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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
By a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich.-I want to con-
graduate you on the new Daily
Worker. 1 like it fine, and also want
to say Michael Colds column, What
a World" is OK. My wife and I
certainly enjoy IS. S. Utah" And
the whole paper in general have
been reading all supposed-to-be
workers papers, but can say that the
Daily Worker is the only real work
ers' paper.
Times are harder every day here in
Detroit. The Blue Eagle isn't flying
SO high. They had an N.R.A. parade
here on Woodward Ave. The papers
and radio said $4,000 men paraded,
who were recently employed. But that
is a damned lie. There we're exactly
1868 workers that have been re-em-
ployed. About 1000 in all, with the
cops, American Legion and K. p,
K. c.. National Guards, firemen,
V. F. W., etc.
Four comrades and I stood in
Grant Circus Park and counted the
workers. There were 322 lines, four
abreast. I got friend that was
marching under orders from the boss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
Workers Robbed of
Wages "by Mistake"
BY a Worker Correspondent

CHESTER, Pa,-There is a great
and growing discomfort among the
workers of the Harbsin c. Walker
Brick Co. There are about 100 work
ers in this plant. When the MIRA.
code took effect in this yard, the
company cut the wages of the piece
workers and gave part of it to the
DAY laborers. The old system of rob
berry by making mistakes in the pay
checks is being used here Practically
every work finds himself short So or
So every week. On account of the
complicated system Of itemizing the
pay vouchers it is hard for the work
ers to find Just where they are short
If the workers are forced to wait
an hour or two hours for brick they
do not get anything for the time
lost, and then must load the brick
while it is red hot. SO hot that it
burns the hand leather on the work
er's hands.
Sanitary conditions are something
chat should be brought before the
Board of Health. The only toilet in
that yard is a hole six feet long and
three feet Wide-no covering or even
a seat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
F%?'1N 81
1sll fll<, H(l l(LnIlla,I
ESQ., &EL RI
Can You Make 'ein
Yourself

HWzy 20 you are, You can al
wsgs nssAe your house f1octs at
.ssct1ve, and because these pat
tsyns ere so simple and delightful
10 work with, you can fashion this
pretty model in just few spare
hours. Try IT in gay cotton
print!
Pattern 1882 is available in sizes
Ia, is, IS, 20, 80, So, SO, 3S, 30
and AZ. Size SO requires 8. IL
yards SO inch fabric. Illustrated
step-by-step sewing instruction in
cluded with this.
Send fifteen cents (15c) in coins
or stamps for this pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
number. Be sure to state size.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Dept, 243 West 18th St.,
New York City.
Patterns by mail only.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
Workers Pledge Aid to Insure
Regular Appearance of Daily

NEW YORK, n. VA woman
worker from Flint, Michigan, sent
the, following letter to the Daily
Worker office in connection with the
$4,000 drive;
Enclosed find one dollar for our
Daily Worker. / am just hoping
to send you more money soon, but
half time work and starvation
wages cannot do much. Good luck,
and my best support to the Daily
Worker"
The Boston District Committee
of the Russian Mutual Aid Society
sent in S22.02 received from pic
mic which was held in Maple Park.
Members OF the Haymarket LID
Branch adopted a model resolution
for the support of the Daily
Worker. 1t reads in part:
eve members of the Haymarket
LID Branch greet the enlarged
Daily Worker which with six
pages every day and eight pages
on Saturday has made many i'm
provements so that 1t can better
serve the interests of the workers
in their struggle.
eve believe. that we can TO a
large extent utilize the services of
the Daily Worker in building our
organization. We, therefore pledge
to raise $100 toward the sustain
ing fund of the Daily Worker.
"Copies of this resolution will
be sent to all our membership"
Signed by the Secretary of the
Haymarket Branch, John Bakroff,
Chicago, Illinois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20

under the provisions which the in
1urance companies unite to meet the
depression for their policy holders
who desire loans or cash surrender
they have adopted Dire Need De-
partment" sort of charity where you
Get back "some" of your own money
IF" you can get loan.
After writing and waiting two
weeks" an agent and the superinten-
dent called and took full particulars,
something like the charity "rackets"
DO, and told me I could get nothing as
the Place was too clean and you
would have TO have the policy run
nine years about and have five chill
drea,- etc. etc. did not like his style
of bunk" and consequently I sent
a special delivery letter to his grace,
the president of the Prudential at
Newark That brought the agent
down with some more papers which
I signed and he informed me that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20

The average weekly wage of the
packing house employees is sic to $40
q week.
The Armour Co. store room sells
overalls and working clothing to the
employees. Last week overalls were
raised from 8S cents to s1.08 a pair
in the company store. Employees can
also buy meat from the company.
Within two weeks pork that was SELL
ing for 10 cents a pound now costs
IL cents a pound.
Hundreds of packing house en-
ployees are joining the Packing
House Workers Industrial Union"
They refuse the leadership of the
A. F. of l..
What we need and must is
one or two-cent pamphlets explain
ing the program of the T.U.U.L. and
It's affiliations with the unemployed,
farmers, other industrial unions and
the Red international Labor move
ment.
Congratulations to the Daily"
staff for the wonderful improve
nents in the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
Packing Company
Store Raises Prices
Under Flag of NRA
By a Worker Correspondent

ST. PAUL, Minn.-A week ago the
Daily Worker printed an article
sent in dealing with the slaughter
ing Of the hogs the government is
buying. Up to date the Armour pack
ing plant has killed approximately
10000 government bought hogs. OF
these hogs about 20 per cent are be-
ing saved to feed the unemployed,
and the rest are made into fertilizer.
Of there is a jobless worker who
has received a ham sandwich out of
this, We would like to know It'd.
Note.)
There are five packing plants in
South st. Paul, and these plants are
destroying government bought hogs.
I am sorry cannot give you figures
concerning the other plants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
Colo. Unemployed
Council Gains Relief
for Negro Families
(By a Worker Correspondent


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-This
city Is known as millionaire city.
but it has three thousand families
living on forced labor. Many cases
for relief have been fought and won
for the workers of this city by the
local Unemployed Councils. Two old
coIored women were forced to pick
up coal along the railroad tracks,
They were approached by a commit
tee from the Council and appeared
with the Committee before the Coun-
ty Commissioners. Relief was OBJ
tanned not only for coal but for gro
cerfes Also.
Another aged colored woman work
er had no place to live other than
by going from one friend to another,
spending few days with each friend.
A house was obtained by the Unem-
ployed Council. A young widow with
a child was unable to get relief. The
charity racketeers said that she
should 60 out to her parents on the
farm and let them take care Of her,
when they didn't have enough for
themselves. A committee from the
Unemployed Councils called on the
RIG. and after a hot argument, OBJ
tanned some relief for this widow.
The curbstone patriots are at pres
ent popped up with Eagle Bluitis, but
the workers of Colorado Springs are
beginning to see that they cannot eat
this bird.
The Unemployed Councils are now
organizing the workers in struggle
to force the city and county officials
to 60 on record in favor of the work.
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20

the company would only accept one
of my policies for cash surrender and
said it would take two weeks.
Now it is six weeks and notwith-
standing letters, ETC., cannot get
any satisfaction, so I presume it is
one of those thin air charities" of
which big business is capable. I guess
shall have trouble in even getting
the policy back without the money.
1t is just as well to inform the
readers of your valuable paper not to
place too much reliance on their
Dire Need Division" which is ap-
parently a check-up of prospective
suckers for future business.
I understand the Metropolitan also
has a dire need" division, racket
born Of the New Deal" You are at
liberty to publish this with name
and address if you wish.
Henry Brown,
1908 Alstyne Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
Worker Marches in Detroit
NRA Parade, Then Laid Off

And he and two more workers got
laid off Friday until business gets
better"
I have been on the public welfare
for eight months and the welfare
case worker told me when asked her
for some shoes for my son who is
supposed to start to school, that there
would have to be another million
dollars appropriated before all chill
dren could get clothes, and the work
ers here on relief are going to have
to do some real organizing to get re-
lief this winter. The welfare has not
raised the food checks and groceries
have gone up high and are still go
ing up.
The case worker told me I was
young and had good trade and I
could get job If wanted one bad
enough. I told her that if I could I
wouldn't be working for the welfare
for IS cents an hour, IT hours a week
and five in the family.
We have a good branch of the
Unemployed Committee started. We
hold meetings every Friday night at
7:30 at 18th st., Brainard st., but we
will have TO have q stronger organ
ization to force demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
Letters from
Our Readers
HOW To MARCH

4NCN Yin StbJs
Comrade Editor:
The letter from an TWO. youth on
sloppy marching at demonstrations
published in the September 4 issue,
should receive serious and immediate
attention
At the August l demonstration this
ycGr, the German Workers Club
showed everyone how really bad the
est of the marching was. This Ger
nan unit marched into Union So.
With heads UP, shoulders back, eyes
front and in step, splendid picture
of strength, solidarity and discipline.
1t was an impressive sight and had
a thrilling effect upon the specta-
tors.
In contrast, the marching of the
great majority of comrades was dis
graceful, some holding hands, some
eating, everyone talking and joking,
all stumbling along in a slipshod
way with heads turned in every di-
rection. What a contrast to the deep
" serious character of the demon
stration.
would also suggest that comrades
or sympathizers with eccentric tastes
in dress or personal adornment be
forbidden to join the marchers. I saw
a tall, bearded individual with hair
down to his shoulders, marching
along in bare feet, staff in his hand
and white sheet wrapped around
him. Another fellow with a long
beard and long hair that had been
done up in a knot in the back like
woman's was in the line. Politically
workers on the sidelines
must not be permitted to think that
we are some kind Of nut" move
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
Photo Worker Toiled
9 A. NJ. to Midnight
on $14.50 a Week Job
BY a Worker Correspondent

ATLANTA, Ga.-Bon Art Studios,
Inc, photographers, have a labora-
tory at 240 Ivy St., where they finish
up the portraits from chain of five
studios in as many southern cities
The writer has learned that an ex-
perienced laboratory worker who
went to work here recently for $145o
week had to work, on his second
and third day on the job, straight
through from 9 am. till after mid
night and his fourth day he had to
keep it up till o'clock the next
morning, when he had to quit from
exhaustion, but the four others work
ing with him, two girls and two men,
were still on the job at $50 am.
when they were expected to start
a new days work
In the ,retoIlchinp dana rt,,oent II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Irregular Observation-Disclosures
Infantilism.
Il. L. p, Bayonne.-Your lack of
physical development, together with
the irregularity of your periods, point
to some trouble of the ovaries. The
pimples anG constipation may be due
to other reasons. You will receive
private reply shortly.
Yellow Jaundice.
T. S.-The word yellow is redun-
dant-which means that it is I'M
necessary, because Jaundice means
yellowness. The condition appears
whenever there is an obstruction to
the flow of bile from the liver into
the intestines. Gallstones, ttmors,
inflammations may produce such an
obstruction. The bile is then alb
sorbed into the blood and the skin
becomes yellow; even the urine and
the ~ Mites" of the eyes turn q deep
canary yellow. Sometimes, when the
red blood corpuscles are destroyed
too rapidly, Jaundice may take place.
Athletic Club MISUNDERSTANDING
Pool Infection.
Louis L.. Chicago. Is no
necessity of becoming a resident Of
tlls organi7st'on you merton to
keep oneself in condition. If you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
NO FRIEND IN NEED
Rv n Worker CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK-On 23d st. and
Madison Ave. an individual of some
group is being paid to teach the poor
broken-down souls who call the Mad
ison So. Park their home, the office
workers and the passersby, lessons in
sky plotting daily, the Dominion OF
the Almighty, etc.
Monday this preacher had a devil
ist1 time because he was heavily
opposed to believers and thesis,
as he called them. These people
smashed his logic to "smithereens, :.
and NE Holy Ghost did not come
down to his benefoHtnr to rave bin,
divine inspfratio
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
NDrckot.
LuHin4e
uhUGa:

work in a factory, you are 9
enough exercise. If you are an
worker, you ought to consu a
sician who will advise you r
kind of sport you are best %.
Running, for instance, rt4m9
perfect heart. The danger OF
tracing any disease from q
inspected swimming pool, is q
Sexual diseases are contracted n
by actual intercourse. Occasic
gonorrheal infection Of the eye i
place when 1t is wiped with .
which had been freshly sole
specific pus. A syphilitic Oh
may also be contracted, innoc
on the lip, by the kiss Of a dis
individual.
Water Blister?
r. S.-If you apply some ru!
alcohol or witch hazel, you'll
that the itching will disappear.
is another good medium. VIII
mean is that by the time YOUTH
this answer, the irritation hguS
sided by itself, without any D.
cation. Thank YOU for youf
opinion Of us, which we attribu
the fact that you do not know
writer personally.
Readers desiring health Inform
should address their iatters to DR..
Lrt.insc-, co Daily Worker. IS 3.
ST., New " "-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
Worker Correspondents Describe How
NRA Wage>Cutting, Speed>Up Works
81 to 81 Hours a
Week in Bakery
BY Bakery Worker Correspondent

By Bakery Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK; am working 81
hours week in the Goodfried
Wholesale Bakery, Union Ave, be-
tween 155th and 156th SITS, Bronx,
with branches in Manhattan, Bronx,
Port Chester and Brooklyn. They
have their porters and men in the
packing room working 66 and 70
hours. Two men are working 81
hours. They used TO work nine hours
a day at $40 per week. Today they
are working "a hours at a salary of
SGT week.
/ have notified the Labor Depart
ment several times. They send the
inspector, but no action is taken
They have men in the bakery before
the depression earning $40 to $50.
Today they are receiving $40 to $40
per week. We cannot rely on labor
laws"
I guess the only thing to do is for
al the men in this bakery to get to-
gether and fight the boss ourselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20


truck there. The man tolc ,
having seen from the distan[
and a bunch of men at 4
where I asked him to 81
thought we were all drink
ing from my appearance,
and without shoes. l got n
clothes in the farm house al !
one there saw the welts f..
flogging. The truck driver. (
to Annoyan, seven miles NJ
the place of beating. AT
half a mile of driving, job
was on the road, was wavins
to stop. I could hardly 1.
him, his face was baeten
swollen, his eyes all bloods.
his clothes all wet. He told n
wards that they strung hin
his hands between two trs
beat him with ropes and
straps. They used their shs
heels on his face. johnson
relieved of IS. Yes, even
they took from him. At A
we got off and went in a
ton, drinking cup of cot
man there telling US that
10 and is cars passed by in
and two Of them stopped
They were acting very queer,
often whispering to one anoths
gas man looked in one of I
and saw ropes lying ON Il
board; he told me there mr
been a necktie party. While
ing coffee 1 noticed a lare
blue sedan pass by with fiv
in it, going north. The So
passed us up again while v
riding on the lumber wagol
towards Kewanee (soutl).
looked everybody over, but "
able to recognize us, because
overallS and a different HI
johnson looked the other way
looked part of the wagon
got the license number of d
Check Up On Kidnapp,
From there we walked
Kewanee, got a ride on a i
wagon carrying old lumber, {
last lap of about 10 miles We
ride in an automobile. In K
we Immediately got busy chez
all who got kidnapped, etc.
all of them together finally.
meanwhile some local boys, '
Of the kidnapping, got John
going without his keys Q
scouting for US; but came ,
the place where we met, s
were alive. After checking I
brief the following took place:
and johnson, kidnapped and /
Williams and Popejoy, kid
but not beaten because the.
the hoodlums or thugs, as t
were local people. McNaugl
beaten at the north gate of tn
Che also lives in Kewanee, s
the workers took his part, az
hoodlums were unable to g..
away One OF the local boy
to get the story in the X
paper, but they would not t
he got in touch with someon
the Peoria paper and was pr
they would put it in their pa T
after examining the car "
that it was rifled; all the leaf
were left gone and other pape.
ing; the car had been stand
3rd ST., two blocks away fro,
plant. We left Kewanee abo,
.. M, taking a different route
town as we had nothing to
ourselves with. The local boy
were helping us, are very
rolled UP about the whole thing
are spreading the story all over
They want something done abol
They will cooperate fully WI,
Furthermore, I have witnesse
saw me when I came to the
house. The truck-driver, the :.
and his help, the gas station
and the boys from Kewanee.
The lynch mob was organii
the company bosses, leading
hoodlums, all working at the
worth, some of the hoodluIns'
are: Tom HARDWOOD, Red Mil.
Mass, Boss Garlane, TrenarJ
Spider Wagner. Judging by the
names they carry dncluding ST.
the company couldn't pick
ones. In the meantime the locs
will uncover more and get ado
OF the hoodlums. I have be
touch with the LID. and the
Liberties Union. Pictures an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
ST. LOUIS LAUNDRIES
BY a Laundry Worker Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-The Atlas Laun-
dry is paying the same as other
laundries, II rs; SO hours to so hours
a week No overtime pay. Strair'"t
daily wage of 81 to SIPS. To get
rs cents extra you must be an old
timer in the laundry.
The Negro workers are more ex-
plotted than the white workers. Those
that work in the hot room on the
mangles get 10 cents an hour work
ing actually 80 hours week, $50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20


of our enemies, it seems that the
time is oVer-ripe.
In this territory kansas City,
with a large Negro population and
strong southern traditions. agents of
Japanese Imperialism have become
active, organizing the Negro masses
into g reactionary movement sup
porting Japan as the international
spokesman of the darker races. Hang
ing to the tail of this movement
(Which has grown mushroom-like)
are various shades of Negro mislead-
ers, preying on the national aspira-
lions OF the Negro people for sup
port of schemes all the way from
establishing separate national econ
omy to begging for colony some
where between Texas and Mexico. "
These delnagogues are not only
mulcting the Negro people out Of
meagre pennies, but are paralyzing
the real fight for Negro liberation
and for the every day fight for equal
rights, against the white imperialist
Jim crow system.
DIT. Yamato, the Japanese agent. is
organizing solely for the ''inJerna-
tional movement of darker peoples. :"
A Negro faker, who claims to be
an Indian from the territory, puts
forward the plan for a delegation
10 Washington TO demand "the money
owed to the slaves for the long term
- ~ =, -
claims to build a Negro territory
along the Rio Grande."
Aims of Movement
In both instances the movement
is aimed at stopping the trend of
the Negro people toward the Com
munist movement, in support of the
Soviet Union (the doctor pictures
the Soviet Union as white ma
tion"). However, the latter aims at
protecting the rights of the white
imperialists to rob the Negroes, and
keeps the Negroes from struggling
for the rich territory known as the
Black Belt. But this strange twin
plan for national and international
politics has grown fast. And it has
grown because the opponents of these
plans have understood the national
aspirations Of the Negro people.
There are certain lessons for us in
this. It is plain from the activities
Of these takers and miSleaders that
there Is, with the deepening of the
crisis and the more intensified Of
fensive against the Negroes under
the NRA, north and south, a rising,
growing national spirit among the
Negroes. And what stands out more
SO is that the petty bourgeois re-
fo1u1ists realize the bankruptcy of
the black to Africa" slogan, raising
the slogan OF "self-determination
through the back door" Up to now
We have raised the slogan OF Self
discrimination for the Black Belt"
more IN propaganda form without
the organizational steps to carry
through the realization of it. In
fact, many leading comrades have
argued that this slogan would not
be understood and accepted by the
Negro masses. But is it not now
time? Are not the Negro masses
voting for the realization, the con-
firntataon Of this slogan in life? Are
not the conditions of life for the
Negro masses under American imper-
ialisn and the growing struggles of
the workers sufficient evidence that
now is the time to unleash on the
robbers this giant mastiff, the Negro
liberation movement? The Negro
masses are answering this question,
"Yesl" daily.
Bat rust like Unemployment In
saEznce Bills, We are not now the
only ones m the field with the de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
SUPPORT FOR THE VETS
New York,

Comrade Editor:
Comrades, why don't the workers
organizations support the Veterans?
Why are the vets always in front in
every demonstration We have in the
city of New York, but the workers
don't support the veterans?
A World War Veteran.
THE above letter raises a very
serious question. Workers organ
nations must support the strug-
giles of the veterans, who are an
inrportan factor in the working
class struggIe.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
IOWA MINERS

M. d. w., Davenport, lave have
carried considerable material on the
Iowa miners recently. We could an
swer more fully if we had your ad-
dress
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20
Prudential Co.'s
Dire Need Dept.
Another Racket
Policy Holders Made to Go Through All Sorts
of Red Tape to Get Back Some of Their
Own Money and Then They Don't Get 1t
BY a Worker Correspondent

CORONA L. Ii would like to call attention practices
held policies from this both of which
ten the authorized time that