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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
What's Doing in the Workers
Schools of the Z. S.

/ ostensibly Just Glowing politician
but in reality as vicious as any La
Guardia, has of late accepted the
role of agent provocateur for the
capitalist class.
THE Importance of a regularly
functioning, full-time workers
school can hardly be over-empha-
sized. Workers classes have been
established and conducted in certain
sections of the district at times. but
what progress has been made under
these conditions only indicates the
strides in development which could
be made through a full-time school.
Bearing in mind these things, it
is necessary that all possible haste
be made toward opening the Work
ers' Bookstore and School. Collec-
ton lists are out now and can be
obtained by communicating with
the committee at the address given
below
Not only individual workers, but
al organizations which have not
yet done so, should take steps toward
making collective contribution to
the school fund, and should en-
deavor to bring them to support the
picnic July 4.
All contributions or comnuni-
cations should be addressed to
Workers Bookstore Committee. RIM.
200, 929 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh.
As predicted in this column last
vseek, the $1,000 Drive went over
the top. The prizes to the shock
brigaders were awarded a. the
General Student Assembly Fri
day evening. The student assembly
marked the close OF a most sue
cessful school year for the New
York Workers School. A total of
5000 registrations for the year
1888 1884 at the school is an in
dication of the growing conscious
ness on the part of the workers of
New York for the need Of revo-
lutionary theory In addition, over
1,5oo workers attended the
Brownsville Workers School and
the Harlem Workers School In the
past half year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Angelo HerndOn's Own Story
Of Treatment in Fulton Jail
CAs told to Ben Davis, Jr.)

ONCE the Georgia Supreme
Court upheld my chsin-gsng
sentence Of 1920 years the bosses
and their Jail tools have increased
the pressure on me-" is the way
Angelo Herndon, militant Negro
unemployed organizer addressed me
the morning when I visited him in
the Fulton County Tower. Hern-
don said, Il know that they must
be raiding the homes of the COM
rades and militant Negro and
white workers outside, by the way
they were treating me in here. They
hold up all of my mail and won't
let me have anything at all to read.
I used to get the Daily Worker
sometimes. but now they won't let
me have that or anything else. since
the Supreme Court decision"
A letter had been sent to Hern-
don from New York. with a 1855
money order inside. The letter was
postmarked May 81, but he did not
receive it until June 5 This is the
usual practice now, especially since
the Georgia Supreme Courts deci-
sion has said in effect that Ne
groes in Georgia have no rights
which the Southern ruling class is
bound to respect" The decision
lends an official endorsement and
color to all the torturous treatment
which Herndon receives.
Two months ago mass pressure
forced the Georgia authorities to
give Herndon a special physical
examination, but they whitewsshed
the report and tried to "hush the
matter up" But the news was spread
that the examination was a mere
form, so the authorities we're forced
to examine Herndon again This
time they stated nothing was wrong
with Herndon. that his chest and
stomach we're OK, although he may
have gall bladder" In addition to
this, the physicians report read that
"Herndon refused treatment" This
morning I asked Herndon about
this. and he stated, These fascist
dogs are lying. They didn't even
offer me any treatment. and they
know IL, Certainly I didn't refuse
treatment as bad as I need it," l
asked Herndon whether he was re-
ceiving any medical attention at
all, told him that sympathetic
white woman doctor had sent him
3 shoe-hox full Of medicine which
she gave to the county physician.
The county physician promised to
give the entire box to him. But
Herndon has only received two bot
ties Of medicine from the box. 1.-THE
county doctor gave me bottle of
liver extract and said that the white
woman doctor had suggested that 1
take this He led me to believe
that he had gotten the medicine
for me himself. I didn't ever receive
a shoe-box of medicine" Herndon
stated
Threatened With Chain Gang
Herndon said, They have been
threatening to send me to the chain
gang every day since the Supreme
Court ruling. Jailer Bob Holland
says 'nothing's the matter with
Herndon Other niggers are in here
and nothing's the matter with
them! " Herndon would have been
sent to the chain-gang after the
expiration Of ten days from the
Supreme Court ruling, but notice of
appeal to the United States ST.
preme Court was fled, and this has
stayed the execution of Herndon's
sentence. Therefore, legally the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
WHAT'S ON
Tuesday


NATIONAL Negro Theatre. Midnight
Show at Lafayette Theatre 132nd and It'll
Ave, Tuesday night Reserved seats 75c
and 81 at Workers Bookshop. so E. 18th
st. General adm. soc. Splendid program
Of features. Harry Hershfeld, Master of
Ceremonies.
DO NOT MAKE any engagements for
july II you want to make the Annual
Picnic Of the Communist Party. N, Y
District, to be held at North Beach Pic
mic Park. Astoria, l., l. Sports, Games,
Theatre, Dancing. Lots Of fun
20-5og, Discount sale at Workers Book
shops begins Friday. June 22-ends Sat-
urday, July 7 Join Circulating Library.
so E. 13th St. NY.C
SHORT TALK On Cause Of the Deprss-
sion Why No Depression in Soviet Rus
STA" Speakers Marshall shan Dancing t-
folloT Adm. free 1901 jerome Ave, Bronx,
cor 10th 81. Auspices, Mt. Eden Youth
5r. F.S.u,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
brains Behind Barbed
Wire German Writers,
Scientists Prosecuted

, flood Of newspaper articles, letters,
| kilograms. None Of his old Esd
comrades we're willing 10 believe
| that the news was true. And thoss
who we're willing to accept the pos
sibility Of this change Of mind. ret
wanted 10 see in them nothing more
than consequence Of mental
strain induced by Imprisonment,
the expression Of a temporary de-
! preston, OF youthful thoughtless-
ness. But they soon were forced to
/ realize that Richard Scheringer's
conversion to Communism vas the
mature fruit Of stringent, uerciless
ana uncorprorising search for
the truth.
| IN THE loneliness Of his detention,
Richard scheringer wrote letters,
hundreds Of letters. in which he an-
swered his former co-behevers in
! Hitler Fsscisn1-a answered their
doubts. reprosches and questions,
and showed them clearly, honestly,
and in well considered wav, the
reasons which had moved him to
take this step. And because Of thess
letters, which contained his profess
sion Of faith in Communism. Rict-
ard Scheringer was put on trial
again.
The two former officers who had
been sentenced together with Scher-
niger had long since been released
and now, within the Nazi party, as
cend ever higher from rank to rank
in the Nazi hierarchy.
But Richard ScherinRer was no
sooner released from serving his
first sentence. than he was thrust
into Jail again, punished with soil.
tary dark confinement with proni-
bition Of all visits. A shameless lie
was fabricated about him. He was
accused Of having attempted to es-
cape with the aid ola fingernail
scissors. Finally, after a new trial,
he was framed for two and a half
years Of detention in a military
fortress.
Since then stiffness has swallowed
up Richard scheringer. Only once
again was he heard of-at the end
of 1882 it became known that in
protest against the provocation and
persecution to which he was sub
jected, he had commenced a hunger
strike. German workers in protest
demonstrations and resolutions pro-
claimed their sympathy and soli-
darity with the young ex-officer.
The rest of the German public re-
manned silent. For even before Hit
Ter was called to power, the public
conscience Of Germany had blunted
and atrophied to an astonishing ex-
tent. Courage and faithfulness to
convictions no longer counted for
anything. And the big newspapers
of the Social-Democrat did not feel
any occasion TO raise their voices
for Richard Scheringer-his conver-
sion to Communism has placed him,
for them, outside the ranks Of those
men who might still lay claim to
justice in the German Republic.
Since the triumph of German fas-
cism, nothing further has been
heard Of Richard Scheringer. But
convenient as may be this deadly
silence in the case Of the great
apostle Of National Socialism. it
cannot prevent Richard Scheringer
from remaining for millions sym
Dol snd prototype: Soldier Of the
Future.
ITO BE Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
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CLOSE-UPS
~ LENS
0ddities "a Il ~

Oddities Of the Week
EUGENE LYONS. former United
L Press correspondent in Moscow,
is preparing an original story with
Russian motif" for Sammy Gold
wyn's newest toy, Anna STEM.
A lady with definite fascist inclins-
tions is financing the production of
a film on the Hopi Indians of New
Mexico, to be directed by an editor
Of Experimental Cinema magazine.
Harry T. Smith, movie critic Of
the New York Times, who praised
IS. A. Mann Brand" is a former
Socialist journalist. Dorothea
Wiecke, the Storm Trooper return
ing to Germany to emote for Hit
Ter, is considering bleaching her
hair TO please the Fuhrer. Sew
eral danes still hanging on TO Nan
screen and theatre have already
arysnized their scslps. 49,.
WOLFE KAUFMAN, Variety staff
W writer returning from Berlin.
reports the German movie indus
try At a complete standstill .
Only few tired old men are still
hanging on to what's left of the
once gigantic fredericksburg Ger
man Hollywood. Says Kauf-
man: THE same thing holds true
of life in general in Berlin, There
is no spice, no Spontaneity. i.
Berlin has become today an over
grown hick town, =" Hell, Hit
lern eh2
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Wednesday,

OPEN Meeting Of Film and Photo
League, IL z. nth ST. $50 followed By
showing OF latest newsreels Ne adnis-
sion charge
MUSICALE by comrade Kurts. als 4sth
St, Brooklyn. at $50. Auspices. Harry
Sims Br. LID. Refreshments.
FRIDAY
CELEBRATE Ninth Anniversary Inter
ceum. 66 E. 4th St, Friday, June 7a 9
national Labor Defense at Manhattan Ly-
pm Adm lsc.
Philadelphia, Pa.
JOINT PICNIC Of League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights and International Labor
Defense, Sunday, July /, at Burnholme
Park.
FILM and Photo League Of Fhils First
still exhibition Men at Work" opening
Friday, June az to July at John Feed
Club, 13s S sth st. Week days. II am.
TO s pm
REPORT will be given on Soviet Union
Wednesday, 100, At los i4th 81 Room
7o2 By Foumanian delegate lust returned.
Adm. free,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Jose Hurbi 70 Open
Stadium Concerts Tonight

Jose Iturbi, noted Spanish con-
ductor, will open the nth season
of the Stadium Concerts at G. G.
NJ Y. with a program of Beethoven
and Spanish music. The Philhar-
monte Symphony Orchestra Will
again be a feature Of the open air
concerts, playing symphonic roper
toire five nights week and two
evenings of opera, the latter on Fri
day and Saturday nights The open
ing program includes Beethoven's
overture to "Egmont" and the Fifth
Symphony; "Aquarelles, Chavarri;
Intermezzo from "Goyescas," Ora
nados and Three Dances from The
Three Cornered Hat by De Falls.
Wednesdays program includes
Mozarts Fine Kleine Nachtmusic, -
Schumsnn's "Rhenish" Symphony;
Sinfonis de Antigona, Carlos Chavez
and Ia Mer" by Debussy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

State has no right to send Herndon
to the chsin-gang as long as his
case is in process Of appeal.
Herndon's health is seriously
broken. A leading Negro surgeon
whom the Georgia authorities were
forced to secure to examine Hern-
don, has already stated that Hern-
don's chest is not normal and that
in certain spots it recedes, tndicat-
ing that there might be incipient
tuberculosis. Herndon himself states
that everything I eat hurts my
stomach, and most Of the time
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

Sesal, Soprano, DIV Smith, Tenor
s:00-WEAF-Ben Berne Orch
Notwithstanding Orchestra
WJz-Alice Mock, Soprano; Edgar
Guest, Poet; Concert Orch.
WABC-George Givot. Comedian
s:30-WEAF-Ray Perkins: Comedian
Gale Page, Contralto; Stokes Orch.
WOR-Michael Bartlett, Tenor
WJz-symphony Orch. DR.. Howard
Hanson, Conductor
WABC-Himber Orchestra; Morton
Downey, Tenor: Jane Froman,
Songs; Reginald werrenrsth,
Baritone, and Others
45wOR-Eddy Brown, Violin
o-WEAF-Operetta, Countess Martha,
With Gladys swarthout, Soprano
WJz-Pan- American Concert, o. 9.
Marine Band; Francisco Tortolero,
Tenor
TO- l5wOR--Current Events-H r. Read
5o-WOR-Studio Music
wABC--Melodic Strings
Il 90 WEAF--Wirelsss Amateurs-Sk
wOR-Dsnce Orchestra
Wjz-Berger Orchestra
WABC-Charles Garlic. Tenor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
CHANGE
WORLD!
Conducted by SENDER GARLN

Bear Sender Garlin:
-FEW days ago you told me you were going on vaca-
a ton and asked me to write column for the Daily
Worker while you were gone That would have been easy
few months when the weather was COOL but now
June the rent overdue the already upon
US s tough sitting down to typewriter and knocking
so am writing this letter in the Besides
write column in the form Of letter folks likely
give me for not possessing redundant
style
Anyhow, / am off in cloud of humble prose already
streakng across the horizon go told me could
write on any topic whatsoever but suggested that onhne myself
the state OF literature in America Well that something
young writer thinks he knows awful lot
cepton. So here
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
T u n | n C. In


r 0u7 r M-VEAF-Bassball Resume
-, WOR-Sports Resunne-Ford Prick
wJz-Amos n Andy-Sketch
WABC-Sglvia Froos. Songs
5-WEAF-Gene and Glenn--Sketch
WOR-Comedy; Music
WJz-Jack Parker, Tenor
WABC-Just Plain Bill-Sketch
30-WEAF-Brad Browne and AL Level.
Ign, Comedians
WOR-Talk-Harry Hershfield
wJz-Federal Financial Aid to Cite;
Joseph D. McGoldrick. Control
Ter, New York City
WABC-Serenaders Orchestra
45-wEAF-The Goldbergs-Sketoh
wOR-The O'Neills-Sketch
=, WJz-Grace Hayes, Songs
wABC-Boake Carter. Commentaries
oo-WEAF-Reismsn Orchestra
sWOR-vsriety Musicale
WJz-The Cut-Throat King-Sketch
wABC-Concert Orch; Frank Mum
Tenor; Muriel Wilson, Soprano
-wEAF-Asnew Orchestra
WOR-Minevitch Harmon.ca Band
WJz-Studio Concert
wABc-Iymsu Orchestra. vivienns
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
School Drive in
Pittsburgh

The campaign for the establish
ment of Workers School and
Bookshop in Pittsburgh is well under
way. Every comrade and SYM
pathizer should make special efforts
in getting funds. Help to make the
Workers School and Bookshop a
reality by the Fall The following
letter from Comrade T. w. Shane
explains the situation.
With the staging Of picnic July
4 in Sugar Grove, near Pitcairn. for
the benefit of the Pittsburgh Work
ers School and Bookstore, the cam
paign to raise sufficient funds to
open the school by September is well
under way, The response which is
meeting appeals to various workers
organizations for aid. has been good
so far. and is an indication of how
we'll the workers Of the Pittsburgh
district realize the need for such
an enterprise. At present no CEN
tralized bureau for working class
literature exists, with the exception
Of the Party bookstore, and it is of
the utmost importance that such a
source for revolutionary material be
provided without further delay,
especially in view of recent Develop
ments in Pittsburgh, which show an
undoubtedly fascist trend.
The situation in steel has brought
an immediate tightening Of sup
pressive measures in the city, in
GLIDING the appointment of the fss-
cist Marshall Bell as public safety
director and his ban on all parades
by working class organizations. The
red scare is being raised daily in
one or the other of the Pittsburgh
papers; the patriotic lingo groups
are untiring in their anti Conmu-
mist activity. and Mayor McNair,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

I'm the Land of the S0Uiets"
Opens To-day at Acme Then.
The Acme Theatre, beginning to-
day will present the first American
showing Of the new Annkino pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Summer Session at
Brownsville School

The Brownsville Workers School
has opened registration for the
summer term which begins July 9
Glasses in Principles of Communism
Political Economy, Marxism-Lenin-
ism, Negro Problems and Organiza-
tional Principles are offered. The
course has been made to cover a
period of six weeks. A special re-
duced fee of dollar per course is
charged. Every one is urged to
register early.
Comrade A. Overgasrd of the
Trade Union Unity League will
speak to the students Of the Trade
Union Strategy class this Friday
evening, June % at D. m. sharp
at the Harlem Workers School,
200 West 135th St., Room 214-A,
on the subject of 1.-THE Role and
Tasks of the Revolutionary and
Independent Trade Unions" All
who are interested in trade union
work are invited to attend this
open session Of the class. Glass
ends at $3.50 p. m. sharp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
American Literature Like western omelet"

NECAN literature surveyed any angle resembles one Of
those scrambledegg connections
plates in humble
the battle Western omelets"
that's the the literary
the fence find bending ypewters and
tapping out the old stuff relieved sophisticated
ana on the left side the fence that
grfaced
epics There is still another tipping
If we look them too-perched upon
1t has become somewhat of lately,
friendly enough hr brckbat Fence-ster"
But asked groups possessed the most
promise would unhetangy the
would give to them because first they working
as well as honest They
split hairs the matter
In world confusion
And Of the three they certainly have the talent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

THEORISTS and critics of music
must realize that we shall use
on the music front every means
we can lay our hands on. The mass
song must be in the simple current
idiom of hundred years ago that
is familiar to the masses. But we
are not going to encourage this mu-
steal laissez-faire any longer than
is absolutely necessary Already the
best mass songs begin to sound less
like melancholy folk-songs, dreary
hymn tunes. silly patriotic propa-
ganda and sentimental anaesthetics
from Broadway.
But proletsrian music will not be
all mass songs. Already symphonic
works, opera and concert-pieces are
in demand, There Is not yet pro-
letarian musical style for them to
be written in. So whatever puts the
revolutionary drive into the listener.
be it 18th century counterpoint or
goth century expressionism, that is
the thing to use.
At any rate-the audience ap-
plauded the Strange Funeral with
a vigor that was not Carnegie Hall.
The Irving Plaza was packed to
the gunwales and showed its temper
by almost refusing to listen to the
nice, old-fashioned Bruckner slow
movement from the Quintette,
played by a fragment of the Pierre
Degeyter Club Orchestra under
Charles Williams. The four Choir
uses which won awards at the
Second Music Olyinpiad, on April
20, also sang (but in pocket-edi-
tions) and received their certificates
A new Thselmann song, by John
Lewis, was tried out on the audience
The words were bad from every
viewpoint The music has GOOD
first and last lines, but the second
and third wander out of hearing in
low ranges of the voice. 1t is going
back to the laboratory and may
turn out very catchy.
The Workers Music League should
continue to run large affairs of this
sort
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Fence-sitters Will Fall to the Left

MAKE these rather firm statements because personally
dnanted with members of the three
them rather closely under short
society to ascertain in which direction going
country like America where the points
of the at the problem before the skipper
simple OF time when the breeze fens
blow hard enough to knock the
is belief that most Of them will fall leftward rightly
belong And they will be best writer's certain
I think the fundamental for all this confusion
is the absence Of hrst-class
Literary critics in roughly classes
those who labor for the commercial and daily column
the hook of the hour and those who write for the liberal left
publications The former colmnis
lightweight public
promising emi-pomng and doing
the best they
rather tired Of the leftwing critics midst who
little the ball that they unable to write
without writing lines quote
business glazing admission of intellectual poverty
the John Reed clubs that when their
little thought to this matter realize
criticism America is still and faterng but baby
forever taught to walk by being held
feet if it is to learn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
MARKHAM Critics Must Prepare For Battle

MARKHAM Critics Must Prepare For Battle
AM writing all this with chip shoulder private
conversations with neectuas they
of MARKHAM critics timd
with the matter 1t is high
themselves throw aside their intellectual
revolutionary appears good
critics will have to know how handle their
fiction defended to be
for the ghwing reviewers will bring
down barag the like of which has
betde the MARKHAM critics they prepared
hurting of denmciatons achwords will
tonares will fat such missiles They
DETECTING speeding
adversares And the smoke of battle how much
Sympahizers
literary days
where the money blooms?
make this last statement because
lately radical" Hollywood getting
merely dissatisfaction, nothing
Hollywood Hollywood graveyard of
returned with wlcu suits fine shirts
eyes Hollywood or five stretches
the scenario haiang and the shades deeper all
Good Critics Are Shock Troops
left critics
y critics are the best
They always They
ground they clear the stump They make the
promising he his CUTS to
than his utmost. Mencken
wnger drive we have
they not
quite through not his fault the be- he
In the next five from certain the literary
half real novests will
be writer's they
pioneer critics they
will be able important
for aosreening world there time to
ALBERT HA1rER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

A FRENCH director is making
n almost detective story" out
of the betrayal of Jesus by Judah
and the arrest of Jesus by the Ro-
mans, with Calvary as climax"
Will someone please revive an
old miracle play and put Groucho
Marx, Buck Jones and Mickey
Mouse in the cast? :.
The Washington times., 1934-03-30
MATRNAONN FIND HOLLYWOOD HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS
Movie Parties Tame,
Despite Rumors
to Contrary

Hollywood for q girl to make q
good marriage than in New
York or most other places.
Hollywood makes for honey
cOmpaniOnship. If q pretty girl
arrives in Hollywood, q lad Inn
mediately fastens ON to her.
Men go steadily with girls in
Hollywood in contrast to the
habit Of q man with q maid on
Broadway. Perhaps it's be-
cause there are no stage doors
In Hollywood.
Hollywood Is as domestic rs
any small town. The parties
break up early because every.
one has to go to work the next
morning, and the parties are
only mild ones, despite what
you hear.
"Many Of the movie stars
have pOpularized having babies.
However, in marriage, beauty
Is more important in o wife
than scrambled eggs"
The Washington times., 1934-03-30
Producer DesyIva Sees
Colony Conducive
to Romance

NEW YORK, March 20 UN.SJ
There is q better chance for a girl
to make a good marriage in Holly
wood than in New York.
Movie stars can scramble eggs
as well as anybody.
And Hollywood Is the most do
mestic city In the u. s. A., says
Buddy Desylva, movie producer
and song writer, who is called the
king Of matchmakers.
Here are q few samples Of the
recent Cupid-like influence Of Mr..
DeSylva:
!. Pat Paterson, the English
girl with the green eyes and
the blonde hair, was picked by
MIR. Desylva for the ingenue lead
in his musical film, Bottoms
Up" Charles Boyer, French
screen idol, arrived in Holly
wood, declaring he was a per-
manent bachelor. Within a
month he married Pat.
2. Marcelle Edwards, Broad