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on this ship. At one point the men
refuse to turn to on Sunday with
out extra pay.
The captain clears his throat and
says:
Men, Mr.. Calder, the Chief
mate, tells me you have refused to
turn to because it is Sund1. Now
some OF you men have been with
me long enough to know that I
never turn the deck gang to on
Sunday unless I have to. Now
what's holding yen back, men-or
who?"
There's no use OF all these ques-
tons said Slim. "The crew has
decided
Another word out of you" the
captains words were steel, "and
I'll put you in irons, you god
damn R-e-di"
But the crew was behind Slim,
even the professor gave the captain
an argument. and sailors won their
overtime.
Pell writes a good deal in the
straightforward language of the
fo'casle. The sailors vernacular even
runs through his exposition. The
aches and pains of the seaman
"''""-d r-e-'chart ships, his love af-
fairs, his illusions, his struggle for
wages all this and more is well
presented In IS. S. Utah." the first
novel Of one Of the newest Amer
can revolutionary writer's.
Many critics, both proletarian and
bourgeois, have complained about
Pells style. stating that the char
acters in the book were not real liv-
'ng seamen, but wire pulled puppets.
I think that these critics are TO
great extent incorrect. True, Pell
is not swanky writer. One can
not Judge style from that standpoint.
1t Is the conviction and truth about
questions of life and the class strug-
gle that the author places into his
work that interests us. Some Of
Pell's characters do lack in many
respects all the Juices OF life. But
the novel, nevertheless, is the best
picture, and the first true picture,
OF life aboard q modern freighter.
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Charlotte, the Queen City OF the South, in 1884

OF the old pioneers who hacked a
world out Of wilderness. Yet, what
ever energy and vigor their ancestors
had seems to be gone now. Whether
It was sapped from their bodies by
years OF back-breaking toll as tenant
farmers or in the mills or other in
dustries or whether there Is an in
nate sense Of inferiority deeply rooted
in them, I do not know.
They stand for more than even
the long oppressed Negro. They will
take charity, the trifles that city,
county or government gives them
watch their children grow thin, see
them stay away from school because
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-17
There Is No Contradiction

NE OF the things that puzzles Socialist is the an
parent contradiction that for united front Will.
the past Is years ~ 0
mere 10 contradiction here however united front doesn't
mean nat each member of give convictions and
teal 0 "NA '"eoHe-
The line OF Communism all thess wear.
was Inc communists who first attacked treaty and In
germany Tor instance refused to Socialists dId ana
IL was thls, really that lost Germany to Eulerian
me communists first pointed in
o parantarlsn was ouworn
apaSt stability but when desperate il cod win 49,.
workers nothing The Socialist this anti-nar
al the tou names could think labelled the Communists ~
ana anarchists poisoning the workers thew e1
6u @ whole line has broken 6arrdes in yanro
prove IT. With their backs wall the Socialist
nave come 70 see that not the winning seats and officers IN
ste is the road to Socialism stpg,e ~
class ocoshp Either the rule and there is soio
ne Fascsts rule and there is repression hunger 49,
poyment and law "e0 eNeAh-
o%!0i alaCVes exist IN the political of
e SOCIALIST leaders have not acknowledged the hitter 1
Qua" communists give their deep convictions ~
~ we Cny enter united front? They would be traitors ~
anu uae working class they they are WILLING - 49,
aignouae any tme-Socialst bea-who Is nptny -, 49,
lsnC against lasclsm and
ana something all workers understand brave 1orr.r M
Cne IN vienna who have at opportnsr, T. 49, a..
Ss See not won IN parliament only one ererr 49,
WhoeVer compromises with is traitor - N'' anu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-17
Negroes Determined Not
to Starye, But White
Workers Acquiescent

hosiery and textile mills Just outside
the city limits used TO draw most Of
5 labor from the neighhoring farms
Farmers, who for decades, worked
either as share choppers or tenant
arrners, year In and year out only
to get nothing at the end Of the
season, left the land TO work in the
mills and other industries here. The
Chamber of Commerce here used TO
advertise and still does, that there
is an unlimited supply Of farm labor
70 draw from. labor willing to work
on an open shop basis, and with no
un-American ideals"
Back to the Land Fails
Since the depression, about one out
Of every four industrial workers who
came from the farm has drifted back
20 the land But that, too, failed
them, for the landowners were be-
ing paid by the government not to
plant so much or to plough under
What was planted. The returning in
ustrial worker as well as the tenant
,armer who had stuck by the soil,
had no work, no advances in food
1tuffs or clothes against his crop and
re, too, was thrown upon the county
charity along with his city brother
For decades these 100 per cent
Americans had been brow-beaten by
landlords. cheated, starved and given
as little as possible. If they did not
like the land they lived on they
could move and apparently the
psychology of the man fated to be
walked upon has seeped into his
blood. Children grow up knowing
nothing else except obedience to what
is given them. And its effects are
seen now.
The Chamber Of Commences claim
that there are no un-Amecican
ideals" in these native whites, from
the Chambers standpoint, means no
organized demands for improved
working and living conditions and in
this respect the Chamber seems to
be absolutely right.
Negroes More Conscious
There is greater independence
and objection to the conditions they
are living under among the Negroes
who make up 20 per cent of the total
population. The whites are perfectly
willing in the main to take, with a
hang-dog air, whatever is thrown
them. Whet muttering there is, is
in very low undertone. There is
an air Of fear about them that per-
haps even the little they are getting
will be denied them.
Bad as conditions are IN New
England industrial city there seemed
to be greater fear by officials and
employers lest workers be restless.
Here employers simply pay no at
tention to the workers and the work
ers themselves do not raise their
voices in protest even when the C.
w. A., and the charity organizations
1T give them their pathetic weekly
allowance for food, are used to lower
WHIT little wages some of them can
still earn.
Continued Tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-17
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
The United Front
BY Michael Gold

ONE beginnings the demonstration the
v other day against consulate
supposed two demonstrations Communist
o'clock that Of the Socialists nve.
the first struggling began marching before the
Public Library yscrapp Fifth Ave, its red
banners revealed the that Socialists in the
van, side by side with the Young Communists.
thrilling sight, probably its kind in
America the united that anscends political
siatons the immediate struggle against fsS when the working
class danger fight the enemy.
Socialist workers fighting side by side IN tbs
desperate the prosat making against the
Nszi
In Germany Socialist workers utertng into tbs heroic
ranks Of the underground Communist Party The going
all As the their
revolutionary goal thousands learn overnight
Of history there other for the oppressed today
but
ton to be destroyed The issue simple that
simple is the task arcusng the workers waking them their
illusions
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Lenirl and His Party
BY a. c. BOSE

LEHIN, A BIOGRAPHY, by Ralph
Fox, Harcourt, Brace g. Co, $2OO
THIS latest biography Is written by
q British Communist, who based
it upon a study Of Russian materials.
such as Lenin's works, biographies,
memoirs, etc. He knows the LANGUAGE
and was for a time a member Of the
Communist PARTY Of the Soviet
Union. II is solid piece Of research
and at the same time a we'll written
story; much factual material about
Lenin and the movement is to be
found here for the hrst time IN
English. The result Is an intimate
picture Of Lenin, the man, and a
closely-knit account OF conditions in
Russia and among the Socialist exiles
m Siberia and abroad,
A quarter Of the book IS given to
Lenin,s boyhood and youth. We find
that his father was a fairly wsll-to-
do school inspector Vladimir was
normal, lively. athletic boy, with none
Of the norbidities OF the Dostoiey-
skian inteIlectuals; intensely fond of
skating, Skiing, hunting, chess and
Latin. Though his elder brother was
. Student Of Marx and Ponulist
Revolutionary terrorist Of the Peo-
pies win Party. Vladimir is por-
trayeo as not interested in the move
fnent. reading and rereading Tur-
geniev while his brother studied
Marx. Herr Fox Is unclear, for re-
marks he quotes bv Vladimir end
his sister indicate that even al the
age Of II Lenin had begun to think
about the movement. Upon his
brothers execution, Lenin said. ''No,
We shall not go along that road.'D
He was admitted to Kazan Uni
versity with difficulty, ironically
enough upon the splendid recon-
mendation Of his headmaSter, F.
Kerensky, whose son he was TO drive
out Of the Winter Palace so years
later. Within four months Lenin was
accused Of "impoliteness" and talk
ing with suspect students in the
smoking room. Fox leaves us with the
impression that Lenin was still not
interested in the revolutionary move
nent, yet quotes him as characterize
ing the system as rotten and needing
to be smashed.
I ENTN was exiled to the sticks,
Il where he began to study Marks
Capital and other socialist writings
(Oct. 1889. At the same time he con-
ttnued to study law, taking his exams
two and a half years later and get
ting his diploma. After a brief career
as a lawyer among the peasant1y,
losing most cases but learning rural
conditions, he went to Petersburg
Gs92], and became a professional
revolutionary, organizing workers
study circles and combating Poou-
lisn. His first work, who the
Friends Of the People Are and How
They Fight Against Social Democ-
racy." was written at the age Of "a.
ut was based upon essays written
two years earlier for study circles In
Samara, while he was practicing law
He became the leader Of the move
ment, actually organizing the first
Socialist Party, issuing It's first paper,
and writing It's first theoretical works.
After trip abroad to Plekhanov
and Axelrod, he returned and was
soon arrested due to provocateur in
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Artists and Critics at the
John Reed Symposium to
Hit Mural Destruction

NEW YORK. - SHOULD Art Be
Natlonal?" this is the subject of .
5ymros; UNI arranged by the John
Reed Club at Irving Plaza Hall. 18th
St and Irving Place, this SUNDAY
afternoon at O'Clock.
The meeting will also protest the
destruction of the Diego Rivera
Lenin mural by the Rockefeller Cen
ter.
A number of leading artists and
art critics will participate in the
symposium, including Thomas Ben
ton. Walter Pach, Louis Lozowick.
Ralph Pearson. and Adolph Glass
gold Of the Whitney Museum.
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Samuel Putnam to. Talk
at Reed Club Tonight

NEW YORK. - Samuel Putnam,
editor Of The New Review and The
European Caravan, viii speak on
From Dada to Revolution tomor-
row night at the John Reed Club, 400
S Xth Ave, at $3.50 PM. Putnam is
widely known as one OF the leading
writer's, poets and critics Of the post
war era in American literature. For
a number Of years he was the editor
of The New Review, leading ex-
patriate magazine in Paris, around
which many modern and decadent
schools in literature grouped them-
selves.
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start intensive work on the second
half. At the END Of todays. rehearsal
we should be prepared 10 give the
entire play preview tomorrow. I
don't say that Wen do that but at
this stage We should be prepared fer
It know It's a large order but We
must attain this goal If we are 70
give a perfect performance on the
18th. Let's go comrades"
Quietly they stepped up 70 the
stage and stood at the wings. nosed
the absolute absence Of horseplay, the
deep concentration Of each actor as
he prepared TO play his role. They
waited for the next word from the
director. ..
IAN right. Lights out, stage man
ager."
The theatre was dark the actors
took their places.
Curtain" .s. ...
The stage lights went Up. 4 coiored
preacher sat talking 70 his little Sun
day School. He spoke Of God and the
Bible 10 the incredulous children
feeding the doctrine Of submission 70
injustice In favor Of the heaven TO
come. Each question Of fact put for
ward with childish directness was
answered with 8 numbering mani
festation Of faith In the Bible by ths
preacher. .a
"And we all go to heaven On a
trsing"
That's right"
"a ehoo-choo train7s
That's right--s choo-ehoo train
THE lights went out and came up
again on 3 scene In q box car;
the nine boys were played with
sympathy and restraint worthy Of
high rating according 10 strict profess
sional standards; considering the
limited facilities as compared With
the commercialized bourgeois stage,
this was en- impressive feat, an In
soiring evidence OF the tremendous
clarity and drive Of the revolutionary
theatre. Then came the street scene,
a shrewd revelation Of the economic
basis Of race prejudice, which led 10
the first of the trial scenes. At Il IS
point the director called for lights.
"Okay so far, comrades. But you'll
have to tighten up to keen the pace
and emotion you're building. Ter
minute rest period, and then wan
swing into the second half"
I walked over TO SAKE. 'Well?" ne
said.
"You seem to be BUILDING a real
revolutionary theatre, you and your
comrades. Good work"
His face twisted up into a warm
grin. "Yeah7 You ought to come
around more often and see the other
stuff In proouction-Guard Duty and
Station NRA, Excuse me minute"
He walked to where another visitor
was sitting, an unasSmning girl wear
Ing silver-rinlmed glasses. took an
other look and strolled over to hear
what she had TO say.
CONGRATULATIONS I think It's true
and vital, The work you're doing is
tremendously important"
The speaker was Ruby Bates,
ScottsbOro viii be among the Tea
lures at City College Auditorium
23rd st. and Lexington Ave, tonight
under the auspices OF the Workers
International Relief.
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E The circles. During Il months In prison
he studied, wrote and smuggled out
strike leaflets, articles, 3 famous May
Day manifesto, etc. He was sentenced
TO a thPee-year term in Siberia, 10 be
followed soon by Krupskaya, who
had worked with him in the work
ers' circles.
Upon his release he went TO Geneva
and London to issue Iskra (Spark)
despite great dificulties with Plekha-
nov. In London the Lenins lived
as Mr.. and Mrs Richter, German
citizens. There TrotzSy came. soon
TO become Lenin's political enemy
until the October revolution. The
years to 1905 we're ones Of bitter
struggle against Atartov, Trotzky,
PlekhanoY. etc, With the bulk of
the Russian exiles, the Second In
ternational. and even the Russian
&C. against him.
With the 1908 revolution Lenin was
back in Russia. While the armed up
rising was in progress In Moscow, he
and the other Bolshevik leaders met
In Finland TO prepare the insurrec-
ton. Here Stain met him for the
fFst time, and recorded his inlpres-
siens thus, ~ was carried away by
the tndehnable power of logic, which.
at first little drily, but for all that
deeply, gripped the audience, gradu-
ally electrified IL, then took it hope
lesSly prisoner"
THE rest Of Lenin's life abroad, the
1 stT'ogles TO lay the basis Of Boil
Thevik partv snd International (the
latter from the Copenhagen Con-
gress in 1910 to 1870 are described
vividlv. An interesting reference to
the United States Is his inability TO
have published here in 1915 a trars-
lat'on Of Socialism and War" writ
ten for the zimmerwsld Conference
and issued in Russian, French and
German. He returned TO Russia in
Anil J917, Speaking TO a demonstra~
ton Of his beloved workers for oniv
the second time Cthe first was in
1900. Thereafter he was never sep
aratec from them. except for short
periods in hiding during 1917.
Lenin's personal disregard for deu-
ger to himself, which caused PTS
death later, nearly resulted In his
murder in july, again the following
month, as he escaped TO Finland
across a burning neat bog, and many
times after October.
His relations with Stain are re-
ferTed to often, and those with Trot-
sky rs well. We are shown that some
Of the latter's greatest achievements,
Brest-Litovsk and the organization of
the Red Army, were nhinuses rather
than pluseS. needing Lenin's inter-
vention to rectifv the errors Of this
tndividualist and causing MANY a
heartache, Fox closes with splendid
epitaph; For the first time In his
tory a man at his death was incurred
in every country Of the world
Aside from an iradviSable COM
garrison with Lincoln %. 30e), and
such slips as this: THE few months
Of Kerensky's government had
brought the country to ruin and
famine :" (p. 253); an irritating
reiteration Of Lenin's likeness to a
peasant and his wearing a shabby
coat (the latter fact is mentioned
three or four tines; and a little
moralizing here and there, the book
is as fine an account of Lenin as the
writer has read.
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they have no clothes to wear, and
then talk OF this sweet land of
liberty"
1t is difficult in this section TO diff
ferentiate between Charlotte as city
proper and Meeklenburg as the
county 1t is in. City and county in
the mind Of everyone is interviewer.
What affects one affects the other
and on 9 wider scale, conditions in
this city and county are similar to
those found in the whole Piedmont
area which stretches from Virginia
to Georgia.
The Charlotte Industrial area
which embraces some 20 cotton,
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Like the MoULe "Potemkin"

AND what am trying to lead TO- this tribute many
" OF US had when at the an-Dolus demonstration
up the steps OF this sacred The
up ana Bob Minor had the
nounceent Many the
sacks charged up the steps and then the people
like the Potemkn York on the steps
OF CIR dignihed, Public Library -' .s4
ny workers were hurt by the Cossacks they
ana what was really damaged forever the
new Mayor This the his tenure
There will be others He has appointed man to head
ms police and there military atmosphere department
And the fascist STORM troopers captured public
ofary victory library were damaged
m the battle the pigeons frightened cracked
But the mahers reformed their flying banners took
up the demonstration again It another hour
another sight shall forget this was that
OF veteran Socialist have known years carving big
req banner and lead the Socialist the grabbed
n broke the flagstaff in two and knocked him
around in their murderous style.
1t was the first experience of this ever had for there
was curious LOOK OF beWtdered released him
@ho ne picked up his banner and Communist
40 not tell this anecdote
@ nssn O. what must be happening all days
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4 Peculiar Sonctity OF Its opn

THE Public Library 4snd up
has peculiar ncty OF its How often spent
long hours Of youth its sty reading often
its outdoor watching pigeons
carved the most solemn inscriptions dedication
massive building to science civilization
Many hundreds
they had in this building There always Of radical kbbers
the debating societies
In the world really with
very little red tape annoy
Not the radicals this
old
kids their
ans OF dry statistics which they convert tips
market; politicians preparing their
hends have been written many cheap
hce story editorial
Or cc-p for Minskys brlesque
Everyone connected With the sciences anyone
fond Of reading and
library 1t is probably only wide
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WABCaS0 Ke.

T:Oe r. M.--Miehaux CONGREGATION
7;Sc-serenaders Orch; Phil Cook, In
presentations
1;4S-Jones Orch. .s--.. o. ..-
s;oo-45 Minutes In Hollywood
s;+s-scrsppy Lambert and saliy RiIipo4,
Songs
Philadelphia Studio Orch.
s:i5-Aiexander woolicott-The Town CrieF
9:3o-Paige orch; Kay Thompson, Songs;
Male Trio; Black Rhapsody Choir
o:o0-Rebroadcast from Byrd Expedition
Music from New York
io:3o--News Reports ~ -~trs
ie;4S-Lesders in Action T. ", xaitsnsorn
it;0o--Lombardo Orch, s.fs.,,v,-, $50
li:3o-Fioritc Orch.
12:00-Cray Orch.
1880 A. M.--LymSn Orch.
i;oo-Hopkins Orch.
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Reviewed BY HARRY RAYMOND

tional Publishers. IS cents.
Reviewed by HARRY RAYMOND
Mike Pell's book, IS. S. Utah." is
story of a job-a tough job on a
,oelly-robbing steam freighter. It is
written by the sailor who had the
OBJ and he therefore knows what he
S talking about.
There have been many stories
written about the life of seainen.
Excellent literature has been pro-
duced by men who sailed before the
mast on windjammers. Melville,
Conrad, Dana and London have told
the story Of the wtndjamner era.
But too little has been written about
the modern seaman, the one who
tolls and battles for an existance on
TIE 1roHe-n steam freiqhters. Pelrs
book, ! think, IS the first serious at
tempt 10 give q picture of the life,
the ella IS struggle of seamen aboard
American ships.
Hav.-s sailed for many years on
these ships, / recognize many Of the
characters. Bullcrap johnson, dele
cate for the International Seamen's
Union, is we'll known to every Amer
lean sailor. Although his name is
slightly changed in the, book, he
seems to be the same delegate met
a few years ago in Boston-his hand
always out for graft, always de-
nouncing them Reds
And then the professor the
school boy, who goes to sea for ro-
nance and to see the world. Such
fellows as the professor" are gener-
ally great pests aboard ships. Pelrs
professor" suggests that all foreign
ers go back to their own country"
But later he wakes up and becomes
an active member OF the ship COM
rnittee.
Slim, the delegate for the Marine
Vorke-s Industrial Union, once
aboard the ship, proceeds to line the
men UP for the inevitable strike
which takes, place after the utah"
returns from its long voyage to Den
mark, Firlend md the Sov'ot UY'on.
There is he'll popping all the time
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TUNING IN
ToNIGHTs PROGRAMS
WEAF6OO Kc.

WEAF-6OO Kc.
7:B ?. M.-Eeligion in thu RsvS-px.
Stanley nigh
T:ao-Cireus DayS-skstcA
7:%S--MaFthA Mesrs Songs
s:oe-A Republican Looks at the Rev Deal
Senator David A. Reed OF Pennsyiysnis
s;7o-Bosten Symphony Orch. Serge Eous-
-sv'tzh,y. Conductor
io;oo--,Eoifs Orch; Men ASOus TO~n Trio:
Robert L. Ripley
ii:oo-Ralph Kirbery, SONGS
li:o5-Mo6riguera Orch.
lt:So-Ons Mans Famiiy-skstes
i7;oo-Hoilywood on the Air
1850 A. M.--wilson Orch; eta No<ep.
Songs; Tommy Harris. Songs; Ryan and
TohIette, Comedy; Hiiihilly Group
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Workers Film League
to Give Last Program
at New School TODAY

NEW YORK.--The Workers Film
and Photo League and the New
Masses will present the fifth and final
program of their series of film show
ings on the History of the Soyiet
Film" tonight at pm. and $50 pm.
at the New School for Social Re-
search, Sc W. 18th st. The feature
of this last program will be "A Jew
at War
The film will be supplemented by
a short lecture. Tickets are available
at the Workers Bookshop, New
Masses Office, 81 e. 9th ST.. and the
Workers Film and Photo League, II
e. 18th st.
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BY JOHN L. sPIvAK

CHARLOTTE, N. C. - This
is the Queen City of the
South as it is fond of adver-
Using itself, ''the land where
wealth awaits you"
There may have been wealth here
before the depression, but only for a
few. For the many there was always
4 hand-to-mouth existence and since
the depression a gaunt, narrowing
poverty that makes New ENGLAND
industrial city seem as though 1t
were in the heights OF prosperity.