The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1930, Page 4

_ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, , SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1930 Work Lor ong, Hours, Low Pay Br iditor Daily Worker: Dear Comrade:—The life an levator paerator fi is not so sweet as epresented. We ours a day or hift the operator has. worked, Age nd Fourth Si xe day operato 2 hours, with thre: our for lunch, He must look spic | nd span and is not allowed to ‘ave the car for personal comforts nd is forced to wait sometime: ours before he can be relieved for | few minutes, and then is rushed | tound by a slave-driving superin- mdent. He must stand the f the tenants and is not allowed » say a word under penalty of be- ig fired, for which he receives the arvation wage of eighty dollars $80) per month. The night operator (which was yself) must slave 12 hours, must xt in the capacity of doorman, | ight watchman and operator, for hich he also gets the same sa 1 which he and his wife and ven must eke out a miserable ex- | tence. He must stand the abuse | ' the tenants, who are half drunk | ost of the time. He is not re- sved at all during the night, but forced to eat his lunch in the isty car. The operator must wear uniform that he roasts in during e summer and freezes in during e winter. We are not allowed to we our uniforms cleaned and} essed more than once every two onths and if we do so it is de- eted from our miserable pay. We are forced to undress and snge clothes in the basement, ‘eh ig. never cleaned. And we » liable to be fired any moment d for the flimsiest excuses (a »ol pigeon told the boss that I) w a member of the Building Ser- | te Maintenance Workers’ Union; | was fired the next day on the etext of having been discourteous a tenant). Fellow workers, how much longer 2 we going to stand for this? at must our answer to the bosses We must organize into a union at will fight to better our condi- ns. We must demand the 8-hour, ihift day, a decent wage and two minute relief periods and a full ur for lunch and better sanitary nditions. Only by joining the ling Service Maintenance Work- Union can we force the bosses ive us our demands. While we powerless unorganized, united 2 strong. the Building Service Main- Workers’ Union. { would appreciate very much if y can publish this article in your wker correspondent column. Comradely yours, Unemployed Elevator Operator. hio Watchmakers in Soviet Russia Enthusiastic Canton, Ohio. ne Daily Worker: am sending you a copy of a er from the Canton wyatch- vers in Moscow, Russia, which I * from a Canton local paper. I it is good enough to be pub- “YW the Daily Worker. (Lack space prohibits us from publish- the entire letter. The letter is ‘tten by a watchmaker that went © with an entire Canton watch tory group to the Soviet Union Weary M : of ar 0 | | shelter now work in a watch factory there. xy were favorably impressed by working conditions and other p the workers under- ng of their experi- Il tell them the r problems? Who to do? In other of | will tell them w eve space should words what nt have the sciences and world | masses in their experi When the worker si them for r he f this them system? is the Worker as the official organ of the Communist ng onward You role of against will th fter ing some g events I bel laborer will be in a better sp the central Party. Due p political events to extremely limited the A. SCANDOLOPOL, 2 ae ere Note: Never before s of workers in the nited States been confronied with only in regard to unemployment, the use of the ete. This involv terms of “polities uch great problems as today. Over Capitalist papers use psuedo- 8,000,000 jobless workers and their| scientific feature stories, sports, |families ask themselves daily how] endless prohibition and “educa- tional” stories to confuse the work- ers, and direct their attention away from their actual problem. So great and numerous are the “political’ problems facing the workers that it must of necessity oceupy the greater space. However, The Daily Worker would welcome such material as comrade Scandol- opol mentions if it would contribute towards helping the workers see and had they will get food, clothing that capitalism thrown them out of the factories. | Millions of workers in the shops} | faced with wage-cuts, speed-up and constant fear of layoffs want to| {know what to do about it. In the| cauldron of imperialist intrigue | another world war is brewing and the workers want to know how to fight it. The masses are unde | going numerous experiences, sh ing them from their old bourge minded ideolgy. POLICE ATTACK WORKERS AIDING EVICTED UNEMPLOYED WORKER their problems and mobilize them for fight against the capitalist Chicago Worker Jobless Nine Months Finds) Furniture Out on Streets Chicago, Tll. To the Daily Worker: C. Gaudio, an Italian worker, has been out of work for nine months At first there was a little money to pay rent but that has long since disappeared. His wife works in a candy factory and in this land of high wages and golden opportunities she is able some weeks to make as much as $5.00 but more often she makes $4.50. This meager sum provided food of a sort but there was no surplus for rent. The rent is long past due. Last Monday as was usual, this worker started early in the morn- ing in his hopeless search for work. When there are 400,000 other workers all after a few jobs it is not unreasonable to be hopeless, not unreasonable so long as the 400,000 jobless are 400,000 individuals, but if this 400,000 was a united army, gaining determination and strength from their mass solidarity, then Work or Wages would be a slogan easily achieved. When Gaudio returned in the afternoon he found the sheriff and his deputies piling his furniture in the ally. He went to the Unemployed Council in his neighborhood and his fellow workers secured a wagon and went with him to his home to move his furniture to the basement of a friend. As this group of workers went along the streets they told the workers of the neighborhood about the eviction. They told the workers of the nine months of unemployment, of the endless search for work and how now that this worker conld not pay rent the sheriffs moved his furniture into the alley. As they went along other workers joined in the march, Negro and white workers together, because white and Negroes alike are evicted when the rent is not paid. Their wagon was small and they were re- turning for a second load when the police arrived and compelled the workers to disband. They allowed only two or three to go back to finish moving the furniture. After all a worker’s furniture in the alley is a nuisance, someone has to move it so why not the wokers? Despite the instructions of the police a number of these workers did return to Gaudio’s house. They were busy loading the furniture when the police arrived. The police were brandishing baseball bats. One policeman with a baseball bat firmly grasped in both hands proceeded to beat two of the workers. They were only a few workers so they left, taking Gaudio with them. After they had gone two blocks the police overtook them, ordered them to line up and arrested them. They were held for twenty-four hours without booking and then were charged with inciting to riot and disorderly conduct. The bail was $400 on each of the eight arrested. Gaudia was arrested and his furniture remained in the alley. INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE. features of the Workers’ Father-| ers get for preducing too much . land—Kditor.) We must be organized under the Here unemployment grows every| banner of the Communist Party day. More workers are thrown on| and the T.U.U.L. Then we sure get the streets to starve. If we ask| work or wages. for relief they give us jail and With revolutionary greetings, blackjacks. That’s what the work- —A CANTON WORKER. TONEERS TEACH CHILDREN CAUSE OF HUNGER y ean do the above| \t | the wreeois is Dames Scared Stiff Because of Pioneers | Teachings of Class Struggle Chicago, Ill. the Comrades of the Daily , Comrades: ppened to read the Chicago | Tribune a few days ago and 1 a so-called Communist in- n by Mrs. Walker. She the House Committee that ism is being spread at the among the children. she expect us to teach rs, how Rockefeller made nny and saved millions Or shall we teech them! 3 in Lndow, asked for a few cents: raise on the hour, that guards were sent there to massacre the people? She also showed cartoons and Com- munist literature which she said had been spread among the school children, Yes, we distribute propaganda in the schools to educate the children and help them realize that we are part of the class struggle. I sup- pose Mrs. Walker doesn’t know that we are hungry and living in misery She also mentioned that all propa- ganda comes from Moscow . T won'ld like to ask her is sh- Col., fe m nq ty oo foann nyess from Wall Stieet where they are continuously sucking the blood of our parents and brothers who gave their lives in the last war in order to make more profits for Wall Stret—they who are speculating on our lives and happiness? Yes, we certainly did send our children to Moscow to show them the real truth in a land where the workers are the rulers. When they returned they surely told the truth to the American children, that a child is the first one to be taken | care of in the Workers’ Republic. But when the American Boy Sec e sent to London they jwese not sent there for educational us we rR MIL BOSSES Declares AFL Leads in Anti-Communist Drive| Winston-Salem, N. C. The k odestly filled house, i] With Bill Green, president of the Am | Federation of ", spoke ‘o Jaudience of business men and craft unionists, Tt was strictly a bour- | ffair. When the curtain rose there sat | Mr also the ex-mavor, a local attorney, Dr. Howard Rondthaler, president of the old Salin Female Academy, and a number of other soft-handed pluts. With a few craftsmen in the background. The veteran labor faker spoke for more money was to let their slaves organize. Not one time lid he mention the unemployment crisis or stretchout system. His whole theme was for closer cooperation of employer and employee through the American Federation of Labor, the Civic Federation and the church. He assured the bosses that .f they |would let their slaves join +he A. F. of L. unions, that no striking would be done and every grievance would be settled at a conference ta- ble, and if necessary they would be willing to abide by a capitalist court decision. He closed his speech by denounc- ing Communism and assuring the bosses that they, the American Fed- eration of Labor, would fight them (the Communists) to the last ditch. He said that unless the bosses lined up with the American Federation of Labor that the country would al- ways have to contend with what happened in Gastonia, and the coal fields of West Virginia and Illinois, {But he never mentioned Marion, N. had trouble. I am enclosing the news article from the Winston-Sa- lem Journal which is quite au- thentic. —A WORKER. Jobless Young Workers Picked Up On “Vagrancy” New Britain, Conn. Editor, Daily Worker: Here, in New Britain, we have another example of how the bosses and their tools, the police and the courts, give the unemployed work- ers jail sentences instead of WORK OR WAGES. Three unemployed young workers, camping on the road between Hart- ford, New Britain and vicinity, look- ing for work from city to city, but getting nothing. One day, in Granby, 30 miles from New Britain, these unemployed young workers were parked in front of a school house arranging their camping outfits. Along comes a burly cop and —(gives them some- thing to eat, you say?)—nothing of the kind, gives them a cell in the jail on a charge of vagrancy, for just sitting in front of the school house. They were rushed to the Hartford County jail. The next day the trial took place, no one being notified of it, and at the trial they were given 30 days. The bosses throw us out of our jobs, and when we young workers have nowhere to go, nothing to eat, when we just merely sit in front of a school house, we get thirty days for “vagrancy.” The young League members, W. Srogi, J. Kaminsky and C. Stanke- vitch, have told me when I went to visit them in jail that they will to fight for WORK OR WAGES and fight against the rotten condi- tions, misery and starvation. —A YOUNG WORKER. purposes. They were sent there for militarism, to fight against the working class. And when they grow up they become _ strikebreakers against the workers. Our Pioneers are organized and taught to love each other and to fight for a better system so that every one should | be able to live in happiness. Long live Communism! Long live the Pioneers who will fight for a future Soviet America! Comradely yours, A Pioneer—MINNIE JAFFE. Green surrounded by the mayor, | over an hour trying to convince the | |business men that the way to make | C., nor any other place where they | new members in the League, were) come out more determined than ever Write as you fight! worker cursespondent. Become a | Boss ‘Boers and Labor Sports By W. BURKE. | Golf. OBBY JONES, who has just returned from England after annexing the British open and amateur golf titles, is the darling of the with “news” about him. Even in sports n find the international rivalry between Ame n and British imperialism, The kept sheets carry cartoons showing the “might” of American athletes as compared with those of John Bull, A erude suggestion of the super- iority of American imperialism over that of Bri Baseball. Babe Ruth is surely socking the little pills out of the lots these days. If he continues at this rate he shall exceed his home run record of 1927, The Yankee baseball magnates are rubbing their palms in glee over the exploits of the Babe, not because they care for his home runs, but because of the increased re- ceipts it means for them. What the workers, should do is to form their own amateur teams on a factory basis, thereby not only getting the needed exercise, but also forming a basis for an organization of struggle for their every- day conditions in the shops. In a belated attempt to save the boxing racket from a disgraceful death, the New York State Boxing Commission has ruled that it is up to th: individual boxer to protect himself from fouls, even if he has to encase himself in steel armor to do so. Ridiculous as the com- mission’s ruling is, it serves to illustrate the depravity of the gentle art of body-bruising | when it is run by ex-convicts, politicians. id racketeers. For members of the commission, thick-headed as they are, realize that fouls | will always exist so long as money-mad thugs want return bouts for members of their box- ing stable, and so long as boxers will commit | anything short of murder rather than risk a | knockout that will put a dent in their reputa- tions and their ability to rake in the thous- | ands, | * | The fairy tales which the ruling classes pro- pagates always break down in crucial junctures This holds true even in sports, where “fair play,” ete., is supposed to prevail. A case in point is the very clever boxer Kid Chocolate, who last Wednesday night soundly trounced the tough Dominick Petrole and forced him to throw in the towel in the sixth round. The Kid is said to be one of the best mitt-slingers | since the days of the fabulous Joe Gans. He | has skill, ring generalship, courage and a punch, but will he ever capture the champion- ship he deserves? Not so long as his color happens to be black. . Labor Sports Union News. As this is being written the semi-finals of the Labor Sports Union Soccer Championship are being played at the Party picnic in Detroit between the Swedish-Americans of Rockford, Ill. and the Workers Athletic Club of Detroit. The national competition in soccer marks @ big step forward in the L.S.U. and the next step will be the visit of the soccer players from the Soviet Union this October. Training for Class Struggle. Monday will mark the opening day of the L.S.U. instructors’ physical training school in Detroit, where about fifty worker students will go through their paces for five weeks, absorbing the technical as well as the organ- izational and political instructions that will be handed out to them by a corps of well trained instructors. They will not only learn the art of self-defense but also of workers’ defense. The L.S.U. is going forward with the plans of developing those forces that will be able to lead in the struggles fr the defense of the working class in the battles to come. Workers! Workers’ organizations! Help the L.S.U. in its work by sending in a contribu- tion. Address it to Labor Sports Union, 96 Fifth Avenue, Room 309, New York. Sports for workers is an instrument of strug- gle against the bourgeoisie, * * Chemicals and War Danger (ONGREsS called a special session on June 30 to consider the London Naval Treaty, made by three major capitalist Powers. By July 12, it is expected to ratify the treaty carrying @ program of over $1,000,000,000 ex- penditure by the U. S. for increased naval | forces, | | Why is such additional expenditure for big navies the natural result when imperialist na- tions hold a “disarmament” conference? Be- cause another imperialist war is a certainty. War and armaments are an inseparable accom- paniment of imperialism. In this coming war it is not out-of-date battle-ships that matter, but chemicals, which have become the backbone of modern war- fare. The part to be played by the chemical industry in the next imperialist war is now described for the first time in a Pamphlet called Chemical Warfare—Poison Gas in the Coming War, by a leading chemical expert, Donald Cameron, Behind a smoke-screen of pacifist talk and peace conferences, capitalist nations continue their steady, secret preparations for the com- ing war. Much of this secret war prepara- tion is revealed by Cameron. He quotes the Chief of the Procurement Planning Division of the U. S. Army Chemical Warfare Service to show the plans already worked out by the assistant secretary of war to mobilize the American chemical industry: “According to the plans which are now fair- ly well completed, at the very hour, or pos- sibly a few hours before, America next de- clares war, tersely worded official telegrams will automatically go forward from Washing- ton to several hundred chemical plants scat- tered throughout the East and Middle West. In substance, the messages will say: ‘Go ahead,’ and the innumerable war contracts which are bei , signed in these quiet times of peace will immediately become effective.” Cameron continues with a simple, direct analysis of the chemical industry and of the various gases used in modern warfare. He ends with a section on chemical workers and the war danger. Every worker will want to have a copy of Chemical Warfare in his pocket. He will also want copies of the four other pamphlets, now ready, of a series prepared under the direction of Labor Research Association and published by International Pamphlets, 799 Broadway, New York City. Work or Wages—The Challenge of Unem- ployment, by Grace M, Burnham, who was for seven years director of the Workers’ Health Bureau, brings together the latest informa- tion and working class programs on this vital subject. Modern Farming: Soviet Style, dealing with the collectivization of the Russian village, is by Anna Louise Strong, whose vivid stories of Russia and China have been widely read. Henry Hall, a newspaper man in close touch A MEETING IS HELD By R. B. HUDSON. police refused permission for the Commu- nist’Party to hold a campaign meeting on Delaware and Christian Streets in Phila- delphia. The Marine Workers’ Union was also refused permission to hold a meeting on the same corner. were made to hold meetings but were broken up by the police. Police say no meetings. The workers want to know if we are going to speak, Shall the police rule or the workers? The meeting will be held. Six-thirty in the morning... . Workers from all over the city mobilizing for a De- fense Corps. First a group to protect the speakers. Then tasks are assigned to various comrades, some to mingle in the crowd, some to distribute literature. No detail is over- looked and every one listens attentively to instructions. There is some diséussion about the duties of the Defense Corps. “What shall we do if the cops attack us?” “We are supposed to defend the speaker, aren’t we? Then we will fight as long as we have a chance.” The work is finished and now the time is ready for action. A few minutes of discussion and they leave. Several of them are whistling “Solidarity Forever.” Delaware Avenue... . Hundreds of long- shoremen, with hooks in their belts, are wait- ing for work “to shape up.” But there is no work.. The first speaker mounts the soap box. The defense corps crowd in close around him. * Hundreds of workers are attracted around the stand. “Why are workers unemployed, starving— because they are slaves and powerless under the present system.” These are words that have meaning to the workers. Their attention is riveted. They come closer to hear the Communist Party speaker reveal to them how they must fight against the bosses. A speaker from the Marine Workers’ Indus- trial Union mounts the stand. Words fall fast and sharp from his lips. Words that are a call to action. “You have been betrayed by the I. L. A. You are now in a bosses’ union. You must organize into a real union and prepare to fight...” The crowd increases. They nod agreement to the speaker’s statements. A superintendent of a stevedore contracting firm appears on the outskirts of the crowd. The speaker recog- nizes him and denounces him. The crowd reviles him with hisses. A great rolling “BOO” is hurled at him, The lash of their scorn drives him away. He starts to walk and then in a panic, runs. The crowd’s mocking laughter follows him. id A speaker from the T.U.U.L. mounts the soap box. The crowd is now a thousand. A thousand pair of eyes are on the speaker. A thousand pair of ears strain to hear his words. “Cops!” At the hated word the crowd grows tense. The speaker goes on with his speech. Two cops with drawn clubs force their way through the crowd. They come to the defense corps. The defense corps will not budge. The cops raise their clubs menacingly. “Break it up.” “No.” “Have you got a permit. ig “No.” “Well, you will have to get one before you can speak.” “We've got thé only permit we need—the workers’ ears.” The cops attempt to break through the ring but are repulsed. “Leave them speak. We want to hear them,” the crowd shouts. The cops feel the hostility of the crowd. They do not know what to do. A strange situation confronts them: workers who do not meekly obey orders. And the militant, organized re- sistance of the Communist Party and the Industrial | | | | i | | Two attempts | union. box. The police are telephoning to the headquar- ters. The crowd relaxes slightly but drinks in every word of the speaker. His determina- tion, his fiery words of rebellion kindle the long slumbering fires of revolt within them, With sereaming siren a red bandit car arrives. Seven policemen rush into the crowd with raised clubs. The nine police collide against the defense wall. A red faced sergeant break through the defense and makes for the speake er. Eager hands grab him by the collar and yank him away. For the first time his author- ity as an officer of the law is challenged by workers. He is bewildered. An uncertain look comes over his face. Then he reaches for his gun. One of the workers holds his hand and the sergeant frantically tries to shake him off. A patrolman attempts to aid his super- ior by clubbing the worker but a Negro long- shoreman clouts him with a big fist. The po- lice retreat. They draw their pistols. The crowd growls menacingly. But the cops are afraid of them and have only drawn their pistols through fear. The police do not at- tempt to interfere with the speaker. Two po- licemen with drawn pistols stand on each side of the speaker. “Fellow workers,” the speaker says, “you have seen the bravery of the police. With clubs and pistols they have attacked unarmed men. But they have failed, as yet, of break- ing up the meeting. They are the lackeys of the capitalist bosses and have sold their birth- right as men away. Born of working class women they now are hired to attack the work- ing class. But, comrades, the day will come when these bootlickers of the bosses will come to the working class and beg their forgive- ness.” The crowd applauds the speaker. And feers the police, who stand with drawn revolvers. The speaker goes on. “And fellow workers, especially you Negro workers, remember that the bosses recruit from all races, (he points a Negro plain clothes man). Here is a man of your own race whom the bosses have hired to club you when you demand food. The bosses know no race nor color lines. Therefore, we, the workers, must unite to crush these bosses’ hirelings and the system that produces them.” Thunderous cheers greet this. The colored policeman grins sheepishly. The police are beginning to be unnerved by this denounce- ment and display of workers’ solidarity. They have pistols in their hands but are nearly paralyzed with fear. A sigh of relief comes from them as they hear the welcome sound of a police siren. Every second the sound of sirens, heralding the oncoming riot squad, grows louder. But the speaker does not falter. Neither does the crowd move. With a final scream of the siren the first police car arrives. Policeman stream out of the car and charge the crowd. Car after car of police arrive. Two truckloads of marines arrive on the scene, Fifteen motor- cycles with mounted machine guns ride into the crowd. In the face of raised clubs, drawn pistols and tear bombs the crowd reluctantly retreats. They answer this array of clubs, pistols and tear bombs with drawn hooks, jeers, curses and sullen looks and blows. The speaker is finally pulled down from the box, still denouncing capitalist justice and freedom. Eventually after much swearing and clubbing the police succeed in dispersing the crowd. Ten prisoners are loaded into a patrol wagon. After three-quarters of an hour’s effort, and with the aid of three hundred police and mar- ines, 2,000 workers are prevented from hear- ing other workers speak. These police defi- nitely proved to all workers that freedom of speech was a lie and that police would at- tempt to prevent them from organizing to demand the right to live. These things were definitely proven, The cops beat a retreat to the patrol Election Drive and Daily Worker By G. L. (Section 8, New York). I WANT to relate my experiences and impres- sions of the first Sunday signature collec- tion and Daily Worker Drive. I want also to give here a few suggestions that, I think, should be adopted immediately by all sections and units in order to insure a sugcessful cam- paign. To go out collec\ing signatures without the Daily Worker is the same as to prepare a sple: “‘d meal, but to forget the salt. Espe- cially is it t.:e when we approach workers who know nothing or very little of the Com- munist Party. Here is an illustration: After disposing of the Daily Workers I had with me, I entered a house of a Negro worker asking for a signature. He said, “It seems good, hat you say, but I would like to find out whether you really represent such a Party. Then I'll give you my signature.” Had I had the Daily Worker with me, that would be the credential, the guarantee of my words. I didn’t want to insist. He was right. I prom- ised to come to see him next time with the Daily. The same applies to the Daily Worker Drive.’ It is ridiculous to go out for the Daily Worker subs and not to mention the election campaign, not to ask for a signature. How to coordinate this work practically. The section Daily Worker Rep. and Election Campaign Rep. should ce ~perste with each other in this work. Make two in one How? 1. The same committees which go out for the Daily Worker subs should go out for sig- natures.) 2, Those territories should be taken first which were covered already by the Daily Worker canvasgers, 1. This will insure quicker results for the signature campaign. with developments in the Far East, has writ- ten a crisp, incisive summary of the Man- churian tangle in War in the Far East—A Threat to the Soviet Union. In addition to the first five pamphlets, al- ready published, five more are in preparation under the following titles: Frame-Ups in American Labor History, The Yankee Peril, a story of U. S. imperialism in Latin America, ‘Women Workers, Spying on Labor—the latest facts on industrial espionage, and Speed-Up in American Industry. With the exception of the Struggle of the Marine Workers, a 64-page booklet, selling for 20 cents, these pamphlets range from 82 to 40 pages and sell at 10 cents each. The first five together may be secured for 50 cents. All ten pamphlets may be ob- tained for $1 from International Pamphlets, 799 Broadway, New York City. 2. We may also get new subs for the Daily Worker from workers, who were not ready to subscribe before. 8. Contacts for the T.U.U.L. and the A, N. LC. Such opportunist, bureaucratic tendencies as have been shown by our Daily Worker Sec- tion Rep. who conducts his own work separate- ly from the signature drive, should be stopped in the very beginning in all sections. Let us start right. Remember, comrades, the Daily Worker and signature collection campaign are inseparable. Act in that direction. Now as to the response of the workers, and the result of my first Sunday signature and Daily Worker canvassing. It is also a proof of how inseparable these two campaigns are. 1. I got 5 signatures. 2. Three monthly subs for the Daily. 8. One application for the Party and A. N. LC. I might have accomplished more in the same tim@, but I was drawn into one of the most interesting discussions in one of the Negro workers’ houses which lasted about 2 hours. Three guests were present when I entered the house. After I explained what I wanted, one of the guests said, “I’m sorry, but I can’t give your Party my signature. I’m myself, what you call a politician. I’m a republican, and belong to a republican club.” “Why are you a republican?” I asked. “Be- cause the republicans have freed the Negroes from slavery,” he answered. “Was it really so? Let’s see,” I said. “Let us explain.” The discussion, as I mentioned already, lasted abcut two hours, Every one of the workers, including the host, had some- thing to say, and wanted to express it. When I was about to leave the house the “republican,” a very capable and honest work- er, it seems, said to me: “I’m very glad I have met you. I learned quite a bit today about the Communist Party. I’m not ready yet to join the Party, but I’m already with you.” During the discussion, I discovered that one of the guests was already a reader of the Daily. “You bet,” he said. “I’m a reader of this little sheet,” pointing to the Daily Worker, “and I’m going to read it all my life and do anything I can for it.” “Will you join the Party?” I asked. “Yes,” he said, “Anything I can help with I’m ready to do. This little Daily Worker gives you news that you can’t find in a boss paper.” After his speech, the third worker sub- scribed for a month. The host promised to give his signature next time “I want,” he said, “to read this paper and see for myself first, what it stands for.” I promised to see them again.