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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
ON PRISON LABOR

New York, N. Y.
Editor of the Daily Worker:
While guest of the City of
New York, Hotel Tombs, I had the
pleasure of meeting another tran
sient who is destined to spend
quite a little time at the hotel.
During our conversations, I
learned that my good friend had
arrived at the hotel about nine
months ago from Wethersfield.
Conn, after spending an enforced
vacation Of six and half years
there as the guest of the State of
Connecticut, and this is his story:
For the six and a half years
that I spent at Wetherfield, 1 was
employed in the shirt factory. Our
work-day consisted of nine hours,
five and half days per week,
for which I received the munifi-
cent sum of Is cents per day. 1
was assigned the sum of 40 dozen
shirts work, which is darn good
days work in any mans country
Failure on my part to perform
the task assigned meant loss of
yard privileges over the weekend,
and three such failures per month
meant solitary confinement for the
following month. 1t is needless
to say that the guard received a
bonus for any overproduction pro-
duced in the factory. 1t is only
gratifying to learn that one of
our great patriotic department
stores was the largest purchasers
of this prison labor"
Il have seen men hung by their
finger-tips. toes barely touching
the floor. from morning till noon
for five-day periods for supposedly
slight infractions of prison rule
tSigned
CHARLES WILLIAMS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
By = Group Of Soviet Metal Worker
Correspondents
Dear omrades

Correspondents
Dear omrades:
KHARKOV, USSR.-We workers
and women workers Of the Insula-
ton Department wish TO tell you
something about how we work and
live.
Our department produces differ
en5 kinds OF insulation materials
and finished parts for machine and
apparatus. Our department caters
not only to the shops Of our plant.
but also to many other branches Of
production throughout the Soviet
Union.
In honor OF the international pro-
letarian holiday Of May First, We
have undertaken to outstrip our
quota.
About 60 per cent of all workers
IN cur department are women.
Therefore we wish to tell you how
in the Soviet Union the working
woman is given the possibility to
work and be an active participator
Of Socialist construction side by side
with the man.
What always most enslaved the
woman was the kitchen and her
children. We have public nourish-
ment-the mother and father work
ing in the plant can have good and
tasty meals at comparatively low
price. The children, when small, are
f1E, L.
mother escorts them before work.
The nurseries are near the plant.
so that the Elcther-Worker has the
possibility TO go there during the
daT and nurse her child Children
after three or four years are sent
to kindergarten, where they get
food. and where they play, sing, etc.
For the Summer, If the parents
wish. their children are sent to the
country. Children of school age
willingly go 20 school. They not
only study there. but they have diff
ferent circles. where they learn
trades and thus prepare for the fu-
lure. They eat in the school dining
rooms
The workers. men and women,
also increase their knowledge. There
are many circles at the plant,
courses, ETC., which help us improve
our theoretical and practical knowl-
edge. The administration rewards
the best students with premiums:
with money, with promoting them
to higher-paid categories of work,
with books, etc.
We not only work, we lead cul-
tural life. Our enterprise often or
ganizes collective outings to the
theatres, movies; we organize de-
bates on the works of our prole-
tartan writer's, We also organize
artistic reading, musical perform
ances, etc.
Recently We celebrated Interna-
tional Womens Day March 9TH.
On that day the women stopped
work two hours earlier, a pleasant
evening was organized. at which the
best women workers were rewarded;
afterwards. a comradely banquet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
PARTY LIFE
Plans to PopuIoriSe Slogan
of Soviet POuUer on July A
Party Issues DirectiUes to ReUiUe Revolutionary
Traditions Of American Holiday

work. It is absolutely wrong 10 con-
fine the slogan Of the revolutionary
way cut and for Soviet Power to
general agitation alone. Comn1u-
nists must seize every occasion, every
struggle and event to prove tbs
necessity for the revolutionary way
out. the way Of struggle for Soviet
Power.
It is in this spirit that we must
take fullest advantage of July 4th
to popularize the slogans for Soviet
Power and hte revolutionary way
cut of the capitalist crisis. Every
section must take steps to organize
meetings in the name Of the Com
munist Party, bringing forward
sharply the conditions of the work.
ers today, and the strikebreaking
role of the New Deal, the need for
united working class struggles and
the solution Of the crisis by Prole-
tartan Revolution. We must use
these meetings to expose the So
cialist Party hypocrisy with regard
to the revolutionary overthrow Of
the capitalist system brought for
ward at its recent Detroit Conven-
ton, utilizing the editorial Norman
Thomas Explains" printed IN TIE
Daily Worker, June 9Th, in this
connection.
In addition to open air meetings
at central points, special leaflets
should be issued in the shops. using
concrete issues and the material ap-
pearing in the local press as a basis
for the exposure Of The bourgeois
July 4th props ganda and bringing
forward the necessity of Soviet
Power. Every effort should be made
to hold shop gate meetings on July
Bird. using these as a mobilization
for our July 4th meeting. Our shop
papers issued on July list must con-
tain articles leading with the revo-
lutiorary way out, drawing upon
the American revolutionary trdai-
tiollS.
In connection with the July 4th
campaign and meetings. special eff
forts must be made to secure a
mass distribution of the Manifesto
of The 9th National Convention Of
our Party, which should be the
main propaganda literature for July
4th. The pamphlet: The Way Out
A Program for American Labor"
&C ntaiLing the Manifesto and tine
principal resolutions CT the Conyen-
ton should be sold at the meetings,
With the chairman and the speak
ers calling special attention to it.
In this connection the sections should
Immediately complete their previous
Manifesto quotas and make efforts
to order additional Manitestos. To
fail to distribute thousands of these
Manifestos is to show total lack
of understanding Of the central
slogan of our Party today - the
struggle for Soviet Power.
Party speakers should begin to
prepare for the July 4th meeting
by studying not only the Manifesto,
but also Comrade Browder's report
to the 9th National Convention. and
particularly the newly published
pamphlet, THE Wav Out-A Pro-
gram for American Labor" as. well
as the first article in No. 6 of the
Communist International Magazine.
This whole question should be
taken up at the next Section Conn
mittee meeting and plans worked
out at once. A report on these plans
should be sent in to the District
Committee.
DISTRICT AGITPROP
COMMISSION, District s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Rr a Sci wnrker Corresnondent

FAIRFIELD. Ala - I will deal
with the steel mills in Fairfield and
Ensby mills here. The Amalgamated
Association union and the A. F. of
L. are coming out here and workers
are preparing for the steel strike.
The Tennessee Coal g. Iron Co sem
try is keeping a watch on the
workers.
Many workers have joined the
company union but when the strike
comes we will see that many of the
workers come out with the Anal
gamated Union. The reason why
they join the company union is be-
cause the leaders in the Amalga-
mated do not fight discrimination
against the Negro workers in the
union, and this also holds true in
the A. F. of L. unions in the steel
industries.
In many mills the Amalgamated
has only six Negroes in the union
We tell all the Negroes to join the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Letters from Our Readers

money, His answer was that it
cannot be filled in an outside drug
store for the reason that they don't
carry that particular item. He adj
vised that go down to the social
service department and have the
prescription o. KID until the follow
ing Tuesday.
Well. I went there and was sent
around the whole hospital to LOOK
for higher officials to o. K. the As
cents, and each one sent me to
somebody else until 1 landed back
to the social service. There I was
told that 1 am not telling them the
truth because the prescription is
written plainly and can be filled in
an outside drug store. What did I
do? I tore up the prescription and
left it on the social workers desk
and told them to hell with this rot
ten system. This is what is in store
for workers under the old and the
New Deal"
Comradely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

4. n.
The Medical Units of the Work
ers' International Relief appeal to
all sympathetic druggists and phar-
macists to donate drugs and med
ical supplies for use at first aid
sta ions, during demonstrations
and hunger marches, as well as for
the hospital at Camp Wo-Chi-Ka,
Workers Children's Camp. at Wing
dale. New York. Drug articles, 7uch
as iodine, ointmcnts against sun
burn, absorbent cotton, bendagcs,
applicators, adhesive tape, aspirin,
are badly needed. Please phone
Algonquin 4-9239, or write to w.
I. r., $40 Broadway, New York.
Somebody will be sent to collect the
donations.
Ingrown Toe Nail
NJ. R., st. George, S. 1.-The con-
6ition you describe is called in
grown toe nail. 1t is due 10 irrita-
ton of the flesh by the sharp edge
of the nail, aggravated by wearing
shoes that are too narrow. Ingrown
toe nail is no. dangerous in itself:
but it might become infected and,
if not treated properly, may result
in blood poisoning. We would adj
wise you to consult a podiatrist
(chiropodist) in your neighborhood.
The treatment is either palliative
which means for the purpose of
relieving pain and permit you to
walk in comfort, or curative, the
aim of which is to permanently
cure the conditions. In the first
instance, the podiatrist will put
certain medication on piece of
gauze, between the sharp edge of
the nail and the flesh; trimming
the nail and shielding the toe
against the shoe with felt strips AS
to permanent cure, it cannot be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
School Board Refuses
To Grant Auditorium
To Pittsburgh, LID.

PITTSBURGH. Pa, June 22.-
The Pittsburgh Board of Education
has refused to grant a permit for
the use of the Fifth Avenue High
School auditorium to the Interna-
tional Labor Defense which re-
quested the hall for the celebration
of its Ninth Anniversary June %.
No downright rejection of the
LIDS request was given by the
Board, but stalling and shifting
responsibility have forced the local
LID. to engage the Bethel A.M.E.
Church, Elm and Wylie Sts., for the
celebration.
Richard B. Moore, member of the
national committee of the LID,
will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
FREE CLINICS

DIOOhlyIl, N. =.
Dear Editor:
I would like very much to have
this printed in our Daily Worker"
as a letter of protest to the New
York Post Graduate Hospital, for
the humiliation one has to go
through in order mot to get As
cents worth of credit for just one
week"
For the past one and one-halt
years 1 have been going to the semi
free clinic for treatments. My rec
ord will prove that I paid for what
ever was done for me. Today the
doctor gave me a prescription and
told me that it must be filled right
in the drug store of the hospital.
1t only amounted to As cents. I
told the decor that l could not get
it filled there because l didn't have
any money that day, unless I took
it out and would have it made up
somewhere else when l have the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Packing Boss Calls
On Cops to Prevent
Call for WalkOut
By a Worker Correspondent


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-A total
Of 1900 Kingans Park and Beef
Packing Co. workers have Joined
the American Federation of Labor
and have asked Kingan to recog-
nize their union. Kingsn refused
to recognize those workers union.
On a strike ballot the workers
voted 80 per cent for q strike, and
others voted to strike in sympathy
il Kingan does not recognize the
union.
On June 10, Galloway, one of
the A. F. of L. leaders, was up
speaking to those workers not to
strike, and along came police
thugs and arrested him and his
bond was set at $50. And now
Kingan has squad car with four
in it, watching. He thinks those
police will try to scare those work
ers and keep them from striking.
But those thugs can't scare
those workers. Kingan is also try
ing to scare them by telling them
he will send out of town and fill
their places.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
FOR DEFENSE OF HATHAWAY
AND RAYMOND

Dear Mr.. Hathaway:
I am enclosing four your defense
S. in post Office money order.
l only wish it was $500, and I wish
every subscriber would send you
S.. You see I get the Worker"
day late so l Just read about you
and Mr.. Raymond. 1 want to see
YOU win as you have so far.
Yours with great hopes you will
win. w, w. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Cypped on Overtime
Pay on SO a Week
Job in Radio Shop
Ry a Worker Corresponaent

LANCASTER, Pal recently got
q Job with Howard Brock, one of
Lancastcr's largest radio repair and
auto installation men. The first
couple of days I worked from $50
to 5. then the boss started to ask
me to work overtime at night.
did this the rest of the week until
I asked for my weeks pay, and he
tried to pay me only IS, not only
ignoring my overtime, but trying to
gyp me of ST.
He boosted to me one day he had
made $50 that day I have a wife
and two babies to take care of and
have been out of a job three ysars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
NOE.

We publish letters from steel,
metal and auto workers every
Tue. C:ay. We urge workers in
these industries 70 write us Of
tti' working como; s;ons ard Of
their efforts TO organize. Please
get the letters to us ny Friday
of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
r ailroad Shopmen
Reject Co. Union
In Colorado Vote

PUEBLO, Colo. June 25.-The
railroad shopmen throughout the
Denver and Rio Grande WC5tsrn
Railroad System voted overvhe'm-
ingly against the company union.
They voted by 1912 to 461 to reject
the company union and affiliate
with the American Federation Of
Labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
The Daily Worker keeps you

The Daily Worker keeps You
Informed of the world wide strug-
giles by the working class against
unemployment, hunger. fsscism
and war. The Daily Worker for
one month daily or six months Of
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cents. Send your sub to the Daily
Worker, 50 E. 18th St., New York
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
FUNDS FOR THE DAILY" IN
STEAD OF FLOWERS
New York, N. .

Daily Worker:
While convalescing in a hospital
following an operation, l requested
my friends to contribute to Daily
Worker Fund" instead of buying me
flowers. Result: S4.96. I think it
is worth while idea for workers
unfortunate enough to be confined
in hospital. c. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

and possibly forget the odor and
the flies.
Levity aside, there are innumer-
able grievances which farm women
can and will discuss; there are in
addition to the miserable conditions
touched on yesterday and today,
even bigger and broader issues
around which to rally them, which
well mention tomorrow in the con-
Guiding paragraphs of this series.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
''They Speed Us Up
More Than a Horse
Is Able to Stand
BY a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Conditions in
the city of Detroit are getting bad.
Every day living costs are going up.
The factories are laying off men
every day I am working for the
Dodge Motor Corp. They speed us
up more than a horse could stand.
Besides that, We got a wage cut.
Maybe you heard that they raised
the price Of the car. then they cut
our wages. read your paper every
day and I like it because it is a
workingmans paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
NATIONAL FARMERS WEEKLY"
FOR THE FARMERS

GladWlne, Mich.
I would like to see a paper printed
and pushed, called Drought, and
Crop Destruction, or Drought,
and Destruction" I think it would
go over big with the masses of
farmers. Crops here are a total
failure.
f. w.
Editorial Note: = The National
Farmers Weekly. organ OF the
United Farmers League, is a paper
very popular with the farmers. 1t
can be obtained by writing to the
United Farmers League, 1917 South
LOOMS Street, Chicago, I'll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Ford Fires More Men;
DriUeS Rest Faster
By an Auto Worker Cor
respondent

by an Auto worker Cor
respondent
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The
Ford Motor Co., lad off $50
men last week, and $50 this
week, on June 16.
They are driving the men
just as fact as they can go. One
young man just came out of
the plant and tainted. His bud
dy said he really had a fast
job and it got too hot.
They are talking of shutting
down the first Of July. And I
must say thai Fords is a hell
of a place to slave in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1914 is available in sizes
36, SO, 40, a, a., as and As. Size
36 takes 334 yards 80 inch fabric.
Illustrated step-by-ste sewing in
structions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

The Daily Worker gives you the
truth about conditions in the Soviet
Union, the truth about workingclasS
strikes in the United States and
abroad.
Evening star., 1934-09-15
ELLSWORTH POLAR
SHIP SOON READY
Wyatt carp to Start on Sec.
ond Antarctic Trip in
Few Days.

DUNEDIN, New Zealand, September
IA (NANA.) (By wireless) DIR. Lin
coin Ellsworth, leader of the trans
antarctic flight expedition, has arrived
in Dunedin to supervise the arrange
ments for his second expedition to
the South Polar Regions. His vessel,
the motorship Wyatt carp, should be
ready to sail for Deception Island
within a few days.
Last year DR.. Ellsworth left Dunedin
December 5 and proceeded to the Bay
of Whales in the Ross Sea, where, after
successful tests with his high-speed
airplane, the Polar Star the machine
was so badly damaged by the breakup
of the ice that 1t had to be returned
TO the factory In California for repairs.
The airplane is once more aboard
the Wyatt carp, and this year, in
order to take advantage of the better
weather early in the season and in
an attempt to cover an even greater
area of unknown Antarctic than he
planned to cover last year, DR.. Ellis
worth will make his base at Deception
Island, about 800 miles south of Cape
Horn. From that base he hopes to ny
via the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea
early in November.
On the Wyatt carp will be the same
crew as last year, with the exception
of the medical officer. DR.. Reals Berg
has been replaced by DR.. Francis D.
Conan of the staff of Johns Hopkins
Hospital. Baltimore.
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Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1934-09-15
ITALIAN COLONY SCENE
OF NEW RUSH FOR GOLD
Eritreans Expecting to Produce
10 Pounds of Precious
Metal Annually.

ASMARA, Eritrea P.-There's a
gold rush of sorts going on in this
banana country Of the Italian COL
onies.
1t is rush of white helmeted en-
gineers and company managers to
government offices seeking permits
for expanded mining facilities and
refining plants. They hope to be in
on the ground floor of gold produc-
tion program which is expected to
bring a future yield of ITO pounds OF
the precious metal each month.
Eritrean mine production in 1891
was a scant five pounds. In 1888 this
jumped to 286 pounds. and the first
five months of the current year
showed a production of 204 pounds.
Evening star., 1934-09-15
MUSIC FESTIVAL
( TO Be BROADCAST
Concerts Arranged by Mrs.
E. S. Coolidge to Go on
Air From PittsfieId.

~ XCLUSIvE N. B. C. broadcasts
will bring to music lovers
~ throughout the country por-
IL tions OF each of the five cham
Der music concerts at the South
Mountain Music Festival September
10, 20 and al, two broadcasts having
been added to the three previously
announced in order that all of the
notable ensembles participating in
the festival may be heard.
Mrs Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge,
prominent music patron and herself
q well known musician and coF-
poser, has arranged this musical
treat, the tenth annual event of its
: kind. Teachers and music devotees
from all parts of the country will
attend the festival at Pittsf1eld, Mass,
and countless others will hear the
concerts.
The featured ensemble in the three
day feast of chamber music is the
Casella Poltronieri-B Bonucci Trio, OF
Rome, Italy, now making its first
tour of America. The Kroll Sextet,
the Laurent Wind Quintet, the South
Mountain Quartet, the Chamber Or
chestra composed of members of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, and So
loists and assisting artists, including
John Alden Carpenter, Olga Averino
and Jesus Maria Sanroma, also will
be heard in the programs.
y 4 II y
TWO programs in connection with
l. the National Electrical and Ra-
dio Exposition in New York will
be broadcast over N. B. c. networks
on American Home day, Wednesday.
James A. Moffett, head OF the Fed
era1 Housing Administrations; Col.
John Reed Fitzpatrick, president Of
the Madison Square Garden Corp,
and M. II. Aylesworth, president Of
the National Broadcasting Co., will be
the speakers in the first broadcast.
u II
CIGMUND ROMBERG, who has
- composed ga musical comedies and
operettas, has set for himself the
task Of writing Is minutes of original
music a week for the new Saturday
night program he is to conduct for
. N. B. C.
The compositions will form the basis
for two dramatic sketches in each
program. The first is listed for Oc-
tober 6, and meanwhile Romberg is
getting as far ahead as possible with
his new tunes, the composition of
which, he says, requires two days per
broadcast.