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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
American Bridge Go. Agent
Sees No Jobs for Long Time

from them. Meat in this town and
in the whole vicinity went up SIS
per cent; groceries are just as high.
The A. F. of L. used to have 1000
members in the American Bridge
Co., but for lack of action there are
not even 100 now.
In the Aliquippa mills the Anal
gamated Union has Just started and
by investigation I found out they
have got 5000 members in this Jones
& Laughlin plant.
The ]. & L. Co. has prepared a
pile of specially made heavy clubs
with which they hope to prevent
strikes.
This Labor Day, early in the
morning, the burgess and two cops
went to raid a workers house. They
claimed he was making moonshine.
They found nothing but two pieces
of new lumber that the worker had
got for a bench he was making. The
cops and the burgess took away
these two pieces of lumber.
There was a fine get-together and
dance in Pittsburgh the other night.
Robert Minor made a long, good
speech. The hall was crowded by
thousands. We all had good time
and made great campaign for the
Communist Party. This is the best
way to get young people to join the
Party. Teach them and let them
have good time and they will join
by the thousands.
The Young Communist League
over in McKeesport Pa, had a big
demonstration the other night. Sept
1. Several thousand workers turned
out. They will have another one in
the near future. They are very
strong to have so great showing
in town of $4,000 people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Letters from Our Readers

time I never made a single days
work.
So at times I buy the American"
thinking there might be a job, but
so FAR such an accident has not
happened to me, and I guess to
millions of other unemployed.
Any intelligent man reading this
paper (the Americana can see the
jingoistic poisonous venom spread
through the pages. Mr.. w. r.
Hearst makes no secret that he is
an enemy to the Communists. and
OF course to all militant workers.
But the Americans cartoons also
speak. They used to portray a
Communist as man who never
takes haircut or shave, but
now for good measure they give
him a semitic face, just as if every
Communist were a Jew. Such a
cartoon was printed on August 10.
l believe this fascist Mr.. Hearst
wants to kill two birds with one
stone.
The best proof that Mr.. Hearst
is a fascist and an anti-Semite lies
in the fact that he is at present
in Germany and dining with the
Hitler butchers, who also invited
him to the fascist congress at
Nuremberg. No doubt Mr.. Hearst
will attend.
believe it is necessary still more
to expose this fascist in the Daily
Worker because the poisonous
venom from his chain of news
papers reaches about 25,00O,OOO
people
1t is necessary to rescue the
workers from his poison propa-
ganda and convince the backward
workers that Mr.. Hearst is their
enemy and that they should read
their own paper, the Daily Worker.
B. N.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
by Worker Correspondent

UNIONTOWN. Pa.,-The rsdia-
tor and enamel plant here employs
over 900 workers. The plant is
organized into the International
Brotherhood of Foundry Employees
Local IS, an A. F. of l.. union.
Sometimes there are only one or
two days work month in some
Of the departments.
The members of the Local SIS
had trouble getting on relief, and
finally elected a committee Of
three as a relief committee. Last
week a member of the local asked
help Of this committee to get on
relief. The committee took the case
up with the relief director who told
them that the man in question was
not entitled to relief because he
draws $18 in wages the last pay.
Local 65 told this member they
could do nothing else for him.
It happened that the case was
called to the attention of the I'm
employed Committee in that neigh
borhood. They investigated the
family's conditions and found that
SIS out of the $18 went to pay
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Engineers in
USSR Held
Best in WOrId
BY Soviet Worker Correspondent

BY a SCyiet-Worker Correspondent
MOSCOW, U. S. S. Rim gem
eral, industry here is in a far more
advanced stage than the world at
large has any conception of. The
engineers are exceptionally we'll
informed. They have the advan-
tage of the literature of the world.
Most of the rating engineers read
and speak German, French, Eng
| fish, and Russian. There are few
young engineers who don't speak
two languages and most of them
three. They are consequently very
we'll informed And as for tech
biological information and theory
they outrate our engineers in the
! states.
am planning on taking my
vacation soon commencing on
July LIST. Will spend it at Vow
Atom On the Black Sea in the Cav
casus. am quite enthusiastic
about it. A months vacation with
pay and ticket to resort in the
/ Caucasus. That's something for
America to shoot at.
expect to change my work be-
fore long. I have more or less
cleaned up the work 1 started out
to do. Our present Calcium bab-
bit bearings are of very high quail
ity. They are better than the tin
babbit that they are substituting
for they are harder, less brittle
and have a lower coefficient of
friction.
Scrap has been reduced to well
below l per cent. We discovered
and developed method Of carting
these bearings which eliminates q
flow in this type bearing that
I neither America, Germany or
France had been able to get away
from.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

wish to give some examples of
the difficulties we had in collect
ing signatures with some Party
units. In one mine We have mine
unit of IA members, 10 of them
working in the mine. Seven of
these members are Americans. In
this unit we have five members
who have been in the Party more
than five years. had two Spe-
cial meetings with this unit on the
election campaign and visited the
members at least three times in
between the meetings to check up
on the collection of signatures.
One member collected seven sig
natures in other mining camps, but
not one signature was collected in
the mine where our unit is work
ing; not even one Party member
signed the petition.
The members of three other
mine units refused to collect sig
natures in the places they work
and collected but few in the sur
rounding territory.
This is to be explained. among
other things, by the following two
facts: l, the Party membership.
majority of them new, do not I'M
derstand the political significance
of the elections, particularly in the
present period; 2, there is 9 strong
tendency among the local Party
members not to carry on any &C
tivity in the mines they work in.
for fear Of losing their Jobs, but
that they should be active in other
territories.
In addition, with the exception
of one unit, our Party is concen-
trated in two counties, Marion and
Monongahela.
The other units, participating in
the collection Of signatures, did
real revolutionary work. On our
petitions we had the following
statement: And we further certify
that each of said candidates is
legally qualified to hold the office
for which he is nominated and that
we desire and are legally qualified
to vote for said candidates"
When the signatures were COL
lected the Party members carried
with them the Manifesto of the
Eighth National Convention, giving
it to the workers, and the leaflet
issued by us on the first anniver-
sary of the NR.A.. as we'll as the
Daily Worker and some pamphlets.
Several new members were re-
cruited into the Party and some
new readers gotten for the Daily
Worker. In the places where the
signatures were collected the Party
was fairly we'll popularized, through
literature and conversations.
We have elected an Election
Campaign Committee which is now
organizing United Front Con-
ference. The plan is under way
for tour of our candidates, sew
eral symposiums, local leaflets,
house to house canvassing, as soon
as the platform is ready, etc. We
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Seek to Head
OfStruggle
by:Red Scare
by a worker Correspondent

NORTH CHICAGO. Ill. Last
Friday State Attorney Mason of
Lake County made a statement in
behalf of the Elks, K. K. K. and
Legion. They are CLOSING down on
the local reds" because the workers
are beginning to organize and in
some instances the rank and file in
the A. F. of L. demand action of
their leadership.
For instance, at the Johns Man
vile plant, whsre about 1000 men
are working, there has been a sham
battle between the A. F. of L. and
m p ny union for over two
months. The manager, Mr.. Schultz
Ter, told the committee that his COM
pany could not afford to pay any
more than what he does pav-"44
cents an hour" under very unsani-
tary conditions and unbearable
speed-up The A. F. of L. had over
TOO men signed up into this shop
union, Nothing was done by the
local leaders to mobilize the workers
in struggle against the Johns Man
vile Co.
The second quarter of 1894 the
firm made $249,936 in profit. and
still Mr. SCHUYLER tells us that he
has to shut down the plant if he is
forced to raise the wages for his
men. But at the same time Mr..
Schuffler can afford to hire a spe-
cial detective, Mr.. Ahlstrom, former
police chief of Wsukegan and an
Expert strikebreaker since the 1919
steel strike, and pay him $500 a
month. Under him he has % special
deputies in the plant. Army cots
and beds are brought in the plant.
Mr.. Schuffler also bought a few
machine guns; in addition he has
put up barbed wire fence all
around the factory
Same thing is taking part in other
shops around here, although in diff
ferent forms particularly the Wire
Mill and the CRIES. Phlegger Tan
ming Co. The workers are beginning
to move against the reaction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

Union Blocks
Fight at Philco
Prom a PhiIco Worker CorrespOndent

From a Philco Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa-The recent
agreement Of the Speaker Field Coil
Testers g. Oscillators Of Philco and
management is Just another exam
pie of rotten leadership at the head
Of union. The grievance was this:
The firm deliberately took group
of so men off the testing of coils
and replaced them with female help
at the rate Of 81 cents less an hour.
This condition was allowed to drag
on for about three months before
the union decided to do something
about it.
An agreement finally allowed the
firm to keep out about 800 auxiliary
help who make parts for coils, under
the contention that progress could
not be held up. as they make those
parts in Springfield, Mass. And the
union agreed to this. though there
are as yet 1900 male union help
walking the streets. This is only a
comparatively simple grievance COM
pared with others now pending.
For instance, in the Press Shop,
where all of the heavier metal parts
are made, women operate large
punch presses that only a man
should operate, and at that with
very inadequate safety devices.
Throughout the plant various
other grievances are popping up now
and then. In each case the COM
pany, through the company con-
trolled leadership of the union. usu-
ally wins. In the cabinet making
shops the men are compelled to Join
both the company union and the
Cabinet Makers Union of America
"a. F. of L. and pay dues to both.
There is. however. a strong rank
and file element forming inside the
union, and we expect at the next
elections of officers to make con-
siderable Roadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
STEEL WORKERS FIGHT FOR RELIEF AS UNEPLO YMENT GROWS
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

Secondly, doctors are coming to
the opinion that aside from over
strain, a rheumatic heart is made
worse by another attack Of "rheu-
mstism." Accordingly, it is i'm
portant to avoid, so far as possible,
exposure to wet and cold; if sore
Threats and colds are frequent, re-
moval of tonsils may be advisable.
If one does get a sore throat or
attack of muscle and joint pains,
especially with any fever, go to bed
and stay there till over it.
Experience shows that the dis
ease attacks the heart in proper
ton as it is neglected; if proper
care is taken till one is we'll over
the attack, the heart frequently
escapes altogether.
Dietary Fads
C. F. Rive are sorry to be
unable to discuss the dietary
theories of DR.. Arnold Ehret, since
we have never heard of him. nor
do we know the publications in
which he extolls them. Dietary fads
do not appeal to medical men. be-
cause one remedy is applied uni
versally in all cases.
AS a rule, they do harm rather
than good, are poorly balanced and
poorly planned A special diet is
necessary only in such specific
cases, as for example, diabetes, GER
tain kinds of starvation, in pei
lagra where there is a lack of Ger
tain food substances causing dis
ease, etc. Unless prescribed by a
physician. or a well-trained dieti-
ton, let us avoid diets other than
well-rounded general diets. These
include An abundant supply of
milk. fresh fruits and vegetables.
meats, fish and dairy products.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
A PRACTICAL ORGANIZER
New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrade Editor:

New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrade Editor:
I wish to report the details of an
incident that marks the Daily
Worker as the foremost practical
organizer of the working class.
About six months ago, I at
tempted to interest restaurant
worker in our newspaper I often
gave him copies to take home, but
could not induce him to read the
newspaper every day. About one
month ago a Party member under
took to deliver the paper. I or
dered one to be sent to this worker.
At first his wife refused it, but the
second time she accepted
Two weeks after he began to read
the Daily" he decided to visit the
Food Workers Industrial Union. l
knew nothing about this. After q
few hours of advice from the or
ganizer, he returned to his restau-
rant and began to organize the rest
of the workers. In ten days all
but one waitress signed union cards.
Last Friday, the organizer came
to the restaurant and the workers
were prepared to strike. After one
hours conference the bosses CAPT.
tulated. The results were shorter
hours-from twelve to ten hours
per day and one hour off for meals
salaries raised from $18 to $24 a
week, etc. All the demands were
won. But above all the workers
feel the security of organization.
And now they all read the Daily"
Comradely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
BY a Worker Correspondent

AMBRIDGE, Pa. = A friend of
mine and I went to the American
Bridge Co. looking for jobs, The
employment agent said there was
nothing he could do. How long would
it be before work would start again
We asked him. Not for a long time.
The company doesn't have any
work because there's too many Dem
ocrats."
I said: "How come in Republican
times there was no work because
there was too many Republicans?"
There was no comeback to that.
I said: I'll tell you the reason.
It's because the company and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
MISS x. s

The article referred to by Miss S.
has been clipped evidently from a
local paper; it is a letter to the
Editor" written by someone signing
himself "a Lover of Fairness" 1t
consists of long, religious, patri-
otto diatribe against the employers
of household help, railing against
them for exploiting their domestics,
appealing to their better natures,
to change their ways. and so on.
The letter is called The Forgotten
Woman" 1t is too long to run en-
tire, but few excerpts will show
the line it takes: Forgotten they
are. These fine American girls are
ill-treated, overworked, undergrad.
Forgotten these American women
are by our labor leaders and our
social-minded orators and profess
sors. Yes, maids they may be,
but are these women not our
American sisters, are these Amer
lean women not educated in our
American schools, are they perhaps
not Just as able as many of their
mistresses? We find miStresSes
advertising in other states where
they think they can get cheaper
labor. Too bad these so-called
ladies do not run ads in foreign
countries and try to get slaves from
the other side of the pond, as it
was done before 1862 in the South,
and in years after in the East and
West. E.
BE men and women. Shake off
your lowdown greed and selfishness.
Be loyal Americans and true Chris
tisns. Raise the wages Of your
house help to the level Of justice,
and lessen the hours Of labor. :"
And so on. Faith hope charity,
and-nationalism. We can only
quote further the final paragraph,
and then we shall answer Miss S..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Women in Ecorse, Mich,
Put On Forced Labor
Sewing for Relief Pay
BY a Worker Correspondent

ECORSE. Mich" her. is
invention at the Ecorse welfare
circles. So far they passed out
jobs for the male occup2nts On
various welfare projects, c. w A.
P. w. A. and what not Now there
is no Job any more for the fathers
of families so they are giving jobs
for the mothers.
l just bumped into a man who
takes out tickets to mothers of
families, calling them to work at
the public schools. I understand
the work will be some sewing for
so cents an hour, and mothers will
be allowed to work so many hours.
or in other words. to the amount of
their welfare checks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

and point out the dangers in the
clipping tomorrow:
IF the houSemaids would be
courageous instead of cringing, if
they would unionize, then they
would raise themselves to a higher
level and be respected; then they
would be in a position to demand
living wage and reasonable working
hours; then they would enjoy life
instead of remaining the little re-
spected, underpaid, overworked
houseslaves. Help yourselves and
God will help you"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1871 is available only in
sizes 8, 10, IL, IA and 16 Size IL
takes "a yards 81 inch fabric and
p yard IS inch contrasting. Illus
trated STEP by-step sewing instruc-
tons included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
PARTY LIFE
Miners in Vest Virginia
And the Election Campaign
Nine Units Collect Petitions and Spread c. p.
LeafLets-OtherS Fear Loss of Jobs

are preparing to send our candi@
dates to speak before various work.
ing class organizations, asking
them to elect delegates to the
Conference, etc. The financial
drive is already under way to make
it possible to raise the necessary
money for the election material.
Plan of Work for 18th Anniversary
of C. P. U. S. A.
In response to the editorial in
the Daily Worker, asking for in-
formation about what the sections,
units and districts are doing on tbs
Party anniversary, Section l, New
York, sends in very excellent
program OF action for the month
Of September. The plan includes q
special discussion on the Party an
niversary, to be held in the units
in two unit meetings, open air
meetings at strategic street corners
in the neighborhoodS, noon gate
meetings at nine shops and fac
tories, the issuance of street and
shop papers, dealing with Party
history and announcing the lit
erature on Party history. The
fractions in the mass organizations
and trade unions are also arrang-
ing discussions on the Party an
niversary at open fraction meet
ings. Specific responsibility for
each detail of the plan has been
given to every unit. The necessity
for recruiting is stressed, as we'll as
the fact that all of the actions in
connection with the Party ami
versary must be linked up with the
election campaign and the struggles
in which the Party is engaged at
the present time, such as the
struggle for unemployment insur-
ance, against war and fascism. and
the preparations for the second
anti-war congress, the struggle
against wage cuts and against the
high cost of living.
Will the units of Section
please tell us how they have car
ried this plan into life?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

NOTE
We publish letters from steel,
metal and auto workers every
Tuesday. We urge workers in
these industries to write us Of
their conditions and their efforts
to organize. Please get these let
tiers to us by Saturday of each
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
HEARST PROPAGANDA

New York, N. Y.
Dear Editor:
have been unemployed for more
than two years, and during this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (I5c) in
coins or stamps (coins prefCrredD
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
number. BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department. 243 w. 18th
ST., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Killed While on Road
On Way to Seek a Job
Bv ? Worker Corresnondent

LANCASTER, Pa.-Andrew Stack
house, aged 20. of Chicago, slipped
from a Philadelphia bound freight
train at Enola yards, near Harris
burg late on Aug. 81. Shortly after
ward this victim Of the bosses died
in the Harrisburg Hospital. Both
legs were crushed around the knees,
and deaTn resulted from severe
hemorrhage and shock.
Lowered physical resistance at
tributable to the nature of life ION
the road" poor and irregular eating
and sleeping, ETC., was also a con-
tributing factor.
Stackhouse was on his way to
Reading to seek work at the fair
to be held in September.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

A Red Builder on Every Busy
Street Corner in the Country Means
a Tremendous Step Toward the
Dictatorship Of the Proletariat!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
The 100000 Coal

DAPIDLY, the members of A. F..
~ Of L. unions are gaining an I'M
derstanding of the militant and
honest role the Daily Worker plays
in organizing and supporting their
struggles against their bosses. Ac-
companying contribution to the
100000 drive, the following letter
is sign of the influence of the
Daily"
81 cannot disclose my identity"
writes the worker, because ! be-
long to an A. F. Of L. union and
would be expelled. even for a
little thing like this.
Tn answer to the slanderOus
attacks of Green g. Co.. I am
sending TALL / cam S1.O0 towards
strong militant press on this
continent.
Sorry / cannot send more, but,
as you say, every little bit helps"
WHAT pressure from the rank and
W file can do is manifest in an
other communication, from the fur
workers in the shop of CHASER and
Kleinman, 236 w. 30th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

The fur workers send S2-but,
as the letter informs us in sim
pie terms, they even involved
the boss in this 50 collection"
Whoa, bossy!
ANOTHER contributor. P. Mira
n vale. asks that We do not send
him any acknowledgment. The
Daily Worker, he feels, should not
spend its much needed money ION
stamps and stationery to thanA
workers for doing their duty.
when l receive slip of ac-
acknowledgements for my dollar" he
asserts, 81 think of the cents
spent. +. Let me be without the
thought to mar 1t. Save those 8
cents.
IN MILWAUKEE, the John Reed
Club, with a quota of $40, chal-
lenges the T.U.U.L. in the sama
city. The T.UUL. quota is $40, but
the challenge is on the percentage
basis The club makes the time limit
the third week of October.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

DISTRICT 8 (CIeveIand)
Chas LaCava, Total Sept "a $2.03
Erie, Pa. $500 Total to date s443.4k
DISTRICT IL North Dakota)
VIM Burhnell, Total Sept "a sl.00
Butte, Mont s1.00 Total to date $3.50
DISTRICT IL (SeattIe)
Rose Horovitz sl8.27 Total Sept 40 1927
Total to date S27 AZ