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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

Matte Richardson, sister of the muL-
dered blind man, l learned that hA
had been stone blind for twenty years
He tried to exc out an existence by
putting cane bottoms in chairs. On
Aug. 8 while fixing a chair for q.
woman he became embroiled in a row
with the woman over a dollar which
she had taken from him. Policeman
o. w, Allen, arriving on the scene
burst into the room and fired bullet
into the blind mans body.
Realizing it was the law the blind
Glover Davis turned, put both hands
in the. air and said wait a minute
boss, let me ex-"s but he was cut
short by second piece of hot lead
blowing through his flesh. Glover
Davis fell over in the doorway. Friday
of the same week he died in Grady
Hospital.
O.. W.1Allen, the numbering police
man, says he killed this blind old
Negro in self defense. He says the
blind man was advancing on him with
an ice pick and he had to shoot!
Knowing about the international
Labor Defense, that it stands for
justice to the Negroes and all work
ing people, the brother and sister of
the police victim came to the LID.
office in Atlanta asking for help. The
I. L. D. wishing to make Glover Davis
murder symbol of the end of such
outrages, invited all other interested
and sympathetic organizations and
individuals to cooperate in a series
of protest meetings and mass pro-
test funeral. At the first meeting OF
representatives from many of these
organizations Aug. %, it was decided
to go forward with funeral prepara-
tions and to set up prosecuting
committee. From the mass funeral
a committee is to be elected to go
before the mayor and chief of pnlice
with the following demands:
Removal of I. B. 'Babyface" Jones.
who has already shot three Me-
groes, from the police force. 4
1.-THE removal and prosecution
o. w. Allen, who recently shot
death the blind Negro, Glove
Davis.
Arrangements are made for the
mass protest funeral on Labor Day.
Negroes and white workers will join
together to stamp out the oppression
of the capitalist bosses who use much
police terror to keep both in subjec-
ton All organizations and inter-
ested individuals are urged to send
protest kilograms, letters or resolu-
tons. ernbcdying the ADORE three de-
mands, to Mayor James L. Key and
chief Of police, T. o. Sturdivant OF
Atlanta.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
off 1000 employees.

off 1000 employees.
Coal mines here in Somersville
and San Frisco working open shop,
with two other mines in the county
working comparatively, both with
the aid of the U. M. w. of A.
Miners at Somerville and Frisco
signed up in the company union
and applied for a state charter
while scab mines at Somerville and
Transico are loading coal for Is
cents per ton. .
Sheriffs Guard Scabs
The mines at Somerville are being
picketed by Is or 20 miners each
day, while the scab called the
union men and their wives and
daughters every vile name under
the sun, carried guns, and tear gas
bombs while going to and from
work. They are ably protected by
the local sheriff and deputies and
by the state police, yet miners here
have been promised by U. M w
of A. organizer three months age
to have the mines organized in two
weeks.
The last organizer told a meet
ing the NRA compelled the boss
to recognize the UNIV. After
that he never appeared in this
locality again and he is now
probably fooling the miners in other
localities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
PART III.

The reader who has had the pa
tierce to read SO far, will readily I'M
derstand that the treatment of
anemia must take into consideration
the cause Of it. OF what use is it
to give patient an iron tonic when
he is suffering from a tapeworm,
cancer or bleeding piles. It's like
giving the worker beer cat ten cents
g glass; when he needs bread, o.
curing capitalism by issuing billion
dollars Of grcenba clss, os passing q
fake MIRA law. It's the underlying
cause CT aneinia. that has to be re-
moved before iron can be of any
use.
This is why the quack and cultist,
as we'll as the patient who treats
himself, fail to obtain relief.
The ordinary signs of anemia are the
same, no maJ5er what the cause may
be: The patient (females are more
subject to anemia than males) feels
weak, gets tired easily, wants to sleep
all the time, does not feel rested in
the morning, looks gale when the
war paint is removed, yawns con-
tinually (air hunger), poor or capri
cious appetite, short of breath,
belches gas. She dts usually she)
complains of fullness in the pit of
the stomach, soreness Of the tongue,
brittle nails, dry hair and dull skin.
Sometimes all these signs are pres
ent, in other cases some of them
are lacking, depending on the age,
duration of the condition and the
patients heredity.
When the medical quack or the
patient hirneelf or the ca eless
physician diagnoses anemia from the
above signs, he Immediately thinks
Of iron with the results described in
the previous article. In order to re-
lieve the patient, the physician must
first remove the cause of the anenlia
and neither spinach nor iron tonics,
nor "radiated sawdust" nor awe-in-
spring injections will do any good.
But even with the cause removed,
or when it's an uncomplicated case
Of lack of iron in the system, it is
not SO simple to replenish the blood
with the necessary amount of iron.
The ignorant food faddist believes
that all one has to do is to eat foods
containing lots of iron. But this is
not as simple as that. First of all
because many people, and anemia
sufferers particularly, will not absorb
iron from their stomach or intes-
tines. In other words, no matter how
many iron pills or tonics or spinach
you give them, they cannot take it
into their blood. And as long as the
iron is in the stomach or intestine,
it is still outside the body, which
means it is not in touch with the
body cells which can only be reached
by the blood. In other words, you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

Boiler Dept. lnere was q pickup
in road business a short while ago,
but now business has about gotten
back to the '32 normal" and many
men in transfer labor are pressing
concrete again-at this point, with
years of Seniority"
In the past IS months, these men
received government flour, but now
that, too, has been cut out here.
Flour that sold a few months back
for 80 cents now sells for ST..
Everything is up in price. Pur-
chasing power is down.
NEWS: One man has found en-
ployment in the ice plant-and he
is an engineer who was compelled
in the transaction to fire three
hours-a shift of 8 hours, as we'll
as the other two engineers there,
by dispensing with the employment
of one fireman.
Stagger Plan in Chain Stores
Chain stores here are staggering
forces, but not raising wages.
Hotels are laying off regular en-
ployes, cooks, and finding plenty
of other help for their BOARD"
with the N.R.A. in the windows,
working this new forced labor IS
and IA hours per day.
Laundry workers are cut to 81
per week, while the boss raised
prices to a much higher rate for
all classes of work.
In Evansville, Ind, Sewell laid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Western Union
Firing Older
Men to Cut Pay
By DAN RICO
(By a Messenger Worker
Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The older mes
sengers, % years and over, who
have been with the Western Union
for five or more years are being
fired. Every week a few are let
go on the excuse that they have
violated some small regulation.
The Western Union will replace
these men with boys, whom they
will pay less; and will save the
future pension payment to these
men. This is the reward that we
have to look forward to!
The profits for the Western
Union for the first six months of
1888 were $2,664,469. There
was distribution in August of
S731,000.00 called back pay, (see
New York Times, Aug. 2, 1889.
The officers and clerks received
about one weeks salary, but the
messengers did not receive any
thing, although their pay has been
cut more often than any of the
officers.
When wages of officers and
clerks were cut last November the
company promised share of the
1888 profits to the officers and
clerks. The 10 per cent cut re-
ceived last November still is in eff
feet and by giving this back pay
or one weeks pay of the profits
the company camouflages the fact
that six months profits have been
made and more will be made in
1888 because of the wage cuts.
This can be proven by the New
York Post of Aug. IA, 1933-an
article that shows that with less
business in the six months periods
of 1888 compared to 1882, the COM
pany made more money in 1888. AS
for the profits of the next six
months the Western Union will not
share any of it with any one, I'M
less we messengers demand our
share of the profits in the form of
back pay, our wage cuts restored,
and no firing of the older and mar
ried messengers who have been
working for the Western Union for
years and need their jobs and pen
sions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

Self defense" was the officers plea
Another Negro was shot while leaving
filling station because the peace
officer thought he had failed to pay
for two gallons of gas A Negroes life
for two gallons Of gas!
Policeman I. B. "Babyface" Jones
recently shot an old Negro woman
through both legs because she had in
nocently picked up can of oil on
the street which had been stolen by
boy, and dropped when chased by
an officer. "Babyface," named thus
by his fellow murderers because of
his sweet face" laughed at the
woman's misery as she lay suffering
in Grady Hospital. He boasted of
what an excellent shot he was. He
took pride in and gloated over his
craftsmanship in shooting both legs
from under this old lady with one
bullet
He wanted her to stop still, and by
God, he stopped her STILL He never
hangs trigger on Goddam niger,
he boosted to an old Negro who stood
by watching the woman's pain This
woman was "Babyface's" third VIC
tim!
The long list of Negroes murdered
by peace officers" counts up into
the scores. These brutal but legalized
murders have gone practically I'M
noticed by the so-called Negro uplift
societies and churches. When on
June 16 the N.A.AC.P. sent protest
wire to Mayor Key stating the Asso-
citation viewed with alarm" the in
creasing killing of Negroes by the po-
lice, two having been killed that week,
and urging investigation with the
view of putting a stop to the prac-
tice, they received an insulting slap
in the face by the mayor, who, among
other insinuating remarks, asked
them why the Association didn't pro-
test Negro killings of policemen.
Mayor Key cited the case of detective
Foster who was killed by a Negro, but
failed to say that four Negro lives
we're legally snuffed out for this one
white killing.
After this singing rebuke which
virtually said you damn niggers
dry-up and stay in a nigger's place, y
the N.A.AC.P. did "dry-up" and has
failed to raise any further protest
or show the least bit of militant lead
ership against such outrages. With
this humiliating spanking by the
Mayor the N.A.AC.P. have behaved
like good little niggers" should!
OF all these recent police muir
ders the latest and most dastardly
is that of Glover Davis, an old blind
man. In an interview with Mrs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Bittleman Answers
Greetings of the
Party Conference
To the &C of the Party.
Dear Comrade Browder:-

DcdT SUthlI duC DEOHucI
Please accept my heartiest thanks
to the comrades for the greetings
of the Extraordinary Party Confer
ence. Its wish for the speedy re-
covery of my health, consider an
instruction to me by the Party to
make myself fit again for active
service.
The Open Letter have read, of
course, and find myself in full
agreement with it. The Control
Decisions adopted by the Confer
ence in connection with the Letter
make one feel confident that the
ground has been brCi1en for a great
effort to win the masses for the
revolutionary struggle. I ardently
wish that may join you soon in
your great and historic work.
How contemplate the enemies
reaction to the Open Letter ap-
pears in comparison with what the
Party is trying to do at the present
time. They say the American Com
munists have made an open con-
fession of failure. But it does not
seem as if they-the capitalists and
their social-fascist fiunkeys-feel
much comforted by this confess
sion of ours. Judging by the ex-
tensive maneuvers of Roosevelt,
Green, Thomas e. Co. against the
advance of the revolutionary move
ment in the United States, one is
compelled to conclude that the
enemy looks upon the Communist
movement as a pretty formidable
opponent; in fact, the only oppo-
nent of the present capitalist of
fensive upon the toiling masses.
1t is quite certain that if the Party
membership, and the wider masses
of our sympathizers, can be aroused
to the proper execution of the Open
Letter land they can be aroused,
then there will pretty shortly be
registered some very heavy failures.
And these will not be ours but
Roosevelt's, Green's, Thomas g.
Co.
All power to you, dear comrades,
in the fulfillment of your great
tasks.
With Communist greetings,
Alex Bittelman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Letters from Our Readers

been a better write-up.
| hope the District will learn by
this big mistake, and in the future
make better arrangements when
ever a gifted and devoted ccmrade
loses his life in the course of his
work and struggle.
With Communist greetings,
Stephen Graham's, Comrade.
Bronx, N. Y.
Editor, Daily Worker:
1t has always appeared to me that
many party comrades like to do
great deal Of talking at NEE ting
but when it comes to help carry out
their plans Or lead us, they are al
ways busy. They have more meetings
and conferences than dog has fleas.
1 would suggest that any comrade
bringing forth a plan must partici-
pate in it. Also that comrades should
not be assigned to a number of duties.
In taking part in demonstrations
in the past year, have noticed that
they have no appearance of a group
who are out for something-it is
more or less crowd just out for a
lark.
Why, on march, cannot we have
discipline, instead of no semblance OF
ranks?
make motion that the Workers
Ee-Servicemen's League have their
members visit all workers clubs and
branches once month, and give
them little training. Also that each
group elect captain and only these
shall be captains at demonstrations.
Also, that these men do not try to
be captains OF the whole line of
march, but of company of, say, SO.
Then the marchers will know their
captain and obey him.
Slogans shall be shout ID not more
than given number Ct times, the
captain starting and stopping tie
company. AS it is now we buck each
other. One shouts this, the other
shouts that. All are shouting one
minute and the next only one voice
can be heard.
To the people on the side lines this
means weakness. and we must
change, An I. w. O. Youth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
STEPHEN GRAHAM's DEATH

New York City
Dear Comrades:
I feel that the District neglected
Comrade Graham after he was
killed. Comrade Stephen Graham
as you know, was very active
comrade and a capable organizer
in the shops, as we'll as outside.
He was one of those comrades
who was very sincere, and the
Party could well wish that they
could have more of such excellent
fighters. He studied hard to learn
the right line of the Party, and was
Very skillful in all his shop work.
There was never day when he
did not think on how to improve
his work for the Party.
He was very thorough in his
shop work. When he went to a
factory he would observe and pick
out the spies and stool pigeons,
and then carefully approach the
most intelligent workers person
ally, take them to his home, to the
parks, acquaint them with the
problems in their shop, and step
by step bring them into the move
ment.
He would never hurry or expose
himself to the bosses. 1t would
take sometimes months before they
were finally brought into the move
ment.
The funeral arrangements were
not taken care of by the District
or Section, but were left to me
personally with the aid of two other
comrades, who were personal
friends.
Many workers, whom he was in
contact with, have only just re-
Gently learned of his death, because
of the failure of the Party to make
it better known. Needless to say,
if the funeral had been better ar
ranged, there would have been more
organizational results. There was
not even banner of the Section
there. The District neglected to
find out the details and inform the
Daily Worker so there could have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

FaFpedrlng IN the Daily worker on the
role of the Daily" and the struggle
against opportunism in the Daily
Worker campaign. These editorials
are, in my opinion, very effective
means of counteracting the resistance
to build the Daily Worker which is
manifested in many parts of the New
Jersey District. 1t is bound up with
the line of oposition to bring the
Party forward in the struggles of the
workers, which we have had to con-
tend against in New Jersey in every
strike and unemployed struggle in
which we have participated.
These editorials in the Daily Work
er will help us in our fight against
this form of sectarianism.
l would also like to express my
opinion at this time on the I'm the
Home" column. If this is intended
to be the special column for women,
then certainly 1t is far from sufficient
to meet the requirements. I think
the Daily Worker should have, at
least once week, special section
devoted to news and articles on
women's work. dealing with women
In industry, with the struggle against
war (exposing of the various paci-
fist and patriotic moves against
women's organizations, etc., as well
as the problems of the workingclass
housewife. Years ago we would fire.
ouently discuss the necessity of such
a column in the Daily Worker. I
think it is time now to put it into
effect
I have met, from everyone to whom
I have spoken, very enthusiastic re-
Spouse to the new features in the
Daily Worker, as well as to such
questions as increasing simplicity in
the language used, particularly in the
editorials
Our District, thus far, has not been
very much alive to the Daily Work.
er, but we are confident that with
the plans we have now made, there
will be decisive turn for the better
in developing the circulation of the
Daily Worker in our District.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
6 Barge Captains Must
Take Care of p Scows

BY a Marine Worker Ger 3spondent
NEW yORIS.-The B.A.R,C. runs
g SCOTS With six captains The cap
tains have to handle three and four
scoT-s a man each DAY.
A couple of days ago they landed
five loaded scows at 7 pm. and one
of the captains was told to rush
right over to street dump to pump
water on one other scow. The cap
tain arrived there at $3.50 pm. and
was supposed to stay there all night
in cabin with nothing else in there
but a table, not a bed nor stove,
not even chair to sit on.
There are only three or four scows
which have beds in the cabins, and
then they are filthy and completely
unfit for a human being. Some of
the cabins are down in the hull and
are in such miserable, rotten, stink
ing condition that no farmer would
care to put his hogs in hole like
that.
Workers who are addressed with
the title, Captain" have to use their
own carfare out of the wages of
S2.2T for "a hours or about cents an
hour
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Crews Cut One Third
By Many Lake Boats
BY a Marine worker Correspondent

Ay q OOiICSROlAuCHt
CHICAGO, Ill.-Lake boat officers
are firing many seamen with as much
es Is years experience and hiring
their relatives and friends, who never
sailed before. Lake seamen are kick
ing Ike hell and beginning to talk
organization.
Representatives of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union are being
established at various lake ports, and
~seamen and dockworkers are request
ed to get in touch with them at 1864
e. 92d ST., South Chicago, and at
Camels Hall on Superior St., Duluth,
Mimi, and Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union on Huron ST., Buff
falo, N. Y.
Crews have been cut one-third on
many Lake boats and the radio OPP
orator must work as deckhand, dis
placing one man. The bosun has been
abolished, also one porter and one
coal passer. Even firemen must work
in the engine room when not shovel
ing cool
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Widow of Railroad
Worker Robbed by
Pulaski Co. Relief
(By a Worker Correspondent

NO. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-An in
stance of the corrupt relief system
in Pulaski county is the case of a
Negro widow woman, Della Turnage,
2701 E. End st. She was forced to
pay back SLIPS for relief received
during the four months illness of
her husband. After the death of her
husband she was supposed to get
$1,000 in insurance from the Missouri
Pacific Railway Co., but the lawyer,
Mr.. Bogard, took $295 as his fee. The
relief bureau notified her that no
more relief would be given. Then case
worker Miss Daniels came around
and informed her she must pay for
the aid given her. She refused.
Later, the chief of detectives, Mr..
Pratt, forced her to make payment.
Mrs. Turnage turned the grievance
over to the Unemployed Council,
who began to fight for a refund of
this sum. They hold the receipts
given To her by Mrs. Pratt, and one
given later by one in the RIG. well
fare bureau.
Imagine a worker having to re-
fund for relief, which consisted of
two loads of wood, groceries, and Red
Cross flour which has printed on it,
mot to be sold.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
~ Doctor /.
-LAHn4e.
ufUIa:

can lead a horse (patient) to the
water, but you cannot make him
drink tabsorb iron into his blood.
Or, if he absorbs it, he cannot re-
tain it for sufficient length of time
to strengthen his body.
Some physicians who are not
abreast of the times are still trying
to overcome this by increasing the
amount Of iron. But this causes
constipation, which, in many cases
increases the anemia. They forget
that tie amount Of iron in the body
is very small. There is hardly
enough iron in the largest man te
make more than a few nails. Mod
ern medical research has shown thai
a small amount of iron, combined
with copper, manganese and sun
shine, when properly administered
will do more than quarts of tonici
and bales of vegetables.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Detective EFFORTS
Sl.5O from Driver
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. Il am a truck
driver. 1 was riding on the street
at 33d st. A car pulled out from
the curb right in front of me,
the driver didn't signal, and in doing
this scraped the front fender on the
fender of my truck. I slowed down,
and the driver of the other car waved
back and said go ahead. Two blocks
further on he said should stop my
car. He pulled over alongside of me,
and took out his badge, so I could see
he was detective, He started to give
me a summons-and took $1.50 from
me SO that he shouldn't make out
the summons, because 1 was afraid
of losing my job.
A Negro worker in the truck with
me started to say something to him.
and the detective threatened to hit
him. The license number Of. the de-
tective's car was Y32-64 NY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Speed-Up After
MIRA Promises

HAMMOND, Ind, Sept. Only
a few days after Bruce Vernon, gen.
eral manager of the Lever Brothers
chemical plant, promised his 400
workers more work and more pay
under the NRA five machinists were
fired. The others were warned to
put out as much work in six hours
as they formerly did in eight or to
pet out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Can You Make 'em
Yourself?

With the end of the summer
should come preparations for next
summer. Cottons may be cheaper
now than they were at the begin
ming of the season. The house dress
for next summer, sleeveless, can be
made and put away.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
SAM MARKOWITZ.
signature authorized

Editors Note: The Taxi Drivers
Union asks that all complaints of
persecution Of drivers by detectives
and police be reported to them i'm
mediately, for they fight cases of
this kind. The address is 81 E. 18th
St., New York City.