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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
By a Marine Worker CORRESPONDENT

ny MARINE worker correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, La.-On Tues
day, Arril 18th, at 7 am. the crew
of the S. S. Robin Hood. after having
prepared the night before, went on
strike. The mate upon arrival in
New Orleans on Monday afternoon
had announced TO the crew that
their wages would be cut by $40. The
answer Of the crew, with the excep-
ton of the licensed men, was to
Immediately prepare for strike &C
ton.
The steam to the winches was
shut off for but an hour as the en-
gineers, with the exception of the
End assistant pulled guns and ran
the flremen, out of the flreroom.
The captain and company agents
had called the police and the riot
squad answered and were posted on
the dock by the gangway and on
the ship.
The seamen on the beach answered
to the call of the union through
two different leaflets, for picket duty.
Many potential scabs were stopped
from going to the ship. Some that
had been sent by the head Office of
the company had the passes taken
from them and torn up.
The plan of the strike committee
was for the crew to remain on the
ship until driven off by the police,
and then Join in active picketing Of
the ship with the others. At about
noon every man aboard was paid off
After this, instead of remaining on
board as long as possible, every man
with his bags went ashore. Instead
of joining the pickets they went
straight to the bus station to get
tickets for out of town. Every one of
them did this, with the exception of
four, of which two remained on the
ship scabbing, and one in the hos
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04

The members attending this
functionaries meeting pledge to
carry out by August l the following
control tasks:
l. Build the Y. C. L. up to
membership of 500. Particular
stress to be laid on building the
League among shop workers. work
ers in unions and in the Scovil area.
2. Build Y. G. L. shop nuclei on
a functioning basis at the Otis Steel
and Fisher Body.
3. Build up youth committees
in the revolutionary unions and
make a start in developing oppo-
sition youth work in the A. F. of L.
4. Build youth sections and or
CARNATIONS of the Unemployed
Councils, Small Home and Land
Owners Federation, and language
movements.
5. Work forward to successful
Anti-War Youth Conference on
May 5, aimed at setting up a per-
manent youth movement against
war, at developing a powerful
National Youth Day action, at fur
thering our struggle among the
youth, against war and fascism
The entire Party, and through its
fractions, the mass organizations,
are to be modified to make Ma
tional Youth Day this year a truly
historical occasion in the modifying
of youth and adults in struggle
against war and fa5cism.
The period between now and the
National Convention of the Y. c.
L. June 15) will be utilized by
our Party as a period for intensive
work in the building of the Y G. l..
and the revolutionary youth move
ment. In order to guarantee that
these decisions. and control tasks
will not remain on paper, but will
be carried into life, the function
aries meeting calls on each unit and
section buro to check up on its
control tasks on the youth ques-
ton, at least once every month at
its meetings.
The functionarles meeting de-
clares that thorough change must
be made to guarantee that the
Party will give political leadership
to the Y, c. L.; that every unit
and section will give serious at
tention to involving youth in tbs
various Party and League cam
paigns, in working to develop strug-
giles around the specific issues fac
ing the youth, in working to build
up the Y. G. L. into mass or
ganization of the youth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
BY a Worker Correspondent

PHOENIX, Arlz. - On Friday
night, April 6, about $50 workers
gathered at the Workers Center
here to protest against C.W.A. lay
offs and drastic relief cuts. The
meeting was militant one and
enthusiastic. It voted to send p-o-
tests to Roosevelt, Hopkins, and to
the local Relief Director, Miss
Warner. Furthermore, a Provi-
sional Committee of the Unem-
ployed was elected from the floor
to participate in a United Front
demonstration before Miss Warmers
office the next Wednesday.
Significant about this meeting
was that Negro, Mexican, white and
Indian, rubbed shoulders. Speaking
was conducted in both English and
Spanish.
1t was truly inspiring to see old
pioneer types Of whites sitting be-
side Mexicans, Indians, Negroes.
There were tall lean whites and
short bronzed Mexicans. There were
tall raw-boned Indians and hand
some slender Mexican youth. And
they were men and women, young
and old, married and single. While
in the faces of all shone the fire
and determination to struggle in
solidarity for jobs and more relief
without discrimination.
Some shortcomings could be
pointed out. A chairman should
not make a speech every time he
introduces a speaker. Long winded
harangues drive workers away. We
must cut out the f1owery style Of
speech.
One worker who took the floor
was the youth organizer. This
comrade called upon the raw work
ers to join the Y.CL. A walk-out
began. To the sound of tramping
feet of fine old Arizonians, this
comraoe then called upon the youth
to organize, because" he said, ito
morrow, the young will rule the
world"
Most of the mistakes we're com
nlitted because of the greater error
of not calling a fraction meeting
beforehand. Comrades must learn
that grouping about a table five
minutes before meeting begins to
make up an agenda does not con-
stitute Fraction Meeting.
But the most serious error was
committed by a Party member who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
Children With Food
TicketSAreTreated
LikeLittIe COnvicts
(By a C. w. A. Worker Cor
reSp0ndent)

am on C.W.A. taking a school
census in N. Y. City, going from
house to house asking names of
parents and children, what school
the children are attending, etc. So
many of the families are destitute:
families of 10, 12 and IS children.
almost no furniture, children with
out shoes or coats. youngsters shift
ing for themselves every day while
their parents are out looking for
work.
Children were in bed trying to
keep warm no matter what time of
the day I called. No coal, maybe
loaf of bread in the house, or the
remains Of some relief food that
had turned bad. Boys under II
were often the only ones working in
a large family.
I never realized how good to me
those people were till was later
transferred to a mice" section. Al
ways the poor asked me in, very
often wanting me to share their
meagre food or insisted on giving
me tea or coffee if they had it.
In the neighborhood between
Williamsburg and Brooklyn I found
Gypsies, japanese, Chinese, Italians,
Syrians, many Negroes, mostly
Jamaica Negroes but few directly
from Africa.
During the Easter vacation I was
working in school where there is
relief station. The destitute
children with food tickets come there
even if there is no school. They
were forced to march like little con-
victs, not daring to say a word.
After reporting with their cards they
went to the table, took their half
orange or apple, small bowl of soup,
one sandwich, small cup of milk,
sat down and ate silently. If ever
there was the slightest talking they
were bawled at: "Shut up; hurry
up and eat and get out!" About
one-third of these children were in
a pathetic state of health: Waxy
skin, ricketts,, clothes so ragged they
were falling off their little bodies.
I often carried the Daily Worker
with me. You would be surprised to
know how many recognized it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
Indianapolis FIophouse Pays
so cents for 80 Hours Work

one plate Of food and only one side
dish of either prunes, raisins or
cocoa pudding The breakfast is
always oatmeal, except Sunday,
when they get eggs.
The only thing about their sick
room is that when a worker is
ordered to the sick room, he is
hardly ever visited by the house
doctor, but has to go to his office
on the lower floor, even though he
has pneumonia or typhoid fever or
any serious case.
If ordered on a milk diet it takes
three or four days to get milk from
the kitchen, then most of the time
they give you SKINNED milk, very
thin.
The Daily Worker is on sale here
regularly, at the Indiana Book Shop
and at the John Reed Club every
Friday night, third floor of Co.
lumbia Securities Building, corner
OF Delaware and Ohio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
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BY PAUL LUTT1NGER, MD.

seems to have a more permanent eff
feet.
1t is quite possible that the fam
Gus" movie stars are using Max
Factors makeup. We have no right
to doubt it, as long as they say SO
over their own signatures; but from
our knowledge of other advertising
schemes, we cannot help but be
somewhat skeptical. AS a matter OF
fact, there is no reason why they
should not use this particular
makeup; the cheapest and the most
expensive articles in this line have
exactly the same effect. The differ
ence between them is merely in the
perfume used and in the container.
the more expensive powders being
packed in specially scented paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
Group Speedily System
at Hyatt Roller Bearing
(By a Worker Correspondent

HARRISON, N. il am working
in the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co.
Conditions in our shop are very bad.
Speed up and firing for the least
little thing is on the order of the
day. The work is done in group
system and we never get more than
$lS week. This is true for all de-
partments.
Last Spring we were given five
per cent increase in wages, followed
by another ten per cent in the
Summer. This means that we
should get now at least $23 a week,
but instead of finding more money
in the pay envelopes we find less.
Somebody is pocketing the money.
The men are greatly dissatisfied
against these inhuman conditions.
1t is time to organize and build
real union like the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union. Only
this way can the men better their
conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
Nerve raCking
Speed fortunes
Telegraph Men
Simplex and Multiplex
Systems Add to
Burden
BY Telegraph Worker Corre-
spondent

NEW YORK.-There is only one
other line of work that is as nerve
wracking as the telegraph business,
and that imagine is the telephone
operators work.
Being under a continual strain,
10, II, IA and sometimes Is hours 2
day, there comes a time to let
loose and spread ourselves. Per-
haps we weren't in condition to re-
port for work, or couldn't find a
nickel in our pants pocket for the
telephone call to report off sick, "
and the company let's us out IN
tremendously. And maybe after
eating a bit of humble pie, we are
reinstated. I said maybe.
Or perhaps we have been a bit
too militant and would try to better
our conditions, and that would
certainly let us out as a disturbing
influence upon the other workers,
after which we could never eat
humble pie to get back. We bumped
around from one place to another;
from one railroad to another, gath
ering no moss, but gathering a lot
of experience.
We finally put on good front,
and try to get back to work among
the old cronies we used to know.
We find new faces in the chairs of
authority, but they have our
previous records in the books, and
we don't get the job, because we
were at one time too militant.
Consequently, not finding any
thing in our particular line, we
drop over to the "other" company,
the Postal Telegraph, and after
they are satisfied of our ability
they put us to work, but we don't
have the salary we used to COM
mand with the other company.
The difference usually runs from
$50 to $50 a month less. Our heart
isn't in the work. We know we are
getting gypped as to salary.
We can certainly Sympathize with
the workers in the steel mills, the
coal pits, the textile and auto
plants. for their valiant efforts to
slow down their speeding wheels of
top-speed production We who
have learned the new system of
telegraphing (simpleX, multipleO,
know what the speed-up means.
Not a minute to draw two full
breaths one after the other. Put
that light out" bawls one super
visor. Don't take that light, take
this one" bawls another, and good
ness knows there are enough super
visors to see that we are kept work
ing every minute of our hours of
duty. Anything to cut down the
cost of production.
There is only one solution to the
whole system, that is to keep on
trying to enlist the up and coming
workers who only know the ma
chine way of telegraphing. 1t is a
killing pace, and only by all of us
getting together, in one form Of
organization or another, for in
stance, the U. T. A. Omitted Tele-
graphers of America, can we dis
cuss our problems and make plans
for united militant action, for We
will never get a fair deal from this
so-called New Deal" The tenn
porary code shows us that.
We can and will make our eff
forts of organization felt the same
as the auto, steel, textile and other
militant workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
By a Young worker Correspondent

BY Young Worker Correspondent
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind arrived
here from farm in johnson
County about three weeks ago. I
was referred to the U. S. Transport
Bureau, 8 S. Senate. I was given
a two-meal ticket and flop, and
told to come back the next day.
I was interviewed by a case
worker, Miss Smith. She took my
past history and then gave me
relief work card good at the Cen
trail Housing Foundation. They i'm
mediately put me to work on
carpenter job at 80 hours week.
When pay day came two weeks
later, the envelope contained so
cents cash. They claimed the bal
ance of the money I earned went
for board and transportation and
$180 for clothes. I have made two
requests for clothes, and the case
worker has the CUTS to say that we
don't work for clothes but that they
only get clothes when we become
nude and actually need them.
The case workers go well-dressed,
from Gov McNutt and Rep. Book
on down to the flop house office
force, and enjoy their fine offices
furnished out of Roosevelt's New
Deal" money. The regular slaves
are taken out on the highway work
and P. w. A. projects at pick and
shovel work and general carpenter
work, painting and surveying and
drafting jobs. Skilled or unskilled
get their same so cents cash at the
end Of the week.
The workers board consists of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
Letters from Our Readers

around 18th Street in the restaur-
ant, but as soon as they leave the
revolutionary atmosphere of 18th
Street, in goes the Daily into their
inside pocket to read after they
get home. In public places these
"parlor Bolsheviks" read the N. Y.
Times.
Comrades, until we overcome
this bad habit, the Daily cir
culation will remain as is. May
LIST you will admit is a very i'm
portant day for demonstrations of
the workers of the world, but May
Day is only zone" day in year.
Let us from now on demonstrate
every day in public, by reading
our revolutionary literature. The
editor should at once start E
slogan and have it inserted each day
in the Daily Worker about readino
the Daily in public.
Comradely yours,
F. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
ture. Our union is trying to keep
in touch with his case there.

ture. Our union is trying to keep
in touch with his case there.
We arrived in Boston. The mate
refused to give me my time back.
I got only one day and half day
off in Frisco. In port in Newark,
he tried to tell me I would have to
get off without time back. I gave
him one more chance to live up to
his agreement. He finally came to,
and got my time back in full and
a lecture to him included on the
workaway system. We won, of
course. But I am not at all satisfied
we won enough. So I got off the
articles and I am now under the
advice of DR.. Luttinger, whom I was
glad to get to the East Coast to see.
He tells me that all seamen can write
to him at the Daily Worker Office
and he will answer them in the
health column of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
IMPORTANCE OF READING
THE DAILY IN PUBLIC

Dear Comrades:
In answer to Michael Colds
plea for a larger circulation of
the Daily Worker and the New
Masses: How can we build up the
Daily Worker to 100000 a day?
That should be very easy today
after the grand flop of the MIRA.
and the deepening of the crisis.
We can build up the circulation
of the Daily Worker and other
revolutionary literature if we
would only read our revolutionary
literature in public places like the
subway, trolley cars, etc. There
are thousands and thousands of
people who do not yet know of the
Daily Worker or the New Masses.
But we can advertize our press by
reading it In public. Many COM
rades will read their Daily" down
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
Negro, Mexican, Indian and
White Unite in Relief Fight
Phoenix, Ari5., Meeting Endorses Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill

asked a half-dozen NIexicans to
give up their seats to white work
ers. This. the comrades must take
up. Chauvinism must be COM
batted.
Most encouraging, of course, was
that new forces" were drawn into
the Provisional Committee and
unanimous endorsement was given
to the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill CHR. 1899.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
Union Officials Offer
ST a Head for Followers

CBy a Worker Correspondent
PORT LAND, Me. - A few
months ago, before the men at
Rigby, the Portland railroad
shop commenced to be organized,
the Railroad BrotherhoodS ap-
preached the head of the COM
pany union saying that if he'll
swing the company union over to
the BrotherhoOds they will pay
him 81 per member.
Even the chairman of a COM
pany union felt ashamed to ac-
cept such an offer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
PARTY LIFE
Ohio Party, Y.C.L. Leaders
Set Tasks for Building League
Pledge to Build Communist Youth Increment
in Shops; 500 by august

CLEVELAND, Ohio, May g.
The meeting of Party and Young
Communist League functionaries,
gathered at the Workers School
on April 81, whole
heartedly approved the report of
Comrade Bart dealing with the
problems Of carrying out the Party
Control Tasks in the building of
the Y. c. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
"THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE ]
POOREST SHOD"

POOREST SH0D"
A letter from Racine, Wise,
epropos of our remarks about good
shoes for the workers:
1 still have radio set and have
tried to keep it-just to listen to
the voice of the world; it's an ex-
pectation I have-Waiting, listening
for a thunderclap here or there,
forerunners of the storm that will
clear the air.
Il know that behind the silly
babble" are the struggling masses
now gagged, but some day break
ing through proclaiming new VIC
tories for the workers. So I turn
on the radio hoping for news,
but capitalist news is of little value
and has to be measured, weighed,
sifted, put to the acid test, dipped
in 'Gie solvent" and treated with
every kind of varnish remover to
find the little grain of truth it may
contain.
We'll, the other morning
got the Milwaukee station
"Womans News of the Day" A
woman's voice, discussing Russian
women and their fashions ran
something like this: after the revo-
luton these women had smashed
their mirrors and forsworn any,
thing Herewith connected, but now
had brought them back.
They also stand in queues out
side the thousands of beauty par
lors waiting to have their hair
washed in cold water with alkaline
soap: even their hands received at
tention, indeed you saw more
enameled fingernaiIs in Moscow
than anywhere else in the world.
Until recently they had worn short
dresses, but now longer ones: long
black sleazy things with cat-fur at
the neck (as if the rabbit with
which the capitalists swindle their
customers is immensely SUPERIOR.
These we're often worn with bed
room slippers; and the wearers had
some difficulty adjusting their
proletarian stride to this new style.
you should have heard her gush
and gurgle in her imagined super
iority; it positively nauseated me
hearing her try to make the Rus
sian woman look foolish and ignor-
ant
"She went on to tell how in this
glorious u. S. A. you could get an
ensemble for S35 that would make
you fit to meet the Prince of Wales.
II sat right down and wrote her
that there were many American
women wo do not even own a pair
of bedroom slippers: that the diff
ference between Russia and Amer
lea was that in Russia one woman
did not wear a $35 ensemble while
another had to get along with a
garment made of floursacks. 1
urged her to visit Service Shop
or Clothes Depot to see what an
American working woman is COM
PEELED to wear.
among the other things she
mentioned was a IS hat. I wish
I could show her the window of the
Madison, Wise, Service Shop'-a
sight to make you laugh and swear
funny, but damnable, too; and
talking about shoes! I wonder if
she ever saw a shoe department in
similar place.
Il saw one such place where the
Literary Society of Elkhorn, Wise,
had collected clothes for the poor.
There were about so pairs of shoes,
some from grandmother's time,
hightop, with buttons, from 10
what: shuffled over, down at the
heels, black or brown, also some
soiled white ones, a few pretty new
ones built for some lady's fancy,
but never for any human foot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04

fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew
ing instructions included.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS C15c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred)
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
number. BE SURE TO STATE THE
SIZE.
Address Orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 West 18th
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Oily skin-Max Factors Makeup

Oily Skin-Max Factors Makeup
v. R., Kingston, Idaho-If you
had carefully followed our articles
in this column you would have
known that there is no cure for an
oily skin. Natural sunshine or the
ultraviolet lamp have tendency to
dry the skin, and are therefore tenn
porarily beneficial. Repeated wash
ing of the hair or face with plain
water or with toilet waters contain
ing alcohol also improves the con-
dition momentarily. The end re-
suit, however, is that the oiliness is
apt to increase when the washing
and the rinsing ceases. A diet free
from fats and oils, as well as spices,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
NOTE

We publish letters every Friday
from workers in the transporta
ton and communications indus
tries-railroads, marine, surface
lines, subway, elevated lines, ex-
press companies, truck drivers,
taxi drivers, etc.-and from the
communications industries-pOst
office, telephone, telegraph, etc.
We urge workers from these in
dustries to write us of their con-
ditions of work, and their strug-
giles to organize. Please get these
letters to us by Tuesday of each
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1884 is available in sizes
IA, Is, 10, 20, 80, "a, So, IS, 40 and
AZ. Size 16 takes 35s yards SO inch
The Washington times., 1934-06-26
WOOL CLIPPING
D|PS|N TEXAS

The sheep shearing season in
southwest Texas has closed, and
there is on hand in warehouse at
the several concentration points
in this territory approximately
39,045,00 pounds of free eight
month and 12-month wool.
Shipments already made and
those contracted for total about
10,185,000 pounds, mostly r.
month clip on consignment. OF
the total on hand, estimates are
that not more than 100000
pounds is eight-months clip.
The wool clip of the state Is
approximately 100000 pounds
less than in 1888, due to light
Shearing. death losses and the
drought.
Of the consigned woods 1000. 900
to 100000 pounds are under gov
eminent mortgages and the bal
ance is free. Total purchases to
date have been less than $500, 900
pounds, it is further estimated.