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The daily worker., 1932-12-15
TRY TO TERRORIZE
WORKERS

One hour before the hour in
which the meeting We. called,
the police, the K. K. ks,
American Legionnaires, etc,
surrounded the Labor Temple,
trying to terrorize the workers. At
the appointed time, large streams
of workers coming out of the fac
tories began to pour into the La
Dor Temple and its neighborhood,
determined to exercise their right of
aSsemblage.
The police, seeing the determina-
ton of the workers, resorted to
their usual methods of provocation.
A little Pioneer who was selling
revolutionary literature at the door
of the Labor Temple was man
handled by the police, His mother
and sister, Francis Romero and
Carolina Vazquez came to his res
cue. This was the signal for a
furious onslaught against the work
ers massed around the Labor
Temple. In the fight that followed,
in the back and another hit in
the head by flying bottle. Many
arrests were made on the spot, and
also in the evening and following
days. Among those arrested in
front of the Labor Temple, was a
salesman by the name of Jose Cam
pos, who was passing by. He was
later condemned to one year in the
State Prison at Raiford. Comrade
Carlos Lezama was arrested in the
srGal.2rs' rostrum INSIDE of the
Labor Temple, and because he had
a revolver in his possession was
subjected in the County Jail to
barbarous tortures; his sexual or
gans were twisted, and other hor-
rible tortures used by the chain
gang system OF the South were
used, TO extract false confessions
from him and from other prison.
ers. Mcdonald was arrested at his
home later in the evening.
DAIDS followed in the next few
~ days in which a number of
workers were booked for deporta-
tiou Jose teraz, secretary of
the Tobacco Workers Industrial
Union, was arrested and charged
with vagrancy, although il was
proven that he was working for the
union and received weekly sal
ary Later, he was deported to
Cuba.
In the following weeks, before
the trial took place, four protest
strikes took place, which cul-
minated in 72-hour general po-
nucal strike, on November rs,
which paralyzed the whole busi-
ness sections of Ibor City, West
Tampa and Palmetto, (the Span
ish sections of Tampa), and i'm
yolved 10000 workers. The work
ing class children of the Span
ish neighborhoods also went solid
~ on strike.
CONCLUDED TOMORROW
The daily worker., 1932-12-15
Bethlehem Steel
in SbarroWs Pt.
Symbol of Death
BY CARL BRADLEY.

SPARROWS POINT, Md, Beth
lehem Steel sy1nbolizes death.
What formerly were bustling scenes
of activity characterized by thou
sands of busy workers, shifting
trains OF steel, dense clouded skies
Of smoke, and an incessant din of
rolling mills and jerking cranes,
today looks and sounds like a cem-
etery.
Every Bethlehem plant, no mat
ter where it is, has a bungalow
section" similar to the one at Spar
rows Point, where the poorest
slaves of Bethlehem live" and
await orders, wait and wait for the
whistle. =,
Those who are fired get chased
out of the bungalow section Many
who are so indebted to the company
for rent>and food are working their
debt out to free themselves from
the company's grasp.
There is a constant shifting into
cheaper shacks. Candle lights re-
place the electric bulbs that don't
light because the juice is turned
off. Rent and electric deducted
from the pay first, and if there is
anything left you can get groceries
on "tick," that is, if you are al
lowed to work.
Those who get tick can't buy
poultry or any other so-called lux
uries. Charley Schwab watches the
workers diets. He watches the
workers children die. Children
grovel in piles of cinder for pieces
OF coke. Half frozen families scam
per over the stretch of land looking
for splinters of wood for fuel.
Even though working level hand"
(half time), many workers are so
undernourished, they can't go home
until they rest for half an hour.
If you overeat your restaurant
book, you don't get another until =,
In the shadow of steel giant
that would mean life to the workers
if they owned the mills--the op-
posite is true. The mills in the
hands OF the Bethlehem steel own
ers such as Schwab and Grace
means death TO The workers,
To-day Schwab and his kind look
forward eagerly to start the fur
naces and mills again--not, how
ever, for creating the necessities
that workers need, but for making
war material to kill more workers.
There is a way out for us who
are workers.! Those Of us who are
unemployed must organize into the
Unemployed Branch of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. Those of us who are still
working must likewise join the
union-and together through our
unity. raise our wages, fight against
speed-up, and We can force the
Bethlehem Steel Co. to give relief
to the unemployed steel workers.
Clet in touch with our union at 20
3. LLOYD 81, BALTIMORE, Md,
The daily worker., 1932-12-15
VIVA 7
WAS THAT
SONG
Copyright by Revolutionary writers Federation)
A STORY OF AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER
BY FRED II. MILLER

DIDN'T get back till after dark.
When I first opened the kitchen
door, I thought there was nobody
home excepting the old lady. She
was sitting there, like always. in
the corner next to the stove. She
looked froze, even if she did have
her coat on.
banged my hat down on the
bathtub cover, and after wiping my
clothes off little, ! pulled the
rocking chair over in front of the
stove and sat down A coal fire
would have gone good right then.
l bent down and started to take
my shoes off,
There was whole string of
diapers drying on the line l heard
a noise over in back of them. and
then 1 looked and seen it was Ellen.
She had to lift one of the diapers
up to see me, says to her, Il
thought you was out. What're you
doing over there in the dark?"
She says, "Oh, 7 was Just resting
my head on the table for a minute
and I must Of fell asleep" She
ducked underneath the diapers,
pulling her chair out in the light.
You must be soaking wet. Is it
still reining?'
Just drizzling," 1 says. l got the
shoes off and showed them under
meath the stove. After that
yanked off my socks and opened
the oven door and laid the socks
on top of it SOS to dry. The cuffs
OF my pants was pretty wet, too,
so I rolled them up. kid asleep
alrsady?'
Yeah" Ellen says. Wait, I'll
get you your slippers. He was
cranky and everything, SO 1 put
him to bed early" She went in the
middle room and brought me my
slippers. Il think he's getting a
fever"
l looked up at her Then l put
the slippers ON and felt for a smoke.
There was snipe, pretty near a
whole one, in my peajacket, but
when I took it out 1 seen it was
still wet. I got a hold of the candle
that was burning on the stove and
tried to light up anyways. The
damn Snipe was too wet. l put it
down on the stove.
Ellen sat down and says, "You
ought to change your clothes,
Harry. You'll be catching pneu-
monia if you don't watch yourself. !"
just laughed. Don't worry" I
says, Il amt that far gone-yet."
Anyways, what was 1 going to
change with? I leaned back in the
rocking chair and shut my eyes.
1t sure felt good to sit down. Now
If there'd of been a little fire in
the stove and a plate Of hot soup
to go with it-boy!
After while Ellen says, well
how much time did the judge give
US to get out, Harry?"
Five days" 1 never opened my
The daily worker., 1932-12-15

eyes up.
But didn't you tell him about
the baby and eyerything?"
Didn't get a chance to say
nothing. They rush about half
dozen eviction cases through
all at one time. Hoiler out
string of names and that's the
end of it. But they can take all
morning on cockroacb business
case, the stinkers." / turned my
face around to spit on the floor.
Ellen give me funny look. "Aw,
what the Jesus, El.'
Yeah, but we got to live here
for five days yet, remember"
Yeah, and by God, the day the
Marshal throws us out of here I'll
crap the place up so bad the land
lord never. viii get it clean"
7 noticed the old LADY watching
me from her corner She was
scared, for some reason Ellen just
says, What good'll that do us?"
Then she says to her mother, who
says Tammany amt got q big heart,
huh, Mom2 They even give you
five days, SOS we can starve to
death real comfortable, with roof
over US
THE old lady tried to smile at her.
L Ellen started to laugh, but she
busted out coughing instead. That
made me take good look at her.
You're locking low, hon." I says.
Better let me start fire and you
cook yourself mass of that farina.
Give your mother some, too
She says, Yeah? Take the food
out of the baby's mouth? And
what's the poor kid going to eat
tomorrow, then? He didn't get any
too much this last meal. Besides,
we have TO go slow on the wood
You can't pick box up on the
street whenever you feel like it,
I got UP and went TO lean against
the hall door Honest, Harry, l
The daily worker., 1932-12-15
By BUrck

fair treatment" received by the
Negro masses, we have the main
reason why fifteen working class
fighters rot in the jails and chain
gangs of Florida.
The idea of white and Negro
workers parading through the seq
regated Negro section of Tampa in
commemoration of the anniversary
of the Russian Revolution, which
brought about the foundation of
the Soviet Union, and gave national
liberation to the nationalities for
merly oppressed by Czarism, which
put the revolutionary principle of
self determination for oppressed
nations into practice, granting the
right of self-determination to Fin
land, Esthonia, etc, which so de-
sired, and taking into the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics those
that so desired, in full equality of
rights, duties and privileges of all
the other Socialist Republics which
form the Soviet Union; this fact,
together with the growing strugg-
les of the Tampa workers decided
the Tampa capitalists to act. The
denial by the authorities Of the
right of the working class to march
in the streets was answered by the
Communist Party and revolutionary
organizations Of Tampa with call
for a wide mobilization and con-
centration of the workers in the
Labor Temple, November 7th.
The daily worker., 1932-12-15
Impressions of
the National
Hunger March
BY NORMAN DRAKE

AS a bourgeois newspaperman in
nthe Washington camp of the
Hunger Marchers, I was able to
fraternize freely with both the
Marchers and the police. A COM
parison of the morale of the Mar
chers, steeled by the mighty sig
nificance Of their organized effort,
with that of the police, was one Of
the finest MARKHAM lessons I have
ever had.
For three days and two nights
the entire army Of cops fixed their
stupid eyes on every activity of
the Nfarchers. Yet it was not vigil
ance Or discipline that inspired
this constant attention. Their COM
manding officers had to rebuke
them every half hour for their
lack Of discipline. 1t was the um-
tiTing moral strength of the Mar
chers that compelled the attention
and hatred of these cops. Deprived
Of their weapons, they wouldn't
have dared for a moment to en-
gage in hand-to-hand encounter
with the Marchers, because they
perceived the fierce fighting power
of men and women who knew what
they we're fighting for. Bourgeois
military experts, often the shrewd-
est members of their class, realize
this fact to their great dismay,
The daily worker., 1932-12-15

The total number of organized workers for whom the
union bureaucrats supposed to be speaking is in the
nghboood 1OooooOhough all employed in the railway in
dustry.
preparations against
working conditions would probably
force the railway companies to retreat If did not railway strike
which could be rallied fighting bataon of
other industries whom the capitalist placed intoler
able burdens the partme
power
full strike movement against the capitalist offensive all fronts
In such strike the compulsory
ploynent workers at the expense of the government
employers worda speedup
be brought into the struggle.
very first day would come into conflict with the federal and state gov
ernnens of capitalist America
a Party
the fact OF the existence oppoons
the Union Unity
of the right Of capitalism live growing
suffering
Republican Socialist
Party members and influence the
hcials these leaders committed
They is
organized nationwide attack by the
railroads working
conditions attempt
working class sympathy and the
hgu and distorted interpretations of statistics relative to
living standards the railway
gbberh nct agreements
railway companies have tossed into the ashcan.
They talking extending wage cut for definite
period rather than for unaed time when the railway
having secured making
another
The for the railway
Ae committees in shops terminals the
the oheroods Unity Committees struggle against both
working conditions file;
continual
enlist the unemployed struggles out
the widest policy union Of
These immediate that be taken.
The rail workers necessity organizing for
strike struggle of Their
the river into slavery unless the
INTO the united front Of struggle the working
allies
II this is done victory
behalf Of all capitalism and
government.
The daily worker., 1932-12-15
TOBACCO WORKERS
UNION

In short time, around Jim Nine,
grew solid bloc of revolutionary
working class fighters who ener-
getically plunged into work. The
Tobacco Workers Industrial Union,
affiliated to the T.U.UL. came into
existence and in a few months grew
into membership of more than
5000. The Communist Party, the
Young Communist League, the In
ternational Labor Defense and the
Young Pioneers Of America also
took an organizational foothold
among the Tampa working class.
Unemployed Councils came into ex-
istence and took up the fight
against evictions, for immediate
relief and for Federal Unemploy-
ment Insurance at the expense of
the bosses and their government.
But OF course the growth of the
revolutionary movement in Tampa
cannot be traced only to the COM
ing of Jim Nine to Tampa. The
workers of Tampa for a long time
had been to large degree under
the influence of the Communist
Party, which had wide sympathy
among them because of its fearless
and heroic leadership of the work
ing class, especially in the North.
Besides the readers in the factories
had been instructed by the work
ers to read the Daily Worker and
other Communist literature to them.
But, in spite of all this, for all
their admiration for the Commu-
nists, they had not seen the Party
in action, they did not quite clearly
understand that the Communist
Party was among them, as it is a
Party made and led by rank and
file workers. They were used to
the American Federation of Labor
bureaucracy and the self-appointed
anarchist leaders.
The daily worker., 1932-12-15
BOSSES BEGIN TO WORRY

The organi2ational growth OF the
Party and revolutionary organiza-
tions among the working class OF
Tampa, the growing struggles
against evictions and for relief had
the local authorities of Tampa and
the capitalists, especially the to-
bacco manufacturers, on edge. The
growing influence of the reyolu-
tionary movement among the Negro
sections of Tampas population was
q special cause of worry for the
Tampa bourgeoisie.
Towards November, 1881, prepara-
tionS for a mass parade in COM
memoration Of the Russian Revolu-
ton were in full swing. In a pre-
paratory meeting held in the La
Dor Temple on November 3, plans
were made for the parade and 9TH
or arrangements. A committee was
elected to get permission from
Mayor Chauncey, newly elected a
few days before. The committee
was headed by j. r.. Mcdonald, a
member Of Jhe Railroad Brother
The daily worker., 1932-12-15
What Rail Workers Can
Do NOqV

IN CHICAGO have the spectacle of the heads of Il rail-
way uniOns-the four Railway BrOtherhOOds 16 unions
affiliated to the American Federation of Labor the Railway
and Steamship CIerks-SH0WING THE SAME FEAR OF
STRIKE ACTION AGAINST WAGE CUTS AS THE REP
RESENTATIVES OF THE RAILWAY COMPANIES WITH
WHOM THEY ARE IN CONFERENCE.
The Washington times., 1932-12-27
Interesting Bridge Hands
By E. V. SHEPARD

doubled and weakness in the
second suit doubled.
Instead of bidding no-trumps,
knowing that A must be strong
in every suit except spades and
showing his own treble stop to
spades by the no-trump bid, B
fell down. by letting the double
of the 1-Spade stand, to defeat
it, 2 also passed the doubled
contract, and expecting to find
B very long in spades and
short elsewhere A also passed.
B would have saved a trick
had he led his top club, but
he' did not know that, so he
led his fourth best club. When
dummy played low, A had to
put up his @ to prevent the
8 from winning the trick. A
led back his Q Of hearts, and
dummy'S K won the trick. The
8 Of diamonds was led from
dummy. A played low. The
declarer'S K won the trick and
he led back his 2 of diamonds.
BIS 10 went on. but A won
with the @ as he wanted to
lead back a trump through the
declarer. The declarer played
his 10. BIS @ won the trick.
B did not want to lead his Ace
of spades, as that would en-
able the declarer to pick up his
two remaining trumpS without
loss, whereas forcing the de-
clarer to lead trumps would
give B two trump tricks.
B led back a heart. rs Ace
won the trick. Dummy led the
K Of clubs. A put up his Ace.
The declarer trumped the trick.
He led back his 3 Of diamonds.
B played his last diamond. The
dunn my trumped. Dummy's
good j of clubs was led, al
lowing the declarer to discard
a loser. He let go his last dia-
mond.
Having no further use for
dummy's trumps for trying to
ruff, Y led the Of spades
from dummy. Of course A
showed out Of trumps, by dis
carding a useless club. The de-
clarer put up his j. BIS Ace
won the trick.
Perfect end play would have
held the score down to one
odd, as B could have led from
his 9-8 of spades, giving the
declarer only his K Of spades.
Y then must have given A one
heart trick, and B could have
picked up the declarer'S last
trump, on the thirteenth trick.
But B made the mistake Of al
lowing Y to ruff a club with
his S of spades, so that the de-
clarer lost only one trick out
of the three last tricks, giving
Y one trick above his doubled
contract.
The Washington times., 1932-12-27

The new resort wear is so
smart that it makes you want
to buy an outfit and hop on
the first southbound train or
boat. But that's only half the
story, for it's the first whisper
we have of spring and sum-
mer. These clothes are devel-
oped from the last and best Of
last summer and the things
that go we'll at resorts this sea-
son will be the things that we
will wear next summer. So no
matter whether we can go on
a cruise or can spend long
hours on the sands of Palm
Beach or Miami instead of
shivering through our wintry
SHOWS, we ought to be inter-
ested, and at least take a look
at the resort collections in the
local stores. Many people real
ize that especially smart clothes
come out now and buy for the
summer in January, so you
might find a few things that
are too good to pass up. And
you may be sure they will still
be good in June.
Witching WeaveS
The fabrics will no doubt
strike your eye first, for they
are quite different and as new
looking as a straw hat. Cotton
matelasse out-blisterS its silk
cousin, if that's possible, and is
chic for all types of day wear.
All sorts of rib and corded ma.
terials have a fresh look, and
there are knitted looking fab
RIGS that are not knitted, with
grand silk shirting dresses
thrown in for contrast. Vel
veteen coats are practical for
The Washington times., 1932-12-27
Chapter XIV

'T'l telephone DR.. Pomeroy
tonight and ask him If he'll
meet us in the chapel at IL
o'clock" his voice ran on. And
I'll ask the Maldons to come
down. We're supposed to have
a couple Of witnesses, aren't
we?"
DR.. Pomeroy was the rector
Of the Church of Heavenly
Rest, where she and Kim had
always planned to be married.
But who were the Maldons?
She never had heard Kim men
ton them.
who are the Maldons,
KIM" she asked.
He thought for a minute or
two.
Why, I guess you haven't
met them," he said at last. 81
haven't known them so very
long, myself, but they're pals
Of mine. Jack works down at
our place. He and Claire
have been married only two or
three months. You'll like Claire,
The Washington times., 1932-12-27
Bv BEATRICE BURTON
Secrets Of Health
BY DR.. Louis A. Bisch
Famous Authority on Health and Pay chOlOgy

Assuming that a mother is
unable to nurse her own baby,
either because the milk Isl
scant in amount or not nourt
ishing enough, it cannot be
too strongly emphasized that
the greatest care must be exer-
cized in preparing the cows
milk formulas. Even a SEEM
ingly slight mistake in the
formula may upset the diges-
ton and make the child sick.
Strange as it may seem, a
camelS milk is more like hui
man milk than is a cows; but
in this country it cannot be
obtained, nor can goats milk.
so often utilized for the pur-
pose abroad, generally be made
use of here. Hence. although
children do we'll on cows milk.
provided the formulas are cor
rect for age and the general
condition of the infant, it is
considered best to give the
baby mothers milk in addi-
ton to the artificial feelings,
in whatever amounts it may
be available. In other words,
the consensus Of opinion is
that a little human milk is
better than none at all.
Consult the Doctor
No mother should ever at
tempt to prepare a milk for
mula without first consulting
the family physician or a baby
clinic. Specific directions should
invariably be followed to the
letter. When the doctor speaks
of 10 or Z per cent milk how
ever, what does he mean and
how is such a percentage to
be made?
No infant can digest whole
cows milk. That must be
thoroughly understood from
the very beginning. And as
a basis for modifying cows
milk, the physician is likely to
use the term gravity cream"
Gravity cream is that part
of the milk-the creamy, thick
part-which rises to the top Of
an ordinary quart bottle of
milk after it has been stand
The Washington times., 1932-12-27
Advice to the LoveIorn
By Beatrice Fairfax
Just About Juliet'S Age

Just About Juliet's Age
Dear Miss Fairfax:
A few weeks ago a member
of my family was in the hospi-
tai and I spent a good deal Of
my time there. I met a young
doctor who is %. I am only
Is. am not allowed to have
dates yet, but mother has let
him call on me several times,
and I have attended movies
and gone riding with him. He
Is engaged to a lovely girl
nearer his own age who, I
know, would make him an
excellent wife; there is such
q brilliant future for him, and
I am sure she could help him
so much.
Yesterday he told me that
since he met me he could not
go through with the marriage
and has broken the engage
ment. It's the only time he has
ever been the least bit serio-
GUS with me. I put myself in
the place Of the other girl,
and realize how heart-broken
The Washington times., 1932-12-27

ing from four to twelve hours
without being disturbed. From
this cream notifications are
made to obtain 10 per cent
and 7 per cent milk, and q
one ounce dipper is always
used for this purpose.
To prepare a 10 per cent
formula, 10 ounces Of the top
milk are removed by means
of the dipper just mentioned.
This bottle Of milk must have
remained standing, however,
for IL hours. Removing this
much of the cream means re-
moving about one-third Of the
full bottle To these 10 ounces
of gravity cream 10 ounces OF
plain milk are added.
For 7 per cent milk the pro-
cedure is the same except that
to one part Of gravity cream
three parts of plain milk are
added. In other words, 16
ounces, or the upper half Of
the bottle, are taken first, then
48 ounces of plain milk are
added.
Cleance The Bottle
Nor can these dippingS be
done carelessly. In fact, it is
best to fill the dipper once
with a spoon, else the milk
may overflow and disturb the
cream too much. Furthermore,
the bottles in which the several
feelings are kept must be
thoroughly cleansed and steril-
lied by boiling. After the for
mula has been poured il they
must be stoppered properly
with tight-fitting, sterilized rub.
ber caps which can be specially
bought for the purpose. I'm.
mediately after preparing
them, the several formula bot
ties must be put on ice and
kept there until used.
The physicians in charge will
likewise advise as to the
amounv Of limewater and sugar
of milk that must be added
to each feeding bottle, to make
the cows milk alkaline, like
mothers milk.