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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
A Raid in San Jose

had knocked three teeth loose for
him and they had him blindfolded.
They tore his clothes off and took
his pants down and wanted to stick
enc of these pick handles up his
rectum and would have done it if
he hadn't been strong man able
to protect himself.
They held lis there for about one
hours, then they loaded lis all in
private machines and took us to
Salinas. There we we're met by
highway patrolmen and uniformed
police. They booked us in Salinas
on vagrancy charges and took our
pictures and fingerprints there.
They held us until about 7:30 Fri
day and then loaded us into small
stage and started us on the way to
Santa Barbara, making only one
stop for gas.
They sent us down alone with the
bus driver from Pismo Beach, prob
ably thinking we would break away
and leave the bus or wreck it. ]
think they wanted us to do that
so they would have a charge against
us.
The police at Santa Barbara ar
rested us on a blanket charge, you
might say on suspicion They held
us there from am until O'Clock
Saturday afternoon. They released
us with orders to leave town by
Sunday noon. The wife and I came
on to Los Angeles and some of the
boys made arrangements for trans
portation back to San Jose.
They certainly tried hard to get
the wife to leave me but she would
not do it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
UNEMPLOYED LEAGUE
MEMBERS NOT TOLD
OF DEALS BY A. w. P.

to do these leaders, trying to sneak
out of responsibility, became great
democrats, telling the members that
they themselves should decide
whether they want to go to Beth
lehem or not.
BY this time almost everybody
was disguised with the whole affair
and finally decided to send a COM
mittee of Is to see Kelsey, and even
then almost half of those present
voted that all should go as a dele
cation.
But, instead of going with the
demand for which the demonstra-
ton was originally called, namely,
that Kelsey resign, the committee
went to give Kelsey another trial.
Thus, these Musteite leaders hoped
to cover up behind the official"
approval (the members were never
consulted) their dirty agreement
which they made the day before
at Kelsey's office behind the back
OF I1le WORKERS.
The following comic incident,
which throws much light on the
workings of the A. w. P, is worth
while recording. At the meeting OF
the Eighth Ward a discussion took
place on this affair. The question
was raised: Was the absence of KEEL
sey from his office sufficient reason
for the leaders to change the ar
rangement? Bill Kocher, one of
these leaders, but who continuously
denies that he is q member of the
A. w. P (tactics?) was present at
the conference with Kelsey, but did
not come down to the mobilization
point on Friday morning Che knew
the demonstration was called Off I.
Not knowing what transpired on
Friday morning he rose to defend
the action of the committee and
shouted Il will tell Preis (chief
leader of the A. w. P. in here) to
his face that he is a liar. The
demonstration was called off. ]
was present when it was called off"
The members of the league must
wake up to the situation prevailing
in their organization. The most
immediate task is to begin to as
sert their own leadership, especially
in the county committees and the
central grievance committees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
PARTY LIFE
Cleveland City Government
Makes attacks on WOrkerS
Tasks Of PGrtys Fight Against Wholesale
InjunctiOns, Police Terror Outlined

Such committees can be organized
in many places for increased cash
relief, for right of the unemployed
workers to organize, for the right
of the unemployed workers to join
with the strikers in the picket lines
in order to stop the bosses from
using the unemployed to break
strikes. Such committees can and
have been developed for the Work
erS Unemployment Insurance Bill
and surely such fighting organiza-
tons can and must be organized to
fight for the rights of the Negro
workers and against all forms of
discrimination.
The events of the last few months
demonstrate more than ever before
the extent of the militancy and the
desire for united action on the part
of large sections of the workers or
ganized and unorganized.
The helping hand of the high
salaried A. F. of L. officials to this
whole fascist program of the capt.
talists and their institutions has
failed to stop the movement on the
part of the workers to struggle.
Next Steps
The task of the Party now is to
mobilize through its fraction in the
trade unions and other mass organ
izations for a united front movement
against this attempt around the fol-
lowing program of action:
y Against injunctions and shoot
ing of workers and for the right of
the unemployed to help the strik-
ing workers on the picket lines.
q For increased cash relief for
the unemployed and to stop the
bosses from using the unemployed
as Scabs to break strikes.
- Against discrimination of Ne
gro workers.
a For the right of the workers
to organize, strike and picket, for
higher wages and better conditions.
81 For the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill.
81 Against fascist company unions,
for the right of the workers to be-
long to the union of their own
choosing.
For such a city-wide movement
and such program we must not
only intensity our activity to unite
the employed and unemployed, we
must especially now, more than ever
bring into motion the rank and file
membership of the A. F. of L. and
the independent militant unions.
Proper committees, proper represcn-
tative conferences will be trench
dous stimulus in unifying the forces
for such a movement. But most of
all, increased activity at the greate-t
speed with the greatest tempo is
the task of the hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Jobs Rare
For Farm
Laborers
By a Worker Correspondent

WENATCHEE, Wash. Every
freight train and highway leading
into Wenatchee, fruit center OF
Washington, is filled with unem-
ployed transients-all arriving with
the same objective in view-pick-
ing pears.
Although pear picking pays only
Is cents an hour and the men have
to work 10 hours a day, seven days
week, and room and board from
their own pocket, hundreds of men
scour the neighborhood each day
looking for a job which will net
them the few dollars necessary to
live independently of fophouses for
a few weeks at least.
But there are no jobs. In fact
the situation in this part of the
state has become a tragic farce
Wenatchee men go to Wilbur look
ing for jobs harvesting wheat, and
Wilbur unemployed go to Wenat-
chez seeking pear-picking jobs. 1t
is very common to see Wilbur and
Wenatchee men meet on the road
each going to the others home
town to look for work.
But it is the transients who suffer
most Grimy and hungry, they get
off the freights at Wenatchee to
seek employment, only to find a
hundred men applying for every
job.
The Transient Bureau here turns
the men over to the Salvation Army
which serves scsnt, unsanitary
meals. Forty meals q day did the
sloppy Sally" serve, but since the
migration here it is not an un-
common event for 300 men to come
for food in single day.
Not only is there no sleeping
quarter sufficient to take care of
the majority of men, but those beds
available are buggy and unclean
Many of the men, rather than rest
in those beds, wrap themselves in
the newspapers and sleep in the
empty box cars on the banks of the
Columbia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02

workers would march if they saw
fit, that it all depended on them.
The workers then voted not to have
the demonstration, and then he
went and extended their relief.
When we returned to the mans
house, the lady asked me if I was a
Communist. I asked her why? She
told me that at the relief station
they were told not to pay any at
tention to them, as they were very
bad people, these Communists.
also asked her if she believed this
and she said. I don't know. And at
the same time, she repeated the
question, was I Communist? I
answered he., yes, am, and then
she said she wouldn't believe a thing
they said about Communists again.
The next day we had meeting
and We organized a branch OF the
Spanish Workers League. So this
is all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
By a Worker Correspondent

LA JUNTA, Coll arrived here
on July TO- I found the people here
starving and without work. The re-
lief bureau had orders not to give
any relief to the Mexican people.
I called fer a meeting on July
at night. About 800 men attended
the meeting and we voted to call a
demonstration for July 10 at 2 p. m.
At a. m. was at the Court House
Park. The sheriff came and talked
to me, and he told me that he
wanted to see me alone. I answered
him that he could talk to me there
where all my friends could see, and
the sheriff got mad. He told me
that We couldn't talk at this park.
The law YVES under his gun
The workers answered that they
would t2lk aith a pc NIT o. without
enc. Within an hour he came back
and be tS,d me that l was to go
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
By JOHN sCHMIEs

The events in the struggles that
are taking place in the city OF
Cleveland, like in many other Sec
tions in the country, such as San
Francisco, New Jersey, Minneapolis
and in some sections in the steel
industry, places before the Party
and the whole revolutionary move
ment tremendous political response
bility.
Two workers were killed, several
wounded and many arrested during
the last few days in the struggle
for relief and in strike action for
increased wages and against injunc-
tons against striking workers in
Cleveland. All the events showed
clearly a worked out plan on the
part of Mayor Davis city admins
tration and its police department Of
violent attack against the working
class, both employed and unem-
ployed. The plan worked out by
the city administration calls for a
ahAlANGNo obPRA CcolOti blllOuSn bAlC
most violent means of the increased
numbers of unemployed who are
seeking through organized militant
channels to keep themselves and
their families alive. In fact the
plan goes into detailed instructions
on the role of the police in their
relief stations all over the city of
Cleveland. A similar policy is being
followed against the trade unions
and striking organized workers.
Wholesale injunctions are being
issued; mass arrests follow the in
functions; beating up of workers on
the picket lines, preventing the
uniting of the employed and unem-
ployed in common struggle. An or
ganized system of scabbing against
the strikers through the police de-
partment. All these are some of the
methods on the part Of the boss
class in order to force upon the
workers relief cuts, and wage cuts.
On the other hand we find that
on the part of the very same insti-
tutions increased activity is being
carried on to undermine the pres
tige of Trade Unionism through
their agents among the ranks of the
workers and the building of fascist
company controlled unions. Serious
attempts along this line are being
carried on among the steel and
automobile workers and the whole
policy is being directed by the In
dustrial Board set up by the gov
eminent.
This policy Of fascism can only
be challenged through the united
strength of mass struggles and mass
action on the part of the employed
and unemployed fighting together.
We must build up committees in
and around the factories and in the
neighborhoods against this whole
program of fasciSm and build out
OF these committees a permanent
movement against this whole fascist
and war program of the capitalist
class. Such committees can be
built in the struggle against injunc-
lions. Such committees can be set
up in the neighborhood and in the
factory against the shooting and
killing of workers. Such commit
tees must be built in the A. F. of
L. unions that will take the lead
for the right of the workers to or
ganize, strike and picket and for
mass violation of the injunctions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
BANKS USE DROUGHT TO SQUEEZE FARMERS HARDER
Fee Stops Farmers
From Selling Crops
By a Worker Correspondent

BOISE, Idsho.-I don't see how
any man can support the Demo-
cratic party and try to fight the
Communists while at the same time
he is near starvation. Men are only
working 2 and days per week at
$500 per day here, and have to buy
food, and pay rent, which are going
higher every month.
The farmers are not getting their
costs for raising their crops, yet the
city authorities will not allow them
to peddle their produce without a
peddler'S license, which forces prices
up to the retail store level.
Our country will want to see the
Communists on the ballot here.
Then I will do all I can to help
elect them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
BY a Worker Correspondent

SAN JOSE, Cal.-Last Thursday
night four thugs came to our house.
about 10 pm, just as l was fixing
to go to bed. One had an auto
matte shotgun and they all had
sswed-off pick handles and revolt
vers. They demanded that l open
the door.
When I saw the odds against me
Il could hear others outside but
couldn't see them-later l learned
there were at least 200 in the
crowd, I thought it would be bet
ter to open the door. They said
they weren't going to hurt me.
I told the wife they were going
to take me for ride and she said
she was going along and I told
her to stay there. They also told
her to stay there but she wouldn't
stay behind They gathered up 10
of us in that territory in East San
jose, on McCurry st. and Stowe
Ave. They took us out to a school
house, informing us that we would
not be hurt.
After waiting at the school house
approximately Is minutes they
biindfolded us and ordered us into
cars and drove us out to a packing
shed. Then they took our pictures
at the packing shed They wanted
to beat me up, but the wife being
there they didn't have the heart
to do it. They had already beaten
other comrades that night. One of
them they hung up four or five
feet in the sir at the end of q
rope and let him down again. They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Workers and Farmers
Building United Front
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

MITCHELL, South Dakota.-At a
recent meeting of the United Work
ers League (which is affiliated with
the Unemployment CounciD a vote
to endorse the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance bill was
carried unanimously. A week ago
last night the Farm Emergency Re-
lief Bill was also endorsed by this
same organization.
The workers and the rank and
file farmers are beginning to under
stand that they are connected by a
common interest. They are building
a united front here in Dawson
County composed OF workers and
busted farmers that will, I am con-
fident, not in the too distant future,
make it mighty unpleasant for
bankers, insurance companies and
all other types Of exploiters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Mexican Workers Win Struggle for Relief

We arrived at the City Hall and
the Mayor of the city threatened to
put me in Jail. I told him. look
at all these people here surrounding
you" At the same time I told him
to ask the sheriff what these people
would tell him. The only law here
is the workers.
At this time the State Relief Adj
ministrato1 arose and told me that
anything concerning the relief he
and I would arrange. I answered
him that [ couldn't do anything
without the workers. He told me
that 1 should tel the workers that
the relief Office was open to give
them .elief orders as before, for the
whole county. and he would also put
some to work. He told me to stop
the demcnstcet.on, that he didn't
war any trouble.
- him that l wasn't diota tor
Ne Nfhssolini or Hitler, that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Need for Hay Brings
Rent Raise of 4OO%
Small Farmer 10Th Six CO,os Is Held Up for
$40 Charge on Pasture Land

for S. to 81 for many years. Now
I learn from the court that Murray
never did have title to the land
but simply laid claim on it and
made us pay.
Now the G. M. Gustafson Co.
mortgages, insuranceS) of Mime
apolis claims to have the title to
the land. They come to me telling
ME how scarce hay is and offering
me, in their estimation, a very good
bargain-a S. piece Of hay stumpage
for the small sum Of only $40 to be
paid at the First Natl Bank for
Minahga.
Imagine that. Four times as
much. They are doing that every
where. I can't rent hay this year
at such figures, and neither can the
rest of us. Our corn and grains
are burnt up and even the gardens
are willing away.
Boy oh boy, but won't we have to
organize for this winter.
I know the Minneapolis Journal
won't print this letter, so Pm send
ing it to you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Psoriasis

Benjamin G., Brooklyn: So far,
there is no cure for psoriasis. Any
one telling you the contrary is fool
ing you. There is always sugar and
salt in the blood, even in normal
people. The question is how much
sugar did they find in yours? AS
to the salt, we are surprised that
the Stuyvesant Square Hospital
should have mentioned it to you;
it is of no medical importance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
By a Farmer Correspondent

MINAHGA, Minn.-The drought
burnt me up plenty, but the way the
bankers take advantage Of it burns
me up still more.
7 am a small farmer with only six
COWS. Like many in the same fix
I haven't enough hay on my own
land beware Of the my because
the state is after me for taxes, the
insurance company for insurance,
and the bank for mortgages) to
carry the COWS through the winter
The hay land we have to rent is
owned by insurance companies,
banks, loan companies, etc.
4 used to rent hay stumpage from
the Murray Land ONCE in Wadina
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02

be able to get more by accounting
for the proposed use of them. We
urge that all city gals send a copy
to the cousins down on the fam.
And there's no objection to radical
farm gals doing ditto for their city
cousins who are still under the ether
Of the boss-class press! working
Woman Magazine, Box 81, sta. D,
New York City.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02

I am quite sure we would have
more August LIST meetings. Did you
ever try explaining to the workers
how and why they must build anti
war committees in the factories, or
do you take it for granted that
everyone who reads the Daily is in
touch with Party organization
and knows all about it?
In this city there are quite a few
readers of the Party press who are
at present isolated from the Party,
but work in very important shops.
The Daily, it seems to me, is for
getting all about the struggle against
war.
Fraternally,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
DIR. LUTTINCER ADVISES

been prescribed for the purpose Of
combating the acidosis which is of
ten present in diabetes; the citro-
caroonates being mixture of all
kaline salts. Ask your druggist to
give you nonpatented equivalent
of the medicine prescribed; it
should be cheaper. The diet still
plays preponderent role, even
when insulin is administered. There
must be frequent check-ups of the
sugar in the blood for the double
purpose of increasing the amount
OF starch she may take and reduc.
Ing the amount of insulin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Observation-Disclosures

A Militant Worker: If your mother
really has diabetes, she ought to
continue with the insulin treatment.
When the proper dosage is used,
there ought not be any reaction,
such as chills. The right dose can
not be ascertained without blood
sugar test. 1t is quite possible that
she is not getting sufficient atten-
ton, from the way you describe it.
The citrocarbonates have evidently
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
NOTE:

We publish letters from farm
ers, agricultural workers, lumber
ard forestry workers, and crnnery
workers every Thursday. These
workers are urged to send us let
ters about their conditions Of
work, and their struggles to or
rap;1c. Please get these letters
to us by Monday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Perspiring Feet

NJ. L. M: We have discussed
this subject several times. Try a
busting powder made of Is grains
of salicylic acid and one ounce of
barrie acid, during the day. At night
rub into the skin freshly prepared
diachylon ointment. 1t is prepared
by mixing one ounce of laid plaster
with two ounces of olive oil. If you
do not sleep alone, add Is grains of
oil of lavender flowers. For more
lasting effect apply the diachylon
salve on gauze and bandage it
around the soles and toes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
N.R.A. Cuts Down Jobs
of Lum b er Workers
By a Worker Correspondent

POWERS, Ore. - The Ccor Bay
Lumber Co., which employs about
TOO men in mill and woods, has been
shut down for over two weeks.
However, the longshoremens strike
is not the cause, but the N. R. A..
code, whose allotment for the c. B.
L. Co. for July, August and Sep5em-
Der is 100000 board feet for each
month, meaning run of about 10
days each month.
The majority of the workers here
are in sympathy with the striking
longshcremen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
By a Farmer Correspondent

ROSWELL, New Mexico They
are shooting all our cattle and peo-
pie are actually starving by the
roadsides, and what will it be by
winter?
My wife and and two girls were
all arrested and sentenced to Jail
but we are fighting and helping to
organize the impoverished farmers
We have been arrested twice this
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
10000 Head Of Cattle
Shot in Ne1U Mexico area
Farmers Are Starving, and Facing Worse Times
When Winter Comes

The farmers have forced the jail
ers to release us and we go right on
to let the people know what it's all
about. Many of these people have
never heard the word Communism
until we meet them. All they know
is that they are starving and that
the damned grafters have ruined US
all.
They have shot 10000 head of cat
tie here in the last three weeks, and
it's simply hell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
BUILD ANTI-WAR COMMITTEES
IN SHOPS


So. Bend, Ind.
1t certainly seems to me that as
q Party organ the Daily Worker
should have started the August LIST
campaign in the paper at least five
or six weeks before it did, and to
give us some hints as to the slogans
August list was to be called under.
A. least you could have advertised
the August LIST issue every day and
called on all organizations to order
1t and spread it and to show how
that would help fight the war
danger. The way you have handled
August 1st, there would seem to be
no war danger.
Why was there not a single ar
ticle explaining to the Daily's read
ers the Importance of August 1st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
of
Cherries
Get NoPay
BY Farm Worker Correspondent

BY Farm Worker Correspondent
RACINE, Wis.-My experience in
Reynolds Cherryland Orchards" at
Sturgeon Bay. Some Racine boys
and girls (also from other cities)
we're given a job to go to Sturgeon
Bay. Wis, to pick cherries, with an
understanding we we're to pay $3.50
per week for board and s3.25 for
the round trip, thinking that after
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1877 is available in sizes
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02

to the City Hall where the Mayor
and State Relief Administrator
wanted to see me. I answered him
that they h,d to see and tslk to the
committee th-t was elected for such
purpose. The committee asked nc
to go with them.