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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
Promises Broken by
loss-Sheffield Co.
Mass Picketing, With Help of Unemployed
WI Force Bosses to Improve Conditions

The company union has started
up. It has about 40 members. The
heads of the company union are
scabs. The Executive Board con-
sists of Otto Cal (white), weigh
man; Cecil Houston (white), for
mer prison Dos at Flat Top, who
was brought to SloSs to build the
company union, and who has a job
as foreman; Robert Wilson
(Negro), contractor, and Reverend
Otis Jones (Negro), a contractor.
The company is trying every means
to force the miners into the COM
pany union. In this way they are
trying to smash the miners union.
In our strike we have many
grievances to settle. But we have
to be on guard against takers like
LipScomb and Cole. In the last
strike we didn't have a definite
agreement with the company, and
as a result we got the conditions
we have now after a long hard
strike. This time we have to elect
our own strike committee from the
rank and file miners to deal with
the bosses.
We must stop Richardson and the
other government agents from
framing any sell-outS against
us. We must expose takers like
Lipscomb and Cole and not let
them strangle the strike. We must
call on all the other miners who
are suffering the way we are and
get them to strike in solidarity with
us.
We must call upon the unem-
ploye for support on the picket line
ployed for support on the picket line
We must not let a single Scab, or
even company official enter the
mine during the strike. We must
have real picketing. If the bosses
call out the National Guard we
must build our picket line bigger
than ever and not let the Guards
men break our strike.
If we stick together, and force
the Welfare to give us relief, we
can make real strike out of this
and really force the company to
give into our demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
ANsWERs no QuEsTIONs
Motherhood Under Capitalism

N0tneFh01a Under capitalism
The results of the oppression Of
the Negro people is very plainly
seen in the prenatal clinics and OBJ
stetrical wards Of city hospitals. The
doctor finds that defor1ned pelvic
bones due to ricketts, occur in II per
cent of Negro women and in less
than l per cent Of white. Borgeois
professors hide the truth by saying
that this is due to "the physical de-
generation of the race" The real
reason is that the enforced poverty
Of the Negro people, high rents,
overcrowding, poor food, lack of sun
light and fresh air cause ricketts, in
the children, which softens their
bones. When they grow up many Of
them are left with deformities Of
the pelvic bones.
Children born in well-to-do fam
lilies average 8 lbs. 5 or. at birth,
in poor white families 7 lbs, 4 o.,
and in poor Negro families s lbs, IA
OF. This disadvantage at birth is
followed by increased infant sick
nesses and deaths. This is caused
by insufficient food for the mother
who must work and take care Of her
family during pregnancy.
This has been proven by the ex-
pertinent of having women live and
rest in hospitals for three months
before delivery, This food in the
charity hospitals, though not the
best, is superior 10 that which white
and Negro mothers can afford to eat
at home. In this experiment the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

Going further With the conSi-
deration Of suggestions made by
Comrade Katherine D. and M. o.
H., to the effect that the column
should deal more with household
problems, diet, ETC.
On the subject of whole wheat
versus white bread. Kallett and
Sehlink, in their book 100, 900 900
Guinea Pigs" have warned us, and
so, l believe, has DR.. Luttinger, that
the "roughage" diets, with great
quantities of whole wheat, bran, raw
oellulose-rich vegetables, fruits, ETC.,
may be overdone: that it is not safe
to generalize on such matters, as
these diets may prove injurious to
those with more sensitive or deli
cate intestinal tracts; that in some
cases they aggravate constipation
rather than cure it.
About McCann's discovery" that
q person can live and thrive on only
whole wheat and milk-hope we
won't sound too sarcastic if we
remark that Al was good at finding
out things like that, as are many
bourgeois dieticians and scientists, to
say nothing of the AAA: discoveries
for the benefit" of the workers, to
be sure, for the discoveries don't
want to live on these monotonous
and doubtful diets. (And if the
miners and many other starving
sections of the working class could
only get the milkD
However, in concord with both
the comrades named, we do agree
that we should deal more with
household problems, adulteration of
foods, and health rules, insofar as
we do not duplicate the material
given by professional scientists in
the Workers Health" and Labor
atory and Shop departments.
Not so long after the column
was first instituted evidently as a
move toward developing greater
women's movenent) criticism
came to us roundabout through the
editors of the Working Woman"
The mining comrades complained
that the column was not organi-
rational enough. CThe space was
then devoted to cooking.) We
thought that was good constructive
criticism, and decided to be nothing
If not organizational! That the
mining women were pleased was
shown by the letter from them
printed some Saturdays ago.
Taking into consideration the
views expressed in the great ma
jority of letters received so far,
such experience and knowledge as
we have gained in editing the
column, and the basic line of the
Party, the conviction has more and
more grown upon us that our space
should be split into two parts, the
first part a women'S section gen.
orally, for news, ETC., and the Sec
ond part strictly household
section.
A women's section under our
present title is something of a con-
tradiction, which might imply 10
the new reader that we, like the
fsscists, feel that woman's place is
in the home: on the other hand, our
household section should not be
presented as q women's column, for
as Comrsde Bertram z, pointed out
he and his wife feel their home is
their home. and both take an in
terest in it; while Comrade Allen
a marine worker, and some Com
rade Chefs have shown that they
too like to swap recipes. We think
therefore that enlargement and re.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
By Mine Worker Correspondent

Wy a NAAAAC " VAhtA correspondent
BESSEMER, Ala.-Our Local OF
the Mill Mine and Shelters Union
voted for strike unless the company
gives in to our demands by Aug. %
We may be on strike when this is
printed.
We have many issues for the
strike. The company has broken
its contract with us since the last
strike. The muckers don't get paid
for dead work as they are supposed
to. Muckers have to go to get the
mules, drive them and take them
back to the barn without getting
paid for it. According to the con-
tract, the company is supposed to
furnish mule boys.
Muckers have to lay their own
track without getting paid for it,
The company is supposed to fur
nish track crew.
Some of the contractors cannot
drill, so their drillers get drill
helpers wages.
Hugo Moorell, president of the
Sloss- Sheffield Co., is in Washing
ton now representing the ore in
dustry in the South and is demand
ing a wage scale of Is cents for
surface workers and 81 cents for
underground miners, The union is
preparing a code calling for 40
cents and so cents, with the 7-hour
day. At the rate prices are sky
rocketing here, even the wages in
the miners code will not be enough.
The company refused to rehire
about Is of the union men after
the strike, and now they are fore
ing them to move out of the camps
because they are not working. Also,
some of the old timers are being
forced to move. Hamp Harvey, who
lost his arm with the company, was
forced to move last week.
After the strike the company was
supposed to work the miners &C
cording to seniority. However, the
scabs and the youngest men are
held on the job and the miners with
6 or 7 years rights are being laid
off. This is the way they are trying
to smash our union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

average weights at birth Of the
white babies was increased by 1 ID
l OF, Negro babies showed even
greater increases in weight.
In this country adequate food and
rest for working class mothers is
simply an occasional experiment for
the amusement of a few scientists
In the Soviet Union, under the die
tatorship of the working class, it is
given to every mother.
The rulers of this country, who
starve the children and mothers of
the workers, and conceal it by fas-
cist lies about race degeneration, -
are the same ones who jail Angelo
Herndon and try to lynch the
Scottsboro boys. These attacks are
for the purpose of maintaining the
heavier exploitation of the Negro
people, to crush their fight for poll
teal and social equality, for a decent
standard of living, for bread. The
double exploitation of Negro work
ers is one of the ways in which the
ruling class maintains its exploita-
ton of white workers. BY fighting
for Herndon and the Scottsboro
boys, you are fighting for the pro-
lection of mothers and children. You
can do this today by contributing
to the defense fund of the I. L. D.
By helping in the fight for the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill (H. r. 1899, which
also provides maternity insurance,
you will help all mothers to secure
adequate food and rest during preg-
nancy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
UNIV Officials
SqHGbbIe OUer
Fat Salaries
By a Mime Worker Correspondent

BY Mine Worker Correspondent
HOMER CITY, pat a con-
yention in Barnesboro, Pa, the
union takers like Faber McClos-
key and his gang, fought union
takers like John L. Lewis and P.
Murray, etc. McCloskey and his
gang are fighting Lewis right-hand
men like Charles Ghizzoni, Inter-
national Board members, both of
District No. O. McCloskey is not
fighting for the interests of the
miners. He and his gang are or
gained to get the officials jobs, be-
cause Of the fat salaries.
The rank and file miners at this
convention had hopes that McClos-
key will fight for them, but in the
near future they will learn that
McCloSkey is just as big a faker as
Lewis.
McCloskey and Corporation have
called another convention in Cul-
yer, Pa, for Aug. IL, to strengthen
the fight for the charter and for
autonomy for District No. 2, and for
his chance for Office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
Police Claim Prisoner
Died By Hitting Head
Against Wall of Cell
BY a Worker Correspondent

by a worker Correspondent
PEORIA, Ill.-Harry Hyde. 40, of
Bridgeport, Conn, trainmaster for
the Ringing Bros. and Barnum
and Bailey circus which showed
here last Thursday. died in Proctor
Hospital here Friday from "cere-
bral hemorrhage." The coroner's
jury found that Hyde had been
drinking and apparently suffering
from tremens. When placed in the
hospital by the police for treatment,
he twice escaped from the institu-
ton. The third time he was caught,
after chase by police and placed in
the city Jail.
Police claim Hyde rammed his
head against the cell walls in the
city Jail, causing the injuries to
his head which resulted in his
death. This police explanation was
accepted by the coroner's jury.
Hyde's death however, occurred
under rather suspicious circum-
stances. Workers here are of the
opinion that he could not have so
fatally injured himself by butting
his head against an iron cell wall,
even though suffering from ID. T."
They aver that he might have in
CURED serious scalp decorations by
such butting. but no more. There
is an opinion gaining ground that
Hyde was brutally beaten by the
police to subdue him in jail.
Tt is well-known fact that such
methods have been used by the
local police and detective forces on
many past occasions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
CAUSED BY
CONTRACTORS GREED

The company, which was doing
the contracting work for the gov
eminent, did not provide the men
with masks and did not install an
adequate fan system of ventilation.
Consequently for eight hours every
day the men were forced to breathe
in the fine, powdered glass that
came from the drilling machines.
AS result many of the men have
gotten what the doctors call silicosis
of the lungs-a deadly sickness
causing the lungs to harden and
cease functioning. Some of the
workers are already dead, and at
least 100 are expected to die. For
the rest, there is no more work in
West Virginia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
Macon CountyReHef
Strike Holds Solid

dog" contract (where only certain
foods are allowed between grocers
and the Illinois Emergency Relief.
Two leaders of the Illinois Work
ers Alliance, Wells and John
Watts, renegade from the Com
munist Party, assumed strike break
ing jobs during last minute prepara-
tons, bringing out the red scare.
But the rank and file adopted the
program of the Unemployment
Council and elected a strike COM
mittee of thirty three at a joint
meeting of the I. w. A. and U. G.
Effective picketing brought out all
jobs 100 per cent except one A. F.
of L. controlled job, where 24-hour
picketing is in progress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
IN THE HOME
Reviewing the Argument
BY HELEN LUKE

organization of the space along
these lines is in order and will dis
cuss it further next week.
In line with the city-wide drives
against the rising cost of living,
the Brownsville Committee of
Action is calling a demonstration
August 80, IL a. M, at Hopkins
and Pitkin Ave. Demonstrators
will march to the Brownsville
Market OF Sheffield's and Bor-
dens. The Committee urges all
mass organizations and workers
Of Brownsville to come out with
their children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
DO YOU KNOW THAT


l. There is a kind of ant called
the "slave-maker.' 1t kidnaps ants
of other species and makes them
do the work.
2. There is Chinese Soviet gov
eminent in the heart of China in a
territory that is larger than France
or Germany.
3. In Berlin, Germany. the popu-
lation of 100000 used to eat
100000 pounds of potatoes day.
Recently this ration has been re-
duced by half.
4. The New Pioneer for Septem-
Der is out already. This is a special
Back-to-School number, so be sure
all your friends get copy. The
New Pioneer is cents copy and
so cents year. 1t can be obtained
from Box %, Station D, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
PARTY LIFE
District Check-up Finds
Reasons for FIuctuatiOn
No Political activities in NeighbOrhOod and No
Struggles Cause Loss of Members in Unit

this we will first learn why we
have such a high degree Of fuc-
tuation, and second, we will be in
a position to take steps to check
it, so that we will not only gain
new members for our Party in
our membership drive, but will
be able to retain them.
Garry the Election Campaign Into
the Shops
BY Election Campaign Commission,
District
The election campaign has ale
ready proven to be q splendid
means of intensifying our work in
the shops and factories. Workers,
who are not yet ready to accept the
full program of the Party, can be
modified in support of the cleo
ton platform of the Party. Section
10 has already proven this, by or
gsnizing the first Vote Communist
Club" in one of their shops, which
| is already carrying on some fine
work. The example should be used
by every Section of our Party, as a
means Of intensifying our shop
work.
The first meeting called by the
shop nucleus was attended by
nine shop workers. The main
points discussed were:
l. How to linke the issues In
the shop with the election cam
paign.
2. How to involve 8 greater
number of shop workers in the
election drive. There was fine
discussion. The workers feX the
greatest number of workers in the
Importance of setting in motion the
shop for the support of the cam
paign. Another meeting has been
held with ten workers present.
Many workers in the shop have
contributed through our collection
list to the campaign. Election ma
terial is distributed freely in the
shop. Now arrangements are being
made for a larger meeting, at
which one of our candidates will
speak.
This is a splendid example OF
how to use the election campaign
to build shop units, to issue shcp
papers, to entrench ourselves II
the factories. 1t is true that this
shop is not in basic industry, but
this example should be carried by
all our Sections into concentration
industries.
Use the campaign to build more
shop nuclei and shop papers.
The Election Campaign Commit
tee is arranging conference of all
editors of shop papers to discuss
the use and role of the shop papers
in the election campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
Pit Committee
Is Weakenedby
Lewis SeUOuts
By ) Worker Correspondent

POWHATAN POINT, Ohio-The
regular meeting of Local 8497 was
called to order by President Steiner
at 10 pm. Next came a report of
the Pit Committee, which had a
one hour and a half debate. The
cause of the debate was that the
Pit Committee is not doing enough
work. They are losing all the cases,
although they have a notice stuck
up and it is signed by the president
and superintendent and manager,
saying if a motorman does not keep
a square turn he will be discharged.
But so far no one has been dis
charged and not motorman keeps
a square turn.
Next, the dirty coal question
came up. A couple of months ago
we made a motion to have the car
pulled up to the top and have all
impurities picked out before it will
be called dirty. And now the coal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
Jeanette, Pa, Fight
Against Relief Cuts
Enrolls Wide Support
By a Worker Correspondent

Dy WOTkeT correspondent
JEANETTE, Pa. = Angered by
the double dealing and treachery of
the New Deal, part-time and I'M
employed workers are organizing
into the Unemployment Council.
Recently the relief board began
vicious attack upon our suffering
people, by sweeping helpless indi-
viduals and families off the relief
list, but since the U. C. is being
organized, the relief board Is meet
ing strong opposition. Through the
aid of the U. G. the helpless indi-
viduals and needy families who
were swept off the relief are now
being put back on.
The last two meetings held by
the U. G. we're we'll attended. New
members are being enrolled and the
organization is increasing in num-
Der as in strength.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

company inspectors want to rule
that our inspectors side tracked the
coal. The company stole it from
the side track and had it dumped.
For a little while our coal inspector
had power enough to protest some
of the cars. But lately he has lost
power. And the company inspec-
tors have a list of dirty coal from
As to so cars day, which is I'M
fair.
Now, fellow workers, that is the
way the Lewis outfit is going to get
in power again, unless we run some
good man against him. would like
to see ourselves organized to win a
union of our choosing. Because
with the old machine we will con-
tinue to be slaves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
By a Worker Correspondent


FAIRMONT, w. Va.-Orders have
gone out for some time now to all
superintendent of mines around
Gauley's Bridge, West Virginia, that
no men are to be hired who worked
in the tunnel on the government
power project on the Gauley River.
This is the reason:
In order to harness the river it
was necessary to dig tunnel over
mile long in a surrounding noun
tain. About 1000 men, most of them
unemployed miners, were hired to
do this work. The rock in this tun-
mel was silica, about SO per cent
glass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
BY a Worker Correspondent

DECATUR, Ill.-Some $50 workers
walked of jobs on the Macon
County Relief, led by the United
Front Strike Committee, composed
Of the Unemployment Council and
Illinois Workers Alliance members.
The following demands are the OBJ
ject Of the strike:
1-120 hours per month at IS
cents per hour for common labor.
PSI per hour for skilled labor.
3-Recognition of all grievance
committees.
$50 per cent increase in direct
relief.
5-Abolition of so-called yellow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
3 SHOPS SETTLE WITH UNION

NEW YORK Three additional
parlor frame shops settled Thurs
day with the cabinet section of the
National Furniture Workers Indus
trial Union. The workers won a
decrease of five hours and an in
crease in wages and also two per
cent for the unemployment insur-
ance fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
NOTE!

We publish letters from coal
and ore miners, and from oil field
workers, every Saturday. We urge
workers in these fields to write us
Of their conditions of work and of
their struggles to organize. Please
get your letters to us by Wednes-
day of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 194S is availabel In sizes
IA, IS, 10, 20, 80, "a, 36, 80, 40 and
AZ. Size 16 takes 4 yards So inch
fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew
ing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

The f1uctuation in our Party in
District Eight is serious. Recently
we set up a commission to study
the work of a number of units, to
see how the units work, and if
possible to find the causes for loss
in membership. First we examined
a street unit in Section Seven. We
found the following:
Six months ago the unit had 81
members. During this time four
new members came into the unit,
two through the work of the unit,
and two through the district. Ac-
cordingly, the unit should now
have 25 members. Today the unit
has Is members.
During this six months, the
unit has lost seven members.
Among these seven were the only
Negro workers in the unit-three
Negro women.
When questioned about this, the
comrades explain" that these
Negro women dropped because two
of the them were too old" the
other one had no Interest" in the
unit. The comrades say that these
Negro comrades never took part in
the discussion in the unit, al
though they always carried out
any assignment given to them.
Finally, these Negro comrades
dropped from the Party.
We asked the comrades If they
visited the members whom they
intended TO drop and what reason
did the members give. Our COM
rades tell us that the members
said they were tired" etc.
We questioned further and
found that the unit Buro does not
function, the unit is practically a
zone man" unit.
There is no political discussion
in the unit In all the six months,
not a single leaflet was issued to
the workers in the unit territory in
the name of the unit, nor were
meetings arranged in the name of
the unit on issues arising in the
neighborhood In fact, the workers
in the territory don't know there
Is Communist Party existing.
To sum up-we find there is no
political life in the unit itself-no
political activity In the neighbour
hood among the workers-no
struggles-no recruiting of new
forces. After we see what our units
are likes 1t any wonder workers
leave our Party?
We hope Section Seven improves
the life Of this unit and checks up
on tn comrades and helps them in
their work. Other Sections should
examine few units and help
them improve their political life as
well as their general mass work.
Dist. Org. Commission, District 8.
Note by Editor
The steps taken by District 8 to
find out the reasons for fiuctua-
ton in our membership, should be
followed by every district. Ex-
anime the units in one section,
call the new Party members to-
gether, find out what the units
are doing, what struggles they
are carrying on, what is the pol
iticaI life of the unit. And learn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

Get Subs for the DAILY" During
a Fighter to Our Ranks!
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Struggle.
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