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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Bosses Control the
PAPER hangers
Delaware ASS
NV a worker CORRESPONDENT

WILMINGTON, Del. - T h e
Paperhangers' Association of Del
aware, organized month ago,
is composed of workers, bosses and
even wholesale wall paper dealers.
The Chamber of Commerce patted
Mr.. Markigon, the president, on
the back saying they were doing
fine work. What is the good work
they are doing?
They succeeded in stopping
the workers taking jobs for them
selves, yet most bosses put on
overalls.
I'm case the woman on the
job does not like the paper, the
paperhanger has to do it over for
nothing.
Sin case the boss is short of
money-the worker must wait even
month till the boss pays him.
4.-None of the officials are
workers.
When Joe Green took the floor
to demand the organization Of a
grievance committee made up of
the workers themselves, he was
ruled out by Markigon. Markigon's
excuse was that Green was trying
to organize workers clique.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Worker Gives Dollar to
Daily in N. Y, Elevated

NEW YORK, N. Y.--The American
Youth Club of Brooklyn has fine
methods of distribution and sale of
the Daily Worker. An interesting
letter telling of their plans for work,
and encouraging other workers to
get behind the Daily Worker Drive
follows:
while distributing Daily Workers
on the Fulton ST. line, Wednesday,
Sept. 9th, at midnight, a man
stepped towards me and put into
my hand a dollar bill. I was SO
amazed that I asked him if he
wouldn't rather mail it to the Office
than trust me, but he rushed out
of the train.
Several people seated near me
observed this incident, which, OBJ
viously, increased their desire to
read this unknown newspaper
Let this serve as lesson to those
who are eager to spread the Daily
Our method is to give out old copies
at meetings which cater, for the
most part, to those who are some
what, If not to great extent, al
ready sympathetic to the revolution
airy movement.
1.-The Communist Party must see
that all unsold Dailies are given
to the sections, who in turn will
give them to responsible comrades OF
the Party and sympathetic organiza-
lions to distribute on the subWays
and elevated trains. Some should
make house to house contacts.
"As a member of the American
Youth Club, request this dollar to
be credited to our quota for the
Daily Worker Drive, and will do more
to finish our quota. There must be
more workers like the above, and we
must reach them"
NEW YORK.-Organized only sew
eral weeks ago, the Daily Worker
Volunteers" raised $50, at dance last
Saturday, while an additional $49.56
was raisedby some members who ran
house parties, as part of their pledge
to help raise the $4,000 quota for the
present fund drive for the Daily
Worker.
More affairs for the support of the
DAILY" will be held by the Volunteers
in future not only to raise funds but
also to increase the circulation of the
DAILY" and to help establish for it
permanent sustaining fund.
The Volunteers will hold their next
meeting Thursday, Oct. 5. p. m, in
their own headquarters, 5th floor, IS
E. 18th st. Each VOLUNTEER is asked
to attend this important meeting and
to bring one more volunteer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
WORKERS MAILBAG

The Daily Worker is gratified at
the increased number Of letters COM
ing from workers describing condi-
tions on the job, and reporting the
rehabilitation of the working class.
Unfortunately all these letters can
not be published in full, and we are
therefore instituting this Workers
Mailbag" Extracts Of the. most vital
information contained In letters will
be published in this section.
AS. many letters as possible will be
published in the worker correspond
ence section. In every case where a
distribution OF an issue IN which a
shop letter appears is arranged for
at the factory gate, the letter will be
published in the regular worker cor
respondence section as fully as pos
sible. However, the worker should be
brief.
Experience has shown us again and
again how effective the method OF
special sale at factory gates is. 1t has
IN most cases given great impetus
to the organization work in the fac
tory, and it has helped to root the
Daily Worker in the shops-in other
words, this means taking a step to-
ward putting the Open Letter into
effect. Editor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04

the Daily Worker is not the concern
of the Section committees and frac-
tions in the mass organizations, and
in many cases they are actually OBJ
stacles towards bringing the Daily
to the masses.
THESE examples of criminal neglect,
l of not bringing the Daily Worker
even to the mass meetings we ar
range, shows very clearly why the
Daily" does not grow.
We have other instances. In one
strike, for instance when comrades
came to sell the Workers Voice, the
members of the Party, union organic
erS, told them that they cannot sell
the Workers Voice to the strikers
because the Workers Voice is the
organ Of the Communist Party. There
is definite resistance toward bringing
the Daily Worker and Workers Voice
and other Party publications into the
mass organizations and among the
workers in strikes and in the unions.
This policy not only prevents the
workers from reading the paper, but
even more than that. Because we are
afraid to bring the D. w. and w. ".
to the masses in struggle, We weaken
the struggle of the workers. The
meeting of the red issue" is not to
hide that we are Communists in the
mass movements, but on the contrary
to bring it forward and explain it.
We have an experience in one strike,
where our comrades denied that the
unions of the T. U. U. L. are red
unions, but the workers found this
out through other channels, with the
result that the workers showed dis
trust in the leadership of the T. U.
U. L. 1t helped to demoralize the
strike and the strike was lost. And
this was one of the contributing fac
toward the losing OF the strike.
The Party fractions in the mass or
CARNATIONS. in the unions of the T.
U. U. L., A. F. Of L., Unemployed
Councils, etc, and Party units must
place the question of the Daily Work
er on the agenda and develop means
and ways of how to bring the Daily
to the masses of workers and carry
On a merciless struggle against any
element that attempts to hide the
Daily Worker from the masses of the
workers, as the above stated examples
show conclusively.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Ligget and Myers
Plant Cuts Pay,
Doubles Work
BY . Worker Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Ligget & Mey-
ers Tobacco Co. cut the wages
from $50 to $14 a week and the
speed-up is terrific. There are about
1900 Negro and white workers in
this plant. They make Range
Rough cut at this plant. Where
four used to work on a machine,
now they have two. Where two
we're on the machine there is now
only one.
Some of the workers are look
ing for an organizer of the Tobac-
co Workers Industrial Union. There
are about 1900 Negro and white
workes in this factory. All.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Coal Drivers Are
Ready to Fight
AFL MiSleaders
BY a Worker Correspondent

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Friday, Sep
TENDER %, the A. F. Of L. pulled out
the truck drivers of most of the coal
yards in Brooklyn. happened to be
standing around crowd of pickets
on Maspeth Ave, near Morgan Ave-,
who were waiting for any trucks still
in operation. The pickets were dis
cussing the strike with the delegate
from the union. The strikers showed
much dissatisfaction with the man
ner in which the strike was being
run, and had it not been for the fact
that the delegate was an elderly man
with glasses on, they probably would
have lynched him.
He was carrying on negotiations
with the bosses behind the backs of
the workers, not even bothering to
notify them of the results of the ne
gotiations. He had settled to allow the
Newtown Coal Co. to operate with
half crew during the strike
l don't know If there is anyone
from our union there, but the work.
ers are very much dissatisfied with
the A. F. of L. leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04

9of men and women. The most / ever
got out OF them was little over $l2
I for a S2-hour week. 1 put in about
month all told, and most OF that was
part time work at the rate OF ~ Genus
per hou' 49,.
was IN the moe ceilar most OF
tne time. IL Is always wet. A mans
cloIhes never ury OUT over nlgIlV
When you leaVe Inern IN your broken
GOWN locAer: EFeIyeiiills ID speeu'
even ooWh IN TINS moe celiar they
nave d SVdiloaId anlo.lilC VI llloss W
| taAe OH Ulie pacA WHERE tlley nave
DeeH spleao oue III san; 1nere IS no
lot up oii .lie opIeu %lleii !uey aLe
eegSlils rea9y 70 snip Cilese hloes out:
THESE lliueS nave 10 pe dragged OH
tiiiS PACK anu SHAKEN 10 eeE tne SAT-
OIL IIleih alo tnen swept OH WIN
plooln' ciaoSlIleu ny man wIlo
Knows llloes' loiieu up, wels4lea anu
O1len ca Veo " NC pAiIu up oll allI
oIlleI plle lIoIi "tieie tiley are calCeo
aeaiu W car " pe sillppeu.
"lieii Vou seo Guy oii your manu-
.i-o of'iv $50 I'lso ~ aiiu ~ ."Nea
MefAs Lol ~ W nsal ioul Aeet 9eC
@eg' eFeii you weal uDOeIo. as Ciie
iionV " yuuI oFei ans sets WeS
allu soaNs through W C.le SKIN anu
luliS liiVo YOU SiloeS. MosU oi Iiie
men wear pooGs ana heaVy SOCKS 10
keep OUT the wet out tney sVil get
wei 10 a certain extent.
Inc Vollegs IN thls place are not III
lor hog, leu alone a man. MOST OF
tile lockers are proken Gown. Inc
showers anu WASH basins IN the lock-
CT rooln are al OUT OF oroer.
lhey nave several KOS Norkllg IN
inns place VINO nave lolkS Worklng
there' ana OF course tna1 Is "aae the
company wants as tney can get tne
speed OUT OF tnem' Inc "A. r. OF Il. Is
DONG some organizing tnere ana
charging tneSe men % lnitlatlon lee
ana oo Genus a monen' put tnere mas
oeen mourning done ABOUT the speed
up ana making tne Worklng conol-
IONS any netter:
nave peen lalo OH along WIN
70 OF loo otners que 10 tne iacO
tney nave quit kllilile ene small pigs
ana OLD sows. Inc pigs all Went INTO
1ertillzer mere IN this Town. OUTSIDE
Oh tne oest' Inc farmers never mace
nell OF lou OH tnese pigs Dy tne
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Armour Packing
Plant Trying to
Deny Vacations
CBy a Worker Correspondent

OMAHA, Neb.-In spite of the
NRA clause guaranteeing improve
ment of conditions, the workers in
the beef kill of Armours meat
packing plant have far from i'm
proved conditions.
The company is making an eff
fort to take away vacations, Last
year workers with 10 years SER
vice or more got two weeks vaca-
ton with pay. Those with five
years service and more got one
week vacation with pay. This year
workers are not sure of their
vacation and probably will get only
one week.
Bruise trimmers are in the beef
kill and now working on 119 cat
tie an hour, and at times as high
as ITO cattle have to be trimmed.
Previous to 1929 there were seven
bruise trimmers working on the
same number of cattle, and now
there are only four. The pay used
to be AT cents an hour, now it is
AZ 1-2 cents.
Workers doing the same work
often get different wage scales.
One gets day rate and the other
piece work rate.
The United Packing House Work
ers Union is formulating demands
on the basis of the conditions in
the beef kill and carries on strug
gle for partial demands in oppo-
sition to the company unions.
Workers consider 1876 cattle an
hour should be the maximum, and
there should be no piece work, and
workers want to be told definitely
when they will get their vacation.
H. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Letters from
Our Readers
ACTION WANTED

Comrade Editor: New York City.
Several years ago the Borough Hall
Unemployed Council at 70 Myrtle
Ave. used to conduct successful out
door meetings in front of the State
and Johnson SITS.
When the bureau was located at
Jay and Johnson SITS. the men could
congregate in front of the bureau
and more often than not one could
pick up casual job easier outside
than in. Now it's entirely different.
The bureau is now located in sort
of white collar district at Willough-
by and Duffield SITS. One gets white
card issued to him upon registering
and one is supposed to get it stamped
once every three weeks and then go
home and come back three weeks lat
er and get it stamped again. After
getting ones card stamped one is not
allowed to wait around the bureau in
case a Job should come in. One is just
out of luck And If one hangs around
outside in the hope of being picked
up by some boss, one of New York's
finest gives him the well-known
buns rush.
Several months ago several thou
sand Emergency. Relief men we're laid
off. The Home Relief Bureau sends
them all down to the Labor Bureau
with yellow slips. The desperate
workers think that a job awaits them
when they getto the bureau. But af-
ter getting their cards stamped and
told to report three weeks later to get
it stamped again, they get wise to the
racket. In conversing with many of
the men, many agree that the place
is just an additional drain on the
tax payers and should be closed up,
but / think that we could make them
drop these practices I have described
if the unemployed could be gotten to-
gether. Since the bureau has been at
this address the Unemployed Coun-
Gil has not held one meeting there.
(From one of the registered unem-
ployed at the State Employment Blu
reau at Willoughby and Duffield Sts.,
Brooklyn, N. "
Editors Note: The Unemployed
Councils Of Greater New York in
form us that the Borough Hall
Council is undergoing a thorough
reorganization. In the course of this
reorganization, which is expected to
be fairly completed by Monday,
October 2, the Councils leadership
will be greatly strengthened. If this
worker will get in touch with the
Council again after Tuesday, Oc-
tober 8, he will probably get CO.
operation in the organization and
resumption of these effective meet
ings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
Answer to Questions
Broken Rib?

Broken Rib?
Joe L.: If only one rib breaks 1t
does not always give serious symp-
toms because the other ribs( above
and below it) act as a splint. We
surmise, from the envelope in which
your letter was enclosed that you
are one of those functionaries who
lives on Moscow gold, SO you better
come up and see us. We might have
to strap your chest. Moral: 1t is
safer to kiss your friends than to
wrestle with them;
Dry Skin
Val. Rollins: Try to rub In some
olive oil into your skin every night.
Eat plenty of butter, nuts and a
tablespoonful of cod liver oil after
each meal. We take it for granted
that you are not overweight. If you
are, disregard the above advice and
let us hear from you again. You
may have to take metabolism test,
Peculiar Spine Trouble
A. B.: Pain in the lower part OF
the spine which does not improve UNI
der ordinary treatment, and which
has lasted so long, cannot be dag
nosed by mail. However, the peri
odic and terrific headaches which he
suffers from lead us to suggest that
he get a Wasserman test. After you
have seen an honest physician and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04

DSlleVe IlaU G1ey COulu ODCdln laSU-
ing benefits even while the capitalist
system existed. Furthermore this
would turn the workers away from
the main objective-the overthrow of
capitalism, only the unconditional
surrender of the ruling classp One
often hears this argument among
workers who call themselves revolu-
tionary and who, although they may
not know it, are actually working
against the development of a real
revolutionary movement by spreading
such DeLeonite ideas The SIP. has
made this the central point of their
program and the base of their at
tack against the Communist Party,
which they call "reformist" because
it advocates and fights for the i'm
mediate demands of the working
class.
What is the main fallacy in this
reasoning? The DeLeonites fail to
see the part played by immediate
demands in winning the workers over
to the revolutionary movement. A
class conscious worker or Commu-
mist is not born ready made, no more
than the unconditional surrender of
the capitalist class will drop down
from the heavens into the inner sane
turn of the SIP. Nor will the work.
ing class suddenly hold national
march on the SIP. headquarters to
serve notice on its National Committee
that they are ready to demand the
unconditional surrender" from the
government in Washington.
The Stairway to Revolution
The workers learn from their day
to-day experiences, from their strug-
giles, from their defeats as well as
victories. They learn to know the
capitalist state for what it is in their
struggle to realize the demands which
are closest to them. A worker who
has not become a Marxist, will not
feel concerned about this theoretical
term ''state" nor see how the fed
eral government in Washington is
so intimately connected with his own
daily needs. Nor will conditions all
by themselves, no matter how bad,
no matter how chaotic, lead the
workers to conclude that capitalism
must be overthrown and socialism
established and equip them with a
correct understanding of how this is
to be accomplished.
Immediate demands reflect the
day-to-day needs of the workers. At
times they are elementary, at other
times of a highly advanced political
character, depending upon circum-
stances and the stage OF the move
ment. 1t is only on the basis of
demands which are close to the day.
to-day life of the workers, that the
working class can be swung into &C.
ton and organized on the basis of
the struggle. BY advancing demands
such as unemployment relief, social
insurance and demands connected
with conditions and wages, and or
ganizing the workers into unions and
other organizations to fight for these
demands, the Communists link them
selves up with the struggles of the
workers and find themselves in a po-
sition to build and lead mass move
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Paragon Shelled Nut
Strikers Stop Scabs
BY a Worker Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-The workers
of the Paragon Shelled Nut Co.
are still out on the picket line.
Although Crews, the owner, has
already tried to hire scabs, the
militancy of the Unemployed
Council and workers on the picket
line with the Negro nut pickers
stopped them.
This shop has the blue buzzard
in the window and on the walls,
but it don't mean anything. Most
of the workers are living off the
city charities racket, although they
had to slave from $50 a. m. to
$50 p. m. to earn 80 cents to $3.50
week,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Can You Make 'em
Yourself :?

This house dress is not only COM
Portable and neat,--it's pretty be-
sides. There are just five parts to
the pattern: front dress, back dress
yoke and sleeves economically cut in
enc, roomy pockets, and sash which
insures fitting at waistline.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04

examples of how we do not bring the
Daily Worker to the masses.
The Section Committee in Spring
deld, Ill. arranged a meeting to
which over 100 miners came, but there
wasn't a single copy of the Daily
Worker at the meeting. Nor was there
any literature whatsoever.
In St. Louis, Mo. an active meeting
of the trade union, Party and mass
organizations was called. A little over
100 active workers came. But there
was no Daily Worker nor any other
literature there.
I also spoke at a meeting OF the
Unemployed Council in Nokomis, Ill,
TO 200 miners and their wives. There,
too, there was no Daily Worker.
At : meeting in Gary, at which
Comrade Hathaway, the editor Of the
Daily Worker, spoke, they had an
exhibit of one copy of the Daily
Worker at the mass meeting,
WHAT explanations can comrades
" offer for the failure to have the
Daily Worker at these meetings?
When asked, they offer no explana-
tons. They feel that they are guilty
Of neglect. That is about all.
What actually can be done for the
Daily Worker Here is an indication
In the city of st. Paul, the total
number of Daily Workers circulated
is 105. 7 attended shop unit meet
ing, consisting of Negro women, where
we raised the question Of the Daily
Worker and the meaning of it, and
/ how to bring it to the masses. The
unit very enthusiastically greeted the
idea of bringing the Daily Worker to
the masses. They volunteered to sell
the Daily Worker in front of one
shop every day They selected two
churches to sell the Daily Worker to
on Sunday, and two comrades volun-
teered to establish routes in the
neighborhood they live in. The num-
Der of copies for the Daily Worker
that unit ordered is equal to the total
amount Of the bundles of the Daily
Worker that had been coming to the
city OF ST. Louis. So we cannot blame
our membership; We cannot say that
the membership is not willing to sell
the Daily On the contrary, we
have some splendid examples of in
dividual comrades in some units who
sell the Daily Worker and Workers
Voice in large quantities. But as yet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
eve DO OUR PART
Ry q Worker CORRESPONDENT

WEST HAVEN, Conn.-Contractors
are putting up couple of mammoth
buildings for Yale University, which
will cost few million more dollars
taken out of production. This fore
noon there were thousands of I'M
employed workers standing on the
sidewalks watching robots doing the
work of hundreds of men. Under
Socialism these machines would be
a blessing; under the present system
they are a curse.
eve wonder if the buildings are
for the Department of EconomicsO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
1--WE Do Our Part"

BY Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK-The Eagle Pencil
Co. makes its workers see blue
When t he Blue Eagle made its ap-
pearance in the factory, they made
us happy by telling us that we would
work only 40 hours a week, and
that if anyone did not make $l3 on
piecework prices, he would still get
$13 a week, and If he made more
he would receive more. Listening
to this the workers began to work
harder than ever, thinking that II
they had made Is, 10, or 20 dollars
before, they could make still NOR,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04

wish to state here and now, that
though we might ON occasion recon-
mend hot dog to the workers, we
emphatically deny trying to hand
them the kennel too.
Also, in the directions for making
potato salad (same column "a table
spoonful each of vinegar or water"
should read AND water