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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Recent Activities Of the
HOLLYWOOD Club

The Hollywood club has partici-
pated in a number Of events during
the past six months. One meeting
was devoted to the question Of Fas-
cism. Members of the club reported
on meetings of the Silver Shirt or
ganization which they had observed.
At the anti-fascist demonstrations
held In Los Angeles, the artists, unit
prepared a large number Of anti
fascist posters. Two members of the
club helped to write publicity for
the local Lord Marley meeting.
The club has just completed plans
for workers art school in Los An
geles, with classes in painting. draw
ing, lettering, cartooning, illustrat-
ing. poster design,
The writer's unit has concentrated
it's work on the publication of the
monthly journal, The Partisan, is
sues of which have been reviewed in
the Daily The members serve as
editors and reporters for the maya
zine, covering music. cinema, theatre,
books, news, etc. other members
help to edit local publications Of
C.C.C, and relief workers, as well as
to write bulletins and organize for
the Motion Picture Workers Indus
trial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
St, Louis Club Moves
Into Old Courthouse

After hard fight, the JR.C. art
lists succeeded in securing space for
an unemployed art class in the Old
Courthouse. With them in the fight
was Joe Jones, well-known St Louis
artist. The story of their struggle
was told recently by Orrick Johns,
a member of the club, in the New
Masses. Under the guidance of
Jones, a number of Negro and white
artists painted a huge mural, the
largest single panel in the country,
on one Of the walls of the classroom.
Its theme is the life and revolution
airy struggles of Mississippi River
workers. Recently the entire club
moved into the Old Courthouse
place where once slaves were sold
and where now Communist nurals
decorate the walls. Jack Conroy,
who almost single handed created
the first center of 9 workers litera-
ture in the Middle West, is also a
member Of the club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
What's Doing in the John Reed
Clubs of the L. S.

thick mineographed publication
which frequently contained valuable
records OF labor cases.
AS a result Of sponsoring the New
York clubs Exhibition Against
Hunger, War and Fascism" at a
Boston gallery last fall, the prestige
of the artists group has grown. The
dramatic group has been active dur
ing the past year, performing about
six times a month. 1t has produced
scenes from Paul Peters Dirt Far
mer," an adaptation of the Chinese
revolutionary poem, Marking
Road" and comedy written by a
member of the club. The dance unit
has performed throughout the state.
The club is sponsoring a series Of
twelve lectures on Marxism and
Culture. in collaboration with the
local Workers School. Among the
lecturers are Eugene Gordon, Obed
Brooks. H. w l.. Dana. Frank Rud-
nick, and other members Of the
Boston J.RC.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Pamphlet SCHOOLS
And the Crisis by
David, Is Best Seller

A second printing has lust been
ordered for the popular new PAM
phiet Schools and the Crisis By Rex
David The publishers, International
Pamphlets. 100 Broadway. announce
that the first edition Of 5000 was
exhausted one week after publica o.
ton. A special printing Of 10000
copies was ordered at once and
booksellers we're supplied again
after day or two.
These early orders have come
chiefly from the metropolitan area
where teachers are alert to inform
themselves on every aspect Of the
deepening crisis in education. But
Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and At
lsnta al sent trial orders for a
hundred or more. In every center
where literature is sold students and
parents as well as teachers are
finding the stories Of strikes, mass
demonstrations, and the exposures
Of hidden enemies Of the schools
fresh and informative,
But it is the sharp contrast of the
new education in the U.ssR., with
the decay Of the schools here that
arouses the keenest interest. There
schools are opening by the hun
dreds A shortage Of teachers exists.
salaries are advancing. and educa-
ton and growth are the chief con-
Germ Of the responsible leaders. No
profit makers exist to attack the
schools.
Schools and the Crisis concludes
with a concrete practical program
and a clear call for action for the
defense Of the schools by parents.
teachers and students.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Tryouts for Chicago
D. W. Staff Volunteers

CHICAGO, Ill.-Tryouts for posi-
tons on the volunteer staff of the
Daily Worker Midwest Buresu will
be held Sunday, MaEa27e 3 pm, at
Fthe John Reed Club 20t W. North
Ave.
All workers interested in Journal
ism, are urged to attend this tryout.
Assignments will be given and the
work Of each reporter will be Judged
on his ability to cover the stories
given him.
A permanent volunteer staff will
be established to build a Daily
Worker Bureau that will cover every
event Of importance to Chicago
workers.
Bill Andrews, midwestern repre-
sentative of the Daily Worker, will
speak on Working Glass Journal
ism at the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
W orkers Club Review
To Hold Conference

NEW YORK-A conference to lay
the base for the improvement Of the
Workers Club Review, official organ
Of the City Council Of the Associ-
ated Workers Clubs, will be held on
Saturday, May 20, at 230 pm, at
II w. 18th st.
All workers clubs. athletic. social
clubs, and settlement houses are in
vited to send one delegate for every
twenty-five members to this confer
ence. Credentials for delegates may
be secured from the City Council at
the same address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
LaCuardia, Great Patron
Of Culture, Closes Doors
Of Ten Public Libraries

ing culture than the burning q
books. Consider their record In
Chicago, for instance. First, they
Quilted the city. Then they Quilted
the libraries. Then they Quilted ths
schools. Now they are cunning a
the health clinics. the free hospitals
and the relief appropriations. Then
perhaps. they will consider the bud-
get balanced, and the city's credit
sound.
IN New York. FinicEy Fiorello
/ dances to the tunes Of the bank
ers and Of culture in public, but ID
action he Yields only one knife
Rather than anger the bankers, he
Vithholds $40 49, and closes the free
Libraries Of New York. But, to show
that ne is a patron Of culture. Flo
relic made series Of public
speeches in the three hundred thou-
sand dollar fund raising campaigns
Of the Metropolitan Opera and tbs
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
OF course. these campaigns made
Fiorello the champion Of culture in
New York. That Is. culture for those
New Workers whose incomes Of
$1,000 a year and more permit them
to meet the steep prices Of the Met
ropolitan Opera House and Of Car
negie Hall. Culture in any form,
among the workers and the uem-
ployed. is dangerous to the bankers
so FioreIlo keeps his mouth severe
" shut on the matter Of the mere
S40.452 Ctwo years salary for the
Mayor which closes the extension
division Of the library for thousands
Of workers, and throws fifty already
underpaid library workers out Of
work.
That is. New Yorks Mayor keeps
his mouth shut until the workers
and students force him to do other
wise He is fat little man with a
high. squeaky voice. When the thou
sands Of New Workers who want to
keep the library system open march
down to city hall and hold public
bonfre-perhaps-of their library
cards, FTorello will squeak. When
letters and petitions and resolutions
demanding that the libraries remain
open food City Hall the Mayor viii
squeak still louder. When the thou-
sands Of workers and Intellectual
acting not only for the extension IL
braries but for the branch Libraries,
the schools, and all the cultural ia
cilities Of the city-force an audience
with Fusions Fiorello, he viii
squirm, and perspire, and squeak
like a eornered rat, but he will be
forced to keep the extension Libraries
open.
This is one fight the workers and
students and intelectuals Of New
York can win, and win handily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
New J.R.C. Authors

FROM every section Of the country
4 new revolutionary writer's are sp-
pearing. Among some of the
younger members who have recently
joined the John Reed Club are M.
Shulimson. whose series of poems,
Toward Proletarian Anthology"
appeared in an early issue Of the
weekly New Masses; John G. Rogers,
who has written stories around the
Communist movement; Richard
Wright, a young Negro poet from
Chicago; Tom Jordan, John Greg
DRY, Samuel Gaspar, young fiction
writer's from the same city; Warren
G. Huddlestone, who has a poem
featured in the current issue of
Anvil; Nelson Algren, who has con-
tributed to Story, American Mer-
curry. etc; Jack s. Balch, a marine
worker from St Louis, and Tillie
Lerner, a member of the Young
Communist League in Nebraska,
who have joined Jack Conroy. Joseph
Kalar, H. H. Lewis, and a number
Of others as members of a new mid
dlewestern school Of proletarian lit
erature; Muriel Rukeyser, who con-
tributed to the current issue of Dy-
namo; Bob Reed, a young Texan
who has sketch In Anvil; Helen
Moore. of the Cleveland club, whose
first poem appears in the current
Left-Front; Eugene Clay, a Negro
writer who is one Of the leading
contributors to the Philadelphia
club magazine, Left Review; Miriam
Clark, editor of 3 mimeographed
magazine issued by the Hartford
club, etc.
In addition TO these young writ
ers. several well-known American
authors have recently Joined the
New York J.R.C.: John Howard Law
son, one Of the contributors to the
New Playwrights venture; and Max
well Bodenheim, who helped to edit
many of the advance guard little
magazines of the twenties. Clifton
Cuthbert, whose fourth novel has
just been published, is also a new
member Of the club. Stories by two
members Of the New York J.R.C.-
Ben Field and Fred r, Miller-are
included in the volume of Short
Story Hits Of 1888" edited by T. Fl.
Uzzell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
BY ALAN CALMER

During the past three or four
years the John Reed Clubs have
added color and drama to May Day
demonstrations in this country.
Their banners and flags and floats
have helped to attract the eyes Of
thousands Of people to the work Of
the Communist movement. The Mil
waukee club, which consists Of a
number of cultural groups, played a
leading part in the May Day events
in the city. Besides making hum
dreds of signs and banners, the j.
re. constructed 30-foot figure Of
a worker smashing the chains of
capitalism and suspended it in the
Milwaukee Auditorium. The music
group directed the mass singing at
the indoor meetings, and one of the
members played his own compost
ton, Soviet Rhapsody"
Since 1881, the Chicago J.R.C. has
designed the cartoon posters for
local May Days, as well as for every
working class demonstration and
parade in the city. Detroit and many
other J.R.Cis have served as the
artistic cadre Of the revolutionary
movement in such events. The floats
in the New York May Day march
this year have been described in the
Daily Worker and New Masses.
Other clubs contributed TO May
Day in other ways. The writer's
group Of the indianapolis club pro-
duced a number Of poppy leaflets
for the local demonstrations, in
GLIDING one notice which contains a
sketch Of factory tops and q whistle
which sounds the call for the work
ers to Stand By-Let Every Ma
chine Be Silent!" According to In
formation received from the J.R.C.
in Carmel, California, their celebra-
ton was to consist Of an evening
Of proletarian poetry--something
new for Carmel-with Langston
Hughes scheduled to recite his own
revolutionary verse, and Rhys Will
liams to read poems by Russian and
American workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
BY ROY STONE


THE NsZis in Germany celebrated
their seizure Of power by holding
public bonfres Of books. Our own
chubby little walking swastika.
Fiorello LsGuardia, shows his teeth
by jamming through an economy
bill which opens its attack on cul-
ture by closing ten very busy IL
braries. On June /, the ten branches
and the two motorized book wagons
Of the Extension Division Of the
New York Public Library are slated
TO be closed.
According to F, H. Hopper. chief
Of the circulation department Of the
library, the libraries are being closed
for five months due to q four per
cent cut Tor $40 ,462) in the city ap-
preparation for the circulation de-
psrtment. Hopper says five months.
but have it on good authority that
the libraries and the book wagons
are being discontinued indefinitely,
Ten libraries-many Of them with
larger circulstions and more read
ers than full-fiedged branches-and
two book wagons are being closed BY
LaGuardis's Economy Bill for good.
Ten libraries and two book wagons
the only means OF free culture for
thousands Of workers in the prole-
tartan districts, now served by the
scanty extension branches stuck
away in small stores and lofts. Ten
libraries the Jobs Of fifty library
workers the books Of thousands
Of workers and students are swept
into limbo. Why?
Why? asks Fiorello. For economy.
Why economy? So that the city
budget may be balanced, Why must
the city budget be balanced? Oh.
says Fiorello, tn preserve the citys
credit. To preserve the oity's credit
with whom? Why, the Mayor must
answer, with the bankers.
NOW the story begins to get clear.
~ The libraries. on money collected
from taxes, are run for the free use
of the workers Of New York who not
only pay the taxes of the city, but
who even pay-through wage cuts
and bosses profits-the taxes of the
landlords and business men Of the
city The bankers don't like the idea
Of free libraries. For one thing. they
cost money and bring no revenue.
For another thing, the bankers are
afraid Of culture.
Culture and the system which
produces bankers are at 1oggerheads.
The bankers run the city So culture
must go. First the extension IL
brsries, then the branch libraries,
then the schools.
The American bankers have more
f1nesse than their Nazi brothers,
They have cleaner methods Of stiff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
w H It's ON

Jerome Ave, Bronx, cor. 10th st., ss
pm. Adm. SSc. Auspices. Mt Eden Br
F.S.U.
DANCE, fremont Progressive. s6s 4
fremont Ave, $50 .. M Excellent lag
band, dancing till dawn. Don't let tn
weather keep you back.
BENEFIT Dance and Entertainment TO
the Young Communist League Of Germany
Program: Prolet-Buhne, Dramatic c5rouu
revolutionary Dance Solo, German Sing
ing Chorus. Speaker: Gil Green. Nations
Secretary Y.C.L on What the Yount
COMMUNISTS Are Doing in Germany" $50
Third Ave. near s5th ST. Adm. 15c
CLARTT, French Workers Club, so4 W
5sth St observation-disclosures Good Or
chestra. Coat Room 25c.
| THIRD Annual Excursion to Hook Noun
/ tain. Prospect Workers Center, SUNDAY
May 81. Boat leaves Pier A, Battery Park
o;4o am sharp. Games, songs, sports, ex
cellent Jazz band. Tickets in advance 75c
at boat ST.
TAMIRIs and her Group in dane,
recital for the benefit of New Masses
Sunday, May 81, $50 pm. City Colleg.
Auditorium, Lexington Ave. and 23rd st
ALABAMA STRIKE Protest Meeting
Speakers: Harold Ralston, John Howard
Lawson, Eula Gray, Pat Toohey. Altar
-.
Plaza. Irving Place and 18th St. Adm. l5c
ARE YOU Member of the workers Cir.
culating Library at the Workers BooI
shop, so E. 18th st. Join today. The fee
is nominal. All books included. AIst
many specials available
Chicago, III.
ROBERT MINOR will speak on sFss.
cism'' on Saturday, May as, at washing.
ton Square. 900 North Clark at 7:3O m
GRAND OPENING, Entertainment anc
Dance given by Workers Center. Satur.
day, May 20. $50 pm, New Workers Hail
1898 Blue Island Ave. cor. Maxwell St
Adm 10c.
SECOND ANNUAL Youth Cultural Ex.
position and Spring Ball given by youth
sect Two, Sunday, May az. pm. al
Peoples Auditorium, PAST W. Chicago Ave
Canton, Ohio
SHOW and lecture will be held at Can.
ton Labor Center, 11oi East Tusc St, 7 80
pm. Good music. refreshments. Slides. Ad-
mission 10c, unemployed Sc. Sat, May 81
Philadelphia
PICNIC given by Unit sos C.P. Sunday
May ~, at 81 and Parkside. Regular
dinners, games and entertainment. In
case OF rain dinner will be served at 1881
N. 4lst st.
Baltimore, Md.
INTERNATIONAL Evening. sponsored bv
Workers Center. 200 s. Bond St. FRIDAY.
May Is, pm. Stage attraction. folk
dances, refreshments
Detroit, Mich.
THIRD ANNIVERSARY Pioneer Maya
zine Celebration Finnish Workers Hall.
5sos-l4th ST., pm. Saturday, May as
Scenes from Strike Me Red" stage pro-
gram, dancing.
Boston, Mass.
LID National Plenum Send of Social.
Friday May IS, 8 pm, Scottsboro Head
quarters, 1929 fremont ST. Adm. 15c.
POuGfkcepsie, ". ].
SAM FEvzNER, editor Of New Order,
speaks at the Social arranged By Harry
Sims Br. 523 TWO. at 4e1b Smith St.
Sunday. May a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
WILT to Offer Second
Revolutionary Dram a
Evening on Saturday

NEW YORK. 49, The Workers
Laboratory Theatre Of New York
is presenting second evening OF
Revolutionary Drama on Saturday
evening, May 2s, at the New School
for Social Research, SIS W. 18th St
The program consists of plays which
have been met with acclaim by
workers both in New York and in
other parts Of the country: la
Guardia's Got the Boloney," Guard
Duty" "Newsboy, and others
Tickets are obtainable at the Work
ers Bookshop, so f. 18th St., and
at the Workers Laboratory Theatre,
20 E. 18th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Prominent Speakers in
Anti-Hitler Symposium
AT New School Tonight

NEW YORK. - An Anti-Hitler
symposium will take place tonight at
the New School for Social Research,
66 w. 18th ST., at $3.50 pm, under
the auspices of The Allied Profess
sional Committee to Aid Victims of
German Fascism. Rabbi Ben Gold
stein will speak on "Nazism-An
Assault on Culture and Spirit;
Anna Schultz. on Situation in
Germany Today; DR.. Carmen
Hsider, on Fascist Tendencies in
the United States; and Max
Bedscht, on can Appraisal Of One
Year of Fascisrn."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
TUNING In

o0-WEAF-Basebsll Resume
wOR-Sports Resume-Ford Prick
WJz-Amos n Andy-sketch
WABC-Nick Lucas, Songs
.I5-WEAF-Gere and Gienn--Sketch
wOR-Front-Psge Drama
WHITE Next 80 Yesrs-Normsu
Thomas, Socialist Leader
wABC-Just Plain Bill--sketch
100 WEAF-Trsppers Music
VORTEX Fletcher, Songs
wJZ-Arlene Jackson. Songs
WABC-Armbruster Orch; Jimmy
Kemper Songs
7;4s-WEAF-The Goldbergs-Sketch
WOR-True Stories of the Sea
WJZ-Sketch. Max Baer. Boxer
wABC-Boake Carter. Comments tor
g: 00-WEAF-B Bourbon Orch; .Iessica Ora
gonetts, Soprano; Revelers Quartet
wORs-Jones and Hare, Songs
wJz-walter oKsefe, Comedian;
Ethel shutta, songs Dolan Orch.
WABC-Psrentesu orch. Harold
Van Embureh, Baritone
i5-wABC-Easy Aces-sketch
s.so-WOR- Novelty Orch Slim Timlin,
Comedian; Cavaliers Quartet
wJz-Mape City -Four
wABC-Court Of Human Relations
5-WJz-Ba seball COMMENSURATE Ruth
9. 0o-wEAF-Lymsn orch; Frank Mum,
leuOff NlNleQne SeE2L soprano
WOF--Osborne Orch; Block and
Sully, Comedians
WJ5-Harris ORCH Leah Ray,
Songs
o.15-WABC-Little Orch
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Orch; Pic and Pat
Comedians; Fred Hufsnlith, Songs
WOR-Dsnce Orch.
wJz-Phil Baker. Comedian
wABC-Jack Whiting. JEANNE Lang
Songs Denny Orch.
o:o0-WFAF-Sketch
woR-Dorothy Miller. Songs
WJz-Stories That Should Be Told
Fulton Oursler Author
WABC-variety Musicale
5-WOR-Current Bvents-H E. Read
wJZ-Mario Cozzi, Baritone; Lu-
ellie Manners. Soprano
1890 WEAF-Jack Bennv Comedian Bs5-
tor Orch; Frank Parker, Tenor
wORe-W Walter Ahrens, Baritone;
Marie Gerard, Sopraro
wJz-Strinr Symphonv
-Conflict-Dremati Sketch
10 .A5- wABC-Fdith Murray, Songs
ii 90 wEAF-Georss R. Holmes Chief,
washington Bureau l n s
Weather. Mconhesms Trio
WABC-Ths Republican Reaction
Senator O. L, McNary Of Oregon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Tamiris and Group to =
Dance for New Masses
~r

NEW YORK. 1870 Tamiris, distin-
guished dancer, and her group, will
give a dance recital for the benefit
of the New Masses, Sunday, May
n, at $50 pm, at the city College
Auditorium. Lexington Ave. and
23rd st. The program will include
a new Group Dance, Suite Of
Negro spirituals, Call of Battle.
and other interesting numbers.
Tickets may be secured at the New
Masses, 81 E. 9th St. the Workers
Bookshop, 50 e. 18th St. Washing
ton Square Bookshop, 81 W. 9th St..
and the Drama Bookshop 4s W.
SIND ST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
May Issue of The
NeW Pioneer Full
of Pep and Color
THE NEW PIONEER. Volume 3,
Number IL, May 1884. Price SC.

THE NEW PIONEER. Volume 3,
Number II, May 1884. Price Sc.
THE May issue Of the New Pioneer
l is an anniversary issue. It marks
the third birthday of the magazine,
and the eleventh year Of the Young
Pioneers of America.
This issue of 10000 copies Is a
worthy birthday issue of a magazine
that has never put out a dull issue.
Thanks TO the efforts Of the
Pioneers, who raised money for that
purpose, the May issue has 80 pages
instead Of the usual "a. 1t has more
pictures than usual, and it has color
inside.
From the cover by Ref and the ex-
cellent poem by the Pioneer poetess,
Martha Millet, on the inside cover,
to the Puzzle Page and the Back
Strip. there is no mistaking the fact
that this is May issue. There are
Snapshots Of May Day All Over
the World" q story in pictures by
Bill Siegel; a story. Pioneers on
Parade" that politicises in a very
effective manner the realization Of
May Day to Pioneers attending
school; very useful set Of direc-
tons for making floats for May Day
or any other working class holiday.
Besides this, there Is an exciting
story Of the activity of German
Pioneers under Hitlerism. "Davy
Sing" story Of a Chinese boy in an
American school, is one of the best
stories for children that have ap-
pesred in English. A novel innova-
ton, and one that all mothers will
appreciate, is STORY for little
brothers and sisters" beautifully
decorated by Sheila O1eary, a new
conner. Finally, there is reproduced
the inimitable School Room Scene
from Strike Me Red" It is unfor-
tunate that there was not room for
the piano accompaniment, and that
the whole thing had to be crowded.
The usual features are present.
SciS1ce, Stamps. Letters from Read
ers, etc. A remarkable feature Of this
magazine is the contributions Of the
children. The poems particularly are
extraordinary, and more of them
should appear in every issue.
L. D.