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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
In THE HO vi E
eve Need a School for Maids!
By nm RIO N

writes to tell us that if workers
club wishes to have piano, she
has one to offer, if the club will
come for it within the next day
or two, and take care of the NOV
ing expenses.
Anna Rockway. The Woman's
Council Branch nearest you is
Council No. 81, which meets every
Wednesday night at 261 Schenectady
Avenue, Brooklyn.
Contributions received to the
credit Of Ann Barton, in her Social
ist competition with David Ramsey,
Jacob Burck, Del, Harry Cannes,
Mike Gold and the Medical Advis-
cry Board. in the Daily Worker
drive for 100000. Quota-S500.
Eva OstrcW ...............S 100
jean Fuller ............... 200
Previously Reed .......... 1910
Total to Date. ......... $3.50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
A DIFFERENT" HEALTH
COLUMN

Chicago, Ill.
Dear Comrade Editor:
just finished reading my Daily"
Of Oct. 10 and CHANGED to see a
letter in Workers Health" column
by a Philadelphia comrade and cap
toned by the editor, What About
1t, Comrades?" Well, I'll say this.
1t would be very good thing to
collect all those articles appearing
every day in our paper and have
them bound together in small books,
say one about the size of our Com
munist," our monthly magazine. I
have many times wished I had
saved them all out of the paper,
but I've left my Daily" here and
there and everywhere after reading,
as I should. Times have been when
I've run across two or three old
copies lying around the house that
I'd neglected to dispose of and it
gives me actual pain, as if I were
seeing food wasted.
What a difference the Workers
Health column from the health
columns of the bourgeois physicians
that appear in the Tribune, Hearst s
paper, and the others.
1t makes me feel tough not to
have a dollar or two aside from
next months rent and food money!
to slip in with this letter. I just
got through putting in five and a
half years in one plant here in
Chicago. Building now being torn
down to clear site.
Comradely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Letters from Our Readers

Perhaps the opinion of an Amer
lean who has been working here for
the past three years may be of in
terest to Il. H"
Conditions are improving, and
visibly 50. New stores being opened
continually; new products being
displayed and on sale; increasing
numbers of purchasers all the time.
New metaIlurgical plants, machine
producing plants, automobile plants,
chemical plants, new experimental
ton in agriculture with new vege-
tables and fruits being produced
improvement in every conceivable
line-all for the workers.
More and better medical service
free. More and larger dining rooms
factory kitchens they are called,
as they serve thousands Of people,
more nurseries, more kindergartens,
more schools, more vacation resorts
with sanatoriums-all for the work
erS.
Better salaries and decrease in
prices and the cost of living. Better
and cheaper products.
With rentals proportionate to
your salary, medical attention free,
your job assured, and with promise
Of greater things ahead, it is no
wonder that the worker population
of this workers republic is enthu-
siastic and energetic.
You may assure your reader, 1T.
H." that no "defenses," even though
honest ones, need be made. Con-
ditions are improving very much
so.
p p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
United Front
Strengthens
Rent Strike
BY a Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK. Let me recount an
achievement of the Brownsville
workers in the struggle carried on
by the tenants of Sis Saratoga Ave.
against their landlord, the Home
Loan Insurance Co.
A short time ago several Of the
striking families were evictsd. In
order to do this a heavy police
mobilization was necessary. The
street was blocked off by emergency
trucks, and bluecoats on foot and
horses kept the crowd at bay. There
were even cops with machine guns
on the roofs.
Despite this, meetings were held
on the corner and thousands of
workers we're told of the significance
Of what was going on.
If the cops thought that by plac-
ing the furniture on the street the
job was done, they were sadly mis-
taken. On the contrary, with every
additional piece of furniture that
was carried out the temper of the
masses to fight against such condi-
tions became more pronounced.
Thousands of people that filled
the street heard Sadie Berg speak
from one of the fire escapes, after
the police had broken up an open
air meeting, riding into the speak
ers stand and attacking the work
ers. 1t was only with difficulty that
traffic was kept moving. The neigh
borhood was flooded with people;
the workers would not retreat.
For time the affair took on a
spontaneous character. Because OF
this it was easier for the police to
isolate us, and to prevent us from
involving many of the spectators.
Fortunately, united front meet
ing with the Socialists was started
A crowd that filled the width of the
street were treated to unique spec
tacle. Workers of both parties were
downing political differences anc
uniting on a specific issue. Enthu-
siasm knew no bounds. The meet
ing ended with the singing of the
International and the determination
to carry the struggle on to victory
with the aid of the added weapon
of the United Front.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Norfolk Court
Aids .Jim-Crow
Terror Drive
BY a Worker Correspondent

NORFOLK, Va Police in Nor
folk nave tried once again to break
the growing unity of Negro and
white workers as they see this grow
ing unity getting stronger day by
day
This unity found its expression
when for the first time in Norfolk,
during the recent seamen's strike,
native white workers went with
Negro workers to the relief officials
demanding equal relief for Negro
workers. Previously the seamen
had forced the opening of a special
seamen'S relief. When the Negro
seamen applied they found them
selves Disseminated against, given
less money to eat with and sleep
ing quarters that were filthy.
The delegations forced some con-
cessions, but were refused clothing,
so a delegation was elected to go to
Washington. This delegation in
cluded Duncan and Walker of the
M. w. I. U. and unorganized sea-
men. They forced the officials to
grant clothing to the seamen and
to establish relief in Newport News
where previously it had been denied.
Upon their return, they went to
Negroes home to get their laun-
dry. Five minutes later police rush
ed in AND arrested the two seamen
and Carrie Bennett member of the
I. L. D. The police charged them
with "disorderly conduct" and in
police court tried to say they saw
Carrie Bennet sitting on the lap of
one CT the seamen. They added
charge of carrying dangerous
weapon, said dangerous weapon
consisting of an old rusted seamen's
knife. They were fined $4,000 and
$1,000 apiece (tfe $4,000 for the
dangerous weapon.
The Norfolk 1. L. D. is launching
a broad campaign not only to free
the three arrested but also to es-
tablish the right of workers to visit
each other regardless of race with
out interference by the police. This
attempt on the part of the police
to split the ranks of the workers
has failed completely and has
aroused many workers to protest.
We call upon all sympathetic work.
ers to send protests to the City
Manager, Norfolk, Va.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Socialist and Communist Youth Unite Election Meeting
Organization Spreads
Among Office Workers
BY a Worker Correspondent

ny WOTkeI OOIItSpOnucuk
NEW YORK.-It has long been
the idea that Office workers are
unorganizable. That this is an
illusion is indicated by recent
events following the Macaulay
strike. The Macaulay strike. as
you know, is the first labor action
in the book publishing industry.
AS a result of the Macaulay strike,
the publishing industry is adj
vancing rapidly toward unioniza-
ton. Here is an instance:
Following a symposium held by
the Macaulay Strike Committee
at the Office Workers Union hall
at which the topic was. Indus
rial Organization in the Book
Publishing Field" the Modern
Library gave raises to all its en-
ployes so that no worker was be-
low the union minimum which is,
of course, considerably higher
than the code minimum Follow
ing this, the workers of Story
Magazine, which is in the same
building, constituting the entire
staff, joined the Union. Contacts
have been established with five
publishing houses where the
Union had no previous entry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Wyoming Miners Eager
To Get Coal Digger

By Mine Worker Correspondent
The miners here sure like the
Coal Digger.
In this state everything is con-
trolled by the Union Pacific Coal
Company and the John L. Lewis
union. And if they catch any of the
miners with the Coal Digger, they
will fire him. But at the same time
we are doing our best for the Coal
Digger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Oshkosh Labor Council
Tables Green's Letter
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT


OSHKOSH, wis.-At the Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council
meeting on October 18th the let
ter from Green to GUST Commu-
nists was tabled after a very
lively discussion. I want to say
that the rank and file delegates
we're ready to defend the rights
of workers to be Communists if
they so chose.
Most opposition came from one
of the bureaucrats by the name
Of Frank Jands, who was State
Organizer for the A. F. of L., and
at one time relief administrator.
This same fellow once had a
worker arrested for fig htin g
against forced labor.
A motion was made to table
Green's letter. An amendment
followed the motion to have a
trial period of six months. The
first vote was II to II, the second
10 to 10, and the third was Is
to II in favor Of the amendment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Sciatica

Sciatica
A. S., of Detroit. writes: my
n problem is a pain running from
the left hip joint down the back
of the leg; cacn't stoop or sit with
out an effort to rise. spent six
weeks in bed and it constantly felt
like the flesh was tearing loose in
side I could not sleep nights
for the pain even with the straps
the docors put on, which did not
even relieve me -"
YOU are probably suffering from
1 the condition commonly known
as "sciatica," which is an infamma-
ton, or irritation of one of the
main nerves to the lower limb. The
causes are numerous, such as, ar
Thrills, Inflammation of joints. es-
pecially the joints of the lower
part of the spine and hips, infec-
ton, injury and many others. The
treatment is generally:
1. Rest in bed during the early
and acute stages of the illness.
2. Baking applied twice day to
the small of the back and the in
volved limbs.
3. Deep heat applied electrically
(diathermia).
4. Medication for the relief Of
pain aspirin, etc..
5. Sometimes fixation of the spine
and hip by the application of a
cast or brace. This produces COM
plete and ideal rest for the ir-
ritated parts. This treatment if
used more commonly in prolonged
and chronic cases.
6. Occasionally, for the relief Of
pain, injections about the tissues
of the nerves (done only by a nerve
specialist in a hospitaD.
The illness is sometimes difficult
TO treat and cure, and even after
satisfactory relief of symptoms there
may be a relapse. The condition,
however, represents no special
danger.
You say you got some relief from
a chiropractor, but we would warn
you that chiropractors may do
great damage by applying their
treatment to cases which should not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Number

The Jewish City Committee
challenges the rest of the Order in
New York to a socialist COMPETE
ton in the membership drive, de-
claring that they will take in 2
members for each one taken in by
all the other sections combined.
This challenge should stimulate
a more rapid tempo in the cam
paign. This campaign was origi-
nally planned to start full blast on
Oct. 1st. This, however, did not
work as planned and it has been
necessary to use the time from
Oct. 1st to begin to develop real
campaign, so that we are now Just
starting. This is reflected in the
Children's Section recruiting in
which the children have been left to
carry on the campaign almost
single handedly.
With some real attention from
the adult sections the Children's
Section will be able to progress
much faster
OptAOu IOT lTaue unions
We call the attention of trade
and industrial union members to
the Option known as TAP, which
offers several necessary benefits at
very low cost to the individual.
Briefly at cost of Is cts. week,
the member is entitled to $3.50 life
insurance, 81 week sick benefit
for Is weeks, a $40 per week con-
sumption benefit for &c weeks. Ac-
cording to this plan, the dues to the
Order are paid in to the union
secretary as the union dues are
paid. This entire arrangement not
only gives the individual unionist
important benefits, but also directly
strengthens the union organization
itself.
Meeting of English Branch
Executives
The next meeting of the Execu-
tive Committees of the English
branches will take place Saturday
Nov. 10th at 2 pm. at Irving Plaza
Hall, cor. Irving Pl and 15ta St.
This gives over a week for each
branch to make sure that its Ev.
Comm. will be present without fail
We invite contributions to this
column by workers and others in
terested in the order, questions,
raising of problems, and sugges-
tions derived from your experiences
in branch activity.
Send to I. w. o., 80 Fifth Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

IN THE Green and Gold room Of |
the Y.W.C.A in New Haven, Con-
necticut, a group of women sit in
solemn council. But before we go
into that, let us look at a bulletin
issued by the U. S. Department of
Labor, Women's Bureau, on October
10, 1884. This Women's Bureau
sends throughout the country, re-
ports on conditions of women work.
ers. Connected with the govern
ment as it lie, it of course, tends
to paint its reports with rose
colored brush. But in this bulletin,
the roSiness wears thin.
What constitutes a fair weeks
wage for household employees"
asks. 1t answers, work conditions
of the nations over 100000 women
servants have been solely de-
pendent upon the wishes and de-
mands of countless individual en-
ployers. AS a result, hours have
been long and irregular, and there
has been little relation between the
work done and the wages paid, or
the living conditions offered"
AND new we go back to the solemn
n council in the Gree and Gold
room of the Y. w. C. A. where we
find sturdy group of uplifters, de-
Gliding wonderful things for the
domestic workers. Is it higher
wages they are interested in? Are
they attempting to limit the hours
of work? Will they bring pressure
to bear upon the employers, SO that
they will provide adequate living
quarters for the girls? Three times
no.
TX" sends us a newspaper clip
ping of the New Haven Register
that records the doings of these
ladies. They had met to discuss
the maid problem" We can see
the fire Of righteous endeavor in
their eyes, as they deliberate over
the fact that this least crowded
and most secure of professions CD
remains without trained workers
because there are no facilities for
training available! What to do?
What to do?
They decide upon an answer. A
school for maids! This council in
the Green and Gold room now
wakes enthusiastic as it celebrates.
There shall be preliminary house
work theory actual labora-
tory work" There will also be
training in the education of maids
to more cooperative attitudes
towards their employers" Perhaps,
4 for the actual laboratory work,
students may be sent into super
vised homes" We've heard of
working for nothing before.
Don't laughw snorts tx" "To
prove they were serious, they then
and there decided 10 ask for Fed
cral Emergency Relief Association
Funds for the project" Workers!
Dent be so rude as to talk of
wages and hours. Merely get in
ililC ollu lCS12sC anu al W1I DC
WE'LL"
THESE last two years have seen
L the beginning Of real organiz1-
ton among domestic workers. In
New York City, the Domestic Work
ers Union is established at Ais
Lenox Avenue. We invite members
of this union to write us something
of the other side of the picture.
They will tell us by what methods
of orga niz2tion and struggle the
domestic workers themselves are
safeguarding hours and wages. VIC
can be sure that their so,usion of
the problem is not School fer
maids"
BLANCHE BRETON, of 7o9 Will
II loughby Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
South Dakota Sends First
Contribution in Month

THE hrst contribution from South month was
recorded Fridays Dakota however is still long way from
its $500 quota from Organizer Comrad Sharp
indicates though that South Dakota waking part in the
drive
1868 This indicates that New YORK
resolved to support its 9page showing bettered
too Much of the every Party mem
Der that he shopmate to contribute this
week New will end of the trail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 2O62 is available in sizes
IA, Is, Is, 20, 50, "a, IS, 3S, 40 and
AZ. Size Is takes 414 yards 80 inch
fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew
ing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
The Membership Drive

We are just completing the first
month of our drive in New York
City for 10000 new members. We
print the standing of the various
sections below:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
WORKERS HEALTH
Conducted by the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board

be treated by their methods at all.
The chiropractor's or oSteopath's
help should only be sought on the
advice of a physician who will
prescribe the particular treatment
in conditions which require it, and
avoid the treatment where serious
harm may result.
Chiropractors have been known
sometimes to help patients suffer-
ing from your condition. Put your
self, however, in the care of a good
nerve doctor and do what he tells
you to. The important part Of
treatment is the care of the UNDER
lying condition which requires ac-
curate diagnosis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

Contributions received to the
credit of the Workers Correspond
ence Department in its Socialist
competition with David Ramsey,
Jacob Burck, Del, Harry Cannes,
Mike Gold, Ann Barton, and the
Medical Advisory Board, in the
Daily Worker drive for 100000.
Quota-S500.
Robert E. Boyle ........S .25
Previously Reed 1880
Total to Date. .......,, .S10.75
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
AMERICAN WORKER WRITES
FROM MOSCOW
Moscow, U. S. S. r.

Moscow, U. S. S. r.
Dear Editor of the Daily Worker:
In your Aug. 80, 1894 issue, Il.
H" asks for more news of the U.
S. S. R." and says that IF condi-
tions for the workers of Russia have
not improved, I know there are
many defenses that can honestly be
made. If, however, conditions have
improved, why should we not be
familiar with them?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

Send FIFTEEN CENTS 15c) in
coins or stamps tcoins prcferred)
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 West 18th
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

Received to Nov. IL 909 Al
Previously received 30O32 l6
Total to date 3O94l. 81
DISTRICT 1 (Boston)
Group Of friends from Cambridge 500
workers Cultural League of Chelsea 400
Gardner Unit Sec. %. 90
Chester Working Women's Club 400
Total to Nov. 2 31o0
Total to date I7sss SO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

Contributions received to the
credit of the Medical Advisory
Board in its Socialist competition
with Del, Mike Gold, Harry Cannes,
Jacob Burck, David Ramsey and
Ann Barton, in the Daily Worker
drive for $4,000. Quota-$1, 500.
Eva Ostrow .............$ LEO
Hungarian WkrS. Fed. 49,. 2.25,
Previously Reed ....... 32S.11
Total to Date ........ S331.36
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Birth Control Lecture

ANOTHER lecture on Birth Con-
n troll will be delivered on Friday,
November 18th, at the Prospect
Workers Center, 1857 Southern
Blvd, Bronx at $50 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

Total to Date. .S1O.7!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

BLANCHE BRETON, of 7o9 Will
u loughby Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y,
The Washington times., 1934-03-29
Three Fishermen
Rescued by Liner

NORFOLK, Va, March 20
GN.S0.-Stolidly waiting through
the night in their sinking smack,
which they had anchored to
keep from drifting to sea, three
men were rescued today when
the daylight and a lifting haze
revealed them to a passing
steamer. The Captain Warfield,
en- route from Baltimore to Nor
folk, spotted the smack anchored
off Wolf Trap light in CheSa-
peake Bay, and in the few re-
naming minutes before it sank,
removed its master, Jerry Creigh-
ton, and crew of two.
The Washington times., 1934-03-29
Pay Act to Give Employees
100000 in April

Oregon pointed out that 10000 Of
these cases were tubercular vet
erans, unable to work and literally
helpless. He added that 1878
were neuropSychiatric cases-the
shell-shocked victims Of the war,
thousands Of them now in Fed
eral, state and private hospitals.
He charged these men, disabled
in war, never could prove the serv-
ice-connected origin Of their dis
abilities.
Poll Pointed Result
The Senate outcome was not
q surprise. A poll by Interna-
tional News Service, taken hours
before the vote, indicated the
President would be defeated, "a
to 2S. The actual vote was 63
to q, due to a last-minute pair,
Just three votes more than neceS-
Sary to override the veto. The
House decision, however, was
amazing, because it was the
SharpeSt rebuke administered .
President in q quarter century.
The Washington times., 1934-03-29
ADVERTISER EMIT
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With Itching Eczema"

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