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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Five CWA Workers
Expose Corruption
By a C.W.A. WOrker COrrespOnden.

By a C.W.A. Worker Correspondent
HARVEY, Il-The trial of the
five C.W.A. workers took place after
many delays. The state had a diff
cult time to get enough witnesses
to testify against these five des-
perate criminals, whose awful crime
was warming their hands at a fire
on a zero weather day.
The state tried to include three
known informers on the jury, but
was most unlucky because the
workers were being defended by one
of the brilliant LID. lawyers.
After the six jurors were agreed
upon, the state called its witnesses.
Engineer Sullivan was forced to ad-
nit that he fired the men for no
reason except that he didn't like
them.
The states case against these five
honest workers was a miniature
Reichstag fire trial. 1t became the
case Of workers accusing the bosses
of intimidating the workers. The
cross examination of the states
witnesses proved that the bosses
were guilty, not the workers. The
trial ended before the workers
could add their testimony to the
pile of humiliating evidence against
the corrupt politicians. The I'M
easy judge ruled a not guilty YER
dict to end the exposure of the rot
ten conditions on the Harvey
C.W.A. jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
eve Raise Wheat and
Have to Eat Pig Feed
(By a Farmer Child

FRANKLIN, Pal am a girl IA
years of age. I live on farm with
my dad and mother. Last year
our main crop was wheat. 1t was
a bad year so we only got so cents
bushel. My poor old dad worked
six hours in three weeks for the
c. w. A. So that is not very much.
He can't get relief because he is
considered employed.
Last week he got a tax notice
to be paid at once; the sum SIS.
Of course, he was afraid Of being
sold out, so he sold what wheat
he had and his last pig. 1t all
amounted to $40.
I suppose you know that cleaned
up our money and nothing to buy
flour with. Mother went to get
the pig middlings out of which she
made us noodles, and tomorrow she
is going to make bread.
It's a shame that we raise wheat
and have to eat pig feed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Unit to Be Leader of
Mass Organization
in Its Territory

illusions must be reached: l. Each
Party section should establish
leading body to carry on work in
the mass organizations. 2. The re-
sponsibility for carrying out the
functions of the fractions in the
local mass organizations should be
transferred to the street units. The
unit will then have to take up the
problems in the mass organizations
and will thereby become the leader
of the struggles in the neighbor-
hood. The unit will have to assign
certain members to work in every
mass organization and these mem
bers will be responsible directly to
the units. 8. The unit should CO.
ordinate the work of all the mass
organizations in its neighborhood
on specific issue and it will
thereby be transformed into what it
really should be--the higher boz
leading and guiding the entire woIE
in the neighborhood.
I do not want to be misunder-
stood. 1 do not propose to abolish
the fractions. On the contrary. My
aim is to strengthen the work of
the fractions. The leading frac-
tons will carry on their work as
heretofore under the guidance of
the Central Committee; the city
fractions will carry on their work
as hitherto under the guidance of
the District Committee of the
Party. The unit will assign certain
comrades in the mass organizations
for fraction work and for carrying
through the Party campaigns in the
mass organizations. What we aim
in the foregoing proposals is to con-
meet more closely the fraction work
with the unit work The leading
Party comrades in the mass organ
izations will thereby become an i'm
portant. integral part of the Party
organization, of the Party unit.
When we will do that, our work
will be strengthened hundredfold
and will receive new vigor and
freshness. We will save a lot of en-
ergy hitherto lost due to the lack
of centralizing body, we will elm
mate many bad features in our
work and we will be able better and
more effectively to develop the
mass struggles.
Space does not permit us to speak
about the relations Of the Party
units and Party fractions to the
mass organizations. We will have
TO leave it for another time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

tons. Some leading comrades go
even further. They charge that
neither the unit nor the fraction
knows anything about the mass or
CARNATIONS and what is going on
there, let alone lead them; they de-
clare that many units are severed
from the class struggle in the
neighborhood; that inasmuch as
they do participate in strikes, in
picket demonstrations, in m ass
movements, they do so through in
dividual Party comrades sometimes
not even as Party comrades, but as
"radical-minded" people,, not as or
CARNATIONS, as collective bodies.
The Party fractions in the mass
organization are in even a worse
state of affairs. The unit is at
least a continuously functioning
body, meeting regularly, taking up
routine Party matters, carrying out
the instructions of the sections and
district committees. But the pic
ture of the fraction life is far from
being as rosy as that. AS a matter
of fact, the fractions have no life
at all in most cases, they do not
even exist. No matter how many
times we tried to build the Party
fractions (again, we are not speak
ing of the leading fractions) it all
fell to the ground. And even where
fraction does exist it does not
help matters much, because in nine
times out of 10, it does not under
stand its functions and does not
carry on satisfactory work, if 1t
carries on work at all.
We do not mean to say that the
influence of the Party in the mass
organizations is negligible. On the
contrary. The non-Party leader
ship in the mass organizations, as
well as the non-Party members have
very healthy and loyal attitude
towards the Party. The Party line
and policies are enthusiastically
carried through. We are speaking
here of the fraction which must
bring the Party problems and pol
icieS into the mass organizations.
Why does not our Party appara-
tus function properly? 1t would be
fallacy to say that it is because
the Party members are not heart
and soul working for the Party,
that they do not understand the
problems of the Party. Our Party
today is more Bolshevized than ever
before; the Party is more united
than ever before in its history; our
members today are on a much
higher political level than ever be-
fore. 1t is our contention that the
very organizational structure of our
units is not conductive towards the
carrying out of their functions; that
VIII - rn~~--"~-- y not or1lv
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

Comrade Amter's critical analysis
of District No. 3. comprising Phila-
delphia, Reading and Allentown, in
failing to make an effort to combat
the preponderant influence of the
Socialist Party leaders over the
workers in Reading, was very time
ly and correct. Reading should have
at this time one of the strongest
and largest functioning Communist
units in the state Of Pennsylvania,
had the Party district concentrated
their activities in Reading at the
inception of the crisis.
The opinion OF the writer is that
Reading is a fertile field at the
present time for Communist ac-
tivity, providing the district follows
Comrade Amter's suggestions with
competent and intelligent leader
ship. Thousands of workers for sew
eral decades have embraced Social
ism in Reading as a way-out of the
capitalist crisis. That the workers
still support the Socialist Party is
no indication that they are politi-
cally undeveloped or that they re-
pudiate the Communist Party.
Many Socialist workers express
their approval of the Communist
Party, especially since the German
and Austrian debacle, disclaiming
the Socialist Party's peaceful road
to Socialism myth. One reason
many Socialist workers still adhere
to the Socialist leaders in Reading,
is that they accept their leadership
as a lesser evil, because the local
Communist unit looks insignificant
compared to the large functioning
Socialist Party and the Socialist
Party miSleaders are all function
aries in the local trade unions, and
therefore, are in daily contact with
the workers, and appear indispens-
able. There are signs of revolt
among the workers in the trade
unions against the constant betray-
ais and sell-out and the submerg-
ence of all militancy of the workers
against the bosses with no-strike
agreements. The travesty of it all is
now they are organizing the hos
iery workers to stage beauty and
fashion shows displaying the mer-
chants gowns and hosiery manu-
facturers' hosiery.
The results are that the workers
are seeding from the unions in
large numbers. Being devoid of
left-wing leadership, they have no
other alternative. If the district of
the Communist Party were alert to
the situation and carried on a wide
distribution of literature and other
activities at the hosiery mills and
various other industries that had
been on strike recently, and if it
carried out uninterrupted agitation
in the form of meetings and distri-
button of literature in the workers
precincts and particularly the So
cialist precincts, then certainly we
could gain the confidence of these
workers.
The holding of meetings in a
downtown hall is not sufficient. The
Communist message must be car
ried to the workers of Reading.
Only then will the Socialist mis-
leaders be put to rout.
This criticism does not apply to
the few comrades that are func-
tioning in Reading as a Communist
unit. Their work is admirable, con-
sidering their limitations and the
obstacles and disadvantages they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

LONG ISLAND CITY-The let
ter from the Pullman porter in
Sunnyside Yards which was pub
lished Saturday in the Daily Work
er, shows that the grievances which
this worker tells about exist only
because the workers are morgan
lied.
The vicious Pullman Porters Ben
eft Association which the company
forces on us is only a legal racket
to rob us of $28 year.
To make the workers believe the
lie about the P.P.B.A. being a union,
the company has had some commit
teemen elected to take up our griev-
ances with the company.
The only other way we have had
was to write to Chicago. Then the
company would send out an official
to make a fake investigation, a few
minor grievances would be adjusted,
and things would then get worse all
over again.
Fellow Workers: The only way
we can get back our 5 per cent cut,
go back to the old way of making
down beds, stop the company from
laying off most of us for the sum-
mer, and get regular runs, is to fight
for these conditions.
There are several ways we can
fight. We can sign complaints and
give them to the chairman of the
Grievance Committee, and we can
write letters to the Chicago office.
If we do this, we may get a few
small gains from the company, who
will figure that in that way they
can keep us quiet.
A better way would be for several
of us to get four or five other work.
ers behind each one to go in groups
and present these demands to the
chairman of the Grievance Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
''Hard to Get Anything
for My Labor Writes
DadeviIle Farm Woman
by a Farmers Wife,

DADEVILLE, Ala. am a
farmers wife and stay about five
miles from any town and work hard
every day trying to make living
and it is hard to get anything for
my labor. Have nothing to go upon
this year and the bosses are work
ing another scheme on us again.
They have cut the cotton acreage
and there is no way for us out
yet. I did not get nothing last
year and have nothing for me this
year. I am sick and no way to
get a doctor for myself, SO am
in a suffering condition down here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
NOTE:

We publish letters from farmers,
agricultural workers, ca nnery
workers, and forestry workers
every Thursday. These workers
are urged to send us letters about
their conditions of work, and their
struggles to organize. Please get
these letters to us by Monday of
each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
WORKERS STARVE UNDER
BANKERS RULE

Boise, Idaho.
1 am writing you today to let
you know that I got the five copies
of the Daily Worker and sure was
glad to receive them.
Times are growing worse every
day and the cost of living gets
higher every week while the earn
ing, power gets lower. The streets
are lined with hoboes, who go to
church, though the preachers are
not taking in as much money as
they would like to. Lots of working
men are sleeping out here on the
ground, yet they are go per cent.
American and talk Roosevelt.
I say, cast gods from the skies
and the bankers from the earth.
Your Comrade
IT p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Why Chicago Stockyard Workers Should
Join CWA Demonstration This Saturday
Suffer LayOffs AS a Result of Cancellation by the
Government of Relief Orders

are on the CWA. and there's a
bond between us yards workers and
the C.W.A. workers.
We think that workers from other
shops should also send in their de-
mands and why they are marching.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Only Rank and File Struggle
Is Path for Pullman POrters

mittee, or the superintendent him
self. This would scare the COM
pany much more, since they are
afraid of any organized protest by
us workers and they would prob
ably be willing to make more minor
concessions.
Of course the best way would be
for us to organize ourselves into an
independent union. That is the only
way we can win better conditions
and keep them.
Fellow Workers: 1t is no use for
us to look for outside help. We have
seen what the company has done
for us. We cannot expect anything
from Randolph and his fake
brotherhood of Pullman porters. He
has never come down to the yards
and fought for us, and has never
obtained a single condition for us,
so the only thing left is to organize
ourselves.
The best way to start perma-
nent organization is to start fight
ing for better conditions. If all the
Pullman porters in Sunnyside Yards
will organize themselves into small
groups of five or six men and fight
for these demands, we can later on
unite all of these small groups intd
strong fighting union.
SUNNYSIDE YARDS
UNITY COMMITTEE.
NOTE: The Pullman porters
can get further information on
just how to fight for better con-
ditiOns and On how to organize
into strong union, controlled by
porters, by getting in touch with
the city Office of the r. r. Unity
Committee, 1893 Broadway, Room
! 631.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
MAINLAND CLUE
E4kae<zA


what? This delightful Summer
resort spot is forging right ahead
=. and drawing up plans for a
bigger and better MARYLAND
CLUB WINTER GARDEN. New
architectural plans are being drawn
up and they include spaci-
Gus, glorious night club . and a
huge, long bar that1l hold four
deep They expect to be ready
along about the end of October
:. Sound good? 1t does to Helene.
But don't forget, life still goes on
and fun Is being had there
right nowl Located on Marlboro
Pike, one mile past District Line.
Phone lovely Mrs. Bowen for
reservations. HILLSIDE 0075.
Evening star., 1934-09-16

School Of Medicine of the Cook Coun-
ty Hospital
Miss Miller left Sunday for Massa-
chusetts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry B. B. Gordon
will sail on the Pennsylvania from
New York tomorrow on a fortnight S
cruise to Venezuela, Curacao, the
Dutch West Indies and the Virgin
Islands.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph D. Leahy and
their daughter have motored from
their home in Hartford, Conn, and
are at the Martinique.
Mrs. Philander L. Gable who passed
through Washington on her way to
New York City last week from Yellow
Springs, Ohio, where she spent some
time with her family, returned yester-
day from New York for a few days,
and will be at the Wardman Park
Hotel, where with Mr.. Gable and their
family, she maintained an apartment
last Winter.
Mr.. and Mrs C. C. Wagner and
their daughter, Miss Jane I. Wagner
Evening star., 1934-09-16

N mr. UGH interest centers about
M the group of interesting
IV brides and bridegrooms at
l. i Fort Humphreys, Va, and
prominent in this circle are
Lieut.. Joseph L. johnson and Mrs.
johnson, who arrived at the post last
Tuesday. Lieut.. johnson, who stood
ninth in his graduating class at West
Point last June, is now assigned to
duty with the 18th Engineers.
Mrs. johnson before her marriage
was Miss Martha Jane Upton OF New
York. Before entering college at
Bryn Mawr she attended the Ogontz
School for Girls at Philadelphia. At
school she majored in economics and
languages, finishing at Bryn Mawr.
A versatile young woman OF many
interests, Mrs. johnson is an ac-
complished designer and stylist. She
designs and makes many of her own
hats and gowns, which reflect her
charming individuality. For several
months before her marriage she
worked with Pictorial Review as a
styliSt.
Her father, the late Mr.. ]. c. Tip
ton, was q Phi Beta Kappa at the
University Of Missouri and was asso-
ciated with the Standard Oil Co. In
charge of railroad fabrication IN
South America, with ofices in New
York. He had retired only few
months prior to his death last No
vember.
Mrs. j. c. Upton, Mrs. Johnson's
mother, is well known to the host
esses of today under the name Of Edna
Sibley Upton, under which name she
has written a number Of books. Mrs.
Upton also Is an inventor as well as
q writer of distinction.
Lieut.. and Mrs. johnson were mar
ried at West Point in military cere-
mony on June l3, the day after grad
uation. The first week of their honey
moon was spent in New York, after
which they motored to Nashville,
Tenn, where they took cottage for
several weeks. During their stay in
Nashville they were entertained by
Lieut.. Johnson's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John L. johnson Of that city.
Returning to the East, Lieut.. and
Mrs. johnson motored to Franklin,
Pa, where they visited relatives of
the bride. They also returned to
New York for b short visit with Mrs.
Johnson's mother before joining the
Fort Humphreys garrison.
Evening star., 1934-09-16

guerite Herrick, was with her here
for short time upon her arrival from
the North Shore Of Massachusetts,,
where she spent the Summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl w. Russell of
Philadelphia are spending q brief
time at the Dodge.
Miss Betty Branch, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. H. N. Branch of Mexico
City, Mexico, is the guest Of Mrs.
Suzanne Cannon and Miss Catherine
Cannon at the Broadmoor. Miss
Branch is en- route to Chatam Hall,
where she is entered as a student.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delmer D. Brubaker
and their daughter, Elizabeth, will re-
turn tomorrow from Rehoboth Beach,
where they have spent month.
DR.. and Mrs. j. Norman Kimble
have returned to their home in Ia
koma Park. Mrs. Kimble, accompa-
MED by her brother, DR.. Edmund Mil
Ter, and Mrs. Miller of Newark, Del,
and her sister, Miss Ruth Miller of
South Lancaster, Mass, spent some
time in Iona Linda, Calf, with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Miller,
who accompanied them East on their
return. En- route they visited their
old home in Bellingham, Wash, and
also stopped at the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park. On their arrival in Chi
cago they met DR.. Kimble, who did
post graduate work in the Graduate
Evening star., 1934-09-16

home find that "Snacks" are
a delight to the hostess ID. a Joy
to the guests and easy on the
family excheQuer. Their expertly
master mixed pickup" lubricants
for .parched throats are similarly
cooperative. And the entire In
formality Of the Lomge-where
one may arrive at noon to sit and
sip. and sup-thrtf midnight !.
is quickly catching on" with gay
young blades round town. Danc-
ing to SIDNEY'S MUSIC at the
Cocktail Hour and after 10 pm.
Teddy" for reservations. Dis. 5000.
Evening star., 1934-09-16

to this small dark Frenchwoman what
travelling in France means to many of
our young Americans. She came for
serious study and has put all thought
of amusements behind her. When she
was in the country two years ago she
came to study the American tariff,
and the result of that labor viii ap-
pear in q book to be published in six
months. Her ambition is TO become
professor of economic history In q
French university.
Showing the contrast between the
life of American young people and
those Of France. Mile. Benoit points
out that her countrymen spend more
time at home. They are always
home at every meal, unless a
special invitation has been issued for
dinner. Their students live in q
building called the Cite Universitaire,
Evening star., 1934-09-16

who is a recent bride herself,
gives a new story on What the
Autumn Bride Should Know"
"The all-white wedding" she says.
"will be most fashionable this Fall
and Winter" Helene agrees with
her and suggests you see the
glorious white satin and lame
gowns at ERLEBACHER'S, 1910
F st.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Mile. Benoit Among J..
Interesting Visitors

Washington has had a distinguished
and brilliant young visitor within its
portals this week in the person of
Mile. Simone NJ. Benoit, who bears
the imposing ray of titles behind her
name of "Docteur es-Lettres de rUni-
versite de Paris, Diplomee de lEcole
des Sciences Politiques. SIS Bibliothe-
caire q Ia Chambre de Commerce de
Paris, chargee de Mission Scientifique
aux Etats- -Unis." She Is in this coun-
try to study the reorganization Of the
banks for the Department of National
Education and will go from the Capital
to New York. where she will remain
month.
Travelling in America does not mean
Evening star., 1934-09-16

pAl AIr DoVAl. Offering q
grand array
of silks at unheard-of low prices
and Of unbelievably fine
quality. For example: Crepe satin
is priced at 81 and $1.39 q yard.
AI-silk Lady Washington Silks
pure dye, washable and non-slip-
able-will be $1.39 a yard. They've
also the new, smart Plaid Velyets.
Metal thread Velvets, Metal-thread
Crepes and Plaid Taffeta, Tree
bark, Corrugated Satin and Satin
back Crepes. 2nd floor.
Evening star., 1934-09-16

strong-willed travelling bag TO
stand up under the strain. That's
why Helene advises a trip to
CAVALIER g. BUCKLEY'S, ll41
Conn. Ave. for luggage to
take back to school. Trunks that
have mine hves"-wardrobe cases
for the trip to college that really
work that slip under a Pull
man berth and take care of suits
and dresses without a wrinkle.
Why not begin ensembling MATCH
ing luggage? A trunk nova
matching case at Christmas-an-
other matching piece for the
birthday gift-and so on--until the
entire set Is ensembled.
Evening star., 1934-09-16

Rock Greek Park the smooth
cleaning dance floor :. the music
of BARNEE and his Boys all
this and more awaits you there.
The sky is the ceiling Of your
dining room and the full
course dinner (menu changed
nightly Is but $1.75. and
dinner patrons can stay through
supper with no extra charge.
Phone Robert" for reservations.
ADAMS 0700.
Evening star., 1934-09-16

You are certain when they
handle your engraving that per-
lection in styling and correctness
rebound in their execution. Their
prices are exceedingly moderate.
And here's the reason why. They're
equipped with the largest engrav-
ing plant in Washington and
can afford to meet all competi-
tive prices.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
"AND THE
BRIDE WORE e..

Lucky you-if you're get
ting married this AutumnI
Never have bridal gowns
been lovelier. II you are
contemplating a march up
to the altar, you'll be in a
daze.over deciding among all
the enchanting things the
shops are displaying. One
Is showing an ivory satin
gown, simple in detail-but
draped so beautifully that
you'll look like some Legend
ary queen in all her stateli-
ness.
Get an expert to help you
with the arrangement of
your wedding veil, because
the whole effect of your
gown depends on the be-
comingness of your veil.
OF course, you already
know the small details of
etiquette concerning your
bridal costume. No jewelry
is worn, except a string of
pearls or a small brooch. If
you wear gloves, they must
be simple white suede or kid.