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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Newly Formed
Iowa Council
Wins Demands
BY a Worker Correspondent


DIES MONIES, Ia.-Three weeks
ago three unemployed workers Wis
tied the State o ficeo fthe Unem-
ployment Council and asked that
they go to Newton to assist in or
ganizing their unemployed.
Relief conditions there are rotten
with a thousand workers in Jasper
County living on relief averaging in
amounts around two dollars per
week for which they were per
mitted to work three days" For
fuel they were given one scant load
Of green wood, after having worked
for three days in the timber.
After two meetings, the workers
drew up demands and presented
them to the County Board of Su-
pervisors. The delegation was led
by Charles Romer, Harvey Bruce,
and Joe Robson. Among the gen.
sral Demands presented, the follow
ing were granted: Rent and
guarantee of no evictions, coal as
much as needed to burn with the
wood, two days work for full load
of wood instead of three days for
a part of load, warm clothing and
shoes, and a cloSed-in truck to ride
to work in. These demands were
also placed and won for the workers
in Colfax where they are also or
ganizing a branch Of the Unem-
ployment Council.
We are not satisfied. however,
with the winning of these demands
but are determined to organize the
entire county and stage a hunger
march upon the Courthouse and
force through the rest of our de-
mands.
At the meeting sometime ago in
Colfax, new secretary was elected
in the place of the first one who
stated that ''he could not fight with
an organization that opposed the
New Deal and the President" The
rest of the workers in the meetings
we're unanimously and decidedly of
the opinion that the workers must
fight against anything and every
thing, whether it be a New Deal"
or President Roosevelt if it follows
the policy that has been put into
effect in this part of the country.
Mines are shut down because we
cannot buy coal and the relief ad-
nlinistration forces us to burn green
wood and cut it ourselves. The
A. A A. has slaughtered and buried
thousands Of cattle in the county
south Of here while we are doled
out, only occasionally, a bloody
piece of frozen veal.
We want to send one of our boys
down to Washington with the Iowa
delegation to the National Con-
gress for Unemployment and Social
Insurance and tell the President and
Congress that we will be satisfied
with nothing less than the Work
ers' Bill (H9sR. 1899 and that we
are not fooled by the fake measures
that are being popularized, such as
the Townsend Plan, the Wagner
Lewis Bill, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
ConceaIment of Anti Rife
Feeling in CCC Camps Barred
Militant Youth, Organi.
cations Fighting
lingo Drive
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK-"A struggling COL
umn of Revolutionary patriots, the
Massachusetts, sharpshooters led by
Gen. mad Antho ny) Wayne,
marched down the Beech Bottom
Valley toward Stony Point, N. Y,
July Is, 1776. In a surprise attack
they stormed and captured the Brit
ish garrison"
American troopers of a new gen.
Grafton but of the same breed-the
brush brigades of the C.C.C.-are
camped along the Beech Bottom
trail today. Like their forebears,
they would spring to arms to fight
foreign invader. Yet, without train
ing, they could probably not dupl-
cate with the modern rifles the mil
itary feat accomplished by Wayne's
men with flintlock muskets."
So begins the Dec. 18th INSTALL
ment of a series of articles in the
New York Daily News having as
their aim to bring about the intro
duction of rifle practice, with Army
rifles, into the C.C.C. camps. This
installment is headlined, "C.C.C.
YOUTHS PETITION FOR RIFLE
RANGE"
Truth has been very weak COM
petitor to patriotic zeal in this latest
News" venture. The entire story
is a deliberate distortion of facts.
The News" correspondent quotes
the statements of four C.C.C. boys
favoring the introduction of rifles
into the C.C.C. routine. He forgets
to mention that they we're the
ONLY four in favor of guns, the
vast majority of the company,
Company 1928, expressing them
selves against any form of military
training.
This suppression of truth is not
new phenomenon in the News"
campaign to foiS army rifles upon
the CCC boys. The News" pretend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Farmers Fight
Holding Back
OF Relief Pay
By a Farmer Correspondent

BRISTOL, S. D-The relief
checks of the Day County, South
Dakota, farmers and workers for
last week were held back, the adj
ministration says, until the first of
the year, and it is rumored that
this weeks checks will either be
held back or cut 10 per cent be-
cause, the administration says, of
lack of funds.
AS a protest, the farmers and
workers are circulating the follow
ing petition, to be sent to Governor
Berry and Relief Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins.
Whereas, the holding back of re-
lief checks, in the midst of winter,
causes much misery and suffering
among the relief workers and their
children, we, the following, pro-
test the holding back of the checks
of the relief workers and demand
the immediate payment in full of
all back checks. We further de-
mand that the relief be increased,
to meet the added needs of winter,
and that the funds needed for this
purpose be raised by taxing large
incomes and corporations.
This is another demonstration of
the necessity of the farmers and
workers, by united front of all
farmers and workers, and using
their mass power, to force the
enactment of the Farmers Emer-
gency Relief Bill and the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill, H. r. 1898.
In the meantime we must try to
put the Dawson County S. D..
Plan" into effect in all counties, to
insure fair administration of our
present inadequate relief and pre-
vent the present administration and
racketeering of relief funds by
bunch of political pie eaters"
Let us prove to the wall Street
Pirates" that we are the sons and
daughters of the American pioneers
who tanned the wilds of America
with "neighborly cooperation" by
fighting together in a united
front, make this America the place
where our children can have the
security and happiness which our
pioneer forefathers intended it to
be, and not place for the pirates"
to make profits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20

ing to conduct an investigation of
sentiment on this question among
C.C.C. boys, failed to mention one
word about the UNANIMOUS state
ment of the boys in Camp Is against
rifle practice. The reporter, seeing
the sentiment in this camp, hastily
left, and the next day there APP
peared a lengthy story of an in
dorsement of the introduction of
rifles into the C.C.C. in another
camp.
This INSCRIPTIONS campaign on
the part of the News" is particular
ly sinister at this time in view of
the report of Secretary of War Dern
where he considers the C.C.C. an
important cog in the war machine.
Steps have been taken by the mil
liant youth in this city under the
leadership of the Youth Section of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Bv a Farmer Correspondent

WILLISTON, N. d. want to re-
port that the relief struggles in the
drought areas of the midwest are
just getting a good start at the pres
ent time. In the north western part
of North Dakota, where the drought
burned out everything, where most
of the cattle were bought up by the
government, where straw is a lux
ury, where the farmers and the
workers of the small towns are liv-
ing under conditions they had never
dreamed of in the past, where every
small bit of relief has to be fought
for, the farmers and workers are
again turning to their organizations
and using them to force more and
better relief.
Relief meetings have been held in
several counties. The militant stand
of the rank and file forced the State
Holiday meeting at Bismark to make
relief one of the important issues,
although the meeting was called for
the purpose of lining the State
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Attention Readers.

HOMRADE READERS: Many of
y you write asking if we send let
ters privately and not through the
column. Naturally, we do this since
it is not possible to print all an
swers in our column. VIII the above
swers in our column. viii the writers
below send US their addresses SO
them:
Dora N.
A. L., Brooklyn.
M. E., Brooklyn.
S. P, Brooklyn.
E. F., Detroit, Mich.
We would like to use this occa-
sion to ask all our readers, when
sending letters to the Medical Adj
visory Board, to give us full name
and address. We must have this in
order to send out the reply. Names
will not be used in the column.
A Reader JHterprets Constipation
From an Economic Viewpoint
I'VE print below letter from Com
w rade s. without comment:
Il am single, young man,
twenty years of age, unemployed
for two years, and was shipping
clerk previously. I have always
been fond of sweets (not sweet
hearts, up until about a year ago.
when, for no apparent reason, candy
became repugnant to my taste and
no longer do I crave for such deli
cacies. Since then I have been
bothered by an irritation at the
base of the rectum. Sometimes it
Is sharp, sticking pain, and at
other times like putting iodine on
an open wound, especially when
cleaning the rectum after excre-
tions, ! am also suffering from a
terrific sensation of itching, which
is irregular.
l have not lost any noticeable
weight or strength, but continue to
add on increased revolutionary
fervor.
My bowel movement is irregular
and delayed for as much as five
days with constipation as welcome
as the New Deal 1t seems that
1 would have to employ company
guards and agent provocateurs to
dynamite my unemployed bowels to
function.
Since this world is full of para
sites, suspect that some of them
have found Judgement in the af-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20

the American League Against War
and Fascism and the C.C.C. Bows
Protective League to counterfeit this
lingo campaign of the News"
This fight was initiated by the
staging of mass picket line of
seventy before the News" building
on Saturday, Dec. 18th. A delega-
ton of three went in to see the
editor, to protest the News" mil
itarization drive. The answer of
the city editor to the demand that
the News" cease its lingo campaign
was that I'VE print what we please"
This statement also covered the
charges that the News" had been
deliberately suppre5sing facts on
sentiment in the C.C.C. camps.
Plans are being made to continue
the fight. AS a first immediate step
permanent picket line is being
organized at the News" building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Bv a Woke Correspondent

EUSTIS, Fla,-Just a bit about
conditions in this community and
Florida in general.
The FERA has started a canning
plant here in Eustis which has
been running for a month or so,
presumably for the purpose Of can
ing meat for the unemployed, but
if any of them are getting any of
it around here, 7 haven't heard of
it happening.
They were paying the workers 30
cents an hour till about two or
three days ago when they stopped
work for apparently no reason at
all
The cause has been now made
known. They are telling the work
ers that they will have to slave for
the magnificent sum of 20 cents
per hour. There is no organiza-
ton at all here at present, either
of the employed or the unemployed.
That being the case, the employ
er3 cut the wages just as they
wish. There is, however, a great
increasing sentiment among the
workers for organization which
will terminate in action in the near
FIGURE, as the workers realize that
they must either fight unitedly or
starve separately. They under
stand that united action must in
clude both white and Negro work
erS.
They are beginning to be aware
of the fact that they will have to
make the government either give
them food, clothing and shelter or
turn the mines, mills, factories,
land and so forth over to the
workers so that we can run them
and produce an abundance for all
for use instead of profit.
Here is another part of the story.
There has been no rain here for
months. Grass, orange trees and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
BdreS abuse
Of Employees
In Steubens
BY Food Worker Correspondent

BY Food Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The workers of
the Steuben Tavern, at And Street
and Times Square, belong to two
unions; cooks and kitchen help to
Local 119 of the Food Workers In
dustrial Union, walters and wait
resses to Local Is of the A. F. of L.
Nothing can be said to discredit
the cooks and their union. They
are fine bunch of men. What
concerns me is the walters of Local
Is, of which I am member.
First of all, I want to protest
against the abuses the mattresses
are continually subjected to "for
the sake of the job," which involves
all sorts of responsibilities to the
head waiter, Mr.. Schwartz, and the
manager, Mr.. Ingelse.
These two gentlemen are GER
tainly Fostering the female en-
ployees by putting their hands in
their soft anatomy in the presence
of all of us just to satisfy their
senile lust.
This action is very humiliating,
not only to the mattresses but to
the walters as we'll. We resent it
as an insult to women and organ
lied labor.
Of course there is a compensa-
ton for the girls that are nice"
A good station, as a rule, is the
reward"
Many good workers are made the
scapegoats of this depravity, but,
beware, Messrs. Straw Bosses, we
workers will not stand any longer
these abuses. We will defend our
jobs in an honest and decent way.
The walters are not better off
than the mattresses. This is due to
the fact that amongst us there are
some Judas stool pigeons who be-
tray us at every opportunity. They
are the tools of the head waiter
and management They, too, are
rewarded with good station.
Our union, Local Is, doesn't con-
slider our demands. We are gagged,
fined, expelled. Let us, cooks, wait
ers and mattresses come together
and make the Steuben Tavern a
decent place to work in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Farm Women
Urged
JobIess Bill
By a Farm woman Corresnondent


CONCORD, N. H.-The Congress
for Unemployment and Social In
surance which will be held in Wash
ington, D. c., on Jan. ST shc.lld
have the support of all farm women.
The Congress will be delegated
body representing millions of work
ers and farmers who will organize
our forces to fight for the enact
ment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill.
There is urgent need for unem-
ployment and social insurance for
our farm families who are suffering
great hardships. Many of our farm
homes are without fuel, with in
sufficient food, ant we lack proper
clothing for winter weather. The
income of the small farmers is
growing less and less all the time,
while the price of things that he has
to buy is continually growing higher.
Subsistence farming, inadequate
relief and fake state unemployment
insurance schemes will not give us
a decent living. A workers unem-
ployment and social insurance would
also provide for the farm families.
We farm women must raise our
voices for it's enactment. To do this
wherever possible, whether in the
United Farmers League locals,
Farmers Holiday Association, ladies
suxiliaries, ETC., we must try to get
these organizations to elect dele
gates to the Congress.
Farm delegates to the Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Congress
will stay over a day in Washington
to present the Farmers Emergency
Relief Bill to the United States
Congress and urge the passage of
the Bill by the 74th Congress.
ELBA CHASE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Worlds Fair
Wreckers Get
4Oc An Hour
BY a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, Ill.-The contract Tor
the wrecking of a great number OF
buildings at the Worlds Fair
grounds in Chicago has been given
to the Bosley Wrecking Co., whose
offices are at $500 Elston Avenue
and lis So. Dearborn Street.
They want first class wreckers for
40 cents an hour, which of course
is quite in keeping with the miser-
able wages paid workers when the
fair was open.
The boss tells the workers that
he will take care of the union.
Whatever that means, he did not
say, but I think it works out some
thing like this:
There is a local of the building
wreckers in Chicago whose business
it should be to see that every worker
is organized and paid union wages.
The boss of the Bosley WrecSing
Co., knowing this, went to the
union, explained to the officials and
gave them handsome check, and
the union did not hear or know
of any wrecking going on at the
Worlds Fair grounds.
The result is that the workers
are forced to work under the most
inhuman conditions anyone can
imagine, in addition to the speed
up and the low wages.
y There is no water on the job
either for drinking or washing.
q There is no toilet of any kind,
which is against the most elemen-
tary rules of health and sanitation.
81 There is no shack or hut, in
which to change clothes or eat
lunch.
~ There is no first laid kit which
on a dangerous job of this sort
is absolutely necessary.
81 Although there is all sorts of
f1rewood on the job, the boss does
not permit the workers to build
fires to dry their clothes and warm
themselves during the lunch hour.
81 Only Is minutes are given for
the workers to swallow their lunch.
Anyone can see that steps should
be taken Immediately to change
these intolerable conditions, and
since help is being hired, we urge
all conscious workers who are
unemployed to apply for work and
help the workers on the job cr-
ganize and fight for decent con-
ditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS DISTORTS FACTS in CCC DRIVl
Pay Cut to zoe an Hour
In Florida +. E. r. 4. Plant

other plants were practically
ruined by the dought. On top Of
that came a cold snap lasting two
days, and froze about everything
that the dry weather had not ru-
ined. The small grove owners are
rapidly disappearing and I reckon
this will about finish them as
nearly all of them were in debt to
some bank or company before the
drought and cold snap. 1t is just
one damn thing after another.
Organize you workers, farmers,
grove owners and small business
men and demand the right to live
like human beings should live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
More Money Than Ever,
States B ank Official
BY a Worker Correspondent

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Frank
Morris, Vice-President of the Bar
nett National Bank, issued a state
ment in the capitalist press which
in part said the following, "a man
will not borrow money unless he
can make a profit on it" and
there is more money available
in the United States now than
ever before, but there is no de-
mand for money because it can
not be turned over at profit"
Mr.. Morris, we know that there
is plenty of money but it is in the
hands of the international bank
ers. We know also that we, the
workers, built, made and produced
everything but we have nothing,
while your class riever produced
anything and has everything.
Workers and poor farmers, let's
build a Soviet America and own
everything for the masses and not
for the bankers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20

Be sure to have a few sub
scrIptlon blanks with ycu when
approaching workers, profession
ais and intellectuals to sign the
Daily Worker ballot on the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill
(H.R. 1899. Speak to them about
the Importance of increased cir
cuIation of the Daily Worker as
the most er1ectIve organizer Of
all struggles affecting the popu-
IatIcn. ASK them for subscr1p-
lions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
A VOTE FOR H. r. 1898
ST. Louis, Mo.

A VOTE FOR H. r. 1898
st. Louis, Mo.
Dear Comrade Editor
1 think H. R. 1898 is one of the
best pieces of legislation yet pro-
posed and hope for its early pas
sage.
I am one of the millions of I'M
employed, having been out of work
for four and a half years. I have
worked steadily all my life up to
four and a half years ago, and now
I have my birthright taken away
from me by our rotten capitalist
system.
am through with the three ca
pitaiSt parties. I cast my vote
for the Communist candidates in
the last elections. F. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
In THE HON E
Pots and Pans and Cadgets
BY ANN BAR TON

She promises to send us from time
to time material that will HEN
hcusekeepers, seasOned-and lean
We say) raw. We invite ether
housewives to write in also. and
exchange their experiences, house
keeping, as well as those in con-
nection with their fight for Their
livelihood. Without the latter,
there will be very little housekeep-
ing experiences about which to
write.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
NO MONEY FOR SCHOOLS!

INV T VI IA ~ 7
Dear Comrade Editor:
Now that the animals in Central
Park have nice comfortable houses
and play space, and Prospect Park
Zoo is also getting fine houses, ETC.,
perhaps Mayor LaGuardia might
consider our old school building.
P.S. So, on Degraw Street, Brook
Ign, for instance, which is on part
time, has no play space at all, and
is surrounded with wood shacks on
three sides not ten feet from the
school.
How about the kids, Mayor La
Guardia? MRS. MARION,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1922 is available in sizes
IL, IA, is, 10, 20, 80, 80, "a, So, 80
and 40. Size 16 takes 234 yards 54-
inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step
sewing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
NOTE:

We publish every Thursday let
tiers from farmers, agricultural
and cannery and lumber workers.
We urge farmers and workers in
these industries to write us of
their conditions and their efforts
to organize. Please get these let
tiers to us by Monday of each
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
FOR A PAMPHLET ON CoUGHLIN

New York, N. Y,
Dear Comrade Editor:
After the completion Of the
Coughlin expose in the Daily Worker
I believe 1t would be good idea to
print penny pamphlet for gen.
eral distribution. S. R.