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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Restaurant Boss
Helped by Nazi
to Spy on Workers
(By a Food Worker correspondent)

(By Food Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK; was working in a
restaurant located at 866 Broadway,
three doors from the International
Labor Defense and the Workers In
ternational Relief. This restaurant
is under the N. R. A., but the work.
ers have to do plenty Of slavery for
the boss for little money.
The regular hours are supposed to
be 8 hours, but we work IL to IL
hours. A worker washing dishes has
to do some cooking. Another worker
works hours and gets SO cents,
which comes to 10 cents per hour.
A girl works 81a hours. She gets
Sc per week and had to work like
a slave, washing dishes, doing coun-
terman's work and short order cook
for $12 per week.
While was speaking to the work
ers to better the conditions in this
place, the boss somehow learned of
this. He waited until the dinner
rush was over, and started at me
with an angry mean way, telling me
that he will try his best to put me
in jail.
| told him | wasn't afraid. Then
he asked the workers to repeat
what l was saying to them against
the bosses in order to get them as
witnesses to jail me.
One of the workers is German
Nazi, whom I have exposed good
many times. This Nazi stuck with
the boss and told him everything
against me, and l had to lose my
job.
And now comrades | want to APP
peal to all comrades in the l. L. D..
and w. /. R. who are near there
and have patronized this place, to
listen to what l have said. The boss
is using the meanest way against
the workers with a fascist Nazi to
help him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Cleveland Section |,
Is First to Go Over
Top in $4,000 Drive

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Section I, Of
this city, leads the way in showing
how to support the Daily Worker by
having already raised $313.86 on a
quota of $225 in the $4,000 campaign.
This section also secured 119 monthly
and IL Saturday subs for the Daily"
Cleveland has raised so far a little
over 80 per cent of it's total quota
of $4,000
Section has raised $219.2i on q
quota of $500; Section 8, $211.6S no q
quota of $500; Akron, $23.54 on o
quota of SIPS; Canton, 1882 on a
quota of SIPS; Youngstown, $2s.29 on
a quota of $3.50; Toledo, $12125 on
SITS; Erie, $59.10 on SITS quota: Co
lunbus, $11.35 on $25 quota; Cincin-
natl, $44.75 on SIPS; Section II, Cleve-
land, S66.23 on 500 quota; Dayton
raised nothing on quota Of $25 Uj
Elore, $3.50 on $25 quota; Section IA,
Cleveland, $65. 06 on 500 quota; min
ing section, S10.27 on quota OF SIS.
Among foreign language groups, the
Russian, Ukrainian, Slavic organisa-
tons raised SOS; Ukrainian Working
Women, $12.15; vi Elore employees,
SIS; Greek Buro, $1750; United Rus
sian Workers Society, $10.77; Russian
Mutual Aid, SIS; Lithuanian Buro,
S18; South Slavic Workers Clubs, SIS.
Unemployed Councils raised $24.30.
Council IA accounting for $23 Of this
amount.
Unemployed Councils raised $24.30,
All sections and organizations are
urged to do their utmost to fulfill
their quotas to help the Daily Worker
install its new press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Next Step After
Strike Victory at
Paper Bag Shop
By a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
Mote: This letter was given to
the Daily Worker" by L'Unita
Operaia, Italian working class
paper, at the request Of the writer
of the letter.
BROOKLYN, N. WY shop is
about the biggest bag shop in New
York and Brooklyn. We're out in
Erie Basin, and the shop is called
the Brooklyn Standard Paper Bag
Co., located at the foot OF Van Dyke
st.
We went out on strike q couple of
weeks ago and won raises. We elected
a strike committee and the bosses rec
ognize it. We won raises from ST to
even as high as So for low paid work.
ers, when you figure it in the piece
work system we have here. I think
that's good start.
We organized union that we call
the Brooklyn Standard Boys and
Girls Benevolent Association. We
know about the regular union. That's
the Paper Plate and Bag Makers
Union. Ihey O1eTed their help TO us
while we were on strike and after,
and they tried to organize us before
the strike. I think most Of the boys
and girls want to join up with this
union, but I guess the committee and
some others don't know how most Of
us feel about the union. What I mean
is guess they don't know we want it..
I'm not afraid, but I don't want to
be the first one to talk because the
bosses might fire me. We ought to put
it up to vote of the whole member
ship. Most of us are signed up already.
A Standard Worker.
Editorial Note: We gave your let
ter to Section = of the Communist
Party. They have special leaflet
for you and they will give you copies
of the daily Worker" Their ad-
dress Is 1872 Myrtle Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Knott Hotel Corp. Plans to
Fingerprint All Employees
Al Smith, Other Tammany Officials, Grind Out
Profits by Intensive Exploitation

militancy in the labor movement,
The following is an authentic ex
cerpt OF the minutes:
Minutes of Engineering and Manag
ing Committee, Hotel Chelsea,
Dec. 1, 1888, 1880 A. M.
Two representatives of Commits
sioner j. A. Faurot appeared before
the meeting and explained system
OF fngerprinting of employees as
means of Identification and refer
ence. To an employer adopting this
system, a certificate is given. The
employee, at a cost of soc to 81
is given a card which covers his
record of previous employment.
"The selling points are:
"The adoption of the plan elirnin-
ates all criminal applicants.
Employees are proud of their
Identification cards.
Employers are protected from
criminals securing employment.
"The adoption Of this plan by us
will give us a lot of excellent pub
licity.
Some of the committee felt that
the system should be imposed upon
the hotel fraternity by association
action and not by individual action.
The question of adoption is respect
fully referred to our executives"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Synagogue Threatens
Members They Must
Buy From Its Market
BY a Worker Correspondent

SHENANDOAH, Pa.-Having i'm
ported" a meatcutter a year ago
from Philadelphia to work in its
store, the Community Meat Market,
owned by the local synagogue, fired
this man suddenly recently without
notice, in order to replace him with
a relative of the president of the
synagogue.
The policy of the Community
Meat Market is not only to charge
exhorbitant prices for its meat, but
also to demand the payment from
each of its customers of subsidy
of 81 per month to be turned into
the Golfers of the synagogue with
the threat of refusal to sell meat
to those from whom the money is
not forthcoming.
Ousted from his job, the former
employee started rival meat store
with much lower prices. The Com
munity Meat Market is doing its
best to drive him out by sending
letters to all the customers threat
ening them with expulsion from the
synagogue if they purchase meat
at this new store, denouncing him
from the pulpit, and sending around
cards proclaiming itself as "the
only kosher meat market in town.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
CBy a Worker CorresDonsentl

GREAT FALLS, Mont.-The cereal
workers were organized by the A. F.
Of l.. organizer here on the grounds
that the MIRA. was going to back
them up, and that it was their duty
to help put the MIRA. over by or
ganizing, and of course raise their
wages and better their working con-
ditions.
The organizer went first to the
management of one Of the mills and
asked for, and was granted, permits
sion to organize the workers.
The workers came in 100 per cent
and started a drive for members
from the other mill, in which they
were successful in getting all but six
that refused to join because the mill
bad been placed on the unfair list Of
the Trades and Labor Assembly. at
the request of the Hod Carriers
union.
When this was brought to the floor
Of the Trades and Labor Assembly
by the delegates from the cereal
workers, it was decided that the I'M
fairness would be lifted as soon as
'AAS NOAAiPnAiJ S4sl1Su lllG dSISGulSnU
CT the Cereal Workers union.
In the meantime, the company
knowing that the agreement called
for the 1929 scale of wages, raised
the pay to that level. This caused
these six that were refusing to Join
to hold back still more.
The A. F. of L. organizer and the
president of the Trades and Labor
Assembly, working with the commit
tee from the cereal workers, were
then told by the manager Of the mill
that he Gid not think he had the
right to sign the agreement until
such time as all the men in the mill
were organized, because that was a
violation of the MIRA. The commit
tee appealed to General johnson for
a decision on this, and when the
decision came back it was that sec
ton IA would apply, and of course
that can be interpreted by the boss
as in favor Of the open shop, in fact
that is why it is in the N.R.A.
's1 Locked Out
The first mill organized a full 100
per cent, did not give the raise to
the 1929 scale; and of course these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Got Sc A Week
For CreOSOling
Railroad Ties
Az q Worker Corregpondentl

LIVINGSTON MANOR, N. Y
Here are the conditions in the Fed
eral Creosole Co.. where they creosole
railroad ties. had a talk with one
Of the workers at the company and
he told me that the conditions are
the worst he had ever seen. When
there is work they employ from 10
to 20 men. These men are all Ne
groeS.
He told me that working there one
year, he received $297. This averages
up to SIS per week. The ties weigh
from $50 pounds to 800 pounds. One
man has to carry the ties so feet to
PILE them up. Two years ago they
got, for big ties, $2.65 per 100 ties,
for small ties they got SIPS per 100.
This year they get SIPS for big ties,
and 81 for small ties per 100.
When they run the ties through
the creosole, they have to work
nights, because if they work in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
GOVERNMENT FORCED LABOR
BY Worker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Cal.--Just a word
to enlighten the comrades who are
not familiar with the New Deal gov
eminent transient camps.
1t was recently this writer's ex-
perience to board "for over month"
at Uncle Sans Boarding House at
Las Vegas, New, where Eddie Kane,
ex-prizef1ghter, throws cold" hot
cakes and insults at the patrons,
while other walters pour coffee that
is unfit for any human to drink. Many
men are working long hours without
pay in that, and other camps, and
here in Los Angeles hundreds of men
are being sent out to work In forced
labor camps, for as low as IS per
month.
Lets build our Daily Worker and
keep up constant militant fight
against such conditions.
PERRY HILL.
tSignature Authorized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25

an1nnieS you ever saw Such CON-
plete emancipation is still conspi-
cuously rare"
But it does exist, doesn't it,
contrary to the headline on your
tract7 The whole intent Of the ar
ticle Is to belittle the Importance
OF race-hatred, 10 minimize the
tragic results. Here is a poisonous
paragraph:
This passive race prejudice,
which We all possess, Is simply a
preference for people of your own
kind. It knows no cruelty and GER
tainly no desire to injure those who
are different from yourself. 1t is
only when demagogues flame It into
hatred that 1t becomes a cruel and
q dangerous thing
II such statements do not con-
done chauvinism, what does2
Divide and RuIe!"
The writer concludes the article
with this blithe paragraph:
America has plenty Of race pref
udice. But Americans have learned
how to live good naturally and
courteously with persons who differ
widely from themselves. We have
learned TO keep our prejudices, for
the most part, In the home, where
they belong"
Consider the sublime nerve Of
that! First, how callously it ig-
nores the cases of Lee, Armwood,
Cheek, and the Scottsboro boys. lust
to mention a few victims of Amer
lean race hatred. Second. what
do they mean by telling us that
race prejudice belongs In the home?
(Can a person be a chauvinist In
his home but not out Of it?)
The whole business has one sig
nificance-that in case there are
some OF us really free Of the faint
Of chauvinism they will do their
level best to talk it into us.
An agony Line
VIII Comrade J. r. please call at
the Daily Worker editorial office for
package that is here for 1ims
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Doctor Up Dirty Lard
Not to Lose the Profit
BY a Worker Correspoudcnt

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Recently at
Swift & Co there was some dirty lard
dumped into the lard tank by mis-
take. This spoiled the whole tank
which had good clean lard in it. The
bosses doctored this lard up and plan
to use it and sell it at cheaper price.
Anybody that knows anything about
this would certainly hate to buy
Swift's lard. Yet Swift & Co. is re-
puted to be among the leading pack
ing houses of the country.
If this lard were not used, and
was thrown in the rubbish tank, it
would mean loss of over $1,000.
But Swift Co. is more concerned
about the $1,000 than about the
peoples health.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
PARTY LIFE
Pittsburgh Communist arty
Reports Rise in Recruiting
Stress Need for Carrying Out Control Tasks
in the Main Concentration Points

basic sections OF the American pro-
letariat."
Note BY Editor
The improvement noted In the
above article in regard to recrult-
ment among the miners, and the
establishment of three mine units,
and particularly the recruiting Of
81 members of the U. M. w. A. into
the Party is noteworthy achieve
ment. We expect that the next
report from the Pittsburgh District
will indicate similar Improvement
in the recruitment among Negroes
and among the steel workers.
We want to hear from the other
Districts and Sections In regard 10
their recruiting. What have been
your gains in the first three weeks
of December? What are your weak
nesses? Write your experiences for
the benefit of the entire Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS


N0n-Speclf1C Urcthritis
Don H., Detroit, Mich.-We doubt
that you had an attack of gonorrhea
The shots" in the arm were entirely
unnecessary; the, red tablets was all
the treatment you needed. Even in
gonorrhea, we are giving up the treat.
ment by injections in the urethra.
Our advice is to stop going to your
private doctor: year of treatment is
enough. The shreds in your urine
will gradually disappear by them
selves. Sorry for the delay in an
swering your letters.
Twitching and Squirming of Eyes
Anonymous.-The symptoms you
describe may be due to number of
causes, in a 12-year old child. 1t
might be due to heredity from the
paternal grandmother or to the con-
dition OF the foreskin. No definite
diagnosis can be made without fur
Their information or physical ex-
animation.
Rheumatism and Brights Disease
Ernest G., Lutz, FIa.-Your father
is apparently suffering from muscular
rheumatism and chronic kidney dis
ease. The word elimination" does
not apply to the bowels alone; it in
cludes urination, which is the elm
nation Of waste through the kidneys.
The smoking OF Is cigarettes daily
by man of 70 will have no influence
on his condition. He might improve
by going on a strict vegetarian diet
including plenty Of milk, cream and
cheese. Get his urine examined and
let us know the results.
auto Bio Chemic Treatment" Of
Syphilis
Anthony b., Chicago.-The above
treatment which consists of inject
ing a patients urine into his blood,
as advocated by T. Wilson Deachman,
is dangerous fraud. If the doctor"
really carries out this treatment, it
will cause blood poisoning in every
case. If he sterilizes the urine be-
fore he injects it, the heat will de-
stroy any syphilitic 'anti- bodies" that
it may contain and 1t will become, Of
course, useless. His claim that he
can cure the worst syphilis with this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Workers Club Hurls
Challenge on Selling
Anniversary "Daily"

NEW YORK.-The Bath Beach
Workers Club. with a membership
OF only %, placed an order yester-
day for 200 copies Of the "a page,
tenth anniversary edition Of the
Daily Worker.
The club challenges all other
clubs with similar membership
to equal or beat this order. 1t will
take as many copies over 200 Of the
January issue as will any club
whose membership does not exceed
80. Clubs, accept this challenge
through the columns OF the
DAILY"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
$%=~aLN 81
1Slll flla, Hll !|IgIyl
5ssSs#eA rsss. TX. 49, ri
O'fsDS,.sAt.S -
HELEN LUKE

A Letter accompanying a dol
lar for the Daily Worker fund
through this column says: eve
are a small group of women
here in far-off Santa Cruz, Cali
fornia, working as an auxiliary to
the I. L. D. We sew, We quilt, and
give dinners and card-parties to
raise funds to help carry on the
work Of labor defense.
I'VE are aware also that we
should support our labor press. We
wish we could send more liberal
contribution; however, a little is
better than none.
Yours for success,
LAURA M. H"
This reminds me that there has
been request from some comrades
in the west for quilt blocks. These
would require too much space to
print in our Daily Worker, but
there is nothing to prevent our
making collection of designs
which we can send out on request.
AS soon as we have enough of these,
notice will be given.
What Goes On in the Bourgeois
Women's Page.
BY the way--haye you seen an
article in the World Telegram by
Gretta Palmer, titled, Race Preju-
dice Is Part of Everyones Makeup?
II sets out to prove that we are
all afflicted with prejudice, but sue
ceeds instead in conceding the pre-
else opposite. Witness this para
graph:
These prejudices are silly and
small, and it is high time that hu-
mainly outgrew them all. But 1t
will take lot of time. Few Amer
leans who grew up in the South
can echo the remark of one char
acter in All Good Americans who
was asked, How would you like it
il your sister married a Negro?' He
cheerfully said, She did And they
have two Of the cutest little pick
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
A FL Officials, MIRA
Help to Cut Wages at
Hardin & Walker Co.
(By a Worker Correspondent,

CHESTER, Pa.-The Hardin 81
Walker Brick Co. forces the men to
join the A. F. of l.. capitalist pet
union, trying to keep the workers
from forming a rank and file organ
ization, SO that they can continue to
rob the workers pay checks OF a dol
lar or so every week.
The MIRA. has caused a speed-up
system to be used here that has
never been used at this kind of work
before, which has caused decrease
in the number of workers to about
one half of what it was before the
MIRA. came into effect. The MIRA.
has also been the cause of q greatly
reduced weekly pay check.
PETER O'BRIEN.
signature Authorized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
TRANSMITS EXPLOITED
BY a Farmer CORRESPONDENT.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Transients
in Arkansas are already being
rounded up on highways and rail-
roads. They are given the choice
Of the cell and chain gang, or
working on the wood pile, credited
with 40 cents an hour, four hours
per day. If they leave, it makes
1T tough on them "up the line
when they are caught"
The Transient Bureau of the
FERC pays 9 cents per day for a
cafe man to serve meals, while the
transients are charged 80 cents per
day for room and board, plus de-
auctions for other services" They
must work a week, and can stay
longer "if they want to develop into
useful citizens"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Benjamin Pipe Shop
Workers Force Gains
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-We workers of the
Benjamin z Pipe Shop have just
gained increases Of from to Is
per cent, which the boss promised
us months ago. Before, our shop
was weak and divided, and the boss
didn't pay the increase. Now, our
shop is strong and united.
The boss knows we are all 100
per cent for our union, the In
dependent Smoking Pipe Makers
Union Of America, and behind our
shop committees, and he knew we
would strike If he wouldn't pay us.
So he had to come across with the
increase. A Pipe Maker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Worried Over Job on
C.W.A., Negro Drops
Dead in Atlanta, Ga.

by Worker Correspondent
ATLANTA, Ca, Dec. 22.-DanieI
Howard Of Atlanta. Ga. who had
just been assigned to C.W.A. work
on the local Negro High School
Booker t. Washington High
SCHOOL, dropped dead on Dec. Is
en- route to his new C.W.A. job.
His friends state that his death
was due to dependency over not
being able to make, ends meet for
his family. He had worried over
trying for several weeks to be put
on the Roosevelt C.W.A. "chain
gang"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
Build the Youth Section

The weakness OF the Youth section
is no accident. 1t is the result pr1-
marily of an almost complete inatten-
ion of the adult branches of the Or
der to the problems of building and
OF leading the Youth Section.
In the last days were received a
considerable batch of applications
from Chicago, over hundred. Vari-
Gus language sections contributed
their share to this batch. But the
lot did not contain one single ap-
plcation for youth member.
We cite Chicago not to hold 1t up
as a horrible example, On the con-
trary, Chicago is quite active and at
tentiva to the campaign. However,
in its incttention to the building OF
the Youth Section it is as bad as all
cur other districts Surely the fact
That the efforts of the City Central
Committee to organize the drive, and
their success in getting 100 new mem
bers in a short while, when taken
together with the fact that they did
not succeed in bringing in a single
youth member, is indicative Of neg
lact to ask young workers to join.
This same neglect is the weakness of
the drive in New York and in all
ether concentration centers.
This weakness is a political weak
ness. It shows that our comrades do
not see the young workers. 1t shows
especially that they do not see the
particular problems Of the young
workers.
1Ect seeing the problems of the
young workers results not only in
neglect to organize them, but it also
'fEgtsz5s iii neglect to lead them, to
help their organizations to develop
sccial, sports and educational life
from a working class point of view
end all these neglectS combined are
responsible for the extremely slow
growth OF the Youth Section, when
in reality the Youth Section should
present one Of the best opportunities
Ct the Order to build itself.
The work Of the Order contem-
plated for the next 6 months will try
TO repair this weakness. 1t will pay
special attention TO conveying to our
Order clear understanding of the
purposes end aims of our Youth Sec
ton.
Daily Worker Anniversary Number
On January the Daily Worker
will issue an anniversary number,
celebrating its tenth birthday. The
occasion is one in which the whole
militant labor movement must par
ticipate. The Daily Worker is our
paper. It is our mouthpiece, voicing
our programs, our aspirations, our
battle cries. Without our intimate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
ALASKAN PRAISES DAILY"
Ketchikan. Alaska,

Editor, Daily Worker:
Only a short time ago I started
reading the Daily Worker. / find 1t
interesting and standing for the suf-
fering unemployed working people,
and against such contradictions which
gives hunger to many of us because
we have produced too much of every
thing.
I am sending a dollar for the Daily
Worker $4,000 fund.
Sincerely yours