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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
HAYWOOD WEEPS FOR THE
WORKERS.

Apropos Of the letter from Com
rade jeanette D. P, printed here
yesterday, we have some remarks
to make.
Since your attention was called to
Haywood Broun's column, Comrade
Jeanette. Why didn't you read it.?
You would have seen that his COM
plant was not that I erred or
sinned "a shade or two" I did not
err nor did sin in this respect,
ncr was I accused of that.
Heywood's complaint was that
the Daily Worker, which, he pointed
cut in one Of his luscious bursts of
solicitude for the welfare of the
workers, is supported by the small
change of the said workers, is dom
'em dirt by wasting space on COL
umns. Fiddling while the labor
movement burns, he called it. He
who throws. gasoline finds himself
in 2 position to give gratuitous cri-
ticism about the policies Of the
Daily"
lie pays his three cents, so he
assured the world, to find out what
is happening in the New Jersey
strike and so on what! Hey
wood! Can't you find that out from
the paper that prints all the news
that's fit to print, or from the adj
mirable sheet on which you yourself
are employed? Tsk, TskD But
here the "Dailv" turns ND full of
columns, and Haywood feels that
he doesn't get his three cents worth.
That was the gist of his COM
plant, and he explained what he
would do if he were running a work.
ing-class newspaper, which nat
urally he isn't. If grandma had
waeels she'd be a street car.
All the columns should be dis
pensed with, he says. Particularly
the wcmen's column. He would like
to sell our editors the delusion under
which he himself pretends to la
bor that the entire working class
consists of striking longshoremen
striking longshoremen and the other
male workers have wives, and like
as not, reacticnary wives. And a
reacticnary wife can be a damned
effective strikebreaker.
Hence the wish of the boss press,
wish to which Broun gave express
sion, to liquidate our column among
the others. The real objection is
net that it talks about lipstick once
in a while, but that it talks a lot
about other matters-the struggles
Of the Women's Councils: the Do
nestle Workers Union; the Wom-
EMS Anti-War Congress; the OPP
pressed condition of working class
women generally, the need for ma
ternity provision, and the fine in
dependent position occupied by
Soviet women.
AS the mining comrades pointed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Lanes Cotton Mill
Continues Lay-Ofs;
Increases Speed-Up
Worker Not Permitted To Go TO the Mushroom
During Working Hours

Der the Rev. Peter Wynhoyen. and
all that he said was that we should
not get excited. In other words
the people should do as they are
told by the boss and keep their
mouths shut.
The mill is at present running
only three days week and six
hours a day. The cost of living
continues to rise while the wages
of the mill hands are cut by every
means known to the management.
These people know that they are
being imposed upon and exploited
but because of the actions of the
A. F. of L. last year they are afraid
Of organizing to defend themselves.
There is some that can and do
understand. They are talking or
ganization and as soon as they can
build good local, they can begin
getting the consideration that is
their due as workers and men and
women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Letters from Our Readers
ers' and farmers government.

ers' and farmers government.
Naturally, the Daily Worker is far
from perfect. In way it is accom-
plishing both of these tasks. In
many cases the language of the
Daily" is complicated and could be
much simpler. In many other in
stances, the writing is not interesting,
and instead of giving a simple, clear
picture, dramatically told, the writ
ing is merely the repetition of for
NAL phrases. These are defects
which the editorial staff is con-
stantliy striving to overcome.
On the other hand, the Daily
Worker gives truer picture of what
is happening, and the only correct
analysis of what is happening. You
say that when a non-class con-
scious worker begins to read the
Daily" it affects him as a paper
full of scandal and propaganda. y
For this there is a reason. The rea-
son is that the capitalist press con-
tinuously and deliberately teach
their working class readers that all
Communist writing is propaganda. .
But supposing worker in far
tory picks up the DAILY" and finds
in it an item which describes ex-
actly what is going on in his shop
how the boss exploits the workers
how their wages are cut, how the
foreman speeds up the men, how
they get no pay for overtime, how
they are laid off, ETC., etc. In this
case, with this worker, even if he
were not class conscious, would he
say that these facts are scandal
and propaganda? On the contrary
he would eagerly greet this news
item, because he knows from his
own experience that it is true ano
he knows that no other newspaper
would print such information. He
never sees such information in any
capitalist newspaper that he reads
This shows us what we must de
to win over workers to the fight
against capitalism. We must get al
much as possible, reports from the
workers themselves, such as we now
have in our Workers Correspondence
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Hundreds Sleep
On Bare Ground
tBy a Worker Correspondent,

(By Worker Correspondent
BOISE, Idaho. = Several hundred
men and women and children are
sleeping on the bare ground on the
bank of the rivers.
There were two men who stopped
at my cabin the other day and
asked for a bite to eat. They had
come up from Utah. They were
workers at the point of starvation.
They said they had gone to a bakery
man here and asked for a loaf of
bread. The man told them to clean
out his furnace for bread. 1t took
them 2 hours to do the work, and
he gave them each loaf of bread.
They asked the bakery man to give
each two doughnutS, but he said
no.
There was a hunger march here
on the 3rd. About 1000 we're out.
Most of them are democrats, but
some are learning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

On May % we printed on this
page part Of a letter from a worker
in the mems neckwear trade, to
General Johnson, N. R. A. admin
istrator. The letter described how
under the NJ R. A. regulation of
wages and working hours, the manu-
facturers with the help of the union
officials speed the workers up, by
cutting down the piece-work rates.
Workers who cannot reach the min
imum weekly rate of $40 stipulated
by the N. R. A., with these reduced
piece work rates, are fired. The
letter stated:
Not long ago the union reduced
the workers prices on each dozen
to such an extent that even the
fastest worker cannot make $40 a
week, which is the limited scale
at present"
We now publish a reproduction
of the answer received by this
worker to his complaint. This an
swer from the N. r. A. administra-
ton proves, first: that it is the
purpose and function of the N. R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
~ Doctor
>AGG1ZGH aGE0
R o a.
AQA>G1AP4:
BY PAUL LUTT1NGER, MD.

in those factors, which build resis-
lance: Misunderstanding foods
such as oranges, cheese, eggs, butter,
cream and green vegetables. In
addition, it is considered advisable
to supplement this diet with cod
liver oil. OF all these foods con-
sidered absolutely necessary, we re-
ceived only two eggs per day, hard
boiled and ripe, and butter in such
quantities as to detect it's presence
only by the greasy coating of the
single slice of dried bread furnished
with each meal. The othsr food
consisted of non-descript stex-like
messes, palatable only to advanced
cases of starvation. Except by spe-
cial permit, it is strictly forbidden
for relatives or friends to bring in
food, on the grounds that, as one
attendant put it, cit would clutter
up the patients stands" Candy and
ice-cream, efficient appetite chaSers,
are permitted between meals, and
nothing else except the highly "bap-
tized" cocoa or milk supplied by the
hospital soon enough before meals,
to make it ineffective as between
meal nourishment. Second helpings
OF food, while not forbidden, APP
pear to place such strain upon the
attendants, that request for more
food takes on the qualities of a
hoggish crime 1t is less trouble to
remain hungry. Three days Of
this high caloric" diet cost me four
hard-won pounds of weight The
patient in the bed on my right lost
six pounds in an eight-day period,
and the patient on my left side de-
clared loss of five pounds in the
week of her stay.
Ito be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

A. to help the bosses in speeding
up and laying off workers. 1t was
under the N. R. A. that the speed
up and lay-offs, described by this
worker were instituted.
Second: That the A. F. of L. lead
ers participated in formulating the
code and establishing the N. R. A.
machinery, making it an effective
instrument in the hands of the
bosses to carry out their attacks
on the workers.
Third: That the workers cannot
hope for any help from either the
A. F. of L. leaders or the N. R. A.,
to remedy these conditions. The
only effective method for accom-
plishing this is for the rank and file
to organize a strong opposition
group in the union, to conduct the
fight against piece-work, speed up
and lay-offs, and against the union
misleaders. They should get in
touch with the A. F. of L. Rank and
File Committee, l Union Square,
which is leading and co-ordinating
the struggles of the rank and file
oppositicns in all A. F. of L. unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
BY a Worker Corresnondent

NEW ORLEANS, lathe Lanes
Cotton Mill, continues to lay off
their workers as they have since
the First of the year. They are
very proficient in the art of adding
more and more work on the people
that work in this mill, also in re-
ducing their wages. The workers
are required to do almost as much
as two should do.
They must put in every minute
of their time while in the mill. The
management does not want the
people to have time for anything
except labor, if some one is COM
PEELED to answer the call of nature,
they are told that they are not
getting paid for that, but that they
must remain at their work.
This has been going on for some
time, ever since the beginning of
the N. R. A. This was mentioned
to the Cotton Textile Board mem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
WOrkerS'EnemieS
Exposed

All workers and all working class
organizations are warned against
the following Swindlers.
Carl Miller (Chas. Coder), pres
ent whereabouts unknown, who
came as delegate from the San An
tonic, Texas, branch of the Friends
OF the Soviet Union to the National
Convention of the F. S. U. (held
in New York at the end of January
this YEAR,, has robbed a member of
the German Workers Club in New
York, who gave him lodging, of a
considerable amount of money
Cabout 500 and disappeared.
Under the name of Chas. Cooler
he was expelled from the Commu-
mist Party in March, 1881, as an
unreliable individual who disap-
peared from Trenton, N. j., with
out accounting for some funds of
the International Labor Defense.
Later he turned up in Kansas
City, Mo-, where he was permitted
to work as a sympathizer. In Sep
TENDER, 1892, he went to Little
Rock, Ark; and from there in Oc-
tober 1888, to San Antonio, Texas,
where he joined the F. S. U. branch.
According to reports from San
Antonio there also, as the literature
agent of the branch, he has left
behind unpaid bills for literature
from the F. S. U. National Office
and for the Daily Worker, although
he was selling the literature and
the paper, according to his own re-
ports, in sufficient quantities to pay
these bills.
His latest actions, in failing to re-
turn to San Antonio to discharge
his duties as delegate to the F..
S. U. Convention, and the OUT ut
robbing of worker who had DE-
friended him, brand Carl Miller as
deSpicable thief and swindler and
an enemy Of the working class.
George Smith, of New York City,
to where he came from Spokane or
Seattle, Wash, has been expelled
from the Communist Party as an
unreliable and irresponsible indi-
vidual, who disappeared with funds
and supplies belonging to the sea-
mems union Tin December, 1889.
Description: about 81 years of
age, 5 feet six inches tall, weighs
about ITO pounds; has black hair,
dark complexion, red cheeks, brown
eyes; he blinks his eyes slightly
when speaking. He belonged to the
Marine Workers Industrial Union,
claiming to be a marine engineer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Police Protect
SCabS in CelOteX
StrikeinMarrerO
By a WOrker COrrespOndent

MARRERO, Lain the Celotex
strike in Marrero, as always the
forces of law and order are taking
the side of the manufacturers
against the workers. Because a scab
got worked over by some of the
strikers, the authorities arrested
four of the officials of the local
and put them in Jail. They were
let out on bond and then rear
rested on the claim that the prop
erty put up for bond for these men
was not worth the amount of the
bond. Bonds were set at $500 and
the property is listed as being worth
SIS 900, and is being taxed as listed.
These men took no actual part in
the Beating of the man who wanted
to help take their jobs by scabbing
and hauling ScabS. Besides, he was
armed. He had a gun in his car.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Fight Persecution
of Militant Hat
Worker by Boss
IN a WORKER CORRESPONDENT

BY a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK-The Kurtz and
Davidman hat shop used to be a
small shop with 40 workers. The
bosses in that shop always intimi-
dated the workers. The worker
never dared to speak up at any shop
meeting. Many times, the workers
worked under the price. For many
things that they had to get paid
they never got paid. For single
hats for which 40 cents had to be
paid, he only paid 20 cents. BY those
methods he was able to open a new
shop with over 100 workers. He
still kept on with his old methods
Keep your mouth shut, you'll make
a living, otherwise get out"
Two weeks ago he picked on a
militant worker, claiming his work
wasn't any good. The committee
was called and the hats were
passed. AS soon as he saw the &C
ton of the shop, he wanted that
the workers shall at least fix the
hats, but the workers rejected that
proposal. Then the bosses passed
them without giving them to fix
(for which he would have had to
pay to make his bluff good that
the hats are not passable. In order
words the hats were passable, but
the boss wanted to get rid of the
worker. Since that day he started
picking on that man. He even
called the worker down for fight.
Last week another dozen were re-
turned, but the worker refused to
fix them. The committee was called
and later the shop decided that they
don't look over the hats, but stick
with the worker. The shop decided
to walk out until he stopped both
ering the man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
LENIN

Department on Page 4. Based on
this information, when we show the
workers how to struggle, how to
improve their own conditions right
in their own shops, in their day to
day life. From this we must go on
to show how not only the boss, but
the whole government has the func-
ton of keeping the workers in mis-
cry in order to maintain profits. And
from this we can raise the class
consciousness of the worker, along
the road that leads to the revolu-
tionary struggle for Soviet power.
The Daily Worker welcomes letters
from its readers with criticisms and
suggestions. Above all, it urges its
readers to write worker correspond
ence, what they themselves know,
what is going on. In this way the
workers will know that what they
find in the Daily" is not scandal
and propaganda but the truth that
alone, can show them the way TO
a better life-a life free from ex-
ploitation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
York II to IA Hours at Hotel
EndicOH Under MR.A. Code
Kitchen Windows Nailed dOtUn, So Workers
Don't ''Waste Time Getting Breath of Air

dition, by the boss, in order to
quiet them down.
The unsanitary, unhealthy cOndi-
tons prevalent in the kitchen rem
der it completely impossible for
anyone to maintain his job for
longer than q few days, especially
the chef behind the fire, as the room
is absolutely void Of any ventilation
whatever. The atmosphere is de-
pressingly humid and pervaded with
a sickening musty smell, as of rot
ting old matter. There were once
two windows, but the workers used
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

to go over sometimes to snatch a
breath of air, and this could not be
tolerated, so they were nailed down.
If the workers really want a more
abundant life the only way is to join
the F. W. I. U. and by organized &C
ton achieve what, and more than
the N. R. A. hypocritically promises
while handing us just the opposite.
The chefs job is advertised on all
agencies on the avenue as follows;
$75 month in a small hotel. Work
ers should watch out for this sign,
as the sharks are realizing hand
some profit on this job. I was fired
because I objected to serving a
guest after 9 o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
PARTY LIFE
Denies Neglect Of Negro and
Foreign Born in Rochester
Shortcomings Exist in Approach to Negro and
Italian Workers and Must Be Overcome

Our first contribution to the col
umn, which we follow regularly,
must be in the nature of criti-
cism. On May %, you printed an
article under a Syracuse, N. Y"
address, concerning the Rochester,
N. Y, relief workers strike, writ
ten by one who said he was a wis
itor to Rochester" His comments
are not Bolshevik self-criticism
but abuse and perversion. The strike
now enters its eighth week, in
vclving over $500 workers. AS many
workers read this article, it caused
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Work SO Hours a Week
for SIS in Beauty Shop
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK-A little n otto e
could be taken of the Beauty Shops
where they keep girls working SIS
hours a week for IS per week. And
those shops carry N. R. A. signs.
Some of the poorest paid ones are
to be found out at Sunny Side, Long
Island, the one out at 47th St.,
called the Golden Rule. How can
any single girl exist on such pay?
No wonder so many girls kill them
selves as have in the past year.
So many firms seem to be hiding
under the N. r. A. sign. They seem
to think as long as they display
the N. r. A. they can pay just what
they like.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
ASKS CHANGE IN DAILY
WORKER
New York City

New York City.
Dear Editor:
am a new reader of the Daily
Worker. Since I have been reading
the Daily Worker, I realize the i'm
portant role and the power it has to
inform the workers of the truth
about their daily struggles and ex-
poses the treacherous betrayals of
the VOLS, the Greens and the So
cialist leaders. But I believe the
Daily Worker would gain many new
readers if it would alter their style
in writing. BY that I mean without
sacrificing the truth and continuing
to expose the enemy of the work
ing class to write on literary style.
Not in a propaganda and SANDER
ing way. Sometimes it is necessary
But not in every article.
My experience in trying to inter
est my friends and acquaintance to
read the Daily Worker compels me
to write this. The style of the Daily
Worker as it is, is all right for the
class conscious or organized workers
who know by experience that moth
ing is too harsh against the enemies
of the workers.
But the unorganized workers who
are under The theology of the bour-
geoisie when they first commence
to read the Daily Worker, it effects
them as a paper full of scandal and
propaganda.
They get discouraged and lose in
terest before they become class con-
scious. That is the main objection
every one of my friends gave me in
my approach to recruit new sub
scribers for the Daily Worker.
Editorial Note.-The Daily Worker
strives in its writing to do two
things: To give a true picture Of
what is going on, and at the SAME
time, to show to the working class
what it must do, on the basis Of
what is happening, to fight for it,
liberation from capitalist exploita-
ton and the setting up of a work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
NOTE

We publish letters from textile,
needle, shoe and leather workers
every Wednesday. Workers in these
industries are urged to write us of
their conditions of work, and of
their struggles to organize. Get the
letters TO us by Saturday of each
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

BY educating the workers party,
Marxism educates the vanguard
of the proletariat, thus fitting it
to seize power and to lead the
whole people towards socialism,
to carry on and to organize the
new order, to become the teacher,
the guide, the leader of all who
labor and are exploited-their
teacher, guide and leader in the
work of organizing their social
life without the bourgeoisie and
against the bourgeoisie.
LENIN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Got 81 for 9 Hours
Work in Dry-goOds' Store
By a Worker Corresnonder

oy NUIh1T CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK; worked in a dry
goods store in the Bronx for 81
a day. I only took Is or 20 min
utes for lunch. When I went to
work was not entitled to one hour
Tor lunch? On weekdays I worked
from to 6 and Saturday from 9
IN the morning till some times 1890
at night and had to wait for my
money till after II pm. that night
1 worked from May till July, 1888
and did not even get my $6 some
times. Had to wait.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1848 is available in sizes
IA, Is, 18, 20, 80, "a, SO, 38, 40
and AZ. Size 16 takes 334 yards
Sc inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-
step sewing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

Send FIFTEEN CENTS q5c) in
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number. BE SURE TO STATE
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Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 West 18th
Street, New York City.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-30
STEPHEN WINSTON
 DECORATED AGAIN
Silver Star Medal Given for Gallantry in Action
 in France

stephen J. Winston, brother of patroln1an John Winston and Pat- rick Winston, foreman in the Chls0 Company plant in Watorviilo, has Just received another decoration from the United States govern. mont in recognition of his bravery during the World War. Steve ig the same follow who at tho age oe IS enlisted in tho American forc0s and returned q lieutenant.
 His latest citation ls c Silver Star modal. Ho aiready holds tho French Croix do Guerre and tho American Distinguished Service Cross. Tine latest award is foi gaiaintry In action at St Thibault, France. Tho citation says that nH q sergeant in Company !, 47th lhs fantry, 9th Division, no "com- manded q platoon and directed hiB men with coolncDB and good judg' ment under C terrific machine gun and artillery fire. H0 penetrated the enemy lines obtaining valuable information which no doubt saved the lives of many Of his mon.
 The D. E. C. was presented him for his bravery at the Dois de I3rleulleg On September 2S, 1915 when no charged and captured C machine gun most. Steve was born on Baldwin street and soon grew to stripping manhood. At 1T, he loft homo and worked his way on a trip around tho world. Flo stands six feet and was considered 0he Of tho finest specimens of G soldier when in uniform. Hc is married now and the father of two cbil' dren.