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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

er one year ago, and as I see you
are fighting for downtrodden hui
mainly am sending you so cents
and asking you to renew my sub
Scription 4 months.
Time are mighty tough with us
farmers out here in Oklahoma. We
are picking up what few jobs the
government is throwing out to us.
A few months ago a Communist
was billed to speak in Blackwell, my
home town of about 5000 inhabi-
tants. A mob of American Legion
thugs met the Communists at the
hall, tried to force them to kiss
the flag, and after beating them,
took them out of town and COM
PEELED them to leave.
And this outrage against free
speech and humanity was upheld
by the Blackwell daily paper
I don't see how anything can ever
be done to help conditions unless
all labor get together under one
banner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
"C0ngenital Heart

Jack M, Detroit, Mich.-The term
"congenitap' heart is used to de-
signate defect of the heart which
existed before the baby was born.
There are no drugs which can be of
any service in these cases. The baby
is liable to have spells similar to the
one he had before. In order to pre-
vent them, you must be careful not
to excite him. Don't allow him TO
cry, etc. His lips and his nails be-
come blue because, owing to the
defect in the heart, the blood lis not
sufficiently aerated. The cough is
due to congestion of the lungs which
is brought about by insufficient blood
circulation. The baby may also get
an ordinary cough which will have
nothing to do with his heart con-
dation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

BEFORE we may COIlsauet the subject
ID OF fireless cooking adequately dealt
with we must add a few words as to
its limitations. In answer to Comrade
Irene's query rs to the recent Oh
scurity OF tbs method, we advance the
surrnise that these cookers fell some
what into disuse with the discovery Of
the importance Of yitamins.
Somewhere I have seen the sar-
castle comment, Cooking without fire
dining without food" implying that
such cooking destroys food values. In
the case of most vegetables and other
highly vitaminous foods, yes: but
dried beans and tough cheap cuts Of
meat. and starchy foods such as bar
ley and whole wheat, need long cook
ing: surely better to cook them in the
economical and convenient fireless
cooker than to eat them half-cooked
or not eat them at all. Many unem-
ployed families have little else to eat
but the above named foods.
Comrsde Bonita T. dropped a few
humorous tips" on the subject. She
states that leading chefs warned
against their use as generating gases
and causing oxidation (of vitamins).
'vitamin B, though, is a sturdy
fellow, and starch foods must have
their cooking at length. If the CAD
gets cook at too high temperatures
they are Just nix. If however they
keep in juices, prevent oxidation, and
do slow coozin~. what a pal! but
the advertising literature of the
manufacturers saying these cookers
summarily solve the whole food
problem. makes nice candlestick
holders"
In short, the "Fireless" is not built
for spinach and must be used with
discretion. DR.. Luttinger suggests
that highly spiced foods should not be
made in them.
Hot Breakfast in Winter
Conrade Irene's method for cereal:
whole wheat or rolled oats should be
put to bed before supper while you are
cooking the evening meal. Get the
water boiling well, salt as you like 1t,
and add the oats or wheat. Boil
few minutes to be sure grain Is heated
through.
.sUse the plate or not as you please.
Put in the cereal and close cooker.
The cereal should be ready for break
fast the next morning but if the
shredded paper was not packed in
YOUR cooker very hard indeed, you
may have to reheat the cereal.
For Meat
Choose a cheap cut, but one that
will not be too tough, and will have
rood flavor. Scar it all over well. add
boiling water (cold would tougher the
best cuts after searing) let it return
TO a good rolling boil and boil for
several minutes.
an cooking meat the plate Cor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Of 7 Toll
for Rich Farme
for S35 a Month

ROCHESTER, Minn--Last week a
committee from the Unemployed
Council investigated a case Of peon-
age on a farm near Rochester. A
rich farmer had working for him a
man and wife and five children. The
family got house to live In and
S35 per month. When the man was
injured by a bull, he was docked for
the time he was laid up. His wages
for that month were only $40.
They are milking Al cows by hand,
producing 100 gallons Of milk a day,
and out Of this the family of seven
Is allowed two quarts per day. No
butter, no meat, no fuel.
The whole family, UP at 4:4S am,
does the milking, the father, mother
and Oldest girl Of IS work like hell
all day, while the younger kids are
at school, then all turn in again at
5 pm. to milk and do the shores.
and the rest of the day to them
selves"
The Unemployed Council will write
this up in the next issue of the Hun
ger Fighter, and try to get them re-
lief from the local relief administra-
ton. On Wednesday night. Jan. "a
the Unemployed Council will hold a
meeting to elect a delegate to the
National Unemployed Convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
&C. W. A. Jobs Denied to Sharecroppers in
Black Belt to Keep Them Tied to Landlord
Only 200 of 10000 in TalIapoosa County Get
Anything, and These Are Mostly Bosses

tell the Negroes that they aren't
worth as much as the white men.
On the CW.A. the landlords take
the jobs themselves and don't give
the sharecropper any job whatever.
This is the case with the poor white
as well as the Negroes. Talapoosa
County has about 10000 population,
but only 200 have been given C.WA.
jobs, and most Of them are landlords
The poor cropper has long walk
from Dadeville and back going to
the C.WA. office to sign up, and all
they get is a scrap of paper, and the
C.WA. office tells them to cong back
two weeks later. They can't even get
clothes to wear and the landlords
say they aren't going to let them have
anything. We Will have to do some
thing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

by 1887, to make up the deficiency
of physicians in Russia; the ideal be-
ing to have one physician to every
thousand persons.
The contrast between the pitiable
condition of the medical student in
this country and the proud position
of the candidate of medicine in Rus
STA is due directly to the difference
between the capitalist scheme Of
private profiteering and that Of
planned economy for the benefit Of the
working class, which characterizse the
Communist system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
SMALL TOWN HIT BY CRISIS
BY a Farmer Correspondent.

CLAREMONT, Va. Claremont
has gone down very much since the
crisis started. We have lost our
paper that had been published since
1879. The train is gone and now
our bank. The post Office and two
stores and choolhouse remain. Don't
know how soon they will go.
I saw in a paid advertisement in
the South Side Virginia News"
that Petersburg Ga city thirty miles
from here) is also going down in
spite of the blue eagle. They lay
it to the chain store that their
home merchants are going bank
rupt and people moving out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

bTOIlXs
Dear Editors and Comrades of the
Daily Worker:

6TOIlXs
Dear Editors and Comrades Of the
Daily Worker:
1 have heard and read about self
criticism that exists in the Commu-
mist Party 1 therefore decided to
write in a genuine criticism on the
Needle Trades Industrial Union to
find out if they act right.
I am not member of the C. P.
but a sympathizer and straight
c. P. voter.
l have been a union man at the
line I worked years ago, where a
union prevailed. But now I am not
union man because the industrial
union refuses to take it upon itself
to organize the line I work at now.
I am q tailor. For several years I
have been working at the retail tall
oring and cleaning stores. In differ
ent occasions whenever 1 came in
contact with group of workers,
chiefly Negroes, employed as presserS
mostly in this line, was trying to
talk about organizing, even collected
names and addresses, showing a will
lingness to organize. The continuous
fractional misunderstanding that was
always raging in the two lahcrins
organizations, prevented me from
bothering myself with organization
work.
A short time ago, came into the
industrial union, was introduced to
| the chief organizer, presented the
| problem of organizing this part OF
the cleaning industry. His first an
Swer disappointed me. eve have nc
department for this line" On my
further question, can't a department
be created, his advice was to go to
the Cleaners, Dyers and PresserS
Union. which was then involved in
strike-a struggle for their very
existence, which was lost. I deemed
it impractical and dropped 1t.
No doubt, it is very important FOR
the Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers
Union to undertake to organize these
workers because it would give them
added strength in the future fight
for better conditions, due to the
dependence Of the wholesale clean
ers and dyers on the tailor stores for
their work We as workers can tie
up, hinder the sending Of the work
instead of coming as they, the Clean
ers, Dyers and Pressers Union did
come. to these very storekeepers, the
Retail Tailor and Cleaners Associa-
ton, for a sympathetic strike against
whom? The Wholesale Cleaners and
Dyers Association
Well, 1 submit this action to your
Daily Worker. What right, moral or
otherwise, did they have to come to
these business people for sympathy
with a promise to reciprocate in their
struggle with their own employers
that is-to help my boss win advan-
tage from their boss! Why not or
ganize me-the worker, because as
workers, whether working for retail
ers or wholesalers. our interest is
identical, while business people,
whether retailers or wholesalers
theirs, too, are identical. Is it not
so? S. B.
EDITORS E.-Regarding
your letter on the Needle Trades
Workers Inductrial Union and the
Cleaners and Dyers situation, we
have made thorough investigation
and are glad to give you below the
report of the Trade Union Unity
Council which Is responsible for the
policy Of all unions affiliated with
IL:
STATEMENT OF THE TRADE
UNION UNITY COUNCIL
We cannot but agree with the
writes ef this letter in his criticism
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IN fIDe, H,,uuaeB
3Ss#hN ,s s.sss ss.s - A
HELEN LUKE

soapstone) is most nseded. If you do
not have this, it will be necessary to
reheat the meat the following morning
while you are getting breakfast. Then
you can season it and put 1t back into
the cooker, to be served in the noon
meal or at night"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
(By a Farmer Correspondent

DADEVILLE, Ala.-The Black Belt
is in a critical condition. The land
lord tells the poor farmers thst they
can't furnish them anything to farm
with but they can, such as horses.
The real reason they tell the share
cropper that they can't furnish them
is in order to keep them on the farm
and work them for so cents day,
while the landlords work on the c.
w. A. for $6 and IS a day. And there
the landlords clear from $3.50 to $3.50
a day after paying the Negroes so
cents a day.
This does for the day hands. Now
the wages the landlord pays them is
really 81 month. The bosses pay
the white more for their work than
they do the Negroes. The landlords
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

be discouraged by these unsuccess-
full attempts to get cooperation in
organizing this exploited section OF
the workers, but on the contrary, as
militant worker, 1t is his duty to
fight in order to correct the mistakes
Of the organizations which are lead
ing the struggle of the workers. We
would advise you to Immediately get
in touch with the T.U.U.C., so as to
arrange for definite organizationaI
campaign for the formation of a
fighting union of the workers in your
trade. Their address IL 799 Broadway,
Room 1888.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

Send fifteen cents (15c) in coins or
stamps coins preferred 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 West 18th
Street, New York City.
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NC r2oiish letters from farm
Gas. agricultural workers, canneTy
wo-kcrs, ana forestry workers
every Thursday. These workers
are urged to send us letters about
the'- conditions Of work, and
&c. a.,ugg;es to organize. Please
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1855 is available in sizes
SO. 38, 20, ~, "A and IS. Size Sc takes
37s yards 80 inch fabric and Il yard
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Gives C.W.A. Jobs
in Lacrosse Only
to Close Friends
BY a Farmer Correspondent

LA CROSSE, wis., am farmers
daughter, so I'll write a few things I
know that the farmers are cheated
out Of.
The airport being made here Is
about a quarter of a mile from our
farm. The government allotted some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

Every new subscriber gained for
the Daily" strengthens our revoIu-
tutionary movement. ASK your fell
low worker TO subscribe.
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Is we are very slow IN going 10 THEM
or should I say reluctant How do We
expect the workers to come to uS2 Just
because we give out on certain oc-
casions a leaflet calling them TO q
demonstration or mass meeting2 They
do not know us, and therefore don't
come to us. 1t is only thru the Daily
Worker that we can acquaint the
masses with our Party. The Daily
Worker will convince them that this
is the only Party that represents their
interests, and the Daily Worker will
teach them that their place is
among our ranks.
If only every Party member would
realize the significance Of the Daily
Worker penetrating deeper and deeper
into the masses and move to accom-
plish it-just as the comrades realize
when it comes to a f1noncial crisis
that We must help the Daily to live,
we also must do everything in our
power for the Daily to grow. suggest
the following:
l. Each unit in each district should
order at least five copies for each
member 90 would not be too much,)
that comrades go out in groups Of
two to sell the Daily from door to
door: and explain that they are not
doing this to make living, but
then explain why.
2. That the question Of the d. W.
should be thoroughly discussed in the
District Buroes and directives be given
to the units proposing how many
Dallies each member should sell
weekly, to increase week after week,
and also strict check-up.
Comradely,
CT.
c. P. Section 2, Philadelphia.
T.
No Daily Workers Sold In
Lackawanna
am working in Lackawanna with
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union and I guess 1t is up to me
to see that we have the Daily Worker
out among the workers. When we
had unit meeting the other night I
asked the question: HOW many 'DalieS'
are sold here day? The reply
that got was, none. Haven't had any
for some time, as the agent in this
town owes bill.
We can't meet the bill, and We
stopped getting it. Well, I told them
that I ordered 100 for Jan. 9Th and
every one must help to sell 1t. ] came
here from the Pittsburgh District and
they have different way Of handling
the. Daily than the Buffalo district.
In Pittsburgh the units have Daily
Worker agent. This Is the only way
to sell the Daily and get it in the
hands Of all the workers. But here IN
Buffalo they don't get into the hands
OF the workers. One or two comrades
cover the whole city and that is no
way to get the Daily in the workers
hands. I wish you would write some
thing In the paper about this. Each
unit should sell the Daily. To make
long story short, at this unit meet
ing we elected a Daily Worker agent.
1 will give you his address. Please
send him S copies every day to start
with and as soon as we can increase
it to 10 copies q day, We will. I have
only been in Lackawanna for one
week so I don't know just what
amount we will be able to get sold
each day. I will try to have some
kind of party after while to pay
up the old bill which we owe the
paper.
n p, Lackawanna, n. Y.
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Capitalist Paper Lauds
Legion's Brutal Attack
BY a Farmer Correspondent.

BY Farmer Correspondent.
BRAMAN, Okla.-My subscription
to the Saturday edition of the Daily
Worker expired q few weeks ago.
However it was through the gen.
crosby OF a friend that I had the
privilege of reading the Daily Work
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get these letters to us by Monday
of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

using you as safety valve. had
to blow steam of on some one.
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BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-03

"Hello, there, Goofy." Scouty said. Don't let us stop you. Go ahead and finish up your saving. Maybe we can lend a hand.
 '"That pushing back and forth, no doubt, will soon make both your arms tired out"
 "Ha, ha," laughed Goofy. You don't know how much work I can stand.
 You see, Pm jumping all day long, and naturally that makes me strong. Why I could saw for hours and never hesitate.
 ''However, since you lads have stopped to cali, my saving will be dropped. Then we can play togeth- CT, and I think that will be great"
 Wee Goldy smiled and shouted, "Gee! You are as thoughtful as can be. Let's have q jurnping con test to sec who can jump the best v
 Once more CT Goofy laughed, and then he erred, "Okay. Just tell me when I am supposed to jump. With very strong legs l am blessed.'
 .Right now. said Scouty. Then
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-03
Pictures by. George ScArbo N

there came a jump that put the bunch to shame. The big grass hopper took one leap and disap- peared from sight.
 Old Nick exclaimed, Don't start fuss. He's simply played trick on us. Instead of coming back to- day, he'll curl up for the night"
 One of the Tinien then cried, Hey! We're due for one more thrill to-day. see funny beetle, and he's wearing boxing gloves.
 Hes boxing with a musroom. Say, how does hettle get that way? I'm going up and ask him why such funn sport he loves."
 They found the beetle friendly, and he said, T guess you'll under stand, when I explained that Mis- ter Caterpillar took my home.
 '1'Il get him in boxing bout and very shortly drive him out. When get through. I'm pretty sure that ReiI be glad to roam" Copyright 1934 NET Service, Inc)
 tThc caterpillar pulls a surprise in tine next story.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-03

tThc caterpillar pulls surprise in the next stOry.)
Evening star., 1934-03-04

when the professor acquired wife, and
she came to his lectures, the college
authorities thought it was all right and
dispensed with the chaperon.
It was a great Towering time IN
science, that latter half of the nine
teenth century, a time of wonder and
wonders. One day Lord Kelvin showed
Lodge a little instrument Graham Bell,
the inventor, had just given him. It
was nothing more than clock spring
attached to an electric magnet. But,
10! it spoke. True, it only spoke a
simple sentence. But it was capable Of
being taught from that point on. It
was the first telephone: The funda-
mental invention, Lodge calls it, of the
Evening star., 1934-03-04

latter half of the nineteenth century.
One after another they came his way,
the new marvels which were to revo-
lutionize the life and ways of the
human race and transform the face
of the world. Lodge got hold of one
of the first crude Photographs just
after Edison had invented it, and lee
tured with it. The lectures were
great draw. This pleased him, because
he had to make money for his family.
Children were arriving-he had II in
all, the first six, boys. But his home
life was perfectly happy.
The most important part Of Lodges
scientific work was done as professor of
physics, first in Liverpool. the cotton
Evening star., 1934-03-04

80s was very religious, and good many
of the church men there frowned on
the new zest for science-they hadn't
got over the shock Darwin had admin
iStered with his theory of the divine
origin of man. One vicar came out with
public notice:
"Oh, men of Liverpool, ye that are
seeking for light.
lightning!"
The men Of Liverpool did have one
spell when they thought the bearded
professor from London, who was reputed
to be on speaking terms with the devil
himself, might be slightly crazy. That
was when they saw him walking about
the streets holding a queer looking
apparatus to his ears and apparently
listening. But what could he hear, any,
way, since the tubes he held against his
eardrums were not visibly connected to
anything? He was listening to signals
from his college laboratory. He had,
in fact, stumbled upon the miracle of
wireless waves, and had invented q
coherer method of detecting them
He did not follow an initial discovery
up and make subsidiary discoveries. He
liked to spread himself over range.
co WHEN he discovered the means
of detecting electric waves by the
coherer, he neglected the prelude to
what has now developed into wireless
telegraphy, though he went on with it
at intervals, and just beat Marconi to
the latters first patent. Marconi came
over from Italy in 1896 with what Sir
w. H. Preece described to section A
of the British Association as "a box
giving a quite new system of space
telegraphy." In June of that year
Marconi registered his first patent. But
before the publication of the Marconi
patent, Lodge had taken out a patent
for selective tuning by use of self-in-
duction.
Seven years later the Lodge -Muirhead
system was established by the Indian
government between Burma and the
Andaman Islands, and was also used
in steamers round the coast. The Mar
conf group and the Lodge -Muirhead
syndicate naturally clashed in the years
that followed. But finally Lodges tun-
ing patent was upheld as valid by the
British courts in 1911, and extended.
Then the patent was bought out by the
Marconi company on condition that the
-Muirhead syndicate 60 out Of
business
His most important experimental
spread over many years, were those
concerning the ether. They pioneered
in the realm Of relativity (that theory
was unheard Of them. The Lodge ex-
periments arose out of a controversy
which agitated the scientists of the
day. Was the velocity of light as de-
termined on the earths surface in any
way affected by the motion of the earth?
Put another way, was the ether carried
along by the earth? (No one doubted
that the ether was the vehicle conveying
hght)
Lodge designed an ether -whirling
machine" to test the matter It was
a weird looking affair, in which steel
disks, made to stand go tons to the
square inch, rotated at 1000 revolutions
a minute. The blast of air at this speed
was terrific. Controlled beams of light
spun round In the space between the
steel disks.
The result of all these experiments
was zero. Nothing he could do would
alter the velocity of light one iota. Thus
he arrived on the fringe of the rela-
tivity theory, postulate of that theory
being that the velocity of light in space
is an absolute constant.