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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Master Grange Fails
To Stop Showing of
Soviet Film in Bryant
BY a Farmer Correspondent

By a Farmer Correspondent
BRYANT, Wash.-Local farmers
and workers in this community are
indignant over the action of the
Master Grange when he dictatorially
cancelled the use of the Local
Grange Hall where the Soviet Union
motion picture Fragments of an
Empire" was to be shown. This
motion picture is being toured in
connection with the Voice of Ac-
ton" $500 campaign drive.
When the workers and farmers
arrived at the hall, Comrade Dirk
De Jonge, in charge of the tour,
called mass protest meeting, ex-
posing the role of the leadership of
the Local Grange as misleaders of
the poor farmers. Many rank and
file Changers joined with the United
Farmers League in condemning the
Master Grange (and his satellites)
who is commonly known as a Ku
KluX Klanner.
At the protest meeting 1t was de-
cided to issue leaflet exposing the
fascist elements who are trying to
prevent the U.F.L. from gaining
prestige among the poor farmers
here. Despite the sabotaging by the
Master Grange, the motion picture
was shown in a local farm house
the same evening. A good collec-
ton for the Voice of Action" was
realized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
TECHNICAL ERRORS


Dear Comrades:
I have criticism to offer which
is, 1 think, of supreme Importance.
I am in complete accord with your
attempts to increase your circula-
ton and broaden your scope in the
class warfare as a weapon of the
Communist Party. Your purpose in
reaching a constant array of new
readers is being sabotaged by
constant and persistent technical
inaccuracy, which can be under
stood by Communist like myself
who fully agrees with your policies.
But a new reader who, inculcated
with all the capitalist demagogy
against the Daily Worker, and pick
ing up the issue of March "a to
find that "the cabmen are striking
for % dollars day." and on page 5,
column 3, THE sixth Congress-in
the summer of 1823."
These inaccuracies are local points
for persons only too ready to seize
the slightest excuse to attack the
party. Whether we want such ele-
ments or not, it is not to our benefit
that they-this class-do have them.
Furthermore, with the advent of
the new and modern press and the
union wages received by our print
tiers, the Daily Worker staff must
be severely criticized for this failing,
if only on the score of good jour-
nalism and Communist standard
of discipline and production.
So 1 close with a knowledge that
this criticism will be regarded as
entirely of constructive nature and
will be treated in such light.
Should I be guilty of confusion or
lack of experience on this score,
I am only too ready to avail myself
of your experience and knowledge
for my correction.
Comradely,
H II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
SUGGESTS A BOOK REVIEW
COLUMN

L n
Comrade Editor:
Ever since my reading of the
Daily" I have found our paper to
be true fighter for the workers,
through its exposing of the bour-
geoiS labor" parties, refornist or
CARNATIONS, strike breaking organi-
cations as we'll as all takers and
slave drivers. But Comrade Hatha-
way, one thing I feel is missing.
and that is a column for the daily
criticism of our books, which can
be turned into powerful educa-
tor. Here is my reason:
In the Y.C.L. I see mainly ex-
perienced members, who know what
books or pamphlets to read, for
their education in the movement,
economically as well as politically
This, comrade, is equally so in our
Party. We have our schools, but
only our comrades and close SYM
pathizers go for their education.
What is most needed in the move
ment is the masses.
Among the masses we find work.
ers who are on top of the fence,
yet do not know where to drop.
Many of them read the Daily" but
are very cagy about taking an
active part in our movement. That
means that these workers must be
clarified theoretically as we'll as in
activity, as to what we mean. The
way to draw them in is through
criticism of our literature, in our
daily paper
This will given them stronger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Laundry Workers
Plan Gen. Strike
1000 Meet in n. Y. C..
Conference

NEW YORK.-Delegates repre-
senting 1000 organized and unor-
ganized laundry workers met in
conference Sunday to discuss their
problems. Tn representatives
among whom were delegates from
the A. F. of L. and the Laundry
Workers Industrial Union, elected
a unity committee of IS for the
purpose of calling mass meetings
and issuing circulars in order to
popularize and organize q general
strike movement as the only solu-
ton the present miserable condi-
tions that exist. The conference
also instructed the unity commit
tee to consider the establishment
of an independent union to unite
all the existing organizations of
laundry workers.
In night court, Doris Vanderpod.
young Negro woman strikers of the
Spic and Span Laundry, was given
a suspended sentence. The arrest
grew out of the numerous attacks
by the police on the strikers. APP
pearing in court with the picket
sign still on her back, she testified
now the policeman attacked her on
the picket line and how she de-
Tended herself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
EXPLORING THE COLOR
ISLANDS


AS we have pointed out, there are
two ways Of altering our coloring-
by chemical reaction, or by coating
with a colored substance.
The changes usually attempted by
women are: tinting Of hair that is
turning white due to age, reddening
brown hair to get a livelier tone,
bleaching dark hair to become
blonde, and bleaching "streaky"
gray hair to get an even white:
also darkening of eyebrows and eye
lashes for various reasons. AS to
skin: bleaching to get a lighter
color, or to Danish spots (freckles,
etc). reddening Of lips or cheeks to
get a healthy" effect, and coating
skin with tinted powders not only
to get a more even" color, but to
prevent the gloss due to natural oils
of the skin.
rs already pointed out, thick
opaque colors cannot be used for
most such purposes; therefore, the
disable colors being transparent,
dark color of the body can be
changed to light only by bleach
ing, that is, by a chemical reaction.
There are a number of bleaching
agents, some harmless, some de-
cidedly not. For bleaching the hair
or skin, peroxide Of hydrogen, the
antiseptic, is harmless except that
such bleaching dries the hair lit
tie. Fancy preparations are sold
containing this bleach, but it will be
cheaper and no less efficient in any
way to use the plain peroxide, di-
luting it with water as necessary
where slight bleaching effect is
desired.
Aside from the questionable taste
of bleaching, there is a practical OBJ
lection: the hair grows out dark, so
constant treatment is necessary to
avoid these dark roots-a nuisance
at best. (The employers of sales
girls for perfume counters in most
large stores, by the way like gen
tlemen," prefer blondes. The taste
of the ruling class is imposed on the
population, as Marx pointed outO
Peroxide is also safe for use on
the skin: and, since powder, paste,
or liquid depilatories contain iniu-
rious chemicals, peroxide is useful
for bleaching hair on face, arms or
legs to render it inconspicuous,
when the skin is of a light tone.
Ammonia is also a bleach, but be-
ing powerful alkaI, may cause
burning of the skin. Never use it
Unless very diluted or in the form
# toilet ammonia" and then with
he greatest discretion. ct tends to
'~aduce dead, pasty, white)
Lemon juice, while not nearly SO
nowerful bleach as peroxide, is
preferable. The juice of a lemon
used as hair rinse gives the hair
? very nice gloss. 1t is also useful
for removing vegetable, fruit, and
such kitchen stains from the fin
~ers. Comrade Natalie speaks up for
lemons.
For hands: keep a lemon in the
Kitchen and after finishing with
preparing meals and washing dishes,
scrub hands in water with good,
pure soap Ivory or castile) and rub
well with lemon, especially rough or
stained spots. 1t helps also to
smooth and soften them, to rub in
every night a mixture of glycerine
and rosewater, and if hands are
very neglected put on an old pair
of Gotten gloves over night.
II you cannot afford time and |
money fer manicure and can't do
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
c. P. Organizer in
Southern Illinois
Hurt in Accident
Drunken Coal Thugs,
Driving Recklessly,
Kill l, Hurt 5

PANA, Ill, April 18.-One person
was killed, and Ralph Shaw, organ
izer of the Communist Party in
Southern Illinois, and four others
were injured recently in an auto
mobile accident which was the re-
suit of wild drunken orgy by four
company thugs, employed in Taylor
vile, near here, by the Peabody
Coal Company.
After drinking and carousing
here, the thugs, Ralph Lockard,
Jesse Lockard, w. Spinner, and j.
Banco started back to Taylorville
in a large, new automobile. About
four miles out of Pana, travelling
at an excessive rate of speed, the
intoxicated driver lost control of
the machine, and smashed into an
automobile containing Ralph Shaw,
his wife, and two other workers,
Ernst Jones and Frank Gushes.
All four workers were severely in
jured, while in the thugs car Jesse
Lockard lost an eye. and Banco re-
ceived injuries which resulted in his
death.
Coroner Nolan of Christian
County is trying to whitewash the
accident, because the driver of the
death car, Ralph Lockard, is the
son of Art Lockard, deputy sheriff
of Christian County, and personal
guard to Mr.. Aurgus, Supt. of the
Peabody Mines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19

companies on the credit system.
The Negroes were forced to work
share-crops, and the bosses would
ship the produce North and we
wouldn't receive any returns. And
it grew out Of the white farmers
CLUB to charge a Negro one tenth
on the dollar to sell his produce.
The commission merchants take
our produce such as tomatoes, egg
plants, pepper beans, potatoes,
squash, spinach, cabbage, cucum-
bers, sweet peas and all perishable
produce. This is put in the COM
mission mechant's hand and he
keeps it until it ripens, and sends
for the Negro to come and get the
crates. The crates cost Is cents,
packing costs cents, therefore
every hundred crates are $40 that
we have to pay before We pack our
produce, or our produce is lost.
Women and children starVe and
are naked at hands of these no
good bosses.
And in 1933-such farmers as
Decker, Lockley, Wiley, Sullivan,
McJunkin and numerous other
farmers from Homestead, Fla, and
all other points where produce is
grown in Florida, make it impos-
sible for Negroes to carry on and
to receive q livelihood. The bosses
adopted a plan to pay 81 per day.
They let the Negro work five days
and one half. When I says days,
comrades, I mean from am. until
7 pm.
The Negro reformists are made
bosses over others, so we plainly
see that Negroes as a whole don't
have to die to go to hell; we are
now in he'll, when we have a white
and Negro boss to contend with.
At that time, Roosevelt's New
Deal came in force, such as the
CWA. The Negroes worked four
days and were cut off, and the
Sheriff, Wald Clark, Bob Clark and
Chief Shan Charley Becker of the
police department, authorized the
Negroes to go to work for M.
Decker. This farmer built up
front with the city and county Of
fcers to make Negroes work for
him at 81 per day and 515 days
per week, which Melted $3.50 per
week.
Women go before daylight to pick
beans at Is cents per hamper, they
can't pick as long as the dew is on,
henceforth they wait in the fields
until about IL O'Clock before going
to work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
BY a Farmer Correspondent

THIEF RIVER FALLS, MINI
The workers Of Thief River Falls
have become discouraged with the
old line form of organizations,
where the president draws high
salaries, where the workers pay high
monthly dues, and there is no
action.
So when Harvey Cartwright, or
ganizer of the United Farmers
League from Clearwater County, ex-
planned how a rank and file Or
ganiZation, such as the U. F. L., is
run by the farmers, and how the
workers in the town and cities do
the same in the Unemployment
Councils and the CWA organiza-
tons, the workers could easily see
what was wrong with their organi-
cation and why the relief officials
could get away with such things as
firing 16 men from CWA on frame
up charges of being too slow and
then not be forced to have a pub
lie hearing.
However, the Farmer Labor poll
ticians did not want any change
in the tactics Of the organization
because they T%Ild soon be getting
exposed. So Nj. Allabol, editor of
the Thief River Falls Farmer-Labor
paper, called. and one Of the lack
eys that feed at the public trough
every legislature got up in the work
ers meeting and told the workers
that they should vote all Farmer
Laborites into office; vote out all
Democrats and Republicans, and
this organization should support
Congressman Lundeen, Gov. Olson,
etc, etc. Then he began to give
long analysis Of why the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill didn't
get put into law and that he was
sure the workers didn't want to get
beat over the head like they did in
Minneapolis.
While he was speaking, Ed. C.
Baumann, Communist candidate
for the legislature and militant
farm organizer, came in. After Ala
Dol was done, Mr.. Baumann ex-
planned just how these political
takers worked, showed actual proof
for every statement, pointed out
the necessity for rank and file or
CARNATIONS; that the only time the
politicians ever did anything was
when workers demonstrated their
mass power.
Mr.. Alabol never said word,
but the workers decided that they
wanted Mr.. Baumann to talk
again the next evening. So the fol-
lowing evening Ed. Baumann talk
ed for over an hour and a half to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
PARTY LIFE
Dist. 8 Members Pledged to
Garry Out Convention Tasks
Basic Tasks Among the Negro Workers and in
Metal, Railroad, StOckyGrd and ALL.

Party in the struggles of the Amer
lean working class.
%. We further realize that such
an improvement and growth was
made possible not only because Of
the correct analysis of the economic
and political situation in the coun-
try. but in the daily application of
this line in the daily struggles Of
the American proletariat. We also
note with satisfaction the complete
absence of factional friction in our
Party and the complete unity of our
Party, on the line Of the Comintern,
for the tasks confronting us. 1t is
only such Party that can success
fully lead the American working
class to final victory.
'E3. We, the active of the Chicago
membership, pledge fully to support
and carry out the tasks outlined in
the National and District Conven-
tions and to carry out the central
tasks adopted by the District Con-
vention especially in the Stock
Yards, steel mills, metal shops, rail-
road and work in the A. F. of L.,
among Negro masses, unemployed,
youth and women; and to build the
unions of the T.U.U.L.
I'VE further pledge to carry out
the tasks of increasing our Party
membership in our District to 5000
dues-paying members by January /;
to triple the Daily Worker circula-
ton and the Y.CL. in our district
by January 1.
Our foremost immediate task be-
fore the entire Party membership is
to mobilize the working class of
Chicago to come out $4,000 strong
for the demonstration on May Day.
Forward to an increased tempo
of our work in the organization of
the working class under the leader
ship of the Communist Party in
District 81
Forward to a successful mobiliza-
ton of the working class in struggle
for their everyday needs, against
social-fascism and fascism; for de-
Tense Of the Soviet Union, and for
the final overthrow Of capitalism"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Musicians Gain in
Fight on BurOCraCy
InLOCalNumber 8O2
Rank and File Nail the
Lie of Canavan at the
Union Meeting
By r. F.

NEW YORK.-On Monday, April
9, 1884, at a regular membership
meeting, the members of Local 802
American Federation of Musicians,
reached the turning point in their
militant fight for local autonomy
(self -government). The rank and
file took the offensive and the Off
Gals were decidedly on the defen-
sive. The members gave their pop
ularly elected bylaws revision COM
mittee and special-elections COM
mittee vote of confidence. In a
resolution, unanimously adopted, the
members demanded that the two
committees continue with the work
of revising the locals bylaws and
holding a special election for re-
placing the seven appointed Off
GERS with democratically elected Of
ficers.
Mr.. Caravan, the chairman of the
governing board, appointed from
above, used the filehiest tactics in
his attempt to stem the flood of
rank and file revolt and indigna-
ton. He had rats, disrupters and
police-spies from the industrial
squads mingle with the member
ship. (The members kicked out
one police-spy whom they caught
entering through a side door. He
could not show a membership card
and he said Mr.. Caravan had in
vited him. He was elected despite
his high official references and he
narrowly missed a beating)
Caravan Stalls
Mr. Caravan stalled along, hoping
the members would leave without
adopting their resolutions. He
openly lied about the minutes of
the previous meeting which he had
falsified. The members booed Mr..
Caravan to his face and called him
liar. In his pathetic and idiotic
attempts to save his face he accused
Richard Cohen, a member who re-
Gently died, of having introduced a
question into the minutes as TO
NllCl4lCl O11C eNSblO1l JettAOll Wy OA1C
members at the previous meeting
was legal or not.
Mr. Caravan stood before the
members and seriously stated that
1T is unfortunate that Richard
Cohen who asked this question has
committed suicide since the March
10 meeting and therefore he can
not verify my statement"
The members howled with laugh
ter at this absurd claim The men,
bers forced Mr.. Caravan to expunge
this lie from the record of the
previous minutes and overrode him
at several points by appealing from
the decision of the chair.
The members unanimously sup
port the rank and file committees
and if they continue their present
line of action there is no power
which can prevent them from get
ting local autonomy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
James Butler-Prince
OF the Church and
Champion ExplOiter
By a Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK. - James Butler,
founder of the chain grocery stores
bearing his name, a pioneer in the
field of the chain store system,
passed away Feb. 20, after lorN
successful career.
1t is customary to speak well of
the dead, therefore most eulogies
and newspaper articles pay tribute
to him in the usual manner. He
was prince of the church, pa
iron of horse racing and contribu-
tor to Catholic church activities that
are doing good service. For his
faithful devotion to its tenets and
his munificent gifts, he was created
knight or prince of the church
as an unusual honor.
With all his philanthropies, he
was only paying back in his own
way, for favors received and for
the great injury Though he had a
perfect legal right inflicted on
people of his own faith by exploit
ing them; in the form of poorly paid
employees, that gave him the whip
hand in competition with individual
stores. 1t is well-known, that his
speciality was hiring grocery clerks
and helpers from the Irish immi-
grant class upon their arrival.
Young men, eager to start in the
promised land flowing with milk
and honey, accepted his uncondi-
tional terms and low wages, below
the scale of living stipend, and
from the savings effected by this
exploitation, he was enabled to ex-
tend his chain of stores until it be-
came one of the largest in the sys-
tenn of grocery stores.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
I'VE Are Naked and
Hungry But Well
Fight for Rights"
By a sharecropper Correspondent


DADEVILLE. Ala. 49, Since they
have found out that we we're in a
union, they have shut down on US
They wont even buy us a print
dress, no food, no nothing, and here
are nine Of us in the family and
no way to get anything.
They don't want us in the Share
Choppers Union, but we are going
to die in it because we intend to
organize and fight to try to better
conditions!
I am an International Labor De-
tense member, but my husband is
a share cropper union member. He
and my brothers and sisters are
going to say we are giving the boss
He'll as they give it to us. I was
one that was run through the woods,
swamps and valleys on the night
that the mob crowd run in on us,
but I am going to fight till I go
down, for the Negro and poor white
as well.
We are real unemployed No way
to get food, no nothing. But the
Communist Party still grows strong.
We know that the Scottsboro boys
wuold have been dead if it had not
been for the organization. Even if
we are naked, hungry, and denied
by the boss, We are going to stand
up and fight for our rights! Because
we all see that this fascism grows
every day. We comrades don't care
if they treat us bad, we are going
to stand up and fight and organize
for better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
-, fin, H.,ylu,I!R
18s##sN HELEN rsts 49, "a
CO.NAJ.s-11D BY
HELEN LUXE

it yourself, do this: get a small
brush on a stick (dime store) or
use an orange-wood stick with a
bit of cotton wrapped around the
end, dip in lemon juice and wipe
under the nails and push back Gu
ticle. If you do this fairly often,
your nails will look well-kept and
will not form hangnails unless you
cut the cuticle.
For rough elbows and knees
lemon again, and little rubbing
with punice stone while taking a
bath"
Next article: "Other Beaches, and
Hair-Dyes.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
HO'0 a PartyUnit Vas Formed
At Thief Riuer Falls Meeting
Fmmer-LabOr Leadership Exposed, and Way
Out Through Mass ActiOn Explained

a packed hall of workers. He told
Of the conditions in the Soviet
Union, Of the conditions of plenty
instead Of starvation, of happiness
and laughter Of children instead of
uncertainty and want, Of the shin
ing future under a socialist form
Of government, possible only after
the workers and farmers overthrow
capitalism and eliminate the profit
system.
After the meeting many workers
and farmers joined the Communist
Party, and a strong party unit
was established, with many former
Farmer-Laborites and Democrats
joining the only true Party that
leads the workers to final victory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Farm Woman Tolls
For a Little Milk
And Torn Clothes
BY a Farmer Correspondent

TALLAPOOsA COUNTY. Ala
am going to tell you my condition.
I am widow woman and 1 live
with my mother and father. and
both of them are old I have no
one to help me at all and the people
that I live with make me wash for
them and they don't pay me any,
thing but things they don't want,
little milk, and old WORKOUT
clothes But 7 have to put up with
it to have a place to stay.
I haven't got clothes to change
in. I have one dress to wear to
church. I wore it all last year,
and I am still wearing it. I think
that if there was ever a person
needed help it is me.
I did all that I could when the
women we're working at the grave
yards, and they would not let me
on. I have gone to so many people
for something to do, and they turn
me down. just any little thing
that I can DO to earnestly help my
self do it, and I am doing what
I can in the local.