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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23

Max Fleischer system, Smirnov de-
cided to take as his hero q porcu-
pine, a great fsvorite with Soviet
children. Bureaucracy, an evil
against which the Soviet Union is
fighting relentlessly, provides limit
less adventures for Yozh and ma
terial for pointed satire.
The first complete film, "A Crazy
Trip" has attracted the attention of
the Soviet film world. When the new
fllm was privately shown a week
ago it created a sensation among
the film representatives present
and won the approval of the Aim
authorities. A few minor improve
ments are necessary particularly in
The musical sounds. before the gen.
eral release, which is anticipated
early in June.
Work on the second film is well
advanced, and studio conditions
have also improved. At present 81
artists are able to work in comfort
and, as proper equipment is not
lacking, the plan of a film every 30
days seems sure to be fulfilled.
The $50 m. of film takes eight
minutes to show and in this short
time Yozh meets with an incredible
number Of adventures. One of
Yozh's experiences: Flirting with
fellow passengers girl-friend in an
airplane, he promptly gets kicked
out and lands among group of
bulldogs practising military drill.
He cannot prove that he is "pure"
porcupine, as he has mislaid his
passport, The military commander
insists that Yozh's grandmother or
great-grandmother had mike d
blood; therefore Yozh must be
tainted.
On finding the passport, which
proves his pure origin, Yozh is re-
leased with thousand apologies for
his detention.
Smirnov has as his snimator
Popov, talented artist of a.
Popov loves Mickey Mouse. whom
he considers laconic and full of ex-
preston, but Walt Disney, he says,
lis not sufficiently independent. He
takes mis- characters from fairy tales
and books. We will take our char
acters from real life, which means
q never-e lending source Of inspira-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23

ism"-or whatever it is that the
Nazis believe this name represents
began first of all against those very
men whose thorough knowledge of
Marks writings threatened to con-
fiict with the vital interests of the
new rulers One of these men was
Hermann Duncker.
Eyewitnesses report a scene which
occurred in the Berlin police head
quarters on Alexanderplatz, the
morning after the Reichstag fire.
Herr Won Internationally
Corvette Captain naval rank in
the Kaisers Imperial Navy, later
made an Admiral under the Repub-
lie, and now head of the Berlin po-
lice for the Nazis-looked over the
arrested as they stood lned up in
long rows in the corridors of the po-
lice headquarters. Stand Straight"
he beloved at Hermann Duncker,
sixty years old, suffering from heart
disease, and tormented by asthma,
And since the posture of the sci
enlist still did not satisfy the drill
sergeant eye of the police president,
Hermann Duncker was thrust into
solitary confinement, and kept
there,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
VIII.
Hermann Duncker

AMONG those arrested the morn
n ing after the Reichstag blaze,
was the man who, in the conscious
ness of broad layers of the German
working class, probably personif1ed
most clearly the type of the man
of learning-Dr. Hermann Duncker.
With his lean figure, his benevolent
blue eyes, and his mild face illu-
minated by spirit, he was externally
the type of the old time German
ssvant but his intellectual work is
of the kind which followed that
fundamental principle: Theory will
become material force when it
takes hold Of the masses"
More than q generation ago Her
mann Duncker studied under the
economist Buecher and the phil
osopher Wundt. Philosophy, history
and economics, the three pillars
which support the thought-struc-
lures of dialectic materialism, the
materialistic Interpretation of his
tory, and socialism-all these led
the young scholar onward to the la
Dor movement. And in the front
ranks of that movement he stood
for more than a generation.
AS teacher, lecturer, and theoriSt
of the old Social-Democratic Party
of Germany, as instructor in eco
nomic history and economics at the
Party School in Berlin, Hermann
Duncker was privileged to instill the
methods of strict scientific thought
into thousands of workers athirst
for the future. The transformation
of theory into political practice was
no problem for hint was the
decomposition and the essential
content of all his scientific work.
What Hermann Duncker accom-
plished during more than a decade
as editor, teacher, and travelling
lecturer, will never be lost. He was
editor of the famous MarXist Basic
Books" (Elementar Buecher), which
we're spread in hundreds of thou
sands of copies in all German
speaking regions. There is hardly a
city in Germany in which Hermann
Duncker has not hammered with
his tireless passion the basic theses
of scientific socialism into young
workers and students-in courses
filled to overcrowding. The ambi-
tious and impressive organization of
the Marxist Workers Schools, at
tended by countless German work
ers, and unqualif1edly recognized in
their Importance to learning even
by educators of contrary political
views, came into being largely as a
result of Hermann Duncker's in
itia tive.
In fascist states, fruitless specula-
ton. metaphysical Juggling with
empty concepts, is the only form of
human activity which can be toll
Grated. The persecution of Marx
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
Steel Institute Shown
As Strikebreakers in
Labor Facts Book III.

NEW YORK.-Bsck Of the Amer
lean Iron and Steel Institutes des-
perste attempt to halt the steel
strike is a black record of anti
labor activity, the Labor Research
Association reveals in its Labor
Fact Book II, Just released by IN
ternationsl Publishers.
Institute Directors, the Associa-
ton shows, not only held the KEY
position Of initiating the steel code
but also bossed the code admin
stration. Their latest proposal for
"a neutral" arbitration board Of
three, vigorously rejected by the
strikers, fits into the regular pat
tern of strikebreaking through
N.R.A. arbitration agencies. Typi-
cal strike analyses-the Weirton.
Ford, Budd and coal miners strike.
for example-packed with damning
facts and figures, clincn the argu-
ment.
Inc DOCK, which is Well-Stocked
arsenal Of information for the
working class propagsndist, has
chapters on workers conditions IN
der N.R.A.. their organiza lions and
struggles; fascism: the war danger:
the Soviet Union; the crisis, and
the Negro workers life and strue-
gle. The book can be obtained from
the publishers at 381 Fourth Ave.
New York; from Workers Library
Publishers, Box 148, Station D, New
York, or from workers bookshops
and branches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
BeethOUen-Spnnish Program
To Open Stadium Season

Jose Iturbi has arranged Beeth-
oven Spanish program for the
opening of the seventeenth season
of Stadium Concerts at the Lew
isohn Stadium next Tuesday eve
ming. The eight week season will
include five nights of orchestral
music and two nights Of opera.
Iturbi will conduct the Philhar-
monte symphony orchestra in the
following program: "Egmont" Over
ture and Symphony No. in c
minor, by Beethoven; Aquarelles,
Intermezzo from "Goyescss," Gran
ADDS, and Three Dances from THE
Three-Cornered Hat" by De Fslla.
The new seating arrangement at
the Stadium will eliminate the last
two sections on either side of stone
tiers. Some 5000 seats will be priced
at Is and so cents. Three sections
of Is cent seats (about 1000 seats)
will be shifted toward the centre of
amphitheatre in order to give q bet
ter view of the operas, which will
be presented on Friday and Satllr-
day evenings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23

VOzH Cporcupine), the Soviet
counterpart of Mickey Mouse,
has been born.
Undismayed by the negative at
titude of the heads Of the Soviet
film industry towards the introduce
ton of the American "conveyor"
system in the production of ami
mated sound cartoon films, Victor
Smirnov, film director. Lucille
Cramer, American technical con-
sultant, and U. Popov, animator. re-
peatedly proved the advantages of
the system. Finally, after a year of
argument they won permission to
make picture, which has just been
completed, based on American tech
nique
While director of Amkino in New
York. Smirnov became interested in
the tremendous popularity of Mickey
Mouse, whose antics are enjoyed by
millions of film spectators.
Then ne met Lucille Cramer of
the Max Fleischer studios, where
Mickey Mouse is created. Smirnov,
recognizing the tremendous posi-
bilities of such films in the Soviet
Union, particularly in the sphere of
political satire. discussed the subject
with her
AS a result arrangements we're
made for Lucille Cramer to come to
Moscow to introduce the American
system in the production of ami
mated cartoons. On her arrival she
found that the 'handicraft" system
was in vogue, whereby one artist,
with two or three assistants, draws
the picture from beginning to end.
1t needed whole year Of argu-
ment, persuasion and caioling be-
fore she could convince the film
authorities even to experiment with
the "conveyor" system.
Discouraging Results
Obstacles such as crowded prem
ises, artists squeezing themselves
into odd corners to work, and lack Of
equipment led to discouraging re-
suits.
When Smlrnov returned to Mos
COW he applied to Shumistski. head
of the film industry for permits
sion to specialize on animated car
toons. Shumiatski has since shown
great interest in the development Of
the work.
In his first scenario, based on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
CHANGE
THE
WOR RID!
BY SENDER GARLIN

FEATURED in the current issue of The Saturday Evening
Post is two-page display extolipg the merits of
familiar household product Soviet students of American
culture will doubt find much to wonder at by an ex
animation of this literary masterpiece in the Post
adventure the exuberance of living all this is
fascinating called strange Facts About Toilet
be find the penoor which could have
untrammeed imaginative spirit
well graphic artists elaborated in this feature in
the inspired artist
copy the high of hitherto
industry the strange facts about toilet
tissue"
Iweny-eight trips years production
would form ribbon
tissue from the earth to the and
back % times"
t9 read Strange Uses for Toilet
Scott Company
practical
put she discovered
packing wipe tops medicine bottles
tissue to wipe off blades"
transporting this great
product Planeby Mule Back The
methods transportation
the interior mountain
famous tissues sell in 81 countries of the
amazing machine that weighs
the decately soft Scott Tissue that
weighs only IL ounces"
will be interested learn that "in
sheet Scott Tissue Waldorf there millions of tiny microscopic
thirsty they
There facts and figures
toilet tissue
of the few products shoppers prefer not to discuss
the United States
n displays
which enable to help themselves their purchases increase
146 per cent?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
'LittleMan, What
Now Is Romantic
Picture of Jobless
Little Man, What Now?"
Reviewed by
FRANK WARD

WTTH every major film company
" producing iingoistic and N. R.
A. propaganda films. Universal also
joins the parade with its contribu-
ton of Little Man, What Now?''
directed by Frank Borzage who was
responsible for No Greater Glory, +"
the latest pro-war film to hit the
screen.
Taken from the novel of the same
name by Hans Fallada, Little man.
What Now" purports to portray the
unemployment problem Of post war
Germany Immediately prior to the
Hitler regime. That the film fails
to reveal anything of the struggles
of the German working class dur
ing this period can be credited to
the unique capacity of the film
studios for assembling truth and
romanticizing reality to a nausest-
ing degree.
The prevailing note throughout
the picture is one Of discourage
ment, futility, despair and the hope
lessness of fighting against existing
conditions. Struggle is never men
toned as the solution of the prob
lem, only faith. hope, passivity and
love of woman. Unlike Fallada s
book which concludes on militant
note, the film reverses his entire
position and decides against any
militancy on the part of workers as
a way out
Naturally there is an attempt in
the film to show the reasons for
unemployment. One scene in par
ticular shows three workers in an
office swearing to quit work if any
one of them is fired. But the boss
overhesrs them and interviewing
one by one induces them to break
their OATH This is solemnly pre-
sented to suggest that workers are
selfish, cowsrdly and incapable of
standing together during a crisis.
THERE are many incidents in
1 Little Man that recall the
other German film "Kuhle Wampe"
produced by Praesens Film before
Hitler came to power. How diff
ferently this film treats the prob
lem Of unemployment In Kuhle
Wampe there is analysis and solu-
ton through organization and
struggle, not as in Little Man
through faith, hope and wait. In
deed much of this film has been
stolen from Kuhle Wampe, parttc-
ularly the forest scenes, while the
musical score seems to be a def
mite steal from Eisler's splendid
score.
1t is no accident that Little Man"
with its emphasis on passiyity
makes its appearance during a
period Of nation wide strikes and
struggles. It is to steer workers
away from policy of struggle and
to foster scab consciousness that
films of this kind are produced and
released. To the question Little
Man, What Now?." workers must
answer Fight and Organize to
build a workers society that will
really abolish unemployment, misery
and despair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
T u n / n C. In

WOR-Warren Orch
WJz-Canadian Concert
s:45-wABC-Fats Waller, Songs
9:oo-WEAF-One Mans Family-Sketch
WOR-Freddy Farber and Edith
Handman. Songs
WJz-Variety Musicale
WABC-Grete Stueckgold, Soprano;
Kostelanetz Orch.
9.15-WOR-Dance Orch.
9.30-WEAF-Real Life Problems--Sketch;
Beatrice Fairfax, Commentator
WJz-Duchin Orch; Edward Davies
Baritone
WABC-Detroit Symphony Orch.
Direction Victor Kolar, from A
Century of Progress
45-wOR-Studio Music
io-co-wEAF-RaY knights Cuckoos
1YOS-Della Baker. Soprano; Will
liam Hsrgrave. Baritone
Within Rysns Place-Sketch
:15-WEAl1-Lo11bardo Orch.
WOR-Current Events-H p. Read
1890 WOR--Organ Hecital
WJz-Barn Dante
wAEC-Mchaux Congregation
II: s5-wEAr-Siberian Singers
II 90 wOR- weather. Osborne Orch
WABC-Sylvia Froos, Songs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23

T:0o-wEAF-Baseball Resume
WOR-Sports Resume
WJz--Flying-Cept A. L. Williams
WABC-Description Finals Of An
nual National Collegiate Athletic
Association Track and Field Meet,
Los Angeles, Cal.
Observation-Disclosures William, H.
Foulk.s
WOR-1alk-Harry Hershfield
wJz-Pickens Sisters, Songs
T:30-WEAF-Himber Orch; De Marco
Sisters, Songs; Eddie Peabody,
Banjo: joey Nash. Tenor
wOR-Hudson County American Le-
gion Band
WJz-Bestor Orch.
wABC-Betty Barthell, Songs; Mel
odeers Quartet
7.45-WABC-Childs Orch.
s.oo-wEAF-Teddy Bergman, Comedian,
Betty Queen. Contralto; Bill Smith,
Baritone: Stern Orch
wOR-City Government Talk
wJz-To Be Announced
wABC-Eich Orch; Morton Dow
ney Tenor: Mary Eastman, So
preno
s.1s-WOf-All-2t.r Trio
wJz-Bavarian Band
s:3o-WEAF-U 5. Msrins Band
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
Doctors

THE puerile dogma Of the superior
value of the "Gerrnanic" race
has resulted in the inhuman prin-
ciple that physical and mental
weaknesses cannot be justified. For
years past, among reactionary
doctors, arose voices demanding a
radical cancellation of all social in
surance legislation so that the state
might no longer step in to regulate
when the weak we're in danger Of
being forced under in the struggle
for life.
Medical racial biologists called
the army of millions of iobless Sin
ferior" and explained that It would
be In the interests of society If they
were to die out.
And in the same way, the basis
was laid for the Nazi doctrine that
the Marxists-Socialists and Com
munists-were "sub-men" while the
Aryan "supermen" were Adolf
Hitler, the Nazi leaders, the leading
captains of industry. and in fact
all those WHO had got somewhere
in this society-eXcepting only the
Jews. University professors of social
hygiene delivering solemn lectures
on the occasion of taking up their
work, assert that the task of their
science was to determine how the
government could cut down still
further its social budget, without
greatly injuring the condition of
the people as whole.
Many thousands OF German doc
tors who dared. despite the petrified
animosity Of official medical teach
ing, to attack the slavery of medical
science to pharmaceutical Big
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
BY DON WEST

THE white rulers Of the south re
1 gard Negro as a lower type Of
humanity. For centuries the black
man has bowed his shoulders to
bear the load Of southern oppres-
sion. He has been trodden under
foot, lynched, chain-ganged.
The Civil War was over. Still the
Negro was forced to bow to his
master with Cap, boss, yes sir"
Certain so-cslIed Negro leader, like
those of the N. A. A. c. P, told the
Negro masses that was the best way
to get along with the white rulers
Stay in their place. Be nice to the
white boss. Bear a constant burden
Of fear and grief, but don't offer to
fight back. So the Negro masses
stayed under the white rulers thumb.
They were made to think the poor
white workers we're their enemy
rather than the landlord and boss
class.
But always there have been those
courageous men among the Negro
masses who dared face the anger
and violence of the white lynchers.
Even before the Civil War there
were slave uprisings led by such
heroic men. And when these leaders
rise from the Negro people they
always find a following of workers
ready to learn what to do and do it.
Among those we recall are such
names as Nat Turner, Gabriel Ben
mark Vesey, and Angelo Herndon-
leaders Of the Negro masses.
DEN DAVIS, Jr., native Negro
u leader of Georgia, follows in line
with those valiant men who have
dared fight for Negro rights against
the terror Of lynching white ruling
class system. Davis has always
known what it means to be a Negro
in Georgia. His early life was a
constant reminder of that fact. His
father was one time a real fighter
for Negro rights. Young Ben Davis,
Jr. must nave felt keenly the hate
VI Tue WlllbC mon dJ ouNal tAiliEo 30
when his fathers home was riddled
with bullets, when his life was
threatened.
Having early tasted the hatred Of
the white rulers against Negro
who dared fight for the rights of
Negroes, Ben Jr. was not cowed or
daunted in his courage. He was
southern Negro, but never did he
have that subservient Uncle Tom
approach to the white man. Early
In his school life in Atlanta he saw
how the so-cslled Negro leaders
were coWed and afraid to struggle.
Because of his militant leadership
in college in organizing the students
for struggles against Eertain in
justices, he found himself "out OF
harmony" with the administration,
and was expelled. Twice this
spirited young Negro leader was
forced by the cowardly college Off
Gals to leave school.
I have heard Ben tell how he
always chaffed under the open and
brutal forms Of race prejudice every
where in the south. All the schools
he attended in the south, we're of
course. Jim Grow" institutions. In
the north where he went to Hsr-
ward and Amherst, he felt the more
subtle forms of white chauvinism
found there. He was not satisfied.
Although he had been an outstsnd-
ing student, foot ball player Of
unusual ability, he was still treated
as one belonging to an inferior race.
AFTER finishing his law course in
n Harvard, young Davis returned
to the south to take up law practice
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
Ben Davis, A Fighting
Southern Lawyer, Who
Will Edit ''Liberator"

in Atlanta, Georgia. That In Itself
is an index Of the courage Of the
man. A Negro lawyer in Atlanta
has about as much chance for sue
cess as the proverbisl snow ball in
he'll A struggling Young Atlanta
lawyer, Ben Davis Jr. became in
terested in the Herndon case.
Herndon was a Negro, fighting
young Negro. That was somethins
to attract such a one as young
Davis. But he knew nothing Of
the Communist Party, the I. L. D.
or their position on the Negro
question He was simply interested
in a young Negro who had dared,
as Herndon did, to face q lynch
mob and defy the white rulers Of
Georgia.
When q representative Of the l. L,
D. interviewed Ben Davis Jr. and
explained the position OF the ore
gsnization. he was glad to raise tbs
question Of Negro rights to sit on
jury. He volunteered his services in
the case. along with John Geer'
another young Atlanta Negro
lawyer. When the Herndon case
came to court Ben Davis, Jr fought
it with the fearlessness Of one who
knows what justice is and is willing
to die fighting for it. Negro work.
ers who heard tbs fiery young Negro
speaking in a white boss court with
the same vigorous courage that he
has always shown, marvelled at It.
White workers were astonished. Ben
never compromised an inch with the
white court. He demanded that the
court and the lawyers refer to
Angelo Herndon as defendant
instead Of "darky" or niger"
Young Davis was dynamite in that
southern lynch court.
In studying the records in the
Herndon case. Davis became
familiar with the literature for
which Herndon was convicted. He
read The Communist Position on
the Negro Question. Race Hatred on
Trial. Self Determination for the
Black Belt. and other literature
which Herndon had been arrested
for having. And in court he put
up a fearless fight for these prtn-
ciples which he had studied and
began to support. It was no easy
thing to do. His life was constantly
threatened, He was met in the
hall of the building where the I. L.
D. office was by Ku Klux represen-
tatives, and his life threatened. On
that same building the InteTacial
Commission had its Office, and never
a time has it been molested. Once
when w. L. Patterson was speaking
in Atlanta, one Of the heads said
he would not go to the meeting
because the police might not be
there to protect him. Later he
called up the police to make sure
they would be there. Then he
went along too.
Since the time OF the first Hern~
don trial. Ben Davis Jr, has become
known as the outstanding Negro
leader of the south. Coming to see
the correctness of the I. L. D.. and
the L. S. N. R., he threw his whole
energy into the fight for Negro
rights. He assisted in the Scots
boro case. He became the regular
lawyer Of the I. L. D. in Atlanta.
volunteering his services.
AS a leader in the League Of
Struggle for Negro Rights, Ben
Davis. Jr. is a real fighter. AS the
new editor of the Negro Liberator'
voice of the oppressed Negro masses
in America, he is certain to prove
the same courageous, far-sighted
person that we have known and
loved In the south,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
Artists Union Formed
By J. r. C. of Detroit

DETROIT.-At a mass meeting of
artists called by the Artists Group
Of the John Reed Club on June 10,
the first steps were taken towards
organizing an Artists Union in the
city of Detroit About so artists
we're present. Among the speakers
we're Frank Ruck of the Engineers
and Architects Guild, Gilbert Rookie.
Of the Chicago John Reed Club Art
lists Group, Maurice Sugar, of the
Writers Group, and William Vein
stone, Of the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
CORRECTION

A serious typographical error APP
peared in the article, "A Few Field
Notes on the New Deal which
appeared on this page on Thursday
The sentence, HE runs an open
shop, refusing even to allow the AS
ISOLATED Silk Workers, whose local
membership, headed by Eli Keller,
Lovestonite, recently put over a 8
per cent cut on its own member
ship" should have read, He runs
an open shop, refusing even to al
low the Associated Silk Workers,
whose local leadership, etc"
which they were to atone consisted
in having given more than mere
lip service to the aims of their pro-
fession, and in having attempted to
track down and combat sickness to
its very ultimate, social causes.
Ito be continued