The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1933, Page 2

Page lwo ws R. R. Brother hood O DAILY WORKER, New YoRK, WEUNZSDAY, JUNE 28, 1933 fficial | Scorns Members’ Demand for Unemployment Insurance Support for Federal Unemployment Insurance by Locomotive Fire- men’s Union is Answered With Contempt by President Robertson | The letter sent by R. Rondot of | eral Unemployment Insurance for us, you can’t answer a logical question Detroit, a member of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to the president of the union takes up the need of federal unemployment insurance for the railroad workers. President Rob- ertson in the usual contemptuous attitude of the labor bureaucrats to the rank and file answered by re- buking him. To this reply Rondot sent a letter to all members of the Brotherhood. Railroad workers should take up the suggestion of brother Rondot printed below. —EDITOR’S NOTE. DETROIT, Mich—R. Rondot, member of the Brotherhood of Loco-| ance, and so you sabotaged this senti-| pay. motive ‘Firemen and Enginemen (B. of L president of the Brotherhood which he says in part According to your letter of Sept 1931, all that was accomplished November 1930 Chicago con- vas a resolution to reduce to a minimum during the And it certainly cost ty to get this resolution passed. “However, we unemployed Brothers took the position that we do NOT WANT THE MILEAGE REDUCED. but we do ask that the employed Brothers would recognize our nee AND ENDORSE AND DEMAND Fed. in HERD WAR VETS IN LABOR CAMPS Starving ExSoldiers in Old Army Barracks YORK, June 27.—More than veterans recruited for forced NEW W labor camps are in the barracks off For of New York's quota of 1,665 Will be sent to Plattsburg, New York, military training camp. e the recruits from the 2nd rea and went directly to the amps from the Army Building at 39 Whitehall Street. The capitalist press reported that they “were openly pleased to be back in military life.” The veterans, all of whom were formérly recipients of pensions or contpensation, have been cut off by Roosevelt's “economy” program. All were without jobs; many had fami- lies who were hungry. There were no prospects for them. They were signed up for the forced labor camps at one dollar a day when they applied for aid to the Veterans Administration at 225 W. 34th Street. The addition of the veterans to the quota for the 2nd army corps division brings the total up to 33,723 men. More than 32,000 are already in fo- restry camps in Washington, Idaho, Montana and other Western states, where they wear convict garb, work under strict military regime for but 2 dollar or less a day, doing work that timber workers formerly re- ceived $3.50 to $5 for doing. Slocum, near New Rochelle. The | to be paid BY A STEEPLY GRAD- | | UATED TAX ON THE HIGHER IN-| COMES, such incomes as your own |and Dan Willard’s, Atterbury’s, J. P.| | Morgan’s, etc. “And so for two years we have been | starving, and living in hope that you) | would fulfill the fine promises made | jin your letters, but we have finally} come to the conclusion that you are | absolutely worthless as far as a Labor | Union Leader is concerned. Biggest Sell-Out | “Your biggest sell-out was the $500 loan bill for the unemployed. You knew the sentiment was strong for a nation-wide Unemployment Insur-/ ment by your proposal for a $500.00} F. & E.) sent a letter to the|loan, which would have to be paid| control from the top. back by some more 10 per cent de-| ductions, and which bill ALSO IN- CLUDED ANOTHER HUGE LOAN} FOR THE RAILROADS. (Why was/| | that necessary?) WHAT HAS HAP-| PENED TO THAT LOAN PRO-| POSAL? ‘Has it been thoroughly dis- credited, or has it just simply served} | its purpose of ‘blanketing our logical | demands for a Federal Unemploy-| ment Insurance? | Fake Proposals | “Due to the efforts of yourself and the other Labor (?) Leaders and your | fake proposals, and also due to the) efforts of the National Civic Feder- | ation, and due to the betrayal‘ of | President Wm. Green of the A. F. of | L. at Cincinnati last November, the| rank and file demand for Federal] | Unemployment Insurance has been| |Shelved, and our Leadership’s (?) | principle of “Divide and Rule” has been substituted.” (Signed) R. RONDAT.” To the specific suggestions that the railroad unions support a campaign | for Unemployment Insurance, Presi-| | dent Robertson answered with con- | tempt ignoring the demands of the| | union members. He states: “As President. of the | Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen |and Enginemen, I have cooperated with the representatives of the other twenty railway labor organizations in jthe national legislative programs | which have been advanced to protect | the rights and interests of railway employes. | | Will Not Discuss | | “I do not care to waste any time | arguing with a man who appears to be so self-conceited as to believe that he is the only true union man and that the ideas of every other union man, particularly representatives of union labor, should be subordinated to his ideas. | “Yours truly, | “D. B. ROBERTSON.” | | In answer to Robertson’s letter,| | this union member addressed an open letter to “All Officers and Members, to All Grand Trunk Locals of the B. of L. F. 8. E. Robertson Dudges “Pres. Robertson's letter is a shin- ing example of the way in which our Present day leaders (?) answer the honest and logical questions of the Tank and file: It's a ‘Dodge’ that \is ‘as old as the hills,’ namely, when without exposing yourself, then win your argument by calling the other) fellow names. | Concrete Proposals “In my letter you will also note that I proposed to President Robertson that we have a little cooperation on the following points: 1. Federal unemployment insur- ance for the unemployed Brothers. 2. Adequate old age pensions for the retired (to endorse the National Pension Association Bill) 3. No-more wage cuts, and im- proved working conditions for the | employed. | 4. A six-hour day with eight hours | 5. Referendum votes, and no more ‘He thinks I am conceited for ex- | pressing the above desires! Well, I'll | leave it to a referendum vote. WHAT DO YOU BROTHERS THINK OF} THE ABOVE POINTS? | “It is absolutely necessary that we,| the rank and file, shall get interested | and active in our own behalf, and| to this end I would suggest that you! Brothers will endorse the enclosed | resolution for Federal Unemployment | Insurance, and for further informa- tion I submit the following source: | “Brother C. A. Adams, Chicago! Bro. Unity Committee, 2003 N. Cali-| fornia, Chicago, Ill. Write him for | information and a copy of the Unity| News. | “Yours fraternally, | (Signed) | R. RONDOT, G. T. W. FIREMAN.” | Illinois Miners in Fight Against Use of the Pauper’s Act) VIRDEN, Ill—At a mass meeting of 400 miners, held here on June 21,/| it was decitied to take immediate steps against the signing of affida- vits which make the unemployed paupers. It was decided to strike against the signing of these papers. In order to see that no one signs these papers, picketing will begin at the relief station. Fight Paupers’ Act. This action is a part of the state- | wide campaign against the Pauper Act, which denies the unemployed |the most elementary rights. Under this act an unemployed person can | be denied the right to vote, the right to join an organization which fights for more relief, the right to give bail. In Nakomis, Ill, four families have been cut off relief because they gave bail for Zip Kochinski, leader of the unemployed in Illinois. The super- visor claimed that these families could not go bail because they are paupers. Mass meetings are being arranged to force the relief authori- ‘ties to place them back on relief. Go to see every subscriber when his subscription expires to get his re- newal, “You got a new deal, Jim, and I’m still getting the old one!” EMPLOYED Wes By Burek Baldwin Congratulates I.L.D. on Scottsboro Defense Fight Director of Civil Liberties Union Pledges Aid in Campaign to NEW YORK.—Congratulations on the International Labor Defense campaign around the Scottsboro case, and a pledge of assistance by his organization in the work ahead in the case, are contained in a letter from Roger Baldwin, national direc- tor of the American Civil Liberties Union, to William L. Patterson, na- tional secretary of the I. L. D. The text of the letter follows: “On my return to the city, I have just seen your release on Scottsboro, supplementing the brief press 4is- patches I saw in the Middle West. I have also noted our own press re- lease in which more of a compliment 1s paid to the trial judge than to the efforts of the’ I. L. D. which brought about this decision. . I want you to know that all of us here are highly appreciative of the splendid fight the I. L. D. has put up from the beginning for thé Scotts- boro boys. You have done a job that no other agency could do or would do, not only in arousing world-wide opinion and protest, but in the se- lection of counsel for the skillful Free Negro Boys handling of the moves in the courts. You have built up a greater opposi- tion to lynch justice in the South than any other case has seen. “I wish you would extend to your associates and to your attorneys the congratulations and best wishes of us all in the conduct of the defense, together with our assurance that we shall aid in any way possible in the further and probably difficult’ work ahead.” Block Eviction of Negro in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 25, — When the constable on Monday at 10a. m., put out I. King, Negro com- rade, at 233 E. Jefferson St., the Unemployed Council Post there saw the furniture on the street, broke the door and put it back in the house again. On the following Friday, the constable came back and arrested County Jail all night on Friday. On Saturday, the comrade came out of jail and the owner paid the cost, The Textile % | By NAT KAPLAN ‘National Organizer of the National Textile Workers Union) 'HE cotton trade code submitted to Brigadier General Hugh S. John- son, head of the “National Industrial Recovery Administration”, by the tex- tile barons is aimed to increase the misery of the textile workers. For large’ sections of the textile workers | it will mean less money in their pay envelopes at a time when the cost of living is going up. For all of them it will mean a drastic cut in real wages (because of rising prices they will be able to buy fewer necessities with their wages). It will mean increased speed up and a military regimenta- tion in the mills. Under Roosevelt’s siogan: “To free business—not to shackle it!”, the big bankers and big textile employers will be given undisputed control in the price fixing cartels (employers’ combinations) which will grind down the workers real wages and extermi- nate the small textile employers, Thru this measure they hope to perform the miracle of eliminating competi- tion, but they will only succeed in creating a more drastic competition between the bigger textile barons. The textile barons can only suc- ceed in this competitive struggle if they reduce production costs at the expense of the textile workers. In order to understand the “recov- ery act’ we must dig below its sur- face covering of ballyhoo, of loose, unsupported statements about put- ting “people back to work”, guaran- tees of “a living wage”, etc. We must understand the “deeds” and not the “empty words” of Roosevelt and his skilled strike-breaking clique of Green, McMahon, Gorman and Co. Danger of Direct Wage Cuts. For months before the “recovery act” was passed the textile barons intensified their direct wage cutting. These cuts run as high as 60 to 80 per cent in the last 4 years. In the last two months some of the textile employers in order to curb strikes and on the basis of a substantial vise in the price of cloth (due to in- flation) have handed back a measly 5 to 12% per cent raise in pay to their workers. Now along comes the “textile code” and fixes a minimum wage of $11 weekly in the North and $10 weekly in the South for a 40-hour week. The “recovery act” gives plenty of leeway to the employers for turning this minimum into the maximum wages The act specifically forbids anything: “which might tend to set ” ¢ Code--“An Empty Bread Box” & maximum as well as a minimum wage.” (Section 7, C.). Hence all textile workers still getting over $10 and $11 per week face the danger of direct pay cuts towards this level. In words Roosevelt shouts for “the wages of decent living’. In deeds he offers the textile workers $10 and $11 as this “living wage”. Even a charity organization like | the Family Welfare Society in Provi- dence in suggesting family budgets can’t conceive of less than a $20 | Weekly income for a family of 5. | And the adequacy of this budget can | be gauged from the fact that it pro- vides nothing for “savings” and only 5c a week for newspapers, movies, gifts, donations to churches, doctor, dentist, occulist bills, vacations, etc. Take two examples* of average wages today: Burlington, N. C., Mills, $12, and $13 weekly. Berkshire Fine Spinning in New England, women $12 and $13 and men $18 to $20. Is it not clear that under the “recovery act” the employers will try to beat down these wages to $10 and $11 re- spectively. Pay Cuts Under Guise of Shorter Hours, A textile worker whose weekly hours are cut from 70 to 40 under the “recovery act” will get that much less money in his pay envelope. This is clearly stated by the textile barons in their journal Fibre and Fabric: “Forty hours or 30 hours with a 48 hour pay is too foolish to talk about, as labor is going to get in pay, just what it gives back in work, and anyone who believes that 48 hours pay is coming with a 30 or 40 hours week is being fooled.” The editor of the Textile World (another employers paper) admitted that even if a provision were put in- to a so-called shorter hours bill pend- ing in congress to “maintain wages” the attempt to enforce such a provi- sion would be “futile”. The same thing applies to the “recovery act”. Thus this act under the guise of shorter hours is going to cut the tex- tile workers weekly pay to the same extent as they cut the hours of la- bor. Pay Cuts Through the Stagger ‘m. Syste: Many textile workers who earn be- low $10 a week believe that their wages will be automatically raised under the “recovery act”. But un- der the act you are entitled to get $10 and $11 for 40 hours work. The employers can cut you below this minimum wage by staggering your working week, They certainly won't An Offer to Aid the Textile Workers Comrade Kaplan's article provides an excellent basis for a discussion of the problems of the textile workers under the conditions of the Indus- trial Recovery (Slavery) Act. We urge the textile workers to discuss their problems in the mills, to formulate more clearly and concretely their own demands in opposition to the proposals of the textile bosses, and then to send letters or short articles, giving the gist of their views, to the DAILY WORKER. This will result in the speediest possible development of a na- tional program of action to improve the conditions of the mill workers. United mill committees, as Comrade Kaplan suggests, should be quickly set up by the workers in every mill without waiting for organizers from outside. Only quick action by the workers themselves: setting up mill committees, building the National Textile Union, forming rank and file opposition groups in the reactionary U.T.W., and the preparation and carrying through of strike actions for the improvement of their conditions will bring results. The DAILY WORKER offers its columns to the tex- tile workers in their efforts to hammer out such a program.—EDITOR. Ccaetentshasbastenenentntsntensemesenamenseenesmennneneeee eee pay you $10 and $11 for 20 hours work! The “recovery act” clearly provides for the stagger system (also known as the share-the-work, or share-the- misery plans). In General Johnson’s bulletin of June 20th we read: “An average work week should be designed so far as possible to provide for such a spread of em- ployment (read: “spread of misery”, N. K.) as will provide work so far as practical for the employees nor- mally attached to the particular industry.” Now the “employees normally at- tached” includes the army of the un- employed textile workers who are to take part of the job of the employed textile workers. Roosevelt even states this share-the-misery feature much clearer in the following words: “The idea is simply for employ- ers to hire more men to do the ex- isting work (you see—not “new men” for “new jobs”, but “new men” to share the existing work.—N.K.) by reducing the hours of each man’s week.” a And don’t forget that the act does not say that the 40-hour week is the minimum number of hours you can work—it simply says it’s the max- imum hours you, can work. / This is the same Wall St. stagger plan tune sung before March 4th by Hoover. The words have slightly changed but the melody lingers on. It means more hardships both for the employed and unemployed textile workers, It means still further cuts in local jobless relief and the refusal to grant federal unemployment in- surance under the pretext that people are going back to work. ‘ Not satisfied with the attacks on the money and real wages of the textile workers, the employers and their agents are aiming special blows against the women, youth and Ne- groes in the industry. The textile code refuses to guarantee the $10 and $11 minimum to: “Apprentices, clean- ers and outside employees”. In the South it affects the Negro workers and in the industry as a whole it affects the youth and sections of the women who can be easily designated as “apprentices” by the employers. In New Bedford, Batty and Binns of the United Textile Workers (A. F. of L. textile union) have forced through a decision in their textile council calling for the abolition of the Massachusetts state law forbid- ding night work for women under the pretext that Roosevelt must not be hampered in carrying out the “re- covery act”. Role of U.T.W. Misleaders, The “recovery act” does not auto- matically abolish the “open non- union shop” in the textile industry. It simply gives the workers the right to organize in unions for “collective bargaining” (a right which they le- gally had before the act was pas- sed). And if the act forbids the employer from refusing to hire a worker simply because he belongs to @ labor union, it does not prevent him from refusing to hire a union worker under any other pretext that he can invent. It will certainly be used by the employers to try to smash the left wing unions. Such a drive has already been started in the needle trades, It is only the workers thru | diff ‘ their organized power who: can win the right to keep their industry or- ganized in their own rank and file unions. The Roosevelt administration and the textile barons are using McMahon Gorman and Co. to put over their attack on the textile workers in the following form: 1) Lull the textile masses into passively waiting for the operation of the “recovery act”. 2) By this means prevent the outbreak of strikes. 3) Where the strikes do break out take over the leadership in order to defeat it, 4) Under cer- tain conditions where the masses are about to strike, even take the initi- ative in calling the strike, in order to be in a more favorable position to betray it. (Mr. Reviere of the U. T. W. did this in the last Manchester strike. The U.T.W. called the strike for a wage increase. When they sent the workers back to the mills with “a victory” large sections of them found a 20 per cent pay cut in their envelopes.) 5) No general drive to organize the unorganized, but where there is a movement for organization steer it into the safe channels of the UT.W. The textile barons will only favor U.LW. organization against the “greater evil” of the organization of their workers into militant rank and file organization like the National Textile Workers Union. They are keeping in mind the revolt of the U.T.W. rank and file in Salem and Manchester. At the same time they will use their faithful lackeys Mc- Mahon, Gorman, et. al., under all con- ditions. For Real ents. The militant National Textile Workers Union is leading the strug- gle in the industry against this latest attack by the employers and their government. We must 1) Fight for increases in wages (including piece work prices) to meet the rising cost of living. 2) Demand the 40-hour week without any reduction in pay. 3) No stretch out, speed-up systems, Abolition of health and safety haz- ards. 4) Fight for the special de- mands of the women, youth and Ne- groes in the industry. 5) Federal un- employment insurance at the expense of the government and employers. We must build our department and mill united action committees to fight along this line. For permanent or- ganization in the mill join the Na- tional Textile Workers Union which takes in all textile workers regard- less of political, religious or racial ferenceayy Comrade King and held him at) | | NEWS BRIEFS W. VIRGINIA VOTING REPEAL CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 27.— Dry for more than 20 years, this state is today voting on repeal of the pro- hibition amendment to the United States constitution. Prohibition forces are hopeful that they will be able to carry it and halt the thus far unin- terrupted landslide against prohibi- tion. It is the first Southern state to vote on the issue and is regarded as pivotal. If the drys can carry this and twelve other states they can block repeal of the -Kighteenth Amendment. ROOSEVELT APPEALS TO . ADVERTISING GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 27. —Messages from President Roosevelt and Hugh 8. Johnson to the conven- tion of the Advertising Federation urges what they call “the advertising industry” to carry on publicity to ballyhoo the Roosevelt National Re- covery (slavery) Act. oie . EXTRA PAY FOR VICE SQUAD | NEW YORK, June 27.—Police Com- missioner Bolan defended his policy of paying $250 a year éxtra to the frame-up artists and stool-pigeons of the “vice-squad” by saying that some inducement had to be made as they are held in contempt even by other members of the police department. ‘The $250 not only helps salve the al- leged feelings of the stool-pigeons, but. also helps them cover expenses they incur. in trapping women they de- sire to jail on vice charges. mE SE he RECALLS “LABOR” OBSERVERS GENEVA, June 27—The United) States observers to the International Labor Conference were instructed by cable from Washington to return home as soon as possible. They will leave today or tomorrow. er ae KUHN-LOEB GAVE DAVIS $25,000 WASHINGTON, June 27.—Kuhn- Loeb & Co., big bankers, handed Nor- man H. Davis the sum of $25,000 for speaking to the Chilean ambassador for negotiating a loan for the Chilean Potash interests. The loan was made but later defaulted. Davis is the rov- ing ambassador for the Roosevelt ad- ministration who recently returned from Europe where he was forward- ing the predatory interests of Amer- ican imperialism. Like many of the other Roosevelt gang Davis also was on the “favored list” of the House of Morgan. ome KILL SHEEP FOR TALLOW ONLY MAGALLANES, Chile, June 27.— Unable to find a market for meat, Chilean ranchers have slaughtered more than 225,000 sheep, from which the only marketable product obtained was tallow. All meat from sheep ex- ported used to go to England, but the restricted buying power of the Eng- lish” masses cut down that market. There are always hungry masses in Chile, but the sheep are killed be- cause they cannot be sold at a profit. Sign Slave Contract to Get -Relief in Muskegon Heights! MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich.— A demonstration took place before City Hall against a slave contract which unemployed must sign in order to get relief. The contract to be signed states: | “In consideration of certain advances made to me by the city of Muskegon Heights for welfare aid, the amount of which is evidenced by certain promisory notes heretofore and thereafter to be signed by me, I do hereby transfer, set over and sign to the said city of Muskegon Heights such wages as shall become due me from my employer while I shall be employed as security for the repay- ment of said notes,” According to this contract any one receiving relief will have to pay it back from his wages if work is found at any time. The contract even Lauded for Heroism, Arabian Toiler Now Faces Deportation Hassan Ali Deported July 2 BOSTON, Mass., June 27.—The attention of the Department of Labor being called by an act of heroism on his part, last December, Hassan Ali, an Arabian worker, is due to be deported on July 2. Hassan Ali was born in Aden, Arebia, He became a peari-diver then driven on by the poverty of his class in Arabia, he travelled over the world as a sailor, In 1923 he came to America, He became a work-¢-- er in a Danbury fur shop. There was a strike and Hassan joined the strik- ers militantly. The strike was won. Saves Drowning Boy. Last Decémber Hassan Ali was walking past the lake near Danbury. He watched two boys playing on the ice. The ice gave way, arid the boys fell through into the water. Hassan ran out and dove repeatedly to get the body of the second child and at last he got it. Coming up under the ice, he had to break his way through, and as a result was cut and wounded. Then others appeared on the scene The newspapers wrote editorials about his bravery, The Rotary Club and the Humane Society heralded this act of heroism. A Carnegie Medal was promised him. At a dinner of the Rotary Club Hassan Ali was the guest of honor. But, instead of medal, instead of the job, as he was promised, the Immigration officials called upon Hassan Ali and took him to the East Boston Immigration Station. He was ordered deported as an alien. Now In Jail Now he is in jail in East Boston. He has lost twenty-five pounds and is spitting blood and running a high temperature. But the officials refuse to send him to a hospital. Unable to eat the prison food, he exists only on milk, This man, who risked his life to save a child, and who, as a result has contracted tuberculosis, had no one to whom he could appeal. The International Labor Defense is taking up his case. A writ of habeas corpus is being filed, and Hassan Ali will be taken to a hos- pital. Hassan Ali is twenty-nine years of age, colored, speaks English, and worked in Connecticut mills until the crisis drove him onto the streets, penniless. PLAN TO DEPORT U. S. WORKER HAMTRAMCK, Mich.—M. Zackler, a leading member of the local Un- employed Council, was arrested by the Immigration Department June 14 and held for deportation, altho he is American-born. His arrest was made in the Welfare Station when he was waiting for his relief check. | Negroes Jim-Crowed in Lynchburg Shops; Carter Is ‘Town Boss’ LYNCHBURG, Va. — This city which boasts of having given Carter Glass to the U. S. Senate,” has the additional “distinction” of extending Jim-Crowism to the shop. The Lynchburg Hosiery Mill has two factories located in different sec- tions of the city, one of which em- ployes only white women and girls, and the other only Negroes, Wages in the latter factory are considerable below the miserably low wages paid the white workers. Working full time on an 11-hour shift, a young Negro looper said the most she could fmake was $4 per week. They are paid at the rate of three cents per dozen pairs. Carter Glass, author of the Glass Steagall banking bill just put through congress, is the big boss of the town. He owns the only two newspapers published here, The News and The Daily Advance, both of which are closely linked up with mill owners in Virginia. Tacoma, Wash., Toiler Held for Deportation TACOMA, Wash.—John Ujich, un- employed worker of Tacoma, arrest- ed on a charge of “tampering with light wires” is now being held by the immigration officers. Though he is technically released by the county officials, the federal officers continue to hold him incommunicado, without issuing @ warrant for his arrest or making any charges against him, “NEGROES ON ALL JURIES” CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — R. C. Hawkins, retired mail carrier on a federal pension, said in an interview that he believed Negroes should be summoned for jury duty. The Chat- tanooga News, in publishing an in- terview with Hawkins, distorted his meaning by saying that he believed in “limited use of Negro jurors,” whereas Hawkins stated they should be called to jury service on all cases. DAY B With the “Daily” Y DAY Let’s Have News from Our Salesmen and Distributors For the past several weeks we have been getting news and letters only from district and section representa- tives of the Daily Worker. The com- rades who are actually on the streets, on the delivery routes, have remained silent. But it is only the workers who act- ually go out into the streets and among the factories and strikes and working class neighborhoods to sell the Daily who can really indicate the best methods for succeeding in the present circulation drive, We want letters from these work- ers: Describing their experiences, their failures, their accomplish- ments. We want to know what sort of news, in their opinion, attracts the workers to whom they sell the Daily. Not only do we want, but it is necessary that we know, how the workers react to our paper, what items or features they like best. It is only by finding out the needs and likes of the great masses of work- ers that we can improve our paper. All salesmen, route-carriers and others actively engaged in distribut- ing the Daily Worker are urged to send us letters on their actual work. Tenclose $..........0... NAME .. HERE IS MY SUB! COMRADES: Please send me the Daily Worker for Cc 1 Year [Sh 6 Months Ee Sat. Edition (Check your choice) From An Old Friend of the Daily Worker * The following letter is from EB. W. Theinert, a disabled veteran who for several years has been at the U. S. Veteran's Hospital in Oteen, North Carolina, Many readers will pS remember his frequent lett and contributions to the Daily Worker during the past three financial drives, Theinert, too, has evidently been subjected to Roosevelt's deal, as his letter indicates: “Dear Comrades: I received your letter regarding the expiration of my obliged to let my sub expire for time being. As soon as I establish permanent residence, I will ately subscribe again, as I would be lost without the Daily, Yours for the dictatorship of the proletariat!” “Daily” More Important Than Living Quarters ' From Fred Davey, of Adman, Michigan: “Comrades: Kindly my ad- dress from 314 West St. 1004 E. Church St. We cheapen our living quarters to meet expenses, but our Daily must maintain its stand- ard—$1 enclosed.” per ifn i he SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6 per year; $3.50 for 6 months; $2 tor three months; 75 cents per month; Saturday edition $1.50 per year, | Send '‘:s ad back specifies “that in case of my death” that “my administrator” should have to make such payments. DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N.Y. > with your sub to the »