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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Reduce Force,
Increase Speed
mFERAPLant
By a Worker Correspondent

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-The FE.
RIA. has thrown a number of fami-
lies off their rolls and these fani-
lies have been put back on county
and local relief. The county and
local officials plainly state that they
have no funds whatever for relief
work.
There is a F.ERA. mattress fac
tory and a canning factory in Jack
sonville. Both employ women prin-
cipally. Because of more steady
work in the canning plant, many
women who have been working in
the mattress factory have been
transferred, leaving either room for
work for more women in the mat
tress factory or more steady work
for the ones remaining there.
The largest department of the
mattress factory is the carding de-
partment. From so to SIS women
have been working at the carding
tables. Now there are from 80 to
IS women. This is extremely dis
agreeble work The cotton is
carded by hand and there is no
protection for the carder from lint
or clay dust which settles over the
whole body and is inhaled into the
lungs Clothes seem to be no pro-
teection at all.
Up until these changes took place,
the average amount of cotton
carded day was 1,400 pounds.
With the shortage of help the bos-
ses expected the same amount. The
result was terrific speed-up.
Many women who were not used to
it became very i'll. The others were
driven to the last ounce of
strength and speed they possessed.
The amount of cotton carded on
the first day of change was about
$50 pounds. We were told we must
make up the loss the next day and
besides reach the 1400 mark also.
The supervisor went from table to
table, telling each that they were
the slowest ones of all. He is an
old man and the full time work in
the lint and dust is making a ply
steal wreck of him. He used to be
very pleasant and friendly but bad
health has made an old crouch of
him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Letters from Our Readers

represents the community and at
the same time withholds the re-
suits of the elections of the work.
ers' candidates under the emblem
of the hammer and sickle.
I volunteer to picket the New
York Times or any other newspaper
to force them to print the vote of
the Communist candidates as well
as publish the Communist ballot as
they are originally given out by the
Election Board without erasing their
emblem when printing it.
So let's prepare now and organize
for the future SO that those re
spectacle" newspapers and their
editors will not scab on New York
workers in the next election.
Who will join me on the picket
line?
7 c
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Receipt Of Only 1858 ShoUs
Districts Are Not Speeding

l. only 1858
In Tuesday.
money Twenty-Five districts
represented with only $751;
easy poor bringing the Daily Worker
instance the district with the
York sent nothing Pitts
another district Cleveland the
table.
district to make the effort to
Todays small
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Discussion at Craze Of First
Soldier to Die in France

explosion at the mine and piece
of steel In his leg, brought back from
France.
The first to arrive was an old
Ford sedan with some working
class people in it who, I judge, must
have been members of the Gresham
family, because they were the only
ones to shed any tears at the mem
orial. Then came the Legion, all
in big cars, about eight with about
twenty people in them.
After hurriedly placing the flags,
and the occupant of a big Ford
sedan, big guy with a bald head
read a prayer and then they fired
three rounds over the grave A
photographer took their pictures
and they all went home. They had
done their duty. Their duty, of
course, did not call for any deaths
so, of course, they did not have the
opportunity of being the first to
die for their country at the Gresham
Memorial.
When they were all gone and the
boss was not looking 1 walked over
and took look at the memorial
spot. 1t was just like the rest of
the soldiers graves with a plain
white stone with these words:
JAMES BETHEL GRESHAM
Pvt. LIST CT.
November 3, 1917
Looks like they would give him
a bigger one, as being the first to
get killed" said the young demo-
crat.
well, in the army all men are
equal even in death, that is unless
he is general or an officer or his
folks are rich Or something. Then,
of course, they make a show" an
swered the one-ar1ned water boy
sadly.
Looks like they are going to start
another war. Well, if they do I
know two guys that amt going
That's me and the guy they send
after me-" cried the old coal miner
with the powder burns and the
bullet in his leg.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
By a Worker Correspondent

HARTFORD, Conn.-The address
of Louis J. Taber, Master before the
National Grange Annual Session in
Hartford, Conn, was full of I'M
solved contradictions, glaring mis-
conceptions, and tacit but surpris-
ing admissions. However, he pointed
out some very important facts.
He said: American agriculture
has suffered more than Is years OF
continuous agricultural depression.
Gross farm income declined from
$1,000, 100000 in 1919 to aproxi-
mately $4,000 900, 900 in 1888. Over
one-half million farmers in the
United States have lost title to their
homes through tax sale, foreclosure,
bankruptcy ard liquidation" Mr..
Taber seems - have no answer to
this problem. "On the whole" he
says. "the agricultural picture is en-
couraging"
Master Taber is sick at heart"
when he learns through the recent
disclosure of the committee investi-
eating munitions and armament
manufacturers that a few greedy
armament manufacturers made mil
lions of dollars numbering millions
of people because they we're devoted
patriots. Instead Of denouncing the
economic system which causes this
unthinkable loss Of life and wealth,
the Master talks vaguely about
having mo profit motive" in the
munition business.
The Master further said: 1T is
a tragedy that thousands of schools
and millions of the nations youth
are having their educational oppor-
tunities greatly curtailed because of
the shortage of funds Yet his
only answer to this problem, is
vague talk about the contribution
that extension has given"
Some statements in the address
clearly have the earmarks Of fas-
cism. He tries to dismiss both Com
munism and Fascism with an equ-
ally lusty kick. But close exami-
nation Of his statements shows that
he has a hatred for Communism,
but a subtle admiration for Fas-
'cism.
He said: Communism in Russia
may have benefited a large portion
of it's people" and then: THE
Brown Shirt philosophy of Germany
has awakened their nationalistic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
BY a Worker Correspondent

EVANSVILLE, Ind.-While work.
ing on an FERA project cutting
wood for widows on direct relief
and unable to gather their own
wood out of the river I had the
honor" of seeing the lingo mem
orial for the first American soldier
killed in France, James Bethel
boy born and raised in
Ind.
Saturday, November 3, 1894, the
morning was very cloudy at six
O'Clock; the FERA workers were
hurrying up the street in old dilapi-
dated cars and trucks hurrying to
get to work at 6:45, many wearing
old army clothes, saved from the
days of IT and 10.
The weather and day looked very
much like France during the war
Cold, rain and hunger.
When I arrived at the Locust Hill
Cemetery where we were to cut
wood, the keeper informed us that
the Legion would be there to have
a doing, today is the seventeenth
anniversary Of his death.
This brought remarks from my
buddies, many who had been in the
war.
Gresham, the first to die for the
interest of Wall Street in the big
game of chess" said one.
81 guess if he had a wife she
would no doubt be on the relief
and get some of this wood" re-
marked another.
THE Gold Star Mothers organi-
cation built a home in Garvins
Park for Mrs. Dodd Chis mother
and she lived there till she died and
today he is a national hero and
people come from everywhere tc
see his grave" put in one, who is a
very active member of the Young
Democratic Club.
yeah? Well, that's alright, but
he don't know anything about il
and he is long time dead" an
swered an old coal miner, who had
powder marks on his face from an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
A LONE HAND GATHERS
STRENGTH

BasSett, Va.
Dear Comrade Editor:
I am a young man who has been
an active sympathizer for years
working in the I. L. D. and the
American League Against War and
FaScism. 1 am at present in the
C.C.C. camp at the above address.
There is good opportunity here foc
revolutionary work but am a lone
hand here. 1 am trying to educate
a few National Guardsmen as to
the class struggle and their strike
breaking role.
All I have been able to do here SO
far has been to organize our COM
pany GAO mem in a strike for bet
ter food. The boys struck and stuck
together splendidly-winning better
food, temporarily at least 1t was
pointed out that united action is
powerful weapon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
A VOLUNTEER FOR THE PICKET
LINE
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dear Comrade Editor:
I have been reading the New
York Times for eighteen years, a
newspaper that carries a slogan on
its first page, "All the News That's
Fit to Print"
I am going to ask their editors
why they do not print the result of
the elections for the Communist
Party as they report for the bosses
parties, namely the Democratic, Re-
publican and Socialist parties.
/ am in agreement with the cor
respondent 81. NJ" who wrote on
November 10, that we ought to
picket any newspaper that claims it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
SHARP CRITICISM AND A
SUGGESTION

New York, N. Y.
I am increasingly disturbed by
the indifference, the laxness, the
lack of efficiency which character
ICES our mass meetings. They in
begin an hour or two after
they are scheduled to begin. They
end two or three hours after rea-
sonable bedtime hour. They are
repetitious, badly proper
toned. The speakers amble on
without regard &c time or audi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Relief Head
Blocks Probe
Into Books
BY a Worker Correspondent


RACINE, Wis.-At a meeting of
the Board of Supervisors in the
court house packed with workers, 1t
was agreed that a committee OF
ten, five supervisors and five work
ers were to go to the Relief De-
partment and check over the books.
When they got there Mr.. L. T.
Vance who is in charge of relief
refused to let this body look over
the books. His reason was that in
the books was a secret between the
state and it's clients.
Immediately drastic cut in re-
lief went into effect. This can mean
no more than those in charge of re-
lief, fearing the workers wrath, are
trying to straighten up their books
by way of the workers stomachs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
2 Out of 600 Get Old
Age Assistance Checks
Nv a worker CORRESPONDENT

CENTERvTILE, Iowa. - Fifty
thousand families in this state are
on relief.
In this state we have an old
age assistance act. Out of 500
applicants, two already got checks,
which leaves only 500 to get them
in this county.
The men are getting 35 cents
per hour on the forced labor jobs.
The number of hours they get is
according to their needs" Just
about enough so that he can keep
himself alive.
Every Daily Worker we get goes
like hot cakes in a hungry family.
We are doing the best we can
to show the workers the way out
and no doubt we will have results
soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Some More BaIIy-hoo!

AOOAAbAlAhCO 44OAAA L CogCA NAeAy
However, there are many physi-
cans and dentists, not so "distin-
guished," who are learning why
workers are really refraining from
medical and dental care. These
physicians and dentists who depend
for their income upon workers of all
fields, realize that there is more
than enough medical work to oc-
cupy every member of the profess
sion, especially now that crisis con-
ditions have worsened the health of
workers. These medical men realize
that before a worker can regard
the dentist as professional SER
want" Ito quote the pamphlet, the
system requires that the workers
have the means to pay his profess
sional servant" professional
servants must also pay rent, eat
and clothe themselves. These rank
and f1lers of the medical professions
are carrying their realization OF
these facts into action. They are
organizing and bringing their or
ganized support to the working
class in its struggle for Unemploy-
ment Insurance. In this united
struggle, these physicians and
dentists are learning and will learn
with increasing conviction, that
their interests are bound up vitality
with those of the working class
Thus, the working class, with its
new-found ally, the rank and file
physicians and dentists, will carry
on their struggle for the restoration
of their incomes at the expense of
the ruling class. And once their in
comes are restored, they will need
no distinguished" medical sales
men" to assist them in the expendi-
ture of that income.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
From Boulder. Colo. Eugene T.

From Boulder, Colo, Eugene T.
contributes 81 to the Daily Work
err drive. L wish more people
especially students-were inter
ested in helping you. If you don't
make the mark, please keep up
a weekly" The expression Of gen.
uine concern should spur readers
to put all their extra time into
raising money to insure publica-
ton of the Daily Worker during
the coming period.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
A SUCCESSFUL MEETING

NEW IOTK, N, 7,
Dear Comrade Editor:
You see-it can be done. A couple
of meetings more like the one at
the Coliseum, celebrating the Rus
sian revolution-and once again we
can bring sympathetic people along
without having to apologize. The
meeting was orderly, speeches were
short Though I thought Comrade
Browder ,hould have spoken more
about the Russian revolution and
less of America and it ended at
10:45.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
GRANGE MASTER OFFERS NO SOLUTION FARMERS PROBLEMS
Loses $50 in Sale
of Four Hefers
RK a FARMER Corresnondent

BY a Farmer correspondent
TOWNVILLE, Pave bought
four heifers when we came here
and paid $50 for them. We kept
them two years. We took them to
a sale and got the same price that
we bought them for.
Just think of that, a person
don't get anything for raising
them. We lost about $50 worth
of feed on them.
We thought we would get more
than that, so we could buy team
of horses, but we didn't have even
half the money for the team.
The milk here we sell for a
dollar hundred and in the city
it is Is cents a quart. That profit
goes to the big guys and it is not
pure milk. That is all I have to
say this time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
NOTE

We publish every Thursday
letters from farmers, agricultural
and cannery and lumber workers.
We urge farmers and workers in
these industries to write us of
their conditions and their efforts
to organize. Please get these let
tiers to us by Monday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

Unit ID, with only IL members,
raised 500 and won the Middle
Bronx Section IN. " banner in
the 100000 drive. If small unit
like this can raise such a large
sum, every other unit in the Party
should have raised its quota by
this time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Colds and Cod Liver Oil

A M, of Boston, writes: my boy,
IA IS months old, is susceptible to
colds and sneezing. Still he has
good appetite, and has normal,
healthy appearance. Would con-
tinuance of giving Cod Liver Oil aid
in preventing colds, or could the
Cod Liver Oil be discontinued? In
view of the fact that it did not
prevent the susceptibility to colds
last winter"
Our Reply
THE theory has been advanced by
L some scientists that one of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
CUTTING UP

One week to go-for the biggest,
most Tremendous affair which Is
one of the Medical Board schemes
to beat Gold, Burck and the rest
of the competitors. The Thanks
giving Eve dance, of course, at the
Savoy in Harlem, where Professor
Yosel Cutler and Doc Puppet will
hold forth. Keep that date openl
Mrs. w. J. Smith. ................S 1.sO
J. B. c., Chattanooga......... LOO
Previously received ........... S15.75
Aotal $oIo'SO
Quota, 500.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
JAPANESE AFFAIR SUNDAY

All out for the Daily Worker
Affair at the japanese Workers
Club, 212 East Ninth Street,
N. Y. c., this Sunday, Nov. Is,
at 8 pm. There1l be japanese
food at reasonable prices, enter
tainment, and a play, Man
chukuo," written by members of
the club. One reason why you
should be there: proceeds will be
credited to the Worker Core
spondence Department.
Total to date ......,...,..........SS5.5O
Quota-S50O.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
In THE HON E
'sThe Women Are Plenty Sore!''
BY ANN RAR TON

pOY WHITLEY, leading figure
~ in the recent general textile
strike, around Concord, North
Carolina, gave some very graphic
pictures, the other day, of women
textile workers in North Carolina.
"The women who can get work,
come home at night after working
all day in the mill, cook supper,
put the children to bed. And most
families have five or six children.
By that time they're so tired,
they're glad to go to sleep. The
next day, It's the same thing all
over again. They have nothing
outside of work, worrying how to
feed the children, and sleep. No
movies. The textile workers don't
get enough so as to pay rs cents
for a movie. The women, doing
skilled work, get S13.68, which Is
So to So less than the men. It's
the women who do the nightw0rk.
Sometime husband and wife see
each other only few minutes
day.
why, the women were so mad
at their conditions, that most Of
them were more anxious to strike
than the men,"
boy WHITLEY described on e
IL woman who could surely speak
She'd get up and say, 81 read that
down in Alabama, the Negroes and
white are picketing together, hun
dreds and thousands of them.
That's what we got to dol We got
to mass picket! Mass pickett"
Whitley explained, There's no
hospital care for the women, no
clinics. The only time a woman
sees the doctor is when she's going
to have baby. And then the doc
tor only delivers the child, and
comes to see her once after that.
There's no care of her before she's
had the baby"
THE children in the mill villages
don't get fruit, nor milk. My
Ohu hCfCi SSCS HIN.
Whitley, who worked untiringly
during the textile strike helping
to organize mass picket lines and
leading the fights against the u.
t. w. bureaucrats, has eight chill
dren. milk there runs from fiji
teen cents to seventeen cents a
quart. The code didn't help prices
none. Before the code, fatback
(the almost plain fat on which
children and adults liye) was five
cents pound. After the code, it
was twelve cents pound. And
after Roosevelt's hog killing pro-
gram, the cheapest grade was fiji
teen cents.
Most of the kids don't go to
school. Not that we don't want
them to get an education. We do.
But there isn't the money to buy
school books. And the kids don't
have shoes. Once they brought
a parent to court, because his kids
did not go to school. But the
things brought out in that trial
about conditions of the workers,
their wives and children, exposed
them that brought to trial, and
caused them to call things off.
And they've never tried to arrest
a parent since.
We've got to get the women
organized down there! They're
plenty sore! Once we do, we'll
eoa raaI f;rhtinUf5
WHAT about other working wom-
w ems clubs? There are many Of
them, besides Womens Councils
groups. What about some soli-
darity? December l is very near.
And certainly our column must pass
the 500 mark-even if we fall be-
low the original $500 quota set.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
WORKERS HEALTH
by
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

vitaminS contained in Cod Liver
Oil, namely, Vitamin A, is a pre-.
tentative against infections of the
upper respiratory tract (the common
Cold. The truth of this contention
has not as yet been established to
the satisfaction Of the great MAJOR
ity of medical observers. You have
had the same experience and, there.
fore, the answer to your question is,
it would be a waste of your good
money to administer Cod Liver Oh
for the purpose of preventing colds.
On the other hand as fattenin9
agent, it is excellent.
Scaling Hands
D B., Brooklyn, N. Y: Scaling 10
:" symptom of many diseases
and without further information
intelligent advice is difficult to give.
In your case the scaling is limited
to the right palm and this is not
infrequently found associated with
ringWorm disease of the feet (ath~
lete's foot) Your feet should, there
fore, be examined for the presence
of scaling or blisters on the skin
Or discoloration and thickening Of
the toe-nails. In these cases, sue
cessful treatment of the feet will
cure the condition of the hands.
Another possibility in your case Is
contact with some irritating sub
stance The handling Of chemicals
like cleaning powders, paints, etc.,
can cause such a condition. In
these cases it is necessary to con-
slider all the chemicals whieh You
may handle and, if the cause Is not
obvious, to test your skin with these
substances.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Can You Make 'Em
Yourself?

Pattern 1928 is available in sizes
16, 10, 40, "a, 36, SO, 40, AZ and A.
Size 36 takes 334 yards SO inch
fabric and Y yard contrasting, Il.
Illustrated step-by step sewing in-
structions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

What about it? What are you, who
are reading these words now, doing
to raise funds for the Daily Worker
through this column, of course?
I am afraid, comrades, I will not
be convinced unless there is a S
and C answer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

Advisory Adverss)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

WHAT about other working wom-
w ems clubs? There are many Of
them, besides Womens Councils
groups. What about some soli-
darity? December l is very near.
And certainly our column must pass
the 500 mark-even if we fall be-
low the original $500 quota set.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
Old Policies Upheld

Just as in that day, the or
ganiZation today upholds the
above resolution. Another reso-
luton passed at that first meet
ing, which is enforced today, is
the following:
"That each member be called
off by name for some cOmmuni-
cation when she may either ask
for information on any subject
she thinks it desirable to dis
cuss or give information of the
right nature which she has ac-
quired or call attention to some
passage or book she has read
not familiar to the rest, and all
shall give attention to the sub
ject under consideration"
Except for a few necessary oc-
casions. the club never has
missed a monthly meeting since
it's organization, and records Of
each meeting are intact.
According to records, on the
fiftieth anniversary Of the club
a meeting was held in May,
1907, at Norwood" the home
of Mrs. Milton Bancroft, a
granddaughter of Hadassah
J. Moore. a charter member. At
that meeting, Halle j. Bentley,
who is still a member, read an
original poem of her own COM
position entitled "Our Mothers" I"