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Evening star., 1934-04-08

Y1LL france go fdSClSt! NO
~ question is asked more fire.
wv quently in diplomatic circles
at the present moment.
Outwardly, to be sure, the
situation-particular in Paris-has
seemed quieter since the days of the
so-called February revolution. Never
theless beneath the surface of things
it. is plain that there are ominous
signs. Seizures Of arms, riots in pro-
vincial towns as widely separated as
Toulon and Tours and, beneath all
else, a feeling of profound unrest and
uncertainty.
Perhaps, too, the most striking evi-
dence of the seriousness of the domes-
tic crisis in France is the visible
crumbling of French influence abroad.
For at least 10 years before the rise
of Hitler last year Europe had been
measurably subjected to French con-
troll. In fact, from the making of the
peace treaties onward France had un-
dertaken and succeeded in maintain
ing the territorial system established
by the Paris settlements.
To be sure there had been slow
notifications. Evacuation Of the oc-
cupied regions came in 1880, five years
before the date fixed in the Treaty of
Versailles. Two years later the repara-
tions provisions Of the same treaty
were for all practical purposes
scrapped. A year later, at the arms
conference, France resolutely resisted
all claims of the Germans to parity
and demanded that the security Of
the existing territorial order be under
written by the British, with degree
of American cooperation.
Explanation Obscure.
When Germany withdrew from both
the league and the disarmament con-
ference, French supremacy was sub
jected to a strain under which 1t Is
now manifestly crumbling. To re-
store it France had to act; when she
Evening star., 1934-04-08
BY FRANK H. SIMONDS.

w YILL France go Fascist? No
\h/ question is asked more fire.
wv quently in diplomatic circles
at the present moment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30
Betrayal by Mr.. A.
Shown by Worker
By a Worker Correspondent

BUFFALO, N. VI had been
working nights at a hotel in Buffalo
since Dec. 20 at an extremely low
wage, and was told that there was
no permanent hotel code Through
inquiry I found that there had been
one since November. AS there was
no union whatsoever in the hotel,
and I could not convince the in
dividuals there to fight for decent
wages, I myself complained to the
MIRA.
The NR.A. made an investigation
exposing their books and exposing
my name. Then when the hotel man
agement found out who it was, they
made prevaricating statements to
the N.R.A. officials that didn't have
to put in seven nights week, and
work later than o'clock in the
morning, and that I could have been
provided with a room, which was all
untrue.
I was told by letter the case is
referred to another code authority
in the city, who knew nothing what
soever about the case, and only gave
vague promises.
I gave up the job as I could not
work for starvation wages.
In conclusion wish to say or adj
wise anyone not to play the lone
hand or without unity, as in my
case, as the MIRA. betrays you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30
Food Workers in
Boston Meeting
By a Workers Correspondent

BOSTON, MaSs.-"A. F. Of L. lead
ership and structure are in their
decaying stage" said one of the old
est union bakers in Boston, during
mass meeting of the Food Workers
Industrial Union, department of H.
and r. workers, held at the associa-
ton building. 995 Washington ST.,
Boston, last night.
LET me give you a concrete ex-
ample of what has taken place in
our union" he said. TN a short
period our local membership dwin-
died from LOO to 20, and if some
thing is not done in the near future
the local will be out of existence.
I'm conclusion. workers, there is
only one way for us to grow and
flourish, and that is with your help.
At the next A. F. of L. bakers union
meeting I will raise the question to
the local-to enter the F.WI.U.
where the class struggle is the OBJ
jective."
Local Ill H. R. has been organized
and is functioning in Boston. George
Corter chairman of the evening, had
labored hard for this meeting. The
first speaker, Al. Shaw, spoke on the
history of unions, why they came
into existence, and why they decay.
He also compared the food industry
in wars with many other important
industries such as the shoe, or tex
tile industries workers who won
many immediate demands because
they were organized into a strong
union.
The main speaker, H. Ritch, spoke
at great length about the F.WI.U.,
its aim, where is differs from the A.
F. of L., and pointed out what les
sons local Ill should learn from
other locals, New York especially.
The temporary headquarters of
the union are at 479 fremont St.,
Boston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30
ENTHUSIASTICALLY
Drunken Cop Near
|. Miller Plant
BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent
BROOKLYN, N. Y. - I am a
member of the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union. Last
Thursday I went to the I. Miller
plant to distribute leaflets to the I.
Miller workers, calling upon them
to help the Garside strikers in their
fight against the bosses and the
Boot and Shoe Union. Another
Long Island worker went there with
me.
When we came near the plant,
a cop spoke to me and told me that
could distribute the leaflets, but
that I shouldn't let them drop on
the ground. Then he went into
the L Miller shop and came back
about Is minutes later. His breath
smelled from whiskey and he acted
drunk. He grabbed hold of the
other worker and pushed him up
the street. Then he hit him and
kicked him. He then placed this
worker under arrest and ordered me
to go away from the factory.
On Friday two more workers were
arrested and got the same kind of
trial as we did. On Monday we all
four were sentenced to two days in
the work-house, after each of the
workers had protested the arrest
and trials. An hour later three of
the workers we're released, but the
fourth one, George Evans, worked
two days in the work house. When
he came back he told me that they
had worked him from the minute
he got in until he left at the dirtiest
kind of work.
The workers of I. Miller should
know about this and should organ
ize themselves as the Garside work.
ers are doing, into a militant rank
and file opposition in the Boot and
Shoe and fight against the miser-
able conditions in the shops and the
stool-pigeons of I. Miller who do the
same things to the workers in the
shop as the cop did to the workers
outside Of the shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30
FEEDING THE HUNGRY

New Orleans, La.
People rushing to and fro, like so
many ants at work, shrimp being
unloaded at one side of the market,
at the other side the stands of the
big buyers of sea food; one of them
is the property of mfr. Joe Mon
teleone," one of the big moguls at
the French Market.
Amidst this agglomeration of fish,
shrimp and vegetables there are
two forlorn figures, that of an old
lady, and that of little girl. They
gaze hungrily at all the good things
to eat, all the good things they
need so badly and yet cannot get,
But wait! I see Monteleone him
self approaching. He's toying with
a toothpick and he looks like he's
very happy over something. He
looks about him with the air of a
Lord and in doing this his eyes
stop at the spot where the old lady
and her famished-lo looking little
companion are, then he keeps on
going towards his big stand, nod
ding as he goes toward his place, to
all of his colleagues. Then he stops
where one of his slaves is washing
the sidewalk. and looking again to
where the old lady and the girl are,
tells the slave something which I
cannot hear. So thinking the Big
Shots heart has softened little,
I edged closer.
Evidently the old lady thought
the same thing as I, for she told
the girl something, and the little
girl, smiling, pulled from out of
her raggedly clothes a canvas bag.
They got closer to the big shots
stand.
The slave then reached under the
counter and pulled a basket Of
mixed fish, shrimp and crabs, plac-
ing it right where the old lady and
girl were. There was a contrite
look on the slaves face as he did
what the big Monteleone had told
him to do. The old lady and girl
then went to work at the basket,
overturning it. Right then and
there arose stencil that reminded
me of the time when I had to pull
dead horse to the dump. So they
gathered what they thought the
best of the lot and departed, leav-
ing as they went, a putrid smell
and escorted by swarm of flies.
Big Shot Monty, looking at them.
said to a big pot-bellied COM
panion:
We'll, they have their dinner,
now"
HA, HA, HA, isn't he the big
helper of the working people?
An Ex-FiSherman,
p. c.. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

American Musc0Vite.-Your Ques-
lions are merely academic, but as
we hate to see you lose your bet,
and as you were a former resident
Of this city, we'll try to answer
your questions although we are
sure that any professor of physio-
logy or anatomy, in oscow, would
have gladly answered them.
The bones of women are on the
whole smaller and weaker, especially
the bones of the ,pelvis, the trans
verse diameter of which is greater,
its depression is deeper and the
opening of the anterior 'front.'
osseous arch is wider. This diff
ference between the male and fe-
male is less pronounced among the
savage races and the anthropoid
apes.
Another physical difference is the
stature and lightweight. The aver
age stature of women of European
descent is five feet inches, while
the male averages five feet seven
three-uarter inches. According to
Vierordt, the newborn boy is on
the average from one-f1fth to two
fifth of an inch longer than the
newborn girl. The trunk of the
human male is relatively shorter
in relation to the whole stature;
but in relation to the length of the
trunk, the upper and the lower ex-
tremities are longer, the thighs and
the legs longer, the hand and the
foot also longer; relatively to the
long upper arm and to the long
thigh respectively, the forearm and
the leg are still longer; and rela-
lively to the entire upper extremity,
the entire lower extremity is also
longer.
On the other hand, the feminine
proportions, remaining more APP
proximate to those of the youthful
state, as compared with those of
the fully developed male, are dis
tinguished by the following charac-
teristics: comparatively greater
length of the trunk; shorter arms
and lower extremities, as compared
to the length of the trunk, shorter
upper arm and forearm, shorter
thigh and leg, shorter hands and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30
Company Union Set-Up Put Over By
L. 7. W. Is Described By Silk Dyer
Shop Chairman and Committees Subject to
Approval by the Boss

where the organized dye shops are
not closed union shops. The bosses
do as they please. There is no equal
division Of work in the shops. The
shop chairman and shop committees
do not function, (they are by the
way, subject to approval by the
boss. The bosses can fire and they
do. The union delegate elected by
us, a worker whom we have taken
off the job to represent us and fight
for us,-is not admitted to the dye
shops.
The members, as a result of all
this, are losing interest in the
union, and do not attend any more
meetings as they used to.
I now want to bring out a very
important fact-it is necessary to
work patiently and persistently in
order to win over workers to the
revolutionary movement. I want to
give the following example:
I know a weaver, member of
the U. T. W., very popular among
the workers. I got to talk to him a
number Of times, without apparent
results. I didn't give up. I sup
piled him daily with Daily Worker.
He became interested, and asked me
for literature. I gave him the
pamphlet why Communism" Here
is his reaction: Not a word of it
can be disproyed, but had you APP
preached me several years ago when
I earned $50, $40 a week, I would
have laughed at you. Now we make
S15-$18 week, when we are lucky
enough to make a full week. BY
the way have you more literature,
I want to get better acquainted with
what the Communists say. 1t is the
only way out now. They call me a
Communist home, but I don't care"
I expect to recruit him to the
Party shortly. This will mean that
he will influence many workers
among the 1900 in this local.
We must set ourselves the task of
winning the key men, with influence
among many workers. If it can be
done with this worker, it can be
done with many more.
Patient, persistent work is neces-
sary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30

YOUTH DAY-OF SUPREME I'M
PORTANCE TO WORKING CLASS
WOMEN

At cocktail party at the May
flower in Washington, so the World
Telegram of last Saturday informs
us, the bourgeois ladies celebrated
the victory for equal rights for
women" gained by their securing
the consent of the United States,
among other nations, to grant wo-
men equal rights with men in
transmitting nationality. Dori S
Stevens, in cobalt blue, with one
of those smart collars which make a
woman look both busness-like and
attractive" joined with the other
ladies in toasting Cordell Hull. Ut
was Mrs. Hull, we recall who de-
cided she'd better not accept a free
ride on the battleship Richmond
because her husband thought it no
place for woman.)
Mrs. Robert Sanger, reports the
Hearst press, is now talking about
motherhood licenses for women.
That is to say, another license in
addition to the marriage license.
She is the lady who campaigns for
legalizing Of birth control informa-
ton, SO that destitute people may
not have to have SO many kids, yet
does not see the necessity of free
birth control clinics and free dis
tribution Of contraceptives.
Meanwhile, working-class mothers
are beaten and jailed for demanding
food for their kids, and the women
of the nation are being intensively
groomed and prepared for equal
rights" to suffer in the next great
holocaust. AS Major General Ely
said in his already famous state
ment, THE utilization of women in
war will grow out of a new concep-
ton of warmaking born during the
last war" Yes, the war to end
war'-that's the one he's talking
about.
In 1918 it was a war to end war
now they confess it merely served to
give the bosses ideas on how to con-
duct bigger, better, and bloodier
wars, with bigger part played by
women. Betrayal! Betrayal How
can such betrayals arouse in us any,
thing but the justest rage and in
dignation?
Today Decoration Day" will be
celebrated and the World War
clarified tomorrow the American
fleet, grim harbinger of the next
slaughter Of innocents, will be
reviewed.
Today we have the opportunity to
assert our resentment against the
former betrayal and the impending
one by joining the mighty youth
demonstrations against the reaction
airy patriotic flag-waving military
displays = displays ostensibly for
peace.
We have learned, however that
capitalist governments do not build
warships, tanks, and planes for
peace. If the working class women
suffered and sacrificed in the last
war. we may be sure they will suffer
and sacrifice doubly, triply. in the
next. For every conscious prole-
tartan woman it is vitality necessary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30
Children die
Like Flies" in
Roswell, N. Mex.
BY a Worker Correspondent

ROSWELL, N. Mex. - I have
worked as nurse among the unem-
ployed for II months, and 1 find
conditions far worse today than
when I started. The children suf-
fer the most, and die like flies
in the unsanitary novels in which
they live, as many as 10 in two
rooms and eight in one room by II,
with two beds, one table, no chairs.
In one home I nursed six with
typhoid fever in one room and a
mother gave birth to another one
in the same room where the six
children were i'll with fever, twin
girls, five years old, one girl IL,
one boy 8, one girl 10 years.
The relief agent here has her few
pets, as I guess all relief stations
have. Some get fresh fruit, milk,
butter, eggs, their rent paid and
clothes, while other mothers and
babies live on the barest of food
Stuffs, potatoes, beans, flour, with
no fuel to cook these few pitiful
things with.
The Spanish Americans are the
worst sufferers here in Roswell One
day took Baptist preacher with
me and he broke down and cried in
one home and came back to town
and got medicine. I have held mass
meetings on the court lawn and
demonstrated with a baby Az lbs.
that doctors said, what was the use
to bother with its people who were
poor and had no money, but today
the baby lives and weighs 1872 lbs.
If only the workers here in Ros-
well would wake up to the fact that
with mass demonstrations we could
do away with all of this. If they
only knew that when the police tell
them to stay away from meetings or
they will Jail them, that it is this
police force that is afraid of us. We
have held our meetings even with
the threat of Jail and tear-ga bombs
and gun display of the police and
80 or 40 stool pigeons, all armed.
The workers have let these men
buffalo them until their children
and wives are starving and go with
out clothes and fuel and are even
put out of their homes on the street.
1t is the Communists and the I'm
employed Council that put them
back in their homes again. Why
won't they wake up and fight shout
der to shoulder, man, woman and
child, and force this Relief Station
to give what the Federal Relief Ad-
ministrator Harry L. Hopkins says
we shall have: food, clothes, fuel,
rent, lights and medicine, which
they refuse to give.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30
PARTY LIFE
Rose0iHe, Mich, Party Unit
Reports on ActiUitym Village
Sold I25 Copies of the May Day Issue of the
Daily Yorker in TOtOn of $500 Population

learning that the road Of struggles,
Leninism and the teachings of Marx
and Engels is our only path to
victory.
We have no Section Committee,
so we have asked for some political
and organizational guidance from
District No. 7, Detroit, since about
January 1888. Now over a year has
passed, but we are still ignored and
are left to shift the best way we can.
But, thanks to the Sally Worker,
with this workers paper we have
got some help in organizing our
selves again, but not all the help
we require.
We wish to state what has been
accomplished by the Daily Worker
committee first. We paid our old
bill of $21.38 left to the unit by
former Daily Worker gent;
secondly, we bought a pickup to be
better able to carry on our func-
lions and the Daily Worker route;
third, we established a route and
at present have 10 DAILY" readers
and four extra Saturdays. With the
sub campaign we got IL months
daily and eight months Saturday
subs. We sold 100 copies of the
10th Anniversary issue and 125
of the May first issue this year. We
are going ahead hell bent for cleo
ton and nothing can stop us now.
Our committee is composed of an
organizer, secretary-treasurer and
two reporters. This is our first and
more will follow Will the National
Office please send us the name and
address of subscribers in the follow
ing towns and also expiration OF
their subs. Roseville, Mich; Frazer,
Mich; Mt. Clemens, Mich. and Van
Dyke, Mich. We would like to get
them so we can get in touch with
them to renew their subs.
We hail the Change the World
Column, DR.. Luttinger, with our
young readers and the whole paper
is good.
DAILY WORKER COMMITTEE.
Roseville, Mich.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30
BY a Worker Correspondent


UNION CITY, N. il am a silk
dyer, working in Hudson County
We had no previous experience in
organization. We did not take part
in the big dyers' strike in the sum-
mer Of 1888. We expected the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union to call
us out on strike, but that was not
the case.
Along came the o. T. w. CA. F.
of L. and by soaring the bosses that
the Reds are coming, they signed a
yellow agreement with the dye OPP
orators and only after they got the
bosses, they started to sign up mem
bers. We were eager for organiza-
ton and joined the union. This is
now Local No. 2052. A number Of
shops are still not organized, and
one of them the largest shop in this
territory, the Warren Dye Works.
How the U.T.W. Called Strike
Without at all preparing the shops
where we had many members to
support the strike, and if necessary
to stop them from work in order to
win the strike in the most important
shop, strike was called. The boss
was much better prepared than we
were. He had the police and scabs
transported from Paterson, while we
felt quite alone, not even supported
by our own members of the local.
The workers were ready to give the
support, but Patrick Quinlan, the
leader" signed no-strike agree
ment The strike was not effective,
and this is still an open shop.
We have a few Communists in
this local, by far not enough, how
ever. If there was an issue raised
in this local, the Communists raised
it.
We passed the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill H. R. 1898.
The members voted unanimously for
it. But the bosses hireling, White,
our recording secretary, notified the
senator and the higher bodies of
our union that we passed the Wag-
ner Bill.
The no-class struggle policy of the
A. F. of L. has led to a condition
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what inappropriate for the occasion.
No doubt, the old timers in the
audience enjoyed the show very
much. But I think the Negro COM
rade sitting next to me voiced the
sentiment of many others, when she
said, This is driving me crazy"
The singing in foreign language
was strange to her, the whole sub
ject was strange to her, as it was
to hundreds of other workers who
had attended a May Day meeting
for the first time.
For May Day, I feel that it would
be much more appropriate, much
more educational and much more
entertaining if we were to have a
pageant on Haymarket. I think it
is about time our cultural forces
started work on popularizing Amer
lean traditions in the class war
Amrican history is rich with heroic
and dramatic struggles of the work.
ing class. and it is our duty to con-
tinue and spread this tradition in
more ways than one.
Comradely.
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80 D0ckoA
[AA6inOO
NdG,{A00:
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

feet; relatively to the shorter upper
arm, still shorter forearm, and
relatively to the shorter thigh, still
shorter leg; finally, relatively to
the entire upper extremity, shorter
lower extremities.
The width of the shoulders Is
greater in man than in woman. The
average weight of newborn boy is
about seven and half pounds,
while that Of a newborn girl is
about seven pounds. The average
woman weighs about 1913 pounds,
while the average man weighs 143
pounds. These figures represent the
average of the great majority Of
civilized nations and races.
The development of fat in woman
is much greater than in man. Ac-
cording to Bischoff, the human male
has Alb per cent muscle and 1872
per cent fat; in the female body,
1873 per cent is represented by
muscle while 1872 per cent is fat.
This fat is deposited differently in
the respective sexes. The adipose
tissue of the female is stored up
mainly in breasts and buttocks.
Woman's skin is, on the whole,
clearer and more delicate than that
of man. The number Of red blood
corpuscles is less in the human fe-
male than in the male. There are
five million erythrocytes cred blood
corfpuscles) in a cubic millimetre OF
mans blood as compared to four
and a half million cells in a
woman's. This means that the
blood of the female contains more
water, less hemoglobin and that
she is therefore more prone to be
anemic.
Concluded Tomorrow