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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
MISLEADING A STRIKE

Conrade Editor:
AS we stated in our letter to the
Daily Worker last week, the window
cleaners of Greater New York were
called out on general strike last
Monday, by the bureaucratic leader
ship of the A. F. of L. Union, Local
No. 2.
Due to the existing miserable con-
ditions, hours and wages in both
union and open shops, the spontane-
Gus response from the rank and file
was excellent. Thursday, the fourth
day of the struggle, practically all the
men who worked in the contractors
shop were out, and have caused a
stoppsge to such an extent that VIC
tory is we'll within reach.
The corrupt leadership, seeing this,
and fearing that the strike may get
so far out of control as to really &C
complish something for the workers
already begins to talk of splitting the
strike. Their idea is to send men
back to work for all shops which are
now willing to sign, while the men
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09

ticism. 1t regards the criticism Of
the two comrades who wrote to the
Daily Worker as in the main correct.
The LID. has neglected to arouse
the workers to determined struggle
against the arbitrary acts of the
Parole Commission, which has time
and again proved itself a strike
breaking organ of the Bosses
The legal steps which have been
taken by the International Labor De-
Tense in the Blum case have not
been backed up by organized mass
pressure. This is the only effective
weapon of the working class in fight
ing against capitalist justice. Three
writs of habeas corpus have been
procured by the LID, but were I'M
supported by mass protest, and hence
were of no avail. Let there be no
legalistic illusions. Blum will not
find his way to freedom through writs
of habeas corpus alone. The masses
must be modified for mass defense.
This is the major task of the LID.
Twice the LID. forced hearing
for Blum before the Parole Commits
sion, but again neglected to organ
ize mass action to support the argu-
ments of LID. attorneys. In each
case, the Parole Commission white
washed itself and Blum remains In
prison.
The case OF Leon Blum must be
linked up with the fight to free Ter
zani and other class war prisoners.
It is no isolated issue but Is part
and parcel of the vicious campaign
of terror now waged against the
working class on every front.
Blum has already served six
months of a one year sentence given
him by the Parole Commission and
supported by the courts. The Inter
national Labor Defense, accepting the
criticism of the comrades who wrote
to the Daily Worker, will redouble
It's efforts to bring into being such
mass protest movement as will
expose the class nature OF the Parole
Commission and the courts, and re-
suit In the freedom of Leon Blum
and his release from the custody Of
the Parole Commission.
Build the International Labor Ne
fense!
For tbs reseese os al Glass wse
prisoners.
N. Y. District, LID,
30 East t1th st., No. $50, N.x.c.
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! the criticisms by several worker cor
respondents of the shortcomings to
date in the campaign to effect the
release of Blum The letter follows
In the Daily Worker of October 3,
there appeared two letters criticizing
the New York District of the Inter
national Labor Defense for its failure
to organize a mass campaign of pro-
test against the frame-up and i'm
prisonment of Leon Blum by the
New York State Parole Commission
for his militant activity in the recent
strike of the Laundry Workers In
dustrial Union.
The New York District of the In
ternational Labor Defense is keenly
aware of it's shortcomings and fail
ures in this case, and is taking all
steps to correct them, and build a
real mass campaign for the freedom,
not only of Leon Blum, but of all
other class war prisoners as well.
Such a campaign is now being or
ganized with concentration in the
Bronx, where Leon Blum is best
known, and where the Laundry
WOTktIS 1IluuSLlldl UNION mas us
headquarters. A joint defense COM
mittee, composed of members of the
International Labor Defense and the
Laundry Workers Union, is working
on the campaign. A special mass
meeting of the LID, the Union, and
their sympathizers is being called
within two weeks, at which delega-
ton will be elected to proceed to
Albany and demand of the Governor
an open investigation of the Parole
Commission and the immediate re-
lease of Blum. This delegation will
bear ten thousand petitions covered
with signatures of workers protesting
this frame-up. Following the cleo
ton of the delegation, a mass con-
ference will be held in the Bronx to
rally the support of all workers and
their organizations for this campaign
and to follow the delegation with a
series of mass actions designed to
compel the release of this class war
prisoner.
In addition, the workers of the en-
tire city will be called upon to flood
the Governor and the Parole Com
mission with wires, letters and reso-
lutions of protest against this frame
up.
The International Labor Defense at
all times welcomes constructive cri-
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failure, it was because he was driven
until his heart broke, as has hap
pened to many others on the water
front without anyone hearing Of it.
Another very similar incident hap
pened on the P. g. N. few weeks
ago, but the worker is not yet dead.
He was working in the hold of Steve
dore Bucks ship and fell out from
overhead. He had to be carried out
and laid on the dock, and was left
there. No attempt was made to get
doctor or aid of any kind. Some
time later, the Simon Legree came
out of the ship and asked: Where is
that damned niger that fell out?"
AS a result this worker will not be
fit for work any more this summer.
But the speed-up goes on. Can we
stop it? Yes, and we will have to as
time goes on. The strength of the
workers is the weakness OF the bosses.
We can and will organize In spite
Of the bosses. LONGSHOREMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Barron Collier
Embarrassed by
NRA He Boosted
By a Subway Worker Correspondent

By a Subway Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK-As a former en-
ployee of the Barron Collier News
Service, Inc, the company which
owns the newsstands in the |. r. t,
and B. M. t. subways, permit me
to corroborate the letters published
the last few weeks in the Daily
Worker. Everything they write
about the abominable conditions eX-
isting in the subway newsstands IS
true.
What surprised me, however, is
the fact that these correspondents
have failed to link up the head of
the corporation, Barron Collier.
with the gentleman who has been
signing his name to lying, propa-
gandistic messages about good
times and prosperity which will
come to the American worker if he
be but hopeful and patient and
trust in the President of the U. 5.
These messages found on the adj
vertising posters Of every subway
train have been appearing periodi-
cally for the last few months.
Lately these red, white, and blue
pIacards have been conspicuous by
their absence. Evidently Barron
Collier doesn't like to have 1t
known that many of the subway
newsstand workers receive So for
full weeks work, which is even be-
low the $12 minimum supposed to
Re provided in the N. R. A. blanket
code
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planes throughout the U. S., has been
prepared under the auspices of the
US. Amateur Air Pilots Association,
the National Aeronautical Associa-
ton (Air- Trust lobby, the Army, the
Sportsmen's Pilots Association, the
American Legion, the Aviation Club
IF Hicksville millionaire Playground
and the Roosevelt Administration
Ostensibly announced as a charity
lSfair, the proceeds to be distributed
amongst such organizations as the
Judson Health Center, Emergency
Exchange Association and Junior
League draining grounds for bored
society cebutantes and millionaire
philanthropists) the real significance
and underlying facts for this military
demonstration can be summarized in
the words of one of the jingoists, who,
when asked for the reasons for this
pageant replied, finally, this will
be the starting point for enlighten
ing our people on the need for air
defense and air attack"
1t must be realized that these de-
Tense preparations are not isolated
occurrences, without significance to
the International situation. These
preparations are definite links in the
strategic plans of the bourgeoisie for
imperialist war preparations. A hasty
sketch of similar "pageants' amongst
the other imperialist powers will
show the correctness for these con-
oII1eiot,c A four v1rooI-s a m ~, Toy,o,,
Toxic was thrown in darkness while
planes zoomed overhead in a mock
pageant" attack on the city. In
Berlin, identical raids were staged by
the fascists at the orders of the ar
sonist Goering. In England, the great
air pageant at Aldershot was dem
onStration for a similar purpose. The
flight of Balboa to Chicago had no
better purpose than to arouse the
Italian masses to war hysteria.
Finally the National Air Pageant at
Roosevelt Field was designed for the
same purpose and for the same aims
to fling the masses into the war ranks
at the proper moment.
The Pageant at Roosevelt Field is
udChtQ NY bllS ALI IuSus WIlOSG IEpI6-
sentatives, Charles Lawrence and
Major de Seversky (Russian White
Guardist), serve on the Advisory
Committee Of the meet, 1t is backed
by the Army and the American
Legion, who are represented by
Major-G General Fechet and Colonel
Rickenbacker. 1t is backed by the
bourgeois press, who are represented
by w. R. Hearst and Bernarr Mac
Fadden. It is backed by the educa-
tors, DR.. H. Spalding, dean of the
Guggenheim School, N. Y. U. It is
backed directly by the Government,
whose representative is no less a per-
sonage than Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt.
Aside from the numerous acrobatic
stunts, such as dead stick flying, air
naneuvering and spot landings, the
Pageant reproduced three vast spec
tacles:
u A destruction of straw village
labelled eDepressionville" by bomb
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~ Doctor
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pleases their inflamed ego. As a
matter Of fact, they continue to
buy the paper at the newsstands,
at q higher price, and as subscrip-
tons are not refundable, they are
always the losers.
We shall not trouble to disprovs
that our defense of scientific medi-
cine s(not of individual doctors) is a
superstition. The article on "Chir-
practic and Communism" which will
have already appeared when this
is printed--or will appear shortly
after, will take care of this angle.
1t would be silly and an insult to
our readers to expatiate on the
superiority of medical science (not
medical practice) over such ridicu-
lous hocus-pocus and clap-trap as
chiropractic or Christian Science
healing. Let us draw attention to
Anderson's statement about the
suspiciousness of our policy. Does
ne infer that the Daily Worker is
receiving money from the Medical
Trust? Or does he insinuate that
the Communist Party leadership is
profiting financially from this col
umn? Does he expect the great
International Workers Order to
turn over its medical department
to the Chiros and other quacks- Or
does he want to force the Soviet
Government to abandon scientific
medicine for the vaporings and
tommyrot of ignorant and greedy
medical cultists? But Anderson
might even suspect Soviet Russia
to be under the sinister control of
medical capitalism. If SO, let him
take a trip to the proletarian
fatherland and he'll find out the
truth; but we should advise him for
his health to investigate first and
talk Tor write) after-after he has
returned to California.
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Letters from Our Readers

from the open shops, who have done
most of the picketing, remain or
strike.
Many of the workers, unfortunately,
do not understand the full signifi-
canoe of this. Those misleaders want
to use striking open-shop men in
forcing all bosses into an all-powerful
bosses association. which will dictate
lower wages and longer hours to all
workers. Why should sincere open
shop strikers be denied the right to
participate equally in all benefits.
when they are doing the work? And
why should any partial settlement be
made, when full settlement can be
had absolutely within a short while
by continuing solid strike?
The leadership denies anyone the
right to ask any question or make
any statement on the floor of the
meetings. But the opposition is strong,
and we must fight against this SELL
out by demanding the floor, and de-
handing continued single strike for
a single complete settlement.
BY Window Cleaner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09

which endows wheat with the laXa-
tive qualities Comrade Williams
praises. What I buy here in New
York City is shelled wheat, which
does not take SO long to cook. Am I
redl Even redder than usual! Now
that that's cleared UP, I hope we
can be friends again.
I hope, too, this column will soon
get itself unscrambled and get going,
as there are so many vital things
we must discuss here. such as Pie and
Poison Gas, or How Much Longer Are
Women Going to Stand for WARP;
also Soup and Sex, or What's Going
to Become of the Great Army of
Young Folks Who Can't Get Married
Because OF the Crisis?.
NOW to prepare today's meals be-
fore I talk ourselves out Of space.
For the stuffed peppers, wash and
empty sweet green peppers Fill them
with raw sweet corn, cut from cobs.
II the corn seems hard, cut through
center rows Of grains lengthwise of
cobe, and with back of knife press
out grains, leaving hulls on cob.
Season corn, and nloisten with meat
broth if you have it. If not, mix corn
with chopped tomato. Bake in pan
in moderate oven, with little water
if necessary. Basic often with spoon
A square of bacon on top of each
would be good. If there's no bacon,
pour a bit Of garlic-flavored butter
over each when done.
To make biscuits, use 2 cups flour
sifted with 4 level teaspoons baking
powder and u teaspoon salt. Into
this mix lightly with your fingers
tablespoons shortening Cfat or but
teri. Pour milk into center of flour
and mix quickly with fork, using
enough milk to make a very soft
dough. Turn this out onto a we'll
favored board, sift flour over 1t, and
pat out to u to 1-inch thickness. Cut
out biscuits with well-floured round
cutter-a drinking glass will do. Bake
in flat-greased and Toured pans In a
rather quick oven until well-risen and
lightly Drowned. Make enough 50
there will be some for tomorrow's
breakfast.
For dinner, get AMI cheap cut OF
fresh beef Cor round Steak and ask
butcher to grind it. Shape into flat
cakes and fry In ery hot skillet,
turning several times % keep juice in.
Take out meat, ss it; then sift
flour lightly over be BIN of pan, add
salt. stir, and add milk gradually,
stirring briskly. THAT the gravy. the
best part of the me, Cook several
minutes, stirring brt ".
If you must pad Il meat, an egg
and crackermeal may Re added and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Where Was A. F. l.
During Railroad
Wage Slashing?
(By a Railroad Worker Cores
pondent.)

NEW YORK.-Where were the
A. F. of L. and the Railroad Broth
erhood officials all the while mass
lay-offs were taking place, while
our wages were slashed 33 per cent
to 10 per cent? Where were these
betrayers of labor who gave the
rail companies two hundred mil
lion dollars yearly of our wages.
What have they done to get back
for us the 10 per cent which they
so nobly donated to the bosses?
1hey extended these donations for
another year and a half without
the sanction of the men. What
have they done to slow down and
prevent the speed up? They used
seniority as a club against the
worker by placing worker in a
position in which he did not be-
long. The result was that the
worker Was speeded up and if he
complained he was soon reminded
that he was holding down a job
which did not belong to him and
he could easily be removed. On the
other hand, the worker who was so
replaced was simply told that he
did not qualify and that he should
be satisfied with it or get out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Calls for Action to
Stop War Shipments
BY a Marine Worker
Correspondent

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-As a
seaman, harborman, and an OBJ
server, l can safely state that
;here is rarely any activity in
The harbor at all, although there
seems to be an upward trend in
he transportation of scrap iron.
T. Rice, with offices on Park Ave.
las just recently put five more
oarges in commission for trans
porting of scrap iron. Barge
ifter is being loaded at South
9Th St, Brooklyn, then unloaded
at Erie Basin, where it is LOADED
steamships bound for Japan.
A member of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union.
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we'll mixed in it before it is cooked.
Boil enough potatoes so you will have
half for tomorrow.
Stew the tomatoes Is or 20 min
utes, mash with spoon and season
with salt, sugar, pepper, and butter;
add very little baking soda and
stir well. Thicker with flour diluted
with water, cook few minutes more;
add little milk, and heat. Serve in
sauce-dishes with small cubes of
toast over the top.
For the dessert, use peeled and cut
bananas and oranges, topped with
powdered sugar. Lemon juice i'm
proves it.
Prepare halves of grapefruit tonight
for tomorrow's breakfast. Remove
seeds; with knife cut between Sec
tons and between sections and rind;
sprinkle top with sugar, and leave
In cold place.
II wonder how those beginners are
getting along. There's little general
information I've been keeping from
ther.)
TODAYs MENU
BREAKFAST
Orange Juice
Cooked Cereal with Raisins
Hot Cocoa
LUNCH
Stuffed Baked Peppers
Baking Powder Biscuits
Tea MarmaIade
DINNER
Ground Beef Cakes Gravy
Boiled Potatoes Stewed Tomatoes
Coffee
Fresh Fruit Salad
BREAD AND BUTTER PICKLES
quarts medium small cucurn-
bers.
2 quarts medium white onions.
2 quarts cider vinegar.
2 1-2 lbs. brown sugar.
Ia lb. stick cinnamon.
! tbsp. tumeric.
tbsp. whole allspice.
2 IL tbsp. white mustard seed.
liz teasp. pepper.
2 teasp. celery seed.
Peel cucumbers and slice them,
also the onions; make = brine Of
two cups salt and enough water
to cover vegetables and let them
stand over night in it. Next
morning rinse and drain. Tie Gin
namon and sllspice in a muslin
bag, add to rest of picking ingre-
dents, and bring to a boil. Add
cucumbers and onions, bring just to
a boil, pack and seal while hot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09

3fallen easy victims to the xxx. in
the past and the MIRA. at present
but many are growing sceptical OF
the prosperity and ballyhoo during
this crisis, which is becoming ever
more severe.
The railroader that gave me the
ride doubted the MIRA. ballyhoo and
pointed out his reasons.
"'Take our company milwaukee,
right here" he argued, they hire
some 40 or more men for a month
or so, and talk big in the papers
about it and then lay them all off
and say nothing about it in the
papers And they're old men Qaid
of early in the crisis) in the first
place.
"And take the cost of living.
Everything up high and still going
higher. A clerk at J. C. Penney's
in Paris, Ill, fright across the state
line) told me last night that blue
work shirts of the cheapest material
would go up 20 cents each next week.
Is that increasing the purchasing
power?"
81 found that st. Bernice had a
large unemployed population in COM
parison to their entire population.
They have a sort of rank and file
reformist unemployed organization
which does not realize that only
through struggle will more and better
relief be forthcoming. This town
failed to respond to the Clinton
Township Hunger March of Aug. Is,
but we believe they will join in future
hunger marches,
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Thought Daily Paper Mistake;
ChangesMind; Aid Fund Drive

EVANSTON, Ill - o. Brown, of
Evanston, Illinois, in letter to the
Daily Worker from the heart of the
coal and steel area, says that ut is
with pleasure that part with the
two dollars inclosed for the Sustain
ing Fund of the Daily Worker. If my
job stays with me, 1 hope to make
further contributions in the future.
"At one time I thought that the
Communist Party was over-reaching
itself in trying to publish a Daily
paper. The greatly widened scope of
your sheet, however, indicates that
you are trying to do more than pro-
vide simply pep" sheet-that you
are endeavoring to get out journal
that will fill all the workers needs
for a daily paper, and SO to wean
him completely from the capitalist
press. An excellent idea! And I'm
right behind you" concludes the let
l.
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Post Office Workers
Victims of Speedily
BY a Post Office Correspondent

By Post Office Correspondent
BROOKLYN, N. WHY doesn't
the N. R. A. apply to the U. S.
government?
Recently the New Lots Post Of
fee retired two men, one after 80
years of hard labor. Now the rest
of the men are forced to take the
routes of these men, causing speed
up for the carrier and a saving for
the government when the N. R. A.
is supposed to call for more help
and less hours.
The mail used to arrive at 8
O'Clock, now it arrives at 1880.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09

Pattern 1882 is available in sizes 2,
4, 8, and TO- Size takes 25s yards
36-inch fabric and y yard contrast
ing. Illustrated step-by-step sewing
instructions included.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) IN
coins or stamps (coins preferred for
this Anne Adams pattern. Write
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Der. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 West 18th
st.. New York Cit
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n. r. A. LAYOFFFS

MEADVILLE, Pa.-Each caretaker
or foreman that had from 5 to &c
men working for them up to now
out of the highway Barn now has
just two men, and the caretakers liv-
ing out through the county are them
selves laid off with the rest, and out
side of what little extra work I may
get on the highway you might say
I have no job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
CREW FIGHTS DISCRIMINATION
BY a Negro Worker Cnrresnandent

ALBANY PORT.-In one case a
Negro gang walked off the ship on
account of their being put to the
hardest work while the white work
ers are put in the better places,
This port has no system. There are
lots of workers that stand around
waiting for something to happen here
to better their conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Can You Make En-
Yourself?

Mothers who like to dress Big Sis
ter and Little Sister in matched out
fits will like this pattern. The pleats
give plenty of freedom Of movement.
Big Sister wears the frock with a
bolt, Little Sister with boomers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
Charity Air Pageant
Sharbens War Danger
Plane Armada Bombed" New York to Stir
Up lingo Hysteria
lBy Group OF Alrcraft Mechanics and BIOS

Aircraft Mechanics and P1otsl
tactics of the
Pageant Field by the
calculated involve hundreds Of pilots and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
IN THE HOME,etEyEl
BY HELEN LUX Z

a n love-.
than
William which
instead wheat
unauthorized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
|. L. d. Calls for
Mass Campaign
to Free Leon Blum,
Plan Protest Meetings, Collection of Signatures
and Flooding Of Gov. Lehman With Demands
for Release of Laundry Workers Leader

for
Workers Industrial Union and Com
York District
letter the Daily Worker outlines
campaign main correct
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Letters From Worker Correspondents in
Transport and Communication Trades
Railroad Boasts When Hiring
But Is Silent About Ldyofs
(By a Worker Correspondent. ]

Ind Mtched a this little railroad
Milwaukee Railroad undhouse
at ST. Bence
Practically everybody here rsroadr who has made this his home
The entire is native American The have
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On Saturday the Daily Worker has
s pages. Increase your bundle order
for Saturday!
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Total 1915 49,?
Total to date 2400. 90
DISTRICT NO. 8
Wash. Don's Re-
corded but names