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town. Dr. Fama had gone to Atlantic City, N. j. to
march in some parade.
There was no fault to find with his medical opin-
ion, however. The patient went unattended while
he was off marching in the parade and pneumonia
duly developed To be sure it might have developed
anyway, but the physician who called in then
said he thought that inaSmuch as DR.. Fama had
cepted the case he should have made some arrange
ment to continue the observation and treatment If
it was absolutely necessary for him to march in the
parade in Atlantic City.
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town. Then suddenly, five times
day, there is a hush. Life seems
suddenly stricken still. For up in
the hundred minarets the Moslem
muezzins are to be family heard,
shouting the ancient Arab call TO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-28
TODAY AND TOMORROW
By Walter Lippmann

Wall Street. industrial leaders who in close touch
community mental depression which
virtually all the standards of
TeaSS1ing.
The state of mind the country whole judged by the od
which of affairs temper of the people,
subsdng increasing hopefunes
large affairs all but number anxiety
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wear the red fez cap The Moslem
women, padding along in their
soft leather slippers with the up
turned toes, are all yelled.
There is a Babel of noises such
as one hears only in an Oriental
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service, winding up with the re-
minder:
Prayer is better than sleep!
Prayer is better than sleep!"
And the prayers-often-are
for world peace.
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The doctor is one who likes
to march in paradeS. He also
may be a good physician, al
though an incident comes to
mind in which another ply
sician might have been a little
more diligent.
On that occasion, DR.. Fama
was called to attend a young
woman who appeared to have
a bad cold.
You have a very bad cold"
the doctor said, and you must
be very careful because you are
on the verge of pneumonia"
The next day, the patient
felt worse and a telephone call
was made to DR.. Famas office.
But the doctor was not in
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Fair Enough
by
WESTBROQK PEdLER

THERE is a great bother in New York just now
Il over the appointment of DR.. Charles Fama.
physician with political complications to of the
municipal medical jobs. DR.. Fama has criticised
the Catholic religion quite openly for some years
and his appointment to public office is challenged
as an affront to Catholics to religious freedom and
to Americanism. He is widely unknown but his
represents a condition which is familiar all this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-28
Menu Writers in Lead

TINE men who write the
Il menus in the restaurants
OF Paris are at least a league
ahead of the chefs who pre-
pare the dishes. They have
learned the trick of making
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4tdu A4At AaufE4 dDpAs AAAI
painter or poet who sat at a
sidewalk table and devoured
les escargots. II is a lovely
name ana II was my ambition
10 meet this dish face TO face
with a fork in my hand. Fin
ally the great moment came
and I found that the escargot
is a snail and a delUSion.
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HJeemC bM
By
Haywood BROUN

XXTHEN first started 10 write column Bris
w bane. or F. p. A. or some other veteran advised
me 20 mention food a good deal. Any column about
cookery is supposed 10 produce letters from the
readers. Food ranks next 10 religion contro-
versial theme I took the tip but IL never did me
much good Only a stylst make menu come
alive.
Christopher Morley for instance writes one Of
the best meals OF any OF the moderns. The older
men did II even better. Dickens a blue plate
novelist and so was Thackeray. For years I've gone
ahead ordering Bouilebaise whenever could get 1t
in the hope that 10 would as good 1t sounds
in the famous ballad. II never has.
Indeed I am OF the opinion that the cooking OF
the French Is overrated Its lure lies largely in
the language. Before I ever went to Paris had
sF~r
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his stay at Groton two weeks beto
There were no newspaper men,
no photographers present during
that visit, and the real story of
how the President enjoyed him
self has not yet leaked out.
The truth was that he was a boy
again. Instead of sitting on the
platform with all the ether digni-
taries. he sat in the general au-
dience. To those. who saw and
talked with him he was not the
President of the United States,
but Just another Groton grad oft
to celebrate the f1ftieth anniver-
sary of his school.
On a par with him in receiving
the spotlight was George Rublee,
the first boy ever to graduate from
Groton. Rublee, now Sc, though
he appears so, has a unique dis
tinction. He was the first editor
of The Grotonian," first captain
of the baseball team, first senior
form adviser. All Groton reveres
and loves him.
WHEREFORE, when George
l. Rublee, tall, angular, baShful,
poked his nose into the dining
room the night Groton was cele-
brating its fiftieth anniversary, he
got a tremendous ovation.
Finally he was led to the guest
table, where he was greeted by
DR.. Peabody, founder of the
school. Beside him sat Franklin
Roosevelt, for the moment honor
guest. But not for long.
Somebody kick this chair out
of the way" commanded the
President. George Rublee, our
honor guest, must sit here"
And then. as no one moved the
President. he moved his own chair
out of the way and pulled Rublee
down to the seat of honor beside
DR.. Peabody.
MOT too much love is lost be-
~ tween CALIFORNIA; two sena-
torS-Hiram Johnson and William
Gibbs McAdoo-but they have one
completely sympathetic ground IN
common: War debts.
johnson sired the bill prevent
ing any country that does not pay
its debts from floating any loans
in this country. This went well.
So he looked around for other
retaiationS.
McAdoo. in California, sent him
a wire suggesting a bill requiring
a charge OF 81 900 for each pass
port to France, England, or any
other debt defaulter, unless it
could be shown that the visit was
necessary in the interest Of the
United States.
The state department nearly
had apoplexy. The senate didn't
take it seriously. Neither Nc
Adoo nor Johnson really expected
any results, but they had lot
Of fun making the gesture.
And. sil Y or not, French AM
baSSadortl Laboulaye and his
staff were noticeably worried over
the feint.
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~ Doctor
,LGGHinOg)z
ndGf1P9:
By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

made it possible for him to go to
Russia. He was examined at the
Tractor School in Brooklyn before
he left, at the beginning of 1882.
He was in fine physical health, but
when he reached Russia, and Sc
cured a position at the Stain Auto
mobile Works in Moscow, he de-
veloped a cold which seemed to
persist for little longer than the
average. When his cough had
lasted one week, he was made to
come to the Medical Cabinet" of
the Mechanical department in which
he worked. He had received a ticket
when he had entered the depart
ment which permitted him to see
the doctor at any time. The ply
stefan in charge of the Medical
Cabinet of the department did not
like that cough and he immedi-
ately asked for consultation with
a specialist of the Polytechnic or
Health Station of which the Cabinet
is a branch. The specialist decided
that our young mechanic needed a
special diet, as well as medical
treatment. He was therefore as
signed to the special calorial din
ing-room which has accommodation
for a hundred people and where
the food is prepared according to
instructions of the scientific food
research statistics. Before that our
young friend had been assigned to
the dietary dining-room which has
a capacity of five hundred feet.
This was done at the time that
he entered the factory and after
he had been vaccinated against
smallpox and typhoid fever. The
examining physician had noticed
that he was below weight and had
found out that he could not digest
the ordinary Russian diet. BY the
end of the third week of his sick
ness, when our young friend had
been x-rayed and passed through
the various tests and a consultation
of the specialists had taken place,
1t was decided to keep him in the
hospital under observation. The
hospital at the Stain Automobile
Works has three hundred and fifty
beds and is run on the most modern
scientific line. At the end of
month, he was sent together with
three hundred and nine other work
ers of this factory to health
resort of the Crimea. He told
me that two hundred and fifty
nine workers of the same factory
were sent to various sanatoria and
three thousand eight hundred and
twenty-five during the same period
were sent to the various rest homes.
He also showed me tables tabulat-
ing 6,378 other workers from the
same factory who we're sent to the
one-day rest homes and $50 to the
floating rest homes that go up and
down the Volga and the Kama.
Ito Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Butler County
Workers Rally to
Fight for Relief
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

HAMILTON. Ohio-Never before
in the history of the labor move
ment in the state Of Ohio, or in
fact in the entire United States,
did labor show a more complete
solidarity than was shown by the
workers Of Butler County here in
this strike.
Fifty of us Hamilton workers were
in Middletown on April IA, to at
tend a meeting at the City Hall to
organize the first Unemployed
Council in the city To our great
surprise, we found 300 workers. Ne
gro and white, men and women,
waiting for us. A committee was
elected of 80 workers, Negro and
white, women and children. to go
the Welfare to demand relief for
several starving workers.
The chairman asked for volun-
teers to go to the demonstration
in Hamilton, and the entire audi
ence from Middletown stood up.
They were willing to go is miles,
even if they had to walk.
No more than 10 men work in
Butler County on all the FERA.
projects, and Middletown will stand
solid with workers striking for
bread and butter in Butler County.
This morning two comrades that
were arrested on picket duty were
tried. When the court opened at
9 am the room was packed so that
a fly couldn't squeeze in, all the
way downstairs and around the cor
ner. The lawyers that had volun-
teered to defend the case were not
there, so the case was continued
to next, Wednesday at 9 am.
Sunday, April Is, a committee of
four strikers and distributed 5000
leaflets in every village and hamlet
in Butler County for our demon
stration in front of the Welfare Of
flee of Welfare Director, Mr..
Browning, who is passing the buck
with the lying statement that he is
powerless to decide on wage in
creases, though he has the power
to cut the wages of the workers to
starvation standards.
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The Open Shop Is
Path to Hunger
By an Auto Worker Correspondent

By an Auto Worker Correspondent
DETROIT. Mich. - The Detroit
Free Press Of April ? carries the fol-
lowing headline:
Alfred P. Sloan. President Of
General Motors Corp. Pleads for
New MIRA Labor Rulings" Sees
Trouble Ahead Unless Provisions
Are Clarified" calls for a Decision
Favoring Open Shop"
This is exactly what could be ex-
pected of a man like Alfred P.
Sloan, Jr. He wants the despised
open shop" In other words he is
chiefly concerned in having genuine
unionism buried in the graveyard
and is motivated by a desire to pile
up huge profits at the expense Of
the struggling workers.
Whether Mr.. Sloan likes it or not,
the CLOSED shop" is just exactly
what organized labor wants. We
refuse to be dominated by our in
dustrial kings with their contempt
able open shop" while our families,
fathers. mothers, brothers, sisters,
and loved ones are brought down
and kept on a starvation level.
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EE[N q
GIgl the AaDIllaeG
EhD B. 7
A-MXANEA ~

ried women teachers. When ban
was later lifted, Mrs. Burroughs re-
turned to work. To bear her own
four children, was forced to leave
again, but later, in need of funds,
again returned to teaching.
Finally through persistent inquiry,
found way to American Negro Labor
Congress, thence made way to Com
munist Party,
COmrade Burroughs was active in
efforts to save Scottsboro Boys, also
in Parent Teachers Association,
and was active member of left-wing
group in Teachers Union of A. F.
Of L.
Bronx school teacher, Isidore
Blumberg, was expelled in frame-up
open" hearing at Board of Educa-
ton, due to activity as chairman Of
Teachers Committee to Protect Sal
aries.
Comrade Burroughs became sec
rotary of Blumberg Defense Com
mittee, and was suspended along
with Isidore Begun, another teacher
who attempted to defend Blumberg.
Comrade Burroughs was Commu-
mist candidate for Comptroller at
last municipal elections, polling 3d.
749 votes, highest number of votes
received by any N, Y. c. Communist
candidate.
Is now active in our movement;
teaches at Harlem Workers School,
and is contributing editor of the
Harlem Liberator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Workers Union
Left Out Of MeSta
Machine Co. Ballot
By a Steel Worker Correspondent

BY a Steel Worker Correspondent
HOMESTEAD, Pain this steel
town where the burgess declared
that as long as he is ruling here,
Pat Cush, National Chairman of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. will not speak in the Bor-
ough Hall, the workers are begin
ming to wake up.
OF course, everything is nice and
smooth, according to the Messenger,
the town paper. Even the coming
election in the Mesta Machine Co.,
will be only in favor of the work
ers. But you don't need to read be-
tween the lines. Look at this:
"a committee of workers was ap-
pointed (by the bosses Of course)
to supervise the arrangements" and
further, sit was decided to place
four different ways to vote on the
ballot, viz: Employees Union; Anal
gamated Association; American Fed
Grafton of Labor; Mesta Club. The
workers must vote for one of the
above unions"
How NIGEL After saving them the
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babies, one of them Williana. While
babies were still very young, father
died and Mrs. Jones came to New
York hoping to be better able to
care for brood.
Found work in domestic service.
When unable to keep children with
her, placed them in orphan asylum
then at 143 st. and Amsterdam Ave.
One child died, leaving Williana and
brother.
Williana went to school in city,
and in times when Mother Jones
could keep children where she
worked, the little Williams services
were considered part of labor bought
by the mothers meagre pay. After
school she had plenty of work to
do, dishes, cleaning, scrubbing-per-
petual round of house-drudgery.
Sometimes exhausted, stopping to
read book, explanation was demand
ed by Mother Jones.
But I'm so tiredr' Williana
would protest.
Tired" repeated mother in
amazed rebuke-"but THAT'S no
reason for stopping work.
AS Williana grew older. she con-
tinued schooling, working out Of
school hours: passed through what
is now Hunter" College. Here, f.
nally received meagre payment of
five dollars monthly.
During two summers, went out to
work caring for children.
After Hunter, in 1908, Miss Jones
became a teacher, placed always in
working class primary schools.
With growing knowledge, growing
consciousness, grew also urge to help
her oppressed race, to seek best way
of doing so. Did volunteer settle
ment work, helped Negro childrens
clubs, engaged in other like activi-
ties.
Was asked why she did not join a
Labor Party. Jim-Crow attitude of
Socialist Party repealed her.
Experienced years of restlessness
In search for correct alignment to
aid in delverance Of her people.
Like many others, felt that urge to
go South to work among her people
there: yet felt also. essential futility
of individual efforts while pressure
from above was not lifted. Mean
while read widely, seeking a road.
Miss Jones married. Had to leave
of teaching because of ban on mar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Organized Demand
Wins Relief Cash

NEW YORK (FP)-The effective
methods used by the New York I'm
employed Councils we're illustrated
when committee of six forced a
$25 relief payment from the Charity
Organization Society.
The committee, made up of an
unemployed writer who did the
talking, a hulking longshoreman
who frightened the social worker
into Mysteries by his bulk, and four
others read off list of the needs
of the jobless family involved and
their cost, and said, 1--WE want that
money for this family"
They got it. The social worker
spent the rest of the afternoon in
tears. In her 10 years of doing out
funds to the hungry, she had never
before had the experience Of meet
ing organized force.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
PARTY LIFE
Building Circulation for the
Daily Worker in NeaO Haven
TtOO Units Criticize Cafeteria Workers Union
For HANDLING of Strike Situation

has about 20 workers and is mostly
patronized by the radical students
and workers from the Columbia
University district, was partly Or
ganized.
When a worker was fired for ac-
tivity in the shop, a meeting Of the
West End workers was called that
afternoon at the Cafeteria Union
headquarters. A number of union
members were still working at the
time of the meeting, but only five
workers attended. Nevertheless,
these workers knew the sentiment
in the shop. After considering all
the factors, the workers, together
with the representatives of the
union at the meeting, decided to
strike the shop the next day. A
full list of demands was drawn up.
The evening was spent in prepar-
ing the strike. The workers were
approached and told Of the plans,
and the response was very good.
The next morning one of the
workers came down to the union to
make final arrangements for the
strike, and was told that the strike
was called off. The union officials
had thought the matter over anc
had decided that strike would moi
be successful.
The workers in the shop, how
ever, we're expecting the strike tt
be called at any minute that morn
ing, and the news was so wide
spread that even the bosses heard
about it.
When the strike didn't come of.
the militant workers had been ex'
posed to the bosses as the ones WHIT
had been talking about the strike
and we're in serious danger of being
fired.
When the workers went dowr
after this for advice on what to dc
next, the union had nothing to Of
fer.
The workers became confused ano
demoralized by this playing around
on the part of the union with the
question of strike.
JIG, Columbia Nucleus Organizer
N. H. West End Nucleus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Govt Holds Back
Pay, Then Cuts
Wages at Camp
BY a Worker Correspondent

LANCASTER, Cal. - When on
March IA the Federal Government
announced a pay slash to 30 cents
an hour, 95 Federal workers at the
Lake Hughes Camp signed a petit
ton stating that they would refuse
to work at that wage and demand
ing the As cents an hour We had
originally signed for In the petit
ton We further demanded the
months back pay which was COM
ing to us.
The Federal rangers fearing
trouble got busy and two days
after the petition was signed the
rangers posted a notice that the
San Francisco office would see to
It that we got our back pay at
the end Of the week. (The week is
not up yet, so they don't know how
this promise will turn OUT.
The Federal rangers then asked
those who refused to accept the
slash to leave quietly" A total
Of 125 left.
AS to the IT'S who remained, they
had either no place to go, or no
money to go away with, as the Fed
eraI government owes us a month
back pay.
The Federal government played
a fine trick on us. They held
back our pay for a month and then
announced the pay slash, figuring
we would accept the wage cut if we
had no money in our pockets. Well
they found out different.
Even before the cut at the Is
hours work a week rate, the weekly
gay check was never more than
S5.75.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
CapitaIistic Health Medicine
Communist Health Service

Capitalistic Health Medicine VS..
Communist Health Service
A vivid and concrete illustration
of the sorry plight in which the
worker finds himself under the capt.
talstic scheme when his health is
shattered and the inspiring con-
trast of the Soviet system of health
preservation has strongly impressed
itself upon our mind, few days
ago, when two young people, auto
mobile mechanics, happened to visit
our Office.
M. A. had worked for the Hudson
Automobile Company for four years.
Three years ago he was laid off,
following the reorganization" of
the shop. For two years he had
tackled more than twenty-six "jobs";;
wages shrinking in indirect proper
ton to the number of his jobs. A
year ago he lost his last job in a
garage and had to apply to the re-
lief for rent and food for himself.
wife and two children. Following
a cold that he had contracted a
year before he was discharged from
the Hudson Automobile Company
he developed cough which seemed
to be getting worse and worse. The
Hudson people we're not interested
in that cough; nor we're the fifteen
various dispensaries and hospitals
where he had appealed for medical
treatment. They kept feeding him
pills and cough medicine and in
spite of the fact that he was rapidly
losing weight, nothing was done to
prevent him from getting worse
The Relief Administration refused
his appeal for a more nutritious
diet: SIS a week is all he could get
for himself and family. And any,
body who tried to buy food for four
people during the past year knows
how far S. can go. A month ago
he had hemorrhage from his lungs
Then things began to happen: he
was x-rayed, social workers began
to interview him and his family
and when his sputun was found
to be positive, that is, was found tc
be full of tubercle bacilli, they be-
gan to urge him to go to the NUM-
cipal Sanatorium in Otisville and
he was promised" that if his wife
would accept a position as a do
nestle with a certain rich lady or
Park Ave-, his children would be
taken care of in a certain orphan
asylum. In the meantime. in order
to induce him to consent to this
wonderful arrangement they in
creased his food allowance. But
like everything else under this sorry
capitalistic scheme, the so-called re-
lief came too late. The young man
has pulmonary consumption and ii
will take years before he could be
cured, if he ever is cured. Even il
his lung condition can be arrested
it will take years before he car
again become a productive worker
j. D. was blacklisted as a danger
GUS red by the automobile indus
try in Detroit. A member of his
! family who had saved few dollars