davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-06

Edsell Ford, son of Henry Ford,
born in Detroit, 40 years ago.
Dr. j. Bentley Squier of New
York, president of the American
College of Surgeons, born there,
go years ago.
u. S. Senator Louis Murphy of
Iowa, born at Dubuque, Ia, SO
years ago.
Cason ]. Galloway of Georgia,
textile manufacturer, born there,
80 years ago.
DIR. Ernest M. Hopkins, presi-
dent of Dartmouth College, born
at Dunbaton, N. H., Sc years
ago.
Bishop Henry X. Sheriff. of Bos-
ton, p. f. clergyman, born in New
York, 43 years ago.
Walter Johnson, onetime famous
big league petcher, born in Kansas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-06
sssssssssessssssssssssss
Today's Birthdays

Edsell Ford, son of Henry Ford,
born in Detroit, 40 years ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Men Hurt Thru Lack Girls Tricked by Macy
of Safety Devices and of Commission They
Speedup onCanalLocks Paid DuringRushTime
tBy a White Collar Worker Corresp.

(By White Collar Worker Corresp.)
NEW YORK CITY, am one of
several hundred girls laid off four
weeks ago at Macy's, for the slack
summer season. worked in the
Department Some weeks ago got
letter to report to the employment
Office. Most of the other girls also.
We we're told to report next day for
a half days temporary work, and to
start at 1915 and work till 4:45.
We are told nightly to return for
another half days work. We lose our
one per cent on sales that we form
erly got as staff employees. In this
way Macy's save hundreds of dollars
by using us hard-worked girls during
the rush hours and calling it "a half
day." They steal the extra few cents
we made daily on the sales percent
ages by the trick of re-employing us
under the head of temporary"
The girls all feel the injustice of
it and are realizing they are giving
five working days and only getting
five half days pay and no commits
SIGN. some OF us get 30 TO Slu week.
ly by this method. / told them we
are helping one of the owners to pay
his income tax.
Perhaps some girl in another de-
partment may write you. hope so.
There is rumor being spread, per-
haps to quiet the girls, that every
ones pay is going to be raised.
really think it is high time we Macy
Department Store girls should do
something. We work harder and
longer hours and have more expenses
in clothes and laundry than girls
working in the needle trades and
factories and shops, but what do we
get. Our pay and hours are cut to
help J. P. Morgan make profits and
pay his lawyers to evade his income
tax.
1 do hope some other Girls will fol-
low this letter. Most of them must
be thinking or resenting the raw deal
Macy's is giving us.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
(By a Furniture Worker Corresp.)

(By turntlurc worker SOrFeSp.1
KENOSHA, wis., see that there
are some articles in the Daily Worker
about doings in Kenosha. am work
ing at the Simmons Co. here. 1t
is part of the war machine. They
made about five thousand army cots
in five days with small crew.
I am a member of the Workmen's
Sick and Death Benefit Fund, and !
am entirely with the Daily Worker
in the fight on the eviction case on
Fox Street. Our national officials
think they are running a capitalist
organization and I will do all can
to wake up the membership to fight
these officials.
For about three months, the Sim
mons Co. have been working at full
speed, but not in all departments
mostly the mattress, spring and stu
dio couch. These departments have
put on the most men, and talk about
the speed-up - everything is rush
rush, rush! They have piled up
stock to the ceilings and they have
been working three shifts to do it.
Now they have cut down the hours
to eight on account of the MIRA. but
they only give a five per cent raise
in some departments and some work
not at all. Some workers never got
anything, but Simmons raised the
price of their products three times
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Johnson Tries to
Sell NRA Codes to
Working Wom en-
Also Appeals to Housewives, Forgetting Rise
in Cost of Milk and Bread Caused by
Roosevelt Program

General johnson was very careful
not to mention that the very &C -es
for which he asks the support OF
the women are causing rise in the
cost of living. These codes have
already caused the price Of milk to
rise 4 cents quart in Chicago.
And the price Of bread has risen
from l to 3 cents a pound all over
the country because of the Roosevelt
codes.
It is not T. uty of working
women or wive -orkerS to follow
"blindly' behint President to put
over the Nation .Gecovery Act. 1t
is their duty to their homes and
to their children to fight with their
menfolk for a decent living wage for
the employed, and for Unemploy-
ment Insurance at the expense of
the government and the bosses for
those who cannot find work.
ALL working class women should
n learn how the working women Of
st. Louis made the boss cough up
In the August issue Of The Working
Woman is a complete first-hand &C
count by the strike leaders, Carrie
Smith and Cora Lewis, Of how the
women of st. Louis did it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Walk Out Of A. F. OIL.
Chicago Heights Meet
(By a Worker Correspondent


CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill.-The
rejection of the company union by
the steel workers of Chicago Heights
has resulted in the reappearance of
the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, affil-
lated to the A. F. of L. These.fakers
are badly discredited here because
of their betrayal of the workers a
few years ago.
Their meeting Sunday, August
was complete failure. Only about
SO steel workers were present. To
make their meeting look somewhat
impressive, they had a number of
A. F. of L. members from the car
penters, bricklayers and other A. F.
of L. locals present. Otherwise the
hall would have been almost empty
Most of their speeches were de-
voted to praise of Roosevelt and the
NRA. At the close of the meeting
worker wanted to know if they
intended to run away with the work
ers' money like they did few years
ago. Another worker started to give
his experience as a member of the
A. f. of L. Machinists Union. But
the chairman refused to allow him
TO finish. Before the meeting adj
journed the workers started walking
out. Not a single worker signed an
application card.
The Steel and Metal Workers In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
MIRA Cuts Hours at Simmons
and Decreases Workers Wages

so far.
Yesterday the paper stated that
Simmons is completely under the N
RIA, and what happens? Most de-
partments are slowing down. In one
department they laid off one shift.
Some of the night men work only
a few hours and then are sent home,
The rolling mill and steel press al
ready sent home some of their day
men. The furniture only work one
or two days this week. So it looks
like general let-up all over Sim
mons.
What about the howl about the
NRA bringing back good times?
think it is all the bunk and we are
going to see worse times yet.
The workers want to be organized
and are taking anything that comes
along. The A. F. of l.. is signing
them up. We must fight against the
A. F. of l.. because they betrayed
us once before and will do so
again.
The workers must organize in ar
industrial union where they have full
control. The Furniture Workers In
dustrial Union is the only union that
is any good. So workers Of SIM
mons Company! Remember what
the ALL. did number Of years
ago, and join the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
No Chain Store Jobs
But Profits Rising
(By a Worker Correspondent,

(By Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The Amer
lean Stores Company, next to the
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., is the
largest chain grocery. meat provision
and miscellaneous store system in
Philadelphia and all its environs, in
Guiding virtually all of Eastern
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Della
ware. 1t has adopted the Retail
Stores Code. AS result the heavy
talons of the Blue Bird of Prey have
dug deeper into the pocketbooks of
the workers, the eagles neck is bend
ing over to give the beak a chance
to dig down even into emaciated
workers bodies for further drainage.
MIRA has in the cases of some
products dcub,ed the cost of many
o,c5 c'-0e Ju-'c ].
Can worker get a job at any
American Stores, Atlantic and Paci-
fic Tea Co., or any ether stores? No,
no jobs available. MIRA does not
mean that.
AS for the smaller chains and Gin
dependent" stores, they don't count,
even though most of them have sign
ed up and put up MIRA emblem
on the front window. Just the same
their days are numbered. In one
block on Richmond Street in Phila-
delphia, where nearly all the store
windows are trimmed a la MIRA, one
store instead, honestly enough, adj
mits in huge letters: Retail crisis!
Selling ont.
On the other hand, American
Stores reports sales of $S,615,951 for
the four weeks period ended July
/, 1893. The report says that this
is the first time since December 1890
that sales have been higher than
those Of the same month of the pre-
vious year.
Where did this increase of $767 ODE
come from? 1t came from out Of
the mouths not ,figuratively but ac-
tuslly of the working class and the
children of the working class. 1t was
in June that the American Stores
started to raise the price of all COM
modities. Especially heavy were the
raises in the most essential of staples
such as bread, milk, potatoes, eggs
etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16

vanced their season by three months.
They hired plenty of girls at the
lowest possible wages and made
them work at the highest possible
speed. Now they have a stock at
hand that will last well into the
next year. A stock produced at slave
wages and that will now be sold
at an so to 100 per cent profit I'M
der the famous plIce-raising Code.
The day the Code comes into effect
the people that created that stock
will be kicked into the street.
The speed-up in the shops is so
terrible that every day girls are
fainting from exhaustion.
Kaplan, out of kindness of heart,
has provided a camp cot for the
fainting ones, but the penalty he
exacts for fainting is that he docks
you every minute you lie unconscious
on the camp cot. So when you drop
under the killing pace they don't
send for the doctor, they send for a
time-keeper, to time the minutes
you spend on the cot. 80
The terrific speed-up is worked
this way: On each table is placed
an alarm cloc1. So many pieces of
work have to be produced in anJhour.
Every hour a checker counts your
work, but the standard for an hours
work is set so high that it is un-
attainable. After the fifth or eighth
hour you must produce as much as
the first hour. Pity to the girl that
falls behind half dozen or sol
In the midst of that nerverracking
speed-up you see the forewoman Il
couldn't say forelady), the picture
incarnate of the Roman slave
driver, jumping from one table. to
the other, urging, pushing, crying
or clamoring for more speed and
speed. The language she uses. would
put a tough" to shame: .!"Ras-
tards," Bitches" and "brats%1 are
her favorite appellations. soa
1t is forbidden to go to the wash
rooms during working hours. Here
you see women working under the
most inhuman conditions, and or
top of it all they must suffer pains
from not being allowed to attend
natural functions. And all this sc
that production shouldn't drop!
Everybody is paid somewhere from
SIS to $40 week. Every week or
each pay envelope the shortage is
marked in red ink, to make you be,
lieve that you have been loafine
half of the week. II you make S.
week you can expect to find mark.
ed on your envelope an average Of
81 to SO shortage. 4l.
AS we firmly believe you will print
this letter will you let US know wher
so that we can tell the hundreds o.
girls to buy the Daily Worker anc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Columbia, S. G.


Comrade Editor:
Studying the Open Letter to all
Party members am glad to know
that after Aug. IA the Daily Worker
will be 6-page paper. I would like
to see the Daily Worker in every
Negro and white workers home in
South Carolina. 1t is the paper for
the South. Please print this letter
in the Daily Worker.
Magnitogorsk, U.S.SR.
Comrade Editor:
After 30 years OF activity in the
labor movement it is pleasant to
watch the crashing of the capitalist
systems and to help to build Social
ism and base for a Communist
society under the leadership of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union.
At the present time the cleansing
of the Party is taking place here
very interesting part of the work .tc
build the Party and to build up in
dustries, to remove all the undesir-
able elements which only hinder the
work to carry out the Second Five
Year Plan.
Revolutionary greetings
I. SIROKY.
Tonganoxie, Kansas.
Editor of Daily Worker.
Dear Comrade:
Enclosed find money order for $3.50
which please put in the Daily Worker
fund. Will make it more If I can
dig it up. $3.50 Of this is contributed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Doctor
LuHnqeh
uduia:

(meaning swelling due to water) o,
the tissues and particularly Of ths
legs and ankles. The lack Of fresh
fruits, butter and vegetables in the
diet may also cause the body to
lose it's resistance to ordinary germs.
People who live on canned and pre-
served food will thus easily de-
velop pneumonia from an ordinary
cold.
Vegetables and Kidney TrosbIe
N. fare all vegetables good for
people who have kidney trouble?
Answer.-Nearly all; provided they
are not sailed or spiced. There are
two vegetables winch might agrra-
vate the disease. mushrooms and as
paragus. I would advise you not to
eat them.
Marie D.-A fellow worker has
recommended Peruna for painful
menstruation. Is it alright?
Answer.-Pcruna is patent medi-
cine which has absolutely no scien-
llllC value lua your COHQltlOu. olU
not know that. they were still SELL
ing it. ap,a
Dusty Trade
r. tt work in a broom factory,
and the Gust is something terrible
there. Is there way to prevent one
from breathing it?
Answer.-You should insist that the
owner install better ventilating and
exhaust machinery; also that he
furnish you with masks. If all the
workers irs the factory present
signed petition to that effect, he'll
have to listen to you. In the mean-
time, breathe through your nose, in
stead of the mouth, and wash your
nose and mouth with salt solution
Zone teaspoonful plain salt to one
glass of lukewarm water. In one
Of my future articles I'll discuss the
problem Of dust
Readers desiring health inform.
alton should address their letters
to DR.. Paul Luttinger, CO Daily
Worker. IS East 18th St., Hsv
! York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
by a Worker Correspondent

MINNESOTA CITY, Mimi want
to tell you of the conditions here on
the building Of the locks for the nine
foot channel.
My friend is carpenter that
worked on the job. They work six
shifts of four hours each. Carpen-
tiers receive so cents per hour; la
borers IS cents an hour; 7-day week
workers pay $3.50 per week for
board.
On July 81 three men were brought
up hurt because of the speed-up and
lack of safety measures. The speed
up is to the limit Of the mems en-
durance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
SCIENTIFIC VS.. SECTARIAN
MEDICINE

Let it be understood from the
very beginning that this column
will be run along scientific, not sec
tartan lines. Scientific medicine is
based on the discoveries in the fun
damental sciences, not on any sin
gle theory or particular method OF
treatment. Sectarian medicine, such
as chiropractic, homeopathy, osteo-
pathy, naturopathy and all the fifty
seven varieties of cults, follows a
certain dogma, or tenet, very much
alike to certain religious principles,
which is based on the sole authority
of the founder of the cult and ex-
Guiding the experiences of the ma
jority of scientists.
The principles of scientific medi-
cine followed in this column repre-
sent the majority opinion as taught
in the medical colleges Of the world.
They are the same principles which
guide the Soviet authorities in their
endeavors to prevent and cure the
physical and mental diseases OF the
Russian worker. There is no room in
this column, therefore, for fads and
CullS. lIlUSe WHO have ouiC VuiCo
for cancer or who are itching to
exploit quack remedies under the
guise of "radicalism" will find no
support in this column. On the
contrary, from time to time every
fad, cult and quackery will be mer-
cilessly exposed for the benefit of
the workers health and pocketbook
Their fallacies, misconceptions and
exaggerations will be discussed, SO
that the readers may be prepared
to knowingly rebuke anybody at
| tempting to deceive them.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
| Swollen Ankles, Diet and Pneumonia
Question:: Can lack Of proper diet
caus swelling of the ankles and
pneumonia?
Answer: Yes. 1t has been found
in ordinary medical practice and il
has been demonstrated by labora-
tory experiments on animals tina!
the lack of certain vitamins In the
diet will ultimately cause edna
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Pocket Book Workers
Sold Out After Strike

BROOKLYN, N. Y. = We are
members of the International
Pocket-Book Workers Union, af-
filiated to the A. F. of L. Our
place has been on strike for 7
weeks. Our so-called union has
come to settlement with the
bosses.
General helpers are getting $40
and packers are getting $12.
Editors Note: For certain
reasons we are withholding the
name of this shop. The Pocket
book Workers Rank and File
Committee at IS e. 18th ST.,
New York City will be glad to
advise these workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
C.C.C. Cuts Wages =.
of Woodsmen
lBy a Worker Correspondent

BOYD, Wash-The Citizens Con-
servation Corps from the East are
getting established in their camps
with a lot of cheering and hand
waving ON the G. G. C. side. If they
are all like those I saw disembark
here, the local woodmen will be wet
lurses for the next or months
for these youngsters who have never
been off the paved streets.
This c. C. c. project automatically
cuts the wages here for local woods
men to 81 a day and board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
$3.50 for Four Days
Work, 8-Hours Each
(By Worker Correspondent

BLOOMFIELD. N. 1.-THE Stand
ard Container Company is racket
sweatshop combination that is hard
to beat.
Upon being hired by this outfit re-
Gently, worker was told that she
would have to work only eight hours
daily, five days a week for s12. Far
enough in these hard times, she
thought. Sire wsc very quickly dis
illutioned however.
After working four days, she was
handed a check for the magnificent
total Of $1.20. Indignantly, she quit
on the spot. From what she has seen,
she is convinced that this is regular
racket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16

Pattern 1879 is available In sizes
II, IA, 16, 10 and 20. Size Is takes
35s yards 39-inch fabric. Illustrated
step by step sewing instructions in
cluded with pattern.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS q5c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred
for this 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
St, New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Letters from Our Readers

by another lad and will try and rustic
some more.
I would like TO see you run an
article in the Daily Worker and pick
this money racket to pieces and ex-
plain it in simple terms. Tell us how
money ie made and what ie hack of
it, and how the value is fixed. In
short, show us how they hook us and
what they do when they initiate cur
rency, go off the gold standard, is
sue money and explain it as simply
as you can from Communist view
point. Alter you get through reading
a capitalist explanation of money.
you don't know any more than when
you started, which is what they want
I realize that the Daily Worker must
live and grow. Good luck to you.
Will dig UP some more funds later.
Respectfully,
-E. b. H.
Chicago, III.
Comrade Editor:
1t is my opinion that now, when
the Daily becomes large paper that
we should have more articles on diff
ferent fields. For instance in Chi
cago, we have been neglecting the
teachers mass movement almost en-
tirely, and same holds true in regard
to the "wrecking" of the schools
Hundreds Of thousands Of people are
interested on these matters but we
don't take advantage of them.
Maybe you could drop line or
two to our comrades here instruct
ing them to take up some Of these
problems.
We are improving the SAX :
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
Can You Make 'em
Yourself =?

This has been suggested as a party
dress, but it is SO simple in style
that we believe it would be quite
suitable to wear to work Off you're
one of those who can find it, No
tee the way the sash tiss in the
back? We ourselves could never re-
sist sashes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
BY LOUISE BROWN


IN SUNDAY, General johnson few
v to St. Louis to talk about the
National Recovery Act. One-third Of
his speech was an appeal to the
women of the community. He tells
them that the final success Of the
Act will be determined by their CO.
operation. He urges the women to
organize into committees to see that
the tradespeople and factory owners
in their towns sign up under this
Act. Also, that they should buy
nothing from dealers who do not
display the Blue Eagle, and hat
they should see that the food and
goods that come into their homes
should be 100 per cent Blue Eagle
material.
WHY does johnson pick st. Louis
W for such speech? Why does he
appeal especially to the women Of
st. LOUISE For the simple reason
that the working women Of st. Louis
have just proved by a successful
strike that the best way to improve
their standard of living, the best
way to have their wages raised, is
not by having the boss sign up
under the National Recovery Act,
but by a real fight against him.
They did this with good strong
picket line and active work i'll the
neighborhood to get support for
their struggle from their families
and neighbors.
There is no mention in Johnson's
speech that there are working
women in st. Louis There is no
mention of the heroic strike OF the
Negro nut-pickers who fought heroic
ally for ten days before the boss
agreed to their demands.
And why does the General try so
hard to whip up patriotic hysteria
among the working class women in
the homes? 1t is because he is try
ing to divide the working women in
the kitchens from their husbands
who are feeling the effects Of the
codes in the factories, who are pre-
pairing to fight against them.
m HIS speech there is only talk
about patriotism and getting be-
aind the government; he calls it
following "blindly" the demand of
the President for a blanket starva-
ton wage. He says that there can
be a decent standard of living for
the people" only if they back up
this Act. Aren't the workers ''peo-
Pile? If the Act benefits them, why
are they beginning to rise all over
the country against it? Because
under the new wage scale, even with
an increase, the new wage does not
keep up with the rising cost of
living. There is not enough money
to provide mix for the workers
children. to pay higher rents, and
guy clothing for their families
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16

Write TO the Daily Worker about
every event of interest to workers
which occurs in your factory. trade
union, workers organization or To-
cality. BECOME A WORKER COR
RESPONDENT!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-16
So a Week for L
Hr. Day in Rag Firm
(By a Worker Correspondent

DENVER, Colo. - A bag and rag
firm by the name of j. Sheffield &
Co., pays its workers wage of only
So a week for twelve hours a day.
1t is evident that Denver is ruled
by slave-masters. while the widows
and children are crying for bread
Conditions like this cannot exist
much longer.
Let's wake ZIP, workers. and fight
to the finish to end the rotten con-
ditions now existing here.