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fore. The factory keeps going day
and night. The bosses sell these
stickerS at a huge profit, but our
wages are the same.
When I first heard about the
MIRA, I didn't know what it meant.
All knew was that it was supposed
to improve the conditions of the
workers, but now I see that it is
making conditions worse for the
workers and making more profits for
the bosses.
The boss tells me that he is giving
us break by letting us work over
time, but what good is it if we only
get 25-35c an hour, The only way
we can make halfway decent wage
is If we work 60 or 10 hours week.
Many of the workers are complain
ing against the conditions here. but
they don't know what to do. I have
heard that the Daily Worker can
help us by telling us how to organize
and fight against these conditions.
Our shop lis an open shop, We have
about 40 workers here. X.
t.
Editors Note There are many I'M
organized printers who realize the
necessity of united action to improve
conditions. Some of them have got
ten together and formed a Commit
tee for the Organization of morgan
lied Printers. Its headquarters are
at 80 E. 18th St., Room $40, New
York City.
A group Of workers from this shop,
who trust each other, should get in
touch with this Committee for ad-
vice and help.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, M. D
Health of Party Workers
y,-Constipation

One of the worst enemies of the
revolution is constipation. There is
a perfectly good physiological basis
for the term "constipated" which is
often applied to a stupid person.
There id no greater drawback to
clear thinking than bowel full OF
feces from which bacterial toxins
(poisons are continually absorbed
into the blood and which intoxicate
the brain cells.
People who allow themselves to go
two or three days without move
ment are just as foolish as if they
would drink or take narcotlts (dope).
Women are more inclined to suffer
from this condition than men and
nothing is so pitiful as to see fresh
complexion become pinply and sallow
on account of chronic constipation.
That beauty is only skin deep is
a sophism. Scientifically, it would be
more accurate to say that beauty is
bowel deep. And as long as we are
making aphorisms we might add
another one. 1t not only requires
"guts" to be good revolutionist, but
one must have clean quits.
The hurry and hustle in which
Party members live accounts for
many cases of chronic constipation.
They simply have no time" to at
tend to the call OF nature. Once they
get into this bad habit. the lower
bowel becomes more and more dis
tended and can accommodate a larger
amount of excretion. The auto-in-
toxication which results from this ac-
emulation further paralyzes the
nerves and lowers the activity of the
glands and other organs; the circu-
lation becomes impaired, anemia SUI
pervenes and the constipation be-
comes worse.
Very often it is almost impossible
to break this vicious circle. To pre-
vent it is much easier. Regularity
of habits is the first precaution. A
person should have at least one bowel
movement daily The inclusion of
rough vegetables or bran in the diet
will be sufficient to bring about this
result. If not, an enema (syringe)
consisting of quart of warm wata,
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BETHLEHEM, N. H.

BETHLEHEM, N. H
Comrade Editor;
I would like to call your attention
to the lack of sales of the Daily
Worker at the Workers School, I
attended two classes last fall and
at each session of each class the in
structor advised lis to buy various
pamphlets and literature which we
Should read However, they failed
to I'll Daily workers which to my
II 5 just as important as any
Ii e since it keeps us posted on
the G2ily struggles in practice which
think is just as important as
theory.
Not until the end of the term when
a delegate of the Daily Worker came
around to sell tickets, and Incidental
ly had some papers with him, he
sold = dozen papers in one class
rccrl, which was all the papers he
hei.
was greatly surprised to find that
at 9 p. m. so many students at the
Workers School had not read our
Daily Worker and it made me think
that perhaps many more in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Letters from Our Readers

School did not read it regularly. I
would, therefore, suggest that in
connection with all literature sold
in the classroom the Daily Worker
should be mentioned each time.
am hoping for a much greater circu-
lation of our paper and am trying
to do my bit as every worker should.
M. S. L.
NEW YORK, N. Y.
Comrade Editor:
New York capitalist papers ex-
tended a cordial welcome to the
group of European police and crime
experts who arrived here on their
way to the Chicago Police Conven-
ton.
The capitalist system which is
based on crime wants us to believe
that the police can find a way to
eliminate crime. Why didn't they
arrest Morgan, Mitchell and Harri-
man, if they wanted to eliminate
crime? Why don't they try to kill
hunger, instead of killing hungry
men, women and children when they
apply for relief.-A.
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that I have ever seen. Even the
speakers could hardly get hand on
anything that they said.
1 saw just one guy take of his
hat when the flag passed. A few
children clapped when clown came.
I heard one man say when the boy
scouts passed: there goes the future
militia" A Squad of police and the
city officials passed and some one
in the crowd was heard to say There
goes the City Hall sangsters." An
other man said, IF these birds were
doing even part of what they would
have the public believe they we're do
ing, it might help some"
N.A.A.CP. Follows xxx.
? About a dozen xxx. followed by
the NAACP. How even those few
Negroes could be led into such a
demonstration is beyond me. 1t was
mostly school children and the bosses
had staged a big pre- arrangement
meeting i'll the Negro sections to get
them to turn out in the parade. Some
one asked the N.AACP. What
about the Scottsboro boys and like
remarks were heard all along the
parade. One little colored girl car
ried a banner right behind the
xxx. which said 100 per cent
8 American. 1 was wondering if it
meant the colored people in the par
ade or the KKK.'s.
SIP. Also Represented
sew enc of the old wheel horses
sof the Socialist Party in the parade,
DIR. B. F. Patton. He was in group:
The National Home Owners Associa-
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They found it in this area. So
COMMENTED" was the labor (sons and
daughters Of farmers) that the Men"
MONTE Church even forbade any
member to join labor union. With
such a holy blessing the sweatshop
prospered and multiplied until every
important cross road boosted OF one.
Children Work in Sweatshops.
The small wages of the sons and
daughters in the cross road sweat
shop supplemented the farm income.
The old family unit farm, somehow
managed to keep going and Hoover
could still depend on the faithful.
Along came the present industrial
crisis. unemployment in the CITY
meant a decline in consumption OF
milk, hence decline in price on the
farm. Unemployment at the cross
road sweatshop meant a cut in the
supplementary. precious cash income.
The full weight of both the indus
trial and agrarian crises were being
felt.
BY the summer of 1882, the farm
ers selling milk had received from
the dairy trust six price cuts since
the beginninr Of the industrial crisis
in 1929. In the city no cut in retail
prices had taken place. The farmer
was selling milk below cost OF pro-
luction and the trust was getting
larger share of the consumers dol
lar than ever.
A mass meeting was called in the
Hatfield High School Three hun
bred small and middle farmers re-
sponded. A new organization was
born-the United Farmers Protective
Association. Prominent in the lead
ership emerged the former city work.
ers. the proletarians with strike and
union experience.
The early aims of the United
Farmers Protective Association were
along the lines of forming CO.
operative that would operate milk
plant and retail direct to the con-
sumers in the city.
Mcnopolies Arrive.
Twenty-Five years ago the milk in
dustry in Philadelphia and in most
cities was in the hands of many small
independent dealers. With these
small businessmen, a small or middle
farmer was almost on an equal plane.
A flair" bargain could be reached.
Thus. if the city retail price was &c
quart, the farmer usually got half,
or &c. Now, the small dealer is
nearly gone, along with the age Of
free competition. In his place stands
the mighty dairy corporations like
National Dairy Products and Bor-
dens, controlled by Wall Street. This
is monopoly capital.
These are not equals and the small
and middle farmer cannot expect
equal results. We now find the re-
tail prices at 10c Quart and the
farmer receiving to 5 cents. To at
tempt to match the small capital
of the small and middle farmers in
retail competition with the dairy
trust (Wall Street, is hopeless.
But it was a very hard job for the
class conscious farmers to convince
the conservative element Of this.
IF we can't fight the trust BY
building our own milk plant-how can
we fight it?" asked the conservatives.
by your power of numbers, by
united mass action, answered the
class conscious farmers.
And so the turn was begun toward
class struggle.
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A1N O.
1lsa fIs<, ae !llll !,
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TOday's Menu

BREAKFAST
Baked Apple
Bacon
Toasted Rolls and Butter
Coffee Milk
Some of our readers seem to think
= y necessary to turn on the oven
for every bit of baking they have
to do. That is not so. An Androx
oven placed directly over the gas
will bake apples, buildings, potatoes
and many short time bakings,
LUNCH
Broiled Founder
Mashed Potatoes Spinach
Bread and Butter
Tapioca Pudding with Mix
Tapioca pudding has directions on
!, .ijhe box. Here is another suggested
way. Two tablespoons full Of tapioca,
yolks Of two eggs, Y cup of sugar,
I quart milk.
Put the tapioca into a. small half
cup VI WdUC1 dllO 1CD IL oUdIlu
hour. Then drain it and put it in
the milk in the double boiler, and
cook and stir it till the tapioca looks
Tear, like glass. Beat the eggs and
Xix the sugar with them and beat
kain till both are light, and put them
nth the milk and tapioca and cook
Aree minutes. stirring all the time.
hen take it off the fire and add
ooonful Of salt and half teaspoon
Il of vanilla and let it get perfectly
I'D. Note: Flavor may be added
lso by adding a slice of lemon or
.ange skin while the milk and ia
ioca are cooking.
z ri SUPPER
h Peanut Butter Sandwiches
Apple Sauce
Iced Cocoa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Boss Signs Blue Eagle
Code, Lengthens Hours
(By a White Collar Worker
Correspondence

NEW YORK CITY, have been
working, together with six others in
the office, on an average of A to 40
hours a week. AS recently as five
months ago we suffered a 80 1-3 per
cent cut in salary. Even those who
have been working there for period
of years, have not had vacation
for two years now.
About two weeks ago, our employer
signed the NR.A. pledge, boasting
volubly of his patriotism. Since then
the four male members on Our staff
have been working, between them, A
and 48 hours week; the three wo-
men axe allowed a. 40-hour week
every third week, working A to As
hours a week the two intervening
weeks. No pert of the SO 1-3 per
cent cut has beer restored to US; no
addition has been made to the staff:
no vacations have been granted. But
our employer is proud of having done
his Bit in signing the Pledge!
On the other hand, my rent has
been increased to rs per cent more
than my weekly salary! The renting
agent assures me that this was done
in keeping with the spirit of the New
Deal" and an effort to raise the
standard Of living!
What's wrong with this picture?
-T--vn Stauopra nher
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and tablespoonful Of bicarbonaue
of soda vii do the trick. The inn
portant thing is to take the enema,
as much as possible, at the same time.
preferably before going to bed. This
regularity, when continued for suf-
flciently long time, will establish q
habit and the bowels will move by
themselves, when the time for tho
enema comes around.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Poor Memory-Weak Sexual Power
Foreign-born worker, Philadelphia.
Your letter sounds as if you have
been reading the throw-aways which
quack sex specialists" are distribute
ing for the purpose Of catching VIC
tins. Have yourself examined by an
honest physician. Your trouble may
be due to anemia or to faulty vision.
When severe headache follows read
ing, it is almost invariably due to lack
of proper eyeglasses. Write again
giving your age, work and other par
ticulars.
Dry Scalp and Falling Hair
B. S--The compound you mention
is of little use. Castor oil or olive
oil rubbed in every night might help.
Make sure that you are not suffering
from some general condition or faulty
diet.
Oily Hair
Ii B.-The more you'll wash, the
oilier your hair will get, because you
stimulate the oil glands at the root
of the hair follicles The condition
often improves by itself, when you
grow out Of your teens" (the age
between thirteen and nineteen).
Many adolescents have the same
trouble because puberty is accom-
panied by an excess of blood to the
head and face. Live on a fat-free
diet, drink plenty of water and take
daily sun baths, or, if you are work.
ing, try ultraviolet rays. If you have
family physician, he may arrange
to give treatments at reduced cost.
Readers desiring health inform.
alton should address their letters
to DIR. Paul Luttinger, CO Daily
Worker, IS East 18th St., New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

liSh QuakerS and German Memo
mites fleeing from religious persecu-
tion-good farmers, thrifty and hard
working. The Quakers are of par
ticular interest because of their
friendliness to the Negro race. In
pre-Civil War days, these Quaker
farmers organized an illegal appa-
ratus for aiding runaway slaves to
flee to Canada. This was the famous
underground railway,
The German Mennonites did not
marry outsiders, kept themselves a
small group largely isolated from
progress. Isolation was so great that
to this day they retain their own
customs and German dialect
Thus situated, in the heart of a
growing nation, the Quakers and
Mennonites prospered.
City Workers Come.
Into this conservative group, be-
ginning with the post-Civil War per-
iod, came Hungarians, Poles, Lithu-
anians, Italians and Jews, mostly
former peasants. Still hungry fol-
land. Stopping off in the American
cities and mines only long enough
to gather the capital to buy a piece
of land. The city with its industrial
struggles left its impression. When
the class struggle comes to the sur
face on the farms. these people show
great militancy-lessons of factory
and mine.
Into this mixture came a small
but important group of former fac
tory and mine workers, blacklisted
for their activity in the industrial
struggles. Every important strike
struggle CT the East, CT the last IS
years, is represented in this area by
farmers who are bisck'isted nlilitants.
These veterans of class war will
speak, and speak loud.
These farmers always produced
some cash crop. However, until COM
paratively recently, they were to a
large extent self-suficient. That is.
a large proportion Of goods consumed
on the farm were produced either
on the farm or in the neighborhood
Very little cash was needed for
operations. This factor of relative
elf-suf1ciency helped to retain iso-
lation, helped to fight off the attacks
of capitalism.
The family farm, hiring little Or
no help, YVES and is the predominant
ing production unit. Therefore, we
find class of small and middle farm
ers-property oTners-conservative to
the core.
The industrial crises of the past
made little impression on these
people. They were relatively self
sufficient and had the choice markets
of the nation at their doorstep.
EUT the present agricultural crisis,
beginning in 1921. started most of
them down hill Machinery was COM
ing in more and more, requiring more
specialization, killing self-suficiency
forever. The automobile had come,
pushing the horse out of the city,
destroying the profitable hay market
The farmers had to use up the extra
hay-so they bought more COWS.
From now on milk became the main
source Of income.
Just about this time. 1921. the
manufacturers of certain light in
dustries (textile and needle trades
decided that wages were too high in
the cities of New York and Phila-
delphia Besides, unions were nuis-
ance. These bosses sought cheap
"contented" labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
So a Week for 12-HOur
Day Washing Bottles
(By a Worker Correspondentl

DENVER, Colorado.-The j. zerob-
nick Bottling Co., pays its workers
So week for twelve hours work
washing bottles. This company has
just recently sold shipment of
twelve carloads of bottles, realizing
a profit of hundreds of dollars, while
their employees are struggling to OBJ
tain bread for their families.
The only remedy for wrongs of this
kind is for the workers to organize
and show these big bosses that they
are tired OF being slaves just for the
benefit of their employer 49,
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and wife sickly, citizen of the U. S.
I wrote them a nice letter and asked
them for position or to help me
in any way. This Is the letter they
sent me:
Dear Mr..
We have no jobs in hand, but if
you come in we will give you let
tiers and in that way do our Bit"
When I received this letter. 1 i'm
mediately went there. When / got
there thought they were going to
give me food for my family or a
position. He told me Mr.. Greer is
not in at present and gave me let
ter to the City Employment Bureau.
I went there and they couldn't do
anything for me. No jobs, that was
the answer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Cincinnati Boss Plays
FavOrites With JObless
Letters from Our READERS

CINCINNATI, Ohio. At 1401
Reading Road place has been open
ed up for the unemployed under Mi.
Fenton, with the report that it was
to give work to all that wanted to
work at two days week-everybody
a chance-Well, they have opened up
but have not given everybody a
chance. Those that have been put
to work at the start have been on
steady. The rest can suck their
fingers and are being told to come
back and come back.
One that believes in a square deal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Campus of University
Is Opened to Fascists
From a Student Correspondent

tFrom a student Correspondent
AUSTIN. Texas. When school
opens at the University of Texas, this
semester, the American Legion will
be comfortably installed in a nice
new building on the campus. The
authorities of the University, after
outlawing the local branch OF the Ma
tional Student League and increas-
ing naturalization fees to keep out
radical students, invited the Legion
to establish its state headquarters on
the Forty Acres.
A fascist student club, sponsored by
the Legion, may be organized on the
campus. In the event OF war, the
Legion headquarters would serve as
focal point for iingoism and con-
script
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Shop Which Prints
NRALabel Violates
Eagle Regulations
BY a Printing Worker Correspondent

BY a Printing WOfker correspondent
NEW YORK CITY, have been
working for several years in the Ever
Ready Label Co., a printing plant at
257 w. 18th st.
Our boss here was one of the first
to sign up with the NRA. He just
received a permit from the govern
ment to print the new NRA stickers
and we have been printing them by
the millions.
Since we started printing these
NRA stickers, conditions, instead of
improving, have gotten worse. We
have to work much faster than be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Speakers Fined in Houston,

1CUSTON, Texas.-Rob Pearce
d j. Sandram were fined 500
n for holding meeting without
permit, two others were arrested
vagrancy but released on court
er police broke up the anti-war
.rionstration here soon after It had
|rted. A verbal permit had been
Sained, but when the first speaker
an to attack the blowing under
the cotton crops as part Of
Sevoft's "New Deal, the police
ned in and made the arrests. The
Is have been appealed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Better Citizenship"
Outfit SendsWOrker on
Wild Chase for Job
(By a Worker Correspondent)

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-During the
first week of July, I read an article
in the New York American" for
Better Citizenship to prevent more
gangsters, headed by Robert Greer
and backed up by the society people.
I was in need, two small children
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23

Editors Note The trouble is you
seem to accept all this complacently
The others in the Office also are
suffering. Why not unite and de-
mand decent conditions? The Of
flee Workers Union, 80 E. 18th ST.,
will be glad to talk things over with
you and advisa WI,
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Pattern 1886 is available in sizes A.
is, 10, 20, 80, "a, So, 38 and 40. Size
16 takes 334 yards SO inch fabric
Illustrated step-by-step sewing in
structions included with this pattern.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS 15c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferreO for
this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name address and style num-
Der. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE.
Patterns BY Mail Only
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department. 243 West 18th
Street. New Yort r't
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Terre Haute Parade
for MIRA Falls Flat.
As A Stale Pancake.
Even United Efforts of xxx, NAACP, A. F. of
L., S. P and Bankers Fail to Make the
Workers Fall for the Blue Eagle
BY A WORKER CORRESPONDENT.

HAUTE 19 staged n H. A.
numbers the street concerned
a that
deadest parade
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~ keep up a six-page DAILY Work
I the circulation must be doubled.
your share By getting new sub
bers.
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Can You Make 'em
Yourself ?

Pajamas-for sleeping, or for the
beach or roof on the warm days that
we're certain we haven't seen the last
of.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
By DAN RICO

No. 4.-Mayor Williams of North
Clarion, chief of the Carnegie Po-
lice at that point, swore dire VEN
geance against the union organizers
should they come to his town. But
the union called meeting on a lot
owned by its local secretary. But
hardly had it started, when with a
great flourish of clubs, the police
broke-up the r'eetin~ and arrested
the organizers, including the writer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
BY LANKY.

roughly bounded by Pnia'
Reading and Whining
rategcaly situated between the great cities New
and
200 large numbers Of peasants-Eng-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-23
Pennsylvania Farm Fights
Once Conservative German and Quaker
Farmers Battle Against the Robberies
of the Milk Monopolies

This a On rural Southeast Penn
syIvania. the Daily Worker tonor-
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Readers desiring health inform.
alton should address their letters
to DR.. Paul Luttinger, CO Daily
Worker, IS East 18th St, New
York City.