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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
SHIFTED FROM CWA TO
E CENTS 4 DAY RELIEF
Mrs. RoOsevelt's $25,OOO,OOO Project at
Arthurdale, W. Va, Peters Out
By a C.WA. Worker Correspondent

By a C.W.A. Worker Correspondent
MORGANTOWN, w. Val am
sending the full picture Of the Mrs.
Roosevelt's job at Arthurdale, W.
Va, a $25,OO0.OOO project which is
supposed to build 125 shacks. At
the same time Mr.. Roosevelt has
laid over 500 workers off this C..
w. A. project, and has turned them
into 6 cents a day relief.
About 200 workers are still work
ing, but all laborers that work there
now are paid as low as 3715 cents
an hour. Those that want to get
to work must be re-emploved
through the same politicians that
fired them.
They also say that there is no
more money to carry in the Mrs.
RooSevelt's project, that the S25,-
100000 has already disappeared At
the same time We have $1,000 I'M
employed in Monangaha County
alone which is the best producing
coal area of w. Va.
There have been only 1900 work
ing on the c. w. A. projects out
Of the 5000 unemployed, and they
only receive three or four days
week. Also in Preston county from
30 to 35 per cent are unemployed
If Mrs. Roosevelt spends one mil
lion dollars, the job will be COM
pleted, and what happens to the
other $24,000,000.
The workers who work in the
furniture shop making furniture
for the homesteaders are being paid
10 cents per hour six hours day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
E~@~N q
Xgl flne, Homes
l&##sA HELEN LEX. 49, A
GO-sAss.,-44-O By
HELEN LUKE

E-eGGing Of qU25tionnaires, -
While we admit that the c. w. A.
QUESTIONABLE, which left the worker
just about as much privacy as a
goldfish, takes the prize over any
that we have ever read,-a reader of
the column has mailed us another
which is pretty close runner-up.
This one was sent out from a we'll
TODD home in Connecticut, to be
filled out by a hopeful prospective
housemaid.
The QUESTIONABLE, which is fairly
representative of the sort of soul
searching almost any applicant for
a job as big-store salesgirl or
housemaid, mus submit to, asks:
Name? Address? Age? Nationality?
Religion? Is your health good?
Has it always been good? Are you
married? If so. is your husband
living? Have you a child you wish
to bring? If so, how old? Salary
desired? Salary previously re-
ceived? List here five previous
positions, and describe type of work
done; also telling how long you
worked at each place: l, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Are you fond of children? Are
you fond of dogs? Would you mind
taking care of new, steam heat
furnace with help of eleven year
old boy? Would you mind doing
mending? Would you be satisfied
to take only one day week Off
Sunday? Would you be contented
to stay evenings? Do you wish to
do the laundry? If so, how much
do you wish in addition to your
regular pay for doing it? Have you
friends or family living in Bridge
port? Do you speak English
fluently? How long have you been
in this country Do you like the
country? Are you good cook?
Are you willing to make cakes, pies,
etc?
Well, here's a word to the wise
(housemaids) 1t is a quotation
from Sibiriak's pamphlet, 1.-THE
Working Woman in the Soviet
Union"
Moscow Without HOusemaids
ITO begin with we shall quote
a small extract from review,
published at the end of last year
in the magazine Smyena. The
author had paid a visit to the
Moscow labor exchange, ard this
is what he wrote:
eff you raise your head you
can see three women at the
highest span. They are crawling
along the steel girders, high above
the ground. Sometimes they pull
drawings out of their pockets and
consult them to see if everything
is in order, or if the structure will
have to be strengthened. All of
them are ex-housemaids. When
thy were given the addresses of
the families requiring housemaids,
they all refused.
q don't want tO-said the
first.
Nor do I-said the second.
Nor I-said the third.
What do you want them
they asked them at the labor ex-
change.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
Pearcy Aids
Bitter Foes
of the PIMA
Tells Members to Vote
for Nesbitt, Who Helped
Lewis Steal Election
BY a Miner Correspondent

BENLD. HIN view of the fact
that during the "Mulkeytown
March," when the present rank and
file members of the PIMA. were as
saulted, their caravan wrecked, and
the whole march driven back to
Coulterville, III, and C. E. Pearcy
the next day at mass meeting
made a statement that LAS long as
live, never will I vote the Demo-
cratic or Republican ticket and I
urge you workers to do the seme!",
and also, What is the difference
between the Republican clubs or the
Democratic clubs, they all hurt the
same!', it is a vivid reflection OF
The character of Pearcy when, after
hCbnobbing with the big shots"
Circluding John L. Lewis in Wash
ington and betraying the striking
miners with vague promises OF
N.R.A. intervention, he sent TEL
EGRANG from Washington into his
own local No. l (the seat Of the
P.M.A0 urging the membership to
Immediately endorse Walter Nesbit
as Democratic candidate, simply be-
cause Nesbit, the notorious racket
eer official of District II, U.MW.A.,
now a Congressman, but still
member of the U. M. w. A, had
promised to laid" the PIMA. in the
New Deal at Washington! Ridicu-
lous!
Nesbit was the man who was in
strumental in putting over the last
infamous wage reduction by help
ing to steal the ballots of the refer
endum which was against the re-
duction and which later provoked a
statewide fight and the formation
of the PIMA.
This same man also made the
statement to some Of his friends in
Balleville CMr. and Mrs. Wieck)
urging them not to take part in the
formation of the PIMA, saying,
They are nothing but a bunch of
fools and it won't be long before
they will be crawling back into the
U.MW.A. on their bellies, and those
that won't come back will be shot
I'M" meaning that they will be
driven back at the point of a gum
Members of the PIMA! Do not
let the Democratic Party fool you
any longer. The Democratic Party
is now in control of the PIMA. and
is slowly sitting it to death with
lies and empty promises. The very
fact that the Democratic Party is
allowing PIMA. officials to run as
candidates on their ticket (Joe Oza-
nick of Mt. Olive as State Commit
teeman, etc. shows that they are
making these slight concessions in
order to more easily confuse and
destroy the Progressive movement.
S.S.C., Progressive Miner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
PARTY LIFE
Cleveland Dist. MObiLizeS to
Carry Out COn0entiOn Tasks
Communist Party Of Ohio adopts Sharp ResO-
LutiOns in ReUie,0ing York of Past 3 Months

preparations and took organizational
steps to improve the Youngstown
situation, challenged District Of De-
troit in the Daily Worker sub-drive,
took immediate steps to carry
through the struggle against Ma
tional Preparedness week and
worked out plans for greeting Of the
9th National Convention in Cleve-
land.
At the end of two days hard work,
the Plenum unanimously adopted
the folloding control tasks to be
definitely carried through by the
time Of the National Convention.
Fulfill the specific Party and
Y. C. L. concentration tasks in the
Open Letter and July Plenum, as
amended.
2. Developing T.U.UL. and Party
activity and recruiting in the shops
assigned, by strict adherence of Or
Tanization policy of assigning one
street nucleus to each concentration
shop-one comrade released from all
other responsibilities-one comrade
from language bureau of dominant
nationality to be also assigned ex-
clusively to this, and giving Of guild
ance and bi-weekly control and re-
view by the Section Committees and
leading T. U. U. L. fraction. Fur
thernore, in connection with the
Party discussion, to organize COM
plete recruitment of all steel and
metal comrades in Cleveland into
the Steel and Metal Workers IN
dustrial Union.
3. Prepare thoroughly the Conven-
ton discussion, especially IN me
units, with the objective OF deepen
ing the political understanding Of
the Party; developing new probe
tartan cadres; carrying through the
District Training School, and in
each section and unit to review con-
cretely the plan of work and central
tasks adopted.
4. Extend the work among the
unemployed and C. w. A. workers,
through developing mass struggles
and building of non-sectarian IN
employment Councils and Relief
Workers Union. To accomplish this
means specific assignments OF Com
munists by units and section COM
mittees and their strict control by
by these bodies, all working under
the leadership of the leading Party
fraction in the U. N. and R. W. q.
5. Garry through successfully Re-
cruiting Drive for 500 new members
and the Daily Worker subscription
drive for 500 new daily subs and 1000
new Saturday subscriptions.
s. Begin active preparations to
carry through within the next two
months state wide United Front
action (state-wide conference with
roots in localities leading to mass
action at State Legislature) of all
workers and workers organizations
against the organized offensive of
the Roosevelt government which
takes on sharper forms daily. To
be successful this must involve de-
ciSive masses not as yet under our
influence, and thus undermine the
dangerous Musteite influence of the
American Workers Party.
7. Connect an work with prepara-
tons for a Mass May First cam
paign, the struggle against war, as
political center of the campaign.
8. Instruct District Buro to pre-
pare District Convention Resolu-
ton for Party by March /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
A SERIOUS OMISSION ON
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S
DAY

Brooklyn, N. Y.
Under the caption, Traditions of
Revolutionary Heroines in Working
Glass History" in the Daily Worker
of the 9th inst. we notice a sad
omission of the Negro women, and
we are going to name them, who
played a very great role in the
abolition movement that led up to
the Civil War, namely:
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner
Truth,
The latter without aid, made over
AZ trips into the South, evading the
vigilance of the slave owners, and
by the route of the underground
railway, smuggled more than 600
Negroes into freedom. Great re-
wards were offered for the capture
of this daring Negro woman, but at
all times, she evaded her pursuers.
International Women's Day must
reflect the heroic struggles of these
pioneers and those who are follow
ing today in their footsteps, in the
liberation struggle of the Negro
masses.
With the growing struggles of the
masses, and the strenuous en-
deavorS of such workers as Williana
Burroughs who was candidate for
Comptroller on the Communist
Party ticket in the last election,
and who is now head of the Har-
lem Workers School, and many
other Negro women who are ear
nestly and steadfastly using every
energy to bring forward the rev.
dictionary solution to the problems
of the masses, why are not these
Negro women brought forward on
International Women's Day to the
masses, through the medium of the
Daily Worker. TOM TRUESDALE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
Conrintern Fought End htI
OPPOrtunisnt After Last Var
CLe@sed Own Ranks by MerciLess SeEt-Criticism
During StGbiLizGtiOn Years
IN RORERT MTNOR-

at the head of the proletarian and
peasant masses in the civil war that
arose between the peasants and the
big boUrgeoiSie; the Party declared
itself neutral in this struggle.
Only after the bourgeoisie had
crushed the Peasant League and had
begun a reign Of terror against the
workers did the Party put itself at
the head Of the spontaneous revolt.
Its heroism in the struggle was then
too late for victory.
A wave of strikes in Poland led in
August 1923 to an armed uprising
of the workers in CracoW; and in
this case in Poland again, the errors
Of the Party leaderShip-chiedy
through a wrong understanding of
the questions Of the alliance of the
proletariat and the peasants, and
the national Observation-Disclosures
to the non-success of the movement.
End of First Period
The defeats Of the proletariat in
Germany, Poland and Bulgaria were
decisive for a whole period. BY this
we mean that the period of revolu-
tionary storming by the workers
against the bourgeoisie that began
with the end of the world war came
to an end with the bourgeoisie still
in the saddle in all of Central and
Western Europe, and in the Balkans.
With the aid of its bloody victories
over the workers and peasants, the
bourgeoisie was able to fasten upon
the masses of Germany and Austria
the heavy chains of double exploita-
tion-slavery of the German and
Austrian capitalists and debt slavery
to the imperialist Allied powers. The
famous Dawes Plan" of the Ameri-
can bankers chained the burden of
the imperialist Versailles Peace"
upon the backs of the workers and
peasants of Central Europe.
This marks the end of the First
Period, the first postwar period,
Production had a9ain reached the
pre-War level, world trade was re-
established and increased, and in
several countries the currency was
stabilized.
The whole leadership of the Sec
ond International breathed a sigh
Of relief when the bourgeoisie seated
itself comfortably again upon the
backs of the saddled and bridled
workers and peasants. THE crisis
is over!"-the opportunist leaders
resumed the pleasant profession of
representing" the working class in
the strikebreaking ministries of cap
italist governments.
The Socialist" governments in
Great Britain and Germany, thru
the use of which as strikebreakerS
the bourgeoisie had ridden out the
storm, gave way to openly bourgeois
| governments.
(To be continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Dentists Address Corrected

DR.. S. j. Green, who is doing
dental work for comrades in Brook
Ign, at nominal fees, has his Office
at 238 Kings Highway, corner West
9th Street, instead of corner 9th
Street.
H. M, Brooklyn.-It seems that
your friend is suffering from a neu-
ritis or Inflammation of the nerves
distributed over the palate 1t is
quite possible that it followed a
severe cold that she had in her
childhood. If it lasts only a short
time, we would advise you to do
nothing about it. 1t might cure
itself in time. If the pain is severe
and of longer duration, tablet
or two of aspirin will probably re-
lieve it. Has your friend been ex-
amined by a specialist of nose and
throat diseases? If net, it would
be advisable to let her have
thorough examination of the entire
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17

and three days a week. One of
Mrs. Roosevelt's best friends, Mrs.
Nancy Cook of New York, has con-
troll Of this furniture shop.
Also here is some information
from the county welfare board. Mrs.
Alice Davis has cut the direct re-
lief workers to 6 cents day, which
she says is only temporary for 10
days, and after 10 days there will
be nothing done. Also Rev. Brook,
chief administrator of the c. w. A.
jobs of Monongalia county, gets
$500 a month, and none of them
has been cut off the relief yet.
When the public hearing was
opened by Mrs. Davis and the At
torney Frank P. Weaver, chairman
of the county welfare board. the
judge was Father Flynn, a Cath
Ole Priest. The jury was composed
of the same people who were to be
indicted themselves.
Our Father Flynn has helped to
crush relief of the workers down to
6 cents day, because he has never
worked a day in his life.
One worker ran a stake through
his foot on the C. w. A. job, and
the doctor cut off his leg above the
knee and they gave him $13S for
the loss of a leg. Another worker
lost an eye near a cement mixer
on the Arthurdale project.
This is from Mrs. Roosevelt's
visits to Morgantown to help the
forgotten man. Now they put the
workers off the C. w. A. jobs to 6
cents day relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
Supported PIMA and
Democratic Party and
Where Am | NOw?''
BY a Miner Correspondent

~ - NAAA~A
BELLEVILLE, nl.-This is let
ter I sent to the editor of the PRO
greSSive Miner:
In the Feb. % issue of the Pro-
gressive Miner notice some Catho-
lie has running og at the mouth.
He strikes violently at every noise
he hears.
He picks out low paid U. M.
w. a. miner and shows him up at
s23.75. Look at the goose eggs. The
Progressives are making goose eggs
too, brother.
MIR. Progressive Catholic, while
you jab at the U.M.W.A. with your
poison dagger and try to sink your
poison fangs into the heart of the
Communists, believe me, you poison
viper, we know that in 1897 at
Breeze, ILL.,, the Catholic priest tried
to lead his miner members away
from the union activities. It was
the Catholic priests in Vienna, Aus
tria, who went out to solicit men to
take up arms against the workers,
and it is the Catholic priest now
intrenched behind this Progressive
Miner at Gillespie, Ill, who is try
ing to inject his poison into the
brain pan Of the poor, down trod-
den coal miner, in order to be able
to climb on his back.
81 ran the picket line for the
PIMA. I supported the Democratic
ticket in the last election to some
extent, in order to try to escape the
heavy blows of the money power.
Where am I now?
Take warning, fellow workers of
other states. Do you want to ride,
or do you want to be ridden? One
mistake and you will be helpless and
hopeless, with the agents of this
monster continually on guard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
z Men Take Place
OF $50 With Coal
LOadingMachineS
lBr a Miner Correspondentl

(By a Miner Correspondent
KENILWORTH, Utah.-The coal
mine here works on the average of
three days a week in winter, and
at present it is working from one
to two days a week. For miner
with a large family the wages are
about $3.50 a day, with the company
expense running to about $23 a
month and, besides, So for United
Mine Workers of America dues.
House rent runs from $40 to $18
month for four to six room houses.
The company has been laying off
men, and at present most Of the
men are living off the relief.
The coal company at present en-
ploys six coal-loading machines
which work two men to the loader
crew, and it takes the place Of $50
men.
At present we are going to work
on our own time which is against
the state law 1t says that all I'M
derground men should go and come
home on company time. We are in
the mines about nine hours day.
and it should be eight hours bank
to bank.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
"a MILES A DAY ROUND TRIP
(By a Miner CORRESPONDENT

CONNORSVILLE, Ohio. - I am
working in a small mine called
Little Piney Fork. I have "a miles
a day round trip. During the cold
zero days I couldn't get my car
started, because it was frozen and
therefore couldn't get to my work.
When I got started back to work
again, my room was given away.
Then I had to loaf three days be-
fore getting back to a new place,
with no air in the damn thing.
That's the way the N. r. A. treats
us. There wasn't a man who spoke
up only another comrade who
took part.
initials requested) j. z.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
Loyal Member of
Hillary Dies

GALLUP, N. Must to let
you know that we lost one of
our comrades, Mrs. Concita D.
Camille, aged So. On Washing
toms Birthday we held her fu-
neral.
She was very active during our
strike; helped all she could; was
on the picket line every morning.
Her daughter was our SECRETARY
in the Office before and during
the first part Of our strike. The
Women's Auxiliary marched with
the National Miners Union
members.
Comrade Camille had a very
nice funeral and all our sympa-
thy goes to the bereaved family.
Signed-Women's Auxiliary,
N. M. u.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
CWA Foreman Killed by
His Intense Eagerness
to Speed Up Workers
(By a C. w. A. Worker
correspondent

VAN DYKE, Mich.-Tom Quinn,
the crack production foreman on
the Centerline sewer, is dead.
AS he was getting one buck an
hour he tried to drive the men and
was getting out the work accord
ing to the Hunger Government
program on IA below zero morn
ing. He had two single planks on
which he had TX lbs. crock-rolled,
and in his slave-driving speed
failed to notice the severe cold and
stepped on one of the planks which
broke in two and let him down
on his head, % feet below. Also,
another worker fell 10 feet, but was
caught on jack that saved his
life.
Quinn, the aYe-driver has been
a hunger foreman practically all
his life, or ever since concrete roads
came into creation, but the sewer
job wound UP his career in Center
line. Comrades, it's our job to elect
a foreman from the careful work
ers on the job. All the workers on
this job prophesied that the produc-
ton slave driver would kill him
self or kill some worker. He wore
a deputy's badge to frighten the
workers so they would get more
production and be in fear of their
jobs, so workers, let's get together
and stop these slave bosses. The
boys are saying he's laying crock
for St. Peter. None of the workers
went to this slave drivers' funeral,
although they we're asked to go
(but without pay.)
Also, the hunger government
won't let the workers make up lost
time. We don't get any Welfare
eggs or cereals. This Welfare in
Van Dyke is crooked and discrimi-
MATING
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
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BY PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.

naso pharyngeal tract; including
the sinuseS.
Drug Addiction
Always Revolutionary.-Your
letter to Mike Gold was referred to
us for attention. Please let us have
your address so that we may ad-
wise you to the best of our ability.
Addresses Wanted
Mrs. X. Stokey and Robert Rosen-
feld.-Private letters addressed to
you were returned marked mot
Found" Please get in touch with
us again, giving your correct adj
dresses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
ARTICLE V.

AhAACLL "
THE 4th Congress Of the Commu-
mist International, converting in
December, 1922. with delegates rep
resenting 60 countries, concerned it
self with questions pertaining to the
winning Of the masses to revolu-
tionary struggle. It gave much at
tention to the question of the
united front to be organized from
below and to the popular slogan of
Workers and Peasants Govern
ment'
0ppGrtunism in Some Parties
After the 4th Congress, a series
of sharp defeats came 10 the Parties
Of the Communist International in
Germany, Bulgaria and Poland. The
occupation Of the Ruhr steel and
coal districts by French troops ex-
trcEely sharpened all class rela-
tio1ships and an effectively revo-
lueionery situation developed in
Germany. But the German Com
NUNS Party leadership headed at
that time b. the opportunists
B~andler and Thalheimer made no
tinslv preparations for struggle,
completely misinterpreted the tao
tics Of the united front, conceiving
Of the slogan Workers and Peas
ans Government" as meaning a
coalition with the Social-Demo-
cr7tic supporters of the bourgeoisie.
In Hamburg a workers uprising
showed the workers readiness for
struggle and the opportunist leader
ship Of Brandler and Thalheimer.
which failed to mobilize and to
bring about the arning of the
masses in time, resulted in a severe
defeat. The rottenness of the Brand
ler-Thalheimer leadership quickly
developing toward open treason
against the Communist Interna-
ticnel, revealed a widespread growth
Of the opDortunism of the End In
teTn2tional among the weaker ele-
mc1ts O. several Communist Parties.
In Czechos'o val-ia. this ooDo~tunism
va3 carried to its logical conclusion
AVA a. VI ri VI ilal-Jt- Lti L-ts tI-'4l ~ u
TO the dic-a 'o"9hin OF the p~ole-
te~i0t"
III June, the coup d'etat of the big
1 ges5 capitalist interests Of BULGARIA.
against the so-called Peasant Gov
eminent" was followed by an armed
struggle of the peasant masses
against the big capitalist dictator
ship. But the Bulgarian Communist
Party leadership failed to under
stand the feminist view of the al
lance between the proletarist and
the peasantry and the leadership by
the working class in this alliance.
Brutal reDressions of the Bulgarian
workers by the Peasant Govern
ment" Of Tzankov had confused the
leadership of the Communist Party
1t did not mobilize the workers; it
failed to place the Communist Party