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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
PARTY LIFE
'Ihe American People Are
Ripe for Our Literature"
Oakland COntrade Says Material Viii Sen
Wherever Displayed Well

them in every locality-downtown
residential districts-proletarian dis
tricts- everywhere-let it be a party
assignment-and let's do it.
This is so important to me that
/ feel that it should receive the
attention of the Central Commit
tee-I believe it should be drum
med into our membership day
and night-"Get our literature on
the newsstands-get it there by
all meanS-Our newspapers, the
New Masses the Labor Defender
and Soviet Russia Today Get
them on the newsstands where
people can see them-they'H buy
them if we do.
Our literature stands in Workers
Centers should be moved onto the
streets. Get them out of dark cor
ners in Workers Centers. A corner,
a niche between two buildings-any
sort of place just so they can be
displayed TO pasSers- by-but get
them onto the streets.
I feel that even an attempt at
some concerted action by the Party
membership to put this over would
do more in year than street agita-
ton would do in ten.
Editors, hammer this home-do it
IN every issue-onto the streets, into
the newsstands with our publication.
r. A. E.
Oakland, Calf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
New York.

New York.
Daily Worker:
I've read with pleasure of your
plan to expose all strikebreakers as
you have done of Max Sherwood. 7
am sending you some information
of one I know very we'll. His name
is Eddie Gatti.
In 1916 he served term in Ell
mira for grand larceny. All to-
gether he has been arrested about
20 times. In 1921 he was held for
Lemons" murder in Albany. He
was acquitted. Arrested in Toledo
in 1920 during the strike of the To-
ledo Tool and Machine Company,
for carrying a gun, he skipped bail.
In 1923, during the Schenectady
railroad strike, he was arrested for
shooting a striker and was never
brought to trial. Was arrested in
1927 for carrying gun on Staten
Island and although he has been
convicted of three felonies, he was
given suspended sentence. He was
summoned before Seabury during
the city investigation but would not
talk of how he received suspended
sentence.
In 1929 during the Tompkins Bus
Corporation strike in Staten Island,
he injured a number of strikers,
one of whom died a year later as
a result. The police looked for him
for a while and then stopped. In
1929 also, arrested for burglary, SEN
fenced to New York Penitentiary.
In 1882 arrested for felonious as
sault on S. l., he was acquitted but
his partner was convicted.
He was also arrested about six
times for violation of the Volstead
Act.
In 1919 he was shot in gang fight
but refused to prosecute. Same
year police suspected him of aiding
Hickey Harrison escape from the
Tombs Harrison was caught later
and was electrocuted in Sing Sing.
Was close friend to Legs Diamond.
You can verify all this from po-
lice records if you wish. All agen-
cies use him for guerilla work dur
ing strikes
A READER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
Big Bosses Haze Taken
EVen the Mules Food,
Says Sharecrobber Girl

to get more with. We are bare
footed, naked and hungry, and no
thing to go on. From the looks of
the poor mule we have he will die
out any hour, for we have nothing
to feed him on. For the big bosses
have taken all the mules food and
ours too and everything we poor
farmers have worked for and made.
More war is here, and they are
trying to fool the poor workers and
farmers out on the field to fight.
Let the big bosses fight for them
selves. They have everything in
their hands now. I won't cross the
water to fight for them, but will
try to cross hell to break their rot
ten system, and win freedom.
We slave and work for them to
sit back oross-legged and smoke
and laugh of of it, and we try to
live on water and air. What we
must do is to organize Negro and
white together and fight hand in
hand and take everything away
from the bosses, then their rotten
system will be broken.
I went to school two weeks be-
fore Christmas, then school closed
in February, the c. w. A. started,
school came again, but I can't 20
now for have nothing to wear.
My uncle was killed in 1881 fight
ing, and I'm willing to die
in 1884 fighting. For when
| die will die fighting for
breaking Wall Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26

One of the most important things
before the Party is literature dis
tr1bution: The circulation of the
Daily Worker, the Western Worker,
The New Masses, the Labor De-
fender and Soviet Russia today. The
American people are ripe for our
literature-they want it-thsy will
buy tiff they can. Our problem
is to get it where it can be bought
on newstands--in stores-in fact.
get it into every place where read
ing matter of any sort is for sale.
This is no mere academic thesis.
I know from experience that our
publications will sell-if displayed.
For instance: A few weeks ago I
succeeded in getting a newsstand
dealer in typical bourgeois neigh
borhood to stock the New Masses
and Soviet Russia Today. To date
he has sold every copy left with
him-he clamors for more. Our
literature agent has had to increase
his bundle order for New Masses
Not only have we a new outlet for
our literature, but the proprietor, a
typical politically backward Amer
lean, has become very friendly. It's
rather incongruous to see the New
Masses displayed on his racks be-
tween Liberty and True Stories, but
there it is. What's more, it sells.
Let's Sell Literature
I don't mean abandoning the sale
Of literature in and on the skid
roads-by no means, but, let's
branch out. Let every Party mem
ber-every synpathizer be assigned
to contact a newsstand or several Of
them in his vicinity-let's contact
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
90 D0ckoh
,A'<EE11GAeGEg1gI
NdGtG&eA:
Running Ear
By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

ASAAAAAAAes IA<tI
Bill M, QUEENSTOWN, Pa.-Try to
lrrlgate your ear with a Lucas sv-
rlnge. This consists of a glass syringe
which is attached to an ordinary
enema bag by a rubber tubing. The
druggist will show you how to use
it. The irrigating solution should
consist of tablespoonful of bicar-
Donate of soda to a quart of warm
water. Irrigate your ear every two
or three hours and let us know the
result.
Artlritis-Mountain Valley Water
J, M. B.-The word arthritis
simply means rheumatism" of the
joints. 1t hei been the experience
OF the majority of physicians that
the drinking of water in large
quantities improves this condition.
Plain ordinary water from the
faucet is as good as any of the So
called mineral spring waters wfif,a
are so blatantly advertised in tn,
i mercenary capitalist press. The
mineral springs in Europe and
America which are SO lauded by lay
men, as well as physicians, owe
their notoriety mainly to their
psychological effect and to the diet
prescribed at the fashionable water
ing places. Mountain Valley Water,
even if it does come from Hot
Springs, has no better effect than
plain water from the kitchen
faucet which you can get free of
charge. But there are some people
who do not believe that thing
can be good if it does not cost any
thing. Your Office friend seems to
be one of them and there is no
medicine to cure this type of mind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Hematopoietic

M. D., Indianapolis-The word
hematopoietic is an adjective which
means blood-forning. Iron and
copper, as we'll as liver and spleen
extracts, are considered to be hema-
topoietic substances; but they do
not always act as such in all in
dividuals. These substances must
be absorbed into the blood before
they can stimulate the production
Of red blood cells. This is why we
often have to inject them with a
hypodermic needle under the skin
or into the muscles.
Russian Boys Interested in Science
Joseph t., Passaic, N. J.-If you
write a letter to the New Pioneer,
IS E. 18th St. asking them to pub
lish your letter, 1 am certain that
you will get in contact with some
Russian correspondents of your
own ege who are interested in sci
er especially in chemistry.
Catarrh of the Bladder
N. S., Detroit, Mich.-If your
urine really did not show anything
abnormal, your condition should
clear up if you avoid eating spicy
food, particularly those prepared
with salt, pepper or mustard. Live
on a vegetable diet with plenty Of
milk and other dairy products. 1t
would be advisable to keep a hot
water bag on the lower part of your
abdomen because you probably got
your catarrh from a sudden chilling
If you are not better in about g
week, please write to us again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
SOUTHERN BOSSES REFUSE
CWA. JOBS TO NEGROES

BY Farm Worker Correspondent
CAMP HILL, Monroe Lang
ley and my husband were working
on the C.W.A. and Monroe Langley
was a man that owns his own
home, a white man and we're Negro.
And they cut my husband off and
let him keep on working, and was
giving him $40 per week and he
hired my husband at 40c day.
We workers must organize for
better conditions, fight for food and
a shelter to live in. In Camp Hill
they tried to give all of the gravy
to the white-we only get the leav-
ings from them. The C.W.A. gives
Negro workers jobs and they work
them about a month and then cut
them off and kept the white on
there. They are not doing anything
with the C.W.A. money but stealing
and we are starving to death. If
you ask them for something to eat
they say, they are in as tough a
luck as we are.
So I hope we comrades will still
organize for better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
TObaccOCOmpanieS
Make Millions Out
OF Farmers Losses
n. C. Governor Tries to
Shift Attention to
Cigarette Tax
Rv a Farmer CORRESPONDENT

DURHAM. N. C.-Gov. Ehring-
haus, of North Carolina. is stirring
up more dust to blind the eyes of
tobacco farmers to the huge prof
its of the tobacco companies. His
latest scheme is a 40 per cent re-
duction Of the tobacco tax. El1r-
inghaus was one Of the leaders in
the proposal to reduce acreage of
both cotton and tobacco, and last
fall closed down the tobacco mar
kets for several weeks.
Ehringhaus has invited the gov
errors of five other tobacco produc-
ing states Virginia, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Kentucky and Ten
nessee) to meet with him in Wash
ington next week and to lay this
proposed reduction before Wallace
and Roosevelt. This is being done
by request of a group of large to-
bacco growers in North Carolina.
With an average of 18c per pound
for tobacco (some of it selling for
as low as &c and 1900 and with the
announcement of the 1888 profits of
the tobacco companies, the tobacco
farmers were beginning to talk
about the huge profits Of Reynolds,
Liggett Myers, American Tobacco,
and other companies in this state.
Now the big growers and Ehring-
hsus are trying to make them think
that it is the 6c-a-pack tax on
cigarettes which makes the price
to the farmers so low.
The Reynolds Tobacco Co. alone
made a clear profit of $21, 100000
in 1893, and American Tobacco
made over $17000,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
Roosevelt Plan
Throws Choppers
Out Of Homes
Rich Alabama Owners
Say 1t Pays More to
Have Land Empty
BY 4 Sharecropper Correspondent

BY a SharecrOpper Correspondent
BUFFALO, Ala. - The southern
bosses here have taken another step
toward pressure on the workers,
That is, reducing the cotton acres,
reducing the workers, putting thou
sands out without jobs, leaving the
poor class of people in suffering
condition without food and clothing
and homes. They have nowhere to
stay because the bosses have rented
their land to the government and
they tell the poor people that they
can't use them.
The poor workers get no relief,
nor c. W. A. jobs. Some Of them
have large families and no shelter
for them. The bosses tell them
that they want them to get out Of
their houses. They say they can't
furnish water for them to drink
and houses for them to stay in,
they can get more out of their land
by renting it to the government
than they can with farmers, They
will let their land lay out and pas
ture on it. The government will
pay Just as much as they will make
on the land, and they are using 1t
Just the same.
This tells some Of the suffering
condition Of the southern state and
Chambers County, Ala.
D
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
FrighJuI Filth and Speed Up
At DeGraf Paper Stock Place
Women Get So, Men $I4 for 5O-Howr
Week on Kalamazoo Jobs

ing mixed paper, and they sort out
from this paper rotten eggs, rats,
cats, etc, also blood-stained clothes
from the undertakes. These men
who put this rotten trash on the
belts are becoming fast runners be
cause the smell is so bad that Just
as soon as the bail is put down
they run like hell to get away from
the smell and draw in some fresh
air
The dock workers get only SIS
for a 50-hour week. They have to
truck balls that weigh from $500
5000 pounds. The speed here is 50
bad that they have to almost run
with the truck. Almost every night
they have to put Is minutes over
time for which they do no get paid.
When Saturday comes around, and
we are paid of, we have to wait
from half an hour to an hour for
our small pay.
Fellow workers in De Graf & Son,
organize a committee to demand the
following from blood sucking COM
pany:
More men to help feed screens.
Soap, towels, also clean clothes
closets and toilets, and proper doors.
Also shower bath and a decent
place to wash.
Pay for overtime.
Pay at II sharp instead of l pm.
More men on the docks and
smaller loads on the trucks.
A stop to the slavedriving tao
ties of the bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
No Insurance for Workers on
Hazardous Woodcutting Jobs

The workers out here on the lob,
which is located 91a or 10 miles
from town, up in the hills on the
company railroad, will number
about IS when the work gets in
full swing. Some of the men have
their families with them, living in
the miserable shacks which they
build for themselves out Of shakes
and poles. Shakes are a handmade
shingle split out from a block of
wood.
There has been many wild tale
spread around here this spring by
the company menials about how
woodcutters may become wealthy
by cutting four cords day, which
task, according to them, is held
feasible. But the fact is that a
cord and a half is good average
for an experienced woodcutter with
good tools, working an eight-hour
day, and for a new man to afford
buying good tools on job of this
kind is out of the question. One
cord day may come closer to the
truth than the four-cord fairy
tale"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
JObleSS Council
OF Pittsburgh Stop
EviCtiOnS and Sales
Daily Struggles Rouse
Negro and White
Workers

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Not day
has passed in the last two weeks
during which the Unemployment
Councils have not stopped one or
more evictions in Allegheny County.
Sixty-six thousand families face
eviction due to the cutting off of
rent payments. Thousands of notices
have been sent out, and hundreds
of evictions slated to take place.
Several dozen were attempted, but
the mass mobilization and militancy
displayed by the workers-Negro
and white-has been sufficient to
discourage the authorities to at
tempt mass evictions or sales.
In Woods Run, Pittsburgh, with
IN half an hour, over 500 workers
rallied recently to save the Chubeck
family from being evicted. Another
500 workers observed the struggle
and were very antagonistic to the
police and deputy sheriffs. After
the arrest of seven workers, includ-
ing three women, following the bat
tie with the police, mass delega-
ton of $50 women went down to
the Office of Mayor McNair and
demanded the release of the women
Immediately. All three women were
let out without bail.
Thursday morning, April 18th.
700 Negro and white workers raj
lied on Hazel st. Hill District, and
stopped the eviction from taking
place. Despite the large turnout of
police, the determination of the
jobless deferred the police from at
lacking.
fact that the entire city was
aroused by the events in Woods
Run, the seven workers held for
melting to riot" were released and
the case dismissed against them.
In Williamsburg, Brushton, North
Side, Turtle Greek, Braddock, and
other places, evictions and sales
have been stopped over the week.
end. On the Hill, Monday morning.
several more evictions have been
stopped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
By Farm WORKER Corespondent


GRAND ROUNDE, Ore. - The
Poke Operating Co., branch of
the Mccormick Harvester Co. here,
have let out a contract of about
5000 cords of pulpwood to several
small contractors here.
The contractor receives $3.50 per
cord for peeled wood on board of
the car. Paying $3.50 per cord for
the cutting leaves him 81 per cord
for making roads, hauling and load
ing. Such small pay makes it i'm
possible for him to carry insur-
ance either against accidents of
workers or protection of the wood
against fire, in which latter case
the workers may even lose their pay
should the wood burn before the
money is collected. Such a thing
has happened up here.
There are signs posted on the
job to the effect that no insurance
is carried, cutters taking their own
risk, This thing is a deplorable sit
tuation as the work in this tall
timber is very hazardous, and some
of the workers are but youths of
school age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
EX-SOLDIERS' RELIEF CUT
IN HALF
BY a Worker Correspondent

CLEVELAND, Ohio. = After a
great deal of red tape I finally
succeeded a few months ago in
getting relief from THE Soldiers
and Sailors Relief" Every We'd
nesday we used to get food rations
and once month, cash relief. Now,
the Wednesday before last, they
told us at the relief Office that from
then on we will get rations every
other Wednesday, which means that
the rations were cut in half.
Last Wednesday, 1 went to the
relief office anyway and it turned
out to be only too true. There were
other ex-servicemen there too, and
all of us went home empty handed.
Now, there is a rumor that the
cash relief will be cut by 20 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
SHAREHOLDERS STRUGGLING
FOR RIGHTS

by Farm Worker Correspondent
CAMP HILL, Ala am a poor
farmers wife and have been on
the farm al MY life, and for the
past three years that the crisis has
become deeper and deeper, my
family can nerdly live at all I
have been share cropper for about
four years, and have been strug-
Cling for my rights. My husband
has tried very hard to get a job
on the G. w. A. but has no. been
placed as yet. Hes betn walking
to Dadeville's every day since last
year, and they tell him to come
back next week and believe me you,
! am in needy condition down
here, and am in need OF help very
much. There is no farm and Moth
ing to live upon The bosses are
trying to starve us anyhow, but
am still trying to struggle some way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
WIN THE YOUTH
Newark, N. j.

I've al n, W. u.
Dear Sir.
l happened to see your paper a
few months ago and I have read it
ever since. There are plenty of
people who would like to read the
Daily Worker if they saw it. The
newspaper stands on the four cor
ners of Broad and Market Streets
hide your paper between piles of
magazines. Thousands of workers
pass each day without noticing their
most powerful weapon.
I want TO say a few words about
winning the youth of this country,
in connection with my own ex-
perience.
l come from small town near
Munich, Bavaria. Back in 1923,
was unemployed, and so were most
of my friends. Unfortunately there
came Hitler, and he rounded ur
the youth of Germany. A young
man, lacking in world experience
with an empty stomach, was easy
prey for Hitler. 1 lived through
these terrible times. We were in
vited to look over the Nazi pro-
gram, eats and drinks free. We
fate our bellies fully, and didn't cart
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
By a Farm Worker Correspondent

os Eafm WOIheE correspondent
CLEVELAND, O.-The high SAL
aired officials of the dairy cooper
atives in Northern Ohio are becom-
ing frightened at the activity in
organizing shown by the small and
miGdle class dairy farmer of this
area for the big Milk Conference
to be held in Cleveland on April
2Sth.
In Lorain County, where q num-
Der Of mass meetings to elect dele
gates nave been held. q representa-
tive Of the Northern Ohio Milk As
ISOLATION has been peddling the lies
that the farmers can get $40 per
CWT. by selling their milk through
his organization.
In Fulton County where three
meetings were held, Mr.. Wade, off,
cial of the North Western Cooper
alive Sales Association, followed UP
all of our meetings, attending two
Of them personally and sending his
agents to the third. Before the
meeting at Oakshade, an organized
gang followed our distributors and
took up the leaflets. Farmers in
Fulton County accuse the Milk Co.
operative leaders of this work.
At Patson Grange Hall, the third
and last meeting of the Fulton
County series was held on Saturday
night, April 14th, the grange Off
Gals refused to allow us into the
hall until IS was paid. This grange
is in control Of well-to-do farmers
who work hand in hand with the
enemies Of the poorer farmers.
AT this meeting, John Marshall.
executive secretary of the Ohio
Farmers League, thoroughly exposed
the high salsried officials of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
"WOrkHardJuSt
Like a Man and
Get Nothing
By sharecropper Correspondent

CAMP HILL, Ala have been
working for four years in this
sharec-opper union. Sometimes the
way ge\y dark but I go on by the
help of the Lord. I go to my meet
ing every week and I try to do my
part. I have but one dress, but
before I will miss my meeting I
will wash it out at night.
I have three sisters and two
brothers. We are all in the same
shape. Haven't got clothes to
change in, but hope some day the
times will be better. Since I have
been a comrade girl I haven't even
been to school just because I
haven't got clothes to wear.
1t wouldn't hurt me so bad but
work very hard every year just like
a man and never get nothing, can't
even get a doctor when I get sick.
And then some of the bosses try to
be huff with us and say they will
make it hard for US. But am
going to work for the union until
I die.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26

what political party we were follow
ing as long as we had free beer
and sandwiches. After a while my
friends fell for Hitler. Until left
Germany I had nothing but ar
guments with them. 1T looks as if
internetionalism was born in me.
When Ludendorf was Hitler's
right hand, before the Kapp Putch,
he was expected to ride through
P. H. My friends waited two hours
in line. Finally he came in big
car, passed by, and didn't even look
at his followers. Naturally I
couldn't hold my temper any more,
and told them what I thought of
their leader.
Win the youth, it's high time.
When they are completely hungry
and desperate you can't hold them
M. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
Manicurists Get $3.50
Minimum Under Code

WASHINGTON, D. C. OPP
More than 100000 barber shop en-
ployes are affected by the code ap-
proved by President Roosevelt for
the industry. A 48-hour work week
Is provided for all employees, though
owners OF 1-chair shops may work
up to 50 hours. In transmitting the
code, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson declared
that under present conditions
neither BARRIERS nor shop owners
are making a living wage"