davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1933-03-22

Furless coats have a noncha.
liant smartness! Slim body lines,
squared shoulders, subtle details.
In exquisite Gorham grey, taffy
beige, black, Corsair or dawn
blue. Of fine wool crepes and
Forstrnann's famous Sarta. And
little women! SPECIAL styles
for you-slimming and flattering
though you've broad hips and
are very short. All sizes.
LEFT. Dramatic style in F0rst-
mann's Sarta. Schiaparelli's ro-
mantle sleeves and wide scarf
SATIN trimmed.
CENTER. Another Sarta derives
its chic from scanning on back and
sleeves, and large disc buttons.
SECOND FLOOR-LANSBURGHs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Messenger Boys
Unite to Fight
Overtime Trick
BY Messenger Correspondent

NEW YORK CITY-We messengers
change our clothes at the wardrobe
on Al East 18th st. In talking over
our problems we find that the COM
pany is preparing to order us to work
long hours on the three days before
Christmas as well as on Christmas
Day. The trick is to send us to re-
Sidential offices to work after we have
already worked hours.
Last year / worked Is hours in
Brooklyn the day before Christmas
and earned $1.05 because the section
was new to me and 1 was paid on
commission. Ten other boys at the
same Office earned a few cents more.
The dispatcher sends more boys than
are needed because, being on commits
sion basis, there is not any extra ex-
pense to the company.
We messengers decided TO refuse to
work elsewhere than our regular office
unless we are paid a guarantee of rs
cents an hour and IS cents an hour
for each hour overtime. Also IS cents
an hour on Christmas Day.
Two years ago the company paid
80 cents an hour on Christmas Day
when the boys refused to work for
less. We can win again by organized
action. Pass the slogan along!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22

wood who, in fact, helped organize
the strike on the Muneric and they
quickly exposed these rats and the
crew run the zone Big Union" (7)
off the ship.
During all the 27---tlle Muneric is
the 28th-strikes led by the M. w.
I. u, not in one single instance did
the I. W. W. offer a single picket to
help win these strikes.
While these despicable creatures
join with Che shipowners in SANDER
ing the M. w. I. u, which today is
without question established in the
eyes of the seamen as the only or
ganization which consistently fights
in their interest, they are always so
low and ready to use the splendid
achievements of the M. w. /. U. In
order to lead the sea1nen astray and
disrupt their progress which Is lead
ing to better conditions and wages.
For the benefit Of the zone big
union" I want to inform them that
after they were properly run off the
ship three men lined up In the M.
w. I. u, and the whole crew is a
prospect for the first payday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Federal Relief
Head Orders War
ON the Homeless
BY a Worker Correspondent

=
AMARILLO, Texas. Federal RE
lief" Administrator Harry L. hopkins
has sent to the management officials
of all railroads in the United States
q decree in which he asks that they
cooperate with his department In
making effective a ruling which will
become operative Jan. ! that will
prevent riding on freight and pas
senger trains of the United States
persons who are not holders of tickets
or who are not employees of the road
over which they are riding.
Under the pretense that "the de-
preston is waning and employment is
again becoming normal" the govern
nlent has decided to put a stop to
the indiscrininate riding of freights,
etc. The corrollary of this will, of
course, be that our told-time friend,
the Railroad Dick, will again be re-
stored to his full power and glory, to
work in conjunction with the local
police force which will meet all train
arrivals with the hurry up wagon to
escort such culprits to the county
jail; and, in some case, where the fee
system and the county jail feeding
is done under contract by the jailer
at eXhorbitant rates for board, these
men will be taken before the mag
istrate or squire" who will get his fee
for the trial" of the defendants.
In the South the chain gangs will
profit by those who are turned over
to the contractor road builders who
pay the county SO cents day for
ccnvict labor.
III other parts, the quota patrolmen
and the jailors who throw the victim
in for a nights lodging and breakfast
of coffee and" and then charge the
city for 70 hours board and lodging
after ordering the victim to beat 1t"
from town as soon as released, will
all profit.
In his statement, administrator
Hopkins says that proper arrange
ments will be made at local concen-
tration camps to take care of all who
fall into the clutches Of the law in
violation Of his decree.
When a man who cannot get work
c1U ilOlllC 10 AOiCCQ ukJOli C1iC lOdQ 1llO
is bounded and subject to fine as a
misdemeanor-as Hopkins says he
will be under his ruling even for
asking an automobilist for a ride;
when the very fact that shabbily
dressed individual is seen on the
streets by a city policeman will be
prima facie evidence that he is
sbum" and subject to arrest--what
are we going to do about 1t? Submit
to this Hitlerism quietly, or start such
a vigorous protest throughout the
nation that organized workers in the
transportation departments, friends
of labor and humanitarians will flock
to our support and help us Illustrate
these plans Of the dollar-a-day wage
autocrats Of these government
agencies?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22

known fact that these lousy condi-
others that we know of.
Only through reading the Daily
Worker we found out that the COM
pany was compelled to pay some mes
sengers 20 cents an hour for soliciting
holiday greeting and delivery of spe-
cial errand services.
The motor men in our office re-
ceived an increase in schedule which
was never even mentioned to the
bicycle boys. Our manager is a Simon
Legree Of the messengers and office
force.
For S. week top pay we are forced
to display the sign which advertises
the comapny. Recently boy in our
office had his bicycle stolen upon
which the sign was displayed. He
not only had to buy bike but had
to pay the company for the stolen
sign.
We don't get our vacation any more
which had been promised us after
one years service.
We are with the other offices in
organizing a committee to maintain a
decent living salary. How about the
rest of you fellows in other offices?
To the Editor:
We are thankful to know that there
is one paper that is backing us up
in our fight for our rights.
A COUPLE OF HARD
WORKING MESSENG GERS,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Xmas Brings Post Office
Workers Bigger Speed-up
Holiday Work Means
Very Little Money
for Extras

NEW YoRK-Things in the post
Office are worse now than before the
MIRA. started.
AS a letter CARRIER, / visit large
variety of business houses and in
speaking to the workers find that
they also would like to know what
the N.R.A. means to them. In fact
most OF them openly laugh at the
MIRA. and knock it for all 1t is
worth. Even managers and bosses adj
nit the N.R.A. is a flop.
In the post Office all work is being
condensed and some trips Of mail
delivery and some collections from
the corner boxes have been eliminated
entirely.
The regulars, besides getting a 1870
cut are bounded and greatly over
worked. The subs are making starva-
ton wages and are hanging around
IA to Is hours a day, getting paid
for only a few hours.
Now that it is nearing Xmas, there
are less ships coming in from the
other side and plenty Of those that
do come in fail to bring the usual
amount of Xmas mail. 1t is very light
and naturally plenty of help is not
needed. Yet, according to the news
papers, thousands of extra men will
be put to work.
Arrangements are being made to
put on this extra help for the holi-
days. This extra help will be limited
to 10 hours a day. IF they make
carfare and lunch money, they will
be doing well.) The large army Of
subs have their troubles getting along,
so what can these extras make? The
Xmas rush last year was flop, but
this year it is beginning worse than
ever.
The postal workers are openly
squawking about the speed-up, the
cuts, and the bounding. This open
squawking is something unusual in
the post Office. We are getting wise
to these phoney unions where we
have been contributing dummies all
these years and few racketeers on
top did all the steering.
How about you who are reading
this letter doing your part by ls.tting
into the habit of giving your Daily
Worker to a postal worker?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Wireless Operators at Strike Meeting
Stirred by Report on USSR Conditions
Applaud Speaker Who Answers Attack on
Marine Workers Industrial Union


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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Maintenance Union
Head Talks Big But
Allows Starvation Pay
Ely Railroad Worker Correspondent

Ely a Railroad Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, lfich.-The collabora-
tion of church and labor misleaders
with the capitalists in betraying the
workers is clearly depicted TO Detroit
workers in a picture and aTf'5icse in
the Detroit News of Dec. 5th.
Pictured together were Elmer E.
Mailman, representing the railway
maintenance of way workers, confer
ring with a Catholic Dean and Charles
T. Vinegar, of the Chrysler Cor.
(Chrysler Is the Detroit automobile
representative of Kuhn, Loeb 81 Co.,
and it was Chrysler who gave $4,000
last spring to q fascist group, IL others
Of whom gave $1,000 apiece, to lobby
for repeal of the antitrust laws and
increasing sales taxes to take the
place of the income taxes in the
higher brackets.
Leo e. Keller, statistician of the
Maintenance of Way employees, with
national headquarters in Detroit, pre-
sented the workers case as follows:
"a new social order is in the max
ing, and, provided they have the in
telligence to do so, employers and en-
ployees can be of great service to one
another in meeting the new condi-
TONS"
Read this statement again and find
this union leaders plea for the low
est paid section of railroad labor. In
Michigan. railroad section-men get
ting 40c an hour were laid off, others
put on part time, three days week,
and unemployed section men, brake
men, clerks, firemen were hired as
extra gangs, doing the work of the
regular men but at zoe per hour!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Railroads Safety Rules
Nothing But A Spy System
Real Causes of Accidents, However, Are Not
Eliminated by Company

How does the company live up TO
Safety First? Platforms with broken
planks and holes in them in dark
places in the yards, where many men
work, loose planks that flip up and
catch the next man in the shin.
Heavy trucks have to use these and
the carefulness of the men has
avoided thousands Of accidents.
Rubt sh cans in dark places, three
inches and less from the side of NOV
ing trains, material between tracks,
loose ratings on stairways, and YER
bal orders to trains where written
should be given to avoid misunder-
standing.
Editors Note: Another vicious fac
tor in this Safety Rules system, aside
from its being an efficient spy sys-
tenn for the company, is that it makes
it possible for the company to make
a railroad worker take the rap when
it comes to criminal persecution in
case of accidents due to overwork or
speed-up.
A union on the job would protect
the men from such persecution by
the companies. The Brotherhoods
and the A. F. of L. unions now OPP
Grating in the railroad shops, make
no effort to remedy these evils.
Therefore it is up to the rank and
file members of the union to Or
ganize their own committees within
their locals, or on the job, to force
action by their officials, or to force
action by organization on the job,
against the most outstanding
grievances.
The Railroad Brotherhood Unity
Movement, at 80 E. 18th St, New
York City, Is an organization of rank
and file members of all unions COW
ering the railroad workers, no matter
what affiliation, working toward the
end of fighting for redress CT
grievances of this kind, and we ur-
gently advise the workers in the
Jamaica shops to get in touch with
this Movement. The National head
quarters of this Movement are at 208
N. Wells, Room 300, Chicago, Ill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Bronx Coop to Have
a Full Page Greeting
i'm Jan. 9Th Daily

NEW YORK. -The Bronx Co
operative has reserved a whole
page OF the Jan. s anniversary edi-
ton Of the Daily Worker for It's
revolutionary greeting to tn e
American workers on the tenth
anniversary of our paper.
Several pages will be taken up
with greetings from units Of the
Communist Party.
Party units, trade unions, mass
organizations, will your name and
greetin appear in this issue2 A
minimum OF 100000 copies viii be
printed. At least 100000 readers
who never before read the Daily"
will read the anniversary edition.
Make sure your name and greeting
will be in it. All greetings must
be in our hands by Dec. 80.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
UNITE AND FIGHT

A reader in Barnhart, Tex, sends
us an excerpt from a bulletin called
wall Street published as far back
as March j, 1892. Among other things,
it has this to say:
Alliance and Knights of Labor
(millitant working class organizations
of that time.-Ed) in the United
States should be carefully watched
by our trusted men. One must take
immediate steps to either control
these organizations or disrupt them.
Capital must be protected in
every possible manner through COM
bination and legislation. The Courts
must be called to their aid. Debts
must be collected. Lands and mort
cages must be foreclosed as rapidly as
possible.
when through the process of law,
the common people have lost their
homes, they will be more tractab-e
and easily governed. A people
without homes will not quarrel with
their rulers. :. 4. The people must be
kept in condition of political an
tagcnisn. BY thus dividing the
voters we can get them to expend
their energies fighting each other
over questions Of no Importance to
us, except as teachers to lead the
common herd. Thus, by discreet &C
ton, we can secure all that has been
SO generously accomplished.
This bulletin, the reader adds, was
never intended to be read by the
working class 1t was mailed to en-
ployers Of labor.
Divide and Rule'--the old stand
by Of the ru&ng classes. Many hum
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
~ Doctor
>[IZEEGHsQed
0dUfA6:j

we should advise you to have yosn,~
self examined as we are unable to
reach a definite diagnosis by mail.
We see no reason for you to continue
to go to the clinic. Thanks for your
willingness to contribute to the Daily
Worker funds In the future.
Kidney Trouble?
Pasquale A., Akron, O.-From your
description, it does not seem as II the
lady has kidney trouble. There might
be some trouble with the Fallopiar
tubes and she might be unwilling I'd
tell you about it. If you could send
her hospital records, it would help {
lot towards diagnosis. IT unable
to obtain the records, try to get the
lady to write to us herself; she might
tell us some things that she cannot
tell you.
Krushen and Jad Salts
Douglas r., Provincctown.-An ar
ticle on these salts will appear in .
few days in the Daily Worker. watch
for It.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22

BY Railroad Worker Correspondent
JAMAICA, L. According to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
fatal accidents increased in 1882 over
1881. In 1881, on the Penn. r. r.,
safety First Rules" were taught, but
the new spy system was not intro
duced until 1882.
The Assistant Yard Masters are
now compelled to report at least one
violation of Safety Rules a month.
He must report one of his own men,
and he must be given a reprimand,
or a suspension of day or two, or
a week or two. Several Assistant
Yord Masters were taken out of SER
vice for failing to rat on their men.
There are over 200 Rules in the
Safety First Book. Here is q sample
of the rules
rule 21O2-Take proper posi-
tion on car as indicated by type of
brake to be operated. Have firm
foot and hand holds to prevent
slipping and falling, sprain or strain
from losing hold, footing or bal
ance@
Now. every move you make must
be according to the rules, Safety,
Book of Rules and Special Instruc-
tions. Instead of your mind being
on your work, you think of the new
rules, and the Ghost behind you
ready to rat on you and cause your
suspension.
Twenty-Five years of service with
out single accident has no bearing
on the case. You are careless any
way. The Brotherhood and Whitney
at the head will do nothing. ANY ac-
cident some unfortunate may have
is q violation of Safety Rule. Care
lessness is given as the cause.
Officials, from the Superintendent
to Assistant Yard Masters, continu-
ally violate any number of Safety
Rules, Reports were made and
thrown into the nearest waste basket
and the employe censured for his
audacity Of reporting q superior.
I do not wonder at the increase in
accidents under these Czar-like con-
ditions. I know the dread the men
work Under.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
Terminal Station
Full of Disease
Breeding Dust
BY q Post ONCE Correspondent

BY Post Office Correspondent
NEW YORK; am a regular post
ofice clerk working in one Of the
terminal stations In New York. With
the Christmas rush almost on us,
/ know that the tabloid newspapers
are going to show happy smiling
clerks" handling the increase in mail
ccincident with this holiday. Nothing
can be further from the truth!
A mere glancs at the insuferable
conditions in oar station will bear
this out. Our building has very poor
ventilation. In winter We freeze; in
summer we roast.
While we are boxing up the mail,
We wear only a sweater or an apron.
Suddenly the door Is opened, truck
load Of mail comes In, and we are
assailed with terrific draught Of
cold air. This is repeated every five
minutes.
On top of this, the foremen who
are carrying out the orders of the
big bosses are so intent on speeding
rs up that they frequently display
the most complete indifference to
the physical welfare Of the worker
For example. we are working on the
''fsce-up" table. Above, so sacks are
besng piled up. These empty bags
must be dropped on a waiting truck
Just in back of lis. Rather than have
Us stop work for a minute or two
to get out Of the way of the falling
sacks, the foreman lets the sacks drop
without warning us.
Air Filled With Dust
Moreover, the air in our place is
always filled with the fine dust raised
by the cancelllng machines and the
handling of the mail sacks. Every
now and then the shop Is cleaned
with blowers so that the layers Of
dust will not pile un too high in one
place. At such times, everyone is
treated to a nice sneeze producing
Gust hath.
Doctors say that miners and post
once workers have a common physi-
cal aiimsnt, i.e., their lungs are lined
black with dust. Many q worker has
contracted pulmonary diseases at
work, while sinus trouble is gen
eral condition among us.
The Daily Worker is the paper for
all post Office workers because it ex-
POSES our real enemies, the real
forces that are behind the furloughs
and pay-cuts-the millionaires in the
National Economy League. L have
written about our miserable working
conditions to the capitalist press, but
since they are controlled by those
same class interests, they have natu-
rally refused to print my letters.
I have interested some OF the clerks
IA our station in the Daily" and
they are beginning to look forward
to the paper-especially on Monday,
because it seems that Monday is Post
Office Day iii the Daily Worker. I
wish that all post ONCE clerks in the
United States, regulars and subs,
would food the Daily with letters
about their conditions. Last Mon
day there was nothing printed about
the post office, and weren't all the
fellows Disappointed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22

TA3re i--,s already been a
deluge Of replies to Comrade
J. RS request for a suitable
home for his little girl. Ut
gives one 9 sort of heartache to see
low many workers want child, or
another child, in their honest These
replies are being turned over to Com
rade J. f. Immediately.
The many comrades who will neces-
CARLY not receive the little girl must
not feel too grievously disappointed.
a. factor affecting Comrade j. RS
decision will no doubt be that Of
locality mean he will want his
daughter as near him as possible.
Strike rfo cct'' Nov Goes On
the Road"
Here is another letter specially con-
corning our younger generation:
Dear Coinrade Luke:
We have message to bring to
! working class children which your
4 column could most efficiently send
out. viii you play bugler for those
who stand always ready for the
cause of the working class''? 1t Is
about n. A. Potan1kin's cperetta,
Strike Ne Red"
During Christmas week, the same
10 Negro and white children who per
formed at City College so success
July, will again enact the operetta
in four different parts Of the city,
tor neighborhood children primarily.
Brooklyn: Monday, Dec. as
Brownsville Labor Lyceun, 219 Sack
man st.
Harlem: Wednesday. Dec. z7-rin-
nish Hall, n w. i26th st.
Bronx: Thursday, Dec. 2s-2075
Fulton st.
Manhattan: Friday, Dec. 29-Man-
haitian Lyceum, 66 e. Fourth st.
All performances will take place at
? pm. Tickets for children are only
five cents. adults, Is cents.) Child
iaborers WIN be contacted and sd-
nitted free. Adults are asked to buy
children's tickets and hand them over
to bcotbIacks and newsboys.
We wish to advise the cornrade who
wants the pumpernickel recipe that
after considerable research, we failed
to find one suitable for home use,
though large-sized bakers formulas
IRE readily available. A couple OF
comrade bakers say that 1t Is very
difficult TO make at home. However,
Q friend has faithfully promised us
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
NOTE

Every Friday, we publish letters
from workers In all branches of the
transportation indussties-railroad,
marine, surface lines, subway, ele-
waited lines, express companies,
truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc.
and from the communication in
dustries-post Office, telegraph, ra-
dio, etc.
We urge workers from these in
dustries to write lis of their con-
ditions of work, and their struggles
to organize. Please get these let
tiers to us by Tuesday OF each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22
MUST ORGANIZE FOR RELIEF
BY = Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK-As an unemployed
worker In the United States for the
past three years, have been resid-
ing at my sisters and brothers home
for this length of time. + am very
thankful for their confidence In me.
I hope to repay them some day.
I am a blaster's helper by trade.
also know how to run rock drill.
I've worked on subway and railroad
construction jobs, blasting rock, etc.
If the workers in the United States
would organize, I say within "a hours
the ruling class would rush relief at
once, including unemployment insur-
anca-