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The daily worker., 1933-12-16

A clipping from the Chi
cago Tribune has been sent us
one which let's the cat out
of the bag about the manner
IN which the bourgeoisie sometimes
slips in its own banana oil.
1t seems that at press conference
IN Washington, Ellen Woodward,
ckrector Of woman's work for the
federal relief administration, e'was
sinking in a sea OF questions and
had 4got all mixed UP in her dis
cussion OF the pay schedules for
women, when Mrs. Roosevelt dashed
to the rescue.
Women given Jobs in civil works
service projects receive, regardless
how skilled their labor, a minimum
OF 80 cents an hour; but mini
mum" Of 80 cents an hour is paid
Tor unsElled labor in other relief
projects.
To Exist--or Not To Exist-on 50
a Week
TO quote from the articIsc
There has been no trouble Ners.
Woodward started TO say.
80, yes there has, chcrUsed half
y dozen voices"
SO there ensued an argument be-
tween the newspaper gals and Mrs.
woodward. in the course Of which
one Of the gals figured out that 80
cents an hour for a 80 hour week
gave girl (maybe nurse or 8
teacher) the magnificent sum Of So
a week to live on.
When asked If anybody could live
on that, Mrs. Woodward repNed that
II not, supplementary relief would be
received by the women. The "sob
sisters" pointed out that this would
be charity, and mot what teacher,
or nurse, or anybody wants"
So OF Course - Everything WIN Be
Jake Now.
1t was at this point that Mrs.
Roosevelt hauled the fioundering
director Of womans work out of the
bog by asking If the difficulty were
not with the classification of skilled
and unskilled labor, and announc-
ing that women doing skilled work
should be SO classified.
So the wrath of the newspaper
ladies was appeased, Mrs. Woodward
promised to take that up at the
conference" and "left Just as soon
ss she could"
The headline on the above
described article is a demagogic
honey. 1t reads: Mrs. Roosevelt
Comes to Aid Fellow Worker
How those workers do sweat for
a livingl
Russian Mushroom SOUP
Boil cup of rice in rather q lot
Of salted water; when nearly done,
add a cupful Of chopped, cooked
mushrooms, and finish cooking rice.
Brown a chopped onion in two and
a half tablespoons shortening, and
add two CUPS kraut juice. stir
quickly, add little pepper, and COM
binc with rice mixture. Simmer a
few minutes: serve hot. (Should be
R3.ed with a fish supper)
The daily worker., 1933-12-16

Mrs. Roosevelt made at leaS6 "a
per cent profit on these Jars, so Mrs
Roosevelt's first trip has drove us tc
worse miseries. 1t cut our relief more
than rs per cent.
~ When the single men were getting
four days month and their amount
was $3.50, she cut them to one day
and a half month. A family from
up to 10 was getting II days month
Now they are cut to az days a
month.
This Is not all. Mrs Roosevelt did
not come to visit miners. She came
TO help the coal companies and John
Lewis to cut the miners wages under
the Blue BuMard. On her first trip
to Morgantown the coal companies
put large advertisement in the Nor
gantown Post and Dominion that
they need hundreds Of miners every
day. This was in May and June.
Cut Relief TO Fight Strike
When the strikes began, John Lewis
and President Roosevelt, also General
johnson, decided to send Mrs. Roose-
yelt TO the Morgantown coal fields
TO cut the miners relief and drive
them to ths mines. She also notified
the r. F. c. and County Welfare
Board officials to cut the relief.
When the miners went TO look for
these jobs there were none. The
company doctor turned them down on
account of high blood pressure, bad
teeth and eyes, even rheumatism, sc
this still leaves the largest majority
of men without Jobs, no relief, no
homes, and barefooted.
We went back to the County Wei
fare board for relief. They turned
us down fiat. They said thsre is M
more money for relief, but the poll
ticians of the Democrat party car
get jobs and good salaries from the
r. r. G. Over 60 of them work or
the Roosevelt party as stool pigeons
Four-Acre Farms
Mrs. Roosevelt and the Farm prof..
ect that the NJ r. A. has outlined
here in Artherdale Preston County
is to give the forgotten miner farm
Of 4 acres. The ground is only worth
81 an acre. Mrs. Roosevelt has decided
TO build house for each 4-acre farm
on term that extends to 20 years
Each home will cost $2,500 What in
terest there will be nobody knows
nor how much it will cost each nninel
for 20 years and how long they vii
live on these farms which have 1,ooC
acres divided into these 4-acre farm'
in the West Virginia mountains.
President Roosevelt has drove
million poor experienced farmer;
from farms, so Mrs. Roosevelt nov
tries to make farmers out Of miners
The majority OF them do not know
The daily worker., 1933-12-16

ner to help each other and to help
our fighting paper.
Unit 4, Rockford, Ill, sent IS, which
was enormously credited to the Scan
dinavian Workers Club. Either way,
comrades, the Daily" got the IS and
1t all helps to save our fighting paper.
The $4,000 campaign is so close
to success that it can be put over the
top very handsomely by every reader
of the Daily Worker sending In only
Is cents. Every reader doing this will
assure installation OF our new press.
FILL OUT the coupon below and
mail 1t TODAY
The daily worker., 1933-12-16

usually blasted with dynamite, but
sometimes the inspectors, who hate
their job, break them up only slightly
so that they can easily be repaired.
Although the unemployed miners
work their mines on the land owned
by the coal barons they are not ar
rested inasmuch as the law would
require payment to keep the men
in jail. They can, however, without
paying, manage to get the men con-
Wcted on such charges as giving
short weights. A number of bootleg
miners were arrested on these
charges recently.
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
Laid Off From CWA
Jobs in Okla. Town

BY Mine Worker CORRESPONDENT
PICHER. Okla.-As soon as I
can I will order some more
"Dailies." :" We are laid off from
@. w. A. work just now. I have
had to give away most all the
"Dailies." It is hard to do any
thing here Just now. I will send
you some news in q day or two.
regret that I couldn't send
payment for the Daily Worker be-
fore now, but we are very poor
here having been out Of work 30
long, and there is nothing here
but zinc mines.
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
WITH OUR YOUNG READERS

Mischa: Not much, Grischa just
trlpped and plowed his face into the
meat and got creased up. Say, Grisch,
at last you've found a use for that
face of yours, grease tractors with it.
Say, I got it, If you lose you've got
to let me snap your picture in the
camera room. Going to paste it up
boy, right on your troops wall paper!
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
Hurrayy

FRED Bell Troops quota for the
Daily Worker Drive was SIS. They
raised $15.03. Did the rest of the
troops reach their quota?
Dear Comrades:
Our troop received the letter about
the $4,000 drive for the NEW PIO-
NEER yesterday, and we decided to
get busy Immediately. Since there
are quite few workers organizations
holding affairs during Christmas
week, we could not get the Workers
and Farmers Hall until Jan. 4, on
which we will hold an affair for our
magazine. You understand we can't
hold an affair especially for the NEW
PIONEER before then, but we are
going to appeal to all the mass or
ganizations to help put over the Drive
by making collections and so forth
Each and every comrade has taken
q quota Of subs besides the work
Of the Drive, We are challening the
other Pioneer troop of Green Eve
have two) TO raise Sc sooner than we
do, for our magazine In this one
month drive. We are waiting for the
coupon books TO sell. We would Ike
The daily worker., 1933-12-16

Celebrate Tenth Anniversary of
the Daily" Send greetings to the
Daily Worker for its Tenth Ami
yersary 24-page edition Of Jan. s.
Get ads. Speed your orders for
this historic edition.
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
LIKES THE DAILY WORKER

PATERSON, N. j H. s., OF this
city, sending SO cents to the Daily
Worker states, "T11e Daily Worker
is not bosses paper. I like it
better than any other paper because
it is for the workers. It tells the
truth about working conditions
Every worker should read It,"
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
Can You Make 'em
Yourself?

Pattern 1889 is available in sizes
Sc, SO, 40, AZ, a and 46. Size SO
takes yards SO inch fabric and x
yard contrasting. Illustrated STEP
by-step sewing instructions In
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
Helping the Daily Worker
Through Helen Luke

Contributions received to the credit
Of Helen Luke in her Socialist com
petition with Michael Gold, DR.. Lut-
finger, Edward Newlouse and Jacob
Burck to raise $1,000 in the $4,000
Lei. .sss.....ssssss..ss rs
Previous total ................ 1926
Total TO date s162.4l
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
to have this announced in the Daily
Worker.
Conradely yours,
Pioneer Group of Green, Mich.

COnlrduely yours,
Pioneer Group of Green, Mich.
Here is copy Of telegram we
sent to Governor Miller and Judge
Callahan of Ala:
1.-THE members Of the Haywood Pat
terson Pioneer Troop of Aberdeen,
Sd, we demand the immediate dis
missal of the Scottsboro cases and
the unconditional safe release OF the
nine boys"
This was sent Sunday, Nov. 2e, 1889
''The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die" !"
Sec'y Beatrice Purdy
Capt. Abraham Maier
Teacher: Why are you looking in
your shirt all the timer
Bright Boy: The doctor told me to
watch my stummick.
Change one letter each time, to
change COP into NUT:
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
ICWA Cuts JObless Miners Off
Relief, But No Jobs Given
Mrs Roosevelt's Two Trips to Morgantown
Helps Coal Owners Strike-Breaking Plots

by a Group Unempoyed Mine Correspondents
w. Blue
Roosevelt to visit the
fruit jars for present but we
nothing these The jars only cost 65c dozen In the
work day the r. r. O. Tor them
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
~ Doctor
~LAAHigage'z
ndI,G9g1:

same. It Is an expensive s1lethoc
which the average workingman can
not afford to employ, unless he lives
in large city where there are special
clinics for that purpose.
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
Miner Shows How Cappelini
Aids NRA Plot to Ban Strike
Will Hold Convention Jan. and Tell Delegates
Government Has ordered No Walkout
tBy a Mine worker CorrespondeDt,

SCRANTON said his
that after the first of the strikes would be tolerated
the commission said the machinery would
arbrae all of the
would strikes
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
Arkansas Valley
Miners Demand
Election Right
tBy a Farmer COrrespondent)

FORT SMITH, Ark.-Chauenging
this Lewis dictatorship, the rank and
file o. M. W. A. Of Arkansas Valley,
in an all day convention here, de-
The daily worker., 1933-12-16
Helping the Daily Worker
Through DR.. Luttinger

Contributions received to the credit
of DR.. Luttinger in his Socialist COM
petition with Michael Gold, Edward
Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob Burcls
and Del to raise $1,000 IN the $4,000
The daily worker., 1933-12-16

Amount s..sssssss.se
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-10
Dead Ere His Life-Span

Calvin Coolidge Both president of the United States, died nine years before the life-span allotted him had expired. This life span was based on the average age at death of all the presidents who had gone before him. He was just 60 years old when he died last week. Since the Civil War the average at death of our presidents has dropped to 63 years. Coolidge's was lower than that. Is this proof that our modern times are go- ing to bring the estimated life-span of the nations executives still lower' We won der.
 John Adams is the patriarch of presl- dents. He lived to the ripe old age of 90. Thomas Jefferson. James Madison, and John Quincy Adams all passed the 80 mark. It was their longevity that has brought the all time average life-span of our presidents up to 69 Were we to remove them from the list and compute the average it would drop con- sderably. Harding was only 58 when he died in the midst of his presidency Wood- IOW w llSOH was ", put HIS QedtH Was HO doubt hastened by eight hectic years in the White House.
 William Howard Taft passed the average life-span being 72 years when he died in 1850. Theodore Roosevelt was under it. He was 6l. William Mckinley was only 5S when assassinated. Benjamin Harrison died in l90l aged 67. Cleveland's death was due to old age, although he was only 7l. Chester Arthur died untimely at 56. while Garfield was killed at the age of 49, the youngest age at which any of our presidents died. Going back beyond him, though, we find it not uncommon for our ex-presidents to live to the age of 70 and beyond.
 It might seem that. allowing for excep- tions, the life-span of our presidents is due to decrease rather than increase. And this in the face of statistics that show the aver age life-span in this nation has beer length ened. By virtue of more play and less work. plus better medical service, the majority of us have chance of the man who enters the White House to rule this nation. These be perilous times for that hardy soul and he, too, often pays for it in loss of health and shortened life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-10

proved by an over indulsent Congress. The general public has long been denied knowl- edge of what goes on behind the scenes in Washington. Today it is better acquainted with the workings of our government than it ever was. And it realizes that hundreds of thousands of dollars are diverted into channels for which they were never in- tended
 We sincerely trust that the democrats will not pick up where the republicans left off and continue the same reckless spending of public funds. To President-Eleet Roose- welt is given mighty responsibility. That he is capable of bearing it is undeniable. But he must adopt at the very outset a firm stand on public expenditures. And if he does that it won't be necessary for Uncle Sam to consider adding more taxes to the burden that now is sending many people into unlawful pursuits to meet the demands made upon them. Let's declare a moratori- um on tax increases. It's high time they started downward. And they would if a few of the hands in the pork barrels were removed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-10
Protecting Workers

At the request of the American Fedora ton of Labor, the federal Chidren's Bureau called conference last month of representa- tives of child welfare organizations and fed era and state labor officials to consider the present child labor situation. Among the items discussed were the vocational unsuit- ability of jobs now open to children and sweatshop exploitation which involves long hours. unsanitary conditions and miserable wages
 While all these factors are handieapping chldrcn-perhaps injuring them permanent. ly-adults are deprived of work they need and school budgets are dangerously low. The conference worked out a program which it hopes to persuade the individual states to carry out. or at least to use as basis for educating public opinion. Among the items of the program are:
 A l6-year age minimum for leaving school and entering industry; shorter working day for minors than for adults, in no case to exceed hours; defense of schools against unwise budget cuts; at least double compensation for children hurt while it. legally employed; adequate administration and enforcement of existing child labor laws. and the registration of industries to curb the irresponsible fly-by-night concerns which have been taking advantage of pitiful situation.
 It sounds like the millennium. but it is worth striving for even if it can not all be attained in the next few months. Protecting workers, old and young, is d matter of hu- manitarian self-nterest Society as whole needs this protection as much as the children and adults immediately concerned
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-10
CHRISTMAS TRADITION AT
 BOSTON
fspringfleld Republican,

Modern Christmas ends abrupt ly, in contrast with the ancient habit of regarding the Christmas season as lasting the full canonical 40 days--until Candlemas (Febru- ary 9, At New Years reference to Christmas Is therefore almost an anachronism, even if many thank you notes for Christmas gifts are still to be written. However, q Bos- ton dispatch in a New York paper raises q question of history which Is perhaps deserving of discussion at any time.
 This dispatch, dated December 24, told how under gas lit lamps and beneath the light of lanterns carried aloft on poles, Christmas carolers perpetuated on Beacon hill this evening the Yuletide tradi- ton rooted in three centuries of Boston history" Tbis Is an eclectic age, when people accept their traditions where they please, and when, in spite of much talk about man having surrendered to mechanism, the love of tradition is growing, at least in America.
 But 1t is perhaps taking undue liberties with the past to assign a spurious ancestry to particular custom. Bostons ancient antagon- Ism to Christmas Is notorious and fully certified. Judge Sewell, in his "Diary," records with grim satis- faction how common labor was performed as usual on Christmas day. A curious parallel to his att titude Is found in reports from So- viet Russia regarding the recent Christmas day, though Soviet ani- mostly Is directed against religion as a whole, whereas Puritan ani- mostly was directed against the Church of England and the Catho- lie tradition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-10

Tenino, Washington, is winning it's way back to sound financial footing through wooden money. The tiny town faced dis aster when it's only bank failed year or so ago. But the citizens got together and boosted home town industry. Tenino makes the wooden crates and boxes used in packing fruits. It decided to make money from the same substance. The money was issued in 25-cent values and to date anly $45 or S7,200 issued in December, l93l, has been presented for redemption. That sounds like an exaggeration, but it's true. Tenino couldn't meet the demands for sam ples of it's wooden money. Collectors every where elamored for it. They paid as high as. S2.50 for the 25-eent pieces. Sounds like a gilt-edge investment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-10
Our Daily Washington Letter
 Honest Congressman Plays Public Apathy
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

the budget and the public took us at our word. Business improved at once. But by September the people realized we had only been fooling them"
 MT Huddleston, despite his use of the first personal plural, is not a party to the business he de- scribes. He is one of the few really independent congressman and Is often brave enough to take the unpopular side.
 Having sustained loss in three years of fifty to Q hundred billion dollars in national wealth we can only restore 1t by readjustment and hard work" he says. More wealth con only be attained by balanced production and better distribution. Business tries to cut down wealth instead of getting 1t distributed.
 Credit, life blood of business, must be resored. But Juggling with money and credit and post poning debts only impairs credit. The big things congress can do are: 1. Balance the budget. 2. Restore confidence in the banking situation. 3. Clear up the European debt sit- uation and rstire commercial rela- ton by removing trade barriers in- stead of pandering demagogically to prejudice. 4. Destroy trade barriers between our own people. where lies 90 per cent of our trade.
 "The only thing we can do with agriculture is to give her a fair deal and there can be no real re- covery unless 1t is fair, distribut- ed recovery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-10
So They Say

owe thanks to Greek. justice for the sympathy expressed. Samuel Insult. Sr, former Chi cago utilities magnate, upon re- fusal by Greece to grant his ex- tradition to the United states.
 :~
 Men are timid. A woman is more reckless, particularly when she cares about something.
 Edna St Vincent Millay, poetess.
 : M Whether in, the home or in the church, exhortation to goodness is about the most idle waste of breath. People do not want exhor- tations. They want examples. The Rev pr Harry Emerson Fos- dick, pastor of Riverside church. New York.
 disagree with those who hold the romantic notion that the best work Is done by q starving artist in a garret. The golden periods iii art always have coincided With prosperity. --Frederlck Dielman. oldest living member of the National Acad- : emy of Design, New York. N'N Unless proselytlng disappears from intercollegiate football the game will be dead in 10 years, or else frankly in college as Q pro. fessional sport. --Professor Philip Badger of New York university. lA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-10
Writer Disagrees with MT Gilmartin on Most Beau
 tiful Words
Editor Waterbury Democrat:--

Editor Waterbury Democrat:--
 I read with interest your Satur- day article in which John c. Gil- martin of the public schools gave his list of twenty most beautiful words in the English language. l appreciate that MT Gilmartln did not take personal responsibility for the selection, and also understand the problems of making a choice upon which a man of MT Gllmar- tins pretensions would wish to put his prestige to the test. still. I think that his selection constituted q singularly mediocre and pedestri-. m collection of words. some Of them really flat, and others hitting the target at some distance from teh bull's- eye. Tn the latter in- stance, point to the word "dedica- tory" which has only its "scan. ming" qualities to recommend 1t. l recall that In Aldous Huxley's book, "Chrome Yellow" there was a goofy young man who thought the word "carninative" was the most beautiful word in the language. He was heart. broken when he learned that 1t was a synonym for laxative, but his word, which has the same arrangement of syllables as "ded!ca- . tory" is beautiful by the standard of sound which Mir Gilmartin says he used in his choices. "Dedica- tory" in comparison, is lacking in the vowel quantity good song writer would require, and at the same time 1t presents rather com monplace consonant effects.
 other of Mir Gilmartin's words that never would be missed are somber, poignant. indulgent, inef- fable, vigilant. demolition, dormant. idealize (of all things). His other words have some qualities of poetic value, but arc not more than 26 per cent effective for the most part. For example. "lachrimoso" has the desirable CIR sound, but the short A and the final S are too bad. Naive, felicity and urbanity have the right idea, but in spite of the N and the V, the aforementioned word is awkward. Felicity scans well and 1t has tho desirable " and l., but 1t does not produce . cori- picte beauty; 1t is in the sccond-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-10
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
Historian Of His Own City

One kind of writer that this country hasn't enough of Is the To- cal historian-the chap who is willing to spend laborious hours digging up the history of his own town, and who is able to write about his discoveries entertaininR- ly when his spade work is com pleted.
 A fine example of that sort of book Is Historic Salisbury" by Charles J. Truitt. In this book, published on the 200th anniver- sary of his towns incorporation, Mir Truitt gives a very readable and coherent story of how Sails bury, Maryland, was founded, how 1t grew, what sort of adven-- lures its early settlers had ana who its leading citizens have that ought to be written more often.
 To be sure, the appeal of such book Is apt to be limited; yet this reviewer, who has never been within many miles of Salisbury, got real enjoyment out of this his- tory of what must a most charming place. Historic Sails bury" is the sort of book that ought to appear more frequently.
 Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1t sells for $1.50.
 It seems to me that Hollywood Siren," by Keane McGrath, Is by 0 good margin the worst book of the season. 1t tells of the adven- lures, chiefly amorous, of q film lady, and for sheer banal ineptness 1t ought to get some kind of prize. You can buy 1t, if you must, from William Goodwin for $2.