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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20
FINNISH WORKERS
URGED TO JOIN
C. p. RECRUITING
Bureau Calls on Workers Clubs to Make
Communist Party Membership Drive One
of Their Immediate Tasks
BY Hans Johnson
Secretary, Finnish Bureau, c. r. U. S

On the basis of the decision of the eighth convention
of the Communist Party, U. S. A. the Central Committee
has started recruiting drive for members into the
Party The drive started in the beginning of October The
object is to double the Party membership during this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20

Workers Bookshops: Raise
funds for the Daily Worker
$4,000 campaign by arranging A
book review" evening Of some
popular book, or an open forum
on current literature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20
Unrest Rises
In Spanish
Army Ranks
5000 POlitica1s In
One Fascist Jail
in Madrid

MADRID, Spain.-The strength
Of revolutionary feeling within the
army is indicated by the inquiry
reported by lei Debate" being
made against several offlcers Of the
flying corps for refusing to drop
bombs on the Asturian miners.
Court martials for breaches of
discipline" await so soldiers and
non commissioned officers, some OF
whom are being tried now. How
many more such cases exist is not
to be reckoned by the scant num-
Der known.
These reports explain the gov
ernment's finally calling on the
Foreign Legion and Moroccan
troops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20
SPAIN GUSTS LABORITE

MUS NOfs 1O.-0CpOlbC Q lI0Ll
Spain and denied all opportunity
to learn the truth Of the Asturias
uprising and the slaughter Of work
srs after its defeat, Miss Ellen c.
wilkinson, former Labor Party
member of Parliament, and the Earl
Of Listowel, British author, arrived
here today.
When they arrived at Oviedo, they
declared, they we're put In a car
by Comandante Doval, to visit the
local cathedral, but instead were
taken for a ride out Of town, and
told to get out Of the country i'm
mediate1y
The two investigators had pre-
viously visited Madrid, where Presi-
dent Lerroux the benign front for
the Robles fascist regime, gave them
letter to General Ochoa, the com
mander of the counter revolution
airy forces in Asturias. General
Ochot directed the execution OF
hundreds of workers.
This trick was utilized to get the
two nearer to the French border,
and then to have them deported
without any opportunity Of telling
the world the truth of the present
situation in this center Of the work
ers' uprising.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20
5000 in One Madrid JAN

o,VVU IN UINt NAHuTIu JaH
MADRID, Spain.-Three thous-
and political prisoners are crowded
into the jail here, built to aceomo-
date maximum of LOO persons.
The frishtfully inhuman ctowding
of prisoners like cattle is not, how
ever, the worst feature Of the Span
ish Fascist prison regime. Food is
insufficient. The most rudimentafy
facilities for sanitation are lacking,
and exercise and the smallest of
privileges are denied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20

Continued from Page u
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
Call Conference
To Build Detroit
Workers School

DETROTT-A conference TO or
ganiIe mass support for the second
term of the Detroit Workers School
will be held Saturday, Jan. 20, at 2
pm. in the Finnish Hall, 1869 14th
St., near McGraw. All workers and
sympathetic organizations are urged
to send delegates in order to build
up powerful Workers School in
Detroit.
On Saturday evening, Jan. 20, at
z pm, q banquet and dance will be
held in the Workers School build
ing, 800 Erskine St., at Brush. A.
Markoff, national director of the
Workers Schools, will be the guest
Of honor. Admission is 20 cents.
The second term of the Detroit
Workers School will open Monday,
Jan. "a. Evening classes will be
given in Fundamentals of Commu-
nism, Political Economy, Marxism-
LeniniSm, Problems Of Shop Organ
ization, Social and Political Forces in
American History, Problems Of Com
munist Organization, Problems Of the
Youth Movement, Revolutionary
Journalism, Russian, English, Illus
trating and Cartooring, Sign Paint
ing and Stencilling, Industrial and
Sex Hygiene and First Aid, and Ne
gro Problems.
The tuition fee for each course OF
IL weeks is so cents for registration
and an additional 81 for the course.
Registration is now going on at the
school building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
ITO Be Continued
ON THE PICKET LINE

On the line, on the line,
Come and picket on the picket line.
We will shout and yell and fight
like hell
Come and picket on the picket line.
If you never spent a night in jail
Come and picket on the picket line.
You will be invited without fail
Come and picket on the picket line.
If you don't like scabs and socialists
and thugs
Come and picket on the picket line.
With the TUUL we will send them
all to hell
Come and picket on the picket line
On the line, on the line,
Come and picket on the picket line.
And the energetic scab
We will use him as rag
Come and picket on the picket line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17

Daily Worker song, the Daily Worker
Chorus knew that, like the organ
whose name it bears, it had found a
definite place in the hearts Of the
revolutionary working class.
ENTHUSIASTIC approval was not
Il the only element In the workers
response. Because SO little was known
Of this new chorus and its prepara-
tory work, and because 1t Is the first
English singing organization, many in
the audience wondered as to what
sort Of individuals were in the cho-
rus, and to what extent the artistic
performance by this group was In
debted TO previous musical training
Of Its members.
The Daily Worker Chorus consists
OF office workers, radio workers, food
workers, shoe workers, printers, car
penters, needle trades workers. Vari-
GUS races and nationalities are repre-
sented: Negro and white, American,
Scotch, Italian, Russian and others.
All Of them come from trade unions,
revolutionary mass organizations, and
while class conscious, O. majority are
not members Of the Communist
Party.
Although a professional musician.
having played on the Roxy Orchestra.
on the Beethoven and Ccnductorless
symphonies, the director Of the Daily
Worker Chorus, Lain AdOmyan, is
primarily revolutionary worker. He
learned to play the violin while work
ing as rubher-tITner, elevator boy
and shipping worker A scholarship
in the Philadelphia Curtis Institute
OF Music gave him an opportunity
to study composition. -Four years ago
lie cut his connections with profess
sional orcheStraS to devote his time
to musical work in the revolutionary
He directed the Needle
Trades Workers band, which led the
narades Of the striking silk workers in
Paterson in 1881. He was also d.
rector of the Workers International
Relief Band. About year ago the
Workers Music League, Of which he
S a member, assigned him to help or
ganize the first English singing cho-
rus which proudly bears the name
Of the Daily Worker.
7 ISTENING to the Wednesday eve
u ming rehearsals of the Daily Worker
Chorus in its room on the fifth floor
Of the Workers Center, IS E. 18th St,
one gets an interesting highight on
the handicaps under which such q
group has to master it's art. None OF
the chorus members could afford to
study music. A majority cannot read
music notes, which would automati-
cally disqnahfy one from joining a
bourgeois chorus.
The members of the chorus listen
to the director as he plays a melody
on the piano or sings it phrase BY
phrase. The chorus repeats the mu-
seal phrases after him. Each section
OF the chorus, sopranos, BASES, etc,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
The Bloody Twins

r. is quite fitting that this
League Against Fascisas
The two horrors of modern
womb program against the
workers at home and against all nations
In Italy little children taught to believe that
supreme and that all other races
In Germany dumpy, hyerical Hitler
his divine self the supremacy In
other capitalist all the naonasm
have been whipped the morbid being
propagandized another
Only in the Soviet Union children taught
They told the fine things created up
humanity and they the equality race
color The Soviet children taught peace in
fntely desirable than that
They taught the that man was
born on this earth to kill and destroy
is worker, not murderer He has heart
and mind, for the sciences and
Fascism desperately fnzed program
some of the insane chickering's of the American
TO realize that this is nothing but capitalism cannot
succeed in capitalism class
which places much confidence Mussoln
But and madmen make Fascis
Will bring to this tortured world Of accounts are
balanced.
We cannot fight without fighting faim
America find the to stand
shoulder to shoulder real united magazine
FIGHT is breaking path toward this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17

The Un4ted States has only one
| fighting magazine for women pub
lished in English. That magazine is
1.-THE Working Woman" which will
be a year old in March. Before that
time it was published in newspaper
form Month after month, support
Is growing to make our militant wom-
ans magazine the hammer to help
women organize to shatter the chains
Of the exploiters. 1t is full Of inter-
est, readable and attractive for work.
ing class and farm women.
Feature articles from sucn leading
authors as Henri BarbusSe, Grace
Hutchins, Alice w. Field, and Myra
Page, deal with the fundamental
problems of health, child care, I'M
employment, evtctions, the lynch ter
ror and Jim Crowisln. Sections from
noted new books are published. For
example, the December issue carries
a chapter from Grace Lumpkin's IA
nous story of the lives of the South
ern textile workers, "To Make My
Bread"
Prominent field workers and strike
leaders, Mother Bloor, Ann Burlak,
Rose Wortis and others, cover the in
dustriaI front in every issue. These
stories and special articles appear side
by side with letters and short state
ments from Negro and white worker
correspondents from every part Of the
United States.
The December number is particu-
larly attractive. 1t carries 2T photo
graphs besides six original sketches
Of unusual power. In this December
number alone photos of unemployed
women, and William Patterson, Ma
tional Secretary of the international
Labor Defense, the nine Scottsboro
boys. Ruby Bates, and Mrs. Ada
Wright, are found along with Dimit-
rolf, Torgler, Taneff and Popoff, VIC
tins of Fascist Germany.
Working women Of America are
among the most exploited OF all class
eS and groups. "The Working Woman"
among them will be q powerful
weapon in the struggle against i'm
perialist war, against the MIRA, for
higher wages and shorter hours, I'M
employment insurance, and free pub
lie health service. We call on every
woman's paper as a means of reach
ing the masses of women. OSample
copies will be sent free upon request.
Write to: THE Working Woman"
P o. Box 81, Station D, New York,
NY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17

gets its instruction in this manner.
Through frequent and painstaking
repetition the chorus finally captures
the whole melody.
Because Of this unflagging preps-
ration, the Daily Worker Chorus per-
forms with such ease and artistic
harmony on the platform that many
who hear 1t naturally conclude that
the singers had undergone training
in music schools.
THE establishment OF the Daily
i Worker Chorus not only revealed
rich musical talent among native and
foreign-born workers, but has had an
effect on composers as well American
proletarian composers began writing
revolutionary music with greater ease
once they knew that an English sing
ing chorus would express their work
to the masses.
There has been no less effect on
composers In the bourgeois music
world. The bourgeoisie want music
that will luIl the masses. Take the
so-ealled Peoples Chorus whose lead
er said that in 1t bankers side by side
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17

I with workers try to sing away the
| depression bites. The Daily Worser
Chorus on the other hand does not
try to sing away the depression. Nor
does it sing side by side with bankers.
Through fine singing raised to
high degree BY prole sarian vigor, it
tries TO make the moses more fully
| conscious Of the conditions around Us.
and to hearten the workers In the
struggle for better DAY. Because
| composers know that the Daily
Worker Chorus wants vigorous rnusi-
cal expression, some Of them are writ
ing for it as reaction from the de-
mands for "goody-goody" music made
OF them in bourgeois music fields.
AS a result, there Is today q grow
ing source for native proletarian
songs which did not exist as little as
q year ago when the Daily Worker
Chorus had recourse almost entirely
to TRANSACTIONS Of workers songs from
abroad.
The program which the Daily
Worker Chorus presented at the tenth
anniversary celebration OF the Daily
included songs by Swift, composer Of
the Scottsboro Song; by Shaefer Of
the Freiheit GeSangs Ferein; pae2s
by the late Rose Pastor Stokes set
to music By Adohmyan; Negro folk
songs specially adapted for the Daily
Worker Chorus, and revolutionary
songs from the Soviet Union and
other countries.
AT present the chorus Is al work
adapting earlier American workers
songs for its use, one Of them the
famous song about Casey Jones who
scabbed on the S. P. line.
Though called upon to give much
time to rehearsals, the members OF
the chorus are active In their Unions
and mass organizations. The chorus
gives as many as two and three per
formances on week ends before work
ers' organizations. The members Of
the chorus took 800 copies OF the &C.
page, tenth anniversary edition Of the
Daily Worker and canvassed with
them workers homes in New York's
downtown area.
When organized about year age
the Daily Worker Chorus had less
than dozen members. It nov con-
sists Of As workers, and aims to in
crease It's membership TO 100. Any
worker who can carry a tune Is In
vited to Join the chorus. Plans are
also in progress for the formation Of
3 second Daily Worker Chorus Ia sn
outlying borough Of Greater New
York. The chorus hopes that its ex-
periences and success will encourage
the formation Of similar choruses
throughout the country.
The chorus is one Of the most pop
ular mediums for reaching the
masses. The capitalist class, through
the churches and so-ca-led PEOPLES
ehoruses use this medium for lulHng
the workers The revolutionary
movement uses it for rouslng the
workers against the oppressors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
Singing for the ''D0iIy''
Workers of Different Races, NatiOnalities and
Trades Compose New Daily Worker Chorus
by ROBERT KENT

OUTSIDE the Bronx Coliseum q
v falling snow had turned into cold
drizzie. In the Coliseum the heating
plant had broken down. The workers.
eight thousand OF them, came 70
celebrate the tenth anniversary Of
their Daily Worker, sat wrapped In
their coats In the chilly auditorium.
In such an atmosphere the Dailv
Worker Chorus, the first English
singing aggregation Of its kind to be
organized In New York and perhaps
in the entire country, stepped on the
platform 10 present its first full
length recital, to test its worth as a
cultural weapon in the workers
struggles.
1t is q tribute to both chorus and
audience that neither allowed the dis
comforting chilliness In the audito-
rum TO affect its revolutionary zest.
The harmonious and vigorous per-
Torrance by the chorus drew re-
peated waves Of mass applause from
the workers. The chorus was called
upon for an encore and It gladly COM
Piled When the workers Joined II in
mass singing Of specially composed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
TONIGHTS PROGRAMS
WEAF-660 Kc

WEAF-660 Kc
700 r. M.--Mary Small, Songs
7:l5-Billy Batchelor-Sketch
7:3e-Shiriey Howard, Songs; testers Trio
T:45-The Goidbergs-Sketch
s:oo-Jack Pearl, Comedian; Van steeden
Orch.
s:sO-wayns King Orch.
| e:0o-Troubadours Orch; Dolores Del Rio
Actress
s:sO-Fred Allen, Comedian; Grofe Orch.
10:o0-Hillbilly Music
l0:50-dquor and Income TaxeE-Senator
Pat Harrison Of Mississippi
li:00-ElkinS Orch.
1i:l5-Anthony Frome, Tenor
1l:30-Madriguera Orch.
12:00-Harris Orch.
1880 A. M.--Sosnick Orch.
WOR-710 Kc
7.eo P. Sports-Ford Prick
7:15-News-Gabriel Heater
7:30-Osborne Orch; Jack Arthur and
Audrey Marsh, Songs
s:oQ-Detectives Black and Blue-Mystery
Drama
s:15-BilIy Jones and Ernie Hare. Songs
s:3o-String Orch; William Hargrsve, Bari
tone
s:45-To Be Announced
s:oo-Magazine of the Air
9:30-Dorothy Miller and GARFIELD Swift,
Songs; Shackley Orch,
10:o0-De Marco Girls; Frank Sherry, Tenor
1o:15-Current Eyents-Harlan Eugene Read
10:30-Jack Arthur, Baritone
l0:4S-Pauline Alpert, Piano
11:o0-Moonbeams Trio
1i:30-Nelson Orch.
i2:00-Dance Orch.
WJZ-760 Kc
zoo P. M.--Amos m Andy
7:l5-lJohn Herrick, Songs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
STAND GUARD, THE
SOVIETS ARE CALLING
Mass Song

Mass Song)
1.
From Atlantic to Pacific
Sounds the warning,
Workers bewarei
Guns are trained on the Soviet
Union,
Proletarians, prepared
Chorus:
Close ranks, American workers,
Stand guard, slaves black and white,
Close ranksl The Soviets are
callingl
Raise guns for the workers land.
III.
Jingoes, priests and social fascists
Rally to reactions cry
Workers, farmers,
The hammer and sickle
We will raise it high.
close ranks, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
$500 In Detroit Hail
Daily Worker Birthday

DETROIT-More than 1900 work.
ers packed Finnish Hall, 1863 l4th
ST., Sunday in celebration Of the
tenth anniversary of the Daily
Worker. The crowd was so large that
many were compelled to stand.
The celebration started with lee
ture in the afternoon by A. Markoff,
national director of the Workers
Schools. In the evening q banquet
was held, followed by program of
entertainment. The celebration con-
cluded with a dance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
WHAT'S ON
KedneSLnu

HARLEM Workers School, Winter Term,
! Few classes still open, 400 W. 135th st,
Students may still register before the drst
| session Of each class.
RED BUILDERS are wanted to sell Daily
I Workers at store and streets Please apply
at City Daily Worker once, IS e. 18th ST.,
store.
LECTURE by Comrade p Star on 'why
WORKERS Should Join the Communist Par
lsty' ct the Auditorium, 2To0 Bronx Park
EAss at $50 pm. Auspices, Upper Bronx
Council
e-sAcco vANzETT1 Br. LID, 7s2 Il. IRE
mont Ava, Bronx, meeting. Discussion on
q. The Approach to the Worker"
ks@nArLY WORKER Chorus rehearsal IS T.
18th st., 5th floor, at pm. Old and
new members are asked to come and bring
their friends
LECTURE by Paul Miller on life and
Work OF Lenin" at Tom Mooney Br. LID,
SAG z. 18th st. at s:iS pm. Adm. free.
MEETING Of the Fordham Prog. Club
sos E, Fordham Rd. at pm. sharp. Very
important meeting.
The John Reed Club School of Art. 4so
sixth Ave, announces lecture by Louis
Lozowick on Nineteenth Century Art'' at
BIS pm. This is one of series Of illustra-
ted lecture on "A MARKHAM History of Art"
I ADM. 25c.
L RICHARD B. MOORE viii speak on
"Minoritiss in the Soviet Union at this
Labor Temple, 18th ST. and and Ave. at
$3.50 pm. Auspices F.s.U. Downtown BIZ.
Thursday
CHINESE sovIETs-The Red Army and
It's Political Meaning" lecture by J.
I'Ho. at the Friends OF the Chinese People,
1853 W 23rd st., Room 10, at $50 D. m,
Adm. 15c.
so Los Angeles
FREIHE1T MANDOLIN CLUB, ninth an
naal concert on Sunday, Jan. 81, at ISIS
pm. at Turn verein Hail. $50 W. Wash
lngtou st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17

me here-I belong to the Soviet En-
ployees Union-to cure my rheuma-
tism. All the rest here are sent here
by their trade unions. For outside
patients the baths cost ten kopecks
a day"
But tell me" I asked, whats the
condition of the Jew under the So
Yiets?" tried to make my question
casual.
Whats the condition Of the Jew
under the SoYietS?" He seemed 10
grin with an inward JOY. But that's
just what I'd like TO tell you about"
you know what it wss, guess, in
the old days . suppression. One
had to renounce ones Jewish ances-
try, one had to practice c}Neanery,
deeeption-all for bread. The land
was closed 10 US, working conditions
were wretched-we simply were
forced into the position of the hated
and cheating little tradesman. But
it's not like that now Now we're,
equal We're all alike-RuSsian, Tar
tar, Jewish, Cossack, ChuvashI, Nor
doyians-all equal. We can work at
whatever we like. And now we Jews
because Of the mental ming that
many Of us acquire .--e holding
many government positions today. I,
for instance, am working in the Blu
reau Of Rivers In the Department Of
the Interior. Another Jew is the
Party secretary In this locality. And
so on it goes
But the best thing of all these
days are the colonies Rich, black
loan. The most fertile parts, the
heart of tine Ukraine, We get. What a
difference from the old days E.
Then when we would come together
in colony, we would be scattered to
the tune Of s. swapping nagaika (eat-
o-nine tails. Now we're given send
offs by brass bands. :. F.. Yes, life Is
different under the SoEfets-for all
OF U.s."
He unused. "Of course we're still
poor. But we're all poor together, and
that makes a difference. There are
no landlords in furs while we're in
rags. But still we're immensely rich
er than we used to be, culturally.
spiritually, and surely materially. And
there's SO much hope and vigor. The
yoke's been lifted" His eyes Shone.
only let there be no war against
us.
"Anti-Semitism? He came out of
Elysium. Every little. If there is any,
it's directed against the skinflint
Jewish merchant who clings as if
for dear life TO the old order, cursing
the government stores and co-opera-
tiveS that are ever so surely forcing
him out Of business. But ani-Semi-
tism towards the Jewish worker or
farmer-no, tovarish, 1t doesn't ex-
ist."
THE whine Of a starting motor and a
hail Of ''Dosvidsniaso struck NV
ears. I started off, with just the
briefest of handshakes with those
nearest me. My host walked with me
to the bus.
II know" he concluded, chat we've
been lied about in the foreign press.
Even our own Jews have lied about
us. They've said that the Jews are
oppressed now, in the Soviet Union.
That's not so. Tell them all about It
when you get home. Write about it.
Speak about it," eve were shaking
hands, leaning out Of the already
moving bus) Don't forget to tell
them all about the Jews here-telI
them that we're all the same in the
Soviet Union-tell them that we're all
free"
I got the free" on the wings Of
the evening breeze. He was still
standing there, smiling, calling, Dos
Ydania," as the bus roared around a
precipitous curve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
RADAMSKY TO SING IN PITTS
BURGH ON FRIDAY

observation-disclosures and Marie
Radamsky will appear in program
of Russian. Ukrainian, Jewish an6
Armenian Soviet Songs at the Car
negie Lecture Hall. Schenley Park
on Friday, Jan. 10 at $3.50 pm. Eng
lish. Scotch and Irish folk songs viii
also be sung. The concert Is under
the auspices Of IGOR
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
CANNES TO SPEAK ON CUBA

NEW YORK.-Harry Cannes, Of
the Daily Worker staff, will speak
on the struggles against imperialism
in Cuba at the Village Forum 22A
w. Fourth st. Opposite Sheridan Sq.)
on Sunday at $50 pm.