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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
By a GROUP Of soviet Railroadezs

BY a Group of Soviet Railroade=s
SOUTHERN RAILROAD, U.S.S.Rr
LISKY STAT1ON-Comra road
workers of America In to-day'S let
ter we wish to set up permanent COM
radely correspondence connections
with you 8nd exchange experiences
acquired in our work. We herewith
beg you to reply also to our letters.
We have lbs persons in our brigade,
all Of whom take part in writing you
this letter. 1t is being written in
very favorable moment, when we
gathered in the car-club to celebrate
the Evening of Shock-Brigad
we shall describe this Evening below
Our brigade works on the station
of Kolodeznoe, along the SOUTHEAST
ern r. r.
We live in five tarpaulin tents,
which contain folding beds for every
worker. Every tent has 25 Of these
beds, with warm quilts and pillows.
The tents have windows each and
z ventilators each. There is sufficient
light and air.
When the nights become colder, we
5install special heating apparatus pre-
pared by us. Right near the tents is
q closed kitchen, preparing food for
the workers.
Program of the Day
We get up at in the morning,
After washing, dressing, etc, we have
our breakfast at $50 am. At am.
we go out about ga kilometerS. Be-
tween II and IL there is the dinner
interval. The workers get their din
ner from the cook on the spot where
they work, which is delivered to them
on vans in special thermos TASKS
Theoretically closed and kept hot).
Work ends at pm, which means
that we work altogether eight hours
a day besides the dinner intervaD
then we come back to the tents, where
we get our supper and tea.
Our food altogether costs each one
Of Us 60 kopeks a day-our total earn
Ing being 4 rubles 600 kopeks) a day.
In the evening we organize q plenary
meeting, ct which we discuss just
what has been done by us during the
day.
TIE plcnary meeting goes OF as a
rule with much animation. We COL
lectively show up all defects and
shortcomings in the quality OF the
repairs, in the amount of work full
filed. At first we hear reports OF the
brigadiers, who are held responsible
for the work and are the leaders OF
the brigades; after this the central
brigade reports on all the work. Then
conclusions are drawn and the plan
Of work for the following day is
mapped otg5.
The car-cluo No. 726 of the Lisky
District Committee of the union OF
railway1nen employed on the South
Eastern r. r., is maintained at the
expense of the Railwaymen's Union
This car-Hlub has been re-equipped
from passenger, second class 4-axle
car. TIE center of this car has been
turned into a hall, holding IS Der
sous. The car-club has its electric
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29

or sub. That is the attitude that
dominates and is approved by the
Post Office Department, judging by
the support, direct and indirect,
given these forenlen and other Off
Gals. Whether or not their actions
are justified matters little.
The only difference between the
private in the army and the letter
carrier is that the one gets his uni
form free and the other is obliged
to pay for it. And another point Of
difference is that while the soldier
has a certain amount of freedom
the P. o. employee while at work is
always apt to be spied upon from
peep-holes distributed throughout
the office.
Army rules and regulations are ex-
acting, but no more SO than those
Of the Post Office Department, which
cover every conceivable detail of
work, even including asking permis-
sion from superior to go to the
toilet. An infract!on of this rule is
penalized with dement's, At the
same time good work is never rec
ognized or rewarded.
Our lawmakers have also inserted
another little rule that permits the
discharge of an employe for the good
of the service. How many men that
have incurred the i'll will of some
foreman or other official have been
framed out of the service on this
charge!
In one of the stations of this city
a substitute hanged himself because
he wasn't given enough work to keep
himself and family from starvation.
He was even refused city relief be-
cause he was presumed to have a
good job. A good job at an average
salary of about SO week.
In another instance a man was
framed and discharged because hi
incurred the enmity of a foreman
IN another instance man was fired
because he struck an official wht
had provoked him beyond all en-
durance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29

"Once upon a time [ used to
believe in helping old-age in
stitutions for the upkeep Of
society's cast-off workers."
says letter I have received. But
since hearing some revolutionary
ideas I've come to the conclusion that
the only real way to help our cast-off
brothers is by helping the Daily
Worker.
''This, in turn, will help to destroy
that system which casts off us work.
ers in our old age, and help to build
one that takes care Of the workers
when they can no longer contribute
to society.
To-day I got a letter from one of
those bourgeois institutions and my
answer is in the form of quarter
to the Daily have previously
given much more, and keep box at
home into which I continue to throw
my spare change. The last two ar
ticles in your column we're Of great
value to me. Give us more such ar
ticles.
"Conradely,
CLARA e."
The articles referred to appeared
about the middle Of December, but
T am not sure just which two we're
meant. Comrade Clara Is right In
her conception OF the Daily" as
way Of really helping to break up q
futile and moth-eaten system.
though scarcely the only one; all the
revolutionary labor organizations
help in this. The Daily" though,
has the essential task OF reporting
and advertising news of their activi-
ties, as we'll as all news OF interest
to the workers as workers; also OF
presenting theoretical material Of
Use both to organizations and to un-
organized workers.
AS to Next Year
As the old year dies your column
conductor voices the hope that she
will be able to build in the coming
year a stronger and better column,
faster on the pickup, giving more
concrete ideas of use in the house,
hold, reviewing the analogous house,
hold and women's pages in bourgeois
publications more consistently and
thoroughly, reporting more COM
pletely the activities of all working
class women's organizations, and
giving faster service on requests sub
mitted.
So far lot has been promised, but
not whole heck Of lot delivered.
As comrade B. E. once said, the most
useful and interesting contributions
have come from the rank and file.
BY promising to do better, I hope
I don't discourage contributors: my
intention is quite the opposite. There
have not been many letters lately,
and am wondering what Is wrong,
Material now on hand includes ar
ticles on child feeding by Bonita,
ON making fireless cooker, by Irene,
come practical household and sewing
hints by Natalie G., some letters,
clippings and articles regarding diet
Tire activities Of bourgeois women,
ETC., and q few recipes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
WILL GREEN'S CIGARS

The following item appeared in the
Slffalo Times, December 10, 1888.
1920 DAILY CIGAR BILL OF
AMERICAN LABOR CHIEF
where there's smoke there's fire
and also, when n celebrity Is
smoking, there's likely to be an in
teresting story.
-. p. Morgan, for example, will
not touch any cigar other than his
own special blend made In Havana.
Yet he's inclined to be . little Of
Tended II come equally discrimin-
ating smoker refuses one OF the
Morgan brand. George Arliss
carries cigars which look exactly
Ike stogie5 he smoked in less pros
porous days. Yet the present ones
are made TO order ard cost almost.
as much as Mr.. Morgan's.
Frank Van5"rip, the financier, gets
cigars at 10 cents apiece at any
convenient store. BUT WILLIAM
GREEN, PRESIDENT OF THE
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
LABOR, PAYS 60 CENTS EACH
FnT rlIs GIG AIRS AND PUFFS
THROUGH A DOZEN A DAY.
Cigar smoking isn't what 1t used
to be. About the only luxury (?)
in which the late Calvin Coolid~e
INDUCED were S0-cent cigars. Her
bert Hoover still orders fine blend
at $50 the hundred" =.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
Letters from Our Readers

against both Negro and white COM
rades in our movement.
While we believe in giving new
white workers and students every
opportunity to correct any tenden-
cies toward white chauvinism, par
ticularly when we find them con-
Quoting struggle against their own
chauvinist tendencies, we feel that
organizations such as ours cannot
play around with confirmed white
chauvlniStS, as this is the surest
means of alternating these Negro
young workers, students and intellec-
tuals whom we need as allies in our
struggles against the system which
Expresses us. If we are to fight
against white chauvinism, we must
conduct the struggle first Of all in
our ranks.
For the Executive Committee,
JACK LONDON CLUB.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
BUILDING A WORKERS CLUB
Lowell, Mass,

Dear Editor:
A few weeks ago, g. few Lowell
workers gathered at the home of
Comrade Karson and decided to form
the Lowell Workers Center Club.
The Center started out with about IS
members. In these few Weeks, our
membership has increased to 80
members and we are going strong.
Last week, Comrade Borisov, edi-
tor of the Novy Mir, gave an inter-
esting lecture in our new clubrooms
and complimented the club at the
first English-speaking center in this
vicinity.
Recently, we held dance to help
pay the expenditures of the newly
organized group, and managed to
make enough money to cover all ex-
penses SO far and to start a fund
in our treasury.
AT the intermiss.on of the dance,
Pizer, Communist Party candidate
for Mayor in Lawrence, Mass, made
Commute speech to the gather
ing and appealed to them to donate
according to their means to help the
Scottsboro boys. This appeal was re-
ceived very enthusiastically by the
crowd and over $40 was collected to
send to the I. L. D. for the defense
of our Negro comrades, who are in
grave danger of being legally or
otherwise murdered by the terrorists
of the South.
People who had never taken any
interest in the Scottsboro case, Oh
perhaps they had never heard about
the case (the capitalist press takes
care Of that were visibly shocked
when they learned the true facts
about this affair and were extra
willing to dig deep in their pockets
to give to help the imprisoned Ne
groes.
Lowell has more than doubled its
quota In the Daily Worker $4,000
Drive, and so you see that the Lowell
workers are at last waking up to the
fact that only by organizing and
supporting the c. P. can the people
of this country receive their just
due. A. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
|. L. D. Helps to
Fight Waterfront
Slavery System

BY a Marine Worker Correspondent
NORFOLK. Wave have plugged
away on the waterfront for seven
months, built a strong opposition
group in three locals Of the Inter
national Longshoremen's Association
CA. F. of L.. and built the Marine
Workers Industrial Union on four
unorganized docks.
We have started and carried on
agitation that has stirred IN the
whole waterfront and created enough
sentiment to turn the eyes Of the
workers on the misleaders to such
an extent, that the workers have
brounht suit against the officials of
the I. L. A., in which the attorneys
Of the international Labor Defense
have exposed the whole slave system
on the waterfront.
Now this trial is the talk Of the
waterfront. and one of the best ways
we ever had to isolate the mislead-
erS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
ships Carpenter Forced to-
Add Shore Jobs to His Work
New Speedily Racket of Owners Breaks Law
and Deprives Shipyard Men of Living

that they didn't carry before. The
tools needed for this job OF making
nouldings and trim costs around SIS
for a good grade. Yet they have to
furnish it.
Maybe the shore carpenters could
take a hand in helping the ships
carpenter put stop to this driving
work. 1t is to their interests to help
keep this work for themselves.
The ships carpenter has plenty of
work to do without that stuff, on
regular carpenters work.
Chime
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
/. TINGER, MD.

~ -. 49, - ~ = ANGER, MID.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
New Clinic for Cccupational Disease
A new clinic for occupational dis
eases, such as lead and benzine pois-
oning, dermatosis (skin conditfon)
due to industrial hazards, etc., has
been opened by the N. Y. University
Medical College. at Goth St. and First
Ave. 1t is open only once a week:
Wednesday afternoons.
The Best Iron Preparation
N. G., Woods Hoe, Mas: The
best iron tonic for mild cases of
anemia Is ammonia-Ferric Cit'Nts :.
This is a United States Pharma-
copeia (U. S. P) prsparatio4i. kac,,-l
officially as Ferri ct Arnmon,t Citras
or Iron and Ammonium Citrate. 1t
comes In garnet-red, odorless scales,
having saline (salty) iron taste.
Tire ammonium citrate makes the
iron more soluble and, therefore,
more easy to absorb. The dose is
4 grains in pill or capsule form. You
can also get it from your druggist
as Vine of Citrate of Iron, which
contains per cent Of the compound
in sherry wine with syrup and tine
ture Of sweet orange peel The dose
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
NQTE:

Every Friday we publish letters
from workers in all branches Of
the transportation industries
railroad, marine, surface lines,
subway, elevated lines, express
companies, truck drivers, taxi
drivers, etc.--and from the COM
munications industries-post office,
telegraph, etc.
We urge workers from these in
dustries to write us Of their con-
diticns of work, and their struggles
to organize. Please get there let
tiers to us by Tuesday Of each
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
t@# ~ q
d1ell fll(, l(lIIIlls!eG
$50 .:;:: ~: &L@
LuNDLSAhS A. .
HxLxE LUXE

We have promised to make fire
less cooker. Red Paint Book, and
to find designs for quilt blocks and
Russian blouses, and recipe for
pumpernickel. The last-named is
now at hand and will be given early
next week. q must test it first.
Pumpernickel is too serious a busi-
ness for cooking only on the type
writer) AS for the blouse-our pat
tern service has none, 50 apparently
I'll have to design few. If it takes
some time, at least I'll promise to
make q good Job Of 1t.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
MagniHca.ion Of Microscopes


MagniHca.ion Of Microscopes
Two Betters:--Your questions arI
purely scientific ones and we cannok
afford the space to reply to all. You
can find answers to them in any
large text book on chemistry. As ia
the power Of nagniacation Of modZ
ern microscopes, A Is wrong. The.
is no microscope which will ynagf,tfs;
an object SO thousand times. IT,
highest magnification (enlargementss
is 5000 times for metallic particles.
and $500 times for living cells. Tho
ordinary white Tght instrument mag
nif1cs up to 1900; the violet
goes up to $500 and the ultra mic.I
roscope (dark-field illumination) I'd
the limit stated above. Don't conf
fuse magniflcation with resolving
power. An object may be SO greatly
magnified that it will be distorted
and no details can be seen; like al
picture painted on thin rubber which
is stretched The njct'we I'LL ob-I
pear larger; but so distorted that you
might not recognize what 1t repre-
sAs,ts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
Urges Western Union
Boys to Spread News
About Their Code Pay
nv a Messenger Correspondent

tby Il fNSSoVAA6CA WA ASEfSAsN~Asy
NEW YORK.-Although the West
ern Union and Postal company
signed the code, we messengers are
net getting a minimum wage. A lot
Of customers ask us about 1t, and
we have been instructed to say it
will be taken care of.
Let us tell every customer we de-
liver a message to or pick up q
telegram, that we are not getting a
minimum SIS week wage, but average
only about So a week. We ought to
rrint slips to this effect and leave
one at each customers Office. This
will awaken even the hard boiled
business world to the cruel exploita-
ton OF our companies. Let us pass
the word on to our buddies and you
will see action. Organize and fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
SOCIALIST COMPETITION

NEW YORK.-A number Of work
ers' cultural organizations are pre-
pairing special programs for the Daily
Workers tenth anniversary celebra-
ton at the Bronx Coliseum this Sat-
urday evening to win the Socialist
competition as to which number will
receive the most enthusiastic APP
plause. The audience will be the
judge. Be in this revolutionary audi
ence. Get your ticket in advance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
S2.4O for Il Hours
Is Claimants Wages
(By a Cab Driver Correspondent

NEW YORK; was handed a
Daily Worker on 14th st. the other
day and was quite impressed with
the mn~~"- " "--"0~-- 49,
r. A., the big trusts and RooSevelt's
new deal. A15J U.-2 A4,--O =. ) 19-
ing in behalf of the unemployed.
I am a cab driver employed by
the Keystone Cab Co. on 55th st.
The IL hours of night work that we
put in under the most miserable con-
ditions imaginable, plus the hound
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
Postal Workers
Are HOunded by
Bullying Foremen
tBy a Post office COrrsspondent)

(By a Post Office Correspondent
NEW YORK.-May I introduce
you to the early morning theme
song of the Post Office Department
as sung by any gruff voiced, bully
ing, pin-haaded foreman who hap
pens to be invested by the depart
ment with little power. Hey, you,
get out, come on and get out" This
is intended to drive the overworked
and distracted carrier into the street
to serve his mail.
No respect for the employee.
whether lie is carrier, clerk, laborer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
Toward the
$4,000 Fund

Below are listed additional con-
tributions to the $4,000 Daily
Worker drive. Such lists will be
published in the Daily Worker once
week. Send your contribution
and help your Daily Worker install
its new press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
WORKERS, WHAT DO YOU
THINK?

Depression Over, Atterbury Holds"
(Quotation from N. Y. Times, Sum-
day, Dec. II, 1889
1.-THE country has emerged from
the depression and business Is I'M
proving, General w. w. Atterbury,
president of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, told members OF the Pennsyl-
vania Society ~ night at the or
ganizations .oon annual dinner In
the Waldorf"
Statistics of the depression, /"
Father Cox said, SHOW that large
families were lowest in percentage Of
appeals for aid. This, he felt, was a
good illustration Of the providence
of Christ"
A police judge named Jim Givens,
out in Muskogee, Okla, is reported
to have fined G. w. A. worker $40
for criticizing Roosevelt. The Amer
lean fascists are learning quickly
from Hitler. 8. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29

Rush your orders for the Jan. 6
Tenth Anniversary issue Of the
Daily Worker. "A pages. The big
gest and best Daily Worker in
tho history u eur paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
Can You Make 'em
Yourself?

Pattern 1741 is available In sizes
s, 8, 10, 10 and IA. Size 10 takes 13s
yards 81 inch fabric.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29

ing by those Shiny, ignorant cops,
net us about an average of 81 book
ings.
Now let's see the days pay that
a married man with two hungry
kids goes home with. He gets 40
per cent, which is $l60, with about
80 cents in tips, but here's where we
get trimmed. We don't get any
commission on the five cents tax
that we hand In to the company,
who pockets that, as there Is some
phony red tape about court proceed
ings.
Well, what are we going to do about
getting the commission on the tax?
You see, the bosses have a strong
association. If you cnen your mouth
and fight for what's yours, they
blackball you and you CAM geC a
cab nowheres. Ask me, know. I
was marked lousy for two years.
Hoping that your paper will take up
the struggle for the hackmen.
a FTGHTTNTx EJACEMAN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
A FIGHTING HICKMAN.

EDITORS NOTE:-The Taxi
Workers Union, at 80 E. 18th ST.,
Room 631, is growing in strength,
and will probably be in shape
pretty soon TO fight the entire black
balling system as well. All Eight
ing Hackmen," including yourself,
can hasten this day by joining up
and helping to organize on the
quiet, for the time being, and
openly when the organization gets
strong enough to show its teeth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
~ Doctor
LuHiinQef
Q1I,t4e4:

is one dessert spoon full (two tea.
spoons) thrice daily, before meals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred) for
his Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style num-
Der. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department. 243 West 18th
Street, New York City.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-10-05

lily OF their lines, also tune In per.
fectfy with the picture OF youth
These COATS fasfen authenticity Chi
nese. In that n side Is brought way
over to the other TO close either with
buttons or orn sort of d tricky metal
contrivance- The little inch-high col
lars on these oats look properly prim-
kInlona sleeves are good style not
only for coats. but for dresses as we'll.
For q c~ollege-giri choice we would call
attention TO the stunning rough crepe
frock on the girl seated In the picture
II Is decidedly new because of its fu
mic blouse which has wide-at-fhe arm
hole sleeves. the deep ridged silk
crepe which fashions Ii and because
1t is in n of the notably voguish
vibrant blues The collar liz black
satin with Persian lamb border.
Every college lassie should have d
tailored plaid wool daytime dress. non
that plaids are a @last word from
Paris The model pictured Mt the
right TO the top In this group liz tyra
caily collegiate. The belt In green
suede However. the plaid story does
not finish with gay woolens. for the
most ~scrumptious plaid veIrets have
arrived They are being made up into
striking blouses-Iook wonderful with
monotone velvet skirts.
Two fashion tips cleaned from the
brown crepe dress with Its orange-coI
ored scarf pictured to the lefty lis the
mass shirring which decorates the
sleeves. the scarf and the belt. and
the fact that the skirt In sheath-fftin
according to latest fashion dictates.
Glimpse the bracelets. for massive
bracelets are necessary Injuries which
college maidens simply must have.
Below is one of those swagger neH
soft felt hats which look like a mans
fedora Our college girls like them
immensely
C. 1883. Western Newspaper Unian.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-10-05
A FOUNDATION
OF FALL

Deserving the bright colors of mid
summer. the smart Parisienne has ne
turned to her fayorite black for morn
Ing, afternoon and evening. In d re-
cent interview a French woman whose
name Is synonymous with chic on two
continents, outlined a typical Paris
wardrobe. For daytime. her choice lis
a lightweight black wool coat cut with
wide shoulders and trim fitted waist
line This she wears over a black
sheer wool frock.
Her afternoon dresses include a vel
low and black printed crepe. worn
with black gloves and a small drar,ed
turban of black velvet. This she MI
ternates with a black satin jacket snit
with white satin blouse.
For Informal dining she wears d
simple black crepe frock, whose long
slender lines are accentuated by panels
Of pale blue at the sides