The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1933, Page 3

ee ected (_——> BARRI it’ BERLIN BY KLAUS NEWKRANTZ ILUBSTRATED BY WALTER QUIRT When looked had these days, red through the kitchen window Hermann’s wife who after Kurt in an sittizg bwur afterwards, she saw Kurt at the table supporting his in both hands and gazing ai the spot where the letter head blank, wos ly Three Days Later Following @ woman warder, Kurt entered a long room, lined right and ‘left with rows of grey beds. The occupants—all women—were at once called to order if they raised their heads to look at the man. Kurt's eye strayed from face to face, was caught for a second by the bars of a window and then searched further. In one bed there lay a woman hold- ing a dirty towel, wound in a thick knot Like a baby in her arms. Her White face bore an expression of ecstatic happiness, she murmured of endearment to the » her hands caressed it vibable delicacy. The next to her coarsely winked t behind the back of the war- dress and tapped her finger to her forehead while an ugly grin distorted her face. Behind him he heard a woman's laughter. The wardress stopped at the last bed on the right “Toedey for thé first time she has she said to Kurt. ou Woukin't have been have ten minutes.” what she saying. he only saw the nan bloodiess face on the pillow, haggard protruding temples on which the blue veins seemed to be covered by a thin glaze. Out of dark rings below the forehead the eyes were staring at him, eyes in which there let in. Kurt did not hear vi You Was something strange and new. Was this—Anna? She was fully conscious for the first time today. Por days and she had been in a raging She had not the slightest > had got, here. Kurt held her thin, strangely dry band careiully in his own, gas if it were made of fragile china. 4; The wanrdress tried ,to their conversation ggveral times. Apna started to talk it the people tise alley. She had Yead no papers. this morning a Rew patient in the roem had told he pened in Berlin singe her arrest. And also that a lawyeg of the Party hed seen to it that she, was taken to the ‘hospital. For the first time a faint smile lit up her face when she told Kurt tinat she had been charged With rebellion and resistance against the State authority. “But, Anna, that is sheer madue: “No. boy—I was very’ silly before. But why did you never teil me? I too thought that it all had nothng te do with ‘resistance against the authority of the State’ Do you know, at first I only went with the demonstration because I was afraid interrupt for you. And then — everything turned out different. I didn’t know that the ‘resistance’ against this authority, this State which I always considered to be something ‘impartial’ scmething that was above party, is an essential part of the class struggle. Well, my boy, I heave learnt that MILLIONS MORE MORGAN . PROFITS ARE "ISCOVERED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) crease of $53.193,000. ns deposited with the ; Which they always kept under their own control, $20,- 000,000 in cash. For this cash they got securities of the United Corpo- ration which were worth $107,000,000, giving the Morgans another profit of Pay Millions for “Good Will” While these facts are being brought to light, a suit against an- other utility holding company with which the Morgans have intimate connections, throws still more light on the way Wall Street capitalists gather in the profits which are ulti- mately paid for by the workers. “The Niagara Share Company, an investment company having assets of $123,000,000, bought the business of Schoelkopf, Hutton, and Pomeroy for $10,000,000. Tt now turns out that of this amount, more than $9,000,000 was for the payment of “good will,” | and not any real assets. Tt also turns out that the directors of the Niagara Share Company were the same men who controlled the small company which the Niagara bought. Jacob Schoelkopf is head of both Niagara Share and of Schoel- kopf, Hutton and Pomeroy. What happened, then, was that these men used the money of small investors to get rid of one of their own companies which had little real value. They practically helped them- selves to an easy $9,000,000 profit. These enormous profits have to be paid for by the people in the form of exorbitant rates for electricity. Roosevelt Reluctant to Let Woodin Go Meanwhile, the fact that Secretary of the Treasury Woodin was one of the Morgan beneficiaries, has made his position uncomfortable. Roosevelt, however, has refused to accept his of- fer of resignation at the present time. It is reliably reported that Roose- velt will soon let Woodin resign after the storm has died dowri. He has ex- pressed his gratitude for Woodin’s services so far. Many of the leading administration officials have urged Woodin “to stick it out,” but, it is said that Roosevelt, although he has 90 personal objections to Woodins vemaining as Secretary of the Trea- sury, feeis that Woodin will have to tesign in order to preserve the pres- dge of the administration, Waat bad hap-| CADES Printed by Special Poeais- sion of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 381 Fourth Avenue, Mow York City. All Workers ore urged to read thls book and spread it among their friends. every fight of the workers for their rights, must be a fight against this State. When they beat little Willi almost to death in that police station —Kurt, then I grasped what ‘State authority’ means!” “You are not allowed to speak like this, Mrs. Zimmermann,” the war- dress interrupted her, but the tone of her voice was not unkind. Kurt no- ticed that she had listened silently and attentively. The ten minutes must have passed long ago, he thought. “Let me go,” Anna said. “In front of the judge I shall say much more. I shall tell him that the peo- ple who today hoid the power of the State in their hands are nothing but the deadly enemies of the workers, that they use the State power for of the capitalicts and to suppre he rights of the workers. And I shail tell the Social Democratic workers— | I shall tell them in court—that their leaders who support this State are our enemies just as much, whom we must exterminate, if we want to live. I have learnt that on this year's first of May.” | “Anna, you have not asked how our boy is getting on,” Kurt said only. to change her thoughts. Her pale face was already beginning to burn with the returning temperature. “I have thought so much about him, but I thought more about the | comrades. Most of them I only know by sight, I don’t even know théir names. Kurt, I am so ashamed that you have had such a bad comrade in me.” | Kurt took both of her hands: “And now we shall have a very good and | brave comrade! Anna, we shall all | be waiting for you. . En | He got up quietly when the war- | dress touched his shoulder. Anna lay with closed eyes. Above her head | hung the chart with wild jumps in the temperature graph. She seemed asleep. The narrow mouth in the tired face bore a confident smile. Vorwaerts, November 5th, 1930. “Comrade Zoergiebel who is now but who, undoubtedly, will soon find a sphere of action giving full scope to his high merit and capacities, has the widest circles of the Berlin pop- | ulation.” Those who had the privilege of watching his work at close quarters | know that a warm humanity and the | desire to help have always been his | leading aims ‘The gratitude and wishes of all reasonable and decent inhabitants of Berlin will accompany | him to hhis new activity.” THE END COMRADES WANTED—To sell “The An- vit” (new proletarian magazine). Lib- eral commission. Call or write: Spier, 1209 Franklin Ape., Bronx, N. ¥. 6 CITY WIDE PICNIC COMMITTEE WiLL MEET TONIGHT | 7:30 P.M. At the Office of the DAILY WORKER 35 East 12th Street New York City All Organizations Requested to | Eleet and Send Delegates Hespital and Oculist Prescriptions Filled At One-Half Price White Gold Filled Frames—_____$1.50 ZYL Shell Frames -——______.. .$1.00 Lenses not included COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. First Door Off Delancey St. Telephone: ORchard 4-4520 Dr. WILLIAM: BELL OPTOMETRIST 106 E. 14th St., near 4th Av. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) B’klyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-30i« Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M, {ntern’] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15th FLOOR Wark Dour Under Ve 1 Care of Dr. C. WEISSMAN WORKERS—EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 IN AVENUE Near Hopkinson Brooklyn, N. ¥ WORKERS PATRONIZE. CENTURY CAFETERIA 154 West 28th Street Pure Food Proletarian Prices nothing, but to pretect the interests | temporarily retiring from public life,| | gained the respect and sympathy of} DAILY LUKA, WEDINKSDAY, MAY 31,1 WURBiGN, Nii Bakery Picket conscientiously in high prices. the BREAD STRIKE INN. J. ENDS IN VICTORY Workers Organize Consumers’ League Break Flour Trust LINDEN, N. J., Ma 0.—The bread strike in Linden and Roselle ended in victory this week when the work- ers, by their effective mass action | on the picket line forced the bakers | to lower the price of bread. Bread was reduced from 8 cents | to 7 cents a pound and rolls, from 20 to 18 cents a dozen. | The New Jersey Flour Trust to which the bakers, here are affiliated was responsible for raising the price of these necessaries of life. As a result of this strike, the work- ers were able to break the trust and reby succeeded in lowering the price of bread for consumers in other | cities in New Jersey. The strike was conducted under the | united front leadership of workers of | various political affiliations. With) | the close of the successful struggle, a | Permanent organization was formed) | which is to be known as the Consum- | ers’ League of Roselle and Linden. | | “The Communist Party which was| jin the forefront of this strike and | gave splendid leadership has won the| | confidence of the workers in this city. NEEDLE UNION FORMED IN CONN. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May 30.—A | branch of the Needie Trades Work- | ers’ Industrial Union was officially) | formed here on May 17 after a meet-| ing at the Newfield Building, 1188 | Main St., the Union's headquarters. The union was formed as a result of the activities of the Anti-Sweat| Shop Committee which was initiated | | by the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union. The Committee has been active in exposing sweatshop | conditions, the demagogy of the offi- | cials of the State Department of La-| bor and the reformist unions who! split the workers’ ranks while pre-| | tending to “alleviate” conditions. | | Recent evidence of the attempts of | | these elements to discourage militant organizations is the stunt put on by the Amalgamated officials which un- der the guise of “stabilizing” the sweatshop industry organized the bosses to force the workers to join their union in order to “stabilize” the industry. | secretly issued. | his own eviction notice and dispens- JOBLESS VET’S WIFE DRIVEN BY STARVATION, KILLS HER 3 CHILDREN “Didn't Want Them to Suffer Like I Have” Says Mother Who Lost Job Because of Illness FRAMINGHAM, N. ¥., May 30.—“I don’t remember exactly all the de- tails, but I must have killed them one at a time and then set fire to the house. I couldn't sleep. I was worrying. I've suffered, and I didn’t want them to suffer like I have. This was said by Mrs. Nellie Dyczewski, ¢i mother who had killed three of her children, rather than see them die slowly as a result of starvation. Her®— 9 5a PEE ke — husband, a war veteran, has been, her children starving and facing the unemployed for over two years. The | Marshal each day to be driven on children slain were Irene, 10; Chester, | the street 8, and Eugene, 4. Paul, 8 years old, They lived in a barren house over escaped to the cellar and was saved.|100 years old. It is located on the Mrs, Dyezewski explained that her | /and of the Roxbury Carpet Com- husband was,a world war veteran and | P where she formerly had served in the 9th infantry, being | Worked. | She told of having worked all her commended in service. | years in the mills around here. Later She said, “We have been told to) however she was forced to give up vacate the premises. My husband | work as a weaver because of illness. hadn't worked for over two years.) When she was well again and re. He has been sgceiving welfare aid.| turned to work she was offered em- I haven't worked for months myself.| ployment on condition of working I was mad, all right. But I’m not |double speed up. That is to operate afraid. I’m ready to die.” jthree looms instead of one and a Her story is one of thousands of |half as w done previously. This families. But, one who has become | she could not do because of ill health mentally unbalanced worrying about | and was therefore fired from the job WILLIAMSBURG UNEMPLOYED IN WINNING FIGHT FOR RELIEF Militant, Persistent Daily Struggles Thwart Tammany’s “No Rent” Edict NEW YORK.—A record of numerous single victories has been piled up by fighting unemployed in Williamsburg section led by the Williamsburg Unemployed Council against the ruthless Tammany order of no rents and reduced relief. An average of 40 evictions a day have been taking place in this sec- tion since the Tammany order was The Home Relief Bureau has shown the most heartless indifference to the fate of thousands of families and their children. “Shift for yourself” was the usual reply to workers asking to be saved from Sleeping in the streets. Many evictions have take place il- legally. The landlord simply writing got a rent check. It is this, steady, persistent, mili- tant, day to day fighting, says the Unemployed Council that is spiking | Tammany’s intention to dump thou- sands of families into the streets. FUR MEET TONITE ing with the cost of a marshall. At 244 Siegal Street a house com-| (con “FRO! mittee was formed after an eviction, ee al Sivnabtialets stopping 8 more threatened evictions, | i es with strikes, thus joining the forcing the neem to peony &c-! ranks of the fighting furriers. tion and wait until he received @ rent) 4 brand new surprise exceeding check from the relief bureau. | those of the previous days was given Fight for Negro Family | the bosses by the workers in the Ro- A Negro family at 169 Moore St.,| chelle and Hackhouse shop and in after being put back into his home| the Richter Fur Shop. These workers following an eviction received a Tent | were forced to regisier at the Joint check immediately after from the} Council last week against their will. Home Bureau. | They gave in their names and prom- Seventeen evictions scheduled the ised to pay on Monday. Yesterd: next day at 169 and 173 Moore Street they responded by joining the rani did not go through! of the striking furriers. Workers on Ross Street having seen) “Women’s Wear” of May 29 carried how the unemployed council handies | a curious news iiem siating that the evictions spontaneously formed a| scab agents of the A. F. of L. are committee and restored an evicted resorting to legal procedure in order: <: family at 189 Ross Street. to force the Associated to live up to Two families evicted from 31 Moore| the agreement. How this coincides Street received rent checks in 45 min-| with the action*of Mr. Scheidlinger, utes when a committee formed of} who, in the name of the same Asso- | workers of the house went to the | ciated, promised them full support in Home Relief Bureau and said: “If! the work of exterminating the Needle these families don't get rent checks| Trades Workers Industrial Union is immediately we are putting back) rather puzzling. But from authentic their furniture anyway.” | sources it is definite that this is the Women and Children Join | first move on the part of the A. F. Men, women and children defied 2/ of L. racketeers to secure an injunc- cops at 31 Moore Street and put back | tion against the striking furriers. The furniture of a family. Their militancy | Industrial Union made a statement prevented arrests and at 7 p. m. the| yesterday saying that it is convinced same day rent checks were received. | that this maneuver on the part of Jingalevsky, 211 Cook Street, was| the bosses and their agents will be ordered evicted though he owed only} smashed jusi as previously. 12 days rent. He joined a picket line} Altogether about 50 shops are out with the council at the bureau. There|on strike, the majority of them he was arrested and in court was told that he must move. Jingalevsky re- fused. The landlord, Zelig Strachner a Democratic ward captain broke open the door and evicted the family. But a forceful committee sped down to the bureau, put up a tough fight, and employment wages. insurance and higher Always take a copy (or more) of the Daily Worker with you when you go to work. 350 Shoe Strikers in N. H. Demonstrate Against Use of Scabs RAYMOND, N. H., May 30.—350 striking shoe workers here re-inforced | by sympathetic workers from sur-| rounding towns picketed the Faulkner | Shoe Co. and demonstrated against | the use of scabs. For more than 5| hours the scabs were prevented from leaving the factory by the strikers who held their ranks firm and massed solidly around the factory. Shortly before midnight the strikers broke their ranks. Following the militant demonstra- tion the company decided to close its plant with) the intention of starving the workers into submission, and stopping the militant picketing. 150 Textile Workers in Mass. Strike HUDSON, Mass., May 30.—i50 work- ers of the Wottoquottoc mill here went on strike for a wage increase of 25 per cent. The company hoped to | stave off the strike and raised wages | 10 per cent last week, but the workers ave firm in their demands for a larger slice of the company’s profits, 700 STRIKE FOR MORE PAY COLUMBIA, 8S. C., May 30.—700 workers of the Columbia Mills went on strike here today demanding a return of the wages sliced off during the past two years. The workers are demanding more pay . STRIKE ENDS WITH PAY RISE MAIDEN, N. C., May 30.—Workers of the Carolina Cotton Mills are ye- ported to have ended their strike and returned to work after the company granted a ten per cent increase in wager STRIKE MOVEMENT GROWS AS WORKERS FIGHT FOR THE RETURN OF WAGE CUTS » 1,500 STRIKE ON COAL MINERS ® FORCED LABOR AT STRIKE IN WASH. HANCOCK, MICH. SEATTLE, Wash., May 30.—Forty | miners are out on strike at the old — 7 | Renton Coal Mine owned by Bill Workers Elect Strike Committee; Defeat Strain, the head of the forced labor relief program of the 16th District Sheriff’s Threats HANCOCK, Mich., May 30.—A of King County. Attempting to imposed forced la- bor standards on the miners here, he offers $1 a car for digging coal and strike started in Keewenaw county on a forced labor job. About 1,500 workers marched from Mohawk, Al- loueez and Fulton to Ahmeek where they presented demands to the offi- cials. These were: for an 8-hour day on relief work, relief for single men, free flour and transportation for all| The strikers are fighting for a $5 workers. The officials a day wage scale and $5 per set for shorten the work day by half an/ timber. The scale in the coal fields hour. But the demands for cash re-| here is $5.40. lief as well as the others they re-| ‘The United Producers, an organiza- fused to concede to. tion of militant unemployed has en- contin dorsed the strike and will help the ibe Webbs ate oases 6 bdiiesaeal miners to win their demands. mittee. ici officials Leki eee fi it by cutting relief and blacklisting i some of the men. But in this they Shoe Strikers Win are unsuccessful. Koski, who spoke| Recognition, More Pa at the meeting, was threatened with Lo Mass., May 30.—Accord- arrest, but the sheriff had to release | ing to capitalist press reports, 3500 him as @ result of the militancy of | shoe workers here on strike for seven the workers, weeks, voted 78 to 595 to accept a 10 It is now the task to spread the| per cent increase and recognition of strike to adjoining counties. their union. have to pull their cars to the shaft wearing regular donkey harness. The mine has no system of ventilation. The miners are unorganized at present although the Washington fields are controlled by the U.M.W.A. The U.M.W.A. official, Nichols is re- fusing relief to the strikers. Nt Ail Comr: ‘Meet at the W HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA) Fresh Food—Proletarian Priees M0, $7, WORKERS’ CENTRR———— IN COOPER UNION against forced registration, for un-| Epidemic Through Military Ro By a Labor Camp Correspondent MITCHELL Field, L. 1—On April| 17, 1933, there began an infl young relief workers to the cor ing camp at Mitchell Field, L.I was among the first group there; the vanguard of a thousand destitute un- employed youth who were destined to become part of the great army of “forester Through the Eyes of a Military Man Driven insane by hunger, kills her Before I state my case, let it be children. clearly understood that my mind doc not describe the conditions as se - through the eyes of a civili NY. “FOREST? Sex tases: RECRUITS SENT TO FAR WEST oculatory nerves of a military man wise to the ways of army mess dis- tribution and regulations. Led by Army Officers They Are Sent Long Distance from Home . ignor. Start Out in High Spirits On April 17, unfortunat day of rain, mist and fo that didn’t dampen our arc the cold, unsavory tery, nor did the long ride to the field. Even the sccond physical examination and the subce- quent. inoculation and vaccination could not lower our high, adventur- ous spirits. Then came our initial acquaintance with the rotten system of distribution, whecher of mess or NO| supply, later to become so synonymous have! with Mitchell Field Civilian Conser- NEW YORK.—The first contingent of Roosevelt's forced labor army were in camps near New Yor been sent to western states. Twenty-| vation Corps Administration nine detachments of _young unem- Naked in the Cold for 7 Hours ployed workers from New York were 2:15 p. m.—waiting patiently and sent to Boise, Idaho. Nine detach-| chiverine from the cold drafts that | 5 were sent to Fort Missoul4,) were wafted titough broken window- | Montara. Fanes upon our aased bodies: Before Each detachment was headed by an| us undiated four files of scores of army officer and three non-commis-| nude bodies. An hour pass Ap- sioned officers. It is expected that| parently the lines had not moved. For regular shipments to the forest will! ahead of us at the supply door, we now continue regularly. could see husky individuals fiercely Reporis printed in the Daily Work-| Pushing their way through the m er have shown rotten conditions in| ‘lutching their precious fatigue cloth the camps. In every camp there has! ing. More hours passed. Figures now been wholesale quitting. Unable to|!@Y upon the dirty floor impervious stand conditions, many of the jobless|% the bedlam. They were sleepy and | youth returned to their homes. hungry. I too could feel the void} Now the government is sending under my belt. Nine o'clock. Still) them thousands of miles from their) Waiting. Tem o'clock found us mov- homes to the far west. I this man-| Ing our cold, cramped bodies to more | ner it is intended to force them to Comfortable positions on the hard, | remain in the camps. While the re-| ¥00d floor. | cruits are transported to the destina- Eating in the Rain | tion where they are to work, return| At last our patience was rewerded. | fare is refused to them. Those who| Hurriedly, we donned the flannel un- quit are compelled to beg rides or derwear, the overalls, the blouse, the| hop on freights to return to their) raincoat and were driven by truck to} homes our new home. Vast and empty, it| —_——__—_— loomed before us. We deposited our| duffle bags in a corner and were| quickly taken outside in the rain to} sct some food. Our mess kits were| frightfully dirty, yet we were too hun- sty to be particular, or too tired to care. We ate our meal in the rain} on wet benches and tables. It con-| sisted of cold sausage, cold beans and| cold coffee. It was unwholesome,| though in our condition we could] have eaten the leather soles of our| mud-caked shoes and enjoyed it | e No Sleep Till 2 a. m. Tt goes without saying that nei-/ at 2 o'clock in the morning, 250} | ther in the exposures of 1912 nor in | tired men lay on 256 cots, vainly at- | | its present investigation was or is| tempting to woo the candma ite anything developed in the practices of glating lights overhead and loud-| of J. P. Morgan & Co. that was il-| mouthed overseers all about us. | legal or 2 was unbusi-| Days passed. Food as unpalatable | nesslike, the unique | as ever, Every morning calisthenics| | code of honor p: ling in the world | and close order drill. The aiternoons | of finance: nor snytiting shown on | were supposed to be spent in athletics, ithe subject of the ‘preferred lists’| bet there was no patapheraalic, so which, from my point of view, can| we lay on the green grass instead and be legitimately prevented by legis-| cczed in the sicep-inducing sunshine lation. I am not sure that it would | to the music ef the ironing airplane | | be right to attempt to do so.” motors that twisted and rolled in the | _ heavens above us. Drunken Bosses Bully) ,,,,,"0ed Becomes Revolting | two weeks, the meals became | | Workers on Relief Jobs |tevolting by their very similarity. The Untermeyer, Morgan Investigator in 1913 Says Morgan Is “O.K.” The man who investigated the | n 1913 during the Congres- | tigations, finds that the ate investigation has not cast any discredit on the Morgans. | He says: Page Three Bad Food Cause of in Long Island Labor Camp Must Stand Seven Hours Naked in Cold to Go utine, Writes Youth was fine the fried sugar yone attempt- the line a second time to abdicate quickly and or woe to his prestige as a 2 good standing of the CCC. Epidemic buck was forced quietly ing t of Dysentary Then one morning the inevitable occurred thousand men awoke to A iser i aged by dyse All day long, they in the throes o ng bow e crowded and oc- ‘acked bodies of the and Th The cers asserted the ns, but I have bts on matter. The experienced for the first life we such disrupt- nd continual sensations that I am sure they could only have been caused by the introduction of a powerful f nm agent or drug into the stomach My own interrogations put to the kitehen police brought to light that the lye which is used to wash the pots had not been entirely rinsed from those receptasjs. This is entirely plausible since food distribution was not sanitary and not under medical supervision. Absolutely No Milk. We've never received a drop of milk since we've been here. Instead, they feed us coffee. Breakfast, dinner and supper, day after day, week after week, until now at the expiration of a month, we can boast of our prowess coffee tasters; notwithstanding the in the field of beverages as chronic fact that milk is of prime importance |in the daily diet, especially between the ages of 18 and 22. Can't the au- thorities realize the harm they're do- ing to the bodies of these young- sters? Don’t they realize that caffeine is an active diaretic? That when taken freely it causes general nercousness, insomnia, _ irritability, functional irregularity of the heart, and derangement of all the digestive functions? Can they be made to explain why other C.C.C. camps have |@ pint bottle of milk on the daily menu, besides other delicacies in the form of cake, pie, chicken, ice-cream, , when every C.C.C. man is sup- posed to receive a like amount of money for rations per day? Can Cap- tain Post explain what he meant when he chased the milkman out of camp for selling the boys milk ex- claiming, “We could give them milk if we wanted to? Repressed Murmurings. There are repressed murmurings in the air. Silent, stern and taci- turn, the boys do their work. Yet every now and then, one hears a curse flung at the rotten food, the green, stinking storage eggs, the loathsome pumpkin pie, and rubber- ized, rancid meat that we get three time a day. We've given the other newspapers a chance. We've pleaded with them to help us, yet they’ve turned a deaf ear to our pleas. We turn to the Daily Worker for support. If we do not get better meals here, how can we be optimistic regarding the Bill of Fare in the forests? Help us, to help ourselves!—S. . EDITOR’S NOTE: These workers will find a program of activity in and around the forced labor camps in our editorial on page 1. | *- meat was like rubber, the oatmeal | |To Do Useless Labor |} AMUSE (By a Relief Worker Correspondent) | MENTS | NEW YORK —in every city park | | you can see groups of relief workers | doing some work. Some, like in Pel- | ham Bay Park or Van Cortland, are | | (Tel. Tomp. Sq. 6-6578 | TOMORROW, JUNE 1—One Day Only | "MEN AND JOBS” cutting trees. Some are carrying | | rocks on their shoulders from one | | Place to ancther, and after a while | | | timbering without pay. The miners) they carry the same rocks on their shoulders from the second place to a third place. Some workers are dig- ging ditches for underground pipes. Most of these thousands of laborers are skilled mechanics, professional | workers, members of workers organi- zations, of unions—yet they are be- ing handled by their bosses on the job, the drunken foremen, like a herd of cattle or dogs. On the job the | worker loses his personality. He re- presents a number and with a num- ber a foreman could do whatever he pleases. The foreman is always right. | His word is law. They want to have | the workers in a state of fear and subjection. Yet the workers remain unorgan- ized, open for attacks, Everyone is facing the danger of being fired from sent moment — more starvation. At home it is still worse. The wife and children are underfed. The gas or electric or both are shut off. The landlord with a dispossess in his hand demanding the impos- sible—payment of rent. So workers, who have never read Marx and know nothing about So- cialism, begin to realize what a stupid order of society they live in. They ask a simple question: Here we are carrying rocks on our shoulders and do other unnecessary and useless things. Why should not we build houses (we know how to do it), for the unemployed, who can’t pay rent? Why not produce all the other things that would Misery and plight? Yet anal hn . the job, and that means at the pre- | hunger and | A Soviet Talkie with English Titles. | living document of Russia's rapid strides | | | | tomards Industrial Recognition! | The Theatre Guild Presents ———" | “BIOGRAPHY” WA | | | | | | SOVIET RUSSIA SOLVES THE JEWISH PROBLEM! First 100% Jewish Talkie from U.S. Sars “THE RETURN OE NATHAN BECKER” All Star J ussian od —DIALOGUE TITLES IN ENG! workers Acme Theatne 14TH ST. 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