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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
FSenatOr Wagner Wants 4
Club to Keep the Peace"
Bill Dunno Quotes Capitalist Magazine to
ShOU Meaning of Wagner Bill

mund A. Walsh, regent Of the school
of foreign service of Georgetown
University, who recently distinguish
ed himself by issuing, with a kindly
foreWord, the recent provocative sd-
dress Of the japanese imperislist
agent, George Bronson Rea, Of the
truth Of these two statements, al
though he cooperates fraternally
With EaSley and Vol of the Ma
tional Civic Federation.
It is to be presumed that Mr.
German was referring to the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union. which
recently led the largest section of
the strike of some $1,000 workers in
the silk section Of the textile in
dustry. This union is AFFILIATED to
the Trade Union Unity League,
which I have the honor to represent
here. If my memory serves me cor
rectIy, Mr., Mcmahon, the president
of the U. T W, and Mr.. Germans
chief, agreed to the original cotton
code for the silk industry, which
provided a minimum of S13 a week
for the North and So for the South
and with numerous provisions for
learners, and other loW-wage groups
which greatly lessened the average
TSge even under the starvation
code. This is what started the strike
in the silk section of the textile
industry
It was the continual attempt of
these so-called labor leaders to
maintain the code by deception and
other methods, that resulted in a
revolt saainst them by their own
members and other workers who
we're following their leadership for
a time. 1t is an indisputable fact
that in the largest center of the
strike, Paterson, N. J., the workers
would not allow Mcmahon to speak,
and 1 am also informed that Mr..
German was not very welcome there
either.
There are, of course, Communists
in the National Textile Union, but
there are more in the U.T.W.-sim-
ply because it is a somewhat larger
organization. The N. T. w. q. is not
Communist organization. There
are in the United States, according
to the latest figures published in
the central organ of the Communist
Party, the Daily Worker, some 49,
600 members of the Communist
Party in the United States. They
work, of course, to carry out the
program of their party, but it is
obvious that they can carry through
their program or parts of it only
by winning majorities or at least
decisive sections of workers for it
in any given struggle or industry,
TO Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
By WILLIAM F. DUNE
Article V

AALALAC
Just as some employers were
doubtful as to Clause Ia before they
tried it out, some Of them are now
doubtful about the provisions of the
Wagner Bill. This is nothing but
the expression Of the inherent iner-
tia Of the most reactionary sections
Of a reactionary class. strengthened
BY the belief that with the present
official leadership Of the A. F. Of L.
the American workers can be licked
in these developing struggles with
out any further legislation Of this
kind. Publications like Time the
weekly news magazine, are not fool
ed by the ambiguous phrasing Of
certain sections of the Wagner Bill.
It's issue for March 10 is very inter
e. ing on this question. THE speaker
dirolayed a copy of thine" with
full page picture Of Senator Wagner
on the front covert
The caption under this picture
ssye: He wants a club to keep the
peace"
ne article on Page y says: "
has an advantage which enabled
him fortnight ago to write and
introduce in the Senate just the
kind Of labor bill he wants. That
measure, when passed. would give
him a new club with which to police
the labor front and keep the peace"
OF course the Wagner Bill is a
club to maintain industrial peace
but at whose expense? Certainly
not at the expense of the employers!
There is one other witness who
appeared here upon whose remarks
I should like to make some COM
ment before proceeding to a brief
discussion of some of the specific
provisions of the Wagner Bill-Mr.
Francis German of the United Tex
tile Workers. Mr.. German, with the
help of the Chairman of this Com
mittee and Senator Davis Of Penn
svlvania. worked out a very ingeni-
Gus explanation of the trouble in
the textile industry. He claims that
it was due to secret Communist &C
tivity. 1.-THE speaker quoted from
a stenogram copy Of the previous
days proceedings.1
This explanation is a little too
simple. It can be compared only
to the statements made in some
official documents issued recently by
President Green and ice-President
Matthew Vol of the A. F. of L.,
who is also acting president of the
American Civic Federation, to the
effect that it was Communist prop
uganda that closed the banks in
this country. I think it would be
hard to convince even the Rev. Ed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
(By a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich.-A girl with a
baby Is months old was sentenced to
StarVe to death by the Public We'll
fare Department of Detroit, Mich.
Mrs Minnie Jordan applied to the
Welfare Department at Elmwood for
aid for herself and her child, Leila
May Jordan, and was given an
emergency grocery order for the sum
of 2. About four weeks later she
went back, and was told by the boss
tool, Ruth Foster, that her case was
not yet clear and that she would
have to call back in about another
week.
Mrs. Jordan called again after a
week had elapsed, and the same
boss tool sent her back to the
Bishop School where there is clinic
for children, with blank asking
the nurse to please report if the
16-month-old baby was underweight.
Ruth Foster says if the baby was
not underweight, the welfare board
could not help Mrs. Jordan, because
she was living all right.
Mrs. Jordan walked about three
miles from the Welfare Office to the
nurse to ask her to please fill it in
so she could get food for herself
and milk for her child. The nurse
replied, you do not need to fill
this out to get help for your child,
you are entitled to help if you are
in need of it, Mrs. Jordan"
Then Mrs. Jordan went to 81
West Warren to the Legal Aid,
where she was sent back to the
Welfare Department, about seven
miles.
The next day she was not able
to walk, she was weak and hungry
and tired after her three days at
tempt to get relief. After returning
to the clinic the following day, she
was asked why she did not take
the blank to the clinic instead OF
going to the Legal Aid Bureau. She
replied: 81 did, but the nurse saio
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Only Bosses Get
CWA Work, Report
Women Choppers
By a Group of Share Chopper
Worker Correspondents

CAMP HILL, Ala.-Local No. 7
of Tallapoosa County met on Fri
day night, January 5. These men
Of No. are in a suffering condi-
ton. They have no land to make
their support and they have no
jobs and their condition is bad.
They have put in for G. w. A. work
but the landlords and bosses get
the work.
One of us in Local 7 worked OIL
the R. F. c. till November and then
he was taken off the payroll. He
has five in the family and he is
without relief
We need relief. The children are
naked-only have a piece around.
Out of all the money that has been
taken for relief, comrades, it looks
hard for us to go from house to
house and beg our neighbors and
they are in need as well as we are,
but they are good enough to divide
to keep the poor little children from
starving.
LOCAL NO. 9
(Women's Group)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
by q Share Chopper Worker
Correspondent

DADEVILLE, Ala.-The Share
Choppers Union seems to be getting
along fine now, but it has taken
hard work among us leading COM
rades to clear our work. though
mine is just among the work of the
women.
Now. on the work of the unem-
ployed women; they are in bad con-
dition. I often explain TO them in
their meetings how to put their
work in action, also to work out
some program to let these damn
bosses know that we don't like it.
There we're four unemployed,
seemed that they were about to
starve, also had been brutally
beaten by the landlord in 1881 and
threatened. 7 raised the question
of these comrades e. the Party,
also the Union Buro. They told
me o. K.
I called a meeting and we or
ganized the four of them with my
self, and went to the relief office
and explained our condition, and
what do you think these old nuts
said? That we should go back
home and go to work and tell our
husbands to get out and hunt a
job, and, Furthermore, if we had
worked and laid money back for a
rainy day, we would not have to
come to them.
I asked: "Herel How in hell could
we farming women make our hus-
bands lay back anything when the
boss stands on the corner to watch
them when the wagon rolls into
town with the cotton on it, also
takes charge OF 1t after ginning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
PARTY LIFE
VIII Issue Book ANSWERING
Questions on Party Procedure
Central Committee Viii Supply AnslUer to Vital
Questions; Viii Help Level of Units

During the last two or three
years there has been a large influx
of new members into the Party.
Most of these workers are politically
undeveloped and organizationally
inexperienced. They are completely
unfamiliar with the most elemen-
tary political problems as we'll as
organizationsl principles of the
Party. In many sections there are
not even enough leading forces de-
veloped Systematically to give the
new members the necessary polit-
ical and oragnizational education
they need.
In the next few months there will
be a still greater influx of new
members (Comrade Browder esti-
mates on the basis Of the actual
conditions that during this year we
fail if we do not increase the Party
membership to over 100000, raw,
inexperienced and ignorant of the
ways the Party carries on its work.
There is already a general COM
plant about shortage of leading
forces.
In few months this condition
will assume much more Importance.
1t will become a serious political
problem. We can say that it is up
to the Units and Sections to develop
more forces, increase the leading
cadres. But even with the very best
intention 1t will be impossible to
develop leading forces for all these
thousands fast enough. Units, frac-
tons and leading members will be
more and more occupied with prac-
tical tasks and less time for instruc-
tons, classes and discussions. Some
thing more is needed Immediately to
help this process of developing new
cadres. more qualified leadership
for the lower units and also to raise
the whole level of the membership.
In my opinion the Party should
publish General Handbook. book
of instructions dealing with every
phase Of our general activity. Such
handbook would be of great help
and value to all members, and
much time that is now used for
teaching elementary organizational
problems of general and permanent
character, could be saved. We have
in our district units that are abso-
lutely isolated from any center, that
are too far away to be visited. that
are trying to function without any
knowledge of the principles of the
Party. Fer them a handbook of this
kind would be of real value. And
later we will have more units
springing up here and there all over
the country and we are not pre-
pared to give them the necessary
personal guidance.
This handbook should contain
briefly the ultimate aim of the
Party and the means whereby it
is going to be accomplished; how
to win the confidence of the
masses by organizing and leading
them in struggles around imme-
date issues. How to build and
work in mass organizations, ETC.
On Party structure, the function
ing of shop and street units, frac-
tons, groups, their task and meth
DDS of work. Unit bureaus, what
they are and how they work, task
of functionaries, how to conduct
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
No Relief Now
in Camp Hill
Can See No Difference
Between Roosevelt
and Hoover
BY a Worker Correspondent

CAMP HILL, Ala want every
one to know the condition of the
poor workers here in my home town.
The G. w. A. has proved to be a
complete failure, and I don't see
any difference in Roosevelt's and
Hoover's plans. They both work in
behalf of the bosses.
Hundreds of men signed to work
on the G. W. A. but just a few were
fortunate enough to get work, and
now the works have closed COM
pletely, and the men are unable to
get on the relief.
Now we will have to struggle
against discrimination and starva-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
UNEMPLOYED MUST ORGANIZE
AND FIGHT FOR RIGHTS
Columbus, Ohio

I am G. w. A. workers wife.
My husband was cut off the C.W.A.
work going on two weeks without
notice and very little pay. Now we
are without food or fire. We are
trying to get some relief. Don't
know if we gill get any or not. We
are not organized on the C.W.A.
here. We may have to starve and
I don't know, but I am sending so
cents on to the Worker That is
all the money we have. Will try
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Try to Seize Hogs
of Negro Choppers
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT


CAMP HILL, Ala.-This is what
the bosses are trying to do in this
country. They said, let us pass a
law to get all of those Negroes
syrup and hogs. They said it is
against the law to raise over two
hogs to family, and second they
said those Negroes who won't let us
have their hogs, let us get up an
other plan. We didn't succeed in
that one, we know. We can get
their chickens. They didn't succeed
in that.
The bosses tell us we have tc close
these works to run the rural school,
and they said we are going to open
up the CW.A. works the first Of
April.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Diet In Rheumatism

j., Denver, CoIorado.-For people
suffering from rheumatism, it Is best
to avoid all kinds of animal pro-
teins, such as meat, chicken, fish
and eggs; also TO eschew any spicy
foods such as salt, pepper, mustard.
The drinking of alcoholic liquor
should also be avoided. It is best
to drink large quantities Of water,
preferably with orange juice, lemon
juice or grapefruit Juice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
"BOss Will Not
Let Us SellOur
Own Cotton
Sharecropper Fights TO
Better Conditions
In Black Belt
By a share-C Chopper Correspondent

By a Share Chopper Correspondent
CAMP HILL, Ala am a mem
Der of the Sharecroppers' Union in
the Black Belt ever since it has
been in the Black Belt. I am a
farmer and have been a farmer on
this plantation for seven years,
through drought and short crops;
and my family has made it some
way, though suffering conditions for
the past years.
I have been in tough and asked
the boss for a settlement. They put
me off, and that has me in bad
shape. The boss won't let us sell
our own cotton we make. I am
fighting to better the conditions in
the Black Belt. I am member of
the Share Choppers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

airplanes, trucks for horses, motor
cycles and tanks. They never had
that a few years ago and besides
they are going thru smoke screens,
mustard gas and always vancouver
ing. Getting ready for war is
right.
I get the Daily Worker every day
since March, 1888, and I sure did
learn something's that I didn't think
existed. Wishing that Soviet Amer
lea isn't long way off, I remain,
Comradely yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
HOME IN THE GARRETT

W NCA1AbCAs
HOME IN THE GARRETT
(By a Glass Conscious Girl WOrker)
At our union headquarters one
day my friend Rose and met a
girl called Helen, who looked very
nice, and Rose asked her to go for
a walk with her. (They were both
looking for work. Helen agreed,
and they went out. Later asked
Pose how she liked Helen, and this
is what she told me.
She and Helen had gone out and
shopped for some little things that
Helen needed. Then Helen said she
had some money coming from a
place about eight miles away, and
asked Rose to "hitch-hike" with her
to get it. Rose agreed, feeling they
would be in the fresh air, anyway;
and both gorls were taken in an
auto by a fat gentleman who took
them within walking distance of
the factory, and Helen went in for
her pay, while Rose waited outside.
When she came out Helen said
she had had a hard time getting
any money at all, that the boss
had given her less than the code
rate, but it was no use arguing
about it. They then got another
"lift" back to town.
When Helen bought a loaf of
bread, one pound of meat, and one
pound of tomatoes, Rose began to
wonder, but said nothing. Helen
led her to the back of busy city
street, opened a door that looked
like a barn door, opened another
With her key, and went in. A funny
odor almost made Rose sick, but
she overcame her feelings and went
up the three flights of stairs to the
room.
1t was small and dark a bed in
the middle-a bureau, a window,
and a small oil stove. Helen then
lit a lamp mot even gas on the
third focr) and the stove; then she
went to the other garnet room and
asked the occupant Ga hunch-
backed, white-haired, old man, a
member of the independent Party"
who hates Communists and thinks
they should all be run out of the
ccuntry)-if she could cook the
meat. then they'd all have supper
After supper" a friend" came to
call for Helen, who then dismissed
Rose in order to go out with him.
Rose wondered if she owed him
thanks for the supper, and I told
her: II shouldn't be surprised. Don't
you know there are hundreds Of
girls living as that girl does, in
,dirty, anAeated, llnlighted rooms,
gho get along any way they pos
sibly can, even selling their bodies
for the price of meal or a decent
room to sleep in? Those girls are
not 'bad'girls; they are willing to
wcak. even at the starvation wages
we are being paid-but can find no
work, or are unable to produce as
much as the boss wants so are fired.
''What else can the girls do? They
have noiparents rich enough to give
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
I#[O 81
i'm thu, Homes
$50 S lsIssYf ssas 49, IL

them money to live on, and there is
no decent home to take care of
them, so they are forced to sell
themselves. Now do you still won
der why I am always talking, talk
ing. about the poor working class,
suffering amidst plenty? Don't you
think in country as highly devel-
oped mechanically as ours we
could all have the benefits of sci
ence, and not just a few people who
are rich and want to get richer?"
Rose agreed with me and I think
she will soon join the Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
NATIONAL STUDENTS LEAGUE
FIGHTS WAR AND FASCISM

Folt Worth, Texas
Happened to pick up an item in
the local prtss ABOUT feud and
hatred of Commanders of America
legion against the Texas Christian
University students who express
their opinion on wholesale slaughter
of people engaged in capitalist war
fare.
American Legion Commanders
score it as unpatriotic and cowardly.
However, we understand them well
in their motive, SO let's fight harder
and harder, and be more determined
to enlighten struggling workers,
leading them on the proper Com
munistic path to attain our goal.
Refer this student body to proper
channels, so they may get more in
formation on the way to combat
tits jingoism, and line up with us
in the class struggle.
We have much of good material
for leadership, but they have to be
approached in a proper way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

the Daily" Comrade Serbu gives
him his copy or leaves copy of
the Daily at the workers home.
Il have very much success in get
ting new subscribers by this
method writes Comrade Serbu,
"and I have also succeeded in get
ting some of them to join the Party
I have gotten seven new subscribers
since the drive began, and I'm after
getting still more"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
NOTHING TO LIVE ON
BY a Woman Share CropDer
COrrespOndent

CAMP HILL, Ala.-My condition
is bad. We haven't anything to
live on. I have three children and
can't get anything for them to eat
because we can't get jobs and
haven't anything to go upon.
My husband has been denied a
job on the C.W.A. and we don't
get any relief at all We get little
food from our neighbors, and it
barely keeps us living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

We publish letters from farm
ers, agricultural workers, cannery
workers, and forestry workers
every Thursday. These workers
are urged to send us letters about
their conditions of work, and their
struggles to organize. Please get
these letters to us by Monday of
each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
PREPARING FOR WAR

q SAASNo ASOSho3 L o.
Dear Editor:
I am sending you copy of my
city's capitalist paper Feb. Is, 1884
adv: Wanted, young man to join
the U. S. Army. Must be a good
patriot of good character, honest
and good worker, will have good
jobs open to those who qualify
4Q6 Fourth Ave, second floor, Pitts
burgh, Pa
Last week II boys joined the
army and six to the navy, Pgh. Press
Adv.
A buddy of mine wrote me a
letter and said all cavalry outfits
are mobilized now. Each troop has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Little CWA Relief
in TalIapOOSa Co.
BY a Worker Correspondent

CAMP HILL, Ala enjoy read
ing the Daily Worker, and I always
find something in it to encourage
me to fight on. I always pass the
paper on to my neighbor.
I attended the c. w. A. relief to-
day, and have been for three weeks;
but every time I go I am told that
the relief list is full.
Still they are taking on those that
they wish to, but the majority are
refused any relief at all.
That is the benefit of the C. w. A.
in Talapoosa County.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Chronic Leucorrhea

Mrs. Martha w., Chicago, Tiff
the douches did not have perma-
nent effect on your condition, It
will be best for you to consult a
physician in whom you have conf
dence. You may call on one Of the
following: DR.. Marian S. Swiont,
4231 Archer Ave-, Chicago; Dr..
Shayle Miller, 1853 E. 10th ST., Chi
cago; DR.. s. Stein, 1904 Commercial
Ave, Chicago; If you do not care
to return to the physician who
treated you unsuccessfully.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1854 is available in sizes
IA, Is, 10, 20, 80, "a, SO, 38, 40 and
AZ. Size 16 takes 314 yards 39-inch
fabric and Y yard contrasting. Il
Illustrated step-by-step sewing in
structions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
On Relief Waiting
Roll -Four Months
Not Allowed to Raise
Chickens or Hogs
(By a worker COrrespondent.l

by a Worker CorrespOndent.)
CAMP HILL, Ala want to tell
you all our conditions. We are hav-
ing hard time here. We signed
up in December on the C. w. A.
and haven't had a days work yet
and can get no help.
I have been to the relief Office
for help and they tell me they will
have to put me on the waiting roll.
I have waited almost four months.
They don't want us to raise chickens
or hogs, so you see we are in a
suffering condition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Gains New Recruits
For Party While Out
For New Daily Subs

P. Serbu, of Rochester, N. Y, not
only gets new subscribers for the
Daily" but also gets workers to
join the Communist Party while
canvassing with the Daily Worker.
The experience of Comrade Serbu
is similar to that of other COM
rades who are successful in get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

Glng new SUBS,
He talks with
his fellow work
ers, d is C uses
with them t h e
crisis, and asks
them to re a d
t h e D a i / y
w o r k e r, e X
planning that in
the ID a i l W
they can find
out how to free
themselves from
c a p italist op-
preston.
If a worker is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Mother and Baby Caught in
Welfare Starvation Tolls
Dying Slowly of Hunger, But Are Put Off With
Red Tape Exuses by Detroit Bureau

there was no need, I was entitled
to aid for myself and my child"
Take it back and see the nurse, also
the DOCTOR" she was told.
1t was cold and a long way to
walk for a young woman extremely