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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-10-26

Capt. Enser W. Cole, commander
of the national guard unit here,
Company C of the 1o5th Engineers,
has been honored by being appoint
ed as an aide-de-camp on the per-
sonal staff of Governor ]. C. B.
Ehringhaus.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-10-26

Murray Tinker of the Salisbury
Transient bureau was painfully cut
about the face and head in an auto
mobile collision last week. He was
carried to a hospital for attention
but later returned to his home here.
Several stitches being required to
close a wound in his forehead.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-10-26

The local office of the Carolina
Motor club will compete with a
club of Philadelphia in a 6o-day
membership contest, states R. E.
Ramsey, manager. Prizes are to be
offered.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-10-26

Mr.. and Mrs. 7. T. Page an
nounce the birth of a daughter,
Barbara Anne, weighing thirteen
pounds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Negro and White Choppers
Express Need for Unity
Bankhead Bill Brings
Starvation for
Both
lBy sharecropper Correspondent

(By Sharecropper Correspondent
CAMP HILL, Ala am writing
you few lines to let you know
how we are getting along in the
black belt. Our conditions are grow
ing worse and worse every day. We
have no jobs and our relief has
been cut off. We are being dis
eliminated against on account Of
trying to build the organization.
Today we also find many white
workers are being Disseminated
against because they are poor, and
are suffering conditions like us Ne
groes.
The Bankhead Bill has caused
many farmers to be in a suffering
condition. Many Negro and white
farmers are allowed to sell a small
amount of their cotton free without
tax. They are dissatisfied about the
Bankhead Bill. I was talking with
some white farmers this week. They
said that the Bankhead bill was the
worst bill they have ever been I'M
der. They said, Our wives and
children are suffering. We can't do
thing for them" And they said
they would rather be dead than see
their wives and children suffer.
They told us that they could do
something if we would stick up
with them. I told them that we
Neor0es and white workers ought
to get together and not fight each
other. They said, That's what we
want to do" They said that we Ne
groes and poor whites are the ones
who do all the work We ought all
to get into the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Letters from Our Readers

class, are to be investigated. Last
summer that meant that all those
with less than two dependents and
all those who did janitor work for
free rent were dismissed from their
jobs.
We are to force all those on Work
Relief to surrender their insurance,
to suspend from their jobs all those
receiving less than 500 for the in
surance, and to sign dismissal slips
for all those receiving 500 or more.
We are to re-investigate all Home
Relief clients.
The members of the Home Relief
staff, SO far as we are informed, are
still exempt from investigation, but
we feel that such investigation is
merely matter of time, though we
were not engaged on a relief basis.
We are sure that the administration
will try to ram pay-cut down our
Threats within the next few weeks.
In the meantime, we have been pre-
sented with demands on output chat
are beyond human strength, and
we are forced to do our work in
such way as to antagonize clients
to the utmost and to go into situa-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Rallies
Fight Against
Foreclosure
BY a Worker Correspondent

PORTLAND, Ore.-Plans for our
United Farmers League demonstra-
ton against the Sherman Seely
eviction from the farm on which
he was born, by Hawkins and Rob-
erts, Inc, of Salem, Ore, are pro-
crossing nicely.
We held another meeting of the
U. F. L., Tigard local, last evening
A committee of five was elected to
visit all the farmers around Will
sonville, where the Seelys live, and
ask them to boycott the Seely farm
and the man who is trying to buy
it, in case the Seelys are forced to
go.
Tonight we are going to Wilson
vile to start another local of the
U. F. L. The committee men going
through the country today are adj
vertising this meeting and asking all
farmers to come. We expect the
school house to be crowded.
The expiration of the eviction no.
tice is Sunday. Eviction is not legal
on that day, so the U. F. L. of
both Tigard and Ladd Hill locals
and the whole countryside are 60
ing to picket the Seely place be-
ginning Monday. The women are
more excited about it than the men,
almost.
Every farmer, and they attended
last evenings meeting from distant
communities, will call on all his
asking them to help
picket. If necessary We'll get all
the workers in Portland. We are
not going to give up. oregon will
have her place on the map as
mans country" one in which all
races, colors, sexes of the human
race will be free of the money lend
ers, even if they have to fight hard
for it.
Remainder this, my friends, this
revolt was started by women. An
American farmer and his wife and
four children, hard working, intel
ligent, and kind, honest in all his
dealings, is not going to be allowed
to meet with the usual capitalistic
reward given to those whom they
no longer have any use for, that is,
eviction, starvation, and utter des-
tituation.
The spirit of Daniel Boone,
Nathan Hale and of our revolution
airy ancestors still lives. Well no
longer meekly submit to the tyrants,
the pirates who have seized our
country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Hands.
Farners,Face
Hard Winter
By a Worker Correspondent

NEWPORT, N. H.-The tax bills
keep the farmers here worried.
They are very high and the farmer
can barely make living, to say
nothing about paying taxes.
The potato crop this year suf-
fered great damage from rot.
Many farmers report loss on their
crops due to this rot. was speak
ing with a farmer one day and he
said that out of $50 bushels, the
rot destroyed about IS per cent of
his potato crop.
Other farmers also report that
some kind of disease ruined their
tomato crops overnight. The east
ern farmer also was affected by
the dry season, although not as
badly as the farmers out west.
Corn, hay, and oats gave poor
crop this year. Last year I saw beau
tiful cornfields almost everywhere,
but this year it was just the OPP
posite.
Farmers also say that the bitter
cold that we had here last winter
killed many pear, plum, and espe-
cially apple trees.
At present, textile workers in the
numerous mill towns around here
face a miserable situation. The
mills are very slack, and workers
can work only few days at a
time, and then get laid off for
while again. If the mills don't pick
up, it will be hard winter for both
the farmer and milf wcr-11--, as
many farmers sell wood to the mill
workers to make living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
LA GUARDIA'S RELIEF
MEASURES
New York. N. :

NEW 1OTk, ~. I.
Dear Comrade Editor:
The attacks of the administration
on the unemployed and relief work.
ers, forecast a month ago by police
brutality and dismissal of active or
ganized relief workers, have now be-
gun. Let the administration now
talk about beating up the Unem-
ployment Council in order to pre-
vent panic" and dismissing Miss
Dawson, an active member of the
Home Relief Bureau Employees As
ISOLATION, for is-statement of
facts!"
I am a member of the staff of
the Home Relief Bureau. Within
the last few days, we have been in
structed to suspend from Home Re
lief all families where there is an
income sufficient to cover the Home
Relief food allowance. This means
that thousands will have 20 go hun
CRY in order to avoid being put on
the streets.
All work relief cases." including
the hitherto exempt white collar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
4iIing Woman
Denied Aid
BY City Doctor
BY a Worker Correspondent

JOPLIN, Mo. = The Grievance
Committee took the case of Mrs.
Molly Brown. an aged woman who
has repeatedly been refused medi-
cal aid either from the County or
City. The committee, consisting of
five men and two women, called
upon Tom Phelps, the presiding
judge of the Jasper county court,
who referred us back to the city
doctor and promised aid to Mrs.
Brown.
There has been no action SO far.
He said he had raised plenty of hell
with the city officials. I said they
had to do something. He then told
me the only thing one had to do
was die.
DR.. Obrien has an order from the
county court authorizing him not
to care for any more city cases.
This is a very deplorable condition
in this fair land of ours. Judge
Phelps informed us that our city
physician drew salary of $4,000
per year to care for such cases as
Mrs. Browns. Mrs. Brown is suf-
fering from neuritis and varicose
veins. These conditions will have
to be remedied by the workers. Mr..
Phelps said he had sent out DR..
O'Brien, our county physician, on
confinement cases and on one case
where a boy had broken his arm.
On either cases our city physician
refused to go.
The woman in this case has been
resident of this city for forty
five years. He promised to call on
our Mayor, Mr. Maher, and see that
she got aid from the city as he
knew he could do nothing with DR..
Clark. our health commissioner. or
the city doctor He said the county
doctor was to care for only cases in
outlying districts and small towns,
county jails, and county poor farm
cases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
A POPULAR FEATURE
Mosherville, Mich.

MoSherVllle, Mich.
Dear Comrade Editor:
In my visits to my neighbors to
make Daily Worker contacts, I
found in two cases that I was able
to interest the young men in the
home by suggesting that they read
Going East" I was able to OBJ
serve, in a family in which there
were four young men between the
ages of II and "a, that, as soon as
the Daily Worker comes into the
house, there is scramble for It,
and they at once turn to the con-
tinued story, Going East" (and so
did y, which causes me to feel that
the Daily Worker should always
carry continued story, which will
appeal to the youth in particular
at least to the youth in such isolated
places as the farm or small village
The continued story should also
carry frequently the synopsis of the
story, so that it can be started in
any issue. E. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Union Clique
Used AS Shoe
PayCut Lever
By a Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent
CHELSEA, Mass. = At local
meeting of the United in Chelsea,
the union officials and the reac-
tionary clique in the local carried
a motion leaving to the crew of
the Suffolk Shoe to decide on the
question whether they shall accept
a wage cut.
The Chelsea local, in line with
al other locals of the United"
went on record not to grant wage
cuts. But the official of the local,
Mr.. Mitchell, one of the worst re-
dictionary officials of the United,
has his one policy, which is, re-
CARELESS of how miserable the
wages and conditions are, if the
bosses want a cut they must get 1t
and the union must be saved" for
himself and his clique. Under the
threat of being thrown out OF work
and intimidation, Mitchell and
Company got the Suffolk Shoe
shop crew strong to this meeting
to vote that each shop crew be
given the right to decide on the
demand for wage cuts.
The result under such conditions
of this and similar shop crew
meeting is obvious.
When the news spread to Boston,
Lynn, Haverhill and Lowell, COM
mittees of these shoe centers
swamped the General Office de-
manding that drastic action be
taken to stop the Mitchell clique
from putting over wage cuts. A
demand was made from the general
officials that if Mitchell's cliques
can't be stopped strike be de-
clared by the G. E. B., and offers
were made by these committees to
send pickets from other shoe CEN
tiers to picket the shop. 1t remains
to be seen if the Resident Commit
tee of the G. E. B. and general
officials will react to this serious
situation. If this attempt of the
Chelsea officials will not be
topped properly and Immediately
it might have even a worse effect
on the situation of the union than
the betrayal in Lowell of July last.
The rank and file militants in the
local have put up strong fight
against the Mitchell clique, and
will continue to fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01

Of the Roosevelt's New Deal we
didn't get any wages at all, except
the stool pigeons, undercoyer men,
who we're paid for the dirty work
they did.
Some of us are forced to work
IL and IA hours every day, even
Sundays. Doing kitchen work,
cleaning buildings, rooms and feed
ing the chickens and horses. We
have about IS acres of farmland.
Food is very bad, those small po-
tatoes which nobody would buy are
fed to us. They give us only work
ing clothes. which are old and
ragged. We have workers who have
been working for next to nothing
for six, four and three years. We
have no liberty to go out, except
Sunday, when we say we are going
to church or to look for work. Out
side of the farm we have to be
careful of what we say and to
whom.
People will wonder why we stay
here. We stay here because relief
has been refused us, we were
forced to starve to death, and
hunted by snarling bloodhound po-
lice, and women would be chased
as street women. When we are
visiting outside we are under terror,
fearful of undercover men. We can
talk only to most trusted of friends.
A few times during the week sew
eral churches or religious people give
us entertainment to turn our minds
to heaven. The Institution has ice
cooling rooms in the cellar to disci-
pline us. This is a hellish place.
We raise a great deal of potatoes,
which are sold by tons, to Outside
people, also we raise Strawberries,
blackberries, which are sold. We
raise all kinds of vegetables, hay
for the Institutions COWS, hogs.
Still the statement says that each
persons upkeep costs the Town of
Hampstead taxpayers, 1923 per
week. What an outraged Here is
Town Home and Farm Budget from
Jan. 1, 1882, ending Dec. 81, 1882:
Salary of SUPERINTENDENT S 2.400
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Supervisors
Resistance
Is Smashed
State Experimenting
With Rent Relief,
Says Official
By ) Worker CorrespOndent

MILTON, PA large delega-
ton went down to relief headquar-
tiers and demanded that a home be
obtained for Mrs. Kalenberger and
her small children. The present
"hcme" has a leaky roof which has
cause the bed springs and mat
tress to rot away and the family
is sleeping on the cold floor. One
child has had commissions and an
other is very sick because Of these
conditions.
Mr.. Feister, the supervisor, re-
fused to do anything about the
case. Mrs. Kalemberger deter
mined to stay right in the relief
office, where it was warm and
comfortable, until her family was
provided with a house fit to live in.
Reverend Lehman, area admin
istrator, was called on the tele-
phone, but he also refused to do
anything, pleading that mo funds
have been made available from
Harrisburg" When asked why he
did not call Harrisburg and demand
rent for Mrs. Kalemberger, he said,
IT will call at my earliest con-
venience!" This made the workers
sore and they demanded that Leh-
man sec a committee and permit
their spokesman to talk to Har-
risburg, the state capitol, immedi-
ately.
A call was put through to Miss
Margaret Brook. supervisor for cen
trail Pennsylvania. Miss Brook
tried to pass the buck by saying
that: Area 1 had not yet assumed
the responsibility for rent relief
although they we're experimenting
with the matter in other parts Of
the stated"
The committee demanded imme-
date attention for the Kalember-
ger case, stating that when the
lives and health of workers we're
concerned it was time to stop
experimenting and do something.
When told that the Unemployment
Councils would hold her respon-
sible also for anything that hap
pened, Miss Brook instructed Leh-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Total Deficit e.

We have two cooks who get paid
for, and laundry workers who work
every day. Even so it cannot sum
up $4,000 per year, including the
supintendent and his wife's salaries.
We grant there are sick people and
old people who cannot work and
have TO be attended to. Even tax
ing this into consideration we still
come to the conclusion that here
is terrible corruption. How can up
keep come to 1928 per week when
most of the food is raised here and
only few hired hands are en-
ployed, most of the work is done
under slave-like conditions.
We are raising our heart-broken
cry to outside workers. Only with
their help can we get Improvements.
Only the workers papers will print
naked truth. We know this. We
are watching closely what happens
outside. We saw that on the Goth
of August, unemployed workers had
demonstrated at Mineola and
elected a delegation, which was
headed by Mclaughlin, to see the
Board of Supervisors. Charles NC
Loughlin, who is a candidate on the
Communist ticket, is a Spanish
American War veteran. His an
cestorS fought bravely on Washing
tons side, his forefathers fought in
the Civil War. Charles, himself,
shows heroism now as his ancestors
did.
He has fought for relief in Glen
Cove for hundreds of workers, he
has been spokesman many times in
the last few years in countrywide
demonstrations, when he lead dele
cations to see the Board of Super
visors with demands. Slowly but
surely, we find what is what, and
who exposes grating and corrup-
ton, and fights for daily relief for
the unemployed. The Communist
Party has picked the best fighters
on their slate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01

tions which are the concern only of
the clients themselves. But the adj
ministration hopes that we have
been so intinidated that we will
make no open protest.
The meaning of the beatings and
the dismissals within the last few
weeks should now be as clear to an
as it was to many of us from the
beginning. The only answer is or
ganized protest.
A HOME RELIEF WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01

Let Us Hear From Others On This
Dear Comrades:-It has come to
my attention that the space you oc-
cupy in the Daily Worker can be-
come a more effective means Of at
tracing new readers if you begin
to expose existing conditions in re-
CARDS to workers safeguards and
health. For example, the firing of
Health Department Inspectors by
the City, the Compensation InSur-
ance Racket ION this many work.
ers will respond to any call you
may make for data on same, the
corporations that peddle drugs in
violation of the Food and Drug Act
and various other conditions which
exist where such an exposure is
necesSary.-W. B."
StyeS
Comrade M. S. of the Bronx,
writes:
Would appreciate it if you would
diagnose my case for me. I am af-
f1icted with what is commonly
known as an eye sty; have had
one now and they keep on recur-
ring. Am practically never free of
them. The condition has been last
ing for about year now"
May Be Attributed to Poor Health
The causes of styes are varied and
numerous. To begin with, if your
general health is poor, which is sug-
gested by your low hemoglobin
(anaemic), you would be subject to
slight infections, ie., styes. If it
cannot be attributed to your general
health, one must look for local
cause in the eyes.
The commonest seal cause is an
error of refraction, i.e., need of
glasses. If you could have both
these factors investigated, the cause
of your styes would probably be
found.
Flat Feet
J. p, Hamtramck, Mich: - The
best method Of relieving your feet
of pain and discomfort is by wear
ing proper shoes. For your weak
feet and hattened metatarsal arches
high orthopedie shoe will give you
the greatest comfort. l would
strongly advise you to get high
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Conditions Of w hite S
No Better Than
Negroes
(By a sharecropper Correspondent

tby SnarecrOpper COFTcopoilocIltJ
DADEVILLE, Ala. = Since their
conditions are no better, and the
poor whites see this, they are be-
ginning to want to organize. We
are glad to have them. was able
to meet with white cropper this
morning, and our whole talk was
about the Bankhead Bill and that
the big landlord was starving him
to death. At a little place called
Rock Spring, all we need is white
organizer with us, to keep from be-
ing spotted
Now is the time to work with the
white troopers, and step in this way
toward the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat. If there was ever a time
to work with them, it is now, and
we are doing it, and they seem to
be glad to be with us.
On the question of relief, they
have cut it off, Some who were on
relief, one being school teacher,
have been given jobs. She has to
teach the grown peoples school.
They proclaim that the government
is doing this, and some aren't pay
ing any attention to this all the
time. Times are bad among white
and Negro. Some haven't had any
crops. Some are living on what the
relief gives them, and now they
have cut them off, and the bad
winter is coming on. Some have no
where to stay. We are putting up a
fight for them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
l8, 900 Farms for Sale
for Unpaid T xes
By a Farmer Correspondent

LINCOLN, Nebr. In Knox
County, Nebr., the Pennsylvania
Mutual Insurance Co. has taken
title or foreclOSed 100 farms. A
man by the name Of Higgins is
in charge of them. The Ne
hTaska Security Company of
Omaha, Nebr., which is the old
time Bankers Life Insurance
Company Of Lincoln, has fore
closed more than $50 farms in
Knox County, Nebr. so per cent
Of all the farms in Knox County
are in the hands of insurance
companies and banks. Eighteen
thousand farms and homes were
advertised in the local papers for
sale for taxes on Oct. 18th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Boss Collects Debt,
Takes Negroes Crop
Rr a Worker CORRESPONDENT

BY a Worker Correspondent
CAMP HILL, ALA Negro in
Camp Hill made his crop and
starved to do it. Because he owed
the big boss, Sam Brummit, debt,
the boss took all his cotton away
without giving him any of his Nv
ing expenses.
But we white workers will not let
him and the rest of the bosses do
this to poor farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01

rOMRADE NATALIE continues
y today her advice on buying
clothes.
She says, Don't get tempted to
buy something you have no real use
for, even if the price is bargain.
If you must have silk, try hard to
get pure dye or slightly weighted
pure silk. Regardless of what the
salesgirl may be compelled by her
bosses to tell you. you simply can
not trust any of the artificial silks,
such as rayon, celanese, acetate,
etc. Some are very beautiful and
some wear we'll, but most will not
stand washing, pressing, or even
dry cleaning. There is almost no
way of telling which will, and which
will not, unless you buy them in a
store which will give you a guar
antee.
Wool, cotton, linen, and other
materials like them are much
safer buy. Nothing makes dress look
more unattractive than coarse ma
chine finishing. If the material and
style pleases you, but the hem, neck,
sleeves, etc., are finished by ma
chine, and likely as not the seams
are done with mismatched thread,
by all means hunt out some friend
of yours who will rip out the ma
chine finishing and reflnish it by
hand"
Comrade Natalie concludes with,
"Fasten snappers, hooks, and but
tons well, and if possible reinforce
the main seams by machine with
good thread. With the addition of
bit of practical and becoming
trimming, you will have a good
looking, long wearing dress" Thank
you, Comrade Natalie, we welcome
more of your contributions to this
column.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Family Provided With Home Through Mass Action

man to see that Mrs. Kalemberger
was provided with a house that
same evening
With 200 workers faced with
eviction in DanNlle, Pa, and hun
dreds of workers throughout Area
l faced with the same problem,
the demand for rent becomes the
most important issue facing the
workers here. Under the leadership
of the Unemployment Councils an
intensive campaign will be devel-
oped shortly to see that tbs need is
satisfied.