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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
by a Telephone Worker
Correspondent

NEW YORK presume you know
already about things that the tele-
phone company does to the opera
tors. But I would like to tell you Of
a few little incidents that happened
here.
Before going to work in Central
office, as it is called, one has to go
to a school to learn operating, The
school isn't much to speak Of, For
one has to actually operate in an Of
flee 10 be able to get the hang Of it..
During this incubation" period in
the school. my salary was $3.50 a
week (pre-depresSion), The school
was presided over by q female
dragon. Tough as a pine knot and
With glare in her eyes, which she
used to good effect on the initiates.
She reprimanded me for powdering
my nose. And in the same breath
informed me that "the telephone
company expected the operators to
dress well" I felt like replying, "On
S1250 a week?"
In 4 couple Of weeks I was put to
work in the Doughty office and my
pay was raised to $3.50 week. The
second month I received a dollar
more. Holidays rated double pay
and Sundays time and half.
I worked in Doughty for almost
q year. And during that time was
under a constant strain. There was
always someone listening in on the
girls. One of the chief operators in
Doughty was regular she-devil,
I've seen her yank a girl. whom she
had taken q special dislike to, out
Of her scat and shake the girl until
her teeth fairly ratified. The girl
had to take it. for she was all alone
and was forced to work. And a job
was a JOB
Then I was transferred to the
Parkyiew office. Griswold was up
stairs and worked in that one also
off and on. The Parkview office was
dark and gloomy and poorly ven
tilated. 1 won't go into details for
fear I am taking up too much OF
your time. Sufficient that every
little while some girl would drop out
On. account OF T.B.
Talk about galley-slaves. We were
a modern example Of them. For We
were literally chained to the switch
board By our headsetS, forced to sit
for hours with our eyes on the board
in front Of us, working like mad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
BY a Marine Norkor Corresnnndenl

BY Marine Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Last Wednesday
two longshoremen were injured at
Dock No. 46.
One worker, Max, who worked be-
fore as office keeper, was put to
work to unload a steamship. He
broke leg while doing that work.
Another worker sprained his arms.
Tt is no wonder that workers are
injured so often, because the speed-up
at work is unbearable. For instance:
Last Saturday a 1,OO0-ton steamship
was to be unloaded. About 140 men
worked on the job, and in three
hours the job was finished. The
foreman drove the workers as if he
were insane.
On Dock As, as a rule, not all work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
HamtramCk Bosses
Insult Negroes
at Mock Trial

By q Negro Worker Correspondent
HAMTRAMCK, Mich.-I am writ
ing you of some of the things that
are taking place in this city. You
see on Dec. 23rd the police and the
firemen and the judges were out to
raise money for the Good Fellow
Fund, and one of the Judges Of this
city by the name Of LewondosH sent
a policeman out with a bunch Of
fake warrants to bring in certain
persons so as to have mock trial
and fine them and have the funds
turned over to the Good Fellow Fund.
The first one to be brought before
him was a Negro stoolpigeon by the
name of T. Bell Richards who pa
rades around with a Deputy Sheriff
badge on and placed on the witness
stand In court where well dressed
white woman stood and raised her
right hand in regular capitalist court
fashion and swore that this was the
man who attacked her and lnsulteo
her on Nov. 10th at the corner Of
Canih and Lumpkin St., and the
Judge sentenced him to donate to
the Good Fellow Fund.
A few hours later a Negro worker
was brought in on the same charge
and this enraged the Negro workers
of this city, and as Judge Lewon-
doski was going to run for Mayor
of the city, manv Of them ret bus
and asked for petitions so that they
can run Communist candidates and
vote Communist to answer such
SANDER of the Negro people at the
Mock Trial (T-he judge charged this
Negro also with attacking a white
woman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Phone Go. Speed-up Keeps the
Operators at Historical Pitch
Chained to the Switchboard, Must Sit for Hours
Working Like Mad

Many times I have been drenched in
perspiration.
And, fu all my efforts, more than
likely I would be called out to get
a lecture for some little trifling thing
that did not even matter. Anything,
though, to keep the operators keyed
up to an almost hysterical pitch.
was even called down numerically
for not being able to finish a call for
a man because I had q terrible cough
at the time and was almost s5rang-
ling. But you never could have made
that chief operator understand. The
phone company was applying the
whip to her back also.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Clerk Urges Unity
With Western Union
Messenger Boys
BY a Telegraph Worker Cor
respondent

NEW YORK.-Your espousal of
messengers rights in the Daily
Worker has awakened me. Long
enough has the Western Union used
the clerks stationed at the branch
offices to exploit the messenger. In
this fashion the boys vented their
hatred against us instead of their
true enemy, the officialdom of the
Western Union.
am employed in the district
north Of seth st. to the city Iine(.
The superintendent, a Mr.. Carroll,
is the personification of all that is
inhuman and unreasonable in an
official Young, immature, owing his
job to his father famous for his ter
rible temper, who is the real general
manager Of the company, he apes
him in every mannerism. He covers
up his lack of experience, both in the
administrative and telegraph, by a
tyrannical attitude that brooks no
interference. His word is law. He
stalks the district putting fear in
the hearts Of the exploited clerks and
messengers.
He vents unusual spleen on the
unorganiZed messengers. He makes
their conditions Of work intolerable
especially during the Christmas holi-
day season. He forced messengers to
use bicycles in sections where their
use is dangerous. Boys are crippled
but what cares Supt. G?
We clerks, operators, messengers
must unite for the ordinary decencies
OF life, and use the Daily Worker to
help us to rally to victory.
Although am Irish, I think this
baloney about only foreigners having
CUTS enough to fight is spread by the
workers enemies.
"A DELIVERY CLERK,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Letters from Our Readers
SAVE YOUR GARBAGE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED SAYS WORLD
TELEGRAM LETTER! INCREASING FIGHT FOR
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

when hungry unemployed workers
came around, let them fish out what
they want Of it.
And in closing here's real hint to
those hungry unemployed workers
Don't Take It Lying Down! Fight
for Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill! Demand a Decent Living
for Your Family and Yourself at the
Expense Of the Bosses and the
Government!
WILLIAM LAME.
Red Builder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
80 Doctor
~LAlAiSaqe'z
QdL>G4RA:
nv PAUL LuTTINGER. MD.

any of our readers be foolhardy
enough to scratch spirochetae pallida
on his foreskin. On the other hand,
typhoid baccilN may be swallowed
with impunity by people who have
been yaccinated against typhoid
fever.
Singing By Mail
Edward W., Chicago, HI.-If you
had read carefully our articles ON
the fake ads in Physical Culture"
you would have found the name Of
Professor" Feuchtinger among them.
If you consult your own common
sense, you will know that nobody can
learn to sing by mail. If you must
throw away your money, throw It
into the gutter when nobody sees
you; thus avoiding making yourself
ridiculous.
As to information about the Come
munist Party, you have probably
noticed a blank form printed in every
issue of the Daily Worker entitled
Join the Communist Party" II you
Wall fill out this blank with your
name and address and mail it, you
will receive all the information you
| desire.
Chiropractic
t Eli LeOnard.-Chiropr is not
a science; but a delusion, at it's best.
Your experience with a single case
has no scientific value. Magicians,
Indian medicine men, Christian
Science Healers and other pseudo
medical cults occasionally "cure' q
patient. Women who have been
constipated, are known to Improve
their condition after they had be-
come pregnant and vice versa; with
out the taking of any drugs or other
| treatment. We do not engage in
any public debates. Chiropractic Is
not recognized in Soviet Russia.
Chiropractic
A. c. Benn.-Please see our answer
to Eli Leonard. Being a plumber.
your views about chiropractic are as
valuable as that of any leader Of
that pSeudo-Science; but we must
decline to take you seriously when
you voice opinions on medicine. 1t
would be equivalent to our advising
you to wipe a joint with glue in
stead Of with solder. We have known
quite a number of plumbers, as well
as carpenters, who have become
chiropractors and we have no objec-
ton to your embracing this cult.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26

ing needed bJ our c4ass today, dur
ing a time Of such great strikes.
The I. L. D. has it's hands more than
full. Not only this but furthermore,
says Comrade Nemser of the Bazaar
Committee, I'VE are eager to bring
the message Of all revolutionary Or
CARNATIONS before the thousands Of
workers who will come to the
Bazaar" (The district I. L. D.
headquarters is at 870 Broadway
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS (,
Disorder and Uncleanliness at
Dental Clinic

An Oyer-PaHent Patient Your
complaint about the dental clinic
has been investigated and referred to
the proper authorities and we are
certain that conditions will be
greatly improved, in the future.
Owing to the necessity of an in
vestigation, the reply to your COM
plant was unavoidably delayed.
Please communicate with us If you
do not find conditions to your salts
faction, when you next visit the
clinic.
Red Spot On Cheek
I. r., haywood, m.-The nature Of
the red spot on your cheek cannot
be diagnosed by mail. AS to the
condition OF your eyelid, you better
consult an eye specialist next time
you happen to be in Chicago.
Catnip for Ovarian Deficiency
Mrs A. c., Lawrence, MaSs.--Your
excessive weight and your irregular
periods indicate clearly that you are
suffering from ovarian deficiency.
That a nurse" should have recon-
mended catnip in this condition
taxes the limits Of our credulity.
Very little can be done to improve
your condition, as there are no
medicines which have any effect on
the ovaries, when taken by mouth.
Injections Of certain extracts of the
ovary sometimes seem TO bring
limited results; but these have to be
given with the needle and by ply
sician who has had experience with
this type of medication. If you are
anemic, the improvement of your
blood might also tend to regulate
your menstruation. AS to whether
you are Gin family way or not, we
must defer the diagnosis until the
introduction of television. If you
have any doubts about it, it might
be best not to wait until then and
consult local physician about the
matter.
Germs Alone Do Not Cause Disease
Alice Buchbinder. The great
pathologist, Rudolph Virchow, once
swallowed a virulent culture of
cholera baccilli, sufficient to cause
the death Of 10000 men; but Moth
ing happened to him. This does
not mean, Of course, that we should
expose ourselves likewise nor would
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
ON THE DEATH OF A CONIRADE

Comrade Editor:
I wish to express my deep regret
at the death of Comrade Brooks. I
met Comrade Brooks at my first
unit meeting in Los Angeles, Calf.
I believe that his death is a great
loss to the revolutionary movement,
I have full confidence that Com
rade Miriam, his daughter, will con-
tinue in the footsteps of her father
in the struggle against the capitalist
system.
Conrade Brooks sincerity and WILL
ingness to fight against misery and
exploitation must not die until final
victory Of the workers will be
achieved. ROSE KUNTZ.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
y o t E

We publish letters every Friday
from workers in the transportation
and communications industries
railroads, marine, surface lines,
subway, elevated lines, express
companies. truck drivers, taxi dri-
veT3. etc.-and from the commu-
nications industries-pOst Office,
telephone, telegraph, etc.
We urge workers from these in
6ustries to write us of their con-
ditions of work, and their struggles
to organize. Please get these let
tiers to us by Tuesday of each
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
AND NO IMPOSSIBLE
RESOLUTIONS WERE PASSED"

"AND NO IMPOSSIBLE
RESOLUTIONS WERE PASSED"
A really thrilling Section Member
ship meeting of Section z, Chicago
was held, centering around the ques-
ton of concentration. In the past,
Section meetings have been windy,
long drawn affairs, from which
every one went home tired and dis
Outraged at a late hour. This meet
ing did, it is true last until close to
IL, but we all felt elated and slim
ulated and ready to carry out our
work.
First, the agenda was limited to
three points, AND THESE ONLY:
StockyardS work; work on the C.W.A.;
and Lenin Memorial Drive in the
light of these two basic points Of
concentration. Concrete proposals
within the power OF our comrades
were assigned in the form of a mi
meographed report. The report Of the
organizer wandered somewhat afield
but the report, given by our new
organization secretary perGained d.
rectly to all three items on Che
agenda.
Following this, discussion from the
floor, relative to the work assigned
took place. Since our assignments
were all down in "black and white,
it was difficult for even the most
loquacious comrades to stray from
the path of the agenda. Important
points raised in the discussion were:
How to approach workers on C.W.A.
with the Party and its line; how to
develop contacts among employed
stockyart1 workers; how to use
existing mass organizations in the
territory international Labor De-
tense; Unemployed Council; Sopkins
Union, etc.; and how to increase the
sale and influence of the Daily
Worker.
A few comrades actually had small
successes to report. One G. w. A.
worker, in particular, gave an espe-
cially valuable example of how he
succeeded in organizing the men on
his job to stick together" in their
demand for an extra fire, and to
prevent the leaders of this action
from being victimized. 1t would have
been better If larger part of the
meeting had been given over to such
reports, and less time taken with
speeches on the general problem of
concentration.
The report of the D. O., coming in
the midst Of discussion, and covering
wide range of topics, somewhat dis
connected the discussion from the
floor which proceeded and followed
his report. He made it clear to the
comrades, however, that our task in
the stockyards is q political one, since
the most vital sections Of the pro-
letariat are here, and in similar
heavy industries. He explained the
type Of industrial organization to-
ward which we aim in the Packing
Workers Industrial Union, and de-
scribed certain actions which can be
carried out by workers organized into
job committees within the yards.
Finally, he called for the recruiting
Of workers from the yards into the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1913 is available in sizes
2, 4, 6, and TO- Size 4 takes 2s
yards 36-inch fabric and "a yard
contrasting. Illustrated step-by-step
sewing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Must Take Strike in OuOn Hands;
Pennsylvania Miner Declares
The Operators Are the Government and They Have
Slippery Tongues, He Warns

get robbed again, because the opera
tors and manufacturers are the gov
eminent and they are pretty clever
and have slippery tongues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26

Send fifteen cents (I5c) in coins or
stamps (coins preferred) for this
Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly
name, address and style number. Be
sure to state size.
Address orders TO Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 West 18th
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26

The following article, dealing with
a section membership meeting,
came to us with the following note.
II have just returned from a very
exciting Section Membership meet
ing, which inspired me 50 much
that I felt that 1 should write it
up for the Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15

determine action against the coolie wages Of $3.50
to SO a month for relief workers will be held on
May 20 Here again the closest unity between en-
poyed and unemployed is being formed. In reso-
luton denouncing the starvation standards Of work
relief and demanding wages equal at least to those
paid on CWA. the Harrison County Central Labor
Union with $500 members, has entered the fight
Of the unemployed.
In Wichita the center of the Kansas wheat dis
trict, where 5000 sacks Of -four stored in the
Federal warehouses while workers stsrve the
work relief wages troops and police have unlesshed
reign of terror against striking relief workers.
Sioux City relief strikers being slugged by po-
lice and imported thugs.
The Unemployment Councils everywhere must
cement the growing unity between the employed
and unemployed modifying the masses of job
less workers in active support Of industrial strikes,
forming of Joint picket lines relief projects and
before struck factories, leading the workers in
A. F. of L. strikes in the fight for full relief for
all striking workers, mObilizing the A. F. Of L.
workers for actions at the relief bureaus for in
creased relief and winning the fullest rank and
file support to the Workers Unemployment Insur-
Bill (H.R. 1898.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Chi. Meet Aimed At
Anti-SOviet Move
Demand Soviet Trade
AtPeoples Auditorium
Friday, May 18th

CHICAGO, May IA mass pro-
test meeting has been called by the
Chicago local of the Friends of the
Soviet Union for Friday, May 49, at
the Peoples Auditorium, PAST Chi
cago Ave. The meeting is in pro-
test against the &C ion of the U. S.
government in refusing credits to
the U. S. S. r.
Robert Minor of the Communist
Party; Carl Haessler, managing edi-
tor of the Federated Press, and rep
resentatives from mass organiza-
tons will speak.
by this action the U. S. govern
ment joins openly the imperialist
united front against the workers
country" says a statement of the
F. S. U. ut is a well-known fact
that the Kerensky loans were used
to kill Soviet workers and destroy
Soviet property.
1--WE appeal to all sections of the
population to join us in fighting
this war move. We appeal espe-
cially to the members of the Social
ist Party and the A. F. Of L., many
of whom helped us in the fight for
recognition of the U. S. S. r."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Cement the Unity of JobIess
and Employed

IN ANSWER to the Roosevelt-inspired
starvation levels of work relief, abandon
ment of C. w. A. and relief wage cuts,
new wave of struggles of the unemployed
is sweeping the country. What distin-
cuisines these struggles from past actions is
the close unity being established between
organized labor in the A. F. of L. unions and or
ganized unemployed under the leadership of the
Unemployed Councils and the militant Relief Work
srs Associations.
At the inception of the Roosevelt work relief
program, relief workers throughout Ohio struck for
living wage. Immediately the rank and file in
the A. F. of L. unions sprang to the support of the
unemployed, and denounced and expelled from the
unions those officials who acted as strkebreakers.
They joined the unemployed the picket lines
Today in Ohio, te-wde strike of relief work
ers, supported by many workers in industry, looms
Relief officials, opening a reign of terror on the
strikers with wholesale arrests in an attempt to
smash the strike have cstegorcaly stated in many
counties that they feared general strike of all
workers if the demands Of the relief strikers were
granted
In West Virginia, statewide conference to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
The Communist Party of China Calls Toilers to
Armed Struggle Against Imperialsts

status quo in North China, Jap
anese imperialism demands Hua
Pei, even the whole land, to be
placed under its direct control like
the present Manchukuo.
With this objective in view Jap
anese imperialism has been making
active war preparations: further
achievements to Manlangyu and
East Charhar, mass recruitment
of Chinese workers, construction of
motor roads for war purpose, in
corporation of the bandits (under
japanese instigation the notorious
bandit leader Liu Kweitang has
devastated several provinces), dis
patch of numerous planes for recon-
noitering purposes, increasing ac-
tivities of the japanese spy service
Surveying in the provinces lying
north of the Huang Hoo, construc-
ton of more than 20 wireless sta
tons between Jehol and West Mon
golia, signs that point to the
new Japanese offensive not only
against North China, but against
Sinkiang and the Peoples Republic
in Outer Mongolia in an attempt to
march on the Soviet Union.
Parallel to the Japanese often
sive, British and French imperial
ism are making further attempts to
widen their spheres of influence in
South China. England and Japan
are said to revive the old alliance.
The Yankee imperialism wants TO
convert China into its exclusive
colony in its fight for the hegemony
over the Pacific. The recent ex-
change of notes between Japan and
the United States are a conspiracy
against the Soviet Union. For the
partition of and international con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15

arm themselves in defense of North
China and the whole country by a
revolutionary national struggle;
drive out japanese imperialism and
smash its tool--Kuomintang. They
must unite against Japanese and
other imperialist aggressions in a
unified anti-imperialist front with
out regard to political affiliations,
occupations or sex. Our anti-im-
perialist program consists of:
az Against the Kuomintang
surrender, no illusions on the
League of Nations and America,
union of all toilers as the main
stay of the national struggle
against Imperialism;
~ In favor Of a revolutionary
national struggle in defense Of
China's independence and terri
torial integrity;
90 Appeal to the masses to
join the war against Japan, aid
for the volunteers;
(4) Seizure of all arms, whether
in China or imported, to arm the
masses; confiscation of Japanese
property and property Of the
traitors for war expenditure
against Japan;
81 Keeping away from jap
anese and other imperialist influ-
ence, also from the influence of
the traitors; reputation of all
debts in order to raise funds for
the anti-Japanese war;
49, Complete severance of dip
lomatic relations with Japan, mo-
Utilization of all land, naval and
air forces against Japan, discon-
tinua ton of the campaign against
the SovietS;
GD AGAINST the Tangu agree
ment and direct negotiations.
Here is our program for the ma
tional struggle, which ought to have
the support of all toilers as well as
those who are really against i'm
perialism.