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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Letters from Our Readers

hymns that the bosses feed us to
make us forget our duties down here
on earth to ourselves and our fellow
workers.
NEW YORK CITY.
Comrade Editor:
Let me express my utmost thanks
and gratitude that there is a work
erS school.
was in blizzard trying to obtain
knowledge of Marxism- Leninism and
Communist principles ION my own"
and through various clubs and self
styled teachers.
Since attending the Workers School
in the short space Of a month I have
made more progress than in the past
two years, and I have come to the
conclusion that education under the
Workers School banner far surpasses
any other for its thorough training
and discipline, and one must feel it,
if he is sincere
For one eager To be Of service to
the movement, to be Of practical
value in organizational work too, by
all means join the only Workers
School and avoid errors and delay.
have since induced others to. join,
and wish this letter may be instru-
for as I have been enlightened,
who are in the same boat l was in,
mental in enrolling other workers
Without revolutionary theory, there
can be no revolutionary practice"
A. r.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Comrade Editor:
have been reading the Open
Letter that was published in the
Daily Worker Really it is something
very interesting.
Realizing and knowing the correct
policy of the C.. p, find serious
situation in District of the G. p,
First, find that not one Negro
comrade is connected with the offices
or in the offices of the District. Sc
cond. find that in Section IA of
District there are all Negroes lead
ing--Negro speakers. Negro eviction
fighters, NEGROES doing all the work
in the Section. The workers discon-
nected with the movement in Section
IA wonder to themselves and go SO
far as to ask questions: why is it
every time you people come before us
you have all Negroes doing the work.
When your organization Is supposed
to fight Jim-C Grow, end white work
ere, Negro workers are organized to-
gether, where are the v'hite5?"
The Negro ls2de-s OF Section IA
are saoct to get dls.qsted about tilc
FERROUS siSuatlon, AMI have almost
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
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massage nor pills can do much rood.
Send stamped, self addressed en-
yelope for private advice.
No Inuendo Against Cults
VIM. M. Richard, Chicago.-The
writer is using no inuendo against
anti-vaccinationists, etc. He has de-
clared fatty that the various cults
will find no sympathy In this coll
umn. They have no more standing In
modern r ,5ic.ne than as.rology or
alchemy have in the astronomy and
chemistry of today. Watch for the
coming series of articles on secta-
rian medicines. You might be con.
WINGED after reading them.
r.e.a-
Constipation
c. A., Detroit.-Try to add some
bran to your diet. If you are the
nervous type, you may be suffering
from a spesm Of the anus which
would require a nightly enema to
overcome. More details about age,
work. muscular Development, blood
condition, ETC., may give a clue for
further suggestions.
Readers desiring health inform
alton should address their letters
to DR.. Paul Luttinger, CO Daily
Worker. IS East 18th St. New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30

lies say nothing about the thou
sands of workers who are being laid
off. The capitalist papers and the
N. R. A. officials talk about increased
production, but they say nothing
about the fact that this increased
production in the industries is TAX
ing place without the addition of
workers. One fact: auto production,
according to one paper, has risen
liz per cent without adding single
worker. In the meantime, 5000
workers were laid off at the Frigi-
daire, 5000 at the Delco in Dayton,
1,200 at the Goodyear plant in Akron,
500 at Libby, Owens and Ford in
Toledo; blast furnaces are being
blown out in Youngstown, etc. THIS
is NOT REPORTED IN THE CAP
ITALIST PRESS THE MIRA
HAS TO BE PUT THROUGH AND
THE WORKERS HAVE TO BE
MADE TO BELIEVE THAT THE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Columbia, S, c,

OOluIllDld, ., "
Comrade Editor:
Please allow me word to you all
to let you all know my feeling to the
Party. I think that you all are doing
good work, and I think that the
Party is a God-Sent- Party, and /
trust that God will bless you. I'm out
of work and / am sure that we will
that we are living under, which is no
good but for to steal and rob the
people and lynch and kill.
I hope that God will span my life
to live to see the time come when
every man will get his fortune in this
country. So that is my feeling on the
Party, so the lid can bet on my
being with the Party as long as I
live, and fight for the right of the
poor class of working people, white
and black.
Right now I can't do what I want
to for the Party because time is very
hard with me. l have not got any
work to do, so you all know how it
is with me right now. My place is
under a mortgage right now, and 1
just don't see what I am going to do.
I don't get any work to do, but about
just enough to keep from starving.
But will do everything that I can
to build it up in Columbia and 1 am
with the Party in its every fight for
better times. So when the agent
comes to Columbia he can bet on me.
B. w.
Editors Note: We are glad to print
this workers letter as an example of
the spirit which carries the prole-
tariat forward to it's revolution. 1t
is this spirit in the working class that
has created its vanguard, the Com
munist Party, ard not something up
in the Heaven like Cod We must
learn. comrade, to rely on our own
efforts, and not be sung to sleep by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Abdominal Hernia

Abdominal Hernia
Jos. S., Buffalo.-Eyen if you do
not do any heavy lifting, it is best to
have yourself operated on. Any city
hospital will do 1t free of charge.
Don't fool around with injections,
trusses, chiropractic or other short
cuts" Certain conditions can only be
cured by cold steel; revolutionary
ought to know that
Crab Lice
Louis B.-From your description of
the itching, you are probably suffer-
ing from psdiculosis 0ouse infection)
Shave the hair on your pubs and
armpits, being careful to collect it in
a bag and burn it. Ask your druggist,
when he is not busy serving deluxe
sandwiches or toilet paper, to sell
you a few cents worth of Blue ONT
men. Rub the ointment into the
sheared skin few nights in success
sion. Then take warm bath. In the
morning, you won't be lousy any
mere.
Paralysis OF Vocal Cord
nj. Ho.zbauer.-After four years
o.al'rss.cn. it IL doubtful Whistler there
IL c. cl,arcc fcr tire vocal cord to
regain its strength. Neither electric
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Mira Arrives With
Wage-Cuts, Lay-Offs
by a Food Worker Correspondent

by Food Worker Correspondent
CINCINNATI, o. = The Putnam
Candy Co. which operates large
candy factory and several stores, has
hung out the Blue Eagle" and cut
the wages of the employees from the
30c per hour MIRA. scale back to 27c
per hour. Mattresses work 8 or A
hours day and must pay CSC for
their dinner which was free before
Mira came to Putnam's These work
ers received two 10 per cent cuts be-
fore Mira came, and the speed-up was
introduced to make up for loss OF
work of those laid off. When Mira
came, they laid off additional work
ers to meet the code"
Bert Meis, who is General Manager
of Putnam's. is heavy contributor
to the sustaining fund of the Ohio
National Guard, which sent guards
men into Eastern Ohio to shoot down
the striking coal miners.
Hundreds of Hotel and Restaurant
workers have lost their jobs since
Mira came to town in spite of the
ballyhoo of the yellow rags of Gin
cinnati the Post, Times Star and En-
quirer, who are stating that 5000
workers have again found jobs. The
cost Of living has gone up so per
cent in the last two months. Relief
has been cut and the relief list
with 1t.
Hotels are fighting the code here
especially the 100 per cent scab pa
lace, the Netherland- Plaza, where
Billy Green lolled in luxury during
the 1882 ALL. Convention.
Hotel and Restaurant workers, how
about some organization to fight the
assaults of the bosses on our living
standards? Remember the days OF
1912?
"A Hotel Cook.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Red Builder Helps
Penetrate a Shop
Exposed by Worker
BY a Red Builder.

NEW YORK.-The day the letter
from worker in the Ever Ready
Label Company appeared in the
Daily Worker, I went down there and
marked of their article in red cray
On, telling these printers to read OF
their shop. I sold 25 Daily Workers
to the workers in that shop.
The next morning when l went
down to the same shop with rs Daily
Workers, after I had sold about two,
and the workers who had bought
them got upstairs, the boss came
down and told me: You can't sell
that paper around here, and if you
don't go away I'll get you arrested"
I told him: IF this had been the New
York Times you wouldn't mind, but
because this is the workers press
you object" This shows the reaction
the bosses have to the Daily Worker.
A few workers were standing on
the inside of the doorway when the
boss told me this. After the boss
went upstairs these workers came
and bought seven Daily Workers. I
told these same workers that if they
had anything to write up about their
shop, they should send it in and
the Daily Worker would publish ii
if it had not done so before. I also
told them that if it had been the
New York Times I was selling the
boss would have had nothing to say
They said, I'VE know that"
I put subscription blanks for the
Daily" inside my copies on the sec
ond day I went there, and since ten
workers bought the Daily" that day
/ suppose there will be some new
subscriptions. The workers told me
the boss went around the shop try
ing to find out who put the article
into the Daily" but told them
that he would never be able to find
out.
told the workers that the Daily
printed letters from workers all ovel
the country.
If other Red Builders would watch
for articles appearing from workers
III oilOkS, dllu uldTk Illtoe dI IlCleS ds
1 have done, and then go down te
the shops with the Daily Worker
they could build up sales in shops
all over the country. VIC.
Editors Notc:-The workers from
this shop should get in touch with
the Committee for the Organization
of Unorganized Printers headquar-
tiers at 80 E. 18th ST., Room $40, tele-
phone Gramercy 5-O857.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
LEATHER WORKER DESCRIBES HOW
THE LEFKOWITZ STRIKE BEGAN

increase and a SIS minimum, but
the strikers voted it down. They are
determined not to go back to work
even though they get the increase,
if the union is not recognized.
In the last strike, the bosses rec
ognized only the shop committee, but
not the union. Both these strikes
have been under the leadership Of
the Trade Union Unity League, who
have given the strikers assistance
since the first day of the first strike
till today.
So far, the local newspapers have
printed very little in regards to the
strike. Any statement. we want to
make is modified by the paper and
printed in favor of the bosses.
So I'm writing to you, hoping you
will release this statement in the
shortest possible time.
A Striker Of the
Lefkowitz Leather Shop.
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y
But the truth is that nowhere
can workers get better taste of
the hypocritical and selfish laws
that dictate a bosses code than in
plutocracy's latest citadel: Rookie
Teller Center.
Contact with the hundreds of
actors and actresses, stagemen,
porters and other employees in
the studios, workshops and cellars
where they labor will prove con-
clusively that they are in no way
better off now, if not worse, than
before. The same long hours,
wage-cutting and firing policies are
the rule today.
The happy-looking Roxyettes and
ballet girls have seen many of
their fellow workers laid off re-
Gently. They really aren't as
happy as they appear. 1t is quite
a physical strain to start rehears-
ing at eight or nine am. and play
at the performances until eleven
or later at night. Rehearsals are
also held during intermissions. An
emergency hospital is of little use
for exhausted workers, since it
remains open no more than four
to five hours per day.
The twelve hour day stands true
of the musicians also, who, besides
the vaudeville, must take part in
rehearsals and broadcasts. Most
amazing, however, is the fact that
the projectionists and other allied
workers must remain in the build
ing for no less hours, although they
are members of AFL unions.
The most exploited workers are
the Negroes and the employees of
the Music Hall Cafeteria. The
Negroes are not only segregated
from the Caucasians and given the
worst jobs to do, but they must
slave II hours every day in the
week. In the cafeteria, where food
is sold to Radio City workers at
exhorbitant prices, there are nine
workers who are compelled to put
in 1914 to Ia hours at the low pay
of SIS for the skilled and from
SO to $40 for the unskilled.
The chef has no full day off.
Their boss has stated that he
would deduct a few dollars from
each ones pay for food if he had
to go under the NRA. The cafe
terra workers are resentful and
have gained the sympathy of ush-
ers and other workers.
All employees of Radio City must
realize that the NRA sign is just
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30

decided to quit activities because
when their Negro leaders go to the
District and put this situation be-
fore the white comrades, they are
told that they can't do anything
about it; that not one white comrade
can be found to place in Section IA
to help the Negro leaders to carry
on work, or no. one white speaker
can be found to help the Negro COM
rades in Section IA to put up a
better showing when they come be-
fore outside workers.
According to the Open Letter and
the correct policies of the G. p,
think this a seriors situation and 1t
must be remedied at once. I think
this situation is all wrong. may
be out of order myself, but steps l
think should be taken on this at
once.
A. G. T.
Editors Note: This letter was sent
to District Three with the request
that they reply. We are cure this
reply will be Forthcoming very
shortly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
By a Leather Worker Correspondent

BY a Leather Worker Correspondent
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. 1.-THE
ITO workers of the Lefkowitz shop
here walked out on strike for the
second time in six weeks, after hav-
ing brought demands to Mr.. Lefko-
WITT which he refused The demands
were a Is per cent increase and S14
minimum wage. Since the workers
are organized and have union Of
their own, the Leather Workers In
dustrial Union, they walked out 100
per cent and increased their de-
mands to IS per cent increase, s14
minimum and recognition of the
Union
The workers are in good spirits
and solid and are not going back to
work till these demands are fulfilled.
There is picketing going on every day,
in squads in certain hours. So far
the strike is strong Ranks solid.
Mr.. Lefkowitz offered 10 per cent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Hogs Butchered for Fertilizer,
Not for the Starving Jobless

the shortening of hours in weeks
work turns out to be wage cut.
The weekly pay checks are two and
three dollars less than when the
code went into effect.
Now the government bought these
hogs to raise the price of pork by
$50 per cent, and the code is cut
ting workers wages $50 per cent
in the packing plants. How are We
workers going to eat pork?
This is another attack on the
workers standard of living, but we
are communicating by organizing
in the Packing House Workers In
dustrial Union"
Roosevelt's Blue Eagle is proving
to be a buzzard.
We workers have only one way out
and that is TO organize and fight"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Socialists Support
Nazi Captain

COPENHAGEN Immediately after
khe reformist trade union leaders had
broken strike at Nyburg against a
German ship flying the swastika, an
9ther broke out at Frederikssund.
The captain of the "Annemarie, !"
lying the swastika, ordered his crew
o dump the ships cargo of lumber
nto the docks over the side. The
Social Democratic authorities took no
iction against him. although this
procedure is punishable by severe
inc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
(By a Worker Correspondent

ST. PAUL, Minn.-The Armour
Packing Plant on Aug. "a killed $500
government hogs. This is part OF
the 100000 hogs the government is
buying. Contrary to general belief,
these $500 hogs are not for feeding
the unemployed, starving masses, but
are wantonly destroyed. They are
destroyed becaiSe they weigh less
than 80 pounds. Poor excuse.
The grease is rendered from these
hogs and they are then used for fer
tiliZer.
I am an employee at this plant.
We are working under the N. R. A..
code. When this code went into eff
feet we got a slight increase, it is
true, in our hourly wage rate, but
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Can You Make 'em
Yourself ?

We always advise washable clothes
for school children, and while we're
on the subject. let us tell you how
to remove ink stains: Soak in sweet
or sour milk, or wet stains in oxalic
acid and rinse.
Mucilage stains also may occur in
the life of the child at school. For
these we recommend rubbing the
stain with a cloth that has been
dipped in vinegar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30

Write to the Daily Worker
about every event of inter-
est to workers in your fac
tory, neighborhood or city.
BECOME A WORKER COR
RESPONDENT!
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Norwegian DOckers
Force Down Nazi Flag
On German Steamer

OSLO, Norway.-The dock workers
union at Sauda refused to unload the
German steamer Goldberg" until the
swastika flag had been hauled down,
and it resolved to inform shipowners
that no steamer flying the swastika
will be loaded or unloaded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Today's Menu
BREAKFAST
Stewed Plums
Oatmeal


Oatmeal
-Coffee-Milk
steved Plums-Put two cups of
plums from which the stones have
been cut into boiling syrup made of
one cup Of water and one-half cup
of sugar. Cock until tender.
LUNCH
French Toast with Syrup or Jam
Fresh Fruit
Tea Milk
French Toast-Slightly beat one
egg and add one-half cup of milk,
salt and pepper. Dip slices of bread
into this and fry in a frying pan
with bacon or other fat. If more egg
is added. the covering of the toast
will be thicker; if more milk is add
ed it will be thinner.
Syrup-To tablespoon of butter
add cups of boiling water, and "a
cup Of sugar. Boil two minutes. Add
flavoring If desired.
DINNER
Liver and Bacon
Mashed Potatoes Carrots
Milk-Tea
Liver and Bacon-Pour boiling
water on the liver; then dip it in
flour and fry it slowly in the bacon
fat. See the note below for way Of
using any liver left over.
HEar1nI Dot tnac Nuhon tho Y1rfo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30

No. l. As the memorable day,
September %, approached, lurid
and dramatic setting developed for
the beginning of the great steel
strike. Everywhere, the steel COM
panies made preparations to crush
their aspiring workers back to slav-
cry. The newspapers Shrieked revo-
luton. .aJ-,
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Contribute to the Daily Worker
Sustaining Fund! Help to keep mp the
SPACE Daily!
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Appeal OIL, Amter
to Party Members
in Ohio on Daily
Points Out That Important Industrial Centers
Of Youngstown, Akron, Cincinnati, Toledo,
Cleveland; Have Absurdly Small Circulation
BY 1. AMTER.


filled with donn-and unemployment continues
which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30

No. 2. Pittsburgh was the storm
center. There, the companies pro-
visioned and fortified their great
mills and furnaces, surrounded
them with stockades, topped off
with charged electric wires, and
bristling with machine guns. 1t
assembled whole armies of gun
men. Brute force was to be used
in breaking the solidarity of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Flnttering MIRA
Flags Hide Misery
in Radio City, N.
Negroes Disseminated Against; Roxyettes
Not AS Happy AS They Look; Musicians on
8 12-Hr Day; Projectionists Exceed AFL Hrs.
BY A WORKER CORRESPONDENT

a
nutterng Radio
the its
patriotism and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30

EDITORS NoTE:-Since this
large corporation employs work
ers of so many different cate
gories and trades, it would be
advisable for representatives of
the various departments to con-
suit with the Trade Union Unity
Council, located at so E. 18th St.,
Room 240, on how best to pro-
coed to organize. The TUUC has
clear record of honest and
fighting leadership in all the
struggles it has conducted in
every field of labor. The tele-
phone number is Gramercy
5-0857.
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a scheme of the bosses to boost
their business.
Above all, there is no guarantee
that a job is safe. On the other
hand, there is no jobless insurance
provided for those who are laid
off.
Only organization into real work
ing-class trade unions can help the
workers of Radio City win their
most important demands shorter
work day, increase in wages, no
discrimination against Negroes; as
well as the payment by the RKO
corporation of funds to provide for
unemployment and social insur-
ance. 1t is, therefore, the duty of
all class-conscious workers of Ra-
do City to take the initiative in
organizing their fellow-workers into
a militant workers union.
Experience has proven that only
organization and unity of all work
ers can secure decent working
conditions. For more news on
organization and labor activities
read the Daily Worker, which is
a newspaper printed in the inter-
ests of workers only.
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Editors Notc:-The workers from
this shop should get in touch with
the Committee for the Organization
of Unorganized Printers headquar-
tiers at 80 E. 18th St., Room 24O, tele-
phone Gramercy 5-O857.