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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10

Delinquent Subscribers to daily"
Should Be Followed Up and Visited
1t is customary for the Daily
Worker to continue sending the
Daily" to subscribers long after
their subscriptions have expired.
This is commendable and shows the
unbounded faith the Daily" has
in its readers. 1t is as it should be.
There are any number of readers
who would give the last bite out
of their mouths to help the Daily"
or who would walk miles to save the
pennies to pay for their 'Dailies."
There are, however, number
who need a little coaxing, little
talking to. to convince them to
renew their subscriptions. They are
sometimes good sympathizers, but
do not know the Importance Of a
paid up sub in the life Of the
Daily" There are still others who
could be gotten to pay up an old
bill, or renew their subs if they are
approached. Some simply don't
know how to go about renewing
their subs. or are unable to pay the
full amount Of the sub. but would
gladly take the Daily" on the week
ly payment basis
Recently our Unit Buro discussed
the case of a subscriber who orig~
inally paid up for months SUBJ
scription, but kept getting tbs
Daily indefinitely for months
afterwards There are more than
one of such cases. The national
office does well to spur on the Daily
Worker campaign, but it could save
itself hundreds Of dollars if it
would send to respective dis
tricts and sections the names
and addresses of delinquent sub
scribers, and have them inter-
view and check up on the latter. In
this manner thousands Of former
readers and subscribers could be
reached and possibly induced to re-
new their subs.
Org. Sec'y. Unit 102.
District 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10

up the old union. The say around
New York that the above Garth
ledge was one of the men that
helped Griffin, the treasurer, get
away with union funds.
Bell and Wallace have a strong
pull with all the port stewards in
the city of New York, including
Bordas of the Ward Line, Ringold
of the Clyde Line, Freeman OF The
Munson Line, Dougherty of the In
ternational Merchants Marine. All
Che above are very friendly towards
them.
The two phony delegates, Bell
and Wallace, can always be seen at
the payoff lineup to collect their
dollars. What for? All can see
them doing, is entertain themselves
in the chiefs and second stewards
rooms.
ONE OF THE STEWARD DEPT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Black and Blue Marks

Henry W., Baltimo-c-Black and
blue marks on the body are not
necessarily due to trauma (blows).
They are often due to lack of CAL
cium Qime) in the system. Such
individuals get them spontaneously
or by the slightest pressure, such as
crossing the legs, leaning against
the back of chair or from
friendly squeeze of the shoulder,
arm, etc The lack of calcium causes
the wall of the capillaries (the blood
vessels to become fragile or thinned
out and the blood easily escapes
from them into the surrounding It's
sues just as If blow had ruptured
them.
In the case you mention. we are
inclined to believe that your lady is
suffering from calcium deficiency.
The character of the husband, az
you describe it, does not fit wife
beaten.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Continue DriUe on
ForeignBornSeamen
Campaign Sponsored by Frances Perkins On
Coast Is Spread to FERA Relief

BY Marine Worker Correspond eut
NEW YORK The F.E.R.A. has a
new scheme to split the unity Ct
the workers. The F.E.R.A. admin
istration in the Seamen's Relief Blu
reau at Jane Street and Seamen's
Church Institute have inaugurated
a new scheme which victimizes and
discriminates against the foreign
born. Any seaman now who is legal
ly in the country but has not got
final citizenship papers and whose
Seaman's discharge is a year old
has got to get of relief, regardless
OF whether he has been on relief
two weeks or six months.
Here's where the splitting tactics
and victimization comes in. The
American born seamen whose dis
charges are two years old is entitled
to relief anywhere, to six months
or a year. Some of them have been
as long rs ID months in these relief
joints.
SO, fellow workers. you see the
scheme. They are doing what they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
1000 Are Laid Off
On B. & o. RaiI,cay
BY a Worker Corresnondent.

BALTIMORE, Md.-The Public
Relations Department of the B. Is
o. Railway announced today that
about 1000 employees in the Motivs
Power Department have been given
a furlough for an indefinite per-
iod." They also report near-fu-
ture building of about 300 cars at
the Keyser, w. Va, shops which
will re-employ about 200 men.
This is done under the guidance
of President Daniel Willard, to
whom the Brotherhood chiefs pre-
sented bowl of flowers with
card reading. ITO our friend Daniel
Willard The brotherhood chiefs
with their new jobs in the Pension
Boards and the compulsory wage
acceptance boards are, OF course. not
included in this lay-off order from
"our friend Daniel willard"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Need Uniform Rail
Union COntrdctDates

the same system is one of the most
common forms of sellout. This
practice makes it impossible for
railroad labor to use its combined
power whenever the occasion arises.
1t is precisely because of this split
ting policy of the big chiefs that
the shopmen's strike was lost. Here
we had an example Of train service
men, carrying Brotherhoods re-
ceipts and operating their trains
while their brother workers in the
shops were on strike. In some
instances these train service men
even made minor repairs, thanks
to a traitorous leadership.
Our organizations must be
moulded into instruments of the
rank and file. Every honest rail-
road man must build around him
self group OF sincere railroad men
who will guard our interests both
inside the lodges and A. F. of l..
locals, and in the terminals and
shops. This is the only way we can
protect our working conditions.
Build the unity of all railroad
workers. This is the only way out,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
PARTY LIFE
Distribution Of Literature
In Chicago PoorIyA1ranged
Comrade Emphasizes Need of Pamphlets for
WOrkers-Hits Scarcity of Literature

More attention should be given
to the, spreading Of literature by
the Party here, especially on the
South Side. Too many American
workers are still getting their ideas
of Communism from the capitalist
press and radio. We are staging
some affairs with either no litera-
ture or an inadequate supply of
Party pamphlets and papers. I don't
know how much literature is being
sold in sections one and two, but
however much it is, it could be in
creased. I have more than once
brought this subject up at unit
meeting, and the members agree
with me that something should be
done about it, but still little or no
literature is being offered for sale in
unit meetings or at section head
quarters.
Yesterday 1 called at the Office of
Section l. and asked for some copies
of the Manifesto Of the Eighth
Convention. I got one copy. Later
in the day was in Section 4 and
dropped into the Office. They
scraped up five copies for NEAL
they had OF all the appeals to
the American workers I have ever
come across, this manifesto is the
clearest and most enlightenine and
it is crime to neglect the popu-
larization of it.
There are not enough workers
book stores here to supply all the
neighborhoods. It is the duty, and
to their credit, the custom of some
units and sections to maintain a
varied and full stock of literature
and in some cases even a library.
Every Party member should be able
to get to place within walking
distance of his home where he
could purchase or borrow all of the
books, papers and pamphlets that
are being printed all the time deal
ing with the current issues of the
working class and also the older
classics of the class struggle. A
wealth Of them are being published.
but the distribution apparatus is
weak.
I believe this is a matter for the
section committees to take care of.
If not. then probably the district
agitprop.
H. P, Unit 122,
Chicago.
The above criticism is a just and
timely one. We would like, how
ever. to inquire: II it is 50 difficult
for Party members to obtain our
literature. how do We expect to get
it into the hands of the non-Party
massesp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Public Endangered
By Railroad Economy
On Street Crossings
By a Worker Correspondent

ASHTABULA, Ohio.-They are
continuing to burn up the bodies of
the old wooden cars on the New
York Central Railroad here, when
no doubt, they could be given to
the poor for kindling or to make
garages, hen coops, pig pens, or
whatever they could be used for.
One railroad crossing here on 5th
St, an important street that is
cross I'd by the Pennsylvania s
branch, used to have a watchman
at the crossing, besides gates. and
warning bell. Two years ago they
did away with the watchmen, and
this year they are doing away with
the gates and the bell. Last year
l wrote to several different depart
ments in Washington about it, and
it did no good.
This Pennsylvania Railroad has
its LEGAL superintendent, and com
plant was made to him by one of
the counsels that his railroad has
no Waterman at 5th St, and this
local superintendent replied that a
brakeman is supposed to get off and
run ahead and flag the crossing
and If they don't hop off and flag
then they and the conductor of that
train get a S0-day layoff for dis
obedience. But at that, who wants
to see some poor innocent man laid
off by the railroad company's fault
when they could just as we'll hire
Waterman to protect that cross
ing at all times?
have also heard that where
there used to be about 20 or more
dispatchers or telegraph operators
between here and Warren, Ohio
there Is not one now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Useless Dues Collectors

BY a Marine Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK; would like to ask
the stewards and cooks of the Port
Of New York few questions. Why
don't you fellows get wise to your
selves and stop handing out your
hard-earned dollars to those takers,
Bell and Wallace, Of the Marine
Cooks and Stewards Association of
the Atlantic Coast, or, at it is pop
ularly known the Clyde Line
Union?
They haven't ever done anything
for the steward department. Since
they were organized nine or ten
years ago, they haven't made a
move of any kind but to continue
to collect their dollars.
The head of this outfit. Garth
ledge, was secretary and treasurer
of the old union, and he was one
OF the parties that helped to break
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
RAILWAY BOSSES PAVING WAY FOR MORE LAYOFFS
Eastman Seeks Way
To Fire Older Men
all Street Newspapers Giue Hint of Plots
Against Workers Security

reduction" it is now proposed to
again increase the rates, on the
basis Of the July ~ PEI cent
return. The July 1st return Of 235
per cent presents one reason why
the pension bill passed so quickly
with its August LIST deduction of
pa per cent, Ito be revised when
Congress meets in January. which
also happens to be the month when
another 2la per cent will be re-
turned.
But it seems now that the de-
mand for higher freight rates is
the usual compromise for some
thing else" demand, to abolish off,
cially some of the hard-won
working rules which have already
partly slipped away by silent con-
sent of the brotherhood petty
politician officials. The loss of
these rules, and other economies
resulting from Eastman's orders of
August Q, 1888, will result in laying
off hundreds more and furnish a
good excuse for labor making an
other sacrifice by accepting the 6
hour day with s hours pay tenn
porarily,' for one year" till bust
ness picks up" etc.
Capital. however, will continue
liked charges and dividends" No
railroad worker should be fooled by
company figures. Every railroader
knows that no matter how poor
business is the roads carry no dead
weight of excess labor, but only
enough to handle business, and
that, in comparison to actual
operating expense, huge profit is
always made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10

have always done in depression
perioos. Put the blame Of the de-
preston on the foreign born.
Fellow seamen. this new scheme
has been brought to bear since the
West Coast strike. Frances Perkins.
Secretary of Labor, has fully agreed
to cooperate with the police and
vigilantes in San Francisco, to de-
port all foreign-born workers active
in the strike.
But these schemes of the ship
owners and the government will
not break the militancy of the
workers in their fight for union
conditions. They are beginning to
realize that it is not the foreign
born who are their enemies. but
the shipowners and their govern
ment, who are doing everything in
their power to break the strike.
Fellow seamen, onward to the
unity of the foreign-born and the
American seamen for better con-
ditions!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Calm Manner Advised
In Distributing ally
By a Subway Worker
CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK.-The other day
was sitting in my cage, the So
called change booth, in the reg
ular position, ready and alert to
serve the customer. We station
agents have developed, by the
way. sort of a cat-watch posi-
ton towards our change window.
namely: as soon as any shadow
OF movement appears on the
window opening, our hand re-
spends Immediately like a gong.
This time instead of dime
picked up the Daily Worker.
looked to see him better. but the
meetoric speed of this transpor-
tation unit was so high that
brown heels and the bottom of
a black briefcase were all could
notice. Queer behavior of this
kind arouses immediate suspi-
clon and might spoil rather than
do any good.
CalmnesS on such occasions is
very important. Do not make
yourselves conspicuous more
than the average passenger. Do
not invite special attention. And
the detective sense, cultivated in
every American by the public
school, by the Boy and Girl
Scouts, by the News, will not be
called to action on similar oc-
casions. This, of course, will en-
able the same person to cover
the same territory over and over
again without probably being
noticed, and many even give
chance to establish coy,tacts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
BY a R. R. Worker Correspondent

by n. X. worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-For years on the
railroads we men have been told to
trust in the wisdom and Judgment
Of the big chiefs: that they get
good salaries because they know
their jobs.
Many Of us are beginning to
question this doctrine, which says
that the payment of good salary
is in itself a guarantee that our in
terestS will be carefully guarded.
We hear lot about the sacredness
Of contracts. The chiefs boast that
they have never broken an agreement
with any management. This job
is being left to the railroads.
Our grievance committees through
out the country are choked with
thousands of violations. The rail-
roads are brazenly violating their
contracts in their vicious desire to
satisfy the demands Of the coupon
clippers, and little or nothing is
being done about it.
The practice of drawing up con-
tracts expiring at different dates on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Carmen, Firemen and
Brakemen Again Being
Dismissed In Texas
BY a Worker Correspondent


AMARILLO, Texas. = Carmen.
firemen and brakemen are again
being furloughed now that the
wheat rush is over. Many of them
are practically destitute, their only
chance for work being the c. w. A.
and the Federal Meat Cannery.
An order has been issued by the
government to reduce road work to
$40 a month per man. and the
wages paid at the government can
merry are from $3.50 for the ma jor-
ity to $40 week for a few of the
most highly skilled (the butchers
The cannery at Amarillo is visited
weekly by F. E. r. A. officials, as it
is serving as a model for the en-
tire country (which mainly means
as a model for reducing the aver
age wage to that extremely low
level.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
b erengaria
Kitchen Men
Are Cheated
Promise of Extra Paw
For Extra Work
Is Broken
BY Marine Worker Correspondent

By Marine Worker CorrespOndeni
NEW YORK. - The Equitable
Life Insurance Co. sure gave the
kitchen workers on the Berengaria
dirty deal. The company had
chartered the boat for a tip tc
Halifax and back for the insurance
agents. They promised us work
ers in the kitchen-cooks, pantry
workers, etc.-extra pay if we
would work extra hours.
Thinking we'd get more money
we worked 19 hours a day getting
up at five in the morning and going
to bed for few winks after IL
at night. Some of us didn't eat
breakfast until 3 o'clock in the
afternoon. When we did eat we
had to eat standing up, without
knives or forks like hogs. We had
to drin. out of pint pots. But we
thought it would be worth it.
Hadn't the Equitable" company
promised us extra pay?
But when the trip was over they
'afused to give us cent. They
only gaze the walters five dollar
tip, which amounts to about zoe.
tip a meal. We organized q COM
mittee and saw the second steward,
who told us he had nothing to dc
with it because the Equitable" had
charge Of everything.
One of our number went to see
Mr., Hoylan at the Equitable to ask
him how about the promise of ex-
ira pay for the kitchen men, but
Hoylan told him they weren't con-
ccrned about these workers ano
threatened to call the cops t.
kick him out.
The workers on the boat are bit
ter. This morning they refused to
turn to when they we're called.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Voice, Vegetables and Morals

Beatrice D., Provincetown-Beni-
amino Gigli, tenor, is vegetarian,
does not smoke, earns $250,000 a
year and is reputed to be a mil
lionaire; but there are 100000 900
vegetarians in India who are neither
famous tenors nor millionaires. Diet
has nothing to do with morals"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10

of the Creche Department of the
Health CommisSariat.
You might, Comrade Hilda. sug-
gest to your women friends who
fear they would not see enough OF
their kids under a socialist system
that they could enroll in the
courses for creche-nurses picture
p. 25)-thet's good job too!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Synthetic Rubber and Chemical
Plants in the U.S.S.R.

Cooper Union-Synthetic rubber
is being produced in the US.S.R. on
large industrial scale. The potas-
SUM of the northern Urals and the
apatite of the Arctic Circle have
been developed. There are three
colossal chemical plants in Russia;
The Chernorechensk, the Berezniki
and the Emerge Chemical Combinat
Qately renamed the Stalin). The
last one has ITO industrial buildings
and $500 machines, lathes, fittings
and instruments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Habitual DisIocation of Elbow

A. Sch.-We suggest that you have
your arm and forearm put in cast.
This will give your limb sufficient
rest and might prevent the elbow
from swapping out of joint by over
coming the spasm of the muscles
and ligaments concerned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Stop and Vermin In
The ssHouse of Jesus
BY a Marine worker Correspondent

By Marine Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-A year ago when
seaman called for relief at the
House of Jesus, Seamen's Church
Institute, 211 Walnut St., Philadel-
phia, he would be sent upstairs to
the Rev. Maxsell's office. There he
would have to be fngerprinted.
then he would be given bowl Of
slop and assigned to lousy bed.
When you woke up in the morn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Deaths From Appendicitis

Skeptic-Twenty thousand people
died of appendicitis in the United
States in 1888. The death rate of
this disease is higher here than in
any other civilized country in the
world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
IRT Workers
Cheered by
Big Meeting
Transport Workers
Union Growing
Rapidly
Bv ) worker Co-resnondent

By a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Here on the I. r.
T. the main subject is did you
hear about the meeting last Friday
night? OF course the fine spirit
displayed there represents the feel
ing of the majority of the men.
Even the men we have tagged as
rats have raised their voices too,
in the knowledge that the Trans
port Workers Union is real
fighting Union and represents the
men with honest leadership. some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10

Send FIFTEEN CENTS Q5c) 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, DAB w. 18th
ST., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1910 is available in sizes
10, IL, IA, Is and 10. Size IL takes
3 yards 36-inch fabric. Illustrated
step-by-st sewing instructions in
Guided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
DIR. LUTTINCER ADVISES
Recognition of Naturopaths

Nature friend - The naturopaths
are not recognized in Soviet Rus
STA, the assertion of your friend,
notwithstanding; but they are rec
ognized in Hitlerland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10

ing you would have plenty of COM
pany. They were as big as grass
hoppers and had teeth like bull
dogs. So I remembered a sign I
saw one time. 1t said seek We
first the kingdom of heaven and all
things will be added on to you"
Believe me, all the vermin in the
House Of Jesus were added on to
me.
Mr.. Allen should have visited the
House of Jesus in Philadelphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
NOTE:

We publish letters every Friday
from workers in the transporta-
ton and communications indus
tries-railroad, marine, surface
lines, subway, elevated lines, ex-
press companies, truck drivers,
taxi drivers, etc.-and post office,
telephone, telegraph, etc.
We urge workers from these in
dustries to write MS Of their con-
ditions of work, and their strug-
giles to organize. Please get these
letters to us by Tuesday Of each
week.
A Red Builder on every busy
street corner In the country means
a tremendous step toward the
dictatorship OF the proIetariat!
Evening star., 1934-10-12
LEATHER COUCHL|N
PLANSSTUDENT AID
Claims Roosevelt indorses
Proqram-Signs 26-Week
Radio Contract.

BY the Associated Press. -
Is NEW YORK, October IA plan
70 help college graduates who are un-
able to find places in the business
world was outlined yesterday by Rev.
Charles E. Coughlin. Detroit priest,
who said it had met with favorable
fteaction from President Roosevelt.
Father Coughlin arrived in New
\ York after an interview with the
President.
There are more than 100000 COL
.lege graduates unable to find work in
tthe vocations they are trained for"
he said. II talked with President
Roosevelt about this. There are Is 900
young people now employed in the
Government service. I discussed a
fplan with him to employ more.
Briefly, it would allot so many
hundred white collar or secretarial
jobs to each major college president
The college head would designate his
young men and women and they
would be placed in Government posts.
OF course, there couldn't be $4,000
placed each year. The number would
be nearer 5000"
The Detroit priest expressed alarm
eat labor'S intention to seek a 30-hour
week and said the Presidents most
important word in his recent "fireside
chat" was his discussion of annual
wages instead of hourly" wages.
Father Coughlin said he came to
New York in connection with a new
radio contract for 26 weeks which he
had just signed.
Evening star., 1934-10-12
INVESTIGATOR SLAIN

HAVANA, October IL R.-The
body Of Pedro Benitez, a member of
the investigation squad Of the Ma
tional Police, was found near Camp
Columbia yesterday, q bullet wound
in the head.
Benitez, who had been active against
terrorists, was the man who arrested
several suspects in connection with
the bombing of wedding party sew
eral weeks ago in which the bride was
wounded.