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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Loses All His Cash
In Bath House Thru
City'S Negligence
BY Worker Correspondent

NEW York; had a little
amount OF money saved up from
G. w. A. when I came to this city
recently. I was trying to be thrifty,
so as to keep away from the lousy
relief as long as I could. So one
day I went to the municipal bath
on oath st.
In that place every kind Of the
present systems victims, degen-
Grated hoodlums, hang around.
While I was in the shower room
they unlocked the door and swiped
my purse with all the money
had.
When I asked the caretaker of
the place who those men we're, he
told me he didn't know. When I
explained to him that he was carry
ing key, he said nobody else can
have a key, and nobody else was
helping him. When I showed him
the key where they had left it, he
was surprised. was surprised, too.
that the whole place was taken
care of by one man, instead of
five or six responsible men.
AS I said, that was all the money
I had, and it is gone. Now I am
stranded in this city. I went down
to the central relief bureau to ask
for some fare to go back where
I come from. They informed me
1 should stay here and have lodg-
ing and three square meals every
day. When I asked is it cheaper
to keep men in this city for
long time than to give them $40
fare, they said they don't spend
cash money for such cases.
You can imagine by this fact
what kind of relief they will give
as long as 1 stay here.
I don't blame the thieves as much
as 1 blame the city administration
that doesn't take care of institu-
tons that workers use as much as
it takes care Of the big banks with
extra police forces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24

by the behavior of the whole meet
ing at the last part of the meeting
I listened to Will Muenzenberg, the
Communist Deputy, and I was
greatly impressed by his speech,
although I understand very little
German. However, I was anxious
to hear the translation. When the
next speaker proceeded to translate
the speech, about five minutes of
speaking. crowds of people to move
and go toward the exits. To be
perfectly frank, q good majority OF
the audience we're conscious of the
purpose of the meeting, thy were
composed mostly of left-wing or
CARNATIONS and Communist groups.
Since this was SO, don't you think
that such an attitude was disgrace
full to the German Communist
Comrade and to the Party which he
represents?
1 think their mass exodus from
the meeting during the translation
of the speech of Comrade Will waa
quite unnecessary, and was not in
keeping with the revolutionary spirit
of the German working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Joint Action Gets
Him Relief After
Other Ways Failed
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The other day, an
unemployed worker came to the
Herzl st. block local with the fol-
lowing story:
He once owned a stationery store.
The slave work he put in his store
finally knocked him out. He be-
came very sick.
When he came to himself again
he looked for means to satisfy his
family's needs. A father Of four
children, hungry and half naked,
he appealed to the Home Relief
Bureau for aid.
He filled cut his application and
was told to wait. He waited. He
waited six months, till he did gel
job that befitted a Roosevelt con-
centration camp.
1t was hard work, and his health
couldn't bear the strain. He was
again without a job and no means
of living.
Finally everything went toward
double pneumonia, with his gas and
electric shut off. He recuperated
from his sickness, and after wait
ing for many days he got job
from the H. R. b, job chopping
wood. While working, a chunk OF
wood jumped back into his face,
hit his jaw, and knocked four teeth
out.
Trouble upon trouble, and it
reached the ears OF the landlord,
who thought it a blessing to add
more. Therefore he sent him a
dispossess. This landlord, Mr..
Finkelstein, of $50 Hopkinson Ave,
forgot that his unemployed tenant
only owed him for three days rent.
The worker took his disposses5
and came to the H. R. B. While
there, he met a comrade, member
of Branch 1873 of the International
Workers Order, who sent him to
the Cooperative Barber Shop, 81
Herzl st. A con-ade was imme-
diately found, they went to the II.
R. B., and they received immediate
relief.
The worker was happy over the
results, so happy that he is begging
the Herzl Block Local to allow him
to do the same for others that had
been done for him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
BY H. FRIEDMAN

Much has been said and written
on the necessity of utilizing open
air meetings for advertising our rev.
dictionary press and literature
among the masses, yet the instruc-
lions and urgent appeals to that
effect are not always needed. Re-
Gently I attended two open air
meetings and their results cor
responded with the conduct of the
leading comrades insofar as bene-
fitting our press and literature.
Let me describe the good meeting
first: It took place on Sunday after
noon at Seventh st. and Avenue A,
downtown. The Sunday afternoon
meetings on that corner have be-
come a tradition. The workers at
tending these meetings know who
we are. The overwhelming ANA jority
of them are with us. Still, when
the Daily Worker builder came
around with the Monday morning
issue Of the Daily Worker, the
chairman displayed a copy of our
paper to the view Of the audience
numbering about $50, analysed
briefly a few headlines, called at
tention to a few important articles
contained in that issue. Then,
comrade Shullman, one of the
speakers, held up to the public view
two pamphlets dealing with the
subjects that he had been discussing
in his speech, urged the workers to
supplement their knowledge by buy
ing and reading workers literature.
Result-Both literature and Daily
Workers were fairly we'll disposed
of.
The bad meeting: This was on
Rutgers Square. the winding up
point of Fridays demonstration for
Thaelmanns freedom. There were
over 5000 people on the square. A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Use Resentment Against
AFL Misleaders to
Split Ranks
lBy a Worker Correspondent

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-At the end
of the recent A. F. of L. auto con-
ference held in Detroit, it was pre-
dicted by the Daily Worker that
the Greer-Byrd forces, having
failed to get their company union
resolution adopted, would attempt
to engineer a split in the A. F.
Of L. ranks. This prediction has
come true.
At the last meeting of the Hudson
local of the A. F. of L., of which
Greer is president, he and his Is
appointed delegates to the confer
ence set about raking the A. F. Of
L. over the Goals. Greer, who has
always been the most vicious kind
Of burocrat, criticized the A. F. of
L. burocracy. Greer, who is notori-
Gus for his well oiled machine for
preventing rank and file discussion
from the floor, ranted at great
length about the steam-roller tao
tics of the Green Collins machine
Greer, who was one of the leading
figures in the Washington sell-out,
Exposed" the whole rotten sell-out
policy of the A. F. of L. and set
himself up as friend of the
rank and file auto workers.
The Green-Collirs Machine sent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Cleveland Veterans
Called to Meet Today

CLEVELAND, Ohio. July 23.-In
a Letter to all Cleveland veterans
who marched in the mass funeral of
Winnie Williams and Salvatore Ar
zentini. the Cleveland Veterans, Rank
and File Committee called upon I'll
veterans to attend a mass meeting
on Tues, July "a, at 8 p. m. at the
Unemployment Council headqua---
tiers, 1851 Central Ave.
The letter states that in response
to the call by the rank and file
committee more than a hundred
veterans and c. G. G. boys marched
in the veterans section. The column
started with about 20 veterans, but
was shortly enlarged to over a
hundred.
All veterans should attend the
meeting on July q where the rank
and file program for: ID payment
of the bonus, 20 .epeal of the
Roosevelt National Economy Act
and 60 for the workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill will be ex-
/ planned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
By a Hospital Worker

LOS ANGELES, Calm bull
1etin issued by Norman r. Martin,
of the Los Angeles County General
hospital salary 5000 per year.
hospital workers are told that eight
hours constitutes a days work. The
same bulletin calls attention to an
ordinance which makes it necessary
to put in more than eight hours
Superintendent Martin also points
out that there is a large army OF
unemployed to take the jobs OF any
workers who don't Cooperate" in
giving the county full days work
for a full days pay"
The superintendent notices
that many workers change their
civilian clothes for work clothes
during the eight-hour tour OF duty
instead of on their own time. The
eagle eye Of the superintendent also
notices that many workers are en-
ployed at a considerable distance
from the time clock, yet they reach
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Greer Byrd Machine Building.
Hudson Motor Company Union

two A. F. Of L. big shots to en-
list support for the A. F. of L., but
they were booed off the floor. The
workers are all disguseted with the
A. F. of L., and Greer is taking
advantage of the sentiment to break
away and set up fascist company
unions, controlled by Hudson's and
General Motors through himself
and Richard L. Byrd Of the Labor
Board.
If the Hudson workers have to
choose between the Greer-Byrd
gang and the Green-CollinS mob,
they are between the devil and the
deep blue sea. One is as bad as
the other.
What the Hudson Workers must
do is repudiate both of these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
AnStOer Is NO to
ROOSeUeIts Query.

By a Worker Correspondent
ARE YOU BETTER OFF To-
DAY THAN YOU WERE A
YEAR AGO?"
The answer Is for the
Bakelite holding Shops in Chi
cago
Before the MIRA. existed we
worked Az hours a week for so
cents an hour and earned a total
Of $3.50 Now with the MIRA.
code we work IS hours at so cents
an hour and earn S21 a week.
We know that we almost pro-
duce the same amount Of value
on account of the speed-up sys-
tenn.
This means a loss of $3.50 to
each Of us every week. Our loss
is the bosses gain. We are plan
ming to vote Communist this
election and hope others will fol-
low our example.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Furniture Workers Unions
Wins Gains in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, July Is (By
MaiD The workers in the Sterling
Flu, niture Plant have again stopped
a wage cut. This time, under the
leadership Of the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union, they not only
called stoppsgc, but extracted a
twc-fold promise from the shop
bosses.
The bosses agreed to attempt no
more wage cuts in any department,
nor to hire more piece-workers to
spread out the work, except with the
consent of the workers in the shop,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Y. C. LERS MEET LACUARDIA
POLICE
New York Citv

Dear Editor:
Our Y.C.L. Unit held an open air
meeting at 81st st. and 1st Ave,
Friday night. Present there, was
an organized band of hoodlums
who tried to break up the meeting.
We repulsed them, at the expense
of several Comrades being badly
beaten. While 1 was trying to re-
store order, they returned with
lead pipes and hit me.
Giving chase we soon caught up
with them. There was a patrolman
there whom we asked to arrest
these gangsters. He refused until
they had had sufficient time to
run away. Then he ironically asked
us to identify the men who had
attacked the meeting. This shows
how LaGuardias thugs will even
help gangster if the purpose is
to fight against the workingclass.
D. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Stretch Out Working Day
AT Los Angeles Hospital
Preparing for Arrival or Departure Must Be Done
On Employees Own Time

the clock only a minute or two
after quitting time.
Commencing at once says
SUPERINTENDENT Martin, every en-
ployee will be expected to work
fun eight hours. Any changing OF
clothes or preparing for arrival or
departure will be done on the en-
ploye's own time and not on the
county's."
This means that many workers
will be compelled to work from 10
minutes to one hour longer every
day.
Hospital workers got a 10 per
cent cut in salary and in many
cases meals provided for some OF
the workers were cut out. There is
no overtime pay for those who
often have to work more than eight
hours in emergency cases. Still an
other pay cut is expected, but
Martin still comes and goes when
he pleases regardless of Bulletin No.
1878.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
10 Hours York on
Job as Hot As Fire
By a Worker correspondent

The workers of the Falk Corpo-
ration, Negroes and white workers,
had to work on a hot metal Job
almost as hot as fire for 10 hours,
and if they refused to work on this
job, they would be laid off.
For about three months the Falk
Corporation has hired some new
young white workers, and has not
hired single Negro worker at all.
Only three out of the many Ne
gro workers that were laid off were
put back to work.
Many white and Negro workers
are still laid off and have not been
called back to work When they
ask the boss to be put back to work,
the boss tells them he will keep
them in mind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24

A reader wishes to comment on
1etter from a nurse, which appeared
near our column. This nurse hao
been discharged for holding out
against increasingly heavy duties;
the superintendent OF nurses, her-
self Jewish, had tried TO speed
up The Jewish girls by threatening
them with the opposition Of TWO
Gentle assistants). The letter:
"Dear Helen Luke:
"oa July 4 there appeared an ar
ticie right near your column en-
titled 'Anti-Semitism Shown IN
israel Zion Hospital" After read
ing it I felt like commenting on 1t,
and that your column is the proper
nIace for it. In my opinion the
nurse who wrote the letter is
wrong In charging the heads OF the
hospital with anti-semitism. 1t IS
simply because those particular
Jewish girls of that hospital were
too wise to the heads, and didn't
let themselves be exploited.
THE bosses always use races ana
nationanties against each other II
it helps them to promote their in
terests.
The reason this nurse was dis
charged was because she spoke up,
and especially on the question OF
exploitation and naturalization. |
think that she should have tried
to rally the other nurses on that
ground before she went for an au-
dience with the superintendent ..
Il am comradely,
nRAE r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Letters from Our Readers

Daily" every day in large type and
very simple language so every
worker can understand it. This
should state very briefly but clearly
what the Communist Party is striv-
ing for, how we organize, our role
IN the trade unions also what we
mean by inter party democracy.
Above all I think the articles
should be written more simply and
the editorials should be somewhat
shorter and in larger type.
With the best of revolutionary
Greetings.
n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
One or Two Days
Work A Week in
Turtle Creek Area
BY a Steel Worker Correspondent

bl d EtCEi flOaANA
TURTLE CREEK, Pa.-The times
here are very bad. Every day they
increase the layoffs. The steel
works just work one OF two days
week. Men go every morning on
the job; as soon as the boss comes,
he sends them home. 1t looks pretty
bad. Westinghouse goes very slow
Every day you meet the people up
and down. They call the workers
any time on the job when they have
something to do.
don't know how we're going to
live. I have daughter 81 years
old, who is crippled She was born
that way. I am go, my daughter
Edith 10, and my son Raymond g.
Every tima we so to the welfare and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24

15runbled whether the work was
being done we'll or bad.
Supervision over letters and phone
calls is very strict. One must not
write, nor, when speaking ovc- the
phone, utter any word about the
drudging conditions in which one
is kept.
These are the kind of rest homes
the workers get, compared with old
John D., who enjoys the fruits OF
Others toll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24

out of work for five years quit after
a few days. The girls are allowed
to enter the washroom only at two
definite short periods daily. If you
don't wear good pair of shoes
Monday you are laid off for week,
etc.
AS a result of a leaflet circulated
by the Wilson g. Bennett local of
the S.M.WI.U. exposing the rotten
conditions, time and a half is now
being paid for certain overtime
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
NOTE.

We publish letters from steel,
metal and auto workers every
Tuesday. We urge workers in
these industries to write us of
their working conditions and of
their efforts to organize. Plc.L,
get the letters TO us by Friday of
each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1882 is available in sizes
Il, IA, is, ls, 20, 30, 80, "a, IS, SO and
90. Size is takes 39s yards 36-inch
fabric. Illustrated step-by-step SEM
in instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
number. BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, DAB w. 18th
ST., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
a tremendous step toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
To Utilize Those BOthersOme Kinds

To Utilize Those BOthersome Xmas
From San Antonio, Texas, comes
a recipe for an inexpensive sweet:
Dear Comrade Helen;
ITO make a delicious watermelon
Jelly. use the following recipe;
Take the rind of whole water
melon. cut off the skin and the
pink melon, leaving the white rlnd.
Cut this in small pieces, add three
and a half cups of sugar and a
teaspoon salt. Let it cook for about
two hours; then add lemon to suit
the taste, and cook for thirty min
utes longer. 1t is then ready to
eat or one may put it in jars.
"Comradely yours,
SARAH E."
eve tried this with one-fourth
the given amounts. Apparently we
cut the rind in pieces too large for
it was not done at the given time.
We had to add water and cook
longer, though the juice "jelled'
nicely at two hours. 1t seems the
pieces should be half-inch cubes
or smaller. Juice Of two lemons
to recipe as given would suit the
taste for us: jelly is very good0
Comrade George S. OF Chicago
sent a hot recipe for a cool drink
which we submit for the lucky COM
rades who can still rustic together
the ingredients:
Mint Julep: 2 tbsp. sugar; Tsp.
lemon juice; 3 springs fresh mint;
/ pint ginger ale. Crush the mint:
add lemon juice and sugar; add
ginger ale, pour mixture over
cracked ice, strain, and serve.
eve have received also some re-
cipes for baked dishes which we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
CONDEMNS DISORDER AT
MEETING.

Brooklyn, N, Y.
Dear Editor:
On Friday, July s, attended
meeting at the Madison Square
Garden. I was greatly disappointed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24

Twenty thousand new readers
by Sept. 1st means 10000 addi-
tional recruits for organized class
struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
NN q
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188#A saS ss.: 49, A
One Thing and Another
CONDUCTED BIZ
HELEN LUEA

want to try as soon as the weather
has decided to be decent and cool
of bit)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Tired and Itchy Feet

H. Hoosepian, Philadelphia. Try
s0on2ing your feet with rubbing
alcohol at the end of the days
work, leaving pledgets of cotton be-
tween the toes where the scales
form and the skin peels off. II this
does not help try al 'ernate cold
and warm footballs. before going
to sleep. Read the articles on the
care of the feet, appearing in
Health" Have your urine exam
ined by a reliable laboratory. If
you have no money, you may send
a sample to us, by parcel pos, in
a clean, well stoppared glass bottle.
Pradctermination of Sex
Marvin Wick, Tenino, Wash.
There is no scientific data on the
relation of the mothers diet to the
eek of the unborn child. 1t is
claimed thai a starvation diet ia
vors male offspring: but if this were
true, the workers under the capt.
talistic scheme of society would
have died out long ago for lack of
mates. All claims made by quacks
and psuedo-scientists regarding
their ability to influence the sex of
the fetus have no scientific basis. 1t
is conceivable, however, that science
will ultimately solve the problem
CT changing the number of chrome
sornes of the human spermatozoa
Strength of Boric Acid
Max Hornick. The solution of
boric acid you use 1.-TWO teaspoon
fuls to a pint of water is not too
strong. AS matter of fact, you
could not use a stronger solution
because the proportion of one tea
spoonful to glass of water
" pint forms a saturated solu-
ton of boric acid. If this is suffi-
Gent to relieve itching of the scalp,
it may be used indefinitely Boric
acid is a very mild antiseptic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Iodine Requirements of the Body

Biology Student. If you are really
"a biology student, we are curious to
know where you got your da-a
about iodine. If it is from text
book, the sooner you correct it, the
better.
The whole human thyroid gland
contains onlf from 10 to 25 milli-
grams of iodine. A milligram, as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
80 Doctor
.,kAGEEEGAsQeh
NdA,(AeA:
By PAUL LuTTrNGER, MD.

you ought to know, is only one
thousandth part of a gram; while
the tiny grain is one fifteenth of
Of a gram Now, all we need to
prevent the common (colloid) form
Of gcitre is to INCEST (eat) one
tenth of a milligram of iodine,
daily. for only Is or 20 days out
of the year This is accomplished
when the drinking water contains
one part of iodine per billion parts
Of water Only when the amount
of iodine in the drinking water
sinks to one-tenth part per billion,
does the incidence of goitre rise to
2 to 3 per cent of the population.
In Detroit, Cleveland and the en-
tire region of the Great Lakes, the
amount of iodine in the drinking
water is below the above minimaI
amounts.
Dilaudid
Drug Student" - Dilaudid is
narcotic drug, derivative of NOR
phine. The manufacturers claim
that it acts quicker than morphine
and causes less undesirable symp-
toms. 1t is habit-forming and comes
under the Federal Narcotic Regu-
lations.
AlI-Night Pharmacy
T. B., Burnside Avenue - There
are number of drugstores open
all night in the Bronx. The near
est one to you is the Professional
Pharmacy, 2021 Grand Concourse.
near Burnside Avenue, Bronx.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-07-12

dropped as much as S5O-making
Americas most economical truck
still greater source of savings.
Chevrolet is particularly glad to
make this important announce
ment just at this time when you
can see and Judge the Chevrolet at
the national exhibits of General
Motors products. Make it a point
to look over these cars. Be practi-
cal compare it's modern features
and these new low prices with
those of any other low-priced car.
Then you will know even more
surely than before why we say with
confidence: 'Drive the Chevrolet
only 5 miles and you'll never be sat-
isfed with any other low-priced
car"