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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
TIE RICH AND THE TRUFFLE-
HOUNDS

The sketch shows a salmon dish
such as is served in rich estab-
lshments: the four little Holsters
browning the creation are kept
sloft by silver filigree-topped skew
ers thrust through them and the
truffle-inlaid mushrooms beneath
them. The black objects alongside
the fish are also truffles, known as
the black diamonds of the kit
chen"
They are a costly, pungent sort of
mushroom, a fungus, that grows
beneath the surface of the ground
in France; a delicacy highly priced
by the dollar-nobility. They are
jet black and used extensively for
inlaying pretty decorative patterns
into the food of the rich.
Dogs, sometimes pigs. are trained
to locate them. A pig is fed a few
truffles, muzzled and turned loose
to smell out the location of more
trIiffles. When successful, he is re-
warded with acorns. Shepherd
dogs to be employed (dogs already
trained for hunting can't be used)
are fed a meat dish cooked with
truffles, then starved for a day or
two, after which they have fine
keen nose for locating the under
ground truffles,
Sounds like fantastic opium
dream, doesn't it? But this is the
sort of thing the big bosses are up
to, while the workers, who mined
the ore for cook-pans and did all
the work that makes this luxury
possible, go mad wondering where
they can get another bag of beans
The salmon pictured, of course,
is not meal: oh, no, that's just
the fish course of a meal which
would be rounded out by appetizers,
soup meat and vegetable dishes,
salad, dessert, and so on. Yes, the
Iuxuries enjoyed by the rich exceed
the widest dreams of heaven of
the workers who provide this luxury
for parasites which few of the
workers ever see. Definite knoWl-
edge of these delights in which the
ruling class wallows, goes far to-
ward liquidating any illusions as to
whether or not the boss class will
give up their power without the bit
terest sort OF struggle. No ruling
class has ever Willingly abdicated,
said Marx. It's true. The ruling
class will never stand by and see
their truffles and whipped cream
swept away by mere balloting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Safety Rules As Speed
Up Device in Chicago
Terminals of Penn. R.R.
Save Is Days Pay Monthly on Each Gang by
Making Rest of Men Do Work of
Laid-Off ''ViolatOrs''

Workers who do not work fast
enough or who incur the displeas-
ure 70 the boss in any way know
that they will be the ones VIC
timized The safety rules in gen.
eral have nothing to do with actual
safety or safe practice. By in
creasing the speed-up they actually
prevent safe practice.
Unsafe and worn out tools are
furnished, but if the worker is in
jured in using them he is dici-
plined for using unsafe tools. To
change an electric light bulb is a
violation Of the safety rules but
to stop work and wait for an cleo
trician to replace q burned out
lamp is cause for dismissal.
A leafet, distributed in the ter
minals by the Communist Party,
demands that these abuses be
stopped. No worker to be laid off
or fired for violation of safety rules
until his case is reviewed by a
shop committee of workers and to
take the power Of setting penalties
away from the master mechanic
and that terrorism and speed-up be
stopped,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
HOSPITAL CARE UNDER
CAPITALISM
BY A. S.
By A. S.
CONTINUED from Yesterday

Continued from yesterday
In all honesty, can say that I am
not hyper sensitive or morbidly i'm
questionable. Yet, on the third day,
] was impelled to leave regardless of
the consequences, and without bene-
fit of the careful diagnosis" for
which had come. Fortunately for
me, my circumstances we're such as
to permit me to leave without cut
ting myself off completely from
medical attention. But the majority
OF patients there are not so for
tunate, and are compelled to take
what is given them for lack of any,
thing better.
Now who is to blame for this?
Is it the inherent meanness of hos
pital attendants that is responsible?
Or are sick workers just naturally
objects of hatred? It is none of
these causes. The basic policy of
an institution is invariably reflected
in the attitude of its attendants. If
it were the policy of the hospital
officials to supply the facilities and
atmosphere necessary to genuine
treatment of illness, the co-opera-
ton of the staff would be its first
consideration. 1t is notorious fact
that hospital workers are compelled
to work long hours, at pay which
would not be adequate compensa-
ton at half the time required. How
can underpaid and over-worked at
PENDANTS be expected to feel any
good will toward their work? The
patient, being the immediate cause
of work to be done, naturally be-
comes the object of their resent
ment against conditions whose
source is the officialdom of the hos
pital. The attendant directs his
antagonism against the patient
instead of his employer. who is
the real cause of his dissatisfaction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Open Letter to Workers
Of Sunnyside R. R. Yard
Fellow Workers:

Fellow Workers;
Do you realize the chance you are
missing at this time by not or
ganizing?
After we have shaved to make the
Pennsylvania R. R. known as the
standard R. r. of the world, At
terbury, the president of this COM
pany tells us we are all part of this
great road.
Fellow workers, all we ask is that
you compare your pay check with
that of Atterbury's and see the vast
difference between the men who do
all the work and the man who
sits idle. While we make from S2.38
to $3.05 for eight hours Shaving,
he makes $4,000 year.
Do you realize the nice ticket
many of us will get after the sum-
mer runs out? He will say: well
done, thou good and faithful serv-
ant, but your services are no longer
required. I hope that during your
lay off you have as good a time as
I will on my. vacation"
Fellow workers: this Is what will
be handed to us soon and we ask
you: What are you going to do
about it. Are you going to stay
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Baltimore Seanen Fight
GOU't Forced Labor Plan
. Their Militant Spirit and Unity Is UnbrOken
Despite Police attacks, Frame-Ups and
Cutting of of Relief
By a Marine Worker Correspondent

BY a Marine Worker Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Md-You have
read in the daily papers that the
seamen are making trouble on the
waterfront. This is untrue. You
have read Of the seamen attacking
the police. This is a lie. All this
propaganda is a deliberate attempt
to form public opinion against the
marine workers. This attack on the
Seamen by the capitalist press has
been going on for some time, but
since the seamen have been carry
ing on militant struggls and espe-
cially since the strife Of the long
shoremen the capitalist press has
increased its attack and has made
a concentrated campaign against
the marine workers.
On Sunday, May q, at meet
ing Of the Unemployed Council, the
question of forced labor was dis
Cussed. The governments plan to
make the seamen work Is hours
for 90 cents was unanimously OPP
posed by all Seamen on the water
front. The forced labor program
was to get under way Monday the
18th, and when the relief takers
sent down the buses at s am. to
get the seamen to take them out
to work to Fort Howard, the buses
left empty. The seamen will never
take up the forced labor of the
government. Baltimore seamen have
struggled for months and they will
continue to struggle against any
vicious attack on them by the gov
eminent the bosses and the relief
takers. Imagine seamen leaving the
city and swinging picks and digging
bitches for 80 cents a week. 1t is
common knowledge that Seamen be-
long on the waterfront and that it
is only on the waterfront that they
can contact the ships for jobs.
At am. Monday the 18th we
heard that the longshoremen at the
municipal docks were striking for
increase of wages. The men work
ing these docks were all Negro long
shoremen. The seamen from the
waterfront went to the docks to
help picket and give their support
TO the strikers. 5cabs were inside
the gate. The seamen under the
leadership of the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union led by fellow worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08

tress OF the young recent graduate
nurses; we criticized the poor quail
lty of the food that was being fed
to the unskilled workers; we ap-
pealed to the workers to organize
and thereby improve their working
conditions and their salaries.
The paper was electrifying; il
took everyone by storm. The workers
loved it. They cherished every word.
1t was grabbed up so fast that there
were not enough copies to 90
around. Each copy passed from
hand to hand and was consumed by
10 to 20 eager minds.
If the truth hurts, the hospital
authorities were deeply shocked.
There was CONSERVATION in their
ranks. There were hurried tele-
phone calls and conferences in an
effort to find ways and means OF
suppreSsing the paper. Officials
snooped around and snatched copies
from the hands Of anxious readers.
We warn the hospital authorities
that no amount of intimidation will
prevent this paper from being pub
lished. Communists are not weak
kneed. The Communist Party is
found in the leadership in every
struggle of the working class. The
Communist Party is the only party
that fights necessarily for the in
terests Of the workers. The Conn
munist Party never hetrays the
workers. Jewish hospital workers
can depend upon the Communist
Party for guidance and support.
The demand for The Pulse has
been so great and there have been
so many letters and articles sent in
for publication, that we are COM
PEELED to double the circulation and
increase its size from two to four
pages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08

Stack went to the docks to pull out
the scabs. Our plan was at first
to talk to the sCabs and let them
know that they were scabbing on
the longshoremen. The results were
that the scabS came out and shook
hands with all the picketers. The
police got hostile Immediately and
started knocking off the leaders.
The first thing they did was to
grab off Stack, who was merely
walking the picket line and shaking
hands with the workers, and start
beating him up. Stanley, only II
years old, went to the defense of
Stack. Along with Stanley, Harris,
Howe. Guadalupe, who also had
to defend themselves from the at
tatck of the police, were beaten up
and taken to Jail. Trial at lower
court was waived and a jury was
demanded by all.
The arrests are nothing more
than deliberate attempt of the
shipowners to break up the organ
ization on the waterfront. On a
previous demonstration Stack was
openly threatened by the police and
in breaking up one meeting a police
inspector said to Stack:
You'll be sorry for the day you
ever came to Baltimore"
The charges filed show clearly the
despicable system of the police
courts and their out-and-out meth
DDS of frame-up. Stack when
brought before the desk officer in
lower court was charged with at
lacking an officer and melting to
riot. The desk clerk also added
ATTACK with stick" Although Stack
did not have stick in his hand
at any time during the morning. He
was hit on the head with a black
jack by the police, yet the charge
is that he attacked the police. AS
far as "inciting to riot" it is plain
that they are out to frame Stack
on whatever charge they can get
away with Guadalupe was charged
with assault" The police also
charged him with using stick.
Everything was piled on that was
possible. The only sticks that were
welded were the police clubs and
the ones that were attacked were
the seamen. The others were
chargd with disorderly conduct.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Ii. R.R. Prepares
To Make Wage Cuts
a Permanent One
BY R.R. worker correspondent

BY a R.R. Worker Correspondent
JAMAICA, L. I.-Where are so
many "old timers" that have disap-
peared from the yards and from
the shops? Some have been replaced
by younger blood" and the L. 1.
R.R. Company is planning to do
away with more old timers, but this
time they do not intend to replace
anyone.
On pay day, Wednesday, we got
ballot which we had to return
with our card. They asked us to
vote either for the continuation of
the flve-day week, or for the six
day week. We were taken by sur
prise, and don't know what the
company will say. This vote will
give the company a chance to say
that we want the six day week, and
1t will give them the opportunity to
lire more of the "old timers" At
the same time I feel that they will
prepare the ground to keep the 71a
per cent return on the cut on the
ground that we get now more wages
imam before, If we are made to work
six days.
More than this, the speed-up put
in throughout the country in the
railroad industry will still be in
creased. For example, 1 can saw
that the coach cleaners are given
so many minutes to sweep a coach.
no matter how clean or how dirty.
Workers are timed when they wash
the windows and standard is set
for the whole gang. This eff
cheney" system forces the workers
to speed-up, when we know that to
do a good job would equire more
time, and this "speed-up leads to
failure to perform duties proper
ly," statement to the boss. and
the discipline papers which will
grant an involuntary vacation of a
few days, a few weeks, or a perma-
nent lay-off.
Any fiimsy excuse is sufficient to
get old Harry" Hen" or Pete
off the job He's getting old, any
way, and it is not safe for an old
man to be working around the third
rail- but it is too bad that he could
not stick it out for his pension.
He'd have gotten it in another two
years" This is a common sentence
around the yards and in the shops.
But the old-timers are QUITO stay,
and they join the numerous army
of unemployed.
Compulsory old age pension and
Unemployment Insurance would
have helped these cases and the
many future cases. This is why all
workers of the L. I. R. r. should
support the bill of the Unemploy-
ment Councils now before Congress,
Fl. R. 7598-Which will provide for
any similar cases, and at the ex-
pense of the railroad owners. who
have stolen the potts of our labors.
THE BOLT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
By a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, III. 49, The Master
Mechanic of the Chicago terminals
of the Penn r. r. has built up a
slave driving system by which he
is able to increase production and
cut expenses using safety rule en-
forcement as the club with which
to drive the workers.
The foreman of each gang of 40
men is required to report at least
five safety rule violations each
month. As matter of so-called
discipline these men are laid off
three days without pay. No extra
men are employed to take the place
Of the men laid off, the other
workers on the gang close in and
perform the duties of the man I'M
der decipline. This amounts to a
pay roll saving of Is days per
month per gang and for the entire
division amounts to enough to pay
the Master Mechanics salary.
Since the lsborers' rate is 39c per
hour and all work flve days a week
or less. it means hunger for the
workers family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
r. R. BROTHERHOOD UNITY
COMMITTEE
New Go. Union
Trick by Penn R.R
Sunnyside Yards
BY R. R. Worker Correspondent

By r. r. Worker Correspondent
RICHMOND HILL. L, IL want
to say that on last pay day every
worker in the Morris Park Yards
received a little booklet by General
Atterbury in which the president
explains that he is now in favor OF
the workers choosing our own rep
resentatives to bargain collectively
with the management on the basis
of Jointly established facts"
I want to warn all the railroad
workers that this is a trick to pre-
pare the way to draw all of us into
new form of company union that
will apparently not have the open
marks of a company union.
We must remind Mr.. Atterbury of
his strikebreaking activities during
the 1922 OUTLAW" strike, in which
he as president of the company did
everything to break our strike
Furthermore want to ask After
bury what he intends to do to the
workers who lost their Jobs and
who have gone through hell since
then?
The workers of the Penn and
L, l, r, R, must not fall into the
trap that is being set for us. Yes
we want to be organized and we
want collective bargaining, but not
through the bosses Eyes men, like
Charlie Robb. We want to speak in
a body of railroad workers, regard
less of craft, through our own
elected delegates without any pres
sure from the railroad bosses.
1 think that the Unity Movement
should get busy on this and mobi-
lie all railroad workers for united
action.
20 YEARS A R. R. WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
~ Doctor
.Als>GA1G.l GIO
GAdAd4P4:
By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

1t is not the patients fault that the
attendant is overworked, or the at
tendant's fault that the patients
suffer. 1t is the policy of the hos
p1tal management of ake-what-we-
choose-to- give-you- and-shut-up to-
ward both the hospital worker and
patient, that is to be blamed.
And what does this means to the
thousands of workers who by virtue
OF the economic condition to which
they are reduced by capitalism, are
compelled to depend upon the Belle
vue type of treatment in times of
illness? 1t means this: That under
capitalism, the worker cannot re-
ceive adequate treatment for dis
eases which, nine times out of ten
are the result of conditions forced
upon the worker by the capitalist
system. The institutions provided
for workers, supported by taxes
levied upon workers, are nothing
more than gesture, pretense for
the benefit of public opinion, on the
part of the ruling class who "benev-
olently" dispenses what passes for
medical care.
What is the solution? How can
workers obtain adequate medical
care? There is only one solution,
namely: workers insurance against
illness, and what is more important.
the control of the dispensation of
insurance benefits to be in the hands
of the only class interested in the
workers-the workers themselves.
This is one of the provisions of the
Workers Insurance bill H. R. 1898.
The workers themselves must de-
mand their rights. This bill must
be supported as an expression Of
these rights. The rights" of the
workers are much more than benev-
olence' or Charity Insurance for
workers, against unemployment and
illness, is no more than what the
worker earns by the service of his
work. Demand your rights by sup
porting this bill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Telegraph Bosses
Try Everything to
Destroy the T.M.U.
BY = Telegraph Worker Cor
respondent

| NEW YOR K.-We messengers
have little experience in trade union
activities.
However. in attempting to get a
square deal from the companies we
discovered many things.
First; Although the companies
have made several millions in profit
for the year and had paid out nice
fat dividends to their stockholders
it refused to raise our wages or
improve working conditions.
Second: When we attempted to
unite in our union, the Telegraph
Messenger Union, for the purpose Of
collective bargaining, the company
fired the active leaders, sent stool
pigeons to spy on us, hired thugs
and terrorized the messengers.
Third: When we expressed our
indignation against such tactics,
and threatened to strike for our
demands. the companies opened a
terrific drive on all fronts to break
us.
Thus, in one short month we have
arrived at position directly op-
posite to the big financial interests
which control the companies and
their lackeys. In trying to get a
square deal from them, we found
them not only unwilling to COM
promise and arbitrate peacefully.
but anxious to destroy us, consider
ing us dangerous enemy.
They stopped at no expense or
trouble to achieve this end. They
used the police, thugs, detective
agencies (Bergoff, Bernstein, Sha-
piro, etc.. the capitalist press IN.
Y. Evening JournaD, company
unions CA. w. u. Ed, in order to
break us. Our demands, presented
to the officials by a strike commit
tee, we're rejected.
This company union CA. w. U. Ed
has since shown its true colors by
openly protecting the company's in
tereSts against the messengers.
Thus, when E. S. D. No. 2 office
was broken up and the messengers
demanded action of the A. w. U. e.
representative-he refused to do
anything and the next day gave
the company excuses for breaking
one of the biggest offices. This Of
flee was broken up because of its
militancy in fighting the company
union and demanding recognition
of the T. M. U, and its demands.
This same A. w. U. E. did not send
a representative to the Washington
code hearing on May Is, to fight
for the messengers interests. How
could it, since the company was op-
posed to any code, and the A. w.
U. E. must do nothing that is "det-
rimental to the interests of the
company"
These leSsons-the open subservi-
ence Of the A. w. U. E. to the com
pany, the breaking of all the rosy
promises the company agents made
and the ruthless suppression Of any
move on the part of the workers
to organize into militant unions
have been carved on the minds of
the messengers. We have learned
that to win our demands it is neces-
Sary to fight with all our power.
and on all fronts. This new knowl-
edge will enable us to move forward
IN our strengthened union to fight
for our demands, to smash the com
pany union, and, if a code is to be
made, to force the adoption of a
decent living wage for messengers.
A MEMBER OF THE TMU.
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victory" Of AL.
r. R. Union Head Is
Lay-Offs for Men
BY a Railroad Worker Cor
respondent

NEW YORK, N. Y.-On May 10
F. Freccia, general chairman of the
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employees CA. F. of L. sent out a
letter to all junior members ON the
Hudson and Harlem divisions call
ing them to meeting on Tuesday
May % at ITO East 125th st. The
letter opened up as follows:
Dear Sirs and Brothers:
When this letter will be in your
hands, you trackmen will already
be working in accordance with the
new program, i.e., days per week.
AT the time we approached you,
we stated that our efforts were
concentrated on getting more time
for you. We have fulfilled our
prniSe and we are satisfied with
having done our part"
The following explanation will
serve to convince your readers just
how these fake union leaders work
We section men had been working
and days per week. Brother
Freccia and his outfit entered into
an agreement with the company
whereby the company consented to
a five-day week provided MI. Free
cha would concede the companys
right to lay off the junior man in
the gang. The old bargain of Give
me quarter and will give you Is
centS!" No provision was made for
the man who was kicked out of a
job by this treachery. And this is
called a victory by Freccia and his
gang. The old racket of dividing
the men against each other.
Paragraph of Freccia's letter
further states:
"FOremen are urged to attend
for j have for you a message of
the utmost Importance which for
many good reasons l cannot put
on paper"
Brother Freccia, why the secret
chatter between you and the fore
man? You state that you want the
other men to sign up in your union.
If so, for what purpose? Are you
playing confidence racket by brib-
ing the foremen SO they will support
your vicious maneuvers? 1t is time
that the knockout was given to your
kind of leader. This can be done
by building united front of all
honest railroad men, taking our
unions out of the hands of the pres
ent top leadership and placing them
under the control of rank and file
members. When we do this, we will
have made tremendous step for
ward, not only for honest leader
ship, but also for real conditions on
the job. Let's make our unions serve
the interests of the rank and file.
In honest rank and file leadership
lies our only hope for decent living
conditions.