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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
TUNING IN

700 PM. -wEAF - Industry
and the Securities Mar
kets Richard whitney,
Pres. N. Y. Stock Exch.
WOR-Sports Resume-Stan
Lomax
WJZ-Amos m Andy
WABC-Myrt and Marco
7.15-WEAF - Stories Of the
Black Chamber
WOR-Lum and Abner
INFLAMMATION Echoes;
Robson Orch; Southern
aires Quartet
WABC--Just Plain Bill
7:30-WEAF-Easy Aces
WOR-Harry Stockwell.
WIRED Davis-Sketch
WABC-The O'Neills-Sketch
7.45-WEAF- Uncle Ezra
WOR-Dance Orch.
WJz-Dangerous Paradise
WABC-Boake Carter, Com
mentator
s;oo-WEAF-Play, The Sign
on the Door, with Mary
Pickford, Actress
WOR-Lone Ranger-Sketch
WJZ-Penthouse Party: NJ.
Hellinger, Gladys Glad;
Peggy Flynn, Coincidence;
Travellers Quartet; Cole
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Piano; Ilomay Bailey, So
prano
WABC-Diane- Musical
s:15-WABC - Edwin c. Hill,
Commentator
800 WEAF-wayne King
Orch.
Variety Musicale
wJz-Lanny Ross, Tenor;
sslter Orch.
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Baritone. Elizabeth Len
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
7 h anks Workers for
Deep Interest in
His Case

quiet about the June 30th massacre.
murder by Hitler of hundreds of
his personal opponents in the Nazi
CAMPBELL and those who fell in
strike struggles here, about Scots
boro, Mooney etc.
One can only view with contempt
the winnings of such pious-souled
people like Willard, Dewey, Thomas,
etc, who would perhaps have the
masses Of the U. S. S. R. turn the
other cheek, to be Smitted by black
guard assassins striking from be-
hind. OF course, the venomous out
burst Of the Lees, Cahans, Can
mons and Mustes comes from their
political hearts and once again
brands them for what they really
are.
At every historically decisive
moment the true role and basic
class character of parties, groups,
ideologies, as well as individuals, is
put to the test. In this recent
instance liberals" and Socialists"
joined the wild jackal chorus with
reactionaries of the worst kind. It
revealed the bankruptcy of liberal
ism. Cannot these people realize
that the best reply to their wailings
and comparison with June Both was
given by the million masses march
ing determinedly through the bit
terly cold streets of Moscow and
Leningrad, while in Berlin there
was horror and fear among the
masses?
Real Justice
AS a political prisoner myself, 1t
gives me the greatest Joy and spirit
to know that at least in one place
and in one country real justice is
being administered to the enemies
Of the people, where the insults
don't go scot-free while the MONEYS
are behind the prison bars. I say
and I believe that all who Ian
guish in concentration camps and
jails feel likewise: More power
and strength to the mighty arm Of
proletarian justicel May it con-
tinue to strike fear into the hearts
of those who have cause to fear i'll!
In conclusion, I wish to thank you
for your own work on my behalf
and to thank Dolsen whose two
letters I have received. Assure my
friends that my health is good,
and that I have no complaints to
make. Thank the Fraternal Fed
Grafton for subscribing for Cur
rent History" for me, and workers
Of Williamsburg for their kind as
sistance to my wife and child. This
applies to comrade Kamen, too.
OF course, it is better to be out
and working than to be in here. If
I must, however, do all my time, I
shall do so without any regrets and
unflinchingly.
With best personal regards to you
and your wife,
(Signed) PHIL. FRANKFELD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06

had to quit to find work. His
father is also a carpenter, unem-
ployed for more than year. The
other two working in the family, his
sisters, last letters show they have
no work His last Job was par
quette floors on Singerstrasse.
His hair is driven back over his
head Not word of his own &C
cord about February. His face is
lean, the eyes hunted looking.
And then swiftly one remembers
that we are taking and hurting him
through the terror again.
He smiles but his face remains
haggard. You may"
So we turn to Chekoslovakia to
which many of the SchutzbundlerS
escaped, and ask why it was he did
not remain.
He says, They had no work for
U.S."
But in Chekoslovakia there are
many Socialists.
The Yankee boy adds, In power
WV 0AACJ bOuob.
The flesh may have grown over
the bullet shot into the back, but
the pain of the betrayal by the
Austrian Socialist Party leaders re-
mains. His firm shoulders bunch
together For a second his face
twists, then as swiftly hardens. And
the loyalty remains to the party in
which he was brought up, the party
whose heart was the best of the
Austrian working class,
He says nothing. He takes out
paper and tobacco. Some one Of
fers him a cigaret. He shakes his
head. He passes his finger like a
BURN down the paper He pours
in the tobacco. He burrows the
heap evenly, twists it with fin
ger, and then whips the tongue
down.
ME look at each other and smile.
w Was he in the fighting In the
Karl Marx Houses in Vienna2
Yes.
Family living there?
No. We heard. There we're 20 of
us, all young fellows. Members of
the Defense Corps. Day by day, the
! Heimwehr the police were pushing
! us out into the streets. The orders
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06

nox. Contralto: Mixed
Chorus: Arden Orch.
e:0o-WEAF-Fred Allen, Com.
edian; Hsyton Orch,
Amateur Revue
WoR-Hillbilly Music
WJ7-2o.o0o Years in Sing
Sing-Sketch, with War.
den Lswes
WABC-Lily Pons. Soprano:
Kostelanetz Orch: Mixed
Chorus
9:s0-wOR-To Be Announced
wJZ-Maris Jeritzs, So
prano; Concert Orch.
WABC-George Burns and
Oracle Allen. Comedians
s:45-woR-sandra Swenska,
1000 WEAF'-Lombsrdo Orch.
wOR-Literary Justice
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Fiuer
WABC-Broadcast To and
From Byrd Expedition
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H. E. Read
WJZ-Beauty-Mme. Sylvia
io:30-wEAF-One Mans Fam
ily-Sketch
WOR-Variety Musicale
wJz-Philsdelphia City
Symphony orch; DR..
Thaddeus Rich, Conductor
WABC-Mary Eastman, So
prsno; Evan Evans, Bari.
tone
11:e0-WEAF-Siry Orch.
WOR-News
WJz-Kemp Orch.
WABC-Beiasco Orch.
1i:i5-wEAF-Rohert Royce.
wOR-Moonbesms Trio
11.3o-wEAF-Dance Music
(also WOR, WIZ, wABol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
SchutZbundler in Russia

The Belgian, bullwhip of a man,
spent six months in Jail last winter
for street fighting in Antwerp. Tells
us he met Schutzbundlers Luks and
Kuzlar in Leningrad. Kuzlar led 300
armed workers in Floridisdorf,
Vienna against Dolfuss' police and
the army. Luks armed 5000 men
and captained squad with 20
machine guns. Luks is foreman in
the Leningrad telephone factory,
Kuzlar works in the fur factory.
THE big-domed engineer returns
rubbing his hands with cotton
waste. He must have looked over a
machine on his way. He says
Schutzbundlers are working in the
assembly shop or the carpenter
shop.
Down the main aisle of the as
sembly worker runs with what
appears to be a gas mask clamped
to his face. He is caught between
the handles of a loaded wheelbar-
row. The engineer laughs, Getting
ready for war. But no, it Is ia
tigue test"
He points to the wooden boxes
growing into tractor threshers. The
Schutzbundlers have had their
planes and saws in this. Axles,
wheels, crankshafts are knocked into
place by swarming workers. And
at the end of the line where red
flags glow looms the huge battle
ship-gray thresher (40 each day.
ready to steam behind tractors on
the steppes where villages and even
cities are lost in the high seas of
grain.
In the carpenter shop not a tap.
Knots of men and women around
speakers. Meetings going on for
drives and pledges for the Novem-
Der celebrations and the Congress
of the Soviets. The engineer goes
off to find the shop manager.
A worker with cap yanked over
his ear and spectacleS addresses the
group nearest us. Socialist COM
petition with the tractor factory.
laundering news about the Moscow
Hammer and Sickle factory pledg-
ing itself to fulfill its annual pro
gram by December l, to overfulfill
It's daily blast furnace output Ill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Mr.. Hearst's Private War

m CHECKING back remembered that on that
famous day had crossed the Red Square twice
It was busting and peaceful all day; the sun was
shining, the Red Flag waved over the Kremln wall
and nary a corpse machine gun BY the Chinese
Wall men were peddling goloshes pickles. sunflower
seeds and colored prints
had spent part of the afternoon watching the
swimmers and fishermen in the Moscow River that
flows by the Kremln. Then 7 had spent several
hours with the editor of publishing house. former
Red Army soldier who knew and loved our Amer
lean literature, and asked me questions about
Stephen Crane, Walt Whitman, Jack London
The morning had passed in the big steel mill
near Moscow called Hammer and Sickle One of
my friends worked there. He was studying to be
an engineer. Out of 5000 workers there, he told
more than 1000 were studying something This
steel mill was also big university I thought as
/ went through their busy library
In the evening went to the German Workers
Club, where they were entertaining troop of Red
Army men stationed, precisely in the KremIin
There was great deal of group singing solo dane
ing, vaudeville turns, and tea and cakes At the
end all OF us went out into the streets and marched
the boys back to the Kremlin, singing all the way
SO that was the day of the famous Riga mas
sacre 1t is safe to that majority of the warns
tnat are printed about the Soviet Union by Mr.
Hearst and his pals are about as truthful These
mlllonalres who own newspapers have been fight
Ing their private war against the Soviet workers
republic since it started Lying is their chief weapon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06

IN Russia there are now more than
500 Schutzbundlers, members of
the Socialist Defense Corps, who
took part in the fighting last Feb
ruary in Austria. Wherever you
turn in Russia, you hear of brave
February. Every worker and peas
ant knows the Schutzbundlers, is
proud of these Austrian workers
who have been invited to work at
the next lathe, behind the same
combine.
On the 5000 mile trip which
ripped like a scythe through
the Soviet grain farms last fall,
we hear $50 Schutzbundlers have
settled in Charkov. In Charkov we
hear fifteen are working in the
Hammer and Sickle Agricultural
Implements factory. We drive
through a croSsfire of wind and rain
from the Ukrainian steppes to
Hammer and Sickle.
At the factory gate we show
passes. The factory yard is full of
iron, lumber, farm machinery, and
a great stack pounding the clouds.
The Russian engineer pulls his
head down into his coat. The big
Belgian and the Americans troop
after him into the forge. The other
American is a Yankee boy, who
after cutting over his own coun-
try by freight to study conditions,
has come here to Russia to sharpen
himself up by comparisons.
The engineer goes off to find
whether any Schutzbundlers work
in the forge. A young Russian
worker plunges past us with tongs
to meet crankshaft with bullying
chest. Drop hammers rock the
earth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06

per cent, six tons Of high quality
metal in an hour from the Acton
furnace.
I E!SKY, shop manager and editor
II of the shop paper, Iron Stream"
comes over with the engineer. He
grips each one of us with rough,
hard-knuckled hand. We shall have
to wait until the meetings are over.
In the meantime, he can bring us
over to the shops red corner and
to the office.
Lensky tells us that in ten years
Hammer and Sickle has grown
from 1900 workers to 1000 workers.
I'VE shall not be disgraced in any
socialist competition if we fight
hard enough" He shows us the
slogan growing more important day
after day because of the growing
war danger-Every Factory a
Stronger Fortress. That is why we
can use fighters like the Austrians.
"Are they good workers."
Good. The Pravda writes that
two Of them in Moscow have just
won prizes for new method of
polishing rings in the searchlight
| factory. Guns are not the only
tools the international working class
can handle"
There is something hard and dry
about Lensky as about drill. But
he is some of the iron that has
helped make Soviet Russia. He
goes out for a moment. The rain
shakes the windows. He comes back
with a tall lean young worker in
dusty pants and blue gym shirt. II
is Franz j d rman, carpenter
Schutzbundler.
We sit around the table. A burly
German worker with moustacht
curved like a sabre comes in. Their
a reporter from the Charkov Work
er. We batter away the wedge Of
the language difficulty. All eye;
are fixed on Jederman.
ABOUT himself? There isn't much
"A to say.
We press the point.
He is 81 years old and was borr
in Vienna. He went through ele.
mentary school and also through
two years middle school when HI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
TO Be Continued
Greetings to Artef

The Artef Players Collective has
received the following radiogram
from the international Union of
Revolutionary Theatres in Moscow
Moscow, U. S. S. R., Jan. 28th.
Accept our heartiest proletarian
greetings upon your attempt to
go over from a weekend to full
time theatre, Your successful
staging Of Recruits" and 'Dosti-
gayev" remain wonderful example.
We wish you great success.
HEINRICH DIAMENT,
General Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
WORLD Of THE
MOVIES
Clarifying the Army Officer
FILTRATION WALK, directed by
Frank BOrzage, distributed by
Warner Bros, with Dick Powell
and Ruby Keller.
Reviewed by
JULIAN ROFFMAN

IN 1917, when the movies were still
in the era Of golden-hsired hero
ines, mustachioed villains and last
minute rescues, America entered
into the world war. Immediately
the potential propaganda machine
the film industry-waS swung into
action. Films like "Pershing's Cru
saders.' ETC.. were turned out almost
weekly. The people were whipped
up into frenzy Of soldier-w worship
my country right or wrong-was
the byword. The powers of the Gin
ema was proven by the wholesale
slaughter of millions of American
workers-the dupes of propaganda!
Today, although we are not actu-
ally at war, the preparations for
conflict are such that they promise
a massacre ten times as horrible as
the last. Very naturally, the people
once again must be taught the wor-
ship of the uniform and the sight
of the glinting bayonet. And what
medium better than the film?
Therefore, in Filtration Walk"
made with the cooperation of the
War Department, we have a promis-
ing herald of definite cycle OF
military propaganda films. Most
films of this type have in the past
glorif1ed the doughboy, but here we
have an absolute dedication of the
officer.
The very crudity of the propa-
ganda is seen in the story itself
The hero is a wofisted, 100 per
cent American, who, though blue
blood, starts at the bottom, a rookie.
Since the interest must be MAIN
tanned in some manner, our hero
falls in love with a generals daugh-
ter, who is engaged to an officer IA
vicious military triangle). The pri-
vate, rebuffed by the girl, decided
to become AN officer and gentle
man." BY sheer pluck and hard
work, he gains entrance into West
Point and at the end of his train
ing course, becomes the regimental
commander. A shining example for
all ambitious youth! Especially
when, at the end, he wins the girl
who had snubbed him for being
private.
Unfortunately all this is not as
simple as it seems. There are many
pitfalls to ensnare the unwary spec
tator. There is the crash of blaring
bands to befuddle him-there are
glittering uniforms to dazzle him
there is youth, romance, glamor-
tropical settings to bewitch him.
These are the typical stock-in-
trade of the Hollywood producer.
The moviegoer need only forget the
blaring bands, the glittering uni
forms, the glamor and the romance,
and he will at once penetrate the
cheap artificiality, the crudity Of
this Hollywood's tribute to the
army and the officer!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Fronk5eld Yarns Of Fascism
In Letter from Prison Cell
Gen. Butler, COughlin,
Hearst, Symptoms of
Growing Danger

The following letter was re-
ceived from Phil Frankfeld BY
Harvey O'ConnOr. FrankfeId. a
member Of the National Board Of
the Unemployment Councils, is
now serving tw0-year sentence
in BIawnOx Prison for his activi-
ties in behalf of the unemployed
workers of Pittsburgh. This let
ter should be read at all work
ers' meetings and used to intensi-
fly the campaign for securing
$4,000 signatures to petitions, de-
handing his release. 1t is neces-
sary Immediately to rush more
resolutions to the State Board of
Pardons and to Governor Earle,
both at Harrisburg, demanding
Frankfeld's release.
Dear Friend Harvey:
Through you and the Frankfeld-
Egan Liberation Committee, 1 wish
to express my deepest thanks and
gratitude to the hundreds OF
workers who have written to me
since my Incarceration, and greet
ings or financial support, and to the
many thousands Of rank and file
miners, steel workers, unemployed
and honest professional people who
have demanded my and other class
war prisoners freedom. I wish to
sincerely thank the National Com
mittee for the Defense of Political
Prisoners for sending a delegation
and attempting to gain some con-
cessions for us. I was especially
delighted to note the presence OF
several ministers and writers with
the committee.
Economic and Political DespOtism
This interest in our cases-among
the first victims of growing fascist
reaction in these parts-is a reflec-
ton Of the rapidly awakening con-
seriousness among broad strata of the
population, of the serious menace 81
fascism, which threatens to destroy
the most elementary democratic
rights of the American people and
to throttle all that is vital, living
virile and progressive in culture
science, and politics in this country
That this menace is real should
be obvious even to the blind. The
revelations of General Butler, the
rawlings of the chief of the Brass
Check press-Wm. Randolph Hearst
(the Goebbels of America and his
underlings, the demagogy of the
Father Coughlins, the venom of the
Woll-Leys, the proposals of the U
S. Chamber of Commerce and the
Dickstein committee-are sufficient
evidence.
This organized and concerted
drive directed against labor as q
whole is, of course, in the first place
aimed at the Communist Party, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06

fearless leader of the working class.
1t goes hand-in-han with the
sharpest drive to lower the living
standards Of the American toilers,
to smash all bonafde labor unions,
and to impose company unions on
the workers.
Through such economic and poll
tical despotism, the industrislists
and bankers were able to obtain
increases of 70 per cent and more in
profits in 1884, to cut 100000 "un-
employables" from the welfare lists,
to gather 300 per cent war profits
1926, 900 900 by the DuPonts alone)
and to create 26 new millionaires in
the first year of the New Deal
while 100000 paupers are living
on relief This is, of course, not
mentioning such small items as
the ever rising cost of living, the loss
Of homes and small properties, tine
heavier taxation and sales taxes, the
refusal to pay the bonus to the
veterans, the increased persecution
of minority groups, lynchings, etc.
The only effective answer to these
conditions is the building up of a
powerful united-f front of Labor,
supported by the hard pressed
middle class. Such a beginning we
can see in the splendid response to
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance.
This must be deepened and ex-
tended.
Bankrupt Liberalism
Regarding another question-the
so-called purge" in the Soviet
Union this refers to the execu-
ton of a number of white guard
agents, who had smuggled them
selves into the Soviet Union in order
to assassinate government leaders
and institute a reign of terror
against the Soviet workers and
farmers-Ed.l am not at all sur
prised at the great hue and cry
raised by fascists of all descriptions
those who, like VIM. Randolph
Hearst, were and are discreetly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Reviewed by
LEON ALEXANDER

QMOOTHLY elegant, slightly fla
y vored with a literary aroma, and
as distinguished as great-grand-
fathers silken side Whiskers. here
is a play that provides q deadly
dull, unstirring evening for its first
two acts, and succeeds only with
great effort to draw a few tears
from its audience in the last scene.
Della Lowell Judith Anderson
in love with another man, marries
James Ralston, an up and coming
banker. The Tilted lover rebounds
into the arms of Charlotte Lowell
(Helen Menken), Delia's cousin. A
child, Tina, is born of their brief
affair.
Charlotte at first leaves the child
in the care of her Negro ex-nurse:
later, to be able to keep the child
near her without scandal, she
starts nursery for poor children.
She and Joseph Ralston brother
of James, fall in love and are be-
trothed. Joseph, however, insists
that Charlotte's interest in the
children of the poor is unbecoming
to the future Mrs. Ralston and in
sists that she must give up her
nursery after her marriage.
Charlotte confides the truth about
the child to Della who, in a fit of
jealous fury, coldly ruins her
cousins chance at marriage.
Later, when James Ralston dies,
she takes the two into her house
hold Tina does not know that
Charlotte is her mother. Her whole
affection goes to Della, who spoils
her ard adores her. 1t is Della
whom she calls mother. Charlotte
occupies in the household the posi-
ton Of an old maidish, shrewish
poor relation.
THE story has definite ironic i'm
L plications; and if Miss Atkins
had underlined them more robustly,
if she were not forever aware of
the tear jerking possibilities of her
script, we might have had a play,
cruel, perhaps, but moving. Instead
of which, she swings between con-
descending superiority and maudlin
sympathy toward her characters,
with never a hint of genuine I'M
derstanding We never quite be-
lieve in their humanity, in the
pompous egotisrn of the two Raj
ston brothers played by Robert
Wallsten and Frederick voight)
the self-righteous, revengeful mean
ness of Della Lowell or in the
tragedy of Charlotte Lovell's life.
Miss Menken, too tense through
out the play, does not becme con-
vincing until the last act; then, in
the last scene, she gives a portrayal
of futile sacrifice, Of bleeding
motherhood that finds accents of
genuine tragedy.