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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
Won
Recognition
For Blacklist
By a Textile Worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
BURLINGTON, N. C. = What
shall I do now? have believed the
bunk I read in local newspapers
and the nice speeches our great
statesmen" made over radios until
now Yes, it is a long story I must
tell to show you why I am the
goat" fool" or maybe I've Just
been a plain ignorant southern
worker.
am denied the right to work be-
cause I believed the promises of our
president when he said workers
should join union and the union
must be recognized. That last part
is carried out, for I joined the union
and now I am recognized" in every
mill in this section to the extent
that I am fired, and on the black
list. They all say they are full up,
don't need any help" Or a super
may say Come back in couple of
days. which I learned meant he
wanted few days to wire back to
the boss at home to see if I am on
the blacklist. They find out I am
on that list, and mark me as En-
envy No. l."
This is all because I had the CUTS
to stand on the picket line, say am
within my right, and face the
bunch of bootleggers, ex-convicts
and thugs, sworn in by our sheriff
to break our strike, not to mention
the tin-soldiers our governor sent
out With bayonets and machine
guns They always had enough
moonshine Ticker in them so they
wouldn't know whether they were
stabbing their brother or sister, or
some other loyal democrat" who
thought he had the right to fight
for a chance to live as Roosevelt
had promised.
I can certainly tell you those
sweet promises of Roosevelt don't
buy groceries to feed my children
or clothes for them this winter.
Neither will they buy coal and
school books. These promises have
meant to me, and thousands of
others like me, the loss of our jobs
and the blacklist.
I am also veteran, and see our
President gives us another promise
to VETO THE BONUS BILL
Why shouldn't 1 believe this one?
Because this, of course. takes away
from us what is rightfully ours. Of
course he will keep that promise!
That brings to my mind another
promise of years ago when the
bosses of America had a war and
wanted us poor boys to go to an
other country and kill poor workers
there. didn't have no more sense
than to believe them. They said
You boys go over there and win
the war, and when you come home,
the town is yours You will not
want for anything" But now, I
want, like millions Of my war bud
dies. And l demand that our gov
eminent not let us starve, but give
us what they owe us and chance
to work for part of the great wealth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
S. p. Shyster
COnspires Pay
Cut in Boston
Lawyer for Shoe Union
Has Past Record
of Betrayal
By a Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY Shoe Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass. - Shops have
closed down, throwing thousands
of shoe workers into the streets,
this is due to the seasonal unem-
ployment and also to the general
crisis in the country. The manu-
facturers are utilizing this situa-
ton to demand their pound of
flesh" in an effort to smash the
union altogether. This wage-cut-
ting campaign is encouraged by
the lawyer of the United Shoe g.
Leather Workers Union, Mr.. Bea-
rex.
at seems incredible" one will
say, how comes our own lawyer?'
But the facts are here. You see,
Mr.. Bearek is a Socialist, and a
leading Socialist at that. One of
his comrades" the manufacturer
of the Quality Shoe Co., fired a
militant union member, who was
fighting for equal division of work
and all other union regulations.
Well, the Socialist leadership,
under pressure of some of its rank
and file members, felt that it would
not look good for them, when the
workers will get wind of it. And
so they sent Mr.. Bearek to settle
this matter on the quiet. While
Mr.. Bearek was in the manufac-
trrer's office, the boss complained
that the Harvard Co. got a cut,
why can't he. And here our rep
resentative" the Socialist lawyer,
Mr.. Bearek encouraged him by
saying, You should ask the Joint
Council to give you the same priv
ilege as the Harvard Shoe got"
You see, one Socialist leader help
ing out another.
This is the same Mr.. Bearek who
was the legal advised of the ANAL
gamation Convention a year ago,
that is, not the advisor Of the rank
and file, but Of a few top bureau
Gratis, who tried to harness the
rank and file to the wagon of the
Boot and Shoe. He, together with
the Lovestonite Zimmerman, drew
up a constitution Of only so pages,
three fourths of which was given
to the powers of the officials and
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SIeepIessness


CLEEPLESSNESS, or insomnia, is
~ a widespread and distressing
complaint. 1t is important, how
ever, to recognize that inability to
sleep well is a symptom Of some other
disorder and not a disease in itself.
Its most common cause is the ten
sion associated with emotional prob
lens, uneasiness due to difficult life
situations, the failure to attain GER
tain emotional goals, etc. People
suffering from such problems are
said in everyday language to be
nervous" Other, and more speci-
fic terms are used to label this con-
dition medically; and when it is
present, other symptoms besides
sleeplessness will generally disturb
the patient. Some of these are I'M
happiness, uneasiness, loss of in
terest in things, difficulty in con-
centrating, and SO on. Each patient
may have slightly different manifes-
tations.
One unfortunate aspect of the
problem is that although many of
our comrades suffer from this type
of nervousness" and the attendant
sleeplessness, little can be done
through this column to give salts
factory relief. Psychiatric treatment
is required; but this, to be good,
must often be prolonged, and is,
therefore, financially impossible,
certainly for most of our comrades.
1t is a tragic fact, and a bitter
commentary on the present organ
ization of bourgeois medicine, that
most of the clinics where psychiatric
service is available are under
stated, and give their patients too
little time to obtain really effective
treatment even when the doctors
who are at hand have the highest
qualifications. The whole object of
the treatment of nervous" patients
and the causes Of nervousness" is
so intimately connected with the
problem of social organization and
social aims that it is safe to say
that not until after the social rev.
olution will it be possible to organ
ize life and the treatment of its
emotional disorders on basis which
will make a mass solution possible
Such an approach is being made to-
day in Soviet Russia where the
work of the psychiatrist is being
made ideal and is aided by state
organization which seeks to make
the worker at home in this en-
vironment, secure, and adjusted to
the demands of reality.
Sleeplessness may normally occur
for short period under the in
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piled up in the hands of few bosses
in this country.
But these promises repeat them
selves over and over, and we, the
working people, get the same re-
suits if we rely on them. But that
brings me back to my first ques-
ton, what am to do? 1 tried the
elephant" and he was just wind
from Wall Street making a loud
noise through the bosses snout. So
now I am riding this loud braying
donkey on the last roundup!
Now I have a confession to make.
I've been one big fool, I'll admit.
But have been fooled long
enough. In the recent strike while
we were struggling with the bosses
Tor chance to live, we had mass
meeting here in Burlington. At this
mass meeting a real friend of us
workers put out some Communist
leaflets and Daily Workers. These
papers were telling the truth about
how to fight our battles, and how
we would be blacklisted, mistreated.
If we Went back to work with
nothing but promises. But 7 did
not believe them. I gathered them
up and burned tnem Since then I
have been reading the Daily Work
er. and if these people who were
trying to help me and my fellow
workers will forgive me 1 will prom
Use not to be such a big fool again.
Now, instead of burning Commu-
mist papers, am trying to get
others to subscribe. I want to join
up with the Communist Party. 1
will do my best to carry out its pro-
gram, and will try to help many
other southern workers not to be
as foolish as was wnen 1 ard
others with me burned Communist
papers. am wanting to do my best
to cooperate with my fellow work
ers and to build a strong working
class movement here in the South!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07

TODAY, on the seventeenth an
4 niversary of the Russian RevO-
luton, we greet the women of the
Soviet Union! We hail them joy
cusIy, voicing the firm resolve that
we will follow their lead, forge
our own Soviet land, and achieve
the complete economic and po-
litical freedom that they possess.
Litvnioff, at Geneva, recently
signed Bill of Rights proffered by
group of women, with the state
ment: This does not pertain to
the Soviet Union. There women al
ready have full economic and poll
teal rightsl"
In the current issue of the Work
ing Woman, Vern Smith tells story
of a Soviet woman. Smirnova was
born into a poor peasant family.
When she was ten, she became a
child slave in a cotton mill. After
the Russian Revolution, that opened
all doors to advancement wide, she
became a weaver. She became a
highly skilled weaver, then spe-
cially skilled weaver. She was
elected as a delegate to assist those
from her factory who had become
members OF the local Soviet. Smir-
nova studied factory technique and
management, while she was still
working at the factory. She showed
such promise that she was awarded
a full time scholarship from the
government. Now Smirnova is First
Assistant Director of the Vladimir
Trust, supervising protection of Ia
Dor, statistics, promotions, ETC., in
all it's mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
LOVestOnites
Flee From
ShOeW Orker,
Desert at Crucial Mo,
ment, Fearing
Workers Wrath
BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent

By Shoe Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, William zelig-
man and Jack Aronberg, two Love-
stone renegades, members of the
Boston Joint Council, who are re-
Sponsible for putting over wage cuts
on Boston shoe workers, fled the
ranks of the Boston shoe workers.
1t is no accident that at the pres
ent time, when our union finds it.
self in crucial moment, these
takers should disappear. They are
aware that the longer they stay in
Boston the more they become ex-
posed as enemies of the shoe work.
ers. In this act they followed in
the footsteps of another Lovestone
renegade, Sidney Jonas (noW in
Chicago, who, when about to be
exposed for his treachery to Boston
shoe workers, suddenly left Boston
under the pretense of going to
school.
Mr.. Mackesey, general organizer
of the U. S. & L. w. u, has again
demonstrated that his policy is not
different from that of Nolan and
Mahan of the former Protective
and National unions. This is ex-
emplified by the action taken by
Mr.. Mackesey at the Suffolk Shoe
shop meeting at Chelsea, Mass.
When the owner demanded a wage
cut, Mr.. Mackesey, instead of taking
decisive stand against it, simply
made a gesture that he will investi-
gate. Tt was only after a delega-
ton was sent from the Joint Execu-
tive Conference, held in Salem,
protesting against the action of
Mackesey and the G. E. B., that
later they changed their position.
Brother" Lawless, appearing at
the Boston Cutters Local, repre-
senting' the Cutters Local of Lynn,
asked for joint action Of all the
cutters, irrespective of other crafts.
Does Mr.. Lawless mean by this
proposal of joint action of the cut
tiers to get concessions for them
selves and to heck with the rest?
If this is so we want to warn Mr..
LsWless and company that the shoe
workers will not tolerate such split
ting tactics in the ranks of the
union.
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the rest how members should be
tried, in case they go against the
officials. So much so, that rank
and file delegates from New Eng
land got up one after another and
denounced it as worse than the
Boot g. Shoe constitution. Led by
militant delegates from New York,
the convention went against it.
But Mr.. Bearek is true to his
principle which is the Boot g.
Shoe practice. This we must say
in justice to him, is not only his
personal opinion, but the official
opinions of the top officials of the
Socialist Party as a whole, whose
mouthpiece in this case is Mr..
Bearek. A few weeks ago at a
meeting of the Joint Council and
General Executive Board, he urged
the Joint Council of Boston to
accept wage slash in order to
retain the shops in Boston. The
Joint Council this time carried out
their previous decision and flatlv
refused. Because they know that
you can't build union on wage
cuts.
Although many are unemployed
and helpless at present, the bulk
OF the membership would never
forgive a leadership that is taking
the road of least resistance. But
Mr.. Bearek, the Socialist leader.
sees the only solution as the Boot
& Shoe, in giving wage cuts. and
retain the benefits. Wage cuts will
destroy the union, every shoe
worker knows that.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
COOKS MUST RUN THE
GOVERNMENT

livery cook must learn to run
Il the government" Lenin said.
Grace Hutchins, in her book, WON
en- Who Work" states, THE cooks
have indeed been learning to run
the government"
Here are some more facts. Fifteen
per cent of all government officials
in the u. S. S. r. are women. About
100000 women are members of vari-
Gus Soviets and executive commit
tees. More than 100000 women are
active workers in departments, COM
mittees, and organizations attached
to Soviets. There are 100000 women
judges, and at least one Of the three
judges of every court, must be a
woman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted By
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

creased pressure and demands Of
life, or special worries. 1t may ac~
company for a time certain physical
diseases, like, intoxications, ence-
phalitis, and other disturbances.
TREATMENT should always be
given by an experienced physi.
clan, preferably one trained in the
treatment Of nervous disorders.
Certain sedatives are valuable when
given for a short time to carry the
patient through difficult period
when sleep must be encouraged in
every possible way. Drugs sometimes
lose their effectiveness when taken
over long period of time. Some
persons sleep may be disturbed by
coffee and alcoholic beverages; and
for these persons, even such mild
stimulants as coffee should be
avoided in the evenings. Hot baths,
in which the patient rests for one
half hour before retiring, are some@
times effective in inducing sleep.
One comrade was told to take opium
or morphine. These should hover
be taken on the patients own ini4
tiative, because these drugs are
habit forming and may have dam
gerous consequences. Morphine and
opium are given by doctors only
on special occasions and for short
time, and should not be used in the
general treatment of insomnia.
Many comrades become unneces-
sarily disturbed because they ina
CINE themselves to require a certain
fixed number Of hours of sleep.
People can often live comfortably on
fewer, hours of sleep than they ina
CINE they need. A good deal Of COM
fort is possible to those who are so
afflicted if they do not make them
selves more uneasy than they are,
by worrying too much about the
hour or two that they lose by lying
awake in bed. Such time spent
resting quietly is much better spent
than turning and twisting about
fretfully, and getting short snatches
of sleep that are disturbed by disc
agreeable dreams.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
Faker Blocks
UTW Growth
In DanUiLLe
By Textile Worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
DANVILLE, Va.-Some say that
Mrs. Dodson is trying to build a
good U.T.W local here in Danville
but I say she is not.
I heard her say that dues had
been 81 in the past and she wished
they could be raised. She said she
would make the workers wish they
had joined the union before, for
now they would have to pay 50 in
stead of 81 to join.
Mrs. Dodson says she would
make them wish that they had
joined, but that was not what she
meant. She does not want the
workers here in Danville to join the
union. Why do I say that? She
has a small group of members that
think Mrs. Dodson is alright. This
small group and Mrs. Dodson meets
every Saturday night. II any new
members come in to pass on, they
will wait two or three weeks. Be-
fore they pass on them, they check
up on these new names, and if they
like the way Mrs. Dodson runs the
union, they are taken in.
If these workers are for the vel
fare of the workers and their fam
lilies, and don't believe in a one
man or woman leadership, if they
are for a rank and file union, Mrs
Dcdson will have a meeting with
her small group and refuse to pass
on this member.
Some time ago she kicked Jim
Crews out of the union. Why did
she not want Jim Crews? Because
Jim Crews would not let her run
anything over the workers.
Mrs. Dodson has worked for over
four years as president of the
union. All of this time she has
worked in behalf of the bosses. She
is set up for the boss class hers
in Danville.
I hear many workers here IL
Danville say that so long as Mrs
Dodson is president of the local
they won't join the union. The,
say if Mrs. Dodson was for tn,
workers and not bosses, she woulc
cut the price down for joining in
stead of raising it.
I tell the workers that 50 is to,
much to Join. But, they shoult
pay the So and join and get OF
the inside and kick Mrs. Dodsol
out. I tell them if they stay on tn
outside, they are doing just lik
Mrs. Dodson and the bosses want
them to do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
Dye Striker Protests Red Scare Urging Militant Actio
PhOney Medical Exam
Helps Fire Weavers

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. = Now
in the Perice Mill on Sawyer
Street in this city, owned and
operated by Andrew g. Perice,
three women weaverS were told
to go and be examined by a doc
tor for no good reason at all.
When two of the weavers went
and were examined by DIR. Sene-
sac, he did not even lay a hand
upon them. He asked them all
sorts Of questions which were
none of his business. He asked
them if they could see without
glasses, if they ever had any
pains. and a lot more foolish
questions which had absolutely
nothing to do with the mill work.
Then he told them, 'WeII, you
seem to be all OK, what's the
reason that you cannot make your
$500 a week." He also returned
the paper to them which they
brought with them from the mill
and marked it OK. They returned
to the mill, and Immediately were
both fired.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
LET US NOT DISAPPOINT
HER AGAIN!

New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrade Editor:
Last Friday night, October 26,
was at the mass meeting at Rock
land Palace for the Scottsboro
mothers. 1t was my first meeting
and I brought my son with me. l
came there right after work, at
9 O'Clock. I hoped to hear the
Scottsboro mothers speak. At II
o'clock they hadn't yet spoken
Having a long way to go, I was
compelled to leave.
1 was very disappointed not tc
hear the Scottsboro mothers.
I think meetings ought to be ar
ranged so that workers can stay tc
the end.
A NEGRO WORKING WOMAN.
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Must Grease Boss
Palm to Obtain Work

" a Textile Worker Correspondent
CONCORD, n. CT sure enjoy
cur paper. / am a Brown Mill
employee here but have been dis
eliminated against. I have no
work now and belong to an Or
ganizatiOn that does not believe
in selI-Outs. The boss that
worked for is George Hettan, and
if you will buy an old automobile
and pay him twice its worth
for it you can get work every
day. Anything, so he can get a
couple of dollars from you.
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NOTE:

We publish every Wednesday
letters from textile, needle, shoe
and leather workers. we urge
workers in these industries to
write us Of their conditions and
their efforts to organize. Please
get these letters to us by Satur-
day of each week.
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In THE HON E
Hail Soviet Women!
BY ANN BARTo N

America, celebrate the seventeenth
anniversary of the Russian Revo-
luton by Joining the fighting
ranks of the Communist Party.
Forward to your own Octoberl
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Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in
coins or stamps Coins preferreO
for this Anne Adams pat ,ern. Write
plainly name, address and style
number. BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 248 West 18th
Street, New York City.
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No. Dakota Becomes ActiUe
In Ans,Oer to ''Daily" Call

NORTH DAKOTA has begun best itself Monday another
donation-S725was recorded North Dakota
tinu to show determination if wishes for its past
activity
Hollywood Cal John Howard
Ito listed Tuesdays tables Recently
Enuor and John Wexey contributed SIS to the Daily!
organizations Chicago Minneapolis
represented. The slovak Buro Chicago $25.
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AnrniratO Playing Bosses
Game in attack on Reds
Worker Sees RED Scare AS Bosses Method of
Splitting Unity and Breaking Strike
BY a Dive Worker Correspondent

PATERSON, n. Our dye-house owners proving
their desperate position the strike in their effort to break
the union Two three days before the strike call they
elt sure that the workers would out strike
but in spite of their attempt to the workers from
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Contributions received to the
credit of Ann Barton, in her Soc.c :
ist competition with David Ramsey.
Jacob Burck. Del, Harry Cannes.
Mike Gold and the Medical Advis-
DRY Board, in the Daily Worker
drive for 100000. Quota-S5OO.
Two. Rumanian- Cleve. .....$ .25
Previously received .... 1870
Total to date .............S 23.95
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Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1885 is available in sizeA
Is, 10. 20, "a, SO, 38, 40, AZ and A
Size Is takes 33s yards SO inch fab
rio. Illustrated step-by- step sewing
instructions included.
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Contributions received to the
credit of the Medical Advisory,
Board in its Socialist competition
with Del, Mike Gold, Harry Cannes,
Jacob Burck, David Ramsey and
Ann Barton, in the Daily Wor"e1:
drive for 100000 Quota-S1,5c7.
/. w. o. Humankind leve..... SIS +
Josie HalIouist ....-.....,... 50
Previously Received. ....... 334.61
Total to date ...............S3 S5.3S
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Contributions received to the
credit of the Workers Correspond
ence Department in its Socialist
competition with David Ramsey,
Jacob Burck, Del, Harry Cannes,
Mike Gold, Ann Barton. and the
Medical Advisory Board. in the
Daily Worker drive for $4,000
Quosa-S5Oo.
Anon $1,000
Previously received ........ 1915
Total to date ..............S 22.75
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WoMAN's LIFE is SECURE

THE women of the .. S. S. R. may
decide whether or not they will
have children. There are birth con-
troll clinics and open dissemination
of birth control information. She
has promise of a secure future, if
she wants to have baby. If she
works in a factory, she may have
four months leave CT absence with
full pay two months bsfore, and
two months after the babys arrival.
She is given additional money for
a layette for the child, special al
lowances for the special food needed
by the mother. These benefits also
pertain to wives Of workers who are
net in the factory.
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IN HAILING the women of the

l Soviet Union on this annivcr-
say OF their revolution, VIC realize
that their victory can only be ac-
compl,shed by their participation
in the ranks of q strong, discip-
lined Bolshevik Party. To achieve
our own Soviet America, we must
take the same road. Women of
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Otal to date ............ ..s2s.ss