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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
.JObless Leader
Prosecuted
By a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
LINDEN, N. during the recent
election campaign the local officials
showed their fear of the influence
of the Communist Party by trying
to buy off George Aaron, Commu-
mist Mayorality candidate, with Of
fers Of jobs, etc.
Now they show the same thing
again and hope to break up the
militancy of the working class by
having Comrsde Aaron hauled into
court on framed up charges. Com
rade Aaron, having played a leading
role in a recent relief workers strike,
was at first framed by the local
relief officials on a non-support
charge.
At the trial, however, no evidence
of non-support was brought in. His
wife, who had signed the papers
on the threat that if she did not
do so she would be cut off relief,
did not testify for or against Aaron.
In fact, the only testimony brought
in was from the relief officials, the
case worker and poor master, and
the charges being refusal to go to
work on the forced labor projects.
Comrade Aaron's inability to do
so on account of insufficient cloth
ing and the request Of clothing be-
fore going to work outdoors not
being granted him, resulted in a Is
day jail sentence on contempt of
court charges. 1t made no differ
ence that he was willing to work
if he got clothes some time before
the three months the relief office
had asked him to wait. Clothes or
no clothes, he was to work.
Upon getting out of Jail he APP
piled to the ERA. board to 60 to
work and was Immediately set upon
by one Of the relief officials. Be
cause he did not permit himself to
be provoked, they had to resort to
framing him on a charge of dis
orderly conduct. That this was a
deliberate lie and the charges
against him false, was witnessed by
a great number Of relief clients and
young men waiting to register for
the C.C.C. camps. The judge pre-
siding over the court Louis Rakin,
has already several times postponed
the trial, having each time seen a
courtroom packed with workers.
1t is evident that they hesitate to
prosecute Aaron on such trumped
up and f1imsy charges before an
assemblage of workers. This is an
admission which even the local press
makes in the Linden Record of Jan.
%, 1898.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Calls for Defense
Of Ward Rogers
By Worker Correspondent

by worker correspondent
NEW YORK Enclosed you will
find a clipping from page IL of
the Jewish newspaper, The Day, of
Jan. 26, 1885. I am sending it so
that you may have checked my
free translation of the item.
1t appears that Ward A. Rogers,
a young man of "a years, recently
graduated from college and was
then lucky enough to obtain a job
as an F.E.R.A. teacher cat about
SIPS a day. in Arkansas. Now, Mr..
Rogers was sent to Arkansas to
tell the people of the wonders of
the New Deal.
But it appears that Rogers was
an honest and intelligent person
and so told the sharecroppers that
the feudal system under which they
lived had never been good, but that
now the New Deal, since it restricted
planting and thus threw men out
of work, had made conditions
unbearable for the Sharecroppers.
Mr.. Rogers went on to read the
Declaration of Independence to his
students and to preach from other
"anarchistic, communistic, bolshe-
Yistic and alienistic" las any Amer
lean Congressman would say docu-
ments. Therefore he was promptly
deprived of his SIPS a day, fined
$500 and put into prison for six
months.
Mr.. Rogers education is certainly
progressing. Should we not show
him the strength of united
workers protest?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
From Factory, Mine, Farm and Office
Rochester Clothing Union Heads
EVOlVe Great Variety of Pay Cuts

BY Needle Worker Correspondent
ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Being a
member Of a union for a number
Of years, I still cannot make out
what is the principle of a union.
The Amalgamated Clothin g
Workers Of American in Rochester
has made its main purpose the cut
ting Of the workers wages. They
have cut so many times that they
cannot put any more cuts over.
They put a proposition to the
workers Of Braverman's Of a 10
per cent loan to the concern. The
workers paid for about a year.
Then the workers were called in by
one of the union officials and
forced to sign a contract that the
10 per cent loan should remain with
the firm.
One worker had nerve enough to
protest and he was fired.
Then they came to the rest of
the workers and forced q Is per
cent loan for about a year. For six
months the officials took off Is per
cent, but now they are taking off
7 per cent and telling the workers
that the loan is for five years.
The cutters of Hickey g. Free
man were asking the union officials
for their money because they are
not working They we're told they
cannot have it.
In Rochester a new firm came in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Learner Scheme
Cuts Pay
By Textile Worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
BURLINGTON, N. C.-The vir-
ginia Cotton Mills, of Swepsonville,
N. c., took on several learners not
long ago. Learners work two weeks
without pay, then for six weeks
they are supposed to get So. After
that the code price is supposed to
be $12 week.
The yarn that these learners run
was so rotten that they could
hardly run it. They could not make
more than so pounds. Production
was rs pounds. The foreman
thought these girls were not doing
their best, so they sent to E. M.
Holt Plaid Mill for experienced
hands, but it was impossible for
them to make more than the learn
ers.
The BOSNIAN told them that if
they couldn't make production to
get out. The girls were driven SO
hard that they were forced to quit.
He hired new learners and pays
them according to what they pro-
duce, which is never over 81 or S.
per week, instead Of paying them
the code prices.
After these learners begin to
make good as experienced hands,
they will be turned off and new
ones taken on. In this way they
have never to pay more than IS per
week for redrawing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Worker Contrasts
Textile Leaders
By Textile Worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
CHARLOTTE, N. CT noticed .
statement in the Charlotte Labor
Journal which said that the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union was a
Communist enterprise, and that the
fact that it was disbanded showed
that it had no foundation.
Now, I can say one thing to the
writer Of this article. You don't
know what you are talking about.
All you are trying to do is to mis-
lead the workers.
One other thing I wish to mention
which the writer said in that paper
which is no good. The writer said,
beware Of a census taker-the red
flame is on the spot. He went on
to say that the officers of the State
Federation of Labor gave her the
cold shoulder ard told her to move
along.
Now, can say one thing for Ann
Burlak, she will not lie to the work
ers. She will go to Jail for the
workers if necessary, which is more
than German, Green and the others
will do. What have these A. F. of
L. officials to say about the strikers
in Burlington, N c., who have been
framed? They claim to have done
so much for the workers, but have
done nothing for these workers and
their families.
Did Ann Burlak stand still and
see these workers go to Jail? No,
she went to work with some other
good workers with the help of the
International Labor Defense. Now
these workers are out on bond.
I know why the A. F. of L. off,
Gals don't want her to speak to the
workers. 1t is because they know
that she will tell the truth, and the
tSlth is what German and Green
do not want the workers to know.
Il don't know anybody that can
bring out the truth like Ann Bur
lax. She will make friends when
German and Green will not have
a single worker following them
Why? Because the workers have
never heard her lie. She goes on
the picket lines while German and
the rest stay in warm hotels.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
BY Textile Worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
DANVILLE, Va.-On Tuesday,
Jan. %, the Danville Bee Ca local
company controlled scsb sheet) car
ried two very interesting stories.
One is a statement of the COM
pany's profits for 1884, heralding
the increase in profits as a recov-
cry. The other is an account of
the announced intention of the U.
T. w. organizers to organize the
Danville textile workers.
The Bee" states that the Dan
River and Riverside Cotton Mill
Co. made net profit of SITS, 546.36
during the preceding year. Stock
holders with preferred stock were
paid S454, S8125.
This report shows that the toiling
masses in the textile mills here are
being exploited worse than ever be-
fore, that their living standards are
being beaten down lower and lower.
The vitality of the workers here is
being speedily replaced by listless-
ness, or, as one worker put it, lust
dying by degrees"
RoXie DodSon has succeeded in
keeping the U. T. w. local here
small enough to prevent any mill
tsnt action by it and, at the same
time, with the aid of her clique,
has fooled enough good union peo-
pie and kent them in so as to hold
the charter for the local.
But she senses the fact that her
red batting doesn't work so well
any more. She also sensed the fact
that she might no longer be useful
to the company unless she does
something drastic, so she declined
nomination for president Of the
local in the last election and threw
her support behind Barker, who is
officially president, but Roxie still
presides. over the meetings Barker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Will Press Protest
On Wagner Bill

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, JAM o.
In telegram to Congressman Rob-
ert L. Doughton, Saturday, the Lo-
cal Action Committee for the Work
erS' Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill informed him that lis
organizations represented by the
Committee demanded a chance to
expose the Wagner-Lewis Bill be-
fore the Ways and Means Commit
tee of the House of Representatives,
and the passage of the Workers
Bill, H. r. 2827.
At a series of meetings in South
Philadelphia, West Philadelphia and
Strawberry Mansions, held under
the auspices of the United Jewish
Committee for the Workers Bill,
resolutions demanding free express
sion of opposition to the Wagner
Lewis Bill and for passage of the
Lundeen Bill were ordered sent to
Doughton, Roosevelt, e-President
Garner, Senate Finance Committee,
the House Committee on Labor and
to individual congressman.
A delegation of five has been
elected by the Local Action Com
mittee to go to Washington this
week when the Ways and Means
Committee opens hearings on the
Wagner-Lewis Bill. An appeal for
funds, to finance the trip and to
clear up debts left by the Sponsor
ing Committee for the National
Congress on Unemployment, was is
sued Saturday by the Action Com
mittee. Organizations and individ-
uals have been urged to rush funds
to Room TOT Flanders Building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Loan Shark Snaps
At C. p. i'll Maine
BIZ a worker CORRESPONDENT

ny WOEkeT correspondent
ROCKLAND, Me- read in the
Portland Press-Herald that Repre-
sentative Cleveland Sleeper, Jr., of
this town has prepared a bill "at
the direction of National Legion
headquarters" which would prevent
the Communist Party from appear
ing on the ballot in the future cleo
tions in Maine.
1t might be interesting to know
something about this Sleeper. He
is an aggressive young man who is
In business with his father operat-
ing the Confidential Loan Co., a
loan shark outfit that charges 3
per cent month interest on loans.
While he was in college, he had
the reputation of being q radical
He openly admires Hitler and re-
SembleS him somewhat physically,
even to the moustache. He is anti
Jewish although his sister is mar
ried to a Jew, and it is said that he
is partly Jewish himself.
This Legion tie-up is something
new, because up until recently,
Sleeper lost no opportunity to scorn
the veterans. He is not one him
self, being too young.
Most of Sleeper's customers are
cement workers and farmers, pri-
marily Firms and Norwegians. His
business makes SIS, 900 year from
these people
Conditions are very bad here,
with the cement plant running at
a very low capacity. The lime bust
ness has petered out in the last
few years altogether.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
DanViIle Mills Soaring Profits
Cast Shadows of Toll and Hunger

has been her special sidekick for
very long time They are a fine
pair-one is a company agent and
the other won't be trusted by his
own brother. Barker was once a
member of the Communist Party,
but We soon got wise to him and
he was dropped as being no good.
Now, the problem is this. We
Communists want a real trade
union here, and we know the senti-
ment of the workers in the mills
toward Roxie Dodson. They know
she is company agent. We think
that the organizers here now, Bolick
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Forwards Keen Eve
Hunts Militancy
BY Needle Worker Correspondent

BY a Needle Worker Correspondent
NEW York; want to express
my great satisfaction through the
Daily Worker with the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union.
1 charge the editor of the Jewish
Daily Forward, Abe Cahan, and his
assistants with continually throw
ing dirt and lies to damage the
struggles of the workers.
For years, whenever the more
conscious workers in the union
dared to breathe a breath more
militant that would lead toward
class struggle theology, the group
of workers were detected and ruth
lessly exterminated by the agents of
the Forward who were in control of
the union. They were deprived of
jobs, and driven from shop to shop.
suffering from all sorts of perse-
cution.
Reading the Forward, not volun-
tarily but because it happens to be
in the home where I live, one Won
ders if the Hearst papers could de-
generate into sheets as yellow as
this with more vicious lies about
the Soviet Union.
1t is too bad that these bought
scribblers still pass among some Of
the workers as authorities on labor
and social problems.
would suggest that the needle
trades workers print these charges
against the Forward in the form OF
a lesflet that will be put in the
hands of the workers.
1t will be an eye opener to many
workers who read the Forward anc
never read a revolutionary working
class paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
String Attached
To Relief
BY a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
Ell PASO, Textile relief here
is pretty bad. Some of us are get
ting two days a week at 80 cents an
hour for a six-hour day. That
makes $3.50 a week with which to
pay for food, clothes, rent and all
other necessities of life. So our
standard of living, if you can call
it living, is worse than it is in most
states.
We were buying our groceries in
Juarez, Mexico, exchanging our
dollar for $355 Mexican money. In
this way we were almost able to get
by. Now the relief, united with
the Chamber of Commerce, is go
ing to pass 9 law that every worker
that spends a dollar for groceries
in Juarez is going to be dropped
from the relief rolls,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Idaho Unemployed
Score Victory
BIZ a Worker CORRESPONDENT


COEUR dALENE, Idaho.-I will
try and relate the happenings of
the last few days in as few words
as possible.
About two weeks ago the local
relief set-up announced that there
was to be 20 per cent cut on all
budgets. Our budgets, before the
cut, ranged from $28 for two in
family up to sos or $75 for eight or
nine in the family. This cut was
taken without an organized protest.
However, the workers were very dis
satisfied with it.
Last Wednesday afternoon the
workers on work relief were in
formed that all relief was down for
the rest of the month and they
probably wouldn't even get checks
for the four and half days that
they had worked.
That evening the Relief Workers
Protective Union held regular
weekly meeting in the Community
Room of the County Court House.
At that time the relief problem was
taken up. All three Of the County
Commissioners were present and
two spoke. The substance of their
speeches was that we should "sit
tight" and wait" that Congress
was going to help us.
However, the workers there were
past waiting, and wanted action.
They elected a committee of fiji
teen that was to lead demonstIa-
ton the next day in the relief Of
flee. They also drew up at the
meeting the following demands:
/. Immediate re-enactment of all
relief on the following rates: $25
minimum and $40 for each de-
pendent, with no discrimination.
2. That Mayor Coe, the County
Commissioners and the I. E. R. A.
representatives be called to the I. E.
R. A. office to meet with our COM
mittee to make temporary plans for
caring for our immediate needs.
8. That demands be telephoned
to Washington, D. c., and Boise,
Idaho.
4. That commodities on hand be
distributed.
5. That free medical and dental
care be given, with the workers
having the right to choose their
own doctor.
6. The. mattresses on hand be
distributed.
7. That direct relief be given to
those who are sick, or who unayoid-
ably miss a days work.
8. Free wood for those in need.
9. That the 1. E. R. A. recognize
the Relief Workers Protective
Union.
10. Free lights and water for all
those unemployed.
For the rest of the week we held
continuous demonstrations in the
relief office, and won many con-
cessions:
l. A SIS grocery order.
2. Wood for those in need.
3. Recognition of the union and
a promise that one representative of
the union would be placed upon the
investigating committee in the re-
lief office.
4. Thirty-five mattresses to be
distributed to the most needy.
CIo{hiror 10 s,,I 81
needy.
6. Transients to be given relief
instead Of being sent to transient
camps.
7. City and county to pay for
lights, rent and fuel for a union
hall.
However, we are not satisfied. We
are keeping up the fight till we wiz
all our demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30

They are called Bonds. The work
ers are earning very little. The
union officials called them in about
two weeks ago and gave the workers
a raise. The raise works this way:
They took money from those that
were earning more and gave to
those who were earning less.
Fashion Park and Hickey & Free
man workers are getting another
cut Of IS per cent for the new sea-
son.
I would like to know what kind
of protection worker gets from a
union.
EDITORS NOTE: A union is
formed by workers to protect their
conditions on the job and the
right to a job. However, in a great
many unions the control has been
centered in the hands of a few
officials who run the union
against the interests of the vast
majority of the membership. In
these unions, 1t Is the duty of the
more advanced workers to rally
the whole membership in a fight
to protect their interests and run
out those officials that may stand
in the way Of such a policy. A
union is powerful weapon, but
it is up TO the workers to retain
1t in their hands and use it in
their interest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
MS RDsossA

and Moorehouse, know of this senti-
ment also. If they want to prove
themselves on the level and build
up a mass organization here, their
first move will be to get her out
as soon as possible.
Not until Roxie Dodson is ousted
will the masses here regain conf
dence in the United Textile Work
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Stretch-Out Worse
At Lane Mill

BY a Textile Worker Correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, Ls.-Times at
the Lane Mill are getting .lorse.
Now the spinners are having to pick
their waste, The spinners are run
ming sides on both of these differ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
NOTE

Every Wednesday we publish let
tiers from shoe, textile and needle
workers. We urge workers in these
Industries to write us of their con-
ditions and efforts to organize.
Please get these letters to us by
Saturday Of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30

Counterfeit Hearst's poisonous
anti-working class propaganda by
utilizing the Daily Worker series
on wall Streets Fascist Conspir-
acy." Canvass homes. sell on
street-corrers, before movie
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Il q ME
1 + Z
BY
Ann Barton

HAVE HEARD LIBERALS SAY
well. at least one good thing
roosevelt seems to have done is to
abolish child labor!" Roosevelt's
endorsement Of the Child Labor
Amendment has not abolished child
labor. Further, the Amendment it
self If ratified would still leave
many loopholes for child labor. A
weekly magazine points out that
ratification of the Child Labor
Amendment would merely give tc
Congress the power to limit, reg
ula5e. and prohibit the labor Of per
sons under eighteen years of age"
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN
slave long hours among the agricul-
tural workers. Every survey Of
homework emphasizes the fact that
additional large numbers Of chill
dren toll at home, make artificial
flowers, work in the fabricated metal
industry, working their young
energy away to add few cents to
the family budget that barely pro-
vides tbs food for existence. The
Children's Bureau Investigating
conditions Of newspaper carriers
under the age of sixteen, found that
one-third of the newspaper sellers
are under IA, many working until
o'clock in the evening and later.
One 12-year-old boy, interviewed
among others in a small town had
worked from after school until 5
o'clock, and later the same day from
$3.50 p. m. until two in the morning.
Seventeen per cent of the newspaper
sellers under sixteen earn less than
fifty cents a week-two-thi of
them less than $500.
AND YET seventy Eight N. r. A.
codes have no provision against the
use of children in dangerous work
and in those codes which include
provisions on child labor accord
ing to an editorial in the New Re
public There is nothing in the
law or the codes that may not melt
away under the warmth of a rising
industrial activity"
EVEN AGAINST this Amendment
which seeks only that Congress will
have the power to approve or dis
approve or limit activities of chill
dren working in specific industries,
there is protest. Elisha Hanson
counsel of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association says the
work of the thousands of newsboys
throughout the country "is not
child labor not by any stretch of
the Imagination" Other employers
speak through newspapers and the
radio against even a paper chal-
lenge to their authority.
THERE Is THE NECESSITY
that this amendment be ratified in
the remaining sixteen states neces-
sary. There is the necessity for a
mass campaign for further legisla-
ton. It is not sufficient that Con-
gress snail decide" in specific in
dustrieS. Child labor under sixteen
must be abolished. And working
conditions, wages, hours, of ado
lescents, up to eighteen must be
strictly ssfeguarded, from the point
of view of their health and needs.
There must be provided government
funds for the children now working.
ONLY the praVeSt economic pressure
sends child working Without
funds for maintenance of those who
are now child workers, any child
labor legislation would be farce,
and just for the record.
We would be interested to re-
ceive any material on child labor
our readers have available. Is there
child labor in your section of the
country? What are the conditions
wages, hours, home conditions,
etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Can You Make EN- Yourself?

Pattern 2O29 is available in sizes
Is, 18, 20, "a, So, 80, 40, AZ, "A and
IS. Size IS takes 4 and ne-eighth
yards 80 inch fabric. Illustrated
step-by-step sewing instructions in
Guided.
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