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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Bowery 'Y'' Gets City Money
But Makes Profit on ''ReHeff''
Institution That Gets Rich Donations Pays 55
Cents Cash for Is Hours Work

are losing money.
The BoWery Branch Y. M. c. A,
claims that in 1888 only 40 per cent
of the men paid their bill. The rest
left without ever paying a cent.
The BoWery Branch of Y. M. c.
A, has printed and publicized a
brochure "A Living Memorial
among their donating public in
which they inform them that in 1888
they housed 5000 destitute men.
But as far as is known. up to now
every one that ever got anything
from the Bowery Y, had to pay for
it in one way or the other, by
manual labor, such as porter work,
painting, kitchen-work, etc. for
which they are always underpaid,
but this is not told to the general
public.
The medical service employs a
medical student who gets free lodg-
ingS in exchange. The law
prescribes that they should hire a
full-hedged physician, but they
always seem to get away with it as
with everything else.
When a man gets sick he is
usually forgotten in his bed. Not
much is done for him, unless he puts
up a noise about it.
Last winter during the heavy
snowfalls the BoWery Y used to hire
out men for snowshovelling to
various companies and stores, etc,
all over the city.
The hourly rate was so cents all
over the city, as every one knows.
but for every man the Bowery Y
hired out they collected a royalty of
10 cents an hour. Thus the poor
person received only 40 cents an
hour, which the Bowery Y also
collected in its entirety as down.
payment for board and lodgings,
even though they were paid by the
relief bureau too.
1t is really heart breaking to hear
some of the men telling how they
were forced by the Bowery Y to go
out snow shovelling without ade-
quate clothing. Some had no over
coats, no soles under their shoes,
some were bare handed, little or no
underwear, etc.
After every such turn of snow
shovelling many of the men in
variably caught colds, pneumonia
often consumption, They were then
taken to the Bellevue hospital in
scores, some never coming back.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
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THE FARM WIFE AND THE LABOR
MOVEMENT
C5ADGC1Ep BY
HELEN LUKR

Now what shall we gain in or
ganizing farm people for militant
action if we get a greater number
Of women to assist?
We may safely. say that our work
will go ahead with more pep and
vigor Women are not SO apt to
postpone action as men. They are
far better sub getters for our papers.
In fact they will assist in every line
of activity.
The greater activity of women
will mean that we men will have
to change from position as farm
boss to real cooperation with the
whole family. This is one of the
absolutely essential steps in our
struggle against Wall Street and
its big bankers.
More Tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Hat Union
Bars Talk of
Grievances
Girls Who Complain Are
Deprived of Right
To Speak
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-At the Chester
field Hat Co., 43 w. 36th St.. en-
ploying about 100 workers, the fore
lady treats the girls very bad. All
day long she chases around. holler-
ing at us: step on it, or will take
your work away from you" When
one talks a syllable, she shouts:
"Cut it out, I want quiet" It is
like in a jail. All she needs is a
whip to make her a real slave
driver.
Once girl said that she would
go to the union to get justice. And
the forelady said to her: GO to the
streets, that's where you will get
justice" This matter was taken up
at a shop meeting, and the other
workers did not allow her to fire the
girl. But she gave her less work
and treated her worse whenever
she could.
Two preparers were fired because
they refused to work overtime.
They left at $50 instead of $780,
They did not get a full weeks pay,
although they should have gotten
it, because they were fired in the
middle of the week. The preparers
don't belong to the union, because
the union does not take them in,
although this is a union shop.
Prices that were settled before
May we're supposed to be in
creased 10 per cent, but we did not
get it. Piece prices are so low that
the girls cannot make more than
80 to so cents an hour, although
the minimum is supposed to be
$l10 per hour. Even the fastest
girls cannot make it.
During the season we were sup
posed to get time and half for
overtime, but the boss settled with
the chairlady that we should get
10 per cent of the weeks earnings.
Since he did not raise the prices,
we got practically nothing. One
girl went home half an hour earlier
than the others, so she did not get
paid for overtime at all.
Any girl who fights against such
conditions gets only temporary
book from the union. That means
she has to pay dues like all others,
but she is not allowed to speak at
shop meetings, and is not allowed
to come to local meetings at all.
Because a girl in our shop spoke
up for our rights and against these
bad conditions, the union gave her
temporary book in order to shut
her up. There must not be such
a thing as a temporary book. This
girl is one of us, she works with us
in the shop. If we stick together,
we can force the union to give her
good book, like all of us, which
is coming to her.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20

In dealing with the question of
organizing the farm women "a sub
ject preached by Mrs. B. B. M. of
Washington (state) we are helped
by a clipping from the Farmers
National Weekly-an article written
only month before his death last
Fall by Fred Chase, dirt farmer and
former member of the Executive
Committee of the Farmers National
Committee for Action.
The clipping was sent to Mike
Gold by Mrs. Chase, after Mike had
stressed the need of organizing the
workers wives into the movement.
Mike some time ago turned over
to us this and a few other letters
on similar subjects, perhaps because
he lacked space for the multitude
of letters he received and thought
these suitable for use in our cor
ner. This one fills need most
beautifully.
Mrs, Chase said in her letter:
"Comrade Chase believed firmly in
the Importance of organizing the
working woman. He realized that
without her we could not overthrow
the capitalist system and establish
a workers and farmers govern
ment.
In our family" we both worked
in the interest of the Communist
Party. We also belonged to the
Grange, the Farm Bureau, and the
militant organizations; when our
children were little, we used to take
turns in attending the above organ
izations. We brought up five chill
dren and they are all Communists"
We reproduce the article on
THE PART PLAYED BY FARM
WOMEN IN STRUGGLES
BY FRED CHASE
The securing of more farm women
for work in organizing the farm
people is a serious need. They are
coming into the movement, but far
too slow. The number of women
at the Washington Farm Confer
ence was small, and it is also
fact that at nearly all State and
Regional Conferences the percent
agee of farm women is small.
To understand this question it is
necessary to realize that the small
and most of the middle-size farms
are run by the family as a unit.
The farmer still exploits the whole
family-the MINOR children and
especially the farm wife. The fact
that the small farmer does not get
a decent living after long hours of
toll that he is in turn ruthlessly
exploited by others, does not alter
the fact of the exploitation Of the
family.
How to Rally the Farm Women
Now We have come. to the break
down of farm economy as it has
been, and it is necessary to get the
whole farm family to fight for bet
ter conditions. SO the question
arises. how shall we get the farm
women to share more fully in the
struggle against exploitation?
As a result of my experience l
would suggest the following:
I. Whenever farm organizer
visits farm-hon1e insist firstly
that the wife and older daughters
take part in the discussions and
making of plans. Also if lunch or
meals are served ask that the
women be seated with the men,
even if the men have to lower
their dignity by waiting on the
table or washing dishes.
2, That every possible effort be
made to have farm women attend
meetings and serve on committees.
2. That farm wives and daugh-
tcrs go to the big farm confer
cuces, even If this means that
some of the men must stay home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Offered S4-HOur
Week Relief" Job
At Wage of S11
NV a Worker Corresnondent

LOS ANGELES. Recently I APP
piled for relief from the county
and was offered a job. 1t was in
a hash house. I went to see about
it, since I have been a cook since
1918.
1t turned out to be in Glendale,
IS miles from my home. They
wanted me to work IL hours per
day Qonger if the crowd stayed 4,
and seven days per week. The pay
was $11 per week.
When I refused to take this job
the county closed my relief case.
They said at the restaurant that
this wage scale met with the APP
proval of the N.R.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Letters from Our Readers

shops and factories on a program
based on shorter hours for the ap-
prenticeS, for living wage, for SAN
itary conditions and for equal wages
for equal work. Only such ccndi-
lions gained by the young workers
in the shops and on the jobs, will
guarantee the ending of the conflict
between the apprentices and the
journeymen.
Get in touch with the Youth Or
ganizer of the T. U. U. c., 80 East
18th ST., N. Y. c., for further in
formation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
NOTE

We publish letters from textile,
needle, shoe and leather workers
every Wednesday. Workers in
these industries are urged to write
us of their conditions of work,
and of their struggles to organize.
Get the letters to us by Satur-
day of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

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80 D0chot
,kIAG11G A1O
0dA>d04A,:
BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

Science" is as much of quackery
in the medical, as Hitlerism is In
the politico-economic field. 1t is
not worth wasting a. moment Of
your time on either reading or dis
cussing such trnshl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
ADVERTISEMENT
MAY FESTIVAL NETS OVER $4,000

MAY FESTIVAL NETS OVER $4,000
to Communist Party
~ Y. District Thanks Cooperating Organizations
The FveDay Festival and Bazaar held in New May
to q inclusive for the benefit of the
munst Party has been tremendous financial success netting
$4,000 thanks to the cooperation organ
cations trade unions and workers clubs The Communist
sure that the organizations
so well cooperated in this last Festival Bazaar
assistance of hundreds organizations direct their
membership not only to accept the political leadership
Communist Party but to help in raising the necessary
carry out these struggles through collections
support of Communist affairs.
The next test for them is the Red Picnic July
North have greater cooperation in
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
STUDIES
TROLLEY LOOP

Removal of street car tracks on
Constitution Avenue between
Seventh and Ninth Streets North
west will be proposed at meeting
OF the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission Friday.
The commission will also study
plan for the immediate abandon
ment Of the trolley line on Four
and-one-half Street Southwest, and
a proposal of the Capital Transit
Company, for the construction of
a loop track between C and D
Streets and Lynworth Place South
west.
The loop is proposed to help
handle street car traffic at the
new Agricultural Building.
Other matters to come before
the commission include study of
several amendments to the alley
bill, approval of estimates for the
proposed municipal stadium, and
engineering reports on the Dis
trict's sewer disposal plant.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
MANY BACK D. c.
.OLD-AGE BILL

An additional hearing will be
held tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. be-
fore a Senate District subcom-
1nittee in charge of measures pro-
posing an old-age pension system
here, in the Senate District Com
raittee room in the Capitol.
sSeven witnesses, representing
labor, independent national Or
carnations, and civic groups
here, appeared before the sub
committee yesterday pleading
for legislation.
Among those from local Or
ganizations were Leifur Magnus-
son, chairman of the citizens
committee for old age security
for the District; Miss Louise Nc
Guire, of the National Catholic
Welfare School; Mrs. Elizabeth
T. Sullivan, of the Federation of
Citizens Associations, and Rich
ard j. Keller, of the Central La
bor Union.
Samuel Epstein, of New York,
1CpA CoC44CAAAS GAAC AAACA AASoAA SAo0O
citation for Social Security, and
William G. flushing, of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, also
urged such legislation.
Consensus Of opinion was that
the law should prescribe that in
order to be eligible for the pen
sion applicants must be between
so and 65 years of age, but there
was considerable difference Of
opinion on whether or not pay
mentS should be standardized and
an maximum property holdings.
Nearly all agreed that the aims
house system for caring for the
aged is more costly and not as
satisfactory as the pension syS-
tenn.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
Deaths
Marriages,
DEATHS

Louisa Losskas. 81, 1900 Massachusetts,
Joseph NJ. Carroll. IS, Tuberculosis
Hospital.
Mary Murray. IS. Home for Ased.
Ben W. English. rs, Emergency Hos
pital.
Lucy H. BradIey( 70, 1918 A St. aM
William P. oConuor. 72, GaIlinReP
Hospital.
Charles W. Graham, u, 1OS Fifteenth
st. s. e.
Estelle Fitzgerald. 70. 442O Hawthorne
william F. Ward, 81. 1885 K st. NV.
Jessie L. Pope, 81. 627 East Capitol.
Catherine Taylor. 81, 622 st, N W.
Lullen c, jenkins. 60. Casualty Hos
pitaI.
orvills N. Fausler. Sc Potomac Bank
Building.
Charles e Edison. SIS, sS15 Ninth st
N. W.
John J. Bruke, IS. Sc r ST. N.
Lawrence L. Howell Sc. Walter Reed
General Hospital.
John NJ. Jones, IS. St Elizabsths Hos
pitaL
Mildred Holland, az. Emergency Hos-
James H. Lee. sS, 7o2 Seventh st.
N. e.
Jacob Robinson, 81. 241s st. NV.
Mary 9. Riley. 5S. sol New Jersey
Ave N. W.
Larry R. Artis, So, sibley Hospital.
Herbert Virgins, So, GallinSer Hos
pitaL
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
|. c. c. TO SCAN
PHONE RATES

Motion to intervene in the
Chesapeake and Potomac rele
phone Company rate case now
pending before Justice Jesse c,
Adkins in District Supreme Court
has been filed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The I. C. c., through Attorneys
Daniel W. Knowlton and Edward
M. Reidy. informed the court it
was interested only in the ques ion
of whether it or the District Pub
lie Utilities Commission had juris-
diction in fixing rates of deprecia-
ton for the phone company.
Under provisions Of the inter
state commerce law the I. c. C. re-
cited, fixing Of rates for common
carriers and other utilities en-
gagged in interstate commerce was
placed within it's jurisdiction The
motion urged the court to find the
1 C. C. alone had power to fix the
rates.
The phone company instituted
the proceedings in court upon an
appeal from an order of the P. U.
C. more than a year ago, which
fixed a 10 per cent reduction for
all local phone bills.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
ADVERTIsEME ENT
No More Gas
In Stomach
and Bowels

n you wish to be permanently re-
lieved of gas in stomach and bowels.
take 8aalman's Gas Tablets, which
are prepared especially for stomach
gas and all the bad effects resulting
from gas pressure.
: That empty. gnawing feeling at the
pit of the stomach will disappear that
pitation will vanish, and you will again
be able to take deep breath without
discomfort.
That drowsy. sleepy feeling after
dinner will bs replaced by a desire
for entertainment. Bloating will cease.
Your limbs, arms and fingers will no
longer feel cold and go to sleep" be-
cause Baalman's Gas Tablets prevent
tiol. Get the genuine, in the yellow
package. at any good drug store.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
JOHNB.THOMAS,
CIVIL WAR VET,
DIES At 98

Funeral services will be held at
$3.50 p. m. today for John B.
Thomas, SO. Civil War veteran and
native of Georgetown. at his resi-
dence, 3114 o st. N. W. He died
there Monday of pneumonia.
Burial will be in Oak Hill Gene
terry.
In the Civil War, Mr.. Thomas
served in the Quartermaster Corps
and often, during the turmoil
existing in Washington, served
people who were trying to find
friends and relatives.
For many years he was aSso-
ciated with the District Paper
Company and at the time of his
retirement at IS he was secretary
and treasurer of the company.
He was a member of Potomac
Lodge. F. A. A. NJ, the Royal Arch
MasonS and the Scottish Rite
MaSons.
Surviving Mr.. Thomas are two
daughters. Miss Sue Thomas and
Mrs. Horace L. Beall.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
Booster Club Plans
CheSaDeUke Cruise

A boat trip to points of interest
along Chesapeake Bay is planned
for the weekend of June % by
the Booster Club of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association.
DR.. M. G. Gibbs, chairman, an
nounced yesterday. The following
will be in charge:
Commissary, Bert L. Olmstead,
Frederick Bucholz and P. M.
Dorsch; entertainment, Sidney
zirkin, E. j. Mather and Benja-
min Skinker; itinerary, Charles
H. Frame, Franklin w. Harper,
Ringgold Hart and Benjamin
Ourisman; publicity, Arthur j.
Sundlun, R. P. Andrews and Louis
Levay; ticket. Lewis A. Payne.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
MISS NATCHEFF
To SPEAK

Miss Sonya Natcheff will speak
on art and Handcraft" at a
meeting of the home-making de-
partment of the Takoma Park
Women's Club at the home of
Mrs. M. C. Merrill, 800 block
Carroll Ave-, Takoma Park,
Thursday at 1870 p. m.
Mrs. j. A. Robertson, Mrs. w.
c. DeGrott, Mrs. r. K. Smith,
and Mrs. E. E. Yester will act as
assistant hostesses.
The executive board of the
club will meet at the nome of
Mrs. Clarence Ross, 100 block
Maple Ave-, Takoma Park, Friday,
at / D. m.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
g FINISH ARMY
SCHOOL TERM

Graduation exercises Of the
Finance School students, U. s.
A., will be held Friday morning
in Tempo Building No. 5, the
War Department announced to-
day.
The class Of 80 students has
been in attendance since No
vember 6, last, and is the twenty
sixth class of enlisted men to
finish the regular course since
organization Of the school in
1920.
Introductory remarks will he
made by the commandant, Major
Carl Halla, end the principe1
dress will be by Maj. Gen. Fred
erick W. Coleman, Chief Of FL
nance. General Coleman will
also present the diplomas.
Out of 18 who entered the
class as members of branches
other than Finance, eight have
recently been transferred to the
Finance Department. None is
stationed or native here.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
PLAN
PARLEY HERE

Delegates from IA Episcopal
churches in Montgomery county
are slated to attend the joint
spring meeting of the Northern
and Southern Convocation in the
Cathedral Mount st. Alban in
Washington next Monday at 10
a. m.
Rev. Thomas D. wingate, of
Christ Church, in KenSington, is
dean Of the Northern Convoca-
tion.
New officers will be elected for
two years, as the present officers
are ineligible for reelection.
The churches sending delegates
are Christ Church, Kensington;
st. James Church, Garrett Park;
st. Johns Church, Bethesda: {:
Christ Church, Rockville; Church
of Ascension, Gaithersburg; st.
Bartholomew Church, Laytons~
vile: st. Johns Church, Olney;
St. Luke's Church, Brighton; st.
Peters Church, Poolesville; Grace
Church, Silver Spring: Christ
Church, Barnesville; st. Mary's
Church, Ashton; st. Marks
Church, Fairland, and Chapel of
the Ascension, Silver Spring.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
ADVERTISEMENT
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The Washington times., 1934-04-18
JOHNSON Bill |
NHOUSE SNAC
BY International News Service

BY International News service
Conflict in the House judiciary
Committee over the Johnson bill
to curb the use of Federal courts
by Public Utilities in fighting rate
cases was barred today as the
House Rules Committee took
under advisement the plea of
Chairman Summers CD of Texas,
of the judiciary committee for a
rule permitting prompt considera,
tion Of the johnson bill.
BY a vote of II to 10, he said,
the committee substituted a bill
by Representative Lewis CD of
Colorado, for the bill Of Senator
johnson (RO Of California, which
passed the Senate. He asked that
the issue be fought out on the
floor Of the House.
The johnson bill requires Pub
lie Utilities to prosecute appeals
from commission orders through
the State courts and then permits
appeal to the U. s. Supreme Court,
but the Lewis substitute allows ap-
pea1s either to State or Federal
courts with some limitations.
Lewis insisted that his substi-
tute closely followed the law az
fecting appeal from the Inter.
state Commerce and Federal
Trade commissions.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
REV.W.A. KNIGHT
TO Be BURIED
/ SATURDAY

Funeral services will be held at
Wilmington, Del, Saturday a. 10
a. m. for the Very Rev. Walter
s. knight, Al, American Provin-
cial Of the Oblate of st. Francis
de Sales and for many years rec
tor of De Sales Hall, Catholic
University. He lied yesterday
from a heart attack at the Oblate
Novitiate, Childs, Md.
Born in Kent, England, Father
Knight was educated in Rome,
France, England, and the Domini-
can University of the Minerva.
He came to this country in 1905.
Prior to his opening of the De
Sales House of Study in Wash
ington, he was a pastor at Sails
bury, Md.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
lower SHOW
OPENS TODAY

The Takoma Park Horticultural
Club will hold it's nineteenth an
nual narcissus show today and to
morrow in the local branch of the
public library.
Today the doors will be open
from 3 p. m. to 9 p. m. All exhib'
it's must be in place by z p. M
Thursday the exhibit will be open
for inspection from 9 a. m. until
g p. m.
The committee in charge is H c
Heffner, Fred Harries, DR., David
Griffiths, H. A. Axtell, Mrs. c. H
Aspinwall. Mrs. Joseph Kurz, Mrs
A. F.. Lingle, and Patricia Pierce.
The Washington times., 1934-04-18
PLANE CRASHES
IN FLAMES
KILLING 4

DALLAS, Tex, April 18 G.N.S)
A pleasure night airplane ride
ended in flaming death for the
four occupants of the private
plane today.
Bodies of Harry Fowler. pilot;
his fiancee, Lillian Rose. and
their friends. Jack Poole and
an unidentified woman TREND
were being taken over muddy and
almost impossible roads today to
Lewisville, 20 miles northwest Of
here, to await removal to Dallas.
Taking off from Love Field,
Dallas, about 10 o'clock last
night, the plane ran into a thun-
der storm 10 miles southwest Of
Lewisville and is believed to have
been hit by lightning.
Pilot Fowler operated a COM
mercial airplane service. Last
evening his friends said Mr.. Poole
called him and arrangements were
made for a night flight.