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Evening star., 1934-08-13
DIRECTOR DEFENDS
"TRUTH" IN FILM PLAYS

Cleanup Drive and Disclaims
Rules in Art.
By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, August iS.-Cecil
B. De Mile, motion picture director.
apparently referring to the National
Church Crusade for Cleaner Pictures,
said last night:
You cannot govern art by rules"
De Mile addressed an audience Mt
the Community Church here.
He did not refer directly to the
campaign of the National League Of
Decency, organized by the Roman
Catholic Church with the support of
various large Protestant bodiC6. but
Evening star., 1934-08-13

defended some unpleasant phases of
pictures with the argument they rep
resented truth in art.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Yehudi MeHuhiH, .S0LOist With
Philharmonic Thursday

Arturo Toscanini will present the
second program Of the Beethoven
Cycle on Thursday evening and Fri
day afternoon at Carnegie Hall, with
Yehudi Menuhin as soloist IN the d
major Concerto. The program will
include the overture to "Prometheus'
and the "Eroica" Symphony. Next
Sunday afternoon Toscanini will con-
duct Cherubini's Overture to Fan
iska," Schumann's Symphony No. ?,
Strauss don Juan and the Over
ture to Rossinis "Semiramide.
Ernest Schelling will offer an all
Russian program at the concert for
Children and Young People on Sat
urday morning at Carnegie Hall.
Nikolai sokoloff will direct Vaughan
Williams Concerto with Harriet Co.
hen, pianist, as soloist at the New
York Orchestra concert this evening
at Carnegie Hall. This is the first
performance Of the concerto in
America. The Dvorak Carnival
Overture, Opus 90, DIndy's Summer
Days on the Mountain and the
Theme with Variations from Suite
No. 3 of Tschaikowsky's Opus IS are
on the same program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
M u S I G
A Program for ProIetarian Composers

In connection with the perfecting
Of plans for the second Workers MI
sic Olympiad, which viii be held 10
one Of the biggest halls in town on
April % and 20. certain conclusions
have been arrived at that may inter
est workers at large.
We may expect that two types Of
music will be performed-music for
the proletariat and music Of the pro-
letariet. Most Of the music now
known as proletarian is Of the former
type. 1t is composed by a vanguard
Of professional musicians, bourgeois in
origin and in training, many Of whom
have cast their lot with the prole-
tariat or been forced into it BY the
economic crisis. These men have lis
tened with varying degrees Of atten-
ton to the words Of Stain, which We
may adapt TO the musical situation
as follows: First Of all, they (mu-
Sicians) must have q good ear for
the voice Of the masses, must pay
close attention to their revolutionary
instinct, must study the actualities
Of their struggle, must carefully en-
quire whether their policy is sound
and must, therefore, be ready not
only to teach the masses, but also to
learn from them" 1t is the function
Of these men to prepare the prole-
tariat for the making OF its owl
music.
Proletarian music is a historic ne
cessity which VIII develop out Of bour-
geois music by carrying on and add
ing to progressive tendencies. and BY
disseminating regressive or decayine
tendencies. Proletarian music NAV
have all the worthwhile qualities OF
bourgeois music, and many more, but
it must and will express them BY
means different in many respects
from bourgeois music. Proletarian
music will result from revolutionary
tendencies persisted in over a con-
siderable length of time. In these
revolutionary tendencies (Which may
be called the contradictions" OF
bourgeois music there can be found
some technical devices that must be
avoided in workers songs and some
that can and must be used in them.
The choice as to what bourgeois
technical devices are to be preserved
and developed and what are to be
discarded may be discussed under the
following principle: to be revolution
airy IN character music should have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
PRINTERS ERROR
GARBLES ARTICLE
by EARL BROWDER

Due to careless mishandliDg of
type. Earl BrOwder's review of the
January issue of Fight Against
War and Fascis M" entitled,
Strengthen the Fight Against
Pacificnl," was badly garbled yes
terday. The last three paragraphs
of Comrade Browders article
should have read as follows:
Harvey O'Connor writes an expo
sure Of how Andrew Mellon profits
from war preparations J. B. Math-
ews tells briefly Of his visit to Cuba
On behalf Of the League, together
with delegation Of the Anti-Im-
perialist League, to support Cuba's
struggle for independence from Amer
lean Imperialism A seaman, Frank
Robb, tells about the shipping subsi-
dies and naval reserves that are a
most vital Sart Of war preparations
Lucille Perry contributes an exposure
Of the imperialist aims of the U. S.
in the Pan-American Conference in
Monteyideo Fascism in Japan Is
dealt with by Haru Matsui, a Jap
aneSe woman. Or. Addison Cutler
attacks the rising Fascist trend in
American universities and colleges,
and Lord Marley tells about the
Shanghai Anti-War Congress, which
met under such difficult conditions in
September. The position of the Negro
as victim of war is shown by Eugene
Gordon, leading Negro intellectual.
How the schools Of America are be-
ing wrecked to provide funds for bat
tleships is exposed by John Carney.
Francis Henson gives a compilation
Of facts on war preparations. The
q. S. occupation of Haiti is exposed
by Guy Fndore. The Bolivian Para
guayan war is shown up as a prelim-
mary battle in the worldwide strug-
gle between American ana British
Imperialism by Joseph Gregg Finally
! the organizational notes by IDA Dailes
report the beginnings of spreading
the League organizationally over the
country.
An article by Prof. Robert MorsS
Lovett on the anti-War sentiments
spreading widely among the students
/ Of America. deals with an important
feature of the movement. It is to be
| regretted that Prof. Lovett, who is
doubtless a most sincere opponent Of
war. could express such dangerous IL
lusions as that President Wilson
would have found a way to redeem
his election pledge: He kept us out
Of war, " if in 1917 'there had been
any such open declaration of priu-
ciple." No declarations, however cor
rect, can prevent war, but only the
organized power of a great mass
movement, which overrides the in
herent and inevitable movement of
all capitalist governments land capt.
talist statesmen, such as Wilson or
Roosevelt. towards settling their
contradictions by battle. We must
openly combat the penetration Of the
anti-war movement by such illusions.
Generally FIGHT" is weak in ex-
posing the fall&cies of pacif1sm.
On the whole it must be declared
that FIGHT" is an excellent con-
tribution to the building of a mass
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Canadian Censorship Threatens
TO Bar Workers Play Showings

ment is believed to be the beginning
Of a stringent censorship of the
theatre and art to prevent workers
from using the stage.
1t is noted as a very peculiar coin
cidence that Governor General Bess-
borough, patron of the Canadian
Little Theatre movement, arrived
here a day before the noted fascist
Of the stage, Dan Dickson Kenwinn,
announced a drive in the local boss
press to smash the workers art move
ment.
The Progressive Arts Club of Can
ada is organizing a campaign all over
the North American Continent to
protest this action of the Canadian
government and calls upon all
workers, intellectuals and organiza-
tons to mail or wire protests to the
Provincial Treasurer, Ontario, Can
ada.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Blinded in Factory, Worker
Unemployed for Four Years
Is Ignored by Relief Group
Investigator Tells True Story of Destitute Family
Of Five in Brooklyn

dreds and As. His teacher loves him
best, and always tells me if he were
only fatter"
The very little chap shows me his
notebook, and really I am surprised
at his lovely handwriting, his beeuti-
ful, sweet voice.
I am deeply engrossed in thought
as his mother is telling her troubles
to me, with the father breaking in
now and then. She finally finishes
and to think that once I had every
thing, and now"
She is an educated mother. one can
see that. I am putting on my coat
when
You viii try to help?" are her last
words.
Her husband takes her hand, his
disposition has completely changed.
She is good, Edna, can't you see?"
The door closes, but only for a
short while.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
They Shall Not Die" John
WerLey's ScOttsbOrO Play,
Goes In Rehearsal TODAY

Philip Moeller viii direct the The
atre Guild production Of John Wex-
ley's They Shall Not Die" drama
dealing with the Scottsboro case. The
play goes in rehearsal today with
the opening announced for February
Is. The cast will be announced later
Wexley is the author Of The Last
Mile" and steel"
''The School For Husbands" the
Moliere comedy at the Empire Thea
tire, is now in its final week. The
play closes here on Saturday and will
then go on tour.
Dorothy Gish, Howard Lindsay and
Kenneth MacRenna head the cast
Of BY Your Love-" the new play
by Gladys Hurlbut and Emma Wells
which opens at the Morosco Theatre
on Jan. "A.
mo More Ladies'" a new comedy
by A. E. Thomas, will open on Tues
day evening, Jan. %, at the Booth
Theatre. The cast includes MELVIN
Douglas, Lucille watson, Rex OMal-
ley, Ruth Weston and Miriam Bat
/ tista.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
JoBLEss IN GREECE FORCE AID

ATHENS, Greece. - Following
militant demonstrations by two
thousand unemployed tobacco work.
ers in front Of the factories, En-
mann" and "Vlachakis," and SINH
lar demonstrations in Thrace and
other cities, the government has
ordered the National Bank to turn
over 100000 drachmaS to the To-
bacco Workers Insurance for the
unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Plan To Revoke License
Given to Toronto
Theatre Group
Especial to the Daily WORKER


TORONTO, Canada.-Afraid of an
exposure of their anti-Iabor policy
with an election in the offing, the
Ontario Tory government threatens
to revoke the license of the Standard
Theatre, rented to the Toronto Work
ers' Theatre, for the play Eight
Men Speak" to be presented Jan. IS.
The play, dealing with Kingston
Penitentiary, where seven leaders Of
the Communist Party of Canada are
serving five years-one of the original
eight being a deportee to Jugo-Slavia
was first shown on Dec. 4 to a
packed house. Hundreds we're turned
away at that time.
Beginning of Theatre Censorship
This action of the Tory govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
WHAT'S ON
Tuesday

HARLEM WORKERS SCHOOL. Winter
Term, open tonight, zoo West l35th Street.
Student may still register before the frst
session Of each class.
RED BUILDERS are wanted to sell the
Daily Worker at stores and street PLEASE
apply at City Daily Worker Office, IS E.
18th St. store
SPEAKERS on the movie available for
city and out Of town. Apply Film and
Photo League, 1l6 Lexington Ave.
THE NEW EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE
meets at is W, 12sth st. at $50 pm. An
invited.
CHORUS of fremont Prog. Club meets
at 1865 fremont Ave. at $50 pm. Comrade
Adhomyan, conducting.
ANTI-WAR Conference Of the Rockawsys
az Workmen's Circle Hall. 1853 Beach s5th
St, Rockaway, at $3.50 pm. All local or
CARNATIONS and sympathizers are urged to
attend.
Philadelphia
February %. "a and 25 are taken by
Sect. for Section Bazaar VIII be held
at So43 Berks ST.. headquarters OF School 8.
Organizations are urged not to take this
date.
Chicago
ANNUAL BAZAAR Of the NT.wLU. on
Jan. 26, ~ and 2s at Workers Lyceum.
27a3 Hirsch Blvd. Dancing every night
Los Angeles
FREIHEIT MANDOLIN CLUB. ninth an
nual concert, Sunday. Jan q, ct s:l5 pm.
at Turn Verein Hail, 9S6 W. Washington
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
7 u n IN G IN

mission, 10; Gm etaoie shrdIue shrdlud
Service Commission, New Jersey; II. E
Kaplan, Secretary, National Civil serv-
ice Reform League; Prof. w. Z. Mosher,
Syracuse University
7:45-Harris Orch
8:o0-The Assassin's Chorus-sketeh
8;30-Adventures in Health-Dr. Herman
Bundesen
S.45-To Be Announced
9;00-Alice Mock, Soprano; Edgar Guest,
Poet; Koestner Orch.
9:90--Duchin Orch.
lO:O0-Joy Orch; Sic Gary, Songs; sydney
Mann, Soprano
i0:30--Mario Cozzi. Baritone
10:4S-Production Credit and Cotton Acre
age Adjustmeut-W. I. Myers, Governor
Farm Credit ADMINISTRATION
1l:00-Leaders Trio
1I;15-Anthony Frome, Tenor
11:30-Madriguera Orch.
l2:00-Sissle Orch.
1850 A. M.-Sosnick Orch.
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PhiIddeIphiQ

anti-war movement. It must be sup
ported and given wide distribution.
1t must be constantly helped by con-
structive criticism. 1t must be used
TO build up, everywhere, strong local
organizations of the League Against
War and Fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
By a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
I KNOCKED. A weak voice an
l swered.
Does Morris Koplensl1y live here?"
I asked.
my fathers sleeping" replied the
| young emaciated fellow, "but I'll wake
him"
said nothing. I was Immediately
occupied surveying this bleak. barren
black three-room apartment. No cur
tains or shades on the windows, and
about all that is visible is one bed,
two tables, and few scattered chairs.
Yes, the father, too, is visible, for
see him getting up from an empty
| bed.
How do you do, Mr. KoplensSy.
I'm from the Exchange for the Blind
down at State st. I came to take
your census"
The mans face hardens, a bitter
smile encdrcles his mouth. I try to
| justify myself.
I'm only going to ask you general
questions, nothing personal
/ bllCAL kflO-CCAACA W bclAE O4A AAAJ
coat and try to make myself COM
Portable.
I'm SO, I came from Russia" is
the reply.
"You were born then-in-" I start
to figure. Meanwhile the man be-
comes very figdety. He begins to talk
wildly, almost unintelligibly, but I
pretend do not understand his con-
fusion.
'Thirty-eight from 193S-you were
born in 1895. How many children?"
Three" is the blunt response.
am about to continue, but the
mans trembling figure checks me.
Cant you see I'm nervous? I'm q
sick man, please don't ask me ques-
tons. must go to a hospital! |
can't stay herel Already I've had
three investigators here, but they only
make promises. They say I'm not
a citizen so I can't get pension. ]
can't even get relief But my three
boys, they were born here, why should
they starve and sleep on the cold
floor? When the war comes, then
then-they'H be remembered! Look
come, I'll show you: This is where
they sleep-no bed, no covers, NJ
nothingl And me, once I was strong
and healthy, but at work one day
some poisons got into my eyes ant
then couldn't see-I couldn't SEE
anything. I began to have terrible
pains in my ears and teeth; I almost
went crazy. From one hospital to thu
next they sent me; but the doctor,
didn't bother, for what cared they fol
a poor blind man. It's four years al
ready, but I still have pains. WHY
don't they send me some place,
can't stay herel"
THE door opens, a short bustNni
1 woman walks in, evidently much
in tone with the brisk, cold weather
But then L realize she is a prole.
tartan mother, she must put up sucI
'front.'
How do you do?" is her clear, vel.
coming tone.
Edna, here is a nice girl from
From the Exchange for the Blinc
Of the AIC.P, madam"
She came to help us, Edna, maybe
she can send me away"
I'm just from the market, this &
the first basket in long, long time
We were about starving when thel
grudgingly decided to give us ST.
every two weeks for family OF five
Imagine-$7 a week with CROWNS
children. and that's also to go fol-
rent and clothing You see what In
wearing-rags. Look at my children
all bones. My little Morris is only
seven, but he's smart. I won't ea'
bad food he says Show the lady
your book, Morris. He has only hun.
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TONIGHTs PROGRAMS

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Wei Fed Pacifists
By Michael Gold


welpaddd still enjoy large incomes or feel
we-pad nanan that WeIknown above
attitude nothing but subtle way Oh sup
porting capitalism. .G.fo..
the liberals VINO man
pas the Fellowship OF Recon-
forcing BadwJ Matthews and other mem
commit itself to the side OF the working
entirely made of the weahest men
membership.
people according reports were not above using te
ickest Tsmmany methods fight They believe
macy and deciding social issues but they
eamolered of total membership OF
elected the National Council
tina the final dishonest victory.
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The daily worker., 1934-03-26
III. The Condition of the
Comintern Sections

Comrades the confusion and crisis of social
democracy are not proceeding automatically
like the operation Of the blind forces of de-
csying capitalism, but in an untiring daily
struggle OF the Communists for winning over
the majority Of the working class The crisis
of social democracy is above all the result
OF many years Of struggle on the part Of
the Comntern and its sections against the
Second International.
And nevertheless, If the Communist Parties
have not yet downed social democracy in the
present. conditions when the era of social re-
forms has COME 10 an end when bourgeois
democracy in Germany has proved bankrupt,
when there is an intenSification of world re-
action and when an imperialist war is i'm
minent, then this shows the weak work of the
Communist Parties who have not taken ad-
vantage as they should Of the world economic
crisis to undermine the influence of social
democracy and 10 consolidate their positions
in the world labor movement. If the Com
munist Parties had not Jagged behind in the
winning over of the majority OF the working
class, the tempo Of the development of the
world revolutionary crisis at the present time
would be different and the whole course of
events in Germany and throughout the world
would have been different too.
Comrade Stain has taught the Bosheyks
fearlessly TO reveal all shortcomings in order
thus to raise the quality of our work to a
great height. Both at our Plenums of the
E.C.cI and in all our daily work the Comintern
subjects the weaknesses, errors. shortcomings,
and blunders Of its sections to the most merci-
less criticism. Tt is true that the Communists
have been the inner driving force in all revo-
lutionary movements that they have been the
only Party which has headed the movement
of the unemployed they took upon themselves
the yoleys of fire at Geneva and the whole
weight Of the represSions which have been
dealt out after the movements
But it is also true that the Communists fire.
quently have not led these movements, and
the reason why they have not led them is be-
cause they have not previously carried on day
to-day routine work in collecting and organ
izing the forces of the working class for great
mass movements. Great events have frequently
taken the Communist Party by surprise. In a
number of cases the Communist organizations
have been reminiscent of the first aid ambu-
lance which rushes in hot haste to the spot
where the proletariat needs help. When the
movement is over, the ambulance has driven
away, and the influence of the Communist
Party which has grown in the process of the
movement has not been consolidated in an Or
ganized way.
The daily worker., 1934-03-26

waYerers beyond the bounds OF the Party, or
those who are only just coming to Communism
to make them strong reliable adherents Of the
proletarian dictatorship and the Communist
Party, sdherents who will never wayer.
And in the shape OF social democracy we are
faced by a cunning and insidious foe which
has at its disposal whole staff OF parliamentary
orators, crafty journalists lawyers skilled in
verbal duels, who are ready to prove any piece
of sophistry and with an oratoricsl tremor in
their voice to represent the most supreme vii
lainy as the height Of virtue.
In Norway, for example, Tranmsel, the leader
of the so-cslled Labor Party, is pressing our
honest Norwegian Communists hard with Left
phrases and -oppostional manoeuvers in
relation to the Second International, while our
Communists in Norway allow the feeling OF
indignation to overcome sober political judg-
ment. In France the Communist workers only
spit in the faces of the social-fascist provoca-
teurs and VOW to hang them when they in
sinuate that the Soviet Union Is betraying the
cause OF. democracy by prolonging the trade
agreement with Germany in 1888.
The daily worker., 1934-03-26

longing for unity in the revolutionary struggle
against capital.
But comrades, these weaknesses cannot
eclipse those achievements which the Com
intern has attained since the time Of the Siz-
teenth Congress during the past three and a
half years, in broadening the mass basis Of its
sections.
First place in these achievements belongs
without doubt after the CPs.T, to the Chinese
Communist Party, whose fighting activity is
playing very big part n aeeeleEating the
maturing OF a revolutionary crisis. The Com
munist Party Of China has won over not only
the majority Of the working class but also the
majority Of the toilers Of the Soviet districts.
It's influence IN the non-Sowet districts over
the proletariat OF industrial centres and over
the peasantry Is growing with every month and
every week. This growth OF Communist influ-
ence in China has found its expression in the
numerical increase of the Chinese Communist
Party which has grown by 10000 during one
year and numbers at the present time 4i6 900
members. (Applause)
Comrade Wang Ming, the representative Of
the Chinese Communist Party will speak here
and tell you about these successes in greater
detail. I will only mention that the circula-
ton of the central organ Of the Chinese Com
munist Party, which is published in the central
Soviet district and reprinted in other Soviet
districts and also Illegally IN non-Sovet China,
has frequently, as Comrade Wang Ming has
told us, reached the figure of half a million
s-(applause)-s circulation which was
never dreamt of by the fascist Angriff or the
voelkischsr Beobachter In Germany. The Com
munist Party Of China m the non-soviet dis
tricts with ibS eoooo members Is at present the