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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Letters from Our Readers

words, but is exceedingly fearful
of seeing any united front of the
workers organized into mass pro-
test, Communist and Socialist
workers together. They know that
real united front struggles, and not
only struggle in words, would ex-
pose their unwillingness to put up
a real fight against the danger of
fascism.
1t is probable that all of the
members of the Socialist Party that
you have met in Red Bank are
petty bourgeois, small bosses, etc.
But it is not true that all rank
and file members of the S. p. are
of this type. There are many real
proletarians, fellow workers, who
still believe that the leaders of the
S. p. are really working for the
overthrow of capitalism. And it is
our job to win the confidence of
these fellow workers of ours, and
to discrss with them in the most
friendly and sympathetic way, our
common problems of working class
truggie againsa capitalist exploit
alton. 1t is to these Socialist work
ers, of whom there are many, that
we must go with the open hand of
prOletarian cOmradeship for the
organization of United Front Com
mittees and groups for the struggle
against fascism and capitalist ex-
ploitation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Negro Carpenters
Fight A. F. of /.
Discrimination
tBy a Negro Carpenter)

NEW YORK.-With the sharpen
ing of conditions, the officials of the
A. F. of L. can no longer use the
usual demagogy.
Ferdinand Tommins and Charles
Benjamin, Negro carpenters of the
jim Grow Local 1888, were given a
job on the Federal Courthouse I'M
der construction in Foley Square. The
carpenters work on this job is under
the stagger plan for the Negroes and
poor whites that are not in on the
graft. The third day on the job, be-
tween l and 2 p. m, Tommins and
Williams were handed their money
which they refused. At the end of
the day their money was again hand
ed to them. They again refused to
take it, returning to the job on Mon
day, Nov 9th. They called up the
District Council asking that an agent
be Setn to that job the next day, as
it was raining that day. The District
Council said o. K. On Wednesday.
Nov. 8, Business Agent Chas. Olson.
of Local Est came. The men stated
their grievance to him. Whereupor
Olson asked, Who the hell told you
fellows to call up the District Coun-
ciI"? The men told him that's the
privilege of all Brotherhood men,
that's why the address and telephone
number of the District Council is on
every card.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
AN INSTRUCTIVE COMIC SECTION
FOR CHILDREN

ANSSN4OJy Se4A1'
Dear Comrades:
AT our last Unit meeting we had
a lengthy discussion on the merits of
our new Daily and OF added posi-
bilities.
The comrades are all pleased with
the new additions that makes it more
a family paper. Please note that we
are not just waking up to the fact
of our better Daily but have merely
put off writing about it.
We have one suggestion to make
which we believe will make the Daily
the family paper. An instructive
comic section for the children. At
least once a week in the Saturday
issue. The Sunday funnies are widely
read by workers children and we
know of the type of propaganda often
given even in the seemingly harmless
funnies. We could retaliate by
having funnies weekly in the Daily
that would be instructive and also
a story or two of the type that would
appeal to. children.
Comradely yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Farrell, Pa, C.W.A. Workers
No,o Hit by Mass Layofs
TorOn Has Extra Money for Police; Formation of
Large Committees Urged to Fight Hunger

A. promised every worker, 80 hours
a week at so cents per hour.
They had a mass layoff in Sharon
this morning, Jan. 3, on a project
known as the River Gang. The ex-
cuse was high water. Yes, high
water lays off the C. W. A. workers
vim the winter, and low water lays of
the part-time steel workers in sum-
mer
Workers, let's not be fools all the
time by phoney excuses-the next
one will be no water at all. Get to-
gether and organize the workers on
all projects and demand 80 hours a
week of SIS, no lost time on account
Of sickness or bad weather, and not
only a committee Of three, but a
committee of 300, 500 or S,000-for
together We win, divided we starve.
Draw up leaflets and pass them
out to the workers, explaining to
them just what they are confronted
with in the coming future under the
wings of the Blue Eagle and the G.
w. A, c. C. c., A. A. A, R. F. c. and
what not Join the ranks of the
struggling workers in the fight for
social and unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
The Health" Magazines

A number Of correspondents have
asked us to review or criticize the
so-called health" magazines. We
have found 1t unnecessary to do so
because the majority of our readers
are intelligent enough to know that
these periodicals are published solely
for profit and that the solicitude
they show for the peoples health is
nothing but the usual bourgeois
hypocrisy. The publishers and edi-
tors of these fake health publica-
lions are ignoramuses who drifted
into health work. through the back
doors of medicine or by the tortuous
paths of quackery and penny
catching humbuggery.
But in today's mail we received a
copy of Physical Culture" for jan
uary, from an anonymous subscriber,
with the request to peruse the con-
tents and admit that from the first
to the last page, this magazine is
the epitome of scientific wisdom and
philanthropic solicitude for the peo-
pies health"
We hadn't looked at a copy of the
Macfadden sheet for the last eight
years and thought that we might
have look and see the cause of our
correspondents misg''i d enthusiasm.
Sure enough, it's the same old
pseudo-health frightful, filled with
the same physical culture" trash,
nauseating feature" articles and
lying advertisements; except, that it
is much thinner. Readers are get
ting wiser! 1t is no use expatiating
on the scientific value of the con-
tents. 1t will be enough to cite the
titles of some Of the leading articles
What I Think of My Boss Wife,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
70 a FarmeE Correspondentl


YAKIMA, Wash. Il am writing
this article to describe the condition
Of the agricultural workers in the
Yakima Valley, Washington, which
Is one of the largest apple and hop
producing valleys in the .. S.
Hop and orchard laboers work 10
hours per day; 60 hours per week at
wages Of 20 cents per hour. Ware
house workers receive IS cents per
hour and also work 60 hours per week.
The work is seasonal Very few
find employment in the winter
months as the only activity is a little
pruning in the orchards. The aver
age worSer gets about six months en-
ploymaat per Tear.
There is no MIRA. ccde for agricul-
tural or warehouse workers; $500
men are working on C.WA. projects
here: 1900 ere registered for the
worl-.
The big oreha.dlsts and warehouse
owners have succeeded in organizing
the formers into vigilante commit
tees who brutally suppress Efforts of
tho agricultural workers to organize
end s5ruggle for better conditions.
TIE 77i~ilantss have the support Of
TIE AZ enforcement officers, who
hand militant workers over to these
lynch nohs to be taken out and
5eatar
While small farmers in other places
hava zone bankrupt right and left,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Taxed for Buying
Corn or Selling
Pigs in Penna

BEAR LAKE, Pa.-Three years age
I quit my job in New York and came
to live on the farm to improve my
health, which I lost in the World
War. For three years 7 have been
struggling and fighting for a living
working u to Is hours a day.
The conditions around Warren
County are terrible. Ninety per cent
Of the farmers didn't pay their taxes
half of us are walking without I'M
derwear and sox, our clothes is one
patch on top of the other You
can't make enough to pay your taxes
nor buy clothes for your family
While the big shots are smoking good
cigars in the country, if we don't pay
our taxes they come down and sell
our stock and take everything away
Milk is 2l2c a quart; eggs, Ice a
dozen; while in New York they are
paying 15c for milk and 45c for
the eggs.
When We buy corn we pay the tax
and if we sell pigs we got to pay tax
again-S2, on every 100 lbs. I have a
nice calf over 100 lbs. and was Of
fered S3.-about 21ac ID.
Two weeks ago I went to Warren
Court House to the Commissioners tc
tell them that I want my taxes re-
duced, that I amt making enough
to buy shoes for my kids, and they
are nearly starving. There were
three white collar men sitting anc
smoking cigars. One got up and tolc
me that he can't do nothing for me
and wouldn't even speak to me. Hi;
belly was full, so what does he care
for a poor farmer?
On August % went to New York
Went through civil service examina-
tons for an electric welding job
showed them my reference, sever
years experience in the I. r. T. Co
Got a job in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, and after ten minutes a fore,
man came to me and told me tina
I wasn't good enough for the Nav,
Yard and I was discharged That
the way they treat the World Wa,
veterans after I spent % months il
the army during the war.
The Daily Worker is one of thu
best newspapers in the country tina
tells the truth and fights for thu
working class of the people and tn
farmers. And my advice to all tn,
farmers is better the Daily Worke
than listen to those ministers, VIII,
are paid by the capitalist class ant
are starving us while their dogs liv,
better than us slaves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Farmer Tells A.A.A.
Even Quicker Way
to Destroy Things
(By a Farmer Correspondent


SALLISAW, Okla-I wrote the fol-
lowing letter to the editor of the
Oklahoma Farmer Stockman:
Dear Mr.. Roberts,
I received your letter of Dec. 20,
and was little amused at your men
tioning the extremely fair weather
as mwelcome. I can't understand
the philosophy of a prosperity that
demands foul weather for its exist
ence. You refer to our excellent
pastures as a calamity. Why, Mr..
loberts, for years the farm journals
have been telling us how to devise
winter pastures, and now nature
comes along and brings the thing in
great quantity, and you say it is a
calamity. 1t is funny.
But it is all about as sensible as
the entire program of the new deal.
For years we were taught thrift, and
then presto, change, it is destruction.
1t is starvation if we produce, and
it is starvation if we do not produce.
You say, Officials in Washington
are trying to devise every possible
means Of controlling the output of
dairy and poultry products, and if
you have a practical plan to achieve
that end, they will be most happy
indeed to get it,"
Now, Mr.. Roberts, I claim that I
have a very direct, practical plan,
one that will work. Take for instance
dairy products. Let us shoot every
pure bred dairy COW and bull in the
world. 1t is now demonstrated be-
You'd reasonable doubt that we
never needed good dairy COWS no
how. Let us hunt the world over
for hmnpbacked, long horned,
knocked kneed COW that will give a
pint Of blue milk day. She is our
type. She will fit into the new deal
splendidly.
Then we shall turn our attention
to agriculture. We shall destroy every
modern farm machine; we shall build
again the wooden plow.. All, more
blessed still, let us get crooked stick,
and do the thing in grand, primitive
style.
We can work similar wonders In
the line Of transportation and manu-
featuring. Let us destroy every man
ufacturing plant, and return to the
good old days of hand made goods;
let us destroy every railroad, and
build again the stage coach. Let us
destroy every cotton gin, and kill the
first man that tries to build another.
You can see at glance, Mr.. Rob-
erts, that my plan will beat the new
deal all hollow, for I shall go the
direct route, though both routes have
the same end in view.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Mother Of Fiue Kidnapped by
Bosses for Defending Farm
Thrown Into Lunatc Asylum for Daring to Fight
Against Foreclosure With Shotgun

In Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., live a
number of Polish farmers, among
them a family named Strachonow-
ski, a mother with five children
During the summer of 1888, the
mortgages wanted to take the
farm away through a foreclosure
procedure.
Comrade A. Starchansd at
tended the Second Polish Workers
Convention which was held in Chi
cago and asked for help. BY recon-
mendation of the convention, the
Polish Workers Club, Solidarity, of
Milwaukee, sent a member from
its Aid Committee to the Strach-
anoWski farm TO advise them. The
farmer had paid $1,000 on this
farm and could not pay the balance
because Of lack Of funds. The Aid
Committee of the Polish Workers
Club, Solidarity, came to an under
standing with the United Farmers
League which pledged help, so the
land would not be taken away from
the mother and children.
AT D14C bAALlC ASOAllA dNlC COl tClldll-
owski attended the Polish Workers
Convention, all but the home was
burned down to the ground. Last
month, when her sons were cut
ting wood on their farm in order to
be able to heat their little home,
along came a few killers with axes
in hand and threatened them, say
ing they had no right to cut wood
on their own land because one of
the killers had taken out So
called official judgement on this
land.
When the mother noticed the kill
ers, to avoid a tragedy she let 6
shot go from her rifle in order to
scare the killers in this way. Next
day the mother was arrested. The
Aid Committee of Club Solidarity
went to the I. L. D. which recon-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
PARTY LIFE
Task of Units Is to=Keep Ne'O
Recruits As ActiUe Members
Nes0 Recruit Can, Remain in Friends Unit Until
Better acquainted With Party

TOday's letter from a new Party
member, unit secretary in Chi
cagO, deals with the question of re-
cruiting. When this letter was re-
ceived we asked the Section Organ
izer to comment on it, and we are
accordingly publishing the opinion
Of the section.
I will try to state in brief. some
thing would like to very much clari-
fly. Our unit proposed and held an
indoor meeting. Subject: why the
Worker Should Join the Communist
Party" The meeting was held in an
unemployed council hall. For many
weeks We we're unable to recruit any
new members SO we, knowing that
the workers were militant in this
branch hall, decided to hold the
meeting and recruit the most ad-
yanced members.
Here's what we did We obtained
good speaker from the Communist
Party from the Workers School. The
meeting was attended by about $50.
AT the close Of the meeting a plea
was was made for members to join
cur unit, as this meeting was held
under our auspices. But few units
were present, and from the nine
members who signed up, our Unit,
No. 116, got three. Below is a sum-
mary Of our opinion.
I've, Unit No. 116, held this
meeting and all recruits, no matter
where they were assigned should be
credited to Unit lie. We contend
that our unit should get the credit
for having gotten the new members.
2AThat the other members that
were present had no right to sign up
new members at our affair without
first cooperating with us.
3-We contend that only section or
higher bodies have the authority to
come into meetings and do this, and
even then we are of the opinion that
since 1t was our meeting we should
have gotten the credit for having re-
cruited the new members.
Below is the opinion of the COM
rades who partook freely of our affair.
They contend that they have been
active in the council more than our
unit. They have been concentrating
on the members they took for several
weeks and. therefore, they are theirs
anyway. They also state that it was
not our unit alone but the whole
c. P. that gradually prepared these
members. Also some of them con-
tend that 1t is socialist competition.
We are busy carrying out the pro-
gram listed below in accordance with
the open letter.
M. n. p, Chicago.
The Opinion Of the Section
This mass meeting organized by
Unit lis on the "Role Of the Party
and recruiting should have been or
ganized better. The unit should have
had discussion and assigned COM
rades to take care Of applicants. If
this we're done in this case, there
would not have been any confusion.
2@The comrades Of Unit 116 con-
tend that Party members Of other
units that we're present at the mass
meeting had no right to pass applica-
lions to workers in the hall.
Party members have the right to
recruit workers at mass meetings. OF
course 1t should be organized properly
so that there wouldn't be any mis-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Dadeville Negro
Farmers Suffer
Sharper Attacks

BY a Negro Farmer Correspondent
IDADEVILLE, Ala want to say in
regard to the R. F. c. jobs, that they
are giving most of the work to the
white workers and the Negroes can't
get thing to do. Also, the boss
won't furnish these Negro farmers
anything. They keep telling them
that they are comrades" (members
Of the Sharecroppers Union) and they
don't give damn if they die.
Oh, they are tough here! When
the men go to register for work, they
give them just a little ship of paper
and tell them to come back later
on. They told them to come back
Dec. 6 and Dec. 81 and now Jan. g..
And here they said they would have
everyone to work by Christmas. We
have no groceries in the home, and
now we have got to organize.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
~ Doctor
LuAisaQe'a
01Ui4ea:

by private secretary: 'Divorce-My
Big Mistake" Anonymous; II NAY
ried Younger Man." Anonymous;
What Mary Pickford Taught Me
About Charm Are You Jealous"
by THE Voice of Experience; Why
Do We Die in Winter" etc.
These articles together with the
section" "'The Body Beautiful" ex-
hibiting semi-nude girls and Young
Shadows Own Story" with 10 naked
male torsos, compromise the bulk Of
the magazines reading" matter and
any of, our readers will readily tell
whether the object of the magazine
is to teach scientific facts or to in
crease the circulation regardless.
The, real character of the publi-
cation, however, like that Of 50
many other dope-sheets calculated
to separate the boobS from their
money, can be seen in the ADVERTISE
ments. 1t is there that the meaty-
mouthed editorials meet the most
glaring contributions and the hypo-
critical protetsations for the peoples
welfare receive Jnelr QeaJn dow.
First comes full-page ad Of Mr..
Macfadden's numerous books. My,
what medical authority this former
would-be understudy to a fifth-rate
pug has become! There is, for in
stance, his book on tuberculosis,
where he holds out "a substantial
hope Ito all sufferers of the dread
disease. for 81, if There Is al
ways an Tiff the patient is suffi-
GENTLY confident and persistent.
This means that he must persist in
doing what Macfadden (who never
studied nledicine) tells him, until he
croaks;s otherwise he has not tried
enough!
(TO BE CONTINUED
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
SOCIALIST LEADERS OF MON
MOUTH COUNTY REJECT
UNITED FRONT

The Comrades of Long Branch and
the surrounding territory were try
ing for long time to get the Social
list Party to unite on one burning
!ssue-which is Fascism. At last we
managed to make an appointment
with the organizer Of Monmouth
County, New Jersey, of the Socialist
Party. Needless to mention, he lives
in big, beautiful home, and in the
course Of our conversation he told
us that he ought to get credit for
(saying) wanting to change this sys-
tem-for he had something to lose.
Also one comrade asked him why
the local Socialist Party did not par
ticipate in the strike at the Eisner's
factory which is located at Red
Bank, N. ]. The strike was conducted
by the Amalgamated, with the help
of well paid state organizer from
the S. P.
CAS- small employer cannot
interest myself in local affairs
Now to this last piece of idiocy.
We told hin1-"We are against Fa-
scism and you claim you are also
how about uniting on this one issue?
Let us hold big protest meetings, get
all elements together, ETC., ETC."
He answered very calmly. mo we
do not do it this way. Here is how
we do it"-and he showed us pic
lures that he snaps occasionally of
the local organization of the Brown
Shirts. He also takes the plate num-
oers of their cars and is watchfully
waiting to see what they will do.
His reason is that the Socialist
Party does not want to give them
publicity.
If I am in place In this letter,
would like to mention that it ought
to be clear to our comrades that it
is waste of time to approach the
leaders from the S. P for a united
front. 1t is much better if we ap-
proach a sincere person in the S. P
one who holds no Office. One may
ask me why do not say worker
well, SO far have met a number OF
OONldi1oto- llOG OIlG NOIhSI. 1llGy
are all store keepers, petty bosses
etc. If worker, especially a Negro
worker, would want to join them, they
would consider themselves disgraced
for their meetings in Red Bank are
in the home of a doctor.
The S. P. organizers name is Mr.
Levine. If this letter will be pub
lished-please omit my name.
EDITORS NOTE: The incident
which you relate about your ex-
perience with the official of the
S. P. local regarding a real united
front struggle against Fascism
confirms what the Daily Worker
has been saying for a long time,
that the officialdom of the Social
list Party is opposed to fascism in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
rBy a Worker Correspondent

FARRELL, Pa.-There were $50
men laid off on one project in Far
rel one day this week, and the bosses
excuse was there was no work for
them to do. The workers elected a
committee OF three to go to the Of
flee of the c. w. A. official but by
our not having a comrade in this
group to instruct the workers they
all left before the committee re-
turned, 50 I have no official report
of the committee.
The bosses say that the C. w. A.
will eliminate all unemployment
problems. Yes, it will; just as the
strike breaking, slave driving, wage
cutting N. R. A. has done for the
workers throughout the entire capt.
talist country.
am one Of the c. w. A. workers
who is threatened with lay-off at
any time. This will, n odoubt, turn
out to be another stagger plan OF
work.
The bosses have money to increase
the police force in Farrell. but nc
Jobs for the workers, which the c. w