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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-08-15

It is to the harmoniz.ng or some of these situations that Demo- cratic leaders now are addressing major attention. Upon their suc- cess may depend in large measure the party strength in the next ses- sion of Congress.
 To date the results have been rather difficult to analyze.
 Democratic National Headquar- ters has followed the usual course and announced publicly a complete neutrality as between rival Sena- torial candidates.
 Yet, in several instances, local politicians have claimed definite administration support, have hint ed very broadly to the voters that MT. Roosevelt wanted them nomi- mated, and have gone unreproved from Washington.
 In Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Texas and a number of other states, candidates have been put into the field under circumstances which, on their face, set up a pre- sumption of administration favor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-08-15

Daily Empire Want Ads Pay!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Hurbi SOLOiSt With PhiIhar.
monte Orchestra Wednesddu

Jose 1turbi, pianist, will appear
as soloist with the Philharmonic Or
chestra under the direction of Tos-
canini In Wednesday afternoon ana
on Thursday evening at Carnegie
Hall. The program: Mozart's Con-
certi in D minor TX. 1861 and in
c major *, 467) and Brahms SYM
phony No. 2. ~"'
Hans LANCE will conduct at the
Students concert on Saturday eve
ming with MiScha Levitzh as SOLO
list. The program: Haydn's SYM.
phony in A major Oh. and H. No.
64); Mozart's Serenata Notturna;
No. 6; Hadley's tone poem The
Ocean" Two Dances from "The
Battered Bride" by Smetana and
the Saint-Saens Piano Concerto.
The program next Sunday under
the direction Of Toscanini will in.
clude Beethoven's "Eroica" SYM
phony and Brahms Symphony No. 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
800 Where A Dozen Were Before

THE workers theatre starting pioneers
should is building its technique its directors
musicians playwghs audiences and historic
there weren't than dozen such America Today
there three hundred They perform nightly under conditions
that would crack the Of
tngs smoky dance halls at picnics the
school; but they something
is its to something 1t will long before
bourgeois critics begin understand that theatre
under their without skepcal
advice fortunately.
place workers theatre;
the intense sefcrcis which grows may monthly
in the pages that splendid magazine merely
to submit impressions Of evening enjoyed
workers theatre.
dApr there will be held Chicago
theatre festival Of the League of Workers Theatres Different sections
of the country holding their regional competitions
which groups will represent them at this national oympiad
Theatre the New York finals
in which eight groups competed.
The Urainian Workers Circle the
oenanguage contest the Laboratory Theatre
the Engish-speaking group popular and just award
What performance groups that subtle
realism and psychology little
sublety and psychology the fruits
theatre perpetual bacade and its
formed by struggle it must build with satire
The Uanan group they gasped aesthetic
necessity Their play done In broad poster
was not rapid the demands but
to hold even foreign audience They pictured
exploitation Of the Ukrnn this country debased
nationalist elements the priest Journalist businessman and his
wife, the douecrossng politician immigrant vote
l. N the old parties
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27

me as "a professor from New York
University"
A hush settled over the hail. /
was the first white-coHar speaker
from the outside to appear before
them, and they In turn we're my
first striker-audience.
You've been hearing great
speeches from your fellow-hsckies
and I don't see what you want to
listen to a prof for, except that I
want to congratulate you on your
success to date and pledge my soli-
darity with you"
They cheered.
Whatever I have to write about
this strike I can't get printed in any
paper except one, nor in any maya
zine except one"
What are they?" several voices
shouted.
1.-THE Daily Worker and the New
Masses"
The paper trimmings on the cell
ing trembled with the cheer.
you are winning this strike" I
concluded, but you taH-workers
will never get justice from the oper-
ators until the day arrives when you
own every single cab in New York
yourselves and there are no more
companiesl"
They Cheered even louder yet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
The Organization of
Check-up of Decisive
Importance
BY H. LAWRENCE

"The proper organization of
check up is of decisive import
ance, Stain.
From Central Committee down to
unit buros there still remains a
looseness of assignment and check
up which prevents the Party from
going forward in the manner de-
manded by the Open Letter. The
guarantee that our resolutions bring
the results possible should be one
of the major responsibilities of the
coming convention
Here are three concrete examples
of this looseness of assignment and
check-up:
l. At the last session of the Cen
trail Committee, one of the members
assigned to the Chicago stockyards
concentration told how he spent his
time, good portion NOT being con-
nected with the stockyards.
Many assignments distracted his
attention and wasted his time. Why
these numerous assignments when
we know that one comrade cannot
carry them out-must fail?
2, Another comrade is assigned
by the Central Committee to check
up on stockyards concentration. He
lives and works on another assign
ment 800 miles from the stockyards.
Has he seen the stockyards in the
last three or four months9 What
is the nature of his check-up? How
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
What's Doing in the Workers
Schools of the US.

tions, to popularize the course In
Problems of the Negro Liberation
Movement, given by James w. Ford,
organizer Of the Harlem Section Of
the Party. The course will deal with
the present conditions Of the
Negroes, and the methods and or
ganizational forms to win them to
the revolutionary struggle for the
self determination of the Negroes
in the Black Belt and against CAPT
taist exploitation.
An innovation in the curriculum
is the coordination Of the courses
in History of the American Labor
Movement and the course in So
cial and Political Forces in Amer
lean History so that they compile
ment each other instead of dupli-
eating each other. These courses
are popular with trade union
members. Registration for the
Spring Term is now going on at
the Workers School Office, 35 E.
18th Street.
The Los Angeles Workers School,
which has 100 students in it's first
term, has moved to new quarters
where they have more classrooms
an auditorium, a gymnasium, a
banquet hall. a lunchroom, q Il
brary, a reading room and offices.
Volunteers are preparing the build
ing for use as a cultural center,
and members of the John Reed
Club have volunteered to put in q
series Of frescoes on working class
history They are appealing for
funds for the school, books for the
library, a typewriter and mimeo-
graph machine, and volunteers to
assist in the Office and in the IL
brary. We are not clear about the
address of the new premises. The
old address is on the same street,
224 South Spring Street, where in
formation can be obtained.
The Harlem Workers School, Of
200 West 1S5th Street, New York,
has begun registration for the
Spring Term, which opens April
18th. Many new courses have
been added to the curriculum,
which includes Principles of Com
muniSm, Political Economy A and
b, Marxism Leninism, Trade
Union Strategy, Negro Liberation
Problems, English, Spanish, Rus
sian and many more. All work
ers of the Bronx and Harlem are
urged to register at this school
Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27

been no move. I am convinced now
that nothing will be done except by
directly bringing charges.
A young Negro comrade who is
now in the Party, was sent into In
perial Valley for strike work. He
failed to show initiative and since
then has been practically ignored,
although he is trying to do some
work among the Pioneers. I brought
him up as a proposal for the new
Section Committee. The Section
Organizers comment was that the
Negro comrade lacked initiative and
shouldn't be on such an important
committee.
To sum it up: passivity toward
chauvinism on the one hand: merci-
less criticism Of Negro comrades on
the other.
Today, I spoke to an LID. leader
here "a non-party n1ember) about
a Negro contact who had formerly
been engaged in LID. work. She
had dropped out of this work for
personal reasons and said she was
willing to resume the work but no
one had come to me about it." The
LID. executive committee member
said, 1T was hard for the white
comrades to work with the Ne
groes."
We cannot deny facts. The Negro
con1rade who repudiated the League
made a mistake. The Negro or
ganizer in Imperial Valley did not
show great initiative. The Negro
comrade in the LID. Withdrew for
personal reasons. But, when the
Section Organizer, the Y.CL. Or
ganizer, and the whole leadership
of the Party is passive and indif-
ferent to the Negro question, it is
not strange that there is only one
Negro party member in an entire
Section. There are several thou
sand Negroes in San Diego.
There is a complete underestima-
ton Of the political importance of
the Negro section of the working
class in San Diego. The first step
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
BY GENE GORDON
(Org, Sec. San Diego Section)

Although I have been in San
Diego but a short period of time, I
see here an unhealthy manifesto
ton of chauvinism of a strange
species. This chauvinism takes the
form of political criticism" against
Negro comrades. Six months ago,
or less, there were five Negro party
members in San Diego. Today there
is one. In the Unit in which this
Negro conlrade attends, he was not
elected as delegate to the Section
convention. He was simply over
looked. The Unit organizer, when
questioned, mumbled that sit isn't
certain if he is member of our
unit or the other" There was not
a single Negro in the Section con-
vention.
When I came in here, a young
Negro appeared in the Party Office
and said he wanted to be back in
the League. This Negro had made
mistake, on trial in a case here,
of repudiating connections with the
Communist Party, as condition to
release. The fact is that he had
attended national training school
previously. It was bad mistake
But that is not the point. The
point is that the attitude of most
of the comrades is intolerant. I
proposed to him that he repudiate
his mistake, his former statements,
and come back into the League. He
said he did repudiate then and
there. On this, I advised that he
be taken back.
But later our Section Organizer
and other comrades insisted on
signed Reputation; and no effort
has been made to even get it. No
effort has been made to clear up
the confused issues.
AT fishermens dance here there
was a violent outbreak of chauvin-
ism. Party and League comrades
had attended the dance, but there
was no public denunciation of the
chauvnism. l have made state
ments in the League buro and the
Section Committee here that the
League and Party members abetted
in chauvinism by failing to take
stand; that the matter should be
fully investigated. But there has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
By ROBERT GEssNER,


The horse marines surround
Strike Headquarters. They squat on
their horses at the Irving Place and
Third Avenue Intersections of 18th
Street. At the door of Germania
Hall the foot patrol stand looking
at you. In the long corridor several
sergeants lean against the wall.
smoking cigarettes. They have the
situation well in hand.
Upstairs several thousand as
sembled proletarians have the taxi
traffic Of the City of Greater New
York tied up and in their hands.
They control the most effective taxi
strike ever called in the history of
New York. Ninety per cent of the
company cabs aren't rolling.
They stop you at the large sliding
door. Reporter" the door guards
ask. I'VE don't want any of you
lousy reporters writing us Up for
your kept press-telling the people
we're run by racketeers and gang
sters-telling 'em we're hoodlums
and rioters
But this is for the Daily Work
err" I said.
"Ohl Why didn't va say so in the
first place. Gowan in. Saw. that
was a swell story this morning-the
only honest job out of all them
papers"
They sit orderly in their chairs
and stand along the walls and be-
hind the chairs all in order. They
are a strong, manly assembly. You
can see the dark rings under their
eyes from all-night picketing, and
many eyes are discolored from
blackjacks and nightsticks. But you
can feel the mass of them the
moment you pass the door, the
strong unity of them, vigorously in
tent on their goal. When I start
writing on my pad they keep COM
ing up asking what paper it's for.
They smile and nod when I say
"Daily Worker" This spirit of each
man seriously taking it upon him
self to protect his fellow workers
and their interests reminds me of
Jack Reeds account of the Bolshe-
vik soldiers stopping him every few
feet in the october seizure of the
White Palace.
What did you average a week
and for how many hours?" 1 asked
several men around me.
Between eight and nine" Eight
fifty" Between four and five days
at fourteen hours stretch"
I figured it out: SO hours q week
at $3.50 was thirteen and one half
cents an hour.
That's not even starvation
wages" one hackie said.
TITS worse than being a slave in
China" another said.
A hackie was speaking from
small, well-lighted platform at the
head Of the hall. All the speakers
were hackies. I was the only person
in the hall who was not a hackie.
The crowd laughed spontaneously
at the speakers reference to them as
being led by racketeers.
HARRY CANTOR, dubbed Eddie"
IL by his buddy-hackies, is one of
the young, energetic leaders Of the
Taxi Cab Drivers Union of Greater
New York.
1.-THE Workers Clubs throughout
the city are making collections for
u.s." he shouted as the next speak
er. I'VE should not criticize them
because they're Communists, but be
proud Of their support"
The crowd cheered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Stage and Screen
"Pedce On Earth" ReOpens
Saturday at 18th st. Theatre

Peace on Earth" the anti-war
play by George Sklar and Albert
Maltz, which ran for sixteen weeks
at the Civic Repertory Theatre IN
der the sponsorship Of the Theatre
Union, will reopen its uptown en-
gagement on Saturday afternoon at
the Forty-fourth Street Theatre un-
der the management of A. L. Jones
The cast and production remains
intact.
"One More Honeymoon" a farce
by Leo Reardon, will be presented
by John Nicholson and Ned Brown
on Saturday evening at the Little
Theatre. The players include Bur-
ford Hampden, Charles Harrison.
Sally Starr, Ann Butler and viii
liam Philbrick.
Crane Wilbur's new play, ARE
You Decent" is scheduled to open
next week with Sam Wren, Emily
Lowry and A. j. Herbert heading
the cast. The theatre and exact
day will be announced later.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

ONCE in this country the workers threare curious
hybrid of which traces may still be found in museums
like the Rand School. Its history usually this
Shakespearian ham, temporarily perhaps permanently
unemployed, discovered Socialism and what he believed
to be ticket Using his thespani good he always
able leading with the fact that he
profound commerciasm determined to the
the people" ALL his his
elocuion his scientific Of the and exit and his
collection people" be upld All that he asked
immortality the and modest weekly
Again again. found such at the helm Of workers
theatre presented group Of dealsc young
unframed and potential audience What invariably resulted
Wrhed amateur performance Of ben Enemy the People
Gaworhy condescndng sruttng ranting
his through the leading role And the flock und
stopped buying tickets Of these workers theatres
dreay flop and the hean returned haunt the vaudeville
booking offices All Of which proves you fool the
of the time.
The workers theatre which has under the aeg of
Communism In made of freher
stuff It quickly learned the elementary that
Gaswory ckhearted bourgeois refomers with nothing
the working Also that Broadway
except the occasional accident STALE boring
technique which artists in the theatre despair
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
White Chauvinism Masked AS 'tPolitical Criticism

can he give guidance under such
circumstances?
3. District buro representative to
Section 3 Committee is assigned by
language buro to do work outside
section territory. He comes to sec
ton committee meetings about once
month.
He has no definite task in con-
centration on industry in the section
territory. He is unable to work daily
with those having such tasks. He
cannot give guidance to the section
leadership under these conditions.
What Is Needed
The guarantee that concentration
be improved rapidly requires i'm
proved organization, which includes
the organization of check-up 1t
also requires a development of
cadres to higher political and or
garizational levels.
In my opinion, assignment Of
leading comrades to concentration
sections and tasks should not be
made as gestures. 1t would be
better for the morale of the COM
rades below if they are frankly told
that the insufficient number of lead
ing forces above makes it necessary
for them to bear the responsibility.
This would be preferable to constant
murmuring against consulting poll
tical engineers" who can never be
found when guidance is needed.
The development of cadres able
to bear such responsibility requires
that comrades in leading positions,
the ones who have the most expert
ence in the class struggle, who are
most developed theoretically, take
the time personally to guide the
comrades assigned to various i'm
portant tasks. This means day to
day work with them.
The Workers School is vital
need in the development of cadres.
But we must not lose sight for one
moment that the best place to teach
and the best place to LEARNS in
actual struggle.
If our resolutions are to cease be-
ing only a source Of countless inner
Party meetings, the convention
should take up the question Of the
organization of check-up, what it
is, how to organize it and why a
correct political line cannot be car
ried out without it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Oil Workers Want to Be
Organized-Despite AL

work this thing out right This
group is the radical" element and
the strong argument used against
any dissenters is that they're Com
munists, ''unpatriotic," and around
here patriotism Is an important
commodity. In most cases it works.
TULSA, however, is essentially an
oil town. Seventy per cent Of
its life depends upon oil. Here are
some Of the largest refineries and
the city proper is virtually the
countTy's oil center with head
quarters or representatives here.
The major oil companies are dog
gedly fighting TO maintain the open
shop or at least get an Ineffective
company union. But another fac
tor beside the company union, is
initiating against the companies
open shop activities.
AS far back as 1925 oil companies
began to fire older employees and
to replace them with younger and
faster workers. This. however, was
only an occasional act. When the
depression came, the firing Of the
oldermen and the hiring of the
younger became widespread. Now,
and during the past few years, It Is
almost impossible for man over
IS to get a job. What were left Of
the older workers still in the fields
and ref1neries were then completely
cleaned out when the companies
started the speed-up system and
wanted the younger and faster
worker.
This process has ingrained itself
in the workers mind. He realizes
that within few years he. too. will
be thrown on the charity heap be-
cause of his age and he wants an
organization to protect him from
that.
And to this is added the add
tional initiating influence against
the oil companies: the element OF
youth among the workers. This
element is showing an aggressive
ness which did not exist among the
older employees, and there Is a dis
tinct tendency among them TO fight.
for organizational activity.
ITO Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Pre-COnventiOn Discussion

in overcoming this must be educa-
tionals in the units on all phases
of the Negro question. The second
step must be day to day work in
the Negro neighborhoods in recruit
ing into the party, in building the
LID. and branch Of the L.S.N.R.
Third, all manifestations of chau-
vinisn must be actively fought by
trials and explosions from the Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
The Taxi Strikers Receive the Press -

up this strike by arresting our lead
ers, but the rank-snd-hle can con-
duct this strike without leaders and
win"
Eddie Cantor came of the plat
form, recognized me and asked me
to tell the boys about the press
censoring the strike. He introduced
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27

you don't find those heels on
Park Avenue who are riding in scab
cabs supporting us" he continued.
Nor do we want those heels to sup
port US. We want workers to sup
port us-workers like u.s."
The crowd cheered again.
They're going to attempt to break
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
The Audience VS.. Mr.. Krutch

THIS theme crude propaganda
propaganda Of Happy liberalism audience oared
with laughter as the comic expoers whed
affected danced Grated Hitler ouarreled with
each other the loot The audience the
audience felt deeply the of the
Shirt oewdered by all these plausible lice
at last Whatever Mr. Kruch may each other
buyer Broadway rackee play the
OF thing Mr. Krutch and the approve the
being, let the fact enough.
NewsbOy the sketch
damazed done swiftly sharply effectively director
has used some of the futurst technique
belong IN the workers theatre The
and divorces but all around him the which
his bosses will print The irony in series
Of powerful theatrical devices lacking hunor The
Jewish great that in their knockabor sketch
showing busy day in the Cahan bowling
at his venal poets and editors Write
The New Experimental Theatre Grouho Marx and
ms Brain trust who solve the countrys problems burning
the wheat STEEL clothing and houses suggest that an
American military be sent bringing
on war; etc. Crude but good buresqe to the point
than the works seldes' Minsky
The Pioneers "Strke Me Red"
hND the Pioneers About healthy kids went
"A through several the ope Red written v
the late Harry Alan Potamkn The charming
and the kids acted and with carried the
house the
people do that the zegd they leave psv bv
Eugene oNe with hearts and feeling that the
world be taken pmp and
OF capitalism and fashioned into
workers Theatre does these things
leads to the future believes something teaches others to
believe. " ~ "
tFrom the current issue of the New Massey
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Collected S14
for Austrian Workers

The Harlem Workers School held
a rally recently at which they COL
lected s14 towards the support of
our Austrian comrades.
Students of the Brownsville
Workers School recently founded a
Short Wave Radio Club. They set
themselves the immediate task of
building a short-wave set with the
aim Of making every member a
licensed operator. All workers in
terested in short-wave radio are
urged to get in touch with the club
at the Brownsville Workers School,
1855 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
All news and comments on
Workers schools throughout the
United States should be addressed
to A. Markoff. Workers School,
IS East 18th Street, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Letters On daily Circulation

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am steady reader of the Daily without tobacco
Just to buy Worker If Daily Worker would
have folded long strain but the revolutionary
movement is all that has kept me going
% B, Lincoln, N. B
Dear Comrades
Find enclosed So for 3nonh subscription Daily Worker
If do not hit the bread line try and scraue I'D
some more for renewing it. Would
the Daily Wrker.
Comradely yours,
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Daily Worker.
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