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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09

DaSSaQOr w ell0S, lOllOWSQ TIE
announcement by the Grau
government, through Secretary Of the
Interior and War, Guiteras, that
electric rates would be lowered from
around 20 cents per kilowatt-hour to
SO for the cities and 10 cents for
rural districts.
Huge profits have been made by
the Morgan utilities in Cuba. Recently
a mass movement has been developed
among the Cuban people for refusal
, to pay light, gas, water and telephone
. bills. All of Havana Us plastered with
posters reading: Refuse to pay light,
gas, water and telephone bills"
Under this mass pressure, the
GSau-B atista government took a step
which lowers rates, but which at the
same time guarantees to these COM
panies their private ownership and
high profits.
At the same time, Guiteras spoke
OF selling the utility plants if the
companies shut down, refusing to &C
cept the new rates.
Seven Thousand members of the
power house unions, at the same time,
put demands TO the American COM
panies for higher wages and better
conditions.
1t is now openly proposed by Wenes,
and the huge power trusts III Cuba,
to call iii American troops to enforce
heavy rates on the Cuban masses.
Today, the Grau regime, in an eff
fort to break the anti-imperialist
wave of the masses is provoking q
cilauvinist demonstration among the
unemployed in support of its Fascist
labor laws. The unemployed are
stirred into action in support OF the
slogan 80 to so per cent Cubans,"
which means that this percentage of
Cubans should be employed in all
enterprises.
This slogan is directed especially
against the Spanish born Haitian and
Jamaican workers. Instead OF sup
plying work or relief OF the unen-
ployed,. the Grau-Batista regime is
arousing the Cuban unemployed
against foreign born workers. At the
same time, the Spanish merchants
and the craft unions composed mainly
Of Spanish workers, have declared
they would call o general strike to-
day.
Bloodshed is expected in Havana,
as the unemployed have declared
they would storm the Spanish stores
and smash them if the so and 80 per
cent Cuban quotas are not enforced.
In this situation, Guiteras has Or
dered heavy concentration of troops
into Havana to shoot down the work
ers and to smash efforts Of the Com
nlunist Party and the Cuban National
Confederation of Labor to forge a
united front of all workers against
the Grau regime and for the relief
by government funds of the workers
regardless OF nationality.
Strikes are increasing throughout
the island. The workers in Oriente
province were reported to have again
seized several sugar centrals.
In ManzarEllo on the 9Th, masses
of workers gathered in the streets to
greet the American -Imperialist
League delegation. The delegation
was not permitted to proceed to
Oriente province. The workers
gathered in the streets nevertheless.
Troops fired at the workers in an ef-
fort to disperse the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09
\ Talk With the Mother OF George Dimitrof

of the gigantic stream of humans, of
baggage and engines, in tight cor
ner between news stand, a train
platform gate, and a mountain of
trunks, sits, hidden away, small,
v-eazened being. The great black
{ awl wraps the whole figure from
l. 4 to foot. Only pair of large
lively eyes are visible and q mouth
framed by wrinkles.
Exactly such eyes and precisely
such a mouth can be seen daily upon
the first page of millions of copies
of the entire world press. The same
eyes and the same mouth, for fifty
days now, really for nine months,
confront a closed ring Of the antag-
onists, the enemies, the hangmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09
Hammer Out A Victory!
$4,000 viii Put Drive Over the Top!

APPROXIMATELY $4,000 will put
IA the Daily Worker $4,000 drive
over the top. Victory is within our
reach. Comrades.
This victory is being hammered
out by workers and farmers who
are helping the Daily" because it
fights with them for better ccndi-
tions in the shop, factory, Office, in
the mills. mines ara on the farms.
Jobless workers are sending in their
last pennies. 'Without the Daily
Worker" they write, "our struggles
for the right to live would be hope
less"
THE $4,000 campaign has deye-
4 lcped a Bolshevik tempo which
has prevented our Daily Worker
from going under during NEST
critical financial crisis. But the
danger is not over. Comrades. We
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09

"Are you tired, Comrade Paraskeva.
Such a difficult trip from Bulgaria
to Paris, and now again to Berlin?"
The black and sleepless eyes look
ahead silently.
Used to Class Fight
eyes, am somewhat tired. But 1t
is alright. / am used to that. George
is already the fourth they want to
murder. Three I have already lost.
One was done away with by the Gar
ist government in Siberia; the second
fell in the uprising in the army DUR
ing the world war, and the Bulgarian
government executed the third, in
1925. My little grandson, too, he is
only 18 years old, sits In prison In
Sofia as revolutionist. And my thry !,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09
Workers Will Also
Protest Nazi Trial
OF 4 Communists
|. L. D. Branches and
Pioneers to March
from 7th ST., Ave. A

NEW YORK.-In grim de-
termination to smash the new
lynch death verdicts against
Haywood Patterson and CIar-
ence Norris, two of the Scots
boro boys sentenced to die on Feb
ruary End by the Decatur lynch court,
tens Of thousands of indignant work.
ers and sympathizers will pour into
Union Square at l O'Clock today from
all sections Of the city.
Members of scores of organizations
and unions will participate in the
mighty protest with their banners
and slogans against the lynchers and
the fascist trends of the Roosevelt
New Deal" N.R.A. program of wage
cuts and attacks on the employed and
unemployed masses, sharpened par
ticularly against the Negro People.
They will protest the Infamous Reich
stag arson trial in Germany and the
preparations Of the Nazi court to i'm
pose death sentences upon Dinitroff,
Torgler. Popof and Taned.
Needle Trades Union Issues Call
The Needle Trades Industrial Union
last night issued call to all needle
trades workers TO gather at the
lnicnsg Office l31 w. 28SIl st, at I 30
this morning to march in body to
Union Square. The Alteration Paint
ers of Brooklyn yesterday called upon
all its members and sympathetic
workers to attend the demonstration.
All International Labor Defense
branches and the Young Pioneers
will mobilize their forces at IL noon
at Avenue A and 7th Street, from
which point they viii march to the
Square.
The demonstration will be adj
dressed by Joseph Brodsky, I. L. d
Scottsboro attorney, who returned on
Thursday from the Decatur trials
The extent of the mass support for
the demonstration is indicated both
by the call Of the Trade Union Unity
League and scores of unions and or
CARNATIONS for participation by their
members and in the list OF speakers,
representing various organizations.
This list includes:
Mrs. Patience Williams, Of the
Garvey Club of the Universal Negro
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09
Three Other Sons Lost
Lives in Struggles
of Working Glass

daughters are in no ways behind the
boys. Here are two of them"
The daughters are twice as big as
the mother. They smile and receive
encouraging pats on the back from
her.
Nov, between us, always loved
and still love George best. Perhaps
because he was my first child, per-
haps because had to suffer most
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09
PROTEST SCOTTSBOR0, LEIPZIG MURDER PLOTS TODAY!
Starving Child Dies
From Gasoline Burns

NEW YORK.-Three year old
Cecilia Kelly died yesterday in
Cumberland Hospital from the
combined effects of undernourish-
ment and burning she received
when gasoline exploded in a truck
in which the family was hauling
their evicted furniture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09

appeal TO every reader, to every
worker, to every workingclass or
ganization to make the final effort
to raise the remaining $4,000.
Victory is within our reach! Be
one Of those to hammer out this
Bolshevik triumph. Send your dol
lar. If you can afford it, send two
dollars, one for a fellow worker who
is SO poverty stricken that he can
not contribute though he would
like to. Organizations, speed your
contributions.
ALL TOGETHER, COMRADES!
Put the drive over the top. RUSH
YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS, NO
MATTER HOW SMALL!
Fridays receipts ....... $355.60
Previous total ..........33, 424.S8
TOTAL TO DATE 80. .$33, 7So.48
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09
Feiheit Ball To Be Held at
ArmOry Tonight

The Morning Freiheit Ball. which
was to have been held tonight at
the st. Nicholas Arena, will be held
instead at the 165th Regiment Ar
mory at Lexington Ave. and 25th
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09
Communists Party Calls
For Sharpening of Fight
For Nine Scottsboro Bows
Hathaway, Reporting at Membership Meet
ing, Declares Case Is interviewer with
General Trend to Fascism

YORKA
city Scottsborc
tonary unions and sympathetic
the in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09
WALL ST. UTILITY IN CUBA.
CALLS FOR U.S.. TROOPS TO.
SHOOT DOWN CUBAN MASSES.
Asks Roosevelt State Dept. for Marines to Pro-
tect Huge Profits Against Demands of
Masses and Utility Unions

HAVANA, Dec S-A request to the U. S. State Depart
immediate intervention Of American troops
the huge profits of the Cuban Electric Co., Morgan corpora
ton, made today by officials of the company
The request for armed Intervention supported by Am
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09
George Is the Fourth
They Want to Kill"
Mother Reveals
BY MICHAEL KOLZOFF

by MICIIkANA hOLLOIT
The mother of DimitrOff travelled
from Bulgaria through Paris to
Berlin to see her heroic son in court.
Michael Kolzoff, special correspond
ent of the 'Prav6a," puts at our
disposal the following talk with
the proletarian mother:
In the midst or the confusing noises
Of the Northern Railway Station in
Paris (Gare du Nord), on the rim
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09
So. Dakota Farmers
I r e p are [ 0
Send Delegates
(By a Farmer Correspondent

STROOL, S. D.-Enclosed find a
check for $3.50 for the Daily Worker
for one year. for the weekly issue.
7 have neglected to do this for a long
time, and now that the weather is
getting cold and the nights are long
I find that want more to read than
the Producers News. I want to keep
up with the workers fight all over
the world.
We are sending delegates from here
to the Farmers National Conference
that is to be held in Chicago. The
trip will take 20 days and it will be
cold, but some of US are determined
to go, if we can scare up the dough.
We stopped a sale in Harding
County lately. This is the first at
tempt west of the Missouri River in
South Dakota. On the strength of
our militant action, the county dads
got band of farmers together and
ran off contractor and his crew Of
tractor drivers who had underbid the
county on a strip of federal road con-
Struction.
The U.FL. had nothing to do with
this, but they have been demanding
work on the roads. Now if bids are
let again the county might get the
bid, as the contractors will be scared
out. Then the commissioners can
proceed with their graft and the boss
commissioner can pose as friend
of the farmer and use this as good
will measure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09
Arizona Striker Is
Killed by Boss Car;
Hold Red Funeral
Ny a Worker Correspondent

PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. "A work
er, Rosendo Valenzuela, SO years old,
one of the cotton strikers of LEGAL
10, Cannery and Agricultural Work
ers Industrial Union was run over
and killed by a car of one of the
foremen of big rancher Of that
place, Saturday night, Oct. Ia. The
foreman was freed, as he was an
agent of the bosses and was well rep
resented by them.
We had workers funeral. 1t was
the largest funeral ever held in the
State of Arizona There we're over
ESQ comrades and their families in
he march. We boarded the cars
at Somerton and drive into Yuma
to the church. We sang the Inter
national and Spanish revolution
airy song at the grave, then, as they
lowered the casket, we sang the Red
Flag. gave an organizational talk
on the Importance of our organiza-
ton and brought cut all the reasons
why the workers should and must
organize to fight against misery. We
had banners and slogans from the
Unemployed Councils.
The workers here are not devel-
oped enough, SO when they asked
and put it up to a vote, it was de-
cided to take the body to the church,
but when we arrived there, the priest
did not want to have anything to
do with the body and raised lot
Of "H' because he wasn't notified
and paid for this service. After some
of the comrades who spoke Spanish
got through raking him over, he gave
them about two-minute service in
stead of two-hour service, which
they usually do. 1t turned out edu-
cational for q lot Of comrades there.
We organized a branch Of the Un-
employed Council in Yuma and
Somerton. There already was
branch in Gadsden.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09
QUITS INSTITUTE OF LEARNING

Dear Mr.. Editor:
About week ago I beat 1t out of
a college, located in Pennsylvania,
because I felt that my life as a clean,
healthy human being was being I'M
dermined. I mean by this that not
my health, but my sslf-respect, my
intellectual well-being was being
steadily poisoned by illusions and
falsehoods being fed to me.
Being the son of 8 workingman, and
having had to slave myself since early
childhood, the filthy lies and capital
ist propaganda which they tried to
cram down my throat was only the
more violently vomited out again
when I saw all around me the work.
ing men and women whom knew
all my life being terrorized and slave
tortured.
Last week, decided to go to rela-
tives in New York. Since then, some
thing has happened to me. I feel
am no longer the blind, misunder-
standing youngster was in Pennsyl
vania. Because the first day I hit
New York, my uncle made me read
an account of the goings on in my
home town in your paper (my paper
now, the Daily Worker. 1 say that
l have gained new vision, thanks
to the Daily Worker.
u. w,
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the Anti-War Congress. also con-
tracted a severe cold and am still
sick from 1t yet.
Has anything happened in New
York to make things look better for
the working people. Out here things
are fast getting worse and the people
are getting to the fighting stage.
Tomorrow night the governor Of
Nebraska will come to our little town
10 have a days hunting and a COM
nittee of us farmers will call on him
TO see what he has to offer in the line
Of relief.
We came back by way OF Niagara
Falls and the Chicago Fair and
stopped che day at the Fair, but it
too is nothing but a graft to grab
every cent it can from those who at
tend.
n. Y. state Farmers Also Suffer.
We found the fruit growers in New
York State like the farmers in the
grain belt unable to sell their pro-
duets for what they cost to grow, and
we saw thousands Of acres Of grapes
that will never be gathered because
the price offered for them is so little
they cannot afford to hire or pick
ana deliver them for what they sell
fC-. Apples are the same and we
found that this is the same all over
the country no matter what the
farmer has to sell
And then on the other hand we saw
vha4 you people in the city have to
ray icr this same stuff. Surely some
body is getting mighty fat slice of
profit some place between the pro-
ducer and the consumer. In the
name Of common sense isn't it high
time for the farmer and the worker
to Dull together for their own good
and benefit?
Nebraska delegate 60 the Anti
War Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09
WORKERS
MAILBAG
NRA AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER
>, BY a. Worker Correspondent

by a. WORKER correspondent
NEW. .YORK.rThe other evening
a, worker approached me after. I had
spoken from an Unemployed Council
ladder and told me the following:
He Is machinist and works for
the Rockefeller outfit in the new
Rockefeller Center. He works 60
hours week. Many of the other
employees such as elevator operators,
porters, ETC., work as many as 10
hours per week. The night watch
men work IL hours day-six and
sometimes seven days week.
But these workers are not allowed
to fraternize. Each group of work.
ers has separate locker rooms. In
fact, recently the manager posted
notices to the effect that no worker
is allowed to speak to another under
penalty Of immediate dismissal.
This notice was signed by the
manager.
And throughout the building there
are the Blue Buzzards streaming
eve do our part" told this worker
that if the bosses with their Blue
Buzzard do their part this wayne
workers must do our part-our way!
He agreed with me and will apply
to the T.. U. U. l.. for the proper
way to go about it.
P. S.--Also 1t may interest you to
know that in the New York Amer
lean, the watchmen work IL hours
per day-seven days a week. And
they get one whole day GA hours
off every month-rain or shine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09
Keen Rivalry to Mark Daily
Worker Banquet in NewYork

NEW YORK. Keen rivalry as to
which organization will bring in tee
largest amount on their quotas in
the $4,000 Drive at the Daily Worker
Banquet this Sunday evening in r.
wing Plaza, is developing among Sec
tions of the Communist Party, among
Workers Clubs and branches of mass
organizations. Organizations hand
ing in the largest contributions will
be announced in the Daily Worker.
So keen is the Socialist spirit of
competition that numerous organiza-
tionS have been withholding funds
raised by them recently in order to
win the laurels at the Banquet.
Trade unions, Party Sections, some
branches of the I. L. D., Women's
Councils and of othe International
Workers Order have already sent in
reservations for their delegations.
The Banquet, which will start in
the main hall of Irving Plaza, 18th st.
and irving Place at pm, will be
addressed by Clarer c. Hathaway,
editor -in-chief of'...t.le Daily Worker,
who will reveai ne last hour devel-
opments on the n, r. A., and on the
role Of the Red Press in the strug-
gle against it. Fully 1000 workers
crowded st. Nicholas Arena recently
to hear him speak on the N. R. A.
Carl Brodsky, dynamic manager Of
the Communist election campaign
here, will be the master of cere-
monies.
Some Of the numbers of the pro-
gram of entertainment will be the
Daily Worker Chorus; Negro Songs
of Work and Struggle; John Reed
Club artists; Theatre of Action in
V. Jerome's play, 1.-THE Newsboy";;
Workers Dance league in a new
group of revolutionary dances, and
an all-Russian program by the Guild
String Quartet. ~
Reservations are rs cents each. A
splendid dinner will be served. There
will be fun galore. Socialist rivalry
galore. No workers organization can
afford to be missing from the Red
Honor Roll at the Banquet in Irving
Plaza this Sunday, Nov. IL, at 8 pm
Send in your delegations reservations
if you have not done SO as yet to
the District Daily Worker, so E. 18th
ST., New York City.
Forty copies of the Daily Worker.
autoGrarhed by Henri Barbusse, will
be auctioned off at the Banquet. One
hundred dollars was paid for ten
such copies at the Barbusse meeting
Tuesday night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09

This column will publish accep-
tances to this challenge. We would
suggest that units accepting the chal-
lenge will in turn challenge Unit 9
on the securing of regular subscrip-
tions. Here is letter from Chicago
Unit No. 300 with good suggestions
on how to go about this, showing
how socialist competition in the unit
stimulates the work, and proposing
that every unit in the United States
should be selling daily at least 100
copies of the Daily Worker by Nov.
Z, 1884. Is this challenge, Unit 800?
Here is our experience in in
creasing the sale Of the Daily
Worker In neighborhoods in the
last two weeks.
1--WE decided to use our old
Dailies in this fashion: First, two
committees were formed of two
members each, from our unit. One
comrade of each committee took
eight Daily Workers and posted
rider leafiet on one corner of the
face of the Daily. The lsafet called
attention to the sample copy Of
this working class newspaper" to
the specific news in it, etc, and
contained at the bottom q blank
for name and address and for a
carrier subscription. These Dailies
were then distributed to eight
houses. This was done on Satur-
day SO the workers would be sure
to read them over Sunday. Monday
evening, the two members Of the
committee called at these homes
and tried to get the workers to
take the Daily.
"The first week we got one sub
scriber out of the eight workers
homes called upon. Four were not
at home. The second week last
week. we got two subscribers out
of the next eight to whom the
Daily was given. This is in a neigh
borhood where American workers
live who know little CT nothing
about our movement. In addition
to the one subscriber, we found
many who listened to us sympa-
thetically, and one who has prom
ised to join the Party.
Eyes, it's work. It's real rcvolu-
tiorary work. However, we have
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liable to enter the lungs much easier
and therefore diseases like bronchitis,
pneumonia, etc, are more likely to
take root in individuals who have no
tonsils than in those who have
healthy functions. The mere size of
the tonsils is no indication for their
removal. AS long as they are not
diseased, tonsilS should never be re-
moved. The only indication for re-
moyal Of the tonsils is the presence
of a chronic inflammation with pus.
When such condition occurs, the
tonsils have to be removed, because
the poisons produced by the germs
within the tonsils are absorbed in
other parts of the body and are
liable to cause inflammation in other
organs. The most common inflam-
nations taks place in the heart and
in the joints. Such a condition is
known as focal infection where the
original inflammation is in one or
gan, while the manifestations of the
disease are seen in other parts of
the body, 1t is quite a common oc-
currence to see neglected case of
tonsilitis develop into an inflamma-
ton of the joints, known as arthritis
commonly called rheumatism). When
the rheumatic condition is not at
tended to, the disease progresses fur
ther and attacks the Innings of the
heart. This results in what is known
as murmur or a leak of the heart,
and is the cause of the largest num-
Der of deaths from heart disease in
middle-aged people.
Gargling or even spraying of the
tonsils does not reach the germs that
are within them and are therefore
useless procedures. A person with
tonsilitis should go to bed and take
general measures to prevent the ex-
tension of inflammation.
An attack of tonsilitis is often fol-
lowed by inflammation of the middle
ear which may result in an abscess
of the ear or mastoiditis, because
the nose and throat communicate with
the ear by special canal known as
the Eustachian tube. Any inflam-
nation in the nose and throat is
therefore liable to enter the ear. 1t
is for this reason that strenuous
blowing of the nose during cold
is not advisable because the blowing
forces the germs back into the ear,
or into the sinuses.
The sinuses are small cavities found
in the forehead over the eyes and
In the chek bones, which also COM
municate with the nose, and any in
flammation in the nose and throat
Is therefore liable to cause sinusitis.