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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1934 Restaurant Chain Gets Free Labor by ‘Training’ St udents Detroit Education Board Aids Scheme | WORKERS’ HEALTH Haven F.E.R.A. Men Unite Against Spying Slavedriver New ‘Spies Help to Cut ‘Girls Speeded | : - o¢ By Sunshine | vimsaeue| Jacksonville Relief) 4.sociation| NEW HAVEN, Conn.—“Boys. | unless you produce more, some of you will be walking the streets.” | Over 3,000 Unemployed Thrown Off F.E.R.A. BUSES ee Sa ete Jobs After Stoolpigeons Hamper Struggle Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board CORRECTION ;mothers of the capitalist class and Dr. Cheri Appel, who is deliver-|of the death of workers’ children of ing a lecture on birth control on | infectious diseases and the children By a Sunshine Worker Pupils at Wayne University Work for Nothing | | NEW YORK.—In the English |Qct, 19, is not a member of the|of the capitalist class. On Promise of Jobs During Christmas Rush ap poe by Mr. Moore, the new boss on [department of 8G 8 Loose-Wiles, |Daily Worker Medical Advisory |doubts that the figures would show ia eres ae he F. E. R. A., Mosguito Control y, Ne ‘nite .. | Since we have the company union, | Board, as was stated in this col-|a high death rate both among the By a Worker Correspondent looked at me for a moment. And ie in fries court Nee Haven ay i ere Le gale cee ies ot Bee am Ore as the oven men work 15 minutes /umn on Friday, Oct. 12. She will | worker-mothers and the workers’ . — Sanders, |I guess she thought I was going to |} Gounty JACKSONVILLE, ;Fia-—Por the | pen the. Gr Onand beste dt | Jonger every day. The machines |deliver her lecture under the |children; and for the same reasons and confec- | School. eete Vltheniies wane ene | es three weeks the whole ruling | ’ “i ean +... | used to stop at 4:15 and give the /auspices of the Daily Worker Med-|—poor diet, poor housing, inade- i oit, which has| “All student hiring done at Wayne || tg many weeks of spying by Mr a of Ee jttannt fogelont Tusse are nang cs smetieus |men a chance to wash up to get |ical Advisory Board. |quate medical care, contact with in- a Henry Ford system all its own ghe said. I asked her || Dine mee Gonmused hist lle et oa ee Goun- | polsigigns. 97 a thousand les | out by 4:30. Today the machines | | |fected persons because in the has managed to pull a trick out of | what she meant lurke, State me ss 1 cil, and even the holy oe came they managed to clim| into ee run to the very last minute, 4:25. | Workers Die First | crowded condition of living the per- the bag for getting free labor. Gaiiet sald that’ Randers bine Coe Engineer, who would sneak up out seals 2 openly. Some ee leadership and age onlay heY | That means the men work to 4:30.| A worker has only half the chance |son could not be avoided, and all I went there to look for a job.| operation with the Detroit Board of on the men to find out if they |) preachers went so far as to say that | organized under a different name | ‘Among the girls it’s no better.|t0 live as an employer. If one|summed up in low incomes which the people are lazy and that they refuse to work, but that is a lie On the door they've got a sign read- Education was training students so || Were talking, eating a sandwich ana. Se ea RO ee | The 10 minutes rest period they |¢@™s one’s living with a pick or|/do not make any other kind of live or smoking a pipe. He was even ing “Employment Interviews on that if they were needed during the t " vorki eo N |got when the Sunshine Association |Shovel — in the eyes of some ajing possible. x y, 9 to 10 a, m. Only.” I was|Christmas rush the store might give |] caught standing on a hill with |/@g#inst the starving working people /the National Unemployment Coun- feet started is now cut to 3 min- |Nealthful, romantic out-door sport—| ‘The comparative death rates from I : 1 m ly. s ris is Tush the sto ight gi 7 of this city, The only time the | cil to 25 cents a month under the! " 6 i |one’s chances of living t i Id | tub osi i id * there on Mon» and the only! them a job Spy glasses. tao ry © - . . ™ utes. Sometimes when it's busy s of living to a ripe ol uberculosis, pneumonia and acci-: A | | workers refuse to work is when /misleading and grafting organiza- 4 |age are only about half as good as|dents in different classes of occu thing that happened was when there; I asked how much the students The workers met the same day |'they get no pay to support their|tion. The money goes into their | they don’t even get that, It was |e tof th ia A ae ip ipae was a in the office| were paid for the work they did |] and decided to set the amount of || wives and children, own pocket, organizers being of-| ever so busy before at this time. Fans RARE APN: Oe ae eRe | Soe are ate bye ae Se penis they told us th sn’t any work during this so-called training period. |] work to be produced at a rate The workers here, before tne fered fifteen cents of every twenty-| Yet they don’t rehire the men ne Workers have known for a long —Deaths Per 1,000 Population—= this week and to beat it __| She gave me to understand that the || jower than the former average, ||National Unemployment Council |five cents collected for new mem-| laid off two months ago, when they | aese arabe arna aariabbinn like this Tuber- Pneu- Acel- I wen anyway (if you pay any store was doing a big favor by giv- |} not to allow anyone to be laid ||was formed, had been refused any |bers. Relief has been reduced to|Said it was slow. They hire new Hut mee the ‘United yo Public | , Occupation culosis monia dents manager never would e given & pas sts in simply learning now to |! if anyone is fired. A committee ||Some of the workers received as |OVeT 3,000 unemployed were thrown| Only two months of the Sun- |some new statistics gathered in ten | Proprietors, managers chance to say NO) and told the girl wait on customers in their restau- | of five was elected to see that ||little as a ten cent grocery order | off the F. E.R. A. | shine Association and already we latotae and preven it and officials . 53.00 988 OS A lee da eda pene a er Fey nee nee a bigs aed these decisions are carried out. ae . hy ie week. Cees eli deara Bh a Oe ae ty ee Caen ph Pa ena ort Unskilled laborers die off twiice se a iespisbig 65.8 505 18T 7 goaearene age fener = ¢ . 9» amilies of irom six to eig got |showing signs of disgust and dis- a hi stir Be as fast as the hk er i yusiness | Skilled workers and that it wasn’t about employment the store and the Board of only 50 cents to $1 per week. The | satisfaction with these grafters,| company’s promises don’t mean mo Mi se eae treats foremen ne TEL UOT 848 ise _~ Hire es ess he = x pean 4 a a ear ees Fi " L Yr rs Negroes were severely discrim-/and they are preparing already to | anything when the company is head |}).:." oF the lungs, pneumonia and jeeteuee Soekers 303 ae Od he door an then er foot ant only a bare chance a! hey’! se" e a * fs nel 4 — i . | Ss } workers ..., . . es cen he chee B jobctan sine ten cron ot nel ire earne jinated against. Some of the case-|move out from under these poli-|of the union. They run it for thelr |v oGents are the three leading rea- |All classes ..... 815 683 20.8 benefit not whe ne, benefit. ‘sons for the death of workers at| Will these shocking figures cause | the bourgeoisie to rush to Washing- |ton to demand that the Workers’ | workers told them that they are * not supposed to get relief at all on | Constantly To re a = = sSebites a account of having been born black. Oklahoma Workers Fight Some of the Negro families with R e l i ef Ji m z Crow Rules Daily Worker, I am very interested from six to eight persons get only = in the readers column because I} {are forming a local of the Unem-| have learned a great deal from it. ployment Council, I’ve come to the conclusion that our ticians’ tools, so scon as they are | conyinced of what kind of leaders | are best for them to depend on. | Of course, it is clear that -such | leaders must come directly from| ments “Yd like a job,” I said. She’ Christmas rush. \half the age of business men, Agri- | cultural workers, according to the) |report, are an exception. They have | a lower death rate than successful | Note: Sunshine workers should form committees in their depart- Unemployment and Social Insurance to force the company Bill (H. R. 7598) be passed at once in jae Keep Pay Low sx to $1 per month, the unemployed workers them-| union delegates to take up their |). ciness and professional men jorder to protect workers from the | For the last three months we | selves. | grievances—at the same time in “The ten States in the study are Conditions named in the report of na Eran Het jorganized under the Unemploy-| By now we all have plenty of | order to get better conditions the | 41,),ma Connecticut, Illinois, Kan-|the Public Health Service? They ya ‘er Correspon' jment Council from five to six experience, and the workers here | workers must build the workers’ | sas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New| Will not. All that workers need thousand members who helped all the unemployed workers get much more relief and to fire Miss Brad- ley, the hungry man’s enemy. Therefore our organization was get- rank and file controlled union and smash the company union. United “Cigar “Clerks NEW YORK.—I subscribe to the are beginning to wake up. They | realize that the only leaders which organize the workers and lead them jin their struggle for better condi- | tions, for more relief, for less hours, | expect is “Isn't it shocking!” “What a pity!,” “Something ought te be done. But I suppose the world has always been like that and always will be!” Jersey, consin. | “This table shows the death rates among men of various occupational classes, between the ages of 15 and New York, Ohio and Wis- | | By a Worker Correspondent OKMULGEE, Okla.—We had our 7 - The F. E. R. A. supervisor ap-| factory needs a union. |ting stronger every day and our|and more wages are members of : Workers now have the facts be- Renee acenasy fgets | pealed to us not to send any mixed I work for the Quality Art Novelty see me eetting aiete too, until |the Communist Party, because this | Get Extra P ay As | 64 ini does thpeas “THRE RUE ESI WEE vito etter the committee left |COmmittee to wait on her. She said |Co. for several years now. There|the ruling class bunch with the |Party is organized by and for the| BookkeepersAre Fired | Fer 1,000 the situation is—death among oc- mia ‘athe rete committee Jet |she would be glad to receive any | are about 450 fellows and girls print- Politicians decided to break up this | workers and poor farmers. | vg ef bhideay i sad cupational classes are in direct rela- Pea Waa’ given a Ss ehiecke, tha fast sosninliias composed of an entire | ing, pasting, labeling, ete. The girls | DS apa _____ | By a Worker Correspondent “Professional men . 70 | tion to earning power; an unskilled lief they had received in five | White or entire colored body. The do piece work: the minimum is sup- , NEW YORK.—The United Cigar | “Proprietors, managers and offic 74 |Wworker has half the chance to live yee @_|rank and file flatly refused to en-| posed to be 30c an hour, and at 06 I A d ® aft has: beat | Seeren eee ea eee 7 |a8 a successful business or profes- months, The second cae ror one |tertain any such request at our|hours that would make $12, But pyimg Ss ded to Required tad gees Ar editor ‘tai neckan|| MORCeENe wits ee 81 | sional man; the death rate for tu- ene ofiave 5 meeting last night. hardly anyone makes that because | |reduced to one-third of its neces: | (Tre were 3.1 |berculosis for unskilled workers is About them women, 70 workers, 40 of gathered at a against an eviction. They stayed from 7 a. m. untiil noon, They have not been evicted yet, but we are going to return Monday. Our comrade’s | house-this morning to demonstrate | |130 window cleaners (total number STRIKES STIR MONTREAL By a Worker Correspondent MONTREAL, Can.—At the mo- | ment, we have a militant strike of of such workers here is 178), and there have been 10 arrests in two plan was to carry the furniture back in after the Cossacks put it out. have tried everything to our meetings, because we them jointly with Negroes we have Negroes on all our committees. We are breaking the Jim-Crow law continually and in- tend to keep on doing so. We will days time. They are at the mo-/ ment negotiating a settlement. | Five hundred to 600 furniture | workers are out some of the most unscrupulous and viciously reactionary bosses avail- able. Six cents an hour is the wage |most of them are fighting, with 800n. Through our activities there | Wwe have had success in securing} Work for over 20 workers and they dren’s strike. $25 F rom He: 4, New = ee LW.0O., Is Feature Today : hi largest single contributor among the mass organizations on today’s list is Beanch 4 of the New York I.W.O.—$25. The tabulation is | Council of Tribuna Robotniza—which sends in $20. also come in from the Fur Workers Industrial Union in New York. York and Chicago lead the field in the amounts sent in— here too—facing | prices are fixed so that you can't | make more; and if you do they raise | hell and give you a hard job so| that you can’t make so much. New | girls are called learners and are only supposed to get $9.60. After five weeks their learning period is sup-|E. R. A. in this district has been posed to be over, but they are fired before that. In other departments the fellows and girls are supposed to work 40 hours for $10 to $15. But they are forced to work overtime from two to three hours a night for 50 cents suppey money. And what speed-up! The foremen and fore- unlimited hours and terrific shop | ladies are always driving you. be sending for a charter for Coalton | conditions. The lumber workers are | getting restless in Quebec; and we | day and when she went for bandage have just concluded a school chil- | they had none for her. There are} t | no medical supplies in case of emer-| ministration. | gencies. The sanitary conditions are| | very bad: they have no lunch room | workers to this letter was first a| | for those who bring their own food; | discussion, A girl cut her finger the other there are inadequate locker facil- ities so that things are lost, torn, and stolen. They have a terrible system of hiring: one day they hire a bunch of workers; that night they work overtime; the next day they lay off most of the workers. Now is the rush season! Now is |Some of the things we ought to have is an increase in wages, an end Duties on Emergency Relief By a Worker Correspondent, SO. BRAINTREE, Mass.—The F. designated the E. R. A. to distin- guish it from the National F. E. R.A. On the major project in Brain tree of “Sacco Vanzetti ill fame, the time-keeper distributed an un- | gins by praising the workers on | the job, just as the shave owncr praises his slaves. The whole letter | breathes of a superiority complex designed to make these workers feel | they are obligated to the superior} intelligence of the local E.R.A. Ad- | | The reaction of the majority of | rooted | of this} then a deep jhatred against the writers letter. The letter not only openly encourages but practically demands jthat every worker become a stool pigeon against his fellow worker. The intimidation it contains is sim- ply the old terrorist slogan, ‘3f you don’t like it there are plenty more to take your place!” _ However, the workers were not in- timidated by this brazen piece of tyrany on the part of the cheap Political bosses of the local F. R. A. Administration, With simple day to day agitation among these workers there is no doubt they will respond to organized efforts to smash this new form of tyranny on the part of the cheap capitalist workers to accept the coming Fas- cism, which means a slave stand- ard of living, High Dues Keep Unemployed | | From Joining Painters Union also featured. by a donation from a foreign language newspaper—the | the time to start & union because it| Ten dollars has! would hit the boss the hardest. By a Worker Correspondent, “1 is that he must pay $15, no matter NEW YORK.—I am a painter by | if he has been out of work for a tyranny to force the | sary capacity. The work is shifted on the clerk's shoulders by ingeni- ous systems of “taking inventory of stock,” on their own time, without pay or compensation. Speed-ups are continually being forced upon the men to increase sales, so that the profits of bosses become greater, but the wages of the clerks are sta- tionary. The company does not protect the men against taking counterfeit cur- rency or coin, but forces them to pay out of their starvation wages if they do not detect a bad bill among the countless $20, $10, and $5 bills they handle. AN EXPLOITED CLERK |Paper Workers Tricked By Federal Gov't Agent By a Worker Correspondent lowing is news of the Watervliet paper workers’ strike. A few days ago, while their or- ganizer was away on another job he claimed he had to look after at | Monroe, a government man came to the strikers and their commit- tee head and told them that “tl government men usvally sided with SOUTH HAVEN, Mich.—The fol- | | “AML classes. ... 5 It has long been known that cer- |tain occupations were particularly |hazardous. and that the accident !yate among workers was high. But | “accidents” stand third in the causes of death. The first cause is tuberculosis and the second pneu- monia and death from tuberculosis jor pneumonia is not a matter of hazardous occupation. These deaths have a direct relation to earning ;Power, This is so obvioius that it jcould not be dodged and the report |points out that “diet, housing, jamount of medical care, contact with infected persons and low in- come are believed (bold face ours) to Play the chief part in causing so many more deaths, especially from tuberculosis and pneumonia, among |men in the low-pay classes.” The vestigate, also, the comparative death rate of worker-mothers and Our social and economic syste! throws Public Health Service might well in- | Previously received 184.9 as against 26,2 for professional men and 43.2 for proprietors, man- agers and officials; and for pneu- monia 135.9 as against 38.8 and 53; and the difference due to incomes so low that proper diet, proper hous- ing, adequate medical care and pro- tection from infected persons are not possible. When workers be- come sufficiently aware of these facts they will demand the passage of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill. 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 drive for $60,000. Quota—$1,500, Col. by Medical Board . -$ 5,00 Total to date ...............$136.15 IN THE HOME By HELEN LUKE Capitalism Would Sell Oil to Put Out Fire “Can You Make Em : trade. sant joi ith |J0ng time and has no money. He|the workers, but, if he decided upon the long-suffering New York, $259.63; Chicago, $210.78. Section 1 is the heaviest con-/ to the speed-up, no piece Work, NO tht Nistor Carnes den goon te | isn’t even given a chance to ears (against them, they had no other|Woman, the mother and housewite, Yourself? tribuior in the first district, Section 13, in the second. overtime. | Brotherhood of Painters. ¥ wentto |the money to pay. |recourse but to give up the strike.” | responsibility for the family’s health, The Chicago John Reed Club shows the way to the New York| I think the other workers from) thoi, omce at 248 W. 14th at. ana | CA ae | They are very backward workers. | while cruelly bombarding her on all Pattern 2017 bl group, which is still slumbering. Seven dollars and some change is the |the Quality Art should write what asked for membership application.| _ Note: The Rank and File |The federal man told them there | sides with false and misleading ad- e so arabanie aimee product of this cultural organization in the Windy City, Has the they think. j1 was told by Mrs. Lynch, one of | Painters Protective Association, | V5 pelea a) seule ue seaets Periisiiag far dalinet ut products. Now, | t/t) autem, gear eee ame Me is ‘ais J cs i a ee | ieee J | ts * | for them to go back to work. Sojas the winter approaches (a cold,| and 40. Size 16 takes yards eultural center moved to Chicago? @— ae joo VIGILANTES EXPEL UNION | Wea somes qarkers ai I an organization of militant mem- | they held_a meeting and voted to|hard one, so the prophets assure us,| inch fabric, and % sn 6 acd Received Oct. 12, 1934 645.15 | Unit 423 1.55 H Gilerowitz, 1.00 LEADERS FROM SHANNON, GA. | L é on 6 & “inst down | bers of the Brotherhood, is car- |do so. This week the union or-|and no doubt even the Comintern : Previously received $16,699.37/ Unit 415 10.00 W_8 Bennett, | SHANNON, Ga., Oct. 4.—Nine- | Payment o! for a working card. ine cae Oph nick fe c | ganizer came back and was re-| would agree with that)—the vendors | Contrasting for collar. Tilustrated Unit 424 1.50 Sherman 50 | I told her I didn’t have $15 and| "Ying ight against the Zaus. we ii Total to date Unit S.G.L. 3.52 Wkrs of Interna- | teen union leaders who were ar- | ofrered Rt han ehien, kgee snaking of Gite ., |ported to me to be very indignant of cold cures and syrups leap to| Step-by-step sewing instructions in- DISTRICT 1 (Boston) Unit 428 358 tional Tailor. 5.00 | rested by the National Guard, my a ad, which was $6. ie &: istrict Council | because the strikers went back, and prominence with wild ads for their | cluded. oe Oleats. M Klein 1,90 | Sec 2 Walter Geller 1.00] taren to Atlanta and later re-| f@ refused this and told me the| No. 9, for the elimination of dues | they were to hold another meet-|nostrums and tablets. Worcester $2.00 B Feinberg 50| Unit 68 pi s _—" 100 | leased were ordered to leave the | Uion could do nothing for me until’ payments by unemployed mem- | ing last night to see if they can T think Coll bl J Paldman —L Epstein so| Unit 18 5.00 prulie : ivi ~|I paid the $15. | b ‘We would t leet the strike gol i Ink particularly mean the @& 2 Sorin, Br 23, Sam Dretet 50; Unit 9 5.00 P Browner .50| city of Shannon by vigilantes fol. ers. 'e wor suggest that the get the strike going again. publicity given to coughdrops and Saw.0., Brockton, A Wilsotsky -80| ‘Unit 7 1.00 —~Sysaes | 1OWing their return today. The membership of the union!) worker who wrote the above let- The unions at Kalamazoo, a big|such, recommending them as con- Mass Abe Siskind 50;| Saal Oct. 2. 10e Ph ca a should know this, that a worker | ter get in touch with the Associa~ | paper mill town, had promised to|taining Primary Vitamin A. “Your eg MER gcd - DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) | Urge Members of Your Union to| comes to the union and asks to| tion and take his case up with |help the strikers financially and|chiid.” says one such ad, “needs A Victor 50 $9 | Zurme Bree. __ $50) Read the Daily Worker! join and the first thing he is told them. otherwise, but did not do a thing.| primary Vitamin A to ent ote Me Shapiro td arobel oct 1a) 380d 350 ~ coughs and colds. That is why we mada Band. 1.00 Total to date Ss $1,070.71 hhave added it to Hunkydory Cough fie, 2 sigTs fe 2] LETTERS FROM OUR READERS |P& Barns to date’ a Sec 8, Unit 2 3.06 Sec 2-4 1.01 a What's wrong with this ad as DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Sec 1, Unit 2 3.00 Armenian Frac. 4.65 | with many others, is not what it says, Bee 1 Unit 6B 2.09| Sec 10, wae joe aS aay a but what it does not say, and the 4 $10.97 Unit 6B 50; * Unit * 10.21 Unit 68 2100 | See 8-1, | 4 ‘6 % 4 e arrangement of its words to imply Unit Sec 6 Total Oct. 12, 1934 ee The Meaning of ‘Soviet Power something it doesn’t actually state. Unit Unit 1 laine Wey oe ING CLASS in the revolution and | rialist, anti-Soviet propaganda. | “Your child needs Primary Vitamin pat Loa a aa a8 928.25 See 13 20.75 | ASTORIA, L. I. } used is to yield to all the impe- | i", the building of socialism. Every worker can well afford not |A to fight off coughs and colds,” it nit Unit 58 3.00| Sec 12 5.00 Women’s Council | ue 2 tare ‘Maan oal' ae Vena They provided for the mass of | only to defend every legacy of the | SAYS. Quite true. So he does. But Unit Unit 78 1.68 | Seo 13 Se ae ac Dear Comrade Editor: has come to have a most exact | t@ People, long oppressed by | Russian workers’ experience, but | the next sentence promises nothing, vere Ngo \gec 3 9.00 Robotniza 20.00; The cartoon, “The Chinese Wall,” nehuiiy | capitalists and landlords, the | to advocate boldly the need of | merely implying that if you give your Unit 16, Af unit ? Bec 1 10.00 Br 2328, I.W.O. 1.20 | by Comrade R. W., of Oakland, Cali- i | greatest democracy, while at the | following the path of the Russian | kid enough Hunkydory Cough Drops Unt 20 Unit 24 Sec 1 bah Frokelt Gomenen |fornia, is a valuable contribution We have in the United States | same time providing the work- | working class. he won't catch cold, or that his ak — See” See oy gona Reed Club 5.00 |towards the subject in question,| councils of all kinds: Women’s | ers with a concentrated State Our difficulty arises not from |©°l4 will be cured. “That is why Unit Unit 2 Rockford Sec 15.00 John Reed Club 2.19 |The cartoon itself should be dis-| Councils, Trades and Labor Coun- | power capable of destroying cap- | the use of the TERM “Soviet” in- |W® have added it to Hunkydory 4 Unit Unit 3 Rockord Sec, Chas, Schultz .50 | tributed widely, and especially in| cils, City Councils, Church Coun- | italist rule, uprooting capitalism | stead of “Council,” but rather | Cough Drops.” So what? Unit Unit 4 Ree Gis ae ~gaio7a | SPCakers’ schools. cils, ete, To begin to speak now | completely, and building a new | from the need for greater clarity The books on dietetics also say ae ae: ‘ wee ‘Total to date 41,616.11; The two other contributing com-| of “Council Power,” of a “Coun- | Socialist society. In short, history | and more convincing propaganda | that a condition tending toward al- Unit Unit. 24 DISTRICT 9 (Minnisota) rades advise not to use “goviet | cil Government,” as a substitute | has given to the term “soviet” in explaining ihe revolutionary | kalinity in the body is a good de- Bec 8 Unit 25 _ Pray veer Virginia — power,” “Soviet America.” In your| for Soviet power, for Soviet Gov- | the meaning: DICTATORSHIP | sojution for the crisis, the dicta- | fense against colds, and that even ait § 150 unit 2 Arvo M. Savalt COO aka woul detend: hile sent ernment, would be meaningless. | OF THE PROLETARIAT, , | torial capitalist character of | After a cold has been contracted, : Unit 1 15.7 Unit 12 —-| Now, whether this term is “un-| No worker would understand The reason that this “Russian’ American democracy and the | the use of “lighter” foods, is ad- Unit 1 1.00 Unit 20 basen get 1934 onl American,” or from your point of| what the Communists wanted. word “soviet” has come to have | need for the dictatorship of the | Visable: fruits, citrus fruits espe- Beas 30 eo a 4 MT pISTRICT 18 (California) "|View, correct, is in my opinion un-| ‘The term “soviet,” while liter- | {is meaning and not the English | proletariat, for Soviet power, as |Clally — and vegetables, especially at aa an, oe esa ASE eeaiclaater $1.00/ important. Important in that the| ally meaning “council,” has been | Wr" “council? is easily under- | the road to Socialisin. leaf, and tomatoes—produce an al- Unit 38 Lat A iairy 5.00 ~~ American population has a ten-| endowed by history, by the revo- stood: the Russian working class pet ra kaline reaction in the body. And Unit 1 376 Fur Wkrs Ind | Total Oct. 12, 1934 $1.00 | senoy: ta dook at these terms pal: sate A ( first completed the job of oyer- In short, our job is to convince | right here is a much better source Unit 6 2.16 | Union 10.00 | Total to date : $118.53 dency to, a i ntionary victory of the workers | throwing capitalist rule and es- _ the workers, on the basis of their of your protective Vitamin A tha! Unit 4 94 Mike Petrov 1.00 DISTRICT 15 (New Hayen) Russian” and it should be seri-| and peasants in Russia, with a very tablishing ‘the ‘rile of th experiences in struggle, that a Mi pr n n Unit 4 100 Sympathizer 30 | Swedish Wrks Club 85.09 ously considered to use the native! precise meaning when applied to | ‘@blshing the rule of the working Soviet tat aged ye | 22Y, amount of cough-drops. Unit 6 88 B Frank 1,00| Unit H 1.00 | word “souncll,” instead. | Tt 4 i class. They led the way. They | Soviet government is needed. It | [Lemons have earned their repu- Unit ¥.C.L. 3.00 Group of | Red Sunday 10.72 ants apeRY ; | Foverne net means not merely | mapped out the road over which | iS @ problem of ideas, of funda- | tation as a medicine against colds. Unit 7 4.25 —‘Mustelans’ 4.10 - Our aim is to bring the truth “council” in lose English usage, | she working class in all countries | Mental conceptions, and not of a |p, on Unit 78 «$00. S Levine 1,00) Total Oct. 12, 1934 $16.72 about Workers’ and Farmers’ Coun-| but a council of ONE CLASS, the : wit word the: subatitutionsof “Oonne. | tere roe ne eee ceclonaa. OF unit 8 2.30 Eichenbaum Total to date $228.71 | cils to the masses. | working class, created for a dofi- | ™USt eventually travel. They gave a petted stripe them have reached New York and Bec 4 Camp Unit 5.00} DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) age fe 7 to the working class a new form | ¢il” for “Soviet. we subsequently saw them on Sec- G&G. No. 14 1:85 Br 4, 1.W.O. 25.00} Herman Jensen $3.00| The best way should be chosen. nite purpose, THE DESTRUC- | of state power, SOVIETS, provid- Our readers are correct when | ond A\ “ Unit. 4092.00 J Smitih 1.00 =| W.M. | TION OF CAPITALISM AND | fn. th sigh ddetuptsere tac’ | Qierastake Wee Cintabtiee (ainth MC ian to, ohn Unit 408 83 John O'Shea 1.00 Total Oct. 12, 1934 $3.00 THE BUILDING OF SOCIAL- | {Dé ‘he sreatest democracy for ey demand greater simplicity, |dime, Good news for snuffle-suf- Unit 4038 25 A comrade 3.00/ Total to date $297.90 ISM. the masses of the people and the | more cenyincing arguments, in | ferers, if only such a low price | NOTE: It is true, as numerous “"""" greatest striking power against | putting forward ovr reyolutionary | would be maintained all winter. | correspondents has Phiten Soviets were born out of the | the capitalist exploiters. proposals. Certainly in event of a cold a cent id that the English word “council” | Russian revolution as Councils of The term “Soyiet,” therefore, But comrades are wrong when | for a lemon is a better investment Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! | is a literal transition of the Rus- | Workers’, Peasants’ and Soldiers’ | became AN INTERNATIONAL | they ascume that the American |than five cents for ps post | sian word “Soviet.” The question | Deputies. They were made up | WORD, meaning the rule of the | population has a tendency to look | However, if that piping hot glass NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT |) is then raised: why not discon- | of representatives democratically | working class exercised through | at these terms us “Russian,” and | of Jemonade is to do a cold any dirt, | tinue the se of the “Russian” | elected by Workers in their fac- | the medium of councils of work- | that therefore they will not be |it should be without sugar, for the) S°Tt FIFTEEN CENTS (180) in $ | word “soviet” and use only the tories, mines and offices, by rank | ers’ and peasants’ dennties, It | won for Soviet power. As the con- | reasons already given. coins or stamps (coins preferred) English word “council”? | and file soldiers in their military | has been universally adopted not | trast between capitalist and so- pA ce for this Anne Adams pattern. Write | | But such an apparently simple | units, by peasants in their vil- | only in working class literature | cialist society becomes more and Contributions received to the plainly name, address and style -——-——-- ——— re ———— | substitution would not make for | lages. At one and the same time | but in bourgeois literature as well, | more marked, with rapid progress | credit of Helen Luke in her Social- sf Tear off and mail immediately to | additional simplicity or clarity. 5¢ | they represented THE REVOLU- | It spread throughout the world | in the Soviet Union, and misery, | ist competition with David Ramsey, |2Umber. BE SURE TO STATE | Would merely increase the con- | TONARY ALLIANCE OF THE | just as American technical terms | hunger and decay in the capitai- |Jecob Burck, Del, Harry Gannes, | SIZE. '@ fusion. | WORKERS, the driving force of | and names of machines were in- | ist world, the masses will make | Mike Gold and the Medical Advis- 2 DAILY WORKER | The term “council” in present | the revolution, with the peasants | ccrporated in Euroncan and other | their choice in favor of Soviet |ory Board. in the Daily Worker _ Address orders to Daily Worker 50. EAST 13th St. New York, N. Y. |) English usage has the most varied | and the nation’s pror, and the | languages. To argue that Soviet power. They will not worry as to (drive for $60,000, Quota—$500. Pattern Department, 243 West 17th | application and meaning, The | LEADERSHIP OF THE WORK- | is “Russian” and should not be | the source of the word, Total to date tee eeeeeeeeeese ss $540 4 Street, New York Cl é,

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