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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
PARTY LIFE
Detroit Unit Raises Money
For Party Training School
Combines Campaign to Raise Sale of NeW
Masses With Building of School

Comrade L. j. raises the question
in the Party Life" column of the
Daily Worker in regard to the ne
ceSsity Of raising funds for the Ma
tional Training School.
When our unit received the ap-
peal from Comrade Browder in the
name of the C. C. for donations to
aid the National Training School,
our unit was rather low in funds
By a strange coincidence the law
Masses also made an appeal at the
same time for larger distribution
Of the magazine.
The offer was that the units will
be able to obtain the New Masses
at cents per copy if ordered in adj
vance and money inclosed, and as
it sells for 10 cents clear profit
of cents will be made.
In the discussion that followed q
these two appeals a thought STRUCK
me that if we were to order 40
copies and sell them we will have
50 to donate to the National Train
ing School. With that end in view
a motion was made and carried
that this should be done, with the
result that our unit, so to speak,
killed two birds with one stone.
I do not know exactly how many
units we have in the Party, or how
many responded to Comrade Brow
der's appeal, but they must run into
hundreds, and If all the units sent
in 50 each, our National Training
School would have a very good
start. AS I stated before our init
did not have any funds, so we bor-
rowed "a from comrade and i'm
mediately sent the money, this loan
to be repaid to the comrade after
the sale of the New Masses.
Comrade L. j. states that our
comrades lack interest in that re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
.RA Speeds
DiSnliSSGIS In
Class Factory
By a Glass Worker Correspondent

BY Glass Worker Correspondent
FAIRMONT, W. Vain July 300
workers we're employed in the
Owens Illinois Glass Plant in this
city. Since the beginning of Au-
gust, 100 have been laid off, with
the lay-offs continuing every day.
And this is supposed to be the
busiest season for the glass indus
try. In the past, lay-offs took place
in November and December but in
the year of the Roosevelt "recov-
cry" they take place in August.
About 500 of the TAO still en-
ployed are forced to report for work
every day. Over 200 Of these get
but five hours of work in two weeks.
The other 300 get about 10 hours
week. Only 200 of the TAO on the
pay roll work SO hours per week.
Before the N.R.A. we worked
eight hours day at 40 cents per
hour, earning $500 a day. Under
the MIRA. we work six hours a day
at As cents per hour earning $2.7O
day.
Shortening of the working day
and the increasing lay-offs resulted
in terrific speed-up. Before the
N.R.A. 10 men made 10 layers in
eight hours and under the MIRA.
four men are making eight layers
in six hours. We have no lunch
period. Because OF the speed with
which the workers must catch the
bottles their fingers are badly
bruised and swollen. Some work
ers already have misshaped fingers.
Many of the 800 girls employed in
the plant are working on the same
jobs as the men but for less wages.
We have a company union 10
which we must pay rs cents dues
every month. This union holds
constant social entertainments to
divert the minds of the workers
from their conditions and struggle.
Many workers are talking about
the formation of our union that
will fight for us.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
A 'SOCIALIST" SCAB

dustrial Union here, but he could
not get the cooperation of the boss
es, who were afraid to start a fight
with the union. He was compelled
to return to Boston, and there he
carries on his treacherous work
against organized labor in their
struggle for better conditions.
I hereby feel it necessary to de-
clare that when reading the said
news about that person, it was no
shock to me personally, because
am his brother and know his past
very well, but at the same time it
hurts me to hear how low my
brother has sunk. I express my
deepest hate and contempt towards
him and his activities, and hope
that the revolutionary workers in
Boston will know how to act with
a scab and agent of the bosses.
BENNY KORNETSKY
signature authorized)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22

rate seeking, or sit on benches in
rebellious unwilling idleness: while
bricks lie uniformed in the clay
banks, nails unmolded in the ore
mines. plaster unmixed in limepit,
sea and sandbank land all that
stands between us and new sani-
tary well-built homes is the UNI
achieved unity Of the workers and
the ever-present steel bristled le-
gions of the usurers and their suf-
locating system) while we must
leave the existing new buildings UNI
occupied because Of their high rents,
the rodents thrive and multiply,
chewing to pieces beneath our feet
the battered old tenement apart
ments that still remain to us.
Fight them with trap and seed.
cat and poison: they defy you,
swarm through cupboard waste
basket and garbage can. and remove
the insides Of your davenport to
build nests for their young uns.
In the Aug. 81 issue of the New
Masses appears brief and telling
article, Roosevelt Houses the
Workers" stating, in regard to the
National Housing Act: Its title
is quite misleading. It is not
housing act at all. On the contrary.
It is nicely calculated TO restrict new
construction. especially low rental
housing and slum clearance"
Flowing patiently through the
reams Of rejoicing and ballyhoo in
the bourgeois press over the fact
that the Housing Act" Is function
ing at last. we find that once more
the government relief" scheme
means relief for bankers, mortgage
holders, and all the "haves," and
more misery for the have-nots.
Only the building repair" part of
the program" is now functioning.
the home building" part remaining
In the dim distant future. If you
have property. If you are good
credit risk If you have an an,
nual Income of at least five times
what you must repay yearly. IL your
taxes are paid. IL you are not in
arrears in payments on mortgage
interest or amortization, you may
be able to borrow from bankers
from sl0o to $4,000 to patch up your
property
And the government viii guaran-
tee to the lender repayment up to
20 per cent of the amount owed in
case you default. Another signifi-
cant feature. pointed out in the New
Masses articles. is that Labor is
expected TO cooperate in this So
cial program by periodically grant
ing a considerable reduction in its
already miserable wage scales"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
Knit Goods Strike Ranks
Split by ILGWU Officials
Youth Committee Not
Allowed To Give Out
Sandwiches
BY a Pioneer Correspondent

BROOKLYN, N. Y-As you all
know there was a general strike Of
the knitgoods workers and as I am
of the Youth Committee of the Re-
lief and also a senior pioneer T
would like to relate something of
much Importance that happened in
Brownsville. Myself and another
comrade went to bring some sand
wiches to the headquarters that is
located at the Labor Lyceum chs
Socialist headquarters
BY the way the strikers in order
to get some food have to spend
money or starve. We know this
and we decided to bring them some
food.
When we arrived there, we went
up in the big hall and passed the
bar The lady from the bar grew
suspicious and followed us in. We
also met some other comrades in
there. Then we started to give out
the sandwiches they, of course, all
started to take. About Is of them
were given out when a man came
over to us and took all the sand
witches away from the girls. One
girl had the food in her mouth and
he just pulled it right out.
You could have seen how hun
cry the girls were. Most of them
had no money to buy their lunch
and went without it. Then an
other man went over to us and told
us to kindly walk out of there.
Then when we we're downstairs two
men came down after us and told
us to go back upstairs but first the
other man said:
Il will go upstairs and find out
if they still want food" and when
he came down, he said to the girls
decided they didn't want any food
at all. They were afraid to take
it. The man who took the food
away, Is named Abe Liebsick.
This is the experience most of
the young Pioneers are having now.
One of the men who came down
after us, also said that last year
when he was on strike, the indus
trial union gave out food to the
workers and he also said that the
boss from one of their shops said
you could join up with any union
you want. In fact they we're fed up
with the International. But the
girls were so disguised that they
didn't want to join any other union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
atlanta Bosses Try
To Block Selling of
the Daily Yorker
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
ATLANTA, Ga Workers In
the Fulton Bag g. Cotton Mills
are organizing in spite of all ter
ror. On June ~ four workers
were fired from the job, because
they joined an A. F. OF l.. union.
But this did not break their
fighting spirit. In this mill they
work about 5000 Negro and white
workers right in the town. We
must give them our best leader
ship. These workers are ready to
struggle for better living con-
ditions.
The workers are being watched,
and they have stopped two boys
who were giving out the Daily
Worker. The police asked these
boys what they meant by giving
out the paper. I'VE don't allow
no kind of paper like this to be
put out"
Some of these workers have
been forced to vacate their homes,
but have not yet left. Their
lights have been cut off. Relief
they need very badly.
The bosses dread the Commu-
mist Party, but we are going to
organize in every place. We don't
care how many cops they put on
duty. We must give factories and
the main industries our best
leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22

gard, and do not take the matter
seriously, but I find it otherwise.
Our comrades are sincere and are
willing to help, but they need guid-
ance, and if explained to them cor.
rectly the Importance of any mat
ter. action will follow
All it needs is initiative on the
part of those comrades who have
certain ideas to explain, and If
found to be good the response Is
gratifying.
Our Party press and literature
gives us an outlet whereby funds
can be obtained. Workers are clam
oring for our literature, but I'M
fortunately we do not bring It 10
their notice Our comrades have not
become conscious of the fact that
our press and the literature put out
by the Party plays a great role in
awakening the workers.
1t has been my experience that
no matter how long one discusses
with the workers verbally, the
printed word has greater effect.
BEN GREEN.
Unit 1, Sec. 5, Dist. =,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
BY a Worker Correspondent

ny WOAhCi
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Reading in
the Daily Worker, August 8, that
in Cambridge, Mass, an attack was
made on strikers at the Massachu-
sets Parlor Frame Co., led by Lieu
tenant Douglass, which brutally
wounded pickets of the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union, I discov-
cred that the leader of the scabs
in that plant is man by the name
of Max Kornetsky, a member of the
Workmen's Circle and the Socialist
Party.
I hereby find it necessary to de-
clare that this stool pigeon, who
dresses himself in radical colors, is
scab agent at heart, and the revo-
lutionary workers everywhere should
know how to act with such per-
son. The same person had already
tried here in New York last March
to carry on his blackleg activities,
to break the Furniture Workers In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
Boot & Shoe Officials
Help Boss in Cheating
BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent
NEW York; am a laster
working in the I. Miller factory. The
chairman of the fifth floor lasting
department brought 100 pairs Of
shoes to the lasters. He told them
that the boss claims that the shoes
are damaged, and each worker will
have to pay 81. The lasters exam
ined the shoes and found the shoes
perfect and refused to pay the dol
lar.
The chairman and the commit
tee decided to hold a shop meeting
with the officials of the Boot and
Shoe Union at the union Office At
this meeting the workers stated
their grievances but the B. and s.
officials refused to do anything for
the workers and told them that they
must pay the dollar. They also said
something about a rattle, but this
is just another trick of the boss, put
over by the B. and S. officials on
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
Crowd Quells Nazis
Who Attack Meeting
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. the Local
of Unattached (homeless men)-af-
filiated to the National Unemploy-
ment Council-held a meeting at
72nd st. and Madison Ave. I was
the speaker, and when I mentioned
the Communist Party of Germany
some Nazis in the crowd who pre-
tended to be drunk started dis
turbance. I. however, had the sup
port of the majority of the audience
against these disrupters.
I saw a Daily Worker agent on
the corner, called him over, and
turned the meeting into Daily
Worker meeting. BY the time I got
through I had sold 10 Daily Work
erS from the Platform.
I would appeal for Is cents for
8 free "Dailies" for the unemployed
and when these were passed out 1
asked for another quarter for s
more and in this way sold 10 copies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
RABBI DEFENDS HITLER
pbiIa daiy0l,ia Do

RABBI DEFENDS HITLER
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Comrades:
Religion fears change of social
order.
Rabbi urges Jews not to denounce
Hitler.
DR.. Samuel H. Goldenson, New
York, President of the Central Con-
ference of American Reformed
Rabbis, told the 45th Annual Con-
vention at Wernersville on June IA
that Jews should not spend all their
time denouncing Hitler
He further said: Let us keep
some of our reserve strength for the
greater and more useful task Of
understanding the causes of the
world confusion today The first
duty of all of us is to remove as
far as possible the forces that
threaten the stability Of our social
order"
How can there be any more doubt
in anybody's mind that religion Is
for the preservation of the present
capitalistic system which breeds
wage cuts, unemployment, misery
and starvation for the working
class? 1t is no wonder that these
rabbis do not stop attacking the
Soviet Union which accepted the
theory of Karl Marx that religion
is opium for the people Religion
keeps the workers from fighting for
a better world right now, with the
promise of pie in the sky when
you die And these sky pilots
would much rather have fascism
than a socialist system of society
where they would have to do some
useful work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
Robbed of Rest Time
In Riverside Plant
Negro and White Workers VIII Yin Better
Conditions By Organising Together

don't say we are going TO do some
thing. Do it. Don't say we are 60
ing to do things for the workers. If
you start off making promises, you
will never get away from promises
White workers and Negro workers
can see every year gets harder on
them. They have always made less
than any other class of workers, be-
cause the boss class takes white
workers and fights Negro workers,
and he takes Negro workers and
fights white workers. Every white
worker will have to learn that Just
as long as the boss class can work
the Negro worker for less than he
does the white workers, we as work
ers will also have to work for less.
They tell the Negro worker that
the white worker thinks he is worth
more pay. Therefore he gets the
Negro worker to hate the white
worker. Then the boss sends his
pimps to the white worker and tells
him, before I would let that Negro
worker have that job I would take 1t
and work for what he does. There
fore they get the two races fight
ing against each other.
The only way we can stop the
slave drivers is by organizing to-
gether, white and colored.
So, good workers, white and Ne
gro workers, wake up and read the
Daily Worker, which will tell you
the truth and not lies. 1t will tell
you how the Negro and white work
ers are joining hands against the
boss class of this CRATER country,
Of the great man, Mr.. Roosevelt,
and his MIRA, C.C.C., PW.A.,
A.AA., and all the rest of his blinds
to fool the workers, white and
Negro.
DANVILLE MILL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
b. a Tentae WORKER corrsspond

ny IeAlue WORKER correspondent
DANVTLBg, Val am a textile
worker in Riverside mill. I have
been there a long time as a dof-
fer. I can just think back years
ago when one doffer did not have
to dof as much in 10 and 10 hours
as we do now in 8 and hours.
The spinner could keep up their
sides because they were not
stretched out and the frames were
not speeded up.
Then back IN those days you
could see the spinners and doffers
sitting around talking. They all
made their rest. You hardly ever
saw the boss come around, because
he knew that the Job was easy and
he knew we could run our Jobs.
Anybody who wanted to work could
get a job. because one man, woman
or boy did not have to run two or
three jobs
Then the war came. Then they
started to speed up the work and
stretch the workers out, and they
nave been speeding up ever since.
They could not make enough cloth,
so they put in stretchers to stretch
the cloth.
I knew when Danville mills had
the name Of making the best cloth
in the South, but they saw where
they could fool the people by
stretching the cloth.
Now they say there are too many
workers. It's so II they want TO put
it that way, but just let them do
away with the stretchout, and do
away with the speed-up. Take every
one who has two or three jobs and
let him run one job. then see where
your unemployed are.
1 said at the start If the N.R.A.
makers wanted to make New Deal,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
StretchOu Grows Steadily Worse Writes Danville Dofel
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

cent ammoniated mercury ointment
to the face after washing. Most
cases show definite improvement in
the first week.
If the child has a great many
sores, has fever and II 1t gets worse
or does not get well quickly, II is
either a difficult case or not i'm
petigo and should be seen by
doctor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
Piles

Piles
A. G. L., BrOOklyn.-You can get
rid Of small piles by having them
injected by an experienced physi-
clan. Large piles can be removed
only by operation. II they do not
make your uncomfortable, cause
pain or bleeding, you can let well
enough alone. 1t is wise to have
them examined TO make sure that
they are really piles and not some
thing more serious. See that your
bowels move regularly, because a
hard constipated movement irri-
tates the piles and makes them
worse A tablespoonful Of min
eral oil before you go 20 bed is
good lubricant Suppositories help
but only through their soothing and
lubricsting action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22

There are 10 workers in that de-
partment, which means that I. Mil
Ter cheated the workers out Of $40
Workers of I. Miller, how long
are we going to stand for these con-
ditions and the betrayals Of the B.
and S. officials? The answer rests
with us. One job is to take things
into our hands. We can do this by
organizing into rank and file groups
and working with the opposition in
the Boot and Shoe, which is rank
and file organization of workers.
This is the way one can stop the
sellouts of the Boot and Shoe off,
Gals and thus get better conditions
in the shop.
NOTE: For more information
on the Boot and Shoe Rank and
File group, write to the Daily
Worker, 50 E. 18th st. We will
get you in touch with the proper
committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
NO REST ON P.W.A. WORK

BROOKLYN, N. VI work on
the PW. A. project at Rockaway
Beach. 1t costs SOC fare every day
to get here. We are forced to work
hard all day, and if anyone wants
to rest for two minutes, the fore
man or supervisor says, Better
work, or you'll get laid off,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
Sores on Children

S. L., Dobbs Ferry-Those sores
which appear rapidly on the face
and sometimes on other parts Of
the body in children and which are
generally covered by a honey
-colored crust If they are not deep.
do not have any hardness or sore
ness underneath them, are caused
by disease called impetigo. It is
contagious and you must try TO keep
other children from getting it by
having them use separate towels
and keeping them from the patient.
Wash the face twice day with
mild soap and water. Apply per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
NOTE

We publish letters from tevtile,
needle, shoe and leather workers
every Wednesday. Workers In
those industries are urged 70 write
us of their conditions of work, and
of their struggles to organize. Get
the letters to us by Saturday Of
each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1870 is available in sizes
6, 8, 10, ~, Ia and Is. Size IL
takes 2 yards SO inch fabric and
"a yard contrasting. Illustrated
step-by-step sewing instructions in
cluded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
ANsWERs no ouEsTIONs
Prevention Of Diptheria

L. d., Bronx.-You should not
not wait until your child starts
going TO school to have an injec-
ton for the prevention OF diph-
liberia. If you do wait you will leave
the child unprotected for the first
six years Of life, when 1t Is more
likely to get this disease than at
any other age. The child can be
injected as early as the sixth
month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22

What ails these New Yorkers?"
I wondered on first landing in the
metropolis and observing the whis-
kered Toms and Tables reigning
unchsllenged in every doorway.
Are they cat-crazy, or what?"
A few months resiCN nee sufficed
to convince me that nothing Ills the
New Workers and not only are they
not cat-crazy, but what the town
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
Best SeIIer--

How to Sell the Daily Worker"
First edition of this s2-page booklet
practically sold OUT Contains 80 photos Of Red
Builders in action, and is packed with suggestions
how best to increase the sale of the Daily
Worker. indispensable to all d. W. Sellers
To Districts, Sections / cent Parcel Post
collect. To individuals, Q cents. Free to all
new Red Builders and route carriers.
Order from
DAILY WORKER CIRCULATION DEPT,
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22

needs Is 300, 900
bigger and bet
ter m ousers.
Talk about the
decay Of capital
isn't
While house,
b uild in g has
fallen off to a
shadow since the
"depres sion -
while architect,
bricklayer, ma
SO n carpenter
and bod carrier
W a n d er h G
streets in despe-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
tremendous step toward the
dictatorship Of the proletariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
WELCOMES THE NEW HEALTH
COLUMN

Arverne, L. /.
Congratulations on the inaugu-
ration Of your new health column.
It's a great idea. I don't think
there's another paper in the coun-
try that can equal it.
Keep up the good work More
power to you.
l., a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22

Send FIFTEEN CENTS t15c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 w. 18th
ST.. New York City.
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Sell Daily on Busy Corners
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-20
EI,KS ON COLD TREK

Denver, Colo (UP)-Walter F. Meier of Seattle, Wash, grand ex- alted ruler of the B. P. 0, Elks is one who believes in the authentic ity of the reported gold mining boom in Alaska. "Our lodge in Fairbanks, Alaska" he said took in S9 new members, the highest per capita record of the order"