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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Horses Receive Better Treatment
Than Men in Lumber Can't
By Lumber Worker Correspondent

BY Lumber Worker Correspondent
LOCKWOOD, Me.-In this camp,
owned by the Great Northern Paper
Company, which is built to house
from eighty to one hundred men,
Their are three windows. Each is 10
inches by "a inches in size. Two are
at the back end of the camp and
one is in the roof.
At night we have a small kerosene
lamp in each of the four corners of
the camp. We have seni-darkness
"a hours day.
TIL stable, or hovel at it is called,
which is the same size as the bunk
house is built to house IS horses and
has four ventilators and eight win
dows. There is no ventilation in the
clubhouse.
There is a horse doctor that
travels from camp to camp and ad-
ministers to the sick or manned
horses, while the men must travel
100 miles to the nearest place where
they can receive medical attention.
They keep a supply of hay and
oats ahead for the horses. while
there is always a shortage of some
thing when we workers come to eat
We are equal to the horses in one
respect, we all drink out of the
same brook.
We have outdoor plumbing The
clubhouse is made of small poles
with tar paper on three sides and
the roof. 1t was so stuffy during the
fall weather that holes we're broken
through the sides for ventilation
The seat is a pole about ten feet
long, with another pole as a back
rest. A great place in this sub-zero
weather.
Lice Galore
There is no laundry connected
with the camp Men are forced to dc
their own washing. Every Sunday
we are compelled to wash our
clothes or become so lousy that life
would be unbearable. Every man in
camp has some lice. We must wash
our clothes outdoors. We build a
fire and heat some water for scrub
bing and then we have to boil all OF
our shirts. socks and underwear in
order to kill the lice that are sure
to be on them. Two and sometimes
three Sixteen-qusrt pals are fur
nished by the company for this pur-
pose. Pals are busy from 4 O'Clock
SUNDAY morning till o'clock Sun
day night.
The bosses are all slave drivers
The Great Northern started up their
camps last summer after being clos
ed for seven or eight years. Prac-
tically all of the bosses are working
for the Northern for the first time
and are out to make a name for
themselves at the expense of the
workers. This is also true of the
cook in the woods camp. The bosses
are forever telling the men that
there are four hundred men in Ban
gor, all of whom would like to get
work in the woods. One straw boss
in camp is always warning the men
that they ~ill be forced into bread
line in Boston if they don't work
hard, as he will be forced to lay
them off.
They have unique system OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

Telegraph Merger
To Hit Workers
BY a Telegraph Worker Core
spOndent

8BuuutHL
NEW YORK.-Recent develop
ments on the merger of all tele,
graph companies now being rushed
through in Washington should
serve as a danger signal to al
workers.
What does it mean? Under the
old conditions of competition, the
employers have been able to cut the
messengers wages, worsen condi-
tions, and, above all, completely
change our status. Before the
crash, a messenger was lured on
with the promise that if after sew
ersl months work in the company
he proves himself fit, he would be
promoted to higher position. This
opened the prospect of a career to
a fellow-something to hang on to-
But what have they done now?
Now, messengers are transient en-
ployes," that is, they kick you out
after few months in the COM
pany. When you are out and look
ing for a job, you find that the boss
wants experience but he can't use
your type of experience in his bust
ness. So, you find yourself back
where you started. Nothing gained
from work for the telegraph COM
panies excepting a few bunions.
All this has taken place before
any merger was in sight. Now, with
the merger becoming an established
fact, with the whole apparatus in
the hands of a few monopolists
having absolute control, they can
do anything they wish with us I'M
less we are prepared to fight them.
One of our first demands should
be an end to this intolerable con-
dition of absolute insecurity. We
must demand preference in the hir-
ing of clerks, operators, etc. The
Western Union training school is
operating full blast in New York,
turning out clerks, operators, etc,
but you will not find one messenger
among them. We must demand
promotions along with our other
demands. We must prepare ade-
quately to meet this new great
danger of merger with its layoffs,
wage cuts, etc. Let's use the one
powerful weapon in our hands
against the employers. Organize
into the ranks of the Telegraph
Messengers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

room for three days to a week,
sometimes longer without receiving
food or carfare while really protect
ing the trains that might have gone
into service. Something should be
done about this. These men should
receive compensation for services
rendered while protecting these
different trains.
Why don't the Brotherhood Off
Gals look out for these men? I'll
tell you. It's because the Brother
hood officials are company men, a
bunch of yes-men. What the rail-
road workers should do is form an
independent union or Brotherhood
out of control of the company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Pullman Company Tries
To Wreck Union
BY R. R. Worker Correspondent

BY r. r. Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Hope you will give
me space in your paper to expose
the rotten condition in Sunnyside
yards for all workers to know what
is going on under cover.
The Pullman Company wants our
independent union because they
think they will be able to dictate tc
us. But they are mistaken. We
intend to get what we want
They have fired one of our men,
bers with eighteen years service, but
this is not going to scare us. They
will have to fire all of us before we
are through.
The electricians and mechanics
have separate union. But If they
know what is good for them they
should let us all be one. We are
all workers. United we stand
divided we fall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
NOTE

Every Friday we publish letters
from workers in the transportation
and communications industries:
railroad, marine, trucking, trac-
ton, taxi, telegraph, telephone,
etc We urge workers in these i'm
dustries to write US of their con-
ditions and efforts to organize.
Please get these letters to us BY
Tuesday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
AFL Urges Dining
Car Men to Join
BY R. R. Worker Correspondent

BY r. R. Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-A meeting was
held by the Dining Car Employees
Union, Local $40 AFFILIATED to the
A. F.. of L., to which dining car
workers Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road were invited.
There were many speakers who
proposed to the men of the Penn
sylvania Railroad that they join the
Dining Car Employees Union. The
speakers pointed out that during the
fourteen years of the Brotherhood
of Dining Car Cooks and Walters,
Lemus the Grand President of
Council No. l. never represented the
men against the company. He was
only a puppet of the railroad and
sacrificed the interests of the men
for his own benefit. They said the
Brotherhood was only corpse.
The men in the Sunnyside Yards
are disguised with the Brotherhood
and are seeking a solution. The A
F. of L. program met with a good
response from the workers present.
The speakers of the A. F.. of L.
promised better representation and
that it would fight for the grievances
of the men.
The Daily Worker has always
pointed out that Lemus was acting
for the company and not for the
men. The Daily Worker has always
urged us to organize under real
rank and file leadership. We think
that if we are to seriously consider
the A. F. Of l.. union we must insist
that a clear policy of struggle
against the company is carried out
under rank and file control.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

increase from the former $75 to 500
a month, for coastwise operators,
and from the former $85 to $40 a
month for intercoastal operators.
Other demands won are the eight
hour day first class accommoda-
tons, transportation if laid off any
where away from the home port,
and hiring through the union. The
strike was markSd by repeated at
tempts of police to break up picket
lines
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
FlemingtOnVictOry
Spurs Messengers
BY a Telegraph Worker
Correspondent

NEW YORK. - 7 am Western
Union messenger. The clerk in my
office gives me the Daily Worker to
read on Fridays, and I sort Of like
the paper.
I read a few days ago in the
papers that the messengers struck
in Pennington and Omaha, and in
both cities the messengers won. In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Radio Operators Win
Strike on West Coast

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.-Strik-
ing freightship radio operators of
the Mccormick Steamship Company
won most of their demands when a
move was made by the Radio Tele-
graphers Association to call a coast
wise strike. The union won a wage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

Helper, Utah, in the Colorado
District, raises its voice. Helper
marked up an enyiable record in
the financial drive.
you will hear from Helper in
the sub drive" writes Adam Ostoich
the Daily Worker representative
there.
I'VE are getting into full swing
and intend to surpass our quota OF
45 daily and IS Saturday subs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
No Pay for Standing BY
On Pennsylvania R.R.
By R. R. worker Correspondent

BY a r. r. Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. What I would like
to know is what is to become of the
workers that were hired for the
rush the Pennsylvania had during
the holidays?
Apparently something could be
done about the system now being
used. The majority of the men
hired during the rush were held in
the yard or Office to protect certain
jobs and were not paid. Some OF
these men were held in the crew
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

Trade union unity is the most
important question before the
trade unions of the world. In
France and Norway great adj
vances have been made in uniting
the trade unions. We publish be-
low the reply of the Red Inter
national of Labor Unions to the
Norwegian Trade Union Fedora
ton on the question of the unity
of the world trade union move
ment.
To the Secretariat of the Norwegian
Trade Union Federation,
Comrades:
The Executive Bureau of the Red
international of Labor Unions hav-
ing discussed your letter dated De-
cember 20 and the resolution OF
your Congress, expresses its salts
faction with the fact that the recent
Trade Union Congress in Norway
recognized trade union unity as a
vital necessity, declared for organ
national unification on the basis OF
class struggle and stated that the
workers National Trade Union Fed
Grafton of Norway was prepared to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Army Base Worker
Writes on War
By a Worker COrrespondent

NEW YORK. - The BROOKLYN
Army Base employees are probably
in better position to see the actual
preparations for war than are most
workers. We see from four to five
hundred trucks being shipped
monthly to the Canal Zone and
the islands in the Pacific together
with large quantities of machine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

q POINT out to my children why
l we don't have this or that. I ex-
plain that many children are cold.
hungry and sick. because their
fathers have no work and can
not get relief. The older boy under
stands this happens because the
bosses own everything and run the
factories for their own profit. con-
slider it a real Bolshevik responsible
ity to so condition the attitude of
my children at the earliest possible
age, that if the bosses should take
them away from me, as the children
of some of the revolutionists in
Spain were put in institutions last
october. they could never teach
them to be enemies of their class
You know the old saying attributed
to the Catholic Church: Give me
child until he is seven, and you
can have him for the rest of his
life.
Psychologists and educators say
thats childs disposition and mental
attitudes are pretty we'll set before
he enters school-that his education
begins in infancy. Parents must
make of their children clear minded
proletarians who cannot be led into
out and out scabbing or into the
under-cover scabbing of the fake
friends of the workers. We must
train our children to evaluate what
they are taught in school.
''We know that a large percentage
of the children of even Party mem
bers do not belong to our organiza-
tons. I believe it is of the utmost
Importance for our movement to dis
cus3 this thing, and hope that many
comrades will send in their ideas
on how to do better job as work
ing class parents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

Win a free trip to the Soviet
Union, a free vacation in work
ers' camp, or cash. Join the Daily
Worker subscription contest. Write
to so E. 18th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Districts Move Into ActiOn
In Daily Worker Sub DriUe

"ActOnw fast becoming the ringing Daily
drive front With the subscriptions that already received
the start has been made Every part the country had time
to set funcionng apparaus-and the expects
to hear regularly from every district
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
81 @ Me
l. / 2 Z
By
Ann Barton

AND still the letters come in an
n swer to Mrs. Lora P. who asked
how she can best raise her children
to be good members Of their class.
Here is one Of the most interesting.
from a Cleveland, Ohio, mother.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

The above the latest reports Every
hard and fast to the gOa10OO
There is time ose!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

Chicago's conference on the drive
will be held Sunday, Feb. II, at the
Peoples Auditorium.
Chicago has secured more sub
Scriptions than any other district in
the drive, so far, but it is only in
fifth place in percentage. It's quota
is 1900 daily and $3.50 Saturday
subs. 1t is now picking up fast.
The District Committee of the
Communist Party in that city has
decided that one member from each
Party unit is to enter the subscrip-
ton contest.
is. Every District must now push
,OO daiJv and TX OOO SATURDAY. suhs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

7 HAVE three children and here
l is how I am trying to bring them
up to take their places in the class
struggle. I believe with the educa-
tors in the Soviet Union that chill
dren should take part in the life
going on around them, not kept
from it by a fake fairy tale security
which will sooner or later be
stripped from them, leaving them
helpless and unfit. This education
can be started almost when the
baby first begins to talk. My Oldest
child, now six and a half, went to
Unemployment Council meetings
with me when he was just a fodder.
He showed he had absorbed a num-
Der of ideas. now read to him
Bows Against the Barons," an eX-
citing working class version Of
Robin Hood, explaining the back
ground of the oppression Of the
workers during feudal times. And
every month I read the Pioneer
magazine to him. and every day the
Little Lefty comic strip in the Daily
Worker.
Reading is indispensable in teach
ing children. but would not make
them class conscious by itself. I do
my best to interpret for my children
everyday occurrences. For instance,
my little boy made doll in school.
and after he brought it home. made
an array Of clothes for it. He took it
to the neighbors where three boys
made fun of him, telling him that
only girls play with dolls. explain
ed to him that he knew boys grew
up to be fathers, and the reason the
boys laughed was because they had
the old idea that women were in
ferior to men, her only job to take
care of the children and slave in
the kitchen. There is no reason why
boys shouldn't be interested in dolls
Cor that his little sister should not
use 2 saw or hammer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
TRAFFIC DEATH
BILL OFFERED

The District Commissioner yes
terday submitted bill to Congress
to create . charge of negligent
homicide" in cases where a jury
does not find a motorist guilty
Of manslaughter in a trial for
killing a person in an automo-
bile accident.
Under the bill such motorists
could be found guilty of a mis-
demeanor and be punished by a
$1,000 fine, imprisonment for
one year, or both.
The legislation was suggested
by the Board of Trade.
Another bill submitted by the
Commissioners would raise the
dividing line between petty and
grand larceny from $35 to SIS.
This bill is to relieve the conges-
ton Of higher courts by placing
more larceny cases in the juriS-
diction of Police Court.
Legislation to permit the Dis
trict to borrow PWA funds for
construction of the Police, NUM-
cipal, and Juvenile Courts annex
of the proposed Municipal Center
also was submitted to Congress.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
Explosion of Tire
Causes Mans Death

Explosion of a truck tire which
he was changing late yesterday
cost the life early today of J. E.
Cunningham, 20, an employee of
the B. F. Joy Company. He died
in Emergency Hospital of skull
fracture inflicted when the rim of
the exploding tire struck him in
the head. He lived in the 900
block of I st. N. w.
Officials of the tire firm said
today that the accident was caused
when the air pressure in the tire
became too great for a blowout
patch.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
Universal Service

Assailed by the Administration
from without and torn by con.
flicting elements from within, the
secret hundred" bloc of House
Democrats was in a state of dis.
solution today.
It was noised about Capitol
corridors the members would
work independently rather than
bring further wrath on their
heads from the Democratic lead.
ership.
Speaker Byrns meanwhile de.
clared he knew nothing of an
organized minority movement
within the majority party to
plague the Administration with
radical and cleft wing" legisla.
ton. He said:
There have been quite a
few SO:called new members
meetings, but those present as
sured me they have no inten.
ton of forming blOcs."
The "secret hundred" as ten.
tatively organized last week by re-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
Secret 100 in House
DlssOlves Under Fire

bellious members, hoped to pre-.
sent a united front in demanding
action on progressive and in some
cases radical legislation.
They were united through a
common grudge at what they
termed the Administrators fail
ure to give them their share of
Jobs for constituents. Their agenda
included also the 30-hour week,
payment of bonus through infla-
ton, free or increased coinage of
silver, greater unemployment re.
lief and pension benefits, and
cheap refinancing of farm mort
cages.
Many who favor the bonus but
are opposed to other planks of
the secret hundred" were asked
to join. They were Modified by
definite promises yesterday to
bring the bonus bill to the floor
Immediately after the pending
economic security legislation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
AUTO PERCHES
ON SEAWALL

An automobile perched danger
ously on the edge of the seawall
in Potomac Park near the Titanic
Memorial proved a mystery for
several hours today.
Sighted by number of persons
driving to work, the car was re.
ported to United States Park Po-
lice. After an investigation, the
mystery was unraveled.
Police found the car belonged to
Roy A. Doe, employe of the Episco-
pal Ear, Eye and Throat Hospital,
of the 1900 block K st. N. w. Mr..
Doe said he was driving through
the park last night, when he be-
came engulfed in a dense fog and
drove over the turf to the seawall.
Unable to eXtricate his car, Mr..
Doe went home to bed,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
DelanO to Retain
Smithsonian Post

Removal of the Buffalo Hunt"
a Statuary group by Henry K.
Bush-Brown, to Washington to be
erected in a public space is pro-
vided in a bill reported favorably
yesterday by the House Library
Committee. The statuary is now
in storage.
The committee also recon-
mended reappointment of Frederic
A. Delano as a member of the
board of regents of Smithsonian
Institution, and acted favorably on
a bill to set aside SITS, 900 for
books for the blind and on a
measure awarding a Congressional
Medal for DR.. George E. Holt
zapple, of York, Pa, for being the
first to administer oxygen in the
treatment of pneumonia.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
U.S., Japan War
Seen by Buell.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 26 GN.S.).
Grave danger of a war between
the United States and Japan was
the warning left here today by
Raymond Leslie Buell., national
president of the Foreign Policy
Association. Mr.. Buell. said:
my reason for this belief is
that the Japanese think our
billion-dOllar Army and Navy
building program is to attack
them on ASiatic borders. There
is danger that the japanese
will hurry a war to prevent our
becoming too strong"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
Doctor Sentenced
In Actress Death

NEW YORK, Feb. 26 G.N.S).
Charged with causing the death
of Virginia Allen Ball, 21-year-old
showgirl. whose body was found
on his operating table, DR.. Julius
Miller was sentenced to from 5 to
Is years at Sing Sing by County
Judge Brancato in Brooklyn. He
was convicted of manslaughter by
an illegal operation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
SURVEY SOUGHT

The Senate yesterday passed a
bill by Senator McNary (RO, of
Oregon, authorizing expenditure
of $2,100,000 to survey feasibility
OF a highway connecting the
Northwest with Alaska, running
through Canada. The House has
not acted on it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
Rev. E. G.. Smith
Talks to Ministers

The Rev. E. c. Smith, pastor OF
Metropolitan Baptist Church, ad
dressed the Baptist Ministers Con.
ference yesterday at Vermont Ave.
nue. Baptist Church. The Rev
Robert Anderson is president of
the conference,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
LADIES BINCO PARTY

The Ladies Auxiliary of the Dis.
trict of Columbia Fire Depart
ment will give a card and bingo
party at 8 o'clock tonight in the
Southern Diaries, so M st. N. E.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26
PARTY FOR HOLY NAME

A card and bingo party for the
benefit of the Holy Name Society
of Holy Comforter Church will be
held on Friday at the Holy Com
forter School Auditorium, Fiji.
tenth and East Capitol Streets.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-09-20
ERNEST BENJAMIN

The funeral of Ernest Benjamin,
who died some time Monday, the 9th,
as he was found by neighbor that
evening, was held Thursday after
noon at his home near the Woodlawn
Camp grounds. The service was
conducted by Rev. John R. Diehl.
Beautiful Isle OF Somewhere" was
sung by Mrs. Gilbert SINNERS and
Mr.. Carroll Tyson. His six brothers,
George, Hayes, Franklin, Ellis, Stan
ley and Alfred, served as pall-bearers
Interment was in Hopewell cemetery
His wife, two little girls, Erma, age
z, and Norma Opal, age 3; his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hayes Benjamin;
two sisters, Evelyn and Mrs. Ross
McDougal, of Port Deposit, survive.
He was thirty years of age.