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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
AL Officials Arrange
Strike Not to Harm
Leather Goods Boss
BY a Worker Correspondent

DIV NUTkCT Correspondence
BRONX, N. Y.-Pve been vaca-
tioning in the House Of Joy, a
mountain hotel upstate. While
there, I made acquaintance with
the employer of Esseff Bag &C.,
40 E. 18th st. In discussion that
we had, including some other
people, on communism and wind
ing up with trade unionism, this
employer let slip the following in
formation:
The workers who are members
of the A. F. of L. leather workers
union demanded that the rnicn
declare strike in busy season
against poor working conditions.
This employer said, referring to
the officials: "They are good
boys! They let the employers as
ISOLATION know. who phoned me
and told me that strike is to
come off in my shop. They asked
me when it would be best for me.
And / said of course in September,
a week before the season ends.
On the set day the business agent
II believe) came and ordered
loudly that / cut eff the power.
The workers stopped work. Well.
they were cut on strike. have
meanwhile finished all my or
ders. I did not lose a cent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
Bosses Couge Food Workers
Schrafft's Workers Get
Dollar a Day, Pay
Heavy Fees
BY a Food Worker CORRESPONDENT

| BY Food Worker correspondent
The first thing a worker does
when hired by Schrafft's as waiter
is to PUNK down $1,000 as part pay
ment on his uniform. The company
charges $500 for the uniform. An
other firm makes the identical uni
form for $500 but the company
insists that you get the uniform
from them for $500.
The next trick is the insurance
item. Fifty cents month is taken
out of your pay envelope for insur-
ance.' There are about 1900 workers
in Schraffts. It's downright rob-
bery
understand that according to
N. Y. State law, corporations are
compelled to pay $500 week to
sick employee after the second week
Of sickness. But like many other
corporations, Schrafft's takes 1t out
of the hides of the workers.
If the worker were to bring these
facts to the attention of the boss,
he would undoubtedly be fired for
'inefficiency." These democracy"
loving bosses will resort to anything
to maintain their democratic" right
to dictate the conditions of employ
ment. They operate on the prin-
ciple: What you can't make on
the customers, get out of the help"
1t is only after training from six
weeks to two months that the new
walters get a regular station. The
initial $1,000 down payment on the
uniform helps keep the worker from
quitting. The investment of time
and money is at the workers ex-
pense of course.
Many years ago, before the crisis,
a fellow was willing to put up with
the company's tyranny because he
could get about $500 to $500 a
week. Now, waiter is lucky to get
his dollar day. 1t may improve a
bit with the cold weather, but most
of the men expect q tough winter.
In the present situation, the men
are becoming more vocal in their
resentment against the tyranny of
the managers, who are rejecting on
the workers the pressure exer.ed on
them by young Shattuck, son of the
president of the company. Old
Shattuck was a liberal. He wasn't
crude. He ROBBED his workers
with a soft hand clever one.
Young Shattuck has had his man
ayers organize pep talks" where the
attitude is constantly taken: do
this, or :"
It's nice to be born in the right
family You may have graduated
from the same university that Shat
tuck did, but if you made the mis-
take of being born in a working
class family, or of working your
way through school, or of not being
able to join the proper fraternity,
etc, then you're just out of luck.
The N.S.L. should have few of
it's members involved in trade union
work for the F.WI.U. The major
ity of Schrafft's walters are of that
type.
The men are ripe for organiza-
toni
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
W omen Work 48 Hours
For $500 Wages in
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Ry a Worker CORRESPONDENT

McKEES ROCK, Pain 1888 when
the N.R.A was Matched by the blue
eagle, the whole Wall Street and
Washington government rejoiced
because it was the birth of new
slave act for the workers and more
profits for the big bosses. AS the
eagle began to perch in every win
dow of various large business houses,
then the bosses and managers be-
gan their campaigns of empty
promises to their employees. This
also came from the heart of very
generous Mr.. Stouffer, who controls
ritzy restaurants where distin-
guished guests meet and eat. The
promises were plenty of everything
meaning good wages. meals and
ale, and a good time TO be had by
all. But the workers feel and see
it different.
The mattresses work 48 hours a
week at salary of 800. Tips are
permitted to be received, but must
be accounted for to the manager,
otherwise one is subject to dis
charge. If the waitress makes $500
a week in tips, then she has to pay
10 cents day to each five of the
bus girls that work under her. Three
dollars a week is taken from all
employees for meals whether one
eats or not, and the food is two to
three days old, and sometimes even
week. Ito is also deducted for
laundry from all the workers.
The bus girls receive 262 and
their work is 81 hours per week.
They receive 10 cents a day from
the waitress, but most weeks they
get nothing, and they have to take
it. That's the way the bosses boast
about their new blue eagle plan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
PARTY LIFE
District los ActiUity
In Mil Strike Analysed
Entire District, Embracing Three States, Had
Membership of 100 When Strike Began

militant and fearless fighters for
the strike.
2. Two shop papers have been is-.
sued 1--we pages each)-the Red
Cannon BALI at the Cannon Mills
in Concord, and THE Red Textile
Worker" at the Scheduled and
Dan River mills in Danville.
8. Local leaflets have been is.
sued in Concord, Danville and Bur-
lington, one advertising a mass pros
test meeting in Charlotte, and am
other a joint appeal issued by the
Young Communist League and the
Communist Party to the National
Guard.
4. Tens of thousands Of printed
leaflets-reprints of Daily Worker
editorials, have been distributed.
5. Over 1000 copies of the Daily
worker are distributed to the
strikers every day.
6. Many workers have been
brought closer to the Party, some,
already applying for membership,
and some have written to the dis,
trict asking for more information
about the Party. Contacts have
been established with former Party
members who "drifted away" but
now wish to come back into the
ranks Of the revolutionary move
ment.
7. CThe Party has sent and
organized the sending of many
protest kilograms to Governor ]. O.
B. birmingham, organized some lb-
eral protest; and in Charlotte a
mass protest meeting was called by,
the Party, This was broken up by,
the police and the district organ
izer threatened by a lynch gang of
mill deputies and policemen in
plain clothes.
8. The YCL. has been taking an
active part at Danville where there
is the only functioning Y.CL. unit
in the district excepting among the
sharecroppers. In Concord one
young comrsde distributed 200
copies Of the Daily Worker and Is
helping to build a Y.CL. unit
there.
There have been some shortcom-
ings and mistakes:
/. We failed to mobilize every
available force in the district for
activity in the textile area BEFORE
the strike actually started.
2. The district was too slow in
placing large orders for the Daily
Worker during the first two or
three days Of the strike.
8. Before the beginning of the
strike we did not sufficiently en-
phaSize the necessity of regular
Party unit meetings and dues pay
ments during the rush Of strike ac-
tivities. 1t is true that there are
frequent meetings to plan work
the Party and Y.CL. in Danville
having almost daily joint meetings
to plan immediate work; but dues
payments are forgotten"
Other lessons of the strike-both
achievements and shortcomings
will be discussed in other articles
by actual strikers as well as district
functionaries of the Communist
Party and Y.CL.
PAUL CROUCH, }
District Organizer, Dist. Is. J
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

The general textile strike placed
tremendous tasks and responsible
tiles on District 16, one of the
weakest, numerically, in our en-
tire Party. There are approx
mately 175,OOO textile workers in
the district-20,000 in Virginia,
$4,000 in North Carolina, $1,000 in
South Carolina. In this huge dis
trict the Party has dues-paying
membership of only about 100,
over half of this number being
in the Norfolk and Richmond sec
tons, which are outside of the
textile area. At the beginning Of
the strike we had members work
ing in IL textile mills. More than
half Of these had been in the
Party less than two months. So
far as we have been able to learn,
not one textile worker was getting
the Daily Worker on July 1. BY
Sept. about 40 textile workers
were daily readers of the Daily
Worker. With Party members in
only IL of the hundreds of mills
and only 40 Daily Worker sub
scribers out of the 175,0O0 textile
workers, the general strike began.
Were all of our Party members
in the U.T.W.? No. Because of an
ultra left" sectarian theology, few
of our comrades were in the
U.TW. Also, many comrades
thought there would be no strike.
They underestimated the power of
the rank and file of the union. But
instead of being inside to give
leadership to the rank and file, our
comrades we're outside of the union.
Today all Communist Party mem
bers actually employed in the mills
have joined the UTW. Though
the present district leadership in
general has fought against this
sectarian theology, in two places
Danville and Burlington-we made
the serious mistake of underesti-
mating the role the UT.W. would
play, on account of their very small
membership.
In spite Of all of these shortcom-
ings, the Party in District 16 has
played role in the strickland to-
day many workers realize the cor
rectness of the Party's position.
Distribution of thousands of leaf
let's and Daily Workers have done
much to encourage the rank and
file to continue mass picketing and
the organizing of flying squad
rons. The authorities in Concord
blame" the Communist Party for
the militancy of the workers there.
Leaders of the U.T.W. have admit
ted that "the Reds are the most
active on the picket lines" More
than one thousand copies of the
Daily Worker are being distributed
daily on the picket lines and at
mass meetings of the strikers. The
capitalist press Is carrying on a
vicious campaign against the Com
munist Party, melting terror and
lynch gangs.
The work of the District may be
summarized:
l. Individual members have tax
en- leading roles in Concord, Dan
vile, Burlington and elsewhere,
helping lead the strikes in their
own mills, organizing flying squad
rons. etc. They are regarded by
their fellow workers as the most
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
Barre Workers
Build Defense
Go m mittee
By a Worker Correspondent

BARRE, Vt.-The Barre branch
of the International Labor Defense
endorses plans for the immediate
building of a Barre Defense Com
mittee, and the permanent estab-
lishment thereof, for the following
purposes.
Cd To conduct extensive study
of last years strike, and prepare
report on weaknesses in defense
which permitted terror, denial Of
constitutional rights, attacks upon
homes, children leaving school
being gassed, brutal beatings-up OF
strike leaders and pickets, terroriz-
ing of local storekeepers, and the
Imprisonment of pickets for long
terms. To show in such a report
how the prisoners could have been
set at liberty by refusal of the
strike committee to negotiate with
the employers before all charges
against militant strikers were
dropped and all strike prisoners
set free.
(2-a) To prepare for a future
strike the Barre Defense Committee
will carry on a broad and extensive
campaign of education as to the
tactics of the capitalist press, strike
betrayers, red scare propaganda,
etc.. so that the workers of Barre
will be ready in advance for the
tricks the bosses will pull from
their bag. Educate the workers
and small shopkeepers in advance
so that they will know just what
the rank and file committees are
and what means will be employed
to deceive the public by the reac-
tionaries and enemies of organized
labor. This is to be done through
a series of mass meetings and
leaflet distribution and work within
the unions and fraternal organi-
cations.
CD Establish defense corps for
the protection of militant leaders,
pickets, the homes of strikers, and
school children, local shopkeepers,
etc. Have these guard units
equipped with automobiles, with a
headquarters equipped with a tel
ephone, ETC., so that cruising patrols
will be on call.
(c) Have bail money on hand for
cases where we do not act quickly
enough to prevent arrests, and
train workers in self-defense in the
courts.
cd Be prepared 10 issue frequent
bulletins on mimeograph for wide
distribution during the strike.
(e) Be ready to conduct cam
paigns with the aid of leaflets and
speakers in towns from which out
side National Guard regiments may
be sent, to the end that the work.
ers in such localities will demand
the return of such regiments.
~ Broaden the committee so as
to include many workers now out
side the I. L. D. branch from other
organizations. Popularize the com
mittee. Obtain the endorsement of
the unions, fraternal organizations,
small shopkeepers, etc, by collect
ing petitions and funds for support
of same.
JACK WILGUS.
(Signatllfe authoriZed)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
Boot &c Shoe
Union ActiUe
Only on Dues
By a Shoe Worker Correspondent

By a Shoe Worker Correspondent
LONG ISLAND CITY, am a
worker at I. Miller, in the fitting
room department, and can't i'm
agine how workers can stand the
abuse from the foremen. We had
a very short season, and the earn
ingS We have here do not cover
the expenses.
Now it sslow here, and It is
impossible to stand what is 60
ing on in the I. Miller fitting de-
partment. There is no such thing
as equal division of work. Some of
the foremen's favorites get some
work and the rest are simply COM
ing day in and day out. They come
and go home, not making even the
car fare they spent, and the agent
Of the Boot and Shoe Union has
the nerve to come to collect the Is
cents dues from the starving work
ers, although we are having open
shop conditions. I wonder how long
we can tolerate such things.
N0TE-The workers in I. Mil
Ter can stop this discrimination
which the fOremen are practicing.
1t is the job of the union to pro-
tect the wOrkerS-to see that
fbarn &c auuaJ d;1rfs;o,, - ,,r,,.Ir
The officials of the B.S.U. are not
fighting for the workers. Only
the workers themselves can make
their union effective. But they
can do this if they take leader
skip into their own hands, and out
of the hands of the Boot and
Shoe grafterS, who pull out the
Is cents dues from workers who
don't even make their car fare.
BY organizing into a group and
opposing the leaders, who work
hand in hand with the bosses by
forcing them to go to the bosses
and demand equal division of
wOrk-higher wages. The work
ers can begin to turn the Boot
and Shoe Union into rank and
file union of the workers. Work
ers in other factories which have
the Boot and Shoe are already
organized into opposition groups.
You should know more about this
movement.
Write to the A. F. of L. Trade
Union Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Relief, l
Union So, N. Y. c.
The committee will be glad to
talk with you or answer your
letter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

be brought on and one must undergo
almost exactly the same pains as
when giving birth.
The bringing on Of premature
labor about the 4th month is a diff
ficult and dangerous procedure. It
may cost your life, leaving your two
children without a mother to care
for them or may leave you an in
valid, with the subsequent doctor
bills which you can i'll afford.
In the long run 1t is unquestion-
ably safer and saner and less costly
to have another boy. Save the
money that you intended to spend
on the operation to feed your IN
dernourished children. When it is
time to have your baby, we believe
that city the size of Davenport
should have provisions for delivering
women that cannot afford to have
private care. This, no doubt, is the
best plan for you to follow and there
will be no regrets when it is all over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
Is LeukOrrhea CatchIng7

A. G. NJ. CleveIand:-The subject
Of leukorrhea was discussed in the
column, August 31st. There are two
points you ask about, however, that
were not discussed in that article.
1t is not dangerous for a man to
marry a woman who has leukorrhea.
Only if a woman has a discharge
due to gonorrhes, may she transmit
the infection to her husband. Dis
charges due to other causes are not
catching.
One must not be too easily dis
couraged in treating for ,leukorrhea.
The condition sometimes Yields
slowly but as a general rule when
treatment is continued conscien-
tiously, most discharges can be
cleared up by proper local treat
ment. Rarely is an operation neces-
sary, except when the discharge Is
due to some growth on the womb or
to an extensive tear following child
birth that needs repair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

Chicago women in the fight against
the rising cost Of living, section
two, the line "and groups of men
from the shops to get together and
send delegates should have read
land groups of women in the
shops" etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (I5c) in
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
NOTE

We publish letters from textile,
needle, shoe and leather workers
every Wednesday,. We urge work
ers in these industries to write us
of their conditions of work and
their efforts to organize. Please
ct these letters to us by Monday
of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

Our Readers Must spread the
Daily Worker Among the Members
of All Mass and FraternaI Organ
nations AS a Political Task OF First
Importance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 2034 is available only in
sizes IA, Is, IS, 20, 80. "a, SO, 80,
40, AZ and A. Size Is takes Az
yards 36 inch fabric and 77s yards
binding. Illustrated step-by step
sewing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26

and the workers of Esseff Bag
Co. lost the strike.
hope this information reaches
these workers in particular and
other confused workers in gen
eral about the A. r. of L. leaders
in this leather workers union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
And Capitalism Calls Abortion
Criminal

There is not much risk in having
an abortion performed providing it
is done before the tenth week OF
pregnancy and also providing the
operator is skillful and the opera
tion is done under clean conditions.
On the other hand, after the 18th
week Of pregnancy the risk is very
great. At this time a simple curet-
tags or a scraping out Of the preg-
nancy cannot be done with any de-
gree Of safety. Actual labor has to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
The 100000 Coal

RECEIVED SEPT. 24 8 800. 40 4,
PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED 7602.83 |
TOTAL TO DATE 8203.33 |
DISTRICT (Boston)
L w Feuer MARROW NH 500 |
Evening star., 1934-06-27
Report Red Sox Troubles.

"A MEXICAN LEAGUE players are
n telling that all is not sunshine
and sweetness among the Boston
Red Sox. According to informantS.
Lefty Grove and Wes Ferren Go very
much as they please. 1t is related
that Grove seldom botherS to put on
a uniform on the days when he is not
working and that Ferrell also sits out
the dav after he has pitched.
OF course. there may be very GOOD
reason for the pitchers enjoying un-
usual privileges. Groves arm mas
been ailing all season and the
strength of Ferrell's pitching machin-
cry still is doubtful. Talking OF
Grove and Ferrel. one American
League player declared, They could
hit YOU in the head with their fast
ball and you wouldn't even get a
headache ~
Since Tom Yawkey has something
like sl5O,0OO wrapped up in the Two
pitchers. it may be they have peen
told to take it easy and protect What-
ever cunning is left in their once
GREAT arms. For Grove it can be
said he never shirked when WORKING
for Connie Mack and it's unlikely ne
would pamper himself now without
good reason; the tall Marylander
likes to win games too much to take
an easy out. 49,.
It's a lucky thing for the other
clubs in the American League that
Grove and Ferrell are not the pltch-
ers they were two years ago. Other-
wise, the Red Sox would be miles out
in front of the crowd.
Evening star., 1934-06-27
20 YEARS AGO
NTASHNGTON yesterday Ii
IN THE STAR

WAsH1NGToN yesterday lost
two games to the Athletics,
6-5 and 90. The second con-
test went to Philadelphia by for
felt, Umpire Chill awarding it
when he charged Pitcher Joe En-
gels delivery was Illegal. Mana
ger Clark Griffith and Germany
Schaefer were suspended indefi-
nitely by President Ban johnson Of
the American League for their part
in the controversy which ensued.
R Norris Williams, I'd, and Will
liam T. Tilden, jr., were among the
players to advance in the Phila-
delphia and District lawn tennis
championships yesterday at the
Germantown Cricket Club,
Among those mentioned in Rod
and Stream news are Capt. Bill
Towers. Maynard Henson, Tasker
Edmonds. G.. l.. Mothershead, John
Towers, Bernard Harrison. Robert
Henson, Guy Miller, George Ed
monds, Shelby Speake, Sam Corn
well, George Vass, Louis Barghaus-
en-, Adam A Weschler, James
Richmond, Harry A. Hegarty and
NJ. NJ. Fieles.
Hartford Midgets defeated the
Langdon A. c. base ballerS, 16-1.
Hird. pitching for the winners. al
lowed no hits and famed II.
Piene for the victors hit single,
double and triple
Columbia won the eight-oared
varsity Poughkeepsie race. with
Cornell capturing the junior and
freshman races.
The Aggies defeated War, 80, to
tighten their hold on first place in
the Departmental League.
Becker and Cole, pitching for
Waverly. held Kenilworth, leader
in the Central League, at bay,
while Waverly nicked Harmon,
Kenilworth hurler, for seven bin
giles. Fitzgerald, Moran, Becker
and Tuohy each made two
base hit.
Evening star., 1934-06-27
Owners Want Winners.

O'Farreu of Cincinnati has not
satisfied the fans in Rhlneland and
Charlie Grimm of the Cubs will con-
tinue to be on the spot despite P. K.
Wrigleys words of assurance to the
Bruin boss. The future of Walter
johnson at Cleveland, BucEy Harris
at Boston and Joe Cronin at Wash
ington depends entirely upon the fin
ish of their teams, for the owners OF
those teams are not people to daily
with a manager who does not produce
satisfying results. Managing major
league ball club in these days, when
it takes a winner to fetch the GUS
toners. is as perilous as being king
of Balkan State.
Most ball players believe Pie
Traynor Will make a good manager
and the players are not going to Judge
him on where the Pirates finish this
season. TraynOr is smart ball
PLAYER. one of the smartest in the
game, and has a personality that Will
hold the loyalty of his men. George
Gibson. who grew up in the rough,
tough old days of the game. was not
particularly tactful in his handling OF
men or his relations with the public.
"Gibby' knew base ball but SEEM
ingly could not teach it and did not
get the most of his men, particularly
in 1893. when the Pirates were the
classiest looking team in the National