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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
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ache, dizziness, loss of appetite, and
strength, constipation, indigestion,
loss of weight, irritability ('cranki-
ness'D, weakness and progress to
pains in the muscles and joints. II
the patient does not pay attention
to the symptoms, abdominal colo
with diarrhea sets in, with severe
anemia and blue line along the
edges of the gums. This blue line
is due to lead sulphide and is one
of the chief signs of chronic lead
poisoning. AS the disease progress
ses, the patient becomes depressed,
his blood pressure increases and the
pains in his legs become so severe
that he land his physician often
mistake them for rheumatism" or
govt. The pain is worse at night
and the resulting insomnia Qack Of
Sleep further undermines the pa
tents resistance His face looks
"pinched' and he develops a pecu-
liar gray paleness, called saturnine
pallor and a disagreeable swedish
taste in the mouth. Finally he
develops paralysis of his hands or
legs, the earliest manifestation of
which is paralysis of the muscles of
the forearm resulting in what is
known as wrist drop" At this
point, most patients seek medical
advice; but if this is not available,
the condition goes on to apoplexy
(stroke) or insanity.
Ito Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26

That women in Great Britain are
going through struggles just like
ours, is shown by the women's Sec
ton of the English Daily Worker
A Scottish comrade writes in to
describe the wretched housing she
has to endure in Glasgow:
q live in the Gorbals, in build
ing where there is neither water
nor gas. There is one lavatory for
81 persons and the drains are so
rotten that a person would need
a gas mask when leaving or en-
tering the houses. The place IS
also alive with rats, and to crown
it all there is a workshop on the
bottom two stories with tons Of in
flammable material. In the event
of fire there would be no other es-
cape than through the windows. =
Another woman writes about mis-
cradle conditions in London ma
ternity hospital where she is watt
ing to give BIRTH
The food is appalling. 1 don't
know how they concoct such messes.
am supposed to be on diet and
I certainly am. 1 haven't eaten
any dinner since I've been in here.
I told the nurse I'd rather be shot
than poisoned, and think she
agreed with me. About the
worst mess We had was yesterday
Sunday, some potato, o m o
cooked, and pale pink beet-root,
Just like wood, and the smell was
awful.
Huge doses of laxative were adj
ministered with instructions not to
get out of bed necessity compelled
disobedience of his mandate) j,
women in labor were left in the
wards until the last minute" where
their suffering demoralized the
courage of the women waiting their
time. My nerve is properly gone"
confesses the comrade, concluding
Il spent a good part of the time
running down the corridors for
nurses to tell them that Mrs. So
and-So was very bad or somebody
else had just been sick. We women
should try and do something to get
better hospitals, and demand that
they have more nurses, because the
few they do have are terribly over
worked"
A GuildsWoman writes of her
anxiety over the Sedition Bill which
the English workers are fighting:
MY husband-and l take it he
is no different from thousands more
thinks it is no good trying to get
soldiers to think for themselves
about their orders-even though
they are ordered to fire on strikers.
But we women are different. Dur
ing a general strike, for instance,
how could we stand by and see our
strikers shot down by soldiers whose
mothers, wives, and sisters we
are?
I'VE Guildswomen feel deeply
about these things, but We have 81
little time to busy ourselves with
outside politics, our homes, families
the eternal round of cooking, clean
ing, washing, is 50 much on top Of
US, that we look to others, more
free to fight this battle.
Almost anything we say to the SOL
diers about war is going to be called
sedition, and may lead to impris-
onment. There is not a woman
in our Guild who would not joir
some great strike of housewives an6
mothers if such could be organized
to prevent war. Can we not dc
something like this? F.. :"
Seven accidents took place in g
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
FASCIST TERROR
New York City.

NGM VI SlINs
Dear Comrades:
I have searched through our pa
per for some sign Of menace to
the workers of America that has
escaped detection as yet. II is a
movement organized by one B. E.
Claybourne. I attended such a
meeting in Poughkecrsic: there were
about 200 young men. First there
was gigantic drill for 10 minutes,
then military instruction class in
street fighting Claybourne seemed
to do NEST of the directing with five
aides.
Then came talk by Claybourne
of a bloodcurdling character. And
during the speech some one who
was a visitor got up to ask if he
(Claybourne) would use force
against all ideas of the workers.
Claybourne then invited him on
the stage from which he was speak
ing. He then asked him if he was
Communist, the answer was, yes.
Claybourne then said, 1--WE answer
all Communists in only one way"
And in a second the ouestioner lay
on the floor with broken arm, and
then Claybourne applied a hold,
causing the man to scream in
agony. Claybourne is an expert in
Japanese wrestling His action was
loudly cheered. Claybourne is said
to have 5000 such men in training
in the U. S.
In Chicago I was told that a COM
rade was followed home from a
meeting after he made the remark
that next time be would bring a
man from the Party paper. and the
whole family were nearly beaten to
desth and watched week there
after. They are training to terrorize
Us in the most terrible manner. Can
you print something in the paper
and see what other comrades know
about this? Or at least warn them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
Chain Cane.
In sc. Only
For Negroes
Condemned to 80 Days
Of Hell for Selling
Workers Papers
By a worker CORRESPONDENT


COLUMBIA, S. CT am just off
the chain gang. I was put there
for selling workers papers and the
Labor Defender. The bosses gave
me 80 days here in South Carolina.
This is some of the white terror
that we workers, Negro and white,
get under the New Deal here in
Columbia. At the present time the
chain gang is filled with Negro
workers all over S. G.
At 4;30 am. all must be up. At
5 am. they must be eating bread
and grits and gravy. At $50 all
must be on the trucks to 10 to the
roads, to work like hell until 1 pm.
Then all must get dinner, some
thing that is not good for dogs to
eat. At this point one rests one
hour after this, and all must work
until pm. like hell. At this point
all are brought back to camp, and
eat supper. You only get cornmeal
bread and black molasses. Then
the bosses chain all the poor Ne
groes to their beds at night. One
cannot get up at night.
This is what the Negroes now
get in South Carolina. They don't
put white men on the chain gang
any more in Columbia. The bosses
put all the white men in the State
Prison. They tell the white men
that they are little better than
the god damn niggers."
We work all day on the chain
gang and at night we must sleer
in the same clothes that we worked
in all day. They only change
clothes once a week, on Saturday
evening about $3.50 pm.
They march all the Negroes tt
the creek to take a wash. Com
rades, this is pure hell here in S. c
No one gets this treatment except
Negroes. They have ruined my
health.
The poor Negro prisoners have
to work in water in the wintel
time. Sometimes is is so deep many
of them get sick and die, and that
is all to it. We hope the day will
come when all this will be cut out
but only when a farmers anc
workers government is set up ir
the U. S. A.
Only a farmers and workers
government will put the Negroes
and white workers in the righ
place here in the U. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
Fight Sweating
Speed-Up in PhiIa.
Cornell Laundry
BY a Laundry Worker Core
spOndent

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The boss
in the Cornell Laundry thinks that
the miserable sum of 25 cents an
hour is too much for us slaves who
are running our health in his
sweat box. So he tried to cut us
to 20 cents. But the mangle help,
in response to the call of the Or
ganizational Committee, put up a
fight and refused to go to work,
and the boss was forced by this
militant action to give back the
wage cut.
But now he is trying to sweat it
out from us by greater speed-up
in all departments and layoffs. He
already sent home over so per cent
OF the wash men, put in new ma
chinery, and is making the remain
ing nine men do the work of the
original 20. The damp wash work
ers he sent down into the base
ment, where the terrible steam and
heat are killing, so as TO economic
on space. He is speeding up the
shirt workers and threatening the
mangle help with layoffs. At the
same time he is working us late
hours without extra pay.
But we have learned from the
example of the mangle help that
by uniting and standing together
We can fight against the miserable
conditions in the laundry and win
cur demands. So We, in all de-
partments, led by the Organiza-
tional Committee, are organizing
into militant union, the Laundry
Workers Industrial Union, to fight
together for better working condi-
tions, against the speed-up, fol
higher wages. Our union is a rank
and file union controlled by all the
workers. and not at all like that OF
the A. F. of L. crowd which once
collected 81 initiation fees from us
and then left us flat.
The boss is so afraid of us or
ganizing that he is getting the jit-
tiers. When three young worker:
came from the union to give out
leaflets, he called the police, hac
them arrested, and railroaded them
to 10 days in Jail each. But the
International Labor Defense wa;
notified, and got them out.
1t is the same I. L. D. which i;
fighting for the freedom of thu
nine innocent Negro Scottsborc
boys whom the bosses in Alabama
railroaded to the electric chair
Every worker in the Cornell
Laundry, join the union so we car
all fight together for better work.
ing conditions and higher wages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
Bankhead Bill Hated,
Writes Texas Farmer
By a Worker Corresuondent


MINEOLA, Tex. - I have lust
read the Striking Industry" ar
ticle in the Liberty magazine, and
also the article Russia Comes
Out of the Red" in the Country
Home MAGAZINE. They all own
up that the Communist move
ment is gaining ground. Soon I
hope to see the world ruled by
the prcletariat, instead of the
rich class.
I must report the Bankhead
Bill is not liked very much by
the majority of farmers here
The drought is going to make
crops here almost a failure.
People are realizing that times
are not getting better under the
Roosevelt regime.
am hungry for a Daily Worker
so please find six cents to cove.
the same.
am not subscribing for these
magazines that contained the
articles just read. If l were able
to subscribe for a paper it would
be the Daily Worker above all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
Prevention of Lead Poisoning
(Continued)

The symptoms of lead poisoning
depend on whether the condition is
acute or chronic. Acute lead pois-
oning occurs most often among
those who have been recently eX-
posed to the poison and who absorb
the lead from the respiratory tract.
Legge found that out of 1,463 en-
ployees, thirty-nine per cent of
those annually employed were pois-
oned; while the incidence among
those regularly employed was only
six per cent. This shows that the
unskilled are more likely to become
victims of lead poisoning than those
who are acquainted with the
dangers and methods of prevention
Acute lead poisoning is fatal in a
relatively short time. The intestinal
tract becomes inflamed, the bowels
are first constipated, then collie
develops with circulating abdominal
pain and rapidly progressing ane-
mia Irritation of the encephalon
part of the BRAIN often occurs.
with epileptic commissions, maniac
Gnsane) excitement, delirium, par
tial or total blindness, delusions,
coma Inconsistencies and death
Gases of acute plumbism which re-
cover, often end in permanent in
sanity.
In the chronic cases (the more
T.
Gradual that the affected worker is
hardly aware of the warning symp-
toms. They may begin with head
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
Stale Meals, Low
Pay for Walters
In Socialist Camp
BY a Worker Correspondent

COLD SPRING. N. Y.-There is
a camp down here, Camp Eden.
that's run by the Socialist Farband.
The president of this camp is the
notorious labor faker, Mr.. Chanin.
He has put in charge as manager a
hotel owner. Mr.. Feldman. who
manages the kitchen according to
hotel style. The help they feed the
rottenest food We get the dry bread
that's week old and sardines every
Cay. Milk is not given to the help.
The walters got new deal" this
season, with the meagre pay of $40
a season. We have to buy our coats
that cost $40, and we have to pay
40 cents a week for our laundry. AS
a result of the rotten food, many
of the help have quit.
Of course, the Pankens and the
Weinburghs that came down here
to maneuver about the so-callcd
Declaration of Principles were not
interested in investigating condi-
tons in Camp Eden.
Yes. Mr.. Judge Panken and Mr.
Chanin, you are talking about
workers democracy" We walters
know your demagogic misleading
phrases. We are not enjoying this
democracy in Camp Eden. You are
not giving us the right to organize
You, Mr.. Chanin, have put Mr.
Feldman in as manager, and he
drives the lives out of us.
For every plate you break it will
cost you IS, he instructed the wait
erS.
We would like you to expose this
camp in the Daily Worker. We
smugele in the Daily" here from
Nitgedaiget.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
PARTY LIFE
Workers Clubs Of 2 Cities
In Socialist Competition
Chicago and Cleveland Clubs Race To Fulfill
Tasks; Greet BrOtoder, Central Committee

to our Daily Worker and literature
meetings which are called by the
Section Committee. There seems to
be a lack of political understanding
Of this work by the comrades in
our units. How can we raise the
political level of the masses? And
how can we go out and organize the
workers in shops and factories if we
do not gain influence, by spreading
our Daily Worker and literature
among the workers?
Our literature sale for this month
in the units has dropped down, ex-
cept for one unit in our section
which has done good work in selling
literature Unit All sold more than
half of the section literature sale
for last month, which proves that
it can be done if the sale is organ
lied in the right manner and if all
our open air meetings are covered.
which has not been the case up to
date on the part of some of our
comrades.
At the present time. we are in
the midst of Daily Worker cam
paign When this campaign was
started, Section challenged all the
rest of the sections in the District
to raise subscriptions for the Daily
Worker and also to take the Dis
trict banner away from Section 4,
which was won in the last cam
paign. In spite of that, our own
section is tagging behind in raising
subscriptions. We would like to
hear from the other sections
through the Daily Worker as to
whether the other sections have ac-
copied our challenge or not.
Daily Worker and Literature
Agent, Sec. 4.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
BY a Farmer Correspondent


BARNHART. Tex. - The agents
of the Roosevelt Raw Deal certainly
are killing the cattle. On the Hen
derson ranch today they will kill
about 1900. Here is a description
of Just how it's done. witnessed
one slaughter 10 miles south of
Barnhart of Is head Of cattle be-
longing to r. L. Owens, after some
papers were signed making claims
fer the cattle, with Mr.. Owens
agreeing to burn the dead cattle.
Two of Roosevelt's Raw Deal Kill
lerS with their high power rifles
commenced pointing the guns just
anywhere. They hit flank or nose
and shed a lot of blood, on the
fence, or ground. The bawling Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
BY a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich.-"A trip to
Northern Michigan with pay. Ten
men wanted, Is to SO; RADIO and
electrical experience helpful, but
rot necessary. Food, clothing and
shelter furnished. Apply Lieut..
Holmes, ArmOry, Brush and Larned,
Monday between 7 and s pm"
This appeared in the Detroit
News Of June 10.
The Lieutenant Holmes men
toned is attached to Headquarters
Co., LIST Battalion, 125th Infantry,
Michigan National Guard.
On the evening of Monday, June
IL. a large crowd Of unemployed
young workers were at the 125th
Reg. Armory, looking for the
"jobs" that had been advertised.
They were very angry when the
"jobs" proved to be three-year en-
lstments in the National Guard
at the rate of 90 cents per drill.
The officers of the Headquarters
Co. and other companies were
laughing and enjoyed the huge
"joke" they had played on the
young workers.
One young worker who had re-
Gently come to Detroit from Har-
Ian County, Kentucky, stopped
Lieut.. Holmes on the drill floor
and demanded to know what was
the big idea. Some of the young
workers had spent their last IA
cents to look for these Jobs and
it turned out that it was the
strike-breaking National Guard.
Lieut.. Holmes could make no an
sWer.
The Michigan National Guard
has its annual maneuvers from
July 7 to % this year. The review
of the 32nd Division will take
place at pm. on Saturday, July
ID, at Grayling, Mich. At 10 am.
on Sunday, July Is, a memorial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
An I8-hour Day for
Bachelors of Science
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-Was out at Jones
Beach Estate Park yesterday and
had a lovely time. Promised the
boy friend to forget about the class
struggle for day. But it just didn't
work out.
The boy friend was ordering a
sandwich over the counter at the
cafeteria there. He was a little i'm
patient and made some wisecrack.
Listen, buddy" says the counter
man, I'VE work 10 hours a day here
and this is Sunday night"
Later, one of the bus boys told
us that there are quite few boys
working there who hold Bachelor
of Science degrees. Scientists bv
grace of the state authority but
mere straws as workers, in a State
Park.
But if all those straws got to-
gether, they'd make a broom that
would sweep the boss off his feet.
q believe it's a concession there.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
National Guard Lures Boys
With Fake Employment I'D
Large Crowd of Youths Angry When Promise of
Jobs Turns Out To Be 3-Year Enlistment

service for the soldiers Of the End
Division who died in the World
War will be held.
The men of the 32nd Division
should understand that the men
who died in the World War died
in order to save the British and
French investments of Morgan and
Rockefeller. These boys from
Michigan and Wisconsin died in
order that Ford and the other
Michigan millionaires might make
millions Of dollars of profit from
the war.
Now these same Michigan rich
men want to use the National
Guard to safeguard their invest
ments in China and the Far East.
The men of the Michigan Ma
tional Guard should fight with the
workers, against the rich million
aires.
A NATIONAL GUARDSMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
LABORATORY AND SHOP"
PRAISED.

New York City.
Editor, Daily Worker,
Dear Sir:
May we express our pleasure at
your new column in the Daily"
entitled Laboratory and Shop Notes.
AS the only genuine trade union
in the technical field, we have for
some time felt the Importance of
such step. The technical men of
this country have a lot to learn and
a lot to unlearn. This has been our
task so far and We are sincerely
grateful for your cooperation.
In addition the column is well
written and has real interest.
Sincerely yours,
I. EHRLICH,
Secretary, New York Chapter,
Federation of Architects, Engire GERS,
Chemists and Technicians.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
MN -
I'm the Homes
~
LUNH E&s1&k NJ
CONDUCTED ~
HELEN LUNA

week on Arkwright Street, Canning
Town, because, when this street be-
came popular as shortcut to new
highway, authorities didn't want to
spend money for ratings to keep
children safe. Terrible conditions
we're revealed by investigation of a
girls home. AND the Council of
Action" in Stoke-on- Trent led work
ers to resist evictions, so that
Massey Square tenants (who had
gone beyond their means, we're
permitted to remain in their homes.
Shake, English comrades! It's
just like home: Same damned old
capitalist system showing through
everywherel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
City-Wide Conference
In Kansas City Ratifies
Communist Candidates

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. July 25.-
A city-wide conference was held
here yesterday to back the Con-
gressional candidates. of Lewis
Hurst and George Hopkins, both
well known in Kansas City for their
leadership of the unemployed in
their struggles for relief. Both are
members of the Communist Party
and are running on their Party's
ticket.
T h e conference met at
1904 Brooklyn Ave, to consider
plans for the organization of the
state election campaign of the
Communist Party in Missouri.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
Letters from
OltrRedders
CORRECTION

In an editorial note on the
Militant" which appeared in yes
terday's Letters from Readers
column, the sentence "the impor-
lance of the Trotskyites to destroy
the solidarity of the revolutionary
workers is shown by the smallness
of their numbers" is an error. This
sentence should read "the impo-
tence of the Trotskyites, ETC."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
recognition to Will Muenzenber.

Reception to Will Muenzenberg
Will Muenzenberg, the organizer
of thousands of physicians in pre-
Hitherto Germany, for ten years a
member of the German Reichstag,
publisher of the "Gegen- Angriff"
(Strassbourg); the "Arbeiter Illus
trierte zeitung" (Prsgue) and "Un-
sere Zeit" Paris, will be given an
informal reception at the home of
DR.. Paul Luttinger. 5 Washington
Square North, at $50 p. M. Tonight,
The sponsors are Malcolm Cowley,
Joseph Freeman, Edward Dahlberg,
Sidney Howard, Michael Gold and
Paul Luttinger. The readers of this
column are invited to be present and
hear his famous write- and wit
speak on a subject of absorbing in
terest. Refreshments will be served.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
Slaughter and Burning of Cattle on
Texas Ranch Is Described by Farmer
Roosevelt Agents Shoot Herd With High Powered
Rifles After Owner Agrees to Burn Bodies

the wounded cattle was hardly
enough to drown the yell Of the Kill
lers, squawking like a band of
Comanchees, and after 100 shots
there were five COWS staggering
about the lot.
The killers went in with axes, and
anywhere they could hit, the blow
was struck, until all we're dispatched.
This small lot was burned. They
were good COWS, for stockers, oil
calves weighing less than 200
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
NOTE

We publish letters from farmers,
agricultural workers, lumber and
forestry workers, and cannery
workers every Thursday. These
workers are urged to send us let
tiers about their conditions of work
and their struggles to organize.
Please get these letters to us by
Monday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
s3.77 A WEEK FOR COUPLE
BY a Worker CORRESPONDENT

SAN FRANCISCO. = I'm on the
City's Emergency Relief for which
my wife and 1 get the fat sum of
S377 a week and a pint of milk
day.
But they do not pay my rent. They
tell me further that l soon will get
three days work week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE A
HOME"
BY a Worker Correspondent

ROCKFORD, Ill.-Rockford Tran
sient Home fumigates the clothing
Of all its guests three times on en-
te.ing. Have to go to the doctor
three TINES on entering. Rules arc
stricter than in prison. Hun. rcd7
CT men won't check in on account
OF prison-like rules and rcd taps.
They seem to try end make it as
hard fer the transient as possible.
Food is fair, place overcrowdcd, and
in downtown section