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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Jacksonville Council
Lists Relief Demands

JACKSONVILLE, Fla-Following
is copy of letter to the relief
authorities of Florida
We, the Central Executive Com
mittee of the Jacksonville Branch of
the National Unemployment Coun-
Gil, have been authorized by all our
local affiliated groups and the en-
tire membership of unemployed
workers to demand your attention
to the deplorable conditions of the
unemployed.
We charge: That the Governor
has been lax in subscribing suffi-
cient State funds in compliance
with the Federal government re-
quirements that each State supply
given per cent of the relief funds.
That the Governor has not full
filled his promises to help the for
gotten man."
We charge: John T. Alsop, Jr.,
Mayor of Jacksonville, with callous-
ness and lack of effort to relieve
the unemployed of this city.
We charge: Julius Stone, State
Administrator of Relief, with ire
mendous high cost of administering
the relief funds.
We charge: That the relief or
ganization consists to large ex-
tent of people who are not now and
have not, been in need of relief.
therefore have no right to any of
the relief funds. That there are a
favorite few who are getting more
than their share of these funds.
We charge: Members of the re-
lief administration with whom we
come in contact with discourtesy,
antagonism and indifference.
Therefore we make the following
demands:
1. That the Governor make inme-
date arrangements for larger State
appropriations, sufficient to bring
about Federal allotments necessary
for the permanent betterment of
the unemployment situation.
2. That the Governor immedi-
ately put in motion every force
available to create jobs and supply
relief to the unemployed of this
State.
3. That Mayor Alsop put forth
serious effort and thought to pro-
vide employment and to relieve suf-
fering of the unemployed of this
city.
4. That the Mayor, on behalf of
the unemployed of this city, per-
sonally investigate and supervise to
the fullest extent of his authority,
! the distribution of relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Must Run 9.
Looms for.
1915 Week
Ry a Roott I'M Correspondentl

BY a Boot Mill Correspondent
LOWELL, Mass.-Tne Boot mill
here has two 3O-hour shifts a
week. We used to run five looms
for $3.50 for 40 hours. Nov they
make us run nine looms. for which
We get s975 for 30 hours.
Leno weaverS have been running
IA looms for 1915 for 30 hours.
Draper looms run "a to 30 hours
for s9.75. They are paying half
price. They mark on the envelope
park job, s4S8," and meantime
those who can't run IA looms and
run six to eight looms because of
bad work get paid the same part
time job, which is S4.88.
Loomfixers taking care Of 48
Leno looms and p draper looms
get S1785 for 80 hours work and
the company makes the workers
lose their time by lining them up
outside the room in the yard to
get their pay, which takes about
80 to As minutes.
The Lowell Textile Protective
Union went on record to fight
against this paying system. All
the Boot mill workers are urged
to attend the union meeting on
this proposal. Fight together and
do away with this feudal system.
The union headquarters is at
City Hall Avenue, Room 149, on
the third floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

should give the full correction of
the error. In such instances, there
fore, there will be a progression of
the defect and need for stronger
glasses.
Cross Eve CSquint or Strabismus)
G. J., Cleveland: Whether your
child of four and one-hslf years
of age, who recently developed a
cross left eve requires an operation,
cannot be stated of hand, All that
the condition may need is proper
glasses, and the sooner the coTec-
ton can be made, the better. In
addition. certain exercises by means
Of the stereoScope or other appa-
ratus, may be employed.
If it becomes evident that treat
ment is not Strengthening the eye,
an operation upon the muscle or
muscles should be undertaken. The
operation, performed by a compe-
tent man, is simple, without risk,
and usually successful. The de-
fornity is so obvious that children
suffer greatly who are obliged to
go through school life without hav-
ing it corrected; and since this can
be satisfactorily done, it should not
be neglected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
&c. a Quart
For Milk Paid
To Farmers
By a Worker Correspondent

TOUNVILLE, Pa received
your papers and sold everyone of
them. I am selling the New Pio-
neer 1 go ten of them and sold
every one.
There is a man here that said
he could arrest me, and I told him
to go ahead, but I don't think he
tried.
Here these farmers go to market.
Some of them sell corn for cents
a dozen and some for 10 cents or
Is cents. Here we get cents a
quart for milk and in the city they
pay 10 cents, and the profit, of
course, all goes to the big guys.
People here have 100 acres of
ground and still they go on relief.
We live on farm of three acres
and have no horses. Three years
we have to hoe all of our land.
Here we pick berries for Farley,
superintendent of a church, and he
just pays one cent a quart, and yet
tries to cheat you. He cheated me
for five cents, and in church he
prays and sings that Jesus loves
him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

We are giving herewith the prom
ised New York State list of women
running for Office on the Commu-
mist ticket National lists will fol-
low later Pictures and stories
about the individual women will
also appear from day to day as fast
as we can prepare and find space
for them,
N. Y. State candidates: For
Northumberland Williana J,
Burroughs; Associate Judge Of
Court of Appeals, Gertrude Welsh !;
Comptroller, Rose Wortis.
For Justices of the Supreme
Court: Grace Hutchins and Susie
Busse.
For Congress: Tillie Littinsky,
Gussie Reed, Pauline Rogers and
Louise Morrison CYonkersl.
For State Senators: Margaret
Cowl, Ada Vladimir, Sadie Van
Veen, and Fay Thompson (Glovers-
ville).
For Commissioner of Public Wei
fare; LeOna c. Sweet (JohnStown)
For Assemblyman: Marie c.
Stuart, Clarina MichaelsOn, Sarah
Rice, Helen Lynch, Clara Bodian,
Celia Balogh, DOrsetta LOew, Mar
that Stone, Bessie POlOnSky, Edith
Acker (Albany), and Margaret
Walker Schenectady.
Comrade Esther K. wishes to ado
some paragraphs to the recent
comments on birth control: She
says:
Children are a happy asset to
life. one does not know it so well
until one has them and enjoys their
growth into size and knowledge of
things and so on.
However, the working class
mother always has the worry of
feeding, clothing and sheltering the
new baby. Those of us who have q
number Of children suffer greatly
because we haven't enough rooms
for them; more rooms means more
rent, and we can't afford even the
cheap rentals! AS the child grows
it needs new clothes and toys. A
young child doesn't want to realize
why another should have more toys
and she shouldn't have one. Ger
tainly children should have plenty
of toys-but how to buy toys when
our daily problem is bread?
Working class women, to whom
another child means more heart
ache and division of the food, it is
up to us to realize that birth con-
troll is an. excellent practice
that for the Masses it is looked
upon with alarm by the capt.
talist class because it limits the
number of wage slaves and soldiers
for new wars; that it is not sinful
to advocate birth control Let us
who are members of the Women's
Councils make this one of our issues,
with the erecting and taking over of
nurseries for the children we now
have, so that we can have more
time for reading, study, and the
enjoyment of life.
Il know there are important is
sues in which we are at present
involved, however, in a working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
WHAT THE N.R.A. is DOING
FOR THE YOUTH
Brooklyn, N. Y.


Comrade Editor, Daily Worker:
May 1 call your attention to ar
ticles printed in the N. Y. Times
of July /? They reveal to start
ling degree the contradictions of
the capitalist press that prints
them under the pretext of being
liberal.
"Nazis Renew Drive for Com
pulsory Labor" Thus reads the
headline of one of these articles.
Further down, one reads that THE
year of compulsory labor service is
one of the major points in the Nazi
program" That this compulsory
service has a military purpose is
denied by the government
After reading the article loyal
American citizens heave a sigh and
thank God that in this demo
cratic" country no such reforms
eminent officials of Roosevelt's
hold upon the freedom loving gov
are instituted. No, fascism has no
New Deal era.
But let us turn to another sec
ton of the newspaper. Youth
Seeks a Saving Hand" is the head
line of this article. Here, then. per-
manently on our hands may be
millions of young people who, in
Commissioner Cooks Commissioner
Of Education of U. S. A. phrase
"are simply not wanted in industry
or business in competition with
wage learners with families"
Although 100000 boys are en-
rolled in G, G. G. camps under army
supervision at subsistence rates of
$50 month, yet this alone does
not solve the problem for the over
whelming number of jobless youths
Therefore, in the name of demo-
cracy the N. R. A. has evolved a
plan which would help the unfor-
tunate youth of the country. This
plan" would allow private en-
ployers to hire boys and girls over
Is at wages averaging half the basic
rates, For this privilege of starv-
ing ana working at the same time
"at least 100 hours of class in
struction" are guaranteed by the
paternal N. R. A.
But this is not all that the N
R. A. seeks to do for our youth
Another plan SIS being discussed
both within or without the relief
administration" Under this scheme
for year or two after leaving
school or college, the boy or Cir
would enter, the public service as q
sort of inferno at subsistence wages
doing socially necessary work ano
gaining "job technique"
How can anyone read this with
out being overwhelmed with in
digestion? How long will the pro-
letariat and it's jobless youth per-
nit this injustice sugar-coated with
phrases such as these to continue
Yours for Soviet America.
w. P.
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5. That the Federal State ADJ
ministrator take immediate steps in
arranging for ample funds to pro-
vide the mass relief necessary for
safeguarding the health, comfort
and citizenship of the needy.
6. Immediate reduction in the
cost of administration within the
State, which will make more funds
available for the needy unemployed.
7. The immediate replacement of
employees in the administration who
have means of livelihood other
than their salary drawn from the
relief funds.
8. That investigators of cases be
drawn from the ranks of the unem-
ployed.
9. That system of social work.
ers shall be arranged to eliminate
any possible favoritism
10. That all administration en-
ployes receive clients or committees
in more courteous, affable and
efficient manner.
IL. That the field workers COM
ply with the F. E. r. A. booklet No.
3 OF Rules and Regulations and
keep close contact with the clients
so as to eliminate the need of the
unemployed coming to the relief of
flee every week as is the practice
now.
II. That the budget system apply
to all employees of the administers
ton staff in so far as practical ana
the full budget allowance of each
individual be Forthcoming weekly.
whether in the form of work or
direct relief
ID. That each worker will be ale
lotted the same number of work
hours per week, regardless of skill
or duty performed. That foremen
on all projects alternate monthly.
IA. That commodity depots be
established conveniently in various
nelghborhoods, manned by workers
from the ranks of the unemployed,
whereby the commodities will be is
sued in a more systematic manner.
Is. Equal distribution of relief
work or direct relief without dis
elimination, because of race, res
ligion, color, citizenship, polit-
ical utilization, or because of mem-
bership in any special or selected
group.
Is. We demand immediate in-
creased mass relief and will CO.
operate with the administration to
the fullest extent, provided equal
cooperation is granted by the cons
sheraton of this letter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
f ascist Paper
Sold atPicnic
Of Farmers
By a Worker Correspondent


ROCKFORD, I'LL am writing
you in regard to a farmers picnic
at Trask Bridge where it seemed
about 10000 people attended. I
don't know exactly how many, but
wherever you looked you saw
people.
AS usual, the local demagogue
knocked the Democrats, to mislead
the farmers. I heard farmers in
groups all over saying that they
are sick and tired of speeches. They
are all the same. This shows that
we have a chance to lead these
farmers and workers. 1t was a
commercial picnic.
At this picnic, I got hold of some
papers. I saw fascist papers being
given away and sold for 10 cents a
copy. The papers name was THE
Vigilante" The reaction to the
speech was not very good, The
farmers couldn't see anything in
the Republican program.
At this picnic, I got hold Of a
boy, 18 years old. that wanted to
sell Daily Workers on the West
side downtown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
BY a Worker Correspondent

BERGEN, N. D. - The Bergen
unit of the Communist Party an
sWered the call sent out by the
American League Against War
and Fascism" by organizing an anti
war demonstration on JAM 90. We
secured a Communist speaker, who
also was an eX-serviceman from
the last World War. He explained
very clearly the caues of war and
that the only way to prevent wars
was by the workers and farmers
Selling power and setting up a
workers and farmers government.
The school children and teachers
closed the school to be present to
participate in this demonstration.
There were 200 people present,
which is large crowd considering
that the temperature was below
zero and the roads blocked with
snow. Almost all had to walk to
the meeting place. Anti-Wsr and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Shall 1 Throw My Glasses Away?
The following letter has been sent
10 the Workers Health" Column:
Dear Sirs:
I wear glasses for the past five
years. Whenever I have to change
my glasses, I find that need
stronger ones. Ny eyes have be-
come worse, not better.
Recently a friend advised me
to buy the book Strengthening
the Eyes by Bernarr MacFadden.
I would like very much to dis
card my glasses. Do you think
this book would help me?"
Our Answer
n. NJ, Brooklyn: We advise you
to throw away the book and keep
your glasses. When a person over
fifteen years of age has a definite
error of refraction, he should wear
proper glasses. Below this age, if
the defect is slight and not associ-
ated with astigmatism or squint,
glasses need not be prescribed.
There are conditions of the eyes
in which exercises judiciously en-
ployed, are beneficial. Only after
a full examination has been made,
can one tell in which class ones
eyes belong. Exercises of the mus
Giles of the eyes should be per-
formed by all persons, in order to
prevent the occurrence of defects
of vision. These exercises should
be considered from the same point
Of view, as exercises of any other
groups of muscles of the body. IN
fortunately, from a preventative
point of view, not much work in
this direction has been done.
Eye defects are caused, or get
progressively worse, by abuse or
overuse of the eve under unhygi-
enic surroundings or conditions,
such as bad light, reading in hori-
1ontal positions or long hours with
out rest, and when the general
health is run down, or during ill
ness.
Often in prescribing glasses, a
much weaker glass must be given
at first, and its strength increased
later. On the other hand, many
ophthalmologists (eye DOCTORS give
too weak glasses, even when they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

4 situation.
To win the unemployed for strug-
! gle. we raise the demands of the
unemployed-the need of relief,
against evictions, against discrim-
nation of Negroes, for the Work.
ers' Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill, etc. In the struggle
Of the unemployed for these de-
mands. the class consciousness Of
the workers is strengthened-par-
ticularly if through our leadership
we gain the confidence of the un-
employed and through the educa-
tional work that we carry on we
clear up the doubts, hesitations and
illusions of the workers.
It is the duty of Party members
not to wait for the workers to raise
their demands. Party members, Vi -
Outstanding the theses of the Corp-
munist International and recoG-
nizing that we are living in a period
of the decay of capitalism and of
the upsurge of the masses who are
pressed by their daily needs, have
the Communist duty TO formulate
demands together with the workers
and to mobilize them for struggle.
This does not mean that we shall
wait for the workers to come to us.
This would be incorrect and would
no. show the initiative that all
Communists must manifest. OF
what avail is the understanding of
the world situation and the deep
ening of the crisis, If we do not
rally the workers to struggle against
| it? OF what avail is the knowledge
and experience of the development
Of fascism and of the imninence of
the war danger, if We do not mo-
billie the workers to fight against
it? Our fundamental task is to
work among the n1asses-to go
among them, not waiting for them
to come to us-and through our ac-
tivity and leadership gain their
confidence, and thus bring them
closer to the Party Through per-
sonal contact then we recruit them
into the Party.
Is the struggle for the immediate
demands of the workers the Strug-
gle for the proletarian revolution2
effectively yes, but if the Com
munists are not on the job point
ing out that these are not only steps
to relieve the present situation of
the workers, but that the workers
will gain their rights and power
only through the proletarian revo-
luton, with concrete reference to
the Soviet Union, then it will be
possible for demagogues and fas-
cists, also using radical and ANTI
capitalist" language, to entice the
masses into support of fascism and
lead them into the counter-revolu-
tion-as Hitler did
Hence Communist understanding
and study, coupled with Communist
activity, is basic to the develop
ment of a Bolshevik Party. Com
munist activity among the masses
is the only basis for revolutionizing
the masses and for building mass
Communist Party. Only through
the building of mass Party will
we be in position to lead the Rev.
olution IN the United States.
There should be no antagonism
between Older and younger mem
bers, but rather the older members
should give the younger members
the benefit of their longer training
and experience, at the same time
profiting by the more energetic
spirit and initiative of the younger
members. Together they must
build the mass Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
10 Cent Relief
Orders Given
Negro Jobless
BY a Worker Correspondent

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Among
the Negro unemployed there have
been distributed many 10 cents
grocery orders, and these are re-
ceived not more often than once
every month, if then. Both white
and Negro unemployed in many
cases get only commodity slips for
pork, flour, or canned beef, while
numerous families receive no relief
whatever.
There are many slowly starving
workers but there are many militant
ones. There is now an organiza-
ton of about 5000 members who
are affiliated to the N. U. c. There
are branches in Jacksonville and
also in the surrounding towns. This
Is real fighting organization will
ing to go as far as Washington
with their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Close School in Bergen, n. d.:
To Hold Anti-War Meeting

Anti-Fascist posters we're in evil
dence everywhere.
Although we are an unattached
unit we feel that we have contri-
buted something to ten revolution
airy struggles. In the short six
months we have been organized we
have made fair start in organizing
the United Farmers League and are
now busy with relief struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Cotton Pickers Get
Watermelon for Pay
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

By Worker Correspondent
GREE NVILLE, Miss.-At
saltwater, Miss, there is a boss
named Swim who hires pOr Ne
gro farmers to pick cotton for
watermelon. They pick five bales
of cotton for watermelon and he
doesn't give them any food to
live on. These Negroes are in a
bad condition.
If these poor farmers don't or
ganize and fight against the
boss, they will starve to death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
IN THE HON E
Many Women Candidates on Communist Tickle
BY HELEN LUX E

class organization whose interest is
the welfare of the working class
housewife, we can talk on the issue
of birth control and let the mothers
of the working class know where
their interests lie and give them an
understanding of who our real
enemy is"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
An Appeal to the
Textile Strikers

The Daily Worker invites AL
textile workers to write on their
strike activity.
During the strike, first con-
sideration in the publication of
news and correspondence will be
given to the textile strike.
This invitation is extended not
only to Communists, but to ALL
textile workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
NOTE:

We publish letters from farmers,
agricultural workers. lumber and
forestry workers, and cannery
workers every Thursday. These
workers are urged to send us let
tiers about their conditions of
work. and their struggles to or
ganize. Please get these letters to
us by Monday Of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Woman Sharecropper
Evicte d for Refusing
Starvation Wages

by SharecrOpper Correspondent
CAMP HILL, Ala am a work
ing woman. I refused to pick
cotton for so cents per hundred,
and Mr.. B. w. Meadows came
down and ordered me to move.
He gave me two hours to get out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
By a Worker Correspondent

CAMP HILL, Ala. - There is
plenty of cotton on hand to pick.
We ask 81 per hundred. We are
about to win by other comrades
sticking together with us.
The bosses have started wave
of terror, giving orders to the work
ers to get off their land Mr.. Henry
Meadows and Mr.. B. w. Meadows
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 2O29 is available in sizes
Is, 10, 20, "a, 36, SS, 40, So, A and
46, Size So takes AS yards 80 inch
fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew
ing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
ST. PER HUNDRED
IS UNION DEMAND
OF COTTON PICKERS

say we are the ones who are put
ting out these leaflets urging the
other comrades not to pick for less
than 81 per hundred Mr.. H. B.
Meadows says that we've got to
move this fall He says he won't
have the troopers in these places.
Share Choppers Union,
Sec. No. 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

Get Subs for the Daily" During
Means Quickening Tempo In Glass
Struggle.
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A Red Builder on Every Busy
Street Corner in the Country Means
a Tremendous Step Toward the
Dictatorship of the PrOletarist!
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Box Score of 100000 Drive

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in
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