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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Boast of Classy Bear
Den While JobIess
Crowd Benches
By EDWARD NEwHoUsE

NEW YORK.-In the shadow of
the millionaire Temple Emanuel
and Of the 22d Precinct police sta
ton and Of Fifth Ave. apartment
house advertising a 23-room suite
with IL baths-1, 200 men, sole sup
port Of their families, are at work
constructing homes for a few mon
keys and hyenas The shabby
buildings of the old zoo had long
been an eyesore to renting agents
along the Avenue. Therefore the
three million-dolla C.W.A. me-
nagsrie project.
There has been enough Islander
and kidding about CW.A. laborers.
Irate Taxpayer wakes wroth on the
editorial page of the Times" and
no two weeks pass but the cuties
on the New Yorker have some
charmingly spun yarn of slothful-
ness to forward. True, the ward
captains nephew does drive around
from project to project and he does
pull down $12 a day for sticking his
head out Of the front window and
saying. Everything okay, boysP"
But spend an hour rambling around
the Central Park menagerie that is
beginning to take shape and see If
you can spot any laborer leaning on
his pickaxe handle or exchanging
pleasantly with his neighbor.
It's no cinch toting q shovel in
that gang with efficiency experts
on your tail every minute of the
day. Most of the unskilled hands
are middle-aged New Workers. who
had never handled road tools. At
that, according to Superintendent
OF Construction K. P. Doan, the
city is getting 80 per cent of best
professional efficiency out of them.
Mr.. Doan is modestly, but duly,
elated about that percentage; ut
toxic us some time to weed out the
troublemakers, but now production
is clicking on all cylinders"
do wages of these men come up
to 80 per cent union scale?"
He looked up at the word. eve
don't recognize any union here. I'm
skilled laborers are allowed SAB
month and the skilled mechanics
$50. These are the plumbers, cleo
tricians, etc. Some of them have
union cards, but that doesn't cut
any ice here"
Make Them Feel at Home
Would Mr.. Doan care to COM
ment about any particular feature
of the construction?
Well. the buildings are plain CO.
lonial style and the pool of the
sea lions is going to be enlarged and,
let me see s. the monkey house
will have glazed brick interiors and
oh, yes. There will be real
faithful. natural reproduction of
bears den. make them feel at home,
you know"
The men appeared to be consider
ably less intrigued at the prospect.
They passed furtive warnings along
as Doan passed. A wiry little la
borer with sweat running down both
cheeks reported he is going for a
drink and went with him.
How do you feel about your job?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

How would you feel about itP
Sometimes 1 wish I was back on
home relief and this is nothing like
what we had in the winter time.
One fellow had four toes frozen and
they cut them off. He's back on the
job and glad Of it. The one who had
his chest cayed in by a 500-pound
rock up at Fort George never came
back, but we heard he was done out
of every cent Of compensation. How
would you feel about an outfit like
that? I'm a cutter on shoes and
there was times when 500 week
was nothing to me. And every pen
ny of that went in family of
seven like I got. We have to do on
S12 now and we live in a hole on
Henry st. that wouldn't rate as out
house to that bear den. And I'm
supposed to be in the velvet COM
pared to the birds that's been laid
off. They're spending millions of
dollars for this zoo and millions for
that beer garden on the west side
of the park They'll never get their
returns on that. Anyhow it's money
that remains in the country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
TUNING IN

700 r. M.-WEAF-Basebail Resume
WOR-Sports Resume-Ford Prick
WJz-Stamp Club--Capt Tim Healy
WABC-Beale Street Boys, Songs
7:l5-WEAF-Gene and G1enn-Sketch
WOR-Comedy; Music
WJz-Jack Parker. Tenor
WABC-Wayside age-Sketch
:3o-WEAF-Danny Malone, Tenor
wOR-Talk-Harry Hershfield
WJz-Higher Administrative Stand
ards-Professor william Anderson,
University of Minnesota
WABC-Biljo Orchestra
T;45- WEAF-Sisters OF the Skillet
wOR-The ONeills-Sketch
WJz-Frank Bucks Adventures
WABC-Boake Carter, Commentator
0-WEAF-Reisman Orchestra; Phil
Duey, Baritone
WOR-Variety Musicale
WJz-Will Aubrey. Songs
WABC-Concert Orch: Frank Mum,
Tenor; Muriel Wilson. Soprano
:30-WEAF-Wayne King Orchestra
WOR-Van Duser Orchestra
WJz-King Orchestra
WABC-Lyman Orchestra; vivienne
Segal. Soprano; Oliver Smith,
Tenor
s;oo-wEAF-what Civilization owes to
Communica tions-George Henry
Payne, Member Federal Communi-
cations Commission
WOR-Variety Musicale
WJZ-Edgar Guest. Poet: Concert
Orchestra; Charles Sears, Tenor
WABC-George Givot. Comedian;
Rich Orch; Edith Murray. Songs
:l5-WSAF-Russisn Symphony Choir
9-WEAF-Dramatic Sketch
WOR-Michsel Bartlett. Tenor
WJz-Symphony Orchestra
WABC-Himber Orchestra
45-WOR-Eddy Brown. Violin
1000 WT5AF-Operetta. Pinafore, With
Gloria La vey, Soprano: Edward
Nell. Baritone, and Others
WABC-Troopers Band
1915 WOR-Current Events-H. E.. Read
WABC-Mountain Music
10: 30 WOR-Lanc Orchestra
WJz-Tim Ryan's Rendezvous
WABC-Melodc Stringy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

MOSCOW, U. S. S. r., July 10 (by
wireless). = The Congress of Soviet
Writers opened in the Hall of Col
umns of Moscow, the home OF the
trade unions on the 18th.
Workers clubs, libraries, reading
rooms and book stores are very busy.
An enormous Literary Exhibition
was opened in the Park of Culture
and Rest, devoted to the Writer'S
Congress. In the factories and
parks the literary evenings are at
tracing large audiences of workers.
Delegates from distant regions
and Republics of the Soviet Union
are in attendance at the Congress.
At least seventy-five per cent OF
the authors of the Soviet Union will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

He reconsiders that He appears
to be talking to himself.
If the Going Gets Too Tough =.
What if it does remain in the
country, what do we get out Of it?
It seems to me the government
ought to give it to us outright
without monkeying with beer gar
dens and sinking it into materials.
I don't mind telling you If the go
ing gets too tough we'll take It,.
I'm ready for anything. That's if
the going gets too tough"
isn't it tough enough now?"
IT think it is and like I says I'm
ready for anything. But the rest
Of these men. most every morning
they're treated to the sight Of gangs
of sleepers being pulled into the
precinct there. Men who sleep on
benches and all that. Some of the
first offenders are discharged but
they take your record and finger
prints. It's no lark messing around
with those boys"
He pointed to a PLAIN clothesman
emerging from the station house.
He said, Compared to the men he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
A Striking Contrast

WHAT contrast the Steen on the
raids and deportations stens suffering
long illness bed his house
terror His voice rings out with the
famous Jaccuse While Langon Hughes greatest Negro
poets driven from his home in CARMEL while Te
revolutionary young arrested and
imprisoned while prosecuting attorneys demanding
against people Showing sympathy
stehens fights flat his back hypo
critical fears about Communist tyranny"
This is the class liberal
think that the cuele Hitler Marking
due TO something the
racial and peculiar that would
But sadist in California
sad power in China and exploitation
the and greed for profits exploitation
that the ruling class Is forced
the status quo there is always savage persecution
The virtual peonage of California
Fascism cellar slightest
rights povocaion mention
a red.
An article in the Cun gives
fine picture of the ruling class The
article character sketch William Red
Squad OF Los Angeles began his
claims in recent affidavit that Communist
Party for well nformer W.
quote the following paragraph from comrade
Let us briefly his Hynes) of
eleven months l. 1882 November
period Iynes meetings being held
raided and looted II offices organizations
homes without on suspicion
court In addition to this miscellaneous
charges such as vagancy blocking traffic lettering
the the
ganzat1ons which crime and the charges
booked were sheerly matter of
With such examples before creating
roen and Goerings exploitation Mr.
Hays repeat his statement that police putting
by crushing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Leading Foreign Authors
Attend Soviet Congress

participate in the work of the Con-
gress. Foreign guests continue to
arrive.
The following authors have al
ready arrived in Moscow. Martin
Anderson Nexo, famous Danish au-
thor; French authors, Andre Mall
reaux, author of Mans Fate: Jean
Richard Block, Paul Nina and Louis
Aragon. Turkish authors include
Falikh Rifki Bey and Jacoub Bey;
the Spanish author, Alberti; Ger
man authors include Theod ore
Pliyier. Will Bredel. Gustav Regler,
ETC.; Greek writer's include varnalis
and Glinos; Swedish authors, Harry
end Moa Martinson; Czechoslovak-
ian writer's, Nexvall Hoffeister, Lin
grad, Ilemnitsky and others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
BROWNSVILLE SCHOOL
ANNOUNCES % CLASSES

The Brownsville Workers School.
1885 Pitkin Ave. has worked out q
schedule of % classes for the COM
ing Fall Term, beginning Sept. %.
Glasses include Principles of Com
munism, Introduction to Political
Economy. Political Economy A, B
and G. Negro Problems, etc. New
features for the Fall Term include
courses in News Of the Week, MINI
eograph Operation and Leaflet
Making, and Principles of Commu-
nism Taught in Jewish.
The Brownsville Workers School
managed to overcome the summer
season lull by running a house
party. Comrade Markoff, director Of
the New York Workers School. was
present and delivered talk On
Working Glass Education" The
Party Melted the school almost a
months rent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
4 Day in Police Court

his wife.
please you honor, I don't want
him punished.
But he struck you," the magls-
trate reminds her.
st isn't his fault, your honor.
When he has no work he is worried
and he drinks. Then he does not
know what he does"
The magistrate looks thoughtful
again. No doubt about it, he is
in good humor today.
I'll put you on probation and
suspend sentence" he tells the la
borer. Don't get drunk again"
The laborer and his wife leave
the courtroom. The attendants
know he will be back again. The
law says he must not beat his wife.
But the law says nothing about in
surfing him a job.
An Irish housewife and her
daughter are charged with assault.
The complaint is their landlord.
"You assaulted this MANI" the
magistrate asks.
He sed he'd be putin us on the
street."
Your honor" the landlord
breaks in, "the bank is foreclosing
on me. Here are the letters
I'VE can't pay if we amt got the
money" the housewife says.
The magistrate looks annoyed
again. Good humor cannot solve
this problem
Adjourned until next week" he
announces. Let another magistrate
pass judgment.
This meek-looking man with the
scraggly mustache is charged with
bigamy. 1t is a case for a higher
court He tells the magistrate he
and his first wife couldn't get along.
That doesn't justify bigamy, the
magistrate informs him. The man
replies he works in laundry and
cannot afford the legal fees for
framing divorce. The magistrate
looks at the clock. He is becoming
hungry He holds the man in sew
eral thousand dollars bail for the
higher court.
An attendant brings up two work.
ers arrested for leading demon
stration at a home relief bureau.
You're charged with disorderly
conduct and resisting an officer" the
magistrate reads the complaint
tersely. He knows how to handle
Reds. No humor here.
I'VE came to ask for food for a
poor family" the workers reply.
you caused a riot and resisted
an officer" the magistrate says
sharply.
1--WE came to demand relief the
workers repeat
THE city does not have to give
you relief. Thirty days in the work
house. he announces. you can't
get away with revolution in New
York City"
At noon the court recesses. But
when the magistrate returns at one
o'clock he will find the same cases.
Broken homes, tenants resisting
eviction, jobless men selling razor
blades, worried fathers abusing their
families, more squelched arraign-
ments for those with influence.
Here are class lines drawn clearly.
the heartache of men and women
helpless in the face of established
laws and customs Here are cry
ing protests against the misery and
privation spawned by capitalist So
ciety. But you will not find sym
pathy for these protests in the
iowled magistrates. Nor will you
find it in the -angicd news
columns Of the metropolitan press
You have to be there to see it.
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Masses. This course will include a
three-month subscription to the
New Masses. Some OF the most out
standing and leading critics on the
subject will conduct the class, which
will be held every Friday, at $50
p. m.
The school has made preparations
for a tremendous registration and is
therefore announcing that % classes
in Principles of Communism will be
conducted, the largest number ever
conducted before. Glasses in Ele-
ments of Political Economy, new
course, will also be taught.
The Harlem Workers School is
making elaborate preparations for
the Fall Term in their new quar-
ters. located at AIS Lenox Ave, New
York City. Catalogues will be out
next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
BY HARRY KERMIT

THE scene is the downtown court
in Brooklyn, although 1t could
Just as well be any police court in
the city. The days routine is the
same.
Downtown court opens at am.
1t is crowded at $50. The usual
police court audience awaits the
magistrates arrival. There are
sharp-eyed shyster lawyers, unem-
ployed shopgirls, dockworkers and
clerks, street-walkers, pimps, cops
in plain clothes and neighborhood
toughs. The magistrate comes in
at 10 o'clock. An attendant raps his
gavel. The spectators rise, then
they sit down The magistrate mods
to the attendants, to the court
stenographer, to the lawyers. He
looks well-rested. He is middle
aged and red-faced and is known
as good Tammany hack.
The calendar is crowded but the
cops and lawyers are not worried
This judge is an old hand at
crowded calendars, he is finishing
twelve years on the magistrates
bench. Lawyers clerks come up to
ask for postponements, bondsmen
appear with bail bonds, political
club hangers-on ask for squelched
arraignmentS, there is lot CT
writing and hand-shakng. You do
not see laborers among those OBJ
tanning squelched arraignments.
Nor do you see men in frayed
clothing shaking hands with the
magistrate.
The first defendant takes the
stand at IL o'clock. He is a youth
OF twenty who has been arrested
for selling razor blades in the sub
way, violating a city ordinance by
peddling without a license. He says
his name is James Bergen. He has
been kept in cell all night.
Where do you liye2' the magis-
trate asks.
The youth shifts nervously in Che
witness chair. Central Park"
"You mean you sleep in Central
Park?'
The youth mods.
Where do you come from?"
"Des Moines."
'Iowa?"
Eyes"
And now you're begging
The youths face goes red. II
couldn't find work" he says sui
lenly. 81 wasn't begging. I was
selling razor blades"
The magistrate looks annoyed.
why didn't you stay homer" he
asks. There aren't enough jobs to
go around in New York"
There aren't any in Des Moines
either" the youth replies doggedly.
That's why I came east"
The magistrate drums his fingers.
He studies the oak-paneled walls Of
the courtroom Then he looks at
the speculstsrs. He wrinkles his
brow. You can see he is thinking.
He turns to the defendant.
Young men," he says finally, the
milk of human kindness in his voice,
I'll suspend sentence. Go home 20
Des Moines." Then, sharply, IF you
come up before me again, I'll send
you to the workhouse."
The defendant steps down from
the stand. The magistrate mods to
the reporter for the local news asso-
citation who is standing near the
court clerk. The reporter mods back
The magistrate can see the several
paragraphs in the afternoon papers.
Homeless Youth Freed" The
humanitarian benchs
THE other cases follow in rapid
succession A raw boned Swed-
Il, e. i L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
SCHOOL ESTABLISHED
IN CROWN HEIGHTS

We just received some good news
a Workers School situated in
Crown Heights is now definitely be-
ing established. The Provisional
Committee has found a building in
the heart Of the Negro and white
population of Brooklyn and is plan
ming to have several classrooms, a
library, Office, and other facilities.
They are planning to involve not
only our mass organizations, but
Negro lodges, clubs, and churches as
well. A conference is being called
during the early part of September.
The school plans to open on Sept.
"a with curriculum of approx
mately ten courses. The enthusiasm
expressed by the comrades in
charge is highly encouraging and
has already brought results. AS a
result of the pledge cards and gen.
eral financial plan, one comrade
alone brought in over the weekend
more than sos, collected and
pledged by sympathetic friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
NEW YORK SCHOOL
COMPLETES ARRANGEMENTS

The New York Workers School
has completed all final arrange
ments for the Fall Term. Gaia
logues will be out next week. For
information concerning the Fall
Term write Or come tn the Work
ors School, 81 4. 18th ST., New
York City. Room sol.
Another feature of the Fall Term
will be a symposium on Literature
from the Maryist Viewpoint. which
will be given under the auspices Of
the Workers School and the New
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
A WORKERS SCHOOL
IN BUFFALO

The establishment of q Buffalo
Workers School is finally being real
lied. Registration will begin the 4th
of September at the Labor Educa-
tional Club, 760 Main st. But this
is not all. Funds are needed to car
ry on the work. In addition, the
library of the Workers School needs
many books and pamphlets. Dona-
tons and loans of such books and
pamphlets will be gratefully re-
ceived.
The courses given will be few, but
Of vital Importance to all workers
participating in the class struggle.
They include: Principles of Com
munism, Trade Union Strategy and
Tactics, Negro Problems, Political
Economy, Organizationsl Principles
and Elementary English.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
A Liberals Version

WE COULD with this picture bitm already
cockeyed Harpo according Arthur Garfield
Hays there is nothing with this picture literally
Over radio broadcast few days Mr. Hays made the following
statements:
policeman Communist on the head The Commu-
mist policeman answers
leve in violence
in order to prevent Fascim They adopt Communist methods
tyranny to avoid Communism"
If this somewhat involved anything ALL
that Mr. intends that
police and vglans the hand Communists
both violence
struggles for bread led by the Party
Fascm and therefore the police in
the struggles of the Communist organizations.
this the go-romd reasoning
gentleman sent radio broadcast
mtee Workers and the National
Committee for the Defense Political Prisoners
lean civil Liberties Union represented Needless these other
organizations consulted
ec of vigilantes and Communists.
The vigantes actually organizations
Communist Party all the things pictured
and lot And therefore this
He could that
ing burned down brigade Young
printing burned by
agents of the police.
1t is anyone anything labor move
ment the brand Mr. parallel viciousy
superb discipline the povocations
the California
property and the imprisonment of forget
the conditions
relief the splendid rayng of workers in the midst
wonderful defense campaigns conducted pressure
member these victories they over death
for thousands.
But nobody has single example organized violence
of individual violence
conscious workers California prove
Of Mr. Hays scrambled thinking gantes
and fassts Mr. Hays declares himself deeply
shocked by Naz buaes yet the quoted
sound syllable place Propaganda Minister
Goebbels They the kind quvoca
reishes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

from Europe, South Africa. Australia, etc
Adm. Toe.
CLARENCE HATHAWAY will speak on
Europe on the Eve of the Proletarian
Revolution" Friday, Aug. "a at so e. 13th
st. Auspices: Workers Bookshop. The pur-
chase of 81 worth of pamphlets entities
you to free ticket. Tickets are 25c in
advance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
CHANGE
WORLD!
- By ORRICK JOHNS :
Battina for Sender GdrItn

FIRST, going to ask the readers of this column to
gaze a certain picture:
Several hundred leading Communists of California
sworn in deputy sheriffs They raid meeting of the
American Legion line up the Legonnares whack few of
them with pick handles then draw their them
Legion membership cards.
picked belonging
Agricultural
throwing bricks through of the leading
brick note you happen
Go back the country you from The Italian
Chinese bankers going
blessings Of Mlssolini Chang
Another picked band this time of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union the
Nobody home they through his library and
private papers They audatoy biography Hitler carry
off in triumph the
Of the Defense
the files from the walls drop pwters window
handle the senographes dnap assorted presidents
secretaries and lock them charges panhandng
of the
ing abs with dm-dum bullets and throwing
meetings shipping industry Pacific
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
What's Doing in
Workers Schools
OF u. S.
WEEK END TRAINING
SCHOOL AT LANCASTER

Inc Lancaster section OF the
Communist Party is completing ar
rangements for weekend train
ing school to begin the 18th of
September.
For the first time in this part of
the country, members of the Party
and close synpathizers will have the
opportunity of receiving a political
training to enable them to carry on
their work in organizing the I'M
organized, the employed against the
Speed-up and stagger system and
for more pay, the unemployed for
more and better relief, against evic-
tons, for jobs, and to train the
workers in the revolutionary way
out of the crisis.
The school will begin Saturday
Sept. Is, with two courses given on
Saturday and two Sunday.
Students will include active work
ers from the Unemployed Council.
Party, LID, etc, from Lebanon,
Pa Harrisburg, and Lancaster,
where the school will be held.
Workers are urged to donate
books for the school. Send all do
nations to Workers School Commit
tee, 418l5 Green St., Lancaster, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Tuesdag

INTERNATIONAL scottsboro Exhibition
John Reed Club, $50 9Th Ave. Every day
from pm. to Q pm. Documents, pictures
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
w H A It's ON

KEEP Sunday, August 25, Open Daily
Worker Picnic at North Beach Park.
Splendid program being arranged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

THE other cases follow in rapid
4 succession. A raw-boned Swed-
iSh laborer is arraigned for beating
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-21
Pictures by George scarbo

and brought it forth, full to the top. Do you want this?" asked she.
 "of course do, and maybe more. Say. I'll bet you've mixed dough before," replied the kind old baker. You're a great big help to me-" The bowl stood on table where wee Duncy'd pushed little chair. q have front row seat" said he, where can watch the fun.
 "I love to hear the sitter shake the flour that may become cake. Or possibly twill be plain bread, when it Is cooked till done." The next thing that poor Duncy knew, the funny baker sneezed, | "Ker-choo." Some of the flour flew into air and Duncy was a sight.
 I'm sorry was indiscreet. You're covered, lad, from head 10 feet" exclaimed the sorry baker. Every bit of you is white."
 Copyright, 1884, NEA Service, Inc.
 (Duncy gets into more trouble in the next story.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-21

(Duncy gets into more trouble in the next story.