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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

each others posters and substitute
their own.
Then they compete in offering
inducements to employers. Some
times they bring to the surface one
Of the many common illegal prac-
tees, and use it as bleckmail to keep
one another out of a particular
neighborhood. At other times gang
sters are hired to threaten solicitors
in order to keep them out Of certain
streets.
Once the patient arrives in the
clinic, we find that the longer he is
sick, and the more treatments he
gets, the bigger is the bill that can
be sent to the insurance company
and so the bigger the profits.
AS a result there exists a war be-
tween clinics and insurance COM
panies. The insurance companies
try to cut the bills One way out is
through the reaching Of an under
standing between clinics and insur-
dllC6 luEll W " n CGl bdlkl DAA4Ss AL
other device is for the companies to
favor certain honest" clinics. In
return for cheap treatment they
send a large number of patients.
Clinics often express their gratitude
to insurance companies by testifying
against the injured worker on the
side of the company, when the In
dustrial Board judges awards for in
juries. In this way antagonism be-
tween big and little capitalist is
turned into an slliance-against the
workers.
The workings of the State Com
pensation Laws shows clearly what
happens to insurance benefits
when its control is out Of the hands
of the working class. 1t should
stimulate workers and doctors to
fight harder than ever to force the
enactment of the only measure that
would place administration in their
hands-the Workers Unemployment
and Social Insurance Bill H r 1898.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Struggle Needed for
Decent Pay When
Relief Factories Open
BY a Worker Correspondent

PEORIA, Ill.-The local Illinois
Emergency Relief Commissions are
considering the establishment of a
mattress factory to provide work
relief jobs for the unemployed this
winter. A few prospects from the
large relief rolls are now being lined
up for this work.
No information is as yet available
on the wages to be paid, hours Of
work, or other conditions, but it can
be su-nised from the wages, etc.,
on the Dctweiller Park, Airport,
and other relief work jobs this
summer. A joint local Disbursements
and A. F. of l.. leaders committee
set such wages here at 40 cents an
hour, and the hours to be worked
not to exceed the amount of the
food order budget as allowed on
relief rolls. Work and starve seems
to be the keynote.
A similar work relief mattress
factory project is also being con-
sidered by the City Council at
Beardstown, Ill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
.Jobless Are
in
Los Angeles
By a Worker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, CaIif.-Ady wife
and I are stranded in Los Angeles
We went to the Transient Bureau
where they labelled us like groceries
and numbered us like prisoners
Then we were told we must both
live on S3.40 a week for food and
incidentals. And we we're placed in
a rooming house which is so filthy
that We a-e afraid to use The COM
mon toilet and bath.
The landlady listens carefully to
all we say, then reports back to the
investigator. Sire even examines our
garbage to determine whether we
use luxuries.
We have called this place the
House of Silence" Whateve- con-
versation we carry on among our
selves is in a language We have in
vented. 1t consists of authorizations,
prehxes and suff1Xes to words, mi
tial letters such as w. w. for West
EN- Worker. And at times, we make
ourselves understood through signs
or the movement of lips like the
mute and deaf.
When first we went to Rooseyelt's
Transient Bureau, the investigator
tried to conyincs us there wasn't
even any use looking for work out
here. That was to make us agree
voluntarily" to be deported as soon
as our residence was verified.
Now, the investigator tries to
make us feel ashamed because
neither of us has work. She is
abusive and says: TITS not fair to
California taxpayers that you
should eat up their money. You're
outsiders, you know"
Outsiders I repeated. But I
suppose if California wanted me to
help re-establish law and order in
the San Francisco strike area. :"
"Oh, well then" she interrupted
me, "it would be your DUTY to go
as an American citizen"
The investigator missed the bit
ter and militant undertone of my
words. Then I said: Would Cali
fornia draft me should I refuse to
go?"
That would be her rightp this
agent Of Roosevelt answered.
When we, as workers, demanded
what belongs to us by right, we were
outsiders. But when the bosses want
us to murder fellow workers, then
we are all American citizens!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
BY 4 Worker Correspondent


PHILADELPHIA, Pa want to
tell the actual story of the events
which took place around % and
Master SITS. recently. 1 visited the
Negro woman who had been beaten,
and obtained the following facts as
to what happened.
Mrs. Suber sent her little adopted
child "a girD to the store for five
cent cake of soap, usually known
as Big Ben "a large, cheap cake
Of strong soap, which goes a long
way) and one ID. Of sugar Mr..
Morton Che grocer gave the child
a cake Of P. and G. soap "a four
cent cake. sometimes sold three for
10 cents and q ID. of sugar worth
2la cents) a total value of 81 cents.
The child gave him 10 cents, all
of which he kept. CMr Morton
should apply for a position in
cnain store if he tells them this
story he will at once be given
large store to manage)
Mrs. Suber sent the child back
to get the money and go to another
store. The grocer refused to give
the money back. Mrs. Suber then
went to the store and asked for the
money. Again and again she asked;
again and again he refused to re-
turn it.
Realizing that she would never
get the money she threw the SOAP
and sugar on the counter. The
bag containing the sugar broke,
spilling the sugar over the counter.
This so angered the grocer that he
struck her on the side of the head
several times, knocked down and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Buffalo Relief Clerks
Busy-Playing Pinocble
BY a Worker Correspondent

BUFFALO, N. Y.-On August 10,
a relief committee from the EN-
ployed and Unemployed Protective
League went to the Erie County
Relief Bureau. 40 Delaware Ave, to
get some county workers placed OH
project work. When the committee
entered the office, we found six
clerks at one table playing pinochle
fer money
1t is becoming more evident every
day that the project work manage
ment is another political set-up,
maintained at the expense Of the
workers while it is impossible to get
relief for starving families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
BOSSES TREMBLE AS WORKERS
BUY DAILY"

Rockford, Ill.
Dear Comrade Editor:
Today when 1 was delivering my
papers I stopped at the place where
workers were laying concrete. These
workers were PW.A. workers. I APP
preached them with the paper call
ing the slogans. I sold three pa
pers and then foreman came up
to me and wanted to know what pa
per was selling. I showed it to
him. He asked me whether I had
ever been arrested. I told him no. I
also told him this was a legal paper
and that I would sell it wherever
I wanted to.
He told me to get going. He said
these workers are satisfied with the
conditions and that 1 never wanted
to work. He said I had better look
out or he would arrest me. This
shows us that they don't like to
hear the truth.
had the same thing happen at
the relief Office this morning. They
asked me whether I had a permit to
sell papers there. They also asked
me whether I was distributing pa
pers there.
This shows us that the boss class
is afraid we may find out what
workers do in other places.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

1t seems the lie de France docked
early Saturday morning-at nine
o'clock,-so few of the women who
had expected the ship at ten or
nine-thirty, were not among the
many who formed a great recep-
ton committee that rainy morning
to welcome home the fourteen dele
gates returning from the Interna-
tional Women's Anti-War Congress
at Paris.
The returned delegates are plainly
ablaze with enthusiasm for the
great tasks ahead. for which the
work already done has laid a
splendid basis. No opportunities
were lost to publicize the anti-war
anti-fascism campaign initiated by
the American League Against War
and Fascism), for the delegates took
full advantage of the week leach
way aboard ship to hold mass
meetings r. among the passengers
with whom they we're travelling
especially on the occasions of the
regular ship concerts-speakers re-
ceiving an enthusiastic response and
enlisting the anti-war sympathies
and support of the passengers.
Of we might insert bit of gossip,
the vitality Of Mother Bloor and
Capitola Tasker proved exceptional,
they being the only delegates who
had no touch of seasicknessI
Now let us exert every effort to
make the mass reception to the re-
turned delegates at Webster Hall,
where they will report fully on the
Paris Congress and outline the
plans laid for mass mobilization in
America against war and faScism,
a tremendous turnout. The menace
Of war and of fascism is real and
near, and he must be deeply I'M
conscious who can still remain
blind to it at this time. Our dele
gates have a powerful message for
us; let us all be there to hear and
to pledge actionl
Many of the American delegates
went on for a visit to the Soviet
Union. Those who returned are
Mother Bloor, organizer of farmers
and workers these many years,
member of the World Committee
Against War and Fascism; Anna
Barnett of Los Angeles, represent
ing some $4,000 women; Clara
Bodian, Secretary OF the United
Councils of Working Glass Women
of New York; Maggie Pritschau of
Nebraska, representing $4,000 work
ers and farmers; Mabel Byrd,
Chairman OF the Chicago Womens
Committee Against War and Fas-
cism; Leila Jackson of Pittsburgh,
President of the Ladies Auxiliary
of the United Mine Workers of
America; Dorothy Ida Kunca, of
Detroit, representing the Auto
Workers Union; Martha Lewan-
ker, representing 5000 members of
the Sharecroppers Union; 1lizabeth
Nicholas, of San Francisco, repre-
senting the Cannery and Agricul-
tural Workers Union; Ida Haltun-
men, of Fitchburg, Mass, represent
ing the National Finnish Fedora
ton; Jenny Palermo of New York,
of the I. L. G. w. U; Olga Botch-
varoff, rubber worker of Akron,
Ohio. representing the Macedonian
Peoples League; and Mary Rayside,
Of New York, VINO went instead OF
Martha johnson, domestic worker of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Gave Last
Dollar for
HerndOn
By a Worker Correspondent

by hOfkef correspondent
NEW YORK; am an ex-engi-
neer, who used to serve on British
ships. In 1917 came to this coun-
try, and worked on American ships.
Ny last job was on S. S. Nora,
Grace Line, which ended in 1922
when we had a strike of the marine
workers. Since that time I tried to
get job, but there was so much
discrimination against foreign-bOrn
workers that I couldn't get one
So I bought pushcart. a frank
furter pushcart, and made A living
from day to day. The depression
came along, and I could make prsc-
tically no money.
Last February, when it was 10 de-
gress below, 1 was working with
that pushcart, trying to make
enough to buy food for my wife
and myself. I tried to get help from
the Salvation Army, and from other
organizations like it, but they gave
me nothing. They call themselves
the friends" of the poor, but they
would give me nothing.
I was then 10 months back with
my rent, I was facing eviction, and
I had no money. A friend told me
TO apply to the Home Relief.
went TO the Home Relief, at 125th
st. and Second Ave. They investi-
gated me and when they found 1
had a pushcart told me I was max
ing enough money, but I told them
I never made more than TWO
dollars a week. SO finally they gave
me 81 for two weeks for two people,
groceries worth about so cents, rent
sl4 a month, and a 100 pounds of
coal week. This lasted until
April.
In May they cut out the rent,
the coal, the groceries. We had
no light in the house for two years.
They gave me 1920 for two weeks
for two people. I complained to-
the investigator, but he would do
nothing.
Two weeks ago went down to the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
and I told my difficulties to the
wa srfrcnt Unemployed Council. He
SEM me finally to the Unemployed
Council at 133rd St. and Lenox
Avenue, where joined right away.
We went together, myself and two
Negro comrades, to the Home Re-
lief. They sent for cops, and the
cops and two stool pigeons threw
us out of the Home Relief. The
man who sent for the cops told me:
Don't you come into this building
any more"
In the evening when I went
home I found a note in my door
from the Home Relief investigator,
and he said he would be around
the next day. I waited for him, but
he didn't show up. I went again to
the Home Relief, but l couldn't see
him.
I finally saw the new investigator
at two O'Clock, and got s14 rent
and four grocery tickets. Cut my
check to $3.50 a week. 1 haven't
got light yet, but we're going to
fight for it.
50 I want to tell all unemployed
workers to join the Unemployed
Councils, and fight for their rights!
otherwise they leave us to starve.
This morning 1 went down and lent
my last dollar to the International
Lgoor Defense for Angelo Herndon.
buy the Daily Worker every day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Negro Woman Beaten
In Philadelphia CiUes
Birth Three Days Later

kicked her in the right side of her
body near the waist. This young
woman was clearly about to have
a child shortly. This alone makes
it as callouS an act as any Fascist
might perpetrate.
The young woman went home
and returned with her mother.
However. because of the quickly
gathered crowd the store was al
ready locked up.
Thus we see the tremendous re-
sentiment of the Negro masses
aroused at this most despicable at
tack. They gathered from all
directions in no time, still passive.
but about to burst out (Which it
did that night. The grocer called
the police, who took them, the
young woman and the grocer, to
the 10 oxford police station. This
took place about ten o'clock in the
morning, Wednesday, Aug. 1. The
minutes after the arrest a Negro
Committeeman had the grocer re-
leased. Mrs. Suber was not re-
leased until $50 that evening.
Three days later child was born
to this young woman who had been
beaten. This was a full three weeks
before its time Contrary to re-
ports the child is living. However,
it is SO weak that it will take the
utmost care and medical attention
before it is out of danger. Both
are under the doctors care. The
child's feet are bruised from the
kick the mother received; the
mother still bears many bruised
marks on the face, neck, the right
side Of the body. The right side
of the face is terribly swollen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
In THE HON
Welcome Our Delegates Build the Anti-Wa Front
BY HELEN LUKE

Harlem who was unable to go to
Paris. There were in all l,0S8 dele
gates at the Paris Congress.
Among the speakers at the mass
meet will be Bob Minor, Rosa Ray
side, Clara Bodian, Capitola Tasker,
and Anna Barnett. The meeting
takes place at Webster Hall, Friday
Aug. "a at 1880 pm. 119 E. II ST.
The New York Committee is dis
tributing $4,000 leaflets for the meet.
Call at 213 Fourth Avenue if you
need leaflets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
A. W.P. SPEAKER KNOWS HOW
TO RUN

Brooklyn, N Y.
Dear Comrades:
Close to midnight last night I
came upon a street corner speaker
for the American Workers Party
hsnaguing a small knot of list-neTT.
He had finished his regular spiel
and was Strengthening out few
points on the sidewalk on his way
home. I stopped to listen. He
launched into an attack on the
Communist Party.
1.-THE Communists are nothing but
hoodlums, ignoramuses, towards"
he says. what did they do in Ger
many? The overwhelming majority
went over to the Nazis What head
way are they making in this coun-
try? They are vulgar, brutal, they
don't try to understand the Ameri-
can psychology. :"
Suddenly look of fear comes
into his eye. He stops and says
quickly in nervous undertone
Look out, there's cop coming to
us from across the street. Dent
turn your heads. Make out you
don't see him. Guess we'll have tt
break up; it's really very late
Quickly he was justifying the cop!
approach. After all, he had a righ
to break up the small group; it wa
midnight!
We scatter. The cop was rough
He violently pushed a young lis
tener who apparently didn't wall
fast enough. The youth stifled al
oath. Whereupon the cop grabs hin
by the arm and proceeds to tax
him to the police station. We fol
lew, to protest. At the next corne
we are stopped by another COY
Whats the idea?" We start to ex
plain, but an ugly look comes owe
his gorilla's face. you dirty radi
Gals, you better keep out O. my way
Get out O. here, go on, you god
damn radicalsl"
But where was the AW.P. revc
lutionist? Terrified, he had take
to his heels at the cops approach
He had melted into thin air. He
a prophetic symbol of his party s
the approach of revolution.
PHILIP POLLACK.
signature authorized.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Compensation-the Insurance
Companies

Companies
Nothing is too sacred for capital
Isl exploitation. Even the injuries,
suffering and death of workers is
reduced to source Of profits. OF
all the money turned in to insur-
ance companies for workmen's com
penSation, more than 40 per cent is
held for expenses" and profits"
The balance is divided between
medical care and benefits. This is
what happens to insurance not ad-
mlnistered by workers.
Farm 1aborers are not entitled to
compensation insurance. This is the
result Of the influence Of the rich
farmers and the lack Of organization
Of their hired labor. Domestic work
ers, small Independent contractors,
iaternes. teachers and others are not
protected.
In the manufacturing districts Of
New York, compensation clinics
have been set up. Some Of them are
owned by lay politicians. The clinics
hire young doctors to work for them
for as little as S25 a week. They hire
teams of solicitors" whose business
it is. to go around to different en-
ployers, foremen, bookkeepers, ETC.,
and arrange to have injured workers
sent to their own clinics. They put
up advertising posters and give cut
refer" slips. These solicitors usually
work on a commission basis. Some
times they find it sufficient to bride
the employer or his agent with free
medical supplies. At other times
they have to give him percentage
Of the take. Parties and women are
other forms Of brides.
There arises a struggle for trade
between the different clinics. Like
wolves, they fight for new division
Of territory, for business, for profits.
The most common form of struggle
IS for the solicitors to tear down
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. - Last year Local
LOT, Paper Plate and Bag Makers,
affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, gave out circulars
to our shop about organizing. The
circulars asked us to fight for the
following demands: 40-hour min
imum week; $40 minimum weekly
wage for operators; $32 for cutters;
S35 for machine tenders; $50 for
packers; $50 for shipping clerks;
$50 for machine adjustors and that
3 per cent of the total payroll should
be set aside by the employers and
to be administered by the workers
as an unemployment insurance
fund.
When we went out on strike
against the cut last November,
Local LOT was right on the job to
help us out. The strike not only got
back the cut. but we also won wage
increases. The local helped us out
again in the next strike in the
Spring when we wanted recognition
of the union and also a fat 10 per
cent wage increase. 1t was young
Saltzman, the boss son who gave us
recognition when his father made a
trip to Palestine The recognition
was for 90 days. We we're with
Local LOT for about five months
and we learned a lot about union
SIN.
We never took the floor at the
beginning, but Local LOT encouraged
us and this educated us a lot in
being good union men. But when
the big boss came back, Mr.. Saltz-
man, ST., he didn't want to hear
anything about Local 107, or about
the people who were leading Local
LOT. He shut down the plant for two
weeks, making believe that there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Club Employees Pay Tax
OF 50, 900 to the Owner
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-Frank A.
Garbutt. owner of the seven clubs
affiliated with the Los Angeles
Athletic Club has made chiseling
on employees a fine art.
Workers in the club and hotel
trade are given meals as part of
their meager pay. Garbutt required
that a sales tax be deducted from
the cash part of the salary. Several
Of us who work for these Garbutt
Clubs figured out that he takes
$4,000 a year from his employees
in this way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Spirit Undaunted By
Florida Jail Terror
BY a Worker Correspondent

TAMPA, Fla.-I have been out of
work since 1 came back from
prison, where the bosses of Tampa
sent me because I was member
CT the Tobacco Workers Industrial
Union of Tampa. They put me on
the blacklist SO that my children
end I would starve to death I am
the only support Of my family, but
I shall always fight by the side
of my comrades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
W. I. r. MEETING TONIGHT

bership meeting tonight at s o'clock
at the Anti-Nazi Federation Hail,
1853 West GARD Street. Members OF
w. L. /, Film and Photo League,
w. I. R. Band, Medical Units and
Neighborhood groups are urged to
attend,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in
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for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
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number. BE SURE TO STATE
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Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1916 is available in sizes
IL, IA, 16, 10 and 90. Size is takes
yards Sc inch fabric. Illustrated
Step-by-step sewing instructions in
Guided.
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signature authorized.)

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
a tremendous step toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Letters from Our Readers

lord to evict us from the house.
Comradely,
L. n,
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