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for jObless seamen, the elimination
Of the YM.C.A. raeketeers from the
relief organization and the establish
ment OF q committee Of Seamen 70
supervise the relief.
The paper not only reports these
actions, but explains the strategy and
tactics used and draws lessons for
future work.
"VCice" Leads Wage Fights
III the fightNagainst the scheme
Of the Roosevelt regime to slash down
the wages Of marine workers through
the vicious code system, the Marine
Workers Voice stands alone as the
only seamen's and longshoremens
paper leading the struggle for higher
wages.
In the organization Of the struggle
against fascism and war the union
has shown progress. The Voice"
reports that the longshoremep of
Vancouver have refused to work fas-
Cist ships,
There is an excellent article on the
back page by Hays Jones, the editor.
who recently returned from a visit to
the Soviet Union, telling Of the re-
markable conditions enjoyed by sail
ors on Soviet ships,
Every worker should read this IS
sue Of the "yoice" regardless from
which industry he comes, for the
paper is full Of important organiza-
tional material The lessons of the
seamen's and longshoremen's strikes
should be studied by every trade
union worker,
Writing on the question Of labor
journalism, Lenin gave the following
advise:
Less high faIutin talk! Get
nearer to Hfe!"
think that the sesmen who are
editing the Marine Workers Voice not
only understand Lenin's advice, but
are putting It into practice.
Incidentally, the paper has ons
great shortconing, an diversified mast
head. This is obviously the mani
festation Of an inferiority complex,
which developed in the ranks of the
union during the early days when
the M.WI.U. was chiefly a propa-
ganda organization. But now, that
the union has emerged as 9 leader Of
mass strikes, the complex no doubt
has disappeared, and we expect like
wise to soon see the old topheavy
masthead replaced by a more meas
and dignified one.
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are being forced to organize, Tor the
1rst time, TO fight the attitude Of the
government which expects them 10
starve or to compete with Isborers
in the scramble for lab0ring jobs.
Edward DshIberg. an editor Of
Partisan Review, urged immediate
action on the proposals brought Up.
and attacked A. NJ. Bingham, editor
Of Conmonsense, for Binghsm's lex
chequer fiscal remarks about the
hostility between editors and writ
ers.'5
Committees elected are: Executive.
Robert Whitcomb,. Fanya Foss, Leon
Dennen, Alfred Hayes, Leon S. Her
aid, Edward Dahlberg; and the pro-
Jet committee, composed Of Milton
Nestler, Harold Rosenberg, Charles
Ferlin, Mary Carolyn Davies, II. ].
Hayes, Fred Miller, Parker Tyler,
Slogan Christowe, Lashos Egri, Mar
gerry Mansfield, T. J. McGiven, VAL
entine Erskine and Samuel Putnam,
the chairman Of the meeting. Other
members we're elected whose names
cannot be given because they work
on C.WA. projects now.
Signers to the petitions Of the as
ISOLATION include Theodore Dresser,
Corliss Lamont, F. P. Adams, John
Sloan, Josephine Herbst, Scott Near
ing, Edwin Sesver, Jack Conroy.
Granville Hicks, Stanley BurshaT,
and MAXWELL BOdenhefy,5
A second mass meeting Is being
called for all writer's at Greenwich
House Feb. 10, Saturday night, when
committees will report back.
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The International Collection
Of Revolutionary Songs

bringing up the millions Of workers
in the spirit Of chauvinisn and slavery
and at the same time indaming their
hatred against the revolution and
revolutionaries."
"THE PRoLETARIAT," it says, sis
L learning from its errors and is
finding out how to win the struggle.
For this purpose it needs its own
musical literature, its own musical
creations, which should bring up the
masses in the spirit Of the class strug-
gle and organize them for the struggle
Of socialism"
In one of the first issues of
'Pr2yda" number 5, in 1917 we
read Of the importance attached 10
the singing of revolutionary songs
in the trenches. The singing Of the
International was held to be as
important as the raising of the Red
Flag, for many Of the German
soldiers knew the song and it meant
to them what It did to the soldiers
Of the Soviets,
And important as mass songs are
in imperialist war, still more vital
are they in throwing off the yoke of
the oppressor at home Organizing
its musical mass work, the proletariat
is obliged to know this field of work
in the opposite camp. The bourgeoisia
is throwing tremendous energies into
the song field. Chauvinistic, nation
1liStic, religious, sentimental and at
the same time coarse, brutal soldier
songs in calculations Of millions are
now being spread in the capitalist
countries through radio, cabaret, etc. p
ut is interesting to note that the
German Fascists are consciously using
the international, 'Comintarn, Els
lers Red Wedding the Iron Re-
serve by Shekhter and others, but
with counter-revolutionary texts"
II MUST be recognized, says the In
l ternational Bureau in brief, that
the proletariat cannot, under capital
ism, fully forge the tremendous and
genuine cultural growth it is eventu-
ally destined to achieve. Fully real
izing that the music it has now is
infinitely better than the Fascist eff
forts, it must realize too that this
music is still not on a very high
level. And even If it were on such a
level, it is imperative to strive per-
sistentiy for still higher artistic song
productions"
Hamper Fascist Efforts
Then follows the most significant
passage - a passage that should BIZ
graved on the heart Of every worker
musician:-"T'he next very important
point to be given consideration is t,
make it impossible, or at least, t.
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800 JObIeSS Writers Lay
Plans for c. w. A. Fight

NEW YORR-"No more jobs-only
rep,acements!" This was the burden
Of the message brought to 800 writer's
Of the Unemployed Writers Associa-
ton in a mass meeting In irving
Plaza Monday night by J.. E. Sharp,
who was representing Colonel W. A.
Delamater, New York head Of C.W.A.
Sharp is in charge Of new projects.
The writers elected committees to
outline project for writer's, voted TO
attend in body the Feb. 8 demon
strat.on against the discrimination
Of C.W.A- elected delegate to the
National Convention Against Unem-
ployn1ent in Washington Feb. 8, ana
approved a program calling for wages
or relief for all workers, recognition
of the writer's profession by the gov
eminent, and immediate action by
the government, under C.WA. or
under X.Yz."
Il only know what read In the
papers" Sharp said, like viii Rogers.
I personally am helpless"
Leon Herald, poet, hurled a ques-
ton back-"Will you go to Washing
ton with our committee?"
Nudged by the elbow Of Fanya Foss,
pretty member Of the executive COM
mittee, Sharp said, Yes, I will go to
Washington, even If I have 10 hike
there" But he left early.
Robert whitcomb, preliminary or
3anizer Of the association, reported
on the program, and the treatment
Of writer's by the government at pres
ent, pointing out that writers at last
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
By c. S.

TIE international Collection of
Revolutionary Songs" the first
ume Of its kind, was issued recently
by the international Music Bureau Of
the International Workers Theatrical
Union in Moscow under the editor
ship Of w. Ramm. It contains 1G
pages Of introduction Tin three Ian
guages - English, German and Rus
siam and 10 pages Of music and text,
the latter also in three languages. 1t
is published by the Moscow State
Musical Publishing Office. Copies can
be obtained at the Workers Book
Store and at the Workers Music
League, E. 18th St., New York City,
for IS cents each. In this review I
shall speak Of the Introduction and,
in future Issue, Of the thirteen songs
it contains.
The introduction Prom the Inter
national Music Bureau" is a remark
able document Of little over 1900
words. 1t should be read by every
one who is interested in the cultural
aspects Of the class struggle. The
essential points Of its content should
be thoroughly familiar to all class
conscious workers, for it deals with
the subject Of music as q weapon in
the revolutionary movement.
"It Is not necessary" begins this
introduction, ITO reiterate the well
known fact that music as we'll as
song has always played big role in
the class struggle. 1t is more to the
point to observe the concrete diff
culties facing the proletariat In
making full use Of them" owing to
the small number of it's intellectuais
and musicians, and to the fact that
''in g. number of countries the adj
vanced part of the working class still
underestimate the significance Of
mass work upon the revolutionary
music front"
Songs That Aided Reaction
When one realizes that the Ger
man Workers Singing Societies en-
rolled 100000 members in 1929, that
millions Of workers heard them sing
and that they sang to very large
extent bourgeois music with bourgeois
and even religious words, one under
stands why these organizations were
considered (by Social-Democrats and
Fascists) a means Of carrying out and
penetrating their influence upon the
masses Of the working class"
Through these societies the botE-
geoisie united the masses around its
parties" understanding Gin very
subtle manner how to apply the
slogans Of true art, aesthetics, pure
beauty Of art and others in carrying
out its everyday propaganda work in
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Reviewed BY HARRY RAYMOND

ONE of the best trade union papers
" that has come to our attention
during the recent period is the Off
cial organ of the Marine workers
Industrial Union, the MARINE Work
ers' Voice"
The February issue, which lies be-
fore us, is an excellent example Of
militant trade union journalism, il
we excuse 8 few typographical errors
Keeping close to the life Of the
seamen and longshoremen, this paper
deals with the most burning prob
lens of the class struggle in a lively
concrete and interesting manner.
The editor, Hays Jones, permits nc
talking through the hat; in the
Voice" there is no abstract theoriz-
ing carrying one beyond the stars;
the paper correctly reflects the life
and problems Of the men who work
on the ships and docks, and what
more, it is guide to action. The
Voice" is fun of organizational ideas
Outstanding among the articles ap-
pearing in this issue Of the paper is
an analysis Of the recent Strike led
by the M.WI.U. on the SIS. Nun
beaver, which was only one Of over
20 led by the union on the Munson
Line. Facing bull-bucking skipper,
who read the mutiny act, and a group
of hostile officers and slippery A. z.
Of L. officials, the ships crew, under
the able leadership Of the ship COM
mittee, led the strike to victory, which
included the payment Of back wages
and recognition Of the seamen's COM
mittee.
Paper Shows Growth
The growth Of the union among
Iongshoremen, noted in the "V0ice,"
can be seen In various sections OF
the country, especially at Hampton
Roads, where the M.WI.U. has or
gained five docks and has set up a
port organization committee which IS
linked up with the rank and file
dockers in the A. F. Of L. union, the
international Longshorenlen's Asso-
ciation.
In unemployed work the M.W.IU.
shows increased activity. The paper
reports an important victory scored
in Baltimore when the Waterfront
Unemployed Council, through mill
tant action, won three meals a day
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Evening of Proletarian
Dramatic Skits, Music
And Dance On Feb. IL

NEW YORK.-An outstanding eve
n-ng of proIetarian culture will be
resented Saturday, Feb. II, by the
Workers international Relief, a world
wide organization for the relief of
revolutionary workers, providing food
and clothing for strikers. The WIR.
is also very active in organizing cul-
tural groups among the workers in
oil its branches. Several of these
groups will perform on the evening
CT Feb. II,
The Workers Laboratory Theatre
Of Action will present an hour and
a half Of new one-act plays, dra-
matte sl5i5s and dramatic poems.
Eugene Nigob, - well-lInoWn pianist
who has been carrying on relief work
for the W.I.R., will appear in a piano
recital. An outstanding event of the
evening viii be a concertina presen.
tation by Gregori Matusevltch. one
Of the foremost concertinq virtuosos
in America.
The Red Dancers will present a
sp ecfal program OF Proletarian
dance2. The Film and Foto League
will present q new experimental film.
The WIZ. Band viii complete the
program with special concert selec-
tons.
The affair will be held in the CITY
College Auditorium, sd st. and Lex
ington Ave. Tickets can be pur-
chased at the WIZ, $40 Broadway.
Workers Laboratory Theatre, AZ E.
18th ST., or the Workers Book Shop.
80 E. 18th st. Admission Is, IS and
SO cents.
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Capitalist philanthropy"

was II cents. l knew / was still going
TO be hungry after eating.
found a seat at q table opposite
the only man in the place that looked
ike an unemployed worker. He was
between fifty and sixty years of age.
with white hair. But his lively grey
eyes revealed an unbroken spirit. A
frayed muffler around his neck part
ly hid the fact that he didn't have
q shirt. He wore a khaki Jumper
incredibly frayed, and beneath it. a
tattered sweater.
He was laxative. He worked here.
Yes. He had a Job working for Ber-
narr McFadden, the great benefactor
OF the unemployed. He worked four
hours every morning, sweeping floors
and washing windows, and got his
dinner A bus boy stopped by the
table. He too worked all morning for
his dinner. They used to set 10 centc
an hour under the Old manager.
JOHN GREGORY.
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WE SENT IT
Dear Editor:

Cafbondale, Ill.
Dear Editor:
This is strange requestl I have
been reading your paper for some
/ time. and have been able to do so
through the kindness and generosity
Of F. M, II. Of this city. Mr.. H. is an
old man and for the years of service
he gave a huge shipping CORPORATION,
he has been thrown upon the cap
it2listic scrap-head Of Old Workers.
He now lives for his Daily Worker
and dreams for the dawn of work
ing mems world The few pennies
he earns by odd Jobs buys his scanty
supply Of food and his textbook used
in spreading the light; namely, your
paper.
Through the great sincerity Of this
man to the cause Of Communism, I
have become q syLnDathizsr.
III you viii send me the Daily
Worker while 7 am in the stogy en-
virons of Southern Illinois Teachers
College, faithfully promise to pass
it into hands of people it will shock
to the realization Of life beyond the
crossroads of their tiny Illinois town.
There are courses in this college in
Labor Problems Gentlemen, 1t is a
travesty on education to offer such a
course and teach the one-sided pic
ture Of the Industrialist "harassed" by
labor unions. I hope to help THIS in
some measure with the introduction
Of your paper into such class
through very good friend Of mine.
1 am only a student, and live on
about 81 per week.
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Chicago, Ill.

With a great flare of trumpets, and
shyly screaming of his great big
heart, BernarT McFadden has opened
penny" restaurants to help the I'M
employed.
My first surprise was ON noticing
The class of people patronizing the
restaurant OF the unemployed. /"
Ninety-fve per cent were lower mid
lie class, clerks and statesmen from
he department stores. 1 got a tray
Ind looked over the food on display.
Cilere was some sickly boiled mutton,
thin slice for twelve cents. The
farmer probably got not much more
'or the whole sheep, thought I. It's
:reenish tinge and price converted
ne temporarily to vegetarianism, and
took some black bread, glass of
omato juice, some milk labelled
ream, and a gluey bowl of bran
mesred with moiasses. The check
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PUTTING THE DAILIEs IN TEE
MAIL BOXES

MEANWHILE, Pa.--Lately I have
been taking my old Daily Workers,
after I read them, and wait until
I get about dozen copies and at
night drop them into mail boxes on
the outskirts Of town. / have made
four such excursions. I have no local
to back me up, SO ! worked in the
dark, after night. thought It might
combat capitalist propaganda and
might be the means Of your getting
an order for the Daily Worker once
in while. This piece I am sending
you was in yesterdays Meadville
Tribune Republican. What can they
fine me If they catch me putting the
papers into the mail boxes7
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hamper the use Of our songs by the
Faseists. For this purpose our songs
should BE- politically still sharper and
more definite We must strive fer the
utmost unifcation Of form and con-
tent, so that the style and general
character Of the song should fully en-
sue from and define itself by its
theological content. This, Of course,
will hamper and sometimes even
make it impossible for the Fascists
to use our songs with their words.
because colossal contradictions will
arise between the music and the text,
which Will ruthlsssly destroy the ar
tistic features OF the songs"
COMRADES across the sea! We hail
v this keen reasoning and its daring
imagination. We want you to know
that without any knowledge Of your
brilliant pronouncement from which
the above quotations have been made,
small group Of composers organized
as the Composers Collective of the
Pierre Degeyter Club in New York
has been working since February 1882
upon this very basis. We have be-
lieved that it is technically practic-
able to develop song-and even in
strumental music - Of the character
you define. 1t Is true that The great
@ erm a n workers choruses were
drugged with bourgeois theology
through the very music they sang, In
spite OF the revolutionary words that
often were set to it. Even in most
Of our present songs the musical
theology conflicts with the political.
There must be revolution in the
very system Of music If it is to fur
ther, and not betray, the revolution
in the system Of society. We cannot,
Of course, simply invent new musical
style. Music is a mass production.
But we can pcint the way 20 the con-
crete realization Of new style by the
masses. Even in music-starved Amer
ica the masses show, now vaguely
now more clearly, that the evolution
Of proletarian music distinctly diff
ferent from the old bourgeois music
is taking place. We shall keep cur
ear always attuned to the voice of
the masses. But we shall not fail to
develop also a strong theoretical
grounding by which we may help that
great voice to discover itself, and to
grow and to throw off the gags and
mufflsrs that have choked it up to
this time.
In a second article to be pub
lished tomorrow the author Of the
above viii discuss specific songs y.
the international Collection of
Revolutionary Songs'-Ed. Noe.
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liberal boomn but the Of life with all its paradoxes
background Russian Revolu-
top and OF his references may be obscure to American
workers that Yet it
written the Revolution
mind much book still the
irrational ogs anarchist this
shall special gratitude
All of Lenins gotten
international Publishers 3SI Fourth Ave, York City.
writes with plain honesty expresses
constructive
also well worth beginners study.
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Hammond, Ind

SOVIET FILM showing OF ''war Agains,
the Centuries on Friday, Feb. 2 at 8 pm
at Trinity Hall, Howard and Ames st. Ad-
mission In advance l5c at door 2Oc
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CHANGE
WORLD!
! he
BY Michael Gold

young students workers who ask what
read gain knowledge Of Communism
doubt the midst Of great wave OF interest IN
this plain every thoughtful that capitalism
failure still surrounded by darkness confusion and
capitalist demagogy
brief notice to the newly omed Workers
Cleveland students have already registered to study
the technique the poarisn Of capitalism But there are
schools list them all; the school in
Chicago instance and the important in the heart OF the
Gary school Harlem New York City,
the Pacific New England and the South CTh
important activities Of workers
schools throughout the comtry--Editor)
worker DESTROYS Of studying Communism
that he register at Of these
schools impossible take correspondence from the
at so East 18th st. The school will also send you
list be read for serious and systematic study
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Of elucidation We need pamphlets Of this kind,
written as this one is not in the vulgar journalese
that patronzes working class reader, but in strong
direct, everyday speech.
Lenin wrote in plain and rugged style that any
worker can understand He took the most difficult
phllcsophic and economic ideas and Strengthened gu
eheir 5narls i'll his powerful mind. His words burn
Eith the passion and sensitivy of proetarian
utionary: love of the workers. hate Of the oppressors
But what marks the works of Lsnn is his unacceptable
logic. 1t from point to the next with the
beauty Of mathematics. 1t is not dead logic of the
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa.

ELIMINATION MEET in wrestling, Work
7rs Cultural and Sports Club VS. Down Town
workers Club on Wednesday night. Elk
ira novelty program Workers Cultural and
Sports Club. 2olt 4. sand ST.
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Cleveland, Ohio

Goth BIRTHDAY Of I. o. Ford, BANQUET
on Sunday, Feb. 4 at pm. at Oak Pythian
Temple, 7o5 E. 1o5th st. Interesting pro-
gram arranged
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