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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Soviet
Workers To
Help in Fight
By a Railroad Worker Correspondent

BY Railroad Worker Correspondent
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. VI
am worker on the Pennsylvania
Railroad. The bosses have been very
successful with their red scare,
mainly that one about the Soviet
Union lining any worker up against
the wall and shooting them if they
have an accident.
The workers compare the rail-
roads Of the Soviet with our roads
which are more highly developed,
not considering that they are about
200 years behind us in development;
that when the Soviets came into
power, the railroads were still using
hand brakes, not yet having air
brakes. The workers do not con-
slider that the road beds were very
much neglected and the rolling
stock completely Anticipated. Per-
sonally I can realize that consider
ing what the Soviets had to work
with, they are progressing wonder
fully.
They are not handicapped like us
under capitalist system, that if we
see way of doing our work in less
time and an easier way, we can't
show it to our boss because if we did
he would make us do that work and
then give US some work for his own
profit and probably lay off some of
us.
Even if the government does take
over the radio it wouldn't solve our
problems of unemployment and star
walton wages. The railroad workers
had taste of government Capital
ist) ownership of roads during the
last imperialist slaughter (world
war;. While all other workers were
making higher wages by fighting
for them, the government was able
to keep the wages of the railroad
workers down.
I think the Daily Worker should
set up correspondence between the
American railroad workers and the
railroad workers in the Soviet Union
At least if we could not help them
solve all their problems, they could
show us here just what q Soviet
government would mean to railroad
workers in better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Seamen!
Longshoremen!

The Daily Worker urges all
seamen and longshoremen to
write about all developments
connected with the approaching
strike, the sentiments among
their fellow workers, actions to
establish one united strike front
of seamen and longshoremen
along the entire Atlantic and
Gulf Coast, and SO to prevent
any sell-out or arbitration
scheme of the international
Seamen's Union leaders. Write
about everything that you dis
cuss with your fellow workers.
This will make it possible for us
to help in organizing and win
ming your struggle.
Before and during the strike
first consideration in the pub
lication of news and CORE
spondence will be given to the
marine strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05

conditions, you were fired, the way
Alagna, the radio operator, was
slated to be fired.
They blamed the fire on the Reds.
They say the crew was inefficient.
Well, I say, the whole fault was
the owners. All they wanted to
do was to make more money. They
drove everybody, from the deck
boys to the captain. We were sup
posed to attend fire drills on Sun
days during the rest period. Can
you blame us if we grumbled about
it. How can you expect co-opera-
ton from men who were treated
like slaves.
And, in spite of that, I know that
the crew did all it could to save
passengers. From the time I was
awakened by the fire alarm at
3 am. until 4 pm, when we were
forced to abandon ship, saw no
officers and received no orders, yet
another seaman and myself fought
the fire with hoses, and, when the
fire got too hot, we got all the pas
sengers we could and went over the
side of the boat.
AS a worker aboard TIE Moro
Castle, I want to protest against
the attempts of the Ward Line to
take the blame off their own Shout
ders, where it belongs, and putting
it on the Reds and on the crew
I can say that in spite of the fact
that the crew was dissa tisfied be-
cause of over-work and under-pay
it did all it could. AS long as ship
owners think only of profits, there
! are bound to be disasters at sea.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Slave Pay and Conditions on Moro Castle;
Waiter onShip Blames O,oners Jor Disaster

Breakfast was supposed to last
from 1880 until 10 am, but lots of
the passengers came down after 10
and we had to be there. AS soon
as the last passenger was finished,
we began cleaning the tables and
re-laying them for lunch and an
other scrub-out lasting until about
II 80 am. We were then supposed
to have about 15-minute rest
period, but as passengers came late
to breakfast this so-called rest
period was shortened.
We had to be back in the dining
room at 11:45 to get ready for
lunch, which began at IL. The
first sitting was from IL to 1870,
the second from 80 to 3, but again
late passengers would be there until
4. Then another general cleanup
and scrub out lasting until about S.
We were supposed to have rest
period from then until $50, but
there were always special jobs like
helping to serve tea, and so forth.
You may wonder when we were
supposed to eat lunch. Well, we
had to squeeze lunch in any time
we could after the passengers were
finished. We ate what was left
after the passengers were finished
If there was much left over, we
were lucky If there wasn't, we
were out of luck. We were out of
luck loads of times. At $50 we
had to be pack at our posts. 1t
was supposed to be 5:45, but there
were always menus and ship news
to be fixed up and distributed, be-
sides the regular table layout to be
made. This all had to be ready
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Pamphlets ON Gcnorrhea


F. X, Deroche, British Columbia.
The cause Of gonorrhea is a germ
called the gonococcus, usually spread
by sexual contact. The disease is
treated by the injection Of antisep-
tic solutions into the lining of the
canal of the sexual organ. Different
solutions can be used according to
the judgement of a competent doc
to-. The solutions most often used
are argyrol, protargol, acriflavine,
and potassium permanganate. Self
treatment for gonorrhea is not ad-
visable since it may be harmful. It
is best to trust to treatment by q
competent physician or clinic.
Treatment by herbs, diets or cleo
tricity for the usual case of gonor-
rhea is useless and may even be in
furious.
Information about venereal dis
eases may be secured from the
United States Public Health Service,
Washington, D. c. They have
pamphlets discussing all phases of
the subject.
You can get a copy of Red
Medicine" by writing to the Litera-
ture Department, Communist Party,
fifth floor, New York City, en-
closing $3.50 The book will be
mailed to you.
Diagrams of the sexual organs
and their function may be found in
any book on sex or physiology.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Prepare Militant
As Pay Cuts,
Speed U p, Increase

ers were present. The bosses of
course had their agents there to
try and enforce the company union,
but the majority Of the workers eX-
pressed determination for a union
of their own. They are no longer
afraid of their jobs. They want a
union that will be fighting for their
own interests, and not for the
company. After a warm discussion,
a committee of IA white and 3
Negro workers-Were elected and
instructed to examine a number of
union contracts and agreements
and bring in a report. There was
quite a demand for an independent
union with a militant program of
struggle to fight against JIM
croWism, discrimination, for higher
wages, more men, no speed-up. But
we workers have got to work fast.
The bosses agents will work hard
to shove the company union down
our threats. Our agreement ex-
pires by Oct. 3lst, and if we don't
defeat the company union, our
conditions will be still worse.
[ know that the Communist
Party is the vanguard and the
leader of the working class.
find that only the Daily Worker
brings to light the sufferingS, striv-
ings and struggles of the workers,
and as the organ of the Commu-
mist Party, it shows us the way out.
All Pullman workers should read
it and use 1t as their beacon light.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05

before 6, when dinner began. The
first setting was from 6 till 7::30.
The second setting lasted until 10,
instead of 8, when it should have
been over. Then general cleaning
again until about II, and then we
gulped down our own dinner, which
naturally we had to serve ourselves.
If we were lucky and were not
given extra duty, like helping in
the bar, we could crawl into our
hunks about 1870, and let me tell
you, fellow workers, we were too
tired to think about anything but
sleep, so that we could be up at
$50 the next morning.
This kept up day after day, ex-
cept that the day before docking in
Havana or New York, we had 10
work harder and faster. We docked
at New York about am. We had
to get up a half hour earlier and
we worked continuously until II
am, fixing the dining room so that
new passengers would get a good
impression of the ship. Then we
were allowed to go ashore. We had
to be back on board at pm. That
meant we had about two hours to
see our families. If we missed the
l pm. muster, we were fired. AS
soon as we got back on board ship,
the grind began again.
This is the way we walters lived
aboard the Moro Castle, work,
work, work, continuously, always
rushing. If you complained you
were called a Red, and if you tried
to organize the workers for better
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Company Sports MIRA. Sign
As Drivers Get So Weekly

from the company.
To pilot a cab through Chicago for
IA hours day when the thermom-
eter hoverS near the century mark
will tax any mans strength, but
to bring home $3.50 or SITS for
your days effort and toll are, we
can all agree, the height of indig-
nifty.
These conditions OF labor and
wages received, of course, the
blessings of the Blue Eagle and
the N.R.A., whose emblem with
the inscription I'VE Do Our PART
are prominently displayed on each
cab, to the mOckery and chagrin
of every Yellow Cab driver.
No effort has been made, by the
officials of our Local and the Inter
national of Transfers and Chauf-
feurs Unions, where the cab drivers
belong, to alleviate these ter
rible conditions and to organize
these workers.
Here is a condition which beggars
description. Men with families to
support, sweating and toiling IA to
Is hours a day for 8 to 10 dollars
a week and not a finger is lifted to
help these unfortunate men in the
clutches of this Octopus from Wall
Street.
We hope that our International
President, Daniel Tobin, with his
$4,000 year salary enjoys his
three months leave of absence with
pay, secure in the feeling that every
thing is well in the Teamsters move
ment in Chicago, both organized and
unorganized. At least Brother To
bin could have sent in an organizer
before he left on his regeneration
trip, to find out if these cab drivers
were still alive or already dead from
hunger and starvation. In the mean
time we advise all our brothers in
the Yellow Cab Co., to organize
rank and file groups in their re-
spective garages. Talk to your fell
low driver about the miserable con-
ditions under which you work, he
is no doubt thoroughly digusted
the same as you, and ready for &C
ton. Get together in small groups
and talk things over, organize g
union with a rank and file leader
ship to fight for a decent livelihood
A Chicago Truck Driver.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
PARTY LIFE
Birmingham District Plans
To Recruit $50 Members
Letter to All Communists in District Declares
South Is Ripe for Building Mass Party

Bessemer, 80; Tallapoosa, rs,
Selma, 60; Montgomery, 40; Mobile,
80; Memphis, 20; oxford, IS; Niota,
10; miscellaneous, 80.
Challenges District 10
This membership drive is to be
planned and enthusiastic drive.
First, we are challenging our
brother district, 10, which covers
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and
wyoming. The comrades in this
district are very active, and we will
have to work hard to get more
members than they in this three
months drive.
"At least 100 of these new
members must be white workers.
The Southern white toilers are
drawing closer to the Party. They
are in a fighting mood, as is seen
in the textile strike. The winning
of these white workers is one of the
biggest jobs of the whole drive.
I'VE have set ourselves the task
of getting 400 women into the Party
in this period. We are also setting
the quota of $50 new members for
the Y. C. L. 1t is up to the Party
to put this over.
THE whole drive must be carried
out on the basis of our concentTa-
ton plan. It means that our job
is 10 win the white and Negro
workers in the steel mills, mines,
railroads. Above all, we must over
come our weakness among the tex
tile workers, and bring these mih-
tant fighters into the Party. At
least 300 of the new members are to
be members of trade unions, be-
cause the main mass work Of our
Party is the work in the trade
unions and big industries. In addi-
ton to this every Party member
who can is to become a member Of
trade union. All those who can
not join a trade union, like the
unemployed, are to be active in I'M
employed work, unless their main
work is elsewhere QLD., etc.. We
must lisa bring in the best fighters
among the farm laborers and CROP
pers.
In order to do this We must
tighten up our own ranks, and con-
sondate our forces. This means
every old member is to be made
active, to help carry on the Party
tasks. In those few cases where
it is impossible to activize comrades,
they shall be dropped from the
Party. All Party members must
have their dues paid up to date.
No one shall be brought into the
Party who does not agree to attend
meetings, to be active and disci-
plined, and to pay his dues reg
ularly.
Comrades, in the sections and
units, discuss how to carry out this
plan. 1t can and must be carried
out.
DISTRICT BURO,
DISTRICT IT,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05

The following letter has been
sent to all members of the Birming-
ham District:
Dear Comrades
cat the recent meeting of the
Central Committee it was again
stated that the South is ripe for
building a mass Communist Party.
We all see the Southern masses in
action against the hunger and
lynch drive of the New Deal. Al
most quarter of a million South
ern textile workers are striking with
real militancy for better conditions.
In the Alabama Black Belt we see
the Share Choppers Union leading
choppers and farm workers in a
small but historic cotton pickers'
strike. Labor solidarity between
white and Negro toilers is growing.
At the same time it is clear to
even the blind that great struggles
of the unemployed, of the farmers,
and bigger strikes are ahead of us
in the South and in our district.
The steel workers and miners of
the T. C. I. are preparing struggles
that will shake the capitalist class
in our district.
1.-THE Communist Party must lead
these struggles. We can not allow
ourselves to be as weak in the big
struggles ahead as we find ourselves
in the textile strike. The way to
lead the struggles of the masses,
and the only and best way to fight
the police terror is to build the
Party.
1.-THE Central Committee resolu-
ton on the lessons of the recent
strike struggles in the U. S. A, says:
eve must everywhere undertake
in connection with our struggles, to
build the Party and the Y. c. L.;
to raise the level Of the Party mem
bership; to develop their initiative
and to prepare them to function
under attack; to prepare the Party
apparatus to be able to work and
be connected with the masses under
the increasing fascist terror now
developing the country over
"And, furthermore, the Central
Committee letter of July Is told us
that:
GA real drive must be made to
recruit new members, especially
workers from the heavy industries
and, above all, from the concen-
tration points. A serious drive to
win the most militant Negro and
white workers and strikers must
get underway
81. For these reasons, the Dis
trict Buro has decided on mem
bership drive to last three months
from Oct. to Jan. 81. The plan is
to win $50 members, to be recruited
and distributed as follows:
Birmingham, 35O-Section l, 20;
Section 2, 40; Section "a, 20; Sec
ton 2-b, 20; Section &c, 20; Sec
ton 8, 80; Section ga, 40; Section
4, 20; Section 5, 20; Section 6, SO;
Section ga, so; Section 8, 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
T.M.U. Wins
In Fight
ORehire 3
By a Telegraph Worker
Correspondent

NEW York; work for the
Western Union in the Times So.
district. I have been a member of
the Telegraph Messenger Union
since April. Conditions in our
Office are continually growing
worse, and if it keeps up this pace
we will soon receive a salary"
that will leave us enough money to
come to work and buy lunches. The
w. U. is using all the latest tricks
to give us cuts, and at the same
time stifle anybody who makes a
kick. This follows the catering and
promises they made to us, pleading
by means of their managers and
other lackeyS, that we be consid-
crate and not do a rash thing like
going out on strike. At that time
they went so far as to give us in
creases in wages. Now many mes
sengers are beginning to see these
things.
Also at this time the union Just
won a tremendous victory. For the
first time, a messengers union has
forced the company to take back
three fired messengers, and this
followed after much fighting on the
part of the union. We picketed
for 10 weeks, and finally forced the
N. R. A. to make this decision.
When the fellows in my office re-
ceived this leaflet announcing the
victory they forgot about their
messages and grouped outside the
office discussing with high conf
dence the news of the victory. Talk
is spreading rapidly over the Times
Square and G. c. district. The T.
M U. has just completed one step,
in the organization Of the messen-
gers, and that is to break through
the terror of the companies. Mean
while, the T. NJ U. is girding up to
prevent the company split, when it
issues any calls for action.
"A MESSENGER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
In THE HOME
New Issue of :
BY HELEN LUKE

In Saylesville during the vicious
attack on the pickets by the Ma
tional Guards, women led the
charge of unarmed strikers into the
barbed wire. Vomit gas, bullets,
clubs spared women no more than
they spared men and boys. It was
a girl worker who reformed the
lines, went from group to group
with messages and orders, organ
lied workers self defense"
This is a paragraph taken from
the stirring tribute to the courage
of the women textile strikers, by
Merle Colby, appearing in the &C.
tober issue of the Working
Woman"-enother fine issue equal
ing that Of September, the great
improvement in which resulted in
many new subscriptions.
The short story, Water" by
Myra Page, follows up her Let
Them Meters Be" of the previous
issue. There are other short stor-
les, letters from a Carolina mill
worker and Negro workers of both
North and South. Grace Hutchins'
you're Telling Mel" page deals
with the girl strikers battle against
the bosses and the housewives
battle against the High Cost of
Living.
Sasha Small does another sharp
and amusing piece, this time on
Love Leads the Way, or, Why
Girls Leave Home" There's ad-
vice on treatment of colds and care
Of skin; and a piercing thrust at
bourgeois 'philanthropies" and fas-
cist ideas on the place of women
in life, by Judith Bloch.
Elba Chase, candidate for Gov
srnor of New Hampshire, tells
why I am a Communist" and
there are brief articles concerning
the election campaign, textile strike,
and Women's Councils. In short,
a varied and interesting table of
contents. One fault with the maya
zine though-there' not enough of
it! This can be remedied only by
getting funds and more subs into
the hands of the editors, so that
following issues can be bigger and
still better. We venture to say that
this new issue will sell easily, as
the previous one did. Up. o. Box
81, Station D, New York City.)
Meanwhile, here on the home
grounds, we are girding for the ar
ranging Of that new double-bar-
relied column we promised, catch
ing the contributions as they come
in, and desperately hoping that we
shall not have to bring up the rear
in the inter-columnar socialist COM
petition, as we did last time.
There's another forty cents come
over the plate-that makes one
forty for us so far Our quotas
$500
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Communists Win Place
on Vermont Ballots
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
BARRE, Vt-Yesterday the Party
went on the Vermont ballot, as an
nounced In the capitalist news
papers, with Comrade Thomas Boyd
of South Woodstock running for
governor.
The Barre Unit obtained gross
of TOO signatures in two months
of which 1850 were certified. This
means that everyone in the unit
worked evenings, after their days
work was over, along with many
other activities, such as the I. L. D.
drive for membership, establish
ment of Marx-Lenin classes, granite
fraction work, and party member
ship drive, demonstrations for Me-
gro rights, mass meetings and rails
ing money for the Daily Worker,
selling 1G0 Labor Defenders last
month, and house-to-h house sale at
the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Union Heads
+ n d Orse
Scab Herder
By a Railroad Worker Corre-
SpOndent

SpOndent
DETROIT.-One of the candi-
dates endorsed for reelection, by
the railroad labor chiefs, is Con-
gressional representative Carl M.
Weideman, of Michigan. When the
auto workers of Detroit were on
strike, Weideman butted into the
situation. was given much public
ity, and by alternately running to
the company, then the strike COM
mittee and to the City Hall, he did
most effective work in helping to
break the strike. Since being en-
dorsed by the labor chiefs he has
been repudiated by the workers of
Detroit, and is now talking recount
while negotiating with the Farmer
Labor Party.
During the auto strike, the Auto
Workers News printed a letter from
a scab agency to tool and die
shop, the first paragraph reading as
follows:
During the recent tool and ole
oVAA INT OAAAD d6CA4CJ wac Od11CQ upOl1
for several men to protect their
property two of these shops
have now appealed to us for under
cover men. These undercover men
can turn over a lot of information
that would be very valuable to their
employer. If a strike is brewing the
employer would know who the lead
ers are from the undercover men"
This letter was from the Dawn
Patrol, a spy agency, and one Of
the four members of the board of
directors listed on the letterhead
of the circular was Carl M. Weide-
man! This may not be sur
prising though, with D. B. Robert
son, president of the Locomotive
Firemen, a member of the board of
directors of the National Civic Fed
Grafton, another scab agency Con a
national scale).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Centralia
Railroad
Fires 400
BY a Worker Correspondent

CENTRALIA, Ill.-Exemplifying
the slogan, all the news that's fit
to print, the daily paper at this
npint, three weeks ago, gave three
inches space to stating that the G.
B. and o. Railroad had put on
II men" in their car repair de-
partment at Centralia However,
although the Illinois Central lines
here gave notice on last Tuesday
to 400 of their car builders that
they would be laid off indefinitely
on Friday of this week, and today
is the Sunday following. no men
ton has yet been made in the To-
cal papers of this decrease in the
force. Nor has anything been said
about the fifth round house man
laid off 10 days ago.
The Barnes shoe factory is NOV
ing their equipment to st. Louis
and dismantling their plant. In
the statement of the local chamber
of commerce herewith enclosed
you will note the chamber claims
that only about 60 of the 500 en-
ployees so "intinidated" the other
44O that they were afraid to re-
main at work. Conversations at
random with dozen or more
workers at their homes disclosed
that all but one was in favor of re-
sisting the company's demand that
it be allowed to hire and fire as it
chose, dispensing with those who
could not do their piece work under
the daily schedule of $40 for wo-
men and $3.50 for men. Therefore
reverse the figures and make it so
against union policies and 44O for
it, and the story reads correctly.