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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25

We have in Gloversville now two
shop nuclei and one street nucleus,
units organized during and after
the strike.
The members of the shop nuclei
are not attending the meeting of
the street unit. We did not report
to the unit in what shop nuclei were
formed, although we reported that
nuclei were organized.
All these methods we adopted as
a precaution against spies.
However, in order to coordinate
the work we have set up bureau
on which there is representative
of every unit.
Three weeks ago one worker
joined the Party and became very
active. He has won the confidence
of many members. While many
courageous members were very care
full in distributing leaflets, he fear
lessly distributed them in front of
the factory, not being afraid to be
fired.
L began TO suspect TINS fellow. He
told me all kinds of stories about
conferences of A F. of L. organizers,
with some fascist elements of the
leather union. There is one official
of the union who openly fights every
militant move and raised the anti
red campaign We have organized
rank and file movement to re-
move him.
Last Saturday this spy came to
me and made a proposition that we
shall give that given official good
scare by taking him for a ride. I
Immediately understood that he was
an agent provocateur, but I made
believe that I have full confidence
in him, and explained him that the
Party is against it. I met him a
little later and gave him letter to
deliver to a responsible Comrade of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
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BY PAUL LUTTTNGER, MD.

health and life from unskillful abor-
tons. On the other hand, the
health authorities encourage the
women to use various contraceptive
methods.
The main reason which induced
the Sovet authorities to legalizs
abortion was the protection of the
workingwoman. Under the capital
istic scheme, there are only two
ways of attacking the problem of
abortion: the first Is to realize that
1t is the product of capitalistic ex-
ploitation and to attack it from this
angle means to attack the capital
istic system" on which it is based.
This, of course, wouldn't do! The
other method, is to consider abor-
ton as crime and to punish it.
In neither case can the problem be
studied and remedied. AS a way
out of the dilemma, bourgeois
morals of the rich with their char
acteristic hypocrisy, brand those
who resort to abortions as immoral
and depraved. They will not admit
that the majority Of abortions under
the capitalistic scheme are due to
economic insecurity and. material
want. The main sufferers of this
policy are the women of the work.
ingclass. The rich can always get
skilled surgeon to perform the
operation but the poor working
woman must resort to quacks, mid
wives and charlatans whose want OF
skill is the cause of frightful holo-
caust of women whose lives could
have been saved if the operation
were permitted to be performed
openly by skilled surgeons. But our
short-Sighted captains of industry
fear that by thus safeguarding the
victims of its exploitation, capital
ism may run short of cannon fodder
and pleasure flesh.
Here again, the Soviet aut lorities
have shown themselves to be logical.
far-sighted and scientific III their
approach to the problem of abor-
ton. Only by legalizing and safe
guarding this, can we hope to study
all the factors involved and find a
solution which will make it un1Eces-
sary or rare to resort to what is,
after all, an abnormal condition.
Yes, there are films in Russia which
depict the dangers of clandestine
(secreD abortion. The beds in the
hospitals are allotted, first, to
women who are unemployed, next
to single workers, and third, to
those who have more than three
| children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
kress Store Pays
% Cents an Hour
By a Worker Correspondent

ABERDEEN. Wash.-Kress & Co.,
this huge chain store which makes
millions of dollars profits every
year, condemns it's hired girls to
starvation and the worst kind of
slavery.
The regular girls who are working
steady are paid at the rate of 90
cents per hour.
On Saturdays or days prior to
holidays, extra girls are hired to
help in the rush. They are paid at
the rate of 81 cents per hour. On
Saturdays many of the girls get
only from four to six hours of work.
During working hours the man
ager has a watchful eye upon the
girls to see that they are always
busy.
Organization of the girls in the
Kress Stores throughout the entire
U. S. is the only answer to these
miserable conditions!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Steamship Line Makes
Stenographer Purchase
FL er Own Stationery
BY a Worker Correspondent


HAYWOOD, I'LL am an I'M
employed secretary and stenogra-
pher and am greatly interested in
your paper which I read almost
every day.
I was greatly interested in the
article Labor rouses the Water
front" by Marguerite Young, espe-
cially in regard to the Williams
Line. I worked for the American
Hawaiian S. S. Line in Chicago up
until about eight months ago.
The Williams Line is subsidiary
Line of the American Hawaiian,
and there is one agent-C. B. Hop
per-who handles both lines here,
also the o. g. o. Line Hopper gets
a salary of $375 monthly (for con-
tacting and getting on the good
side of the shippers, has a bank
account of over $250,00O, has an 80
acre farm up in Michigan Gall paid
for) with a beautiful home, on
which he raises cherries as a side
line.
The Williams Line and All have
the same offices in N. Y. and on the
Pacific Coast, and have the same
sailing schedule, and one man in
Chicago, Detroit and Rochester
takes care of the two lines. Will
liams operates from the South At
lantic and All from the North At
lantic.
1 had to buy pencils out of my
own salary and make my own note
books out of yellow second sheets to
keep the budget while this man
Hopper took out shippers to dine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
10 q
an the Il Homes

C5%BC1T&D BY
HELEN LUKE

is out of the tomatoes so that you
can add and cook a small peeled
and diced eggplant without burn
ing it. Season with salt and pep
per. Simmer uitil eggplant is
soft.
This may be served as a side dish;
or, over a generous helping of plain
boiled rice with or without a strip
or two Of crisp bacon on the side
it is practically a meal, and an in
expensive one in summer when to-
matoes are plentiful. Those who
like the sweet-sou flavor can add
lemon juice, a healthful addition
particularly in summer CAS- side
dish, serves four; as meal, two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
LILA. Leaders
Weaken Fight
Against Scabs
BY a Marine Worker Correspond.

BY a Marine Worker Correspond.
SAN DIEGO. Calf. - Saturday
night, May IA. at pm. the pas
senger liner Yale. docked in the San
Diego harbor. Despite the militant
spirit of the rank and file long
shoremen here, the boat was I'M
loaded. The Yale carried its own
scabs on board, and though so or
so longshoremen stood on the docks
during the unloading, nothing was
done.
The LA here has not as yet
elected Central Strike Committee,
and as a result the actions of the
workers are neither coordinated nor
united. The picketing is not or
ganized. The workers therefore are
scattered and the whole strike
weakened.
The scabs were taken into a ware
house, and the warehouse was then
heavily guarded by police. The at
mosphere was very tense; motor
cycle cops and dicks were greatly
in evidence. The longshoremen
stuck around, and despite the heavy
protection given to the scabs by the
police and sheriffs, the boat owners
were evidently afraid to take the
scabs ashore. Around II at night
the scabs were taken midstream on
barge where they were to spend
the night.
The Communist Party has issued
leaflet calling on the longshore-
men to organize a rank and file
Central Strike Committee and de-
fense, relief and picketing commit
tees. During the distribution of the
leaflets on the waterfront, Neary,
the local miSleader of the lila, at
tempted to provoke Gordon of the
Communist Party into a fight, say
ing that the Party was subsidized
by the boat owners and shippers.
However, the sentiment of the rank
and file longshoremen was with
Gordon, so Neary desisted. The
Communist Party has also issued
Don't Scab' leaflets widely thru
out the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Quotas Cut.
clearinghouse
Workers Pay
BY a clearinghouse Worker
Correspondent

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind-Workers
at the Kingan Psckinghouse plant
disguised by their intolerable con-
ditions of work, caused by the n.
r. A. are trying to form an indie
pendent union. They are handi-
capped, however, by Fred Gallo
way, Indianapolis foremost labor
misleader, refor1nist, and sellout
artist.
Conditions in the plant are bad
due to an excessive speed-up sys-
tenn and a bonus plan which
works backwards. In the box fac
tory, working nine hours daily in
groups of four, they have GER
tain quota working nine hours
daily in groups of four, they have
a certain quota which can only be
produced by laboring at neck
break speed. At the end of the
day if only eight hours quota is
produced they are docked an hour,
despite the fact that they have
worked the full nine.
Formerly the skilled labor, Negro
and white, men and women, re-
ceived $50 to $40 a week for so
to 10 hour week. Now with a
smaller force they have to pro-
duce the same amount of work
for half of their former salary.
Galloway, who sold out the
Hayes Body Strike few years
ago, is endeavoring to entice the
union in process of formation to
affiliate with the A. F. of L. He
is missing no chances to divide
the workers while posing as their
best friend. The following ex-
ample Is a clear cut specimen of
his tactics:
To hasten the process of soil
darity a dance was proposed in
which the workers, Negro and
white, would participate. A few
100 perecenters" objected and a
heated argument arose.
Labor mis-leader Galloway saw
a golden opportunity to kiss all
factions and at the same time
carry out the A. F. of L. formula
of dividing the workers. Listen
this will never do" he said. "These
Negroes pay dues the same as you
do and are entitled to the same
considerations. But don't forget
the fact that there is city ordi-
nance forbidding just such things
The Party mas exposed him at
every turn in his quest for money
and political advancement. The
workers have explained to them
that their interests can be served
only by placing control into the
hands Of the rank and file where
it rightfully belongs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Penn. Railroad
Uses PWA Fund
Against Strikers
BY a RaiIroadWorker Correspondent

BY RailrOadWorker Correspondent
NEWARK, N. 1.-THE P. w. A.
$77,000,0O0 fund given to electrify
the Pennsylvania Railroad is not
to give jobs, as it is announced by
Roosevelt and the NRA, but is
really a strikebreaking measure.
It is used in this way:
Workers had been hired by the
Gibbs and Hill Engineering Co.,
which is owned by the Perr,Syl-
vania Railroad, unoer the con-
struction wage scale which is twice
as much as the railroad workers
get. Nevertheless, the construc-
ton workers were not satisfied
and struck, demanding wage
that would keep up with the rising
living costs.
The workers were misled In true
A. F. of L. fashion. They were
without broad rank-and- file
committee and militan leadership;
without mass picketing, demon
strationS or struggle. Outside of
the strikers themselves, very few
railroad workers were aware that
a strike was on, on the Pennsyl-
vania road.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, fol-
lowing the grant of the P. w. A..
fund, made a statement that the
construction work from now on
will be handled by the railroad in
stead of the contractor, and that
all unemployed railroad workers
will be given first preference.
What took place? Employed
workers were transferred and their
jobs left vacant. At other points
our work is only part time. When
it rains we are sent home without
pay We work for wages that are
only one-half of the wages paid
to the construction workers, whose
jobs we now hold. The P. w. A.
acted in the role of a strike
breaker.
The Gibbs & Hill is dummy
company owned by the P. R. R.
1t is still operating with the same
bosses on the same iob-only the
striking workers are out. The
struggle must continue for better
working conditions and union
wages with rank-and-f pro-
gram and leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
AbOrtiOns in Russia

ADOrLlOnS IN RUSSIA
Mrs. T. Y. G.-According to a cir
cular of the Commissariat of Health,
dated February IL, 1926, it is strictly
forbidden to interrupt a pregnancy
artificially after the third month.
Those who are spreading rumors to
the effect that abortion is encour-
aged, or even openly advocated by
the government, are lying. The
Soviet authorities recognize that
abortion is a social, as we'll as
physiological anomaly. 1t is clas-
Sifled as social disease, not as
anormal condition.
1t is true that abortion may be
performed legally in Russia; but the
operation is subjected to numerous
conditions, all calculated to protect
the health of the woman. Thus, be-
sides the three-month limit men
toned above, an abortion has to be
performed in hospital where the
patient has to remain for three full
days. A midwife is not allowed to
perform an abortion: only licensed
surgeon. When married woman
is pregnant for the first time, the
operation is seldom performed; I'M
less there are some reasons which
would tend to undermine her health
if allowed to carry the child to term.
If a doctor performs an abortion
outside of a hospital or clinic, for
private gain, he is punished with
three years imprisonment. In other
words, clandestine abortions are
illegal in Russia.
A proletarian woman can have an
abortion performed free of charge,
owing to the system of insurance
which covers such cases. She is not
allowed to go to work for two weeks
after the operation and is paid sick
benefit. just as if she were sick with
any other disease. The Russian sur
geons have developed a very special
technique for the operation which
now occupies only about five
minutes. If a woman desires an
abortion, she applies to the special
consultation center of her district.
A special committee passes upon her
application, and if consent is given,
she is referred to one of the special
abortariums.
A strong propaganda against
abortions is being conducted by the
Soviet health authorities. There are
special exhibitions which tour the
country and whose object it is to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Girls Hands Are
Swollen by Speed
Up in Rubber Co.
BY a Worker Correspondent

BOSTON, MASS. - The Cam
bridge Rubber Co. Is a real hell
hole. The ammonia fumes are one
Of the worst features. The COM
pany until recently has done
nothing to provide q decent ven
tilating system or protective masks
About month ago one girl
worker died from tuberculosis d.
rectly traceable to the rotten con-
ditions. Two other girls were sent
to the hospital. A few weeks ago
the Y.CL. nucleus got out bull
letin exposing this unhealthy ven
tilation, and as result the bosses
were forced to install better ven
tilation.
In the Making Room the speed
up is so terrific that the girls go
home with swollen hands. Here's
how it's done. A few days ago
the forelady came around and told
each girl they would have to turn
out more every hour in order to
make enough eve work piece work.
to come up to the lousy MIRA. $14
a week, or else they would be fired.
You Sc. they don't call it a wage
cut, which it actually is.
If all the girls continued to turn
out as much as before the bosses
couldn't get away with it. But they
approach each girl individually and
threaten her with loss of her job.
The result is, each works harder,
and a new piece work rate is set
up, as q basis for lowering still fur
Their the rate.
In the shoemaking department
the women lasters have to work
harder than the men lasters at
lower wages. Among the men there
is favoritism in assigning jobs. Some
barely can last out the day, while
others do almost nothing for the
same wage. Looks like the old policy
of divide and rule"
In the Spreader Room the chemi-
Gals in the air eat a set of work
er's clothes off every two weeks,
and the ventilation is terrible.
The bosses have a semi official
spying system and if any worker
opens his mouth to protest he is
fired. Nevertheless, we are max
ing progress in organizing and ex-
pect soon to present a strong front
to end these inhuman working con-
ditions and to increase our wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25

of local and state relief agencies,
when he asked for help at time
when his wife lay dead at home.
I have since talked to the COM
rade who wrote this letter and
learned from him that the first
thing he did was to appeal for help
to the Taxpayers Protective League.
socialist-controlled unemployment
organization, of which he is a men,
Der. He states that they showed no
interest in his plight, but that the
chairman of the grievance commit
tee condescended to go with him to
the relief Offices, but stood outside
the building while he entered and
fought his battle alone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
By a Railroad Worker Correspond.

ny hdAAudu huAhCA OulANopNAN'
WASHINGTON. D. C.-Since the
Communist Party got active it looks
like they've taken over this place.
Everywhere you go you see leaflets
from the Communist Party in Sun
nyside Yards stuck up all over the
place, and in the crew rooms they're
pasted up so the bosses have to use
soap and hot water to get them off,
and all the men are talking Com
munist Party.
This place is clean as a whistle
now; you'd never recognize it. 1t
used to be the cooks and walters
came in and reported and stuck
around all day waiting for a run,
but now if we report at eight o'clock
we can be sure we will go out at
eight-thirty or nine and our pay
starts at eight O'Clock.
Every time We come in we get
slip from the agent to go to GER
tain cars for meals, and yesterday
I heard the Inspector tell the Din
ing Car agent to iced the men with
out asking any questions.
These leaflets sure get around,
and every one is talking about them.
Every time the men come together
they talk, and the other day, when
the Congressional Limited was run
ming down to Washington, there
we're leaflets exposing our condi-
tions on every berth and every seat
in every car on the train. Some of
the passengers wanted to know
whether what they said was true,
and we told them about how bad
conditions was. One Senator said
it looked like this place was going
to be cleaned out and taken over
by the Communist Party.
Note: - The best guarantee of
gaining better conditions on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25

class and tourist accommodations
are features of this ship, the cabins
being unusually roomy and well ap-
pointed.
Another feature of the S. S. Stat
endam is the new Jewish kitchen,
installed for the convenience of
those passengers who prefer or are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25

WHILE the Domestic Work
" ers' Union was formulat-
ing a code calling for $50 a
week minimum for full-time
houseworkers, a 48-hour
week Overtime permitted
only in emergency and to be
compensated at tine-and-a-haIf),
no agency fees. transportation out
IF city limits to be paid by en-
ployers, unemployment insurance.
right of workers to organize and
strike, etc.,-a thoroughgoing code
listing proportional minimum WAGES
for all household help (e. G., first
cooks and governesses $50 weekly.
valets and first buffers $3.50 - the
bourgeois ladies have also been re-
ported working on homework codes;
these prominent women of Wash
lngtcn and Philadelphia being
groups not under government
supervision"
The codes thev drew up call for
siXty-hour week, with $40 weekly
for workers living in" and SIS and
BIT for those living out" Quite
difference between codes by bosses
md codes by workers!
AS reported here yesterday. one
II the excuses of the adninistra-
ion for not making a domestic
workers code was that codes NAV
be submitted only by organized
groups of employers, and EMPLOYERS
Of domestics are not organized.
Let no rich danes blind and
fool you" says the (ApriD Do
nlestic Workers News. "They are
organized against us domestic
workers, and we must answer them
by organizing ourselves"
Open air meetings by groups of
domestic workers are now being
conducted in Yorkville and Harlem,
usually near agencies.
In Regard to Women's Anti-War
Congress
There are three New York re-
gional conferences at hand: for
lower Manhattan, Friday. Nav 25
(todaY, 7 P. M, at Irving Plaza;
for Yorkville, Saturday. MAY 26.
at 2 P. M. at Labor Temple oath
St. and Third Ave.), and for Har-
lem. Saturday, May 26, at 8 P. M.
at l. w. o. Hall, Ais Lenox Ave.
near 131st st.
And Youth Day
For Saturday night there is also
scheduled an affair at $50 at the
German Workers Club, 1901 Third
zve where an illegal Brown Book
and other Anti-FasciSt literature
smuggled out of Germany will be
disposed Of, and where a splendid
program of entertainment will be
given. This affair, sponsored by the |
Y. c. L., is part of the preparation |
for National Youth Day, May 30 |
The youth movement should at all |
times have our fullest cooperation |
and support
And Few Minutes in the Kitchen
So much doing these days, it's |
hard to squeeze in a recipe now
and then. though we have received |
some good ones again. Here's a re- |
fresf1ing summer dish suggested by
jolly girl comrade with whom I |
got into a conversation but who I
didn't tell me her name.
Lightly brown in tablespoon or
two OF fat large finely chopped
onion. Add four tomatoes. washed
about 5 minutes, until enough juice
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
NOTE

We publish letters every Friday
from workers in the transporta-
tion and communication indus
tries-raiIrOad, marine, surface
lines, subway, elevated lines, ex-
press companies, truck drivers, taxi
drivers, etc.-and from the COM
munications industries-post of
flee, telephone, telegraph, etc.
We urge workers from these in
dustries to write us of their con-
ditions of work, and their strug-
giles to organize. Please get these
letters to us by Tuesday of each
week.