The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1933, Page 4

Page Four DAIL¥OWORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1933 Party in Sioux City is Growing Despite Raids and Arrests Hold 12 on C harge es of Criminal Syndicalism; Organize Mass Defense; Unemployed Council Gained Many Victories By CARL RODE SIOUX CITY, Ilowa.—Twelve workers, charged with criminal syndi- | GALVESTON, Tex.—This is a copy | calism, are held in Woodberry County jail, under $6,500 bail each. These |of a letter which I recently mailed workers, charged with membership in the Communist Party and the Young | Boe See anh et, of Cam | Communist League, were arrested in an “illegal” raid by the county and city | Metre. Mere cna ne en officials, September The raid and arrests are aimed at breaking the | bye ee ohaaher cf ‘4 militant struggles 3 = Commerce, workers of Woo ‘0 employed tne paces ntlemen went out on s Party was gaining ground, There-| “Talk about the gang in ‘Hell’ against fore E the horities directed the| howling for ice-water; they don’t Jeadership at firs’ blow ainst the Communist | have much on the injured seamen in | of the A. F. of L. empted to p: nt harges of Criminal Syndical- | are being used. This law has| ed only once before in Iowa, | against a member of the This was back in 1923. attack on the Communist | Especially has the Red Cross been so Mrank and ke come in Sioux City is a part of the | benefited. ; elEO and the fake recovery attempt to save| “These are the men who slept with ousted. Some members of at the expense of the| their boots on from 1914 to 1919 in munist Party and farmers. | mine and torpedo zones, etc. They ployed Couneil we: orkers of Sioux City are not | didn’t get bonus, compensation, etc., the strike committee, idle. They are organizing | either. ers decided to f defense for their arrested| “They are those vie carry ey organization United An emergency defense com- | cotton and grain Lg ‘oreign Raid S| Woodhe:ry The mittee was set up, and this commit- | through ner Se ue seaiies program of the Unemployed tee immediately began to work, Pro- | ae Ce es | pa nide*tor tests on postcards, over the telephone, |*hrough tropical hurricanes, | t gr on and in letters were sent to the judge | Phoons and electrical storms; t en | as and: to. th attorney. A mass|come home and spend their hard- igre ‘i was held the night | ted wages with your business men. struggle the Unen ines atauo aan = ;|_“They now lie here in Marine Hos- | Se ty Bat had to be dukned away el Ghsios she | pital incapacitated and broke; with- unemployed work victories during th S overcrowded. At the hear- Now the city an re ea ties are planning to ci sa al the unemployed. They es | too expensive as it is no pas sages in ihe Ree Building | were filled with workers, determined con- payers’ League, an organization | ; to show their protest against this trolled by big business men and the | sttack on th Party, th relief officials, proposed that instead | nist Party aint wore oe of giving individual grocery orders}. a ¥ me swering this attack by joining the] to the unemplo Communist Pa set up soup ployed and tt EDUCATION OF A WORKAWAY | ' By a Marine Worker Correspondent | BALTIMORE, Md.—A workaway | was working his way on the Mun-| son line, the Munaires. A delegate | jof the Marine Workers Industrial ) Y|Union went into the focsle to dis-| f zelrigg, one of the spokesmen, /eyss organization when the work-| evicted from the room, because way pops up. Immediately upon | was vnab! finding that this guy was a work-| away the delegate explained to him | hat workaways were used for. | workaway didn’t seem to pay| attention, Whereupon he was ment Insurance. A dem- d what had happened to} on was decided for the next | s on other ships. meeting of the County Board, "| One of the crew who Was lying! demands for milk would be pre-/in his bunk, says to the delegate: horities became nervous.|.2° that code against workaways?” the part of the | © was the answer and he signed ‘This resistance on < be broken down, in|it right away, giving the workaway unemployed mu order to be able to put through the |an unhealthy look. ‘The workaway F |shink out of the focsle the unemployed and/ —A Seaman. === By HELEN LUKE unitions of homes working-class mothers are putting their best efforts into the making of meals intended.to make big healthy fellows of their sons. At the same time in a comparatively few laboratories hired chemists of the | war-makors of the world are busy concocting the vilest kind of poisonous stews specif.<ally intended to undo the life work of those mothers and make wrecks or c “nses of the “Over the Dark s son gas in ituite va germs as well. With mounting as the crisi pen it| becomes imp: Vvecs ieee A timel; war fever preparations for germs as we! me, and appe With” the Ts here today. HOW THE WAR MACHINE SPEAKS TO WOMEN By Sadie Van Veen sounded in When the U. lions of \ s sud- Gwily the cold edg steel. Every mother with a son or husband eligible | for death trembled for his safety. After a short period of voluntary enlistment came the draft that tore boys from shops and farms and sent them into the trenches. Then the propaganda machine got busy. It had to win the millions of working-class women. So it issued slogans to them, in city and on farm. “Speed your son in the service of the flag!” “America calls upon the wo- men for service!” “Help to win the war!” “Don't be a slacker!’ There were dozens more like these. Our men and boys were drafted, two million of them. Some are buried in Flanders Field. Others were blown to ribbons and stamped into the mud of No-Man’s Land. Tens of thou- sands returned gassed or crippled. Their mothers knew a fear and an- guish worse than bayonet, wounds. But the madames of high society, wives and daughters of bankers and munition-makers, realized early in the game that their husbands and sons would not be blown to bits to “make the world safe for democracy.” They could buy themselves jobs as managers of industry, and Washing- ton “dollar-a-year-men.” They be- came the politicians and high priests of war together with the regular priests and ministers of the church who blessed the war and were loud in their songs of patriotism. The entire burden of the war fell upon the working class in the United States, just as it did in all other countries. Upon the wives, mothers, and children of workers fell the full horror and suffering. Theirs were the men who were killed or crippled; it was they who starved at home to meet the rising cost of living, and searcity of food and coal. The ladies of society, on the other hand, were pulled out of the bore- dom of their idle lives and set them- Selves all sorts of tasks to get a kick the call to war out of life. Fine ladies in satins and | furs sang to workers on the street, eajoled them into signing up with army or navy. Rich dames and beau- a Pe ’ us ballyhoo to get the masses behind the war. | meat, butter, sugar, and cream was served to them in their luxurious mes, then as now. Only the work- ts suizer hunger from the high cost of living. The families of big gov- |ernment contractors in war material and ammunition made millions of | dollars out of the war, and the satin- ladies were therefore in high > and all for such a profitable ess as war, In_the coming world war against da as |ment of the Soviet Union, the gov- ernments of the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy, with the help of Germany and Japan, will make new slogans, since the old ones will not Work a second time. They will tell us to “Fight against the red menace of Russia”; “Fight the holy wer against Communism”: and to “Preserve civilization against the Red Terror.” Millions of unemployed will sud- denly get jobs—in the army, as can- non fodder. Munition factories will open up full steam and hire men and women, boys and girls, to speed the production of instruments of death. Again the dolled-up ladies of bank- ers, government officials, and con- tractors will get on the street after their dinners of wine and duck, to urge the half-starved working class youth to enlist. again? Do we want our men to be blown to splinters of flesh and bone for Wall Street profits? Do we want to fight against the only country that stands for peace and has nothing to gain by war, the Soviet Union? Do we want to crush the one country tat has thrown out the parasites and is building a country for and by workers and farmers? i Of course not, Then what must we 0? We must understand two things. First, that all capitalist governments make war to enrich further the bank- €rs and other profiteers. Second, that these bankers and war-makers throughout the world are afraid of the rising anger of the toiling and |starving masses and see war as a way of saving themselves, But above all else the governments of the world fear the success of the first Workers’ Republic. Therefore | they are preparing a war against the Soviet Union. We must say in a mighty voice NO to these war-makers. We must build anti-war committees. We must raise | the question of the danger of war | Do we women want this to happen | | They did not go hungry. Plenty of | the Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern- | Ship’s Side” With | | Red Cross Beggars. By a Marine Worker Correspondent | | Marine Hospital at Galveston. | “Subscription lists are frequently passed cn merchant vessels for char- | whose wages lashed time arly to a man. ity and these sailors have been merciles: after time contribute n out razor blades, postage stamps or even cheap tobacco. “While aboard ship, the Red Cross panhandies them promiscuously, but here they are conspicuous by their absence. “They advertise their campaign against T.B., but a ward full of T.B. seamen here is obviously outside of their realm of activity. “Respectfully yours, etc,” Note: Over the dark ship's side with these professional beachcombers and put up a fight for unemployment 50 Simplex Workers at Postal Telegraph Laid Off Under NRA By a Worker € Correspondent NEW YORK.—We are working for |the Western Union Telegraph Co., at | | 60 Hudson Street, as operators in the Simplex Department. Since they put the Blue Eagle in|} our building, they have laid off about | 35 girls in the Simplex and 15 in the| Automatic Department, and about 100 | | girls were already put on a 6-hour stagger plan, since Oct. 9. That means we will make about $10 a week. ‘We all readize now that the N. R. A. is simply another scheme to cut wages and lower our living standards. P. S—It wouldn't be a bad idea to sell the Daily Worker every night out- side the building; there are about 2,000 workers there, Can You Make Yourself? Pattern 1635 is available 14 in 16, 18 and 20. Size 16 + ¢ Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15 cents) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber, BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, Patterns by mail only. to the workers everywhere where we work, in factory or office, on field and farm, Do not let them deceive us again! We women must lift our voices, and unite in the struggle against war. We women must take a decided stand ega'nst the international parasites and makers of By a Worker Correspondent | BROOKLYN. —The Postal Telegraph Cable Co. employs a crew of boys and men, under a system which is nothing less than “slavery,” and along | withsit go its side-kicks, “graft,” and visors and about 100 sergeants. | ‘The supervisor receives $3 a day and His job is simple. He rides around ‘all day in a car, constantly distributing circulars to the already | heavily-laden, footsore carriers. The sergeant receives $2.50 per) day. He merely walks along with the carriers seeing that they enter} each home in his district and that | they do not “ditch” any circulars, | The Boy Does the Work The ‘boy gets $1.50 a day. He is loaded up with 500 two-page circulars at 7 every morning. That means he must report at 630 in uniform. He does not wear a jacket, but the ser- geant does. The boy goes from house to house always burdened by that load Graging at his shoulders, climbs huge’ teriement houses, and sticks cir- culars in each door. He must print his initials On the top landings so that the supervisor can make sure he got theres). ™ | He is constantly on the run, the | ever-re#dy sergeant at his heels. The circulars proclaim “Silver | Dust” ‘#s the soap of the new age, | carried on the backs of sleepy dead- | tired, under-paid boys. The boys work on an ayerage of three to four days a week because of rains and holidays. | They work one week, recuperate in| the hext two, and go back to their spine-breaking Mico a 66 Hours a Week for $15'on IRT Newsstand By a Subway Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Permit me to con- gratulate. you on your articles refer- ring to,.Collier Service Corporation. di. R..T..and B. M. T. newsstands.) I am eniployed by this firm in the I. R. T..and I had always hoped to see at.Jeast one newspaper which has the power to reveal the bad conditions of this*¢ompany. Every word you printed about this company. is absolutely true, and I jhope you"continue to print such things so that something can be done | about it: | I work 66 hours a week for $15 (11! A crew is composed of four to ten young boys, a sergeant, who heads them, 4nd a supervisor, who directs the pleoktiawa There are about ten super- Letters from Worker Correspondents in Transport and Communication Trades ‘Postal Telegraph Boys Slave in Distribution of Circulars “favoritism.” iPrices Go Up But Railroad Pay Stays Down By a Worker Correspondent ‘WILLIAMSON, W. Va.—The mer- chants of Williamson are spending money for full page advertisements of the Blue Buzzard and begging people to buy now. In Cox’s Department Store we find last year’s goods marked up in price as much as 60 per cent. Everything except wages on N. & W. R. R. has gone up. Several of the Williamson restau- rants display the Blue Buzzard prom- inently and work women. waitresses 10 hours. The white employees are charged $5 a week for meals while colored dishwashers are charger $7 a week for meals. The ‘Day and Night restaurants are doing all they can to defeat efforts of culinary workers to form unions and get union working conditions. The Wheel Cafe is also fighting efforts of employes to organ- ize. The town of Williamson recently purchased for the entire police force a set of new uniforms, pistols, black- jacks, etc. During this same time it is almost impossible to get a sack of flour out of the relief agency, pre- sided over by the Reverend Ingles, who rides around town in a large new automobile. hours per day, no relief. I have to make good for every piece of candy and merchandise. I average $1 short- ages, making it a net wage of $14 per week, Others work for as much as 42 hours a week for $8. Not only can’t we go to the toilet or be permitted to. have one hour lunch, but in the winter time we are subject to colds and pneumonia (they will not furnish us with heat. In the summer we are subject to consump- tion (they won't allow fans). | Total ‘Received Priday 368.21 Previously Recorded. 8339.53 Total to" date 8107.74 DISK. NO. 1 Sec. 6, Unit 21 80 Col., -Springfield, Sec. § Unit 2 1.58) | Maks. Bee. & Unit 9 138 | Mros ‘and Sec. 6, Unit 10 1.00 | Berkosiitt 4.14] Sec. 6, Unit 23.20 | Cohen and Sec. 6, Blyer | Hoffman 1.93] — Shop 115 B. Bloom and Sec. 6, Unit 12. 1.25 Geras 2.10| Sec. 6, Unit 22 3.00 183] See. 6, Unit 6 4.75 Sec. 6, Unit 1 23.75 8¢| Sec. 6, Unit 2 10.00 | Sec. 6, Unit 25 2.78 | 5.00} Sec. 6, Unit 24 5.00 | v._ Biber | i 8.50 Bo; 3.20 | sae 1.65 | Total pet. “13 60 | Totatto date 215 | T.,.NO. 5.00 P. Snetti 1.00 ba 1.50 | R. Crowley 1.00 | J. Spector- 1.90 | Jane: - «+ 5.83) H. Horton 5.82) Anon, Becker 1.00 | Liss, Bronx 2.00 | _ Co-op. 4.00} | Friends o— 4.95 E. 1gth St. §.00/ Sec. 1—Col. 32.98 Co-op Barber Sec. 1—Lists 20.77 Shop. 1.00) Sec, 15, Unit 20 Col. by’ J. Shop, Paul Haugen Pleating Co. 9.50 L. Stougo, Section Bists Golden | Col. by Weisman Keeper | wares 1.00 Mittleman P. Lefkowitz 1.00 | Cohen 25| L. Stegel 1.00 | u. Sapoisky. -00| M. Roch 1.00 Benson. Child. M. Kwaswick 1.00 School 10.00| H. Goldstein 1.00 Amal. Cloth, N. Adam 1.00 Wrrs:U. Cooper 1.00 Col. by Bers Mert 50 Fellman Col, By Wnthrop Sliver Liberto Bt Walle Jahr 1.00 Kremer Col. by Flager Soldrané List 46984 Schermer 2 Anon. 50) Krushell Barmuta $0 8. Berg Reeker 20 Fitnk Yung 5 Col..by Appel Strickman 3 Kurtzman 5) Stern 10 Friedman 20) Edethut 28 3. Friedman —.25|_ Levin 20) Flaum :25| _Brancato 38 ay 25) Col. by Klingman 25) Fried 05 Amer. Youth Ct. Samberg 10 5 Anon. 40) Zalev sto Coney Is. Wkrs, Zelden sto Club List 57487 Nelda Cloak Shop | Zeleh 05 Pivo, Brener 15] Keen 08 Pivo | 1.00} Kleinman Kaufmen -50| Col. by Kener Goldstein :0| Fuchman Slater 80) List 53741 Schwarts 1.00] A. Baker Barzclay 50) Worker Fox 10) ¥. Agin Gata 25! Hf, Agin c Prokurat .25| Col. by M. Levitt Canter :25| Shanko 38 Oldock .5| | Michek Puzyr Pen & Hammer, Michek 25 List Puzyr 105 Jerry 1.00] Kitenko 25 Alice 1.00] Sharko 25 D. H. 1.00) Col. by Rint Nat “~~ 1.00] Gordon Be. ft, -78) Bison ‘Anon. 125) Rieco WES, Bo. 35, Utman Riven Ninzovits 25) Silverstein +10) Cohen 10] Bekle 50] con by Sholomsices 125] _“Vikrvs 1.0% 125) List 53754 05) Con 30 -25| Garechod 110 +25! Zeisman 10 Sec, 8, PAjt 4 1.55! Col. by Shapiro Sec. 5 Dnit 10 4.50) Mensher nft 13 4.00} Girshick init 6 1.05] Lreldfer Mt 31 3.75] Weinstein it 12 15.17] cueschick 14.61] Treidfer Sec. 3, Bait 16 130] ghekkes Sec. 2, Untt 7-8 3.00] Col. by Specter Sec. 2, Unit 11 2.11] B. Cohen 10 Sec. 2, Unjt 4 1.60] Anon. 0 2-Unit 6 1.00) Col. by Brown 5 Mnlt 3 7.00| F. MeCoy 10 AM Unit 15.90] A. Pitiaht 38 6, Unit 6 20 A Lew 1.00 Toward the $40,000 Drive ne M, Brennan 10) HK. Ketola 03 S. Gleason 10) F. Mi 108 B. Scannell 10} Avon 10} Col. by Brown Reikk/le 23] Polong 23] Nikila 28 | Horowitz 30] J. Helkkile 3 Dorfman 23 List 9388 | Total Oct. 18 3 ©. Sharp 1.00] Total to date 49.17 B. Teplow 25 DIST. NO. 11 Elder 23, Shane Ridge Tino. Neutor -28| Ped. Col. 2.00! Krumbein 2.60 — Gol. by A. Corn- Total Ost. 18 © 2.00 blath Tetal to date 27.44 R. J. 0. HE. A Symp. 08 A Correde — A Priend 5.00, Pola? Oct. 13 Col. By T. Pep2s | Tetal to date 206 38 Elyios | (Corr.)! aay DIST, NO. 18 Gamitis Col: BEE. Betton, a Sandrich St Lore aid Samping 3 BG Goseinek 28 Dortman A. Weber B EB ol aet Pochgarden 2 T. Pappas 3 s 25 Total Oct. 13 30 Total to date 4140. 70 25 DIST. sags A.A. Helier, Total Oct. 19 4.00 Chappaqua 10.00} Totnl to date 178.93 Rackson, DIST. NO. 19 Syracuse 2.00! A. Galms ———| H. Dietrich 0, Total Oct. 13 12.00 —| Total to date 41.86] ‘Total Oct. 18 1.50 DIST. NO. 5 Total to date . 107.06) Reader, Upper 1 W. 0. Darby 44] Schule No. 4, ——| _Browrsville 60 Total Oct. 18 44° School No. 2, Total to date 196.42 rowrevilie’ 1.00 DIST. No. 7 | Sule No, 1, Be. J. Kurtz, Col, by Ozercti Detroit Shenkman 23 ———| Weserman 310 Total Oct. 18 Barber Shop 10 Totel to date 617.48) Slatkin 35 DIST. NO. 8 8. Skil 10 Col. by Malmstrom, | Candy Store 25 Moline er 10 Bent in before, Goldenberg 8 E. Freend 28) Gold “10 Friend 125) Anon. 15 Erayman 1.00] Col. by A. B. Lindquist 40| -Pajus 1.00 Friend 1.00, shule No. 3, S. Nass Brownsville— A Friend ‘Wilner Cleger Matysiah, Cal. ton Co. Wkrs. City Mu Ostrowsky +35 A. Cooper 2.00) Wishiteky 3 Grp. Yellow Cab J. Wiehitzky Dri .00] Wilner Two Sec. LL.D. Adamowttz —M 4.78] Naehshen ——=| Solpiecho ‘Total Oct. 18 14.98] Luso Total to date 738.56{ Picone Neuman Howser Schlipton Mienthe Horowitz Flecheur :25| . Gross A. Buehlow 108} Total Oct. 13 11.05 'rotal to dete 554.16 Left out of Contribution List for Thursday (publ'shed Saturday). SCHEDULE NO, 11 | Br. Dorchester 6.85 Collected by Br, 36 Albany 7.00 Kalmus .25 | Br. 2015 Johnso: Reinstone 28 city 30.65 Cohn 25, | Br. 125 L. A. 5.20 collected by Br, 195 Chait, Maurow!!s -9| ‘ean. 3.00 Bloom 26 | Br. 60.N. Y. 1.43 Solomon 23) Br. 166 ana Hoffman 1.00 | Br. 3.58 Anon. 25 | Br. Porton 35 0 Gechart ‘23| Brett 1.50 Needlemen 60 | Br. 570 Wur. Abstein, 225 | Br. G3 Anon. 125] Br. 500 Crliected by Roy -10| Br. 116 Lifkowits 110) Br. 7 Salsman Br, 277 Sugelman Br. $ Shaffer Br. 146 Shenfarb Br. 8 Silver Br. 192 Rich Br. 11 Br, 466 | collected by Podot:st | Br. 6 ans 50] Br. 147 61 Schulman ‘a | Br. 140 ait) Podolskt 25 Br. 54 2100 | Total 10-12 195.00 Br. Roxbury 11.00 | Totalto date 843.11 'b3| necessary... Voluntary Relief Leaflet Goes Big on Penn. Railroad|""“"™ By a Railroad Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The voluntary relief leaflet on the Pennsylvania Railroad went over strong. First it gave a blow to the company union. Second it agi- tated the engine and train crew into action against their own salaried in- surance representatives, against their inactivities. Third, the men who stepped down from third class $3 to first class $1 om the Oct. 6 pay day were kept in the $3 or third class. These are the young workers. The older men were told to see the doctor, The workers are in a militant mood. They are asking all rail workers to unite under one banner for a united front of action. THEY ARE FOR UNITY. NRA Noise Vanishes, ard So Do the Jobs By a Railroad Worker Correspondent MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.—After five weeks on the O. W. R. R., the five-day week has been cut to a two, three and four-day schedule in the shops, while the track help has been laid off alto- gether on a 30 per cent basis, owing, it is said, to the mine situation. Before the N. R. A. racket the stagger system was in practice. Since the big noise, five days a week were instituted. After the big noise died down, the employment went with it. To keep up a six-page “Daily Work- er,” the circulation must be doubled. Letters from Our Readers ON CRITICISM OF S. P. LEADERS Ames, Iowa. Comrade Editor: Enclosed find $2 for three more subscriptions to the Dai Worker. I am a college student et Iowa State. I assisted comrade Mead of Des Moines in the formation of an Un- employed Council in Ames. There are about 80 paid members and they are very active. I-am not a member of the Com- munist Party and do not see my way clear to become one. However, I be- lieve in the class struggle, am against imperialist war, believe in complete socialism, recognize the futility of ; Hberalism and democracy as instru- ments of social chance at present, and believe that victory for socialism can only be won through revolution. Consequently, I help the Communists whenever possible and will be with them in the final struggle, However, I should probably be kicked out of the pariy should I join. I do not believe that the mis- lenders of the liberal, reformist and social democratic parties are deliber- ate misleaders. I believe that most of them are honestly misiaken. ‘Therezore I cannot tt torrent of personal aljuse con: stantly coming from Communists. Furtherfore, I believe that the Com- munists could find it possible to work with the Socialists and liberals much better than they now do. Sincerely yours, . 8. K. oe e Communist Pariy las never sod in personal abuses. If you vill examine the statements which the Communist Party makes about leaders of the Socialist Party and other parties, you will see that it is the polities and teachings of these people which the C. P. attacks and never the persons themselves. For example, the C. P. for many years attacked MacDonald as a social- patriot who was betraying the in- terests of the working cless. This was colled “slander and personal 19| #buse” by the English Socialists, but have not MacDonald’s actions borne out the truth of the C. P. statements? In this country, the Communist Party denounces Norman Thomas, not as a person, but because he teaches the workers that it is “in- advisable to strike now.”. It ¢.ttacks him, not as a person, but because he is opposed to fighting against the! attacks ef the Roosevelt government and for a dictatorship of the ey ing’ class. ‘You may ask why Is this. persistent,’ attack of the policy of the -S. P. It must be obvious that an essential part of the fight for the overthrow of capitalism is the fight against those who are seeking ba cripple this fight. The Communist Party has always,’ and is now, willing to enter into united front struggles with workers of all political convictions. As a matter of fact, it is the C. P. alone. which ‘strives. for such @ united front. And it is the 8, P. leaders who have always refused to enter into a united front with the Communists on the grounds that the Communists “slander” them. In this way, the 8S. P. leaders backed out of the Mooney united front conference, In the same way, they refused to co- operate with ail the various political elements who were united in the recent historic anti-war Congress in New York City, The Communist Party, like any honest political party, always has and always will, subject it opponents to thorough political criticism. It is a ight which it exercises and which it expects other political parties to exercise. But it is fear of criticism, particularly, Communist criticism, that has resulted in the Socialist leaders cry of “personal abuse and slander. We are sure that if you will follow the Daily Worker carefully, you will never find in it personal abuse, only revolutionary Marxist political cri- ticism.—Editor, heap upon them! The ‘Daily Worker’ Is a Guid to Us, Say Paterson Worke “Tt Tells You How to O Textile Striker Declares (By a Worker Correspondent.) PATERSON, N. J.—Since the strike has begun the Daily Worker played a great part in educating the Worker for putting the workers wise to the role of the A. F. of L. le: Whenever they make an attempt to Worker that exposes the maneuvers of the officials of the. United Textil ———® Workers and of the A. F. L.; Movement Among Irish Workers - Making Headway Recognize MacDonald as Example of Socialist Treachery (By a Worker Correspondent) BRONX, N. Y.— Talk, comrade, whether you like it or not, is a kind of a relaxed education, but it never should be a substitute for action. Patrick W. McGinty, a young Irish organizer of the steel workers in Pittsburgh, received the above an- swer from Michael Gold a few days ago. Many class conscious Irishmen in New York would be well advised in making a thorough examination of the advice given to their fellow countryman in Pittsburgh. During my past seven years in this country I have listened to Communist speak- ers expounding the program and ac- tivities of their militant workers’ revolutionary party. I have met other Irishmen there, Perhaps few in num- bers, but on every occasion. my friend or friends would fully agree with me that the leadership given by the Communist Party is the only leadership which puts up a fight for all workers, This may sound strange to many Daily Worker readers, but the aver- age Irishman is at heart a Commu- nist, Proof of that is when he listens to some plausible orator misinter- preting Socialism, he ask a question, “Was not Ramsay MacDonald a So- cialist?”. and in a very short time he realizes that the leaders of the Socialist Party here and everywhere over the world are made up of the McDonald type; Franklin D. Roose- velt, friend of the bankers, enemy of the workers, and famous for his NR.A. strike breaking campaign, is publicly offered membership in the Socialist Party a few nights ago in| Madison Square Garden. DeValera, Owen O'Duffy and all the other reactionary forces in Ire- land are open enemies of Commu- nism, and it’s an old Irish motto, that to make sure that your pro- gram is genuine, examine who and what your enemies think about you. But to know, talk and give lip sym- pathy to a workers’ movement, is little good in the class struggle to- day. Slowly the Irish workers in U.S.A. like the workers in Ireland, are wak- ing vp and getting away from empty phrases. Boston has launched an Trish Workers Club. Gene Lehane writes from Chicago to the Irish Workers Voice repudiating the lying statements in the Irish press, about the National Recovery Act. New rganize and Fight,; workers. We must thahk the D: seli out the strike, it is the Daily, this? happened when they tried to settl the strike and send the worker bac’ to work, ‘The Daily Worker is the only ne A paper in English’ that tells the trut! about the strike and the conditions) of the working class as a whole.) What I have learned from the , Worker I could never learn in school or college. “Fhe Daily Worke: teaches you politics and economics It tells you how to organize, how fight, and how to lead the worke' Many people who never read t/ Daily Worker before are reading ‘t now and they agree with me. The; say that they are Sarkis very muck from it. i I think that every worker shoulc+ fat it all the time. Some striker say that they liked to read it dur’. ing the time of a strike, but I say that the Daily Worker has to be reac: at all times, because there are nev} political events and new development: . that every workers should know. | Some other workers say that it \ a Communist paper! When you ge! clubbed it hurts you. So the Daily, Worker is a good paper and if it i) 2 Communist paper it only proves that Communists are good people Only good people can become Com ! munists, and. only,, the Communist are true and loyal to the working; class. People who say things about thi! Daily Worker or the Communis Party are people that don’t knov, anything about the Communist Party , I say if you want to know about the: Communist Party, join it and ther. you'll know the truth. Read the Daily Worker every day and give it to someone else to reac after you finish with it, and if you can, subscribe for the Daily Worker It is the only means we have tc educate ourselves. We must read it all the time anc support it all the time. a —D.C. F WOMEN’S COUNCIL No. 11 AN- SWERS “DAILY” CALL WITH $3¢ NEW YORK—Women’s Coun(’* 11, of the Co-operative Houses New York, answered the “Daily’s emergency call for'help by aay if ing in yesterday $30 to the Dai’ Worker Office. The Council chal- lenges all other Councils to do the same or to excell it. there. Headquarters for the present is at 40 West 65th Street, where meetings and open forums are helc ” every Friday night. Irish workers, men and women” are invited to join to advance for Treland the only form of government that will ever unite the workers oj the North and South, Protestant anc Catholic together, the goal for whick James Connolly, the Lenin of Ire- land, was executed on Faster week 1916. A workers’ and ‘farmers’ republic: York has its Irish Wor'ers Club for all Ireland. tt WORKERS’ CASH RELIEF By a Worker Correspondent ah Cleveland, Offo Life onthe road is tough. And what makes it tough is the hostil- ity encountered. Society can promote millions of dollars for labor camps for the down and out, but. money to let him. have things he wants and needs cannot be had. Money do- nated to the homeless ‘should be placed dircetly in the hands of thore who heed It. Homeléss men have been victimized long enough by. the official charity vultures. Transients want cash reief in. stead of barrack shelters and re- pressive measures. The sanest way to ameliorate the tramp prob- "Ilem, is to respect the wishes of those most directly concerned. j MAILBAG | BROOKLYN COAL STRIKERS (By a: Worker Correspondent) ’ Hollis, Long Island. The recetit coai strike in Brooklyn. while it was. not under true prole-— tarian leadership, has brought onc enlightening fact to me. The men who work in the company to any union (they haven’t come tc that yet). were in sympathy with the a single ton of coal.was moved from the yard during its duration. I am sure that in the near future these workers will see the workers’ way cut and organize against the boss. While this letter has nothing of the | real facts of the strike itself, it shows the eagerness. of the workers to fight f 3 i for their rights when the time pre- sents itself. ae % Comr yours, T.L. By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Michael Gold’s Challenge Acc2pted ‘Michael Gold's challenge “has been brought to our attention.” You know, of course, that important people like ourself never read anything in the newspapers. Anelion Avides walked into our of- fice. He had come to have a heart to heart talk and tried to compensate us for our time, which we refused. Then he had an idea: “Well,” said he, “you surely will not refuse a contribution to the Daily Worker fund, will you, comrade doc- tor? Here is something to reply to Michael Gold.” At the sight of an actual dollar, we felt our resolution waver and we gave in to the great delight of o ste mian pet. The lot is, therefore, cast, — and our Hat is in thé Ting. We accept Michael Gold’s challenge and let the readers of our respective columns de- cide by their cash contributions which of the two is the morg popular. i This will not be a competition be-| tween literature and spinach, as Come rade Gold so aptly terms it, but ey Edward Newhouse joins the fray) A competition between Poetry, biked and Sport. ‘The contributions will be ac! edged in the respective columns. ME here goes the first announcement: GOAL see eeeseap eee ees $1,000.00 Balance to be contributed $ 999.00 « where I do, while they:do not belong _ strikers to such an extent that not -