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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30
Boston Baked

Once upon time a certain comrade worked
for the Daily Worker and complained, rightfully
and bitterly, when the ghost failed to walk and
wages were either entirely missing or so painfully
reduced that discussion among the staff
of arranging for all editorial workers to marry
wealthy wives or learn the secret of how to live
without eating.
and made D. o. in the city by the sea, called
Boston One could never think that g. change in
diet could produce such 4, metamorphosis The
change from the 1owly Manhattan bean to the
Boston baked which goes with special cylinder
type of brown bread, worked wonders.
Our comrade of bygone days knows us no more.
Perhaps it might be Goldfish that did 1t. Hathaway
says 1t might be Codkind but not Goldfish. In
any event he went over into the camp of the
enemies of the Daily Worker.
By this don't mean to say that he wants
nothing to do with the Daily Worker. Nay, nayi
He is willing to take into Boston, for the purpose
of raising the theological level of Back Bay,
5000 Daily Workers per week But for paying
for them All. that is different
Count up what 5000 Dailies per week make
And surely he doesn't use them for personal ends.
but sells EN-, getting at the rate of Sc. per, a
sum Of $50 per week
But what happens with that $40 is a mystery.
Away back there on July 8, the Daily got Five
whole dollars from Boston Then the D. o. got
real generous with his old mates starving the
Daily Worker staff and sent in IL big round dol
lars on August 4.
Hope sprang eternal in our more or less human
breasts and we thought we might get enough to
go out and buy hot dog with when September
came. Nothing doing! And though the total bill
has mounted to s457 up to August 81. not count
ing the papers since sent, Pharaoh has hardened
his heart toward us and we are disconsolate.
H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30
A Shameful Unity
of Traitors

Leon Lewis father, who is Lovestonite, as
well as the other Lovestonites were asked by the
LID to provide adequate guarantee that Lewis
would appear If the LID bailed him a second
time. This request they ignored Now for the
Lovestonites to attempt to use this case only
makes more clear their lack of the most elemen-
tary honesty The Revolutionary Age" in the
last issue, asks for contributions on the strength
Of the fact that the whole weight of bail and
defense now falls on us (the renegades) with our
(the renegades) meagre resources" This is sheer
hypocrisy. 1t is an attempt to use the Lewis
in order to bolster the failing fortunes Of this
Tense would continue to defend Lewis against the
courts If that were made possible for it, but 1t will
not jeopardize the contributions of tens of thou
sands of workers by bailing cynical and hypo-
critical renegades
The working class must not be msled The
united front of all our enemies. no matter what
the pretense is is not better but worse than these
enemies disunited. 1t is united front to break
up the defense organization which defends the
many thousands of militant workers prosecuted
by BOSSES
The hypocrisy of such a combination at the
grave of heroic worker such as McInerny should
indeed warn US of the degeneracy of our enemies
and the extent to which they will go. The only
effective answer to them is for thousands of
workers fighting in the sef-sacrihcing spirit of
McInerny and other class prisoners through
out the country to join the International Labor
Defense and help strengthen the class fight
against capitalist government prosecutions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30

same Mr.. Baran holds election meetings almost
daily appealing for votes of the Negro masses,
These two corrupt parties who for SO many
years have misled and fooled the workers
directly responsible for race segregation for race
hatred, for lynchfng Negro workers, and for beat
ing and falling the working class leaders. These
same corrupt politicians who are appealing for
support in this election campaign are the same
strikebreakers and Iynchers of yesterday The
three capitalist parties, the Democratic, Repub-
lican and Socialist. will never solve the burning
problems confronting the working class today,
such as unemployment, wage cuts, misery and
starvation, because these parties are capitalist
parties they are part and parcel of the capitalist
system itself, which breeds these evils.
Workers Rally to the Support of the Communist
Party
Our party puts forth slogan of "Class against
class" in its election campaign. This slogan is of
special significance in the struggles led by our
party in this steel and oil region. In the struggle
for leadership of the working class our party
must conduct a sharp and most decisive fight
against the two old corrupted capitalist parties
the Social Fascist Party and the capitalist class
The Communist Party in this state is taking
most decisive steps in the winning of the ma
jorty of the working class for its program of
struggle. In the demonstrations of August list
and September list, particularly our party has
rallied thousands of steel and oil workers for
the support of the fight for WORK OR WAGES
for unemployed insurance bill. Hundreds of
4NeSro ana Wllle workers participated In meet
ings of protest against ynchings and race segre-
cations, and hundreds of Negro and white work.
ers have Joined the party, the T. U. U. L. and the
A N. L. c. as a result of these struggles. Despite
the great possibilities, the party as yet has not
been fully modified to utilize the present OBJ
jective situation. Despite the tremendous re-
spouse of the working class, the slogans of our
party, our membership has been rather slow in
grasping the significance of this response Of the
workers and utilizing it for the building of our
party. However, with the full mobilization of
our party membership, we will double our previ-
Gus Communist vote in this state. We will put
the party on the ballot permanently as a legal
party and win the support of the masses of ex-
plotted and driven workers for our program of
struggle for slogan of GLASS AGAINST
CLASS" VOTE COMMUNIST!
MILES MORTON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30
R4>>..A-
On the Chin
Or Whereabouts
By Jorge

Heaven help us, Haywood Broun has been
painting pictures and is having an exhibition
Who in heck painted them for him we don't
know. Possibly the same guy that wrote school
textbooks for Superintendent OShea of the Board
of Education
But Texas Gulnan's contributions to the
Graphic are the real Mccoy. Tex speaks right
out like nobody else can Even Coolidge cannot
be dumber. but she puts a snap in the end of it
that Cal never could. Here's how she cheers up
the 100000 unemployed:
Congratulations, AmericansI You are still
considered good sports Economic unrest
which really means nothing to do nothing to
eat for your wives and babies and incites men
to revolution--shouldn't bother us at all. It's
all right for Peruvians, Bolivians, Chtleans
and Mexicans but we-yes. the great Aneri-
can We-take 1t right on the chin!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30
Farmers, What Are
You Paid for Eggs?

Eggs says the N. Y. Telegram headline, "Are
at the lowest price in 20 Years" Undoubtedly
the Rhode Island Reds have been dumping eggs
In "our" market.
Strange it may seem, however, the more
the price goes down IN THE PAPERS, the
higher it climbs AT THE GROCERY STORES.
For those eggs which have not been laid by hens
now dead of old age, the A. & P. chain stores in
the working class districts of New York now
want less than So cents per Dozen
The N. Y. World, which pursues its buncombing
way regardless of fact, joyfully proclaims that
eggs at IS cents. retail, for the best"
and writes long lecture on how much better
1t is to eat eggs at that price than meat. 1t
says these eggs 23h cents, wholesale.
That may be- but they are not IS cents retail
Sometime, If the workers get hungry and angry
enough, lot of omelet will be made in a string
of groceries, and few cackle- berries scrambled
around the ears of the nearest capitalist editor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30

in opposition to the Community Waldman
puts them-but community Of interests be-
tween reactionary, fascist A. F. Of L. and go
cial-fascist Socialist union leaders.
Cooperating With Bosses
Above ALL both the fascist and socal-fasc
union leaders are opposed to industrial as well as
opposed to craft unionism. Industrial unionism
today means action, militancy, control by
the membership; craft unionisin means leader
control, building of powerful machines of hench-
men, graft, gangsterism, cooperation with the
bosses. The struggle today can be effectively
conducted only by militant industrial unionism;
nevertheless, and JUST FOR THAT REASON
the fascist and socal-fascists are united in OPP
position to anything that will deprive them of
their jobs and raclets and lead them into oppo-
sition to the employers.
If we need any further demonstration of the
unity of policy and practice of the fascist A. F.
of L. and social-fascist union leadership, then
let remember how VOL and Green assisted
Sigman in the Ladies' Garment Workers and
Slutzky and Kaufman in the Furrers. to break
up these unions. Millions Of dollars were spent
for GANGSTERS, GRAFT, POLICE PROTEC-
TON FURNISHED by Tammany Hall, which Wald-
and Thomas attack SO sharply in the cam
paign). The Socialist" Party supported the
BOSSES, POLICE and U. S. GOVERNMENT
in breaking the strike led by the Independent
Shoe Workers in New York this year, and of the
Food Workers Industrial Union. These are
monumental testimonials to the fact that the A.
Il. of L. and Socialist" trade union leadership
not only agree in policy and practice, no matter
how much the Socialist" Party may criticize
the A. F.. of L. in words; that they work in the
interest of the employers; and are against the
interests of the working masses.
This explains in part why tho workers look
to Communist leadership and to the revolution
airy unions of the Trade Union League for or
ganizaton in the struggle-for unemployment in
surance, strikes against wage cuts, speed UP, in
functions, gangsterism, for union democracy.
They are beginning to understand that economic
struggles political struggles, as Hillqut once
pretended to understand. but which he and his
lieutenants deny. The workers begin
ming to how the economic crisis which is
driving them to struggle against the worsening
conditions, is also increasing the danger of inn
perialist war, is sharpening the danger of war
against the Soviet Union. Hence they are turn-s
ing to the TUUL.
Hillquit and the Socialist" Party programs
dared not raise these questons-but the Com
munists raise them militantly. They are BASIC
questions to be raised in the shops all unions,
etc. They are questions that the Communists
put forward also in the election campaign.
The workers must open their eyes to the char
acter of the A. F. of l.. and Socialist" Party
trade union leadership. Show where you stand
by supporting the Communist program Of strug-
gle of class against class in the shops as well
as in the election campaignl Vote Communist
(Written In Harris Island Penitsntiaryl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30
BY SAM DARCY
iContinuadi

"a addftfon TO IT'S attempt to utilize the death
p1 McInerny to discredit militant class action by
1he workers, the Lovestontes tried to use another
lncident that OF the case Of Leon Lewis Lewis is
. member Of the Lovestonite group. On March
no was arrested at the Union Square demon
gtraton. The International Labor Defense bailed
him at $4,000. and provided an attorney to defend
him at court When the case called to trial,
II was found that Lewis had completely disap-
peared. The Lovestonites deny that he disap-
peared. But Lewis father, Lovestonite of San
Antonio, Texas. wrote letter at this time to the
LID which proves how complete his disappear
ence was. The letter Of his father read:-
my son, Leon Lewis, who participated in
March demonstration and who was arrested
then and was under bail furnished by the
LID and under the of your lawyer, 10
now missing. I don't know where he disap.
psared and what became of him."
For several weeks the LID representatives
telephoned and telegraphed every part of the
city in an attempt to locate him. This was in
vain. When telephoned. the Office of the "Revo-
Mtionary Age" CURLY informed the LID that It
did not know of the whereabouts of Lewis and
knew nothing of his case. News of Lewis jump
Ing bail on comparatively minor charge became
known to the workers and considerable indigna-
ton was expressed at his action. The LID even
ut the time Of the March Demonstrations knew
OF other Lovestonites, as for example, Roy
stephens In Boston, whose desertion lost work.
ers money In forfeiture Of bail Lewis was bailed
out In spite Of this. Lewis again appeared sew
eral weeks after the forfeiture. He was rear.
rested by the authorities and Jailed. The Love-
atonites then demanded that the LID should again
bau him. This the lid refused to do. The
National Committee Of the LID however. Of.
tatod ~ nE07i6s the necessary legal detsnse,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30
The Election Campaign in
the State of Indiana

With the approach of the elections we again
see the attempt of the capitalist parties to mis-
lead the workers of this steel and oil region and
to create an Illusion that by voting for either
the Democratic or Republican parties In this
state they will free" themselves from the misery
and starvation which is facing the steel workers
today Lay -offs and wage cuts are daily event
in this steel and oil region The Inland Steel
Company Of Indiana Harbor, besides only work.
ing As per cent capacity, has given its workers
two 10 per cent wage cuts in the last month.
The Gary Screw and Bolt Company employing
some 500 workers, has shut down completely
week ago. The Standard Oil. the Sinclair Oil
and the Royal Dutch Shell ref1neries laying
off many 800 to 400 workers daily. The
Illinois Steel Mills of Gary are working so per
cent capacity. The Youngstown Sheet and Tube
of Indiana Harbor is working 40 per cent
capacity. The Standard Steel Car Company of
Hammond promises to shut down completely in
week two.
These wage cuts and mass lay-otfs in addition
to terrific speed-up and naturalization, as we'll
as unheard of impoverishment Of the farmers
Is the direct effect of the crisis which is under
mining the influence of the three capitalist
parties.
The Old Parties and the Crisis
The fact that the crisis Is forcing the old
parties to make unemployment as their major
issue is exemplifed by the fact that the Demo-
cratic Party in this State puts forth, besides
their usual slogan of "ousting the corruptible
Republicans out of Office" has raised the slogan
of Let your stomach answer who to vote for"
The Republican Party of this city, is running
Mr.. William f. Hodges for reelection for State
Senator. The same gentleman who while the
Mayor Of Gary in 1919 employed police, thugs
gangsters and the militia to smash the famous
1919 steel strike. This same strikebreaker today
is running as friend of labor"
This same Republican Party who left the
prison doors open in Marion, Indiana, for the
mob to lynch the two young Negro workers is
appealing to the Negro masses for support The
Democratic Party in Gary, running for county
commissioner real estate dealer, Charles Baran
who owns and controls land in a segregated part
of Gary; who owns lots around the Washington
Park, to which Negro workers are not per-
mitted; and when Negro worker does stray
into the park he is beaten and thrown out This
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30

lacoR, formerly In the Pocketbook Makers
Union.
If the A. F. of L. has refused to organize the
unskilled, the Socialists Organize by appeal
ing FIRST to the bosses, and NOT to the work
ers. With the workers the Socialists" use mil
liant" phrases to entice them into the A F. of L.
unions where gangsterism and graft rule and
democracy has been banshed; where assess
ments and taxes follow in rapid succession to
pay fat salaries and Expenses" of officials but
funds available for organization work
strike benefits or relief of unemployed members
The loss of membership in the A. It. of L. unions
has to be substituted by enough new member
ship to replenish the union funds so that the
oficials-A. f. Of L. and "Sociast"-wiu not
suffer!
Asainest Negro Workers
Just enough NEGRO workers are organized to
pretend there is no Observation-Disclosures Gar
ment Workers and Pullman porters, and both are
losing Negro members.
At the trade union conference held by the
Jewish Socialist" Verband in New York. which
includes the Hebrew Trades, assertions were
made by leaders" that the Socialist" Party
should not bother with the organized workers
Waldman, the brilliant" lawyer-standard-
bearer of the Socialist" Party in this years cleo
tons, declared that the SOCIALIST PARTY
is NOT PARTY OF PRODUCERS. IT is A
PARTY OF CONSUMERS. 1t is a party of the
working class in SO far as the workers make up
the largest part of the consumers. The TRADE
UNION is MERELY A GROUP OF PRODUC-
ERS IN CONFLICT WITH THE INTERESTS
OF THE COMMUNITY, THAT is THE CON-
SUMERS."
This view was attached by Shiplacoff whose
shady handling of some 100000 led to his forced
resignation from the Pocketbook Makers Union,
and who is another eminent" candidate of the
Socialist" Party. Shiplacoff pleaded for "AC-
TIVE FRIENDLY participation in the A. r. of
L." TO be surel As long graft and power
can be obtained at the same source, Socialists"
must participate No breaking with the good
brothers"-no placing Of the A. B. OF L unions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30

TONS The fascist A. F. of L. leaders and the
social-fascists agree. These officials believe in
the use of injunctions even against one another
but also against employers because all of them
are against the militant action of the workers
and wish all strikes to be settled by the leaders
with no participation by the membership. The
Socialist Party supports the A. F. of L. bill in
Congress, which opposes the abuse" of injunc-
tions-which means that they will be supplied
with vicious police action only against militant
workers. who answer by DEFYING ALL IN
FUNCTIONS.
Socialist" Gansster Methods
UNION DEMOCRACY. One of the worst as
poets of reactionary unionism is shown in $50
ciaist" well A. F. of L. unions in the mat
ter of union democracy. In the unions, where
A f. Of l.. fascists and social fascists rule and
control all democratic rights have been crushed.
Some unions have not met for years building
laborers, etc., and members are expelled for de-
handing that meetings be held. Any militant
who dares to criticize the local administration or
the national officaldom is In danger of expulsion
In addition to being slugged, If not killed.
This Is linked up with three vicious demoral-
izing practices in A. F. of L. and Socialist con-
trolled unions-gangsterism graft and misuse of
union funds. Gangsterism characterizes the unions
of the building trades, miners. needle trades
workers, against the membership and outside
against the bosses struggles is every day prac-
tice. Not militant action of the workers in
masses on the picket line, who can handle the
sluggers, as they did in Passac and New Bed
ford, but professional gangsters to do the dirty
work" Of the unions
Graft
In order to avoid" strikes, A. F. of l.. and
Socialist officials notorious for their graft
ing. Brindel is the outstanding example of the
many smaller and petty Brindells, like Sgman,
who make up the A. +. Of l.. and Socialist
trade union leadership. In accepting graft, the
fascists and social fascists agree.
Msusing Funds
In misusing union funds, which IL common in
the unions, We have the latest example Of Ship
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30
HOU We Work
On Checking Up on the Ac ivtes of the League Units

is, Of course, recorded in the minutes At the
following meeting of unit we read the min
utes Now here is where we check UP on the
activity Of the comrades. After reading the min
utes. we take it up point by point and the COM
rades report to the unit their activities If the
comrades functioned properly. the minutes are
approved by the unit.
AS result our meetings are shortened. It
eliminates from the agenda "Old Business"
This idea has a very good effect upon our
comrades. 1t makes them conscientious workers
and willing to carry out the work assigned to
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30
By DORIS WATSON

M order 10 know whether the unit is actually
nlnetonins az League unit should and whether
the comrades are carrying out the tasks assigned
. .nem oy me unit, our unit hit upon an idea
which Is working out well Instead of the ron
can system that was formerly used where the
comrades individually were asked. ''What did you
40 Tor the League this week?", we discovered a
system that Is less clumsy and which doesn't take
Mp the time Of the unit
IA taking up the work at our unit meetings,
sacn eomrade Is assigned to a special task. This
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-30
Correction

The article, Vote Communist" on this page
In yesterdays edition was resolution Of the
international Labor Defense on the 1880 Election
QamRslso
The Washington times., 1930-01-02
A Hundred Red Ants on d
Chickens Eye
THEY Did Not Understand the Chicken IT Didn' t
Understand Us. We Human Beings Don't Under
stand Something Higher Than We Are.
EHE chickens Matched too late" said the wise
! who looked at them,

who looked at them.
It cold. The chickens lived near wire fence Some
times the mother was side Of the fence and the chickens
the other all worrying Sometimes poor chicken
separated from brothers and sisters and mother
One of the chickens died
It lay the ground flattened outas dead birds lie Cas-
uay it turned over and Natures progress for getting
rid of what is not needed revealed.
Upon the eyes of the dead chick the eye lying the
EARTH there of tiny red They had begun
the work of reducing the animal to skeleton
The chickens life had ended, its usefulness LIVING
being was
began another of usefulness now feeding
infinitely below ITSELF
you had looked at that SMALL dead bird with micro
scopc and those myriads of swarng ants rejoicing
its death might have endless millions of timer
lures living INSIDE OF THE TINY ANTS and you might
have realized how foolish it for human beings ques-
on that which above believe that we
the top end OF the area OF in this universe
have laughed they COULD laugh if ANYBODY had suggested
to them that the ant was alive.
Beneath the dead chicken scores of ants
would have seemed ridiculous them suggest that the
ture which they devoung had lived struggled
they did, and had its separate life. -
The chicken when it was alive would have looked up at
you not believing that you thinking being It would
have said II that thing with legs come and co. But
OF course, it is not a thinking creature"
What the difference between yourself and the parasite
INSIDE OF the ant or the ant the chickens eye that
AS look at everything scale below you you will
declare yourself master of it ALL = -
charming sesatisfied atheists-you saw to yourself:
am the top There is the chicken there are the ants
there are the parasites Each parasite visible my eye
each made Of the millions atoms Each atom
Of many electrons, AND AT THE TOP"
anybody suggests the athestic gentleman that there is
power above him. as far from him he from those tiny
ants or from the parasites in the ants he smile in his
superior way and say, "No, I am at the top''
Be that there in this universe inegences that
look down upon glued this little grain of sand we cali
and curiosity that you show you at the dead chicken
fat and cold and the tiny creatures that eat it,