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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
By a Worker Correspondent

NEWARK, N. J.-Well, I must adj
nit that I thought the last thing
that the Hon. William Randolph
Hearst would accuse the Communist
Party of was alternating the affec-
tons of the Negro people.
can not see for the life of me
by what twist Of the human mind
he could ever conceive the idea that
we ever had any love for the white
man. The only hatred he (the
white man should have for us is
that we gave him all we had and
pretty near everything that he has.
I don't want to hog all the credit
for my people but think that it is
fact that we have furnished about
50 per cent of the leading men and
women for the lynching bees that
are so fashionable in the South.
The fact Of the matter is that l
myself as far as 1 was concerned
did not think there was an honest
white man in the United States. 1
got trimmed in every deal I went
in with him from the cradle up till
the present time and am SO years
old now and still going through the
same process.
This was my state of mind previ-
Gus to 1884, but since then I have
found honest white people, people
that can trust, but I only found
. them in that much hated Commu-
mist Party.
There are some exceptions. There
may be a few white people that
would show a colored man some
consideration, but this is difficult as
long as we have the popular pas
times of inl-crowing, segregating,
brow beating, bull doing, robbing,
exploiting and last but not least
that honorable crime Of lynching
which the crime commission so
dutifully neglected to mention in
their war on crime.
Under these conditions it is very
unWise for white man to show
anything for colored man but
contempt at the least. Otherwise,
he is dead politically and socially.
Elections in Jersey
We had a very interesting case
here in Jersey in the last election.
Governor Moore, after sending a
colored man back to that Georgia
Hell of chain gang, was duly
elected while Senator Keene, who at
one time favored an anti-lynch bill
that was very favorable to the
colored man, was defeated. He had
later retracted that bill, said it was
too drastic but did not say for
whom, the lyncher or the lynchee.
He said he was backing, I think it
was. the Costigan and Wagner Bill,
but even that did not save him. All
that happened after the Literary
Digest of last winter quoted the
South as having their eye on Sen
ator Keene on the strength Of his
anti-Iynch bill. 1 ask you, is it
On 9cc!dent that he did not get the
re- ,es7-y votes?
10 GET back to where we
s.v.yed. The Sunday American OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Macy Yard
Worker Aids
Red Builder
BY a Worker Correspondent


WASHINGTON. D. CA worker
from the Navy Yard in Washington
saved one of the Red Builders here
from arrest
For the past few months the
Daily Worker has been sold at the
Yard with increasing success. About
a week ago our Yard Worker"
came out, and thoroughly exposed
certain poisonings which occurred
at the Yard, because of the "econo-
my" being practised in the Yard at
the expense of the workers natu-
rally. This activity hasn't made the
bosses in the Yard or the police
like us any better, but it has won
my being practised in tn Yard,
Last Wednesday, a cop came to
Red Builder Dicklan and took his
'Dailies" away from him. He start
ed asking him all kinds of Ques-
tons about where he was born, ETC.,
and began threatening to arrest
him. About this time a worker came
out from the Yard and walked up
to Comrade Dickian for copy of
the Daily" Sensing the situation,
he Immediately walked up to the
cop and demanded that he be sold
Daily" When told that it was
Red" literature, he insisted that
the Daily" could be sold just the
same as any capitalist newspaper.
After arguing a while, with the
worker entirely on the offensive and
while quite large crowd of work
ers gathered, Dickian was given
back the ''Dailies" of which he sold
quite a number Of copies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Go. Union
Helps CutPay
In Gary Mil
By Steel Worker Correspondent

BY Steel worker correspondent
GARY, Ind.-Fellow steel work
ers, what does it mean to have COM
pany tools make adjustments on
our pay?
Take the coke plant as an ex-
ample of what it means to have
these people adjust our psy. Each
job there is now judged separately.
A few jobs were raised, others cut
and the rest left as they were.
The company is planning to do
the same in all departments. OF
course, this scheme will benefit the
company more than the men. The
company will then be able to lower
all the wages What we should do
is fight against this wage adjust
ment and wage cutting scheme.
The company is still trying to
cram the company union down the
workers Threats. In most depart
ments, the company union represen-
tatives have recently been busy
distributing the new plan" of en-
ployee representation. They are
trying to spice up the spoiled meat
and serve it to us again.
Well, all the doctoring in the
world won't make it smell any bet
ter than it does. The only way to
fight this company union is to fight
for the right to join a genuine trade
unicn, where We should endeavor to
get it under the control of the rank
and file. We have to push aside
people like Mallinson, Smith, Ker-
ton Crosby and Johnston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

I think that you have given toe
good an account of the Fordlandia
Even the American CONSUL there al
the time did not advise any Amer
lean or other white to take the
jobs, and the only Americans that
he can get to stay in his horrors
are the ones that are sent out from
Detroit on contract. Most all of the
rubber trees there were of the wild
type and were growing in a hap
hazard manner, and at the time
I am referring to, Ford was replant-
ing them in symmetrical rows, and
as you remark they take some years
before they mature.
The people in Para think that he
was stung in the purchase, as the
English controlled by the Booth
IS Coz gave up the production OF
rubber in favor of the Malay
Straits. A remarkable thing is that
the japanese turned down the offer
some years before, why I cannot
say; in fact the japanese were al
lowed open immigration to the
Amazon Valley and the colonial
ton" project Topped.
So you can figure if the japanese
did not care to exploit the Amazon
and its rubber possibilities and the
English moved their rubber activi-
ties to the Malay and Borneo the
project was not very workable, and
with the idea that the people in
Para do not think much of it, !
think that Ford got white ele-
plant.
I may mention that the conces-
sions are given free to any enter
prise on some long term basis, the
Brazilian Government evidently
thinking that the opening of the
country is worth it.
The territory is virgin, unmapped
and UNEMPLOYED; it abounds with
wild life, is feverish and dangerous
to the health of Europeans and
Americans, and is virtually the gift
of anybody who cares to exploit it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

lessly cutting down the pay to 2
Milreas per day Cor IL cents and
cut out the so-called modern con-
ditions.
Two years ago when I left Para
the conditions were such and there
was no native that would leave the
lousy conditions of the cities to work
in his slave plantations. From the
accounts that I received when in
Para, the place was something like
the conditions that existed in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
TURN WORDS INTO DEEDS.

youngstown, ONO.
Dear Comrade Editor:
Although I have been a SYM
pathizer of the Communist Party
for two years and recently joined
the Y. c. L., I have just begun to
read the Daily Worker regularly
Before now I had read various sin
gle articles in scattered issues. To-
night I read almost word for word
the two issues that I have received
on my subscription. I am even
more glad and thrilled by this paper
than I thought I would be. 1t has
increased, if that were possible, my
sincere enthusiasm for the move
ment.
I shall support the Communist
Party and Soviet America as long
as live, and read the Daily Worker
as long as l can afford it or get
hold of it in any way.
I congratulate you upon your fine
paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

THE Joyous Christmas season.
L to many working class women
is time when the reality of their
poverty is hardest to bear. The
newspapers whoop up "the spirit
of giving" The pictures of thou
sands of madonnas and their in
fants look down benignly on the
walls of thousands of department
stores throughout the country,
sanctioning the biggest sales cam
paign of the year.
TO the men and women working in
L department stores, this Joyous
Christmas season" is season of the
most intense exploitation. I know.
I worked, for several years during
the Christmas season, in the big
gest department store in Philadel-
phia. Turmoil! Thousands of people
dashing madly in all directions !!
Prayed nerves! Speed-upl Speed
up! Speed-up! The crowds around
counters demanding attention of
the girl, who at the moment, is try
ing to satisfy the demands of a
dozen other women! Heightened
hours This is a season that works
havoc on the health of thousands
of department store employees. This
is a season of profits raining man
na-like into the Golfers of depart
ment store owners.
IN New York City, the employees
of two department stores have
come out on strike under the
leadership of the Office Workers
Union. The strikers are largely
girls and women.
The Christmas gifts given many
of them have been Jail sentences.
There have been mass arrests
every day. At Klein's, the girls are
picketing for reinstatement of GA
workers, fired for union activity.
The Ohrbach demands are for 10
per cent wage increase, shorter
working hours, and union recog-
milton.
As soon as an arrest is made,
these girls reform the picket line.
They carry signs "Ohrbach's Has
Arrested Is Workers For Fighting
For The Right To Live!" Dent
Buy At KIcin's." Don't But AT
Ohrbach's!"
AND if there are to be gifts at
n Store writes with the Christ
mas season, we, in Macy's work
eight extra hours a week. Under
the N. R. A. code, for three weeks
before Christmas, we work forty
eight hours a week. If this were to
be paid for even at the code mini
mum of thirty five cents an hour. Wit
is stable figure-a fortune, which
goes not to us who earn it, but to
the already overstuffed pockets of
Percy Strauss. Regularly, at the
end of the Christmas season. we re-
ceive a gift from Mays in the form
of mass lay-off, There is def
lite need for organization in Macy's.
Let us organize into militant
union-the Once Workers Union"
AND if there are to be gifts at
this time of year. isn't the best
kind of gift solidarity gift to
these OF our class who are waging
cur common fight for "the right
to live" as the Ohrbach girls
sign phrases it? If you are able
at all to give, these white collar
workers, new to militant organ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
NOTE:

We publish letters from steel,
metal and auto workers every
Tuesday. We urge workers in
these industries to write us of
their conditions and their efforts
to organize. Please get these let
tiers to us by Saturday of each
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
In THE HO nj E
This Joyous Christmas Season.
BY ANN BARTON

ization, would be strengthened in
their fight, if you would support
them. For your information, the
Office Workers Union headquar-
tiers is at 5O4 Sixth Avenue, New
York, n. Y. And for the infor-
nation of New Workers, con-
sumers and shoppers - there is
picketing for you to do in front Of
the stores every day!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

Mr.. Roosevelt has a kind heart.
Wall Street vouches for him. Read
the Daily Worker and learn the
story of the happy partnership
between Mr.. Roosevelt and Wall
Street. Become a subscriber OF
the Daily Worker! Get your
friends to subscribe!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
FORD ENFORCES SLAVE CONDITIONS ON RUBBER PLANTATION
Scrap Heap Is Reward
for 20 Years Service
BY a Steel Worker Correspondent

BY Steel Worker Correspondent
GARY, Ind. - odd Man Mike, -
who worked in the locomotive shop
Of the Illinois Steel Company for
over twenty years, recently had his
eye put out.
One would think that after such
a long record with the company
they would provide for him. But, the
bosses say no! Mems lives mean
nothing to the greedy stock holders
and bosses. "Old Man Mike" was
permanently laid off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
THE MINIoNs OF KING FORD

Melvindale, Mich.
Dear Comrade Editor:
On account of work in United
Automobile Workers Union, and
since my mail comes through Dear
born, it is imperative that my sub
scription stop at once.
My wife and I will miss the con-
venience of getting our Daily
Worker by mail, but we have three
children in our home and the Ford
agents in the U. A. w. U. are after
those Of us who read the Daily"
C. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
VOLUNTEERS WANTED

Volunteer typists for the
Worker Correspondence De-
partment are needed. Interest
ing work. No previous expert
ence required. Report at the
Daily Worker Office, IS East
18th Street, Sth floor, Wednes-
day, Dec. rs, at 10 am.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1854 is available in sizes
IL, IA, Is, Is and 20. Size Is takes
3as yards 39-inch fabric and y
yard contrasting. Illustrated step
by-step sewing instructions in.
cluded,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Letters from Our Readers

should be sent here and distributed
among workers and farmers. This
surely would help a great deal in
building Soviet America"
81. w."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

How can you get more relief?
The Daily Worker tells you how.
Read the Daily Worker regularly.
1t is the paper that fights for you!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

mental protection.
The Supreme Court, to whom tbs
case went finally on appeal by the
government, upheld the Marmola
Company on the ground that they
did not indeed have competitors and
that physicians were not in COMPETE
ton with drug manufacturers and
that the Federal Trade Commission
was exceeding its authority in en-
deavoring to censor advertising that
might injure the consumer.
Despite the fact that all reput-
able physicians recognize the danger
in the use of thyroid used in Mar
mola) and despite the fact that
they have stated that the uncon-
trolled use of the drug has been the
cause Of fatal cases of poisoning:
despite the fact that only small
dosages should be used, under strict
est medical supervision to observe
their effects, and that thyroid, if
self-administered may cause serious
disturbance of the nervous system,
Marmola still goes on
Lecture by Doctor Daniel Caster
mr.. Daniel Caster will lecture UNI
" der the auspices of the Medical
Advisory Board on Thursday, Dec.
9th, on Venereal Diseases, Pre-
vention, Cure and Significance, at
Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st. and
Irving Place at $3.50 P. M. All pro-
ceeds go to the Daily Worker. Adj
mission is Is cents. DR.. J. Alonzo
will discuss the control Of this
problem in the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

In connection with this nostrum, we
quote from the recent book
Skin Deep" by M. c. Phillips,
which one should be able to obtain
from the library:
'"The Federal Trade Commission
on the findings of the hearings is
sued an order to the company IMAM
ufacturers of Marmola) to cease
misleading advertising. This ruling
was appealed to the Circuit Court
and reversed on the unique ground
that the product was in COMPETE
ton either with members of the
medical profession-and it was no
duty of the Federal Trade Comis-
sion to protect medicos from unfair
ompetition-or that it was in com
petition with. other commercially
exploited remedies for obesity. Since
the latter-so reasoned the Court
were undoubtedly on the American
Medical Associations index expurga-
toriuS with Marmola, and dis
reputable besides, it was obvious
that the Federal Trade Commission
could not give aid to products in
this class by suppression of one of
their shady competitors. The order
against Marmola was thereby an
nulled by the Court, and the COM
pany was free to continue its mis-
leading advertising to the public
because it had no competitors, or if
it had, they had no call on govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

You know neighbOrS who should
read the Daily Worker. Ask them
to subscribe!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

The following. we believe, is in
structive in showing how the
courts will protect the rights of
Manufacturers to flood the public
with harmful products on the
grounds of free competition in
trade. The courts argument was
that if substance was harmful
and it was, suppressed, therefore
this would prove a great help to all
the other harmful products that
were not suppressed. Therefore, in
stead of suppressing them all, The
fair thing to do was to suppress
none of them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

Courts of Capitalism and Advertised
Products
Homrsde E. L. writes in as fol-
v lows:-'I read your column in the
Daily Worker every day and would
like some information, through your
Health Column, on the reducing
tablet known as 'Mormola." Will
you please let me know whether
they are effective in any way?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the

Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board
The Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise,
Evening star., 1934-01-28
Letter to Andreso EAicott from George Washington.

been appointed by Gov. Dickinson Of Pennsyl-
vania as commissioner, with David Rittenhouse
and Andrew Porter, to locate the western
boundary Of that State from the Ohio River
to Lake Erie. So, without pausing at the Ohio,
the line was continued due north for so miles
before work was abandoned for the year.
In the Spring of the following year Andrew
Elhcott and David Rittenhouse we're called
to represent Pennsylvania in the New York
Pennsylvania boundary location, and the
western boundary Of the latter State was left
to their colleague. Andrew Porter, to finish,
with Alexander Mclean as associate. The
New York-Pennsylvania line finished
October 49, 1887.
During the year 1888 we find Andrew Eli
colt engaged in surveying and mapping the
islands in the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers for
the State of Pennsylvania
CARLY in 1871 President Washington,
- through his Secretary of State, Thomas
Jefferson, directed Andrew Ellicott to proceed
to Georgetown on the Potomac for the purpose
Of laying out a tract Of land 10 miles square
to be known as the District of Columbia He
began the work in February of that year. In
the meantime, Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant
q military engineer with the soul Of an artist
was commissioned to formulate, and submit
for approval a plan for a Capital City to be
located within this Federal territory Having
finished his survey, Ellicott joined LEnfant
and the two engineers proceeded to lay out the
Federal City on the banks Of the Potomac.
Between the two men, the engineer-artist
and the engineer philosopher, there was mutual
respect and esteem. Their association, how
ever, was brief. LEnfant. under the spell of
Evening star., 1934-01-28
Profitable Play

We're going out to play" announced tf1s
Oldest boy
Don't 60 climbing trees over in Benson's
orchard" said the practical housewife. It's
time enough to tear your trousers when the
apples are ripe" s-.'f 're@
Evening star., 1934-01-28

temperamental aura, brooked no Interference
from the commission appointed by Congress
to supervise the work, and the outcome was
inevitable. In the Spring of 1892 he received
his dismissal, and his mantle fell upon the
shoulders Of his colleague And right worthy
shoulders they proved to be.
As the peppery Frenchman had taken his
plans with him. Andrew Ellicott was forced to
draw up new plans for city beautiful for the
consideration of the President and House Of
Representatives In the main he had approved
OF LEnfant's plan, as far as it had been pro-
jected for it was incomplete, and he en-
deavored to make such use of its general
lines as he thought practical and desirable
The original plan was changed, however and
in its altered state finally adopted And so it
may be truly said that the beauty that is
Washington is the result Of joint effort on the
part Of Maj. Ellicott and Maj. LEnfant As
matter of fact, it is of record in VOL Xxx
OF the American State Papers, and he who
runs may read.
Before Andrew Ellicott had brought this
important work to a successful conclusion, he,
too, had his troubles with the somewhat arro-
CANT and dictatorial commission and but for
the friendship and support Of the President
and his Secretary Of State, both of whom
recognized his integrity and genius, he would
have rendered his resignation
In the Spring Of 1893 the Commonwealth
Of Pennsylvania again had need for Andrew
Ellicott's services; this time as commissioner
to view and locate . road from Reading to
Presquisle, now Erie. Considering the vast
wilderness to be traversed and the danger from
hostile Indian tribes this was indeed Q heroic
undertaking. The work which included laying
out the towns of Erie, Warren and Franklin
was finished in the Fall Of 1795.
IN MAY 4, 1896, Andrew Ellcott vas COM
~ missioned by President Washington to
survey and mark the boundary line between
the United States and the Spanish Province
Of Florida, in accord with the provisions of
the Pinkney 0odoy treaty of October 27, 1885,
This line was to begin at the point where the
thirty first parallel Of north latitude inter-
sected the Mississippi River, and to proceed
thence along that parallel eastward to the
Appalachicola River distance of some 400
miles,
Andrew Ellicott left Philadelphia September
16, 1896, by saddle: and reached Pittsburgh
on the 28th; his baggage wagons arriving at
that place on october 3. From this point the
expedition proceeded in three hatboats down
the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers reaching their
confluence on December 18, where it was held
The Washington times., 1934-01-03

Sid Ziff, Los Angeles Evening
Herald and Express:
"COlumbia the gem Of the grid
iron is a perfect blue stone with
no flaws. 1t is just what they
told us it was and which we
wouldn't believe in our good, old
provincial CUSTOM"
Mark Kelly, Los Angeles Exam
iner:
"Tt was the best team the
East has sent to California since
Washington and Jefferson; at
least it played the best foot
ball."
Bill Henry, Los Angeles Times:
"Machine.like, letter perfect,
magnificentl7 drilled, beautifully
conditioned, Columbia was all
those things-and something
more"
Bob Foote, Pasadena Star-NeWs:
"The best team won. If Stan
ford fumbIed itself out Of the
game, it was because the more
spirited Columbia forced those
fumbIes."
George T. Davis, football writer,
Los Angeles Evening Herald and
Express:
Experience won for CoIum-
bia. A Well-coached club that
took advant' .ge Of its OppOrtun-
tiles against q younger buS far
heavier team. It was the old
story Of experience against
youthful enthusiasm. Cliff Mont
gOmery was one Of the greatest
players ever seen In the Rose
Bowl"