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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Six Groups Will Join
i'm Dramatic Festival
of City Club Council

NEW YORK. 49, The City Club
Council, the Central Executive Com
mittee Of the English speaking
Workers Clubs Of Greater New
York. has arranged its first dra-
matte festival. It will be held at
its headquarters. Il West 18th St.,
this Saturday night, March 81.
Six groups will participate in the
festival. including American Youth
Club, Progressive Workers Culture,
Harlem Progressive Youth Club,
New Culture Club, American Youth
Federation, and the West Side
Workers Club. These theatres Of
action" have been writing and pro-
ducing their own original plays.
Included on the program will be a
demonstration Of new type Of COL
lapsible stage that folds into an Of
flee partition Such a stage is of
great aid to workers organizations
cramped for space.
Tickets at Is cents can be bought
at Workers Bookshop, City Club
Council. and League Of Workers
Theatres. a. &. 18th st. Ten per
cent Of the proceeds will go to the
Communist Party Of Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Cleveland LOWT Holds
Second Annual Festival

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-The League
of Workers Theatres of Cleveland
will hold their second big Annual
Festival this Saturday, March 81.
At this festival they will also cele-
brate their first anniversary.
There are six groups performing,
five Of which are in the contest.
They are: Swedish group Hunga-
rian, Finnish, Two. Youth of E.
105th, John Reed Club. A special
performance this evening will be
given by the Robson Players, an
excellent group of young Negro
actors.
Charles Welsh, one of Cleveland's
outstanding artists, will sing a group
Of Negro spirituals.
The contest is being held on the
new stage that has been built by
the John Reed Club at the Workers
School. The winning team will GO
to Chicago to compete in the ma
tional festival, April 1875. A num-
Der Of delegates from the groups will
also attend the national confer
ence,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
BY KARYL KENET CHAPMAN

WIVES Of unemployed workers.
W looking at their hungry and
ragged children, will be interested
TO know that it's the upper 10 per
cent that's really suffering most in
this depression.
Sure. That's what one of Chi
cago's new poor" says, in the
Chicago Tribune of recent date.
She ought to know, poor thing,
she's having such a hard timel
And, Of course, you can always be
leve what you read in the truthful
and unbiased Chi. Trib.
This pitiful pauper is Mrs. Au-
gustus RacheD Eddy. With Mrs.
Walter (Marguerite) Wolf, another
poor working woman, she's running
dress shop at SO East Walton
Place, Chicago They're having a
tough time Of it, comrades; make
no mistake about that. According
to the Chi. Trib., they declared
frankly that they have become bust
ness women because they need the
money!
After you get through with your
days work in the sweatshop, com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

dren working class education. The
Pioneer Council will furnish the
material and guidance, but if we are
to win the working class child to our
side in the fight for a Soviet power,
it cannot be too soon to start work.
ing with them. The public schools
are carrying through systematic
campaign of fascination, trying to
instill jingoism and working
theology into the minds of our chill
dren. We must be able not only to
furnish a reaction to this poison,
but to cultivate deep proletarian
pride and instinct in our children.
The basis of the program which
we issue to the children. is work in
the schools. Already we have some
very encouraging results. The chill
dren are bringing up concrete cases
of discrimination, starvation, over
crowding, intimidation, anti-Semi-
tisrn, and other things. And strug-
giles have been started around these
issues. A number of troops have
troop papers, devoted mainly to
school struggles, and calling upon
the children in the neighborhood to
join them However, these issues are
not issues for children alone to fight
on. These issues must become the
issues jointly of the children with
the Party and mass organizations.
If the two-fold character of chill
drens work is recognized and fol-
lowed, we will have not only mass
movement of parents demanding
that the city or state feed and
clothe their children. but we will
have q broad proletarian childrens
movement--ve will be laying
sound foundation for our future
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Workers School Exams
In Three Subjects To
Be Given This Saturday

NEW Examinations in
Principles of Communism, Political
Economy A and B, and History of
the American Labor Movement will
be given this Saturday, March 31st
at 2:30 pm, at the Workers School,
IS East 18th Street, for those stu
dents who are registered for the
two-year curriculum.
These examinations were insti-
tuted for the purpose of training
cadres in the Communist Party, the
Young Communist League, trade
unions. and mass organizations by
equipping the students with a
roundabout education in the theory
Of Marxsm-Leninism. After COM
pletion Of the two years Of study
the student will receive a certificate
from the Workers School.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
BY JOHN L. sPIvAK

TULSA, Okla. - Since the
oil code was signed there have
been three different compli-
ance boards. The first was
composed entirely of corpora
ton lawyers and was openly a COM
pany board. Their indifference to
complaints reused a wave Of resent
ment that not even wildcat VIII
liams was able to control by shoot
ing bullets thru the walls and ceiling
when workers came to him all hot
and bothered" as he put it. A change
had to be made to pacify them and
new board was picked. The sec
ond one was packed by Chamber Of
Commerce shining lights and they
too proved Indifferent to COM
plants. Protests became 50 loud
and insistent that they threatened
A. F. of L. control, so the second
board was discarded and a third
picked with two A. F. of L. off,
Gals on it TO represent labor" As
Stunning that these labor repre-
sentatives" actually tried to repre-
sent labor, they could still be out
voted. for there were three others
on the board who we're not espe-
cially friendly to the workers, but
there is no evidence that I was able
to find that these labor representa-
tives were really representing the
workers.
The only effect the N.RA. had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
M e citing Called to
Plan for New York
Children's Center

NEW YORK.-Mass organiza-
tons are invited to send delegates
to a meeting at the District Pho
neer Office, Room 500, 35 East 18th
Street, this Friday, March 30, 8
p. M, to complete plans for the
formation of a Childrens Center
in the downtown section of New
York. Teachers for this center,
to be called the Potamkin Chill
dren's Center, have already been
drawn from the John Reed Club,
Workers Music League, Dance
League, Labor Sports Union, Work
ers Laboratory Theatre, and many
other workers organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
TUNING IN
BELOW 200 METERS

With the arrival Of spring, the so meter
band became very weak during the day,
but It comes in stronger at night
During the past week, the Moscow Sta
ton FV-5o came in strong enough to Diff
ferentiste the languages being used. The
station came in on March 81 40 minutes
later than usual and during this period
woman was sending messages in the
Russian language Inasmuch as the sta
ton brosdcasts between the hours Of 4
and O'Clock the program becomes intel
ligible only around 5 O'Clock. This bears
out our contention that the Ster in the
evening the programs are stro><er than
in the daytime.
We located the French station but their
signals are very weak and unsteady.
South American cations came in better
than ever.
We listened TO WIXAL send a program
to the SIS. George Washington.
This is a list of the Soviet stations and
their wavelengths. which can be heard on
the American continent Try to tune them
in and record their place" on the dial
for future reference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Trachtenberg's ''HistOry
of May Day. Available
in New, Revised Edition

A popular contribution to what
is expected to be a record-breaking
May First celebration this year is
revised edition of Alexander
Trachtenberg's History Of May
Day"
The pamphlet traces the growth
of lsbor's most famous celebration
from its birth in the eight-hour day
movement in the United States to
the gigantic demonstrations of to-
day, which rally the workers for
struggle against capitalism all over
the world.
THE History of May Day costs
five cents at Workers Bookshops
or from the publishers, 3s1 Fourth
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Moor Born" Coming To The
PInuhnuSP Nprf Tupsdnu

Moor Born" a play dealing with the
life Of the Bronte sisters by Dan Tothe-
rob. will have its premiere on Tuesday,
April 8, at the Playhouse. The cast in
cludes Helen Gahagan, Frances Starr,
Edith Barrett, Glen Anders and Beverly
Sitgreaves.
Furnished Rooms" by Ragnhilde Bru-
land, is scheduled to open on April s. The
players include Vicki Cummings, Walter
Scott seks, Frank Reymsn and June Les
lie. The theatre will be announced later.
Fred Jackson's comedy. wife Insur-
i snce," is another play announced to open
here next week. Basil Sydney, Kenneth
McKenna, Lillian Emerson and Walter
Abel have leading roles in the play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Oil Workers Resent
Company Code Board

here, in the franz words Of the
Secretary Of the Chamber Of Com
merce. Is 70 bring q general reduce
ton in wages for everybody" .
am beginning TO suspect that
the same process is going on all
over the United States, for in every
area I visited 50 far this same thing
has occurred, Planned economy
under the new deal instead Of help
ing the worker served only to de-
crease his income. The only AID
that can see that workers may get
eventually out Of the NR.A. is to
be told that they are not getting
fired for joining a union. But
workers who join unions can land
have BEEN fired for "inef1ciency
and other reasons.
In the economic life Of Tulsa the
same process of speed-up and wage
cuts is going on even though most
crafts are organized. The unions
exist and collect dues. but as my
waitress in the hotel dining room
said Sure we're all organized.
The whole town is, But what good
does it do? We don't get anything
out of the union. All we do is paw
dues and lot Of us are getting
tired Of it."
In many cases here workers have
been discharged and others rehired
at the minimum wage scala con-
dition I found everywhere I've
been so far. Whenever pos
sible the employer, especially the
small one, has been driven to all
sorts of schemes TO violate NRA.
and code agreements. In some cases
"self-preservation" is given as the,
reason. If a restaurant owner, for.
instance, added extra help to get
the blue eagle and did not cut the
wages Of his other employees, and
simply advances his prices to meet
the increased overhead and In
creased wholesale prices, he loses
his customers because OF the In
creased price. The second restaurant
man, to keep prices down, cuts his
wages all around. The first one
either has to cut, too, or go out of
business so all Of them cut. In
those stores where the profit was
sufficiently large so as not to neces-
state reducing wages, the propri@
etor cut anyway, using increased
overhead" and increased wholesale
prices as an excuse.
Here, in number of cases where
the N.R.A. code specifies that ex-
ecutives drawing s35 a week or over
shall not be limited to hours, en-
ployers simply raised the salaries
Of those getting $50 or $3.50 a week
to S35 and then worked them longer
hours than even before the MIRA.
provision. They promoted" them
to increased hours out OF all pro-
portion to the slight increase in
salaries they got.
Even American Federation Of
Labor official here, who are strong
for the N.R.A., admit that wages
for the overwhelming ma jority of -
workers are not equal 10 the cost
Of living, which has risen greatly
since the new deal"
There are no Negroes in the
petroleum industry. They diplo-
matically can't stand t." either in
the fields or in the refineries. to
use Wildcat Williams expression.
The Negro here is completely ig-
nored by the A. F. of l..
ITO he Ccntinued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Pre-COnventiOn Discussion

throughout the city, workers fami-
lies and their children are burnt to
death-the toll to date being 49,
Here is an excellent opportunity
to expose LaGuardia, especially in
those territories where he received
heavy vote, yet in the best in
stances the Party has restricted its
activities to delegations visiting the
landlords, or the picketing of q
house. The sentiment of workers
living in the slum areas is running
very high. Why can't the Party or
ganize a real MASS campaign, with
MASS pressure to force the city ad-
nlinistration to act quickly The
children's demonstration to City
Hall after the first fire was good,
but surely this is not sufficient.
1t is this day to day mass work
which will root our Party in the
territories, and establish us as the
political leaders in the neighbor-
hoods.
THERE are something over 1000
l children organized in the Ian
guage schools and various Pioneer
troops in New York. This is very
small number for New York City.
Every mass organization should Sc
riously undertake the task of Great
ing children's section. Get the
children of your members and other
children. It Is the task of the work
ers' or1anizatinss- Ia aiuA their chill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
BY VERA SAUNDERS

THROUGHOUT the Party as a
L whole there Is an underestima-
ton Of the necessity and importance
of children's work, and of the pos
Sibilities afforded the Party of
spreading out to large masses of
workers on issues affecting the chill
dren. The misery and want of the
workers means the increased misery
Of their children, and it is possible
to make the undernourishment, the
insufficiency of clothing, etc., of the
children of the unemployed, the
lever with which hitherto inactive
working masses can be set into mo-
ton for struggle against their
misery.
The fifth year of the crisis has
left particularly deep and devas-
tating mark upon the children of
the working class. Official figures
give Al per cent of the children In
the country as undernourished.
What free food and clothing has
been given to the children of the
most destitute is gradually being cut
off. The teachers in the public
schools whose voluntary contribu-
lions comprised the free food fund,
are, since their wage cuts, unable to
make these contributions" and are
fighting against them.
Neither the city nor the state has
appropriated any special funds for
the feeding and clothing Of needy
children. The parents are beginning
to see the New Deal when chill
dren are refused requests for old
clothes In the schools, and when no
new applications for free food are
any longer considered. The teach
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
RUSSIAN sHoRT-wAvE BRoADcAsTINc


M-Meters; Kw.-Kilowatts
On April 30. beginning at 1:30 pm. the
May First celebrations Of the "Bolshot'
Theatre in Moscow will be broadcast from
Station RV-59 on so meters 1.-THE time is
New York timel
Beginning at am, IN, Y timei' May l,
the celebrations and parsdes will be
broadcast direct from the Red Square
through Station RNE on as meters, so
better check up on your sets right away,
NOTICE
meeting Of all the technical advisers
and code instructors Of all clubs and
branches will be held on Sunday, April l,
at pm, IN the home Of comrsde
Bloomenheld, W Gath st, New York
CITY Please come early.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
"ChaIutzins," With Habinsa
PIdYers. At Acme SATURDAY.

"Chalutzim" pioneers of Palestine)
the first Hebrew talkie produced in Pales-
tine, will have its American premiere on
Saturday, at the Acme Theatre. The
Habima Players, noted company of Hebrew
players, appear as the Chalutzim
The picture presents the human side OF
the building of Palestine by the Chalut-
zim. The film also shows the sport meet
ing of the Maccabi organization in Pales-
tine; the Lewantine Fair in Tel-Aviv; The
Palestine Chronicle and the holiday festi-
vities. including the Carnival (Puriml and
Lag-Beomer
Scenes of the Jewish refugees from
Nszi Germany are shown leaving warsaw.
Lemberg and other cities for Palestine
The picture hsa EnzlisA dialogue titles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Folk Songs To Feature
Freiheit Orchestra Concert

Folk songs OF the smaller Soviet Repub-
lies, discovered by Comrade Jacob Schae-
fer on his recent visit to the U.S.S.R., will
be one Of the principal features at the
10th Annual Jubilee Concert OF the Frei-
heit Mandolin Orchestra on Saturday exc
ming, April al at Town Hall. The songs
have been arranged by Comrade Schaefer
for orchestra and chorus. The orchestra
will be assisted by picked group Of Fret
heit Singing Society singers, conducted by
Schsefer.
Other numbers on the program include
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Frank Buck And His wild
Cargo" At Radio CifU M. III.

Frank Buck. noted adventurer who
brings back thrilling film records of his
trips to the jungle to capture wild beasts
is appearing in preson this week at the
Radio City Music Hall during the showing
Of his latest film, wild Cargo"
The stage show, directed by Leon Leoni-
doff, includes Easter Chimes with Ed
wilma Eustis, mezzo-soprano Of the Phil
adelphia Opera; THE Guards on Parade"
designed by Russell Market, and Funny
Little Bunnies.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Old Chain Gang Law
Revived in Tulare

TULARE. Cal, March "a 49,
year old law was revived here
last week to punish persons found
guilty Of offenses and unable
to pay fines Judge Gross an
nounced that those unable to pay
fines would be put to work on the
streets and in the parks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
STAGE AND SCREEN

Beethoven's Overture to GoGethe's drama
Egmont"; Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
and Mozart's Zine Kleine Nachtmusic."
Aruturo Toscanini will conduct ~ mu-
sicians OF the Philharmonic Orchestra al
the extra concert OF the Beethoven Asso-
citation next Monday night at Town Hall
The program includes wagners siegfried
1dyll, Beethoven's Septer and an early
Mozart Symphony in A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Lecture on Wagner at
Degeyter Club Friday

NEW YORK.-George Maynard,
formerly chief of musical research
of the National Broadcasting Co.,
will lecture on "Wagner-the Revo-
lutionist." on Friday, $50 p M, at
the Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 10th
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
WHAT'S ON
Friday

WORKERS SCHOOL, Spring Term. Third
week Of registration. Glasses are filing
up. Register now, IS Z. 18th st., New York.
WORKERS BOOK SHOP, 50 E. 18th St..
10 to SO per cent sale ends this Saturday.
Take advantage nowi
MURRAY BJYNN lectures on Religion
and the working Class" at fremont Prog.
Club. 866 3. fremont Ave, 8:45 pm.
SENDER GARLIN. OF the Daily Worker
STAFF, speaks on The Press-In the o.
sA. and U.s.sR." at the Prospect Park
Branch of the Friends of the Soviet
Union, 1871 Bergen st., near Nostrand
Ave, Brooklyn, Friday. at $50
ANTT-RELIGIOUs Meeting arranged by
Ella May Br. LID, Womens Council 10
and Unemployed Council at 41Os 18th
Ave, Brooklyn. Good speakers and en-
tertainment. Adm. 1oc
WORKERS Laboratory Theatre Night at
Hinsdale Workers Youth Club. 572 Suffer
Ave. Brooklyn, pm. Showing such plays
as la Guardia's Got the Bsloney," THE
Miser," etc.
GENERAL FRACTION Meeting Of the
once Workers Union at the Workers
Center. IS K. l2th st. Room 2O4, 7 pm.
All Party and League comrades must at
tend
sCoTTsBoRo Trial at the Prospect
Workers Club, 1857 So. Boulevard. Speak
ers: Ruby Bates, Carol wsis King,
schwartzback.
ED SMITH speaks on 'The Fight
Against Fascism" at Workers Center OF
Astoria. $500 Astoria Boulevard, pm.
DANCE and Entertainment at once
workers Union. ia w. 14th ST., pm.
B. washington's Harlem Jazz Band.
Proceeds N Y. County Unemployment
Council
A. HARRIS speaks on How Unemploy-
ment Affects the Youth" at the Two.
Youth Br. al, Mt Eden Workers Center,
9es 2. l74th st. Adm. free. Discussion
and questions.
RELIGION in the Soviet Union" lee
ture by Samuel SHARON at Boro Park
Workers Club, 18th Ave. and 47th st., at
pm.
THE ROLE of the Church in History
lecture by p. Gard at German workers
Club, 70 E. 10th st. Admission free
GERTRUDE HUTCHINSON speaks on
Sex and Morals in the Old World and
New at Workers Cultural Club, 1859 Sum
ner Ave, Brooklyn, $50 pm. Adm. l5c.
Unemployed 10c.
LECTURE and Entertainment at Bay
Ridge Br LID, 5i1i-5th Ave, Brook
Ign, 8 pm.
UNITY Theatre, "a e 2srd ST. presents
program Of Revolutionary Plays "Credo''
Death Of Jehovah" and Broadway 1888"
Adm. 35c.
MARX MERBOUM speaks on THE Role
OF the Courts In the Glass Struggle at
Brownsville Youth Center, los Thatford
Ave, $3.50 pm.
g. BURNS speaks on Social and IN
employment Insurance" and the Interna-
| tionsl Workers Order at the Canarsie
Youth Club. 11s2 B. a2nd st. corner Flat
land Ave. Auspices Canarsie Br. SAT Two.
Adm. free
DIR. B. LIBER will speak in English on
Sexual Sterilization" at Ciarte, 5o4 W
5sth St, $50 pm. Admission free.
MASS MEETING at the Social Youth
Culture Club, 275 Broadway, Brooklyn. for
the Taxicab strikers. Admission free
LECTURE Wagner as q Reyolutionist"
by George Maynard at Pierre Degeyter
Club, z. 18th st., $40 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Casino Varieties" Opens
MOndnu At Casino Thentre

The first edition Of Casino Varieties"
with George Jessel and Walter O'Keefe as
the stars, will have its premiere on Mon
day, April 2, at the Casino Theatre. Others
on the first bill include Gertrude Niesen,
the Ritz Brothers, Lucille Page, the De
Marcos and Pops and Louie. Arthur
Swanstorm and Irving Caeser have written
a number Of fcomedy skits for the show
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
ToNIGHT's PROGRAM
WEAF-660 Kc.

ZOO P. M.--Morton Bowe. Tenor
7:15-Billy Batchelor-Sketch
7:3o-Trappers Music
7:45-The Goldbergs-Sketch
s:Oo-Concert Orch: Jessica Dragonett'
Soprano; Male Quartet
9.0O-Lyman Orch; Frank Mum, Tenor
Muriel Wilson, Soprano
9:3o-variety Musicale; Pic and Pa
Comedians
1o:00--First Nishtsr-sketoh
1o:20-Stoess Orch.
i1:oO-The Lively Arts-John Erskine,
Author
fi:l5--News Reports
lf:2o-Gould and Shelter, Piano Duo
1i:so-The Cruciixion, Csntats
1880 A. Mules Lende, Violin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Saturday

DANCE and Entertainment, jazz John
SOFAS Orchestra at Brooklyn Labor Ly-
ceum, o47 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, $3.50
pm. Adm. 55c. Auspices WILLIAMSBURG
Br F.S.U.
CONCERT and Dance at the fremont
Prog. Club, 866 z. fremont Ave, 8:45 pm
Laura Lipkin and partner, dancers Char
acter sketches. Pianist and others. Nomao
Jazz Band.
DANCE and Entertainment given by
Section Y,C.L. at Nature Friends, IL L
18th St, pm. Benefit District YC.L
Training School
CONCERT and Dance at Webster Hall
125 E. 18th st. Three orchestras. Prole-
tartan Theatre; Revolutionary Dancers
Dancing till dawn. Arranged by German
Workers Club Downtown; IS per cent
Proceeds to Victims of German Fascism.
Detroit, Mich.
CONCERT and Dance given by West
Side Section at Martin Hall, on Saturday
March 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
WOR-71O Kc.

100 p. M.-Sports Resume
7:l5-Front-Page Drama
T:3O-Sizzlers Trio
7:45-Stories of the Sea
s:oO-selvin orch; Jones and Hare, Songs
s;30-Musical Revue
s:Oo-osborn orch; Interview by Rsdi'
Harris
9:30-Book Play
9.4S-Will Robyn, Tenor; Marie Gerard
Soprano
l0:OO-Teddy Bergman Comedian; Betty
Queen: Songs Rondoliers quartet
Events-Harlan Eugene
Read
to:3o-Jack Arthur, Baritone
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