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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
Miami Restaurant
Pay So Per Week
On 15-HOur Dav
~ a WOrker Correspondentl

MIAMI, Fla. of all the non
union towns, Miami is the worst.
This is appallingly true during the
winter, especially in the restaurant
line.
It is not an uncommon occur
renee to find young men working
for SIS a week, with hours from II
to Is a day, 7 days a week.
That there is plenty Of work to be
found in Miami is true but that
working conditions here are I'M
believably disgraceful is also true.
Fellows move from one lob to
another, after working at each a
day or so. They all hope to nj
a job which is half way decent,
but most of them wind up disap-
pointed. 1 speak from my own ex-
perience and from questioning
oilers.
Several high class eating houses
catering to the rich element down
here wanted to show their patriot
ism recently by signing UP under
the N.R.A. but they were finally
stripped of their Blue Eagles for
flagrantly violating the hour and
wage clauses of their code.
The other restaurants didn't even
want to bother pretending thew
were behind Mr.. Roosevelt, as it
might result in their receiving some
unfavorable publicity, if they, some
how, were cited for underpaying
and overworking their help.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
EI%M 81
1gIl fl(. Homes
ISss8AN HELEN 1ssi LUXE 49, If
CJ4SGtgNaLD BY
HELEN LUKE

Ms --,,a heen SO busy surveying
the general situation lately that we
have been neglecting to feed our
family. What with food prices adj
vancing 20 per cent in the last year,
it's rather optimistic to talk about
anything but soupbones.
RisOtto
Peel and cut in pieces four small
tomatoes and two or three onions.
(Use canned tomatoes when fresh
are too dear)
Brown lightly in fat. If you can
acquire a quarter pound Of mush-
rooms, cut them fine and put them
in, too. When Drowned, transfer to
saucepan or casserole, add one cup
washed rice, salt, pepper and three
cups hot stock. plain broth from
bones will do Bring to boil, then
transfer to hot oven and bake Is
minutes. 1t may be stirred occa-
sionally, and may require a few
minutes more baking, especially if
brown rice be used. (The rule is
simply three times as much stock
as rice; the other ingredients may
vary)
Serve with grated cheese.
Comrade Bonita sends the follow
ing recipe, and incidentally the
price Of peanuts also took a leap
when the blue buzzard tapped its
wings-they used to be a dime
pound, now you only get 10 ounces.
Peanut Cookies
Cream together one cup of short
ening and two cups sugar; add
three beaten eggs and mix we'll.
Then add, again mixing well, "a cup
peanut butter, one cup peanuts lin
halves, three cups flour sifted in
with one tsp. soda and half tsp.
salt. When ingredients are well
blended, roll out and cut with cut
ter or make into loaf, chill well,
and slice thinly baking cookies on
lightly CREASED tins 10 to Is min
utes in moderately hot oven. This
makes a hundred small cookies.
Keep in covered stone jar.
Comrade Rose S. suggests a
salad for those who do not like
onions; chopped celery and hard
boiled eggs. Chop celery fine and
then add eggs about equal
amounts) and chop again Add oil
or other fat and salt to TASTE"
She says further: 1--WE use beets
in the following manner: peel a
bunch of beets and cut in halves.
Cook in medium-sized pan filled
with water. When beets are done,
add lemon juice, salt, and a bit of
sugar to taste; drain beets, and add |
butter if desired, for side dish. The
liquid, when cold makes delicious
drink, ike wine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
Mass LayOffS In
Tampa Cigar Trade
(By a Worker Correspondent

TAMPA, Fla.-Another fragrant
case of the use of convict labor
to beat down wages has just come
to light here.
The Tropical Brewery Co., owned
by the notorious red-baiter and
XII Kluxer, chief of detectives Bush,
is employing prisoners from the city
stockade in its plant here. This is
the very man who, together with
Chief of Police Logan and others,
has been conducting a campaign of
terror against the cigar workers OF
Tampa and their militant leader
ship.
Last week saw the almost COM
plete elimination of the C.W.A. and
P.WA. works in this city. Thou
sands of workers and their families
are in the most horrible misery and
there is no relief of any kind.
In the cigar industry mass lay
offs took place this week in the
largest factories, and those who still
have jobs are earning 81 or So a
week.
The contemplate leaders of the
Cigarmakers International Union
an affiliate of the A. F. of L., are
doing their utmost to keep the cigar
workers from struggling against
these damnable conditions.
The Communist Party is putting
forth every effort to weld the
solidarity of the employed and I'M
employed workers in preparation
for mighty united struggle against
the cigar bosses and the Roosevelt
hunger and war offensive. Inside
every cigar factory solid unity OF
the workers is being formed.
The Party is bringing before the
unemployed and employed the
workers unemployment insurance
bill CHR. 1899 and already the
movement is afoot to develop q
broad and powerful struggle tc
force the bosses and the Roosevelt
government to pass this bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26

To become the fraternal organi-
cation Of the American working
masses, our International Workers
Order must establish its central
base among the native American
workers. Our present campaign for
strengthening the English section is
one Of the necessary steps toward
this end.
In this connection work among
the Negro masses is a most impor-
tant effort. The Negro masses are
a large percentage Of the native
American workers. The organiza-
ton of Negro masses in our ranks
Will be the real proof Of the pro-
learian class character of our
Order. Last but not least, the Ne
gro masses, most exploited, their
economic existence most insecure,
are victimized most extensively by
profit-making capitalist insurance
companies, with very little or no
benefit at all to themselves.
Tor this reason our City Central
Committees everywhere must give
special attention to agitation and
organization work among the Ne
gro masses. This work requires the
collective efforts of all sections of
the Order. 1t requies special mo-
bilization Of all active forces Of the
Order.
The National Executive Commit
tee has issued special propaganda
folders for work in the Negro sec
tons; these folders can be secured
free of charge. A systematic house
toulouse distribution of this folder
in Negro sections, followed with
house-to-house canvasses, must be
organized by volunteer members of
the Order. To mobilize these volun-
teers and to organize and systema-
tie their work is the duty of the
leading committees Of the Order.
The National Executive Commit
tee decided that as part Of our ef-
forts to win the Negro masses into
our Order special organization work
shall be done in the South. Ac-
cordingly, an organizer was sent
there. As a result of the work of
this organizer, our Order has now
established English branches in
Richmond, Portsmouth, Norfolk and
New Orleans. The response to our
organization work, especially among
the Negro workers in these southern
cities, shows the tremendous pos
sibilities our Order has for growth
and expansion as the fraternal
Order of the most exploited masses
Of American workers.
Work in the Harlem territory of
New York and the Black Belt of
Chicago has begun. However, it is
still very weak. 1t is the work of
only a few volunteers. 1t is not
yet the concentrated effort of the
whole city organizations of the Or
de-. Instead Of dozen comrades
'p5zV!qou 90 lsnJu spaIpunU 'Mou Sc
Instead of a few individual mem
bers of the Order, all branches, all
leading committees and the City
Central Committees of New York
and Chicago must make the work
in the Harlem Section in New York
and on the South Side of Chicago
their major task.
The National Executive Commit
tee has purposely confined the
major activities in the next few
months to special work to build the
Englsh-spealing section. This en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
CBy a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-In New York City,
there is a chain of restaurants
called Steuben Tavern. When the
NRA was born the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor organized these
restaurants, that is, they organized
the walters and no one else. Here
is graphic picture of conditions
in these restaurants.
Dishwashers get s12 a week.
Cooks that get elsewhere $50 and
$40 week get here SIS a week
and less.
And the following are the union
conditions of the walters: Each
waiter and waitress must join the
union and pay an initiation fee of
$40 and So a month for the privi-
lege of working. The wages for the
walters and mattresses are MIRA, but
here is the trick: Each waiter and
waitress must pay so cents each
day kickback money. If you refuse
to pay, out yuo go. There are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Unreliable Suppositories

A. R., PhiIadelphia-The suppos-
itories sent you by the DR.. Pierre
Chemical Co. of Chicago, Ill, are
unreliable for the purpose you want
them. Furthermore, they contain
formaldehyde which dries and
hardens the delicate mucous mem
brane of the vagina. 1t also con-
tains carbolic acid which, when alb
sorbed through the delicate skin is
liable to injure the kidneys. The
testimonial circular 1.-THE Final
Proof" is no proof at all, and it is
not true that these suppositories
have received the highest recon-
mendation of the medical profess
sion. Every dollar you spend on these
suppositories is worse than wasted.
Addiction to Cigarette Smoking
Alexandra H., Hicksville, L. If
you have not got sufficient will
power to stop smoking cigarettes all
at once, the only other method is
to cut down on them gradually.
Thus, if you smoke pack a day,
take out one cigarette from the pack
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
PARTY LIFE
Small Group System Is ON Aid
REORGANIZATION in Ford Plant
improves Units YORK and CiUes the Party
Members Better Protection
By MAX SALZMAN

The 18th Plenum of the c. I.
places before all Parties the task of
winning the support of the decisive
sections of the workers, particularly
the workers in heavy industry.
In the Detroit District our chief
task is to win the workers in the
Ford plant. This task assumes
greater Importance in view of the
position which Ford occupies, not
only in American industry, but in
most European countries.
Our first problem was to build our
organizations so as to be able to
successfully combat the highly de-
veloped spy system. In the past we
had large Party units in the plant.
Under such conditions it was not
possible to give adequate protection
to our Party forces in the shop.
We changed our form of organiza-
ton in order to try and most effec-
lively carry through our mass work.
We established one unit in the shop.
The unit consists of groups Of no
more than five. These groups
choose a captain, meeting of the
captains elect the unit buro. Then
a member of the buro meets with
number of the group captains and
through them transform the deci-
sions of the unit buro and higher
bodies to the comrades in each
group.
The groups meet independently,
and take up all Party problems.
The members of one group are
known to each other, while the
members of the unit buro are known
to as few persons as possible. In
this manner we hope to establish
the form of organization necessary
for the development of our mass
work, which at the same time pro-
tects our Party organization from
the attacks of the company.
The adoption of this form of or
ganization is only valuable when at
the same time we develop mass work
among the Ford Workers. The
situation in the shop is very ripe
for action. In a number of depart
ments the workers have resorted to
mass bocing Of the foremen and
superintendent who order them to
work overtime without pay. In one
department the workers forced the
company to close windows which
had been opened, through mass boo
ing. In some departments workers
have beaten foremen who we're
particularly brutal Workers are
talking back to the foremen, a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
LIZ. O. Must Establish Central
Base Among Negro Workers
Concentrate on Harlem, Chicago Black Belt
and the South
By MAX BEDACHT

ables us to concentrate our forces.
We must carry through this con-
centration by d DING everything
within our power to mobilize the last
ounce Of energy to build English,
youth and chlldren's branches,
especially in the Negro sections Of
the cities.
To carry through this concentra-
ton work especially in the Negro
section is a piece of concrete propa-
ganda work. By this kind OF work
we will really actively combat the
poison of white chauvinism. Bour-
geois influences and theological
poisons are not counteracted and
killed only by propaganda speeches.
It is necessary to draw the work
erS into active participation in the
effort to build workers organiza-
tons and carry out working class
struggles. In these practices the
workers learn the poisonous char
acter Of bourgeois theology. 1t is
in this work that the workers them
selves will learn to make efforts to
cleanse their conceptions from
bourgeois influences.
The last week saw a slight i'm
provement in the campaign to
build the Youth Section. Fifty new
members was the total for the
week. However, only 10 out of the
IS youth branches recruited new
members.
An adult Slovak branch has set
an example we'll worth following.
With a membership of only q, the
Baltimore adult Slovak branch or
ganized youth branch Of IL mem
bers. Of these, nine are young steel
workers, bakers, etc. This is what
we mean by adult cooperation in
winning young workers for the
Two. Every adult branch can CO.
operate in the building of the Youth
Section. Discuss the youth question
in the branch; follow with a reg
istration Of members whose chill
dren are eligible for the Youth Sec
ton intermediate ages 1913 and
seniors ages 1925. Many of our
adult members work in factories side
by side with young workers. These
young workers can be recruited into
the Youth Section.
Guidance to Youth Branches
Every adult branch, city commit
tee and city central committee
should elect a special committee to
meet with the youth branch in their
territory for joint activity in slim
ulating the drive. The existing youth
branches need the guidance and
leadership of our experienced adult
comrades. Our adult comrades can
become a factor in helping the
youth branches in solving problems
of headquarters. ETC., which today
stand in the way Of the develop
ment of the necessary youth activity
sports, etc.
Many adult branches have youth
members on their rolls, These youth
members are not drawn into the life
of the TWO. and remain in.
surance members. We want tx
draw these youth into the life o.
the TWO, to give them the adj
vantages of a proletarian education
and draw them actively into the
struggle for their needs. To do this
we should transfer them to youth
branches where such exist, or make
these youth in adult branches the
basis for building new youth
/ branches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
Letters from,
OurReaders
NO RELIEF FOR JOBLESS WORK.
Err BECAUSE HE'S SINGLE
Long Branch, N. J.

ASA1o @@A0AASAAy ~ "
I am a young man "a years old.
Unemployed for the last year and
a half. In desperation 1 applied for
work on the Public Works. They
asked me about hundred ques-
lions, but I shall only mention the
most pertinent or impertinent, any
one will be correct. Are you keep
ing company with a girl?" 1
answered, What would I be doing
with a girl when I can't even
support MYSELF" Have you a
family TO support, a mother or
father?" Not having any, they
positively told me that they could
not give me job, especially when
they heard where I lived on Potter
Ave. What? Why that's a colored
sectionl What are you doing
there?" well, I answered, They
were the only ones that gave me
a bed to sleep in, and food to eat,
which is more than you are willing
to do" Finally they referred me
to the American Legion.
Arriving dG G1e American Legion
they also gave me a QUESTIONABLE
with legion of questions in them.
A repetition of what happened
previously, except that they said,
What, staying with Negroes, you
ought to be ashamed of yourself.
I bet you're a Red" Again, not
having a wife to starve with me,
or mother and father, they could
do nothing for me, but they re-
ferred me to the Welfare Board.
At the Welfare Board the same
procedure. Potter Avenue. Living
in Negroes home, single, etc. So
they gave me little lecture on the
duties of a good American and told
me to join the Army. That is how
they solve the unemployed problem.
But we workers have another solu-
ton and that is Fight for Unem-
ployment Insurance, and for Soviet
America.
Comradely yours,
A Young Worker.
Long Branch, N. j.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
DiStiIlery Plant
Shutdown Breaks
Another Illusion
CBy a Worker Correspondent

TERRE HAUTF, Ind. - The
chameleon Prosperity"
has changed its color again,
this time to poverty blue.
At least 100 workers lost their
jobs at the local distillery plant of
the Commercial Solvents Corp,
when it suspended operations re-
Gently for an indefinite period.
This plant had been boosted in
propaganda about the expected del
uge of business following the re-
peal of the 18th amendment.
The press now is playing the po-
litical game of appealing to mass
prejudice, pointing to the i'm
portance of Cuban BLACK Strap"
molasses, a cheaper commodity for
distillation of alcoholic spirits than
the grain alcohol fermentation pro-
cess, and blaming this industry for
the failure of the local plant.
Lengthy feature articles are being
run under the captions of THE
Middle-West Pays Again - Federal
Decree Crlpples Farmers" urging
the workers and farmers to protest
this supposed injustice, lamenting
the loss of a potential grain market
linked with the decrease in en-
ployment, hiding the real cause of
the shutdown, overproduction and
the inability of the poorly paid
workers to purchase the products of
their labor. The lie was given the
whole story in a press dispatch ad-
mission that this same company
operates three BLACK Strap" mo-
lasses distilling units; two in Louis
lana and one in California.
Then there is the fact that the
Cuban cane fields and the distilling
units in this country, inclusive of
the local plant, are all owned and
operated by the same gang of bank
ers.
N. J. Crosby.
signature Au horized)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26

MICHIGAN SOLDIERS HOME,
Grand Rapids, Mich.-I have writ
ten a few letters to the Daily
Worker and sent some newspaper
clippings concerning Grand Rap
ids, but never wrote about the
Michigan Soldiers Home.
The Michigan Soldiers Home
takes care of about 400 people, men
and women, all veterans of the
Civil War, Spanish and World War.
You must be disabled or in age to
be eligible to be q member of the
Home.
For the past two years the Home
authorities or Michigan state poll
ticians treated the inmates fair, ex-
cept the paid help. Some civilians
and some members of the Home got
cuts in their wages of 20 per cent.
Civilians getting $65 month are
now receiving $45 a month. Mem
bers of the Home received $50 a
month, and now receive $18 a
month. Kitchen and dining room
help must be on the job at $50 in
the morning and work till seven in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26

thing mheard of in the Ford plant
since 1919.
These indications of mass resist
ance show the rising indignation OK
the workers against the speed-up
and especially against the failure of
Ford to give the raises, promised
the men some weeks ago.
More than one year ago we began
to organize groups of workers in the
Ford plant. However, we did not
sufficiently work out the tasks of
these groups and relied too much
on the activities of the leading COM
rades rather than leading comrades
helping to develop the initiative of
the workers in the shop.
United Action on Basis Of
Grievances
We have worked out program
for developing united action of the
workers in the shop on the basis Of
the grievances in each department.
The experiences have so far showed
the willingness of the workers to get
into action. Our main task is to
work in the department of these
groups SO that each comrade in the
shop builds around himself group
of at least five workers. 1t is neces-
sary to give concrete detailed direc-
ton to this work. Meanwhile the
leading comrades must more ener-
getically work in developing groups
of organized workers in the depart
ments. Their main task is the de-
velopment of the initiative of our
forces below-that is the develop
ment of each of our comrades as
leader in the groups Of which he is
part and in his department.
Here we must also give attention
to the organization of study circles
among the workers which will also
serve as a means to prepare workers
for leadership in the struggles which
are already beginning in the auto
industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
Landlord Threatens to
Rob Jobless Widower of
Six-Year Old Daughter
(By a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich.-I am a widow
er with one six-year-old girl and a
Welfare dependent, SO we are
chased from place to nloce -
paying the rent. Besides that. I
think this place we stay now must
be one of the XXX. nests. 1hcy
blame me terribly for refusing to
work for the city, 10 hours a week
at so cents an hour, and out of
that I would have to pay all the
bills for living necessities, includ-
ing rent.
My landlord mentioned something
about taking my child away from
me and putting me in the work.
house. My determination is that
they should not take my child away
from me while I am alive. 1 am
taking the best care of her under
the present miserable conditions.
I am willing to work, but not for
$3.50 a week.
The cause for the prejudice of
these people is that they see my
Daily Worker lying on the table
before I get it, and on account of
not sending my child to Sunday
school.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-26
by CwA Worker Correspondent

my Viva hOTkBF correspondent
NEW York; am one of the
CWA workers, Project So. I did
census work for four months. They
changed my wages about 4 times.
My last, and highest, wages were
S20.64 week.
Last Friday, March 8, thousands
Of CWA workers were supposed to
be discharged. When my turn came,
Mr.. McNanus at 154 E. 68th St.,
said to me, Cali I have is lunch
room work; washing dishes and
scrubbing tables for $13.44 a week.
5 hours work, hard labor work" I
told Mr.. McManus that I never did
it before, can't do this work. So
he said, IF you don't want it. I
have to drop you off the list" So
with tears in my eyes, said, Eyes"
otherwise, if had refused, would
have starved.
I was then transferred to school
in the Bronx. The job is not only
feeding every day 300 children in
our school-no, it is mostly washing
dishes, and they won't give me any
rags for washing them. am sup
posed to use my hands for this.
and to scrub tables. 7 protest
against this. want my clerical
work back; or nursing.
I was born in Paris, am SO years
old, Catholic, had a Convent School
education, six years in Vienna, also
two years training in nursing, medi-
cal, surgical and maternity and one
year Commercial Secretarial School
in Vienna. [ know stenography,
tipping, bookkeeping, nursing, can
handle a switchboard, I speak four
foreign languages and I have a
knowledge of music. I do not I'M
derstand, with my education, why
Mr.. McManus didn't give me any,
thing better.
I am resident Of the United
States for IA years, also citizen.
1 am all alone in New York City
and I have a lot of debts to pay.
Before started at the CWA, I