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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-25
Work : ales in Slang

his steel plant got the idea that Il
hours a day was too damn long to
work. They made no secret of how
they felt about the matter. They
thought they ought to be drawing
down more dough, too. But they
didn't see what they wanted so they
decided to ask for it.
With this in view, they picked a
delegation to visit the old animal
lover and give him an earful be-
cause they knew he had a heart the
size of watermelon.
When the strikers arrived at their
boss humble shack, the old boy had
his beak submerged in plans for q
new hotel for homeless NUTS. But
being charitable, he gave the men a
break and listened to them.
They told him that all they
craved was an eight-hour day, no
work on Sundays, and five cents
more per hour.
"What?" he answered. big,
strong men like you afraid to put
in a real days work? If you'd read
the papers, you'd know how hard l
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but now I am humble and have no
courage. I shall rid myself of O!
if it be the last deed of my life."
He began at once to push o! out:
A B C D E KLMN
skipping O-P Q R S TUV w K
w.
"That isn't the way" said the Red
Bear. 20! is the link of the chain
that binds us to slavery. o! o. o!
overlap and in that way our chains
are forged. Get rid of an O.! and
you get rid of link. Get rid of
two, of three, of four, of ten, and
you get rid of the chain. There is
one sure way to break the chain.
We cannot get rid of the chain each
animal by himself. We must break
the chain togetherw
each day we will try to grow in
courage and by that very growth we
will break the chain. There is one
sure way of breaking the chain and
that is by winning all the animals
to our side. Each day we will grow
and in ten days we will be strong
enough to shatter and scatter the
chain and leave not even a smatter
Of Black Bear and Pig and their
henchmen."
(The last episode in the Red
Bears story will appear next Sat-
urday.)
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Lion lowered his head in shame:
"Polecat said if gave up my tail,
Reindeer would drive me into the
rainbow where the colors are so
beautiful and the arc sails over the
world away from sorrow.
"And you, Comrade Rhino, did not
Polecat say heaven told you to give
up your horn to make false teeth
for Black Bear that he might eat
our children?"
Rhino hung his head in shame.
And you, Comrade Porcupine,
did not your needles STAY your Com
.rade Ermine to make a robe for
Black Bear?"
The animals cried: 20! O! or
"When your cry is not O.! o! o!
but On! On! On! we will march
against Black Bear"
There is too much O.! in our
hearts," moaned the Lion.
Preacher Polecat had been hiding
in tree. He now called out: 20!
my lord and o! my king and o! my
master Pig Pig Pig" And like an
echo long o! o! o! came from the
animals. The Red Bear jumped to
the tree and slew the Skunk with
one blow. He called loudly:
"Slaves, the Polecrat's prayer takes
you unaware and o! is the song of
your hearts!"
The Lion wept: "Once was proud
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Then spake the chairman of the
committee.
"a soft-soap answer turneth not
away wrath. If you don't come
Scross we're going out on strike
Comb that out of your whiskers."
"Aha," cried the old gent. TRY
ing to take advantage of my highly
publicised good nature, Ell? You're
al fired, effective at once. I'm not
going to be browbeaten. l know
my rights"
Well, the steel workers went on
strike. Things began to look tough
for the old animal lover and the
S.P.C.A. had to quit feeding calves
liver to the friendless NUTS because
their benefactor was dishing out all
his dough for scabs and gunner to
keep the strikers backed against the
ropes.
Then, one day, the superintendent
of the plant rushed up to the old
big-shot's shack to give him the
low-down.
"Well have 'em eating out of our
hands in week." he announced.
six of the organizers are in the
can. And what's more, we're throw
ing all the strikers, and their wives
and their kids out of the comnjny
houses. They hav come b to
work and like it Jecause H. be
winter any minute now. They can't
freeze. Why, they'll even be glad
to take ten per cent wage cut"
The old man was cock-eyed with
glee. "I'm certainly pleased that
we are going to be able to teach
these subversive reds, these enemies
of the nations welfare that they
can't bulldoze respectable business
enterprise and threaten the coun-
try's prosperity by destructive
strikes. This is happy occasion
for the community and for American
ideals"
And to prove what happy occa.
sion it was, he Immediately went tc
work on plans for a million dollar
chain of horse troughs for the Lin.
coin Highway.
But the old boy was due for ar
awful let-down and he got it. The
workers stuck to their guns through
the winter and they got what they
wanted. The great giver of horse
troughs had to come across be.
cause the dear beasties were whin
ing piteously for more corn-flakes
and production in the mills was
stopped because there wasn't seal
this side of hell who could get by
those picket lines.
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what Has Gone Before:

What Has Gone Before:
The Black Bear has sent his hench-
men-Leech, Shiny Worm, Beaver,
Grover and Crocodile, VuIture. Stool
Pigeon--to spy and work against the
Red Bear and the oppressed animals.
AS Red Bear reads the call he has
written to the animals. he catches
the Haywood Bruin. the Black CHARS
iester, spying through the window.
The Haywood Bruin tells of the Black
Bears plans. The Red Bear impris-
ons the Jester and calls the animals
to-a meeting in the wood.
Now We Go On:
Che Drawer animals came to the
meeting. By the light of the Fire
flies they sat about. The Red Bear
entered. He felt the grief of his
fellows. He smiled tor the Lion:
"0omrade, the tail you lost will be
/. fopnd. You have nothing to lose
but grief and a world of Joy to
gain!"
sAnd you, Rhino, your horn will
grace your face again!"
sComrade Porcupine, your needles
will sew the shroud of the Black
Bar!"
sAnd Honey-Bees, l have caught
the Haywood Bruin, the funny
honey-bear. You will have your
honey back!"
Red Bear turned to Eel's grave
"O Comrade Eel, the fish in the
sea and the fish in the lake remem-
Der you and in that memory place
their zeal, o Comrade Eelw
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By QUIRT

Also, they passed around such
phrases as 81 once loved this coun-
try, but if I ever get out of this
war, I'll be damned if I'll ever love
another" The men thought they
were getting away with murder
and the officers did not seem to
know what to do with such ode
M -ng propaganda"
N Before any outfit was moved up
to the ront, numerous men were
removed rom that outfit and trans
ferred to labor battalion or other
non-combatant unit, as "unfit" be-
cause considered too radical.
Soldiers Hired Out by Officers at
Compulsory Labor.
Several months after the armis-
tice I was transferred to prison
camp near ST. Aigon (St. Agony,
the men called it}. The boys in the
tent to which I was assigned won
dered that / was sent there, al
though not court-martialed or &C.
cused of anything definite. Then
they told me their cases.
Five young boys, who were all
below draft age but had enlisted,
were on guard one day when they
saw their most vicious slave-tail
crossing hill about mile away.
One of the boys called halt, as loud
ly as he could, but when the man
did not obey, they all fired at him,
several times. When he heard the
bullets whizzing close to him he
ducked, then had them arrested and
tried. AS they had only carried out
general orders to the letter, with no
flaw in their procedure, and as they
were unable to recognize him at
that distance, they had to be ac-
quilted.
There had been five thousand
cases similar to this in this camp
through the summer, and the Off
GERS had hired these men out to
well-to-do wine growers to pick
grapes for wine. The boys said the
officers pocketed the wages paid by
the French, while the government
fed the men as prisoners. There
was another prison camp a few
kilometers farther out where the
men were still at hard labor. These
men had become mutinous, so the
Officers had sent them here.
AT this time thousands of officers
ard non-coms, and a few privates
with pull were being sent to French
end British universities for foul
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Red Bear turned to the animals
in the wood:
"There are those qUho work and
build and get
Out of their labors nothing get
But q0orrin1ent and fear =.
:. Therefore must aoe
Together be
In SOLIDARITY,
To fight
For right
Against the parasite!"
The Lark sang: "Arse, We pris-
oners of starvation"
The Three Bears stood on their
hind legs.
The Lark sang: "Arise, ye wretch
ed of the earth!"
The Lion, the Rhino, the Porcup-
inc stood on their hind legs.
The Red Bear went on: "When
the Preacher Polecat cannot slay us
with his prayers, we will then march
against the Black Bear. You, Three
Bears, did you not yield to Polecat
the Skunk when he let Black Bear
steal your oatmeal by promising you
pie in the sky bye-and-bye?"
The Three Bears hung their heads
in shame.
"And you, Comrade Lion, did you
not give your tail to Black Bear for
whip which to beat Comrade Rein
deer?"
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traitors to the Russian people more
reliable" from the states point of
view, than ex-servicemen who have
learned to see behind the govern
ment's Bluff.
My parents are past seventy years
old and have always been conser-
vative. Yet my experiences have
opened their eyes too. A few months
ago they decided to drop the $4,000
war risk insurance" a form of
graft which the government is ped
dling). For, my parents concluded
this government will probably not
last as long as they will, and then
the workers will provide old age
pensions for ALL "just like they dc
in Russia This insurance has been
paying dividends" of seventeen
bucks a year, and over half of my
last check went to the reds. Do you
wonder Hoover doesn't want the ex-
servicemen to get pensions!
A short while ago l picked up a
couple of hitch-hikers, still in their
teens and from American families
on their way to Citizens Military
raining Camp.
Flows business in Detroit? !
asked.
Absolutely nothing doing! All
the factories are closing down and
the Daily Worker sells like hot
cakes on all the streets"
After we had talked training
camp and war for while, one of
them said, "Well, we'd never fight
for this government Evidently this
7ernment won't be able to raise
anything but a red army for its
approaching war.
What Action to Take
Well, when the last war broke
out, a lot of us didn't know what
to do. But in 1880, we can learn
what to do by joining the Commu-
mist Party and reading the Daily
Worker regularly. Boy, they can tell
US what to do, they are experts
they have done it! Soviet Union
proves it.
After reading the Daily Worker
for a year and seeing what the
Fishes and congress are up to again
l sent in my application the day be.
fore yesterday to the Communist
Party.
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"No Bed OF Roses" >>>>An
Indictment of Capitalism

ing to pieces. There is 10 one
whom she can count as friends ex-
cept dope peddler and her old
uncle back in the north west. Now
she must hustle the cheaper hotels
and receive less and less for her
services.
When jailed, she is persuaded by
her uncle to enter an institution in
North Carolina which supposedly
breaks the drug habit The old man
covers the enormous cost of this
treatment. For a few weeks she
responds to the new environment of
outdoors, congenial surroundings
and economic security. (From this
and other events, it is clear that the
girl is one whose impulses are good,
but who is too weak to stand up
against circumstances. Her petty
bourgeois early training and out
look which continues with her to
the last make her succumb too cas-
lily to adversely. She lacks a certain
hardihood which woman from the
working class would have shown in
similar circumstances. These facts
weaken the book. Yet the essentials
of the picture remain.)
The institution proves to be more
interested in the money to be made
out of patients than in curing them.
Org reaches the patients easily. So
o. w. leaves the hospital with the
drug habit still holding her firmly
in ats grasp. eha
From now on, she goes rapidly
down hill. Another arrest and a
long prison sentence follow. We see
her at the end, emerging from the
prison, diseased, penniless and
forlorn figure. AS she starts off
down the street dope peddler fol-
lows on her trail. Shivering, she
pulls her coat around her and moves
on to fate which she knows awaits
her, but now feels it is too late to
escape.
There is no doubt left in the read
er's mind. 1t certainly is no bed of
roses. No book could be farther
from Camille" or the romantic
tales of the primrose path written
by middle class authors from the
point of view not of those who must
pay the price, but from the point
of view of the class that profits
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demand their share of the spoils
from prostitution and dope peddling.
The Soviet Union is the one coun-
try where the government not only
does not countenance and protect
prostitution, but has taken vigorous
economic and social measures to in
sure its disappearance. In conse-
quence, prostitution has virtually
disappeared from the Soviet Union.
Until similar steps can be taken,
under working class government
in the United States, such tragic
cases as 0. w. reports in "No Bed
of Roses" will continue to multiply.
--MYRA PAGE.
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How the Boss Loved Horses!
BY BILL HERNANDEZ

man loved nature. Why, it burned
him to crisp if he saw any cruel,
dirty little city boys tramping the
tender grass on his lawns or throw
ing sticks at his apple trees.
His noble passion for overworked
horses and underfed dogs won him
more attention than a Daughter of
the American Revolution doing a
hootchie-kootchie dance on the pub
lie square at high noon. He got to
stand ace-high with the outfits that
make racket of worrying over the
sad fact that horses can't drink
beer on hot days. He got writer's
cramp from making out checks to
buy new horse troughs and the pap
ers published his face
He got big kick out of it. He
began to love animals more and
more all the time. Why he would
have become vegetarian if he
hadn't liked porterhouse so much.
But life amt all roses even for a
millionaire.
One day some of the workers in
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materially and otherwise from the
institution of prostitution.
Stark, bare, the prostitutes life
glares forth from this book, a
monotonous sordid, soul-corroding
existence. Equally stark and bare
glares forth the relation of the pres
ent economic and political system to
prostitution. No matter whether it
is a republican, democratic, or So
called socialistic administration in
the town where Owls hustle for a
living, the governments hypocriti-
cal pretensions stand out. Govern
ment officials, police and courts all
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soFFICER HAITI"

In last Saturdays issue. this ex-
serviceman told of how five gem
eratiOns in his family had fought
in, wars in this country. only TO be
dis-iIlusOned Mt the end.
when the world war broke out,
he WAS drafted and sent across. He
describes the poor food and crowd
ed conditions of the enlisted men
on the transport going over, ana
contrasts these with the large
the Officers had. Then they headed
for the front, crowded into box
cars so thick that there was no
place to lie down to Sleep
By H. P. A.
Our diet Of corned goldfish and
orchestra berries was becoming I'M
bearably monotonous when half a
beef arrived from the states. By
the time the last leg of this was
brought up from the Frenchman's
cellar where it was kept, it stunk
so and was so Shiny that the cook
had to trim off an inch of it all
around before making it into slum-
gullion. Then we either had to eat
it or go without dinner and supper
for two days. No wonder the flu
and other contagious diseases be-
came epidemic among us.
Conditions Back Home.
Though they tried to tell US we
should cheerfully accept all this fol
the sake of our country, that the
folks back home were getting fabu'
louis wages fabulous was right
we. knew that not only were .oul
people being cruelty sped up in the
factories at no increase of wages
and being robbed by high prices, but
they were also forced to subscribe
to Liberty Bonds, and make con.
tributions to the war chests, to the
robber YMCA, Red Cross, Starva
ton Army, and the rest.
If anyone dared to protest they
were molested and even arrested
and accused of being German spies
However, the dicks always tried to
get them to admit that they had
once read Red leaflet so thai they
could be more openly convicted and
prosecuted along with Gene Debs
Bill Haywood, and other working
clTs- fighters.
Unrest at the Front.
Conditions became so bad il
France that the men got to protest
ing in rather tricky phrases Whel
the cheapest kind of sow-belly ant
coffee were rationed out to us, W.
wondered who was eating that goot
bacon we had seen coming int
camp, and VIII was drinking tina
good coffee.
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The First Giants of
Soviet 5>Year Plan
The Story of Turkish, the Railroad That
Broke All Records

cut throufh mountains IN order to
lay out the rails. Socialist competi-
ton together with modern technique
has done miracles.
1t is well known that in United
States that the greatest speed was
reached in constructing railroads
one and half a mile a day. How
ever the Turkish railroad was con-
structed at the speed of rs miles
day, and on some days they reached
the speed of almost AS miles day.
Thus the constructors of Turkish
gave the world a new record of his
toric achievement of the world rail-
road construction. However the
greatest achievement was the open
ing of the railroad II months earlier
than the original plan and a months
less than the revised plan. Accord
ing to the original plan the expense
should have amounted to 203 100000
rubfes, but we'll organized labor
saved 28,000,000 rubles. In the con-
struction over $4,000 workers were
involved.
Now the Turkish is completed.
The two gangs of workers-one
started in Semipalatinsk, on the
northern side, the other in Frunze,
on the southern side-met on the
railroad station Ajna-Bulak, whose
name today is well known through
out the Soviet Union.
A new page in the history of
Soviet middle Asian region was
opened. Now they receive the cheap
Siberian bread and utilize all the
available space for cotton. The
land used for cultivation of cotton
was trebled and now the Soviet tex
tile industry does not need any cot
ton from outside countries.
On the vast plain of Kazakstan
where before the cattle were pastur-
ing, now has been constructed a
canned goods factory, and large
farms for cattle breeding. In a
large lake, almost a sea by itself,
Balkash--will soon appear the first
steamships, and along its borders
will appear copper mines, The
mountains around Balkash are fabu-
lousy rich with copper Turkish
starts large construction program
in the whole Kazakstan. 1t is push
ing forward the life of this back
ward country which until now was
sleeping under the influence of the
mullah local priests).
The whistle of the first train
proclaimed death struggle against
the old way of living, and called the
natives to new cultural life. Kaz-
! akstan, the country of poor shep-
herds, became a country with pro-
gressive agriculture and itsown in
dustry. Two or three years ago the
natives trembled hearing about the
devils cart" as they called the
train. But lately they learned that
the railroad is their best friend.
Already during the construction of
the railroad 5000 natives learned
how to read and write, and many
of them are now serving on the
railroad.
The first train was driven by a
native and on each station there was
a large crowd of natives who trav-
elled quite distance just to see the
first train. Now they call it-"black
horse" The opening of the Turk
sib is the first gigantic offspring of
the Five-Year Plan and therefore
is received with the warmest greet
ings of the entire Soviet working
| class.
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Macaulay Publishing Company,
New York, $500.

New York, $500.
This book, the diary of a prosti-
tute and dope fiend, is severe in
dictment of present capitalist So
ciety by one Of its victims. The fact
that the diary was written with no
thought of publication, and that its
author is almost unaware of the
harsh indictment which her story
presents, does not lessen the
strength of the accusation.
The girl, O. W., feels life has
given her raw deal, and that the
dollar is almighty, but her under
standing hardly goes beyond that.
Nevertheless, a reader who under-
stands the social forces of present
society can follow clearly the trail
of a ruthless commercialism which
stops at nothing, not even the
tricking of people into becoming
dope fiends, since the profits of this
game are enormous.
Lonely and oppressed by her life,
o. w. sought comfort in writing
diaries (sixteen in ally, which we're
later discovered by a woman jour-
nalist in New York rooming house
and brought together in book form.
o. W., an ignorant and impulsive
adolescent, is thrown upon the mer-
cies of Chicago, there to shift for
herself and make of life what she
can. Her story is like many others.
While struggling to make meager
wage cover the essentials of exist
ence, she falls prey to the tempta-
ton of pretty clothes and a good
time, and is tricked by a business
man who no doubt considers he is
only taking what he has bought and
paid for. Somehow the girl had not
realized the bargain.
Once more alone and without
job, she follows the line of least
resistance and begins to hustle
hotels, covering the most luxurious
establishments where the rich idlers
ccngregate. She learns at once
that she must buy protection of
hotel clerks, dicks and police
0. W. starts afresh for fifteen
dollars week playing a piano in a
New York music store. She finds
it impossible to live on this. The
first time she asks for an increase,
it is refused. The second time, she
is told that if she isn't satisfied
there are plenty outside waiting for
her job. In the meantime she has
fallen "a love with a young business
man who comes into the store to
buy music. Her love for this man
lasted throughout her life. She dis
covers he is ashamed to take her
out, because of her shabby clothes.
So once more she begins to hustle
a few dollars on the side, to cover
her expenses and get an outfit of
clothes. To her lover she gives the
explanation that she has received
money from home. They move into
q Riverside apartment, for which
she pays by entertaining editors,
newspaper men, theatrical manag-
ers and Wall Street men during the
hours when her lover is away. After
some months her lover casts her
aside in scorn. 1t is at this time
that she is persuaded into taking
powders to quiet her nerves which
are becoming shattered and then
lied and tricked into becoming a
confirmed dope addict.
Her sorry tale goes on from here
as a weak and restless creature she
is bounded by police when suffi-
cient graft money is not forthcom-
ing. Her nerves and health are 60