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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Rail Union
Heads Help
The Bosses
BY a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich.-In the Aug. 81
edition of Labor, the official mouth
piece of the chiefs of the railroad
brotherhoods, the chiefs disclose in
an editorial the fact that they have
been misleading the rank and file
in their collaboration with the rail-
road manager on the bus and truck
regulation campaign. The edi-
torial makes it appear that Labor
has just lately found out that the
Greyhound lines belong to After
bury. OF course, Labor was not in
a position to know this before now,
except that the Daily Worker, a
working class paper, and Railway
Unity News (2203 North California
Ave, Chicago, a rank and file
monthly paper, have been pub
fishing for over a year past articles
exposing this fake fight as a cam
paign to interest the railroad work
ers in a delusion while their pock-
cts were being picked in other ways
with the help of the chiefs.
The article states: Railroad
workers, acting through their stand
ard organizations, have used all
their influence with state legiSla-
lures and with Congress to secure
laws which would make truck COM
petition fair"
In the same issue, D. B. Robert
son, head of the railroad firemen,
complains of the roads latest move
against the Retirement Act. Rob-
ertson, who had his picture taken
with Dan Willard after cutting
wages 10 per cent at Chicago in
1882, and who presented Willard
with a bowl of flowers afterward,
and is also a member of the board
of directors of the National Civic
Federation with Daniel Willard,
pleads with his friends not to fight
the Pension Act, but ito remember
their action in this matter when
they again seek the cooperation OF
railway employees to secure legisla-
ton in which the carriers are in
terested. In making this statement
have in mind the assistance so
frequently given by railroad en-
ployes to the legislative programs
of the carriers"
Every railway worker knows this
means the able assistance of the
misleading labor chiefs. Inciden-
tally the editorial exposing the CO.
operative campaign of carriers and
employees" is short one on the
back page of Labor which only a
small percentage of the brotherhood
men will see, whereas the bus and
truck propaganda has been given
them on the front page and through
letters and circulars from 'the top"
and by personal campaigns.
Railroad Unity News has printed
several articles exposing the own
ership of the bus and truck lines,
and also exposing the leading prop
agandists, the Michigan Railway
Employees and Citizens League as
being headed by former railroad
lobbyist, and that this outfit is
simply the same old tribe of bunco-
artists that was defeated at the
Trainmen's Convention in 1907
when the same type movement at
that time was called the Railway
Employees and Investors Associa-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
NOTE BY EDITOR.

This letter needs no comment,
At no time, even in the safest
periods, when the Communist
Party and its sympathetic organ
izatiOns are permitted to function
without mOlestation, should inn
portant information, as to names,
confidential material, etc., be given
to anyone who is not authorized
to receive it. Even wien the conn
rade is known to us, such infor-
nation is not given unless we have
some guarantee that he has au-
thOrity to ask for it.
However, at a time like the
present, when open and concealed
attacks are being made against
the Party, when all of the force
of the bOurgeOisie is being di-
rected against us, such careIeSsness
as described above is unforgivabIe.
We are certain that not only in
New York do such incidents occur.
We would like to believe that all
such cases have as harmless con-
sequences, but we are very much
afraid that this is not the case,
and that if our offices exercise so
little caution in giving informa-
ton to unknown comrades, that
they would be equally generous
with stool pigeons and police spies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

ployes, which is affiliated with the
A. F. of L.
When the Brotherhood was being
formed, the organizer was helped
as much as possible by the COM
pany. The men were called into
the superintendent office and in
troduced to the organizer. 1t was
made very clear that any one who
did not join the Brotherhood would
be fired, so everybody had to join,
Now the men are protesting
against the high dues payments and
many of them even want to go back
to the old company union because
there they had to pay only soc a
month, whereas now they have to
pay s425 and don't get anything
in return.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Letters from Our leaders

After six months they may advance
to the status Of emergency work
and receive 500 monthly, and there
after by taking certain university
training Geceiving one-half pay
during this period or even having
to drop work altogether) they may
advance to a junior case worker,
rating and earn $40 monthly.
We do not wish to ALLEVIATE, but
on the contrary we want to win over
as large a section of the petty bour-
geoisie as may be possible. In fight
ing to accomplish the central task
of the struggle for the majority of
the working class we do not want
to leave the middle classes for the
fascists to work on. j. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Fishermen Face Being
Cut Off from Lakes

sporting club is signing for the clos
ing of these lakes. Large fish COM
panies also wants them closed. They
have been against us over 10 years,
but we have always been able to
beat them. Now these nasty beasts
are going to use violent methods.
They do not want to listen to us at
ALL and we have no money.
Governor Floyd B. Olson and the
Department of Conservation are
against us. We ask every workers
organization and individual to help
us by sending a protest to Governor
Floyd B. Olson, st. Paul, MINI, and
the Department Of Conservation, st.
Paul, Mimi, against closing the
Rainy and Wamekan lakes for COM
mercial fishing.
This is the only way we can make
living here in this rocky country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
By Fisherman Correspondent

RAY, Minn.-We are 10 CONNER
cial fishermen in the two boundary
lakes, Namekan and Rainy. Half
of the lakes belong to Canada. The
capitalists want to close these lakes
and draw us and our families into
the breadlines.
Many fishermen have large fam
lilies to support. This capitalistic
action will destroy our homes which
We have built with many years eff
fort, being pioneer settlers in these
lakes. Most of us are foreign-born.
They have no reason to close these
lakes as Canada does not want to
close and there are lots of fish. We
never get any price for what we
sell.
Every capitalist newspaper and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

The Womens Council of James
town, N. Y, sends a brief report of
their activities during the past six
months, which womens groups in
other cities might find helpful as
offering examples of work and &C
tivities the Councils can carry out:
Twelve meetings have been held
at the Scandinavian Workers Hall,
and nine new members have joined
the Council.
A gym class was organized and
met once a week during the winter
months but does not function dur
ing the summer. Two plays have
been presented at the above Hall,
which have brought good results.
The first, called "Woman's Might, "
presented on Feb. 3, brought pro-
ceeds of S1135. The other, called
Station N. R. A." given on Mar.
8. brought in S1O.95.
"A family was in need of a coal
stove which the welfare board re-
fused them. A Committee was
elected from the Council to see the
welfare about it, and stove was
given them.
"Our Council also took part in the
May Day demonstration unanimous
ly, a Comrade speaking in behalf
of the Council. Inside the Council
a Committee has been formed to
lead a campaign in behalf Of the
NY It'd. Discussions given by diff
ferent comrades have been both in
teresting and educating.
JENNIE L., Sec'y."
There came also another COM
munication from Jamestown seeking
advice on an organizational prob
lem; Would you please send me
some information on how to organ
ize the housemaids. Conditions here
in jamestown are rather tough for
housemaids and we have prospects
of organizing them but don't know
just how to go about it.-R. R."
This question we have referred to
comrades who organized the Do
nestle Workers Union here, and we
are sure they will be able to send
good advice based on experience.
We notice there is no specific men
ton, in the report of the Women's
Council, of anti-war work except
indirectly through spreading the
Daily Worker. Perhaps the plays
or discussions dealt with this sub
ject.
If Mother Bloor's tree" is to bear
the healthy anti-war apples and
anti-fascist oranges she wants it to,
it behooves the women everywhere
to put forth mighty efforts to build
a still bigger anti-wsr movement,
to support Cloth by local publicity
and election and financing of huge
delegation of women the Second
U. S. Congress Against War and
Fascism, which is the next great
mass action on the program. Con
gress convenes Sept. %, % and 30;
not much time left) Women in all
sections of the country who have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
DisnnissaIs Hit Car
Cleaners, Air Men
Rush on Cleaning Jobs
Gives No Time for
Cup of Coffee
By a R. R. Worker Correspondent

By a r. r. Worker Correspondent
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y-The
Pennsylvania Railroad has laid off
all of the outside car cleaners ex-
cept four on the II to shift. These
men are worked to death and
couldn't possibly begin to do all the
work, so the Penn has some of the
cleaners on 4 to u double out for
three or four hours.
These men have worked like
slaves for eight hours, sometimes
even without time for cup of cof-
fee, and then they have to run for
four more hours.
In this way, although the Penn
pays the men who double out time
and a half, they save money. The
man who doubles out makes $5.46
for IL hours, while if the Penn put
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Comrades! Unemployed!

The 8-page New York Daily Worker will appear
october will be complete daily newspaper up
with five pages of New York Grade Union actvt
ties City Hall politics. well complete foreign
and Washington
The early bulldog edition will be off the press at PM
than $50
The late morning edition be sold from AN. to AM
at factories shops and terminals.
really living expenses selling the
Daily Worker! Join the Red Builders and be
among the first to assigned to profitable cornerl
New York Editions Mean Thousands
of Extra Sales for Our DAILY
Apply TODAY IS East 18th Street store DAILY WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
WORKER DIES OF SPEED UP

New York City.
am clerk for the Silver Rod
Stores, chain drugstores, where
working conditions are very bad.
One of my fellow-w workers, Sol Goth
ofsky cigar clerk at the 18th Ave-
nue. and 65th Street store, Brooklyn,
had been with the company for
many years. Hard work had weak
ened his heart. Recently he was
made to work IL to 10 hours at a
stretch.
At a meeting this week at the
main Office of Silver Rod, of clerks
and managers, at which the pres
ident of the company, 81 Rodnon,
was outlining program for a
speed-up, longer working hours and
a pay cut, Sol Gothofsky, dropped
dead.
Those of us who knew Sol and
the conditions he worked under,
knew that he died victim to years
of miserable working conditions and
to the exploitation Of the Silver Rod
company. A FRIEND.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
brotherhood Officials
Help Railroads in Move
to ''Furlough" Firemen
BY a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich.-The Grand
Trunk western System is again
"furloughing" firemen. Firemen
still employed are easily propa-
gandized to raise the allowable
mileage per month, not realizing
that the new pension deductions,
the state old age head tax, the state
sales tax and the Is per cent in
crease in the cost of living in the
last year is the real reason for their
inability to get ahead financially.
And so the officials of the B. L. F.
& E. propose to raise the mileage
(Which will throw about 10 more
firemen into the breadlines).
The reason given by one of the
officials was that some time ago
the organization reduced the mile
age limitations, hoping that the
younger firemen would be grateful
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
NOTE.

We publish letters every Friday
from workers in the transporta-
tion and communications indus
tries-raiIroad, marine, surface
lines, subway, elevated lines, ex-
press companies, truck drivers,
taxi drivers, ETC., and post office,
telephone telegraph, etc. We urge
workers from these industries to
write us Of their conditions of
work and their struggles to or
ganizc. Please get these letters to
us by Tuesday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
By a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, Ill.-On February a.
the Grand Trunk Western Railway
issued bulletin which stated;
Paragraph One; "All labor organ
izations which have wage agree
ments with this company at this
time are duly designated and au-
thorized to represent employees in
accordance with the requirements of
the law"
Paragraph Two: Federal statutes
provide that all employees are free
to join or not to join any labor or
ganization or association and will
not be penalized, disciplined, or pre-
JUDGED in any way"
But knowing that the average rail-
way worker has tendency to forget,
and to overlook some things, four
months later another bulletin is
issued, under date of June 10, 1884,
which discEoses a new menace. Para
graph number two, as stated above,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1885 is available in sizes
IA, Is, 10, 90 80, "a, SO, 38, 40
and AZ. Size 16 takes Az yards 36
inch fabric and 25s yards binding
Illustrated step-by-step sewing in
structions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

because of the volume of letters re-
oeived by the Department, we can print
only those that are of general interest
to Daily Worker readers. However, all
letters received are carefully read by the
editors. Suggestions and criticisms are
welcome and whenever possible are used
for the improvement Of the Daily
Worksr.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

could have done it, from police
spy up. (You can't go down. If the
district office is so generous, imagine
what goes on in the sections.
Well, that means hard times for
stool pigeons. Business amt wha
it used to be. 1t seems that tn
Reds will give you everything with |
out the slightest provocation-bios
graphies, autobiographies, docu+
ments, records and maybe them~
selves If they're asked in a nice way;
It's curious and alarming, but some
comrades are under the illusion that
they're living in a classics society,
Comradely,
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structions included.

Send FIFTEEN CENTS 15c) in
coins or stamps (coins prefCrred)
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
number. BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 w. 18th
ST.. New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
In THE HOM E
BY HELEN LUKE

not already done so should hasten
to set up Committees and affiliate
them with the American League
Against War and Fascisn, Room
COS, liz E. 10Th St, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Almost $50 Ans,Uer Ad
for Job of Doormni
BY Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK; was working in
Brownsville apartment house of
which the manager advertised for
a doorman.
On account Of that job, approx
mately SO men came in person
about IA called on a phone, and
about As wrote letters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Western Union Has
Many Tricky Ways to
Discharge Messengers
BY a Telegraph Worker
Correspondent

NEW YORK. "A new reign of
terror has been started in Western
Union. At least 500 messengers have
been fired. They are picking out the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

for thus being kept at work and
would become dues-paying support
ers of these petty politicians. The
younger firemen didn't seem to
rise to the bait" so it is now pro-
posed to raise the mileage again to
the limit, thereby hoping to attract
some of the denoted engineers into
the organization.
1t is also becoming generally un-
derstood that Whitney and Robert
son would not be adverse to the six-
hour day with corresponding re-
duction in total pay, and that fur
Laughed men who would be recalled
would then be appealed to, to join
the organization for the purpose of
keeping themselves employed OF
course, the new conditions would
be only temporary"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

Get Daily Worker Subscribers.
Sell Daily on Busy Corners
Solicit Subs for the Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

Our Readers Must spread the
Daily Worker Among the Members
of All Mass and Fraternal Organ
izations As a Political Task of First
Importance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Maintenance ALL Union
Supported by Company
Puts Over High Dues

BY Worker Correspondent
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-The main
tenance men on the New Haven
Road are organized in the Brother
hood Maintenance of Way En-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Hasty Inspections Create
Safety Menace at
r. r. Yards
lBr a R. R. Worker Correspondentl

by r. r. Worker Correspondent
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y
The Pennsylvania R. R., not salts
fed with making over S1.500,00O
clear profit last month, is trying to
beat that figure this month. On
the 4 to IL shift, Buckley, the
master mechanic, laid off two air
men when it's we'll known that
there weren't enough men to do
the work before they were laid off.
Then on the IL to shift, Buckley
laid off one man and put on tenn
porarily one of the men who had
been laid off the 4 to IL shift. Now
two of the skeleton crew on the
4 to II, who are all skeletons them
selves, from being run ragged, have
to double out on IL to 8.
Each train is supposed to be in
spected by two men, but there are
not enough men to do this. so the
gang foreman jumps in with one
man and gets a train. The air
man is then held responsible for
the work Of the gang foreman.
Each man is cutting his own
throat by doing this. With
hundreds of men furloughed, more
men should be brought back to
work. AS it is, with 20 car dead
heads going out without being
properly inspected, If anything goes
wrong the man whose job it was
on will be held responsible and get
anything from seven days to a
month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

NOTE: The spsed-up which
this letter shows is bad, bat in
the near future it will be even
worse If the men in this depart
ment do not act now. The Penn
is planning to lay off over 5000
men Immediately and undoubtedly
this department will be effected.
The United Progressive r. R.
Workers Union has just started
a petition campaign against
speed-up and lay offs and each
worker in this department should
join Immediately and help this
campaign along for his own good
and the good of the men who
have already been furloughed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

work under and which the company
is constantly making worse, and
these are the men the company
wants us to respect.
NOTE: The only way to meet
these conditions is through or
ganization. The United Progress
sfve r. r. Workers Union has
started campaign against lay
offs and speed-up, and with all
the men in this department in
the organization, it would be an
easy matter to have this foreman
reduced and force any new fore
man to have the proper respect
for the workers in this depart
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

Unemployed? Sell the Daily!
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-03-09
Sacaiawea Monument Rededicated ait Three Forks

A new generation of Montanans is
learning about the heroic Indian
maiden, Sacajawea, who guided the
Lewis and Clark expedition across the
northern plains in 1866. A solemn
group of civil officials, school chill
dren and members of the Daughters
of the American Revolution gathered
about Sacajawea's monument at
Three Forks recently.
A striking development of the OBJ
servance was brought about by Lon
Cook, publicity director, Milwaukee
railroad, the line of which strikes a
thoroughly modern note in the rugged
area where the monument to Sacajawea
stands. Cook, always interested in the
history of the Northwest, engaged in
conversation with Chief Ta-Wah of the
Flatheads in an effort to verify reports
in history of the feats Of John Golfer,
who first entered the region as a men,
Der of the Lewis g. Clark party. The
chief, now 90 years old, was unable at
first to identify Golfer by name. Cook
then recounted feats of Golfer in en-
garments with the Blackfeet, who con-
tested savagely every forward step of
the white men.
ouO0OAA4y GAIC 4oNC Va SAASA
lit up with understanding.
"Ah, I know of whom you speak,"
said the chief. His story has come down
through our Indian traditions. They
were told me by my father. They had
come to him from his own father, for
the incidents of which you speak were
in 1903, before even the birth of my
father.
"Your story of Golfer agrees with
our tribal traditions except in one re-
spect. You call the nan Golfer. In our
traditions he was Sis Sc Use AL Che
man, meaning brave white man."
It was true. The written history Of
generation tradition of the red men
Chief Ta-Wah to direct and play a role
in reproduction Of high points in the
adventurous life of John Golfer.
Among these scenes in memory of
Brave John Golfer was a reproduction
of his historic race for life from a verit-
able army of the Blackfeet tribe. Colt
er and a white companion were put
upon suddenly by the Indians. Golfer
was stripped to the skin and ordered
to race for his life, after his companion
Ildu pteL Sld1l. AL d given Signal ScOIeS
of young Blackfeet warriors took after
| Golfer. He ran for miles in the region
where Three Forks now stands, and
outdistanced all his pursuers save one.
| Just as the lone Blackfeet was about
to overtake the exhausted white man,
the latter wheeled suddenly, seized the
spear carried by the savage and, break
ing it, killed the savage with the head
of his weapon. Golfer then hid
in a beaver dam, where the Blackfeet
could not find him, and later made his
escape complete.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-03-09

smashed down the heavy cedar gate
made of four-inch stock. Finally, the
20 men, taking their lives in their
hands, stood forming a half moon and
gradually closed in ON the stubborn an
imal. The huge buffalo, conquered at
last, not by force but by the indomitable
will of puny man, backed into the crate.
The third bull had witnessed the two
former cratings. When his turn came,
with IN unearthly, frightened roar, he
sank to the ground and refused to
bulge. Horses were finally hitched to
his body and his unwiedly bulk dragged
into the crate.
A pair Of full grown bulls of the Con-
rad herd once fought steadily for "A