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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
WHAT'S ON
Wednesday
Ito BE Continued

WELCOME OUR WORKERS. DEIEo.s
TON. HEAR REPORT or CONDITIONS
IN SOVIET UNION BY DELEGATES.
COME TO MASS MEETING AT IRVING
PLAZA. Irving Place g. 18th 81 WE'D.
JUNE 20 At 9 pm. Adm. ise Auspices
Friends N Soviet Union.
MONSTER MASS MEETING Wed. Juns
goth, pm. at Aperion Manor z 9TH
ST. and Kings Highway, Brooklyn. Speak
erS: Rabbi Ben Goldstein, Rev. Wayns
White. Norman Tallentlre, Violet Lynn.
Auspices Kings Highway Br Americas
League Against War and Fascism.
ALL MEMBERS OF Old Unity Coopers.
tive Organization called to memberships
meeting at Workers Center IS &. 18th SC.
Room 2o4. Wed, June goth, pm
FIRST ANNIVERSARY Of the death Of
Rose Pastor Stokes and Clara Zetkin,
wednesday. June 20 $50 pm. at Victorian
Room, Irving Plaza, East 18th st. and
Irving Place. Speakers, Carl Brodsky, Rose
Wortis, Richard 3. Moore. Louis lyman.
Also Pierre Degeyter Quintette, Freiheit
Chorus. New Dance soloists. Admission 75e
OPEN Membership meeting Film and
Photo League, IL y. 18th St. tonight $50.
All members must be present Visitors
invited. Harry Austin Of LID. Win
speak on Ernst Thaelmsnn,
IMPORTANT Membership meeting Sac
co Vanzetti Br. LID. at Ts2 p. fremont
Ave. Bronx. $40.
SOVIET FILM ''potenkiS- a. Fordharo
Prog. Club. 1898 Jerome Avs. near Rurns
side Ave tonight s:S. Subscription anc.
Also Chaplin comedy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Scientists

THE fight into sterile metaphS~
steal philosophy sole oscar
which fascism leaves open to M
Of intellect-is the very opposite
strict, disciplined scientific thoU
The present rulers Of the Ger
people-"the people Of poets
philosophers from
very beginning that that kind
thinking and unpreiudiced scienti
work, shook the very foundations
their regime Of compulsion and VI
lence.
The campaign Of destructlo
which is now being carried on ii
Germany, expresses itself In varioW
forms. Ranging al the way from
the expulsion Of inconvenient pro-
fessors in universities, to sheer mlr-
der, not one single nusnce Of stue
pidity is left out of this scale Of
methods for fighting science. Hun
dreds of scientists and scholars fell
victims to the Nazi fight against
liberal thought" them
such world-renowned authorities as
Einstein and the great physicist,
Frank.
From the standpoint Of the Nazis,
this destruction of scientific work
is completely justified. 1t is not
matter of unconsidered action, or
occasional excuses. The type of the
modern scientist and researcher Is
not that of the mic-strip figure
with which tn eNaH theoreticians Of
brute force seek to defame thinkers
and researchers. The totslity to-
ward which modern science tends.
and the attainment Of which is hin~
dered by the present social order. is
Numerically opposed to the sort
Of "totality'' preached by fascism.
Today a contradiction exists be-
tween the material results of the
application of natural and social
science on the one hand, and the
dominant idealistic philosophy on
the other hand. Fascism tries 10
"Vanquish" this contradiction by It's
totalitarian principle Of Soul, Feel
ing, and Race" To fascism, genuine
scientific investigation becomes q
form of activity hostile 10 the State
Ito BE Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Kurt Hitler

A CENTURY and more ago re-
"A formers and utopians attempted
10 use the weapons of pure reason
to criticize the existing social order.
and to make plans for a new one.
But since then, a social class has
been formed which fights for a new
society and the Party has come
into being which has gathered all
the experience of revolutions, and
Which plans the line of march for
the next days and years.
The fronts are conseouentlv
clearly defined. But between the
armies which oppose each other in
a permanent and bloody civil war.
there are individuals. They wish
to criticize only from their own
standpoint, and they fight ION their
own" Erich Muehsam is one of
them. Another is Kurt Hitler, lead
er Of the Revolutionary Pacifsts."
Kurt Hitler is many-sided publ
cist and social worker. Very early
and with great energy he began to
fight for reform of sexual laws. He
was publisher OF the Goal Annu-
ais" C'ziel Jahrbuecher'D, Of which
the first issue was banned; he wrote
several books. He gathered around
him the revolutionary pacifsts.'
group Of decisive opponents of war,
who wanted nothing to do with the
anemic and deceptive League of
Nations and Pan Europeanism. He
was one of the most noted contrib
utors to the weekly "Weltbuehne"
(edited by Carl Won OssietskD.
During the last few years we find
him in a feud with Marxist Social
ism. He dispensed praise and blame
more blame than praise-and gave
instruction in the high, strained
voice Of worried and idealistic in
dividualist. He was at loss to
know what stand to take In the
face Of the elections OF September,
1890. and the accelerations OF the
Na5i movement which those cleo
tions revealed, He sought for the
positive element in Hitler's Ma
tional Socialism-and found it in
the anti-materialism and anti
rationalisn preached by the Nazis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
TUNING IN

700 P.M.-WEAF-Baseball Resume
WOR-Sports Resune-Ford Prick
WJz-Amos n Andy-Sketch
WABC-Enzo Alta, Songs
7:15-WEAF-Gene and Glenn-Sketch
WoR-Al and Lee Reiser, Piano
WJz-Result Of Poll on Roosevelt
Policies; Sports High Spots
WABC-Just Plain Bill--Sketch
0-WEAF-Lillian Buchanan, Soprano
VORTEX Fletcher, Songs
WJz-Jewels Of Enchantment-
Sketch, with Irene Rich
WABc-Jimmy Kemper, Songs
7:45-wEAF-The Goldbergs-Ske
WOR-Jcseph Mendelsohn, Baritone
WJz-Grace Hayes. Songs
WABC-Boake Garter. Commentator
0-WEAF-Jack Pearl, Comedian
WOR-Dance Orch.
WJz-Life Is Too Short-Sketch
WABC-Maxine, Songs; Spitalny En-
senble
s:i5-WABC-Easy Aces-Sketch
$3.50 WEAF-Dance Orch.
WOR-Lone Ranger-Sketch
WJz-Commodores Quartet
wABC-Everett Marshall Baritone
S:45-WJz-Baseball Ccmment-Bebe Ruth
300 WEAF-Fred Allen. Comedian
WOR-1tslics-H Stokes Lett, j
WJ1-Goldman Band Concert on
Mall, Central Park
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20

WHOM DO you consider to be your chief opponent
at the trial9"
THE chief opponent was the national socialist
government. The Public Prosecutor was only act
ing their instructions But my anger was di-
rected much less against DR. Wirner and DR.. Pari-
sius, the direct agents of Hitler Goering and Goeb
bells than against the socalIed defenders especially
DR.. Sack The Public Prosecutors simply fulfilled
their task as faithful officials but Dr. Sack who
was supposed to be a lawyer and defender was the
direct political agent of the fascist hangmen He
took the most base advantage of the difficult stu
alton Of his client Torgler, and in fact misused 1t
for his dirty political purposes to justify the Nazis
the real Rechstag incendisries and to discredt
Communism. can say quite openly that while
was In prison suffered great mental and physical
torture on account OF the hand letters and the
cunning chicsnery but that was nothing compared
with the moral suffering had to endure owing to
the fact that Communist defended BY such
man as this DR.. Sack. This circumstance rendered
it very difficult for me to conduct my political de-
Tense properly before the Court, And this applies
also to the other accused"
THE way in which you defended yourself, how
ever, called forth universal admiration Many peo-
pie were of the opinion that you are an exceedingly
wel-educated man."
IL IL true L nave SJuoleu a great deal. Every
revolutionary should do that But it is not sufa-
Gent to have only theoretical training 1t is abso-
lutely necessary for Communist leaders to make
close study of Marxism- Lennism of the writings
of Lenn and Stain. But theoretical study alone is
not sufficient. 1t is particularly necessary that one
should be seeed in the constant fight in the ranks
OF the masses in legal and illegal activity in the
constant overcoming of difficulties and dangers Of
the daily struggle, and so acquire firm, revolu-
donsry character and will The interest of the
revolutionary class, the cause Of Communism must
become part Of ones flesh and blood"
Many journalists who we're present at the trial
were surprised that you did not think at all OF
defending and saving your own person"
There can be not only no contradiction, but
also no difference between the cause and the per-
son Of the revolutionary. I could say for example
DR.. Teichert shall defend me as man. and as a
Communist shall defend myself I cannot imagine
myself divided into halves; at one time human
being and another time a Communist Such a
thing is impossible The Iepziger Neueste Nachrich-
ten once wrote Dimitrov is the programme of the
Communist International become flesh I cannot
think of better description of myself That should
be the aim of every Communist"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20

books, the Chief Of Censorship
Frank McGlynn, who also plays
Lincoln, with his fierce generals
wait several hours while VIM. Far
mum saves the day by delivering in
stead Of an apology, a long dis
course on the history of "civiliza-
ton" and how the burning of his
books will not destroy civilization.
AS he talks and pleads to his OPP
pressors, scenes from old movies are
cut in, In rapid succession you see
the earth cooling, the First Man
with q full set of teeth right out of
a Pepsodent adj, Moses, Buddah,
Confucius, Caesar, Christ, Moha-
med, Christopher Columbus, George
Washington, Lincoln, Napoleon. etc.
At the end, just before the pub
Usher dies, he explains that sup
preston of freedom of speech, burn
ing of books, the barbarism Of war
are not the fault of few I'VE
are all equally to blame" That de-
stroying books is not just DESTROY
ing books, but destroying something
in here point to heart). And Just
before he fades out, he instructs his
son to tell them. the burners of the
books, to tell them the truth. And
just then. old Ratchet face, the
Censor Chief McGlynn the man
with the meanest map in the
movies mods sadly and says, Never
mind telling us, I have seen, know
now.
IT is interesting to see how in this
film, like in the many topical
films of recent times, a real sub
ject Is taken in hand but never
really tackled. Excepting for several
effective statements that announce
the futility of war, the war that we
fought because we were told it
would save democracy" this al
legedly independent" company has
Skirted around the really vital
theme of suppression of the press
and the burning of the books, and
wound up with a peaceful recogni-
ton by the oppressors of their
wrong dongs.
That the millions Of movie-pa-
irons would respond enthusiastically
to q movie based on the brown
shirted axemen of Nazi Germany
who burned the finest books Of
mankind seems to be obvious. But
this independent" film company.
that produced the super social pic
ture about the burning of books,
is part and parcel of the same Hol-
lywood that was forced to lay off
Hitler by the U. S. State Depart
ment, and by Will Hays (the Chief
of the American Movie Censorship
BureauD the same Hollywood that
was forced to cut out the produc-
ton of Hitler, the Mad Dog of
Europe"
Are We Civilized" is additional
proof that from any section of the
capitalist film industry, q film that
tackles the burning questions that
face the working class in its strug-
gle against the ruling class, will in
evitably be a roundabout. demo
gogic, lullaby story that will, with
ignorance, stupidity or class-con-
scious venom, distort these burning
questions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20

m the 2esh Of April, 198s-the
v same day that the States At
torney found no cause to release
from prison man suffering from
critical illness Of nind-Erich
Baron, the editor, with last effort
Of will tied moose and hanged
himself He was ffty-one years old.
He died with the plea that his
family and friends might forgive
him. since he no longer felt capable
Of carrying on the fight for his life.
What was Erich Baron's crime in
the eyes Of the dictatOrs Of the
Third Reich? For q generation he
raised his voice in the socialist press
for a better human order-ss editor
Of the social-democratic "Brsnden-
burg Newspaper" as head Of the
Workers and Soldiers Council of
the city Of Brandenburg in 1918. as
feature writer Of the Berlin news
paper "Freiheit," central organ Of
the then Independent Socialist
Party.
Since 1922, Erich Baron was gen.
erel secretary Of the Society of the
Friends Of the Soviet Union FSU).
In the illustrated magazine. The
New Russia, which he edited, he
supplied incompatible testimony of
the socialist upbuilding of Soviet
Russia, He was tirelessly active in
forming and strengthening cultural
bonds between western Europe and
the socialist sixth of the world. Dur
ing the past nine years, many hun
dreds of people sat in his office:
architects, whose untraditional at
titude hsmpered them from using
their great talents in Germany; en-
gineerS, chemists, scientists, whose
abilities we're lying fallow, and who
wished to place themselves at the
service Of Socialism. To all of them.
Erich Baron was friend and advisor.
He made known to the literary
community Of Berlin many great
writer's of the new Russia and the
Western European spirit.
In the Third Reich there is no
place for such person. DR.. Goeb-
bells Ministry for Propaganda, with
its white guardist expert, has drawn
nightmsr1sh, lying pictures Of the
Soviet Union. In its money-collect-
ing scheme known as Brothers in
Need" ostensibly for the benefit of
German-speaking settlers on the
Volga, the Propaganda Ministry
makes use of photographs taken
during the Russian famine Of 1921
1t does this in order to keep within
bounds Of law and order the real
hunger in bogus socialist nation
National Socialist" Germany by
means of bogus stories Of hunger
In really socialist nation.
Erich Baron was imprisoned on
the morning after the burning of
the Reichstag. We shall never be
able 10 learn what horror finally
caused his voluntary death. Was IT
bodily torture? Was 1t the mental
torment Of hard solitary confne-
ment, absolute separation from the
outside world for an indeterminate
period? The mouth which could tell
us and accuse the tormentors, is
silenced for ever. Erich Baron-one
OF the many done to death behind
the impenetrable prison walls of the
Ihird Reich-Hitler's Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Reviewed by TOM BRANDON

IN an advance publicity story in the
New York Mirror, Miss Bland
Johaneson, film critic, used up
about 500 words and headline to
bsllyhoo the coming of the super
social film that dealt with those
who seek to suppress individual
liberties" She pointed out lin ex-
change for a nice big adj how Di-
rector Edwin Carewe had confessed
to taking home the story with the
usual misgivings" And that since
"the script left him weak and ex-
cited at the finish" he became en-
thusiastic and undertook the job.
Carewe is the social-minded director
who launched the theme-song cpl
demic some years ago with the film
Ramona" (the man that millions of
movie-patrons are looking for with
murder in their hearts, and who
then dropped out Of the movies for
while to devote himself to new
project for garbage disposal in
Texas
Are We Civilized" is an unusu-
ally poorly constructed movie, that
will leave you also weak and ex-
cited" Weak, from the dull and
distorted excursions into history:
excited" by the cowardly and ig-
norant manner in which Director
Carewe, writer Sherman and the
Raspin Productions have flirted
with an enormously vital subject
without ever once facing it directly.
Centered around liberal pub
Usher whose cables have been sup
pressed by the New Government
German, English, American?), is
built up a story of his struggle to
achieve free speech and free press.
At a dinner given in his honor
by the Chief of the Bureau of Cen
sorship instead of praising the New
Government. the publisher (Wil-
liam Farnum) exposes the censor
ship of his cables. The government
demands an apology and sends of
f1cers in rnonkey-suits to burn his
books.
And there in his study, with the
monkey-suit men piling up his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Stage and Screen
Katherine Cornell At The
Brooklyn Acndemy Of Music

Katherine Cornell and her com
pany are now appearing at the
Brooklyn Academy OF Music in
Rudolf Besler's play THE Barrettes
Of Wimpole Street" This evening
ends her nationwide tour of over.
rs cities.
George Meader will sing leading
role in Gypsy Blonde" which opens
next Monday night at the Lyric
Theatre. The play is based on
Balfe's operetta THE Bohemian
Girl, but modernized.
Jane Winton, concert singer and
motion picture star, has taken over
the role of Nanette Guilford in the
leading role in Caviar" the musical
show at the Forrest Theatre.
James Barton is now playing the
principal role in Tobacco Road"
the play based on Erskine Caldwells
novel at the Forty eighth Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Teachers in Chicago
Face Another Summer
" it bout Back Paw
lpaily worker Midwest Rureaul

DAILY Worker Midwest Eureaul
Chicago, June 15.-While Chicago
teachers face another summer with
out prospect of receiving their back
pay. John Fewkes and his fellow
leaders of the Teachers Voluntary
Emergency Committee staged a
huge banquet at the Hotel Stevens
in their own honor.
Fewkes' committee, which cap
tured the leadership of the move
ment of rank and file teachers to
stage street demonstrations de-
handing their back pay has failed
all along the line to win anything
concrete for the teachers.
Meantime the IS million dollar
loan fund for paying the teachers
has carefully been buried under the
rush Of work at the end of the
Congressional session. Congressman
SABBATH has tackled it onto the loans
to industry bill that is now in con-
ference between House and Senate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Maxim Cork Film "MOtHer"
In Last Week; Broken
Shoes" Returns June 26th

Following the run of Maxim
Gorki's Mother 1905. which is
now in its fourth and last week,
the Acme Theatre will present
Broken Shoes" the Soviet talkie
which recently played at the theatre,
and which is being brought back for
a limited run. Broken Shoes" is
played in the main by children and
presents stirring picture of the
social forces behind the struggle OF
the workers in Germany, Austria,
France and Spain.
Short subjects at the Trans-Lux
Theatre this week include Leo DON
nelly in Broadway Gossip" Charlie
Chaplin in THE Count" and a
cartoon "The Brave Tin Soldier"
Margaret Kennedy's THE Con-
slant Nymph," the British Gaumont
production, has been added to the
screen program at the 55th ~treet
Playhouse. The chief feature is
Edgar Allan Poes story "The Tell
Tale Heart"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20

WABC-Nino Martini, Tenor; Koste-
lsnetz Orch.
9:30-WOR-The O'Neilrs-Sketch
WJz-What Haircut-sketch, with
James Dunn, Actor
WABC-Looking at Life-Roy Helton
:45-WOR-Dramatized News
WABC-Emery Deutsch, Violin
;00WEAF-Hillbilly Music
WJz-Lopez Orch. Talked Sulli-
van Male Quartet
WABC-Rebroadcast Byrd Expedition
.l5-WOR-Current Events-E. E. Read
1890 EAF-Other Americas-Ed Tomlin-
son, Author
WOR-Robison Orch.
wJz-Denny Orch; Harry Richmsn.
Songs
WA5C-Albert spalding Violin. Con
rad Thihsult, Baritone
HOO WEAF-Ferdinsndo Orch
wOR-weather; Moonbean1s Trio
WJ2-rickens Sisters, Songs
WABC-Nick lucas Songs
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Brains Behind Barbed
Wire German Writers,
Scientists Prosecuted

Be that as it may. there + no
doubling the strong intellect and
the ideahstic aims Of this writer.
Soon after Hitler was put in power,
he was arrested and brought to
Spandau prison. After he was re-
leased he found that his home had
been wrecked, his library stolen.
and all his manuscripts destroyed
He was soon sfterward arrested a
second time and Is today in a con-
centration camp.
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"Are We Civilized" Makes
Lullaby Out of Key Issues

ARE WE CIvHIZED?" produced
by Raspin Productions, from
story by Harold Sherman, featur-
ing William Farnum, Frank Nc
Glynn, Stuart Holmes, Anita
Louise. Leroy Mason, presented
at the Rivoli Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY SENDER GARLIN

COUPLE of years ago l spoke at meeting of farmers
"A in town out in North Dakota. The meeting
ranged jointly by the United Farmers League and the In
ternatonal Labor Defense "The Soviet FiveYesr Plan
the subject of the talk and the meeting place
the American Legion
Of s12 for the Of the hail. but the
that the hall available
number of the Legion who also active the
United militant organization Of the
earlier meeting arranged in the Williams County
N. lecturer spoke the
many the coecvza
ton the filled
fellow could perfectly
Previously that American Legion button mans lapel had
seemed sinister thing but after that meeting in North
derentiste between
Iegonnaires and the officers which dominate the organization
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SATURDAY.

WEEK END OUTING srranged By Dress
Cutters Group to Camp Nitgedaiget SO 50
includes round trip bus tsre-three meals,
nights lodging Bus leaves June 2srd.
II am from 14o " ssth st For tsckats
and further information call AZ 40 V.
56th St., Room 1o1.
BANQUET June 23rd al Ambassador
Hall, 1875 Third Ave, celebrating 9th An.
niversary LID. Leon Blum, guest Of
honor. Speakers. r 3 Moore, Allan Tusb
and others Entertainment. Hot supper.
Admission 50 cents. Auspices Bronx secs
ton LID
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Madison. III.

FIRST INTERNATIONAL PICNIC AND
DANCE. Sunday, June Path at Eagle Park.
Auspices United Front Commute. Against
Fssctsm Music. dancing, games General
admission. Adults 2sc, children free. Benz
eft Daily Worker and other presses
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Thursday

LECTURE by Conrad Komorowsk1 -
Soviet China - French imperialism &
China and the Far East" at Fr1sndt a
$40.
SYMPOSIUM at Pen and Hammer, ~
". 7lst st, $50 Topic "vocztion
Guidance, Clinical Psychology and Mental
Hygiene in U.sA. and U.5s.R" Adm. $50.
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SHndnu

BOAT RIDE and Picnic. Sunday. Juns
gath 10 Hook Mountain on SIS Islander.
Dancing, games, baseball. Buffet at city
prices Tickets si.oo on sale at FSU.,
7e9 Broadway. Room 233. Boat leaves Pier
A, Battery Park, $50 am Return II pm.
OUTING 10 Camp Unity BY Harlem
Prog. Club, Sunday, June a. at 7:So e. m.
Register in advance at 1893 Third Ave. to
assure seat. Round trip 81
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''IhGeInlG1ln Must Be Freed!"
DimitrOu Says in hteruie,0

The prospect Of release was for me big quss-
ton mark II express it in figures, I would
say that for long time the possibility Of being re-
leased was for me only about one per cent"
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The World of
the Theatre
New Theatre

NEW THEATRE, Official Organ of
the League Of Workers Theatres
and National Film and Photo
League. June 1884. 10 cents.