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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05

tional Labor Defense and Unem-
ployed Council, and began TO look
forward to my proposal that We
work towards bettering our condi-
tons, regardless of those politicians
and as one. of the other club leaders
expressed, IF Commander Kreltz Of
Kings County does not like 1t, he
can have his charter"
TWO weeks after, the club vas
turned into an unemployed com
mittee, and now we are going for
ward with this ,organizationsl work,
drawing in, the Democratic Club Of
the neighborhood. Club rooms are
open for this purpose, with COM
mittee of is working jointly for the
neighborhood. Our task becomes
greater now in order to carry our
work on so as not to disillusion
these workers in our organization.
Unfortunately, we cannot depend
too much ON the help of our Section
section g., with its IoosenesS
and lack of leadership. We viii have
to depend on the City Unemployed
Council for guidance and On our
own initiative.
From the expressions OF some Me-
gro workers we can well take les
sons. One worker states his expert
ence with the various parties ana
organizations, how they are fed On
promises and speeches, especially
before elections, and now they arp
still trying to collect for services
at the polls; instead of jobs and re-
lief, they are chased from one poll
tician to another for weeks ard
months. ''i'
Now the c. W. A., as well 40 Shs
N. r. A., has proved they cannes
expect anything, for when they get
a Job 1t is three or four weeks with
out any pay, and while working
their gas, and electricity Is being
shut off, and now where should
they turn? We show them the way
and they are willing to cooperate.
They are breaking away from their
traditional influence Of the boeSeSP
parties and some confidentislIy tall
me that sooner or later they VIII b
in the ranks of the @. p, and, there
fore, the people. We must not fan
them.
we should build more neighbcEs
hood committees and exchange xs
ganizational experiences.
II there are such committees
already organized, let us hear from
them 80 we. can learn from one an
other. The workers are ready fce
organization. Now, how about rs o.
P. members?
Can Section 6, New Yea, szs
plain why they give no guidance
and leadership TO this most iM-
portant work. While 1t b iEnpoF-
tant that the comrades develop
initiative, and also that they work
closely with the City Unemployed
Committee, they should receive
direction from the Party, which In
this case is the Section COMMITTEES.
Why aren't they getting 1t?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Correction

In connection with the review of
1.-THE Shape-Up News" published
under the signature Of Gertrude
Haessler on Jan. %, the Daily Worker
has received a protest from comrades
on the docks and from the writer of
the review as well. Into this review
of an organ of the opposition group
in the International Longshoreman's
Association, affiliated with the A. F..
of L., the Agitprop Department,
without consulting Comrade Haessler.
insered a paragraph which both the
comrades on the dock and Comrade
Haessler consider as Sectarian ap-
proach. This concerns the following
paragraph:
above all, we must bring forward
the specific united front organiza-
tional instrument, which the Com
munist Party supports; The Ameri-
can League Against War and Fascism,
While it is necessary to bring for
ward the League in this opposition
group paper, comrades are right in
insisting that the point to emphasize
is that hundreds of A. F. Of L. opposi-
ton groups and A. F. Of L. locals sup
port the League. The pushing for
ward of the Communist Party in this
connection betrays a sectarian APP
proach to oppositional work in the A..
F. Of L.
The Agitprop Dept. admits its mis-
take and absolves Comrade Haessler
from all responsibility in this matter.
The Agitprop Dept. also assumes
responsibility for the rather awkward
formulation of the phrase "the
predatory capitalist character Of I'M
perialist war."-Editor,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
WE DISAGREE. WHAT DO OUR
OTHER READERS SAY?
New York City.

New York City.
Comrade Editor:
~ is 40 secret that the Daily
Worker welcomes criticism. 1t has
given space and has encouraged
workers criticism and suggestions. I
am sure that the following will be
accepted in the same spirit.
I have been trying to do my bit as
a Communist to spread our paper.
I was very glad that I had not made
arrangements last night to canvass
with the Daily.
In order to increase the circulation
of our paper we of course must reach
the masses, the average worker who
reads the tabloid. We must attract
him with q paper that speaks his
language. When opened yesterdays
D. w. I discovered the following:
Headline: STAIN IN HISTORIC
SPEECH AT 18th c. P. CONGRESS,
etc.
First Page. headline: MOLOTOV
OPENS 18TH CONGRESS; STAIN
GETS THUNDEROUS OVATION;
and then the double column develop
ing the main headline.
Page three: The Congress, A letter
from Russian girl. Production In
the Soviet Union.
Page Four and Five: The 18th Con-
gress.
Page Eight: Additional articles on
the Soviet Union.
Without minimizing the Importance
of the Soviet Union as the Workers
Fatherland, as the shining example of
workers building socialism, as the one
country that has succeeded in what we
here are striving for, must repeat, I
do not feel that yesterdays Daily
Worker would have gained reader
for our press. 1t contained material
that does not interest the worker
who is not as yet within the radical
Why not issue such material in
special pamphlet for Party members
and synlpathizers? Include such
matter in the Communist and other
periodicals that are read by Party
members and sympathizers and leave
more room for exposing the yellow
press, the New York Americans series
of the Horror of War in Pictures
winding up with plea for bigger and
better navies as the one and only way
to end wars.
In other words why not make the
Daily Worker one that any worker
can pick up at any time and find in
teresting and to his understanding.
More about what is happening in his
borough, his city, his state and his
country.
If the Daily Worker is to be one
Of the means of reaching the masses
1t must contain such material that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
PARTY LIFE IS
White Worker AmoHg Negroes
CriticiSeS Section Leadership
Negro Workers Are Becoming More Militant;
Section Must Tighten Ups He Says

The following letter Is from a
cOmrade, formerly active in the
struggles of the knit goods work
erS, who Is now doing unemployed
work in = Negro section. This is
the second letter which we have
received, complaining about lack
Of guidance from the Section
leadership.
I am writing to inform you what
we are doing In organizing the
workers Of the neighborhood for
better conditions and the opinions
Of some Negro workers toward our
organization.
Through personal contacts for the
last two years in the neighborhood
I have gained the confidence of the
Negro workers and have partici-
pated in their social as well as polit-
ical life. I have been a member in
an auxiliary branch of the B. E. F.
Bonus Expeditionary Force) of
Kings County for year until its
closing, the reasons for which you
will soon learn.
I have watched with interest their
reaction to organization and no
ticed that the Negro workers, who
were under the influence Of bosses
parties are becoming disillusioned.
Now they do not take seriously
their local leaders with their prom
Uses, especially such like Jerome
Anbro and his like. Under their
influence these Negro workers could
not even bring into their club the
Scottsboro issue. When I, as a
member and practically the only
white member, bro' ght it to their
attention, the leader refused to take
it up with the excuse that this is
a veterans organization, not q
political organization.
Exposing the influence Of the
politicians in the organization, the
members began to realize the diff
ference of the organizations which
I represented, namely, the Interna-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
on Strike
Of Advertising Sign
Painters on Coast

SAN FRANCISCO, Ca1.-The ad-
vertising sign painters at the out
door advertising plant of Foster &
Kleiser, both in this city and Oak
land, were out on strike for three
months.
The original scale OF wages, $12
per day for journeynen and So per
day for helpers, was cut many
months ago to 5000 for journeymen
and $7.20 for helpers.
Shortly before the strike, the Eos
ter & Kleiser Co. cut the wages to
SO per day for journeymen and IS
for helpers. The advertising painters
offered compromise scale of wages
Of So and IS, which was accepted.
The Oakland branch in the mean
time held out for $40 and $7.20. The
workers in the two local unions held
a joint meeting and decided to go
out for the 5000 and 1920. The
matter was left to George Creel but,
as no national code had been estab-
lished, nothing was done. While
waiting, two workers (rats some call
then) went to Creel and offered to
work for SO and So.
The state code of SO and s. was
offered the workers, which they ac-
cepted, under protest, with the right
to arbitrate, but as the striking i'd
vertising painters were willing to
take cut, there was nothing to pro-
test or arbitrate.
The Oakland local telephoned the
night OF the San Francisco meeting
that the strike was won, and to hold
out, but were turned down by the vote
of the San Francisco local. The
strike was thus lost and solidarity
received black eye.
I am member of the San Fran
cisco local and out OF work three
years, but was offered job as
strikebreaker by the Oakland man.
ager. AS I refused, you may be quite
sure, now that the strike is over, that
I was not offered a job.
Going to the local meetings brings
before one vivid picture of the
deadly crisis 1 find few sign paint
ers working at all, and many on
C. w. A. pick and shovel work, forced
labor. The few working at their
trade work only part-time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
BY a Worker Correspondent

LANSING, Mich. - Here at the
Lever Bros. soap plant in Hammond,
Ind, conditions are certainly rotten.
The company pays the minimum
MA. code scale of IS to 40 cents
an hour wages, and as close to the
Sl2 week salary as it can get away
with. Code wages have become not
only the minimum but in most cases
tine maximum in this plant, although
officials are scrupulous about con-
forming to the soap and glycerine
code.
Comapny stool pigeons, watch
men," plant bars of soap and small
tools where they can be found"
Then they claim that employees hid
them preparatory to Stealing" them.
ANY employe they point out as the
guilty" one is subject to immediate
dismissal. To put a stop to such
terrorism as this we are organizing
into the Chemical Workers Industrial
Union, affiliated to the Trade Union
Unity League. We have here the
beginning of real union as dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Conditions in
LunCheOnette
Near N. Y. i.
By a Student Correspondent

New York.
The following are conditions in
Schepers and Welsolh Drug store and
luncheonette, situated on the corner
Of Waverley Place and University
Place opposite the New York Uni
Yersity:
Porters are hired for a six day
week, and hours, 9 to at $12 week.
Actually they work IL hours day
and and half days a week without
any pay for overtime.
After being hired on the 8 to 5 six
day basis, one worker was told that
they want fellow who will arrive
early in the morning and leave late at
night. If porters are ready to leave
at five, extra work is found for them
to keep them late. The store operates
under the N. r.. A.
One porter was sent on errandS
through the neighborhood nearly
every time that the doctor had to
prepare a prescription. The doctor
seldom has full parts of a prescrip-
ton in stock and other druggists
would ask the porter if his store was
closing down.
Workers are not allowed to order
meals from the menu but must ask
the cook what he has ready for the
help. Then their meal is served to
them in such a messy style that they
are ashamed to sit at the table with
the customers without first rear
ranging their plate and slicing their
hunk of meat.
The store hires a number of
workers since it consists of counter
and tables upstairs and grill down.
stairs. All of the workers look tired
and over-excited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05

kept her off all the time until they
got her to say that the boy did not
touch either one of them, and then
they dressed her up and came to the
trial.
And they said she then told
damned lies, and that if the state
releases the boys every Negro should
be lynched. They said that the 1. L.
D was going to be driven out of the
South, because If 1t was not for the
I. L. D. them dam" Negroes would
have been dead, and 1t would not
have cost the state so much money.
They said they hope that the Scots
boro boys will soon be burnt.
Now Is the time for us workers to
put up fights to help save the Scots
boro boys. Let's all of us start right
now to help free all those that are In
prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
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CONDUCTED BY
HELEN LUKE

quite a barrage Of anti-Soviet and
anti-Communist yarns on the bour-
geois etiquette sheets these days.
Here's fancy one by Winifred
- Of tie New York American
TIC headline proclaims: mo Beauty
sS9ps n Russia! Miss Black, hay-
ing got all the dope from Russian
s1-grand dame. writes:
"She's beauty herself, the
woman who told me all Install
and Slender, with hair as black as a
ravens wing, flashing black eyes,
sr the whites teeth in the world. 3"
My goodness
She was G COUNTESS or q p-inoess
of something back in E5u-5i2 when
ths Car ard Czarina we're on the
throne, and the C5arina wore ernine
NJ sable and rubies as big as a
pigeons egg, and diamonds that
looked like stars cut from the mid
night sky, to say nothing of milk
white pearls and eneralds as green
as the sea-" (Think of that!)
She had her emeralds and rubies
and diamonds too, this black-eyed
woman, and she drove in drosky
With fine husky driver in fur
coat and tail fur hat, and life
vas rather gay for her-until the
revolution" (Yes, rather.)
"Her husband was an officer in
the Cars own regiment, and so, of
course, when the Gar was killed,
the only thing for black eyes and
l,ar husband to do was to get as far
away from Russia as they could, so
they came to America and forgot all
about courts and courtiers and went
to work for living" What a ter
rible fate to befall one.)
The countess-yes, I think that's
What she was in the old days
rad a bit Of monty-just a bit, and
che invested it in taking a course
IN beauty treatments, and she
opened a beauty shop, a very smart
beauty shop, with all the lotions
and creams and beautifiers you ever
heard Of" wen, we'll So the
countess didn't want to be a wage
Garner and work for somebody else.l
People came TO see her and buy
~. creams and rougeS because she
lad been a very great lady, and
besides. they thought they might be
as handsome as she if they used
the same lotions and creams" but
lhey got fooled, didn't they?)
.'But by and by things did not go
so well, and the dashing officer
became interested in things that
took him far from home, and black
eyes was homesick." what! count
ess, all that beauty and you couldn't
hold your man? Did he run away
and get job in the japanese i'm
perialist army, maybe?)
Well, anyhow, to get on wish the
story, the countess wrote to sister
back home in Russia, and proposed
to open a beauty shop there, being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Soap Plant Boosts Output Of
Dynamite Clycerine for Var

tinguished from the weak outfit that
the racketeering A. F. of L. set up to
help the bosses hold wages down
while Roosevelt puts through his in
flation policy.
Regarding this company's policy in
preparing for the next world war, let
us inform you and all other comrades
that our glycerine department has
curtailed production Of chemically
pure glycerine, such as is used in
medicines, and is constantly increas-
ing the production and shipment OF
the crider dynamite glycerine which
is used in the manufacture of high
explosives. From one to three 10000
gallon lots of this glycerine are
shipped from here every week to the
Du Pont de Nemours Powder Co,
and sometimes to the Hercules Pow
der Co.
The plant is equipped to make
much larger shipments If the de-
mand grows. We heartily endorse
the slogans, "An War Funds to the
Unemployed" and Cancel All Wa
OrderS!-Grant Workers Unemploy-
ment insurance."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Dairy Worker Exposes Lie That
Pay Raise Boosted MIX Prices

pm, with few hours of during
the day.
Some diaries in Irvington pay
even less and give their workers no
time off. We are obliged to work
every day in the year, Sundays and
holidays included. No new employees
were added under the various
codes" There is great deal Of dis
satisfaction, but the workers are
afraid of making the least protest
for fear OF immediate discharge.
A DAIRY WORKER.
Editors Note: These workers will
get assistance in organizing on the
quiet for effective struggle by apply
ing to the Workers Center at az
Hudson St., Yonkers, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05

With the membership drive over our
branches must begin to improve their
inner life. The great influx Of new
members creates new problems.
These members must be assimilated.
They must become part Of our Order
in their conceptions and ideas,
This need exists in all sections Of
the Order. AID of them grew con-
siderably. OF the 10, 452 new members
taken in during the drive, from Oct.
LIST to Jan. 18th, 4,736 members were
won by the Jewish Section. In the
beginning of the drive the Jewish
Section comprised about 40 per cent Of
the total membership Of the Order.
The Sections share in the results OF
the drive were S3.2 per cent.
The Hungarian Section, about l6
per cent OF our Order, shared in the
growth by 1914 per cent with total
Of 2,209 new members.
The Slovak Section, comprising
about IL per cent Of our Order, took
in 1541 new members, or lis per cent
Of the total.
The Italian Section, about 2.5 per
cent Of the Order at the beginning
Of the campaign, gained 992 new
members, or IA per cent of the total
The English Section comprised 2
per cent Of the membership Of the
Order and shared with So per cent,
or 722 new members in the total re-
suits.
The UlTainian Section, about 8 per
cent of the Order, shared in the cam
paign with III per cent or 1897 new
members.
The Roumanian and Polish Sec
lions were only created in this cam
paign. The former achieved 494 new
members or 81 per cent and the latter
443 or 3.3 per cent Of the total.
The Youth Section, 5 per cent Of
the Order in october, only shared in
the growth with &32 new members or
80 per cent.
The weekly average recruiting
during the II weeks Of the campaign
reached ISL new members and 100
children.
Organize I. w. o. Activities
The first step in the direction of
Improving our inner life is the in
classification Of the campaign for
social insurance. This campaign
touches the most outstanding i'm
mediate need of the workers. It is a
service TO our members and to the
working class. It's progress will
popularize the I. W. o. among ever
larger masses OF workers. Participa-
ton in it will develop our members
toward class consciousness The task
before US requires, first of all, a dis
cussion Of the subject of social in
surance and OF the campaign plans in
The branches. These discussions must
be carried through by the Branch
Executives the moment they get the
outlines SEM to them
Collective Activities
The most important thing in this
connection is. the organization of COL
festive work. Cur membership drive
was sustained mainly by individual
efforts. Individual members we're
modified fo- the campaign, not by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
CBy a Worker Correspondent


IRVINGTON, N. Y.-The enclosed
clipping from the Newark Evening
News announces another increase in
the price of milk for this state, claim
ing as an excuse that shorter hours
and IL per cent increase in pay for
workers in the dairy industry forces
them very reluctantly, it seems) to
do so.
I am working for the E. e. B.
Feins Dairy, 48 Chancellor Ave-, r.
vington. So far from receiving any
increase, we were given a 20 per cent
cut this winter. Our wages have
been reduced from $50 to $40 with
board and room. Furthermore the
allowance for board has been cut.
We were not given shorter hours,
as we still work from 3 am. to S or 6
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Letters from Our Readers

will interest the worker in his present
state, Only after he has become
radicalized and politicalized can he
understand and appreciate such an
addition as for example yesterdays
Daily.
So. in concluSion:-In order to make
our paper a truly mass paper, we
who engage in that particular ac-
tivity must feel convinced that the
workers whom we approach will I'M
derstand and welcome 1t. Too often
does the Daily cater TO Party COM
rades and advanced workers SO that
one can not sincerely offer it to a raw
worker and say, Here is your paper
1t speaks your language and fights
for your struggles"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
80 Doctor
.LuHistqeh
ndUG4e1:

time will conner when you will b
able to do without it. Be sure yoOl
chew your food well. Are your teeth
in good condition. II you are not
improved in a few months, let your
mother bring you to our oz&ca
Pioneers get free treatment, n SAs&
parents are unemployed.
Physician In PhilsdeSphak
8. I've do not know Of aES
physician in Philadelphia who b.
long to the Party. II there 10 one,
we trust that he or she will send
her name and address so that we
may advise you accordingly. Could
you not come TO New York On IN
excursion ticket?
Dandruff-Genersl Jchmnsm
H. Enders-As far as we know,
there is no permanent cure for dam
druff. The only remedy that seems
to have some lasting effect, Is ultra
violet radiation on the scalp.
Theatwo NJohnsons are identical, %
lar DIS We KNOW. IIldIlkS IOf the CON-
tribution and for approaching Cur
sense,aof hllmor.
ia Sc
ao Scientific Gibberish
A. N. N, Bronx-Your long letter
left us exhausted and bewildered
1t sounds scientific, as far as terms
and phrases are concerned, but W
we're at loss to understand what
you were driving at. Do you mean to
say that people are bounded into
insane asylums by detectives who
trace them through telephone vibra.
lion? If Sog we want to advise you
that we have great difficulty In get
ting an insane patient committed to
an institution. Owing to the lack
of sufficient city and state appro-
priaticns, the number of beds avail
able irla institutions for the insane
has decreased in proportion to the
number of cases. This is particularly
true since the beginning of the eco
nonic, depression which causes such
a large percentage of our popule-
ton to become insane; another
feather in the capitalist hat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Reports That Speedup in Macy Employees
Cafeteria Injuries Many Food Workers
Girl Cut by Bread Machine Forced to York TtCO
Hours OUrtime to Make Up for Time Lost
In BMdGging Hand
By Department stOre CORRESPONDENT

By Department Store Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The unmerciful ex-
pioitation of the workers of R. H.
Macy & Co.-the worlds largest de-
partment store-has been given too
little attention by the Daily Worker. ."
On the eighth floor of R. H. Mays
is the employees cafeteria and Miss
Fifield, a tall knock Kneed woman
with cold face and a twisted smile,
is manager.
Miss Fifield is a cat-like creature,
and her ability to sneak up on the
workers Unexpectedly has increased
her value as a slave driver OF r. H.
Macy. The workers hate her.
Almost every day somebody is in
jured through this innuman speed
up. No longer do the workers get
holidays. Even Christmas day was no