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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
A CAPITALIST WEAPON
New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrade Editor:

Dear Comrade Editor:
The counter revolutionary nature
of Trotskyism is best brought out
when the prostitutes of the cap
italist press treat their readers with
pseudo-left Trotskyite criticism of
the Soviet government and of Com
rade Stain.
Simeon Strunsky is well-known
to class conscious workers for his
excellent ability to confuse and dis
tort every issue which he presents
in his daily column in the New
York Times. He has from day to
day attacked the Comintern Tin
public fashion, of course, but still
an attack, one day employing the
familiar arguments of White Guard
lists, another day enlisting the ia
vorite phrases of Socialist leaders in
their theological attacks on the
revolutionary movement.
1t is not surprising, then, that
under the protective wing of the
conservative Times" Struns sky
should today repeat the worn-out
Trotskyist assertions that the Third
international has abandoned World
revolution and that Trotsky's plans
for Fourth International are
calculated to give pain at Moscow.
What is more eloquent proof of the
real character of the cleft OPP
position" than the willingness of
capitalist organs to employ their
attacks on the Communist move
ment in an attempt at befuddling
the minds of militant workers who
do not yet clearly understand this
set-up?
Fraternally yours,
H. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
A Searching Analysis of
Capitalist Schools

4 VALUABLE section o. DavidS
n pamphlet demonstrates the par
allel which the increased exploits-
ton and discrimination Of the Me-
gro race finds in the educational
system. Where Negroes are the
ma iority Of the population, for every
500 spent on the education Of each
white child. only SOS has been paid
out for the education Of each Negro
child And the duration Of tbs
school year in Negro schools is only
fourth to two-thirds that Of the
white schools. Salaries Of Negro
teachers averaged only 1888 in 1880.
All Of this at a time when the
leisure class is spending 1881 for
luxuries against every dollar spent
on schools. And when the total
military appropriations for 1884
are over a billion dollars. The slo-
gan raised in the pamphlet, Schools
Instead Of Battleships," takes on a
meaning Of stark reality when pre-
scented against this kind Of back
ground.
Thus in kaleidoscope fashion
David lays bare every factor Of the
educational breakdown. He con-
trasts this with the Soviet Union
where, psraIeling the gigantic eco
nomic advances. education is going
forward as though in seven-league
boots. Illiteracy has been reduced
from 70 per cent in 1913 10 less than
10 per cent in 1888 From 1927 to
1882 the number Of children IN kim
dergartens and pre- schools tn-
creased IA times. More than 26.-
100000 children are regularly going
to school in 1884, Over 30 per cent
Of those enrolled in the higher
schools receive allowances which
make it economically possible for
them to continue at their studies.
In 1882, when retrenchment was IN
full blast in this country, teachers
salaries in the Soviet Union were
increased 80 per cent. In contrast
TO unemployment here, there is
shortage Of trained teachers in the
only land where the workers and
peasants rule.
Dsvid's pamphlet presents a care
fully considered practical program
for the defense Of the schools which,
1t is convincingly shown. must be
fought for through methods Of mass
action. And the hampering. defeat
ist tactics Of the American Fedora
ton Of Teachers, affiliated with the
A. P. Of L.. as well as other organ
izations which pretend to fight, are
very thoroughly exposed. Yet in the
light of this, teachers are merely
advised by David to form classroom
teachers organization" without be-
ing directed to the already existing
Classroom Teachers Group who
should be in a position to offer aid
and guidance Without this definite
suggestion as TO affihation, teachers
will undoubtedly be left dangling in
mid-air and may put the pamphlet
away with feeling of insufficiency.
A national organization Of teachers
on the lines Of the Classroom
Teachers Group should have been
| proposed in the pamphlet.
But all in all, Rex David has done
an excellent job. 1t is@te.sae hoped
that this first serious- anslysis Of
American education Will receive
widespread study by parents, teach
ers and all others vitality concerned
with the defense of the nations
schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Elmer Rice Planning To
,Stn0e Three NeU PL1US

Elmer Rice, author of I'VE The
People" which was seen here early
this season, and whose production
Of Counsellor -At-Law" is now play
ing in London, is planning group
of three new plays of his author
ship. These plays are judgement
Day" melodrama with a European
setting; Between Two Worlds" a
drama in which all the action takes
place on an Dean liner, and Not
For Children" a Satire comedy.
big Hearted Herbert" the Kerr
Richardon comedy in which j, G..
Nugent is starred, is now in its
final two weeks at the Biltmore
Theatre.
Extra matinees of Mary of Scot
land" will be given on May Is, %
and 30. The Maxwell Anderson
drama is announced to close on
June 2. "Ah, Wilderness" at the
Guild Theatre. will give a special
matinee on May 30.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

Everybody here has at least one
ailment to tell me about. Asthma,
gastric ulcers and kidney trouble
seem the most common. Many of
them have T.B. and don't know it.
The Home Relief Bureau, Of course,
isn't interested. When I ask advice
on dealing with chronic illness in
families, the case supervisors tell
me, Send them to Harlem Hospi-
tai" They know they're hooking
me when they say that, too.
The misery of the living quarters
is appalling. Always overcrowded,
half the apartments enter now
are like the Black Hole of CAL
cutts. Thousands Of habitable
apartments, however. are empty, I
know because I visit about Is apart
ment buildings every day.
In the basement of 157 W. 1880
ST., found about q dozen people
living in little rooms crudely parti-
toned with odd pieces Of beaver
board, wood, tin, and heavy card
board torn from grocery boxes. In
the front of the basement a man,
woman and 14-month-old child are
living in one little cubby-hole. The
bed occupies about four-flfths Of
the room. A foot away from the
bed Is a little oil stove for cooking
and heating. Utensils and dishes
are kept under the bed on the YER
min infested concrete floor.
Stumbling over boards and ex-
posed pipes running along the floor
I found Ruth Richards living with
her four-year-old son in another
beaver-board cubicle. No heat
light, or ventilation. There is 3
toilet in the uttermost recesses Of
the basement and a tap for cole
water. These conveniences are
shared by al the inhabitants Of the
basement alike.
JAN. 4, 1933.-Today is the first
anniversary Of my involuntary ca
reer as a public relief worker. In
formally we are still called investi-
gators, but the traditional glibness
Of social work Technology has al
ready dignifled us with the wagner
more general term.
I say involuntary, but I went to
work for the Home Relief Bureau
willingly enough, if by willingness is
meant the desire to work which
grows into a binding obsession thru
a year of nerve recking, belly
shrinking unemployment.
Thumbing over the entries In
this notebook I find that they have
grown fewer and less frequent, and
for good cause. What is there to
record which I have not already re-
corded? That the number of jobless
is increasing? That they are still
being ruthlessly hurled from Their
homes by the marshal's menu Shall
1 record the fact that hunger, dis
ease, privation, insanity, have not
diminished among New York's mil
lion unemployed workers? To what
end? The whole world knows it
and far more important, New York's
worker, jobless and employed, black
and white, alike know it, too. And
knowing, they are not accepting il
as irrevocable fate. They are fight
ing. They, who come into the bu-
reaus helpless, hungry, beaten in
dividuals and are discovering anew
each day that there is pride ano
power for them as collective mas
ters Of their collective fate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
BY JACK HARDY


FROM time TO time there have ap-
+ peared in the United States vari-
Gus and sundry studies" of Amer
lean education. Hitherto these have
always been either undertaking in
nature, such as upton Sinclair's
Goose Step and GOslings, or limping
and anaemic diatribes hurled by
hypocritical liberal professors and
progressive educators" against this
or that shortening Of method or
content. But in the recent PAM
pl1let. Schools and the Chisis by Rex
David, no time is wasted either IN
groans or tears, and for the first
time in America the educational
system is subjected to the penetrat-
ing searchlight Of MARKHAM analysis
and criticism.
In simple, lucid and convincing
manner. David reveals the basic in
terrelationship between the eco
nomic order of society and the
theological superstructure, Of which
the educational system is funda-
mental and integral cog. 1t is no
mere accident that bankers and
businessmen not only hold the purse
strings which control educational
budgets, but also direct and con-
troll what shall be taught" so that
mo public school in the United
States dares to teach the truth
about the struggle between workers
and employers" The schools have
as their major objective the making
Of good Americans" for which
purpose liberal doses Of religion,
Qualification of war, direct militar-
ization Of the youth through R. o.
T. c. units and the idealization Of
standards of minimizing obedience
are all made to play their respec-
tive roles. Teachers who do not
conform to these tenets are fired
without ado. Protesting students
are attacked by police and frequent
ly beaten and jailed. The pamphlet
is replete with specific examples Of
all these phenomena.
It was, of course, inevitable that
the economic crisis should have
carried the educational system in its
wake. Not, as Rex David amply
demonstrates by facts and figures,
that the working class child ever
did enjoy the much-vaunted equal
ity Of educational opportunity" even
in the best of times. But since the
crash the collapse Of the apparatus
has become more catastrophe and
dramatic. We have all been vaguely
aware that things we're going
wrong, but at that one starts at
the realization of such facts as that
1000 rural schools did not open in
1888; that 10000 schools were closed
by April l, 1884; that 2,280O00 chill
dren of school age are not in school
at all.
Like the children, the teachers
have been having steady barrage
hurled against them by those who
now control educational destinies.
100000 are iobless. Those who re-
main at work are having their
wages cut steadily, their classes in
creased in size, their assignments
continually increased. Payless pay
days have already cost teachers over
$40,000,o00 in unpaid salaries-sal-
aries that averaged under, $1,000 in
/ 1933-34.
Schools and the crisis by Rex
David, with collaboration by Labor
Research Assn, International Pam
phlets No. 80. (4S pp) loc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Piscator, Famous.
Director, Finishes.
Film in the USSR.

NEW YORK Erwin Piscator. the
famous German theatre director
and founder of the revolutionary
theatre in Germany, has Just COM
pleted the film on which he has
spent the last two years in the film
studios Of the Soviet Union.
The new film, The Revolt of the
Fishermen" based on a celebrated
novel of the same name by Anna
Seghers, German revolutionary nov
elist, depicts the difficult and con-
Trajectory role of the middle classes
and the peasantry in the period of
world crisis.
Commenting on the film, Piscator
said:
II shall continue to make films
In the Soviet Union. The ire
mendous possibilities for produce
ton over there, gives a film di-
rector extraordinary stimulation.
I shall now begin a film dealing
with topics of the day, and since
fascism is vitality important for
every thinking person, my next
film will be an anti Fascist film.
may also, however, take up
problem of the future, that is, i'm
perialist war, not from the stand
point OF a pacifist, however, but
from that Of dialectician, for
whom the concept Of fascism and
imperialist war are insepsrable.
Hence, this film will also be an
anti-Fascist Aim"
Piscator added: Much as I like
work in Western Europe, I have
been spoiled by working in the SO,
Wet Union. This country of workers
and peasants gives the artist such
opportunity for work as are inpos
sible in the old social order"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Notes From the Diary of a Relief
Investigator in New York City

in evictions or because it was sold
stick by stick to provide the price
of pound of black-eyed peas.
Margaret Hughes living in two
rooms with her daughter and her
mother. The first time I came there
she was lying on an overstuffed
sofa. She seemed about 30, but I
found by consulting her case his
tory in the Office that she was Al
years old and that she was dying of
cancer. This week visited the fam
lily again. My case history entry
on the visit reads:
visited family to deliver food
ticket No -. Daughter, Helen,
informed investigator that mother,
Margaret, died in Metropolitan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
FORM SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE

NEW YORk.-The Progressive
Community Center of East Flat
bush, Brooklyn, has formed a SYM
phonic Ensemble, open to advanced
students of all instruments. good
amateur players, as we'll as profess
SIGNALS. A group vii be formed to
cooperate with the Pierre Degeyter
Club in the study and composition
of revolutionary music, and courses
of instruction will be given in all
musical instruments. Rehearsals of
the ensemble are held every Sun
Gay at IL am. at the headquarters
Of the Center, $50 E. 93rd st. Buck
Miller is chairman of the Music
Section,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY SENDER GARLIN

MARCHERS in the gigantic May Day parade in New
M York carried notwithstanding figure wearing top
hat From its mouth hung yellow tongue It was labeled
"The Press"
Capitalist newspaper reports the greatest May Day
United States thoroughly justify this
description
this demonstration Of workng-cass solidarity could
by capitalist Too many thousands
participated the May demonstration and too many thousands
great outpoung into the streets Of New York
metropolitan press consequently could not treat the May
the handled some OF the
Hunger Washington On occasion the
instance carried headlines saying HUNGER
MARCBERS LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON AFTER GOOD BREAK
FAST Also WOMEN II FUR LEAVE FOR HUNGER
MARCH.
peculiar technique of the New York capitalist press was
little more subtle detailed reports pub
the papers with fewer fragrant distortions OF the
the demonstrations than previous occasions the
boss press sought nuy dignity power of this gigantic
working by dcue Of minor aspects
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Lenin's Articles On
c. in New Pamphlet

Several of Lenin's most famous
writings-such as 'The Significance
of the Third international" and
THE Third International and its
Place in History"-are included in
Lenin's "T1e Foundations of the
Communist International" a Decent
pamphlet due off the press of In
ternational Publishers, 381 Fourth
Ave, this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
STUDY COURSE IN COMMUNISM

A study course in Political Edu-
cation, covering the rinciples Of
Communism in series of 15-cent
pamphlets, is being prepared by In
ternational Publishers, 381 Fourth
Ave.
Charts and line -drawings illus
trate the text. The first three num-
bers to be issued will be entitled:
1.-Two Worlds, 2-Communism, the
Ultimate Aim, 3-The Communist
Party of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
The Reds Even Ate Ice Cream

DESCRIBING one of the figures in the MAY Day parade the Post
supposed to represent apitss
and other dreadful things"
The Communists shouting revolution
and shouting for pink lemonade revolutionary
husky and pdders
all merchants too
rushing and some prospective desoyers Of our cvza
ton spotted sucking opops Mingled the strains of the
International
lemonade Buy lorpps comrades and the comrades
did The capitalist press time however even
though Irving wouldn't talk them capital
press threatened to steal the show at times News reel nhotographer
and few reporters pranced right
ing everybody
Evening real hot one for his punch line
"The cheering organized more usual slogans he
wrote but girl cheer instead insurance
in exhortng her comrades to demand unemployment insurance
This particular technique" duplicated every newspaper
report published in the Socialist Daily Forward which an
nounced that
demonstration was celebrated nv the worrying loss
movement in New York with Madison
Square Garden The Communists
Square separately According to their advance shiek
peced that they would attract many people
turned out however that the parade bigger than
that Of the Communists although for
venent to get to Madison Square
This gentlemen of the simply whisting in the
dark For the Wall Street Herald Tribune.
munis demonstration You do reluctantly
admits that "tc the many Communist
raraders outnumbered the Socialists by
"a Fine Parade" Said the Commissioner
ACCORDING the Organ was almost
exhrberant in his approval of the fine pa
day. everythngs
Organ spoke May 1884 you how interesting
is history, Captain Kila
Square demonstration May 1886 reporter for the New
York Tribune
orderly fellows we are having good
sociable together"
Mora Fifty to have little in
technique of both the yellow press cops But whereas only
10000 workers Union Square 1886
ten times that number
the capitalist
realistically rising working
Of arch threw fear into their hearts and all the could do was 10
cynically
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
John Barrymore In "20th
Century" At Radio City

John Barrymore is starred in
goth Century," new Columbia
picture which opens today at the
Radio City Music Hall. The film
is based on the stage play by Ben
Hecht and Charles Macarthur
Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly
and Roscoe Harms are in the sup
porting cast. The same program
will also include Walt Disney's new
Silly symphony cartoon, THE Big
Bad Wolf"
No Greater Glory" a new Co
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
All About Irving FeIdman

IRON the Herald Tribune
youngest participant Fedman four and
half who approached by reporters seeking his views on the Third
ntenaonale But his mother INTERVIEWED irving she commanded
sernly. talk to the capitalist press"
slightly different version the sodgy New York Times:
zone of the Red march in the downtown parade
Feldman communism could be OBJ
because surrounded him his
mother would shout irving don't talk to the capitalist press
This seemed the capitalist to be major point in the May
Day demonstration for the battery reporters for the liberal New
York Post brought the to the city desk that
THE youngest Irving Fedsen (cD four and half whose
mother constantly cautioned him not to talk to the capitalist press
And don't miss the cute little snsemic touch in concentrating
all the attention little Irving Feldman"
Tribune didn't that Of the
execution of the scottsboro did its bit with the following
Shiny paragraph
Ruby Bates of the Scoboro boys sat the platform
with the mothers of them but
when The Internatonalc sung"
The Internatonale precisely that which is awakening
millions of workers Negro and white throughout the entire world
A slight variation in the New York Times account
Th bouquets dafods
enjoying their moment"
Incidentally this kept the Times that published
photograph contingent parade
caption stating that they part of the Socialist march
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Daily Worker Dance
Group Affiliated With
Workers Dance League

NEW YORK.-The Daily Worker
Dance Group, directed by Carol
Beals, announces affiliation with
the Workers Dance League. The
dance group meets every Monday
night at 8 p. m. in the headquarters
of the Daily Worker Volunteers, IS
East 18th st.
Beginners are given instruction in
the history Of the dance, and prac-
tice in modern American technic
leading to performance with the
group
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

wOR-Jack Arthur, Bsritons
WOR-Success-Hsrry Bslkin
WJz-Duchin Orchestra
WABC-Wsriug Orchestra
wOR-Ths witchs Tale-sketoh
10 90 -Whiteman Orchestra; Nikite
Balief in Sketches
WJZ-Canadian Program
WABC-Grsy Orchestra; Stoopnagle
and Budd. Comedians; Connie Bos-
well, Songs
10 15- wOR-Current Events-H z. Read
Il: WOR-Fisher Orchestra
WIFI Fascism Comes-Normsn
Thomas. Socialist Leader
WABC-Wheeler Orchestra; Doris
Lorraine, Songs
10: 49, wABC-James Thurber. Commentator
l0;50-W Jz-Vin Lindhe, Dlseuse
IL 90 WEAF-Leaders Quartet
WOR-Weather; Moonbeams Trio
WJZ-Cavslier5 Male Quartet
WABC-Vetersns Of Foreign Wars
Program: Speaker, JE. Van Zandt
Commander Chief; o. G. Armi
Band
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

Among the masses Of the
people, we Communists are but
drops in the ocean, and we cam
not rule unless we give accurate
expression to the folk conscious
ness. Otherwise the Communist
Party will not be able to lead the
proletsriat. the proIetsriat will
not be able IN lead the masses,
and the whole machine will fall
to pieces.-Lenin at the Eleventh
Party Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Extra! They Didn't Wear Hats!,

DEGRADING Ruby Bates The
With the five mothers Ruby Bates who changed her tes
in attempt to the lives of the accused Negroes
subtle isn't t9 anyone reading paragraph casually
would undoubtedly get the that Ruby deliberately
peed herself not at the insgation Of the Aaba
the first trial but lied the trial in attempt the
lives Of the accused Negroes"
The May Day demonstration powerful serious dmonstra
ton against hunger am Hundreds thousands left
shops TO join the demand for bread But the Herald Tribune
seemed important to point out that
THE antipathy caps
also Save where headgar called for of the uniform
the and boys for the baheaded only
boder radicals went without overcoats"
The Evening Post in its late edition Day printed
than column of type the headline LEMONADE
This incidentally is the paper
which enjoys the valuable services Of Edward Lso
editor of the Socialist New Leader" Ludwig
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

Schools and the crisis, by Rex
David, with collaboration by Labor
Research Assn. International Pam
phlets No. 80. (4S pp0 loc,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-22
'PELLEY CASE
IS DEFERRED
Will Ask Special January
Court Term for Stock
Promotion Trial

ASHEVILLE, Nov. 22.-Al-
though counsel for both state and
defense declared they were ready
and anxious to go to trial, Judge
P. A. McElroy yesterday contin-
ued the William Dudley Pelley
stock promotion case in superior
court. 80 o..
The Judge then coneurred with
Solicitor Zeb Nettles in a petition
to Governor Ehringhaus and the
county commissioners to call a
special term of court the first
week in January to try the case.
Judge McElroy insisted that he
did not believe the case in which
Policy, Robert Summerville, Don
D. Kellogg and H. M. Hardwicke
are accused of violating the CAPT
tai issue law in the promotion of
Galahad Press, publishing COM
pany for Pelley's Silver Shirts Le-
gion, could be concluded by Sat-
urday night.
81 am commissioned to hold
court here for this week only in
the place of Judge Finley who is
ill.," he said, land must hold court
next week in Madison county"
The seven attorneys in the case
held a lengthy conference but all
could not agree that the trial
could be concluded this week.
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