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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Relief Heads Stab
At Ames Strike
BY a Worker Correspondent

SELMA, Ala-The conditions at
the Ames Bag Mill are getting worse
and worse.
The five girls are still out of work
that were in the strike at this mill.
Another girl and got job out in
the city and Ames had us fired off
the job. He said that we will not
work in any place in Dallas County
as long as he lives, and he will see
to it that the relief doesn't help us.
One of the girls went to the re-
lief to see whether he had stopped
them from helping her. The relief
woman told her that she ought to
be beaten for not going back to the
Ames Bag Mill, She also said that
the relief wasn't going to help her
or her mother or brother This girls
mother is unable to do any kind Of
work
One of the girls out of this five
has ten in the family and she is
down with T. B. The relief only
gave her eight cans of beef, ten
pounds Of white potatoes, two
pounds of butter, that was all.
Fer her three children they gave
her one sweater and two pairs Of
overalls for the two boys.
They work her sister in the quilt
ing department of the relief, with
out any fire no matter how cold it
is. They speak to her as if they
were speaking to dog. She only
gets $495 a week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Hub ClOakmakers
Under Attack

BY Needle Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass-Since the Inter
national Ladies Garment Workers
Union officials of Boston did not ask
for the Improvement of the condi-
tions of the workers, the inanufac-
turers did ask the leaders for a
Worsening of conditions.
It is we'll known fact that due
to the rotten class collaboration
policies Of the Dubinskys and Kra-
mers, the union shops have open
shop conditions, the N. R. A. mimi
mum has become the maximum,
and the speed-up on the little work
there has increased.
Here are some remarks Of a cloak
maker; Last year we worked about
FIVE months. Our scale is $4950.
of hand 1t looks like a lot Of money
doesn't it? Well figure out the fol-
lowing: The majority are getting
$3.50. Average it up for a year and
it amounts to about $50 month.
There you have your N. R. A. with
its high scale of wages" These are
the well paid workers in the trade.
When you get down to some of the
other crafts, they don't even average
that.
The agreement expires Feb. Is.
The union officials are stalling. The
employers are pressing to make con-
ditions even worse, to introduce the
open shop They are demanding a
10 per cent cut, no legal holidays
reorganization (Which means piece
work. and terrific speed-up They
want apprentices. They also want
to change the date Of the expira
ton of the agreement to Jan. /
when there is a slack in the indus
try. Only after the manufacturer:
made known their demands did the
union present the following de-
mands: Four legal holidays, II
per cent increase, week work, ano
no apprentices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
By a Worker Correspnodent

TARRANT, ALA strike OF re-
lief workers against working in
ditch full Of water and wearing
boots worn by other people was
won last Tuesday and all the men
were assigned to another project.
Israel, O foreman, claimed the
white workers were not doing
enough work where they were so it
was arranged to take the Negro
workers cut of the ditch and send
the white workers down there.
When the white workers got to the
ditch they refused to go to work.
The men Immediately elected
committee to see Joiner, the top
foreman. On the way to see Joiner
the committee stopped to tell other
workers on the other projects about
it and the Negroes promised 100
per cent support if the white work.
ers called on them.
The committee first met Sholtz,
superintendent, who acted angry
at first but was cooled down by the
men. Sholtz took the committee TO
see Joiner and he wanted to argue
every point and refuse to give in to
anything. This slave-driver, Joiner
claims that he is a union man and
yet refuses to recognize the prin-
ciples of trade unionism. The men
let Joiner know that he was nothing
but a DP.W. scab as far as they
were concerned and they would
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

By a Shoe Worker Correspondent
HAVERHILL. Mass Because the
manufacturers scheme for a twelve
and a half per cent wage cut is
being met with opposition by the
shoe workers, the local City Coun-
Gil tried to put one over on the
workers. The City Council passed
the following ordinance:
That it shall be the duty Of
police officers to move persons who
shall stand, loiter, remain, walk
about or Congregate in any street
or way or on any premise AUDITING
thereon, and in the event such order
is not obeyed forthwith the oflcers
shall arrest such offenders.
AS soon as this ordinance APP
peared in the press. Brother Porro
and other agents Of the United Shoe
and Leather Workers Union, organ
lied themselves with the District
Council to protest against this "fss-
cist injunction against the workers, :"
as Brother Porro called it.
Agent Tom Collins arranged for
a special meeting with the City
Council to take uo this whole ques-
ton. At this meeting Mayor Dali
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
By 4 WORKER Correspondent

- NWAH 1IAAN1 tfIAaNAN
NEW ORLEANS, La have just
returned from a visit in the neigh
borhood Of the Lane Cotton Mill.
The mill is now running on two
shifts, or rather on one and a half.
as the second shift does not get In
full week.
The first shift usually gets 80
hours week, while the second
shift only gets from % to "a hours.
The rate Of pay is only 80 cents
per hour, 50 the hands ON the
second shift make from $3.50 to
$72O a week. While the cost Of
living rises steadily the pay of the
workers is falling.
The management of the mill is
slowly but steadily reducing the
force. Although the reduction is
slow, if it continues until June /,
there will not be enough people in
the mill to make a noise.
This entire state is going from
bad to worse. In New orleans for
example, half the population are
members Of the "old Regular"
Walnnsley faction, while there are
about half that are members Of
Huey Longs share Your wealth
Society,"" Every time that either
Long or Walmsley moves there are
several hundred people that lose
their jobs.
There is another small group
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Slave-Driving Bosses
Vacation in Florida
BY a worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. - The Pecht e r
Brothers of the Pechter Baking
Company are now spending their
winter in Florida. They are stop
ping in the swsnkiest hotels. IN
the summer they go to Europe. Why
not?
Business is good for the Pechter
Brothers, thanks to the N. r. A. 1t
meant a seven-dollar cut for all
their drivers. It meant getting up
three in the morning and knocking
Of at six. 1t means that these driv-
ers work about eighty-four hours a
week for about twenty-five dollars
so that the Pechter Brothers may
spend their winter in Florida and
their summers in Europe.
None of the drivers have ever -ot-
ten a days vacation and some of
them have worked there for years.
Not one Of them can afford to send
his family on a vacation.
On yes, they have a union. but il
hasn't done anything to better their
conditions. Pechter Brothers pays
the dues for the men. Brown and
Shaw Of Transfers Union Local 1876
are the organizers but they don't
know from nuthin.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Exposure Praised

BY a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. is the first
time I have ever written to the
Daily Worker. I probably wouldn't
have written this letter if I hadn't
seen the letter from a shoe worker
in I. Miller in last Wednesdays
Daily Worker.
This letter hit right where it
hurts most. If there is one thing
that burns me up in this lousy
shop, it is being forced to pay for
damaged shoes. All day long, day
in and day out it is rush-rush-
rush. You have to rush in order to
make the few dollars you do. How
can you help making a few mis-
takes when you are working under
such damnable speed-up?
I. Miller certainly has us where
he wants us right now, and he is
putting the screws on us. But it
seems to me that the only reason
they can get away with it is be-
cause we are not well organized as
yet. We workers do not realize our
own strength.
Look what happened when the
Paterson dyers struck. Under solid,
we'll organized rank and file lead
ership they won. The one day strike
of the teamsters against the union
smashing injunction made them sit
up and take notice. That is what
we need to win, a union-a strong,
we'll organized rank and file union.
We have the Boot and Shoe
Union. 1t is lousy now because Of
its leaders. 1t is up to us TO make
it better by running 1t ourselves for
ourselves Also I can say that I
intend to look more thoroughly
into the program Of the Commu-
mist Party. Up till now l allowed
myself to the bulldozed by what the
papers and the bosses said. But
after seeing some of them and see
ing that they were workers like
myself, who we're fighting for the
interests Of the workers, I have
seen that the Communists are for
US, and SO I am for them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
A SCHOOL HOLIDAY IN THE SOVIET UNION

Ninety-two competed in the five
kilometer skeeing race in Sckolniki
Park. The lula team won, then
Petrozavodsk, where are a lot of
American Firms. Third was Arch
angel However, Archangel won the
three-day contest as a whole, with
Moscow second, Smolensk third.
Physical sports are not the only
things that interest Soviet school
children during their two weeks
midwinter vacation. At Kiev, 1000
children are participating in a con-
test in painting, sculpture and
graphic art. In Moscow a new
House Of Artistic Upbringing' has
just been opened, with dramatic,
art and sculpture, and literary cir
Giles, and children's symphonic or
chestra.
But at these ages, athletics is the
main thing, and in countless cities
and villages, local matches are 60
ing on. watched as eagerly as the
Moscow children and their adult
friends and parents watch the ALL
Union contests
Ippolitov, Honored Master of
Sport, spoke to the contestants and
his story indicates the difference be-
tween the attitudes OF a capitalist
society to athletics for workers
children and the attitude of a So
Wet society. He told how, when he
was child, in thu Russia before
the Revolution, he used to sneak
over the fence into a skating rink,
and quite frequently be chased out
ANONYMOUSLY on discovery. He did
most of his skating on one skate in
the crlsted snow of the streets. On
days Of real competitions, he stood
outside the fence, with his face
glued to a crack, and cried because
he could hardly distinguish the out
lines Of the competitors, heroes of
his childhood dreams. Impolitov is
now a teacher in the school OF
skating at the Young Pioneers
Stadium. The nsw generation oil
workers children does not have tt
sneak over the fence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
S6-S7 A WEEK IN MILL

known as the Square Deal Associ-
alton, which BY the tone Of the
local press, seems to be backed by
Standard Oil, that Is almost in
open warfare with the state ad-
mlnlstfation.
The state capital Is under the
protection Of the National Guards.
We can't decide yet who is going
to get it, the citizens Of the state
or His Royal Highness Huev. Huey
is trying to get the Negro popula-
ton TO register as voters and to
vote for him because he is going
to run for president Of the United
States in the next election.
He thinks Negro workers have
forgotten that statement that he
made at the state Capitol last Au-
gust when a delegation from New
Orleans went to ask him to do
something about the $4,000 people
that had been cut of the Federal
relief rolls. He said that there
had never been a Niger in the
State Capitol ana that there never
would"
There was also delegation that
went to the Roosevelt Hotel to try
to persuade Huey the Great to use
his influence in behalf of the aged
and crippled in the state. This
group Of people was also denied the
opportunity of seeing Senator Long
because there was amongst them
few "Niggers" (Hueys words.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Company Union
Head Defed
By a Worker Correspondent

BY q worker Correspondent
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Mrs. Bill
Bsllinger was kicked out of the
Women's Club at the Avondale Mill
last Thursday by Old Lady Malone,
the woniehs organizer for the COM
pany Union" Bill Ballinger was
fired few weeks ago for union ac-
tivity, and now they are trying to
get his wife out Of the mill because
she is strong for the union.
Mrs. Ballinger was going to beat
up Old Lady Malone but some of
the stools protected the scab organ
izer 1t got so hot that the police
were called. The police advised Mrs.
Ballinger to quit the club because it
was no good. Mrs. Ballinger agreed
that the club was no good but she
wouldn't let Old Lady Malone kick
her out Mrs. Ballinger said she
would beat up Malone the first
chance she got SO now Malone has
bodyguard of scabs.
Carl Mangum, the superintendent,
said he wasn't going to have Old
Lady Malone run over like that, and
threatened to call Mrs. Ballinger to
the office, most likely to fire her.
However, a Communist leaflet on
another issue aroused so much SEN
timent among the mill hands that
Mangum didn't dare call her in the
Office, and so far he has not both
cred Mrs. Ballinger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Alabama Relief Workers Win Strike
AS Negro and White Act Jointly

strike to nave him fired If he didn't
watch his step.
The men didn't get any satisfac-
ton then so they called a mass
meeting OF men from the Jobs.
About one hundred attended go
Negro and so white workers. and
voted unanimously for a citywide
strike If the demand was not won
the next morning.
The next morning Joiner sent
word that he wanted to see Dave
Smith, the leader of the strike, at
the City Hall. The rumor spread
that Joiner would have Smith ar
rested as an agitator. The workers
elected another committee to see
Joiner and all the men pledged that
II Smith was put in jail they would
get him out damn quick.
When the Committee got to the
City Hall they met Abbott and
Sheltz, two D.P.W. officials, as we'll
as Joiner They seemed very anx-
ious for a settlement and Sholts
let the cat out of the bag. The
Relief workers in Kimberly had
struck and won $3.50 a week wage.
They didn't want anything like that
to develop in Tsrrant.
The Relief Workers League has
many new members as a result Of
the strike and the fact that Dave
Smith, the president Of the League,
was the strike leader. The men are
planning further action for other
demands in the near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Minister Uses Misery
As Basis for Profits

CHICAGO, Ill.,, Feb. 12.-How a
home for unmarried mothers was
used as front for the most shame
less exploitation of human misery,
is being brought to the light in the
exposure of the conditions at the
Beulah maternity home here.
Warrants are out for the arrest
of Daddy" Edward L. Brook, Con-
gregational minister who operated
the home.
Babies, it is charged, were sold
for adoption, regardless of the
mothers wishes in the matter.
That great numbers of the babies
died and were buried Illegally is
another charge. Many of the bod
les brought for free burial were de-
composed, and on that ground were
refused by medical authorities who
use unclaimed cadavers in their
work.
Brook deposited thousands of dol
lars to his own bank account from
the profits of this miserable ex-
ploitatien.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
BY vERN SMITH

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.-The flood
lights went on, showing a couple of
acres of glittering, smooth ice. The
Red Army Band struck up a march.
Hundreds of kids shouted from the
grandstand Of the Pioneers own
Stadium in Moscow. A graceful f1g-
ure shot like an arrow out to the
center of the ice, raised a mega
phone, shouted, and a procession
began. In columns eight wide, 400
school children skated out, halted,
faced the grandstand. With the pc
culiar distance eating shuttle of ex-
perienced skliers, other columns
moved along the snow covered sides
Of the fields.
These were the champion winter
sports teams of the schools of %
cities, scattered all over the Soviet
Union. They had been given free
transportation and keep by the SUI
preme Council Of Physical Culture,
a branch of the government, to take
part in a match for Union
championships. l Yves seeing the
last Of three days Of it.
Behind me, in the audience, a
little girl, perhaps ten years old
finished her argument With her
mother and dashed down to get her
place in the ranks. The argument
went like this:
Mama, Mama, why didn't you
bring my Pioneer tie?"
Where would you wear it, over
your sweater?"
I'D wear it somewhere"
The % teams stand rank on rank,
each dressed in the athletics color
Of its city. I can see Moscow's red,
bsfltting the capital CT the reYolu-
tionary proletariat OF the world.
There is Leningrads blue, like the
waters of the Eeva, There is the
white of Kharkov. like the snow
covered steppes of the Ukraine. And
there are all the colors Of the rain
bow and several besides, l don't
knew VIVA ell of taem st.nd TO-.
On the banners, though | sec
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instructors, from Moscow give an
exhibition, to set a high mark for
the youthful spoftsfnen. They
sWoop and slide, flashing skates and
swinging arms: the girl suddenly
hooks both heels around the neck
Of the man don't ask me how it is
done) and, standing erect, he spins
round and round like top swinging
the girl in great circles-then, as
suddenly, she is on her feet again
and skating in curves like those of
a swallow in flight.
And SO, on and on, into the night
it goes, on the glittering ice, re-
f1ecting the f1oodlights, the Army
band playing like mad, the spec
tators, old and young, shouting en-
couragement. The affair finally
ended with great masked and
costumed carnival on skates.
The temperature was about zero.
but the audience of workers and
workers children, in padded coats,
and fur caps and felt boots sat on
snow-covered wooden steps and
Watched-as for the contestants,
they we're probably too busy to feel
cold. Anyway, the Russian youth"
that Levine feels so sorry about is
pretty sturdy.
High Marks Set
They made pretty good records
during the contest. A boy named
Gorinzev was first out of a field OF
SIS in the 100 meter skating, with a
time of 1913 seconds. The ALL Union
record for adults is a 1914. A girl
named Chistakova, from Moscow,
made the 100 meters in Is seconds
fiat. The ALI Union record for adult
women is 12.4 When these young
sters grow up, those records will
fall. 1t must be remembered that
outside of the physical culture d.
rectors, there are no professionals,
and no wealthy amateurs who do
nothing but take part in sports. The
contestants are workers, or workers
children, with whom sport is a side
line, something that vcu do when
your resul9r work or studies are
through for the day,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Passaic Chambers
Fascist Appeal
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
PASSATC, N. L. The Passaic
Chamber of Commerce has issued
vicious anti-union, strikebreaking
circular. In big bold face type the
heading reads, More than 5000
NEW JOBS, 43 NEW COMPANIES
Our Improved Labor Record
Brought Them Here
The circular goes on to say:
mot so many years ago, PASSAGES
labor reputation was bad. Result
industries moved out and workers
lost their Jobs.
To-day PASSAGES labor reputation
is better. That's why we have been
able to bring more than 40 new
companies here during the last
year-companies in which 5000 of
your friends and neighbors have
found work.
Needless labor troubles can spoil
the fine reputation Passaic is
building up If that reputation is
hurt we can't bring more mills to
Passaic because manufacturers
won't move to city which has a
record for strikes and labor trouble. I"
Why is the Chamber of Com
merce Issuing such pamphlet? I
know the answer and so do other
workers. It is because the hand
kerchief workers and the wooden
workers are beginning to organize
The Chamber OF Commerce is try
ing to keep the workers away from
unions.
Where are those 43 concerns that
moved into Passaic? None Of my
friends or neighbors has found work
in these concerns. I believe there
are more people on relief now than
last year.
know of one slipper factory
that came to Passaic from Clifton,
a neighboring city, and not because
of labor trouble either. They
brought their help with them.
BY the way, the wooden and
handkerchief workers work only
three to four months year full
time. The rest of the year they
make only a few dollars week.
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names: right in front Of me is
Kazan, and holding it the Tartar
children, with Monaghan faces.
Don Levine Lies
Across the field is a picture of
Stain. think of the article by
Isac Don Levine that I have just
read, in the New York American,
Dec 16, in which he tries to prove
by authoritative information" that
Russian youth is On the move,
against the Soviet government"
1t is ridiculous Here is the youth,
before me, all around me, eager and
care free. A voice shouts over the
loud speaker. 1t is Khachinka, of
the Supreme Council of Physical
Culture, one of those agents of
Stain" that Levine talks about as
the special objects of hatred of the
Russian youth" The voice says:
You are building your bodies to
faithfully build socialism, to defend
your workers fatherland-Are you
ready?"
And rolling chorus answers from
the children, the watchword of the
Pioneers, but shouted by all, Pho
neers or not: Always ready!"
A rocket shoots up, brilliant
fireworks display begins, and the
last round of the three days contest
begins too.
Fancy Skating
Three little girls and boy, all in
blue coats and white tights, whiz
out and perform complicated figures
on the ice, beautifully balanced as
they spin on one foot, glide that
way in complicated maneuvers,
waltz together. They are from the
school OF the Dynamo sports club,
Leningrad.
Next a group of boys in blazing
scarlet, from the school Of the Mos
COW Ponce Stadium, do other and
more difficult maneuvers. The Len
ingrad youngsters were aged eight
to tw3,vo years. the Moscow group
is older, no to sixteen.
Two adults, matters OF sport, "
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Buffalo Cab Drivers
Call General Strike

BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. IA gen
eral strike Of taxi drivers against
lon working hours took effect here
today with taxi service virtually
crippled The strike was called yes
terdsy following a meeting Of Local
1873 of the Taxicab Chauffeurs
Union.
Cars of the Van Dyne and the
Fifty-Fifty Companies, two Of the
largest operators. are at A complete
standstill. Railroad stations, ho-
tells and all cab Offices are being
picketed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
AppealEndangered
In'Dynamite' Case
By a Textile Worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
DANVILLE, Va.-The necessary
funds for getting the evidence
copied in the Burlington dynamite"
case have not yet been raised. This
week we just learned that they
had raised the amount from $500 to
$40. This places the Workers De-
Tense Committee in an urgent sit
uation. The money must be in by
Feb. 90 We must get this evidence
or no appeal can go forward.
am a worker from Danville, Va,
but also member of the Workers
Defense Committee. I am urging
every worker who reads about this
case to do what he can TO publicize
1t, popularise it among the work
ers, and try to get a little money
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
% C.C.C. Bows Fired

SALAMANCA, N. Y. Feb. r.
Twenty c. C. c. boys, stationed
in Camp 81 at Allegheny State
Park near her, were discharged
after a protest against rotten food.
Camp Commander Lieutenant Low
man said that the boys were ring
leaders in the protest against
breakfast. Bernard Mooney, one of
those fired, said that the meal con-
sisted of two cold pancakes, oatmeal
and milk