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Milford chronicle., 1934-11-09

Cards are ont for an AT
Home" which Mrs. Daniel
Thompson will give at her resi-
dence in Newark on Wednesday.
the 18th. Mrs. John c. Truitt
will pour, and a number of other
guests from town will he ex-
pected.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-09

Miss Mildred Hill entertained
at her home near town on Sat
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-09

Renew your subscription now.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-09

The Wednesday Evening
Bridge Club delayed the weekly
meeting until this evening when
it will be the guest of Miss Bur-
della Davis.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-09

The Kings Daughters will meet
with Mrs. z. J. Galloway on
Thursday Of next week.
q
On Friday evening Of last week
a merry crowd, about seventy
five in number. were the guests
OF Miss Sara Nutter and Miss
Betty Hammond at the Milford
New Century Club. 1t was a
masquerade dance, with an or
chestra from Harrington play
ing the music. The room was
all dressed UP for the. occasion
and as the guests appeared in
Halloween costumes the fun
began. Novelty dances were the
feature of the evening. and ap-
proprate refreshments. of
course. A good time was had
by all. was the appropriate de-
scription as well.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-09

The W. C. T. U. meets with Mrs.
NJ. II. Davis. North Walnut Street,
next Tuesday evening at 7.30.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-09

Buyers of old furniture have pur-
chased some at fancy prices around
Milford this fall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Nurses To Protest
100000 Pay Cut
AT City Hall Today
Delegation Will Talk
to Commissioner of
N.Y.C. Hospitals

NEW YORK.-As a result of &C
tons taken by the Hospital Work
ers League, in resisting the wage cut
imposed by Commissioner of Hos
pitfalls Goldwater, nurses throughout
New York City hospitals have been
turning to the nurses section Of the
Hospital Workers League for guild
ance in their struggles. This has
resulted in series of meetings on
hospital scale, as well as two large
protest meetings, since the 100000
wage-cut was announced.
1t was pointed out yesterday that
the original announcement Of cuts
in wages affected the poorly paid
nurses, particularly those in the
5000 to $1,000 per year categories.
The nurses are enthusiastic about
these protest actions; they have de-
clared their readiness to circulate
petitions and have urged the nurses
section of the H. w. L. to write to
the American Association of Grad
uate Nurses of Manhattan and the
Bronx, and other allied organiza-
tons, to join in and support the
stand of the nurses section of the
H. w. L.
A large and representative COM
mittee has been elected from the
city hospitals to see Commissioner
Goldwater (whose yearly salary is
$4,000 and Mayor LaGuardia at
2:S0 p. m. today.
At their interview with Gold
water, after the Commissioner was
told Of the conditions of the nurses
as being among the most overworked
and exploited among New York
City's employees, he stated that he
knew all Of this and that his sym
pathy was with the nurses but that
he could do nothing about it. When
the small committee told him that
the least he could do, if his sym
pathy was with the nurses, was to
take an open stand with them.
Goldwater became confused and
tried to excuse his action by saying
that the pternes were not paid at
all. But the nurses did not swallow
this excuse, declaring that they
we're ready to fight for the I'M
derpaid medical staff, but not at
the expense of their own meagre
salaries.
All nurses who can, are urged to
be at City Hall at 2:3o p. m. today
when the delegation will meet Com
missioner Goldwater. The delega-
ton will meet at 1:30 p. m. at SO
Union Square Q6th st. entrance),
before proceeding to City Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28

purely for the purpose of preserving
the present robber profits Of the
milk trust and to strengthen the
relative economic position of the
rich dairy farmers.
"The proposed processing tax on
milk and milk products will only
further decrease the market, causing
additional hardships to both pro-
Queer, who will be further crushed
by cutting down of his farm plant,
and the undernourislled and starry
ing working class in the cities.
1.-The proposals for milk relief to
children and loan relief to Southern
farmers are totally inadequate pro-
visions and designed primarily to
cover up the vicious nature of the
milk reduction program and not to
bring an end to the suffering in
the cities or on the barren cotton
plots Of Southern share troopers.
For Unemployment Insurance
I'm order to protect the interests
Of the small dairy farmers who will
be further exploited under this pro-
gram, the interests of the working
class consumer who will be forced
to pay for this program by a pro-
cessing tax, and the millions of I'M
dernourished children in the coun-
try it is necessary to launch an i'm
mediate and vigorous attack against
this latest hunger provision of the
Roosevelt government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Advertisement
Advertisement

You are in the midst of the second general
strike of New York taxi strikers within month
1t is strike of vital Importance to you
and for all workers-because it is struggle for
decent working conditions, for living wages, and
for your right to organize into Union of your
own choice.
You are fighting against forces with power
full financial connections companies as
the Parmelee, Terminal, and Radio Cab Cor
porations, which are part of giant Wall Street
financial combines.
No struggle against such powerful forces
can be won without militant action. You real
lie this, and you have adopted militant tactics
to halt strikebreakers and thugs employed by
the taxi companies.
Because of this a howl has arisen from the
jackals which make up what we call the capt.
talist press-the boss press, in short From the
press, openly controlled by the bankers, like the
Times and the Tribune, to such papers which
pretend to be the workers friends, like the Daily
News, the Mirror, the World Telegram, the
Evening Post, ETC., no SANDER has been too false
and rotten for use against the taxicab strikers
Plots which exist only in the fertile magma
ton of the prostitute hirelings of the boss press
have been blazoned forth in big headlines in
their front pages-the News invented a fake
bomb plot; the others falsifed the facts and
stated that the strikers had assaulted women, ETC.
These papers have devoted leading editorials
in the past few days, melting the public against
your valiant fight for decent conditions and
wages
The fact that the Communist Party supports
the strike brought forth scare headlines in the
prostitute press. Why are they bowling against
the Communist Party? Because the companies
know that the Communist Party is the only pc.
litical party supporting the strike The Commu-
nists in the leadership Of the strike are part of
the united front of the striking workers of all
shades of political belief united in one COM
mon purpose, stated above.
The capitalist newspapers not only devoted
columns of news to melting against your strike,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
AN OPEN LETTER :
TO THE TAXI STRIKERS OF NEW YORK CITY

but opened up full pages of advertising space
to the taxi companies and the yellow company
unions. These advertisements, too, were devoted
to the vilest of lies against the taxi strikers.
This strike has taught you taxi strikers one
valuable lesson, among others: that the daily
press, with the exception of one paper, is always
at the disposal of the class which exploits you
the boss class. The capitalist press is SUBJ
sidized- bought, in plain words, by the bosses,
including the taxi companies.
One daily newspaper alone in New York City
has presented the strikers side, as it always pre-
sents the side of the workers. That paper is
the DAILY WORKER.
Its columns, day by day during the strike,
have been filled with the inspiring news of your
struggle. That news has been carried to tens Of
thousands of workers in all cities, who read the
DAILY WORKER.
Its editorials have called on workers in all
industries to support the taxi strike financially
and morally.
1t has run no advertisements and will never
run advertisements such as the boss press has
run, attacking the strikers.
1t has exposed the strike-breaking agencies
through winch tne TAXI companies attempt 10
recruit their scabs
Distribution of thousands of copies of this
fighting workers daily have taken place at mass
meetings of the taxi strikers
The eyes of thousands of taxi drivers have
been opened by the contrast in the attitude of
the workers daily toward the strikers and the
attitude of the rest of the English daily press
in New York.
The DAILY WORKER has proven once again,
in the heat of workers life-and-death struggle,
that it is your paper while the rest of the English
daily press is the press of the bosses.
The DAILY WORKER has been your only
weapon in counteracting the poison spewed
forth in the boss press against the strikers.
Taxi drivers, read and support the DAILY
WORKER. You need this fighting weapon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Coal Operators Group
Holds Trial Against
Militants

GREENWOOD, Ark.-The
fight for autonomy in the Ar
kansas-Oklahoma coal field
has entered the second round.
Lewis, through his appointee,
David Fowler, has struck back.
The latest move is the seizure of
the dues check-off, which had been
going to the newly elected official
dom since the revolt of the locals
in this district. Previous to this the
new officials had been brought be-
fore the MIRA. labor board charged
with everything from the violation
Of laws of the organization to vio-
lation of "the laws of the land"
The three men brought before the
board were Fred Howell, Paris. Ark.
new president; Harrison Tuggle,
Montana. Ark, vice-president; Bert
Loudermilk, Greenwood, Ark, sec
rotary treasurer. The charge in
part was for defiance of U.M.W.A.
contract, authority of the Interna-
tional Executive Board and ruling
of international Convention"
The decision is as follows:
Therefore it is considered, ordered
and adjudged that the charges
against said three defendants be,
and same are hereby sustained in
each and every particular and that
any defense interposed by the de-
PENDANTS is hereby Overruled."
Divisional Labor Board No. is
composed of the following members:
Meade johnson, government rep
resentative (brother of the gen.
eraD; Pete Stewart, representative
of ADMINISTRATIONS coal bureau;
David Fowler, labor representative
Some typical Lewis Fowler STRAIT
egg and tactics were used in the
trial of the defendants in the above
case. Bert Loudermilk, secretary
treasurer, the man who has the
money and the man whom Fowler
has acknowledged he feared was
the only one of the three defend
ants notified in time to appear be-
fore the labor board on the date of
the trial. The other two received
special delivery letters a day late,
mailed SO purposely. The purpose
here, acknowledged so by Fowler to
inner sources, was to isolate Louder
milk in his trial and by intimida-
ton, or any other means possible,
try to break his resistance to the
Fowler rule.
Fowler, at the hearing, in very
soft voice said, Nov, gentlemen,
know Mr.. Loudermilk. He is a fine
fellow and wouldn't do anything
wrong for the world. He just doesn't
know and he has been misled. Now
I'll tell you what I am going to
do. If Mr.. Loudermilk will go back
down to the coal fields in Sebastian
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Destruction of MIX To Raise Prices Is Ne,o Roosevelt Plan

foreclosures, had issued a stirring
appeal signed by Left Dohl, assist
ant executive secretary, for mobili-
cation in many cities against this
new attack of the Roosevelt govern
ment on the living standards of the
masses. 1t calls for a united struggle
of the ruined farmers and the city
workers against the Wall Street
trusts who will benefit by the
Roosevelt plan for milk destruction.
According to figures issued by
the United States Children Bu-
reau, the appeal states:
Seven million children in the
United States are undernourished,
the principle deficiency in their
diet being milk. This is an in
crease Of IA since 1929. The u.
S. Department Of Agriculture has
itself estimated that if every per-
son in the United States were
placed on a minimum health diet
we would need 100000 more
dairy cows in the country-an
increase of 10 per cent over the
present number.
I'm the face of these conditions,
which represent more human misery
and want than this country has
ever known in peace time, we de-
clare that it is criminally inhumanf
to inaugurate a program designed
to aggravate these conditions.
I'VE declare that this program is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28

ment and Social Insurance Bill Oh.
R. 1888 were seen on the train.
Socialist leaders constantly referred
to this as the "Lundeen Bill" When
pressed for an opinion on it, they
refused to endorse it, but admitted,
point by point, that every one of
its proposals is a genuine working
class demand. heard many argu-
ments and conversations about this
bill, and every time, the same eva
sions from Socialists and the same
insistence upon calling it the 'Lun-
deem Bill"
About one-sixth consisted of
Negroes. I noticed on the train,
going down and coming back, that
practically without exception they
sat alone or with other Negroes.
No, they were not Jim Crowed.
But there was no determination of
white and black. For the most
part, the rank and file of the Ne
groes was quietly ignored.
I left my car and strolled down
the aisles. Father Thomas is suf-
fering the little Yipsels and Love-
stoneites to come unto him. A
snatch Of conversation Il give my
oath 1 heard itD-"Yes," Father
Thomas opines, Eyes, Casey Jones
is a good song"
Again and again, I heard the
reiterated conjecture Il wonder
what will happen next week."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
FarmersNat'lC
Calls for Joint Farmers,
Workers Fight

1--WE call upon all workers and
farmers to organize together and
demand of the government that
this vicious program be dropped
at once and that a sum of $780,
100000 be Immediately apprOpri-
ated to purchase all so-called milk
SURPRISES at five cents quart
from the farmer, to be distributed
free of charge to the millions of
undernOurished families in both
city and country. This fund shall
not Come from a processing tax
on milk or milk products sold at
retail
"As more far-reaching approach
to the problem of mass undernour-
ishment we call upon all our farmer
and worker supporters to organize
for the passage of the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill, whose provisions of $40
a week for each unemployed worker
and farmer plus SO additional for
each dependent, would not only
wipe out all the present so-called
surplus but create a demand that
would give even greater market
for the exploited small producers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
C.C.C. Boys Win 2 Week Strike
In DiSeGse-Ridden Wis. Camp
Spinal Meningitis, Raging in Camp, Already
Kills One AS Scores Are Sick

camp and ordering it to be burned
after April l, when the present
crews enlistment is out.
The youth were forced to work in
Is below zero weather last winter
in summer clothes. Full winter
equipment was not received until
February. Bronchitis was common
as result of exposure.
One of the first struggles of the
boys was for warm clothes. This
took place in December and several
boys were dishonorably discharged
for demanding protection against
freezing. Several other struggles
developed, such as demonstrations
in the mess hall against the slop
the officials called food, and the
sending Of grievance committees to
the officers demanding improved
conditions. Many concessions were
won. Captain Patrick, who was in
charge of the camp, once told such
a committee:
"You guys are like a club over
my head"
Graft in various forms was COM
mon in the camp. One hundred
and fifty dollars of the canteen
fund, money supposed to belong to
the men, was used to build a pri-
vate toilet for officers, while the
workers had to use unheated toilets
in sub-zero weather.
Lieut.. williams, Southern gen.
tleman," who had, with Ringstead
been responsible for demoting the
Negro foreman, was later discharged
for grating $50, part of which came
from canteen funds, for which he
made no accounting.
Forced to Work for Big Companies
One of the major CRAFTS was the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
NRA Aids UMWA
Head Against Union
Autonomy Moves

County and tell the men that he
has seen his mistake, I will with
draw this charge" Loudernilk po-
htely declined Mr.. Fowler's kind Of
fer, and the trial proceeded.
The move for autonomy, although
a sort Of revival of the old Alex
ander Howatt-John l.. Lewis feud
and led by key" men, comes as a
result Of wholesale protest against
the Lewis-Fowler burocracy. The
new officials also have the support
Of the rank and file at present.
Whether the unity Of the movement
will be disrupted by the capitalist
press and other agencies and by
the miners illusions about law and
order and legality depends largely
upon the new officials, the leader
ship they offer and the operations
they make to meet these obstacles,
and the vigilance of the rank and
file.
Fowler told the miners here, dur
ing the early stages Of the forn.a-
ton of MIRA. that President
Roosevelt was just getting the OPP
orators name on the dotted line"
then he would use the big stick"
on them and make them raise
wages.
Later, when the wages were not
raised, but actually cut (by lessen
ing the humber of hours and the
lnen came on strike, Fowler tried to
send the men to work, All when
they voted to stay on striks, Fowler
shouted: IF I can't make you work,
President Roosevelt will"
Now Fowler tells the miners that
q. it will be my duty to see
that the laws of the National Re
covery Act will be lived up to by
the mine union - and tried to
divide the men by stating further
that q. this office will gee to
it that all men who desire to re-
main members Of our union will be
given protection of the organiza-
ton"
Fowler, in desperate attempt to
curb the mass movement of the
miners against the lowering of their
standard of living, thereby keeping
the promise of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor to the government
and the big industrialists to keep
down the strike movement, forgets
all about the supposed provisions
in the MIRA. for rank and file
representation on labor boards and
all the promises, both by himself
and others above him, to give labor
New Deal.
The rank and file miners Of Dis
trict 81 must force the new Off
Gals to expose the true nature of
the whole MIRA. government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
AAA Proposes 1870
Cut in Supply; Milk
Trust to Profit

WASHINGTON, March 27.-A
program for destroying 10 per cent
of the present milk supply of the
country has just been proposed
by the Roosevelt administration
through the A.A.A., advices from
the offices of the administration re-
veal. The plan is to provide gov
eminent subsidies to large dairy
producers to compensate them for
cutting their milk production by 10
per cent during the cdming year.
The subsidies to the large dairy
producers will come from another
processing tax on butter and milk
to be collected from the city con-
SumerS.
The proposed processing tax will
raise the price of butter five cents
pound and milk one cent a quart.
the total to be collected during the
year to amount to $165, 100000, the
Roosevelt Agricultural Adjustment
Administrator announces.
Call for Resistance
The Farmers National Committee
of Action, q national organization
Of farmers fighting against the load
of mortgage debts, evictions and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
naiIy Worker midwest Bureaul

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)
CHICAGO, March ga VIC
torious two weeks strike of G. c. G..
members in disease-ridden Camp
Rusk, Wisconsin, was reported here
Thursday by young worker who
recently left the camp.
The brutality of Chief Ranger
Ringstead was the immediate cause
Of the strike, which broke out early
in March, but the anger of the
young workers had been reused be-
fore by the rotten food, unsanitary
conditions and exposure in bitter
cold which had led to an epidemic
of spinal menengitis, killing one
worker and making six others des-
perately i'll. The strike was the
climax of long series of partial
struggles against these conditions,
against discrimination of Negro
workers, and against the slave
driving, grating tactics of army
officers and rangers who bossed the
camp.
Ringstead, who was head slave
driver, had been vicious in his
treatment of the workers. He called
them buns and 1oafers, and on one
occasion tried to refuse group of
workers gloves during cold weather.
He had ben brutal in his treatment
Of a Negro worker, and had him
denoted from position as fore
man, claiming he didn't drive the
boys hard enough. However, his
real reason was revealed when he
said: 1--WE don't want any black
men in this camp"
The young workers decided to
strike for Ringstead'S removal.
They went in the trucks to the jobs,
but refused to work, and walked
back to the camp. This continued
for two weeks. They also sent mass
protests and petitions to the Sixth
Corps Area office, the Wisconsin
Conservation Department, and other
Official bodies Scabs were ostracized,
until they also stopped work. About
March Is the authorities surren-
dered and Ringstead was removed.
Epidemic Still Raging
The epidemic of spinal meinin-
gifts is still raging. The first cases
we're reported in November, and
several workers nearly died. Then
a worker, Keith, was permitted to
return home, although the officials
knew the danger of the spread of
the disease. After he arrived at his
home in Gibson City, H., he fell
sick, and the disease had progressed
so far that he died despite injec-
tons of serum. The government is
trying to hush the case up by a
quiet settlement with the family,
but has refused adequate compen-
sation.
Forty Guaranteed
At present forty youth at the
camp, near Ladysmith, Wis, are
supposed to be quarantined as car
rierS, in other words, infected with
the disease though not i'll. How
ever, this quarantine is a joke, as
these boys eat in the same mess
hall and use the same washing
facilities as the other workers.
Government officials try to put
the blame on a girl who lives near
the camp and knew many of the
boys, but it is significant that she
has not been quarantined. Really,
the cause of the disease, as is cited
by medical authorities in other cpl
denies, is the unsanitary conditions
in the camp. Spinal meningitis"
the Encyclopedia Britannica says,
sis peculiar to military camps where
bad sanitary conditions prevail"
The government has admitted its
responsibility by condemning the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Cops Gas and Club
1,6OO in Cleveland
Wool Mill Strike
Young Workers Walk
Out in Lynn, Mass,
Against SweatshOp

CLEVELAND, March 27-PoIice
attempted to terrorize 1900 strikers
at the Cleveland Worsted mills here
by numerous arrests. Pickets sur
rounded the plant where 20 com
pany union officials were locked in,
The cops escorted the scabs out
through a rear entrance, and down
tunnel.
Clubs and tear gas bombs were
used against the strikers in an
effort to smash the picket lines.
Dozens of strikers were beaten and
arrested.
The strike spread to Ravenna,
where 535 workers in the dyeing
and finishing plant of the Cleve-
land Worsted Mills joined the walk
out.
Strike Against N.R.A. SweatshOp
LYNN, Mass, March 27-Fight-
ing against sweatshop conditions,
which they declare worse than be-
fore the MIRA. was passed, over
$50 young women went on strike
at the National Stay Company plant
here today.
They declared they were forced
to work from 7:30 am. until 9 at
night, without any let-up. The
average wage in the plant is be-
tween Sc and 81 a day.
The strike began when piece
work rates were cut four cents a
yard.
HAVERHILL, Mass, March a.
Over 5000 shoe workers here en-
tered their fourth week of strike
today. The strike began on March
5 for higher wages.
Mayor George E. Dalrymple, in an
effort to break the strike without
granting the workers their demands,
offered to act as arbitrator"