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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09

Now is the time to see us for a
new Papec Ensilage cutter.-Stand-
ard Supply Co.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09

and Stevens Rifles, at the Malta
Hardware Co. 9a2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09

All size Sewer Pipe, from inch
to "a inch, at the Malta Hardware
Co. 9a2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09

You find economy, comfort and
dependability in Moore's parlor
heaters and Moore's gas and coal
ranges.-Standard Supply Co.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09

Clair Schweikert and Miss Matte
Leggett of Watertown were recently
married.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09

A new low price on Conserve
Steam Cookers, at the Malta Hard
ware Co. 9a2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09

Marietta Ready Mixed Paints
give years of surface protection.
Always fresh and easy to apply
STANDARD Supply Co.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09
ID. OF A. Notice

Daughters of America will meet
in regular session this (Thursday)
evening.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09

Sheetrock Wall Board, at the
Malta Hardware Co. 9a2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09
Dean CalIand To Enter O. S. u.

Dean Calland who graduated in
May from NJ. e NJ, will enter Ohio
State University this fall, in the en-
gineering department.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09

Conserve Steam Cookers, at
new low price, at the Malta Hard
ware Co. 9a2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-08-09
LOCAL NEWS

Emma Jettick shoes, sold only by
Uou1son's n15tf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
Lewiston, Me-, Shoe Local
Weakened By LoUestoneites

proposed to accept his recommended
ton without discussion, send it tc
the Executive Board and adjourn
the meeting, without allowing the
members to expose their opinion.
However, their prepared maneuve,
didn't work. We succeeded in bring
ing out the main problem against
their will. We brought out that the
main problem was the reformist
practices running with every cues
ton to the N. R. A. board instead
OF fighting it out, or making paper
decisions " i t h ut attempting to
carry it OUT of our organizer. The
workers here are just as militant
as everywhere. They demonstrated
it by the last strike, and if given
able leadership, they would have a
strong union by now.
The question is not of money but
OF planned systematic activity. 1t
is interesting to note that our or
ganlzer did not answer this accu-
Satlon. Why should he? He him
self knows that he is here against
our will depending only on the sup
port of the officials of the Execu-
tive Board.
The workers will have to solve the
problems themselves, since tn e
Planning Board was not able to do
it for them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
Deprived of Work
While Wife Slaves
In Cigar Factory

LANCASTER, Pain the last
three years I have done no work
except for the local commisSary be-
hind the counter. I got 50 a week,
but it was snatched by the land
lord first shot. 1t took months to
get shoes and other needed things.
They tried to pawn off old third
hand clothing.
Many times meat, lard and but
ter spoiled for lack of ice. Cans of
corn and tomatoes burst because of
the rotten condition of the contents
when canned. The stuff was good
for nobody but the unemployed!
This is a crazy system! While
my wife got work at local cigar
factory making about 50 week I
stay home and take care of the
little children. I wash, do the scrub
bling, etc.
My wife and her fellow workers
must work at top speed in hot,
moist unclean atmosphere. On many
occasions, particularly during the
summer, the girls keel over from
extreme fatigue-but they're Sc
afraid of the pink slip that they
dare not rest.
Before the N. R. A. they got $4.5O
week, but even double this is far
too little for a decent standard OF
living. The work has been speeded
up since the N. R. A.
At last I have learned that there
is only one thing left for me to do
that Is join the c. P, the only or
ganization that is exposing this rot
ten condition under which able
bodied men and women are forced
to starve in the midst of plenty.
The Communist Party is fighting
fer the overthrow of this rotten
system land for the building up OF
a workeTS' rule where no starvation
or unemployment will exist, and nc
rich parasites make profit off of us
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
PARTY LIFE
Calls for II Unit on EUery
Big Dock in Frisco Port"
Some Good Work already Done, But Much
More Can Be Accom- Iished by Real Effort

a rank and file conference for the
West Coast. This method Of work
unconsciously developed in these
workers an attitude Of superiority
toward their fellow workers in the
n. L. A. who were not able to ex-
press themselves on the floor of the
union meetings. The Party as a
political apparatus always remained
secondary and separated from their
trade union group in Importance.
Since the strike the situation has
improved both in recruiting and in
a clearer understanding of the role
Of the Party. Another 70 longshore-
men have been recruited. These
have been drawn into the Party on
the basis of their miitancy On the
picket line, or activity on the Strike
Committee. Because Of the role
played by the city and national gov
ernmentS as direct allies of the Ship
owners, the need Of political work.
ingclass party is no longer an abe
stract theory to them. But con-
sidering the prestige the Party has
gained ideologically among the long,
shoremen, we have not even
scratched the surface in recruiting.
Three units on the Matson, the
Admiral. and the American-Hs-
waiian have been formed. II We
increase our efforts now, much more
than this can be accomplished. Our
slogan should be now, "A unit on
every big dock in the Frisco port
before the end OF the year"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
ACW Head Has Nothing
To Offer Convention
Except n. R. A.

more misery for the workers in
stead CT better conditions.
You went further in adopting the
policy CT terror toward the protest
ing workers who had dared to ex-
pose the betrayals.
AT the stoppage in 1882 you and
the honorable J. Panken, address,
ing the tsilors at a meeting in Man
haitian Lyceum, shouting revolu-
tionary phrases, promised week
work for the tailors for the next
season, but the results were that
workers went back into the shops
with 1915 per cent wage slash.
At this National Convention,
which was staged exclusively for
your delegates to satisfy them, in
stead Of the thousands of workers
who are working for starvation
wages of S10-$12 per week, the
workers had nothing to expect.
You had nothing to offer the
workers but the MIRA, which is q
scheme to exploit the workers and
assure more profits for the masters.
Your class collaboration policy
against the workers is leading the
workers to ruin and restitution. The
workers in order to achieve better
conditions and decent living must
organize themselves in the shops
and fight against the present misery
and starvation. end Tor a militant
union controlled by the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27

1t is not lack of leadership-it is
not even the blacklist-it is an alb
solute lack of funds that does not
allow these workers to organize.
Since the southern worker is so
nliserably paid, he is unable to con-
tribute to the support Of his own
union. We must give him start.
To overcome these organizational
obstacles there has been founded in
the North the Committee for the
Support of Southern Textile Orga-
nization. We solicit your help.
Send any amount, however small,
to: Committee for Support of
Southern Textile Organization, 500
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
The Committee has arranged a
benefit affair for Friday night, June
%, at Steinway Hall. Included on
an excellent program are Del of
the Daily WorkeS, Bromberg and
Carnovsky of Men in White" the
Workers Laboratory Theatre, New
Dance Group, Strike News Reels,
Ray Yeats of "Stevedore" in North
Carolina Songs, Don West, Alabama
proletarian poet, and A. j. Isser-
man, of the international Labor
Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
A Tip on Rent
Relief Checks

NEW YORK. Il wonder how
many readers know that when a
landlord accepts City Rent Relief
ticket, he accepts that as the full
rent, regardless of what the rent
may be. BY that I mean that if the
rent is, say, $40 per month, and the
relief ticket df you can get oneD
is for SIC, then once the landlord
has accepted that SIS relief check,
he can't or rather he has no legal
right, to ask you for the other 81.
The boss I work for asks the
tenants regularly for the extra one
or two dollars or whatever it may
be. Most tenants do not know that
on the relief ticket it says For shell
ter from (say) June to July l."
and that they don't have to pay a
cent more to live in the fiat that
month. All Unemployment Councils
should tell their members of this.
OF course once the tenant does
this, the landlord will probably re-
fuse to accept his relief rent check
fer the next month. He can then
dispoSsess the tenant, but the
chances are about even that Judge
will throw the disoossess out of
court. In most cases, as the diff
ference is only dollar or two. the
landlord will reduce the rent to
the amount of the relief check.
A RENT COLLECTOR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
Southern Workers, Ready for
Struggle, Need Financial Aid

NEW YORK.-"Did I tell you of
the worker who beat his way 100
miles from South Carolina to find
someone who had been in Gastonia
Che had) because the workers in his
section did not trust the UT. w.
any more, and wanted to get in
touch with our outfit" This quota
ton from the letter of a National
Textile Workers Union organizer
clearly indicates the eagerness of
the southern textile workers to Or
ganize in a fighting textile union.
No section of the workers in the
textile industry can win any secur-
ity unless the southern workers are
under militant leadership. For this
they are not only ripe but they ac-
tually plead for it. In May alone
they conducted % strikes. There
are capable worker leaders in the
southern mills who are anxious to
organize and lead their fellow work
ers in struggle.
But the blacklist of the monopoly
capitalists instantly brushes the
man who dares to raise his voice.
In true fascist style they blacklist
not only the worker himself but in
many cases his entire family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27

lens and formulate plans for fu-
ture activity. But we were disap-
pointed. The greater part of the
meeting was spent in unnecessary
routine work, leaving the main
problem to the end. finally, IAe
important question, that of organiz-
ing the workers in Maine, did come
up. They called on the appointed
organizer Mr.. Mckee.
In a long drawn-out document,
Mckee tried to excuse himself for
his failure to organize the workers
by blaming the workers "for not
coming to him!" and in conclu-
sion demanded 100000 for organ
izational purposes. Il guess he can
use that, all right. He wasted al
ready $500 of the workers money
to reduce the local from 200 mem
bers to 20). After him, another
big leader "a member of the exec
utive committee of the Socialist
Party) backed him up by repeating
the same story.
T e Lovestonites Immediately
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
Musicians Aided
By lid Against
Police Terror

NEW YORK.-Last Monday, June
10, eight musicians were given sum-
monses for lettering in the vicinity
of Broadway and 48th st. This sec
ton Of Broadway has served as a
market place and sort of exchange
where musicians are accustomed 10
gather much in the same fashion
as the workers in the garment dis
trict meet around 33th st. and Sew
enth Ave.
The last few weeks has seen in
creased activity on the part of the
police to drive the musicians away
from this section. These activities
reached a head by the issuance of
summonses to brighten the must
clans away.
The International Labor Defense
assigned lawyer to one of the
summoned musicians. In court on
Wednesday morning the 1. L. D.
lawyer not only defended his own
client but the seven other musicians
as well, and succeeded in getting
their cases dismissed.
The enthusiasm of the musicians
for the defense given them was very
great. Most of them had never
heard of the I. L. D. except
vaguely in connection with the
Scottsboro case. On The strength
of this dismissal 100 What To Do
When Under Arrest" leaflets were
sold and many back numbers of the
Labor Defender had been dis
tributed within half an hour. After
the Labor Defender had been dis
tributed, two more musicians went
to I. L. D. headquarters and secured
counsel for their case, which came
up Friday. This case was also dis
missed.
Because of this &C ivity of the I.
L. D. at least 200 musicians have
been contacted. This sort of thing
makes musicians realize that they
are workers and that the I. L. D. is
really the shield of the working
class"
This is being submitted to the
Daily Worker because il has fought
with the musicians for the auton-
only of Local 802.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
E~GN .
lsl the Haelglesp
A-=~~-|~JA+IAA~%\ HELEN ~
LONG LIFE AND MORE POWER TO OUR
FARM SISTERS

Besides the already mentioned
hardships of rural women, there's
also the basic economic situation
the mortgages, the increasing debts
and number of farm foreclosures.
And in addition to the Roosevelt
A. A. A. crop reduction measures
has descended upon us the disas-
trous drought. On the chart of af-
flicted areas 1 have seen, Washing
ton state seems to have escaped,
but the reverberations are bound to
be felt there as elsewhere.
There is the burning issue of
the price of milk, as dealt with in
the new booklet by Lief Dahl, as
well as in other papers. Here is
an issue on which it is possible
to bring about an understanding
of their unity of interests in city
ana country workers.
Agitation for the payment of five
cents per quart (for Grade B milk
70 the farmer, and a retail price of
sight cents for the consumer, should
De carried on, and is being carried
On, simultaneously among city and
farm workers. This demand in
cludeS points one and two of the
program of the UF.P.A. The other
points are of equally high i'm
portance: the abolition of the basic
surplus" Cor classification system)
OF buying milk, the purchase and
distribution Of all surplus milk by
the government to destitute work
~rs. passage of H R. 1898 (purchas-
4ng power thus given to other work
ers will benefit farmers) and pass
age of the Farmers Relief Bill,
which provides for cancellation of
secured debts, mortgages, back rents
or taxes, feed and seed loans of
smaller farmers, and cash.
In addition to this there is the
work of publicizing and support
ing the Women's International
Anti-War Congress meeting in
Paris, July % to 30. If possible
build a Farm Women's Anti-War
Committee there. In connection
with this, small lapel-buttons
= have been made, which Comrade
3. B. B. coud sell; she would have
profit of two cents on each, and
could thus raise fund for litera-
ture or other organizationaI needs.
The button retails at five cents.
Just what other forms of or
ganization will be met under the
circumstances, we must leave to
Mrs. B. B. BIS bess Judgment. She
will know best whether she should
begin by having sewing circles or
quilting parties or such gatherings
where discussion may begin and
suitable literature brought, or If
there should be regular mass meet
ings, or if she can build anti-fore-
closure leagues, or an I. L. D., or
F. S. U. branch.
We think it would be good to
establish communication through
the Daily" or the Working Woman
magazine, Rank and File Coal
Digger" or other papers, with
women in the cities and in the
mines, thus building the solidarity
Of all workers, mining, rural and
city.
A new issue Of the Working
Woman will be off the preas in :
fey dars. Helpful motorial will be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
Labor Unpaid
In Municipal
Lodging House
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-One of the worst
forms of working class exploitation
is the contemplate practice of the
Department of Public Welfare of
the City of New York of having I'M
paid labor perform all tasks, cler-
ical, manual (even stenographers
are employed on the unpaid basis
in the Municipal Lodging House.
the inducement being better grade
of food than that furnished to the
man who comes into the public
lodging house and does no work at
all.
The industrial" as these unpaid
workers are termed, is employed for
meals, lodging and credits. Credits"
is the term used to designate an
industrious, sober or half-sober
member of the paupers. Some of
these are promoted after lapse
of varying period, usually one to
five weeks, to $50 a month and
maintenance, but the best positions
are held by either political or civil
service appointees. Many of these
paid employees loaf around at the
expense Of the industrial" who is
very often man Of superior ability.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
AWAKENING IN THE SOUTH
Birmingham, Ala.

ADAA 6A4os
Dear Editor:
I am a relation of one of the
Thomas strikers and a student at
Howard College. I have been read
ing Communistic literature for the
last two or three years and have
become intensely interested in the
movement. Although I accepted a
great deal, there were some things
that I was doubtful of, but since
the Thomas strike, which I have
seen at first hand, these doubts
have vanished. The police brutality,
the private arming of the Republic
Steel Corp, armed with pistols,
rifles, gas and machine guns, and
the demonstration of the Birming-
ham Police Department on May
Day have convinced me that the
only hope Of the working class lies
in militant movement such as the
Communist Party has shown itself
to be.
Even if the Thomas strike had
not occurred, think the May Day
affair would have been enough to
prove the Communistic cause. This
shameful show of armed force
against free speech and other ira
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
LOVES TO READ THE DAILY"
Decatur Illinnis


Dear Comrades:
My husband and I love to read
the Daily" but for the past five
or six days we have failed to get it.
We have been worrying about it, but
today it came. A kind friend of ours
who is fortunate enough to be
working has kept it coming to US
since the C. w. A. work stopped.
This friend is not our friend alone,
but a staunch friend to the class
struggle. He is responsible for all
the 'DailieS" that come into Deca-
tur, paying for most Of them out of
his own pocket. I would love to tell
his name to all for his good deeds,
but under the circumstances cannot
do so. .-
This city is slow in the class strug-
gle movement, but I hope this good
comrades work will bear fruit in
the future, that he may know his
good deeds have not been in vain.
There cannot be too much credit
given the Daily Worker" It gives
the facts about life of the working
class in all of it's grim want and
misery which today runs rampant
through our (free?) United States.
Comradely,
Mrs. H. o. n.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
Open Letter to Sidney Hillman

proposed by the rank and file work
ers, but you favored the present
check-off system.
Your attitude in the Joint Board
in the period of 1925 towards week
work could still be recalled by the
delegates Of the joint board, when
you argued to stabilize the clothing
markets Of Chicago and New York
because of competition, lie. the cost
Of production of the garments was
higher in New York than in Chi
cago. Finally you found the solu-
tion-to impose piece-work on the
New York tailors instead CT estab-
fishing week-work for the workers
Of Chicago.
The results of your proceeding
was the enforcement of sweat-shop
conditions, namely the terrible
speed-up, continual wage cuts, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
By w. L.

by W. IL.
In June, 1888, when the Inter
national Longshoremen's Associa-
ton was first organized in this port,
we did not have a single longshore-
man in the waterfront section Of
the Party. We had loose contact
with about six longshoremen, who
participated in the publication OF
rank and file stevcdore's paper, the
Waterfront Worker.
With the formation of the I. l..
A., these contacts became the center
of a rank and file group within the
union. 1t was not until about three
or four months later that any long
shcremen were recruited to the
Party. At this time four were re-
cruited and unit wss formed. Of
these, only two worked on the same
dock, and becau-e the members were
recruited through cur opposition
work within the local the unit from
the start functioned as Party frac-
ton. AS a fraction the members
carried on a successful campaign
for the issues OF the rank and file
and gained a close influence over
about so members and finally the
confidence of the majority Of the
local. From the rank and file group
some more were recruited up until
the time of the strike, making
total of ten in the unit.
During ell Of this period, of
course, several attempts had been
made to emphasize the necessity of
establishing the Party on the job
by concentration on the American
Hawaiian, the Admiral and the
Matson docks. Just previous to the
strike, five workers we're recruited
from the Matson dock, but we're not
formed into unit until after the
strike started. Because of our fail
ure to sufficiently emphasize the
necessity Of building the Party on
the docks around job grievances, we
only succeeded in developing our
unit members into trade union &C
tivities against the takers in the
union. In that role they certainly
did a good job and we're the main
factor in forcing the officials to call
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-27
United Shoe Leaders of
Boston Hell p Bosses Put
Thru Wage-Cut Scheme
Refuse to Fight for the
Wage Increases as the
Agreement Expires
BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass.-On reporting to
work on Monday morning in several
shoe shops, the workers were told
to take their tools and leave until
further notice. In some shops they
were told that unless the union
agrees to a wage cut the shop will
either move, or shut down. In one
of these shops, the Harvard Shoe,
the crew Of 500 was given a wage
cut Of ~ per cent only last week.
No official reason for the lay-offs or
lockout has been given so far either
by the manufacturers or the union.
With several weeks off from the
expiration date of the present
agreement, August LIST, the shoe
manufacturers attempt to demoral-
ize by layoffs, lockoutS and de-
mands for reductions the ranks of
the shoe workers, who demand in-
creases in wages.
This situation came as a result of
the policy pursued by the Resident
General Executive Board and local
officials Of the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union, who in
stead of mobilizing the shoe work
ers for increases in wages for the
coming season, propose to renew
the present agreement and low wage
scales for another IS months, and
also agreed to wage cuts through
the regarding scheme.
The shoe workers are disguised
with the way things run, because
they expected that after the ANAL
gamation convention a real effort
will be made to prepare for a fight
for improved conditions and wage
increases. Many shoe workers be-
lieve that the real reason for the
layoffS or lockouts is to help in the
generalization of the shoe situa-
ton and help the General officials
to stampede the shoe workers into
the proposed 10 months agreement,
which carries with it the cut deci-
sion handed down by the hated
Board of Arbitration Of November
6, 1893.