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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
BY MAX BEDACHT

4 Preparations for the winter CAM
lpaign Of the International Work,
ers' Order are progressing. The
Concentration points are organizing
for the special training courses
which viii prepare the organiza-
tionaL apparatus for the drive.
The drive will begin October /. Il
twill be a mass campaign for social
insurance and will aim at buildinS
the Order to a membership Of
! rs, o0a-
The first six months of 1884 we're
very fruitful ones. The Order start
ed the year with $4,000 members.
Or July / this year it had fully
g, coo members and 5000 children.
Tlfise growth, aside from the first
thrse weeks in January, was
achieved without a special cam
pafgn. Not counting the January
figures because they included three
weeks of last winters campaign,
our Order achieved during the first
six months of this year an average
increase weekly flow of SS4 men,
bersf3B- applications and a weekly
average increase Of so in the chill
dcea'5 section.
This steady flow is proof that
our last campaign had achieved one
of its major purposes; it centered
the attention of the membership on
the. Importance of steady recruit
ING. An organization worth re-
cruiting for in campaigns is always
worth recruiting for. An organiza-
ton which serves the interests of
the workers must not only be built
and strengthened at special periods,
but at all times Special periods
may be selected for special efforts.
Steady efforts. however, must be
regular function of the organization.
The next campaign will increase our
routine growth to at least 500 PEI
week. When we have reached this
point, we can dispense with long
drawn-out campaigns. We can
then hold two Red Weeks" a year
for recruiting purposes. We can
prepare these weeks carefully. We
can achieve a maximum mobiliza-
ton for such weeks. That is some
thing we could never achieve TO-
campaigns lasting for months. The
financial outlay necessary for such
Red Weeks" would be only a
fraction of the needed finances fo-
a long drawn-out campaign. Yet
the result of such short intensive
campaign, the result of such a
method and policy of building our
Order, would quickly raise our
membership way into the hundred
Thousands.
Our English Section
Since. cur last convention in June
1898 ou- Order has made definite
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
10 Hours for
So at FUber
SPOrtIand
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK; have been work
ing in a summer reso-t-Rockaway
Park, N. Y.-for the past five weeks.
I am employed in a penny arcade
on ll6th St., called "Faber's Sport
land'-one of a large chain Of SINH
lar stores situated in the Rocka-
ways, Long Beach, Coney Island,
Brooklyn and elsewhere.
These places employ boys between
the ages Of Is and % for a salary
Of 50 per dsy-one day off per week
without pay. The hours are from
10 a. m. to 2 a. M, with half an
hour for lunch and Is minutes for
supper. There are a few part
time men who work from p. m.
until 2 a. m. for 81 day.
Hiring and firing is daily
pastime with these bosses. ANY
excuse at all serves to discharge
an employe and to hire another
preferably out-of flown youth who
ind it difficult to return home once
they are discharged.
A large sign announced that chill
dren under Is are not permitted
to play unless accompanied by
parents or guardians, but little heed
is paid to this ruling. The Presi-
dent of the Sportland Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

one Counselor Henry I. Magin, owns
a store in Coney Island on Brigh-
ton Beach Ave. 1t is he who pro
mulgated the ruling above quoted,
and does his best to violate it.
In sportland in Brooklyn it is
known that one fellow suffered a
nervous breakdown, and another,
weakened by the excessive and
fatiguing labor, is now victim of
consumption.
A wage Of 50 a day doesn't sound
very bad unless one realizes the
cost of living in summer resort
is tremendously higher than else
where.
About two weeks ago I was suf-
fering from disordered stomach
and a nasty head cold. I asked
the boss for an hour to sleep it
of during the slow hours in the
afternoon. He refused. saying 1
was taking, and that he couldn't
be partial to me.
II you retire to perform some
necessary biological function, the
boss keeps close tabs on you.
This same corporation has a store
in Long Island of which the bosses
boast they work their employees II
or 10 hours per day-with only Is
minutes off for one meal each day.
An attempt was made in Long
Island to organize but the organizer
was fired.
A. PAGE.
signature authorized.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
By . worker Correspondent

BOSTON, Mass. Il attended a
meeting Of the Central Labor Unions
recently where it had been an
nounced that an organizational drive
was going to be launched, at the
Catholic Hall.
A few people were there when the
meeting started. The first few
speakers said nothing of Importance,
and the chairman asked them to
speak slower so that they would take
more time. The main speaker, John
P. Fry, gave a few facts and figures
in a militant tone, and actually used
the word militant himself when he
spoke of the necessity of the trade
union movement. When he spoke
of the depression, I received the i'm
preston that he blamed the workers
for it. He described the N.R.A. as
a partnership proposition between
the workers and the employers.
He told us that the bosses had
been organized by the president and
he seemed peeved that the president
had not taken any steps to organize
labor. Apparently the Honorable
Mr.. j. P. Fry doesn't know that there
is such thing as a class struggle
going on!
Another witty remark of this
gentleman was that his objection to
trade unions was that they were too
large to handle. No doubt, it would
be harder for him to fool all of the
workers together. He forgot en-
tirely that there was such a thing as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
RED BUILDER IN ATLANTIC
CITY JAILED AGAIN
Atlantic Cit,r NJ


Dear Comrades:
George Johnston was arrested the
night of August for the eighth
time in the past year for selling
the Daily Worker The arresting
officer, Delaney, charged in labor
hating Judge Altman's court the
following morning that Johnston
did not have a badge.
Altman released Johnston, but
changed his mind and sent him to
Jail until noon. Altman made a
lengthy speech to the worker audi
ence on the fairness" of himself
as capitalist Judge and the
"balkinesS" of Communists. 1t
would have been a success, but he
could not resist the temptation to
call out to Edwin Pharo &C. P.
Organizer), and attempt to pro-
woke him with the threat that he
is going to send him up very soon"
When very soon" comes, quite a
few workers who were in court will
testify that Altman is preiudiced
against this worker, as well as all
workers-fighting for better condi-
lions against the system which he
defends. 1t is not known vet
whether Johnston had his stock
confiscated this time or not. but
he has lost plenty in previous ar
rests.
Comradely yours.
(SigneO EDWIN PHARO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
WGter Cut
off From
.JObLeSS
By a Worker Correspondent

Alf . " VI hEA NUAACoH1AAACAAN
DICKSON CITY, Ps.-There are
10 people living without water in
Dickson City, Pa.
We unemployed workers have to
live without water today. Our water
was stopped by our landlord because
we can't pay our rent. It is the
second month we are without water
in the house. When it rains we put
our barrels, tubs, and pals around
our porch and house to catch just
as much rain as we can, to wash our
clothes, dishes, floors, faces, hands,
and battle the children.
Our drinking and cooking water
we get from the borough building
which is eight blocks, or almost a
mile, away from our home. We
drive a wagon every day with a
boiler and big glass jug for our liv-
ing water Our landlord wanted to
stop our water in the borough build
ing, but he was put out by the
workingmen in the building, for he
is starving the children without
water
Our family consists of the mother
and father and eight children. The
oldest child is Is years old. The
youngest two infants are one year
and two years old, who are ed with
bottles, and they are both under
weight and malnourished. So we
are living in serious danger, and
those children are living hard life
without water.
Our family all were born and
raised in this free" America, but it
is capitalist America.
In this city there is another unem-
ployed family living the way we do.
The landlord took out all the win
dows and doors from the home in
which they are living. This family
consists of nine people. The oldest
child is II years old.
We have here an Unemployed
Council, so we get our relief orders.
as food, clothes and shoes. The
writer is the mother living without
water.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Fight Bread
Price Rise
DIV a Worker Correspondentl

BY a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Worker of the
180th Street section have again
organized to fight increases in the
price of bread and rolls, under the
leadership of the 180th Street
Neighborhood Committee, to force
Grossfeld's Bakery at East 10th
Street between Vyse and DAILY Ave-
nue. to bring back that firms prices
to their former level. 7 cents per
pound for bread and Is cents per
dozen for rolls.
Mr.. Grossfeld is leader in the
bakery bosses association, which
group decided to raise prices to
cents and 20 cents for bread and
rolls, respectively.
Last winter, when the bosses did
the same thing, we persuaded them,
by means of militant picket lines,
to give UP the idea. Now Mr..
Grossfeld, has coerced all bakery
owners in the neighborhood, by
means of threats of intimidations,
to raise their prices.
A consumers strike was called
against Grossfeld's, and Saturday
we had our first pickets out. Sales
at the bakery fell off tremendously
The neighborhood intellectually
is in favor of the strike, since it
has seen the militant action of the
l74th Street strikers in the face
of repeated police intimidation
sponsored by Grcssfeld.
The police attacked the picket
line Saturday morning, and seized
the signs and arrested two picllets.
But the picketing will go on never
theless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Mortified Mayor
Beats Up Worker
Asking for a Job
nv 2 Workor Cnrrespondcnt


MORTIFIED. Chio.-On June
30, three young men walked into
Northfleld town hall and saw a
younr man there with his eye
bleeding. They asked him what
the trouble was. He said. 81 asked
Mayor Kusta about some work, and
for the insults he said to me I
slapped his face. The Mayor struck
me across the eye with billy
club, causing it to bleed"
They asked the marshall if they
could take him home. He said, Eyes,
if you pay $56.1o" The town clerk
said he knew nothing about it.
They went to see Mayor Kusta but
his wife said that the mayor did
not want to speak to them. They
went back to the town hall and
asked Mareh2ll Jerome Smith
where the young man was. He
said Akron Jail Nobody seems to
know for how long end nobody
seens to know anvthino about the
trial except Mayor kusta end
IIaychal jerome Smith.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. Hitting into the
wonderful city of New York, broke,
I hit that famous-or will I say, in
famous East 18th Street, 'Muny"
line.
That line, probably the largest
known bread line in the world, tells
its own story.
Broiling sun; hungry CUTS; nerv-
GUS, half-starved, human creatures.
Sweltering horders, numbering at
least 10000, crushed together like
sardines. daily foregather, in the
vain expectation Of receiving some
thing worthwhile to eat.
What do they get?
Breakfast! Oatmeal, which would
flow readily out of spigot; three
slices of very dry, BUTTERFLIES bread,
and tin cup of chicory.
For this they're in line as early
as 3 o'clock in the morning.
For lunch, it's meatless beef stew;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Spirit of Angelo Herndon
Inspires Atlanta Workers
Negro and White Workers Joining in Fight for
More Relief and Against War

We southern white workers have
been taught that our colored fellow
workers are inferior to the whites,
but both races are learning better.
We begin to understand it is a trick
of the bosses who keep us divided so
that more profits will pile up.
Our August LIST meeting was good.
Resolutions were passed condemn
ing the world war and urging the
workers to unite solidly to prevent
another worldwide slaughter of
working men and boys which Roose-
welt and his new deal are deter
mined to reduce to cannon fodder
under the banner of the c. c. G. and
other sbominable agencies.
Our organization must and shall
be made strong enough to prevent
this coming bloodletting. Workers of
the world are uniting; they have
nothing to lose but their chains
they have the world to gain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
~ , Jul q
tSigned) EDWIN PHARO.

Atlantic City, N. j.
Gentlemen:
The Daily Worker carrier here is
given all the trouble the police can
give him. They arrested him for
not showing his badge, it was I'M
derneath his coat, and his brother
was arrested for carrying a bundle
along with the regular carrier Just
to help him.
The policeman called him vulgar
names and tried to make the carrier
fight. There is so much more that
Johnson puts up with that it should
be written up and exposed.
The political conditions here are
terrible and some of us who are
forwarding this have travelled and
know Atlantic City is slave pen
for workers. One Negro man here
works "a hours for 5000 a week,
Underneath it is SETTLING among
the intelligent workers.
ONE OF JOENSON'S
CUSTOMERS.
rs No. 9Th ST., Phila., Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

statement by Women Of Dist. 3 of
Lithuanian Workers Literature As
sceiaticn, Chicago, Ill, Aug. I, 1884,
With the AAA destroying a third
Of the food supply of the country
and the present drought affecting
this years crops. we are now left
at the mercy of the big spectators.
Besides the general rise in food
prices which are certainly felt BY
all housewives, we are paying all
sorts of taxes to reimburse the
government for money spent Ior
elton ho9s, ETC., which the AAA
bought and destroyed in the last two
years.
We are already unable to give our
children enough of variety of food
to supply all the vitamine and other
essential nutritive qualities neces-
sary for their healthy growth. Soon
we will be unable to buy even the
essentials to keep alive and will be
faced with actual starvation, as
many are today.
Taking all this into considera-
ton, the Women's Committee of
LisfFfct Three of the Lithuanian
Literature Association is calling
a delegate meeting of all WON
EMS COMMITTEES of all
branches in the district. At this
meeting we will work out plans
for struggle against the above
described situation. We know that
while we cannot buy enough food
for our families because of the
cheapening of the dollar through
imitation and because of high
prices, yet the food trusts profits
are swelling.
We want to extend an invitation
o all housewives who t-9pen to
cad this announcement, and wish
o do SO, to come to this delegate
Meeting. We particularly appeal
0 the women of other nationali-
les, Belonging to their national
organizations to take the question
lp in. their meeting. if they will
lave--a meeting before this delegate
Meeting. and have women elected
. represent their organization.
We know that women of one ma
ionality cannot carry on sue
essful struggle against the high
ost Of living ard for other womeu's
demands.
Our proposed program in part
viii be;
1.-ColIectin% signatures TO be
presented to the Mayor and City
Council with a demand that they
take steps to stop profiteering ON
food.
ITO demand that with the
opening of schools this Fail, in
the poorest districts where ac-
tual Starvation exists, lunches be
given to all school children.
3.-Medical care for all school
children free of charge.
The date and place of the dele
cate meeting will be- FRIDAY.
AUGUST 81, AT I P. M. AT
WINS" HALL. BIG SOUTH
HALSTEAD ST, CHICAGO.
Pryor 20 .eceivlng the above an
nouneenaent for publication, we had
a request from the women calling
this delegate meeting, for = record
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

struggle to build a branch Of the
L.SN.R. and an Unemployed Coun-
Gil in Columbia is hard.
Negro and white workers alike
must join the struggles for unem-
ployment insurance, equal rights for
Negroes and social equality. Negroes
like to read the Daily Worker, but
under the present economic situa-
tion they cannot get it. 1t is one
thing we must continue, along with
the struggle for the freedom of An
gelo Herndon and the Scottsboro
boys, and all class war prisoners,
and to free Tom Mooney and Thael-
mann. Negroes and white, unite,
and fight, for they shall not die
"A Southern Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
By a Worker Correspondent

ATLANTA, Gave unemployed
workers Of Atlanta, Ga, are or
ganizing in spite of tn fascist Rev.
John Hudson, prosecutor of Angelo
Herndon and other militant workers
who are leading US.
We are receiving only enough re-
lief from the government to merely
exist; a family Of three gets $3.50
per week. Some weeks go by with
out a penny. The authorities tell us
that the funds are simply out, but
we workers notice that Mr.. Roose-
welt and Wall Street has plenty of
money for war funds.
In one of our unemployment meet
ing recently we had comrades who
travelled 18 miles to be present.
Enthusiasm ran high. We managed
to get out leaflets calling on the
workers to join with us against war
and starvation, and against jim
Crowism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
HemorrhOids

S. 1.-THE subject has been dis
cussed at length in this column. A
surgical operation is a permanent
cure, provided the underlying cause,
such as constipation for instance,
is also removed. The injection
method is superior to surgical re-
moval in many cases. The surgeon
is best qualified to decide which
method is preferable in given
case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
In THE HOME
Chicago Women Preparing for Struggle Against
Hight Cost of Living
BY HELEN LUKE

of the struggles already conducted
by the women of the New York
Women's Councils, that they might
benefit by the experiences of the
New York women. Members of the
Councils are preparing this report,
and we have mailed the Chicago
the fight for lower milk prices in
Philadelphia. To help spread, coor-
dinate and support these struggles
we shall take up the question again
in a few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Food for Everyone
lie You Search Hard
On Garbage Dumps
Ry a Worker CORRESPONDENT


NEW HAVEN, Conn.-There is
no need of anyone going hungry
in this country, SO say the big
bellies and their like like. If they
mean people can eat dead dogs and
cats, maybe they are right.
On August was looking at
crowd of unemployed American
citizens foraging for something to
eat on the public dump. Presently
one of them found a two quart
can. He broke it open it contained
cottage cheese. Oh, what luck.
Three of them made impoverised
spoons out of pieces of tin and they
devoured it.
Sure there is plenty for every
body in this country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Strike Is Won By
Circus Workers
by Worker Correspondent


KRITGOODE. Val got all
the fellows in the Ringing Bros.
and Barnum and Bailey's circus
to come together with me in
Louisville, Kentucky, on July 30
and we got them to strike for
buses to go from the circus lot
to the trains g or niles. The
following day we struck for moe
pay this was in Indianapolis),
and we got our demands. If the
boss tries to fire me, all the fell
lows are going to come cut on
strike for my reinstatement.
Ove- 100 Negro workers in
volved in the strike, and we
were only ones to get a raise in
wages. When we were in De-
troit, over 10 people got sick and
one died from typhoid fever from
the bad wate-- we get.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
ON THE BREADLINE

or cabbageless and harmless ham
and cabbage. Sometimes, if you
belong to certain group of the
inner-ins, you might get a feed.
1t wasn't my good fortune to be
a member of the inner circle.
Supper. is left over-plus
much water.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
PROPOSES A LOUD SPEAKER
FOR REPORTING NEWS

NEW YUTK OIIy.
To the Editor, Daily Worker:
It seems to me, since the CAPT
talist is deliberately misleading the
public in regard to the strikes on
the West Coast, to our great detri-
ment, it would be good tactics to
have someone representing the
Daily" give out through loud
speaker the real facts, at meet
ing at Union Square, every evening
while the terror lasts.
]. G. G
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
DIR. LUTTINCER ADVISES

perennially dish out to their dupes.
Amoebic dysentery is caused by
germ. If you boil the water you Sus-
pect, you need not fear to contract
the disease because the microbes are
killed by the heat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
N.R.A. COVERS RELIEF CUTS
By a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, I'LL have four small
children. The Oldest one is seven
years Old My husband sells patent
medicine at which before the
crisis he was able to make a liv-
ing, But since the five years of
the crisis we are unable to hardly
exist.
I was once on relief but we were
cut CT becarsa they said that
was making big profit under the
N.R.A.. which everyone knows is {
lie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
THE FIGHT is HARD BUT WE
WILL WIN

COLUMBIA, S. C.-Fellow work
ofs and friends, the conditions in
South Columbia are hard, but
hope the day will soon come when
all workers will see this struggl2 as
1, and are willing to do what I want
them to do for themselves The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1943 is available in sizes
IL, IA, IS, 18 and 20. Size Is takes
312 yards SO inch fabric and IL
yards 36-inch fabric and 134 yards
by-step sewing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
y.P.S.L.'S BAN RUBY BATES
New York City.

Dear E-iito-:
The Young Peoples Socialist
League, Branch G, was holding
an open air meeting on Cruger
and Allerton Avenue. Two mem
bers from the Medas Youth Club
approached the chairman Of the
Y.P.S.L. to ask permission to let
me speak from their platform on
the Sccttsboro and Herndon case.
They fatty refused the platform
to me. saying that they, the Y. P.
S. L., were not entering a united
f-cnt with the Communists.
We were not from the Com
murist Party. We were from
youth club and from the Inter
national Labor Defense. I wish
to say a few words to the rank
and file members of the Y.P.S.L.
You ere being missed by your
leaders. The Scottsboro boys
end Angelo Herndon are your
brothers. SO why net join with US
to save them?
Yours truly,
RUBY BATES.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Medical Centers in Russia

Rhode Island Medical Student
The six chief medical centers in
Russia are: Moscow, Leningrad,
Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa and Minsk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
BACTERIA are the Cause not the
Result of Disease

Arthur Schneiderman, Fort Wayne
DO not pay any attention to an
igncramus like Frank Mccoy. He
is a chiropractor whose knowledge
of the established facts of science
is as vast as the brain of flea.
His assertion that germs are the
products, instead of the cause of
disease, is an old fallacy which the
enemies of experimental science
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

a Fed Brilder on every busy
street corner in the country means
trcncnGo-s step toward the
dictatorship of the prcIetariat.