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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
Food Workers. Suicide
Brought On by Speedily

the door of their bosses. Just as was
Albert Harding, so are they terribly
exploited and in momentary fear
of being fired. The housemen work
10, II, IL hours day, and cannot
go until their work is done. The
maids are required to do part of
the housemen's work, keep halls
clean, clean the baseboards, and also
clean exit lamps!
Under the NR.A. we girls are sup
posed to get SOS month but get
$50. We are supposed to get one day
a week off, Every other week we
get half day, and in the half we
work, we have to do the whole days
work. Subsequently we work seven
days week. We must do Is rooms
a day each, on an average, and
sometimes as many as 10. Also, we
must cat our lunches in the refuse
closets smelling of empty beer bot
ties and stale cigar butts with the
doors closed!
On her twelve dollars a week, one
of the girls supports besides herself,
her mother and two children. Other
OF the girls are supporting on the
same, unemployed husbands, and
one, two or even three kids.
Any day other workers here may
be summarily dismissed as Harding
was.
The employees here realize the
need for organization, but do not
know how to go about it. and are
under daily intimidation by the
management and fear of stool
pigeons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
-"-T FEATURES URGED


From time to time there have
appeared criticisms and suggestions
for the Daily. Ny own view is that
instead Of explaining your position
you pay serious attention to these.
I refer to letter published last
week.
1t is positively true that there is
too much shrieking, weeping and
wringing of hands in the tone OF
the Daily. There has been worlo
of improvement in the paper, but
the Daily must sober down. Ii
must do SO because it is an intelli-
gent and capable organ of tbs
workers. 1t must do SO because il
must grow, and there is no reason
why its circulation should not in
crease five to tenfold. It must dc
so because there are so many or
the sidelines who are finding them
selves in confusion. When I say
it must Go so, I do not forget thai
the appeal must be made to tht
workers.
Erskine Caldwell's series of ar.
ticles on Detroit should be fol.
lowed by others by we'll known
proletarian writer's. Also 1 thinl
there should be a column devoted
to what toe newspapers are saying
The Daily ought to borrow thi:
from the New Masses, either as {
daily Or semi-weekiy feature. anc
i here l believe, the humor should b;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
Boston Cops Smash Meeting
Of Single Men At City Hall

BOSTON, Mass. = Hundreds of
workers masSed at the City Hall
here, demanding IS minimum cash
relief to all single unemployed
workers, decent living quarters and
no flop houses, workers admins
tration of relief and endorsement Of
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill. in answer to the recent
order G. Welfare Commissioner
Bowling whie-l CT 100 % single
workers to 50 weekly
City officials modified police and
the red squad under Benjamin
Goodman, recently in charge of the
bcdvgusrd for Hanfstaengl, Hitler
emis5ary. Edward Stevens, spokes-
man for the delegation and Com
munist candidate for governor, was
seized by Goodman and several po-
lice and forcihly elected from the
City Hall at the orders of City
Council President Dowd.
The Unemployment Councils are
calling neighborhood meetings this
week rallying the unemployed work.
ers of Boston to smash this relief
cut to single workers which is the
first step in the direction of slash
ing all relief to the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
Strike Wave Brings
Victory to Fight at
WEIGH, Cambridge
By a Worker Correspondent

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. = The VIC
tory of the striking workers OF
WEIGHS. Cambridge, Mass, in fore
ing wage increases came as result
of the militant action taken by
other workers over the country.
When the strike was called, a
quick wire to washington brought
a harried MIRA. mediator on the
next train. He arrived, bag in hand.
Immediately, he was to proceed
back to the middle west where he
was needed bad" A half a dozen
concerns were waiting to have a
government representative show
them how to settle a strike with
out costing them too much money.
So into Welch's he marched. (How
the workers laugh. He pulled out
a book, time table and grabbed up
the company's books. How much
are the truck drivers getting?" he
Give EN- a 10 per cent increase"
asked. Upon the answer, he shouted:
Il don't understand, expostulated
the employer.
you will snapped the NRA rep
resentative. 1--WE can't have the
Massachusetts, industries tied up like
those in the West. Why, the whole
damn country would be on strike! 2"
The workers got a 10 per cent in
crease, and so ends one Of shortest
strikes of the year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
Relief Official Calls
Cops But Struggle
Wins More Orders
lBy a Worker Correspondentl

DECATUR. Ill. The Illinois
Emergency Relief Corporation of
Macon County is located over
Shundels laundry, 1852 w. Main
St., Decatur.
t he Unemployment Council
grievance committee has met with
Elizabeth Graham, director of the
relief corporation for the last two
years. For the past three weeks she
has refused to do anything, saying
she would meet the client indi-
viduauy.
Now the men who are doing work
relief have had their checks held
up. On Saturday, June 30. about
$50 or 200 hungry men went to
try to get emergency orders. When
about Is came into the waiting
room Miss Graham's funkies be-
gan to hurry around trying to sat
isfy this bunch. but they kept com
ing until the room was full. Lizzie
Graham sent her handy man. Bill
Boland, to lock the door leading
upstairs. The men left outside were
hungry; their families at home were
also hungry. They crowded I'D
close to the door in great numbers.
Finally the door came open and
men began pouring up the stair
way. The cops came and told the
men to leave, The spokesman told
the cops of Miss Graham's refusal
to meet the committee. He also
said: 1--WE are here for food: we
don't want trouble; we are all
peaceab.e and gentlemanIy. We
have asked to talk to Miss Graham
and they say she isn't in"
The police went into the sacred
domain of Miss Graham, and there
she sat, doing nothing. He asked
why she would not see the people.
She told them they were doing all
they could for them.
The capitalist paper this morning
states there is to be a policeman
stationed in the relief station to
keep order and any worker can be
arrested without warrant in said
relief station. So, you see. when
worker attempts to take his rights,
It's Jail and night stick for him.
Although the capitalist city press
says the workers won no conces-
sions, the flunkies were writing or
ders at 5 o'clock Saturday evening.
The people are planning on pick
citing the relief station now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
ROosevelt's Questions Answered by
Worker Correspondent Who Tours U. S.
Trip to Chicago and Back Reveals Conditions
Much Worse Than 10 Months Ago

The newspaper companies we're rob-
bing the newsies Of 2oc out of the
CSC per hundred and not allowing
them to sell all editions.
In Pittsburgh C.C.C. boys were
hired in steel mills in preparation
for the strike. This is the hun
griest town in America, hardest for
unemployed to eat. Relief for single
workers is through a Christian
Mission.
In all Pennsylvania towns all are
industrial towns, something is shut
ting down or has shut down within
the last year. In Curwensville.
Clearfield County, $50 employees Of
a local tannery under the NR.A.
code are locked out because they
organized their own union. The
company is trying to force them to
accept open shop or company
union and wage cuts.
A board of control appointed by
the state of Pennsylvania forces
farmers to accept 81 cents for their
IIll1k, WIlllG kJIlCGo dI6 DClllS AdlSCO
in the towns. The farmers are not
only giving their production away
but their herds and farms also.
The F.E.R.A. is sending men to
labor farms to work six hours per
day for board-no tobacco. The
R.R.'s especially the PennSy, are CO.
operating to drive men off the road
onto these farms. Starvation and
slave-driving are forcing boys to
flee from the C.C.C. camps; loss of
relief faces the boys parents and
families.
Prospects of conditions in general
to be 100 per cent worse by next
spring is the cheerful meaning of
the MIRA. to the millions who cam
not take ocean voyages.
So, Mr.. President, I have asked
myself, and tried to be honest in my
viewpoint regarding the challenge:
ASK yourself what the MIRA. has
meant to you"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
Proposes Program for
AL Walters Meeting

Is it not through the same typl
of boards, in the auto industry
that the auto workers have been
forced to work on the terms Of the
Auto KingsP Is it not the Industrial
Board which is trying to break the
marine workers strike on the West
Coast?
How this faker advocates high
wages! Let him speak for himself
in the same article, page 4 THE
obligation on the part of the worker
is to give his labor cheerfully
honestly and in way that will
bring a profit to his employer"
So Mr.. Flore has a reason for ac-
cepting the Restaurant Codel Every
boss was crying at the code hearing
that he is losing money. But when
did We ever hear of boss increas-
ing the wages of his workers be-
cause he made plenty of money?
Here is how Mr.. Flo-e proposes
to get high wages. 1T takes months
and sometimes years before q SUI
f1cient development has exerted it.
self that enables unions to work out
wage agreements and to secure their
acceptance on the part of the en-
ployer."
We want to tell you, Mr.. Flore,
that the bosses will never give any
thing to the workers unless The
workers are organized and prepal ed
to strike.
"Thirty-hour week =" But Mr..
Flore you spoke at the Restaurant
Code hearing for the 48-hour week
and the split shift. You accepted
without a word the 54-hour week.
Steady employment Reserves
should be provided for paying wages
when production falls short BY
whom are these reserves to be pro-
vided? The Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill
H. R. 1898, provides for these "re-
serves" as well as for the safety
and health" and the "old age pen
Sions." But the general executive
board never Endorsed it. They are
against it.
Cooperation and mutual
agencies for dealing with problems
involving joint interests" Does
that mean that the unions become
agencies to increase the profits of
the bosses?
Mr.. Flore is silent about the gang
sters and racketeers. On Nov. %,
1882, he told the press that bis
International was clean of racket
GERS. We find that in 1888 and 1884
Dutch Shultz is connected with the
International, through Local l6.
Jobs have been and are sold as
high as $500 per job in Local /.
These questions must come on
the floor of the convention. All
sincere delegates must fight for a
class struggle program and against
the class collaboration program Of
the G. E. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
HOW TO GET RID OF PARASITES
The Bedbug Continued

The Bedbug Continued
The bedbug punctures the skin OF
its victim with a saw-like organ and
sucks the blood through a sucking
tube which connects with pump
chamber in the brain, whence it
passes into the stomach. Some peo-
pie hardly feel the bedbug's bite;
others are very sensitive and react
either redness, swelling. pain, or
even an extensive eruption which
may last from few minutes to a
few days. The best application for
such blotches is tincture of iodine
(diluted) or ammonia water.
Once the bedbug becomes bloated
with blood, it never bites again
within "a hours, differing from the
capitalist sucker who is never sat
isfled. On the other hand, it can
remain without food fer year. In
the state Of starvation the insect
is as thin and transparent as a
piece Of parchment, which often
fools the inexperienced, who mis-
take it for dead.
Heat stimulates the bedbug to re-
produce, while cold benumb5 al its
facilities. The female can ley as
many as 500 eggs, usually in the
crevices of the woodwork or in the
cracks of the bed and the folds OF
the mattresses.
1t was taught at one time that
the bedbug carries typhoid fever
and tuberculosis; but there is quite
some doubt about it now because
unlike the cockroach. the louise and
the flea, bedbugs Go not have ths
disgusting habit Of reuurgitatine
their food while they iced. Blu
yellow fever Kala-Azar and form
of infectious Jaundice caused By 9
spirochete are carried by the bite
/ OF the tedbug.
Keeping ones own apartment
clean is not guarantee against the
presence OF the unwanted guests
II your neighhor next door or abovl
or below you haroors the parasites
they may invade your apsrGll5n
when you least expect it by crawl
inc up or down the heat or ga,
pipes.
The surest method of destroying
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEWARK. N. 1.-THE 27th gen
cral convention Of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees and Bever-
age DISPENSERS International Al
lance will take place Aug. 18th at
Minneapolis. What is to be done at
this convention besides handshak-
ing, praising the N. r. A. and "hav-
ing a hell of a time?
The June issue Of the Catering
Industry Employee, the official
formal of the International, pages
4 and 5. indicates that great deal
Of demagogy will I'LL the convention.
He-e Edward Flore. general presi-
dent of the International, tells US
what "the trade unions stand for"
Workers of the International and
the workers in the industry must
ask some questions on Flores 'prin-
ciples of trade unionism."
Mr.. Flcre writes as follows:
Representations of wage earners
through organizations Of their own
choosing for (a) formulating labor
policies for industry, for legislation
and taking part in community
life
Mr. Flore, can you tell US, when
and where it was taken up to dis
arm the hotel and restaurant work
ers Of their strike weapon? Who
authorized you to call off the Cen
al Strike, Dec. 80, 1888, in New
YORK.? Was it approved by the
Membership of Local Is that Mr.
Coulcher took out an injunction
against the hotel strikers in New
York in February, 1884? Why are
you against the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 1893?
What have you done to abolish IN
employment shark agencies which
are nobbing the unemployed from
coast to coast? Why is there no free
discussion on the United Front of
action Of catering workers regard
less of union afdliation? Are the
above questions Labor Policies, Mr..
Flore?
'ftb) Collective bargaining"
Did the workers Of the Willoy
and Stewards Cafeteriss of New
York elect you to represent them?
Have these workers at any meet
ing approved the sell-out strike
breaking agreement you signed with
the management? Will you give Us
an outline of the settlement you
made of the cooks strike in San
Francisco, May "a, 1884?
eco Labor representation on code
authorities
Misleader Flore, tell us of a single
case where the workers gained any
thing from these code authorities.
What about the Restaurant Cooe.
with all kind of deductions rackets)
such as charging for meals, lodg-
ing, uniforms. etc.?-
"CdD Industrial relations boards. .
with an impartial chairman"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
BY a Hotel Worker Correspondent

BY a Hotel Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, Ill.-On June 20, AL
bert Harding, SIS years old, killed
his wife, Agnes, his paralyzed son,
Harry, and himself, with a gun, in
the room at ISL N. State St., oc-
cupied by the Harding family.
They we're broke and starving as
q consequence Of his having been
fired from his job as a waiter in
the swanky Lake Shore Athletic
Club on the gold coast" There was
no reason for his being discharged
save perhaps his age.
The CLUB" the top 10 floors of
which are hotel rooms, is doing a
good business with the Worlds Fair
goin on, being always full of con-
vention guests. There is plenty Of
work for the employees. In fact,
there is too much for each, as the
working staff is kept to the mini
mum, with intense speed-up. Hard
ing evidently could not be speeded
up to the point the club" bosses
liked, so he was let go.
His death was reported in the
local capitalist press, but (of course)
without mention of his previous en-
ployment and discharge from the
Lake Shore Athletic Club.
The management of the hotel
Chats what it really Isl, upon get
ting the news of the Harding
tragedy, took up a collection for
flowers-from the hotel employees!
The indignation of the workers is
great. They are well aware that the
death of Harding's family lies at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
S2.64 a Week Relief
For Family Of Two
Given in Mortified
BY a Worker Correspondent


MORTIFIED, Ohio.-In North
field we are supposed to be on re-
lief, but we work for everything we
get. They give us 1884 a day, and
we get one day a week for family
of two. We have to buy milk, oil
and food out of it. For family of
six you get two days a week be-
sides the insults we have to take
from Mayor Kusta about being
paupers too lazy to go out and find
work and that we should be
ashamed of ourselves to ask for re-
lief.
Then when the mayor gets the
authority to hire lsborers for the
SUBMITS County race track, he put
on boys who are still in school and
men who have never been on the
relief and leaves the men standing
there who are on the relief, some OF
them with children and homes to
support. The man at the track gave
them work but Mayor Kusta re-
fused to sign their slips, so they
could not work.
The meat they gave us was green
so we could not use it, and the flour
had to be sifted to get the bugs cut.
One family applied for relief be-
cause the Mayor would not sign the
permit for him to work and, after
waiting a week, with a child sick in
bed and the family in want, he dis
covered the Mayor had never put in
his application at the relief office.
Another family had boy hurt in
an accident. The man had to go
to the Mayor to have slip signed
for special medicine. The Mayor
refused to sign although he was
asked on two occasions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
PARTY LIFE
Concentration Brings Results
In Chicago Railroad Shop
Can Organize Workers When NE Understand
Duty Take Responsibility Seriously,

cided to set up committee Of ac-
ton, from the most militant OF
these workers. We took one or two
issues in the shop,-one was the
safety rules that were being used to
lay off workers every time an acci-
dent occurred. We issued a leadet
calling upon the workers to stop
this victimization, to demand that
| the power of the foreman to set
penalties be taken away, to de-
mand an end to the terror. the
speed-up, etc. On the basis of the
sentiment of the workers, one
worker called group meeting in
his home, and because Of this leafiet
victimizetions were stopped in che
branch of this shop.
Our weakness has been the in
ability to involve the majority Of
cur Party membership in this shop
organization. This shop work has
not been broad enough among the
four units, and until recently the
Section Committee had not been
properly checking up on the work,
so much that our other units in
railroad work didn't know what was
being done elsewhere. The Section
Committee only asked about Rail-
road Work in the Org meeting, but
didn't have a comrade meeting with
the units, so that we could take up
railroad work according to the To-
cal conditions. The member of the
section responsible for this work,--s
sincere worker from the concentra-
ton unit, had so many functions
that he couldn't attend his section
committee meetings. and no one
else was assigned from the unit
to the section.
We now have two or three Party
members in the shop, and great
chance for building a strong shop
and system unit. The following or
ganizstional steps have been taken:
IA comrade from the section
has been assigned to meet with
these units regularly
"A member from the Concen-
tration Group has been assigned to
meet with the Section Committee
plus the comrade assigned from the
Section Committee.
"a step has been taken to eS-
tabliSh q regular route and sale Of
the Daily Worker, although this is
difficult because of the great dis
tances involved.
We have contacts in the Train
mems Lodge. which are being fol-
lowed up and the same effort is be-
ing pursued to keep contact with
the Engineers and FTremen. Ar
.Iangements through the Unity
Committee for selling the Unity
News to the train and engine crew
at -- shop are being considered.
These plans, although not fully
complete, have one obiective-to es-
tablish closer connections with the
workers.
We believe that our experience in
concentration at this shop can be
utilized as a general organizational
step to establish connections with
the workers in all other railroad
shops where We have no organiza-
ton.
L. A.. Section Organizer,
Section 7, District 8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
By a WORKER Correspondent

NEW YORK. - The Presidents
challenge: ASK yourself what the
NR.A. has meant TO you" you"
means the working class. My
answer:
In May and June I made a trip to
Chicago and back, hitting all Of
the large industrial cities on the
way. The conditions I found TO be
about 100 per cent worse than I
found them 10 months before.
In Buffalo aero workers, steel
workers, and chemical workers were
on strike. The Federal Relief
F.E.R.A) given to single transient
workers is the worst of any city.
Potato soup, bread and coffee at
night; cornneal soup, bread, and
coffee in the morning. A group of
taxi drivers said they needed
strike.
In Detroit there was the prospect
of a general shutdown of the auto
plants. Dr. Leo Wollman of the
N.R.A. issued a statement that due
to cancellation of orders for cars
a shut down was advisable till Sep
TENDER. Detroit papers stated:
Substantial new lay-offs are in i'm
mediate prospect" Detroit has a
basket-plan of relief, "fat-back,
beans and greens" This is the out
look for fired auto workers.
In Chicago a chain of hotels
charge 15c to zoe per night for
flop and give you coffee and cake,
all you will eat, night and morning.
Sometimes cereal or a hot dog sand
wich is given also. Panhandling is
common except within given
radius of the World Fair.
In Toledo striking Auto-Lite
workers were being dubbed and
jailed for picketing the plants.
In Cleveland the Yellow Cab was
on strike. Also newsboys from six
years up. A strike against viola
tons of contracts for selling papers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
NEW FEATURES URGED

Dear Editor.
BESSEMER, Ala. = The unfair
play that is being dealt to the strik-
ing ore miners is this-the Presi-
dent said he would think of the
forgotten men and give him the
right to organize and demand his
rights. Yet when we did SO they
sent the National Guard to fight
us back. They came on our picket
lines at Sloss and searched the
pickets for weapons, but yet they
allow the company thugs to carry
weapons to fight us back and allow
the scabs to work.
The company thugs want to
shoot us down, but as soon as the
strike is over they will have to work
hand in hand with us and live on
what they are trying to prevent us
from getting.
We pay taxes to pay the National
Guard, too, and they strive to cut
off the hands that feed them. The
government officials are also un-
fair to the laboring man who sup
ports them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
80 DNcEoA>
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mdA,6APa:
By PAUL LuTTINGER, Md.

the bug is by fumigating the entire
house with hydrocyanic acid; but
this is a dangerous poison which
should only be handled by experts.
Even then, fatal cases occur, from
time to time, when this chemical
is used in hotels.
Sulphur, in the form of a sulphur
candle is a safer method of funi-
cation. All the windows, doors and
keyholes have to be sealed, the sui
phur candle is placed in the middle
of the room in a container which,
in its turn, should be put into a
large pan to prevent the burning
birthstone from overlooking and
thus set fire to the apartment. II
three pounds of sulphur are allowed
for every 1000 cubic feet of space
"a room two feet high, ten feet wide
and ten feet long, all the bedbugs
therein will be killed in five or six
hours.
CTo be con inueO