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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-12-13
Lightner Ridge

Mr.. and Mrs. Mack Cain and son
Joseph of Belle Valley spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Harlan Mills.
Joseph remained for an indefinite
time. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Carr
spent Sunday with Harry Daugher-
ty's.. Mrs. Harley Coulson spent
Sunday with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Hallowell of Spurrier
Ridge. Mrs Anna Geddes is help
ing Mrs. Ansil Ridgley, near Penns-
ville. Mrs Willard Fox and Mr.
and Mrs. Ray McKibben were Sun
day guests of Ransom Lanes. Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Coulson, daughter
and granddaughter, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Carlos Lenster of Piedmont.
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Harley
Coulson. Saturday. Donald Daugh-
erty and Miss Ada Fay Winnings of
Marietta spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Riley Daugherty.. Yer
non Scott has sold his farm to Os-
car Wilson Of Malta. Mr.. and Mrs.
Elwood Mercer and Mr.. and Mrs. Al
vim Mercer spent Wednesday with
Clarence Scott's. Mr. and Mrs.
Lawson Carr spent Monday evening
with Ray McKibben's, of Newton
Ridge. Mr.. and Mrs. John Rogers
and family and Rev. and Mrs. Wig
gins of Stockport spent Sunday af-
ternoon in McConnelsville. Mrs.
Gusta Lane, near Tabor, is visiting
her sister Mrs j. M. Wallace, near
Waterford. Mr.. and Mrs Clarence
Scott called on Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard Harris. Sunday.
TOdds Grange
Todds grange will meet Friday
evening. Dec 81. There will be a
Christmas program and Christmas
box. Each bring a small gift for
exchange.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-12-13

and missionary societies held the
regular meeting of the month at
the parsonage at Roseville. A
Christmas program was given in
connection with the special topic of
.Oriental Students in America" un-
der the direction of Mrs. Violet
Stoneburner. The society has as it's
president Mrs. Mary Souders ;.
Bliss Stoneburner and family who
have been very i'll with scarlet
fever and tonsillitis, are all recov-
ering. The p. T. A. association of
York school held their December
meeting, Monday. A miscellaneous
program was presented by the pu-
pills of the school in connection with
the M. & M. band and mems Choir
u.s. Exhibits of school work were
shown to the parents and friends.
Raymond Stoneburner and his
mother spent Monday in GAINESVILLE
Mary G. briggs who has had a
very serious attack of rheumatism,
is some better. Miss Iva Kirkwood,
the York township winner of the
Prince of Peace contest, was an en-
trant in the contest at Malta, Sun
day night
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-12-13
Wolf Creek

Mrs. Eva Phillips, Fred Phillips
and family of Pleasant Valley spent
Thanksgiving vacation with Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Phillips of Union coun-
ty.. Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Grubb
of Crooksville called at Robert
Prices, Friday. James Fitch and
family, near Morganville, spent
Sunday at Paul Bankes'. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Finley and Ronald Fin
ley of Deerfield called on Charles
Finley and other friends. Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sands spent
Saturday evening at the c. F. Glenn
ents home. e. e. Price spent last
Tuesday with S. b. Prices. The
relatives and friends of Mrs Jack
James are glad to know she is re-
covering nicely. after her recent op-
Grafton. Robert Carr reports loss
of a coon hound.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-12-13
Page Seven
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES

Semester tests will be ready for
distribution from the county SUI
perintendent's office. Saturday, In
arithmetic, English, geography and
history. Local teachers are to make
tests In other branches. The exami-
nations will be given Dec. 1920.
The Christmas vacation will be-
gin at close of school Friday, Dec.
FL, and school reconyenes jan 2,
1895.
Schoolmasters' club meets to-
night at Malta hotel, for purpose of
making provisions for the county
basketball tournament, and setting
up educational aim for athletics.
also consideration will be given at
this time to the problem of issuing
a Morgan county school annual, to
cover the various school activities.
such as graduating classes, other
classes and offices, athletic teams
debating teams, scholarship contests
and teams. boards of education, club
work. p T. As and other educa-
tional ideals. aims and aspirations.
Supt. Mallett feels that this is quite
a worth while project; one that will
indicate the advancement of the
Morgan county schools
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-12-13
Meigs

Through the years we have had
many letters and words of, oh you
know, in regard to our writing; but
few If any have touched the spot as
the following: When one as old as
Mrs. Parmiter, who has been away
as long as she has, who now in har-
vest time of her life is living over
those days spent in Bristol, can APP
preciate our gathering Of facts OF
not only the early days, but of the
present; when those she knew are
in the minority and the big majority
have folded their arms and lain
down in their last sleep, and still
she writes thus, we feel it's worth
while to gather news. 1t would be
very nice of you, my readers, to
write Mrs. Parmiter.
December /. 1894.
c709 Walnut Street,
McKeesport, Pa,
Dear Mr. Ray:-Aceept congratu-
lations for your 25 years of service
as Meigs correspondent of the Nor
gan County Democrat. 1t is my opin-
ion that you should receive more
than gratulations. Your job is
the same as any other newspaper
man. for instance Arthur Brisbane,
Walter Winchell. Lowell Thomas,
FIoyd Gibbons or any of them Your
job is more difficult than theirs.
They have to walk about square
to round up three or four murders.
two or three holdups. and shooting
of couple of gangsters and per-
haps a kidnapping, SO you see no
trick to get a sensational column.
Well / have read your items for a
long time and / pronounce them
good, and I hope you will continue
for long time to come. want to
thank you FOR the compliment you
gave my brother and myself on be-
ing present at the Meigs church
homecoming It was wonderful
compliment. and I thank you. If
had known it sooner / would have
been there / was there in spirit If
not in body. I certainly love my old
home church. / hone to visit my old
home. but can't tell When you get
four score and four. you can't look
very far ahead. You will please ex-
can't see so we'll know I have
tdlh6u LOO i WOulu
talk in person if l never do. hope
to see our .Pilot face to face, when
we have crossed the bar. .''-Frater-
nally yours, Mrs j. D. Parmiter.
On and by further evidence
which we want to introduce at this
time we learn that the M. E. Gill
bert road is finished and the book is
closed. There is no law compelling
anyone to use the said road: of
course you can't tell what the pres
ent legislature will do. only that
they won't pass the income tax bill.
Pop goes the weasel.
VIM. Yaugar left Sunday after
noon with IL calves and two cows
for the Cleveland market
We have been asked why the big
end of the relief workers are Re-
publicans We don't know unless the
iniquities of the party leaders are
handed to their followers-as bless
ings.
John Fultz. chief of police of
Wellsville, who was shot in the an
kie in the battle with the Babv-Faca
Nelson gangsters. is nephew of
VIM. Yauger and Mrs Baker. Mr..
Fultz thinks he got in the shot that
ended Nelson's career.
'H There seems to be quite a bit of
interest in the McConnelsville-Re Rein-
ersville Star route sale, as there are
several bids going in.
Omar Ray continues to improve.
Miss Lois Oglevee, mention of
whose illness has been made, re-
mains about the same.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-12-13

Tuesday night and Wednesday at
Almond Boyd's.. Miss Betty Heston
spent the week end at Clark Fon-
ner's.. Merrill Cain visited his cou-
son, Mrs. Ida Boyd, and family, last
Thursday. Mrs. Ethel Benjamin
spent last wednesday at Will
James. Sunday visitors were Mr..
and Mrs. George Kennard, Mr.. and
Mrs. Floyd Devices of Pennsville at
Frank Dawson's; Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Wood of Amesvil1e, Mr.. and Mrs.
f. M. Wells Of Malta route. at Paul
Wells; Harold Harris and family at
j. w. Harris; Mr.. and Mrs. George
Shanks at l.. O. Snearlys; Mr.. and
Mrs Russell Hill at j. e. Rouan-
ZOin's.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-12-13
Unionville

Mr.. and Mrs Ed Stegner enter
tanned number of invited guests
with an oyster supper. last Satur-
day night. The majority Of people
in this section have completed
butchering their hogs. "A large
number of turkeys throughout this
section are being fed for the Christ
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-12-13
Morgan

Glendora Clark weer Sunday guests
at Everett McInturf's.. .Cyd McIn-
turf and family were Sunday even
ing visitors at John McInturf's.. !.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett McInturf, Mrs.
Sadie McInturf and daughter Clara
called at the VIM. Fuller home, Fri
day
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-12-13
DcaVertONvn

The Women's Missionary society
of Jerusalem Lutheran church will
present the service ''The Wheel Of
Life at regular morning church
service, Dec. Is at 10:30. The aid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
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and muscles, causing the patient to
bend violently, hence the common
name of the disease; often the ear
drum ruptures and headache, as well
as dizziness, develops and may con-
tinue for a long time, even after
the worker has given up his job.
While working under pressure, the
respiration becomes slow and deep.
The heart beat also slows down.
The voice often changes and pain
in the ear is often present, which
may be relieved by the swallowing
of air with the open mouth. This
forces some air into the eustachian
tube which communicates with the
middle ear and equalizes the pres
sure on the inside of the ear drum.
Besides the symptoms described
above, some workers who come up
too quickly from the depths in
which they are working, suffer from
nose-bleeds, severe abdominal pain,
vomiting, nausea, and sometimes be-
come unconscious. Many cases have
been reported in which intestinal
hemorrhages have taken place caus-
ing death or paralysis. This Is
known as divers palsy.
(TO Be CoDtinued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
(By a Food Worker Correspondent

w - wa NNbAAA(A ONAAN1PVAAA~ANf
NEWARK, N. il have been
reading your paper for the last ten
days. I like it very much.
Today I was reading the speech
of our" President Roosevelt. He
mentioned quite few times that we
are free to choose"
I am a cafeteria worker in one
of the Jersey City cafeterias. Last
August about 200 restaurant and
cafeteria workers Of Hudson County
organized into an independent union
National Hotel and Restaurant
Employees Organization)
The bosses association from the
very beginning started to use every
dirty means to break our union.
They did not succeed. Brother
Cleron. the organizer, led two strikes
here against wage cuts and firings.
Both strikes were settled in favor
Of the workers. Our union was
growing. The bosses did not like
it. So they decided to smash the
union. They went to the police and
made a complaint that our organizer
is Communist and that he must
leave Jersey City.
The police and detectives closed
our union office. They ordered
Brother Cleron to leave Jersey City.
He refused to quit us. So the po-
lice of Jersey City invented a good
scheme how to bulldoze every mem
Der Of the union. They ordered
every waiter to report to the police
in the police headquarters. They
told us that we must rid ourselves
of this guy Cleron because he is a
Communist, and the police of Jer-
sey City wouldn't stand for no Com
munists in Jersey City. We were
finger printed and had our pic
lures sealed on the permit. We
were told that we must become
American citizens if we want to
work as walters in Jersey City.
This trick of the police worked
on some of the members. They said
Cleron is very good for our union
but the police wouldn't let him
help us. We elected a committee
and went to the police headquarters
to investigate why Brother Cleron
is not allowed to help us to get
better conditions.
On March LIST I received a notice
calling for q membership meeting
Friday night, March End, was the
night set for the meeting. I told
some more members to come to the
meeting. When we reached the hall
we found four police at the entrance
and about half a dozen detectives
The meeting opened. Brother Millas
reported for the committee. He said
that the police told the committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Lakewood Food
Workers Force
Some Concessions
by a Food Worker Correspondent

(By a Food Worker Correspondent
LAKEWOOD, N. il am working
in Lakewood, the paradise where
the guests and tourists eat the best
and sleep in clean warm rooms,
while the employees, who make the
best foods, eat food not fit for the
garbage can and sleep in cellars full
of coal gas, damp and poorly venti-
lated.
Besides that-the employees are
underpaid and over-worked; threat
ened and even framed into jail.
We've had cases where workers
were jailed by the (dis)honorable
judge because they refused to go
to work under the existing condi-
lions. I've also been here since the
hotel workers went out on a gen.
eral strike in Lakewood and now a
temporary injunction has been
placed over the strikers heads.
The Jews accuse Hitler of being
a bloody beast; what about the
Jewish employers of Lakewood who
hired the deputies to suppress the
strike? However, the solidarity of
the workers here forced the release
of the arrested strikers.
The strike in itself is not yet a
complete victory, but a union was
formed and the bosses, fearing the
union, have conceded somewhat
better conditions. Better food,
sleeping quarters, one day off every
week, etc. These concessions were
not granted by the bosses because
they've developed brotherly love
for their employees, but because
they're afraid that the next strike
will not be settled by any injunc-
tons.
A weakness of the strike was the
Red Scare" Many members and
loyal workers we're drawn from the
United Front because they still had
hopes that arbitration with the en-
ployers and the MIRA. would result
in settlement agreeable to en-
ployer and employee. Now the role
of the MIRA. as strike breaking
factor has opened the eyes Of those
who believed in Cancellation and
the role of the G. P. as leader for
their benefit has demonstrated that
victory will be gained only through
mass action.
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Letters from
OurReGders
EASILY ON THE WAR PATH
New York City

NSW IOIk SlOy.
1t seems that Ralph Easley, the
professional red-baiter, is on the job
again. Initiating a new red scare
sponsored by the Hearst sheets, he
means that the "N.SL. and Y.CL.
are secretly connected and are mis-
leading the American youth" The
misleading" consists Of demanding
the abolition of the R.O.T.C. and
the turning over of war funds to
the unemployed in order to Make
the nation defenseless in time of
an armed revolt"
Easley attempts to make this ar
ticles sound like a friendly warn
ing to parents not to allow their
children to join an organization
which is in any way affiliated with
the Young Communist Interna-
tional because it takes its orders
direct from Moscow" His articles,
however, are no simple admonition
to the parents, but can only be in
terpreted as a signal for the COM
against all revolutionary youth Or
CARNATIONS in America, counter
parts of which can be found in
Cuba and other Wall Street-con-
trolled colonies.
Why are the powers of Wall
STREET afraid of a strong mass move
ment among the youth in the
schools and colleges of American
They are afraid of us because they
have seen what has taken place in
Cuba and other colonies under the
yoke of Yankee imperialism. They
have seen that the students can
and will help lead the struggle
against oppression, and they realize
that well organized American
youth can do the same, when and
if the need arises.
Despite Mr. Easley's red-scare the
revolutionary youth groups are
growing by leaps and bounds, and
will continue growing till we are
powerful enough to smash the sys-
tenn for which E'asley, Ham Fish
and Hearst and company are some
Of the chief 1ackeys.
Forward to a broader and more
powerful Youth Movement!
EUGENE CONAN,
signature authorized).
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Communist International
Alone FOreSGuU World Crisis
COmintern Fifth Congress Laid DOIVn Correct
Line, Continuing Lenin's York
By ROBERT MINOR

Only by ruthless self-criticism,
by merciIess analysis of its own
errors can the revolutionary party
of the workers temper itself to the
steel-like hardness necessary TO
victory; this principle is basic to
all Communist Parties and is put
into practice by the Communist
International on a worldwide
scale as an indispensable means
toward the success Of the World
October" revolution.
IN 1924 the greatest Of all leaders
l died. Lenin had led the Com
munist International only five
years. But Lenin's death - the
greatest loss of a leader ever suf-
fered by the toiling masses of the
world-left no vacancy. Lenin had
built too well for that. The Party
he had created and led through
revolutions, the only Party that
stood the test of fire and remained
true to Marxism during the World
War (not with mere words against
War. but with action to transform
the imperialist war into civil war,
to defeat and overthrow its own
bourgeoiSe) only Party which
had succeeded in placing itself at
the head of victorious revolution
airy State-this Party necessarily
plays the leading role in the In
ternational
Are there some who wish it to
be otherwise? They can only be
those who do not wish the revolu-
tionary science of Marx and Lenin
to become the property of the world
proletariat. Such men do not wish
for the world revolution!
Party Carries On Work
The Party Of Lenin continued I'M
interruptedly as the leading Party
of the Communist International.
The leadership of the Bolshevik
Party, in turn, necessarily was en-
trusted to the strongest of Lenin's
disciples. AS Marx and Engels had
worked lifetime together and had
never once been divided, so Lenin
and Stain had worked uninter-
ruptedly since the boyhood Of Stain
with never a division throughout
all the upheavals of political dis
sension, the tumult of three revolu-
tons, and the periods of "sagging'
between revolutions. Lenin's Com
rade Steel" has led the Commu-
mist Party of the Soviet Union and
has been the world leader of the
revolutionary proletariat, the leader
Of the Communist International, for
the past ten years.
These ten years have not been
quiet years of slow development
but years Of sharp and cataclysnic
changes and unprecedented events
Ito Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Compressed Air or Caisson Disease

This article is in answer to in
quiries from Mike Bulizik, Vancou
yer, B. G. and from D. R. M, Easton,
Pa, and George T., Jacksonville.
Fla, who have asked several ques-
tons regarding compressed air
disease, or as it is commonly called,
the bends" The painful symptoms
which develop among workers in
mines, tunnels, subways, and those
working under water, are due to the
effect of the pressure of the COM
pressed air. The excess pressure in
the air forces the atmospheric gases
into the blood and tissues, until the
pressure in the body and tissues
becomes even with that of the sur
rounding air. Every thirty feet of
depth in which the worker finds
himself, adds one atmosphere Of
pressure Thus in the case of ! ! :
Bulizik, you were working under a
pressure of about eight atmospheres.
When the worker comes to the
surface, the air in the tissues es-
capes rapidly and if this happens
too suddenly, it produces those ter
ribly excruciating pains in the joints
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here were put on a 40-hour basis.
which means that they were sup
posed to work not more than 40
hours week, and if they did not
work 40 hours during the week, they
still would get paid for 40 hours of
work. But that proved impractical
for the bosses because many work
ers did not get 40 hours work a
week, so they dispensed with the 40
hour wage guarantee. A small
raise was given, from 221a to 371a
cents for the women workers and
1872 to 49, cents for the men. A
strike sentiment developed and the
men squeezed another 10 per cent
wage increase out of the packers.
But even with these supposed in
creases in wages, we workers in
reality got cut, because prices
went up much faster and higher
than our wages.
And out of these "princely" wages
we are forced to pay IS cents for
men and 25 cents for women a week
for group insurance, which we do
not get any benefit from whatso-
ever, because, before we work long
enough to actually get hurt and to
prove it was the company's fault,
we are fired and a new group of
workers taken on. The companies
here are supposed to give workers
vacations with pay-after five wears
of steady work (women after three
years. But so many workers are
fired and then re-hired that few
ever attain a full f1ye-year stretch
of work.
NOW, after all the compulsory ex-
fractions from our pay envelopes.
the bosses still draw per cent of
our wages out for a pension fund.
The girls working on the castings
stand under the machinery used to
run the steam through the plant,
and have oil and water dripping
on their heads all day. There is an
inadequate platform overhead.
Many of them wear rubber bathing
caps to keep their heads dry. The
water used in washing the castings
always gathers on the cold cement
hoor, and rheumatism results, even
with the protection of rubber boots
which the girls have to buy them
selves. The room has no ventila-
t1on and is stuffy. Doors are con-
tinually being opened into the cool
ers, which causes drafts of cold
air to blow in on the sweating girls.
We impatiently await your reply,
which we hope will start a long, in
teresting and mutually helpful cor
respondence.
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Chicago South Side
Reforlner r. efuses to
Help Scottsboro Boys
CBy a Worker Correspondent,

by a Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO 1.-THE South Side
Negro reformers have begun to
carry ouS their primary election
campaign. Oscar De Priest, Re-
publican South Side leader. who
selects the candidates for the pri-
maries, is as usual coming out with
beautiful phrases.
Dawson, alderman of the second
ward, made speech in which he
tried to give himself credit for
cleaning up the alleys, which the
C.W.A. has done He says he is the
best friend of the Negro race, but
he did not mention anything about
the nine Scottsboro boys, or about
the misery and poverty of the South
Side.
One worker asked him if he as a
member of the city council he would
draw up a resolution in the inter-
ests of the nine Scottsboro boys, but
he answered, 81 cannot do it.
would mess myself up"
Dawson was among the Negro
reformers who lined up with Sop
kins in the Sopkins dress strike, and
tried to get the workers to go back
for miserable wages. Mr.. Dawson
claims he is member of the police
commission. He did not try to stop
the police from attacking the strik-
ers and is responsible for clubbing
the workers on the picket line.
We workers of the South Side
must carry out the broadcast cam
paign against the primary elections,
and boycott the voting and put for
ward our working class candidate
and elect them to the city hall