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they attempt to block the clear-cut
will of the rank and file. j. ].
EDITORIAL NOTE: In reply
to the letter of J. j., regarding
a write-up in the Daily Worker
Of May 14th, concerning the strike
Of the IOngshoremen on the Clyde
Mallory line, J. j. contrasts the
Daily Worker with the New York
Times write-up. ]. J. writes that
he finds a contradiction regard
ing "pickets" on the docks.
This apparent contradiction
exists mainly because J. J. is not
well informed of the situation on
the piers, and also because the
difference between the two papers
is that one writes the truth, while
the other distorts it in order to
support the bosses against the
workers.
In the first place, this strike Is
not strike where the workers
agreed to strike, but it was forced
on the Iongshoremen when IS
gangsters and delegates Of the
lila. stood in front of the piers
and through terror forced the
workers out on strike!
The strike" is a gesture on
the part of Ryan to force the
coastwise lines to recognize the
LILA, thereby forcing the men
to join THIS UNION, to pay dues
to HIS RACKETS and to lay a
basis for preventing action on the
part of the workers to resist the
slave code of the shipowners, who
are now attempting to force these
codes through.
Although the strike has been
on for six days, THERE HAS
BEEN NO PICKET LINE-in-
stead the leeches of the LILA.
have sent whole gang Of drunken
gangsters into the strike, who are
terrorizing the workers and who
are preventing them from taking
steps to picket the piers.
Every longshoreman on strike
knows that the only ''pickets" on
the piers are delegates of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
Western Union Committee of Action
Organizes Fight on Company Union
BY the United Comm. of Action

BY the United Comm. of Action
NEW YORK.-"By deeds we
shall know them" was never SC
true as shown in the despicable
roles played by the officialdom of
the Association of Western Union
Employees in the recent use of
messengers militancy in New York
City.
Quite a few of the employees
had thought that although the A.
W. U. E. seemed impotent when
our interests were at stake, never
theless it was not a company
union" These illusions have been
swept away.
The "lowly" messengers, pur-
possly kept even out of the A.
w. U. E, were exploited merci-
lessly by the Western Union Of
ficials. These messengers COM
mitted the objectionable" crime
by organizing an independent
union to fight for the betterment
of their conditions. Their appear
ance in Washington, D. c., before
the code authorities, exposing the
vicious exploitation by the COM
pany, electrified the workers of
the telegraph industry.
Bouyed on by their fellow mes
sengers' strike in Minneapolis and
Detroit, and under the able guild
ance and leadership of the Office
Workers Union, they rallied hun
dreds of messengers in preparation
for a strike.
In desperation, the company
played its trump card. The A. w.
U. E. lackeys, at the command of
the company officials, herded the
messengers into the A. w. U. E.
for the same reason.
What should be our lessonP We
must all do our part in arousing
our fellow employees from the
lethargy in which they have been
lulled by the poisonous fumes of
company unionism. We must come
to the meetings of our locals and
raise our demands on the floor,
We must organize discussion
groups in our offices, in our gangs,
In the traffic department, wher-
ever we may be. Get to know
your fellow employees. The sense
of unity and strength will encour-
age us to march forward.
The recent return of approx
mately five per cent reduction in
pay defective April 49, was, in
no doubt, forced through by the
efforts of this committee. Why
this sudden kindness? 1t GER
tainly could not have been due
to the zeal OF the officialdom OF
the A. w. U. E. Did not Messrs
Burton and Elsden tell US re-
peatedly that the best we could
hope for was possible negotiations
in November?
The Committee Of Action, COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18

BY a Group of Dining Car Cooks
and Walters
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y
We've got to the point where we
have to do something about condi-
tons among the Dining Car Cooks
and Walters on the Penn. R. R.
We're still dead-heading at night
without pay, even though our
agreement between the Penn. and
the Brotherhood calls for three
hours reporting time for dead-head
runs. In addition, now they're dead
heading all runs at night instead
of having some dead-head runs
during the day. In this way they
save the wages of the crews because
they have to pay for dead-head day
runs.
When we go out we get return
assignment on paper but it does
not mean anything, when we get to
out of town points, especially Wash
ington and Pittsburgh. Just as soon
as we get in the hands of these
agents, these assignments don't
mean a thing. They may hold us
over all day without pay and then
send us wherever they feel like. In
this way they keep us hanging
around in suspense on our own time
and have saved the expense of a
day dead-head run by dead-head-
ing us at night.
Then no matter how long they
hold us over without pay at points,
holding us as long as they please,
they make us pay Csc night for
lodging at the company flop house,
These places are terrible. No heat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
DOcked for Lateness
Because Western Union
Head Hogs the Elevator

By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Just short time
ago there were perhaps eight of us
faithful" Western Union employees
in an elevator, waiting to be taken
up to the slave dens, when the
elevator starter asked us all to step
out and take another car.
Behold our surprise when man
walked into the emptied car, and is
taken up, while we wait for "the
next car" Several of us were try
ing to get back to work on time,
as we are only allowed Is minutes
for short" and the elevator serv-
ice is punk enough without being
unceremoniously dumped out of
elevators to allow a person a private
elevator. Because we had to wait
for the next elevator, several Of us
were docked five minutes for re-
porting back late.
The man who happened to take
the private" elevator was none
other than our president, Mr.. White,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
L. S. N. R. CARD BRINGS QUICK
RESULTS

bIOOhIyIly IN. I.
Editor:
I wish to relate to the readers OF
the Daily" a little incident that is
Of Importance. Some other COM
rades and I, members of the Party
have started to organize an L. S.
N. R, branch in Bath Beach. We
have approached Negro member
of the l. L. D. and when he heard
of our plans, he offered us his home
for our meetings. At the first meet
ing that took place, on Friday
April 20, after we had explained
what this organization stands for
and what it is doing, we made an
appeal for membership and II
Negro workers filled application
cards and joined the L. S. N. R. AT
the next meeting only or of them
showed up, but we had some new
corners, who Joined up after we
have repeated the explanation OF
what the L. S. Mr.. is.
We have decided in the future, to
sent out post cards to the members
before every meeting. The mother
of negro family, who had been
running to the relief buro for weeks
and months and couldn't obtain any
results, receiving our card, decided
to go down to the relief buro with
the card. When she got there she
talked to them differently than she
used to. Look here. Mister" she
said to one of the attendants, show
ing him our card with L. S. N. R.
on it, Il belong to this organiza-
tion," she said proudly and in a
high voice, you wouldn't feed me
on promises any more. l want my
food and rent right now
Can you imagine her astoniSh-
ment when a few minutes later she
was given a rent check and two
food checks?
A F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
Everett Marine
Worker Describes
May Day March
By Marine worker Correspondent

By a Marine Worker Correspondent
EVERETT. wash.-This morning
the longshoremen all along the Pa
ci1c Coast walked out on strike.
This Port Of Everett is the best or
ganized. for its size. on the Coast.
The International LOngshoremen's
Association has a fraction of the
Communist Party working inside
There are a little better than $50
lOngshoremen in the I. L. A. The
port is ss tight as a drum. Let's
hope this strike spreads to every
port in the world.
We had a wonderful parade and
demonstration on May Day, as well
as a wonderful day for the parade.
The sidewalks were lined on both
sides as the parade passed.
For the first time the Red Flag
appeared on the streets Of EverettI
There were three well-built Young
Communist League boys in Red
shirts, carrying the American flag,
then on one side the Communist
flag and on the other the Y. c. L.
flag. Then came banners and pla-
cards calling for the support by the
workers Of the Unemployment In
Surance Bill; Down With Fascism;
Down With the N. R. A; Free Tom
Mooney and many more.
The Parade was 2l2 blocks long.
no drum corps or band, but the
boys turned the corners in good
form and poiiced the streets and
sidewalks efficiently.
Everyone in the parade held his
head high, showing the world he
was proud of the ideals for which
the Red Flag stands. Hurrah for
May Dayl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
PARTY LIFE
Serious Effort Can Triple
Literature Sales in Chicago
Resolution to Increase Sales Is Not Being
Carried Out; York Must Be Speeded Up

In District No. g. Chicago, a res
olution was unanimously adopted
which points out the Importance
ITO increase the mass sale of our
literature and establish system
attic and improved sales of our
literature in our mass Organiza-
tiOnS. Special attention to make
literature part of our daily work
in penetrating the shops and
trade unions. To increase the sales
Of our theoretical literature
Communist, G. I. and Inprecorr,
as well as the Party Organizer,
inside the Party"
Having adopted this resolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18

unanimously, one would think that
there would be a marked improve
ment since the convention. But this
is not the case. We still persist in
voting on resolutions with no seri-
Gus intention of carrying them out.
For the month of April we find
some of the basic sections in the
city of Chicago hardly sold any
literature.
Section No. which is one of the
sections in the heart Of the Negro
territory and concentrating on the
stockyards, sold l Party Organizer
and 35 small pamphlets during the
entire month of April. Can this
section give leadership to 10000
stockyards workers? Even the sec
ton leadership does not bother to
read our literature.
Another section is Section No. 10
which is concentrating on the West
ern Electric. This section sold l
Party Organizer, 1 Communist In
ternational, IL Inprecorrs and rs
small propaganda pamphlets.
Section IL concentrating also on
the stockyards sold during the en-
tire month of April 2 Communists,
IA Party Organizers and IS PAM
phlets.
In fact, none of the Chicago sec
tons are actually orientsted to-
wards mass sale of our literature.
Why is it that Chicago is so far
behind in their literature sales
compared to New York and other
leading districts? Is it because our
membership does not want to sell
the literature or that the workers
in Chicago do not want to read the
literature? Certainly not. But the
difficulty lies in the fact that the
sale of literature is looked upon as
a separate function apart from all
other work and not as part of all
of our activities,
The sale of literature is not
looked upon as revolutionary work,
but as something unimportant.
With this outlook it is no wonder
that when meeting of literature
agents is called out of IL sections
one agent shows up to the meeting.
One section organizer expressed
himself that it is unconstitutional
to elect literature agents in the
units.
Can Section No. 2 explain why
they don't sell more than l Party
Organizer for an entire month?
Throughout the district in the
mass organizations all kinds of ex-
cuses are given. The T.U.U.L. can
only sell literature concerning the
trade unions; the Two. has no
book case. All kinds of excuses are
given for not carrying the resolu-
ton adopted at the District Con-
vention, into life.
There is no question that if the
Party section leadership and the
leading fractions take the resolu-
ton seriously that Chicago will not
only double, but triple the sale Of
literature.
Let us organize the sale of lit
erature in all of our mass organiza-
lions where we have contact. Let
us go into new organizations. Thou
sands of pamphlets can be sold
throughout the city in the parks
and open air meetings as we'll as
indoor meetings, union locals, etc.
Let us go to the masses and not sit
back and wait for them.
Let us carry our resolution into
life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
CONDUCTED BIZ
HELEN LUKE

just a reminder: Anna Schultz is
speaking tonight MAY 49, at the
Middle Bronx and Workers Club,
432 Claremont Parkway, at a meet
ing sponsored by the Women's
Councils. This meet is one of the
series of meetings being held as
part of the campaign in prepara-
ton for the Women's Anti-War
Congress in Paris, July 80.
We are most anxious to hear
what plans other organizations are
making throughout the country to
support this immensely important
congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18

employees to make any contribu-
tons they see fit, to the under
signed Committee in care of this
paper.
Until your support warrants the
establishment of a shop paper, we
are utilizing this Worker Core
spondence" page as an interchange
of our daily experiences. All let
tiers will be turned over to the
committee. Signatures will be kept
confidential, but anonymous. Let
tiers written by sincere workers
will be published as space permits.
Onward to the realization of a
real Independent Telegraph Work
ers Union!
UNITED COMM. OF ACTION
EDITORS NOTE: We have
been publishing letters from mes
senger boys and other telegraph
employees for a long period of
time, and will welcome any ad-
ditionaI correspondents who wish
to make use of the Worker Cor
respondence Section. We usually
publish these letters on Fridays,
and ask that letters reach us
by the previous Tuesday. We
would appreciate concrete facts
on conditions of work, progress
in organization, and victories
gained through struggle with the
employers. We carefully guard
the identity of the writer, and
no names appear with the let
tiers unless we are authorized to
publish them. We will be glad
to put any employee of the
company in touch with the union
now being organized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
LOAN SHARKS PREY ON
PORTLAND FISHERMEN

, every vessel in Casco Bay, by sup
plying the men and the boats with
the general outfit.
The Ramsdell Packing Co., sends
out careaway to unload the boat.
The careaway is supposed to carry
1900 bushels, but carries in reality
1916 hundred, and then Mr.. Rams
dell will say there was only LOO
bushels to each load, and that's that
again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
NOTE:

We publish letters every Friday
from workers in the tranSporta-
ton and communications indus
tries-railroad, marine, surface
lines, subway, elevated lines, ex-
press companies, truck drivers,
taxi drivers, etc.-and from II e
communications industries - post
office, telephone, telegraph, etc.
We urge workers from these in
dustries to write us of their con-
ditions of work, and their strug-
giles to organize. Please get these
letters to us by Tuesday Of each
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
80 D0cEoL
~(GAIElAeG1G
mda>iA.e1:
By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD

toms popularity known as spring
fever" We would, therefore, adj
wise you to either take some cod
liver oil or go out in the open and
allow the sunshine to give you q
good tan. You will find that your
''laziness'' and your indefinite aches
and '1ongings" will disappear under
the beneficial effect of the suns
healing rays.
.Discoverer of Hayfever-Test for
Raw and Cooked Eggs
P. w. B., Washington, D. C. =
Charles Blackley, an Englishman
was the first to discover that hay
fever was caused by the pollen OF
certain grasses. An easy way te
tell boiled egg from raw one is
to spin it: A raw egg can hardly
be made to twirl; while a cooked
egg will turn easily when submitted
to the spinning test.
L OoS1DlIltJ VI
Sterilization
Martin G., Cleveland, Ohio II
sterilization has taken place b,
cutting both seminal ducts, Their
is no practical possibility of becom
ing father in the future. Once
person has become sterile by vasec
tony, he will always remain sterile
If the ducts are merely ligated, cited
there is chance Of begetting chill
dren. The chance is slim one
but it is theoretically possibl,
When the seminal ducts are merel
tied, however, one can never \
sure of being absolutely steril,
There is always a possibility ths
the ligature might become loose
which case the spermatozoa fro
| the testicles will find their way Oh
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
Penn R.R. Workers Pay 25c
For One Hour in FlOphOuse

not sufficient blankets, so that men
have dies from sleeping in these
quarters and cars. Both Butler and
Bell died from sleeping in these
places.
While we're forced to stay In
these quarters, we don't even get
the benefit of a nights sleep. We
must be in quarters at HOO o'clock
if the train has arrived and some
times they call us for emergency
duty as early as one hour after we
come in. In this way even though
we only slept one hour, the 25 cent
charge still remains and is deducted
from our wages.
Editorial Note: In this case, to
win better conditions the Dining
Car workers should join the
Brotherhood and should make
every attempt to bring in every
regular, every regular extra and
every extra man on line. Once the
men are in, they should immedi-
ateIy force new elections Of COM
mitteemen and should be careful
to nominate their own rank and
file men for these offices. In the
past, the Penn. has made too
many nominations for committee
men with the result that the COM
mitteemen didn't fight. From the
first meeting, all rank and file
workers who join should fight on
the floor for militant fighting
policy for the return of reporting
time pay for dead-head runs and
for abolition of the Csc sleeping
charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1874 is available in sizes
IA, IS, 10, 20, 80, "a, So, 38 and 40.
Size is takes 39s yards 36-inch fab
ric. Illustrated step-by-step sew
ing instructions included.
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The dictatorship of the prole-
tariat must be State that en-
bodies a new kind of democracy,
for the proletarians and the dis
possessed; and a new kind of
dictatorship. against the bour-
geOiSie-Lenin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18

Send FIFTEEN CENTS G5c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name. address and style
number. BE SURE TO STATE THE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department 243 West 18th
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
OPPORTUNITY TO ESTABLISH
CORRESPONDENCE WITH
SOVIET WOMEN

Six women workers of the Soviet
Union have sent us letters in a
group, in order to begin CORE
spondence with us, their American
sisters. Last Wednesday, Iriaida
Labanova, member Of the Central
Executive Committee of the U. S.
S. r., factory worker and social
voluntary assistant to the Chair
man of the City Council in Kos
tromski, wrote about her life before
and after the october Revolution,
showing that now, so far from being
a half-starved, overworked factory
slave and abused domestic drudge
as formerly, she now works short
hours, enjoys economic independ-
ence and security, lives in good
quarters, and takes an active and
responsible part in the administra-
ton of the government of the
Workers Republic.
Now, a weaver, Gerasimova, tells
about her life before and after the
revolution:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18

My life was not any better. I,
<. P. Gerasimova, am working at
the Krasnovaljhski textile factory,
In Yomna, Ivanovo Province, since
1910. AS a 15-year-old juvenile I
worked nine hours day. My beg
carly wages did not suffice to pay
my distant cousins for food and
lodging, paying even at the lowest
rate
To this miserable life were
added fines and cursing by the
Administration. Only after the
October Revolution was 1 able to
breathe freely. / am at present
working as a weaver on an auto
matte loom. have passed my
technical examination, getting the
mark perfect" Was eight times
given premiums at the factory
and nine times at the competi-
tions held for the best weaver
ard assistant of the Province,
where ] was awarded the third
Province premium.
l attended preparatory course
for social work in the women's dele
gates course Of our factory. I am
studying in a Soviet Party school
three days out Of five, raising my
technical, political and cultural
level.
I was elected as social voluntary
assistant of the Chairman of the
KineShenski District Executive
Committee by the workers organ
izations of factories My wish to
work in the State apparatus is very
great. I am in all ways trying in
my spare time from work in the
factory and studies, to learn the
work of the District Executive Com
mittee and to carry out with honor
the tasks entrusted to me. For
the short space Of two months I
have already handled two matters
and got to know the work of three
departments.
Working women who wish to
write to any of the six comrades
who have written to us may ad-
dress them at the locations given
in their stories adding U.S.S.R.),
or send their letters to the Daily
Worker to he forwarded in
bundle. Additional letters will APP
pear tomorrow.
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companions were seized by the Mos
lem general. Ma Chung Ying. and that
they are eaptives In an inaccessible
camp IN the region Of Aksu.
The retreat was regarded q bandit
stronghold. and officials Of the Chi
nese government and the British con-
suiate at Kashgar said that sending
a rescue expedition would be extreme
ly dificult
Hedin. who has carried on exten-
sive explorations IN the Cobb Desert,
where he found many fossils priced
by scientists. recently has been en-
gagged on a surveying project for the
Chinese government. He was laying
out a route for a highway across Gen.
tral China.
Gen. Chung Ying is an old sc-