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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-01

6 T OCAL GIRLS MAKE
GOOD" you see
them day after day Mnching
and dining out In the old-fash-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-01
MANS LOVE IS OF HIS

It's woman's whole existence!
So remember that birthday-anni-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-01

&c A RI MAKES A MAN FIT
COMPANY for himself"
so Helene urges you to include
one OF the Fine or Commercial Art
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-01
Roosevelt

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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-16
49, Story " HAL COCHRAN

The octopus was rather slow, and
Quincy yelled, come on, let's go!
! won't enjoy this ride at all, If
you move on like this"
Then, with smile spread
'cross her face, wee Colby cried,
'.I'll take your place. Gee, If you
hop off, now, you'll never know
just what you'll miss"
"Don't worry" answered QUINCY.
.fYou will have to wait until I'm
through. I guess each one can
have a turn, but am first of all.
"Of course, I'd rather travel
fast, but, this way, my fine trip
will last much longer" Then the
octopus made little Quincy fall.
''Ho, no." laughed Copy. you
are good! You didn't hang on, as
you should. The octopus tipped
forward and you slid right Ger
his head"
"I'm satisfied" snapped QUINCY.
Gee, I've had a great suff1ciency.
Somebody else can hop aboard. I'll
gladly watch, instead"
It wasn't very long until all of
the bunch had had the thrill of
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-16

(Dotty makes friends with {
sea horse in the next story.)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-16
QeM-as BY GEORGE SCARbO

riding on the monster. Then they
heard the sea man says:
Now, you old octopus, you've
paid for that mean littletrick you
played. I guess you will be good,
when next you come around this
way"
The octopus swan out of sight,
so everything turned out all right
Then Windy said, Lets don our
bathing suits and have a race. We
haven't tried them out, as yet.
They'll feel just great to us, I'll bet.
There's lots of room down there.
We can swim all around the place."
Back to the sea mans house
they wentand there a little while
was spent in putting on the bath
ing suits. Now, we're all SET"
cried one.
Lets line up in a real straight
row. Our friend can give the
word to 60" Another said, Lets
practice, first, before we start the
fun"
Copyright 1895 NEA Service, Incl
(Dotty makes friends with a
sea horse in the next story.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
Company Union Delegate
Makes Triump hant Entrance

workers and adopting program of
action.
With my ability and you men
100 per cent behind me, have won
you an annual vacation with pay"
he continues, referring to the newly
adopted policy Of Inland Steel,
Youngstown Sheet and Tube and
other steel companies of granting
vacations with pay to their older
employees. The workers gave him
full credit for his ability. As a
ballyhoo man he is A number one.
But the workers know that it is
not ballyhoo that caused the steel
companies to decide to give vaca-
tons with pay. 1t is the knowledge
of the steadily improving conditions
of the steel workers in the Soviet
Union brought to the workers
through the Communist shop bull
letin and other means. Along with
the steady decline of our own liv-
ing standards, that IS causing the
workers to ask questions that are
very embarrassing.
The entire machine shop sat idle
for twenty minutes while an at
tempt was made to pacify the work
ers with words. In the eyes of the
company it is preferable to lose
money by leaving machines stand
idle than to pay the workers higher
wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
Roosevelt Policy
Cuts Relief Pay
BY a Worker Correspondent

FARIBAULT, MINI. - Workers
here opened their eyes when they
heard that the MIRA. code wages
for cabinet makers in a wood work
ing mill here were as low as IS
cents per hour. This is claim
of an investigating committee work
ing locally here to determine the
average minimum wage paid work
ers in this community.
This committee, one of the many
set up throughout the state, is to
determine the average wage in their
community and these are to be
sent to the state ERA. Office where
q statewide minimum wage for pri-
Vate industry can be worked out
This is a result of President Roose-
velt's demand that the relief wages
will have to be lower than the pre-
yailing local wage in industry SO
that the workers will want to work
in the private jobs instead of on
relief.
In the instructions sent out from
the state ERA. Office to the local
committees there is point about
not using SUPPRESSED wage
scales. This is only an attempt to
make the workers think that this
average state wage will be figured
out fairly.
Throughout the state there are
hundreds of small industries. These
small plants pay a much lower wage
than for instance the large plants
employing thousands of workers in
the larger industrial centers. BY
figuring the average wage on the
basis of industry and not on the
basis of the majority of workers the
ERA. state Office will come to a
much lower wage rate than is paid
TO the majority of workers. The
hundreds of small plants will out
weigh the larger concerns even if
they employed only q fraction as
many men. AS in Faribault, where
the average will most likely be be-
tween 40 and As cents per hour,
so will most of the small towns
drag down the statewide average
far below the present scale of So
cents per hour on ERA. jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
Speed>Ub Causes Death of Crane Man
In Blooming Mill of Illinois Steel

couldn't stop in time. He bumped
the other crane full speed.
Now, can any of you steel work
ers decribe what happened to
Nick? know what happened.
Nick fell forty feet to the floor
which is laid up with iron plates,
and Mic was crushed to nothing.
Yet the bosses tell us steel work
ers to obey their safety rules. What
is to be done to stop this killing
of workers? ] would say that I'M
less we organize and fight the
bosses there will be more killing
done.
Especially now that production is
up to 40 per cent, there will be
no end to it. With the increase in
production, the speed-up has also
been increased two and three times
over.
The only thing for us to do is
set in line and let all of US Join
the Amalgamated Association in
Gary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
Arbitration Hoax Used
In Enamel Strike
BY a Worker Correspondent

BEaILEVILLE, Ill-Over a week
ago, six enamel works closed down
here because the enamel workers
went out on strike for a ten per
cent increase in wages which was
promised them six months ago.
At a meeting, the leaders were
able to fool the workers into &C
cepting arbitration, with an arbi-
tratien board composed of one doc
tor, one priest and three business
men. This Board fatty refused the
demands of the enamel workers, al
though some were given a wage
raise in order to stife the unity of
the workers.
This sell-out must be and will be
answered by general strike in sup
port of the miners who are sched-
uled to strike on April LIST for the
six-hour day at Sc a day.
April LIST must be made the day
of struggle not only for the miners
but for the entire working class in
Southern Illinois for the six-hour
day at Sc a day and the Unemploy-
ment, Old Age and Social Insur-
ance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
Transient Hospital
Likened to MOrgue
BY a Worker Correspondent

AKRON, Ohio. - 1, the under
signed went to the Transient Blu
reau for Negroes located on N.
Howard Street, Akron, Ohio, Sun
day night, Jan 20, 1895.
Being very i'll from a near lynch
ing in Franklinton, Louisiana and
from exposure from riding freight
trains, lodging the Southern police,
the Federal medical officer sent me
to the Salvation Army Hospital for
treatment and instead of hospital
this is what I found.
A long barn-like room with loud
printing press overhead, going night
and day. Old feeble men, three of
which died in the first three
nights that I was there. Toilet
facilities, two wash bowls, two
toilets stopped up at all times,
water three to four inches under
foot with the filth of the toilets
floating around like little boats.
The food, if it can be called such,
is not fit for human consumption.
Mornings: cold oatmeal, SKINNED
milk or synthetic milk, about eight
raisins cold, too; two cold slices of
toast, piece of margarine, cold or
luke-Warm coffee. Lunch some
kind of embalmed government
issue meat, cold gravy, half done,
cold potatoes, cold cabbage OR tur-
nips, sour cottage cheese, cold cof-
fee, bread and margarine, some
times cold pudding without any
kind of sugar. Supper, is the cold
stuff left over from the noon
period.
AS far as night gowns or sleep
ing apparel or towel goes, you
use the same things from the time
YOU come in until you go out.
This butcher shop and morgue"
receives one dollar day for all
state patients; $3.50 per day for all
transient patients. Yet, the I'M
employed are forced to work as or
derlies in this place for $40 and
SIS per month. Others are forced
to mop, wash dishes for the lousy
bunk and food they receive.
The patients in Ward %" and
the T. B. Ward have complained
to the Federal officers for relief
from this treatment. No action has
been taken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
Steel Workers Ask Released Prisoner
Support for ALL, Praises |, L. d.
BY a Steel Worker Correspondent

BY Steel Worker Correspondent
SAN BERNARDINo, Call was
released on Dec, 81 from the River
side County Jail where I served
eleven months since Jan, 10, 1884,
for organizing a union of the
orange piekers in order to demand
an increase of wages. Six other
workers were arrested at that same
date. and eight others, including a
woman, Comrade Agnes Partridge,
were also arrested when they were
waiting outside of the Courthouse
to attend our trial. All of these
workers were placed on charges of
blocking the sidewalk. Other work
ers in Cotton, San Bernardino, and
Redlands were arrested and most
of them released, except Comrade
Dorothy zadow of the Y.CL., who
is now out on bail.
All of this happened at a time
when the N.R.A. demagogues were
proclaiming their great love for the
workers and their Section IA was
supposed to defend the right of
workers to organize in any union
of their own choosing.
I wish to congratulate the com
rades of the LID. for their Won
derful solidarity and determination
in defending our cases. Seven of
us workers drew sentences ranging
from three months up to two years,
making total of SO months, but
the LID. appealed our cases and
brought that total down to So
months.
Now that the sharpening of the
crisis increases the bosses are pre-
pairing themselves to make addi-
tional wage-cuts and lay-offs and
for that reason they are pressing
anti working class schemes like the
Criminal Syndicalism Law, to pre-
vent workers from protestin 6
against the bosses. Therefore, it is
our duty to fight against such laws.
All workers, regardless of race,
creed, or nationality, union or fra
ternal organization, or party, must
support the International Labor De-
Tense in this struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
BY a Metal Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. A noteworthy
meeting of Lodge 556 of the Inter
national Association of Machinists
was held on Jan. "a at the Brook
Ign Labor Lyceum. This lodge en-
bodies the organized machinists at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
A QUESTIONABLE to the govern
ment workers has been sent out
by William l. Siroyieh, member of
the House of Representatives. The
QUESTIONABLE asked almost every
question under the sun, from the
time and place of your birth up to
the present. The union had adj
vised its members against filling
out these questionnaires.
This QUESTIONABLE also asked
questions regarding working hours
and provided a space of four lines
for remarks.
Under good and welfare mem
Der got UP and stated that if the
QUESTIONABLE was to be sent on, he
would write the. following in the
space allotted for remarks regard
ing working hours:
"As to regular hours per day and
number of days per week I favor,
without reduction in pay, a work.
ing week of five days and a work
day of six hours for each day, total:
thirty working hours for each week.
This to apply to every industry in
the country,
Mr.. Sirovich. please take note
that the last convention of the A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
Hospital, Job Shark
Unite in Swindle
BY a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, Ill-I paid $40 to the
All Trades Employment Bureau, 309
LaSalle Street, for a job at Mercy
Hospital. After five hours had
neither the job nor the money, but
had learned lot about the isis
tiers of Mercy and their way of do
ing business at Chicago's famous
hospital. Other sweat shop employ
ers could take lessons from them.
/ got the job at $50 month, room
and board. The sister refused to
show me my living quarters, how
ever, until after I came to work. No
wonder. I wouldn't unpack my
clothes. About siXty-fve girls were
guartered in a narrow, condemned.
building. Their quarters we're par
titioned off like a beehive. There
was no room to turn around. The
plaster was off the walls. Every
where was filth. I gulped, but since
needed the job decided to make
the best of it. When I turned down
the bed I asked for clean linen. I
was told that the bedding wouldn't
be changed until the beginning of
the week. There was no bath. The
basin was SO filthy I couldn't wash
in it. And the toilet likewise was
filthy I decided to room elsewhere.
but still had hopes of getting my
money and the board.
I was hired as a tray girl but was
put to work washing dishes. When
one of the girls found out I was
promised $50 a month, she tipped
me off that perhaps I wasn't to get
that much. stopped work and
asked questions. Again was told I
was to get $50. Then 1 got the
board, " what was left after the pa
tlents had eaten. And then some
one came from the office to tell me
a mistake had been made; l was to
be paid only $3.50, but because of
the misunderstanding they would
give me $22. refused. Then they
begged me to stay, promising they
would pay dollar a day If I stayed,
until they could get some one else.
(That way I was to work off the
money paid to the employment
agency They told me I would get
used to the work after while, I
told them I didn't want to get used
to such conditions, and walked out.
Back at the employment agency my
$40 was refused to me, because I
had actually worked five hours. A
protest, SO far. has led only to the
promise that the agency will help
me find another job.
These are the conditions facing
young girls who are scrambling for
jobs in Chicago today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
Fight for Thirty,Honr Week Urged
At Meeting of Machinists' Lodge

F. Of L. went on record for such
a thirty hour week.
Il would ask that you introduce
a bill in Congress to the effect that
the thirty-hour week become a Ma
tional Law, covering every industry
in the country.
you being the sponsor and the
bill becoming a national law would
make your name rise in highest
esteem in the minds of all clear
thinking workers in the United
States"
Under this good and welfare head,
Brother Stibsenbauer, who has for
many years been the business agent
of this district asked for the floor
for five minutes, but before he was
through his used time could easily
have been multiplied by i've.
However, he must be given credit
for expressing some sentiments for
people outside the realm of scien-
tific machinistry. His main talk
centered around the union label and
the union label store, which due to
the lack of patronage. faced bank
uptcy, A union made collar can
no longer be had, he said, and the
scab collars he now is compelled to
wear develop boils on his neck.
He lamented the fact that the
Navy Yard machinists could not
slap a union label on the war ships
they build.
OF significance, was a statement
ne made that the behavior of the
captains of industry YVES turning
out Communists by the thousands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
Half the Population
OF Lima on Relief
By a worker CORRESPONDENT

JENERA, Ohio.-I am enclosing
a clipping from a local capitalist
sheet. The clipping, when trans
lated into plain English, says the
following:
The City of Lima and Allen
County, Ohio have three thousand
families on the relief rolls. This
means that about fifteen thousand
people are on relief, which is about
half of the population of Lima.
The dispatch also states that this
is an all time high. This is the re-
suit of two years of the Blue Buzz
card and the great advance towards
recovery"
The story also states that all re-
lief had been cut off for one week
SO that the country would not go
ever its budget. I presume that
F. E. R. A. workers had to fast for
the period of week to ten days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
BY a Worker Correspondent


BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Here is
something that concerns the work
ers of the Conners Steel Company.
We are writing this for the rank
and file committee of Local % of
the a. F. of L.
l. We know that the A. F. of L.
is a workers union, and not the
bosses union. We know that we
have won certain demands through
the A. F. of L., and can win a great
victory if we Just control our union.
2. Our president, Mr.. Semson, is
100 per cent union, and we as work
ers and members of the A. F. of L.
should help Mr.. Semson to put the
union over We can if we will.
3. We workers have seen the COM
pany rent our hall They do this
in order to break up the unity be-
tween white and Negro. But we
can't let that stop our local from
meeting or our children from want
ing bread and meat,
4. We know that the company
thugs try to break the spirit of the
Negro and white by organizing a
company union. They saw that we
we're succeeding. Now they have
rented our hall and think that will
stop our growing spirit. Are we
workers going to stand for that?
No! We must fight for bread and
meat, as we'll as union recognition
better working conditions, shorter
hours.
The Company thugs are talking
about our treasurer running away
with the money Why? In order
to break up the spirit of the A. F
of L. members, to make us work
ers say that it is no good.
But We know that the A. F. Of
L. is a workers union and we are
going to push it in Connors Steel
Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
BY a Steel Worker Correspondent

GARY, Ind-What is the mean
ing of speed-up and the disregard
for safety rules? What happened
on Saturday, Jan. 26 in the 44-inch
blooming mill of the Illinois Steel
Company?
They say accidents will happen,
and sometimes they do, but this
wasn't just an accident. The side
crane operator, Nick Voich, went
up to oil the machinery of his crane.
That left one crane to do the work
that was left.
This other crane man knew what
was going on on the other crane
He also knew that the crane man
was on top of the bridge. But, the
bosses got excited and began to run
around like wild dogs. They got the
other crane man excited and moved
the crane at full speed. When
it came close to the next crane
where the man was oiling he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05

Old Age Abb Used to Cover
Discrimination Against Union

no one would be fred for belong
ing to the union.
But lately some of the workers
we're fired for union activity, Re
Gently an old man working for six
years for Pfizer was fired. The COM
pany claimed that he is too old to
work and that when he got the job
six years ago he didn't give his
right age. It's funny how it took
the company six years to find that
out. The worker passed the doc
tors examination and was fit for
work in the plant.
Now the company has thrown
him out and they don't care what
happens to him and those depend
ing on him. The members of the
union took it up and a committee
went to see the company. The
company said they would call him
back as soon as they can find some
work for him.
l believe it would be wrong for
the union to wait until the CONF
pany decides when to take this
worker back. Maybe they won't take
him back at all. We saw other menu
bers of the union fired for union
activity and because We didn't put
up a real fight against it they are
still out of the plant. I don't think
that we should make that mistake
again. Our union and the exeou-
tive elected by the rank and file
should get every gang together and
put up a real fight against the fir
ing of this worker. Today it is he.
Tomorrow it may be one of us. Only
a strong fighting union can protect
the worker on the job in Pfizer
Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
F.E.R.A. Workers
Organize
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
NEW BRITAIN, Conn.,. E. r.
A. and unemployed workers met last
Thursday at the Lithuanian Hall
and took definite steps towards es-
tablishing permanent organiza-
ton.
Raymond Carlson was elected
President, Oliver F. Lincoln was
elected as Vice President, and
Frank Gallagher as Secretary
Treasurer. The next meeting is
called for Feb. 7 in the same hall.
About so men have been laid
off or fired from the FER.A., and
relief is being cut to the bone.
During the month of January we
had sub-zero weather, with the re-
suit that we used up extra fuel for
heating. The relief bureau will not
give us any more fuel than the
regular allotment. These and many
other problems make it vitality
necessary for us to organize.
At the next meeting an exeeu-
tive committee will be elected. 1t
has been suggested that those work
ers who have been Disseminated
against should be elected to this
committee, as this committee will
compile grievances, formulate de-
mands and call upon the city au-
thorities to give its members ade-
quate relief, and demand that these
who have been fired be rehired.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
BY a Worker Correspondent

EAST CHICAGO, Ind-Immedi-
ately following lunch time, a very
boisterous individual rushed into
the machine shop at the Inland
Steel Company. He climbed up on
box, and with the tactics of a
carnival speiler, directed the atten-
ton of the workers to himself.
"The company allows me twenty
minutes to speak to you men," he
informed the workers with an ex-
aggerated air of Importance, at
tempting to leave the impression
that his time was quite valuable,
while the time of many workers was
quite unimportant.
It am the man that you men
elected to represent you last sum
mer," says he, introducing himself
as the company union representa-
tive.
The workers in the machine shop
were dumbfounded. None of them
knew the man, and as for voting
for him, many workers did not vote
in the company union election. Yet,
now six months later they are in
PRODUCED to the successful can
didate.
Why the delay in getting &C
quainted? The workers would GER
tainly like to know the man that is
to represent them. Is it because the
company could not spare a few min
utes of his valuable time? Or is
it because of the growing discomfort
among the steel workers and the
increasing interests shown in the
Feb. Bird steel conference in Pitts
burgh, and of the mass sentiment
in favor of organizing the steel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05

eeeded in getting the workers to de-
lay action and appeal to the
Regional Labor Board.
The workers agreed, but no doubt
the strike will be on soon in spite
of the takers. The Regional Labor
Board has not decided in favor of
the workers once since it was
formed The workers have expert
enced the defeats caused by delays
and are not going to tolerate much
from the takers of Roosevelt's
strike breaking apparatus,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-05
NOTE

Every Tuesday We publish let
tiers from steel, auto, metal and
chemical 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 Friday of each week.