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Page Four DAILY WORKER, YORK, FRIDAY, AU CHURCH LEADERS HELP FORM COMPANY UNION IN MOBILE WORKERS’ HEALTH Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board Sunburn and Poison Ivy (Concluded) If, in spite of pr zause you forget to t do develop sunbu: your money on an vertised valueless lotions and market. per cent acid and then powder with ¢ For more se- vere burns, use wet dressings (ap- Plications of moistened gauze or Cheese cloth) soaked with any of the following solutions 1, Bicarbonate of soda (one tea- Spoonful to a glass of water). 2. Vinegar (01 Blass of water) 3. z Spoonful to a An aspir: for relief o: every three Solution (one tea- lass of water). or two may be taken pain and sleeplessness urs. Blisters should with a flamed needle and n in them squeezed out with clean cotton before apply- dressing. the burn subsides the becomes hard and cracked and painful, a 5 per cent Tannic acid the se oin*men teaspoonful to a} soap and hot water, for washing off the poison shortly after it is ted, will prevent the occur- inflammation. Some pro- ection is also gained by smearing oil or fats on the body before ven- g out in strange grass. Only if the itch does develop, dressings of epsom salts (one tablespoon to the glass of wa‘er) should be applied itching is controlled. Then ap- p ym. or corn-starch powder. The famous calamine lotion with 2 per cent phenol controls itch and helps stop inflammation if no blis- | ters form. Once blisters form, wet | dressings are the only relief till the | inflammation starts subsiding. Observance of these precautions will guarantee you the pleasures of | | vacation without any of the ac-/} companying pains. | (Signed) DR. 8. G. | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS All letters pertaining to medical advice should be addressed to the | Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board, 50 E. 13th St., New York | City, and not to any individual doctor. Pennsylvania R.R. Wesicen Uniow A tta ok In Drive to Slash Wage Telegraph Correspondent NEW YORK.—I have been read- th interest the items in your Paper pertaining to the telegraph industry I would like to add my own report of the present tendency in the Western Union, in which company I am employed. R. B. White, the new president of company, has directed his ac- tivities to slashing operating cosis. He has gone directly to the basic workers in the industry and com- menced his slashing there, This was proceeded by a wave of terrorism which is becoming intensified as the Slashing process goes on. There is not a worker in the company, who, at this moment, does not tremble for his job. There is not a visit by an official or an inspector that does not bring with it a feeling of fear. The slightest pretext is seized upon as @ justification for dismissal. By a Worker Recently, on an exceedingly hot | — “Red Scare” Can't Split day, flying squads went about the! city picking off messengers who were the least bit awry in their appear- | ance, and dismissing them, despite | |the intense heat and the almost | jcomplete lack of facilities whereby | | cent of every dollar they make on | breakers who are working 100 per | By a Worker Correspondent MOBILE, Ala.—Eight more old-| time union members were fired on Aug. 7, 1934. They were fired be- | cause they refused to give 5 per | the dock. | Following is a list of Negro strike- | cent in co-operation with the Mo- bile Steamship Association: “Rev. Charlie,” “Rey. Sim Norris.” “Rev. | Jim Gilmore,” Ed. Rhone, Lorizner Battles, George Butler, Will Good- man, Ceder Grove, Lawney Rober- on ILA Being s Prepared by Bosses breaking association, with the co- operation of the Mobile S. S. As- sociation, they intend to enroll all the longshoremen, promising them | benefits, so as to be in a better po- | | | sition to get rid of the bona-fide ILA. Local 1284 and form a com- pany union. Ed. Rhone told his members on Friday night, July 28, in a mectinz | in the Masonic Hall that they were | meeting to get a better “under- standing between his benevolent as- sociation and the Mobile Steam- ship Association.” The names of the above men- son, Johnnie Jones, Johnnie Na- than, Peter Bridgett, Henry Waters, Louis Hopking, Tuck Collings, Whitker, Tob Clazille, These strikebreakers have organ- ized the so-called Benevolent Asso- ciation for which they are charg- ing the longshoremen $1 to join. With the formation of this strike- tioned reverends are quoted because we want the workers to see that here are leaders of different churches who are supposed to be working for the interest of the working class, but who are actu- ally helping the boss class drive the standard of living of the longshore- men to a starvation level, R. applied twice a day, gives Against Ivy Poisoning: Here we egain deal with skin sensitivity But the sensitiveness to ivy poison does not depend on complexion. In fact we do not as yet know what it does depend on. Suffice it to say| that if you are susceptible to the ivy poison and you get a small amount of it on your body by com- ing in contact with the plant, then you develop in a day or two an itch- flammation of the n with aples_ which may develop} into small, even large blisters. Once the inflammation of one part of | the skin develops, it is generally too! late to prevent its spreading. Usu-| ally the toxin has already been} spread over other sensitive parts} during the latent (quiet) period,| between the time you come in con- | tact with the ivy and the time the itehing developed. So if you know you are sensitive to ivy and you Want to prevent a‘tacks, you should | do the following things: 1. Learn| to recognize the poison ivy plant, | and when you come across it in| your path avoid it like—you guessed | it—poison. 2. Immediately after exposure, w: the body with yellow Profits Out of Delay | In Govt. Pension Plan By 2 Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.— According to notices posted by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the company will continue to pay those pensioners who were receiving monthly payments before July, 1934. “Inasmuch as the government has set up a compulsory pension | pian, The existing plan of the com- | pany has been revised, effective | Aug. 1, 1934, so that no pensions to take effect after that date will be authorized under the company’s plan.” The company. however, will be- gin immediate deductions from the employee's wages, although under the law no benefits will be paid for six months from the effective date (Oct. 1). The revision of the company pen- sion plan, and the moratorium thus |they could have refreshed them- elves from time to time. Of course, these boys were replaced by already newly hired ones a tlower schedules. } In the training schools of the) company there is unpre¢edented ac- | tivity in hired at lower wages. No relief can come from the A, working conditions of its members. | I hope therefore, this will get the widest possible circulation among the telegraph workers of all com- | panies, and may lead to a discus-| sion of their mutual interest and} to unity of action, INRA Openly Sides With Western Union Co. Against Messengers declared “pending a better under- standing of the scope and provi- | sions of the government pian” will. ' communications industry. Although | | of course, result in a big saving for ' ' the company. IN THE HOME By HELEN LUKE Babies, Santa Claus and Fascism The rapid including the ladies’ goss forward with bre rg speed. In the September issue of the Pictorial Review, containing the third article of a series relating to birth, maternity and infant mor. tality rates, etc., here and abroad, appears also a highly romantic Thapsody in admiration of Mar- gherita Sarfatti, under the title “The Woman Behind Mussolini, this title being encased in fancy scrolls featuring the Fascist em- blem, the fesces, an axe bound in sticks. There is also an article callec—not “End Legalized Killing,” but “Take the Profit Out of Legal- ized Killing.” The underlying purpose and in- tent of the series on mo‘hers and babes in various lands, the publish. ers’ fascist sympathies, are revealed | more brilliantly than heretofore in this tract which mourns the fact “Germany Faces a Baby Famine The account, an absolute triumph of fatuity, begins in fine high mili- taristic style right off the bat, a style reverted to throughout the article: “Eyery year 1,000,000 little Ger- men soldiers come on the battle- field to fight for their lives. There are Peterchen and Friedel and Rollo, and with them are Mariechen and Clarchen and Emmie, for the little blue-syed, flaxen-haired women fight side by side with the little men... sundown of the first day 16,000 have fallen. The survivors fight bravely on, but by the end of the fifth day 30,000 have breathed their Tast. Still the battle rages, the same eternal war in which we are all enlisted ... and by the end of their fifth year nearly 100,000 have succumbed. .. .” Several more paragraphs in this vein. Then: ! “Where are the 1.250,000 missing ones? An army with one in ten dead in the first year’s campaign is bad enough, but an army with more than half the soldiers missing is catastrophic. “Something must be done; that’s clear. And the Hitler government is moving swiftly and strongly to do it. The Germans love children. "Childhood is the most precious * possession of the nation,’ declares Hitler. Germany is the land of Santa Claus and the Chrismas tree. It is the land where the storks build their nests on chimney tops. It is the land of Grimm's fairy stories—of the story of Cin- derella, the Sleeping Beauty, the...” And so forth and on. But— “Now, however, more magic is needed than the Grimm brothers ever heard of.” (Well we should think so, if the object be to preserve the children of the starving prole- _teriet under capitalism.) “Hitler is “alarmed. The government is reused . . . the average birth rate of the Reich is 2.7 per couple, 01 fer below the needful figure... .”| Needful for what, are you won- @ering? Then read farther: “Remember the Red riots in Ber-; Jin after the war and you will un- derstand why Berlin looks with Gread toward Red Moscow. Well, Moscow's birth rate is three times { fasciza‘ion of the press, , ies, | Germans that of Berlin.” (Ah. But it is the | who love children :o much, says the same article pre- viously. And the Rooshians have} legalized birth control and abor- | tion, yet have more kids than their neighbors. Interesting, isn’t it?) | But “Berlin” sends a_ terrified lance not only toward Moscow, | | for: “If the Berliners look in the op-| posite direction, there is Paris, gay | and wicked, but with a birth rate nearly double Berlin’s. . . . Coun-| ies on every side—France, Bel- gium, Switzerland, Norway, Den-| | mark and Finland—are doing much | better, and Mussolini's Italy is far} ahead.” (Review to be Concluded Tomorrow) Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1944 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size |36 takes 45, yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. lioaa Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly mame, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. | Address orders to Daily Worker | Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St.. New York City. fait | By a Western Union Messenger | NEW YORK.—Last Spring, three code hearings were held for the threatened with the loss of thi ‘enting the militant Telegraph Mes- sengers Union, attended each of these hearings in Washington. At | the first two hearings the Western | | Union and Postal Telegraph, al- | though fighting over the division of | |the spoils in the industry, took a/ | united stand in ignoring the de- ; mands of the messengers for a $15 minimum, 40-hour week. At the third hearing, the fighting mes: gers forced the N. to give them a $10 minimum, 40-hour week. As the companies continued to wrangle | and could not agree on a code, the N.R.A. made a threat to “impose” a code on the companies. The com- pany threatened to challenge in court, the right of the N.R.A. to impose a code. Like a cowardly dog, the N.R.A. backed down and subsequently forgot all about the} code. The mes: rs have learned | of the emptin: of the promi: of the N.R.A. and nothing much is | expected of it, although the T.M.U. is still pressing the fight for a de- | cont code. Meanwhile, been idle. It has resor timidation, victimization, gangster- ism and slander to break up the T.M.U. There have been wholesale firings of militant messengers and threats to union members. Its lat- est campaign is to discredit the union by spreading rumors that the leaders have “sold out” to the com- pany. However, this has had no effect on the messengers because they are appreciative of the ster- ling qualities of Dave Newman and others of the leaders. Complaints by the T.M.U. to the Regional Labor Board about these tactics used by the W. U. have re- | sulted in long drawn-out hearings with the company, the N.R.A. open- ly siding against the messengers. Nevertheless, the union is waging @ gallant fight to force reinstate- ment of its fired members, by pick- eting W. U. offices and winning the support of other trade unions and | the public. Sailors Made Ill By a the W. By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — Fellow workers, let's get together and put a stop to the vile conditions here at the relief in Jane Street. We have to get those big shot ex-seamen and stewards out of the house. The fel- lows that hold the key jobs are the fellows that could not make good on the ships or were stoo! pigeons and in with the bosses, and so have weasled themselves into soft berths at so much per week. Coffee with milk and sugar should be served, and in addition, razor blades, towels, and clean linen at. least once a week. We are sick and weak from eating Salvation Army siops. The rooms, toilets, and mattresses are filthy and buggy. It has been proved that the rank and file seamen can run this proj- ect themselves, as in Baltimore in the Seamen's controlled relief bu- reau, where even the Federal Super- visor, Harry F. Greenstein, admitted at a meeting of relief and Y.M.C.A. directors that the seamen had run the Baltimore relief bureau much} more efficiently and cheaply than any other administration. NEW C. P. UNIT FORMED SHARON, Pa., Aug. 16.—A new| unit of the Communist Party, com- posed of Negro and white steel workers, has been formed in this important steel town. The new unit has already formulated a plan for work in the steel mills as well as among the unemployed. IRT Workers’ Own Union By a Transport Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I have been em- training new personnel,| ployed in the motive power depart- }ment of the LR.T. for over three I am a new member of the W. U. E., the company union, which | Transport Workers Union, and for has yet to oppose, even mildly, any| the first time in over three years I single onslaught upon the wage and|can truthfully say that I can see years. clearly just how to smash the rants at 165 Broadway, along w: their yellow-dog company uni rats. That the Brotherhocd of LR.T. employees (company union) is Broadway and they will all soon be fired.” The company knows all the leaders of the union.” Etc.. etc. Failing to see any results from this childish campaign of chatter, they now plan to dish up the old “Red scare.” - At a recent meeting of 2,000 men of our union heid near the Brother- hood hall, stool-pigeons, beakies, etc., were placed on the surround- ing stations to check pass numbers and identify men going through the stations when the meeting broke a up. Of course the men were wise ty-| ith ion | thunderous roar. |bought and paid for weapon of the company is now perfectly clear to practically every I.R.T. employee. | For the first time in the history of this company a voice is heard in | opposition to all this misery. And the voice is swelling into a mighty The men of the LR.T. not only gladly accept the Transport Workers Union as their own, but stand ready to fight under its guidance for the working condi- tions to which they are entitled and intend to get. A Conspiracy of Panic The IR.T. and its illegitimate child, the fake “Brotherhood,” are engaged in what might be called a conspiracy of nanic. I am in a po- sition to hear some of the near hig shots of the Brotherhood talk, and fear and hatred are clearly re- flected in their every word and ac-! tion. They are adopting a method of spreading false rumors throuzh- out the system in the hope of scar- ing the men away from the union. These tales are fantastic and groundless and don’t fool anyone. They run about as follows: “The company is going to shut dewn New Lots, fire everyone, and open up again in a couple of weeks with all new men.” “The company has 2,000 names of union men down at 165 —lW. Favoritism Rampant In Postal Custodian Service in Ft. Worth! By a Post Office Worker Correspondent FORT WORTH, Texas.—Increas- ingly unbearable are the conditions imposed upon the honest worker in the postoffice custodian service in Fort Worth. Nowhere is the prac- tice of favoritism more rampant. Chief Engineer and biackguard William H. Borders and Supervisor Clarence V. Westapher, with their boss-appointed staff of stoolpigeons and liars, hold the workers “in place” with Nazi-like brutality. Since they are not allowed, under the rules of the service, to fire an employe without sufficient reasons, they proceed to make his work-hours so miserable that he resigns. Our work-hours are so uncertain that no one except the bootlicker knows one day what his hours will be the next. We are often required to work a split shift, swinging from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.—despite the fact that a swing of more than two hours in one day is prohibited by the rules of the service, At one time, for weeks on end, including Saturdays and Sundays, we were forced to work from 10 to 12 hours a day, on split shift and with no compensation for overtime. We are sometimes worked as late as 9:30 at night, and ordered to re- port again at 3:30 in the morning. The bosses have regular hours, of course, as do most of the boot- lickers (Red Orman, Fat Meade, “Rat” Cook). A few of us, with much opposi- tion, have worked to form a local organization — but Asst. Supervisor Schilling, Westapher’s echo, has got himself eiected chairman. Westa- pher himself, who is hostile to all labor organizations, has been asked to join the union; and, needless to Say, the more class-conscious work- ers are disgusted. Unemployed? Join the Builders} Red to this old gag, and those who didn’t go home on the Eighth Ave. subway, street cars, bus lines, etc. just dropped in their nickel and kept their pass in their pocket. As a consequence of their failure to trap the union member, the story was circulated that “2,000 Communists” held a meeting near the hall. and none of them worked | for the LR.T. because they had no passes.” Red Scare Won't Work Be assured that in spite of the absolute fact that about 75 per cent. of the membership of the union are Roman Catholics, the old red scare will be used by the LR.T. in an ef- fort to split our ranks. In view of the fact that all of these rusty gags are most thoroughly explained to the members of our union, and to all transport workers everywhere, we can assure the company and its yellow-dog company union that “ved herrings” will have no more effect than the throwing of a couple of eggs from a speeding automobile by its brave degenerates. The LR.T. is not dealing with the smelly Amalgamated of the A. F, of L. The betrayals and sell-outs of that grafting outfit are weil- known to the men of the LR.T. Our union deals in the open, not be- hind closed doors. It educates and trains its members to every move on the part of the company, and that training does not exclude de- fense against physical attack, for | which the LR.T, has a long and slimy record. Our members know their leaders personally, No amount of slanders, lies or red scares can alter the posi- tive fact that our ranks are grow- ing at a tremendous speed, and that as a consequence, the long era of labor slavery on the LR.T. is draw- ing to a close. Men of the LR.T., the Transport Workers Union is your union, not the company union. Join up now. LETTERS FROM | OUR READERS | DAILY WORKER FULL OF NEWS Lancaster, Pa. Dear Comrade: I find that I am unable to do without our revolutionary paper, the Daily Worker. There is more read- ing of actual working class news in one page of the “Daily” than there is in our local sheets, the New Era, and Intell-Journal. If the adver- tising news were to be suppressed from the local rags they would not have any news worth reading. I will do my revolutionary duty in securing new readers for the Daily Worker and hove the sub drive goes over the top, but this can only be accomplished by the revolutionary effort of every class conscious worker. During the last drive I had gotten severe] subs for the Daily Worker and I will renew my efforts in this drive. Comradely, XH. CHEMICAL WORKER SEES IM- PORTANCE OF ORGANIZATION Rochester, N. Y. Dear Editor: I am enclosing two dollars as a contribution to the revolutionary movement. You may use it as you see fit. I regret that it cannot be larger, but hope to continue my small measure of support from time to time. For the present, I am not appear- ing publicly as a Communist, but rest assured I am giving all my support with no reservations. I am a graduate chemist with considerable theoretical end prac- tical experience. My service will al- ways bo 100 per cent at the disposal of the Party. My policy is based upon winning mass support, particularly amonz scientific workers. It is necessary for me to pose as a liberal. Al- though the progress is slow, never- theless, I am optimistic of the little Attack Jobs of! NegroW orkers onChicagoR.R. By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO.—The bosses of the Chicago and North Western R. R. roundhouse at 723 W. Chicago Ave., are unfair to colored workers. One day one of the colored workers overheard the general foreman say, ‘I think I'll get rid of all the col- ored men. I find that they aren't worth a job like this.” Since then | one Negro died and two were framed up and fired. Three white fellows were hired in their places. An Italian worker spoke to the labor foreman about hiring one of his Italian friends. The answer was, “I don’t want any more dumb da- goes and no more damn niggers.” This discrimination is dangerous, not only to the Negro workers, but to every worker on the job. First they pick on the Negro workers, next they say they are going to turn on the Italian workers, The end of this will be that the only ones able to hold a job Will be the bosses’ friends. We must learn to stick together iless of race or nationality. find that a Negro or Italian is just as good a man on the picket line as any one else. Many on the job are backing the Railroad Brotherhood’s Unity Movement. which has as its aim the unity of all railroad workers, Lemus, Dining Car Union Misleader, Pushes Fees Higher NEW YORK.— We Communists. cooks and waiters, who attended the last Brotherhood meeting of Coun- cil No. 1. want to make public what happened there. First. the Grand President, Le- mus. insistel on an initiation fee Second. $250 were voted from < fund to the seneral fund without saying what the expenses were. Third, Lewis. the Council Presi- dent. appointed the same commit- tee to be the Board of Adjustment for the Brotherhood. which was ap- proved by the membership. Throughout the meeting it was clear that Lemus is Czar, throuzh the power given him by the Con- stitution of his own making. We Communists are in the Brotherhood to see that the Brotherhood represents the workers, and not be sold out to the Penn by the leaders. We are going to fight; Lemus, who is trying to grab off $5 for initiation, for we want all our follow workers to be able to get inte the Brotherhood. While the initiation was $1 over 130 men joined. The more workers we have in, the stronger we will be to force better conditions from the Penn. We demand that the financial secretary give us a detailed report of every penny received or spent. What is hapvening to the $250 for the general fund? We want an ac- counting at the next meeting. We know how Lemus would like to spend our money. He asked for $10 a day to go out and organize the western division. We voted it down. It is the duty of the Grand Council to do the organizing and they get plenty of our money to do it with. We expect the Board of Adjust- ment to put up a real fight for our cemands. For instance, they should demand that the Penn live up to the agreement that we get eight hours’ pay for laying over in Wash- ington and other points out of town. Secondly, that we get paid for dead- heading. Thirdly, no charge for sleeping in company auarters. As long as the Board lives up to its duties to the men of the dining car department, we will support them. If they don’t we will fight against them as we fight azainst Lemus end his crowd. We are in the Brotherhood for the workers and not for Lemus. We want hon- est, fighting leadership. Groun of Communists in the Bretherhocd, Council No. 1, See este a SUE aR APE A seeds I have sown. feeling sure that many sympathizers, even unknown to be sure at the present, will grow to be the leaders of the future. Organization terrifically im- portant in tecl al fields. Raw ma- terials must flow ceaselessly to the chemical centeres. It may very well be that the workers government will be finally cecided in the field of in- dustry. I am adding this only to show that I em aware of the en mous task confronting us. ;——TRIAL SUB OFFE! DAILY WORKER 50 E. 13th St., New York City Send me the Daily Worker every day for two months. I enclose $1 (check or money order) PARTY LIFE |Fascist Terror in Seattle “As a member of the Young Com- munist League, Disirict No. 12, of Seattle, I feel sure that you would like to hear from us concerning our activities here on the West Coast. and the effect which the universal Police and vigilante terrorization is having on us. They are attempting to drive the Y. C, L. and the Communist Party completely underground here in the Northwest during the past two weeks. The police raided our head- quarters and smashed everything there, bookcases, chairs and desks, and strewed papers and literature about until there was a litter inches deep on the floor. They arrested a comrade who was in charge of the Workers’ Book Store, and are holding this comrade in the city jail, pending deportation to Switzerland, “The police and vigilantes have been scouring the city for the Com- munist Party leaders and for our new District. Organizer. Reviewed by Police and Vigilantes Are Searching City for Communists But Workers Fight On Y.C.L. Leader “Seattle Daily Times,” a newspaper of large circulation wished to publish, although the Vigilantes for some reason or other would not permit him to do. At’ Portland, Oregon, the Come munist headquarters were unpre- pared for a raid, and everything was seized, files, records, names, etc., and the police were picking up peo- ple by the dozens and jailing them, The strike situation there was and is more serious than here—more arrests, and the common charge is criminal syndicalism and riot. We are planning a big mass deme onstration at the County City Building for August First to fight Fascism and Terror. Yesterday the papers came out with big headlines—“Dock Strike Ends,” due to the fact that the longshoremen. voted for arbitration, But it is not ended—the longshore- men stipulated that. In an effort to get the men drunk, free beer was served at the I. L. A. hall until a bunch of longshoremen came in a | “No doubt this oppression and terrorization of the Communist |Party and the Young Communist League is due to the fact that many of the leaders and militant work- ers in the seamen’s and longshore- men’s strike here on the West Coast, and particularly in Seattle have been Communists. Y. C, members have been faithful in keeping on the picket line and par- ticipating in demonstrations, as well as in distributing leaflets on the waterfront and throughout the city. “Several members of the M. W. I. U. here, which has done splendid work in fighting the fakers in the I, L, A. are also members of the Y¥. C. L. They have arrested Com- rade Archer, the secretary and leader of the M, W. I. U,, as well as Comrades Howe and Stack, of the M. W. I. U. Howe was released, but Archer and ‘Stack were given ninety days for being disorderly Persons. Their case in the hands of the I. L. 5., is being appealed, but so far bond, ‘$500 each, has not been available. At one time in the past week fifty comrades were jailed, but now most of these have been released. We are unable to meet, vith our jleaders, or even to run the risk of visiting them singly. No meetings, except a few very secret ones are Possible, Luckily we had been warned beforehand, and all files, records, names and addresses had been removed from all offices, but the vigilantes have a long list of Communists and Communist sym- pathisers which the owner of the body and smashed up the place. The Y. C. L. comrades and the Pioneers have not lost their heads in this situation, but are carrying on their work under these great dif- ficulties. Of course many mistakes have been made,—some comrades L,| have found holes and pulled them in after themselves, and others have found the little word “dis- cretion” very useful at this time, but on the whole we are carrying on and finding new methods of work. This experience is a very valuable one for us, and we think for the entire Party and Y, C. 1. because what has happened | in Seattle we can expect to happen everywhere, and Party members, and Y. C. L. comrades, and even Pioneers must know to work even when the police and the fascist gangs are trying to smash us. M. B., Secetary, Young Pioneer Buro, Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party Name . Street City .... By a Railroad Worker Correspondent AMARILLO, Texas.—The season- el wheat rush is over and the Rock Island has already released 12 re- cently employed trainmen and nearly an equal number of firemen. The transportation men are the only ones organized here. They should take more interest in their unemployed brothers. The first week of June the Relief Committee promised to hire 538 men have been put to work, and now the hours are being cut. The latest gov- ernment order is to reduce all road workers to $20 a month. About 800 are employed in the Federal canning plant three days a week at an average of $7.75 per week. This plant has been visited by relief officials from all over the country as it is being used as a model; a model to show ail other communities how to cut the stand- ard of living for workers down to $7.75 a week! Every railroad fireman should de- on highways, but up till now only 70 | R. R. FIREMEN URGED TO BACK H. R. 7598 mand an immediate ccnvention to demand the passage anci immiediate action on H. R. 7598, and to clean house in this organization which is headed by “Our Davi: National Civic Federation, a “pro- fessional patriot” group which ine cludes all the leading strikebreaxera in the country. NOTE We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- tion and communications indus- tries—railroad, marine, surface lines, express companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc—and post office, telephone, telegraph, ete. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions of work, and their strug- gles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each Sell “Daily” on Busy Corners $15,000 International Lebor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City and Defense. Free Herndon and Scottsboro Boys “It pleased me greatly to have received your letter today if I did reccive unpleasant news a few minutes before. It didn’t weaken my courage and faith whatever so long as I know you will stick by me... .” Letter ftom Haywood Patterson, Kilby Prison, June 29, 1934. SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON EMERGENCY FUND I contribute $..........,.....for the Scottsboro-Herndon Appeals $15,000 Name Address... City... . State .. 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