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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Licks Boots of Rich
But Stays Thin Anyway
By a Worker Correspondent

SALLISAW, Okls.-Sallisaw has
had three bank failures, several
leading merchants have gone broke,
and the remaining ones are scarcely
making enough to pay the rent on
their buildings.
Sallisaw boasts a weekly paper,
in fact two of them. One of the
papers carries a society column In
which the ladies aid meetings, the
bridge parties, and various other
social functions Of the week are de-
scribed in great detail with colorful
and flattering adjectiveS. Last
week a member Of Sallisaw's poor
white trash" desired to have an ac-
count Of birthday party published
in the papers society column.
The editors wife, who conducts
the column, ordered that the item
about the birthday party be placed
at the bottom Of the column be-
cause Mrs. Rider is very poor"
and some dignif1ed member of Sal
lisaw's aristocracy had been hor-
rified because "just anybody could
get in the society column these
days"
Ostracizing a family in the col
umns of the Democrat-Anerican
because they were very poor APP
pears amusing to the papers only
employee in view Of the fact that
all the papers bookkeeping entries
for several months have been made
in red ink, the editor is eight weeks
behind with that employees salary,
and the editor gets more gray hair
each month trying to figure out
how he will pay his rent and grocery
hills
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
o Temporal o MORES o AMORE
MATRIS-SO THIS is
CAPITALISM!

We ask the indulgence of the
comrades for interrupting the series
of letters from women in the Soviet
Union, to quote an excerpt from a
letter from Comrade Active of Chi
cago, relative to what befell one Of
the cast of the program given by
the Solidarity Handicrafters, pro-
gram reported on last week. Shir-
ley and Joe-Joe, ages three and
four, our readers may recall, were
mentioned as opening the program
with brief eatures. And now you
working-class mothers, just listen
to this, as Comrade Active tells it
to me:
I'm trying to keep my mind off
that show I went down a few
Sundays ago to line up our activi-
ties for summer yorktown to
Shirley and Joe-Joe's house, .
In few minutes the house was
packed with kiddies. was waiting
Il couldn't think just what for =. =.
finally it came to me-Where's my
Joe-Joe? I see your toe sticking
out from there, Joe-Joe-you come
out from that hiding place and give
your Mildred little bunch Of greet
ingsp
Silence. Where's my Joe-Joe
going? I think we'll have to go
without Joe-Joe.' Father: 'Joe's in
the morgue.' Me: oh, in that
other dark room? Well, I'm not go
ing out in the sunshine without my
boy
I'm looking around, but it's so
quiet I get woozey and shrek:
Where's Joe?'
Father: 'Joe's dead
Three days before, he had been
well; his father had told me so
at w. /. r. meeting we had both
attended, relative to South Side
Childs Center. But Thursday he
went to sleep. Saturday morning
he died at c. Co. Hospital. Sat-
urday when they (the parents)
went down, his body had been
dissected and labeled. He had
died of infsntiIe paralysis. Body
refused to an undertaken. The
Martins had not signed for
autopsy or release of the body for
experimental purposes. 49,.
I'm in favor, naturally, of scien-
tific exploitation of nature but
this was real exploitation of the
destitute workers anyway :.
eight days after Joe-Joe Martin
had died a letter came to his
parents that gave them permission
to claim his body. OF course the
letter had been dated back. The
Martins went for the body. They
came too late-the very idea!'-it
had been buried in Potter's Field.
You and l can see back past the
date on that letter into the dissec-
ton rooms Of C. Co. Hospital. Life
is-Hke- that'-to a charity worker
who, incidentally, is Socialist. "
And wasn't that a sweet Mothers
Day bouquet from capitalism to
Mrs. Martin. Joe-Joe's mother?-
Capitalism, which hands out such
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
By a Farmer Correspondent

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wise
Eggs that are tainted and musty
are given to families on the relief
lists, where there are children I'M
dernourished through no fault Of
their parents. I know of two cases
of illness caused by musty eggs;
also know Of one case where there
were two nearly good eggs out of
three dozen eggs given family
of five, where there were children,
and these eggs were to last that
destitute family for two weeks.
And two pounds of sugar was sup
posed to last them week.
One family in the city became
violently i'll from eating tainted
government pork that was sent
by distributor. Butter is sent
into a dairying country where
farmers cannot sell their products
and get any price for them, sent
from New York and God knows
where else, butter renovated which
when heated emitted rancid
odor worse than the old talloW
candles of olden times.
How long can any corporation
or company put out such stuff
without the pure food law author
tiles getting after them in a big
way? Why is such an example
set by the government itself in its
horrible dole system?
If there is illness which develops
in a family that is on relief
and destitute, there is so much
red tape and delay before they
even get a doctor or medicine
that the subject could die before
getting aid of that kind Then,
when through investigating for
many days they find the family
in need of special foods, they may
or may not get the required food
stuffs, but what of the thousands
of other cases that do not come
to that point or gain their atten-
enough interest for investigation?
The other subject I should like
ton to the extent of awakening
to mention is the C. w. A. and
its way of operation. They do not
live up to the safety laws laid
down for almost any business in
the U. S. The men who have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
RED FLAG LOOKS WELL ON
PORTLAND CITY HALL

May First is a holiday to all the
workers all over the world. In
Portland the workers had DEM
onstration and a parade. Thousands
of workers marched down the
street, and there were cops at each
corner. While we marched down
the streets we all sang songs. All
of a sudden some one shouted that
they had put up the workers flag
on top Of the city hall, and all the
workers cheered.
Even after the demonstration the
red flag was flying on top of the
city hall, and they even had to get
the fire department and steeple-
jacks to get the flag down, but we
all know that some day it is going
to stay up. "A. r. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
WORK HARD BUT GET
NOTHING
BY a sharecrOOpper Correspondent

BY a SharecrOOpper Correspondent
CAMP HILL, Ala.-Since came
into the movement with the work.
ing women, I have heard that the
North is in tough shape. AS in
the South we work hard and don't
get anything for the hard work
that We do. I am in need of clothes
and food and shoes.
We have one little baby boy. He
is just two months old. I need
clothes for it. My husband is now
in Montgomery working for the
movement.
am doing all that can for
the movement. I work around the
Women's Local and they have
meetings. every week and they are
doing fine. But we all are in need
Of everything such as bread, clothes,
and shoes. All I have are but two
old pairs of shoes which have holes
in them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
FORWARD" MISREPRESEN-
TATION

Chicago, Ill.
On May 3, or about then, in the
Jewish Socialist Forward" was
published a picture Of the huge
Communist mass meeting in Union
Square, New York, and it was
labelled Socialist demonstration in
Madison Square"
I am native New Yorker, and
recognized Union Square.
Please check up and publish.
A COMRADE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
go Doctor
,,kAA1IGAeG
ndR>6AGA:
By PAUL LuTTINGER. MD

is entirely devoted to children, the
most eminent Russian engineers are
setting up a special model telephone
and radio station, a miniature aero
drome, an electric railway and
garage for pedal toy automobiles
and other toys which children all
over have always dreamt of but
have never had chance to see or
use. The toys at the Moscow Gorky
Park of Culture and Rest fulfill
the highest aspirations of a child:
to have true miniature copies which
are real and useful Of everything
that the grownups have. The cleo
trio railway in the Park will be en-
trusted to the children who will
serve as stationmasters, dispatchers,
mechanics and signal men. A true
children's paradise!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17

and even found out that some of
our comrades were delegates, so they
tried to raise hell. They sent the
sheriff out searching for them but
no one was harmed.
I am sending you some more
articles for the Daily Worker This
little place where the articles come
from, where visited some time, the
boss is real hard on the comrades.
OF course, it's tight everywhere, but
it's bad there as we'll as elsewhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
E[%N q
l the Homes

fragrant bouquets to bourgeois
mothers, and such thorny ones to
working class mothers, reserving the
thorniest ones of all for Negro
mothersl (Cf. treatment of the
Scottsboro Mothers at the White
Housed Oh, is there going to be a
revolution--is there going to be a
revolution-AND HOW!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
lBy a Farmer Correspondentl

]
PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Saturday
March "a, Arizona locals of the
Farmers Educational and Co-opera-
tive Union Of America held theii
third monthly radio picnic. The
farmers gathered at Tempe. neal
here, and one OF the features Of
their program was memorial SER
vices for John A. Simpson, national
leader, who died recently.
Among those who paid tribute
to Mr.. Simpson, we're scoundrels and
social-fascists such as Milo Reno
United States Senators Gore, Fra
zier, Wheeler and Thomas.
All these gentlemen sung the
same tune about the dead Simpson
They called him a militant farm
leader!" In fearful voices, sputter-
ing sickening honey phrases, these
takers talked about Justice, Liberty,
Humanity and God!
After lunch, State Senator Golfer
addressed the farmers. Besides be-
ing a politician, Mr.. Golfer is an
astrologer and a mystic. He has
been a candidate for Governor. Now
he is building about himself group
to support him in the coming race
for State Governor.
The Senator cast many slurs upon
Mexican and Japanese workers and
poor farmers. This man talks Of
unity among the farmers. But by
encouraging prejudices in white
farmers against poor japanese and
Mexicsns, he is leading the white
farmers themselves UP a tree.
A Brain Truster Speaks
John R. Murdoch, Dean Of Ari-
IONA State College, Tempe, was
given 20 minutes to speak on infla-
ton.
This BRAIN truster proceeded to
divide America into classes. There
are two classes" he stated, debtor
and creditor" Not finance capital
versus workers and poor farmers,
but creditors and debtors. Then he
proved" that really every American
is both creditor and debtor
A farmer interrupted the profess
sor. "You say there are classes,
and then you say we're all creditors
an debtors both. E. In other words,
there are no classes. Which is
right?"
The "brain-truster" hemmed and
hawed. His face became scarlet. He
tried to say something, t h e n
changed his mind. He was stumped!
Next, farmer-woman said she,
as a poor farmer, was call debtor"
class. She had no kinship with
creditors who we're bankers! AS a
class conscious farmer, the woman
said. she demanded cancellation Of
all debts!
The College Dean lifted his hands.
That's Shayisrn, Bolshevism!" The
farmer-woman looked him straight
in the eve. Other eyes, from every
where in the room, we're sticking
into the professor like pins. How
about the other fellows?" he asked.
That's none of our business"
the woman firmly replied.
ITO hell with him!" men cried
from all sides.
Time Up
The brain truster's face turned
crimson red. He pulled out his
watch. my times up. :"
The next to speak was Mr.. ]. E..
Russell, Prescott. Mr.. Russell is a
lawyer and he spoke against the
Sales Tax.
One hundred per cent, the farm
ers voted against the Sales Tax.
Mr.. Murdoch sought vindication. He
wanted to know from what source
the State would get money "to
balance the budget"
There was battery OF answers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
PARTY LIFE
COnrintern Based on Principle
Of Democratic Capitalization
Central Committees POtVer Is DeriUed from
Rank and File Of Party Membership

ried out, even if Section of the
Party membership or of the local
Party organizations are in dis
agreement with it"
In other words, the membership
of the Party elects its Central Com
mittee. through its delegates to the
National Convention. The Central
Committee is empowered to make
all decisions, which are binding and
obligatory upon all Party members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Southern Bosses
Hunt for Delegates
Toe. P. Convention

BY a Shsrecropper Correspondent
DADEVILLE, Ala.-We have had
little terror here and many of the
comrades are a little bit shaky yet,
although have not quit work, but
we are working underground.
The bosses here in the South read
about the Cleveland Convention,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Never See Any Money,
Sharecropper Writes

BY a SharecrOpper Correspondent
GOLD HILL, Ala-We Southern
Negroes are just galloping down tc
destruction because we have to pay
as follows: flour, 48 lbs. $24O; lard
per ID. 10c; sugar per ID. 1oc; white
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
NOTE

We publish letters from farm
ers, agricultural workers, lumber
and forestry workers, and can
merry workers every Thursday.
These workers are urged TO send
us letters about their conditions
of work, and their struggles to
organize. Please get these letters
to us by Monday az each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1859 is available in sizes
IL, IA, 16, 10, 20, 30, 80, "a, So, SO
and 40. Size Is takes 31a yards
SO inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-
step sewing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) 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, 1934-05-17

The discussion arose in our unit
over the mandatory assessment for
German stamps.
We want to know why the Cen
trail Committee has this power
without the consent of the rank and
file membership.
We have given this considerable
discussion and taken it up with our
section committee, but so far have
not had an entirely satisfactory
answer.
It's the principle and not the
cause, for which the assessment
was made, that has caused this dis
cussion.
We wish to have this printed and
an answer in connection with it, in
the Daily Worker.
Fraternally,
GRANTS PASS UNIT,
DISTRICT u,
SECTION Is.
P.S.-The unit insisted that the
above should be printed in the
Daily Worker, as all of us are now
in the Communist movement, and
therefore not politically developed
as to its democratic working con-
troll by the members of the Party
Give US a plain understanding on
this matter.
The best answer to the above
question, raised by the unit Of
Grants Pass, is to quote from the
Constitution and Rules of the Com
munist International, of which the
Communist Party, U. S. A., is a Sec
ton
THE Communist International
and its Sections are built up on
the basis of democratic central
ism, the fundamental principles
of which are: (a) Election of all
the leading committees Of the
Party, subordinate and superior
Thy general meetings of Party
members, conferences, congresses
and International c0ngresses)
(b) periodical reports by leading
Party committees to their con-
stituents; (c) decisions of superior
Party committees to be obligatory
for subordinate committees, strict
Party discipline and prompt ex-
ecution of the decisions of the
Communist International, of its
leading committees and of the
leading Party centers.
Party questions may be dis
cussed by the members of the
Party and by Party organizations
until such time as a decision is
taken upon them by the COM
petent Party committees. After
decision has been taken by the
Congress of the Communist Inter
national, by the Congress of the
respective Sections, or by leading
committees of the COmintern, and
of its various Sections, these de-
cisions must be unreservedly car
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17

REMEMBER June 9thl Daily Worker
Day and Moonlight Excursion to Hook
Mountain. Tickets available at all Work
ers Book Shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Overweight and Pimples

A. H., Long Beach, n. we dis
agree with you about not being fat.
A boy of 1412 years who weighs 140
pounds is considered a great deal
overweight, even is he is 51a feet
tall. There is no question that a
proper diet may improve your
pimples and blackheads as we'll as
the rashes that you are getting on
the back of your hands, around the
knuckles.
You better consult a physician
and let him examine your urine, as
well as give you thorough exam
nation and advise you regarding
your diet and mode of life.
Mike Gold Is Supremacy Alive
Conchita-Your friend wins the
bet! We can assure you that Mike
Gold is alive and we'll. There are
no ghost" writer's on the Daily
Worker staff! Yes, his book has
been translated into Spanish. 1t is
called "Judios Sin Dinero."
Children's Toys in Soviet Russia
Anxious Mother, Bronx--Those
who are spreading rumors that
Russian children have no toys are
lying. They have more and better
toys than they ever had before!
Not only have they the ordinary
toys that children all over the
world have; but they have some
toys which even children of mil
lionaires do not have in this coun-
try. At the House of Dung Tech
nicians which will be completed
this summer in the Moscow Gorky
Park of Culture and rest and which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-17

philadelphia, Pa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23

Lath ers quickly
even in h a r d
water! Will not
hurt your hands
or fabrics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-23
Everything from
BoWS to BibS!

Fresh, white organdies
and piques in all styles,
some with laces and
crystal buttons. Some
have matching cuffs.
Evening star., 1934-11-30
MOONEY SCOUTS
SAAR WAR THREAT
General Motors Executive
Sees Political and None.
tary Crises Passing.

By the associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 30.-James
D. Mooney, president of the General
Motors Export Co.. arrived yesterday
on the Italian liner Rex with the
prediction that the stage is being set
for world recovery.
Mooney said he was heartened by
conditions, particularly in England and
Germany. Political and monetary
crises, he believed, will be passed
without difficulty.
THE Saar plebiscite will look like
an impending and serious crisis" he
said, until the vote is taken in jan
uary. The vote, I believe, will be in
favor of return to Germany. After
the vote the situation will cool of
and, like many another crisis, will fade
out of the public mind. There is not
a real threat for war in the Saar sit
uation."
OF Germany. he said, lit is un-
doubtedly feeling the pinch, to some
extent, for certain raw materials, due
to lack of sufficient foreign exchange
to import them in required quanti-
ties. However, I have not the
slightest doubt that Germany will be
able to get through the Winter with
out a really serious crisis in its eco
nomic affairs
Mooney viewed as hopeful signs in
creasing importation abroad of Amer
lean manufacturers and the free mar
ket for gold in England which, he
said, will provide an automatic ad-
justment of prices which will tend to
iron out price discrepancies as they
arise, rather than let them pile up
for a crash
He was satisfied that England gen.
orally is humming along quite steadily
and London is literally booming"
Evening star., 1934-11-30
Yankee Ingenuity
Going West Study
OF Patents ShO,Us
California Revealed as
Leading in Number
of Cadgets.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, November 80.
An inquiry into the Nations patent
habits seems to indicate that Yankee
ingenuity, long regarded as an ex-
elusive possession of New England,
may be going West.
A survey conducted for Technology
Review, publication Of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, pub
lished yesterday, points out that gad-
gets, once an important output Of
New Englanders, now loom larger in
the patent production of California.
"Gadgets cover a wide variety Of
things" says the article. Among
those noted as emanating from Cali
fornia were ironing boards, incense
burners, neither garments, necktie
racks, lamp-shade holders, tobacco
pipes always a favorite), safety
razors, electric alarm clocks, potato
Evening star., 1934-11-30

planters. anti-burgler locks, body VI
orators and eye cups"
Sectionally, New England led the
list with an average index number Of
1874; the Middle Atlantic States, in
cluding New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland
and West Virginia, had 1875: the in
dustrial West, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin, 1873: the
agrarian West, Minnesota, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, North and South Dakota, Ne
braska and Kansas, "A; the Mountain
States, including New Mexico and
Arizona. 48; the Pacific Coast States,
lis: the South. exclusive of Texas
and Oklahoma. IL. and the latter two
States together, 26.
Evening star., 1934-11-30
Kellogg Leaves Hospital.

ST. PAUL, November 80 CP).-Frank
3. Kellogg, World Court justice and
former Secretary of State, left hos
pital here yesterday after 10 weeks
confinement. Mr.. Kellogg entered the
hospital September IL and underwent
two major operations.
Evening star., 1934-11-30
AUTO TURNS TABLES

Driver Escapes Injury, While
Fireman of Train Is Hurt.
SHARON, Pa. R)-The tables were
reversed in this train automobile
crash.
G. L. Deross escaped injury as his
automobile struck the rear of q Penn
sylvania freight train at q Sharon
grade crossing, but Fireman o. ".
Sipe, riding In the caboose, received
severe bruises and lacerations.
The automobile, incidentally, wrecked
the caboose and was badly damaged
itself,
Evening star., 1934-11-30

Tune In on WRC
At 9:45 every
morning and hear
Caroline Baker,
fashion editor
and well-known
styhst.
Evening star., 1934-08-12

The Prince of Wales
rides a fire engine. His
highness seems to be
getting no great thrill
out of the experience
which recently befell
him at Yeovil. England.
Wide World Photos.