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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
By a Worker Correspondent

MEADVILLE, Pa. - Three COM
rades came down from Erie to
see if we could have an indoor
mass meeting for Patrick Everett
Cush, the Communist candidate for
Governor, so he could speak to the
workers. The three comrades first
tried TO rent a hall, they went to
see the Mayor about getting a per-
NIT to bold q mass meeting. The
Meadville Mayor Is a bsnker-lawyer-
mayor and he keeps his office in
the Crawford County Trust Build
ing The Mayor wasn't there but
Chief of Police Hays was in the
City Hall. The comrades asked the
Chief about getting a permit to
hold mass meeting on Sunday.
The Chief didn't tell them they
couldn't get a permit but told them
they would have to see Mayor
Kebart about it. They then went
to see the Mayor in his office at
the bank. He wasn't in and the
clerks did not know when he would
be in. The comrades decided to go
ahead and make arrangements for
the meeting. They figured If we
couldn't hold the meeting indoors
we could hold it outside. We
worked hard, distributing about
1900 circulars telling when the
meeting was to be held and went
ahead and rented the Ben Hur Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
IN THE HON E
A California Candidate
BY ELEM KE

Mrs. Violet Orr, 30, Communist
candidate in California for Assem-
IS big from the 10th district. was
the eldest of six children: father
was civil engineer and mathe-
mates instructor; mother a music
teacher. Always a great struggle
TO provide food, clothing, educa-
ton for children.
AS a child, Violet lived in San
Francisco, Brooklyn, Chicago,
Waterloo, also on an isolated Or
egon ranch in sage-brush territory.
Worked way through college as
waitress or secretary; won A. B.
from Stamford U. and M. A. from
Columbia. Married Paul Orr dur
ing attendance at Columbia; active
In Socialist activities in New York
City.
Went to Russia in 1928 to see
what was really being done there;
lived and travelled in U.SS.R. for
two years, visiting schools, prisons,
clubs, factories, collective farms:
learned the language; was con-
WINGED by experience that Comnnu-
r1ism offers the only path to bet
ter life for those who work.
r. On return to States spoke at
meetings in schools, clubs, churches.
worked in F. S. o., in which hus-
band, Paul Orr, was leading func-
tionary. In 1881 she led a group of
tourists on on Open Road Tour
through the Soviet Union. On re-
turn become organizer for F. S. U.
in East Bay, Cal, and also for
G. p; taught in Oakland and San
Francisco Workers Schools.
Has participated in open air
meetings in Richmond. Standard
Oil controlled town; is popular
among the workers of Standard Oil,
to whom she has long distributed
leaflets. (These two activities tenn
porarily suspended because of Or
dinances and hoodlum terror
Organized demonstrations of c.
W A. workers when G. W. A.
jobs were stopped who went to
County Supervisors with demand
for F. E. R. A. jobs. At her former
home on Santa Fe Avenue was at
tackled by hoodlums; groups of
''vigi1antes" up to Is in number of
members, returned several time to
her home; and 5000 worth of per-
sonal property was looted during
recent terror following General
Strike.
In 1888 Violet ran for City Coun-
Gil, polling 2s3 votes; for H. S.
Trustee in 1884, receiving 400; her
husband, PauS, as candidate for
Supervisor, had 1865 the increase
being a protest against the terror.
. paul Orr now organizer for United
Farmers League.)
Violet's neutrality-suspicious.
Nathaniel Balcomb, fought with the
Connecticut Volunteers in Ameri-
can Revolution; through her mother
she is related to Daniel Webster.
CHence her comment. My ances-
tors go back to the first American
Revolution, ] go forward to the
second.''l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Banker Threatens
To Call Out Forces
To Smash Meeting

Sunday when the comrades came
down from Erie they thought 1t
best to see the landlady that owned
the hall and tell her everything
was all right, to go ahead with the
meeting. The landlady was scared
to death. She said Chief of Police
Hays had been there and said not
to rent the hall to us under any
circumstances. The comrades de-
eioed to see the Chief and then he
passed it off by saying you could
not get a permit to hold a mass
meeting on Sunday, but advised the
comrades to see Mayor Kebart
about getting a permit. The banker
lawyer mayor didn't beat around
the bush but told the comrades
that they came down from Erie to
make trouble and if we held the
meeting either indoors or outdoors
he would call out his forces and
smash the meeting.
A Party candidate on the ballot in
the November election denied the
right to speak! Where Is our free
dom of speech? II is free only
when you want to use it for the
privileged few candidates. When
an honest to goodness candidate of
the workers and farmers is brought
forward by the Communist Party
the veil is pulled off our supposed
democracy and you see the real
rulers, the capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
International ChiIdren's Week

What does the word "interna-
tionap' mean to you? 1t can be just
a big, high-sounding word, and
that's all-or it can have a very
great deal of meaning.
The dictionary says that "inter-
national means affecting all ma
tons" Now here's guess for you.
What is one thing which affects all
nations? The danger of war. The
workers in every country have the
same enemy-the rich owners who
make war for their own profits. To-
day, it is particularly important
that We strengthen our feeling of
brotherhood with the workers in
other countries. Then we can fight
better against war. When the bosses
want to make another war they will
tell us to hate other nationalities
and say to our big brothers and
fathers, Kill Kill the enemy, they
are savages and beasts" We will
answer. we do not believe in
hatred of nationalities We hate
only the ruling classes, the cap
italists in every land. They are the
true beasts and savages, We know
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Union Leaders Silent
As Piece Rates Slash
Miners Pay ia Half
Ry a WORKER Corresponden4

BY a Worker Correspondent
SAGINAW, Mich.-The miners
here belong to the United Mine
Workers of America union. All that
the heads of the union worry about
is the union dues. The miners call
themselves union miners but they
do not work under union rules as
the contract says. The miners are
supposed to make $6.2S a day, but
the piece work is rated 50 low, they
only make about SITS day. The
company publisher in the news
papers that since the miners wages
are so high they had to raise the
coal $100 ton. We miners should
all attend the union meetings and
demand the company live up to the
rules of the contract. Since we pay
our union dues we should get work
as union miners.
If we all demand that the COM
pany live up to the contract I am
sure we'll gain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06

which keeps workers from becom-
ing members of our Party. First
we must agree on one basic ques-
ton. The comrade who recruits a
new member, must be responsible
to the Party not only for the re-
liability of the applicant, but must
also see that this worker gets into
the Unit. We suggest the following
procedure:
Comrade John, a Party member,
recruits Bill after a thorough ac>
quaintanceship. He brings the in-
itiation fee and application card,
endorsed by him, to his Unit
meeting. The Unit, on the basis Of
the statement and endorsement of
their well known member John, IF
the members don't know BID
accepts the new member. John i'm.
mediately invites Bill to the next
Unit meeting, and sees to it that
Bill attends every meeting from
that day on. In this way when
the membership book comes to the
Unit where John and Bill attend,
it will reach the applicant.
Some one might raise the objec-
ton that perhaps the higher Com
mittee may not accept the new
member. What could be the reason
for rejecting the application? There
could be many: 1. Bill had al
ready been in the Party but was
dropped expelled-for one reason
or another. 2. He has or had con-
nections outside of the Party, which
have or had a bad reflection on
Party members. 3. He came from
another city and we don't know his
past, etc. But all these questions
should and must be clarified by
John before he gets Bill to sign the
application, and by the Unit ask
ing John about these points befors
accepting Bill. If this is done in
the Unit the Section or District
will not reject Bill, unless he Is
undesirable and certain facts are
in the hands of the District.
The new member recruited by a
member Of the Shop Nucleus should
have no difficulty in being assigned
to the Unit, after the Shop Nucleus
meeting makes the decision.
Workers recruited from unions
or other mass organizations should
be assigned to the Shop Nucleus,
one exists in the shop where he is
working, only after the Shop
Nucleus meeting accepts him. If
this new recruit is working in a
shop where there is no Party or
ganiZation, or is unemployed, he
should be assigned to the Unit of
which the comrade who recruited
him is a member and should be
invited to Unit meetings until his
membership book is received.
If we carry out these suggestions
there will be no applicant WHO will
remain unassigned to a Unit in the
present recruiting drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
PARTY LIFE
The Recruiting Campaign
And the Party apparatus
Problem, Faces Units Of Taking Care of Appyi-
cation Cards, Assigning the NeW Members

Inc recruiting drive is on. The
members of the units have re-
ceived the letter addressed to them
by the Central Committee of our
Party. Many Party members have
begun to work They have begun
to build up a group Of sympathizers
around themselves, and have begun
to recruit people into the Party
from among their old connections.
In q very short period we will face
the problem of taking care of the
application cards, and assigning the
new members to the units.
In the past period seventy out of
every 100 workers, who paid their
so or 10 cent initiation fee, after
signing the application card for the
Communist Party, received their
membership books, and were as
signed to a unit. The remaining
thirty paid their initiation fees but
never succeeded in getting their
books. What happened in these
cases2 The following is the usual
routine The worker, after being
convinced that his or her place is
in our ranks, signs the application
card and pays so cents if he is
employed. and ten cents if unem-
ployed. The card with the money
is submitted by the individual
member, who recruited the worker,
to the Unit Buro. The unit mem
bership considers the application
and decides that it should be &C
cepted. Then the secretary or
organizer of the unit brings the
card with the money to the section
From there the comrades send it to
the district, where the membership
book is made out and sent down
to the section-from the section to
the unit-from the unit to the in
dividual member. 1t takes weeks
and weeks until the book reaches
the new member even if the APP
paratus functions perfectly. Dur
ing these weeks of waiting outside
of the Party the applicant has no
connection with anyone in the
Party. The comrade who recruited
him, is satisfied that he got the
card and forgets all about the ap-
plicant. Meanwhile, the new re-
cruit moves from one place to an
other, or because he receives no
attention, loses his patience, be-
comes disillusioned in the Party's
efficiency, and when the member
ship book is ready to be handed
over to him, he frequently cannot
be found.
We do not speak about cases
where the application wanders
around for four or five months be-
cause of the negligence Of certain
functionaries. We cite here only
the usual procedure in an efficient
Party District.
In the present recruiting drive we
must correct this efficiency"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Do You Know?

That stays eat their antlers2
That although there are more pu-
pills going to school in New York
City this year the, Board of Educa-
ton is planning to spend $1,587, 1855
less?
That cats are color blind?
That there were shipments of war
supplies on the Moro Castle when
it sank? These munitions were plac-
ed dangerously close to the cabins of
the crew. The Science Column in
the October issue of the New
Pioneer tells about the history of
safety devices on ships. This is a
bang-up issue, besides the swell
stories, there is a big surprise on
the last two pages-something that
the New Pioneer has never had be-
fore. I'm not going to tell you.
You'll have to find out for yourself,
Get your copy now.
New Puzzle Club Members are: M. Kro-
WITT, Marcia Halpen, Mae Schneider
Blanche Kugler, Ruth Sandbank. Next
week the winner of the word puzzle will
be announced, so there is still time. See
how many words you can find in the
word INTERNATIONAL. For example
NAIL" The one who sends in the
longest list will receive as a prize, copy
of the October issue of the New Pioneer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
CIVILIZATION

NCdIodlStt E1lCils
II any young worker goes in deep
thought he will find some countries
are not civilized. Why aren't they
civilized? Why DO they have great
wars so the big shots can make
money? Why are so many honest
and innocent youth and men killed
On account of them dirty rats who
are so greedy for money or gold.
OF course you know that we work
ers must fight the wars for them.
Why are there so many criminals?
Under this government there must
be these problems. Because, you see,
if this country was Soviet and had
a workers government, problems like
these wouldn't exist. Every worker
is treated alike under a Soviet so
you see there are not big shots,
criminals or war then. How can
there be? Because the workers are
satisfied and they are in paradise.
That is why.
Why is a worker brutally beaten
and jailed while fighting for better
conditions, not only for himself but
for others too2 This shows that the
workers are treated as slaves and
must obey their masters. Don't no.
body forget this. The workers are
going to have a paradise on earth
some day and put an end to the
masters, the big shots, and the ter
rible wars and the hunger.
1t tells in the constitution that all
people should be treated equal. Are
theyP Is a worker treated right?
Has he a part in anythingP No,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06

our loyalty does not belong to the
rich who make our fathers slave,
but to our fellow workers Of every
country"
In or everyday life we can find
the true meaning of international"
too. All around us we can see what
the bosses teach, They teach Irish
to hate Hungarian and Poles to hate
Russians. Then, the workers will
not unite to demand better wages.
Also, in times of war, national
hatreds are encouraged to stir up
patriotism. We have been taught
in school that some nationalities are
inferior. This we know is all wrong
Nobody is worse or better than any
one else, just because he is Ger
man or Finnish or American or
italian, or anything else.
Whenever we see among our
friends in school or on the street,
an example of anyone looking down
on other nationalities, or a Negro
insulted because he is a Negro, we
must not ignore it. We must fight
against it, and actually prove to
ourselves and others that this is
all lie. one of the many lies the
rich rulers would like us to believe.
October 8 to Is is set aside by the
workers and farmers children ali
over the world as International
Children's Week" During this week
they make special efforts to make
everyone realize how very necessary
it is for children of all countries tc
stick together.
There will be real international.
| Children's Congress in New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Alaska Miners Not aided
By Rise in Price of Gold

to resident labor, only to biackball
them off the company payroll
through personal grievance and
give them short time jobs, If any
at all.
They pay the low wages of $50
for ten hours of the hardest kind
of work. This sounds big to people
in the States, but when divided and
eked out over the long Alaskan
winters, it is very slim living one
has, for good share Of these jobs
run from two to four months.
This F. z. Co., now known as the
United Shelters, hires far fewer
men than formerly hired by the
small individual operators and
owners on these creeks. With the
gold price increase the News Miner
neglects to quote United Smelters
stock in their lists.
The Alaska Railroad by no means
is exempted. Old timers here re-
port that grub, clothing, are higher
after the railroad came in thar
before. Although 1t is a govern.
ment railroad It pays such low
wages to its road gangs and after
board is deducted they have ap.
proximately $50 per month, plus
the three or four months season
leaves very thin living for single
man in the eight or nine months
Of Alaskan winter he has to face
A cook on this road reports hi
kept an account of Alaskan retail
grub prices; cooks wages, cook
helpers wages, of the gang he fed
It figured less than SO cents pei
day, per man. The Northern Com.
mercial Co. had the contract tx
furnish the grub to rail head al
Anchorage, which is cheaper thar
retailed to the restaurants ir
Seattle. The men paid $1.5o pei
day for board Why shouldn't they
become dissatisfied?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Workers RepeL
Yard HeeJers'
Methods
L threaten tie Harm
Workers Who
Vote Red
By a worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA. Pa.-Negro and
Italian workers, most of them unem-
ployed for years, in the 1l0e block
South Sheridan Street. have re-
Gently been besieged by ward heel
ers of the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties They have gone from
worker to worker and demanded
they register and vote for the
crook ridden capitalist parties.
I have, during the same time,
visited these same workers, and pri-
vately and in public exposed these
crooks, and pointed out the work
Of the Communist Party in leading
the struggles Of the unemployed for
relief, Of employed workers for the
right to organize, for higher wages,
better working conditions.
Since most Of these workers had
already come in contact with the
G. P and the Unemployment
Councils, they readily understood
what I was saying. Consequently
they have repeatedly repealed all
efforts Of the ward heelers to enroll
them, and failed to grow frightened
at threats Of losing relief because
Of their association with the Com
munists. Almost every worker in
the block has openly and repeatedly
stated his intentions of voting
Communist, and denounced the two
capitalist parties as tools.
The other day one ward heller
appeared, and began harranglIing
a group Of workers. 7 Immediately
denounced him. He grew furious,
threatened to punch me, but
changed his mind and disappeared.
In few minutes, however. he was
back with 8 gang Of tough
looking young Italians, who last
year were fervid followers OF Art
Smith and his fascist Khaki Shirts.
Nothing happened, but they are
constantly lowering about my house
a constant threat TO workers as to
what may happen 10 them If they
go red.
However, the workers readily I'M
derstand this terror. and denounce
It. Not one OF them has as yet
been scared out OF his announced
intention Of supporting the Com
munist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
UNI VA Head
Trim Sails
For Elections
M anifests SH d d e n
Interest in JObless
Insurance
IL a Nine Worker CORRESPONDENT

By Mine Worker Correspondent
JOHNSTOWN, PAD m og o g
Murray, of the U. M. w. A, dis
cussed Unemployment Insurance in
JohnstoWn, but his views are some
what different from those he had
at the convention in indianapolis
last January. Today he is for IN
employment Insurance. He stated
that if man can not get job it
is the duty of the national govern
ment to give him a secure living
Imagine this man saying that IN
employment Insurance is a patriotic
measure; this same man, who was
part of the Lewis machine, sup
ported the idea two years ago that
Unemployment Insurance was I'M
patriotic, that the American worker
has pride, and that he doesn't need
charity, dole, or Unemployment In
surance. Further, why didn't Muir
ray, if he has Unemployment IN
surance at heart, bring forward the
hundreds of resolutions that were
sent to the convention? Why wasn't
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill passed when it was pre-
sented to the convention? The fact
is that Demagog Murray doesn't
believe in Unemployment Insurance,
but he is forced to talk for it be-
cause the great mass of miners are
demanding it; and Murray can't
fool the miners any longer with
promises of "a job for everybody"
Murray's capitulation Gin Words to
Unemployment Insurance is purely
a bid for the vote in the coming
election of International Officers
of the thousands of rank and file
miners who are deluging the In
ternational Office with resolutions
in favor of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill (H. R. 1899.
The Rank and File miners know
only too we'll Lewis and his machine.
They know too well that Lewis was
never elected to the presidents
office; they know that he has been
defeated time and time again, but
continues in office notwithstand-
ing. Opposition to Lewis is being
established in every local union Of
the U. M. w. A. A fight is being
waged for full democracy in the
union; the fight for rank and file
control of the union progresses. A
rank and file slate for the coming
election is set up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
By q WORKER Correspondent


FAIRBANKS, Alaska.-We have
mining company here known as
Fairbanks Exploration 90. This
company is known as the worst
slave driving company in Alaska.
How does this company exploit
labor todayp BY working ground
that was figured to pay a living
wage and a short hour day, where
as they are working long hour days,
paying starvation wages, plus the
tremendous profits both on the old
and new price of gold. Also by
working their men at a very in
furious and high rate of production.
How do they accomplish this ex-
ploitation? Through the capitalist
New Deal of Roosevelt. Through
non-union labor. 1t is time for the
Alaskan workers to awaken from
that long winters Information, eX-
ploitation
With the deflation of the Amer
lean dollar the gold price jumped to
$35 per OF. But where is that much
talked of gold code2 Well, it's gone
up that well known creek, cheered
on by capitalist exploiters of the
workers.
The MIRA. man came in here
this spring and set code for the
stores. But the prices went up just
the same. The truck drivers code
was set and I know of cases where
the rate was from ten to twenty per
cent lower than they formerly paid
With the militant help of Ted
Roberts and the Communist Party
we have growing and strong
union known as the Tannana Val
ley Miners Union. This union is
negotiating for affiliation with the
TU.UL.
This multimillionaire corporation
heretofore has paid no attention