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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Frost Damage and Trusts
Hit Upstate NY. Farmers
Fruit Crops Hurt by Weather, and Crops of
Cabbage Can't Find Market

and that is bringing the price on
the market here also down. We
are only in the start of the cabbage
season and now already we are see
ing cabbage cuttable standing in
the fields, where the farmer can
not find a market bringing him a
decent price.
AS to the Farm Loan situation:
There are weekly about five farm
ers who get loan for this district
from the Farm Federal Loan Ad-
ministration. AS far as my infor-
nation goes, nearly two-thirds have
to be refused by lack of enough
credit.
Dairy farmers have trouble with
short grass. Feed is too high in
price to use. Chicken feed went in
the last month up SIS a ton, eggs
remaining nearly in the same low
price.
Of the one-cent rise in the milk
price, Notwithstanding it has the
name that the farmer had to have
a higher price on account of the
dry weather, he gets only one third
of cent. The rest is going to the
big milk corporations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Must Raise Voices Louder,
Says SharecrOpper Girl
Relief Stopped to DriUe the People to Cotton
Patches for 80 Cents Day

shoes.
It is awfully hard on me through
the wet spell, and we are willing
to do anything to break up this
rotten government. I am putting
forth every effort I can to develop
the union here. to be able to put
up demand for as much as we
need, and stand and fight to win
these demands.
We are tired of seeing our chill
dren go naked and hungry, crying
for bread. We must get more &C
tive on these demands. We must
raise our voices louder against this.
Not only myself am suffering, but
millions of mothers and children
are suffering.
The boss doesn't want to do any
thing but lynch and keep us under
the yoke of slavery. This doesn't
break up the movement. No, I am
a comrade, and going to fight till
I die. No law, no threat, can stop
me.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Taxes, Seed Prices
Rise, But Price of
Milk Drops in N. H.

BY a Young Farmer Correspondent
EAST UNITY, N. H-The condi-
tons Of the farmers here in the
East are getting so bad that I feel
that it is time to write an article
into our paper, the Daily Worker.
The farmers have held several
meetings here since the Farmers
Convention held in Chicago last
year. Two delegates were sent to
this convention from this locality,
and we've been able to organize a
few farmers with the help of these
delegates.
The farmers seem to be ready for
action; they want a milk strike, and
I hope we can have one. The price
of milk is going down, and grain
and seed is going up terrible. Two
years ago we we're able to buy seed
oats at SIS cents bushel. This
year we had to pay so cents. Tim
othy seed has gone up three cents
q pound in the last two years.
And, to speak of taxes, I don't
see how a farmer is able to pay
them. 1t is almost impossible to
find job around here, and if one
gets Job the pay is so small that
it is impossible to save anything.
Last year my folks were able to
pay the taxes, about S65. This year
we have less stock and the stock
is also less valuable than last year
but, to our surprise, our taxes this
year are 10 per cent higher than
last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Hit Seamen's Y. NJ. c. A.
Relief Racket

NEW YORK. - A charity relief"
racket which is being operated by
the Jane Street Seamen's Y. M. G.
A. was disclosed yesterday by a COM
mittee of masters and pilots of tug
boats from the Chelsea docks.
The racket was brought to light
in a telegram sent by the tugboat
masters to Harry Hopkins, U. S.
Relief Director in Washington.
which stated that the captains were
denied the right to visit Y. M. c. A.
to get crews for the boats unless
they contributed fee "for charity"
1t was pointed out by the com
mittee that the relief at the Jane
Street Y. M. c. A. was supposed to
be supplied by the government.
The masters and pilots want to
know why they are being dunned for
charity funds when the government
claims to be supplying the relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
"a Arrested Picketing
AT Carside Shoe Plant;
Protest to La Guardia

LONG ISLAND CITY. -Continu-
ing their reign of terror against
strikers, police attacked a picket
line of 40 workers at the Garside
Shoe factory here Monday evening
and arrested "a After spending a
night in Jail, all the pickets were
released at the Flushing Court yes
terday on motion made by Jo-
seph Tauber, attorney for the
United Shoe and Leather Workers
Union.
Strikers report that police came
to the scene of the picketing in an
swer to call sent in by notorious
scab agent for the shoe bosses
known as Watson.
The United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union sent kilograms to
both Mayor LaGuardia and Police
Commissioner Organ protesting
against the police terror used
against the Garside strikers, citing
the case of the "a workers who were
held overnight in jail. The tele-
grams also protested against the
use of police against the unem-
ployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Prevention of Mercury (Quicksilver)
Poisoning

Poisoning
d. B., Detroit, Mich.-Mercury
QUICKSILVER is metal which is
liquid at ordinary temperatures and
gives off small amounts of vapor
which are poisonous.
Mercury poisoning takes place by
breathing in the mercury vapor for
a certain period of time. The
poison can also be absorbed through
the skin, or by inadvertently swal-
lowing small amounts. Daily ex-
posture for two or three months to
an atmosphere containing as small
a quantity as 0.02 milligram of
mercury per cubic foot results in
chronic mercury poisoning.
The signs and symptoms of mer-
curry poisoning are: Loss of appe-
tite; anemia; excitability; inflam-
nation of the mouth and gums:
increased flow of saliva Saliva
tom; a metal taste in the mouth;
loosening of the teeth, trembling of
the muscles of the tongue, face,
arms and legs; fetid (bad) breath;
kidney disease; headache; dizzi-
ness; irritation of the skin; weak
ness; failing eyesight; swelling of
the glands of the neck; depression
and melancholia; persistent diar-
rhea.
Workers come in contact with the
use OF mercury in the following
trades and industries: The separa-
ton of gold and silver from their
respective ores. which is accom-
plished by the means of mercury
amalgams; the PREPARATION of ex-
ture of electric bulbs where mer-
curry pumps are used to create the
vacuum; the manufacture of scien-
tlflc instruments, such as thermom-
eters and barometers; the manufac-
ture of felt hats and fur dressing
in which nitrate of mercury is en-
ployed; the use of lead mercury
solder; the manufacture of dental
amalgamS the preparation of ex-
plosives, such as illuminate of mer-
curry; fire-gilding where an ANAL
gam of gold and silver is applied
to an object which is then heated
and the mercury driven off. A few
years ago, so cases of mercurial
poisoning were found in period
of three months in a section of New
York and New Jersey. Mercury
poisoning among matters who use
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Ry : Farmer CORRESPONDENT

ALBANY, N. WINTER frost
damage is much larger than any,
body expected. The peach crop for
the first three years will be nothing.
All the trees are frozen dead. This
is as far south as below Hudson
Valley.
Also prune trees and cherry trees
are damaged.
One-third of the apple trees are
also gone, and one-ha1f of the rest
of the trees are with dead branches.
The commercial crop of New York
state in the line of fruit will this
year amount to nothing.
Strawberries are mostly frozen.
The crop doesn't amount to one
tenth of what it had to be. Pan
sizes, which are raised here around
Albany by the thousands of bask-
cts, did not give a tenth Of what it
should.
Vegetables did have a reasonable
start. There was some trouble with
wind, storms and dry weather.
New Jersey white cabbage is sold
in the field for 81 for 100 heads,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21

women and girls can be attracted
to the American League Against
War and Fascism, for women are
going to play an important part in
the next war. Lastly, by organ.
izing girls and young women, the
Y. G. L. will find it easier to orr
ganize the male youth, too, for
youth can often best be first
reached by social contacts. Special
forms will have to be devised for
mass work, in the way of social
clubs, hiking clubs, cultural clubs,
and so forth. If the Y. G. L. con-
vention adds to it's Draft Resolu-
ton a section on special work
among girls and young women, and
actually puts this resolution into
practice, we may expect to see .
real growth of the Y. G. L.
There is one minor point we
should like to make. In Section !
of the Draft Resolution, paragraph
3 begins: THE S. p, the Y. P. s. L.
and A. F. of L. help pave ths
way for fascism." The formulation
seems to us weak and misleading,
for it does not discriminate between
the leadership of these social fas-
cist organizations and the honest
rank and file members. Unless we
do that. we give both the LEADER
ship and the rank and file OF these
organizations the chance to accuse
us of attacking the proletarians 10
them. We suggest change to;
The leadership Of the S. p, etc. =
In conclusion, We pledge our cons
slant and active support 10 the d
G. L. in it's effort to grow INTO &
powerful mass influence.
AorT-PROP,
UNIT 4os,
SECTION 2, =
DISTRICT 2, Y.CL [
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
By 2 Sharecronper Corresnondent


TALLAPOOSA, Ala.-My father
is a sharecropper and has a large
family to support. There are Is of
us in the family, and he has only
SO per month to support us out Of
that, and that means no clothes at
all. I have only one dress to my
back.
This is what I do when meet
my group. I put on my fathers
overalls and wash and dry my
dress. I am a comrade, and 1 do
this to prove that nothing is going
to stop me from working in behalf
Of the movement, even if I have to
go in overalls.
We are getting relief, bat the
boss at Camp Hill had it stopped.
That was to drive the poor people
to the cotton patches from sun to
sun for 80 cents a day. These are
our living conditions at the pres
ent.. I haven't shoe to my name.
I just wear some old pieces Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
PARTY LIFE
Young Communists Must
StriVe to Win Girl Workers
Y c. l.. Draft Resolution Places insufficient
Emphasis Activity among Working Girls

Unit 4Os, Section Z, District 2,
having discussed the Draft Resolu-
ton of the National Executive Com
mtttee Of the Y. G. L., endorses the
general line Of the Resolution, but
wishes to present the following
criticism.
Although there are one of two
brief references to girls, we find
that there is little attention paid
to the special problems, political
and organizational, that confront
girls and young women. This neg
lect is serious. And Just as the
Party is trying to overcome its I'M
derestimation of the woman oues-
ton, we think the Y. G. L. should
exert all its efforts to organize the
female youth. With the introduce
ton of machinery that made it
possible to use the comparatively
weaker female labor just as effec-
lively as men were used before.
came a great increase in the guam
tity Of women employed in indus
try. The bosses, of course. used
these women to split the working
class, giving them jobs formerly
held by men. and paying them
much less for their work. This sit
uation has come to the point where
the capitalist class, as it moves
closer and closer to faScism. is try
ing in many cases to set the male
proletariat against the female toll
ers by arguing that women should
go back to the home and let the
men take their jobs. That is Hit
ler's famous policy Of Women, Go
Back to the Kitchen, Church and
Children.
Issues
1t Is necessary, therefore, to or
ganize girls and young women, who
form the major portion of the fe-
male workers, for struggle for con-
crete demands. They should be led
in struggle for equal pay for equal
work, for better conditions on the
job with reference to sickness,
etc0, higher pay, and so on. Fur
thermore, attention should also be
paid to the young domestic workers,
particularly to young Negro women,
and the Y. G. L. should help build
the Domestic Workers Union. Aid
must also be given to the Office
Workers Union, which is so effec-
lively organizing the innumerable
young women in offices. In the case
of mass organizations, young
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Seamen Win Relief Fight

CLEVELAND, June 20.-Due to a
militant six weeks fight led by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
the Great Lakes seamen here have
forced the local relief authorities to
house and feed the unemployed sea-
men in hotel.
When the M. w. I. U. organizer
arrived here the jobless seamen were
being sent to the municipal wood
yard. where they we're herded like
cattle and compelled to do forced
labor for their meals.
After fight with the relief off,
Gals which lasted about a week, the
seamen were taken out of the wood
yard and were taken care of in
various hotels and restaurants.
While the fight was in progress
Delegate Sullivan of the Interna-
tional Seamen's Union did all in
his power to disrupt the movement.
The Seamen of Cleveland are all
Communists" he said, Don't give
any relief"
Although the men bettered their
conditions by getting out of the
wood yard, they were determined to
continue the fight for a central
hotel
On Friday June Is, a committee
visited the relief officials and de-
manded that definite date be set
for the Seamen to move into the
Central Hotel. which was the one
selected by the men. After a hot
discussion the officials stated that
the men would be given the hotel
not later than June %.
The M. w. l. U. is also making
great progress aboard the ske
ships.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
By a Soviet Farmer Correspondent

BY a Soviet Farmer Correspondent
MOSCOW, U. s. S. R.-Dear com
rades. want to inform you about
our life and work in the collective
farm. We work for ourselves and
not for rich farmers as before the
revolution. That's why we like our
life very much.
We did not have a very good crop
this year, but the government
helped Us and we had plenty of
bread this winter. I, for instance.
received for my 300 working DAYS
quite enough bread, vegetables, and
ia roubles. We have our own milk.
I received from our milking farm
a young calf, which grew and now
gives three gallons milk a day. We
have our own potatoes. We do not
feel lack Of food, as my little girl
goes to school, where she gets warm
dinners.
For my excellent work in the COL
lective farm I got a premium-3O
roUbles. My daughter received for
her good study pair of new shoes.
We have not only good food, but
can buy clothing.
The winter was a good one and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Florida SharecrOpper
Cheated by Landlord
By SharecrOpper Correspondent

By SharecrOpper Correspondent
FIT. LAUDERDALE, Fla was
hired by landlord. In the first
agreement he said, II will pay
SO per week straight and time,
If you will grow me a good farm,
and I will treat you right
In a few days I received a
letter stating, Frank. I can't pay
YOU Sl2 week, but I will give
you $40 week pay, and will
give you 10 per cent on every
crate We sell In two weeks, he
said, Frank, I will have to pay
you for just what time you work
that is about S. per week.
Then I grew a very fine crop
and this is the way I received
my pay. This is the letter he
wrote me:
Il am sorry you misunderstood
me. I said if I made lots of
money I would pay you"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
80 Doctor
.,LAG1inO1
nhG,(AeA:
By PAUL LuTTrNoER, MD.

the mercury salts for preparing felt
is known In the trade as the
shakes"
What Workers Can Do to Prevent
Mercury Poisoning
Wash your hands and face be.
fore eating; do not eat, drink.
smoke or chew in the workroom;
keep street and factory clothing
separate; talss a shower at the end
of the days work; take complete
physical examination before begin.
ming your work with quicksilver,
and have yourself re-examined al
least once year. Workers who
have a chronic disease, especially of
the kidneys, should not work with
mercury.
Ito Be Continued =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
FRATERNIZE WITH NATIONAL
GUARDSMEN
New York City.

Dear Comrades:
A group of workers were giving
out leaflets to National Guardsmen
before the armory at 1863 st. and
Broadway, when a group of guards
men suddenly started punching the
young workers shouting Reds"
They severely beat up three work
ers, S. c.. c. r., and I. D.
This proves how urgent and neces-
sary it is to approach these young
workers who have Joined the
National Guard.
In the National Guard they are
doped up with 100 per cent partiot-
ism and military drill. 1t is they
who are sent against strikers and
their own class brothers. 1t is they
who will form the storm troops of
fascism, unless We can educate them
to their class interests.
With Toledo and Minneapolis be-
fore our eyes, work should be re-
doubled to win over these deluded
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21

proved in small ways since 1915, but
Comrade Chase had the right idea
let the women sit down and eat
not be forced to keep jumping up
to serve the men; let their voices
and opinions be heard, let them go
to meetings and follow the course
OF events with their own eyes, thus
presaging and symbolizing their
eventual complete emancipation
from house-drudgery.
further comment on Bebers
book, etc, tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
WOrkedFOur Hours
In Bakery and
Received a Dime
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Here is an in
stance Of exploitation by the boss
class that happened to me Sat-
urday, June 10Th While I was
sitting in CorlearS Park, a man
from Pechter Baking Co., 468
Cherry st. asked me to work for
this bakery.
Happy to accept a job, I worked
conscientiously from 7:30 a. m.
till 11:20 a. m. Having finished
my job, he offered me loaf of
bread which I refused. Then he
put a dime on the table. But I
walked out disgustedly, calling him
a bloodsucker of the laboring man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
VETERAN PENSION BURNING
ISSUE
Endicot, N. Y.

Dear Sir:
President Roosevelt, speech last
week was all bluff. If he is so in
terested in the welfare of the work
ing class in this country, why then
has he deprived War Veterans of
their pension and took away dis
ability pension from the sick and
disable poor war veterans, even
when Congress tried to give it back
little to the veterans? He vetoed
that bill. He could have left the
disability pension to the veterans
and allowed some to the unem-
ployed, disabled and the old, but he
likes to make noise for political
purposes to strength his party.
Hoping you will bring to the pub
liz through your paper this burn
ing veterans question.
Good luck to you,
COMRADE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
C.C.C. FOOD GRAFT INDICATED
By a Worker Correspondent

HAINES FALLS, N. Y.-There is
G. c. c. camp established near
this place. spoke to some of the
boys, and they told me of the rot
ten treatment they get in their
camp, Their food is of the worst.
The government allows 80 per
cent per day per person for food
$50 for the 200 boys in the camp;
judging from what they get, some
one is pocketing a nice piece of
graft. In general they are treated
from the standpoint of a militar-
lied charity organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
200 Strike in Shirt Mill

CINCINNATI, June 2o.-About
200 employees of the Rauth Shirt
Manufacturing Co. of Columbu1
members of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union. walked out
on strike for ten demands, the most
important of which are Is per
cent increase in wages, union recog-
milton and better working condi-
tiOnS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
PERSIAN OIL COMPLAINTS

GENEVA, June 15.-Persia COM
planned today for the second time
of English theft of oil in the Bah
rein Islands lin the Persian Gulf
when it was learned that Standard
Oil had been granted an oil con-
cession there.
The first complaint was lodged
with the League Of Nations in 1928,
when 8 British syndicate was given
a concession,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
NOTE:

We publish letters from farm
ers, agricultural workers, forestry
and lumber workers, and can
merry workers every Thursday.
These workers are urged to send
us letters about their conditions
of work, and their struggles to
organize. Please get these let
tiers, to us by Monday of each
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
CORRECTION

In a letter signed by M. r. S.
which appeared in this column on
June 18th under the caption "An-
gelo Herdon Defense Stamps" it
was stated that protest post cards
were being sent by workers club
to the Alabama Supreme Court.
protesting the Imprisonment of
Herndon.
The point Of correction is as fol-
lows: Angelo Herndon is not i'm
prisoned in Alabama, but in At
lanta, Ga. Letters and post cards
of protest should be addressed to
the President of the United States.
also to the Governor of Georgia.
demanding the release of Herndon
and protesting against the attempt
to send him to the chain gang.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Daily Yorker Agent
Jailed in Columbia

By Worker Correspondent
COLUMBIA, S. Gust a few
lines to let you know that the
Daily Worker agent was arrested
Tuesday. They began to beat
him across his head and carry
him to Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Letters from Our Readers

leaving them to the Sun or the
World Telegram School Pages, and
it would organize these teachers
and educational workers for mill
tant struggle.
The toiling population is vastly
interested in education. AS has been
shown even in the novels of Com
rades Myra Page and Grace Lump
kin, one of the incentives the
southern hill-dwellers had to go to
milltowns was the desire to pro-
vide their children with schooling.
Disappointment on this score often
hurt more than low wages. Let us
not neglect this field of interest.
A regular school column would in
crease our papers effectiveness as
collective organizer.
Finally, if we got even small
section of the thousands of school
teachers to read our paper every
day, can you imagine the effect
that would have on their teaching.
Men like Superintendent Campbell
would then really have something
to worry about. incidentally, why
wasn't his threat against radical
teachers and students reported, and
even editorially commented upon,
In the Daily Worker?) A. H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1917 is available in sizes
IA, 16, 10, 20, 80, "a, 36, 3S and 40.
Size is takes 32s yards So inch
fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew
ing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21

Send FIFTEEN CENTS u5c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred)
for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write
plainly name, address and STYLE
number. BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department. 243 West 18th
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
FAsCIsTs WOUNDED

BRUSSELS, June 1.-two Flem-
ish Fascists, 'Dinasos," were
wounded in battle with anti
fascists last night at Molanbeek.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Address Wanted

Paul Semi, BrOnx-The June issue
has been mailed to you and re-
turned to us marked Removed
Please send us your correct address
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
EDITORIAL NOTE

The Daily Worker invites con-
tributions dealing with the prob
lens of the schools, etc. However,
we are not in position to have
a regular column on these matters.