The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1934, Page 4

and Sever! Who Defends History is full in party rd anoth y party as und of t) pawn into political Cavaignac destroye the July revolt of the Paris prole- tariat in 1848, the fate of that same} bourgeois republic was sealed. ipoleon the Little knew on De-) ber 2, 1852, it as Schleicher} July 20, 1932, that the] masses will not move in order to} defend the “lesser evil.” | The “less” reactionary party, which destroys the extreme Left, is preparing its own doom, paving the way for extreme reaction. The} moderate wing of the bourgeoisie,| which sent the Jacobins to the guillotine in the Thermidor days of the French Revolution, paved the way not only for the Napoleonic Empire—but also for the monar- chist restoration. The Austrian! social-democratic workers should} firmly grasp these lessons of his-| tory. They must understand that the real defender of democracy is not he who says that he is defend-/| ing the republic against the fascist} dictatorship, defending democracy | against fascism. Cavaignac waa, subjectively speaking, the same re- Governments Leads to rolution | | Austria the in the ‘s. The lass, accord= has become an in the ranks of Austrian social-democracy. Let us suppose for a moment that this is the cause. But then, what a ter- rible responsibility falls on that party which possesses a monopoly for the application of its methods of “barring” the path to fascist re- \action. Why is it that reaction has conquer in Austria with its it has done in Germany where there is a split in the working class? (To Be Continued) CORRECTION By a R. R. Worker Correspondent PEORIA, Ill—Your Feb. 16 issue, the article by myself entitled “Ti- linois Railway Bosses Break Pay Promises,” should be corrected to eliminate all reference to E. N. Hur- ley as connected with the U.S. Flag Association.. Due to similarity of names and temporary inability to consult my proper data, E. N. Hur- ley was confused with P. J. Hurley. —H. K. EDWARDS. (Signature Requested) CONDLU' A mother who has been reading; the column “with interest every | day” has sent a poem possessed of| » wistful loveliness and great depth | of feeling. She says in the letter| that accompanies it, “Recently my | two babies Nadezhda and Vladimir, | aged 3 and 2 years, have had their! birthdays. By the names you can| guess whom I’ve named them after. Ive written a little verse in honor | of them, and I wonder if you can find reom in your column for it, and if you think it interesting enough for other comrades. It may sound & bit personal, but it really aims to explain to my little ones their future role in the class struggle.” | The title of my verse is: | Dearest Babies... You Two! | (Nady, 2—Bulby, 2) How were we to know How sweet babies can be? You are so Gear, You are so precious, You are such a trial, + You have brought us happiness: We would not have it otherwise! Many times you nag us, Many times you cry, Many times we scold: But when you smile, When you love us, | We are paid many times. | Dearest little babies: | ‘We love you, your grandparents love you, ‘Your aunts and uncles love you, ‘Your cousin Celeste and your cousin Robert love you, ‘Your comrades in the class struggle need and love you, | Grow up and give your all | to us. | Dearest little children, you are young, Only three and two years young, | Your world is tiny sweet and young, ... | ‘When you'll be many times} your age, You will have reached a higher stage In your development. From your parents, From your comrades, From your grandparents And other relations, fou will learn of the class struggle, That there are two classes: One that rules and oppresses us, One that slaves and suffers. .. You will learn many many things, jut this learn true: Pioneers you two shall be In the movement for true liberty: Better children to your rela- tives and parents, Better comrades for all to be! ++ Your comrade nymma, 1933. ESTER KLEIN, ' Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. interested in reading it. Dally Worker, 50 E. 13th St. New the Home ‘LURE Can You Make ‘Em Yourself? Pattern 1789 is available in sizes 2, 4,6,8 and 10. Size 4 takes 2 and oné-eighth yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c.) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and_ style ok BE SURE TO STATE 8! . Address orders to Daily Worker Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the Daily Worker but who would be Address: Lose More Regular Clerks Made to Do Work of Carriers heir | The postal | through Coug! | Roos is | The civil wo: |given their answer to the French | capitalists by joining in soli | with the rest of the jfight to sustain t time has come when t federal workers of America must organize into a mighty movement together with all workers, in a dem- | onstration against the offensive of the capitalist class, —Regular Postal Clerk. |“united” workers movement just «:| Maintenance Men | ‘Cheated by IRT on Overtime Figuring NEW YORK—We workers of the IRT maintenance were treated like dogs during the recent snow storms. We were told at quitting time to report back as soon as snow started during the night. Those who did not report were bawled out by the foreman in the morning and told in future to sleep with their feet out of the window. Those who did report were kept working for as tong as 37 hours. We were cheated out of half the overtime by the following trick: Overtime started at 6 p.m. but at 7 am, straight time started again, and for 9 hours we only get straight day rates, overtime starting again at 6 pm. There is much grumbling about ‘he recent 10 per cent cut, but we near another cut is on the way, so t's time we started organizing to defend the few rights we have. SPY LEARNS A LESSON By an LR.T. Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y—An Irish LR.T. worker on his way to a dance uptown, entered a station, showed his pass to the ticket agent, received an O.K. and, replacing the chain, walked to the washroom where he took a slug of whiskey out of a bottle. The “Spotter” followed him in and demanded the number of ‘is pass. Realizing that a workers’ ‘ife and tastes are his own after working hours, he turned quickly ond smashed the “beakie” on the ‘aw, leaving him cold. The incident is still being discussed all over the system and the opinion is that the “beakie” got just what he deserved. But it is pointed out little pro- sress can be made until all LR.T. workers get into a militant working class union, a union that will fight for the interests of the workers and not for the bosses. Organized in this way, the bosses will then re- alize that they must not spy on or try to interfere with the private life of any worker. DROPPED FROM ©. W. A. By a Worker Correspondent LA, Tex—I have seen on he front pages of the big capital- ‘st papers about thousands of work- ers in Austria being murdered and the capitalists seem to be rejoicing over it. Oh! how it makes my blood Soil within me to hear of such deeds done by the capitalist devils sgainst the working masses. How I long for the day when laboring people can rule this nation and the world. We have had the C.W.A. work here, but it's only enough to keep you from starving and I, for one, have been dropped from its rolls. Well, I must report that here, in Texas, things are not improving very fast. The N.R.A. (The National Racketeers Association) or the C.W.A—or the A.A.A. are not for the workers. Flour—the poorest ts $1.60 per 48 Ib. sack and the best $1.95 to $2. It seems that everything is going higher; it seems that capitalism is getting while the getting is good. NOTE We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- tion and communication indus- tries—railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- press companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, ete—and from the communications industries—post office, telephone, telegraph, etc, We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions of work, and their strug- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH §$, 1934 Southern Railroad Work Is Wages Can Not} parry .ire —$—$_—$+— So Hard and Long, We Can Buy Pullman) Shortcomings of Our Work | Job Chances Go No Place”, Say Workers|Porters’ Food By a Gi BIRM it back do it,| cent | ges were 2 dollar and 2 t ve got one| men’s jobs, | ough wages e care of their} the Negroes. But the whites are making twice} as much and is ma than the Negroes. are some whites come there later. Then some of the oldest ones are ing more time than the other are cut so low that they have to go to the commissary to get their gro- ry and also their clothing, and , and twice as much as the ers make, especially the Negro rs, and, too, there are some Want an Equal Amount of Days | ‘That is in the storehouse depart- ment, under the administration of A. B. Lacky, the superintendent of the storehouse. A. B. Lacky and the bosses just got some Negroes that hey will let make full time. We t say cut them down, but we do s let all the workers make the same, We want them to give us an equal amount of days. Let us make the same amount of days, because we have families to take care of, too. We can’t hardly live out of 14 days every day and saying if you can’t work faster I will put someone in get the pay. Flour Cheaper for Bosses We go to the commissary to get a and the bosses, who are making big wages at the shop, can draw this whole payroll, can go to the store and get the same flour for 80 cents. | Now that is the way we poor, hard workers is treated in the South, and | we want to better our conditions and demand higher wages and more days, and if we don’t get it soon we will call a strike and see if we can’t get it that way for the white and Negro workers of the Southern Rail- way shop. The Negroes only get $1.99, and some get $2.46 a day or $3.87 a day, and the white foremen get $7.98 and some get $10 a day, some get $12 daily, some get $5.48 and $6.97 daily. This is the white. Negroes cannot have these jobs. Now, we Negroes have to pay rent and also furniture pills and buy a few clothes out of that, and also just a little food to eat, and work like we are prisoners all the time. We can say we have a job, and that 4s all, and no money. There is a union for the white workers, but no colored in it. And now the railroad bosses want to cut our pay again. Many white workers are beginning to see that both white and Negro get it in the neck to- gether, and that we have got to or- ganize together to fight it. Maybe the white workers starve a little less than us colored, but we're all starv- ing together, and we all have to fight together in one united union. ‘Railroad Company UnionAsks PayRise For Publicity Only Part of Scheme to Stop Real Organization by Workers By a Railroad Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill—In Friday’s issue of the Daily Worker (March 2nd), there appeared in page 3 a news item with a Pittsburgh headline stating that “following a meeting of representatives of 35,000 railway shop workers in Cincinnati on Feb. 28, a demand for a 10 per cent in- crease in wages and the rescinding of the 10 per cent wage cut for railroad shopmen was delivered to five division managers of the Penn- sylvania Railroad.” The impression created by this news item is that the Pennsylvania shop crafts organization, which is a company union of the most feudal kind, is on the job protecting the interests of the Pennsylvania shop- men. Of course, quite the opposite is true. hs On Dec. 6th, at a similar confer- ence of “representatives” of “Allied Independent Railroad Labor Or- ganizations” of the western lines, @ similar vote on a 20 per cent wage increase was taken and given wide publicity in the capitalist press. Recently the Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Vol- untary Relief Association passed certain amendments calling for an increase of 33 per cent in workers forced contributions to this fund in addition to other amendments lim- iting the privileges of members of the association. The workers were overwhelmingly opposed to any such increase in dues, but the increase took place just the same. Recent rulings of coordinator Eastman, following conference with the open shop railroad heads in Washington, have legalized the status of these company union out- fits and the roads are now out to sell them to the workers. The most bitter fight Is going on on the Penn- sylvania, the Erie, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the Rock Island, the Tllinois Central, the Southern Pacific, against allowing the workers to join any but the company organizations, Resolutions like the one passed at Kansas City in December, and in Cincinnati last week, are nothing more than publicity getters for the company unions, Of course, the workers on the Pennsylvania want Western Union Bank Holds on to Employes’ Cash No Withdrawals Allowed Except 10 Percent in Urgent Cases BROOKLYN, N. Y—I am em- ployed at the Western Union Tele- graph Co., 60 Hudson Street, N.Y.C., and incidentally: there is a bank in the building which is practically controlled by the Western Union Co, namely the Serial Savings Bank. Most of the Western Union work- ers who were fortunate enough to escape the mass lay-offs since 1931 are depositors in this bank. Perhaps {t may interest you to know that I have found out that what President Roosevelt quoted in his speech to- day in reference to the telegram he read from the American Bankers Association that all the banks in the country are sound and are func- tioning effectively is just another Ne to hide the real banking situa- tion, because it’s a Known fact that the Serial Bank does not and has not allowed the workers of the Western Union to withdraw any money, only in. very urgent cases where the depositors can show proof that the money is needed for coal or doctor bills, and only then after going through endless red tape, the bank does them a big favor and al- pened them to withdraw only 10 per cent It’s a known fact that there are many workers who have to borrow money from one another awaiting the decision of the bank’s officials letting them know when they will be able to withdraw some of their money. In all fairness I again ask, “Is this the kind of sound banks Mr. Roosevelt means?” I wonder. —A Victim of Sound Banking. the return of the 10 per cent deduc- tion and an additional 10 per cent increase in wages to meet the ris- ing cost of living. But if they wait for the representatives of the Penn- sylvania Company Union to get them wage increases or any other » of Ry, Correspondents _ with the wages we are geiting, and| Forced to Work Five Ala. — To the| the bosses are speeding the jobs up Hours Daily for | your place. We are workers working | Nothing g|so hard that we can’t go no place — You| after we get off work and the bosses | By 2 Railway Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—The Pullman por- ter is the most exploited among the railroad workers. While the major- n the | 24-pound bag of flour. It costs $1.55 ity of the workers working on the railroad are organized and have some kind of conditions, the Pull- man porters are not recognized as }an organization and are working | under the worst conditions. ; The Pullman porter reports to | work at 7 p.m. to prepare the things necessary for the sleepers, and his pay begins at 12 o'clock when the train leaves. That means that the 5 hours work is done with no pay. Majority of the men are working as extras, and average between $5 to $15 every two weeks. In the win- ter, the Pullman porter is starved, while in the summer he is forced to double the time at the rate of 25 cents an hour. Many work one week dead-head regularly before they get a day off, and when caught sleeping or taking a smoke they are immediately discharged. In good times, this was not a cause for dis- charge. Mr. Randolph succeeded in or- ganizing a Pullman Porters’ Brotherhood. The Pullman porters, in spite of their leaders, went on strike against unbearable condi- tions in 1924. Mr. Randolph, just like the rest of the American Fed- eration of Labor betrayers, sent the Pullman porters back to work with the understanding that the question of recognition and improved work- jing conditions was to be taken up | through court. Up to the present, | no decisions were reached, with still |worse conditions for the Pullman |porter. Pullman porters will im- | prove conditions only through unity of all railroad workers. The Railroad Brotherhood Unity Movement has arranged a gala af- fair for the purpose of opening a Pullman Porters’ and. Dining Car Workers’ Center, where they . will be able to take up their own prob- | lems. The affair will take place this Saturday evening, March 10, at the | Workers’ Center, 50 East 13th St. There will be good music and en- tertainment. Report by Postal Sub Delegate By a Postal Worker Correspondent NEW YORK-—I have been one of the 600 delegates of Postal Substi- tutes who went to Washington to petition the President for immedi- ate relief from actual starvation, due to our weekly $6-$8 “earnings,” and from our unbearable working conditions. As you know, the President re- fused to see us, because we were no bankers, or at least members of the National Economy League, but his first assistant secretary, Mr. McIn- tyre, condescended to listen to our request? and promised us heaven on Washington quickly, so as not to “embarrass” the administration with our ragged presence. I think it is superfious to state that Mr. McIntyre has lied to us, and none of his promises were kept. True, due to our mass pressure, Congress intends to pass a $15 minimum wage bill for substitutes, full of loopholes—and you leave it to Mr. Farley to find any loophole if there is but one—and of a most vicious and deceiving character, as there is no guarantee anywhere in the bill that our Civil Service status will not be re-classified in such a manner that we should remain permanent substitutes at the mini- mum wages, which will obviously be the maximum too, and lose all hope of ever becoming regular em- answer to our demands for relief. This is the “New Deal” as inter- preted for us by our “most liberal” President. earth in order to get us out of but this bill in its present form is| | | One week before the verdict against Clarence Norris was ren- dered, the executive committee of the Bronx Section I. L. D. decided upon a demonstration and mass meeting to be held on Friday De- cember 8th, on a United Front basis. The organizer was instructed to call upon the two Bronx C. P. | Sections, 5 and 15, to arrange this demonstration on the basis of two concentration points, at Intervale Ave. and Wilkins Ave., Section 5 territory, and at Claremont Park- way and Washington Ave. Section 15 territory, with a march to cul- minate in a mass meeting at Am- bassador Hall. The two Party sec- tions as well as the Bronx I. L. D. were to provide speakers at these three points. It was also decided that each organization print and distribute about 5000 leaflets. The I. L. D. did its share. Section 5 left it to the units to do the job. As to section 15, we do not know whether they printed any leaflets at all. In the evening of the demonstration, Section 5, the Char- lotte St. Block Committee and the lower Bronx Branch members of the I, L. D, were beginning to ar- rive at Intervale and Wilkins Ave, Surprisingly the organizer of Sec- tion 15, who was supposed to con- centrate at Claremont Parkway and Washington Ave. was met at the rally. I pointed out about his duty, whereupon he immediately left for the Bronx. After the I. L. D. chairman and two speakers from Section 5 had explained to the workers assembled the purpose of the meeting, a col- lection was made which netted $2.50 and the march was organized and led toward the second point of con- centration. Midway of the :narch, the organizer of Section 5 left stating he had an important meet- ing. The marchers, numbering about 600, were enthus:astically shouting slogans for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys in a rather dis- organized manner. On arriving at Claremont Parkway and Washing- ton Ave. we saw about 50 people gathered about the platform with no banners or placards, an insig- nificant, unprepared, unorganized open air meeting, Section 15 look- ing on rather hopelessly, We continued our march to Am- bassador Hall, arriving there and packing the Hall to overflowing. The workers, Negro and white were determined to protest the frame up of the Scottsboro boys, While the speakers from the I. L. D. were there, C, P. speakers did not show up and no trace of the Section 5 or 15 organizers or members from the section committee was seen, The meeting was enthusiastic. One resolution on Scottsboro and one on the frame up of the Ger- man working class were introduced and adopted. A collection of $11.50 was made, Ten workers signed ap- plications.for the I. L. D, and we adjourned at 10:30 p.m. cL When I next called upon the organizers of Section 5 and 15 ask- ing the reason they failed to provide speakers for the mass meeting, the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Marble Cutters’ Neuritis (Continued) Later I went to the University other, In the meantime, I suf- -| fered and have been getting worse and weaker. could finish the day’s work, Finally they came to the conclusion that ON IMPROVING THE DAILY Los Angeles, Calif. First I wish to send greetings to the “Daily Worker” the paper that some day will have the largest cir- culation of any paper in the United States of America, Next I would like to throw out a few suggestions for the improve- ment of our paper, In order to criticize a paper one must judge it from its main objectives. The “Daily's” main objective is to make workers class conscious. It attempts to take him out of his supposed position as a citizen in a republic and places him in his category as an exploited wage slave The most difficult barriers to a worker reading the “Daily” for the first time is the unusual termin- ology. Obviously then an attempt should be made to clarify and sim- plify the paper. Also an attempt must be made to connect the ma- terial of the paper with the workers day to day life, that is, the more familiar aspects. Now for concrete suggestions. First I would portraying of historical events of interest to workers in the form of pictures, as illustrated by the enclosed clipping. Besides the educational value, it| guage would sustain the interest of read- sles to. organize. Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each } eek. : ers from issue to issue and possibly gain more subscribers. Possibly phases of history for portrayal would be the history of the work- ing class in América, the history of the Russian revolution ec. Secondly I would obtain Hugo Gellert’s permission to reprint his lithographs illustrating Marx’s cap- ital. Thirdly for a lighter feature I would increase the comie section, possibly have four or five each Saturday. Fourth run a “believe it or not” series. SECTARIAN MEETINGS There have been several articles dealing with the irresponsibility of speakers. The writer doesn’t wish to take issue with these. They were absolutely correct in their criticism. But the speakers, from personal experience, suffer at the hands of organizations and a few of the out- standing errors in srranging meet- ings are presented here First: A look at the topics of lec- tures advertised would make one beeps that there was no unified cen- ing. ’ Failure to advertize meetings in think that a notice in the ers of the neighborhood are not all getting them to the meetings. Comrades underestimate the eck SFeg 5 i i g s i i lf 5 : i a s & 52g 8 : a i the neighborhood is an outstanding fact in many meetings. Comrades Worker and Freiheit is the only ad- vertisement necessary. The work- readers of our press and a properly written leaflet 1s the best means of. meetings. The average lecture is a Propaganda one and has been pre- pared precisely with the thought in mind that the audience is to be mostly workers not familiar with the revolutionary movement, In this connection, “late” meetings become E é E i s ae gee a an 3388 By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. He 2g u zigsti aeaiee n a4S20563 u i i eas : le 3 i ag 3 B ‘ g Ey s 5 i u g 2 d z a fey : g BF | ; : Bea BS g 32 in Mass Organizations, || Party Failed to Cooperate Sufficiently With Harlem I.L.D. in Scottsboro Rallies y organizer of Section 6 said “I gave you @ speaker for the open air meeting, there was no necessity to proyide one for the indoor meeting.” The organizer of Sec. 15 said “You asked me for a certain speaker,” (yes, I asked for a Negro Comrade) “I. could not get him so I did not send any.” The following Thursday we a fraction-meeting of the L None’ of the Section found it necessary to send = resentative from the Section come mittee. The excuse of Section 15 organizer was that they had a See- tion committee meeting that evening. The call through the Section Org. letter of both Sections merely pointed out the date of the meeting without stressing its importance and the necessity to attend, the result was out of more 10 responded. Four of the at- tending members who had inggre d joined the Party, noticed the initiative of sending forces im these branches, a very healthy at- titude. However the leading frac- tion of the I. L. D. has never been notified of these actions, and these comrades never come to the Sec- tion, Obviously they are not aware of the existence of such fraction in the Section of the I. L. D. and the Party Section Committee never notifies us of these steps. The out- come of such an attitude résults in @ complete isolation and lack of leadership on the part of the Party in our mass organization, Unless this situation is changed we cannot hope to see the I. L. D. fulfill ite functions, grow and become a real mass organization. The Daily Worker, while { ac- cepts our announcements for publi- cation seldom publishes them. This also is one of the greatest shortcomings in popularizing our’ activities in the Bronx. The Bronx Section I. L. D. carried on strenuous and consistent activity in behalf of the freeing of Leon Blum. In this activity also, the Party in the Bronx. failed to give us its co-operation by not sending representatives to the Leon Blum conference and the Daily Worker failed to give us proper publicity in spite of its pledge editorially to cooperate and give publicity to the Leon Blum case, An article summing up Bronx Section activities in the Blum “case, as well as a articles written by Jacques Bi - kant..were mailed to the Worker some time ago without re- ceiving any publication. T’hope that this article will be published in the Daily Worker and cee age yee ittee of the Party aake an effort to help remedy, the situation. é : 7.8. Organizer Bronx Section LL, who have suffered from things, and they told me drank Crazy Crystal Water and cured them, so I have begun drink it too, I have been drinking it for four weeks without results. I ain suffering badly and the pain in my knees stays steadily and once in a while I get a sharp pain, which feels like a nail is sticking in my knee, I can’t walk long. The pain in my right shoulder, elbow and wrist also stays steadily. times the pain settles in all the Places which I told you about, but it is not steady. Also when I have finished Se i BEER ie rr ii al ye EpBE | zee : H ai ni saat oe Ey Ee i Fy) 9.