The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1933, Page 4

D, Paze Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FR Soviet Rail Kepair Men Tell About Working Conditions| Tents Have Eight Windows, Two Ventilators Each, and Are Wel Ee Sia By a Group of Soviet Railroade:s SOUTHERN RAILROAD, U.S.S.R., LISKY STATION—Comrades, road- workers of America! In to-day’s let-| ter we wish to set up permanent com- tadely correspondence connections with you omd exchange experiences acquired in our work. We herew peg you to reply also to our letters. We have 125 persons in our brigade, all of whom take part in writing you this letter. It is being written in a very favorable moment, when we} gathered in the car-club to celebrate | the “Evening of Shock-Brigaders.” We shail describe this Evening below. | Our brigade works on the station of Kolodeznoe, along the South-East-| ern R, R. | We live in five tarpaulin tents,| wh contain folding beds for every | . Every tent has 25 of these| Ss warm quilts and pillows. | The tents have 8 windows each and 2 ventilators each. There is sufficient he nights become colder, we ecial heating apparatus pre- us. Rij ar the tents is pared by 1 food for @ clos stam of the Day at 6 in the morning ning, dressing, etc., we have 30 a.m. At 7 a.m.} we go out about 3-4 kilometers. Be-| tween 11 and 12 there is the dinner interval. The workers get their din- from the cook on the spot where | ich is delivered to them | special thermos flasks (hermetically cl and kept hot). Work ends 4 p.m., whith means that we work altogether eight hours a day (besides the dinner interval) then we come back to the tents, we get our supper and tea. Our food altogether costs each one of us 69 kopeks a day—our total earn- Ing being 4 rubles (400 kopeks) a da: In the evening we organize a plenary mesting, at whlci discuss just what ha: ot us during the on vans in eting goes off as al ich animation. We col- all defects and} | one at each customer's office. ve hear reports of the id responsible | leaders of h| other brigades. 1 Heated in Winter station, photo studio and string and wind r al i There is a libr with sport inventory, games amusements The car-club our brigade 1,100 books, and other stops nine days with fter which it g The photo s the car-club took pictures of our work of our shock-brigaders and will show these to all oth ions of the rail- road. A wall-newspaper is al-o pub- lished, in which the workers e experiences expose id) loafers. Now we wish to close our rather long letter, and want to make the fol-| lowing comradely request of | write to us about your your forms and methods of organiz! road repairs. Tell us about the ro! played by the trade union. Our address: Li Station, South- Fastern R. R., Section of the Line, to| the Mestkom Brigade No. 1 | Hoping to hear from you, we remain your class brothers, (Signed): (25 signatures). Editor's Note: We ask American railroaders to write to this group of Soviet workers, If you prefer to keep your identity covered, send us the material, we shall publish and also | forward it and then publish their | reply when it comes back. | Urges Western Union Boys to Spread News, |About Their Code Pay) (By 2 Messenger Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Although the West- ern Union and Postal company | signed the code, we me: net getting a minimum of customers ask us about it, and we have been i uucted to say it will be taken care of. Let us tell every customer we de- | Y @ message to or piek up a elegram, that we are not getting a/ mir/mum $15 week wage, but average | only about $6 a week. We ought to| rrint slins to this effect and leave | ‘This | will awaken even the hard-boiled | business world to the cruel exploita- | tion of our companies. Let us pass | s the central| the word on to our buddies and you brigade report conclusions are drawn and the plan t following day is mapned 08%. on all the work. Then | will see action. Organize and fight! | | SOCIALIST COMPETITION NEW YORK.—A number of work- ‘The car-clud No. 726 of the Lisky| ers’ cultural organizations are pre- District Co railwaymen e} expel ittee of the union of| paring special programs for the Daily | ployed on the South-|Worker’s tenth anniversary celebra- | Eastern R. R., is maintained at the) tion at the Bronx Coliseum this Sat- | se of the Railwaymen’s Union.| urday evening to win the Socialist This car-"lub has been re-equipved | competition as to which number will from a passenger, second class 4-axle| receive the most enthusiastic ap- ear, The center of this car has been | plause. turned into a ball, holding 75 per-| judge. @aous, The car-club has its electric! once. The audience will be the Be in this revolutionary audi- Get your ticket in advance. to] 4 idio of | an, | the |of the Post Off | toilet. Postal Worken: Bullying Foremen New Speed-Uip Racket of Owners Breaks Law| I introdice | ly morning theme | Office Department | IDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1933 ship’s Carpenter Forced tol. L. D. Helps to Are Hounded by |Add Shore Jobs to His Work Fight Waterfront sand Deprives Shipyard Men of Living = (By a Ship's Carpenter) | NEW YORK—Here is one speed- | that they didn’t carry before. The tools needed for this job of making up-<seheme of the shinowne:s that | mouldings and trim costs around $45 thi This ‘ked street 1 nt with a little power. . yme on and get out.” the overt r into the r for the employe, is carrier, clerk, laborer J] of the Road Repair) ? or sub. at is the attitude that dominates and oved by the} Post Office Department, judging by support, ‘direct indirect given these for and other off: cials. Whether or not their actions are justified m: rs little. The only difference between the h y and the letter: one gets his uni- form free and the other is obliged to pay for it. And another point of difference is that while the soldier has a certain amount of freedom] the P. O. employe while at work is} always apt to be spied upon from peep-holes distributed throughout the office. Army rules and regulations are ex- | acting, but no more so than those} cover every conceivable detail of | | $10,000" in ver seen mentioned in the | workers’ ss. The shin’s carpenter | gets.paid $50 a month on some ships. | mers he signs on as an Able| Seaman, at A. B. pay, and d carpenter work. Yet they make him | do<allasorts of work that should be cons by’shore carpenters, in the ship- On “the S. S. Handley, Weyer- hgueserLumber Co. ship, running to theWest Coast, the carpenter did the following work, that should be Cene-ashore: In one trip he built a wooden shelter over the poop deck, | to replace the awring. It was about | 2,000 sq. ft. of woodwork, and well] laid too. This deck was caulked | and tarred, as well as laid. Then} he built a bumboat, good~job on that. Then he took the, doqr casings off and made new moulding out of hardwood, which he | had to-rin out of rough lumber, mill | and plane, and then fit in. To do is he had to remove the doors at | ea, which is supposed to be illegal, | but-that doesn’t bother the ship-| mers, | This work would have cost around | a@ shipyard, and would | haye given work to shore carpenters at, $1 an hour for over a week. | This same thing is being done on | almost all ships that carry a car- penter. What is going to happen | to the men working ashore if it| Keeps tp? ‘These Weyerhaueser ships are each oné invorporated as a s pany, to escane any respo’ case: of wreck or accide: compete with each other to make the best record for their millionaire timber, -boss. | Carpenters used to get $5 a month tools. -Now they don’t get that, and | for a good grade. furnish it. Maybe the shore carpenters could take a hand in helping the ship's carpenter put a stop to this driving work. It is te their interests to help > this work for themselves, The ship’s carpenter has plenty of work to do without that stuff, on regular carpenters work. Cl Yet they have to —Chips. ristmas Menu at City Flophouse NEW YORK.—I and three others House for Christmas dinner. First we had to stand in line for at least two hours in the cold before we cruld get in, then the first sight that caught our eye was the greeting the police gave us with their brass band, who played military selections inter- mingled with Christmas carols. The menu consisted of one small piece of turkey, one small scoop of sour turnipc, three slices of mouldy bread, one smail piece of mince pie one-quarter of an inch thick, one cup of so-called coffee, one apple, and, last but not least, one package of life-savers. I happened to mention that the potatoes and turnips were sour, so they told me if I didn’t like it to get out, so I told them you're damned right I will, Then the cop rushed epartment, which | “Xtra because they carried their own | me out through the door. Also heard quite a lot of agita- work, even including asking permis- | have to carry all sorts of fancy tools ' tion going on amongst the men. sion from a superior to go to the An infraction of this rule is penalized with demerits, At the same time good work is never rec- ognized or rewarded. Our lawmakers have also inserted | another little rule that permits the | discharge an employe for the good of the How many men that have incurred the ill will of some foreman or other official have been framed out of the service on this charge! In one of the stations of this city |@ substitute hanged himself because | he wasn’t given enough work to keep | himself and family from starvation. |He was even refused city relief be- cause he was presumed to have & good job. A good job at an average salary of about $8 a week. | In another instance a man was framed and discharged because he incurred the enmity of a foreman, Tm another instance a man was fired because he struck an official who | haa provoked him beyond all en- | durance. | $2.40 for 12 Hours Is Cabman’s Wages Letters from Our Readers THE COMMUNIST PARTY In_all countries there is only one Party which stands first, last, and all the time for the interests of the | working class. That is the Commu- |nist. Party. The Communist Party jof the United States is a section of | the World Party ef the Working | Class of the Communist Internation- jal... The working cles is composed ‘of vast numbers c° individuals. So |long as each wo.xer acts for himself | without consideration for the millions of others, just so long will the capi- talist class be powerful and able to | rob, exploit and suppress the work- ing ¢lass. The capitalist class unites all its forces through the State | Power. Only the massed power of | the millions of workers can meet and lovercome the class enemy, the capi- talist class, and this can only be through a mighty class struggle led by the Communist Party. The Com- munist Party is different from any other political party in the world, not only by its program, but also by against both Negro and white com- rades in our movement. While we believe in giving new| white workers and students every opportunity to correct any tenden- cies toward white chauvinism, par-! ticularly when we find them con-| ducting a struggle against their own | chauvinist tendencies, we feel that organizations such as ours cannot play around with confirmed white chauvinists, as this is the surest means of alienating these Negro) young workers, students and intellec- tuals whom we need as allies in our struggles against the system which oppresses us. If we are to fight against white chauvinism, we must conduct the struggle first of all in our ranks. For the Executive Committee, JACK LONDON CLUB. BUILDING A WORKERS’ CLUB Lowell, Mass. Dear Editor: A few weeks ago, a few Lowell workers gathered at the home of Slavery System |By a Marine Worker Correspondent | NORFOLK, Va.—We have plugged | away on the waterfront for seven months, built a stron¢ opposition | group in three locals of the Inter- |national Longshoremen’s Associa‘'on (A. F. of L.), and built the Marine Workers’ Indrstrial, Union on four unorganized docks. We have started and carried on azitation that has stirred up the whole waterfront and created enough sentiment to turn the eyes of the workers on the misleaders to such an extent, that the workers have brouvht suit against the officials of the I. L. A, in which the attorneys of the International Labor Defense have exposed the whole slave system on the waterfront. Now this trial is the talk of the | waterfront, and one of the best ways we ever had to isolate the mislead- | ers. | and made a| (By a Marine Worker Correspondent) | |from South St. were the guests at | T d th the 25th St. Municipal Scratch owar e | $40,000 Fund Below are listed additional con- tributions to the $40,000 Daily Worker drive. Such lists will be | published in the Daily Worker once | a week. Send your contribution and help your Daily Worker install | sour potatoes, one small scoop of| its new press. 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Coin Cards 2 of 2.004 of | Br 300, Ports ‘One Coin Card Total Dec 22 Total to date DIST No 17 8 O Burg | ‘Total Dec 22 DIST No 18 Danks | 2. | Russian Women's 3.2 DIST No 16” 91 3 Total Deo 22 25.76 Total to date 842.79 1.00 1.00 Total to date 106.10/ PARTY LIFE C. P: Unit, I. ‘the foliowang letter from 2 Com- rade who recently moved to Mid- dietown, New York, is a splendid illustration of how 2 Communict should carry on mass work, An ¥. EL. D. branch is organized, a strike is participated in, a shop organized, farm work carried on, study courses established, and finally a Communist Party Unit is formed. This comrade well under- stands that work within mass or- ganizations is Party work, She makes a number of serious criti- cisms which shou!d be examined by concerned, and steps taken to over- come them. - “In April, 1933, we were compelled to move to Middletown, N. Y. We tad been unemployed for a long time, and when the first job was offered in Middletown, we moved the: After one week in town we Comrade A and myself, and we or- ganized a branch of the I. L. D. We sent for a charter to the New York Listrict. we started to get busy. In Walden, N. Y¥., a. spontaneous strike of textile workers took place. One worker was arrested. When we heard about this we immediately came in touch with the Strike Com- mittee in Walden, and With the worker who was arrested. The charges pressed against him were yery serious. ‘The District Attorney of this town said he would get even vith this worker for being militant in the strike, but when the I. L. D. representatives from Middletown ap- neared, the news spread all over town. The authorities got scared and the case did not even come to court. The prosecuting attorney came to the striker and told him he will drop the case. . U. U. C. Neglect At the same time this worker spoke to us about organizing a union. Of course we were on the job, a special delivery letter was sent to the T, U. U. C.. that they should send an e@rgarizer immediately. We | never evan got an answer from them. We, the I. L. D, were not able to 00| take the situation in our hand, bd- 3 | cause of lack of forces. At the same time the workers kept up the strug- gle for eight weeks and they wen certain demands. ‘Their ranks cer- tainly were strong. We were con- stantly in touch with them, giving them the Daily Worker, Labor De- fender, and other literature. The result was that the workers organized a workers club, and no union of any ‘sind hes yet been organized. shough this branch of the I, L. D. 73/ nas been in exis'ance eight months, and although we nay in advance for Labor Defenders, ‘ve have been able to get them only three months, in spite of repeated requests to the Dis- trict. _We have not received any Labor Defenders si:ce August. Still Await I. L. D. Charter ‘We are still waiting for our charter from the District. This may not seem important, but such things are Shop and Farm the fractions of the organizations | y got together six workers, including} At the same time | w I would ke to say here, that al- | L. D. Branch, Groups Built Nine Months Bolshevik Work Brings Results To Worker Who Moved to Middletown a At our last meeting of the I, L: Dehe gave a report on the Con- ention. It was the best report I heard of this kind. Three workers joined the I. L. D. at this meeting. Shop Work Carried On and Strike Developed One of our young comrades got a job in a Pocketbook factory, where. tation was great and wee iy She ng Communist League of New ,.of which she is a member, to end in a comrade to help her in |this work. Two comrades came and secured jobs a day later in this |shop. After working for three weeks | nm the support of a large ber of workers in the shop and npt to organize the shop was A mecting was called, which E ed by 50 workers, The estion of a union was discussed, mittee of five was elected / preparations for an In- Union. The next day a ties. As a protest forty out of 300 workers walked out on }si A picket line was formed, and as in every strike, the police | picked out a militant girl striker and arrested her. | The I. L. D. was’on the job, not only on the/picket line, but also af |the arrest. We came in touch with @ local lawyer and he took the case, | but afterwards we thought he would |not be able to defend this girl on }a class basis. We got @ lawyer from | Monticello, and he defended this girl | brilliantly. He turned the court into a forum and pointed out clearly the clacs struggle of the American worker with the exploiters. He spoke of the rod scare and of the Soviet Union. Hundreds of workers were present court because we were on the with leaflets. We can state large number of workers of Middle- town are not afraid of the Red, Scare, any more... The result that the jury could not agree the verdict and the case was pend) ing until the folowing week. Strike Leaders Neglect Strike At this time the rest of the shy was to come down on strike. 1} A. F. i. was on the job and preven the workers from-coming down promising a two dollar raise. T N. R. A. was next to come in 4) break the morale of the workers having the boss sign up with t, N. R.A. and dodge the whole stri' question. The I. L. D. arranged a party f the strikers. It was a nice ii effair with a couple of Negro work ers present, but the defendant not there. The next morning wel found out that the girl had terrorized and threatened by | nolice until she pleaded guilty, had been given a suspended tence. ..We found out too late couldn't do anything about it. h | workers on strike were determined to] |go on With the strike although | resented the actions of this girl. The I. L. D. had two comrades to its form of organization and methods very important to the workers, who |meet with the strikers until the, Armen Buro 9.00 | Olen organized workers, bunwe! Vane bn BELEX LUKE “Once upon a time [ used to | We have promised to make a fire-|day and believe in helping old-age in- stitutions for the upkeep of | Russian blouses, and a recipe for, new deal. society’s cast-off workers,” says a letter I have received. “But since hearing some revolutionary ideas I've come to the conclusion that | the only real way to help our cast-off brothers by helping the Daily Worker. “This, in turn, will help to destroy that system which casts off us work-~ ers in our old age, and help to build one that takes care of the workers | when they can no longer contribute to society. “Today I got a letter from one of those bourgeois institutions and my | answer is in the form of a quarter} to the ‘Daily’ I have previously given much more, and keep a box at) home into which I continue to throw | my spare change. The last two ar- ticles in your column were of great ue to me. Give us more such ar-| ticles. is ‘Comradely, “CLARA E.” The articles referred to appeared about the middle of December, but T am not sure just which two were meant. Comrade Clara is right in her conception of the “Daily” as a ‘way of really helping to break up a futile and moth-eaten system, though scarcely the only one; all the revolutionary labor organizations help in this, The “Daily,” though, thas the essential task of reporting and advertising news of their activi- ties, as well as all news of interest to the workers as ‘workers; also of | presenting theoretical material of ‘use both to organizations and to un- As to Next Year As the old year dies your column conductor voices the hope that she will be able to build in the coming year a stronger and betier column, faster on the pickup, giving more concrete ideas of use in the house- hold, reviewing the analagous house- hold and women’s pages in bourgeois publications more consistently and} thoroughly, reporting more com- | pletely the activities of all working- class women’s organizations, and giving faster service on requests sub- mitted. ! So far a lot has been promised, but [less cooker, a Red Paint Book, and | to find designs for quilt blocks end Pumpernickel, The last-named is! |now at hand and will be given early | |next week. (I must test it first.| | ness for cooking only on the type-| | writer.) As for the blouse—our pat- | tern service has none, so apparently | Til have to design a few. If it takes | | some time, at least I'll promise to make a good job of it. | Can You Make ’em Yourself? Pattern 1741 is available in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14. Size 10 takes 15, yards 54 inch fabric. | | BG rah Oe $ « 4 not a whole heck of @ lot delivered. | As comrade B. E. once said, the most! useful and interesting contributions have come from the rank and file. By promising to do better, I hope I don’t discourage contributors: my intention is quite the opposite. There have not been many letters lately, and I am wondering what is wrong. Material now on hand includes ar- ticles on child feeding by Bonita,’ on making a fireless cooker, by Irene, some practical household and sewing hints by Natalie G., some letters, clippings and articles regarding diet tbe activities of bourgeois women, ete, and ea few recipes. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for his Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber, BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Da{y Worker Pottern Department, 243 “vest 17th Street, New York City. | cab nowheres. (By a Cab Driver Correspondent) NEW YORK—I was handed a Daily Worker on 14th St. the other quite impressed with trusts and Roosevelt's the mov R. A, the big ing in behalf of the unemployed. I am a cab driver employed by the Keystone Cab Co, on 55th St. Pumpernickel is too serious a busi- |The 12 hours of night work that we | “impractical” dream. From the point put in under the most miserable con- ditions imaginable, plus the hound- my HERE per! 7 eA ing by, those slimy, ignorant cops, net us about an average of $4 book-| ings. Now let's see the day’s pay that @ married man with two hungry kids goes home with. He gets 40 per cent, which is $1.60, with about 80 cents in tips, but here’s where we get trimmed. We don’t get any commission on the five cents tax that we hand in to the company, who pockets that, as there is some Peony red tape about court proceed~ gs. Well, what are we going to do about getting the commission on the tax? | You see, the bosses have a strong | association. If you cnen your mouth and fight for what’s yours, they blackball you and you can’s gev a Ask me, I know. I was marked lousy for two years. , Hoping that your paper will take up the struggle for the hackmen. A FIGHTING HACKMAN. . * EDITOR’S NOTE:—The Taxt Workers’ Union, at 80 E, llth St., Room 631, is growing in strength, and will probably be in shape pretty soon to fight the entire black- balling system as well. All “Fight- ing Hackmen,” including yourself, can hasten this day by joining up and helping to organize on the quiet, for the time being, and openly when the organization gets strong enough to show its teeth, NOTE: Every Friday we publish letters | from workers in all branches of the transportation industries— railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, express companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc—and from the com- munications industries—post office, telegraph, etc. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get theze let- ters to us by Tuesday of each week, {of work, If is not a party for the | purpose of merely registering votes jon election day. It is a party of or- | ganization and struggle every day in | the year, in every field of life. All of this is not @ pious wish, not a dream of. something that cannot be |done. The day is past when our \capitalist masters could point with |scorn and say that Socialism was an | of view of the masses of those who labor, capitalism has become “im- practical,” and by the heroic con- quest of the working class of Russia, Socialism has become the most pow- erful reality of the world today. The destruction of class society, the build- | ing of the free society of the workers of ‘h2 ety and of the farm is the t of the world proletariat. The triumphant building of the Socialism in the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics is already én existence. It can be done. It is up to the work- ers of America to make a Socialist Soviet America, -DAVE OBER. WILL GREEN’S CIGARS The following item appeared in the “wiffalo Times, December 13, 1933. “$7.20 DAILY CIGAR BILL OF AMERICAN LABOR CHIEF “Where there’s smoke there’s fire and also, when « celebrity ts smoking, there’s likely to be an In- teresting story. “J. P. Morgan, for example, will not touch any cigar other than his own special blend made in Havana, Yet he’s inclined to be a little of- fended if some equally discrimin- ating smoker refuses one of the Morgan brand. . . . George Arliss carries cigars which look exactly like stozies he smoked in less pros- perous days. Yet the present ones are made to order ard cost almost.. as-much as Mr. Morgan’s, . . . Frank Ven4-riip, the financier, gets cigars. at 10 cents apiece at any convenien? store. BUT WILLIAM GREEN, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR, PAYS 60 CENTS EACH vO. “IS CTGARS AND PUFFS THROUGH A DOZEN A DAY. “Cigar smoking isn’t what it used to be. About the only luxury (?) in which the Inte Calvin Coolidve indulged were 80-cent cigars, Her- bert Hoover still orders a fine blend * at $60 the hundred.”... EXPELLED FOR WHITE .. CHAUVINISM Bill Most has been expelled from thé Jack London Club of Newark as a ‘disruptive element and an incur- able white chauvinist. His white chauvinism took the form of open slanders: against the Negro people in general,” and leading Negro com- rades-{n our district in particular. In addition, he was at odds with every responsible committee in our club and-almost disrupted our meetings on» occasions. Since his ex- pulsigiwe hear from reliable sourtesthat he has failed to correct himséifand on the contrary has in- | tensified his campaign of slander “ Comrade Karson and decided to form the Lowell Workers’ Center Club. The Center started out with about 18 members. In these few Weeks, our membership has increased to 32 members and we are going strong. Last week, Comrade Borisov, edi- tor of the Novy Mir, gave an inter- esting lecture in our new clubrooms and complimented the club at the first English-speaking center in this vicinity. Recently, we held a dance to help pay the expenditures of the newly organized group, and managed to make enough money to cover all ex- penses so far and to start a fund in our treasury. At the intermission of the dance, Pizer, Communist Party candidate for Mayor in Lawrence, Mass., made a 20-minute speech to the gataer- ; ing and appeaied to them to doncie) according to their means to help the Scottsboro boys. This appeal was re- i ceived very enthusiastically by the crowd and over $10 was collected to send to the I. L. D. for the defense of our Negro comrades, who are in grave danger of being legally or otherwise murdered by the terrorists | of the South. People who had never taken any interest in the Scottsboro case, or perhaps they had never heard about the case (the capitalist press takes| care of that) were visibly shocked when they learned the true facts about this affair and were extra willing to dig deep in their pockets to give to help the imprisoned Ne- es. Lowell has more than doubled its quota in the Daily Worker $40,000 Drive, and so you see that the Lowell workers are at last waking up to the fact that only by organizing and| supporting the C. P. can the people) of this country receive their just due. AC. Pine. Vad WORKERS, WHAT DO YOU THINK? “Depression Over, Atterbury Holds.” (Quotation from N. Y. Times, Sun- day, Dec. 17, 1933.) “The country has emerged from the depression and business is im- proving, General W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Rail- road, told members of the Pennsyl- vania Society ’!. night at the cr- ganization’s ...n annual dinner in the Waldorf.” " i) “Statistics of the depression,” Father Cox said, “show that large families were lowest in percentage of appeals for aid. This, he felt, was a good i'lustration of the providence of Christ.” gen tre A police judge named Jim Givens, out in Muskogee, Okla., is reported | to have fined a C. W. A. worker $10 for criticizing Roosevelt. The Amer- ican fascists are learning quickly from Hitler. Rush your orders for the Jan. 6 Tenth Anniversary issue of the Daily Worker. 24 pages. The big- gest and best Daily Worker in the history of our paper. Finn WWC Obrnaa Hung Wkrs Jugo-Slay Ct, Hob 3.00 10.00 5.00 20.00 15.00 2.40 ol Glen Pk Un Un 5, Ind Haupt 1.00 Unem Coun 87 5.00 Un 1106 2.45 Un 621, Luptak 4.00 Un 605, 613 8.00 314 2.00 308 10.65 307 1.30 916 2.50 208, Andrulis 4.15 207 1.00 508, Prussor 3.00 Seo 1 15.00 102 1.85 nt 1.24 120 141 Iwo 1.09 5.83 6,00 1.35 17.50 Coin Cards #H Watson 7 of Total Dec 22 Total to date 372 DIST No 9 Friend JH Minard M Vainippan J Ecker © Wayne Col by Pennala 0 Ane Col by Rantanen & names a Chisholm Un Col by Wirta 11 names Col by Mikkole 10 names ol by Juart Finn Soc Minne Un 10 Tag Day 2.63 Rafrle 6.70 Rosa Luxembourg Women’s Aux : Coin Cards 50 5.00 95 Total Dec 22 41.38 Total to date 476.20 DIST No 10 Linccln Un re by Boda Total Dec 22 11.40 Total to date 132.58 DIST No 11 Dearment Bismarck Women's Ot Murray Un 10 names Col by Crouch te Un 3.45 1.99 Total Dec 22 Total to date 170.00) Movie Showin, Seo 1, Beattle Bec 2, Seattle Rainier Valley Isoquah Sec 4, Seattle Yakima Spokane Spirit Lake Couer D'Alene 23.75 Coin Cards (a be Total Dec 22 183.99 Total to date 1339.97 poten E Fleischer Agnew Un Br 618, Mil P Nickoluff Madison Br 617 Tassoff, Racine Lawrence, | Kenosha Chas White 6 of i | Total Dec 22 DIST No 19 L M Litherland 3 E Jeppson | HI Cohen Movie Showings Helper | Denver Coin Caras 5. Brio. re SRSSaSSRSS a 26.37 | Total to date 554. a | Salt Lake City 12.5: I coin card Total Dec 23 Total to date 220.13 two Lists Col by Vivide 7 names Col by Berg Col by Kruglak Col by Friedman | 4 names By Levine 17 names By Speirberg 9 nemes By Liptak 21 names +10) By Salvi 8 names 65 | By Berkenfeld 4 names By Podolsky 3 names 80 | By Berkenteld | 11 names By Gellman 6 names ‘By Appelson ; 10 names | By Balbirer By Miynarovie } 11 names By Halenar , 6 names | By Bortnick | 11 names By Poritz By Skodacek 10 names By Walasek 7 names By Havenkova 9 names By Dvorsky | 7 nemes By Litvak 10 names | By Smoliak 12 names By Sadovnik 9 names By Danziger 7 names By Kramer By Lemberg 2 names By Rubin By Spigler 3 names By Risman (To be continued). 80 | Wednesda; don’t feel that they are really or- ganized unless they have a charter. We did not hear from the District hitch-hiked to New York for the Charter. He came to the District and got a recevtion with some ice | it. Comrade John Ballam, then District Organizer of the I L. D. | said that he was sick, so he couldn’t send the charter. How do you like this for an answer? After those two disappointments we became more determined and we started to go out visiting farmers with literature and Daily Workers. We came in touch wth a former, a very good element willing to do work emong farmers. We called for an organizer on farm wi within four hours the organ’ Lourie came. We had 9 meeting sogethcr with the farmer and a couple of weeks later a meeting of farmers was he!d in Gardner, N. Y. Another one owed two weeks Bush, N. Y. This one was very su cessful. Lem Harris of the Farme: Committee of Acton was the main speaker. Two delegates were elected to the Farmers National Convention in Chicago. At the Farmers Con- vention, the farmer B was elected on the Farmers National Committee. He joined the I. L. D. and paid for three months dues in advance, say- ing that he must have an organiza- tion like the I. L. D. to support him in his struggle and work for the ‘or three weeks, so our organizer | | later, a third one was he'd in Pine | strike was over, but something hap-' pened to our strike leadership. When the workers were ready to go on,| the leadership began to slack on the job, and remained In bed until late) tn the morning, ‘where the I. L. D. members and strikers found them: when they came to see where jJeaders were. The. oldest and mos, capable leader, of the three wég] figuring on hitch-hiking to Califo and so he lost interest. Of cours the combination of the A. F. Ip the N, R, A. and_such bad i ship was too much, and the strik was lost. We have gained some organiza ional-results for the I. L. D. from s strike. We are known in town} omong a larze number of workers, r brench fs growing in members| D. We held a Scottsboro meete| in a Necro Church with James Ford as the main speaker. In spite of, the fact that it was @ st nicht, between 75 to 100 workers attended, the majority bein egroes. This was the first time such ting was held in Middletown, heave sent three delegates to ict I. L. D. Convention. We have a very successful class on! the Fundamentals of Commun We are trying to build up the bo Defender and Daily Worker routes.) To make it short, after eight monthe} activity, we established a nist Party Urit and thus laid the basis in Middletown for a revolution- ary movement, weg Asavae wv a SINGER, MD. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS New Clinic for Gccupational Disease A new clinic for occupational dis- eases, such as lead and benzine pois- oning, dermatosis (skin condition) due to industrial hazards, etc., has been opened by the N. Y. University Medical College, at 26th St. and First Ave. It is open only once a weck: y afternoons. | The Best Iron Preparation N. G., Woods Hote, Mass: — The best iron tonic for mild cases of anemia is ammonio—Ferriz Citrs*>, This is a United States Pharma- copela (U. S. P.) preparation, kav.,.1 officially as Ferri et Ammon‘ Citras or Iron and Ammonium Citrate. It comes in garnet-red, odorless scales, having a saline (salty) iron taste, ‘Tho ammonium citrate makes the iron more soluble and, therefore, more easy to absorb. The dose is 4 grains in pill or capsule form. You {can also get it from your druggist as Vine of Citrate of Iron, which contains 4 per cent of the compound in sherry wine with syrup and tinc- ture of sweet orange peel, The dase is one déssert ‘spoon full (two teme| spoons) thrice daily, before meals, = 8 8 Magnification of , Microscopes, Se Two Betters:—-Your questions purely scientific ones and we ¢ afford the space to reply to all. Yo can find answers to them in any large text book on themistry. As tq the power of magnification of n em microscopes, A is wrong. is no microscone which will m an objcet 50 thousand times, highest. magnification (enl: is 6,000 times for metallic p and 2,500 times for living cells. ordinary white ‘tht instrument m nifices vip. to 1,500; the ultra-' gocs-up-to 2,500 and the ultra mie roscone (dark-field illumination) the limit stated above. Don’t con: fuse magnification with resolyin power, An object. may be so greatly mannified.that it will be d and no dtterls can be seen; like: picture nainted on thin rubber which is stretched. ‘The picts ei afd ear larger; but so distorted that might not recognize what it Leanmhe