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The Washington times., 1933-10-24
Darkest Before Dawn

At times life seems tragis
and hopeless.
For years you may have hoped
for certain improvements in
members of your family, but it
hasn't been brought about.
You have used every means
in your power, and by word,
deed, and appeal endeaVored to
make all members of your fam
lily reach the ideals you set for
them.
But they do not come up to
expectations - you are dis
couraged.
Perhaps it is an endeavor to
get little money ahead for a
sort of old age pension or fund
to keep you out of an inStitu-
ton in your last days.
But something always hap
pened to reduce accumulation to
nothing.
The Washington times., 1933-10-24
Soviet Cash

Tall, gray, imposing and
handsome, Jesse H. Jones sits
down with the small, retiring
black-grey bearded Peter
Alexyveitch Bogdanov, and they
talk over the ways and means
by which Mr.. Jones may lend
$50,O00,000 to $75,000,000 to
Mr.. Bogdanov.
The Russian gentleman rep
resents the Soviet government
in the United States while the
gentleman from Texas, as chair
man of the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation, represents
the American Government. The
millions are Uncle Sans and il
Mr.. Bogdaov gets them he will
add a few more of Russia's and
dump the entire sum into the
lap of the cotton growers OF
the United States.
Copyright. 1888 King Features
Syndicate, 1nc)
Edwin c. Hill appears IN peESoG
at Loew's Fox Theater this week.
The Washington times., 1933-10-24

ing orders accepting death with hope of glory strung
with dog
you that there too much BROWNING
in all these faces too much frowning to be real? These German
gentlemen not to have heard the sound German advice
"Mensch aergere dich ncht," Man keep your temper
When Hitler appears in any Of hundred photographs
he always frown.
Mussoni wiser whom Hitler and others initiate is careful
10 smile well frown He knows that there time for
smiling and frowning and barring accident his autocracy will
outlast Hitler's.
These all interesting powerful faces representing the
forceful genius of great nation Everybody will hope that
M the past has been its persistent fight against tyranny
The Washington times., 1933-10-24
Kaiser Flushes

A good tale he will have to
tell of his chat with the eX-
Kaiser long before the Great
War. E.scoffier was the archl-
tect of gala dinner at which
Kaiser William was the guest
of honor. Delighted with the
divine food that Escoffier sent
to his table, the German En-.
peror summoned the king OF
chefs.
"You have pleased me greatly,
Maitre Escoffier," said the
Kaiser. "Youp dinner was a
masterpiece. Is there any way
in which I can show you my
Appreciation" ...
Majesty" replied Escoffier,
you might restore us French
men our provinces of Alsace
and Lorraine"
The Kaiser flushed, stared for
a moment, then turned his back
without another word.
A young lady from the Deep
South, only half dozen years
out of Birmingham, Ala, turns
up as the best woman contract
bridge player in the United
States. The young lady from
Alabama is Miss Eleanor Muir
dock. Trailing Miss Murdock
were such famous experts as
portly P. Hal Sims and broad.
shouldered, curly-haired Oswald
P. Jacoby.
Miss Murdoch is a level
headed young lady and frank
enough to take a lot of the
hokum out of bridge. 1t takes
no great amount of brains or
any exceptional wisdom or
adroitness to play a first-class
The Washington times., 1933-10-24

at them?
w h y d O
lovers, W h o
were so mad
a b o u t each
other before
the wedding,
b e C o m e so
mad at each
O t h er six
months after?
w ny d o
parents chill
off oW a r d
their children,
coddle them
W h e n t h e y
ora hnhinc.
The Washington times., 1933-10-24

Somehow, a man can always
manage to conquer his love for
a women, if he tries; his tenn
porary infatuation for some
The Washington times., 1933-10-24
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

Why Do We Fall Out of Love?
Why do we fall out of love?
Why are we at first so fond
of our friends, then so furious
The Washington times., 1933-10-24

You can be sure of a women's
name, these days. BY the time
you can remember the spelling
and initials, she has married
again. and you have to start
memorizing the new one.
The Washington times., 1933-10-24

Wives and Other Women
Every man should let the
wife or the girl-friend select
his stenographer for him; then
The Washington times., 1933-10-24
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

little dumbell that he can't shake
off, until he has landed at the
altar or gone over the deep end.
You can get a divorce in Uru-
quay, says Walter Winchell, just
by asking for it three times.
But what woman really WANTS
a divorce, until she has asked
it at least seven or eight times?
Befor that, she is merely bluff
fling.
To be attractive makes a
woman talked about, and to be
talked about makes her more
attractive. Which is the secret
of how some very mediocre wom-
en- have come to be known as
famous man-charmerS".
It takes a man a little while
to come out of his daze when
he realizes that he has Just been
accepted" by a girl who pro-
posed to him.
The man who is in love with
himself is the only one who
The Washington times., 1933-10-24

A woman never realizes what
sales-resistance means, until she
finds herself wandering through
the millinery department of a
shop where she has a charge
account.
The Washington times., 1933-10-24

Divorce is the legal separation
of two people who are anxious
to go on being good friends or
to retain their romance for each
other.
The Washington times., 1933-10-24

he'd be sure of Citing somebody
who would never take his mind
off his business.
The Washington times., 1933-10-24

Edwin c. Hill appears IN peHSoS
at Loew's Fox Theater this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18

Akron, Ohio.
So welcome was the code and pro
gram of the RWIU that the workers
decided to elect a large delegation
which will present the code in Wash
ingtcn at the rubber code hearing.
Although scores of company spies and
bosses came TO this open meeting to
terrorize the workers, over 100 joined
the RWIU at the meeting. This in
dictates the spirit and willingness of
the workers to organize against the
low wages and tremendous speed up
conditions in the industry.
All rubber workers throughout the
country are asked to give full support
to this code.
1. IS hour work weekly As a
maximum.
2. Wages: 96 cents per hour
minimum: 80 per cent increase to
cover rise In cost of living for all
workers now receiving SO cents per
hour.
3. Equal pay for equal work for
Negro workers, women, youth and
so-called apprentices, according to
their proficiency or ability.
4. Minimum Of s921.60 per year;
4 days a week; 40 weeks per year.
5. Time and one-half for over
time. Double time for Sundays and
holidays.
6. Wages TO advance with the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18

the living standards of the workers.
The only union this combination
of open shoppers are interested in is
the company union or open shop.
Why? Because the workers in these
company unions have no say. The
labor and shop crafts company union
on the Pennsylvania railroad: ID it
holds no meetings; co the committee
will never tell the workers what takes
place in the monthly meeting with
the superintendent; 90 the laborers
are not allowed to choose their own
representatives; a. the mechanics
and helpers committees have elected
themselves for life; therefore, the
rank and file have no say.
The committee for the laborers will
be appointed by the general manager
and its committeeman, who will, be-
fore the railroad bosses and co-ordi-
nator Joe B. Eastman, represent the
rail workers in matters of hours and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18
Rail Accidents
Brought About By
Terrific Speed-up
By a Railroad Worker Corresponden

BY Railroad Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. = While a Morris
Park, L. L, railroad engineer on a
gasoline crane was filling the tank
with gas, the tank exploded and the
engineer is in q critical condition
from burns.
Two days later. while fireman
on an electric locomotive was adj
iusting the jumper cable carrying
$50 volts, it exploded in his hands,
due to poor insulation. 1t burned out
half the bottom of car; the fire
man was burned from head to foot
and is not expected to live.
Due to the small force of help the
workers are given a weeks work at
once and are expected to do it in
from six to eight hours, which is i'm
possible-result: rs per cent of the
work is passed up, which in turn ac-
counts for all wrecks, the killing and
manning OF workers, but the company
always puts the blame on the men
carelessness, they call it. But it's
speed-up.
Right now we are geared up 300
per cent more speed than we ever
were. We need a workers union on
this company union road.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18
Phila. Street Car
Workers Seek to
Organize Union
BY a Worker. Correspondent


PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Il should
like to have the address of the unior
which street railway workers belong
to.
There has been an effort to start
union. Twelve workers were firec
at Lizerne Car Barn for organizing
and another small group disciplined
This barn, believe, is the largest in
Philadelphia. They are trying to or
ganize in the Southern barn. which is
also large. At the Richmond Barn, all
but two refused to vote at the cleo
ton Of committeeman to represent
them.
Ten per cent of the workers wages
was deducted each week to buy COM
pany stocks and was placed in a wage
fund. Each year the workers received
handsomely engraved Wage Fund
Certificate"
Another amount to take care of
pensions, sick benefits etc. was also
placed in company stocks. This stock
is not paying dividends so the Co.
operative Fund was forced to borrow
money from the company to the ap-
proximate amount of 100000.
At present, the city, through Judge
Harry McDevitt (whom the Interna-
tional Labor Defense knows so well
from the recent case of two union
bakers held under $1,000 bail on a
charge of kidnapping), has appointed
three directors to the company board
(who control the vote for five years
on the workers stocks to reorganize
the company. When they are through
the transit workers who bought stock
in the company will probably have
nothing. One of the city-appointed
directors, Herbert THY, is head of
Strawbridge 81 Clothier and the
NR,A. Committee.
The underlier stock, which is not
a paid-up stock, earns dividends on
its face value, which makes profits
on its various stocks about so per
cent, yet they own practically none
OF the physical property of the COM
parly, merely holding franchises Civ
en- to them for nothing and are good
Tor SO years, making the workers and
riders suffer by the low wages and
high fares
Editors Note: A letter has al
ready been sent to this worker, but
for the benefit of other workers in
this industry and in Philadelphia,
guidance in organizing struggles
for better conditions can be OBJ
tanned by applying to the Trade
Union Unity Council at 40 North
Sth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18

payments on the part Of unem-
pioyed or part time workers on
Group Insurance, rent on Company
houses, relief, gas lights and water.
The Rubber Workers Industrial
Union has launched campaign to
organize the rubber workers.
The RWIU warns the rubber work.
ers against all sorts of fake unions
being organized in the industry. The
sad experience of several years ago
when thousands of dollars in fees and
uucS were collected from the rubber
workers and no organization resulted
must not be repeated. The American
Federation of Labor leadership is also
busy trying to organize federal To-
calls" presumably on an inuusOiial
basis. But it is already quite clear
that the members so recruited are
being divided into the international
craft unions. Not only is the A. F. of
L. officialdom dividing the workers
along craft lines but also into radi-
Gals and conservatives. Militants who
want to strike and. fight for their
rights and decent living wages are not
welcome because the A. F. Of L. has
become partner of the NRA-which
means recovery for the bosses. The
A. F.. Of L. has sold away all the rights
Of organized labor, for the right To
collect fees and dues from the work.
ers. Only If the rubber workers Or
ganize into the RWIU, independent
Of the bosses and the A. F. Of L. bu-
reaucrats, can they win, through mi
litant strike action, decent working
conditions and more pay to meet the
constantly rising cost Of living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18
WINNING WOBBLIES

Fort Stanton, N. M.
Comrade Editor:
I want to write OF how the workers
and patients here at Ft. Stanton have
enthusiastically received the new
Daily" 1t took this place by storm
AS this place is a hospital for sea-
men, the serial story, IS. S. Utah." i.
especially liked. 1t is so true to real
life aboard ship and ashore. Also
the column by Conrade DR.. Luttin-
ger is very interesting and witty
The editorials are, Of course, mag
nificent and truly Mardst and Lenin-
ist in spirit and character.
Tt is so easy to prove point in a
struggle argument with the
Daily" near 81 at hand. We have
gained many sympathizers here in FIT
Stanton, thanks to our paper.
If for some reason or other the pa
per isn't always on time, there are
few who'll raise Cain" that's how
eager they are to read II.
On all roads OF life one naturally
meets people who are confused on
especially problems on the class
struggle. Here, before the Daily
was known. they read such papers as
the New Leader, the Nation, and
worst of all the Industrial Worker
besides the rank conservative papers
But only the Daily" has been able
to give them clear understanding
of their troubles and the causes for
them, and only the Daily" has been
able to show them how it is possible
to have these conditions changed.
A year and a half ago the wobblies
had quite a few followers here, and
with their misleading and disruptive
tactics managed, for little while
to spread their nefarious propaganda
and to cause still more confusion
But I'm glad to say that with the
help Of our own Daily" we have now
these same workers reading our pa
per. They have received through the
paper a clear and understanding
view of the class struggle, and they
have been convinced that the Com
muniSt Party is the vanguard o. the
working class and that only through
organizing with our Party will the
working class ever be liberated from
their oppressors.
So comrades, keep up the good
work. The struggle Is hard and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18

concentrated on winning over and
mobilizing these workers and win
ming of the factories, a Commu-
mist Party which, through its Irevo-
lutionary trade union work, does
not build highways TO the broadest
masses of workers, cannot lay
claim to policy capable of max
ing it the leader of the working
class within the shortest possible
time" (From Open Letter pg. 12.)
If there is any needed emphasis tt
this basic requirement for the build
ing of Communist Party, it is sup.
piled by the N. r. A. and its slave
codes. In this respect and in the
light of the open letter, we must an
swer what are we doing to root oul
| Party and the revolutionary unior
in the factories? What are We doing
to turn these slave pens of capital
ism into strongholds of anti-cap-
italism?
In the Pittsburgh District, concen-
tration is for coal and steel.
Here I wish to deal with steel and
the tasks set by the open letter ano
the District Party resolution. Some
of the tasks to be accomplished in
our six months plan of work have
been far surpassed but in most OF
the fundamental tasks we lag quite
far behind.
Since the adoption of the district
resolution, the Steel and Metal
Workers Union has grown from a
skeleton organization in the PittS-
burgh District into a mass organiza-
ton with a membership of between
three thousand and four thousand
with branches in some nine mills
some of them including the ajority
of the workers, with membership
as high as 900 out of 1000 workers,
as in GreenSburg.
There are besides these mill locals,
substantial groups in a dozen other
mills. The winning of a number of
struggles have created very favor
able base for the establishing of the
Steel and Metal Workers Union
throughout the Pittsburgh district.
The concentration of the A. F. of L.
in the Ambridge territory and the
workers answer to this in the dem
onstration on Labor Day Of 5000
workers under the leadership of the
S. M. w. I. u expresses the tremen-
dous sentiment for a fighting union.
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union has answered quite
boldly the attempts to disrupt the
union with the red scare propaganda.
The union forces are being CONSOLE
dated. The mill branches are func-
tioning. The district board is being
strengthened. Local headquarters are
being set up and delegated city-wide
committees from the mill branches
are strengthening the organization. At
this writing strike preparations are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18

being made in Greensburg for SUBJ
Stantial wage increases, a number of
mill demands and recognition Of the
union. A district conference OF young
steel and metal workers was called
for September 18th to strengthen the
work among young boys and girls in
the industry. In this manner the
union is being consolidated and a
broad group of new leaders are being
developed.
However, with this splendid
achievement, there are number of
weaknesses of fundamental char
acter that have to be overcome in
order to more firmly consolidate the
union. To accomplish this it is ne
cessary to developing a leadership
and a membership conscious of the
role Of the union; conscious of the
fact that union that sets out to
compel the powerful steel interest to
grant living wage, better working
conditions, shorter hours without re-
duction in pay, unemployed relief
and insurance, recognition Of the I'M
ion or mill committees, should I'M
derstand the relation of forces, the
class character Of the struggle; to
understand why men such as the
leader of the Independent Union in
the American Bridge fight against
affiliation or unity with the s. NJ w.
I.9U. continuously bring forward the
r. IS ideology expressed by him so
often, BE fair with the company"
This is the bosses propaganda. This
is the program of the A. A. This In
the program of the leaders Of the
Socialist Party, who merge with the
A. F. of L. in their support Of the
N. r. A. and the slave steel code.
ora Party Recruitment Weak
The bosses shout that the Commu-
mist Party controls the S. M. w. I. q.
1t is true that many Communists are
members of the Union. That Jim
Egan, the Communist candidate for
Mayor for the city Of Pittsburgh. and
others are outstanding leaders Of the
union, but the Communist Party con-
siders that one of the weaknesses OF
the union is that there are not
enough Communists.
That in every mill where Is a mill
branch there should be Communist
unit. Our weakness is that this Is not
the case, and while 5000 TO 1000
were recruited to the union, only .
little more than q dozen were re-
cruited to the party at this writing
(Sept. 81. A Communist unit In every
mill, an understanding by the steel
workers that the Communist Party Is
their Party, is the best guarantee
that the union will grow stronger
numerically, organisationally. A more
rapid recruitment to the party b
necessary to the Strengthening q Ne
union.
(Tc BE CcntinueA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18
OUR NEW DEAL"
Portland, Me

IOt ttdIiu3 me-.
Comrade Editor:
Congratulations! The Daily Worker
has given us a New Deal" even if
Roosevelt's deal has proved raw
one The new features and article:
are OK. and should increase circu-
lation immensely. Even in this
stronghold Of rugged individualisIn, >
Daily Worker sales are picking up
Keep up the good work and the Blue
Buzzard" will go the way Of all the
other Hoover and Roosevelt "hot-air''
projects.
May suggest that we have more
articles explaining the fundamental.
Of Communism. Many workers are
more interested in just how a Soviet
system would benefit the workers Of
this country than in the tactics
which must be used TO bring about
the change to that form OF society
When a worker understands what
the working class has to gain, he is
easily convinced of the necessity of
revolutionary struggle.
Comra6e Foster. in his election
campaign speech fully covered this,
and something along that line in the
Daily" should accomplish much in
bringing new workers into the move
ment.
a. n MeNNJEY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18
1,500 Meet, Adopt Own Code, and Build Union
to Mobilize Workers for Struggle
to Win Better Conditions

rise in the cost Of living. A survey
Of prices to be made monthly and
wages to be raised accordingly.
7. Full pay for all dead time.
A minimum of hours wages II
sent home after reporting for work.
8. Rest periods In each shift at
Company's expense.
3. Safety control and sanitary
conditions to be supervised and en-
forced by \ Committee elected by
the workers.
10. Control and regulation Of
speed-up jointly with the workers
through elected Committees.
II. No night work for women.
No Child Labor.
IL. Unemployment and Social
Insurance paid for by the employers
and the government.
10. No welfare or Charity" col
lecttons inside the plants. The
Company 10 give donations at its
own expense"
IA. No Company Unions. Rec
ignition Of Workers Committees in
each department and in each plant,
elected outside Of the CompAny's
property and without the Com
pany's Representatives.
Is. Abolition Of spies in the
plants.
Is. Caneellatien Of an arrsar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18
Show Movies" of Class War
and Help the ''Daily Drive"

NEW YORK CITY.-"Show movies
to your club membership, and help
the Daily Drive" says the Daily
Worker business office. Films that
tell of the two most interesting
stories of today are available for or
ganizationS to aid them in the A.
nancial campaign"
Land of Lenin,"-a film that de-
picts the life of the US.SR. today,
with shots of the fast disappearing
old, is on hand for distribution.
With the cameramen we rapidly
travel from Leningrad TO the most
northerly part of the world, Muir
mansk; stopping along the way to
see the various nationalities Of the
U.S.SR.; the giant projects of social
list construction; the earth granting
crops on a scale never before achieved,
through the most modern methods.
We see the worker who has no mas
ter and the new farmer of the col
/ lective.
Then to make our audience ac-
quainted with the makings of their
paper, the DAILY WORKER, we
spend another half hour in showing
the Souzces from which the news of
the Daily Worker is gathered; the
men who make the paper, from edi-
torial room to the roaring presses,
where the finished product, thou
sands of Daily Workers, come ready
for the readers, to act as their guide
and leader in the struggles which
are reported. This is called THE
Struggle for Bread"
These two films make a program
that will be of help to all organiza-