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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
(By a Worker Correspondent

PROVIDENCE, r. 1.-THE Phillips
Baker Rubber Co. of R. l., one of the
largest rubber factories in r.. l., has
in its employ about 1,400 workers,
mostly young girls. This factory
makes only rubber footwear. In the
summer time it makes rubbers,
galoshes, boots, and Upper overshoes.
In the autumn and winter the work
is mostly sneakers.
Before the NR.A. the workers
worked between So and 81 hours per
week, and the wages for women and
girls we're Sc to So; for men SO to
Sill. After the NRA. came into
effect, everyone worked 40 hours, and
the women received $14. The men
received SIT when working full time.
But at about this time there came
another problem which cut the work.
ers' wages. The bosses demanded that
they have an insurance policy
through the company. This costs 81
per month. Everyone must have this
policy and whether they wish it or
not, the money is taken from the
pay envelopes.
During the Community Fund Drive
The workers were not asked il they
wished to give. Instead, ore Of the
bosses went around, giving each
worker an II Gave" pin, and told
them that It cost them 81, which
would Re taken cut Of the pay en-
gelopes. Many Of these workers need
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Textile Trimming Union
Sends Two Delegates to
Unemployed Convention
By a Textile worker Correspondent

BY a Textile Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The Textile Trim
ming Workers Union at their last
membership meeting elected two
delegates to the National Conyen-
ton of the Unemployed Councils.
This was mainly due to the deter
mination of our workers to join the
struggle for unemployment insur-
ance.
When Herbert Benjamin, few
weeks ago, addressed our workers on
the role of the trade unions in
the fight for relief, the workers
Immediately realized the Importance
of this issue. Workers who only a
short while ago we're drunk with en-
thusiasm Of the Roosevelt admin
istration, now openly stated their
stand on the NRA and their deter
mination to fight for and win un-
employment insurance.
The next step Of our union viii
be the organization Of a permanent
unemployed committee. This COM
mittee will be for the organization
of the employed as well as the I'M
employed. Together with other trade
unions we will organize mass dem
onstrations and obtain relief fol
our unemployed workers until we
will be strong enough to force the
national government and the en-
ployers to give us unemployment
insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31

Once week efficiency men go
through the entire factory, scheming
ways to further exploit a ndenslave
the workers by putting up speed-up
machinery, forcing the workers on
the job to the very last minute, and
often starting them on their work
several minutes before the whistle.
These few minutes from 1,400 work.
ers are making more and more prof
its for the bosses. The machinery
installed, the workers are laid of,
regardless of the length of time they
had been working in the factory.
The most unSanitary conditions
exist here. There Is no locker room,
and six or seven people all hang
their coats on one nail. The lunches
are kept under the work tables in
the accumulated scrap, dirt and nice
fat cockroaches. The lavatories are
dirty beyond comprehension, and the
majority of the workers refuse to
use them, prefe-ring to eat their
lunches with dirty hands.
The majority of these workers are
from the town of Bristol, which once
had the largest rubber factory in
Rhode Island. Now these workers
either have to stand for this or be
unemployed. In this way the bosses
are keeping the workers divided in
the Providence group and the Bristol
group. They are forced to accept
shese hunlihating conditions.
"JEPRU."
signature Authorized)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
SPEED-UP TRICKS IN RUBBER FACTORY

help from the Community Fund, but
were forced to give. And when pay
day comes around, they find even
less than they expected in their en-
velopes.
Piece Work
The workers were forced to go back
On piece work, so, as they have a
certain amount of work given them
for each day, they worked faster,
getting the work out in less time,
and thinking they would be getting
paid about their usual wage, even
if they left the factory, but after
they completed the work given them
n less time, they were paid by the
hour again, which made 1t less than
s. hours.
Each conveyor makes from 1,4o0 to
1000 pairs Of sneakers per day. The
workers get furious and indignant
every pay day. To Cypress the work
rs and keep them in subsection, they
ere told they will lose their Jobs If
hey get too inquisitive.
Every one works standing up, with
10 stops, except for lunch. There
we're few stools around on which
work was placed The girls sat on
Them whenever they could steal a
ew minutes. while the bosses backs
were turned, but even these were
taken away, and the workers told
that they would lose their job if they
we're ceught sitting down during
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31

agreement, which defeated our
strike. / marched on the picket line
side by side with the members of
the Communist Party and of the
Young Communist League. They
were always in the forefront, but
my friends, the Socialists, sat in
their headquarters, playing poker.
The climax in my experience
was reached, however. when, on the
Friday night before Christmas, on
coming into the "Circle" headquar-
ters, l was greeted by Santa Claus"
dancing around the Socialist Christ
mas tree set in the center of the
room bearing all the trimmings,
against a background of 3-foot red
lettering on the wall of "Y.P.S.L."
/ decided right then and there that,
as young worker, my place is
among the revolutionary workers
with whom I marched together on
the picket line in the last strike.
am joining the Young Commu-
mist League and call upon the few
honest workers who are in the "Yip-
sel' organization, both in Paterson
and elsewhere, to shake themselves
free from their misleading col
leagues and join the Communist
movement, which fights for die
tatorship of the proletariat in Amer
lea as the proletariat in Russia did
16 years ago, under the leadership
Of Comrade Lenin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Doctor
sLIHEiHrqe'z
ndUt&e2:
: By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

Haliver oil capsules. Be sure that
you really need cod liver oil and
that you are not taking it as a fad.
There has been entirely too much
indiscriminate consumption of cod
liver oil and Viosterol for the last
year or two. In some cases, par
ticularly in children, Viosterol is
liable to do lot Of harm when given
indiscriminately.
Rheumatism
Ida S.-RheumatiSIn in the early
stages can surely be cured If the
exact cause of it is known. This
refers to ordinary rheumatism.
known medically as acute arthritis.
Other forms of rheumatism, such as
gonorrheal rhaumatism, for instance.
It is almost impossible to eradicate
entirely. A private letter sent to Won
came back; the address on the en-
velope being different frcm the one
on your letter.
Bran Percentage
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Food and Drug Administration,
cereals labeled all bran" must con-
tain at least so per cent bran. KEEL
logg's Pep contains less than so per
cent bran and is, therefore, labeled
Toasted Wheat with Extra Bran
Added
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
By a Needle Worker Correspond


BROOKLYN, N. Y.-The chill
dren's clothing filters Of New York
have just won victory in a strike,
which was called primarily against
the crooked New York Joint board
Of Amalgamated Clothing Workers
First, the reason for the strike:
In a certain shop owned by one
Lutzky, filter was taken off the
job by the local business agent,
Plotkin, and a scab sent in his
place by the union"
A committee of rs fitters) from the
Filters Club went to the Joint
board manager HoIlander and asked
that the filter be reinstated. In
stead, Hollander ordered the bust
ness agents, Plotkin and I. Hollan-
der brother of the manager) to
throw out the filters of three other
shops, Fisher, kaufman, and Cur
lands Moslins, because they were on
the committee demanding to rein
state a fellow worker!
The Filters Club decided to call
a general strike of children's cloth
ing filters to stop the threats Of
the Amalgamated officials to destroy
their club and lower their condi-
lions. Hollander, Plotkin and the
rest of Hillman's New York ma
chine resorted to all sorts of das-
tardly methods to break the iron
unity Of the Filters Club. The
union acted as scab agency, send
ing mems filters, vest filters and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Children's Clothing Filters Win
Fight Against Scab ACW Heads

even cutters to replace the strik-
ing filter. Police and gangters were
utilized to protect scabs and
threaten the strikers,
Only the "Amalgamated Rank
and File Committee" supported tho
filters in their struggle against the
corrupt Hillman clique. A leaflet
was issued in their name calling
upon all tailorS, regardless of craft
to support the strike by refusing to
scab and to refuse to work with scab
filters. This leaflet was spread by
the thousands among the tailors.
Friday night the strike commit
tee was called TO the joint board
and emerged-victorious!
Demands won included: Rein
statement Of all fired filters; and
all filters grievances to be handled
by filters.
Filters, you have set an example
to the rest of the tailors. Many of
you have learned who your real
friends are. Not the Jewish Day,
Forward, and Morning Journal, who
refused to print your appeals-but
the Morning Freiheit and the Anal
gamated Rank and File Committee
116 University Place who rallied
the tailors to support you.
TailorS! Regardless Of craft, or
ganize your opposition groups In
shops and locals Get in touch with
the Rank and File Committee for
guidance. Gust the crooked officials
out of the unionl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Misleaders Try to Block Amalgamation
Movement of Shoe Workers of Lowell
Despite Rank and File Vote of Protective Group
to Join United, Officials York to
Keep Ranks DiUided

Business agent Dempsey of Local
20, confronted by Cassidy of the
Executive Board, and asked to state
his position as to what his stand was
on the matter of amalgamation,
would not give a clear answer, but
suffered and faltered for Is minutes
and then sat down to confer with
his clique of disruptionists.
The shoe workers of Lowell must
be shown that Dempsey is a Nolan
man, and that they are both work
ing to destroy the rank and file
morale. What have Dempsey and
Sheldon done for us but collect their
S35 every week, ever since they were
installed as local 70 agents?
AS for the Wood Heel makers of
Lowell who voted to stay with the
Old SAoe Workers Protective, they
must be shown that they are follow
ing reactionary leaders who are
seeking to do them wrong.
/ appeal to the co-ordinating com
mittee to get the wood heel makers
together and show them that the
right way is through one big strong
industrial union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
ALL. Splits Ranks
To Weaken Fight on
Weidma1n LayOffs
By a Textile Worker Corregpondent

By a Textile Worker Correspondent
PATERSON, N. J. - The Blue
Bird Dye shop is working 90 hours
for two weeks. What the A. F. of
L. chairman is doing about it nobody
knows. Tony, do not think about
the dues. Think about the workers
a little more. Tony, you were a
different man when you were in the
N.T.W.U. What has made you
change?
At the A. F. Of L. meeting for
the Weidmann workers last Satur-
day, the A. F. of L. would not let
the National Textile Workers Union
committee go into this meeting to
get the unity Of the workers of both
unions. But they did have cops
there to keep the workers of Weld
mann who belong to the N.T,W.U.
out of this meeting.
This proves that the A. F. of l..
does not want the workers to have
unity, but to keep them divided, so
the bosses can do what they want
with the workers.
In this meeting they also elected
a new A. F. of L. chairman, Frank
Ryan, for Weidmann's. The A. F.
of L. had four or five leaders there
to make sure that one of their kind
was elected, and not a worker who
would fight for the workers interest
and not for the bosses.
The N.T.W.U. is doing all it can
to get the workers together to fight
this big layoff. But the A. F. of L.
leaders and the bosses are trying to
keep the workers divided.
The workers are hoping that
Frank Ryan will do more for them
than Joseph Lisowski.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
ANSWER TO QUESTIONS
Observation-Disclosures

G. Johson-Your brother seems to
be suffering from neurastherlia rather
than any heart disease. The more
physicians he corlsults, the worse for
him. In answer to your questions:
"a We do not understand what you
mean by whether the professor was
right. 90 Pericarditis can form a
scar on the pericardium. 90 When
the electrocardogram is normal, it
means that there is no organic dis
ease of the heart muscle.
One of the reasons for delaying
our reply was the length OF your let
ter. In the future, please write as
briefly as possible and do not use
such small script.
Opticians
b. PovSers.--A private letter adj
dressed to your former address was
returned to us marked Moved, Adj
dress Unknown" Please commune
cate with us again.
Adex
S. NJ, Brooklyn-AdeX tablets can
not take the place of cod liver oil.
If you cannot take the chocolate
favored cod-liver oil, try mint flavor.
II this also nauseates you, take the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31

they want to keep the scabs in
the factory
Mr.. Miller, with master mind, taking
advantage of our deep suffering, after
II weeks of strike, thought with his
instrument he can make us tc
knuckIe down to him for the job.
But only the weak workers did this
The militant workers, some of us
who feed their babies with black
coffee, even today, because we are
making smaller wages than ouI
brothers (still outside on the street
who are getting miserable handouts
from the Home Relief Buro) are be-
ing annoyed by Boot and Shoe
Union agent.
This stupid Berry, the chairman
for Boot and Shoe Union, has the
nerve to tell the workers that we can
have good conditions in the shop with
the Boot and Shoe Union. We don't
have to walk on the street and strike
for conditions, he says.
There is no system in a factory.
We are making nothing, but some of
the workers work after Z o'clock at
night. The bosses want us to work
on Saturday.
We have to fight for the reinstate-
ment of our good fighters, brothers
and sisters, who are still out on the
street. And we must fight for the 30
hour week. Just as Mike Miller gets
paler every day, the foreman too. is
getting very nervous when they see
this Boot and Shoe Workers Union
is not Undertaking., and we want
something that serves our interest
The Shoe and Leather Workers In
dustrial Union which is now amalga-
mated to the big union, and this is
the union that we want-the United
Shoe and Leather Workers Union.
Resentment is high among the
workers on every floor and we hope
that every worker from I. Miller will
have contact with the United Union
on II Fifth Ave, and every one OF
us must work hard to expose any
nisleader on the floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
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In Tuesdays Daily Worker"
Urites Comrade M. c., of Canton,
ohio, Il saw my own thoughts in
arint. AS to the Red international
Cook Book, what Constant Reader
said is excellent, and what you have
aid is important.
Il had an experience last evening
which proves that differing tastes
ia food are q barrier between ma
tons Of workers, just as difference
in language is ~. barrier the
book will help to break down
ATTENDED a meeting of foreign
born women and one American my
self; There was quite discussion
on what to cook for Lenin Menu
orial Banquet; they thought Amer
leans would not like onions in any
thing, q love them!) and no garlic.
81 know many Americans, or ma
tlve-born workers, who like a little
garlic for seasoning. The first time
tasted it was at foreign COM
fade's home: / asked her what made
the meat taste so good. Garlici And
| have liked it ever since. After all
ISN'T taste matter of habit?
Our patriotic" city charities (?)
forced US to eat .spaghetti-a sup
posedly Italian food - but without
the trimming. Now is there any,
thing | like better than italian spag-
hetti?
at is too bad that a great MANY
Of the native born workers have
never had a chance to taste MANY
Of the other nations dishes.
ITO this R. 1. C. B. with the in
teresting proletarian program and
the red oilcloth covering about
adding white hammer and sickle
and copies Of those little proletarian
pictures at the top of the 'Tn the
Home" column for decoration?
1--WE been cutting these articles
cat of the D. w. and saving them.
! am making a homemade book.
Bought a package of vari-colored
aaeets of heavy paper-on both sides
Of these I've pasted neatly, the
recipes, proletarian education and
propaganda with it as it comes.
These / have punched and tied to-
gether with red ribbon and drawn
those little pictures mentioned on the |
cover.
4 am making these for gifts for
my two daughters, who were a little /
close to the revolutionary movement, /
but who have gotten married and I
drifted away. These books, being /
filled with economical recipes and in /
termittent propaganda, will be just
what they need to remind them.
But these R. /. C. BIS would {
be better for my daughters AMI all
the daughters and mothers also
some men cooks, too this we
viii not forget. l am sorry l have
none of the recipes you called for
have tamale pie recipe,
but not for hot tamales.
Il would like to add one sugges-
ion--that the article Of Michael
Colds Communists and House
wives, be inserted somewhere be-
eHeen the covers Of that book. That
sura was fine The truth, and
needed badly Also there are
cases where the trouble is vice versa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Met Socialists at Card Games,
And Communists on PiCketLine
Santa Claus Dancing around Christmas Tree Is
Socialist PGrty's Idea of Glass Struggle
By a Textile Worker Corresponds

By leAtlle worker CORES onQemG
PATERSON, n. j. During the
last Congressional campaign, /, a
young silk worker, was attracted to
the Socialists by the letters appear
ing in the local newspapers sent in
by the Socialist Congressional can
didate, Carrot De Young. The let
ters weren't of the kind that ex-
plain anything about Socialism, be-
cause, as / later learned, the can
didate himself doesn't know much
about it, and what he pretends to
know is lifted out of books and pam
phlets which reflects the "New
Leader" attitude towards problems
affecting the silk workers. De Young
believes that Socialism win come
through Rooseyelt's N.R.A.
His background is one Of a small
town business man. He is owner Of
large poultry farm situated in one
of Paterson's suburban towns and
makes money by selling eggs to the
silk bosses, many of whom are mem
bers of the Socialist Party and the
Young Peoples Socialist League.
For recreation and education he
pitches hocseshoes, and has won the
crown as champion.
When those "Yipsels" NOW she'd
ding their name for that Of "Young
Circle Study Club") learned of my
interest in Socialism, they began to
buzz around me; first inviting me
to their headquarters and later
wanting me to join their "Circle."
Play Cards Day and Night
At first everything looked puz-
ling to me. Here in their head
quarters, they sit around day and
night playing cards, and some of
them even betting on the ponies, and
playing the numbers" yet they
speak of bringing about the Pevo-
luton. They have a large portrait
Of Eugene V. Debs at the head of
their room and a fairly good-sizei
bronze statue Of the American
Revolutionary leader set up on the
desk, fianked on each side with a
deck Of poker cards.
Another thing which puzzled me
was, how is it was possible for these
people calling themselves Socialists
70 have as their members silk boss
Is, some Of whom are the worst
slave-drivcrs and labor exploiters,
among them my own rotten Social
ist boss, who would not hire a Jew
ISL worker, as well as the ex-boss
for whom my father worked, and
whom he robbed of nearly half of
MS earnings through the well-known
exposed method of short-measuring
the weavers on the number of yards
they have woven.
Marched With Communists
When the strike came, I had an
opportunity to listen to Ann Burlak
and other National Textile Workers
Union leaders, as we'll as Commu-
nists exposing the Socialists and
their friends in the Associated union
who saddled on us a "No-Strike"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
An a shoe Worker Corresnondeni

(By a Shoe Worker Correspondent
LOWELL, Mass. - Lowell, right
now, is in turmoil over the shoe
workers anlalgamation. Though the
rank and file of the Shoe Workers
Protective Union Local 20 voted for
the amalgamation into one strong
union, the United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union, the reactionary To-
cal agents, Dempsey and Sheldon,
and some members of the executive
board, are working with Nolan and
Hamilton to disrupt the merger.
Nolan appeared at a local meeting
last Thursday and addressed the as
semblel rank and file, trying to turn
them against amalgamation. He
called the new union another Boot
4 Shoe Union "a. +. of L., and
tried to scare the workers by telling
them that they would be unable to
secure work by accepting the con-
stitution which the new union read
to us. However, Grafton, Shore and
Nazumian of the co-ordinating COM
mittee were present, and showed up
Nolan for what he is. He (Nolan)
was booed down by the shoe workers
in grand style.