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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

looks LIKE the kind old
grandmother in Little Red
Riding Hood, doesn't it'll
But it's really the Middle
Sized Baer, who will meet
Primo Camera June ~,
New York, for the heavy
weight crown, taking a
rest during a luM at his
training quarters.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

depend for a living. Closed fac-|erica than closed banks.
tories cut off their oniv Incomes. Uncle Sam has the power to
do something about closed fac
Closed factories cause antilles to tories. He helped the closed bank:
,ffer to reopen with federal loans. HI
kept the railroads and insurance
Closed factories breed hunger, companies going with federal loans
Idiscontent and unemployment. He eased the agricultural situa
ton with federal loans.
Closed factories strike It the
of our national life Why not federal loans for indus
They re a greater menace to Am try to keep the factories open?
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

THE coME-HiTHER eyes belong to
Mary o (Rosaline Greene) who
Of the air. She's the radio sweetheart
Of lanny Ross and both, you know,
are stars of Captain Henry's Show
Boat. Do you wonder that Lanny
came rushing back from Hollywood to
,reioin the captains entertainment
crew.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

Why not federal loans for indr
try to keep the factories open?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Letters from Our Readers

said, Capital is only the fruit of
labor and could not have existed if
labor had not first existed. Labor
is the superior of capital and de-
serves much higher consideration.
I bid the laboring people beware of
surrendering the power which they
possess and which, if surrendered,
will surely be used to shut the door
of advancement of such as they,
and fix new disabilities and burdens
upon them until all liberty is lost"
ITO secure to each laborer the
whole product of his labor, as near
ly as possible, is a worthy object
of any government"
This country, with it's institu-
tons, belongs to the people who
inhabit it. Whenever they shall
grow weary of the existing govern
ment they can exercise their con-
stitutional rights to amend it, or
their revolutionary rights to dis
mantle or overthrow it,"
This is enough proof that the
Hearst papers are liars in what they
say about Communism being for
eign to America and Americanism.
Therefore I think that all Com
munists and all sympathizers should
stop buying Hearst papers, and not
only that. They should start an
endless chain against the SANDER
Gus, lying, dirty sheets. Thousands
of workers have got the idea into
their heads from reading those
scandal sheets that Communism is
and for that reason
they are against Communism.
We should try to show the work
ers that such is not true, but rather
that to help and aid Communism is
merely to extend the liberties, the
freedom and justice for which our
fathers fought.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
DOckers' Fight Was
Split by Jim-Crowisn
LOngshOrenen in Alabama Port ViUtimized BY
Company Union, But Prepare NeV Struggle

It shows that the moment any
group of workers put up militant
fight for better living conditions
they are called Communists. There
fore the lesson to be drawn from
this is that the Communists must
be the people that are putting up
the best fight for better conditions.
-Four days before the strike was
called off, IL cars of flat-feet (cops)
went to the I, L. A. Local 1884 and
tried to pursuade Negro workers
to be scabs-promising them all
kind Of protection if they would
only go and help break the strike.
However, they were not successful.
Monday, July 9th, the strike was
called off and 'peace" on the dock
declared between the LILA. and the
Mobile S. S. Association. The peace
will last no longer than it takes the
longshoremen to reorganize their
forces and strike again. When they
do, it may be quite a different strike
from the one just ended, because
there will be white and black to-
gether.
1t is now July &c, and no striking
longShoreman is allowed to go on
the docks unless he Is furnished
with a ticket from the company
union foreman. Now the contract
of the Mobile S. s. Association
says in point number 1 that all
striking employees shall be returned
to their former status without ILL
will or discrimination. OF course this
means that they vii have to ioin
the company union in order to go
back, as the S. S. Association. point
blank refused to recognize the LILA.
1t is clear that what the S. S.
Association wanted to do from the
very beginning is to breakup Local
1884 of the I. L. A and establish
a company union. On June 18th.
the date of the strike, Local 1884
was nearly 100 per cent organized
on the dock.
The fact that the strike was lost
does not mean that the militancy
OF the longshoremen has been.
crushed. Their fighting spirit is
still here and sooner or later they
will demonstrate their strength in
an organized manner.
The practical lesson to be drawn
from this strike is the following:
Don't depend altogether on
the top leadership of the A. F. of
L., Ryan, Green, Shaeffer.
2.-The rank and file must have
more to say and do in the next
strike.
3.-The most important point
the strike must be organized. That
is, pickets, relief, leaflets from day
to day on strike developments. etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
CAMP CROTON ACTIVELY SUP
PORTS LEFT WING MOVEMENT

CTOGOn, N. Z.
In spite of its seclusion, Camp
Croton, about four miles from Peek
skill, New York, has succeeded in
gathering small group of campers
who appreciate the clean strong pol
icies of our Left Movement.
The campers have accomplished a
great deal, considering the size of
their group. Everyone feels him.
self responsible for the success of
whatever activity is undertaken.
Every Saturday night an affair is
run for the benefit of various organ
izations and union opposition
groups. Saturday night, July %, a
specially arranged program was sue
cessfully presented for the benefit
of the Daily Worker. A net profit
of $50 was set aside for the Daily
Worker.
Lectures, study circles, distribu-
ton of pamphlets, of books, and of
the Daily Worker form part of the
cultural efforts of the Croton camp
ers. We succeed in selling a great
of Daily Workers" every
day to the campers and to the
country inhabitants.
We shall try to aid the Daily
Worker" to the best of our abilities.
8. GORDON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03

And, of course, General, it will
be mere child's play for your new
regiment to bring in the murderers
in the Rothstein case.
OF course, General, there are in
dlViduals and organizations who
fear that you are organizing this
military police-machine" only as a
weapon of the industriaIists whom
you serve. These folks feel that
this outfit of yours will be used
solely as mass murder machine
in breaking strikes in and around
our fair city. Among those who
entertain this belief are some eight
or nine thousand Irishmen en-
ployed on the I. r. T. lines, to say
nothing of four or five thousand
more of other nationaIities.
You see, General there is a
union, an independent union, called
the Transport Workers Union, and
a great many of those Irishmen be-
long to it, This union exposes and
fights against the bloodsuckers who
direct the system of labor exploita-
ton on the 1. R. T. And worse
still, it insists upon educating its
members industrially.
The men on this job object to
their wage cut. They object to the
fake pension scheme foisted upon
them at the cost of per cent of
their yearly wages. They object to
the yellow dog contract and the
labor lice of the company union.
And they are organizing into the
fighting Transport Workers Union
to give voice to these objections.
Well, General, 1orewarned is fore
armed, and you can be assured that
N. Y. labor will be ready to defend
itself against any fascist attack that
your peculiar brain can devise.
By the way, General, you must
not overlook the B. M. THE bus
lines, the Eighth Ave. subway, the
street car lines, etc. The Trans
port Workers Union includes them
all. You heroes" of the police de-
partment may be good at beating
up pregnant women at relief sta
lions and cracking the skulls of
half-starved unemployed demon
strators, but take it from me, Gen
eral, 10000 or $4,000 healthy car
men present different problem.
Ask your counterpart out in Mil
waukee if you don't care to believe
me-
The working conditions are lousy,
my dear General, and hoping you
are the same.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Jobs CLassed to Cut
Pay in Rail Yards
BY R. R. Worker Correspondent

BY a r. r. Worker Correspondent
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y
I am brakeman on the Long
Island R. R. We have some jobs
in Fresh Pond Yard which are
classified as road jobs but are only
yard switching.
The Penn in CHASING these jobs
as road jobs instead of yard jobs,
saves 80 cents a day on each man.
The Brotherhood has done nothing
to make these jobs yard jobs.
A bunch of us brakemen should
get together and form unity groups
in the Brotherhood, and demand
that LAWN force the company to
make them yard jobs. In this way
we can force the Brotherhood
leaders to make the Penn live up
to our agreements.
In Sunnyside Yards the Penn
was forced to reclassify the utility
switching job from brakemans
to a conductors job. This increased
the pay about 42c day. The
company had been getting away
with this for the last five years.
The Brotherhood had done moth
ing at all about this.
The Unity Committee issued
several leaflets and there we're let
ters in the Daily Worker exposing
this abuse. The men in the
Brotherhood took it up at the
meeting and forced LAWN to go to
the company, In this way we won
creased pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
PARTY LIFE
Calls for Intense Election
Drive for Communist Party
Election Campaign Offers Great Chances for
Building Party, Mass Organizations

placed back into her home. Finally,
as though reminding themselves
of the elections, the comrades ar
ranged an election meeting in the
same neighborhood at which meet
ing the evicted candidate is am
nounced to speak-days after she
was put back into her home and
after the struggle was over in the
neighborhood on this issue. This
was done under the direct guid-
ance of the Section organizer, who
later at the Section Committee
meeting attempted to justify some
Of these acts.
Such separation of the campaign
from all struggles of the Party is
opportunism of the worse type. It
has 10 be eliminated and DESTROYED.
Improvement in Work Seen But
Greater Efforts Needed
Today we can note a Slight im~
provement in our campaign work
and a somewhat better UNDER
standing. But certainly not enough.
Our signature drive is tagging be-
hind. No efforts are made to draw
in outside workers in the call for
signatures and now we are faced
with the task Of placing the CAM
paign on an emergency basis.
We must throw all our head.
quarters open for this work. They
should be open not only for a few
hours a day, as some Congressional
Committees do, but all day long.
We should issue leaflets appealing
to the workers in the neighborhood
to sign petitions and help collect
signatures, listing on these leaflets
all headquarters. We should make
a special appeal to all unemployed
and to all young workers asking
them to help collect signatures.
Signatures collected should not be-
held in the pockets and homes Of
the comrades for weeks but inn
mediately turned in to the election
headquarters. Tables with appro-
pirate signs, appealing to workers
to place our candidates on the ball
lot, must be placed in busy streets
and intersections Signatures must
be collected at all open air meets
ings, picnics, at relief stations,
shops, unions, etc. Such a drive
we must put on Immediately if we
are to place our candidates on the
ballot.
The election campaign offers
tremendous possibility for building
the Party and the mass organiza-
tons. The coming In contact with
hundreds of thousands of work.
ers, while collecting signatures at
open air meetings, all our election
work, will help us bring the Party
and its program to the workers.
Finally, we must arouse the en-
tire membership of the Party to
the realization of the fact that
not only can we place our candi-
dates on the ballot, but we can
elect them to Office as well. To-
wards this aim, towards this OBJ
jective, we must work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03

Greatest show on earth, comrades
and fellow workers, ladies and gen
tlemen, step right this way and see
the great marvellous, magnificent,
thrilling and breath-taking capital
list system in its daring display Of
startling contrasts! See how that
intrepid capitalist sheet, the New
York American on July 80 performs
the audacious feat of swallowing
the red-hot double-edged sword OF
living costs Of heiresses and mem-
ployed, without batting an eye or
turning a hair!
With the report of the expense
account of Lucy Cotton Thomas, the
poor little rich girl who's running
over her monthly allowance, appears
a handsome two-column full-length
picture of Lucy and her guardian,
all dressed up on gilt-plush back
ground, and fondling the family
pooch.
With the report of the allowance
for living expenses for the "one IN
every six" of the population who
was on the relief rolls in June, there
isn't any picture. Evidently they
figure we know how we look, so why
waste halftone.
The average total relief per fam
ily was S44.09 for the month"
But little Lucy-daughter of the
late Edward Russell Thomas, noted
sportsman" and Lucys guardian,
Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas-McGraw,
lust can't seem to get along on a
mere $4,000 a month.
The unemployed workers on home
relief have a merry mathematical
time figuring out how to get a nice
clean freproof fiat on a shady
street, bath, electric and running
water for the eight smackS and As
cents per month average allowance
from the home relief.
But little Lucy found a great bar
gain in accommodations at Fifth
Avenue and 61st st. for only 81 800
a month, rent and sundries."
The mother of the family on
home relief has busy time doping
out whether one pound of rice and
a bottle Of milk at fifteen cents
would go farther to stave off star
walton than two eggs, one loaf of
bread, and an orange at sixteen
cents, when trying to feed the fam
lily on the S17.69 average monthly
from the home relief, and wonder
ing meanwhile what will go up again
tomorrow.
But little Lucy manages for
month with groceries amounting to
only 200 iron men.
Two dollars and twenty-five cents
has to see the family on relief
through for a month, for fuel and
light. But while Lucy has such
items included in the monthly rent
to the Pierre, she has other serious
Expenses to worry about, as follows:
clothes, $500; telephone, $37; den
fist $29; school tuition and books,
S285; and messages, $24.
The workers kid spends the Sum-
mer splashing in the muddy water
of the gutter when there's any to
splash in.
Little Lucy pays $3.50 monthly to
the Lido Country Club for breath
of fresh air now and then.
Does the workers kid need a dol
lar prescription filled? Try and get
It'll But Lucy needs $55 worth of
drugs in month to keep the old
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Letter Of an RT Worker
To Police Commissioner
BY Subway Worker Correspondent

BY a Subway Worker Correspondent
AS member of the Irish race,
as an I. R. T. worker, as a World
War veteran, as a union man and
as a Communist, I am taking it
upon myself, my dear General
Organ, to drop you a few lines.
AS I read the account of your re-
cent activity on behalf of the in
dustrialists in and around N. Y.
City, such as the contemplated
registration and photographing of
responsible" labor officials; the
formation of a police rifle regiment
with machine gun companies, etc.,
1 was indeed impressed with your
greatness as solver of the cesspool
of crime in which tens of millions
of honest workers strive to exist and
rear families.
No doubt when you have COM
pleted the organization of this mill
tary machine within the police de-
partment, one of their first acts in
the interest of public safety will be
the capture of Dutch Schultze, for
whom a warrant was issued many
months ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
By Marine WORKER Correspondent

BY Marine Worker Correspondent
MOBILE, Ala.-Here is the line
UP on the longShoremen's strike
situation in Noble. Ala, 30 date.
When the strike was called June
Is, there were between 5000 and
10000 Negro longshoremen who
struck solidly for higher wages and
better conditions. However the Mo-
bile Steam Ship Association, no
torious for its strike breaking and
scab herding policy, in connection
with the S. S. agents and stevedores,
got busy Immediately gathering
scabs from all over Alabama and
the Gulf ports, as they had done
in two other strikes before this one.
1t is interesting to note how these
scab-herding agents used the race
question" or the division between
Negro and white workers, to help
break the longshoremen's strike.
These Scab- herding agents seeing
that the Negro and white long
shoremen were not organized in
the same local of the International
Longshoremen Association, started
Immediately herding white workers
to scab on the Negro longshoremen.
However, while they were sue
cessful to get some white workers
to scab, (mostly from out Of town
there were quite a number of white
longshoremen of Mobile that re-
fused to scab on the Negroes. An
other fact of Importance is that
the S, s. agents promised these
white workers a lifetime job if
they would Scab. Now, however after
the strike has been broken these
same white workers that were prom
ised lifetime jobs are gradually
being laid-off. 1t is reported that
the stevedores are against employ
ing white longshoremen now that
the strike is broken and the COM
pany union set up.
1t must also be pointed out that
all through the strike these agents
sent scabs to the I. L. A. local to
break the morale Of the strikers.
A clear picture of the close CO.
operation between the state and its
agents, K. K. K, police, real estate
agents, ETC., and the Mobile S. S.
Association, can be seen from the
following:
During the strike the K K. K. put
out thousands of leaflets telling the
Negro workers to go back to work.
The contents of the leaflets were:
Negro, go back to work, Agitators
and Communism will not be toler-
ated-the X. X. x. is watching you,
be careful. X. X. X. P. o. Box 742."
This leaflet was put out not only
to frighten the Negro longshoremen,
but to keep them from uniting with
their white fellow workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
By 4 Post Office Worker CoFre-
spOndent

SpOnoent
BROOKLYN. N. 7. Stating
that it is handicapped by short
age Of men, the Post once De-
partment has refused to grant
leaves of absence without pay, Of
courSe) to all substitutes, and in
many cases has recalled those who
had previously obtained such
leaves. When 1t is remembered
that not so lang ago, to be ex-
act March %, 1884, President
Roosevelt publicly declared that
the Post Office Department was
overmanned by $4,000, an analysis
of the present situation seems to
be in order.
To begin with, substitutes are
men who have taken and passed
civil service examinations and now
been in the service from three to
nine years, awaiting their regular
appointments. During this time, as
the auxiliary men of the Depart
ment, they have been employed,
and still are, on a part time basis.
They must report for duty six
DAYS a week, and make from $40
to $50. II the past five years had
been normal" most, II not all OF
these men. would have already re-
ceived their regular appointments,
But no appointments have been
made for the last three years.
In the past, substitutes obtained
leaves Of absence for the asking.
But not so today. Not only are
substitutes not given living wage,
not only are they denied what is
their rust due, lie, regular appoint
rnents. but they are also denied
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
INo TlHF ToIosFgl

sion. The suddenness of signing
the bill and the clause making it
necessary for them to decide within
two months was a deliberate act
OF slipping over a fast one.'
There is SO much confusion and
difference of opinion that the time
is much too short to decide. And
many of the older men are now on
one year extensions which do not
expire in time to take advantage of
the best eight years figures" The
brotherhood magazines have kept
silent on this point.
The bill has no strike or lockout
provisions, and no employe who is
laid off any time before having 80
years service can have his contribu-
tons returned. This will allow the
companies to use Henry Ford's plan
OF laying men off just before that
length of service.
In figuring the monthly employee
contributions and then the benefits
paid, it will be seen that on an
average, if the worker is lucky to
live SO long, his pension benefits
received will eat up his contribu-
tons in Is months. So that in any
case there will be a very small lump
sum for the widow.
Wall Street has already served
notice of fighting the bill and every
rail worker should get actively in
tereSted. The per cent deduction
should be made the maximum, and
the railroad companies should be
forced to make up the rest of the
amount needed.
Railroad workers should also be
exempted from payment of the
various state old age pension
schemes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Why No appointments
For Post Office Subs ?
Denied Vacation, But Are Told on Other Hand
THAT There Are Not Enough Regular Jobs

the chance of making any money
on the outside. By being denied
their leaves of absence, many Of
the men who could obtain work
in summer resorts, ie.. hotels and
camps, could not even take ad-
vantage of this opportunity. AS
for those substitutes who are still
in a position to borrow or scrape
together enough money to go away
for a week or two weeks yaca-
ton, they must stay in the city.
After working for the government
from three to nine years, men are
not even entitled to a vacation, let
alone living wage.
Under such circumstances, it
would seem that the logical and
proper thing for the Post Once to
do would be to make regular ap-
pointments. That has been the
contention OF most of the rank
and file substitutes in the Post
Office.
What are the substitutes going
to do now? On the one hand, the
Post Office Department tells them
that it is undermined. On the
other, it still refuses to make ap-
pointmentS. Do substitutes expect
to get anything by waiting? How
much longer are they going to
wait? Our only guarantee is our
own mass strength! We have been
made meek and humble and be-
sought too long. IF substitutes and
regulars would sctivize their trade
unions in mass action and protest,
they would force the department
to act Immediately and give them
their long overdue regular appoint
ments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Telegraph Messenger
Gets TWO Gents Doing
SI4 Worth of Work
By a Telegraph Worker Core
SpOndent

oJ AeleSrdpn worker GORE
Spondent
NEW YORK.-An example of
the double dealing and treachery
that the Western Union Telegraph
Co. is capable of is the recent
swindle of messenger on a book"
of kilograms
The boy picked up 700 kilograms
and got paid two cents for an A
zone instead of $14. This swindle
becomes all the more despicable
when it is remembered that the
company withdrew the 81 limit on
books" as a concession to the mes
sengers when they threatened to
strike in April The boy didn't even
get the 81 let alone the full
amount-$14.
This is the kind of economy by
which the company is able to turn
deficit of half a million in 1882
into profit of 100000 in 1888,
with only per cent of the profit
coming from increased turnover in
business.