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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
Welfare Ladies Send
Scraps of Yule Feast
to Feed Unemployed
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
DANVILLE. Va. 49, The welfare
ladies', the policemen and all the
high up officials turned very gen
erous around Christmas time.
Christmas. so they say, is supposed
to be time Of happiness and good
cheer, so these gracious, sweet tenn
pered, self sacrificing ladies and
gentlemen decided to do their part
in cheering the poor.
They had a supper or banquet a
few nights ago. The expense
amounted to something over $3.50.
All the afore mentioned personages
attended in great style. Then, they,
after having been filled, bundled
the well scraped bones of the roastS,
etc, up in a very nice bundle and
sent it to the Salvation Army.
But, here the poor men and
women were so weak already from
the "lousy" food they had been re
ceiving that they could not use
this excellent gift Of bones, They
sent them back to the givers who
we're very indignant. why to
think Of those paupers refusing
something We send them Ridicul-
GUS, unheard Of, Oh, rny-to think Of
lit"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
and Layoffs Are
Macy's Post-Xmas Blessings

to go by Jan. 7, we who remain are
being bounded by our "superiors. :"
We are expected to be up and on
our toes all the time.
We are on our toes organizing a
strong rank and file union to see
that our jobs are safe and that
Macy's family spirit gets into our
pay envelopes instead of coming in
the form of a bride from the execu-
toner as he swings the axe.
We haven't forgotten those late
Thursdays that were put over on
us, nor those pay cuts that followed
each other regularly. Our salaries
are low and our work schedule has
been doubled. Every trick has been
used by Mays to replace us with
cheaper, greener, out of town help.
We won't rest until the fear of los
ing our jobs is gone and our wages
keep us in decent homes. We work
hard enough for that.
Our one thought is that 10000
workers have 10000 times more
right to be cared for than one man,
Straus, and we're in union which
fights with this in mind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
VRA Laundry Code Is Violated in the Shadow of White House
Dog Biscuits Are Staple Food for Thousands
of Unemployed Workers, Investigation Reveals
Bv a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-From the Vegetarian magazine
December 1884 take the following reprinted
fornia Health News:
PEOPLE EAT BISCUITS Astonishing Situation Shows
Horse Meat Used BY Poor Families"
With millions pounds perfectly oranges wheat
and other edbes being keep prices right
people in the u have turned dog biscuit food"
poorer sections the country
Oct persons with low
content at low cost They find palatabe noushing.
Dog biscuit and canned foods made cheap
horse reindeer beef and fish, with vegetables
rice, bran and seasonings.
Deessonpoor families have been found subsng this food
perhaps nouTishng but decidedly appzng
pae hundreds of thousands Of horses specially
the choice being shipped abroad consumption
waste and cheap ends going into
This astounding situation revealed when
to odiy dogfood put millions
for Americas al-waggng population
lions 1t making code to insure honest labelling
lovers be assured their will heathfu
output totals S4oO00OOo"
Shades Of Starving Russians! 1t the
has plenty to about much home without pointing
lying finger at the growing workers
about the millions working
closet before about invenng peoples
On to a Soviet America
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
Unity Of Negro and White
JobIeSS Forged m Alabama

we're for 1t. The best Towns and
Pritchard could 10 was to delay
action on it.
Pritchard, who is president of an
A. F. of L. Cement Local and a
city alderman, is a close cohort of
the faker Towns. Pritchard'S record
is full of anti-labor actions. When
he acted as judge in the case of a
fight between union man and one
of the Scabherders for the Alabama
Fuel and Iron Co. during a strike
this year, Pritchard ruled against
the union man. The union man
had beat up the scabherder at q
public meeting when the scabherder
made an appeal for scabs to break
the strike. This showed clearly the
side that Pritchard stood on.
A Negro worker at the meeting
made a militant speech calling for
a united struggle for relief and for
support of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill. He also point
ed out some of the miserable con-
dltlonS racing both the white and
Negro workers and won the respect
of the workers as was shown by the
applause for his speech. A white
worker took the floor Immediately
to. endorse his speech and the en-
thusiasm of the meeting reached
a very high point When the faker
Towns tried to counterfeit the effect
of the speech of the Negro worker,
the white workers exposed the lies
that Towns used.
The Relief Workers League is
growing and is winning the respect
of the workers as militant or
ganization that means business. The
splendid unity of white and Negro
workers is clear sign of the course
the workers are taking. In unity
there is victory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
l. ". O. Recruits 10000
NeW Members in 1884
Has Penetrated Into New Territories and Intens-
flied Fight for Social Insurance
BY MAX BEDACHT

mediate fruits Of this movement
will be a considerable block of dele
gates from many and various fra
ternal organizations, at the Wash
ington conference.
This work is only in the first
stages. Efforts must be made and
continued to broaden the estab-
lished united front. But an even
more important task is yet to be
accomplished. The united front
must be drawn into active work in
favor OF the Social Insurance Bill.
The Conference in Washington
must not be the end of the effort.
but the beginning.
The local united fronts of fra
ternal organizations must organize
and finance mass agitation for the
Bill. 1t must issue and distribute
leaflets. 1t must make united eff
forts to reach other fraternal Or
CARNATIONS not yet within the
united front. 1t must organize dele
cations to Congressman demanding
the passage of the Bill. 1t must
circulate petitions and organize and
carry through every action that will
strengthen the movement for the
passage of the Bill.
The united front will be of value
only il the members of the frater-
nal organizations participating in
the united front will become an &C
tive factor in the struggle for So
cial insurance.
Preparations for i. w. o. Convention
With the beginning of the new
year, the National Executive Com
mittee is seriously preparing for the
coming convention of the Order
The convention will convene ano
open in Madison Square Garden
New York, on May 5.
The call for the convention vii
be issued in Januar'-N The call will
be accompanied sne major res.
olution for Ission in the
branches of Order.
On the basis of the present
strength of the branches of the
Order, a very large number o.
branches will not be entitled tt
delegates to the convention. Since
it is the opinion of the N. e. G
first, that in the interests of the
inner democratic life of the Order
the largest number Of branches pos.
sible must participate in the con-
vention, and second that the eff
fectiveness of the convention as {
stepping stone to further growth
and improvement Of the Order viii
depend on the representation o.
practically every branch in the con-
vention, the N. E. c. decided tt
utilize the time from Jan. l to MAJ
l for a special effort to induce the
branches to increase their member
ship to the minimum entitled te
representation. At the same time
the N. E. C. will allow additional
honorary delegates to branches al
ready entitled to delegates for every
established number Of new members
recruited.
The call for this drive will leave
this Office in the next days. Branches
shoule prepare fer it.
Forvard to 7sk ubers.
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Rv a Macy Worker CORRESPONDENT

by q hdCg fOEh6I Correspondent
NEW YORK-Well, Christmas is
over in Macy's.
While the rush was on, we were
one big happy family. Cheap ties
and chocolates were exchanged and
we made the annual discovery that
the bigshots we're human after all
when they have enough alcohol
in them.
But that's past and gone. Pep
talks are now in order. Come on
girls, snap out of it," is the usual
line of talk. Just because Christ
mas is over doesn't mean that
Macy's is closing down or that we're
not going to do just as much bust
ness after Christmas as during
Christmas. We're here to do bust
ness and we mean it. We know
there is a tendency to laxness and
everyone is a little tired But, never
theless we've got to keep up the
pace"
Sure, we've got to keep up the
pace. Now that about 5000 Macy
workers have been fired in the first
batch and many more are expected
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
By 4 Worker Correspondent

WASHINGTON, D. C.-In the
very home of the N.R.A., next door
to Mr.. Roosevelt's White House,
thousands of us are working for as
low as SO and 81 a week, working
as many hours as the bosses want
to make us work.
In most of the laundries and
cleaning plants the boss clocks out
the girls time when the legal
closing time arrives, and then keeps
US working as long as he pleases.
Yes, the District has a maximum
hours law. Service industries are
supposed to have kept their wages
and hours provisions such as
they we're. But to the workers IN
our industry this doesn't mean a
thinE. The Department of Labor
urksr Miss Frances Perkins has a
= nd new building, which We can
when we ride or walk past on
way to work at seven in the
ming. and Mr. Donald Richberg
ties long speeches for us to read
the Washington papers, but alb
lutaly nothing has been done
oout our conditions.
Inspections have been made by
the Department of Labor, but unless
one of us want to lose the chance to
work at such rotten wages we can
not say anything about it. And so,
the Department of Labor folds its
hands, and says nothing can be
done until we can get somebody to
testify against these employers"
AS far as wages are concerned,
the boss tells us that if we don't
want to work for i5c an hour he
can get plenty of people who will.
And if We refuse to take Jobs at
such rotten wages, the relief won't
help US. Not only that, Mr. Hop
kins in his big Office up on New
York Avenue, says that he is goin~
to cut down the relief workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
Bv a Worker Correspondent


BIRMINGHAM, Ala-At the reg
ular meeting of the Relief Workers
League in Tarrant City the week
before last the Hold Carriers Union
proposed that the organization take
union charter. Due to the delay
in getting charter the League de-
cided to wait for a further report
from the union representatives.
The announcement that the
League had won nine out of eleven
demands for coal orders during the
week was applauded and gave the
workers a concrete example of the
value of their organization. Another
grievance committee was put up to
look after needy cases and will
make a trip to the Welfare Office
with the cases they have in few
days.
At the beginning of the meeting
the wel-known faker, Albert Towns,
got up to make an anti-Commu-
mist speech about Communist
leaflet that was put out exposing
him as a faker and as an enemy
Of the workers. Dave Smith, the
president of the League, cut off
Towns after few minutes to ex-
plain that the League was not a
place for him to yell against the
Communists. The League adopted
policy of not discriminating
against any political belief and to
unite all workers in the struggle
for relief. The president said: Be
cause the Communists fight for
bread do you think we are going
to stop? Mo- We're going to fight
with them"
When the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill came up for
discussion Towns and Pritchard
both opposed it but the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
Anen1ia

g. B., Bronx, n. WHAT do We
mean by anemia. The answer
is not lack of blood. There are many
things present in blood. We divide
the things present in blood in two
classes things in solution and
things that we can see under q
microscope, because they have form
One of the formed things is the
red blood cell. This cell carries the
oxygen from the air to the rest OF
the body When these cells are
reduced in number, anemia exists.
These red cells are made in the
bone marrow. The bone marrow is
the factory of red cells. When the
bone marrow is diseased. not enough
red cells are made or the red cells
that are made are an inferior
product and break up too quickly
and then we get anemia. This an
emia is present all over the body
But you ask about snemia just
in one small part of the body. Yes,
that can happen and this is how it
happens. The blood with the red
cells run in pipes called arteries,
capillarieS and veins. The width
of these pipes is controlled by
nerves. The nerves run to the walls
of these pipes where there are mus
Giles. 1t sends messages to the mus
Giles either to harden up or soften
up. Then the pipes become wider
or narrower and the blood more or
less. By this way the pipe can be
made so small that very little blood
gets through, and so we have an
emia in one part of the body, be-
cause the nerves don't act right.
They make the pipes smaller lar
teries) and less blood gets there.
Emergency Kit
n. S., Bronx, N. Y.-An emergency
= kit should contain:
l. Tincture of iodine.
2. Hydrogen peroxide-useful for
cleansing wound and as antiseptic
for minor scratches.
3. Alcohol.
4. Absorbent cotton, Bandage and
Adhesive.
S. American Ointment for Burns.
6. Boric Acid-used as eye wash,
and for wet dressings to inflamma-
ton of skin etc.
7. Sodium Bicarbonate = for dis
tress in stomach.
8. Aromatic Spirits of Ammonia
for fainting.
9. Tourniquet rubber tube of one
quarter inch in diameter) for bind
ing part of extremities in case of
marked bleeding.
10, Calamine Lotion containing
one per cent Phenol-for hives or
any other itching condition of the
skin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
SOVIET WORKERS MOURN
COMRADE KIROV

Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Comrade Editor:
Yesterday I received a letter from
worker in the Soviet Union who
sent me message which I think is
of great Importance to the whole
American working class and there
fore I am sending it to you and
hope you will publish it. am omit
ting few sentences which relate
to personal matters.
Moscow.
Dear Friend:
"Only a few lines to tell you
about the great sorrow and grief
that has befallen our country and
Party. The whole country is IN
mourning. Our red city is decorated
with red and black flags, and por-
traits of the deceased leader Kirov,
he was brought from Leningrad
December 4. In the morning, and
during these two days, that is, from
December 4th to 9Th, endless COL
umns of people were moving along
the streets to the House of Unions,
where lay the body of Kirov. All
day long, beautiful, sad funeral
music was given over the radio. The
31d, 4th and 9Th vere days of
mourning: no theatres, no cinema,
no restaurants. This night the
cremation took place, and on the
9Th, at 2 pm, the meeting of
mourning on the Red Square was
opened, and the urn with the ashes
Of our great leader buried in the
Kremlin wall.
The sorrow and indignation of
the people is immense! But If the
man who fired that fatal shot
thought 1t would brighten us, he
was very much mistaken. Tt aroused
only indignation, and an intense de-
sire to continue the work of the
deceased Kirov, and the work of the
whole Party. We have an iron
strength, we know it, we feel it,
and are afraid of no one
do write and tell me, how did
your newspapers inform you about
our great loss?
It wish you could read Russian,
then you would be able to under
stand our paper I am sending you,
perhaps you have some friends that
can help you"
The worker is mother of two
children who teaches the elements
of English besides taking care Of
her hous q W.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
THE "UN-AMERICAN'' WORKING
CLASS

New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrade Editor:
In the Dec. 10 issue of the Daily"
I read with satisfaction the vigor-
GUS protest by Comrade Hathaway
for the C. P. and the expose by the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union of the false charges made by
the Dickstein Committee which
were prominently displayed in the
capitalist press first page in the
pompous New York Times).
In my opinion, however, one thing
should have been vigorously pro-
tested that seems to have been for
gotten. This was the inclusion of
the C. P. and revolutionary trade
unions in the American category.
The N. T. w. I. u, through its
revolutionary policy, caused I'M
equaled gains for the workers in the
fur industry to take place while
Green's A. F. of L. unions were
slipping Obviously, if similar poll
cies had been followed by the latter
unions and by all workers unions
in general, similar gains might have
been expected, and America would
be a better place for workers to live
in than it is. That the policy of
the N. T. w. I. U. is in line with
the trade union policy of the C. P.
is a we'll known fact. That this
policy would benefit all of the work
ers and poor farmers in the U. S.
(the overwhelming majority Of
the people, follows naturally.
Who can dare to assert that the
C.P. is un-American?
Yours for free Soviet America,
F. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31

The International Workers Order
closes a year of intense and produc-
tive activities. It's campaign for
social insurance has penetrated into
masses of workers organized in vari-
Gus fraternal organizations.
The Order grew during the year
by adding to its ranks nearly twenty
thousand net new members, and in
addition five thousand children.
The effort of the Order to build
base into the native section Of
the American working class has re-
suited in the strengthening of the
English Section from a few hun
dred at the beginning of the year
to nearly 5000 at the end.
During the year we have also been
granted licenses in the States of
West Virginia and Ohio. The Ohio
license reached us in this current
week, the last week of the year.
The Order may we'll be proud of
these achievements. In addition to
this progress, the Order has to its
credit the payment of tens of thou
sands Of dollars in the form of bene-
fits to its members. At the same
time the membership was active on
the various battlefields Of the class
struggle. 1t contributed financially
and morally to the success of many
actions of the workers during the
year.
Membership Drive
There is less than week left o.
our 1884 Fall drive for new mem
bers. The drive will close on Jan
1. The past week of the drive re-
suited in ITO adult and 204 children
applications. The Jewish Section
led the parade with 1913, followed
by the Ukrainian Section with 23(
applications.
Fairly good results were achieved
also by the Slovak Section with 10;
and the Polish Section with SO APP
plications. The rest of the sections
came in the following order: Eng
fish, go; Youth, So; italian, As
Roumanisn, Al; Jugo Slav, 40; Mis-
cellaneous, So; with the Hungarians
bringing up very weak rear with
80 applications.
To date ISL per cent of the grand
total of the quota of 81 800 new
members have been recruited. The
best results were achieved by the
Children's Section. with 1902 per
cent of their quota. The poorest
result must be checked up against
the Hungarian Section with 1873 per
cent Of their quota.
Next Monday we will give the
final figures and judgment about
the results Of the campaign.
Washington Social Insurance
Conference
In the past week all Sections of
the Order were busy with prepare
tons for the Washington Congress.
The problem of social insurance was
discussed in the branches. The So
cial Insurance Bill H. r. 1898 was
popularfged in other frsternsl or
esnizatipns United fronts OF fra
ternal Organizations were organized
in the ftsicr cities. A fornidab bic
= 1t was created. The i'm
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for 1885? The Daily Worker gives
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Can You Make En-
Yourself?

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F0ur-DOUGr Weekly
Wage Rate Enforced
Department of Labor Inspections Result in No
Action to Remedy Conditions

wages to match ours.
But after accepting this for two
years. waiting for the N. R. A. and
Mr.. Roosevelt to DO something for
us. we are at last waking up and
are going to do something for our
selves. We are organizing union
of Cleaning and Dyeing and Laun-
dry Workers in the District to fight
against these rotten conditions.
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it is.
II AM 40 years old. have been
married twenty EIGHT years. My
husband knew that l am one OF
those women who realize that the
women's place is not only in the
kitchen. He knew that I.would at
tend meetings of working class or
CARNATIONS, at least once a week.
He is also radical. But when 1t
came time for me to go to meet
ing, he said that I should not go.
He said the meeting could be held
without me-the revolution is not
yet just on the other side of the
door.
I'm THE beginning, and even later,
4 1 tried to convince him as much
as possible. But it did not help.
Whenever I was supposed to go to
a meeting, I had to fight to attend.
I understood the fact that many
husbands are radical only in their
minds, not in action.
when my children were babies,
it was very hard for me to go to
meetings. 1 used to take the kids
with me, in spite of the fact that
I knew it was not the best thing
to drag children around at time
they should be in bed. But could
MT help it. I felt that once a week
at least, I had to go to meeting
So 1 kept on going to meetings
and having fights. But nothing
could hold me back.
Nov I am an active member Of
the United Council of Working
Glass Women, and a member Of the
Communist Party.
my HUSBAND became tired Of
III my not listening to his adj
vice, and he also became active
in the movement, although not
as much as i. My sons are also
in the movement. They grew up
healthy, because i tried to take
good care of them.
II HAVE worked for a living all my
1 life. Under the capitalist sys-
tenn it is very often impossible for
one person to make living fol-
the family. And l want to tell the
woman who asks advice through
the Working Woman, she should dc
the same as 1 did. In this way
she will find new life
ALL women who want to COM
n pete in the Working Woman
contest, should write letter say
ing what they would do, II their
husbands would not let them at
tend working class meetings.
Write your reply direct to Work
ing Woman. so East 18th Street,
New York. N. Y, and perhaps you
will win one Of the sixteen prizes,
which include a hamper Of White
! Rose canned products, a Westing-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS

Because Of the volume Of letters re-
ceived by the Department, we can print
only those that are Of general interest to
Daily Worker readers. However, all let
tiers received are carefully read by the
editors. Suggestions and criticisms are
welcome and whenever possible are used
for the improvement of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31

FROM the files of the Working
i Woman Contest comes an
other intimate letter, from
woman who took the most deter
mined action to become part of
the working class movement. Here
it is.