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The daily worker., 1934-05-09

capitalistie writers subscribe, Is
one in which conscience becomes
harder than vulcanized rubber,
stale derisiOn is plsstered on ev-
cry hidden squirming of fear, and
cheap antics are manufactured in
a brazen attempt to dispel the i'm
preSsiveneSs Of one hundred thou
sand workers linked in one, red
hammered, mighty-voiced surge
upon the sOrdid, squeezed out
highways Of New York City.
Mr.. Broun hates TO hnd any
revolutionary journalist trying to
see how many gnsts he can go per
hour" The insects in question, how
ever, we're entirely the invention
and property Of the capitalist press,
and Comrade Garlin merely pointed
out that this time, unable to avoid
or erase the massive, unprecedented
proportion and intensity of the re-
cent May Day demonstration in
New York, these hirelings we're re-
duced to blowing spitballs with va
liant chuckles, advancing irrelevant
details as representative facts,
claiming that one Of the mothers
Of the Scottsboro boys fell asleep on
the platform, and indulging in other
minute, flagrsnt, cringing belittlings
which constitute "humor" to dulled
and conscienceless hearts and
minds.
COmrade Sender Garlin has
often attacked the more sweep
ing and deeply vicious distortions
and falsehoods Of the captalistic
press, but on such occasions, Hey
weod has chosen TO remain dis
oreetly silent, blding his time until
he could come forth. with
cheesecloth net, to assafl Garlin
on the "gnat issue"
The insects are not so limited.
however. They have been known to
include flies. cockroaehes, terantu-
las, and bourgeois colunnists!
NAVEL BoDENHEIM.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09

NO. I replied modestly. MY In
terest in art Is that of layman."
We'll, you do something's" Mr.. s
persisted. Are you writer7"
yes" I answered, with even
greater modesty.
For whom do you write?"
For moment I was tempted to
counter with the question for whom
do you paint7" but that wasn't nee
essary. I could tell at glance that
Mr.. S. paints largely for the salts
faction of his own soul and for
whoever is willing to buy his pic
lures. Therefore, I answered with
some dignity:
II write for the Daily Worker oc-
casionally. 7 was asked to do a
piece on the exhibition"
"The Daily Worker?" the artist
exclaimed, with note of amazed
interrogation. what is that?"
That" I replied "is the official
organ of the Communist Party OF
America. Haven't you ever heard
of it2"
"You see," Mr. S. explained. and
I could hardly detect any note Of
apology in his tone, Il live in Ma
iorca. I only run over here once
every two or three years for a short
visit. Why should the official organ
Of the Communist Party be inter
ested in the show?"
Because expstiated, 'the
Communist Party tries to help give
expression and leadership not only
in economic and political struggles
but also in the fight to solve the
cultural problems which have been
created by the collapse of our cur
rent economic sysetm."
Here Mr.. S. gave me look which
could indicate only that he hadn't
been aware that there was an eco
nomic system anywhere. In Ma
iorca, you see, it costs him only
seven dollars a month to reHt a
large stone country house with beau
tiful ancient wrought iron gates
lie showed me photographs of it
His vegetable garden, where he can
further sweeten life with moderate
quantities of the sweat of his brow
also helps to make him even more
completely self-suf1ioient.
Then, too" l continued, the rev.
olutionary movement, led by the
Communist Party, endeavors to
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
Interlude in an Art Gallery By Philip Sterling

hand. I'd have to think about 1t
good deal"
THE composition Is pretty good,
isn't it?" I volunteered. Mr., S. ig-
nored the remark. Suddenly he
said.
whoever did that has no feeling
for color. He doesn't know how to
use oil paint. It's not simple mat
ter, you know, using oils. It takes
wears and years to learn. This man"
he said indicating the mural, has
slapped his paint on in hurry,
without regard for any artistic con-
sideration. Oils must be used in a
certain way, you know. This man
hasn't done it,"
This is in tempera," ! said softly,
Mr.. S. seemed unmoved by my cor
rection. "It doesn't matter" he ex-
claimed petulantly. This man does
not understand in the slightest
about color values
"All right then, what do you think
of the compositions"
1.-THE picture tries to say too
much" Mr.. S. declared. HE should
have made a series of paintings out
Of that. just look at the way that
space is all cluttered UP with life
size heads, and buildings, and po-
licemen and the rest Of it.
1 decided that we'd better let the
matter rest right there. True, at
first glance The Class Struggle" is
confusing mass of figures and OBJ
| jects but each part of the picture
stands in almost perfect dialectic re-
lationship to the other parts and to
| the whole. It is an almost mathe-
matically exact perturbation of the
concrete forces which make UP the
class struggle. The picture is clear
| logical, forceful and sober. 1t would
take too long to describe it in de-
tail here.
At any rate, I knew that at this
point it was time to conclude my in
| formal interview with Mr.. S. per-
ceived that it could not continue on
the same friendly basis Of informal
scquaintanceship on which 1t
started. I said goodbye. Mr.. S. Of
fered me his hand and shook mine
warmly
80 long" ] mUrmured.
i've got to get back to the Office
to write my story I replied, strid-
ing toward the elevator.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
Detroit Workers Camp
Opens Sunday, May l3

DETROIT. The Workers Camp
announces its official opening on
May 13. On that date the Com
munist Party, District T, will have
its annual spring picnic. A rich
program is being prepared, includ-
ing the John Reed Dramatic Group,
the Freiheit Gesang Ferein, and
other cultural groups. A prominent
speaker will speak, and there will
be out-of door sports.
The Camp is located on Twelve
Mile Road and Halsted Road in
Pennington. 1t is not only a recre-
ational park, but also an educa-
tional center Every Sunday and
on holidays lectures are delivered
by outstanding leaders of the work
ing class. Admission to the Camp
is as low as cents and transporta-
ton is convenient.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
Jos. Freeman Writes
on Tampa Struggles
in ''Daily'' Tomorrow

The story of Illegal revolution
airy activities in Tampa, Florida,
is described In three articles by
Joseph Freeman, the first of
which will appear on this page
tomorrow,
Freeman, a leading Communist
journalist and critic, tells Of the
struggles of the tobacco workers
for a fighting union and of the
police terror against them in
Ybor City, the Spanish section of
Tampa.
Vivid sketches Of working class
leaders in Tampa and colorful
descriptions of working -class life
in this Southern city will be
found in Freeman's articles.
Be sure to get tOmorrow's
issue of the Daily Worker for
this important feature!
The daily worker., 1934-05-09

MR.. S. LIS a likeable person. His
lH close cropped black beard and
his easily detachable fondneSs for
onions, presumably acquired in Ma
iorca, give him an informal, friend
ly air. It is not his fault that he
is an expatriate art-for-art's saker
and it is not my fault that I met
him at a moment when my amino
sity for the protagonists of sheer
beauty was particularly active. Still
I looked on him when met him
and somehow I still look on him as
being wholly typical of his kind.
After wandering for two hours
through the meaningless maze OF
color and monochrome at the cur
rent show Of the Society of Inde-
pendent Artists the other day, I felt
pretty bad. I went there originally
for a good long look at the col
lectively conceived mural of the
John Reed Club, whose entries in
the independent shows have become
almost as much of tradition as
the shows themselves. remained
in hopes of discovering among the
welter of nudes, portraits and land
scapes other pictures equal in any
respect to the John Reed Club
painting which Is titled simply, THE
Glass Struggle"
Stopping for last glance at the
painting. observed Mr.. s. study
ing it, too. I spoke to him because
he looked as though he might be
an artist. He was.
One word led to another and he
told me that he was very much
pleased with the exhibition. dis
covered later that part of his sat-
isfaction was due, probably, to the
fact that his own dark studies"
we're hanging in very favorable
position. AS matter of fact, he
lost no time in leading me to the
corner where his three pictures we're
hanging. Pointing to one of them,
Mr.. S. explained.
Il was inspired one night by tne
way that house looked sitting on
the hill 1t made me think Of
Oscar Wilde's poem, you know, the
one about the Harlot's House. )"
Il see" I muttered with simulated
sympathy. An engaging fancy, real
ly It seems we'll handled j.
Are you an artist, too?" Mr.. s.
asked.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
Stage and Screen
Observation-Disclosures
for MOscOLC Theatre Festival

Perhaps the most varied and sn1--
bilious program Of dramatic, oper-
attic and ballet events ever gathered
together in single theatrical
schedule In modern times Is prom
ised in the detailed announce
ment Of the plans for the Second
Moscow Theatre Festival which has
Just reached this country.
Eleven first rank repertory COM
panies will collaborate during the
ten day period, Sept, l TO 10. in
presenting a series Of performances
of classic and modern comedy and
tragedy, Of grand opera. ballet and
moving pictures. which will suipass
the first Festival, held last June.
The Soviet Government IS going
to unusual lengths in marshalling
all Of It's artistic resources on this
occasion for the benefit of visitors
from this and other countries Last
year the program was sustained BY
the Moscow Art Theatre, the
Kamerny Theatre and the State
Opera and Ballet companies. This
year, in addition, the roster in
cludes Meyerhold's Theatre. the
Vakhtangof Theatre, the Jewish
State Theatre, the Second Moscow
Art Theatre, the Stanislavskv
Opera Studio and the time -honored
Small State Theatre, also the Chill
drens Theatre and various cinema
performances.
The range OF plays, operas, and
ballets will also be wider than last
years festival Classic perform
ances include Borodin's opera,
Prince Igor" The Flame Of
Paris a ballet of the French Revo-
luton; Shabespeare's Twelfth
Night; Rossini's Barber Of Seville"
and Dumas ia Dame AUX Came
| Has Contemporary subjects will
be represented in Slevin's Inter
vention;" The Negro Boy and the
Ape" by Sats and Rosanoff; Sho-
lom Aleichem's Two Hundred
Thousand Trenieff's "Llyubof
Yarovans;" Vishnevsky's ''T7he OPP
tin1istic Tragedy" and Gorky's
"Yegor Bulytchef and His Friends"
Arrangements are being made for
visitors to the festival to substitute
other current performances in the
Moscow Theatre if they so desire.
These optional plays, as well as the
names of the leading players, who
will take part in the festival per
] formances. will be announced later.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
Milwaukee Students
Protest German Tour
OF College 2 Band

MILWAUKEE.-Ninety students,
intellectusls, workers. artists, doc
tors etc, gathered together at the
Conservatory OF Music Hall, Mil
wsukee, to hear Stanley Burnshaw,
editor Of the New Masses, speak on
Culture and Fascisrn," and to pro-
test the acceptance by the State
Teachers College Band Of the in
vitation from the fascist govern
ment Of Germany to tour and give
concerts in that country for a
period Of 30 days.
All individuals and cultural or
ganizstions are urged to send tele-
grams and letters of protest on the
above action by the band to Presi-
dent Frank Baker, Milwaukee State
Teachers College, Milwaukee, Wise.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
NO GREATER GLORY. Produced
by Columbia Pictures. Bssed on
the story by Ferenc MOlnar.
Reviewed by
SAMUEL RRODY

SAMUEL BRODY
WHAT Is the thesis Of NO Greater
W Glory" a Aim for which the
kept reviewers Of the kept press
have fallen head over heels?
Kate Cameron, Of the New York
Daily News, states bluntly:
NO Greater Glory Is an anal
ogy Of war. Frank Borzage has
made for Columbia a highly SEN
timental and touching picture
from Ferenc Molnar's novel, The
Paul Street Boys He demon
strates in this perturbation Of the
battles between two groups of boys
over a lumber yard that makes
an ideal playground, that the
impulse to fight, even unto death,
over the homeland Is powerful
instinct in the male Of the species"
my emphasis, b
In mo Greater Glory" this al
legged instinct" is extolled and
shown to be as much a part Of
mans nature" as the yolk Is Of the
egg or the marrow Is Of the bone.
It is an instinct which often leads
to death-thsn which there Is mo
greater glory" To submit this thesis
to its ultimate test, children rather
than adults have been used. the
logic being that If the will to fight,
to be soldier, to die for the home
land, etc, is present in the young,
then how much more so is it present
and inersdicsble in the hearts and
souls Of men
If mo Greater Glory is simply
IAN analogy of war" intended to
demonstrate that man is born COM
bative, then it might not be smiss
to inquire as to why the bad boys, -
the attackers and rowdies in the
film are the Red Shirts" while the
little boys from Paul Street are pic
tured as the innocent defenders Of
their lot, who fight only because
they are attacked. Are these same
Red Shirts" directly responsible for
the death Of Nemecsek, the little
martyred boy upon whom the Aim
concentrates the whole weight of
synpathy7
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
Film Festival Sunday
Arranged by Committee
To Aid Marine Union

NEW YORK. - The Provisional
Committee for the Support of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
will present a talking Aim festival
consisting of the two noted feature
films, RED Head" (Poil de Car
rotte) and killing to Live" Am
kino's biological masterpiece, on
Sunday, May 13, at Webster Hall.
The performance will be continu-
GUS from p. m. to II p. m. The
charge Of admission in advance is
25c up until p. m. and 40c there
after. The holders of the 40c tickets
will be entitled to free party and
dance from II p. m. until a. m.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09

is contrary to Theatre Union policy
Just as the Theatre Union went
out and organized its white worker
audiences, so it is now concentrat-
ing on Negro organizations and Ne
gro clubs to bring them into the
Theatre from which, as a rule, they
have been barred either by Jim
Grow regulations or by high prices.
In addition, several hundred tick
cts are each week contributed to
the unemployed of New York. the
bulk of them this time going to
Harlem groups. To help share the
cost Of this policy, audiences are
asked to contribute toward a fund
for unemployed tickets.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
Waldman to Speak on
''The War Set-Up in
Washington on Sunday

NEW YORK.-Seymour Waldman,
Of the Daily Worker Washington
Bureau, will speak on ''The War
Set-Up in Washington" at the John
Reed Club Forum. 4S0 Sixth Ave,
next Sunday night, May 13.
Waldman. who is the author of
Death for Profits" a study of the
War Policies Commission, will dis
cuss the elaborate war preparations
Of the Roosevelt government as we'll
as the war propaganda machine
which has already been set In
motion.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
Some Nazi Biology

TN corresponding snouthke
upper jaw obique than IN
chewing allows mastcaton to
take with the mouth closed
of other inclined to make the smaskng noises
eating
sperores Just the color red
stirring effect the bright red mouth of Nod attracts and
courtshp The Nordic mouth kisscapable
the other hand the nNordcs broad cklpped mouth
with widedaed nostrs displays
malicious expression and
dicatve of vouptuous sefindulgence.
nonNordc occupies intermediate position between
anhropod
complete but transition intermediary stage sub
human.
learned philosophical The of
other professors talk like him in the
asylum.
object physical disgust.
! one"
This again speaking Propaganda
Some day will eat his vomt.
that it sacrifice for to have War
affirmation of life would be like
trying o suppress the processes of nature"
Goebbes, Chief Htlers right
bower
internationally minded stranger
people"
!. thinks Esser, Cabinet
and coming happiness
meaning the purpose the
a of for the human
Naz professor Ewad Banse, in his book, War Science
THERE of this in Naz
yet there already subsidized
papers printing
And there hundred
believe this kind thing
ready commit murder to make America Nazi-rIled.
No reality, civilization and
science Germany
against this of darkness
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
New Glasses Opened
By New Dance Group

NEW YORK.-The New Dance
Group, % W. 18th ST., has opened
two new classes which will meet on
Tuesday at 7 pm, and Wednesday
at 6 pm. The classes are limited
to 20.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
ThuTsddy

GENERAL MOBILIZATION Steve Kato-
Wis Br LID. Manhattan Lyceum Sc E.
4th St.. 6 pm. For Anti-Nsgi Parade in
Yorkyille
OPEN FORUM Pen & Hammer Club, ia
W 2lst St, $50 pm. John Brants speaks
on Boy Scout Movement in U.sA."
Adm. 15c.
MECHANICS OF THE BRAIN (soviet
FILM illustrating discoveries Of / Pavlow
West Side Br. F.s.U., 2642 Broadway, at
Tooth St, $3.50 pm. Adm. 25c
FINAL MEETING all delegates 5-Day
May Festival 81 Bazaar. N. Y District
c, P, so f. 18th St., Room 205. pm
All delegates from unions, mass orgsniza-
tions Two. and LID. branches are
urgently requested to be present.
SOVIET CHINA - History OF the sy
Anti-Seyiet Campaigns Lecture by Conrad
Komorowski. Friends OF the Chinese Peo.
pie, 1853 W 25rd St, Room H. Adm. l5c
DANCE and ENTERTAINMENT given by
the Social Youth Club, Sat, May 18th
3 pm, i0s W. 24th St. Admission free
Check Room 25e. Music by John Cusanc
and his Harmony Kings.
ARMS AND THE MEN, the Interna-
tionsl Ammunition Fing-now on sale al
the Workers Book Shop so p. 18th st..
| N.Y.C.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.

SYMPOSIUM Republican, Democratic,
Socialist and Communist candidates will
present program for the Crisis IN Educs- =
tion" Harry NJ Wicks, Communist can
didste for Senate, will speak. Friday. May
II, pm. Lulu Temple, Broad n Spring
Garden SITS, auspices Unemployed Thea
tres Council. Admission 2So.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
By MICHAEL GOLD

"AI highly stressed components must be provided
with test-piece of appropriate size. This tes-pece
should remain integral with the component until all pro-
except balancing completed 1t should then be
ested to destruction Principles of Areo-Engine
Design.
drop-forging rough, still warm
From fare-meal birth,
3 Resiient-rigid, of all that earth
in it Of strength, mountains heart distilled
metal bar. It shows the form
OF the future crankshaft, machined and drilled
o knfeedge scantings, it's trimmed so
The balance finger a hreaths echo.
And after the gouging and the Furnishing
after the heat and oil douching
Here's crankshaft At to climb the sky
Tempered, true, ready
But thing
Shear of this metal square for the final testing
Past pressure and the fame
Past the lathes steel teeth
with the crankshaf, this test-piece came
To severance-and death?
TEST to destrucion'-yes, but this prove
hard for twisting, for the impact wheel;
Clean steel
DINTITROFF!
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
Out of the Mouths of Nazis

WRITER in the New Republic has recently interesting
lection leading Mans
They They Incredible in the depths
and sadic that any added
comment would be ani-climax.
yet point out that the Nas are not
subject irony merely These perers and maden have captured
leading Europe and the Of plngtng the
They be taken seriously for they mad
guns power.
they pouring millions of dollars ino America
influencing capitalist leaders They making alliances
with ndusias like
and the Remington works searsoebuck the Du Points
ETC. dangerous the America We
stop poisonous this country recognize and
with clear kill the snake before he has done damage
the quotations John Gunther calls them Nasm
straight It's megaphones":
The Nz party has been proved to have better relations with the
Christian parties which disappeared
said by village idiot but by Badur Won schirach mem
o Reichag the Hitler youth movement
IS lonely s Hitler is like God"
Thus less than Dr. Frank head OF the Nan
Department Of Justice.
'The appearance of
gence world tormened by decay"
Jaeger former commissioner
Prussia, and Naz leader
of the Nazs claim that Christ no jew but
blonde German, hips like Hitler
experts arguing the question: Meat
quite the meatgvng animals and their
fodder been raised German on native soil that has been ma
y turaly, not chemically fertlized?
fattened the short
possible by every artificial Is the meat German
other country For these meats
the The latter will make the individual sick and weaken the
sample extract typical magazine National
Health, published in Nuremberg.
answer like any other meat
the
nothing prevent serious scientific Many
chemical endh devices perfected by Mrs scientists
indusaists the blond race
health" and is widely held Naz
idea in Germany today.
Hler attack the democratic spirit merely the opening act
development the of which will be Naz Europe"
Goebb the ratfaced clbfooted hero
Of language who is Hitlers chief propagandis.
Erope That is their the bourgeois Germans
followed the Kaiser and paid blood and hunger for his egot viii
they let Hitler lead them into the sp7 is doubtful not while
working building galows for the Hitler
Scientific education for to be reduced
services to the family and for the
cal forfaction
i. Pr1ssian press service of the Nazt party.
The daily worker., 1934-05-09

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PHtSbnrnh. Pn.

TWO SOVIET PICTURES. THE Forty
First and "A Jevi at War" shown at
Carnegie Lecture Hall schenlev Park,
Oakland Friday, May 18th. Adm Sso
for U. C. members zoe. Auspices Unem-
plovrn ent CouncilS
The daily worker., 1934-05-09
WHAT'S ON
Wednesday

UNITY THEATRE. 94-2e East 2srd 81
presents African Festiysl-Horton's Shol-
ogs Olobs, . pm. Adm 3sc,
NJ, BLOOM speaks on Workers Sell
Defense" at open meeting Of Sacco-Van-
getti Br LID, 792 E. fremont Ave, s:St
pm. workers invited Admission free.
DAVID sCHRIFTMAN speaks on "A
Review Of Local Cases" Tom Mooney Br
LID, 225 e 18th St. pm Adm, free
DR.. FIscHoFF speaks on The Workers
Theatre" at the Dome, 430 sth Ave, 9
pm Dancing will follow
The daily worker., 1934-05-09

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*Mr. S. did not contest this
assertion. But our conversation
would seem to indicate that he
is unaware of any class struggle
in Majorca, even though he told
me that the extensive citrus
groves which are the chief in
dustry of the island are in the
hands largely of big-scaie land
owners. Since the crisis exports
have fallen to practically no.
thing. When | asked him "how
do people live then" having In
mind the propertyless reasantry
Of the island, Mr.. S. replied with
refreshing naivete, "Oh, they all
have plenty of money laid by"
The daily worker., 1934-05-09

make all cultural media active
weapons in the class struggle. The
class struggle, no doubt. exists even
in Majorca,"' I added, rather hope
fully.
II see," Mr.. S. murmured. There
was an awkward pause. BY this
time was itching, for some per-
verse reason, to ask Mr.. S. his opin-
ion Of the John Reed Club produc-
ton. I took advantage of the break
in the conversation.
What do you think of that John
Reed Club piece?" I asked, Mr.. S,
took q, good long look. Turning to
me he sighed in commiseration,
"And you have to write a story on
that?"
"I've had tougher assignments, y
I boasted.
do you want to praise it, or ?"
"The Daily Worker doesn't limit
its writer's in so mechanical fash
ion," I interrupted, "I want your
honest opinion" While spoke, I
thought:
This man is not only an artist,
he is a critic rs we'll What a
Characteristic question from an art
ist who has been schooled in cul-
ture dependent on private patron
age" I glanced at the lower right
Of "The Class Struggle" where a
green-faced csdaverous Rockefeller
presides over the wreckage Of Ri
vera's mursls while a pudgy La
Guardia gleefully holds aloft q
painting of a beefy nude.
MEANWHILE Mr. s. was studying
lM the painting diligently. TITS
hard to talk about these things, off