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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
PARTY LIFE
Negro Textile Worker Tells
about York in Lodi Shop
Says Party Carried on Good Work During
Strike But Stopped When Strike Vas OUer

ers of the National Textile Workers
Union-I don't mean to say the or
eanizers. We have leading COM
rades in the shop who are sup
posed to do the work. We make
certain proposals, we go into the
shops and many times we do not
carry out these proposals. We should
not forget these things when we go
back into the shop. The workers
we're convinced our union worked
in our interests. When we go into
the shop we must have the strength
of the National Textile Workers
Union and especially so we can take
up the grievances of the workers.
If we would do this when we went
into the shop we would have gained
lots of workers.
One of the workers in Lodi was
arrested for issuing leaflets and
after he went to the police station
he went to the headquarters to get
instructions and then he went to
the employment agency and the
woman there told him to go back
to work. If work would have been
carried on in the National Textile
Workers Union would be much
stronger today. We know that the
organizers cannot do that.
On the Negro question. I want to
say here there is something on the
Negro question that many of us do
not understand. understand some
of it because I am a Negro myself
and know the struggles we had to
go through with. Yet the Negro II
not complaining, because If you TAXI
something for the stomach mayh
the head will stop hurting. So it il
with the Negro question. He has
been nisled so many times by the
whites Of the South; he has beer
misled so many times by the mini
sters and today he is nisled by the
ministers here. If we could get
inside the churches where they foo,
the Negroes, it would be more easiel
to lead them. I know nlyslf. because
two years ago if you would mention
Communism to me I would not talk
two minutes to you. I knew there
must be some way out of it, but
didn't know what.
When I became acquainted With
the Communist Party I began to go
along with them and I found out
more about them and today I would
not work with any party but the
Communist Party.
AS for the Daily Worker. Even
in the Lodi shop we have good
many comrades in the Lodi shop,
but all Of them are not good work
ers. We have many in there but
they are not working so good. They
worked hard during the strike.
About the Daily Worker in Lodi. I
don't feel that the work is carried
on as it should be. I think we
should be interested in the next
worker getting the Daily Worker,
not only ourselves.
COMRADE C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Negro Youth in
Black Belt Pledges
Fight Against War
BY Negro Youth Correspondent

DADEVILLE, Ala am a Young
Communist League organizer in the
Black Belt and I love the work fine.
We have ST members who are &C
tive in the work. Although the
bosses try with hands and feet to
keep US down, we are not going to
stop working for higher wages and
better living conditions.
The bosses are now training the
youth for war. What are we, the
Young Communist League, going to
do? We are going to organize and
fight against the rich landlords and
bosses, and build a larger mass revo-
lutionary movement.
I have been doing all can to
enlighten the youth, boys and girls,
to the work of the Y.C.L., because
now is the time that we as youth
must stand together.
Because the bosses have the de-
termination of all manners of the
rotten system of forced labor in the
Black Belt, we the youth have a
great role to play We, the youth,
are the ones to fight against the
new war that is being prepared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Only Oranges and
Butter Given to
Negroes by RFC
Thrown Off CWA Jobs
in Camp Hill; Organ
izing Against Hunger
BY sharecrOpper Correspondent

BY a SharecrOpper Correspondent
CAMP HILL. Ala.-In February
the white bosses cut everybody off
the C.W.A. except those white
bosses. They let them stay on in
order to rob the Negro.
The C.W.A. paid 40 cents per hour
to unskilled work. They give each
man 80 hours a week, and Cliff
Meadows, a landowner who was
working on the C.WA., hired
Negro for ST a month and he him
self was getting $12 a week. They
are doing everything here to keep
the Negro down.
On March 10, they were giving
out rations from the RF.C. and they
gave white people meat, flour, meal
and lard, coffee, sugar and rice, and
only gave the Negro people oranges
and butter. That is what they are
doing here with the C.W.A. money
and they are trying to starve the
poor people to death here in Camp
Hill.
w. +. McGlnty OF the Camp Hill
plantation had some sharecroppers
living there who had lived there
last year and paid their rent. He
needed a kitchen to the house, and
they had to get logs out of the wood
to build a kitchen on his place in
order to get somewhere to stay and
pay for it themselves.
Another landowner told his farm
hand that everybody that was get
ting work on the C.W.A. had to
place that money back.
Another landowner, named Kyles
Orrs, had a Negro man working for
him for 10 years. Kyle Orrs tried
to put him in prison because he
stopped working for him.
We are organizing every day for
better conditions, and ask every
comrade to help.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
By a Worker Correspondent

OELANDO, Fla.-A few weeks
ago, in Orange County, Fla, the
C.WA. was called off and the F. E.
r. A. started. An announcement
was made in the local capitalist
newspaper that all unemployed
seeking this work should appear at
Exposition Park, Orlando, on re-
cent Monday morning. There the
workers were told repeatedly that it
made no difference how much they
received Fer hour, they would be
paid their budgeted amount in any
event.
The spokesman at the park for
the local F.E.R.A. said that the lady
investigator would again call at the
home of the unemployed applicant,
and arrive at an amount which in
her opinion was sufficient for the
family to live on each week, and
which the worker would receive.
The worker applicant was also led
to believe that the work was to be
steady during the life of the pro-
gram and that the one investiga-
ton was for that entire period.
But the boys find that they are
allowed to work three eight-hour
days only per week, and draw only
$3.50 per week or less.
The budget doesn't mean a thing
and the bosses are unable to give
any explanation of it at all
One man with only two in the
family Chimself and his wife) was
budgeted for 50 per week. Another
man with five in his family, the
wife being undernourished from
lack of food, according to several
doctors statements, was budgeted at
$40 per week.
The family of two owns a COW,
chickens, garden and has an inter-
est in a farm four miles from where
he lives. The family of five live in
one room shack about 10 by 20
feet with no glass in the windows,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
FOR WORKERS RULE IN THE
IT 6

tOK WOhhERS' RULE IN IdE
U. S. A.
Dear Comrade, Chicago, Ill.
I am late, but sure, with greeting
to Comrade William z. Foster, our
new press, and our paper, the Daily
Worker. Our great leader, Comrade
Foster returned from Europe in i'm
proved health. He was glad to see
that our Party and the Daily
Worker were double in strength.
We have to show our leaders that
we will build a stronger Daily
Worker and Communist Party after
the 9th Party Convention.
We have to fight fascism, the
American Legion, and the A. F. of
L. The American Legion and the
American Federation of Labor made
hypocritical speeches on the radio
about disabled veterans on Nov. IL
last year. A big shot of the Amer
lean Legion exposed himself, show
ing what they do for the veterans,
and then he called on them, if the
country needs you, you should be
ready to die for your country. This
after another had said that there
will be no more wars.
Fascism may be good for kings
and millionaires who never worked
day in their lives, but not for the
working class. They are preparing
for war to destroy the working class
instead of feeding and clothing
them.
The Communist Party is the only
Party in the world that educates the
working class and organizes them to
fight for their right to live, to fight
for their rights in work and wages,
and for unemployment insurance, as
well as against war and fascism.
The workers should organize to
overthrow the parasites of capitalist
democracy and establish a working
class government that will be ruled
by the workers of the U. S. A.
j, q.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Chicago CaSket
Makers Oppose
A. FL. Grafters
By a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO. ul.-The rank and
file members Of the newly organized
A. F. Of L. local 1896, called the
Chicago Casket Makers Union,
openly showed their spirit to John
Fitzpatrick, boss of the Chicago
Federation Of Labor, and his pupil,
W. Rossi, by electing two rank and
file delegates, to the conference
called for April % at the Ashland
auditorium by the executive COM
mittee of the Chicago Federation.
Rossi is an open aspirant for a
fat union job and with Brother J.
Rogers, financial secretary, has
completely stopped the progress of
our local (Which has grown to 200
members within the last few weeks
by using the A. F. of L. stale tactics.
Mr.. Rossi has visited every shop
boss for some unexplained reason
without consulting the membership
of our union, or without any au-
thorization from the workers. This
mysterious visiting has caused the
bosses almost within "a hours to
organize company unions. And now
by threatening and firing a few
members of our Union they have
successfully lined up the workers
into the company unions.
The rank and file members pro-
pose that our union outline a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Farmers Turn to U.F.L. for Leadership in Struggle
Organization in Sheridan County, Montana,
Protects Machinery and Cyain
By a Farm Worker Correspondent

by a Earm Worker Correspondent
PL ENTYW WOOD, Mont.-The
United Farmers League has been
fairly well organized in Sheridan
County. We have other organiza-
tons such as the Farmers Union
and Holiday Association, but when
it comes to real struggle and really
getting something done. it is the
UFL. that people come to for help.
Some call us the Reds" but when
it comes to showdown it is the
Reds" who have to do it.
BY united action we have saved
machinery and grain for farmers
in this county. We have been called
upon to go to nearby counties, and
responded to the calls.
At Poplar, in Roosevelt County,
Mont, our UFL. helped to put
over a -Roebuck sale. Sold a
set of farm machinery and bunch
of horses for a couple of dollars
and gave it back to the farmer.
There have been no more sheriff's
sales in that part as far as we know.
The call was sent out by the local
Holiday Association, but it is safe
to say that had the Reds" not
showed up, the sale would not have
gone over as it did.
Here come the Reds-then we
are all right" was the cry at SEQ
hey, in Daniels County, Mont, when
a truck was to be taken out of the
implement yard and given back to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Forced to Work
For Nothing in
Landlords House
SharecrOpper Family of
9 Children Has No
Clothes to Wear
By sharecropper Correspondent

By a SharecrOpper Correspondent
TALLAPoosA COUNTY, Ala
am farmers wife. and there are
only three Of us in the family now.
I am the mother of nine children,
who are all away from us but one.
We have to work very hard for our
living and can't get the clothes we
need for winter to protect us from
cold, or shoes. This is the hardest
winter we have had for a long time.
1t has been hard on our girl to
walk to school, from two to four
miles. We have no way for children
to ride here.
My girl and I chop the cotton and
hoe the cotton, then they turn us
loose. Then the landlords wife
wants me to come and clean her
house and cook and wait on her
for two or three weeks. When her
company leaves she sends me home
and gives me not a penny for what
I did for her. That is the way
1 am treated here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
$7.2O a Week Is Limit on
F.E.R.A. Jobs in Florida
New Implication Must Be Made Euery Week
in Red Tape Torture

just cloth stretched over the open
ings, and the building consists of
siding nailed onto two by four frame
work, like a cheaply built chicken
coop. Their ground is too poor to
raise a garden, they have no money
for fertilizer, they have no COW,
they don't even have a stove to heat
this one-room shack. All they have
is an oil stove that smokes, that
they try to cook some food on when
they are lucky enough to have food
to cook.
There is no work for workers on
Saturday Workers have to make a
special trip to another place on Sat-
urday to get their pay. They usually
have to wait around a long time
before their names are called, only
one man paying off, although they
have about six clerks around check
ing something or other. One worker
has to walk about seven miles to
get his pay and then has to walk
the same distance back home again.
The biggest surprise of all is that
after all this ceremony, Office rou-
tine and poppycock, the work ticket
the men get is good only for one
weeks work If you want to work
another week you have to start go
ing back to the assignment room,
in the old court house, where their
Office hours, mind you, are only 10
am. to II noon, and coax and plead
and beg for another weeks work.
One man with a large family
kept going there almost daily for
two months before they gave him
any work. After the one weeks
work he was forced to start calling
on the assignment room again.
I wish the circulation of the Daily
Worker in Florida would double and
that other workers would express
their views through its columns
Workers, you can all help yourselves
in just this way, if you would wake
up and do it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Choppers Union
Plans Youth Groups
in Union County
By Tenant Farmer Correspondent

By a Tenant Farmer Correspondent
UNION COUNTY, N. Gin the
next three months the Share Crop
perS Union in Union Co., North
Carolina, plans to take in IS new
members in five parts of the county
and set up two qouth groups with
IS members. Some of these are
white farmers where we already
have some contacts.
You see that this means work in
getting together and organizing.
We find that people are ready and
willing to work. We must make
plans to better our conditions.
eur struggles are very hard in
working cotton. They have cut the
acreage of cotton. What does that
mean? Where we got 300 lbs. of
-four last year, we will now get $50
or ITS. If we made 10 bales of cot
ton last year, this year the most
we will make is six. Our conditions
are bad, and getting worse.
The people are now saying that
by getting together and sticking to-
gether we can better our conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
ALL NO-Strike
Pact Fastened on
Furniture Local
BY a Worker Correspondent

WILKESBORO, N. C.-The Re-
gional Labor Board at Atlanta, Ga,
and the leaders of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America CA. F. of L., on
April 10 have tied down the work.
erS at the American Furniture Co.
plant in Wilkesboro, N c., to a one
year no strike agreement. The work
ers went on strike against the dis
missal of a fellow worker, Quincy
Yates, for union activities.
Besides the no-strike clause of
the agreement, the regional board
also refused to let the local have
any say about hiring and dismissing
workers. A board of arbitrator was
set up and the regional labor board
will serve as court of appeal if
this local board does not succeed
in keeping down the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Family of 3 Gets
About SOC Weekly
in Greenville, Mich.
BY a Worker Correspondent

GREENVILLE, Mich. = The well
fare only gives a family of three
about 80 cents per week for gro
ceries. No doctor or medicine is al
lowed unless very necessary; no
clothing or shoes that amounts to
much; the shoes are not worth
carrying home.
We are putting on campaign
for the Workers Unemployment IN
surance Bill, HR. 1898. We have
sent nearly 500 cards to Washing
ton and are going to send more. We
are in the fight to help poor suffer-
ing people everywhere.
1 will send in all the Daily Worker
subs I possibly can.
Please give us all the news you
can from the U.S.S.R., for we are
very much interested in the only
working class country in the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
OUR IMPORTANT TASK NOW


In addition to the drives against
high grocery prices, for unemploy-
ment insurance, and for better So
cial and industrial conditions for
women, there must now be great
intensihcation of the movement to
support the International Women's
Congress Against War and Fascism,
to convene in Paris, July %, 20
and 80.
Mother Bloor, in the editorial Of
fees the other day, reminded me to
stress the Importance of this.
Clara Bodian's report before the
Annual Conference of the Women's
Councils, made this statement:
1--WE must organize an effective
campaign amongst women to sup
port the World Anti-War Congress
to be held in Paris in July Around
this campaign we must protest
against the military training given
to our boys in the C.C.C. and de-
mand that they get a living wage.
1--WE must educate the working
class women to understand their
role in time of imperialiSt wars.
We must expose the pacifist move
ments. This work can easily be
linked up with our every day
struggles against the high cost of
living. We must counteract the
war propaganda of the various
patriotic and peace Organiza tons.
We must print mere leaflets than
ever before and sell literature
dealing with this question. Espe-
cially must we awaken the work
Ing women to the danger of an
attack against the Soviet Union,
the only government where work
erS rule"
Boss Class Ladies Like Imperialist
Wars
The OAR, as reported in the
Daily Worker Of April q, isn't in
terested in this Anti-War Congress.
And these heroic daughters" of a
revolution are afraid to talk out
loud about revolution except in the
past tense. (Takes red blood, not
blue. to become member of a fig
lrative INSTANTANEOUS of the
Second American RevolutionD
What the pious society ladies
want is bigger navy to protect
their family investments, so they
may continue to park their aristo-
cratic runnps in soft, upholstered
furniture at the expense of the
workers.
A whooping big Anti-War Con-
gress will make EN- squirm in their
silk cushions!
Fashion Outlook Here and There
After Is long years of just get
ting down to brass tacks to put
heavy industry on a firm basis, our
Soviet sisters may now give a
thought or two to good looking garb
the first Soviet fashion show
held in Moscow, April 81, having
been decided land decisive) sue
cess, for the 10000 working women
from various parts of the Soviet
Union who attended. selected so of
the $50 models shown, to be pro-
duced in quantity.
The show was sponsored by the
Dress and Lingerie Trust. There
we're working clothes, sports outfits,
childrens wear, and dressy things
for evening-also pretty summer
frocks for young girls.
What the clothing situation is
hereabouts and points west. is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Farm Workers Union Has 300
Members in Long Island Area
CrOpUs Rapidly in One Month As Result of
Great Exploitation

single workers work 81 hours a week
for $3.50 net.
1t is time that all these farm and
estate workers organize. and I am
sure that the Farm Workers Union
that has been started here one
month ago, is the right organization
for all of us.
The union has now about 300
members, men and women. We
want so cents an hour for eight
hours a day. This is the wage that
every one should get, those who
work for the estates Of the rich, for
the contractors, and for the farmers.
Send me 20 copies of the Daily
Worker in which you will print this.
I will see to it that these fellows
in Mr.. Tinker's estate get to read
our good paper.
A FARM WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Capitalistic Health Medicine VS..
Communist Health Service
(COncIusiOn)


(COnclusion)
The young medical student smiles
when his vocation" is mentioned.
1t could not be otherwise under the
economic and social anarchy of
capitalist countries. The socialist
state, on the other hand, organizes
in real and logical manner, con-
forming to a general plan and with
the view of realizing final pro-
gram which is that of the Commu-
mist Party. Under the capitalist
system the private doctor lives from
hand-to-mouth according to the
hazards of the various diseases
which happen to be prevalent in
their locality. They are satisfied in
repairing the accidents of human
existence and the results of the vari-
GUS conflicts between man and his
social, as well as his natural con-
dition. 1t is, therefore, quite natural
that the physicians cannot have any
plan in their activities. The plan"
of each physician consists in having
more patients than his neighbor;
more clients meaning more sickness.
But even the various organizations
which are supposed to protect the
public health in capitalist countries
have no program and cannot have
a program. The organization Of
public health in each country de-
ponds on its social structure. Capt.
talism having no program, seeks
merely to preserve and defend it.
self against Communism which is
the next step in our social evolu-
ton. Capitalism lives from day-to-
day and the Public Health Service
has to live from day-to-day by
adopting itself to the possibilities
left by the capitalistic scheme. It
has neither a final program nor
plan of action. What distinguishes
Communist medical organization
from that of the bourgeois coun-
tries is the existence of a plan
which conforms itself to the pro-
gram Of Socialism. Every year is
new step towards the realization
of this plan, new step forward
is a new extension of the protection
of public health.
A more detailed description of
the contrast between the medicine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
MIR. HEARST IN OMAHA
Omaha, Neb.

olldlld, ItCO.
Hearst goes fascist. Among the
Middle West farmers and workers,
Hearst is trying to steer the tide of
discomfort and unrest into fascist
channels by demanding Congress to
investigate and stop Communistic
activities. A series of six articles by
the notorious Ralph Easley, attack
ing Communist activities in the
United States published in the
Hearst Omaha Bee-News indicates
Hearst's desire to create a fascist
theology among the working class.
His appeal Is made to those few be-
levers In the freedom" to exploit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Laid Oft If Over Fiue
Minutes In LoUatOry
by worker CorrespondentJ

by Worker Correspondent
CHESTER Pa.-The Sun Oil
Co. has started a new law, that
when a worker needs to go to the
lavatory, he must not stay over
five minutes. If a worker stays
over five minutes there he is laid
off for two days.
The workers who clean out
tanks are forced to work in the
tanks filled with a dangerous
gas. They don't even get masks,
thus endangering their lives.
If man gets sick and fails to
notify the company he is fired
from his job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
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shown in a letter from Wisconsin,
which will appear here tomorrow.
Bright Sayings Department
Although it is class-conscious, it
has an honest affection for the raf-
fish roustabouts who load cargo for
Mr.. Oceanic Steamship Corpora
ton and lounge around Binnies
dark-town lunchroom when the
days labor is over" Brooks Akin
son, in his (ruling- class conscious
review of "Stevedore," New York
Times, April 20.