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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Go and See It!

II WAS almost taken off last continued for while
Prices have been slightly reduced to put the
proletarian pocket Go and this prejudice
against the Theatre Guild Broadway you we can keep
this play alive for six months Broadway victory
for revolutionary culture
And it will help the scotboro Truly play
like this OF the forms aroses thousands Of
people week to realization
these Negro cdrenOUR children dramatic terms
this play teaches thousands of Is
eg from one Oh the cruees averieS ever known the
indignant about Hlers in America FIT
ism has been tortng the Negro and
this payt will move to Indignation resolve to
fight against the kill lynch and torture the uorterr
white and black but fendishly, the Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
National Theatre
Festival Opens in
Chicago on Friday.

CHICAGO.-The John Reed Club
Of Chicago will be host to the Work
ers Laboratory Theater of New
York. and the Blue Blouses of Los
Angeles, on April II, at Lincoln
Centre, 700 lakewood Blvd. These
two nationally f nous workers
theater groups will arrive in Chicago
from their tours through the coun-
try to participate in the National
Theater Festival on April 10. IA and
Is at Turner Hall, 800 North Clark
Street.
The Workers Laboratory Theater,
winner Of the New York Final Com
petitions. with their sketch, News
boy" will present its full repertoire,
including 'LaGuardias Got the
Bologny," scenes from THE Miser,"
"Scottsboro," and scenes from the
Worlds Fair" satire, which will be
particularly entertaining to Chi
cago audiences.
The Blue Blouses, winner Of the
Los Angeles Final Competitions, will
present their entire repertoire also,
samples Of which they have been
giving during the last two weeks at
one-night stops across the continent.
There will also be discussion and
evaluation Of the Chicago Final
Competitions, held here on March
%, by Bill Andrews, Of the Daily
Worker Midwest Bureau, and Anne
Howe, national organizational sec
rotary Of the League of Workers
Theaters. Groups wishing to send
delegates or procure information
about the Festival, may communi-
cate with Anne Howe, care of Lin
coin Centre, TOO Oakwood Blvd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
WABC-s6o Kc.

7:15-Just Plain Bill-sketch
700 P. M.-Myrt and Marge
7:3o-Armbruster Orch Jimmy Kemper.
Songs
T45-News-Roake Garter
s:oo-Men About Town Trio; vivien Ruth,
Songs
s:15--News-Edwin c. Hill
S:so-Albert Spalding, Violin; Conrad
Thibault, Baritone; voorhees, Orch.
s00-Nino Martini, Metropolitan Opera
Tenor; Kostelanetz Orch.
s:3o-Lombardo Orch; Burns and Allen,
Comedy
io:00-Florito Orch; Dick Powell. Songs
10:s0-The Republican Reaction-Repre-
sentative James NJ, Beck Of Pennsyl-
vsnis
t0;45-Columbiens Orch
1f:0o-Nick Lucas Songs
lf:f5-News; Little orch.
Orch
i2:oo-Hopkins Orch.
1880 A. M.-Hall =
i:0o-Light Orch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Fe ALT To Be Guest
Soloist at Workers
Dance League Affair

NEW YORK-Fe All, formerly
on the teaching staff of the Wig
man School, will make her concert
debut as guest soloist on the pro-
gram to be presented by the Work
ers' Dance League at the Brooklyn
Academy Of Music on April 20, at
$3.50 pm. She will present three
numbers-"Fille De Joie," Slavery"
and Summer Witchery.~ The first
two dances are from cycle Of
dances, The City" an attempt to
express the teeming, bustling activ-
ity Of large-scale city existence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Training School
in North Dakota

The District Convention of the
Communist Party in Bismarck
North Dakota, devoted considerable
time to the question Of developing
more workers for the Party, and
they decided to hold a six-weeks
full-time training school, beginning
May 18th. The Party Sections in
that territory have already been in
structed to select Is students, over
% years old, and to raise $40 for
each student. This sum will include
books and reference material The
students will bring their own blank
cts, clothing, etc, and the Sections
are expected to send certain
amount Of food also. The Conven-
ton decided that the tuition fees
should be in the school treasury
not later than April 18th.
The Student Conference held
last Sunday by the Boston Work
ers School was attended by Sc
delegates. Among the many or
carnations represented were the
Dye House Workers Industrial
Union and the Furniture Work
ers Industrial Union, the National
Alumni Association, the Young
Communist League, the Commu-
mist Party Represented by the
Org. Secretary, Weber,, the John
Reed Club, the Working Women's
Council, as well as the three
branches of the Boston Workers
School Chelsea, go students
Of whom the majority are shoe
, workers.. South End III students,
the majority being Negro workers.,
and Maiden go students, majority
from the high schools) - and Fl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11

7;15-John Herrick, Songs
f'So,Talk-Henry T. Rainey, Speaker Of
the House
5-Hollywood-Irene Rich
8:00-The Absentee Killer-Sketch
Advantageous Paradise
845-Carlos Gardel, Songs
s:OO-Raymond Knights Cuckoos; Mary
MCCOY. Soprano Armbruster Orch, !.
Jack Arthur, Baritone; SparkIers Trio
s'So-John Charles Thomas, Baritone:
DAILY Orch.
10 'oo-Lopez Orch; Male Trio; Ed Sullivan
i0:S0-Denny Orch.
11;00-Pickens Sisters Songs
ll:15-Reinhold Schmidt, Baritone
1890 stein Orch.
11:45-News: Pollock Orch.
12:oo-Molina Orch.
1880 A. M.-Stern Orch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
The World of
the Theatre
BRAIN SWEAT, by John Charles
BrOwneH, a play Of Negro life, at
LOngacre Theatre, New York.
Reviewed by HELEN SHERIDAN


Reviewed by HELEN SHERIDAN
A half dozen Negro Characters, p
all Of whom are calculated to de-
light a white bourgeois Broadway
audience, meander across the Long
acre Theatre stage in an apparently
mild, but subtly vicious. comedy by
one John Charles Brownen. It is
no accident that a play Of this sort
appears today on Broadway, which
has already seen the deeply stirring
They Shall Not Die" and which
will soon be shown another power
full play about Negro life in the
South when the Theatre Union pre-
sents "Stevedore."
The rapidly growing militancy of
the Negroes in the South, the cleo
trifying effect of the Scottsboro
case on hundreds of thousands Of
Negroes throughout the world, the
fear felt by the Negro and white
bourgeoisie at the crumbling Of the
capitalist status quo, called for a
play about Negro life that presents
all the comforting stereotypes of
past characterizations Of former
epochs.
No need to worry. everything is
all right, the Negro is still a genial
clown with an occasional harmless
streak of shrewdness. He doesn't
want to work because he's lazy, or
has ideas" land here the hint is
thrown out to any Negro who might
have ventured into the Longacre
Theatre, and this reviewer did not
see one, that if he is really smart
and has good ideas" he'll be able
to make quite a bit of money, and
it's only his inherent durnbness
that keeps him DOWN. The Negro
woman is a loving fool, who is glad
to do the white folks washing so
she can keep her man, and never
complains. There is the familiar
lecherous pastor, the bold, loose,
cynical sister and her dice playing,
patent-leather haired husband
(easy come easy go, Ia Octavus
Roy Cohen.
The feeble plot can be dismissed
in a sentence. Henry, the big
smiling hero. rocks complacently in
his rocking chair, having decided to
give up working with his hands,
and to use his brains, like white
folks do. After sweating his
brains Cfrom which derives the
atrocious title Of the play for two
years he hits on big idea through
which he succeeds in outwitting the
white business man of the town,
and makes $4,000, which, as the
curtain goes down, he proceeds to
hand out jovially to his various
relatives.
Here is a show absolutely guar
anteed to give every bourgeois white
in the theatre, however half-witted
a pleasant feeling of superiority
over the entire Negro race.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Los Angeles Troupe Leaves

LOS ANGELES, April 9. - The
Rebel Piayer-Blue Blouse troupe of
Los Angeles, winners in the Paci-
fic Coast Workers Theatre Festival,
have left for Chicago to participate
in the National Workers Theatre
Festival. They will stop in St.
Louis and Kansas City to give per-
formances,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
IN
ToNIGHT's PROGRAM
WEAF-660 Kc.

WEAF-660 Kc.
200 P. M.-Martha Mea2s, Songs
7.15-Billy BatchelorASketch
7;3o-shirley Howard, Songs; Testers Trio
7:45-The Goldbergs-Sketch
s;oo-Jack Pearl, Comedian; Van steeden
Orch
s.3o-Wsyne King Orch
9:OO-Heyton Orch. Fred Allen, Come
dian; Theodore Webb, Baritone
1o.o0-Hillbilly Music
1o:30-Ghost Stories-Sketch
II ;0o-Ferdinand Orch.
11:15-News; Dance Orch.
11:30-Rubinof Orch.
1200-Masters Orch.
1880 A. M.-Lucas Orch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11

w. L. Dana, who is giving a special
series of lectures on the Soviet
Union for the Boston Workers
School. A. Markoff. National
Director Of Workers Schools was
the main speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
WOR71O Kc.

700 P. M-Sports Resume
7:l5-Harry Hershf1eld
7:3o-Al and Lee Reiser, Piano Duo
7:45-Stories of the Sea
8:oo-Josef Rsnald, Hand Analyst.
S:15-Jack Arthur, Baritone
8:30-Concert Orch; Frank Mum, Tenor
9.00-Italics-H S. Lott Jr.
:30-Success-Harry Balkin
9.45-Robinson Orch.
1o:15-Current Events = Harlan Eugene
Read
10:so-Dorothy Miller, and Garfield Swift,
SONGS
1f.oO-Moonbeams Trio
i1:5n-Dance Music
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Glasses Start
This Week

Spring Term classes began last
night, with an advance registra-
ton of 1900 students. the highest
number of students ever registered
for any Spring Term in the history
of the school.
A few classes are still open, and
students who wish to register for
these classes may do so this week
any time before the first session at
IS East 18th st.
This column appears every
Tuesday. Communications should
be sent to A. Markoff, IS East 18th
St, Room 3O1, New York;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Valuable Suggestions
BY Students at Assembly

The Opening Assembly of the
Spring Term of the Workers School
in New York, which was held last
Saturday afternoon, conducted BY
w. ". Martin and Art Stein, in
structors, was packed to capacity.
A number of valuable suggestions
were made for the improvement Of
the work Of the school such as: as
signing students to go to demon
strattons, strike meetings, etc., and
reporting on these events in class:
making the outstanding news Of the
day an integral part of each course.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
DEMOCRATS SCORED
AT WORKERS PARLEY
Head of Pennsylvania Securities
League Says They Have Refused
to Back Social Legislation.

BY the Associated Press.
READING, Pa, June 23.-Charges
that the Democratic party in Penn
Sylvania has failed to follow the liberal
tendencies of the national admins
tration were tossed into the State
convention of the United Workers
Federation Of Pennsylvania today.
Stephen Raushenbush, chairman of
the Pennsylvania Security League, at
tackled the Democrats for what he
termed their refusal to support maj jor
social legislation" in the General
Assembly.
ut is to be regretted that Democrats
in Pennsylvania have failed to follow
in t. e liberal footsteps of the Roose-
welt Hministration. They have missed
a great opportunity in the Legislature
for the advancement o. legislation de-
signed to aid the worker"
He also assailed Mayor william N
McNair, Democrat, of Pittsburgh
for his assertion that he would call
out the police for guard duty in the
event the recently threatened steel
strike materialized.
IlOl. ISdlpA1 AIlcT VI lie OIllVeT-
sity of Pittsburgh. former head of the
Security League, called for co-ordina-
tion of all activities of all working
class groups.
There is too much dissipation oi
energy under the present system, with
scores of organizations working for
the same objectives. but not working
together" he asserted.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
SIX LANCER AIDES
JOIN TO DUST HIM
Support Contention That
Governor Is Barred
From Office.
Nv the Associated prsss.

BY the Associated PreSS,
BISMARCK, N. Oak, June ga
Six members of Gov. William Lanser's
cabinet, all elective officials, revolted
today and joined Lieut.. Gov. Ole H.
Olson, who claims he Is legal Cover
nor. They refused to recognize Lam
gers authority since he was convicted
of felony recently.
Today's action was climax to q
series of events which began last
March when opponents to LANCER en-
gineered a split in the Non-Partisan
League, a Republican faction.
Langers conviction with four others
a week ago was in the foreground of
the developments, which came at the
height of the campaign for the State
primary election.
The revolving officers, several OF
them serving with LANCER on i'm
portant State boards, said they be-
lieved the Governors conviction auto
matically disqualified him from hold
ing office. His opponents are: Olson,
John HUSKY, commissioner Of agri-
culture and labor; Robert Byrne, Sec
retary of State; Alfred Dale, State
treasurer; S. A. OlsneSs, State insur-
ance commissioner, and Fay Harding
and C. w. Mcdonnell, members of the
State Railroad Commission.
The six expressed fear that acts
performed in conjunction with LANCER
might be illegal.
Two days after Langer's conviction
Olson took an oath as Governor and
filed it with the secretary of State.
Then, after Attorney General P. o.
Sathre ruled against an Olson con-
tention that the chief executives con-
viction automatically vacated the
office, Olson's supporters petitioned the
State Supreme Court to accept origi-
nal Jurisdiction in the case, demand
ing that LANCER show cause why he
should not be removed.
LANCER countered by placing a guard
over his Office
The high court refused to enter
tain the petition "at this time" and
OlSon's attorneys announced the ap-
peal would be renewed after LANCER
was sentenced.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
R.F. C.. "Direct Loan Rules
Business Houses Must Meet Long List of Require
rrents-Adeqnate Security Necessary.
Limit Is 100000.

law-an amendment to the r. F. G.
act-after December 81. 1894. Dis
bursements may be made after jan
uary /, 1885, however, If where the
borrowers have not previously claimed
all of the principal of the loan.
The loans are to be made for three
to five years, the law allowing three
year loans with q two-year extension
privilege.
Loans to Be Divided.
The corporation Is authorized to
work with the commercial banks and
Federal reserve banks. In many in
stances loans will be divided into
three sections, each agency taking
part of the loan.
Applications for loans will not be
accepted in the Washington office.
They must be made at the nearest
branch agency. Inquirers may, how
ever, get from Washington r. F. c.
circular No. 13, this explaining re-
quirements.
The agencies are at Atlanta. Bir.
mingham, Ala; Boston, Charlotte
N. c.; Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas,
Denver, Detroit, El Paso, Tex; Helena,
Mont: Houston, Tex; Jacksonville,
Fla; Kansas City, Mo-; Little Rock,
Ark; Los Angeles, Louisville, KY;
Minneapolis, Nashville, Tenn; New
Orleans, New York. Oklahoma City
Omaha, Philadelphia, Portland, Greg.
Richmond. Va; Salt Lake City, San
Antonio, Tex; San Francisco, Seattle
Wash; Spokane, Wash, and st. Louis
Evening star., 1934-06-24

thew H., @. NJ. c.; Hare, Ray NJ, Q.
M. c.; Zeidner, Samuel l., @. M. c.;
Foster. Eugene M, F. D.; Jones,
Thomas W., Q. M. c.; Miller, Charles
s., Cav: Grum, Allen F., o. D.;
Jonitz, Franz j., @. NJ. c.; Robinson,
Robert. S. c.; Reedall, Harold M, o.
D.; johnson, William T., F. D.; Craig,
Patrick F., C. w. S.
First heutenants-Smith, Edward
w. o. D.; Elder. Eugene ". S. c.;
Mcconnell, Alva E., @. M. c.; Bran
non, Ernest M. j. A. G. D.; White,
Edward H., A. G.
Navy and Marine Corps Officers.
Capt. Robert G. Heiner (M. O..
U. S. NJ; Comdr. Clarence N. Hin
kamp, U. S. N; Comdr. Schuyler F..
Helm, U. S. N: Comdr. Franklin P.
Conger, U. S. N; Comdr. Francis A.
LaRoche, U. S. N: Comdr. Howard
A. Tribou (M. c., U. S. N; 1t.
Comdr. Raymond v. Miller, U. S. N;
1t. Comdr. Howard l.. Vickery, U. S.
N; 1t. Comdr. William A. Best, U. S.
N; 1t. Comdr. Ross P. Whitemarsh,
U. S. N; 1t. Comdr. Daniel Lynch,
u. S. N; Capt. Leland S. Swindler,
U. S. M. c.; Capt. James L. Denham,
II 6 M C.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Business houses seeking loans di-
rect from the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation under the act authorizing
such loans for the next six months
must meet long list of requirements.
They must:
Be members of the N. r. A.
Have been In business on January
/, 1884.
Apply to the nearest loan agency
of the r, F.. C.-there are 80.
Supply adequate security.
Be solvent when they get the loan.
Be unable to get a loan from their
bank.
Show the loan will increase or
maintain employment.
Not ask for over $500,000.
Declare no dividends without the
consent of the r. F. G.
Let the r. F. c. dictate officers
salaries.
Pay prevailing bank loan interest
rates.
Not plan new construction except
requirements or improvements to in
crease employment.
Foreign Trade Out.
Not be engaged in import and ex-
port business.
Not deal in foreign acceptances or
bills of exchange.
If contractor needing working
capital, give security other than as
sienmentS of their contracts.
No loans can be made under the
Evening star., 1934-06-24
RAIL PENSION ACT
HELD IDEAL TEST
Will Provide Check on
Theory Prominent in
Social Program.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Congress has given President Roose-
welt the means of putting one phase OF
his social program, old age pensions,
to a laboratory test
In the bundle of Congress
bills Mr.. Roosevelt has with him is
the Hatfield-W Wagner railway retire
ment bill. a measure designed to set
up within the industry a pension sys-
tenn under which employees and en-
ployers would contribute TO fund for
retirement.
Mr.. Roosevelt. in addition to giving
his own study to the measure before
he accepts or rejects it, has asked the
Attorney General for his opinion.
The railroads are described by those
favoring the measure as peculiarly
adaptable to serve the ends OF this
particular experiment, having class
of workers paid relatively high enough
to allow for compulsory savings.
If President Roosevelt signs the bill,
rail workers may retire at 65 after
five years service or at any age after
80 years service. Although 65 years
is set as a compulsory retirement age,
the retirement date may be extended
in yearly periods up to 10. Retire
ment compensation would consist of a
monthly annuity equivalent to per
cent of the monthly pay. multiplied
by the number of years of service.
The fund would be built up by the
employe contributing per cent Of his
pay, and the employer matching this
at a 2-to-1 ratio. A board, created
by the bill, would collect the funds.
earmarking them before deposit in
the Treasury for investment in Gov
ernment bonds.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Col. Waite Settles
Bet So Both Sides
Viii Be Satisfied
Half Barrel of Beer
Makes Question of p.
". A. Work a DrdtU.

If anybody has any unsettled bets
on his hands, Col. Henry M. Waite of
the Public Works Administration
seems to be q good fellow to decide
them.
This tip is passed along because Of
Waite's recent handling OF bet
which came up in the regular course
of business. 1t seems two bricklayers
in Philadelphia were hired to do a
job. They didn't know whether they
were working for the P. w. A., the
E. w. A. or some other ALPHABETICAL
concoction. One of them said one
thing, and the other said another.
So finally they made bet on it,
as to how much pay they would get,
a quarter of barrel of beer to the win
ner. Then they wrote to the P. w. A.
for an official Interpretation. The
letter found its way to Waite's desk.
He realized that no matter which way
he decided, one Of the workmen would
have a big hole in his pay envelope
after settling the bet. So he bought
half barrel Of beer, presented it to
the workmen, and declared the con-
test draw.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

The British EasciSts led by Sir Os-
wald MoSley are getting bellicoSe.
They are preparing their masculine
and feminine members for the coming
fight for power and have hired a we'll
known English woman athlete to teach
the Fascissettes" ju-jitsu. Further
more all lady Fascist canvassers are
urged to hold Ambulance certifi-
Gates" that is to say, to be able to
render first-aid in case of trouble.
x x
The news that the veteran o. the
seas, the fast liner Mauritania, is
going to the junk heap confirms the
reports that it pays better to sell old
but still seaworthy ships for scrap
iron than to keer them in service
The demand for scrap iron for
armament purposes is such that
good SerUiceable ships bring
larger profit to their oWnerS iUhen
they are 5unked than if they are
kept in commission
The navy graveyards in England are
full Of such ships and it does not
take long before they find their way
to Japan or Germany in the form of
scrap iron.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
M|SSPERK|NSLONG
VERSED IN STRIKES
Roosevelt Follows Custom
in Naming Her for
steel ParIey.
Bv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
In turning to Labor Secretary Fran
ces Perkins in the threatened steel
strike, and the West Coast longshore-
mans strike, President Roosevelt fol-
lowed an old New York habit.
For Is years the State of New York
looked to the quiet, direct Miss
Perkins to say the right thing at the
right time, if anybody could, in bring
ing belligerent strikers and employers
to amiable agreement.
In the four years Roosevelt was
Governor, and Miss Perkins headed
the Labor Department, New York
State had 3sl strikes, involving 254,-
236 persons Amicable settling of
many of them was due to her personal
efforts.
Spends Sleepless Nights
Many a sleepless night she spent in
strike negotiation. just as she did re-
Gently. in her national capacity, when
the Toledo strike was settled. Miss
Perkins picked Republican Charles P.
Taft, son of President Taft, as spe-
cial mediator. The night the strike
was settled she spent beside tele-
phone. in frequent long distance con-
ferences with Taft. A final call at 6
m told her work would be resumed
at am. that morning.
But most of the drama Of this phase
OF her work is lost because Miss
Perkins won't talk about it.
Its like a family squabble," she
tells inquirers. IF the window is not
open and the neighbors don't hear
maybe it will be adjusted"
Started in 1920.
In the simplest sentences, or in
tabulated statistics, the story is
sketchily revealed in the New York
labor reports. As far back as January,
1920, an entry tells the cloak, suit and
skirt trade asked strike intervention,
and the Governor put Miss Frances
Perkins on the special commission.
After hearings. the board recon-
mended a readjustment of wages,
which was accepted and work resumed
under amicable conditions in all
shops" was the end of that story.