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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
June 20, 1920.
Mr.. Haywood Broun,
New York Telegram,
New York City.
June 20, 1920.

ANcW lVh lVAcsi ahy
New York City.
Dear Mr.. Broun:
No policeman forces me to read
your column. Not even the po-
liceman who beat me up for pro-
testing against the militarization
of our youth. My appreciation of
your contribution in the Sacco.
Vanzetti case at the sacrifice of
your job with the New York
World makes me read your col
umn. Each day, as ] pick up
your column, / am hopeful that
you will leave off kibbetzing and
dorbetzing and devote yourself to
the noble cause of fighting for
justice rs you did in the case of
the mufderouo State of Massaeku.
sets.
I am the guilty one. / wrote
in the Communist paper that your
employment agency, distribution
of cigarettes, etc. was like making
hole in water. During the war
| travelled from one training camp
to another. l was hungry and
thirsty and longing to write TO
nay home. In the station q good
looking young fellow offered me a
post card, an apple and q glass Of
lemonade-.--with these words: 81
give you this. When you get to
France, fight the Germans like
hell" Something of the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
SHIRT GIRLS IN
:R0CKSvILL.E:, PA.
Pet AS.LOW AS 81
Want to Organize Into
Needle Trades Union
Frocksville, Pa,

Fr0cKSVllle, ia,
Daily Worker:
There are two factories here in
his small town. One of these fac
sries is called the H. D. Bob with
eAdquarters in New York. There
re 8 of these factories in the
ounty.
They like to build big factories in
small town because they know that
iris in the city would not work for
nose wages. Lots of us girls are
etween Id and is, working 10 hours
day (which has been changed just
few weeks ago) from 7 to 6 o'clock
,orking you nights.
This factory employs $50 girls and
0 young men. All these poor girls
'orking here are not working for
he fun of it. 1t is because they
ave no other place to find work
fanny of the girls that work here
re working as there is nobody in
Aae family working.
u Here is what some girls are get
ing: Buttoners, 2 cents dozen;
lannel and cambray, cents q doz-
a; trimmers, A cents a dozen; zip
efs. Az cents dozen; trimmers
Of flannel lumber jackets, 51a cents
dozen; putting pieces on button,
cents dozen; putting zippers on
1r1ber Jackets, cent a dozen; but
IN sewers, ~ cents dozen; cuff
,aking, 3A cents dozen.
It takes about half an hour, may
. more for a dozen to be made,
ow could family live on this?
There are about 200 girls that
fork from 81 to $40 for two weeks,
f course. Some girls are afraid on
eeount of stool pigeons. The boss
3 know if they fire one girl there
re plenty that will take her place.
everyone stuck together they
puldn't get fired and the bosses
suldn't run the factory on scab
isis.
Girls of the III. D. Bob factory de-
rand more wages and less hours
nd Join the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union and the Commu-
ist Party. Send in your name and
ddress to the Daily Worker, 1928
Fnion So, New York and join the
nion that will fight for your in
bTests.
--JINGLES.
Editorial Note 1890 Organization in
10 shirt factory in Frocksville
heuid begin by the building of shop
smMittees in every department,
I'D I request made of the national
Nice Of the Needle Trades Indus
hal Union, 16 West 21st ST.. New
'ork, N. Y, to send in an organizer.
'sImrade Jingles, seemingly the one
no sees the need for organization
the girls, should get busy on the
n at once
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
BROUN SOCIAL-FASCIST
Sheds YELLOW Tears to Save Bosses

feeling came to me in your EN-
ployment office. Much hungrier
and unhappier I find myself in
giving u group of young ladies
thrill. It's a wonderful pastime.
On several jobs / have checked
up, but 1t was always case of
firing higher priced person and
replacing him with someone from
your office.
The Communist slogan of work
or wages is more practical than
your venture.
It's not a very happy situation
that the Communist Party hasn't
enough money and sufficient
forces to print and distribute good
literature. The American work.
ers know who are their friends
and the language that you employ
Is Just as far away from the
American worker as Is the Com
munist lingo.
You know well that the Con-
gressional Committee does not
come to investigate the Com mu-
mist movement, but comes with the
definite purpose Of suppressing
it.
Combating the Com munists
seems to have become one of your
recent hobbies.
Our Quaker president adds no
glory to Quakerism. The blood
shed in Boston seems to have been
in vain.
The Communist movement seeks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
USSR SEAMEN GET CARE
American Sean1en Enthused Ate, Visit

some useful courses, so they can
advance themselves. They have a
library and wall paper, on which
they can freely put their opinions
and suggestions, etc.
Well, the men on our ship sure
opened their eyes when they saw
all this. And one of the results
was when the ship was to leave
Leningrad and they woke us up at
a. m. on Sunday, we all kicked,
whereas before no one would have
the courage to argue with the
mate.
And Sunday afternoon when
they wanted us to go down and
clean out the holds, the men held
together Ito the surprise of the
bos'n and mateD and demanded so
cents an hour or time back. And
we won the strike, although the
captain tried to intimidate us by
limiting of charges"
These seamen are going to join
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union. Already they have pledged
to defend the Soviet Union! Amer
lean seamen, into the M. w. I. u.
for human, decent living and
working conditions.
ARTHUR NILSSON,
IS. s. Schenectady"
PSI was glad to find all re.
cent copies Of the Daily Worker
at the International Seamens Club
in Leningrad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

his slave-driving boss is discharged
and blacklisted so that he cannot OBJ
tain work anywhere unless he has a
reference from his last employer.
And they do not stop there for a
reference from the last employer.
But he 1.-THE worker) must get refer
ences from 5 to 10 former employ
ers in order to get a job.
Can't any workingman who has
any brains and work for q boss,
know very well that he is a bosses
slave. The bosses are we'll organ
lied.
He belongs to the National Manu-
facturers Association of America
the slavedriving and blacklistine
trust.
When the Ham-Fish committee, in.
vestigating and hearing propaganda
will you have the courage and tel
the committee composed Of the rich
and fat fishes to investigate the
slave-driving and blacklisting trust
the National Association of Manu-
facturers and their methods Of EN-.
ploying help through the so-called
reference system.
The boss can discharge and black
list you for any thing that you may
say against him. And under the 80
called reference system he holds life
and death in his hands.
He can say OK and you may get
a job. Or he may say through the
phone that you are no good. And
you are left in the street to starve
you and your family.
In the so-called land Of supposed.
to-be free you must obtain a license
to get a job.
remain yours truly,
A WORKTNGMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

They were cold storage eggs, and
though New York state law limits
their stay to six months in storage,
the same law says nothing about
them being shipped to another state
for six months, and the said eggs
may have travelled around all the
states in the Union before being
sent to sea to get-well to feed
the unfortunate crews of ships. The
effect of these eggs can be meas
ured by the extraordinary amount
of physics the men had and used
The Hampton Roads,
The general conditions for those
in the after-end were bad. There
was bathroom for oilers, firemen,
etc, but there was no faucet or
shower to take a bath. Water had
to be taken from a tank after, in
a bucket carried nearly amidship to
the washhOuse. This was very bad
when you consider that bath twice
a day is necessary, the engine room
and stockhold temperature being
frequently 100 degrees.
The messrooms were often very
dirty. On several occasions bos'n
and fireman had to turn and clean
them. This was due to the fact
that the messman had too much
work to do, having firemen, oilers,
deckhands and engineers to wait on.
If seamen would organize into a
real union, which the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union is, they would
have some say in the running of the
ship. They would get what they
wanted by strength of numbers and
a united front. Seamen! Join the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
Read the Daily Worker, the only
paper worth reading today. The
rest is all junk.
SEAMAN (OILER).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
6 Months Hunger
vacation" Given
Mill Workers
(B4 q Worker CORRESPONDENT

10y w OTheT COTTeSpOndenJJ
LEADVILLE, N. C.--The Lead
vile, N. c., Wooden Mills, employ
ing 200 men and women, working
so hours a day and IS night shift,
mas recently laid off every worker
in the mill for six months.
This is an addition to the many
thousands of unemployed that are
already looking and have been look
ing for work for many months, but
in vain.
The workers in this mill have
been carrying on agitation for or
ganization, and most of them are
members of the National Textile
Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

Will give you some idea of how
they are run by the company
with no regard for the safety
of the crew.
I Joined the Hampton Roads
which is owned by the Oil Trans
portation Company, New York. We
proceeded light to Norfolk, Va,
where we drydocked to have the
propeller shaft Strengthened which
had become bent during the pre-
vious voyage. This job could have
been done in Brooklyn, but wages
are lower in Norfolk, and they work
fast there too, with the result which
| will show later.
After leaving dry dock in New
port News, we proceeded via the
Canal to San Pedro, Calf. Here
we loaded 100000 barrels of gaso-
line. We arrived at the oil wharf
at 10 p. M, and the order came
that we would load Immediately.
This is a dangerous thing to do
when you consider that the ship
is under steam with fires lit, and
everything in the engine room "un-
der way" This order was eventu-
ally changed, and instead we COM
menced loading at 6 a. m. with
everything shut down and fires
banked.
Overlooking the Ship.
One day we noticed the chief en-
gineer and captain getting uneasy
about something. The chief wanted
some of the gas pumped overheard,
but the captain didn't want to lose
any of the precious stuff and he
had so barrels pumped into a pipe
line on deck. Probably he got a
bonus. This is like taking bucket
of water out Of the ocean to keep
it from rising. We got through
the canal alright, but many ships
have been lost through overlooking
] remember one in particular, the
"Swift Star" which blew up soon
after leaving Colon. No survivors,
of course.
Bum Chow for Crew.
We arrived in New York Harbor
and stayed there couple of days
and nights at anchor.
Meantime the propeller shaft had
got bent again.. rushing into the
engine room, through the stern
gland which had become torn out.
With all the pumps working, we
were only just able to make Brook
lyn drydock. We drydocked without
steaming the tanks out. None of
the crew stayed on that ship after
the trip.
Before I close my letter I will
give you some idea of the food on
this boat. The food in general was
mostly Junk, badly cooked at that.
Most Of it consisted of hash, maca-
roni soup, stew. 1t seemed to be
planned along lines of extreme
cheapness and being easily pre-
pared. Green stuff was never seen.
An apple week was the only fruit.
The breakfast was two fried eggs.
the first morning, two fried eggs
the second morning, and for the
forty-nine mornings thereafter. You
could have them scrambled. straight
up. or standing on their hind legs,
but they were anything but fresh,
the same. which we would not have
minded if these eggs were fresh,
but they dere anything but fresh.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
. Very truly yours,
THOMAS S. JONES.

Editorial note-Like many thou.
sands of other workers, Comrade
Jones is beginning to see the diff
Guilty of getting his rights as a
worker by individual effort. Alone,
he cannot even get the "justice" of
the bosses of laws in regards to pay
ment for work done. And the
christian" association for which he
worker is typical of the Christian"
bosses that maintain the institution
for their own purposes.
The lesson that this experience of
Comrade Jones drives home is this.
that the workers must fight actively
for their rights, that the fight must
be IN an organized fashion. Today
the workers have the Trade Union
Unity League and its affiliated
unions as those organizations that
can lead them in the day-to-day
bread and butter struggles.
Comrade Jones should JON the
Trade Union Unity League union
in the trade to which he belongs and
in an organized manner will be able
to fight for his rights as a worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
TARIFF CAUSES SWISS BOY.
COLT.

SWISZERLAND.--As autos are
among the first objects of the Swiss
boycott against American goods,
dealers here are selling American
autos at cne.half of the cost price.
This boycott is in retaliation for
the passing CT the new tariff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

EDITORIAL NOTES.-The com.
rade worker correctly shows up the
reference system as part of the
blacklisting system of the bosses.
AL big open-shop companies employ
the reference system for just this
reason. One of the fights of the
Trade Union Unity League In or
ganizing the millions of unorganized
workers will be directed against the
vicious blacklisting system, includ-
ing the reference system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
Graduate Nurse, With
No Work, Is Suicide

NEW YORK.-"Mrs. Newell last
night told Charles B. Cooley, the
manager of the hotel, that she had
been unable to find work." say the
press stories. Then they recount
that the body Of Mrs. Margery
Craig Newell, skilled worker, grad
uate nurse, was found dead with
bottle of cyanide of potassium be-
side it.
This shows the conditions. The
Communist remedy is not poison,
but organization around the slo-
gan, work or Wages"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
INTERNATIONAL YON
MERGER PLANNED.

FRANKFORT. --- DIR. Bleuthgen,
head of big international rayon
combine, will sail from Germany to
America to plan the merger of
three American rayon firms which
was started last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
SvracI1se. N. Y.

Syracuse, n. 7.
Editor, Daily Worker:--
Industrial conditions in this part
of the state are becoming progress
sively worse with no signs of a
change. Many factories formerly
working three or four days a week,
have cut down to two days and some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
SEA BOSSES Give SEAMEN ROTTEN
CONDITIONS AT SEA; ALWAYS BLAME
the CREW AS IN CASE or "PINTHIS"
Calls On Seamen to Organize Into the Marine
i Workers Industrial Union for Struggle
New York, N. Y.
EAastOr Daily WORKER

have been reading in the press accounts of the disaster
sieh occurred when the oil tanker Pnths collision
With the passenger ship Fairfax The blame for the disaster
thrown onto the Nothing said working
onditiOns these boats. Having completed trip in one,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
REFERENCES PART UF BLACKLS STING
SYSTEM OF SPEED UP BOSSES;
FIGHT BY ORGANIZATION
Bosses Hold Life and Death Over Men with
Preference" System Says Worker
New York City.
Editor, Daily Worker ,

Editor, Daily Worker,
Dear Editor and Fellow Workingman like myself
Will publish and spread big propaganda against the
called reference Please all the wongmen that they
the slaves the Please show them through the socaed
perniciOus reference system that have here.
hard workngman who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
PORTUGAL TO SPEND 100000. 900
FOR WAR.

LISBON.--The Portuguese bosses
will spend s6O,00O,OO0 in the next
8 years for naval construction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
DAVID LYNN.

Editorial Note:--That Comrade
LYNN has yet to learn of the true
role of that newly initiated social
fascist, Haywood Broun, is self
evident from his above letter.
Broun, with as inane a column
as ever won the plaudits of the
pink petite bourgeois Liberal.
minded" is, as LYNN points out,
the latest recruit in the anti
Communist drive started by the
Fish committee. Typical petite
bourgeois that he is, Broun makes
use of liberal" or even radical
sentimentalities to earn his thou
sands in the service of the cap
italist press.
Comrade LYNN allows himself
to be confused when Broun speaks
of a Communist lingo" True
the American workers have not
been educated to make an APP
proach to intricate economic and
political problems which necessi-
tates formal phrases at times, but
that they are rapidly learning is
quite evident.
To ask a choice social-fascist
to join in the revolutionary move
ment is to lose sight of the role
these socialists" betrayers play
in the class struggle, that of the
last labor" reserve of capitals M.
Witness the blood brothers Of
Broun's party in Great Britain,
ordering the wholesale massacre
of hundreds of Indian workers and
peasants. Social-fascists, even
bigwig columnists, are to be rec
0gnized only as hangmen of the
working class.
The work for Work or Wages"
must be the fight of the workers
under Communist leadership.
-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

Write About Your Conditions
for The Daily Worker. Become
Worker Correspondent.
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Write as you fight! Become q
worker correspondent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

to strike at the root of the mat
ter---to do away with world of
robbery and establish world of
justice.
Do as you intended once, jump
into the boat and sail against all
hard winds, against the armed
capitalist state and for those who
will bring the dawn of a new day!
Yours very truly,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
GYPPED BY YWCA
Wants to Know
How to Get
A Workers Rights

Brooklyn, N. Y, June %, 1880.
To the Editor:
Dear Sir:
For two years and few months
/ worked seven days a week without
a day off or ply for the extra Sun
dav work. l constantly asked for
remuneration but could never get
satisfaction from anyone. Finally
it Jed to my dismissal. This work
was done for the Young Womens'
Christian Association, Central
Branch, Brooklyn.
Will you please let me know how
| can get remuneration from this
association for this work of So Sun
days. Is there an organization or
a body which would, representing la
Dor, take up my cause. Because of
my large family, am unable to pay
an attorney for the work except on
a contingent basis. It would help me
greatly if you could direct me as
to the method to adopt or course 10
pursue. 1t is unavailing to try these
people.
With thanks for your courtesy, /
am,
"a Uarr +r7,Iy 1yo,1Ye
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-11-19
TREATED POSTS LAST LONGER

By treating with coal-tar creosote,
short lived woods such as soft maple,
beech, sweet gum, young or sap pine,
and red oak may be made more dur
able for use as posts and poles on the
farm. The longer life of the treated
wood and the possibility of using
some of the cheap and inferior kinds
more than Offset the cost of treat
ment says the Forest Service. Timber
should be peeled or months before
treatment and should become thor
oughly seasoned. Keep the butts of
the posts for l or hours in creosote
heated to 1870 degrees to 220 degrees
F., treating the wood to about foot
above where it will meet the surface
of the ground. In a southern elm
ate, the whole post should then be
put into cold oil, so to 100 degrees F.,
for or hours. In nothern elm
ates, where recay is less rapid, the
cold treatment is applied usually to
the butts only, the tops being treated
by painting or dipping in creosote.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-11-19
Proper Care Cures
Many Polio" Cripples
Put Children to Bed at First
Sign of Illness and Have
Expert Care

The unhappy aftermath of this
years epidemic of infantile paralysis
in Minnesota is likely to be another
large group of pitifully handicapped
children unless parents take immed-
late steps to counterfeit Gripping con-
ditionS.
This is the warning issued by ORTIZ
opedic experts in today's regular bull
letin from the Minnesota State Med
ical Association.
"Epidemics of infantile paralysis
which goes by the name of "poliom-
yelitis' among doctors, generalIy oc-
cur in the summer and subside sharp
ly by the middle of August" the bull
letin says. "But the number Of cases
reported this year to the State Board
of Health in Minnesota reached a
high peak in September, also, and
new ones are spreading in small
numbers to other and hither to I'M
touched localities in the state.
"Some of the victims of this I'M
usual outbreak of the disease stand
in immediate need of medical atten-
ton to prevent twisting, shortening
and wasting of weakened muscles"
these experts say many have an ex-
cellent chance of regaining good use
of their limbs with prompt and effec-
tive treatment. Parents Of these
children, particularly, should realize
that complete and unnecessary Grip
ping may be the result of neglect at
this stage of convalescence."
twenty-five out of seventy chill
dren examined in an orthopedic elm
ic held recently in one of the Mime
sofa counties hardest hit needed con-
slant care to prevent progressive dis
ablement and were not at the time re-
ceiving it. All of these children were
victims of this summers epidemic in
their county. Many were getting
about as best they could on weakened
legs without supports of any kind.
Fitting of braces, proper placing
of shoe pads, or especially construct
ed shoes, heat treatments and light
massage in some instances with eX-
ira warm wooden stockings for dam
aged feet and legs are among the
treatments needed by such children
Many of these types of treatment
may be administered and adjusted by
the physician in the home. Others
require disqualification in special in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-11-19

stitutions for the treatment of Grip
pied children.
Call paralysis resulting from this
disease could be greatly lessened if
stricken children were put to bed
promptly upon the very first sign of
Illness" this bulletin concludes.
"Often infantile paralysis makes
its first appearance just exactly as a
common cold does. In view of the
fact that it is still prevalent this fall
in Minnesota parents should make it
a point to put children to bed i'm
mediately upon first suggestion Of
sniffles or sore throat.
"Bed will help the child to recov
er quickly if his trouble is trifling
If his trouble should be the dreaded
polio" it will increase his chances
by nearly 100 per cent to make a
complete recovery"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-11-19
TRACY BOYS LEG CRUSHED
WHILE RIDING HORSEBACK

Francis Foley, fourteen-year-o son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Foley of Tracy,
had his leg amputated at the Tracy
hospital recently, following an accid-
ent in which the bone was broken and
crushed. The boy had been out
horseback riding without a halter or
bride on the horse, when the animal
became frightened by a dog, SHE'D
against a gate, breaking the boys
leg. When he jumped from the horse
the broken bone punctured the flesh
and artery. The leg was amputated
above the knee.