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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17
What is papyrus?
2-Who are the Uslulness?

3-What does the slang term
"jinx' mean?
4-Who was the author of 1.-The
American Commonwealth"
5-For what purpose did the U.
S. government employ the Levia-
than?
6-What was the name of P. 7.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17

First little girl-"Has your SIS
ter begun takin' music lessons
YETI"
Second little girl-"she's takin'
somethin' on the piano, but l can't
tell yet whether it's music or type
writin."
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17
GOOD
MORNING
KNOWS TOO MUCH

KNOWS TOO MUCH
Il hear that the Spoopendikes
Have had a falling out. Is it one
of those cases where the wife didn't
understand the husband?"
mo, it's one of those cases where
she understood him so well that
she wouldn't have anything to do
with him.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17
~STATESVILLE COUPLE
KILLED fNAWRECK

J. H. Bagwell, "a, and Miss
Stella Senrell, 10, of St~atesville were
killed when their auto wrecked
near Shelby. They were among a
party of young people enroute to
Gaffney, S. c., for the weekend.
Two Others were injured.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17
STATE LEADS IN
TOBACCO

The federal crop reporting
boards estimates tobacco produc-
ton in the country this year at
100000 0 pounds, some AGO.
900, ooo pounds over last year.
North Carolina leads with $780,
600 pounds, Kentucky coming
second with 571,l53,OOO pounds.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17

NEWSPAPER PLANT BOMBED
Racketeers in Mansfield, Ohio,
struck back at a newspaper which
has consistently crusaded against
them, by a bomb attack Sunday
morning. Hurled explosives tore
up the mailing room of the News
Journal. None was injured.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17
HITLER SWEEPS

Hi LEX SWEEPH GERMANY
In the largest vote in the history
of Germany, Chancellor Hitler on!
Sunday won the overwhelming
support of the people. Nazi can
didates for the Reichstag got over
80 per cent of the vote.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17
LICENSE LIQUOR INDUSTRY

AoLANoL wv M
Under repeal, the federal gov
eminent is to retain strict control
of the distilling industry through
licensing powers and through en-
forcement of a code for all distill-
ing plants.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17
LINCOLN

I TN MINE
! U. S. James, of Newark, N. T.,
is planning to begin on a large scale
mining of tin ore in Lincoln
county in the heal future. 1t will
be the only large operation of the
kind in the country.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17
GREASE 1T UP

GREASE IT UP
$50 you and those neighbors are
not on speaking terms any longer?"
mo. All diplomatic relations
have been suspended
How did that come about?"
He sent me a box of axle grease
and told me to use some of it on
my lawn-mower when l started a,
six in the morning."
Well! What them"
Then l sent it back and tole
him to use some of it on his daugh.
ter's voice when she sings at II
o'clock at night"
A DOZEN GOAT GETTERS
THE man who tells me, 81
have paid everybody but YOU"
2-The guy in front of me at a
traffic light who uses up a minute
or two getting started after green
flashes on. =
3-The friend who unintention-
ally (but persistently) blows all of
cigar smoke right kerdab in my
face at a luncheon or something.
1.-The damsel that runs her
up and down my vest but
tons when my wife is with me and
occasionally flips some dandruff
off my collar.
5-The fellow who always says,
That's too high; I've got you
And if he were to buy any
he'd want it on credit.
6-The hired servant who alibis'i
by lowing: II was just thinking
about that. I will do it tomorrow" y
THE bare-headed type of an
imal life that scratches a match
on the piano and grinds up his
cigarette stub on the rug-with
his installment shoes.
S-The former customer who
comes back at you with: IT will
try to help you a little next
month. l can't pay you anything
Help me. Ouch!
9-The runt who rushes past
me at IS miles per hour and turns,
into his own home only so yards
up.
10-The bone-head who toots
his horn behind me when ; other!
cars in front of me have choked
down.
1.-The butcherman who sells!
ne one Of his hands every time Il
buy a piece of beef, but keeps the
hand and hands me the beef. Il
mind it so much if he'd
cut the hand off and let me throw
t away for the benefit of human
1.-THE loafer who explains
now he lost 100000 during the
but never thinks to tell
whose money it was that he lost. |
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17
People Crossing State Line in Fort,
Counties to Buy Necessities,
He Says.

The sales tax law is driving many
merchants out of business in the
counties Of the state which border
on other states, declared J. Paul
Leonard, executive secretary of the
Ncrth Carolina Fair Tax associa-
ton in an interview with a repre-
sentative of the Lincolnton Times,
recently. Protests against the new
revenue tax are increasing daily
throughout the state, he said.
There are 40 counties in North
Carolina which border ON other
states, and great numbers of our
citizens are driving across the state
lines to do their trading in states
where there is no sales tax. This
discouraging result of the sales tax
does not affect the merchants of in
land counties, but it is forcing
many in the border counties to
close their doors. In some instances
merchants just across the border
in other states are soliciting orders
in North Carolina and delivering
them in trucks, tax free. As an
other instance, l have a report from
one large buyer who each week
drives all the way across two
counties to buy fcodstuffs and
other necessities in a state where
there is no lax. There simply is
no justice in a tax which takes
business away from home"
Mr.. Leonard also said that the
mail order business in this state
had greatly increased since the
sales tax went into effect. Gov
eminent money orders and bank
checks prove this he said, as he
cited authoritative information. II
have reports that a large number
of the citizens of Governor En-
ringhaus' own home town-Eliz-
abeth City-are driving up to Nor
folk to do their shopping. And
the same is true of Others who live
near the state lines. In addition to
the saving of the sales tax, the
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17

IS VICTIMS OF MILK POISON
James Harrison, eight, is dead,
and his little brother and sister
seriously i'll at their home near
Rutherfordton from effects of milk
poisoning, cause of which has not
been ascertained.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17
GIVING ORDERS

GIVING ORDERS
Yes" said the meek little maj
at the quick lunch counter. "]
cake my meals at a restaurant every
chance | get"
Prefer restaurant cooking to
the wife's, eh' quered his friend.
INC, | can't say that l do, re-
turned the meek little man, "but
can give orders at a restaurant"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17

so you were at the wedding
Who gave the bride away?"
Nobody said a word"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
A PICTURE OF LEON BLUM
No. xr,.-Y-

New York.
Dear Comrade Editor:
The despairing picture of Leon
Blum that the cartoonist Dell has in
the Daily of Oct S, is an insult to
that militant leader now in Jail. The
framed up fighter for the laundry
workers, hero of many struggles, in
utter despair, his head bowed, she'd
ding tears, perhaps of regret, pictured
like a sentimental movie idol hope
Iessly enmeshed in the grip Of capt.
talism. His eyes on the ground, not
howard the outside, towards the work
ers. his only liberators.
81 Such sentimental and distinctly
tit-bourgeois defeatist conception of
our revolutionary heroes has no place
in paper that carried the flaming
tale of the mconquerable Torglers,
Dinitroffs, Popoffs.
Blum is part of an unconquersble
cause and he feels it, his head is not
bowed. for the head of his class is
not bowed, and will never bow. Blum
head is not down, his head is up as
he listens, certain that he will soon
hear the determined shout of thou
sands Of voices demanding his free
dom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13

out the welfare workers strike, and
John Banville, N.R.A. labor represen-
tative, announced, according to the
Times Sept. 81 issue, that the work
ers who we're out on strike at the
Lane Cotton Mills we're going back
to work, after the workers, through
mass picketing, had forced Mr.. Oden-
heimer, president of the mill, to close
it flat, stating that it was closed in
definitely. He opened the mills Mon
day, but only 100 out of about 1000
striking workers returned to work.
One picket was critically shot and
one policeman received three broken
ribs, after a clash. lie was reported
that 1900 more strikers went back
to work Tuesday, and 600 more are
expected to go to work today
(Sept. 30 after an agreement" was
made by the mill president and the
srike leaders, by which all militant
strikers are denied their jobs.
In some cases girls and women re-
ported they were hired and worked
two hours and were driven out of the
mill by the foremen, and Oden-
heimer said this was done to make
room for the loyal employees, those
that did not join in the disturbances.
Every one who served on the strike
committee has been fired. Workers
charged that already 100 had been
discharged At meeting of those
workers who we're still out these fake
A. F. of L. leaders called on them to
60 back to work and not to forfeit
their standing under the code by a
new strike.
Since the mill reopened they called
on the workers to elect a committee
to take up grievances under the cot
ton textile code with the new state
committee which is to be formed
soon.
Workers, do not follow these takers.
They are getting at the head of the
struggle to behead it. You are told
by these takers to support the N. R.
A. and Roosevelt. According to the
Times paper, an issue published two
weeks after Roosevelt codes began
circulating, LOO workers were dis
charged in two days in this city, and
in every factory that is flying the
black bird we find the workers are
being laid off and speeded up to the
limit.
These A. F. of L. leaders know that
this the workers will not stand for,
and this is the reason they, are carry
ing out such a campaign to organize
and lead these workers so as to aid
the bosses in beating still lower the
living standards.
Workers, Negro and white, 1t is
your duty to organize, it is your only
way out of your misery, but you must
lead yourselves. You must organize
your rank and file committees of
workers who are on the job with you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13

/ came in, showing the mothers with
babies in their arms, showing them
up against the wall and saying,
MAKE roomi'
Make room and let the bull
through" said I.
One of the cops locked the door
and asked what the trouble was
about. So | asked the cop, as this
the number l get? And what does
the blue uniform mean--the N. f.
/ A. ?"
By this time two more cops came.
There was a young mother in the
crowd, who had but one and a half
shoes on her feet and had travelled
three miles in the pouring rain to
get here, and had been turned down
three times. We asked again, "How
many more times do we have to
come to get our numbers? And why
don't they put more people to
work 2"
He replied, IT amt got nothing to
do with the hiring?"
We asked, what have We got a
commissioner of the city for? And
is this what you call the Mira"
Then he said, go and see the
Commissioner, and not me-" They
slammed the door in our faces.
Then thirty-fve of us marched
right into court. At that same time
there was Young Pioneer demon
stration for free school supplies,
ETC., at the Board 70 Education. We
walked into the Commissioner s
Office; some children were with no
shoes at all, some very poorly
dressed.
There was no one in the Office,
but even before we got in a plain
clothes man asked us what we
wanted. We said we want TO see
the Commissioner.
He asked If there was supposed to
be meeting,
Wen make it a meeting" l said.
Some men then appeared and asked
what this was all about. One of them
asked if this crowd was any organ
ization, and I said: "YeSl the I'm
employed Council: but usually when
we mention the U. G. you people call
us Communists" Then we showed
him the barefooted children and told
him, This is the young generation of
the future Communist And among
us were Negroes.
We explained that we got an order
from the Social Worker after fighting
a couple of weeks for it. Then with
this order we have to got to the Dis
tributing Center to get a number,
where we are treated like cattle, even
worse.
He said he would look into it i'm
mediately, and took the address of
the d. c., and Mr.. Bucks name.
I told him if we don't get better
results within the next few days we
would come back 1000 strong next
time. But the next day things went
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Stahl-Urban NRA
Patriots Cut Pay
By a Worker Correspondent

TGftRE HAUTE, Ind.-The Stahl-
Urban Co., manufacturing mems gar
ments, whose plate glass facade dis
plays the big black eagle of the ex-
pansive wings, has undoubtedly de-
cided that the happiness and plenty
is intended for Stahl- Urban Co., as
their women and girl employees found
their last pay checks far short Of the
code allowance and still shorter in
actual earnings.
The women have taken a militant
step against this reduction and the
company has promised immediate ad-
iustment. These employees work on q
low basis of piece work, and although
Stahl and Urban are hailed as
staunch patriotic MIRA supporters
most of their employees have failed to
receive the guaranteed SIS per week
more than once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Letters from Our Readers

He protested that it would be i'm
possible to sell any since he had
tried already. The unit ruled that
his only Party activity would be to
sell the Daily" and if he did not
make enough to eat, they would see
to it that he did get food.
He started out with 7 'Dailies"
He sold them all. Next day he took
10 and sold them all. He concen-
trated in the steel and wire workers,
and Negro sections. Then he took
IS and sold them all on a regular
daily route. Then 25, IS, so, IS, 100
and 125. He got requests for Polish,
Ukranian, Hungarian and other Ian
guage papers. In the Negro section
he sold the Liberator He actually
built up a route which brought him
about $40. a week.
Suppose Party units were TO take
a similar chance with an unemployed
conrade who would devote even his
whole day, Nothing could be lost by
such an attempt. The Daily" would
grow in industrial towns very quickly.
George Chaikin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
About Cabbages and Kings


J B., Chicago.-Your interesting
letter touches upon SO many subjects
that we hardly know under what
caption to reply. 1t was good thing
your money gave out, otherwise you
would have been overtreated. You
are probably cured, but there is no
way OF testing yourself. A physician
must massage your prostate and get
some of the prostate fluid on glass
slide. This has to be stained, and If
no gonococci are found on the con-
secutive tests you may consider your
self practically cured. If you apply
to the health department in your
city the test will be dore free.
We are glad to hear that you like
Mike Colds column. We are one OF
his fans oursclf. There are num-
Der of coed books on occupat;onal
diseases and industrial hazards.
There is & wealth of information in
the files of the Labor Research
Bureau collected under the direction
Of Grace Burnham. If time permits,
we should be glad to consider your
suggestion OF eetting up a book on
the s'5iect. All we need is 72-hour
dsy. We met Leonard S. and we like
him and his wife very much. Sorry
his manuscript was not available TO-
our purrose. Heart disease is con-
tinually increasing, irrespective of the
depression. Glad to hear your pim-
pes disappeared under our iodine
treatment. AS to the blsclheads, you
must first squeeze them out with the
b'ackhoed remover. You don't have
10 use pure gran alcohol. Orc nary
rubbing alcohol is Just as good. :
Hay Fever
I. l.. n. Rochester, N. Y.--There is
no rev eco N"y in this field. For
the past few years injections are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Piece Work Facts
Give Lie to Paper
Code Promises
BY Needle Worker Correspondent

KANSAS CITY. MOI am working
for the Liberty Frock Co. About a
month ago the boss laid off about so
girls. The next day he went down to
sign up under the N.R-A. code. Then
he started to hire girls back so he
could get credit for putting girls back
to work under the MIRA. code.
According to the code we are to
get S13 per week. This would mean
raise for those who were only get
ting 81 and So But this is what hap
pened All the work was put on a
piecework basis. When the end of
each week came, the instructor would
get the girls to OK. enough work to
make their s13, which would be from
one to four or five dozen dresses.
According to the piecework basis, this
means the girls must make the
dresses that were O.K.'d first before
they start their work for the new
week. This naturally kept up until
nearly everyone working was behind
One day the instructor said to the
girls, well, the boss is going to be
good to you today. He is going to
donate the day to you" They thought
they would be paid for the day, but
the boss said. mo, I am just going
to donate this day SO you can get
caught up with your work" Get
caught upl. He donated days work
for nothing.
Finally, last week the boss laid off
20 girls, mostly those that were too
far behind. The machinist was also
put on half time. This means that
the rest of the time the girls must
take care of their own machines.
Some of the other garment fac
tories are not signed up under the
MIRA. and work for IS to Sc per
upnly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Halls Victory Of
the Fur Pointers
BY Fur Worker Correspondent

BY Fur Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. - the fur pointers
have won another victory. After be-
ing on strike for exactly one week
and three days, We have won the 35-
hour week, also 2la hours back pay
in spite of the fact that we are or
ganized only short time.
The bosses had to come to our
terms because we showed them that
we are militant and our ranks ere
solid. Why, only last year, before we
came out on strike, we were working
so and 10 hours a week, and earning
small salary of S. to $12 a week
piece-work basis. Then in August
1882, the fatal moment came. We
rebelled, conditions were unbearable
We went out in 1882 and we fought
for better conditions, such as week
work and a 44-hour week and SIC
minimum pay. After 2 weeks or
strike, we won our demands. Their
in August, 1888, we won the 40-hour
week without fight. And now our
greatest victory, the 35-hour week
Keep up your good work, comrades.
Marie Aucello
"A fellow fur pointer.
signature authorized) II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
NO LONGER UNEMPLOYED.

Ccmrade Editor: New YORK Guy
After reeding Comrade Amter's
appeal to the Ohio members, I de-
cided to write this explanation Of
how a colnrade came to start a route
in Trenton, n J.
We had a Party conlrade who was
unemployed and existed virtually by
the kindness Of comrades who gave
him food in recognition Of hts Party
work. But as many Of these COM
radas began to lose their jobs and
no longer could supply him with food,
the Party unit decided that he was
net to ask anyone for food. He was
to sell 'Dailies" for his food.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Greats Idea Of Scholarship

The Workers School greets the idea
Of Comrade H. p. Cabot. In fact, it
would be fitting TO establish scholar
ships in memory of other revolution
lists as well as our beloved Comrade
Rose Pastor Stokes, We will be pleased
to discuss this question with all who
re interested. especially workers Or
carnations, and such individuals and
groups as feel they could do better by
way OF financial support.
We especially appeal to all to help
the Harlem Branch of the Workers
Schco'. The Negro masses are the
most exploited and oppressed. Such
Memorial Scholarships would help
many Negro workers to obtain courses
of study in MarXisn- Leninism. Here
is a splendid opportunity for the
white workers and sympathizers to do
a good turn and not leave the burden
to the Negro workers who are most
fr,gntfully IMPOVERISHED. Communi-
cate With the Friends Of the Workers
Schcol. o. the Workers School office,
So z. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
Wool Mill Workers
Forced to Pay s.
for NRA Uniform
BY a Worker Correspondent

LAWRENCE, Mass. - Not content
with rif1ing workers pockets of a liv-
ing wage, the MIRA absolutely forbids
mill workers on q 40-hour week to at
tempt to earn necessary extra money
for additional support of wife and
children.
A friend OF mine, Comber in the
American Wooden Company owned
Shawsheen mill, who was cut by the
MIRA from a 70-hour week at SIG to
the wooden slavery code 40-hour week
at $14 minimum, tried a while ago to
make an extra couple of dollars on
Saturday by peddling junk. This he
found necessary to try to support a
little better his wife and four chill
dren.
The first day he went out, his Sec
ton boss spotted him on his wagon
and warned him that he cannot work
more than 40 hours a week at any
work, under the NRA. What's boss'S
warning when the family needs nee
essarieS? Once more his boss spotted
him. The next Monday morning he
was fired for disobeying the letter Of
the NRA. The unemployed army of
this country has increased to 17000,-
DOL. The NRA stands exposed to
another textile worker.
Another note on the Shawsheen.
All workers are being forced to pay
50 each for an NRA uniform to be
worn in the "glory-glory" Columbus
Day NRA parade in this city spon-
sored by the Chamber of Commerce
and the local NRA enforcement COM
mittee Received free from govern
ment sources, these uniforms will be
sold to local workers and the thou
sands of 50 bills will be used to di-
rectly combat these same workers in
the interests of the mighty Amer
lean Wooden Co,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
~ Doctor
kAHn4e'z
akUt4e4:

begun In April. Together with IN.
extract of ragweed, we now admin.
lister calcium injections and ultra.
violet rays. Do we understand YOU
to say that the White Mountains do
not help? Please let me know, because
We, are under the impression that
all hay fever sufferers are relieved
when they stay in that region.
Don't Trust merry Widows
M. II. G., Ell Paso, Texas.-Sorry
weIcannot give you the informations
yopJ desire, first, because it's against
the Jaw; secondly your typewriter
letter seems to have been purposely
"doctored" to make it read like that
OF an ignorant foreigner. 1t is too
late to do anything now, anyhow.
Tr' enc OF the local physicians who
m do something for you. All we
car gay to YOU is that you must not
put your trust in rubber, In the
Iodine VS.. Mercurochrome.
Vanguard Scientific Society: -
Sht~ttkC VI lCuIIlC 10 W UG preferred
TO .ii1ercurochrome for first laid use.
N4Ch ell due respect TO the claims of
the, manufacturers We believe that
iodine has greater antiseptic power
than mefcurochrome. Experiments
congucted by the Laboratories of the
U. s. Navy, few years ago, seem
to have shown this to be the case.
Iodine in ordinary concentration (U.
s. P--7 per cent?, does not burn the
tissues. Some persons who are sem
sitiye TO iodine may get slight der
mathis skin infamation) but this
Is readily prevented by washing off
the iodine with rubbing alcohol, O
few minutes after its application.
Readers desiring health Information
should address their letters to DR.. Pasi 1
Lnttlrser, co Daily Worker, aS Z. uth
ST., New York City.