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The daily worker., 1933-10-11
Churches Fight
BrOcktOn Strike
BY Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY Shoe Worker Correspondent
BROCKTON, Mass.-Received a re-
quest several weeks ago to report on
conditions. I was at that time in
Maine. I have travelled over 5,700
miles since then. carrying my family
with me. No work anywhere at the
shoe trades.
Was in Milwaukee when the leath-
er workers went out. Arrived here in
Brockton on September IA. Observed
conditions for a week. Eventually
managed to force an increase in pick
cts, also gave program of relief, and
through rank and file assistance
forced the acceptance of relief plan.
Several of rank and file seek to force
the officials to real action, but lack
leadership. shall try to do all can
to get action.
I am now building group to
strengthen rank and file theology in
the mass. These workers are not very
class conscious due to boss" COM
plex. The churches here are using
every weapon to break the strike.
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
Detroit Unit Passes Oavn
Quota; Challenges Others

NEW YORK, N. Y.-An EFFECTIVE
means of rallying workers to the sup
port of the DAILY WORKER $4,000
drive is by means of challenging.
Many organizations and individual
workers have issued challenges to.
each other and have found it stimu-
lating in their work.
Unit TIA of Detroit, Michigan,
writes that with this note you will
find enclosed a challenge which we
like to see printed in the earliest pos
Sible edition Of the DAILY WORKER.
my unit has taken the $4,000 drive
very seriously and is working at it
with full energy. The section has
set our quota at $40.
1--WE have already overfulfilled this
by sending in $11 which was printed
in the Daily" of Sept. 25. The unit
unanimously decided last night to
raise this amount to $25 or more. To
fulfill this we are arranging the
second house party in the near fu-
ture."
The challenge reads as follows:
unit IA, Section 7, District 7, chal-
lenges all units Of Detroit and Section
particularly by pledging with full
force to raise its Daily Worker $40, 900
drive quota from $40 to $25 or more.
The unit has already overfulfilled its
original quota of $40 by sending in
$11. We do our part for the DAILY
WORKER"
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
AN n. r. A. SYSTEM
by a Worker Correspondent

ASHTABULA, Ohio.-Here is how
the N. R. A. is worked here on the
Great Lakes Leading vessel own
ers have under their managing own
ership fleet Of large bulk freighters
that transport iron, ore, coal, grain,
stone, etc,
These owners would load boat
with coal at Lake Erie port, then
proceed up to the head of the Lakes.
perhaps Duluth. There she might
load grain for Buffalo or Erie. Pa,
to hold for winter. The same is done
with other ships.
Now this running whereby a
boat makes Just one or two trips a
season, and then lays off the crew,
can well be called the N. R. A. or
the NO RUNNING AGAIN system.
NEW YORK.-Last week I applied
for a job at the Walter B. Stevens &,
Son Co., SO Warren ST., which makes
'og collars and harness. They said
they want a cutter and they wanted
to hire me. 1 said what is the
The daily worker., 1933-10-11

result Of the struggles. Unless this
becomes an integral part of our work
in the unions, then we cannot con-
ceive that our Party will march for"
ward at more rapid pace than here
tofore.
Recruit Into Our Ranks
Our systematic planned recruiting
in the factories and unions will de-
velop more rapidly If we simultane~
ously strengthen and improve our
mass agitation and propaganda. The
workers should see the Communist
Party, every day, everywhere. The
Party must explain all political events
in leaflets, shop papers, meetings,
through the Daily Worker. And in
all of the activities in the shops, In
the. unions, among the unemployed
and other mass organizations, we
SHOULD recruit for the Party. No dis
trict, section committee, unit or frac-
ton meeting should conclude without
taking up correctly the problem of
recruiting. The Party must be there
where the masses are working, liv-
ing. suffering and fighting, If we
want to win over the majority of the
proletariat. And in these places-we
have to recruit the best, most class
conscious, most active, most cour-
ageous workers into our ranks.
Never before was the connection
Of the government with the bosses
of the factories so evident as now.
There is no economic struggle or
strike where the MIRA. does not play
a strike breaking role; where the city,
state and federal administration does
not directly intervene against the
workers, through arbitration and with
the aid of the city and state police,
or national guards. In such sit
uation the Party and every single
member of the Party has the revo-
lutionary duty to bring to the work.
ers on the basis Of their practical ex-
periences the role Of the capitalist
state, the essence of bourgeois DEM
ocracy, the betraying role of the So
cial l-fascists on the one hand and
the revolutionary role OF the Com
munist Party on the other.
The Open Letter has stated that
never before was the situation in
the country so favorable for the
development Of the Communist Party
into real revolutionary mass Party"
This must be understood by every
Party member. This should permeate
the ranks OF every Party unit. And
with confidence and boldness we
should not hesitate to bring into our
ranks thousands Of new workers.
The daily worker., 1933-10-11

Unless you want to count German
potato pancakes, which We'll be hay
my one of these days Il hope.) And
those will be pipe, after all your
experience.
Some custards for breakfast (to-
morrow may be baked while the oven
is hot, either before or after the other
dishes. Recipe by Bonita; to each
egg lightly beaten, add gradually Ia
tablespoons maple sugar Cor granu-
lated white) and 2-3 cup very warm
mot boiling milk. Salt and sprinkle
with nutmeg. Qf you like nutmeg
H. L.
Pour into custard cups set in pan
OF hot water. Fill cups to top. stir
down foam, put into low oven. and
increase heat. Watch carefully; test
with knife. When knife comes out
clean, remove. Mote. Cup custards
need 1926 F. about 40-45 minutes. If
cooked too fast or too long, it will
separate and be ''watery.'') And now
may serve
Iooays Most Pungent Slice of
Boloney
From the column in the N. c. Am
erican, by Arthur Brisbane:
Human beings have discovered
that you can't change the nature of
man suddenly and violently or force
MIN by law to establish new habit
or submit to the rule of minority.
however sincere" Later, in the same
column: This Is big country for
dictator to handle. Stain does it
in Russia, twice as big as the United
States, but Russians have always been
governed by somebody, and are used
to it,"
How nice. Mr.. Brisbane writes not
only about mankind; he writes about
Russians too. And now If YOU can
stand another slice, here it is, and
from the same column.
More than ten millions of men
have been idle in the United States
for some years, and great majority
OF them are still idle. Wouldn't it
be well to give them SOME KIND
OF A DOLLAR and some kind of a
job, without insisting on gold or plat
inum2 A paper dollar would suit
them nicely"
With which to buy saWdust break
last food, no doubt. And how I love
the sweet bourgeois trick of enumer-
ating the unemployed as "over ten
million. 1t tempts one to assert pos
itively that there are "over six" Reds
among 'efp, strange as 1t may seem.
To get back to more nutritious
subjects. ! want to ask the N. Y. G.
comrade who sent that nice recipe
for chocolate cake with chocolate
icing to drop us a postcard and specify
whether the latter takes two big
spoons or little spoons each of but
ter and milk.
The daily worker., 1933-10-11

from Washington and Figueroa. The
Boyle Heights contingent numbered
three hundred. From Central and
18th, 500 commenced the Hunger
March. From Echo Park and Temple,
Lincoln Park and North Main, and
san Fernando and North Broadway,
three columns Of about 100 or more
each swung towards the Plaza, with
police escorts.
Despite the fact that at the last
moment the permit to march was
rescinded, despite the scareheads in
the capitalist press that violence
was feared" and that the Com
nunists should be turned over to the
firing squad" of the police. the work
ers of Los Angeles, thousands strong,
marched, assembled in the Plaza,
and militantly voiced their demands,
winning the streets for the unem-
cloyed for the day,
Police Intimidate
The police ordered the workers to
over their placards and banners,
nd in order to keep the march or
ierly and disciplined the workers
complied with these orders. One
worker, carrying a banner, reached
for his handkerchief and in doing
this raised his banner trifla. I'M
mediately a cop jumped upon him
and hit him from behind. The work.
ers protested this action and for ten
Of fifteen minutes prevented the ar
rest of the worker by circling around
him In the end, however, the thugs
captured him and took him to Jail in
D ,7atrol car.
The demonstration Of the workers
at the plaza began with the reading
Of the demands issued by the United
Front Conference Against Hunger,
representing 143 organizations with
a membership of 10000 These de-
mands were presented to the Board
Of Supervisors.
At 2 o'clock a committee of 40
workers was elected from the work
ers which was sent to see the Board
Of Supervisors. Over thousand
workers went with the committee, in
order to show their solidarity with
their fellow workers.
The workers waited about the
Plaza for the return of the commit
tee.
At around o'clock the committee
returned from the board of super
/, yisors, and Lawrence Ross, speaking
in the name Of the Communist Party,
gave the report. In reply to the de-
mand OF 81 per 6-hour work day and
minimum OF 10 days per family, and
two additional days for each de-
pendent every thirty days, the super
visors stated that they did not have
the finances to permit this. The
workers booed this statement. Ross
stated that if the relief money were
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
ST. Louis Paper Box
Workers Looking to
TUUL for Leadership
BY a Worker Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-The Robert Gay
lord Box factory here uses many
young workers II and 10 years old.
They make heavy duty boxes out of
paper, using a machine called a
stitcher. A worker on this machine
that can stitch a thousand boxes an
hour gets paid 80 cents an hour.
A young worker 1s years old is on
one of these machines and taking it
easy he can do his task, but the boss
es use the speed-up system on them.
The owner of the plant looks over
the work and tells the worker for
every 500 extra boxes he turns out
he gets a bonus.
Well, the worker starts and gets
out an extra thousands or two boxes
a day, and the bosses give him 15c
for 500 and keep 15c for the other
500 extra boxes.
This company has started COM
pany union charging the workers $40
for joining, with 10 weeks to pay
their initiation fee. Most of the
younger workers in this shop are
looking towards the TUUL for lead
ership.
The daily worker., 1933-10-11


may be peeled or not, as YOU like.
Apples, too, pared, cored, and cut into
sections, may be prepared in the same
way, to serve with pork.
The kids will get a big kick" out
OF them. If the cinnamon candies
are not available in your locality, use
plain stick or powdered cinnamon.
Prepare gelatine dessert for dinner, at
breakfast time.
To make celery soup, boil a stalk
/ OF cleaned, chopped celery with a
2 small sliced onion. When partly done.
slice a raw peeled potato thinly into
1t. Season well with salt, pepper, and
butter. When celery is soft, add milk
to make enough soup. It may be
thickened with flour if desired; and
some chopped parsley improves it a
lot.
For salad use pineapple, cottage
cheese, dressing, and lettuce.
Get enough lamb shanks for your
family, wash, and put in roaster. Put
IN several carrots, Scraped and halved.
With a whole Glove stuck in each
half; also several small peeled onions,
and a stick of celery or some leaves
saved from lunchtime.
Add bayleaf or two if YOU have
some. Pour in cup or more of
water, cover, and roast. Have oven
hot for first Is minutes (about 500 F.)
then reduce $3.50 F.) Skim off fat
II there's too much; add water as
necessary. Uncover to brown.
The potatoes may bake at the same
time. They need to be peeled; then
butter a baking dish or pan. Cover
the bottom with layer of potatoes,
sliced thin. Sprinkle on it salt, pep
per, bits of butter, and a light sift-
ing OF flour. Repeat layers until
potatoes are all used. Butter top
rather generously. Pour in milk un-
Ntil potatoes are nearly covered, put
Of lid, and bake until they are soft.
They take a lot of time, so prepare
them as soon as the meat is In oven,
Uncover pan to brown them.
IODAY'S MENU
Breakfast
Cinnamon pears
5uckwheat cakes, bacon, syrup
Milk
Lunch
Cream of Celery Soup
Poppy-seed rolls
Pineapple and Cheese Salad
Tea or Ginger Ale
Dinner
Roast Lamb Shank with Carrots
Escalloped Potatoes
Fresh Sliced Tomatoes
Coffee
Lime Gelatin with Spiced Snaps
The beginners should cheer up. We
have been through all the standard
ways Of doing potatoes except plain
baked. French fried, and au gratin
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
Workers Describe NRA Conditions
Nitrite Put Into Government
Meat to Improve Appearance

act in small quantities, under the
speed-up system mistakes are fire.
quently made, too much nitrate is
used, or it is not properly mixed with
the salt or the brine. Meat so treated
is mpalatable, not to say unwhole-
some, causing a sick stomach, as the
writer knows from his own experience
and what he has heard from others.
The cooking process usually removes
most of the danger. but not all of it
where an excess of nitrite is used.
The pig killing is about over with
here just now, and the meat that
has been some time in salt is being
cut up into squares of about six
pounds average, wrapped in paper
and sent to cold storage for future
use.
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
THE OLD ARMY GAME
BY Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK CITY.-At Bohack's
the clerks gained a reduction in
hours at the expense of their wages.
Where many worked for IS. rs and
80 hours week the time has now
been cut to 48 hours. Many who
were working for SIG, SIT or $18 per
week were Immediately lowered to
SIS.
In respect to the irregularity of
their working days they have be-
come the slaves of the arbitrary wills
Of their individual store managers.
A clerk (Reeves) may be working
two hours in the morning and be
sent for at his home to work a few
hours before supper. If it is Satur-
day he may be called upon late in
the evening. But the next days his
hours may be totally different.
The daily worker., 1933-10-11

Pattern 1543--sizes small, med
ium and large. Small size takes
1 3-4 yards 36 inch fabric, s 3-4
yards binding. Pattern 1545-
sizes small, medium and large.
Small size takes / yard SO inch
fabric. illustrated step-by-step
sewing instructions included with
each pattern.
Each of these models is 15c (s0c
for both). Send coins or stamps
(coins preferred). Please write
very plainly your NAME, AID.
DRESS, STYLE NUMBER and
SIZE and pattern ordered.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 West 17th
Street, New York City.
Patterns by mail only. -
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
DELEGATES SHOULD
BE RECRUITED FOR THE PARTY
Neu vork

Comrade Editor:
I write from the hall where the
last session Of the Congress Against
War is about to be held.
This has been successful United
Front, and as a Communist I am
proud Of the achievement of the
Party.
Now what? I say build the Party
from this action. We know that the
majority of delegates who are not
Party members will join If somebody
has the sense to ask them. I suggest
that the G. G. hold every district and
section leadership responsible to re-
cruit into the party the majority of
delegates from their own area. If
they cant, then they are not fit to
lead a Bolshevik Party, even though
1t does hurt some peoples feelings.
Forward to mass Party. We
farmers of Pennsylvania will do our
share!
M. &.
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
(By a Worker Correspondent


SIOUX CITY, Ia,--In your issue of
Sept. %, you print letter from an
Omaha correspondent describing the
manner in which what we call the
meat from the government pigs" is
being handled. He is correct in what
he says about the curing process.
But he either omitted or forgot to
mention that stuff called "nitrite, :"
a salt of nitrous acid, is mixed in
with the salt and in the brine which
is pumped into the meat before being
salted. This nitrite is not necessary
in curing the meat, but it makes it
look well. While most of the packers
use it there are some who do not.
Though the use of this stuff is per-
missible under the food and drug
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Wants to Adopt Child

Wants to Adopt Child
L. T., Brooklyn:-As you rightly
observe, such a matter Is not strictly
within our province. Nevertheless, we
happen to know of some children
who could be adopted. Nearly all
of them, however, have certain res
trtctions. Have you any preference
as to age, sex, race? Again, do you
expect to adopt the child legally?
And If not, are you prepared to have
the parent (there is usually one Wis
ible) takew the child back when
economic conditions permit it, after
you have lavished your love and
money on the child for years? Fur
thermore, do you want the mother to
know you or do you wish to remain
incognito (unknown)? Finally, a GER
tain investigation is necessary under
all circumstances, just as the child
must be examined and certified that
it is free from hereditary disease. Are
you willing to come up to see us or
permit us to visit your home?
We mention all these OBSTACLES be-
cause the adoption of a child Is a
serious undertaking, not to be en-
tered into without prolonged reflec-
tions. Many cases we know have
turned out to be tragic for all con-
cerned. Please. think this matter over
and be sure you are not acting i'm
pulsively. Let us hear from you again
and pardon our professional caution.
It Is based on bitter experience and
on the desire to be permanent, rather
than temporary service to you.
Seven Weeks After
L. D., New York City Seven
weeks after delivery you may resume
your baths, as well as as your wifely
"duties." AS to douching, there is no
necessity, unless you are suffering
from leucorrhea ("whites'D or some
other inflammation. There Is entirely
too much douchlng going on among
our younger set.
AS to your husband, we should be
glad. to see him, just because you
have no money. Regarding your
ebony haired, "reed-like" friend, bring
her too. We just paid our rent and
we feel reckless!
Wants q Baby
Fanny F.--Will miracles never
cease? To want a baby nowadays,
when the boy friend Is not working,
requires courage indeedl And are
you sure "the family will take care
of you?" Brothers and sisters who
are put through college have a way
of failing us personally, as well as
the revolutionary movement) at the
most critical moment. However, as you
seem to be determined young lady
and you have reached the dangerous
thirties, the step is, to make sure
that your boy friend is capable OF
being a boy, besides being friend
We are writing you privately con-
corning the strategy, tactics, dip
lomacy and feminine wiles to be en-
ployed in order to induce a reluctant
male to submit to medical exam
ination which might disclose an i'm
paired virility.
Sauerkraut Juice
A. I. NJ, Galveston, Texas.--We
are glad to hear that sauerkraut
juice has regulating effect upon
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The daily worker., 1933-10-11
THE N.R.A IN CHARLESTON
By a Worker Correspondent

CHARLESTON, w. va,-The cost
OF living is increasing by leaps and
bounds, while wages remain where
they always were-at a semi-starva-
tion level.
The merchants are using the Blue
Buzzard as an alibi for increasing
prices. When it sornes to increasing
wages in proportion to the increase
in the cost of living, 1t Is not being
done, and no one can mid out why.
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
Can You Make En-
Yourself?

Here are very nice aprons for
the mother and little daughter who
go for cooking in big way. Little
daughter has a cat-pocket to keep
the straying "hankie" from getting
lost; mother has a ruffle to help
catch the spills"
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
WORKER MAILBAG

wages. Sixteen dollars week. 1
said can't pay rent and gas and
feed four children on that.
For $12 years made $41.25 a week,
and now with the New Deal and the
N. R. A. the wages are SIG!
The daily worker., 1933-10-11

Interested" New York. Since you
do not give us your name and ad-
dress, we cannot help you in finding
out what delayed your application.
There are various reasons why appli-
cations are sometimes delayed. The
other points you raise have been
carefully noted.
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
~ Doctor
~LAHn9eh
udUle1:

Pile have had the same resultS-when
they drink the real juice. Strange
as 1t may seem, the sauerkraut can
ned by the large canneries is more
likely to be the genuine article than
the one sold privately on stands.
This Is probably due to the fact
that the canned product is distri-
buted through interstate shipment
and, hence, comes under the Federal
Pure Food Law.
You need not feel any i'll effects
from the daily use of sauerkraut
juice. A certain great-grand father
OF our acquaintance, inbibed it for
eighty years, and became father at
the age of 80; but those were the
days before electric refrigeration, if
you get our point.
ri, Epilepsy?
E. B.-The history of your casa
is very clear, concise and complete;
but you forgot to inform us as to
the age wher you first began to get
the attacks. This Is very important
point, because the diagnosis of Doc.
tor No. 5 seems to be the correct one,
Did you get these attacks since child
hood or did they follow a head in-
jury? From the fact that Doctor No.
6 made no diagnosis, we presume
that he, like No. (chiropractor) is
an irregular practitioner. Did YOU
try the vegetarian uIet without tIle
pills? If SO, the pills must contain
some depressing drug like medinaI
or other barbituric acid compound
which Is the cause Of your continual
sleepiness. The vegetarian diet was
given you merely as a blind. a1-
though we believe that 1t Is bene-
ficiai in epilepsy. 31e-
Have you ever tried the Ketonic
diet? 1t consists of eating mostly
rats, such as, butter, olive oil, bacon.
cream, nuts Except peanuts) chicken
iat with q very small amount of
bread and green vegetables. Spices.
meat and alcoholic drinks are to kbe
avoided. .,r
seFf
- Health of Party Workers sd-
Fanny f., BrookIyn.-You should
nave trusted US to know that others
tnan Party members read the Daily
Worker. The reason we ran a series
q articles on the health problems Of
Party members, is because we were
asked to do 50 by our comrade Chief
Editor. We write daily about the
health problems of all workers: but
Party workers hive specific health
hazards which it was important to
discuss before anything else. This
Is. no reflection on those working
men who are not members of the
Farty, but to discuss the industrial
and occupational diseases alone
would have required several books.
We could only mention a. few points
which affect Party workers more par
ticularly, leaving the ills they share
IN common with other workers for
future discussion.
Please remember that we consider
the interests of the large proletarian
masses above everything else. We
discuss their health problems in
every column, every day in the year.
The specific hazards of its rni'itant
leadership filled the space of only
lelght MAJ &C .lrlai-.
sss.. Readers desiring health information
should address their letters to DR.. Paul
Luttlnger, CO Daily weskes, = 4. 1ath
The daily worker., 1933-10-11

working men worse by their speed
up system, making them do II
hours work in eight hours for the
same pay.
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
IN TIE HEH0nEa5Ii| 5
By HELEN LUKE

jolly comrade in the composing gains pounds per
"eek from reading the half that much from,
writing em, doggcne ~ ~ Oll
MAKE emma mon pears boil haed pears in syrup made
20 water to Is sugar and tablespoon cinnamon ul
The daily worker., 1933-10-11
Over 100000 Took Part in
Los Angeles Hunger March
Jobless Place Demands for Immediate Aid
Before Board of Supervisors

ANGELES working
aniatn the hunger march last Monday estimated
central points the Plaza
police