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hitch-hiked across continent during
course of her activities.
Is now in midwest engaged in Or
ganizational work among farmers.
"a more complete record of her
extraordinarily active life appeared
in the Daily Worker on July 10,
1888, by Alexander Trachtenberg0
Mother Bloor is our militant VAL
entine,-a big throbbing red work
ing-class heart, We hope that one
OF these days she will be able to find
time to write little message to
working-class women through this
column. She wrote stirring article
for and about women which appeared
in the July 1888 issue of the Work
ing Women"
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SPOKANE UNIT REPORTS OF
CONCENTRATION WORK

Comrades:
The unit has asked me TO report OF
the work OF their shop concentrates
committee. This committee went te
the White Pine Sash Co. mill herr
three days ago to issue some papers
The committee was unprepared 10 sell
any literature at that time, 50 took
nothing but some back numbers Of
the Daily.
One member Of this committee went
into the shop "a box factory and was
ordered out by the foreman. But the
comrade returned at q later date and
caught the workers at lunch and
passed out a large bunch Of leaflets
on the Scottsboro case and q bundle
Of Young Workers.
The workers were all busy readins
these papers the last the comrade
of them.
The unit believes that they ha
made a good start at q shop unit
the White Pine. J. s., Sec'y.
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General Strike Backed
Centralia Shoe Workers

in their boots. All workers were on
the picket lines.
The Centralia Evening Sentinel
(the boss newspaper), true to its anti
labor character, spit forth it's ven
omous attacks against the workers
The printers Of this paper also voted to
come out on strike, but settlement
was made the same evening, so they
did not get to join in the strike.
The shoe company agreed to dis
charge the boss AID forelady if the
Executive Committee would resign
and the committee agreed, and this
was voted upon by the rank and file
shoe workers and accepted by them.
So the strike was officially declared
over Thursday night, Feb. l, 1894,
with everyone to return to work Mon
day, Feb. T.
We should now consolidate our
gains by organizing the unorganized
stores and the stove foundry and
other unorganized workers into strong
rank and file controlled organiza-
tons.
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Negro JGnitOr in Paterson
ShO'Os Need for Organization
Feels SO Tired After Days York He Can Hardly
Eat Sleep

By JanitOr Worker Correspondent
PATTERSON, N. il have been
working as a janitor for the last
three years. I've been taking care
of a block Of Six-fanily houses for
one of the biggest landlords in Pater-
son. AS most everyone here knows
the landlord, 1TendelsOhn got the
most of these houses by swindling
the original owners through mort
cages, etc. The rest Of the houses
he got through speeding up the work.
ers in his hosiery mill.
7 am q Negro, born and raised in
Virginia. AS I only went to school
on Fridays, I cannot read or write.
After an organizer Of the Unem-
ployed Council read to me the JAM
itor's article that appeared in the
Worker" on Jan. 16, decided that
the conditions in it were so identical
with my own that I would like you
to print about my conditions too. I
hope it will help us to organize the
isnitors for better conditions.
Pay Cut BY Trick
After working two or three weeks
mere. MendeISohn came down and
5old me 7 would have to come and
Sign a contract at once or get out.
as I had nowhere else to go and no
one that I could borrow any money
from to move out and get other
rooms for my wife and two children,
L was forced to sign the contract.
Ny friend and I came to Memo
Realty Co. "a family affair owned
by two sons who are lawyers where
the contract was already made up.
After 1 signed, NIendelsohn kept both
copies. I do, however, remember very
well my friend having read to me
that the contract called for $50 a
month. When my pay came around,
I was handed S45. I asked where
the ether half is, and was told,
That goes for rent"
Below Street Level
The best rooms in these houses
now rent for G28, light, airy, modern,
team heated rooms. My four room"
ire in a cold. wet cellar. The only
jair5 the walls have seen is some
hin paint" I was given to smear
N when moved in. I pay my own
gas and electric bills and instead Of
steam heat, an old stove that the
belants threw out. In order to see
the street I have to step upon a
step ladder and I am supposed 60
see everything that goes on in all
The buildings.
Besides ianitor work, my job was
to fix roofs, rut in windows, connect
gas and coal stoves, put up piping
cement work, carpenter and electrical
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work. Once I was even told to hire
a Negro truck driver In order to put
out a family. but instead I hired g
white truck driver and told the ten
ant she could stay there over night
for which 1 got plenty Of hell.
Instead of ordering coal for every
furnace, had to wheel the coal from
the cellar. I never got through earlier
than 10 or II midnight. In those
real cold days I refused to wheel the
coal as it would mean my death. One
day all the hot and cold water pipes
froze and another day boiler busted
For coal, bucKwheat, with dirt and
coke, is used. This makes enough
gas to blow a mine. A tera0t ovo"
the boiler was overcome by the gas
that escaped after the boiler nose
lessly gave in. had to work two
days and nights to help the plumber
fix the thing.
Too Tired to Eat
After a days work I would feel
so tired that I could hardly eat OF
sleep. It got so that I had no
patience for my house or my chill
dren. Mendelsohn wanted me to take
over the work on Harrison ST., also,
but I refused to take the other mans
job, as he also had family.
Then one day got letter that
I would have to move, as my contract
expired. I reported this to the IN
employed Council Of which found
out through another janitor.
The Unemployed Council has put
up wonderful fight for my rein
statement, also that all repair work
should be done by men hired for this
purpose. They pointed out to the
tenants how tenants and janitors
must organize. how Negro and white
must show their solidarity.
When Feldman was to be evicted,
I and my wife told the Negro truck
driver, an old friend of mine, that
this is an eviction and that he should
not touch a piece of furniture, so he
didn't. My tenants were there.
Before I sock this janitor job I
worked as a wire drawer in Trenton,
also a saga maker (skilled). I worked
as a skilled laundry man in Phila-
delphia, making my own soap out
of lakewood ashes. I learned this
from my mother. Having a very
hard time getting a job, accepted
the janitor's jail without bars. Now
am so broken down that will need
quite a rest before I can come bach
to my old self again. am row 20
ing to try to organize the janitors SC
that they won't get such a dirty
deal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14

by a Shoe Worker Correspondent.
CENTRALIA, Ill-Rank and file
members in the trade unions of Cen
tralia forced through a general strike
here in sympathy with the strike of
the workers at the Johnasen Shoe Co.
At meetings Of the Glenridge Min
ers Local 542 and the Trades and La
Dor Assembly Committee the call was
issued. All building trades unions
answered the call, also the moving
pictures operators, the bakers union,
the teamsters and ice and fuel work
ers. The painters and paperhangers
and decorators, and even the trade
unionists on the c. w. A. school
projects.
Local So, U. M. w. A., were ordered
to work by District President John
Mentler on Jan. 81, 1884. But on the
morning Of Feb. a strong picket line
Of men and women was formed at the
Bell zoller Coal Co. The company
called the District President John
Mentler. who saw to it that the min
erS went to work that morning. Many
Of these miners went down in the pit
with tears in their eyes, but they
called special meeting the same
night and decided to come out in
sympathy with the Shoe Workers In
duStrial Union. This was a victory
for the rank and file miners.
The bakers also came out on strike
in sympathy with the Shoe Workers
Union, and out-of town bread trucks
were stopped at the city limits by
pickets and were told to deliver no
bread in Centralia until this strike
was over. The drivers showed their
solidarity by returning to their re-
spective towns without delivering any
bread in Centralia.
The BARRIERS also came out in sup
port Of the shoe workers and strong
plcket lines were thrown around some
non-union barber shops, and they
'lso closed in sympathy.
This is the first time in the history
OF Centralia that there has been a
General strike and the bosses and
Chamber Of Commerce were shaking
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Made to Sign False
Pay Statements at
Master Leather Co.
(By a WOrker Correspondent.l

(by worker correspondent
NEW YORK; have worked for
the Master Leather Co. at Sc W. oath
ST. (who also specializes in novelty
kits and coSlnetics), for 31a months,
and have experienced the following
conditions still existing.
The total number Of workers at
present are Is young girls, as well as
adult women and two men. The WAGES
are as follows: a dollar day for 9
hours per day, or IS for the girls and
81 for the men, at As hours per week.
However on pay days these work.
arS are forced to sign statements that
they get more than they actually re-
ceive.
For instance, the girls are rated for
80 cents per hour and the men are
rated at 38 cents This would entitle
the first category to $13 and the lat
ter to Sl725, for As hours per week
The boss has the State Labor Code
bulletin, which calls for the 8-hour
day and 40-hour week, hanging on
his shop walls, when it comes to hir-
ing his future slaves he compels them
to accept the 9-hour day work at the
81 rate.
In addition the boss hired pro-
duction manager to see that the
workers are speeded to the limit in
the unventilated shop, where there
are bad odors from the toilet (no
toilet paper is provided for us) and
the terrible smell of rotting moldi-
ness creeping from the cheap wet
heavy paper he bought for us (the
boss had bought it on a fire sale"
to make profit out of.
Since the health inspectors got
after the boss, he got 1t cleaned a
little.
The workers also suffer from in
haling the smell Of acids, remover
and various colored chemicals which
are used for finger-nail polishing, ETC.
The filling Of the small bottles is
done by an electrical process. This
job was done by men before at a
higher rate. At present it is done by
girls for dollar day. This Job is
dangerous to the lungs and as re-
suit at the end of the day these girls
sometimes faint from it.
The boss often sets his watch back
at least 5 minutes (the quitting hour
is 6 p. M. Then they must clean
their place Of work. During the day
these workers are compelled to sit on
boxes and bad chairs Sometimes
this sort of cleaning takes 5 to 10
minutes extra time for which they
are not paid. Dressing and leaving
the shop usually is 20 to 80 minutes
later, and the overwhelming major
ity of these girls live in the far
Bronx, Brooklyn, Coney Island.
The boss once nervously admitted
he paid grGft to the inspector.
The duties of these workers, as
being a section of the chemical in
dustry (cosmetics), is to organize a
grievance committee to take up their
immediate problems which can be rec
titled quickly on the basis Of the
above conditions and following de-
mandS:
l. Reduction of the hours.
2. Substantial increase in wages.
3. The recognition of the grievance
committee.
Also other demands, a locker for
every worker, and same on towels,
and ADEQUATE ventilation in the shop.
For further information inquire at
the Chemical Workers Industrial
Union, Room 2S9, 799 Broadway, New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
PARTY LIFE
Detroit PurtJ.f7iigl,ts White
ChauviruiSm Within It's Ranks
Expulsion of 2 in Detroit SEo,0s That Great Care
Must Be Taken in. Selecting FunctiOnGries

Party in Pontiac, and had previouSN
belonged to the Ku-KluX Khan. He
had always taken an antagonistit
attitude toward the district Leadership
Of the Party and displayed descriptive
tendencies.
When his wife, Anna Bradley, wa,
found guilty of white-chauvinism, hi
refused to take stand either way
thereby showing that he himself die
not accept the Party's position Of un.
compromising struggle against white
chauvinism.
Anna Bradley had been active Il
short time in the work among the "A,
employed, when one day a Negrt
woman worker was taken sick anc
needed a doctor. She was taken to {
doctor by a committee, which included
Mrs. Bradley The doctor was beint
paid by the city to take care Of al
patients who were receiving relic.
from the welfare organization. Ais
this doctor happened to be the docto
Of Mrs. Bradley.
When the doctor did not want e
examine the Negro worker at once
but told her to come back later, whe1
no white patients would be there, tn,
committee, with the exception Of Mrs
Bradley, took issue with the docto
and told him that he was discrim,
mating against Negro worker. Late
also Mrs. Bradley refused to struggl,
against this doctor, stating that h,
was her family doctor and that stal
did not want to antagonize him.
She was called to the section com.
mittee, who explained that her att.
tude was an act of white-chauvinisn
and individualisn, and that she wa
captivating to white chauvinism
She not only refused to be corrected
but even stated that II the Party tool
such a stand against her she saw nc
reason for her staying in the Party.
The expulsion Of both Clarence and
Anna Bradley shows that the Party
does not and will not tolerate any
white-chauvinism or any conciliatoTJ
attitude toward white-chaUvinism n
its ranks.
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The case Of Clarence and Anna
Bradley, Of the Pontiac Section in the
Detroit District, who were expelled
from the Party two or three months
ago, illustrates the need of greater
care in the selection Of responsible
Party functionarieS and the irupor-
lance Of paying close attention. and
taking prompt action against any
manifestations of e-chauvirism
within the ranks of the Party.
Clarence Bradley, before his expul-
sion, was the Section Organizer Of the
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steady job, vote for the Boot and
Shoe"
Then zasofsky (the runt) ran to
get Mike (the guerrilla) Miller. and
said, I'm for an open shop, but If
l were a worker, I'd want an Amer
lean union. Besides the government
needs your help, and you must help
them"
Well, the vote did turn out for
the Boot and hsoe, but not because
the workers wanted to, but because
they were afraid of losing their lit
tie bit of pay for their hard labor.
But Mike Miller will not rest, be-
cause he knows that he has $50
fighters in his factory.
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Ella Reeve Bloor, real veteran OF
The class struggle in America, cele-
orated her list birthday on July g.
1893.
Daughter OF CUnion) soldier In
the American Civil War, descendant
Of soldier of the 1776 Revolution
Ella became a rebel at Il against the
religious aflliation Of her family, and
round Paine and Ingersoll healthier
reading than the Bible.
This led her into study of So
cialisln.
In 1893 joined the Textile Work
ers' Union, during strike, in order
10 organize striking women into the
union.
There followed 40 active years In
the revolutionary labor movement;
years of intense activity even while
mother of small children, as orga-
nizer of innumerable strikes.
Repudiated her membership in the
Socialist Labor Party because Of its
sectarianism, and was for IA years
National Organizer Of the Socialist
Party.
Active in every great labor strug-
gle in the U. S. up to the present
time; frequently arrested, kids some
times jailed along with her.
AS employee Of Chicago packing
house, gathered data for Upton
Sinclair's 1.-THE Jungle"
Took firm internationalist anti
war stand during world war; left So
cialist Party and helped found Com
munist movement in y. S.; supported
Ruthenberg's Marxist-Leninist posi-
ton.
Delegate to Red International of
Labor Unions at LIST and End Con-
crosses; delegate to ali Congresses Of
c. p, U. S. a.
At age Of 60, and again at SO,
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N q r e

We publish letters from textile,
needle, shoe and leather workers
every Wednesday. workers In
those industries are urged to write
us of their conditions of work,
and of their struggles to organize.
Get the letters to us by Saturday
of each week. ~
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erS were timely, and to the point.
The liberals" now doing all the
ranting about the Roosevelt revo-
luton" will be the same fellows
who will do, and are doing what
George Creel did in the Wilson
epoch. May I suggest that a
pamphlet by Garlin on the same
lines, but extended, be printed, and
distributed by the League Against
War and FasciSn.
A pamphlet on this order would
help to clear up all the confusion
that exists among certain types of
the liberal middle classes today.
Maybe Garlin could do a series of
articles on this type for the Daily
Worker, We should have more arti-
cles Of this calibre.
PAUL CALHOUN
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n. Y. Shoe Workers
JObIeSS Council
Wins Some Relief
(tBy a Shoe worker Correspondent

((By Shoe Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-There are nearly
10000 shoe workers in New York City
searching for jobs every day. Jobs
are not available We were fooled
into believing that N. r. A. will help
us. However, we soon learned diff
ferent. The shoe workers, realizing
that only through organized efforts
can the workers get relief from the
city, have formed the Shoe Workers
Unemployed Council.
Our Shoe Workers Unemployed
Council demands from the city, state
and federal governments that a shoe
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Every new subscriber you get for
the Daily Worker means winning
another worker to the revolution
airy struggle against exploitation,
war and fascism
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Can You Make EN-
YOvrr~~Vf?

Pattern 1854 - Liable in sizes
4, 6, 8, 10 and u. Size 6 takes 2 IA
yards 36 inch fabric and l 518 yards
contrasting.
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ESLL OF OUR a
Id NllLETANT WOMEN
MOTHER BLOOR.

minute biographies Of women active
IN the class war.
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Food Value Of Tnmafn Iriice


J. R., Buffalo, N. YOU are I'M
duly prejud;ced against tomatoes. Be-
cause you get a rash after eating
them, Is no reason to condemn them.
A number of people break out in q
rash after eating strawberries, pine
apple, shrimpS, mutton or even cows
milk. AS matter of fact, the tomato
is fruit, although commonly referred
to as a vegetable. Ripe tomatoes con-
tain as much vitamin G as orange
juice and, in addition, about twice
as much vitamin B and six times the
amount of vitanin A. Furthermore,
there is so per cent more iron, 200
per cent more manganese and 300
per cent more copper in tomatoes
than in oranges.
With all due respect to your friend.
the naturopath, infants will tolerate
twice as much tomato juice as the
more popular orange juice. Tomatoes
do not cause rheumatism. His rheii-
matism was more likely caused by
infected tonsils than by tomatoes.
~OfSOA SASA VA \ ny SASAtSAAS w
Population
Stanley Martinsen, Boston:-There
are more physicians in the United
States, in proportion to our poprlas
ton, than in any other country IN
the world. Yet, there are ten million
Americans who are unable to get
medical attention, while thousands of
physicians are poverty-stricken for
lack Of patients. You can draw your
own conclusions as to the causes of
this apparent paradox. But for US
1t Is merely one more instance Of
the divine efficiency of our capitalist
scheme.
Chinese Food
v. NJ, Staten Island:-The food in
| Chinese restaurants Is clean, whole
some and reasonable in price Even
their 35-cent luncheons are superior
to those in the average American
restaurant. There Is q preponder-
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ATTENTION: CONIRADE H. L.:
Come into Daily Worker Editorial
Office at once in regard to your
communication. See Comrade
Jean.
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Help put the Daily Worker cir
culation campaign over the top.
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Mention the Daily Worker whel
addressing advertisers.
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By PAUL LUTTrNGER, MD.

ance Of va"ofab'es. Chinese vege-
lies are tasty and rich In vttaminA
Do not H. ~ appointed Diet
itians who have axes to grind. We
often eat in Chinese restaurants our
self.
The New Orleans Hospital rfa4
John R., CleveIand.-The plan you
are referring to was first tested at
the Touro Infirmary OF New Orleans
La. Now all five of the New Orleans
private hospitals have adopted It
Each person pays nine $50 dollars
in advance, or on the installment
plan, per year. For this he or shs
receive all required medical atten-
ton, except for tuberculosis, mental.
squarantinable or acute venereal dis
ease. The subscriber pays his on
her subscription to a central corpora
ton, which reimburses the hospital
where the patient has elected to be
admitted 1t is too early to commey :
on either the success or failure of tn
plan.
Mate
"C0ffee Fiend," Baltimore Mate
| is the native name Tor what we call
Paraguay tea. 1t consists Of the
dried leaves of shrub which grows
in Paraguay ana Brazil. 1t is pre-
pared in special container (Mate
| in Spanish means vessel and La
drunk hot, like ordinary tea. l'Sps
people have to develop a taste d ~
There are mate fiends Just az tneie
are coffee fiends. Contrary to "
advertisement you saw, mate zoe
contain caffeine, as well as tanhin.
| The cost is about the same as Or
binary tea and higher than coffee.
If you buy ten pounds at time, you
can get them for SO cents a pound.
We see. no advantage in your chang
ing from coffee to Mate. Before you
invest in a mate set, be sure you try
. the beverage in a Spanish restaurant
! You might not like it
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by tie way" wrote Comrade
Natalie G. the other DAY, heres a
household wrinkle this white snow on
the grcund reminded me of: the best
cav to c.can rugs. fUrS and other
aeqVy. co7tngs is to spread them on
san dry 51cw and beat well on both
sides-ycud be surprised by the
amount Of dirt You'll beat Quit"
Thanks for the Up Natalie-it will be
very useful to housewives in the coun-
try. or smaller towns and cities (where
here is such o thing as q back
ardif,
The following recipe is fairly in
expensive though noUrishing:
Winter Vegetable Chowder
Brown u cfo bacon or salt pork
sut in small II Gees, add 2 medium or
small onions chopped fine, and brown
slightly. Add 212 cups parsnips cut
n strips and 3 cups cubed Irish po-
.atoes, with IL tsp. salt, dash pep
GER, and cups water. Stew slowly
lntil vegetables are soft, add 2 or 8
1ups hot milk and thicken with 2
sbsp. flour rubbed to a paste with
old w2ter or milk. Serve hot over
cast. parsley may be added if
3yailableJ
In line viva The suggestion from
Jomrade Edith S., we hope to pre-
sent at least one each week of these
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The following recipe is fairly in
aypensive though nOurishing:

In line viva The suggestion from
Comrade Edith S., we hope to pre-
sent at least one each week of these