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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21

Resolution and Plan of, Work
Adopted by Unit II, Sec. 5, NY.
|. The unit picks for its concen-
tration the territory between 165th
st. and Home ST., Union and Pros
pect Ave, populated mostly by Ne
gro workers,
2, 1t aims to establish in this ter
rl;cry by Election Day a function
ing Block Committee having its
basis in House Committees in at
least i've houses.
8, The aim of the Block Com
mites is to organize the workers in
the territory on the basis of a strug-
gle against evictions, for relief for
the needy, against the rising cost
of living, against high rent discrim-
nation against Negroes, for unity of
white and Negro workers, employed
and unemployed.
4. We pledge during this period
concentration point at least five
members, of which three are to be
Negroes.
5. We further pledge that by
Election Day our unit will sell in
its territory at least 10 copies of the
Daily Worker per day.
6. For the purpose of improving
the inner life of our unit we shall
organize on a permanent function
ing basis Study Circles, hold peri
odic discussions, convince the men,
bers OF our unit of the necessity of
reading regularly the Daily Worker
and the Communist, discuss in our
unit the work in the concentration
involving every member of our unit
in the practical work of concentra-
ton.
7. On literature we pledge to sell
at least eight copies of each of the
Communist and Imprecorr, and to sell
in the territory 100 copies of every
one and two-cent pamphlet issued
by the Party.
Q. In order to carry this plan out
we request that the Section Commit
tee ihstructs G. Sherry to consider
the unit concentration work his ma
jor Party activity. We further re-
quest that the Section Committee
tnstructs G. Bruce to attend regu-
larly our unit meetings and in addi-
ton devote to our concentration
work at least one evening a week,
Otherwise we do not assume respon-
siblity for carrying out the plan of
our concentration work.
Unit IL, Section 5,
r. Vein, Organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
How to Improve the
Unit Resolution

This resolution and plan of work
shows the good intention of the
comrades of Unit No. IL, and is
an encouraging sign of an earnest
attempt to apply the Open Letter.
A serious weakness of the reso-
luton is the fact that it shows
lack of confidence in this unit.
This is seen in the pledge of draw
ing in only five Party members
during the election period. Why
only five members? Don't we be-
lieve that the situation is ripe to
build Unit IL into a mass unit,
that the situation is ripe to sell
In the territory of the unit more
than 10 copies of the Daily
Worker? We do not oppose the
idea that we shall start bringing
the sale of the Daily Worker to
10 copies a day, but our outlook
must be for a greatly increased
circulation. Further, do not the
comrades believe that their re-
quest to the Section Committee of
instructing one comrade to attend
regularly the unit meeting and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
Vegetable Pickers Get
Starvation Pay,ButAre
Charged N.R.A. Prices

INDIANOPIS, Ind.-The Indian
apolis Vegetable Growers, a mem
Der of the association and a mem
Der of the NRA, works labor at
starving wages at day work. Those
laborers pick tomatoes at 10 cents
an hour and II. and IL hours day,
and those picking beans get paid
by the hundred from S. cents up
to 81 a hundred pounds and all
you can pick is 100 pounds and
they work you from six in the
morning until six at night, and
they belong to MIRA, and when you
go to buy anything they have for
sale you have to pay NRA prices,
A man who worked on the farm
of the Indiana State Insurance
House was fired recently because
he did not belong to the Demo-
cratic Party, although he had been
on that job nine years.
Two workers here, Sanford Civ
ms and Albert Wells, that have
worked for the Peoria and Eastern
Railroad Co. for II years, got laid
off, and they said two more were
going to get it, and for this month
they only get IA hours and got
to pay rent and buy food out of
that for 80 days,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
Law Makes 1t Crime
to Give OrangeCulIs
toStarving Workers
BY a Worker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES. Cal.-The New
Deal is not working out very well
here for the fruit pickers. Many OF
them are hard put to make 10 cents
to $150 per day, even when they
work, which is about half-time. The
price paid is cents to AZ cents per
box, and through the fact that groves
are poorly cared for it is impossible
to gather more than Is to 40 boxes
day.
Orange culls are now being de-
stroyed instead of marketed. Tons
and tons are dumped on the ground
70 rot. From the standpoint of cal
cries these are just as good as any
marketed. The poor classes here could
buy these culls from about is cents
to rs cents per peck, but now they
are out Of luck as it is a statutory
offense to market them, under the
New Deal"
According to statistics broadcast by
various investigators, docking to the
most healthy diet for children as
well as adults, orange juice is really
a necessity. If such is the case it
should be considered a crime for
growers and marketing organizations
to wantonly destroy one of the real
necessities of life.
There is a heated controversy here
as to how many hours constitute a
work day among the men working on
the county welfare jobs. The men are
gwen tickets calling for a certain
number of days work for the month.
Single men without dependents are
given from five to IL days per month
at 40 cents per hour. Married men
are given tickets calling for from is
to 80 days per month at 40 cents per
hour
At first all the men worked an
eight-hour day but now the bosses
have reduced their days to four hours
at the same 40 cents per hour.
The workers are calling for show
down, maintaining that if they are
reduced to four hours per day that
they should have twice as many days.
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then devote to the concentration
work of the unit at least one eve
ming week is an exaggerated de-
mand? Exaggerated for the simple
reason that if the section buro Is
composed of five comrades and the
units in the territory are "a, there
is the physical impossibility that
five comrades shall be divided
among "a units which meet during
the same night.
Yes, while 1t is correct that a
member Of the Buro shall help In
the concentration work of the
unit, the categorical request and
statement of throwing response
biiity on the section committee for
an eventual failure, shows lack of
confidence in the unit itself of be-
ing able to carry out its concen-
tration task, and it also shows
lack of initiative.
ORG. DEPARTMENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
MEET THEM ON THE JOB
Bronx. N. Y

Comrade Editor:
There are some who think 1t adj
visable, in any, workers struggle, to
avoid the cries Of Reds" and Com
munist.' Your editorials for Aug. "a,
25, take the proper stand against
such an attitude. Such an attitude
means surrender of principles. I
suggest that the Party leaders should
bring this matter up to the attention
of units, and that it should be in
cluded in the. discussions on the Open
Letter.
The fur strike at Gloversville, N. Y.
reported in Daily" Aug. 25) is a
good example of how the red scare
should be combatted during strike
suggest the following: When a
mass meeting is held after strike
declaration, the workers are very
tense. At any time during their
strike they are also eager about strike
news. It is therefore very psyche
logical moment, when at the mass
meeting, TO tell the worker that all
strike news will appear in the Daily
Worker.
| am a furrier. I am ashamed to
say that at the headquarters of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union there isn't a Daily or, even q
Freiheit for sale or on show. Neither
could get one tif I didn't subscriber
on Seventh Ave. from 3oth st. to
37th St.
At lunch time the workers swarm
from the factories into the street. If
Party comrades wish to reach the
working people, this is the time.
Only once did see a worker make
collections for the Anti Fascist Week.
By showing himself among the work.
ers, this comrade not only got con-
tributions, but he showed that the
Party is living, and the flesh and
bone OF the workers themselves.
Class-consc workers should re-
member that they should meet the
working mass at or about their work,
and not only when they demonstrate,
or at Union Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21

Living expenses in the meantime
have been increased about twenty
per cent.
Last year the canneries paid
their women who peel, core and
split the pears in half, 10 cents a
box, weighing 40 pounds per box.
The women could work ego as
you please" This year the MIRA.
says you must pay q cents an
hour for no more than eight hours
per day. The forewomen tells
every applicant that she must peel
and core "a boxes per day, after
three day "breaking-in" period,
or be laid off.
$2.16 a Day Only for Experts.
Beginners usually make six or
sexen boxes the first day and in
crease to Is or 20, by the third
day. Only experts can qualify for
these $2.16 a day positions. The
others may return home and pa
tiently await the next New Deal"
The season only lasts about two
months and very few packing
houses operate more than four or
five hours per day.
Work begins at 7:30 and goes
without intermission in this fac
tory until IL noon; half an hour
for lunch and quit at four No
time for drink of water or any
thing else on the belt.
Last year, hops sold for 10 cents
pound and 40 cents a hundred
was paid for picking. This year,
the whole crop has been sold in
advance, as it stands in the fields,
for SO cents pound but the hop
spectators are paying 80 cents
a hundred for picking. This in
dustry is not yet coded. Possibly
Mr.. Johnson, overlooked the (new)
beer industry! aE
Even in California cities pears
sell at an average price Of 4 cents
a pound, in retail stores. A 40
pound box would cost $1.60 cents.
Until capitalism shall have been
abolished we will continue to pay
to Intermediates the difference
between total production cost Of
81 cents for q 40 pound box and
the consumers price of $1.60
-Crandau Miller.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
THE DAILY" IN JAIL
Allegheny County Jail, Pa.

Comrade Editor:
Was delighted to read that the
Daily" was increasing its size. On
the outside one does not realize what
grip the Daily has on himself
and workers.
There is one copy coming here to
this Jail, and so far l have been able
to trace that copy to IS workers. One
worker is as pleased as punch If he
gets the paper 10 days late instead
Of IA, which it usually is for him, as
the others all want to keep it one
night.
To give an instance: A worker was
reading about the strike in Fayette
County in capitalist paper. He had
just finished; then he turned to me
and asked: What has the Daily got
to say about this strike? want the
truth, and that's the only paper that
tells it, the way see things
I am writing these few lines to
ask the workers to stand by the
Daily" in its biggest venture since
| its birth.
Revolutionary greetings to the big
ger workers Daily" Let's have a
bigger circulation.
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cents to 40 cents an hour and Is to
10 cents box, on piece work, for
picking, and this year, even with the
rising cost of living, they we're going
to pay the same as last year.
The strikers are being organized
into the Cape Cod Cranberry Pickers
Union. The union demands 30 cents
an hour for men and 10 cents for
women on day work, and IS cents q
box on piece work for pickers and
so cents an hour for other labor
Many of the biggest boys are out
on strike. The strikers have been 60
ing around in big gangs to different
boys getting the workers to strike.
Some have returned to work, but
most of them have stayed out.
In South Carver, four of the strik-
erS were wounded when the bog own
er shot one man in the hand. Then
special police guards wounded three
more.
Five were arrested there, and So of
them were held when they went to
Middleboro.
The strikers did not have any wea-
pons, as some Of the local papers
claimed.
All the arrested we're bailed out by
their friends and members Of the
union, who had their homes as Sc
curity. Their cases will be taken up
the 25th of this month In court. The
bail set for most of them was SIS and
few were from 500 to $1,000.
A Cranberry Picker.
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from this region annually and
more than three million people are
actively engaged q propagating,
picking, packing AMI shipping this
product to all parts of the globe.
In addition to these millions may
be added several more thousands
of buyers, spectators and profit
mongers, who, while contributing
nothing to the wealth of the ma
ton, nevertheless appropriate to
themselves probably s. per cent of
the price which the Ultimate con-
sumer pays for these necessities
and luxuries of life.
When the NRA code was boosted
by the bosses as something that
would revolutionize the fruit and
vegetable industry, the propaga-
tors, pickers and packers enthusiast
tically acclaimed: Roosevelt will
make 'em do it," (equaize condi-
tions). They are now certain that
he has already done it,-although
not in exactly the same manner
they had expected.
Instead of the Big Stock being
the mailed fist behind the code,
they have discovered that the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce is the dy-
namo through which the power is
generated.
Last year the orchardists re-
ceived Is cents a box for folty-box
lots. These grove picking boxes
weigh SO pounds each. Thus, 40
boxes make a. ton and sell for Sc.
This year they get 40 cents,-or
SIC a ton.
Minimum Wage, the Standard Wage
Last year the ordchardists paid
about 8 cents a box for picking.
An average picker could gather
about 70 boxes in a day of ten
hours. This year Mira says the
orchardists must pay a minimum of
"a cents an hour and must not
work help more than nine hours.
The orchardist agrees to this but
tell the worker that he must pick
rs boxes a day or else get off
the job. The minimum wage has
practically now been made the
standard wage. Under this speed
up the workers received $2.16 this
year as against $2.10 last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
Shop Workers, Is Your Union
Doing Its Part for the daily

NEW YORK, N. "a call was is
sued by the city office of the Daily
Worker to all metal workers, needle
workers, food workers. and workers
in all shops and In all industries, TO
do their part in the $4,000 campaign
OF the DAILY WORKER.
ITO date, because Of the underesti-
nation Of the role Of the Daily Work
er by the leadership Of the unions,
We find that, with the exception Of
one or two shops, the drive to keep
the Daily Worker alive has not been
allowed to enter the shops o. unions,
and has not been made part Of
the everyday organizational work Of
the workers in the shops and fac
tories.
This appeal Is directed to you,
the worker in the shop, the member
Of the union, the member Of the
opposition group.
THE Daily Worker, In order to ex-
LIST, must come through this drive
with the full quota of 100000, and
an increase Of 100 per cent in circu-
lation.
we uree Cnat your SLOp, union or
group, do the following:
!. Write to your central body, pro-
testing the delay in entering this
drive.
/ 2. Circulate the collection lists
among the workers in your shop. (If
you have no collection lists, get them
at the City Office of the Daily Work.
er, IS East 18th ST.
8. Have your shop run an affair
for the Daily Worker.
Shop workers! Get behind the
'Daily"l Bring the Daily" to the
workers in your shop
use the Daily to help carry on
your everyday struggles"
Contributions for Tuesday, Sept. 10,
follow:
DISTRICT NO. 1
Ignateus Watchuck, Portland, Me- 500
Geo. p. George, Peabody, Mass. LIS
Total t2.iS
DISTRICT NO. >
M. vitoria, N. Y. 100
H. A. Stringer, N. Y. LOO
g. p. Unit. Camp Unity 500
Alec. p, Sustaining Fund, y. =. 100
Abe. Charlie and Miltie, n. Y. 100
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
"RevOlutiOnaryWOrk
Is the Task of the
Entire Membership"

AT the same time the Party
must carry on systematic Strug-
gle against the bureaucratic isola-
ton of the apparatus from the
Party masses, against the suppress
sion of inner Party democracy, for
the development of political life
in the lower organizations, par
ticularly in the factory nuclei, for
the development of thorough
going self-criticism, for the devel-
opment of initiative in the lower
organizations and for the i'm
provement of its functioning
cadres.
Every Party member, and espe-
cially every Party functionary,
must be a real organizer of mass
struggles in his particular sphere
Of work. From this standpoint,
the Party must judge the activity
Of its functionaries and must
choose its leading bodies. All lead
ing bodies, especially those in the
sections, must recognize their
work on the basis of the carrying
out of revolutionary mass work.
Revolutionary work is the task
Of the entire membership.
The secretaries of the leading
bodies in their work must not re-
place the work of the membership.
1t is their task to plan and or
ganize the work, together with the
members, to give the members
PRACTICAL assistance in carrying
out then tasks and to check up
on the carrying out of these tasks.
AS delegates to all Party confer
ences, section and district confer
ences, and above all to the Party
Congress, there must be elected
comrades who carry on active
mass work and who have distin-
guished themselves in mass strug-
glas.' From the Open Letter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
Letters From Farmer Correspondents
Worker Correspondents Play
Big Role in u. s. S. r.

Whn the National Committee for the Maxim Cork Plane Fund in
the Soviet Union arranged air circus the giant plane ANITA
August in connection with journalists the
newspapers and large magazines worker correspondents selected
to participate in the outing They the
OF activities over the period of the last three months
In the sowing campaign and the successful harvest the Soviet
Union the worker correspondents important They
the watch every
OF eng and sabotage the of the kuaks brought
light by them in their reports press
Every the
to read the letters coming
to correct the shortcomings them
appear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
By PAUL LUrFgNGsR, M.D.
Answer to Comrade Reeds Letter

Answer to Comrade Reeds Letter
The delay in replying to Comrade
Reeds letter is due to the numerous
urgent letters which keep pouring in
from every part of the country and
requiring Immediate attention. Prac-
tical, everyday problems must take
precedence over theoretical disserta-
lions. Let us consider Cofnrade
Reeds objections seriatims
First of all he claims that the
health column in the Daily Worker
Is a piece of capitalism creeping into
pages of the Daily" And why?
Because modern Medicine is "a prod
uct of our capitalistic schools This
is not logical because all our knowl-
edge, including the basic sciences
such as mathematics, biology, chem
istry, physiology, are products not
only of the capitalist system, but
their foundation was laid way back
in the middle ages, in Greece, in
Babylonia and even during the
periods of savagery and the stone
age. The sciences have followed the
laws of evolution and have lost
gradually their superstNious ele-
ments. Thus, astrology developed
into modern astronomy and chem
istry emerged from the gibberish Of
alchemy. The science of medicine
is following the same lines Of evolu-
ton and Soviet American will adopt
1t, just as Soviet Russia did, ire
spective OF It's "capitalistic origin
The day after the revolution vii
find the young generation studyine
the same geometry, the same algebra
and the same biology that we study
now. To refuse to use these sciences
would be equivalent to a refusal tc
use Ford tractors, Mccormick har-
vesters, the printing press or the
radio. Marx himself made use Of
the economics of the Manchester
school and the statistics collected By
the various governments
Under the present CAPT.
talist system, there is no doubt that
the average physician cannot or will
not apply the scientific principles fol
the furtherance Of the interests Of
the working class In Soviet Rus
STA these principles are applied fol
the promotion of the physical anc
mental welfare of the proletariat
Perhaps the reading of the Health
Column in the Daily Worker ha,
convinced Comrade Reed since hi
hastily wrote his letter (Aug. II,
that we are trying to do exactly
what our Russian comrades have
been doing.
We grant Conrade Reeds state
ment that the average income of the
physicians is only 5000 yearly. This
only proves that they really belong
to the exploited class and that theii
interests are identical with that OF
other workers. The ridiculous atti-
tude of the majority of physicians
who think that they are "above COM
mon workers." simply shows theil
ignorance; the same ignorance dis
played by some American workers
who consider themselves above for
eigners or Negroes.
1t is not true that there Is a Med
ical Trust. The rank and file
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
TENEMENT CHILDREN PLAY
eviction"

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE for
chile eviction Of workers families
has become SO common a sight in
the working class neighborhoods of
lower East Side, that the chill
en- now play g new game called
iction.' Miss Mary Ellery Gibbon
- the Children's Society reported
lay.
They no longer play the old
mes, they play eviction" she
i'd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
Nebraska Governor
Gets His Bonus Out
of Pig Destruction
(By a Farmer Correspondent

Wy q FARMER correspondent
OMAHA, Neb.-Governor Chas.
A. Bryant Melted $752.40 on 100
head of bonus hogs" at the South
Omaha stock yards. Governor
Bryan has several large tracts of
farm land and other real estate.
He lives in the city of Lincoln and
hires workers to labor on these
various enterprises in the country,
so that he can collect large profits
therefrom.
Another item of interest in re-
gard to Roosevelt Wallace hog
bonus campaign is the mystery of
the early information that specu-
lators received in regard to the
hog bonus going into effect. 1t
enabled many of them to steal a
march on the farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
CODE MINUS BLANKETS.
Eo ct ,C1,ioooo ia

Comrade Editor:
AS we see that the capitalist press
is beginning to fool the workers with
Roosevelt's blanket code"-but no
blankets-for the working class, and
at the same time, we see that the
best way to combat the ruling class
lies is by giving the working class,
the Daily Worker, which is the only
daily newspaper that clarifies the
workers mind, telling them how
Roosevelt, the bosses, the priests, the
gangsters and racketeers are prepar-
ing to attack the proletarian class.
1t is our duty to prepare the prole-
tarians against the bosses attacks.
So increase the bundle order with
8 more copies every day. IT. s.