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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
BY BEN FIELD.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo.-Passing thru
sentral Illinois and Missouri, the
whole countryside seems on fire.
Some of the best corn in the world is
blasted. Farmers say the early crop
IS all lost. The late planting may
be saved if it rains. Clover is burnt
black as char. Soy beans are so short
cows would have to break their teeth
TO crop it. Hogs are dead in mud
holes. The not wind as from a blow
torch blows across the land where
there's been no rain for almost two
months. The newspapers, Roose-
yelt's bellhops, cry this will make
acreage reduction easier. They eX-
pect the lowest grain yield in 40
years. But what do the people think
and do in this hot land where only
the ragweeds seem to flourish?
Near Sinking Greek, Missouri,
there's a little Italian storekeeper,
comes from Texas where his parents,
Italian peasants, settled about forty
years ago. He thinks we're Italians.
His face lights up until we say no.
Most of his customers are Negro
and white miners, making five dol
lars day, working three and four
days week. Inside his store there's
picture of Roosevelt with the words
Were With YOU under it. He says
Roosevelt is going to be a second
Mussolini, he's going to straighten
out the country. Yes, straighten it
out like a dead man is Strengthened
out if we don't get it out of his
HANDS. He smiles timidly. And then
we find ont that he's got that thing
slapped on the wall with the pledge
because he wants to be the head Of
the parade. He's an Italian, "for-
eigner:" he doesn't want anyone to
be talking about him.
A Few Minutes of Sport
1t is Sunday, and in a thousand
one-horse towns the farmers and
workers are trying to get in few
minutes of sport. And it is hard.
The farmers have got to be back
early for evening chores. There are
very few even of the cheap movie
houses. 1t is a miracle how the farm
ers manage to pay for gas to make
their old cars and model T Fords
rattle along. One can understand
how the church still has its strangle-
hold on the people. Steeples are
everywhere on the horizon sticking
out of the trees like avis promising
to punch hole for the good Christ
ian into heaven.
A farmer will go hungry and
ragged to have some sort of car.
Otherwise he may just as well shoot
himself. He cannot farm without it.
Just as miners in places like Scran-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

and higher wages.
Strikes occurred, led by the A. F.
of L. When they were settled, and
the workers returned, they found
their conditions in no way improved
and in some cases worse.
In many cases the workers do not
receive the full wages agreed upon,
but are given money on account
They are beginning to resist such
tactics and are demanding action
from the A. F. of L. leaders.
We want reports on such treacher-
Gus tactics of the A. F. of L.. leaders.
Workers in A. F. of L. controlled
shops should let us know what their
conditions are. Let us know whether
there has been any improvement
since the MIRA went into effect.
In this section you will see letters
describing treachery of the A. F. of
L. leaders. We want more such let
tiers, and we want the workers to an
alyze such tactics in their shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
A. F. of L. to Save
the Poor SteelW orkers
(By Steel Worker Correspondent

(By Steel Worker Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Md.-Two organizers
of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers were
heralded into Baltimore by the local
American Federation of Labor and
the local kept" press, as the Saviors
of the Sparrows Point Steel workers.
The truth however is that the Beth
lehem Company and the local Bal
timore A. F. of L. officials are afraid
of the Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union, which is gaining favor
among the steel workers more every
day.
The first thing they did was to
call the S.M.WI.U. ''red organiza-
ton" and for some reason or other
they threw lot of mud at Pat Cush,
an S.M.WI,U. organizer.
These two "saviors" Of the steel
workers who are sent by the AA. had
not shown their faces down here in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Nenana, Alaska,

Nenana, Alaska,
Comrade Editor:
l received your circular to Save
the Daily Worker" But owing to my
circumstances, l regret to say that
1 am not able to contribute anything
at the present time. am 10 years of
age, 81 years of which have spent
in the North as prospector, both in
the Yukon territory and Alaska. And
like the majority of all prospectors,
I have nothing to show for it only a
crippled old man, unable to get a.
round, with rheumatism, without
using two canes. For the past two
years, I have been drawing an old
age pension from the territory of
Alaska of twenty dollars per month
That is my only income, and with
the cost of living in the interior of
Alaska three and four times what they
are on the outside, you can imagine
that money is not plentiful with me.
I have been a constant subscriber
and reader of the Daily since its first
issue. And will continue so as long
as can raise in some way the SUBJ
scription price. Should 1 fail to do
so, you will know the reason why.
I have been a member Of organized
labor for so years, having joined the
knights of Labor in the early eighties
OF the last century. Afterwards, the
Western Federation of Miners. To
that organization I belonged until 1t
became Gomperized and began sub
shutting collaboration for militancy.
Then 1t soon lost it's membership.
During my time, have seen plenty
of labor trouble. But now I must let
a younger generation carry on the
struggle, hoping they avoid collabora-
ton or sweet talk. That never &C.
complishes anything for the benefit
of the man that works.
Things are strictly on the bum in
Alaska with nothing indicating any
Improvement in the near future. The
people are all broke. Four years of
Hoover's prosperity has emptied their
pockets.
Very respectfully yours,
Dan McCabe
"a Roosevelt Rail Act
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
What Is the Marxian
7 heory OF History,
"Daily" Reader Asks
Worker Wants to Study Fundamental Ideas
Of Communism to Join Struggles of
the Working Glass

Dear Comrade Editor:
Will you kindly explain the mean
ing of the materialistic conception OF
history I am a worker who never
believed in the class struggle. altho
I started to work at twelve. I want
to make myself useful in the labor
movement. I would like to study it
for while.
P. D. KELLY, Brooklyn
People have always had theories
about why it is that history develops
the way it does Some said that all
kinds of supposed gods pulled the
strings of history, making men do
whatever they wanted them to do
Others said that something called the
spirit" or the soul which existed
inside of every man made people act
as they did, Others said that man
was born with certain ideas which
came from place, no one had ever
seen, called heaven.
But all these theories, which the
philosophers and priests, taught for
many centuries, and still teach, could
not explain why it is that certain
ideas in history come at one time
and some ideas and theories come at
another. These theories of history
could not explain why ideas, theo-
1ies, and moral rise and fall, why they
change at all.
If man is always born with certain
ideas, why is it that men in different
periods of history have had such
different ideas? This question the
philosophers and priests could not
answer.
1t was not until Marx and Engels
wrote their immortal works that this
question was answered.
Marx and Engels found the answer
to this question in the discovery that
whatever men think is not result
OF some invisible spirit" which no
one has ever seen, but that mans
thoughts are a reflection of the con-
ditions of the outside world in which
he lives. What men thought, Marx
and Engels discovered, was the re-
suit Of the way in which they got
their food and shelter from nature,
the way in which they supported
themselves.
The Eskimos believed that heaven
was cold place, The natives of
Africa believed that Heaven was a
hot place.
But Marx and Engels also discov-
cred that the outside world keeps on
changing. The way people manu-
facture things and distribute them
is always changing. And they dis
covered that the only way to ex-
plain why history develops as it does
is to seek the ultimate cause and
great moving power of historic events
in the economic development of So
ciety, in the changes of the mode of
production and exchange, in the con-
aequent division of society into dis
tinct classes, and in the struggle of
these classes against one another"
(EngelS' Introduction to Socialism,
Utopian and Scientific" page 19)
AS can be seen by this definition.
Marx and Engels discovered that it
was the development of the forces of
production that creates the existence
OF separate classes in society, classes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Tool Makers Get Csc.
An Hour on Rush Job
By Worker CORRESPONDENT

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.-The Bad
ger Meter Manufacturing Company
recently received an order from
Mexico City for $4,000 units. This
shop is working day and night. They
pay the magnificent sum of Is to
rs cents an hour for a first class
tool-and-die maker: Some of the
men in this shop are working four
teen or fifteen hours a day. | won
der what these men are thinking
about the New Deal?"
Weir Steel Company, foundry
which has been working a few
hours day, is now laying men off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

Pattern 1888 Is available in sizes
IA, 16, IS, 20, 80, "a, 36, SO, 40, AZ,
A, as, 48 and so. Size "a takes
2 SD yards SO inch fabric and 3-8
yards lace. Illustrated step-by-step
sewing instructions included with
this pattern.
Send fifteen cents Q5c.) In coins
or stamps (coins preferreO for this
Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly
name, address and style number
Be sure to state size.
Address orders TO Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 West 18th
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Must OrganizeAgainst
Codes, Writes Worker

(By Steel Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, Ill.-As we see, as we
know it, we are living in very critical
times. The workers in various in
dustries, especially in the steel indus
tries, are faced right now with the
slavery military codes of the bosses.
The workers must organize into re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
"Organize! Join the c. p" Say Steel
Workers, Telling of Own Conditions

evolutionary workers industrial un-
ions as the backbone of the workers
struggle for better working condi-
lions, shorter hours and to lay the
foundation for all power to soldiers,
workers and farmers as stepping
stone for workers rule.
Never before in the history of the
working class have we been con-
fronted by such brutality of the cap
italist class as we are today.
So organize! Organize!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

the last four years, when workers
were getting wage cuts, were being
laid off, etc. They came only AZ the
approval of the MIRA General John
son and the Bethlehem Steel CON-
pany, who will Use them to try TO or
ganize the workers into unions Ion-
trolled by the company.
They come now to get initiation
dues from 1900 steel workers. Mr..
Green in his speech at the steel code
hearing opposed the life and security
code proposed by the Steel and M sttsl
Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Can You Make 'em
Yourself !?

1t is wise to wear slip not only
in order that the dress itself may
fit well, but because dresses don't
get wrinkled quite so quickly and
don't have to be pressed quite so
often. Crepe or wash satin has been
suggested for this one, but we think
it could be made up very well in a
cotton material.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
HOW YOU CAN HELP EXPOSE THE
A. F. OF L. LEADERSHIP

When Roosevelt signed the Ma
tional Recovery Bill, the A. F. of L.,
and other reformist unions, let loose
an army of organizers all over the
country. In their speeches they tried
to make the workers believe thai the
government is behind them, and that
they are sure to win shorter hours
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Letters from Our Readers

Readers
With the Daily make more space
the Daily in which they
opinions criticisms questions and make sug
gestons
educational value for the work
either with reply We ask
however the possible
Comradey,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

beating loks. Beat till they foam.
Add little salt. Mix into the whites
gently with a large spoon. Have
griddle hot with piece OF melted
butter, pour eggs onto it. Watch till
the undersidc is brown then turn
half way over and serve on hot
plate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
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Today's Menu
BREAKFAST

BREAKFAST
Fruit juice.
2.-Farina croquettes.
s.-Coffee for the adults, milk for
the children.
Farina croquettes is much simpler
than it sounds. Use pint Of left
over farina still warm, beat the
yol& of 2 eggs into it. Let it get
cold. At serving time roll into small
balls, dip in egg yolks which have
been mixed with a tablespoonful of
cold water, then in sifted bread
crumbs. Have ready a pot or kettle
of hot fat and drip three at a
time into this. Serve in a pyramid
with scraped maple sugar.
I LUNCH
Clear meat soup.
2--Veal loaf
3-Griddle cakes and syrup.
Clear meat soup can be made in
sufficient quantity for stock soup.
Use one shin beef, quarts of water
small tablespoonful of salt. l head
Of celery cut fine, cnion carrot
I turnip, / rprig Of parsley, bay
leaves, white cloves.
Wipe meat and cut off bone. Put
the bone in a clean kettle. first the
meat on top, pour in the water,
cover and let stand an hour. Then
let 1t cook for a half hour when
you pour cup Of cold water In 80
that the skum rises to the top
Skim, cover kettle tightly and cook
slowly for four hours. Put in vege-
tables the last hour.
In. these proportions enough Is LETT
over for soup stock which should be
run through heavy sieve and then
through flannel bag, and set aside
to stay cold till wanted. 1t makes a
clear strong, delicious stock to which
different vegetables may be added
for variety.
To make veal loaf chop / IL lbs.
OF veal with 2 strips of salt pork
together. Add ID cup of bread
crumbs. stir in 1 beaten egg. Mix
we'll Press into a bread pan and
put in oven for three hours. Every
half hour pour a tablespoonful OF
hot water mixed with butter over
it, After 2 hours put sheet of
brown paper over the top to pre-
vent the veal loaf from becoming
too well done. Veal loaf can be
sliced cold for the picnic.
For griddle cakes you will need 2
eggs. cup Of milk, IL cups flour,
2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
IL teaspoonful Of salt. Beat eggs
till light. add milk. then the flour
mixed with the salt and last the
baking powder all alone Bake on
hot. buttered griddle. Serve with
maple syrup.
SUPPER
1.-Chinese omelet.
2.-Small lettuce and tomato
salad.
3.-Coffee for the adults, milk for
the chcildren.
To make Chinese omelet, break 4
sggs, separate whites from the yolks
n different plates, beat whites till
It'll then be sure TO wash and wipe |
he ego haater thorot,c1,fx bofnra |
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

Help improve the DAILY WORKER
send in your suggestions and criticism!
Let us know what the workers in
your shop think about the Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
NOTE:

We publish letters from steel,
metal and auto workers every Tues
day. Get them to us by the pre-
ceding Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
SWIMMING

At this time of year, when every
body yearns for swim, and some
workers, in spite of the New Deal,
actually manage to get a dip in the
ocean or in pool, it is well to re-
member few sanitary cautions:
First of all, it is web to remember
that many diseases may be con-
tracted in swimming pools and even
at the lakes and beaches.
The so-called summer cold Is
often contracted by swallowing water
containing germs which cause in
flammation of the throat, nose, ears
and eyes. Pink eye" is painful
irritation of the eyes which fire.
quently becomes an epidemic in all
the camps along an infected lake.
Venereal and skin diseases, ordinary
diarrhoea, typhoid fever, athletes
foot, are some Of the conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

The Health Column, which Is
daily feature Of the Daily Worker,
concerns itself with questions per-
tanning to the physical and mental
health and hygiene of the workers.
Besides answers to personal health
problems, DR.. Luttinger will dis
cuss briefly, from time to time.
questions of public health and SAM
tation as it affects factory and Of
flee workers, occupational and in
dustriaI diseases and accidents,
diet, seasonal diseases, health in
aurance, workmen's compensation,
as well as various medical frauds.
Correspondents desiring private
reply, please address DIR. Paul Lut-
finger, in care of the Daily Worker,
so East 18th St., New York, N. ",
enclosing stamped, self-addressed
envelope.-Editor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

Comrade Editor:
TOLEDO, Ollio.-Will you please
use the enclosed envelope TO mail me
the address Of Communist headquar-
tiers in Toledo, Ohio, and the name
of the secretary of that branch. I
am very DESTROYS of getting In touch
with some Of your left-wing comrades
and / believe Toledo would be most
convenient to contact. am the sup
posed secretary of supposed local
in Williams County, s. P. of America,
but am sickening to death with the
S. P.'s childish concepts and Sunday
School Socialism.
Have been taking the Saturday ed
ition of the Daily Worker and find it
so good that I must have the daily.
However, limited finances prevent me
from sending more than the enclosed
dollar, so put me on the daily list
for as long as the dollar pays for.
consider your paper so good that
I'm afraid 1T will not be permitted
to use the mails for more than few
months longer. Roosevelt may pre-
tend to be liberal now. but the COM
ing collapse will make him tighten up,
and we'll have to duck under cover.
Hope you have success with the en-
larged Daily Worker.
H.F. w.
Birmingham, Ala.
Comrade Edfeor:
Last week was talking to a
worker that works In the Tennessee
Coal Iron Railroad Co., (TCD, the
leading slave mill in Birmingham.
This worker told me something that
Is really interesting We were speak
ing on the new 6-8 page Daily when
he told me that every time he goes
to work, which is only two or three
days per week, and for nothing but
groceries, that he brings Daily
with him. Here is actually the way
he told me this:
you know, cornrade, the fellows
I work with, especially three Of them.
like the Daily Worker so much that
they nearly fight for It. So, in or
der to please all of them, they make
me TEAR the paper in three parts
so that each one Of them can have
sheet to read"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

This resolution was adopted by
the steel workers calling upon the
A. F. of L. leaders to call confer
ence to inaugurate real organ
ization drive in the steel mills
throughout the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

Editors note:--In his letter,
Comrade Kelly asks several other
questions which will be answered
in coming issues of the DAILY
Worker"
Evening star., 1933-10-24
REVIEW IS REFUSED
IN SHOREHAM SUIT
Claim of Rhoderick Estate Was
Representative" of All Note
holders.

The Supreme Court of the United
States yesterday declined to review the
decision OF the District Court of Ap-
peals In the Shoreham Building case.
In this litigation, holders of approxi-
mately 100000 Of notes secured by a
trust against the building, claimed that
Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co.. now
bankrupt investment bankers. had sold
the building without payment Of their
notes.
The noteholders tiled to hold the
purchasers. the Shoreham Investment
Co. together with the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co., liable for the
100000. The Court of Appeals, in a
decision handed down May 20 Of this
year. absolved the Shoreham Invest
ment Co. ard the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. from liability. holding
the purchasers had paid their obliga-
tions in accordance with the terms Of
the deed of trust. This decision was
affirmed yesterday.
The particular suit before the court
was brought by the estate of Elbridge
P. Rhoderick, but was a representa-
tive" suit. and the decision would have
applied to all noteholders in the same
situation
Evening star., 1933-10-24
AUCTION SALES.--FUTURE DAYS.
THOS j OWEN SON. AUCTIONEERS.
l43l EYE ST. NV.

THE sToDDERT APARTMENT STU
ATE NO 2gO0 QUE STREET NORTH
WEST, CONTAINING cont TWELVE u2)
BY virtue Of a certain deed of trust. duly
recorded in Liber No 1914, folio 269 ct
SEQ. Of the land records OF the District Of
Columbia and at The request Of the party
will sell at public auction. in front OF the
premises on TUESDAY THE THIRTY
FIRST DAY OF OCTOBER A D. 1888. AT
FnUR-THIRTY O'CLOCK P M. the follow
the. District OF Columbia. and DESIGNATED as
and being let numbered two hundred and
seventy-three 213D in the subdivision made
by the John Dickson Home of lots in square
numbered twelve hundred and slxty-eiEht
1:fsb as per plat recorded in the once
of the surveyor for the District of Co.
lumbia. in Liber G2 al folio II,
Terms Of sale One-thiId Of the purchase
money to be paid IN cash. balance in two
annurn Dayable serni-a m uaIly from day of
sale, secured by first deed of trust upon
the property sold or all cash. at the op-
ton OF the purchaser deposit OF 81 500
viii be required at time of sale. AL con-
veyancinF- recording. etc. at cost of pur
vIt5lin 30 days from day OF sale, otherwise
the trustee reserves the right TO resell the
property at the risk and cost Of defautins
purchaser. after five DAYS advertisement OF
sIch resale n some newspaper published in
THE TAsHINGTON LOAN AND
TRUST COMPANY Trustee
BY ALFRED H LAWSON. Vice President
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