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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
RECOMMENDS BACKYARD
ELECTION CAMPAIGN

New York City.
Now that the election campaign
is starting, may I suggest the back
yard campaign; that is, speaking
from windows Of apartment houses.
Comrades with radios with micro
phones attached could use them for
broadcasting. The Party would as
sign five or more speakers for each
neighborhood. The first speaker
would speak at the first house for
a limited time, then go to the sec
ond house, while the second speaker
took his place at the first house, etc.
In this way believe we can
reach people who for some reason
can't attend our open or indoor
meetings and the masses in neigh
borhoods where for certain reasons
we can't hold meetings.
1t is a great advantage to do your
own broadcasting without the per-
mission of the Federal Radio Com
mission.
And besides, we can hold more
meetings with less forces and have
more people hear about us.
What is your opinion, comrades?
A CONRADE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Grants Food Workers
Prefer Strike Strength
to Bosses Fake Promise
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
NEWARK, N. il started to
work for Grants Lunch, Inc. in
1928, for 81 a week. 1 am
counterman by trade.
Since the N. R. A. went into
effect at Grants, the following
changes took place:
/. They decreased my pay by
$1.50.
2. They are making me and
others pay SO a week for food
that is not fit even for pigs. We
cannot choose our food.
just before the strike the bosses
made us all kinds of promises.
They promised us $500 in order
TO make us drop our union. They
also told us they would give us
a SO raise and a loft where we
could all meet.
as we'll as the others under
stand very we'll that these prom
ises are a lot of hooey. They
promise you the world today and
give you kick in the pants to-
morrow.
am from the rs Market st.
shop. A big bunch of us walked
out on strike and joined the
union, and we are going to stick
with the union until we all win.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
By MAX BEDACHT

The classes for actives preparing
for the campaign Of the Interna-
tional Workers Order for social in
surance, and for the drive to build
the Order to $4,000 members, have
now been finally arranged. The
Pittsburgh classes and meetings will
take place Sept, IL to 10 with Com
rade Bedacht as director. In Chi
cago Comrade Saltzman will direct
the classes and the meetings; there
the arrangements are made between
Sept. 20 and 81. For Detroit the
direction is in the hands of Com
rade Weiner from Sept. 20 to Oct.
s. Cleveland arranges its meetings
and classes from Sept. 20 to II, with
Comrade Bedacht as director
The New York classes have not
yet been definitely arranged.
Daily Worker Campaign
All of the branches of the TWO.
must become active parts of the
Daily Worker campaign in their To-
cality. Without the services of our
Daily Worker, the Order cannot
grow. without our Daily Worker
the Order cannot fulfill its duty
of developing class consciousness
among it's members. We need the
Daily Worker to speak to us: we
need it to speak for us.
Our efforts for the Daily Worker,
therefoie, are a legitimate part OF
our efforts to build and to strength
en- the TWO.
That is why in the current cam
paign to raise $4,000 for the Daily
Worker our TWO. branches must
be heard from very much.
Week End Party fer T.B. Patients
Preparations for the weekend OF
Sept. 7 to IL in Camp Kinderland
are promising days full of educa-
tional and entertaining features.
The purpose of the arrangements is
to raise funds to secure some help
for tubercular members OF the TWO.
who have already drawn all of their
benefits and are still sick, disabled
and in need of help.
Only last week the Order placeQ
two such comrades in California
saniterium. The cost OF such extra
service must be raised outside Of
the dues of the Order. To give such
service is a comradely duty of our
Order to those of its members who
by their activities on behalf of the
working class have earned more
than the right to receive their con-
stitutional benefits.
The weekend in camp is not only
to raise funds. 1t will also en-
deavor, by lectures of leaders of the
Order and of medical experts, to
create a better understanding of
the problems of workers health
and of the duty of the Order toward
the solution of this problem.
Comrades and friends desiring to
come to Camp Kinderland for this
weekend can make arrangements
for transportation there and back.
at the Office of the Order, 80 Fifth
Ave. The round trip fare is 1925.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
IN THE HO M E
(Ex) Middle-C Glass Women Who Have Eyes and
See Not
BY HELEN KE

Comrade M. G., who sent the
recipe for carrot pudding last fall,
writes a newsy letter from Ne
braska.
"a young social worker, still of
the complacent middle class (im-
notation in a middle western uni
versity has so far protected her
from the theological effects of the
economic bankruptcy of her own
family tells me, gaily and callously,
without being aware of the impli-
cations of desperate poverty in
volYed, of incidents at charity
camp where she served for no
salary as counsellor this summer.
"One little girl asked over and over
again whether she could use her
soap as often as she wished, and
when she found out that there were
no restrictions, spent the first Of
her days at camp continually
washing her hands and face.
Many of the children, said our
counsellor, preferred margarine to
butter. They had had butter so
seldom that they weren't used to it,.
Many of them had become so &C
customed to an all-starch diet that
they could not. be coaxed to eat
vegetables but wanted only po-
tatoes and bread. Many of them
had not learned to drink milk, and
preferred coffee.
"One little girl, bright and inCOr-
rigible, stole little things and slowed
them in her clothes box-little tin
dishes, beads, such things as chill
dren love and should have. The
counsellors came to her for things
that were missing If she was in
nocent Of the theft, she would say,
ooh, no, I didn't take that. I have
one of those!"
"Our college girl, prating all the
time of developing character and
valuable traits in her charges,
casually told me of setting one of
the other children to spy on the
little kleptomaniac.
about another matter. When we
have the whole machinery of cap
italist oppression to fight, it seems
petty to pick on our own comrades
Tor slight matters. And yet I feel
that those comrades are playing
into the hands of the enemy when
they further disunite among work
ers by jokes about the inferior sex.
Il can stand laugh at my ex-
pense as well as anyone, when it is
directed at me as an individual
But I can't help seeing red when
I hear otherwise first-rate COM
rades, politically clear on most
things. pulling this old stuff that
for all its pretense at humor. is
based on the double enslavement of
women, for the advantage of the
exploiters. These seemingly inno-
cent cracks rub salt in old sores for
me, who took my university train
ing in a college department where
the students were almost all women,
but it was a tradition Can iron
bound rule) of the department that
there be no woman instructors; who
saw women who were sent out to
fill jobs having to have at least one
higher college degree to get job
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Turn Efficiency
Hound on Men
At Rubber Co.
By a worker Correspondent


PROVIDENCE, r. lat the
Phillips Baker Ruber Co., there is
a fellow added to the efficiency"
squad who is an honor graduate of
Holy Cross College, also K. of c.,
who paid $50 for his job, according
to the story going round. This fell
low is the worst type of a system
izer, as bad as some of the others
were. They would give half break
whenever possible, but no such
thing in his case.
In the office along with him are
Others who have no use for him
whatever. Is this the type of
honor pupils" Holy Cross College
is proud Of?
1 got this story from one of the
workers in the plant who tells me
how bad things are in there. When
the Daily Worker got spread around
it did good work, and has been the
cause of more than one red sym
pathize3.
When this plant was the Bourne
Rubber Co., it was half decent
place to work in, If rubber shop
can be so called, that but things
have changed since the "old man
died. They used to pay fairly
good wages and did not drive the
CUTS out of the workers.
Workers are on the job trying to
get an organization formed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
By a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, nl.-With the inten-
styling of the Chicago Communist
election campaign, the police have
intensified their bulldog brutality
against the militant workers.
Although street meetings on the
West Side have been banned by the
police, the revolutionary movement
has already held two successful
ones. Last week the crowd was too
large for the police to dare break
up This Saturday, the Young
Communist League and the Ma
tional Students League held a
bicycle and roller skate sign parade
for free speech and to popularize
International Youth Day, Aug. 81.
Afterward, a street meeting was to
have been held at st. Louis, 18th
ST., but by the time the pa
rade wound up at the spec dcd
street corner the cops, from the
lowliest up to the lieutenant in his
private car and the plain clothes
dicks, all we're there. Leaflets were
confiscated and boys on bicycles
were told to keep off 18th st.
The comrades scattered and in q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
I. II. O. Recruitment Glasses
Are arranged in -Four Cities

The membership drive of our Or
der last Fall has contributed toward
making recruiting of new members
a cont uous function of our
branches. OF course, quite num-
Der of branches have not yet been
captured by that habit. But enough
have to assure steady and rapid
growth of our Order.
During 80 weeks since the closing
of our last drive we have taken in
an average of 269 new members per
week. We started our last campaign
with less than $4,000 members lex
elusive of children and of the Rus
sian Section). We begin this CAM
paign month from now with A.
500 members. Thus, since our last
convention in May, 1888, we have
added nearly 10000 members net to
our ranks.
Before this year is out we intend
to add at least that many more.
This new campaign will plant the
habit of regular and continuous re-
cruiting into still more branches.
Thus the regular everyday recruit
ing activity of the branches will be-
come a source of still more rapid
and steady growth.
Forward to $4,000 Members!
Youth Section Trains Leaders
Forty members of the Youth Sec
ton are now completing their third
week of training at the Chicago dis
trict school, Soon they will go beck
to their branches throughout the
West to stimulate the drive for the
recruitment of 1900 young workers
both Negro and white during the
coming campaign. The young COM
rades have taken the school seri-
ously, and are learning rapidly how
to tackle the problems facing the
working class youth and how to
build the Two.
The Eastern District Training
School is scheduled to open on Sept.
at Camp Kinderland. 1t already
records registration of over TOO
students. There are number OF
NC5lO yOuOll, III dlQltlOll w JOou1A
from practically every nationality
represented in the TWO; Jewish,
Spanish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Pol
ish, Italian, Russian, Slovak, etc.
Such important districts as Pitts
burgh, Buffalo, and Scranton will
have students at the school.
There is danger that the school
will not be carried through success
fully because of lack of funds Every
possible assistance must be given
to cur Youth and Children Sections
in the training of these leaders.
Financial assistance is an immediate
necessity. Our adult branches have
been asked to contribute 50 and 81,
depending on the size of the branch.
Certainly our Youth and Children
Sections deserve this support from
each and every adult branch. Let's
give it to them. Send funds imne-
diately to the National School COM
mittee, 80 Fifth Ave. New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03

only to protect the bosses from
workers who struggle for living
wage.
II was enlightened as to their
real purpose in feeding us patriotic
propaganda when our regiment was
sent to a distant town to fight
strikers. We were told that bunch
of Communists had gotten control
of the factory and they would not
let honest people earn a living by
preventing them from working.
When we got there we found u
big crowd in front of the factoryA
Our officer in charge ordered them
to disperse, but they did not move.
nor did they say anything, until
their spokesman shouted: We are
breaking no law We are exercising
our constitutional right to strike
and picket 10 protect our jobs Our
officer told us to advance. So We
did. Our bayonets had been fixed
before. The crowd retreated until
they reached the walk, and some
women became hysterical, which
added to the developing confusion.
Then fellow uardsman lost his
head and fired into the crowd and
I saw man fall down. There was
a moment of silence, and then sticks
and stones began to fly from all
directions. l was hit on the head
by a stone and lost consciousness.
when I awoke, was lying near
an injured worker. When he saw
1 was conscious, he said: Why did
you come here to interfere with us?
Have you no father and brother
who works for a living? Would you
attack them if they struck for
higher wages?'
Il did not answer.
There are National Guardsmen,'
he said, in our town. Why did they
have to send for you? I'll tell
you why. It's because the National
Guardsmen in our town are our sons
and brothers. But in --, so
miles away, they can tell you lies
about us, and, after they make you
hate us, they send you to shoot us
down
Il could say nothing at the time,
but since then 1 have found out the
truth about the National Guard, as
we'll as the army, the navy and the
police. Now I know that they are
all organized with but one purpose:
to protect the interests (profits) of
the bosses. And if workers attempt
to obtain better wages, thereby
threatening the bosses profits, the
bosses use us to suppress strikers,
even ordering us to kill our fellow
workers.
"Such atrocities must stop. And
they will stop when we all realize
that the bosses are pitting us
against members of our own class,
not for our benefit. but only to save
their own fat bellies.
FORMER NATIONAL
GAURDSMAN."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Youth Stage Rally;
Defy armed Thugs
Y. c. L. and National Students League Hold
Bicycle and Roller Skate Sign Parade

while so did the police. But in a
little while we gathered again and
the section organizer of the Y. C. L.,
STOPPING as if to lace his shoes,
started yelling slogans and for the
crowd to come closer. Immediately
after, two comrades hoisted a girl
comrade on their shoulders and she
began to speak.
Then who should come tearing up
but one squad car after another,
vomiting police with clubs and
plain clothes men with something
wrapped in paper that looked just
like lead pipes. They pushed men,
women and even babies in buggies
around until there was almost a
stampede. A few of our comrades
were hurt, but none were arrested,
and were those cops mad!
Throughout the following weeks,
street meetings will be held all over
the West Side, short and snappy
ones, and Communist election
petitions are going to be filled one
after the other.
This meeting sure has popped us
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
PARTY LIFE
Letter Shows Importance
Of York among Guardsmen
Macy Shop Paper Article Shows That Members
Of National Guard Can Be WOn to Workers

The Communist Party and Y. C.
L. members working in Mays are
issuing a very excellent shop paper,
the Red Star Special" The special
May Day issue of this paper could
we'll be used as a model for other
shop nuclei. Dealing concretely
with the conditions and the grew
ances of the Macy workers, the
paper covers a wide range of sub
jects of interest to the workers. We
are quoting in this column a letter
from a former National Guards
man, which appeared in this paper.
Dear Editor:
Il am former National Guards
man working in Macy's. When I
frs joined, I thought the Commu-
nists were nothing but group Of
trouole-makers, and I was helped
along in this illusion by speeches 1
heard from our officers. They al
ways impressed us with our duty to
preserve law and order, by telling
ue we had the authority to arrest
anyone who talked against the gov
eminent. I did not know that they
wanted to preserve law and order
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
ANswERs no QUESTIONS
Body OdOr


L. s., Swan Lake, n. Y.-Thank
you for your letter. You have stated
the problem very clearly. Regularly
you hear people say that, Of course,
they have nothing against the Ne
gro, ETC., but one must admit that
he has a distinct body odor which
the speaker finds offensive, and, of
course, that proves that the Ne
groes are an inferior race with diff
ferent body structure from the
whites. It is interesting to spec
ulate how many would have no
ticed or looked for that odor if they
had not been openly or sub
consciously looking for stigmas in
the Negro in order to affirm their
own superiority. Your companions
had heard this stated so often
about the Negro, that they were
bound to imagine they noticed a
distinctive odor, to vindicate their
superior (white) powers of per-
ception.
Science, over many years of OBJ
serVation, has been unable to dis
cover any evidence Of body struc-
ture or junction in the Negro,
peculiar to them. Their charac-
teristics are variations only in de-
gree, and found to the same extent
in other races, including the white.
In very dark Negroes, the skin
contains an abundance Of the pig
ment, melanin, which is present in
all skins. In addition, there is a
poor development of body hair.
Sometimes there is large develop
ment of the blood circulation be-
meath the skin, which is of loose
texture and contains many oil and
sweat glands. These are qualities
which serve to secure free eyap-
grafton and cooling in hot climates.
This last, at times valuable quality,
is found only in portion of the
race whose original native climate
demanded freer sweating. The
sweat and body oils so produced,
have, chemically, exactly the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
LET US NOT sTARvE

Turtle Greek, Pa.
Editor, the Daily Worker:
In view of the coming elections,
it is fitting to tell the workers to
organize against this barbarous sys-
tenn, which starves us by degrees.
1t certainly makes a man feel
very bad when he is unable to pro-
vide the necessities of life for his
wife and children, especially small
children who do not understand,
but yet are victims of the merciless
capitalist system. This system forces
many young girls to sell their bodies
or starve.
I therefore urge all workers to
vote the Communist ticket in order
to abolish the capitalist system.
Don't let Roosevelt bluff you any
longer, or any other Democrat or
Republican. They all represent the
wealthy class.
q p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
RevOIvers Are
Tools of Scab
Mechanics
By . Worker Correspondent

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-On the 38th
st. tunnel there are II trades on
strike, on this 5000, 900 P. W. A.
job.
Men are fighting for union recog-
milton and union wages. The gov
eminent, through its offices, sent in
handymen at SIS cents per hour to
do mechanics work for which the
pay was S11.20 per day. These men
were classified as handymen to
take the place of a mechanic. At
present scabs are at work.
There are many private detec-
tives in overalls as mechanics, with
reYolvers in their pants, on the job.
There is some picketing going on.
The A. F. of L. leaders are in con-
troll of the strike.
The scabs are from Texas, YER
mont, Tennessee, etc. The police,
as usual, are protecting scabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
$50 Skilled Pocketbook
Makers on Strike AT
Allentown, Pa, Plant
BY a Worker Correspondent

ALLENTOWN, Pal saw your
paper carry news about strikes in
many places. I wish you to inform
all that we $50 workers of Gold
smith Brothers poke. book factory
are on strike.
We in this shop make the finest
line of ladies' handbags and still we
can hardly make a living. I think
that we are entitled to a decent
living. We are all skilled workers,
and we get paid as in the cheapest
line of goods. ] believe if everybody
would know that we are on strike
and supper. us We would soon win
the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Thomas & Clarke Locks
Out so Cracker Bakers
BY a Worker Correspondent

PEORIA, Ill.-About 80 workers
of the Thomas g. Clarke plant, both
men and women, members Of the
Cracker Bakers Union, have been
locked out here since Aug. Is, by
the j. C. Carr Co., of Wilkes-Barre
Pa, the new owners of the local
cracker plant.
The company at that time made
a proposal for 20 per cent wage
cut which the workers concerned
opposed. Averring that the cut was
necessary for profitable operation"
of the plant, the company coun-
tered by closing the plant, threat
ening to discontinue the plant as a
production unit and to transform it
into a distribution warehouses of
the company.
This threat was made by the Carr
Co. apparently to scare their
workers into accepting the wage
cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Gag Workers of
the Sunyside Yards
Dining Commissary
BY a Worker Correspondent

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y
Having read the Daily Worker,
know the conditions mentioned
about the Sunnyside Yards Dining
Comnissary to be true.
I found not all expressed. When
Mr.. Milliron was superintendent, if
a waiter or cook was on the carpet
for INSTRUMENTATION, he had the
privilege Of defending himself. I'm.
der Ibis administration you are not
allowed to explain anything. There
is no hearing
There is no one you can take your
troubles to for adjustment, because
the combination functions among
our superior officers.
This should be investigated and
stop put to this gag practice.
NOTE: The gagging of the
workers can only be fought by or
ganization.
The Grievance Committee Of
the Brotherhood of Dining Car
Employees should hear the case of
any worker who is threatened
with punishment by the Penn
and defend the worker. This
worker should join the Brother
hood, if he is not already in, and
present the grievance at Council
No. meeting. The united power
of the dining car employees Is
needed to face the united power
of the Penn bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Letters from Our Readers

was very good article in that
paper about the Catholic Worker, -
which I would like to send to a
miner in a catholic mining town in
Pennsylvania. I am sure that
Father Coughlin" will
start this fall his broadcasting
again, and might induce the cath
ole workers to read his paper. So
I want to be first to send our
Daily there, to prove what the
other paper is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03

and receive the wage that a man
would.
Correctly, we do not tolerate
jokes at the expense of our colored
workers, at the expense of
our Jewish, or Italian, or Irish
fellow workers. Thumbs down on
this insidious attack on our women
comrades, and might-be comrades!
"MALVINA c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 2030 is available in sizes
10, IL, IA, is and 10. Size II takes
rs yards 54-inch fabric, and rs
wards 4-inch ribbon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Box Score of 100000 Drive

o
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n
is tagging
Districts!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
Lay Off l,059 Relief
Men in Brockton, Mass.

BRoCKTON, Mass, Aug. 30
Nearly HOO relief workers here
we're laid off on Aug. "a for the
remainder of the month at the
Murphy of this CITY,,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-03
HOW TO REACH THE CATHOLIC
WORKERS

West New York, MI.
Would you be SO kind as to send
me one or two copies of the Satur-
day, August 18th edition. There