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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
No Security
At Mays
By a worker CORRESPONDENT

BY a worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. Security of Jobs is
unknown at R, H. Macy & Co. 1t
is we'll known fact that an en-
ployee who has worked there for
four or five years will suddenly be
called to the employment office and
told that he is being laid off as his
work is not satisfactory.
This worker has given his very
best to Macy's, He has worked
hard and done good work He had
to do good work to be kept so many
years. This firing of old employees
is not a new practice. The purpose
is Of course to hire new help at
lower salaries.
An employee who starts working
for SIS a week, after working for
a number Of years, gets periodic
raises. After four years this worker
makes about $18 a week. Not only
does he get a higher salary but a
two week vacation as we'll. In order
to cut down on expenses, this old
employee is fired and the person
taken on in his place gets only SIS
week and no vacation.
All these years this worker has
been paying one per cent of his
salary every month to the Macy
Mutual Aid Association. This is
supposed to pay for hospital ex-
penses and measely compensation
when he is out sick. When fired,
the worker does not get one cent
of this money back.
Macy workers, department store
slaves all over, organize. Join the
Office Workers Union, 504 Sixth
Avenue, for security of jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Fight on Frame-Up
In South Spreads
By a Textile Worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
BURLINGTON, N. C.-Members
of the Workers Defense Committee
with John Anderson and J. P. Hog
gard, defendants in the Burlington
dynamite" case spoke at mass
meetings In Chapel Hill and Dur
ham on Feb, 20.
In Chapel Hill a good audience
of students and professors came
out to listen to how six innocent
men had been framed on a charge
of dynamiting the Holt Plaid mill
of Burlington. Sympathy for the
defendants is spreading into even
the circles Of the churches, schools,
colleges ana universities.
In Durham the defendants, after
leaving the Chapel Hill meeting,
spoke to meeting Of trade union
lists in the court house. Their re-
ception showed that workers are
more and more coming to see
through this frame-up scheme as a
part of the whole boss plan to break
unions, cut wages and lower living
conditions. The Durham workers
pledged their support in the fight
to free our brothers. They con-
tributed a small amount at the
meeting and pledged to carry the
fight into every local and working
class group in Durham.
The Workers Defense Committee
is hard at work in its efforts to
raise funds to fight the appeal. The
address Of the local branch is Box
427, Durham, N. c. Write or send
contributions to this address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

MOSCOW, USSR.-several COR
respondents, yours among them,
were drinking tea around a table
in the Kremlin, during an inter-
mission in the Seventh Congress of
Soviets of the U. S. S. r.
A slim young fellow came up and
sat down. He had a lean face and
large, expressive, almost luminous
brown eyes, close cropped hair, boots
and blue breeches and khaki coat
with the insignia of the air corps on
its collar, and on the chest the
small enameled flag shaped badge
Of a member of the Central Execu-
tive Committee Of the Volga Ger
man Autonomous Republic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
A NEW PROFESSOR

Arkady is in the aviation school,
and in two months will graduate
as a commander in the air corps.
The other brother is also in the
Red Army. The Chapaiev family
seems to take naturally to military
affairs, and until the World Revolu-
ticn removes from the Soviet Union
the constant menace of imperialist
attack on it, there is always a place
for military pepius. That's one type
% DELEGATE II th's congress.
The sister is a graduate OF one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
200 Laundry Workers
Locked Out

BY Laundry Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK-About 200 workers
from the Independent Laundry
Company of 361 Herzl St., Brook
lyn, which is owned by I. Boslow
and M. Golinsky, were locked out
without the payment of two to three
weeks wages, the total of which
amounts to about $4,000.
The bosses voluntarily gave the
place Ger to an assignee of credi-
tors, who are their relations. In SO
doing, they are trying to rob the
workers of their pay and break the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

relief and those that were in need
wren't getting any.
Councilman Ben Rosenberg of this
town used to be one of the Poor
Board workers. He got elected City
Councilman by telling the workers
that he had done everything pos
sible for them, Before he got in,
200 people were eating their meals
from the city garbage furnace be-
cause they could not get relief. Now
he has stopped them from eating
there. If you want to get some
garbage eats you have to help push
the garbage over there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

unions to which the workers be-
long, namely the Laundry Workers
International Union, Local 1876, A..
F. of L. and the International I'm
ion of ChauffeTs and Transfers,
Local $40, A. F. of L.
The workers inside and outside
agreed to work together, that is not
to Scab while one is striking This
was agreed upon unanimously by
the workers at a shop meeting. The
workers are going to fight this out
to the limit. Either we work TO-
gether as union shop, or the shop
vii never be run.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
By Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY Shoe Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass.-As the date for
elections in the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union is nearing
it becomes more and more clear
that the sentiment Of the shoe
workers is against the present Of
fieialdom continuing to lead the
organization.
Fred Biedenkapp, known devoted
and militant fighter, is the choice
of many locals who have nominated
him for the office of General Or
ganizer and is gaining much sup
port from the rank and file.
The present officialdom which is
discredited in the eyes of the shoe
workers for its inability and I'M
faithfulness to the interests of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Chauvinism Trial
In Grand Rapids
BY a worker Correspondent


GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-A trial
on race hatred was held here by
the Communist Party and Comrade
Mikis was found guilty of white
chauvinism by the great majority of
the workers that attended.
The charge arose out of an in
cident at a dance held for the
benefit of the Daily Worker at the
Ukranian Hall by the Polish, Rus
sian and Ukranian Clubs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

the collective farm. 81 told them, y
she said:
bad work is service to the class
enemy. Think how much labor
others have put into this soil; we
mustn't waste it."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
NOTE;

Every Wednesday we publish
letters from textile, shoe and
needle workers. We urge work
ers in these industries to write us
of their conditions and efforts to
organize. Please get these letters
to us by Saturday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
HI q NJ Z
l. ! F =
By
Ann BaTtea

VIXEN. in the future, after there
" has been a Soviet America for
many years, there will no doubt be
many students Of capitalist America,
And Just as the Soviet youngsters
find it hard to understand why
workers in capitalist countries do
not make a revolution post haste
to solve their needs. these students
will wonder at a truly fantastic age
which they will certainly name
insane. as well as blind and brutal.
But. of course, the existence Of a
Soviet America will prove to these
youngsters there were many bel, IS
in that fantastic age who could not
stand its insanity either.
I am moved to the foregoing az
ter looking over a batch Of news
paper clippings which column read
ers have sent me. Here they are!
WASHINGTON, D. c. FP).
I" Many of the southern APP
palachian mountaineer ersftswomen
earn less than one dollar 3 week,
and average under $25 a year. ac-
cording to a report of the o. s.
women's Bureau.
Atlantic City-New York Sun
college girls have had more OPP
portunities than ever to get jobs
since the depression, though the
Jobs themselves, Agnes Allen Harris,
dean Of women of the University
of Alabama, believes, are not so
good.
Since the depression, college girls
are in demand everywhere" Dean
Harris, president of the National
Association Of Deans Of Women,
said.
"College degrees are even de-
manded now in department stores
and to run elevators.
San Francisco - San Francisco
News. Knowing the gas heater
was leaky, Mrs. Marion Tobin, s19
3 Florida st.. preparing a bath for
her two children today left the
kitchen door open for ventilation.
She had asked the landlord two
days ago to have the heater fixed,
she said.
1.-THE Whimpering of June from
her bedroom attracted the mothers
attention. She found the little girl
unconscious, seized her in her arms,
carried her to a neighboring drug
store. Meanwhile, Jerry collapsed
on the sidewalk. Mrs. Tobin claimed
undernourishment of the children
had weakened their condition so as
to make them susceptible to the gas
fumes. She charged the S. E. r. A.
had not provided them with enough
to buy SUFFICIENT food. or any milk,
that the children needed blankets
and a mattress"
GAN FRANCISCO San Francisco
News Jim, the l7-year old,
23o-pound orsng-outang fr o m
Sumatra, Is quite business. He's
the particular business of Fred
Chatter, a head keeper at the Zoo,
Fred watches Jim's diet as he would
that of child-feeds Jim vege-
tables, milk with cod-liver oil,
Grange Juice and other body-build-
ers. jim is the most valuable
animal owned by San Francisco
Due to lack Of a proper cage, he
is allowed out only on warm days
That's one Of the reasons the Park
Commissions plan to add SO acres
to Fleishhacker Zoo and Playfield
has lust won the approval of Mayor
Rossi The added land will cost
s364,000 The city will pay for it
ever a 19-year period"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
FILM AUTHENTIC

The talk drifted onto a discus
sion Of the film and Of Furmanov's
book about Chapaiev, the Civil War
hc~o. hrkady Ch9peiev, although
w., "ollng. was with TIC army part
Of the time. and has since made 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Can You Make EN- Yourself?

Pattern 2198 is available in sizes
u. IA, Is, 10, 20, 30, 80, "a, So, SO
and 40. Size Is takes 27s yards 80
inch fabric and "a yard contrasting.
Illustrated step-by step sewing in
structions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Our Reply

WE recommend the following to
" aid in getting rid of protrud-
ing belly;
l. Exercise. Try to join an ath-
letic team or club. Play some form
of athletics, like handbsll or basket
ball If you cannot do this, at least
walk few miles every day.
DO some exercises daily, deep
breathing, deep knee bending and
body bending, raising yourself to
seated position from flat position on
the floor.
2. Diet. Do not eat cake, candy.
whipped cream, potatoes, nuts,
matted milk, chocolate or cocoa.
Eat three square meals day, but
nothing in between. Eat very little
bread, butter and cream.
BY these two methods you prob
ably will not get fat.
Naturally, comrade, we believe by
belly, you mean abdomen. If you
mean something else, like rupture,
please write us and we will advise
you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins
stamps tcoins preferred for each
Anne Adams pattern New York
City residents should add one cent
tax for each pattern ORDER. Write
plainly, your name. address and
style number, BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE WANTED.
hd.-@@5 o-c0~7 - Daily Worker
Pa ~ T. : West 17th
street, New York city
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

of quality" of the work done in the
fields of her collective farm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Diabetes and Early Hardening Of
the Arteries

n s., Brooklyn, N. YOU inquire
~ as to the cause of the shaking
of your fathers right arm. He is
fifty-five years old and has diabetes
(sugar in the urine).
He probably suffers from condi-
ton known as "Parkinsonism." In
this disease a certain part of the
brain changes with advancing years
and the ability to control the limbs
steadily, to coordinate the fingers
and hands for delicate acts, is lost.
In many cases the brain center con-
trolling this ability deteriorates be-
cause of hardening of the arteries,
and such hardening occurs earlier
in diabetes than in people without
diabetes. Unfortunately medical
science has not yet learned how to
help such patients.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Feminine Hygiene

COMRADE F. c. of Chicago writes:
y Il would like to know several
things about feminine hygiene. Is
it necessary to douche after men
situation? Occasionally I have
discharge which has a strong odor.
Is this due to neglect?"
The term feminine hygiene" is a
misleading one. All the advertise
ments about feminine hygiene claim
to cure infections of the female or
ganS. Actually this is blind for
the true purpose-the products are
really sold for use in birth control.
All of them have shortcomings;
some are dangerous; most of them
are expensive, and none of them are
as effective at other methods.
BY feminine hygiene, you prob
ably mean cleanliness of the female
organs. It is not necessary for the
healthy young girl to douche at all.
In your case, it will do no harm to
douche one or two days following
menstruation with a quart Of warm
water to which may be added a
tablespoonful of sodium perborate
Ca large quantity of which could
be bought very cheaply in any drug
store). If the hymen is still intact,
the nozzle with the single perfora-
ton should be used when taking a
douche.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
YOUR
HEALTH
- By -
Medical Advisory Board

IN VIRGINIA. Tennessee and
Arkansas transient camps have
been qusrantined because of an
epidemic of meningitis. Six deaths
have already been reported and
others may follow because of the
dread character of the disease.
Such situation is possible because
of the conditions in the Southern
transient camps, where there are
no safeguards and there is made
quate medical care. One of the
things HEALTH AND HYGIENE.
magazine of the Medical Advisory
Board, will do will be to expose the
public health situation as it affects
the workers of the country.
The prevalence of disease with
out any Federal action, the lack of
any campaign against many ex-
tremely contagious and serious dis
eases, the conditions under which
workers contract these diseases,
will be dealt with. Articles will
also present the positive side of the
picture, telling what workers can
do to offset these diseases and pre-
vent epidemics.
Getting Rid of BAY Window
| TOMRADE M. e., of New York,
writes;-'I am a young man
nineteen years old and in good
health, but my belly seems to be
protruding more all the time. AS
yet it is hardly noticeable, but I
should like to reduce it and keep
it there. viii you please advise me
how to do this?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

WASHINGTON, D. c. FP).
" Many Of the southern APP
paiachian mountaineer eraftswomen
earn less than one dollar q week,
and average under $25 a year, ac-
eording to A report of the o. s,
Women's Bureau.
The Washington times., 1935-09-12
6. W. TO OPEN
SEPT. Is

Preparations are being COM
pleted at Georgetown Prep for the
new scholastic year, which begins
on September "a. This marks the
146th year of Georgetown Props
existence. 1t was founded by Arch.
bishop Carroll in 1889 and until
II years ago it was located on the
grounds of Georgetown Univer
sity. For the past II years, at
Garrett Park, its beautiful build.
ings and well-kept grounds, play.
ing fields and golf courses mark
1t as one of the most attractive
spots ON the Rockville Pike.
Close proximity to Washington
makes the school easily accessible
for the many boys from Washing
ton, who are enrolled in the
school. BY special arrangement
with the Capital Transit Company
a bus will take boys from the Dis
trict Line to the school grounds
in time for the first class. In the
near future it is hoped to an
nounce similar service from
Chevy Chase via KenSington.
The Washington times., 1935-09-12
Poteet College SET
For New Fall Term

Poteet's Business College an
nounces the opening of their fall
term in day and night school to-
morrow and September Is. Sew
eral new teachers have been
added to the faculty owing to
prospects of increased enrolment.
This school has become famous
for individual instruction. This
is a system which enables the stu
dent to progress as rapidly as his
own ability will permit without
being compelled to delay on &C.
count of a class which might
travel at a slower pace.
This school aids young people
to increase their earning power,
to become self-supporting, to earn
something beyond their own i'm
mediate needs in order that they
may be contributors to society as a
whole. Business education can
always be relied upon for self
support. 1t assures independence
and more.
The school issues an interesting
free booklet well worth the while
of any ambitious young man or
woman to read. It describes to-
days opportunities in the bust
ness world and explains a proven
method for helping young people
in securing their first position.
The Washington times., 1935-09-12
FRANKLIN HAS
ALUMNI WIN
ADVANCES

One hundred and two recent
accountancy graduates of jenja-
min Franklin University obtained
new positions during the year,
and ~ received promotions, &C.
cording to a canvass Of alumni
G. the last 20 years. Response
was not received from all gradu-
ateS.
Forty-six of the new positions
were with the Government, 43 in
the accountancy departments OF
business organizations, and Is in
public accounting work. OF the
promotions, 48 were received in
the Government service, 19 in
private business concerns, and
five in public accounting prac-
tice.
NAMES IN ISSUE
Names and the employment OF
the graduates receiving new posi-
tons and promotions, and other
news of graduates, are contained
in the latest issue of the Benja-
min Franklin Key, an alumni
news publication now being dis
tributed from the university Off
ceS.
That accountancy has been an
avenue to jobs during the depres-
sion is proved by the fact that at
no time has the percentage of
unemployed among Benjamin
Franklin graduates exceeded 2
percent of the total number of
graduates.
Realization of the practical
value of accountancy training is
resulting in heavy registration in
both the C.:y and evening divi-
SionS OF the local Pace account
ancy school.
CLASSES FORMED
To accommodate those desiring
evening classes, several sections
of the freshman class are being
formed. The first section to open
will be a 1880 to 900 class on
Monday, September Is, which
will be followed by $50 to 7:20
class opening week later on
Monday, September %.
Additional sections will be
formed when the enrollments in
these sections reaches the limita-
ton which is set on the size of
all classes. The daV division will
open Monday, September 80.
The Washington times., 1935-09-12
COMMERCIAL
ART OFFERED
BYC0LUNBIA

Continuing its policy of expand
ing departments and extending
courses, the Columbia Technical
Institute of Washington is ready
to begin its twenty-seventh year
with the largest enrolment in its
history.
Registrations for all depart
ments are now being accepted in
the school office each week day
except Saturday, and each eve
ming except Wednesday and
Saturday.
The courses of the engineering
department, established in 1923,
have been extended to full four
years of evening study for diplo-
mas in mechanical, civil, archl-
tectural, electrical and aeronau-
teal engineering, Paul j. LeVe-
rome, principal, announced.
Materials Added
Practical job problems, a study
text and drawings from the draft
ing sections of the United States
Government bureaus and of prl-
vate concerns are materials added
to the mechanical, aeronautical,
architectural, topographic, cleo
trical. structural steel, landscape
and patent office drafting courses.
Professor Leverone announced
that the institute would offer for
the first time an extensive COM
mercial art department with a
complete commercial art course
including special work in show
card lettering and design, poster
design, fashion illustrating, repro
duction methods, landscape paint
ing, perspective, commercial art
lettering, cartooning, pen and
water color rendering, photograph
retouching and newspaper art
work.
Had Good Record
The employment service OF the
institute maintained a good record
for placements during the last
year. according to the principal.
The many special activities OF the
Government bureaus created a
brisk demand for craftsmen, es-
timators, engineers, commercla!
artists and other specially trained
experts.
The schools library Of drafting
a n d engineering publications,
which is available to the public,
was considerably extended by the
addition of publications from the
United States Department OF Agrl-
culture, the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, and
other Government departments as
we'll as privately published draft
ing and engineering texts.
The Washington times., 1935-09-12
Clifford Brooke's
Dramatic Classes
To Start October !

The fall term of the Clifford
Brooke Academy of Stage Train
ing in the Dramatic Arts will be-
gin October Z, marking the fourth
year of the academy. an institu-
ton that was launched by Steve
Cochran, manager of the National
Theater; Clifford Brooke, popular
director of the National Theater
Players. and T. D. Bonneville, for
merly manager of Polls Theater.
With a prominent professional
faculty, the academy gives stu
dents the benefit of association
with the National TheaterT with
performances at the end of each
term, and the opportunity to serve
as extra players during the legiti-
mate season with visiting attrac-
tons, and with the National Thea
ter Players during the summer
stock season.
The Washington times., 1935-09-12
2 NEW TEACHERS

The American University will
welcome seven new faculty mem
bers when it begins It's new AGA
demic year September %. In
Guided in this group will be Or.
Ernest M. Griffith, the newly ap-
pointed dean of the graduate
school, and DR.. Emory E. Olson,
who has recently been selected as
professor of public adIninistra.
ton and director of the I'm Serv-
ice" Training Division of the
School of Public Affairs.
The Washington times., 1935-09-12
Trained Workers
Much in Demand

The rapidly clearing clouds of
the depression are noted in the
greatly increased demands for
trained secretarial and clerical
workers, according to the regis
trar of the Mt. Pleasant School
for Secretaries, who reports that
the demands for typistS and
stenographers during the past 10
months have been up to and many
times beyond its supply.
The school has always main
tanned the Mt. Pleasant Employ
ment Service for the benefit of
advanced students and graduates.
The Washington times., 1935-09-12
Dance Institute
To Open Fall Term

The Bekefi.Deleporte Institute
of Dance has reopened studios at
2040 S St. N. w., beginning the
fourth fall term. Registration
and enrollments are continuing
daily from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Classical ballet and character
work is directed by Theodore
Bekefi; Maurice Deleporte has
charge of the acrobatic, reducing
and exercise classes. Billy Lytell,
director of tap and rhythm dane
ing is introducing to his stu
dents the latest sensation, Truck
ing; Anita Wyland continues as
instructor of society and eXhibi-
ton ballroom dancing,
The Washington times., 1935-09-12
SidweII Schools
Will Open Sept. d

The Sidwell Friends School at
1909 L st. and 1901 Wisconsin
Ave-. will open their fifty-third
session September % with a
large enrolment of boys and girls,
ranging in age from kindergarten
through the high school years.
Noted as an institution with an
enviable record for college prep
aration as we'll as for elementary
work, the schools continue under
the guidance of Thomas w. Sid
well, principal.