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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29

Also the words are broken into
Syllables in a way that makes the
paper heard to read. The word
stand" cannot be separated on two
lines as stand. The word Speed
cannot be separated as speed. The
word while" cannot be separated as
while.
The word "bossss" is generally
over-done in all shop papers and
leaflets. This paper is no exception.
Occasionally the word employers"
or company" or the name Of the
owners of the company, may be used
by way of variety.
Worker Correspondence
The appeal to the workers to unite
Is comradely and will no doubt move
the workers to cooperate. But the
signature, in spite of the fact that
there is blank space, is not followed
by the address. 1t is not enough to
publish the address under the mast
head only. Publish it wherever there
is appeal for information. You may
catch the worker just when he has
an impulse to write, but this may die
if he has to read through the entire
paper for the address.
The letters from the workers are
very good, bringing up concrete
grievances on the job. The editorial
note advocates concrete action Of an
organized mass character. This is
basic feature of any shop paper
that makes it the property Of the
workers commemorative fact that
their own letters supply the infor1na-
ton; that their own problems are
dealt with; that their own opinions,
written to the paper, help to forTnu-
late the policy of the paper.
Unemployment Insurance
Twice the slogan Of Unemployment
Insurance is put forward. But there
is no explanation of this demand,
and it is not tied up with the prob
lens of these workers. This paper
shares this weakness with many other
shop papers mechanically putting
forth this basic slogan without any
mobilization around it in the form
Of explanation and struggle.
"In Other Ports is an excellent
feature, giving news Of struggles of
marine workers in San Francisco,
Baltimore and Norfolk. 1t would
have been more effective had the
name of the city in each case led off
the article.
Solidarity Of the various divisions
in the working class should also be-
come part of the campaigns led by
the Action Committee. Particularly
must the question of discriminating
against the Negroes be taken UP very
seriously. This is an important issue
on these docks, and no organization
setting out seriously to organize the
workers for struggle can allow itself
to side-step or overlook such burn
ing issue.
The paper was issued on time, as
promised. 1t was sold on the docks,
and grabbed up by the men like hot
cakes. 1t has achieved for itself a
prestige and popularity which will
make it possible for it to take up
earnestly these important organiEa-
tional and political issues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
SHOP PAPER REVIEWS

| regard to its organization policies.
The unclear, indefinite, hazy charac-
ter of the organizational line Of
issue No. 1, which placed its main
emphasis on protesting" has been
supplanted by a clear-cut policy of
organized action on the docks. The
former orientation only toward fight
ing the leadership of the union, has
been supplanted by a program Of
struggle over the heads Of these lead
ers against the grievances on the
docks, and directed mainly against
the employers, without overlooking
the fight against the corrupt union
leadership.
Now the next step Is to explain to
the workers how to achieve the main
purposes of the Rank-and- File Ac-
ton Committee, and the form of
organization best suited for this ac-
tivity.
The Campaign Against War
One Of the best features of this
issue is the article, stop War Ship
ments!" A new imperialist war is so
close, that one can almost feel its
fiery breath. 1.-THE Shape-Up News
also feels it, and is preparing the
longshoremen for the role they will
be called upon to play against it.
The inminence Of war is we'll ex-
planned, and the tie-up of war with
fascism is the central point the ar
ticle drives home. Internationally,
the paper throws out the slogan:
stop the Shipment of War Materials
to Fascist Germany"
However, the anti working class
character of the fascist government
is not clearly brought out, and the
plans to attack the Soviet Union are
not mentioned. Thus, the workers will
not feel the call so keenly, to fight
the shipment Of war materials to q
fascist government. Also the work
ers are not told how they can stop
the munitions Of war in concrete
manner. We presume that the paper
considered this rather as an intro
ductory article on the anti-war cam
paign, laying the basis for organized
action, and that some special form
Of action on united front basis will
be developed on the dock to put this
slogan into organizational effect. We
suggest that the next issue stress
also the predatory capitalist charac-
ter of imperialist war, the horrors
of the last imperialist war, the effect
of the last war on the marine work
ers, the war character of the N.R.A.,
and the still more drastic effect this
one will have on these workers. This
viii make them feel the direct effect
of irnperialist war on their own lives,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
Drunken Bosses, Tired Food
Workers Greet the NeuO Year
While Parasites Celebrate Orgies, Workers Are
Driven at UnbemabLe Speed

signal for great doings in the ball
room, but for any worker who had
time to hear it, it simply meant about
seven hours more OF top speed work.
This kept up all night, Of course.
The bosses dashed out to tell US to
speed it up and then going back to
the ballroom to see that everyone got
as drunk as possible and spent as
much as possible.
Finally, in the morning, as the last
drunk and his dame left and we
workers had actually become numb
from such a strain, We were ordered
to sweep up the litter of broken bot
ties, caps, paper, etc. which covered
the entire lower floors. After this
had finally been cleaned they came
around with the pay which on an
average ran to about two measly dol
lars apiece.
N.RA. hell
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
By a Hotel Worker Correspondent

By q Hotel Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK CTTY.-The capitalist
press is playing up strong the big
hotel and restaurant business done
On New Years Eve. They did a big
business all right but as usual the
workers did all the extra sweating,
while the bosses stood around with
greasy smiles for the customers and
curses for the help, while they
watched the profits roll in.
New Years Day was put on by a
smell hotel which was having seven
hundred people in from the country
cluo fc- q party. 7 had a station mid
way between the kitchen and the
ballroom. so I had a good chance
to watch both those having the good
tine and those who were doing the
IVORY. The kitchen staff and the eX-
tras were kept down to a minimum
although we should have had at least
q half dozen more people in the back
Of the house. The kitchen force had
besn on since noon at full speed and
about Z pm. we started on the I'm
tshing touches before the party began.
We made hundreds Of sandwiches
and 70 belt line system ever was
speeded up more. OF course, in han
dl.ng the fcod. also the dishes, cups,
etc. in q speed up like this no at
tempt at cleanliness is made.
When this work was finished, we
were ordered to our regular posts,
and then the real evenings work
began. Walters and mattresses stag
gered in and out with loads too heavy
for any one person to carry; the chef
end his people and also the barten-
ders were going like mad and the
dishwashers had to run the dishes
through SO fast they only could make
q pass at cleaning them.
IN my room, with bottled goods, I
had to hand out the bottles, and
handle the cash register, also at top
speed, and any erTNCs were out of
my own pocket.
In the ballroom the crowd became
drunken and drunken and also more
abusive to US, who we're straining
every nerve to serve them.
Tho y o'clock whistle was the
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vorce, From the practical stand
point, the process is simply
more costly than the Soviet system
whats $50 or 500 to a well-heelec
bourgeois Scribbler! Phoo! A mere
triflei] Here too any woman who is
interested can easily obtain birth
control knowledge and techniqueP
What q lie!] Here too, though.
there is discrimination in wages
against the woman worker in Am
erica" yet "She can work and sup
port herself in independence if she
wishes"
Gretta hasn't yet heard OF the
crisis. She didn't see that recent ar
ticle in the New York Times, ''WOmen
Victims Of Depression Present a Huge
New Problem" She doesn't know
there are now 100000 unemployed
women in America, and if she does
know, she doesn't give damn.
AS for the social insurance In the
Soviet Union, the maternity insur-
ance and medical care given mothers
and babies, as for the practical
liquidation of prostitution in the
Soviet, these things are not even
worth mentioning on a good old bour-
geois women's sheet.
However, the most nauseating, rev.
citing passage in the whole article, is
the following,-the perfect, the clas-
steal expression of the hypocritical,
sycophantic, bourgeois female slave
soul;
'There is social prejudice
against her having an unmarried
love affair, but if she keeps rea-
sOnably quiet about it she Is in
scant danger of being stoned in
the streets"
Well, we don't care for that kind
Of freedom" Miss Palmer, Wen
take Communism, wherein we can
have jobs whenever we need them,
and at wages equa to mems; where
in We don't have TO fear starving in
our old age; wherein cohabitation
constitutes marriage; wherein all
babies are Well-cared for and there
is no such thing as an 'illcgitimate"
child; wherein we can stand I'D on
our hind legs and recognize our
mates as such, and not be 1sorced to
sneak around like pole cats in the
night.
The Soviet State recognizes the
right OF women to bear children.
To bourgeois lady" this is just
string of words: but to the women
If the working class it has q pro-
'ound and vital significance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29

VOTE ON WEIDEMANN ''WHIZZ'
On Monday, Jan. o., the Daily
Worker published a review on the
Weidemann "Whizz." This paper
is issued by the Communist Party
Nucieus in this important dye
house. The Nucleus is doing good
work in this shop, and the paper
reflects this work.
However, the review fails in a
number of important respects to
outline adequately the tasks of the
Communist Nucleus, through the
"Whizz." 1t gives the ''Whizz"
three tasks. Ali these tasks are of
an economic OrganizatiOnaI nature.
Not one of these three mentions
the task of building up the Party
Nucleus, Of the basic task of edu-
eating the workers on the revolu-
tfonary way out of the crisis, or of
the duty of the Communist Party
In the shop to gain the leadership
Of the workers. This was basic
defect in this review and should
not have been allowed to pass into
the paper.
Also, the reviewer threw out the
slogan Of a united militant dye
union" This is not the policy of
the National Textile Workers
Union, nor is IL supported by the
Communist Party. Although there
was time during the strike when
this slogan was put forward, the
policy since then has been for one
general union embracing all the
workers in the silk industry in all
its branches, including the dye
workers and the workers in the
rayon industry. The National Tex
tile Workers Union is now taking
the leadership of the movement
toward one union In the silk indus
try. Thus, the putting forward of
this slogan of united militant
dye union" is incorrect and may
bring confusion into the minds of
the workers.
1.-THE SHAPE-UP NEWS" Vol. I,
No. 2, issued by the North River
Rank and File Action Committee Of
he I. L. A., 1893 Broadway, Room 238,
New York City.
tReviewed by Gertrude HaessIer)
On Dec. Is the Daily Worker gave
. thorough review of the first issue
# this new longshore A. F. of l..
opposition paper. The second issue,
ust distributed on the North River
ocks, shows that the group issuing
he paper has gone in for some
retty drastic "soul-searching" with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29

is that the Daily Worker is the
right arm Of the revolutionary move
ment here in the U. S. A.
Tampa, Florida, was organized
only through the Daily Worker
Editorials that we're translated in
Spanish SO the Spanish and Cuban
workers could learn that there are
American white and Negro workers
fighting against starvation.
Here in st. Louis the Daily Worker
is getting foothold in the South
ern part of the city. Three months
ago Daily Worker in South st.
Louis was curiosity, but today there
are on the average of 40 or more
being sold daily.
So here's to bigger Daily Worker.
Let the staff of workers do their part
in the national Offiffice, while out in
the field we red builders will do our
part.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
Drapery Workers
at Sammax Shop
in Militant Strike
By Group Of Worker Cor
RESPONDENTS

NEW YORK. -The workers Of the
Sammax shop went down on strike
on Tuesday, Jan. 49, The workers
have been organized into the Curtain
Drapery Section of the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union.
The conditions in the shop were
very bad. The boss was the big shot
in the shop and did with the workers
what he wanted. He would come in
the morning with a sour look and
walk up to the machines and see
what his slaves were doing. Occa-
sionally he would yell to his hearts
content at the girls, saying that he
isn't getting enough production, and
that the girls spend fifteen minutes
in the ladies' room. He would hire
and fire at will, without consulting
the workers in the shop.
The wages were SIS a week for all
the girls, regardless of what work
they did or what experience they
had. There was one girl, Lucy Ma
rotta, who was earning $18. She
worked in the ace for the last six
years.
When the " rkerS went down on
strike for a So raise and recognition
Of the shop committee, this girl re-
manned working. A committee went
to visit her and for over an hour
spoke to her and pleaded with her
that she could not scab while the
shop was on strike. She refused and
came in to work the next day.
One of the bosses, Max Kaplan
became afraid of the strikers and
asked Eddie Jinkins, his brother-in-
law to help him. This Eddie is a
member Of the Fur Department OF
the N.T.WI.U.
A committee of the strikers Wen
to the furriers' union and preferred
charges against Jinkins. A commit
tee waited for him in front of the
shop and spoke to him. He denied
that he escorted scabs from the sub
way to the shop, and promised that
there won't be any more scabbing in
the shop.
The boss called up the N.RA. ano
stated that we were striking for
unfair demands. The N.R.A. called
up our union and arranged a con-
ferences between the bosses union
and NR.A.
The strikers spirit is unbroken by
the attempt Of the boss to bring In
the N.R.A.
BY sANdNdAx STRIKERS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
Food Boss Works His
Own Kick-Back Graft
(By a Food Worker Correspondent


York; worked about five weeks for the Parkway Cafe
Avenue Brownsville
said You have $40 out of for charity
said T can't the $40 50 week
o your wages weeks"
told him. Il can't give $40 81 is all give you So
50 then next week he So without asking
any I afford it.
Alright" The next he paid and fired
Aerward he called the She $28 week. He said
SIS for charity working here long
will hard time finding another job" She ssd
you said IF you you'll lose your
taking every out OF her wages
this place. countermen
second cook bus boys
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
Food Workers at
Statler'S Fed on
Left Over Scraps
(By a worker Correspondent


DETROIT, Mich.-Mr. and Mrs.
Guest of the StatIer Hotel: We see
by the Detroit Free Press you dined
on lamb chop that cost the hotel
$500 per ID. This succulent lamb,
was bought by the manager of the
Detroit Statler Hotel, from Newton
Packing Co., Detroit, after winning 3
grand prize at live stock show, held
in Detroit. This prize lamb sold for
s572, nothing cheap for one sheep"
Prosperity is here? GAS Uncle Henry
Ford says For you: Mr.. and Mrs.
Guest. Did you ever stop to think
how others slave on sweatshop wages
to supply you with every service, to
make it possible for you latter put
ting over your racket to get your I'M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
PARTY LIFE
What -Four Communists Did
In Il St. Paul Steel Shop
Shop Unit in Cufen Wheel Local of Steel, Metal
Union Led Drive for Organization

I wish to inform you of the activ-
tiles Of the Griffin Wheel local of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. There were only four of us
Communists working in this shop
and We started to organize the union
about year ago, but up until the
MIRA. came into effect we were able
to secure only ten members but could
get no cooperation or activities from
them.
When the MIRA. came into the
shop, we understood there was to be
a 10 per cent raise for all workers;
but those on piece work, and they
were in the majority, did not receive
the raise. Then the workers began to
talk union, and we explained the A.
F. of L. and It's methods of craft
unionism and their policy of selling
out workers And then we explained
the industrial union and its militant
policy, and we told them that we
already had a nucleus of this union
in the shop, and the workers asked us
to call meeting for the purpose OF
organizing in this union. We did, and
the first meeting we signed up around
thirty; the second meeting we signed
up about thirty more, giving us about
sixty out Of 100, or about SO per cent
before the company became wise that
we were organizing. They then got
busy with the fred scare" telling the
workers that the Bronsons, Larsctls
and OsSia Anderson were Bolsheviks
and we were unable to make any fur
ther progress, Notwithstanding the
fact the union had already won a
demand for a 10 per cent raise for
the piece workers.
Then came the Armour strike in
South st. Paul, led by the Packing
House Workers Industrial Union
When this strike was broken by the
South st. Paul police, MIRA. and A.
F. of L., all but a few of our men,
bers lost faith in our union and
dropped out or failed to attend meet
ings. We tried many things but were
unable to revive the interest Of the
workers.
Two weeks ago the shop closed
down indefinitely. Two days before
the shop closed we called a mass
meeting Of the union and succeeded
in having a committee elected to de-
mand C.WA. jobs for all workers Of
the shop, both the union and non
union members. A committee of eight
was elected, consisting of three of the
Party members and the rest non
Party members. The committee went
first to the county surveyor, who sent
us to C.W.A. officials. They told us
they had nothing to do with the CIV
ing out of C.W.A. jobs, but were just
taking care of the financial end of
it. They then sent us to see an official
by the name Of Stall. When we got
there we found about $50 men and
women already lined up to see this
Mr.. Stall, and a big fat policeman
sitting by the door to keep the work
ers from going in.
Committee Gets Run-Around
The committee, led by OSsian An
derSon, who is running for Council
man on the Communist ticket, went
around the line up to the door where
the claw" was, and attempted to en-
ter. He told us we could not go in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Backache and Chills

Mrs. A. H., Philadelphia, Pa.
Your backache is probably due to
pyelitis. You must go on vegetarian
diet and eat plenty Of citrus fruit
(oranges and grapefruit); also drink
plenty of water. Cut out this answer
from the paper and take it to your
druggist and ask him to give you
twenty tablets Of Hexyresorcinol.
Take one tablet three times a day,
after meals, for two weeks. Let us
know the rsults.
Continuous Bleeding
Someone Who Depends ON You
you failed to give us your address.
We should be glad to examine you
free of charge, If you call at our
office.
Continuing the Debate
"Castleton, Vermont.
Dear DR.. Luttinger,
TN your column of November %,
you published a letter by David Hol-
lander on the subject of birth con-
troll. Comrade Hollander stated that
under a system analogous to that in
the Soviet Union birth control
will eventually become obsolete.
ct wish to take sharp exception to
this. Under any system the interests
of the workers is furthered by the
intelligent use of birth control.
Does Comrade Hollander expect
that after our American revolution
we shall make women breeding
machines and have a be e. year?
Granted that we may be confident
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
~ D0Ckot
LAGEtLEaQe,l
NdEG@:
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

that at that time the problem of
supporting and training children viii
be incomparably more easy, but no
one can expect that this win result
in inconsiderate and promiscuous
breeding without regard to the con-
siderations of health and sanity.
Proper spacing of births and con.
sideration for women of the working
class have little encouragement under
capitalism, but under Soviet gov
eminent they will be considerations
Of considerable Importance.
GEORGE WRIGHT"
Dizzy Spells
Anna Schwartz, Brooklyn. - We
wrote you a private letter which came
back marked Unknown at Address"
II you will communicate with us
again, giving us your correct adj
dress, we should be glad to advise
you accordingly.
Vaginal Discharge
r. L. S.-You failed to enclose your
address and a stamped envelope.
Please communicate with us again.
A. R.-Try one tablespoonful each
of boric acid, bicarbonate of soda.
and alum to douche-bag of hot
water. If you obtain no relief, COM
municate with us again.
Jam Dells Tablets
Irving G., Brooklyn.-These tablets
are a snare and a delusion. We
know a number Of little Jinmies and
ollies running around, owing to the
misplaced confidence of their pa
rents in the above tabletA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
Worked 10 Hours a Day
But Got Paid for Eight
BY a worker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-Here are
some of the things that are going on
in the Metropolitan Water District.
1 was working for a contractor,
Shea & Co. I was discharged be-
cause I wouldn't put in 16 hours a
day and take hours pay. He has
been working several men Is hours
per day and paying them for eight.
He said that according to his con-
tract with the politicians he didn't
have to make any change.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
Laundry Worker Got
$4.75 After Working
10 Hours Under NRA
By a Worker Correspondent

By Worker Correspondent
PEORIA, Ill.-Enclosed find "pay
tally" of s. girl worker at Ideal Troy
Laundry here.
THE pay tally shows that for 10
hours Of part time work the salary
was $4.75. This was all the worker
earned in week-Editor.1
This laundry is owned by a man
named Triebel Tho ran for mayor
on the Republican ticket last cleo
ton. This Ideal Troy Laundry is
under the N. r. A. Code.
Help put the Daily Worker cir
culation campaign over the top.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
I'VE Red Builders
Will Do Our Part
~ q WORKER Corresnondent

ST LOUIS, Moths is my fourth
year in helping build the sales of the
Daily Worker, also in getting articles
on the unbearable conditions in the
shops, mills
The Worcorr News is a big item in
building the revolutionary Industrial
Unions. Another reason why strug-
gle to keep the Daily Worker going