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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
So Hour Week for Workers
On ''ModeI'' Housing Project

worked II hours a day for six days,
and 16 hours on Sunday, Women
employed at cleaning are paid IS
cents an hour, and are bounded
by Van Nostrand, Mr. French's
chief lackey. Porters receive %
cents an hour, and must work at a
terrific pace or Van Nostrand will
have them spotted. Skilled labor
fares little better, getting 1-3 to IL
of regular union wages.
Fred F. French is making for
tune out of managing this place.
BY merely changing his name to the
Fred F. French Management Corp,
he can continue to make fat profits
out of running the buildings, as he
did in constructing them Every
cent he can cut from workers
wages goes into his pockets. There
fore if these workers remain unor-
ganized they can only expect a fur
Their lowering of tn cir living
standards.
In any struggle against Fred F.
French and the State Housing
Board the workers will find many
allies among the tenants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. working
conditions of 8S hours week and
a wage scale of Is to IS cents an
hour are sanctioned and eneour-
aged by the City and State of New
York at Knickerbocker Village, the
Model Housing" development on
the lower east side.
This project, which was built by
Fred F. French with government
funds and is under the supervision
of the State Housing Board, gyps
the tenants and sweats it's en-
ployes. Eight hundred families
were moved in October l, while the
houses were still unfinished, so that
an extra months rent could be
collected from them. A lo1 of
ballyhoo was Embossed to convince
them thai they were getting bar
gain in rentals that amounted to
$40 for q three-room apartment and
that they should not mind a few
inconvenience.
The guards, who are instructed to
keep out neighborhood people, are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29

this, Sequoyah County, for a
Democratic candidate for Cover
nor. And I don't mean maybe. The
only applause was from a picked
handful of henchmen of the Party
that are in the habit of getting fat
jobs from the administration
1t was evident to me that the
thousands of people that had
gathered at the courthouse square,
for the first time, were wanting to
hear something besides hot air.
Those people looked hungry, and
ragged, and in despair. I talked
with some of them after the speak
ing. Here are some of the remarks:
That damned stuff is old. I
have heard that all my life" 81
can't see anything in what they
said" Il guess that we'll have to
take our guns and fight for our
selves"
After free barbecue was served
to the hungry thousands, Marland
talked privately with few of the
old Democratic standbys, and re-
tired to his Cadillac, rested for a
few minutes smoking, and then
rode out of town, leaving the thou
sands gaping in wonder.
I took an old Democrat home
with me, gave him a bundle of
Daily Workers. and he is now fertile
ground for signing a Communist
card.
I have been confined to my bed
since March l until yesterday. I
am sixty years old, and was told
that had T.B. 1t is not supposed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
From the Black Belt.

From the Black Belt.
Dear Comrades:
am comrade living in the
Black Belt. There are six of us
in the family. My husband and
four children and myself. We are
treated so bad I hardly know how
to explain myself. The bosses are
trying to make us pick their cot
ton for 80 cents per hundred. We
are trying to hold out and not
pick for less than $100 per hundred.
My family don't get very much to
eat. Nor any clothes to wear.
This is what we eat three times
a day. Thick gravy. The way we
make this gravy is put some water
on the stove, let it come to boil,
then sprinkle little flour in it to
make 1t thick. We eat that three
times a day, six days In week.
Not a piece of meat, not able to
buy any lard. We are nearly naked.
My Oldest boy has pair of raggedy
overalls Haven't a shirt to put
on. We all just have one piece to
wear. don't know what we will
do when we wear out what we got
on. We pick out bale of cotton
but they take 1t all on debts. The
bosses say they will allow us to gin
bale or two free. Then we will
have to pay tax on the others,
which will be $500 to $4,000 on
the bale.
Me and my family have worked
hard this year. We are not going
to get damn penny. My husband
worked in the r. F. G. this spring.
They allowed him to work once.
Then they cut him off. We didn't
have nothing to eat at that time so
we ate bread and drinked water.
He begged to work but they
wouldn't let him work. I am a
comrade.
l don't care how bad the bosses
treat me. am going to stick to
the union. 1t is a fine thing for
the poor working class of people.
B. p"
Hoping to Make Them Take
Notice!"
New Hampshire
Dear Comrade:
Enclosed please find One Dollar
for the Daily Worker drive I AM
WRITING TO FIND OUT WHAT
IS THE MATTER WITH THE
WOMEN SUPPORTERS OF YOUR
COLUMN that they will let the M.
DIS, Change the World, or World
Front, beat the women. Not that
I have any quarrel with any of
them. I read them every day and
feel something wrong whenever
any of them are left out. But the
argument is that the women should
show better front. If every
woman reader of this column would
go out and beg or bum dime from
ten friends, we would be some
where. That is just what I tried
to do and here is the dollar.
so COME ON, SISTER COM
RADES, send in the small dona-
tons. 1t is not SO much the large
sums, as the many many small ones
that count in the end AND OUR
DAILY NEEDS OUR SUPPORT.
OPING TO MAKE THOSE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
BOulde
DamTakes
Heavy Toll
Men on Job Report
$50 Killed and
1000 Manned
By a Woke CorrespOndent


LAS VEGAS, Nev.-The men on
the job at the Boulder dam where
I worked for a few months, say
that Is men have been killed and
over 1900 injured since the Job
began, 7 am not surprised, because
I saw many cripples while I was
there.
Hundreds of men are waiting for
a chance to get work at the Boulder
Dam. After registering at the Of
flee at Los Vegas, New, the most
of the unemployed wait for months
for their turn to work, which most
of them never get.
The park at Las Vegas serves as
hotel accommodations for the I'M
employed workers. Mother Earth is
hard with them, The only bedding
most Of them have is newspaper.
There is a government camp near
by, but it isn't large enough to
accommodate half of the unem-
ployed, also, the food at the camp
is unfit for human consumption.
In order to make the workers on
the dam Speed-up, they have a
system of hiring and firing. A
worker might be fired any day
without any cause. This speed-up
explains why so many are killed
and injured
A laborer gets $4 per day of 8
hours. plus another hour and half
that it takes to travel to and from
the place of the job. For board
and room, $1.65 is deducted. The
Anderson company has this con-
ceSsion, and certainly must be
making about 81 profit per day on
every man. They board about 5000
men.
You can often see a worker hang
ing on an old single rope instead of
using a double rope, with about 300
feet of space below him. The life
of the worker is very cheap. To
complain means to lose your job,
for there is a stool pigeon system.
The A. F. of L. has a membership
at the Boulder Dam, but the leaders
don't try to better the conditions.
All they do is to collect dues.
The insurance company that in
sures the workers at Boulder
gets away with a small settlement
of a few hundred dollars when
workers are crippled for life, I
know a young fellow who got hit
with a cable in the face while at
work. 1t made him half blind and
left an ugly scar on his face, He
didn't get any settlement at all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
Mass Arrest
Shows Role
Of Boss Court
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-Any workers who
have illusions about the justice of
the courts in this democratic" coun-
try, the U. S. A, should have wit
messed the mass arrest of p laundry
strikers which took place on Thurs
day of last week.
They we're taken to the 161st st.
Jail and we're held from the morn
ing until 4 p. m. without any
charges against them. At about 8
p. m. they were taken to an isolated
room which had no seats at all
bare except for the judges bench.
Here, out of sight Of any worker
spectators who fill the courts or
dinari1y, they were brought to Jus
tice."
They lined the strikers along the
wall all around the room. Directly
opposite, across the broad empty
floor, was the judge, the bosses, the
police and gangsters; the forces Of
the capitalist state.
And what was the purpose of this
arrangement? The judge was Civ
ing the boss the opportunity to
chooSe the beading workers who
were to be made the butt of their
attack. The others, that is all ex-
cept II, were released after being
held without charges for the entire
day
After this was done, Judge Oliver,
who poses as a friend of labor"
acted as mediator between the
bosses and the organizers of the
Laundry Workers Industrial Union,
Behind closed doors they tried to
persuade the union to give up their
mass picketing they, the bosses,
were willing to ''coneede' the right
to the strikers to have 10 pickets at
one time. The union was firm in
their demand for the right of work.
ers to mass picket and refused to
conciliate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29

gades like the Lovestonites, Trot-
skyites, ETC., who work hand in
glove with our enemies, the bosses,
the Daily Worker makes it possible
for the workers to have a clear
minded understanding of their
struggles to improve their condi-
tons.
We therefore send you revolution
airy greetings; also a contribution OF
S11,72 toward the $4,000 fund drive.
Workers of the Premier Knit-
ting Mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
Negro Veterans Jmcrowed in Mosquito Infested Proec
Bankers Get Millions,
CCNY Workers, Cut

BY a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. - Conditions for
the workers in City College of
New York are getting worse aAd
worse. While LaGuardia is pay
ing out s1SO,OOO,Oo0 a year to the
bankers and Lehman allows the
Utility trusts to make huge
profits, our pay is being cut. In
June, without any notice, our pay
was cut from $25 a week to $21.
We were promised our cut back,
plus 2 per cent extra but instead
we received another cut to SIT.
Most of us are married and
have two or three children, and
if we get another cut, which we
were told we might get, we won't
have enough money to pay the
rent.
Students and workers in the
schools, help us better our con-
ditions and we will help the stu
dents in their fight to get a
better education.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
Hat w Orkers'
Fight Blocks
Cut inv ages
By a worker CORRESPONDENT

By Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. - The earnings and
working conditions of the once upon
a time highly-skilled, well paid and
proud gentlemen matters" took an
awful drop in the last few years.
OF course, the f1ve-year-old crisis
wasn't going to overlook the hatters.
While workers in other industries
were given wage cuts, plain and
simple, the hatters got the same
thing covered up with fig leafs. The
hat manufacturers always had a
fancy name for it. Every new evil
that was forced upon the matters
was brought to them under cover
of new scheme, a new discovery
to help the matters. A new ma
chine was introduced. The process
of production was supposed to be
made easier The matters will be
able to make more dozens Of hats.
In return for this new machine the
matters gave the manufacturers an
allowance off the price paid per
dozen. They never called it a wage
cut.
Or else, a new grade of hats was
introduced. You don't have to put
in as much work on these as YOU
do on the regular hats" the hat
tiers were told. You'll knock EN-
dead You'll make piles of money"
And at the moment the matters
thought it was for their own good
and went to work for lower "bin
of prices"
This kept on repeating itself;
another new machine, another new
grade of hats, and so on and so on.
This went on since the beginning of
the crisis. But as time moved on
the matters found themselves work
ing just as hard and perhaps harder
than in the past, they found their
seasons cut shorter and their earn
ing continually sinking to new low
levels.
Last August, more new grades of
hats were introduced. Again the
matters thought that they would be
able to make a decent wage by CIV
ing the bosses a lower price on these
hats that on the regular hats. For
a while it seemed that it was all
right. But it didn't take long and
they found out that the same story
repeated itself.
The last meeting of Local &,
United Hatters, Cap and Millinery
Workers International Union, de-
cided to endorse the stand taken
by the shops crew of the Manson
Hat Co., who refused to work on
these hats unless they get the price
Of the regular hats. This, accord
ing to the motion passed at the
meeting, must be enforced in all the
shops under the control of the local.
In discussion at the meeting, it
was pointed out that certain ele-
ments in the union, especially the
Rank and File Group and the Com
munists have for three and four
years fought against giving the
bosses any allowances Tread wage
cuts, and were attacked for their
stand by the officials and their sup
porters. The workers were called
upon to enforce with all their might
the decision made at the meeting
Subsequent to the meeting the
boss from the Manson Shop asked
the workers to finish out a small
order of 300 dozen for the old price
of SO cents per doz., but when the
shop crew refused he Immediately
changed the ticket from so cent
to $1.80 on each dozen. The men
realized how easy 1t was to get the
money when all like one, stuck up
for their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
d A lily KER HELPS
STUDENTS

new YORK City
Dear Comrade Editor,
The Post and World Telegram
have both come out editorially
against President Robinson of City
College. Their reporters covered
the mass trial of Robinson with
well over 1900 students present last
Friday. The verdict of that trial
was that Robinson was guilty"
and that Robinson mus go. Yet
these papers that appeared so
eager for the removal of the Presi-
dent of O. c. N. Y. did not print one
word about the mass trial in their
columns. This was obviously cen
sored article, news too hot to print.
Only the Daily Worker published
the story. The Daily Worker con-
tinues as the only newspaper that
will help the revolutionary student
movement in the United S ates.
My small contribution will be
found in the envelope. J. ].
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
Rotten Butter is Sum
of Federal Food Relief
By a Worker Correspondent

BY worker Correspondent
NEW HAVEN, Conn., went
to the City Hall to get Federal
food and they gave me two
pounds of rotten butter. Ny
baby and 7 got sick from it. I
have seen several of my friends
and they told me that they were
all sick from that butter. One
Of them told me that he had put
in a complaint about it to the
board of health, which said that
he couldn't do anything about
1t.
When there is fresh food we
get none. When rotten, two
pounds for a family of three.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29

Workers Hit
By LayoNs
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-Mass layoffs are
now taking place at the Lily-Tulip
Cup. The workers are being thrown
out on the street to starve Those
of us who still remain are being
speeded up and are working under
miserable conditions.
Many of the workers who have
worked in the shop for years are
now only working one day a week
and receiving starvation wages.
The Republican and Democratic
parties, which are controlled by the
bosses, now come around and make
a lot of promises which they know
they will forget as soon as they are
elected.
I viii vote Communist. We work
ers should vote for the Party that
represents our class. The Commit
mist Party fights for the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insurance
Bill (H.R. 1899. H. r. 1898 is the
only real workers unemployment in
surance bill. 1t will give every
worker immediate and adequate re-
lief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
GREETINGS TO THE DAILY
WORKER
Brooklyn, N. Y

BROOKLYN, N. 7.
Dear Comrade Editor
The workers of the Premier Knit
ting Mills, gathered at party made
for our militant fighting chairlady,
Kate Weisinger, realize the signifi-
canoe and role played by the Daily
Worker in the interest of the work
ing class, in the knit goods strike
as we'll as in all other strikes.
Through the exposure of the A.
F. of L. leadership, also the rene
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
WORKERS. HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

pregnancy phobia" "a fear of being
pregnant. Although menstruation
is possible during pregnancy, par
ticularly the early months, the odds
are against a pregnancy, if a woman
menstruates regularly.
If, perchance, the comrade is
pregnant and if, as she states, her
stomach is gradually swelling" 50.
that it is noticeable, the pregnancy
has already advanced far enough
for doctor to make a diagnosis
without an Ascheim- zondek test.
The Ascheim- zondek test is fairly
recent discovery. 1t is one of the
most accurate tests for pregnancy
that we have. It is about 90 per
cent reliable. The test is of value
in making a diagnosis early, in
pregnancy, i.e., as early as four to
five days after the period is missed.
The test is also valuable in cases
where the diagnosis of pregnancy is
different to make, as, for example,
in a very stout woman or in cases
where it is doubtful whether one is
dealing with a pregnancy, or a
tumor, or both.
The test is made by injecting the
patients urine into a immature fe-
male mouse. At the end Of one
hundred hours, the mouse is ex-
amined, and by the reaction that
takes place in its ovaries, one can
tell whether the patient is pregnant
or not.
Recently the test has been modi-
fed and is done on rabbits. The
results are obtained much sooner in
from "a to 36 hours. This modifica-
ton is known as the Freedman test,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 2056 is available in sizes
IL, IA, Is, IS, 20, 80, 80, "a, Sc, 38
and 40. Size Is takes 21a yards
"a inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-
step sewing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
Only S45 From Districts
Outside Ne,V York, Friday

ONLY $45 received Friday
v New contributed $512.
Chicago the next to New York
se5o0-sen only 50. Detroit sent in $40.
drive the districts
they awakened the facing the Daily
not made hystercal appeals
the Daily suddenly running gain We must
money Immediately bills! The districts must raise it!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
Letters from Our Readers

because of the volume of letters re-
ceived by the Department, we can print
only those that are of general interest
to Daily Worker readers. However, all
letters received are carefully read by the
editors. Suggestions and criticisms are
welcome and whenever possible are used
for the improvement of the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29

Contributions received to the
credit of Ann Barton, in its Social
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-s5eO.
Total to date $3.50
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Question
Comrade I. r. B. of Brooklyn,
writes: Il have boy of 10 months
old. He has quite few teeth. I
would like to know if it is advisable
to start cleaning his teeth at this
early age. If so, which is the pref
cradle powder or paste"
When Should Care of Teeth
Be Started?
Care of infants mouths should
begin as early as possible. It is de-
sirable to form good habits for chill
dren, and our knowledge of children
is such, that we know that they
will continue the practice Of mouth
hygiene indefinitely as soon as
routine methods are started.
Children should be taught to use
a toothbrush as early an age as
possible. Prior to this, parents
should brush the infants teeth. A
toothpaste or toothpowder nicely
favored would prove very beneficial
from the viewpoint of flavor, as it
would aid in encouraging the chill
dren in this habit.
We also advise the child be taken
to dentist as early as two years
of age for cleaning the teeth, so as
to allay the fear that most children
have Of dental treatment. This
should be repeated frequently. Baby
teeth must be filed as soon as they
develop cavities. Most of these teeth
last until the child is eleven years
old. Premature loss of teeth has a
harmful effect upon the second set.
Not only it is necessary to develop
good hygienic habits in the child at
home, but it is also necessary to
keep these teeth in repair until they
fall out.
Pregnancy Tests
G. c., Brooklyn:-This comrade
writes, Il am very much worried
about myself, and although I men
struate as usual, I have felt for the
past two months, nauseous and
notice my stomach is gradually
swelling. Where can I go to have
an Ascheim- zondek test done?"
We are certain that Comrade c.
c. is suffering, most likely, from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29

that man that old should recover
from that disease, but if I am not
getting well, there is something
funny taking place within me. I
feel like new man. 1t is hard to
kill bolshevik.
d n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29

son prisons situated on an isolated
island near Key West, but it seems
that the Federal government is not
at this period ready for such work.
The large section of Negro veter-
ans will be compelled to remain on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29

mosquito infested Mullet Key to
carry out mosquito control pro
ject" Of the ERA, after which the
land will be ready for real-estate
sharks to boom for the unconcerned
tourist.
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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 Worker
drive for $4,000. Quota-S1, 500.
J. Robins S 100
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