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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
Life in a HOOverville
Graphically Described
In Novel By NewhOuse

less, you can't sleep here" After
trying to bride, then to intimidats
the men into leaving the homes they
have built and furnished by wharf,
combing and painful labor, the local
real estate men call in the govern
ment; and cops with clubs and gas
bombs beat and smoke out any illus
sions the Hooverville citizens may
have had that there is any consider.
alton for them in capitalist society.
This last scene, a fine, long one. is
one Of the best planned, best told
and most exciting scenes in recent
fiction.
The story. throughout, once it
leaves the stale morning after Of
cocktail dregs. cigarette litter and
sour emotions Of the Bohemian
party with which it opens, moves
with powerful step through a de-
preston world that it understands.
1t is full of good things that stick
in the memory: the two scenes, for
instance, in which the same gent,
the real estate shark, makes contact
with the unemployed, first to offer
the strongest looking pair ten dol
lars for half killing each other in
a bare knuckle bout at a lodge
smoker orgy to stir the paunche5
there to an extra CULVER; later to
appear, mumbling law and charity,
in an effort to smooth-tslk them
out Of their shanties.
Another memorable section is the
account of the building Of one Of
the huts, revealing the unkillable
pride in good work, through a dozen
dramatic little episodes And the
same human need and pride is
shown at work in another sort Of
building, the intangible structure Of
human relationships into a minia-
ture cooperative society.
1T is Newhouse's best claim to art
L that he does this naturally, that
the reader doesn't notice how it is
being done. That is why this CON
version" novel, this story Of the
growth in unemployed workers from
ignorance to understanding, from
indifference to militancy, is one Of
the most successful in its field. The
high point in that success is, per-
hapS, the story of how the Negro
worker got in; the breaking down
of the prejudice against him; the
strengthened sense Of solidarity
after he is in.
Newhouse writes his story some-
what in the Hemingway manner.
But it has an emotional richness
that the toneless style Of HeninE-
way. whose emotional ear was. so to
speak, first deafened by the blasts
of the World War. then stuffed up
with bourgeois success, has rarely
had.
Character in you Can't Sleep
Here" is not as important as the
crowd sense and the flow of action,
and this very submergence of indi-
vidual personality is an achieve
ment of this proletsrian novel.
Where Newhouse sets out to draw
character, however, he does it well,
except in the instance of the girl
Ellen who is too incredibly sub
missive. The patient Griselda OF
one Of Bocaccio's least successful
stories did not come to life in its
time, and does not come to life in
this version. The brief glimpse
given Of her proud sister has more
portraiture in it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
SacrdnlentO's Star Witness
In Criminal SyndicaHsm
Frame-Up s Makes q Mistake

way, but maybe not. Usually his
questioning went like this.
do you know Albert Hougsrdy?"
Eyes"
What was his occupation2"
"He was Communist organizer; he
organizes Communists, people in the
Communist Party"
do you know whether or not he
belongs to the Party?"
"Oh yes, I have seen his card"
did you ever hear him say any,
thing unusual about government or
advocate anything unusual about
it?"
Eyes"
Did you ever hear him advocate
the overthrow Of our government by
force?"
BY force of arms. yes"
did you ever hear him advocate
the overthrow of our industrial
system?"
Eyes"
did you ever hear him advocate
resistance of officers with arms?"
Yes"
did you ever hear him advocate
general strikes?"
yes"
DOOR Hanks got so used to Eyes
sing" he'd sometimes answer
yes" to questions like where did
you hear him speak?" Sometimes
he'd miss his cue, too, and have to
wait for frantic questioning from
McAllister to bring out the force
and violence business For instance,
there was Collentz.
Hanks said, no, he'd never heard
Collentz say anything unusual.
Eight questions later tho he had
when McAllister asked it the old
way
Did you ever hear him speak
about the plenum, the Russian form
Of government, or our form of gov
eminent, or bloody overthrow"
Then he had. Collentz had de-
clared for 'the only way out, mean
ing the October way out"
1.-THE October way, meaning?"
Meaning the overthrow of the
government by force of arms, the
same as they did in Russia"
Hanks was always very positive
in identifying the pictures of the
defendants. He'd "knowed" them
all, seven or eight months. But
there was little mistake once, cor
rected at the special second session
McAllister explained, "Mr. Hanks
I think I was little bit twisted
the other day on some of these pic
lures; there are two of the names
that are almost Identical and l
think handed you the wrong pic
ture I will now hand you the pic
lures of Collentz and Mincy and
ask you to look at these pictures
and see If you identify them, if you
know them"
Eyes, sir, 1 think I made mis-
take on them myself"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

BOSTON, MASS.-There must be many sincere people
- who give money to support the numerous religious
missions finds along the waterfrons the Bowerys and
slave markets where the unemployed congregate
In the minds of the vast majority of unemployed who
these religion" horrible
hypocites
ysors. minded contributor doubts this let him
the unemployed found will
well of the missions usually the stoopgeon type rice
Christians they called the Orient where the starving peasants
will often bowl of The epithet
missioni" the Insult you hu1
he is o these degraded victims a mission.
among unemployed fully of
their degradation big salaries the religious rackers
these places of Mission for example
occupies suite York swell hotels the Shelton
Think of this all holy parasites fresh from his luxurious
surroundings rolling his to tell the
homeless he lives to be
patient meek What hypocrisy what sme Or the
SANITY" Booth travelling the Atlantic the
and most expensive suite crack liner of five days
costing 500 then telling her heart beed for the
pays living? pays country
her buffers servants? all of the which
charitable folk contribute in ncks and dimes think
ing it will to feed starving worker That's where the luxury
O. it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
AND SO NIGHT PASSES
ALFRED HAVE

-By A l. r X 4 ID H A Y Z
And here blndy at the curb
Psuses and staring face up to the sky
Thinks heavily of and if falls
Perhaps little work will fall with it,
She mutters to herself and hurries by.
The policeman in the doorway the
Puts up his collar higher to the wind;
It's long beat. Cold jabs tonight deep the bone.
The general is riding in the park alone.
Stone horse and trcorned hat of stone salute night
In subway entrances you'll find his minute men,
Asleep while lice play Valley Forge within their hair
And the towerclock speaks out in bronze
Announcing in that universal tongue, the time
To East Side tenements and uptown cocktail bars
Where jazz bands Jazz the rich and stars
Clarinets wheedle the women; ssxophones
Agitate the men, likewise, the long trombones
Grumbe in the groin. ApoplecticS roll their eyes,
Dyspeptics feel their livers turn the bald grow hair
To the dmpled darlngs with their powdered thighs
Shake shmmy shakes hoop buttocks bare,
Celebrities and ceebrants, fine hands and noses;
whoopng the girls up clnking tall glasses;
Tonight they'll all blow beds Of roses
Cold blows the wind And so night passes
Reprinted Republic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
An Unholy Trinity

THE Union besides fighting for centralized shipping that
will break the of the lighting government
relief directly sleep
they Inundated.
The story of the seamans Institute in York familiar
everyone the Walking going
steel town, thick it with bolnce thugs
to beat in the Of the gentle and owly Christ
of the missions Boston, though paid govern
the beg garbage Of
restaurants in the neighborhood
The M w. U exposed this racketeering
time of the union around they found
of detectives waiting to receive them Graft starvation
be the holy trinity worshipped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
The Old Hungry Hook

There's place down the street
Where the sailors and rumdums meet.
They serve the hash on the second floor
With doctor in the parlor
And the undertaker's shop next door,
At that old al-hungry Hook where I used to dwell
Q the steak was dead and rare
And the butter had red hair
The pie weary and gray
It tackled by some Jay
And then he passed away,
The sausage it dark
If you touched it, it would bark,
o the eggs they wouldn't match,
If you touched them they would hatch,
The doughnuts they wooden
And they gave us sawdust pudden,
The molasses was yellow paint
If you smelled it you would faint
We knelt in prayer before we got grub
And we got breeze of the ham and cheese
And thought we'd been hit by club
In that all-go-hungry Hook where used to dwell
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
The Hungry Hook"

THERE S waterfront I to
visit it but the little picture of its familiar char
called the Hook but they have nicknamed it the Hungry
clergyman pray him
cr stngy fifth
A young sailor
Industrial months that
out Of his experiences at this holy hophouse:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
SEVENTH TODAY!

Although Ramsey is making
steady gains, he is seventh on
the list today, ahead only of Ann
Barton.
NY. Wkrs. SchI. Glasses
of Kingston &, Stein 3 6.1S
Previously received $40. 1891
Total to date .....,....S2 04.14
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06

You Can't Sleep Here. By Edward
Newhouse. Macaulay Company. SO.
Reviewed by
ISIDOR SCHNEIDER
IN THE line above, readers will rec
4 ognize, in the publishers name, a
notorious anti-union house and may
wonder why a revolutionary novelist
should have permitted such an i'm
print. To Edward Newhouse's credit,
let it be said at once that he did
everything in his power to break an
association repugnant to him. At
the very outset Of the Macaulay
strike, he informed the owners Of
the firm that he stood on the side
of the workers; he marched with
them on the picket line; and ne
negotiated with another firm which
offered to take over the book on
terms fair to the Macaulay Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
Parasites and Racketeers

FELLOW Lambert in this port
fearless capable person,
of which working generals
big strikes along this waenttha of the fishermen
boats During the latter strike the police
to the union hall that appeared
Union which is affiliated with the L.
by the Red the bosses tried to
They knew Lambert honest they
And they their leaders dishonest
the strike the rankandhe
out the place telling the racketeers to stay
For of all the parasites that labor
leaders the worst One of them
actually was hauling cabs in his during the strike He also
abbing
chief in the back, real
Exbooteggers cheap politicians every
musced into this L. union just
other led by the sanity William
The rankandhle completely is
that makes the Marine Workers Industrial
racketeeng
will completely under the control the
have said before these
leadership rank and file
parasites lies hide
er want to win strike gain better
with cheap leading depend
the bitter end on the Lamberts and Hudsons
THE MIGHTY
only is Mike Gold fifth in the
ecipsed by Burck, who beats him by $50.
Proceeds of Pinoche Game .....................S
Walter Gray ..................,.. 200
seidler Social Club Observation-Disclosures.
Party in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
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present
Without manuscript
the World column
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
TRIBUTE TO DEL

by donating my wages for a
lecture to the Daily Worker fund
through your column" writes
Max Bedacht, Il wish emphati-
cally to express my opinion about
the value and Importance of the
linlatn.. fnn t,,rnn nf o,,,. aIAni1.r
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06

REVENGE WITH MUSIC, a must
cal play, featuring Charles Win
ringer, Libby Holman and George
Metaxa. Book, lyrics and music
by Howard Dietz and Arthur
Schwartz; at the New Amsterdam
Theatre.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-12
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
A STATE COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND

The North Carolina State Association for the
Blind, recently formed at Statesville, has outlined
two-fold program in behalf of the blind in this
state That program is legislative and educational:
the association is sponsoring bill for the cfea-
tion of a state commission for the blind IN North
Carolina and it seeks to educate the seeing public
TO an understanding of the problems of the bind.
The bill providing for the creation of state
commission for the blind would have, If passed.,
an annual appropriation of $25,OOO At present
% states have commissions for the blind, and
these groups are doing much for the Improvement
of conditions for the blind. Included IN their pro-
Grams are the conservation of eyesight, the pre-
vention of blindness extensive placement work IN
behalf of the blind the Improvement of condltions
of children of preschool age, care for children not
able to enter the state schools for the blind, pro-
motion of the manufacture and sale OF articles
made by the blind, ETC.
In some states these commissions maintain SHOPS
where blind persons are given vocational training
in the industrial field. 1t is to be noted, too, that
the work of state commissions never duplicates the
work being done by the schools for the bind.
Creation by the legislature of such commiS-
sion in North Carolina would be of invaluable ser"
vice to this states blind citizens Not only would
If helm make them more fitted for life but it would
devotion in them a sense of courage and an aware
ness of the fact that they, too, will be able to con-
tribute their share to the growth of progressive
commonwealth-Hig Point Enterprise.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-12
To THE TASK

Now the election campaigns are over.
Politicians can no longer expect to make imme-
date capital out of this government policy or that.
1t is time now to put shoulders to the wheel
and restore the prosperity of this country.
This is a work for Republican, Democrat, and
Socialist alike
1t is their America.
Presidents may come and go. The nation and
its people remain.
Their joys their loves, their ambitions, their
welfare their hopes, are very similar, whether one
be Republican, another a Democrat, still others
Socialists or whatnot.
This is our country. 1t is not the country of the
Democratic, Republican or Socialist parties.
A patriot not only loves his country. He works
for it. fights for it; if need be, he dies for it.
We need this patriotism in the fight against de-
preston; against those practices which bring suf-
fering and misery upon the masses of our people.
Every citizen of this country is American be-
fore he is a Democrat Republican, Socialist, a
Protestant or Catholic His first duty is to coun-
try, humanity.
1t is now the business of every man of us to
"buckle down" to the task of restoring prosperity
in America and to uphold the hands of the Presi-
dent and other duly elected officers of nation and
of state.
Within two years the day will dawn for us to
make another great expression of the public will
Until then let us do with our might the things es-
sental to the welfare of our country, and its peo-
pie Winston-Saem Journal.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-12
MONDAY: NOVEMBER

,houebt the same. They seem to
have become so complex with re-
lation to the knowledge of the
times that they were unable to
perpetuate themselves and ceased
to exist, but always, too, it seems
that a better order arose from
their ruin. We can not argue
from analogy that history will not
repeat itself in this respect. But
it would seem that with ,all the
experience of the past to guide us
we should be. able to grow and
prosper as a civilization for many,
many centuries, but will we? God
only knows. 1t took Rome 800
wears to grow and 500 years to
die, but how many nations rose
and fell while Rome was growing!
We have many symptoms OF the
disease that destroyed Rome, and
vet as a nation we are but a baby
in age. We may be prodigy, but
prodigies do not necessarily live
long.
The problem that confronts
this country is internal and not
external. The problem of advance
| ment might well be retarded by
external causes such as trade and
commerce. But the problem of
live or die is the problem of capt.
tai and labor; the problem of in
trinsic and extrinsic wealth. When
capital can so control the curren-
CIV as to cause it's circulation to
be confined to but a narrow circle
the nation can not prosper; when
labor can demand the capital and
the profits of industry the nation
can not prosper; when the price
of extrinsic goods command more
than intrinsic goods the nation
will not long thrive. But | doubt
much if any argument, INDUCED
in by however so many people,
will change much the course of
events. Our knowledge is mostly
that which is behind us; our our, ablIl-
tios wrapped up in to-day"
''> JOHN EWBANK.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-12
MORE HAYWIRE

Political poohpabs in Washington have dinned
into our ears for two years the idea that overpro-
duction has been the cause of our recent economic
ills.
They set about to remedy this situation by plow-
ing under every third of cotton, by paying
farmers bonuses not to grow wheat, corn, and
other commodities, by spending tax money to pur-
chase and destroy millions of hogs, sheep, and
other livestock.
But when it came to the power business, over
production was not consideration 1t is reliably
estimated that power plant installations from
25 to 40 per cent more than the available market
for power. Some of these estimates have been
made by government bureaus.
Did the politicians purchase every third power
plant in the country and pillow it under? They did
not. They are putting the taxpayers money into
the power business, but not for sterilization pur
poses. aforementioned power schemes, which
will cost the taxpayers a billion dollars or more
are now under way How does the government
square this expenditure with its theory that over.
expansion and overproduction are unsound and
bound to produce insufferable depression?-Public
Service Magazine.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-12
COLD FACTS REMAIN

President Wendell L. Wilkie, of the Common
wealth and Southern Corporation, exercised adj
mirable restraint in his address before the Ameri
Statistical Association in his discussion of the
iva. Mr.. Wilkes company is of the chief
victims of the government ownership craze.
With obvious effort to understate rather
than to overstate, Mr. Wilkie showed some of the
more glaring discrepancies which make the much
Wanted yardstick idea nothing short of painful
jOkc-more painful to the taxpayers than even to
the power companies.
The whole basic argument in favor of IVA was
that it should "save the governments huge invest
ment at Muscle Shoals" yet now that the IVA is
selling power commercially of it's earliest acts
is to write off four-ffths of the investment at
Muscle Shoals. AS a taxpayer the IVA will pay
per cent of its gross as compared with the pres
ent ia xburden of the Tennessee Electric Power
Company of nearly 20 per cent of its gross.
One statement by Mr.. Wilkie that will interest
power users is that if the Tennessee Electric Pow
er Company was given all of the aid from tax
funds, all of the tax-paying favorititism and ex-
emption ,all the special transportation rates, all
the free postage privileges, all of the combined
special benefits which IVA enjoys at the expense
of the taxa the Tennessee Electric Power
Company could reduce domestic and comercial
the IVA at Tupelo.
The yardstick is cracking.-Public Service Mag
azine.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-12
BASEBALL SHOWS HOW HUMAN
!. JAPANESE ARE
CBv BRUCE CATTON)

1t is an odd thing that professional Oase-
ball players should succeed where states
men and diplomats have failed.
While Babe Ruth and his all-Star crew
from the American and National Leagues
tour Japan and enjoy public acclaim,
national friendliness, which is as amazing
as it is sincere, the statesmen are looking
ahead nervously to the coming 'dlsarma-
ment' conference, wonering how much
longer the fabric of world peace will be
able to stand the strain which conflicting
American and Japanese naval rivalries are
putting upon it.
Now it would be perfectly silly of course
to suppose that because of Japanese en-
thusiasm for our game of baseball the Diff
ficult problems surrounding the clash OF
opposing national policies are going to be
swept away. International miXups aren't
Strengthened out so easily.
And yet there is something about ia
pans welcome to the American baseball
team which makes person stop and think
a little.
Ordinarily we see the Japanese in the
light of their Manchurian adventure, with
the shadow of great naval ambitions fall
ing across their shoulders. They become
grotesque caricatures symbOlizing ruthless
and pugnacious greed. Given a little bad
luck, we could easily put them in that gal
lery labeled ''the enemy"
And then we read about this tour of the
American baseball team; about $4,000
japanese turning out to see single game
about a great popularity contest to choose
the so most beautiful mattresses in Toxic
to wait on the American athletes at the
dinner table; about enormous crowds clog
ging the streets to see and cheer the play
ers-and, in familiar fashion, to ask for
autographs.
Reading those things, we suddenly dis
cover: Why, these folk are like ourselves.
They like the same things we like; if we
got to know them, we could like them first
rate, and they could like us.
And that, in turn, is apt to make us
wonder whether there really needs to be
that mutual suspicion and jealousy which
NOT to mince words about it-has SHOW
ed us dangerous distance along the road
to war. If handful of professional ath-
letes can give us vision of international
friendship, shouldn't there be some way
of translating the vision into reality?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-12
eElllND TIE SCENES ri
WAS EIlNGTON!

Everyone knew Roosevelt, who
took the job over from NIRB and
certainly added nothing to its
prestige when he did so. wouldn't
accept the industry's challenge.
Automobiles are a vital part in
such recovery as he can claim
and he could afford, for the time
being at least, to ignore labor's
demands rather than court an
open break with a huge industry,
A T the last moment, it appeared
\ that Roosevelt-who could
have imposed a code Oil the in
dustry-wasn't going to be the
least bit tough about it and that
the code would be merely re.
newed as it stood.
Just few hours before extern.
sion, Roosevelt called Hillman to
the White House and the two mer
talked for an hour. Insiders sus.
pect the interview was urged on
Roosevelt by Miss Perkins.
Anyway. it was one more dem.
onstration that the administra.
tion turns to Hillman, president
of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, for advice on labor
problems rather than to any old
line A F Of L. leader.
COME labor people deride Hill.
~ mans subsequent expressions
of pleasure, feeling that labor re.
ceived'a mere crumb.
But it's worth remembering
that Hillman is the strongest,
shrewdest, and most practical la.
Dor leader in the business. He
never bites off more than he can
chew, but he misses few bets and
hits hard when there's a chance
to win.
You can't tell yet whether the
presidents assertion of his pow-
CIR is significant. But the inquiry
and its findings will be a handy
weapon for him when the auto
strike scare comes.