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Page Four > AUGUST 7, 1934 ‘Loyal Employes’ at Meta Shooting Taught by o “ational Guardsmen Serped/Inc., Contributes Building as Arsenal for s/f Company's Gun Club By a Worker Correspondent nition and will sell to the EVANSVILLE, Ind.—Servel, Inc.,| shooters at cost. is, under the cloak of workers'| Only by exposing to the Servel Sports, organizing the most brutal| workers ihe real intention of this strike-breaking machine so fa! new sport, and only by building a known. Out of the “loyal” em-/strong Steel and Metal Workers’ ployes of each department this com-| Industrial Union will we be able to pany is org ng rifle teams.|save the lives of the men and “Loyal employe” in the Servel plant) women who are beginning to show is the term used for stool-pigeons,| signs of revolt against Servel and ete., of which there is arg pened lits miserable schemes. ber because of the careful selection system that I explained in an| GILBERT THOMPSON. ff (Signature authorized.) earlier letter. National Guard officers and non- coms employed by the company will be leaders in each group. A drill team goes hand in hand with a gun club to make it more efficient. | A long building is being converted | into an ars) and armory for the gun club. The Servel company will purchase 33-bore rifles and ammu- loyal Chevrolet Producing Ambulances for War By a Worker Correspondent FLINT, Mich—The Chevrolet lant here has deen building war mbulances by the hundreds each week all summer long, and is still building them. Charles D. Nash, the automobile manufacturer, was booked to speak here this Saturday on the “Duties | and Obligations of Employers and | Employes in Industry.” This big automobile exploiter was asked to speak under the auspices of the We publish letters from steel, | metal and auto workers every ‘Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of theid working conditions and of their efforts to organize. Please | get the letters to ws by Friday | NOTE | | of each week. | Flint Federation of Labor. IN THE HOME By HELEN LUKE ‘ com- A bunch of ripe bananas on dis- From Rochester, Minn., & at rade writes, asking, “I sometimes America—‘“Immaculate of pain!” wonder how you expect us to get together the ingredients for some of recipes you print . and how about ihat cook book? I wish we could have a lot of recipes for Before me in your mockery you stood. I call ne country children cry With empty bellies for the want the mine where meals to feed five or six people of food! for 50 cents. A great many of the —NELLIE H. older women comrades can actually peatesde eres os accomplish such a feat!” (We have > not forgotten the cook book, but for Can You Make ’Em a short while have been working Yourself? on some other urgent material, so had to suspend work on the cook book tempoxerily. Would be glad} to “have some of the recipes from the “older comrades” who can feed so many for so little.) The comrade, Nellie H., continues: | “I am sending a couple of poems . «. I promised Tania S. I’d write something (We thought the poems deeply moving. Lines about the weary linnet’s throat with no song in it never got under our skin like these about kid tummies with no oranges in 'em.) Semi-Starvation We talked together, she and I. She on my trunk, I in the chair— She mending her old stockings up, I fussing with my hair. Each of us was pretending a Great interest in. the weather, Each keeping from her voice and look The ache we shared together. But oh, in spite of all the paths Our conversation took It always ended up on food. And how we liked to cook! | Pattern 1938 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 3!2 yards 36-inch | fabric. Mlustrated step-by-step sew- ing instructions included. Glimpse of America (the Beautiful) Where a stair window ‘cast a yel- low glow Upon a dreary street, I saw them stand. A thon-young girl, a younger one in tow Pulling her little brother by the hand. In vain she scolded them and tried to draw Them from a heap of oranges that lay Close to the glass, until she too stoed still Gazing with hungry hopeless leok upon TRIAL SUB OFFER—, DAILY WORKER 50 E. 13th New York City Send me the Daily Worker every da’ for two months. I enclose $1 (check or Name .. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in Sia coins or stamps (coins preftrred) gst see for this Anne Adams pattern. Write Say picavae oe plainly name, address and _ style number. BE SURE TO STATE Note: This offer does not apply to re- SIZE. newals, nor does it hold good for Man- hettan and Bronx. e Address orders to Daily Worker BOOST “DAILY” DRIVE— Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St.. New York City. Get A Return Trip to the U.S.S.R. AT THE th ANNUAL MORNING FREIHEIT Sat., Aug. 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At present there are 2,900 workers, in | spite of the fact that improved methods of production have en- abled the same number of workers to more than treble production in many of the departments. Needless to say, all this activity is not due to increased production of peace-time products. There is @ general overhauling and enlarging of all buildings devoted to war | products. Two new units have been built for the production of phenol. In- creasing quantities of this product land also of bi-sulphite are being shipped to Japan, Germany and other countries. During the past year there has been more than 1,000 tons of phenol a month shipped to Japan, Great quantities of these chemicals which are used for the production of explosives are also being shipped to China. The com- pany handling the shipping of these products is the Yetz rt ers, San Francisco, Cal. The long- shoremen’s strike in San Francisco held up the shipments of many thousands of tons of these murder- ous products to Japan and China. Wages in the plant run from 44 cents to 80 cents an hour, the av- erage being 50 cents. For this mis- erable wage men are ruining their health and risking their lives. Only a few weeks ago, two men lost their lives while working in the phenol department. The coroner, who is subservient to the interests of the Dow Chemical Co., decided that these deaths were due to accidental causes. The departments where these men lost their lives are run- ning again in the same fashion Last fall militant workers started the organization of the Chemical Workers’ Industrial Union. News- papers in Midland came out with the red scare. At the same time the company increased wages and invited the American Federation of Labor to step into the field. Work- ers now realize that A. F. of L. leadership will not lead them in any struggle for better conditions. SUNNYSIDE RED RAIL. First Issue (July) Published by the Communist Party Nucleus in the Sunnyside Yard (Pennsylvania) Railroad), By BARBARA RAND The Sunnyside Red Rail is one of three shop papers issued by Communist Party shop units in as many railroad yards in the New York District. The other units are in the Van Nest Yards of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (N, Y. Central subsidiary) and the Morris Park and Dunton Yards of the Long Island Railroad. Taking shop papers as a gauge of the quality of shop work, this paper indicates some real activity, many connections in the yards and successful actions already carried through. Upon superficially check- ing these indications with the con- ditions in the unit, we find that they have a real basis. The Sunnyside Yard Unit of the Communist Party, while compara- tively young, has by now 32 mem- |bers. A large percentage of them jare Negroes, A new union is being organized here of those shopmen who do not fall under the craft unions of the Brotherhoods, which already has several hundred mem- bers. A quantity of revolutionary literature is sold at the yard gates. Seventy-five Daily Workers are sold every day. The tone of the corres- pondence in the paper from yard- men reflects this. Here the outside concentration unit cooperating with the shop unit has done good work. The comrades who sell the Daily Worker on the bridge have won the confidence of many shopmen, who stop fe: long talk. It would not be a bad idea to-have one of the comrades in the concentration unit write an article for the next issue of the shop paper on the Daily Worker and the com- ments of yard workers on the paper, instead of the usual general stories about the Daily Worker. ee There are two articles in this first issue that stand out. One is the introductory article which tells what the Communist Party is, what it has already done in the yards and what it plans. It effectively contrasts the paper with the company organ and capitalist papers. After discussing current demands, it stresses that no permanent cure is possible until the profit system is abolished and soints to the ex- Mr. Kannen By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—On Monday, July there appeared the following | advertisement in the Help Wanted |columns of the New York Amer- | ican and the New York Times: “Wanted, man, married, experi- enced as a night garage and gas station manager. Apply after 9 a.m. Kannen Service Station, 5ist St. and 11th Ave. New York City.” Having had 25 years experience in the automobile line, and pos- sessing all the references for that kind of job, I went after it. I | was about 15th in the line of 35 | applicants at Mr. annen’s office. When Mr. Kannen saw I had references dating as far back as 1910 and that I had made $65 not so long ago on the kind of job he was advertising about, he said: “How would you like to drive for my mother? She has a 16-cylinder Cadillac.” I said I was willing, so Mr. Kannen told me to come back the next morning. I returned at 10 a.m. Tuesday | and, after spending an hour wait- ing, I was told, together with three | | | | | | 30 Offers a Job , terview us now but that speak to us at 5 p.m. At 4:45 p.m. I went back, and this time there were six men wait- ing to be interviewed. We were kept waiting till 6:15 pm. and after the interviews the contest was {narrowed down f me and another father of a family. Mr. Kannen said to us: “Well, boys, this is the story.| My mother wants a good careful chauffeur, a man that knows his business. The job is not very hard. You will only work three or four days a week You start from 12 noon to 12 midnight (in other words only half a@ day) and the job pays $9 a week.” I immediately got up from my chair and snapped my references out of his hand. I told him he and his job could go to hell as} far as I was concerned, and that it was a shame to make so many people lose two days time on the dirtiest goose chase I ever was on. As far as I can see Mr. Kannen’s advertisement in the American and the Times was gro: and if I am not mi: other men, that he could not in-! able by law. Below the By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich—How the N. R. A. helps employers to cheat work- ers and to violate even the low wage provisions of its own codes is illustrated by the recent experience of Hary Walden, Detroit electrical worker, Walden was working for the Wasserman Eleciric Co., 3245 Tyler, 48 hours a week and getting only 50 cents an hour as a skilled electrician, despite the fact that the N. R. A. electrical code calls for a minimum of 75 cents an hour and a maximum work week of 40 hours. On Wednesday, June 27, Walden gave notice that he was quitting because of the low wages and the fact that the company was making him work overtime without pay. The same day the boss hired an- other electrician to take his place and let him go. When Walden went to get his $12 pay for the three days he had worked that week, the boss told him that he didn’t have any money and would pay him later. Walden NRA Helps Cut Pay learned that this was untrue and ample of the Soviet Union. In dis- cussing the Party program, it never ceases to address itself to railroad men and all illustrations are drawn from the experiences of railroaders. When, at the end of the article, it calls upon the railroad workers to join the yard unit and write for the paper, it has laid the basis for a good response, The other article, “The Commu- nist Party Supports the Unity Move- ment,” is a brief explanation of the Unity movement, the relation be- tween the Communist Party and this movement, the Unity Commit- tee’s policy in relation to Brother- hood craft unions and opposition work in them (although a little overbrief on this point), its policy in organizing a new union among the unorganized men in thé Sun- nyside Yards, and exposes the A. F. of L. which is attempting to gain a foothold here among the unor- ganized men. It explains why the Communist Party supports the Unity movement, and indicates (although too generally) what steps to take and where to reach the Railroad Brotherhood Unity Committee. These two auestions—who is pub- lishing the paper and why, and the differences between the Communist Party and the unions it supports— are always raised by workers and rarely answered adequately in the shop papers. Here a real attempt is made to answer them simpiy and to the point. The paper indicates, however, that there is insufficient work car- ried on among the men in key posi- tions in the yards, among the en- ginemen and train crews. These men are organized largely into the Brotherhood craft uniors. The perspective of a united front with the men in the Brotherhood around common actions, is not sufficiently put forth and concretized. In the first editorial, a passing reference to the reinstatement of Chef Victor indicates some good work along this line. Editorial comments following letters from Brotherhood men should give more concrete directives to stir up United Front actions. The.comrades here are not suf- ficiently alert in counteracting manoeuvres and slanders circulating in the yards, The trial of the sa- boteurs in the Soviet Union was a cue for considerable slander, espe- cially sinco those involved were railroad workers. The lies of com- pany men and a few workers misled Minimum went to the Legal Aid Bureau in the hope of getting them to help him collect his pay. The Legal Aid Bureau refused to do anything un- less he gave them some money to bring suit. Walden then wrote to the N. R. A. After several weeks he received a reply “Our investigation of this matter has disclosed that due to the nature of your employment your agres- ment with your employer, if carried out, would not be a violation of the Code. We have found that the respondent is perfectly willing to Pay you the sum of $10 (in other words, even less than 50 cents an hour—Ed.) as agreed for the last three days in which you were em- ployed by him when certain defec— tive work was done by you at 6930 Cass Avenue, Detroit, where you re- moved a 200 ampere entrance switch which should not have been removed and must be replaced and that defective wiring dene for the Silverstein Electric Co. should also be corrected. Dismissals — Continue In Meriden Out of Population of 40,000 By a Metal Worker Correspondent MERIDEN, Conn.—Our working conditions in the “New Departure” factory are ge‘ting more rotten every day, and the prices are going higher. There are 40,000 people in this city and only about 6,000 of them are working in either shops and offices. The home owners are hit the most by the Roosevelt housing pro- gram, which only helps the bank- ers and big contractors. When a person wants to “borrow about a hundred dollars for repairs of some kind to his home, as a roof, for in- stance, contractors are sent to his use and before they get through estimating, the about five hundred dollars ii W. J. Wilcox, the wealthy dema- gogue who sent out policemen and machine guns to quiet the workers in a strike in Middletown, Conn., is now helping and working hand in hand with the company owners. During the formation of the various unions, New Departure is laying off workers every day—from 10 to 25 daily. Wilcox says that the moving of the Elmwood plant of the New Departure Co. to Meriden means that a force of 1,400 is employed, but that is a big lie. Not even half of that number are employed. A short while ago I was called back to work, and they put me on a dirty production job. I am not the devilish speeding up that gets me. The Goodyear Tire Co. of Middle- town fired about 200 workers be- cause of taking part in the activi- ties of the unions. The whole shop would be closed, but they are get- ting spot cash for the manufactur- ing of rubber shoes for the Soviet government, Wasserman Electric Co. that you will be paid the amount of $10 when this defective work has been completed. We are considering this matter as closed.” The defective work, which is a violation of the law, Walden says, was done at the instructions of his employer. The N. R. A. thus not only lowers his wages still further, but demands that he do more work “We have the assurance of the SHOP PAPER REVIEWS by the counter-revolutionary Love- stone, that workers were shot for being involved in unavoidable ac- cidents can be counteracted easily by stating the facts. Surely it is not difficult to get them. If the comrades are unable to find the account themselves, they can get them from the Friends of the Soviet Union, at 799 Broadway. The or- ganization maintains an informa- tion department that is very useful. It would be well, in coming issues, to publish articles contrasting con- ditions in the yards here with con- ditions of railroad men in the So~ viet Union. We also recommend to the comrades that they estabiish correspondence with railroad work- ers there. The article on the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill is written to convince railrozd wo:k- ers why they should fight for this Bill. But the comrades are not realistic when they propose that resolutions be sent to Congzess when Congress has adjourned. We must use new channels. The terms of many Congressmen expire. Of ccurse, we can put those continuing in office on the spot in their home towns and demand endorsement from them, Oz, better still, here is a splendid place to introduce the coming election campaign. And speaking of the election campaign, ! we must begin to plan now how to utilize the shop papers to their ut-| most to win the support of the men! in the Yards for the Communist Party platform in the coming clec- tions. But in this article no reference is made to the problem which al- ready has struck hard, and which is hanging like a sword over the heads of thousands of other rail-| road workers — permanent unem-_ ployment. Especially is this true since the perspective of which the men are weli aware, is the elimina- tion of large numbers during the next year. The article on War and Fascism, while it poses the question from the angle of the railroad worker, is not clear, Statements are made but not supported, i.e. “What is behind this stopping of strikes, cutting of wages, and firing, THESE WAR PREPARATIONS?” (emphasis mine! —B. R.). The question is asked, but no explanation is made about how these are war preparations. Also. mention of the Thaelmann jissues. before he can get even this money. oR A SOV. BH. completely lacking. At the present writing, the Center has not received an August First issue of the paper. Even if such an issue has been distributed, it would have been well to lay the basis for support of the August First demon- stration in the article on War and Fascism. But, on the other hand, if the August number is coming out after the first, the failure to deal with the international day of strug- gle against imperialist wa: in this issue, was a serious mistake, Gorge ie Technically, the paper might have done better. The masthead is ex- cellent. The layout on the whole, is not bad. Better headings could have been used to brighten the pages, and the cartoons could have been spread about a bit to break up the solid type (instead of putting three of them together). Even the large typewriter type stand out well. BUT—and this almost annuls every- thing—what is the good of articles, no matter how excellent, if they cannct be read? A sloppy, mimeo- graph job in a shop paper in un- pardonable, More time must be spent on those necessamy dctails that insure a clean, readable job. The limits should be found on both sides to which typewriting can be done with safety. Almost the whole last word on the right side of each line failed to come through. This kills those articles on the right side of many pages. Also, typist s should clean the type after doing two or three stencils, to aveid clegging and un- clear results, and esvecially if an electric bulb can be placed under- neath. A piece of celluloid is just as good. The first issue of the Sunnyside Red Rail, registe:s a good begin- ning. Now the job is to issue the paper regularly. It was a good idea to oxplain to the readers why the first issue was distributed free and why it would be necessary to charge hereafter. More emphasis should be put on unity of action with the men in the Brotherhoods, around concrete issues. Corzespondence from workers*certainly raise enough The campaigns of the Party should be brought in, closely linked up with Ya:d problems, before the workers, through the peper. With steady improvement, this paper can be a real force in winning the worke:s of this basic industry for campaign in relation to fascism is the revolutionary struggle. Only 6, 000 Working! men, PARTY LIFE A good example of what may happen when discipline grows lax in a Pariy unit is found in the experience of Unit 24, Soction 2, ,; District 6. Several weeks ago the Daily Worker agent neglected hi work sadly. Instead of strict mea: ures being taken, the case was al- lowed to drag. The comrade grew bold enough to openly defy dis- cipline. This led to the refusal of other comrades to undertake assignments on the grounds of “Why should I do all the work?” The meetings became one long squabble which had a demoralizing effect on the new comrades. The unit organizer, willing comrade, wl a new but hen urged to take the disrupter, that this comrade would expese a city employe, who was a member of the unit and cause him to lost his job. Conse- quently this disrupter was allowed ;to transfer to another unit, and peace was temporarily restored. However, soon afterward an old Party member of three years stand- ing, began to boycott all assign- ments to attend section committee meetings, and refusing to carry out any assignments whatsoever, And now, to top it all, the unit organizer takes a two-week vaca- tion without notice and without permission, in the midst of a last- minute drive to put the Party on the ballot, and in the midst of active preparations for Aug. 1. This last action has aroused the faithful ;comrades in the unit like a thun- derbolt. In svite of all. a few com- rades are determined that the unit shall fulfill its quota. They are big ed desperately toward this end, The unit organizer and two other comrades are being called to a spe- cial meeting of the buro in which drastic action is to be taken against them. Unit 24 has learned a valu- able lesson. After this, discipline will not be allowed to slacken for an instant. Better a small but ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Natural Eyesight Institute, Inc. Sam K., Brocklyn:—If you want to throw away $25, we cannot stop you. But why not buy some ice for the Eskimos: with it, or nice warm fur coats for the natives of equa- torial Africa, instead of sending it to the above corporation? The only scientific correcting the eyesight glasses. If other methods should be used in certain cases, only a trained opthalmologist or optome- trist would be qualiifed to tell you. way of is by Caucasus vs. Denver Missing Pete—The Caucasus, in Soviet Russia, compares favorably with Denver and other mountain resorts for the treatment of tuber- culosis. The air is as pure and dry Letters from VOTE ONLY FOR WORKERS’ CANDIDATE Dear Editor: Bemidji, Minn. There is a question I wold like to ask and wish that you would print the answer in the Daily Worker. Another comrade (Party member) and myself had a discussion over casting our vote to one candidate er the other if he is not on the workers ticket. The sheriff here in Beltrami County is in office for a good meny years, and of course, like any one who has been in long sezvice, feels that he can run things. Therefore this comrade thinks that we should propagandize the workers ‘not to vote for him, but for his opponent this fall. I told him that it makes no difference which one gets in, and that we should not vote for either one. But he thinks thet if another crndidate gets in he would be better than the one we have now. I would like to have your opinion on this as thore are other members of the Party who have this same opinion about the cther candidate. J.S.G. Sane EDITORIAL NGTE: thet a mew candidate The idea who makes know yeu will stick by me. . $15,090 International Labor Dezense Room 450, 20 Est 11th St. New York City § I contribute and Defense. NAME .. teceeee +. for ADDRESS .... 18 to 20 Years, the bosses and the pressure on me, finement. My enty hopes of is in yeur strength.” Letter from | Lack of Discipline Hinder Work of Unit in Cleveland Refusal of One Comrade To Do W ork Becomes Catching When Case Is Allowed To Drag active unit than a large unit full of dead-heads. UNIT-BURO—2-24, CLEVELAND, * * * New York Functienary Protests Undisciplined Meeting At the functionaries meeting last night (July 18), which was very important and interesting, I was astonished to see the uneasiness of the audience. Instead of being an example of militancy and discipline, they showed the eagerly listening comrades a very unorderly manner of behavior at such an important meeting. It shows the ignorance of some, still unconscious function- aries. Unless we get rid of these undisciplined actions we will never succeed, we never can take the chellenge of Comrade Munzenberg to have the first Soviet City. ANEW YORK FUNCTIONARY. Good News from Bothwell, Wash, Comrades: We have a real unit in Bothwell, Wash. Eleven mem- bers and real comrades. A good unemployed organization here, Thanks to the leadership the Party has given here, and under the guidance of the Party, we are forg- ing ahead for a quick overthrow of the capitalist system and the setting up of a workers’ and farme ers’ Soviets. No retreat, but a lead ing fight to victory is our aim here. Comradely yours, A. C. Unit 10, Bothwell, Wash. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City Dr. LUTTINGER ADVISES as in the Rockies and there is an advantage which we de not have in this country. namely; the numerous mineral springs. As for the lack of oranges in Russia, don’t let that stop you. There are millions of people who are hale and hearty without eating oranges; besides how many oranges can you buy in this grand and glorious city on the 35 cents a day ($2.50 weekly) relief you are get ting? Ringworm of the Scalp Peter J. M., Brooklyn—If your ailment has resisted all kinds of treatment and is spzeading, we sug- gest that you consult a specialist and get X-ray treatments. This is the last resort in chronic cases of ringworm of the scalp. Our Readers rosy promises will be more active in the interests of the workers than the old official, is wrong. It is pos- sible that a new candidate, in order to catch the votes of the workers, may perform some slight insignifi- cant improvement, but this will be purely temporary and only for the purpose of tricking the workers. Fundamentally, both candidates you mention are loyal servants of the bosses and the new candidate will do the bidding of the employers as devotedly as the old. In such a situation it is necesary to warn the workers against the illusion that changing capitalist candidates will improve the situa- tion. In all cases it is nec to oppose the capitalist candidates whether they are in or out, by a Free Herndon and Scottsboro Boys! “It pleased me greatly to have received your letter today if I did receive unpieasant news a few minutes before. It didn’t weaken my courage and faith whatever so long as I Letter from Haywoed Patterson, Kilby Pzicon, June 29, 1934. SCOTTSBORO-HEXNDON EMERGENCY FUND “Sinee the Geergia Supreme Court upheld my sentence of Tam dcathly cick as a resuit of the mur- dereus treatment accorded me during my two years of con- clo Herndon, Fulton Tower Jail, June 7, 1984, workers’ candidate, the candidate devoted to the interests of the work- ing class. In your situation it seems that the right thing to do is either to write in the name of a workers’ candidate on the ballot if he is not already listed, or attempt to get a Communist Party candidate on the ballot. Under no circumstances must we support a “good” capital- ist candidate against a “bad” one, for there is no such distinction. $15,000 the Scottsboro-Herndon Appeals their jail tools have increased ever being in the ranks again