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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
BY a Worker Correspondent

RATION, N. M took part on a
Committee to demand relief for the
workers on the work program, P W.
A. These workers had already
worked four or five weeks without
being paid. and with no relief.
This happened in Ration, New
Mexico. The administrator of the
P. w A. said that they had not re-
ceived any money from the State
Capital We went to the relief sta
ton or administrator to see about
relief.
We we're at work, with no pay, no
relief, nothing to eat-how could
we work? He said there was no
money or funds. We said the peo-
pie of Ration were not going to
sta;ve any longer. Later the COM
mittee was called by the admins
traitor to tell my people that they
had $500 ready to issue for relief.
I'm going to give you another
report about New Mexico, Of one
betrayer of the workers, whose name
is Elesello Galvan. This betrayer
was the secretary of the Spanish
Workers League, and he made him
self very friendly to me, but I
did not trust him. He told me that
I could speak as radically as I
wanted, anc I told him that the
police were after me and maybe I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
By a Worker Correspondent

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-To the
slogan of Smash the Injunc ion"
the workers of Grand Rapids are
rallying to the support of the
strikers of Winters & Champion,
hardware manufacturing pla n t..
This is entirely a rank and file
movement, as far as the A. F. of L.
officials are concerned.
Brother Pickle. president of the
Polishers & Buffers Union, Local T.,
whose members are on strike
promised injunction Judge Verdier
that he would produce in court
members of the union against
whom the court had issued warrants
for continuing to picket in spite of
the injunction. Mr.. Pickle is will
ing and eager to turn his boys over
to the lions-and for his collabora-
ton the judge did not press any
charges against the union leader.
In the latest development of the
strike, the rank and file committee
planned a mass protest meeting for
June % and asked the City Com
mission for the use of Island Park
an out of the way place at which
the City Fathers are always begging
the workers to hold their demon
strations-and leaflets were put out
all over the city calling upon work.
erS to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
LaGuardiaBrazenS
1t Out About Food
at City FlOphOuSe
''Never Tasted Better >
He Tries To Tell
Committee
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK. - The struggle be-
tween the homeless men in the Mu-
;licipal Playhouse and the officials
of that place has in the past weeks
grown so intense that the officials
have hired special strong arm
squad in addition to their regular
staff.
Saturday noon, instead of the
regular beef-less stew dinner of
two hot dogs and spoonful of sauer-
kraut was put up on the dock. AS
per invitation, Mayor La Guardia
appeared. He took a bite of one of
the frankfurters and tasted the
kraut, and then he went with the
officials from the dock to "investi-
gate" the house.
The men Immediately decided to
put their grievances before the
mayor. officials got wind of this,
and called several police radio cars
to keep the men away. The men
stood their ground and demanded
that they be heard. They would
not move, so the Mayor agreed to
see a committee.
Mayor La Guardia told us that he
never tasted better food than he
lust ate on the dock. When in
formed about the clam-less clam
chowder we had the day before, he
said he wished he had been here.
When we tried to tell him about
the unsanitary conditions, ETC., he
told us to put it in writing and give
it to the Chief Clerk.
The Municipal Local of Council of
Unattached, Affiliated Unemployed
Councils of Greater New York,
meets regularly at our own hall,
SIT E. 14th ST., every Tuesday and
Friday at pm. We hold open
air meetings 4 to Z times week
outside of the "Munie" and night
meetings all over the city.
Here are the victories we have
won this week.
Tuesday. We forced the officials
to feed all men applying for food
instead of just the men who sleep
there. We accomplished this by a
militant stand defying police and
thugs on the dock.
Thursday. We forced the Off
Gals to give out shirts and socks To
many needy men, for the first time
since the "Munie" opened. Their
intention was to keep these shirts
] for the men who work there only
Friday. We forced a promise OF
soap towels also of better food
Saturday Interviewed Mayor.
All unattached men, build
branches of Council of Unattached
or join our branch, SIT E. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
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$50 HELM ssiss;5 ssas 1879


If we're not having a good long
stretch of Standardization we
don't know what salad-weather is
though if it stretches out much
longer we won't have ingredients
for salad or anything else.
On such hot days many house
wives wisely prepare the days food,
as far as possible, in the morning.
A type Of salad that can be pre-
pared even day ahead is the kind
moulding an assortment of chopped
vegetables in jelly.
Almost any preferred combina-
ton can be used: a mixture of equal
parts of finely chopped celery, cab
bage and green or red peppers,
moulded in lemon or lime jello, gives
the variety known as Perfection
For a pint package of the gelatine,
use about three-fourths cup of each
vegetable; add one teaspoon salt
and three tablespoons vinegar Cor
four of lemon juice to the gelatine
after it has been dissolved in one
cup of boiling water. Add another
two-thirds cup cold water Gas vege-
tables are wet, less than usual two
full cups of water are used) and
when cool, the vegetables.
Pour into bowl of mould, put in
icebox or other cold place. When
set" serve blocks or spoonfuls on
lettuce with mayonnaise. Grated
or shaved carrots could replace the
peppers or be used in addition.
For a very attractive salad set in
a ring mould the following One
package lemon or lime gelatine dis
solved in one and two-thirds cups
boiling tomato juice; add one tsp.
salt, dash pepper and ground cloves
and grated onion; one fourth tsp.
paprika and tbsp. vinegar. When
chilled and set unmould and fill
center with cole-slaw, with more
slaw and, if available, lettuce and
mayonnaise around the outside.
In preparing French" dressing
for cole-slaw and similar salads, a
marked bottle will be found con-
venient. An empty syrup bottle
answers nicely. With paint or lac
quer mark two rings around the
bottle to indicate the proper levels
for vinegar Cor lemon juice and
oil. Then measuring is unneces-
sary-just put into the bottles the
seasonings, pour in vinegar and oil
to the proper levels, cork, and
shake.
The usual proportions are one
fourth to one-third as much vinegar
as OIL depending on acidity Of vim
egar; and a half teaspoon salt plus
a pinch of pepper to each cup of
dressing. A pinch of paprika, dry
mustard, or both, may be added.
Though there are various cheaper
cooking oils on the market, some
workers prefer to stick to the real
olive oil, for flavor and excellent
food value, including vitamins.
Widespread adulteration of olive
oils was reported last fall, but we
found a brand which comes in
tamper-proof packages Except
smallest size) carrying the chem
ical analysis on them. It's Span
ish oil, virgin, of mild flavor due
to the soil Of the region supplying
it, and of low acidity, which means
it doesn't turn rancid for long
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
Struggle In New Mexico
For Wages on PWA Jobs
Demonstration in Ration Forces Issuance of
$500 for Relief

would be arrested. asked him how
he was going to get me out, and
then he showed me his card of
Deputy Sheriff, and I laughed.
Then I communicated with the
most lass-conscious workers about
this.
After three days I called a mass
meeting and the workers put him
out of the League, said they didn't
want a policeman or deputy sheriff,
and stool pigeon. Then he said he
was going to destroy the League.
That same afternoon so more
joined the League. Then he wanted
to attack me, but the workers did
not let him speak against the or
ganizer. I told them to let him,
but again the workers insisted that
he could not speak against me. I
took the floor. I attacked him
severely, telling him just what he is.
The workers put him out.
He got even by stealing $3.75 from
the treasury of the League and so
membership cards, and the papers
of the League. The workers had to
take them from his wife by force.
When we selected a committee to
get the pay for the workers that
work on the relief work program, he
was named on this Committee and
he accepted, but when we were ready
~ yNraeont O,,r JoY,aa,,dc he caij he
had some business at home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
800 Pack Court at
Trial of JobIeSs
Lincoln, Neb., Workers
Free Demonstrators

LINCOLN, Neb.-Three hundred
workers, in spite of scorching tenn
parature of ITO degrees, packed the
court on June % during the eight
hour trial of Burleigh, Miller.
NAPLES, Corbett, Richards, and
Hazel-1gg, six workers arrested
during a jobless demonstration
here. Defended by I. L. D. attorney
Holeman, four of the workers were
freed, and two, Burleigh and Hazel
rigg, were fined 81 and costs, from
which verdict appeal will be made.
Both a.e now out on bond.
The arrests grew out of police at
tack on a sustained struggle of the
jobless, demanding adequate cash
relief. On June 10, at the call of
the Workers Unemployment Coun-
Gil, 300 workers massed at the
county relief offices.
On June 20, the workers marched
on the relief offices, demanding an
answer to their demands. Police
attacked and arrested Burleigh and
Miller Protesting the arrest, the
workers marched on the City Hall
where Corbett. NAPLES and Hazel
rigg were seized. Richards was
Jailed when the workers followed
the arrested workers to the Jail.
On June 81, 400 unemployed
workers massed at the county re-
lief offices. Britt Pryor, president Of
the Central Labor Union prevailed
upon the workers to stop the meet
ing, and committee was sent to
the F. E. R. A. for a reply on the
workers demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
PARTY LIFE
Literature Of ECCI PIenunrs
Poorly Distributed by Units
Only Small Number of Propaganda Pamphlets
Sold in Concentration Districts

Party membership, not to speak Of
the broad masses Of revolutionary
workers following the Communist
Party. have not been made familiar
with the contents of the reports and
resolutions of the thirteenth plenum
of the z. C. c. I. and the seven
tenth Congress of the C. P. S. o.
Mo- is the situation much better in
regards to the published material
Of our convention. 1t stands to
reason that if cur Party member
ship does not read the resolutions
and reports of our national and in
ternational plenums and conVen-
tons, how will they cary them out?
In examining the sales figures of
some Of our most important publica-
tions, one gathers an impression
that somebody is hiding our litera-
ture from the broad masses Of
workers and from our own Patty
membership. We shall illustrate
this by sales records of recent pub
locations up to June 25th:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
Officials Break Up Mass
Picketing In Rochester
discourage Further ActiOn after 5000 Demon
StrGte in Support of Drivers

the union out-Of work list, so that
when the Avon Diaries strike was
settled after three months, scabs
retained their jobs. Scully came
out openly and pleaded for them to
have first rights to the jobs. since
they had been working so long
strikebreaking!
This lawyer, together with a few
high-paid business agents, nego-
tiates with the bosses, in order to
learn from the bosses how best to
trick strikers back to work. In the
recent Arpeako Packing Co. strike,
he engineered a truce" during
which the company was given free
right to deliver scab goodS-While
the workers were prevented from
mass picketing.
Although mass pressure Of the
workers was strong enough to force
five per cent wage increase, sur
render of the A. F. Of L. paid Off
Gals left settlement of workers
grievances out Of the contract. In
stead, the contract provides that if
other packing companies go on
strike, these workers are forbidden
to join.
With Scully advising the T. c..
and H. U, the Sibley drivers strike
drags on to a defeat that will leave
the strikers out of jobs, while in
shops previously signed with the
union scabs are given first pref
erence. Demands of the rank and
file are for mass violation of the
injunction, calling of all the work
ers in this store out on sympathy
strike, and building Of an industrial
union. Winning of control of Lo-
Gals Us and Gas by the workers in
stead of by capitalist lawyers is
the burning need
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
(Continued)
CRAMPS

Occupational cramps from over
worked muscles are more easily con-
tracted by those who are in poor
health or who work in faulty pos
ture or in cramped position.
When the hand or foot is injured,
cramps are more likely to develop
in the affected muscles. Among
writer's and stenographers, writer's
cramp develops sooner among those
who are neurasthenic, anemic or
who worry lot.
Occupationel cramp is really an
affection of the nerve supplying the
overworked set of muscles and
should be treated as neurosis. The
first and best treatment is complete
physical and mental rest. Some
times change of occupation or of
scenery is necessary; while other
cases require an iron tonic, better
food, or iron injections and sun
shine (artificial or naturaD. Slim
ulanss, such as alcoholic drinks,
coffee, tea and tobacco aggravate
the condition. On the other hand,
graded exercises, massage, dia-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
Mother of ; Tricked
Out of Her Job by NGzi
Employment Manager
By q WORKER CORRESPONDENT


NEW York; am a mother of
three children who has been look
ing for any sort of work to feed
my family. went to the United
Employment Agency. 1855 East 72nd
ST., not knowing that this place
was run by a Nazi. While wait
ing in the office, met Mrs. Free
man, a nice Jewish woman. who
was looking for reheffKlhh
was looking for a general house.
worker. Mrs. Freeman offered me
job in her home at $40 a month.
and the proposition being attrac-
tive, I accepted.
just then, the manager came over
to us. When he learned that we
had already discussed terms, he be-
came very angry and abusive. call
ing Mrs. Freeman a "big Jew" He
continued in this vein, and after
Mrs. Freeman, who became fright
ened at this behavior, left. this fas-
cist said: What this country needs
is Hitler to put the Jews where
they belong"
1 became very angry at this, and
answered him: Germany is going
10 overthrow Hitler there, and we
certainly won't stand for him here"
Mrs. Freeman had written her
address on a newspaper, and the
manager had seen her give me the
paper. This anti-Semite took the
paper away from me, and crossed
out the address. AS Mrs. Freeman
was already gone by this time. I
mad no way of locating her, and
I lost good job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
Company Union in
Tobacco Shop Used
Against Workers
FOremen Are Members,
But Employees Have
No Voice
BY Tobacco Worker Correspondent

DJ a AUUdCcO worker correspondent
LOUISVILLE. Ky.-The Axton
Fisher Tobacco Co. of Louisville
KY, is a union tobacco shop en-
ploying members of Local No. l6.
These employees have no voice in
this company union.
The company demanded that all
employees wear a uniform, with the
color, make and cost to be decided
by the officials. Then on Monday,
June II, the company laid off $50
employees without mentioning or
giving a reason to person or COM
mittee.
Tuesday. June IL, new shop
rule was made-any girl having to
go to the rest room must report to
a timekeeper on going to and COM
ing back from the res5 room, and
is allowed only a three minute
period twice day
All foremen and foreladies are
company union members.
The company manufactures 20
Grand, Spud, white mule twist,
and other smoking tobaccos (Old
Hillside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
BY a Worker Correspondent


ROCHESTER. N. Y.-FolIowinp
mass picketing by 5000 workers
Inoer the leadership of the Central
irades and Labor Council. led bv
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers. and supported by the Commu-
INST Party, the Unemployment
council and the Rank and File Re-
lief Workers Organization. an in
junction issued this week gave the
weak leadership of Local IFS. Team
sIers, Chauffeurs and HELPERS
Union the excuse for calling off
mass action and preventing the
winning of their strike at one of
the biggest department stores here
-Slbley, Lindsay & Curr. After
announcement of the injunction
came, both the Amalgamated and
central Trades overrode the strik-
ing truck drivers militancy and re-
FUSED to carry on mass picketing to
break down the Injunction.
The company is spreading thou
sands Of leaflets to discredit the
strike, being backed up by the local
Chamber of Commerce. His sue
cess as a strikebreaker conceded
with the appointment of the COM
pany's president, Harper Sibley, as
one Of six directors to the United
States Chamber of Commerce.
Attorney John Scully, who is the
legal sellout advisor for the Central
Trades Council misleaders, has been
fastened on to the Milk Wagon
Drivers Local 645, as well as on
the Sibley strikers. He helps the
union business agents institute a
vile form of dictatorship in order
to hold any left wing movement in
check. His first act was to justify
giving strikebreakers preference on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05

The figures in the table speak
for themselves. How have two of the
most important districts-Detroit
and Chicago-popularized the Thir-
teenth Plenum when Detroit pur-
chased up to June 25th only IS and
Chicago 103 copies of Kuusinen's
report and II and 208 copies respec-
lively of Piatnitsky's report? This
shows that not only the Party mem
bership did not read these vital
reports but that even the most
active comrades, the functionaries
OF the Patty organizations, the or
ganizers of units and sections, the
secretaries of Party fractions. the
Party agitators and propagandists
have not read them.
Or, take the sales of the report
OF Comrade PECK on the German
situation and the work of our Ger
man Party. The members of our
Party, workers of revolutionary mass
organizations, manifest such great
interest in the German situation;
but Detroit could not sell more than
70 copies of this report, Chicago, s
%; California, >95; New Jersey, Is;
Connecticut, Is; and Milwaukee, 81.
1t should also be called to atten-
ton that the above figures of sales
from the center do not necessarily
mean that the literature is actually
distributed or, if it has been sold
to the sections and units that it has
actually been read and studied as
it should be. In studying the figures
from this point of view one naturally
wants to investigate first of all the
large figures for New York. The
large sales in the N. Y. District is
due to the development of extensive
sales to the mass organizations by
the district literature department.
A check I'D in the district literature
department revealed the following
pamphlets remaining on hand of
the Thirteenth Plenum Series on
June &c: Kuisinen, 325; Piatnitsky,
225; Knorin, $50; PECK, 400; Man
uilsky, 100; Wan Ming. 125; Okano,
1,400; Theses, 1875. 1t is of course,
more difficult to get a complete pic
ture of the situation in the sections
and units. However, it is reported
that there ace sections that wish to
return considerable quantities to the
district literature department. On
the whole, there appears to have
been no consistent activity for the
study of the reports and decisions
of the Thirteenth Plenum organized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
n Doctor
.[AtEinqeh
NGHAt$A0A:
By PAUL LuTTINGER, MD.

thermy deep electric heat, alter
nate hot and cold congresses and
baths are often beneficial.
Besides heat and occupational
cramps, we must mention the
monthly cramps to which women
are subjected. 1t has been estr
mated that nearly SO per cent of all
women engaged in industry suffer
from dysmenorrhea, or menstrual
cramps. Female workers who suf-
fer from these periodic pains can
not afford to stay in bed for three
days every month, and they, there
fore, resort to all kinds of drugs
which are guaranteed to either cure
or stop the pain. In the spasmodic
type of menstrual cramps, five
grains of amidopyrin (sold under
various trade names) thrice daily,
gives relief, but does not cure. In
cases due to congestion. certain ex-
ercises, such as creeping exer-
cises," might I'll imately cure the
condition if faitniully performed for
long time; this being particularly
true when the uterus (wornb) Is
displaced backwards.
Ito Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
South Bend Bakers
Win Demands Thru
Rank and File Action
Daii~ workc- Midwest Burcau)

SOUTH BEND, Ind, July a.
Workers in Ward Baking Co. here,
forced the company to grant their
demands in the question of hours,
wages and working conditions yes
terday Rank and file organization
for strike action won this victory.
A few dasy ago, the workers drew
up their demands and elected a
committee to present them to the
boss. They also agreed to strike
Monday, when they have to do
double baking on account of the
Fourth, if the demands were not
met.
Practically all of the men, most
of whom are youth, refused to have
anything to do with the A. F. of
L., and elected their own rank and
file committee to lead their fight
Eighty-f1ve per cent of what they
asked for was granted by the COM
pany at the last minute before the
strike deadline.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
By the Agit-PrOp Commission, {

BY the Agit-Prop Commission. C. C.
For the first six months of this
year the Communist Party has
published tens of thousands of
pieces of very important propa-
ganda literature. This Literature
consists primarily Of the reports,
resolutions and most important
speeches of the Thirteenth Plenum
of the Executive Committee Of the
Communist International, the seven
tcenth Congress Of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union and the
eighth convention Of our Party.
If we are to judge the carrying
out of the decisions and resolutions
of the thirteenth Plenum and the
eight convention of the c. P. U. S.
A., in the various districts of our
Party by the sale of our literature,
then we surely have very sad pic
ture. From the literature sales as
recorded by the G. c. Literature
Department, it is evident that the