‘Workers Party Increases Use of Movie-Films’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 85. April 21, 1925.

Propaganda Value and Financial Returns

PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 19. The Workers Party organization in District No. 5 (Pittsburgh) has thrown full strength to the booking of a movie program thruout its territory and already has booked six dates despite the fact that several pictures were shown there in the very recent past.

The following schedule is announced:

East Pittsburgh, Thursday, April 23, Turner Hall, 8 p.m.

Pittsburgh, Saturday, April 25th, Carnegie Music Hall, (North Side), at 8 p.m.

McDonald, Tuesday, April 28, at the Orpheum Theater, first show 5:30 p.m. Bentleyville, Friday, May 1, Majestic Theater, 7 p.m.

Daisytown, Saturday, May 2, Finnish Hall, Walkertown.

New Kensington, Wednesday May 6, Columbus Theater.

May Day Movies

Two of these dates were arranged as May Day programs by mail but all the others represent the direct, energetic cooperation of the party office. A careful study of motion picture activity for the past two years shows that the number and success of the booking are in direct proportion to the interest taken by local and district workers. Any active hustler in a district can easily, with the help of the local comrades, get a string of dates and put them thru to a most successful finish. More districts should take up this work, full cooperation is guaranteed from the national office, I.W.A., 19 S. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill.

The program routed in the Pittsburgh district includes “Polikushka,” “Soldier Ivan’s Miracle,” and “Lenin Memorial.” All workers should be sure to see these extremely interesting working class films.

Go To Your Class Movies!

In addition to the dates listed above, the following shows should be patronized by the workers in these respective cities:

Cincinnati, Ohio, April 21, Labor Temple, “Russia and Germany.”

Denver, Col., “Beauty & Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls,” April 28 and 29, Paum Theater, West Colfax and Grove, 7 & 9 p.m. April 30, Barnes School Auditorium, 1410 Clenarm St., 7 and 9 p.m.

Toledo, Ohio, April 30, “Beauty and Bolshevik.”

Utica, N. Y., April 30, “Beauty and Bolshevik.”

Gleason, Wisc., May 1, Gleason Hall, “Russia and Germany.”

Los Angeles, Calif., May 3rd to 8th. “Beauty and Bolshevik.”

Sheboygan, Wisc., “Russia and Germany” May 30.

Milwaukee, Wisc., “Beauty and Bolshevik,” (return engagement), May 30. The show in Newark, N.J., has had to be postponed. Seattle and Tacoma Washington will announce their dates in a few days.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924.

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