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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Defeatist
Talks Split
COrkStrike
(By a worker Correspondentl

(by worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. strike of the
workers Of the L. Mundet and Son
Cork Co. which was conducted
militantly for five weeks, was dis
gracefully broken through the &C
tons of some misleaders. These
miserable creatures persuaded the
executive board to send delega-
ton to the office to inquire what
the firms intentions were about
the workers demands. Reporting
back to the strike meeting. they
split the ranks of the workers by
persuading the weaker elements to
vote to end the strike. They said
that you all will lose your jobs;
feel in your pocket and see what
you got there. Then be a good
sport and the boss VIII treat you
right. There will be no discrimina-
ton"
The vote was 126 against going
back and 100 for ending the strike.
Out of about 300 workers, ap-
proximately 100 to 100 were taken
back. Many were Disseminated
against.
Workers! Keep your union and
stage a comeback with a punch.
Beware Of those misleaders who
side with the boss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
.COlOred Dust
Health Menace
In W aste Shop
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
CLAREMONT, N. H.-Claremont
Waste Manufacturing Co., owned
by Stinefield Bros, makers of a
flock" fine material used in the
manufacture of raincoats, auto tires
and many other uses, have sue
ceeded by promises and threats to
get most of the workers back to
work.
They report profit of one-half
million in 1888. 1t is a very small
rsill of about 10 men working at
the present time for weekly wages
from SIS up to $18.
In some parts of the factory the
colored dust is SO bad it is hard to
get ones breath. The dye depart
ment is SO wet, the workers have
wet fest and clothes to work in.
In other parts, in the dryer, the
heat is sitting. The workers call
the Waste Manufacturing Co. the
Claremont sweat shop.
AS this IS one of two mills of it's
kind in the world, they can de-
mand and get SIPS per pound for
the finished product. The cost to
make this is less than 10 cents. In
other words, they make these huge
profits out of the blood of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Strike Prep arations
Are Urged for Dental
Laboratory Messengers
By a Worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
BROOKLYN, N. Y-There are
about 1000 messengers in the den
tal laboratory industry here in New
York. The average wage is about
$40 a week. Some might be get
tlng as high as s12, but the ma
lorlty get less than the low sum of
$40.
Last March. when the Dental
Technicians Equity put through
their successful strike, they ignored
the messenger boys because the
D. I. thought the boys were like
migratory workers who are here to-
day and gone tomorrow. There
lore these boys, who live here and
are sometimes the sole support of
their families, are unorganized and
have to submit to the abuses and
as low wages as the boss cares to
throw him, and work as much as
IL hours a day
This coming March there will be
another strike to make the bosses
sign new contracts with the Dental
Technicians Equity
I only hope that other messengers
in this line will read this letter and
pass the word along to come out
organized at the time of the strike
in March
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Reject ISL Leaders,
Move to Split Fight
Turn More and More to Leadership of Atlantic
Joint Strike Preparations Committee

MOBILE, Ala. Last week the
I.S.U. leaders put out their strike"
leaflets. Well, to make a long story
short, it was given the horse laugh
by the majority of the seamen here,
and naturally so, because the I. S.
~. leaflet, instead of inviting all
seamen to join the strike, is actually
splitting the ranks Of the seamen
by not appealing to the licensed
men, and also by exenpting some
steamship lines from their strike
call. However, the M. w. I. U. i'm
mediately plastered the water front
and other points with real leaflet
on the coming strike. The M. w.
I. U. leaflet was highly appreciated
by the majority of seamen here.
A large number of I. S. U. mem
bers made the following statement,
This is what we need" meaning
the clear cut militant program of
the M. w. I. U. and the Joint Strike
Preparations Committee, instead of
the class collaboration, arbitration
policies of the I. S. U. leadership.
Now, as far as the I. w. w. del
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Cafeteria
PicketLine
UnbrOken
BY a Worker Correspondent

ny "OhhCE correspondents
BROOKLYN, N. Yin the Para
mount Cafeteria, 80 Bushwick ave-
nue., near the Grant Street station
(B.MT), a strike is going on under
the leadership of Local 1913 of the
Food Workers Industrial Union. The
bosses, after four days of picketing,
during which they tried to break
the picket line and arrest the strik-
ers through provocation, used misled
workers to attack us and hit us
when we protested. They attacked
the representatives of our union, M.
Savides and zampas. In defense,
several workers of the neighbor-
hood and passersby mingled in the
fight and took up our defense. Even
from the passing street cars voices
of protest were heard. Hit the
Scabs." The police refused to ar
rest the provocateurs.
Although this provocation was
well prepared in advance, we were
able to hold our own because of
the support given us by the neigh
borhood. We. were congratulated by
everyone for our union. We are
determined to fight until we win
our demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

egate is concerned, the poor fellow
is running around IN circles here
shouting about how the wobblies
"sabotaged" the last imperialist war,
and the grand old days of 1886,
1905, 1921, and very seldom, if ever,
does he have anything to say about
the immediate needs of the workers.
He is also fond of saying that the
entire rank and file members of the
I. S. U. are no good, and Of course
he does not love the Communists.
In the capitalist papers this morn
ing we read that "Seamen's Strike
Plans are abandoned" IT. S. U. wins
victory" etc. The masses of sea-
men and longshoremen haven't had
a chance to voice any opinion in the
sell-out. They are still talking and
thinking strike action. Indignant
over the tactics used by I. S. U.
officialdom, they turn more and
more to M. w. I. U. for militant
fighting leadership, and to the At
lantic Joint Strike Preparations
Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-In the struggle to
win the Negro people to the revo-.
lutionary program in New York
City, the task of building strong
functioning Domestic worker s.
Union, is of fundamental impor-
lance.
Recently a case of deliberate and
malicious mistreatment of a domes-
tic worker, by employers who were
sure there could be no comeback,
came to my attention.
A young Negro girl, a college
graduate, forced into domestic SER
vice by economic conditions, was
refused the misery monthly pay
ment, $40, agreed upon, on the as
Sertion of the employers that the
agreement had been made for $40
a season, that is, for three months,
instead Of for one month.
This was explained" after the
girl, having worked two months
and having obtained $40 of her
money, and being tired of continu-
ally asking for money due her, had
decided to pack up and leave for
good.
The last time the girl asked for
money, the woman had said she in
tended to pay her everything at
the end Of the season. Not at any
time was the agreement about
$50 for 80 days work mentioned, or
even limited at.
When the girls family protested,
the employer angrily insisted that
she had made the agreement not
with the family, but with the girl,
and the school agency.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Fight Bosses Price-Fixing

On 174th st. and 19Oth ST., Bronx,
bitter consumers strikes are on for
lower prices on bread, against the
high cost of living in general. Com
muniSts a-e the life of these strikes.
On 180th st. pickets are arrested.
Thousands line the streets.
Surely the demand of the bosses
in the service industries means a
high cost of living, and is there
anyone so naive who believes that
raising prices will be restricted to a
few articles?
Now the A. F. of L. and Socialist
unions quite consistently side with
the bosses. They are for high prices
for bread, and all. Furthermore,
since these officials abhor the class
struggle as a method of improving
the conditions of the workers. they
hope to establish a joint racket with
the bosses against the worker con-
sume-s and their own members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
LW. O. Centers on Campaign
for Unemployment Insurance
Drive to PopHIGrize Bill Is Basis of Orders
Program to Vim $4,000 NetV Members
By MAX BEDACHT

I weekly average of 1900 new menu
bers if we are to accomplish our
aim. Should we stay under this
average in the beginning of the
campaign, we will run up handicap
impossible to overcome at the end.
If instead we make a good be-
ginning, We will not only reach our
goal but better it in the end.
We expect that this campaign
will make the English Section Of
the TWO. the second largest in the
Order. We realize that the Inter-
national Workers Order will not be
able to really challenge bourgeois
leadership and bourgeois influences
among the workers in the fraternal
movement If it will not bring the
masses of American workers into it's
ranks. That is why special en-
phasis is laid in this campaign on
the building of solid foundation
for an English section.
Attention to the building of the
English section requires first of all
attnteion to building the Youth Sec
ton. The Youth Section is much too
weak to be of real account. We
must recognize this weakness not
merely as a weakness of the Sec
ton, but weakness Of the Order
as whole.
Just now our attention is conferred
on the growing danger Of faSciSm; It
Is conferred on the approach of a
new war. We are enemies of fas-
cism. We want to defeat 1t. We
want to defeat it before it is VIC
torious. We are opposed to a cap
italist war. We want to defeat it
too, and we want to defeat 1t be-
fore it Becomes a reality.
How can we do that without pay
ing special attention to the youth?
The young workers will be the first
recruits and victims of imperialist
war. Out Of the ranks of the young
workers capitalism will try TO recruit
its fascist storm troops.
Struggle Against War and Fascissn
Requires Action
We may pass all the resolutions
against war and fascism we want.
We may express our hatred of war
and our opposition and hatred
against faScism in the strongest
terms. But all this means very
little if we do not at the same time
mobilize and organize the youth
against war and fascism. If we
will not mobilize the youth into our
ranks, under our leadership, we
leave it to the enemy to organize
into their ranks and under their
leadership. The enemy will or
ganize it. The enemy does know
the Importance of youth for its
struggle. Let us realize this i'm
portance too. Let us lay hand on
the building of the structure of the
Youth Section of our Order into a
formidable force.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
SEAMEN IN MOBILE SUPPORT STRIKE DEMANDS
Seamen!
LOngshOremen!

The Daily Worker urges all
seamen and longshoremen to
write about all developments
connected with the approaching
strike, the sentiments among
their fellow workers, actions to
establish one united strike front
of seamen and longshoremen
along the entire Atlantic and
Gulf Coast, and so to prevent
any sell-out or arbitration
scheme of the International
Seamen's Union leaders. Write
about everything that you dis
cuss with your fellow workers.
This will make it possible for us
to help in organizing and win
ming your struggle.
Before and during the strike
first consideration in the pub
LEGATION of news and corre-
5pondance will be given to the
marine strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
by a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-On the afternoon
OF Thursday, Aug. 9, parades and
demonstrations took place in all
parts of New York City, advocating
price fixing at a higher level. of
course in the service industries.
These were arranged by the owners
associations, with the tacit or ex-
pressed approval of the A. F. of L.
and Socialist unions.
On the initiative of Efrat, man
ager of the Drivers Local of the
Cleaners and Dyers, a labor COM
mi!tee was set up to support the
employers demand for price fixing
Only the representatives of the In
siders' Local of the Cleaners and
DyerS declined to participate, be-
cause the membership had previ-
ously taken a stand against price
raising.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
DOMESTIC WORKERS.
UNORGANIZED, ARE
PREY TO RICH SNEAKS

That the whole thing was a de-
liberate trick cannot be doubted
This, however, is only one incident
We Negroes, and those who have
worked among the Negro people,
know of other cases.
There have been times when the
madam" framed up cases of rob-
berry. She lost some valuables just
about pay time. Other times her
husbands business goes bankrupt,
or she intends to pay, but by the
time the maid has spent few dol
lars in carfare trying to collect, she
gives up all hope of ever getting
paid.
We ought to make an example of
this. 1t is the duty of the militant
class conscious worker to enter into
the struggle of the Negro domestic
worker, to fight not only for i'm
proved conditions, but for a cessa-
ton of this outright robbery,
If actions like this are allowed to
go unchecked, they will do much tc
retard the march of the Negro
woman worker toward joint struggle
with her white sister in fighting
against discrimination of all woman
workers.
call upon all domestic workers
to get in touch with the Domestic
Workers Union, Ais Lenox Ave.
New York City, to organize.
call upon all revolutionary
workers to bear in mind these spe-
cial problems of the Negro worker
1t is not vague assaults on general
problems, but concrete action that
will win these workers to our pro-
gram.
A NEGRO WOMAN WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

each product thing we are not
equipped to do.
Inflammation Of the Tubes"
E. F., Observation-Disclosures of
the tubes or salpingitis, has several
causes. 1t may follow miscarriage,
abortion, OF childbirth where I'M
scientific methods or unclean in
struments are used. Proper, wide
spread birth control information
which is unfortunately banned in
this country and treatment by COM
petent physicians and in qualified
hospitals would eradicate this cause.
In some cases the salpingitis is due
to aHto-infection, /. e., by poisonous
germs which have been present in
the vagina and which, due to the
weakened condition of the patient
overcome the body's resistance and
cause inflammation. This weakened
condition is brought on by overwork
lack of rest, lack of sleep and star
walton. Another cause of this in
flammation is gonorrhea, which is
a common venereal disease. Due to
the fact that the symptoms. burning
on urination and discharge from the
vagina, may be slight and soon
subside, the woman may overlook it
and if she becomes pregnant, soon
after a second attack may occur.
Health education by lectures.
posters and pamphlets with special
reference to veneral diseases would
help to materially reduce the num-
Der of such cases. This has been
done with remarkable results in the
U. S. S. r. In this country, how
ever, this question which is primarily
medical, is distorted for workers by
our hypocritical bourgeois NOR
atty"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
BRING THE PARTY PRESS To
THE FOREIGN BORN WORKERS
Philade1n1ia pa
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Editor.

LEAR Eu-GOT.
Outside Of the many capitalistic,
so-called neutral liberal and relig-
ious anti-labor newspapers and
magazines printed in every large
and small city in the United
States, there are a number of open
fascist publications. One of these
which I noticed a neighbor of mine
reading is called The Star Shirts,
a weekly, printed in Philadelphia,
and distributed among the Italians,
which contains a few articles in
English for the American born
English speaking Italians. The
rest is in Italian.
live in this Italian neighbour
hood in Philadelphia, and from
what 1 gather, these fascists are
very busy with their organizational
activities and their press. But what
about the revolutionary working
class movement? Why isn't the
L'Unita Operaia popular in this
thickly populated Italian working
class neighborhood? L think that
at this time when the drive for
10000 new English readers of the
Daily Worker goes on, the italian
revolutionary paper, the L'Unita
Operaia, should not be forgotten.
The ruling class is trying hard
to win the foreign born workers and
to use them in their war against
their working class brothers. There
fore we ought to make every eff
fort to win not only the American
born and Negro workers, but also
the foreign born workers for our
common struggle against our OPP
pressors, for higher wages, for I'M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Unemployment Grows
In Akron Factories
BY a Worker Correspondent

AKRON, Ohio. - The relief di-
rector of Summit County, George
Missig, has made known to the
public that the relief applications
list, are growing at an enormous
rate, with over $4,000 persons on
relief at the present time.
The cost of direct and work re-
lief averaged over $350,000 for the
past two months, (this per month";
and so families are being added to
the relief lists every day, Missig
stated.
Thousands Of workers In the
rubber factories are only working
part time and many places have
been paying off workers. The A. G.
& Y Railway closed it's shops last
Friday and furloughed between 80
and IS men. The shop will be
closed for an indefinite period. All
the workers I met and talk with
are in sympathy with the textile
strikers.
They all seem to know that the
textile workers are the least paid
workers anywhere.
The Daily Worker can Better Aid
Your Struggles If You Build its
Circulation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

CFo1 yIAlIls else LOT soviet Amer
lea. b r
WORKER JOINS OUR RANKS
New York, New York.
Daily Worker Editor:
Saturday, Sept. %, 1 witnessed
the demonstration and march OF
the unemployed from Union Square
to City Hall. It was raining
heavily. Opinion of onlookers was
that the meeting would be a sue
cess, but the march fizzle. I was
skeptical myself. Then of sudden
a group was marching in a militant
and orderly fashion towards 14th
st. The whole of the UNEMPLOYED
at the meeting were falling into
line. In the pouring rain they
continued down Fourth Ave.
I felt sorry for those marching in
such rain, ana then 1 felt like
kicking myself, when it dawned en-
me that my place was in those
ranks. I saw that it was by that
indomitable spirit, typified by those
unemployed marchers, that work
erS' struggles have been won in the
past, will be won in the future. MY
Skepticism is no more. 1 saw work
ers carry on with the spirit which
is life to the working class.
Enclosed find 81 as a general
contribution to the Daily Worker
Also please send me information
about the membership require
mentS of the Communist Party. MY
wife and self are interested in tax
ing an active part in the class
struggle, and hope that we will gel
an early reply.
F. Nee, Unemployed Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

the judge; we hope for a favorable
decision momentarily. Meanwhile
three more dollars have come in to
our credit in the columnists' COM
petition in the Daily's financial
drive. While we're very glad for
that, we'll have to show more speed,
for our quota is $500, and so far we
have just four fifty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
AGED FLORIDA COUPLE DENIED
MEDICAL CARE
By a Worker Corresponaent

INGLIS, Fla.-An aged white
couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Dixon, rs and
70 years old, living in this place,
was denied medical attention by
the F.ER.A, when the woman was
sick in bed with malaria fever.
Investigation revealed the fact
that this couple was receiving SO
per month
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

Send FIFTEEN CENTS 15c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferced)
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

C. G., New YOrk.-Graying of the
hair occurs naturally as pople
grow older. In some families it oc-
ours early as a family trait. 1t is
also said to occur suddenly follow
ing a great mental or physical shock.
1t is also thought to be due to con-
slant worry, care and poor physical
condition. The actual grazing is
due to loss of pigment in the indi-
vidual hairs. We do not know really
why it occurs. In your case, begin
ming at the age Of 26, il it is not
a family trait, it may be the natural
process starting earlier than usual.
It may progress no further than
it is today. If it does, nothing can
be done about it except to attempt
to hide the gray hairs or to dye
an the hair
To advise you to stop having cares
and worries would be hypocrisy.
Under capitalism it can't be done.
Some Advice to Advisors
Comrade J. T. o. writes:
Say Comrades, I've got to Sc
verely criticize your column of a few
days ago in re-exposing Crazy
5. Water Crystals. Why don't you
have the article you wantexposed,
chemically analyzedd, and then ex-
pose ia. The worker who is new in
the movement will think you're
knocking it just on general prin-
cipIeS and that you don't know
what you're talking about. Tt read
that way.
If it is magnesium Sulphate Give
got to call EPSON Salts by its tech
meal handspring hard to sound
intellectually expose it as such. If
it is phosphate, tell the workers how
to get it and how much cheaper
If any other harmful drug, expose
it as such in a much more forceful
way. Your article sounded like a
grudging 'Okay' on it,
Our Reply
Thank you for your criticism,
comrade, as to Crazy Water Crys-
tails" However, there are such q
vast number of patent medicines on
the market, and we get so many
questions about them, that it is i'm
possible to do as you advise. 1t is
beyond our resources to attempt to
analyze all these. True, we can on
occasion make use of such sources
as the American Medical AsSocia-
tons Committee on Foods and
Drugs. But with very few excep-
tions, all such preparations are put
out solely for profit, and even if
harmless, are more expensive than
the same preparation under its right
name. We feel that in most cases,
it is sufficient to point to the dan
gers of patent medicine and self
prescription, and the exploitation
motive behind patented products.
without attempting an analysis Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Can You Make EN-
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