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The Washington times., 1934-09-24
From "Cain's"

One of my most pleasant as.
SociationS 1DGS tDith Sam H. HGr-
riS, When / replaced the ercel-
lent stage director, HGSSGrd
Short (nUho DGs otherwise en-.
gGgedJ and produced the last
OF IrUing BerIin's Music Boz
ReUueS." The ShoD wGS a big
success. / got a shock lDhe1l the
proof OF the program wGs given
me for correction. Irving Ber.
lin and my brother, 1Dho had
compiled the "creditS," had
added, after the line "Staged by
John Murray Anderson" "The
entire production carried out BY
Gains StorehouSe under the per.
SonGl supervision of HGSSGrd
Short. Needless to sag, this
1ever got past the galley proof.
In the past Is years I have
devised and staged 2O-odd full
length revues and musical
comedies in New York and
London, one super motion pic
ture, and (Heaven forgive meD
about 80 smaller productions
for the picture theaters, in.
Guiding three at Radio City
Music Hall. My brother, who,
in his madder moments, is a
statiStician, has compiled the
following figures relating to
all this.
Performers employed zee. 5,1OO
Musicians employed. 1,940
Authors, lyriciStS and
composers ........... 30
Scenic and costume de-
SlgnerS ............... So
Stage hands .......... 2,4OO
Successes .............. 81
COPS $1,000.
Estimated number of per-
sons seeing shows and
picture. ...... Over 75,OO0,OOO
Number of umbrellas left
in theaterS;
Ia In London. ........ IS
(b) In New York. .... e
Several other columns Of fig
ureS, relevant or otherwise,
refrain from giving here, albeit
my brother is a bit hipped on
the subject and spends sleep
less nights working out graphs
and tables relative thereto.
/ often 1Donder 1DhGt has be-
come of the splendid performers
and artists 1Uith Uhom I haze
had the privilege to work. A
te1O haze died, but the great ma
jority are GliUe. Like the Sno1US
of yeSteryeGr they seem to vGniSh
from our Oiew and newcomers
take their places. What q Wo1l-
dertul opportunity there is for
authors and actors today! The
stage is GSSuredly returning to
its otOn, and the road, Which has
been Stnrved for so long, is
literally craving legitimate pro-
ductionS.
The old order changeth and
the caravan of players passes
on, but the theater itself sur
wives. In spite of talking pic
lures, radio and other forms c.,
mechanical entertainment, the
legitimate stage remains the
bedrock on which the real art
of drama. comedy and music
stands. And so, to the new
blood in our world of the thea.
ter-the young authors and
composers, the actors and pro-
ducers we say, in the inspired
words Of O'Shaughnessy:
Bring US hither your sun and
your Summers,
"Great hail! we cry to the
corners
From the dazzling unknown
shore;
And renew our world as Of
yOre.
You shall teach us your songs
new number
And things that we dreamed
not before;
Yea, in spite of the dreamers
who Slumber,
And the singers who sing NO
more"
The Washington times., 1934-09-24
king Of Jazz"

Through the small end of my
opera-glaSs I see the old Palais
restaurant shortly after the
war. It was then the most
popular and fashionable rendez-
vous in New York, and was
producing elaborate shows there
for Paul Salvin. Paul White
man was at the beginning of
his career and was leading the
orchestra. His pianist was Emil
Coleman. and other instrumen-
taiSts with him were Ferde
Grofe and B. S. Rolfe, all three
Of whom have since become in
dividually famous.
The maitre d'hotel at the
Palais Royal in those days was
Pierre now operating his own
hotel on Fifth Avenue. I subse-
quently produced and directed
a motion picture featuring Paul
Whiteman. It was THE King
of jazz" and l see it is still
playing in New York and else
where after almost five years of
continuous showing throughout
the world Someone has Sug.
geSted to me that this may be
a record The Whiteman pic.
ture, by the way, contained the
first animated cartoon in color,
and paved the way for Disney's
delightful Silly Symphonies.
/ look back at the little Green.
wich Village Theater (since sup
planted by a cafeteria) where,
In 1919, originated the Screen.
wich Village FOllies. The first
revue of this series was put on
with very little capital and net
ted nearly $25O.OOO. I remem.
Der Florence Ziegfeld was irate
at the thought of anyone else
producing a "FOllieS," but we
remained good friends. It was
. strange quirk Of fate which
The Washington times., 1934-09-24
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SObOl-
Down Memory Lane!
By JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON

Dy JOHN MONNAI AIVDENoON
When was boy at school in Switzerland, had
the temerity to write George Bernard Shaw for
his autograph He replied: $50 young and already
collecting autographs! Young man, you will come
to bad end! His words were in a sense prophetic;
for at an early age became theatrical producer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
A NeaV Naval Race

THE preliminary naval conference in
London, involving Britain, Japan and
the United States, is on the point of col
lapse. The race for naval arms has
reached such an extreme pitch that no
broad treaty camouflape can be designed to cover
the open drive to war
1t must be emphasized here that not one of these
powers waited for the conference to rush its naval
arms building program. The Roosevelt government
has been most outstanding in this respect provid-
ing for the construction of 1870 war vessels utilizing
funds that should go to the relief for the unemployed
to prepare for war The results of the London con-
ference will be only still more intensified battIe-shp
construction.
The Japanese delegation left Tokyo with def
mite program That program provided for full naval
arms equality, the abrogaton of the 1880 London
naval treaty. and the re-shfting of it's alliances
British imperialism, the basis Of its growing
ficts with Wall Street has thrown good portion
Of its weight to the japanese naval program. The
japanese have already made a military alliance
against the Soviet Union with Fascist Germany.
There is not the slightest doubt that the British
and Japanese are trying to utilize the main cement
ing force a united against the Soviet Union,
as the chief basis for arriving at agreement At
the same time the bitter imperialist conflicts
arising from the desire of the United States, Great
Britain and Japan to dominate the Pacific hampers
agreement. But there is one thing certain both
their own bitter antagonists and their mutual
desire to crush the Soviet Union drive them into
ornaments race.
recent report of the Foreign Policy Association
shows that all of the imperialist powers are
rapidly exceeding the expenditures of 1914, the
year of the outbreak of the last mperialist world
war. The naval arms conference will be point of
departure for more rapid arms construction. The
masses of all of the imperialst powers involved Will
be squeezed lower relief will be cut more drasticay
to provide the swollen budgets for building war
ships.
The Communist Party urges the masses to rally
their forces for revolutionary struggle against
war We urge the workers to begin by voting Com
munst as an expression Of their opposition to Roose-
velt's war program
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Mr.. AmmiratO agent
of German

ANTHONY AMMIRATO, president of
"A the Paterson dye workers local (U.
TW0, on Tuesday injected gangster
methods into his misleadership of the
present dyers' strike. Ammirato boosted
in a union meeting of having slugged young Com
munist in the face. He urged that all radicals be
driven from the union He unsuccessfully tried to
revent the strikers from reading the Daily Worker
Who is Anthony Arnmirato and what is his
record? He is a member of the National Executive
Council of the United Textile Workers Union He
voted for the selIout of the general textile strike
He supported German and his policies throughout
the last strike He approved the sending of over half
a million textile workers back to work without a
single one of their demands being granted Am
nitrate is lust as responsible German and Green
for the sell-out of the general textile strike
The telegram sent out by German on Sept. y,
calling off and betraying the general textile strike
stated in its first sentence, by unanimous vote
of the Executive Council your heroic strike ends IN
complete victory" Ammirato, member of the Execu-
tive Council of the u T. w. voted for all OF Cor
mans strikebreaking measures. He has tried to eX-
plain this away, but it stands out in black ana
white on page 395 of the Sept. Textile Worker
official organ of the U. T. W.
So far the militancy Of the dye strikers has kept
Amnirato and other misleaders from selling out
the present strike The strike is 100 per cent solid
due to the strikers miitancy.
But Ammirato is following out the orders OF
Green and German. He has brought German into
the negotiations with the bosses and the govern
ment
These misleaders are keeping the negotiations
secret from the strikers. Is Ammirato opposed to
placing settlement of union complaints in the hands
of Roosevelt impartial arbitration board or Is
he not? Anmirato has not told the strikers whether
he is in favor of this compulsory arbitration or not!
Such an impartial" board robbed the general tex
tile strikers of all their demands.
Now Ammirato raises the red scare. He carries
out the instructions of William Green to attack the
Communists and other militant rank and file work
ers who want control of the union placed in the
hands of the rank and file He hopes to hide the
truth from the strikers by attacking Communists
who distribute leaflets or the Daily Worker.
Ammirato has introduced the methods of the
gangster and sugger into the union.
The rank and file of the dye strikers will give
Ammirato a fitting answer. Ammirato cannot get
away with his sluggng and red scare tactics which
are brought into the union in order to prepare the
way for another sen-out
Striking dyers! Hold your ranks solid. Unite
every dye striker regardless of his political belief
in iron unity to win the strike.
Defeat all attempts to sell out the strike. De-
feat the employers impartial" boards Strike until
every demand is won. Take control of the strike
into your own hands-into the hands of the rank
and file.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Dealings With Tammany

YESTERDAYS issue of the Jewish
Daily Forward, Socialist newspaper,
contains revealing sample of the kind
of political arguments which the editors
of leading Socialist papers will employ
to block the united front of the working
class
The Forward seizes with glee upon the item
printed in the Daily Worker of Oct. Is reporting
that the Negro worker, Oscar Meyers Communist
Party candidate for Assembly, has received the
endorsement of the Frederick Douglass Coored
Fusion Club and the United Colored Democratic
Club
See, cries the Forward, with what people the
Communist Party forms united fronts, with Tam
many crooks And, the Forward adds, is this not
a prelude to a united front of the Communist Party
with Tammany everywhere? The Communists they
say blame us when we even talk to capitalist par
ties. But as for themselves they making Union
Square a happy place for Communism and Tam
many to lie down together.
Is there worker who will not see the trickery
of this kind of argument? Is there a worker who
will not see that it is a victory for the workers
when Negro workers who still under the in
f1uence of the capitalist parties make step toward
breaking away from these parties by endorsing
Communist fellow worker whom they know and
trust?
Is this an alliance with Tammany? On the con-
trary, it is one of the best ways to fight Tammany
and break its influence upon the workers 1t is pre-
c.5ely these workers in the capitalist clubs whom
we must win to our side.
Does the Forward fight Tammany? On the
contrary 1T halls the action of the Socialist officials
in the International Ladies Garment Workers
Union who have officially supported the Wall
Street Tammany agent Lehman They endorse
the banker Lehman; Negro workers in demo-
cratic and Fusion Club endorse Communist.
There is some difference, gentlemen of the For
ward.
The Forwards bewails the fact that we attack
their policy of talking" with capitalist parties But
this is the class policy of Social to enter
into coalitions with the capitalist parties to help
preserve capitalism.
The united front of all workers. regardless of
political af1iation-for the common fight against
capitalism-that is the Communist Party stand. No
sneers or Misrepresentation will stop it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
by Burck

more smooth, aggravated the the
difficulties of effecting such action
In this appeal it is stated:
"The organization of united in
ternatiOnal action by the working
class, after the tragic history of
the last decade, is a heavy prob
lem, a problem which is on the
order of the day for the Novem-
Der agenda of the Socialist and
Labor International. Experiences
in France have indicated that in
order to fulfill all the conditions
for the success of united action
the negotiations must take a long
time. And in the international
sphere the difficulties of overcom-
ing great differences are naturally
greater than in individual coun-
tries"
Ito be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Mobilization DEGREES
Are Issued i'm Poland

WARSAW, Oct. 31.-With the
opening of the parliament" of the
fascist Polish Government only a
few days off, three DEGREES were
hurriedly issued for the purpose of
mobilizing the entire population at
the service of the countrys war
machine.
The first two DEGREES makes
liable for war-service, auxiliary
training and even for peace time
training on demand of the Govern
ment, all citizens, men and women,
between the ages of II and so. Re-
sistance is punishable by imprison-
ment and fine. A clause in the
second decree makes legal all gov
eminent seizure of any property or
implements disable in time of war
owned by the citizens.
The last decree classifies as es-
pionage the printing or transmits
sion of any matter or ideas con-
corning the political, diplomatic or
economic situation in Poland. This
prevents the press in the country
from printing almost any news
about domestic. events.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
The SIP. and Bankers

IF ANYTHING brought out into the open
the brazen alliance of the Roosevelt
government with the most ruthless sec
tions of Wall Street finance capital it was
the recent Bankers Convention in Wash
ington,
Neither Roosevelt nor the bankers made any
bones about the fact that Roosevelt's policies are
the policies which are accepted by the Morgans,
Rockefeners, du Points, and the rest of the Wall
Street monopolies
But what does the Socialist Party have to say
about this open alignment of Roosevelt with the
Wall Street banks? Does it flay Roosevelt as the
tool of the countrys most powerful capitalists?
Does it call upon the working class to fight against
this Wall Street agent in the White House, against
the whole fraud of capitalist democracy which is
really nothing but the hidden rule of the Wall Street
banks?
On the contrary, the New Leader this week
takes up the hue and cry of every capitalist sheet
which is interested in hiding from the people that
Roosevelt and the Wall Street banks are one and
the same group.
The New Leader comments on the Bankers
Convention as follows
cat other times and under other conditions
the bankers would feel perfectly at home IN the
nations capital But in these precariouS times the
big bankers seem to be doubtful whether Wash
ingtOn will take them into its bosom drive the
money changers out of the temple"
capitalist demagogy to give the idea that his pro-
gram is something different from the program of
the banks?
NOTICE the argument: before Roosevelt the bank
~ ers really controlled Washington, but now under
the New Deal the bankers don't know where they
stand!
Thus, says the New Leader, the Roosevelt gov
eminent the capitalist state is longer what Marx
described all capitalist governments to be-the
engine of the oppression of capital over labor"
The Roosevelt government, in short is an impartial
government whom the Wall Street banks are afraid
Of says the New Leader.
Does this not perform the function of tying
the working class to the chariot Of the Roosevelt
capitalist government, the most cunning and ruth
less tool of Wall Street which the country has
ever seen?
Does this not blind the masses to the class char
acter of the Roosevelt government its servilty to
the Wall Street monopolies and banks?
Does this not actually help the Wall Street
banks to continue their deception of the masses,
their dictatorship over the which they hide
behind the frauds and swindes of capitalist demo-
cracy?
In the elections, the Communist Party procaims
that every act of Roosevelt shows him to be the
agent and tool of the Wall Street banks and monop-
olies, that all his policies without exception are
policies in the interests Of the big industriasts and
banks. Against this socal-fascist Sugar-coatIng of
the Roosevelt-capitalist alliance with the banks
Fight the Roosevelt New Deal as the Wall Street
program! Glass against class! Vote Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
By Bella KUN

THE monarchist-fascist counter
L revolution is attempting to cool
the feverish revolutionary soil of
Spain with the warm blood of work.
ers and peasants. AS swiftly and as
solidly as the international working
class can halt the executioners by
it's united action, as little of the
blood of the heroic Spanish prole-
tariat will be shed by the Spanish
government.
He strikes with double strength
who strikes quickly-the force of
this old maxim especially in this
situation can be doubted by no one.
Bearing this in mind, the Executive
Committee of the Communist Inter
national fastened to direct, without
moments delay, proposal to the
leadership of the Second Interna-
tional that the Socialist and Labor
International, together with the
Communist International, enter
upon immediate united action, as
we'll for the support of the fight
ing Spanish proletariat as for the
struggle against the support Of the
LerrouX regime by other capitalist
countries" 1t is precisely this i'm
mediate urgency of the practical &C
complishment of united action on
the part of the whole international
proletariat which prompted this in
slant proposal of the leadership
of the Comintern despite the fact
that directly or indirectly most Sec
lions of the Second International
carry on policy of class-collabora-
ton with their own governments.
In taking this step toward the es-
tablishment of united action, the
leadership of the Communist Inter
national did not allow itself to be
hindered by the fact that in a group
of capitalist countries the leader
ships of sections of the Second In
ternational, as the ruling parties, di-
rectly protect the interests of their
own bourgeoisie Gas in Sweden or
Denmark, or are now preparing to
take over the reins of administra-
ton, as the leadership of the British
Labor Party is doing in Great
Britain. Nor was it any hindrance
for the Communist International
that few weeks ago in a bourgeois
provincial French sheet ("Petit
Provencal" of Sept. 23), the chair
man of the Second International,
Emile Vandervelde, Dragged:
TN spite of all the events in
France and the effect which they
had on the national crisis in Bel
GUM, so far as unity of action with
the Communists was concerned, the
Belgian Labor Party placed itself
on the same stand of absolute re-
fusal as the Socialists of Holland,
Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Den
mark and Sweden"
Also, the concrete platform of
united action for the support of
the Spanish proletariat, which the
representatives of the Comintern,
Comrades Cachin and Thorez,
handed to the representatives of
the Socialist and Labor Interna-
tional, Vandervelde and Frederick
Adler, was an extremely modest
one: The immediate organization
of mass united action and demon
strations, common proposals di-
rected to International trade union
organizations for the united pre-
vention of any transporting of
troops and arms to the Lerroux
regime, an identical position of
the Communist and Socialist
Parties in convoking parliaments
for the launching of protests
against the determination of the
fighting proletariat of Spain, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Second international Spurns Unity
Proposals To Aid Spanish Workers

immediate gathering of material
aid for the Spanish prOletariat
and the victims of monarchiSt-
fascist persecution-every one of
these minimum proposals spring
from the most elementary feel
ings of duty on the part of inter
national proletarian solidarity.
The representatives of the Com
munist International had made pro-
posals which would willingly be en-
braced by any proletarian possess
ing the smallest amount of class
consciousness. All these proposals
are altogether consistent with those
bourgeois democratic principles
which the Socialist Parties recog-
nize. Never before had the Commu-
mist International proposed that the
Second International, as a unit and
in sections, join in solidarity with
these methods of struggle for the
protection of the democratic" right
of freedom, which a great part of
the Spanish Social-Democracy, to-
gether with the Communists, had
employed during the general strike
and in armed battle.
CIMPLE, elementary methods Of
v struggle had been proposed in
the interests of the international
solidarity of the working class,
methods which even in its golden
period of outright bourgeois democ-
racy every Socialist Party had used
without hesitation, SO long as it was
merely question of protecting
hunted revolutionists, preventing
executions in order to save the lives
of those fighting for freedom.
1t must be understood that in GER
tain circles of various Social-Demo-
cratic Parties this step of the Com
munist International for the imme-
date organization of actions of soil
darity for the Spanish proletariat
was heartily welcomed. Not a doubt
can be entertained that many hon
est Social-Democrats were dissat-
isfied that the party convention of
the influential Labor Party in
Southport, meeting at the time of
the bloody attack of the counter
revolution in Spain, limited it's soli-
darity with the Spanish workers to
resolution couched in the most
abstract, platonic phraseology and
that the newly Executive
Committee of this party had set it.
self the modest task of observing
the course of events and considering
steps for the support of our COM
rades."
No less is the dissatisfaction of
these left Social Democratic circles
to be doubted when we learn that
these modest words were effaced by
even more modest actions, so that
finally the activity of the Executive
Committee of the Labor Party
shrunk to observing the course of
events"
The provisional reply of the Elk
ecutive Committee and Secretary of
the Second international, which has
always raised the pretension that it
desired to be looked upon as an in
ternational association Of working
class parties, certainly was in no
way the answer of one workers
party to another workers party
when the problem is one of estab-
fishing unity of action in favor of
united, fighting heroic working
class.
Even before the meeting of the
representatives. of the CT. and Sill.
the Trade Union Committee of the
Sill. published an appeal which,
far from rendering united action in
! behalf of the Spanish proletariat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Mexico Starts Inquiry
On Church Activities

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 31.-An in
vestigation was begun this after
noon of the underground anti
feudal reactionary activities of the
corrupt Mexican clergy. The SUI
preme Court delivered shattering
blow at the power of the Church
not only by an order to confiis-
cate all church property but by
making state property any pri-
vately owned building in which
ceremonies of any kind are con-
Quoted.
President Rodriguez, in the letter
containing the charges preferred
against the church, accused the
clergy Of following its persistent
historical attitude Of trying to
combat all advanced principles"