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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
Boston Communists
Nominate Ticket

BOSTON, Mass, Sept. 12.-The Com
munist Party here has nominated for
the first time Mayoralty candidate
He is Edward Stevens, leader of the
unemployed. Offers nominated are
Eva Hoffman for the school commit
tee; James w. Dawson, Negro worker
who polled 5000 votes when running
for Lieutenant Governor in the last
state elections for Councilman in
Ward 8, South End; Meyer Klarfield,
leader of the shoe workers, for Coun-
Gilman in Ward IL, Roxbury.
1t is imperative that all workers
rally to collect enough signatures to
put these candidates on the ballot.
Only 20 days are lett to get the re-
CURED number of signatures, which is
5000 for a mayoralty candidate, and
800 for each Councilman.
The stations from which the sigma
ture collectors may get their petitions
and instructions are as follows Dor
chester, IA Wildwood ST.. Roxbury.
AZ Wenonah St.; Boston. SO Stamford
St; South End, IS Westminster st.
Committees will be in charge at the
above stations every evening from
8 pm, on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13

The only recreation in our camp is
baseball and volleybalI and horse
shoes. These equipments the men
paid for with donations to the COM
pany fund
The people of Montpelier and
WrightsvilIe are very hospitable to
the vets despite the attitude of the
government and their agents, who
sowed the seeds Of SANDER about tie
vets being "Bowery buns" and won't
work if they were given work.
The food given the men is far from,
being wholesome. 1t is wholly
starchy, fo- example, we get beans,
potatoes, a spoonful of raw cabbage.
white bread, (no butter) macaroni
and potatoes. Still, when We kick, the
captain would come out and tell Us
that he knows that the food is lot
what it ought to be but to give him
a break and he will see that we get
the proper food He has been
peddling this stuff since we were in
Plattsburg and no improvement has
been made yet.
A 90-10 Man
He is known among the men as a
COLO man, that the men must meet
him 80 per cent and he meets them
10 per cent.
Transportation has been one Of
the points of trouble for the vets
ever since we came to Vernon
The captain has time and again re-
stricted the men. The use of the
company truck is to be used only
for church or baseball parties. Oft
times the truck of the colored com
pany would stop and pick UP their
white buddies, but I have yet to see
the white buddies stop and pick them
up Why, the chauffeurs in our
company hold themselves sloof
from the rest of the men. On Sat
urday August &c, a chauffeur was
heard offering another chauffeur a
black jack to use against tine men
when they refuse to get Off.
This is the reward we veterans
have gotten for making the world
safe for democracy'-we should say
for Wall Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13

lists. Often 1 heard remarks when
clipping quoting Roosevelt's praise
of the vets is posted on the bulletin
board, "Thats some more of Roose-
velt's bull, and the rich intend to
work us to death, after nearly starv-
ing us to DEATH"
There are few patriots" in the
camps. The men were about to pro-
test in body about the bad food,
but were scared. When the men of
Co. 2210 went on strike against the
order Of changing from denins to
obs, it was lost because the Lit.
Colonel Duesenbury told them that
if they didn't change in IS minutes
they would all be fired from the
camp. But dissatisfaction is general
among the men.
Organization OF Camps
The organization of all camps, and
this is true of the boys Citizen Con-
g,rvation camps, also strictly un-
der the supervision of the War De-
partment. In the vets camp, they
are under the supervision of regular
army Officers. We have Lit. Colonel
over the camp, and are divided into
several companies. Then there is a
captain and two leutenants One of
these Louies are supposed to look af-
ter the mess. The other over the
work being done by the vets.
There are fines imposed by the
captain with the approval Of the COL
onel, These fines are direct orders
Of the War Department, we are told.
Also if a vet has worked any num-
Der Of days in any one month and
for any reason he quits, his current
pay earned is withheld and all he
gets is transportation back home
Directly under the military off
GERS are men appointed by the mill
taTy. such as company comman-
Ger (s45.50 per MONTH, company
clerks 1886 to $40 per MONTH, sec
tion eaders ($45 per month";
and squad leaders $50 per month";
and squad leaders 500 per month";
These men are appointed without
the consent Of the men and arc
locked upon as stools by the men
There are also police taken from the
ranks and deputized in Montpelier
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
Letters from Our Readers
ECoRsE Mich.
Comrsde Editor:

Comr6de Editor.
The workers here are getting star
walton wages One worker was fired
outright for passing out leaflets for
the union against the A. F. Of L.
Some we're fired at the Michigan
Steel and some were fired at the
Great Lakes.
1 have been giving Daily Workers
out free, and I have them Daily
Workers to pay for and the people
are glad to get them when you give
them away. Even the little children
run in behind me and ask me for a
Daily Worker and give them one
ard their parents are in the house
peeping out
The month before last I got three
days on the county road. only got
six days in two months time and
this month I got four days. In the
next month l got my card for five
days. That is to swell my head (to
make me think times are getting
better.
meet lots OF workers and they
tell me Roosevelt is good man.
They tell me he has done more fol-
the workers than Hoover. Now is
the time I should be sending for
more Daily Workers as the times are
SO bad. G. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
Steam Laundry
Workers Bear
Scars of Trade
BY a Laundry Worker Correspondent

BY Laundry Worker Correspondent
MONTICELLO, N. VI am a
worker in the Monticello Steam
Laundry, Monticello, N. Y. This
laundry employs about 100 workers
during the summer and about 40 the
rest of the year, since this is a sum-
mer resort town. During the winter
the workers only work about two or
three days week.
We work anywhere from Sd to 70
hours week. Sometimes the chauf-
feurs work days week in II to
15-hour day. The shakers, who are
mostly school girls, get 19c an hour
AS a result Of standing on con-
crete floor all day long, having to
bend down into bins too deer for
them, enc of them got pleurisy An
other got a strained heart. All this
for $10.26 week.
The mangle girls. working under in
tense heat with poor Lighting and in
sufficient ventilation, get little more
-23c an hour for summer workers,
Csc an hour for all year round work
erS.
The washroom squad, who all bear
the scars of their trade, get from
So to $40 week. They are short
handed and for this reason are work
ed like dogs. Their clothes are al
ways wringing wet.
The above three categorieS of
workers work in damp cellar. The
pressers get from 25c to SOC an hour
They refused to work more than "a
hours week, that is why they don't
work more. Although it is against
the law. the fireman, who is also
worked as an engineer and mechanic,
has to work all by himself IL hours
each day. We ali have at least one
weeks pay coming to u.s. Some two
and three. In few cases the chauf-
feurs have about 500 to $500 in back
pay coming to them. The bosses who
get new cars each year and live in
swell houses with maid and every
thing else say that they have no
money.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
NRA Committee
Fails to Stop
Painters Strike
By a Painter Worker Correspondent

BY a Painter Worker Correspondent
BRONX Realty Corporation
Of Long Island employs IS painters
who receive 1920 per week for five
days labor. In order that these
painters should not be able to Or
ganize, it was compulsory for them to
live in homes owned by the Boez
Realty Corp. However, the paint
ers felt that under the conditions
they we're working it was necessary
for them to organize to receive a
living wage and they went down on
strike.
Those workers, who never belonged
before to any workers organization
or union. were influenced by the cap
italist press about the N.R.A. At
ter striking couple Of days they
went to the N.R.A. office for help
to win the strike. Instead of help
ing them. they were informed that
they had no right to go down on
strike under the MIRA. They were
also told that their salary of $500
per week is more than the Blanket
COQ6 wage, WIlACll 10 D1 LOU pei WEEK
for painters. After all the informa-
ton they gave to the workers, the
committee of the painters was also
asked under which union they are
striking.
The above reply Of the officers of
the NRA. opened the eyes of the
workers and they realized what the
Blue Eagle means for them.
After they left the N.R.A. office
the painters became very militant
and continued picketing. The strik-
ers also made canvass of tenants
living in the strike area for sign
atures. Several hundred tenants
joined with the strikers.
The strike went on for period
Of three weeks with the result that
now the painters are receiving Sc per
day and other union conditions.
These painters organized them
selves and called the Alteration
Painters Union for leadership.
IT. Koltoff
Executive Board member
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
SPECIALISTS

The average layman is not COM
petent to choose a specialist for the
simple reason that he has no stand
ards by which he can make a choice.
AS far as an ordinary physician is
concerned only an intelligent worker,
in New York State, will look for the
registration card which every doc
tor is enjoined to display in a prorni-
nent part Of his office. This card is
a guarantee that the man had grad
uated from q recognized medical
school and that he had had a GER
tain preliminary education before
embarking upon the study of medi-
cine. OF course, registration cards, as
well as diplomas may sometimes be
counterfeit, but such cases are be-
coming comparatively rare.
When it comes to the specialist,
there are no standards for the lay
men to go by. There is no law regu-
lating specialists Neither the state
nor the public have any check on
the capacity or the qualifications of
any physician who chooses to call
himself a surgeon, a psychiatrist OF
tonsil snatcher. The writer's Ii
cense, for instance, authorizes him to
practice medicine and surgery and
no one could say him nay if he
should decide to hold himself out
as surgeon and open the belly OF
the first trusting fool who enters
his office.
The astonishing part of this state
of affairs is not the apparent indif-
ference of the public which is suffer-
ing from worse abuses than this;
but the fact that it has escaped the
attention OF the politicians. What we
mean, naturally, is that the situa-
ton has escaped the vigilance Of
those bosses whose itching palms
eternally scratch for graft.
After. all, the licensing of physi-
clans in these United States is
nothing but graft proposition, more
simple than pure. If the State rec
ognizes certain schools as competent
to confer the degree of Doctor in
Medicine, there is no educational
reason why their graduates should
have to take another examination
WiLIllll u COuUle Oh weeks dlGcT STdu-
uation. There is. however, good ex-
cuse for graft. "If you want the lega,
privilege to cut IN or dose your fell
low man, you must pay us twenty-five
to hundred bucks, according to the
state you want to practice in. If vol
move across the Hudson to New Ier-
sey, you got to pay another hundred
berries. Should you, by chance, wish
to practice during your vacation II
Connecticut, we won't let you I'M
less you come across with anothel
century of sinoleons. If you move
across any state line, we are waiting
! to collect another bunch of cart
wheels. When you register in any
county you punk down few iror
mer. Each year. you rot to register
lin order to check on the quecks) ant
FOR this privilege, you got to pa,
us more naZuma."
| It is this opportunity for ever.
lasting graft which is the best as.
surancc that some day law will b.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
Small Shop Owners
Unite to Fight NRA
(By a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, pat a MEM
bership meeting of the Progressive
Shoe Rebuilders !, Association here,
two men tried to explain Mr.. Roose-
velt's Industrial Recovery (baloney)
Act. One was Mr.. Putter, assistant
editor of the Jewish World" and
Mr.. Bonei, an attorney. Both of them
seem to be part Of the army of pro-
pagandists who try to fool the people
by prophesying about the coming
prosperity in 80 days, not 60 as
Hoover said! Praising Roosevelt as
god-sent and miraculous, using God,
Devil and castor oil, they both tried
to fool and intiInidate the members
of the P. S. r. A., all of whom are
small shop owners, to follow Roose-
velt and his strike breaking policies.
They told us to stick together, big
and small shop owners, and raise
prices, but will the big ones stick
with us? They said the same thing
few weeks ago.. but forgot their
promises a few days later.
The shoe repairing business, es-
pecially for the small shops, is almost
dead. Most of us do not make enough
to pay even the electric bills. Yet,
we have to pay more for bread, milk
and all kinds of food and clothes. In
spite of that, the majority of the
members of the organization seem to
fall for this kind of talk, and believe
this Recovery baloney will bring
back prosperity.
OF course, many of them soon will
find out that the MIRA will bring
just as much prosperity to them as
did the beer. On,y the organized
fight of the workers and the small
shop owners against the capitalists
and their government will help the
starving working people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13

press in the periods Of conventions
plenums and in the period immedi-
ately following them. The plenums
are recorded, the resolutions printed
But there is not the effort of raising
an intense discussion on the decisions
that should have stirred and orien-
tated the whole Party on the line
laid down, that should have moved
the Party to act.
We can state that in this respect
the extraordinary conference of July
1888, and the Open Letter to the
Party, is a vigorous step forward
along the BoIshevik method of plan
ming and concentration. Today the
Open Letter does not remain the
property only of leading committees
1t is reaching the base of the Party
is starting to move the Party forward
Every district and section today is
working out its plan of work on the
basis OF the Open Letter. The inn
mediate important task of the mo-
ment is to concentrate the plan in
practice, to check on every step, al
ways having the main tasks before
us. The next plenum will have to
check up the total results, discover
the weaknesses and mobilize the Par
ty for the next steps.
Shop Nuclei-Central Point
Today more than every we must
solve the fundamental political and
organizational problem of the Party
Of the Bolshevization process, the re-
organization of our Party on the basis
Of shop nuclei. This problem also
has been discussed for years and
there are libraries that contain the
experiences on this question-11ot only
on an international scale but also
dealing withJ this country.
In this respect we furthermore
failed to learn from the experiences
of the Ford nucleus, the Sparrows
Point nucleus, the McKeesport Tin
Plate. the Westinghouse nucleus, the
experiences of the mining nuclei, the
Chicago stoclyard nucleus, etc. etc.
And because of this we were not per-
sistent in recognizing the Party on
the basis Of the shop nuclei.
Only through extending the net
work of our shop nuclei, following
the method of concentration, will we
succeed in anchoring the Party in
hundreds of shops and mines in the
basic industries.
Building Party.
Today there are thousands of
American workers willing to join our
ranks, that look TO our Party as the
champion in the struggle for the
improvement of the conditions of the
working class and for the final
liberation of the proletariat. These
workers enter the Party with enthusi-
asm, are the most active. and imme-
diately recruit new members. After
while, however, these elements to
great extent become discouraged.
From inside the Party looks differ
emily to them than it appeared from
without.
What we need is ruthless strug-
gle against the old traditions and
methods that in practice are sub
merging the new ones, continuous re-
viewing, improving Of new expert
ences, and a systematic check-up that
shall prevent the old and bad prac-
tees from getting the upper hand
again.
Concentration work does not mean
only directing of our energies in GER
tain strategic places, but also con-
centration IN all the phases Of work
that are part and parcel of the main
problems before us-the building of
the Party into mass proletarian
party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
Wilson Packing Co.
Cuts Pay Under NRA
BY a Worker Correspondent

KANSAS CITY, Kan.-In The
Icing Department of the Wilson
Packing Co. we are supposed to get
40 hours a week, but never get it.
We do not get under 80 hours. but
never 40. Wages are 40 cents an hour,
Two weeks before the code got into
effect worked 1914 hours at "a cents
an hour, so it is clear get less money
per week than I did before.
Few more men have been hired in
my department and this means, for
us who are working more speed-up,
in addition to lower wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
District 2 Leads in "Daily
Worker" Drive TOR $4,000

DISTRICT 2 of the Communist
Party New York; leads all other
districts in the drive to raise $4,000
for the Daily Worker. A total of
$276.42 came in from District on
Monday, a large part Of this sum
having been realized from the con-
ference held in New York Sunday
evening. Mondays receipts amount
ed to .s3613S, Sunday netted $172.S2,
bringing the total at present up to
1894.
The contributions follow:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
YOU NEVER CAN TELL.
Chicago. Il.

Comradc Editor:
For some time my sister Ca religious
church goer) could never understand
why bought the Daily Worker.
Well, when the six page issue came
cut I thought would show her the
Improvements. AS turned the
sheets she saw the Cooking Recipes
and asker for them. Now give her
the Daily Worker, which she might
read. as well as cut out the cooking
recipes.
At first I thought the recipes took
up so much space, but see they
have their value now. j. M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
CLIPPINGS

S. I'VE are always glad to re-
ceiye clippings which workers send
Us from local newspapers-e.ther
giving news. or giving material
which we should combat in n'i"
press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
Ro0sevelfs Bonus
to Vets Is Jobs
in Labor Can1bs
SANDER Ex-Soldiers as 'Bowery Bums,' Writes
Recruit from Vermont Labor Camp
BY A VET

printed the
Montpelier
bitches leading
which exsOide
ihed unable concluding
MONTPELIER, Vt all of
such boou thoughts the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
AN OPEN SHOP GOVT.

RACINE, Wis.-Here in Racine
there are dozens of union painters
walking the streets. The U. S.
government is having the mail
boxes in Racine painted but does
not pay union wages. The jobs
we're Jumped off to two scab paint
ers for $45 to paint all of the
mail boxes in Racine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
RELIEF CUT

BY Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK CITY.-The Home
Relief Bureau has cut the relief off
for me with big family with six
small children from 10 months to Is
years. Because we are harmless We
suffer the consequence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
BOSS BREAKS PROMISE
BY a Young Worker CorreSnoudent

BRIDGEPORT. .Conn.-Mitchell
Bros. went on a strike two weeks ago
and won it. But the boss didn't want
to give them their demands after they
went to work. Friday, Sept. 8, the
YCL held a meeting to make another
strike to follow soon.
Al Wickun,
signature Authorized,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
Planned Activity
Mass Work Is Road
to Build the Party
Open Letter Is Vigorous Step Forward Along
Bolshevik Method of Concentration
Ry p. Brown

problem of planned work and
troll solution main questions
fore u.s. Only through systematic
definite direction the
persistence achieving the aims
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
L. r. POLK g. co. FIRES IA
fBy a Worker C0rresuondept\

DETROIT, Mich.--A woman work
ing for r. L. Polk and Co. (compilers
Of city directories) told me she had
been fired today along with 10 other
women workers, because of let-up
in the work. Is the Blue Eagle down
hearted? I can hear it shrek with
ioV.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-13
Workers Describe How MIRA Is Bosses
Machinery to Shift Burden of Crisis
Shoe Boss Makes Workers
Share the MIRA Minimum Pay
tBy a Shoe Worker Correspondent

LEWISTON Men shoe and cotton manufac-
applied the fired all
workers don't
In the shoe factory fired all the trmmers