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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
All-star Lineup

T LAST, with the cooperation of the Central
Al Distribution Agency, which places New Masses
and other revolutionary periodicals on the news
stands The Anvil No. came out with white paper
a rather thin grade Now No. TO- the March-April
issue, sports eggshell and an ail-star lineup in
Guiding Frskine Caldwell, Jack Conroy Saul Levitt
Josephine W. Johnson Harry Kermit, Louis cara and
Joseph D, Mari.
Naturally the quality of some previous issues
was uneven: the proletarian story still in it's
development stage. Desiring to furnish variety and
to encourage beginners, we printed a few stories
that should have been rejected. When our pockets
were empty and other work was pressing the spirits
Of the Missouri Irishman and the Connecticut
Yankee sagged to the depths Gloatingly, some
attacked our weaknesses and occasional mistakes
But The Anvil, which carries the masthead of
Bulgarian periodical once fathered by the great
Dimitrov, is proud that numerous prominent COM
rades have always been its friends We face the
coming Writers Congress with a tremendous
ground-swel of encouragement confident that the
magazine of our and your dreams will be greatly
furthered
"Conradey
WALTER SNOW"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
On Writing and Selecting
Plays for Workers

following the withdrawal Of Sailors
of Cattaro" on March 2. j. o. and
Loretto Bailey of North Carolina,
submitted textile play which con-
tanned excellent material on the life
of Ella May Virgins and the Gas
tonia strike; but it lacked a hard
and sharp militancy. At the inyl-
tation of the board Mrs. Bailey
spent several months in New York
in constant or revisions. Strike
Song has now been signed for pro-
duction next season.
IN OFFERING suggestions for
4 adapting plays to the needs Of its
audience the Theatre Union some
times encounters playwrights tenn
peramentally incapable of collective
work. A few of them have been 50
individualistic in their reactions,
have held on so tightly to every line
and word of their scripts, that their
plays had to be returned to them.
In some cases these plays contained
fine basic material, good characters,
brilliant scenes. But one or two
scenes don't make a play.
The problem of choosing play
is so important that the Theatre
Union spends weeks discussing every
potential script. The first consider
alton is always: Of what value win
this play be to the workers who
nightly crowd into the Civic Roper
tory Theatre?
Revising plays for a worker audi
ence does not mean that each one
must be cut TO fit a hard and fast
pattern. The Theatre Union is not
looking for stencil plays. II
attempts to cover a wide variety Of
subjects. 1t attempts to find fresh
approaches in treatments, character
and form. Peace on Earth" for in
stance, rejecting the growing align
ment Of intellectuals with man
ual workers. Its technique was inn
pressionistic. "Stevedore," with It's
call for unity between black anc
white labor in the South, was writ
ten in terms of what is now known
as Socialist realism" Sailors Of
Cattaro," following with minute his
torical accuracy the incidents Of the
1917 mutiny in the Austrian feet
presents a problem in revolutionar,
tactics.
THE two new plays acquired by thu
Theatre Union branch into new
fields. Albert Maltz' BLACK Pit" il
study Of the mind of blacklistet
worker face to face with the cor.
rupting influences of feudal capital.
ism in the West Virginia coal coun.
try. In essence it is the old psyche,
logical play, given new meaning anc
stature when applied to a WORKING
class issue. Strike Song" springs
from the familiar mountsineer foil
play
There is no doubt that the sue.
cess of the Theatre Union and thu
Workers Laboratory Theatre ha!
left an imprint upon the minds o
the young playwrights in America
Within year $50 scripts dealing
with working class subjects havt
been submitted to the Theatr,
Union alone. A rare few Of thes.
show any talent whatever. OF thes,
few only tiny percentage know
anything about workers, unions. O
the forces at work in society today
The Theatre Union advises them t,
hop into the class struggle an,
learn. Out of these Young writer
will some day come the red Shake
speares, Molieres and Schillers o
| America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
News of Workers Schools
From Coast to Coast

success of the various movements,
economic and political, depends on
whether the Party is well repre-
sented in the mass organizations,
and whether the Party is able
through its membership within the
organizations to carry through its
policies, the only policies which can
benefit the working class and all
the oppressed toiling masses Of the
country.
The struggle around the workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill demonstrated that our
Party has been able to rally large
masses of workers. The Party in
itiated the struggle for the bill and
on the basis of united front move
ment succeeded in mobilizing con-
siderable sections of the A. F. Of L.
unions and other mass organizations
for H. r. 1927.
IN ORDER to broaden the move
1 ment, in order to widen the scope
of the united front movement. it
is essential that our Party members
within the trade unions and other
mass organizations have clear I'M
derstanding of the political charac-
ter of the tasks involved. It is not
sufficient for our Party members to
prove their loyalty, sincerity in the
struggles; it is necessary for our
members to become the leaders in
the struggles This requires a clear
political understanding Of the i'm
mediate struggles in which they take
part and the ability to tie up these
immediate struggles with the win
ming over Of the masses for the
ultimate aim of the Party, lie, for
the seizure of power by the work
ing class in this country.
In addition, therefore, to the de-
velopment of practical struggles. the
theoretical training of our members
as well as the education of the
masses must become a major task of
our Party. The Party has at its
command many instruments for the
political education of its members
as we'll as masses of workers out
side of the Party ranks. This in
cludes the daily press; leaflets,
pamphlets, shop papers, street and
neighborhood papers, the publica-
ton of the basic works of Marx,
Engels, Lenin, Stain and other
wor k S on Marxism- Leninism;
forums, lectures, discussions in the
units, and finally, the Workers
Schools and the system of inner
Party education.
With regard to literature, in the
first place, the Daily Worker, the
Party has made considerable
progress. The Daily Worker, as a
mass paper, has improved both in
content and appearance and is be-
coming an effective instrument for
the mobilization of the masses of
workers for the Party. But the
circulation of the Daily Worker is
still woefully small. The circula-
ton of the Daily Worker should
have been at this time at least 1oo,-
900.
Other agitationaI and propagan-
distic literature, shop papers, and
problems relating to the Workers
Schools, ETC., will be discussed in
next weeks column.
We ask comrades. especially those
engaged in educational work in the
Party, to contribute to this discus
sion. Send your articles to A. Mark
OF, IS East 18th Street, N. Y. c.,
Room 30l.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Change
the
World!
By MICHAEL GOLD

WALTER SNOW, co-editor with Jack
" Conroy of that interesting magazine
of proletarian fiction, "The Anvil con-
tributes the following letter to the dis
cussion on the Writer'S Congress.
although virtually unknown in Amer
lea less than three years ago the proletarian short
story undoubtedly will be a major topic at the
forthcoming American writers Congress
"Frecked Irish sons of western coal mines, tall
Yankee veterans of textile picket lines, blond
Swedish lumberiacks from the north, drawing ex-
cowpunchers from Texas and nirnble Jewish tailors
from the East Side will recount how belatedly they
are overcoming many handioaps to develop and
popularize this effective revolutionary art form.
Most important Of ALL they will discuss the
problem of charging publication outlets and Of
enabling our writer's to receive wages for their
finished products. With organizational support, a
revolutionary story magazine could reach audiences
in the hundreds of thousands, the crowds which
pack the Theatre Union, for example. majority
Of them do not read the excellent New Theatre
because Of its somewhat technical nature. For
the same reason numerous bourgeois story maya
zines have much larger calculations than the
literary current affairs periodicals Here of course,
the comparison ends as our goal would be to fur
nish mental stimulus together with entertainment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Problems in Political
Education
BY A. MARRIOTT

MUCH has been said and written
AVA on the subject of the political
education of the members Of our
Party, the Young Communist
League as well as the thousands Of
workers coming under the influence
of our Party. The tendency has
been and still is to treat this matter
in an isolated manner, separate and
apart from the general activity of
the Party on the economic and po-
litical fields. This is, perhaps, one
of the major reasons why this phase
of our work has Jagged behind the
other phases of work in the Party.
We will, therefore, begin our dis
cussion with a definition Of political
education.
Comrade Lenin in his famous
What Is To Be Done?" dis
cusses the question of political edu-
cation in the following manner:
what does political education
mean? Is it sufficient to confine
oneself to the propaganda of work
ing class hostility to autocracy? OF
course not. 1t is not enough to
explain to the workers that they
politically oppressed (any more
than 1t was to explain to them that
their interests were antagonistic to
the interests of the employers
Advantage must be taken of every
concrete example of this oppression
for the purpose of agitation. And
inasmuch as political oppression af-
fects all sorts of classes in society,
inasmuch as it manifests itself in
various spheres of life activity, in
industrial life, civil life, in personal
and family life, in religious life,
scientific life, etc, etc, is it not
evident that we shall not be full
filling our task of developing the
political consciousnes, or the work.
ers If we do not undertake the Or
ganization of the political exposure
of autocracy in all its aspects?
". 7. Lenin-What Is To Be Done?
p. ST., International Publishers)
1T IS clear from the above quota
ton that the scope of political
education is broad and embraces
practically all of the major phases
of Party activity. 1t embraces the
daily press of the Party in the first
place, especially the Daily Worker.
The Daily Worker as well as the
other Party newspapers and period
icals perform the job of the col
lective propagandists, collective agi-
tators and collective organizers"
Oenin) The first task in political
education is the increase in the cir
culation of the Party press, especi-
ally the Daily Worker. 1t is also
very essential to improve our press
so that the propaganda and agita-
ton carried on in the press will
be understood by the reader, will
tend to rouse the masses to the
realization of the political and eco
nomic oppression they suffer from,
and will show them the way out.
The best instrument for political
education are the actual struggles
organized and led by the Party, by
the trade unions, other mass organ
izations, movements on united
front basis, etc. 1t is clear that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
BY PAUL PETERS
(Co-author of "Stevedore")

WITHIN the space of fifteen
W months, revolutionary drama
has become so important on the
New York stage that even the critic
of the New York Times refers to it
in recent article as the outstand-
ing new development in the Amer
lean Theater. In quick succession
the Theatre Union has attracted
wide audiences to its three plays,
Peace on Earth" "Stevedore," and
Sailors Of Cattaro'; the Group
Theatre has scored with its ringing
production of Waiting for Lefty;
and the Workers Laboratory Thea
ter has evolved brilliant new tech
niques in "Newsboy" and Free
Thaelman."
Despite these successes, the rev.
dictionary theater is still in its in
fancy in America. 1t is a lusty
infancy; it has an abundance of
health, vigor, and promise; but
there are plenty Of problems yet
unsolved. These include the ever
pressing question of finances; for
running revolutionary theater in
a capitalist society, at workers
prices, without the aid of angels
or bankers, is backbreaking job.
To the Theater Union, America S
pioneer professional workers thea
ter, the problem that still remains
the important and the most diff
cult Of all, however, is the problem
of getting good revolutionary plays.
In the bourgeois theater clever
technical trick, elaborate scenery,
fine clothes, or brilliant piece of
acting may put play across. But
in the working-class theater the
first consideration must always be
the content of the play itself.
THE Theater Union has learned
that its worker audiences insist
above all things on line of action
that is clear, sharp, and outspoken.
They demand that play present
the class struggle in simple, bold
unmistakable terms; that it offer q
militant solution to this struggle
This does not mean that a play
may be a piece of crude craftsman
ship. 1t does not mean that a pro-
duction may be sIipshod and stale
The highest artistic effort must &c
hand in hand with political clarity
The Executive Board of the Thea
ter Union, which passes finally or
submitted scripts, does not believe
that good plays are written by COM
mittees. 1t believes in giving free
play to the talent of the individual
author. But neither does it hold
any art for arts sake" theories
about the sacredness of a script
Frequently it demands that extern
sive changes be made to fit the
needs of its mass audience. Fol
this purpose it has worked out 8
method Of collective criticism ane
revision which is partly responsible
for the success Of its three plays.
Peace on Earth" "Stevedore,
and Sailors of Cattaro" were each
rewritten with the aid of such sug-
gestions. "Stevedore," for instance
was revised three times until it wa.
as clear and direct as the authors
aided by collective advice from the
boards "playwriting committee.
could make it. Similarly the new
coal mining play by Albert Malt;
was worked over again and again
Revision will not be complete unit
the play is produced on March 20
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

I'VE have often been led to be-
lieve," she says, that this unequal
position Of women has always ex-
listed and therefore is q natural
one" She points out that 1t was
only with the geninnings of private
property-with mans ownership of
the means of existence, Of which
woman was deprived, that she was
forced into an inferior position.
Today, even women Of the cap
itslist class feel this infriority. They
see a division in society along sex
lines and not along class lines" 1t
is no wonder then" she says, that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
WHAT
EVE ~ WORK M Nc
WOMAN WANTS

they are the prominent leaders of
the feminist movement in the U. S.
A., and the most active foes Of labor
legislation for working class women. +"
Nowadays there are many laws
discriminating against women-spe-
cial code provisions making legal a
lower wage rate for women doing
equal work with men. The women
are "a reserve army Of cheap labor
power"
But In the Soviet Union, the
workers state has made it pos
sible for women to advance by
leaps and bounds" What is the
position of the Communist Party
here towards the equality of women
How can women win complete
equality? Women and Equality
tells how in a clear and simple
analysis Of the questions involved
in the problem of woman's equality
THE position Of the Negro
Women" by Eugene Gordon
and Cyril Briggs has compactly as
sembled some startling figures
about the conditions of Negro
women. 1t proves that I'm a So
ciety based on production for profit,
to be both woman worker and a
Negro is to suffer a double handi-
cap" The pamphlet depicts how
during wartime, the migration of
the Negro women from the plan
tations into industry was followed
by treatment that took its cue from
the feudal conditions existing for
Negroes in the South.
Grace Hutchins' What Every
Working Woman Wants." portrays,
in a very personal way, the condi-
lions and needs of every type of
Jobless woman. Relief, jobless and
maternity insurance. the right to
decide when she shall have chill
dren, must be fought for.
you are jobless," she says you
have watched the newspaper ads
for jobs; you have watched the
factory gates for that old sign:
Girls Wanted You have
lived on relief You have seen the
gas and electric light turned off by
the rich company that is making
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Sales Tax Boost Looms

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 26-In-
crease of the state sales tax is sche-
duled by the State Legislature of
Arizona which Is now in session.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

increased profits in this sixth year
Of the depression. You are one of
more than 100000 jobless women
in the United States"
Grace Hutchins tells why the job
less women must fight for H. R. 1927,
the only bill providing maternity
insurance.
THE fourth pamphlet, Women in
Action" by Sasha Small, tells
swiftly and wildly, the rising fight
Of the American working woman for
her needs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
T UN Nc IN
Russian Radio Hour

Radio fans who Russian viii be interested TO
know that TORGSIN its Russian station
wMcA with Melodies OF New Russia, Wednesday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
International Woman's Day Pamphlets Tribute
To Fighting Strength Of Working Glass Women
Invaluable Guides in
Organizing Women
in Struggle
by del

Negro and white women on the
picket line march through the pages
of Sasha Small's pamphlet-the
Woman in Green" the wives of
striking San Francisco longshore-
men, the miners wives Of South
ern Illinois, the Seabrook, N. j.,
agricultural workers, led by a group
of Negro women, all making bright
pages Of class history.
Each of these pamphlets presents
program of struggle for the
specific women's needs dealt with
in it. They could not be catalogued
as either international, agitational
or organizational. They are all
three. Particularly well written,
they will appeal to large groups Of
women. Those actively involved in
organization will regard them as
invaluable handbooks. These PAM
phlets will certainly serve to slim
ulate the wider organization of
women, which, at this time, the
working women themselves so
urgently demand.
Women and Equality, by Mar
garet Cowl ............................... SC
The Position of the Negro
Women, by Eugene Gordon and
Cyril Briggs .....................,............3c
What Every Working Woman
Wants, by Grace Hutchins Sc
Women in Action, by Sasha
SInall
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Women and Equality, by Mar
0arat CpufI o.
Evening star., 1935-07-06
Miss Tolson Feted
Before Marriade

Miss Anne Toton, whose marriage
to Mr.. Richard Vents of Charlotte,
N. c., win take place tomorrow, has
been much feted during the past few
weexs. Monday evening her aunts,
Mrs. Walter b. Simpson, Mrs. Thomas
@. Simpson and Mrs. Willis Harlan,
entertained at 0 miscellaneous shower
for her at the home Of Mrs. Harlan.
The guests were Mrs. Georgiana verzi,
Mrs. Anna Kirkley, Miss Ruth Con-
radiMA Miss Arabella Houlahan and
Miss IrIna Hobson, al from the Has
kin Bureau Of Information, where
Miss Tolson was once employed; Mrs.
Warren Tolson, Mrs. julius Tolsou and
Mis- Jean Tolson, mother, sister-in-
law and sister Of the bride; Mrs. Rob-
ert Handwerk, Mrs. William Mac.
KenHe, Miss Agnes Thompson. Mrs.
Frank Tew and Mis- Julia Hopes,
cousins OF the bride.
Last week Miss TolSon was given q
household shower by her friends In
her odice ut the Department Of Jus
tice, following . luncheon at the Hob
Mob.
On Tuesday night Theta n Sorority,
Of which Miss Tolson u . member,
held . kitchen shower for her, at their
last meeting for the Summer.
Evening star., 1935-07-06
Weddings
Out of City
Announced
Miss Lewis Married
in New York City.
Other Nuptials.

The marriage of Miss Dorothea JEFF
ferson Lewis, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles r. Lewis OF Washington,
to Mr. Robert Mitchell Miller, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. r. M. Miller, also of
Washington, took place in the Little
Church Around the Corner in New
York City yesterday.
Only members of the immediate
families attended. Mr.. and Mrs. Mil
Ter left Immediately after the cere-
mony for Lake Placid, N. Y. They
will be at home at 3216 Thirteenth
street northwest after August /.
Miss Lewis and Mr. Miller graduated
from Central High School here and
attended George Washington Uni
versity. They are well known
throughout the city for work in
amateur dramatics, appearing with the
Columbia Players. Miss Lewis Is a
member of the Women's National
Press Club.
The marriage of Miss Lucy Burwell,
daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Ed
ward B. Burwell of Upperville, to Mr..
1sham Keith, son Of Mr.. Julian Keith
of Warrenton, will take place this aft
ernoon in Upperville.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cook Donohue,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Cook of Washington, and Lieut. Leon
ard Branneman, U. s. NJ. were mar
ried Monday evening at 7 o'clock in
the presence of the brides mother
and sister, Miss Patricia Cook, at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Maynard
MagTuder, 4605 North Danville street,
Lyon Village, Va. Judge Bryan Cor
don officiating.
Mrs. Branneman wore a turquoise
blue boucle suit and a corsage bouquet
of yellow rosebuds and gypsophelia
tied with blue ribbon. She was at
tended by Mrs. J. Maynard Magruder,
who had on a white crepe dress, with
turquoise blue accessories.
Mr.. Magruder acted as best man
to the bridegroom.
Lieut.. Branneman, who is the son
Mr.. John Wilford 7Branneman and
the late Mrs. Branneman of Clover
dale, Ind, was graduated from the
United States Naval Academy in the
class of 1926.
Mrs. Branneman Is a native Wash