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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
TUNING IN

The speech of Theodore Dresser, famous
novelist, at the Mecca Temple Anti-War
and Anti-Fascist rally, will be broadcast
tonight over station WEvD from 10 to
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
How 1917 Revolution
Influenced Him Told
By IsidOr Schneider
Poet FOresees Healthy Future for Writers Whose
Audience Consists of Revolutionary Workers

On the occasion Of the recent
Soviet Writers Congress, the Sec
retariat of the International
Union of Revolutionary Writers
addressed three questions to
prominent writer's in a number of
countries. The questions were:
What influence has the BoIshe-
vik Revolution had upon your
work? What do you think of So
Wet literature? What problems
interest you most at this time?
Among the American writer's to
whom these questions were adj
dressed are Joseph Freeman,
Theodore Dresser, Malcolm Cow
ley, Louis Adamic, IsidOr Schnei-
der, Granville Hicks, CorIiSs La
mont, Joseph Kalar, James
Steele. We have already reprinted
the answers Of Joseph Freeman,
Malcolm COwley, ard Louis Ada
mic. Today we are publishing
the answer of IsidOr Schneider,
author of the novel Doctor Tran
Sit" the volume of verse "The
Temptation of st. Anthony" and
other books. The answers of
others of the writer's mentioned
will appear In subsequent issues
Of the Daily WOrker.-EditOr's
Note.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
JRC Art School
To Open Fifth
Season OctOber1

NEW YORK. - The John Reed
Club School of Art, 43O Sixth Ave,
opens its fifth season October 1st,
with a complete schedule of morn
ing, afternoon, evening and week
end classes. The school now offers
full time instruction in painting,
drawing, sculpture, fresco and other
branches of mural painting and po-
litical cartoon, and is the only art
school in the country that trains
students to take practical and &C
tive part in the development of an
art which will advance the interests
Of the working class.
In addition to the large faculty of
last year, which includes such artists
as Nicolai Cikovsky, H. Clinton
kamp, Louis Lozowick, Hideo Noda,
G.. Piccoi Anton Refreiger, and
Raphael Soyer, the following names
have been added to the teaching
staff for this term; Aaron Goodel-
man, James Guy, A. Harriton, Ben
Shahn. In addition to the regular
instructors there will be guest in
structors in the various classes
throughout the year. These will in
clude Phil Bard, Jacob Burck, Ken
meth Chamberlain, Hugo GelIert,
William Chopper, Edward Laning,
B. Limbach, Robert Minor, Walter
Quirt, William Siegel and others to
be announced later.
A feature of the school is the we'll
equipped fresco room where profess
sional artists are offered thorough
training in this and other branches
of mural painting. This class will
be under the direction of Hideo Noda
and Ben Shahn, and will be con-
Quoted as workshop class, with the
studios open to members of the class
all day and evenings.
The growth of the school from
one small class four years ago, mir
rors the progress of the John Reed
Club in producing and encouraging
revolutionary art. Through contact
with the members Of the artists
groups of the club and through the
lectures by well known artists and
revolutionary leaders, the students
are brought into the front ranks of
the class struggle and feel for them
selves the force of the vital healthy
revolutionary art in contrast with
the sterile decadence of bourgeois
culture.
The John Reed Club School of
Art invites all those who are in
terested to write or stop at the
school for more detailed information.
Up to October 1st the school office
will be open daily from II a. m. to
5 p. m. and Tuesday and Thursday
evening from 7 p. m. to 10 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

nearer to Chaling someone killed
him and took his gum"
The stranger asked: What did
ne want to know?"
The woman answered: "He
wanted to know about the Peasant
League here and in the other vii
lagos. He asked about the Red
bandits"
The stranger looked up. 1.-THE
Red bandits?"
"He called them that. I mean
the Red Army"
"What did he ask about the Red
Army?"
The assembled men looked at
each other and crowded nearer
An old fisherman, as lean as a skel-
eton, answered:
What did he ask? I, Chang Po-
ling, will tell you! He asked the
location of the Red Army, and I
told him it was to the west over
there someplace. But I knew it
was there to the south. I told him
there were myriads of men in the
Red Army and they are without
fear of death and leave no land
lord or militarist alive. Then I said
to him: Tell me, why do poor men
fight for the Generals?' He re-
piled piously: To serve ones chief
with answering fidelity is proof of
the highest principle said to him,
I said: You serve Ts'ao Ts'ao!
Against the peopleP"
my neighbor," began a peasant.
told him that the Red Army had
captured fifty thousand soldiers of
the Generals in Leiyang and took
all their guns and bullets. He de-
MED that this was true. But my
neighbor declared in strong words
that the Red Army has guns that
can shoot ten Ii. He told him that
Chu Teh is Kwang Yeu, the God
Of War himself. That is true!
have heard 1t from many men! Last
week southerner passing this way
told me the same"
The old fisherman interrupted.
II have heard that Gnu Teh once
went into battle wearing a long
ishang. 1.-THE long Chinese robe, or
gown.l The sleeves reached the
very earth. When the battle be-
gan he walked out to meet the en-
envy tanning himself with a feather
fan +. like this. He had no fear
of death and the fire from his eyes
terrified the enemy so that they
turned and ran back to Chang
sha."
Ito be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
(HENA'S RED
Array MARCHES
@Bv AGNES SMEDLEYi

White" for the militarists and
landlords! and red" for the peo-
pie!
They began to pour questions
upon him. The other men in the
tea-house gathered about. The
woman who kept the place came
over and stood listening. She was
stocky woman in black trousers
and a blue cotton jacket. Her black
hair formed a ghstening surface
and was con1bed back from the
forehead and knotted at the nape
Of her neck. A metal pin was stuck
through the knot. On one side of
her head was little red four
petalled cloth flower lying so fat
that it looked as if it were pasted
on her hair.
THE stranger replied carefully to
l the questions put him, accom-
anying his answers with questions
about those present. To such eau
tiousness. the young peasant an
swered directly, saying:
There are no spies Of the land
lords here! We know every man
in this villageT"
But spies came here before the
troops and the landlords returnedl"
the little woman insisted, nodding
knowingly.
EYES," the young peasant replied.
1--WE we're stupid and let them pass.
One had gun. But when he went
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

thirty years Of literary training were
Of value to the revolution.
In the revolutionary movement
I am finding subject matter that
draws out of me energies and emo
tons that before have been stag
mating and fermenting into poisons.
Some Of my writing of that period,
as I read it now, has a tainted
quality.
In the revolutionary movement I
find a living, reacting audience.
Having made my living as a worker
in publishers office and as book
reviewer, I know what the bourgeois
audience was. It was a dead audi
ence, an minterested audience,
anxious only to be in fashion.
But the workers audience knows
what it wants and gives to its read
ing the ardor that it gives to all its
activities. To write for these read
ers is to enter current of commu-
nication that vitalizes both the
writer and his audience.
The above is a reply to two Of the
questions contained in your letter
the first and third. To the second
question, to give an opinion of So
Wet literature. am not competent
to make a reply because I have not
read enough of that literature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
A Truth Tester
BrOadcaSting
Train Power

Experiments are being conducted
on branch line Of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
which open up the possibility Of
propelling trains by means OF power
broadcast through the air. Two en-
gineers erected a small broadcasting
station at Boise City, Oklahoma.
They coupled a few pushcars to-
gether and built small antennae 7
or 8 feet above the deck of the cars.
The receiving apparatus on the cars
transmits the power received from
the broadcasting station to the axles.
With this power the cars we're pro-
PEELED mile.
The engineers are confident Of
their ability to propel trains by
broadcasting through the air on
short wave lengths. They claim they
can increase their range of opera
tions by increasing their power AS
yet they have not tackled the ques-
ton Of the large loss of power that
may be involved in their broadcasts,
since the experiment is still in the
early stages of development.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
Scouts

A PEASANT wearing grass san
"A dals and with a conical-crowned
hat down his back wandered into a
small town in eastern Human. His
clothing was clean and his trousers
patched with bright new. patches.
Hating at a street stand where a
man was baking sweet potatoes in
a clay jar with a fire burning
BRIGHTLY under it, he bought po-
tato and began eating.
After gossiping for a time with
the potato vendor, he passed down
lthe street and entered the village
itea-house. He seated himself at a
lone rough table and looked about
the dim little room. There were
about dozen men at the other
tables. Some were drinking tea or
eating watermelon seeds and
throwing the shells on the hard
mud floor.
All had turned to stare suspi-
ciously at the stranger. Was he a
spy for the landlords and militia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
Liquid Rubber

New developments in the snooo
process of manufacturing rubber
articles from the liquid latex with
the aid Of an electric current, are
revolutionizing many sections Of
the rubber industry.
Rubber latex is obtained from
the rubber tree. More than hun
dred years ago scientists tried to
use it in its liquid form. But the
chemical problems involved in the
utilization of this complex mate
rial were too great to be overcome
Consequently the present method
of coagulating latex to form rub
Der in biscuit-like shape was devel-
oped. In the middle of the 18th
century the biscuit was crushed
with steel rollers. compounded with
dry powders and finally manufac-
tured into sheets which were later
used to make a limited number OF
items from rubber
The growth of the automobile In
dustry created a tremendous de-
mand for rubber and scientists
were forced to turn their attention
to the problem Of fabricating ar
ticles directly from the latex. The
foundation for the modern anode
process was laid by Professor Henri
at the Sorbonne in 1906 when he
found that the latex had mega
tive electrical charge and therefore
travelled toward the positive cleo
iron when a current was sent
through it. The work Of subsequent
Investigators finally led to the for
nation in 1926 Of the American
ABODE, Inc. subsidiary of the
Goodrich Rubber Co. Today liquid
rubber is as important industrially
as rayon-and like the latter is
exploited by a monopoly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
w H A t. S O N

MOVIE Road to LIFE shown at Hun
gsrian Workers Federation, 642 Southern
Blvd, Bronx, $50 pm. Friday, Sept. %.
Adm. l5c in advance, zoe at door. Pro-
ceeds TO Daily Worker
CONCERT and Dance given by LID.
Alfred Levy Br at Hinsdale Workers Club.
572 Suffer Ave, Brooklyn, Saturday, Sep
TENDER 2s. 8 pm. Two members Of Nero
Castle crew will speak
JULY IL" Rene Glars MASTERPIECES
shown at 2sth st. Theatre at Broadway,
Friday, Sept. 20, from to II pm. Com
mittee for the Support Of Southern Tex
tile organization. Prices 25c35c.
REGISTER now for Fall Term Of John
Reed Club School Of Art. 400 Sixth Ave.
Full time day and evening classes under
prominent artists in all branches Of draw
ing. painting. sculpture. once hours this
week. IL am. to S pm, and Tuesdays
and Thursday evenings 7 pm. to 10 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

ristS? No, surely not. Such spies
came as small travelling mer-
chants priests, or as fortunte-tell-
ers. The landlords no longer needed
these spies, for Kuomintang troops
had already reconquered this viii
lage and the landlords had re-
turned with them.
from a table where three peas
ants sat, man politely greeted the
stranger:
"-5ave you eaten rice today?"
The stranger replied that he had
and he hoped that they also had
been SO fortunate. On invitation,
he moved over with them and fell
into conversation. Questioned. he
said his humble name was Wang,
that his native village was in Cha
ling district and that he was going
over the hills to the west to visit
a relative. His land was good, he
owned five "mau" A "maE" of land
is 1-6 of an acre.l, and the autumn
harvest had been good. He had SO
and so many members in his fam
lily, he belonged to family so and so,
he had three sons and one daugh-
ter, The price for his autumn rice
AND so on and on went the polite
n gossip about his personal affairs
until he was interrupted by a ques-
ton from one of the peasants at
neighboring table Did he know
certain relative, Chou Tien-i. in
village near his native place?
The stranger hesitated. He
thought he knew Chou Tien-i but
could not remember exactly 'The
village is some distance from my
native place." he explained.
The assembled men observed him
cautiously. Then an impulsive
young peasant remarked:
well, if you ar really from Cha
ling-and that I do not know-you
can tell us if it is true that Kuo-
mintang troops have recaptured
Chaling city. The landlord here
says they have, and the Reds all
killed"
TIL, stranger looked the young
peasant in the eye and remarked
dryly:
"The militarists have not cap
tured Chaling. The workers and
peasants are very strong and the
Red Guards protect the city with
guns captured from the Min Tuan
and the White troops"
The peasants looked in astonish-
ment at each other. The stranger
used the words white" and "red."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

OF us pits. Sinclair Lewis beHeVed
that reducing idealized American
types to abSurdity would draw at
tention to the artist as somebody
it would be healthy to initiate. H. L.
Mencken sought to save us with
cynicism and exaggerated hedonism
to the abundant corTuptions Of the
system and to hand over sex and
art to business exploitation.
MANY of the men of my own age
m men fifteen to thirty years
younger than those I have men
toned above-took different stand.
They had, without realizing it, no
faith in our system, no hope for it.
They did not want to reform it. to
bother with it. In effect they
seeded, culturally, from the bour-
geois capitalist society that they de-
spised so deeply; and it is signifi-
cant that of two Of the leading
magazines Of the movement. one
was named Secession and the Broom
with a motto to the effect that it
intended to sweep clean the scene)
They issued manifestos which, when
we read them today, sound absurd
because they struck at the wrong
thing like an animal who bites the
arrow, instead of attacking the bow
man.
1t was not till the capitalist crisis
occurred that these writer's began to
understand the situation. Their
hopes of an island of safe exile
within bourgeois society went to
pieces. The rich people whom they
had amused. turned anXiously to
their own affairs. The only serious
section of their audience, the self
educated workers, no longer had
time to waste on literary and ar
tistic experimentation, which grew
more and more fantastic as it left
its base Of reality. The reputation
of contemporary realities was then
seen to be not a concession, but an
explosion. What it blew I'D was a
section Of the cultural morale of the
system, and to that extent it served
the interests of the revolution.
1t was in the capitalist collapse
that once again our eyes turned to
Russia. There the Five Year Plan,
which even its enemies, by the tone
of their criticisms, considered to be
the boldest, wisest and noblest en-
terprise ever undertaken by men,
showed an ascent when all life
around it was in descent, in plunges
into ruin and despair.
Then we realized that the foul
nesses we had avoided were not the
exhalations Of a filthy, but lusty
and healthy organism, but the odors
Of decay, the smells of death. Then
we understood that as artists we
could never find here fulfillment,
even in exile; that there was no
room for artists and writer's except
as betrayers, those who took pay for
using the resources of art to corrupt
and demoralize and anaesthetize
the masses. Many of the big names
in American literary life committed
this treason.
Others, accepting the MARKHAM IN
depreciation, became participants
and collaborators in the revolution
airy movement.
IT took me long time and involved
a strong personal conflict for me
to make my decision. What held me
back was my fear that to make
myself revolutionist I would have
to unmake myself as a writer. 1t
was my old error in another form.
In time I learned that my nearly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
Count of Monte Cristo' To
Open Today at RiUoIi

The Count of Monte Cristo."
based on Dumas famous tale, will
have its premiere today at the
RiVoli Theatre. The title role will
be played by Robert Donat. Others
in the cast include ELISA Landi.
Sidney Blackmer and Louis CAL
hern. Rowland v. Lee directed the
Reliance production.
Gift of Cab" new musical
film, a Universal picture, is now
showing at the Rialto Theatre. Ed
mund Lowe. Ruth Etting, Phil
Baker and Gene Austin head the
large cast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
STAGE and SCREEN
Thunderstorm" Coming To
Cameo Theatre FridGU

OstroVsky's Thunderstorm" a
new Soviet talkie, will be presented
by Amkino on Friday for its first
american showing at the Cameo
Theatre. The picture, which was
produced in the U. S. S. R., was
acclaimed one of the outstanding
masterpieces of cinema art at the
Worlds Exposition held in Venice.
Inc him has Moscow Art Thea
tire cast. Petersburg Nights, now
current at the Cameo, will be trans
1erred to the Acme Theatre on
Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

published by the Workers Library
Publishers, New York. Price 1ac.
Reviewed by
ST GERSON
IN one form or another it has been
4 repeatedly pointed out that the
struggle for the proletarian revolu-
ton in the United States is at one
and the same time the struggle for
Marxism-Leninism, for dialectical
materialism. the struggle against
vulgar empiricism, the struggle, if
we may put it this way, for theory.
For a series Of historical reasons
there had developed in the United
States contempt for theory. This
rule thumb conception has seeped
into the labor movement and finds
its reflection even within the ranks
of the Communist Party and its
sympathizers.
(Recently, especially since the
development Of the economic crisis,
the capitalist class and its apologists
have been cropping with theory and
attempting to answer the accurate
MarXist predictions which have ma
terialized with the force Of an earth
quake in the United States. In these
clumsy attempts at theory, there has
been no little effort expended to
muddy the crystal stream of Marx
ist-Leninist teachings.)
All the more important there
fore, is the struggle to generalize
upon .the rich political experiences
of the American and international
working class, to deduce from these
class battles the special lessons Of
their development Of all the more
importance. therefore. is the fight
and fight it is!-for theory-and for
theoretical clarity-in the American
revolutionary movement.
in this fight the Communist Inter
national, official organ of the
Executive Committee of the Com
munist International, is of inestim-
able value. No. IT, now off the press,
illustrates with especial brilliance
the feminist idea of theory as a
summary Of the practical experience
Of the revolutionary struggle and a
eeacon that lights up the future
path.
The article by o. Piatnitsky on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

The following are selections
from Agnes SmedIey's dramatic
book, "China's Red Army
Marches" published by Interna-
tiOnaI Publishers, 3s1 Fourth Ave.
Editors Note.