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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
Conducted ~ the

fore I indulge in auto-erotism con-
tinuously. I am emaciated and
anemic, and in order to cure this
condition I've been advised to eat
rich foods, as milk, eggs, etc. But,
on the other hand, as to sexual exu-
berance, I heard I must eat tho
opposite foods, such as grassy foods.
This contradiction between the foods
must eat to cure my rundown con-
dition and my powerful sex instinct
is a serious puzzle to me-"
Our Advice
YOUR letter raises several points.
1 In the first place. there is little
reason to think that the so-caIled
rich foods" you mention will affect
your sexual urge. This is one Of the
myths which our present system Of
society finds it convenient to spread.
You would do well to try to improve
your general physical condition. If
your circumstances permit. The
foods which you need are eggs, milk,
butter, cereals and potatoes. Even
il it were true that such a diet
would aggravate your sex problems,
and there is no good reason to think
that this is true, starving yourself is
a poor way to meet to situation.
In the second place, the question
arises as to whether or not you are
really "oversexed." as you put it. A
powerful sexual instinct is perfectly
natural at the age Of seventeen. In
most instances, the problems Of sex
can be definitely attributed to the
false morality Of religion, as propa-
gated by the agents of a capitalist
society.
In other words, it is unusual to
find sexual problems in individuals
who are able to free themselves Of
bourgeois notions and traditions.
There is saying among physicians
that "95 per cent of men maSturoate
at some time in their lives, and the
other per cent are liars!" Eco
nomic and social factors OF Amer
lean, or rather capitalist, society
prevent us from adapting easily to
ordinary sexual intercourse, and we,
therefore, find it necessary at times
to resort to temporary expedients.
No reputable physician today be-
lieves that masturbation, If prac-
ticed with moderation. causes any
harm. AS to your inability to attain
sexual intercourse, because Of what
you call your inferior possessive-
ness" we would strongly urge you
to consider that most men do not
have actual intercourse until an age
somewhat greater than seventeen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09

the benevolent relief director Mr..
Hopkins please see that these bank
ers are secured on this particular
transaction.
This worker has an aged mother
"A years old to support who over a
year ago suffered a stroke which
has left her practically helpless,
This same worker was dismissed
from the C. w. A. works for the
crime of joining an organization of
his own choosing and the political
appeal board of the c. w. A. was
deaf, dumb and blind to his case.
His city water was turned off a
few months ago on account of be-
ing unable to pay for same-with
the F. E. R. A. wages he received.
Health Department Looks After
Bosses Profits
A report and protest to the State
Board of Health concerning the
matter, brought a reply from that
department-stating that both pub
lie and privately owned water
plants, had the right to discontinue
water service, for non payment OF
same.
without water these folks have
had to resort to outside toilets
which is contrary to state laws
On the face of these facts, this
should make Yankeetown a very
healthful vacation resort for winter
visitors.
Through the political machine
F. E. r. A. labor was used to clean
up the privately owned camp ground
in this place-where charge is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent
LOWELL. Mass-Some time age
an article appeared in the Daily
Worker explaining how the crew Of
the United Wood Heel Company OF
Lowell had thrown out the In
dependent" Union and signed UP
with the United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union. Now, this all APP
pears very good. but I will now ex-
plain what happened behind the
scenes.
One Of the members in this shop
has been fighting right along for
more pay and better working con-
ditions, Being militant, she real
lied that only by organizing into a
good union could the workers OBJ
tain concessions from the boss. Co
ing about the shop to individual
workers who she felt were trust
worthy she talked unionism till she
was blue in the face. She even went
as far as to arrange parties in her
own homie. especially for the wood
heel workers, and she would have
organizers from the General Office
Of the United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union present to speak to
the workers.
Eventually. some stool pigeon be-
trsyed her activities to the boss,
with the result that she was fired,
This woman complained to the
union officials, who had promised
her all the protection in the world
in case Of trouble of this kind.
The General Office of the United
Shoe and Leather Workers Union
turned her case over to the NR.A.
which shortly notified the owner Of
tn SOP that he must rehire this
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workers have been thrown out of
work to slowly starve "on relief" to
pick trash in the alleys of the city,
or to take food out of the mouth
of poor relative.
Last summer the company used
four men on moulding floor
now they are making two men do
the same amount of work. This is
just one small sample of what the
Royal RooseYelt's New Deal has
done for the working class of Amer
lea.
One man at Ohio Malleable makes
IS day. How? BY laboring one
half hour before and one-half hour
after punching the time clock, in
addition to working at a mad rate
of speed all day long.
The plant requires the use of $50
worth of coal day in its manu-
featuring. One day recently the
would-be smart guys tried using
only $50 worth, with the result that
the days output was ruined. Ohio
Malleable does not pay its workmen
for spoiled materials-so the work
ers were forced to pay for this
noble experiment" of the efficiency
hounds.
Boss" at Ohio Malleable has told
the workers that there will be no
unions at Ohio Malleable. At an
other time he was heard to say that
if he had his way all dirty foreign
erS" would be given "a hours no.
tice TO leave the U. s. He has also
said that he is going to replace all
Italian workers in the plant with
Negro workers, thus spreading
vicious chauvinism and attempting
to set one nationality to fighting
another.
These statements of Boss will
be answered in an interesting man
ner in the near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
Mr.. A. Code
Is Excuse
For Pay Cut
BY Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY Shoe Worker Correspondent
AUBURN, Me. Il am a fancy
stitcher working for the Main Shoe
Company of Auburn, Me.
When I came to work for this
firm two years ago, we could still
make about eighteen dollars a week,
and a fast stitcher could make about
twenty-five dollars a week. But, for
the past year we could hardly make
a living. We work long hours and
our pay is not more than ten or
twelve dollars a week
Now, something extraordinary has
happened. I gave in my slip for
s22.69 and when they paid me I got
only $3.50 ran back to the VIM
dow and said, Miss, you must have
made mistake in my pay" She
said that she did not. I asked her
what it was all about, and she sent
me to the foreman.
I asked the foreman why I had
$3.50 less than I was supposed to
have. He told me that they had
made a mistake in making the price
so high on this work, and he took
OF thirty cents from each case.
1 told him I would not stand for
it. I protested. but 1t did not do
me any good Imagine, the old case
was s130 and he took off thirty
cents on the case. and he gave me
the argument that they we're not
allowed to pay more than thirteen
dollars a week as this was the N.R.A.
rule and they can't break the rule.
I asked him how it was that all
year around we we're getting such
small prices, he didn't call that a
mistake. He would not try to get
us more, but when it came to cut
ting us down, he remembered al
right.
But, thought to myself, that I
could see things a bit better than
year ago when the MIRA. prom
ised us good wages and shorter
hours I won't believe that bunk
any more. Now 1 can see that the
only way out is good union of
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09

month-to those who are able to
pay for 1t.
Electric current is secured from
the Florida Power Corp'n through q
franchise for two cents per kilowatt
and retailed to the consumers for
ten cents per kilowatt-which nets a
profit amounting to 300 per cent.
Negroes Jim-Crowed and Undergrad
The promoter and Mayor of the
town, Mr.. A. F. Knots, issues deeds
that allows no property to be owned
or sold to Negroes within the town
Colored workers are hauled into the
town and wages as low as 81 per
day are paid them.
This, despite the fact that the
state P. w. A. engineer has fixed
the wages for common labor on all
projects, both public and private at
forty cents per hour-except on
road construction work, where pay
was set at thirty cents per hour.
The P. w. A. state engineer claims
there is no one within the state
empowered to enforce his wage
schedule.
This is how the new deal works
in this section of the country: The
New Standard School Dictionary
defines the word Communism as
THE doctrine of owning property
in common" which is the only
plausible solution for these indus
tries, which should be taken over
and operated for use of all-instead
of private profits for the few para
sites, who are just about as useful
to society as flea on a dogs back
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
BY shop Worker Correspondent


HAVERHILIs, Mass.-For the past
few months, the shoe industry in
Haverhill, Mass, has been at a
stand still. The army of unem-
ployed has reached such a point
that to find at least fourth of the
shoe workers working could be con-
sidered as one Of the seven wonders
of the world. In many cases, the
victims of the unemployed army
have been recruited as permanent
members because of the shop
moving campaign.
Week after week threats of NOV
ing from the city are made by the
manufacturers and those who have
the money for moving are actually
carrying out these threats. Work
ers who have worked and shaved for
years in some factory are forgotten
and are driven out into the streets
to face poverty. But why all the
noise about shops moving? Is it
because the location or the climate
is no longer favorable for the man.
ufacturing of shoes? The answer is
most emphatically, no. The profit
making manufacturers are striving
for a new wage cut and for the
establishment OF the open shops.
These same manufacturers that
made solemn agreements with the
union only ten months ago have
violated them and are trying now
to smash them altogether.
However, these law-breakers have
no fear of being attacked by the
government for breaking agree
ments. On the contrary, their
scheme is hand in hand with the
Roosevelt decentralization plan"
This plan that supposedly is to
have the object of improving the
situation in the small towns is only
one Of the many schemes for driv-
ing down the standard of living of
the masses and to break up the
unionized centers.
The local press openly admitted
that the solution for the shop NOV
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
Promised Protection
Readily Forgotten
AS Worker Is Fired
Militant, Who Organized Shop into United Shoe
and Leather Workers Union, Finds
Loss of Job Only Reward

woman who had been fired for her
union activities. When she returned
to the shop, in accordance with the
NR.A decision, the owner told her
that she could not work for him
again as she was trouble maker.
So it went for some time. the
general officials telling her that she
would be taken care Of later on.
Some time later the crew in this
shop threw out the Independent"
Union agreement and forced the
owner to sign up with the United
Shoe and Leather Workers Union.
Still this woman is out of job.
The officials failed to fight hard
enough to have her rehired when
they signed up the shop. This wo-
man. who is really the cause of
the shop being organized, is today
left out Of job, while the stool
pigeons who sabotaged every move
she made to organize, are now mem
bers in good standing of the U. S.
& L. w. U.
This is one OF the dirty deals
handed out to the Lowell district
by the General Oficials of the
union.
I would suggest to this worker
that she appear before each U. S. &
L. w. U. local in Lowell to tell the
rank and file members her story
and have the locals force the Joint
Council either have the United
Wood Heel rehire her or call a
strike in this shop. If the General
Officials will not help workers who
are Disseminated against. the rank
and file must take action to pro-
tect the best fighters in the organi-
79tion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
Shop Moving Drive
Hits Shoe Workers
In Haverhill, Mass.
Union Officials Attempt To Pin the Hopes of
Members Upon ReOpening of Hearings
on N. r. A. Shoe Code

ing campaign was to compete with
the small shoe centers. In other
words, the workers should take
wage cut after wage cut until the
manufacturers we're satisfied with
their yearly incomes.
The officials and their followers
of the United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union have hopes that the
re-opening of the shoe code will
bring back the prosperous days to
the shoe industry. But, Analysing
similar codes of the N. R. A. the
workers will find that the reopen
ing of the shoe code is only another
instrument for wage cuts.
Then, in order to further blind
the masses of shoe workers with
wage cuts, the patriots" of the
union have introduced flag saluting
"a fascist idea. This scheme to
strengthen patriotism" in the
union is a step toward fastening
government control and compulsory
arbitration on the unions. Further
more, this policy of flag saluting is
aimed mainly against the reds"
and ANY un-American members Of
the union"
However, all these schemes and
plots for wage cuts and open shops
of the manufacturers, patriots, etc.,
have been openly exposed by the
Communist Party and militant
fighters of the U. S. e. L. w. u.
1t is because of the militant work.
erS that support has been won
against wage cuts in the locals of
the union. 1t is necessary now
more than ever for the class con-
scious workers to point out that no
concession, no matter how great,
will solve the problems of the shoe
workers. No manufacturer will be
satisfied with one wage cut; his
worship of the "profit-making god"
will encourage him, through one
small concession, to ask for another
and still another Unemployment
insurance must become the thought
of every worker as one of the solu-
tons for the problems we are facing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
Operation without a Cure

OpcEAbAOn Nb0Oub q OHFc
"A R., New York City.-It is not
Va uncommon for symptoms of
gas" and other digestive disturb
ances to return after operation for
the removal of gallstones. In some
cases these symptoms are due to the
formation of new gallstones, but
more often they return because orig
inally the symptoms were not only
caused by the diseased gall-bladder
and gallstones. Other parts Of the
digestive system when not function
ing properly may cause "gss" and
nausea. and these parts must be in
vestigated.
From your letter, it is not possible
to state which of these two causes
is responsible for the return Of the
symptoms, and only by thorough
examination, which includes X-rays
and other tests. can the doctor find
out where the trouble lies.
Of course, you can not afford this
expensive procedure, and we would,
therefore, advise you to register at
gastro-enterology clinic which Is
near your home. If x-rays are sug-
gested by the doctors there, by all
means have them taken, even if you
have had many X-rays before your
operation. Your condition may have
changed since then, and this change
may show only on an X-ray. Diet
sometimes may be of benefit. Avoid
fat meat, fried foods, spices, acids,
fatty cheeses and rich dressings.
Your complaint about your eco
nomic condition is more than iusti-
fed. You have a natural right to
something besides sales taxes and
starvation wages, and that some
thing is economic security for your
self and your dependent family of
four. In the Soviet Union women
who suffer from your ailment are
completely cared for and everything
is done to make them entirely well
again. The worry about loss Of your
wages while sick and the utter help
lessness of your family during this
period of Illness and convalescense
has been completely done away with
in the Soviet Union. We must fight
all the harder here in America so
that we. too. shall gain these rights
which naturally belong to us.
Diet and Sexual VigOr
A. w.. Brooklyn, N. Y, writes; My
n age is seventeen. / am over
sexed, and unable to have sexual
intercourse because of my inferior
possessiveness to the females. There
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
Letter from Daily Worker
Sellers VIII Be Printed

AS of the of circulation
Worker will publish letters Red Builders carriers
subscription getters and other Daily Worker
These letters should tell problems
who sell the Daily" They should their difficulties selling
the we'll their the effective methods
They should give experiences selling the Socialists
of members workers professional
workersbeore factories meetings
meetings in the
In short the Daily living picture paper
In action.
Daily Worker seIers-send your lettersl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
In THE HON E
A Hero and Pink Icing
BY ANN BAR TON

tempting to get the workers to swsl-
low. e., the workers must uncorn-
plainingly bear the burden Of the
crisis.
What work these magazines Gre
ate for class conscious women! They
create the necessity of digging deep
into the pink icing, and exposing
for masses of women to see, the
dirty, black scum OF snti-working
class propaganda, lying hidden UNI
derneath. They give the task of
showing that such acceptance OF
lowered living standard means
eventual hunger for all-and that
such magazines are deadly poison
to the class interests Of working
class women.
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Receives FOur-Cent Check
As Two- Week Pay on FERA

made for lights and water: but
camping tourists are looked upon
to furnish other essentials, such as
toilet paper.
The water in the town is pumped
from out Of government test
we'll; which was dug by the federal
engineers for the proposed cross
state canal and retsiled to the city
inhabitants for the sum of $1.25 per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
NOTE

We publish every Wednesday.
letters from textile. shoe and
needle workers. We urge workers
in these industries to write us of
their conditions and efforts to or
ganize. Please get these letters to
us by Saturday Of each week.
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Suggest Methods of Spreading
The Daily Worker
ANSWER WALL STREET"
RROOKI,YN NJ "


BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Comrade Editor:
On the occasion of your editorial
in today's Daily Worker, under the
caption, Answer Wall Street." 1t
occurred to me that this concrete
suggestion would help greatly to
increase the circulation of our col
lective propaganda" Let every
class conscious worker take upon
himself the role of a patron OF our
Daily" by seeing to it that the
newspaper stand on his block car
ries two or more copies of the Daily
Worke..'. The mass organizations
should be instrumental in promot-
ing this policy in their respective
localities, e. /.
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Show your determination to
support the Daily Worker against
the efforts to suppress it. Send
your greeting on its Eleventh An
niversary. Get your friends and
1hcpmates to become regular
readers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
Letters from Our Readers
RECRUIT SUBWAY READERS

RECRUIT SUBWAY READERS
Ccmrade Editor.
have always made it rule tc
make my copy of the Daily Worker
do double duty.
Invariably after I finish reading
my paper. leave it on my subway
seat so that someone else may be
tempted to pick it up and read 1t
Again and again I have noticed
people react in this way and be-
come aware of the existence of the
Daily Worker.
This is a subtle kind of prop
uganda and believe very effective
I hope you will urge all our
readers to do that-not only with
the Daily Worker but also with al
other pamphlets, announcements
circulars, ETC., favorable to the
Soviet Union.
Yours for greater circulation.
b. G..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
Shoe Union Officials Fail To Fight Discrimination
$50 .JObLeSS
As Speed-up
Cuts Force
By MetaI WORKER OorrespOndent

BY Metal Worker Correspondent
COLUMBUS, Ohio-several years
ago, the Ohio Malleable Iron Co.
of Columbus, Ohio, operating at
capacity, required the employment
of about 1,40O men. 1t is now work
ing at full capacity, but only about
$50 men, some Of them working
part time, are compelled to do the
work. BY the introduction of ma
chinery, and especially by the in
PRODUCTION of the speed-up, $50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09
BY a Worker Correspondent

YANKEETOwN, Fla. = The en-
closed F.. E. r. A. check, for only
four cents, was handed to this
worker in this place to purchase
necessities for s. week for two per-
sons.
The parasite bankers under the
New Deal charge five cents each to
cash these government checks. Will
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