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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Excellent List
Of P a m p h | IS
For WOnen'S Day
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| INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
need not fail from lack Of APP
propriate pamphlets. Grace Hut
chins' Women Who Work" Clara
Zetkin's "Lenin on the Women
Question" F. Nurina's Women in
the Soviet Union" make excellent
reading for the millions Of women
who must be reached with the mes
sage Of March g.
In brief 81 pages, Grace Hut
chins' pamphlet international
Pamphlets No. 27, 10 cents gives
compelling account of the lot of
women under capitalism. She tells
Of the outcssts of rugged individual
ism snatching living" from gar
bage dumps; forced into organized
vice; used, when they are graciously
permitted to work, in munitions
factories as cogs in imperislism's
war drive.
The late Clara zetkin. veteran
German revolutionist, did well to
write down her conversations with
Lenin. They make fine pamphlet
GLENN on the Woman Question, 4"
International Publishers, 5 cents
which can we'll be studied alike by
the raw recruit and seasoned vet
eran of the labor movement. Here
IS Lenin's genius in spreading the
message Of Communism to all sec
lions of the oppressed and disin-
herited. Yet Lenin insisted the
struggle for women's freedom would
decay if it we're isolated into a
simple question of "women's rights"
The women must be made con-
scious Of the political connection
between our demands and their own
suffering, needs and wishes. They
must realize what the proletarian
dictatorship means for them. :"
F, Nurinas Women in the So
Wet Union-the Role of Women in
Socialist Construction" Interna-
tional Publishers, Is cents not only
sings the praises of the Soviet solu-
ton of the woman question that
must always be a question under
capitalism. She contrasts the free
dom of the Soviet woman with the
lot of her sister in capitalist coun-
tries and indicts fascist and social
/ democratic attitudes to women.
Boys and girls of the Soviet work.
ing class enjoy to the full the fruits
of socialism, Vladimir Zaitsev shows
in youth in the Soviet Union"
International Publishers). Pictures
show youngsters at school, in the
science laboratories, leading the local
Communes, helping in the harvest
fields.
Children Under Capitalism" Qn-
ternational Pamphlets No. 80, 5
cents is another of Grace Hutchins
indictments of capitalisms crimes
against boys and girls of the work
ing class. The same writer's book
Women Who Work" international
Publishers is the only Marxist sur
vey of the lot of ten million women
who slave In factory and farm. This
is dollar book, but for those who
can scrape up the money it's the
best dollars worth on the subject
ever bought.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Strik e Is Only Ian.
guage the Bosses
Understand
By A. sHOLACHMAN

ARE you the scab?"
II Eyes, am the scab," was the
innocent answer of the elevator
operator of one Of the buildings or
strike. Two members of the Har-
lem Council of the Building Service
Employees Union had been sent by
the union to take him down. II
was obvious that the worker who
was scabbing did not know what
the term implied, although he had
heard the word mentioned before.
The committee patiently explained
to him why there was strike going
on, what a union was and what
role scab played. The worker i'm
mediately left the building, went to
the union, signed up, got on the
picket line and is now explaining
to other workers why they should
join the union.
The committee went to take down
the elevator operator in another
building After explaining to this
worker about the union and the
strike, they asked him to come out
Il can't do it just now" he said
I'll give you my answer tomorrow. ="
why can't you go out now?"
asked one of the committee. "Is
there any doubt in your mind about
anythingP"
NO" answered the worker, II
agree with you one hundred per
cent but if you don't mind I'll give
you my answer tomorrow"
why can't you answer us right
now?" asked the union man.
"Oh, It's private matter" was
the reply.
But the committee insisted on an
immediate answer and finally the
worker said, well, If you must
know, I'll tell you. You see I have
to ask Father Devine tonigh {
whether it's o. K. to strike or not
and I'll give you my answer tomor-
rowl"
Patient explanation and discus
sion with this worker also brought
him out and into the union.
THE strike struggles of the build
ing service workers in the last
week has seen thousands of workers
coming in contact with organiza-
ton and struggle for the, first time
in their lives. Especially in Har-
lem is this true Thousands of them
have joined the union in the last
few weeks and are rapidly becoming
the best fighters in the struggle
against the realty bosses for better
conditions.
The building service workers are
also rapidly learning that only
through strike struggle and the
picket line will they be able to force
the bosses to grant higher wages
and lower hours. They are be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
WORLD Of MUSIC

words. True, list of desirable
qualities can be made. A fairly pre-
sentable general theory (still apt to
cause heated controversy has been
often presented in these columns.
And lists of works of both Euro
pean and American revolutionary
composers are beginning to grow to
considerable length. But all the
talking in the world will not con-
vince or illustrate. One has to hear
the music.
Well. the music is heard. Watch
the audience. 1t sits at absolute
attention, No rustling of programs,
shifting in seats, talking or writing
of notes back and forth. The APP
plause seems unusually spontane-
ous-hut then, the audience is ac-
claiming its own and might, con-
ceivably, be partisan and deliber-
ately ignoring faults. But when
member after member OF the audi
ence says, without there being any
suspicion of generalization, and with
kind of delighted surprise, that
this music sounds unlike ordinary
music, that it has an unaccountable
freshness, power, "a capacity, one
turns again to examine the scores
to see what technical means there
may be to bring about such re-
suit.
These young composers (Adomian,
Cazden, Fairbanks, Howe, Maynard
Swift and half dozen others
whose works we're not heard at this
concert) are all trained in the best
traditions Of bourgeois music-that
very music that we so often accused
of dying along with the decaying
/ capitalist class for which it is pre-
dominantly made. But their music
does not sound like the music OF
bourgeois composers. Although they
represent most varied temperaments
and express varieties of stylistic and
technical developments, their works
hang together with a consistency
that seems difficult to analyse. With
some exceptions, omitted from Sun
days program, they show common
avoidance of melancholy and de-
featest moods, musical day-dreaming
and fanciful CASTLE building. But
enc is not ssruck so much by the
absence Of these qualities as by a
positive purity and restraint which
dominates alike the sobriety, the
lyricism or the gayety Of the vari-
GUS numbers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
BY CARL SANDS

THE Workers Music School, a Divi-
sion of the Workers School and
affiliated with the Workers Music
League, opened its campaign for a
sustaining fund last Sunday by Civ
ing a concert that filled every
available bit Of floor space at the
headquarters of the Friends of the
Workers School with an apprecia-
tive audience,
The program with the addition of
"a Handel Sonata for violin and bass
played by F. H. Ilchuk and r.
Chester, and two piano pieces by
Popov and Mossoloy, respectively,
played by Ashley Pettis, was Sc
lected from the works of contem-
porary revolutionary composers who
are members of the Composers Col
lective of New York City. Mordecai
Baumann sang some of the Negro
songs of protest, collected by Law
renee Gellert, with piano accom-
paniments arranged by L. E. Swift.
Swift played his Theme and Vari-
atoms" for pianoforte.
There can be no question, how
ever, that the outstanding num-
bers of the program were those con-
tributed by the New Singers under
the leadership of Ian Adomian.
This remarkable reinforcement of
the music front in New York made
its debut on Jan. 81 at the John
Reed Club in concert of COM
positions by the Composers Collec-
tive. The members of the ensemble
twenty or thirty in number, all have
trained voices and read musical no.
tation. Their performance is marked
by fine, clear tone-quality of
great power, and rhythmic pre-
cision and general musicianship
nearly equal to the best bourgeois
organizations of the madrigal and a
cappella type in New York today.
ALTHOUGH the acoustics of the
"A room are inferior to those OF
the John Reed Club, the same i'm
preston given by the music of the
Composers Collective was received
by the audience at the Friends Of
the Workers School. We hear q
great deal of talk about proletarian
and revolutionary music. People
continually ask, what is the differ
ence between it and any other kind
of music of a conventional sort The
question is not easy to answer in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

est difficulty, and because the op-
position was not organized, the off,
Gals succeeded in breaking the
strike. AT first only about half the
men started, reluctantly, to put on
their uniforms. But the police were
there to do their dirty work. They
went through the basement physic-
ally "persuading" the more militant
workers to put on their uniforms.
In the locker rooms, the men ex-
pressed their anger at the tactics
OF the Union officials and the police.
One worker said, what guarantee
have we got that the boss won't cut
our wages month from now
instead of raising them?"
Strike is the only language the
bosses understand, said another
On the bulletin board near the
lockers some one had tackled up a
Burck cartoon. The strike had been
broken, but the workers will know
better next time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
BY DAVID PLATT

THE National Executive Committee
l Of the Film and Photo League
through its organ, Film Front, has
just released the following state
ment condemning Senator Francis
Culkins pro-f1lm censorship bill
(HR. 2999).
"a serious threat to independent
film production, distribution and ex-
hibition is contained in Senator
Francis Culkin's Bill H. r. 2999 to
protect the motion picture industry
against unfair trade practices and
monopoly Besides providing for the
manufacture of wholesome motion
pictures at the source of produc-
ton H. r. 2999 also calls for the
creation of Federal Motion Pic
ture Commission that will supervise
production and exercise unqeustion-
ed authority as to whether or not a
motion picture shall enter COM
merce.
If this bill is passed, and it APP
pears to be gaining support daily,
there will ensue such a torrent of
films feverishly eulogizing the es-
tablished order and opposed to the
minutsst attempt at social change,
that it will make the campaign of
the Legion of Decency. which in
spired the bill, seem like a nudist
movement. 1t will be up to this
Federal Commission to determine
whether the selection and treatment
of the subject matter of film. is
in accordance with public welfare,
and If it isn't, out it goes. Under the
provisions of this bill stoppage Of
Soviet films becomes prime nee
essity of law and order. Revelation
of conditions as they actually exist
in America, unpatriotic and unlaw-
full.
Thirteen major offenses are listed
in Section IA of the Bill, the pres
ence of any one of which in film
will be sufficient to stop its distribu-
ton. These are briefly:
Cd Films which emphasize and
exa ggerate sex appeal; (2) films
based on white slavery; 60 films
making prominent an illicit love
affair; "a films exhibiting naked
ness or persons scantily dressed;
90 scenes which unnecessarily pro-
long expressions or demonstrations
OF passionate love; e. films pre-
doninantly concerned with the
underworld; CD films which make
drunker9less and gambling attrac-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

workers Of the London Terrace.
The London Terrace is tremendous
apartment house covering the entire
block from 23rd to gath Street and
from 9th to 9th Ave. 1t has about
1000 apartments and houses about
5000 tenants. At 2 p. m. last Mon
day 275 workers, the entire staff,
walked out on strike at the call of
the Union. Immediately the gigan-
tic apartment house was filled with
police and scabs. At 3 p. m. the
strikers were suddenly ordered to
return to work by the Union. But
something the union officials had
not expected happened. The work.
erS refused to return to work, say
ing that they wanted definite con-
ditions guaranteed before they went
back.
A meeting of the men was i'm
mediately called in the grill room
and two officials from the Union
came hurrying down to get the men
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
THEATRE

by Alexander Ostrovsky; presented
by S. Hurok and the Moscow Art
Players; staged by Vera Gretch.
Reviewed by
LEON ALEXANDER
THE programs and the posters an
nounced a play. No one was
prepared, therefore, for the oper-
attic evening which followed - the
grandiloquent tenor gestures, the
basso profundo buffooneries, the
arch cuteness of tripping, over
weight divas. In the hands of the
Moscow Art Players, Ostrovsky's
play turned out to be opera, with
all the ancient trappings.
Age has not mellowed this senti-
mental, fearful comedy; it is
lengthy, tedious, creaking museum
piece. Its tale of an ambitious and
tyrannical father who tries to force
his meek daughter, in love with a
poor but poetic clerk, to marry a
rich old roue has no longer the
vitality to amuse or to draw tears.
There is just enough plot in the
play to make a longish one-acter;
but the action has been interlarded
with songs, sad and otherwise,
dances, a party (the ballet of the
opera that drags for half an act.
Thus the play is kept crawling from
aria-spoken or sung-to choral, to
duet
Speeded IN and played for its
satiric possibilities, acted and
directed to emphasize the ironic
contrast with the present, it might
have provided an amusing theatre
cal commentary on the past.
Vera Crotch, as we'll as playing
a secondary and unimportant role
directed the play. The lady is not
hampered by a false sense of
modesty; she took center stage
eyerytime she appeared, moved the
other actors around herself, sang,
danced. was the life of the party
and the "star" of the occasion.
More than any other factor, her
direction struck the keynote of
opera.
Acting without benefit of Mr..
Michel Chekhov, a really extraor-
binary actor, the Moscow Art
Players make one wonder what
magic Mr.. Hurok must have seen
in their performances to risk the
outlay of bringing them over all
the way from Europe. They bring
with them no theatrical novelties,
no newer mode of production. and
with the exception of M. Chekhov,
no outstanding actor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Frightening Apay Workers

Question: If the Communist Party pushes the
Labor Party too aggressively, won't this frghten
away many workers7-B r.. Richmond. Va
Answer: The workers won't be frightened away
merely because the Communist Party sgtates and
works for q labor party. 1t is the needs Of the
workers which primarily dictate their breakaway
from the old capitalist parties The employers and
their lieutenants in the labor movement always
raise the Red scare" to brighten workers away
from militant organizations
But this does not stop workers from fighting
for those needs that are most vital to them Al
though Communists participated in the fight for
unemployment insurance, this did not make work.
ers drop their fight. In fact in their struggle for
their immediate demands the workers come to real
ize that only the participation of Communists is
a guarantee that genuine fighting leadership will
be given to their fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
SideIights on Building
Service Workers Strike

coming disillusioned with the tactics
Of the union leaders headed by
James Bambrick who are trying at
all costs to avoid the general strike
and to sidetrack the strong strike
sentiment Of the membership of the
union.
An example of this growing senti-
ment is shown by the action of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

back to work. They pleaded with
the workers mot to run Wild" to
obey orders from their president,
etc. The men were furious. They
had taken the strike seriously and
now their officials were telling them
to be good boys" and to go back to
work without winning any imme-
date conditions.
Finally, and only with the great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Value of Burck's
Cartoons Stressed
By COrliSS Lamont

JACOB BURK'S drawings deal
y ing with the Soviet Union bring
out graphically and convincingly
the contrast between a planned So
cialist order and the miserable chaos
that goes by the name of capt.
talism. And they also illustrate the
very important point that, in order
to find temporary way out of its
crisis, world capitalism holds ever
in mind the tempting thought of an
attack on the Soviet Union with the
object of operthrowing the first So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Readiness for Communist Party

Question: If the workers can be rallied to the
class struggle policies Of the labor party, they
not ready to accept the program Of the Commu-
Ell
Answer: There are many workers who are
ready to fight for adequate relief and unempIoy-
ment insurance, for increased wages and better
working conditions and for many other Of their
immediate needs, They are even ready to take
steps toward independent working class political
action. But millions Of these workers are still not
ready to accept the revolutionary program Of the
Communist Party.
By rallying these workers around the class
struggle program Of labor party they can be
brought under more conscious working class lead
ership. Through their experiences in the labor
party the workers will advance from the fight for
immediate demands to the full revolutionary pro-
gram Of the Communist Party. It is to accelerate
the class consciousness Of the workers and to speed
their movement into the ranks of the Communist
Party that Communists propose the labor party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
TUNING IN

TOO P. M.-wEAF-Religion in
the News
wOR-Sports Resume-Stan
LomaX
WJz-John Herrick, Bari
tone
wABc-The Pace that Kills
Sketch
T:15-WEAF-Jack Smith,
Songs
WOR-Johnson Orchestra
WJZ-From Honolulu: Gov
ernor j. B. Poindexter of
Hawaii, Speaking at Open
ing of National Park Rid.
to Top Of Haleakala
Mountain; Maui County
Band
7:3O-W EAF-Variety Musicale
WOR-The Street Singer
WJz-King Orchestra
WABC-Arden Orchestra;
Gladys Baxter, Soprano;
Walter Preston, Baritone
f;45-WJz-Grace Hayes, Songs
WCR-Harmonica Band
500 WEAF-Concert Orches-
trs, Sigmund Romnerg,
Conductor Composer;
Stuart Churchill, Tenor;
Helen Marshal, Soprano;
Helen Phelps, Narrator
WOR-Organ Recital
WJz-Phil Cook Show Shop
WABC-Roxy Revue; Con-
cert Orch; Mixed Chorus,
Soloist
Observation-Disclosures Day
Symposium
S:30-WOR-Berrens Orch.
Whitman Relations In
Industry-William Green,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Questions
and
Answers

This department appears daily on the feature
page. All questions should be addressed to "Ques-
lions and Answers" 70 Daily Worker, 50 East
18th Street. New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

President American Fed
Grafton of Label, at Auto
mobile Workers Meeting,
Detroit.
S:45-WABC-Mary Courtland,
Songs; Armbuster Orch;
Msle Quartet
9;00-WEAF--Rose hampton,
Contralto; Scrappy Lam
bert and Billy Hillpot,
Songs; Shilkret Orch.
WoR-Hillbilly Music
WJZ-Radio City Party,
with John B. Kennedy;
Black Orchestra
WABC-Richard Bonelli,
Baritone; Kostelanetz Or
chestra; Mixed Chorus
$780, WEAF-The Gibson Fam
ily-Musical Comedy, with
Conrad Thibault, Bari
tone; L. Bennett, Soprano
WOR-Reisman Orchestra
""d dsAOAidi Dahl OdHCe
WABC-Himber Orchestra
1o:o0-WOR-Wintz Orchestra
WABC-Minneapolis Sym
phony Orchestra, Eugene
Ormandy, Conductor;
Anne Campbell, Poet
i0:i5-WABC-Vsriety Musicale
10:30-WEAF-Cugat, Good
man and Murray Orches-
trss until 1880 AM
WOR-Sissle Orchestra
WJz-Lombardo Orchestra
WABC-California Melodies
1l.00-WOR-News
WJZ-To Be Announced
WABCIGray Orchestra
1l;15-WOR-Danee Orchestra
1l:30-WJZ-Danee Music
(Also WABC, WOR, WMCA)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY "a

12:45-WABC-From London:
Pilgrimage to John Keats
Home; Speakers, Bernard
s. Townroe, Lord Mayor
of Hampstead Heath, and
others
.30-WEAF-Mario Chamlee,
Tenor
WJz-Play, with Frank
Morgan
500 WABC-Hew York Phil
MISUNDERSTANDING, Ar
tuTo Toscanini, Conduc-
tor; Jascha Heifetz, Violin
100 WJz-Jsck Benny, Come
dian; Frank Parker, Tenor;
Bestor Orchestra
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

WABC-Alexander Woollcott,
Story Teller; Armbuster
Orchestra
7:30-WJz-Joe Penner, Come
dian; Music
WABC-Tours Orch: Frank
Parker, Tenor; Jewellers
Quartet; Pickens Sisters,
Songs; Charles Winnin-
ger, Master CT Ceremonies
$780, WEAF-Opera, Martha,
with Richard Crooks.
Tenor. Josephine Antoine,
Soprano, and others
WABC-Eddie Cantor,
Comedian
WJZ-Symphony Orchestra,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Change
the
World!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

GERMANY must no longer be the
u worlds spittoon," was the inelegant
challenge recently broadcast by grand
son of the Kaiser, Prince August William.
The Prince is Nazi. This means that
he is a man who has helped Hitler make of Ger
many the fthiest and most ludicrous spittoon Of
history. The best way the Prince can now help
Germany would be to cut his own throat
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-24

The Salvation Army holds a young peoples meeting at o'clock this ev- ening.. with a salvation meeting set for 7:30. On Thursday the Home League and the Girl Guards will gather, while public meeting is ar ranged for Friday.
 Church Services Set
 The Resurrection Lutheran Church will hold festival service. using full liturgy of the church, at noon Christ mas Day. The Junior Choir will of fer caro's, featuring solos by Misses Katherine Torkelson and Louise Tanner.
 The Northern Light Church will -emain open all Christmas day, ac- ecrding to Rev. John A. Chase, with everyone welcome to spend the day there. The Trinity Cathedral will have a special Christmas service, and a gay children's party on Decem- Der 28.
 The Bethel Pentecostal Church and Sunday School held their Christmas party last evening with a program of vocal and instrumental music.
 Testimonial Meeting
 The First Church of Christ, Scient- ist. will hold a testimonial meeting tomorrow evening at D. m, with the church parlors open to the pub- lie from 2:30 to p. m.
 Friday evening, beginning at 7:3o o'clock, the First Presbyterian church will hold a social program under the direction of the young people, ac- cording to Rev. David Waggoner, with an invitation issued to the pub lie to attend the services.
 Christmas Vigil
 The Vigil Of Christmas, with a day of fast and abstinence, is observ- ed by Catholics today, with a Solemn Pontifical Mass, followed by Mass of Thanksgiving. scheduled for mid night.
 At 8 a. m. Christmas Day Chill dren's Mass will be read in the Church of the Nativity, followed by a Second Mass at g a. m. and a Third and Last Mass, preceding the Eenediction of the Most Blessed Sac Prament, at 1G:30 a. m.
 Other days of special devotion by Catholics this week are the Feast of St. Stephen, the first martyr, on Thursday and the Feast of St. John, the Evangelist, on Friday.
 Midnight Mass will be celebrated tonight at Holy Trinity Cathedral.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-24
ENTERTAINERS AT
 ROTARY LUNCHEON

Entertainment by the Musgrave Trioleans and cuckoo game for the members featured the weekly meet ing of the Rotary Club this noon at the Terminal. After the festive pre- Christmas luncheon, President How ard Stabler announced there would be no meeting of the club next week, the next regular luncheon gathering being held the first Tuesday in Jan luary.