The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1934, Page 6

rset i Page Six WORKERS Daily Worker Medi cal Advisory Board | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Motherhood Under Capitalism “The results of the oppression of the Negro people is very plainly seen in the prenatal clinics and ob- stetrical wards of city hospitals. The doctor finds pelvic bones due to ric 11 pr cent of Negro wi nd in than 1 per cent of Borgeois professors hide the that this is due to ¥ @eneration of the race.” The real #eason is that the enforced poverty of the Negro people, high rents, avercrowding, poor food, lack of sun- light and fresh air cause rickets in the children, which softens their bones. When they grow up many of bs) average weights at birth of the white babies was increased by 1 Ib. 1 om. Negro babies showed even greater increases in weight, In this country adequate food and rest for working class mothers simply an occasional experiment for the amusement of a few scienti In the Soviet Union, unde: e di tatorship of the working class, it i given to every mo’ The rulers of this country, who} starve the children and mothers of the workers, and conceal it by fas- o! DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, A UMW Officials Squabble Over Prous Broken by Fat Salaries 210ss-Sheffield Co. By a Mine Worker Correspondent HOMER CITY, Pa—At a con-| Mass vention in Barnesboro, Pa., the | union fakers like Faber McClos- | key and his gang, fought union 's like John L. Lewis and P. Murray, etc. McCloskey and his} gang are fighting Lewis’ right-hand men like Charles Ghizzoni, Inter- | national Board members, both of | . | District No. 2. McCloskey is not|Sives in to our demands by Aug. 22. fighting for the (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) interests of the |cist lies about “race degeneration,” |are the same ones who jail Angelo The rank and file miners at this | |Herndon and try to lynch the! convention had hopes that McClos- | |Scottsboro boys. These attacks are | Key Will fight for them, but in the| |for the purpose of maintaining the | "a", future they will learn that | heavier exploitation of the Negro | McCloskey is just as big a faker as 33 _ | Lewis. miners. He and his gang are or- | Printed ganized to get the officials’ jobs, bes We have many issues for’ the cause of the fat salaries. strike. ‘The company has broken its contract with us since the last strike. The muckers don’t get paid for dead work as they are supposed | Ottis Jones (Negro), a contractor. to. Muckers have to go to get the | The company is trying every means mules, drive them and take them | BESSEMER, Ala—Our Local of| up. It has about 40 members. The e Mill Mine and Smelters’ Union | heads of the company union are voted for strike unless the company | Scabs. | We may be on strike when this is| |back to the barn without getting|Pany union. In this way they are Picketing, With Help of Unempleyed, Wil Force Bosses to Improve Conditions The company union has started The Executive Board con- sists of Otto Cal (white), a weigh- man; Cecil Houston (white), a for- mer prison bos at Flat Top, who was brought to Sloss to build the company union, and who has a job as a foreman; Robert Wilson (Negro), a contractor, and Reverend | to force the miners into the com- people, to crush their fight for poli- | paid for it. According to the con- | trying to smash the miners’ union. n born in well-to-do average 8 lbs. 5 oz. at fam- birth te families 7 lbs., 4 0z., 14 Negro families 6 lbs dvantage at birt nereased infant This is caused food for the mother s rk and take care of her y during pregnancy. This has been proven by per si the ex- iment of having women live and rest in hospitals for three months before delivery. The food in the charity hospitals, though not the best, is superior to that which white tical and social equ , for a decent standard of living, for bread. The double exploitation of Negro work-| ers is one of the ways in which the! McCloskey and Corporation have called another convention in Cul- ver, Pa., for Aug. 12, to strengthen the fight for the charter and for | tract, the company is supposed to | furnish mule boys. autonomy for District No. 2, and for|ttack without getting paid for it.|Lipscomb and Cole. : |The company is supposed to fur-|Strike we didn’t have a definite ruling class maintains its exploita- | his chance for office. tion of white workers, By fighting oni see enN es | for Herndon and the Scottsboro | boys, you are fighting for the pro- tection of mothers and children. You an do this today by contributing Evictions Are} Seren alt Uaee Oy Tee Workers Unemployment and Social} | aa. | Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), which ToBreakUnion also provides maternity insurance. | You will help all mothers to secure | nish a track crew. Some of the contractors cannot drill, so their drillers get drill helpers wages, Hugo Moorell, president of the Sloss-Sheffield Co., is in Washing- ton now representing the ore in- dustry in the South and is demand- ing @ wage scale of 25 cents for surface workers and 27 cents for underground miners, The union is and Negro mothers can afford to eat | adequate food and rest during preg-| By a Mine Worker Correspondent | preparing a code calling for 40 at home. In this experiment the | naney. BESSEMER, Ala—We're getting | | about 40 cents more every two weeks cents and 50 cents, with the 7-hour day. At the rate prices are sky- | from the Welfare, but we have to| rocketing here, even the wages in | work for it now. Since the mine | the miners code will not be enough. shut down our relief has been so| The company refused to rehire | little that we have hardly been able | about 25 of the union men after |to live. We only get $7.20 every two| the strike, and now they are forc- | weeks now. | ing them to move out of the camps IN THE HOME By HELEN LUKE | over the new code. They tried to|Some of the old timers are being | force the wages down to 25 cents | forced to move. Hamp Harvey, who Going further with the consi- organization of the space along|for surface workers and 27 cents| lost his arm with the company, was deration of suggestions made by | these lines is in order and will dis- | for underground workers. Now they | forced to move last week. Comrade Katherine D. and M. O.| cuss it further next week. | Say we will get 35 ceigis and 40/ Reviewing the Argument | Free Herndon and Scottsboro Boys H;, to the effect that the column| . | should deal more with household Th line: with the city-wide drives | problems, diet, ete— 5 é against the rising cost of living, On the subject of whole wheat| the Brownsville Committee of versus white bread. Kallett and| action is calling a demonstration | Sehlink, in their book “100,000,000 August 30, 11 a. m., at Hopkins | Guinea Pigs,” have warned us, and| and Pitkin Ave. Demonstrators | 80, I believe, has Dr. Luttinger, that} will march to the Brownsville | the “roughage” diets, with great| Market of Sheftield’s and Bor- | quantities of whole wheat, bran, raw! den’s. ‘The Committee urges all cellulose-rich vegetables, fruits, etc.,| mass organizations and workers | be overdone: that it is not safe | of Brownsyilie to come out with | to generalize on such matters, aS| their children. these diets may prove injurious to} those with more sensitive or deli- | cate intestinal tracts; that in some cases they aggravate constipation | ee rather than cure it. | Yourself? About McCann's “discovery” that | | ® per: live v' Whole, Wheat, and milk nore ny | Patten 1948 is availabel in sizes| won't sound too sarcastic if we|1!4 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and remark that Al Was good at finding| 42. Size 16 takes 4 yards 36 inch out things like that, as are many | fabric. Dlustrated step-by-step sew- bourgeois dieticians and scientists, to | NS instructions included. | say nothing of the AAA: discoveries | for the “benefit” of the workers, to| be°sure, for the discoveries don’t want to live on these monotonous and doubtful diets. (And if the miners and many other starving sections of the working class could only get the milk!) “However, in concord with both the comrades named, we do agree that we should deal more with household problems, adulteration of foods, and health rules, insofar as we do not duplicate the material given by professional scientists in the “Workers’ Health” and “Labor- atory and Shop” departments Not so long after the column was first instituted (evidently as a Move toward developing a greater ‘women’s movement) a criticism came to us roundabout through the editors of the “Working Woman.” The mining comrades complained that the column was not organi- zational enough. (The space was then devoted to cooking.) We! thought that was good constructive | criticism, and decided to be nothing | 4f..not organizational! That ial Mining women were pleased was shown by the letter from them nrinted some Saturdays ago. | -Taking into consideration the | views expressed in the great ma- jority of letters received so far, Such experience and knowledge as} we have gained in editing the| column, and the basic line of the| Party, the conviction has more and | more grown upon us that our space | should be split into two parts, the | first part a women’s section gen-| erally, for news, etc. and the sec-| ond part a strictly household section. | {A women’s section under our| Preesnt title is something of a con-| tradiction, which might imply 1to| the new reader that we, like the fascists, feel that woman's place is in the home: on the other hand, our | household section should not be} Presented as a women’s coiumn, for | m1 Send FIFTEEN CENTS as Comrade Bertram £. pointed out,| coins or stamps (coins preferred) (15e) in he and his wife feel their home js| for this Anne Adams pattern. Write their home, and both take an in-| plainly mame, address and style terest in it; while Comrade Allen,|number. BE SURE TO STATE @ marine worker, and some Com-| SIZE. vade Chefs have shown that they| Address orders to Daily Worker too like to swap recipes. We think} Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th therefore that enlargement and re-|St., New York City. a8 ij ° “it pleased me greatly to have received your letter today if I did receive 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 from Haywood Patterson, Kilby Prison, June 29, 1934. $15,000 SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON EMERGENCY FUND - International Labor Defense | Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City $15,000 ; 1 contribute $... |; and Defense. | up a new scheme for the company \be a big step vowards smashing our cents. We want the same as the| supposed to work the miners ac- northern miners get. The way| cording to seniority. However, the | Prices are going up we will have to} scabs and the youngest men are have before. much higher wages than | held on the job and the miners with 6 or 7 years rights are being laid Supt. Ed Ball told the company | off. This is the way they are trying union not to meet. I guess they | to smash our union, are finding out that their scheme is a little too raw and they are going to put a different overcoat on the scab union to disguise it. President Gregg is the one who is working scabs and thugs to put over. | The company is starting to force | unemployed union miners to move. We are going to stop this, It will | union unless we do. | —MUSCODA (TCI), Ore Miner. By a Worker Correspondent | DECATUR, Ill.—Some 250 workers walked off jobs on the Macon County Relief, led by the United Front Strike Committee, composed of the Unemployment Council and Illinois Workers Alliance members. The following demands are the ob- ject of the strike: 1—120 hours per month at 65 cents per hour for common labor. 2—$1 per hour for skilled labor. 3—Recognition of all grievance Jeannette, Pa., Fight Against Relief Cuts Enrolls Wide Support By a Worker Correspondent | JEANNETTE, Pa. — Angered by| the double-dealing and treachery of the New Deal, part-time and un- employed workers are organizing into the Unemployment Council. | Recently the relief board be; pan i iy r r gan j : a vicious attack upon our suffering acre per cent increase in. circes people, by sweeping helpless indi- | viduals and families off the relief | list, but since the U. C. is being 5—Abolition of so-called “yellow After the strike the company was | | Muckers have to lay their own! to be on guard against fakers like | | | | ployed for support on the picket line | The bosses are all up in the air | because they are not working. Also, }call out the National Guard we In our strike we have many grievances to settle. But we have In the last agreement with the company, and jas a result we got the conditions we have now after a long hard | strike. This time we have to elect | our own strike committee from the jrank and file miners to deal with the bosses. We must stop Richardson and the |other government agents from framing any sell-outs against us. We must expose fakers like Lipscomb and Cole and not let them strangle the strike. We must call on all the other miners who are suffering the way we are and get them to strike in solidarity with us. We must call upon the unem- ploye for support on the picket line We must not let a single scab, or even a company official enter the mine during the strike. We must have real picketing. If the bosses must build our picket line bigger than ever and not let the Guards- men break our strike. If we stick together, and force the Welfare to give us relief, we can make a real strike out of this and really force the company to Macon County Relief | Strike Holds Solid give into our demands, | dog” contract (where only certain foods are allowed) between grocers and the Illinois Emergency Relief. Two leaders of the Illinois Work- ers Alliance, Wells and a John Watts, renegade from the Com- munist Party, assumed strike break- ing jobs during last minute prepara- tions, bringing out the red scare. But the rank and file adopted the program of the Unemployment Council and elected a strike com- mittee of thirty-three at a joint} meeting of the I. W. A. and U. C. Effective pick2tiag brought out all jobs 100 per cent except one A. F. of L. controlled job, where 24-hour | picketing is in progress, | organized, the relief board is meet-| ing strong opposition. Through the | aid of the U. C. the helpless indi- | viduals and needy families who were swept off the relief are now being put back on, The last two meetings held by the U. C. were well attended. New members are being enrolled and the | organization is increasing in num- ber as in strength. i By a Worker Correspondent FAIRMONT, W. Va.—Orders have gone out for some time now to all superintendents of mines around Gauley’s Bridge, West Virginia, that no men are to be hired who worked in the tunnel on the government power project on the Gauley River. This is the reason: In order to harness the river it was necessary to dig a tunnel over a mile long in a surrounding moun- tain. About 1,000 men, most of them unemployed miners, were hired to do this work. The rock in this tun- nel was silica, about 98 per cent glass. NOTE! We publish letters from coal and ore miners, and from oil field workers, every Saturday. We urge 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. Get Subs for the “Daily” During a Fighter to Our Ranks! Means a Quickening Tempo in Class Struggle. J. P. MORGAN SILICOSIS CAUSED BY CONTRACTORS’ GREED | The company, which was doing the contracting work for the gov- ernment, did not provide the men with masks and did not install an adequate fan system of ventilation, Consequently for eight hours every day the men were forced to breathe in the fine, powdered glass that came from the drilling machines. As a result many of the men have gotten what the doctors call silicosis of the lungs—a deadly sickness causing the lungs to harden and cease functioning. Some of the workers are already dead, and at least 100 are expected to die. For the rest, there is no more work in | such butting, but no more. UST 25, 1934 Alabama Ore Mine Local Votes Strike for Real Contract Pit Committee! Is Weakened by Lewis Sellouts By a Worker Correspondent POWHATAN POINT, Ohio.—The regular meeting of Local 8497 was called to order by President Steiner at 10 p.m. Next came a report of the Pit Committee, which had a one hour and a half debate. The cause of the debate was that the Pit Committee is not doing enough work. They are losing all the cases, although they have a notice stuck up and it is signed by the president and superintendent and manager, saying if a motorman does not keep @ square turn he will be discharged. But so far no one has been dis- charged and not a motorman keeps @ square turn, Next, the dirty coal question came up. A couple of months ago we made a motion to have the car pulled up to the top and have all impurities picked out before it will! be called dirty. And now the coal) company inspectors want to rule that our inspectors side-tracked the coal. The company stole it from the side track and had it dumped. For a little while our coal inspector had power enough to protest some of the cars. But lately he has lost power. And the company inspec- tors have a list of dirty coal from 45 to 60 cars a day, which is un- fair. Now, fellow workers, that is the! way the Lewis outfit is going to get | in power again, unless we run some good man against him. I would like | to see ourselves organized to win a) union of our choosing. Because | with the old machine we will con- | tinue to be slaves. Police Claim Prisoner Died By Hitting Head Against Wall of Cell By a Worker Correspondent PEORIA, Ill—Harry Hyde, 40, of Bridgeport, Conn., trainmaster for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus which showed here last. Thursday, died in Proctor Hospital here Friday from “cere- bral hemorrhage.” The coroner's jury found that Hyde had been drinking and apparently suffering from tremens. When placed in the hospital by the police for treatment, he twice escaped from the institu- tion. The third time he was caught, after a chase by police and placed in the city jail. Police claim Hyde rammed his | head against the cell walls in the city jail, causing the injuries to his head which resulted in his death, This police explanation was accepted by the coroner's jury. Hyde's death however, occurred under rather suspicious circum- stances. Workers here are of the opinion that he could not have so fatally injured himself by butting his head against an iron cell wall, even though suffering from “D, T.” They aver that he might have in- curred serious scalp lacerations by ‘There is an opinion gaining ground that. Hyde was brutally beaten by the police to subdue him in jail. It is a well-known fact. that such methods have been used by the local police and detective forces on many past occasions. 3 SHOPS SETTLE WITH UNION NEW YORK.—Three additional parlor frame shops settled Thurs- day with the cabinet section of the National Furniture Workers Indus- trial Union. The workers won a decrease of five hours and an in- crease in wages and also two per cent for the unemployment insur- WITH OUR YOUNG READERS West Virginia. East | Across ity to release |I think that I shall never see 1, The beloved a prisoner | Anybody as rotten as old J. P. Jeader of the from jail | Old J. P., who made guns to press American until the Against the workers’ brawny breasts, working time of his Old J, P., who may in winter wear, class. trial. vee made by workers who €0| ¢ prey 12. Lived, are. meant Down Work is done by folks like me, eae 1. Bit. | But none is done by old J. P. pana ART REDD, | 7. Very cold. 4, upon oS 8, 105 in Ro- a time. Absent-minded Professor to Wife: man num- 3. Pig pen. Mary, I believe I nave lost the road. erals, 4&7 note: of Wife: Are you sure you had it| 9 onq note of ” ‘scale, with you when you left the house? scale. é New Puzzle Club Members: Betty Fei ea etiatt Johnny: Ma, I think the baby| 10: Noise made | jerome Cotten, Archie Mathosian, Leone | 8. A ring. is going to have seven years’ bad by cows. ooateleag 10, Girl's name. luck. He swallowed a piece of| 11, Money put | ., York,cut the crossword puzzle and send 111, Rost wishes broken mirror. up as secur-! of the Daily Worker Puzzle Club. (abbr.). Conducted by Mary Morrow, Chil- dren’s editor, The Daily Worker, 50 ance fund, 13th St.. New York City. DO YOU KNOW THAT— 1, There is a kind of ant called the “slave-maker.” It kidnaps ants of other species and makes them do the work. 2. There is a Chinese Soviet, gov- ernment in the heart of China in a territory that is larger than France or Germany. 3. In Berlin, Germany, the popu- lation of 4,000,000 used to eat 2,000,000 pounds of potatoes a day. Recently this ration has been re- duced by half. 4. The New Pioneer for Septem- ber is out already. This is a special Back-to-School number, so be sure all your friends get a copy. The New Pioneer is 5 cents a copy and 50 cents a year. It can be obtained from Box 28, Station D, New York City. (HEAR your PA Coming in 7 Evict US, ADVENTURES OF MARGIE, TIM AND JERRY HERE iN A FEW MINUTES get 0 Youve GoT To GET ovuT PARTY LIFE Struggles Cause Loss ‘The fluctuation in our Party in District Eight is serious. Recently) we set up a commission to study the work of a number of units, to see how the units work, and if possible to find the causes for loss in membership. First we examined District Check- Reasons for Fluctuation Ne Political Activities in Neighborhood and No up Finds of Members in Unit this we will first learn why we have such a high degree of fiuc- tuation, and second, we will be in a position to take steps to check it, so that we will not only gain new members for our Party in our membership drive, but will be able to retain them. * * Carry the Election Campaign Into @ street unit in Section Seven. We found the following: Six months ago the unit had 21 members. During this time four) the Shops new members came into the unit, By Election Campaign Commission, two through the work of the unit, District 8 and two through the district. Ac-) ie election campaign has ale cordingly, the unit. should now have 25 members. Today the unit has 18 members. | During this six months, the) unit has lost seven members. Among these seven were the only | ready proven to be a splendid means of intensifying our work in the shops and factories. Workers, who are not yet ready to accept the full program of the Party, can be mobilized in support of the elec- | comrades Negro workers in the unit—three tion platform of the Party. Section Negro women. |9 has already proven this, by or- When questioned about this, the |ganizing the first “Vote Communist “explain” that these|Club” in one of their shops, which Negro women. dropped because two|is already carrying on some fine of the them were “too old,” the| work. The example should be used other one had no “interest” in the |by every Section of our Party, as a unit. The comrades say that these|means of intensifying our shop Negro comrades never took part in| Work. the discussion in the unit, al-| The first meeting called by the though they always carried out |——shop nucleus was attended by any assignment given to them.|/nine shop workers. The main Finally, these Negro comrades/points discussed were: dropped from the Party. | | find out the reasons for fluctua- We asked the comrades if they | visited the members whom they intended fo drop and what reason) did the members give. Our com- rades tell us that the members said they were “tired,” etc. | We questioned further and found that the unit Buro does not function, the unit is practically a “one man” unit. There is no political discussion in the unit. In all the six months, not a single leaflet was issued to the workers in the unit territory in the name of the unit, nor were meetings arranged in the name of | the unit on issues arising in the neighborhood. In fact, the workers in the territory don’t know there is a Communist Party existing. To sum up—we find there is no political life in the unit itself—no political activity in the neighbor- hood among the workers—no struggles—no recruiting of new forces. After we see what our units are likes it any wonder workers leave our Party? We hope Section Seven improves the life of this unit and checks up on th comrades and helps them in their work. Other Sections should examine a few units and help them improve their political life as well as their general mass work. Dist. Org. Commission, District 8. Re ae Note by Editor The steps taken by District 8 to tion in our membership, should be followed by every district. Ex- amine the units in one section, call the new Party members to- gether, find out what the units are doing, what struggles they are carrying on, what is the pol- itieal life of the unit. And learn the reactions of the new Party members to the unit. If we do 1, How to linke the issues in the shop with the election cam- paign. 2. How to involve a greater number of shop workers in the election drive. There was a fine discussion, The workers fe% the greatest number of workers in the importance of setting in motion the shop for the support of the cam- paign. Another meeting has been held with ten workers present. Many workers in the ——shop have contributed through our collection list to the campaign. Election ma- terial is distributed freely in the shop. Now arrangements are being made for a larger meeting, at which one of our candidates will speak, This is a splendid example of how to use the election campaign to build shop units, to issue ea papers, to entrench ourselves ‘h the factories. It is true that this shop is not in a basic industry, but this example should be carried by all our Sections into concentration industries. Use the campaign to build more shop nuclei and shop papers. The Election Campaign Commit- tee is arranging a conference of all editors of shop papers to discuss the use and role of the shop papers in the election campaign. 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