The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
CHANGE
the
WORLD!
7 he
BY SENDER GARLIN

gands to be at three places at the time The urgency
of this need revealed to Sunday night when
speaking at meeting uptown Especially when knew
that turbulent things bound happen John Club
forum at which Lauren Gan author of the mining
Il Went to Pit College" scheduled speak.
My writer the job the
following communication getting writer
perences.
Writes Nathan Adler Group
the John Reed Club of New York:
Sender:
don't you showing UP
Club Sunday night Glhlan
ceent though limited study College
scheduled to Ideoogc Background Book"
Ghlan dynamic and personality
pleasant evening But reality has way OF scoopng the earth from
intrudng
the history happened
night In its happening the John Reed Club discovered the ideal
revolutionary cultural meeting
Gillian appeared
Partisan Review John spoke
Field review things began
happen the Civilians Shirley Young
Communist League organizer sent note up to the chairman and asked
she could have the floor character
of book to challenge the author her "creator"
the Y. spoke Toohey secretary
of the National Miners Union, asked he too could discuss Gil
hlan book
rnF1AN told us of her life She spoke with diamg honesty
Since writing her book reading Lenn told
revolutionary complained
Communists sometimes
tact appreciation psychological the individual
faced with She felt, that perhaps information
happened during Avea Pa
she couldn't really through explained
by saying people
the ideal o
simply giving
spoke honestly
class artist graphing to DESTROY his old self that he NAV approach
objectvty
sad was exactly
university c the artist had to shed if he were 70 readist himself
Field apprehended proper
ment And the old imagery from the shrieed middle
class consciousness could not apprehend The imagery the stuff
of the writer's craft could only be amd
in proletarian experience by participating in the struggle
WE WERE approaching oflan harshy We we're not un
friendly We appreciated her honesty prob
lem great extent the problem the comrades in the John
REED Club too We too graphing with We
great extent were sun spectators our old heritage the Hamlet ira
don Of bourgeois literature something destroy
day Many Of have brought with into
we are IN sense still spectators We have been interpretive We
been delight mraveng
CUTS searching CUTS
The writer with middeclass background decs himself
all activity parad he eches painfully Gearing os of his
most SELF in the end he browns
Ghan said that technique wanted to
knock her down and
But merely knocking were
Studying ohan when she witnessed the framup trial OF miners
prison. wonderland and said the miners
in the courtroom seemed be turning into figures ridiculous fairy
IT WAS propaganda" expected Ghlan But to write
honestly she needed this poetaian struggle
alone could her the imagery
writer who attempted Party
was picture OF bknecht the wall underneath
every Minute Blow Against Capitalism
The writer describing picture he
looked like glazed doll just from baking
participated struggle as conscious
active factor he got around rewriting
the significant reality required image that image
would be the betorn body German canal
Ghlans book an art for
ker spectator All the author reply Shirley
gorgeous! Shirley organizer Avea
the strike what
Gilh1Ian had left msaid.
She explained that Gifan had of
when the workers denoraized when the
driving them back Y L.
meeting that Gifan had tolerance
great idea Gillian thought miserable clumsy little
meeting But it this Shirley" told that had marched
the State Relief Board and Quart of milk
daily for each child And under the Gifuan
had Shirley told been
killed by the Pennsylvania cossacks
ing
the writer this young organizer seemed mature
DAT TOOEY got in his eve
didn't have the heart honest and dar
However he felt that writer humility; could
the coal mines authority like the
people who leave for the Soviet on
the Muretana four weeks Russian e
pertinent"
Pat himself born Csnonsburg from Ayela
family has lived there for generations not social
workenot "dispassiony" Collectively" that writer's
down to the class They could not
he said sit beside the stream watching past OF
that the extent could not find
complete picture OF what happening
he continued when were drls
clannsh She should have they
exactly these miners that Gn amongthe workers in
the town of Ayea that in that part
the mine The
head that was going to split capitalism wide open