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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
CHANGE
WORLD!
By JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

GOOD deal has been written about the recent success
"A full strike of office workers against the MacanIay
Company, but want to say few words about it from the
special point of view of the writer Many comrades seem
disposed to regard the Macauay fight as special case
victories achieved by white wokersneverheIess a n+
out that only eleven employees that the effective
collaboration of writers pcke amusing and spectacular
side issue.
OF the most vital thing that showed
the increasing mitancy Of white collar employees Yorks
really pison-ke which the senoeraphe
and clerks are often paid nhumay as factory
workers The eleven and showed
fighting spirit which will have effect CITY
workers
But also participation of writer's in this
activity has unique ignfance-and directves for
Their activity which should be considered followed up OF
authors have been picket lines other acaulay
strike their strictly sympathizers but in
fesonal capacity dealing with conditions
important point the varied composition involving
people points view as Dashieu Hanne Malcolm
Covley, Tess Slesinger
More than two writer's eagerly quickly
potthe Macaulay workers Many respond
strike had continued This responsibility
the part Of authors when concerned occupation
involved.
great deal be accomplished Mscauay
ton showed the effectiveness of action and
lively small Similar
be of great further assisting workers
ton applies
of publishing many writer's prestige
and special qualifications him magazines
motion picture companies booking offices film
exploited these en-
terpses the Macauay victory will undoubtedly powerful
fuence in extending the organization of the Office Workers
fellow workers big winning rights
ployees a whole network of offices
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
TUNING In

700 Pm. -wEAF-Basebau Results
WORKSHOPS Resume-Ford Prick
WJZ-Amos n Andy-Sketch
WABC-Music in Mental Treatment
DIR. william Van De Wall
7:l5-wEAF-Gene and Glenn-Sketch
WOR-Comedy; Music
WED Lowry, Comedian
WABC-Just Plain Bill-Sketch
7:3o-WEAF-Shirley Howard, Songs; Trio
WoR-Talk-Harry Hershfield
WJz-From Geneva; Talk-Dr. Wa
Riddeu Canadian Delegate to La
Dor Conference
ABC-Serenaders Orchestra
7:45-WEAF-The Goldbergs-Sketch
WOR-The O'Neills-Sketch
WJZ-Lopez Orchestra
WABC-Boake Carter, Commentator
s:OO-WEAF-vallee Orchestra; soloists
WoR-Symphony Orch; Lucille COL
lette, Violin and Piano
WJz-Grits and Gravy-Sketch
WABC-Rich Orchestra
s.15-woR-Rod and Gun Club
WABC-Easy Aces-Sketch
3O-WOR-New York Philharmonic-Sym-
phony Orch. at Lewisohn Stadium
Jose 1turbi, Conductor
WJZ-Gale Page, Songs
-Drama-Twenty Crowded
Years Review of World Events
Since 1910
s:45-wJZ-Igor CORN, Baritone
300 EAF-Captain Henry's Show Boat
WJZ-Death Valley Days-Sketch
9:3o-WJZ-Goldman Band Concert, New
York University Campus
WABC-Waring Orchestra
0-WEAF-Whitema Orchestra
WJZ-Canadian Concert
WABC-Conflict- Sketch
WABC-Fray and Braggiotti, Piano
:3O-WOR-The Witch's Tale
WJZ-Father Firms Choristers
WABC-Evan Evans Baritone
0:45-WABC-Future of the American Ma
tion-Senator william G. McAdoo
of California
WEAF-Your Lover, Songs
WOR-Weather: Dance Orchestra
WJZ-Cavaliers quartet
WABC-Vera Van, Contralto
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
TIN SOLDIERS, by Robert WohI-
forth. Published by Alfred H.
King, Inc, New York, 1884. 81.
Reviewed by
ST GERSON

Reviewed by
ST GERSON
ALFRED H. KING, INC, may have
n designed Tin Soldiers" for the
summer resort and drug store trade,
but they did not prevent its author,
Robert Wohlforth from writing
some genuine social criticism.
West Point novels are almost al
ways the story Of the poor boy from
down East, who enters the Acad-
envy, thrills to the parades and 81
gun salutes, graduates with honors,
probably a football nero, receives
his commission in the army and the
inevitable beautiful girl along with
it.
Wohlforth, however, has done
something totally different. Not
only has he accomplished a neat
and unobtrusiye job of debunkdng
the gray-stoned castle on the Hud-
son, but he has indicated some Of
the social basis of West Point, some
of its why's and wherefores.
L 1AE AAAAGLAg4l vi bllE OAlDted DLdGEE
Military Academy, as any grade
school boy can tell you, is to pro-
duce officers for the United States
Army. General U. S. Grant, Black
jack Pershing and Douglas Near
thur (the Bonus Marchers will re-
call him) all are West Point prod
uctS. nd this is precisely its social
function-to produce a corps Of men
drawn mainly from the upper mid
die class to whip the worker and
farmer soldier masses into those
military actions that the Wall Street
Washington government feels are
necessary.
While formally the Academy is
open to all qualified citizens, actu-
ally, as Wholforth indicates, by
process of tacit selection, the most
desirable officer material are chosen.
Desirable officers are people, of
course, who think little, are not
over = sensitive, have some social
qualifications and are NOT Negroes
or Jews.
WAC44O1 t445 1C4CAAA46 W LIZ CAC
the one Negro student, writes with
feeling of the position of the COL
ored cadet:
HE went down the iron stairs,
crossed the area and out through
sallypOrt. Girls and cadets were
walking, laughing together. Maybe
they were laughing at him, maybe
they were too mad to laugh. A
niger at West Point. Why
didn't know they let niggers in
West Point! Oh, sure, it's gov
eminent school. Everybody pays
for it in his taxes. Niggers, too"
TIN SOLDIERS" is cast in not
i unusual mold. A group of Ca
diets are followed through the course
of their four years. The group is,
we feel, an authentic one. John
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
A Task for Honest Writers

HONEST writer's great deal toward showing this sort of
can't expect to stop the filthy lies which
capitalist pubcitybeause the spreading of
which the movies and
exis-bu militant fight accomplish lot in exposing
limiting the lies increasing number
authors beginning the necessity of taking part in such
fight
appear ooisy optimistic A majority of writer's
certainly going their and CRATE
the sheltered prostitution which Capitalism offers them But
these necessarily the intelligent and
gradually realize that the revolutionary path
open intellectual who his and
difficult decision for the confused intel
fight with himself and his confusion.
writers honest enough to make this highland to accept
militant These have serious tasks;
these tasks is exert militant influence their
industries which they sell their
wakout suggested the effectiveness OF such action Fur
organization activity to be needed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
STAGE AND SCREEN

Leporte and Arthur MahOney, viii
take part.
Symphonic programs for the ball
ance of the week, under the direc-
ton of Jose Iturbi, follow: Tonight,
"Scheherazade," Rimsky-Korsakoff,
Pavane Pour Une Enfante Defunte,
Ravel, Dams les Steppes d'Asie and
the Polovetzian Dances from Prince
Igor" by Borodin; Sunday evening,
"Pathetique" Symphony, Tchaivov-
sky, Prelude and Love Death from
Tristan and Isolde" and Prelude
to die Meistersinger" by Wagner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Brains Behind Barbed
Wire = German Writers.
Scientists Prosecuted
XII
BALANCE SHEET OF HITLER
FASCISM

XII.
BALANCE SHEET OF HITLER
FASCISM
OUCH are the fates of 81 intellec-
y tual workers. This constitutes
only tiny drop in the ocean of
misery being suffered by thousands
of other intellectual workers and a
hundred thousand workers "of the
fist" in the concentration camps of
Hitler Germany.
100000 victims in the concen-
tration camps.
400 murdered victims
16 executed by decapita-
ton.
capt. alton their heads
chopped off according to the new
German manner preferred by the
Nazis: the axe does not strike the
back of the neck, but falls in front,
cleaves from the throat back. -Four
decapitated on one morning in
Hamburg. Six decapitated on one
morning in Cologne. The youngest
of them was 81, and the oldest"
20.
Sixty additional sentences of
death have been handed down, Six
ty young German workers await the
hour when Hitler's executioner's axe
shall flash past their eyes into their
throat.
For one Nazi slain in self defense
the NaziS exact not one, not two,
not five-but ten death sentences
in revenge.
No end to the concentration
camps. No end to the torrents.
No end to "shot while trying to es-
cape" No end to the legalized muir
ders.
On the contrary, the more des-
perate the situation becomes for the
Nazi regime, the more bestially does
it command that heads shall roll
in the sand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Workers, Cry Out Free
Thaelmann

Nice day. today" the butcher smiles
running the red meat through the grinder,
"a little warm, still a nice day."
says the butcher, wrapping the cheap cut
in q small brown bag.
DO YOU KNOW THEY'RE KILLING THAH,dANN?
beating his flesh, grinding his body
as you grind the meat, till it streams
his red tortured blood
do you know they are killing Thaelmsnn?
80 cents, please" says the butcher,
"a very nice day"
pretty flowers" calls the huckster,
"lilacs, cheap, and snake-leaf plants,
but nothing under so cents"
DO YOU KNOW THEY'RE KILLING THAEdlAIANNP
twisting whips around his body
as sharp as the edge of your snake plant,
beating his skin purple as your lilac,
still he utters complaint
Pretty flowers" calls the huckster,
tulips pansies, red rose plants"
Rooms to rent" the landlord says
sitting in the warm noon sun.
apartments much cheaper If
five people squeeze in one"
DO YOU KNOW THEY'RE KILLING THAEIiMANN?
that he's rotting in his cell,
in a deep, damp hole he's waiting -.
Do you know they're killing ThaelmannP
Reduction, all improvements heating"
says the landlord in the sun.
LISTEN, WORKERS, THIS is YOUR BATTLE!
Thaemann's fighting for his life and yours
They who withhold this world from you
Are killing THAELNTANN-k you
THAELNTANN a.. . who is part of you
part of your WILL,
part of your LIFE!
WORKERS, FREE HIM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Capitalist Propaganda Becomes Louder and Cruder

another which the
influence; they fighting
the flood of lying ruling which issues
movies theatre the radio
literary of the United States
trey supported capital AS capitalism becomes des
perate nsaney brutal efforts maintain ITSELF
without that the capitalist become
present year will big increase
Shiny The movies will redoub their SIAN
the class Magazines
whip voices the radio
for dictatorship.
Saturday Evening Post has already printed article which
openly praises charm" Hters bloody regime
with the Saturday
reaconary
periodical publish serial depicting the
of coming United Japan
story Especially
hack with the blowing
ship middle Canal thus block the
in Atlantic waters
leaving open attack Thus Liberty does its bit
that additional millions spent
preparations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Samson, and DaIiLa" At The
Stadium Frid0V

The first opera performance
scheduled for this season at the
Stadium, Saint-Saens' Samson and
Dalila," will be presented on Fri
day and Saturday night under the
direction of Alexander Smallens.
Paul Althouse, Margaret Metze-
nauer, Alfredo Gandolfi and Louis
will sing the chief roles.
The Metropolitan Chorus and Bal
let, the latter headed by Rita De
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
WHAT'S ON
ThurSday


DANCE-Farewell Party to active mem
bers of F. S. U. going to Soviet Union
Speakers Gertrude Hutchinson and Susan
woodruff at irving Plaza, $50. Excellent
entertainment. Delicious refreshments
Valhalla Club Orchestra for dancing.
SOVIET CHINA--Discussion on current
events led by John Phillips at Friends
of Chinese People, 1853 w. 23rd st. Room
H. Adm. free.
A NEW BRANCH of the Two. is be-
ing organized at DR.. VIM. Ovstrichs Of
flee s43 E. 172nd ST. near Boston Road
tonight pm. All interested in being
charter members should come to that Of
flee.
MASS MEETING Against War and Fas-
cism, pm, w 18th st. Prominent
speakers Added feature: Stirring motion
picture, May Day Demonstration. Auspices
Cafeteria Workers Comm. Against War
and Fsscism.
PRESS LEAGUE has arranged very i'm
portant meeting, Reporters Fight to Tell
the Truth" tonight $50 at Manhattan
Trade School Auditorium, 129 E. 22nd st.
Speakers: Hiram Motherwell, Harry Ray
mond and Frank Palmer.
MIDNTTE BENEFIT Showing Expert
mental sound and narrative film, who
Shall Inherit the Earth" at IL E. nth
ST., 1880 pm. Adm. Csc.
MEETING Film and Photo League, Film
Section, 8 pm. sharp.
DISCUSSION on press censorship at
short membership meeting Mt. Eden Br.
FISH,, 140l Jerome Ave, Bronx, $50.
MASS MEETING Against War and Fas-
cism tonight, 8 pm. at Public School 2lo,
Rochester Ave. and Park Place, Brooklyn,
Speakers: Rabbi Bokser. Dorothy McCon-
nell and Mrs. Shavelson.
DO NOT Make ANY Engagements for
July if you do not want to miss the
annual picnic of the Communist Party,
N. Y. District to be held at North Beach
Picnic Park, Astoria, L. 7. Sports, games,
theatre, dancing. Lots of fun.
WORKERS BOOK SHOP, 1880 per cent
Discount Sale ends July 7, Saturday. Take
advantage now. Write for catalogue. Join
circulating library at so E. 18th st. Many
specials available.
OPEN MEMBERSHIP MEETING Tom
Mooney Br. LID. at 3i1 E. 18th ST., BIS
pm. Carl Hauptman will speak on 8
Years Mass Defense Also other speak
ers, entertainment. Refreshments Adnis-
sion free
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
New York Club Discusses Ben
Fields Farm Sketches

ONE of the most interesting meet
" ings of the writer's group in
New York took place recently. At
this meeting a bookful Of farm
sketches by Ben Field was dis
cussed. The manuscript had been
read by number of members be-
fore the meeting. Field opened the
evening with an exclamation of key
passages in the volume, in order to
indicate the development of his
point of view toward his agrarian
subject-matter. The book is divided
into three sections, and progresses
from rather aloof sketches to pieces
showing the revolutionary role of
the farmers. Many of these sketches
have appeared in the liberal and
revolutionary press. Walter Snow
presented lengthy report on the
volume; Sender Garlin, Wallace
Phelps, and others also contributed
pertinent criticism.
The book is a mixture of literary
reportage together with personal
comments on the revolutionary de-
velopment of the author, as well as
directly agitational material en-
bodying the demands of the revolu-
tionary farmer. 1t was pointed out
that the book would have to be
carved into some kind of a unified
whole In order to be effective.
Fields agrarian figures of speech
came in for criticism. The author
is leaving for the Soviet Union.
where he will work on the collec-
tives and write about the Soviet
farmer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
WHAT SHALL WE DO?

NOW that your attention has been
~ drawn to the situation in Ger
many, you, the reader, may turn to
us with the question: What shall we
do?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28

dealing with the labor movement in
England, is working on a second
novel. Grace Clements, who has ex-
hibited at the California Legion of
Honor and the Los Angeles Muse
UNI, has contributed sketches to re-
cent issues of the New Masses. Lo-
rem Miller, Negro writer, who has
travelled in the Soviet Union, Is at
work on book on Negro culture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
John Reed Clubs Must Lead the Cultural Front

IN would that the John Reed Clubs
wider influence than they at present
am not sufficiently familiar with the structure and organization OF
discuss them ntelgenty But being the
International Union of Revolutionary Writer'S
lead the cultural front in the
struggle equally that although the John Reed
the struggle cannot be said that they furnish
leadership they solid front of revo
onary the fault lies is partly due to
the authors not members; others nave
joined pc ncory but take active part in the clubs work.
gor Clubs is demonstrated
magazines they publish Partisan Review issued by the
Of extraordinary value The stories
in Edward Newhouse Barney Cona
Arthur exciting creative material for that matter SO is
everything Partisan Review important
revolutionary culture don't know what its crcula-
ton should have ten times wider circulation
the working class must OF
hetaingy struggle The only in which he
around him to take part in the
which the future of the world being decided
struggle relates the writer's special field he must
he must fight the
which degrade his profession In fac
problems organization contact writer's ought
essential function of the John Reed
Clubs?
An Acknowledgment
response help for the Irish Workers
Voice the and Hammer has sent in $loo and E. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Friday

PAGEANT and Mass Meeting in celebra-
ton Ninth Anniversary International La
Dor Defense at Manhattan Lyceum, Sc E..
4th St, 8 pm. Film of Sacco-Vanzetti
will be shown. Speakers; Allen Taub,
Joseph Brodsky, F. Biedenkapp, John
Howard Lawson, James Ford. Adm. 15c.
BUILD Telegraph Messengers Union.
Attend en- masse gala entertainment
Friday, June 90, at Office workers Union,
ia w. 14th St. 8:15 pm. Adm. IS cents.
Tickets at OWL. and Bookshop, 50 E.
18th st.
ORIENTAL NIGHT. Entertainment and
Dance, Chinese music, boxing, Japanese
folk dance, songs. Speakers on Chinese
Revolution. Also jazz band. Auspices,
Chinese workers Center. Will be held at
% W. 18th ST., pm. Subscription Csc.
Saturday
GALA SPORT Dance given by Boro Park
Workers Club, 47o4 18th Ave. Brooklyn.
To be held at Pythian Hall, 1854 w. 21st
ST., Brooklyn. $50 pm. NP.G. Dance
Orchestra. Refreshments. Entertainment
Adm. 45c.
DAILY WORKER Section IS C.P. Con-
cert-Dance Roof Garden-Open Air at
Bronx House, 1887 washington Ave near
172nd ST.. $3.50 pm. Auspices, Sect. Is
Daily Worker once
Sunday
PICNIC Of Bronx Workers Clubs, Pleas
ant Bay Park Sunday, July /. In adj
vance l5c. At gate 25c. Tickets at Pros
pect. Bronx, Jerome, Allerton, Middle
Bronx Clubs. Entertainment. Dancing
Snorts Pafraebp, a,,ts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
An Acknowledgment

response to Michael plea help the Irish Workers
vetch sent in 81 oo and L.
OF Cleveland, has sent in fifty cents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28

Detroit Dramatic Group Active
THE dramatic group of the J.R.C.
has been formed into Theatre
of Action" 1t holds classes in act
ing, as well as in the political sig
nificance of the theatre. 1t has
performed regularly before audi
ences of the Ford Local of the Auto
Workers Union, etc.
The club participates in cultural
events at the local Workers Camp,
contributing drama and dance pre-
sensations, and discussions on sub
jects appearing in the revolution
airy press. A literary class, to which
outsiders are invited, has been
formed. American literature from
MARKHAM viewpoint is the subject
for study.
Hollywood Club Members at Work
HARRY CARLISLE, author of
IL Darkness at Noon" a novel
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06
COMPANY mi
GETS LIFE IMPRISONMENT

day when they will be needed to train
more killers to turn loose in the State.
The men who brought Deskin to
Butte and made him believe killing was
an honorable profession are as guilty
of the murder Of Kelley as is Deskin.
The responsibility for that murder is
in a large part theirs. AS long as such
men are held up as honorable citizens
in a community just solong will crime
continue to flourish in u nation. The
gangsters of Chicago and New York
are encouraged by men Of the type
that hired Deskin. They are hired by
big business to kill men, women and
children in our industrial centers and
such employment fattens their purses
and adds to their vanity. Yet these
same business men deplore the increas-
ing cost Of crime to the nation. Until
they are sentenced to the gallows and
~penitentiary along with their hireling
and students we cannot hope to put an
end to the crime that exists in our
nation.
Deskin was tried, fairly and found
guilty but what Of these who should
rightly share his guilt?
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06
Decline Of Purchasing
Power Shown In
The Grocery Sales

WASHINGTON. - (FP)- Ameri-
can workers were decidedly worse off
in the first 10 months OF 1884 than in
the corresponding period of 1888 if the
amount of food they consumed a be
used as a measure. The U. S. Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce re-
ports a ~ per cent increase in the
dollar volume of grocery store sales in
the first 10 months of 1884 as compared
to the same period Of 1888. But this
increase in dollar value actually rep
resents a sharp decrease in actual food
purchases, since retail food prices have
increased 11.8 per cent during the same
period, according to estimates of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the De-
partment of Labor.
In the month of October, grocery
sales increased in dollars by one per
cent over the same month Of last year.
But this increase would have had to
be 8 per cent to keep the amount of
food purchased at the same level as in
October 1888, as the Bureau of Labor
Statistics estimates that food prices in
October, 1884, were about 8 per cent
higher than in the same month of the
previous year. The decrease in actual
food purchased is almost twice as great
compared to October 1882, when food
prices were about IS per cent lower
than in October, 1884.
The grocery sale estimates Of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce are based on a sample of
chain units operating over 20 per cent
of the chain grocery stores in the
United States" and give proper rela-
tive Importance" to all regions in the
country. The estimates of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics are based upon re-
ports from various retail food dealers
in 81 cities and cover prices Of AZ i'm
portant food items.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06
Offer Union
Cooperation Brings
Not Even a Postcard

even
a post card acknowledgment" of its Of
fer to cooperate with the employers
for extension of markets and Com
plete harmonizing of employer-em-
ploye relations" has been received by
the United Textile Workers from
Chairman George A. Sloan Of the Cot
ton Textile Institute, complains U. T..
w. Vice President F. J. German.
with the industry refusing our pro-
posal and at the same time stand
ing adamant against cessation of dis
elimination against former strikers"
he says, I'VE are faced with a hostility
little less bitter than that manifested
during the strike, when our member
ship faced 10000 armed troops, charged
wires around mills and in n case hose
lines leading from caustic tanks to
picket lines ready for a burning blind
ing spray Of destruction"
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06
Farmer Laborites Want
Olson To Play Ball

ST. PAUL. -(FP)-Organized labor
is not going to let Gov. Floyd B. Olson,
Farmer-Labor victor by $4,000 in a BIT
ter election, get away with his old
party maneuvering in the future. In
an outspoken declaration the Mime
sofa Union Advocate, owned by the St,
Paul Trades & Labor Assembly, reads
the riot act to the governor who it
helped to elect as follows:
Governor Olson has an opportunity
to demonstrate party loyalty during the
next two years, a loyalty he has only
demonstrated at election time, and it
is to be hoped that from now on he
will set himself to the task OF building
a political party that is not 90 per cent
Republican, 20 per cent Democratic
and 20 per cent Farmer-Labor. And
hat goes for every official elected by
the Farmer-Labo party"
Similar demands come from the
strong Farmer-Labor districts in the
north. The Independent Of Hibbing
says: "The administration has some
housekeeping to do, and this must be
done in spite of the fact that the old
plunderbund crowd will set up an I'M
holy howl about playing politics as
against efficiency"