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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
By a WOrksr Correspondent

BUFFALO, N. VI was employed
for Is months by the Jesuit priests
Of Canisuis High School, 651 Wash
ington St.. this city. In that time
I never enjoyed one full day of rest.
Sundays, Church and national
holidays all look alike to the slaves
(excepting one weeks vacation after
one year,. The working hours were
nine hours per day for five days
and eight hours on Saturday max
ing a total, of So hours per week.
Then on Sundays, two men had to
wash dishes at breakfast and two
at dinner, all holidays included.
Mote: They have cut out the extra
dish-washing since signing the N.
R, A., but not until they were re-
ported)
Very often, on some Saints Feast
Day, the four men working in the
school building would have to be
in the kitchen for the big evening
dinner to wash dishes, cocktail and
Roman punch glasses until after 7
o'clock; before we got our evening
meal You may guess how good we,
the tired hungry slaves felt toward
the Good Fathers. You can take
it from me, they have quite a large
number Of saints to be honored, and
boy, how they do honor them, with
turkey, chicken, oyster cocktails,
Roman punches, beer and good
wine. We, the slaves, got in wages
for all this, $40 a month and board
The board consists of what is left
from the priests table.
Oh, yes, they give lodging also
in an old house without bath
not even hot water Each man has
an old broken-down coal stove in
his room, millions of bed-bugs and
a number of rats. Eight men live
in this building and each man has
to take care of his own room on
his own time. They finally did paint
these rooms and repaired the toilet
after being reported.
These Good Fathers signed ur
with the Presidents unemployment
agreement, P. R. A. or N, R. A. on
Sept. /, 1888. These Jesuit5 put two
big Blue Eagles in their windows
The men went on working the sans
old hours, SO and more week. A
couple of them kept their time, ano
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
By I. AMTER

It may seem absurd to ask the
question, but the practice Of some
of the Party districts and sections
of leading comrades in unions,
makes it necessary to ask the ques-
ton.
From New Beaver, Pa, comes a
letter asking whether it is correct
that we do not have to do any
unemployed work; that now we are
to concentrate only on the shops.
We know that in the Pittsburgh Dis
trict there il not only good appre-
citation of the need Of unemployed
work, but that the work is being
done. In Allegheny County pitts
burgh), the best unemployed work
is being done at the present time.
But New Beaver is part Of the Pitts
burgh District. 1t is in the midst
of the steel section. There are tens of
thousands Of unemployed steel and
metal workers in this section of the
country These workers are look
ing for jobs, for relief. There are
tens of thousands Of steel workers
who work only part-time, who also
need supplementary~relief How can
we ignore them?
In addition how can we talk about
correct shop work, with the inten-
ton of organizing the workers and
leading them in struggle if we fail
to organize also the unemployed
and part-time workers? If strike
is to be organized, how can we ne
glect to organize the unemployed to
ensure that they will not scab? The
organization of the unemployed is
part Of the concentration work, and
must be considered in connection
with the concentration plan at each
shop.
That this letter is not accidental
is shown by the article by Comrade
Egan recently printed In the Daily
Worker. Comrade Egan dealt with
preparation for struggle in the steel
industry, and emphasized that We
face the biggest struggle in steel
since 1919. In steel we are dealing
with the most highly trustified in
dustry in the country. Wall Street
will do everything in its power to
prevent a strike and to break it..
With the aid of its private police
and through control of the munich
pal authorities, it will not only i'm
port thugs and scabs, but will try to
intimidate workers into strikebreak-
ing. Through direct intimidation,
through the threat of blacklisting,
through offers of higher wages, ETC.,
they will try to break strikes, If
we do not organize the unemployed
as part of every plant, the steel
corporations will be able to do con-
siderable damage. In addition we
must remember that a large per-
centage of the steel workers are for
eign- born, many of them aliens.
The threat Of deportation will be,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
No Holiday for Workers
At Jesuit High School
Speedily Introduced to Make Up for Hours
Cut Under the N. r. A.

when pay day. which Is the last
day of the month, came around,
they handed out the same little old
$40.
The men who had kept their time,
asked how about the N. r. A. and
the minimum SIS per week? We
have four and third weeks at SIS,
making S65, and one man had Az
hours overtime at time-and-a- third
at so cents per hour, making a grand
total of 1882. He got just the $40.
The balance of $48.62 were charged
for board, lodging and fighting bed
bugs.
Board Backs Jesuits
I complained in person and in
mail to the Buffalo Compliance
Board. Also sent it to washington,
D. C. Washington tells me that
the Buffalo Compliance Board has
full jurisdiction and that the legal
member of the Board advised that
Canisius High School officials are
conforming with the N. R. A.
Here is the way they are trying
to get around their agreement. On
Wednesday, Oct. 1s, 1888, Father A.
C. Roth. principal of the school,
called the four men who work in
the school building into his office.
He had a schedule of working hours
made out instead of the nine hours
The men were forced to take a two
hour lunch period, II a. m to /
p. m. and 5l2 hours on Saturday.
Right here in this two-hour lunch
period this Compliance Board has
given two different decisions. On
one case, and this was printed in
the Buffalo Evening News, they de-
eide that one hour is the standard
in Buffalo and they decided against
one firm. But in this case the Board
says o. K.
Now, when they did reduce the
hours from SO to 451a per week
they did not hire any more help
One man is off the job on Monday,
because he works in the kitchen as
a dishwasher on Sunday q. m. The
grand total of hours before the re-
duction of Oct. 10 was 212; now it
is 174 hours and they expect the
men, by speed-up, to get away with
the same amount Of work, and told
them, if you cannot, we will get
some one who can,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Rr q Worker Corresnondent

NEW YORK. - The modern IL
story building at 400 First Avenue,
near 2Srd Street, IS called the Insti-
tute for the Crippled and Disabled.
The administration Of this institute
plays the role Of a philanthropic or
ganization interested in the welfare
Of the crippled. Its letter-head reads
Free Vocational Training" but an
investigation of conditions in this
free school reveals that it is a man
ufacturng plant employing the free
labor Of cripples.
We are exploited for the benefit
Of the trustees. The Institute build
ing contains furnished rooms rent
able to students and workers. at a
cost Of s18 month. but we can't af-
ford those rooms, becaus we do not
receive wages. We have to travel to
and from our homes in congested
subwars with the aid of crutches.
braces ard artificial limbs. Those
who have no families get along as
best they can. sleeping in flop
houses and parks, or in the homes
Of sympathetic friends.
The Institute only hires about $50
workers now. Half Of these workers
are called trainees, and these Sc
called trainees at the Training
School workshop compete with out
side labor and produce all kinds
Of useful work, seven hours a day,
five days a week. Prominent organ
izations are regular customers for
trainees goods. but the trainees do
not receive any pay whatsoever. not
even carf8re and lunch. In spite of
the fact they have a cafeteria in the
building, many Of us went hungry
and begged carfare for the great
charitable privilege Of working for
nothing.
The other half of the workers at
the so-calied sheltered work room
work for big factories. They are
forced to work for 81 to SO a week.
In February, 1882, the administra-
ton put everybody in the sheltered
work-room on a piece-work basis,
because the workers did not run
the machine quickly enough to de-
serve the straight salary of 81 per
week that We were getting, and we
lost our chance to live.
The money that comes from con-
tributicns goes in graft to the Of
ficials.
They made gymnasium and we
get all kinds of crazy exercises. They
al6o give US dancing parties. We
are ted to sing, smile and be Joy
Gus. But We say bitterly, that we
don't need their exercises and dane
ing parties. We need 2 home, food.
clothes and a weekly wage for our
hard work.
Tho officials know that we are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Group
OF Unemnloyed
Teachers Active
BY Teacher Correspondent

NEW YORK; read in the Daily
Worker Of April 80 in an article by
a worker correspondent that the
substitutes in the schools need or
ganization. A militant, vigorous
group, however, is at present fight
ing for smaller class registers, APP
pointments, continuance of teacher
G. w. A. projects. an end to tragic
case appointments Slipping in poll
teal favorites instead of civil serv-
ice eligibles); against dual job
holding, and such share the work
schemes as he mentions.
This group of the Unemployed
Teachers Association. with head
quarters at 80 East 2Oth St. Meet
ings are held every Wednesday
evening What we need is not an
other organization. bit solidarity in
the ranks. Let the conrade and
his friends come down and see what
is being done.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Money to Bury Wife
Of ] obless Worker Is
Denied by Relief Board
From a Worker Correspondent

HARRISBURG, Pa.-My wifi e
passed out Of this life last Sunday,
l had no money to lay her in her
last place of rest, so I went to the
Dauphin County Relief Board.
They were al deaf and dumb to the
fact that I needed some money to
lay her away. They had me sitting
in the office waiting for so long,
asking me questions about what
allied her, why did l let her die,
and so on. that I got disguised and
went to the state capital to see
the State Relief Board. They
passed me ON TO another depart
ment, and so on, 50 I again got
disguised and vent to the Dauphin
Couny Poor Board. They do not
bury anything but dogs and cats.
So you all know how 1 feel with
my wife lying dead and no funds to
bury her with.
These are only some of the con
ditions The poor people have to go
along with here. Please put this
in the Daily Worker. I buy and
read the paper and am che OF your
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
PARTY LIFE
Work Among the JobLess
Must Be Intensified" --Amter
Immediate Protest by Unions, 4. F. of L. Rank
and File, Needed to Defeat Local Wagner Bill

and already has been, held over
their heads, if they show any oppo-
sition to the bosses.
In the New Jersey and Philadel-
phie District we find a similar sit
uation. Not only is there opposition
to unemployed work, but although
there are plans for concentration
work, there are none for unemploy-
ed work in connection with the
concentration work. In all districts
there is no conception of unem-
ployed work as a means of getting
contacts in important shops.
What is the reason for this situa-
ton? Forces are lacking" too
much other work to do" are some
of the excuses and explanations
given. To sll the districts, sections
and units We say: "Shop work comes
first, but you should and must work
out in connection with your shop
concentration work plans for or
ganizing the unemployed Of the par
ticular shop or shops Cif the work
erS can be reached through living
in certain parts of the city-as is
the case in many localities and
for organizing the unemployed liv-
ing around the shop of concentra-
ton to assist in the shop struggles"
But this is not the only reason.
The unemployed are demanding re-
lief; they face evictions; they want
unemployment insurance. If they see
us organizing and leading them In
struggle, they will follow our pro-
posals for cooperation with work
ers in the shops who go out on
strike. They will not be susceptible
to the offers Of the bosses to break
strikes, they will not be driven by
hunger to become Strikebraakers.
In the strike plans, We always con-
slider the possibility of scabs. Let
us forestall the possibility by or
ganizing and leading the unem-
ployed.
A short time ago the Central
Committee sent a circular to the
districts, asking for their plans for
unemployed work. This was due
to the failure of most dictricts to
carry on systematic work. Although
a reply was asked Immediately, very
few answers have come in. Does
this not show that the districts, Sec
lions and leading fractions have not
comprehended the section Of the
Thirteenth Plenum Thesis on I'M
employed work and the Eighth Party
Convention Resolution-or if they
comprehend them. then in an OPP
pOrtunistic manner they are ignor-
ing them? Is it necessary to write
more resolutions? We think not
it is now time to put the resoIu-
tions into effect.
Unemployment is a permanent
aspect of capitalism. In the pres
ent period of capitalist decay, if
unemployment apparently decreases.
work takes on the aspect of forced
labor. The demand for jobs and
for unemployment and social in
surance is gorwing. OUR job is to
organize the unemployed and en-
ployed for this central struggle.
The districts must work out these
plans, explain to the comrades that
unemployed work must be intensi-
fed connect it up with shop work,
and thus put an end to such ques-
tons as are innocently put by the
New Beaver comrades. but are in
the minds of many comrades
throughout the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
CrfppIes' ForcedLabOr Makes
Profits for Institute in ~ Y
IS 'sTrGinees'' Work Just for Experiences
Others Get 81 to 50 Week

dissatisfied with our conditions, that
is why they are using all this pres
sure on US. It Is not hard to get
the workers out in strike. The
trustees are afraid to let the outside
world know about out conditions,
We all know that. and that's what
we have to do-expose them all over
and fight for demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Shows Beth David
Hospital Case Is
No Accident
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK; read with great
interest about Is nurses being fired
from Beth David Hospital, and they
certainly are getting mean deal.
In 1923 I entered that hospital
for general training because I did
not have the necessary preliminary
education to enter a recognized
school. Knowing that one could not
get work after graduation unless the
school was registered, I discussed
that question with Miss Murray,
superintendent of nurses. She as
surred me the school would be rec
ognized before the year was over.
The conditions under which we
worked were perfectly terrible. We
were given SIS a month, worked Il
and Is hours day, with one and
a half days off week. During the
entire winter months that we were
there no steam heat was supplied.
1t seems some repairs we're neces-
sary, 50 they did not bother. There
we're five of us in one room and
because of the intense cold we we're
unable to sleep. I oftn put on my
heavy coat and sat up till time to
go on duty, The food, too, was of
the poorest kind
Three months of that was as much
as I could stand, so went to Miss
Murray and informed her I was
leaving. She became very abusive,
assured me rolling stone gathered
no moss, etc. She again told me
the school would be registered; but
I had grave doubts about it. : see
they have persisted in accepting
girls under false pretenses all these
years in order to get nursing service
practically free.
I received an r. N. in an ac-
credited school three years later, de-
spite dear Miss Murray's prediction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Program of Health Magazine and
the Sterilization of Medicine

Program 0t Health Magazine" and
the Sterilization of Medicine
In making its bow to the Ameri-
can public, Health has no apology
to offer for appearing on a market
already glutted with numerous med
ical publications for physicians, as
we'll as for laymen. Its purpose is
to become a mutual organ for ply
sicians and laymen for the discus
ton and solution of the various
personal and social health prob
lens and for the reorganization of
the medical profession along modern
economic lines. BY the medical
profession we do not mean physi-
clans only; but all the allied profess
sions such as dentistry, pharmacy
nursing, podiatry (chiropodyl, ply
siotherapy, optomet,y, public
health, laboratory and x-rsy tech
nlque. Health is Cne only magazine
which aims to bring medical men
and intelligent working men to-
gether fos the solution Of their
common problems. The time has
come for the medical men to realize
that they cannot bring about the
fundamental changes in the prac-
tice Of medicine required by modern
conditions without the cooperation
Of the lay public.
we boldly assert that we do not
consider the medical and alice
professions as a mysterious and holy
priesthood, too far above the com.
mon hero" to discuss questions o.
public health with the intelligent
lsity. We insist that what the ply.
stefan can read, any intelligent
working man has the right to reac
END the ability to understand. L
books and articles on medical sub
iects are written so that only tht
Unlisted con c. orchcnd, t1er
there is something wrong with tbs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
~ Doctor
,,lAAHiAa0eA
-ndAG4G1:
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

writer's, and they must come down
from their ivory tower and write
in a style comprehensive to the
average intelligent person.
Next to the economic forces, the
main reason why the medical pro-
LESSONS are in the sorry plight in
which they find themselves, is that
they have failed to cooperate with
the more advanced sections of the
public and particularly with the
militant workers. Our reactionary
medical leaders" have stubbornly
and stupidity opposed the new eco
nomic movements and the social
outlook of the progressive working
class. 1t is now high time that we
abandon our medieval conceptions
of rugged individualism" and look
at the modern world with clear
eyes, undinlmed by prejudice and
snobbery 1t is high time that the
layman and the physician sit down
at q round table and discuss their
mutual problems in the fraternal
spirit required by rapidly chang-
ing economic world.
The time has come when med
ioal practice should cease to re-
main o private enterprise. Health"
will, therefore, continually agitate
for the specialization of medicine.
The time for partial reforms and
for fragmentary regulations has
passed. We must break, once and
fer all, with the individualistic
standard and discuss our problems
from the collective point of view.
We must cease to look upon medi-
/ cine as a merchandise sold to the
rest Of the population by those ini-
tiated into a closed and mysterious
corporation. We muct proceed
from a given plan, instead of from
S''22a chaos and snarchisnn now pre-
veiling.
ITO Ee Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Jailed for Trying
To Organize Union
In New Orleans
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW ORLEANS. La. II was
working in New Orleans from about
February in 1916 until war was de-
clared on April 6, 1917.
7 served overseas for 81 months,
was injured while in the service.
I have worked at various things
since being discharged, until Con
gress decided to pay us half of the
bonus. I drew what I was allowed,
$7875O, and had been living on that
at Raceland, La until about the
first part of July, 1898. I came to
the city and worked until was let
out on account of 2 strike about
the first part of September. After
that went to work for the C.W-A.
and continued until about Feb. o.
1894.
have always been man of
union principles and was contact
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

ing friends and acquaintance with
view to organizing them into a
labor union. 1t did not take the
management of the place long to
learn that was trying to organize
On the morning of Good Friday be-
tween II and l, the police came
and arrested me and I was placed
in the station and was not allowed
to communicate with any one until
Monday morning.
I never broke any laws of any
kind, although 1 am at present
charged with being dangerous and
suspicious, and having no visible
means of support. But I have two
hands and that is about all that
any one has.
was told while in Jail that
was going to leave this town, and
was also told that there was nc
goddam labor union wanted here.
seem to have read the preamble of
the codes wrong for I am sure that
read that "a laborer should have
the right to belong to or join any
labor union that he pleased, in other
words one Of his own choice"
People are at present and have
been for some time discharged for
belonging to a labor union, although
there is supposed to be regional
boards here. About one case out
of 20 gets justice, I mean workers
If they are replaced or returned to
work by the regional board, about
two or three days is all that they
get, The management of some OF
the factories here set themselves up
as courts of law and judge you and
unless they thing that they can do
with you as they please you have no
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Get the He'll Out"
Cries Relief Head
TOStarvingWOrker
By a Worker Correspondent

DENVER, Colo-The only reason
I was insulted by Mr.. Caldwell is
for going to his office as interpreter
for several people Of the Unem-
ployed Council and when I went
with my own Mother as interpreter
in the month of June, 1888, when
she went for help to his Office when
the relief was cut off for that
month.
At that time he yelled. Get the
hell out Of the Office" And then
Mr.. Manuel Martinez, Secretary of
the Unemployed Council and Man
uel Archulita, a comrade, talked to
him, and he said that he just
wouldn't listen to us.
My time to put in my application
for my order came on. Well a
few days after I went to his office
as good-mannered as ever, even
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Fine Years Is Long
Enough to Starpe''
Nv a Worker Corresnonder

BY Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, I'LL am working
on Project 1479 at Palos Park,
formerly a C.W.A. project. Now
it is in the hands of the relief.
There are 1000 men on that pro-
iect. They cut our hours from
"a hours a, week to 48 hours a
month. We all struck for 30
hours a week and so cents an
hour. The men are in militant
mood.
These 1000 men represent the
sentiment of the entire working
class of this country. We want
immediate action on a national
scale. The men on this project
say we don't want any more
propaganda, we want action and
action now. Five years of starva-
ton and deprivation is long
enough.