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The daily worker., 1934-05-14

table. facing the chairman. In the
last row of the front room sat Mama
Romero, Vesper on one side of her,
Vladimir on the other. Vladimir
was standing up, waiting for the
meeting to begin. He kills time by
throwing shadows on the wall with
his hands; it takes him ten min
utes to make rabbit. When his
mother. exhausted by the days
trials, leans over burying her head
in her hands, he strokes her hack
gently; he loves her very much.
The viii To Fight
All the chairs are filled; around
the walls workers stand closely
packed together; in the back
room, ccurteously giving place to
their elders, stand members Of the
Young Communist League. Most
of the audience are men; all of
them Latin Americans. Their dark
faces are handsome, underfed, alert
with the will to understand, to fight.
Comrades" Gomez says in
Spanish, I'VE have some visitors
from the north who will speak to
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
Land Of Plenty Sets
NeaU Standards For
Revolutionary Novel

ness. Once Johnny thought that
people rose in the world when they
worked hard. He believed IN rug
ged individualisn, but his naivete
is dispelled In one swift glance
at Walt riding Importantly in Carl's
car the picture was reversed, and
now in the depth Of his bitterness
he saw Walt rising in the world,
yes, but rising in way that a
corpse rises when 1t has lain for
long time under water, rising and
ro5ting IS it was pushed out by the
strong cold currents at the bottom"
Csntweu follows his bourgeois
characters home, showing clearly
their hollow and degenerate exist
ence without resorting to satire or
invective. The realism Of simple
words, Of the essential truth, is SUI
dcient. An excellent illustration Of
method can be seen in the figure Of
Digby, the factory owner, as he
sits at home testing out his rifles
in the midst Of organizing a lynch
party to quell the strike. The sleek
brutality Of this eXploiter is revealed
by few simple strokes without
using any Of the theatrical effects
so conspicuous in recent fiction.
Csntwell's style is peculiarly his
own. He has assimilated the best
that modern fiction-methods have
brought to the fore in literary tech
nique. He manages to imprint
upon the reader the environment,
the mind and the feelings of his
people by means Of immersing him
in the consciousness Of his char
acters, and by creating q singularly
repetitive pattern alive with an en-
phatic realism.
What with Jack Conroy's The
Disinherited, William Rollins The
Shadow Before, and now The Land
of Plenty, revolutionary literature in
America has reached a higher stage
Of development this year, setting
new standards for the army Of pro-
letarian art.
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
Soviet Composer
d DaVid en- k O Is
Dead in MOScOV

NEW YORK. - The Workers
Music League received the follow
ing radiogram from the Interna-
tional Music Bureau, Moscow:
With deep sorrow International
Music Buro informs you Of sud
den death May First Of composer
Davidenko"
The Soviet composer Alexander
Davidenko was born in 1899. In
1925 he organized a composers col
lective at the Moscow State Con-
sevato-y for the purpose Of ere
ating new forms Of proletarian
music. This collective included a
number Of talented, young com
uosers CShekhter, Biely, Koval,
Fere, Chemberjee, and cthers)
Davidenkos compositions became
very popular both in the Soviet
Union and throughout the world.
Among his best known works are
"Lenins Song" THE Communist, -
Mother" "a Letter"
In the field of the mass song
Davidenko's RED Navy March, -
"Budiony's Cavalry" are sung by
millions Of workers in hundreds of
languages. Davidenko also wrote
in the larger forms. Choruses OF
monumental dimensions are very
well known in the Soviet Union and
they should be translated and sung
in this country. Davidenko also
wrote revolutionary opera 1913"
The loss of Dayidenko who died so
young will be deeply felt by the
hundreds Of thousands of workers
who sing his songs and the millions
who hear them.
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
NeoV York ChiLdren,s
Center In Honor of
Potanpkin Opens Soon
Theatre for Production of Workers Plays Is
Planned in Heart of the East Side

response Of all workers who saw
Strike Me Red" emphasizes the
need of carrying on such work
among the workers children. How
ever. such theatre cannot exist
by itself, apart from other cultural
activities.
There will be a wide and inter
esting program for the children,
ranging from a great variety Of
games and sports, music in the form
Of children's choruses, rythm
bands, brass bands. orchestra, arts
and crafts, including wood and
metal workers. All forms of the
dance including tap, folk and revo-
lutionary dancing will be taught.
Here will be the first real and
honest attempt to give the working
class children all the cultural and
recreational advantages that a chill
dren's center affords.
We have the teachers. Trained
in such organizations as the John
Reed Club, Workers Music League
Workers Lab. Theatre, Workers
Dance League, Labor Sports Union
Workers Film and Photo League
and other workers organizations,
and working together with the
Pioneer Council, they will help to
give our children a healthy class
conscious education.
Work toward this end has al
ready been progressing for some
months and the Center is on the
verge of being opened.
Mass organizations in the Down
town Section of New York have
elected permanent delegates to take
part in the running of the Center
A great deal Of material is still
needed. Comrades having books
furniture, funds and some spare
time to help us get the Center
opened, should come to the District
Pioneer Council, IS E. 18th st.,
Room 500.
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
InterUie,O With Paul
Peters, "SteUedOre''
Co-Author, Tomorrow


Paul Peters-A Revolutionary
Playwright" is the title Of an
interview by Sender Garlin,
which will appear on this page
tomorrow.
Peters Is the co-author with
George Sklar) of "Stevedore, the
Theatre Union play CT Negro
longshoremen now being pre-
Sented in New York.
The interview tells of Peters
five years work in a steel mill, a
textile plant, on a Wisconsin
farm, as q laborer on a Califor-
MIA dam, and finally as a long
shorernan with an all-Negro
gang in New Orleans.
The daily worker., 1934-05-14

tncy ought to fall the head believe that
and have said many
N.Y. that sounds noble and Haywood!
your mighty voice demand that city editor the
heroic strike Of the Alabama which
south9 You're said to be the
four Negro miners and
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
When the first two killed
heads in of the New York calling
the National Guard the
of terror in Birmingham the
fen lawyeran this has capitalist press
cudng your own column where be
meed Moreover is much that the capitalist fails
print stories about distinctly
fall under from the viewpoint
of the bosses euog b-ayers Green
Matthew VOL, joseph P Ryan, ETC.
A Hot Tip
ONE point I'll give charge
that MI Morris Ernst who has been and still
York Newspaper Guild also the
vicepredn. of its publisher
Of the employees employers
AS good newspaper with for the
tcary Newspaper
and OF the New York Newspaper Guild
that tip city editor yourself in
your column And don't forget to make it funnyl
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
Hathaway to Debate
With Eichelberger on
League of Nations

NEW YORK.-Clarencs Essha-
way, editor Of the Daily Worker,
will debate with c. Eichelberger,
executive secretary of the Midwest
headquarters Of the League of Ma
tions Association, taking the mega
tive on the question, Resolved: :
That the League Of Nations. World
Court, and Diplomatic Procedure
Cannot Avert War" The debate
will take place on wednesday. May
IS, at $50 pm. at Town Hall, 113
W. 43rd ST., under the auspices Of
the Social Workers Discussion Club.
The daily worker., 1934-05-14

In the previous three install
ments Joseph Freeman described
conditions among the cigar work
ers Of Tampa. An interview with
active militants in Ybor City re-
vealed the background of the
struggle for organization. On
Saturday Freeman told of the raid
on the Nov. I, 1881, celebration
and of the arrests which followed,
and described a recent meeting at
which workers reported on con-
ditions in Tampa and other cities.
Now read on:
The daily worker., 1934-05-14

young p e o p ! e
crowded the big
room facing the
y ard, and the
smaller room be-
yond it f a Gin g
t h e S t r e e t .
Mother Go m e 2
sat in the front
row, smilin 8
thru her glasses;
Yorkina sat with
her elbow VS. on
the far edge Of
The Sp e a. k e RS
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
A CORRECTION

In the review of Nos. 2 and 8 of
he Communist International, )"
published in the Daily Worker of
May 4, V. Knorin was enormously
referred to as one of the leaders
OF the Communist Party of Ger
many. Comrade Knorin is mem
Der of the Central Committee of
The Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, delegated by that Party to
the Executive Committee of the
Communist International.
The daily worker., 1934-05-14

At NIGHT there was a meeting
n of Ybor Ci5v's leading militants.
some Communists, others synpa-
th:zers. The revolutionary move
ment is virtually Illegal in Tampa
and the meeting had to be held
in private home The workers
walked up the dimly lit stairs in
silence, singly, in twos.
Gomez. sitting at the head of
a long table covered with white oil
cloth, was chairman. Men, women,
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
WHAT'S ON
MOndou

M0Rddy
Fs.U "sTEvEDoRE All price tickets
at Box Once, SIS pm
Tuesday
UNIT 10 Sect cP.. open unit meet
ing jointly with b.. 12l TWO at 500
stone Ave. The Communist Party and
the Mass Organizations will be the topic
for discussion. All branch members are
urged to attend
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
Dancers Needed for
New WILT. Production

NEW YORK.-The WILT. Dance
Group is in need of additional peo-
pie to participate in the new pro-
duction for which casting is now
going on. Those interested in Join
ing the group should see Pauline
Schriftnlan after pm. at the
Workers Laboratory Theatre, 42 E.
18th St., on weekday evenings.
The daily worker., 1934-05-14

An organizer sums up; he urges
the workers not to be disheartened
by the terror by the loss of last
years strike; he reminds them that
the methods Of capitalism in Tampa
are the methods Of capitalism every
where - Germany, Japan. Poland,
Latin America, China, Chicago, New
York, Detroit, Pittsburgh. The rev.
olutionary movement of Tampa is
part of the world revolutionary
movement; the Tampa workers must
take courage from the heroic strug-
giles Of their comrades in these other
countries, these other American
cities. :. He contrasts conditions
in Tampa tobacco factories with
those in Soviet tobacco factories
which he has visited and reminds
them Of the Importance of the US.
S,R. to the workers of the entire
world. Terror must be offset by
proper organization, mass organi-
zation; they must build a new union.
profting by the mistakes of the last
one; they must develop a local de-
fense organization, an 1. L. D.
branch, which will make it easier
to carry on the struggle; they must
circulate the Daily Worker and
other revolutionary publications
among the workers, and must set
cat a local paper, even if it is only
mimeographed. They must start
study groups, possibly a school
where local leaders may be trained
in the theory and practice of the
class struggle, where open forums
may attract workers to the move
ment. The solidarity Of the work
ingclass, led by the Communist
Party, is the true road to victory.
There is no applause; this speech,
like all the others, ends in silence.
Applause would attract the atten-
ton of the police to the meeting.
At the close, comrades shake each
others hands hasta Ia vista
hasta luego. They so down
the stairs in silence, singly or in
(The End
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
John Swinton's Famous Toast

THAT sounds pretty funny you we'll that that isn't
conception Of the which the capitalist works
Such orders aren't the simple that the class
the most Of their reporer coin
cdes with the interests the capitalists probably
distinguished journalist
editor of Tribune"
his his feloweditcrs
to "An Independent Press:
There such thing in Independent press
unless il is in the country towns
TO write his honest Ornon and you did know beforehand that
1t would appear in print
81 paid hundred fifty keeping
opinions paper
Of paid similar salaries similar
who would be foolish write his honest opinions would
the streets locking for another job.
"The business Of the journalist destroy
to pervert, viify at of
and TO sell his and his country daily
you this
ing Independent Press
we the tools and of rich
the jumping jacks; they pull the
talents possibilities lives
We intellectual prostitutes Quoted
Check" page 4OO9
Lenn oo had something of the capitalist press Thieves
prostitutes writer's who sell themselves that sell
This is great press This the
people know everybody they have connections everywhere
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
"a Human Interest News Note"


quote now-famous Irving Fedman Inter
view" say anybody who does recognize
that as perfectly legitimate note simply isn't
good newspaper man.
simple all that Ill the sander at my
ability newspaper and suggest that being
good newspaper good good
plumber electrician Col Cooper is understand good
engineer utilized with effectiveness by
the United States and by the
Soviet Government
good man? Is the experts Of the
big association poison labor at its source? No
many Cassidy good newspaper since
gets regular salary Daily
convention in Cleveland about
the strike and still be
good newspaper man" in your of the word?
Floyd Gibbons man? No
hghpowered lead and his
meaningless rapd-re adeces But what kind
picture from Gibbons covering the Chapel
in Shanghai ago? Simply that lot of Chinese
luck when the bombs started cracking down en"
city editor of the "Wold- Telegram" would
consider Legitimate human interest note" to have of
interview little Irving Fdman what he thought
of the paradeor of Franklin D. Roosevels physiog
nomy? Obviously mott
Jeeringy suggested that perhaps Rockefeller called
Morgan Send the word newspaper lackey
Let's get Irving Feldnan."
The daily worker., 1934-05-14

ought to have a report on the dis
elimination against Negroes in the
tobacco factories. The Negroes,
especially those from Cuba, know
cigar-making as well, sometimes
better. than the white workers; but
they are Systematically excluded
from Tampa factories"
A short, stocky man, ruddy-faced,
bald headed, gets up in back of the
room. He is smaller but looks re-
markably like the farmer from the
palmetto section whom We heard at
a meeting in Miami. Comrades -
he says, Il am a farmer from Rus
kin, where they have a lot of truck
farms. The white farmers are get
ting sore about conditions. Every
day you can hear conversations
among them something like this: A
farmer stands besides a heap of
vegetables, unsold. He says: Where
is the market?' Another farmer
says: The market has passed
What am I going to do with all
this stuff if can't sell it?'
"Eat it.
" How can eat all this?'
I don't know. but you voted for
all this, didn't you?'
Comrades, I am myself a north
erner, from the ndddleWest; but 1
have lived and farnled in Florida %
years, and I know that the biggest
problem here is the Negro problem.
It's hard for nortnerners to under
stand that, I sometimes think, as
hard as it is for them to pronounce
Tuesday the way a southerner does.
But our chief job is to organize black
and white; in order to fight capital
ism we've got to overcome race
prejudice"
THE way to overcome race pref
udice," Gomez interjects from the
chair, is not to make abstract
speeches about it either to Negro or
white. We can unite workers of
both races on the basis of concrete
struggle. Black and white workers
will unite when they have a COM
mon fight; and that common fight
is the fight for better wages, hours,
living conditions"
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
CHANGE
TAE
WORLD!
Z II:
By SENDER GARLIN
An Open Letter
My dear Mr.. Broun :

My dear Mr.. Broun:
hope you will forgive for not replying sooner to
your wsecracs about May Day and upon my own observa
ons on the way the capitalist press treated the great
New York parade
column damn funny, must admit and one OF tne
sprghest you written years It's Of the contradictions
capitalism habit of df you'll
pardon "che life column should
come as a recon from voltage a newspaper
my friends think you're just simple minded but don't
think that's profound analysis The point is that you get paid Tor
naturally be clever practically
every day. you follow the straight and we-swpt path
journalistic methods Take for example the way in which
you distorted DAILY Worker May g. 93D Among
things you chose to ignore the basis Of argument VIZ that
reports published most of the the
press sought ny the dignity and of this gigantic
working demonstration by sly ridicule of minor aspects
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
Aimed at Arousing Laughter"

IN DEFENSE OF humo in column that of the
communist floats though grim enough still aimed
laughter Sure enough But they arousng
at the of the of the
you defend aimed at laughter
by nctioning cheap dcue
in the May Day parade
And what earth the matter with the
demand Nothngs the you deny
will that the city desk working woman
OF the Bronx saying Owing kpst presp
Fantastic isn't it, Mr. Broun? repeat ntntic
touch Is that your idea of
You say in column, The Times
capitahic Misrepresentation this
propaganda which Mr. Garn deeply
can't make head tail of it. Speaking of
the Times said according quotations Negro women
carried bouquets of daodi enjoying their mo-
ment'"
And ask innocently than that?"
I'll give objections simply this Those
gron married mothers have Alabama
death in the electric chair years
have been in hell talked with mothers Jail
and know The Times smirk you neither
head OF tall calculated Scotsboo
mothers ghtminded their
are basking in publicity enjoying Not so
humorous is it?
The daily worker., 1934-05-14
News Value Whom?

MOREOVER, surprising you some Of your
ava uterng admirers purpose (And
please Mr. Brounpease don't
gag about Bob Minor asking Daily reporter cangle
collision between Packard
nered whnscaties effective energetic publicity
work for the Roosevelt administration
the hunorless absurd Communists
ast of the charge that agency propaganda
fol bosses
You piousy declare that
that labor American
New papers comprehensive than
those in smaller cities, but they
material about strikes union activities which dis
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
ESQ Due to Lose Jobs Here
In Relief Unit Shakeup

The dropping Of 81 clerks from
the payroll of the Emergency Re-
lief Unit at Fifth and H Streets
Northwest is only the prelude to
a general clerical house cleaning
among the office workers of the
Districts relief organization, it
was learned today.
The wholesale discharges are
explained by the statements of
various District officials that
more efficient methods are being
devised to take care of the enor-
nous number of small expendi-
lures and the issuance of relief
orders.
Machine Does Work
Actually, the work of the 54
discharged employees will be done
by a check-writing machine in
the office of Major James r.
Lusby, disbursing officer for the
District of Columbia. Later,
about 200 more employees will be
dropped.
The shakeup has been ex-
pected ever since Elwood Street
was appointed Director of Public
Welfare, and in turn appointed
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
M|SANAS To Be E|ST. LOUIS MAN
BROUGHT HERE IN D. c. POST

Detective Sergeant F. A. Trus-
colt and Post Office Inspector Leo
De Ward are en- route to san
Francisco by plane to return here
with Arthur Misanas, 81, last
member of the once-dreaded tri-
State gang to be arrested.
On information furnished by
Washington police, detectives in
San Francisco yesterday arrested
Misanas before he made GET
away to South America which he
planned, hoping to escape the fate
of death. or capture which met
seven other members of the gang.
Police said Misanas is the SITS
pected trigger man" in the shoot
ing of a Union Station postal
guard last December and also is
wanted in connection with other
crimes of the gang on the Eastern
seaboard.
During its activities about a
year ago the gang staged killings,
hijackingS, pay roll and bank rob
berries and looted mail trucks.
Tips given police by a woman for
merly associated with them fig.
ured in enabling police to round
up the gang.
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
NOFFETT SUED
FOR BOAT BILL

James A. Moffett, multimillion.
aire head of the Federal Housing
Administration, was sued in Dis,
trict Supreme Court today for
$18,219 by the Bath Iron Works
Corp, of Bath, Me-. which alleged
he has failed to pay balance for
yacht which the corporation
built for him.
Through Attorney E. Cortland
Parker, the corporation alleged the
yacht, known as the "Bidol", was
ordered by Mr.. Moffett in June,
1929, at an original price of $175,-
600. The yacht was completed in
July, 1880, with some additional
work ordered by the millionaire
completed. The suit alleged that
Mr.. Moffett has failed to pay the
$18,219 balance due for the work.
The yacht is moored in the Poto-
mac River off HainS Point,
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
PLANE CARRIER
WORK SPEEDED

The Navy Department today an
nounced that the keel of airplane
carrier Enterprise was completed
in the Newport News shipyard on
July 16, indicating that with the
completion of the craft and an.
other of its type within several
years, the treaty limitations for
plane carriers will have been
reached by this country.
Three vessels of this type are
in commission now, the Ranger
being the newest and the Lexing.
ton and Saratoga are of earlier
construction. The keel of the
Yorktown, the fourth vessel on
carrier type on the construction
schedule was laid in May. It is
estimated that the two new boats
will be completed in two and a
half years.
Construction of the two car.
riers is being financed by the
$238, 100000 PWA appropriations
for bringing the Navy up to treaty
strength. The Enterprise and
Yorktown, like the Ranger will be
built to carry 72 planes,