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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
LW.O. Prepares for DriUe
To Add to Membership
Youth and Adult Sections Hope to Recruit
$4,000 Members in Fall Campaign

demanded by the youth-sports,
education and social life.
Steady, concentrated effort to
bring this program to the youth in
the factories, in the schools. and to
the children of our adult comrades,
will enable us to reach our goal OF
1900 new members with ease. The
ground has been prepared by de-
tailed directiveS, training our best
members at our TWO. training
schools, and by offering prizes as
stimuli; a complete gymnasium
three complete libraries, bannersA
etc.
On October LIST the go" signal
will sound. On october 1st the
Youth Section will move forward as
one body towards 1900 new recruits.
Although the Junior Section Of
our Order has increased its MEM
bership somewhat, its growth dur
ing the past few months has not
kept pace with the growth of the
rest of the Order. During the mem
bership drive, which starts October
l, the entire Order must regard the
building of the Junior Section as
one OF our primary tasks.
The Junior Section has quota OF
5000 new members, which will raise
our membership to 10000 children.
1t is not hard Job to recruit that
number of children, if the City Com
mittees and the adult branches
will pay attention to this work.
The plan of the Junior Section
includes a number Of valuable prizes
to be given to the districts doing
best childrens work These prizes
include bugle and drum corps OUT
fit, sports materials, books, as well
as individual prizes.
The Chicago District of the Two.
is trying to win these prizes for
building the Junior Section. Orig
inally assigned quota of 500 new
members, they have taken upon
themselves to increase their quota
to 1850 new juniors. The leading
Chicago committees are confident
of reaching this goal.
The training schools in the east
and middle west will be great aid
in building the sections. The stu
dents of the western school have
already returned to their cities,
ready to organize the campaign and
put their districts over the top.
Many Junior Branches in the dis
tricts have issued challenges to
each other for Socialist competition
in the drive. The children in the
branches, where they have learned
about the drive and the prizes Of
fered, are very enthusiastic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
Need Flying Squadrons
to Hit Hard and Fast,
Textile Worker States
BY a Worker Correspondent

by worker correspondent
TROY, N. H.-The information I
have covers Cheshire County.
Reeve, the county seat, a city of
$4,000, has one wooden mill. two or
three narrow fabric, one silk mill
Svanzey, N. H. has one wooden mill
Troy, N. H. has one wooden mill
Gilsum, N. H, has one, and I would
say roughly all these mills employ
approximately five to six thousand
persons.
There is no flying squadron here
such as is operating in other sec
tons. This to my estimation is the
best weapon for this district, as the
workers will have to hit hard and
quick to stir the innermost feelings
of the workers so they will know
something is taking place.
At our local mill there are two
watchmen inside, and three patrol
ling outside. Evidently they expect
something and why not give it tc
them?
We have no unions so far as ]
know in the small towns with the
exception of Swanzey. 1t looks as
though there were something there
as they employ a lot of outside help
Cheshire County needs all the
help We can muster, the bosses arg
starving them to death since the
prices Of goods have gone up.
My estimate for the County Of
Cheshire might be low for textile.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
YCL Song LeaAet Wins
Enthusiasm of Pickets
Songs Help Break Down ''Red Scare

what extent these officials will go
to split the ranks of the strikers.
These song sheets we're distributed
in leaflet form to the pickets Mon
day morning and were enthusiast
tically accepted. At the strike
meeting one Of the reactionarv Of
ficials of the Protective Union, {this
happened at the regular morning
strike meeting Of the Protective
Monday, Sept. 10), Chaurettete, got
up and said Eve been authorized
by the president to tell you to de-
stroy those Communist sheets, and
those union members who are dis
tributing those sheets, should stop
it, or else we know they are Com
munists" Despite this statement
the strikers did not destroy the
song sheets, and held on to them.
To show how we'll the songs we're
accepted, another union official who
was acting as temporary chairman
towards the end of the meeting
called upon the workers present to
sing our songs. The latest informa-
ton is that the union wants to re-
print the songs but leave out the
part Issued by the Young Com
munist League of Lowell with their
compliments, 339 Central ST."
Tuesday morning the pickets pa
raded around the mills and in the
surrounding neighborhoods, singing
songs and every one opened their
windows and cheered and applauded
the pickets. This has bolstered up
the spirits of the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
IN THE HON E
Another Reactionary Fable Bites the Dust
BY HELEN KE

In a chapter devoted to the sub
ject of women and labor, in the new
pamphlet. Women in the Soviet
Union" by Nurina, some data are
given which refute another old
bourgeois fairy tale, that women are
less efficient or less productive than
men in industry. A paragraph or
two:
Experience has shown that with
the female labor protection laws in
the U. S. S. r. female labor is quite
as efficient as male labor
"A large number of Investigations
of female labor have been carried
out in number of factories, and
these haVef shown that the produc-
-tivity OF skilled female labor is not
inferior to that of its male counter
part. In the Kraany Putiloyetz
factory of Leningrad, men and
women workers of the same cate
CORY working on similar lathes and
doing the same work produced in
the ratio of: men, 100 per cent;
women 100 per cent. In the Podolsk
sewing machine factory the eff
cheney Of women employed in the
assembly and testing department
was 1015 per cent, and in the
stands department, 1923 per cent, in
comparison with the productivity of
the men employed. The women were
better observers of labor discipline,
and the quality of their work was
in no way inferior to that Of the
men
"All this applies to highly skilled
working women
The Labor departments of Lenin-
grad, Moscow, the Urals, North Cau-
7casus and Northern provinces have
collected material on the employ
ment of women in semi-skilled and
skilled occupations, and en- the adj
visibility of the employment Of
women in a number of trades. The
investigation revealed that the work
of women in productivity is at least
equal to that Of men and in many
cases exceeds it.
THE sloWness with which women
are appointed to skilled trades has
been due to the fact that a tremen-
dous struggle had to be conducted
against the old prejudices from the
past, that women are unfit for
skilled work. The number Of
women in skilled occupations is
steadily growing. Another myth
about the backwardness of women
is thus being shattered.
Thousands of new working
women are joining the factories,
mills and offices
There are some wives of workers
and Office employees who have not
as yet been affected by this general
enthusiasm for socialist construc-
ton They prefer to take care of
their little home rather than work
In factory or office. They are in
the minority, of course, and their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17

it was newly made up and 1 figured
they would holler at me If I, a pa
tent. lay down there.
While T was in the room I heard
one of the dentists shout Madam
take your child home. He's going
to faint" The tone of his voice
sounded as if it was an offense to
faint in hospital.
After I had been waiting about
ten minutes the dentist called me
in. The drug he had injected had
taken effect. The toothpuller pulled
my tooth.
For a couple of days after that
I sure regretted 1 had gone to the
clinic. The chances are nine out
of ten private dentist would have
filled it and I'd have my tooth
for many more years.
I was wondering how much a new
white tooth would cost me-so
visited a dentist who has already
done work for relatives of mine. 1
only went for the estimate; 1 didn't
have nickel with me.
I figured a new tooth would cost
about $40. He told me it would cost
SIC. The way things have gone
with me this past year I'll have a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. I'VE don't fix
teeth here-we just pull them"
1t was the assistant entis
Qearner) speaking. I, a poor man,
was in the chair at the Dental
Clinic in the Lincoln Hospital, 143rd
Street and Concord Avenue, Bronx
had a tooth that was paining
me. was dead broke; SO I was
forced to go to the city clinic.
I expected the "city's clinic" to
fix my tooth-that is, to put in a
filling, even if it was a cheap
cement filling.
When came to the "clinic" there
was a good-sized crowd there. Chill
dren came with their mothers. I
had to wait some time before it was
my turn to get a card from the
clerk.
When my time came I was asked
good many humiliating questions
by the clerk; then I was given a
card.
sat down on a bench. After a
long wait I was called in.
The learner told me to get into
the chair, What's the matter?" he
said.
Il got a tooth that's paining me,
l told him. Il want it fixed"
we don't fix teeth here" he said
we only pull them"
AS citizen, I was sure surprised
to hear such talk. 1 was stunned
that the city should be so callous
to its poor people. I asked if the
tooth could be fixed by a private
dentist.
why don't you go see oneP" he
answered.
Il have no money"
well, do you want the tooth
pulled or not! I have no time; we
don't get paid"
The tooth was paining me. ]
muttered, "All right"
He jabbed the needle into my
gums. Then he told me to wait in
the small room. There we're d
couple of other victims there who
had been given the needle.
1t was hot day. The room was
very warm. 1 felt rotten and sick
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
By a Worker Correspondent

BOSTON.-When the Socialists
and Communists tried to hold a
Joint solidarity meeting on the tex
tile strike on the corner of F and
Broadway, South Boston, the
stronghold of the State Democratic
machine and the home of workers
in the basic industries of longshore
and railway, the cops brokS up the
meeting.
Jack Wheelwright, Boston or
ganizer of the Socialist Party, Sc
cured the permit in the name OF
the Socialist Party. The Commu-
mist Party had been refused per-
init, so their speakers were invited
to share the platform with the So
cialst speakers.
Before the first speaker was in
troduced cop walked over to Pc er
King, organizer of the M w. I. u,
and told him that HE WAS NOT
GOING TO SPEAK. A Socialist
speaker sprang on the soapbox, put
the matter before the 100 workers
who had gathered for the meeting,
and asked for q vote. The ayes
were loud and unmistskable. Then
show Of hands was called for.
The speaker pointed out that the
United States is democratic
country and the will Of the people
should be obeyed. However, the
cops got nasty and threatened the
speakers. While the cops were
demonstrating the already fascist
methods of the Boston police, the
spesked pointed out the reasons be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
Strikers Grab
Daily Worker
In all River
lRy a Worker Correspondentl

FALL RIVER, Mass.-There have
been reports through the town that
the National Guard are in training
We heard that all National Guards
are reporting at the armories. We
are going to verify the reports.
The strike situation was the same
on Wednesday. The A. F. T. o.
leaders still speak of the strike as q
lockout, even though all the A. F.
T. o. workers are on strike.
The Daily Worker is being
grabbed every place. We figured
out that yesterday and today we
sold and distributed 1900 Daily
Workers.
We were distributing the Daily
Worker at the meeting in the
Broadway Theatre. Some vigilantes
chased one worker away (but after
he had gotten rid of the Daily
Workers., but when they tried to
chase another one away, the other
workers came to his defense, yelled
at the guys, and cheered the young
striker when he said: Don't fight
among ourselves, fight the bosses!"
At the meeting Of the American
League Against War and Fascism,
the membtrs protested the use Of
National Guards in Saylesville, r. l.,
the members protested the use of
armed thugs in Dighton, the break
ing up of the Ann Burlak meeting,
the framed arrest of two young
workers announcing the Ann Burlsk
meeting, and the chasing out Of
town of two young workers from
Boston for selling the Daily Work
er. The American League also
plans to try test case for an open
air meeting to welcome back the
delegate from the Second U. S.
Congress Against War and Fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
Camp Wage Strike Wins
AS Counsellors Join
With Food Workers
By a Worker Correspondent


RHINEBECK, N. Y.-The place
where we worked has been owned
by the same person for the past IL
years. She has been chiselling
every year in the wages of the
workers ard she used to have all
sorts of excuses for not paying their
wages.
A strike was called to get pay for
all the kitchen help and the out
side help in full for the rest of the
season.
The proprietor certainly did not
like that. She was all upset and
yelling at the help, who refused to
work but demanded their wages
The couhsellors of the children and
also the camp doctor were prom
ised that their pay was we'll Sc
cured by the owner of the camp.
They need not worry or strike like
the kitchen help. They were prom
ised they will be given their wages
on the boat going to New York
from Rhineback. They were given
post-dated checks, but most of them
we're broke and needed money for
school right away.
They formed a united front with
the food workers to obtain their
wages Immediately for the date.
With the united efforts they OBJ
tanned their checks and they left
the boat singing the International.
We urge that no other workers
shall ever come up 10 work at
Camp Kanawha, Rhinebeck, N. Y,
unless she pays them in advance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17

mill workers here to support the
strike.
At o'clock Tuesday morning
when reelected Gov. Brann was
sure he won the election, he sends
in the National Guard to handle the
situation. Three hundred sixty Ma
tional Guard Is companies; so in a
company coming from Watervills
1-Rumford; Augusta; and to top
it off two companies from Lewis
ton itself The other places I don't
recall.
The local National Guard are
rather sore about the whole thing {;
here they are staying up all night
and day (no food or sleep and only
getting a couple of dollars for it all,
while at the same time they have
or had jobs in the mill with at least
bit better wages and not such
hours-and now the company hiring
scabs on the strikers jobs and on
their Soldiers jobs-the National
Guard are rather peeyed about i5
Only a few workers are on strike
the Flying Squadrons" are ex-
pected to arrive here this afternoon
by the hundreds (the strikers say
from different parts of the state.
Biddeford & Saco, Maine, have
two large mills-the Pepperel and
York" mill; both mills are work
ing-and while going through there
I stopped and spoke to few work
ers at the mitigate and they said
that most of the mill is willing to
come out on strike-but the loom
fiXers refuse to bulge. This keeps
the rest in.
One of the National Guard here
told me that he heard the higher
ups remark that they were sending
them (the N. G.'s) to Saco-Bidde-
ford mills today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
Police Break Up Strike Solidarity Meeting of Boston Workers
WORKERS. HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

threaten to diminish the profits of
corporations, all the big shots get
together at Washington. begin pull
ing strings in Congress. and the
bill is not passed. It is only under
correct leadership and militant mass
action that Congress will be forced
to pass laws beneficial to the entire
toiling population.
Citrus Fruits
C. o., n. 7, C.-The value of
orange juice, other citrus fruits
tomato juice, ETC., is in the posses
sion of large amounts of vitanin
C; if this vitamin is not given in
sufficient amount, over a period OF
time, the disease scurvy develops. Its
frequency is greatest in infancy
but it also occurs in adult life. Even
if the disease proper does not oc-
cur, the absence of the vitamin
gives rise to symptoms Chiefly re-
duction of vitality, sore gums, even
bleeding gums, loosening of teeth
poor digestion and muscular weak
neSs.)
Orange juice, lemon juice and to-
mato juice, are the most important
foods for their vitamin c content
Grapefruit is less valuable. The
value of orange juice is not affected
by standing over night in the ice
box.
AS to canned juice, various brands
have different amounts, although
they all are fairly good. 1t is hard
to say exactly, since the value OF
any particular type depends on:
% How long it has been in the
can; ~ the amount OF time it was
boiled before canning; 90 content
of alkai, as a preservative; "a
presence of any oxidizing agent for
the same purpose.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
LET'S LEARN HOW
po1t;f,,apo M
Dear Editor

Dear Editor:
One simple yet highly effective
bit of periodical selling technique
that I learned back in kid days
seems seldom to be used by Daily"
sellers. They should call attention
of the people to whom they want
to sell the Daily Worker to articles
in it that would be of special in
terest. to them.
There is always an article in the
Daily" about the particular trade
to which the customer belongs, quite
often a report of happenings in his
factory or town. Unemployed work.
erS should be shown the reports of
the unemployed struggles. It's a
disgrace when the babes selling capi-
talist magazines command better
technique than Daily Worker sales
men. This technique is especially
effective in toulouse selling,
where you can get a short inter-
view.
BALTIMORE SEAMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
S. p. Speaker Calls
For Workers. Unity
Two Parties Share Same Platform When Com
munists Are Denied Permit

hind the refusal of the police to al
low Communist speakers, the fear
Of the ruling class of the solidarity
Of the working class, the fear of
exposure of local conditions in in
dustry and politics. The marine
worker had too much to tell the
workers on the docks. The Social
ist pointed out that on that very
night a Democrat was sharing the
soapbox with the Socialists in Hyde
Park; that was democracy; but the
legal Communist Party was denied
the right of free speech and dis
eliminated against.
A member of the Irish Workers
Club was not allowed to speak. 1t
was when he took the box that the
cops really did break up the meet
ing.
An attorney present came up to
the cops and stated that they were
disobeying the law in discriminate
ing against a legal political party.
1t was obvious to all of the work.
ers present that the cops and the
bosses were already using fascist
discrimination against workers in
terests. They refused to be dis
persed and followed the speakers
for three blocks, eagerly listening
to their conversation and laughing
at the police who escorted the So
cialist and Communist speakers
until they got on the street car.
The Boston Post local paper
carrying shipping news and read by
longshoremen. refused to carry the
story, although it was given in de-
tail just after the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
FlyingSquads
Turned Back
BY Boss Cops
By a Worker Correspondent

SPRINGFIELD Mass. - Textile
news from western Mass:
Easthampton: Flying squadron of
strikers from Holyoke came here
today Thursday to picket Hamp-
den Mfg. Co. But the company
with hired police barricaded road
to the plant with construction signs,
Fifty workers came out on strike,
One picketer arrested for trying to
pass signs. Two machine guns we're
placed on the company bridge,
Holyoke; All out. No further de-
velopments in textile.
The last two days newsboys of
Holyoke Transcript went on strike
for / cent a paper, having been cut
down to Il cent. Papers were taken
from purchasers and newsstands
and torn up. Street knee deep with
torn newspapers. Strike settled and
the boys won their demands.
Chicope Falls: Johnson 81 John
son Co. shut down. Five hundred
workers organized into the U. T. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Patent Medicines and Refor1nistl

Patent Medicines and ReforInists
C. B., BROOKLYN Syrup of Red
Clover" has no value as a medicine
The only good in it is the sugar it
conains. "Iodide Of Lime, to have
any effect, must be given in large
doses-eight to ten grains. How
ever, in such doses it is sometimes
poisonous. It's value is questionable.
"CysteX'' is a patent medicine, and
like most such medicines, is sold
under false claims. 1t is supposed
to be good for kidney and bladder
trouble, but it does not contain
enough acid or alkah to be effective.
The important reason for objectiv-
ing to the use Of "Cystex," or in
fact, to most patent medicines ad-
vertised to the public, is that self
treatment is dangerous, and valu-
able time may be lost by the patient
before going to physician for cor
rect diagnosis.
Your question brings up an inter-
-esting aspect of the position of re-
fornists and other class collabora-
tors. Recently, the Tugwel-Cope-
land Bill was up before Congress,
This bill in its original form, was
an attempt to compel manufactur-
ers Of patent medicines to tell the
truth about their products, so that
people should not be deceived and
led to believe that miracles could
be performed. Even after the teeth
were taken out OF the bill it did
not pass. This is typical of all re-
fornist activities. They try to fool
the working class into believing that
they are bringing about reforms.
When any attempt is made to
change existing laws, or to make
= new laws, which in their enactment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
RED BUILDER SEES AN
OPENING

Niles. ono.
Dear Editor:
This is the first time I ever wrote
to you, but I have read the Daily
Worker and like your paper very
much. I would like to become a
Red Builder for the Daily" I
think We need a paper like the
Daily in this town. This is a
hot bed of the old K. K. KS. I
would like you to send me some
copies of your paper for samples.
1 will try and see what I can do
with them. Money is pretty scarce
here, as nothing is working. There
were five sheet mills here but they
tore two of them down. And it
won't be long before they tear the
others down.
Please send me information on
how to become 8 good Red Builder
A. G..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17

number is steadily declining, but
some still remain, and nobody inter
feres with them. But even these
women have an opportunity to take
part in social work and to contrib
ute to the general tasks of socialist
construction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
long beard before 1 am able to save

long beard before I am able to save
$50.
Why doesn't the city pay these
assistant dentists?
Isn't this clear case of forced
labor?
We poor people should get to-
gether and demand proper treat
ment in the city's clinics-especially
through our trade unions, fraternal
organizations, etc.
If we don't we'll all get our teeth
pulled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17
Ne. Governor
Calls Troops
After Election
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
LEWISTON, Maine. - Monday
night 1000 workers linen and
women gathered around the en-
trance of the Androscoggin Bates,
Hill 81 Continental mill gates-when
truckloads of workers (strikerS)
from other sections (Waterville, etc.
came here to Lewiston to induce the