The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1934, Page 6

ee ed 4 4 { Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1934 [Food Worker Tells of Strike Breaking Tactics of A. F. L. Supporters of the Nv. R. 4. Serape Up Scabs to Curb Strike NEW YORK.—G . We were that the to give scabs, and one so twe bring some I got every Amalgan giving thi they go tc place they de- for it, they . is going to they did to} workers and | If they take and Cannon’s princinle far from Lewis and W. conpuc HELEN id like is on a nice which for the Bosses s! Be sure to Feb. 5 of the above composili demand of th: nemployed Dele in Wa:t on for p; of the monloy Insurance ciable Soup Na Bone place in g bake in mo oven 1 hour. Baste} with the liquor in the baking pan. “The Brown Betty shouxd be baked | in the same oven with the nut loaf| to save gi You might bake a few] Sse oes ith the nut loaf apples for the u like and. b: Aade Aca to Above Letter Brown Be’ (Test with browned on Serve with milk, cream, or a lemon) sauce made as follows: Into a cupful} of boiling water pour the following} mixture, stirring briskly: 2 tablespoons | sugar, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, and 2} tablespoons water. -Stir while boiling} several minutes. Remove from fire,| add juice of \% to 1 lemon, and but-| ter as you can spare it, 2 tablespoons wr more if available, and stir all to-| gether. (Serve hot.) This sauce is also good over piain stale cake, or any kind of fruit or| read pudding. It may be made in) flavors other than lemon by using | saspberry, pineapple, peach, or any! TED BY LUKE r cooked ly be substituted in the above ary to menu time. Little Household Wrinkle When putting dry bread stale paper bag over p the crumbs from le ki Can You Make ‘Em Yourself? 32, 34, 36, 33 1-8 yards 39 is a ep Send fifteen cents (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. Be sure to state size. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. —— BEGINNING TODAY AT 3 O'CLOCK —A 15 - WEEK COURSE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE HISTORICAL MATERIALIST VIEWPOINT By M. VETCH, National Secretary of the Pen and Hammer, Workers School, 35 E. 12th St., New York City Workers Se CLARENCE Editor of the hool Forum HATHAWAY Daily Worker LECTURE ON The Dictatorship of the Proletariat Sunday, February 4th, at 8 P. M. at WORKERS’ SCHOOL FORUM, 35 E. 12th St., 2d Floor Questions — Discussion — Admission 25 save | lable in sizes) Western Pennsylvania Miners Tell How They Rus hed to Support of Daily Worker mee Won't Let \Ferors Caitied by Speed-Up Must Be Fed on Ow n Time ‘ dent ee Co., do not seem y er, but quite the con- trary, the conditions are becoming more miserable for the wo Speed-up, pay-cuts, layoffs, eats of under which the shop work. With all this speed-up all. work must pass inspection. If the work is not perfect, the worker has to do it over again on his own time. If the worker getting his work back refuses to do it- on his own time, he gets fired Workers who are able to make a few cents over their day rate in| work will lose it on the next the; n’t make their day rate. With the conditions of workers | steadily growing worse in a factory jthat supports all patriotic m ments, what good can the N. R. A, | bring us? | Come on, fellow workers, organize |into a union and fight against these | intolerable conditions. Editor's Note: This worker calls upon his fellow work2rs to “organ- ize into a union,” but does not specify what kind of a union. We want to warn these workers that there are unions which work with the employers against the workers, like those at present under the leadership of the A, F. of L., and there are those, like the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, which fight against the employers, and for the interests of the work- | ers. We recommend the Industrial Union, which is under rank.and file control. Tired of Being Betrayed, Writes Miner, Joining CP. and getting fired is the code workers of the lock jo ° (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) | ALPHA, Ill—You stated in your let- | the Communist Party of America. It makes no difference. The world’s com- | | munism has to come. I have been in fesse of it for many years. Have been a Socialist for years, but | |have not seen anything good in it. | | It seems to me that the whole world} | locks toward Russia today. |. Iam a miner. I joined the Progres- |sive movement against Lewis, but slnce Progressives turned Gerry Al- }lard away and Agnes Wieck! h in them. I am the National Miners | k they will have.to take | | . Seems like the only hope. | Miners are sick and tired of being | betrayed. | I have three children, all of school | | age. I am subscribing for your paper | and joining your Party. I am for Wil- {liam Z. Foster. I voted for him the kes time. | Burno, I h: ‘Miners Who Built UMWA Denied Vote (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) CENTERVILLE, Iowa.—The mines | here are practically at a standstill in the midd‘e of the winter season. | The Local Union here at Center-| ville is one of the largest in the| state of Iowa, and it didn’t send any delegates to Indiananolis to vote or make any resolut: against | John L. Lewis. There is a pro-Lewis clique here in Centerville, but the jTank and file miners are tired of the taxation without representation. The Government C. W. A. is now going to close down and people here have no help, and what is given out is meagre. I know the miners of | ter, the Daily Worker is the paper of | | four days eevry Paper Is Being Read by Many Nee Elements in Section, Finleyville Miners Write (By E. Group of Mine Correspondents) LEYVILLE, Pa, — When the 0,000 drive for the Daily of western Penn- ing back to d by y much differ- re before the think how they could fill their quota of the drive for $40,000, because we} knew that the “Da was the only naper that told us what to do to win the strike, when the Gazette, Pitts- burgh Press and Sun. Telegraph, along with all the propaganda of the N.R.A., told the miners to go back to! work nd everything would be better. Our truth, Fag: “Daily” came and told us the that the N.R.A. and Lewis, and Compan: e misery upo today the miners the ntiners, and the} is of the U.M.} the conditions of | Daily Worker was hard at first but] strike. However, the miners began to} all} right and that conditions would be} as out to force | re beginning to| | realize the value of the only paper | for, the working class, Worker. We began in the Library section of district 5 in the concentration points. Library No. 10 is the largest mine in the Pittsburgh district. To sell the the Daily our comrades did not give up. We decided to try collection lists which brought $4.63. Then the women held a dance which returned $4.55. Oct. 31, 1933. | Then Nov. 18, 1933, the three units. held a dance with a fried chicken | supper which cleared $10, and Jan. 13, 1934, our three units held another | dance where the hall was crowded with members of the United Mine Workers of America, and we cleared $21 for the “Daily.” Therefore, comrades, this shows that the miners will support the | “Daily” and we are not done. One ccmrade sold 73 copies of the | Jan. 6th issue. Our paper is being read by many new elements in this section. Tliusions Sprea d by Priest Hurt Working Class Struggle Gospel Tabernacle” (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) ‘PRINCETON, Ind—The “Gospel | Tabernacle,” whose sky pilot is and has been, as all the rest here—some } 23—very antagonistic toward the viewpoint of any radical or revolu- tionary movement and this saint in | particular hardly ever misses an oc- | casion to villify the C, P. and the } Workers’ government, the Soviet Re-! public, A few Sundays ago he called the N.R.A, a Communistic experi- ment. This sky pilot’s name is Cum- mings, and he established this church here after having a falling out with his former “chief,” the General Bap- tist Church, where he raved for a number of years. The writer also heard him rave | and rave, as only his type can, against your unemployment insur- ance, before a bunch of workers who mostly all harbored infantile hopes of some time in the future occupying | a seat on the “Golden Stairs” listen- Armstrong Co. Cuts By a Worker Correspondent LANCASTER, Pa. — Lancaster Co. linoleum plant, many of whom had a good deal of faith in the N.R.A., feel the effects of it now. A few days ago the management announced that due to lack of orders, they would have to put the men on four days work every othér week. This means two days work per week. One worker (whose name we don’t want to disclose) and who has been in the mill a good while, draws $25 for two weeks. He has a family of} five to take care of, including an aged mother. When he is put on other week, how | is he going. to feed his family? The workers in the Armstrong Co. now have a different conception of the N.R.A, Help put the Daily Worker cir- culation campaicn over the top. By a Worker Correspondent IOMRADE Carlo years old, writes from Helper, Utah: Nemanich, 12 Comrades: I wish to tell you of the conditions in the Helper, Utah, school, There are three of us going to school. One of my brothers has to Appanoose Co. are just as intelligent as any other group of miners, and they are waking up to the fact that every achievement comes from ef- fort. Our forefathers, and some are living yet, can tell of the hardships they endured to found the U. M. W. A. It was founded with tears, hunger and bloodshed, but now the officials have all the say-so, which is against the principles of our constitutions. The officials keep their jobs by the check-off from the poverty- stricken pay checks of those poor miners or those who are fortunate enough to have a little job. Some mines have shut down, and let 3 vortion of their men work, those who live in camp. The foreman told the track-layer to lay only the switcher, as the miners could lay their own track. It is time for the miners, the un- emvloyed and employed of Appa- moose €o. to fight a good fight and not be faint hearted about anything that’s undertaken to make this a better place for the people of this generation and the next. Let the rank and file miners have the vote and the right to make the decisions not the officers. PASS COPIES ALONG By a Mine Worker Correspondent STUDA, Pa.—We do all we can to We pass our three copies along after help. to get the Daily in circulation. we read them, for we sure have great faith in our paper, because it is the only real true friend of the working working class, and I hope it reaches the four corners of the world. I just can’t praise the “Daily” high enough for the good work it has done and will do so long as our “Daily” lives. Help fight the menace of war and fascism by gaining new sub- seribers for the Daily Worker. pay $4 tuition. The other, and me, $2. I am in the seventh grade and besides paying tuition we have to pay for our own books and paper. My father has been out of work for three years. They won't give us jobs on the C. W. A. and we are blacklisted from all the mines because we were too militant on the picket lines. If we don’t pay the tuition by the end of the week we won't get promoted. The reason they want us to pay tuition is to pay the 300 gunmen who broke the strike last summer. The farmers are planning not to pay any taxes this year, so they are trying to get it out of the school children. The principal found a sticker about Communists and stopped us in the hall and said: “This is no Commu- nist school and if I find the person who put this here I'll take him in my office and will see who comes out first. When the principal said this is no Communist school, I thought: “This would be a better school if it was a Communist school instead of a capitalist school.” The teachers say that in the U. 8. S. R. the people are starving. I think it would be best if they said it about the U.S. A. instead. I know this be- cause I saw shows taken in the U. S. S. R. and.read a book telling about U.S. S. R. Here in the U. S. A. they feed soup (slop) to the children. They get scraps of meat and vege- tables from the stores and give it to some women to cook the soup (slop). I ate two bowls and was I sick, I was sick for about 2 weeks. ‘The teachers tell us we all got a chance to become the president of the United States (if we got plenty of dough and promise to get a couple of guys all the money and make the workers starve). If Roosevelt was trying to bring prosperity back, why does he spend billions of dollars on In Linoleum Plant, workers employed in the Armstrong} $3 —) | stone. in Princeton, Ind., Center of Anti-Soviet Propagada ing to and being entertained by the 1,000 string harp, etc. The immediate task is to destroy the capitalist system and all its in- | stitutions, but first we must drive the illusions from the minds of the workers concerning the many things the priest and judge have taught them. | The Daily Worker is improving | wonderfully. Each edition seems bet- ter than the last. Let’s continue to make it so by writing of our local conditions, the effect of the N.R.A., P.W.A., C.W.A., W.W.W., WIGGLEY- | WOBBLY-WONDERS. Why UMWA Can't Make Headway in | W. Virginia Area (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK.—How the district of- | ficials of the U. M. W. A. in Western Va. helved the Ward Coal Co. to rob the miners and to break their strike standing member of this local, that composed of about 1,800 members. The Ward Coal Co. after signing agreement with the miners, refused to pay for the dead work (slate, etc.) as the agreement called for. The miners protested, and an elected vit committee investigated the matter. The miners called a strike. They were on strike for about two days. The District officials in agreement with the company forced the miners to re- turn to work or their charter would be taken away from them, and said | that they, the officials, will settle the matter. The officials settled the matter with the company forced the miners too the Ward Coal Co. How? By forc- ing each miner to pay back to the company $8 as damages by the strike. This sum was taken out from their pay checks. This local was too hot a place for the officials to visit any more. They bere not stepped into that territory yet. WITH OUR YOUNG READERS | war junk instead of giving it to the workezs,—because he is the rich guys’ right hand man. Why does Roosevelt destroy all the food? Because he wants the workers to starve. I think your anniversary issue was good and I hope the Daily Worker goes on. . Always ready, CARLO NEMANICH. © Se ie THE NEWSBOY By BENNY REMINICK As I Iwalked down the street one day Who should I meet but Billy Ray I asked him what he did so late “Pm selling ‘News’ for Mr. Tate.” I asked him if his dad was working And in his eye a tear was lurking. “Why no,” he said, “My dad is dead. And I must earn the family’s bread.” Iasked him where he lived these years And I told him about the Pioneers. He said, “In Hilisvale town.” And the next night I took him down Then I took him to our meeting And he heard the Pioneer cheers. The next time I met him selling, He was shouting “New Pioneers!” GET INTO THE DRIVE The February is: of the “New Pioneer” is out! there were before it appeared! The printers wanted money. When we said, “Wait, the readers will soon send money,” their ears turned They ‘refused to listen, before they would print page of our magazine the; a large part of the debt! could imagine how we ran collecting funds, writing letters. to troops, urging them to rush seks, —and after days and nights of desperate appeals, we managed to get. just enough to enable our “New Pioneer” to come out on time! Can’t you see, comrades, how important it is to speed the drive on, to rush funds at once! Shall our magazine, the only work- ing-class children’s magazine in isl America, shall it appear next month? in 1921 was told to me by an old-. Even $12 a Week CWA Pay Alone’ By a C. W. A. Worker Correspondent AUBURN, Me.—The City Officials here are feeling quite independent to the C. W. A. Workers since there ‘s no organization enlisted to pro- tect ourselves from inhumane treat- ment. They are jealous of the $12 the workers are receiving and are trying to grab some of it away from them. They serve as agents of the storekeepers to collect bills for them. They have had a policeman visit the men on the jobs several times to give the workers summons to pay their taxes. If they don’t pay by Feb. 2, 1934, they have threatened to serve warrants for their arrest. The city officials receive large salaries. Their homes are well pro- vided with the necessities of life and pleasures. They care not whether the families of the workers grow cold or hungry by paying bills when the men only have $12 per week to support their families. A lot of the workers realize that individually they are helpless. A group has met and have planned to form an organization. We expect to have a large C. W. A. Union in the near future, as most of the workers are in favor of organization. 'We are to demand, no, discrimina- tions, fair treatment to every one on the job and that the $12 we receive be raised to $15 by relief from the city with groceries or fuel. Saw Negro Worker Shot in Cold Blood (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—In Kenton, Tenn., my friend, Tom Searles, went into the store one night and there was a gang of white people in the in there at the time. A white man got to cursing him and he cursed back. They threatened him in the store. He said he would hit any 8. B. So they got to fighting. He fought his way out of the store and he started running, so they started shooting at him. He ran about a block and fell, and they went to him and riddled his body with bullets. I lived back of the store in the alley, and it hurt me to see I could not help him. I hope the people in the south organize and join the I. L. D. They are the only ones fighting for our rights, and are the only ones who can stop that lynch law around there. But we must join in. NOTE: We publish letters from coal and are miners, and from oil field workers, every Saturday. workers in these fields to write us of their conditions of work and of their struggles to organize. Please get your letters to us by Wednes- day of each week. The answer is up to you, comrades. Collect funds! Get into the drive! The Red Troopers, J. W. O., Junior Brench of Passaic, N. J., challenged the Paterson, N. J., troop, to see which troop can sell most stamps for the drive. How about it, Pater- son? Aberdeen, Wash., is “always ready!” They. write: “Dear Comrades: “Enclosed find a money order for $3, paying. for the five booklets of stamps you sent us. We have sold them all and are sending in the money. We hope the other troops will do the same.” Standing of the New York es in the New Pioneer Drive: $13.10; Jugo-Slav Troop—$10.42; siz! —$10.00; Red Brigade Troop—$3.42; Aurora Troop—$4.44; 3J—$2.67; 75J— $3.00; 19J—$2.63; Red Front Troop— $2.45; Sam Ganshak Troop — $2.40; Bob Minor $2.22; Clara Zetkin Troop—$1.75; 6J-—$1. 8I—$2.18; 16J—$2.56; 20J—$1.92; 5J—$1: 50; 20 —$1.45; 93J—$1.40; 13th St. Troop— $1.25; L. Emery Troop—$1.16; 54J— 57I—64c.; 25J— TJ—60c; Harry Eisman 443—60c; Tenth St. Troop—34c. store. He was the only colored man | We urge . | Kelly 1. Denver, Colo., YPA. & Lanesville, Mass., YPA, 1.80 A Comrade 3.12 New Haven, Conn, .YPA. 1.00 Philadelphia, Pa., YPA. BURT Detroit, » YPA. 5.00 Keane, N. H., YPA. ee Cleveland, Oblo, Lettish TLD, Br. 2.00 Automba,’ Minn., FWF. 2.00 Goldstein ae 2.00 International Workers Order 78.19 New York, ¥PA. 25.00 ‘Newark, N. J., YPA. 5.78 Women’s Councils 6.32 , Conn., ¥PA. 5.10 B. St 1.00 Orr, ri 1.00 Astoria, Ore., YPA. 2.50 Me ‘ ‘YPA. 126 Branch 97, TWO. 1.00 N, ¥, Mills, Minn, YPA. 48 Mrs, Axel Benson 25 Finnish Workers Federation 80.00 Paterson, N, J., YP. 1.28 M. Millovats, Yukon, Pa, 2.00 Bruce's Crossing, YPA. 35 Aberdeen, Wash., YPA. 3.00 $172.87 Previous total (Jan. 20) 90.43 ‘Total to Jen. 9, 1934. 263.30 PARTY LIFE We Need Leaders Who By ED. | Recently a comrade, who has been a member of the Party-for more! than ten years was asked whether he | would take over the work of section| organizer. This comrade did not ask} “where,” “when,” “how,” or consider | whether or not he was able to do} the work. He answered at once, with | a deep note of injury in his voice, “Am I not considered any more as a] Party leader”? It is clear that after such an an- swer such a comrade, if he ever was a Party leader, has shown that he. has yet much to learn. Units and Sections Basic ‘What are the most important or- ganizations of the Party, upon the building of whose firmness and ini- tiative the mass work of the Party depends? The units and sections. What is decisive for the progress of the Party among the masses, for the firmness of the Party in the event of sharpening attacks against the Party? The sections and units. With- out building and strengthening the sections and units no concrete lead- ership is possible. Without strong sections and units a real firm con- nection with the masses is impos- sible, Who shall be the real mass lead- ers of the Party? Who. shall he the leaders in the sections? The best comrades—not those who are revolutionaries in words, but those best in deeds. Since the Open Letter progress has been made in this direction. In con- nection with the Party Convention, with the election of new leading com- mittees, further and quicker progress must be made in this direction. | Build Strong Party Sections Is Lesson of Open Letter Organizations, Units and Sections What is discovered in the answer Can Pond in the Basic —_———> of this comrade, who has been fc ». so many years a member of th Party? This is not an isolated, int, dividual case. This answer signalizes the absolutely insufficient under- standing on the part of the Party cadres of tha Open Letter. This answer signalizes an unbolshevik at- titude toward vital, living questions \in the Party, if the Party is to ful- fill its revolutionary tasks. We do not need Party “leaders” from the blue sky. We do not need Party “leaders” who have no time to carry on revolutionary mass because they have to “lead.” ‘We need hundreds, yes, of new Party leaders who are cl connected with the masses, who will really lead the revolutionary mass work in the sections and units. With- out having hundreds of sections guiding and developing the units in the shops, with a broad cadres of real revolutionaries as leaders of these sections, we cannot build a Party that will be victorious. JOIN THE Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C Please send me more informa- sion on the Communist Party. Name oo. e esses cssmeeee ee emme ces Street . City ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS First Mate A Worker, Bronx.—Every boat must have a First Mate. We know of no other form of “immediate” relief. As you see, your own diagnosis was cor- rect and there was no use writing us. Soak past) Flat Back and Childbirth Helen.—We do not know what you mean by a “flat back.” If you refer to a flattening of the posterior part of the pelvis, then it would surely interfere with childbirth. If, on the other hand, you merely have in mind the soft parts of the anatomy, then there will be no interference with a normal birth. Every woman should be measured by a physician before she gives birth to her first baby. He can tell whether the measure- ments are normal or within the range of safety. s 8 8 Cancerophobia J. 8.—The condition you describe is positively not cancer. You are simply suffering from a pathological fear of cancer which is known medi- cally as cancerphobia. Stop exam- ining yourself so minutely! Cancer is net hereditary and young people like you rarely contract the disease. s.r . Neurasthenia Frank H. C., St. Joseph, Mo.— Your long letter shows unmistakable symptoms of neurasthenia, You imagine that you are suffering from a number of ailments which do not really exist. Our advice is to forget about what happened to you in your youth and apply yourself to your present work. We gather that you have frequent micturition (urina- By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. tion), This is probably a nervous condition; particularly when yous urine and blood tests are negative. When you write us again, please write a short note on one subject at a time. erie. A Just Protest The following letter is illuminating and will surely interest our readers: “Dear Comrdae Luttinger: “I.am a pharmacist in a poor work- ing class neighborhood. A good part of my customers are workers an? many belong to the Internationi,, Workers Order. I see how these ers are being cheated through clever ads of the patent medicine trust. It hurts me to see & worker come and spend over $1 for a pint of cod-liver oil which he can get of the same quality or even fresher for about 50c. The fish do not know whether they are going to be shipped to one place or another, and they surely do not produce any different oil. The best cod-liver oil to my knowledge is the freshest. “Today I had a prescription for an I. W. O. Huai prescribed b” Dr, ——_— of » an LW doctor. The prescription called fc f one ounce of “Digifoline,” which cog, the patient about $1.50. The doctor could have prescribed Tr. Digitalis which, as you know, is the same thing and the patient only pays 40c or 50c. “I believe that the practice of prescribing drugs with some fancy sounding name for poor workers or members of working class organiza~ tions should be stopped and you are the one that can help in eliminating this evil. iN” SERGEI AND MARIE RADAMSKY in = program of Soviet Songs ROBERT MINOR, Speaker SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd . —8:00 P. M— NEW SCHOOL 66 West 12th Street, N. ¥. C. Tickets 50c. and 5c. at the Daily Worker Office at Section 2, 56 West 25th St. and at New School, “66 West 12th St. Support the National Convention Against Feb. 3, in Washington, D. C. : ICOR BAZAA TONIGHT and SUNDAY MOVIES and Roadie Given by Greek Branch “N. SPANOUDAKIS” SATURDAY, FEB. 3rd, 8 P.M. At Greek Workers Educ. Club 269 West 25th St. N. ¥, 0. The famous Soviet picture “Road to Life” will be shown ADMISSION 25 CENTS Dance & Entertainment TtalianMusic—Singers—Refreshmente SATURDAY, FEB. 3rd, at 8 P. M. LOWER WEST SIDE WORKERS CLUB 108 Bleecker Street. _ ..Admission 106. CELEBRATE THE OPENING OF THE CHINESE WORKERS’ CENTRE BANQUET, ENTERTAINMENTS SUNDAY. FEB. 4th, at 6 P.M. at 22 West 17th Street, ard floor Admission 35 cents, including food R ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCING EVERY NIGHT RESTAURANT AND BUFFET Bargains On All Merchandise TO -NIGHT AT 8:30 P. M. BIRO-BIDJA COSTUME BALL N e e SUNDAY ._At 2 _P.M.—Children’s Concert “At 8 PM. — — Workers Laboratory Theatre IRVING PLAZA—Irving Place and 15th St. y TIOKETS: TONIGHT 50c — SUNDAY 250 — Y