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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

newspapers which I have read for me, do meet
with an editorial attacking the private police
system now in force, or indeed any Of these
shameful ills,
Rather it is always the corporations and their
rights and plans to further debase the Or
binary American clerk and 1aborer that are
CLOSED over and themselves made to appear the
patrons of better life, rather than the sappers
and underminers to destruction that they really
are. And like the corporations, these papers and
their editors and subsidizers are traitors to the
original intention of this government and as
such, should be tried and punished.
But to return to these Communist political
prisoners. Why are they in iail2 What have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
The American Press and Political Prisoners

Federation labor unions and strikes are held to
be In no way illegal.
But the corporations beating up unorganized
strikers and stopping their food supply do not
fear any laws. They are the law! And the
newspapers that today know this we'll enough
are silent. If they do anything at all, it is to
Soft-pedal the bitter abuses of which they know
so much. And always, always they are busy
publishing fictitious accounts Of the plots OF
workers for the blowing up Of plants and bridges
in order to stir up public opinion against the
laborer and give the corporations excuses, in the
eyes of the public, to hire more police and act
more viciously.
But lastly, just how does the government de-
eide that these labor leaders are criminal. Well,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Free the Class War Prisoners in Boss ails"-Dreiser

a number of the states have alien and sedition
laws. But just what is "sedition"? Legally, it
is Indictment to discomfort against the govern
ment. But mere discomfort is certainly not
crime. The whole idea of democracy is supposed
to be based on the right of the people to man
age their government, and when their servants
or officials misbehave, to protest and punish
the misbehavior. But let Communist say that
today! Yet actually sedition, under its strictest
definition, is no more than a connection amount
ing not even to insurrection.
And what negligible thing that should be!
How really creditable and justifiable! But sedi-
ton as our corporation controlled government
sees it, does not even require an overt act One
can be arrested for nothing Yet actually, if
sedition is to be charged as a crime it should
tend to treason. But tending" is something too
vague, and is therefore not a just basis for
criminal law.
Yet these criminal laws remain, constantly
creating political prisoners, like Ray Peltz, sem
fenced in Pennsylvania for distributing parnph-
lets to term of from one to twenty years inn
prisonment. Probably twenty years imprison-
ment for merely distributing pamphlets! And
these sedition cases. like those Of the three
Communists of Woodlawn, the Supreme Court OF
the United States refuses even to review. Yet
would or do any of our great American chain
newspaper corporations permit single one of
their hundreds of dailies in various cities to
print sincere attack on the basis and absolute
unfairneSs of our gedition laws? You know not.
Financially that paper would become taboo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

Bachmarn interests, young II and tS-year-old
girls are FORCED (get this emphasis) to PROS
TITUrE themselves to make living, coming
lot of graft and extra revenue for Bachmann,
Sheriff Habig g. Co. This red-light district, sup
posedly illegal, runs at full blast "a hours every
day In the week under the full protection Of the
police department and Mr. Bachmann's fellow
politicians
Mr.. Bachmann people who live in glass houses
should not throw stones! And Mr.. Fish, how
about taking few days off to investigate some
real forced labor in the prostitution houses OF
your dear old friend and 100 per cent American
raving snti-Soyct racketeer-Mr. Carl Ct. Bach
mann of Wheeling w. va,7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Oh, We're All Right!

sir Arthur Salter Blsines Tariff for Depression,
sald tine headline of the NJ Y Times the other
day, discussing the Washington convention of
tine International Chamber of Commerce. But
the Times knows how to defend American inn
periallslns tariff, which IT has to favor in prac-
tice IN spite OF occasional editorial lamentations
So its sub-headline on the story of the attack
on tariffs In general, was given" But OUR
Tariff is Defended by Dean Donharno. other
peoples tariff may be bad but ours Is fine
stuff Theirs cause depression" ours bring
about prosperity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Neglect of Negro Workers
Marion, Ohio.

Marion, ONO.
Dear Sir:
In regards to the Daily Worker paper we have
been receiving through the White Council here
and we have not received for three days, we
would like to order the paper direct from head
quarters, so that we will get your paper every
day, SO that We will hear the news from the
Daily Worker
We are going to get up Colored Council now
as we have twelve or fifteen who are in favor
of the paper. We would like to have some in
formation of organizing council
Well, I must close Hope to hear from you
soon.
Comment: Something is radically wrong here.
The Ohio District should get on the job inme-
dately and investigate the situation in Marion
and find out how it is that Negro workers get
the idea that we organize separate Unemployed
Councils for white and Negro workers. We must
state emphatically that we do no such thing.
Everything organized by the Communist Party
and the Trade Union Unity League is organized
by and for ALL workers, white and Negro to-
gether. To organize separate white councils
would mean to Jim Crow the Negro workers.
How is it that this Negro comrade could get
the idea OF separate councils? This can only
be due to neglect of the Negro workers by the
whites. The Negro workers must have been made
to feel either that they were not wanted, or else
as result of the failure of the council to do
work among the Negroes, they must have come
to the conclusion that it is necessary for them
to organize separate Negro Council. In reply
TO Ccmrade A. r., we suggest that he take his
twelve or fifteen Negro comrades to the present
Council where they will be enrolled as members.
instead of organizing separate council. At
the same time, we have written to the Ohio Dis
trict Office and the National Office Of the Trade
Union Unity League, and have informed the busi-
ness office of the Daily Worker, to make sure
that both the matters Of the Council and of the
supply of the Daily Worker, get the necessary
attention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
SMASH THE NEW SIBERIAN EXILE
SYSTEM!

Straws show how the wind blows. The San
Diego Sun recently printed an article stating
that the way to kill the Communist plague is to
dynamite it out In other words, kill those who
advocate reasonable changes under that name
And corporations are violently fighting Commu-
nists and their labor leaders because they find
them practical men who organize, Tight and
print instead of talking. Yet the scholar and
theoriest-still bostered by a few safeguards-a
job with some college, money family and the
like, may talk and think, have his ideas printed
in leading dailes and discussed by intellectuals
Let Communist or ordinary laborer talk or
strike or distribute pamphlet explaining in
some rough and perhaps 'itlcouth way identicaly
the same political ideas or Yacts now distributed
by many NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and college pro-
fessors included-and to prison he goes, and for
twenty years
But why? Because capitalism rescnts any
thought or stirring on the part of labor; since
that indicates the day is not far distant when
the strong and the ambitious will have to take
less-a fair reward, and he laborer will get near
er what is his due-food, clothing, fairly certain
employment, reasonable opportunity along with
others to educate himself and to rest when he
needs to. Is that too much? do not see it,
Yet it is from the discussion Of these issues by
laborers and their leaders that flow the thou
sands Of arrests today and the scores OF political
prisoners. Hence our present-day American ter
ror-our new Siberian exile system herel ..l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
CAPITALIST PRESS FIGHTS AGAINST
RELEASE OF CLASS WAR PRISONERS

And our great newspapers, like the Los An
geles Times controlled by western corporations)
now aim violent attacks against the release Of
these long term political prisoners, whose only
offense is their desire to better labor conditions.
In order to railroad leaders to Jail in this
way though, evidence is always framed UP by
private detectives who spy on them, and after
that. our American courts almost the land over
knowingly accept such testimony. Worse, stool
pigeons, such as those from the Boiling De-
tective Agency, who we're called into this I'M
perial Valley case by the corporations there in
terested sent the Communist labor leaders to
prison Private police hired and paid by CORPORA
tons, helped to send the three Communist work
ers Of Woodlawn, Pennsylvania. to jail. And
there are innunerable additional instances. But
Communists declare and Justly, that this whole
corporation private police and spy system should
be outlaved. and what is more they are fight
ing TO that end
yet n mons Of the hundreds Of issues of the
successful and widely distributed American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
nr rHFnnoRE DRESSER.

YTFAT COMPRISES the bulk Of the present mass
W of so-called political prisoners" in our
American penitentiaries7 Are they Communist
labor organizers7 They arel In jail? Yes! But
why? If you we're to trouble to look, you would
turn up an interesting fact, and this is that the
American newspapers, mostly corporauon-oWneo
or directed, scarcely mention these cases, let
alone concern themselves deeply enough to let
their readers know q whit of the new greatest
issue of American economic Ife-capitalism
versus labor!
In fact, as see it. 1t is the Communists, and
the Communists alone, who today heed this issue
solemnIy enough They and they alone, assert
that economic slavery, not economic indepen-
dsnce, has followed the growth Of our enormous
corporations and trusts-not the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, which in my estimation, is, on
the one hand, a joke, and on the other, men
ace For like all corporations, its various unions
and their locals here and everywhere in Amer
lea, work not for the betternent Of labor in
general but for the special ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF
small closely-Brdt groups of labor grafters in
particular And as for formulating and for
wsrding valuable economic social principles, they
do know what the words mean and do not care.
In fact, here assert, and without fear OF
honest contradiction, that it is the Communists,
and the Communists alone, who realize that
American AUTOMATICALLY -unionlzed-is
made the goat of corporation aspirations and
the bilHonaires dreams of more billions, Com
nnunist research workers-not newspaper report
ers OF leading or important papers, or socialists,
or ntellectuas or liberals, or this or that, know,
for instance that the cotton pickers in the South
receive only dollar day for twelve hours
work and the Jones and Laughlin Steel Cor
poration of Pennsylvania, drives its workers
twelve hours a day seven days week at a wage
of forty or fifty cents an hour. To this one
group alone, such things as graft, peonage, ar
rest for lack of employment when and where
there are no jobs, are serious matters.
To them and to them only this constitutes
capitalist anarchy. They protest and fight the
while these corporations hold their employees
to low wages by selling them maybe one-half Of
one per cent investments in the companies that
invariably take for themselves the other ninety
nine and one-hah per cent and build lunatic
corporation bubbles which finally end in such
panics as 1907 and 1929. What dub, what a
trudging nunbskull must be the average worker
to be so fooled and abused without riot and
civil war; 50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
A CRIME TO ORGANIZE FOR BETTER
CONDITIONS

In the South, labor leaders are facing the cleo
trio chair for this supposed crime. Belonging TO
a labor union and attending its meetings is Suf-
ficient, in the Imperial Valley, according to the
capitalists who rule America to warrant the
arrest and brutal claiming together Of 10S la
borers! And in this a country where American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

they done? Organized labor unionsl But what
of that2 Is it a crime to anyone other than
grating corporation for laborers to attempt to
organize? hold notl For that, though, men
are imprisoned today in California, Pennsylvania.
and elsewhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
A Reversible Joke

Hoovers announcement that the u S Govern
ment is running at deficit this yeor of 81 ooo,-
100000, ought to cheer up the vr,rn Islanders.
who might say that they were taken charge Of
by poor-house."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
COMMUNISTS ALONE FIGHT BOSSES

Communists, and Communists alone these
days, appear to know and publish accounts Of
corporation power and the abuses traceable to
the same I see that by reading their papers
They sec. and publish, for instance, that field
workers OF the southwest their backs loaded and
under neat from which many die Of sunstroke,
and at inc same time receiving a wage of only
twenty five or tllirty-five cents hour, haven't
a chance in a strike, because the Southern Pa
cific Of that region herds carloads Of scabs into
those great areas of Southern California, Arr
iona, New Mexico and Texas, to help break any
protest they may make,
They (the Communists have seen-and not
only have seen but saown-how corporations not
only try but do circumvent the proper organiza-
ton of labor by encouraging total segregation
of races in separate living quarters and then
playing one race against the other; as for in
stance, including the Mexicans of Imperial VAL
lev to work in the melon fields for less money
because. according to lies they spread, the Fill
piros had already accepted cut, and thereby
engendering race hatred which had no reason
in fact but strengthened the position Of the cor
poration Here too corporations, great land
owners and hence contractors, hold back twenty
five per cent Of the wages until the end of the
season, and often escape with the money or give
as an excuse for no pay poor crop or drought
In L[lS way tlCy guarantee PlShALS VI IllS
whole crop. Wouldn't it be as fair for the
laborers to demand bond or twenty-five per
cent advance Of their prospective pay in order
to guarantee them against discharge before the
crop was in? But labor, penniless and ignorant
must take what is handed it!
But if our American newspapers know these
things, they prefer to ignore them and print in
stead inane details of fake relief for the unem-
pIoyed And yet collectively, labor is America
and without it, where would all the newspapers
corporations, bankers, financiers and their
leeches, the heirs to unearned fortune and in
comes be? wish to ask!
Xet. in the face of these known abuses, and
when and where capital profits so inordinately
today, when labor leaders call strikes, merely to
gain living wage, an eight hour day, and clean
living conditions, they are thrown into Jail, and
there they stay for from three to forty years
or from two to twenty eight years-and there
they may be kept for the entire length of the
longest end. And all you have to do to bring
that about is to cry Communist or Communism,
and to declare that a land that was originally
dedicated to liberty and equality of opportunity
is being undermined. But by whom? Certainly
not by the Communists, who are seeking to bring
about that proper equation between strength
and weakness, ignorance and wisdom, which has
been the dream Of philosophers, thinkers and
humanitarians generally throughout the ages!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Party Life
By BURCK

Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.SA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-01

In view of the decorative trend in this country, which is apparent ly toward greater simplicity in furnishings and the use of modern materials with their unusual pos- abilities both in color and tex ture, the above picture of room designed by M. Brunei of Decora- tion Interieure Moderne in Paris is of interest. It is in the mod ern style but not aggressive and intended, through harmony i'll lines and color, to be both com fortable and attractive. M. Burnet believes that the modern art spirit will eventually take more concrete form than it has so far and that the painfully plain furniture and furnishings bordering on eccentric ity will flower into a real honest art style, though one that has a freer play for individuality than was possible in the days of the Louis " or the Empire.
 | The present tendency to use a few pictures as wall decoration meets with M. Brunet's approval but, for the walls themselves, he favors a plain treatment in simple colors whether in washable wall paper fabrikoid, paint or duco, the latter of which he uses largely for finish, particularly with uphol- stery and curtains in rayon or rayon mixture fabrics having a moderate sheen.
 In the room above pictured, the walls are light green, the book case and cupboards greyish green duco with the details in African brown. duco. The door frames are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-01

After Nancy had her fruit cake mixed according to directions given yesterday she put 1t in pans. She chose fairly heavy ones. She but tered them. Had she been going to bake cakes for four hours she would have lined the pans with heavy waxed or buttered paper.
 She filled the pans almost to the top since this cake cannot rise. Then she covered the pans with paraffin paper and put them in steamer. She steamed the cakes for three hours, took off the cov- ering paper and set them in slow oven for an additional hour. The regulator was set at 250 degrees F. The steaming makes the cakes smoother and better cooked throughout while the baking dries them out a bit and gives them the brown glistening crust. After bak- ing and cooling she set them away in dustproof but not air-tight con- tainers. ...
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-01
GlNFYN
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NALHAART
@Io3I BY NtA SERVICE. INC.

There are two distinct beauty treatments that the average skin needs daily.
 Before going to bed should be the logical time to do the heaviest work on your face and neck.
 Start 1t by removing the days grime with some cleansing cream. a light kind that either is already practically liquid or one that melts the moment 1t hits your face.
 Wipe off the worst of the days ravages with cotton dipped in astringent or with soft facial tis- sues. Then crawl into nice warm bath and while you relax and soak in the fragrant scented water, scrub your face gently but thoroughly.
 If you have an aversion to water on the face, you can take this time to cleanse your face, neck and ears with a slightly heavier cleansing cream. Personally, l think soapy water does the trick later to keep the skin soft. Dash cold water on your face for several seconds, at least, after 8 hot bath. The steam is likely to relax all the facial muscles and this cold water tightens them up again.
 After getting out of the tub. wipe your face off with more cot ton, dipped in astringent, and take a few minutes out to pat up ] your cheeks. Five minutes of gentle batting is not too much to treat your face to! It is worth it, whether it seems so at the time or not.
 Now you are ready for nour- ishing cream. If your skin is q delicate thin kind, that needs oil, use a rich nourishing cream. If your skin is oily use light one. But, whatever you use, pat the cream in gently, batting in a cir cular motion around the eyes and with an upward movement from the chin over the cheeks, and the same from the base of the neck to the chin. If your face doesn't absorb all the cream, you can wipe a little off. But if you care to leave a little on, chances are it will ab- sorb it by morning and be better for having done so.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-01

While Nancy was working with rich foods like fruit cakes she de- cided to check up on her mince meat turnover recipe. For these turnovers she used mince meat purchased at the store. This was a year when she had not been able to put up her own. But store mince meat is delicious; especially when "doctored" with peach pickle juice, left over dabs of jelly and a little pared. chopped raw apple.
 In making turnovers she used rich pastry, rolled it one quarter inch thick, cut 1t into four inch squares with sharp knife or pastry jagger. She put a generous spoon full of mince meat in center of each square, moistened edges of pastry in cold water, pressed one half over on other in triangle fashion. She pinched edges together, cut small opening in top of pastry, brushed top with milk and baked in a hot oven. She served these, hot or cold. with a generous piece of sharp cheese.
 Pastry recipes are on one or Nancy's, leaflets which may bc yours for tho asking and sending of stamped. scif-addrcssed en- vclopc with your request. send the letter to Nancy Page, care of this paper.
 Copyright. 1881. Publishers
 Syndicate). ,.