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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Pay SIaShed TO LOw
Level Of Farm Labor
Pellagra Spreads as Result of Increasingly Low
Subsistence Level on Relief

free again, they discontinued all
projects until further notice. Sew
eral weeks have elapsed since that
time and no work yet.
If these families pay up, these
people in Orangeburg who ride
around to investigate their progress
will not have their fat jobs riding
around in their nice cars and tell
ing these people when to plant their
turnips and onions, so to speak.
These people don't mind paying
for their things, but it is rather en-
barraSsing to have to beg for them
and buy them too.
The relief council said they are
going to cut the wages of the re-
lief workers because the farmers
could not afford to pay high wages
to the labor on his farm. That
means less food, and a great many
people have pellagra now because
the supply of food is so scant.
Yet, the nurse will come around
and tell them to eat liver and cheese
and such impossible foods as that.
The people know what to eat, but
they can't get 1t.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13

Armour Workers Must
Pay to Community Chest
By a Worker Correspondent

OMAHA, Neb.-As we punch our
clock at Armours Packing plant we
find a sign on the clock telling us
that they are grateful for our con-
tribution to the Community Chest.
IF you can give more, see your
foreman, if you cannot give your
quota see him also" Our quota is
$500 for the year, and we know
what it means to see our fore
man" and tell him we can't kick
through.
This forced contribution from
workers cuts out unemployment in
surance. If we had that we wouldn't
need the chest at all, and each man
working could go about unmolested.
It's funny how the schemers
scheme. If we workers did a little
of this scheming we'd be better off,
but all we've been looking for is
work and more work. AS it is, in
Armour's we do about three mems
work on each job In the morning
and evening we put in ten minutes
extra besides. This means lot Of
money to them, but we get nothing
for it.
OMAHA ARMOUR WORER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Unemployed attacked
By St. Louis Police

The crowd begins to retreat. An old
half starved woman is knocked
down. A few men pick her up.
Policemen's fists begin to fly-men,
women, and children are indiscrim-
inately punched and kicked about.
Here is a boy about years old
lying on the lawn, kicked over by a
big burly uniformed cop. There is
a man being punched about by five
cops until he goes down, where he
is being kicked all over his body
while unconscious. A young girl is
being punched about her body and
slapped around the face by two uni
formed cops and two plainclothes
men. Like a gladiator, she is brave
ly swapping punch for punch until
she is subdued. Over there is man
on the pavement with eight police
men on him. One is punching him
about the head, two are holding his
arms, two his legs, two are jumping
on him, the other is kicking him.
Later they pick him up. Some hold
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one is holding his arm crooked at
the elbow bending his elbow until
the man begins to scream like some
animal.
Yonder, another young woman is
being beaten by group of cops, and
SO the scene goes on over the whole
front of the City Hall. After they
thought they had enough OF that
amusement, they began to arrest
the people. Ten were arrested.
This brutal attack was capped of
by these Fascist thugs shaking
hands, congratulating themselves on
the very good" work done.
My friend who was with me re-
marked, How wildly this recalls
the scenes of old Czarist Russia to
me-"
How we'll does it remind me of
police and cossacks attacking the
workers every time they dared to
raise their voices in protest when
they were hungry, and last but not
least, how well do 1 recall these
thugs dangling from the telegraph
poles when the revolution came"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
BY a Farmer Correspondent

NEESES, S. C.-Before the farm
ing season this year, families with
as many as nine and ten in the
family got is hours work at SOC an
hour every two weeks on the relief
Jobs. Some with six in the family
got as little as four hours every two
weeks.
When gathering time came, the
work on all the projects was cut
off entirely, to enable the landlords
to get their crops gathered for soc
a day.
Now the crops are gathered, the
relief wages have been cut by the
Relief Council of Orangeburg to 10c
an hour and that will be paid in
groceries. No one gets less than
eight hours or more than 30
Some Of the women get two eight
hour days every week in the sewing
room and must take their pay in
clothing from the supply of relief
clothes. So, you see that these re-
lief clothes are here to be sold IN
stead Of given away.
This concerns the rural districts
only.
Practically all of the people are
too destitute to have a sewing ma
chine of their own, and have to pay
rent on one to use in the sewing
room.
The families on the rehabilitation
list who get mules, COWS, ETC., are
allowed from Sc to S12 month for
groceries. They get orders for a
few things to be brought from local
merchants and a few from the
F.ER.A. supply room.
All of these things are charged,
of course, and they get receipts for
their work, no matter how much
time they put in.
All members in a family we're al
lowed 48 hours a week for a while,
but when they saw that some of
them were going to pay out and be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
By a Worker Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, MOI shall describe
herein what I witnessed at the st.
Louis City Hall on Nov. S0th. Here
is the picture:
There is a group of people, young
and old, Negro and white, foreign
born and native born, on the north
entrance of the building. A few
banners are in evidence with inscrip-
tions such as I'VE demand a so per
cent increase in relief" mo evic-
lions of the unemployed" I'VE de-
mand jobs or cash relief" etc. The
appearance of the poorly clad as
sembly, the presence of banners,
the speakers on the rostrum con-
vince the onlooker that this is a
demonstration of the unemployed.
Edging up closer to the speaker,
I heard him read the demands
which they were to present to the
Board of Aldermen who were sup
posed to be meeting on the ques-
ton of the unemployed. The speaker
called for the committee and some
relief cases, the latter to testify be-
fore the Board of Aldermen as to
how the charitable institutions have
been discriminating against them.
Between twenty to twenty-five
people started up the City Hall steps
led by the speaker who had jumped
off the rostrum. The leader was a
Negro.
A young white man mounts to the
roStrum, he is the chairman of the
meeting, and he informs the crowd
that following the committees en-
trance, if the Aldermen are in ses-
sion, everybody should go in and
hear what the Aldermen and the
Honorable Mayor Dickmann have
to say about aiding the unemployed
While this young man is speaking
the committee is stopped at the
door. An army of police pour out of
the building and without any fur
Their ado begins pushing and SHOW
ing the people around. The police
deploy in fighting formation, led by
captain, skirt around the crowd
The captain pushes the speaker off
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Reports Waste
On Rural Co.
.ReliefProject
By a Farmer Correspondent

MINER COUNTY, So. Dakota
Miner is just one of the many
counties all through the drought
area that is reporting the most
wasteful kind of relief work-that
is wasteful of human energy. Road
work is being done with shovels
even though heavy road machinery
is available close at hand.
In Miner County there is a road
building project, which consists of
widening a 60-rod grade by feet.
Relief workers on this project are
using two horse road slips which
take about a quarter yard. The
project is costing $1,000. The men
figured that if the job was done
with the county's elevator grader
that the actual cost of the job
would be $45.
Farmers on the job are asking
these questions: Is there not neces-
sary work which can be carried on
in an efficient manner which will
UeIlellG bIle COuuGIy d lOG luOIt'
We are only getting go cents an
hour for a man and a team. At
this we can not do more than pay
for the feed which working horse
requires at present prices. Why
doesn't the county use its elevator
grader on the job, and pay us the
difference in cost, which would
mean our horses could stay in the
barn and we would have some
spending money?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Gun Toting A. Foil. Head
Held for Attempted Murder

struggling frantically to draw a
sawed-off shotgun from beneath his
coat, caused the weapons discharge
and shot himself in the leg. Ac-
cording to bystanders, Collins and
his companion then fled, discarding
two sawed-off shot-guns as they
ran. Shortly afterward, Collins APP
pealed for treatment at Evangelical
Hospital and was arrested.
Thomas Devero, business agent
for the Live Stock Handlers Union,
is being held by police for question
ing. Arrested with Collins, he claims
he met Collins outside the saloon
after the shooting and assisted him
to the hospital. A clerk in the union
office, Walter Hageman, also is be-
ing held for questioning.
No reason for the alleged attempt
at vicious, cold blooded murder has
been given, and the name of the
alleged intended victim has been
withheld.
This revealing and disgusting
spectacle of labor -faker gangsterism
at its worst should prove beyond
any question to the workers of this
industry as a whole, and especially
to the rank and file members of the
union SO ruthlessly disgraced and
discredited by its own so-called
leaders, exactly what sort of men
operate and administer it and many
of the other craft unions of the A
F. of L.
This blot on the already dirty and
bloody pages of A. F. of L. Off
cialdom's history should become a
warning and a lesson to the rana
and file workers in these industries
as to what the future will hold TO,
them and their movement under
such leadership"
Organize and fight, meat workers
for an honest rank and file leader
ship in one strong industry-widt
! union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Use EUery Effort in Final
Push to Put DriUe OUer TOP

story revolutionary the
part financial Seventh
Eleventh N the other day, bought the
walked the
his and halted Comrade D.
something the Daily
What?"
envelope the The sped
away
Five minutes later the envelope Daily" office
envelope
contributed the Tuesday
York Workers Bookshop collection
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Immediate Care Necessary

AulIUGuAdkb NhAG RCEtSSdTY
HOMRADE F. 2. of Gasport, N. Y,
v writes: = "Comrade Louise, my
wife, last August had a sore in the
right breast. Matter was coming
out. Now about three weeks ago she
had same thing again but no so
hard. We saw our doctor and he
sent to Buffalo State Institute for
X-ray treatment.
I'm three weeks time before she
reached the State Institute it diSap-
peared again. The State Institute
examined her and sent her back to
our doctor. The Doctor examined
her again and he found hard little
lump on the same place she had in
fammation before and he said that
this must be taken out Che is a
surgeon too but for this had plenty
of time. He proposed we come over
in May next year then he will take
it out.
HE say that if not taken out it
possible will develop to cancer in
about eight to ten years. The COM
rade is thirty-eight years old, she
had six children, nursed them all,
We want to know after the opera
ton if there will be any more dan
ger about cancer on same place?
I'VE owe the doctor 500 for ap-
pendicitis operation. Last winter
our fruit is front with trees and
then come drys. Then comes cap
italist law enforcement about pack
ing fruit that takes out from our
land at least $100 and give it to
rich bankers dealers.
Then comes the said operation,
mortgage is due yet 1923. another
operation is on the heat. We are six
in family. Our son could not be
sent any more to school, nor he can
get job; other three children is going
to school. I have sciatica and I am
forty eight. Roof leaks, tools and
horses are old.
This is our prosperity around the
corner. Comrades, we must organ
lie workers and farmers and fight
and overthrow the rotten backward
sick capitalist fascist system of ex-
ploitation many by man and build
new one on the new MarxiSt science
like the Soviet Union.
Yesterday sold three pamphlets,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13

Pro t e s t
Bad Food
By a Worker Correspondent

ny q HVAhNA COAANSkcAAN~N
NEW ORLEANS, La. - Protesting
the rotten conditions at the Tran
sient camp in Algiers, more than
1000 struck over week ago.
The strikers charged that the food
was rotten, and so badly prepared
that they had always to take Saltz
or &C pills after each meal. The
officers were charged with graft in
knocking" down on prices of sup
plies and in withholding money
from the boys for a month at a
time in the hope they would leave
camp and thus the officers got the
rake off Of small change, etc.
This camp is one of the several
government camps where homeless
youths and young transients are
crowded together and given train
ing for the future war.
The leaders of the strike, Moe
Rogees, Samuel Butts, Harry Wat
son, Joseph Greiger we're arrested
Wy 1NCW Ol1Collo ElOlACS dlA0 oCilOSllOCO
to SIS or thirty days in Jail. Not be-
ing able to pay the fine they had
to take the Jail term. The I. L, D.
Immediately got to work exposing
the case and arousing the masses
to protest this cruel treatment and
the boys were released.
Some $50 of the most militant ones
who took part in the strike have
been driven out of the camp. Some
Of these were transferred to diff
ferent transient lodgings in the city,
others were driven out of town. Now
to appease the others and prevent
future trouble the papers are carry
ing front page stories about the
government building modern hos
pital for the transients, good food
being given to the boys, etc. The
Algiers transient camp is only one
example of the harsh treatment
handed out to the industrial dis
cards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13

before would not listen to anything,
now exclaimed enthusiastically IF
Communism is so good, why isn't
everybody a Communist" The
worst part of it is that when they
asked me for some printed matter
on these questions could not find
one pamphlet in the Workers Book
shop that would let them take a
look into our future Soviet America.
So, to sum it up, if We want to
get people interested, we must print
two pamphlets. ID A pamphlet that
will give them general idea of
things in a Soviet America. 90 One
dealing with various trades, for in
stance, coal miners, textile workers,
professional men, Office workers,
farmers, etc. The main thing is
to have these pamphlets plainly
written, interesting, colorful, emo
tional, artistic. We must get tens
of thousands to support us. or the
Fascists will get ahead of US.
RANK AND FILLER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
| A.Eo.L. o2GANiz eHs e
| WANTED Z

leaders stepped for a moment from
behind his hypocritical mask of
SNUG virtue and revealed with
startling clarity exactly what type
of men operate and administrate
it and exactly what sort of "busi-
ness" tactics those men stand for.
According to one of the leading
capitalist papers here, Collins, whose
union offices are located on the
second floor above the saloon, strobe
into the saloon with a companion,
had drink at the bar and then
strobe into rear dining room. AS
he entered the dining room, diner
leaped to his feet, cringed in terror
behind woman companion, and
sceamed, For Gods sake protect
me. They've come to get mel"
Witnesses said Collins, excited and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Court Kills
Anti-COunty
Sell Suit
BY a Farmer Correspondent


ANSLEY, Neb.-Most farmers
have heard of the attack of armed
thugs on organizers of the Holiday
Association of Nebraska, in which
Mother Bloor was arrested and
hurt. Sell was beaten into uncon-
seriousness and seventeen of the
thugs were knocked cold.
Shortly after the attack, Burt
Sell filed suit against the sheriff of
the county and his deputies who
took part in the attack, and against
other county officials. The suit is
for 100000 damages.
This week Judge HoStetler held
district court in Sherman County,
called the case and declared it
thrown out because no one was
present interested in it. This is I'M
heard of action in legal procedure.
Sell has two attorneys, one in
Omaha and one in Grand Island.
Both attorneys, besides himself, live
outside of Sherman County. In
spite of the fact that his Omaha
attorney had written the clerk of
the district court especially asking
for warning as to when the case
would be brought up, no notifica-
ton was received by the attorneys
or Sell, the plaintiff.
OF course, no case can be dis
posed of in such a way. General
opinion here is that such high
handed action simply shows that
the court and county officials are
very much worried over this whole
case, which really represents a
challenge to the farmers and work
ers' right to organize. The farmers
are pledged to smack down all such
fascist attacks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13

sites. Their letters appeal for
money so that their children may
be fed and go clothed to school.
At present funds are far from
adequate. Toys, unfortunately,
cannot be considered out of avail
able funds, although children
would be happy to have them,
and it would be splendid to give
them Little Lefty and Peanuts.
Send your gifts in money with
letter to a child, in the names
of Little Lefty and Peanuts, if you
like, but send it soon, to 80 East
18th Street, New York City
Director, Prisoners Relief Dept,
l. L. d.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13

aux most respectable people talk
v freely of how the women of
Hitler's Germany have been
plunged back to the life of CEN
turtles gone by, the only virtues to
which they dare aspire being
meekness, piety, the ability to
cook, and the strength to give
birth to many children.
But see what the American
scientists are saying about us
women! And no one gives forth
the tiniest peep" of protest against
the Nazi brew for which they are
fixing the first ingredients!
THE Professor of Hygiene at the
1 Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, in the best tradition of those
who breed horses, breaches to his
students how to make a scientific
appraisal of young woman's
charms" and estimate just how
beautiful she is. One hundred points
are allotted to the one who con-
forms perfectly to his table. Twenty
points, if the girl "is of average
weight and height for her age"
Five points eff the hair is clean,
glossy, free from oil, and becoming
ly dressed" Five points "if the eyes
are shining and alert" And so down
the line, like horse breeders who
know that their animals must meas
ure so much around the hoof, so
much around the neck. The girl
gets two points if her mouth has
a happy expression. and three if she
does not breath through her mouth!
ND there is DIR. Allen G. Ireland,
n New Jersey State Supervisor of
Health and Education. He thinks
that too much publicity and the
ceremoniOus awarding of athletic
letters are ESPECIALLY BAD
FOR GIRLS. 1t upsets them and
makes them TOO SELF CEN
TERED"
AND Albert Edward Wiggams, who
II runs daily column in the New
York Post. adds his mite by saying
that should men look for intelligent
women to marry, rather than beau
tiful ones, that would not be 50
good for the racel
1t is not difficult to imagine
these learned men footing their
horn on Nazi bandwagon. Ger
tainly they have already some
thing in common.
TO-DAY Helen Luke writes on
cleaning windows. She says,
There are many methods of win
dow-cleaning. Hot water and am
monia may be used. A friend of
mine uses hot water with vinegar
and turpentine in it. Some house.
keepers use Bon-Ami. Some use hot
water, with or without washing soda,
stripping off the water with rubber
squeegee such as storekeepers use.
When you first move in, and the
windows are ve-y grimy, give them
thorough coating with Bon-Ami
powder, using small cloth wrung
out of hot water. Leave to dry on
window and polish off with large
clean cloth. paint spots may be
removed with a safety razor blade.)
On this all housewives are agreed
Never use soap on windows or
mirrors. 1t leaves a fine film Of
grease practically impossible to re-
move, for, unlike your table glasses,
which you can plunge into very hot
water, the sheet glass cools imme-
diately, retaining the grease"
Helen Luke's articles for new house
keepers will continue next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Nebraska County Makes
n o r eIief Provisions
BY a Farmer Correspondent

sARPY COUNTY, Neb. - T h e
County Commissioners of Sarpy
County, Nebraska, did not make any
application for federal F. E. R. A.
funds for the county. Relief is
needed here as badly as in the sur
rounding counties, but the Com
misSioners object to spending the
$4,000 which the Federal Govern
ment requires from the county be-
fore advancing federal relief funds.
Such relief work as these thrifty
commissioners allow is paid for at
Is cents an hour and a maximum
of Sc month for any family. There
is no relief director. The work is
of the hardest kind, much of it on
the river where the relief workers
get wet in the course Of their work.
One farmer said to me: It am
positively ashamed to tell people
that live in a county like this"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board
The Advisory Board do not ADVERTISED
Wages and Accumulation of Cap.

Wages and Accumulation of Cap.
ital."
YOUR letter present a clearer pic
ture than we could, of how diff
f1cult it is for workers to face con-
ditions in capitalist society and
how necessary 1t is for them to rise
in mass protest against such condi-
tons.
AS for the medical side, we do not
wish to alarm you needlessly, but
in the case Of the breast, nothing
should be left to chance. If your
doctor thinks that cancer will devel-
op because of the lump, then the
breast containing the lump should be
removed. 1t Is not possible to say of
every lump in the breast that it is
or is not a cancer, but if such
chance exists, 1t is best to remove
the breast.
In these cases, only physicians
with wide experience in breast cam
Ger are the best judges of procedure.
If it is at all possible, we would
advise you to take your wife again
to the Buffalo State Institute (an
excellent hoSpitaD and ask them
very definitely;
If the lump is at all suspicious
of cancer.
&Whether they advise operation
at present and what type of opera
ton.
On the basis of their advice, you
can proceed and make such ar
rangements for operation or treat
ment as you can afford. If you
cannot pay your doctor you may
reach some arrangement for opera
ton at the State Institute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
APPEAL TO THE IMAGINATION

Chicago, III.
Dear Comrade Editor:
I, who would like to see Soviet
America in the shortest possible
time, came to the conclusion that
we must present program before
the American people which will cap
ture their Imagination.
What the people really want to
know, as it was put to me by an
ex-serviceman in the factory where
I work, is, what are we going to
get under a Communist govern
ment?
Those I have spoken to are in
terested in what they are going to
get when Communism will be a
reality. They want to know ap-
proximately what will be their in
come? How many hours will we
work and who will run the factories
and offices? Who will appoint the
manager or the foreman? In other
words they want to see some pic
ture of future Communist society.
tried my best to explain to them
what Communist society will look
like in the U. S. A. The result OF
my explanation was tremendous.
Some Of them who half an hour