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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
THE SOCIALIST PARTY IN
AMESBURY


AMESBURY, Mass. = The local
Socialist Party has many times in
the past, tried to sabotage the ac-
tiyities of the Finnish Federation
and the American League Against
War and Fascism in this town.
Militant clasS-conscious workers
within their ranks have protested
against this. Because of this. the
leaders, headed by William Wilson,
boss" Of the Amesbury local, and
Socialist candidate for Selectman,
tried to GUST many of them. In
this they were unsuccessful. They
did, however, force one militant
worker to resign, after he was
beaten up by couple or more
comrades" When a worker in the
Amesbury local talks in revolu-
tics1ary manner, he is called Com
munist" by Boss" Wilson
In Amesbury when Wilson's
name is mentioned, no biographical
sketch is necessary, for he is known
locally as labor faker.
With his left phrases and revolu-
tionary talk, he is at first mis-
leading, but ask the workers about
him. When he was employed in a
local foundry he was a pace
maker He even used to work
noon-times. 1t is even rulmored,
land there is plenty of evidence for
the rumor), that he was fined $25
by a union for working overtime in
Newburyport, Mass. Wilson, de-
spite his anti-working class reputa-
ton, claims to have been in the
labor movement 35 years. He now
hopes to be elected to the office of
Selectman where he will be al
lowed to serve his masters for $500
a year. Indeed, Wilson does not
want much salary to do the bidding
of the bosses. At one time when
a study class was being held in the
Amesbury local led by revolution
airy worker, Wilson tried in every
way to sabotage it. He even had a
young worker who was under his
influence, try to disrupt it-and he
had succeeded. This illustrates how
the social-fascists try to keep the
workers in ignorance.
However, the Socialist Party of
Amesbury is fast breaking up.
N.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
(By a Needle Trades Truckdriver)

NEW YOOR.-You probably knew
that recently a new local was added
to the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, Local 102, consist
ing of truck drivers and helpers for
the needle trades.
About a year ago, Saul Metz,
member of the Socialist Party and
member of our local, put PROPOSE
ton before the boss truckmen, that
if the workers were organized into
a union affiliated to the I. L. G.
w. u, he, Metz, would see that
every manufacturer whose workers
were I. L. G. w. U. members and
who previously didn't employ a
truckman would give all their pack
ages to the union truckmen.
The result was that the bosses ac-
cepted, and many of them gave
their workers a dollar and told them
to join the union. This was the
manner in which the local was Gre
ated.
Naturally, when the dress and
coat manufacturers were told that
they would have to employ a truck
man, and that they no longer could
have their packages and dresses de-
livered by errand boys and shipping
boys they refused Those who for
merly employed a truckman refused
to pay the price. Mr.. Metz called
the drivers and helpers out on
strike. The men we're told that
this strike was in order to get the
wages and hours.
A Militant Strike
That strike was one of the most
militant I have ever seen. The fell
lows we're fighting for a decent liv-
ing. Nobody could get through the
streets either with dresses or coats.
The manufacturers got panicky and
in a week the strike was over.
The bosses got their new custom
ers and higher prices. Mr.. Metz
had promised us $35 for drivers and
$25 for helpers. He called a meet
ing and told us the drivers were
to get $35, first helpers $23, and
$18 for second helpers (the bosses
decided who were first and who
were second helpers.
Some workers really did get the
scale, during the busy season. Then
business got slow and the bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
PARTY LIFE
Workers Enthusiastic About
Communists in Open Air Meet
DisiIIusiOned by Roosevelt, LGCWardta Bunk,
Workers Eager to Hear Revolutionary Way Out

THE SEASON of open air meetings
has set in, and we must prepare
ourselves to conduct this phase of
our revolutionary activity in such
manner as to achieve the best
results for the movement.
The situation today is very favor
able for this kind Of work. The
deepening of the crisis and the col
lapse of the various undertakings of
the ruling class of this country to
stifle the voice of the discontented
masses in the recent years has
helped a great deal to clear the way
for our agitatio and propaganda.
The Impoverished population has
shaken off the illusions that the
RooSevelts, the La Guardias, the
Pankens tried so zealously to spread.
Our word is more susceptible to the
masses now than ever before.
The experience our unit had with
the first open air meeting of the
season, held on the same street cor
ner where the open air meetings
were held last year, showed the
psychological change on the part Of
the audience as a consequence of
its disillusionment with the N. R. A.,
c. w. A., the La Guardia admins
tration, etc. In spite Of the rather
chilly evening we commanded
fairly good sized crowd, who listened
very attentively to our discussion
Of the imminence Of imperialiSt war,
of the ruthless driving down of our
living standards by the agents Of
Wall Street in governmental seats.
Having had a sufficient array of
speakers we opened up another open
air meeting two blocks away and
that one was also attended by sat-
isfaetory number of listeners.
After the adjournment OF the
meeting two of our comrades went
into the nearby cafeteria for coffee.
We sat down at table at which
three young men we're discussing
problems that were touched upon by
our speakers. One of these had
before him number of pamphlets
which he had bought from our liter
allure agent at the street meeting.
Gle spent % cents on Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
By a Worker Correspondent


Detroit, NIich.-It was hard for
old Alex Kirushok to live under
Polish fascist rule in territory that
once belonged to Russia. But he
had there a couple Of acres Of land
en- which he was able to produce
at least some kind Of living.
Then the Canadian government
came out with that scheme to turn
the wild prairies to prosperous
farms. It may be a workable idea
if every immigrant has been Or
dsred to bring with him his own
pow, horses. and all implements
necessary for farming. But the Ca
madam capitalist government didn't
bother with such things. They Just
advertised all over the world that
thev ~00d a hundred thousand
farmer
When Alex Kirushok heard about
it. that the Canadian government
was giving out plenty Of land, free,
he sold everything he had merely
get enough for the ticket and with
empty hands, penniless, in 1928, he
migrated to Canada. Once there,
he went all over Canada living on
what chance gave him.
The lumber companies took the
opportunity to get cheap labor. They
offered IS a month and board And
in 1888 in the fall, the government
sent Alex Kirushok into the forest
camp. There were 5000 with him
Food was not fit for humans, and
work was unbesrable under the
speed-up system. So the camp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
-, the H,,'m!g5
UTE "
As1--L4l[4LAA&A HELEN -
CONDUCTED BY
HELEN LUKE

pleXiOn and clear eye which speaks
health and comes as the result of
eating the right kinds of food, and
taking long walks in the fresh air
in comfortable and sensible shoes. :"
With this statement, in the main,
we heartily agree. But we'd like to
elaborate a little. We'd like to point
out, for example, that no matter
what subject we tackle, we inva-
riably run up against the sad fact
that their money gives the bour-
geosie a cruel advantage over the
workers in every phase Of self
development.
While undoubtedly bourgeois no.
tons Of beauty are corrupted by an
artifcially developed admiration for
red-lacquered nails and false eye
lashes, blue eyelids and cast-iron
coiffures, the fact remains that the
money of the rich provides the
daughters with the possibility of q
sound basis in health, for beauty.
Specifically, they are always
able to afford "the right kinds of
food" - land how meticulousIy
some Of them follow the diets
worked out by their physicians)-
but they can also afford those
comfortable and sensible shoes"
necessary to make long walks in
the fresh air a blessing and not a
curse. think nearly all women
will agree that the type of shoe
suitable for walking heavy
soled Oxfords with Cuban or "IOw''
heelS) are, in a very cheap grade
of shoe, stiff as boards and liable
to cause sore feet. Moreover, they
are usually badly designed,-ou
of proportion or unbaIanced,-
which again contributes to dis
comfort. Cheap high-heeIed shoes
are at least light and soft. Com
rade Natalie has suggested the
best way out of this dilemma that
have yet heard-the purchase of
reasonably priced, long wearing
tap" shoes in one of the theatre
cal stores.
I agree with Comrade S. R. B.
about the shoes, to the point that
I feel that when the workers can't
have ten-dollar quality shoes, it's
time for a revolution. Nothing can
induce fatigue and a general lower
ing of spirits and vitality quite so
quickly as bad shoes, sore feet: I'M
less it be loss of sleep-and here
again the bourgeois women have the
jump on us! With what exquisite
concern do they select their springs.
mattresses, down pillows, clean
sheets, warm blankets, and quiet,
Well-ventilated sleeping quarters!
Consider how quickly fatigue and
loss Of sleep rob any woman of her
good looks; then, how pitifully op-
timistic becomes the hope for
beauty of the harrassed working
class mother, who works both at
home and in a shop, constantly
awakened at night by the youngest
baby Of the unpaid, worried school
teacher, Of the brow-beaten, over
worked domestic maids who must
rush through all tasks, that the
mistress may preserve her spiritual
calm, her nervous peace, her tran
quil-beautiful-face!
Yet this same memorable capt.
talism, which dooms working class
women to the very conditions
which destroy good looks, de-
mands that they be physically at
tractive to hold the meanest, most
fatiguing, worst-paid jobs! The
store clerks, the mattresses, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
So. African Workers
Meet Against Fascism

JOHANNESBURG, So. Africa,
(By MaiD.-More than 1000
workers, Negro and white at
tended mass meeting held on
the courthouse steps here, in
protest against growing faseism.
Among the speakers was Eddie
Roux, who is out on bail pend
ing appeal by the Ikaka Q.LD)
of a vicious sentence of four
months Imprisonment at hard
labor for opposing the pickup"
system by which the government
terrorizes the native population.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
KirushOk Tricked and Then
Jailed By Canadian Bosses
Nop0 Threatened With Deportation for Militant
Struggle in Lumber Camp

went on strike for better and more
food.
. And because Alex Kirushok was
militant, the government arrested
him and gave him three months
Jail with hard labor. And when
his term expires they will deport
Alex Kirushok back to Poland,
where he has no more land, is broke,
and. because Of his militant record,
the Polish government will throw
him in Jail, if not hang him.
Alex Kirushok is now in the Fort
William, Ontario, JAIL He will ap-
preciate letters. He has nobody in
Canada. and is broke. He is Rus
sian. His address: Alex Kirushok,
P. o. 568, Industrial Farm, Fort
william, Ontario, Canada,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Clothing Is Problem
for Sharecropper Girl
BY a Sharecrcpper Correspondent

BY Sharecrcpper Correspondent
TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, Ala
I am a poor farm girl. I am going
to school. I had one dress bought
for me last fall. My teacher
don't want us to wear anything
but blue uniforms. I had one.
had to wash it every Saturday and
iron it.
I have burned it and it is
patched over, and I am ashamed
to wear it along the streets, but
I can't do any better. I don't
want to stop school. I am trying
to make the sixth grade by May.
I am going to patch my dress
Monday morning and iron it and
go to school clean. I hate to wear
it to town but it is the very best
that I can do.
My shoes are bad but I can
shine them with little SCOT and
grease, and I am trying to keep
them until school closes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Socialist Denies Members a
Voice in Truckdrivers' Local
Workers Who Complain to Official of LL.C.W.U.
Affiliate About Conditions Are Fired

began cutting wages and made the
fellows work more than nine hours
day. Some of the more courageous
fellows complained to the union. The
boss Immediately knew which ones
complained, and later found some
reason to fire them This kept the
rest of the fellows from registering
complaints.
Grievances
The following are some of the
grievances we have against Mr..
Metz:
l. Dues raised almost 100 per
cent and official salaries raised Gin
Guiding his own to $75) without the
consent of the membership.
2. No membership meeting for
over six months despite the fact
that the I. L. G.. w. U. constitution
calls for monthly membership meet
ings.
8. He ignored the decisions of
the election objection committee as
to the manner of running the cleo
ton.
4. He alone signed the agree
ment with the bosses, there was no
rank and file representation, nor
was any elected officer there to
represent us.
5. Men taken off their job for
attending a meeting of a Social and
Sports Club organized by members
of the union, despite the fact that
Mr.. Metz himself for years was one
of the leaders of the Mutual Aid
Club of Local of the I. l.. G. w. u.
6. No financial report either to
the membership or to the Executive
Board since the union was organ
lied.
7. For the first six or eight
months he alone signed the checks
of the union.
8. There has been no attempt
made at teaching the men what
their duties, rights and privileges
as union men were, so that they
could fight for better conditions
more than half of the men are
not getting union conditions because
of this).
9. Though the men work full
time for only three or four months
per year and the rest part time,
Mr.. Metz insists on getting dues,
whether we are working or not, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
The Doctor Takes q Bow

The Doctor Takes Bow
If we were to print a tenth of
the laudatory letters that we get
from our admirers, we should need
the entire issue of the Daily Worker
at least once a week. If we were
more inclined to personal vanity,
we should have published at least
one or two in our column. Since
most of them are merely fan"
letters, as much alike as two peas
in pod, we see no point in print
ing them.
However, the following letter is
a little bit out of the ordinary, be-
cause Of its humor and the fact
that it gives due credit to other
features of the Daily Worker. We,
therefore. do not begrudge the space
nor do we apologize for allotting it.
March 90, 1884.
Editor Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
1--WE note regretfully that DR..
Luttinger's column has not been
appearing regularly of late. We
wonder why we are being denied
those delectable and piquant gems
from the treasures Of our worldly
wise and scientific sage.
Truth is that it has become a
necessary part of our existence. We
must confess that we are loyal
friends of the Daily Worker in par
ticular, and the working class strug-
gle for unity, in general. Hereto
fore, one copy of the paper had
served to take care OF our social
conscience every day. Albeit, when
the hour Of retiring arrived it was
sorry mess from so much eager
handling.
Since, however, our caustic and
brilliant doctor joined your staff,
we have found it necessary for the
good of our digestion to take down
the old cracked teapot where is
hidden from time to time metallic
witnesses of our daily prudence and
self-sacrif1ce against the proverbial
deluge. After all, according to Lut-
finger, a good fighter starts with
the stomach.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Farmers Starving on Land
Where Fruit Trees Flourish
C.W.A Jobs Discard All Modern Inventions
to Provide Work at $3.50 Week

our little check of $3.50. OF course,
the paymaster gets mileage. I'm
almost sure it's 10 cents mile and
the more uncertain the pay day is
the more trips to pay off, the more
mileage.
We had five Communist votes
here for Foster and Ford and Is
for Norman Thomas, but this fall
we will get IS Communist Party
votes easy; all Socialist Party
voters are lining up fast to the
Communist Party. We have a
dandy farm organizer here in
Michigan. He had full hall
March 20 at Kent City.
My little boy, eight years old,
sold ten copies of the Farmers
Weekly here in two hours.
March %, all G. w. A. workers
were laid off except those that were
formerly on relief, and they were
told not to apply for work or to
the Welfare-that a new set-up was
to be formed.
Since the beginning of the CW.A
here We have been asked to fill
out six different missionaries;
that is, since Dec. 20. Those that
were ruptured were told they would
be given lighter work to do. They
were laid off instead. One ques-
ton had space to fill in as to our
skill, and we were told we would
be given jobs at our trades later,
I guess it will be later-nuch later.
They want the dope on the I'M
employed so they can force us to
serve in the coming war for those
bloodsuckers. To hell with their
wars, high prices, unemployment
misery and depressions We can
rid ourselves of all of that when
we drive out capitalism.
The Daily Worker has sure i'm
proved and is q great remover OF
film from the readers eyes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
BEAUTY AND TIE BEAST,
CAPITALISM

There have been few Sugges-
tons usually very timid ones, to
be sure) that our column touch on
the subject Of beauty treatments"
Comrade S. R. B., for example, in
listing subjects she thought should
be touched upon in our column,
said: Women in the home want
suggestions as to how to make their
homes more comfortable and liv-
able; care of the body, yes, even
beauty culttue.-not the beauty cul-
ture Of the bourgeoisie, as exempi-
fed by tweezed eyebrows, and red
lips and nails-but the clear COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
BY a Farmer Correspondent

KENT CITY, Mich-Just got
through reading an article of a
sharecropper in Dadeville, Ala, in
the Daily Worker of March 90.
I spent more than year in dear
old Dixie and could write pam
phlet on the hardships of the Ne
groes down there.
This is considered a fertile farm
ing country where 1 live. The
ground under the apple trees is still
covered with apples. The fruit
isn't as good as it was in better
times, because the farmers can't af-
ford to buy spraying material,
which is extremely costly, being
controlled by a few manufacturers.
In spite of this being a rich farm
ing country the farmers are getting
poorer than church mice.
The c. w. A. project has been a
joke and the talk of the town and
the countryside. They went to
work building a disposal plant and
laying a sewer with picks, shovels
sledges and such primitive tools
discarding all knowledge and in
ventions, in order that the half
starved people of this locality
might earn $3.50 a week to exist on
Many of the workers on the G. w
A. here were farmers. Several of the
bosses were well-to-do farmers, In
fact all the higher paid jobs like tile
laying, ETC., were done by those in
good circumstances.
Some drove in as far as so miles
to get in five hours work. At one
time in February they came three
days in succession, these Sc miles
only to be told to come tomorrow
its too cold to work today"
We experienced the same kind
of treatment when we went for oul
pay-come tomorrow. Always
making unnecessary trims To get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12

many men were threatened with the
loss of their jobs unless their dues
wre paid up.
TO- Men have been taken off the
jobs without trial of any kind.
I hope that Socialist Party men,
bers will read this. 1t is another
example of the treachery of their
leaders. I have been informed that
Mr.. Metz is or was one of the city
leaders of the Socialist Party. Mr..
Metz has been thrown out of other
unions, and if we are to judge by
the anger of the workers, he will
soon be an ex-official of Local 102
of the I. l.. G. w. U.
MEMBER OF LOCAL 102,
I. l.. G. w. U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
N.R.A. TO COST $500 HOLLY
WOOD EXTRAS THEIR JOBS

HOLLYWOOD, FP)+Some 49,
500 extras will lose the chance of
making a living in Hollywood when
plans of the producers are finally
approved by the Motion Picture
Code Authority.
The Code Committee for Extras,
an N.R.A. set-up, has decided that
the list of 1900 extras shall be re-
duced to approximately 1900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Plan May Day
Demonstration
At Grants Pass
(By a Farmer Correspondent

Iby FARMER CONSEQUENTLY
GRANTS PASS, Ore.-We have
now a United Farmers League of
100 members, and an Unemployed
Council of $50 members. We had
two demonstrations, and made the
Relief come through with more re-
lief.
Now we are going to stage a May
Day demonstration in this Ku Klux
Klan town.
We also have unit here of IS
members, who are trying to learn
to furnish leadership to the above
organization. Yours for the over
throw of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Letters from
Our Readers
SPREAD THE DAILY WORKER

Claremore, Okla.
Your paper is the finest thing 7
ever saw. it makes me feel happy
to know that there is such a paper
in America 1t is waking the people
up, believe mel I have been a
Socialist for many years and have
read many Socialist papers, but
there is no such paper as the Daily
Worker.
The rank and file of the Socialist
Party will join the united front with
the Communist Party as soon as
they read the Daily Worker and
find out the truth.
The leadership Of the Socialist
Party proves yellow when the show
down comes.
Yours for a Soviet America
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12

BY educating the workers party,
Marxism educates the vanguard
of the proletariat, thus fitting 1t
to seize power and to lead the
whole people towards socialism,
to carry on and to organize the
new order, to become the teacher,
the guide, the leader of all who
labor and are expIoited-their
teacher, guide and leader in the
work of organizing their social
life without the bourgeoisie and
against the bourgeoisie.-Lenin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
ONE HOUR FOR NOTHING
Niota, Tenn.

Dear Comrades:
Here are some clippings all out
Of the Knoxville Sunday Journal.
I think some of them will be OF
some interest to you. Also the Bap-
fist Church is paying the school
buses to bring people to church and
take them home.
The hosiery mill in Niota is run
ming more than five days regard
less of the code. One of the hands
in the mill told me that the work
ers have to work one hour each
day without any pay for it.
ConTadely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-12
Can You Make EN-
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A total of 171z hours for five
days, and at the rate Of 421h cents
per hour, this should give $7.4S. In
stead he got only $40, and after
he argued with the bosses and
time checkers he was given 1925.
He was robbed of $118 and the
foremans and time checkers word
was final.
The Famous Swift & Co. Lard
Recently some dirty, spoiled lard,