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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
Food Workers Win Gains
At the p ark Central Hotel
Victory Achieved by Leaving BurOcratic A. F. of L.
Officials and Joining Industrial Union

they came out with sham demands;
drawn up by the executive committee
without consulting the workers, for
$4,000 week wages, but they said,
in order to make this demand eff
fective, you must wait and not take
any action before we tell you. A
pretense at radicaIsm which utterly
failed to impress the workers. When
told that they should wait once more,
they left the hall in disgust and de-
cided to go to the Food Workers In
dustrial Union, hotel and restaurant
section, and there they found what
was wanted. Here they we're not told
to wait, but on the contrary, were
urged to take immediate. steps. That
same afternoon, demands were drawn
up by THE WORKERS THEM
SELVES, and NOT by the fine off,
Gals. A rank and file committee was
elected, and that same evening these
committees went up to the boss.
The boss, faced with the issue of
an immediate settlement, and seeing
the determination of the committee,
whom he was told were backed by the
powerful united front of all walters,
granted the following demands after
little argument: $40 a month wages
to walters working full time, and SOC
for each meal for part-time or extra
walters; 1 day off week, which
we never had; recognition of the shop
committee. The hours to be cut from
IA to for all walters, and So for
New Years night, while before he
expected us to work for nothing on
that night
This may not seem very much, but
1t really means tremendous victory
for the workers in the Park Central.
Whereas they never received any
wages, now they will receive 500 with
no deduction of any kind.
Many joined the Food Workers In
dustrial Union as result of this gain,
because they recognize in the Food
Workers Industrial Union union
different as day is from night, in
comparison to the bureaucratic lead
ership which they faced in the Anal
ganlated Union.
The Food Workers Industrial Union
is always ready to support the strug-
gle of the workers, regardless of their
affiliations. 1t clearly proves also
that it lies within the power of the
workers themselves to improve their
conditions if they determinedly
stand together, and this should be an
example to be followed by all work
erS of the hotel and restaurant Sec
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
EAN -
1sll fIl(e H&ll lseE
1Ssf#M s:.s, Luxe 49, @
CONDUCTED By
HELEN LUXE

We regret very much that,
after all, there was not enough
space in the Jan. 6 edition for
us to include a second pumper-
nickel recipe as Comrade A. j. A.
requested, so we'll do the next best
thing and give it now. 1t was sent
BIZ Comrade Eleanore B., of Chicago,
y no says: II ran across a recipe for
pumpernickel, and remembering your
difficulty in obtaining one, am send
ing 1t along =. like to read the
column and enjoy it very much"
What!--More Pumpernickel!
cups rye meal
cups wheat -four
1 cup cooked, riced potatoes
cake yeast or l OF. bulk yeast
teaspoon sugar
tablespoon salt
/ pint potato water
teaspoon caraway seeds.
Method Pour the hot potato water
into the mixing bowl; when lukewarm
aed sugar, and yeast dissolved in
one-quarteT cup lukeWarm water. Add
the remainder of the ingredients and
knead dough until smooth.
Let 1t rise until double in bulk
then work it smooth and press it
into long bread pans. Have the even
SIDE Of dough on top, and let rise
again till double in bulk Bake in
hot oven (3T5 degrees for one hour
81 until sides Of bread begin to draw
Swsy from pan. Turn out the loaves,
>.ace right side up, and brush tops
With water.
In and Out Of the Home
The above formula is somewhat
n1nI-r than the first one given last
sees: we'd Ike to find also one of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
IWO Adds 8O4 NelU Members,
I57 Children in 18th Week
Campaign Continued TiUO More Weeks BY
Request OF Districts; Youth Section SIO,Uing-up
" BY MAX BEDACHT

I social remedy for this problem is
social insurance. To help organize
a broad mass movement for social
insurance.
(4 To convey to its members an
understanding of the need not only
of benefits when sick, but of strug-
| Gle against sickness, struggle for sanl-
tary and safe working conditions in
shops. factories, mills and mines, and
for this purpose the need Of militant
industrial union organization.
81 To convince its members that
the seeming differences among the
workers as to language, nationality,
religion, political beliefs, etc. must
not be permitted to stand in the way
of their unity and their fraternal ef-
forts. because only united action Of
the workers will enable them to solve
their problems.
co To lead its members in all Of
its activities to the conclusion that
the only basic solution for the suffer-
ing and ills of the workers under
the existing system is to put an end
to capitalism and its exploitation
In planning our work with view
of fulfilling the above class struggle
tasks, we carry out our declaration
of principles which says that, THE
I. w. o. recognizes that these con-
ditionS (neceSsitating mutual help
cannot be met merely by organizing
mutual aid The workers must meet
them by fighting for a change in
these conditions. They must meet
them by fighting for a full measure
of social insurance such as the work
ers' political rule has established for
itself in the Societ Union. They must
meet them by fighting for decent
wages to enable them to maintain
themselves and their dependents in
vigor and health. They must meet
them by fighting against unsanitary
and unsafe working conditions in the
mills, mines and factories. They must
meet them by fighting for conditions
in which the life and welfare of the
workers will be the guiding principle
Of government policy, and not the
profits of the capitalists, as are now"
To overcome the lack of political
life prevalent now in our branches,
the National Executive Committee
shall mobilize during the next six
months for a systematic educational
campaign to clarity the purposes and
functions Of the Order as a class
struggle organization. 1t shall supply
outlines for this campaign. At least
one meeting per month of all branches
shall be devoted to one or another
phase of the problem. The concrete
tasks of these discussions shall be
to mobilize the membership of the
Order for the social insurance cam
paign, for special attention to the
/ building Of the English, the Youth
and the Children's Sections of the
Order, for special agitation and prop
uganda of the Order among the
unions and for the establishment of
regular discussions in the branches
Of the Order Of issues connected with
those problems of the workers that
make them look for the protection Of
fraternal organizations.
| TO be concluded next Monday in this
column
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
s. BlGChman &
Sons Strikers Fight
Unfair DiSmiSSalS
CBy a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. At the dry goods
firm Of S. Blechman & Son, 500
Broadway, the workers for the last
twelve years, have been compelled to
put up with everything the bosses
threw at them. When somebody tried
to express his opinion about the I'M
bearable conditions he was ifnme-
diately fired with the abb of in
efficiency.
The workers realized that the only
way out is not to deal with the firm
individually but through a committee
which will represent the majority Of
the workers in the store. The con-
Germ agreed falsely in the hope of
making a company union of it. 1t
was agreed that no worker should be
fired for belonging to the organiza-
ton Of the Associated Employees of
S. Blechman & Son, also no firing
for any reason except inefficiency or
dishonesty.
When a committee went down this
Tuesday, Jan. 2, 1884 to consult the
firm why they fired seven honest
loyal workers on New Years Eve, the
committee was told that this is not
the question of firing seven workers,
but that great many others whose
faces the bosses don't like, will be
fired. A strike was Immediately de-
clared. Now we are $50 workers
picketing and we are remaining out
strong till these seven workers will
be reinstated. And the So-called
religious firm may call their hired
police and many spread all kinds Of
lies. We the workers are too strong
now, too smart by this time to be
misled.
One of the Strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
Organize Struggle
To Open Settlement
House To JObleSS
BY a Worker Correspondent

OMAHA, NEB.-Let us not tolerate
these conditions any longer. Here we
have a settlement house, a place
where the young people go to take
certain studies, and a place that
young people can have recreation,
and when it was started some few
years back, it was a nice place to go.
But now recently there has been a
fee attached, so when the unemployed
children go there they are chased out
for not having the money. Some
workers girls have been forced to
discontinue their study because their
mother is a widow and cannot afford
to give g dollar to pay the dues.
And they have a wood shop where
the boys make toys and when some
poor boy makes some toys, they have
been refused permission to take them
out because they don't have the IS
cents or so cents and in some cases
they must have $500. And this place
is supposed to be run by the COM
munity chest. Workers are forced to
pay $500 to the Community Fund,
and yet their children can't enjoy the
place.
Now when the unemployed Council
took this subject up, they were told
by the manager of the place, that
the fee was attached to teach the
young Negroes how to be self-sup-
porting. I think that is a poor way
to teach young unemployed Negroes
how to support themselves. When
there are nearly $4,000 white and
Negroes who can't support themselves
in this city.
Now we have formed a grievance
committee, made up of the different
organizations:
ID Young Communist League. ca
Non-Partisan Club. 90 Unemployed
Council, and az Communist Party.
Now the committee are getting out
petitions to remove the keepers Of
the place, Mr.. and Mrs. Rohn by
name, and when they are removed,
we will fight some one who is in SYM
pathy with the unemployed, and
have everything free to the children.
And we are asking every comrade to
sign the petition to bring this thing
to an end. Some one will be in your
home soon. If you have young chill
dren, and want to see them have
some social training, and some rec
reation, do your duty; sign your
name.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
Pretzel Workers
in Militant Fight
on NRA Wage Cut
(By a Worker Correspondent

READING, Pa.-The Supreme Pref
eel Co. threatens to fire all workers
who dare to strike against 10 per
cent wage cut put through since the
firm joined the MIRA. But the
workers. in spite Of the discharge slips
in their pay-envelopes, are en- the
picket line every day protesting
against the use of scabs to break their
struggle for better conditions.
The workers are seeing through this
NRA. They find that the National
Recovery Act means recovery for the
manufacturers at the expense of the
workers wages. The workers have
one thing yet to learn about Roose-
welt N.RA. That is that when he
gave them the right to organize, he
was only telling them to join the Wall
STREET unions, so as to tie their hands
so that the bosses would still have
control of the workers at all times
and can give them as many wage
cuts as they want.
We workers must answer this latest
attack with a militant struggle led by
the rank and file committee of action
and stop all wagc-cuts the boss tries
to put over on US. The Reading police
force are on the job helping to pro-
tect the scabs, and the boss, to break
the strike. These cops are friendly
with us when they want to win 8
point or two for the boss.
-, So, workers, treat these rats with
silent contempt and clenched fists
and only then you will be able to
struggle more effectively against the
bosses and get what you want, better
living conditions and working con-
ditions. Toward bigger and better
union of pretzeI workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08

per day. Last week my pay was $3.50
after Shaving like mule all week and
getting lot Of abuse from our fore
man, E. J. Mccormick. He is rushing
us at high speed, then has the nerve
to tell us that he would return
laundry if he received it in a shape
the way we turn it out. If he would
allow us little more time we could
do good job; but the boss is out for
profits.
A short time ago a well fed man
came and gave us a lecture on our
own time, our lunch hour, telling us
about the misery and starvation in
India; and all about conditions
there; then asked us poor under
nourished slaves to donate 10 cents
per week for the unemployed in this
city. 10 cents is not SO much, but
the principle of sucking the last drop
Of blood out of our hard earnings.
Many employed here have families to
feed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08

workers, and not letter Irorn a
worker. All of which reveals lack OF
contact with the workers in the Wis
consin Steel Mill. And this cannot
convince the workers that the paper
is THEIR paper.
There is very little about the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union,
what is stands for, the struggles it
has led. These are serious short
comings, and mar the otherwise ex-
cellent character Of the paper.
Gary Steel Worker" Exposes C.W.A.
The Gary Steel Worker comrades
have a nose for what is news and
hence they play up on the front page
the C.W.A. Program and expose it.
And they do a good Job, pointing out
the purpose of the C. w. A. Scots
boro is also played up. There is ex-
cellent news from the mill, little
items from the various departments
bringing out the grievances of the
workers. why Every Steel Worker
Should Join the Communist Party" is
an excellent feature, because it is
concrete, not general, but stating
specifically what the Communist
Party has done for the employed and
unemployed.
But here too there are not actual
LETTERS from the workers in the
mill, and the workers cannot look on
the paper as theirs. There is no
thing to explain what the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union is
what its main demands are, what it
has done. Also the front page should
have as one of the leading articles,
something that is directly connected
with the mill. There should also be
material in each issue on the A. F. of
L. what it Is being used for now, the
role it plays in the steel mills, what
1t did, for example in the Weirton
steel strike.
This paper, like the two above, are
excellent technically. Let us hope
this feature improves even to a
greater extent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
Vet Sorry He Fought
For Boss Lynchers
BY a Vet Worker Correspondent

BY a Vet Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-Am a reader of
your newspaper, but am not a mem
Der Of the Communist Party. Lately
we have learned to sympathize.
Some times it nauseates me to read
of all this Negro lynching and racial
discrimination Was it really worth
fighting for this country of ours2 Was
it really worth our while to stand in
rain, clad in navy blue, bayonets
fixed, to stand at attention receiving
a "brass-hat," who at the same time
wouldn't turn a finger to prevent a
"neck-tie" party of a totally innocent
Negro Cor any worker?
To whom do We owe our night
ness? To workers of all colors! Who
are down-trodden? Only we workers.
Editors Note:-We will be glad to
inform you why we were unable to
use the cartoon if you will send us
a name and address. We will con-
slider name and address confidential.
Assumed name is C. K.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
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THE NAzI STERILIZATION LAW

THE NAzI FERTILIZATION LAW
The new Nazi law for the steriliza-
ton Of the "eugenically unfit" in
Germany, although masked by an
hypocritical desire for race improve
ment" through the elimination Of
hereditary disease, such as various
forms Of insanity, hereditary defor-
mites and the like, Is a dangerous,
sharp-edged weapon against the revo-
lutionary workers.
The phrasing Of the new law has
been deliberately made so loose as to
make it possible to subject any "un-
desirable" to forcible sterilization. Ac-
cording to the Nazis' own authorities,
some 100000 Germans are already
marked for sterilization. 1t Is ap-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08

Each of these models is 15c GOO
for both) Send coins or stamps
(coinS preferred.) Please write
very plainly your NAME, ADDRESS,
STYLE NUMBER and SIZE of each
pattern ordered.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 West 18th
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08

| the recipes that call for molasses
before we consider the subject closed.
Wed be glad to hear the verdict,
too, from any comrades who may use
one Of the recipes given.
Comrade Arnter made a fine speech
at the Unemployed Conference at
Christ Church last Saturday. This
was splndid meeting except that it
was too long. CWe1l run a few para
graphs on the subject of too-long
meetings and similar troubles some
time when we run out of recipes and
are in pugnacious mood
But what will interest the mothers
particularly is the remark made by
Comrade Lapidus, to the effect that
Mayor LaGuardia has some ideas
about taking the hot free" lunches
away from the kids. A delegate from
the TWO. School "a woman COM
rade) also mentioned the convention
which it held two weeks ago, against
child-n1isery. She told of growing
discrimination against Jewish and
Negro kids, even by teachers.
The Unemployed Convention Fund
Committee, headquarters at 20 e.
Goth ST. sends out a desperate SOS.
for funds to get the N. Y. delegates
to Washington, and hopes some of
our women readers will have some
home affairs to make collections. The
time is too brief for planning any,
thing elaborate-just little teaparty
will do; if you haven't time even
for that, all dimes sent by individuals
will be highly welcome.
A Word to the Wise
We enphatically urge all house
wives. mothers, and "batchies" who
buy their own soap, toothpaste, and
such, to read "Poisons for People"
IN 4Ia Tay1 q RTa,r, Mo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08

would not leave the store until her
account was corrected" She began
to expose the manager to the
workers who come in the store. In
mediately the manager corrected her
account, and begged her pardon and
told her that the clerk was at fault.
Fellow workers, we must be very
careful that this trick is not played
on lis. We must get receipt at the
same time our grocery orders are
cashed in. We must expose and have
removed any manager who helps the
boss class starve us. We must join
the Unemployed Council and demand
that the government pay unem-
ployed insurance to all workers that
are unemployed.
J.G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1885 is available in sizes
IL, Il, 16, Is, 20, 30, 80. "a, SO, IS
and 40 Size Is takes 2 yards 80
inch fabric.
Pattern 1874 is available in sizes
Ia, 16, 10, 20, 80, "a, SO, SO, 40 and
~. Size Is takes 134 yards 80 inch
fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew
ing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08

parent that the German FasclssS con-
ceptton of who is undesirable" easily
includes all the heroic anti-fascists
now working illegally In Germany.
This sterilization law thus becomes
another cog in the sadistic torture
regime fastened on the German
masses by the Nazi over-lords. Nu-
merous proposals for like legislation in
the U. S. have been made by So
called "eugenists' during the past few
years,
The workers OF America viii have
to be on their guard to nip any such
endeayor in the bud by mass action
to prevent compulsory sterilization
from becoming another weapon In
the arsenal of capitalist class op-
preston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
Buzzard Flew In
And Half OF The
Wages Flew Out
tBy a worker CORRESPONDENT

STATEN ISLAND.-I am employed
at the Stapleton Service Laundry
At one time I was paid as high as
S18. a week Last summer the Blue
Buzzard flew into the plant. Every
body was happy about getting an in
crease in pay and more help to be
hired.
Instead Of getting an increase, we
are being cut. 1 work like slave all
day, and fortunate If I make $l5o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08

paign will continue two
more weeks.
The fourteenth week
found all sections &C
tiv e a n d productive.
Only the Youth Section
fell down again and the
Roumanian Section was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08

The resolution by the Detroit
Distrits Committee of the Com
munist Party on work in the auto
section of the country follows:
Evening star., 1934-11-25

mite proporona contribution provision Of the law Of isaa and
while the provision Is the existing substantive law
Congress In 1924 provided temporary provision on the ANIMAL
appropriation act for the hscal ls1S
contribution In lieu Of the forty contribution provided
visions substantive law In each
that date.
The Ctsens Jsnt Cspttse appsspe,ssisa
practice to the sixty fsy definite pFsDssR pan
provided exng substantive The rssssss ~ fe,k n
the argument appendeA TO and psn this peVtiss
Ths cens Joint Committee District .ar-
payers reasonably and In Of their
bes heavily taxed and that Of their tax
should considered
such additional TAXATION absolutely urgent
municipal needs which cannot otherwise Be satshed
petitioners further respectfully long a.
lump payment the appropriation practice Temporarily on
annual appropriation acts immediate correction
some Of It's grosser and more obvious injustiess-
gang inesuity petitioners therefore urrs
for stated the hereto attached
petition, 6ndret
% . substantial
the Unted States the pending
District Of Columbia; tz) that National
bill ether than the District
excluded fsrth heAs
relation contribution
that thsssh 70 ss just ~ reesnnead in The PIsslssts
Csngress the 1855 budget lsea
tienal xmum Of esntrieusn the assumption that
recommend the Congress
the \ o expended
Evening star., 1934-11-25

the time Of the adoption Of the lump
sum payment practice disavowed any
intent to increase the Districts tax
burden by the change Of appropriation
practice, and predicted that there
would be no increase. Other legis-
lators frankly announced that one Of
their purposes in changing the appro-
priation practice purpose which
they predicted would be accomplished
was to enable a taxing body in
which the District is not represented
to increase the local tax burden at It's
pleasure, unchecked by the require
ment that every such increase shall
be reflected in some measure in Ma
tional taxation for Capital upbuilding.
Authorized by substantive law to
collect only go per cent Of District
appropriations from the local taxpay-
ers. it is now collecting Tin the cur
rent fiscal year, approximately - per
cent Of total appropriation.
The prophets of evil were the true
prophets.
The maximum National contribu-
ton is made definite during the time
in which Congress refrains from d.
minishing it; but all limits are de-
clared of in respect to the local con-
tribution, and it remains definite only
in the demonstrated certainty that
the local tax burden will be largely
and steadily increased. and that the
local taxpayers will not participate at
any time in the decision Of the amount
of the increase, the methods Of taxa
ton by which the increase Is secured
and the purposes for which the tax
money Is spent.