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The daily worker., 1934-09-04
TEXTILE WORKERS URGE MILITANT STRUGGLE
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

vast majority of doctors and by
their organized societies. I have
no information on the number of
doctors having investments in drug
companies, but can assure you the
percentage is very small, and that
if doctors advocate the use of
serum, it is not through any mo-
tive Of personal gain, but because
they are reasonably certain Of its
value in preventing or treating
disease.
Some of your statements-that
"serums cause many deaths from
heart disease" or that they have
proved themselves scientifically
worthless" are simply not true.
Diphtheria toxin -antitoXin has been
proved to protect 95-99 percent of
those injected from any danger Of
contracting the disease. The per-
centage of serum sickness" or
other untoward effects is even
smaller, and these effects are now
fairly we'll understood and pre-
ventable. The anti-vaccinational
argument about the blood of dis
eased animals" is on par with the
anti Communist argument that
since Communists believe in the
necessity of an armed overthrow
Of the capitalist dictatorship, they
are responbile for every hold-up or
bomb plot, every act of violence,
that takes place.
Just as workers do not believe in
destroying machinery, but in cher
ishing each technical advance till
the time when they can take it
over and run it for their own bene-
fit, likewise they should not join
the ranks Of those who would de-
stroy modern medicine, but should
welcome each new advance until
the time when they can take it
over and put it to effective use in
improving their own health.
A popular description of the
various kinds of immunizing agents
used will be given in another
article.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
b Hour System Keeps
Setting Continually
Faster Pace

SHIRLEY, MaSs.-In this little
one mill town there is a textile
braid mill that is the height of
speed-up, which has resulted in
close to 100 workers being laid off
within a year. Last year 800 work
er were employed. Now there are
230 workers, doing more work.
We have what is known as the
''Bedule" system, or the "B" hour
system. No one knows what the
"B" hour norm is. One is supposed
to turn out so much production in
"B" hour, but since we have an
efficiency expert who constantly
keeps on refining different jobs, the
norm for a "B" hour is constantly
changed.
If a good fast worker produces
over the norm per hour he is given
bonus, which uually amounts to
about SOC a week. After drawing a
few such bonuses he finds that the
efficiency expert (speedup mani is
at his elbow refining him. The
result usually is that his norm is
raised and in order to make his
"B" hour (workers here get paid by
the "B" hour he has to turn out
a good deal more production than
before.
In the card room four men are
forced to run 98 carders. Here
tofore they had 13-inch produc-
ton gear on their machines; now
they have a 16-inch production
gear.
Here we workers have an indie
pendent textile union. About 80 per
cent we're organized but since the
union has not carried on any
for better conditions its
has dropped to about
40 per cent.
The issue of this "Bedule" sys-
tenn, this speed-up and Strecth-out,
is our main issue today. If the
union is to justify its right to
existence it must organize struggle
against this system that must lead
to its abolition.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
Layoffs at Sheet
Mill i'm Baltimore
BY a Worker Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Md hear the
company will lay up all of their
own boats as fast as they come in
with cargo. That means the Oregon
Steamship and Calmar liner. The
Swedish ship under charter will
continue for a while.
The Ware House Sheet Mill is
now working six hours per day,
four days per week. About 500 were
laid off there. Looks like a grave
yard at night.
The company union is, now post
ing minutes on bulletin boards. The
next scheduled meeting is on Au-
gust 25th. The minutes give the i'm
preston the company men are try
ing to work for the week for the
men. Here is an example. Mr.. Wolfe
reports. "The catches on mill No.
IL need air fans" Mr.. Wilson re-
piled, due to the present business
conditions, the company is not
spending any additional money.
Cooler weather is coming and that
will be a help
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
NeW Frames
In Mill Means
Extra York
BY TextiIe worker COrrespOndent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
CONCORD, N. C.-Gibson Mill is
preparing to put in new frames.
Negro workers are breaking up the
old ones with sledge hammers and
throwing them aside. The new
frames are said to be three stands
larger on each side. This makes
each frame six stands longer alto
gether or 80 ends longer. This
means more stretchoutl
1t means each of us Spinners will
be running SO ends more and for
the same wage. The doffers will
also be doing SO more bobbing for
the same wage.
We have already been stretched
out till we can hardly drag home
after work. But the company uses
this method to further increase our
work. We should make united
protest against this stretchout and
demand that they lessen our task!
A SPINNER IN GIBSON MILL.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
Pickets Solid in Milwaukee TinWare Strike
A. F. of L. Leaders, However, Try To Weaken
Lines by Barring Unity with Outsiders

demanding that all unemployed or
CARNATIONS be asked to help picket
and that the Communists be asked
to help, also. So far the union has
not acted on the committees de-
mandS.
Not all the workers in the factory
belong to the A. F, of L. There is
a local of the S. M. w. l. U. in the
factory, and there are some strikers
who belong to no union. The S. M.
w. I. U. has issued a leaflet raising
the demand for broad shop COM
mittee so that all the workers, or
ganized and unorganized, should be
represented on the committee. I am
enclosing this leaflet and the leaflet
issued by the Communist Party,
Section /, District 18. The Indus
trial Union has been hammering in
every leaflet it has issued to the
shop on the sanitary conditions,
and as a result the company had
lust begun to install new lockers
and toilets when the workers
struck.
This is the first strike Gender
Paeschlse has ever had. For 81
years this has been known as the
Black Hole to the workers of Mil
waukee. For years this was the
High School for the children OF the
workers said one old man. The
kids went to parochial school, got
their diploma, were confirmed, and
then went to Gender Paeschlse and
got their fingers cut off"
This is one of the largest factor
les of it's kind in the United States
This story should be brought to the
attention of the workers of STRAIT
ton g. Sturstage Il am not sure OF
the name) in Louisville, KY, on
18th and Main, which is the only
other factory equipped to make the
same kind of stuff made in Gender
Paeschlse. This shop will probably
make some of Genders Paeschlse's
rush orders.
The S. M. w. I. U. raised the
question of spreading the strike to
National Enamelling 81 Stamping,
which is only two blocks from Gen
der Paeschlse, has similar working
conditions and is equipped to scab
on some orders. The A. F. of L..
claims it is making some effort to
spread the strike. There is a Fed
eral Union in National Enamelling.
They have voted strike number
of times, but aren't out yet.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04

This letter comes from house
wife of Brooklyn, N. Y:
I'm a workers wife and feeling
the pressure of the high cost of
living How we housewives are hit!
Things are going up from day to
day and all the blame is put upon
the unemployed.
"LaGuardia and his henchman
are putting sales tax on the small
business men and unemployed
workers. under the pretense of re-
lief. At the same time big interest
is being paid to the big trusts.
"The bosses and their agitator,
the capitalist press, instigate the
middle class and the employed
workers against the unemployed
relief takers. They try to instill in
the minds of the masses that those
who get relief are the cause Of this
chaos.
But We conscious workers
know better: that the boss class
are responsible for this situation,
that they have no way out except
war. They are spending billions
for war preparations and various
weapons, etc, which can annihilate
cities, towns, armies.
"We housewives should organize
and carry out the plans our dele
gates have brought to us from
Paris, how best to combat this men
ace of war and fascism. Before I
conclude I want to say something
about the return of our Mother
Bloor, as 7 read that on the
same ship with our delegates came
also the Presidents mother, and
that all camera men focked around
just for a glance and to snap her
picture. This mother went to Eu-
rope for no other reason except her
personal pleasure. The other
mother was of the working class.
Mother Bloor, who went there for
the cause of humanity, to lay
plans how best to fight the war
danger. There was only one re-
porter to greet her-the reporter
of the workers paper, the Daily
Worker. 1t is about time that we
realize who are our friends and
who are our enemies.
Forward to a workers mass
paperl"
Speaking of the Paris Congress,
there's a vivid report on it in the
New Masses" of Sept. 4, by Ann
Barton. If we can manage the
space and the permission We'll try
to reprint at least a portion of it.
mo More Helling," a true story
appearing in the September issue
of the (greatly improved Working
Woman now out, tells of a hard
won victory of women wastepaper
sorters in a Detroit factory, who
struck against unendurable condi-
tions. These women are also alive
to the war danger and the fact that
the paper scrap they handle can
be used in war materials. This
story, sent in response to a call for
such accounts. represents Just the
type Of story, written by the work
ers involved in the struggle, that
the magazine wants to print. Send
The daily worker., 1934-09-04

The attempt of small group of
white chauvinists to exclude Negro
workers from Red Beach" the Ohio
Finnish Workers summer camp,
was defeated at full meeting of
the campers last Sunday. So
aroused were the workers against
the white chauvinists that while
the meeting was in progress two
of the group sneaked away while
the third member remained to
register lone vote against allow
ing Negro workers to vacation at
the Camp.
After discussion by the campers
the following resolution was
adopted:
l. That this is a Workers
Camp-that all workers regard
less of race, color or nationality
are welcome.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
PARTY LIFE
Condemn White ChGuviniSn,
At Finnish Workers. Camp
Ohio Campers Rene,C limitation to Negroes
After attempt To Bar Them Is Denounced

2. That we condemn the atti.
tude of white chauvinism as take
ing an anti-workingclass posi-
ton which hurts the cause Of
labor and prevents the unity Of
Negro and white workers in the
class struggle.
8. That Negro workers are well
come to this camp on the sans
basis as any other workers and
that this meeting goes on record
in support of the fight for full
social, economic and political
equality Of the Negro masses.
Following the adoption of this
resolution the campers voted to
send the proceeds of their recent
dance for the benefit Of the Daily
Worker and to print the resolution
against white chauvinism in the
Daily and the Finnish daily, the
"Eteenpsin."
(Signed) P. H.
Secretary of Camp Committed
JOPLIN, Ne.
Dear Comrades:
"I am writing you regarding the
laxness Of the section and also the
district office in sending applioa..
tion cards and other material. We
had expected several times. without
results, nomination petitions which
should have been here two months
ago and were just received yester-
day.
Il think we now have a chance
to build the Party in Joplin. For
years was connected with the
Socialist Party, but. finally. became
convinced that the Communist road,
the revolutionary way out, is the
only thing for the workers.
MY impression was that the dis
cipline and punctuality Of the
Party was good. I joined the Party
in February, but have nc+ got my
membership book yet. I ti\'k there
should be a little more attention
given to these matters. have
some new members and
they are in the same shops.
"St. Louis and Kansas City must
wake up.
Will the Missouri District please
answer this?-Editor.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
.LUudS Record
of National
Textile Union.
By Textile Worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
DANVILLE. Val am a worker
in Danville, Va, one of the worst
slavedriver towns in the South.
They try to make me believe that
the bosses want the workers to
organize but I see that it is a lie.
If they want the workers to organ
ize, why do they put every organizer
in jail which comes to Danyille.
was at the trial when they tried
Clark. They had to frame some
kind of charge against Clark so
they put him in jail for vagrancy.
Clark beat the case. I knew Clark
when he'was working in the mills
before the strike, and will say he
is good worker. How comes he
belongs to the National Textile
Workers Union? Because he tried
the United Textile Workers Union.
He told me he was sold out in two
strikes by the leaders of the United
Textile Workers Union. I know he
has worked hard day and night to
help get members for the UT.W.
He was the one which got me to
join the union and believe me, he
got a whole lot of others to join
the union. Did he get any praise
for what he had done. No. German
got the praise, the dirty rat.
I have learned that if you lie to
the workers you are called an Amer
lean gentleman, and if you try to
help the workers by trying to get
them to join good union, which
is run by the workers, like the Ma
tional, they put you in Jail.
The judge told Clark at the trial
he would not give him job and
he knows nobody else in Danville
would give him job, and he told
him he could stay in Danville and
look for a job, But he told him
that he was not wanted in Dan
vile.
Why does Judge Carter not want
Clark in Danville? Because he is
just like the rest of the slave
drivers in Danville. We have seen
all over this unfair country how
much right the workers have to
join a union. You can join from
now till Judgment Day and there
will be nothing said about it just
as long as you don't strike. But
you let the workers strike and them
you will see how much right you
have to belong to a union.
They try to make the workers
believe that every one which be-
longs to the National is a Russian
Red How can anyone be a Rus
sian Red when he is born in the
South.
Now what are they doing at the
Riverside mill? They are making a
change. OF course, we know that
a change means more workers out
Of work. They are junking 1000 or
more looms to move spinning in
the place, which means more
weavers out of work, and no more
spinners and doffers will have
jobs.
There is no law against anything
the grafters do. They can put your
furniture in the street if you have
no job where you can't pay your
rent, and they can cut off your
lights and water. Now you let the
workers put his furniture back in
the house or turn on his water or
lights, and they will put them in
Jail.
I hope that everyone who has
not already joined the National
Textile Workers Union, will join.
So think it over, good workers, and
join the N. T. w. U.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
BOOTT CHISELS In
ON WORKERS TIME,

to make this improvement for us,
but it is not concerned about the
thousands of hours that the work
ers lose standing in line each week,
as well as the sickness that results
in some of us catching cold, etc.
If we workers would get together
and send a, committee to the boss,
backed up by all the workers, we
would soon force the mill owner to
change his pay system. If further
conviction would be needed on the
part of the mill owner that we want
the system changed, a stoppage on
the job should be organized. This,
if nothing else, would soon bring
him to his senses that it is cheaper
to spend a few hundred dollars a
year on new pay system than to
lose a few thousand day in having
the mill out on strike.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
BY a Worker Correspondent

MILWAUKEE,, Wis,-The workers
at Gender, Paeschlse & Frey, 324 N.
18th St., Milwaukee, are on strike.
The factory is metal works, manu-
featuring granite and tin wates of
all kinds, employing in good"
times 1,200 to 1900 people. There
are now 800 employed, all of whom
are on strike, except Thea office
force, under the leadership of the
A. F. of L. Federal Local No. 19340.
At first the engineers and cleo
tricians did not come out because
they did not have the permission of
their officials. So much pressure
was brought to bear from within
the unions that on the second day
of the strike the fires were drawn
and the power turned off.
The strike is solid so far. The
workers are very militant. The A
F. of l.. has made an attempt to
keep all outsiders off the picket
line by giving the strikers badges to
wear and cards to carry. They said
that if they allowed outsiders the
Reds would come and cause trouble.
Not all the workers agreed with
this. Some wanted the Reds on the
picket line; but the A. F. of L. Off
cials said that they did not want
to spend the locals reserve fund
giving lunches to the Reds and out
siders. So the rule was made and
carried out by the captains in all
cases.
Last night the bosses pulled a
false fire alarm and during the ex-
element sneaked IL or IA thugs
into the plant under the protection
of police.
The Kenosha firm that owned
some of the dies-so they say-yes-
terday got a court order to remove
certain dies from the factory. The
firm wishes to remove these dies SO
that they can have another firm
fill their rush orders. The dies were
removed today under the protection
Of the sheriff's department.
Police Attack Pickets
Today one of the picket lines tried
to keep the office force from going
in and extra police we're sent to get
them in. Two men were arrested.
The police we're brutal in their
treatment of the picketing strikers,
many of whom are women. AS a
result . committee went from the
picket line to union headquarters.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

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takes 15s yards 54 inch fabric.
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28 takes yards 81 inch fabric.
Illustrated step-by-step sewing in
structions included with each pat
tern.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
ON VACATION

Cape Cod Mass.
Comrade Editor, Daily Worker:
Last Saturday night we gave a
Daily" to the local lighthouse
keeper, we'll folded so he couldn't
see it in the dark. It was given
without discussion; we wanted to
see what came of it.
Today we passed near the place.
The keeper spotted us and started
running down to the road to in
tercept us.
"Say!" he yelled on the way.
THAT was a good paper you gave
me-"
And he wants us to leave it as
often as we can. We shall and
what's more there's sub for sure.
Yours for 100000,
TWO VACATIONERS.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
By a Textile Worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
LOWELL, Mass.-One of the
most antique pay systems in the
country is that of the Boott mill,
Here we workers have to stand in
line each week, rain, snow or shine,
from pm. till 2:45 pm. to get
our pay before going to work on
the second shift each Friday. The
day shift has to stand in line after
they come out from work.
When we workers asked the COM
pany why they could not change
this system and pay us inside, the
super said that such a change
would cost them about 5000 a year
and that the company was unwill-
ing to spend that.
The company is unwilling to
spend few hundred dollars a year
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
GALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT
TO PRINT"
BROOKLYN. N. y

Brooklyn, N. Y.
I would ike to call your atten-
ton to a very striking inaccuracy
in one at least of two reports of
the esteemed N. Y. Times. In that
paper for July 20, 1884, under the
headline: "Jobs and Payrolls De-
clined in June" but above the ar
ticle itself we find this: Weekly
Wages Decreased $4,000, ,000-TOtal
at Work 100000 over March, 1888.
And on the first page of the same
newspaper for Aug. 27, 1884, in re-
porting the Richberg Report, under
item l we find this: with 40,180,-
900 persons employed in June, 1884,
there were 4,12O,OOO more persons
employed than in March, 1888, and
2,32OOO0 more than in June, 1888,
when the N. R. A. came into being"
H. A.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
Unity of Employed and
Unemployed Is Stressed
BY steel Worker Correspondent

BY a steel Worker Correspondent
so. CHICAGO, Ill. - Time and
again steel workers and their fanli-
lies had been faced with problems
of class struggle in many ways. A
good deal of the workers know that
we have to organize. Those work
ers who participated in the east
preparation for strike should double
their organization work, and or
ganize workers that are on part
time and unemployed in unemploy-
ment Councils.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
NOTE:

We publish letters from steel,
metal and auto workers every
Tuesday. We urge workc-J in these
industries to wriie us OF their
working conditions and of their
efforts to organize.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
3-Week Mill
ShutdOWn n
In LOrain
BY a Worker Correspondent

LORAIN, O.-The Lorain National
Tube Co., the only factory in the
city of Lorain, has been closed down
for two weeks, and now the bosses
have extended the shutdown for an
extra week.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
VACCINATION


The following letter has been re-
ceived from a worker.
Dear Comrades:
"I have been trying to find out
II physicians have money invest
ments in vaccine and serum fac
tories. The profit made in the use
Of the various serums is said to be
around one billion dollars. The
manufacturers and those interested
financially in vaccine, toxins, Sc
runs, ETC., are doing everything to
get teachers, clergymen, politicians,
ETC., to talk the people into having
their children injected with diph-
liberia anti-toXin, as they have al
ready forced vaccination upon us.
''These serums are made from
animals made sick with the dis
eases they are supposed to prevent,
but many die of heart disease and
other ills caused by these inocula-
tions. Let us hope no worker will
be foolish enough to part with his
his hard earned money to pay for
having this poisonous blood of ami
mails injected into the body Of any
member Of his family.
The vivisecting, serum using
MD, not only uses serums on ami
mails, but the poor clinic patient
and orphan are likely to become
material for experimentation.
These serums have proved them
selves scientifically worthless as we'll
as dangerous to health.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
IN THE HON E
Wonderland Groceries, Strikes and War
BY ELEM KE

your stories, women in mine, mill
and factory to the Working
Woman" Box 81, Station D, New
York CITY.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
tremendous step toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat!
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
An Appeal to the
Textile Strike rs

The Daily Worker invites all
textile workers to write on their
strike activity.
During the strike, first con-
sideration in the publication of
news and correspondence will be
given to the textile strike.
This invitation Is extended not
only to Communists, but to ALL
textile workers.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
Box Score of 100000 Drive

speeded To put tns
the and
published
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The daily worker., 1934-09-04
Our Reply

Your letter raises two important
points. In the first place, whereaz
individual dentists may manufac-
ture and advertise their own tooth
powders. nowadays even a few med
ical schools or research institutions
are, with many insincere apologies,
beginning to patent and exploit
their own important discoveries.
Such practices are considered un-
ethical and are condemned by the
Evening star., 1934-03-16

provide medical care for that great
mass of the population which is
neither INDECENT nor well-to-do."
He addressed the annual dinner to
the boards of counsel to the Milbank
Fund.
For the great majority of the pop
ulation," he said, "some method must
be devised whereby the cost Of med
ical care can be distributed in such