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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
IN THE HOME
"Inside of Me-
BY ANN BAR TON

WITH the end of the Working
w Woman Contest only two and
a half weeks away, you'd better
hurry. Letters are coming in
every day to the Working Woman
magazine. The problem raised in
the contest has aroused wide dis
cussion. Have you written your
point of view yet?
The question raised is "What
would you do, If your husband
would not let you attend working
class meetings, though he has
many interests outside his job?"
You must write your answers
direct to the Working Woman, 80
East 18th Street, New York, n. Y.
And now is as good time as any
to say that the printing of letter
here in no ways bears upon its
chances in the contest. The COM
rades on the Working Woman
have simply allowed me to select
those / thought would be inter
esting to the readers of the
column. 1t does not mean they
are better or worse than other
letters received.
And with that clearly stated, here's
part of a poem written. not exactly
in response to the contest. but in
reference to women's activity gen.
orally. 1t is written by S. B. ]. of
Leslie, Michigan.
'T can't be mo clingin' vine!
Why it's as plain as day,
When storm and wind and hail
beat down.
I've had to grow this way.
"There's somethin' just inside Of
me
That tells me when I'm right
An beats against the inner bars
To get into the fight
For helpless. hungry children
An mothers wan an thin
there's SCmetnln' inside NJ me
Says Fight until we win
There's scmethin' just inside Of
me
That cries and cannot be
Put down with any promises
That will not make us free.
There's somethin' just inside of
me
That tells me that we can
Win in this fight for Justice
For each and ev'ry man.
by standin' close together
And fightin' each for all
We must net lose this battle!
Come workers! Join the call"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
Messengers
Win a Few
Concessions
BY a Telegraph Worker
CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK.-The coming of the
Christmas holidays, involving a
tremendous influx in telegram SER
vices, found the Western Union
Telegraph Co. fearful of the rising
sentiment for militant unionization
and struggle among the messenger
BOYS.
A stoppage of service at this stra-
tegic moment, or any possible action
by the messengers at this busy
season, would have meant serious
decrease in the company's profits
Together with this, the fact that
the Telegraph Messengers Union
issued leaflet calling for a dis
cussion on the advisability of action
the week before Christmas. caused
the officials of the Western Union
to bring their company union CAS-
ISOLATION of Western Union EN-
ployes) back to the scene of SELL
out.
We had seen numbers of mes
sengers leaving the Western Union
company union; had seen them
openly ridicule and make sport of
it. The Association of Western
Union Employees began to lose its
stranglehold on the fellows.
The boys, under the pressure of
worsening conditions and speed-up
and faced with the rapid advent
of a merger in the communications
industry, began moving towards the
Telegraph Messengers Union, an
independent rank and file union.
They began stubbornly taking the
line of militant pressure against
their bosses, and a heavier recruit
ment began in the Telegraph Mes
sengers' Union.
The Western Union got the filters.
Suddenly, a week before Christmas
following a leaflet distribution of
the Telegraph Messengers Union,
notices were posted on all city of
fee bulletins 1t came from the
company union, and was a conces-
sion!
In short, the bulletin said the fol-
lowing:
l. All night messengers and early
hight messengers to receive so per
cent of errand services, instead of
40 per cent as before.
2. All messengers in service one
year or more to receive three days
vacation with nav each year. cThe
demand formulated by the Tele-
nraph Messengers Union calls for
two weeks vacation with pay for all
messengers in service.)
But now the messengers are pre-
pairing to turn these small conces-
sions into a general victory. The
concession displayed the panic
'mong the company officials. and
Il clearly was demonstration of
he fear they have of the sentiment
,owards organization among the
messenger boys.
This concession, therefore. is a
victory for the Telegraph Mes
7engers Union.
This concession, then, shall only
'oreshadow what the year 1895
shall bring for the messenger BOYS
'inder the leadership of the Tele-
graph Messengers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
By a steel Worker Correspondent

By Steel Worker Correspondent
GARY, Ind.-Fellow workers, can
any Of us say what was the matter
with Old Man Wright? Can any
Of YOU locomotive shop workers re-
call the last remarks Old Man
Wright made?
He told you fellow workers that
he was going to leave his boots in
the shop as he was going to be off
the next day. But. you know that
for an old man like Wright, it is
pretty hard to guess about the next
day There wasn't any next day
for old Dad Wright. an old man OF
sixty-fve or sixty eight. You know
how far he did go after he left the
locomotive shop. You also know
how he kicked the bucket at the
hricklayers' wash house toilet. He
was found stiff on the toilet seat.
Well, something is facing us un-
less We do something, and that
something is we must organize and
fight like hell for old age pensions
II VIC NU AlUg VI 5uA4AGS anu 4A@AAO'
the company watchmen will lind
more like old Daddy Wright. They
called it heart failure, but it was
more like old age than anything
else.
How many more old fellows are
there in the shop yet? When we
get so that we can't get around
any more, then you and I will find
ourselves thrown out on the scrap
heap.
Remember old man Willerton. He
had % years service with the COM
pany and the bosses told him that
they could not use him any longer,
that he was too old and unsafe to
do any sort of work, and so they
let him 60. That was five years
ago. What was the matter with
Egsn? Too old. He died unseen.
And old Tom. and many more.
Fellow workers. we must organize
and organize fast, too. The bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
A UNITED, MILITANT WORKING
CLASS STOPS FASCISM
Milwaukee, Wis.

MliWduhcS, WIS,
Comrade Editor:
have met many workers who
have said, well, what the working
class needs to wake up is a fascist
dictatorship" Among them are
some who are Communist sympa-
thizers.
Now this. in my opinion, is very
bad attitude to have. 1t means to
say that the working class will
learn a lesson from fascism, but if
we allow fascism to get into power,
we are going to pay very dearly
for our lesson. We must make up
our minds to stop the fascist mon
ster.
We can do this by fighting fas-
cism every day, by talking to all
whom we come in contact with. ex-
planning how fascism is trying to
destroy the entire labor movement.
1 have even noticed some work
ers 1okingly using the Hitler salute.
1 hope the workers still remember
how famous the military salute be-
came over night back in 1917.
This is a very serious issue. Let
us not take it lightly even for a
moment. There is a great deal to
do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
Home Loan Corp.
Won't Hid JObLeSS
Machinist Finds Apparatus Is Used Only to Stall
Him OFF While Company Grabs Property

I was told to inquire at the Cleve-
land Trust Co.
Several times people of the cor
poration came to see my home and
take other information. Finally on
May or June of this year Q93D I
was called by the main office of the
Cleveland Trust to know that the
loan to be granted was not enough
to pay up the second mortgage.
After a few days went to the
Cleveland Trust with my brother
in-law (who holds the second mort
gage and we made an agreement
that my brother-in-law was ready
at any time to release the second
mortgage and 1 was assured by the
bankers 1 was to receive the loan
in one month or so.
Again months went by. Once I
was told that the loan was delayed
because activity OF the Home own
ers' Loan Corp. was temporarily
suspended. Then I was told to wait
two or three months Finally I
received the beautiful news on
Christmas time
Yesterday Dec. 29) I was told
that maybe the loan was not granted
on account of my unemployment!
Now I would like to say this: Were
1 working I would not have need
any loan. For instance: if I begin
working tomorrow at steady job,
I would not need the help of the
Home Owners Loan Corp. Instead I
would make my payments at the
Cleveland Trust.
I hope that you will consider that
I have brought up before you and
find out why my case was not taken
in consideration on time. have only
one house and I need roof for my
family.
I hope that you will consider also
that If I am unemployed it is not
my fault. The company where 1
was employed for 10 years went
bankrupt five and one half years
ago MAY, 1920 and so far I am
unable to get another steady job.
I am mschinist mechanic by trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
The Report of the
Hauptmann Trial
JOHNSON'S STORIES EVOKE
INTERESTING COMMENTS
Neur York N "

NtW 1OIh, N. T.
Comrade Editor:
Though I have often been i'm
PEELED to write you word of COM
mendation regarding various articles
yes, and even entire issues of our
Daily" si1yness or something close
to that has often held me back.
But this time you must know my
appreciation for your treatment of
the Lindbergh trial which Is being
played up in so miserable and re-
voting fashion by the capitalist
press. Allen Johnson's reporting
was splendid-particularly his con-
GLIDING paragraph regarding Harry
SimmS. Too often we are apt to be
swayed, despite knowledge to the
contrary, by the loud ranting of the
boss sheets.
In these days of sharper conflict,
of increased and intensified con-
f1ict, the other papers, from the New
York Times down, are so obviously
carrying on a bitter attack against
the workers, that it surprises me
that they have not been more ex-
posed than heretofore. Is 1t COM
paratively sudden desperation on
their part. or is 1t merely that ]
have begun to see their method and
understand it today? The radio
too, injects anti-working class
SANDER at every opportunity; and
subtle attacks against the Soviet
Union: word here. word there
no more-dignif1ed capitalist "psy-
chology."
These things have come to my
attention with increasing frequency
in the last few months Are they
afraid? Do they see that we are
beginning to learn, and by learn
ing commencing to do and act for
the betterment of our conditions?
Are they afraid of the youth who
are beginning to follow the only
way out = the revolutionary way
out-of their miseries?
Well, their fear is not yet great
enoughl They shall tremble and
quake in the face of our Justice
class justice. To us, it is not a
question of Lindbergh, but kid
mapping and robbery and murder,
per Sc. To us, it is not the ques-
ton of one youngster alone, but the
unhappiness. undernourishment. and
worse, of millions of children. The
electrocution of Hauptmann would
most assuredly do nothing to alter
materially the vicious problem which
he represents. For this reason, the
courts of these United States are
not a symbol of justice, are not an
indication of sincere desire to
eradicate the wrongs upon which
they pass judgement.
There is but one remedy - and
eventual cure Build our Daily
Worker!
For more popular reporting of this
sort (Which prompted me to write
YOU and tell YOU how really swell
it isD, a sports section. and before
7 close, a big cheer for Del for Civ
- rs Lefty.
M p c
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
Toll Kills aged Man
In Locomotive Shop
Organized Struggle for Social Insurance Held
Only Solution

don't care what you we're able to
do or what you have done. They
are just watching for a chance when
you straighten no at the bench
where you are working. If the boss
catches up with you, then you know
you are through. Furthermore, I
am not only talking for the loco
motive shop but for all shops and
departments.
Again am calling your attention
to the graft. You know the clerk.
Walter Henky, he takes anything
and everything that comes along,
and yet you can't do anything with
him. You fellows might as well
know why you can't do anything,
1t is because you are unorganized.
Once we are organized. we will know
how to deal with him and any other
CRATER.
You know what happened to
Edward Wall, the turn foreman at
the A inch blooming mill last
summer. Now there is another one
that took his place, Robinson, work
ing together with the Dean Superin-
tendent of A inch mill Fellow
steel workers. there are hundreds
like Ed, Robinson and Bill, but we
steel workers are too weak because
we are not organized into real
industrial union controlled by the
rank and file.
We must have workers from our
ranks forming the shop and depart
ment grievance committees, not the
company union stools like Smith,
Kirtan, Crosby and Johnston, who
are disappearing the workers.
What have they done to improve
the workers conditions' Nothing.
With the exception that Msllinson
is trying to organize an "independ-
ent" union. which will be nothing
but a fascist union that will help
the steel bosses raise their profits
and suppress the workers more and
more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
Relief Strike
Won by Ford
Unemployed
BY a Worker Correspondent

IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. - This
is city of about $4,000 population
with Ford factory, wood work
ing plant, chemical plant and one
Individually owned small saw mill.
There were few mines, but they
are closed for a good two years now.
The Ford factory, for the last five
years, has employed, during the busy
season, which lasts from two to
three months. from 1000 to 1900
men. When they quit needing YOU,
you are laid off and then rehired
when they are ready to start.
During the slack part of the sea-
son, We are on relief trying hard
to get by. We are allowed so much
per month according to the size of
the family. A family Of three gets
S21 month on work relief, or sl180
per month on direct relief.
Two months ago they made an at
tempt to cut the hours from 10 to
80 per cent, and in some cases even
more.
We have Communist Party here.
About seven months ago the Com
munist Party members were able to
organize a labor union with about
200 members in this county. When
hearing about the cut, the union
called mass meeting. Another
mass meeting was called at the
county relief office.
A Communist Party member. as
a speaker, put the question to the
workers whether they we're going
to accept the cut or whether they
were going to strike. Every one
voted for strike.
First there was committee
elected TO see the relief administra-
ton. The committee not getting
any satisfaction it was decided TO
call the strike at once.
Here, the Party was a bit too
hasty in not holding it off till the
first of the month. 1t happened
that this was towards the end of
the month. 1t made a great many
of those that were working the last
part of the month think that those
who were striking had already put
in their time for the month.
On the second day of the strike
1t was decided to let the men work
what hours they had coming for the
month, and all were to go out on
Nov. l. On that day another mass
meeting was called with TOO to 300
present. 1t was decided to call the
strike.
On the first day of the strike
the workers were militant and the
ranks we're solid 100 per cent. On
the second day the picket line was
already only half as big as it was
on the first day.
The relief administrator and his
agents were able to raise the red
scare" among the workers through
the local papers and so forth. In
a small city named Norway, nine
miles from here, with a membership
in the union which the Communist
Party of Iron Mountain organized.
they were not able to raise the red
scare.
The jobs we're completely closed
down until the strike was called off.
The main demand, against the re-
duction in hours, was granted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08

his time without pay, thus pouring
more profits into the Golfers of the
big railroad bosses.
Neither do the mercileSs imposi-
tons end here. In holiday seasons,
more extra help is hired which is
called emergency help. In many
cases, these men are given one OF
two trips. and are left in the cars
OF out-of-town agents where they
are neglected In many instances
they find themselves in big cities
like Washington, Harrisburg. etc..
without funds and are forced to
seek aid from the local city welfare.
police stations, etc.
This proves, fellow workers. that
the bosses are organized and we are
not. Let us join the Brotherhood
and make it a rank and file fight
ing organization. If we do not, we
cannot protect the bread of our
wives and our children, neither can
we ever expect to raise our standard
of living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
Poor Farm
Made Federal
Institution
Nv a Worker Correspondent

GARY, Ind.-In the United States,
it used to be the County Poor House
or the County Poor Farm, that we
were familiar with. Now, we have
the Federal Poor House in the form
of the Transient Bureau and the
Federal Poor Farm in the form Of
the Transient Camp. So, you can
say that the Poor Farm industry
has advanced from county unit to
national unit.
Because such great percentage
of the American people have be-
come paupers, it requires CEN
tralized capitalistic control of the
unemployed workers in order that
centralized wealth will be protected
and the unemployed will be trained
to be content with crumbs from the
tables of the wealthy.
Transient bureaus have. in con-
nection with them, transient camp
several miles from the centers Of
population. Men sheltered in the
City Bureaus are sent to the camps.
This reduces the numerical strength
of the unemployed in the industrial
centers and prevents organization.
Men who are isolated in these
Transient Camps lose all connec-
lions with the outside world and are
trained to be content with their
conditions
These camps and bureaus are con-
Quoted in about the same manner
as a penal institution. If man is
not on hand for six consecutive
meals, or is not in his bed for one
night, he is checked out and has
no place to stay. These conditions
can only be changed BY united eff
forts, and it is up to the unemployed
to organize as food is steadily get
ting worse and bureau officials are
riding the men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
STEEL WORKER SHOWS NEED FOR OLD ACE PENSION LAW
Steel Workers Learn
About Company Union
RY a WORKER CORRESPONDENT

BY a Worker Correspondent
COATESVILLE, Pa. - Enclosed
is my vote for the Workers In
surance Bill. I hope the mass
pressure behind this bill makes
this session of Congress recognize
the advisability of its immediate
passage.
AS I wrote recently, there is
considerable industrial unrest in
Gainesville. Particularly, at the
moment, is this the case at the
Lukens Steel Co.
Cranemen and machinists have
we'll defined grievances, and they
are pretty we'll disillusioned with
their company union. Their
pleadings and petitions have
gained nothing at all for them.
The l., L. D. is showing progress
among the Negro workers here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
BY a Worker Correspondent

BEDFORD, Ohio-On Dec. "a
received a letter from the Home
Owners Loan Corp. stating that the
present resources of said corpora
ton will be exhausted before my
application can be handled.
When the letter reached me on
Christmas Eve, I opened it with
great joy expecting to find the news
that the loan was finally granted
to me.
Taking in consideration that since
it was vacation for the officials
during the holidays, I decided to
postpone the working out Of my
problems until after the New Year.
But on Dec. %, I received letter
from the Cleveland Trust Co. stat
ing that the property was recently
taken over through foreclosure.
In those proceedings there is
something wrong I know that the
Home Owners Loan Corp. was es-
tablished to save homes and con-
sequently keep the family under a
roof:
1.-Save the home Of those whose
home was already taken away by
foreclosure;
2-Save home of those which have
received notice of foreclosure;
Save home Of those that the
MORTGAGE have everything ready
for a foreclosure.
I received a notice of foreclosure
in October, 1882, for past due pay
ment on the sum of 81 ,010 with in
terest from September, 1881. On the
day was to be in the court, was
in the local hospital to be operated
for a double rupture. But I notified
the Cleveland Trust to take in con-
sideration my circumstance.
In August, 1898, the Home Owners
Loan Corp. was established. I was
almost one of the first to fill an
application through the Cleveland
Trust. Months went by. Every time
called at the corporations office
to know something about my loan,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
Unemployed Youth
Get Harsh Treatment
BY a Worker Correspondent

WILKES BARRE, Pa. = Among
the most unfortunate in this coun-
try today are the young unemployed
people.
For instance, the other day I went
down to the relief bureau with a
grievance of mine and as I entered
the relief office to put my complaint
in, I was told to sit down and wait
as usual.
There were only few benches
around and these were filled with
young men. There was an adjoin-
ing room to the one I was in and
this. too, was chock full of young
people.
This looked strange to me. and !
asked some of the boys what the
crowd was there for. They told me
that they had come to register for
the C.C.C. camps. When the relief
officials started to register these
men, more kept on coming. About
10 minutes later, the relief officials
called a policeman who chased all
Of these young men out, after they
had received notice to come czs
register.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
THE KINGS TESTERS
Dear Comrade Editor:

Dear Courade Editor
am one of those who heard the
Alca-Seltzer Company sketch over
station WOR which is usually a
meaningless hodge podge of playing
on words in order to bring out the
name of their product. but there is
a limit to patience and disgust. The
sketch depicting the Soviet method
OF justice was to say the least the
most contemptible method of Great
ing falsehood upon the most
modern of nations and upon ITO
millions of people. This is how they
poison peoples minds while They
act like clowns to provoke hilari-
Gus laughter.
All workers cnd professional
people who resent this miserable eff
fort at fun" should show their re-
comment. / and the members OF
my family will do everything We
can to make the name of Alca-
Setter infamous.
NJ. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
A LIVING ANSWER

for the night at the mission. He
started to talk of his past.
1t seems he was one of the work.
ers who built the Armstrong plant
years ago. Later he worked there.
He was a former local football hero.
He also had been a member of the
National Guard and had once been
inspected by the great Teddy Roose-
welt himself He was a soldier in
the World War.
He personally knows all the town S
big shots, the Judges, lawyers and
politicians, but they give him Moth
ing. He ended up by saying, Now
I am down to this" and took a
swig from the bottle of bay rum
that he had in his pocket Fin
ished, he staggered out.
There was silence for few mo-
ments. Jim, the Communist, broke
the ice. Why talk about the Amer
lean workers future under capital
ism? The living answer has just
staggered out of the ROOM