The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1934 MINE AND SMELTER LEADERS BAR MILITANTS IN ANTI-RED DRIVE ELEVETH DELEGATES OUSTED FROM RANG Put Miners Of Union from Lewis Machine 1 Day a Week E. bhi, Drive to Wrest Control Dye Sirikers Win Support | Of Jobless WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical dyisory Board | An Open Letter to Our Readers ,May open your eyes with his draw- 2 |Dear Comrades: |ings, and Mike may arouse you with From) When the Board took over the) his words, but only we can stop your Seabs SOUUNCIL ¥ UMW Leaders Do Noth- Bosses Install New Machinery to Cut Number of | Will Get . ns . sae . {conduct of this column on August|bellyache and other pains so that —__—_—_—_—. ing To Fight Conditions| Men; Layoffs, Stagger System Spell Reduced | Federal Agencies, | {2™C25; or Uk sessed the extent| You can carry out your tasks, Not Workers Plan Fight Against Move of Reaction- ‘ 7 ge Mi: ‘ = daak lof’ our responsibility. ‘The two| that we are complaining about your n fig e in Huerfano Co. Living Standards for Hundreds of Miners Say Dye Bo fonthe Since that date heve been |Support. You have sent us many aries to Smash Rank and File Struggle 2 period of activity without a let-up, | letters, questions, criticism, friends rn H < 2 e | rr, : ~ Bac WALSENBURG, Colo. — Condi-| py a Mine Worker Correspondent | ing to the local (UM.W.A.), of| BY ® Dye Worker Correspondent | 51, every mail bringing us letters|at our lectures — and even some Against Steel Bosses tions in the mires of Huerfano) pOQWHATAN PT. Ohio—The| which 123 were present at the | Paterson, N. J. | from every part of the United States|money; but comrades, not enough = pee County are terrible. There is @) powhatan Coal Co. has put in a | meeting. These members quarreled | answers on a|Money, not enough to beat Mike The Dye workers ready to walk |and necessitating | out on strike, the workers know that | thousand subjects. The Board, num- | Gold. a they will have to fight the A. F. L. | bering 11 members at the start, has} Of course, there are ways (as doce official and Government as well as | swelled to 45, with more applica-| tors) of doing this. But, comrades, |we are honorable men and at the the bosses. | large amount of dead-work that the miners have to do for which they get no pay. The very best diggers cannot make over $2 per By a Worker Correspondent) EVELETH, Minn.—A blow was dealt to the working slass by Gill, Kirby, Brown, O’Brien and company, agents} couple of new ark wall cutting ma- | among themselves about the stag- | chines with a nine foot cutting bar | gering system that our district | to lower wages, although they are| president worked out with the shooting and drilling the holes, and} super. of the U.S money lords of that compa bureaucracy, and union smashing, reigned supreme at the| meeting of the Range Council, In- ternational Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Mak held at Hibbing, Minn., last S y The program against Communists ‘was cooked up by the time the eight delegates of Eveleth ar d. Before we were admitted, we had our membership books, previous meetings books were not nece: merely the presenting of the delegates’ names by the Secre- tary. As a result, two were not ad- Mmitted; one was ked out, because there were no stamps in his book Our vice-president, Mr. Herman Bearson, ed a seat because he did not have his book. So our best fighters were left outside. Im- mediately after we entered, some reactionary steel trust tool said that there were avowed Communists in- . and that they should not be allowed to have a seat. Asked to Point them out, he indicated George Pete: Peterson, admitted that he'was a Communist; brought out the fact that the Eveleth Local had sent him as a delegate. Then some of Matthew Woll’s and Ralph Easley’s red-baiting articles were read. Peterson explained that | the expulsion of workers because of their political beliefs was against thé Constitution of the range locals. He attempted to defend himself, | but the reactionaries kept howling to kick him out. He called for a ‘vote to see whether the members wanted him out or not, but motions afe lost in that Council, if the presi- dent, a reactionary named Gill, does no: want to recognize them. So they ordered him out, but he still tried to say a few words in his own be- half, and so they took him out. After he was gone, these Steel Trust, agents who assumed leadership of New York Ties Country Steel Trust, which. was worth a million to the ny. <A. F. of L. leadership, the Range Council asked each dele- gate whether he was a Communist or not. When the question came up to one of the Eveleth delegates, he rose to defend the reds, but he was also immediately ushered out before he could say many words. Our vice-president, Bearson, sent in a note, asking if he could speak ten minute: It was granted, and as soon as he began to defend the reds, he was almost kicked out too. But although he was interrupted continuously, he exposed the A. F. L. officialdom who are behind the anti- red movement and red-baiting, and what the result of such action would mean to the locals on the iron range. He brought out that this was also a move of the Steel Trust to smash militant unions, and exposed the local Steel Trust agents who are instigating this anti-red- drive. When he was through he was led out. They tried to solft- soap the other delegates by saying that it wasn’t the Eveleth locals’ day in the best run of coal, and many diggers cannot even make | a living. The relief officials are working | | hand in hand with the coal oper- ators and forcing the miners off | the relief rolls into the mines where they may not get over a | day a week. The companies pick the men from the relief rolls that owe them money at the company stores, so they can take this debt out of their wages. The men haye to buy all their tools and supplies and pay their $10 to the U.M.W.A The eleven locals of the U.M.W.A. are doing , absolutely nothing to better the conditions of us miners. Last win- ter the president of the Ravenwood | local made a speech deploring the condition of many of the miners, who were not making enough to live on, and asked for a collection for the benefit of these miners. A rank and file member took the floor against this, demanding that the | | union instead demand that the) | company pay these miners suffi- | cient to live on. as a result. The rank and file in the U.M.} | W.A. want action, but the mislead- | He lost his job) laying the track. They pay 50 cents a ton of coal for the loaders who load after the nine foot machine. They already had extensions of the shop to make nine foot augers. But we don’t think that we will accept it, al- though they are promising us 25 cents a hole. But to tell the truth, we are afraid that if we start to drill the holes, then they will bring out their electric drills and cut the 25 cents out which they are promis- ing. Then we will have to drill those nine foot holes for nothing. So fellow workers, watch your tep and don’t drill any holes where the ark wall machine cuts the coal. And it is talked that if the work- ers drill their holes and fix their track and buy their own powder, | then they will get 58 cents a ton for ark-wall coal. That is a two cent reduction. The boss says, “You will drill or loaf for that day.” And then there is nothing we can do about getting compensation for the days that we don’t work. They are cutting three shifts a day with the new machine. One shift starts at 8 a. m. and works till 3:30 p. m., the next shift starts fault that Communists were let in,| gr; in control have made but the organizer’s, Dan Orlich. who| regular company unions. In the is at present in Butte. Many miners, | Pryor local, the mine superintend- at the end of the meeting, declared sa) F ent brings the officials of the union that it was the last time they would | fi | allon af liquor every meeting. attend a meeting of the body. eae eit them | But, miners, that is the wrong attitude to take. Let us all elect militant delegates to the next meet- | ing, who will voice our disapproval of the tactics of bureaucracy of Gill and others—let us elect a rank and file leader into his place—let every local of the I. U. M. M. S. W., and every miner send letters and reso- lutions of protest to the Range Council, so that the Eveleth local will be able to reseat its delegates and will not be discriminated against. Many locals stifle the rank and file to the extent that they are out of order every time they even make an attempt to take the floor. The rank and file miners of Huerfano county are not going to | continue to put up with such con-| ditions. They are formulating de- mands and are going to force the| misleaders into action to better the conditions of the miners and strive to take control of the unions, | so they will be a benefit to the miners instead of a tool of the bosses to hold the miners from any | strugle to better their conditions. | | — os | Will Get Rid of Fakers| At Next UMW Elections at 3:30 p. m. and w6rks till mid- | night, 12:30 p.m. Then the third | shift starts at 12:30 and works till |7 in the morning, The new ma- | that the third crew can hardly keep | the cutting up, and a lot of time is lost by the loaders while they are waiting for the machine to cut. Local Union 5497 had a meeting on October 22, and there are about ten or eleven hundred men belong- j chine has such a large territory} Mikel, UMWA Leader, Advises| | keep us workers divided any longer; Miners to Be ‘Fair’ to Bosses. | The mine is not well enough | equipped with cars and motors. So | | they worked out this stagger sys- tem. They used to run the mine six days a week. About two or j three hundred men were laid off | Monday, who worked Saturday, and | they laid off about the same | amount each day. In this way they had enough men to operate | their mine Saturday too. Now they don’t operate these {mines six days a week. But the | bosses still want to keep the stagger | system up. We do not know what will happen as the N.R.A, says that jeach man should work seven hours a day and five days a week, while they are staggering us till we only work four days a week, as the mine doesn’t run Monday, and some must be laid off Tuesday, some Wednes- jday, and other for every day of the week, At our local meeting we made a motion to do away with the stag- | Ser system, Next we resolved that we will take the control of our | local away from our dictator Dis- |trict President John Chinque, a | | Lewis appointee. A motion was | | made to send a resolution instruct- jing John Chinque to call a mass meeting in Belliar Temple of the union hall, and instruct every local in Eastern Ohio and the panhandle district in West Virginia to go to that meeting, There we will nomi- nate our own district officials, as we are tired of having John Lewis appoint us another company suck, | like John Chinque. He is a coal baron’s friend, and we pay him |to betray us. By a Worker Correspondent EXCELSIOR, Ark.—Miners here |got another of their many exam- \ples of Lewis-Fowler dividing tac- | tics, which shows how close these In Socialist Competition Although New York has tied the rest of the country in the $60,000 financial campaign, it has not yet reached even half its quota of $30,000. If the 8-page New York edition of the Deily Worker is to continue, units, trade unions and mass organizations must fill their quotas im- | | By a Mine Worker Correspondent |labor-fakers work with the bosses, POWHATAN PT., Ohio. — We /|Zimer Mikel, Lewis-appointed sec- don't like the U.M.W.A. officials, Tetary-treasurer of District No. 21, land the UM.W.A. contract was|c@me to our mine and after mount- | forced on us. We are trying to|imé a prop pile announced to the find a way to get rid of some of|en that he had come to form a local union of the U.M.W.A. One mediately. ——___—_—_— “ ei J Received Oct. 25, 1934 $507.16 DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) Previously received 24,500.52 | W. Spreng, Boyertown $1.00 Total to date $25,007.68 | F. Winkler, Boyertown 1.00 DISTRICT 1 (Boston) ition 7,90 | Total Oct. 25, 1034 $2.00 Eaaivie ue $1.00 | Total to date $2,520.75 | whole officialdom gets for us. We Portland, Main, Unit 1.78 | Poni (Buffalo) s1.00| 87@ Just toiling and fussing among Chelse’ Unit, Sec 3 1.69,| Rugene. Ateyer ________| ourselves till things will change. I ony bus 16.00) otal Oct, 25, 1994 $1.00| hope it will happen soon. And we 100 | Total to date $279.14] do hope that in the next election 1.00 an | do hi Bs N. #. CC esaans BLISTRICT 7 (Detrolt) se giso| We Will get rid of some of these i aes : ywows_***") fakers in the International head- 30 | Total Oct. 25, 1984 es A quarters, and vote in real rank and 135 | TORR ote file members from the mine who} a DISTRICT § (Chicago) sy are familiar with our conditions. Sec 1, Banquet 30.00 | M. Svaby Sec 2 is0| Go. Vennesiand 1.00 Coll. at Pred Chase Alpha Coal Miner 1.00 | M al Meetin| 14.76 | plastene Polish Workmen's Aid Pund Soe Total Oct. 25, 1984 $6.00 Salem, Mass. * 5.90 | Total to date $2,246.41 Total Oct. 25, 1934 $106.71 | DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) Total to date $1,191.37 | Alex Frierolen, Alaska $1.00 DISTRICT 1 (New York City) Sam Kerell i —_ nit 2 $26.00 ) | Poet 19t ne | Total Oct. 25, 1994 337.50 Our First Experiment Total to date $218.09 ety 1.60 | DISTRICT 14 (Newark) 42.00} Here’s something for those of you) ; fe 19 3 | ed Uni rty 3.00] who like chemistry experiments. oS 1 50/ Unit 12, Part 3.00 eee de Quit 10 1.00 | R Garchater 1.00 SR eg ag 3.00| From time to time we will print Bee 1, Unit 2D .50 | § Montes 2.00 |B. Musky 5.00| very simple experiments. Let us i | agen 2'00| J: Yurkevieh 3.00! know how you like this one and EShurman 4.00/ ss Got, 98, 1094 ~—¥2100| What success you have. | Pine, 190.38] etal to date s310.11| ‘The materials we will use will | w Yugoslav Wks DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) | not be expensive. We will not use } . Club 1.00 | aoe ee ___**"’| any explosives or poisons. So your} <a 00 Total Oct. 25, 1984 $6.60| mother need not be afraid you'll Workers Coop | Gana. Petra rie j : Colony 100.00 | Total to date 2 low up the house or poison your JFlaumenbaum 2.00 DISTRICT 21 (St. Louis) | baby brother. Be sure to let us Henry Vallier A Hirsch 109 Sam Ouvian $1.00) know if you'd like to see more ex- W.ELELL. lacobso! 7.50) Lessegccnmone: 1) § Total Oct. 25, 1954 $323.85 | Total Oct. 25, 1984 s1.00| periments, because they will be ‘Total to date $12,464.45 | Total to date $76.18| printed only if there are enough of WINNING TRAILING District Total Percent Distriet Total Percent to of to of Date Quota Date Quota T i T Districts $12543.23 | 41.8] V5 | 2—New York city } Saree [oer i] 9 FRS4 “ | i) 1—Boston | 1191.37 | 59.56) \\4—Newark | 370.11 | 49.34) { i i “ | | $—Philadelphia 3520.75 |100.59] 3—Pittsburgh eae) 34.06 | ' Pe i ssi ae { j « | fas 6—Cleveland | 1963.87 | 45.46) 7—Detroit sdasal eel t | ae i ugh’ | 1 4-Buffalo } 279.14 | 37.29 13—California eae ! ' Fe i nae | Sie eek | | 18—Milwaukee | amet | 37.19) “fiz —seattie jake aie Lu ae Eee = Pay TUES i aareere eee Sale | | ng—Seattle | 218.09 | 21.8 13—California | 212.69 | 10.6 i I I (ak wae | Gas a \ i i19—Denver 201.97 | 72.99) “ pi—st. Louis 76.18 | 15.24 t i Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT [s Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. some of those fakers. We can’t get more than the boss pays us. The | committee is powerless. If we deal | with the boss directly we get better results than the committee and the you who want them. CARBON DIOXIDE (CO,). Be- | fore making the gas itself you must une TORE RB ucane, What has happened before—The | members of the Purple Riders have | gone to hold a secret meeting in an | old deserted factory, outside of | town. Through a trap-door in the | floor they see Nazis drilling below. |A Nazi guard who did not see the miner answered that he understood that they had a local union and he saw no use of two. Mr. Mikel replied: “We [the offi- cialdom] have promised every com- pany that we would let them form their own local if they want one, jand T think it nothing but fair to |the company to let them have it. I am here to form that local.” Many men here have been won- dering what Mr. Mikel and Fow- ler considered their job, and now Mr. Mikel has told them: To see |that the men were “fair” with the | company. Mikel, with the aid of several of the companies’ closest “friends” went ahead and set up another lo- cal union and elected officials for it. The majority of the men at the mine did not participate in the election. The mine at which the new local was formed was at the oldest. working mine in the Excel- sior field. Many of the older men here have been in the U.M.W.A. ever since 1898 and most of them all their life. These are the men which Mr. John L. Lewis says are not “com- petent” to conduct an autonomous district. They must have officials directly appointed over them by Mr. Lewis to take care of their business, But not always, Mr. Lewis. Vote Communist Against Wage | | bad in the shops. The bosses are tring to |tions coming in and work for all. tell the workers this is not the time |There has been this column, the | start of this drive we gave our word to strike and condition are not so But when you hear the dye workers telling of the speedup and the damnable condi- tions they have to work under, and the low pays ‘they take home every two weeks, then you have the true picture of the exploited dye work- ers. The dye workers remember how they had to fight in the last dye strike against the bosses’ gunmen, the police and the N.R.A., and they did not forget the battles of Lodi and East Paterson where the work- ers were brutally beaten and shot down in cold blood. The workers realize that they will have to put up a much bigger and harder fight to win their demands and their strike than they did last year, when they won a partial victory from 45¢ to 57%4¢ a hour. The dye workers will have to elect their rank and file strike committees in their own dye shops, and a rank and file leader- ship to lead them to victory over the heads of the U. T. W. and A. F. L. officials. The Institute of Dyers and Print- ers have started their maneuvers stating these words, that if the Dyers Union goes on strike, the Dyers Institute will apply to the Federal Re-employment Service for men to fill the places of the strik- ing dyers. The United Unemploy- ment & Relief Workers Ass'n. of New Jersey, both Paterson Branch and the Passaic County Branch, have pledged their support to the dye workers in their strike. cause the unemployed know that if the dye workers win their strike it will mean jobs for the unemployed, and they will not scab on their fellow workers, but struggle shoulder to shoulder with the dye workers | for victory. The boss class cannot we will fight together and win the working class battles. COMMUNIST STRENGTH GROWS IN BOISE (By a Worker Correspondent) BOISE, Idaho.—The Democrats and Republicans are fighting all the Communists here. ‘They call us @ building of our lecture bureau, the writing of articles, and pamphlets on special subjects, and the project jof a health magazine, to mention ja few of our tasks. With all this to our credit, we began to settle back and feel a little smug about our activity, when a letter from Comrade Kolodny, Business Man-! |ager of the “Daily,” brought us to | suddenly, like a chair pulled from Royse us. “What about the quota?” | comrades with the same question. Our position in this work has put} us, as doctors, for the first time, in a situation where we have not been concerned with the money end of our work. It has been a happy jescape, but destined to be a short jone. The Daily has a $60,000 drive, and this is not the time for your doctors to be caught drowsing. Our quota in this drive is $1,500, a sum which is beginning to haunt us| nights, unless you comrades, for a} change, give us some relief. drive, Mike Gold and Burck, gifted jeach with strong Red pen and jerayon, have used these powerful weapons directly for raising their quotas, we, in our condition of di- versified activity, have somehow |given the impression that we are not concerned with such matters. This is absolutely untrue. Burck Whereas, our fiercest rivals in this | jthat there would be no sabotage, |And we have kept our word. As you saw in yesterday's “Daily,” we |did right by Comrade Sender Gar- |lin. But we want so badly to lick | Mike Gold in his pride, in fair fight. |To do this, you must help us, be- cause the man is good. Fifteen dollars a day from our |readers will enable us to finish in | first place. We expect to be snowed under by your contributions. he asked. And we turn now to you) . . . Another Customer “I think J. D.’s suggestion for a | quarterly or semi-annual issuance of | collected Workers’ Health columns, jis fine. I have been in the habit |of clipping the column and pasting |them in a book, but sometimes I |miss a few issues and this makes me sad. Put me down as a customer for Workers’ Health Quarterly. — I. R.” received to the Contributions credit of the Medical Advisory Board in its Socialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, |Jacob Burck, David Ramsey and In the Home, in the Daily Worker Quota—$1,500. drive for $60,000. Hetty Breslau Previously received Total to date . Be- | jinto our lungs and eyes. No protec- Morris Park Speed-Up Means Working As Cars | Are Sprayed With Paint By a R.R. Worker Correspondent | JAMAICA, N. Y.—The conditions that we workers have here in the Morris Park shops are becoming how little the company considers the workers is shown in the follow- |ing incidents: in the car shops on track five men are compelled to work in and about cars while they are being sprayed with paint. This paint vapor fills the air, and gets | Worse every week. An example of | brainless tribe, and sooner or later we must be exterminated, they say. | Yet we are getting stronger all the | time. There are about 7,000 people here on relief. They have 30 clerks in the Welfare office, drawing $1.20 per hour, 10 hours per day, but all the work they do is actually one hour per day. You know that in the meanwhile we are starving. NOTE: We publish every Saturday let- ters from coal and ore miners, also from oil workers. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and their struggles to organize. Please Cuts. WITH OUR YOUNG READERS in this way..Get a cork to fit a small glass jar. (A half-pint milk | bottle will do.) Bore a small hole in the cork. Put a glass tube into the hole. (The glass tube may be bent by heating to red heat the place hich is to be bent and then bend- ing the tube, by holding it at both ends.) Connect a small rubber tube to the outside end of the glass tube. (Tt is a good thing to connect a small glass tube to the free end of the rubber pipe.) Your gas gen- erator is complete; now go ahead with the collector. Pour some water into a deep dish, such as @ soup bowl. Fill another jar (milk bot- tle) with water up to the very top. Place a piece of glass over the mouth of the bottle, and holding your hand on the glass quickly overturn the filled botile into the bowl. (Try this operation until you succeed in not having any air in the overturned bottle. Now you are all set to make carbon dioxide. Place some washing soda or bi- ‘carbonate of soda in the generator, add some vinegar (or any other acid) and quickly cork. Wait about half a minute then place the noz- zle of the generator directly under the collecting bottle. Note the bub- ble of carbon dioxide displacing the water from the collector.) When | boys come in, now hears them talk- | | ing. » | ADVENTURES OF MARGIE, TIM AND the collector is full, cover its mouth By build a gas generator and collector with the same piece of glass (cover it under the water) and take the bottle out. \ Carbon dioxide does not burn nor does it help other things to burn. A lighted match when placed into a jar with carbon dioxide is imme- diately put out. (Try it yourself.) Bubble some carbon dioxide through a solution of lime water. (Pour some lime water into a glass, then place the nozzle of the gen- erator into the solution.) The clear solution will become cloudy. This is a test for carbon dioxide. Blow through a glass tube into another glass containing some clear lime water. It will turn cloudy also showing that we exhale carbon di- oxide. The cloudiness is due to the formation of fine particles of cal- cium carbonate or chalk. ‘4 P. S. Ask for lime water in the drug store. H. 8. A PRIZE POEM Thanksgiving will soon be here. In school and over the radio the biggest mouthpiece will tell us how much we have to be thankful for. What do you think we working class children have to be thankful for? There will be a prize that you are sure to like, offered for the best revolutionary poem on Thanksgiv- ing. The winner will be announced The Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. get these letters to us by Wed- nesday of each week. Mary Morrow, Children’s editor, See | New Puzzle Club members are: Violet Johnson, David T, Wieck, Jane Raevsky, Samuel Gerber, Nora Zasler, Eugene Kip- niss, David Ross, Mary Zagmester. New York. I am a Pioneer. I was a Boy Scout but I came out from there. Now I am a Pioneer. Pioneer! Stand ready for the cause of the working class. Comrades, I am a Negro, and I am getting more Negro comrades. We are going to make this a Soviet America. ROBERT LEE TILLERY. THE POOR PEOPLE Everywhere the workers are poor. They have to eat and sleep on the floor. While the capitalists eat pie and cake. I hope they got the belly-ache. by MARGARET MIHALIC, i2. Are You Laughing? A man was swimming in a lake. He got a cramp. He yelled for help. “Help, I'm drowning!” A boy in a rowboat heard the cry. He rowed over and in a jiffy pulled the man out of the water. Safe on shore, the rescued man said, “My boy, you have saved my life. I will do anything for you. Do you know who I am?” “No,” answered the boy. ‘I am Adolph Hitler, fuhrer.” “Well then,” said the boy, “Please Reichs- in three weeks. don’t tell anybody it was me who pulled you out.” ~ JERRY. SEE W HAT HAPPENS IN NEXT WEEK’S PAPER. Gat AND THE Boys Are RWLOCKED in A BBC/TCH BLACK By ANN “Nick, my son, a different herit- age for you!” So begins a poem sent to this column, written by a mother for her son. Lullabies of fairies, moon, stars, shadows, sandman, pleasurable story-book world of unreality—this mother cannot sing her child. The morning brings too sharp an awakening to a world that is not tender to children. Her son must face this reality bravely, understand it clearly, and know what he must do to change it to meet his liking, “Comrade Nick, we shall strtke off the chains Of these who fatten on the blood of youth; I shall lead you from your cradle to the barricades; We shall build a new, a free, a happier world.” This is the lullaby and the morn- ing song of a Communist mother. rhea Gere: Vote Communist We receive from the Communist Election Campaign Manager of Michigan, another biography of a woman candidate. Mary Himoff is running on the Communist ticket for State Treasurer in Muskegon County, Michigan. Mary worked in department stores, in a paper box factory, in a laundry, in a restau- rant as dishwasher. She had wanted to go to college from early times, and managed to go. But she was there only a short time when the huge miners’ strike broke out in Pittsburgh in 1928. She had read and studied Communist material. She was convinced that the Com- munist program was the way to a new life. She quit college to give full time to organizational work for the Communist Party, and since then has led the life of a Party functionary, very often without food, most of the time without sufficient clothing, having no thought but to strengthen the mili- tant organization of the workers along all lines. She went to the mine fields in 1928, helped organize the children and youth, then went again in 1931. She organized the “Young Liberators” in Detroit, con- ducted a Workers’ School in Pitts- burgh, where she was one of the most forceful and popular of teach- ers among the miners and steel workers, During the 1932 national elections she toured the entire West. for Foster and Ford, and helped organize a Relief Conference for Youth in Detroit, April, 1933. Since then she has led the workers’ struggles there. A trained Party leader, her one aim is the organi- zation of the working class for betterment of its immediate condi- tions, as well as for the time when the bankrupt capitalist class will be overthrown and a society for the workers will be established. Workingwomen! Vote for Mary Himoff! Vote for the Communist Candidates throughout the Country! Vote against Relief Cuts! For Unemployment Insurance! Com- munist Candidates Are Leaders in the Fight for the Right To Or- jtion is given us. We should have a period of 15 minutes to the hour |so that we could refresh ourselves, | This practice of painting in a speed- |up while other work is being done |should be stopped. We workers |should see that the committees of the A. F. of L. or company union take this matter up with Fred Rut- gers or P. S. Mock for adjustment. These should be our demands: 1. Installation of methods to protect the men while spraying the cars, 2. This work to be done when |other mechanics are not on these cars. A MORRIS PARK SLAVE. IN THE HOME BARTON ganize, Strike, Picket! Vote Com- munist! Contributions received to the credit of Ann Barton 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 drive for $60,000. Quota—s500. Total to date ...... $15.70 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2022 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 3% yards 36 inch fab- instructions included. ric, Illustrated step-by-step sewing Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins pre- ferred) for this Anne Adams pate tern. Write name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE, Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. | |