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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
NRA Complaint Buro Never
Acts on Worker Grievances

The MIRA. complaint division just
folded up, and like the famous Arabs,
silently stole away.
And there was good reason for their
folding up. They were being flooded
with the complaints of the workers.
From every corner of the largest bor-
ough in the City of New York COM
plants came pouring in.
And SO the MIRA. complaint bureau
folded up. The workers complaints
were getting too hot for comfort.
Furthermore, these complaints, II
they ever became public would reveal
working conditions so utterly rotten
and degrading that it would hardly
make nice reading in q newspaper.
But the Daily Worker was visited
the other day by some workers In
the MIRA. offices who gave the whole
story away.
The Daily Worker now offers some
of the complaints made by trusting
workers to the NR.A. offices. These
are taken literally and exactly from
the records-just as they appear,
name, date, place, everything.
\ Not one of these complaints ever
received the slightest attention from
Roosevelt's expensive New York
N.R.A. complaint bureau.
First Case:-Working at the Silver
Quarter Rest-underpaid, works IL
hours day. No action taken.
Second case: a group of employees,
underpaid, working 1914 hours day
at the Fulton Coffee Shop, 2094 Full
ton ST. No action taken.
Third Case Works at the Fair
mont Food Co., 80 hours q week,
badly underpaid. No action taken.
Fourth Case :-Employed at the
Crawford's Mems Clothing, Is Man
haitian Ave. Salary cut to $40
from $45 because of the N.R.A. No
action taken.
Fifth Case Employed at Kaplan
and Abramson, 10l Broadway, gets
Sc a week for very long hours. No
action taken.
Sixth Working at the Sim
CO Shoe Company, 444 Fulton ST.,
salaries taken away, work only on
commission basis now. No action
taken.
There are hundreds of such cases.
Here are several more typical ones
of the blessings of the N.R.A.:
Woman employed at Dugan Bros.
Bakery, Brooklyn branch, rs hours a
week-No salary, only small commits
sions. No action taken by the MIRA.
complaint bureau.
A worker at the Struhls Busy
Bee, is Myrtle Ave, so hours week,
So pay. No action taken by the
MIRA.
A worker at the Steve Yervas Res
taurant, ISL Montague st. Long
hours at So month. No action taken
by the MIRA.
Most of these employers fly the
MIRA. Blue Eagle.
For example. the famous r. H.
Macy Store, with the so intimate adj
vertisements, don't you know. Look
at this case taken from the MIRA.
complaint book:
Employees work IL hours day at
the Long Island Warehouse. And
they get starvation wages.
Or the city-wide Howard Laundry,
where the workers get starvation
wages for working 81 hours week.
There are hundreds of such cases
thousands. =. The Daily Worker has
scores of such cases on record.
In not one instance has the MIRA.
Complaint Office taken the slightest
action.
And now that the Office has been
closed up? No action ever will be
taken.
What was there about the personnel
of the MIRA. that the exposure OF
these conditions of wage slavery were
quietly buried?
ITO be concluded Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

mittees in Allentown, Easton, and ma
tionally Of representatives of the
unions affiliated TO the A. F. of l..
(UT.Wo, the T.U.UL. (N.T.W.U),
and independent unions. In the Pitts
burgh district, joint action and pick
citing of the striking miners organ
lied into the A. F. of L. (U.M.W.A.),
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Brodsky in Bronx

Carl Brodsky, Communist election
campaign manager and candidate for
Assembly in the third district, Bronx,
will speak at an open-air rally to-
night at Claremont and Washington
Parkways.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

handing workers code of the thirty
hour week, a minimum wage for the
industry of $18 for unskilled: $50 for
semi skilled and $40 for skilled work
ers. The code enables the employers
to reduce wages in many cases."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14


A LONG line of workers used. to
n stand before the windows of the
Brooklyn, New York branch of the
MIRA.
They came there confidently. They
wanted to tell the NR.A. about the
miserable conditions in their shops.
The MIRA. would fix it, they were
sure.
Hadn't Roosevelt promised them
that the N.RA. would set up COM
plant division that would take care
of the workers interests?
And they believed Roosevelt's prom
ises, implicitly.
But there are no longer any lines
of workers standing in the swell
offices of the Brooklyn branch of the
MIRA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Brooklyn Election Meet.

Robrt Minor and Williana Bur-
roughs will speak at the Del Or
PalaiS, 4214 14th Ave, Brooklyn, to-
night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

This is the first of series Of two
articles on the inner workings of a
typical large N.R.A. complaint bu-
reau in the City of New York. The
series is based on wholly authentic
information supplied by an N.R.A.
worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

ITO be concluded Monday.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
Wheat Costs IS Gents

\A/ITH wheat prices lowering around the
w dollar marx, the farmer at last sees IN
opportunity to work his way out Of his DIM
culties and perhaps gain some ground against
the debt which has been piling up throush
several years Of improbable operation.
The Department Of Agriculture estimates
that the cost Of producing bushel Of wheat
averages around rs cents. This was cents
less than year ago. This cost includes COM
pensation for the farmer and such members
of his family as work and also allows for Q
fair return corresponding to rental for his land.
In other words, much of the excess between
the cost and the price received represent .
clear profit, for in the cost are carried SUM-
cient wages for the family to take care Of the
family living
s, Corn costs, based on the same system OF
figuring, were down to 40 cents . bushel and
cotton about cents a pound.
Evening star., 1933-08-06

In April, this year, for instance, on three
routes involving 80 round trips and 5000
mi1es of flying, the airmail went through
100 per cent of the time.
In the same month, on two long routes,
Chicago to San Francisco and New York
to Manu. each more than 2,900 miles,
with schedules calling for $50 round
trips and 100000 miles of flying, the
miles actually flown were 80 per cent of
those scheduled; on the Salt Lake City
to Seattle route, more than 1000 miles
by air, and with more than 100,0 900 miles
to be flown month, the performance
was more than 99h per cent of perfect.
The aifmail does 60 through! Less
than 4-100 Of per cent of the airmail
dispatched in IA years has been lost or
damaged, and for recent years the per-
centage of loss has been even lower This
is a testimonial, of course, to the re-
liability and safety of air travel as well
as ai1mail service. The fact Is that less
airmail has been destroyed since 1918
than was lost in the sinking Of one ocean
vessel the steamship Vestris.
The advancement made In aviation
through development Of the airmail
service is almost Unbelievable. IN point
Evening star., 1933-08-06

mountain top the remainder OF the
Winter
Pilot Unger, flying at 10,500 feet, made
a forced landing In mountainous country
because of broken gears. He walked to
the nearest farm house, phoned for help
and borrowed a horse with which to ride
back to the plane. But the horse wasn't
accustomed to aviator control; it threw
the pilot and broke his ankle in two
places in another forced landing" as
he termed it in a report. Nevertheless,
he captured the horse, mounted it again,
reached the airplane and few 1t to the
nearest airport-for the mail must 80
through.
A CROSS the continent, from San Fran
~ cisco to New York, the airmail goes
in 10 hours and IS minutes; and west
bound, fighting the prevailing winds
most of the way, the time Is approxi-
mately q hours. And up and down the
country, too, the airmal speeds. In
good weather and bad, the airmail goes
out. Not every scheduled dispatch can
be made; not every dispatch can be COM
pleted by air; but most Of the time the
scheduled airmail goes through via air.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06
GOLD IS ACAIN NJ HIGH IN TRADE CHANNELS HERE.
Constitutes About 50 Per Cent of Commodities
 Exported During May

Shipments of gold bullion and concentrates in May constituted al most 50 per cent of the total out borne Alaska commerce in that month, according to the monthly commercial statistics issued by J. c. Mcbride, Collector of Customs. Canned salmon was the next most important item. Fl Gold shipped to the States dur ing May totaled $434, ,398 out of a grand total of $883, ,869. Canned salmon shipments had a declared value of $231,725
 The list of commodities shipped and their values follows:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06

Of Ohio's- first two Senators and Congressmen, only one, John Smith was native of the State.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06
. .
 . AT THE HOTELS . . es .
Gastineau

Gertrude Horton, spokane; H. M Smith, M. Baker, William Sinjohn Seattle; Warren Webster, Jr., Cam den, N. J., Helen C. Ross, Ketchi- kan; s. Jekill and wife, Wrangen; James L. Freeburn, Chichagcf, Will liam c. Freeburn, Sitka; Arthur Rust and Stanton Warburton, Ia coma; w. E. Brown, Ketcnlkan; Lawrence Kerr, Juneau; Louise Kardulos; Mrs L. Kane, Frank Shotter, Hoonah; MT. and Mrs. J. e. Roehm, Chichagof; L. Vestal, Aux Bay; Clyde Nettleton; Miss l.. A. Robbins, Miss A. E. George, Victoria; H. B. Kinkaid, H. c. Me Donald, Revelstoke, B. O.; D. H. .NcCulloch, Palm Beach, Florida; w. H. Holland, H. McKeown, Van couver, B. O.; MT and Mrs. c. F. Skewis, Soapstone Point; A. G. Hillman, Hoonah; N. A. McEach- ran, Schwabacher Brothers; F. A. McCloud and wife, Seattle; A. H. Sasse, Seattle.
 Alaskan
 B. Banbardt, Sew w. A. Hensley, Tenakse; Carl Koban, Mary Gordon, R. w. Mitten, Ju- neau; Herman Kloss, J. Davis Windham; Mike Wahl, Chichagof; L. F. Barr, Seattle; s. Johnson, P. w. Philips, Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06
BUSINESS WOMAN
 HERE FROM SOUTH

Mrs. | W. Collins, wellknown business woman of Ketchikan, ar- rived on the Aleutian today and expects to make Juneau her per- manent home if she is successful in finding a suitable location for her establishment. Mrs. Collins is the house guest of Mrs. We're J. Groves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06
4-POWER PACT
 NEARLY READY
 FOR EXECUTION
Only German Authoriza- ton Is Awaited for
 Signature

ROME, June G. The French Ambassador has received instruc- tions on the initial and latest text of the Mussolini four power peace pact, thus the principal obstacle in the way of execution of the agree ment has been removed.
 The British representative has also bsen instructed to sign.
 Italy is ready to sign the pact and German authorization is await ed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06
HENRY KORHONEN. LOSES HIS LIFE.
Former Channel Resident Meets Death In Lake
 Washington

Henry Korhonen, aged 34 years who was born and raised on the Channel, met death recently in Lake Washington off the east end of Seward Street, Seattle. An ae- count of the accident also says that but for the heroism of one of his companions, Fred J. Burch B, 348 w. Nickerson Street, a third member of the party Al Lamou- reaux, 31, 2791 E. John Street also would have lost his life. Although he cannot swim, Lam oureaux, seeing Korhonen sink, had plunged into Lake Washington in an effort to save him and, ventur- ing beyond his depth, went down himself.
 Saves Rescuer Burch, almost fully dressed, inn mediately followed LamoureauX into the water and succeeded in rescu- ing him. Burch then tried to To- cate Korhonen's body until he be- came chilled to the bone, where upon he ran for help. Forty-five minutes later V. H Nivison, proprietor of the Seward Park Boat House, recovered Korho- nen's body, and members of Fire Truck Company No 12 worked On it for an hour and ten minutes in a vain effort to resuscitate him. Tells of Tragedy Korhonen was the first undressed and he plnged into the water with out waiting for the others. He swan a stroke or two and then seemed to dive" Burch re- lated. T didn't think anything oi it. until Lamoureaux exclaimed He's gone down Something must be the matter with him. He's drowning"
 "Lamoureaux jumped in, evi- dently thinking he could wade out and get him. But there's a steer drop off at that point and he went down likea rock.
 T was still dressed, but I went in then and managed to get Lam oureaux ashore"
 Korhonen's body was taken tt the White Funeral Home at the re- quest of his sister, Mrs. Lily An,
 drell, 4408 w. Juneau Street. l "A doctor told Mrs. Andrell tha
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06
BANCROFT AND HOPKINS PL LAY
 AGAIN TONIGHT
World and Flesh at Capi- tol for Last Times
 Preview Tonight

The exciting picture of Russia in the days of the Red revolution, World and the Flesh. will be shown at the Capitol Theatre for the last times tonight.
 George Bancroft, the star of the picture. plays the type of a role at which he is most adept-the rough, clustering hero-villain. He is a leader of the Reds, who falls in love with Miriam Hopkins, as much because of her spirited con- tempt for him as on account ol her great charm.
 Eventually Bancrofts indomitablC display of mastery wins the ad. miration and subsequent love O Miriam.
 World and the Flesh" is bis picture with lots of action. II assure it's authenticity, Col. Alexi! Davidoff, a leader of the Russian colony in Hollywood, was technica director during its production.
 At midnight tonight another long g-awaited picture, Tomorrow and Tomorrow will be previeweC at the Capitol
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06

GENERALS MANSION IN Fl, yet of his appointment Mayor Frank Murphy of by President Roosevelt General of Philippines ideal example of the bromide youth will be Beach, Rich Murphy graduated from School in 1914 after which he studied Trinity College, Dublin. With the
  training commissioned first lieutenant He
 
 ing In Murphy home to civilian life political Eastern District of Michigan In 1925 the he widely known for his liberal tendencies the bench by leaps and bounds and in 930 he Detroit During his Chief Magistrate Murphy nationwide bv his ehampionhp unemployed while
 
 Alfred Smith, Murphy Roosevelt and played
 in the latter's victory n the State.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06

. Portland, Ore, has assigned for gardening purposes more than B. 0G0 city vacant lots to which title was acquired due to tax delin- quencies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06

Make Millions Think-and Buy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06
Foundations Solid Rock

In the past six years the govern ment has spent more than s2O0,- 900 surveying the project, making test borings for the dam founda- tion and drawing plans Solid rock roundations have been found.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06
FOLTA AND MARTIN
 BAG FOUR BROWNIES

Four brown bear comprised the week end bag of Asst. United States Attorney George w. F'olta and Deputy United States Mar shal Donald O. Martin, who re- turned here yesterday from their hunt.
 The animals were killed on How ard Peninsula, on the mainland west of Lynn Canal. None of them broke any records for size, but the pelts of two were reported to be unusually fine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06

GRAND TOTAL ...--.-,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06

Korhonen did not die from drown ing but from a heart attack.
 Three sisters survive, Mrs. An drell, Mrs. Lydia Hill, of Pearson Wash, and Mrs. Lola Hill, of Ju- neau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-06
MRS. KIMBLE HERE
 TO VISIT SISTER

Mrs. H. F. Kimble and daughter Norma, of Portland, Oregon, ar rived on the Aleutian, and will spend the summer here visiting her sister, Mrs. G. F. Freeburger.s
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-02-10
Reason for Lecturers,
Objection to Peanuts

Princeton is rife with anecdotes of
former President Francis Landy Pat
ton, who has just passed his nine
tieth milestone in his island refuge,
Bermuda. An alumnus remembers
how he once dealt with a class who
got on his nerves by shelling peanuts
while he was lecturing. He said:
Young gentlemen, had hoped be-
fore l reached this point in the lee
ture that the visible supply of pea
nuts would be exhausted. realize
that these lectures to which you are
compelled to listen put great strain
upon you, and | have no. desire to
interfere with your natural right to
seek that refreshment which will en-
able you to bear up under that strain
But I am somewhat nervous. man
and I must admit that the constant
popping of peanuts is somewhat dis
turbing to me. l wish that in the fu-
ture you would be willing TO substi-
tute some less audible means of re.
freshment, say sponge cake."-New
York Christian Advocate.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-02-10
American
HerOines
BY
LOUISE M. COMSTOCK
Jane McCrea


OF ALL the women who have in
~ one way or another influenced
the destinies of nations, none, per
haps, did so more truly. or with less
recognition by later historians than
Jane McCrea. whose death in 1777
proved the turning-pont of the
American Revolution.
In the late spring of that year
Gen. John Burgoyne with an army
of 1000 British and Hessians and a
large number of Canadian and In
dian allies invaded New York from
the north by way of Lake Cham
plain. He won easy victories at tt
conderoga, Crown Point and Fort
Edward, fo' cling the main Colonial
army under Gen. Philip Schuyler to
retreat southwark. At Albany he
was TO meet Sir William Howe ad-
vancing north by the Hudson from
New York city, thus completing a
barrier between New England and
the rest of the colonies.
Near Fort Edward. in the cabin Of
a Mrs Mcneil. handsome girl of
twenty-three was dressing in we'd
ding finery. She had no suspicion
Of danger. Mrs. Mcneil was cousin
TO Brigadier General Fraser OF Bur
goyne's army. and the lover whom
the girl was preparing to marry was
also an officer in the loyaist troops
But Jane McCrea had not count.
ed on the ferocity and lawlessness
of Burgoyne's Indian allies. Having
attacked picked guard OF Ameri.
cans, killing their commander and
taking one prisoner, they swOoped
down upon the McNeill cabin and
dragged out the two women. Jane
they seated on a horse. Mrs. Nc
Neill proved TO be too bulky to be
thus manipulated, and they content
ed themselves with stripping her to
a single garment, and thus later
handed her over to the general.
Just why Jane McCrea was killed
nobody knows. But IL is certain that
somewhere between the cabin and
fort she was shot. scalped, and her
body brutally mutilated. The scalp.
with the lovely long dark hair that
was his pride and Joy. later came
to the hands of her waiting lover
And II is also certain that this deed.
proving to luke warm patriots that
the British commander was either
afraid or only half willing to re
strain the atrocities of his Indian
mercinaries. reused storm Of feel
ing through the colonies. "Remem.
ber Jane Met Crea." became a rally
ing cry under which the morale OF
the colonists was so strengthened
as to make possible their victories
at Fort Schuyler. Bennington and
Saratoga. thus defeating Burgoyne's
well laid plans and turning the tide
of the Revolution.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-02-10
LIVER'S HIGH VALUE
IN ANEMIA CASES
Reasons for Its Use in the
General Diet.

PerniciOus anemia is a disease
quite different from simple anemia,
from which we can be protected by
a diet high in iron salts. In PERM.
cious anemia the red blood cells are
destroyed too rapidly by some, at
present, unknown toxin in the blood
There is always accompanying the
disease a condition of low hydro
chloric acid in the stomach, which
may be cause or an effect.
A specialist on this disease states
that in tracing the history of the
cases of pernicious anemia which he
has treated. ne has invariably found
that this condition Of hypo-acidity
has existed for some time, some
times as long as ten years before
pernicious anemia develops. and even
after the disease is cured, the non
acid condition continues. Although
we are uncertain of the exact rela-
tionship between the two conditions,
let me remind you that every diges-
tive disturbance that is more than
temporary should be diagnosed by a
physician and not self-treated. Some
times the symptoms of hyper-acidity
and hypo-acidity are much alike and
the home dosage of soda which is
harmless and possibly helpful in the
first case, has the opposite results in
the second case.
The treatment which has produced
cures of perniciOus anemia consist
especially of liver which apparently
has the property of stimulating the
building of red blood cells. Other
organs of animals show this property
to some extent. A diet high in red
meat OF various kinds is recommend
ed. Recently liver extract has been
developed, which allows the diet to
be less monOtonous.
At the University Of Michigan
hospital, where a complete plant is
devoted to the treatment and study
of pernlcious anemia, 1t has been
found that dried hogs stomach is
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-02-10
WOMAN LOST
20 POUNDS
IN 4 Weeks

Mrs. Mae West OF st. Louis, Mo-, writes:
I'm only 28 YES. old and weighed 40 lbs.
until taking enc box of your Kruschen
Salts Just weeks ago. / now weigh $50
lbs. also have more energy and further
more I'VE never had a hungry mOment."'
Fat folks should take one half
teaspoonfTl of Kruschen Salts in a.
glass of hot water in the morning
before breakfast-it's the SAFE,
harmless way to reduce as tens Of
thousands of men and women know.
For your health's sake ask for and
get Krusehen at any drugstore
the cost for a bottle that lasts A
weeks is but a trifle and if after
the first bottle you are not joyfully
satisfied with results-money hack.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-02-10
IDEAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

The Christian institute In Castro.
Parama, Brazil, is type of school
which is economical, efficient, thor
oughly Christian. Teachers and pu-
pills live, work and study together as
one family. The schools are located
on farms of from COO to. II 900 acres,
and all the work is done by the stu
dents. They are not educated
away" from rural conditions, but are
trained to Christianize all the rela-
tionships of life. A number of for
mer pupils are now directing schools
in the interior, helping to reduce the
estimated 70 per cent flliteracy.