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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

beaten in the g-eat Unemployed
demonstrations of March 6, $780,
after which they served terms at
Welfare Island. At this time he IS
National Secretary of the Unem-
ployment Councils.
Burroughs is candidate for Lieu
terant- Governor. Her story APP
peared in this column May /, 1884.
She is the granddaughter Of Negroes
who were slaves. Her widowed
mother brought Williana, with her
two other children, to New York
when the youngsters were very
small, and sought housework as a
means Of subsistence.
Williana worked her way through
schocl and college, becoming
teacher in the public schools. After
a long record Of successful teaching,
she and Isidore Begun we're sus-
pended by the school board for de-
Tending I. Blumberg, another N. Y.
school teacher who was fired for &C
tivity in the economic interests of
teacherS.
As a candidate for city controller
in 1888 she polled 30,749 votes.
Is now supervisor of the Harlem
Workers School and otherwise ac-
tive in behalf of the working class.
Vote for Amter.
Vote for Burroughs.
Vete Communist for genuine
Workers Social and Unemployment
Insurance and for the protection OF
academic freedom, civil rights and
employment conditions of teachers
and civil servants.
For State Controller the Com
munist candidate is Rose Wortis, a
needle trades worker. Labor Who's
Who DAILY Worker Trade Union
Supplement of July . tells us she
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
BY a Woker Correspondent

FALL RIVER, Mass.-On Aug. %
group of about 125 relief workers
got together to protest against the
bad food given to relief workers and
to demand jobs. All the workers
told their complaints; they had to
work 2 days every 2 weeks for
nothing in order to get the food;
one man got moldy bread; one man
with a sick mother and father got
no milk, just cabbage, salt pori,
and lard; some workers didn't have
any money to buy matches to cook
the small amount they got, etc.
The workers elected grievance
committee of and also a perma-
nent chairman and secretary. They
took the name and address of all
present. They drew up the follow
ing demands:
I've demand decent adequate
relief for all unemployed workers
and their families.
2-Enough milk, butter. meat and
groceries to every unemployed
worker and his family.
3-FTee rent-l.ghts and gas or
oil.
4-S2 cash weekly for every fam
lily receiving relief for other neces-
sites of life.
5-No work tickets to any unem-
ployed worker while receiving re-
lief.
The Committee went down to pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Shoe Plant That Workers
Helped to Build Is Turned
Into Cheap Labor Trap

their wages had been increased
since the Introduction Of the piece
work system.
Absolutely not!" they replied.
They put out more shoes, but their
wages remain the same as before.
The labor cost to the company for
each pair of shoes is only AZ cents.
There is quite story behind this
shoe factory. The local bu-ines5
men decided some time ago that
Edgerton needed more business. So
the city donated the site for the
factory, persuaded the local unem-
ployed to build it for nothing and
presented the Nunn-Bush Co. with
a brand new factory without cost
to them except for building ma
terialS, etc. When it was formally
opened all Edgerton held celebra-
ton. Even Governor Schmedeman
came down to speak. The public
spirited citizens rejoiced. They had
stolen march on the more back
ward communities. The unemployed
workers were glad. Now they would
have work and decent living again.
They had a sad awakening. Their
wages are below the level of many
F. E. R. A. employees. The cot OF
living went up as soon as the sdoc
factory WIS built. Rents increased
tremendously. One worker told me
he had to pay SO a month rem for
a four-room house without any
toilet facilities. This is high rent
for a town of 5000. The company
enjoys all the benefits of cheap
labor Its employees might as we'll be
on relief as far as any improvement
in their conditions is concerned.
These workers are unorganized.
But they feel the need for a union.
They read in the papers about
workers striking Tor decent wages.
They are figuring that maybe that's
what they should do, too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Letters from
OurReaders
AN ANSWER TO HEARST

Comrade Editor:
The name writings of Brisbane
in the Hearst papers are an affront
20 its intelligent leaders. Every
time he gets chance he GIandara
the Communists and the u. S. S. R.
One of these slandeTous comments
appeared in the Detroit Times OF
Aug. 2, and it's one that made me
see red"
He writes: Thoughtful Commu-
nists" (here, suppose, he implies
that most Communists are brain
Less "canno5 advocate common
ownership of property If you
divide up tomorrow everything in
the U. S., or any other country,
without providing Cor management
OF production and distribution, you
Tould have chaos and famine
coon. =. Russia is far removed from
il, being simply dictatorship in
which nobody except few rulers
actually owns (Brisbane'5 cmphasi5)
anything"
HoWs that, Comrade Editor, for
malicious and nauseating writing?
The capitalist henchmen and jour-
nalistic towards can write such lies
because they know that the average
worker cannot answer back, since all
capitalistic mediums of expression
are closed to them.
l am glad that the workers h3.ye
a champion in he Daily Worker,
wheTo they can talk oac,,ii" 10 vhe1c
iying capital-ctic aycophant5. Tor
reaeca3 that are patent, 1 don't cub-
scribe to the Daily 1 buy = and
other revolutionary publications
from Comrade *. 1 leave cop
les of these papers and magazines
with comments in red pencil, on
street cars and in other public
places. r. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Force Kroger
Store tORehire
NegrOWo rkers
BY a Worker Correspondent

CINCINNATI, Ohio.-The Kro-
ger Stores, one of the largest
grocery chain stores in Cincinnati,
and also located everywhere through
this part of the United States, laid
off the three Negro workers in
their store in the Walnut Hills
section of this city-a Negro Sec
ton. They retained their white
workers and replaced these three
colored workers with white work.
ers. I just heard about this yes
terday.
1 spoke to a young Negro who
lives in this section Of the city Il
do not live in this section) and he
told me this. His Negro organiza-
ton decided to boycott this Kroger
store They had placards made
which read. This store discrim-
mates against the Negro" The
store was boyoo5ted, and Kroger
had to put these three workers
back to work.
Kroger put sign in the win
dow; 1--WE employ colored people.
The small grocery stores in this
section of the city are feeling the
reaction of this. Some of these
small stores have no employees, only
themselves and family.
A small store acoss the street
from the Xrcger store sells to COL
ored people but will not allow them
to sit down at the tables to eat
Or drink. This is not allowed to
Negroes anywhere in Cincinnati
where white people trade. The
cwner of the store refuses to allow
Negroes to sit down. The Negroes,
being in majority near this store,
are picketing it with placards
stating that the owner discrimi-
mates against the Negro. He has
complained to the police that they
are interfering with his business.
Not one word of this was printed
in the papers here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
NeuU Orleans Council
Helps 1900 Families
Open Air Meetings of Unemployment Group
Show Demand for Workers Literature

will see that the policy OF the IN
employed Council is the only correct
one, and that only when workers
lead the workers through a rank
and file organization can we win
a decent life for all.
Long exposed himself over the
radio by saying that his doing away
with the poll tax didn't mean that
the Negroes had any more right to
vote than before.
We made one mistake in our
meeting. We didn't bring enough
literature to be sold. We thought
that we were concentrating the
melting if W tried to sell the work
e-s. At least We thought the work
ers might think so. This was UNI
fortunate, as was proved by the
great demand.
In a week We are to have another
meeting, and you can bet plenty OF
our pamphlets and Daily Workers
vii be there. The Council has gained
relief for over 1900 families in the
few months of it's existence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
NV a Worker Corresnondent

KENOSHA, WiS.-I have lust re-
turned from trip through many
of the smaller towns in southern
Wisconsin. Bad as conditions are
in the larger industrial centers
along Lake Michigan, they do not
hold a candle to what we found in
the towns we visited.
We stopped at Orfordville to dis
tribute the Communist election
platform to a hundred or so rail-
road workers who were repairing
the track. The minute they read
the word Communist many of them
said: That's the stuff. That's
what we need!" These workers re-
ceive only Is cents an hour.
In Green County, according to
the Monroe paper, F. E. r. A. work
ers receive only 80 cents an hour.
They are unorganized. In spite of
protests to the county authorities,
they have been refused pay in
creases.
In Edgerton, home of the present
Congressman from this District,
George Blanchard, conservative Re-
publican, workers in the Edgerton
shoe factory receive an average Of
only $3.50 week for full weeks
work.
The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton paper, contains the fol-
lowing significant item
"217 WORKERS ON SHOE FAC
TORY PAY ROLL"
The local branch of the Num-
Bush and Weldon Shoe Company
reports that there were 217 names
on their pay roll the past week,
which amounted to S2,954.
THE employees have been placed
on piace-work, and the production
is increasing. there being 1850 pairs
OF shoes made daily"
! spoke to some of the workers IN
front of the factory, asking them if
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Peoria Unemployment
Council Reorganizing
BY Worker Correspondent

PEORIA, Ill.-After two month
{, Reorganization on acccun+ n:
-,.i--rucSion by stool pigeons and the
ter ism of the Peoria police, the
~ Unemployment Council is re-
c13anizing.
A new and much larger hall has
been secured for the regular use of
the Council. at 727 South Adams
St., in the building formerly occu-
pied by the Volunteers of America
feeding station.
During the temporary inactivity
of the Council, the Illiroi5 Ener-
genoy Relief Sorvioo his been max
ing m1nv cuts in reiicf standards,
sens workers being cat of the rolls
comp-e5clv.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
WORKERS. LETTERS SHOW RISING STRUGGLE FOR RELIEF

course, the victim notices a burning
sensation when he urinates. This
may be very severe. Associated
with this is a more or less yellow
discharge of yellowish pus from the
opening Of the canal. There may
or may not be pain present. In
addition, there may be a slight
fever, although this is usually alb
sent. There may be a generalized
weakness and loss of appetite.
With syphilis, the only sign may
be a small ulcer or sore at the
genital organ-no pain-no dis
charge-no generalized symptoms in
the early stages.
Information concerning venereal
diseases may be in pamphlets gotten
from the United States Public
Health Service in Washington,
D. C., or the New York City Board
of Health.
SIeeplessnesS
A.. PhiIadelphia:-The taking of
allonal for sny period in order to
sleep is definitely a mental depend
ance, We do not say That you
should discontinue it for that rea-
son, but you should attempt to dis
cover why you are unable to sleep.
Insomnia is a symptom and we be-
lieve you should discuss this prob
lem freely with an able physician,
if as you say, you have taken al
lonal for this long a time. The
symptoms of delayed sllonal excre-
ton may be dizziness, fullness in
the head, headache, numbness,
weakness. confusion, poor appetite,
various skin rashes, etc. The drug
is not accepted by the Council on
Pharmacy, of the American Med
ical Association. Accepted or not,
the use of drug of this series over
a long period, is not without its
danyers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
By a Worksr Cor-,-ncnsc-,t


NEW ORLEANS, La.-For the
first time here a local of the IN
employed Council had its own open
air meeting. Around $50 Negroes
and 10 whites gathered around the
speakers stand. The people were a
little doubtful at first, fearing police
interference, but soon they were
enthusiastically cheering the speak
ers.
We have a very difficult time ex-
posing the fruitlessnesS of Huey
Longs Share the Wealth Program.
People here say the reason he has
not done anything yet, is because
Wall Street is against him. They
also say We don't have to organize,
that Long will take care of the
workers. OF course none of them
can analyze his theory.
This doesn't mean we are discour-
aged We know that sooner or later,
depending on the tempo Of our &C
tivity, the workers of New Orleans
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Workers on Relief Fight
Red Tape Rules on Food

sent their demands and were given
the run-around from a. m. till 2
in the afternoon. They were re-
ferred from one Office to another,
from one city official to another
And each official referred the mat
ter to another, while the workers
were trying TO get decent food for
their families.
The workers don't intend to lei
the matter drop. They will not
come down as committee next
time, bu5 will come up with all
the workers. And they don't in
tend to bulge until they win their
demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
1000 Out of $4,000
in Boise Are on Relief
By a Worker Correspondent

BOISE, Idaho.-There are about
1000 on charity in this town OF
22,OC0, yet rs per cent are Demo-
Gratis, and NEST of them say that
the Communists should &c deported
from America. Many OF the little
children are begging for food.
The Socialists arc throwing slurs
at the Communists. The Socialist
heads are Jay and Hurt, and are
giving a pow-wow up in one of the
churches, telling of the vast suffer-
ing throughout the U. S. A., but
did not offer cure for our
troubles.
1t looks like all they want is to
sell out to the Republican Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
IN THE HON
BY HELEN LUKE

since its formation, acting as assis-
tant secretary for number of
years, and secretary Of strike COM
mittees. Now, as secretary of the
T. U. U. c., she is connected with
nearly every strike in N. Y. c. AS
candidate for city controller in 1882,
she polled $4,000 votes.
Vote for Wortis.
Vote Communist for the unlimited
and unhindered right of the work
ers, farm laborers, state and civil
employees to organize, strike, or
demonstrate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
SELLS DAILIES IN XXX. TOWN
BY a Worker Correspondent

CLINTON, Ind-Just a few lines
to inform YOU of the conditions in
the city Of Clinton, Ind. I am a
black man, II years of age, and the
only Negro here that deels with
the Daily Uor6er Thsrc are only
2 few Negroes here. none Of whom
buys the Daily WORKER. as this is 9
Ku KluZ town. Therefore. as yau
see. it makes it very difficult fo-
me to sell any papers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
SUGGESTS WORCORR
PAMPHLET
New York City

IVeW DIX OlCy.
Dear Editor:
l don't get the chance to read the
Daily Worker in the morning, as 1
am out working, but do read it at
night, and usually in bed. Tonight
was SO impressed with the Letter
of an 1. R. T. worker to the Police
Commissioner that I got out OF bed
to write this letter, because it also
gives me an idea.
The worker correspondents write
some very interesting letters, and I
think 1t would be splendid idea
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
PARTY LIFE
c. p. Members Urged to Be
Most ActiUe in Struggles
Non-Paty Member Criticises the Inactivity of
Party Members in Food Workers Union

AS a member of the Hotel and
Restaurant Workers Union, Local
11s of the Food Workers Industrial
Union, I write this letter to be pub
lished in the Daily Worker as soon
as possible. I want to complain
about and criticizes the activities of
certain Party members in this local
union who refuse to picket any
time there is a strike. Especially
is this true of Comrades Julius
Freshman and Emil Goldstein.
I always thought that the Party
members, whenever a strike takes
place, or whatever activities con-
corning the union there are, are
supposed to take the leading part
among the non-Party members Of
the union to teach hem how to
become clas5-conscious workers for
further struggles and to show them
that the Party members are always
leading the fight for the non
EaTIy WOrkeTS.
But the way these Party mem
bers act in their activities demon
allies us workers completely many
times. because we do not have the
experience in the labor movement
and in the union that the Party
members have.
And I do not believe that by
doing these things refusing to go
on the picket line, refusing to dis
tribute leaflets. etc.. that we can
trust them to lead us; nor will they
convince us to Join the Party. And
is to blame for this but
those members of the Party them
selves.
j. R..
Non-Party Member.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

became active
for the first
time in the 1915
S t rike of the
Dire ssnlakers -
from that time
until the expul-
sion of the left
wing, she occu-
pied an official
post in the I. L.
G. w. w. She
W a S twice ex-
PEELED from this
n ~, 49,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12


Of l. Am t e r,
candid a t e for
Governor. AM
ter (b orn in
Montana) h a S
b e en- a we'll
k n W n labor
leader for many
years, being a
pioneer in the
U n employment
c o uncil move
m e n t. Along
with Foster and
Miner he was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1889 is available in sizes
is, 10, 20, "a, 36, SO. 40, AZ, A and
IS. Size So takes 37s yards 80 inch
fabric and y yard contrasting. Il
Illustrated step-by-step sewing in
structions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

to put the ones you think best into
a pamphlet to sell for penny or
two. Other workers would be i'm
pressed, l am sure, and would be-
come more interested in reading the
Daily"
Comradely,
H. JX.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

Two of the women running for
Office on the Communist ticket of
New York Ctate are Williana Bur-
rcughs and Rose Wortis.
BURROUGHS is the running mate"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

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, 1934-09-12

She was arrested after the second
expulsion in 1926 and was shot by
garg5te-s sent out by the I. L. C.
". U. odlcials." Rose Wortis has
bcc1 connected with the T. U. U. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
LETTER from A COMMUNIST
Richmond, Ind.

Richmond, Ind.
Dear Editor,
We have been very busy lately.
On boy, ! believe we are going to
do something now We are making
an energetic drive for our State
ticket. I have now gotten II names.
am going to get hundred. 1
sure enjoy this. 1 just had to tell
you.
Here is money order for So 80 for
my next bill.
Say, the Daily Wo, ker is getting
so great and go5d, I just wish I
we're thar2 to tell ycI how I feel.
Ny folks aid ny young h-otl,c--'
are crazy about tilc cap.tailstic
President, and as I am living with
them, we have a nice talk every
little bit. They try to scare me
away from the c. P. But the only
way they can do that is to put a
bullet in me. I am a Communist
and cannot be anything else.
A. K
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in
coins or stamps (coins prefcrreO
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
number. BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 w. 18th
ST.. New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

Comment Of District Org. Dept
This letter of Comrade ]. r. is
of the most serious significance to
all Party members. This statement
Ct a non-Pa-ty worker in union
with regard to the activities of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
TO OUR POLITICAL PRISONERS
Eben Junction, Mich

EDen junction, Mich.
This letter was sent to Comrades
Burman and Immomen, at the
Michigan State Branch Prison,
Marquette, Mich;
Comrades:
We, the students of the Eben
Pioneer Summer Camp, numbering
81. extend our war,nezt revolution
ary greetings to you comrades.
we have come here for the pur-
pose of learning about the tasks
that are confronting the working
class youth today. We know that
you are innocent, comrades, only
that you dared to organize the
workers and farmers into struggle
FOR their rights.
I'VE wish to have you with us.
"Comradely,
"EBEN SUMMER
CAMP CHILDREN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

Finnish WkrS
DISTRICT tMinneapoiis)
r. Jalek 100 Un ), Superior
Tot. Sept. 8 100 -
Employees of Tot. Sept. 10 1918
Tyomies Soc. 1914 Toll to date 59.3s
DISTRICT Is New Haven)
I'm 100 M. L. Cohen 10
NJ Gripko Pc 500
Total Sept. 10 20
Tot. Sept. Q Geo Tot. to date $3.50
DISTRICT 10 tDcnver)
". Ecowa, PARK Tot. to d1te 5b.55
C.s-, Utah 1.9o A. Si-l9y 10
ret. Sept. 10 Led TIT. Sept. as
The Washington times., 1934-04-06

Yet, they did! It became
an Eat Wave! 1t swept the
grocery stores bare Of Heinz
Soups and the grocers kept
after us for more Soup in
bigger lots-and oftener.
And today we sell almost as
much Soup in a day as we
used to sell (not so long ago)
in a week.
This makes it hard for us,
because what makes people
like our Soups at once and
keep on, is the home recipe
way we make Ine1n - the
sound ingredients, conscien-
tiously selected, the unhur-
ried cooking in small
patches. We have had to
search far and wide to get
the right good things to
make them. We are work.
ing day and night over our
slow, simmering kettles to
keep up with the demand.
The Washington times., 1934-04-06
CUSS|NG WORDS
HARD To HEAR

Whether you have taken to the
use Of profanity in giving testi-
mony before a congressional
committee or whether a member
Of either house has used pro-
family in debate is mere mat
ter Of how much the official
stenographers can hear-and that
depends upon what words are
used.
This was brought to light this
week when, during a hearing be-
fore the Senate Finance Com
mittee, virtually everyone in the
room heard John P. Sullivan,
New Orleans attorney, call
Senator Huey P. Long (D0 of
Louisiana, a-well, we can't print
the word here. The transcript
of the hearings did not have this
choice line.
Official stenographers explained
that they can "hear" the words
hell" and damn" in most in
stances, but words more profane
than those never reach their ears.