The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 20, 1933, Page 4

of Kansas Requests That Tells By HIS report to Browder asks the question: the Extraordinary “Is it OUT THE OPEN LETTER. Negro Worker Says Now Is} the Time to Build the LSNR where Also Write Ci ty Experiences ; Workers Else- A. W. BERRY. Party Conference, Comrade Earl not possible that the time has now tipened, that the League of Struggle for Negro Kights can be successfully | brought forward as the answer to the p' Liberation movement?” mative. In fact, from the activities@— of our enemies, it seems that the{ time is over-ripe. In this territory (Kansas City) with a large Negro population and strong southern traditions, »zents of Japanese imperialism have become active, organizing the Negro mass into @ reactionary movement sup- | porting Japan as the international| spokesman of the darker races. Hang- ing to the tail of this movement (which has grown mushroom-like) | are various shades of Negro mislead- Negro people for sur port of schemes al] the way from establishing a separate national econ- | omy to begging for a colony “some- | where between Texas and Mexico.” These demagogues are not only| muleting the Negro people out of meagre pennies, but are paralyzing | the real fight for Negro liberation | and for the every day fight for equal rights, against the white imperialist jim crow system. Dr. Yamato, the Japanese agent. is organizing solely for the “interna-| tional movement of darker peoples.” A Negro faker, who claims to be an Indian from the territory, puts; forward the plan for a delegation ‘© Washington to demand “the money owed to the slaves for the long term of servitude.” With this money he claims to build a “Negro territory along the Rio Grande.” Aims of Movement | In both instances the movement is aimed at stopping the trend of | the Negro people toward the Com- | munist movement, in support of the Soviet Union (the doctor pictures the Soviet Union as a “white na- tion”), However, the latter aims at protecting the rights of the white imperialists to rob the Negroes, and keeps the Negroes from struggling for the rich territory known as the| Black Belt. But this strange twin} Plan for national and international | politics has grown fast. And it has) gtown because the exponents of these plans have understood the national aspirations of the Negro people. ‘There are certain Isesons for us in this, It is plain from the activities of these fakers and misleaders that there is, with the deepening of the} crisis and the more intensified of-| fensive against the Negroes under | the NRA, north and south, a rising, growing national spirit among the Negroes. And what stands out more so is that the petty-bourgeois re- | formists realize the bankruptcy of | the “back to Africa” slogan, raising the sogan of “self-determination theough the back door.” Up to now we have raised the slogan of “Self- determination for the Black Belt” more in a propaganda form without the organizational steps to carry through the realization of it. In fact, many leading comrades have | argued that this slogan would not be understood and accepted by the Negro masses. But is it not now time? Are not the Negro masses voting for the realization, the con- tipmation of this slogan in life? Are not the conditions of life for the Negro masses under American imper- jalism and the growing struggles of the workers sufficient evidence that | now is the time to unleash on the} robbers this giant mastiff, the Negro liberation movement? The Negro masses are answering this question, “Yes!” daily. But just Hke Unemployment In- surance Bills, we are not now the omty ones im the fieid with the de- | the capitalist system in Ame: | center roblem of organizin; \the broad Negro I wish to answer this emphatic: ly in the affir- | for a Negro mand The question faces \ us Who will lead the Ne \ro Liberation Will the Yapan your Movement?” perialists and the petty- geois re- | formists “lead”, it into anti- Soviet channels, into support oi \the robber | Japanese (and world im \erialism’s) aim of attacking the Sov et Union? Will it be led into the harm ess chan- nels of belly-crawling for a imesquite site “somewhere in Texas” to “be used as a buffer state between Mexico and the United States.” ve'op this Or will we de- truggle for self-determina- ines for driv - and Black anvewiigoes from the Belt soil as a fight |} part of the world revolutionary | movement? The time is ripe, Sut how shail | we develop this movement? This movement musi necessarily be .0ose, It must embrace large numbe: of Negroes. It must have a central apparatus: dues books, applications, field organizers posed of Negro comrades, mainly. The should knit together those branches in the south with those in the north and should publish a paper. How should we begin? By the pres- ent narrow LSNR arranging a tour | of two or three comrades for the purpose of explaining the program of the LSNR and setting up branches, utilizing, especially, the Scottsboro | case (it would be well, also, if we could have one of the tenant farmers from the terror region in Alabama). After a three-month period there could be another national conven- tion of the LSNR, at which the pro- | gram would be revised so that the reorganization could be effected on a large scale, reaching deep into the masses of Negroes in the large urban | | centers. At present, there is only the connection, through the Party, of the | Struggles of the Negro tenants andj} sharecroppers in the south with the | struggles of the Negro masses of the | North. A nationally knitted Negro liberation movement would connect the two and strengthen both, “Time Is More Than Ripe” Another advantage of such a step/ would be the moral and financial support from the masses of Negroes | which struggle. would be given the entire Such a movement would be supported by the Negro masses and | the class-conscious white workers. Yes, comrades, it is time for the developing of the Negro liberation | movement. We must answer the cry of the Negro masses for a country and liberation and begin the struggle for the soul of these masses in the fight against imperialism. The writer for a long time thought, just as many of the Negro comrades thought, that | the L.S.N.R. did not fit into the pic- ture, that it offered certain organiza- tional complications. But, comrades, it is precisely because we thought this and acted this way that the misleaders are now partially success- ful in winning a large portion of the Negro masses for imperialist schemes. Let us now come forward with a clear cut national program and or- | ganization of this tremendous anti- imperialist force. It would be well that this topic be discussed in the Party press. I am certain that comrades in other places have had experiences that would serve to help solve this pressing problem. pretty model in just a few spare hows. Try # in a gay cotton print! H Pattern 1532 is available in sizes | 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 36, 36, 38, 40) and 42. Size 36 requires 3 1-2 yards 36 inch fabric. Tllustrated | step-by-step sewing instruction in- | chaded with this. } Send fifteen cents (15c) in coins or stamps for this pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. Be sure to state size. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Dept., 243 West 17th St., New York City. Patterns by mail only. NO FRIEND IN NEED By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—On 238d St. and Madison Ave. an individual of some group is being paid to teach the poor broken-down souls who call the Mad- igon 8q. Park their home, the office workers and the passersby, lessons in sky piloting yene the Dominion of the Almighty, etc. Monday this preacher had a devil- ‘sh time because he was heavily opposed to non-believers and theists, as he called them. These people stashed his logic to “smithereens,” and the Holy Ghost did not come down to rr aaaatl to vive bim divine squarely, | e im-| ‘8 seat. an executive com-} mittee. The leadership must be com-| JAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1933 Workers Robbed of Wages “by Mistake” By a Worker Correspondent 'a.—There is a great and growing discontent among the workers of the Harbsin C. Walker Brick Co. T ers in this plant. code took effect When the N.R.A in this vard, kers and gave part of it to the ers. The old system of *rob- | bery kes in the pa checks is d here, Practically | every work finds hims or every On account of the complicated s vouchers s to find rene aber | an hour do not em of itemizing the is hard for the work e they are short e forced to wait or two hours for brick they get anything for the time 2 ere are about 100 work- | ‘ ce any cut the wages of the ece- | i \te in n America. | re = Nlost, and then 1 ad the brick | while it is red so hot that it burns the hand leather on the work- | | er’s hand. “4 conditions are som 8 ould be brought before the of Health. The only | that yard is a hole six feet long and three feet wide—no covering or even Photo Worker Toiled |9 A. M. to Midnight on $14.50 a Week Job By a Worker Correspondent | have a labora- | y St., where they finish up the por teaita from a chain of five studios in as many southern cities. The writer has learned that an ex Perienced laboratory worker who} went to work here recently for $14.50 | a week had to work, on his second and third day on the job, strai | through from 9 am. till after mid- | night, and his fourth day he had to | exhaustion, but the four others work- were still on the job at 8:30 am. when they were expected to start a@ new day’s work. | In thetretouching department, it is only by working till late, often after midnight, that they can man- age to let each retoucher get off one night a week at 6 o'clock. No pay is given for overtime, and ail wages seem to be at the lowest N.R.A. ) minimum. | All the employees in this sweat shop should insist that an adequate working force be hired and overtime paid for extra. Letters from Our Readers HOW TO MARCH New York City. Comrade Editor: The letter from an I.W.O. youth on sloppy marching at demonstrations, published in the September 4 issue, should receive serious and immediate attention. At the August 1 di tion this showcd everyone hi est of the marching was. This Ger- an unit marched into Union Sq. vith heads up, shoulders back, eyes tront and in step, a splendid picture of strength, solidarity and discpline. | It was an impressive sight and had a thrilling effect upon the specta- tors. In contrast, the marching of the great majority of comrades was dis- graceful, some holding hands, some eating, everyone talking and joking, all shambling along in a slipshod way with heads turned in every di- rection. What a contrast to the deep- ly serious character of the demon- stration. I would also suggest that comrades or sympathizers with eccentric tastes in dress or personal adornment be forbidden to join the marchers. I saw @ tall, bearded individual with hair down to his shoulders, marching | along in bare feet, a staff in his hand }and a white sheet wrapped around j him. Another fellow with a long beard and long hair that had been done up in a knot in the back like a woman's was in the line. Politically | undeveloped workers on the sidelines must not be permitted to think that we are some kind of “nut” move- ment. SUPPORT FOR THE VETS New York. Comrade Editor: Comrades, why don't the workers’ organizations support the Veterans? Why are the vets always in front in every demonstration we have in the city of New York, but the workers don’t support the veterans? A World War Veteran. (The above letter raises a very serious question. Workers’ organ- izations must support the strug- gles of the veterans, who are an importan factor in the working- class struggle.) , IOWA MINERS M. D. W., Davenport, Ia.--We have carried considerable material on the Towa miners recently. We could an- Swer more fully if we had your ad- drees, Club | bad _the | toilet in | | would have to have the policy Bon Art Studios, | | | keep it up till 5 o'clock the next | morning, when he had to quit from | ing with him, two girls and two men, | | Daily By a Worker Correspondent CORONA, L. L—I would like to call your attention to the practices of an insurance company, the Prudential, who makes claim to assessing the policy holders whose policies have not yet reached the time of cash surrender value. I held two policies from this company, both of which run about seven years (ten years is the authorized time that you can cash surrender) and ms which the in-© under the provis urance companies unite to meet the ion for their policy holders esire loans or cash surrender they have adopted a “Dire Need De- ment” sort of charity where you set back “some” of your own money if” you can get a loan. After writing and waiting “two yeeks” an agent and the superinten- dent called and took full particulars, mething like the charity “rackets” Jo, and told me I could get nothing as the place was too clean and you run nine years about and have five chil- dren, etc. ete. I did not like his style of “bunk” and consequently I sent a special delivery letter to his grace, the president of the Prudential at Newark. That brought the agent down with some more papers which I signed and he informed me that the company would only accept one of my policies for cash surrender and said it would take two weeks. Now it is six weeks and notwith- standing letters, etc, I cannot get any satisfaction, so I presume it is one of those “thin air charities” of which big business is capable. I guess I shall have trouble in even getting the policy back without the money. It is just as well to inform the readers of your valuable paper not to place too much reliance on their “Dire Need Division,” which is ap- parently a check-up of prospective suckers for future business. I understand the Metropolitan also has a “dire need” division, a racket born of the “New Deal.” You are at liberty to publish this with name and address if you wish. Henry Brown, 9608 Alstyne Ave. Worker Marches in Detroit NRA Parade, Then Laid-Off By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich—I want to con- gratulate you on the new Daily Worker. I like it fine, and also want to say Michael Gold’s column, “What a World,” is O.K. My wife and I certainly enjoy “S. S. Utah.” And the whole paper in general. I have been reading all supposed-to-be workers’ papers, but can say that the Daily Worker is the only real work- ers’ paper. ‘Times are harder every day here in Detroit. The Blue Eagle isn’t flying so high. They had an N.R.A. parade here on Woodward Ave. The papers jand radio said 15,000 men paraded, who-.were recently employed. But that a damned lie. There were exactly 1,268 workers that have been re-em- | ployed. About 7,000 in all, with the American Legion and K. P., National Guards, firemen, |v. FW. etc. Four comrades and I stood in | Grant Circus Park and counted the workers. There were 322 lines, four abreast. I got a friend that was marching under orders from the boss. And he and two more workers got laid off Friday “until business gets better.” I have been on the public welfare for eight months and the welfare case worker told me when I asked her for some shoes for my son who is supposed to start to school, that there would have to be another million dollars appropriated before all chil- dren could get clothes, and the work- ers here on relief are going to have to do some real organizing to get re- lief this winter. The welfare has not raised the food checks and groceries have gone up high and are still go- ing, up. The case worker told me I was young and had a good trade and I could get a job if I wanted one bad enough. I told her that if I could I wouldn’t be working for the welfare for. 35 cents an hour, 17 hours a week and five in the family. We have a good branch of the Unemployed Committee started. We hold meetings every Friday night at 7:30 at 12th St. Bre Brainard St., but we will have to have a stronger organ- ization to force demands. Workers Pledge Aid to Insure Regular Appearance of ‘Daily’ NEW YORK, N. Y.—A woman worker from Flint, Michigan, sent the following letter to the Daily Worker office in connection with the | $40,000 drive: “Enelosed find one dollar for our Worker. half-time work ‘and — starvation wages cannot do much. Good luck, and my best support to the Daily Worker.” The Boston District Committee of the Russian Mutual Aid Society sent in $22.02 received from a pic- nic which was held in Maple Park. Members of the Haymarket ILD Branch adopte] a model resolution for the support of the Daily Worker. It reads in part: “We members of the Haymarket ILD Branch greet the enlarged Daily Worker which with six pages every day and eight pages on Saturday has made many im- provements so that it can better serve the interests of the workers in their struggle. . “We believe. that we can to a large extent utilize the services of the Daily Worker in building our organization. We, therefore pledge to raise $100 toward the sustain- ing fund of the Daily Worker. “Copies of this resolution will be sent to all our membership.” Signed by the Secretary of the Haymarket Branch, John Bakroff, Chicago, Illinois. Contributions received Monday, September 15, follow: DISTRICT NO. 1 National Leather Workers Association $4.22 Total 34.22 DISTRICT NO. ? Claron Butt, N. ¥. Frigind, N. 'Y. 3. Michaelsch, N.Y. Comrade Louis, N, R. Tleger, Roch Unit 3, Section 1, N. ¥. Y. G., Nurse at Camp Unity Samaradin from Unity Store Gollécted at H. Rosen‘a birthday party Sonia Slankman, Bronx, N. Y. Marry Gordon, 80. Hampton, La C. B, Par Rockaway, L. I. A Sympathizer, N. Building Trades, N. Finnish Wkrs. Club, Trumensburg, N.Y. 10, Unemployed Worker, N. Y. Section 2, Waterfront Unit South Shore, 1.L.D. Max Kiven, N. ¥. N. Lappin, H. Greenberg, H. Falk, and H. Langer M, C. Sustaining Pund Unit 16, Section 2, affair bere wd rer asasa eee Dr, 8. W. (credit Wkrs. School) H, Bilverblatt, N. ¥. Leo. Lesser Hat Shop, N. ¥.— Adele Cohen Louis Feigenbaum Nathan Messner Philip Seligman Eismas geass I am just hoping | to send you more money soon, but | 30 Seer cogent 50 and Garicko o alta ‘Morgenhess¢r 50 10 “1S ce 35 ‘Total 870.13 DISTRICT NO. 5 8. Gotkin, Washington, D. ©. $10. A. Hurwitz, Washington, D. © Fishbein, Washington, D. 0. ‘Total DISTRICT NO. 5 L. McMechen, W. Va. S., MeMechen, W. Ve. 350 H, Spencer, Pord City, Pa Total DISTRICT ae 5 , loval Unemployed Councils. ‘Worker Correspondents Describe How | NRA Wage-Cutting, Speed-Up Works Prudential Co.’ Dire Need Dep’t. Another Racket Policy Holders Made to Go Through All Sorts of Red Tape to Get Back Some of Their Own Money, and Then They Don’t Get It 4 to 4 ‘Hours a Week in Bakery By a Bakery Worker Correspondent NEW YORK-—I am working 54 hours a week in the Goodfried Wholesale Bakery, Union Ave., be- tween 155th and 156th Sts., Bronx, with branches in Manhattan, Bronx, | Port Chester and Brooklyn. They | have their porters and men in the | packing room working 66 and 172 hours. Two men are working 84 hours. They used to nine how a day at $40 per weck. Today thoy are working 84 hours at a salary of $27 a week. I have notified the Labor Depart- ment several times. They send the inspector, but no action is taken. They have men in the bakery before the depression earning $40 to $50. Today they are receiving $19 to $22 per week. We cannot rely on “labor laws.” I guess the only thing to do is for | all the men in this bakery to get to- gether and fight the boss ourselves. | Packing Cotapany Store Raises Prices, Under Flag of NRA By a Worker Correspondent ST. PAUL, Minn.—A week ago the Daily Worker printed an article I sent in dealing with the slaughter- ing of the hogs the government is: buying. Up to date the Armour pack- ing plant has killed approximately 40,000 government bought hogs. Of these hogs about 20 per cent are be- ing saved to feed the unemployed, and the rest are made into fertilizer. (if there is a jobless worker who has received a ham sandwich out of this, we would like to know it.—Ed. Note.) There are five packing plants in South St. Paul, and these plants are destroying government bought hogs. I am sorry I cannot give you figures concerning the other planis. THe mou ARON mpToR & @ overatts reat $106 PORK “tag ly W¢lo The average weekly wage of the packing house employees is $16 to $20 a week. The Armour Co. store room sells overalls and working clothing to the employees, Last week overalls were raised from 88 cents to $1.08 a pair in the company store. Employees can also buy meat from the company. Within two weeks pork that was sell- ing for 10 cents a pound now costs 12 cents a pound. Hundreds of packing house em- ployees are joining the Packing House Workers Industrial Union.” ‘They refuse the leadership of the A. F. of L. What we need and must “> is one or two-cent pamphlets explain- ing the program of the T.U.U.L. and its affiliations with the unemployed, farmers, other industrial unions and the Red International Labor move- ment. Congratulations to the “Daily” Staff for the wonderful improve- ments in the Daily Worker. Colo. Unemployed Council Gains Relief for Negro Families (By a Worker Correspondent) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo—This city is known as a millionaire city. but it has three thousand families living on forced labor. Many cases for relief have been fought and won for the workers of this city by the Two old colored women were forced to pick up coal along the railroad tracks. ‘They were approached by a commit- Lester House, Coshocton, ‘W. Benjamin, Cleveland, io ‘Stal DISTRICT NO. 7 Collected by ad by urn eerie Last 1800 Bem Miter |, Silermen Naftutin, $B lancer Petals ° E : @ S 8, 5essuesuen eeeeeeesrk 2B s 3 Charles Katz Charles— etaoin shrdiu elacin surdlu Finnish Wkrs. Societ, Detroit 9. Tresh—List 24358, Detroit, Mich Johnson : i ase > 2, 3 = g 3s John Sakatos 1 DISTRICT NO. & D. H. and Ruth H. Ashley, Wabash, Ind. 3.85 ) Total 93.68 DISTRICT NO, 13 Group ©, F.8.U., Los Angeles H. Holts, Los Angeles Hungarian Women Wkrs. Club, La ae 140 ee} Sympathiner, Los Angeles Sec. C. 35.00 43.90 oR ae NO, 16 ©., Jersey City, N. 35 Gaitee Vigne Toliers, Jersey City 3.28 Montvale, N. DISTRICT NO. 17 G. U., Oxford, Miss. ‘Total $5.1 Day's Total $ 206.43 Previous Total 878. Grend Total $1084.45, * the best wages, vet here the workers tee from the Council and appeared with the Committee before the Coun- ty Commissioners. Relief was ob- tained not only for coal but for gro- cerfes also, | shops, |that purpose, and met near the Wal- |lows: Johnson, who is from the Steel jme face up. Prcuuee Tells Own st¢ of Kidnapping and Slugg! Otto Keller Deseribes How the Cor Thugs Took Him and Comrades “For a The following is written by Otto Ride” ; Keller, organizer of the 8: Metal Workers’ Union, and vividly describes the kidnapping and slu w. ganization drive at the Wolwotth Co. the plant in Greensburg, over 1,000 workers struck under the leadership of the union, The two unton organizers were blindfoided, taken for a ride and brutally flogged and then.thrown | into a river 18 miles out.of Ke- wanee, where they were left un- conscious. Two local workers, Wil- tiams and Popejoy, were also taken for a ride, McNaught was’ beaten at the gate of the plant.—Editor. By OTTO KELLER “I went to the plant to follow up our organizing work. That night I had a meeting of local forces who were to help me in distributing an- jother leaflet the next day in front of the Walworth Co. and other metal Ingar Johnson went with me to Kewanee to help us on that. We could mobilize but a small force for worth Co., dividing our forces as fol- and Metal Workers’ Industrial. Union from Chicago, with Williams, Pope- joy and his son, who lives in Kewa- nee, covered the main entrance. McNaught, from Kewanee, took the north gate, and I the west gate. I started to hand out leaflets about 6:30 a.m. (as the men start working at 7) near the gate. I had. been there but a minute or two when I heard the watchman calling over the phone something like this:..“There’s one here at the gate, yes, west. gate.’ I immediately sensed he called the police and moved out on the . street, about half a block away from the gate, and continued handing out leaflets. In about another minute or two a large blue touring car drove up, going about 40 miles an. hour, and stopped right in front of me. Four men jumped out and one cov- ered me with a shotgun and the others overpowered me and ordered me in the car. At once they put a black cloth over my face, blindfolded and handcuffed me and then pro- ceeded to speed away, On the way they asked me all sorts of questions such as: What I am here for? Why do we want to pull a strike? If I had attended the meeting last. night? Where’s Joe Weber (union organ- izer))? My name and history, re- ligion, what politics? Where and if I ever worked? Most of the way I lay on my face. After about one hour's driving they stopped and I could hear ‘screams; they were beating up Johnson”some- where nearby. I heard three shots fired and we started off again. They were all laughing about a ‘fellow called Smoky, saying the reason they let him shoot at him was because he couldn't hit a barn, and it would be fun to watch the damn’ fool (Smoky). “They tore out the label from my coat and took my belt and destroyed everything that may have identified me. I lost my watch, keys and $1; as for clothes, neither one of us can wear a thing any more. “We drove about another ten min- utes and stopped. They pulled me out of the car, put a rope around me and laid me face down, beating me with something like heavy leather straps and a rope, telling me not to come back in town, also asking me if I were a Communist, union man, etc. They then dragged me down an incline and pushed me into a dirty ditch or creek . They pulled me out and carried me back up and turned One man said: ‘Now give him the boots’ (meaning to kick my face). But at that time another man called to him to get away and beat it fast. Someone took off my shoes and threw them away (which I found later in the creek). “Another thug held a muzzle of a gun against my temple, telling me not to get up before two minutes or I would get plugged, They- hed my hat over my face and pulléd off the black cloth from my face, also removing the rope. The car started to move and someone fired one shot. As I came out on the road a truck passed by and I tried to stop it, but the driver did not want to pick me up. I then walked to the nearest farm house and found the same Pa., wheree— | the place of beating. half a mile of driving, Joh {company thugs of himself, Ingar Johnson, also an organizer of t'. when they were distributing leaflets September 11, as part ¢ , at Kewanee, Dl. This is a ba. truck there. The man tole. having seen from the distan’, and a bunch of men at % where I asked him to’ st thought we were all drinki ing from my appearance, | and without shoes. I got . clothes in the farm house ar one there saw the welts f, flogging. The truck driver, + to Annovan, seven miles nc Af was on the road, was wavin, to stop. I could hardly 4 him, his face was baeten swollen, his eyes all bloods, his clothes all wet. He told n wards that they strung hin his hands between two tr beat him with ropes and. straps. They used their sh, heels on his face. Johnson relieved of $5. Yes, even ; they took from him. At 4 we got off and went in a tion, drinking a cup of cof, man there telling us that 10 and 15 cars passed by in and two of them stopped ‘They were acting very queer, often whispering to one anoth, gas man looked in one of t and saw ropes lying on tl. board; he told me there mu, been a necktie party. While ing coffee I noticed a larg blue sedan pass by with fiv in it, going north. The sa passed us up again while v riding on the lumber wagoi) towards Kewanee (south). lgoked everybody over, but w able to recognize us, because overalls and a different hi Johnson looked the other way looked part of the wagon ¢ got the license number of fi Check Up On Kidnapp: “From there we walked — Kewanee, got a ride on @ { wagon carrying old lumber, ¢ last lap of about 10 miles w tide in an automobile. In K we immediately got busy chec’ all who got kidnapped, etc. all of them together finally. meanwhile some local boys, "| of the kidnapping, got Johr going without his keys a scouting for us; but came | the place where we met, ¢ were alive. After checking brief the following took place: and Johnson, kidnapped and Williams and Popejoy, kid” but not beaten because they the hoodlums or thugs, as t were local people. McNaugl beaten at the north gate of th. (He also lives in Kewanee, s’ the workers took his part, al hoodlums were unable to away.) One of the local boy to get the story in the K paper, but they would not t_ he got in touch with someon” the Peoria paper and was pr they would put it in their pa “After examining the car W that it was rifled; all the leaf were left gone and other pape: ing; the car had been stand 3rd St. two blocks away fro. plant. We left Kewanee abou p.m, taking a different route. town as we had nothing to © ourselves with. The local boy’ were ‘helping us, are very roiled up about the whole thing are spreading the story all over They want something done abot They will co-operate fully wi_ Furthermore, I have witnesse’ saw me when I came to the house. The truck-driver, the : and his help, the gas. Saag worth, some of the hoodlums’ are: Tom Harwood, Red Mil Nass, Boss Garlane, Trenar} Spider Wagner. Judging by the names they carry (including Sr the company couldn't pick _ ones. In the meantime the loce’ will: uncover more and get adc of the hoodlums. I have be touch with the IL.D. and the Liberties pain Pictures att Another aged colored woman work- had no place to live other than going from one friend to ancther, they didn’t have enough for themselves. A committee from the Unemployed Councils called on the R.F.C. and after a hot argument, ob- tained some relief for this widow. The curbstone patriots are at pres- ent pepped up with Eagle Bluitis, but the workers of Colorado Springs are beginning to see that they cannot eat this bird. oon Unemployed Councils are now organizing the workers in a struggle to force the city and county officials to go on record in favor of the work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill. ST. LOUIS LAUNDRIES By a Laundry Worker Correspondent 8ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The Atlas Laun- dry is paying the same as other laundries, ‘11.25; 36 hours to 50 hours a week, No overtime pay. Straic’-* daily wage of $1 to $1.25. To get is 25 cents extra you must be an oid timer in the laundry. The Negro workers are more ex- ploited than the white workers, Those that work in the hot room on the mangles get 19 cents an hour work- ing actually 30 hours a week, $5.70. Pea eae Bandry Laundry ‘The Bandry Laundry at 100 South Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, Mo., pays By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Irregular Mensiruation—Pimples— Infantilism. E. L. P., Bayonne—Your lack of physical development, together with the irregularity of your periods, point to some trouble of the ovaries. The pimples anc constipation may be due to other reasons. You will receive @ private reply shortly, Yellow Jaundice. T. S—The word yellow is redun- dant—which means that it is un- meceesary, because Jaundice means yellowness. The condition appears whenever there is an obstruction to the flow of bile from the liver ihto the intestines. Gallstones, tumors, inflammations may produce such an obstruction. The bile is then ab- sorbed into the blood and the skin becomes yellow; even the i ees the “t:iites” of the eyes turn canary yellow. Sometimes, when the red blood corpuscles are destroyed too rapidly, Jaundice may take place. Cue iia Athletic Club Residence—Swimming Pool Infection. Louis L., Chicago.—There {s no necessity of becoming a resident of the erganizction you meron to get from $2.25 to $2.50 a dv-~ keep oneself in condition,” If you work in a factory, you are 8 enough exercise. If you are an’ ‘Thank opinion of us, which we the fact that you do not writer Us te a Sa males health tnform) Luttinger, Daily Worker, 35 B.) St, New Yo-s their Istters to Dr.