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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26

portant factor in our whole labor
movement.
The militant members of any
lodge, or if unorganized, can on any
Job organize to force settlement Of
local grievances. They can, with a
program based upon the needs of
the workers, establish rank and file
control in their lodge. TIL ey
can unite all workers and lodges
of their division, of their road, in
the fight against layoffs, speed up,
wage cuts and part time work. They
can initiate in their own surround
ings fight for the six-hour and
five day week without any decreases
in pay. They can push forward
the campaign for unemployment in
surance as embodied in H. r. 1898.
They can join in the fight against
faScism and war and protect mill
tant members. They can elect as
officers in the lodges and as dele
gates to conventions and on COM
mittees rank and file members who
will fight for rank and file pro-
gram based on demands in the in
terest of the men on the job.
C.P. Fights for RI. Workers
Demands
The Communist Party of the
United States stands at the head
of working class struggles in this
country, on the job and at the bal
lot box. 1t is made up Of class
conscious workers, men and women,
who see through the schemes by
which the capitalist class exploits
the workers and maintains itself in
power.
In opposition to the capitalist way
out, through starvation and suppress
sion. Communists point to the way
out taken by the revolutionary Rus
sian workers. Railroad workers in
the Soviet Union are organized 100
per cent into one great industrial
union with full control over wages,
working conditions and manage
ment. They have the SiX-hour day,
five-day week, two weeks vacation
with pay each six months, accom-
panied by numerous ge~1ncreases.
Unemployment has been abolished,
and free medical care, old age pen
sions and sickness insurance are
provided for.
To vote for the capitalist party
candidates is to vote for the CAPT
talist program of wage cuts, un-
employment, company unions, ar
bitration, surrender of the strike
weapon, suppression of all protest,
for imperialist war and for grow
ing fascism at home.
To vote Socialist is to vote for
bankrupt political party which
has abandoned all class struggle
and whose policy of collaboration
with the capitalists leads in
evitabIy to betrayal, as in England,
Germany and Austria.
To vote Communist is to con-
test every inch of ground with the
capitalist class. 1t is to strength
en- the fight against lay-offs,
wage cuts, for full rank and file
control of our unions, for unem-
ployment insurance and cash re-
lief for the unemployed. 1t is a
vote against war and fascism and
for a workers government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
Textile SeUOut
Called Victory
By ThOmG as
Worker Says Amter, Not
Thomas, Shows Way
Out of Crisis
BY a Worker CorresDondent

SYRACUSE, N. Y. - Norman
Thomas, speaking at the Central
High School, began by wisecracking
and kidding about the Republicans
and Democrats, and then asked if
the country was in such a condi-
ton to be entertained with such a
farce To show that it wasn't he
put his hands in his pockets and
grinned frequently as he told how
bad things were.
After telling the people that they
could never get anything by voting,
he proceeded to tell them what he
would do if elected senator. 1t was
purely reformist. and I have heard
Republicans make better promises.
Outside I met worker who be-
gan talking about the meeting. 1T
was dull. Thomas didn't say much.
The worker had been attending
meetings at the Workers Center
(Socialist), but guessed the only
! way to get real Socialism was the
way Russia did it." There was one
Socialist reaction for you.
I could not help comparing that
meeting with the one at which
Comrade Amter spoke. Three or
four times as many people heard
Thomas, but Comrade Amter was
ten times as vital in his message,
ten times as earnest and sincere in
his manner, ten times as definite
and clear as Thomas.
In answering question about not
expelling a militarist from the So
cialist Party, Thomas said that the
Socialist Party was big enough to
hold people of different opinions
and was not like the Communist
Party which had to kick out the
LoveStoneites and Trotskyites.
AS regards the textile strike be-
trayal and lack of united front he
said, Betrayal? Why, it was a vic
tory for the textile workers"
Relative to the united front he
said, IF the Socialists pave the road
to fascism as the Communists say,
is that why they want to unite with
us?"
To that We could all say, yes! to
prevent the leadership from betray-
ing the rank and file into the hands
Of the fascists"
There is little comment I should
like to make on before the meet
ing" The meeting was announced
very literally with quotations and
picture of Thomas for three or four
days in a couple of our daily papers.
In the same paper with a large pic
ture of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas and
sweet story about Mr.. Thomas
hair had grown white in the service
of his party, was a full page head
line telling that Mayor Marvin was
trying to throw the Communist
ticket out.
On all sides it becomes evident
that the capitalist class has no fear
of the Socialists. 1t is only the Com
munist Party that sticks to its pur-
pose. 1t is only the Communist
Party that the capitalists fear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
Thomas Offers
No Solution
FOrCOnditiOns
BY a Worker Correspondent

BOLIVAR, N. Y.-Norman Thomas
was the principal speaker at a
meeting recently in high school
at clean, N. Y. Mr.. Thomas COM
mitted the fatal mistake Lenin so
often cautioned us against, telling
of conditions, in this case of what
he had seen and heard in the onion
fields of Ohio and in the textile
strike sections of North Carolina.
Lenin says: What is the use of
telling about conditions that every
body already knows, what is neces-
sary is to give remedy" When
he touched on public ownership of
utilities, one could easily under
stand from his words that the
capitalists will be glad to have their
private property publicly distrib-
uted. That's what his words i'm
piled. Never once did he carry any
idea we might have to fight to
bourgeoisie. He loudly voiced the
Socialists fight against 1a5cz--1 and
war; and how foolish it all sounded
to one who knows their hedging
about joing the united front with
the Communists. His going left
with the Revolutionary Policies
Committee was due to the pressure
of the rank and file members, not
from choice. He did not mention
the Spanish, Cuban or German
situation and less the Far East or
the marine strike. I call it about
as tame dissertation as one could
expect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
Wicks, Meyerscough, Speak at Rally
BY a Worker CORRESPONDENT

YUKON, Pave called a mass
meeting in lot. In spite of the
cold, there were quite a few work.
ers present. Our main speakers
were Harry M. Wicks, who is run
ming for U. IS. Senator on the Com
munist ticket, also T. M. C. Meyers
cough, president of the N. M. U.
Meyerscough spoke - the sell-outs
of j. Lewis. Comrade Wicks spoke
on the Communist platform and the
basic demands.
The Democratic Party, which is
running for reelection, also had a
meeting. They are making every
effort to get votes. The Socialist
Party issued leaflets in Italian, try
ing to get the support of the work
ers for their candidate, Holmes. The
capitalists are doing everything pos
sible to gain control, using their
papers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
5000 Workers in Scranton
Reject Capitalist Parties,
Plan to Vote for Communists
CommunistSpeakerRouts Democrat at Symposium
Arranged Following Mass Unemployed
Parade and Rally

Party organizer, who answered Nc
Gurren and asked him number of
questions. The Democrat was in a
hurry to leave but finally decided
to stay. After Comrade Nelson
asked him about IL questions to
which he could not give reply to
the satisfaction of the workers, al
though he was given a chance to do
so. After he was thoroughly ex-
posed in his rebuttal he made a
statement that he has learned lot
at this meeting, stating that we
should be friends in spite of the
fact that we belong to different
parties and did everything he could
to make safe retreat and not to
suffer complete disaster.
Comrade Dougher asked the 5000
workers present to express their
opinion by voting for the three Par
ties, for the Republicans, Democrats
and Communists. There was not a
Jingle hand raised for either capt.
talist Party, not even the Demo-
cratic representative had courage
enough to raise his hand when he
saw the enthusiasm Of the workers
in voting for the Communist Party.
This was the greatest slap the Dem
ocrats received in the county for a
long time and we can rest assured
that the lesson they learned is that
it does not pay to come to workers
meeting when Communists have a
chance to speak with them on the
same platform. The workers left
the demonstration with great en-
thusiasm and determined to vote
Communist on November 9Th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26

Mrs. Gilmore Herrick, head of the
Regional Labor Board of the MIRA,
who has often put her political foot
into it for her open expression of
an anti-labor attitude, attended a
luncheon of the New York Con-
sumers' League at Town Hall this
week, where she came forward as
the champion of low-paid labor.
She moaned, in sweet, sad horror,
TN every state, women are working
for two cents. three cents and five
cents an hour at home!" She went
on to state their wage makes the
wage paid japanese labor seem
quite attractive" The conclusion
she draws is that the American
standard OF living is vanishing "due
to the destructive force of home
work"
1--WE have taught them to live
the American way" she says of i'm
migrants, yet many of these i'm
migrants and their children and
their children's children have been
forced back into the meager,
starved existence, which is the best
that home work will support" She
declares home work, the most
pressing industrial issue before this
State this winter"
Mrs. Herrick closes her eyes and
blinds her ears. She dares to see
only that which is convenient. The
American standard of living has
shot downward like a meteor, these
N. r. A. years. But Mrs. Herrick,
| herself, is the principal exponent in
this State of the N. r. A. codes
that have made low-paid labor
patriotic. The American standard
of living has been propelled down.
ward by direct order of the gov
eminent through the MIRA. codes
Silk workers are striking in Pater-
son, because the wages set by the
code are so low that they do not af-
ford the silk workers even life's
bare necessities. In order to live
workers throughout New York and
the entire country are striking
against the wages made legal by
the N. r. A. codes.
Mrs. Herrick, you may be assured
that women do not prefer working
in their homes for two cents, three
cents and five cents an hour. If
they could get job in a shop that
paid a living wage, they would not
turn their homes into swea shops
In assailing falling standards
Mrs. Herrick deity evades the en-
tire significance of the working
class misery of these years. If she
faced it, as she of course will not
she would have to recognize in her
self policewoman of a system that
forces women into their homes tc
work for four cents an hour in or
der to live in the all too American
way.
Under the peculiarly biased title
Women Find Use for Head" comes
this story over the United Press
ticker, to describe group of women
who are fighting to defend their
standard OF living 1.-TWO women
today used their heads to stop a
train. The train was loaded with
shipment from the Chicago Rub
Der Clothing Goods Co., where a
strike was in progress. The women
they were pickets-lay down with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
Look FOruUGrd
To Root Party
MMcKeeSROck
Red Scare, New Deal
BallyhOO, Hamper
Activity
By a Worker Correspondent

McKEES ROCK, Pa.-There has
been no political struggle arranged
for the coming election locally by
the Communist Party, and I doubt
that any has been carried on to
support it statewide. OF course,
there has been door to door can
vassing to put the party on the bal
lot and that is as far as the workers
aided.
The American residential section
where there is a majority of mid
dle-class elements have issued the
New Deal" program here. The
workers have built an American
Citizens League organization for
unemployed workers, and this is the
way that the workers are being dis
eouraged towards any workers po-
litical economic organization that
we have functioning in our town
here. The working class residential
section is under the influence of
the bosses red scare, which causes
most disorganization among the
working class population. Here the
workers are made to believe that
the rank and file is helpless and
cannot carry on any work. The
young workers are beginning to be
very difficult to approach and to
make realize the coming struggles
which the Communist Party is
leading throughout the country.
Today we are faced with hard re-
lief problems and we are finding it
mighty hard even to convince the
former members of good standing
to rejoin the struggle against these
conditions. But, we are still look
ing forward to root deeper, to crys-
tallize the movement, and we hope
to be more able to develop the
workers mind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
First Communist Slate in Iron Co
BY Worker Correspondent

IRON BELT, Wis.-Iron County
has Communist candidates in Iron
Belt, Wis. For the first time the
workers and farmers of Iron Coun-
ty are in a position to vote for a
Communist candidate for several
county offices.
Everything that was promised to
us by Roosevelt before he was
elected still remains only promise,
therefore we workers here are not
going to let ourselves be fooled by
the capitalist party politicians. Our
duty now is to support the only
party of all workers and farmers,
the Communist Party. Not only at
the polls, but always, regardless of
our political or religious opinions.
We are all against hunger, war and
fascism, therefore we'll vote Com
munist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
Battle for
Free Speech
In Canarsie
BY a Worker Correspondent

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-The Canar-
sic workers are now carrying on a
struggle against fascist terror for
the right of free speech. Open air
meetings are scheduled for every
Wednesday night at pm, under
the auspices of the Canarsie Work
ers Club, in conjunction with the
Communist Party and the Young
Communist League of Brownsville,
and other sympathetic revolution
airy organizations.
There was a hand to hand battle
in mobilization of about 500 fas-
cists, outnumbering our fellow
workers five or ten to one. Well
organized, viciouSly attacking work.
ers around the speakers platform.
Our comrades did not lose their
heads, lined up one alongside of
each other in unity and were ready
for defense.
Due to our courageous and uni
fed ranks we outbattled those fas-
cists of Canarsie and they will have
something to remember us by. The
workers will fight for their rights
of free speech and assembly, and
against war and fascism.
There are, however, many work.
ers in the ranks of those Demo-
cratic and patriotic organizations
who are misled and it is our duty
to clarity them in order to win
them over under any cost. Now
then, only through the unity of
the Socialist and Communist work
ers together can we accomplish and
show the strength of the working
class. Unity and mass pressure of
the working class only will bring
victory.
The Young Peoples Socialist
League, realizing the power of unity
in Brownsville, has invited, through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26

demand, asking him to refrain from
destroying food. This went in the
minutes as form Of a resolution
and will be printed in the Gladwin
County record. During the bank
holiday the workers of this county
lost very much money, so the board
thought of protecting the county
from now on. We have around
$4,000 on hand, and a committee
was sent to the local bank asking
them to give security and interest.
They refused. The State law re-
quires that the board name bank
or banks, so the board named eight
different banks in order to get each
to take up 5000 Of our money for
insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
NOTE:

The usual correspondence for
Friday from workers in the trans
pOrtatiOn and communication in
dustries-railrOad, marine, truck
ing, taxi, subway, elevated, etc.
has been omitted due to the fact
that this is a special election is
sue and the space is devoted to
workers correspondence on the
election campaign.
However on future Fridays, the
page will be devoted to workers
in these industries. We urge them
to write us of their conditions of
work, and their struggle to organ
ize. Please get these letters to us
by Tuesday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
Party Weak in Gainesville, Pa.
BY a Worker Correspondent

COATESVILLE, Pain the mat
ter OF political activity in the pres
ent election campaign, in Coates
vile, must say there is absolutely
none so far as the Communist or
Socialist Parties are concerned.
Though this is mainly Republican
territory, the Democrats are I'M
doubtedly going to make a good
sweep this year. The Roosevelt
demagogy, though it's really helped
very few, has so far been pretty
effective hereabouts.
This town is beginning to show a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26

CO1A4DuICO gl4S4l bWO III A4lC4 4LeVtAOL4-ll
organizations into one association
headed by J. J. Policy, open shop
president of the New York, New
Haven g. Hartford railroad, Penn
sylvania Railroad subsidiary.
According to the Wall Street
Journal, Policy is close to Roosevelt
IS hard boiled toward labor and has
been given plenty of authority to
"do his stuff" Further wage cuts
wholesale layofTS and concerted
attack against working rules which
protect railroad labor, and which
the roads have been trying to whit
tie away one by one, are the route
to prosperity which Mr.. Pelley and
his associates have charted.
The government has already as
sured Mr.. Pelley of its support and
has pledged continued R. F. C.
loans so that dividends and bond
interest will be amply protected in
any reorganizations which take
place.
AS proof of its support, Railroad
Coordinator Joseph P. Eastman
mouthpiece of railroad capital in
the Roosevelt administration, is
touring the country, lining up
bankers, shippers and railroad in
terests for a stronger united front
against labor. His present job is to
smooth out all conflicting Interests
and convince them that the savings
to be made through further con-
solicitations and pooling of termi-
mails and equipment will compen-
safe MANY times over for any loss
of strategic position now held BY
any individual road or group OF cap
italists.
In a recent speech to big ship
pers and rail magnates in Kansas
CITY. Mo, Eastman said: 100000
annually, can be saved to the roads
bv unihcation Of facilities in Kan
sas City alone. The saving woulc
be largely at the expense of labor
This is typical of what can be done
all over the country" (Railway Age
Got. 49,
Leaders Surrender Strike Weapon
A corrupted leadership has sur
rendered our most valuable weapon
the strike, and has substituted
therefor, a policy Of legislative lob
bying. mediation and arbitration
With their aid, the submission Of
all disputes to the mercy of adjust
ment and arbitration boards, and
the acceptance of decisions has
been made compulsory by law.
They keep us divided into 81 craft
unions and prevent unity OF action
that would force settlement Of
grievances and stop wage cutting
Where strike votes have been forced
upon them, they have turned strike
action aside and into arbitration IN
the interests of the roads.
To silence protest and MAINTAIN
themselves in control, they carry
out national Red Drives" against
militant members and undertake tc
expel those who lead the counter
attack against the capitalist class.
The rank and file Of railroad Ia
bor has within itself the power &c
change the situation in the railroad
industry and become the most I'M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26

mead OF the committee or chairman,
We were allied with McCabe
(Pathric) of Utica, but broke of
l want to tell you about this Nc
Cabe. He came out with no strike
slogan while the strike was in full
swing. He said that it injuries the
N.R.A. program. Now he is running
on the Independent ticket for AS
semblyman. He registered Demo-
cratic.
We have Endorsed the Hunger
March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
County Board Protests Roosevelt
Program
BY a Worker Correspondent

GLADWIN, Mich.-There are %
members, two of which are Com
munist. I thought of writing you
shout the october meeting of the
Gladwin County Board of Super
visors, which is just over. There
we're two very important steps taken.
They sent President Roosevelt a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
Ex-Socialist Urges
Workers to Support
Communist arty
BY a Worker Correspondent

By a Worker Correspondent
EUREKA, Ohio. = September is,
at 2 pm. in Gallipolis Park, Mr..
F.. G. Struklin, priest and leader
of the Socialist Party delivered a
political speech about the Demo-
cratic, Republican and Socialist
Parties, pointing out why the farm
ers are unable to find suitable
markets for their products No
word, however, was said about the
necessity and the ways of putting
these markets under the control of
farmers, not word was said about
the Importance of organizing the
workers and farmers into one strong
organization for the purpose of
conducting real struggles with the
greedy capitalists, and struggle
with them so long till the workers
and farmers will become the right
full owners Of everything they pro-
duce.
Long live the only fighter for the
cause of the working class, the
Communist Partyl Long live Marx
ism! Long live the Russian Boil
shevik Party, which under the lead
ership of our great Lenin built up
workers and peasants country,
I end this correspondence by
pledging that we, former members
of the Socialist Party of Gallia
County, Ohio, join the ranks of the
Communist Party, will fight so long
till the rottening structure of this
society is shattered to pieces. We
call upon all members of the A. F..
of L. and the Socialist Party to
follow our example.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
WorkersLoseConf
in Program of Capt.
talist Parties
tendency toward Communist organ
izations at work here.
Arrest Communist Candidate
BY a Worker Correspondent

fAIICSt OOlIlllAuItRsb SduULudlt
BY a Worker Correspondent
GREENVILLE, Mich.-The Demo-
Gratis, Republicans, Socialists and a
number of others here are very busy
keeping the workers and farmers
divided. Anything to hide the real
issue. And they are especially busy
in Detroit. I understand that they
have our man that is on our ticket
for Governor arrested and locked
up for while, just before election,
to cause trouble and to side-track
votes. Comrade John Anderson is
a very fine young man. The COM
rades should get busy and uncover
that capitalist plot to blacken
Comrade Anderson's name