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The Washington times., 1934-06-15
WORK FOR CHILD
NOT OVER, SAYS
MISS ABBOTT

Her resignation as head of the
Children's Bureau, announced to
day, does not mean Miss Grace
Abbott has abandoned the cause
OF children and mothers.
She says:
"My work for children is not
over. ] enlisted for the period
Of the war"
Enemies of Miss Abbott have
denounced her as an "old maid
trying to tell mothers how to
bring up their children.
But the millions of mothers
who have been aided in their
problems by this childless. child
loving woman regard her as their
greatest friend and counselor.
Served 5 Presidents
Miss Abbott has served under
five Presidents, having come to
Washington originally under the
Wilson administration in 1917.
She was appointed chief of the
Children's Bureau in 1921, sue.
ceeding the late Julia Lathrop.
OF her 13 years of administra-
tion. her present chief, Miss
Frances Perkins, Secretary OF
Labor, says:
Her leadership has raised
the standard of life for the
children of this republic i'm
meaSurably. There are thou
sands of people who will not be
able to join in any public ex-
preston of gratitude, but who,
nevertheless, owe enormous ben
efits in their lives to the intel
ligence, character, force and So
cial-mindness of this great
woman"
: INFANT DEATHS CUT
During Miss Abbott's admins
tration infant mortality in this
country has been reduced from 76
deaths per 1000 to So. There has
been a steady decline in maternal
mortality and a gradual improve
ment in child welfare generally.
She is leaving the bureau to go
to the University of Chicago as
professor of public welfare in the
school of social service, and editor
of the Social Service Review.
Although her resignation does
not take effect until July /, she is
leaving Washington today for her
home in Grand Island, Nebr.,
where her father, one of the State
pioneers, is seriously ill.
The Washington times., 1934-06-15
PISTOL PLAY FATAL

CODY, Wyo., June 15.-Wade
Carpenter, Is, son of Col. w. H.
Carpenter, of New York, is dead
at a ranch near here from a wound
received when a pistol with which
he was playing discharged acci-
dentally, according to word re-
ceived here.
The Washington times., 1934-06-15
HARVARD Tutor Set
For Editorial Post

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June Is.
DR.. George C. Benson, head tutor
of the Lowell House at Harvard
University and instructor in gov
ernment and tutor in the division
of history, government and eco
nomics. will leave Harvard next
fall to become research consultant
to the American Legislators ASso-
citation and managing editor of
the magazine State Government.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
By a Worker Correspondent

CHARLOTTE, N. CT am writ
ing you in regard to the conditions
that exist on the F.E.R.A. here.
am a married man with wife
and two children. My house rent
is $40 a month.
I work on a F.ER.A. project d
per hours a week at 80 cents an
hour, which mounts up to $7.20 a
week or $3.50 a month. At least
that was what I was making before
they gave me Is per cent cut in
relief last month. One week out
of every four we don't get relief
at all as you can see from the
notices that are attached to our
checks every month, which I am
enclosing in this letter.
I am also enclosing a clipping
from the Charlotte News giving an
official statement of Mr.. Harry Hop
kins on the federal relief fund al
lotment for North Carolina, which
was $1,814,O00. They claim they
spent it in three weeks.
am also sending two clippings
of the same paper giving Mr.. Hop
kins' statement that there was an
increase of 6 per cent here in relief
cases from August to September,
1876 more families were put on the
relief rolls. At the same time re-
lief was cut from $45,773 to $33,728.
To make long story short, after
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
Alpha Women
+ aise Level
OF Struggle
By a Worker Correspondent

ALPHA, III. - The unemployed
groups under the leadership of such
militant workers as Mcknight and
Bullock of Kewanee; Little of
Genesis; Lawson of Woodruff and
the Gould brothers, Mason, and
McCluskey Of Alpha, have dem
onstrated to the workers of Henry
County the value Of the struggle for
higher relief.
In the strike of all Federal prof.
ects on gravel pits which lasted
over a week, an increase of 10 per
cent was gained from reluctant re-
lief officials and promises of IN
vestigation into Souncis admins
tration of County Relief was ex-
tracted after a week of camping in
the relief Offices in relays of six
hours.
At Alpha, where they raised the
red scare after Gould who was
their representative on the county
strike committee reported back for
action to be taken, a split was
. caused in the Illinois Workers
Association. Such reactionary lead
ers as Sec'y Paterson, examine boss,
and Daddy Grace were dethroned
by the rank and file and replaced
with militant and active fighters.
The women of Alpha did their bit
by volunteering for duty on the
sitting party in the relief Offices at
Kewanee. Before this they had
been denied the privileges of mem
bership in the I. w. A. local, but,
aroused and determined by their
struggle, they marched to the meet
ing hall and demanded admittance
and membership, was granted, much
to the disgust of Keos, Grace, Pat
terson, and Co.
The reactionaries are massing
their forces for a counter attack
after their defeat, but their efforts
will remain futile and ineffective
before the now able leadership of
the group who have again and
again displayed the ability to get
what they go after for the working
class, and who have the confidence
of all the unemployed.
The K. K. K. is being resurrected
by the 100 percenters and terror
has been threatened to all reds"
When sucr people as ex-super-
visor Spivey wo resigned when face
to face with determined workers
who demanded relief although they
were coal miners, class he SWore
that would never get bite to eat
from him, and such other town
dads as they have in Alpha and
Henry County imagine they are big
enough to stem the tide of decency
and fair play which the workers
are demanding be made the order
Of the new day in local circles, they
only reveal how hopeless and ig-
norant is their ruse to keep work
ers and unemployed befuddled
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
WORKERS. HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board
Strawberry Rash and Pregnancy

DERN AND GEORGE:-You ask,
u will strawberry thrown at a
pregnant woman appear on the
baby'S body. This is one of many
similar questions that are often
asked of doctors. Women are ad-
vised not to look at animals for
fear that the child will have the
form of an animal, or that a blem-
ish shaped like the animal will APP
pear on the child. They are coun-
selled against having bad thoughts,
they are told to avoid being fright
ened. These, and many others, are
superstitions-which, of course, are
absolutely false-haVe been handed
down from generation to genera
ton, and can be traced to the time
when medicine and magic we're as
one. Blemishes, various types of
rashes, do appear on the new born
child, but they are not in any way
due to any external influences on
the eXpectant mother. They are
due to irritations or injuries of the
infants skin while it is still in the
womb.
People still look upon doctors as
being in some way connected with
miracles and things magical. I'm
fortunately, not only are these ideas
held by lay people, but they are
not dispelled by doctors. Many doc
tors, instead of telling their patients
simple truths, speak very vaguely
and create confusion in the minds
of the patients. Instead of being
friendly and acting as one human
being with another, they support
the wall of secrecy and mystery
which has been built up around,
stand on their dignity, do every
thing to build up class distinction
between themselves and their pa
tents. We all know that a doctor
is no more than a trained tech
nician--like any other trained
worker, and should sell his services
as Such-not, what is commonly
done, create racket by taking adj
vantage of peoples ignorance. 1t
is understandable that doctors are
not to blame for this They are
the product of society which
makes such things possible. In a
Communist society, where progress
in education cannot be impeded by
a ruling class, such dishonesty can
not prevail, such superstitions as
were prevalent in bourgeois world
will have long been liquidated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
Ellis Island
Conditions
Are Exposed
By a Worker Correspondent

ELLIS ISLAND, N. Y.-Wednes-
day evening, as I sat in lonesome
room No. 213, the door suddenly
swung open. In walked man"
in plain clothes, with two more fol-
lowing him.
"I am the commissioner of this
place. What is your complaint"
he shouts. Already used to this
kind of greeting, asked if the sum
of $1.45 was forwarded here from
Seattle, as 1 need the sum badly.
My main question was as follows:
Il fail to understand the bureau
cratic attitude of a few of your
Subordinates who treated me as if
I was charged with a crime, put
me inside a vermin-infested room,
and isolated me from the rest of
the immigrants, as if were leper.
Many of us political prisoners here
are treated as if we were So-called
dangerous criminals"
At this point Mr.. Reimer, Il find
this to be his nance flew into a
rage. You are liar. You lied
in your press. Where are these
vermin?" the commissioner de-
manded.
I gently raised a blanket from the
floor and vermin, commonly known
as cockroaches, started to run on
the floor. I further challenged him
to investigate other rooms and find
the same thing, but he left in a
hurry.
One hour later, I was moved with
three other workers into one room
and today, for the first time since
Oct. 20, I had some fresh air and
exercise on the so-called porch.
Again it was shown that the voice
of the workers through the workers
press can throw the servants of
capitalism into a night-mare and
fear, and that the workers can gain
their rightful demands, and our
voices can be heard when we speak
through our representative, the
Daily Worker and the rest of the
militant workers press.
(SigneO JOHN UJICK.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
DGiLyWOrkerStudied
ForGuidoncemFight
Ammirato and Police Fail to Keep Newspaper
Out of Hands of Workers

Daily Worker for leadership. The
exposure of Ammirato gave warning
to the strikers to be on guard
against betrayal.
The appeals for solidarity to the
strike have given them encourage
ment. You would be surprised how
seriously and carefully great num-
bers of the striking dyers read and
weigh the words of our Daily"
They discuss it in the headquarters
and they bring the questions raised
in the Daily Worker to the leaders
and in the shop chairmen and dele
gates meeting, and among the mem
berShip.
We, Red Builders in Paterson,
pledge ourselves to throw all our
energy to sell and convince the mil
liant dye strikers that this is the
only paper that is putting up fight
in behalf Of the dye workers.
Comradely yours,
RED BUILDERS OF
PATERSON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
International Workers Order
FORCES ahead in Recruiting
Some Sections Lag Behind-Members Are Urged
to Become Recruiting Conscious
By MAX BEDACHT

The first requirement for the sue
cess of our campaign is to mobilize
our members. Every one of our mem
bers comes in contact with workers
every day. He meets with his fellow
worker on the job; he sees his
neighbor at home; he visits friends
and relatives; he meets with his
fellow members in his union. Our
members must be made so recruit
ing conscious" that whenever and
wherever they Go meet a fellow
worker, friend, a neighbor or a
relative, they make efforts to re-
cruit them as members of our
Order.
This does not entail any cost; one
meets these people anyway 1t does
not entail any special efforts; one
talks TO these people anyway. All
it needs is to have the minds OF
our Order members fixed on the task
of recruiting new members into the
I. w. o. All it needs is to convince
every member of our Order that he
owes the Order at least one new
member during this campaign. With
this debt on his conscience, the
member will ask himself every day.
why should I not paw my debt
today?"
Wherever his own conscience does
not suffice to induce the member
to do his duty and to recruit new
members, the Branch, the Branch
Executives and other active mem
bers must act as his conscience
They must remind the inactive
member, and remind him whenever
and wherever they meet him: ."Yol
owe new member to the Order
please pay your debt"
English Section Grows
The most valuable fact in the
growth of our Order is the develop
ment of the English Section. By
November LIST, this section has
reached $500 members. This is
about 8.4 per cent of our total mem
bership. At the time of our last
Convention in June 1893, the Eng
lish Section constituted hardly :
per cent of our membership.
While we can record this rapic
growth, we still wish to point Out
that this growth is nothing in COM
parison with the enormity of oul
task ahead. Millions of American
workers are under bourgeois lead
ership, in bourgeois fraternal or
CARNATIONS. The field for recruiting
among these workers is unlimited
Systematic concentration on the
task of building the English Sec
ton will enable us to develop this
Section twice as rapidly. Only in
the degree in which our English
Section grows will our Order grow
into a truly American workers fra
ternal mass organization.
Forward to $4,000 new members
in our Orderl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12

THE fifth week of the campaign
L to build the International Work
ers Order to $4,000 members by May,
1885, resulted in $50 applications of
adults and 1873 applications of chill
dren. The leading section this week
is the Jewish, with 1879 new members
The English Section added SO new
members, ten of whom we're re-
cruited by Slovak branches.
The Youth Section had a COM
paratively good week with ST ap-
plications.
Some of the Sections are not yet
aware of the campaign. The Hun
garian Section requires a weekly
recruitment quota of 252 members
if it wants to achieve its accented
campaign quota. AS against these
necessary 252 applications, the Sec
ton only recruited At.
The italian Section met its weekly
needed quota of 125 by recruiting
onlv II new members.
The Slovak Section, instead OF
achieving its weekly quota of 224
recruited only As new members
The other sections are similarly be-
| hind.
The major reason for these ap-
parent failures is over confidence
Confidence is a very good thing
1t makes one certain of success and
inspires one to do everything nee
essary that may assure the success
Over confidence, on the other hand
relies too much on spontaneity. It
puts the burden of recruiting on
conditions, rather than on organiza-
ton, on the leading committees, and
on the activities of the members.
Comrades, conditions will not
build our Order. We must build
it. Conditions make it possible fol
us to build it. But the burden OF
action is upon us.
There can be no doubt that the
last years have undermined the con-
fidence of the workers in capitalist
organizations, in capitalist politics
and in the capitalist system. But
this waning confidence does not
lead these workers automatically
into the ranks of the militant pro-
letariat. 1t may lead them into
Generalization and despair. The
only force that can turn this wan
ing confidence Of the workers in
capitalism, into an active power in
favor of the working class, is the
activity of the militant workers; it
is the effort of militant workers Or
CARNATIONS to win the confidence
of these workers; it is the effort of
militant workers organizations to
organize these workers; it is the
effort of class conscious workers to
get leadership over these proletari-
ans.
That is why we cannot rely on
conditions to work for us. We must
know that conditions favor us, but
that is all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
Brooklyn Edison Men
TOteDOuUn 'RedScGre'
Overwhelming Majority in Brotherhood Backs
Right of Members to Political Belief

that it would be wise to elect
Brotherhood members of the COM
pany union councils. Many brothers
feel that the attitude of limiting
the action of Brotherhood members
in the company union is unwise
strategy.
James Donegan, chairman of the
local, announced that cases of dis
charged men were before the Re
gional Labor Board. He pointed out
that the presence of a delegation of
members would assist the cases of
the men involved. No further ac-
ton was taken on this point.
After adjournment, members who
had voted down the "red scare"
discussed the Power Worker, organ
of the Brooklyn Edison Communist
Unit. Many stated that they were
looking forward to the next issue
of The Power Worker which takes
leadership in fighting for the unity
of all Edison workers, and the
building of the Brotherhood into
a powerful weapon against the
utility magnates of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. - Friday evening,
November 2, Local 2 brooklyn
Edison, in regular bi-monthly ses-
sion at BOT Washington Street,
Brooklyn, voted by an overwhelm-
ing majority to uphold the right Of
any member to his own political
belief. The National Constitution
of the Brotherhood of Utility En-
ployees declares that no member
shall be excluded because of race,
religion or politics, and this action
shows that the B.U.E. members are
solidly back Of such a principle.
The main subject under discus
sion was the adoption of bylaws
to govern the local. The newly
elected Financial Secretary an
nounced that he had resigned his
Office in the company union, so as
to devote more time and energy to
upbuilding the Brotherhood local,
At the same time, certain members
pointed out that most of the work
ers are in the company union and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
Charlotte Relief List
Grows, But Funds Drop

adding 1876 more families, they gave
us Is per cent cut and still saved
$12,O45.
In the United States from July
to August they saved $16,137,0OO
with their relief cuts, while our
wives and children went hungry and
ragged. AS everyone knows we could
not live before they gave us the
cuts, and the worst of it is tn
unless the workers protest t.
will be more and more cuts.
We have no organizer or hall here
in Charlotte, What we need here
is someone to organize the unem-
ployed and a hall for the workers
to meet in.
also want to say that I am not
member Of the Communist Party
but realize that the workers must
organize and protest, to starve and
freeze to death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
PATERSON RED BUILDERS HELP DYE STRIKERS
City Chisels Wages
on Park Relief Jobs
BY Relief Worker Correspondent

BY Relief Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK; am a relief
worker employed in one of the
city parks as a labOrer, although
/ am a machinist by trade.
We workers were receiving the
great sum of S12 weekly, on which
some of us relief workers have to
support as high as six and seven
children.
Tuesday, Oct. 3Oth, at IL noon
the timekeeper told the men on
the job to knock off because the
city had no funds. We were prom
ised that we would make up the
time lost, and told to report to
work Thursday morning.
On Thursday morning we were
told we would lose the day and
a half, which would be SIS less.
1 have formed a group on my
project and we have warned work
ers on many projects about this
scheme that they are trying to
put over on the other shift.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
CAPITALIST PRESS HIDES COM.
MUNIST VOTE

New YORK, N. Y.
Dear Comrade Editor:
I notice in the New York Times"
and other New York capitalist
papers that the election returns are
recorded only for three parties; the
Democrats, Republicans and the
third party Of capitalism, the So
cialist Party But nowhere in those
papers can I find the returns for
the Communist Party.
Those of us who worked hard to
try to build up large vote for the
Communist Party are disappointed
in this. However, there is a deeper
significance to this situation and
that is that the capitalist papers
are trying to hide the growing in
f1uence of the Communist Party. I
believe something should be done
about this. I believe that demon
STATIONS should be held before the
newspaper Offices to force them to
print the election returns for the
Communist Party.
L, M