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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
StOOEPigeOnS
Frame Workers
To Cut Their Pay
lBy a WOrker CorrespOndentl

LONG ISLAND CITY. - Fellow
workers. Chef Anderson was fired
for giving a sandwich to a COM
pany spy. Steward Sanborn was
fired for not reporting this. Chef
Anderson has since been taken back.
He has been denoted from Chef
to Bird Glass Cook with the miser-
able starvation wages paid a 3rd
Glass Cook. Steward Sanborn was
framed by a stool-pigeon. This is
a trick of the companies to con-
stantly reduce our wages.
Fellow workers, we can stop this
vicious attack on us by the COM
pany by organizing to fight against
these stool-pigeons. When the COM
pany saw that we were dissatisfied
with conditions we got free lunches
in washington, the "sign-out" room
was cleaned up, and Chef Anderson
was taken back.
We must continue to fight and
show by our solidarity that we will
not stand for these attacks on US
by the company to further lower
our wage level. The company is
making a drive to denote us to save
money. We must organize to fight
this if We are going to have decent
living conditions.
Fellow workers, let us demand of
our unions that action be taken on
these grievances. One of us alone
cannot stop these attacks by the
company, but when we stick to-
gether we can protect ourselves and
win our demands for the right to
have decent conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Natl Biscuit Co.
Workers Seeking
Way to Or ganize
lBy a Worker Correspondentl

NEW YORK.-The National Bis
cult Co. at 18th Street and Tenth
Avenue makes over $4,000, 900 every
year, and the workers are given only
one or two and half days work
a week. We are insured by the
company and have to pay so cents
a month. If you die you get $4,000.
the company should be made to
pay this themselves.
We want a union but we do not
know how to do this. The work
ers are afraid to do this by them
selves. Everybody wants a union,
but the workers are afraid to go to
meetings because the boss may fire
them. If anyone reads the Daily
Worker he is fired.
NOTE: - The workers in this
plant should get in touch with the
New York Office of the Food
Workers Industrial Union at SIS
West 40th st. The members of
the union will tell them how to
organize without endangering
their jobs,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Bosses Show They
Fear Real Struggle

NEW YORK.-The writer over
heard several large owners of mari
time industries in conversation re-
Gently. One was a Mr.. W of
the W Towing Co., Norfolk, Va,
coal carriers, the other a Mr.. H
Of the E. TT Co., owners of
tugs and barges, Baltimore, Md.
Another gentleman, owner of a
shoe factory in New England, later
entered the conversation.
Time after time the conversa-
ton would lead back to one ques-
tion-the wave Of strikes that is
sweeping the country today. The
shoe manufacturer boosted of his
ability to keep his $50 workers at
the machines when the rest of the
shoe workers in the town we're pick
citing his plant in an attempt to
pull out his force. And he boosted
Of his bringing in scabs from diff
ferent section of the country to
work in his plant as a threat to
his own workers. He called it
AAOlOAA1S uP bllC1I ltlOIdle. Ills
plant was the only one that did
not strike.
The ship owners Swore and
threatened about what they in
tended to do at the code hearings
for the marine industry. They
ranted at the "Bolsheviks' and
their demands, unconsciously pay
ing tribute to the militant fight of
the M. w. I. u, and they showed
clearly that they will use every
means at their command from gov
eminent forces, violence and the
trickery of the reformist unions.
They will do everything in their
power to prevent the three-shift
plan from being put into the code.
The trend of the conversation
showed clearly that only the revo-
lutionary unions are putting up
fight that has won the respect of
the bosses, that the owners will use
every means at their command to
prevent higher wages and better
conditions and that only through
the greatest united militant strug-
gle will concessions be won.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
RT Guard Waits
4::3O to 9 Every
Morning for Job
Lucky to Get W ork That
Brings Him SO or
$40 a Week
By an IR.T. Worker Correspondent

BY an LR.T. Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK-Here are the true
facts of conditions existing amongst
the I. r. T. guards am an ex-
ira man employed at Willets Point
Terminal on the Corona Line. I
report there daily at 4:30 am,
which is the first run out, and cover
the board until 9 am. If there is
no work, am told to go home and
report at the same time the follow
ing day. At the end of the week,
if I am lucky enough, I may get
between two and three days for my
efforts for the week. I will draw
between 50 and So
The regular guards conditions
are Just as bad. If you are late for
your days work, you are sent to
see the superintendent, who will
suspend you for five days; that is,
for the first offense; the second
ofense is ten days. Men are re-
quired to purchase uniforms
through Schriber & Meyer at TIA
Broadway, for $32; that is, win
ter uniform.
At a guards meeting held March
II at the Brotherhood Room in
Times Square, the chairman, P. T.
Crosse, announced that bids had
been sent out for uniforms. Al
though a concern by the name of
Goldstein was the lowest bidder,
the contract was awarded to
Schriber g. Meyer, who were Sec
ond on the list.
At the meeting, if you ask a
question concerning the betterment
Of the men, P. T. Crosse winks to
the Sergeant-At-Arms, who is a
gentleman by the name of M.
Greenberg, known as 'Pig-head,"
who is the delegate of the Queens
Queens Division, and who is ready
to use force and throw you out.
1t is about time the men got to-
gether and threw this gang out,
and join union of their own, the
Workers Union.
ONE OF THE
DAILY WORKERS FRIENDS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Wrong Defense Policy
flinders Effective
Mass Work

trial in Leipzig had carried out the
directives of the Party on this spe-
cif1c question.
What was the answer of these
leading comrades in the Party to
the direction that elf-defense was
to be the key note of the trial, and
that the trial was to have been
made an offensive against the rul-
ing class. Their answer was that
too much was at stake to take any
chances" That lawyers were neces-
sary to handle the case completely.
That it was impossible for these
leading" comrades under the ire
mendous risk of long sentences of
imprisonment, to defend themselves.
This was itself a capitulation to
bourgeois theology. The greater the
risk, the more reason why leading
comrades must defend themselves,
for the more clearly can they expose
the class character of the struggle
in the struggle in the courts, and
thus mobilize the masses on the out
side for the movement in their de-
tense.
The Party within the LID. failed
also. 1t capitulated to the weak
nesses of the other comrades. It's
attitude was to insist upon the COR
rectness of self defense, of an Of
fensive action. Anything else was a
deviation from the line of the Party,
from its basic directives. Anything
else strengthened the illusion of
legalism within the minds of the
working class as whole. Failure on
the part of the Party members with
in the LID. to hold fast to a cor
rect position also tends to weaken
the prestige of the Party members
within the other mass organizations.
Their capitulation was a major
error
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Pre-COnventiOn Discussion

mass struggles. Only this under
standing can give these struggles
continuity. Only an extensive study
of the directives contained in the
leading organs of our Party can give
to the membership this clarity.
Often we hear from leaders of the
T. L.. D. such statements as 1.-The
Party and the leading Party COM
mittees underestimate the LID,
and as consequence, the relation
ship between the Party and the
LID. are extremely poor" Those
who are members of the Party
functioning in the LID, must be
made to realize that they are mem
bers Of the Party within the LID,
not members of the LID. within
the Party.
WHAT does this mean2 They must
W understand that the I. L. D.
is guided by a clear understanding
of the principles of class struggle.
That the fundamental line of class
struggle is worked out by the Party.
They must know the Party. They
have been placed by it in key posi-
tons for the purpose Of warning it
OF the slightest evidence of any I'M
healthy relations between it and the
mass organizations. They are the
custodians of the Party's interests.
Only through this, do they become
the true guardians of the interests
of the working class. Only in this
way do they become the guiding
revolutionary force within the mass
organizations. They are the party
within the mass organizations.
1t is for them to recognize that
the weaknesses of the forces of the
revolution lie in the weaknesses of
the Party in the mass organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
By a Western Union Worker
Correspondent

NEW YORK-The best proof that
the telegraph workers in the West
ern Union are sensing the need for
a real militant rank and file con-
trolled union is found in President
Whites remark made on March
18th. According to the N. Y. Herald
Tribune of March 14th, Mr.. White,
before the Senate Interstate Com
merce Committees hearing on the
proposed communications bill, made
the following statement, Western
Union could adjust its practices to
conform with the proposed bill
without much difficulty, but urges
a provision to protect the company
from labor disputes.
What does that mean? 1t means
only one thing. The company no
longer trusts the ability of the
AW.UE. misleaders to hold the
mass of workers in a humble and
docile state. 1t has already felt the
Juggling at the leash. These white
collar slaves are being aroused from
their lethargy The Daily Worker,
ever to the forefront, is taking
leading part in this embryo strug-
gle. Every Friday letters and articles
by telegraph workers testify to its
value.
Already a United Committee of
Action, composed of A.W.U.E. mem
bers of the three main groups,
Traffic, Plant and Commercial, are
doing some wonderful organizational
work. Due to their activity in issu-
ing leaflets, demanding the return
Of the last 10 per cent wage cut, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

That the strength of the mass or
CARNATIONS is the strength of the
Party within the mass organizations.
Without these belts and levers" re-
spending in the most sensitive way
to the guidance of the Party, the
functioning of the very brain of the
Party itself is limited. Certainly we
can speak of "a tendency on the
part of the Party and the Leading
Party committees to underestimate
the LID; but primarily the reason
for this lies in the failure of the
Party within the LID. to maintain
Bolshevik vigilance. The Party in the
LID. must keep constant check-up
on itself. To relax its vigilance is to
weaken its connection with the
main arteries of the Party. 1t is to
fail to call the attention of the CEN
trail organs, to the need of a greater
coordination, and a more constant
check-up.
This cannot be done abstractly.
This demands the regular func-
tioning of the fraction, the Party
core within the LID. This core
must have its fingers on the pulse of
the masses in the LID. 1t must
have its eye on every move of the
working class in every basic mass
organization. 1t must raise its voice
in the Party bureaus, in the Party's
leading committees, showing these
leading bodies how the changes are
affecting the LID, and how the
effect upon it, in turn, retards or
develops the movements in other
organizations. 1t must call to the
Party specific remedial steps. With
the aid of the Party, work out pro-
grams of action for future work. If
this had been done as we developed
the Scottsboro case, particularly at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
LET'S HAVE MORE NEWS FROM
SHAMOKIN
Wilkes-Barre pa

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Last week in the town of ShamoS<
kin where we have new Party
Unit and two good Unemployed
Councils, we had discussion on
the D. w. pertaining to the make
up and the character of the articles
carried. Most of the workers were
non-Party workers. When asked
what was the best way to get work
erS interested in the D. W., they
stated that the D. w. deals with
high politics, that it writes about
foreign countries" and not enough
about Pennsylvania and vicinity.
When asked, why don't you write
something for the D. w." the re-
ply was that they do, but it is not
published.
On one occasion an article was
published about The Amalgamated
Union. This article caused quite a
storm in the local, and the local
comrades felt proud that they had
a chance to rub it in" to the
Amalgamated takers.
In that town the PHILADELPHIA
and Reading Coal are threatening
to flood five Of its colleries. The
workers know the meaning of this.
They know that the town will be
obliterated, and completely starved
out. We explained how such
case would be handled under Soviet
power i'll America. We also ex-
planned how long the working day
would be and how workers would
profitably spend their leisure time,
etc.
At this point the workers inter-
rupted and asked, why doesn't the
Daily" at least in the Saturday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
United Committee of Action Pushes
Drive for Western Union 1919 Pay Rise
Resolution Demanding Return of Last Wage
Cut Carried By Membership of Local II

officials Of Local n were forced by
the militant sentiment of the mem
berShip to pass a resolution for the
return of the 10 per cent. This res
olution is to be presented to the
officials of the AW.UE.
The United Committee of Action
must now wage further struggle to
delete the amendment to this res
olution, which specifies that the re-
turn Of the 10 per cent be given but
that working hours remain on a 48
hour week schedule.
A campaign to issue a 10-page
pamphlet exposing the treacherous
role of the A.WU.E. misleaders is
now under way. Workers who are
being approached for donations con-
tribute readily. Some have volun-
tarily agreed to tax themselves with
a weekly amount. Contacts have al
ready been made in several cities,
and a real national campaign is
under way to unite all workers of
the Western Union, Postal and
RIGA. in one militant struggle for
the betterment of their conditions
and the safeguarding Of their in
tereStS.
1t is therefore of vital Importance
to every Party member, every SYM
pathizer, every member of mass
organization to pass the infor1na-
ton along to every know telegraph
worker. The telegraph industry is a
vital basic one. It's strategic import
snce from a military point of view
is unquestioned.
All workers who have any con-
nection with the industry commun-
icate with @. Lands, GO Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Speed Up Rail Crews So
AS to Fire Yard Men

for trip from Pittsburgh to Kan
Sas City, Mo, and the trip is made
in fixe or six hours, they want the
crew TO work in the yards the rest
of the time, This Will lay off some
more of the yard men. If these
changes are made, the men will go
on strike at the first of the month.
We would like to get the unem-
ployeo railroad men and other I'M
employed workers to pledge their
solidarity to help us win this strike,
and we will help the unemployed
win their struggle for che Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
Subway Workers
Pushing Daily
(By a Worker Correspondent

W -" ''OI1-UI NV-1 y V1l11OAIW
NEW YORK-The B. MI and
the IR.T. workers received the 10
per cent cut along with the rail-
road workers throughout the coun-
try. The subway workers are facing
the unification plan of LaGuardia,
which will do them no good, we can
be sure. At the first sign of or
ganization the A. F. of L. Anal
gamated will be brought in.
We are working hard to get the
Daily Worker into the hands of the
transportation workers and we
pledge ourselves to build a good
workers correspondence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
NOTE!

We publish letters every Friday
from workers in the transporta-
ton and 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, 1934-03-30
THE SPEAKER WAS CARL
BRODSKY
New York City

new YORK City.
Editor:
I would like to know who did the
talking in Webster Hall on Sunday,
March II, in the name of the Com
munist Party, at the taxi drivers
conference. I am a member of the
International Workers Order. No
body ever heard speaker like him
before in that hall. He opened the
eyes of everybody present. I in
quired for his name but nobody
seemed to remember. In the name
of Branch IA of the TWO, I want
to give him write-up and credit
which he fully deserves, and please
send me an answer soon as pos
Sible. Thank you.
H. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

edition carry such articles dealing
with how we would run this or that
institution, such as mills, mines,
factories and educational system,
etc.. etc." The workers pointed out
that the D. w. is all right the way
that it fights for unemployment in
Surance and strikes, but that it
never deals with how we could run
things and the actual results OBJ
tanned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

slack moments in the case, the eff
fects Of this case upon the whole
fighting front of the working class
would undoubtedly have been
greater.
This will be done if we not only
learn the directives from our Party,
but also how to apply these direc-
tives. The correct application of
these directiyes by the Party in the
LID. will bring a new sense of ap-
probation of its value as a political
theological forces in the destruc-
ton of the illusions entertained by
the working class as to capitalist
justice and democracy, and thus
greatly aid in the development of
the fighting front of the working
class as whole. 1t is evident that
they have not yet been regarded in
this fight.
WITHIN the Southern California,
w Rocky Mountain, and Michigan
Districts of the LID, we are pre-
sented with Grass examples of the
failude of the Party members with
in the LID. to understand the basic
directives of our Party, and of the
CT. They have not realized the
failude to study these directives, in
itself constituting an act of criminal
negligence to the working class. The
failure to carry out these directives
aggravates that offense. The lack of
understanding of these directives
means an inability to see the one
ness of the struggle, to see the ne
cessity for the unity, for the CO.
ordination of the belts and levers"
Leading members of the Commu-
mist Party, functioning in mass or
CARNATIONS in these districts were
arrested in struggle. Immediately
they were directed to take the often
sive, to turn these actions in courts
into a trial of ruling class democ-
racy and justice. They had before
them the heroic manner in which
George Dimitroff in the Reichstag
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
By Railroad Worker Correspondent

By Railroad Worker Correspondent
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Conditions
on the Kansas City Southern are
bad. I am working on the average
three days week. My last pay
day was $40 for three days work
out Of two weeks. Sometimes I
work until noon and sometimes I'M
til one or two o'clock.
The company wants to cut all
wages Is per cent. They also want
the train crews to make a change
on the time allowed for their run.
If a crew is allowed eight hours
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

Send us names of those you
know who are not readers Of the
Daily Worker but who would be
Interested in reading it. Address:
Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

Ask your friend, your fellow
worker to subscribe to the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

NOTE.-Letters from workers in
this carpet shop will appear each
Wednesday in the future. Work
ers in this shop should be on the
lookout for copies every Wednes-
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30

st. PaM Section.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
Wealth

Primo Camera told story In
Miami.
"A powerful speed boat" he be-
gan, "shot out of the harbor the
other morning and young lady said
to me.
"aThat boat belongs to Mr.. Van
Gold. He has made an enormous for
tune
"sGood for him. I said. is he
rich enough to have his name In the
Blue Book2'
"'Blue Book !! said the young lady
why. he's rich enough to be called
before the senate investigating com
mittee. '"-philadelphia Bulletin.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07

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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
ENCOURAGEMENT

While the young sutton was walt
Ing to take out his young lady the
latters little sister entered the room.
did you know my sisters got
three other boy friends?" said the
child.
The sutton pricked up his ears at
this piece Of news.
"Reallyl' he said. in surprise. I
haven't seen any of them"
Neither have l." returned the
child, "but she gave me a quarter
to tell you. BORDER Cities Star.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07

Better Change the Flavor
Jim-What do you think of Mabel's
complexion?
Jack-It doesn't taste as good as Ii
looks.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
Botherinx the Boss

Are you the political boss OF
Crimson Gulch?"
II used to be- answered Cactus
Joe. but the Job Isn't as good as 1t
was when | got credit for any little
prosperity that came around. Now
| have to take the blame for every
thing that goes wrong
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
~ Few
S: Little 8
Smiles
aWS5:;:1y 81
&9~
OBEYINC ORDERS

When supper was served Helen
refused second helping of Ice
cream with polite but wlstful, mo,
thank you"
do have some more, dear" her
hostess urged.
Mother told me to say, No. thank
you,'" Helen explained nalvely, "but
| don't think she could have known
how small the first helping was go
Ing to be !''-Toronto Globe.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
Vocabulary Still Useful

@How does that new tractor you
got, work." the farmer was asked.
J "Well,' replied the farmer, Its
lucky | learned the kind Of language
I did when | did my plowin' with
mules, for | sure need 1t now. -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
Fad for Both

Major (tellng of hg-game hunt
ing)-There we stood. the tiger md
|, in the thick of the jungle, face 10
facet
Dumb Dora-Oh, Major, how per-
fectly frightful 1t must have been
for both Of you!
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
The f1irh Halter

'FIave You ever high-hatted any
body?'
Not for long time" answered
Senator Sorghum. Not since ! used
to make faces at the class when the
teacher required me to wear a tall.
conlcal Ounce cap"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
Very

"What Is thlsg'
"Our college has established a
chair OF humor."
"But this Is collapsible chair"
1--WE thought that would be humor-
Gus. louisville Courier-Journal.