The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-09
With the Trade
Union Papers
BY EDWIN ROLFE-

uulon papers are IN 1Or review
this week. They are the Food
Worker, published by the Food
Workers Industrial Union; the
Weekly Needle Worker, published by
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, and the Printers Voice,
whose issue of June 80, Vol. !, No 0,
issued by the Paterson striking
printers Typographical Union No.
1876, is the first to be reviewed in
this column.
A fourth paper appears with its
initial issue: the Voice of the Nurse
and Hospital Worker. This, in the
words of the papers masthead. is
published monthly by the Nurses
and Hospital Workers League, an
economic organization of all work
ers in the hospital and other health
services devoted to their protection
and improvement of their economic
standing"
The current issue of Voice fea-
lures the campaign for the eight
hour day for hospital workers, and
devotes most Of it's small first page
to an article pointing out the
broken promises to the hospital
workers las well as to all other
workers whom his demagogic cam
paign fooled into voting for HIM of
Mayor LaGuardia. 1t calls on all
nurses and hospital workers to at
tend a protest meeting on the issue
of the eight-hour day on Thursday,
July IL, at $3.50 pm, at the Church
of All Nations, 9 Second Ave, near
First st.
Editorials announce the purpose
of the Voice, present the Leagues
program and discusses the position
of 1.-The Unskilled Hospital Worker
A full page of Voices from the
Hospitals" carries the correspond
ence Of Mt. Sinai nurse, who dis
cusses conditions in Bellevue, Jew
ish Hospital and Riverside Hos
pital. 1t is significant and notable
that this first issue prints a large
story on page l, which takes up the
struggle against war, and calls on
nurses to protest against war prep
arations. This is the sort of article
which transforms a paper from a
sheet of interest only to a specific
trade or profession into one which
all workers can read with profit.
And I am sure that as the paper
grows and more of these articles
dealing with worldwide political
issues appear, the position of the
Voice as the organ and leader and
educator of the hospital workers of
New York City will assume a hun
dredfold greater value.
The Weekly Needle Worker and
the Food Worker have received fire.
quent reviews in the Daily Worker
and are no doubt more familiar to
our readers. The current issue Of
the Weekly Needle Worker, appear
ing shortly after Grace Hutchins'
documented revelation of sweatShop
conditions in the industry under the
N. R. A., takes on special inn
portance. 1t speaks of the prep
arations for the fur strike on ma
tional front; of the necessity Of
workers unity in the knitgoods
trade to meet the concerted drive
of the bosses; of the national front
of struggle welded by the recent
national fur conference.
The Food Worker writes up the
sell-out of the New York meat
packers by the American Fedora
ton of Labor officialdom; the eff
forts of the National Biscuit Work.
ers to build rank and file union;
the reelection of Sam Kramberg,
militant food workers leader as
secretary of the cafeteria workers
local of the F. w. I. U. 1t publishes
big story on the strike at Nathan's
in Coney Island, in which Patsy Au-
gustine was viciously beaten and
tortured by LaGuardia's police, as
well as other important stories.
These are but samples of the COM
plete contents of both the Weekly
Needle Worker and the Food
Worker, which indicate, think, the
scope and interest of the complete
contents. Space does not now per-
NIT fuller discussion. And for the
same reason, the review of Printers
Voice must be postponed until next
week.