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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
Youth Club
Progress
By BORIS LANDIN.

-FOUR years ago a group of Harlem
workers organized proletarian
organization, under the name OF
Harlem Progressive Youth Club. Our
purpose was to establish cultural
home for the workers of this neigh
borhood, where they could find a
comradely atmosphere and recreation,
through which they would be drawn
into the working class movement.
Like all workers organizations, ours
has had many difficulties to face.
Also, we have made many mistakes,
such as taking a stand of Impair
tiality" in our cultural activities, and
allowing bourgeois intellectuals
to spread from our platform such
false ideas as there is one culture for
all classes. However, these mistakes
have now been corrected, and now
that our club has taken more clear
cut class position, we are making
more progress among the working
youth Of Harlem.
In order to carry on our various
activities in the best way possible, we
have divided our work into various
sections, and a comrade is elected by
the membership every six months to
head each division. There is dra-
mates section, and an educational
section, and sports section.
The many indoor and outdoor &C
tivities of our sports section, which
was organized three years ago, has
attracted into our club many new ele-
ments. whom we otherwise would
not have been able to reach. We
have two soccer teams, basket ball
teams, and many hikes and camping
in the spring and summer months.
A girls basket ball team is now being
organized
So far we have failed III one of our
biggest tasks--that Of drawing in any
considerable number of Negro work
ers. This is a serious shortcoming
which must be remedied.
Our educational department keeps
a close watch on current events, and
arranges lectures and discussions
regularly on important labor ques-
lions, both in this country and
abroad One Of the most popular
series was on Soviet Russia and the
Five Year Plan.
Our club takes part in all the &C.
tivities and affairs of the revolution
airy movement, such as mass demon,
STATIONS, aiding the workers press
and the past election campaign.
All young workers of Harlem, re
CARELESS of color. race or nationality
arc invited to join the Harlem Pro
gresSive Youth Club The club hall
at 1899 Madison Avenue, near lo2nt
st, is open every evening
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
By DOROTHY ROSS.

Down on the East Side, on orchard
street. where the most miserable con-
d;tions of workers are to be found,
a certsin Mrs Prown lives in two
rooms. The place is dark, without
breath OF air, and with just one WIN
dow in the entire place. There was
practically no furniture in this house
lust a broken table, a couple of
cid chairs and an old bed.
Mrs. Brown IS not more than 40
years old. she should be in the prime
of her life but when you look at her
she gives the impression OF being
about sixty. Her hair is completely
GRAY her once good looking face is
ali Tired, not from years, but from
slaving day and night in order to
save a few dollars for her old age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
"THE APPLE MAN"
BY MILTON sCHwARTzBERG

BY MILTON SCHWARTZBERG
Apples, apples, five-a-da cent.
You buya da apple me paya ds
rent,
You tinka da apple she gotta nc
l stay in da cold, da rain, da sleet
bits,
graft?
Go way young Teller, you maka
me laff.
First, dey sell for buck and two
Now she go high, the sky she hits,
The price she have more luck you
know,
So gotta sell two box or so.
An den ] so home; I no gotta da
heat, a
Just two little room, for my wife
and da keeds,
We no media da kitchen, VIC PC
gotta da eats.
90 tell da landlord no gotta da
mon
He say get out you lazy bum. b.
He never sell apples for five-a-
cent each, q
He staya home and gett queecka
rich.
An soon come da day We must
pay de rent,
An we have no mon, from the
house We get sent.
So apples sell in da street night
and day, *
We musta have mon for da rent
V pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
The March on Hunger
BY DAVID HOROWITZ.

Ten million slaves unwilling to die
While pulpit and press promise pie in the sky
The workers learning through hunger and tears
All the Iies-ALL the LIES of a thousand years.
Come feIIow-workers from mine and from mill
Join in the march to Capitol Hill
Into the ranks all We slaves from the shops
We're marching on HUNGER and never will stop
While women and children wait to be fed
And the bosses deny hard-earned bread
The word is FORWARD the starving oppressed,
The Army OF LABOR, the suppressed. =.
We march on the masters who hold in thraII
WhOve taken our labors freedom all
Who've left to die charitys beds
But forward march-and high heads.
We not to plead for the the least
Like hungry beggars to the masters feast
We march to demand the workers just claims
And forward we strain at weary chains.
Hold high the Banner blood has made RED
Wave in defiance this EMBLEM dread
That brings fear TO the bOss-Our worst enemy
When muster might in full UNITY.
We're marching-we're marching--the driven the low
Ten millions surge forward like oceans mad flow. . f..
Surge forwardspring upwardstrike hard at the foes
The masters must perish and with them woes!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
Unemployed Queer a Job
Sharks Game

And that guy takes my ten dol
lars for job, and I go to work, and
three days later the boss fires me.
He said he didn't need me any more,
and gave me three lousy dollars.
went back TO the agency to get my
money back, but nothing doing. So
l came here to the Unemployed
Council. What are you going to do
about it?"
"WilI we let ourselves be gyped like
this?" the chairman called out. mo
mol" came from all over the hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
1881 CALENDAR FREE!

Quotations from Marx, Lepin, etc,
in the first annual Daily Worker
Calendar for 1881. Free with six
months subscription or renewal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
YpSt. liz GESTURE OF FAKE
SUPPORT FOR YOUNG WORKER

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 8.-The
Young Peoples Socialist League here
adopted resolution last night in a
liberal gesture of fake support for the
Young Worker, organ of the Young
Communist League, in its fight for
restoration of its mailing rights.
Such a gesture of liberal support
for freedom of the press" is abso-
lutely meaningless. If there are still
honest young workers in the YPSL,
their place is not in the YPSL and
the socialist party, but in the class
struggle organizations Of the prole-
tarat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
The Boss Makes
A n O t h er
R e d
BY ROBERT BROWN

EVERYDAY when the unemployed
council leaves Leonard and Lafay-
cite street and returns to its head
quarters at 81 East 4th Street, many
of the unemployed workers who had
been in the crowd listening, return
with them.
At council headquarters, an open
forum is held, where workers tell
their experience with the bosses and
how they can organize to fight for
uE loyment relief and better con-
ditions.
Today one of the workers who
spoke was William McGern, a new
EnC der. = 2e told of miser-
able conditions in the textile mills
there and the terrific unemploy-
ment.
80, came to NeY York Nc
Germ went on to say, II borrowed
few dollars from my brother.
thought II could live on that until
I found a job. But 1 couldn't find
a job. Four months ago I put in
my application with the Municipal
Employment Bureau. I used to come
up there everyday"
Then the day before yesterday
came up there and the fellow
with the megaphone calls out Jan
itor wanted" I didn't care what
did now, 1 was down to my last
penny I ran over with the rest.
I must have run dam we'll be-
cause I got there first. The guy at
the desk says to me DO you want
to do janitor's work."
Sure I said, III do anything
as long as can make enough to
live on.
Alright" he says, I've got a job
for you as janitor in five floor
apartment house in williamsburg"
Alright" I say, I'm ready. pen
he tells me I get four rooms free
and gives me slip of paper with
the address. You didn't say any
thing about salary?" I say to him.
and do you know what that guy
tells me?" He says; There's no sal
airy with this job You're getting
your rent free, aren't you. you'll
have a place to stay, anyway.
How am I going to >eat?" asked
him.
That's up to you" he tells me,
you're married, aren't you, maybe
your wife can find job
Men, that got me sore. I threw
the goddam slip in his face. l didnt
! get married SOS my wife would work
and have my kids stuck in some
lousy day nursery! Men, 1 want to
tell you I'm sick and tired of being
treated like a dog
used TO think that the govern
ment was for the people, for me and
you as well as the rich. I used to
think that anybody that said diff
ferent was a foreigner or a red, l
want TO tell you I'm one of those
guys now myself. I'm ready TO fight
with them, I'm ready to march down
10 the capitol, I'm through being a
good American. When you're a good
american and you believe in the
government you're just like they
want you to be: An American Fool.
When I heard the speakers from
this organization say, down there In
front of that employment bureau
Organize, Don't Starve. Fight"
came right down here with them.
know il we organize we can do
something. I'm taking out my mem
bership card here today and I'm go
ing to do my bit. You can bet up
won't starve without fight,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10

1920 comes around. At last,
sigh and think that the end OF a
perfect day is here. But the boss
doesn't say a word about leaving to
the girls and business goes on just
the same. At 10:45, I approach him
and ask him for my pay. I finally
get my two and half measly dollars
and start TO agitate the girls, telling
them that we should fight againss
such intolerable conditions. The boss
using his sneaky-spy methods, over
heard me and did not ask me to
come in again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-10
IN J ALL

Lousy jails, dark grim cells,
Made of capitalists strongest ores,
Rotten iood plcnty of suleiIs
Petty thieves and many whores!
Living death to militant men,
Monuments of bosses strength
Grating riches the countries length
Justice Truth! Names for them
Workers wake, hear the cry
Imprisoned toilers the world widt
over
Call on you-N'ill sou let them al
die?
Organize and break those bars!
Written by Young Worker
while in Cleveland Jail
Get 1891 Daily Worker
calendar free with six
months subscription or re-
newaI.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE 50

six months, it would be gigantic by
the age of 10.
For instance, it doubles its weight
during the first six months. If it
continued doubling its weight every
six months, it would be 1000 pounds
at years of age, which is quite a
baby.
Since infants, during the first six
months Of life, live largely on milk,
and since this is particularly rich
in iron, the infant is supplied with
a store of iron or iron reserve until
it gets older and begins to get iron
in its food. Nature is wonderful.
AS an example of the extra iron
that may be required by the body,
a prospective mother or one nurs-
ing an infant must increase her
iron intake by 20 per cent over that
of the ordinary adult.
The girl who approaches the per-
iod of maturity begins to lose blood
and thereby requires more iron to
keep her from developing secondary
anemia. At this age she should
take foods rich in iron, such as
green vegetables and egg yolk as
we'll as liver and kidneys.
Just as calcium and phosphorus
seem to go together in the body, 50
also does copper travel with iron.
Investigators in the University of
Wisconsin found that the kind OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Our Insulliana

The insult interests own and control the
public service commission.
They would resent any intimation that it
is not one of their assets.
The insult interests, in addition to cleo
tricit, and transportation, also deal in gas.
The big gas distributors resent public
ownership. They also resent the tenerity
of the local industrialists who are attempting
to bring natural gas to their factories with
out paying tribute to the masters.
That may be the reason-or was it
clairvoyance ?-that through the caverns OF
Wall street the whisper went early yester-
day that the petition of the local factory
owners for permit would be denied with
out hearing.
True the attorneys for the city, for the
local petitioners and for all concerned ex-
pected a hearing They were all surprised
when the suggestion was made that the COM
mission had no authority. But Wall street
was surprised that the hearing was held at
all. 1t did not expect one.
All of which should suggest that the peo-
pie of this city and this state may at some
till6 NC 6NNbAlAS III " WIN 49,
rule of the public utility interests.
The 10000 employees of the factories rep
resented in the petition for the use of natur-
al gas may find their jobs just little less Sc
cure because these greedy utilities are hav-
ing their way with the state and resent any
intrusion upon their plans.
The owners of factories may find them
selves just a little nearer the bankruptcy
courts because they pay tribute to the greed
Of the utilities, not only the gas magnates
who are fighting public ownership, but the
holding companies which operate as fences
for the telephone and electric robberies,
Rather queer that the haunts of high
finance can outguess by at least an hour what
is in the minds of public officials in Indiana
when the good lawyers who represent all
phases of the question could not even hope to
hazard a prophecy.
Perhaps the answer is Governor who is
under no obligations of any sort to utility
barOnS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

1t frequently has been remarked that women out
live men, Only the other day friend called our
attention to the fact that have eight widows on
our block.
Learned folk discuss this subject very sagacously
and scientists offer excellent for it.
But general observation will give better answer.
Men die too soon because they do not take care Of
themselves.
The average man, especially if he has been reared
on the old-faShoned theory that big strong he-men
should be stoical and endure pain without murmur-
ing, thinks he knows more than doctor.
Also, he has dim and half subconScious feeling
that illness in male is sign of weakness There
fore, reaching the age when every adult should visit
brave to stick things out and make complaints.
according to his idea, sickness and defy dis
aster So, nine times out of ten, he will die from
a simple disease or physical flaw which could have
been easily mastered if it had been taken in time
THE truth is that men are ashamed to be ILL.
4 Women, on the contrary, have been trained to
enjoy all sorts of ailments It's very feminine and
even ladylike in code to be under the doctors
Indeed half the physicians would have to close
their Offices If developed the same silly complex
that men possess, For literally camp upon the
doctors doorstep We always detecting inter
eSting symptoms in ourselves and q con-
sequence, We live good deal longer than our men.
Investigation will prove that the confirmed invalid
always outlives everybody in the family. There's a
reason for this.
number of old-fashioned masculine theories are
foolish. But this of ignoring the doctor, Is the
most ridiculous and dangerous Of them all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Beer and Prosperity

persuasive argument for the legalization OF beer
Is made by August A. Busch, st. Louis brewer.
He contends that the arguments used for discon-
tinung brewing during the to labor, grain.
coal and other materials could now be applied with
equal force in favor of its resumption.
Busch uses government figures to show that brew
ing would yield the government $40O,0O0,00O a year
in revenue, provide a market for 100000 bushels
of grain, give employment to 125000O persons, put
10000 railroad cars to work in the hauling OF coal
alone and greatly stimulate other related industries.
Il may be wrong" he says, "but it is my belief
that the huge quantity of grains formerly used in the
brewing industry thrown into the markets every year
In competition with wheat has contributed much to
the farm debacle."
These, of course, largely material arguments,
based on expediency, and leave out of account the
social factors so much stressed by the dryS.
But, says Busch, anybody who has read the Wick
ersham reports knows there is such thing as pro-
hbition anyway. And he might have added that a
sary for even the drys will admit that it is easy for
those who want liquor to get it.
Furthermore, 1.-The restoration Of the manufac-
lure of beer undoubtedly would lessen the resistance
to the enforcement of prohibition against hard
LIQUOR and also contribute toward the lessening of
crime In other words the beer rackets Of gangsters
like Al Capone and Legs Diamond would disappear.
There is undenably a change of public sentiment
In favor of the legal control of what has become a
vast and wen-organized lawless business. Eventually
his sentiment will make itself felt in congress
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
| eSs Than HOspitabIe

TUT the crux of the trouble is
D deeper than the matter of adj
ministrative detail. While various
officials in the department OF labor
have been callous and stupid, they
probably represent with a fair de-
gree of accuracy the present temper
of the American public toward the
stranger within our gates.
This suspicion and ill-will may
have had its inception during the
war. We went to great trouble at
that time to stir up an active
hatred against the Germans. 1t IS
true that by now the anti German
feeling has subsidized. But we did
learn under instruction the habit
of mass hatred. We merely have
switched our detectives.
The khan did a great deal to give
narrow provincialism certain set
channels in which it could flow.
And the memory fingers on, even
though the khan has dWindled.
1t is interesting to note that one
of the favorite arguments used IN
fomenting suspicion of the alien
rests on no substantial evidence
whatsoever. Nine out of ten men
in the street will insist that the
crime wave is carried on almost
entirely by non-Americans. But a
careful examination of the statistics
shows that there is no truth in this
! assertion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
TT SEEMS TO ME BY HB BEoSS

or two could be justly identified
under the liberal label.
These, then, are gentlemen with
a conservative trend Of mind. And
vote of 9 to 2 seems to me to
constitute a very sweeping condem-
nation of our entire attitude toward
the immigrant.
I do not believe that the remedy
which is suggested will cure the
evils complained of. The commits
sion would set up a separate quasi
judicial board OF alien appeals. 1t
might, of course, be effective in GER
tain fragrant cases. One, for in
stance, which is cited in the Wicker
sham report is preposterous to the
point of fantasy
A Mexican, legally admitted to
this country in 1928, married an
American girl in Texas and had
eight children. One day he went
fishing and inadvertently crossed
the border while waiting near the
half mark in the Rio Grande river.
Upon his return he was appre-
hended and deported. And, despite
the need of his wife and children
for him. he forever was barred from
this country. Not even the Presi-
dent of the United States has the
power to correct this manifest alb
Surdity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Iron Necessary to Good Health

anemia that develops by wrong diet
is not cured nearly so rapidly by
the use of iron alone as by the use
Of iron accompanied by copper.
Thus various types of iron are not
as effective as others. Iron can be
given in the inorganic form in pills
and not be as effective as when it
is given in food substances which
also contain some copper.
Such substances include cabbage,
lettuce and liver. The average
American diet contains from IA to
20 milligramS of iron a day. The
human body needs Is milligrams. A
slight excess of iron in the diet is
therefore not likely to be harmful
and will make certain of safe
amount.
Another element which seems to
be associated with the assimilation
of iron is manganese. The red
coloring matter Of the blood is main
tanned by the assistance of iron,
copper and manganese. This was
found by testing the ability of ami
mails to regenerate hemoglobin that
had been destroyed when fed various
quantities of these salts.
Fortunately nature takes care OF
this human need by combining these
substances in foods. If one eats a
diet in which the vegetables have
been properly selected, these needs
usually are provided dor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
The Hebert Farce

Senator Felix Hebert has enacted another scene
In the farce that the administration is making of the
senates attempt to get an honest investigation Of
unemployment insurance
Returning from tour of four European countries
as chairman of the senate committee to probe
ployment insurance this private insurance gentleman
from Rhode Island spent a weekend with Hoover at
the Rapidan. whereupon he gave out this nluninat-
ing interview
IT still have an open mind, and hope to hear
haustive testimony this vital subject. However,
have about reached the conclusion from interviews
had abroad that any federal system of unemployment
insurance will lead to the dole"
The story of how Hebert got to be chairman OF
this committee is fitting background for such in
tervew Senator Wagner. liberal Democrat forced
through resolution for this investigation as part of
his unemployment prevention program-despite ad-
nlinistration opposition.
Vice-President Curtis, in naming a committee OF
three senator's listed Wagner first conforming to the
unwritten senate rule that the author Of a
creating a committee be named chairman. Later
under White House pressure, Hebert and his fellow
Republican the committee chose HILBERT as chair
man. In spite Of this bit of robbery, Wagner still
hoped mat a real investigation might be made
Hebect apparently has not decided whether to scrap
the investigation altogether merely postpone hear
ings until September. Anyway he already has dis
qualified himself investigator by admitting bias
Hebert was opposed to unemployment insurance
when he "muscled in" as chairman. He was opposed
when he investigated" abroad. He viii be opposed
when he hears exhaustive" testimony.
Why go on with this farce? In the name Of econ
omy and sincerity, why shouldn't Hebert write his
partisan report now2 If Senator Wagner can get an
honest investigation from such q setup he will be
guperman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Nagata'S Comet

XXTHILE naked-eye comets are
w rare, small comets and distant
ones which do not approach closely
enough to the earth to become Wis
ible to the unaided eye, are fairly
common. Astronomers. with their
telescopes, discover about five COM
cts a year.
Comets are named after their dis
coVererS. Many amateur astrono-
mers spend much time hunting for
comets because of the acclaim which
accompanies such a discovery. The
Astronomical Society Of the Pacific
awards a medal to each finder of a
new comet.
The latest comet is Nagata's COM
ct, named for Masani Nagata. a
Japanese amateur astronomer in
Brawley, Cal. Nagata is the fore
man on a melon ranch in the I'M
perial valley. BY day he directs the
activities Of twenty field workers.
BY night he studies the heavens
through a portable three-inch tele-
scope.
Nagata's comet, 1t was hoped at
first, would come within range of
the unaided eye. Astronomers are
now of the opinion that it will not
do so.
Seen through a small Telescope,
the comet exhibits a tail about
eight times as long as the diameter
of the full moon. Owners of tele-
scopes may look for it near the
bright star Regulus.