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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
BY a Worker Correspondent

KANSAS CITY, Kan.-In the
spring, the politicians here with the
general bunch of misleaders, such
as Brown, Of the Citizens Workers
Association, who is very close
friend of Weckliffe, Poor Commits
sioner Che usually attends their
meetings and blabberS a lot with
fake promises, telling the workers
to be patient, he doing his best,
promises 80 hours week on the
F. E. r. A. projects, etc., kept this
organization from putting up a mil
liant struggle.
They circulated petitions, and it
is doubtful if these ever even got
out of the Secretary's hands. They
asked for free lights, water, gas.
Needless to say, under the leader
ship of these takers, nothing has
been accomplished for the workers.
They are worse off than ever. Near
ly every other house in the Negro
workers quarters, and in some white
sections, is without water, lights and
gas.
The workers at the government
canning factory are driven and
herded around like bunch of con-
victS on Georgia chain gang. A
number of workers have had their
fingers cut off on one shift, and
have been forced to come back to
work the next day, or be fired, and
have the misery of watching their
children Starve.
One Negro woman had her hand
cut very badly. All the treatment
she got was having it touched UP
with mercurocrome, and then had
to go back to work. There is nc
compensation from the government
on the F. E. R. A. If you talk tc
some of the workers about condi-
lions, they say they haven't got
clothes fit to wear out in public
On most of the projects the work
ers are driven by an overbearing
clanniSh foreman, the very worst
remnant of the K K. K, who con-
tinually tries to stir up race hatred
and prejudice amongst the white
and Negro workers, with the aid Of
a bunch of lackeys of the govern.
ment called watchmen. You fine
one at every door you go through
and have to ask permission to &C
to the toilet. Along with that, one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Struggle Wins
Wage Increase
For Packers
By a Worker Correspondent

MOOR PARK, Cal.-The packing
shed of the Randolph Marketing
Company here was paying workers
four cents crate for packing to-
matoeS, when most other sheds
were paying five cents. 1t was pay
ing the sorters 33Ia cents per hour.
At the same time this company
was collecting from the small farm
erS SO cents box for packing their
tomatoes. This is the same price
they charged the small farmers
when the workers got higher wages,
6 cents a crate for packers and so
cents an hour for sorterS. In other
words, the big packing company is
living better and better off the
backs of the toilers, the workers
and farmers.
The men weren't very much &C
customed to organization, but be-
fore the season was over we man
aged to get enough solidarity to
call a halt to the work and demand
5 cents crate. We got AZ cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

I of woman described above does joy
fully and constructively large
muscled work. A large boned,
larged muscled man does the same
kind of work. The small boned,
small muscled woman does work
in accordance with her biological
structure A small boned, small
muscled man does likewise. Diff
ferences are recognized but differ
ences remain differences and are
respected as such and do not be-
come inferiorities.
In a workers society what is
wanted is the best from each one.
An individuals best can only be
contributed when the individual is
free, with complete personality in
tegrity, to do those things for which
he or she is structurally and by
talent most capable.
The dif1culty of B. LIS friend,
therefore, is that she still tends to
think of men and women as repre-
senting two different groups of hui
man beings, with inferiorities and
superiorities in the groups them
selves, whereas the only rational
way of thinking is of human beings
as a whole with individual differ
ences which represent neither in
feriorities or superiorities except
when compared in some specific
sense.
The same is true of S. ks guess
ton, which is not foolish one be-
cause it goes to the bottom of cap
italistic hypocracy cloaked in "chiv-
airy" To be gentleman" by in
variably giving a seat in a car to a
LADY and then to do all the other
things that a capitalistic society
does to women is nothing but hy-
pocracy and a means of persuading
women to sell their souls for mess
of pottage" That thousands upon
thousands of women are deceived is,
of course, obvious.
One will differentiate here as in
all other matters. One will give
up ones seat not for reasons OF
chivalry but for some specific rea-
son-the woman Cor mani is old,
is obviously over-tired, is i'll, or the
woman is pregnant which puts her
at the moment at disadvantage.
If a woman is menstruating she
may or may not be uncomfortable.
All women are probably somewhat
uncomfortable while menstruating
but most women are not seriously
uncomfortable. If the woman stand
ing is obviously uncomfortable one
would be justified in giving up ones
seat. The decision to do so, how
ever, is not based upon sex but upon
a specific reason.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
StretchOut,
Layoffs Hit
LaneMillHands
By a Worker Correspondent

by NOEkcE correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, La.-Operations
at the Lane Cotton Mill are again
being curtailed, only the card room
is running two shifts. 1t may be
that there are some few persons
at work i'll the machine shop, and
in other places about the mill, but
the number is negligible.
One year ago there was somewhere
in the neighborhood of 1900 per-
sons employed in this mill, while
at present there is only about 1900.
So, at this one plant in the city
of New Orleans, there has been
something like TOO people that have
lost their jobs in one year.
Thos that are working do not
get any thing like full time, and
if they were to get full time they
would not make enough to live on
like they should. The cost of liv-
ing in this city continues to in
crease while wages and salaries are
being reduced. Every effort that
is made to reduce the expenses of
the city government, as well as the
industries, causes the burden of
the workers to increase. Reduc-
lions are always made at the bot
tom, never from the top; it is the
old army game of pass the buck
1t is always the little guy that gets
the short end.
A few years ago the cotton tex
tile industry in this city was one
of the major industries, but it has
been denoted several grades and
now is only recognized by the
starving condition Of the workers
in the Lane Mill and some very
few other smaller plants.
Between the owners of the fac
tories and the cotton textile code
the workers have been squeezed
until they are almost in the condi-
ton Of the proverbial dish rag
What with the speed that they are
required to maintain on the job
and the lies and propaganda o.
the company spies and Titles Dos.
ses, combined with the threats anc
soft soap of the bigger bosses anc
at the same time that they arr
trying to listen to the spewings o.
the local politicians, they do mo-
have the time to do any thinking
for themselves. They are being
led into an abnormal situation
where they will be paying for year
for their mistakes, unless they cor.
rect them in the very near future
Only one year ago the majorit!
Of the hands at the Lane Mill al
ways changed their clothing wher
they were ready to leave the mill
but now there is not so many o
them that do so. 1t is hard to tel
what caused the change, not S,
long ago the cotton mill hand
here were as jolly group of PEG
pie as one would wish to find, bu
those times are gone there are no
many of the workers that have ;
real smile on their countenanc,
any more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
coMRADE S. K:

rOMRADE S. X:
" 1.-THE following question is
treated so facetiously by so many
people that I hesitate to submit it
lest you will think that I am be-
ing the same; but I assure you I
am serious and I feel that there
are many other people who would
like to have the question answered
seriously.
do you think the health of young
women is so constituted that young
men, when there are no seats avail
able in the subway, should arise
and proffer their own seats?
please treat the question as a
problem of health not of etiquette I"
Of the many contributions that
Soviet Russia has made to human
knowledge and social thought one
of the most outstanding is that the
old division between male and fe-
male, except in the restrictive sense
of provocative function, is foolish
and idle and product Of bourg-
geois thinking In Soviet Russia, as
no where else in the world, an in
dividual is first and foremost a
human being.
Scientists have long known it out
to put their knowledge fully into
effect in a capitalistic society which
has its own reasons for wishing to
continue the myth is impossible. In
workers society it has been pos
sible to base social conduct upon
it.
To judge an entire personality
upon the contour of the individuals
external sex organs is on its face
absurd Capitalistic societies have
attempted to do this but not only
have khey failed but they have
added immeasurably to human mis-
cry on the one hand and to .oSs
of valuable social contributions that
could have been made on the other.
There are women who biologically
are large boned and large muscled
and with an abundance of energy.
To ask these women to conflne their
activities to feminine" things
which are usually conceived as
things to be done by individuals
with small bones and small muscles
is to condemn them to misery and
to make it impossible for them
to make the social contribution
they could make if permitted to
work in accordance with their bio
logical structure. On the other
hand, there are men who are small
boned and small muscled. To ask
that these men demonstrate their
"masculinity" by work that requires
large bones and large muscles is
equally absurd. In both instances,
where these demands are made, as
they are in capitalistic society, each
individual, who in his own right and
way is capable of fine social con-
tribuion is condemned to feelings of
inferiority (the woman is not
feminine" as she should be and
the man is not "masculine") and to
constant apology for their person
atty.
In Soviet Russia this is very diff
ferent. There one does whatever
one is best capable of and nc
apologies are necessary. The type
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Farm LnbOrers Seek
Shelter in Mud Flats
Miserable Shanties Reward for Lifelong Toll
on Dakota Wheat Fields

On the first shelf. bank of the
Red River on the west side, where
two outlets of the city sewers dis
charge the refuse from homes, fac
tories and business places of the
city, stand six miserable shacks
built of boxes covered with sheet
iron picked up out of the hundreds
of thousands of tons of scrap iron
that has for the past IL years or
more been dumped on the river
bank. In these shacks, that are
barely high enough so an ordinary
man can stand between floor and
ceiling, and large enough to hold a
cot to sleep on, and crude bench
or a picked up broken chair, a
rough made table, stove built up
of different pieces Of iron, most Of
them have a small glass for a win
dow; in these six homes, the pride
of capitalism lives. Seven men, all
farm workers, all having worked for
years trying to get ahead enough
to get a home, but every year has
brought them nearer and nearer
down to the poverty level that most
of the American workers find them
selves in today. Thus these sturdy,
Woodworking men, instead of ap-
plying for housing and board at the
poor farms, have taken refuge for
themselves during the idle times on
the farms in these ShackS.
No, these shacks are not from
Russia. These are what is destined
to be the only homes that are pos
sible for a common laborer to get
for himself, under the present state
of affairs in our great country, the
United States of America, the home
of rugged individualisn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
By a Farmer Correspondent


FARGO, N. D.-The land for q
miles or more on both sides of the
slow running Red River of the
North, forming the boundary line
between the State of Minnesota and
North Dakota is by nature the rich
est farm land in the United States
Here no crop failure has ever been
known for the sixty or more years
it has been farmed. Every year has
brought crop Of grains that have
gone out to feed the nation. Yet
these abundant crops have not been
a profitable undertaking for the
farmer. Most of the years these
great yields of mans best food stuff
has been sold at loss to the farm
operator.
Laborers have been lured to the
Dakotas to take part in the great
harvesting of the good hard wheat
crops of the North. These workers
have from year to year been grown
attached to the farm work of the
State of North Dakota, and have,
after many years, begun to regard
this State as their home. For the
past IA years, the farming has been
very uncertain quantity as to
profit for the farmer, and since the
farmer could not make a profit on
his operations, he could not pay the
worker enough to keep those men
during the time of the year when
there was no farm work. And fur
thermore, in the last four years
prices of grain had gone down so
the farmer could not afford to pay
the men the former fair wage,
hence those sturdy, hard working
laborers are today found in the fol-
lowing condition:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
A BUILDER OF THE PARTY
Joplin, Mo.


Dear Comrade Editor:
I think the speech by Comrade
Browder, delivered in Brooklyn, Oc-
tober Is and printed in the Daily
Worker, October 80, is the kind of
material that ought to be in PAM
phlet form and broadcast at all
times. Here is a simple, lucid and
powerful presentation of the aims
of our Party-exactly what we need
in building the Party. With an adj
ditional section covering the farm
problem and the Negro question, it
would completely cover who are
the Reds and what do they stand
for?" 1t should be short, as it is,
and sell for two cents each.
Then cartoons are important, es-
pecially those showing the great
wastefulness of the capitalist system
and how the workers and farmers
smash it. There should be one car
toon on the cover, showing the
worker and small farmer in solidar-
ity against the capitalist system,
and at least three additional ap-
propriate ones on the inside pages.
Cartoons are very educational and
pamphlets containing them sell a
hundred per cent better because
they are attractive.
The pamphlet by Olgin, why
Communism" is, of course, good,
but it is too long and too high in
price, thus not lending itself very
well for mass distribution.
This pamphlet by Browder can be
used now and also in preparation
for our much bigger election cam
paign in 1896. Let's have it!
N
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Betrayed Textile Workers Hail Program of Communist Party
2 Hogs Net So Gents
for Minnesota Farmer
By a Farmer CORRESPONDENT


ASHBY, Minn.-The drought
left the farmers in Minnesota
without feed, and they were
forced to ship their hogs for the
pitiful sum named in the follow
ing clipping from the Grant
County Herald:
"Sauk Rapids-Otto Reimer re-
Gently shipped two hogs to South
st. Paul. The hogs weighed 100
pounds apiece. Mr.. Reirner was
allowed a gross of cent a pound,
Or two dollars for the animals.
From this amount was subtracted
26 cents for yardage, cents for
state weighing, 2 cents for hog in
spection, so cents for commission,
and l cent for fire insurance,
leaving net of $1.19. However,
from this was subtracted the
truckers insurance of 6 cents and
the trucking fee at 80 cents a
hundred, or SO cents, giving Mr..
Reimer a check for the two hogs
Of SO cents, or about "a of a cent
a pound"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Poor House Drives
Inmate to Suicide
By a Worker Correspondent

BRISTOL, S. D.-The condi-
lions which exist at the Day
County Poor Farm" may be
judged by the actions of two Of
the inmates.
Last summer John Anderson,
known as Omaha John" an aged
worker, was taken to the poor
farm" He remained a short time
and then ran away and came
back to Bristol where he rank a
bottle of carbohc acid and died.
Recently, 1t is reported, another
inmate went to Webster, the
county seat, and demanded the
right to stay in Jail, with the
threat that he would break Win
dows.
This seems to me to be a rot
ten" reward to workers who have
given a lifetime of labor to the
United States Of America" the
richest nation on earth"
1t shows the decay Of the profit
system, and the necessity Of a
collectivized system and a Farm
ers' and Workers Government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Potato Crop
Nets 500 Loss
For Farmer
BY a Worker Correspondent

MADISON, Me.-There's a cold
winter coming on, and potatoes are
cheaper than they have been for a
long time.
In the northern part of the state,
things are worse. Thousands of
acres of potatoes have not been
dug, because the price per barrel
is so cents or less, and the farmer
reckons that it costs more than a
dollar to raise barrel of potatoes.
The pulp wood business is now
better than it has been for two
years, but the pay is small, and
they make the men pay their board
for sitting in the camp Sundays.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Slave Driving, Jim-Crowism
In FERA Canning Factory

of them stands at the toilet door
to tell you you can't smoke. There
are many more such facts.
These are the conditions under
Roosevelt's rotten New Deal. exist
ing in Kansas City. Our local Party
Unit is calling on the workers to
form a committee to fight against
such horrible conditions and build
a militan5 fighting unicn of the
relief workers in Kansas City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
N. Y. Workers School Sends
$67 for Daily Worker Driue

Workers highest contribution
quota Second
all English
clubs. contributed S26
previously suggested workers
realized
by December the time set by the Central Committee.
Units concentrate fulfilling quota Use the books!
Arrange affairs Utilize unit meet
popularize the Daily Worker 100000 campaign
Prious Listed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
WORCORRs FAST ASLEEP

For five consecutive days, now,
the Worker Correspondence
Department has had the same
$32 total staring us in the face.
Not one penny has been sent in
to change this figure. To add
to our humiliation, it is at the
very bottom rung of the Social
ist competition ladder. Wor-
corrs! Wake up! We have $500
to raise for the Daily Worker
drivel
Total to date. ......S $1,000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
NOTE

We publish every Thursday let
tiers from farmers, agricultural
and cannery and lumber workers.
We urge farmers and workers in
these industries to write us of
their condition. and their efforts
to organize. Please get these let
tiers to us by Monday of each
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15

Now is the time for the final
push in the 100000. Every reader
send contribution to the Daily
Worker THIS WEEK.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 2030 is available in sizes
10, IL, IA, 16 and 49, Size IA takes
25s yards 81 inch fabric and 11s
yards inch ribbon. Illustrated
step-by step sewing instructions in
cluded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
HOW ABOUT IT?

A group of girl Y. G. Lers col
lected 81 for the 100000 Daily
Worker drive from small gather
ing of workers and students SYM
pathetic to the movement. We hope
this response is not limited only to
the girl Y. C. Lers. How about the
Women's Councils?
Group of girl Y.C.L. men,
bers .................................. LOO
Previously received ............. 1850
lOtal
Quota--S500.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15
Attracted by Column

Attracted by Column
my wife became interested in
the Daily Worker because of the
health column" recently wrote
Harry Aiken Of New York City,
80 you can put this small con-
tribution of 81 to the credit of
the health column"
q. CObOS ..............S 1.OO
Previously Received ...S362.86
Total observation-disclosures 36S.86
Quota 81, 500
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (I5c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
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number. BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 248 West 18th
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15

HERE is a story which appeared
IL in a recent issue of the South
ern Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-15

Received Nov. 10. 1884
Previously received
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-10-13
SUMMONS


State of Minnesota, County Of Hen
nepin--In District Court, Fourth
judicial District.
Ruth Eva Lebtt, plaintiff VS.. Peter
Lebtt, defendants.
The State of Minnesota to the Above
Named Defendant:
You, Peter Lebtt, are. herehy sum-
moned and required to answer the
complaint of the plaintiff in the above
entitled action which said complaint
has been filed in the office of the
Clerk of this Court, in Hennepin
County, Minnesota, and to serve a
copy of your answer. to said COM
plant on the subscribed at his office
in the City of Minneapolis, Henne-
pin County, Minnesota, within thirty
days after the service of this sum
mons upon you exclusive of the day
of service; and if you fail to answer
the complaint within the time afore-.
said the plaintiff herein will apply to
the court for the relief demanded in
said complaint.
Dated October 10th, 1884.
L. S. TAYLOR,
Attorney for Plaintiff,
n No. 10 S. 3rd St.,
Minneapolis, Mimi.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-10-13
DID you KNOW THAT?

In the fiscal year ending with June
the United States governments ex-
penditures for scientific research will
amount to only one-third Of cent
of each dollar spent.
The German scientist who assisted
the late DR.. Rudolph Diesel to devel-
op the motor bearing his name has
continued his work and produced mo-
tors burning pulverized coal.
Radio receiving sets for police pur-
poses have been developed that can
be carried on motorcycles, operating
satisfactorily even when the ma
chimes are driven at high speed.
To increase the use of domestic
raw materials the Mexican govern
ment has increased the import duties
on medicated absorbent gauze, anti
septic bandages and sanitary pads.
Experts of the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey have construct
ed the worlds first portable device
to measure changes in the force of
gravity at different places.
An English inventors automobile
bumper that is shaped like a seat
and padded with sponge rubber is as
serted to pick up uninjured and carry
along person who may struck.
To reduce the strain of driving an
automobile at high speed device has
been invented that automatically re-
duces the ratio of engine speed to
car speed above 40 miles an hour.
Chinese banks, exchanges and
commercial firms, have discontinued
the use of the tael unit of value, US
ing only the yuan, the new standard
silver dollar and the official monetary
unit.
An increase in sun spots forecast
by scientists for the next few years
is expected to improve reception Of
local radio broadcasts and to cause
long distance reception to deterio-
rate.