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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
By a Mine Worker Correspondent

GILLESPIE, Ill.-At a conference
of the delegates of this Subdistrict
held Feb. 6 to prepare demands for
the coming Scale Convention of the
Progressive Miners of America, it
was disclosed that a large number
of local unions favor the 6-hour day
and Sc scale, f1ve-day week as a de-
mand for new contract with the
coal operators. Local No. with
$500 members endorsed a resolu-
ton demanding this scale, also q
resolution demanding that May
Day be incorporated into the con-
tract as legal holiday.
Among the resolutions adopted by
the local unions are those calling
for a joint strike with U.M.W.A.
miners. electing Of joint strike COM
mittees and for one district agree
ment. The sentiment for unity of
Illinois miners is growing, because
the men are realizing that the divi-
sion of ranks allows the coal opera
tors to pitch one union against the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Red Builder
Arrested
By a worker Correspondent

FARRELL, Pa.-Monday, Feb. 4 at
1l:45 a. M was making my con-
facts with my readers of the Daily
Worker when 7 was stopped by the
dumbest fat footed policeman, Joe
Volinsky.
Just because I had some Daily
Workers with Lenin's picture on
them, he picked me up in his three
wheel dog cart and I was taken to
the police station.
While waiting 1 was standing by
the window thinking how I could
get in contact with some of the
leading Comrades. At that moment,
one of the workers passed the win
dow. I called to him to come in
side. At that moment the Desk
Seargent said to me get the hell
away from that window" He also
said get in the cell, God Damn
you" He grabbed me by the arm
and locked me in a cell.
81 was taken out of the cell and
was told by the Seargept that I
would have to wait until Major
Frinck returned was detained for
five hours and fifty-f1ve minutes,
When Major Frinck came in and
asked what I was here for, I re-
piled that I was here just for having
some Daily Workers with Lenin's
picture on them. He asked me if
I was selling these papers. said,
no, and he asked me if the organi-
cation paid me for selling these
papers The answer was no and I
was not asking for anything.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Shady Characters
Hit Fishermen
BY a Fisherman Correspondent

RAY. Minn.-It looks like they
will close the lakes here to conner
cial fishing. There are too many
shady characters against us poor
fishermen.
These are so-called respectable
citizens. I, at least, do not have any
respect for them. I know many of
them, one as bad as the other, but
I will just give you an example of
two of them so that you will know
what kind of men want to send us
to the breadline and destroy our
homes.
One is the notorious forester and
q leading member of the Isaac Wal
ton League here. The other is his
business partner who owns a lumber
yard and Is a real estate man.
These are two enemies Of the fish
ermen here, They have been de-
handing that the State Legislature
close the lakes to commercial fish
ing. Their past and present activ-
tiles are of a very shady nature. It
is said that they were in the liquor
trade from Canada for many years.
Settlers here have heard about this
and reports we're sent to the Fed
eral government but it seemed that
they hssl no interest in the matter.
At the present time, the liquor trade
is not very profitable and it is said
that they have found other fields
even more shady.
These two rascsls have a great
deal of influence in the local courts,
Some time ago a man was arrested
for killing a deer. The game warden
did not know that he was friend
of the lumber man, and was get
ting meat for him whenever he
wanted it. This fellow was taken to
court and the judge did not know
who he was. He pleaded guilty and
the fine had already been set, when
the owner Of the lumber yard came
rushing in. mfr Judge, this man is
poor. He needed meat" was all he
said, and the Judge suspended SEN
tence and told the man to go home.
Last fall the game wardens ar
rested two poor fishermen. Although
these two fellows could prove that
they we're innocent, this same judge
fined them heavily. They had to
borrow money to pay the fine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Splicing Forced
On Miners
By = Mine Worker Correspondent

CBy = Mine Worker Correspondent
GILLESPIE, nj. - In the four
Superior Coal Company mines here,
the men are being terrorized by the
union officials as we'll as the com
pany into position whereby they
plan to force another slave con-
tract on April first. These mines
are owned by the Northwestern
Railroad. and recently they with
drew from the Independent Coal
Operators Association Of Ill. which
has contracts with Progressive
Miners of America. Rumor has
been started that Peabody took
over the mines and that another
contract will not be signed with P.
M. of A, but with the U. NJ. w, Of A.
In the meantime, while this talk
is going around. the bosses in the
mines are speeding up everywhere
For example they used to have men
to splice cables. Now they took them
off and are trying to slide this job
on the rest of the men, that is. for
each man to splice his own cable
At the last meeting we passed res
olution against this attack of the
company but as yet it wasn't set
tied. The bosses are like driving
msniacs, if you don't load the re-
quired number Of cars, you are
called on the carpet and no excuses
are good enough. In the last couple
of months the mines have been
working steady, but the men feel
1t is because we are preparing for
strike April LIST. to get the six dollar
scale and the SIX hour day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Stage Demonstration
AT Ohrbach's
BY a Worker Correspondent

oy NOTAST correspondent
NEW YoRK-something of
great Importance took place several
nights ago near Ohrbach's store,
About $50 pm. group of young
workers gathered across the street
from Ohrbach's and began to
shout, "Ohrbach workers are on
strike. Don't buy at Ohrbach's."
Many passersby, attracted by
these courageous young people,
also lent their protest and solidar-
ity, which swelled the number ire
mendously.
In a very short while very few if
any people were going into the
store. Everyone passing by across
the street stopped to listen, includ-
ing people in automobiles. 1t was
very dramatic, to say the least.
The bosses looking out from the
windows became nervous and sent
for the police to break It up. And
here's where the fun began! When
the cops broke up the little demon
SGraClOn, Jne demonstrators. und1s-
mayed, went across the street near
Ohrbach's and continued shouting
in loud, clear voices. The cops
continued chasing them, but they
would continue walking from cor
ner, mingling with the crowd. The
cops we're beginning to have
apoplexy.
These young workers were too
much for their sluggish dull brains,
and they gave up the job of chas-
ing them.
am sure that no leaflet or picket
could do as much as that i'm
promptu demonstration. More OF
this sort Of thing should be en-
! couraged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16

Contractor System RObs
Hard Coal Miners of Paw

more than half he said, No more
job"
It is eighteen months since I am
unemployed. I have five children.
including my wife and myself there
are seven in the family. I live on
the miserable relief. You have to
wait from one to six months to get
clothes.
But, three weeks ago we formed
an unemployment council. Now the
relief has changed a bit. You get
things more quickly and you get
more clothes.
In this town there are thousands
Of people on relief. Before they did
not believe what said to them
about the Unemployment Council.
Now after suffering q long time,
they came to it themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
COntrsceptiOn and Thwarting
Nature

A G., Los Angeles, Cslif.:-
"a. "Thwarting nature" is very
loose term and usually has no sig-
nif1csnce. OF course, as is possible
in your case, intense mental con-
flict with inability to adjust to sit-
uations, may cause the loss of
weight and energy of which you
complain. If that is thwarting na<
ture, perhaps the term applies. But,
if your doctor means that the pre-
vention of conception is thwart-
ing of nature-that is sheer non-
sense.
If, as you say, nothing has been
found organically wrong with you.
we would not advise a dilatation
and curettage (scraping) of the
womb as was suggested to you, It
is of doubtful value, although occa-
sionally used when the womb is Of
the small, infantile type, to stimu-
late the lining membrane. That you
have been trying for five months
to conceive and rgnsuccessfulN-
should not discourage you. Very
often women will remain relatively
sterile over long period for no
obvious reason and then become
pregnant. We cannot even venture
a guess as to the cause of your
sterility, since our information
about you is not complete.
More frequent sexual union dur=
ing the fertile period (the middle
two weeks Of the menstrual month";.
will increase the chances of con=
ception occurring.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
By Mine Worker Correspondent

BY = Mine Worker Correspondent
PITTSTON, Ps-The conditions
in the hard coal region, especially
in Pittston, are pretty bad.
In Pittston people work with con-
tractors in the mines. When pay
day comes and you get your miSer-
able pay from the PittSton Coal
Company. you have to give half of
it to the contractor. At a little dis
lance from the Office stands the
contractor with his hand out
stretched, for the envelope, he takes
what he wants and then he gives it
back to you almost empty.
If you don't give it to him. the
next day he will say, mo more job"
When 1 didn't want To give him
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
A RESOLUTION

The following resolution should
be sent to:
Dist. Attorney N. McAllister,
Att. General U. S. Webb,
Governor Frank E. Merriam,
Superior Judge Dial Lennon.
All at Sacramento, Calf.
I (we), the undersigned, pro-
test against the frame-up of is
workers in Sacramento. Califor-
MIA, under the vicious labor
Criminal Syndicalist Law.
/ (we). demand their immedi-
ate. unconditional release: and
further demand that the Grim
inal Syndicalism Law be wiped
off the statute books Of the State
Of California.
This law denies workers their
fundamental rights to organize,
strike. and picket, and the right
Of free speech, press, and as
semblage.
-5ftstt#t- .tt.s.st....
Tndivadua1 AZ Organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Cork Magnate Calls fer
Fascist Organization
BY a Worker Correspondent

LANCASTER, PAN delivering
the closing address to the conven-
ton Of the Armstrong Cork Com
pany's wholesalers, Mr.. H. W.
Prentis, Jr., president Of the com
psny. company union advocate and
member Of the reactionary and fas-
cist Committee for the Nation.
called on all members to Join or
CARNATIONS TO protect our demo
cratic fundamentals Of government
which are being endangered by re-
cent developments"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
NOTE

Every Saturday we publish let
ters from mine, oil and smeIter
workers, We urge workers in
these Industries to write us Of
their conditions and efforts to or
ganize. Please get these letters to
MS by Wednesday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
YOUR
HEALTH
- By
Medical Advisory Beard

Is the safe Period" safe?
rs the Safe Period Safe" will IA
l the title of an article appearing
in the first issue of HEALTH AND
HYGIENE, the Medical Advisory
Boards new magazine. This will
be one Of series of articles on
birth control. In this first article.
an analysis will be made of the
birth control methods advocated bv
the Catholic Church. The rhythm"
or safe period" theory will be ex-
smined from the medical point of
view. The writer Of the article is
one of the leading specialists in the
field of birth control. Take adj
vantage of the special advance SUBJ
scription offer of one dollar a year.
Ulcer of Stomach
HOMRADE M. r. of New York
" writes: Two weeks ago my
brother was taken to the hospital
for the second time. The first time
his case was diagnosed as peptic
ulcer of the stomach. Now the doc
tor says the ulcers have healed. bus
the verdict of several X-rays shows
that he has priduadinal adhesions
and muscular contraction of the
pyloric region
What my brother would like to
know is will an operation really
cure him, or is medicine and diet
enough to promote thorough
cure.
WHEN an ulcer is situated at the
W end of the stomach where il
joins the duedenum beginning Of
the small intestine) vomiting may
be due to one of two causes. First,
it may be due to the healed scar
of the ulcer closing the outlet Of
the stomach so as to make the
proper passage of food impossible;
second, it may be due to irritation
from the ulcer causing muscular
contraction, with the same result.
In the first case operation is nee
essary; in the second case, 1t may
not be necessary, depending on
whether the ulcer can be healed
and the irritation and muscular
contraction made to disappear. If
on the proper diet, with mental and
physical rest, the vomiting disap-
pears and X-ray shows that food
is not held up too long in the
stomach, operation will not be nee
essary.
A man with an ulcer should not
engage in work which prevents him
from staying on his diet and keeps
him under constant mental and
physical tension. Probably, as soon
as your brother is better. he will
have to go back to such work, be-
cause in bourgeois society the
type of work man does is not
based on his physical ability. No
consideration is given to the PROB
lens of individuals; here individual
care is essentially for the wealthy.
In the Soviet Union, however, the
aim is always to fit the character
of work with the mental and physi-
cal ability of the individual to do
the work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16

What are you doing here9"
I'm going to speak"
What" she says surprised. In
front of all these white peopleP"
Sure. why not?" l said. We're
all the same here, Nobody'Il eat me. :"
Then told her how Negro and
white workers are equal among the
Communists. I'm summer at the
Pioneer camp" I said, I'VE sleep in
the same tents, white and black
boys together, and one time when
1t rained so hard during the night
my bed got all wet, and I bunked
with white boy"
DO you mean you slept in the
very same bed with white boy?"
she asked me.
"Surel"
And didn't you feel strange, and
the white boy too7 Didn't he mind?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Advance Notice

NR. Frankwood f. Williams will
" lecture under the auspices of the
Daily Worker Medical Advisory
Board on March 9Th on Sex Prob
lens and the Unmarried Adults
at Irving Plaza Hall, 18th Street
and irving Place, at $50. More
will be said on it later. Admission
will be IS cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Can You Make EN- Yourself?

Pattern 2184 is available in sizes
"a, 36, 3S, 40, AZ. ~ and As. Size
IS takes 80 yards 80 inch fabric
and u yard contrasting illustrated
step-hy-step sewing instructions in
cllfded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16


George Krpan, Raymond Colaizzi, Mir
Jam Pylkki, Adrian Wilen, Lille Smith,
Alex Moieson, Harry Roistacher, Charles
Libove, Israel Dsvidman, Miriam Mendel-
sohn. A. Chondler, John Taus, Ivan Keme-
noyich and Joyce, John, Audrey and Matti
Nikkari
she asked.
NO, of course not, that's Just It,.
We're all the same in the Pioneers"
l told her.
Some of our mothers say We are
too young to be with the Reds who
show us the way to get better con-
ditions. But are we too young to
starve? And are we too young to go
to school hungry and to have no
shoes? I say we are not I'm
Pioneer, and we're all going to make
Soviet America, where life will be
better.
OF course, those OF you who live
out of New York cannot come down
like Robert and tell me things in
person. But you can all write let
ters and tell me what is going on
In your city and town. I will be glad
to print your letters in this column.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16


how some Of the forms of group
activity IA the Soviet Union can
be adopted.
itkEO matter how radical the ideas
II Of the parents, an individual
home inevitably encourages in
dividusGstic tendencies in a child.
Only a group life can prepare and
train children effectively for collee-
tive living. The earlier this begins,
the better It is Realizing the i'm
portance of group training. the So
Wet Union has developed an educs-
tional system to include children
Of pre-school age from three to
seven), Even before children reach
the pre-school age. working moth
ers have an opportunity to put
them in nurseries or creches as
they call them, which care for
babies from one month up to three
years. These types Of organizations
free the mothers to take part in
the building of socialism side by
side with men.
In 1918 Czarist Russia had only
fourteen nurseries for babies and
about 200 kindergsrtens for chill
dren Of pre-school age. Now under
Soviet rule, millions Of children are
in some sort Of organized groups.
nTRECHES are now organized at
v the factories, industrial plants,
etc, All the new types of large
dwellings must include nurseries.
The collective farms have mostly
seasonal creches open about six
months a year. There is also a kind
Of travelling nursery which takes
care of nursing babies, taking them
In special trucks to the fields where
groups Of their mothers may be
working.
Trains, especially those going
long distances. now also have chill
dren's quarters or at least accom-
modstions where the mothers can
get the right kind Of food for the
children and when they can battle
them and wash their clothes. All
railroad stations in Moscow have
mothers and children's rooms for
that purpose.
THE kindergartens for children
from three to severn are also of
types to suit the different needs.
The most common types of kinder
gartens keep the children through
the day, but there are also some
24-hour ones. The clubs and schools
for adults have children's evening
rooms attached to them for the
mother students children. Chill
drens' Fairgrounds are organized
in city parks and in places out of
town where parents go for recrea-
ton. Wherever there are mothers
in a large enough group, there is
some kind of organized care for the
children.
NNOw, what can We do here 10
II free the mothers, and to give
this group training to our children,
First we must work and fight for
q change of our conditions. Second
wherever it is feasible, make de-
mandS for nursery schools and kin
dergartens as part Of the public
school system. Third, we must use
our own initiative to organize our
own groups-get interested mothers
together in groups which can work
out practical schemes. They should
plan together how they can share
their time in care for their group
Of children thus getting more free
dom for themselves, and group
training for the children, Anyone
interested in this plan, please write
me. Together we can find prac-
teal way of doing it,
Next Saturday SLAvA DUNN
viii write on the emotional prob
1er1s of children
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PUZZLE DIRECTIONS

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you can find at least four of them write
the answer on the back of penny post
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come member Of the Daily Worker
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SLAVA DUNN tells rs today
how some Of the forms Of group
activity IA the Soviet Union can
be adopted
Evening star., 1935-11-03
RUTLAND ASKS AID
IN RESTAURANT DRIVE.
Patrons Are Urged to Help Clean
Up Eating Places by
Reports.

Patrons Of Washington restaurants
were asked last night by Health
Officer George c. Rutland to aid the
District in its drive to clean up eat
ing establishments by noting and re-
porting insanitary conditions.
DR.. Ruhland last week blacklisted
"a restaurants for failure to bring
sanitary facilities up to prescribed
standards and moved to prevent is
suance of new restaurant licenses to;
them unless he should certify i'm
provement in conditions warranting
issuance of new permits.
Proprietors of these restaurants are
not to be allowed to make advance
payment for their new annual
licenses until DR.. Rutland has certi-
fed them, under an arrangement be-
tween his Office with Wade Coombs.
superintendent of licenses. There will
be no move to close up these "A
restaurants until after health in
spectors have made new inspections,
of each place, officials said.
THE public can help" DR.. Ruiz
land said. Persons visiting restau-
rants see what is being done. If they
will let us know of instances Of
lack of sanitary conditions we will in
vestigate." -
Evening star., 1935-11-03

geons." Humans are attacked only
when asleep. The bats saliva secretes
a substance which prevents their hor-
rible food from clotting and causes
victims wounds to bleed freely and
at length.
Eating is almost a ritual with the
vampires, Greenhall said Blood
placed before them will not be touched
for about half an hour while they
preen themselves. stretch and perform
like cannibals about to feast on boiled
missionary. Menu for the bats din
ner last night: Half a teaspoonful of
beef blood.
Rattlers in Suit Case.
After leaving the blood bats squeak
ing futilely amidst the leonine roars
Of the lion house, Greenhal went to
the reptile house and opened a suit
case which turned out TO be a regular
Pandora's box. He pulled out a blue
cloth laundry bag and the way he
handled it one would have thought it
actually contained laundry. Nestled
IN the bottom and very much alive
were two wicked looking rattlesnakes.
In another laundry sack was a coral
snake, one of the deadliest of reptiles.
In another were common garter snakes
and in others false fer-de-lance"
and rare yellow w-and-black Panaman-
ian tree snake, the herpetodryas.
DR.. Mann accepted the false fer-de-
lance and the tree snake. The former
is mildly poisonous and the latter be-
lieved to be. Also acquired from
Greenhal were a basilisk lizard and
some rock iguanas from Panama.
Look in the lizards eye, so legend has
it, and you'll turn into stone; thus,
'basilisk" lizard. 1t also walks on
water.
DR.. Mann had a reptilian day yes
terday. He was expecting another
collector with a new shipment of
Malayan splitting cobras.