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Evening star., 1934-07-01
GET RENO DIVORCES

RENO. New, June 80 CP.-Two
New York City society matrons won
divorces at private trials here today
Mrs. Katrinka Suydam Rocker OBJ
tanned decree from Frederick E. c.
Rocker and Mrs. Gladys Morgan
Bryce divorced Francis Bryce. Mrs
Rocker charged extreme cruelty and
Mrs. Bryce charged desertion.
Evening star., 1934-07-01

and Rural Life in
the Bureau of
Agricultural Eco
nomics, retired
yesterday.
DR.. Galpin for
25 years has been
a leader in the
field of rural
social planning.
During this period
he had attained
worldwide repu-
tation, and had
b e en- rendered
special recogni-
ton by two for
aip,, no1yarropopnfS
Evening star., 1934-07-01
SHRINE is DESTROYED
Honduran Vandals Turn Thou
sands of Pilgrims Homeward.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June
30 R.-Under cover of last nights
darkness, unknown hands destroyed
the shrine to which uncounted thou
sands of Hondurans had made pill
grimage.
A stone at El Guayabito. on which
an image of Christ was alleged to have
appeared in mysterious fashion, was
found shattered at dawn today, dis
patches from La Paz said.
The vast hordes of pilgrims drawn
to the spot by what they believed to
be modern-day miracle turned back
home.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
DR.. CHARLES GALPIN
QUITS U. S. SERVICE
Resigns After 15-Year Period
With Agricultural Depart
ment Bureau.

Rounding out a period of Is years
activity with the Department of Agri-
culture, DR.. Charles J. Galpin, head
of the Division of Farm Population
Evening star., 1934-07-01
LAWYER Is CLEARED
Jury Acquits Verne R. C. Lacy
on Corruption Charge.

on Corruption Charge.
ST. LOUIS, June 80 CP.-A jury
in Circuit Court today acquitted Verne
R. c. Lacy, well known criminal
lawyer, of a charge of corrupting a
juror in a kidnapping case in 1882.
One of the kidnapping trial jurors
testified an associate Of Lacy had
promised him money TO vote for
acquittal
Lacy denied all the allegations of
the State
Evening star., 1934-07-01
FORD COMPLIANCE.
TO 0N.R.A.REPORTED.
Johnson Makes Announces
ment Which Is Denied
in Detroit.

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Union Agent UphOlds
Boss in Firing of
Dye House Worker
IN ii Textile Worker Corres

By a Textile Worker Correspondent
PATTERSON, N. J.-One worker
from the De Gise Piece Dye Co.
was fred on Friday, July s. He
was working in the dye house de-
partment. The shop chairman came
to him and handed him his pay
check. The worker asked him why
he is being paid of. The chairman
said: you have some oil spot over
the goods on your machine. There
fore the boss is firing you" The
worker answered that the oil spot
ran down from the bearing Of the
machine. But the chairman said
that he had to be laid OF on ac-
count Of that.
The worker is a member Of the
Dyers Local No. 1888. He reported
to the union Office about his case.
Mr.. Pirola, business agent of the
union, was sent to the shop. After
he had q secret conference with the
boss and the shop chairman. they
decided that the worker had to be
fired.
Two other workers lost their jobs
recently in the same way as this
worker. This proves that the So
called leaders Of our local are help
ing the bosses to fire workers out
of the shop.
A DYE HOUSE WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
- D0Ckoh
,.kAAHinQe'g
ndGdAe1:
By PAUL LuTTrNGER, MD.

ported by Rosenau. where baby
was poisoned by eating the lead
paint from the crib.
Most of the cases of lead poison
ing are found in the following in
dustries: Where lead compounds are
manufactured, storage batteries,
potteries, painting, printing, plumb
ing, lead smelling and lead refin-
ing. The articles containing most
lead are putty, paint, pigments,
glazes, polishing powders, solder ard
spraying solutions.
How Does Poisoning Occur?
The most common way of con-
tracing lead poisoning is by in
halation breathing i'm of lead
fumes and dust. Lead trades are
dangerous in direct proportion to
their amount Of business. The
lead dust and fumes are quickly
and directly absorbed into the blood,
while the lead ingested (eaten) has
to go to the stomach and intestine,
as we'll as the liver, where some Of
it is neutralized.
Lead may also enter the body
through the broken and even UNI
broken skin. The lead mixed with
high test" or ethyl" gasoline (te-
traethyl lead) can enter the system
through unbroken skin. The lead
in cosmetics and hair dyes also
reaches the blood through the in
tact epiderrnis.
When the air breathed during
working hours contains more than
five milligrams of lead, brain LESSONS,
paralysis and COLES will surely oc-
cur. AS the lead circulates in the
blood, it is liable to damage any
organ of the body. Later. it is
stored in the bones and may cause
poisoning again when liberated.
Ito Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Mrs. RATES. STORY
Pregnant Woman, BrutaIIy Kicked by Cop,
Gives Birth to Dead Baby

warned the police not to handle
me so roughly, saying I was pre3-
nant and starving. A crowd of a
few hundred workers were follow
ing us and shouting, Leave that
woman alone. You will be respon-
sible for what happens to her"
When I could no longer walk, and
the crowd was becoming very
angry, they threw me on my face
into taxicab.
At the police station I was faint
ing and asked for drink of
water, and they said, 1.-THE water
is shut O." They took me into a
back room of the police station.
When they took me to the patrol
wagon I saw Bertha Lowenthal
there, and she tried to comfort me.
At Clinton Street very rough
and insulting woman searched us
for knives and scissors, and the
policeman told her to punch
Bertha in the nose.
The International Labor Defense
sent lawyer, Eli Tanner. I was
paroled in his custody. Bertha was
put under $40 bail. The 18th
Street local of the Unemployment
Council held an open-air meeting
and collected some money, and
borrowed the rest, and paid her
bail.
The day of he trial I was sick,
and Bertha paid 81 of her So relief
check for taxi. I was found
guilty by Magistrate Dreyer, who
gave me a ten-day suspended sem
tence. He said he would have
made the sentence harder if I
weren't pregnant. But the real
reason was that the courtroom was
packed with workers and I was
defended by Mr.. Tauber. I. l.. D.
attorney. Bertha was given ten
days in the workhouse.
When I was arrested, all the
newspapers lied. They said I as
saulted policeman and that I
was "menacing red" But when
my baby was born dead, the re-
porters rushed to my house and
said they we're going to help me,
and said warningly. you're not a
Communist, are you?" I said, THE
Communists helped me when I was
in trouble"
I am going to take my case to
the I. L. D.
MRS. VICTORIA RAFFE
signature Authorized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
BY DR.. LONE
I.-True "True Story"

Il have been hunting for job
ever since I came to this country.
I was not so bad off on the other
side, in Scotland,-I was poor,
but.
why did you Gomez"
Il don't know, Doctor. I used to
see American papers in the library
in my city, and in them some ad-
vertisements, like those in the
True Story" magazine, you know,
full-page advertisements, with large
type, and they painted the condi-
tons here so rosy. I thought I'd
make my life easier.
Eyes, even since the depression
such advertisements continue to be
printed. They would say The pres
ent vast spread Of wealth down
through the masses'-'the integrity
of the home, the protection Of the
children, the triumph Of the simple,
homely virtues'-it sounded so as
suring, didn't it? Or. The workers
are going around with their pockets
jingling. Wealth has descended to
the masses, millions of people now
have more actual money than any,
one ever dreamed they could have
my husband and I used to learn
these words by heart.
COR, They marry and build their
own homes, they furnish them, they
study bathtubs and kitchen ranges
and parlor radios and finally buy
the inevitable automobile and then
they buy those innumerable things
which change the entire social set
ting These sentences, which were
written down to fool the workers
ard prospective advertisers, sounded
to me ike fine poetry or holy scrip
lures. But now I'd like to go over
to the offices of the papers and slap
somebody in the face and spit into
It, too"
1.-THE Chamber Maid
She is the chamber maid of a
family living for years in an ele-
CANT suite at the select Hotel Plaza
In New York.
But her room is dark, devoid of
fresh air. She is permitted to go
out but once in two weeks for a
few hours in the afternoon.
Working daily from seven in the
morning to nine in the evening.
II am like in prison. And my
mistress is a very severe lady-und
listig," (cunning) she adds in Ger
man. "And so it was natural that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Prevention of Lead Poisoning

The problem of lead poisoning is
one of perennial interest to work
ers, and although we have often
discussed certain phases of it, there
is a constant demand for more in
formation on the subject. 1t is
quite natural that so many Daily
Worker readers should want to know
as much as possible about the pre-
vention of lead poisoning when we
realize that more than $50 industries
are using either the metallic form
of lead or its compounds. We have,
therefore, decided to concentrate all
we know about the prevention of
lead poisoning, in one article, and
would suggest that interested COM
rades cut the clipping out of the
paper and paste it on a piece of
cardboard, SO that they may have
the information always available.
OF all the occupation intoxi-
cations, lead is the most frequent
and serious and, at the same time
the most insidious because its eff
fects are not noticed immediately.
Lead is what is known as cumu-
lative poison which means that
small quantities taken into the body
day by day finally cause death as
sure as if a pound of lead should
drop suddenly on the workers head.
The prevention of lead poisoning
consists in avoiding of these minute
quantities in the system.
What Lead Is the Most Poisonous.
All forms of this metal are pois-
onous; but the basic carbonate or
white lead and the sJboxides and
oxides, such as litharge or red lead
are the most dangerous. Lead
Chromate, sulphate and sulphide,
being less soluble are less poisonous;
while acetate, chloride and nitrate,
although water soluble, are little
used in industry and need not con-
Germ us. Chronic lead poisoning is
known as plumbism in medicine. 1t
may also be contracted from other
than occupational sources. Thus
"epidemics" of plumbism have been
known to follow the drinking CT
water, beer, soft drinks and food
cent? nin~ted with lead. Beking
powder, fsce powders, and other
cosmetics. silver" tobacco wrappers
made of lead-foil, lead bullets car
ried in the body or even in the
pocket are liable to cause plumb.am.
There arc some very peculiar cases
Of lead poisoning; one of them re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Speeded To Do 1872
Hours Work in 8 at
National Refining Co,
By a Worker Correspondent

CLIFFSIDE, N. il work for the
National Refining Co. of New Jer-
sey, which is supposed to be paying
SAC minimum under the N.R.A. and
publicly states that it does. How
ever, the facts are these: Men who
worked here prior to 1880 are get
ting SAC, the majority are only get
ting 44c. and the most they can
reach is ACC Of they live long
enough at this job or $3.50 a
week, providing you get full week,
which is seldom.
The foremen have shares in the
company, and they push us so that
We do the work we did in Is and
half hours in hours (the N.R.A.
said 8 hours, but didn't say how
much work..
Especially one, Babcock by name,
is rotten. He won't let us get time
of to eat. We have to eat on the
run, hauling bags of 100 pounds
each, carrying them 40 feet or
more, and then throwing them II
feet high into the hold. 1t doesn't
seem possible, does it? But that is
what we do three or four times
minute for hours. These bosses
don't let us go to the toilet when
we have to. We have to wait until
there is lull or all the men make
a stop.
During that cold spell last Winter
when it was Is degrees below, we
would sneak off to a sinking toilet
where we eat in the Winter, to get
warm. The foreman would stalk in
like a raging maniac, threatening
to fire us if we didn't keep on the
job.
Now when it is so hot, some of
us work down in a hold, no air,
all heat, and We are not allowed
to get water to cool us off. This
is the right to happiness.
Let us workers in our shop. in
every shop, organize and struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
By a Worker Correspondent

My baby was born dead, July z,
in Bellevue Hospital, because Of
starvation, when the home relief
bureau refused to increase my food
check and because of brutal treat
ment I received from the police.
When 7 was in an advanced
stage of pregnancy I had four
hemmorhages, and Bellevue Hos
pital doctors said I had to have
a blood TRANSMISSION. But the home
relief bureau and the city refused
to help me, and I never had it.
The doctor and Bellevue Hospi-
tai gave me four or five letters to
the home relief bureau, saying I
was undernourished and had to
have an increase in my food check.
My two children did not have
enough to eat, either. My husband
suffers with his spine, and is un-
able to work because he was run
over by an automobile.
Judge Panken, a Socialist, the
dirty skunk, was my husbands
lawyer. He postponed the case for
three and a half years, and then
said the company who was to pay
was bankrupt. My husband is
unable to work. I went to Mr..
Fagin of the home relief bureau,
and he kept telling me to get
more letters from Bellevue. I gave
him four or five. I was exhausted
running back and forth in my
condition. I went to Welfare Com
missioner Hodson, and he said he
would take care of US immedi-
ately, but he never did.
On May % I went to a demon
stration at the home relief bureau
called by the 18th Street local of
the Unemployment Council. We
had a peaceful and orderly open
air meeting. A delegation of five
was elected to go inside the relief
station and present our demands
They were denied entrance.
The policemen then tried 70
break up our meeting. Patrolman
Conboy, badge 9747, pushed me
and nearly knocked me down. I
was then eight months pregnant.
He hurt me and I protested. He
arrested me, and he and another
policeman dragged me about five
blocks. I fell a few times, and
begged them to let me ride.
Bertha Lowenthal and others
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
PARTY LIFE
Districts Must Carry Out
Party's Educational Plan
Training of Neto Members and the Political
Development of Old Cannot Be Neglected

District and section organizers did
not transit this communication to
the units. Others failed to POPULAR
ize the decision of the C. G. and to
mobilize the membership for this
task.
The Bolshevization of the Party
cannot be accomplished without
equipping the Party membership
with the theory of Marxism- Lenin-
ism. This task can be accomplished
when every party member is made
conscious of the fact that this task
cannot be relegated only to top COM
mittees; but that every Party menu
Der can contribute in one way or
another to the successful realization
of this task.
of every member Is made to
understand that the study Of
theory is not something which
merely has to do with the inn
provement of his intellectual level,
but is the forging of the weapons
of struggle which have to be used
every day in the fight, then we
can not only train our member
ship but by training them we keep
them in TIE Party and solve the
problem of fiuctuation and mui-
tiply many fold the force of the
Party among the Masses" Com.
rade Browder).
The means Of realizing the m
structions of the Convention must
be found. Every Party Unit must
make its contribution. Every sec
ton and district organizer must be
held personally responsible for the
fulfillment of the c. C. decision.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
JobIess Join
ScOvill Council
In Cleveland
n anne Locals After
Victims of Police
Attacks

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 3d.
While the bodies of Winnie Williams
and Salvatore Arzentini, the two
workers murdered by the police in
the Prospect Relief Station on Fri
day, July IS, lay in the offices of
the Unemployment Councils, at 1851
Central Ave, workers from the pow
erty- stricken Scovill Section, where
Williams and Arzentini lived, filed
pass the bodies. More than 500
workers from this section joined the
Unemployment Councils of lower
Scovill.
Arzentini was a member of the
Council at 1910 Woodland Ave, Will
liams member of the Council at
1851 Central Ave.
The day after the mass funeral,
the Council held it's regular meet
ing. 1t was proposed to name one
the Williams Local, and the Coun-
Gil at Woodland Ave. the Arzentini
Local. So deeply had the symbol
OF Negro and white solidarity pene-
trated that workers said: I'VE can't
separate them now. They fought
side by side; now we must keep
their names together"
One of the locals will be the Will
liams Unemployment Council, the
other the Arzentini Unemployment
Council.
A mass initiation of the new
members is being arranged for
Thursday, July Is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25

The decisions of the eighth con-
vention of the Party are very slowly
penetrating into the ranks of the
Party membership. The district and
section committees, in many cases
fail to popularize these decisions
and mobilize the membership for
their realization.
A case at hand is the decision of
the Eighth Convention CT the Party
in regard &c Marxizt-Leninist edu-
cation. The main resolution adopted
at the convention emphasizes the
need Of raising the political and
theoretical level of the Party men,
berShip. 1t also stresses the neces-
sity of training new leading forces
for the Party.
This is not temporary task but
one that must be carried on daily.
Special attention and forces, must
be given to this task. The training
of new members, the political de-
velopment of the old, cannot be
neglected. The training of new
cadres was emrhasized in the Open
Letter. Nevertheless, very few dis
tricts made serious attempt to
prcparly train and theoretically
equip the new forces. Net being
armed with the theory of Marxism-
Leninism, the new forces are not
fully effective. The mechanical ap-
proach toward Party instructions
must be dropped and a serious effort
made to carry out. the task of de-
veloping new cadres in real boil
shevik manner. Some districts even
interfere with the steps undertaken
by the C. G. to carry out the deci-
sion of the last Party Convention
regarding Marxist-Leninist educa-
ton.
Immediately after the Convention
the @. G. mapped out program
of educational work and worked out
a concentrat ton plan for the train
ing of new forces. For this purpose,
the C. c. decided to raise fund
of $4,000, setting quota for each
Unit and minimum quota for each
District. A communication was sent
to all Districts, to be transitted to
the Units on May Is. The response
to this communication is weak. The
reason for this is the fact that some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
By a Worker Correspondent

JERSEY CITY, N. 1--WE read
about the furniture strike here in
Jersey City. Those bosses must
have been rotten, but they can't
compare with those here at Col
gates, where two men have to lift
up and take of unwieldy plates
weighing 200 pounds from trucks
that carry 1000 pounds Of soap.
Then they push these trucks to the
elevator to the cutting department.
Here the bonus system makes US
work so damn fast for a penny that
every man is forced to kill himself
TO keep on the line.
We are machines. Even if it is
necessary for us to go to the toilet,
we've got to wait until the whole
line gees.
The sickening stencil of soap. the
small particles of dust from dried
soap, gag you and hit your lungs
and nose. Makes you sniff as if
you have a permanent cold after
a while.
They pay S6c to workers under
81 who do the same work older
men do who get 55c. OF course,
the result is they are laying off the
older help, or when they hire, they
hire only young fellows, who even
if they are over q lie to get the
job. Then some men get SOC who
do the same work as the 55c ones.
These men don't get the bonus.
They hire fellows who have let
tiers Of recommendation from poll
ticians or bosses in the shop.
I'll tell you how they get rid of
older workers. Say that one gets
hurt, strains his back, shoulder, or
something. He stays out on COM
pensation. He comes back, works
a couple Of weeks, then they lay
him off. They allow no smoking
anywhere in the plant Except in
the Offices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Registered Four
Years Ago and No
Job Yet in Sight
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. = Can you answer
this question? How many Yeas
must man be registered at the
New York State employment Office,
which is located at 40 East 10th
St., New York, before he will be
eligible for a job? This is the kind
of job I was sent to, after being
registered for four years:
I was sent to interview Mr.. Cohn
Of 299 Broadway, Office 1901, for a
position as camp cook. I acquainted
Mr.. Cohn with the fact that I was
not a Kosher cook. Mr.. Cohn re-
piled that it was perfectly all right,
that he did not want a Kosher
cook, but a half hour after 1 arrived
at Camp Silver Spruce, Sussex
County N. j., the camp director
came to see me and asked me if
I was Kosher cook. He stated
that he was going to send me back
to New York City. I replied that
it was all right with me if he paid
the expense, and for the time and
trouble of my getting my clothes.
He agreed, but when I arrived in
New York at 3 am. this young man
handed me So.
I complained to the New York
State Employment executive, and I
was told could do nothing about
it.
I am registered at the New York
State Employment Office since June
10, 1890, and before that at ia
East 18th St., New York. presume
will be entitled to a job by 1945.
Ask Mr.. Lang, director of the New
York State Employment Office, 1874
E. 18th St., New York City, or Miss
Henrietta Rottstein, superintend-
ent, at 40 East 4Oth ST., she might
be able to answer this question.
R. HENDERSON,
signature authorized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Fulton Bag & Cotton
Workers Organizing
Joining Union Despite COmpmny's Threats of
Dismissing Those Who Get Together

matically fires himself. Several
have been quietly retired within
the last few days. Hundreds are
joining at every meeting, among
which is the energetic ever present
Communist pointing out the best
route to the goal. Always, every
where, one finds the tireless Red
trying to save civilization for the
workers. What tribute the ages
owe him.
At the present rate of joining
the union, it is safe to predict that
within another fortnight, the Full
ton Bag and Cotton mill workers
will have pulled a strike that will
paralyze the region about so mile
radius.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Boot & Shoe Gives No
Protection at |. Miller
By a Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY Shoe Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The conditions in
the fitting department in I. Miller
Shoe factory are as bad as in the
lasting department. The folders
were making between SIS and $40
a week. The fancy pastors are
making 40c and SOC an hour. The
stitchers also make as little as the
other branches.
The folders used to do folding
and piping, SO as to be able to make
at least $15-$20 a week. The boss
hired girls to do the piping for less
money and the folders sit idle.
When the stitchers are being timed
on a new style shoe, Squire, the
superintendent, uses a special
watch. 1t is called French watch
because nobody can read it except
Squire, and in case the thread and
needle breaks when timing them,
Squire stops the watch, so that they
should re-thread it or put in a
different needle in the machine on
their own time.
The Boot and Shoe Union, to
which we belong, called shop
meeting. One of the workers de-
manded that we get an increase
in pay. The next day the boss fired
him, and the union didn't do any
thing about it.
The B. & S. U. officials made a
new deal without the consent of