For a Workers' Theatre
For A Workers' Theatre Elmer Rice la speaking at th Rand School Monday night, Marc 21, under the auspices of th Workers' Theatre, giving a "Con trast of the European and Amei lean Theatre."...
...In consequence all the factories that supply finished materials and tools would get busy, employing millions of skilled and unskilled labor...
...THE LABOR TEMPLE I "Shadows On The Rock," thi ¦ famous novel by Wills Cather, wil form the subject of the lecture U ' be given by Dr...
...For some time past, they have shunned politics, social movements, the study of economic forces as being out of their !* line...
...Her hollow cheeks and haunted eyes hare lurnt my heart to lead .ead lead lead...
...Panaceas have melted into thin, air and thinner...
...Now that the start has been made, it ought to be logical to request that all the mutll-millionaires and even the pauvre millionaires take it into their minds to do a little hari-kari after night-club duty...
...MM i Ditto, P.OfhUr •! Mm...
...8 * , , I went up to Norwalk, Connecticut, last week to speak at the Socialist forum in that town...
...Anyhow, anything, even my own March Hatter suggestion is better than this cruel meaningless bungling and blundering that accompanies a crazed capitalism through the labyrinth of criminal wandering toward certain doom...
...As far as I'm concerned, it makes me darn sore...
...George Eastman, the great millionaire philanthropist . . . ditto...
...The con1 ference also adopted a resolution > requesting federal investigation of - conditions in Harlan County...
...The Chatterbox l^r...
...To raise i money a concert is being planned r for the near future...
...Julius Kline could furnish us economic statistics and data if impressed immediately into this project A petition to Congress Is In order right now to legalize bond issues for this emergency...
...HAL VAREAR...
...Writing a column is child's play these days...
...tit can't even go to bed...
...is MeAllater Coleman...
...If all of us are ordered to jail at one time that would mean the building of at least one hundred thousand additional Jails...
...had, dead, dead...
...led, red, rtdl And mother's eyes are red...
...Which leads me to the fact that hereabouts a _ lot of the younger painters, writers and musicians are at last beginning .to look about them and discover the existence of economics...
...Rehearsals are un der way for the production o "Dole Brothers," Richard Duschio sky's drama of unemployment which under the direction of Davi B. Rossi is to be presented on th evenings of March 25 and 26, a the Rand School The Workers' Theatre is i strong nucleus for the sound dra matic movement which must som day in this country grow out o the workers, and make a reall...
...This would mean an overhauling of our literature and the best ^ methods of distributing it, the value of house Jr meetings, the use of the local press, etc...
...In fact the depression would disappear overnight Stuart Chase and Dr...
...Sole, sole, toltt My shot, it has no sole I I've walked the blasted brogans 'round enuf reach the pole...
...As McLevy, "o Plunkett, Davis and Freese have proved in Conw_ necticut, there is a way to put Socialism squarely nj on the map In even the smallest communities...
...Knr.t l.lini nt th* A^*— P*IU Th* (*n«iirror...
...My heart has turned to lead...
...Whafll we do for coal...
...Marching Song for 1932 Coall Coll Coal...
...What'll we do for bread...
...The other night, at a most spirited meetno ing at the Rand School, a goodly number of art ¦r" lata in several fields—painting, sculpture, music ™J and writing—came together to form the "Rebel °* Arts...
...I remember coming into a group of artists, ™ all lathered up from speaking at a street-corner ** meeting...
...1UI That indifference has ended, now that they are 1 slammed up against the rough edges of economic facta...
...This win no doubt strike many folks as being very funny...
...There is also, of course, th( nourishing of little theatre move' merits over the country...
...Maybe we are all grateful tor this collection of agreeable circumstance...
...One of them asked me where I had been and when I told him, he raised incredulous eye3V~ brows and murmured, "Is that sort of thing still going on...
...1.2(H) |>f...
...The idea of as artist haggling with a dentist over the molar worth of portrait of "Susanna in Her Bath," will be the subject of many a wisecrack...
...Greet 'The Rebel Arts" rspHERE was no doubt about It Sooner or latei X It was evident that we would get back to primitive barter, If the capitalist system kept on the toboggan...
...The country would lose exactly thirty-one thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight good-for-nothing-ln-particulars . . . That would leave us one hundred and nineteen million eight hundred and seventy-four thousand six hundred and fifty-four folks to carry on...
...At 7:45, Michael Weiss wil i speak on "India and Western Civ : luxation...
...John Sloan, president of the Society of Independent Artists, says: "Artists are always on the breadline, but this year they are in even worse straits than usual...
...It seems to me that what ' ' they most lack at the present time is some co~ ordlnating body which will connect up their a< ^ tivltles, study their organisational experiences and ' develop an effective technique for organizing ' smaller towns all over the country...
...Instead of all these unemployment councils, parades and protest meetings, let us busted middle classers, and unemployed down and outers line up before the courts of the land and plead guilty to Vagrancy, criminal syndicalism and what-not...
...But I'm not used to freezing yet...
...lives...
...And what's more, I don't have to go to Milwaukee and be laughed down as a delegate from Queens .. . Of course, I realise how thoroughly unscientific and unMarxian this indubitably sensible program of mine is . . . but it's the latest thing in depressionsolutions . . . and that's something...
...They are going to do their bit In helping ~" to put fire Into our propaganda and they are most welcome...
...That is ° an injunction for which they cannot be haled into i court on a charge of contempt although contempt ' Is the motive of the injunction...
...Ok, what'll v do for coal...
...The s conference, called by the Oeve¦ land General Defense Committee, > included representatives of the In' diistrial Workers of the World, the • Socialist Party, the Young Peo1 plea Socialist League, Internation; al Ladies' Garment Workers, Am- algamated Clothing Workers, Pior neer Women of America, Liber- tarian Forum Youth Group, and l Interested individuals...
...Philosophy has failed utterly to sustain the ever-wasting waistline...
...Not much of course, but something anyhow to start things cooperatively...
...What with space so limited, subject matter so confined, and contributors so generous...
...Why it's so simple and so legal, you don't need another Socialist campaign, and Norman doesn't have to trudge through another heartbreaking Presidential campaign...
...Then following the devastating logic of the millionaires, let us all line up behind that Arnold Win kelried of the workers who has shown us the way to break the phalanx of hopelessness...
...worth while substitute for th< commercial theatre of Broadway Several efforts In that directioi have been made, but in most o: these the writers have been Jot ting down their social studio...
...ArV~ nold Freese, organiser of the Norwalk Branch, is " doing a grand job in what once looked like hope, less territory...
...Communism," under the auspices of the Socialist Party, Branch of _ Washington Heights...
...tba !•¦•«¦ ¦r*Utariaa aemltet, »•• »« •• Ik* Baal ru»k«t«rr r.rrr tirtti •haald na* Ifcaa* tllrrlni aooU...
...E. G. Beck, Sun I pie, 14th street and Second ave i day, 5 P. M. In the Labor Tern I nue...
...7ed, fed, fed...
...Roll, roll, roll...
...Best of all, however, will be the offer of rent for six months or a year...
...Bread, bread, bread...
...In workshops and laboratories and studios too...
...Cleveland Workers Plan Aid for Miners l (By a> Ntw Leader Crr—f—S—t) f CLEVELAND.—A mass meet- ing and conference, at the interi national Ladies' Garment Work- ers' Hall, made plans for more inI tensive work here on behalf of the r Harlan, Kentucky, miners...
...As soon ^ as the Milwaukee convention is over, I suggest that the various organizers in states where there er is already a good Socialist nucleus get together for lk' a general pow-wow on tactics...
...1.000 p| tt.SO •r Mailln AaScriOB N...
...S. A. de Witt...
...Rhodes, Joseph Koblyak, Mike Kaclban, of the I. W. W., is to take charge of the concert and planning other activities...
...I surely, will be dead...
...1 he bin that kepi us warm last year is just < empty hole Holt, hole, holt I My pocket it just a hotel, My pocket has no bottom and my shoe, it has i soft...
...od -— ,n- Would Send HU AutUa to War on If he had his way in the next war, Oliver Baldof win, Socialist son of Stanley Baldwin, Tory cabinet minister of Great Britain, "instead of recruiting children of 17 to 20 to be murdered, I would set the sge limits between 45 and 80 years, and draft Into n8 the army the members of both sexes," he said in a iU Boston lecture...
...And now iff goin' to freeze us like the Bank froze my roll...
...In fact, all the small towns of one of the most reactionary states in the Union have taken a leaf from Bridgeport's book and are going " ahead in great shape...
...Pole, pelt, pole I Enuf to reach the Pole...
...Tht grocer has to hove the cash, or Willie can bt fed...
...S. S. R., Shapiro pointed out that the Communist International has rationalized their experience in seizing power as the basis for every country no matter at what stage of development, forgetting entirely the Marxian law that each section of the working class emancipates Itself according to the specific conditions that surround it...
...While agreeing with the Soviet policy in the TJ...
...A commlt; tee consisting of Ruth Miller, sec¦ retary, Rose Friedman, Sarah I Wexler, Max Worn, Helen Her• wits, of the Y. P. S. L., John Brea¦ ina, and Sidney Yellen of the Socialist Party, and Mary Lockner, Mrs...
...Shapiro Hits Communism In Debate With Dunne Theodore Shapiro and William ; Dunne, editor of the Daily Work I er, debated "Socialism vs...
...Hi...
...J. T. S. Shapiro declared Communists had nothing in common with Marxism, but is a combination of Bakunnism and Anarcho-syndicalism...
...lvAbout the only kind of an injunction we favor is a self-imposed order by workers that never again will they vote for the parties of capitalism...
...Oh, what' she do for bread...
...Admission to the Rice lec ture, as to the play, Is 50 cents...
...The latest statistics prove that over ten million of us are on the tobaggan...
...Jack Altr man presided ! Shapiro ascribed the support of Htndetvberg by the German Social Democratic Party to the tactics of the Communist Party...
...But Honey still will have to eat...
...Out of work worker applies to magistrate pleading guilty of vagrancy and asks for a three months sentence in city jail . . .' ' Gosh, it's as simple as all that...
...Thesi rise mainly as conscious "art' movements on the part of other wise unoccupied maiden ladles an< well-to-do young society folk they may try an Interesting ex periment now and then, but fo the most part they give repeti tions of middle-class dramas down the ages...
...That would put all the building workers to work...
...I would do this so that Instead of Hitting In a 1,1 club and writing to The Times describing my pride ,e" at having lost a son for England, I could remind '" the nation with what enthusiasm I gave the world '''' my stepfather and a couple of great aunts...
...I can't do a thing with a paint brush, but I can put myself in the place of a talented, sensitive, hard-working artist who is being put on the spot by the cruelties of an economic system which has no use for the creative spirit There la nothing really hilarious in the sight of a man of genius with hungry kids in a mortgaged home crawling on bis stomach to get enough to fill it The first concern of the new social order win be with the security of creative workers in every field of hu Iman activity, in fields and factories...
...Let the Workers' Theatn grow on that path, and it la pav Ing the way for the most vita ievelopment in the American the itre...
...We congratulate Gan Kolski, many of whose drawings have appeared in The New Leader, and Sam Friedman for getting this group started in splendid fashion, and we wish the "Rebel Arts" all the luck...
...And now out of Greenwich Village comes word that busted artists are swapping their canvases for dental work...
...And Just when the welkin rings mournfully, and a pall settles foggily, and all things funereal start to do a blue thump-thump, toward the dump heaps of creation, In stalk some headlines and a news item, and everything clears sunnily . . . "Ivar Krueger, the billionaire commits suicide...
...t F. H. Cederwall and Sidney Yelt len, Socialist State Secretary, adi dressed the meeting...
...The sheriff took tht furniture, and mother's eyi are red...
...A good deal of time and energy la now wasted iu o, the trial and error method of conducting our acul tivltles, and while, of course, I do not believe that j anyone can devise a formula that could be applied w, everywhere, I do think that a constant Interchange ,t of experience would be Invaluable...
...from above," as conscious propa ganda...
...Dental services will be one of the most welcome media of exchange for works of art...
...Another mile or two to walk, and I surely wi be dead...
...He said that while the Social Democrats ! had made some blunders, the fact • remained that they had made 1 overtures to the Communists for ¦ a united front against Hitler and that the Communist Party had refused to co-operate...
...Medical care and clothing will also be acceptable...
...Much have I pondered in the realms of misery, these dreadful days for a way out immediately for all of us...
...I am, for one...
...This sort of thing is bourn to be both condescending ami pooi art...
...And even my own belief in the cooperative commonwealth has borne stout blows, and many, with unbowed and almost bloody head...
...Like the Banker froze my roll...
...The hope for a theatn Is in a body of plays growing ou of the people themselves, not ai propaganda, but as direct serlotu and humorous portrayal of the...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 12
