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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-28
Readers Ideas
on Daily Worker

The Daily Worker welcomes let
tiers from workers and farmers Of
fering suggestions for building up a
mass paper, in the editorial and
circulation departments. We will
try to print as many letters Is
possible that are sent in.
Irrigon, Ore.
Dear Comrades
I realize that the Daily Worker is
showing big improvements, and you
may know that 1 am not writing to
throw cold water on the struggle. Yet
I offer some criticism.
The news of daily struggles seems
to take too much space. We all are
glad to read these, but could they not
be shortened? realize that the
Party must grow by struggle, yet Is
your method the best? VIII not the
very fighters weary Of reading of lit
tie but bitter struggle?
More News from Abroad.
You have partly overcome that
sameness by the much needed articles
of achievements, especially in China
and in the Soviet Union. Yet the
Daily Worker lets many readers fell
to understand the relation Of daily
struggle to revolution. One reader
keeps saying he hopes Capitalism WI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-28
BY A. PETERSON

IN July %, William Green, presi-
" dent of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, was directed by the
Executive Council to formulate a
compulsory unemployment insur-
ance plan. All along during the
crisis the Greens, VOLS, McGradys
from the A. F. of l.. have con-
Quoted a bitter fight against any
kind of compulsory unemployment
insurance calling 1t "a degrading
dole" At the last A. F. of L. Van
couver convention, held october,
1881, under the Craftsmanship of
that ardent opponent of Unem-
ployrnent Insurance, Mr.. Matthew
Vol, all the resolutions in favor
of unemployment insurance we're
killed and these labor chiefs came
out with the statement that the
American workers are opposed to
compulsory unemployment insur-
ance.
Not Expression of Membership.
But these gentlemen surely did
not express the sentiment of the
membership of the A. F. of L. The
rank and file is for unemployment
insurance. This sentiment of the
rank and file in the A. F. of l..
took on an organizational form
when the Carpenters Local No.
2717 called for American Fedora
ton of Labor conference in New
York City on Jan. 81, 1882. At
this conference a resolution for a
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill at the expense of the govern
ment and the employers was
adopted. At this rank and file A.
F. of L. Conference a committee
of Is was elected for the purpose
of circularizing all A. F. of L. To-
Gals and Railroad Brotherhoods
with referendum SO that the
membership of these organizations
could register their opposition to
the election of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor 1881 convention
against unemployment insurance.
Activities of Committee.
The activities of this committee
of Is has already revealed in fact
that the membership in the A. F.
of l.. are for unemployment insur-
ance, paid by the government at
the expense of the employers.
Eight hundred local unions and
central bodies have endorsed the
referendum. All activities of this
committee were given the best con-
sideration. Committees of sim
liar nature we're established in
various sections of the country and
they began to look at the New
York A. F. of l.. Trade Union Com
mittee for Unemployment Insur-
ance and Relief as the center as
the national body.
Position Of Bosses Agents.
In their bitter fight against gov
eminent unemployment insurance,
the Greens and VOLS have con-
centrated their main attack on
this New York Committee. All the
reactionary Trade Union journals
had editorials attacking this A. F.
of L. Committee and unemploy-
rnent insurance. AS an addition to
this opposition came Green's A. F.
Of L. circular letter also attacking
this A. F. Of L. Committee. Then
came Hutcheson's circular letter to
the membership of the Brother
hood OF Carpenters and Joiners of
America, agitating the member
ship against unemployment ins,r-
ance, bitterly attacking the New
York A. F. Of l.. Committee for
Unemployment Insurance and even
threatening with suspension and
expulsion those who will support
the New York A. F. of L. Trade
Union Committee for Unemploy-
nnent Insurance and Relief. And
Mr.. Green, In the name Of the
federation, lately. increased his a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-28
Gangsterism in the Service
OF Capital
Why the Lindbergh Baby Was Not Found

THE Daily Worker herewith
publishes a penetrating analy-
sis Of the Lindbergh case and its
political implications written by
ID. Sasslavski, brilliant Soviet
journalist, who writes frequently
In the Moscow press.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-28
Letters from Our Readers
A WAY TO HELP UNIONS
New York City.

New York City.
Dear Editor:
I would suggest that shock troops
go around and expose speakers who
under the guise Of speaking for the
revolutionary struggle make racket
of selling books.
Further I would suggest that laun-
dries that have settled with the TUUL
should be Advertised in the Daily
Worker so that workers should pat-
roniSe those shops, and the same
for other trades.
e. X.
20 49,
The Democratic Party and Mr..
Roosevelt don't deserve our votes be-
cause MIR. Roosevelt is associated
with the crooked Tammany crowd.
Although he pretends to be, he is
not, he proves this by not sending
his pal Mr.. Broderick to jail with
tbs other two crooks, Mr.. Marcus
and ,xalnser.
Coradeiy. r. x.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08
Intelligent SelfShness

Social workers have talked themselves hoarse about
the erect OF night work in cotton mills upon the
health and the home life of men and women. with
out bringing about any marked improvement of con-
dtons
But hard times seem to be accomplishing what they
couIo not The Cotton Textile institute has recon-
mended that all productive night operations stop for
year, pointing out that ever since the war the in
dustry has been subject to the depression in
uence of threatened overproduction due not so much
to excess equipment as to the widespread practice of
using double shifts.
The institute bames this practice the Irregular
tiles of work in cotton mills and the unequal dstribu-
ton of what work there is.
The proposal to discontinue night work for a. year
has been overwhelmingly approved by the institutes
board of directors. If accepted by the members, it
will constitute experiment which may mean per-
manent adoption of policy mutually beneficial to the
industry and its employees.
1t may add one more to the long list of social
achievements which can be chalked up to the credit
of intelligent selhshness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08
Views Of Times Readers

Editor Times-Will you put some
article in The Times about saving
money in the purchase of food, etc,
for the poor? 1t may influence
legislation this session.
In substance: Why not save mil
lions in caring for the needy by
making it legal for township trus-
tees to buy ahead Of time, and in
sufficient amounts, groceries, meats
and other necesSaries at wholesale
prices?
Flour could be bought and turned
into bread at a fraction of what
trustees pay for it under the present
system. Many articles of food could
be purchased in bulk for less than
half what it costs the taxpayers
now. and just as wholesome.
Potatoes could be bought early in
the fall, when they are cheapest.
Even coal could be bought by
the carload. These provisions would
be bought ahead of time and kept
in some central supply building. the
rental of which would be minor
compared with the extravaganza of
buying everything retail as now.
Nearly all the general work could
be taken care of by the needy work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08
The Fliobt If Paw Rolls

Is the exodus of American factories and pay rolls
to foreign countries good bad?
Bad answers American business, it writes its
ledgers in red ink and watches exports drop another
s475 900 600 for the first months of this year
der the same period of last.
Good and bad little of each, answers the depart
ment of commerce, always searching for tariff alibs
especially around election time.
The loss of branch factories, says DR.. Julius Klein
assistant secretary of is good in that
hances buying power abroad and removes prejudices
against our manufacturers.
But it is bad, he adds in that those who go for
egn" are likely to find themselves weighted down"
with dole pension, disability and housing payments
The patriotic stay-at-homes, we infer may have
protection without these foreign frills demanded by
labor
Unlike Klein, agree with American business
men that the flight of American factories is bad.
wholly II has cost America more than 81 535 900 900
worth of factory investments abroad. Some 1900
American branch factories operate in Canada, some
$50 in Europe.
The American investments in branch factories in
Canada were s45oOOoOOo in 1929 These use only for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08
About to Die

The bureau that is about to die salutes America
for reissuing its last annual report.
The prohibition bureau is distributing more details
federal governments police task In the last fiscal
year prohibition law volators paid fines of more than
five million dollars in the last two fiscal years federal
fines have totaled more than twelve million dollars in
single year the one before last property worth more
than twenty-one million dollars seized in en-
forcement of the federal constitutional police ordi-
mace, the eighteenth amendment
Legazation of beer and wine and repeal of the
eighteenth amendment would have saved these sums
and added much more government revenue from
legitimate taxation would have cut short the human
distress these penalties indicate; and would have
saved the large amounts spent by the prohibition bu
reau in attempting to enforce the law which most
Of the nation holds in contempt
The bureau, as a matter of fact, is being con-
Quoted in a sensible manner than ever before
in its history. Public protest has outlawed some of
the violent methods. More humane methods, and less
of Anti-Saloon League tactics being employed I'M
der the gentlemanly Colonel Amos Woodcock.
But Colonel Woodcocks bureau is about to die
Both political parties have come out for repeater
revisionthe Democratic honestly and fatty, the Re
publican in pussyfooting way Primary votes of the
last few weeks show clearly that the sentiment for
repeal has become a mighty wave.
1t finally will enguf the prohibition bureau and t
will remove from the Constitution police ordinance
that never had any place there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08
Curbing the Greedy

Public sentiment should force the house
of representatives to act upon measure al
ready passed by the senate, which VIII cut
the rate of interest on petty loans from a 10
"a per cent year
The outrageous interest charge IS re-
sponsible for much misery, many divorces,
a great deal of crime and the blasting Oh
hopes and ambition.
Those forced to patronize these concerns
come from the group in society which least
can afford to pay the rates. Where the rlcn
borrow at per cent, the poor are forced 10
paw more than eight times that rate.
The fight made by the money lenders
against this measure was vicious. 1t also
was more than suspicious. The methods OF
lobbying were as reprehensible as the prac-
tees they sought to defend.
If there is any particular class that needs
urgent relief it is the borrower from these
concerns at the extortionate interest rates.
1t has been the experience of far too
many that, once caught in the interest trap,
they never escape.
Of course, the final answer to this prob
lem is not merely curbing the rapacity and
greed of the money lenders.
Groups of citizens will find the plan of
the Credit Union most interesting. 1t is a
cooperative enterprise. The interest rate
is as low as that charged in banks.
The experience of the policemen and fire.
men of Indianapolis is worth the attention
of any one who really wants to get free from
the loan company burden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08
Casual Finance

The interstate commerce commission just has is
sued report critcising casual corporate practices
that marked two railroad stock deals. 1t merits at
tention of managers and stockholders in American
business.
The commission admitted that corporate business
naturally must be carried on by small groups set
up by votes Of stockholders and directors. But it
also explained that in its opinion this method might
be carried to point where single person, with only
casual regard for the corporations constituted
authorities actually might the concentrated
to a point that merted condemnation.
1t criticised casual landings of large and i'm
portant financial deals, and scoffed at the alleged
necessity of keeping these secret even from the
executive group legally created to carry the
porations business.
Business is more careful now; the depression has
made So But business and investors in business,
should continue to guard against the easy practice
of permitting a small group of persons,
to operate corporations outside of the legal methods
prescribed by themselves in their bylaws.
The interstate commerce commissions report was
a competent handling of delicate question of bust
ness ethics
Its warning should have wholesome effect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08
How Wise We AreI

THE most appealing feature of
Il democracy is not the Illusion
ment that people are wise enough
to solve any problem by the mere
process of voting, but that they can
become wise enough without giving
the problem much thought.
In the case of typhoid fever, or
pneumonia, we want a doctor who
spent at least four years in medical
school and two in a hospital. In
the case Of a leaky bathtub, we
want a plumber who is licensed.
In the case of lawsuit, we want
an attorney who not only has taken
the prescribed course, but who has
done something to prove that he
knows his business.
We have learned the value of
training and experience in certain
particular lines, and demand GER
tain qualifications before we will
give people our confidence.
At the same time, we go right on
imagining that no qualification is
required to cast an intelligent vote,
especially when votes are cast by
millions.
The remedy does not lie in regu-
lation, but in a voluntary recogni-
ton of what the privilege requires.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08

elsn LABOR and foreign raw materials but draw away
from this country its technicians and experts.
They close our factories, impoverish our country
lengthen breadlnes
And abroad they are not always free even to buv
raw materials from the United States.
Canada now demands that products receiving bene-
nus OF the proposed preferential imperial tariff
rates shall have so or go per cent content of empire
materials and labor
This would mean that American factories in Can
ada would have to spend even more money across the
oorder than now How much this flight of nav rolls
ana trade has hurt our commerce with Canada is hard
to estimate
we 20 know that while we sold Canada $500 900 600
worth OF goods in 1880, sold her only s5s4ooo 600
worth last year.
Inc commerce department seems bashful about
'eng the cause of all this 1t was caused BY the si-
coai pohcles Of the last three Republican adninstra
.ios' winch reached their height of folly in the Haw
ley-Smoot act
Inc foreign reaiations born of these greedy tariff
rates are prolonging the depression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08
Give. Give. Give

Welfare and relief agencies of the country con-
honted with one Of their most difficult tasks of the
depression because the federal government is making
$30OOOO000 available for expenditure by needy states
and municipalities. This sounds paradoxical but is
nevertheless, fact.
It has been clear from the first that the gov
ernments loan is inadequate The winters needs can
not be met wholly by this money If it is allocated
intelligently and fairly spent relief needs alone
it will keep many men and women and children from
starving to death.
Over and above meeting the essential needs of
hungry people, Americas organized private charity
though sorey tried these last three years. has another
and important function
The agencies caring for children, for the aged
and nfirm for young boys and girls; the groups CO.
ordinating to provide made work and promote such
other relief efforts community gardening can
ming and sewing; the organizations whose aim is to
provide recreation for children and adults-a these
must continue to operate.
1t is for these agencies that Newton D. Baker
just has appealed in the of the National Asso-
citation of Community Chests These agencies should
not be permitted to weaken or pass from the re-
lief picture They will not benefit from federal grants
of money.
They are private charities and still occupy a lead
ing-and must continue to play an mportant-part
in national relief work They must be maintained by
contributions from private citizens.
These gverS must not be mSled in the belief
that the governments loan of $3OOOO00OO settles the
countrys unemployment relief problem 1t does not.
Private givers must continue to give even more
generously than before.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

lesion, the most recently assembled
figures in England indicate that
mortality from cancer of the most
accessible sites continues to in
crease up to extreme old age, where
as cancer in less accessible positions
does not.
Obviously the reason is that can
Ger in the stomach, the intestines,
and similar inaccessible positions is
not easy to discover and in most
instances advances so rapidly that
the person dies of the cancer.
Hence, such cancer did not occur
in people of advanced years.
1t is we'll established that cancer
is associated with long continued
irritation of susceptible spots in the
tissue.
Obviously, aged people are more
subject to long continued irritation
than are the young.
Men suffer, of course, much more
frequently than do women with can
Ger of the lips and tongue, perhaps
because of their smoking habits.
Even though women have begun
to smoke cigarets regularly, it is I'M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08
Saves a Headache

THERE is a reason for clouds of
Il star dust, of course. and we
won't know much about why we are
here, or what the end of the game
IS, until we discover it.
We prefer not to go at the rid
ole that way, however. We much
rather would try to guess the an
Swer, try to prove it by debate, or
pounding typewriter.
The laborious methods of science
do not appeal to us, except as thew
can be translated into creature
comforts. 1t is Sc much simpler to
say There is God," or There is
no God
The same thing goes in politics
as In astronomy, or metaphysics. 1t
is much simpler just to be a Dem
ccrat, a Republican or a Socialist
than to try reasoning the thing out.
No doubt there are principles
by which the right kind of govern
ment could be formed, the right
kind of laws adopted, and the right
kind of public policy determined
with regard to most any issue, but
that view of the job involves study.
1t not only tickles our pride to
begin with the idea that we know.
but 1t saves a lot of headache.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08
NJ. E. Tracy
SANS

1t Is Much Simpler to Be
Just a Democrat, or q Re-
publican, or a Socialist
Than to Try Reasoning out
the matter.
NEW YORK, Aug. s.-Next
~ Thursday promises to be an
interesting day. President Hoover
VIII be notified of his nomination.
Mayor Walker will appear before
Governor Roosevelt, and the earth
will pass through a cloud of star
dust.
The earth has been passing
through that same cloud of star
dust for eleven centuries at about
this time each year. 1t ought to be
well shot to pieces by now.
You just can't imagine a proiectile
as big as the earth hitting anything
at the rate of 1000 miles an hour
without doing considerable damage.
But it's a big cloud, two or three
billion miles long and fifty million
miles wide, with lots of holes in it.
Most Of the particles of which it
is composed are thought to be about
the size of grains of wheat. though
many are larger. When the large
ones enter the earth's atmosphere.
they take fire and become shooting
stars"
So far as is known, none of them
ever has reached the earth. Either
they burn up before they land, or
return to the ether.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08

likely that they will suffer as much
with cancer of the lips and tongue
as do men, because women are much
more careful about the state of
their mouths and teeth.
Men suffer with cancer of the
prostate; women with cancer of the
organs particularly concerned with
collaborating.
There have been many attempts
to explain cancer in old age, but
all of them are theoretical.
In old age the degenerative proc
ess in the cells leads to the forma-
ton of new tissue and the repeated
demands made on the cells in this
way may result in the sudden, rapid
growth that is called cancer.
Warthin, eminent pathologist,
considered cancer to be merely a
sudden, rapid aging of a group of
cells.
Whatever the cause may be. older
persons should be especially careful
to treat all Slight infections and
to visit a physician, if these irrita-
lions do not respond readily to
treatment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-08

"XXTHY didn't you remain away
w on your vacation perma-
nently?" writes w. H. F. Your
first column seemed to me the prod
uct of a disordered mind. Too
much consideration was shown the
bonus army
1T is to men of your stamp that
most of the trouble is due. The
country would be better off if such
we're deported. Reds and agitators
like yourself led the riots in the
Anacostia camp.
There were even women there.
Why? They had no business there.
Several gave birth to children. What
class would travel on such e mis-
sion in this condition."
I have not been for the bonus,
and am not for it now. 1 am for
direct unemployment relief by the
federal government and unemploy-
ment insurance.
President Hoover has said that
less than half the members of the
bonus army were veterans. The
President is not noted for accuracy
in judging facts which are handed
to him by his subordinates, and
his statement seems incorrect in the
light Of all available testimony.
But if it were true that SO per
cent of the ragged army had moth
ing to present except their neces-
sity still would feel that their
plight called out for bread and not
for bayonets.
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starve separately are likely to find
the coming of day when they will
Starve together.
1t seems to me that there are very
lew complete villains and rascals in
the world. 1 never met one.
After all, the conflicting forces of
the world are God and inertia. The
agltator is on the side of the an
gels. And that goes even if he
doesn't like angels. When people
get stirred up, they have ten
dency to flock on different sides
and sometimes to clash with bitter
violence.
But even that is preferable to
going into vegetative rot without
even venturing risk or CHANGING
an opinion. Not out of stagnation,
but out of turmoil will come the
final unity Of the human race.
A woman means; child cries out.
And so we all come into the world.
I wonder why we find it quite so
difficult to accept the universally of
our human kinship.
Copyright. 1882 BY The Tines