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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06

Chicago's male population has fallen off
100000 since 1890. The gangsters seem to be
quite effective taking their enemiessfor rides.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06

Oklahoma City has added the word Please"
to its mo Parking" signs, but drivers park
there just the same.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

opposition to all this misery And
the voice is swelling into mighty
thunderous roar. The men of the
IR.T not only gladly accept the
Transport Workers Union as their
own, but stand ready to fight under
its guidance for the working condi-
tons to which they are entitled and
intend to get.
A Conspiracy of Panic
The I.R.T. and its illegitimate
child, the fake Brotherhood, are
engaged in what might be called a
conspiracy Of panic. I am in po-
sition to hear some of the near big
shots of the Brotherhood talk, and
fear and hatred are clearly re-
Elected in their every word and &C
ton. They are adopting method
Of spreading false rumors through
out the system in the hope of scar
ing the men away from the union.
These tales are fantastic and
groundless and don't fool anyone.
They run about as follows: 1.-THE
company is going to shut down New
Lots, fire everyone, and open up
again in a couple Of weeks with all
new men" THE company has 1000
names of union men down at 165
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Sailors Made Ill By
Jane St. Relief Slop
By q Marine Worker Cnrrasnondent

BY a Marine Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. : Fellow workers,
let's get together and put a stop
to the vile conditions here at the
relief in Jane Street. We have to
get those big shot ex-seamen and
stewards out of the house. The fell
lows that hold the key jobs are the
fellows that could not make good
on the ships or were stool pigeons
and in with the bosses, and so have
weaslcd themselves into soft berths
at so much per week.
Coffee with milk and sugar should
be served, and in addition. razor
blades, towels, and clean linen at
least once a week. We are sick
and weak from eating Salvation
Army Stops. The rooms, toilets. and
mattresses are filthy and buggy.
1t has been proved that the rank
and file seamen can run this prof.
ect themselves, as in Baltimore in
the Seamens controlled relief bu-
reau, where even the Federal Super-
visor, Harry F. Greenstein, admitted
at a meeting Of relief and Y.MCA
directors that the seamen had run
the Baltimore relief bureau much
more efficiently and cheaply than
any other administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
PARTY LIFE
Fascist Terror in Seattle
ReUieOed by Y.C.L. Leader
Police and VigiIGntes Are Searching City for
Communists But Workers Fight On

"As a member of the Young Com
munist League. District No. IL, OF
Seattle, I feel sure that you would
like to hear from us concerning our
activities here on the West Coast.
and the effect which the universal
police and vigilante terrorization is
having on us.
They are attempting to drive the
Y. G. L. and the Communist Party
completely underground here in the
Northwest during the past two
weeks. The police raided our head
quarters and smashed everything
there, bookcases, chairs and desks,
and streWed papers and literature
about until there was a litter
inches deep on the floor. They
arrested a comrade who was in
charge Of the Workers Book Store,
and are holding this comrade in the
city Jail, pending deportation to
Switzerland.
The police and vigilanteS have
been securing the city for the Com
munist Party leaders and for our
new District Organizer.
mo doubt this oppression and
terroriza ton of the Communist
Party and the Young Communist
League is clue to the fact that many
of the leaders and militant work
ers in the seamens and longshore-
mems strike here on the West
Coast, and particularly in Seattle
have been Communists. Y. C. L.
members have been faithful in
keeping on the picket line and par
ticipating in demonstrations, as
well as in distributing leaflets on
the waterfront and throughout the
city.
Several members of the M. W.
l. U. here, which has done splendid
work in fighting the takers in the
I. L. A. are also members of the
Y. G. L. They have arrested Com
rade Archer, the secretary and
leader of the M. w. I. u, as well as
Comrades Howe and Stack, of the
M. w. l. U. Howe was released,
but Archer and Stack were given
ninety days for being disorderly
persons. Their case in the hands
OF the I. L. D, is being appealed.
but so far bond, $500 each, has not
been available.
At one time in the past week
fifty comrades were jailed, but now
most of these have been released.
We are unable to meet With our
leaders, or even to run the risk of
visiting them singly. No meetings.
except a few very secret ones are
possible. Luckily we had been
warned beforehand, and all files.
records, names and addresses had
been removed from all Offices, but
the vigilantes have long list of
Communists and Communist SYM
pathisers which the owner of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
CHURCH LEADERS HELP FORM COMPANY UNION In MOBILE
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

soap and hot water, for washing
off the poison shortly after it is
contacted, will prevent the occur
renee Of Inflammation. Some pro-
lection is also gained by smearing
oil or fats on the body before ven
turing out in strange grass. Only if
the itch does develop, dressings of
epson salts zone tablespoon to the
glass Of wa-er) should be applied
till itching is controlled. Then APP
ply talcum or corn-starch powder.
The famous calamine lotion with 2
per cent phenol controls itch and
helps stop inflammation if no bis
ters form. Once blisters form, wet
dressings are the only relief till the
inflammation starts subsiding.
Observance Of these precautions
will guarantee you the pleasures of
vacation without any Of the &C
companying pains.
(Signed) DIR. s. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
BY a Railroad Worker
Correspondent

AMARILLO, Texas.-The season.
81 wheat rush is over and the Rock
Island has already released IL re-
Gently employed trainmen and
nearly an equal number of fremen.
The transportation men are the
only ones organized here. They
should take more interest in their
unemployed brothers.
The first week of June the Relief
Committee promised to hire 5S8 men
on highways, but up till now only 70
have been put to work. and now the
hours are being cut. The latest gov
eminent order is to reduce all road
workers to $40 a month.
About 800 are employed in the
Federal canning plant three days
week at an average OF SITS per
week. This plant has been visited
by relief officials from all over the
country as it is being used as
model; model to show all other
communities how to cut the stand
ard of living for workers down to
SITS a week!
Every railroad fireman should de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Lemus, Dining Car
Union Misleader,
Pushes Fees Higher

NEW YORK. - We Communists.
cooks and walters, who attended the
last Brotherhood meeting of Coun-
Gil No. l. want to make public what
happened there.
First. the Grand President. Lee
mus. insisted on an initiation fee
of SIS. Second. $3.50 were voted from
the sick fund to the general fund
without saying what the expenses
we're.
Third, Lewis. the Council Presi-
dent. appointed the same commit
tee to be the Board of Adjustment
for the Brotherhood. which was APP
proved by the membership.
Throughout the meeting it was
clear that Lsmus is Gar. throuqh
the power given him by the Con-
stitution of his own making.
We Communists are in the
Brotherhood to see that the
Brotherhood represents the workers.
and not be sold out to the Penn
by the leaders. We are going to
fight Lemus, who is trying to greb
off IS for initiation. for we want
all our fellow workers to be able to
get into the Brotherhood. While
the initiation was 81 over 1870 men
Joined. The more workers we have
in. the stronger we will be to force
better conditions from the Penn.
We demand that the financial
secretary give us q detailed report
of every penny received or spent.
What is happening to the $3.50 for
the general fund? We want an &C
counting at the next meeting.
We know how Lemus would like
to spend our money. He asked for
SO day to go out and organize
the western division. We voted it
down. 1t is the duty Of the Grand
Council to do the organizing and
they get plenty of our money to do
it with.
We expect the Board Of Adjust
ment to put up real fight for our
demands. For instance. they should
demand that the Penn live up to
the agreement that we get eight
hours pay for laying over in Wash
ington and other points out of town.
Secondly, that we get paid for dead
heading. Thirdly, no charge for
sleeping in company quarters.
AS long as the Board lives no to
its duties to the men of the dining
car department, we will support
them. If they don't we will fight
against them as VIC fight against
Lemus end his crowd. We are in
the Brotherhood for the workers
and not for Lemus. We want hon
est, FIGHTING leadership.
Groun of Communists
in the Brotherhood,
Council No. 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

that of Berlin" Cab. But it is the
Germans who love children 20
much, says the same article pre-
viously And the Rooshians have
legalized birth control and abor-
ton, yet have more kids than their
neighbors. Interesting, isn't it?)
But Berlin" sends a terrified
glance not only toward Moscow,
for:
IF the Berliners look in the OPP
posite direction. there is Paris, gay
and wicked, but with birth rate
nearly double Berlin's. Coun-
tries on every side-France, Bel
GUM, Switzerland, Norway, Dem
mark and Finland-are doing much
better, and Mussolini's Italy is far
ahead"
Review to be Concluded Tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
BY a Transport Worker
CORRESPONDENT

NEW York; have been en-
ployed in the motive power depart
ment of the I.R.T. for over three
years. I am a new member of the
Transport Workers Union, and for
the first time in over three years I
can truthfully say that I can see
clearly just how to smash the ty-
rants at 1865 Broadway along with
their yellow-dog company union
rats.
That the Brotherhood of IR.T.
employees company union) is a
bought and paid for weapon of the
company is now perfectly clear to
practically every I.RT. employee.
For the first time in the history
of this company voice is heard in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
.WesternUniOn
In Drive to
Slash Wages
By Telegraph Worker
CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK; have been read
ing with interest the items in your
paper pertaining to the telegraph
industry. I would like to add my
own report Of the present tendency
in the Western Union. in which
company I am employed.
r, B. White, the new president of
the company, has directed his &C
Invites to slashing operating costs.
He has gone directly to the basic
workers in the industry and COM
menced his slashing there. This was
proceeded by wave of terrorism
which is becoming intensified as the
slsshing process goes on. There is
not a worker in the company, who,
at this moment, does not tremble for
his job. There is not a visit by an
official or an inspector that does not
bring with it feeling of fear. The
slightest preteXt is seized upon as
justification for dismissal.
Recently, on an exceedingly hot
day, flying squads went about the
city picking off messengers who were
the least bit awry in their appear
snce, and diSmissing them, despite
the intense heat and the almost
complete lack OF facilities whereby
they could have refreshed them
selves from time to time. OF course,
these boys were replaced by already
newly hired ones a flower schedules.
In the training schools of the
company there is unprecedented &C
tivity in training new personnel,
hired at lower wages.
No relief can come from the A.
w. U. E., the company union, which
has yet to oppose, even mildly, any
single onslaught upon the wage and
working conditions of its members.
I hope therefore, this will get the
widest possible circulation among
the telegraph workers Of all COM
panies, and may lead to a discus
sion Of their mutual interest and
to unity Of action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
NRA Openly Sides With
Western Union Co.
Against Messengers

BY Western Union Messenger
NEW YORK.-Last Spring. three,
code hearings were held for the
communications industry Although
threatened with the loss of their
jobs. q number Of messengers repre-
senting the militant Telegraph Mes
sengers Union, attended each of
these hearings in Washington. At
the first two hearings the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph. al
though fighting over the division of
the spoils in the industry, took
united stand in ignoring the de-
mands of the messengers for a SIS
minimum, 40-hour week. AT the
third hearing, the fighting messen-
gers forced the MIRA. to give them
a $40 minimum. 40-hour week. AS
the companies continued to wranple
and could not agree on a code, the
MIRA. made threat to impose"
a code on the companies. The COM
pany threatened to challenge in
court, the right of the MIRA. to
impose a code. Like cowardly
Cog, the MIRA. backed down and
subsequently forgot all about the
code. The messengers have learned
of the emptiness of the promises
Of the NR.A. and nothing much is
expected Of it, although the T.M.U.
is still pressing the fight for a de-
cent code.
Meanwhile. the w. U. has not
been idle. It has resorted to in
timidation, victim:zation, gangster-
ism and Islander to break I'D the
TM.U. There have been wholesale
f1rings of militant messengers and
threats to union members. Its lat
est campaign is to discredit the
union by spreading rumors that the
leaders have sold out" to the COM
pany. However, this has had no
effect on the messengers because
they are appreciative of the ster-
ling qualities of Dave Newman and
others of the leaders.
Complaints by the T.M.U. to the
Regional Labor Board about these
tactics used by the w. u. have re-
suited in long drawn out hearings
with the company, the MIRA. open
ly siding against the messengers.
Nevertheless. the union is waging
a gallant fight to force reinstate-
ment of its fired members, By pick
citing w. U, offices and winning the
support of other trade unions and
the public.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Sunburn and Poison Ivy
(COncludedl

If, in spite of precautions, or be-
cause you forget to take any, you
10 develop sunburn, do not waste
your money on any of the over-ad-
yertised valueless creams. jellies,
lotions and pastes that flood the
market. For relief Of pain in mild
sunburn without blisters or swell
ing of skim paint on a l per cent
solution of picric acid and then
powder with talcum. For more Sc
we're burns, use wet dressings zap
plications Of moistened gauzs or
cheese cloth soaked with any OF
the following solutions:
/. Bicarbonate Of soda Zone tea
spoonful to a glass of water.
2. Vinegar zone teaspoonful to
glass Of water.
3. Burroughs Solution Zone tea
spoonful to a glass Of water.
An aspirin or two may be taken
for relief Of pain and sleeplessness
every three hours. Blisters should
be punctured with a famed needle
and the serum in them squeezed
out with clean cotton before apply
ing the wet dressing.
II after the burn subsidies the
skin becomes hard and cracked and
painful, a 5 per cent Tannic acid
ointment, applied twice a day, gives
good relief.
~ Against Ivy Poisoning: Here
We again deal with skin sensitivity.
But the senSitiveness to ivy poison
Goes not depend on complexion. In
fact We do not as yet know what it
does depend on. Suffice it to say
that if you are susceptible to the
ivy poison and you get small
amount of it on your body by COM
ing in contact with the plant, then
you develop in day or two an Itch
ing Inflammation of the skin with
tiny pimples which may develop
into small, even large blisters. Once
the Inflammation of one part of
the skin develops, it is generally too
late to prevent its spreading. Usu-
ally the toxin has already been
spread over other sensitive parts
during the latent (quiet) period,
between the time you come in con-
tact with the ivy and the time the
itching developed. So if you know
you are sensitive to ivy and you
want to prevent attacks. you should
do the following things: l. Learn
to recognize the poison ivy plant,
and when you come across it in
your path avoid it like-you guessed
it-poison g. Immediately after
exposure, wash the body with yellow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Favoritism Rampant
In Postal Custodian
Service in Ft. Worth
By a Post Office Worker
Correspondent

FORT WORTH, Texas. -Increas-
ingly unbearable are the conditions
imposed upon the honest worker in
the postoff1ce custodian service in
Fort Worth Nowhere is the prac-
tice of favoritism more rampant.
Chief Engineer and Backyard
William H. Borders and Supervisor
Clarence v. Westapher, with their
Disappointed staff of stoolpigeons
and liars, hold the workers in
place" with Nazi-like brutality.
Since they are not allowed, under
the rules of the service, to fire an
employee without sufficient reasons,
they proceed to make his work-hours
SO miserable that he resigns.
Our work-hours are SO uncertain
that no one except the bootlicker
knows one day what his hours will
be the next. We are often required
to work split shift, swinging from
9 a. m. to p. m.-despite the fact
that a swing of more than two hours
in one day is prohibited by the
rules of the service.
At one time. for weeks on end.
including Saturdays and Sundays,
we were forced to work from 10 to
IL hours day, on split shift and
with no compensation for overtime.
We are sometimes worked as late
as $50 at night, and ordered to re-
port again at $3.50 in the morning.
The bosses have regular hours, of
course, as do most of the boot
lickers (Red Orman, Fat Meade,
RAT" Cook.
A few of us, with much opposi-
ton, have worked to form local
organization = but Asst. Supervisor
Schilling, Westapher's echo, has got
himself elected chairman. Westa-
pl1er himself, who is hostile to all
labor organizations, has been asked
to join the union; and, needless to
say, the more class-ccnscious work.
ers are disguised.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

Seattle Daily Times newspaper
of large circulation wished to
publish, although the Vigilantes for
some reason or other would not
permit him to do.
At Portland, Oregon. the Com.
munist headquarters we're unpre-
pared for q raid, and everything
was seized. files, records, names, ETC.,
and the police were picking up peo4
pie by the dozens and falling them.
The strike situation there was and
is more serious than here-more
arrests, and the common charge is
criminal syndicalism and riot.
We are planning big mass DEM
onstration at the County City
Building for August First to fight
Fascism and Terror.
Yesterday the papers came out
with big headlines-"Dock Strike
Ends" due to the fact that the
longshoremen voted for arbitration.
But it is not ended-the longshore-
men stipulated that. In an effort
to get the men drunk, free beer was
served at the I. L. A. hall until
bunch Of longshoremen came in a
body and smashed up the place.
The Y. G. L. comrades and the
Pioneers have not lost their heads
in this situation, but are carrying
on their work under these great diff
flculties. OF course many mistakes
have been made,-some comrades
have found holes and pulled them
in after themselves, and others
have found the little word dis
erection" very useful at this time,
but on the whole we are carrying
on and finding new methods of
work. This experience is a very
valuable one for us, and we think
for the entire Party and Y. G. l..
because what has happened in
Seattle we can expect to happen
everywhere, and Party members,
and Y. C. L. comrades, and even
Pioneers must know to work even
when the police and the fascist
gangs are trying to smash us.
M. B.. Secetary,
Young Pioneer Buro.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

his Italian friends. The answer was,
Il don't want any more dumb ds-
goes and no more damn niggers."
This discrimination is dangerous
not only to the Negro workers. but
to every worker on the job. First
they pick on the Negro workers.
next they say they are going to
turn on the Italian workers. The
end of this will be that the only
ones able to hold job will be the
bosses friends.
We must learn to stick together
regardless of race or nationality
We will find that a Negro or Italian
is just as good man on the picket
line as any one else.
Many on the JOB are backing the
Railroad Brotherhood's Unity
Movement. which has as its aim the
unity of all railroad workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
attack on LLA Being
Prepared BY Bosses

breaking association, with the CO.
operation of the Mobile S. S. As
ISOLATION, they intend to enroll all
the longshoremen. promising them
benefits. so as to be in better po-
sition to get rid of the bona-fide
LILA. Local 1884 and form a COM
pany union.
Ed. Rhone told his members on
Friday night. July Is. in a meeting
in the Masonic Hall that they we're
meeting to get a better under
standing between his benevolent as
ISOLATION and the Mobile Steam
ship Association
The names of the above men
toned reverends are quoted because
we want the workers to see that
here are leaders of different
churches who are supposed to be
working for the interest of the
working class, but who are actu-
ally helping the boss class drive the
standard of living of the longshore-
men to starvation level.