davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Pharmacists in
Detroit Force
A Settlement
(By Pharmacist Corresnondonn

! Wy d 1AaFmaclst correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-A union of De-
trolt pharmacists, known as the De-
trolt Registered Pharmacists Assccia-
ton AFFILIATED with the A. p of ~
won its first battle here. Two pharn7a-
clsts active in the union were dis
charged on the eve of negotiations
thaG were to take place To gain
shorter hours and wage increases
After several days negotiations with
Ihe management of the KinseI Drug
20. and with the boss-contro1Ied
Local Compliance Board (of the n
H'A9' the men voted to go on strike
and picket the stores of the KinseI
Drug Stores. ''>'''
When the strikers arrived at tbe
store ready to picket, bearino fhe
banners, until the reinstatement nj
The discharged men, the general man
ager called meeting between the
Negotiations Committee and the Of
Ulcers Of his company, and agreed IN
reemploy one of the discharged men
not to discriminate against the active
union pharmacists, and to treat in
the future with the Grievance Com
n1lGtee OF the pharmacists EMPLOYED
III That chain. He also agreed to meet
The Executive Board of the union in
the near future to talk recognition
of the union,
The other man discharged (who did
not appear at the N.RA. board for
discussion Of his case, nor on the
picket line to protest discrimination
against hind, was excluded from the
settlement by vote Of the pharmacists
employed by the Kinsel company, to
whom the final settlement was left
by the Negotiation Committee.
While this victory shows the power
OF the mass organization of the
workers involved, it also shows a lack
OF clear political understanding be-
cause of their failure to continue the
light for the reinstatement of the
other man who was not reemployed.
A lack of leadership that is alive to
the political implications of this
struggle, and lack Of unity on the
part of the pharmacists themselves
half Of whom did not appear to take
up picket duty and several who failed
to defend their fellow-workers before
the vicious attack of the general man
ager OF the Kinsel company, shows
lack Of understanding of their class
position by the men.
A rank and file movement is needed
in this organization to fight the auto
cratic tendencies of some Of the ex-
ecutives and to make this union
real militant tool in the hands of the
Of Detroit.
Pharmacists interested in Joining
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

CHICAGO, Ill. On Wednesday,
Feb. IA, Butcher" Davis, head Of the
punch press department at Stewart
Warmers caused another young girl
to lose hand by his constant ram
pages Of Speed-up. This is the sixth
such accident in a period of about
three months.
Here is how it happened. The first
thing in the morning Davis, as his
custom is, came yelling at the girls
to make their rate, which is set too
high for the girls to make.
He went up to one girl and told
her to step on it or he would fire her.
She tried to work a little faster and
made double header, which broke
the die, She was Immediately fired.
This put all the girls in a nervous
state.
Then he went to another one and
said: You better step on it. If YOU
don't make rate, III kick YOU out
too This one, 10 years old and
with baby to support, started to
cry, afraid for the job which she
needed SO badly. She tried her best
to speed up. It was not more than
few minutes later when we heard
her scream. This time it was not a
die broken, but her hand. Three
fingers gone completely and the
fourth one left stump.
Here's one mother who will not bet
her baby with her right hand any
more. The sixth worker crippled be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
AUSTRIAN Socialist Leaders
Protected Profits in Crisis
Developing Crisis Turns Social Democracy Into
SOCiGI-F GsCism

to divert the workers from the
struggle for the overthrow Of cap
itaIiSm by various trifling concessions
on the part Of the bourgeoisie, at the
present time, under conditions Of
crisis, We have social-democratic re-
formism turned inside out, "re-
formism" which gradually places the
working class in a worse and worse
position. And this is the fascination
Of social-democracy.
In order to conceal this process Of
fascination, social democracy an
nounces the capitulationist slogan
The period Of reform has ended, the
winning of socialism is at hand" But
when social-democracy is in power,
as in Sweden, or when it was in
power, as in England, Germany and
Austria, where did it win, or try to
win socialism? What has happened
to the famous specialization project of
Otto Bauer and Hilferding of the
revolutionary period of 1918? 1t is
sufficient to remember what the
social-democratic newspapers wrote
in these revolutionary years when
they abandoned specialization. We
must not take the ruined heritage
which capitalist leaves behind it at
the present time, they said. Socialism
cannot be built up on the ruins of
productive forces, but only by taking
over from the bourgeoiSie the nor
mally functioning apparatus of cap
itaist economy. Therefore, the years
of postwar economic ruin and infla-
ton were followed by capitalist
sterilization.
Thus the democratic theore-
ticians have made complete right
about-face in their arguments. They
began to put forward the theory Of
organized capitalism" But it was
found that even with the organized"
functioning apparatus Of capitalist
economy, the social-democrat, were
not in a position to win socialism,
because in the period of capitalist
sterilization the position OF the bour-
geoisie becomes stronger, while the
proletariat becomes weaker.
In short, according to the Social
Democratic leaders, revolution can
not be made either from ruins-or
from surplus.
ITO Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
J-s--A~ - Ef
HELEN LUKE

IatiO-lG which we demand for women
from bourgeois society show that we
understand the position and interests
Of women, and will have consideration
for them under the proletarian die
tatorsaip. Not, OF course, as the re-
forrnists DO, lulling them to inaction
and keeping them on leading strings
No, of course not; but as revolution
aries who call upon the women to
work as equals in Transforming the
old theology and economy"
"Lulling them to inaction." This,
women comrades, is the function Of
the bourgeois women's publications, Of
bourgeois women writer's.
We have stated that women in in
dustry have biological needs That
should be allowed for by state laws,
giving them maternity insurance, etc.
But these demands, unlike the ballot
and ease of divorce for women, ETC.,
will cost the ruling class money, and
the bourgeois champions of "women's
rights" don't want to dilate on them.
Gretta Palmer, editor of the N. z.
World Telegram women's page, con-
tinuously shouts about the merits of
women. "Women's Superiority Seen
Implied by Nazis," says the headline
on one Of her recent articles. Sex
Equality Would Start Tooth and Nail
Competition, Says Goebbels-Let 1t,
Answer" And Miss Palmer goes on
to declare she is all for this tooth
and nail'' competition between men
and women in business. This Is what
this holder Of a sinecure thinks about
conditions for working women: "Any
fair minded woman who holds a Job
in any country today must be willing
to take her chances in competition
with the men. She cannot, with a
shadow Of justification, demand that
her employer show any signs of
chivalry or special consideration which
he would not give her brother. And
she is, on the whole, quite scrupu-
IoUsly fair in carrying out this phi
Iosophy of equality"
There you have, in black and white,
what the bourgeois equal rights" re-
forms lead to. Working women!
Those who must undergo illegal abor-
lions in order to retain a miserable
Job: women who must stand on their
feet long hours in stores and fac
5ories: I just ask you, woman to
comrade to comrade, was that
written BY friend, or an
enemy?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
PARTY LIFE
Detroit Open Party Meeting
Applies 18th PIentnl Thesis
Pledges to Concentrate on the Biggest Auto
Plants to Build Union

The following resolution was
adopted at an open Party member
ship meeting, with a good attendance
OF Parry members and close sympa-
thizers:
The mighty upsurge Of the Euro
pean workers against Fascism, esDe-
cially French and Austrian workers
fighting on the barricades, general
strike movement under the leader
ship Of the Communist Party. ire
mendous revolutionary upsurge Of the
working class in Spain, ETC., confirms
the corTac ness Of the 18th Plenum
Of the Executive Committee OF the
Communist Observation-Disclosures we
are in period Of revolutionary mass
struggles Of the workers for power.
1t proves the correctness Of the
uni ed front policy of the Commu-
riot T''+0rra t'onal unitino Commu-
nists, Socialists and non-Party work
ers, over the heads Of the social fas-
cist leaders, in the struggle AGAINST
the common enemy and their agents
in the ranks of the revolutionary
masses.
The meeting pledges its solidarity
with the battling workers OF Austria
and European countries. We pledge
to raise a strong protest and mass
activity Of the Detroit toiling masses,
especially in the automobile industry;
against the bloodthirsty fascist hang-
men, and pledge to support in every
way possible the battles Of our class
brothers.
The best way that we can show our
revolutionary solidarity with the
working class Of Europe is to struggle
against our common enemy and its
agencies in the home land-Amert-
can imperialisrn-in intensifying the
struggle against rising fascism and
war preparations Of the Wall Street
government.
This means, first, the strengthen
ing of our work inside of the shops,
especially Ford, Briggs, etc., In ac-
cordance with the directives Of the
18th Plenum Resolution, the 18th
Vi Jul SCAll1 al OOlAl4l4lubCCg
and the Dis riot Plenum for the win
ming of the majority Of the workers
under the revolutionary leadership Of
the Communist Party.
The wave Of department strikes in
the last four weeks in many OF the
automobile shops, the increased
struggle among the c. w. A. workers,
the militant mass Indignation of the
Negro and white masses generally, is
a clear example of The correct and
powerful ANALYSIS Of the 18th Plenum
resolution. 1t further means the
placing Of the struggle for Unem-
ployment Insurance on real uni ed
mass basis. concentrating especially
on the employed and unemployed
automobile workers in the basic
shops. 1t means that we must in all
seriousness take up the fight for the
rights of the Negro people and the
most relen less struggle AGAINST every
manifestation of white chauvinism.
The heroic battle OF the Austrian
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
ALL PLEASED WIFE ISSUE

Dear Friends and Comrades:
In answer to your letter asking if
I received the sample copy of the
tenth anniversary edition of the Daily
Worker and if found it interesting.
I enjoyed it very much and helped
to sell 35 editions of it in this city.
1t has been over a week ago since
received the sample copy and I have
never read all the news in it yet,
there are SO many good things in it
to read and as l am unemployed I
have plenty of time to read it and
still always find something new in
it.
Everyone I have talked to that got
copy of the anniversary edition told
me they were well pleased with their
investment.
One person quit taking the paper
after having received the big January
edition because they did not have
time to read it. So questioned them
about it and found out it was be-
cause they cannot read the Daily
Worker in a few minutes like the
capitalist newspapers. 1 think that
is a tribute to the workers news
paper.
I am member of Local No. 10 of
the Hold Carriers, although not hold
ing office, simply because I did not
attend the meeting on election night,
although I was nominated for bust
ness agent, secretary and other Of
fees.
But being a reader of the Daily
Worker and understanding the work
ing class program of the Communist
Party, have been able to get the
membership of our local to have
rank and file controlled union. Our
local has also endorsed the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill and
contributed to the support of del
egate to go to Washington Feb. 8 to
5.
You should have the official en-
dorsement Of Local No. 10 by this
time with our local stamp and signed
by the recording secretary and pre-
sident. Also seven locals have en-
dorsed the Workers" bill in Gen.
tralia and you should have received
them by this time.
I wish now to extend to you my
thanks for the Daily Worker. Also
tell the pressmen, Comrade Kelly
and other workers, also Comrade
Hathaway, editor-in-chief, we appre-
ctate their good work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
NRA and Company
Union Cut Pay
Of Steel Workers
BY a Steel Worker Correspondent


GARY, Ind.-The so-called en-
ployes representation plan company
union forced upon the workers by the
bosses turned out to be one-sided as
usual, with that one side benefitting
the company only. Many workers
now are disappointed to see the real
working Of the so-calIed Employees
Representation Plan.
At the last committee meeting. one
Of the company'S representatives in
PRODUCED resolution on saving waste
material, economizing on oil, grease
and other material in the mill. A
workers representative reported that
the workers want general wage in
creases. He was told that that de-
pended on the prosperity Of the COM
pany's business, also that it wasn't a
'ocal matter, but 1t was up to the
Board Of Directors Of United States
Steel Corp.
1t was reported at the meeting that
| 30 per cent Of the workers in the mill
| are working only half day a week
end many are working half a day in
two weeks. The answer from the
companyS representative was that it
cannot be helped.
Where does the N. r. A. come in?
Workers were supposed to get 40
hours Of work per week. Workers
are laid off and fired at the will of
the bosses for no reason at all. in
spite OF the fact that they worked for
me same company for many years.
This so-called employees representation
plan does not help him any.
Discrimination and faYoritisrn are
used in general in the mill, especially
against the foreign-born and Negro
workers. This makes the biggest per-
centage Of the workers in the steel
industry. Workers have no one TO
complain to. The MIRA. flags are
flown all over the mill and offices.
We were told that N. r. A. is sup
posed to give work to more men and
also raise our wages, but are they
doing it2 No.
For instance, In the Billet Mill
Yard, the loading cranes, before the
Introduction of the N. r. A., were
working three hookers, two loading.
one unloading. Now only two load
and unload. In the locker room. be-
fore there were three cleaners. now
two. The same in the tool room
Clippers in the yard are driven like
slaves. OF $50 clippers, the boss
Seeps 80 and drives them I'D and
DOWN the yard to do work for so men.
lts the same tactics all over the mill
We workers are realizing what the
MIA. new deal is doing for us-clIt-
tlng our wages 25 to 40 per cent. driv-
ing us like slaves at every turn we
make, and giving us work one to two
days in two weeks.
Workers are realizing that JJnem-
oloyment Insurance is what we need
Inc Social Unemployment Insurance
Bill, sponsored by the Communist
Party, Is what we steel workers sun
port. The Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union supports this Bill
We must all join this union of The
steel workers.
Organized we will be able To f1cbt
Ior better working conditions and
hlgher wages. Organized we will
win. "A'l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
CUT RELIEF IN HAMILTON
BY An Unemployed Worker
CorresnondenE
Correspondent

HAMILTON, Ohlo.-The welfare
department here is trying to cut the
relief. of the workers who did not get
in on the CW.A. The welfare is get
ting government meat shipped to the
workers, but the C.W.A. workers were
cut off the relief completely, and
the outcome of this was that 1,400
pounds of meat were spoiled, and
they sneaked 1t out at plight and
burned it in the incinerator while
the workers are starving on the job.
They are now cutting the G. w. A.
workers in Butter County, and when
these men come back to the relief
station they ask what they did with
their $l2 pay for the work the pre-
vious week. We now demand of the
welfare that they give us work or
feed us, Or we will fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
William Smith Put
on NRA Board to
Cheat DiomakerS

BY an Auto Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-Matthew Smith
f the Mech mics Educational Society
If America, he Of the radical phrase
Glory. hes become a dulv-errolled
rna"7ber Of the Democratic Partv,
md as reward for spreading IL
lusions about the NR.A. has been
oppointed to the Regional Labor
Board.
The Tool and Diemakers' Code
calls for double time for Sunday work.
The chairman of Local 7 at Abe
Hall made the statement that Mat
thew Smith on his own authority had
given permission to the Cadillac Mo-
tor Co. to pay only time and a half
for Sunday work.
All men who had worked overtime
without being paid at code rates were
requested to file claims with the union
and the union would collect. The
union has collected nothing to date.
The Rank and File Shop Stewards
movement in the M. E. S. of A. is
the keystone Of the workers strength.
CHRYSLER EMPLOYEE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Hw D>ocEoJL
lGz&E...S { GGg,a
OGLE1GAea:
By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

the South American peon and We
might as well resign ourselves not to
taste. real, bananas until after the
social revolution. This powerful corn
panv will rather spend millions in
subeidizing political cliques In Mica
raqua and other banana-growing
countries to KEEP the poems enslaved
on its plantations than spend some
money and7 thought for the better
conservation and distribution Of this
excellent fruit.
Nevertheless, since Haas 1920 has
shown that the ripe banana is almost
q specific remedy for certain all
ments like spruce and celiac disease;
and other investigators have found
that the Intestinal flora bacteria
like the colon bacillus) can be more
readily changed to the acidophilus
group by the consumption OF rips
bananas, attempts have ben made to
secure the fruit in powder form.
We have now, on the market,
banana powder, prepared By tbs
Nortiotn process and manufactured
by Merck, which comes as near to the
ripe fruit as 1t is possible under the
CAPT alist scheme of things. The
powder is made from bananas artifis
cially ripened in ripening chambers
for 10 to IA days. The peeled fruit
is ground to a pulp (mush), which Is
sprayed into receptacles where the
air and temperature are so regulated
that the vitsmins and engines are
not destroyed, except vitamin @, Of
which 20 per cent is destroyed.
The banana powder thus prepared
Is yellow, with a sweet, bananalike
odor and taste. It mixes well with
milk and water 1t takes 10 pounds
of fruit to produce one pound OF
powder Two level teaspoons equals
one banana. Three level tablespoons
weigh one ounce and produce lie call
cries. The powder can be obtained
in drug stores in 10-ounce and 22-
ounce cans.
Infants may be fed this powder in
heir bottles. Older children some
times dislike the powder because IL
smells like furniture oil" (banans
oiDt 1t seems to influence the
growth, but not the weight of in
fants. 1t is valuable in cases where
children cannot tolerate starches or
o4her sugars. Banana powder ap-
pears also to have favorable effect
on the stools, the appetite and in
certain exzernas Of childhood. we
believe it to be a valuable adjunct to
the diet of children and adults. With
the. exception of the odor to which
some "finniclzy" children object, we
found, so far, only one drawback:
1t should not be given to people with
intestinal inflammation because the
body might become sensitized to ban
ana protein. In such cases, the child
will get rash or an asthinatic at
tack every time he tries to eat ban.
anas afterward.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Letters from Readers Sh0uU
Ddily's' Organizatio1aI Value

therefore it would be wrong to use
highly technical and mechanical
phrases.
1 feel column like Michael Colds
is very valuable because he does not
develop any high theoretical problem.
In fact, that whole page devoted to
cultural affairs is a gem.
1 wonder if it isn't possible, at
least for every Saturdays issue to
devote prominent space to articles
dealing in the introduction to the
whole class struggle and our move
ment. To pretend in Saturdays
paper that we are in home speak
ing to worker and trying to arouse
him from passive, indifferent state,
to realization of the class s.gnifi-
canoe. This is the problem I am
confronted with.
Comradely yours,
r, R., Unit g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
A. A. Attempt to
Build Up Police
Gangs Defeated
BY a Worker Correspondent

MONROE, Mich. - The Amala-
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers held meeting on
Feb. IS. The new mayor Of Monroe,
Knaggs, who himself is liberal and
partisan" together with the new
chief of police, Fisher, who has
formerly been chief of police force of
the Newton Steel Co. for the last
three years, proposed to organize q
new police force to combat thugs,
gangsters and robbers. They asked
the cooperation of this union to or
ganize such a police force.
During the meeting a worker got
up and spoke against this proposal,
and the other workers spoke, follow
ing his example. The workers said
they did not want the cops to mix
up in their affairs, and did not want
the police to club them in case of a
strike. The majority Of the workers
were against this proposal Of the
mayor, and SO this trick failed.
The mayor also made this proposal
to the Paper Mill Union, but the
question was not raised at their
meeting yet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
D. w. in Every Public Library

D. W. in Every Public Library
Cleveland, Ohio
Dear Comrades:
In the interest Of spreading the
Daily, I would like to know if it
were possible for you to print in the
paper an article asking the various
groups of Communist Party locals
to try to place a copy of the Daily
Worker in various branches of city
libraries.
happened to 60 to Cleveland
Main Library several months ago
and found that there is a copy of
the Daily Worker there every day.
l have found that there are so many
peonle wanting to read the Daily
Worker that the paper, through
constant handling b. the 1c ars,
becomes so dirty and torn that they
have to take it out.
There are many Young students
going to public libraries that we could
enlarge the subscription through
this medium.