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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Labor Board Plea
Didn't Go With
Iron Workers
CBy Steel Worker COrrespOndent)

(By Steel Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Following up on the
heels Of the strike two weeks ago of
the number Of men to be used in
each gang, the iron workers employed
on the new Municipal Building, Cen
ter and Worth streets, struck again
on Jan. is for an increase in pay
from $11.60 day to $13 day (the
prevailing rate Of wages. This time,
as in the previous strike, the work.
ers refused to go to work in the
morning until they got a settlement.
The bosses tried to get the workers
to go back to work pending the deci-
sion Of the Labor Board hearing on
Jan. II. But the workers were too
wise to fall for this, and they stuck
to their demand, with the result that
after one day of strike the bosses
were forced to confer with a COM
mittee appointed by these morgan
lied workers, and had to give in.
This Is about the sixth hearing
held regarding the wage scale, and
in each the Board has usually recog-
nized $500 as the prevailing rate.
But they have done nothing and will
do nothing to see to it that this scale
Is lived up to. 1t Is only through
such militant action as was taken by
the workers themselves that will win
for them better wages and better con-
ditions.
This is a direct exposure of the
program Of one of the reactionary
unions in this field, Local 4, with the
demagogue Jim Ryan at its head,
which only few months ago in a
letter to the majority of the contrac-
tors, pledged a no-strike policy.
On this job the last shipment of
steel has been all erected and the
workers have been laid off until the
next shipment comes in, which will
be about week more. Again at this
time, the Steel and Metal Workers
Union, militant, rank and file con-
strolled union, calls upon these work
ers to keep their ranks solid, in order
not only to hold what they hare al
ready gained, but also to be prepared
to fight against any signs of discri-
mination by the bosses against any
of the militant workers, when the job
starts up again. And also to extend
the fight to get the wages back to the
1880 scale.
~. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Machines Replace
Hand Workers in
Gold Leaf Trade
(By Metal worker Correspondent


BOSTON, Mass.-In the Daily"
Of Jan. 2 there was a letter from a
gold leaf worker. I am worker in
this trade.
Gold leaf has been for centuries
manufactured by hand. However,
within the last two or three years
this trade has been partly mechan-
lied. There are now shops equipped
for machine beating in three cities,
Philadelphia CHastings); Hartford,
Conn. (Swift), and New York City.
These shops are the largest in the
trade and they have cornered the
great majority of the trade.
But people don't seem to buy many
gilded bibles when their bellies are
empty, so there is only a small
amount of trade. The amount left
to the hand-beaterS is so small that
they cannot hire labor. am the
only apprentice working in the city
and there are no journeyman beaters
working at all. The women who put
the gold into books are similarly I'M
employed.
Working conditions are poor, too.
The tools, bundles Of gold-beaters'
skins, called "moulds," become
almost useless when they are three
or four years old. Yet we are work.
ing moulds broken in during 1919,
1920 and 1921. There is constant
danger OF hitting a finger with ham
mers weighing from to Is pounds
Gas I have done on occasions. No
provision is made for antiSeptic care
of such manned and mangled fin
gers, and of course there is no insur-
ance for the worker.
AS to organization, am the only
employe in Boston. The bosses have
tried to organize, to fight the ma
chine monopolies, but their anar-
chistic mode of production breeds
distrust which is readily blown into
flame by Mr.. Swallow of Coe 81 Co.,
of Providence, R. L, who is the
middleman in the business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
AT. of L. Officials Fight
Move for Unity Against
EayOffs in Baltimore

(By Steel Worker Correspondent,
BALTIMORE, Md.-A delegation
from the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union was sent 10 the
Alnalgamated CA. F. of L. seekinr a
united front on the coming lay-offs.
which will take place in the next
week or so. They refused to make q
united front with us. Some OF the
members of the delegation made such
a good appeal that warm applause
was drawn from the A.A. members.
They closed the meeting on us, how
ever, without taking any action.
E When the meeting was opened. thu
chairman called on one Of the IA.
members to read a piece Of poetry.
1t was about men and monkeys.
Then an official got UP and made
az long spiel, telling the workers TO
come up, pay your initiation, Join
the. A. A., and Roosevelt and the
N.R.A. will take care Of you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Steel Lying Unsold in Yard of Gary Plant
Since 1929, Worker Correspondent Writes
Describes Steps Being Taken to Prepare for Further
CurtaiIn1ent in Production
(By a Steel Worker Correspondent

tBy a Steel Worker Correspondent
GARY, Ind.-On Jan. l and 2 I
worked in the Gary steel mill on the
four o'clock shift. On Jan. 2 I was
told to report for work back again
on Jan. 6. So what do you think
happened?
On the last day that 1 worked We
had 16 open hearth furnaces in op-
Grafton with eight engines on service
and when I returned on Saturday,
Jan. 8, I found that five out of the
eight engines were taken to the
round house and the fire knocked
out, and I found the rest, three en-
gines, in the yard, but only one en-
CINE doing any work and the other
two engines were back into one of
the shippers with their fires banked
up, and the No. 3 open hearth shut
tight, and right away the three yard
monsters were being put on the foot
board to switch cars and the regu-
lar switchmen being sent home with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Letters from Our Readers
ON THE JOB FOR THE DAILY
WORKER

Great Neck, L. /, N. Y.
Dear Comrades;
We, the Workers Party members
and sympathizers, do not want to
be left out Of the wonderful issue
that is to be put out on the tenth
anniversary Of our Daily
Here in Nassau County our move
ment is gaining ground by leaps and
bounds, despite the police terror, and
the xxx, which, as you know, that
their headquarters is in this county.
AS a show in our gains in 1922 for
the Presidential campaign, Comrade
Foster only got four votes. Compare
that to our showing this year. Dur
ing the local campaign at Great Neck.
our Party received 146 votes. AT
Mineola we received 296 votes, and
at Glen Cove our candidate for
Mayor, Charles Mclaughlin, despite
that this is the home of j. P. Nor
gan, and thousands of votes were
stolen, thousands bought, and whiskey
given away like water by the capt.
talist opponents, Comrsde McLaugh-
lin received over three hundred votes
and had the voting been fair, there
is no doubt that he would have been
elected. At Hicksville, Hampstead
and all other towns in this county,
we received a fairly good vote.
At demonstration led by our I'm
employed Council in 1882 we forced
S125,OO appropriations for relief, and
we are planning another demonstra-
ton before the last of this coming
January.
Our mass organizations are grow
ing. Our Unemployed Councils in
every town now are fairly well or
gained and doing very good work,
The LID. is now organizing in Min
cola, Glen Cove, Great Neck, Hicks
vile, and there is one being organ
lied now in Manhassett.
In Great Neck our Lithuanian COM
radeS are doing good work in the L.
d. S. and the A L. D. L. D. as well
as the youth branches.
In Mineola our Ukrainian comrades
are also at work, and the Ukrainian
Toilers have very good membership
also in Hampstead they have beau
tiful hall, and are doing great work.
The workers Ex- Servicemen's
League has only had an organizer
out here for two months, but he al
ready has a post Of as in Mineola
one started in Glen Cove, and is now
active in Great Neck, organizing q
post there and one in Manhasset.
In Mineola the TWO. has a very
large and active membership that is
on the job at all times.
So, comrades, this is to remind
you that we are on the job for the
Daily" also. We have had a few
affairs here and the money has been
sent in through Section 10, also we
sell quite few, every day.
All our Units have ordered 100 each
for the special edition and some aim
to order more. Christmas day here
in Great Neck we sent in a comrade
specially to get 20 copies extra to be
sold that day and we are sorry we
didn't get more, for we sold them all
in about 20 minutes, in fact. only
about one block was covered. In
the future we are going to try ard
sell more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
PARTY LIFE
The Chicago Daily" Agent
Is Requested to Explain
HO,O Red Tape Wns Responsible for Holding Up
York at Init Hm9ester Company

from each other (21a miles, actually
5sniles back and fortO to b ham
died by the unit.
So we decided to notify the Daily
Worker District Office to supply
Daily Workers on these newsstands.
One comrade reported this to D. W.
District ONCE and was promised that
they would supply the Daily Worker
to these neWsstands.
Investigating later on, we found
out. that the District Once Of the
Daily Worker did not supply papers
to these stands. Again a comrads
went down to the D. w. District Of
fee inquiring about this simple neEli-
gence.
This is not the first time that We
have dealt with this office and that
comrades were disappointed. Almost
every time we want to increase or
decrease, order or stop papers II
taxes us over month to get salts.
faction, plus several street car fares
and letters in exchange. I do not be-
leye, that through all this red tApe
(section agit-prop, District, etc. IL
should take a month to get what you
want.
I Worst Of all is this, that you never
can get the guilty person or persona,
There Is always a loophole through
which one might escape.
SIN this particular case the uooq
truck driver was the guilty one. But
I'm in doubt that he ever received
those names and addresses Of theSe
particular newsStands.
Let us do less paraphrasinx from
ouI various Party conferences and
meetings about the shop work and
concentration points, and pay more
practical attention to this york
h YJ' 49,
/" Can the District Daily Worker
.rOffee explain this bureaucratic
5 handling Of Daily Worker distrsbu-
ton and lack Of co-oueration With
a unit concentrating on one Of the
most important shops in the Dis
trict?
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the understanding that they are only
to get one day week.
So that's your Blue Eagle, or the
New Deal, and they still say that
they will do something by the middle
of next week. I don't see where they
expect to send that steel unless they
are figuring to dump it into Michi-
gan Lake, because there is steel lying
in the yard since 1929. There are
millions of tons of steel in ingots
stocked up as high as IS feet. There
is steel enough piled up for all mills
to roll in full force for three months.
Mr.. Edward Wall here not only
tortures the men on the job, but
starts saloon on Pith and Work
SITS. and rooming house upstairs.
1t isn't enough that he drives the
workers half crazy on the job, but
what few days they make in their
pay he collects it back, through his
scheme in the saloon and his room
ing house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
~ Doctor
-[AzAf !! !! &nqe'z
- g. a.
QaG>G4P4:
By PAUL LUTT1NGER, MD.

no effect whatsoever On the health
of your unborn child; nor on the
scanty menses. After your pregnancy,
however, do not fail to have a gy-
necologist Ga specialist Of women's
diseases) examine you and advise you
as, to the menstrual insufhciency.
Ovarian Arthritis
Mrs. c. S., Kenosha, Wis. -- In
further reply to your additional M
formation we wish to state that you
are probably suffering from ovarian
arthritis (rheumatism) which ID due
to the menopause (change Of Nfe).
Although you are only forty years
old, the removal of your ovaries and
womb puts you in the same class 40
a.smuch older woman who has q
natural change of life. Very little
can be done in your condition. II
you have a sympathetic physician
who could become interested In your
case he might give you injections of
certain ovarian extracts which are
of benefit in number Of cases SINH
lar to yours These injections arc
somewhat expensive and must b,
given about twice a week.
3.
Significance of Sugar in the Urine
c. M, Milwaukee, Wis.-From your
report, it is quite clear that you are
too, stout 1451a pounds) for your
height Is feet, l inch) and your age
$3.50. The amount of sugar (0.15 Der
cent? in your urine would seem to
indicate that you have been eating
too many sweets or too much starch.
CUT cut all sugar, candy, cakes and
PIES from your diet; also cut down on
your consumption of starches such
as bread, potatoes, cereals, etc. If
you stick to this diet you will have
ial decrease in your weight and the
sugar will disappear from your urine.
II this does not happen within a
couple of months after you have gone
-onssthe sugar-free diet, have your
blood examined to find out whether
the amount of sugar in your blood
is above morn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
@N4 81
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BY MARIE ).
(Consin,ed from Yesterday

The work in the Gypsy Tavern"
consisted III waiting on tables and
dancing with and talking to the
men: also We were forced to serve
LIQUOR and quite often we were asked
to drink If We refused we always
got an argument from the boss. l
also noticed that some Of the older
girls in the place were friendly with
the men and would manage always
to go home With somebody when the
place closed.
Due to the fact that was not as
"sociable" as the others, 7 was given
a few tables in the back Of the room.
I seldom averaged more than $3.50
on week days and about 50 on Sat-
urday
After working there for three
weeks and not being able to average
more than 80 week, I told my boss
that I dance. drink and talk with
the men and that I believe that SO a
week is rot enough for the hours
and work that I put in the place.
My boss's reply was IF you would
be more friendly with the men and
let them take you home perhaps you
would average more"
About three weeks ago, seeing that
the job hardly paid for my room and
the necessities of life, I got UP the
courage TO ask my boss for a small
pay raise. She told me to 60 on
working and she would fix me up. A
week later. as my boss did not keep
her promise, 1 again asked her about
the pay she had promised me and
mentioned the fact that under the
NR.A. I was entitled to average SIS
a week.
I could see that she did not like
ti1is, but she told me to go back to
work and she would take care Of it.
Ny reward was that on Friday and
Saturday, the two best DAYS. I was
aid of, and was told to come back
Sunday, From Sunday till Thursday
made about So.
Thursday asked the boss about the
promise she made and told her that I
cannot exist on the few dollars I
make and told her that I'd be forced
10 report her to the N.R.A. She did
not answer, but as soon as the Gus
TONER'S left l was told in abusive Ian
guage to take my uniform and get out
OF the place and not come back. When
| asked for my pay was threatened
by the boss and her brother that If I
ever report them to the NR.A, or
come near the place they would dis
figure my face.
They even threatened to get in
touch with my people in Pennsylvania
and make up story that I'd been no
good, in order to have me thrown out
Of the family. I realized that arguing
with them any longer would result in |
my getting abused more, and possibly
in also getting beaten. So I left.
Now find myself once again with |
out a position or money, tramping the
streets of New York. But feel a lit
tie happier than before for I am be-
ginning to realize the nature of the
system under which we are living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
LBy q Worker CorrespondenIl


OMAHA, Neb-Have Just come
home lately from knocking around
the country looking for Jobs, etc.
Since I got back in town landed
job with the G. W. A, the first OF
all Of these said AS of ROoseYelt's,
I have worked two weeks and
what money I ? yeiVed goes like ma
chine gun bullets through my fin
gers, because of initiation. At pres
ent I may get fired, for the Organiza-
tional work that I had done on the
100 yesterday, which I am enclosing
on the next sheets.
We are working on the highway
10 miles from Omaha, and ride out
to the Job in an open truck in real
cold weather, crowded with 35 men
on it, besides picks. shovels, etc, to-
gether. By the time we get there
our legs, arms, ETC., would be para
lyzed or numb from sitting in so
cramped a position. This occurs both
ways
We we're promised 90 cents an hour
and 80 hours G week. We received
it, but for one week only, the first
week yesterday the boss came out
ard said: Boys, I have bad news
We got orders to pay off at the rate
of 40 cents an hour, and so checks
were handed to us on the job at 40
cents per hour" On top of that he
announced that it's also only q hours
per week from now on. To top it ALL
he laid off five men.
Is this the New Deal2 Where is
this living wage and steady job we
were promised?
Everybody on the job. upon receiv-
ing all Of this hooey thrown in their
faces, started to grunble and protest
amongst themselves. I got out paper
and pencil and said: Workers, We
need organization here. Everybody
sign their name and address on here
and you viii be notified when to at
tend a meeting so we can get to-
gether and send protest kilograms to
C.WA. officials" Every man on the
Job signed his name. and assured me
he would be at the meeting when
notified. I came back to town with
tIlS uSJ OF names ana lHLIl6u4dbeIy
got in touch with the Unemployed
Council, and now we have arranged
for Q hall and sent out post cards to
notify the workers of the meeting.
All Of these workers are ready to
fight back at capitalism, as proven
when I said to them: BOYS, let's stick
together from now on, and when any
one gets laid off or fired we will all
lay down our shovels and say Take
Us all in" Every man said that's
what wen 90, and they meant it.
her famous trick of the bosses
ca - Job is to catch some workers
having Just Strengthened up from
work, and give him a slip which says:
Your services are no longer required y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
SOLD ON C.C.N.Y. CAMPUS
New York.


Editor, Daily Worker:
Since joined the Young Commu-
mist League, some nine months ago,
1 have made it my practice consis-
tently to read the Daily" But I
find something lacking.
You see, 1 am a student of the
evening session Of the College of
the City of New York and worker
by day. The DAILY" adequately
covers workers views, but only occa-
sionally devotes little space to the
question of the student.
don't think will be original
when I state that we should not
neglect the development of Commu-
mist theology among the students.
For, if we do not align them with
us, the students will drift toward
fascisrn.
Therefore, Comrade Editor, give a
little more columnar inches to the
student; perhaps conduct column,
if not every day at least once a
week, in which to point out the
various dangers facing the student
bodies (such as cuts, etc, in the edu-
cation budgets Of the cities and
states) Point out differences be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Daily Yorker Helped
Fight abuse in Plant

BY q Steel Worker Correspondent
SPARROWS POINT, Md.-The
Daily Worker has given us very
wonderful cooperation, much bet
ter than the section, the district,
or the center. We are guilty of
great neglect to the Daily Worker.
The comrades don't take the Daily
Worker as seriously as they should.
Here I must say I am also guilty
in that respect.
The Daily Worker has published
all of my correspondence.
Last summer, Sheet and Tin
Manager O'Brien ordered the men
in the warehouse to keep their
shirts on. This was exposed in
the Daily Worker. Advice was
given which some workers acted
on. After that the order was not
enforced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23

same bitter experience as the Budd,
Weirton steel, and the transportation
workers in Philadelphia.
The Steel and Metal Workers In
duStrial Union is proposing to the
shipyard workers that they compel
energetic action from their locals and
TO set up rank and file committees
on the drydocks, representing all
trades, and all workers organized and
unorganized, employed and unem-
ployed, as the only way OF putting
the sl1ids under the company's con-
tinuous attacks and the treachery of
the AFL. officials.
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tween education in the U.S.S.R. and
the U. S. Show how the interests
OF the students are interviewer in
separately with those of the workers.
Also, the DAILY" should be made
a means of reaching the students.
1t should be sold on the campuses.
We, at the evening session of c. G.
N. Y, sold over 40 copies Of the
Anniversary Edition, and could have
sold more had we the funds with
which to purchase additional copies.
A STUDENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
ADVICE TO MARIE
and to Other Girls in Similar
CL--sk-A

CtIdIIsI
We earnestly recommend that Ma
RE go to the Women's Unemployed
League at % E. 10Th St. Here she will
be shown how to organize and strug-
gle for a job or relief. Organization
OF unemployed women is now actively
progressing at this address; and the
Unemployed Women's Conference
takes place at 2 pm. Sunday, Jan. %,
at Irving Plaza. Supporting the
Washington Convention Feb. 81
Marie should also join the Food
Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
STUDENTS AID DAILY.

NEW YORK.-Upon the failure Of
the instructor or substitute show
ing up for the Trade Union Unity
Council class in the Workers School,
Saturday afternoon, the students
voted to turn over $780, collected at
the door, to the Daily Worker. The
admission charge to this class is 10
cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23

We publish letters from steel.
metal and auto workers every Tues
day. We urge workers in these
industries to write us of their work
ing conditions and Of their efforts
to organize. Please get the letters
TO ms by friday Of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Nux Vonaica Tablets-Suicide

J. McK.-Your wife may have to
take thirty of the tablets you men
toned before she shows signs of
strychnine poisoning. In case she
take an overdose, the symptoms will
be lockjaw, cramps, stiff hands, feet
and neck, a terrorized expression of
the face, difficult breathing, blue lips
and finger tips and signs of suf-
location Choking. The best anti
dotes are phenobarbital (Which can
be given in the form of yeronal or
allonal tablets, whiskey, emetics
(anything that would make her
vomit), chloroform and artificial
respiration. While any of these
measures are being taken, call the
nearest doctor who will use addi-
tional antidotes.
AS to the f1ve-dollar bill wrapped
around your gun, do not do any
thing rash before you communicate
with the writer. Please send us your
address.
Pain in the Coccyx
N. H., Forest Park, m.-The pain
at the lowest point Of your spinal
column is probably due to an injury
which you have forgotten. 1t has
nothing to DO with piles, constipa-
ton or impotence. The pain will be-
come less, in time, provided you are
careful not to get hurt in that part
Of the body.
AcidoSis
Adeaine g., Oshkosh, Wis. The
best method to overcome an inclina-
ton to acidosis Is to eat lot of
citrus fruit, such as oranges and
grapefruit
AS to your mothers cramps in the
legs, it would be best for her to go
to bed with hot water bottle or an
electric pad to her feet.
Posserior FlexiOn of the Uterus
II. B., Roxbury, Mass.-The back
ward position of your womb will have