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AS WAR BASE AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION

Conformity with the order of mar
tial law just promulgated by the
Army General Staff of Roumania,
as well as the dissolution of the 81
anti-fascist organizations due to the
general unrest and the increasing
upsurge of the Roumanian masses,
a feverish preparation for war has
been going on in this fascist mill
tarist country having as its primary
aim an attack against the Soviet
Union, this in spite of the non-ag-
erosion pact existing between the
two countries.
Bessarabia Plundered
The war base, the depot for war
ornaments, the camp for war ma
neuvers is Bessarabia. Bessarabia
is that rich province which the
Roumanian army with the aid of
that gangster of the "Moldavian
National Bloc Ivan Inkuletz, in
vaded during the 1917-1918 period
and snatched from Russia. 1t has
a population of about four million
and covers an area Of about ten
million acres of land. 1t is one of
the richest provinces of Roumania.
Nearly all the land is fertile and
cultivated. There are approximately
100000 hectares of forests, different
KINDS Of waters, outlets to the Black
Sea and the Danube, cattle, sheep,
vineyards, tobacco, sugar refineries;
over 200 industrial enterprises, al
cohol distilleries, cloth and other
factories. All these riches were
seized by the Roumanian bour-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Railroads Fight
Labor Bill
BY a Railroad Worker
Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Officials
of the Pennsylvania Railroad and
other roads, are carrying on an in
tense campaign to break the soli-
darity of the railroad workers
smash their unions, in order to de-
feat the Trainmen's Full Grew and
Short Train Length Bill, which
promises some relief to the rail-
road workers.
A high powered drive by company
lawyers is bringing pressure on the
State Legislature against the Bill
They are notwithstanding many rail-
road workers to sign petitions
against the Bill and piling these up
in Harrisburg as evidence" OF
workers opposition to the Bill.
1t is becoming constantly more
obvious to many railrad workers
that the only effective means of
meeting these attacks is strong,
solid, militant united body or rail-
road workers with clear under
standing of the necessity for carry
ing on militant and organized
campaign against the companies
their lawyers, and the company
unions.
The Railroad Unity Committee
1873 s. 9th Street, Philadelphia. has
begun the campaign for a united
railroad workers organization to
meet the attacks of the companies
1t has distributed leafiet in every
railroad yard in the city, and in
the railroad centers at Reading
Baltimore, Lancaster, Scranton
Easton, etc, exposing the corrupt
methods of the companies to force
workers to refrain from supporting
this Bill. 1t calls on all Railroad
Unions to pass resolutions in their
lodges demanding the passage OF
the Full Grew Bill, and to flood
Governor Earle and members of the
State Legislature with them.
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Soviet Workers Vacations
Described by TeIegrapher

with the single addition that they
travel. With these boats you stop
at many ports and you are led by
competent guides to see historic
places of interest. The trip usually
takes between 20 to % days.
LAST but not least is the rapid
development of hiking and noun
tain climbing.
Who owns the various resting
places described above? How does a
worker secure a place?
Trade Union Control
The sanitariums and the all-union
lest homes were divided up among
the central trade unions. The local
rest homes among the local trade
unions. These organizations equip
and maintain their particular
places.
Each and every worker undergoes
physical examination by a special
commission that may recommend
him either for a rest-home or a
cure. With this certificate the
worker applies to the vacation sec
ton of his trade union Due to
the insufficient number of places as
yet, not all workers are placed ex-
actly where they may desire. The
shock brigader gets the preference
over the non-shock brigader.
The Union of Electrical Commu-
nication, telephone, telegraph and
radio, has a number of very fine
sanitariums in Odessa. Sebastopol
and KislavodSk, and also a number
of beautifully located local rest
homes.
As no organization can have san
itariums for every cure, the trade
union may buy a number of places
in other sanitariums through the
central distributing organization of
the Department of Health, which is
supervising all of them.
All these places the shock
brigader gets free of charge. Also
low paid worker, even though he
may not be shock brigader, gets
these places free Of charge. He may
even get his railroad fare free.
Fellow telegraphers, I repeat.
please describe your conditions of
work. Also If you have any ques-
tons send them to the Worcorr De-
partment, CO of the Daily Worker.
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Tor military purposes exclusively,
Besides, over the whole province of
Bessarabia, air ports are being con-
structed in order to increase the air
flotilla of Roumania.
Attack on Anti Fascists
Like Nazi Germany. Roumania *
trying to prepare the Bessarbian
population ideologically for the war
against the Soviet Union and also
against the native workers. In order
to do that the Government through
the different fascist organizations
(Which the government formally
outlawed) are forming fascist youth
organizations. These schemes how
ever do not work out very we'll with
the workers and peasants, so that
the Government using all sorts of
tricks, is expelling thousands of
workers and in many cases doing it
by force. In their stead, from
Roumania proper they bring regi-
ments of gendarmes and retired
officers. This is done especially
with the population living along the
Dniester Not only are they pre-
pairing for an attack against the
Soviet Union but they even have
plans for the annexation of the
Odessa Region, the southern part
OF Ukrainia up to the natural
frontier of Roumania and the Au-
tonomous Socialist Republic of
Moldova," witness also the concen-
tration of troops in Bessarabia,
building Of new railways, the re-
cent loan floated in France for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Lake Seamen Fight
Forced Labor
BY a Marine Worker Correspondent

BY Marine Worker Correspondent
CLEVELAND, Ohio.-The seamen
of the Port of Cleveland began
picketing relief headquarters at East
Ninth Street last Friday.
During the latter part of Janu-
airy, the relief officials announced
that the seamen would start work
on Feb. l. This work was to con-
sist of building a road from the
Coast Guard Station to East Ninth
Street, twenty-four hours per week
for one dollar. Immediate action
was taken by the seamen, and to
date the relief takers have not made
a success of the program that was
to start Feb. l.
Labor organizations, along with
the unemployed organizations of the
city, stood behind us one hundred
per cent. The local delegate of the
International Seamen's Union, Sui
livan, was the only one within the
A, F. Of l.. that refused to take any
stand against the forced labor.
In the past week. any seamen that
showed any militancv were taken
out of the project and given rooms
on the outside. A seaman that made
an announcement during breakfast
was arrested but was later released.
When he returned to the project for
dinner he was told that he couldn't
get it there, but over one hundred
sc9men c1onTed the mind of the
faker, and the seaman had his din
r." I'D his ticket was given back
to him.
The demands of the seamen are.
1. No forced labor-all work done
to be paid for at the rate of sixty
cents per hour. 2. Meal tickets in
restaurants Of our own choosing.
2. Hotels of our own choosing.
4. Peturn of incidentals and to-
tacco.
tSirned) UNITED COMMITTEE
AGAINST FORCED LABOR.
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wages and call it a victory. This is
far from the provisions of the
Workers Bill, H. R. 1927, for Gull
wages for the entire period of un-
employment.
The Wall Street Journal also
hailed this settlement as a victory.
but for the B. & o., stating that
"a new impetus had been given the
drive to consolidate rail facilities by
this agreement The Wall Street
Journal let's the cat out of the bag
by showing how the B. & o. is
saving $4,000 year by the initial
payment of one years wages to so
men. The Brotherhood officials
are not interested in getting unem-
ployment insurance for these so
workers after their year of grace
is up. When these 50 members stop
paying dues into their lodges the
union officials will wash their
hands of them, as they have done
in the case of their 100000 brothers.
Again referring to the B. & o,
settlement the Wall Street Journal
comments: Rail executives here
feel that the compromise is proof
that unification of facilities can be
undertaken despite Section I of
the Emergency Transportation Act"
which the union officials claim re-
stricts lay-offs through consolida-
tons.
Sham Legislation Fight
This makes a sham of the whole
campaign of the labor executives,
who say they will appeal to Con-
gress to write into any railroad
legislation it may pass a provision
similar to the Section of the Emer-
gency Act, which expires June Is,
and which undertakes to stabilize
employment"
The proof of the pudding is in the
eating. Labor" reports what the
union chiefs SAY. The Wall Street
Journal reports what the union
chiefs DO. The fight for the six
hour day, for train length limita-
ton and other measures put for
ward by the labor executives (and
they have put these forward for the
past five years., as a smoke screen
to hide increasing unemployment,
is a battle of words.
While the chiefs talk, speed-up
increases, trains are heightened,
full crews are dispensed with, lay
offs go on! There is only one way
to stop lay-offs and win the de-
mands to reduce unemployment
(six-hour day. etc.. That way is
to unite the half million members
of the railroad unions to back rp
these demands with their organized
power. The Railway Labor Execu-
tives will never choose this method
until they are pushed into action by
the insistent pressure of the rank
and file.
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By a Soviet Worker Correspond

BY a Soviet Worker Correspondent
MOSCOW, U. S. S. Rim my
first letter I mentioned that the
telegraph operators here get one
months vacation with pay each
year. The question presents itself
then how does the vacation Of a
Soviet telegrapher differ from that
of worker in capitalist country.
To answer this question I must de-
scribe briefly the various vacation
places. by whom operated and who
pays for the upkeep.
In the Caucasus and the Crimea
there were a number of resorts,
where the rich used to go for their
rest and cure 1t is understood that
after the revolution, when the work
ecs began to receive vacations. these
few resort places proved insufficient.
So, all palaces were converted into
rest homes and equipped with all
modern improvements. Also, vast
number of new ones were built.
Types Of Vacation Grounds
The above may be subdivided into
several groups:
1-Sanitariums - Most of these
are located on the shores of the
Black Sea and at the mineral water
centers of the Caucasus. These
places are fully equipped for the
treatment of various diseases such
as rheumatism, heart, stomach, lung
and other ailments. They are at
tended by a competent medical
staff.
2-Rest homes. - There are local
rest homes where the worker spends
two weeks of rest near his city.
These rest homes may be found all
over the Soviet Union. These places
are usually palaces or large estates
Of the former nobility.
Then there are rest homes in the
Crimea, Caucasus and few other
places. These we will call all-union
rest homes. In these places. the
worker or peasant rests a month.
ga new kind of rest homes are
the so-called swimming palaces.
These are boats especially built and
equipped for vacationists, They
have everything a rest home has,
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Railway Labor Heads Block
JObless Insurance Fight

Railroad employment for Janu-
airy, 1885, was almost 1000 below
the lowest month in 1884, record
ing continuation of the merciless
drive Of the roads to ensure profits
by moving more traffic with fewer
and fewer men. The figure for
January was 958, 9O5 workers on the
payroll.
The Association of Railway Labor
Executives, meeting in Washington
the week of Feb. II to Is, took no
part in the hearings for the Work
ers' Social and Unemployment In
surance Bill, H. R. 1927, addressed
by representatives Of trade unions
from all over the country. They
ignored the mandate given them by
over 500 railroad lodges to support
the only bill before Congress offer
ing railroad men real security
against unemployment. While rail-
road lodges continue to pass en-
dorsements of H. R. 1927, the labor
executives flirt with Eastmans pro-
posals for lay-offs cushioned by a
dismissal wage. which will do moth
ing whatever for the 100000 rail-
road men already cut off from their
jobs, or for the thousands being
added to the relief rolls each
month as the roads eliminate more
and more men from the payrolls.
Dodges Insurance Issue
Labor" weekly paper of the 81
railroad labor unions, in discussing
the Washington meeting of the
railway labor executives, does not
mention unemployment insurance
or a dismissal wage as part Of
the chiefs legislative program. But
Railway Age" organ of the rail-
road bankers, sums up the attitude
of the labor executives in one line.
1t states that "a delegation repre-
senting the Railway Labor Execu-
tives' Association conferred with
President Roosevelt at the White
House on Feb. 7, regarding it's
legislative program. The labor
leaders asked for a plan of dis
missal compensation but object to
Mr.. Eastman's proposals for further
coordination projects which would
displace employees"
Why ask for dismissal compen-
sation7 if no additional employees
are to be displaced? Because the
railroad labor executives DO not
take serious steps to prevent lay
offs. They have just accepted a
settlement with the B. & o. in
Pittsburgh, where so men were per-
manently laid off through a con-
solidation in return for payment of
one years wages. In other words,
after lay-Offs through consOlida-
tions are already fact, after those
men already laid off and others
threatened by future lay-offs pro-
test, the chiefs retrieve one years
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ment. But we have our share, too.
Last year we got a beautiful cut and
a furlough-which is only a fancy
word for a lay Off" VIII C h
amounted to one-third of our sal
airy. But this isn't all. It's no cinch
getting up on a freezing morning
at four o'clock, come into work and
have to take all the kicking around
and swearing from the foremen.
We're always greeted with that con-
tinuous yell: Tie out-get out! Tie
out-get QUIZ With the loads We
have to jackass around, one route
is plenty. We ought to put stop
to them giving us parts of two or
three routes to carry out when
someone bangs it up, or singing us
out on the second and last trip.
If they want the mail to get out,
let EN- give it to sub.
But this paper is beginning to
teach me that grumbling about
these and the rest of our rotten
conditions amongst ourselves won't
get us anywhere. We've got to get
together and do something. I've
been member of the NALC, affili-
ated with the A. F. of L., for a
couple of years, but up until re-
Gently, like the majority of the car
riers, I thought that the NALC,
with Ferdie Douglas on top couldn't
do anything for us. I'm beginning to
change my mind fast. It's our or
ganization and we can make it i'm
prove our conditions. That's what
it's there for. The next time Branch
SO meets, I'll be there and show
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Children Are Gassed
In Ohio Rubber Strike

WILLOUGHBY, O.. Feb. 20 CUP
Twelve school children we're af-
fected by tear gas and ninety other
pupils were driven back into Henry
w. Longfellow Township School to-
day when Ohio Rubber Company
guards laid down a barrage of tear
gas at strikers.
Mayor G. B. TODD was booed by
strikers when he failed to with
draw twenty-five guards.
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NOTE:

Every Friday we publish letters
from workers in the transpOrta-
ton and communication indus
tries; marine. railroad, trucking,
taxi and traction, telephone, tele-
graph, post office, etc. We urge
workers in these industries to
write us of their conditions and
efforts to organize. Please get
these letters to us by Tuesday Of
each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Force Increase
In Relief
BY a Worker Correspondent


PHILADELPHIA, Pa. = The IN
employment Councils of West Phil
adelphia have recently gained a
number of concessions for the job
less workers. This they were able
to accomplish because of their per-
sistent struggle on behalf of the
Negro and white jobless workers
who are Disseminated against.
A few days ago, a delegation of
Negro and white workers took Mr..
Druso, Negro jobless worker who
has been ill for many months, to
the relief station at BIO Market
Street and demanded an increase in
relief. A long argument followed,
and the relief officials seeing that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22

Ferdie I mean business. But
don't think I can do very much by
myself because the machine will try
to put the skids under me. That's
why all the carriers should be up
there next time and all together,
I'm positive we can do something
to make our lousy conditions lit
tie easier to work under.
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they could not get rid of this case
increased the relief order $1.70
Finding this was still insufficient,
the delegation Of the Unemployment
Council again went to the relief Of
f1cials and again secured an in
crease, this time of $1.45.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Postal Workers Hit
By Wage Cuts
BY P. o. Worker Correspondent

BY a ?. o. worker Correspondent
NEW YORK; am a carrier in
one of the terminals of the New
York Pest Office. I have been buy
ing the Daily Worker for quite a
while and have read about the
different problems which the work
ers in outside industries come up
against. I've learned quite lot. too.
The people on the outside think
that everything is rosy for us be-
cause we're working for the govern
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n. r. A. Ignores
Violation

BY a Food Worker Correspondent
NEWARK, N. J.-When the Bel
more Cafeteria opened here in
Newark about 2 months ago, was
hired as bus girl at $11.5O week
The prevailing conditions in the
Cafeteria made me susceptible to
the approaches of the organizers OF
the Cafeteria Workers Union here
which is local of the Food Work
ers Industrial Union.
When the bosses fired me for be-
longing to the union, the union took
my case to the NR.A. and two
weeks later the NR.A. decided that
the Belmore violated that holy OF
holes, Section Ia. The MIRA. or
dered the Belmore to reinstatc me
within seven days. To date the Bel
more has not yet reinstated me
Now I ask you Comrade Editor,
what is the use of the N.R.A.P Was
it ever meant for us workers? Why
do We have to go to the MIRA. If
the decisions that they make re-
main on paper and they refuse to
make the bosses carry out the de-
ciSionS?
I for one have learnt the answer
to all these questions. The MIRA
was never meant to do us any good
The only thing that we can get re-
suits from is the combined strength
of all the workers in Belmore Cafe
terra. If they all get together and
join the Cafeteria Workers Union
we can secure our jobs and improve
our conditions.
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IL Cd NJ E
l. I + Z
By
Ann Barton

THERE are a series Of pamphlets
about women and the woman
question Just published by Workers
Library Publishers that once word
Of them gets around, will be con-
sidered indispensable by readers Of
the revolutionary press, and I am
sure, especially by our woman
readers.
These pamphlets form a kind of
small encyclopedia on the woman
question, and contain a real wealth
Of information. You can get them
at three cents a piece from the
Workers Library Publishers, Al East
18th Street, New York, N. Y.
A review Of these pamphlets will
take them up in much more detail.
But in brief-"What Every Woman
Wants by Grace Hutchins is
splendidly written exposition of the
needs, conditions and demands of
the jobless woman. The pamphlet
Women and Equality" by Margaret
Cowl is unique. 1t makes a theo-
retical analysis Of the background
of woman's inequality with man and
translates it into the clearest sim
plicity. 1t touches the position of
women in former societies, and COM
pares it with inequalities existing
today. From the fact that equality
exists in the Soviet Union, it draws
some very practical conclusions.
The Position of Negro Women" by
Eugene Gordon and Cyril Briggs
has gathered some little known
facts on the conditions of Negro
women on the farms and in in
dustry. Women in Action" by
Sasha Small is fast moving tale
of women's struggles this past year
and before. The pamphlet Mother
Bloor" needs no explanation. Her
friends will want to know more
about the exciting life of this work.
ing class leader.
Preparations for International
Woman's Day meetings must in
clude the wide sale Of these PAM
phlets, as well as the special March
issue Of the Working Woman. (By
the way, have you sent your order
in for this yet. Send it to Working
Woman, 50 East 18th Street, New
York, N. Y, at once.) This well
organized material cannot help but
give impetus to increased organiza-
ton Of women.
I'VE haven't had a poem for long
W time Here's one from R. L.,
member of the Woman's Council.
Oh, you prosecuting henchman
We warn you again,
Take your bloody hands
Of the workingman.
Long enough, you despots
Like inquisitionists of old Spain,
You've tortured, jailed and starved
us
Your bloody profits to gain.
We want bread and freedom
This is our battle cry
For Lenin cur great leader,
Taught us how to live and die.
See our fists are clenched
Clenched with workers might.
For we are determined
To win the final fight.
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Burck's cartoon book, Hunger
and Revolt is now offered in a
81 edition with renewals and new
subscriptions.
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1t pays to save-15 coupons and
81 will get you a copy of Burck's
Hunger and Revolt"
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