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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
John Passios Tailoring
& Cleaning Boss Fires
WorkerW riting to NRA

BY Needle Worker Correspondent
I am employed by the John Passios
Tailoring and Cleaning establishment,
on Richmond Avenue. Port Rich
mond, Staten Island. Six weeks ago
the shoe polisher sent letter to the
MIRA. headquarters. The letter was
about the long hours we are working,
although the place is under the Mr.. A.
code. Our working hours are: tailorE,
SO IL hours, shoe makers, So hours,
six days a week. After a few days.
the boss received a letter from the
MIRA. He was very angry about it
and figured ways and means to get
rid of us.
He started with me because he
knows I am liberal and talk. The
other fellows are just little scared
yet. He told me to look for another
Job because my English is not so good.
lie did not say anything to the others.
He may try to get rid of us one at a
time.
I worked for this same boss for 6
years, also for his uncle at Hoboken
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

n the same line of business for II
years and never complaint about
my English.
He told me to look for another job,
then he reduced my hours to forty
and half hours a week. The other
workers are still on the long hours.
During the first week in August
when the Blue Eagle flew into his
place of business, he reduced my long
hours to IS hours per week according
to the N.R.A., but the following week,
he thought nobody would bother
about what he was doing and raised
my hours to 81 1-2. Later the shoe
polisher sent letter in and the re-
suit was that he was told to look for
another job.
My trade is tailor. I am married,
have a wife and two children, sole
supporter Of four and get $25 per
week. I demand to get paid for the
hours I worked as mentioned since
the second week in August to the
present time, which amounts to over
290 hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
C.P. Calls for Daily
Drive
Says Follow Up Special
Issue Distribution
responsibility Towards the
Daily Worker

NEW YORK.-The N. Y. District
Secretariat of the Communist Party
in statement issued yesterday called
upon all Party members, workers and
readers Of the Daily Worker to fol-
low up the Tenth Anniversary edition
of the paper with a drive for per-
manent increase in circulation.
The splendid response of the Party
membership" said the statement,
and the sympathetic mass organiza-
tons to the distribution of 100000 of
the special birthday edition of the
Daily Worker must not be allowed to
lag after the Tenth Anniversary of
the Daily" The fact that tens of
thousands of New York workers have
been reached with the special edi-
ton, many of them for the first time,
necessitates following up this mass
distribution with a real energetic
drive for permanent readers.
1.-THE District Secretariat of the
Communist Party" the statement
concludes, appeals especially to the
Communists in the shop and to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

We publish today two commune
cations dealing with the Daily
Worker. The first is a statement
from the Pittsburgh District Com
mittee regarding the neglect and
responsibility of the Pittsburgh
comrades in handling the special
bundle of the 'Daily" which con-
tanned the resolution of the Mining
Conference on the work in the
mining fields.
responsibility Towards the
Daily Worker
Three weeks ago the Communist
Party held a Special Mining Con-
ference in Pittsburgh to map out a
policy Of struggle for the mining in
dustry. The conference adopted a
resolution containing this policy.
The conference decided to print the
resolution in the Daily Worker, and
to make mass distribution of this
issue of the DAILY" in order to make
the resolution known to the miners.
The resolution was printed in the
December 23rd issue of the Daily"
Each District of the Party in the
mining industry ordered special
bundle of the Daily" The Pitts
burgh District ordered 1000 copies.
The bundle of 1000 copies of the
Daily" arrived in Pittsburgh Dec. %,
about 2:30 pm. Although we have
in Pittsburgh the leading Party
Fraction in charge of the entire
mining work, including the Daily
Worker, and although we have in
Pittsburgh Daily Worker apparatus,
the 1000 copies of the DAILY were
laying at the Pennsylvania Railroad
Station until Tuesday, Dec. 26. Even
after the delivery of the Daily in
the field, still several hundreds of
copies are to be found in the Pitts
burgh office of the DAILY"
Realizing that this scandalous event
does not express simply neglect and
responsibility on the part of the re-
sponsible comrades, but a serious
political underestimation of the role
of the Daily Worker in the struggles
Of the miners, as well as the under
estimation Of the entire mining
work, the District Secretariat called
to an account all the responsible
comrades and made 1t plain that the
repetition Of this scandal will not be
tolerated. AS a result definite ar
engagements have been made for
regular sale Of the DAILY" in the
mining fields. with definite response
bility Of individuals, in order to in
crease the circulation Of the DAILY"
among the miners.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE,
COMMUNIST PARTY,
Pittsburgh District.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Speedily RObS
Weidemann Dye
Workers Of Pay
BY a Textile worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
PATERSON, N. i'm Weide-
mann's Dye Works the bosses are
doing everything they can to make
speed-up, and to keep the workers
home two or three days a week.
They let the smaller steady-pay bosses
do the work, While the workers who
need the work stay home. One of
these small or steady-pay bosses said
that someone ought to send letter
to General johnson and tell him
what the company was doing. He
also said it was against the N. r. A.
for a boss to DO the work Of a
worker. And the great chairman of
the A. F. of L., Joe The Rat" Liss,
hasn't done anything about it yet.
When anyone in the Joe The Rat"
shop meeting brings up anything
about the working conditions or about
the small pay they get, Joe gets big
hearted, and tells them to sit down,
it will be taken up later. But it is
not taken up at all.
It looks like ice does not care how
little the pay is as long as he gets
his per cent of the dues for his
trouble Hey, Joe, why not start the
New Year off right by thinking OF
your fellow workers and not of your
self so much, as you did in the past.
Show the workers you are not yellow,
by going over the heads of the A. F.
Of L. to elect a shop committee of
both unions in the shop, so we can
fight side by side against the bosses.
The pays are as small now as they
were before the strike in the Dye
Shops. The conditions are getting
worse, and if this keeps up some
thing is going to happen again. When
you can't pay your rent and buy
food for the family it makes you
think twice. The way the workers
are talking, it looks like they will not
take it much longer.
Every worker should learn more
Of the class struggle. The best way
to learn is to read the Daily Worker
every day. You can get it at 3 Gov
ernor St. or 222 Paterson St, the
Workers Center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
PARTY LIFE
Pittsburgh Neglect Of Daily"
Is 4 Serious Political Mistake
Rank and File Cleveland Yorker ShOros HOSO the
Daily Yorker Can Be Brought to Masses

The second communication, .
letter from a rank and file comrade
from Cleveland. offers a pleasant
contrast to the attitude Of the
Pittsburgh comrades. This attitude
towards the Daily Worker is what
is necessary on the part Of all our
comrades, to gain for our paper
the mass circulation for which we
are striving,
I and another comrade were as
signed by my unit to carry out every
Sunday house to house canvass for
the Daily Worker. The canvasSing
is in the Negro neighborhood of East
Bath st.
Although not long in the Party,
was somewhat hesitant if I should
be able to answer all questions work
ers would put to me.
Canvassing for our Daily" Is a
pleasant task, if one know how to
do it. The way to acquire the skill
is through experience. I have learned
to do it and intend to continue every
Sunday. The comrade assigned with
me has done considerable work for
the Daily" before and acquired an
exceptional skill in obtaining subs and
selling the Daily" She gifted with
the power Of explaining our program
in language and expression in the
highest degree clear and simple, adj
justing herself to every family &C.
cording to their problems and griev-
ances.
In some homes we find Negro work
ers inclined to be suspicious to the
LID. for not yet obtaining the free
dom of the nine Scottsboro Negro
boys; others on questions of religion,
after the fashion Of workers who are
still under the bosses influence. In
spite Of the deepening Girls and mass
misery In the Scovill section, there
are workers who nouriSh suspicion to
wards our revolutionary organiza-
tons. I am able to explain only by
the fact that these workers have been
isolated from our revolutionary or
CARNATIONS. The house to house can
wasting for our Daily will draw
these workers closer to our movement.
Not only getting ubs and selling the
DAILY" but have chance to diScuss
with workers their problems and
grievances and draw them into our
movement. One woman told lis that
she was tortured by suspicion Of our
Party, but now she understands better
and thanked us heartily, she will ex-
change the Pittsburgh Courier for the
Daily Worker.
A word to the new members In
the Party. Attach yourself to an old
er comrade and visit the homes Of
the workers with the Daily Worker.
1t is an excellent training school for
a new member. The toiling masses
look to us for leadership and advice.
let us give them by making them
readers to our Daily" We must
bring the organized experience OF our
struggles to the workers, in the shops,
and houses, meeting places, etc, in
order to bring about a closer union
with the wide masses. r. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Daily" Going Into
Six Very Important
GIOverSville Mills

GEOVERSVILLE. N. Y-One of
the lessons that the Ieather-workers
in Gloversville have learned during
their militant, heroic strike, is about
the strike-breaking role that is
played by the press. We have
learned that the Leader Republi-
can" and Morning Herald" are
owned and controlled by the leather
and glove manufacturers and no
thing is being published without
their knowledge and consent. These
papers have actually melted lynch
sentiment against the militant and
self-sacrlficing leaders of our strike,
especially against Solomon. We
have learned that whenever our
president, Carr, or Brother Taylor,
pave a statement to the press. these
statements were always miscon-
strued against the strikes.
1t was only through the Daily
Worker that we learned the real
truth about the struggles of the
workers. 1t is only through the
Daily Worker that we learned about
the lies in the capitalist newspapers
against the militant fight of the
workers. Many of those who now
read the Daily Worker cid not real
ize this before, and were against the
DAILY" and the Communists. But
now the workers see that only if we
build the Daily Worker in every mill.
will we be able to develop real
fighters who will be able to defend
the union against the attacks of
the bosses.
We have established the following
system Of building the Daily: We
have the Daily Workers come direct
ly into mills, which means that a
comrade gets bundle of the Daily
Worker, whether it be five or ten,
and that comrade, who is usually
working in theanill, sells this paper
every day during lunch hour to the
same workers in the mill. So the
paper does not come to the mill
from the outside, but from the in
side.
This will serve as the basis for
the organization of shop nuclei in
the mills. There are six important
mills that are getting the Daily
Worker. We expect to increase it
to at least Is. with larger sized bun
dies. And this will serve as a basis
to build the Party and develop new
cadres for the union.
L. Lewis.
signature authorized.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
I'D q
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I4#AN .:s:2 q. Ggz1- "a
c. Quoted 81
HELEN LUKE

W-fr9 +, the Picture Today in the
Grest American Home?
Several times we have
pointed out that the economic
conditions under which we now
suffer, Inevitably, under CAPT
talisrnl, create an immeasurable
amount of Inieery among the youth
Of the land, those of marriageable
age, who should normally mate at
this time and have their own homes
and children, but who cannot be-
cause they have no jobs, no income,
nothing definite to look forward to.
THIS army Of young people must
be brought to realize that this con
clifton can only be abolished by the
abolition Of capitalism: when they
clearly perceive this, they will be
the best fighters in the interest Of
socialism. Here are true case his
torres. TYPICAL examples of the state
Of affairs in thousands of American
homes brought about by this enforced
idleness and singleness Of young
PEOPLE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
/. Miller Helped
by A. F. l. Agents
to Break Promise

tBy a Shoe Worker Correspondent
NEW York; is six weeks since
I. Miller workers called off the strike
on National Labor Board decision.
The N. L. B. decision was to call
off the strike and 7. Miller should
reinstate all the workers without
discrimination, and on Jan. 2, 1884,
the I. Miller workers should have a
vote on which union they should
choose.
Does the boss abide by the N. L. B.
decision? No. After the strike was
called off, 1. Miller only reinstated
some of the workers and forced them
to Join with the Boot and Shoe
(scab) Union. The foremen of the
shop we're instructed to make the
militant workers sit in the factory
and wait for work until first the
scabs were given days work. Some
Of the workers complained to the
superintendent, and he told them if
they don't like the conditions they
should take their tools and go home.
Some Of the workers tainted in I.
Miller's office before they got their
jobs back. Many are still left out.
The agents Of the Boot and Shoe
(scab) Union called a meeting in the
factory and forced the workers to
attend. The agent of the Boot and
Shoe (scab) Union, with the help of
some stool-pigeons, made a speech on
the article that the Socialist" For
ward wrote, stating that it isn't
necessary for workers to go out on
strike; and that al the workers have
to do is to tell the boss they want
to have a union or a raise, and they
will get it without any trouble.
Bonnie from the lasting depart
ment mentioned about the 10 per
cent increase the workers got before
they went out on strike. But he
didn't mention that only few ia
vored workers got the increase and
others were forgotten.
Does I. Miller and his agents still
think they will be able to convince
the workers that the misleading lies
are true, after all the experience
the workers had?. I, as a member
Of the I. Miller shop, advise all the
shoe workers to unite and fight for
the only union that is of the rank
and file, the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Letters from Our Readers

Unemployment Insurance, which at
this time is one of the central de-
mandS of American workers. To him
ANY government devoid of graft is
good government"
Instead Of bringing forward class
struggle demands for Unemployment
Insurance, for adequate relief for the
unemployed, against the N. r. A.,
etc.,-he conducted the campaign on
such opportunist slogans, as-city air.
ports and golf courses, more pay for
the police force!
He refused to carry out Party de-
cisions. He refused to accept Party
control over his election campaign.
1t is clear that France is not a
Communist, and that he is not fit
to be member of the Communist
Party,-not until he makes a fun
damental turn, acknowledges and
tries to correct his errors, and under
stands and accepts fully the Com
munist Party program, tactics and
discipline.
ID. E., Unit Organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
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AS. to the reducing" girile ana
brassiere, 1t Is colossal swindle. No
garment can cause a reduction Of
weight. The particular girdle YOU
have in mind is made of rubber and.
therefore, Is decidedly injurious 10
the skin.
We must decline to meet your
chiropractic friends, owing to lack OF
time and inclination. We have met
sufficient number of them and our
mind has been made up long ago
regarding chiropractic.
AS to your friend who wishes to
take up chiropody, we believe that she
is not too old; but should like to see
her before we can pass an opinion
as to her adaptability to this branch
OF medicine. Regarding your re-
marks about the Memorial Hospital.
we wish to state that if we were suf-
fering from cancer, we would not
hesitate to apply for treatment in
that institution. 1t is your privilege
to prefer chiropractic treatment. un-
der the same circumstances; but we
have a suspicion that you won't!
Bronchitis and Asthma
L.BN., Youngstown. O.-Your two
diseases are probably only one:
bronchial asthma. You must have
yourself tested in one of the Allergic
Clinics to find out the cause. Some
times it is due to a certain food or
to breathing in certain substances
which bring about the attack. Ultra
violet radiations and injections Of
calcium Qime) often helps this con-
dition. We doubt whether you could
be promptly cured after having had
the disease for fifteen years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
FROM AN EX-SOCIALIST
New York City

New York City.
Dear Comrades:
AS an ex member Of the Socialist
Party, I would take this opportunity
to predict, that with the passing Of
this election, so passes the remains
Of what was once a greatly Party, the
Socialist Party. The influx of the
Socialist membership into the Com
munist Party, will exceed your most
optimistic expectations, what with
the sel-out of Ramsay Mcdonald of
England, the Socialist Parties of
Italy, Germany, just at time when
a Sorely troubled world expected great
results from them.
A sadly disillusioned Socialist mem
bersnip comes home to the Conmu-
nistic approach, to hopes of better
world through socialism, a hope OBJ
viously never to be realized through
the ballot box controlled by the
gangSter's gun and blackjack, and
understanding methods of those now
in power.
And so, Comrades, I thank YOU
for the privileges of membership in
your Party, and promise that as red
fire produces heat, I will endeavor
through such intensity of thought
and writing as is within me to so
work in the interests of World
Soviet as will help in at least my
small way, towards the speedy real
ization of our hopes of world brother
hood, where profit shall have no
meaning in the scheme of things
but where Man shall strive in mu-
tual cooperation and harmony for
the highest and best in man.
ROBERT DAVIDSON, !
Post 191-WESL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

against other Party members Of being
spies and of Incorporating Daily
Worker funds. They have even
visited Daily Worker readers and
sympathizers and tried to prejudice
them against the Daily Worker agent,
Comr. Atkins, and asking them to get
the paper through one of them
Through Childs).
All workers and Daily Worker
readers should beware of these two
diSrupters and slanderers. Give no
credence to their lies about the Dis
trict leadership of the Communist
Party, or about the Party organiza-
ton in Omaha breaking up. We have
a stronger and better Party organiza-
ton in Omaha now, than ever before.
HID. M.
for the Unit Buro.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Conditions Worse
in Lane-COtton Mil
(By a Worker Correspondent)

NEW ORLEANS, lathe condi-
tons in the Lane mill are constantly
getting worse. Nowadays the fore
men stand all day long behind GER
tain Of the workers, to drive them
all the harder to do the slave work.
Some of the workers do not want
to think of joining any union for
a long time because they we're so
badly cheated by the A. F. Of T..
But I will try to meet some of the
other workers and show them that
the National Textile Workers Union
is the remedy for their evil condi-
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
(By a White Collar Worker
Correspondent

BROOKLYN, N. Y-There are
some workers in Flatbush Section of
Brooklyn that do their part against
the N. R. A. Going to work every
morning by the I. R. T. from Brook
lyn to Grand Central, during the
last two months, must have picked
up about dozen Daily Workers, and
educated myself before I knew it.
And all the good things that I ever
learned are from the Daily Worker,
and I became ass-conscious
worker. Yes, I became a so-called
Red" and proud Of it! very proud!
Now am a steady reader of the
Daily Worker. Every single morning,
no matter where am must have
my paper.
An american Concern
7 happened to be one of the most
exploited white-collar slaves of
Rogers Peet Co. shipping clerks
what dignified name the bosses
gave us)-what slaves spending our
lives in dark dungeon, called a
basement, just like a plain ordinary
rat. And this happened to be the
most brutal and reactionary COM
pany. They called themselves Amer
lean Concern" Christian Concern -
can you beat that, what a joke!
The only Christian thing they do
is this: Our Red Head Manager comes
to US just before Christmas and says
Merry Christmas to you all. That's
all, but the rest Of the year they
rush you to death, faster and faster
and faster That's all you hear from
the Red Head, never enough, always
too slow.
A Boss Tool
Yes, we have the meanest man
ager you ever could think Of; all he
wants US to do is spy on our fellow
workers; he wants us to be stool
pigeons. Yes he is a good tool of the
bosses, all right.
And what wages we receive for all
this slavery? After the week is over,
we haven't enough money left to buy
a shoestring to hang ourselves if we
want to After working for years at
terrific speed for this grand Chris
tian concern, 7 find myself exactly
in the same fix as I was Just when
I started to work for this lousy out
fit; while the Bosses pile uD millions.
They always kick about the business;
we have to cut the expenses. That's
the bcloCey the Red Head peddles
to us. CTell this to Sweeney
We, the two undersigned comrades,
make G Hew Year resolution. The
bosses are always for themselves; we
must valIe UD and know our class,
End be for ourselves. To he'll with
the Bosses from now on, no matter
What Happens. No more spying on
5r f"'lcw workers. We are goinT to
du~-b we GO not know any
r~ the wise alec Red Head
- find cut something about
lop. he has got to do the dirty
41S himself
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
VIM. H. FRANCE is NOT A
COMMUNIST

PORTLAND, Me. - The Portland
unit of the Communist Party, with
the approval of the district organiza-
ton Of the Party, has expelled VIM.
H. France, former candidate to the
City Council of Portland in the last
elections, for an opportunist refusal
to bring forward the Party platform
in the elections.
He started out with objections
against using the name of the Com
munist Party in the election cam
paign. He dropped the demand for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Shoe Union in Chelsea Takes
Steps to Rank and File Control
Temporary Coordination Committee of Seven
Replaces BurOcratic Officers

approval of the rank and file.
The sentiment of the shoe workers
is very strong for a rank and file con-
trolled union, but they must be made
to realize that only through a shop
committee form of union and the
election of honest and militant rank
and file workers as their officials will
they have real control over their or
ganization. Therefore, it must be the
duty of all militant shoe workers in
Chelsea land for that matter every
where to fight for the shop commit
tee form of union, and to convince
their fellow workers that this is the
correct policy and the only way to
win their demands for increased pay
and better working conditions.