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For both side and arm chairs.
Seat and back. of plaid jaSpe,
with pleated skirt. Green, rust
or tan, with contrasting binding.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
In THE HOME
Capitalism Would Sell Oil to Put Out Fire
BY ELEM LUX

Our social and economic system
throws upon the long suffering
woman, the mother and housewife,
responsibility for the familys health,
while cruelty bombarding her on all
sides with false and misleading adj
vertising for doubtful products. Now,
as the winter approaches "a cold,
hard one, SO the prophets assure us,
and no doubt even the Comintern
would agree with that)-the vendors
of cold cures and syrups leap to
prominence with wild ads for their
nostrums and tablets.
I think particularly mean the
publicity given to coughdrops and
such, recommending them as con-
tanning Primary Wtamin A. Your
child" says one such ad, needs
Primary Vitamin A to fight of
coughs and colds. That is why we
have added it to Hunkydory Cough
Drops"
What's wrong with this ad as
with many others, is not what it says,
but what it does not say, and the
arrangement of its words to imply
something it doesn't actually state.
Your child needs Primary Vitamin
A to fight off coughs and colds" it
says. Quite true. So he does. But
the next sentence promises nothing,
merely implying that if you give your
kid enough Hunkydory Cough Drops
he won't catch cold, or that his
cold will be cured. THAT is why
we have added it to Hunkydory
Cough Drops" So what?
The books on dietetics also say
that condition tending toward al
kalinity in the body is a good de-
Tense against colds, and that even
after cold has been contracted,
the use of Fighter" foods, is adj
visable: fruits, citrus fruits espe-
cially and vegetables, especially
leaf, and omatoes-produce an al
kaline reaction in the body. And
right here is a much better source
of your protective Vitamin A than
any amount of cough-drops.
| Lemons have earned their repu-
tation as medicine against colds.
Reports are that six carloads of
them have reached New York and
we subsequently saw them on Sec
ond Avenue as cheap as ten for a
dime. Good news for snuffle-suf-
ferers, if only such low price
would be maintained all winter.
Certainly in event Of a cold cent
for a lemon is a better investment
than five cents for cough drops.
However, if that piping hot glass
of lemonade is to do cold any dirt,
it should be without sugar, for the
reasons already given.
Contributions received to the
credit CT Helen Luke in her Social
ist competition with David Ramsey,
Jacob Burck, Del, Harry Cannes,
Mike Gold and the Medical Advis-
cry Board. in the Daily Worker
drive for 100000 Quota-$5Oo.
Total to date ................ .S5.40
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15

ING CLASS in the revolution and
in the building of socialism.
They provided for the mass of
the people, long oppressed by
capitalists and landlords, the
greatest democracy, while at the
same time providing the work
ers with a concentrated State
power capable Of destroying cap
itaIist rule, uprooting capitalism
completely, and building new
Socialist society. In short, history
has given to the term Soviet"
the meaning: DICTATORSHIP
OF THE PROLETARIAT.
The reason that this Russian"
word Soviet" has come TO have
this meaning and not the English
word council is easily under
stood: the Russian working class
first completed the job of over
throwing capitalist rule and es-
tablishing the rule of the working
class. They led the way. They
mapped out the road over which
the working class in all countries
must eventually travel. They gave
to the working class new form
of State power, SOVIETS, provid-
ing the greatest democracy for
the masses of the people and the
greatest striking power against
the capitalist expIoiters.
The term "SGYiet." therefore,
became AN INTERNATIONAL
WORD, meaning the rule of the
working class exercised through
the medium of councils of work
ers' and peasants deputies. 1t
has been universally adopted not
only in working class literature
but in bourgeois literature as well.
1t spread throughout the world
just as American technical terms
and names of machines were in
cCrnorated in Euranean and other
languages. To argue that Soviet
is Russian" and should not be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Paper Workers Tricked
By Federal Govt Agent
By Worker Correspondent

by WOheT Correspondent
SOUTH HAVEN, Mich.-The fol-
lowing is news of the Watervliet
paper workers strike.
A few days ago, while their Or
ganizer was away on another job
he claimed he had to look after at
Monroe, a government man came
to the strikers and their commit
tee head and told them that "these
government men usually sided with
the workers, but, If he decided
against them, they had no other
recourse but to give up the strike +"
They are very backward workers.
The federal man tod them there
was nothing he COULD do and said
for them to go back to work. So
they held a meeting and voted to
do so. This week the union or
ganizer came back and was re-
ported to me to be very indignant
because the strikers went back, and
they were to hold another meet
ing last night to see if they can
get the strike going again.
The unions at Kalamazoo, a big
paper mill town, had promised to
help the strikers financially and
otherwise, but did not do a thing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
BY a Worker Correspondent

OKMULGEE, Okla.-We had our
first experience on Grievance
Committee Wednesday. Twenty
minutes after the committee left
NJ z r. A. headquarters, our first
case was given a IS check, the first
relief they had received in five
months. The second case received a
So check next, and clothes for en-
tire family of five.
About 10 workers, 40 of them
women, gathered at a comrades
house this morning to demonstrate
against an eviction. They stayed
from a. m. until noon. They
have not been evicted yet, but We
are going to return Monday. Our
plan was to carry the furniture back
in after the Cossacks put it out.
They have tried everything to
break up our meetings, because we
conduct them jointly with Negroes
and we have Negroes on all our
committees. We are breaking the
Jim-Crow law continually and in
tend to keep on doing So We will
be sending for charter for Coalition
soon. Through our activities there
we have had success in securing
work for over 20 workers and they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Spying Is Added to Required
Duties on Emergency Relief

letter. The letter not only openly
encourages but practically demands
that every worker become a stool
pigeon against his fellow worker.
The intimidation it contains is sim
ply the old terrorist slogan, IF
you don't like it there are plenty
more to take your placel"
However the workers were not in
Inundated by this brazen piece of
tyranny on the part of the CHEAP
political bosses of the local E. R. A.
Administration.
With simple day to day agitation
among these workers there is no
doubt they will respond to organized
efforts to smash this new form of
tyranny on the part of the cheap
capitalist tyranny to force the
workers to accept the coming Fas-
cism, which means slave stand
ard of living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Spies Help to Cut
Jacksonville Relief
Over 5000 Unemployed ThrO,On of F.E.R.A
Jobs After StOOLpigeOnS Hamper Struggle

unity of the unemployed. For this
they sent their paid stool pigeons
to join the N. U. G. and break it..
These are working for ambitious
politicians. With a thousand lies
they managed to climb into the
/ leadership and right away they
organized under a different name
and charter, and dues went up
from two cents per month under
the National Unemployment Coun-
Gil to IS cents a month under the
misleading and grating organiza-
ton. The money goes into their
own pocket, organizers being Of
fered fifteen cents Of every twenty
five cents collected for new mem
bers. Relief has been reduced to
almost nothing, and very recently
over 5000 unemployed were thrown
off the F. E. r. A.
Already neighborhood groups are
showing signs of disgust and dis
satisfaction with these grafters,
and they are preparing already to
move out from under these poll
ticianS' tools, SO soon as they are
convinced of what kind of leaders
are best for them to depend on.
Of course, it is clear that such
leaders must come directly from
the unemployed workers them
selves.
BY now we all have plenty of
experience, and the workers here
are beginning to wake UP. They
realize that the only leaders which
Organize the workers and lead them
in their struggle for better condi-
tons, for more relief, for less hours,
and more wages are members of
the Communist Party, because this
Party is organized by and for the
workers and poor farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Detroit Education
Board Aids Scheme
Pupils at Wayne University York for Nothing
On Promise of Jobs During Christmas Rush

looked at me for a moment. And
I guess she thought I was going to
school.
"Au student hiring done at Wayne
University" she said. I asked her
what she meant.
She said that Sanders, in CO.
operation with the Detroit Board of
Education was training students so
that if they were needed during the
Christmas rush the store might give
them a JOB
I asked how much the students
were paid for the work they did
during this so-called training period.
She gave me to understand that the
store was doing a big favor by Civ
ing them this training" which
consists in simply learning how to
wait on customers in their restau-
rant. And the joke of it is that
after they give all this free work,
which the store and the Board of
Education call training" there's
only a bare chance that they'll get
job for the two weeks of the
Christmas rush.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Restaurant Chain Gets Free Labor by Training Stdent
New Haven F.E.R.A.
Men Unite Against
Spying Slavedriver
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-"Boys,
unless you produce more, some Of
you will be walking the streets"
Such was the ultimatum issued
by Mr.. Moore, the new boss on
the F. E. R. A., Mosquito Control
job in Movis Cone, New Haven
County.
This ultimatum was a climax
to many weeks Of spying by MI
Burke, State Commission Chief
Engineer, who would sneak up
on the men to find out if they
were talking, eating a sandwich
or smoking pipe. He was even
caught standing on a hill with
spy glasses.
The workers met the same day
and decided to set the amount of
work to be produced at a rate
lower than the former average,
not to allow anyone to be laid
of, everybody to drop their tools
if anyone is fired. A committee
Of five was elected to see that
these decisions are carried out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Fire Learners
ConstantlyTo
.KeepPayL
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK; subscribe to the
Daily Worker. I am very interested
in the readers column because
have learned q great deal from it,
I've come to the conclusion that our
factory needs union.
work for the Quality Art Novelty
Co. for several years now. There
are about 450 fellows and girls print
ing, FASTING, labelling, etc. The girls
do piece work: the minimum is sup
posed to be zoe an hour, and at 40
hours that would make s12. But
hardly anyone makes that because
prices are fixed so that you can't
make more; and if you do they raise
hell and give you hard job so
that you can't make so much. New
girls are called learners and are only
supposed to get $3.50. After five
weeks their learning period is sup
posed to be over, but they are fired
before that.
In other departments the fellows
and girls are supposed to work 40
hours for $40 to SIS. But they
are forced to work overtime from
two to three hours a night for so
cents supper money. And what
speed-up! The foremen and fore
ladies are always driving you.
A girl cut her finger the other
day and when she went for bandage
they had none for her. There are
no medical supplies in case of emer-
gencies. The sanitary conditions are
very bad: they have no lunch room
for those who bring their own food;
there are inadequate locker facil-
tiles so that things are lost, torn,
and stolen
They have a terrible system of
hiring: one day they hire bunch
of workers; that night they work
overtime; the next day they lay OF
most of the workers.
Now is the rush season. Now is
the time to start union because it
would hit the boss the hardest.
Some of the things we ought to
have is an increase in wages, an end
to the speed-up, no piece work, no
overtime.
I think the other workers from
the Quality Art should write what
they think.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15

rialist, anti-SOviet propaganda.
Every worker can well afford not
only to defend every legacy of the
Russian workers experience, but
to advocate boldly the need of
following the path of the Russian
working class.
Our difficulty arises not from
the use of the TERM Soviet in
stead of Council" but rather
from the need for greater clarity
and more convincing propa ganda
in explaining the revolutionary
solution for the crisis, the dicta-
torial capitalist character of
American democracy and the
need for the dictatorship of the
proletariat, for Soviet power, as
the road to Socialism.
In short, our job is to convince
the workers, on the basis of their
experiences in struggle, that
Soviet government is needed. 1t
is a problem of ideas, of funda-
mental conceptions, and not of
word-the substitution of "COun-
cil'' for Soviet"
Our readers are correct when
they demand greater simplicity,
more convincing arguments, in
putting forward our revolutionary
proposals.
But comrades are wrong when
they assume that the American
population has tendency to look
at these terms as Russian" and
that therefore they will not be
won for Soviet power. AS the con-
trast between capitalist and So
cialist society becomes more and
more marked, with rapid progress
in the Soviet Union, and misery,
hunger and decay in the capital-
list world, the masses viii make
their cboice in favor of Soviet
power. They will not worry as to
the source of the word.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK; am painter by
trade. I wanted to join up with
the District Council No. 9 of the
Brotherhood of Painters. I went to
their Office at 248 w. 18th st. and
asked for membership application.
I was told by Mrs. Lynch, one of
the office workers there, that I
would have to make first down
payment of SIS for a working card.
I told her I didn't have SIS and
offered all I had, which was Sc.
She refused this and told me the
union could do nothing for me until
I paid the SIS.
The membership of the union
should know this, that a worker
comes to the union and asks to
join and the first thing he is told
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

mothers of the capitalist class and
of the death of workers children Of
infectious diseases and the children
of the capitalist class. No one
doubts that the figures would show
a high death rate both among the
worker-moth and the workers
children; and for the same reasons
poor diet poor housing, inade-
quate medical care. contact with in
fected persons because in the
crowded condition of living the per-
son could not be avoided, and all
summed up in low incomes which
do not make any other kind of live
ing possible.
The comparative death rates from
tuberculosis, pneumonia and acci-
dents in different classes of occupa-
ton are given by the Public Health
Service as follows:
u..kL- ana
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Girls Speeded
By Sunshine
Association
By a Sunshine Worker

NEW YORK.-In the English
department of the Loose iles,
since we have the company union,
the oven men work Is minutes
longer every day. The machines
used to stop at Ais and give the
men a chance to wash up to get
out by 4:3O. Today the machines
run to the very last minute, 4:25.
That means the men work to 4:30.
Among the girls it's no better.
The 10 minutes rest period they
got when the Sunshine Association
first started is now cut to min
utes. Sometimes when it's busy
they don't even get that. 1t was
never so busy before at this time.
Yet they don't rehire the men they
laid off two months ago, when they
said it was slow They hire new
people for lower wages.
Only two months of the Sun
shine Association and already we
have rest periods cut, work over
time and worse speed-up. The
companys promises don't mean
anything when the company is head
of the union. They run it for their
benefit not the workers benefit.
Note: Sunshine workers should
form committees in their depart
ments to force the company
union delegates to take UP their
grievanees-at the same time in
order to get better conditions the
workers must build the workers
rank and file controlled union and
smash the company union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
High Dues Keep Unemployed
From Joining Painters Union

is that he must pay SIS, no matter
If he has been out of work for a
long time and has no money He
isn't even given chance to earn
the money to pay.
Note: The Rank and File
Painters Protective Association,
an organization of militant mem
bers of the Brotherhood, is car
rying on fight against the Zaus-
ner machine of District Council
No. 9, for the elimination of dues
payments by unemployed mem
bers. We would suggest that the
worker who wrote the above let
ter get in touch with the Associa-
ton and take his case up with
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
United Cigar Clerks
Get Extra Pay AS
BookkeepersAre Fired
nv a worker CORRESPONDENT


NEW YORK.-The United Cigar
Store bookkeeping staff has been
reduced to one-third of its neces-
sary capacity. The work is shifted
on the clerks shoulders by ingeni-
Gus systems of taking inventory Of
stock" on their own time, without
pay or compensation. Speed-ups
are continually being forced upon
the men to increase sales, so that
the profits of bosses become greater,
but the wages of the clerks are sta
tionary.
The company does not protect the
men against taking counterfeit cur
rency or coin, but forces them to
pay out of their starvation wages
if they do not detect bad bill
among the countless $40, $40, and S.
bills they handle.
AN EXPLOITED CLERK
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
BY a Worker Correspondent

ROCHESTER, Mich. - Sanders,
me biggest restaurant and confec-
tionery chain in Detroit, which has
a Henry Ford system all its own,
has managed to pull trick out Of
the bag for getting free labor.
I went there to look for job.
On the door they've got sign read
ing Employment Interviews on
Monday, to 10 a, m. Only" I was
there or Mon-y, and the only
thing that happened was when there
was gang Of US girls in the office
they told us there wasn't any work
this wesk and to beat it.
went in anyway (if you pay any
attention to signs the employment
manager never would be given a
chance to say MO- and told the girl
at the desk that I'd like to see Miss
Craft, the employment manager and
that it wasn't about employment
Miss Craft stuck her head out of
the door and then her foot and
decided to take the chance.
I'D like a job" I said. She
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
BY a Worker Correspondent

so. BRAINTREE, Mass.-The F.
E. R. A. in this district has been
designated the e. r. A. to distin-
guiSh it from the National F. E.
R. A.
On the major project in Brain
tree of "Sacco Vanzetti i'll fame. ;"
the tine-keeper distributed an I'M
gins by praising the workers on
the JOB, just as the shave owner
praises his slaves. The whole letter
breathes of a superiority complex
designed to make these workers feel
they are obligated to the superior
intelligence of the local ERA. Ad-
n1inistration.
The reaction of the majority of
workers to this letter was first a
discussion, then deep rooted
hatred against the writers of this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
The Meaning of ''Soviet Power"

used is to yield TO all the impe-
term Soviet" OH the contrary,
has come to have a most exact
meaning.
We have in the United States
councils of all kinds: Women's
Councils. Trades and Labor Coun-
ellis, City Councils, Church Coun-
ellis, etc, To begin to speak now
of Council Power of "Coun-
Gil Government as a substitute
for Soviet power, for Soviet Gov
eminent, would be meaningless.
No worker would understand
what the Communists wanted.
The term Soviet" while liter
ally meaning Council" has been
endowed by history, by the revo-
lutionary victory of the workers
and peasants in Russia, with a very
precise meaning when applied to
government. 1t means not merely
Council in lose English usage,
but council of ONE CLASS, the
working class, created for def
mite purpose. THE DESTRUC-
TON OF CAPITALISM AND
THE BUILDING OF SOCIAL
ISM.
Soviets were born out of the
Russian revolution as Councils of
Workers, Peasants and Soldiers
Deputies. They were made up
of representatives democratically
elected by workers i'm their fac
tories, mines and Offices, by rank
and file soldiers in their military
units, by peasants in their viii
lagos. At one and the same time
they represented THE REYOLU-
T0NARY ALLIANCE OF THE
WORKERS, the driving force of
the revolution, with the peasants
and the nations poor, and the
LEADERSHIP OF THE WORK
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Br a Worker CORRESPONDENT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-For the
last three weeks the whole ruling
class Of Jacksonville fought against
the National Unemployment Coun-
Gil, and even the holy clergy came
out against it openly. Some of the
preachers went so far as to say that
the people are lazy and that they
refuse to work, but that is a lie
against the starving working people
of this city. The only time the
workers refuse to work is when
they get no pay to support their
wives and children.
The workers here, before the
National Unemployment Council
was formed, had been refused any
kind of relief by the case workers.
Some Of the workers received as
little as a ten cent grocery order
for a whole week. Others with
families of from six to eight got
only so cents to 81 per week. The
Negroes were severely discrim-
mated against. Some of the case
workers told them that they are
not supposed to get relief at all on
account of having been born black.
Some of the Negro families with
from six to eight persons get only
soc to 81 per month.
For the last three months we
organized under the Unemploy-
ment Council from five to six
thousand members who helped all
the unemployed workers get much
more relief and to fire Miss Brad
ley, the hungry mans enemy.
Therefore our organization was get
ting stronger every day and our
relief was getting larger too, until
the ruling class bunch with the
politicians decided to break up this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
STRIKES STIR MONTREAL
BY a Worker Correspondent

MONTREAL, Can-At the mo-
ment, We have a militant strike of
1870 window cleaners (total number
of such workers here is 178), and
there have been 10 arrests in two
days time. They are at the mo-
ment negotiating a settlement.
Five hundred to 900 furniture
workers are out here too-faoing
some Of the most interruptions and
viciouSly reactionary bosses avail
able. Six cents an hour is the wage
most Of them are fighting, with
unlimited hours and terrific shop
conditions. The lumber workers are
getting restless in Quebec; and we
have just concluded school chill
dren's strike.