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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
w H ATS ON

O., 14o1 jerome Ave. at roth st., $50 ..
m. Adm. 10c =
MASS MEETING Of house workers
called by Domestic Workers Union at 41S
Lenox Ave. corner 131st st., $50 D. m.
speakers; Anna Damon, Frances Ellis,
Esther Lacey.
EDITH BERKMAN Br. LID. holds open
meeting at Boro Park Workers Club, 47o4
18th Ave, Brooklyn, $50 pm.
Friday
MURRAY BLYNN lectures on Religion
and the Working Glass" at fremont Prog.
Club, 866 z. fremont Ave, a:45 pm.
SENDER GARLIN. Of the Daily Worker
Stan, speaks on THE Press-In the q.
s.A. and U.56.R." at the Prospect Park
Branch of the Friends Of the Soviet
Union, 1911 Bergen st., near Nostrand
Ave. Brooklyn, Friday, at $50
ANTIRELIG1OUS Meeting arranged by
Ella May Br. LID, Womens Council 10
and Unemployed Council at 400 18th
Ave. Brooklyn. Good speakers and en-
tertainment. Adm. 1oc.
WORKERS Laboratory Theatre Night at
Hinsdale Workers Youth Club, S72 suffer
Ave, Brooklyn, pm. Showing such plays
as La Guardia's Got the Baloney," ''The
Miser," etc
GENERAL FRACTION Meeting of the
once workers Union at the Workers
Center, IS q. 18th st. Room 2o4, pm.
All Party and Lesgus comrades must at
tend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
By HENRY SHEPARD

In our appeal to the Negro masses
we must show that the ruling class
is responsible for the division ex-
ing between the white and the
Negro masses, and not the white
workers. We must show how the
division has tended to lower the
living standards of both Negro and
white toilers, and that only through
unity will the Negro or the white
worker be able to raise his living
standards. And above all we must
teach the white members of the
revolutionary unions and other
mass organizations under our in
fluence to champion the cause of
the Negro, to fight against all forms
of discrimination used against them
in the shop. Also to fight un-
hesitatingly and boldly against all
social forms of discrimination. This
will be the Surest way of breaking
down white chauvinism and weld
ing together the ranks of the Negro
and white masses.
The Negro reformist leaders con-
stantly point out to the Negro
workers that there cannot be any
unity between the white and the
black" that this lis white mans
country" that 'the hope of the Ne
gro is race loyalty Because of past
experience these bourgeois slogans
have quite bit of weight among
the Negro masses. Why? It is be-
cause the bourgeoisie have been able
to use the white workers against
the Negro.
To break down the distrust the
Negro masses have against the white
toilers, we Communists must mo-
Billie the masses Of white toilers to
break down this distrust by actively
fighting in defense of the Negro op-
pressed masses.
Can this be done7 Yesi Thou
sands Of white workers have taken
part in the struggle to save the
Scottsboro boys. Several thousands
OF white and Negro workers have
fought side by side in unemployed
actionsl Negro and white workers
have fought side by side on the
picket line.
But we have not done very much
toward educating the white non
party masses to react quickly on
the question at discrimination which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

negotiations between the leaders of
the I, L. G. w. U. and the bosses
association, and their plans for SELL
ing out the strike, stiffening the re-
sistance Of the strikers. The Needle
Trades Industrial Union forced the
bosses to give substantial wage in
creases to the workers. Thousands
of Negro workers actively partici-
pated in this strike. fighting in the
front ranks on the picket line. How
ever, the Needle Trades Union car
ried on very little work among these
workers, with the result that thou
sands of them were recruited into
the A. F. of L., where they are sub
jected to the same discrimination as
before the strike.
Until very recently the Left Wing
group had paid no attention to the
grievances of the Negro workers.
only lately have they started some
work. Negro workers are being drawn
into the Left Wing groups. The Left
Wing workers are beginning to take
up the struggle against discrimina-
ton of Negro workers in the shop
and by the A. F. of L. officials.
The Furniture Workers Industrial
Union has led several successful
strikes in New York City and re-
cruited many new members into the
Union, but has failed to make any
real effort to reach the Negroes
working in the trade.
In July 100 Negro furniture work.
ers staged walkout in Brooklyn in
a shop employing about $50 workers.
These workers sent delegation of
rs to New York to get an organizer.
Some comrades happened to meet
the delegation and sent them to the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union,
and an organizer of the union met
with them and promised to see them
the next morning in front of the
struck plant at 7;30 am. to arrange
a picket line, etc. (these workers had
never been members of any union
before. The organizer did not show
up until 10 am. A meeting was held
at which all present signed applica-
tons to join the union.
The next day, on the basis Of the
discussion, the union organizer was
supposed to draw up a union con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Oil Workers Standards
Far Below That of 1929

( tional union do something abut get
ting the code provisions enforced.
are Immediately squelched by be
ing termed radicals or "Commu-
nists.'
Wildcat Just throws that word
Communist around whenever we
ask that the union DO something,
one red-faced, leathery- skinned oil
worker said to me What the hell
have we got union for anyway"
Suppose the union doesn't do
anything?"
Then we'll do something" he
said grimly. I'm getting tired Of
Wildcat pulling the patriotism bunk
on us-and so are a lot Of other oil
workers. Hell, Wildcat never even
organized us. We organized our
selves and asked them to charter
US All they're doing is collecting
dues and telling us to be patient
IF they're not doing anything
isn't there some other oil workers
union that wants to do something's"
Yes, there's a fighting bunch Of
Communists in Seminole. but
don't want to hook UP with them.
I hear they want to overthrow the
government"
You we're ready to start some
thing yourself before federal aid
came, weren't you2 You were
among those who did lot Of talk
ing about Selling food warehouses"
Yeah, but that wasn't over
throwing the government. That was
just getting something to eat when
the government wouldn't do
nothing for US"
None Of the workers with whom
I talked knew that Wildcats I'M
employed council had been engi-
neered by leading citizens" Those
to whom I mentioned 1t turned
apoplectic, swearing not luridly but
certainly effectively.
IF the boys in the field knew
that, all his pistol practice wouldn't
help him a damn bit" one said
fmiously
THE American Federation Of Labor
tells the workers in the fields, in
the refineries and in those indus
tries under codes that their COM
plants will be taken UP BY the
N.R,A. Compliance Boards. In the
sparsely settled areas the boards are
either not functioning or are too
far removed from the scene Of com
plant and workers cannot reach
them; added to this is the fear by
many that their signed complaints
land they must be signed means
loss Of jobs, and this they dare not
risk.
In Tulsa proper the compliance
board is acceptable TO labor" in
the opinion of A. F. Of L. officials,
but far from being acceptable to
those workers with whom talked.
The compliance board, despite two
Tabor representatives" is a pup
pet in the hands of the oil COM
panies. II has accomplished prse-
ticslly nothing for the workers
except TO lose" their complaints,
ITO he continued.l
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Bill. Whats a guy to do if he
don't get no price for his stuff?
We don't get nothing now but the
dad-blame dirty end of the stick.
Time was when you could take a
poke Of corn to the mill and get
more meal than you could tote back,
I amt no old man to remember a
lot, but I know the time when we
got sack full Of meal and a bushel
over What do you get now, by
god? You take the same poke of
corn and they don't give you no
sack full. You can get a half
bushel in the poke now, and living
amt cheaper by a damnsite. I tell
you it amt me what will pay no
such tax iffen I put me by a crop
Of wheat. Ill take my gun down
and fight first. You see, by god iffen
they tax me the clothes often my
back"
That's a fact" says Dan. His
thin face split by smile, and a
sudden flash to his eyes; q flash
as suddenly gone. "All Mr.. Jameson
has got he made often our sweat.
He couldn't make a damn cent iffen
us poor folks didn't do the work
for him. I bet you when hit comes
to laying off a piece of land, he
amt got a frazzlin' bit more sense
in his head than we got. There's
plenty of money in the world. The
money is still there but them rich
folks won't turn none Of hit a-loose
You know they got the money same
as always, lessen they done had a
bonfire of hit. Much as they love
money they amt done that"
They oughta take the money
from then1,' says Bill Every day
I see them go down the road a.
honky-honking for us poor folks to
git in the ditch and eat their dust.
l ct a mind to slam a rock through
their damn windshield. They don't
have to pay no taxes nor nothing
'cept ride in they damn big cars
over the road We built. I hope to
chrise they git down and out and
I git me one of them to work on
the road alongside me. I'll make
him shovel sand till his eyes pop
out. Git along you pot-gut,' I'll
tell him. You done had it soft in
your day, but I be damned if you
don't hump it from now on Iffen
had the guy what drives that red
Buick, with his little chauffuneir,
and his honky-honk, I'd make him
sweat blood. just give him to me
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Pre-COnventiOn Discussion

Is rampant in every shop, factory,
mill or mine.
In all our propaganda and agita-
ton we must arouse the hatred and
indignation of the white masses
against the ruling class, that has
divided the ranks of the working
class into white camp and black
camp. Our educational work must
be carried on in such a way that
the white worker will realize that
blow struck against the living
standard of the Negro worker is
blow at the living standard Of the
white workers.
Our main approach to the Negro
masses must be made in the shop,
mine, ETC., in struggle against all
forms of discrimination. The Com
munists must organize and lead
these struggles, making sure to in
volve the Communist white
workers.
To approach the task Of winning
the Negro workers to the class
struggle by such concrete methods
of work will quickly break down the
suspicion and distrust that has been
Systematically built up by the bour-
geoisie. This approach to the ques-
ton of work among the Negro toilers
will quickly build the fighting unity
of Negro and white workers.
I have raised the general ques-
tons facing us in our trade union
work on the Negro field. Now I
shall raise some concrete questions.
$1,000 workers in New York City
were on strike under our leadership
in the recent period: needle work
ers, metal workers, food workers,
shoe workers, furniture workers,
tobacco workers, laundry workers,
alteration painters. In none of
these strikes did we make any sub
stantial gains among the Negro
masses.
In July, 10000 needle workers
went on strike, 10000 under the
leadership of the I, L, G. w. U. and
10000 under the leadership of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union. The left wing played an i'm
portant role in this strike, keeping
the workers informed as to secret
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Trade Union Work Among the Negro Masses

tract to present to the employer.
The organizer failed to show up
When the question was raised as
to why this organizer failed to show
up, he stated that he had to at
tend another shop meeting in a
different part of the city" The
shop he referred to employed three
workers.
After months of agitation and
propaganda among the Negro long
shoremen in the Red Hook section
Of Brooklyn, we succeeded in get
ting some response. A meeting was
arranged to take place for the pur-
pose of working out a program of
action between these Negro long
shoremen (members of the A. F. of
L. and our comrades doing long
shore work. The date was set for
the meeting but our comrades did
not show up for the meeting.
Eighty per cent of the workers in
the laundry industry in New York
are Negroes Just before the Extra
ordinary Party Conference the
Laundry Workers Industrial Union
had membership of about 1000
members. about 40 per cent Negro.
A mass strike was being planned by
the union. With the usual under
estimation Of the special problems
Of the Negro workers, no special de-
mands were raised for the Negroes
in the industry. This was called
sharply to the attention of the lead
ership. The comrades insisted that
there could be no question of spe-
cial demands as the majority of
the workers we're Negro" and that
the demands drawn up would be
the demands Of the Negro as we'll
as the rest of the workers" Upon
investigation, We found that the Ne
gro workers were very badly dis
eliminated against, Negroes were
not employed as drivers, the higher
paid inside Jobs were not given to
Negro workers. The Negro women
were addressed by the employers
and foremen in the most insulting
terms. After these things were
pointed out to the comrades, they
raised the negative demand of mo
discrimination" in a leaflet, but
failed to raise the demand of "the
right Of the Negro to any job in
the industry" Some comrades went
so far as to say, I'VE could not
raise such a demand" that to raise
such demand would not be UNI
derstood by the white workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Film & Photo League
in Experimental Film
Program on Saturday

NEW YORK. - The Film aid
Photo Leaue will present the first
of a new series Of film productions
by independent amateurs and ex-
perimenters at the New School for
Social Research, Saturday, Mar. 81.
There will be two shoWings. one
at 7 pm. and another at $50
pm.
The films include ]. B. Watson's
THE Fall of the House of Usher;
Man Rays "LEtoile De Mer":
Ralph Steiner's "H2O"; Ivor Mon
tague's Day Dreams; newsreels
of street battles in Vienna and
Paris, and the Film and Photo
Leagues production, America To-
day"
Tickets are available at the Film
and Photo League, II East nth
St; New Masses, 81 E. 27th ST;
Workers Bookshop, so E. 18th St,
and at New Theatre, E. 18th
st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
New Soviet Films
in Chicago Soon

CHICAGO. - The new Soviet
films, THE Island of Doom" and
The Polish Terror" will be shown
at the Peoples Auditorium, PAST
West Chicago Ave, Friday and
Saturday. March 80 and 81, at 7
and 8 pm. These performances
are sponsored by the I. W. O.,
Chicago District, and the Ukrain-
ian Labor Home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
REPORT FROM THE HILLSOi

young. Hit amt no manner Of
trouble"
L can't be troubled with what
hit picks up" says Dams wife. L
don't f1gger hit is no worse 'un the
brat 'ul pick up when he is growed. -
"They's a heap worse things he
might git holt Of" says Bill. 7
hope to chrtse he don't never sell
no shoes like they has got now in
the stores. Be damned if they got
a frazzlin' bit Of leather in them.
I done most wore out a pair Already
since spring"
Il hear they is a-going to tax
thirty-fve cents for bushel of
wheat now them new fellers is in
government" says Uncle Oscar.
Like living hell they are!" says
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Chicago Workers
Theatre to Show
''FOrtune Heights"

CHICAGO.-The Chicago Work
ers' Theatre will present John Dos
Passes new play Fortune Heights"
at the Women's Club Theatre, 81
E. 18th St., Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, March 80, 81 and April
1, with a matinee performance on
Saturday, March 81, 2:30 p. m.
Fortune Heights" which portrsys
the life and struggles of bour-
geois American family during the
crisis, is directed by Harold M.
Mann.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Collect $32 for German
C.P. at Birthday Party

NEW YORK.-A group Of mill
merry workers were present at the
birthday party of the -year-old
son Of Morris Eitzer. A suggestion
was made that the party be oele-
brated with a contribution to the
German Communist Party. A col
lection was Immediately started,
and $32 was raised.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
TUNING IN
ToNIGHT's PROGRAM
WABC-86O Kc.

WABC-860 Kc.
700 P. M.-Mary Small, Songs
7:15-Billy Batchelor-Sketch
7;so-Shirley Howard, Songs; testers Trio
T;4S-The Goldbergs-sketch
5:00-Vallee Orch; 5oloists
s:00-Captain Henry Show Boat Concert
to:o0-Whiteman Orch: AL Jolson, Songs
1l:o0-Viola Philo, Soprano
11:16-News Reports
li:2o-Cyril Pitts. Tenor
l1:30-Meeting Of the Washington ID c.
Division Of Young Democratic Clubs of
America, Willard Hotel; Cubs's Rels-
tions to the United Ststes-Assistant
Secretary of State Summer welles
l2:O0-Lunceford Orch
12:30 A. M.-Scotti Orch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
DEAR CoMRADE GOLD:
By MICHAEL GOLD


u Why go Beach? to
my family than
opera theatre fine clothes
best; I'll until else does
andh fights for Comradey
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WOR-(lO NC.
roo p. M.-Sports Resume
7:15-Comedy, Music
T:30-Lone Ranger-Sketch
s:00-Little Symphony Orch; Philip
James, Conductor; Dorothy Kendrick,
Piano
e:00-Variety Musicale
9;l5-Dramatized News
s.30-Success-Harry Balkin
s:45-The witch's Tale
io:15-Current Events-Hsrian Eugene
Read
l0:S0-The Jolly Russians
l1:00-Moonbesms Trio
i1:30-Dancs Music
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Ambridge, Pa.
BEAR coMRADE GOLD:


BEAR ooMuRADE GOLD: Ambridge Pa.
greetings revolutionary leaders throughout
suffering prisons
camps heritage
leaders of the latest victims the bloody
Fassts: schoenho knew him did He
little this miserable slow patch this steel town.
talked his child and his wife and their comrades in Ger
many and how they spend endless hours on 1000 INES wait LOT Jew
potatoes said how quick learn
workers We all sit all day at machines
search for place to DO SO and we all speak the same language
my what he said
asked him how could be happy in the midst Of such hard and
dihicult life.
Party" when you
the the International
means your daily tasks getting day day demands
filled spreading
goaCommunism through the dictatorship the
proetaat It is pleasure to be alive to tell the workers about the
Soviet Union You laugh the face of death when know
steps forward to Communism"
Canada your
reprinted Daily
hounds think finished they Eugene
schoenhour. only territory
After
on-kng ktchenpcng up tracks
grocery working (ny
I meetings
Is only one other worker Will always speak OF our immediate de-
fight for them Communism
will get together and will send dollar help the
victims of German fascism.
Let add line remind every working
heading toward this fascist
Ambrdge fall the capitalists proud
put in the together for the aid victims
German ascsm Every time than two get together talk about
what we do We send 10 cents We send Is cents We
send COLLAR hope Mike Gold
in your column to say:
Let this be greeting fellow workers. prisoners
token Eugene
PJ
WRITES Dan Chicago
At the insisence of Kelly up
honest Kelyorner Rosenberg graes
censorship
recent Moe Rosenberg revelations
is really afraid of actvtiesq not
Aren't the workers the padP
full dinner walking stockyards happy
paid teachers of Chicago on the
South Side where the spring streaming through lovely
cracks in the plaster walls
And last that here
would be opened with singing starspangled
Mr. Kelly and the city politicians they want
But maybe the workers change their mind yes9
THE Daily recently reported that:
Probation Officer Charles Woods court in
vestgated conditions the
Department of Health.
The shack community be torn
down., he
Woods said the makesht huts with
out ventilation He said the locality
vermin. The colony is Grand creek
1t would be fine thing for Maspeth Mag
rae Thomas Doyle if the city demolished
men would seek better living quarters elsewhere"
And Jack Stone comments Magistrate
Doyle the ARE seek living quarters elsewhere!
Your present domce will workers family in
the cooperative state.
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200 P. M.-Myrt and Marse
7:lS-Just Plain Bill-sketch
7;3o-Serenaders Orch.
7;45-News-Boake Carter
S:0o-Rafles-Sketch
s;30-Concert orch: Alexander GRAY.
Baritone; Mary Eastman, Soprano:
Josef Lhevinne, Piano
e:00-Emery Deutsch, Violin
s:l5-To Be Announced
9:So-Waring Orch.
lo;oo-Gray Orch; Stoopnagle and Budd,
Comedians; Connie Boswell, Songs
l0;3O-Evan Evans, Baritone; Concert
Orch.
1l:00-Vera Van Songs
11:15-News Reports
ll;zo-An Appeal to Employers-Senator
Gerald P. Nye Of North Dakota
l1;s0-Naval and Marine Corps Reserve
program; Speakers, Rear Admiral W
T, Cluverius, From Chicago and others
12;00-Nelson Orch.
1880 A. M.-Davis Orch.
1;O0-Messner Orch.
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1900 P. M.-Amos n Andy
7:l5-Rolfe Orch.
7;30-Sagerquist orch; Don Ameche and
Sally Ward In Dramatic Sketch
S;oo-Cape Diamond Lights-Sketch
8;30-Adventures in Health-Dr. Herman
Bundesen
s;45-Robert Simmons, Tenor: Bears
Orch.
9;o0-Death Valley Days
e;30-Duchin Orch.
l0:00-Canadian Program
l0;3o-America Must Choose-WilIard
Thorpe, Chief, Bureau Of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce; Lionel Edie, Sec
rotary, Committee for America Self
Contained
1l.O0-Cavslisrs Quartet
1l;i5-News Reports
il:S0-Anthony Frome. Tenor
ii:45-Msdriguera Orch.
i2.oo-Olsen Orch.
1880 A, M.-Dance Orch.
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DEAR coMRADE GOLD.


comradeSP This something your the
Daily Worker in general discuss.
recently spoke on plays movies to branch
OF some 60 odd members all quite only
looked the Soviet them Only two had gone
to the trouble of seeing Peace Earth
tickets at the Civic Reperoy this landmark in the his
tory OF working class culture bought for less than
many movies cost Now listen this so admitted
that they fairly regularly and spent money
on other forms of bourgeois entertainment give no
logical answer Just plain lag.
understand play is diving because the
workers are not supporting 1t the
narrowing ana dgracefu Comrades complain
prices are too high; and others
customary upper-cass attitude This them
from 1ang 10 support Peace on Earth working play there
ever put by working tremendous promise
Tor the entire revolutionary at least an
other three months Instead III and many of
the comrades who should be giving support spending their
money on reta Carlo stupid Katherine Hepburn Sally Rand the
ian cancer EARNEST COPELAND.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-11
CLOVER TOWNSHIP

Mrs. F.. Sacre had dinner with Mrs.
Flora DeMoss Saturday.
Lem Irons, who has been seriously
i'll, is much improved.
Miss Hildur Westlund returned to
her school at Rhinelander, Wis.,, Fri
day.
The bunk shack at the Ecklund
camp burned last week and the Eek
lunds and also the Werner Nelson
family lost considerable bedding and
clothing. They were fortunate to
save the other buildings.
Miss Edna Schauer's school is
closed this week on account of illness
of some of the students.
Raymond and Lawrence Irons went
to St. Charles to spend a few days
with relatives. Miss Esther Irons is
staying with Mrs. Ray Irons and Miss
Marie Alderman is staying with
Mrs. Lawrence Irons during the mems
absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Stewart and Mr..
and Mrs. Werner Nelson spent Tues
day night at the Geo. Brown home.
Mr.. and Mrs. IgnatZ Punk and Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Sacre spent Sunday
afternoon at the Ed Westlund home.
Irwin Ecklund of Chicago, drove
here with seven pianos last Saturday.
Miss Edna Schauer purchased one of
them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Irons visited at
the Clyde Holmes home Sunday night.
Mrs. Fred Brown and daughter,
Peggy, visited at the ]. Stewart home
last Thursday afternoon.