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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19
By SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD

by SIDNEY BLOOMt1ELD
THIS issue of "The Yard
L Voice" is a double issue
and an improvement over
previous ones, not only in APP
pearance, but in content as
well. In eight pages many
important questions are dis
cusSed, including war and fascism.
discrimination against Negroes, The
Daily Worker, the N. r. A. and the
strike struggles, and unemployment
insurance.
While in places the paper looks
too crowded, and a few of the car
toons are not effective, the paper
shows two outstanding features.
First, the comrades have taken
seriously the job of putting it out
and have put hard and painstaking
labor into it. Second, they try to
make it a Communist paper by an
all-round approach to the workers
problems, connecting them with
general social, economic, local, ma
tional and world interest from the
class (politicaD view. In doing this
the comrades show that they realize
that the Yard Voice must be the
collective advisor, educator, propa-
gandist, organizer and leader of the
Navy yard workers.
The great amount of material in
the Yard Voice is made possible by
printing the paper by a photo
graphic process. The paper is laid
out and pasted up-pictures, photo
graphs, cartoons, headlines, type
written articles, etc. All this is then
photographed and reduced in size
on plate and the paper is printed
from plate. This, while more ex-
pensive than mimeographing, makes
it possible to get more material
into the paper, including photo
graphs.
llC1C 10 d CdI bOOll OllOWlAS
capitalist placing a brick wall be-
tween Negro and white workers. On
either side the workers stand gazing
helplessly at the wall that separates
them. Over the cartoon is call,
Break the wall of discrimination"
This cartoon would be more effec-
tive if it pictured the same workers
in action ripping or breaking down
the wall. Another cartoon is sup
posed to show a worker selling the
Daily Worker, but is SO marred and
unclear that it looks like the stage
Bolshevik often caricatured by our
enemies, lulnpenproletarian with
whiskers, etc. An unclear cartoon,
like the latter, hinders us in over
coming the prejudices of the masses
who are fed on the poison Of the
capitalist press.
Letters From Workers
Five letters from workers in the
Navy Yard are printed. The editors
show their alertness to the problem
of winning their fellow workers for
the revolutionary movement by the
patient and comradely treatment of
these letters. The comrades make
efforts at politicalizing their an
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something about stopping the speed
upP"-although this should also be
done-a campaign of rank-and- file,
union and unorganized workers
should be suggested to demand, by
petition, meetings, delegations, ETC.,
to have the schedules posted. to
have department committees super
wise the schedules and suggest forms
of struggle to cut down on the time
schedules after they are known to
be excessive; to fight against dis
elimination, favoritism and for rank
and file control, etc.
This reply should be followed UP
with vigorous campaign and strug-
gle. If this is done, we shall ap-
preciate the value of worker cor
respondence and the workers will
appreciate the Party, its shop paper,
ETC., and we shall really win over
and lead the workers. BY linking
these points with revolutionary trade
union opposition work within the
A. F. of l.. and work within the
"employe" organizations we can
build a good movement.
1t is also necessary to point out
that whenever we discuss Congress
or any political body or the capt.
talist politicians in connection with
a problem raised by the workers as
is done in another letter, we must
raise also the question of voting for
Communist candidates, our plat
form, etc, in opposition to those of
the capitalist parties.
Youth Problems
Half of page is devoted to
discussion of the problems of the
apprentices. But only in a general
way. No program of youth demands
is formulated. 1t is doubtful
whether this important page was
seriously discussed by the Y. c..
L.'ers in the yard. 1t is shame to
tell the youth on the job that 1.-THE
Young Communist League is in full
sympathy" with the apprentices,
that I'VE volunteer our assistance
write us for further information, I"
without raising any serious organi-
rational or political points as guild
ance. We must develop a line of
action and demands for the youth
in the yard, in each department, on
every burning grievance, with advice
on how these actions are to be or
ganiZed and carried out
Two-thirds of a page is devoted
to THE Metal Trades Council Elec-
tons" Very important organiza-
ton problems are discussed. The
question of struggle for restoration
OF the wage-cut, inner union de-
mocracy, the corrupt relations be-
tween all the trade union mislead-
ers with the capitalist politicians
and the government, ETC., are we'll
connected into a political exposure
together with organizational sug-
geStions for rank and file struggle.
However, few important OBJ
servations must be made in connec-
ton with the organizational advice.
1t is not enough to state that we
must attend meetings" demand
reports" and force delegates to
act" The advice should include a
program of work upon which basis
the rank and file could be involved
even over the heads of the official
representatives, but with their CO.
operation, if possible.
The question that was posed
to one of the welders, Bob
Lively, is whether he will be a
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swers, but in so doing they make
serious mistakes. In the Editor
Note" to letter on page 2 which
exposes discrimination of Negroes
the comrades show incomplete I'M
derstanding of the Negro problem
first, by writing the words Negro
and Negroes with a small IN" This
question, which may perhaps appear
as simply one of spelling, involves
the national character of the Strug-
gle of the Negro people. We capt.
talize Negro in the same manner as
the words Irish, German and jap
anese, implying, not race or color
but nationality. We do not, Of
course, attribute to our comrades 9
conscious attitude in this connec-
ton.
The Editors Note" is of good
propaganda value, but does not
suggest a single concrete action
to remedy the situation, such as
a campaign for the promotion of
Negro workers to higher-paid jobs,
A good suggestion is to consult
with the comrades active in special
Negro activity such as the L. S. N.
r. to obtain their aid in formulat-
ing a brief, concrete program of
action around which to attract
Negro workers When dealing with
such problems, it is necessary to
discuss the matter thoroughly
among the comrades in order to
make the reply the result of COL
lective analysis, criticism, and
formulation. 1t will minimize mis-
takes which are made when there
is no collective work.
In reply to letter sent in by
Two Yard Workers." asking fol
Your reaction and proposals" or
the problem of G. w. A. workers
taking jobs in the Navy yard while
the regular force is being fired, the
comrades do a good job discussing
the problem in a general way ano
bring forward a fine analysis oil
House Resolution 1898, the Work
erS Unemployment Insurance Bill
together with suggestions how tt
fight for it. But they fail to raise
the question of organizing the strug-
gle against lay-offs, union protec.
ton of workers, organization of the
unorganized, unity of employed anc
unemployed, craft theology of the
A. F. of L. which hampers the task
of protecting all workers.
The Fight Against Speed-up
The Editors Note" to "a Yarc
Worker VINO complains about the
speed-up is general and does no.
take advantage of two excellen
openings for theological and organi.
rational suggestions contained il
the letter. At one point this worker
complains that the supervisor al.
ways tells him You're slow; better
speed up" that he has to get tina
job done on time, or else "Tht
schedule is not published anywhere
only the supervisor knows the tint
allowed for each job I'm SURF
that schedule is juggled plenty too.
In another paragraph this worke,
writes about the efficiency rating
being juggled, so that first clas
workers are often given the air
while slower men stay on, provided
they have pull"
Instead of merely telling "al
union members in the yard to brinl
up at local meetings." and askinI
How about the shop delegates ant
the Metal Trades Council doinl
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company man like Mahoney,
or VIII will fight for the men?" It
would be better to pin him down
10 program of work and at every
step and turn, his attitude and con-
DUCT should openly be analysed be-
lore the workers, with criticism
predictions, counter plans, etc. His
conouct should be brought before
the men in such a manner as to
keep them always politically and
organlzaitonally alive, and to place
MN or any other representative in
position where he must either
develop along the road of real rank
and file interests and struggle, or
stand exposed, and a basis for his
defeat and isolation is SO prepared
that the rank and file will support
us against him.
If we make this attitude our pol
icy in dealing with such elements.
we can readily see that it is wrong
Tor the Yard Voice as the organ of
the Communist Party to offer. so
to speak, blank check" to any,
one, as is done in this case when
the comrades write That '"The Com
munlst Party offers you or any man
who will fight for the men, its full
support, endorsement, and re-
sources, and We are sure hundreds
OF honest trade unionists Join us in
this" This blanket offer is prema-
ture. 1t smacks too much like an
opportunist maneuver to make an
alliance with an individual without
regard to building the united front
from below on the basis of wide
rank and file interests and partici-
patton.
Because of the great Importance
OF all the questions involved, this
article should have had a more con-
crete programmatic ending than
merely posing the question, do we
want Metal Trades Council that
will not act for us?" Special stress
should have been laid on the build
ing of opposition work within the
A. F. of L.
Now to get to the feature of this
issue, May Day 1884" Under this
title and accompanied by an effec-
tive cartoon, the entire front page
and one-third of the second page
carries well-written May Day ar
ticles. A few shortcomings of this
feature article are the absence of
specific issues of the navy yard
workers as part of the otherwise
generally good approach, and the
reference. to certain historical events
without explanation, such as the fall
of the Bastille.
In general, there should be shorter
articles, more headings to break up
the solid effect, and more specific
department issues. Already the
workers are becoming greatly in
terested in the Yard Voice, as is
evidenced by letters asking advice
on questions that occupy their
minds. The comrades do well in
calling on the workers, not only to
write and ask for advice, but to
send in criticism and suggestions.
In this way an advisory body of all
readers will be developed and with
this broad collective help under the
leadership of the nucleus the Yard
Voice will develop into a powerful
guide and teacher, organizer and
leader of the navy yard workers.
All inquiries and comments
relative to factory paper reviews
should be directed to the Agit-
Prop Department. G. c.
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Kick False Leaders Out and Run Steel
Strike in Real Workers Way, Is Appeal
Struggle Is Only Fay to Smash Company Union
StrmgIehOId, Correspondent Points Out

never attended any sort Of meet
ing.
We, the workers Of the transpor-
tation department have demanded
some improvement in the yard, in
coaling the new engines; We have
demanded some sort Of system for
drinking water, but nothing was
done
The only way we can make the
company improve things is by TAX
ing things in our own hands and
establishing rank and file control,
with the help of the only fighting
union in the industry, the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. with it's headquarters at
1895 Broadway, Gary, Ind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1853 is available in sizes
So, 38, 40, AZ, A and 46. Size Sc
takes AZ yards 39-inch fabric and
7s yard contrasting. Illustrated
step-by-step sewing instructions in
Guided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19
An Appeal to Steel Workers

While the Daily Worker doing report the current
developments in the steel industry possible cannot
make complete job Of 1t without the help
the mills themselves We picture Of your
struggles unless We have direct reports every plant
We therefore to write the latest ham
penings in shop local. attitude
toward the calling off of the that have
been taken to effective
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19
Notice to Nurses and Hospital
Workers

The Nurses and Hospital Work.
ers League has begun a campaign
for the eight hour day. They are
issuing a monthly magazine called
1.-The Voice which will tell Of
conditions facing workers in hospi-
tails. All workers in the health
field are urged to write up the
conditions under which they work
and send these articles in to THE
Voice" care of the Nurses and
Hospital Workers League, 80 E. 18th
ST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19
Machinery and
The Unemployed
Bv a Worker Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Md-For the past
week I have noticed a water main
being installed on Pennington Ave.
With about one-fourth of the pop
ulation of Baltimore UNEMPLOYED,
this work is being done by two ma
chimes and only about seven men.
One machine digs the trench while
the other one "a tractor with a
pusher blade) refills the trench
after the pipe is installed. One man
operates each machine while the
other five men lay pipe. Surely this
was not intended as project for
the enrichment of contractor, but
to provide work for some of the I'M
employed people of Baltimore.
This is only one more instance of
neglect to consider the workers on
the part of the city administration
If the unemployed of Baltimore,
who are being cut off relief could
see this going on, feel sure enough
stink would be raised to change
things. Let us all protest against
this misuse of the taxpayers money
at once and stop this and all other
similar grating projects.
Editors Note.-It is not the bust
ness of the working class to help in
furtherance OF reactionary
measures proposed by the decaying
capitalist class to scrap the use of
in order to make Jobs"
There is plenty of useful work to
be done in the United States, with
the use of all the machinery avail
able. The workers of Baltimore and
all other workers who are deprived
of jobs, must demand that the
bosses and their government give
them jobs, real jobs, at regular
wages, or else give them unemploy-
ment insurance.
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80 q
the Hallllsep
HELEN LCKH HAHS E4ReAnA ~
CAUGHT WITH OUR SHIRTS OFF
CGNcIsED NJ
HELEN LtJKH

the position Of women in various
systems, past and present, and their
role in the labor movement also
material dealing with farm prob
lens and their solution under So
cialiSm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19
Steel Mills Pile
Up Food for ScGbs
BY a Worker Correspondent


INDIANA HARBOR, Ind
am working at a store at the gate
of the Inland Steel Co. Since
yesterday I have seen five trucks,
loaded with food (None-Such
Products, going into the mill. A
powerful spotlight has been in
stalled in the mill for searching
purposes at night. Old beds have
been reprinted and cleaned for
use at the mill in divided sleep
ing quarters. Fourteen uPllman
cars were switched into the mill
today.
Armed preparations are going on
secretly, and the whole situation
is getting very tender. You never
can tell what will happen in the
last minute and how the workers
will be affected by the strike. I
will send you more news aboutu
the situation.
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NOTE.

We publish letters from steel,
metal and auto workers every
Tuesday. We urge workers in
these industries 10 write us Of
their working conditions and of
their efforts to organize. Please
get the letters to MS by Friday of
each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19

Send FIFTEEN CENTS Q5c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred
for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
number. BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 West 18th
Street, New York City.
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real aims in simple Language. 1t
would be an immediate appeal, for
in their heart it is what they are
looking for,
"A CHEMICAL WORKER
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The Daily Worker gives you full
news about the struggle for unem-
ployment insurance. Buy the Daily
Worker at the newsstands. Three
cents copy.
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:: SHOP PAPER REVIEWS ::

THE YARD VOICE. Issued by
the Communist Party and Young
Communist League, Navy Yard
Unit, New York. May Day issue.
Vol. 1, No. 2 and 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19

The Daily Worker gives you full
news about the struggle for unem-
ployment insurance. Buy the Daily
Worker at the newsstands. Three
cents a copy.
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Chiropractic Does Not Cure Asthma
Mrs. S. B.-Chirapractic cannot
cure bronchial asthma any more
than it can cure any other disease.
The whole science" of chiropractic
is a huge fake.
1t often happens that children
who have been suffering from
obscure diseases that cannot be
cured by the average medical prac-
titioner suddenly recover when they
reach puberty. At the age of thir-
teen, great changes take place in
the body and mind of a boy. These
changes which prepare the child
to become a man often alter his
constitution and cause various all
ments to disappear. 1t is easy for
a lay person who is not acquainted
with the physiological sciences to
ascribe the improvement to what
ever treatment the child happens to
receive at the time of his puberty
changes. One OF our little patients,
a few years ago. was cured of &c
zema by attending the synagogue. He
was taken there because of his Bar
Mitzvah and his mother is sure
that the religious services which he
attended were the cause of his cure.
Hazards in the Turpentine Industry
| John d. R., Atlanta Ga. = The
main symptoms in turpentine
poisoning are irritation of the eyes,
nose and trachea (windpipe) cough,
excessive salvation, giddiness
headache, irritation of the kidneys
severe Inflammation of the skin,
eczema and hardening of the skin
in chronic cases. Sometimes the
diagnosis can be made at once by
the urine. In people who are
poisoned by turpentine, even in
those who take small quantities OF
turpentine by mouth, the odor Of
violets can be detected in the urine
The following workers are liable
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There has come a letter from a
woman conrade in the state of
Washington, who is facing a situa-
ton that doubtless many of us
have found ourselves face to face
with: having grown class-conscious,
recognizing the desperate world
economic situation and seeing the
necessity for immediate action, yet
lacking the requisite education and
experience to carry out our assigned
or volunteered tasks as competently
as we want to. This letter comes
from a young comrade of 81 Cen
years married and having two chill
dren); she has been a year in the
movement: grew up in the logging
woods, and has been on the farm
three years.
Now I am supposed to organize
the farm women" she says, but the
first job is to organize myself" Her
letter:
Il am coming to you for help.
Some time ago I read a column
of yours devoted entirely to a list
of reading matter and suggestions
for organizing women in the revolu-
tionary movement. I have searched
through the files that have avail
able and can find only one article
that begins to satisfy my needs.
II have just received an assign
ment that will require as much I'M
derstanding of class matters as
possible. 4. My work will be mostly
among farm women, but whether
farm or not, their problems are
every Woman's problems as far as
the class issue is concerned. I re-
greet having to ask you to send me
list of books or pamphlets to use
to broaden my own understanding
and pass it on to others.
1--WE do not even see copies of
the Working Woman here and so
far our little book shop has been
too impoverished to carry this pub
LEGATION, because there has been no
demand except mine for it. I am
enclosing a self addressed, stamped
envelope. Thanks a lot. I
should have kept your article when
I had 1t.
"Comradely yours,
%. B. B."
AS I remember, Conlrade BIB,
I have never given thorough OUT
line or list such as you mention,
though I've had it in mind to do so.
There was a very fragmentary list
a long while ago, and a list for use
of social problem clubs more re-
Gently perhaps this is the list you
refer to.
AS your husband is a member of
the United Farmers League, you
have probably become acquainted
with the publication, the National
Farmers Weekly, which will prove
helpful. I have clipping from this
paper, giving few concrete hints
on rallying the farm women, which
we'll reprint tomorrow: thereafter
will give an outline of literature,
etc, to provide basis for study of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19

All inquiries and comments
relative to factory paper reviews
should be directed to the Agit-
Prop Department, c. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19

Five letters from workers in the
Navy Yard are printed. The editors
show their alertness to the problem
of winning their fellow-w workers for
the revolutionary movement by the
patient and comradely treatment of
these letters. The comrades make
efforts at politicalizing their an
Evening star., 1934-06-29

painfully to her surroundings in the
little room.
Lottie's voice. What was it she had
words.
Denuded of its hysterical flutings,
Lottie's news slowly crystallized in her
mind into one cleaning, horrifying
fact.
Barbara Therrold had eloped with
Austin Deering!
Mr.. Mertz, Lottie had painted, had
just arrived at the county seat from
upstate! Had seen that Capt. Deer
ing and Barbara at the Main HOTEL
Registering, they were-Mr. Mertz had
made sure. Mr.. Mertz had made sure.
Mr.. Mertz knew the clerk, knew all
the clerks, 1t was Mr.. Mertz' regular
route. Going to be married right
there. they were, Lottie moaned. Go
ing to take the train to New York
tonight, and then a boat To
China! Yes, there was boat out Of
New York at midnight! Mr.. Mertz
had it positively from the clerk! .. &.
Rose remembered that fender Austin
Deering had smashed on Mr.. Mertz'
car? Well, sir, not one could 60 round
smashing tenders on Otto Mertz and
get away! No, sir! And here she
was right now, missing half the ball
at the Town Hall-but-din't Rose
think some one ought to tell the Their
rolds? Didn't Rose think. -.
With q click and a snarling sigh
the telephone connection had been
abruptly severed.
Rose din't think. Halfway through
the amazing conversation, Roses brain
had simply ceased to function at all.
Now that the significance Of the thing
began to take form, her own devastat-
ing imaginings of the hour before re-
ceded resolutely into the background.
She was not. Rose told herself. in
terested in the least in what happened
to Barbara Therrold. Nor to any of
the Therrolds-just so they let her
alone. She had tried meddling once,
and had gotten for her pains con-