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Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1934 Tas ALABAMA PICKET LINE WELCOMES DAILY WORKER WORKERS’ HE ALTH | Board | frees Daily Medic ANSWERS TO QU The Effect f the S Tam eight} orse and it is which sometimes the that I am wri advice. Your complaint is that years, off and on, from palpitation beati: of the heart about a cation Fy ing of females) We will not diagnosis by lon: IN THE HELE ——___— By 1 eos though the symp- Your age life, workers’ disease are quite different from what you describe. We would advise you to have the examination by a doctor chiefiy relieve your of the possibility t you may have a sick heart. may have a sympatheti cian in your own town, or if it i not too difficult, there are many good h clinics in Boston where you may be examined such as the Peter Bent Brigham and Beth Is- rael Hospitals. The definite knowledge that you! have no heart disease will help you | greatly to control the difficulties you e about. Ask the doctors for some sedative you can use for the worst attacks to mind Address Wanted F. K., Mamhattan:—The answer to the question you have asked, is ready. ilf you send in your address, it will be sent to you. HOME | N LUKE For a Great United Front of Women ts on Delegates’ Meet- on Aug. 31, called cago women, have arrived. letter issued by the United n’s Committee Against the Cost of Living (the Committee Action elected Aug. 31) it is st ted that “at the first Delegate Meeting we had the following lan- ges present: Lithuanian, Ukrain- ndinavian, Czechoslovak. Russian, and one Negro delegate. Let’s see how many more Ja ca Delegate Meeting.” Carrying out of the sweeping and rman, mn have at the next m + plans adopted at the Aug 31 meeting will mark a great step in Chicago gz costs That a City Committee of Action be elected and that per- manent delegate meetings be es- t hed to take place once a t all working class organ- izations be called upon to elect Wemen’s Committees to carry on this: program in their neighbor- oe and that a special cail be ‘ued appealing to women of all paliteal groups, churches, etc., and groups of men in the shops ‘to get together and send delegates ito the delegates meetings, thereby forming a United Front of Women | Against the High Cost of Living. | 8) That neighborhocd meetings | be-ealled by leaflets, and open air | meetings, for the purpose of elect- | ing Action Committees to initiate | a siruggie according to the needs | of the neighborhood, e.g. against high rent, for cheaper milk and other food stuffs, for reduction on gas, lights, and street car fares. That the City Action Committee mobilize all forces possible to fight for a reduction on the prices of milk and meat. 4) That the City Action Com- mittee immediateiy send a dele- gation to all Chicago packing houses with a resolution from this body, demanding reductions of | prices on meat, butter and eggs. | That a hearing with the Mayor and City Council be demanded by the City Action Committee and a large delegation be sent on date of hearing. 5) That in due time a delega- tion from the City Action Com- mittee be sent to the Board of Health demanding free milk for undernourished children whose parents cannot afford to provide enough milk. That Neighborhood Action Committees be elected at mass meetings on this question. 6) That a petition be circulated throughout the city for the col- lection of signatures against the high cost of living. 7) That the City Action Com- mittee be empowered to draw up and send the following resolu- tions: Against War and Fascism, , Against the A.A.A. Destruction : Program, For Immediate Passage of the Workers’ Unemployment and Insurance Bill H.R. 7598, and a demand for the release of Mary Wernich and Delia Page, both | serving in the Dixon jail for wo- men, because they fought for re- lief for the unemployed. }eoins or stamps We lack space to give a more complete report today, but wish to squeeze in the facts that the first meeting of the City Action Com- mittee elected at the Aug. 31 meet- ing, met on Sept. 5 with a 190 per cent attendance of members!—(Do they mean business!)—and that the next regular Delegate Meeting will convene Wednesday evening, Sept. 26, at Mark White Square Hall, 9th and Halsted Sts. i oT Interesting letter from Miss S—, houseworker of Milwaukee, will be answered next week. Can You Make Yourself? Pattern 1799 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size | 36 takes 4% yards 39-inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. °Em Sead FIFTEEN CENTS (15e) in (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker ets Department, 243 W. 17th . New York City. Free Herndon eid Scousbore lon “It pleased me greatly to have received your letter today if 1 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 International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. Hew York City I contribute $.. for and Defense. ADDRESS SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON EMERGENCY FUND ! $15,000 |) the Scottshoro-Herndon Appeals ‘Governor Cotton Mill Products Workers Broke Word To Strikers By A Textile Worker Correspondent | MACON, Ga.—We all thought for a while that we had a real man for governor, because when he came to Macon making a speech for re- election he told us how he had just refused to call out the state troops | at the demand of the mill bosses, id S the friend of all of us i Now, ain't we the ieacndeas fools, for he no more than gets reelected and by our votes—than he orders out the whole kadoodle of troops, and is already building real Nazi concentration camps to herd us in, after declaring martial law. Iam sending this by someone who going out of the state by bus, because I don't know if you have heard of our “beloved” governor. A BIBB MILL SP ER, Gains Are Won By Mine Relief, Committee By a Mine Worker Correspondent SMOCK, Pa.—A few days ago a committee from our local: of the UM.W.A. was informed that a meeting would be held with Hibbs, the Fayette County Relief director. Three of the local Relief Committee went to the meeting. This was a meeting of the County Unemploy- ment Council. The U. C. fought for our cases and won concessions for | our blacklisted and part time em- | ployed (the mine was working only one day a week). Our Relief Committee invited the U. C. to send a speaker to our local meeting, and Brother Russell Esken and Jack Leggs came to our local meeting. After hearing their report we decided to set up a U.C. In this short time of five days we signed up nearly 200 and more are coming every day. One of our blacklisted brothers was elected as a delegate to Harris- burg to appear before the State Legislature with the U. C. delega- tion and present our demands, Officials Give Jokes Instead of Advice By a Worker Correspondent MOOSUP, Conn.—A mass meet- ing was held in Wauregan, Conn., on Sept. 13, by the leaders of the A. F. of L. At this meeting, there was a large number of people pres- ent and the leaders’ got around them in a nice way. Instead of tell- ing the people what they are to do during the strike they were telling | them jokes. The person to tell most of the jokes was none other than the fourth vice-president of the A. F. of L., Horace Riviere. When he was short of jokes he told the people that in New Bedford, Mass., it took him just about one hour to get the company of one mill to sign a contract so that the people of that place may go to work, while others were still on strike. The name of the mill he forgot because it was not very im- portent for him to know that. WITH OUR YOUNG READERS Workers Hold Solid Recognize Warning Against ‘Outside Agitators’ Is Only ‘Red Scare’ Raised To Split.Ranks By a Textile Worker Correepondent | of L. was here and told us that we | MOBILE, Ala—The workers at | must watch outside agitators, that the Cotton Mill Products Co, Mill| they just wanted to weaken our No. 5, are still out solid, with mass | Sttike and take our money and all picketing every day and three to| Such bunk. Of course a good many four mass meetings per week. The workers are still sticking out for their demands. Last week, J. G. Sanders, super- | intendent, told the militant strike | committee that they ought to be | ashamed of themselves for calling | this strike. He said that the picket | line was a disgrace to the workers, | and that this strike was making 1 tle children to suffer for food, etc., when the fact is that they are get- |ting as much now, or more, than when they went on strike, because | they are on the relief list. To give you an idea what these, that is, some of these workers made before they went on strike, you will find enclosed a pay envelope which will speak for itself. The last 100 copies of the Daily of us believed this in the beginning. We are now beginning to see that he was just raising the “red scare.” These fellows from the A. F. of L. usually raise the red scare in order | to be in a better position to mis- lead, arbitrate and sell us out to Worker we got sold like hot cakes.|the boss. We will have an. eye on One fellow bought five copies. | these -called leaders of labor Last week a man from the A. F.| from now on. Miners Build Unemployed Council In Fight Against Evictions By Mellon Trust Homes Attacked When They ‘Struck To Enforce Conditions Promised in Agreement By a Mine Worker Correspondent ALICIA, Pa—The Monessen Coal | & Coke Alicia No. 1 plant, located a mile out of Brownsville, Pa., in Fayette County, is a Mellon con-| ceri, and is run in approved Mel-| lon style by Jim Gerry, the super. The mine is practically finished; and recently an attempt was made to unload it upon an “independent” concern. However, it did not work out; and the mine reverted back to | the parent company. It is run for house coal mainly, employing only a small number of men. However, the company wanted to mine ‘the few hundred tons of coal that it | did mine as cheap as possible. Thus it tried to compel the men to drive, load, clean the slate, etc., and only spay for the loaded coal. Also the super tried to give steady work only to his pets. The local union of the U.M.W.A. to work in the Brotherhood, and ed these attempts to turn the e into an open shop mine. The local demands that what work there was would be divided be- tween all of the men; also that the men shall be paid for dead work. In order to enforce these de- mands, that are both in the code and the agreement, they had to establish a picket line. The com- pany retaliated by shutting down the mine. However, this was not. sufficient, and the company issucd eviction notices to 27 of the men. | This despite the fact that there are over 40 empty houses and majority of the houses will never be used by has not been blind to the attempt | the miners employed in the mine, CHILDREN’S CONGRESS AGAINST WAR For the very first time, there will be in New York a Children’s Anti- War Congress. Most of you have heard of other Anti-War Con- gresses. Recently there was Women’s Congress in France, to) which women came from all over the world. Soon there will be an Anti-War Congress in Chicago. Now we are all going to get to- gether and see what children can do in this great world-wide fight against bosses’ war. And there is lots which you can do. You know, in the last war the bosses found many ways for children to help. But this time we are not going to be such fools. We are going to help | our parents and all workers to fight against war. For they are the ones who must go to war and get killed. he bosses make wars because they ‘are greedy for more money. The American League Against War and Fascism is calling this congress. It wants to organize a Junior Section. So it’s up to you to see to it that this will be a great big congress. There will be dele- gates from children’s organizations, the Boy Scouts, churches and syna- gogues, and settlement houses. Treadwell Smith, chairman of the City League Against War and Fas- cism, will address the Congress. There will be a movie, especially interesting for children, and a chalk talk by our Daily Worker Car- toonist, Del. al Have you ever seen a, chalk talk? The artist draws pic- tures on very big pieces of paper, | but not just ordinary pictures. These are a special kind. But you can be there to see for yourself. All visitors will be welcome, so bring your classmates. We will | have a lively time. Let’s show the grown-ups what children can do. Remember it’s up to you. This Sunday, Sept. 23d, at the Church of All Nations, 9 Sec- ond Ave., New York City. I'll see you there! A LETTER FROM GEORGIA Dear Comrade: I have been reading the Daily Worker ‘and lots of other Com- munist literature and it is a great pleasure to me to know we Young Pioneers have something to look forward to in the future. Under the capitalist system, in the schools we are taught so many rotten things. They teach us es- pecially, that Negroes are very dan- gerous people. But we pioneers are waking up and know that is all a bunch of lies. Here in the South most especially, Negroes are mistreated worse than slaves and, jim-crowed. Why should white workers feel superior to Negroes? Just because our color is different? I know big bosses don't care any more for one slave than the other. The capital- ist class keeps us divided so that the big bosses can keep their profits. They know when Negroes and whites unite, that {!t will mean trouble for the bosses, as the patch was built when the mine employed over 300 men; and now at best it can employ less than a third of that, and only for a short period because the mine will be finished. So it is evident that the evictions notices are one of the | regular Mellon methods to show the “free born 100 per cent” who owns America. The men see no help coming from District No. 4, U.M.W.A., officials; as the regular thing for these offi- cials is to “fight the evictions” by an appeal to the politicians; and, as the last resort, move the miner and pay a month rent for him. Na- turally, this is not what the evicted miner wants. Because, after the first month is over, he is faced with an eviction again, because he has no money to pay the rent. The Alicia miners recently organ- ized a local of the National Un- employment Council; and, under- standing the policy of the N.U.C. of resisting evictions through mass mobilization, have agreed to help to orgnize for this form of struggle when the time arrives. The Alicia miners’ case wes explained through the U. C. County Committee NOTE We publish letters from coal and ore miners, and from oilfield 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. Earn Expenses Selling the “Daily” What has Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal done for our schools? It has cut off free lunch and raised prices of food. It has lowered wages and cut relief. And how can we learn in school without any- thing in our bellies? We Pioneers are getting sick and tired of this rotten system. What we Pioneers want is a Soviet America like the U. S. S. R., where there are no prejudices against any worker. In Soviet America we would make life worth living. The first thing we would do is to open up all of the warehouses and distribute all the surplus food and clothing. We would open the good hovses that are standing empty and move into them. The next thing would be to open the factories and mines.—And also start the farms working. We would be free to go to school and get the education that our parents slave for now. Under this rotten system the big bosses’ children have stolen all of our education. We must fight for unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of the government and employers. We want pie here; not in the sky. And we must make a mighty fight to get our great Angelo Herndon free. He led thousands of workers to the courthouse to ask for bread. I am goin to do all I can to make our movement stronger here in Atlanta, Ga. And mother said the same. Comradely greetings from a Pioneer, LOIS YOUNG. Conducted by Mary Morrow, Chil- dren’s editor, The Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. _ Wait for | | Pickets By a Textile Worker Correspondent WARE, Mass.—In South Barre, wool factory workers, mostly lan, struck a week ago after a it by flying pickets. The workers | at this mill said to the pickets, “We | were waiting for you.” But the |manufacturers say the mill closed to “protect its w Now the mill is the duration of the strike. And} those workers who do join the | umion are evicted from company | houses! Co. Union. Now Hidden as Burial Society By a Muscoda Mine Worker BESSEMER, Ala. — A company union is growing fast at the Mus-| coda Mine under the name of the} Burial Society (they change the| name every few days) in a big ef-| fort of President Gregg of the Ten- nessee Coal, Iron & Railway Co. yy smash our union (International | Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers There are a gang of rats and scabs | leading this outfit. We want all the| miners to know who they are.) Among the white rats there are:) Vernon Davis, a scab who was pro- moted to Assistant Bank Boss for trying to smash our union last April; Rogers, a boss carpenter who in trying to smash our unio) an Assistant bank boss who helped Davis try to} smash our union; and Tom Haines, a stoker foreman who was chased away from the mines during the strike. Among the Negro rats there are: A. C. Butler, who was a representa- tive in the company union before our union was organized; Rich Wil- liams, who also was a representative in the company union; John Cren-/| shaw, a scab who was chased away | from the mine during the strike; and Willie White, former recording secretary of our union, who turned} the minutes of our meetings over to the company until we caught him Along with these rats there is Will} Jones, the company pimp and shack rouster, who sneaks around the mine camps all day spying on union men, giving all the information he} can get to Sheriff Brown. And| Sheriff Brown, the chief company) thug, tries to terrorize the men into joining the company union with} threats about their jobs. The Communist Party Unit in the Muscoda Mine is issuing leaflets calling upon the wnion men to} smash the company union before it gains another inch. It calls upon the union to organize a Women’s Auxiliary as a good means of help- ing defeat the company union. It calls upon the union men to run all the scabs off Red Mountain. In order to eliminate the mili- tant union men, the company is going to have re-examinations when the mine re-opens. This is a direct violation of our contract, and will| no doubt cause a strike if the com-| pany tries to go through with it. PUZZLE CORNER — — At least 4 letters and 4 numbers can be made with these 4 pieces of paper. Cut them out. Paste them on cardboard. Use all 4 pieces at once. We promise you a load of fun. By solving either puzzle you can become a member of the Daily Worker Puzzle Club. Write your} answers on a penny post-card and mail it in. New Puzzle Club members are: | Betty Jean Addison, Zora Bukovac, |Eleanor Simac, Eugene Ratner, |Harry Frachter. A Red der on every busy street cor -> in the country means a tremendous step toward the | dictatorship of the proletariat! ADVENTURES of Margie, Tim and Jerry. Follow them in next week’s paper. SUPERVISOR i$ our 3) ViSiTor| LET'S GET To KNOW EACH OTHER— JILL 1 WISH ASK YOU A QUESTION WHAT Do you wisk My MOTHER WISH FATH CouL MY ER dB 1 WISH My FATHER | | class PARTY LIFE Importance of C.P. Stressed In Parliamentary Elections Revolutionists in Congr ress Would Hasten De- struction of Capitalist Class By G. 8. “Participation in parliamentary | elections and the struggle on the parliamentary platform is obligatory | enlighten the undeveléped, down- | trodden ignorant masses.”—LENIN | “Just so long as you are unable | to disperse the bourgeois parliament | and other reactionary institutions, you are bound to work inside them. | . Otherwise you run the risk of | | becoming mere babblers.”—LENIN | “It is only in the midst of such | institutions as bourgeois parlia-| ments that Communists can and | should carry on their long and stub- | born struggle to expose, disperse | and parliamentary prejudices, stop- | ping at nothing.”—LENIN The thesis adopted by the second | ;congress of the Communist Interna- | |tional (1920) on “The Communist Party and Parliamentarism,” says the following: “The election cam- | ign must be conducted by the| entire mass of party members, not by the leaders alone; it is necessary to make use of and be in complete | touch with all the manifestations of the masses (Strikes, Demon- | strations, movements among the | soldiers and sailors, etc.) going on at the moment; it is necessary to | summon all the masses of the | proletarian organizations to active | work,” It is clear from the above that Lenin and the Communist Inter- national laid the greatest emphasis on the participation by the Com. munist Parties in parliamenta elections. Lenin laid so much stress on revolutionary parliamen- tarism that he devoted a special | chapter in his historic work | “Left Wing Communism” in merci- less criticism of the “lefts” in the Communist International who re- nounced parliamentary activity and propagated the tactic of boycott of bourgeois parliamentary institutions. To some e tent the anti-parlia- | mentary moods within our own party, and the still evident attitude of passivity towards election cam- paigns express a subjective, non- political, non-Leninist reaction to the parliamentary opportunism of the Social-Democrats. It is un- doubtedly true that the swamp of opportunism and bargaining with the bourgeois parties, the complete capitulation to bourgeois legalism, the unprincipled vote catching | demagogy ahd reformist character of Socialist Party Election Plat- |forms; and the whole practice of | collaboration and coalition | politics of the Social-Democratic | leaders, has resulted in hostility and | aversion not only to these oppor- | tunist lackeys of the bourgeoisie but to parliamentary activity it- self, What must be clearly recognized is that while for Social-Democracy parliamentarism means the utiliza- tion of the bourgeois state appara- tus for reforming the capitalist state, to the Communists, how- ever, parliamentary activity means that “the revolutionary general staff of the working class is vitally con- cerned in having its scouting | parties in the parliamentary insti- | tutions of ne bourgeoisie n order to facilitate the task of their de« structiors” (Thesis 2nd Congress, {C. I.) Furthermore, Lenin says “The |for the party of the revolutionary |™oct merciless, cutting and un eying the strik- | proletariat, for the purpose of edu- | Co™promising Jers who promise not to join the |cating the backward masses of its|@irected not |union $12 a week and rent’ free for | own class, in order to awaken and |*rism or paliamentary action, but criticism must be against parliamen- against those leaders who are unable and still more, againg those who do not wish to utili; parliamentary elections and th parliamentary platforms as revolu- tionaries and Communists should.’}* Communists participate in par- liementary elections not as an active * ity separate from the revolutionary class struggle; but as an indispens- able aid in mobilizing the masses in strike struggles, in revolutionary demonstrations, in political strikes— and overcome bourgeois democratic |in revolutionary battles against cap italism, Communists utilize bour- | geois parliaments as forums from which to speak to the broadest masses of toilers. Communists par- ticipate in election campaigns, and strive energetically to elect their candidates to public office in order to utilize these positions in the camp of the enemy to more effec- | tively expose and tear asunder the jsham of bourgeois democracy; to more effectively mobilize the masses osutside of parliament and direct the revolutionary struggle against \the capitalist state. It is precisely because tremen- dously large sections of the toiling population still harbor bourgeois | democratic illusions, still have faith in the capitalist parliamentary ma- chine, that it becomes obligatory for the Communists to expose and de- stroy the illusions of the backward _Inasses on the basis of their own ex- periences. It is obvious that this fundamental and decisive task can- |not be carried out by any policy of abstention, of boycotting bourgeois parliaments or by the least passiv- ity or disinterestedness in parlia- active and energetic election cam- paigns; but on the contrary by an active and energetic electron cam- paign involving the whole party membership and proletarian mass organizations in the struggle for the conquest of the masses. It is precisely in this period of the unparalleled growth of the rad- icalization of the masses that the | objective conditions are most favor- able for destroying the New Deal- La Guardia illusions; for profound- ly shaking the faith of the masses in bourgeois parliamentary democ- racy; in facilitating the develop- ment of broad mass struggles against American imperialism; in | teaching broad masses the reyolu- | tionary way out, in winning the | masses in the struggle for socialism —for Soviet Power. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. ©. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City District TRAILING Total Percent District Total Percent to of to of Date Quota Date Quota 25 Districts | $ase4.o0 | 14] VS ! i 1 | « Boston | 17.88 | 25,9 1dNewark | i | “ 3—Philadelphia | 1001.61 | 28.6 5—Pittsburgh | | i} “ 7—Cleveland | 434644 | 145 6—Detroit I | | 4—Buffalo 322} 48] “| 13—californta i 18—Milwaukee nr | 9.03 12—Seattle | | I “ 13—California baa7 | 27 12—Seattle ea | « HN To fie “ 19—Denver 166.88 | 41.7 21—St, Louis Received September 20, 1934 $108.08 DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) Previously Received 6,356.35 Total to date Canine cn DISTRICT 1 (Boston) Sam Mormino—Rochester 1.08 E. ©. Monns $1.00 ae Total Sept. 20 $1.00 | Total Sept. 20 $14.36 Total to date se city 221788 | Total to date $36.32 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) ig AE ' DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) Sec 2 Unit 438 P.B. 5,00 | Ed Peters $20.00 Seog Unit 38 PE. ©. P. Unit, Monroe, Mich. 2.00 ee sen tee Ge Total Sept. 20 $22.00 Sec 2 Unit 288 O-p oe Scc 2 Unit 1B C-p Pokies babes 9266.01 Sec 11 Unit 1 Affair DISTRICT 14 (Newark) Womens Council No. 19 3. A. Verzbitzky $3.00 Anonymous ee —— Group of German Workers Total Sept. 20 $3.00 Collected ee Fox 0 | Total to date $78.44 gear eae DISTRICT 22 (West Virginia) DISTRICT 3 s (Philadepis) District donation $7.90 Shamokin Sec. f — Sorat wep 20 $5.95 | Total Sept. 20 $7.90 Total to date $1001.61 | Total to date 38.15 Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! ADDRESS: AMOUNT 50 EAST 13th St. | al Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER New York, N. ¥. { j