The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1934, Page 4

LYKES NEW MAKE-UP S. Paul, Minn. | May I compliment you on the| clean-cut make-up which you men-| tioned fn your anniversary issue. For | Yong, your front page make-up was| blatant and “scare-heady.” The bet-| ter typography now introduced; the cutting out of those heavy boxes; | the discarding of the old “Daily Worker” head, smudged, inky and in- volved, and replacement with the| dignified and ‘ypographically good- looking Daily Worker head now used —all have the psychological effect of creating an authoritative atmosphere in place of the atmosphere the paper Letters from Readers On Anniversary Edition | Co, Workers to Resist ACW Dues, Check-Off |the N.E.C. of th eY.C.L.; 2. Role ot} }Youth Press (Young Worker); 3. War} outcome of the Party’s shameful at- titude towards the Y.CL, ‘When I brought the above to the attention of a few Y.C.L.’ers, they agreed with me and said: “What else| can you expect?” When called to/ the attention of a few Party mem-| bers, they said: “You have the Young Worker, If I remember correctly, as far back as 1928, the E.C.C.I. passed a decisio that the C. P, papers have a yout page at least once a week. ‘Would the following sort of articles be out of place: 1.Greetings from in} and Fascsim and Youth; 4. Role of| once had. I am greatly pleased, too, over the Tecent transition of the paper from the rather ineffectual raving in a jargon all its own, which it once in- ¥.CL, and 2 umber of topics. To leave the young workers and| stuednts alone, is to create a source of recruitment for a v army of} fascism, which in turn will be used dulged in, to the calm, clear state-jagainst the militant workers and ments. It heartens me for two/|farmers moveme! | Yeasons. It shows that the Party is end by asking: “Will the May Ist/| gaining a growing sense of the im- pregnability of its position. The present tone of the organ is much more effective in getting prole- | tariat to rally round t The Lenin Cor worthy recent a ion contain any reference to the outh, or have I simply wasted energy | and time by writing this open cri-| ticism? —Sid Roland. | is note- feeding in MANY GOOD SUGGESTIONS too, ion; small doses, so it can be mulled over Salem, Mass. | and thought out and remembered, is| near Eaitor } certainly the way to make good Bol-| One of the many questions that sheviks. The same goes for tactics,/tne workers ask How would you 6 presented daily in Party Life Communists run the country if you Yours for the continued and ever e seized po "2? Why not run articles @reater efficiency of the Daily|to that effect? I believe “Towards Worker. F. E. P. | Soviet America,” by Foster, taken by |chapters, would help. Many workers ask what would happen to local |plants, etc, Then many workers say, Dear Editor: “You Communists are against every- You ask us to write our opinions of | body; how would you rule?” the Anniversary Number. I can only| The reports from the Soviet Union speak of it in superlatives. I just|are fair, but not clear enough for finished it and here it is Thursday|the new reader. Why not translate already. |the Russian terms into English? For There is one spot that caused me/|instance, Kolhoz, hectare, etc., spoil te grieve. That spot is the appeal|the class picture one may have of in the greeting of the Communist|4 farm in Russia. The American Party of China. You know that next equivalent would be sufficient* to the great “sun,” the U. S. S. R.,|_ At times the reports are roundabout which spreads such a vast warm/in regard to wages. Why not just glow of hope in the breasts of all|Say, the miner earns $65 plus privi- workers, there is the only other So- | etc vietized district in the whole world, | and it, too, casts rays of hope to workers of the world. Why are we So negligent in defending it? ‘The Communist Party of China, in its greeting, asks us “to stop the flow of Wall Street money to Nan- king.’.They ask us “to halt the THE APPEAL FROM CHINA Cleveland, Ohio. |D. W. There are several books on this topic that could be used to good purpose. | Stories like the S.S. Utah, that tell |of the adverftures while fighting capi- | talism are needed. Workers like fic- munitions that leave American ports | tion and many made favorable com- ments on several stories in the to be used to murder Chinese toilers, | T to recall American armed forces from | “Daily. Chinese soil and waters, where they |, Here Massacre men, women and children, whose only offense is that they de- | ih “Daily.” mand liberty and rice.” “ a It grieves me to think that we/ fail so. miserably to protect our sec- | ond ray of hope, the Soviet Districts of China. A more concerted effort must be Made! We must answer that urgent ‘sppeal. is a challenge to cities of 10,000 population. We order 200 copies of the Tenth Anniversary of SALEM UNIT. A FIGHTER FOR THE 31ASSES NEW YORK.—As a reader of your splendid, fearless and socially con- scious paper, the Daily Worker, I have been very happy to note the Comradely, y ner in which the Daily Worker threw WILLIAM E. LEE. | itself into the fight for the better- ORTCOMING | Ment of conditions of the long-suf- Brooklyn, N. ¥. | fering masses, and I have come to f rooklyn, N. ¥- /conclude that before long millions Comrade Editor: | like myself will learn to realize that Splendid though the 10th Anniver-| the Daily Worker, as the mouthpiece sary, edition is, there is one peculiar! of the masses, is entitled to the Shortcoming _ | wholehearted support of every man Isn’t it ratner sad that our of 28/ ang woman hoping and striving for pages, not one single item—much less! the dawn of a better day to come. an article—could be found pertaining! Therefore, deeply impressed with to the youth or the Young Commu-| the role the Daily Worker is des- nist League? Perhaps the comrades! tined to play for the liberation of the im charge of the “Dai considered | masses, and appreciative of the fact the Jim Martin cient? What that its services in the interest of happened to the ) nal Executive | humanity cannt be dispensed with Committee of the Y.C.L. Was that without incurring unendurable loss, I august body too busy to send in @| send my mite to the cause so well greeting, or was it eliminated (I mean| and so faithfully represented by the the greeting?) Daily Worker, and urge every class- I look at this shortcoming, not in| conscious man and woman to support the light of the 10th Anniversary|the Daily Worker to the fullest edition alone, but as a quite natural! extent. E. J. 8. AN IMPORTANT HELEN LUKE | out that the workers’ sentiment is to| More realistic reports on how life | goes on in Russia is a need in the} vigorous, enthusiastic and bold man- | FIRELESS COOKERY | rescue our discussion of | I got one of wo heat a cold bathroom and at red affairs where there will be no other stove| available. The pan x must be filled fireless cookery and kin. ele 5 po ace hig eee ries vith sand or water eep the dred subjects! In the accom- | coo), oi is poured in at z. Not recom- panying sketch, fig. A shows|mended for households where there the cooker Comrade Erling O. donat-|are children. od, It is of metal, lined with alum-| Fig. E shows a baking pan for use imum and finished outside with dark | on top of any stove: it should work green paint. In the lid is a safety|well with the oil stove shown. Made valve for steam. It contained two|of tin, it is obtainable in the dime (bound with metal) and) store for 20c; has also a small pan 4 wire hook for lifting them (illus-|not shown. Bakes potatoes beauti- trated); also a wire rack, not shown, iy J the original cooking ves. » which I replaced with a large | ‘ware pitcher with a flat lid,| two flat refrigerator pans; a large | for é escalloped potatoes, macaroni, ‘and a small one for baked ap: ete. - B shows arrangement inside! cooking compartment. One or soapstones could be used if they unobtainable. (I cannot find any the hardware store here.) The| ier is good for whole wheat, soup, and so on. For a family, pot would be needed. wire trivet shown (from the| ne ‘store) goes in very bottom of oker/ It is also useful for cooking fiame—put inside the pan under it, ete., it prevents burning. the case of a man who makes a without the help of women might find it easier to make a as shown in fig. C, stuff it well the shredded paper, and tack yy cloth or oilcloth across it. ee ct ee or ‘brought up fit with top of! Ybor, the cushion described by Com- i Irene would be unnecessary. , occurs to me that perhaps some ir readers, hearing of a “fireless for the first time, had the no other stove was neces- [ know I once had.) Therefore | (Pig. D) obtainable on Second ue at $1.50, which is the smallest e contrivance I found. It stands barely over 3 in height, has two large rag F FS 558g ee fully, (Turn them over once while baking.) Any ingenious fellow could improvise one out of a discarded cake tin, an ordinary roun dcook-pan, and some wire. (Punch holes in cake tin with a nail.) I wish I could tell how to improvise the potatoes too. Fine aluminum bakers like this sell in the other stores at about $2. Fig. F shows an asbestos pad gen- erally useful to put under pots of food over fire, to keep hot and pre- vent burning (Ten cents in dime store.) A small electric grill, obtainable as low as as fifty cents, could possibly be used in conjunction with a fire- less cooker, but would not be eco- TLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1934 Clothing Worker Calls On Intl Tailoring How NRA and AFL’ Try to Enslaye | I. Miller Workers’ (By a Shoe Worker Correspondent) | LONG ISLAND CITY, Y¥.—The workers of the I. Miller shop were supposed to have a vote on Jan, 2, 1934, on which union they choose. I. Miller and his stool pigeons found} vote for the Unitéd Shoe and Leather | Union. The date for voting was put off to Feb. 2, so as to give the bosses more time to discourage the workers about the United Shoe and Leather Union, which is the rank and file union, and force them to vote for the | Boot and Shoe (scab) Union. everything to force the workers to join with the Boot and Shoe (scab) | Union. The chairman of each depart- ment called a meeting and told the workers that I. Miller decided to stop reinstating the workers that were left out. From now on the workers have to pay dues to the Boot and Shoe (scab) Union if they want to have their jobs. Some of the discriminated workers applied for their jobs. They were told that they might as well be told the truth, that they will not get their jobs back. The workers’ reply was that the decision of the National La- bor Board was to call off the strike and I. Miller was to reinstate all the workers without discrimination, there- fore, we are entitled to our jobs back. The superintendent got excited and told them that they will not get their jobs, they might as well save the 10 cent carfare by not calling for the job. I, as a member of I. Miller shop, advise the workers to demand a vote on Feb, 2, 1934, without fail. The vote should not be held in the factory. Meet Saturday to Plan Fight Against Weidmann Layoffs (By a Textile Worker Correspondent) PATERSON, N. J—Ihe Weide- mann A. F. of L, chairman Joe Liss, “the Rat,” is also known as Joseph Lesowski, 59 Bleeker St., Paterson, N. J. The Weidemann workers were get- ting laid off from Jan. 11 to Jan. 17. |The workers who have not been laid off are working 8 hours a day. The bosses are doing this to divide the workers so they can cut down wages to 45 cents an hour. The workets will have to stick together to stop the bosses from giving the wage cut. | The National Textile Workers Union called a meeting for the Weidemann workers to see what could be done about this. In this meeting the work- ers elected a committee of 14 N.T. W.U. members to go to the meeting |that is called by the A. F. of L. for Saturday, Jan. 20, for the Weidemann workers, to get the workers to elect a committee of both unions to go to| the bosses, so they can get their jobs| back, | Also in this N.T.W.U. meeting there was a report given by Lodi dye work- ers where they are all in the N.T.W.U, These workers told the Weidemann workers why no workers were laid off at the Lodi dye shop. But some of the steady pay bosses were laid off. The A. F. of L. leaders cannot fool around with the workers, and the bosses know the workers will not | stand for it. That is because the workers all stick together in the working man’s union, the N.T.W.U. | Single Men Victims of Preaching Slave Driver (By An Unemployed Worker Correspondent) SOUTH BEND, Ind.—A hard life for the single men in the bread line. The slop house is controlled by Ray Bird, a preacher and director of City Rescue Mission, The workers are treated rough; the manager in the slop house is like one of those that keeps convicts. Everyone in the slop house must work before meals, or after from 10 minutes to four hours, according to his “duty.” But some go to Mr. Bird’s Sunday School, some don’t work, and they have a better chance to obtain clothing or other help. Those who do not go to pray and listen to all kinds of religious baloney of Mr. Ray Bird are systematically discriminated against. Workers haye been forced to work one day each week on the city gar- den last summer and fall; those who refuse are checked off the bread line. Workers are used for hospital blood transfusion. The keeper, Bird's agent in the slop house, formerly in a perfume factory, treats workers rough for small things. He punishes them, takes meals away and when one failed to come to work, he was checked off for a week. The food has been collected, left over, and cheap, and sometimes rotten. It is hard to get a piece of clothing. Graft and discrimination is prac- ticed against foreign born workers; they always have the worst. Scrub- bing floors and other duties. Last summer they picked up a dasen foreign born workers to work for Mr, Ray Bird in City Rescue Mission Property park, making new roads for 50 cents for 8 hours, and they fed them in the slop house. They gave strict orders that anyone who refused to work one day for his meals, a week will be checked off. The work- ers who gave money for community chest in the Studebaker, Bendix, and Oliver, by this will see how single men are treated and starved by Mr. Ray Bird and his gang. We readers of the Daily Worker pledge ‘to spread and read our col- burns coal-oil (ten cents/nomical otherwise, as these grills burn about 500 or 600 watts. lective organ, the Daily Worker, in ® j After being out on strike for more the check-up system. The two union I. Miller and his stool pigeons do} © Union Officials and Boss Connive to Cheat the Workers Out of Demand Won by Strike | ® (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK-—Several weeks ago the workers of the International tailoring Co, went out on strike) against the unbearable conditions. | than a day, we won our demands. One of our demands was to abolish officials that took control of the meet- ing have tried in every possible way to talk us out of the above demand. | Why, brothers and sisters, were they | so afraid of this demand? | Our corrupt union officials know} very well that we workers of the In-| ternational Tailoring Co. are the most underpaid workers in the trade They know that we are unable to pay | dues even if we wanted to. On the} wages we are getting we are unable | to buy food and milk for our chil- dren, let alone rent and clothing. But rocked leaders know that it is much | easier to have the boss deduct the} dues from our pays than it is to col- lect it from us. They know that first we would buy milk and food for our children. Promise Protection | The boss is very willing to do this| favor for the union, because the Amalgamated Union and the Inter- national Tailoring Co. are working together hand in hand. Mr. Hillman, our corrupt president, and Mr. Hol- lander, our union manager, have promised our boss Mr. Rice that they will protect them. Protect them against what? Fellow workers! Against us, and what's more, they did protect the boss. Whenever we came to the union with some com- plaint they told us, “Nothing can be) be done,” and nothing was done. | We have shown our misleaders of the Amalgamated that something can be done. We refused to work! The boss then realized that the work cannot be done without us. Mr. Hill- man, Mr. Hollander and all the rest of the union officials cannot make coats, pants, and vests. We won our demands by striking. Mr. Hollander went to see his “pal,” Mr. Rice, and asked him to enforce the check-up system again, this time to deduct $3 from our pay. Two out of three dollars goes for the tax that they are forcing us to pay. This tax is the most crooked deal they have ever attempted to put over on us. Brothers and sisters, let us unite with the rest of the members of the Amal- gamated and refuse to pay that tax of $12. The Amalgamated is collecting be-| tween $500,000 and $600,000 a year from our pockets on the so-called “unemployment fund.” What do they do with it? The boss called the chairman to his office last week. The boss told him that he must take off $3 from the pay. The chairman told him that | we will refuse to take pay. It is not enough to refuse pay. We have a more effective method. The officials promised the boss that we are not going to strike but they also promised no check-up system. Workers! we must stand for our rights. The first shop that finds a shortage in pay goes down, let all the rest of the shops know about it. We will follow you. Providence Mill Rotates Layoffs to Fight Strike: | (By a Textile Worker Correspondent) | PROVIDENCE, R. I.—A few weeks | ago the entire second shift was laid off in the Wanskuck Co., which in- cludes the Geneva, Steere, and Wan- skuck mills. A week later, 12 girls and 3 men from the winding and| twisting departments in the Steere mill were called back to work and were cheered up by the foreman that @ new order had just come in. The workers thought that prosperity popped around the corner once more. ‘The workers on the first shift work- ed 8 hours a day with an hour for lunch. In the winding department the girls on winding doff their frames three times a day. They are exploited | to the limit. These workers called back to work on the second shift were speeded up to doff their frames four times a night, one doff more than the} first shift in the same amount of hours, working straight through with- out any time for lunch. Tending to 50 spools (one whole side of a frame) was about twice as much work as the girls could take care of. Many nights the girls didn’t have time to eat their lunch and would eat it on their way home from work. Calling these workers back was @ little exploiting scheme figured out by the bosses to avoid a strike. The departments that send their | work to the winding department worked faster and the work was piled up for the winding department. Thus it was impossible to speed-up the winders on the first shift without having a strike. The next best thing the bosses could do was to call back the workers of the second shift. As these workers needed money very badly, they could be better ex- Ploited and at the same time it les- sened the possibility of a strike. The workers on the second shift were be- coming very indignant. After work- ing two weeks and three nights, the work was all caught up with the other departments. Hence, they were laid off until further notice, before they were able to organize and strike. Jesse H, Metcalf, the U.S. Senator from R, I., and his family, the own- [ers of the Wamhskuck Co., with the help of the N.R.A., still have the ma- jority of the workers on the first ILGWU Grabs $34 from Worker for $30 a Week Job: (By & Needle Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—A garment sample maker unemployed a long time finally secured a job early in Decem- ber. She secured a working card. Then she paid $25 for a union book and dues for December, with assess- ments of $2.10, making a total of $27.10, to the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Last week she went to union head- quarters of the I. L. G. W. U. to pay dues for January, and was in- formed that new books are issued | twice a year, in January and July,} and each new book carried an assess- ment of $5. She would be compeiled’ to turn in her book costing $25 and get a new one. | With January dues $2.10, the total | cost from December to January to| hold a $3-a-week job would be $34.20. | Where does this worker’s hard- earned money go? | Who gets it? Who is accountable? This is the same gang of thugs; who recently held a “victory” meet- ing at Madison Square Garden. Sur- rounded by flowers, Thomas and Whalen and Dubinsky belched their approval of the blue quack and the victory of the garment workers. What can be done about it? If they think that they can strong-arm into submissiveness the garment workers with this type of transparent banditry—well, it’s too bad for them. M. G. shift working three days a week and the night help done away with in the three mills. Greetings to Daily Worker on Tenth Anniversary ‘L, Malas spite of all obstacles, DIST. 2 Sinto Neham Sec. 1, Unit 33 Cc. Seemorok Paul Salter A. Matarasso Anonymous S. Musafra Sec. 7, Unit 7 Evelyn Krasne Tom Rivera DIST. 7 R. Rogas Detroit, Mich. I. Hermandex M. Maruskiackyn E. Hermander K. Zinis E. Rivera Fidel Borras C, Gonzalez John Smugekki L. Gomez Sam Dubich C. Gomratez Itche Shulman Sec. 11, Unit 8 | George Staica - Olga Johnson Jack Ratz Hans Johnson Peter Hunt Al Johnson M. Koslich Sec. 11, Unit 2 Rose Krajacic A. Hannenbrug Manuel Diez E. Doclen Mary Strucel H. Vacker Prank Richardt G. Baum Jack Brown Gerbi Prank Muhr L. Piccola C. Spark H. Biller | George Zulick ; Harnoft Mrs. McKaze Robert Diet! J. Altman Karl Ohm S. Barr Helen Carlson L. Smith S. Johnson R. Rogors Marth Walkana |. Houston Ethel Zinn Communist Party, I. Schonwald Unit 6, Sec. 1 Sarah Martin Jos Kraina Fred Taudlich A. Tahn A. Schlinsel C. Kata N, M. D. Lober |B. Weiss Jack Brooks Niederman A. D, Zilloff Mrs. F, Tandlich | J. Dimitroff S. Greenfield L. Georeft M. Feldman Bill Cooper Sam Garai L. J. Grinaldi A, Friedman L, Shicarny A. Lefkovics |L. Lashoff I. Schwartz |S. Pangonis Unit 8, C. P. DIST. 2 Unit 12 C. P. Spartacus Greek E. Shapiro Workers Club: C. Semrook P. Papis A, Errera Theodeox Milgrim Workers Earn 40 p.c. Less ‘Under NRA System (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The firm of Milgrim Brothers, in a statement to the press, boasted that thanks to the NRA, their business of custom tailoring én- creased 20 per cent. What did the workers of this firm gain under the N.R.A.? What is the union doing to safeguard the conditions of the workers? Prior to the N.R.A., only one de- partment was organized by Local 88 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, under the week-work system. The firm, naturally, shipped most of the work to the unorganized department and also sent out work to contractors. The workers of the organized departments kept on com- plaining to the union officials about their plight and forced the officials into “action.” At this rate, the International sent in a special supervisor tn Local 38. This supervisor said that the reason the firm does not supply the or- ganized department with work is that these workers don’t produce enough. He therefore came to an understand- ing with the firm and sent in the business agent from the local, a Mr. Wishneff, as a production man. Soon this Mr. Wishneff became a con- tractor of this firm. Two Departments Still Unorganized After this fiasco, and in order to eradicate the bad impression of the “Milgrim job,” and under the further pressure of the workers, the same supervisor began to talk organization. It is no accident that while our offi- cials talked “organization,” Local 22 suddenly, on the eve of the general strike of Local 38, organized another department with the piece-work sys- tem. Both locals, with the knowledge of the International, left two other departments unorganized. Here are organized workers, of two departments of one firm, working un- der two different systems, forced to compete with each other and facing the competition of two unorganized departments of the same firm. The unorganized worke:s are forced to work long hours and for lower wages in spite of the N.R.A, That is how the International is safeguarding the Conditions of the workers, Because the officials of both locals are not interested in organizing the two departments, the workers of Mil- grim Brothers have a right to think that these officials, together with the International, have an understand- ing with the firm of Milgrim, a sort of rake-off. In addition to shipping the work to the unorganized departments, the firm sends out work to union con- tractors. The result is that the or- ganized workers are actually starving, and since the N.R.A., these workers earned about 40 per cent less than before. These workers keep on complaining to their locals and to both joint boards and to Dubinsky. The officials were forced to investigate. A number of union contractors were found. The firm admitted that they send out werk, simply stating that it is cheap- send out w he in Fought in Bosse: Wars, Now Forced Into Filthy Shack (By An Unemployed Textile Worker) PATERSON, N. J—In January I will be 50 years old. I fought in the Russo-Japanese war and my two brothers fought in the U. S. army in France. One brother was killed fighting for “democracy,” and the other, finding no work, rejoined the army. Until about three years ago I worked in Weidemann’s plant of the United Piece Dye Works and other dye plants. While working there I fell sick on the job and was taken to the hospital, where I remained 11 days. The cause was that I did not os enough to keep me going on the job. Several months later I was hired at the Hawthorne plant of the same company. But I was only there about six months. The bosses probably found it not so profitable to keep me working there, as they had already used stre ngth. Now I live in a small, leaky shack, improvised out of old pieces of tin, Pieces of glass for windows. Built over an old dumping ground, on both sides of a brook, these shacks, many and filth fill the air, In surprisingly clean and well kept. day. say they have no home. On the these men. filthy prison. Such things as kero- freeze. We publish letters from textile, nesdle, shoe and leather workers every Wednesday. Workers in those industries are urged to write us of their conditions of work, and of fheis -trngrles to orranize. Get the to us by Saturday of each John Braun I, Jupodauz Jack Dempsey F. Hydenye Irving Friedman Harry Skluvos Cohen Elia Sava Joe Fisheman Thomas Pappas | Alfred Avasso O. Stratz Shapior Nick Skepas Shapiro Pete Caros J. Toon D. Paraquotaks | Sam Miller M. Angelos M. Greenbaum G. Pappos Hs Hyman Glick T. Christopher B. Greenbaum An. P. Akkides J. Steinberg S. Perez Jack A. Anderson Peter Papipis Euxemia Anderson S. Yonip L. Byolis M. ‘Theos E. Olsen P. Patrates Suoma Maki Arvi T. Papas Suomi Sundwall I. Borbut J. Backlund Sotir Yaneff O. Korpinen C. Termajoe John Kivi John Alpus J. Blomquist G. Komtarzas J. Adamder ‘Thomas Little H. Erikson J. K. Suave B. Manen Alek Vacere E. Lind J. Johnker F, J. Lind John Arkeros I, Abrhamson C. Halejnil I. Blom P. Geoymen H. Hokansson T. Stelutos A. Andreasan Brooklyn, N. ¥.: | E. Erickson M. Hoyviet Frank Grant B. Rosia M. Brynes C. Sorriet Olaf Skanger Centrigean E. Hahl A. Zennk Bronx: G. Hekorovek Marshall A. Zaily B, Freedman Gandoft B. Midler &. Kasler S. Brachman ?. Sonin N. Green 3. Zoler Manis J. Preveti Gottlieb L, Moitter Zhridger R. Piccini R. Barfus Professional Wkr. | S. Levine N. Goodman B. Freedman Will Edelstein G, Bradman PARTY LIFE Today's letters deal with the sale and distribution of the Daily, Worker. We have picked these two letters—one from Kenosha, , Wisconsin, where a strike was re- cently conducted in the Nash auto- mobile factory, and the other from Brooklyn, N. ¥., where our com~- rades are endeavoring to establish a shop nucleus—because they offer a striking contrast between effec- tive and careless work, in relation to the Daily Worker, and in con=" nection with shop activity. eae age abi How 500 Dajly Workers Were Distributed in Kenosha In reply to your request for experi; ences in selling the Tenth Anniyer- sary Edition of the Daily Worker, I am outlining the methods used and results achieved here in Kenosha: edition, Sixty of these were regular Saturday order. One hundred and seventy-five out of the 560 were sold by a thorough canvass of a given territory. I myself sold over 100 in this fashion, and had the following experience: In’ an’ area covering about 16 city blocks, not very densely populated, and on’ both sides of the street, I sold over 50 copies. This was at about, the rate of one out of every four.,,In. no case was an attempt made to ru, me off the premises, or even any} sign of anger at the sight of the “Daily.” In many places, I was told: “No, we already have the Sunday paper.” But in 50 per cent of these. cases, after explaining that the “Daily” was entirely different from the capitalist press, did not carry a) duplication of the news in the boss sheets, and had many letters from workers in various industries, descri- bing their conditions of work, as well as feature articles, cartoons, etc, I was able to make a sale. ! I always had my finger on a page} in the supplement containing an at- tractive cartoon, such as the repro~ duction of Minor’s “Three Bankers Go to Berlin,” and would open to this page after showing the front of the paper. One weakness was that due to the large number I had=to? sell I was unable to talk very long. with those workers buying the paper. A smaller number, a more thorough acquaintance established, is the bet+ ter policy in the long run, I» am’ convinced. x our. observed is: Never be discouraged be- cause you don’t succeed in selling, and never be anything but cheerful in approaching workers. One must be patient when they express harm} ful ideas, capitalist notions, etc., and | not show any exasperation, but very. calmly reason things out. These are elementary rules. But many com- rades who perhaps once knew them have long since forgotten, and lose. their patience and their temper wher workers do not agree with them. | One hundred and twenty-five out’) of the 560 were sold to people sym- pathetic to the Party. That is, the) comrades would take 15 or 20 and go and sell them to people they, already knew would buy. This is a) | very bad way of doing things, since | it limits us to contacts already estab- lished and does not broaden out our influence. In some cases these were taken for shopmates, and this is entirely different, since it represents one of the means of shop concen~ tration. Nash Workers Eager for “Daily” . The other 260 were given out at the Nash factory gates and were fairly grabbed out of our hands. by | the men. It is very difficult, at the. present time, to sell “Dailies” at the factory gates. There are two miin reasons for this: One is the fact that most workers don’t carry any change} with them to work. (This is true in Kenosha where most of them return home for lunch and drive their own, cars or walk to work.) i "The second reason is that there is still a fear of exposing themselves “They Wanted:to The ‘Daily’ Was Different” First, we received 560 copies ofthe} One fundamental rule to be always-|* Know How Nash Workers in Kenosha Buy Anniversary Edition; Sloppy -W ork in Brooklyn j here, leaving the men entirely at the |mercies of the company. But that the hunger for our literature is there, is shown by the fact that when it is given out, and everyone is taking a copy, the workers grab for them like hot cakes: Through*the canvass we succeeded in getting several contacts who want the “Daily” regularly. Some every day and some on Sundays only. One little hint for those comrades in the Middle-West who get the “Daily” a day late. If you do not already do So, arrange to receive it “open mail!” This makes it possible for you to receive the Saturday edition on Sun- day morning, instead of having to ‘wait until Monday for the mailman to bring it around. And, without question of doubt, Sunday morning jis the best time in the whole week to sell the “Daily.” In conclusion, we should have More special editions of the “Daily,” more real mass distribution, and, in- stead of only 10 organizers in a city, we will have 100 or 150. Comradely yours, D. G. J, Sec. Oor., Sec. 5, Dist. 18, Per Neglect of Daily Worker Distribu- tion Hinders Shop Work A certain Party shop nucleus in Brooklyn was recently working to win over a big shop for @ local union which is led by the rank and file, although an A. F. of L, local. For | tactical reasons it was agreed that another section (the number of which is withheld for tactical reasons of our precarious relation with the new shop) should distribute the Party press at. this shop in order to bring forward the Party face in that form, as the leading comrades could not do so openly. ‘There was no doubt that the Party press wottld have a good effect. The comrade’én charge had prospects for the Party in view. It was necessary to distribute the Daily Worker. The nucleus paid for it and it was under- stood that the other section would call for it. However, it was a full week before the section in whose territory the shop is located took the “Dailies” and another half week before they were “finally distributed at the shop: The éxcuse given for the delay in taking and distributing the “Dailies” was »'that the holidays were in the way. Certainly this was no Communist reason for such neglect, particularly where the work involved was of no great dimensions and didn’t require the cancellation of other work. The distribution, too, was not done well, be*.use the comrades did not announce to the workers that an article on their shop would be found in the paper. Because of this, many threw away the paper and very few actually read the article. Such methods of work will cer- tainly not impress the sympathetic workers in the shop favorably. And within a, week we will be able to organize a shop nucleus there, if we carry on effective work. V. R. Have your friends, fellow-work- ers subséribe to the Daily Worker. ‘Trial subscription for one month daily, or for four months of the Saturday"edition, only 50 cents. This offét expires May 1. JOIN THE Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- ‘tion on the Communist Party. Name .. Street City before the boss, especially since the:}} A. F, of L, sold out the recent strike » up my youth and wood and cardboard and chance of them without floors, the damp spite of all this, however, you find the shacks On approaching this “Roosevelt- ville” you will find the men hustling around, picking up scraps of tin, metal, cardboard, etc. for a truck that comes around now and then, This is how they make a few cents in order to buy such articles as sugar, coffee, etc., for breakfast and Sun- days, as their tickets to the poor- house do not allow for more than two meals a day, and none on Sun- The emergency relief refuses to give these men food orders as they other hand, a home ts not given They are told to go to the poorhouse, but, I say, it’s better to sleep in this shack than in that sene and coal are also not provided and the men must drag this scrap heap in order that they shall not Medical Students Here and in Soviet. Russia Biology Club of the College of the City of New York, asking us to com- ‘ a Our readers have surely heard of the notorious educator whose nanie will go down in academic history .as 4 “Fred the Umbrella-Wielder.” Having failed to contribute anything to edu- cational research, Dr. Robinson had finally crashed into publicity by try- ing to disperse an anti-war deman-. stration of the student body of “they C.C.N.Y. with an umbrella instead ‘of: logical arguments. The notorféty which this futile attempt had brought him, seems to haye whetted the pro- fessor’s appetite for the limelight and the Lord opened the mouth of Ba- Jaam’s ass. And as often happens in” the braying of jackasses who become scheme forgot himself and let the cat out of the bag. The object of the “dear” teacher's solicitude this time was to preven: “dear” students from entering tha, profession of medicine. Having failed] bg | orf leges to the children of the class by continuously raising the trance requirements in the form By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. to close the doors of the medical cdl+ | increasing, scholastic standards and .| prohibitive tuition fees, there is now a concerted campaign on foot to ex- clude medical candidates of prole- ‘|tarian origin on other grounds. It seems that the students of the C.C. “LN, Y. lack “personality” and “social “prestige.” ‘The medical colleges, it appears, “look to see who would be the most -gracious practitioner of medicine, | They look for affability and appear- ance.” Some of the two hundred 0.C, N.Y. students who signified their in- tention of studying medicine may have been taken in by the honeyed concern for their future which their -old dean seemed to display in warn- ng them against entering an “over- ‘owded” profession, but most of them realize the sinister purpose behind this hypocritical whining and bleat- ing. It means that students of the C.C.N.Y., ihe great majority of whom ‘are children of poor parents, are “not wanted” ifthe medical colleges. The lack of “personality,” and “social stige,” « “grace” and “affability” nslated,ineans that these sons of proletarifins, the sons of poor Jews, Negrees and other “foreigners,” are not wanted because the capitalists of this country desire to reserve the pro- ession for their own class. In other Nwords, that the real lack is lack of |thoney, easily identified by the sack pf a piece of foreskin or too muck ment in the skin. | (To be continued) wee eta ES