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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Girl Mattresses
Picketed MilitantIy
In Mobile Strike
by a Worker Correspondent

MOBILE. Ala.-In spite of all the
Sell-outs, ETC.. of the A. F. of L.
and I. L. A officials here in Mobile.
there is still a strong sentiment
for further strikes here. Theirs are
police patrolling the docks all dav
long, to frighten the workers. and
to keep them from consolidating
the strike sentiment.
After three months of daily
picketing, the mattresses of the
Metropolitan Cafe have lost their
strike. We can take this cafe strike
and get a pretty good idea of how
the American workers are BEGIN
ming to understand the necessity of
struggling. About 25 to 30 white
southern girls picketed the Metro
politan Cafe night and day. with
placards, and pickets appealing to
other workers to help them in the
strike. Finally Walter Schafer.
Vlce-president of the Alabama Fed
Grafton of Labor. with the help of
the Big Shot" Bakes of the
restaurant local here sold them out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
LaGuardia IgOreS
Plea OF Vet Driven
To TB by Hunger
Registered Letter Asks
More Work, But Is
Left Unanswered
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-On Feb. II, 1884,
an American citizen and disabled
veteran of the World War, feeling
weak, 7 went to my family physi-
clan to be examined. I gradually
became weaker as time went on and
was informed by the doctor that
if I did not take better care of
myself in regard to my nourish-
ment, which meant better and
more expensive foods than I had
been eating, I would be apt to con-
tract tuberculosis, as I was very
much underweight.
I have been employed as
painter by the c. w. A., earning
S13.44 per week-from which I had
to provide for my wife, my father,
mother and myself - so you can
readily see that my share for life's
necessities was very scant.
Having listened to a prediction
pledge-made by our present Mayor
LaGuardia = that an open door
WONAN Nc 4OACNS4 1llolIlGdlllGQ dG Ills
Office or home, I therefore appealed
to him via registered mail, in which
I asked him if it was possible for
him to secure an increase in my
working days to more than three
days a week. I asked for no
charity, but more working days.
To my great amazement I never
received an answer, though 1 still
have the post Office receipt show
ing that he received the letter. I
wrote again-this time to Mrs. La
Guardia, asking her to inform me
whether or not my letter was mis-
laid at home, and again no answer.
At present I am confined in bed
at the U. S. Veterans Hospital, on
Kingsbridge Road in the Bronx. In
the meantime my family at home
suffer privation. Do you think that
after making such a pledge our
Mayor is justified in not answering
my letter? I am drawing no com
pensation from the U. S. Govern
ment. What is fellow to do in
my position?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
By Marine Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK-My partner and I
introduced the List System" of
rotation employment into the Seat
tie Longshoremen's Union in 1915.
1t took me IA months of talking to
members of the union and explain
ing how it could be done. Finally,
a vote was taken by the truckers,
and 1929 voted for and 1914
against, so We put it into operation
from 1916 to 1921.
We had two adjoining halls cap
able of seating $500 men. Every
man was listed according to the
first letter of his name from A to 2.
When ship came into port the
owner or agent telephoned to the
hall for the number Of men he
wanted.
The secretary (Ellis) called out
the names and the last man whose
name was called had his name writ
ten with chalk on a blackboard.
when another ShipoWner wanted
men, the next name on the list be-
low the one written on the board.
was called, and so on down the list
in rotation. So every man got the
same chance to woStl.
This did away with the power of
the boss to hire men; it also killed
all graft and racketeering. and the
union grew and prospered until it
had s250,000 in its treasury in 1919.
Men could come to the halls and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
BY I. HERMAN

The District Convention of the
Communist Party of Ohio, held on
March 81, adopted the following
control task to be carried through
by Aug. in the building up of the
Y. C. L.:
IS. In line with the control task
on Party recruiting, we must
achieve the building up of the
Y.C.L. to 500 members in this dis
trict by Aug. 1. We must aim to
carry through in daily practice
the building of a Y.CL. s1op nu-
cIeus wherever there is a Party
nucleus. Within four months, we
are to definitely organize func-
tioning shop units of the Y.C.L.
at Otis Steel, Fisher Body, Re-
public Steel Youngstown. A
start towards developing youth
work in the unions shall be be-
gun, in steel Special efforts shall
be made to build up the Y.CL. in
the ScovilI section, the Party as
signing definite responsibility to
see that this is carried out"
The various section conventions
held prior to the district convention
had also adopted Control Tasks on
the Y.CL. The Youngstown section
declared it would build a Y.C.L.
shop unit in Republic Steel Chat
during the period of June 10 to July
10, it would recruit two youths from
the Republic; to build Y.C.L.
unit in Farrell and strengthen the
unit in Warren; recruit 10 youths
for the S.M.WIU.; to recruit five
for Y.CL. in Youngstown;
to see that youth branches are built
up among the Croatians and Ital-
ians. Section 1 decided to carry out
by Aug. l, the building up of
YC.L. shop unit at Otis Steel; and
organize League units in Brooklyn
and Settlement. Section 2, to car
ry out by Aug. l, the building of at
least three more YCL. units; see
that each Y.CL. unit has a Party
rep; to organize Y.C.L. shop units
at Graphite Bronze and Fisher
Body; to help popularize the Young
Worker; to concentrate on at least
two bourgeoise youth organizations.
All other sections adopted similar
Control Tasks.
Now let US ask, what has been
done? Cd Instead of 500 members,
the Y.CL. at present has around
zoo members in the district % In
stead of a Y.CL. shop unit wherever
there is Party shop unit (the
Party at present has rs shop nu-
cleD, we have vel. shop units
only at Fisher Body and Mckinney
Steel, and practically non-existent
unit at Otis. We have no shop
unit at Republic Steel. CD While
the Control Tasks called for max
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Negro Refomists Defend Jim Cro,0isnr,
Praise ROOSeUeLt'S Rotten "New Deal"
To Free Themselves, Negroes Must Unite With
''POOr Whites" Southern Negro Writes

North Carolina, the state that, ac-
cording to the Charlotte News,
N. c., June Is, wants to inform the
world of its natural scenic and in
dustrial virtues" is so cents a day
on the plantation from sun up to
sun down
In coal mine in Union County
the wages are IS cents a 10-hour
day to Negro and white workers.
This, plus the promise of a raise
when things get going" is known
as the Roosevelt minimum.
Together with a sharp drop in
wages we find a great rise in prices
of overalls, fertilizer, fatback, etc.
One Negro misleader, speaking to
a poor farmer, said: Brother, the
Roosevelt program is evolutionary,
not revolutionary"
The poor Negro farmer, whose
oyeralls had been patched up many
times, but is now in rags, answered,
you are right, brother, don't you
see am half naked?"
We Negro workers and farmers
are convinced that only by uniting
with the poor white" workers and
farmers under the leadership of the
Communist Party we can free our
selves finn the white exploiters and
their black and white agents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
PARTY LIFE
Party Resolutions to Build
Ohio YCL Not Carried Out
Tasks Set by Contention Still Remain on Paper,
Must Garry Through Work. At Once

ing start in youth work in Steel,
extremely little has been done in
this connection. Our Party COM
ra6es in the S.M.WIU., working
at the various steel mills, have not
seen fit for the most part to raise
the special demands of the youth
or recruit youth for the union.
Let us here examine how the
Control Tasks of the Youngstown
Party section have been carried
out? Cd No shop unit of Y.CL. es-
tablished at Republic Steel. No Re-
public youth recruited for the
Y.CL. during month of June when
the task called for recruiting at
least two. % Although we under
stand that efforts are being made to
build Y.C.L. unit in Farrell, never
theless, this Control Task ended
July 10 unful1lled. 90 The strength
ening of the unit in Warren has
not been carried through. (4) From
what we know, 10 youths we're not
recruited for the S.M.W.IU. up till
July 10. 60 Five members were not
recruited for the Y.C.L. in Youngs-
town. (6) We haven't heard much
abouS the efforts to build youth
branches among the Croatians or
Italians, so we won't deal with this
here.
In view of the fact that there are
only two more weeks before the
Control Tasks expire, we must raise
very alarmingly the fact that there
is considerable neglect in the
building up of the YCL. While it
is true that our Y.CL. comrades,
and particularly, its leadership, has
shown many serious weaknesses,
nevertheless, this can in no way act
as an excuse for the failure of
Party sections to carry through the
Control Tasks that they themselves
have set.
We would greatly appreciate
hearing from the sections dealt
with in this article. I'd suggest that
the section organizers in these Sec
tons write to the Party Life" coll
umn, explaining WHY their Con-
troll Tasks on the Y.CL. have not
been fulfilled in the main.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
lBy q Worker Correspondentl

MATTHEWS, N. C.-In North
Carolina, as in other states, the Ne
gro misleaders support the rotten
New Deal They are the body
guards Of the capitalists that Cd
press the poor white and Negro
farmers. They cannot find words
great enough to praise Rockefeller,
Rosenwald and other robbers who
show their goodness by occasionally
returning few cents from the mil
lions robbed Of the poor white and
Negro farmers in the form Of
school.
Among these apologists of Ameri-
can Imperialism we find many
preachers and teachers.
Regarding jim Crowism and the
denial to the Negro children of the
right to use the bus when going to
school, they say, That's good, be-
cause the buses may turn over and
the children get killed"
They ignore the fact that many
Negro children yearly get sick and
die from exposure and pneumonia
after walking miles through wet
and muddy roads to the schools, i'll
clad and in broken shoes.
The wages paid to the hands" in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
by a Worker Correspondent

RACINE, Wis.-Well, boys, here
is some more dope on the way the
Transient Homes of Wisconsin are
run, for which the State of Wis
consin pays 80 per cent of the cost
and the Federal Government 70
per cent.
The food for which 81 cents per
day per man is allowed is deplor-
able. The coffee is 95 per cent
Lake Michigan water. They don't
know what an egg looks like here.
The bread is often mouldy, the milk
is watered.
Old men and cripples are made
to sleep on the third floor, up two
flights of stairs. The old men and
the cripples sit wherever they can
find room at a table. Cornmeal
almost every morning for breakfast
with very little Watered milk. The
dinner is so light that men get UP
from the table hungry and go out
and beg the private houses for
something to eat.
If you have any extra clothing
you are told to put it in your locker
and that no one is responsible for
it if it is stolen or lost. There are
no locks on lockers. Army cots
are the beds on the third floor with
no mattress, pillow or sheets, Just
two army blankets. Face soap is
old yellow laundry soap full of I've.
The place is right across from the
police station, so if any one COM
plains they call the cops across the
street and have you thrown out or
locked up. You are not allowed to
leave the place after p. m. and
must be in at p. m.
They send men to camp in North
ern Wisconsin and make them work
for 80 cents a week, the same work
the c. G. G. men get a ST a day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Lock Negro Worker In
Cage for Ten Days In
Arizona Transient Camp

PHOENIX, Aria Negro work
err at the transient camp at the
fairgrounds here was sentenced to
ten days on bread and water and
placed in a locked improvised wire
cage. The Negro had made long
distance call on the telephone to
some relatives in Houston, seeking
help to get out of the camp. Not
being able to pay for the telephone
call on the 90-cent week forced
labor wages, he was locked in the
cage.
While incarcerated in the cage,
the worker one night removed the
boards from the floor and escaped,
but was recaptured.
With the arrival of State Tran
sient Director Murphy the cage
was removed from view from the
road. Pressure has resulted in the
removal of BUSHNELL, the camp di-
rector, and the Negro worker was
sent to his home in Houston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
TIMES COMMUNISTS"
Bronx. N. Y,

Bronx, N. Y.
Editor, Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
I was very glad to read in today's
Daily Worker that Comrade Casey
left the New York Times and joins
the Daily Worker staff. The man
agement of our paper should utilize
this in order to increase the circu-
lation of the Daily Worker.
When Comrade Casey will start to
write his articles, then about 100000
leaflets should be printed and flood
the whole city. If possible, in other
cities, too. Because the Times is
very popular between all radicals.
1 assure you comrades if at least
every Party member and sympa-
thizer who reads the Times would
read the Daily Worker, we would
have circulation of 100000 in the
city of New York. 1t is a shame
that many Parry and Y. G. L. mem
bers are Times Communists. They
gather all their information about
the Communist movement from the
Times and lately from the New
York Post, too, and never read the
Daily Worker.
Coming back to the leaflets, when
you will write them please write it
as plain as possible that everybody
should understand it.
While the present circulation
drive is on, we have to work for an
eight-page Daily" In order to
reach this, the management, with
the help of the workers, should
start campaign for more adver-
tisements in order to make the
paper self-supporting.
For an eight-page and better
Daily Worker.
Comradely yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
S14 For Colour
Week on Dairy
In Bridgeport
Forced to Sign Away
Compensation
Rights
by an Agricultural Labcrer
CORRESPONDENT


BRIDGEPORT. Conn., gradu-
ated from the National Farm
School in 1890, and after having
several jobs on farms for as low as
$40 a month, found myself unem-
ployed.
Three weeks ago I got a job in a
local dairy. When I got the job the
boss said he was going to pay me
NR.A. wages. This means that I
was to get $14 week for working
as SAMPLER and weigher for milk.
The work starts at am. and we get
through at all hours. We are not
given any time off for lunch. We
have to eat while working.
The other day the boss, through
scme technicality, forced me to sign
away my compensation rights. I
did not want to sign this, but he
told me I would either sign or lose
my job. I told the compensation
commissioner that I was being
forced to sign this waiver or lose
my job and she laughed. This in
the Socialist City of Bridgeport,
Last week the boss bought all of
us overalls with the name Of the
dairy on them. He took as much as
Sc out of the pay Of the workers.
The average wage for over so hours
week is $14
The boss comes up on the plat
form where l dump and weight the
milk and when he sees that I am
giving the farmers correct weight
on the milk he sends the foreman
up TO take down the weights. The
foreman deducts as much as 6 to
10 pounds from every farmer. Dur
ing the month this amounts to a
lot Of milk. The farmers as we'll as
the workers are getting real raw
deal in this case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Chronic Bed-Metting

Martha R., Milwaukee, case
like your brothers is very rare in
deed. If you are sure that there are
no organic or psychic reasons for
his enuresis (bed-wetting), it is
difficult to advise you as to treat
ment. We were amused by your
description of the various special
lists whose fees were in direct pro-
portion to the amount of bella
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
10 -
le the neglgl&ep
Ee4S
AntiWar Congress-And Longshoremen's Strike

On Wednesday evening, July 4,
en English meeting analogous to
our Regional Conferences, took
place at Caxton Hall, Westminster,
London, attended by 152 delegates
from various English organizations,
mostly working class, to elect dele
gates to the Paris Anti-War Con-
gress. Among the speakers were
Ellen Wilkinson, Sylvia Pankhurst,
and Mrs. Despard.
Twelve delegates were elected.
One came from each of the fol-
lowing cooperative guilds: Maryle-
bone, Hendon, Westminster CHS
wick, Watford, Putney and Hanwell.
That's seven. The other five were
Maud Brown of the N.U.W.M., one
from the G. P, from the FS.U.,
Hilda Browning, and one delegate
from an organization not named in
the report.
The Cooperative Guild delegates
are making special efforts to fur
ther activity among the factory
workers so that good industrial
delegation goes to Paris.
The National Unemployed Work
err Movement is also conducting
campaigns in South Wales, Lanca-
shire, Scotland, Yorkshire and Bris-
tol, to elect delegates and raise
funds to send them to Paris. The
London District itself decided to
send three delegates.
Good work on the part of our
English sisters, through which Eng
land will doubtless have a large
delegation at the Paris Congress
Aug. f.
Meanwhile here in America we
already have an immense oppor-
tunity to give concrete expression
to our opposition to war and fas-
cism. The waging of war depends
most directly on the will OF the
1ongShorenen whose work it would
be to load arms and ammunition
Delegates &c the Paris Congress will
be able to report some sizeable
blocks already laid in the barrier
against war and fascism, if they
can report that organizations and
individuals favoring the work CT the
Committees Against War and Fas-
cism, have actively supported the
1ongshoremen in their demands for
union recognition, workers control
OF the hiring systems, and decent
wages and working conditions.
Working class women, the fight of
the longshoremen is our fight too
their interests are our interests. We
call upon women and all opposed
to war and fascism to support the
striking longshoremen, by word by
demonstration, by contribution to
the strike fund. (Strike Committee,
IS Jackson ST., San Francisco.)
Turn out to the local demonstra-
tons everywhere. Be seeing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Get Little Money on
Homes Grabbed in
Nei0 HaUen for Taxes
CBy a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Talk
about initiation! In 1920 the
Mayor of New Haven at that
time, who happened to be a
Democrat, said that the only
way to make this city prosper
GUS was to initiate the property.
So accordingly they raised the
taxes on every little home as
high as 120 per cent.
All Of the pork barrel actors,
both big and little, got their
salaries raised 100 per cent or
more.
Now on account of mass
misery, people can't pay their
taxes. The city is selling the
workingmen's homes by the hun
dreds for non-payment Of taxes.
A house that was assessed for
$4,000 was sold for $1,000. An
other house that was owned by
an Italian woman was sold for
S85.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
NOTE;

We publish letters from farm
ers. agricultural workers, forestry
and lumber workers, and cannery
workers every Thursday. These
workers are urged to send us let
tiers about their conditions of
work, and their struggles to or
ganizc. Please get these letters
to us by Monday of each week,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Vegetable Prices
Upstate Not Worth
Time Spent GFOtVing
by a Farmer Correspondent


WATERVLIET, N. Y Things
are pretty slow on the farms.
Now we are ready for market
ing. Our vegetables are already
so low in price that much is not
bringing more than we should
by right receive for the time put
in to make it ready. Farmers
are going backwards slow but
sure, and every season is bring
ing us little closer to destruc-
ton.
Cabbage is now bringing $3.50
to 1.25 a barrel, where in 80 to
IS head brought in common
years from So to IS average
price. Beets are just starting
and are already sold for 2la
cents a bunch, average price in
other years being four to six
cents for the first crop.
There is also less land in cul-
ture as there used to be.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1929 is available in sizes
16, 10, 20, "a, SO, SO, 40, 42 and A.
Size Sc takes 334 yards 3S-inch fab
ric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing
instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Letters from Our Readers

again proves the vital Importance
OF presenting the Communist Par
tvs face through the columns of our
Daily" 1t must reach more
workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
A REVOLUTIONARY RECRUIT
ING AGENT

New York City.
Unemployed Councils,
Dear Comrades:
On Sunday, July 8, I passed by
7th st. Park, where a meeting was
in session. A committee selling the
Daily Worker passed me by, but it
happened that I did not have the
three cents. The paper was given
to me anyway. Enclosed find little
check to clear myself from the debt.
Ccmradely yours,
A. K.
P. S. BY the way, I would appre-
ciate your kindness if you inform
me of some of the functions that
are performed by the Unemployed
Councils.
Editorial Note: The above letter
was sent to the Daily Worker by
the Unemployed Council. The check
was for 81. This little instance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19

The spread of the Daily" to
the mass of workers is a pre-
requisite to their successful strug-
giles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19

Editorial Note: From time to time
we receive suggestions like the
above. Although the Daily Worker
realizes that picture section, COM
les, etc, would do much to make
the paper mere interesting, because
CT the fact that it has only six
pages, these and many new fea-
lures cannot be added at this time.
we urge cur readers to increase the
circulation of the Daily Worker,
and this will in turn increase the
size of the paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19

SEMI FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in
coins or stamps coins preferred)
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
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, 1934-07-19
A COMIC SUPPLEMENT
Youngstown, Ohio.

Youngstown, Ohio.
Dear Comrades:
1 think it would be a good IDEA to
issue the Saturday Daily Worker
as the Sunday and put in something
like: A picture section, comics,
few stories and games. SO that it
would be more interesting TO the
young workers.
Comradely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Snakes In the Stomach

Vivian, Camp N.-Don't believe
this cock-and- story. The eggs
of snakes are too large to be swal-
lowed from a glass of water with
out being aware of it. But even
if the young woman did manage the
feat, the eggs would be either di-
gested by the gastric and intestinal
secretions or would be passed out,
like any o.her indigestible sub
stance. Either the doctor cannot
diagnose the case, or (what is more
likely the newspaper invented the
story.