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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-07-18
BREMEN TOWNSHIP

Wis. is visiting her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. James Mecl, and will remain
for the summer.
James Hrbek returned from an ex-
tended visit with his daughter, who
lives in Montana. She in turn will
visit here with friends and relatives.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-07-18

Sell. buy or trade through Amer
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-07-18
Grace Lutheran Church. McGrath

Rev. Barlau, pastor.
/ Sunday school. 10 a. m; English
| service, IL a. N.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-07-18

Invest % cents in a classified ad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
COMPANY UNION

and gave a very good answer to all
questions raised by the officials Of
the company union.
Sam exposed the company union
and fearlessly spoke for the Hotel
and Restaurant Workers Union. The
company union officials became
panicky and shouted that he should
stop propagandizing but he con-
tinued until three of the oficials,
including the secretary, forced Sam
20 sit down At this point. several
workers questioned the lack Of free
speech.
Instead OF answering the ques-
tionS, the officials tried to Justify
the existence Of the company union
and put to a vote a motion for the
maintenance of the company union.
Only an Insignificant minority, COM
posed Of heads Of the various de-
partments, raised their hands. No
vote was taken against the COM
pany union. The meeting adjourned.
Fellow workers! 1t is clear to all
Of us that the only union which
fights for the interests Of the work
ers is the Hotel and Restaurant
Workers Union and not the com
panv union.
We must organize a strong union
group in every Caruso restaurant.
Get in touch with the Caruso
Group at 9l5 9th Ave. Join the Hotel
and Restaurant Workers Union,
Local ll9 of the Food Workers IN
dustrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Brutal Terror

Faced with this situation through
out the country, with the increas-
ing development of the revolution,
the ruling classes are intensifying
their efforts to strengthen the gov
eminent. end to carry out more
determined offensive against the
revolutionary movement. The terror
has been greatly increased, sur
passing in many respects that of
Machado's regime. The application
of the fascist formula of administer
ing castor oil has been carried out
against well-known journalists, such
as Levi Marrero Of Santiago de
Cuba. Emergency courts, established
by special decree, are now function
ing. Constitutional guarantees are
suspended. The system of secret as
sassination. such as that of the three
young men of the Aut1ntico Party
who we're recently murdered in
Havana, has been established.
The latest decree Of the govern
ment establishes the death penalty
or life Imprisonment for anyone
who "interferes" with the carrying
out of the Zafra. Half million dol
lars have been appropriated for arm
aments and barracks, while hos
pitfalls and schools are closed for
lack o. funds. Throughout the
country an intense campaign is be-
ing carried on against all revolu-
tionary organizations These are
being accused of attempting to him
6cr Ire u "a. This whc,e nn2ien
is nothing bu- La theological prep
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Hits Child Labor
I'm Farm Areas
BY a Worker Correspondent

SAN ANTONIO, Texas-I was
working some time ago in the Min
nesota harvest fields. AS it rained
one forenoon, I stayed in the house
waiting till it cleared up.
Very suddenly. the farmers young
wife appeared at the door Holding
her hand at her bosom, she exclain-
ed, II am going to diel I was
adopted by farmer when I was
very young, ri they worked me so
hard that I got heart disease,
They often wished me in hell, but
maybe they, too, will go to hell"
Then this young woman turned
around, walked into her bedroom,
laid down and died in less than five
seconds.
I have often wondered whether
this young woman's last words were
what the clergy mean by the con-
ISOLATION of religion"
Yes, we need laws that will pro-
tect children on the farms as well
as in the great industrial ceuters.
I believe that the Communist Party
and Communism are the greatest
force and ideal to prevent the literal
murder of innocent and defenseless
children for profit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK Through the COL
umns Of your paper. 7 want to pub
lish what took place at the recent
company union meeting Of the
Caruso Restaurant employees, held
on Friday, Feb. 8, at 752 9th Ave,
New York City.
The purpose Of this meeting was
to bulldoze us to kill the sentiment
for a real union. Dr.. Harry spiegel,
the secretary Of the company union.
opened the meeting with an attack
on Sam Harris, a waiter, who was
fired for union activities and rein
stated, due to the pressure from the
Hotel and Restaurant Workers
Union Local 1I9 of the Food Work
erS Industrial Union.
He raised the red scare to cover
up the rotten conditions forced upon
us by the Caruso Restaurant man
sgement. Mr.. Spiegel praised the
company union and slandered the
Hotel and Restaurant Workers
Union and all real unions. He
thought he was fooling us into
thinking that the company union is
good for us. Before he finished his
speech, he tried to provoke the
union members but he did not sue
coed.
Mr.. Nino. the president of the
company union, called upon Sam
Harris to state his grievances.
Brother Sam took this opportunity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Youth Club Backs
Rodgers Defense
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK-Enclosed is a copy
Of letter which the New View Club
of Brooklyn sent to the Southern
Tenant Farmers Union:
The New View Club of Brooklyn,
consisting of young workers and
students, enclose a money order of
SO towards the struggle for the
freedom of Ward Rodgers. We know
Of Comrade Rodgers as an active
and revolutionary member of the
Socialist Party and are full SYM
pathetic with the fight he and you
and others in Arkansas are waging
in behalf of the sharecroppers.
We are especially anxious to in
form you that we are fully in sup
port Of the united front agreement
which the Southern Tenant Farm
ers' Union has worked out with the
SharecroSpers Union. We firmly be-
lieve that only by the broadest and
mot effective united front action
on all fronts of the class struggle
will we be able to improve immedi-
ate conditions. stop war and fascism
and carry forth successfully a posi-
tive fight for workers and farm
ers' government.
Please keep us in touch with the
developments in the Ward Rodgers
case.
Comradely,
THE NEW VIEW CLUB.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14

was left to us inexperienced Pho
neers.
When we got to the Relief Blu
reau they only allowed commit
tee of three to see the Precinct Su-
pervisor. We sent in a delegation
consisting of Joe Hoffman, our
leader, and two Pioneers. AS our
delegation went in policeman tried
to push the rest Of us out on the
street.
One of the Pioneers spoke up and
said that we refused to leave the
place without our leaders and we
refused to wait for them out in the
cold. 1T this, the big bully smacked
the defenseless Pioneer right across
the face. This was met with shouts
from workers who were waiting on
the relief line. Hearing the noise,
our delegation came out and told
the workers there that they were
paying taxes SO that defenseless
children who come up for food and
clothing could be beaten.
The Supervisor tried to stall the
delegation off with sweet promises.
This did not fool the committee and
they did not leave until they made
him promise that an investigator
was to be sent to these children
within the week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Attempts at Cancellation

At the order of Caffery, the sin
lister U. S. Ambassador, the real
instigator of the policy of the gov
eminent, attempts are being made
to form a national front against
the revolution.
These gentlemen all agree that
the present situation of bombings,
strikes, and mass struggles must
not continue, that order" is nee
essary if the zafra is to be carried
through. An understanding between
the bourgeois-landlord opposition
and the government is vitality nee
essary.
Various plans for an understand
ing have been drawn up. That of
the FUR" Revolutionary United
Front" consisting Of the A.BC.. the
Autenticos and the party of the old
politician MenocaD, calls for the
replacement Of two-thirds of the
present cabinet, together with pro-
gram for the maintaining of peace
dliu OtbNt dO OIL COnbo. / llC VII To-
nistss have their own plan, and the
party of Menocal, the A.B.C and the
Autenticos, who have withdrawn
from the FUR, have each their
own solution"
Grsu, leader of the Autenticos, OPP
posed to the continuation of the
present government. tells his fol-
lowers to be calm" that is, to re-
main criminally inactive in the face
of the assassinations and the brutal
attacks of the government.
The plan of the AB.C, which in
cludes the resignation of Mendieta,
and the establishment of national
government headed by a Premier. is
en- attempt to gain a dominant posi-
ticn for this f9scist party, which. at
the point of the revolver attempts
to deetroy the trade unions. mr.
der7 the best and most militant
workers, and organizes vicious per-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
The Communist Party

The Communist Party of Cuba is
leading the struggles of the masses.
The Third Plenum Of the Central
Committee drew up detailed pro-
gram of action for our Party for
the task of developing the strug-
giles of the masses during the zafra.
It formulated slogans for setting in
action the workers and peasants in
the sugar mills and on the planta-
tons. drawing UP for them de-
tailed plan OF immediate demands.
With the slogan OF the united
front for struggle, the Party is raj
lying around it the broadest masses
of the toiling population for the
struggle for their demands and
against imperialism.
In the face OF all the plans for
conciliation, in the face of all the
provocations of the government, the
Party is pointing out the road for
struggle and action for the decisive
battle which will oge-turn the Men
detail atista dictatorship and open
the road for Sovists OF workers.
peasants and soldiers. the read for
the realization Of the national lib
Grafton OF Cuba from the yoke Of
imperialism. and OF the social lio-
Grafton Of the masses, exploited and
oppressed by the bcurgeoisie and the
landlords.
The Communist solution of the
present hunger, misery and oppres-
sion, appears more and more like a
beacon. guiding the masses il their
daily struggles for their interests.
The slogan Of Soviet power on a
local scale and of workers control
of production. is gaining ground
among the masses, as is shown by
the most recent struggles, parti-
cularly that in Realsngo 10.
The Communist Party of Cuba
has directed cell to the masses, in
Tire present situation. calling on
them to form united front End to
struer'o theoretically sgainst the
--v-eo ''--'-''~o7 r. IN. coI--~',,-,-'ot
against TIE establishment Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Y, Mine, Farm and Office
MOVIES USED AS BAIT

for which they receive no pay.
Several workers have been seri-
ously hurt in accidents because of
the speed-up on the machines which
is forced upon them through the
MIRA. policies and arbitration.
These workers received no pay for
the time that they lost in recover
ing from their injuries.
Polk company union told them
that this should be a good lesson
for them to join the company union
and receive a mess sly one dollar a
day for the time they lost.
These are good lessons for all
the workers-not to join a company
union but to get into real mill
tant union that fights the NR.A.
policies of forced arbitration and
slave conditions that we now have
to endure.
We should organize stronger than
ever before and settle our own la
Dor troubles, not through a bosses
tool like Chapman but through the
rank and fl Of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Support Charges
Against Welfare
BY a Worker Correspondent

MUSKEGON. MIcn-1n q recent
edition of the Muskegon Chronicle
there appeared an article under the
heading, Says Welfare Folks Suf-
fe~."
The Welfare Director denied these
charges which were made by the
Governor, but these charges are
true and can be proven to be facts.
Recently a worker and his wife
went to the relief station, and were
attacked by employees Of the relief
station The woman still has bruises
and marks from the beating they
received at the relief station when
they were thrown out,
We have here an organization of
employed and unemployed, called
the United Workers League, and
each week the relief officials agreed
to meet a grievance committee from
the League. The second time the
relief heads met with the grievance
committee they agreed to the fol-
lowing demands: Cd Trade at any
store Of your own choosing; (2) AIDE
Quate fuel; 90 Adequate clothes.
However, we have found aged
folk, who were unable to fight their
own battles, suffering beyond en-
durance. How they had the courage
to carry on, no one knows. The
house they occupied wouldn't have
even made a good barn. Their stove
was broken down. They were refused
fuel. In fact. they could not get the
visitor to call at their home.
When our organization found this
aged couple action was in order.
The relief officials backed water and
gave these people relief. They even
had fine well installed on their
lot 50 that they would not have to
carry water three or four blocks
every day. Both Of these people are
about eighty years old. These two
old people are our best boosters, and
are looking forward to the time
when Bill H. r. 1927 is enacted and
enforced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
How Communists
Work in Unions
By a Worker Correspondent


WEST CONCORD. N. H-The
Quarry Workers International used
to have a good local here a few
years ago. At that time there we're
few Communists. belonging to the
union, who worked in the quarry.
Work began to slack up and they
left the town. The local then went
into the hands of individuals who
had no interest in how the local
would handle questions concerning
the membership. We know very well
what happens to a union Of that
kind.
A year ago it so happened that
Communist from another craft of
the granite workers had to Join the
local. He took up the work right off
with the class-conscious workers and
began to check-up on the irrespon-
sible individuals in Office.
The first thing they did was to
elect to the state convention Of the
A. F of L. a delegate, who intro
duced resolution against Green'S
breaking tactics in the San
Francisco general strike
Then they were able to force an
auditinu of books of the local and
when they went over them they
found that it was impossible to make
head or tail Of them. So in the last
election there was a new slate elect
ed of good militant workers.
The International office had to
give new books to the local. The
secretary had to call in all cards,
because the dues that was collected
had been spent on good times for
the officials.
The local has endorsed the Work
ers Unemployment and Social IN
surance Bill and sent a resolution to
the House Committee demanding
that it be brought on the floor Of
Congress. Resolutions for the free
dom Of the Scottsboro boys and An
gelo Herndon have also been passed,
Committees have been sent to the
CITY relief administrations along
with other granite unions, as every
granite worker is idle now. This is
how Communists work with their
fellow union members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14

the development of the revolution,
is evident. Every day the contradic-
tions within the government in
crease, as It's situation becomes
more untenable.
The strike movement among gov
eminent employees has become
chronic. For example, the strikes
which are now taking place in the
Electoral Census Department, in the
Department OF Labor, in the NUM-
cipality of the City of Cienfuegos,
in the hospitals Of Havana and in
the University.
The government has almost COM
pletely lost its mass base, and is in
creasingly relying on the open mill
tary dictatorship of Batista, who is
today the decisive factor in po-
litics of Cuba.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Wall Street Threatens Cubans Strike Harvest Slave Wage

The "zafra" harvest of the sugar
cane) is now going on.
Because Of the monocultural char
acter of the economy of Cuba, the
entire life Of the country revolves
around the sugar industry. The most
important occurrence in the eco
nomic life of Cuba, an occurrence
which each year causes political
repercussions, is the Zafra.
The beginning of the zafra was
set for January Is, through a de-
cree of President Mendieta; the
death penalty has been decreed for
those who interfere" with the car
rying out of the zafra.
The present zafra takes place
under special conditions, not only
because Of the fact that the revolu-
ton is developing. but also because
this is the first zafrs that has taken
place since the ratification Of the
new Reciprocity Treaty, imposed by
Yankee Imperialism.
Because of the restriction of pro-
duction brought about by the treaty,
the zafra will not last more than
40 DAYS. At the present time, be-
fore the start of the zafra the
plantation and mill owners have
done away with the gains won by
the workers through past struggles,
by carrying out brutal attacks
against the masses, such as that at
Media Luna" where many work
ers were massscred. The owners are
now once again forcing the work
ers to toll from sunrise to sunset
for between 40 and so cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Cuba Needs Support

Because of the dsep economic
penetration of Yankee Imperialism
in the country, because of it's geo
graphic position at the entrance of
the Panama Canal. and the fact
that the island is only some five or
six hours distant by steamship from
the United States, because of the
monocultural character of it's econ
omy-ar of these factors make i'm
esrative the greatest support on the
part of the proletariat of the United
States and of the telling masses Of
Caribbean and South America for
the Cuban revolution, opposed by
the power of Yankee imperialism.
At the present time the Diplomatic
intervention of the United States
is becoming more open and bare
faced, and its threat Of armed in
PREVENTION is increasing.
Today, more than ever, it is nee
esssry that great movement OF
protest arise in the United States,
End in the Caribbean and South
America. against the savage repyes-
sion which Yankee imperialism is
carving out AGAINST tire revolution
in Cuha th-ou1h it's lackeys, who
teke their orders from Csffery.
Batista and Mendieta.
The decree ESTABLISHING the death
( ~.
mysterious" as5s55inat!ons per-
petratsd by the government. as the
central point Of a systematic plan
CT provocstion against the macscs.
merit vigorous reply on the part
Of the telling mars-s OF all those
countries Where the people, like the
masses in CUBE, sts-d for the right
Of our pec7'c to b fsoc. sand for
Bread, Land and Freedom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
The Strike Movement

Faced with the perspective of a
new zafra, with all its hunger and
ruin, the masses have shown that
they are determined to fight for
better conditions.
During the last two weeks, there
have been strikes for higher wages
in the sugar mills at Merceditas.
Hershey etc. Other strikes, such as
that Romelie, are still continuing.
And the "colonos" peasants who
raise sugar cane), have also organ
lied mass meetings all over the
island in preparation for the strug-
gle for immediate demands.
The inability c. the Mcndleta-
Bats government. in snita Of the
brutal terror it carries out, to step
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14

death penalty, for democratic rights
OF striking, organizing, meeting,
freedom of speech, press, etc. and
against the Intervention of Gallery
or any other representative of any
foreign government in the affairs
of the country The Party is tying
up these slogans with the economic
demands of the masses, such as
higher wages, the eight-hour day,
reduction of rent for the peasants,
against the appropriation OF the
land of the peasants, against taxes,
etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
BY an Agricultural Worker Core
spondent

HAINES CITY, Tla-The condi-
lions at the Polk Canning Company,
the largest grapefruit csnnery in
the world, are becoming worse each
day for the workers.
This is one of the canneries where
there was a peaceful strike last sea-
son and this strike was settled
through arbitration by one of the
bosses tools J. M. Chapman, a fas-
cist of Haines City.
At that time Chapman was the
president OF the United Citrus
Workers Union. Now he advises
Polk as to how to organize their
yellow dog union. They call it an
association.
They give their employees a free
picture show every two weeks. This
is to win them over to the company
union.
In the past few weeks several
workers have been fired because OF
their refusal to work soft grapefruit,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Imperialism Dictates Policy

Yankee imperialism is the in
Stigator of the whole policy of brutal
terror against the toiling masses of
the country. Mr.. Caffery, the U. S.
Ambassador, gives orders daily to
the government in regard to the
measures to be carried out. The last
trip of this sinister individual to the
United States, to confer with the
State Department, resulted in the
suspension of constitutional guar
antess throughout Cuba, the estab-
lishment of the death penalty and
life imprisonment for workers in
the sugar industry. and threats to
land Yankee marines in case the
zaf-a was not carried out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Provocation of the Masses


The government is preparing to
carry out to the bitter end war
against the masses, who are strug-
Cling for their demands. The gov
eminent is strengthening its whole
apparatus of repression, covering
the island with new Notifications.
equipping them with all kinds of
Wa supplies, and ideoloqically
poisoning the soldiers in order to
throw them against the whole toll
ing population.
These measures are an open pro-
vcoation. . threat to the telling
masges. The brutal ess2sSinations,
carried crt ~ d1-i',~ the r>g nc Of
Machsdo, end the degrees estsb-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14

aration for even more vicious mas
sacres than those perpetrated at
Jaronu, Senado, Tocajo. Baguanos,
Media Luna, etc, in recent months.
This reign of terror, however,
under present conditions in Cuba,
increases the hatred of the masses
for the present regime, and serves
to hasten the development of higher
and more powerful struggles.