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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
By a Textile Worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
ATLANTA, Ga.-Conditions in
the Fulton Bag and Cotton mill
here are not at all on the up grade.
We are working but six hours each
day and that is hardly enough to
buy actual food with, to say nothing
Of having to pay rent to the COM
pany, besides medicine and other
necessary expenses that must be
met.
It is rumored that some Of the
workers went off to union meet
ing uptown, trying to organize
textile union. But the next morn
ing they were sent out indefinitely.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
Calls for Anti-W ar
Group in Army Base

next war will call for nation in
arms. Every individual will play an
important part. Most likely every
one will be drafted Tor either front
line service or labor service here.
Since imperialist war is created by
the rich for their profits even the
men behind the lines will pay their
little mite 70 the profiteer. We will
again pay ship-ocket prices for food,
shelter and clothing. We will work
under strict military discipline, Our
wages will probably remain about
the same, if not lower.
There are several hundred young
girls working in the office here.
They do not realize that they will
suffer as well as we will in the war
They will be driven slavishly at
work and many will lose husbands
and Sweethearts to the army.
Fellow Workers! Let us not be
bribed or lulled to sleep by more or
less steady jobs and the return of
the ten per cent of our cut eve
only got this back because of the
effective protest Of the Navy Yard,
post office and other government
employees.
We must fight against imperialist
war NOWl
Organize an anti-war and fascist
group in the Army Base!
Let us support the struggle of the
workers all over the world, against
war and fascism.
ARMY BASE WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
Is Birth Control
BarbarOus?

Conrade Joe x, who is doing
valuable work for the movement
wrote in a letter to another member
of the Daily Worker staff some lines
protesting the Communist sanction
of birth control and capital pun
ishment. They have been referred
to us with the suggestion that we
try to answer the objections, which
are as follows:
please cut out from our interna-
tional Party birth control as bar
barous act. By advocating bar
barism we cannot call ourselves
civilized people. Barbarism was a
time of the past.
To-day and in the future cut out
those two barbarous acts if we want
our Party to progress. The strong
est emperors and kings used bar
barism and what became of their
Kingdoms? Down to nothing. But
we do not want our Party to fall.
to call the Communist Party bar
barous Party"
Reply
Comrade, contradict Do l hear
you telling me that the strongest
emperors and kings used birth con-
troll and now their kingdoms are
down to nothing? Oh my, oh my.
No, comrade, the convictions you
have expressed are just the sort of
beliefs the ruling class wants to
instill into the workers, in order to
render the workers helpless and
harmless TO their rulers.
Birth control was never prac-
tice of barbarism: quite the con-
trary.
Church and capitalist state OPP
pose birth control. Why? The
former wants parishioners, the lat
ter plenty of slaves and cannon
fodder. The rich have birth con-
troll if they want it, whether it is
legal or not.
Wherein is the 'barbariSm" of
birth control? Which is the bar
barous" act, to condemn a woman
to bear children that must after
wards starve and suffer. or to let
her prevent these births? Il wish
Comrade Joe could read the thou
sands of piteous letters that pour
in yearly to Mrs. Margaret Sanger,
birth control advocate.) If the bar
barism" of birth control is simply
that it interferes with natures
processes" then shaving must be
pretty barbarous too.
Our Party aims to free all op-
pressed peoples. Women are very
much oppressed, and they consti-
tute half the working class. How
could you say that women would not
be oppressed if compelled to bear
more children than they want, or
than are good for them? Our Party
acknowledges that women them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
Wages Low
OnChenlical
Poison Jobs
BY a Chemical Worker Cor
respondent

NIAGARA FALLS, N. The
big shots in this town have had
things their own way too long. This
wages paid to workers in these
chemical plants have always been
lower than any place along this
size Of the frontier. Even in good
times" the Carborundum only paid
from &c to 40c an hour for men
and l8c to zoe an hour for women.
It's one OF Andy Melons plants,
And there was little variation of
these scales throughout the city.
The work in these chemical plants
is about tine lousiest and most
hazardous of any I know. If the
different kinds OF stuff they manu-
facture don't get you all at once,
they're bound to get you in the long
run and make wreck out of you.
This winter and spring these
plants have been .ulaing "A hours
a day to capacity, filling Roose-
velt's war orders, and there still re-
main thousands of unemployed in
the city. So we can see that even
if industry die get back on its old
schedules, millions of men would
never be needed again.
They select the men they do hire
as if they were recruiting for a
marathon, You have to have a
physique like wrestler to get a
job. And if your eyes are weak, o.
your teeth need to be overhauled,
they must be fixed at the workers
expense. I know cases where worker
has gone into debt to get himself in
shape and then they tell him they
can't use him.
Most of the plants have no unions
whatsoever. The DUPONT has a
company union set up, where all
the workers Representative" are
known stool pigeons and if man
voices a grievance for his delegate"
to take up, he gets canned.
The U. S. L. Battery plant formed
a union and affiliated to the A. F.
of L., which took a so per cent cut
on all dues, ETC., and then refused
to back the men up when they went
up for better wages and working
conditions. They referred them to
Wagner'S Arbitration Board which
gave decision partially in favor of
the men, and gave the company a
week to comply.
When the committee put the de-
cision before MacLean, the general
manager, he drove them out of the
office and said, to he'll with Wagner
and the President, etc., and that's
all that was ever done about it.
The company never compiled, the
government did nothing, the A. F.
of L., did nothing, and the active
members in the union were all
fired.
The U. S. L. is one of the lousiest
places to work in town. The sui
phuric acid fumes eat the clothes
off the workers, makes their teeth
drop out, and they have to get new
ones at their own expense.
And the FASTING room, where they
put the lead oxides on the batter
plats and mix the oxides, sends men
to the sanitarium, IN six months,
with lead poisoning that ruins them
for life. The company employs
Negro workers to mix the oxide,
which is the worst job in town 1t
is the only place In the plant they
employ them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
Stream of Calumny
Turned on BRIDGES
By a Worker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-The Gen.
eral Strike in Frisco has thrown
the fear of god into the ruling class,
and they are still quaking. You'd
think they'd gone mad. Every
paper Gncluding the "pro-labor"
Daily News. edited by a hypocrit-
ical faker, Manchester Boldly came
out viciously against the organized
workers.
They've turned a stream of cal
jimmy on Harry Bridges now that
the regular leaders have sold out
the general strike. They were
afraid to do this before on account
Of his great popularity with the
workers up and down the coast
Now they're trying to make up for
lost ground.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
Threats Won't Stop
Struggle in atlanta
Pay at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Is Not Enough
To Buy Food, To Say Nothing of Rent

The owners of the mill said dis
tinctly that they would not allow a
union around their mill; they said
they would close down the plant
first.
About 16 years ago the workers
pulled a strike here and not being
properly organized they lost in the
attempted strike. Some were al
lowed to go back to work, but many
Of them were driven off the prem
ises.
New workers, however, drift into
the mill bringing new blood, new
d cas- and new determination.
Something must and shall be done
about it.
Most of them read daily papers
and see the pictures of strikers, and
whisper, We will some day soon
pull one of the damnsst strikes ever
in the history of the South"
There are plenty of Communists
throughout the mil districts in and
around the city of Atlanta, and
they ere slowly but surely getting
on in their work.
At a meeting of the XII Kulx
Khan in an effort to reorganize in
an outlying suburban centcr. Jonn
Hudson, the god-serving assistant
district solicitor general t'>N
good Christian who sent Angelo
Herndon up to the George C-.s,--.
gang for 20 years, remarked as
follows: 1--WE the good, 1aw-abiding
citizens of Georgia are going to run
every Communist out of this state.
If they don't skip we will give them
the gang or maybe the electric
chair"
But the workers are asking ques-
tions. They are beginning to learn
and are taking heart.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01

What can the Y. C. L. units do
for the Telegra ph Messengers Unicn
as concerns organization? Unit Z
shows the way. It organized the
messengers OF two Offices il its dis
trlct. Unit X shows it realizes the
Importance of the messengers in
this key industry controlled by great
financial capitalists. Rockefeller
interests control the Western Unicn;
Postal is controlled by Morgan in
terests)
Recently, the Western Union had
graduation exercise for their
own messenger continuation school,
chartered by the board of education.
Here the messengers were put thru
iingoist exercises, marching ss SOL
diers and singing military songs.
Then President White Of the Wes5-
ern Union made a speech, telling
the messengers thct he was once a
messenger making 81 week, and
to look at what he is today. Be
exploited today, messengers, tomor-
row you VIII be men OF business,
presidents! This same w. U. also
censored Daily Worker news dis
patches from Birmingham recently.
Company unions, bribery, thugs,
dismissals, intimidation, are their
other fascist weapons.
Armed with the Telegraph Mes
Sengers Voice in one hand, and the
knowledge of Importance of union
ization, especially in this industry,
where thousands of youth are ex-
plotted $3.50 average weekly wage,
according to A. Welch, company
union official, w. u, for 4S-hour
week., Unit x organized the mes
5engers. Unit x has done it. Let
every unit follow this example.
A T. M. U. YCLer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Medicine in Soviet Russia

J. Donovan, Jersey City: Sorry to
disappoint you, but physicians are
required to study just as long in
Russia, as in all other civilized coun-
tries. The government is using
every possible method to arouse the
population to the dangers of ven
ereal and other contagious and in
fictitious diseases. AS a matter of
fact, no worker can start on his
Job, in factory, before he is vac
cinated against smallpox and ty-
phoid fever. It's too bad they did
not think of consulting Donovan of
Jersey City, who would have taught
them how to abolish all diseases in
a few words, according to natural
methods. Your ideas about health
and disease are as modern as a dino
saur or a corset cover and as valu-
able as a horse-fly on the rump Of
a jackasS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
Secret Indictments
Dra,on Up in Portland
For Militant Workers
BY Worker Correspondent


PORTLAND, Ore.-The terror is
very severe here at present. Head
quarters of all organiza tons have
been raided and many of the ccln-
Tades held for Criminal Syndical-
ism, under $500 to $4,000 bail.
The Party is continuing to func-
ton under illegal conditions. War
rants have been issued for those
who escaped the dragnet, and we
have information that secret indict-
ments are already prepared for us.
The Oregon National Guard was
called out last night, but the rank
and file of waterfront strikers are
uniting more solidly and expressing
their determination to fight it out,
in spite of the attempts of the A.
F. of L. officials to behead the gen.
eral strike and sell them out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
GRAFT ON BREADLINE
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK; was down at the
Municipal Lodging House to eat,
and I found out some pretty cold
facts. The handling of the lineup
of men is very poor. They give you
very small portions of food. cold
coffee all the time. They pour out
too many cuos ahead of time. Some
men get better portions than others,
as the handlers know them. The
food is usually sour.
On the street you find men sell
ing work tickets, and this also holds
up the line. Men are working there
all day without pay. What We want
to know is who gets the pay?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
BY a Worker CORRESPONDENT

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.-Yes, we
got an open fascist dictatorship in
sunny California now. They are
just like Hitler, burning Commu-
mist Party literature and books, as
in Germany.
When the shipowners, with their
agents, the press and A. F. of L.
fake leaders couldn't stop the on
coming general strike, they resorted
to a vicious campaign and attack
against the Communist Party and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
DiscIaiming Snobbery

Mildred: The physician you name
does not discriminate between a
worker who is Party member and
ore who is not AS his energy and
time are limited, it would be impos-
sible for him to treat all the I'M
employed in the city. He cannot
solve the problem of medical care
for the masses all by himself. He
must therefore establish some kind
of limitation for those seeking &C
cess to his services. If you know
Of q better plan, we should like to
hear it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
Building Revolutionary Opposition
in a Cleveland Steel Mill

This mill is one that the A. A..
he'd the majority organized in, and
cur line up until now was to work
primarily inside the A. A. and inside
the shop. but not to organize the
S. M. w. I. u. We have a very loose
opposition group, numbering about
IS, which does not meet regularly
but has a considerable influence in
the union meetings and also through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
Coast Guards GiUen
Regular Rifle Drill

BY Coast Guard Correspondent
PROVINCETOWN, Mass.-For the
first time il years, the coast guards
are being given regular rifle drill
under the supervision of men from
the marines, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
NOTE:

We publish letters from textile,
needle, shoe and leather worker,
every Wednesday. Workers in
those industries are urged to
write us of their conditions of
work, and Of their struggle. to
organize. Get the letters to us by
Saturday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
We Take a Bow


X. James: We are glad to hear
that our column weaned you away
from the N. Y. American, the N. Y.
Telegram and the Paterson Call If
we had more space and less mod
esty, we should have printed your
letter in full. We have received a
number of letters from Telegram
readers expressing the same opin-
ions as you do. This accounts for
the vicious attack Haywood Broun
made on our column some time ago.
It's the first thing this erstwhile
friend" of ours would like the Daily
Worker to abolish. All good Marx
ians understand the reason why. AS
to your suggestion that comrades
should stop reading medical advice
from non medical sources, it is an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01

Send FIFTEEN CENTS u5c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred)
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
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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, 1934-08-01
Campbell Soup Co.
Strikers Still Suffer
From Discrimination
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
CAMDEN, N. 1.-The strike in
the Campbell Soup Co. was sold
out by the leader of the Socialist
Party, Manning. 1t became known
that during this strike he had
secret meetings with the police.
At present good half of the
former strikers are fired, others are
compelled to work ten hours a day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
WORKERS IN STEEL MILLS
APPRECIATE DAILY WORKER
New Castle. Pa.

New Castle, Pa.
Received your request for my
opinion Of the Daily Worker, and I
want to say that it should be read
by everyone. 1t would be a fine
thing if possible to get the 81 per
cent of the people to read and di-
gest it. 1t gets the old dormant
brain to working. I have been a
thinker" for some time, but can
still digest more.
In regard to my subscription,
Just cannot afford the money, hav-
ing family to support with food,
shelter, and clothing. New Castle
is a U. S. Steel town, and my work
is in the steel mill, which has been
shut down for three years. You may
rest assured that the fact that I
cannot subscribe will not deter me
from being a booster for your paper.
wish you all the luck in the
world. We are sure to gain our
ends. Coed luck to the Party.
G. w. z.
Get Daily Worker Subscribers!
IN OOO New Readers nv Sent, 1st.!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1885 is available in sizes
Is, Is, 20 "a, SO, SO, 40, AZ and A.
Size 16 takes 35s yards So inch
fabric and rs yards rufhing Il
Illustrated step-by-step sewing in
structions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
Thernalaid

E. X. Brooklyn: This contraption
made by the Electro Thermal Com
pany of Steubenville, Ohio, is fake
prostate gland cure" 1t has been
exposed as such on numerous occa-
sions; but it seems that it still finds
people to bamboozle. The positive
cure" that the manufacturers prom
Use is a snare and delusion. If
our government were really inter-
ested in the health of the masses
it could have stopped this swindle
long ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
IN THE HOME
BY HELEN LUKE

selves have the right to decide such
matters.
We'd like to hear from women on
the question Comrade Joe has raised.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01

instead of eight. And this at a
time when each morning from two
to three thousand workers stand in
line before the gates of the factory,
in expectation of work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
.pecnliar CONSERVATION

J. Brill: From the description,
it seems to be due to some nervous
cause. When condition has lasted
20 years, it is hard to cure, eSpe-
cially without physical examina-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-01
DR.. LUTTINCER ADVISES

excellent one; but it takes time and
perseverance. Letters like yours en-
courage us in our task. Thank you'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14

imperialist war into civil war" In
voting down this phrase, the con-
vention refused to use the most
effective method of smashing i'm
perialist wal once it had begun. 1
was equally surprised when reso-
luton, attacking the Soviet Union.
was passed by the convention.
could not conceive OF working
class organization. fighting FOR
Socialism, attack the only country
where Socialism was being built.
After this convention, I decided to
join with those who were trying to
change the stand taken by the con-
vention.
Left Wing Groups Built
In 1888, cleft wing" groups were
formed in different parts of the
country for the purpose OF changing
certain policies of the Y. P. 8. l.. at
the convention at Reading, Pa. A
statement to the convention was
supported by more than a hundred
Y. P. S. L. and S. P. members; this
statement called for united front"
action with the Young Communist
League and other workingclass or
CARNATIONS. The statement also
demanded the reinstatement of all
comrades who had been expelled for
their united front activity The
New York leadership Of the conven-
ton purrosely wasted the conven-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14

pose of merely discussing current
problems and attacking the Red In
ternational. In that way they keep
section of the working class un-
der their influence and out of the
true revolutionary international
party of the working class.
The S. P has been included
among the respectable parties of
American capitalism The ruling
class recognizes it as a valuable
instrument with which to keep the
working class divided and out of
struggle. The social task Of the S.
P. leaders is to do these two things
for the capitalist class. The no
united front ruling is the weapon
used by the S. P. leaders (con-
sciously or unconsciously) to keep
the workers divided The S. P. in
representing itself as a revolution
airy party keeps the workers out of
the only revolutionary party. There
is so little difference between the
S. P. and the liberal capitalist par
ties that Progressive Republican
has been placed as the Socialist"
candidate for governor of Wiscon-
in, even before he joined the So
cialist Party.
1, with group Of YPSL. and
SP. members have participated in
numerous united fronts and we
know that those who are in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14
m Open Letter to Y P s. l. and Socialist Party Member

day to day struggles are the ones
who are sincere. We participated
in the united front May Day DEM
onstration: in anti-fascist demon
STATIONS, eviction cases, and local
strikes. In these struggles the
Young Communist League and the
Communist Party were in the fore
ground. They are the only sincere
organizations of the working class.
The members of the Young Commu-
mist League and the Communist
Party do not have to break organi-
rational discipline when they want
to participate in the class struggle
in common with the rest of the
workers.
What was the stand of the so
cialists" in the city administration
in regards to the strike of the Elec-
trio Company workers? What did
Mayor Hoan do about the police
brutality in this strike? For three
days the police had been clubbing
the workers at the car barns. For
three days the great public utility
(owned by Morgan and Coz had
been defying public sentiment. All
this time the mayor had been quiet.
Only on the fourth day did the
mayor issue statement that said
nothing about the police brutality,
but instead, pleaded with the bosses,
that for the sake Of peace they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14

tons time SO that the cleft" wing
could not be heard on these ques-
tons. They held a banquet, a
dance, a parade. many unnecessary
speeches; and when these were over,
they did not have time to discuss
important workingclass problems
The leadership of that convention
will not easily rid themselves of
the stigma Of this shameful action
Did the S. P. move towards the
cleft" at the Detroit convention?
If we were to believe all we read IN
the capitalist press, we would say
yes; but if we study the results
of the convention, we would be
forced to say no" The so-called
"left wing that controlled the con-
vention we're Socialists" like Hosn
Hause-, Raskin, Benson, etc. We
in Milwaukee have had our fill of
the cleft wing actions" of these
prominent politicians. Economic
conditions strike wave, etc)
forced the convention to recognize
the class struggle after denying its
existence for many years.
s. P. Leaders Backed N. r. A.
For over year the S. P. leaders
have been confusing the masses by
telling them that the N. r. A. was
a good thing for the workers; ap-
proving the policy of class COL
liberation and telling them to take