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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01

are going back, but not one of them
feels defeated. They know what
they have to do. Their mistakes
will teach them and next time there
will be no mistakes. And that time
is not far off when all Spain will
rise again to throw out the rich
ruling classes. The whole country
rumbleS with unrest more than ever.
Hundreds who did not realize be-
fore that the time to revolt had
come, are gathering together. Daily
their anger grows stronger. The
great numbers of farm laborers in
the South who were betrayed by
their false leaders, are learning
from their brothers in the North
that they must all stand united.
The soldiers who were sent against
the revolutionists will learn that
they must not shoot down their
brothers. These soldiers have al
ready seen other soldiers refusing
to shoot down the workers. One
brave officer is in prison because
he said: MY soldiers will not kill
their brothers" When there are
hundreds like this brave man, the
government will be powerless. AL
ready the workers had formed So
VETS in towns they captured. The
next time there will be soviets in
all Spain.
Well finish them Pedro re-
membered the words of his father
you bet your life we WILL" he muir
INJURED. clenching his fists.
A cold wind blew through the
valley; the dry bushes rustled. The
sky grew lighter behind the chain
of mountains. Dawn was approach
! ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Win Reimbursement
For Back Shortage
Relief Conveniently Forgot to Send Checks and
Then Refused to Pay Back Relief

such a stand as conscious policy,
and the easiest method to chisel
hundreds Of dollars from the relief
checks. We instructed the County
Executive to send a protest and our
demand that all these cases shall
be reimbursed for all the shortage
from the date they reported short
age. This protest was sent to the
State Emergency Relief Board and
Mr.. Biddle, the State Relief Direc-
tor. We emphasized the chiseling
part of this method, and threatened
to picket every relief Office in the
county unless our grievance is set
tied to our satisfaction.
This protest was sent in on Nov.
Is and on Nov. 81 two men from
the State Emergency Board APP
peared at our meeting and after a
short discussion, agreed to our de-
mand. The arrangements arrived
at are that in the event of any
shortage due to the mistakes in the
relief accounting or other depart
ments, this shortage shall be made
good, if reported week from the
date it occurred"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
A Boy in Spain

Pedro rolled uneasily in his sleep
and Struggled closer to his COM
panion, stretched out beside him.
But he could not sleep. His dreams
were wild and scary, and he woke
up with start, his heart humping
loudly. He turned on his back and
studied the distant blue stars and
tried to figure out how long it must
be till daylight. His eyes wandered
over the other Sleepers, covered
with blankets, their guns lying
alongside. There were workers from
the hill villages. They were mostly
miners from the broad, rich coal
fields that spread for many miles
around. Tonight they were hiding
in a deep ravine that had once
been quarry but was now over
grown with low bushes.
Pedro thought back over the past
few weeks and the things that had
happened so fast that a whole year
seemed to be lived in a single day.
He remembered that night when
his father rushed into their little
hut. picked up a bite of food, and
was gone, and Pedro after him
After all, Pedro was fourteen ano
should take his place beside the
men.
ut is here at last" said his
father as he hurried along. 1.-THE
workers will throw over the rich
scum who starye us, so that they
can have more millions" He laugh
ed and slapped Pedro on the back
Wen finish them now, won't we?'
In the next village they joined
hundreds of others. And Pedro
soon found himself on the highway
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
75Miners LOckedOut
after Brief Strike
Labor Board Handling Case Which Grew Out of
COmpany's Refusal to Drill Holes

the grievance to be settled later"
You see how they try to smooth
things over. They do not say that
the company was at first drilling
the holes, furnishing powder to
shoot the coal and laying the tracks.
I further let you know that I
hardly trust our case in the hands
of the National Labor Board. But
they assured our local president and
committee that they will win this
case. Why, anyone ought to win
case like this one.
I myself am locked out with the
70 others. If they don't win this
case, don't know what will hap
pen.
Some are ready for struggle and
some are ready to scab. Some say
that they would be dollar ahead
if we did not have a union. But
I believe in a union if it is fight
ing kind of a union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01

to hire expert engineers and phvsi-
clans to so build their plants to
minimize exposure to gases. fumes
and dust. They could have at their
disposal skilled dermatologists to
examine employees to determine
whether they are sensitive to the
substances they handle. The physi-
clan could have such workers
transferred to other types of work
If skin irritant used in the fac
tory were discovered by the physi-
clan substitute chemical might ba
found and the workers spared dis
ease and unemployment. If the
chemicals used were irritating and
no substitutes could be found. every
possible means could be studied to
help the workers avoid danger.
Such preventive measures would
cost money and all employers know
that labor is too cheap to waste
money on it. 1t is cheaper to dis
card old employees and hire new
ones than to invest money in too
costly health projects.
To suggest medicines for occups-
tional skin diseases is really foolish.
The important thing is to know
what the cause is and to either
eliminate it or avoid it. The skin
specialist may discover the cause,
but it is up to the State to see to
it that proper precautions are
taken by the owners of industry.
Some industries do take some half
hearted steps in this direction, but
on the whole one can say that most
are not interested. Only when
private ownership Is eliminated can
we hope for sincere medical and
engineering research in this d.
rection.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
United Front
ofUnenployed
In ShamOkin
By a Worker Correspondent

BY worker correspondent
SHAMOKIN, Pa. On Saturday,
Nov. "a, the County Organizer and
Secretary of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil of Shamokin visited an Unem-
ployed League mass meeting at Mt.
Carmel. About $50 members were
present.
The Organizer and Secretary
were asked to speak by the Organ
izer of the Unemployed League. The
Secretary spoke first on What Can
Be Obtained BY Organizations" The
County Organizer of the Unem-
ployed Councils then spoke for
about one hour and stressed the
point of social and unemployment
insurance, telling the workers how
urgent it is to have this bill passed.
He also explained the Importance
of the Congress to be held in Wash
ington, D. c., on Jan. 5, 6, and 7,
1885.
He also told them that as the
Organizer of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil he thought that the Leagues
and Councils should unite, as all
the workers are working for the
same things, and that if they were
united they would be 100 per cent
stronger in their fight for better
conditions, at which the house
rocked with applause.
The Organizer of the Unemployed
League then pledged himself and
the League to unity with the Coun-
ellis and pointed out that by unit
ing with the Unemployed Councils
the workers would not only be
stronger to get more relief and
clothes but it would also be a big
step toward the workers goal, "a
Soviet America"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
IN THE HOME
twenty-five Cents Week For Babies
BY ANN BARToN

tergreen or peppermint (ten cents
wort is plenty. And if the family
misses the foaminess of the COM
mercial product, a small amount of
fine, granulated CASTLE soap may
DE added"
AND now to correct two Topographic
II ical errors in Wednesdays coll
umn. The sentence saying: 1--WE
received news demanding further
events in Chicago" was as I wrote
1t describing further events" Then
again it says After the delegations
visit, the committee met me-" The
me" was quite a surprise when I
saw it in Wednesdays paper. The
sentence should have read "the
committee met at a hall to decide
on further steps,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
MMrw Embarrassed
@E

/ with the long line of workers grow
ing ever larger as they passed
through villages. Pedro smiled with
triumph as he remembered how
they stormed the arsenal and took
out all the guns. In the fierce fight
ing that followed, Pedro ran here
and there, helping wherever he
could to reload the guns-to bring
bullets. In the narrow streets of
the city they set up barricadeS to
block all passages. They raised the
red flag. The workers fought furi-
ously. But more and more troops
were sent by the government to put
down the uprising Pedro saw his
father fall wounded. He rushed to
his side and flinging his arm around
his father helped him to the nearby
hospital the workers had taken
over. There the doctor said that
he must stay in bed.
His father waited impatiently
while the doctor bound the wound
and then dashed out of the hos
pital. Pedro ran around wildly,
looking for him. The shooting went
on all day. At last it grew dark
and still Pedro could not find his
father.
In the morning he found him
dead. 1t was all over. The govern
ment troops had conquered. Thou
sands were arrested and thousands
we're shot. Even the wounded in
the hospitals.
But many of the workers had es-
capped and with some of them Pedro
found himself-going back-but not
to the villages, where the civil
guards we're still searching the
workers homes. From now on, only
the hills could be their home. They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
nv 4 Mine worker Ga

BY a Mine Worker Correspondent
VESTABURG, Pave miners in
Sub-District 4 of District UMW.A.
have for our Board Member Bill
Feeney, an International Organizer
of the UM.W.A
Feeney, by the way, was so rotten
that the miners of Fayette County
drove him out. John L. Lewis then
made a switch, he sent to the Coke
Region, Bill Hynes, our Board Mem
Der and sent to us Bill Feeney. Since
Feeney came here in the sub-dis-
trict, he appeared on many cases,
but there is not single case that
he settled in favor of the miners.
Here in the Vesta 5 mine, on 10
Face there were 4 pickmen. The
Assistant Boss hired more. After
he hired new pick men he laid of
two more of the old pickmen on the
excuse that he has too many pick
men. He offered the two laid off
pick men machine place. They
refused to accept it, because they
felt that if they accepted such a
decision it would make it possible
for the VeSta Coal to use this as a
precedent in future cases, where the
company would shift men from joe
to job, and use this form of shifting
as punishment against good union
men, by shifting them off better
jobs and from better places.
So these two men took the case
up with the Mine Committee. The
super, Bill Edwards refused to settle
the case with the Mine Committee,
and Feeney was called in on the
case. Although it was called to
Feeney's attention, that tn S e
methods of shifting the men, are q
scheme to attack the best union
men, and make it possible for the
company to put active union men
into water holes, where they won't
be able to earn anything and be
compelled to quit, Feeney neverthe-
less settled the case in the COM
pany's favor His decision is that as
long as the company offers man
another job there is no case, be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Pioneer Drive

Chicago Pioneers just wrote in
saying that the first prize, Bugle
and Drum Corps, be wrapped ready
to ship to Chicago as they are sure
to go over the top in this drive to
raise $4,000 and will win this prize.
What do you say, Pioneers of New
York, Detroit, Cleveland, Los An
geles? You can answer by getting
busy and selling coupons and rush
ing money to the New Pioneer, Pc.
Box %, Sta. D, New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Feeney Supports Shifting
Aimed Against Militants

cause according to the code and the
agreement the company has the
sole right to direct the working
force"
Vesta Coal Co, miners! This set
tlement is against the best interests
of you men. 1t is an attack upon
your jobs, and it will become a
method of squeezing you out of the
mine, by shifting you from job to
job o. place into bad place, where
you will be compelled to quit. Shall
we stand for it? Vesta men must
strike against such settlements.
Drive Feeney out as the Coke
Region miners did.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
United Relief Action
I'm Southern Illinois
RY a WORKER CORRESPONDENT

- W VIM ~ ~
MARION, Ill. - Williamson
County had its first demonstra-
ton of the unemployed on Nov.
oath. The Illinois Workers ALI
ance, the Communist Party and
the Socialist Party demonstrated
with $50 workers.
We then went in cars and
trucks to johnson City, Herrin,
Gainesville and back to Marion,
the county seat. We had good
meeting and adopted the man
ifesto of the Illinois State Con-
gress for Social Security.
The workers are getting mill
tant. There were IL cars of State
Police there to intimidate us. A
member of the Communist Party
exposed their tactics. The work
eTs cheered the Communist Party.
We organized the first unit of the
Communist Party in Marion last
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
By a MING Worker CORRESPONDENT


UNIONTOWN, Pa. - There are
various forms of lowering the
meager relief checks of the unem-
ployed and part-time workers en-
ployed in this county. One of the
most prevalent forms is the follow
ing:
A man, living in South Browns
vile, Pa, failed to get his relief
check for the week ending Oct. IS.
He Immediately contacted his inves-
tigator, to find out if he was cut
of the relief, and for what reasons.
The investigator made an investi-
cation and told him that he is not
cut of, but there is some slight
mistake, and his check would come
in a day or so. The check how
ever, failed to appear. So, Jim made
a trip to the Brownsville District
Relief Office, and there he was as
sured that the check would come.
But again the check failed to ar
rive.
In the meantime the worker, who
has family of IL to feed. got his
storekeeper to advance him on
credit the food to the amount of
his check. When after two weeks
the check did not come, the store
keeper threatened to make the
credit good by giving Jim less on
each weeks order until the credit
was paid for.
The final answer given to jim by
the relief, was that his case now
was in the category of back relief"
and the relief administration could
not write checks for back relief.
The case was called to the at
tention of the County Unemployed
Council, which decided that in cases
of this type, the relief must make
restitution for the sum that the
workers were shortened. There was
also a report of scores of cases
where the workers were shortened
anywhere from Is cents to $3.50 of
the actual sum that they were usu-
ally receiving. And in all these
cases the procedure was the same.
That is, they were told it is due
to mistake in the accounting
department, and after few weeks
they would be told that the relief
cannot write checks for back re-
lei"
The County Committee of the
Unemployed Councils took the cases
up with Mr.. Hibbs, the County
Emergency Relief Director, and he
also made the decision, that the
relief could not give back relief"
The County Committee branded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
BY Mine Worker Correspondent

POWHATTAN PIT, Ohio. = At
present there are about 70 to rs of
us locked out yet as a result Of the
strike we had here a few weeks
ago.
Our case is with the National
Labor Board. I am sending you a
clipping from the Blair Daily
Record which in part says the fol-
lowing:
Seventy of the nearly 200 men
at Powhattan who went on strike
about two weeks ago. were not per-
mitted to return to their places on
Nov. l when the mine resumed
work The strike had been called
as a result of dispute regarding
the pay for drilling holes. The men
contend that the company is to pay
for the deep holes and the company
maintained that the men should do
the work. After brief suspension
then men returned to work with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
(COntinued)

That the workers are exposed to
skin diseases is obvious. What is
done for them? In many cases,
nothing at all. Some go to their
family doctors who may not be
experienced in these diseases and
the period of disability may be
unnecessarily heightened. When
the compensation company is asked
TO pay for medical services and to
pay the workers compensation, it
will have its skin specialist see the
case. If any loop-hole can be
found to avoid payment to the
worker, it will be looked for in or
der to save the company money.
If the employer has too many cases
asking for compensation, the cost
OF his insurance will be increased.
The insurance company is in
business primarily to make money
and not to help workers. So is the
employer. The result is that work
ers. who have been trained for
years at one occupation and who
develop skin diseases which en-
title them to compensation, are
fired under some pretext as soon as
the condition is cleared up by the
company skin specialist. The rea-
son for this is that they know that
as soon as the worker goes back to
work the skin condition will re-
appear and once again they will
have to pay. The worker goes out
and swells the list of the unem-
ployed. The State has no more use
for Inn. Health and Ilnemploy-
ment insurance paid out of the
profits of the industry would GER
tainly help rectify such an injustice.
There is another point Of view
prevention of diseases which one
would expect employers to take.
After all, if they could prevent dis
ease they could save time and the
good old dollar. This involves an
initial expense. They would have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
A mt w a r
Fighters Block


Organizers of the Peoria Council
of the American League Against
War and Fascism will have no
trouble pointing out to workers who
the local enemies of peace are.
Thirty-six sincere men and women
met for the purpose of organizing a
local council in room loaned by
the YM.C.A., November %.
A few minutes after the meeting
adjourned, a reporter approached
the chairman, asking, Where is the
riot?"
What riot? Why, this reporter had
come ito cover" riot which, he
had been informed at the police
station, would by this time be in
progress here.
But there was no riot.
Why? Because the eight unex-
pected delegates" for the American
Legion, with their friend the local
organizer of the XXX, had found
themselves outnumbered four to
one by sincerely interested persons
representing sixteen unions, clubs,
lodges, churches etc. They had not
anticipated breaking up an assem-
bly, of thirty-siX workers, trade
unionists, ministers, college profess
sors, Communists and students. 1t
had been their plan, rather, to
haggle and irritate small group OF
Reds" precipitating their riot" by
the usual methods.
Thus the Legion and their Klux
not only forfeited their intentions
but exposed their position in re-
gard to organized security against
war and sfaScism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01

get no pleasure out of life, this is
worse than prison. There is a prison
fence around you, and you don't
go out of the gate without pass.
There are about 5000 able bodied
men out here.
Doctor Grufer is our master, land
lord and dictator If he says work
"A hours per week or So hours we
are forced to, or take the road.
There are no rules or labor rights
here in the poor house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
NOTE:

We publish every Saturday let
tiers from coal and ore miners, and
oil workers. We urge miners and
oil workers to write us of their con-
ditions and their efforts to organ
ize. Please get these letters to us
by Wednesday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01

- writes to tell us the treatment
the bosses accord wives and chill
dren of workers whom they have
imprisoned for their part in the
class struggle. The worker in this
case is Phil Frankfeld, leader of
masses of unemployed workers,
former organizer of the Unem-
ployed Council of the steel and
coal area that comprises the
Pittsburgh District. He was ar
rested for leading an unemployed
demonstration and sentenced to a
term in the Allegheny County jail.
His wife and their newborn child
are living on "relief" given by the
city.
Our friend writes: To-day we
were visiting the mother and her
newborn baby, and we found that
the welfare is giving the mother
a twenty-five cent raise in the
$1.50 a week welfare, since the
child was born. When the child
is two years old, she will be given
seventy-five cents a week for its
upkeep. That is the relief given
working women for their children
in Allegheny County. They refuse
to give her tub because there
is bath tub in the house. The
baby is only ten days old, and
to wash it in the bath tub she
would have to carry it through
cold hall and use the tub all the
boarders in the house use. We
are carrying on campaign for
Frankfeld's release from jail. Pro-
tests against his Imprisonment
should be sent to the Jail, and
to the Governor of Pennsylvania"
| AM beginning to realize what
being swamped really means.
Let me share my woes. First of
all this column has been receiving
quite a few letters recently. I want
to use parts of those letters in the
column. There is a very useful
series of short articles by Helen
Luke on household matters that our
readers will find very useful. There
are menus to be printed. There are
a series of articles coming on child
education and child care. There
are very fine reports of struggles
being carried on by women through
out the country in their shops. And
day by day the problem of space
stares me in the face, and bests
me every time.
ALL the foregoing is for the pur-
n pose of assuring the women who
have sent material to me that their
material has not gone astray. 1t is
simply waiting its turn to squeeze
in our crowded column. And by
the early part of next week, I prom
Use to answer all unanswered let
ters.
THE Committee to Support
Southern Textile Organization
has asked me to mention that
Roy Whitley, the Southern rank
and file organizer of the textile
workers, interviewed last week in
this column, was brought North
by the aforementioned committee.
The Committee has been sending
funds every week to the South to
support organizers of the rank
and file. Whitley has been speak
ing here for the committee.
SUBSCRIBER" sends us a rec
n ipe for tooth powder. She says
it can be made at home for zap
proximately one-tenth of what the
same amount costs to buy
"One pound of finest bolted
precipated chalk (20c to 30c in
bulk). Baking soda may be added,
if and to the extent desired 1.-TWO
to four tablespoonsfuD to render it
alkaline. Flavor with oil of win
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 2078 is available in sizes
2, 4, 6 and 8. Size requires IA
yards SO inch fabric. Illustrated
Step-by-step sewing instructions in
cluded.
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SORRY, NONE TODAY

Has the rag rug winning propo-
sition lost its attraction for I'm tbs
Home" supporters? Quota $500.
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ZERO!

Nothing was received today to the
credit of this column. The proceeds
of the dance held by the Medical
Advisory Board have not yet been
turned in. Quota $500.
Total to date ,......... S54s.S0