The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1934, Page 4

} Page Four DAILY WORKER, N YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1934 PENN RAILROAD SPEEDUP INCREASES AS LAYOFFS CONTINUE Vaginal Discharge F. A, Bronx—Many people en-| persists despite a daily bath may) tertain the notion that all vaginal|be the so-called trichomonas vagi-| discharrges are alike and all one has| to do is to prescribe a douche and the condition will be promptly alle- viated. This is a wr discharge (le number 0: Headaches f to eye s ing of s in the brain, meningitis, sleeping sickness, high blood pressure, constipation, brain tumor, ete. Prescribing aspirin may| has no effect on the underlying con- | dition. Similarly a vaginal discharge may | have a large variety of causes. A} certain small amount of discharge is This may be slightly in- er the mer 4 of different For example, a rundown venereal disease (gonor- , & torn womb due to child-| birth, foreign bodies in the vagina causing irritation, sueh as devices to prevent pregnancy or rings to keep| condition, rhea) the womb in proper position, tumors) pest results have been obtained has| and cancers of the womb, or in-| flammation of the lining of the| vagina, called medically trichomonas vaginitis, are some of the reasons for vaginal discharge that can be mentioned at random. By proper examination of the patient, by looking into the vagina with an instrument under a good light and by making special micro- scopic studies of the discharge, the} underlying discovered. Onl) treatment be advised. Attempting to make a diagnosis from a letter and) prescribing self medication is a hit |cesful then it will be necessary for you to see your private ph3 attend a gynecological clinic. and miss proposition. The rank-smelling discharge that you complain of which has prevailed By The Women’s Council of James- town, N. Y., sends a brief report of their activities during the past six months, which women's groups in other cities might find helpful as offering examples of work and ac-| tivities the Councils can carry out: Twelve meetings have been held at the Scandinavian Workers’ Hall, and nine new members have joined the Council. “A gym class was organized and met once a week during the winter | months but does not function dur-} ing the summer. Two plays have} which have brought good results The first, called “Woman's Might,” | presented on Feb. 3, brought pro-| ceeds of $11.35. The other, called} “Station N. R. A.,” given on | 8, brought in $10.95. “A family was in need of a bel! stove which the welfare board re-| fused them. A Committee was elected from the Council to see the welfare about it, and a stove was given them. | “Our Council also took part in the May Day demonstration unanimous- | ly, a Comrade speaking in behalf of the Council. Inside the Council a Committee has been formed to} lead a campaign in behalf of the ‘Ny Tid’ Discussions given by dif-| ferent comrades have been both in- teresting and educating. “JENNIE L., Sec'y.” | There came also another com-| munication from Jamestown seeking | advice on an organizational prob- lem: ‘Would you please send me some information on how to organ- ize the housemaids. Conditions here in Jamestown are rather tough for housemaids and we have prospects of organizing them but don’t know just how to go about it—R. R.” This question we have referred to comrades who organized the Do-| mestic Workers’ Union here, and we are sure they will be able to send/ good advice based on experience. wee We notice there is no specific men- | tion, in the report of the Women’s Council, of anti-war work except indirectly through spreading the Daily Worker. Perhaps the plays or discussions dealt with this sub- Ject. If “Mother Bloor's tree” is to bear the healthy anti-war apples and anti-fascist oranges she wants it to, it’ behooves the women everywhere to put forth mighty efforts to build a still bigger anti-war movement, to support (both by local publicity | and election and financing of a huge | delegation of women) the Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism, which is the next great mass action on the program. (Con- gress convenes Sept. 28, 29 and 30; not much time left.) Women in all sections of the country who have WORKERS’ HEALTH Daily Worker "Medical Advisory Board by the nalis vaginitis. he present in virgins Tt is frequently for go norrhea and has been erron- reated as such. This inflam- and serving it under the hair-like tails called flagellae. These organisms are said to origin- | Telieve a headache temporarily but jate in the rectum and affect the vagina through soiling. yet been proved. The inflammation discharge. of itching and the symptoms are. as a rule, period this condition complain of a great deal of pain during intercourse. Many forms and varieties of treat- | ments have been prescribed for this| disease. The treatment that we have | front of found to be the simplest, cheapest, | before and after marriage and that | This infection may non- | mistaken microscope these animals can be seen swimming about, being propelled by very fine usually pro- | duces a heavy yellow foul-smelling Patients often complain worse after a menstrual | Married women who have Protect | Scab Ship By a Marine Worker Correspondent port of Seattle with a 50 per cent scab crew. A leaflet was issued by mation is produced by a tiny one-|the Marine Workers Industr -|celled animal similar to the|Union calling upon the longshore-|_ LONG ISLAND CITY, N. ¥.—The amoeba, By placin ng a drop of the|men to refuse landing ca ‘The | Pennsylvania Railroad has laid off | jischarge i v longshoremen ninutes | all of the outside car cleaners ex- and would have remained out on Strike except for an I. S. U. dele- gate named “Blackie” Ingstrom who |Was on a committee that went aboard the ship and returned and told longshoremen that he made no | attempt to get them off the ship Whether | because he didn't believe in single |this conception is correct has not|ship strikes, he only believes in general strikes. A group of longshoremen, dis- gusted with the fact that the I. S. U. official did nothing to call the sailors off, returned to work. About eight of them remained outside, but we told them they might ds well go in, because there is nothing that could be gained by those few | Staying out. For the first time since the West Coast strike a real broad united unemployeg seamen was had to try to pull these men out. and from which the quickest and| Snother leaflet was issued at noon been the following: 1—tIrrigation of the vagina with a) saturated solution of sodium per-| borate. 2—The vagina is then dried and quinine sulphate in powder form is inserted. The above treatment, of course,|seamen aboard the ship not to is carried out in the doctor's office.| strike. The company refused to| We would advise you to douche} permit M. W. I. U. delegates to go! cause can, as a rule, be| twice daily with a solution of sodium then can rational | perborate (1 tablespoon to 2 quarts This will probably give If unsuc- of water). you considerable relief. (women’s) | THE HOME HELEN LUKE not already done so should hasten | to set up Committees and affiliate them with the American League Against War and Fascism, 605, 112 E. 19th St., New York City. | Can You Make ’Em Yourself? | Pattern 1985 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 |and 42, Size 16 takes 4% yards 36/ / been presented at the above Hall, ise fabric and 2% yards binding. | | |Illustrated step-by-step sewing in-| structions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lsc) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and _ style Tee BE SURE TO STATE iE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St.. New York City. Free Herndon and Scottsboro Boys! didn’t weaken my courage and know you will stick by me... .” Letter from Haywood Patterson, Kilby Prison, June 29, 1934, | $15,000 International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. lew York City 1 contribute sand Defense. Siceoce eserveess fOr SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON EMERGENCY FUND “It pleased me greatly to have received your letter today if I did receive unpleasant news a few minutes before. It faith whatever so long as I $15,000 the Scottsboro-Herndon Appeals attempting to call them out. Many |Z. S. U. members distributed the leaflets, The government agent came |aboard the ship and told the long- |shoremen that they couldn’t strike The I. S. U. delegate from the Firemen’'s Union, Ingstrom, told the aboard the ship. The longshoremen went back to work in the afternoon, but are talk- ing of taking action on the Pres-| jident Grant when it comes in. The| | President Grant is one of the ships that left port with professional | |Scabs a couple of weeks before the| | strike was over. | Western Union Has Many Tricky Ways to Discharge Messengers | By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—A new reign of Room terror has been started in Western Union. At least 600 messengers have | been fired. They are picking out the al Ree — Jewish and Catholic messengers | | and especially the older messengers, | | replacing them with young kids who |mever worked before and paying these kids lower wages. The com- pany has inspectors walking the streets. When these men spot a messenger who looks old or about 18, they stop him, and #f his collar button is open | because of the heat, if his shoes| are not spotlessly clean, if his hair is not combed, he is fired on the| spot. In other words, when an in- spector spots you, you’re as good as fired. ficulty in doing this so easily. First, the Brooklyn messengers are pretty militant and secondly it takes time for a new messenger to learn the territory. So that what they are doing is hiring new messengers, put- ting them to work in a Brooklyn office they have an eye on, letting them work there for a week so as to learn the territory, then firing one of the older messengers. They have done this in AK office, They give overstaffing as the excuse. Alabama Railroad Man | Join Brotherhood Union By a Railroad Worker Cor- respondent OPELIKA, Ala—I am a railroad man. I work on the Central of Georgia Railroad and I have been working there for 16 years. I started to work there for $1.25 a day and my wages were rasied from $1.25 to $4.56 a day. In 1930 they cut my wages again to $1.92 a day, |On the first of this month they raised my wages again to $2.16 a day. I have to pay $1.a month for hospital fee, though I haven’t been in the hospital a day in my life. They forced me to pay $700 to join the Brotherhood Union. Besides this I have a family to keep up and you all know that I can’t take care of my family out of that. I am asking for my rights on my job and a better price. I am a carpenter on the railroad. I build trestles and° handle the road. I did not tell you about the cut, of 40c a day for board. Please aid me in getting my rights if you ¢an, Almost 150 Answer Ad for Job of Doorman By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I was working in |a Brownsville apartment house of | which the manager advertised for a doorman. On account of that job, approxi- j; mately 69 men came in person, |about 14 called on a phone, and Get Daily Worker Subscribers! Sell “Daily” on Busy Corners Solicit Subs for the “Daily” SEATTLE, Wash—The Maunili of the Mattson Line arrived in the until after the arbitration was over. | In Brooklyn the company has dif-| Forced to Pay $700 to, largest timber they use on the rail-| Rush on Cleaning il Gives No Time for Cup of Cofee By a R. R. Worker Correspondent & cept four on the 12 to 8 shift. Thes men are worked to death and couldn't possibly begin to do all the work, so the Penn has some of the cleaners on 4 to 12 double out for three or four hours. These men have worked like slaves for eight hours, sometimes even without time for a cup of cof- fee, and then they have to run for four more hours. In this way, although the Penn pays the men who double out time} and a half, they save money. The | man who doubles out makes $5.46 for 12 hours, while if the Penn put Hasty Inspections Create Safety Menace at R. R. Yards | (By a R. R. Worker Correspondent) LONG ISLAND CITY, N. The Pennsylvania R. R., not sai fied with making over $1,500,000 clear profit last month, is trying to beat that figure this month. On the 4 to 12 shift, Bickley, the master mechanic, laid off two air men when it’s well known that there weren’t enough men to do the work before they were laid off. Then on the 12 to 8 shift, Bickley laid off one man and put on tem- porarily one of the men who had been Jaid off the 4 to 12 shift. Now two of the skeleton crew on the 4 to 12, who are all skeletons them- selves, from being run ragged, have to double out on 12 to 8. Each train is supposed to be spected by two men, but there not enough men to do this, so gang foreman jumps in with man and gets a train. The man is then held responsible the work of the gang foreman. Each man is cutting his own throat by doing this. With hundreds of men furloughed, more men should be brought back to work. As it is, with 20 car dead- heads going out without being properly inspected, if anything goes wrong the man whose job it was on will be held responsible and get anything from seven days to a in- are the one air for another man on for 8 hours they would have to pay each one $3.10, Jor $6.20 for both. This way they | save 74 cents. | Stanley Barginski, the foreman | jof the 4 to 12 shift, is one of the} | rottenest rats on the whole system. He claims that he wouldn’t work | under Coulson under any circum- stances, that Jack Stanton has him mad now, but that Coulson makes | him worse. Yet when he doubles out with his | | crew under Coulson, he drives them | |and swears at them like dogs. He| | raves from one car to another say- jing: “You sons of bitches have to) | work more than you're doing. rn| |show that pot-bellied bastard that |I can get the work out.” To show how cheap this man is, | we have a coffee club where we| pay 25 cents for the coffee we use whenever we have time to drink it. \It was hot the other night, so we |made tea, and this man had been coming in so often that the other | |night one of the men told him to \either pay or leave it alone. Bar- | ginski said: “I can have anything in this God-damn place that I |please and not even Stanley can} stop me.” He didn’t have guts enough to drink it after that speech, but later he sneaked in and drank it. These are the conditions that we month, NOTE: The speed-up which this letter shows is bad, but in the near future it will be even worse if the men in this depart- ment do not act now. The Penn is planning to lay off over 3,000 men immediately and undoubtedly this department will be effected. The United Progressive R. R. Workers Union has just started a petition campaign against | speed-up and lay offs and each worker in this department should join immediately and help this campaign along for his own good and the good of the men who have already been furloughed. work under and which the company is constantly making worse, and | these are the men the company | wants us to respect. NOTE: The only way to meet these conditions is through or- ganization, The United Progres- sive R. R. Workers’ Union has started a campaign against lay- offs and speed-up, and with all the men in this department in the organization, it would be an easy matter to have this foreman reduced and forge any new fore- man.to have the proper respect for the workers in this depart- | ment, Building a Company Union By a Worker Correspondent | CHICAGO, Ill.—On February 14, the Grand Trunk Western Railway | issued a bulletin which stated: | Paragraph One: “All labor organ- |izations which have wage agree- ments with this company at this time are duly designated and au- thorized to represent employees in | accordance with the requirements of | the law.” Paragraph Two: “Federal statutes provide that all employees are free to join or not to join any labor or- ganization or association and will not be penalized, disciplined, or pre- judiced in any way.” But knowing that the average rail- way worker has a tendency to forget, and to overlook some things, four months later another bulletin is issued, under date of June 18, 1934, | which discloses a new menace. Para- | graph number two, as stated above, (Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we can print only those that are of general interest to Daily Worker readers. However, all letters received are carefully read by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker.) Gee ABOUT THE STATUS OF CASE WORKERS Chicago, Il. I wish to protest emphatically against the leftist, sectarian attitude expressed in a dispatch of the Daily Worker Midwest Bureau published in the Daily Worker of August 8, Page 3, Column 1. This article, while correctly attacking the paying out of relief funds of social workers who are members of the National Guard, also comments: | "It should be remembered’ that social workers are paid from funds ‘allotted for purposes of relief. All money spent in administration of the relief must be deducted from the already meagre rations of the unemployed.” The idea intimated here is quite clearly following the line of the re- cent Hearst pseudo-expose of relief graft, which tried to lay the major portion of graft, and even the cause of inadequate relief standards upon the excuse that case workers receive too much pay. The article would seem to imply that if wages of social workers were cut, the amount of re- lief disbursed would be increased. As a matter of fact, what pay do case workers recsiv\? Those social workers who have caseloads are divided into three classifications: case-aids, or beginners who some- times have a load and sometimes don’t. These receive $85 a month. comprises the latest bulletin, with a short paragraph stating. “This con- | cels previous instructions and par- ticularly bulletin issued under date of February 14, 1934, relative to this subject.” This railroad has, among other company associations a Mutual Aid Association. Paragraph number one of the first bulletin is now can- celled, thereby paving the way for further action towards the company union via the Mutual Aid Associa- tion. This development is seen more clearly in the article on Auto Com- pany Unions as printed in the Wall Street Journal of June 27, 1934, as follows: “The Packard plan is unique in that it developed from the Packard Aid Association which was created more than 20 years ago to provide group insurance and other employee benefits.” Letters from Our _‘eaders After six months they may advance to the status of emergency work and receive $100 monthly, and there- after by taking certain university training (receiving one-half pay during this period or even having to drop work altogether) they may advance to a junior case worker, rating and earn $110 monthly. We do not wish to alienate, but on the contrary we want to win over as large a section of the petty-bour- geoisie as may be possible. In fight- ing to accomplish the central task of the struggle for the majority of the working class we do not want to leave the middle classes for the fascists to work on, J. M. WORKER DIES OF SPEED-UP New York City. I am a clerk for the Silver Rod Stores, chain drugstores, where working conditions are very bad. One of my fellow-workers, Sol Goth- ofsky, a cigar clerk at the 18th Ave- nue and 65th Street store, Brooklyn, had been with the company for many years. Hard work had weak- ened his heart. Recently he was made to work 12 to 19 hours at a stretch. At a meeting this week at the main ‘office of Silver Rod, of clerks and managers, at which the pres- ident of the company, Si Rodnon, was outlining a program for a speed-up, longer working hours and| a pay cut, Sol Gothofsky, dropped dead. 7 These of us who know Sol and the conditions he worked under, knew that he died a victim to years of miserable working conditions and to the exploitation of the Silver Rod company, FRIEND, ky ISU Chiefs Dismissals Hit Car Rail Union Cleaners, Air Men | Heads Help The Bosses By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—In the Aug. 21 piece of the chiefs of the railroad | brotherhoods, the chiefs disclose in an editorial the fact that they have | been misleading the rank and file in their coliaboration with the rail- | road manager on the bus and truck regulation campaign. The edi- torial makes it appear that Labor | has just lately found out that the | Greyhound lines belong to Atter- bury. Of course, Labor was not in @ position to know this before now, except that the Daily Worker, a working-class paper, and Railway Unity News (2203 North California Ave.,, Chicago), a rank and file monthly paper, have been pub- lishing for over a year past articles exposing this fake fight as a cam-| paign to interest the railroad work. ers in a delusion while their pock- ets. were being picked in other ways (with the help of the chiefs). The article states: | “Railroad | workers, acting through their stand- ard organizations, have used all their influence with state legisla- tures and with Congress to secure | laws which would make truck com- Petition fair.” In the same issue, D. B. Robert- son, head of the railroad firemen, complains of the road’s latest move against the Retirement Act. Rob- ertson, who had his picture taken with Dan Willard after cutting | wages 10 per cent at Chicago in| | 1932, and who presented Willard | with a bowl of flowers afterward, | and is also a member of the board of directors of the National Civic | Federation with Daniel Willard, pleads with his friends not to fight the Pension Act, but “to remember their action in this matter when they again seek the co-operation of railway employes to secure legisla- tion in which the carriers are in- terested. In making this statement I have in mind the assistance so frequently given by railroad em- ployes to the legislative programs of the carriers.” Every railway worker knows this | means the able assistance of the misleading labor chiefs. Inciden- tally the editorial exposing the co- operative campaign of carriers and “employes” is a short one on the | back page of Labor which only a small percentage of the brotherhood men will see, whereas the bus and | truck propaganda has been given | | them on the front page and through letters and circulars from “the top” and by personal campaigns. Railroad Unity News has printed | several articles exposing the own- ership of the bus and truck lines, | and also exposing the leading prop- |agandists, the Michigan Railway | being headed by a former railroad | lobbyist, and that this outfit is simply the same old tribe of bunco- artists that was defeated at the Trainmen’s Convention in 1907 when the same type movement at that time was called the Railway a and Investors Associa- tion. |Maintenance AFL Union |Supported by Company Puts Over High Dues By a Worker Correspondent NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The main- tenance men on the New Haven Road are organized in the Brother- hood Maintenance of Way Em- | ployes, which is affiliated with the A. F. of L. When the Brotherhood was being formed, the organizer was helped as much as possible by the com- pany. The men were called into the Superintendent's office and in- troduced to the organizer. It was made very clear that any one who did not join the Brotherhood would be fired, so everybody had to join. Now the men are protesting against the high dues payments and many of them even want to go back to the old company union because there they had to pay only 50c a month, whereas now they have to pay $4.25 and don’t get anything in return. NOTE: We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- tion and communications indus- tries—railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- press companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc., and post office, telephone telegraph, etc. We urge workers from these industries to write us of their conditions of work and their struggles to or- ganize. Picase get these letters to us by Tuesday of each week. TRIAL SUB OFFER——, DAILY WORKER 50 E. 13th St., New York City Send me the Daily Worker every day I enclose $1 (check for two months. or money order) Name Address .... City .. » State... Note: This offer does not apply to re- newals, nor does it hold good for Man- hattan and Bronx. BOOST “DAILY” DRIVE— 7 edition of Labor, the official mouth- | | Employes and Citizens League as | _ Fishermen Face Being Cut Off from Lakes PARTY LIFE Organizations At the Present Time | Out Informatio; The following letter was sent to Sender Garlin’s “Change the World” column, but we are print- ing it in Party Life Column, be- cause of the important warning it contains for every Party and mass organization. eee Sen | T still feel a bit weak, but I have recovered sufficiently to ruminate with some degree of dispassion, It ‘was all caused by the incredible gen- erosity of comrades in the move- ment. I never expected it. It is true that Communists are tradition- ally unselfish and are reputed to be frank and open, but such lavishness as was rained upon me took on the proportions of a cloudburst. Cc. K. and I ambled over to the | national I, L. D. office armed with documents and identification. We wanted to get all the material the |1. L. D. had collected on the Scotts- boro’ case throughout the world; leaflets in every language under the sun; articles, pictures, cablegrams, valuable documents, posters, calls to mass meetings, cartoons; in fact, the record of the international struggle for the Scottsboro boys. All the material, which included the min- | utes of the case used by the Supreme Court, was carefully filed, mounted, sorted and ready for exhibition pur- poses. Most of the exhibits were covered with cellophane. The I. L. D. officials were not in. G. and I asked one of the girls for the international records. I stuck my hand in the inner pocket of my jacket to present identification. The girl had never seen us_ before. “Here,” she said blithely, and handed over the documents. G. was going to ask for the mimeograph machine, but I dissuaded him, though I must admit I had my eye on a nice roll-top desk. “The I. L. D.,” I figured as I walked toward 50 E, 13th St. “Well, some of their members have a lot to learn.” I went to the district of- fice of the Communist Party and asked the girl at the desk whether certain people were or were not members of the Party, whether or not they had received their books jas yet. I fished in my pocket for identification. With a countenance as trustful as a young nun’s at the Convent of the Sacred Heart she quietly ignored my efforts to iden- tify myself. She walked into the next room, took an official book from a lower desk drawer, looked up the names and gave me the necessary information. Anybody To Guard Records Carefully Are Warned Carelessness in Giving n Is Inexcusable could have done it, from a potica spy up. (You can't go down). If the district office is so generous, imagine what goes on in the sections. stool pigeons. Business ain’t wha! jit used to be. It seems that th- Reds will give you everything with¢ out the slightest provocation—bioy graphies, autobiographies, docu« ments, records and maybe them’ selves if they're asked in a nice wa: It’s curious and alarming, but some’ comrades are uhder the illusion that | Comradely, J.K. . mG ie NOTE BY EDITOR: This letter needs no comment. | At no time, even in the safest periods, when the Communist Party and its sympathetic organ- izations are permitted to function without molestation, should im- portant information, as to names, confidential material, ete., be given to anyone who is not authored to receive it. Even wken the com- rade is known to us, such infor- mation is not given unless we have Some guarantee that he has an- thority to ask for it. However, at a time like the present, when open and concealed attacks are being made against the Party, when all of the force of the bourgeoisie is being di- rected against us, such carelessness as described above is unforgivable. We are certain that not only in New York do such incidents occur, We would like to believe that all such cases have as harmless con- sequences, but we are very much afraid that this is not the case, and that if our offices exercise so little caution in giving informa- tion to unknown comrades, that they would be equally generous with stool pigeons and police spies, Join the Communist Party 35 E, 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party NAME .ecesecscceeeeseeenesesers Street eeccecsececcscsseveeeees City .. o By a Fisherman Correspondent RAY, Minn.—We are 19 commer- | cial fishermen in the two boundary lakes, Namekan and Rainy. Half of the lakes belong to Canada, The capitalists want to close these lakes and draw us and our families into the breadlines. Many fishermen have large fam- ilies to support. This capitalistic action will destroy our homes which we have built with many years ef- fort, being pioneer settlers in these lakes. Most of us are foreign-born. They have no reason to close these lakes as Canada does not want to close and there are lots of fish. We never get any price for what we sell. Every capitalist newspaper and sporting club is signing for the clos- ing of these lakes. Large fish come panies also wants them closed. They have been against us over 10 years, but we have always been able to beat them, Now these nasty beasts are going to use violent methods. They do not want to listen to us at all, and we have no money, Governor Floyd B, Olson and the Department of Conservation are against us. We ask every workers organization and individual to help us by sending a protest to Governor Floyd B. Olson, St. Paul, Minn., and the Department of Conservation, St. Paul, Minn., against closing the Rainy and Wamekan lakes for com- mercial fishing. This is the only way we can make a living here in this rocky country. Brotherhood Officials Help Railroads in Move to “Furlough” Firemen By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich—The Grand Trunk Western System is again “furloughing” firemen. Firemen still employed are easily propa- @andized to raise the allowable mileage per month, not realizing that the new pension deductions, the state old age head tax, the state sales tax and the 15 per cent in- crease in the cost of living in the last year is the real reason for their inability to get ahead financially. And so the officials of the B. L. F. & E. propose to raise the mileage (which will throw about 70 more firemen into the breadlines). The reason given by one of the Officials was that some time ago the organization reduced the mile- age limitations, hoping that the younger firemen would be grateful for thus being kept at work and would become dues-paying support- ers of these petty politicians. The younger firemen didn’t seem to “tise to the bait,” so it is now pro- posed to raise the mileage again to the limit, thereby hoping to attract some of the demoted engineers into the organization. It is also becoming generally un- derstood that Whitney and Robert- son would not be adverse to the six- hour day with a corresponding re= duction in total pay, and that fur- Joughed men who would be recalled would then be appealed to, to join the organization for the purpose of keeping themselves employed. Of course, the new conditions would be only “temporary.” Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First Importance! Unemployed? Ml the “Daily”! The 8-page New York October 8. Here will be a com) minute with five pages of New and Washington news. The late morning edition can New York Daily Worker! of Extra Sales Apply TODAY at 35 East 12th Comrades! Unemployed! Daily Worker will appear on plete daily newspaper, up-to-the- York news (Trade Union activi- ties and City Hall politics), as well as more complete foreign The early bulldog edition will be off the press at 6 P.M. It will sell like hot cakes on more than 250 busy street corners, ‘ be sold from 5 AM. to 9 AM. at factories, shops and terminals. Here is a chance to really earn living expenses selling the D Join the Red Builders now and be among the first to get assigned to a profitable corner! Two New York Editions Mean Thousands for Our “Daily!” Street (Store) DAILY WORKER Well, that means hard times fote. + they're living in a classless society, ©