIouds prior to 1914, there
are offered for our delectation
a few scenes of battle on sea and
land. a prison camp, then scenes
depicting the treatment of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
New Masses Presents
Challenge to Rice
in Drama Controversy

The New Masses, Americas only
revolutionary weekly magazine, in
the current issue enters the Elmer
Rice VS.. the dramatic critics con-
troversy with a suggestion of its
own. Stanley Burnshaw, concluding
review on Rice and the Revolu-
tion," says:
g. Rice assures us that. he is
Fundamentally an enemy of cap
italism, and some of his past and
recent plays, despite their theological
confusions, provide excellent rea-
son to take him at his word. Right
now when he contemplates giving
up the drama, the New Masses
strongly urges him to reconsider.
Let him turn his back on Broad
way. if he wants to, but why on
earth shelve his playwright's talent
when an audience is hungering for
revolutionary drama-hundreds of
thousands litera clamoring for
more. The New Masses can assure
him whatever plays he writes for
the revolution will be met with
solid left-wing support. But we
warn that this audience will not be
satisfied with plays that fail to go
to the core of a problem-such as
Left Bank, which, as Rice con-
ceived it, is untouched by any rev.
dictionary understanding: or Judg-
ment Day, which, for all its anti
Fascism, is a needless confusion of
issues. Does Rice want this audi
ence? Can he-will he-Yrite a
! revolutionary play?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30

lean landlords, are moving the
Mexican cotton slaves from Texas
into Mexico to grow the crops there.
The general curtailment Of cot
ton in Texas, in addition to keep
ing thousands from jobs, will make
the relief situation even more acute
in November. The end of the crop
season means the end of employ
ment for about 25 900 cotton work.
ers alone, and total of 125 900 in
dividual workers for all the various
crops.
Wallace Calls Situation "a Blessing"
Small cotton growers have also
realized their situation now that
the time has come for them to dis
pose of their surplus tax-exemption
certificates. In Bexar county Gin
South Texas, the farmers realized
that their county was short of its
cotton quota of a 1880 bale allot-
ment. They crowded angrily into
the office of Fred w Mally, county
agent. Mally, pleading with them
not to get 'panicky," tried to
placate them with the promise that
those who had surplus certificates
could dispose of them to those
who needed certificates, and in
this manner have their wants full
filled.
In San Benito, just outside the
Valley, farmers took their shot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
t U N N G. IN

;oo-WEAF-Lyman Orchestra; Frank
Mum, Tenor; vivienne segal, Songs
WOR-Hillbilly Music
WJz-Harris Orch; Leah Ray, Songs
wABC-March of Time-Drama
9:30-WEAF-Bonime Orchestral Pic and
Pat. Comedians
WOR-Lum and Abner-Sketch
WJz-Phil Baker Comedian
WABC-Hollywood Hotel-Sketch. with
Dick Powell, Jane williams, Ted Flo
Rito Orchestra and Others Gary
Cooper, Guest
9:45-WOR-Dance Orchestra
00-WEAF-Singing Wind-Sketch
WOR-Frank and Flo, Songs
WJz-Minstrel Show
0:15-WOR-Current Events-H E. Read
MISUNDERSTANDING Jobs For American
Workers-Isador Lubin
WOR-Variety Musicale
WJz-The Message Of Israel-Rabbi
Jonah B. Wise
WABC-Kate Snith-Songs
l;O0-WEAF-George r. Holmes, Chief
Washington Bureau I, N. S.
WOR-News
WJZ-Denny Orchestra
WABC-Nelson Orchestra
l1;15-WEAF- Ferdinando Orchestra
WOR-Moonbeam Trio
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wounded and the dead. Then
more shooting. and finally the
declaration of the Armistice.
There is some slight reference to
the Russian Revolution, for Holly
wood is ever impartial, and is
moreover not ashamed to admit
that Russia's withdrawal from the
war benefited the German cause.
Incidentally, the showing OF
Lenin drew considerable applause
from the audience, but this was
apparently an unforeseen and
unavoidable mistake) As a fade
out we are shown an American
soldier fraternally wringing the
hand of a German.
This loosely-knit structure Is
somehow held together by the
cynical voice of narrator who.
under cover of the pretense that
he is profoundly shocked by the
brutality and unnecessary suf-
fering of the war. merely succeeds
the better in furthering the illlu-
sion that this war was caused
chiefly by the pig medicines of
the Kaiser, etc, ad nauseam, and
that the world was only saved
from the teutonic horror by the
prompt and energetic action of
the American forces. As a post
script, there is added one of those
curious Illustrations of what Holly
wood producers consider modern
cinemstography, namely. in this
instance, the simultaneous pres
entation of pictures of Hitler,
Mussolini and Stain with
snatebes of current events juxta-
posed in a careless fashion, and
ending. as If to mollify such slight
pacifist inclirations as the au-
dienoe might possess, with the
previously described fade-out of
the American and the German
shaking hands in comradegy
fashion, thereby guaranteeing, in
some obscure manner that some
how eludes the understanding of
the writer, the keeping Of the
peace"
And it is this film which tn,
phrase-monger Sennwald hailed a,
being anti-war in character wher
even the very, very liberal Mr.
Troy of the very, very lib.
eral Nation branded it as a piece
of theological preparation for tn,
Second World Waf.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
Short WaUe Radio News

The science of radio eommunica-
tions is increasingly pressed into
service by the ruling class for the
distortion of reality in its own in
terests.
This column started last week
with a bang. Here's what one of
the enthusiastic letters from ham
has to say: 80 help me, it's about
time you thought of this idea, and
let me tell you, it's FB, in fact,
very FB. am very much in line
for forming relay chain around
the country and not only that but
around the world. Any time
you want me, I'll be there with
wings. My whole Junk Box is at
your disposal and, furthermore, I
am willing to part with some
greasy dollars for the building up
of a club Rig"
And get a load from this COM
mercial: my nine years expert
ence as Morse operator for West
ern Union, Postal Telegraph, the
railroads and the newspas ers; my
experience as telegraph repeater
attendant for A. T. and T., and
my experience as manual and me-
chanical radio operator for Mackay
Radio nave taught me all the
tricks of the trade, and I should be
more than willing to teach those
tricks to comrades"
Last week we quoted the radio
communications laws that apply to
amateurs. In short, an amateur
may transmit any type of decent
message business, news from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

LIE WAS a short man with a coal-black beard, and a
great impressive head with eyes that could burn with
Indignation at any human wrong soften with pity
sparkle with brilliant wit. At any time, by selling him
self to the class he hated he could have lived in comfort
had well-to-do burgher.
he poverty intellectual persecution obedience
to which the legal front of
class; police professors
knew tenacy honesty with which
working bitter insult daily travail,
his convictions Of the
ruthless exploitation by the capitalists of the proetaa
never swamps soepcism despair
paid well ceasng his
them
of the truly great humanity has
profound philosophers history
thought
implacabe opponent o all
His
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30

anybody to anybody else within the
U. S. A. if he does not charge for it
either directly or indirectly. On
this basis the conclusion was
drawn that the primary and most
urgent task of every worker-am
teur is to offer his services via this
column; the same applying to COM
mercials, ex-amateurs, ex-commer-
Gals and interested clubs and in
dividuals.
Here's good news for New York
ers: There is a very good possibility
of having a radio communications
course at the Workers School next
term. The comrades in charge want
to know whether there would be
twenty students for such a class;
those interested, please write to this
column please enclose a return
postcard. Any workers school
which has tried or has such q course
will please write to us telling of
their experience.
The New York Downtown Club
meets every Friday night at AZ
Union Square, one flight up. We
have not heard from the Bronx
Club nor from the Cleveland Club
Co. There is a small group in
Brooklyn that wants to form a club:
they need more members.
CMRDE I. A. OF BRONX, PSE
GBACQ PSE QSL. N NENdz WI
BE PBLSHD UNLES AUTHRzD.
Dab DIT DAB.
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TOO wEAF-Jack, Loretta Clemens, Songs
woR-sports Resume-Ford Prick
wJz-Amos n Andy-Sketch
WABC-Myrt and Marge-Sketch
7.15-WEAF-Gene and Glenn-Sketch
WOR-Front-Pag Drama
WJz-Plantation Echoes; Mildred Bal
ley, Songs; Robinson Orchestra
WABC-Just Plain Bill-Sketch
7:3o-WEAF-Hirsch Orchestra
WJz-Red Davis-Sketch
WABC-Paul Keast, Baritone
T:45-WEAF-Uncle Ezra-Sketvh
WOR-Dance Music
WJZ-Dangerous Paradise-Sketch
WABC-Boake Carter, Commentator
300 WEAF-Bourdon Orchestra; Jessica
Dragonette. Soprano; Male Quartet;
notwithstanding Rice
WOR-Lone Ranger-Sketch
WJZ-Jewels of Enchantment-Sketch
WABC-Easy Aces-Sketch
8:15-WJz-Dick Liebert, Organ; Arm
bruster and Kraus, Piano; Mary
Courtlandt Songs; Male Quartet
WABC-Edwin c. Hill, Commentator
3o-WOR-Katzman Orchestra: Lucille
Peterson, Songs; Choristers Quartet
WJz-Goodman Orchestra; Dwight
Fiske; ]. Harold Murray, Songs
wABC-Court Of Human Relations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
Cops Getting Spe cia
Courses in Strike
Breaking

Then came the long looked-for
rain, and thirty or more counties, in
Guiding the devastated Panhandle.
received relief from the draught. At
Tyler the sanctimonious Chamber of
Commerce was having a board
meeting when the first downpour
hit, While farmers outside lifted
their faces gratefully to the skies,
these business men rushed to the
windows of the office singing,
Praise God From Whom All
Blessings Flow"
But the destruction program con-
tinued, although grass was begin
ming to look green once more.
Weary cattle gave lingering looks
at crops which were beginning to
revive as they continued their
march to the city abbatoirs Now
with the surplus" of cattle de-
stroyed, the government has started
slaughtering the sheep and hogs.
Families Sleep on Open Highways
The unemployed are facing a cold
winter without food and clothing,
and many of them have no shelter.
Transient camps are full, and
homeless families are sleeping on
the open highways in the chilly fall
weather. Infant mortality is on the
increase, tuberculosis and pellagra
are taking gigantic strides, and the
hospitals no longer attempt to treat
lit.
( There are so many insane that
the poor wretches no longer able to
retain their reason are sleeping on
the floors of jails and outhouses
because the state hospitals are filled
to overflowing. If the jails are
crowded with the insane this win
ter, then where will there be room
for the authorities to put the I'M
employed arrested in strikes and
hunger demonstrations?
The legislature is helping to
remedy this situation by the appro-
priation of funds for more buildings,
some of which are costing 100000
each.
Texas Experiences Strike Wave
These buildings will relieve the
jails for the future Imprisonment
of strikers. Their construction is
timely in the eyes of the authorities,
for Texas has been getting his
tory for strikes this year. In the
winter, there was the strike of the
Mexican sheep shearers in North
and West Texas. In the spring,
there was the strike on the gulf
coast of the longshoremen. In the
summer the Mexican pecan she'll
ers in San Antonio and the oil
workers in West Texas went on
strike, And this fall, the pecan
shelters again, the workers in the
Houston Textile Mill, and the
workers in the Dallas hop" yards.
Texas cops have enrolled in spe-
cial short courses in the Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, a state military school, in
order to be thoroughly informed on
strikebreaking.. They are learning
photography, finger-printing, the
use of tear gas, etc. On the faculty
is Chief of Police Boss" Thorpe of
Austin, who helped to break up a
hunger march led on the capitol
three years ago by the San An
tonic Unemployed Council.
State authorities and relief Off
ficials can no longer deny that
Texas unemployed are starving, and
that those employed are getting
dangerously near that stage. The
armed thugs of the government are
brazenly getting ready to handle the
situation in their own manner. But
the militancy of the working class
cannot be crushed!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
The Humanity of Marx

Y a question put
by daughter nothing S
Nothing this Nothing experience
nothing that escaped
thought foremost thought
people they
maerialism
revotionng the scientific thought of the world
simple generations professors
impossible despite their hghpowered eyeglasses
the civilization there lies the
getting
finding reproducing his determines social relations
which he lives
simple thought yet many of many
poison professors
this elementary truth empted
him
truth; and the professors paid their tell
contrary philosophy upon
Marxism
mental bourgeois
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30

guns and stormed the office of the
county agent with the statement
that the failure of the government
to send their tax-exemption GER
tificates earlier had caused the
gathering of their crops to be
delayed until they were partly
ruined by the draught. And while
this draught was hitting all of the
Middle West, shriveling the crops
and causing livestock to die for lack
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
Stimulating Material
On Theatre-Arts Front
In Current New Theatre

long and short dramas the dive ~
Of action and thought and f B
which chsracterizes real pei Z
which makes them act credibly, il d
human terms understandable b
the human beings vino constitUt
the worker audience in America.
FOR the worker-audience, most Of
L the other contents Of the mag
azine are highly informative, IN
some cases important perhaps I
should not have made the arbitrary
separation into two categories
earlier in this review; many Of the
articles. as I read on, are Of inter-
est alike to theatre person and
theatregoer.) "A Little Child Shall
Read Them" by the always enter
tanning Robert Forsythe, treats the
menace of the sexy-novie magazine.
particularly for the children, who
avidly consume their contents. For
sythe considers the moYie-sex mags
to be a greater danger than the
American movie-industry. The re-
views of the plays and movies Of
the month, by Ben Blake and Rob-
ert Stebbins, respectively. found TO
be among the most incisive and
stimulating contributions to this
issue.
Three other pieces, Robert Fla
herty's Escape" by Peter Ellis: Pts
Gators First Film" by Bella Belssz,
and "Dramatist in Exile" by Rich
ard Pack provide valuable and
necessary background for those in
| terested in the modern film and
drama. The "dramstist in exile IS
Friedrich Wolf, whose Sailors of
Cattsro" will be produced by the
Theatre Union on December 10.
Alice Evans Below Chicago's
Mason Dixon Line" is the factuaI
account Of how workers theatre
group successfully initiated move
ment which may succeed in finally
breaking down race barriers in the
midwestern metropolis.
OF the other contributions to this
issue, I found The Snickering
Horses" by EN- 10 Basshe-an eX-
cerpt from his play Thunder
Clock" - Disappointing; the contro-
versy between John Howard Law
son and Paul Sifton on the Siftons'
Blood on the Moon" is somewhat
pointless to readers who have not
seen the play, since the discussion
obscures rather than clarifies the
nature of the play itself.
THERE ere still other articles and
1 the usual brief notes and reviews,
all of varying interest.
Harold Edgar. in a letter which
appears in the December issue, up
braids the editors for what he con-
siders the over-use of the word
revolutionary" in the magazines
contents. I suppose by this that he
means there are too many express
sions of generalized faith, of af1r-
nation in the political and aesthetic
principles which guide the maya
/ zine. While it is true that the con-
tinued reiteration of ones faith
alone would become meaningless
and absurd in any magazine, en-
phatically do not find this to be the
case in New Theatre. It is necessary
to resflrm our position as frequent-
ly and as effectively as possible, par
ticularly today when the workers
theatre movement is growing at an
unprecedented rate; and when such
affirmation is combined with the
solid information and accurate di-
receives that New Theatre consist
entity prints, it makes for what, in
my opinion, is one of the outstand-
ing magazines in the revolutionary
cultural movement.
NOBODY'S BOY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
Te1ds Legislature Plans $5,OOO,OOO
Celebration While Unemployed St0rUe

year. Only one crop area reported
is in better condition this year than
last, and this is South Texas. And
the crop here has been offset by
the Mexican side of the Rio Grande
Valley which promises, for the
first time in history, to have
larger yield than the American
valley. The Mexican landlords,
taking advantage of the situation
caused by the greed Of the Amer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30

THE December issue carries on the
practice of previous issues; it
treats of the varied fields within its
scope in twofold msnner-dividing
its functions wisely by printing
essays and reviews of interest to
the theatres worker-audience and
of guidance for the theatre workers
themselves. In the latter category,
it prints "Stanislavsky's Method of
Acting" from the notes Of M A.
Chekhov, nephew of the Russian
dramatist. I do not know how uni
versally these methods can achieve
practical results. What is more i'm
portant is that articles such as these
open the way for further discussion
and experimentation among theatre
workers.
Another solid workmanlike article
by Jane Dudley, young dancer of
much talent, discusses in clear ex-
pository manner the specific ingre-
dents of, and approach to, The
Mass Dance" Here, too, the subject
is open for discussion and expert
mentation.
Herbert Kline's article, Writing
for Workers Theatre" appeals to
Americas revolutionary playwrights
to quit the easy path of etched and
sloganized characters, which has re-
tarded the growth of the workers
theatre movement in America for
many years, much in the same way
that a similar leftism in revolution
airy fiction and poetry held back
the left-wing literary movement for
almost decade. He urges men like
John Wexley, Michael Gold, Virgil
Geddes and Langston Hughes
(many others whom he omits might
consider themselves included) to
follow the examples of the revolu-
tionsry dramatists of Europe, who
write regularly for the amateur
workers theatres as well as for the
professional stage. =" He asks
them to write plays with real peo-
pie in them; to include in their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
EXCELSIOR,


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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
Marx AS a Teacher

Ii his life long Marx fought the capitalist class life he
perceived that growth humanity
change society inevitably wrought by the
class Only the working Marx could be the instrument
last in society which lives the labor of any class
society," appopang
duction will be enabled rule without living
labor of another the population
help develop
Elg the workers.
always extraordinarily pleased learned that
worker who educated himself
ta philosophical questions
beginning hadwon knowledge
than the whole host imposing of the university
gentry
the First International ectue further the education
the About the his capital"
simpler grasp meaning
all the learned professors put together.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30
Was Marx "AmbitiOus?"

THE bourgeois bogaph would often have believe that Marx
nothing but cold calculating monster nothing but "a BRAIN
and who the proara stepping his
ambitions This typical scoundrels
in other light than images of themselves.
Did Marx suffer he did, endure and persecution
he did simply to further his ambitions? ambitious
these gentlemen he would proceeded they did the
by lying reachery boot-king backma fraud
exploitation This the the ambitious
in the capitalist world.
They said the Staln they
always said it about labor who unwilling
themselves be bribed 1t impossible for these gentlemen
for all bourgeois and phines to understand devotion
despite and hell
pockebook But unfortunately these pandere
cut after their pattern He that revolutionary
could produce; cab
produce, in return, revolutionary