The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1934, Page 4

hi, Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1934 RAILROAD WORKERS PLEDGE FIGHT AGAINST WAR Delegate s B.&O.WorkersF aceMoreLayoffsin Winter Report ey Demand eadan Congress By a Worker Correspondent Morris Park Shops Bullying LONG ISLAND CITY, N. ¥-- The second United States Congress Been eee Fascism held iy| BY & R. R. Worker Correspondent t that the American people| LONG ISLAND CITY, N. ¥ are sapidiy realizing the danger ot | After being on the Relief for about fascists and another imperialist | three months, Burns returned to wer I was elected as Tesent a group of railroad men. At the Congress there were 29 more delegates from the railroad. them were officially elected from their lodges, the others being elected by groups in their lodges A very interesting speech was delivered by a refugee from fascist delegate to rep- | Six of | his job as a glazier at the Morris Park Shops of the Long Island R. R. He found that his work on the ladder was too much for his back, and sought to be placed on some lighter work. He was told by Krieg that if he could not do his job he'd have to go home, which Burns had to do, A helper was speeded up to fill his job This inconsiderate treatment was Germany. He stated that the So-| sven to Burns by Krieg, who had cialist Party of Germany, by re-| ZUM 0 Stee ye vara 4 fusing the united front and the} myoye 8 ENO een acne calling of a general strike (as they controlled the trade unions) trayed the workers and handed them cver to the ‘ascist murderers | With their hands tied. He said t we must organize into a broad | ed front of all workers, aud that the American League Against War and Fascism was just the or- be- | a sick leave with full pay. Krieg here is only running true to form— a slave driver and a spotter, which is why he is advanced. He is a former tool room tender, and not a mechanic How can we stop Krieg's abuses? 1, Form a grievance committee | in every department to demand that Burns be placed on a lighter job an: ti bri a Be 44 . Peet tion ee Theat MNS | with ‘his: tult rate ‘ot pay : Wiha: cuilroad: delegates had a |, ome ene eee, Re Ins Mecting and voted to go back to our respective organizations and fight to affiliate all of our unions with the League. We pledged our- selves to show all railroad workers the important factor that they can be in the prevention of imperialist | war and fascism, That they should unite and refuse to transport am- munition or troops for another war or for the shooting down of work- ers on strike. The delegates from the steel mills | and the ones from the mines made united front resolutions. With all the workers in these basic indus- tries organized into a united front we can show the capitalist class that we will not let them slaughter millions of our brothers for their profit. If they arm us we will not use the guns to shoot our foreign brothers but will use ihem to over- throw the capitalist class, and set | up a workers and farmers govern- ment. —Group of Railroad Delegates to the Second U. S. Congress of the American League Against War and Fascism at Chicago $2 Challenge Still Student G structed to stop his abuse of the men. 3. Force the A. F. L. leaders and the company union to take a stand on the Burns case. Men, demand this at mesting. Seamen! Longshoremen! The Daily Worker urges all sea- men and longshoremen to write | about all developments connected with the strike, the sentiments among their fellow workers, ac- tions to establish one united strike | front along the entire Atlantic and | Gulf Coast, and so to prevent any sell-out or arbitration scheme of the International Seamen’s Union leaders. Write about everything that you discuss with your fellow | workers. This will make it pos- | sible for us to help in organizing and winning your struggle. “Open-- ives $1 Weekly your next | Many Already Fired in By a Railroad Worker Corre- spondent PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Conditions on ihe Pittsburgh Division of the B. & O. are rapidly going from bad to worse. Extra lists are being reduced and business is at a lower point than at any time since the present reaction set in. The com- jpany will further reduce the num- ber of men employed by diverting B. & O. through trains, both pas- senger and freight, over the P. & L. E. R. R. (a subsidary of the New York Central). This will effect an economy in operation that Mr. Wil- |lard, president of the B. & O., says |will come from payrolls. This is. of course, another way of saying that more men are to be put in the breadlines. In the past month the firemen’s extra board has been reduced by 12 men: the yard helpers board by six men; the road brakemen’s by eight men, and 32 mechanics and helpers have been laid off in the car yards and roundhouse. The remaining men in the shops have been |speeded up so there is very little loss in work done, By a Worker Correspondent | DETROIT, Mich.—The 25th Reg- ular International Convention of |the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes was held in the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit dur- ing the week Spt. 10 to 17. The rank and file program for |Maintenance of Way workers fea- tured in Unity News last month was presented to all the delegates. This program called for the launching of militant action for |better wages and working condi- tions, for the protection of those |unemployed, for a general re- jorganization or recruiting move- {ment and for a general reduction jin dues and a temporary waiving of initiation fee to further such a | campaign. | The membership of the organiza- tion has dropped to 52,000, of the jmore than 350,000 workers em- |ployed in departments represented, jor about 15 per cent, and since high, the precentage of member- |ship within the United States is probably less than 12. | The Unity Movement proposed other measures intended to put the | Our readers will remember William Allegro’s challenge to Hyman | maintenance workers on a fighting Hirschorn to contribute $2 a week to the ‘Daily’ drive. Comrade Hirsehorn cannot accept. writes, “that I can’t accept comrade Allegro’s challenge .. . Nevertheless, | I will continue the amount I promised . . “Tt is with deep regret,” he - As a law student I find it very difficult even te contribute the dollar weekly.” | basis, | None of these proposals were adopted, however. A fight in the interests of the poorly paid track |workers and their hungry families houses, While Those Steamroller Blocks Action by RR Brotherhood Convention these figures include Canada, where | \the proportion of membership is| Car Yards and Round- Left Are Speeded Up The report is current that a great many petty officials and foremen and assistant foremen will be re- duced to workers by the last of September. This will swell still further the lists of unemployed, as most of these are senior men and the younger men will have to give up their jobs to make room for them. The railroad workers here expect to see further reductions in force in the near future and have a very pessimistic outlook for the coming winter. They have been attacked | on all sides since the “new deal” came into being. Many of the older men are paying for homes and are being taxed to the limit Inflation has hurt all badly, but the ones who had their incomes allotted were hurt worst as they IRFC Loan of | Little Help to Car Shop Men | By a Worker Correspondent CENTRALIA, Ill—Starting on June 1, the Illinois Central railroad system began expenditure of the $25,000,000 R. F. C. government loan. The roadhouse and car shops at Centralia put on 1,000 men. Last week 50 roadhouse men got notice that there would be no more work and today 400 car builders were given a four-day notice. The lother 500 will get theirs on Oct. 1. |About 3,000 cars have been rebuilt here. The wages were 30 cents for cents for torch blowers. Some other by ; \I. C. shop points have already could only reduce their standard |cigced, and others are expected to of Iving, be closed soon. Then comes the stagger plan of work, or, as it is called in railway language, the mileage limitations. This cut the workers pay envelope The shoe factory at this place, jemploying about 500 workers, has closed, and is said to be ready to move its machinery to St. Louis, badly. Many of the men now real- |where, they state, better working ize that the New Deal is a raw deal |conditions (open shop) are ob- for the railroad men. tained. They had been operating here for many years under union schedule. Centralia has a population of jabout 13,000, and these two closings will put the town on the blink, |there being no other factories here. The C. B. of I. railroad is said to be storing 2,500 cars of coal in their yards. This looks as if they | expect labor troubles in their South- ern Illinois fields before long. ‘Socialists Help To Try to Split Anti-WarDrive By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—The meeting) jof the Detroit Labor Conference | | Against Fascism held Sunday, Oc- tober 7, at the headquarters of the | A. F. of L., 274 East Vernor High- | Way, was enlivened by the fight to| |seat three militant workers, Fabian | ver, denounced as “reds” the mem-| and Kroon, of the painters’ local, | bers of his own lodge who sub-| and Allan, of Bakers’ Local 20, who| mitted a proposed amendment to| had been expelled last spring from} the constitution on the subject of | the conference on the charge that} proportional representation. | they were Communists. | ‘Although there are tens of thou-| The basis for the charge was a sands of Negro workers employed | Tesolution presented by one of these lin railroad departments over which | Workers, Allan, of Bakers’ Union 20, lthe Brotherhood has jurisdiction | 4emanding action on the refusal of | and thousands of Negroes are dues| the City Administration to grant paying members of the organization, | Detroit workers Grand Circus Park | there was not one Negro delegate | for the May Day demonstration. among the 500 present. Negroes are | The conference itself is composed not permitted to enter the hotel|f mostly conservative members of where the convention was held. | the Socialist Party, a faction of the Track laborers in certain South- | Lvestoneites, and a smattering of ern states receive as low as 7 and| ‘rade union members, to whom the| 10 cents an hour. conference is nothing less than an-} other scheme of the A. F. of L, , was exactly what the arch-faker Fijozdel and his satellites, who draw fat salaries from the miserable pay checks of track workers, wanted to avoid. Since there was little or no pre- ‘convention of a rank and file op- position, the machine with its steam-roller had the convention | sewed up. | To cover up their own past sell- out policies and prevent the adop- | tion of any measures in preparation ‘for a real fight for better condi- | tions, the officers threw a “red \scare” into the convention. Every progressive idea and mili- |tant proposal and delegates or |groups who proposed constructive measures were branded as “reds” and Communists. Maloney, of Den- | the union, R.R. Lodge | Men Offer Program By a R.R. Worker Correspondent CANTON, Ohio—At the time of the organization of the Brotherhood of Railroad Shop Crafts Union in Canton, many of us were not clear on the set-up of this organization. |We were aware of the company union in the field, and to be sure that we would avoid this outfit, we decided “to stay independent until |such time as a thorough investiga- jtion could be made. | To make this investigation, we sent delegates to conferences held in Pittsburgh on two occasions. Upon hearing the reports that our delegates brought back, we were \convinced that this new Brotherhood laborers, 55 cents for helpers, 65|was just another company set-up, | ,and the only basic change in the| program was that we, the workers. must pay the expenses of the new |organization, while the bosses them- selves paid for the upkeep of the old set-up. | We rejected the stupid and buro- eratic Grand Lodge constitution which was clearly an out and out | company program that gave the jold line company leadership com- | plete control. The workers attending the last j meeting of our lodge voted by a | Sema, majority to set up a perma- jnent organization, and also decided | that we, at our next meeting, should nominate permanent officials. Now j Since we haye a permanent organ- j zation and are going to elect of- | ficials, we propose that no com- |pany representatives or foremen be jallowed to hold any official positions ‘in the lodge; that only bonafide rank and file workers be nominated and elected who will pledge them- | selves to work for the following pro- |gram: | 1, Unity with other railroad | workers and organizations in a fight for the five-day week, six- hour day for the R.R. industry without reduction of our present pay. 2. An increase of 20 per cent in wages to partially offset the in- creased cost of living. 3. Readjustment of hours and wages when labor-saving ma- chinery is introduced on the job, so we may share in the benefits of such improvements and be guaranteed a minimum of 260 days work a year. 4. Establishment of a relief committee in the lodge to insure that all unemployed members re- ceive adequate cash relief from public agencies, 5. That all unemployed mem- bers who are in good standing at time of lay-offs to retain all union rights, benefits and privileges. 6. The right of democracy in for rank and file control, with no discrimination foreign-born. 1 Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill—H.R. 7598—that is now pending in the U. S. Congress. i} 1 | |the work has WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board ; noting whether it has been taken Is Cancer Hereditary? | before without trouble. This method M. S., Boston, Mass.—Let us say |is yery difficulty to follow out, but from the beginning, comrade, that - i your deep concern. about passing ated bigger pa ee en aie nape is un-|" ‘To relieve the itching temporarily ough some good | apply calamin lotion, containing work has been done in trying io| nt phenol. find the cause of cancer, none of | °"® Per cent, Phenol. reached the stage | where we can point to heredity and say—here, and here alone you will find the cause of cancer. Lecture on Birth Control Dr. Cheri Appel, a member of the Daily Worker Medical Advisory We infer from your letter that | Board, will deliver a lecture on Birth you are in good health and have | Control on Friday, Oct. 19, 9 p. m, been straight along. You say that at Irving Plaza Hall, Fifteenth St, you were born with a lump over | and Irving Place. Tickets can be your navel. The fac: that you have | secured at the door. The price is had the lump from birth, and that 25c. All money is to go toward the it has not grown larger in all that time, ‘makes us think that it is a| Daily Worker financial drive. harmless little tumor. A tumor of if this kind has nothing to do with Sweat Without Toil cancer. This lump may perhaps be Comrade J. S. writes: simply a rupture. ; “Is there any medicine to stop. We advise you to put off the op- excessive perspiration of the face eration “to become sterile.” Al-| and forehead? Even in the winter though something is known about | time these parts of my body per: cancer, the role of heredity in can- | spire a lot. And people often ask ( cer has not been determined. |me, “what are you sweating for?” . |The rest of my body also persptres {more than normal. But since % | cannot be seen, I don’t care, I am a young man in good health.” Hives 8. Z., Philadelphia—Your descrip- tion of the present rash as “welts,” | suggests that it may be a case of | Our Reply i urticaria, or “hives.” This is a dis-| The amount of perspiration varier ease which runs in families and is | greatly among normal people. From inherited. Parents or grandparents | your account, you are one of those may have hay fever or asthma, | Who sweat a great deal. It is prob- while the child may develop urti-| ably normal for you and nothing caria. This group of related dis- should be done about it. Sweating eases is due to sensitivity to foods | is controlled by the nervous system, or other substances, in the case of |So that any medicine or chemical urticaria, usually to foods. Urti- | applied to the skin would not check caria may start at any age, when-| it. Even if it were possible to stop ever the sentitive person comes in | the sweating, it might prove very contact with the food or foods to harmful, for the sweat apparatus is which he is sensitive, | one of the ways by wah ae pe It is often very hard to discover | controls its temperature an the food that is at fault. The best |Tid of some waste products of a poisonous nature. against Negroes, youth or the | Endorsement of the Workers | method is to go on a simple and | limited diet for two to three days until no spots appear, or the old ones go away. For example, eat Worry about only bread, milk, chicken, and then add one new food daily, keeping a | written list of everything eaten. If the “hives” come out after a new food has been added to the diet, | then that food is to be avoided in the future. Continue to keep a list of everything taken at meals and ‘between meals for weeks and | | months afterward, so that if an eruption occurs, it will be possible | to discover the food in the list by | Total to date .............$131. So long as it is coupled with good, general health, there is nothing te excessive perspiration. Contributions received to the credit of the Medical Advisory |Board in its Socialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, Jacob Burck, David Ramsey and |Helen Luke, in the Daily Worker idrive for $60,000. Quota—$1,500. Med. Board Coll. ..........$ 10,00 Previously received ........ 121.15 IN THE HOME By HELEN LUKE fA coat of wax over the entire drawer, inside and out, will help to keep out moisture, preventing future swelling.) The wax may be had a small bottle for a dime. Perhaps the most exploited of all \are the domestic workers, who slave long hours for little or no wages, at back-breaking and drab work. The N.R.A. made no pretense of providing for them. But though Such class-conscious spirit as Comrade Hirschorn’s will raise the $60,000 for the Daily Worker! But who will accept Comrade Allegro’s Bolshevik challenge? His $2 contributions come in every week. Having no money at hand, Al Zaltzberg sends what he can—twenty- two 3-cent stamps ...M. &., a white-collar worker, donates a dollar— “I am a daily reader of the ‘Daily’,” he tells us, “and have persuaded several of my friends to be the same”... R. E. sends in $10 in the| mame of Dr. Louis Burck, who treated her for nothing when she was | Mnured at the Austrian Consulate demonstration in the early part of this year. Shule 5 of Brooklyn has completed its quota and calls upon the | postal Telegraph have become so| other 3 Shuies to take example. A collection at the home of Comrade Schumsky brought in the full amount. Can’t ee What Will Cost leaders in conjunction with the §.P. leaders to keep the trade unionists away from the American League Against War and Fascism. Because of the expulsion of these three workers last spring, the local Money, Says Company Union By a Telegraph Worker Corre- spondent NEW YORK.—Workers in the discontented with unbearable work- ing conditions that the company officials had to do something to ‘POSTAL TELEGRAPH | unions were disgusted and left the | core As a result during the 3 immer v ployees to offer suggestions as tO | cyse aia by Maer cei of) how conditions may be improved. | the Detroit Federation of Labor, was | | There is a great deal of agitation | that it was too warm and the con. | about ventilation, and cleanliness, ‘ference would, be resumed ta ane whether the men who shine the fall so an attempt wae mre ns equipment would consider them- revive jt Sunday ny Uae | selves porters or technicians, and The re i quest of Allan and Fabian which of the men working on the io the conference now to seat theta | outside need raincoats; all of which ' was again turned down by the chair-| ree pretend to take very man, Larry Davidow, Socialist law- 8 . ‘yer, who i | However, when some employee from thie ait eae ‘Reta at] | more realistic than others says, “I) Workers Union, whom he d fend | want an increase in salary to make ina recent NRA case. | S| up some of the wage cuts I received | ‘The Lovesioneite group in. th |in the last few years, vacations with conference, headed by “Red” Mit. pay, a shorter work week and guar- jer, business agent of the A. F. ft |antee of seniority rights,” the offi- |, Laundry Workers Union, came tol |cials say, “We can’t discuss that 5 i Sie ee | these ex 2 ple: | because it would cost the company | expelled workers with the plea | of unity, statin; | money. Furthermore,. this meeting | to get the cadences @ eaeion |is called to exchange our ideas, 50 expulsion, He then made a moti: =i that we may be satisfied in know- | in the conference that the three ee ing what your complaints are and potted delegates be rercated. | we shall remedy them immediately, |” Davidow ruled them out of ord er’, but please do not ask for anything Here Is My Bit To NAME ADDRESS Received Oct. 10, 1984 $466.989— _ Previously received 15,717.95 | Unit 1-04 5.00 Unit 7-05, Tol. 1.30 ee ee eae 4.75 Unit 7-08, Tol. 1.50 Total to date $16,184.93 | Unit 1-12 4.00 Unit 7-12, Tol. 5.00 DISTRICT 1 (Reston) Unit 1-17 1.15 Youngstown 9.71 Chelsea Unit, Sec 3 $2.00 | Unit 3-43 1.50 Akron 29.68 Malden Unit, See 3 15.00 | Unit 11-06 4.00 Cincinnati, U-3 2.50 | Lithuanian Frac 10.00 | Unit 17-35 1.50 Cincinnati, U-4 1.33 | Eva Cerasoli 2.30| Unit 2-20 1.51 Cincinnati, U-5 1.65 | Danielson, E. Weymouth .38| Onit 2-22 4.50 Cincinnati, U12 2.33 | Unit 2-27 3.47 Canton 70 Total Oct. 10, 1994 $29.88 | Unit 2-26 2.80 Cincinnati, U-3 1,25' Total to date $885.60 | See, 17 5.55 South Slavs, | DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Init 11-08 1.50 Farrel. Pa. 16.00 Sec 15, ait € 41.00 Union 10.00 | Unit 2-27 40 Farrel, Pa., So. | Sec 2. Unit 238 13.19 D. W. Med. Unit 3.50 Side Unit 5.00 ec 15, Unit 4 1.00 Adv. Board 3.00] Unit 2.98 Ellwood City ' Col Sebastian D. W. Med it 2-24 3.93 Unit 1.00 Recio 72.0 Avd. Board 5.00 | Macedonian Jugoslay 1.W.0. 3ec 8, Unit 13 11.50 1.W.0., Br. 756 3.00| | Peoples L. 5.00 Br. 602, i SD iubur at | Uth. Sick Benefit Canto 2.50 See 8, Unit 4 3.00 Col by D Lubur a Can Sec 8, Unit 9 3.00 Workmen's ce P Swanson 4.00 5 8, Unit 9 3.00 Circle Can. 10.00) eee SE sf Unit 10 4.00 Anonymous 3.00) Total Oct. 10, 1984 $191.38 | Sec 8, Unit 12 5.00 Anonymous 3.00 $1,057.21 Sec 8, Unit 8 $.00 Anonymous 10.00 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) Millinery United Mildred Stohl 1.50) Sec 4, Unit 7 $5.00 Sec 1, Unit 5 7.85 Front 5.00 © Bussette, gg | Ste 4 Unit 1 81 Sec 5, Unit & 7.85 we Wkrs Ind Hicksville 50| Sec 5, Unit 2 3.50 Polish Chamber © Stanley 70 ed Sas of Labor City <7 orkonto , Unit 1, x Total Oct. 10, 1934 $113.86 00 (| Canteen CF 1608 - Total to date $7,512.36 | Total Oct. 10, 1934 $47.96 = DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) $5.00 Total to date $603.10 | ‘ank E. Shaw 5 eiiend of D. W., Wash. Bureau 20.00 DISTRICT & (Chicago) ‘Scmber .30|M Sumanider, Berwyn $10.00 os —_———_|J D F, Giinton, Ina, 1.00 tal Oct. 10, 1934 $25.50 ms | eral to date $2,202.42 | Total Oct. 10, 1934 $11.00 = DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) Total to date $1,392.10 Peter Beerka, Hochestér, N. Y. $1.00 DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) . — Wilkeson & Tacoman Finn. Wkrs. Fed 6.95 ‘Totel ,Oct. 10, 1934 $1.00 al Total to date $155.67 | Total Oct. 10, 1934 $6.95 DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) Total to date $70.97 Coration Br. Woods Run DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) -£W.0. $5.00 Unit 5.42|J P Sullivan $1.00 | 2.75 R.N.M.AS. 5.00 —_———} Lith. Buro 4.30| Total Oct. 10, 1924 $1.00 | Section 2.80 Finleyville, Pa Total to date $211.99 | Jewish Buro 1.80 Unit 4.66 DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) | Us-town let ward —ori.8224._ S.A eta | R White $1.00 nit 2.10 Beaver Falls iets < Unit 2.00 | Total Oct. 10, 1934 $1.00 - —|Total to date $270.26 Total Oct. 10, 1934 $35.45 DISTRICT 19 (Denver) i Total to date $283.26| Mr. and Mrs. P L Howe $1.00 | ; DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) parable Bec 3 $20.00 Asan 2.00| Total Oct. 10, 1934 $1.00 | Unit 11-08 3.00 H Hartman 125; Total to, date $240.34 + Unit 14-27 3.00 Bulgarian-Mace DISTRICT 26 (So, Dakota) ‘Unit 1-07 2.00 donian Wkrs Homer Ayres $1.00 | Unit 1-13 1.95 Ed. 5.00 ——_| Unit 1-03 148 Unit 7-01, Tol. 143! Total Oct. 19, 1034 $1.00 | Unit 1-02 4.60 Unit 7-03, Tol. 5.15 Total to date $2.00 | ward the $60,000! AMOUNT |) : | Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N.Y. (stem the rising tide of complaints. |To this end they now call confer- | that costs money.” ences of employees every week. The This obviously is a move in the ‘names of employees “invited” to | direction of a company union. We | attend are placed on the bulletin| workers in this company should | editors. board, usually on the day of the meeting, to prevent a discussion among the workers before they pre- sent their grievances to the offi- cials. Then the officials tell the em- make it our task to expose and de- | feat this move, and organize into | a real fighting, independent trade | union. Smash Unionism! and destroy Company Letters from (Recanse of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we ean print only those that are of general interest to Daily Worker readers, However, all letters received are carefully read by the Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. | INFORMATION ABOUT UNIONS New York City. Dear Editor, I am a porter in a Brooklyn Ten- ement House and receive $20 a month, I work twelve hours a day. Would like to know what organiza- tion I can join in order to better my conditions. I shall appreciate a reply in the Daily Worker. D.:T. Our Readers THE WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ | LANGUAGE | Barre, Vt. | I am yery much interested in the articles which have recently ap- peared in the Daily Worker on the subject of terms and words which many workers and farmers do not understand. We try, in speaking to workers here, to use their own language. Even so, we often go wrong. After a recent mass meeting of the League Against War and Fascism, we were asked by both workers and middle-class people, “What is fas- cism?” We had gone through an entire meeting, little realizing that. most of the people present lacked even the most elementary knowl-| edge of what fascism is. Even the simple word “capital- ism” is unknown to most workers. | Why? Because in the grade schools | the word is not introduced. Some farmers I talked to thought | peasants were wild birds (pheas- | Note: The Building Service Em- |ployees Union is located at 156 West 44th St., Room 503, New York City. For information about unions, write to Trade Union Unity Council (New | York district), of Trade Union \stating the credentials’ committee, headed by “Réd” Miller, had re- | fused last spring to seat these three | Workers on the charge that they | Were Communists. No attempt was made by the group of five Love- stoneites to appeal the decision of the chair, or to answer this lie of Davidow. At the time of the ex- pulsion the credentials’ committee did not make the accusation, but the whole situation was handled by Davidow, who refused to allow dis- cussion for a vote on the question. The sectarian policy of this con- | ference has so disgusted the rank, and file. that the few who attended stated that the only conference that Teally fights war and fascism is the American League Against War and Fascism. It is the task of the re- maining delegates in this labor con- ference to demand the unity of their conference with the American League Against War and Fascism, | and in this way establish the united front of all anti-fascist fighters, we speak to these natives in their own idioms, according to their own ideology, after the forced speeches of the old approach! We have learned that the “Yankees” have the nerves and sinews of a revolu- tionary people. Speak their tongue and they are deeply aroused. The native worker is becoming radicalized beneath the surface so fast as to cause him bewilderment. He wants to have leadership from his own ranks, and when he fails |to get this, he follows any false! prophet who talks his own language in a radical vein. Our future lies in identifying ourselves with him as we seek to lead him, ants). What a difference we note when | Unity League (National), at 799 Broadway, New York City JACK WILGUS, (Signature authorized). 8. To form such a system Fed- eration as will enable us to carry out this program and save us the expense of paying salaries to a half dozen or more general chair- men and vice-chairmen. This appeal has been issued by a group of lodge members who are supporters of the Brotherhood Unity Movement. IRT Workers Urged To Join Fight Against Increasing Attacks By a Subway Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Workers of the I. R. T., wake up, or soon you will be much worse off than people on the relief. Recently our great Mr. J. Broderick was sent to the Transit Workers’ Union to break it up. ‘Why? By whose orders? None other than the officials of the I. R. T., to scare the men into joining the great pension plan fund, which \has been proven a complete fraud. This the men know, and they are also not satisfied with the extra pocket. money to the officials, who were not content with cutting the ;men 10 per cent in wages, but had to get out a fake pension fund, so as to have more money. Do you realize. fellow workers of the I. R. T., that you will all soon be taking your wives and families to live in tents if you don’t stand up for your legal rights? The delegates of the brotherhood do net protect the workers from cuts and layoffs. Fellow workers, the sooner you realize the facts, the bet- ter able you will be to fight for your rights. S. L. P. MEMBER ACTS AS SCAB By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—In a strike conducted at Henry's Food Market (Ave. U and E. 14th St.) where 3 workers have been discriminated against because of union activity, |an active member of the Socialist ‘Labor Party one Arthur Golden- berg of 2530 Ocean Ave. is em- ployed as a scab. As such he is actively engaged in breaking a militant strike of the food workers. This should be in- teresting to class conscious workers in its interpretation of such anti- an active Socialist Labor Party working class acts upon the part of member. 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, ete—and post office, telephone, telegraph, etc, We urge workers from these industries to write us of their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each week, |they are isolated one from another, they find ways and means of or- ganizing; this is most excellent for only thus will their conditions prove. We print a few lines which are part of a letter sent from an Contributions received to the credit of Helen Luke in her Social- ist competition with David Ramsey, Jacob Burck, Del, Harry Gannes, Mike Gold and the Medical Advis- ory Board, in the Daily Worker organizer of the union in New York drive for $60,000. Quota—$500. to a girl asking such advice on R. White . vee $1.00 bh java Previously received ..cs.....: 4.40 “The main thing is time, energy, and patience. We began with | potal to date $540 0 small ups of women we met aed called through canvassing. We ana them 75 meetings in a private house Can You Make °Em fF and be- where we elected officers Vourselt? gan our organization. Then through leafiets and open air meetings we were able to enlarge our mem: | bership. “Our experience 1s that prop- aganda is only sufficient. to bring the workers to the first meetings, but unless action is shown imme- diately they drop out. “There are several lines of at- tack. For instance, there is always the question of grievances. We have been successful in demanding full wages for workers, and we find that the employers are terrified of any possible trouble such as eXx-| posure or picketing. There is also | the fight against the unemployment | agencies. Then cases of discrimina- | Pattern 2047 is available in stres 1% yards 54 inch fabric and 14% | yards 36 inch confrasting. MTlus- trated step-by-step sewing instrue- tions included. tion can be protested. | “Of course most workers coming into a union want some benefit and want it right away. If possible, get in a few jobs at fairly good wages. This job-giving should be handled carefully and brought for- ward as a means of fighting the agencies. Always the emphasis should be on fight. The way of developing a real union is to organ- ize some struggle for higher wages. If it is possible to bring the work- ers together in a house and have them insist on certain demands, put forward some militant action, etc., it will do more to strengthen the Union than all of the other things put together.” The Household Balky Drawers—Unless it be stubborn windows, we know of nothing in the house more exas- perating than dresser-drawers, etc., which do not slide easily. What causes the sticking? If the piece of furniture is not very old and broken, it is probably due to damp air which swells the wood. Usually this will help: On a very dry day (warm if any) remoye the drawer and leave over- night to dry in a ventilated place, or two nights is necessary. If the bottom of the drawer has drawn back and falls down, fix this by pushing bottom in place and fas- tening with very slender nails at back. When chest and drawers are both dried out well, apply liberally, with Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in a bit of cloth, prepared liquid par- quet wax, over the sides of drawer and bottom edges of sides on which drawer slides. (Sandpaper it first if it is rough.) Apply a coat also to the boards inside the chest on coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and_ style a BE SURE TO STATE Address orders to Daily Worker which the drawer slides. Let di Pattern Department, 243 West 17th ry {and polish with a clean soft cloth. Street, New. York City. 8B, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18, Size 12 takes _