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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
By a Knit Goods Worker
Correspondent

BROOKLYN, N. Y. - I am a
worker at the Ruth Fabrics Knit
ting Mill, 32S Berry Street. 6th
floor, Brooklyn. and have been
working there for long time. And
IN all that time the place has been
unorgsnized and consequently oper-
ated under the worst conditions for
the workers.
Our salaries are cut at the slight
est excuse, as, for instance, during
holiday we are told to come and
work, sent home earlier because of
the holiday, and then are docked.
Our lunch hour is supposed to be
an hour, but it is never more than
As minutes, and for that reason we
are not allowed to punch the clock
at that time The girls in the place
must submit to the advances Of the
boss, Stuchin.
Pulley, however, a strike has been
called il the knitting line and ou-
place has for tunatelyoeen included.
Stuchin has with lies tried to turn
the workers away from every pos
sible chance Of organization.
AS his last resource. he has called
a lockout, so that the union will
find nobody there to call down. He
has been influencing part of the
workers, who don't realize what it
is all about, with brides and false
promises. All week long he has
been sending us home at different
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
In THE HON E
Protection of Public Health
BY HELEN LUKE

A stormy conflict is in progress
between the State Milk Control
Board. with the bottled milk mo-
nopolies, and the loose milk COM
panies who are fighting to regain
the right to sell loose milk in New
York City. The sale of this cheap
er loose milk was banned supposedly
because of the danger of contain
ination of loose milk.
Meanwhile we fnid that "a food
inspectors, members of the Board
of Health, have been thrown off
the payrolls by the present admin
istration in the interest of the
economy" de. banker paying pro-
gram. Nine of the men are sueing
to regain their jobs. One of these
was an inspector of fish and other
seafood; one of milk products, two
others of various foods.
They claim that the remaining
staff is SO inadequate to provide
sufficient examination of foodstuffs
sold that the condition now prev
alent is such as might we'll follow
an actual abolition Of the Sanitary
Code insofar as that code protects
the people Of the city against the
sale Of unwholesome food
1t is further stated that there
have been n cases of food poison
ing since May Is as against "A dur
ing the same time last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Woodstock, Artists
Colony, Scene of Big
Anti-W ar Meeting

WOODSTOCK, N. "a group of
sympathizers have organized an
open forum in Woodstock. We have
already had two meetings, the last
August LIST, a day of international
importance.
We had rented hall for a higher
rental than one usually pays. But
an hour before the meeting, we were
refused the hall on the ground that
the forum was run by Communist S
and the subject too radical I'M
mediately. we were offered some
ones studio and though we expected
the confusion would drive away the
audience, we had an audience Of
over 200
The floor was open for discussion,
limiting all to 7 minutes. Many
spoke determinedly and vehemently
against war and fascism. A collec-
ton was made to further the work
of the open forum and for educa-
tional work.
AS an old timer in Woodstock =
I am delighted at the changes thnt
have occurred. l am glad to notice
an eager awakening of the Wood
stock intellectuals to the vital prob
lens surrounding them. Though art
lists are not industrial workers, they
can also function as a conditions to
the labor struggle in this country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Win Right to
Hold Meet in
Bayonne, n. ].

BY Young Worker Correspondent
BAYONNE, N. Jour Y. c. l..
unit held meeting at 18th st. and
Agnes, to help the struggle of the
workers of the Maidenform Bras
siere Co., which is organized by the
International Ladies Garmen t
Workers Union.
The floor girls, according to their
contracts, are supposed to get S14.50
a week, and are getting SO to $40;
and pressers and cutters who are
supposed to get S25 are getting
$3.50 to $l8. The sanitary condi-
tons are terrible Discrimination
against the Negroes is prevalent,
and the workers can't go to meet
ings together, but only when the
big shots say so. The result is the
boss collects all the dues and no.
body knows where the money goes.
When our meeting was held yes
terday we had a crowd when the
first speaker took his place. About
200 were there. The program of the
meeting was to organize the work
ers for rank and file struggle.
The bosses called up the police,
telling them we were destroying
property and blocking traffic. They
took four of us to police headquar-
tiers, thinking to scare the people,
but we were followed by many peo-
pie and were released without any
charge. Then the crowd came back
to continue the meeting
Two resolutions were passed
which will be presented to the city
commissioners at the next commits
sioner's meeting at City Hall One
of the resolutions demands that the
citizens of Bayonne be given their
rights to free speech and peaceful
assembly. The second resolution
that the city and county relief
bodies live up to the Federal Emer-
gency Relief regulations.
Tompkins, secretary of that or
ganization, declared that the Fed
eral relief laws state that relief
should be based on the actual phys
ical requirements of the needy. He
explained that this includes food,
shelter, clothing, fuel, water, gas
and electricity, disqualification, ma
terial and dental care.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
A. & p. Layof
Mill Grinds
Out Pay Cuts
By Food Worker Correspondent

By Food Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-This letter is to in
form workers of the way in which
the clerks and managers of the
great A. q P. Tea Co. have "bene-
flied" since the A. & P. signed the
retail grocers code.
All sorts of pretexes are used by
the bosses 20 lay off managers, then
hire them back as clerks or as as
sistant managers, putting in their
places new men at lower wages. This
serves as a warning to other man
ayers to be satisfied with the hours
they have TO put in while filling in
for the clerks who are now work
ing 48 hours per week. These long
hours that the managers put in are
made more unbearable by the fact
that extra clerks have not been
hired, in spite of statements by the
company to that effect
The burning truth is that the
extra help that they said they hired
were men who had been previously
laid off.
AS for the clerks, they have been
laid off once o. twice according to
how grandIcus their original salary
was, and have been takn back on
each occasion with a wage cut.
AS if this we're not enough, they
are made to work in as many as
three different stores in one day.
Small wonder then that young
boys are working in the stores and
taking away the jobs of the regular
men. The managers cannot be ex-
pected to carry the burden OF keep
ing the store if they are not given
enough help.
The company sends out notice
that no one is allowed to work in
the stores except the regular help.
The company threatens to fire any
manager using outside help, but this
threat is just a gesture.
Does the N. R. A. Labor Board
ever think of investigating these
things? No. They are too busy al
over the United States breaking the
strikes of workers who are o-ganiz-
ing against the starvation wages
and rotten conditions which the
bosses through the N. r. A. have
given the workers.
No wonder the A. & P. Co. stock
can pay such high dividends. No
wonder they have such a large sur
plus they have not only piled up a
big profit on the goods they them
selves have made and sold at N. R.
A. prices, but they have piled up
more profits at the direct expense
of the workers themselves.
Workers, don't bank on the false
promises of the prosperity the
bosses offer through their promotion
tactic. Wake up to what the work
ers can do if they are organized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
PARTY LIFE
Vitality Of Party Sho'On
In Birmingham Ore Strike
Terror Reign Found Some Comrades Surprised,
But Militant and Ready To Do Mass Work

pressure. while other comrades
forged ahead, and proved their
ability to lead precisely while faced
with the most difficult conditions.
The general Party membership
showed their willingness to func-
ton provided there was real lead
ership from the leading comrades,
and the higher Party committees.
The masses proved their support to
the Party by responding with re-
newed confidence to the Party as
soon as we began to do some mass
work.
To be truthful, the masses in
many cases pushed the Party men,
bers into activity by asking for
leaflets, and for information about
meetings and activities. The mill
tant defense of the arrested
leaders and their release 5ourred
on the flow OF confidence CT the
whole Party. and OF the Party
masses in the strength and vitality
of the Party, its program, and its
leadership. 1t was not long before
the whole Party MADE the needed
changes in its methods of work,
tied the strings together and began
a period of consolidation of its Or
ganization, and Of its whole mem
bership. At the same time, with
the changed methods of work, and
in the altered situation, the Party
started to conduct mass work.
At the present time We can
record certain very important sue.
cesses gained by the Party, both in
the field of inner strengthening
and among the masses. These sue
cesses show the vitality of the whole
Party in the Birmingham area. and
the continued growth of the mass
influence of the Party and, above
all of the ability of the Party to
break out into the open despite
severe restrictions. The Party mem
bers very quickly grssped the lesson
that in times of stress we must
hide ourselves among the masses"
work where the decisive masses are,
III GIlS IuliSSG oplllb VI OOdSCiVlu a
ton, and among these masses push
forward our program, and develop
struggles.
Where is the possibility for the
greatest amount of open mass work?
And, at the same time, what is the
most important mass work at the
present time?
It is the work among the trade
union masses, among the basic
workers of heavy industry of the
t. C. l., from the steel mills, coal
mines and ore mines who are or
ganized in the A. F. of L. 1t was
recognized long ago by the Party
here that we must conduct our
main work among these workers.
But it took the test of the wave
of terror to teach our Party mem
bers that not only is it most neces-
sary to work among these organ
lied workers, but that here we can
most openly bring out our program,
and win these decisive workers.
Ito Be Concluded)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
By sgd BENSON
PART /.

In the big wave of strikes and
struggles of the Birmingham coal
and ore miners and steel workers
last Spring the daily work of the
Communists among the strikers
brought great prestige to the Party.
This was due to the fact that only
the Party raised the correct slogans
of solid unity of Negro and white
workers, of rank and file leadership
of the struggles, of a conscious fight
against the differential which
dooms Southern workers to lower
living standard than Northern
workers, and for unconditional rec
ignition of the labor unions.
The response of the bosses and
the police, together with the fascist
gangs Of the White Legion, was to
let loose 2 terrific wave of terror
against the working class, and in
the first place against the Com
munist Party. BY this the bosses
hoped to disconnect the Party from
the strikers, to terrorize the Negro
masses especially, and to Jail all
known Communists, with the hope
that they could isolate the Party
from the masses of workers, espe-
cially from the workers and strikers
of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Corp. IT. C. -.
Beginning with the savage attack
on the May Day demonstration and
the failing of the six Communist
leaders later in May, the police
launched campaign of raids and
arrests which is still going on. In
the last month John Howard Law
son was arrested while investigat-
ing the denial of civil liberties in
Birmingham; since then there were
three further arrests, and still
greater number of raids on the
homes of revolutionary white and
Negro workers.
For a time the police partly sue
ceeded in their objective of break
ing the steady organizational
growth of the Party among the
basic workers of Birmingham. Some
of the key units stopped meeting
while the leading comrades were in
jail, the recruiting fell down and
the dues payments dropped. Dur
ing the worst of the terror, with
the leading comrades jailed, and
the Party caught unawares to a
degree, there developed some con-
fusion in the ranks of the Section
Committees, and in the units. Not
as yet fully used to working under
such conditions, the comrades were
at loss as to how mass work could
be carried on, and how the proper
connections could be maintained.
The wave of terror provided a
real test of our ability to adapt our
selves to mass work despite unfs-
vorable conditions, and test of
our csdres, many of whom had
not passed through a period of in
tensive work under the sharpest
terror. Some of the comrades
dropped out of activity under the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
BY Food Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK When the workers
at Sunshine Biscuit Co. started to
organize into union of their own
choosing, one controlled by the
workers, the company started to dis
criminste against the workers. The
company started first with the law
yer and some men picked by it to
tell the workers that the union is
Communist, and that the Commu-
nists want you to overthrow the
company and the government also"
The bosses tried to get the work
ers afraid because they knew that
the workers were organizing into a
union that the bosses couldn't buy
out.
When the company started to or
ganize the workers, they appointed
their oT-n men for delegation.
This delegation had their own meet
ings with the company. Then they
called general meeting to vote
lOr Gne QelegaLeS.
In the English Departments, the
company presented two men ap-
pointed by the company and asked
the workers what they had to say.
The workers from the English De-
partment all hollered out, 49, They
appointed theic own delegate, and
the other was appointed by the
company. In the American Depart
ment they had four delegates ap-
pointed by the company. The work
ers appointed their own man for
the election. He won. Two men
on both sides, company and work
ers, were elected.
In the American department they
started to call every day differ
ent group Of men, oven men, then
pan men, scrap boys, and machine
men. Each group called for diff
ferent increase. Then the delegates
went to the bosses and presented
these demands Of the workers. The
bosses locked cye~ the demands and
ted the delegates that the workers
asked too much. So the company
union showed in the beginning the
way they work the system OF union
The machines are speeding fast
The workers can say nothing about
it to the union, because they are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
ONLY A.C.W. STRUGLEG
is FOR CHECK-O OFF

and if we allow him, he will be-
come the salesman of all workers
jo5s.
In the beginning of May our Joint
Board decided to install check
up system in the Apollo Co., which
has moved here from New Bruins
wick, N. j. The other locals took
little interest in this decision as it
concerns only the new factory. But
July II, Manager Chairman called
meeting of the So-called active
committee, Joint Board members,
shop chairmen, local committees
and local boards. A proposition was
submitted to confirm that system
for all factories.
The motion to reject the check
up system was rejected by the
chairman of the meeting, Sam
Caecio. Also no one was allowed
to speak against the check-up sys-
tenn. 1 must mention the fact that
the meeting consisted mostly of
Chatman's followers.
During the past few years of
III a t m a MS managership, shop
chairmen were not permitted to be
elected He did not allow the cleo
ton of cairman in the Keller
factory, q newly organized shop.
Now in the Apollo factory Bond
Clothing Company Oscar Smith, a
former administrator of the N. R.
A. Grievance Board in the Roch-
ester district, was appointed as shop
chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
BY a Worker Correspondent

ROCHESTER, N. WV IN ty-
four cutters and five lining cutters
were laid off on June IS from the
largest factories in Fashion Park
at Rochester. Rank and file mem
bers were angered at such sweeping
of workers out of jobs and de-
manded that union leaders put a
stop to that. They answered: we
will turn the case over to the ar
bitrator."
That statement made it clear that
the cutters are laid off for good.
There was no decision, although
four weeks have elapsed.
During those weeks the union
leaders, especially Manager Abra-
ham chatham, did their best to sell
the jobs of the laid-off cutters for
$20c.
The delay of the arbitrator in
reaching decision is a scheme of
the union leaders to withhold the
rank and file workers from direct
struggle-to go out on strike. The
selling of jobs by union leaders
means a conspiracy of the union
leaders with the company employ
ers) to lay off militant workers.
Rank and file union members,
VIC must not allow the officials to
destroy our union. Let's demand
the calling of local meetings, shop
meetings. Manager chatham has
changed from manager to trader OF
the cutters jobs in Fashion Park
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15

quires organization. The system we
have adopted is as follows: Letters
received will be sent to members Of
this board, specializing in the fol-
lowing fields of medicine:
internal medicine general
medical diseases).
2-Pedeatrics (childrens diseases
3-Obstetrics and Gynecology
maternity and women's Diseases.
4Dermatology (skin and vene-
real diseases).
5-Ea., Nose and Throat diseases.
6-Genito-urinsry diseases Of
kidney. bladder and genital organs).
Neurology and p5ychiatgy
nervous and mental diseases.
8-Orthopedics diseases Of bones
and joints.
9EDentistry.
10-Industrial medicine.
11-Preventive medicine and pub
lie health.
Each question will be personally
answered by those of us who are
most qualified to handle the par
ticular problem. The most interest
ing and typical will be published in
this column Other replies will be
forwarded through the mails. But
every letter we receive will be an
swered.
TIL part that this column can play
depends upon both of us: You who
ask the question; we who answer
them. Unquestionably some letters
we receive may not be very clear to
us. Some answers you may get may
not seem complete; they may not
satisfy you
However, if you will be sure to
point out to us those instances
where we have failed, we will spend
every effort to correct ourselves. In
this way we can make this feature
of the Daily Worker of mutual bene-
fit to both of us. You readers will
receive the information YOU need
more completely and clearly; we
doctors will be brought to & better
understanding of the difficulties
which beset you.
At the same time, you should
make it point to speak to your
shopmates and neighbors about our
board. You will find that most of
these workers are also disturbed by
health problems, - health problems
for which they have found no an
swer, You should tell them that
it is possible for them to ind an
answer-through the Daily Worker.
If we both do our share, we can
help build the Daily Worker: you,
by getting more workers to send in
their questions; we, by getting more
doctors to answer them.
And by helping build the Daily
Worker, our collective organizer and
educator, we can weld more firmly
the alliance of the dedical profess
sions with the working class.
In this way, we will strengthen
the revolutionary movement which,
under the leadership of the Commu-
mist Party viii soon win soviet power,
and end for all time the barbarous
system which has so long ravished
the bodies and minds of men.
DAILY WORKER MEDICAL
! ADVISORY BOARD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Unframed CCCI
Boys Made To.
Fight Fires.
By q Worker Cerrespondent

BY a Worker correspondent
WENATCHEE, Wash.-The C. C.
C. camps, supposed to be the hope
of young America" have miserably
failed to live up to any of their
capitalistic propaganda and false
boasts.
The C. C. C. camp at Gle Elum
is striking example of the gov
eminent inefficiency and econ
omy," all done, of course, at the
expense of the boys.
Since they arrived they have not
had, as one fellow said, "a half
way decent meal" Instead they
have been put, though they are
raw and inexperienced, to fighting
fires, many of which lasted the
whole night through and the fol-
lowing day.
During the time spent fighting
fires, little of any food was served,
Last Wednesday they boys fought
nine fires. without being once fed
during the time.
Sunday, three minutes before
supper, the boys were showed on
trucks and spent the rest of the
night on the hills battling the
flames.
The boys organized and selected
a committee which filed protest
with the superintendent, who then
promised to do better" next morn
ing. Eighteen hours since their last
meal, the boys sat down to break
fast as weak as the rest.
Again they protested. This time
they threatened action. Their next
meal, showing the results of their
militancy, was the best they had
eaten.
Thousands of needless acres of
forest land burn because the gov
eminent, which once hired expert
fighters at so cents an hour, now
uses c. c. c. boys. Many tran
sients who once earned hundreds
of dollars in fire fighting now earn
nothing, all due to the federal
economy"