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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
A Logger Learns
About the Daily
BY Farm Worker Correspondent

BY a Farm Worker Correspondent
ASTORIA, Ore.-The farmer to-
day is not getting enough from the
farm to keep alive, so I work out at
a logging camp nearby. But I find
that the wages are very small and
the expenses are large. Out in the
Oregon timber a man needs good
shoes that cost SIS, then other
clothing, besides hospital fees and
board, so the monthly pay check is
not so much to boast about
One morning I thought of taking
the Daily Worker to the woods and
see what the fellows would think
about the workers paper I placed
it on the table in the little lunch
shack that is out in the woods for
midday lunch. The first fellow
read the paper over carefully from
the first page to the last and then
gave it to the next fellow, and said
that this paper, the Daily Worker,
is very interesting to read. He said
that he likes to see more Of it, be-
cause the paper comes out with the
truth of real everyday life.
The A. F. of L. has many of these
workers in the A. F. of L. union
which was organized lately. But
this worker found out what kind of
a leader this Mr.. Bill Green is, also
he found out what the big Billy Fat
Belly millionaireS are up to.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
PUTTING A SMALL TOWN ON
THE MAP
New BrunsWick. NJ 4

4NCW ID u1loWlCh, IN, y.
This year we had our first sue
cessful May First Parade and DEM
onstration, carried out by the United
Front Committee, under the lead
ership of the Communist PARTY.
Several hundred workers came out
and assembled in front of the house
OF the "Arbeiter-Ring," on the cor
ner of New and Nilsson SITS. Repre-
sentatives of the various organiza-
tons in the United Front made
short speeches. But when the speak
er of the Communist Party began
to speak, the police tried to pull
him down from the platform. They
said that we had a permit for a
street meeting only at the end of
the parade, and not on the begin
ming.
1t was obvious that this was only
pretext for taking away our right
of free speech, and an attempt to
prevent our parade. But the police
were not successful with their prov
ocation. We began at once with
the parade, the red flag high above
us, and singing the International,
we marched through the main
streets of the town. After march
of a half hour, a successful meet
ing was held at the end of the
parade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Picket In Protest
At Eviction OF
Superintende
BY a Worker Corresnondent


ASTORIA, L. Hubert Albert,
superintendent of a 60-family apart
ment house at 1852 33rd St., was
evicted with his wife and child
after he was unable to keep the
house and many others in Man
haitian and the Bronx in full repair
on a salary of $120 a month.
Albert was supposed to do all
painting, plumbing, carpentry, re-
pairing, etc. and pay the salary of
SIS a month to a helper on the
$120 and feed him. The helper,
Paul Cox, 81, was evicted also. The
landlord, Emil Levin, a lawyer, owns
about so houses in New York.
A rank and file picket line of the
Superintendents local marched up
and back on the sidewalk where
Albert's furniture and household
goods we're spilled.
Albert was fired because he re-
fused to do the painting plumbing
and other work in the so other
houses owned by Levin.
Rank and file A. F. of L. painters
have already taken up the fight
in support of the evicted super
intendent against Levin by voting
to strike Levin's so apartment
houses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Texas Workers Learn
That Strong Union
Is Only Way

stood in the hall, and with blood in
their eyes discussed Mr.. Seligman's
insulting and lying statements about
them. They asked me my opinion
of Seligman's statements. I told
them that I think Seligman is a
yellow rat and public enemy No. /
and that his statements are lousy.
One of them made a crack about
him: "A greedy guy like him, can't
be handled with silk gloves, but
must be handled with an iron fist"
Some day Mr.. Seligman will
tremble like a guitar and will play
to our time" remarked another.
and we will make him cough
out everything he robbed of the
workers"
Wait till we organize ourselves in
a union, in real union, in a mill
tant union" cuts in a young Mexican
worker with fire in his eyes, land
in the meantime sticks fist under
my nose) and we will call Mr.. Selig-
man and his association to a hear
ing before board of workers and
not of politicians"
FELIPE IBARRO.
signature authorized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Worked Five Months
For Nothing For S.A.
By a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. - 1 have been
working for the Salvation Army
Gold Dust Lodge for Oscar Moore.
steward of the kitchen, for five
months. I never received any
clothes or money from them. I
worked from Jan. l to MAY II.
1884, and they even put me out
because 1 reported them to Mr..
H ID son, Welfare Commissioner,
and to the Federal Emergency
Relief Bureau at Washington. D.
C., and to Bernard Deutsch, presi-
dent of the Board of Aldermen,
and Governor Lehman, and the
president of the United States.
They give people rotten stew
and rotten hash and mouldy bread
and mouldy cake and rotten oat-
meal and cereal! And there's no
place to wash your clothes in the
Municipal lodging house, and the
same way in the Aid Society at
425 Lafayette St., and the beds are
crummy.
1 am enclosing a working tag.
was tagged to work every dav
that I was at the Gold Dust Lodge,
and they were getting 48 cents
from the government for me.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Salvation Army GrOuUs
Rich on Misery Of Poor
Makes Money Out of
Forced Labor, While
City Pays Cost

BROOKLYN, N. YIN view Of
the fact that our citizens were
called upon to contribute towards a
drive of the Salvation Army to raise
an additional s750,00O presumably
for the maintenance Of the unem-
ployed and whereas the homeless
workers are in a miserable condition
In the lodging houses conducted by
the Salvation Army and the public
is unaware of the fact that such
maintenance is paid for by the
City, that even the coffee and
doughnuts distributed by the S. A.
are being charged to the City,
hereby request you to print the fol-
lowing statement, which was pre-
pared after a CAREFUL investigation:
I cite from the Golfers Encyclo-
pedia the following extract: SALIVA
ton Army, and organization formed
on the model of an Army, evan
gelizing the masses in large cities.
In 1919 in the United States there
were 1000 corps and outposts, 5000
officers and cadets, rs hotels, 80 in
dustrial homes, II slum posts and
nurseries, IS rescue homes and ma
ternity hospitals"
What is the actual situation?;
The homeless sheltered in the tax
exempt homes Of the S. A. are
paid by the Department of Public
Welfare. The homeless provide the
labor for the operation of indus
tries of the S. A.. and only those
working full time in factories (they
call it Industrial Homes are paid
at the high rate of 81 week,
whereas the administrative staff,
consisting of uniformed officers, live
in great comfort, draw substantial
salaries with complete maintain
anoe, including mileage expenses on
their luxurious cars.
Workers are put IN jail for beg
ging a piece Of bread, when the
lassies are invading private and
public places with brass band and
under police protection, to demand
millions.
Clothing donated is being sold by
S. A. Food donated is used in the
officers mess. Furnitures donated
rebuilt by forced labor and sold to
the public.
For the many millions they grab
We could take care Of all the I'M
employed, and with more considera-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
SPEED-UP IN SAW MILL


CAMP HILL, Ala.-The Commits
sioner of Camp Hill said, when he
started back to work, he is going
to make them do as much work in
hours as man ought to do in
8, then if they fail to do so, he was
going to fire every one. 1 heard
him say so myself.
Some work II hours; some work
8, and all drew the same money.
Some started in with 4 days, some
with 3 days, and now they are
cut down TO two days or down to
one, and some cut clean out.
Mr.. G. R. Rodgers, a great saw
mill man, has been in business for
40 odd years and still hires labor
at his own price and no system at
all. He claims to work the men at
the mill 8 TO 9 hours and the men
in the woods II and IL hours. All
get the same price.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31

homestead also stolen from you
And this-after long years of toll
and sweat and blood expended to
make money payments to the
greedy bank and loan sharks. But
that is the way capitalism works.
1t has no heart and no conscience.
1t knows only one thing: money
profitS-more money.
From your own bitter experience
you can see how this Home Loan
Act was never meant to help you as
Workingman home owner. But
you do observe how billions of the
peoples money are handed out to
the rich bankers and insurance
profiteerS and other big businesses
by the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
THE workers have got to organize
and plan and fight together so that
by means of concerted, mass action
they can overthrow the rotten, cap
italist system in which a very small
minority of the people own and
control most of the wealth of big
and rich country and in which the
overwhelming majority, the workers
and toilers, suffer and starve while
the loafers and idlers play and roll
in luxury.
THE time has arrived when the
American workmen are no longer
scared away by bugaboo words like
Socialism and Communism. The
remarkable, sure and steady prog
resS that Soviet Russia is making
has captured the hearts and en-
thusiasm of the workers of the
world. The worker of America
wants to know about and study this
Communism that Soviet Russia is
successfully building
In another mail I am sending you
an excellent little pamphlet entitled
Why Communism" written by NJ.
Olgin, a man VINO has spent most
OF his life working for the cause
and happiness of the working class.
This booklet is interesting, illum-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
ACW Chiefs
Help Boss to
Fire PresseI
Threaten ''StrOng ARM
Action Against Those
Who Protest
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-A committee of us
workers Of the International Tail
oring Co. went down to the union
demanding the reinstatement of a
presser who had fought for our in
terests and was fired. We never
believed that the union that is sup
posed to protect the workers would
help the boss fire workers.
When we told Mr.. Patsy that we
are ready to stop in order to re-
inState that presser, we we're told
that the presser is a bad person to
have in the shop, and that every
thing that he said at meeting is
recorded in the books, and that if
we fight for his job, we are all 60
ing to be kicked out from the place.
We were also told that the fourth
floor is scab shop and if we don't
behave and keep quiet, we are go
ing to get some strong arm" visi-
tors to teach us something.
Fellow workers. Just think of it.
That was the answer we received
from our union officials when we
asked them to put brother that
is so much liked by the workers back
to work.
He demanded an increase in
wages for the workers. He fought
for better conditions for all of us.
That presser is the best union man
in the place. So the union officials
decided to teach that preSser
lesson for being a good union man:
Starve him out for several weeks.
And when we we're ready to strike
in solidarity with that presser, we
were called Scabs by the union off,
Gals, and we we're given a fair"
warning: we will get kicked out Of
the shop, and if necessary get a
beating too.
I am writing this to the Daily
Worker because I know that the
Daily Worker is always on the Job
fighting for the interests of the
workers and exposing our enemies.
1 urge every brother and sister of
the International Tailoring Co. to
read the only working class news
paper the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
IS Cents a Day Plenty for Me*icans 8
Is Brutal Reply OF Pecan Smelling Boss

eating all day the meat of the
nuts"
Let me explain how Mr.. Seligman
and the association not only exploit
the shelters by paying them star
walton wages, but also rob and over
charge the Mexican cocAoach sub
contractor. The Mexican sub is
usually an ignorant vicious slave
driver with an itch to make money.
The only way he can have few
dollars left for himself after he
pays off his worker Saturday after
noon is by short weighing the shell
lers five days in the week, and by
falsely adding up the amount he
owes them the sixth day when he
pays them off.
Mr.. SeIgman and his association
sell to the cockroacn Monday morn
ing 2,000-pound pecans in the shells
at &c per pound (the market price
is usually from &c to &c less per Ib.)
and then buy back from him Sat-
urday afternoon halves at 80 cents
per pound and pieces at % cents,
but the meat must be white and
dry. If the meat is dark than they
only pay the cockroach 20 cents for
halves and as low as Is cents for
pieces. Zone hundred pound pecans
in the shell will yield about 80 lbs.
in meat.)
Most of the subs with few ex-
ceptions are always in debt to the
contractors. All the contractors
have to say is that this barrel is
dark meat and the prices goes down
like mercury in midwinter biz
card.
The members of the board got
nervous and ashamed when one of
them asked Seligman whether he
signed the N.R.A. code for the pecan
shelters, He boldly answered them.
No, sir. did not and don't intend
to-"
Yet at the end of the hearing the
chairman announced that the board
had received so many complaints, so
many afhdavits of abuse, that they
will have to hold several hearings
and it will take weeks and possibly
months to investigate the com
plants.
When I left the court room a
bunch of Mexican pecan shelters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Farmer Analyses Meaning
Of the Roosevelt Program

WEST NEWTON, Mass.-The fol-
lowing letter, written by New Eng
land farmer to a farmer friend of
his in Michigan, is reproduced in
part below:
When Roosevelt was told that the
people were starving he promised to
fix that situation by ordering the
farmers to destroy food-plow under
the wheat. What solution! And
what a conStructible statesman!
Even the millions of people wear
rags, the great leader orders the
farmre to destroy cotton. The
American workers crave a smoke,
but the chief orders the farmer to
destroy tobacco. He aims to achieve
construction by planned destruction.
His reasoning process works
somewhat as follows: After the
farmer destroys 20 per cent of his
crop and after he gets paid for the
destroyed acreage by the Govern
ment (Which will supply the money
from revenue to be derived from
still further increasing the already
unbearable and severe taxes levied
on the workers., prices will rise
because of bigger demand due to
restricted crops. Consequently wages
will also rise because of increased
prizes of commodities.
What a gigantic fake! He tells
you nothing about the millions of
small farmers and sharecroppers
who have only a few acres and who
are slaves to the boss farm owners
and who will get nothing for crop
destruction. He tells you nothing
about the great many farm hands
and other farm workers who will
lose their jobs because of curtailed
farm work.
81 heartily sympathize with you,
and know that you have gone
through the crucible of agony and
suffering. It is terrific blow to
have your furniture taken away
from you and then have your old
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
''CottonWasPIo Up
But the Debts RenoUi11ed''

The houses of the poor white and
Negro farmers in Union County,
for instance, are so old that the
shingles blow off the tops when the
wind blows AS one white farmer
said, they are just like baskets. for
the cold wind goes right through
the house.
One Negro woman farmer lust
couldn't make a fire in the fire
place because the roof was SO rot
ten that a spark from the chimney
would set the house on fire.
The overallS the poor farmers
wear are either so torn that the
farmers seem to be wrestling when
they want to dress, or they look
like checkerboards they have so
many patches in them.
For years the poor white and
Negro farmers have been kicked
around by the Democratic donkey
and trampled by the Republican
elephant.
While the government is asking
US 10 reuuce our combined cotton
and tobacco acreage by 100000
acres, there is need, if North Caro-
lima is to feed itself, for us to in
crease our food and feed crops by
2,230000 acres as follows:
Wheat, $4,000; corn, 100000;
oats, $4,000; hay, 10000; pastur-
age, $4,000.
This, according to the Progressive
Farmer of Jan. 1884, vol. 40, No. 1,
was printed by the state college
authorities.
Only under a landlord and cap
italist democracy" could such bad
conditions for the poor white and
Negro farmers prevail.
The only way that the poor white
and Negro farmers in North Caro-
lima and other parts of the United
States can better their conditions
is to follow the example of the
workers and farmers of the U.S.S.R.
Organize and fight for workers
and poor farmers government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
80 Doctor
.(AG11lAaGg0g
IQdArdAQA:
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

male. This nerve tissue is COM
posed mainly of nerve fibers and
does not necessarily have any rela-
ton to mental capacity. Even the
supposed lesser development of the
frontal lobes of the brain which
Rudinger and Passet think that
have established in their investi-
cations of the female brain has
been categorically denied by Broca
and by o. Schultze. AS matter Of
fact it is doubtful whether when the
brain alone is seen, outside of the
skull, that any anatomist could
positively identify the sex to when
it belonged You will find more de-
tails on this question in Bebel's
Woman and Socialism"
AS to your questions about
whether mans body or woman's
was the more beautiful, it cannot be
answered in this column. You will
find an answer in the June issue Of
HEALTH, which I trust you will be
able to get, even in Moscow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Labor Board Hearing
Leads only to Vague
Promises
b. a Farm Worker COrrespondent

By Farm Worker Correspondent
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. -" Five
cents a day is plenty for Mexican
to live on"
That was literally the direct and
brutal answer J. SeIgman, vice pres
ident of the Southern Pecan Shell
ing Co., and one of the big shots Of
the Southern Pecan Shelters Asso-
citation, gave member of the So
called impartial local Texas Re-
gional Labor Board, on a hearing
held Saturday afternoon, May 18th,
in the oath district court room.
In the room we're, besides some
members of the board, officers and
individuals Of the association, re-
porters for the capitalist press, two
StenographerS, social workers and
several hundred Mexican pecan
shelters, men, women and children.
part of the $4,000 workers who
signed petition to force the mem
bers of the association to come to a
hearing before the board.
A44C OOOO44CA1l I CCctIl OIlGu6IS AS
ISOLATION employs directly and in
directly over 10000 Mexican men,
women and children as cebradores,
limpiadores, relimpiadores Crackers,
shelters and recleaners).
Even the local capitalist prop
uganda sheets were forced to admit
and print that workers put in be-
tween S. and 60 hours a week and
received from 30 cents to $3.50 per
week.
The workers were misled and
fooled by local Mexican Nation
alist, "a dangerous character and
dope fiend, who persuaded them
that before they use the only real
and effective weapon, the strike.
they should first appeal to the local
Labor Board for help.
Even those patriots and politicians
couldn't swallow the ugly, lying and
mean statement of Mr.. Seligman
when he told them with a cynical
smile: Gentlemen: you don't know
how fat those Mexicans are getting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
By a Worker Correspondent

NORTH CAROLINA = For the
poor white and Negro farmers in
North Carolina the New Deal was
a pretty rotten one.
1t raised the price of overalls
from 60c to over $160. In fact, 1t
raised the prices of everything that
the poor farmers had to buy and
gave the poor Negro and white
farmers less for everything they
had to sell.
The farmers were ordered to cut
their cotton acreage. They were
told they would be paid better
pcices for their smaller crops than
they would be for their larger crop.
The farmers here, however, have
not been told just what the good
prices" in the ideas of their rich
landlords mean.
But the farmers know one thing.
They would be taxed rs per cent
for every bale of cotton produced
over that allotted them. Besides
that. they will have to pay SOC for
every day that their cotton is kept
in the storage.
Last year the landlord and cap
italist dictatorship forced thousands
of poor white and black farmers to
plough under their cotton. They
told the poor farmers that it would
be better for them if they ploughed
up the cotton they had worked so
hard to plant. The farmers we're
promised to be paid if they plough
ed up their cotton. Many of the
farmers are waiting yet for the
small sum they were promised.
The farmers to a large extent are
already disilluSioned with the Mr..
A., which they also term the No
Recovery Act. They still have to
pay for their fertilizer they bought
in order to grow the cotton that
they later ploughed up.
Cotton was ploughed up but the
debts remained. The low standard
of life of the farmer also remained.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
(Continued)

(COnLinue0)
The larynx (voice box is notably
smaller in woman than in men.
After puberty, the female voice is
one octave higher in the deep tones
and two octaves higher in the high
tones. The length, breadth, height
and circumference of the head are
smaller in woman than in man.
We hasten to point out to you
that this does not justify any con-
illusions regarding the mental in
feriority of woman. 1t is well
known that many geniuses have had
heads of relatively small proper
tions. The brain of the average
man weighs 44.12 ounces, that of
the average woman 1888 ounces.
According to Schwalb, the weight
is 4421 ounces and 4003 ounces,
respectively. The larger brain COR
responds to the larger amount of
nerve tissue necessary for the con-
troll of the larger muscles of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
HOMEWORK-FOR KIDS FROM
NINE TO NINETY

A useful letter from Comrade Fred
n, who gives directives for making
the type Of decorations he used so
effectively at the recent N. Y. Fes-
tival and Bazaar:
Dear Comrade:
I would like to give publicity to
methods Of constructing decorations
for halls and meeting places in the
revolutionary movement.
The type of decoration I refer to
you may have seen at affairs of the
F. S. u; they consist of banners,
streamers, and pennants of red crepe
paper with plain cut-out Roman let
ters of white shelving paper pasted
on. Both materials can be obtained
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
THE DAILY" IN C. C, C. CAMPS
Whifeuafpr COlo


l am now here in Veteran C.
c. Camp. At least there are sew
eral men here who seem to realize
what these camps mean and I have
known them for some time. There
are 200 men here in camp. No
Daily Workers come here, but
know most of them know what it
is.
1 hated to come here and leave
Denver, as the w. E. S. L. has just
got started there. I hope to see a
large Post established by the time
I get back to Denver in October.
There are men leaving here occa-
sionaly without serving their period
of enlistment. There hasn't been
any leave in groups during the 20
days time l have been here.