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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Letters from
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TOWARD STRONGER DEMON
STRATIONS IN LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles, Cal.
Observations on the May Day
meeting in Los Angeles:
l. AS formerly, most of the ban
ners are all crowded together near
the speaker, blotting each other out
and the speaker, so, that to most
people assembled, there is no
speaker, but merely a voice from the
microphone. A few of the banner
carriers are beginning to scatter to
the edge of the crowd, but not
enough. During the anti-war skit
of the Rebel Players, the banner
carriers would have done well to
lower their banners.
2. The singing and raising Of
fists came from the center of the
crowd, whereas the edge of it, near
Main ST.. where Capt. Hynes dis
tributed himself, was not militant.
Whether it was due to the nearness
of Hynes, or that people were new,
cannot be definitely said. Undoubt-
eddy both helped. 1t is for our peo-
pie to blot out Hynes and to line
themselves at the edge of the crowd
thus in the singing and arm raising
to be able to encourage others. The
edges, especially the Main st. edge,
where I was watching, was unstable.
There was an ebb and flow of at
least 5000 that did not find the
demonstration interesting enough
or spirited enough to hold them
there.
3. Our singing is usually weak,
as it was especially in this demon
stration. We should have singing
teams of three or four-scattered
throughout the crowd. When one
person sings by himself, surrounded
by non-singers, it is very discomag-
ing to the singer and the non-sing-
ers. Singing teams would give
strength and encourage singers
to sing.
4. There was no band-an abSo-
lutte necessity for keeping up morale.
5. There were no effigies, no
picturesque floats, another necessity
long used in New York, but not
here.
6. At all our demonstrations it
makes a bad impression on outsiders
to be approached by vendors of the
western" or Daily" so many
times. At the beginning of the
demonstration the statesmen of the
Western" and the Daily" should
get together and decide on definite
section territories that each is to
cover.
Z. And I'm saving the most i'm
portant criticism for the last-the
collection! There should have been
at least SO 81 bills raised in the
air in unison. I, for one, am guilty
in this respect. I saved my dollar
bill for the night meetings in the
Mason Opera House. Comrades
should know to save dollar bill
for our big demonstrations, or four
comrades should get together and
make it a dollar. Do you realize
what it means to new elements
when they see a lot of dollar bills.
1t means more than brass bands,
more than singing and cheering.
Our financiers of the revolutionary
movement, and there are thousands
of them-in the future try and
manage to have a dollar bill for
the big demonstration. And those
with S. bills, make it five ones, and
distribute it to friends for them to
raise in the air.
There are different ways to win
over different elements and I hope
these I suggest meet with your ap-
" NON-PARTY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
ORGANIZER OF ANTI SOVIET
WAR IN DAIREN

DAIREN, May 3-Anastase Won
siatsky, Russian white guard, we'll
supplied with funds by the Japan
ese imperiahsts. arrived here today
at this South Manchurian port on
his way to Hardin, where he will or
ganize "agitators" for Japan to help
in preparations for war against the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Dining Car Workers Helped
By Communist artyActivity

job and of keeping them is Com
munist Party on the job. The
Communists are the best fighters
for the workers and every worker
should join the Party and help
lead the struggle for better con-
ditiOns. For more information
about the Communist Party write
TO Communist Party, 50 E. 18th
St., New York City. All names
and addresses will be kept strictly
confidential.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25

a ccus to m e d to Jewish cooking.
Mitchell huffman of the huffman
Travel Agency is planning to con-
duct a group in a tour of the
U.S.SR, Poland, Roumania and
Palestine. This group will also sail
on the S. S. Statendam.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
1l-HOur Day on
Subway Stands
By a Subway Worker Cor
respondent


NEW YORK; would like to
inform you that the agents on
the news and candy stands of
the new Eighth Avenue subway
work much more than 40 hours
a week as the N. R. A. is sup
posed to demand.
Those working in the daytime
work II hours a day, six days
week. Night workers work nine
hours a night, six nights a week.
They are not allowed to sit dur
ing this time or smoke. II they
are caught reading a paper
Or magazine they can be imme-
diately fired.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Telegraph Workers
Respond to Call Of
United Committee
A. W. u. E. Treachery
Against Younger
Boys Exposed
By a Telegraph Correspondent

NEW YORK, N. Your valu-
able paper fell into my hands ac-
cidentally, but I am the right per-
son to whom it was addressed, as
I was denoted from a managers
job to another position. The United
Committee of Action is a step in
the right direction. 1t certainly
crystallizes the sentiment of the
mass of telegraph employees. My
friend, who is a hneman, thinks he
knows the representatives of the
plant department on this commit
tee and will approach him for
more information.
The messengers put up a good
fight and won many concessions.
Some Of us encouraged the boys,
knowing they were right and their
fight is our fight. Any dent in the
telegraph monopoly makes it easier
for us when We are ready.
The recent issue If the "Tele-
graph World" organ Of the fake
union Of the A. w. U. E., shows a
picture of the code hearing in
Washington. Blast my Irish soul if
the boys sitting on the front bench
are not the representatives of the
messengers union.
Another important thing which
should be publicized by the meSsen-
ger union is the following excerpt
from this flunky magazine:
Our prosopal that messengers be
paid a minimum of Csc per hour is
limited to messengers who are 81
years of age or over, because in gen.
eral messengers who are less than
Il years can be considered as tenn
porary. They are not entitled to
the same consideration as other
employees"
In other words the A. w. o. E.
officials who helped the company
force the boys into the company
union don't care what they earn, OF
how rotten their conditions of work
are.
This should be made known to
every messenger.
On pay day I expect to contribute
something to this struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
SOcialist-C Controlled
Group Leaves Jobless
Worker i'm the Lurch

By a Worker Correspondent
HARRISBURG, Pain the May
It'll Worker Correspondence you
printed letter from an unemployed
Harrisburg worker which told of
the treatment he got at the hands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
RAW
America Line Prepares
For Soviet and Palestine Tours

The S. S. Statendam flagship of the HolIand-America
Line, will sail June goth for the u S. S. r. Europe and
Palestine Personally conducted tours of the Soviet Union
Poland Roumana and Palestine being offered The third
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-21

They were not naturally bad boys and girls, Irwin says, but "good human ma terial going sour = fermenting." The boredom, discontent, resentment and fear bred in those young people by forced idle ness and privation suddenly blazed out in crisis. Mostly they were without orr ganization. Their hoodlum acts were pos sibly unpremeditated. In the setting that developed, they saw red and acted red.
 Such an explosion of youth is re- hinder of the never-employed young men utilized as s'storm troops" by Hitler in his rise to power, whose misdeeds have disgraced Germany. America wants no such class. Perhaps our biggest national problem is providing constructive work for them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-21
Stick By Harris

Despite any criticism that may be lev elled at William M. Harris, EZRA admin istrator in Waterbury by state officials of this federal bureau, we think the major ity of people in this city will support him in his claim for preference to home town employees where possible. A day or so ago MT Harris was caustic in his con- ments on replacements of local office workers in the relief bureaus by others from out of town. We feel the same way.
 It is doubtful if the requisites for the job are such that none of our local unenn- ployed could comply with what was de- manded. The same is true not merely in this one department or bureau. Too often the home town boy or girl is con- eidered inadequate for local position simply because he or she is native. That, to our way of thinking, should be the first requirement when jobs are to be given out.
 It isn't quite fair to our boys and girls who are going out to modern institutions of learning for their proper training to have them become obsessed with the idea that they can't find employment in their own home town. And that is the very principle that MT Harris is fighting for. It's one that all of us could fight for, if we would only interest ourselves to some ex- tent. That's the trouble. We remain in- different and as result the outsider comes in and the localite goes out. That isn't true in all cases, thank goodness. We don't condemn on a wholesale scale, either, giving employment to people who might seek it here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-21
Levitt's In Our Midst

We hope that Professor Albert Levitt's resignation from his Department of Jus- tice job in Washington is even now Tn the hands of Attorney General Homer 5. Cummings. If not then the Bedding fire-brand may have to answer to the charge of mixing politics with federal fob. However, it is known that when he came to Connecticut last week to prepare the convention of the republican indepen- dent party that he had announced he would resign if nominated for office. He was nominated, being honored with the candidacy for congressman in the fourth district.
 He will tilt. words with such brilliant vote-getters as the present incumbent, Schuyler Merritt who doesn't want to go back to Congress, but who can't get out of it, because his fellow republicans insist on his running, and former mayor Ed ward T. Buckingham of Bridgeport, now Compensation Commissioner there. But it doesn't look as if the outspoken MT Levitt is going to devote his attention solely to his congressional opponents. He wants to tilt at both Governor Cross and J. Henry Roraback.
 Evidently MT Levitt didn't read the governors acceptance speech which he delivered at Eastern Point early this month. It was no pastoral letter, but rood old-fashioned attack on MT Rora- back and the influence he has exercised in Connecticut politics to the aggrandize- ment of the fortunes of an out of the state public utility concern. He did not use the word "octupus" for which we can indeed be grateful. But then the governor never did have to be told about the proper use of his words. He can tell others about that and very nicely, too.
 That's why we say that Professor Lev it might look to his laurels this fall. He has been the man without gloves in the past few years. But judging by the way the doughty old gentleman from Yale started off his campaign at Groton he also will not fear to tread on anybody's toes.s We're awaiting with much anticipation the first appearance of the governor ln the campaign. It is certain to attract the attention of the entire state. And that includes the republican candidate for governor, MT Alcorn, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-21

sold to farmers with cotton checks went for work clothes. My business has taken a 1409o increase in the last year.'
 s'In regard to what I spent for plow-up cotton" wrote G. F. Boston of Adair, Okla, q paid $7 for. doctor bill, $18.5O for one horse, $13.73 for clothes, $12.SO for government taxes, and $2.OO for a ton of coal. The rest of tle money was spent for flour and anybody doubting me having plowed up my cotton are welcome to come and investi- gate" PAY OFF
 Very few letters were received which did not report that most Of the cotton check went for debts. The. reply of w. B. sHili of Wetumka, Okla, was typical.
 Here Is my statement about my plowed up cOttOn,' he said. "The bank received it. That gives me no chance to buy me some-T thing for my home. plOwed up B acres and received $45 for it"
 Am sorry to say" reported B. : w. Holloway of Wilson, Okla., ''that the little I had left when I I. paid the government what T. owed them was not much. I owed them $25 and my check was $54 and I used 10 for groceries and the balance going to sec my wife at Norman. No, I don't owe no, one. Don't expect to any more if l can help it. l think that Henry Wallace is doing a great good in the p1ow-up cot ton move and also think as do all my neighbors that Mir RoOse. welt is a great president"
 The area in which this sur- vey was made, however, repre- sents more stable class of farm CTS than the average tenant in the cotton areas farther east. In Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, the proportion of indebtedness has been higher, the number of tenants that have moved on 10 other areas has been greater.
 FOOTLOOSE TENANTS :
 Which illustrates that no prob- lem, outside the rain of criti- cism received from old Dealers, ~haS troubled Henry Wallace and his Brain Trusters as much as that of the growing army of foot. loose tenants wandering through { the South to-day. For the easiest way for a landowner to reduce acreage is to send a couple of croppers down the road.
 A committee of the League for Industrial Democracy, touring four states and interviewing 500 tenants, reported that the acre. age reduction program has cre- ated a new agricultural unem- ployment. At least IS Q aud perhaps 20% of all share-crop- per families have lost their op- portunity to make a living off the land by the only labor which they know"
 AAA officials consider these figures too high but admit the number of itinerant share-crQp- pers is increasing.
 And one fact which worries them is the Communist propa- ganda which is being sown along
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-21
ChuckleCo
I'VE BEEN TOLD By Clara Blanchard

That Millville crossword fan has found one he can't solve--the one that starts the family quarrel at the end of one of those swelter- ing days.
 That a North Main street Irwin obb adtnirsr, listening in on one of Jimmy Durante's spiels, snarled: why don't they call that The Chestnut Hour'?"
 That despite the uphill climb to overcome depression most of our trigirlies think the seamy side of life means keeping the seams of theif chiffons straight.
 That an oakville athlete boasts that when in New York he jumped higher than the woolworth build ing. We'll. said dignified edificc was never known to perform THAT way.
 That a Pine Street habitue of local chop houses says if tips went to the real walters 1t would be the eaters who would profit. That . valley loafer promised at the altar to protect the woman at his side. And he clways has from idleness.
 That one half of Bristol doesn't know what the other half Is do- ing. These darned husbands are so close e-f,iouthed--at home. That d West Side man says he can't understand his wife. After being on the operating table twice, she still persists she hasn't a stitch to wear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-21
So They Say

Anyone who thinks that the government is going to underwrite the strike had best get it out of his head.
 Harry Hopkins, federal relief administrator. Under the recovery program we have done more proportionately than any other industry in America has thus far done for it's employees. -George Arthur Sloan. head of Cotton Textile Institute. Upton Sinclair is socialist running on a so- cialist platform heartily endorsing the New Deal. At last we beginning to get things straight. Senator Hastings of Delaware, republican.
 
 Hereafter when girl visits Russia she can wear her jewels. There be no surprise after me- Mrs Evelyn Walsh Mclean. owner of Hope diamond
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-21
The Never-E Employed 1

Why should quiet industrial towns in Rhode Island flame out suddenly in vio- 1cnt disorders? They were not infested " criminal gangs. Woonsocket had not Ind murder for more than dozen 5ears. And strike passions alone do not ccem to explain it. Few of the rioters seem to have been strikers. The hooli- rens who fought the police and smashed windows and footed stores, according to Will Irwin, were mostly unemployed boys and girls - adolescents who had never had jobs. And in that fact lies a peril not only to Rhode Island but to our whole American life
 Tor several years employment has been 6rclinin3 in those cities, as in so many cf6ors. Boys have had nothing to do but 1o~f cround the streets and poolrooms. f;ris hn1s ncithcr worked nor married.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-21

e. Who played the role of Greta.< Garbo's man-servant in "Queen Christiaua'?
 A. c. Aubrey Smith. q. How large was the Russian Empire in 19l4?
 A. It comprised one-seventh of the land surface of the earth, and without internal waters, after tho Treaty of Portsmouth, the area was s,4l7,118 square miles, ]. c. What was Babe Ruins sal- ary in 1g30 and 1881?
 A. Eighty thousand dollars q year.
 a. Give the dates of opening and adjournment of the s7th Cons ,,s; 4 July !, lssl-Maroh ?,
 e. In which university is Gus tav Cassel . professor of sconoia- ics?
 A. University of Stockholm, Sweden.
 Q. Who was the author of the expression: Everyone talks about the weather. but nobody does any- thing about 1t ?n A. The saying is attributed 10 Mark Twain.
 Q. when does the tourist sea- son at Yellowstone National Park close
 A. The park is open all year round, but the main season ex- tends from June IA to September 1S, during which all the park util. ities are operated. y e. When will the Chicago ! Worlds Fair close? A. The close is scheduled for October 31. Q. Why do equestrians mount from the left side3 N. A. The practice is said to have started in ancient times when men carried long swords on their left Iside, and mounted so as to avoid lthe necessity of throwing the heavy weapon over the horse. Q. What is the maximum height for Douglas fir trees? A. The average stand of Doug- las fir in the western United States ia about 900 feet, but individual trees, under favorable conditions, may live 1000 years and attain a height of 800 feet and diameter of ten feet.
 o. Are there any radio broad casting stations in Greece and Turkey?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-21
Geneva Letter

Geneva--(UP) -- Twenty keen United States students are thrilled with their work of studying inter- national relations and modern diplomacy here.
 They are Holding their own with selected students from Oxford and other well-known European seats of learning, at the Geneva School of Intednational Studies.
 With q desire to give up pre- judices and obtain | clearer view of world affairs, they listen to au- -thoritative opponents of foreign affairs, and the bearing of inter- national events upon international institutions such as the League of
 U. s. UniversitiesS
 They wore chosen from univer- sities throughout the United States by Professor Alfred zimmern, Montague Burton Professor. Of In ternational Relations at oxford. who founded the Geneva School in 1924.
 League ofiicials actually en- gagged in attempting to find reme- dies for political, or economic ills. lecture the students on the day to day work of the League. Proposals for the prohibition of the export of war material to Bolivia and Paraguay, Soviet Russia's relations with the League and the Dis armament Conference, French se- curity propoeals, are examined ob- jeotively and in historical per-,
 co in Course
 The total number of students following the five weeks course is 60 this year, comprising 2z na- The numbers were re- duced to secure quality. Among the series of loctureS is a study of the internal situation of France and the stavisky affair. There are also seminars. f. v
 Mrs Alfred zimmern. honorary secretary of the Geneva School, described it's object as: Scholar ship with the dynamic of idealiam behind if ito launch it into the channel of common sense."
 The Geneva School was founded as . protest against propaganda in international affairs, it boiuK considered that there was urgent need Co mako an educaiionns study of the international s'tua. ton from Geneva.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-21

Washington, Sept 21.-At the day, week after week, for IF months, checks have been leav- ing Washington to cotton farm CTS, first for blowing up the 1888 crop, later for planting less cotton in 1884.
 No innovation under the New Deal has been more foreign to the traditional theory of Ameri- < can laissez-faire economies. And probably no other agricultural :. innovation has come in for clos- ! CT study by the Agricultural Department itself.
 To learn the effect of the cot ton reduction program, various agricultural investfgators have travelled south. Among these were Mordecai Ezekiel, economic fad- visor of the department, and even Henry Wallace, himself.
 Wallace gots no farther south than North Carolina, but he came back with picture of pOy-- erty among tenant farmers which haunted his memory for months. 7
 Another study was made by his department as to what be- come of the cotton checks. How did the tenant farmer spend his windfall? Was it blown in? Did it go for back debts or pay for CveraIls? Are cotton farmers in favor of the crop reduction plan? Do they want it continued?
 MONEY FOR NECESSITIES
 n~ N% |. questions, letters were sent to several hundred farmers in one Oklahoma cotton area. The re- plies were almost unanimous in favor of the plan, and almost equally unanimous that none of the cotton cheeks was wasted.
 T am collecting rents from more than 300 farmers in Coal County" wrote Patsy Greenan, a real estate agent of Coalgate, Oklahoma, land I know that 95 per cent of them that plowed up cotton used every dollar they got to pay obligations and to buy the actual necerries (sic) of life.
 I don't know of a single one that used the money for the pur- chase of intoxicating drink or spent it for anything foolishly."
 Similar testimony came from a merchant in Mangum, Oklahoma.
 "A man, wife and seven chil. dren came in and bought a coni- plete change of clothes for the family. They did not have enough clothes to go to the field to work. The clothing bought consisted of overalls, shoes, work shirts and dress material. Sev- : enty per cent of the clothing