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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Cops Threaten loo
Dayton, Strikers
With Machine Guns
Unemployment Councils
Join Picket Line; Call
for Mass Picketing
By a Group of B. & B. Strikers

BY a Group of B. e. B. Strikers
DAYTON, Ohio.-The workers Of
Brown and Brockmyre shop, at
Dayton, Ohio, have been out on
strike now for the last four weeks.
Their main demands are: minimum
wage of rs cents per hour; SO hours
per week; union recognition.
The Dayton city police from the
very start have lined up with the
bosses and the scabs against the
strikers. Inspector Gregar would
not allow more than four pickets
on the line in front Of the shop.
When the strikers tried to form a
mass picket line in order to stop
the scabs from entering the shop,
Inspector Gregar called out six cars
full Of police and threatened to
use machine guns against the strik-
ers. He also threatened to arrest
anybody that shows up on the picket
line whom he does not approve of.
One of the strikers friends was ar
rested for refusing to leave the
picket line, but was Immediately
released when the indignation of
the strikers was raised. Inspector
Gregar is doing the work of a
strikebreaker; he has told many
strikers to go to work or to go
home.
Tuesday, June 5th, Papa" Brown
agreed to give in to all the de-
mands of the strikers including the
firing Of all the scabs. The next
morning when the strikers came to
work they found the scabs armed
with knives, clubs, ETC., ready to
work. Mr.. Brown offered to hire
only 81 of the 100 strikers.
The strike was supposed to be
under the leadership Of the Inter
national Association of Machinists.
But this union as we'll as the rest
Of the A. F. of L. unions have given
no support to the strike as far as
picEeting is concerned. At the same
time the Unemployment Councils
are modifying all their members to
help put the strike over.
We call upon all workers and
sympathizers to come to the picket
line every morning from 7:30 to $3.50
and help win the strike by picketing
and keeping the scabs out of the
Brown and Brockmyre shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
TEMPORARY vEGETARIANIsM

Il ENI OHAh4 EVE AAARAHANAC4N
We've been assembling some sug-
gestions for meatless dishes, suit
able for use during a butchers
strike. With fresh corn and other
vegetables coming on the market
now, there's wide variety of pos
ssible ingredients.
For example. q substantial chow
der may be made as follows two
cups sliced young okra, a half cup
each Of tomatoes and minced
onion: two. cups minced sweet
peppers: a half cup of sliced car
rots and potatoes, mixed: boil in
a quart of sailed water until
vegetables are done. about three
quarters of an hour0
II high seasonings do not dis
agree with you a little curry or
Chill powder may be added. A
little salt fish may also be included.
The chowder is to be served with
a big spoonful Of boiled rice in
each plate.
Okra, or Gumbo. by the way, is
more substantial than it looks; it
has a carbohydrate content of
about ne per cent, protein over
1R per cent: also a very little fat
and mineral; and vitamin B. It
may be steamed or boiled or
sauteed: it may be cooked together
with corn and tomatoes equal
quantities, and a little minced
onion, seasoned, and used as
sauce over plain boiled brown rice
or spaghetti, with or without grated
cheese.
Beets are also rather substantial.
having carbohydrate to the tune Of
nearly 10 per cent; protein over ~
per cent; and vitan1ins B and G.
The f1reless cooker, incidentally,
proves useful for cooking beets
without getting the kitchen "all het
up" in hot weather.
Carrots have almost the same
content, but in addition, vitamin A,
and poetic acid which aids in digest
ing other foods; they are high in
iron content: should therefore be
used as literally as available the
year round, grated raw in salads,
or baked or boiled: they may be
combined in a white sauce with
asparagus or caulihower.
Here's a little "tip" useful in
summer: when it's too hot to cook
meat for broth for use in risotto
or other dishes requiring stock,
can Of bouillon or consomme may
be used: available in the "21-
kinds" series.)
With the following potato dish,
lettuce or other fresh salad green's
should be served if available. boil
five minutes in salt water. four
cups peeled diced potatoes and a
small chopped onion. Add four
Z. chopped peppers. previously skin
ned after scalding, or scorching
over fire., boil another five minutes,
and drain.
Make sauce by melting four
tablespoons fat, stirring with equal
amount of flour. and a pint of
milk (use milk and water mixed if
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Plantation Bosses
Establish c. c. c.
Camp in DadeyiIIe
Bv . Worker Ccrrespondent


DADEVILLE. Ala.-The planta-
ton masters here have established
a C.C.C. camp that will enroll from
300 to 500 young workers, Negro
and white, but on a Jim-crow basis.
The sight of this group of soldier
clad working youth no doubt is
meant to raise the morale of the
bosses who have been slightly wor-
ried by increasing protests and
signs of militant activity of the
Share Choppers Union.
While the Landlords were about it,
they also succeeded in having the
government clear off an airplane
landing field at Camp Hill. Also
army planes have been busy en-
circling over this county.
The G. G. G. boys come
from all over the states, and
some of them have APP
preached the Negro youth, want
ing to get acquainted. The YCL.
will make efforts to gain contacts.
We certainly could use back copies
Of the magazine FIGHT, if anyone
wishes to send them down here.
Bosses are sharpening their eyes
for profit now that the C.CC. boys
are here. One merchant in Dade-
vile got a contract to do the laun-
dry work. and he turns around and
hires Negro women to wash all day
long for rs cents, which he will pay
out in groceries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
ON THE PICKET LINE
New York City


Editor, The Daily Worker
For about a month now Vein
stock Bros, Inc, 384 Third Ave,
has been resolutely patrolled by one
or two pickets affiliated with the A..
F. of L. There is an infuriating
sign on the window: There is no
strike among the statesmen of Vein
stocks; the strikers are two Grand
boys" The pickets had new sign
today besides refusing to recognize
the union: THE Weinstocks buy
German goods" These poor work
ers will never get anywhere with the
A. F, of L., but I am not the one
to tell them SO. Someone should
get in contact with them and or
ganize them decently. They have
all TOO much CUTS, parading up and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Relief Officials Drive Negro Families
Into Forced Labor of Cotton Chopping
Landlords Hand in List and Cont Orders Those
Vamed to York from Sun to Sun for 80 Cents

heat. Some give meals and some
don't.
Nearly everyone feels we should
get at least IS cents a day, if not
81, for 10 hours work, as the Share
Choppers Union says, since it costs
so much more to live now after
the NR.A. and the acreage reduc-
ton scheme gave subsidies to the
bosses which we poor farmers and
workers must pay back, by sales and
processing taxes added to the
prices.
In Chambers County some bosses
hand in a list of their troopers
working reduced patches and order
the relief officials to give out gro
ceries, etc., which the bosses put
on the book as furnishing" while
the government says, mot to be
Sold Then those who are evicted,
the bosses hand in another list;
this is Don't give" so they can
force them back and work for 30
cents a day when they need them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
S. P. Officials in
Atlanta SANDERS
An6elO HerndOn
BY a Worker Correspondent

ATLANTA, Ga.-At the meeting
of the local of the Socialist Party
here last week the faker, ATTORNEY
Jacobs of this city, took the floor
and was forced by mass pressure
to half-heartedly support the strug-
gle Of the Communist Party against
Assistant Solicitor Hudson's attacks,
terrorizations, and raids. At the
same time the chairman of the
local, after several lying expressions
Of intention to help the workers.
began an attack upon the C.P.
stating that facts published by the
Communists that Angelo Herndon,
militant Negro leader of the unem-
ployed, now in Jail, was unable to
get medical aid were untrue. and
that he was offered medical aid and
refused it. This chairman thus
showed herself up to be a real agent
of the bosses by trying to break I'D
the militant struggles of the work
erS.
This same faithful agent of So
claI-Democracy, Mrs. Mells. and
member of the petty bourgeoisie
here who once served on the Angelo
Herndon Defense Committee and
even presided over a mass protest
meeting seeking his freedom. has
showed her true political color (yel-
low) by openly attacking this De-
tense Committee and the Commu-
mist Party, for which she once
pretended sympathy.
The weakling, Jacobs, was forced
TO support the struggles of the CP.
IN his speech, although it was evil
dent that it was difficult task for
him to do, because of the fact that
The local workers, even rank and
file Socialists, are becoming con-
vinced that the Communist PARTY is
the only organization struggling for
the real welfare of the working
class. Whereas the week before
there were II present at the SP
meeting, this week there we're only
8 present, including the officials and
speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
LumberjackS of the
j. S. s. R. Write to
Workers of i. S. A.
BY a Group of Soviet Worker
Correspondents

ARCHANGELSK, U. S. S. RIO
lumberjacks in America:
From the forest of the North
Region we lumberiacks send Won
our brotherly greetings and we want
to tell you a story about how we
workers build our own happy life
In the U. S. S. r. there is now
no unemployment.
We are all members of the col
lective farm, the Kolhoz.
Our timber industry is pro-
crossing rapidly We are building
a number of Saw1nills.
A long time ago we surpassed the
pre-war figure of the timber indus
try in the North Region.
We take our part in the large
work and we know well that all this
is destined for us and not for the
bosses.
We have a seven-hour labor day
We are using with great success
the socialist methods of work shock
brigade and socialist competition
We live in the light, warm timber
houses and we have nourishing
dinner and supper every day in our
eating house. We have in the for
est a good club, where we spend our
free time. Our dramatic circle
often gives us theatricals, and we
go to cinema pictures. Also there
is a good medical service.
To work for seven hours is suffi-
Gent to have some money for us
and for our families.
All work in our forest is mech
anized. Our government built a
railway and tractor stations. We
would like to get from you letters
about your life, work, especially
about mechanization in an Ameri-
can forest.
Send letters to:
-. A. ERJUCHIN,
P. o. Box 20,
"Pravda Severa,"
Archangelsk, U.S.S.R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
By a Worker Correspondent

SOUTH FALLSBURG, N. VI
am young married man. I worked
for the Alpine Hotel in So. Falls
burg in the capacity of chauffeur.
At the salary of $50 for the entire
season starting May IA, 1884, to
Sept. 4, 1884.
7 was forced to do the following
tasks: Wash dishes, scrub floors,
clean sinks, and I washed 400 win
dows. I Gid the following mechan-
ical repairs: Install a new clutch,
bearing, universal and drive shaft,
overhaul truck. I split rocks I'M
der boiling sun for three days, I
painted and did electrical work.
7 was given room in barn in
filthy bed which was overridden
with bed-bugs. I had to sleep on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Shopmen Put to Work
By Chi. N.W.R.R. Are
Laid Off After Few DAYS
BY a Railroad Worker Cor
respondent


CHICAGO, June 6.-The Chicago
and Northwestern Railway some
time ago called a number of shop
men back to work. Among these
were several who had secured other
jobs. They quit these jobs and re-
ported for work. After getting in a
little time they were again laid off
A few were sent to the Illinois
Central to work as coach carpen-
tiers; others were left in the lurch.
Our Northwestern Unity Committee
group of carmen intend to take this
matter up with the grievance COM
mittee of the Garments Union and
insist that the company now help
these workers get jobs. Some of
these men are not members in good
standing, having become delinquent
because of lack of money, but since
the union as the representatives of
the men of that department handles
grievances, we shall insist upon
their taking the matter up.
Many Of these delinquent mem
bers would be willing to pay the
fees to be reinstated in the union
but haven't the money, so we are
also going to make fight to have
them reinstated without any, or for
small payment.
When the men do not make a job
quick enough they are called into
the office and ordered to sign a
statement that they are incom-
petent. The Garments Local 227 has
been opposing this and our Unity
Group must make this an issue and
defeat this attempt on the part Of
the company to weed out old en-
ployees and those who are active
in the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
A CHAUFFEUR'S WORK
IN A SUMMER RESORT

the floor to prevent being chewed
up.
When I refused to do any more
filthy work, and when I said 1 was
hired as chauffeur only, the boss
fired me.
I worked % days, for which he
wanted to pay me $13.O6. When !
tore up the check he had me ar
rested and sentenced to 30 days for
disorderly conduct, due to the po-
litical pull which he controls. A
good samaritan tried in my be-
half and my sentence by Justice
Ben Newberg was suspended. Ac-
cording to the N. R. A. I was to
receive SIS a week, and, according
to the Hotel Mems Association, I
was to receive 500 month. He
has other help which he pays So a
month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
By a Worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
LANCASTER. Pa.-The first is
sue Of the Lancaster Worker" on
May 26 brought an attack by the
bosses through all their agencies,
the newspapers. the radio, and the
A. F. Of L. officials.
Newspaper sellers were instructed
mot to handle the red paper. "
Over the radio the bosses shout.
1.-THE reds are active. What is
happening to our peace-loying
city?"
The Linoleum Cork Co.. which
made a profit Of S3,5O0oOO for
1888 1894, according to its own re-
port, issued a statement to the
workers Just after they had asked a
wage increase, The reds are try
ing to lead you workers into a
strike" And our information is
that the National Guard was being
made ready to handle" the situa-
ton.
The company ignores the work
ers' demands for better conditions,
and hollers, THE reds are doing it"
The A. F. of L. officials, in their
organ, appeal to the small business
men to support only their paper.
They boost the N. R. A. and sug-
gest to the police to investigate
those who are collecting funds for
the Lancaster Worker"
Despite these attacks, however,
the Lancaster Worker" is being
sold on the streets of Lancaster and
in the county. The workers buy
the paper gladly and make inter
esting comments. indicating they
are satisfied with the paper, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14

BY a SharecrOpper Correspondent
DADEVILLE, Ala.-"The damned
niggers' aren't hungry enough to
chop Gotten yet" was the reason
Landlord Tom Wilson and Boss
Henderson. spokesman for the
landlords Of Tsllapoosa County, or
dered all relief to needy troopers
and Negro families stopped until
the cotton chopping season is over,
in June.
Ever since Roosevelt said eyes,
SIR" to the landlords by cutting
off the c. w. A. work relief jobs in
February, there has hardly been
any relief here, just dribbles of it,
if we had the patience to keep
fighting for it.
Weak from lack of food, few
day Iaborers responded to the
bosses call for cotton chopping at
30 to so cents a day, which is sun
to-sun slavery under a scorching
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
POPULARIZE VICTORIES OF
M. w, /. u.
Houston. TeXa

Editor, The Daily Worker:
1 read the Daily Worker every
day Why do you always put sue
cessful struggles of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union on the
back page or stuck away in the
corner Of the paper somewhere?
How do you think these things are
won. by prayer OF something? Put
them in big type. Let those other
workers who think that struggles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Sanitary Conditions in American
Halls

JaiIs
Robert GIVE can tell from
your letter that you have never
been in Jail before. Had you ever
been such guest" of Uncle Sam,
even for a day, you could have
never evolved the idea of getting
arrested for the sake of having
enough leisure to write a novel.
The political prisoners of the
United States are living under one
of the most barbaric prison regimes
in the civilized world. There are
more than 5000 federal and state
prisons, reformatories, warehouses,
farms, chain gangs, county and city
jails. More than one-third of all
prisons were built more than 10
years ago. The space allotted to
the prisoners is insufficient. In a
survey made in 1923. it was found
that II per cent of the inside cells
had less than 1872 cubic feet of air.
space, per man. which means that
each prisoner had less than one
third of the necessary 400 cubic feet
Of air-space which is the minimum
necessary. Forty-three per cent of
the other cells had less than one
half the minimum.
Nearly 20 per cent of the prisons
still use the bucket, instead of the
flush toilet system.
The prisons are frightfully over
crowded. In 1880 the federal pris-
ons had $50 per cent more prison.
ers than their capacity
Healthy prisoners are confined
with the tuberculous, insane, syph-
little, feeble minded, drug addicts
and with sex-perverts.
If you think that you will get the
necessary medical attention in case
of illness, you will be sadly dis
appointed. There is little medical
attention in most iails. Out Of 100
prisons where records were avail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
All Agencies Of Bosses Used to
attack 'LGncGSter Worker"
Workers, HOWeUer, Gladly Buy Paper in the
Streets of City and County

many have made remarks that I'VE
should have had such a paper long
ago. Articles are coming in from
workers in various factories, urging
the editorial committee TO expose
the rotten conditions, and to guide
them to organization. which the
Lancaster Worker" intends TO do.
Workers are urged to send in
their contributions to the 'Lancas-
ter Worker" 4181h Green St.. Ian
caster, as well as articles Of condi-
tons in your shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Letters from Our Readers

can't be won see what this wonder
full organization does. Every small
piece 1 have seen, and I have seen
many, should have been headliners.
Let's see them there, not because
of the glory. but so that the other
workers may learn that struggles
can be and are won almost daily
by an organization that has the
correct line, and by putting this
correct line into, not talk, but
action.
MARINE WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
WELCOME TO A NEW RECRUIT

Chicago, III.
Editor, The Daily Worker:
1t is indeed a pleasure to write in
this letter of acceptance, and let
you know that at last I have become
awakened to the significance of our
Party.
For the last three or four years
I have been nothing but sympa-
thizer of the Party, but now want
to be an active member.
Onward! to the success and hap
piness of all Of our Party.
w, R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1911 is available in sizes
Is, Is, 20, "a, So, SO, 40, AZ and "A.
Size IS takes 81 yards of 36-inch
fabric and rs yards of 5-inch rib
bon. Illustrated step-by-step sew
ing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
NOTE:

We publish letters from farm
ers, agricultural workers, forestry
and lumber workers, and cannery
workers every Thursday. These
workers are urged to send US let
tiers about their conditions of
work, and their struggles to or
ganize. Please get these letters to
us by Monday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Double Hernia.

G. S.-Ycur question cannot be
answered in this column. 1t will be
answered in HEALTH, or, if you
send us your address and postage,
We'll send you a private reply.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14

down so consistently and in all
kinds of weather, to knuckle under
to some probably Nazi sympathiz-
ers. I hope you do something about
this.
The Wanamaker pickets are spec
tacularly effective. When I boarded
the courtesy" bus the other day a
well-dressed, indignant woman on
it was loudly voicing her opinion
And Wanamaker's is supposed to
be SO good to their employees. Why
the N. R. A. expressly grants them
the right to join a union! I never
heard of such a thing! Well, I've
made my last purchase there!"
Many other expressed the same
sentiments, if not so loudly.
The passenger next me was GU
rious-and deaf. So, from Eighth
Street to And, 1 RECALLED her with
the meager knowledge at my COM
mand. She wanted to know about
everything-company unions, Mos
COW gold, were Reds all foreigners?
She SHE'D away from the thought
of another war, but asked me where
she could buy Daily Worker. The
driver and most of the other pas
sengers sat literally bending their
ears, while I expounded.
Another thing, in Central Park
these days there are dozens OF
workers, Negroes, Porto Ricans
Italians and others, landscaping the
park. I think the Daily" could be
sold to good effect here.
Comradely,
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NAN -
0l the Homes
~
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CoADLCTEp BY
HELEN LUKx

necessary season with salt and
pepper, add IA cups grated cheese,
stir, and pour over potatoes. Bake
until brown in moderate oven.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14

Editorial Note. = The strike at
Weinstock Bros, Inc, is being re-
ferred to the Department Store
Section, Office Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
~ Doctor
,lAA>%z.IAaGZG
~QdA,GAe1:
By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD

able, so had part-time physicians
only; in the other 40 which had
full-time physicians, it was found
that the doctors conducted private
practice on the outside. If you want
some more information about our
prisons, read the article How Po-
litical Prisoners Are Treated in the
U. S. A." by Irwin Goodman in the
June issue of the Labor Defender.
Then read the discussion on Rus
sian prisons which appeared in
Mike Colds column on June 7, and
note the contrast.
Siroil-Psoriasis
NJ. C.-Siroil does not cure nor
relieve psoriasis. Any statements to
the contrary are lies. So far, medi-
cine has not found any cure for
this disease. Anybody who has had
experience with psoriasis knows that
the skin improves spontaneously for
certain time, even if no treatment
whatsoever is taken. The improve
ment, however, does not last long.
Quacks take advantage of these
spontaneous periods of improvement
by claiming that their particular
discoveries" have the power of
bringing them about. You failed
to enclose the advertisement mem
toned in your letter.
We take this opportunity to adj
wise our readers that starvation as
a cure for psoriasis is another de-
fusion. A very intelligent comrade
who had been suffering from this
disease for a number of years has
recently gone on twelve day star
walton cure" but his psoriasis did
not disappear.