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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

CHICAGO, Ill. - 7 am about to
write and explain a few facts about
certain conditions that exist in one
Of the largest hospitals in the CITY
Of Chicago, st. Luke's Hospital.
located at 1Ath Street, Michigan and
Indiana Avenues.
In this hospital there is a Nurses
Training School. and Nurses
Home. This home has employed
colored maids for several years to
take csrs CT the nurses rooms. etc.
On Friday, Nov 30. 1884 there
were eleven eelered girls discharged,
without the first notice, or provoca-
ticn of any kind, and eleven white
girls we're put in their places. due
TO the prejudice on the part of the
new Supervisor Of the Training
School.
This Supervisor took her position
on or about Sept, 5, 1884, and her
first duty was to discharge a celored
maid from the Diet Kitchen twho
had worked in the kitchen for four
years) and replace her with two
white girls. She also stated she
would never work any more colored
girls in that department. Her next
step four weeks later was to dis
chargc eleven maids as I have fore
said. W. did not receive the first
notice. About 1:20 p. M, we were
told to 90 to the ONCE Of Mr. War
dell, for or checks. since we we're
not to como back on Dec. l. / do
nat think this res q fair deal Stree
they he'd no complaints against the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15

contributing their knowledge and
experience to other workers through
the columns Of the Daily Worker.
We would therefore propose that
in the steel nuclei this matter be
taken up and discussed collectively
and those comrades that are able
to write English be assigned to
write In letters on the basis of the
discussion in the nucleus. At the
same time, the organizers in the
steel industry should take the in
itiative to develop correspondence
based on discussions and talks with
some of the foreign language speak
Ing workers. In order to make the
Daily Worker a really effective in
strument among the steel workers
this problem should be taken I'D and
solved.
Of course, the Daily Worker well
comes letters from steel workers
written in the language with which
they are most familiar. We will
have them translated and published.
The most important thing is to
establish regular CORRESPONDENCE
from the mills regardless of the
difficulties. 1t is the duty Of our
comrades in the mills and the or
ssnizers in the steel regions to CO.
operate with us in carving through
this task.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
Ford Blacklist
Denies Worker
Chance at Job
BY an Auto Worker Correspondent

BY an Auto Worker Correspondent
HAMILTON, Ohio.-For six years
I was an employee of the Ford
Motor Company. I was raised here
in Hamilton.
They have started the plant up
in full, and are expecting to pro-
duce a million or more cars this
year. They nave called back to
work all the old help they intend
to call, and are now hiring new
help.
I am one of the many that hasn't
been called back to work. and I
won't be, because I am a Commu-
mist.
The Champion Coated Paper
Company, the Estate Stove Com
pany, the General Machine Com
pany, the Ford Motor Company, all
have blacklist of several hundred
men here in town, who might as
well leave here, as they will never
get work in Hamilton.
Is this America? If it is, am
going to Germany or Italy or some
other such country where can get
justice. There should be something
done about this.
1 wonder how many men are
blacklisted all over the U. s. A. The
above mentioned companies helped
break the F E. r. A. Crafford Fun
strike you mentioned in your paper
some time ago, I was one of the
strikers who wouldn't work for IS
cents an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
Unemployed
Delegations
Get Action
BY a Worker Correspondent

ANg NNUAhNl Correspondent
NORFOLK, Va.-The unemployed
of Norfolk, Va, have found giant
weapon in their quest for some
means of staving off starvation this
winter, In spite of the police and
the slippery-tongued relief officials,
many Of them have Joined the ranks
of the Norfolk Unemployment
Council.
Against the wishes of the bosses,
and in spite Of the terror Of the po-
lice, they gather into strong groups
at $40 Church Street and prepare
for struggle.
Again and again they march to
the F.ER.A. in large groups. Re-
Gently one of these officials called
at the council headquarters and
pleaded with their representatives
to come down in smaller numbers.
They don't like these groups of
workers because they force them to
take action, a thing they don't wish
to do. The workers elected commit
tees don't fan for I'VE have been
unable to get around to this case
yet"
The unemployed of Norfolk,
Negro and white, refuse to starve.
More and more of them are show
ing their dissatisfaction with the
crumbs thrown out to them, They
wish and demand louder every day
for honest relief. And with the Daily
Worker as their guide, they equip
themselves for even greater strug-
giles in the future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
BY a Worker Correspondent

ROCKFORD, Tll.-The West End
Food Shop, located at 1902 West
State Street, a small home-o owned
food store, had their relief orders to
the amount of twenty-five regular
customers cancelled by the local re-
lief committee recently.
Because these people who oper-
ated this small store were deeply
sympathetic to the unemployed
workers, and gave them as much as
was possible on their relief slips,
many workers had their orders di-
rected to this place of business.
But, this did not agree with Mr..
Poole, manager of the A. & P. store
across the street. He complained
that this store gave the relief clients
anything they wanted, and as there
is restriction on the food articles
that persons on relief can buy, the
relief officials can remove all orders
from any store that fails to live UP
to This rule.
The relief officials, in order to
help the Wall Street concern,
approved by the rest CT the officials.
stopped to the vilest and most des-
picable of tactics in order to frame
up this small shepkeepeF. They used
a stoolpigeon The scheme was
cooked up by man named Roth
child who is high in the relief adj
ministratien, and of course it was
approved by the rest Of the officials.
Rothchild found willing stool by
the name Of Kingdom to go in and
ask for some pineapples and graham
crackers fer his vile who he claimed
was very sick and unable to eat
anything else. The man in the
store. Mr.. Neimsn, refused, as he
suspected something foul, knowing
the relief for what it is. However,
he went out to deliver some orders,
leaving his wife to take care of the
hou-e. Kingdom, the Shiny stool,
sav this and came back and again
asked for the articles mentioned be-
fore Being iind-he7ptsd she gave
him The things he wanted. Then,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
NSL Protests
School Nurses
Jim Grow Act
By a Student Correspondent

NEW YORK; almost didn't get
here today; I started to Roanoke to
witness a lynching" This was the
excuse given by the white nurse of
the Armstrong High School for
Negroes in Richmond, Virginia. to
the principal of the school, also
white, for being late for her duties.
The remark was made in the pres
ence of Negro teacher, who re-
ported it to the National Student
League Chapter at the school.
In answer to the protests and de-
mands for expulsion of this Negro
hating nurse, made by the students
of the school, the Principal w. w.
Townsend, who had accepted her
excuse, said: 1T was a slip. It came
from the tongue, not from the
heart"
1t was only by chance that the
nurse appeared for duties at all
that day. 1t happened that the
Negro who was to have been lynch
ed, Philip Jones, had been moved
during the night from Roanoke to
Richmond for safe keeping"
The Armstrong High School
Chapter of the National Student
League is carrying on an intensive
struggle for the o1sting of this
lynch-loving nurse. Maurice Gates,
Negro member of the National Ex-
ecutive Committee of the N.SL..
who organized the Armstrong chap
ter on a recent organizational trip
through the South, reports that in
Southern jim-crow Negro schools
the principal and che or two mem
bers of the staff are invariably
white and enemies of the Negro
people.
The High School Section of the
National Student League has voted
unanimously to support the fight
OF the Armstrong students for the
ousting of the nurse and has issued
an appeal to students. workers and
lntellectuals to send protests to w.
W. Townsend, principal of the
school, and the Board of Education
IN Richmond, Virginia, demanding
that immediate action be taken to
remove the nurse from her nosition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
Youth Finds
New York CITY
No disc
BY a Worker Correspondent


RACINE, visa youth in Racine
received a $40 check from young
friend of his who is working in
New York City.
This fellow in New York had been
sending some beautiful pen pictures
of conditions in New York City to
his friends back home.
While under the influence of
liquor, this New York worker sent
his tWo-week pay to his friend, so
that he could come to New York.
This Racine youth went to New
York, but when he got there he
found out that things were not ex-
ectly as he had been told they were.
His New York friend was sup
posed to get him a Job in the same
place he was working. The boss
asked him where he was from. When
he said, Racine" he was told to
get the hell out for if there were
any work he would give it to some
New Yorker that was out of work.
This New York fellow wasn't max
ing enough to get by himself, so
his friend had to go OFT and try
to get something to eet. He learned
a good lesson because even when
he asked to wash dishes for some
thing to eat, he was refused. He
even asked for a job to clean spit
oons in saloon for a meal and
was turned down. He saw people
rustling barbage cans for something
to eat.
He was in New York for eight
days and couldn't take it any longer
and wired home for fare money.
His brothers sent him the money
and he went home. He had enough
of the big city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15

Erohkina, woman railroad
worker, writes us from the U. S.
S. r.
II work as railroad Signalman
.lear Moscow Station, Koursk line.
cover an eight hours journey
After a days work, we have "a
hours rest; after a nights work,
we have 48 hours rest.
my family has four members
my husband, a siX-year -old boy, my
old mother and myself. I do all my
home work. assisted by my mother
and husband But with all that,
have time to go to our Railroaders
Club, where we have a theatre,
meetings, moving pictures, lectures
and reports.
Il take my son with me to the
club performances. There is a chill
dren's hall where one can leave the
children to play. They take care of
my child. feed him, and he just
loves to stay at the hall. Meanwhile,
I am able to attend calmly to meet
ings, lectures, etc.
There Is a large library at the
club. They lend us many books. In
order to raise and improve our quail
ifications, we attend professional
courses connected with our work.
Some time ago, l could read but
little, ')ut, in connection with the
local committee, there is circle
against illiteracy. I became a mem
Der of it, and now I read and write
better.
Children in our Moscow / Sta
ton have their creches and their
kindergartens. One of my social
works is to control the kindergar-
ten and the collective restaurant.
my mother gave birth to fif-
teen children-but only three are
alive; the others died since child
hood because life was so hard. My
mother was illiterate. 1 remember
when we were five children in the
family. Seven mouths to feed!
fAAO tAlg 1AkutI " ICCu thClDs GNC
had to starve, or become a work
slave. There were no schools In
our village. AT the age of eight.
I bega to work in the orchards,
carrying dung for rich farmers.
Later I got married, but mar
riage did not help much. My hus-
band was a drunkard. He gave me
many worries, he even tried to kill
me. I could not be divorced from
him, as the law favored him. I was
obliged to live with him, until after
the Revolution.
New l am married to another
man. He is good fellow and l am
happy with him. I work independ-
emily. Many times I have received
prizes for my work, which have
used to have my living room re-
paired and nsw radiators installed.
The CLUB has given me a radio l
work honestly as a shock worker be-
cause ! realize that in so doing I
am building socialism in my coun-
try, and am working for the victory
of socialism all over the world.
Il await an answer from you, pro-
letarian women OF the United
States. Let u5 correspond ard thus
reinforce our relations. 7 send you
my proletarian greetings,
"EROHKINA"
Yeu can write ErGhsira at fo-
krovsk.e Yorots. Kazarmen fc-
reulck. d. XIV. Is, Moscow-or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
Drive Against
UniOnsBegun
By Firestone
BY Firestone Worker Cor
respondent

AKRON, Ohio.-About two weeks
ago close to 375 battery workers of
the Firestone Tire and Rubber Com
pGny were fired for union member
ship and union activity. These
workers Immediately organized a
march on the Relief Bureau of
Akron placing before it demands
for immediate relief. It was one of
the most impressive marches ever
seen in Akron.
This action on the part of the
rubber barons of Firestone is part of
its policy to smash the rubber locals
here. 1t is more or less a test to see
whether there will be opposition on
the part of the workers to such a
policy OF the employers.
The battery workers are correctly
asking action from the Executive
Board of the Union. So far nothing
has been done about it by the
Board, except for filing a COM
plant with the hopeless Regional
Labor Board. (Hopeless for the
workers, hopeful for the bosses).
AS usual the Board did nothing
about it. In fact it approved of the
action Of the employers. It stated,
however unwise the lay-Offs may
have been, they are in accord with
established policy" This is the es-
5ablished policy of the Labor Boards,
to do everything possible in the in
terest of the employers as against
the interest of the workers. This
is precisely the function of the
strikebreaking labor boards.
Things are somewhat changing in
this situation. The rank and file
of the union, together with the bat
terry workers, is demanding imme-
date action. They do not want to
see their unions destroyed in this
city by the employers. The Clah-
erSys are beginning to see the mill
tant mood of the workers and hence
more flowery speeches are being
made about democracy in the union,
the will Of the membership, etc.
The rank and file of the union
forced the executive board to call a
special meeting of the Firestone
local for Sunday at the Armory to
discuss action in defense of the
battery workers.
However, the rank and file must
come prepared to this meeting and
in an organized manner demand a
clear cut stand of the Clahertys on
this problem. The battery workers
can and must be reinstated through
the support of all workers in Akron.
The best answer to the attacks of
the rubber barons is to build the
union much stronger. Adopt res
olutions in all locals demanding the
reinstatement Of these workers. Send
these resolutions to the Firestone
employers. Demand action for the
reinstatement Of the battery work
ers. If nothing is done to reinstate
the battery workers, then the rubber
barons will take the next step in
firing more workers and smashing
the union. The workers must not
permit such thing to happen,
even if it means immediate struggle.
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clothing, toilet articles and tobacco
A strong Unemployment Council
was built around these concessions.
For a time the situation assumed
2 smooth tenor. Then. suddenly
there was a runor that the whole
relief set-Un WIS to undergo a rsdi-
rel chance. The leaders Of the
Waterfront Unemployment Council
foresaw the danger and warned the
seamen.
In Norfolk. we have a situation
analogous to that of other seaports.
Here we have terrorist elements in
the form Of Vigilantes, special police
terror, iim-crow laws and a second
to none sDv system made up Of
project Rtool-pigeons.
Relief Heads Maneuver
The attack on the seamen was
made through maneuvers. First. the
relief authorities warned the restau-
rants. where the seamen had been
eating. that thev were going to cut
down the meals to fifteen cents. The
result was that two restaurants re-
fused to feed on the grounds that
they could not make a profit at that
price. This gave the takers tn
excuse to force the ssameu to eat
and live in the nroiect. It was a
msneuver to divide the seamen.
We held meeting on this ques-
ton End elected a committee to de-
rand that they raise the price to
twenty cents a meal. When the
committee saw the local relief head.
he stated that the budget would not
allow this.
The next attack came when sew
eral police came up the hall for
three nights in a row and ssid they
liked to attend meetings. The re-
suit was that a great many seamen
stood away.
The rats started to broadcast that
we were a bunch of reds and bomb
throwers, telling the seamen to stay
swav from us. Naturally this ele-
ment w7s encourag ed bv the relief
authorities.
Arrests Follow
The next attack was the open ar
rest Of three members Of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union for tres
passing on the docks. The fact was
that two of these men were look
Ing for Jobs at the time. The fiinsy
excuse Of the police was that they
were carving red literature and
were irving to overthrow our dear
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15

government Imagine. two seamen
looking for a job on a ship, trying
to overthrow our dear government.
Then came the ooen attack. No
tice was given that all seamen we're
to become the same as transients
and we're to be treated as such. On
Jan. I. all seamen were to be sub
jected to thirty hours forced labor
per week at ninety cents per week.
This work was to be maintenance
work and the transients were to be
shifted from Norfolk to Fort Eustis,
Va, an old Army camp. Plunkert
called this camp. my Baby" There
should be no doubt in the minds
of the readers of the Daily Worker
what is the purport Of this Baby
of Plunkert's.
During the police terror, many
seamen became demoralized. Many
left town hoping to find better re-
lief in other ports. not knowing that
the attack will be made there also.
There is no way out but to fight
these takers in every port. They
made the attack here first because
they figured it was the weakest of
all the ports.
Police in Project
Finally, when thev succeeded to
get the seamen on this forced labor
project. they kept three policemen
for a time, and then two to watch
them at meal times. If any one
raised his voice. out he went
Those of the Seamen that are
working at the present time are en-
gagged in clearing an old army can
torment near the Army base out
side Of Norfolk. This project was
of vital Importance during the last
World War.
Those that are working are forced
to turn to at BIS a. m. and work
four to six hours a day.
This is Roosevelt's New Years
gift to the seamen. But we are
still carving on the fight here and
all the police terror in Norfolk won't
stop us.
The seamen are beginning to find
the correctness Of organized unity.
Though the takers try TO cut us
down we will fight to the finish to
expose and smash this forced labor.
All sesmen must join this fight
in every port to force the hand of
the relief takers and for the passage
Of the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill H. r. 1927.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
All Negroes Fired by Supervisor
at Chicago Nurses Training School

This hospital is supported by some
of the largest wholesale houses and
department stores in Chicago, and
they only paid a small salary of
sl7l5, every two weeks; the first
and the sixteenth or each month.
and We were told they charged the
employees $l35 per dav for board,
two meals and most of the time
the food was not fit to eat.
OF course I could go farther but
as the time will not allow me I am
closing, hoping that someone will
investigate, and find out why the
changes were made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
Request Information
About Taylor Springs

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-Our wages
on T. E. r. a, have been cut so
that it is difficult for us to get
enough to eat. We are busy, trying
to organize the workers in unions.
We are very much interested in
what the Taylor Springs City Coun-
Gil has done. Couldn't we have one
Of them write a personal account of
their experiences, accomplishments,
etc, for the Daily Worker?
I saw an article mentioning them
a few days ago, but would like to
get something more complete. Tay-
ior Springs is near cur home town,
Springfield, Ill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
Expelled from C. C. C.
on Communist Charge
By a Worker Corresnondenl

q FpAACA COH2 DSDOuue1L
NEW YORK; was kicked out
CT c. G. G. Camp Number Is for
being a Communist.
This is the WY it came about.
There were some bulletins passed
around and the following morning
they broke NV locker open and
found some Camp Sparks and a copy
of the Daily Worker.
They gave me an honorable dis
charge STATING that I he'd found en-
ployment. The captain there has
a good clean slate and he wants to
keep it that wav. That's why he
did not give me ID. D. tDishonor-
able Discha-rcp rs I would have
Eosten in any other camp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
Evicted Tenants Forced
To Live in Open Forest
By a Worker Correspondent

oF HOEheF Correspondent
NIOTA, Tenn.-A family, consist
ing of man and wife and six chill
dren, lived out in the woods one
mile from Niota. During the rainy
weather here, they borrowed a tar
paulin from a neighbor and
stretched it overhead to keep the
rain off them.
These people come from Knoxville.
Tenn, where they had been evicted
for non-payment of rent.
They had nowhere to go except
take the road locking for work. They
have left now, and have gone
further down the road.
Are we better off this year than
we were last year?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15

send your letters to her through
this column, and they will be for
warded. At this time of counter
revolutionary attacks against the
Soviet Union, assure ErOkhina Of
the unbreakable bonds between
proletarian women of the United
States and the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15

D e. Cleveland, Ohio: - Ordinary
u pure henns will cause no harm-
full effects to the hair or scalp ia
ordinary use. Henna dyes hair an
auburn shade, but does not affect
the natural color Of the hair.
The active dye in henna is a
chemical called 'lawsone," which
unites chemically with the horny
mattery of the hair, to produce
yellow brown color.
However, Henna is often COM
bined with other dyes to produce
various shades and some Of these
may be harmful, for example, para
phenylene diamine. To repeat, pure
henna is harmless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
Want the Same Party
as Russian Workers,
Say Southern Negroes
Bv a Worker Correspondent

BY a worker correspondent
CHARLOTTE, N. CA local
member of the Communist Party
happened to be talking to a local
Socialist organizer over in High
Point, N. c. They were discus
sing the question of organizing
Negroes.
The Socialist complained that
the Southern Negroes he came
in contact with were not recep-
tive to the Socialist program.
When he approached some of
them to join, they said, ooh we
think the Socialist Party is al
right, but we want to join the
Party the Russian workers have"
What was I to do?" asked
the Socialist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
Chain Store Owner
Turns Santa Claus
Giving Himself Gifts
By a Worker Correspondenl


CHARLOTTE, N. CA young
girl working in Efford's Clothing
Store here in Charlotte, tells of
the following incident.
The management got big
hearted and gave all the regular
girls five-dollar Christmas
bonus, and all extra girls a one
dollar bonus. However, the
stipulation was made that this
bonus be spent in the Efford's
store!
Very benevolent of them, isn't
it? This store is one of a chain
OF over hundred throughout the
South.