The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED: DAY, SEPTEMBER 26 , 1934 BOSTON SHOE WORKERS DEMAND STRUGGLE AGAINST BOSSES’ ATTACKS WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted i by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS S. R. C. of Davenport, Iowa, writes in-as. follows: “Dear Doctor: “T have a very serious problem on my mind for you to help me solve I-am_now three months pregnant and by the time we can collect enough cash to have the doctor break it up, I will be almost four months gone. Will that be too late? I-went to him early, as soon as I found it out, but he wouldn’t do it unless ke had the cash. Of course like--all poor workers you don’t herdly make enough to eat on, let alone save any. He claims it does not make any difference. I am a little afraid to try anything like that at this late date, unless you say it would be O. K “T already have two baby girls, one is two, the other is about a year and they are both under- rished. So I don’t want or need anymore. I am afraid this late that it, might end up in a surgical opera- tion. Is there that danger? ‘Please advise me what would be the best thing to do as soon as pos- sible, as I am so worried about it. be brought on and one must undergo almost exactly the same pains as when giving birth. | The bringing on of beeen | labor about the 4th month is a dif- ficult and dangerous procedure. It may cost your life, leaving your two children without a mother to care for them or may leave you an in- valid, with the subsequent doctor bills Which you can ill afford. In the long run it is unquestion- ably safer and saner and less costly to have another boy. Save the money that you intended to spend| on the operation to feed your un- dernourished children. When it is time to have your baby, we believe that a city the size of Davenport should have provisions for delivering women that cannot afford to have private care. This, no doubt, is the best plan for you to follow and there will be no regrets when it is all over. Is Leukorrhea Catching? A. G. M. Cleveland:—The subject | of leukorrhea was discussed in the column, August 31st. There are two points you ask about, however, that were not discussed in that article. It is not dangerous for a man to the expenses. Gags Shipping | District 16’s Activity Union Active Only on Dues Lake Stand Today on By a Shoe Worker Correspondent LONG ISLAND CITY.—I am a worker at I. Miller, in the fitting room department, and can’t im- agine how workers can stand the abuse from the foremen. We had @ very short season, and the earn- | Council of Boston is calling a mass | manufactur ings we have here do not cover | Now it { sslow here, and it is | impossible to stand what is go- ing on in the I. Miller fitting de- partment. There is no such thing as equal division of work. Some of the foremen’s favorites get some | work and the rest are simply com- ing day in and day out. They come | and go home, not making even the car fare they spent, and the agent of the Boot and Shoe Union has the nerve to come to collect the 25 cents dues from the starving work- ers, although we are having open shop conditions. I wonder how long we can tolerate such things. NOTE—The workers in I. Mil- ler can stop this discrimination which the foremen are practicing. It is the job of the union to pro- I dread the thought of having any more children and trying to raise them during these difficult times. marry a woman who has leukorrhea. Only if a woman has a discharge due to gonorrhea, may she transmit . . . the infection to her husband. Dis- —And Capitalism Calls Abortion | charges due to other causes are not Criminal catching. One must not be too easily dis- couraged in treating for Jeukorrhea. The condition sometimes yields slowly but as a general rule when treatment is continued conscien- tiously, most discharges can be cleared up by proper local treat- | ment. Rarely is an operation neces- | sary, except when the discharge is due to some growth on the womb or fo an extensive tear following child- birth that needs repair. There is not much risk in having | an abortion performed providing it is done before the tenth week of pregnancy and also providing the operator is skillful and the opera-/ tion is done under clean conditions. On the other hand, after the 12th gnancy the risk is very great. At this time a simple curet- tage or a scraping out of the preg- nancy cannot be done with any de- gree of safety. Actual labor has to IN THE HOME By HELEN LUKE They Are Organizing Miss S., a houseworker, noe ae aes a : me 7, writes Chicago women in the fight again: Beet we orinted yesterday.” WiteS | the rising cost ‘of living), “section that though her efforts to organize | iy. the line “and groups of men the houseworkers in Milwaukee} from the shops to get together and have not so far been successful, she |send delegates” should have read will not give up yet. (She says also|“and groups of women in the she feels she is a born Communist | shops,” etc. without having realized it or Sas earn ard thought about politics.) | ’ We wish to advise Miss 8. that Can You Make ’Em though we have not had as much | Yourself? news as we would like, our Staal has dealt with the domestic work- ; sly ers, their situation and struggles, | ,/S*term 2084 is available only in on March 17. April 24 and 27, May 12, 24 and 25, and 28; June 2 and July 4. (The headauarters of the | Domestic Workers’ Union here are | at 415 Lenox Ave. The union fights for fifty cents hourly wages or $20 weekly full time, other scales | accordingly). In connection with the news- paper clipping sent by Miss SM, who says, “I hope you print it for the good of some slave-drivers in case they see it,”—comrade, it is useless to appeal to the slave- drivers to change their ways. It is as.useless to appeal to them to} “shake off th lowdown greed | and selfishne as the clipping did, as to apveal to the tiger to| please dine on vegetables. “Lover of Fairnes who wrote | the letter clipped and sent by| Miss S., also is incorrect. present- | ing. a. dangerous pitfall to the domestic workers, in insisting on “fair play” only for American | workers. This implies that foreign- | born workers are “fair game,” sub- ject to the vilest exploitation. The “fair” treatment of workers must not be dependent on nationality. | religion, race. or sex. AH must have decent hours and wages, or | practically none can get them. | As to getting “slaves from the | other side of the pond,” as “Lover | of Fairness” (who is so grossly unfair to the foreign-born worker) | suggests, we'd just like to men-/ tion tha the slave-drivers wouild | have a fine sweet time getting | slaves from ONE spot on the other | side of the pond,— and that’s the| Soviet Union, where the slave- drivers have been run out once and for all. The best advice by “Lover of Fairness” is that the houseworkers organize and demand their rights, though the phrase “if the house- maids would be coureageous in- stead of cringing” is rather cynical it's darned easy to talk, when you} fre secure yourself and not a/ housemaid, about being “courage- us.” Obviously housemaids are in a peculiar situation, alone in the | house with the masters, their} Sead FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in wements observed all day, and|eoins or stamps (coins preferred) ond to reach to orgartts. They | for this Anne Adams pattern. Write will organize in spite of all this,| plainly name, address and_ style however. and are already on the|number. BE SURE TO STATE move. We are sending Misa S. a | SIZE. ‘etter with more information. Address orders to Daily Worker Correction: — In the Saturday | Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th edition, (program adopted by the’ St. New York City. ——— Free Herndon and Scottsboro Boys! “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. |40, 42 and 44. Size 16 takes 4% yards 36 inch fabric and 7% yards binding. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions included. $15,000 SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON EMERGENCY FUND $15,000 International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City I contribute $....+.++. .for the Scottsbore-Herndon Appeals and Defense. | sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38,| | teet the workers—to see that | there is equal division of work. The officials of the B.S.U. are not | fighting for the workers. Only the workers themselves can make | their union effective. But they | can do this if they take leader- | skip into their own hands, and out of the hands of the Boot and Shoe grafters, who pull out the 25 cents dues from workers who don’t even make their car fare. By organizing into a group and opposing the leaders, who work | hand in hand with the bosses by | forcing them to go to the bosses | By a Shoe Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass.— The Joint meeting of all shoe workers of Bos- ton for Wednesday, Sept. 26. And in the preparations for this meet- izer and secretary-treasurer of the union, and also made it definite that only a member of the General Executive Board is invited to come to speak in the name of the Gen- eral Executive Committee. This they did in order to make it clear that they do not want Zimmerman to come, who is the brain trust of the Resident Board and mostly re- sponsible for the present precarious situation in our union. The union in Boston and throughout New England is faced with a serious situation. The man- ufacturers are demanding wage cuts, some openly and others by threatening to move, Others as it is reported have already folded up }and are looking for places in Maine, as the Marmon. There is discontent among the workers, who feel that much of this situation could have been avoided if the union would have had the guts to take a definite stand prior to signing of the present agree- ment. Therefore, the Joint Coun- cil, which is in daily contact with the workers in shops through its members, under the pressure of the sentiment of the rank and file, has adopted a policy of putting all the blame for the present situation on the General Executive Board. | and demand equal division of | work—higher wages. The work- | | ers can begin to turn the Boot and Shoe Union into a rank and | file union of the workers. Work- ers in other factories which have the Boot and Shoe are already organized into opposition groups. You should know more about this movement. Write to the A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance and Relief, 1 Union Sq., N. Y. C. The committee will be glad to | talk vith you or answer your | letter. | Build Defense Committee Barre Workers By a Worker Correspondent BARRE, Vt—The Barre branch of the International Labor Defense endorses plans for the immediate building of a Barre Defense Com- mittee, and the permanent estab- lishment thereof, for the following | purposes. | (1) To conduct extensive study |of last year’s strike, and prepare report on weaknesses in defense which permitted terror, denial of constitutional rights, attacks upon homes, children leaving school being gassed, brutal beatings-up of strike leaders and pickets, terroriz- |ing of local storekeepers, and the | imprisonment of pickets for long} terms. To show in such a report how the prisoners could have been |set at liberty by refusal of the | strike committee to negotiate with | the employers before all charges | against militant strikers were | dropped and all strike prisoners set free. | (2-a) To prepare for a future | strike the Barre Defense Committee will carry on a broad and extensive |campaign of education as to the | tactics of the capitalist press, strike betrayers, red scare propaganda, etc., so that the workers of Barre | Will be ready in advance for the |tricks the bosses will pull from | their bag. Educate the workers and small shopkeepers in advance so that they will know just what |the rank and file committees are and what means will be employed to deceive the public by the reac- tionaries and enemies of organized | labor. This is to be done through |@ series of mass meetings and |leaflet distribution and work within the unions and fraternal organi- | zations. | (b) Establish defense corps for the protection of militant leaders, | pickets, the homes of strikers, and school children, local shopkeepers, etc. Have these guard units lequipped with automobiles, with a headquarters equipped with a tel- |ephone, etc., so that cruising patrols will be on call. (c) Have bail money on hand for eases where we do not act quickly |enough to prevent arrests, and | train workers in self-defense in the courts. (d) Be prepared fo issue frequent | bulletins on a mimeograph for wide distribution during the strike. (e) Be ready to conduct cam- paigns with the aid of leaflets and speakers in towns from which out- | side National Guard regiments may be sent, to the end that the work- ers in such localities will demand the return of such regiments. (f) Broaden the committee so as to include many workers now out-| side the I. L. D. branch from other | | organizations, Popularize the com- | mittee. Obtain the endorsement of |the unions, fraternal organizations, | small shopkespers, etc., by collect- | ing petitions and funds for support of same. | JACK WILGUS. | (Signatiite authorized.) Our Readers Must spread the Daily Worker Among the Members is All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First | was and still is one of co-operating It is true that the policy of the | General Executive Board, which with the manufacturers rather than fighting them, is responsible for the present deplorable situation. But the Joint Council members and especially its leaders are just as re- sponsible. Are not the leading members of the J. C. also the backbone of the Resident Board? Have they not been guided and still are by the Lovestoneite Zimmerman, whose whole line is of leading the union into the A. F. of L. Are they not guided by the Socialist Lawyer Bearek, who is also the lawyer of Bosses Gouge For $8.00 Wages in McKees Rocks, Pa. By a Worker Correspondent McKEES ROCK, Pa.—In 1933 when | the N.R.A. was hatched by the blue | eagle, the whole Wall Street and | Washington government rejoiced | because it was the birth of a new Slave act for the workers and more profits for the big bosses. As the eagle began to perch in every win- dow of various large business houses, | then the bosses and managers be- | gan their campaigns of empty | promises to their employees. ‘This | also came from the heart of a very | generous Mr. Stouffer, who controls | ritzy restaurants where distin- | guished guests meet and eat. The | promises were plenty of everything | —meaning good wages, meals and | ale, and a good time to be had by all. But the workers feel and see it different. ‘The waitresses work 48 hours a week at a salary of 8.00. Tips are permitted to be received, but must | be accounted for to the manager, otherwise one is subject to a dis- charge. If the waitress makes $5.00 a week in tips, then she has to pay | 10 cents a day to each five of the bus girls that work under her. Three dollars a week is taken from all employees for meals whether one | eats or not, and the food is two to | three days old, and sometimes even | a week. 1.10 is also. deducted for | laundry from all the workers. The bus girls receive 2.62 and | their work is 21 hours per week. | They receive 10 cents a day from the waitress, but most weeks they | get nothing, and they have to take it. That's the way the bosses boast | about their new blue eagle plan. AFL Officials Arrange Strike Not to Harm Leather Goods Boss By a Worker Correspondent BRONX, N. Y¥.—I've been vaca- tioning in the House of Joy, a mountain hotel upstate. While there, I made acquaintance with the employer of Esseff Bag Ca, 40 E. 12th St. In a discussion that we had, including some other people, on communism and wind- ing up with trade unionism, this employer let slip the following in- formation: The workers who are members of the A. F. of L, leather workers unien demanded that the union declare a strike in busy season against poor working conditions. This employer said, referring to the officials: “They are ‘good boys’! They let the employers as- sociation know, who phoned me and told me that a strike is to come off in my shop. They asked me when it would be best for me, And I said of course in September, a week before the season ends. On the set day the business agent (I believe) came and ordered loudly that I cut eff the power. The workers stopped work. Well, they were ont on strike, T have Importance! ing they invited the general organ- | Militant Resolution 2“ , {the A. F. of L., and who is at all| | times ready to collaborate with the Ss? Thereff'e, some of the sincere members of the J. C., who want to | build the union, are misled in only | criticizing the National office. We say it is not enough, you must also examine the action of your com- | mittee, and admit that you have |made mistakes and take a road of militant trade unionism, rather |than reformist tactics of the Boot and Shoe, This meeting called for Wednes- |day can play an important part-in | giving a definite answer to the con- |spiracy of the manufacturers, who want to strangle the union through the policy of wage cuts, This meet- ing could well be used as a mobil- ization of all the shoe workers of | Boston, to take a firm stand against wage cuts, and for in- creases. But already we can see that it is not taking seriously by the J. C., but rather as merely car- rying out a decision. Among the speakers there is not one militant rank and file worker. Myer Klar- field was voted down as the speaker for the meeting, because the lead- ership knew that he would call upon the workers to stand ready to fight against wage cuts. The Stitchers Local elected a committee to draw up a resolution on how to face the present attack of the manufacturers. This resolu- tion to be presented through the chairman, Paul Salwagio, for adop- tion at the mass meeting. If the leadership of the Joint Council really means to mobilize the work- ers against wage cuts, as they have been telling the workers at the shop crew meetings with their “militant” speeches, they will have to prove it in deeds by introducing this resolu- tion at the mass meeting, and car- ry it into life. We call upon all the workers of Boston to come to this meeting. Raise the question of the union getting unemployment relief for its members, and mobilizing all shoe workers for a fight against wage cuts and for the minimum hourly rate for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled, and to once and for all start a real organization campaign. Food. Workers! Women Work 48 Hours | Schrafft’s “Workers Get | Dollar a Day, Pay Heavy Fees By a Food Worker Correspondent The first thing a worker does | when hired by Schrafft's as a waiter | is to plunk down $10.00 as part pay- ment on his uniform. The company charges $23.00 for the uniform, An- other firm makes the identical uni- form for $18.00 but the company insists that you get the uniform | from them for $23,00. The next trick is the insurance | item. Fifty cents a month is taken out of your pay envelope for ‘insur- ance.’ There are about 3,300 workers in Schrafft’s. It’s downright rob- bery! I understand that according to N. Y¥. State law, corporations are | compelled to pay $9.00 a week to a| sick employee after the second week | of sickness. But like many other | corporations, Schrafft’s takes it out of the hides of the workers, If the worker were to bring these facts to the attention of the boss, he would undoubtedly be fired for “inefficiency.” These “democracy” loving bosses will resort to anything | to maintain their “democratic” right | to dictate the conditions of employ- ment; They operate on the prin- ciple: “What you can’t make on the customers, get out of the help.” | It is only after training from six weeks to two months that the new | waiters get a regular station. The | initial $10.00 down payment on the | uniform helps keep the worker from | quitting. The investment of time | and money is at the worker’s ex- pense of course. Many years ago, before the crisis, a fellow was willing to put up with the company’s tryanny because he could get about $25.00 to $35.00 a week. Now, a waiter is lucky to get his dollar a day. It may improve a bit with the cold weather, but most of the men expect a tough winter. | In the present situation, the men are becoming more vocal in their resentment against the tyranny of the managers, who are reflecting on the workers the pressure exer‘ed on them by young Shattuck, son of the president of the company. Old Shattuck was a liberal. He wasn’t a crude. He robbed his workers with a soft hand a clever one. Young Shattuck has had his man- agers organize “pep talks” where the a‘titude is constantly taken: “Do this, or...” It’s nice to be born in the right family. You may have graduated from the same university that Shat- tuck did, but if you made the mis- take of being born in a working class family, or of working your way through school, or of not being able to join the proper fraternity, etc., then you're just out of luck. The N.S.L, should have a few of its members involved in trade union work for the F.W.1.U. The major- ity of Schrafft’s waiters are of that type. The men are ripe for organiza- tion! and the workers of Esseff Bag Co. lost the strike. I hope this information reaches these workers in particular and other confused workers in gen- meanwhile finished all my or- ders, I did not lose a cent”— eral about the A. F. of L. leaders in this leather workers union, } ; ‘Clerks’ Union any craft in the ladies’ garment in- | dustry are not exploited and taken | advantage of as ruthlessly as the | shipping clerks, porters, and errand boys. In spite of the N.R.A. codes, which provide a 40-hour working week, We are compelled to work 50 to 70 and more hours for $14 and less, The speed-up is unbear- able. Workers of our trade are anx- | ious and ready to fight to improve | conditions, ry The miserable conditions in our trade are well known to the ad- ministratit of our union, the La-| dies Garment Shipping Clerks | Union, and to Mr. Harold Lexem- burg, the soft-speaking leader of the Y.P.S.L., who was never a ship- Ping clerk and who was dishonestly elected to leadership in our union | by means of packing the election hall with outside members of the Y.P.8.L, like Nelson, Jack Horo- witz, Julie Kaplan, Fred Shevin, Jerry and Teddy Levine, Melos Most, Irvin Hass, Mr. Luxemburg and many others, who are not | workers of the trade, but were giv- en membership cards and allowed to vote with the specific objective of putting into leadership Mr. Lex- emburg and our former president, Bill Levine, who was kicked out as an “unreliable” individual. Let us carefully examine the records of these misleaders who pay lip service to liberty and democ- racy. Do they live up to the mean- ing of these beautiful sounding words? I shall address myself now to Mr. Horace Luxemburg himself. 1—Do you really believe that packing our meeting with outsiders to vote and shape policies of our or- ganization is a step towards de- mocracy and the building of the union? 2—As an election maneuver you promised us that you and your clique are the only ones who can attain for us a charter from the International Ladies Garment eee and $300 and more money for organization pur} S. Where is the charter and Lefes 3—By mass pressure of the mem- bership you were forced to reinstate rank and file members whom you expelled and suspended, without a trial before the membership, for Opposing your high-handed tactics. Is this by any chance a “step to- ward Socialism in our time’? W—At the last meeting, which took place four months ago, and of which you were chairman, you al- lowed Jerry Levine to knock one of our young brothers to the floor for asking a point of order, which, as you stated, is always in order to ask. How do you account for this? 5—Our constitution was suspend- ed four months ago, for only a pe- riod of two weeks, during the I, L. G. W. U. convention. Why don’t you live up to our constitution? Is it not because it is “too democrat- ic” and it gives too much power to the members? 6—Why have you raised the dues from 10 cents a week to 25 cents, and the initiation fee from 40 cents to $5 without the consent of the membership? Do you think such measures and policies promote the growth of our union? 7—We have been taxed 50 cents each as a convention tax to send a delegate to the LL.G.W.U. con- vention four months ego and to ask for a charter. Why don’t you at least call a membership meeting to give a report of the convention? 8—Don’t you think that the members are entitled to a financial report? 9—In spite of the fact that our constitution provides for member- ship meetings every two weeks and in spite of the continuous demands of our members for a meeting be- cause of bad conditions in the trade, why no membership meet- ing? Is it not because you are afraid the membership will oust you from leadership? 10—Why do you state that a gen- eral membership meeting will be called after the button strike? Is it against the interest of the work- ers to call a meeting before the strike to prepare for and help the strikers? 11—Why is it that at the begin- ning of the meeting of the button fellows on Sept. 6, you said, “This is your union, control it yourselves,” and when it came to a real show- down, when I proposed that we elect a leading committee to be composed of five from the ranks of the boys of the shops and two from the Executive Board, you at this j occasion peculiarly forgot what you said before and asked to have only four from the ranks and three from the Executive Board, in order to give you a better chance to control | cur union? 12—Why is it that when it necessary to place someone on the Executive Board you appoint your friends instead of having a mem- bership meeting and allowing the members to elect their own men? 13—Do you think you're helping the Y.PS.L. by going up to the shops and telling the bosses which of their workers are Communists? Don't you think that this is cheap and mean ratting? 14—And last, but not least, why js it that you went to the American Youth Congress as a delegate from our union, when you didn’t even ao to the trouble of calling a mem- bership meeting and tell us what the Congress is all about and al- lowing us to elect an honest and cavable delegate? | Members of the Y.P.S.L.. if you believe in democracy. go to the next meeting of the Central Committee of the Y.P.S.L., of which Luxem- burg is a member, and demand that he call a membership meeting in our union. Discuss this at your circle meeting and pass resolutions. send them to the City Central Committee, and bear pressure on Luxemburg! Let us all unite In Mill Strike Analyzed Membership of 100 The general textile strike placed tremendous tasks and responsibil- ities on District 16, one of the weakest, numerically, in our en- tire Party. There are approxi- mately 175,000 textile workers in the district—20,000 in Virginia, 92,000 in North Carolina, 63,000 in South Carolina. In this huge dis- trict the Party has a dues-paying membership of only about 100, over a half of this number being in the Norfok and Richmond sec- tions, which are outside of the textile area. At the beginning of the strike we had members work- ing in 11 textile mills. More than half of these had been in the Party less than two months, So far as we have been able to learn, not one textile worker was getting the Daily Worker on July 1. By Sept. 1 about 40 textile workers were daily readers of the Daily Worker. With Party members in only 11 of the hundreds of mills— and only 40 Daily Worker sub- seribers out of the 175,000 textile workers, the general strike began. Were all of our Party members in the U.T.W.? No. Because of an “ultra left” sectarian ideology, few of our comrades were in the U.T.W. Also, many comrades thought there would be no strike. They underestimated the power of the rank and file of the union. But instead of being inside to give leadership to the rank and file, our comrades were outside of the union. Today all Communist Party mem- bers actually employed in the mills have joined the U.T.W. Though the present district leadership in general has fought against this sectarian ideology, in two places— Danville and Burlington—we meade the serious mistake of underesti- mating the role the U.T.W. would play, on account of their very small membership, In spite of all of these shortcom- ings, the Party in District 16 has played @ role in the strike—and to- day many workers realize the cor- rectness of the Party’s position. Distribution of thousands of leaf- Jets and Daily Workers have done much to encourage the rank and file to continue mass picketing and the organizing of flying squad- rons. The authorities in Concord “blame” the Communist Party for the militancy of the workers there, Leaders of the U.T.W. have admit- ted that “the Reds are the most active on the picket lines.” More than one thousand copies of the Daily Worker are being distributed daily on the picket lines and at mass meetings of the strikers, The capitalist press is carrying on a vicious campaign against the Com- munist Party, inciting terror and lynch gangs. ‘The work of the District may be summarized: 1, Individual members have tak- en leading roles in Concord, Dan- ville, Burlington and _ elsewhere, helping lead the strikes in their own mills, organizing flying squad- rons, etc. They are regarded by their fellow workers as the most NOTE We publish letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers every Wdnesday. We urge work- ers in these industries to write us of their conditions of work and their efforts to organize. Please et these letters to us by Monday of each week. Entire District, Embracing Three States, Had When Strike Began militant and fearless fighters for the strike. sued (five pages each)—the Cannon Ball” at the Cannon Mills in Concord, and “The Red Textile | Worker” | Dan River mills in Danville. 3. Local leaflets have lwsen ise sued in Concord, Danville and Bur« lington, one advertising a mass pros test meeting in Charlotte, and an- lother a joint appeal issued by the Young Communist League and the Communist Party to the National Guard. 4. Tens of thousands of printed leaflets—reprints of Daily Worker editorials, have been distributed. 5. Over 1,000 copies of the Daily worker are distributed to the | Strikers every day. 6. Many workers have been! brought closer to the Party, some, already applying for membership;, and some have written to the dis«, trict asking for more information, about the Party. Contacts have, been established with former Part; members who “drifted away,” but! now wish to come back into the ranks of the revolutionary move~' ment. 7. (The~Party has sent and organized the sending of many protest telegrams to Governor J. ©, B. Ehringham, organized some lib eral protest; and in Charlotte a mass protest meeting was called by, the Party. This was broken up by: the police and the district organ-' izer threatened by a lynch gang of mill deputies and policemen in plain clothes. 8. The Y.C.L. has been taking an active part at Danville where there is the only functioning Y.C.L. unit in the district excepting among the sharecroppers. In Concord one young comrade distributed 200 copies of the Daily Worker and is helping to build a Y.CL. unit there. There have been some <nortcom- ings and mistakes: 1. We failed to mobilize every available force in the district for activity in the textile area BEFORE the strike actually started. 2. The district was too slow in placing large orders for the Daily Worker during the first two or three days of the strike. 3. Before the beginning of the strike we did not sufficiently em- phasize the necessity of regular Party unit meetings and dues pay- ments during the rush of strike ac- tivities. It is true that there are frequent meetings to plan work— the Party and Y.C.L. in Danville having almost daily joint meetings to plan immediate work; but dues payments are “forgotten.” Other lessons of the strike—both achievements and _ shortcomings— will be discussed in other articles by actual strikers as well as district functionaries of the Communist Party and Y.C.L, PAUL CROUCH, | District Organizer, Dist. 16. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. NAMe€ ...cecsccccccssseececceet? Street City $ 600.40 1602.83 RECEIVED SEPT. 26 PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED TOTAL TO DATE $ 8203.33 DISTRICT 1 (Boston) L W Feuer, Marlow, NH 5.00 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Sec 2— No. 8 20.00 Un 3B PB. 5.00 Uo. 11 10.00 Un 465 PB 3.50 © Staten Is. 10.00 Un 148 PB 5.00 No. 30 5.00 See 10— Novy Mir Clb, Un 18 PB 2.00 Sec 14 PB 6.00 Un 58 PB 1.20‘ Novy Mir Olb, Sec 15 PB 60.80 Sec 14 PB 5.00 Sec 15 CP 39.35 Kat, Rd Bidr 5.00 Sec 3 PB 11.45 Grp of Wkrs 2.55 Bec 3 CP 10 HW Hirschorn — 1.00 Sec 18 PB 9.50 F McClennegen 1.00 See 18 CP 1.50 Woodman 40 Sec 17 PB 26.40 + Woodman e Sec 17 CP 14.40 Anonymous Sec 11— Sarah Villas Un 5 PB 20.00 Woodman Sec 16 PB 7.95, Anonymous Sec 5 PB 42.36 Mrs T Crenin Sec 13 5.00 W Allegro | Sec, 15 Un 15 68 © Woodman Sec 15, Un 19 3.40 Anonymous Sec 15, Un 2 20.00 Woodman 7 Sec 15, Un 13 11.50 Col by M Kraus Séc 15, Un 8 4.00 Br 3, IWO— Sec 3,Un 6 150 MH 38 Scc 3, Un 2 12.00 Gusman 05 Sec 11, Un 5 1.00 Sem 10 5 .08-Prishman 10 Sec 18, Un 2 4.09 Charles 25 Sec 18, Nn 22 5.00 A Whitman 10 FWIU Frac, Joe 38 Sec 18 4.00 Anonymous 40 intd Cnel Wkn; — WWieden eed Tot Sept 24 410.12 Tot to date 3785.10 DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) dester Cross 1.00 Tot Sept 24 1.00 Tot to date 1002.61 The $60,000 Goal DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) On 4, Jmestwn 6.00 ‘Tot Sept 24 8. Tot to date 42. DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) Jeanette Un 4.46 +=Unmpmnt Cnel 3.00 3d Wrd Un 6.00 Jewish Bu 36.00 James St Un 2.20 paid Portage Uns 3.00 ‘Tot Sept 24 56.16 Cambria C Un 1.50 Tot to date 201.07 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) See 1-6 PB&CP 4.70 OP 3.08 Sec 1-1 PB 5.00 Sec 7-1 Kara, Sec 5-11 PB 5.00 CP 1.00 Sec 7-3 PB 5.00 -Rmnn Fetn PB 5, 3ec 6-2 PB 5.00 — 3ec 7-1 Kara, Tot Sept 24 33.70 Tot to date 374.10 DISTRICT 9 (Minneapolis) Wkrs of Tyomies n Soc 18.47 Newberry, Wkrg & Fmrs ‘Mich Wkrs Clb 9.88 Coop Un, Brentwood, Clif- Alliance 10.00 ford, Tripoli OP A Holmes 740 and’Smpzrs 5.00 dass, Mich CP DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) 4 O Hansen, aed Westport, Ore 1.00 Tot Sept 24 3.00 > Thompson 2.00 Tot to date 30.27 DISTRICT 14 (Newark) 3am Palski 1.00 Tot Sept 24 1.00 Tot to date 79.44 DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) UUTO Seyko 5.00 Tot Eept 24 5.00 Tot to date 85.68 DISTRICT 19 (Denver) Un 11, Selt Ft Laramie Un, Lake’ City 8.87 Wyo “Take City, 418 Tot Sept 24 11.70 Lake’ Gi 18 Tol ; s Tot to date 187.46 DISTRICT 21 (St, Louis) E_Moklash, Tot Sept 24 5.00 K ©, Kans 5.00 Tot to date 40.25 DISTRICT 25 (Florida) 18, Tampa OP 5.00 Tot Sept 24 5.00 Tot to date 60.00 Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! against our common énemy, the capitalist class and their agents! 50 EAST 13th St. Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 2. Two shop papers have been is-~ at the Schoolfield andi