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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
BY a Railroad Worker
COrrpynGy1 |ient

LONG ISLAND CITY, n, VI
want to expose the terrible oondi-
tons the electricians in Sunnyside
Yards work under. The lampmen
used to cover eight tracks, now
they cover Is, and when a man is
off the rest of the men have to
cover 20. Then if a man is off and
a lampnan covers a machine run,
a lampman covers 80 tracks. Some
times one man covers the whole
yard on a trick. When they re-
duced us from seven days to five,
the excuse was to hire more men.
But then there were four men to a
trick and there are still four men.
The galvinators used to inspect
four tracks, now we do 20 some
times and the average is 10 and if
a man is off we do 20. Now how
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Our Views on Osteopathy

G. K, Ashtabula, Ohio.-We re-
greet that we shall have to publish
our magazine without your support
and that of your osteopathic
friends. It is true that the modern
osteopath does not cling exclusively
any more to the spinal adjust
ment" with which the founder of
osteopathy claimed to be able to
cure all diseases. The majority
of oSteopaths are now using cleo
trical. water, and massage treat
ments. They even use anesthesia
and surgery. When the Harrison
and Volstead Acts were passed, the
osteopaths made desperate efforts
to secure the privileges of prescrib-
ing narcotics and liquor. This
readiness of the oSteopaths to adj
NIT that drugs, such as chloro-
form, morphine, alcohol and CO.
caine have an effect on the bodily
functions, shows that they are at
tempting to enter the practice of
medicine by the back door, like
their cousins, the chiropractors, and
other cultiSts.
Modern medicine does not believe
in any systems" We, therefore,
cannot endorse the main tenet of
osteopathy that all diseases can be
cured by manipulation of the spinal
column. If we should endorse os-
teopathy, there is no reason why we
should not endorse chiropractic and
every one of the 81 varieties of med
ical cultists that we have in
America. In New York State, osteo-
pathy is dead issue. Now that the
schools of osteopathy require en-
trance requirements, equivalent to
high school education; now that one
must study osteopathy four years
before being able to practice it, the
great majority of students prefer to
study scientific medicine. Any ply
sician licensed to practice medicine
in the United States, can practice
any part of osteopathy or any cult
that he may think will cure his pa
TENTS. Nobody can prevent him
from practicing either osteopathy or
chiropractic or what-not; provided
he does not make system of it,
ascribing all diseases to one cause
and to one form of treatment. In
many nervous diseases most physi-
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men. Transparent rubber swastika
hereby awarded to DR.. McGaughy
MOT content with their phoney
~ Child Health Day, the admins
tration is planning (bourgeois) feS-
tivities and speechifying for Par
ents' Day" Sunday, May 10.
And I see by the Liberator that
"a Conference of the Parent Teach
ers' Association is called to meet at
the Urban League May II to pro-
test against conditions in the Public
Schools Of Harlem" This meeting
will be held under the auspices of
the Harlem Workers School and
will prepare the ground for protests
to Mayor La Guardia against re-
trerchments in education" Good
way to celebrate a real Parents
Day. would be to attend this meet
ing.
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A. The meeting was held in the
wrong type Of neighborhOod.
81 The comrades careIessiy held
four meetings in week in the
same place.
81 Prior to the four meetings,
other meetings had been held in
the house for a period of several
months.
To guard against occurrences of
such things, all District Buros must
Immediately take steps to safeguard
and protect the apparatus of the
Party. In this district, as in many
other districts, the comrades had
actually succumbed to legalistic il
lusions simply because there had
been no terror or interference with
their activities. They had become
passive, and as result became
careless. Had the police arrested
the leading comrades and held them
for bare "a hours, the result
would have been a catastrophe, as
a major demonstration and several
strikes we're at the critical stage Of
preparation.
This also shows us that we must
keep our files in secure places and
that We must never carry names
and addresses around in our peck
cts. We must now, while we can
conduct legal activity, lay the basis
for continued work in the event of
illegality. Buro meetings and meet
ings of other leading committees
must be so conducted as to guard
against possible raids. The correct
neighborhoods and homes not under
suspicion must be the scene of these
meetings. Cadres must be developed
with the knowledge that at any time
they may have to step in and be-
come the leadership of the move
ment. We have a responsibility of
leading the entire working class and
we cannot take our task lightly.
Many articles have been written
and many discussions held on safe
guarding our apparatus and yet
such case of gross neglect and
carelesSnesS took place.
The District Buro of this district
must be severely criticized by the
Center and this criticism must mark
a change in their present loose and
careless methods Of work. Loose
ness in the higher committees will
result in chaos and disorganization
below. Other districts must take
this as a lesson. This looseness I'M
fortunately is not an isolated case.
The same thing exists in many
other districts. These shortcomings
must be corrected. They cannot be
permitted to exist any longer.
w. G. M.
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NOTE:

We publish letters every Friday
from workers in the transporta-
ton and communication indus
tries-railroad, marine, surface
lines, subway, elevated lines, ex-
press companies, truck drivers, taxi
drivers, etc.-and from the COM
municatiOns industries-pOst Of
flee, telephone, telegraph, etc.
We urge workers from these in
dustrieS to write us of their condi-
tions of work, and their struggles
to organize. Please get these let
ters to us by Tuesday Of each
week.
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Cook Fired for
Giving Crew Food
They Could Eat
BY a Marine Worker Correspondent

By a Marine Worker Correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, La.-On the
SIS. Carrabule, tanker chartered
by G. D. Mallory of II Broadway,
N. Y, the conditions are rotten
and the crew hungry. The steward
fired the cook because he was too
good a cook and the crew ate too
much. He got a new cook and
miserable starvation started.
The ship carries no wipers, so
the three firemen have to do six
mems work. The LIST assistant Is
a Russian white guard, Serge
Kusnitsoff, he has nephew who
was director of the Royalist Tea
Gubkin Kznetsopp Co., in Moscow,
a Kupets kulak. He has no sys-
tenn in the engine room and he
will kill some Of the crew by I'M
necessary work. In cold weather
he puts the men to wash the shaft
alley with cold water which turns
into ice. In hot weather he puts
the men to wash the dynamo
platform where no human can
stand the heat.
A fireman asked him about the
grub and if he would give hand
to better it. He said he doesn't
give a damn for the rest of the
crew. He fired the fireman in
New Orleans and said II had
enough of you" because the fire
man was sick from rotten food
and one afternoon he stayed in
his bunk with cramps and belly
ache.
The chief mate is the monarch
on the ship and he gives orders
to everyone from the captain to
the engineers.
This company and these slave
drivers get away with it because
the crew is not organized.
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PARTY LIFE
Failure to Safeguard Meet
EndGngersLe Comrades
C~eIessly Conducted District Meetings MAY
Result in Serious Catastrophe for Party

The District Buro of one of our
leading Districts recently held a
meeting together with leading
comrade from the Center and sew
eral leading comrades from other
districts. The meeting was held in
the home Of a Negro comrade in a
neighborhood where it was unusual
for Negroes and whites to frater-
nize. In addition to this it was the
fourth successive meeting held in
this home and the meeting was held
in the daytime. The comrades at
tending the meeting came in groups
carrying papers in their pockets and
a few even had brief cases. All of
them had Daily Workers in their
pockets.
The meeting was about half over
when the Comrade from the Center
called the meeting to a halt, point
ing to the front door of the house.
A detective carrying a dummy war
rant then forced his way into the
front parlor where the meeting was
being held. The Comrades in the
meeting correctly refused to give
any answers to the detectives bully
ng inquiries, so the detective left
but returned in about two minutes
with a captain Of police and another
detective. The three police then
proceeded to search the rooms and
the comrades, threatening arrests
and attempting to provoke the com
rades. After about thirty minutes
Of bulldozing, the detectives left
without arresting anyone or finding
any important papers.
Draw Lessons
In summing up this incident we
can draw valuable conclusions and
lessons in what we must do to safe
guard our apparatus. 1t is possible
that the police knew of the meeting
through some stool pigeon and that
the raid was strictly a provocative
raid. 1t is also possible that the
police were merely investigating why
Negro and white workers were
meeting together and were them
selves surprised to find practically
the entire district and city leader
ship of the Party together.
Taking these features of the raid
into consideration. we find the fol-
lowing serious mistakes in the work
of the buro:
II The majority of the comrades
had in their pockets valuable data
which was not needed at the Buro
meeting.
p The front door Of the house
was not even locked.
81 The comrades made no at
tempt to hide their coming and
going from the house.
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Spies, Scabs, Cops, A.F.L. Officials and all
Socialist Fight Chase Brass StrikersI
y Orkers Return in Orderly Ranks to Build
S. NJ. ". /. U. for Bigger Struggles
By a Nal Worker Cprresnnndsnt

BY a Metal Worker Correspondent
EUCLID, Ohio-On April % the
workers of the Chase Brass g. Cop
per Co. came out on strike under
the leadership Of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
Local 11o7. The organization had
been going on for some time, which
resulted in 80 men being fired for
union activities. The company had
their stool-pigeons attending the
meetings. One stool-pigeon in par
ticular, Steve Merencick, had been
at the union meetings since july.
1888, until February, 1884, and was
the means of getting a number of
the union fired.
A leaflet was distributed at the
factory gate exposing this individ-
ual. After this exposure our meet
ings grew larger The company got
alarmed and gave the men a 5 per
cent increase in wages, which only
meant raise of one or two cents
an hour to the men; and they laid
off the most active members of the
union. A good majority of the men
came to the next union meeting,
ready for strike action.
The week after this meeting. the
company gave the men another 10
per cent increase, with more lay
offs of the active union men. Fol-
lowing this, meeting was called on
Saturday, April 81, in which a
negotiating committee was formed
to go into conference with the COM
pany on Monday, April %, the men
agreeing not to go to work that
morning until the company met
with the committee. The company
refused to meet them and 80 per
cent of the men remained out. The
next day, Tuesday, the plant was
closed 100 per cent.
Police Office Is Scab Nest
Unknown to us, the company had
a professional strikebreaker on the
job, by the name of Walker, who,
together with the city officials,
helped the company demoralize the
strikers. Mayor Ely of Euclid and
Charlie Fox, the chief of police,
tried to make the citizens believe
that they were with the workers,
but, on the other hand, they allowed
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the police office to be used as an
employment office for the Chase
Brass Co., and used the police cars
to transport scabs to the plant.
The company spent about $4,000
on brand new machine guns, which
were placed around the gate house
and on top of buildings. Movie
pictures were taken of the picket
line for the purpose of blacklisting
the most active union members.
On the third day of the strike
the company got temporary in
junction against the union.
A. F. of L. Fights Strikers
The A. F. of L. leaders took a
part in breaking the strike. They
sent in their disrupters to de-
moralize the men and telling them to
leave the S. NJ. w. I. U. and join
the A. F. of L. and the company
would recognize them.
To crown this treachery of the
A. F. of L., McWeeny, the organizer
of the A. F. of L., and Sidney yell
lin, former state secretary of the
Ohio Socialist Party, had a confer
ence with the company without
coming to the strikers first. This
action of McWeeny stirred up hell
among the militant rank and file,
who demanded his expulsion.
After week of the strike, during
which the men fought against ire
mendous odds, the strikers decided
to go back to work in orderly re-
treat and build their union stronger
than ever to prepare for future
struggles. Five of the strikers, in
Guiding Frank Rogers, the District
Organizer of the S. M. w. I. u,
we're arrested and charged with
disturbing the peace. The five
strikers were let out on $4,000
property bail for each of them and
will stand trial on Saturday, May
IL, at pm.
On Saturday, April %, the strik-
ers staged a smash the injunction"
parade, with 500 strikers and citi-
zens of Euclid and ITO autos blow
ing their horns, right up to the
plant and from there around the
main sections of Euclid.
A CHASE BRASS WORKER.
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Letters from,
OurReaders
A SOCIALIST MAYOR IN ACTION

Bridgeport, Conn.
The workers of Bridgeport elected
a Socialist Mayor Will the illusion
that he would be with them, but
they were mistaken.
When German fascists came to
Bridgeport on April 5, the bitter
enemy of the workers, the Commu-
nists tried to hold a protest meet
ing near that hall, but Socialist Nc
Levy sent his Socialist police to
break up the meeting. However, we
succeeded, in spite of police bru-
tally, because we picketed the hall
for 212 hours. The next day the
capitalist press stated that Mr.. Nc
Levy was guest at the fascist con-
cert.
Another example: On March 5
snow shovellers demonstrated at the
City Hall to demand their pay,
which was promised by the Socialist
City Administration from day to
day. Our Socialist McLevy sent
Socialist police, who dubbed the
workers and arrested three. The
trial of two workers, Sam Krieger
and Charles Sparrow, will come up
on June 5.
Workers of Bridgeport should
realize and learn the lesson, that
Mr.. McLevy is no better than his
Socialist friends, not only in Mil
waukee but throughout the whole
world like Macdonald in England,
Pilsudski in Poland, Mussolini In
Italy and Kautsky and others in
Germany. Now, workers, you have
learned for yourselves how you can
rely on Socialist leaders.
The only answer to the Socialist
misleaders is to organize under the
leadership of the Communist Party,
the Trade Union Unity League and
the Unemployed Council. Send
your protest to free Comrade Sam
Krieger and Charles Sparrow.
L. WHITE.
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Special Sale at the
Workers Book Shop

NEW YORK.-The Workers Book
Shop announces a reduction in
price for the following books: "Are
the Jews Race?"-$2.50 edition for
$1.25; Coming Struggle for Power, +"
formerly So, now SITS; Menace
of Fascism"-formerly $2.25, now
$1.25; ITO Make My Bread"-for-
merly 50, now $125; History of the
American WORKING Class"-formerly
$3.50, now $1.65; "a Symposium on
the Five Year Plan"-formerly $3.50,
now 81; Bill Haywood's Book
formerly 50, now 81. There are also
many Decent, 50-cent and 81 spe-
Gals on sale.
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,,k>GAIEGAaO
ndk&9OR:
By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

clans even practice Christian Sci
ence!
1t is not our intention to wise
crack" about osteopathy. On the
contrary, it is our desire to be fair
which prompted us to answer your
letter. Be physician first and an
osteopath second, if you must prac-
tice oSteopathy. 1t is because we
consider osteopathy fallacy, that
we cannot accept, nor do we desire
any help or assistance from osteo-
paths. The only reason for the ex-
istence of osteopathy is the one
given by the brother of its founder
who, in letter quoted by Andrew
Still, said, "Hallelujah, Drew, you
are right; there is money in it, and
I want to study osteopathy!"
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Socialist Proposes
Fisk Slavery Pact
By a Worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
CHIC OPEE, Mass.-Tom
Burns. president of the Fisk
Rubber Cos A. F. of L. Union,
brought a proposal before the
workers of the last union meet
ing to sign an agreement with
the company not to strike or ask
for an increase in pay for one
year. When three workers pro-
tested his proposal, he accused
them of being Communists.
The same Mr.. Burns, at a
picnic under the auspices of the
Socialist Party last fall, of
which he is a member, in his
speech said:
1--WE have formed an A. F. of
L. union in the Fisk. have been
elected president. I don't agree
with the A. F. of L., as they have
sold out the workers time and
again. So I might as well have
the job of selling them out as
some Democrat or Republican"
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SAYING 1T WITH FLOWERS
New Haven, Conn.

Comrades:
Will you please publish the pic
ture of Norman Thomas which APP
peared in the Herald Tribune
May 2? Kindly decorate it with
pansies and quote something from
somewhere (you should be able to
dig it out of his more virulent
speeches) in which he attacks the
"Cossacks." lie should be the great
revolutionary piece of sarcastic
humor.
Yale readers of the Daily" who
heard Thomas speak for the Yale
Anti-War League ought to appreci-
ate this particularly. YALE 1886.
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40 q
l the Homes
HELEN G#4e& E&&&anA- ~
Flashes Showing the Lay of the
Land
CONDUCTED BIZ
HELEN LUKE

Flashes Showing the Lay of the
Land
ENGLEWOOD, N domestic
workers organizing against new law
compelling them to submit to phys
ical examination.
New York Health" Department
fires 238 employees in economy
drive. No reduction in health SER
vice will result" said La Guardia,
who forgot to tell how the jobless
238 will keep healthy without eat
ing.
News leaked out Of Nazi Germany
of special agricultural camps for
women where tn e incarcerated
women toll from sunrise to dark at
Tordest farm work done in print
tive peasant fashion. intoxicating
a. lcv5 Of the land" is the explana-
ton. And a good healthy hatred
of fa,5cism, we don't doubt.
UAIATALIA NIIKHAILOVA is the
II director of the first and prob
ably the only machine-tractor sta
ton in the U. S. S. R. consisting
entirely of women. She superin-
tends the large agricultural farm in
the Sineretsk District. consisting Of
1928 households united into 80
artels, or agricultural societies. =
MOSCOW News, April 14)
Jewish merchant imprisoned in
Germany for counting German
(aryan Girl. Her name published
as penalty of disgrace.
Fascist paper, National Socialist
German Jurist, tells about laws for
the celestial new Germany: Divorce
impossible for those having chill
dren; fllegitimate" children to be
Disseminated against.
Ross bills, providing for easier
divorce in New York State, defeated
at Albany.
ANNUAL report of State Depart
n ment Of Mental Hygiene CAL
bany, N. " shows all-time high
record for admission of insanity
NdSEO W 0LdbC GlODkJ1Jd4o III 1900
English society gals now having
portraits painted on finger nails,
and using wine-flavored lipsticks.
Shipment of spoiled smoke d
whitefish poisons 18, killing one, of
residents of Brooklyn N. Y. Wom-
ems Councils can add to present !
demands Good, pure edible food
only to be sold"
Valid Child Labor Amendment |
ratification killed by Senate Com
mittee; host of fantastic dangers"
in abolition of child labor found by
opponents Of amendment.
UrHILD HEALTH DAY" cele-
y brated by national festivities.
DR.. Goldberger of New York hands
out eight point Child Health Code |
for parents, calling for: Adequate
medical service, anti-disease in
oculation, etc, adequate diet, with |
"the protective foods daily :" one |
quart milk. fresh raw fruits and |
vegetables. eggs, vitamin D in some |
convenient form"-sufficient rest, |
play sunshine, appropriate cloth |
Ing" and Ga mere trifle) health |
full cheerful, and happy home en-
vironment."
Mr.. and Mrs. Totten of the Bronx
faled into court for letting their |
two kids in restricted" section of |
Central Park. and told to leave kids /
at home, explained there was no
one with whom to leave them.
Leave EN- home anyway" advised
Magistrate Erwin. Ages of the two
kids: Boy, two: girl. three
DR.. j. r. McGaughy Of New York
thinks that women teachers should
recei"e less pay for same work, than
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Electricians in SUnnyside
r. r. Yards Suffer SPEEDILY
Workers Fired for Accidents; Company Claims
Safety Rules We're Ignored

can a man inspect wheels. brake
shoes. brake rigging, etc, properly
when he's rushed like that.
The company knows this and
they hold us responsible Just the
same so that if anything happens
they can blame it on the men and
whitewash the company of any
blame.
If a generator belt came off,
we're supposed to go to the East
End yardmaster's tower and report
that we're going to put up a blue
light and then to the West End
yaTdmaster's tower and tell him the
same. Then after we go under and
put it on we are supposed to go
back to both places and report that
we are taking it down. If we did
this it would take an hour and
half and the work would lag. Then
the company would blame us, SO the
men have to take the risks to do
the work.
If an accident happens and
man gets hurt he either gets sus-
pended or fired, because the COM
pany claims that he did not OBJ
serve the safety rules and that the
accident was his fault.
AN ELECTRICIAN IN
THE SUNNYSIDE YARDS.
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Note: The way to improve these
conditions is to organize a strong
union. controlled by the rank and
file, which will fight on a militant
program for better conditions in the
yards. For more information on
how to organize such a union, call
at or write to Railroad Brother
hoods Unity Committee, Room 63l,
80 E. 18th St., New York City.