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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
LR.T. Guard Urges
Fight on Racket
of the Brotherhood
(By a Transportation Worker
Correspondentl

NEW YORK; am guard en-
ployed by the Tnterborough Rapid
Transit Co. I run out of Hunts
Point Terminal. BY chance I picked
up one paper Of last Friday.
I have a 5-day run, which pays
me 500. Out of that I must plu-
chase a summer uniform, paying
so. The price of the uniform will
be $S2 commencing May IS.
I belong to the conpany's relief,
paying rs cents a month dues in
the Brotherhood, $3.50 every three
months. The death benefit fund
stands us about Sc a year.
Now the Brotherhood is pushing
the pension system on us. It will
probably cost us between $40 and
$50 year. Previously the company
retired you when you reached the
age Of 10 years with Is years service
without any cost to the employees.
but our dear officers Of the Broth
erhood would relieve the company
of this obligation and make us foot
the bills.
We are sick and tired Of this kind
of work going ON among the hand
picked delegates. Fellow workers,
go to your local meetings. Demand
a stop of all these things! Get
together and JON real union, such
as the Workers Union, where we
can discuss real conditions without
being spied on by company spies.
At the next election held in No
ve1nber, put up a candidate who will
work for your benefit. Discuss con-
ditions now amongst your fellow
workers in all terminals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
The Rice Rupture Cure-An Old
Bunko Game

Inc hlce Rupture Oure-An Oiu
Bunko Game
John NJ, Chicago and David M,
BrOoklyn.-From the clipping you
sent use we note that the Rice
Rupture Cure is on the market
again-after an eclipse of many
years. Every cent you invest" in
this fake cure is thrown away. The
claim that it is not truss" cure
is fraudulent. His method" con-
sists in the application of a fluid
which he calls Developing Lynn
phol." This connection was an
alyzed years ago by the British
Medical Association and found to
consist Of an alcoholic solution of
pepper and red dye. After the VIC
tim has applied this connection to
his rupture, Rice sends him an
appliance which really is truss
consisting of an elastic band with a
pad and understrap. Thus you see
that the claims of the advertise
ment and his vociferous indictment
against the wearing of trusses are
most hypocritical and fraudulent.
There are no permanent cures for
rupture except the surgical
method. A truss is merely for tenn
porary relief and if you need a
truss you can get one for a tenth
of the price that Rice will charge
you. No intelligent person can be-
lieve that the painting of the sur
face of the skin with any kind of a
fluid, no matter how red it is, will
cure an abdominal rupture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
WOULD LIKE TO HELP ON
PICKET LINE.
S11nerinr Wis

superior, Wise.
The Daily Worker is sure real
bombshell in these trying times.
Step on the gas. Comrades and
fellow workers, you sure are doing
some real work in regards to Party
life. Detroit open Party meetings
applies 18th Plenum thesis. Pledges
to concentrate on the biggest auto
plants to build union to prepare the
Party and the mass organizations
for an intensive campaign of shop
activity as our immediate perspec-
tive, especially in the decisive auto
mobile plants, such as Briggs, Ford,
etc., for united and direct action of
all workers in the automobile shops,
mines, mills, factories and railroads.
You couldn't even buy a job here. I
sure would like to be on the picket
line with my comrades and fellow
workers.
A real old-tinle l. w. W., Nyeaes
on the bar11cades. b
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
eters Reflect Life and Struggles OF Transportation Workers
r. r. Workers See Craft Union Failure
Ask for Guidance on Combating Influence of
''WObbIies'' and Other MisIeaders

and the Socialist Party runs
alongside with political action
ONLY. Both have long ago fallen
into the hands of the petty bour-
geois henchmen of the bosses, pre-
tending to give the workers what
they have long desired, and under
the present leadership simply cap
italzing on the misery of the
workers and their growing class
consciousness and determination to
fight, and fight shoulder to Shout
der.
Yes, it is true, the only unions
winning strikes for many months
past with a very few minor excep-
tions) are those affiliated to the
Trade Union Unity League. This is
because of a correct union policy
and principle and program of action.
The T. U. U. L. are not on the job
for the purpose Of collecting dues,
and We advise you railroaders not
to join ANY established industrial
union nor any other union except
your own standard organizations
where these exist. Remember the
mistakes Of 1902.
The first principle of unionism
land Communism is to protect the
workers. So we advises as follows.
The Emergency transportation Act
and approaching mergers will lead
the companies 10 fire all employees
they can, which number is not in
Guided in the labor restriction pro-
visions of Section ID of the z. T. A.
So, if you carry a card and put your
name on the books of any organiza-
ton las a member) you lay your
self open to spoilers and loss of your
brotherhood chiefs grounds that
you advocate principles against the
welfare Of the company, and on
brotherhood chiefs grounds that
you advocate dual unionism (Which
only the chiefs are allowed to do.
In this way the comany will get
rid of all those class conscious mill
tants who show leaning towards
REAL labor rnionism. Gust as they
did on the Southern Pacific years
ago, and recently in the Detroit
Murray Body action, in both cases
under I. w. w. leadership, where
hundreds of militant workers were
allowed to join the organization and
then pulled out on a so-called strike.
In this way the company got rid of
all those workers who showed an
awakening spirit and desire for
union ACTION.
To protect yourself, and to make
progress, form progressive groups in
your locals and fight for the daily
grievances, with other future OBJ
jectives that will strengthen and
draw together the rank and file,
and bring your existent unions into
rank and file control in such man
ner, that you can, later, in the crisis
fast developing, act unitedly with
rank and file delegates from all
unions, unorganized and company
union groups, and with the unem-
ployed.
Write to the Chicago Railroad
Brotherhoods Unity Committee,
Room 300, 209 N. Wells Street, Chi
cago, for more information.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Start Rank and File
Princeton r. r. Union

By Railroad Worker Correspondent
PRINCETON, Ind have been
reader of the Daily Worker for
some months now. I find it is the
only paper that defends the man
in the street. I have read and voted
the Democrat way for 20 years, but
no more for me.
Just few lines in regards to or
ganizational work here. There has
never been a common labor organi-
cation here, so we met last week
with the Central Labor Union. We
already have about 100 membership.
We have applied for charter. I
think they are taking It out under
the American Federation, but you
can bet it will be a rank and file
control.
We intend to canvass all of the
county. We have a committee of S
to write out our resolutions and they
are real workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
THE BEAUTY GARDENER

(Foreword: Ehbarking on a voy-
age of writing about beauty culture
is, in our estimation, a risky cruise
liable to lead into stormy waters:
yesterday, however, we bravely put
out from shore and sailed across the
the safe bay of health as the only
sound basis for beauty. Proper food,
fresh air, proper exercise, enough
rest, sanitary living conditions, free
dom from strain and worry. proper
medical aid-these are the unalter-
able pre- conditions for the health
on which good looks depend, the
conditions for which all workers
must put up an unceasing struggle.
Now we steam on into rougher
waters-the sea of cosmetics and
artificial aids in which we must
steer a careful course to avoid COM
plete shipwreck)
First, in the effort at beautif1ca-
ton, two inventories are in order
of ones personal characteristics,
then of the aids" in sight, and an
elimination of those that may be
dangerous.
It is obvious that appearance can
be changed only in two chief ways:
line and color It's equally obvious
that the form Of face and body are
susceptible to little real alteration
without the aid of plastic surgery"
which is costly, and a risky business
anyhow.
Otherwise our lines may be
changed by the adding or losing of
weight, the general outlines of the
head by the method of arranging
the hair, and the face by the lex
preston" Posture, while not actu-
ally changing any dimensions, af-
fects the general lines of the body.
Judicious selection Of clothing is
highly effective in harmonizing the
lines and colors of a given indi-
vidual
The sensible approach is first to
decide in just what ways you con-
slider your appearance deficient and
then seek remedy; not to use in
Discriminatory a host Of "beauti-
flers' Just because they are adver-
tised or because it is a custom.
AS to line. Some short women
try to appear taller by the aid of
high heels. Not safe course. 1t
breeds fatigue and comically bent
knees while walking, and tends to
make the leg straight and shapeless.
Surely a short healthy girl looks
better than a tall tired one!
The "raw-boned" type of women,
who have large bones with sizeable
joints, appear better with more
flesh, proportionately, than when
thin. The small-boned types can be
slender and still be rounded"
Control Of weight depends on diet
and exercise and should be
attempted with care, with the aid
Of competent dieticians, physical
culture instruction, or at physicians
suggestions. Nothing on earth can
reduce the size of big feet or big
hands, or make such alterations:
here it is better to be resigned and
think effectively in order to enjoy
life.
Every woman knows that the
dressing of the hair alters the ap-
parent dimensions Of the face, and
that experiment is the best way to
find the most becoming method. In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
EDITORIAL NOTE:

William Green, President of the
A. F. of L. has repeatedly made it
clear that by collective bargaining
he means the officials of the A. F..
Of L., in case of a grievance or dis
pute shall be the recognized rep
reSentatives of the workers, and
have the right to discuss all such
problems with the bosses. The main
object is to make the workers feel
that their demands and grievances
are being considered. In reality
the A. F. Of L. leadership use the
so-called collective bargaining as a
weapon against militant organiza-
ton of the workers and preparation
for strike, which is the only method,
when the bosses refuse to concede
to demands, to win them.
The A. F. Of L. officialdom started
in by telling the workers to depend
on collective bargaining or arbitra-
ton. When the workers find they
cannot gain anything in this way
the A. F. Of L. officials tell them
not to strike. They urge them to
depend on the National Labor
Board or the Regional Labor Board.
In this way, by the use of the idea
of collective bargaining they try to
dissipate the workers spirit for
struggle.
Where a strike has broken out
they continue to use the idea of
appealing for collective bargaining
under the form of arbitration,
urging the workers to come back to
work and allow their representa-
tiveS" to arbitrate or carry on col
lective bargaining on the demands,
with the workers safely back in the
shops.
Collective bargaining is used by
the A. F. of L. officials as a cloak
for their class collaboration. The
Communists believe that the bosses
will grant the workers nothing ex-
cept when the workers organize in
their own class trade unions, or if
they are in the A. F. of L., in the
rank and file opposition, with con-
troll of their unions and by their
own united forces, through strikes
or other actions, compel the bosses
to negotiate their demands. The
bosses will never negotiate collec-
lively or otherwise unless the work
erS have the power and force of
their organization to compel them
to grant their demands.
The Communists are for negotia-
lions with the bosses by organized
workers, putting their demands.
They are for bargaining, but with
the organized power of the workers
behind it, ready to carry through
their demands into action by strike
and other forms of struggle. The
A. F. of L. leaders handy about the
words collective bargaining" in
order to weaken the bargaining and
negotiating power of the workers by
trying to keep the workers from
struggling.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13

The cry of lack of forces" is a
false one, and shameful defense
Of poor activity. Instead of making
a lot OF noise about lack of forces,
let us at once look into our neglect
of all the forces at hand and wipe
this neglect out in an organized
manner.
Take the striking example of our
activity in Boro Park, Brooklyn.
The two Y. C. L. units in Boro Park,
in an earnest effort to take the lead
in organizing the youth for unem-
ployment relief and insurance, de-
cides to call a Youth Conference"
That's fine,-but--. The Party is
interested in building the youth
movement, the Unemployed Coun-
ellis are interested in the struggles
of the unemployed, and the I. w. o.
is campaigning for unemployment
insurance. Therefore one would
think these are organizations that
must be gotten to actively help
organize such work. But that was
not done. So little cooperation was
shown in this, that although our
Party section here had a list of
names and addresses of two hun
bred and fifty (250 neighborhood
organizations, we Y. G. L.ers went
out night after night to discover
if and where such organizations ex-
listed. Result. first Youth Confer
ence Of Unemployed in Boro Park
was a Flopl
At the same time the Y. G. L. unit
702 in Boro Park is assigning COM
rades to study the program of the
League Against War and Fascism
and calling at the District Office of
this organization to find ways and
means Of starting Youth Section
in this territory of the League
Against War and FasciSm. The
adult comrades are calling a con-
ference for building a Boro Park
section of the League Against War
And Fascism. Is the Y. G. L. drawn
into the work of organizing this
conference? mol Had you asked
'how is the work for this con-
ference getting on?"-you would
have gotten the worn out reply of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
10 8
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1ZSs##eN a sa1ss;f Esks - 81
CONDUCTED BY
HELEN LUXE

general, the simpler it is the better
it looks. The painfully elaborate
curly-cued coiffures of the bourgeois
women may look swell" to them
selves, who pay others to do the
work, but make worker tired just
to look at them, for the workers
know how much time, energy, labor,
are involved in the connection of
such intricacies.
If one has fine straight hair that
clingS closely to the head, and if
the features are small and fine, a
permanent wave may be found to
improve the appearance. If cor
rectly done by competent operators,
they have no known harmful effect.
CA common swindle in cheap shops
is to use over and over the little
pads that are not meant to be
used more than once) A permanent
should never under any circum-
stances be given over hair that is
dyed. The dye must be thoroughly
washed out, which is difficult if
not impossible job.
After permanent the hair may
be pushed up into loose waves after
shampoo, or "set" with setting
lotion. After a bit of practice this
can possibly be done at home by
those who cannot afford to have it
done.
For this, a set of three mirrors is
almost necessity. One can get
three wooden-framed mirrors from
the dime store, hinge them together
with four small hinges, and fasten
the center mirror fat against the
wall. The setting lotion may be
had in liquid or powder form at
the dime store, but the chemical
composition of these is doubtful,
the blue color of some of it indicat-
ing that bichloride of mercury
might have been used as a pre-
sentative. You can make your own
lotion at home by boiling a couple
of tablespoons of ounce or fax
seeds (obtainable at the drug store)
in q cup or two of water a few
minutes, cooling, and Straining
through a handkerchief. If you
wish to keep bottle of this on the
shelf, some alcohol will have to be
added to prevent moulding. Not too
much, as it tends to dry the hair.
When using this fluid, after hair
is set, surplus lotion may be pressed
out by squeezing a bathtowel around
the head. Setting with lotion is
really tedious business, and set
ting without any lotion is usually
satisfactory, especially if a net cap
is used to keep the hair in place
until dry. CThe wave usually lasts
longer, though, when set with To-
tom
The new "sculptured" couture
now affected by the bourgeois para
sites is to be condemned fatty. The
hair is held in place with a heavy
mass Of gelatine that seals the pores
of the scalp in an alright covering
If your eyebrows are set low over
your eyes, making you appear to
scowl whether you mean to or not,
by all means wear your hair off the
forehead. If worn low 1t will in
tensify the frowning effect.
If the chin is short and the fore
head very high, better bring the
air partially over the forehead.
Ito Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Railroad
Workers Ready to Struggle
Feeling Is Bitter Against Pay Cut and Against
the Reactionary Leadership

major grievance, and the discrim-
nation in the giving of jobs. The
workers at these yards want to or
ganize a rank and file union on the
industrial basis. The discomfort re-
flected here is widespread on the
various roads in this railroad cen
ter, including the MKT, Gulf lines
and Rock Island The railroad work
ers feel that if they are going to
strike and win their demands, they
must do it now.
The speed-up on the Missouri
Pacific, as elsewhere, is terrific.
Whole shifts have been laid off.
Work that five machinists did in 8
hours is now being done by one in
three hours. Where three and four
men were employed as machinists,
there is only one now.
Some Daily Workers and other
literature have been distributed in
the Compton and Chouteau and
Lesburn yards, but as yet this has
been done on small scale. The
workers here are eager to know
what the railroad situation is else
where, and are very much interested
in the Daily Worker, the only daily
working class newspaper that fights
for them.
NOTE:-We advise this worker
to read the note attached to an
other worker correspondents let
ter on this page, where he may
get suggestions on organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
By Railroad Worker Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Railroad work
ers here are getting ready to act
against the 10 per cent cut agee-
ment, as we'll as against the in
tense speed-up developed in the
railroad industry recently. They will
not tolerate the continuation of this
agreement and will demand an in
crease in real wages.
Hundreds of railroad workers here
are fighting the attempt of the A.
F. of L. to bleed them dry. Feeling
against the A. F. of l.. here is Bit
ter; against the officials who refuse
to pay benefit claims on various
grounds; but especially on the
ground that they have no money
with which to pay, although they
are receiving high salaries and big
sums for expense accounts to tour
the country to disorganize workers,
by dropping them from the union
because of inability to pay, as we'll
as disregarding and often selling
out the interests Of the workers.
A fight for the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill CHR. 1899 has
already started by joining hands
with the A. F. of L. Committee for
Unemployment Insurance.
Gate watchmen here earn $3.50
a month and out of this must pay
$22 a year dues and SIS initiation
fee. Machinists must pay $3.50 in
itiation fee, $3.50 for insurance, $3.50
for dues, and so cents for what is
called Tabor" out of about $14.50 a
3-day week wage.
The workers at the Compton and
Chouteau yards of the Missouri
Pacific do not want to join the A.
F. of L. unless forced to do so to
hold their jobs, due to the corrupt
offlcialdom. There is also intense
feeling against the A. F. of L. tao
tics at the Lesburn yards of the
Missouri-Pacif1c. The separate lodges
for Negro and white workers is a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Letters from.
OurRedders
WHAT is COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING?
Clatskanie, oregon.

Dear Editor:
I have one question I would like
to ask you, and that is what do the
American Federation of Labor Off
Gals mean by collective bargaining?
I would like to know because there
are several fellows here that don't
know exactly what is meant by that
word. Now the idea I have is that
the workers should not go too
strong on their employers. For
instance, a worker goes up to his
employer to ask for higher wages,
and then, of course, if the employer
says no, that he cannot raise the
wages because he is not making
anything with his products, is that
what they mean by collective bar
gaining? u.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
NOTE

We publish letters every Friday
from workers in the transportation
and other communications indus
tries-railroad, marine, surface
lines, subway, elevated lines, ex-
press companies, truck drivers,
taxi drivers, etc.-and from the
communications industries-post
Office, telephone, telegraph, etc.
We urge workers from these in
dustries to write us of their con-
ditiOns Of work, and their strug-
giles to organize. Please get these
letters to us by Tuesday of each
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13

Among the masses of the
people, we Communists are but
drops in the ocean, and we can
not rule unless we give accurate
expression to the folk conscious
ness. Otherwise the Communist
Party will not be able to lead the
proletariat, the proIetariat will
not be able to lead the masses,
and the whole machine wifi fall
to pieoes.--Lenin at the Eleventh
Party Congress
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13

The dictatorship of the prole-
tariat must be State that en-
bodies a new kind Of democracy,
for the proietsrians and the dis
possessed; and a new kind Of
dictatorship, against the bour-
geoisie-Lenin.