The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27

Inc latest issue OF the Shoe and
Leather Worker attains its usual
high standard of working class
journalism. It teeters Skillfully and
adequately between its require
ments as a magazine and its re-
quirements as newspaper. It still
suffers from weakness common to
many of the militant trade union
papers, abstract presentation of
facts. The following sentence, the
first in the lead story, is an ex-
ample:
I'VE have reached a stage in our
recent developments in the shoe de-
partment of our union where we
can say with assurance as to what
our next steps are to be for the
coming period" This is, perhaps,
elementary criticism, but it must be
said.
The rest is better. With brevity
and clarity, piece on Strike
Struggles in the q. S. A." sums up
the high spots Of the months bat
ties from coast to coast.
The paper makes a genuine ef-
fort to provide material which will
enable readers to relate the current
situation in the shoe and leather
industry to the general economic
life of the country. There is an ar
ticle on the MIRA. and one dealing
with the C.WA, unemployment and
social insurance.
The political content of the pa
per is further rounded out by a
small box showing the cost of the
last world war in lives and money.
On the editorial page one finds an
editorial on the Goth anniversary of
the World War and another on the
need for struggle against fascism.
The entire publication seems CAL
culated to convince any worker in
the industry that the New York
district of the United Shoe and
Leather Workers means business
and knows how to go about organ
izing.
THE RANK AND FILE CUTTER.
Vol. i. No. 2; Aug, 1894. Month
ly bulletin of the United Rank
and File Cutters League, Local
TO, International Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union.
It's hard to be wordy In a four
page, letter-size paper and it's
equally hard to be brief. Coping
successfully with these two lirnita-
tons, the Rank and File Cutter
makes efficient use of it's space.
The lead article could have been
shorter. But this one, like the
other pieces in the bulletin is brim-
ming over either with presentations
of fact or with terse analysis of
them.
The most important articles deal
with increasing unemployment in
the trade, and with the use of the
reorganization clause in the cur
rent union agreement by the bosses
as a preteXt for firing militant
workers. There is no effort at lit
erary style. Simple presentation of
news and analysis seems to satisfy
the editors. Undoubtedly it salts
fies the readers as well.
THE INTERNATIONAL MUSI-
CLAN. Vol. 80, No. q; Newark,
N. j., Aug. 1884. Official jour
nal Of the American Federation
Of Musicians.
Not being a member of the must
clans union nor of the trade it is
difficult to gauge this paper ex-
actly. Its 16-page tabloid seems de-
void of any attempt to discuss the
real conditions in the union and in
the trade. Ten of the 16 pages are
filed with small type reporting rou-
tine transactions of various locals
throughout the country, transfers,
travelling members, new members,
delinquents in dues-certainly ma
terial which no one outside of a
particular local could be interested
in or benefited by.
There is an installment of the
official record of the proceedings at
the recent Cleveland convention,
but no effort to explain the mean
ing of anything that might have
happened at the convention. There
are inept editorials, one of which
makes yelled criticism of General