The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1934 Negr Boul der DamTakes Heavy Toll Men on Job Report 180 Killed and 1,200 Maimed By a Worker Correspondent LAS V AS, Nev.—The men on the job at the Boulder dam where I worked for a hs, say that 18 men have been killed and over 1,200 injured since the job began. I am not surprised, because IT saw many cripples w I was there. Hundreds of men a chance to get Dam. After re fice at Los Veg the most of the unemployed it for months for.their turn to work, which most of them never get. The park at Las Vegas serves as hotel accommodations for the un- employed work Mother Earth is hard with them. The only bedding most of them have is newspaper. There is a government camp near by, but it isn’t large enough to accommodate half of the unem- ployed; also, the food at the camp is unfit for human consumption. In order to make the workers on the dam speed-up, they have a system of hiring and firing. A few mont are waiting for at the Boulder ing at the of- worker might be fired any day without any cause. This speed-up explains v so many are killed and injured. A laborer gets $4 per day of 8 hours, plus another hour and a half that it takes to travel to and from the place of the job. For board | opposite, across the broad empty} and room, $1.65 is deducted. The | floor, was the judge, the bosses, the| Anderson company has this con-|police and gangsters; the forces of| cession, and certainly must be making about $1 profit per day on every man. They board about 3,000 men. You can often see a worker hang- ing on an old single rope instead of using a double rope, with about 300 feet of space below him. of the worker is very cheap. To The life | By a Worker Correspondent NEW HAVEN, Conn.,—I went to the City Hall to get Federal food and they gave me two pounds of rotten butter. My baby and I got sick from it. I have seen several of my friends and they told me that they were all sick from that butter. One of them told me that he had put in a complaint about it to the board of health, which said that he couldn't do anything about it When there is fresh food we get none. When rotten, two pounds for a family of three ee eee Shows Role Of Boss Court By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Any workers who have illusions about the justice of the courts in this “democratic” coun- try, the U. S. A., should have wit- |nessed the mass arrest of 72 laundry | strikers which took place on Thurs- day of last week. They were taken to the 161st St. jail and were held from the morn- jing until 4 p. m. without any |charges against them. At about 3 |p. m. they were taken to an isolated yoom which had no seats at all— bare except for the judge’s bench Here, out of sight of any worker spectators who fill the courts or- | dinarily, they were brought to “jus- | They lined the strikers along the wall all around the room. Directly the capitalist state. And what was the purpose of this jarrangement? The judge was giv- jing the boss the opportunity to choose the jeading workers who were to be made the butt of their attack, The others, that is all ex- cept 11, were released after being Rotten Butter is Sum of Federal Food Relief H ar d Labo o Veterans Jimecrowed in Mosq ron Florida Roads | _ Forced Upon Bonus Marchers Work on E.R.A. Jobs to? Enrich Real Estate | Sharks SSSy | By a Worker Correspondent | JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — While hundreds of fun-crazed members of the upper crust of the American | Legion held sway last week in| Miami with intent to support, through its officialdom, the stink- | ing political administration of the U. S., hundreds of more battle | veterans were at the same moment being condemned by this same U. 8. | government to a period of forced hard labor on the Florida highways. These Negro and white ex-sol-} diers, 300 in number, who were) stranded in Washington, D, C., since * the first mass bonus march, were consigned to the Transient Service division of the Florida ERA and | arrived in Jacksonville some 10 days ago. For the past 10 days the white veterans have been encamped near here at a transient station for “re- conditioning” (recovering from starvation), while the Negroes were | Jim-crowed to a transient camp at | Mullet Key near St. Petersburg. |. This week the white veterans | begin their forced labor service when they start to work on road- between Miami and Key West. The original plan was to have these men | work on renovating the Fort Jeffer- | Pert: At the time of the second bon us march, President Reosevelt was able to trick many veterans into accepting “jobs” in Government camps. What happened to a contingent of these veterans, who were forced to toil on the highways of Florida, and in jim-crowed mosquito infested grounds, is told in detail in the worker correspondent’s report in the adjoining column, uito Infested Project Bankers Get Millions, CCNY Workers, Cut By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.— Conditions for | the workers in City College of New York are getting worse agd | worse. While LaGuardia is pay- | ing out $180,000,000 a year to the bankers and Lehman allows the Utility trusts to make huge profits, our pay is being cut. In June, without any notice, our pay was cut from $25 a week to $21. We were promised our cut back, plus 2 per cent extra but instead we received another cut to $17. Most of us are married and have two or three children, and if we get another cut, which we were told we might get, we won't have enough money to pay the rent. Students and workers in the schools, help us better our con- ditions and we will help the stu- dents in their fight to get a better education. Hat Wackers’ Fight Blocks Cut in Wages By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, — The earnings and working conditions of the once upon son prisons situated on an isolated | mosquito infested Mullet Key to|a time highly-skilled, well paid and island near Key West, but it seems | at this period ready for such work. | The large section of Negro veter- | ans will be compelled to remain on carry out a mosquito control “pro- repairing on the series of islands | that the Federal government is not | ject” of the ERA, after which the land will be ready for real-estate sharks to boom for the unconcerned | tourist. Council Pais Its First Test In Lebonon, Pa. By a Worker Correspondent LEBANON, Pa.—The members of our Unemployed Council are elated. | They were under fire for the first Legionnaire By a Worker Correspondent JACKSONVILLE, Fla—I am a member of the American Legion. For the past few years I have not | seen anything done by this organi- Protests Attack on Communists ideas are different. Last time on his return he made a statement through the newspapers that Florida business improyements must be advancing judging from the new cars showing on our highways. proud “gentlemen hatters” took an awful drop in the last few years. Of course, the five-year-old crisis wasn’t going to overlook the hatters. were given wage cuts, plain and simple, the hatters got the same thing covered up with fig leafs. The hat manufacturers always had a fancy name for it. Every new evil that was forced upon the hatters was brought to them under a cover of a new scheme, a new discovery to help the hatters. A new ma- | chine was introduced. The process made easier. The hatters will be able to make more dozens of hats. In return for this new machine the hatters gave the manufacturers an While workers in other industries | of production was supposed to be} Question Comrade I. R. B. of Brooklyn, writes: “I have a boy of 18 months old. He has quite a few teeth. I would like to know if it is advisable | to start cleaning his tecth at this | early age. If so, which erable powder or paste. aim 2 ye is the pref- When Should Care of Teeth Be Started? Care of infants’ mouths should begin as early as possible. It is de- sirable to form good habits for chil- dren, and our knowledge of children is such, that we know that they | will continue the practice of mouth hygiene indefinitely as soon as routine methods are started, Children should be taught to use a toothbrush as early an age as |pessible. Prior to this, parents should brush the infant’s teeth. A toothpaste or toothpowder nicely flavored would prove very beneficial from the viewpoint of flavor, as it would aid in encouraging the chil- dren in this habit. We also advise the child be taken to a dentist as early as two years of age for cleaning the teeth, so as to allay the fear that most children have of dental treatment. This should be repeated frequently. Baby teeth must be filled as soon as they develop cavities. Most of these teeth Jast until the child is eleven years |old. Premature loss of teeth has a harmful effect upon the second set. Not only it is necessary to develop good hygienic habits in the child at home, but it is also necessary to keep these teeth in repair until they | fall out, wisrel, By Pregnancy Tests Cc, C. Brooklyn:—This comrade writes, “I am very much worried about myself, and although I men- struate as usual, I have felt for the past two months, nauseous and notice my stomach is gradually Swelling. Where can I go to have an Ascheim-Zondek test done?” We are certain that Comrade C. C. is suffering, most likely, from a WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board “pregnancy phobia” (a fear of being pregnant). Although menstruation |is possible during pregnancy, par- are against a pregnancy, if a woman | menstruates regularly. | If, perchance, the comrade is pregnant and if, as she states, her “stomach is gradually swelling” so. that it is noticeable, the pregnancy has already advanced far enough for a doctor to make a diagnosis without an Ascheim-Zondek test. The Ascheim-Zondek test is a fairly recent discovery. It is one of the most accurate tests for pregnancy that we have. It is about 98 per cent reliable. The test is of value |in making a diagnosis early, in pregnancy, Le., as early as four to | five days after the period is missed. | The test is also valuable in cases ‘where the diagnosis of pregnancy is different to make, as, for example, in a very stout woman or in cases | where it is doubtful whether one is |dealing with a pregnancy, or a tumor, or both. | The test is made by injecting the | patient’s urine into a immature fe- |male mouse, At the end of one- hundred hours, the mouse is ex- amined, and by the reaction that | takes place in its ovaries, one can tell whether the patient is pregnant or not. Recently the test has been modi- | filed and is done on rabbits. The results are obtained much sooner in | from 24 to 36 hours. This modifica- | tion is known as the Freedman test, Contributions recetved to the leredit of the Medical Advisory |Board in its Socialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, Jacob Burck, David Ramsey and Ann Barton, in the Daily Worker |drive for $60,000, Quota—$1,500. | J. Robins $ 1.00 | Anon. 50 J. P. Nicholas -10 N. G. 70 Previously received 318.91 | Total to date $321.81 ticularly the early months, the odds’ { ] | held without charges for the entire except the fight of the officials of the Legion against Communism. They are allowance off the price paid per time and passed the test with flying | zation, tn Sie | oa They never called it a wage! cut, . € However, we workers of the colors. They resisted a constable | Wealthy Legion know that these cars belong complain means to lose your job, for there is a stool pigeon system. | IN THE HOME jay. After this was done, Judge Oliver, The A. F. of L. has a membership at.the Boulder Dam, but the leaders don't try to better the conditions All_they do is to collect dues. The insurance company that in- sures the workers at Boulder gets away with a small settlement of a few hundred dollars when workers are crippled for life. with a cable in the face while at work. It made him half blind and | their demand for the right of work-| When they returned home they |f the Legion and other secret or- ers to mass picket and refused to| found half of their belongings sold, | ganizations left an ugly scar on his face. He didn’t get any settlement at all. who poses as a “friend of labor” acted as mediator between the ; bosses and the organizers of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union. Behind closed doors they tried to persuade the union to give up their mass picketing — they, the bosses, I| Were willing to “concede” the right | know a young fellow who got hit/| to the strikers to have 10 pickets at/ ‘one time. The union was firm in | conciliate. Only $45 Fron Districts Outside New York, Frida NLY $45 was received, Friday, from the districts outside New York.| banner calling together the unem-| ern trips, which are frequent, his | for the hungry masses. New York contributed $512. Chicago, the district with the largest quota next to New York— $6,500—sent in only $2. Detroit sent This was one of the worst days for the drive in the districts. in $10. It sale of furniture of an unemployed | worker for back rent and won, for | the time being at any rate. | We had in our town this kind of | sale before, but every time the council was too late for action. | The fact is the secretary's furniture | was sold for rent, but it was done | unexpectedly, in a sneaky way when | the husband and wife were away | and only the children were at home. | the other half in the street and the | house locked. | The Council decided to keep a} | better eye on these sales and when |it became known about this sale | they decided to act quickly, and a| | plan of action was laid out. Early | in the morning they went to the| neighborhood with their big 9-foot | | ployed. The Ladies’ Auxiliary as- | | sembled in the house, barred the | | door and refused to let the officials | |in to start the sale. A crowd of | | about 200 assembled. A member shows that they have still not awakened to the danger facing the Deily | of the Unemployed Council de- | Worker. The fact that we have not made any hysterical appeals does | livered a speech, standing on the not mean that the ‘Daily is suddenly running at a gain. We must | Porch, in which he described the talking for the bonus, and still they send private letters to Legion mem- bers against it. Most of them hold high offices in the Wall Street pro- tective organization, the Chamber of Commerce. Governor Sholtz, a high official of the Legion, spends much of his time going from one place to an- other making speeches in the ranks against Communism. | He will not use kid gloves in treat- ing Communist activities, he says. Governor Sholtz before election | promised us a lot of things, such as free school books for the children, and less taxation generally. Instead of doing either, the rates for both are higher since he is in office. Every time he returns from north- | to the big bosses which the workers paid for through the sufferings un- der the Roosevelt “New Deal,” and while these flashy cars roll along the beaches our conditions are worse than ever. A few days ago Mr. Sholtz intro- duced to his cabinet a proposal to have all state and civil service | employees, including school teach- ers, sign a loyalty pledge to support the present government of the U. S. and the flag, against Communism. This has met opposition in the pub- lic schools and in his own cabinet. Mr. Sholtz, as a big corporation lawyer before election you are now doing all you can to serve the big bosses. That is why you appeal for help in this to the American Legion, and why you are fighting Com- munism, the only fighting way out 88-Hour Week for Workers On “Model” Housing Project Or else, a new grade of hats was | introduced. “You don’t have to put in as much work on these as you do on the regular hats,” the hat- ters were told. “You'll knock 'em | dead.” “You'll make piles of money.” |And at the moment the hatters thought it was for their own good and went to work for a lower “bill of prices.” This kept on repeating itself; another new machine, another new grade of hats, and so on and so on, | This went on since the beginning of the crisis. But as time moyed on the hatters found themselves work- | ing just as hard and perhaps harder than in the past, they found their Seasons cut shorter and their earn- ing continually sinking to new low levels. Last August, more new grades of hats werg introduced. Again the hatters thought that they would be able to make a decent wage by giv- ing the bosses a lower price on these hats that on the regular hats. For a while it seemed that it was all right. But it didn’t take long and they found out that the same story From the Black Belt. “Dear Comrades: T am a comrade living in the Black Belt. There are six of us in the family. My husband and four children and myself, We are | treated so bad I hardly know how to explain myself. The bosses are | trying to make us pick their cot- ton for 30 cents per hundred. We are trying to hold out and not pick for less than $1.00 per hundred. My family don’t gét very much to eat. Nor any clothes to wear. This is what we eat three times |a day. Thick gravy. The way we make this gravy is put some water on the stove, let it come to a boil, then sprinkle a little flour in it to make it thick. We eat that three times a day, six days in a week. | | Not a piece of meat, not able to By ANN BARTON “THE UNION’S A FINE THING!” MEN'S COLUMNS SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE. COME ON, SISTER COMRAD: Cc. BL Contributions received to the credit of Ann Barton, in its 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. $16.70 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2056 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 2% yards 54 inch fabric. Dlustrated step-by- step sewing instructions included, Total to date Bee yi iately to meet our bills! The districts must raise it! | Viciousness of the pitiless capital- | EAS BREST AS, , | repeated tiself, buy any lard. We are nearly naked. ee ee eres coer i - ist system, the necessity of uniting | By a Worker Correspondent | worked 12 hours a day for six days, |p ya. meeting of Local y,| MY oldest boy has @ pair of raggedy miGvictialy received: 25,007.68 - | their for in this struggle in order NEW YORK—Inhuman workin: ‘and 16 hours on Sunday., Women | 5 ited Hatter eed nd Milli ~)| over-alls, Haven’t a shirt to put — Unit 12 25 J P Nicholas .70/ to survive, and also pointed out! : 2 ® employed at cleaning are paid 15, gohhecabialNhe oi nery on. We all just have one piece to Total to date Sec 14, HK Horwits 0 | the revolutionary w: t f conditions of 88 hours a week and h d hounded Workers International Union, de- wear. I don't know what we will DISTRICT 1 (Boston) mar ee ‘ nag Oa fabs edit bal wage scale of 15 to 25 cents an ne Se ene: Bue Bro GUE? |-eidad, to endorse the stand taken - Boston Sympathizers $2.00 | Total $516.42| better, brighter future. | tioned and: r-| by Van Nostrand, Mr. French’s |; the” SGA ft the M, do when we wear out what we got | Carl Larson 5.00 | Less 345 ‘our are sanctioned and encour | chief lackey. Porters receive 25| PY the shop's crew of the Manson) on We pick out a bale of cotton | $7.00 $1,198.37 Total Oct. 26, Total to date 1984 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) | Total Oct. 26, 1934 | Total to date $512.97 Time and again the lawyers, | | constable, sheriff, tried to go in the | he aged by the City and State of New | $12,977.42 | house to conduc: the sale. Tn vain, DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) Ber? Unit 9 1.09| Anonymous, Harrisburg $1.00 Unit 5 $25 © Unit 11 2.00! — Unit 5 3.25 Unit 4 5.00 | Total Oct. 26, 1984 $1.00 Unit 5 11.38 «Unit 1 2.30 Tote] to date $8,521.75 Unit 3 5.00 Unit 3 10.82 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) Unit 208 5.00 Unit 10 3.00| Wm. King $1.00 Unit 8 5.00 Unit 10 5.85| Sec. 5, Unit 2 Unit 8 5.35 Unit 1 3.50| Russian Prog. Club Unit 17B 6.60 Unit 1 50.00| Abamen Unit 17B 2.50 Unit 13 4.00 — Unit 16 145 ‘Unit 13 5.00 Total Oct. 26, 1934 Unit 16 25 Unit 14 1.00, Total to date Unit 12 145 ‘Trans 7.98 DISTRICT % (Chicago) Unit 18 500 Trans 95| John Kuehn ‘Unit 11 1.50 Trans 10.00} Otto Frohberg Unit 11 2.00 Unit 5 1.00 Rolf Simpg Unit 21B 3.00 RR 1.15 | J. Robins Unit 6 1.30 See 1, — Unit 1 10.35 Unit 18B 13.09, Total Oct. 26, 1934 $2.00 ‘Unit 1 1.50 Unit 18B -60| Total to date $2,248.41 Unit 6 1.20 Fur Wrks Ind | DISTRICT 9 (Minn.) Bec 18 Unit 15.00} gv Jones $1.00 Unit 5 6.35 Sec 10, | abe Bais: 15 30.00 maica U 15.00) Total Oct. 26, 1934 $1.00 Unis 15 5.00 Sec 1, Total to date $316.17 ‘Unit 16 1.02 Unit 32, So- DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) Unit 21 3.43 cialist Voter 2.00| 7, w. ning $1.00 Unit 21 11.50 Sec 8, Shop D 15.00 mae 4, Cloak Makers, — | Total Oct. 26, 1034 $1.00 Unit SG No 4 1.00 Local Opp 1 5.95! total te date $219.09 Unit 408 1.36 Sacco Vanzetti DISTRICT 14 (Newark) Unit 414 92 Br, TLD. 7.00/45, ringer $4.00 Unit 425 6.50 Brighton Beach Br. 2346, I.W.O., Italian 250 Unit SG No 4 5.00 Grocery, Dairy Lak Mt 1.00 and Fruit | Total Oct. 26, 1994 36.50 ‘Unit 404 5.00 Clerks 15.00' Total to date $376.61 Unit 404 3.00 Workers of Coop _ DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) hc de Re 5.50 | Lucy Lahuisto $5.15 Unit 14 2.00 Sec 10, LL.D. 10.00 als Unit 427 2.87 Ukranian Women | total oct. 26, 1994 $5.15 oe at me) (eee 09) Total to date $431.01 Unit 427 30 Mich. Rummy .55 DISTRICT 16 (Charlotte) Unit 428 1.77 Daily Worker Mall Friedman $50 Unit 428 2.25 Chorus 5.00 Meer Unit SG1 2.50 Sec 8, Unit 7 8.28) rotal oct, 26, 1984 $50 Unit G1 1.00 Worker from | Total to date $48.75 . ie eee a DISTRICT 19 (Denver) Unit 2 66 J Alicei Tobacco | Pleasant Grove, Utah $2.00 Unit 1 5.38 Workers 1.55 Comrades from’ Unit 11 1.00 Unit 1 1,00 Sherosichsky Unit 11 2.00 Unit 2s 1,87 Soc 3.00 | Collection 50 Bec 8, Food Wkrs Ind. oo Unit 95 2.7% Union 2,30| Total Oct. 26, 1934 $5.50 Unit 3 1.84 H Hjdiman 1.00| Total to date $207.47 Unit 25 5.00 Group of Stud 3.20| Unit 14 5.58 Yetta Rothbond | publ ital i ae 2 Unit. 24 3.00 —Party 3.00| Unit 63, See. 6 $5.00 Unit 1 121 A Blane 1.00] Unit 62, Sec. 6 0 Unit 4 89 L Fisher 1.00 | Unit 30, Sec. 3 1.00 Section 6 7.00 Mrs. Lappin 1.00) Section 1, Dist. 21 33 Unit 2 1.00 Followers of the ——= Unit.24 6.00 Trail 50.00 | Total Oct. 26, 1934 $11.38 Unit 1 1.50 70} Total to date $87.51 Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT $ Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. Y. | The threats of violence or punish- |ment by law did not help them either. They had to postpone the sale. The same day a committee of the Unemployed Council went to the | Relief Board demanding coal and | immediate help to a starving family whom they refused previously. Both | demands were granted. The sentiment is favorable to the Unemployed Council since then among the general public, and the | hopes are high for a speedy growth, | for a permanent home, club rooms | for realization in the near future. | Since this was written we find niture was arrested and bailed. The Council and the local Communist Unit are planning a new course of | action. Lily-Tulip Cup | Workers Hit By Layoffs By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Mass layoffs are ‘now taking place at the Lily-Tulip |Cup. The workers are being thrown lout on the street to starve. Those of us who still remain are being |speeded up and are working under | miserable conditions. Many of the workers who have worked in the shop for years are now only working one day a week jand receiving starvation wages. The Republican and Democratic | parties, which are controlled by the | bosses, now come around and make |a lot of promises which they know they will forget as soon as they are elected. I wili vote Communist. We work- jers should vote for the Party that | represents our class. The Commu- |nist Party fights for the Workers | Unemployment and Social Insurance | Bill (ALR. 7598). H. R. 7598 is the | | only real workers unemployment in- surance bill. It will give every worker immediate and adequate re- lief. Put the Daily Worker First on Your Political Calendar! |that the woman owner of the fur- | | York at Knickerbocker Village, the | | “Model Housing” development on the lower east side. This project, which was built by |Fred F. French with government funds and is under the supervision |of the State Housing Board, gyps the tenants and sweats its em- ployes. Fight hundred families were moved in October 1, while the houses were still unfinished, so that an extra month’s rent could be {collected from them. A lo: of | ballyhoo was unloosed to convince them tha: they were getting a bar- gain in rentals that amounted to | that they should not mind a few | inconveniences. The guards, who are instructed to keep out neighborhood people, are (Because of the volume of letters re- cvived by the Department, we can print only those that are of gen: terest to Daily Worker readers. However, all letters received are carefully by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are wel ¢ and whenever possible are used for the improvement the Daily Worker. FREE BARBECUE FAILS TO SATISFY Sallisaw, Okla. Dear Comrade Editor of the Daily Worker: I heard my first political speech of this season yesterday. Some five or six thousand people gathered at the court house to hear E. W. Mar- land, oi] millionaire and candidate for Governor on the Democratic ticket. Marland says that the New Deal will give every man a job, but he failed to outline a plan whereby the jobs might be in evidence, further than an indefinite suggestion that the job would be on government | public works, dams, rivers, and har- |bors. He also suggested that the government would see that every man had a home, but his plans | were equally as indefinite. | But dear comrades, I have been in this State twenty-six years. I have seen several enthusiastic | Democratic campaigns, but though | there were thousands of people at \the meeting, the dope those men | Peddled received the coldest re- ception that was ever witnessed in $40 for a three-room apartment and | cents an hour, and must work at a| Hat Co., who refused to work on | terrific pace or Van Nostrand will |have them spotted. Skilled labor fares little better, getting 1-3 to 1-2 of regular union wages. | Fred F. French is making a for- |tune out of managing this place, | By merely changing his name to the Fred F. French Management Corp., he can continue to make fat profits | out of running the buildings, as he | did in constructing them. Every jcent he can cut from workers wages goes into his pockets. There- fore if these workers remain unor- | ganized they can only expect a fur- | ther lowering of their living standards. In any struggle against Fred F. French and the State Housing | Board the workers will find many ‘allies among the tenants. | Letters from Our Readers this, Sequoyah County, for a Democratic candidate for Gover- | nor. And I don't mean maybe. The only applause was from a picked handful of henchmen of the Party that are in the habit of getting fat jobs from the administration. It was evident to me that the thousands of people that had gathered at the courthouse square, for the first time, were wanting to jhear something besides hot air. | Those people looked hungry, and ragged, and in despair. I talked with some of them after the speak- ing. Here are some of the remarks: “That damned stuff is old. I have heard that all my life.” “I |can’t see anything in what they | Said.” “I guess that we'll have to take our guns and fight for our- selves,” After a free barbecue was served _to the hungry thousands, Marland talked privately with a few of the old Democratic standbys, and re- tired to his Cadillac, rested for a few minutes smoking, and then rode out of town, leaving the thou- sands gaping in wonder. I took an old Democrat home with me, gave him a bundle of Daily Workers, and he is now fertile ground for signing a Communist card. I have been confined to my bed |since Mareh 1 until yesterday. I |am sixty years old, and was told ‘that I had T.B. It is not supposed these hats unless they get the price of the regular hats. This, accord- ing to the motion passed at the meeting, must be enforced in all the shops under the control of the local. In discussion at the meeting, it was pointed out that certain ele- ments in the union, especially the Rank and File Group and the Com- munists have for three and four years fought against giving the bosses any allowances (read wage cuts), and were attacked for their stand by the officials and their sup- porters, The workers were called upon to enforce with all their might the decision made at the meeting Subsequent to the meeting the boss from the Manson Shop asked the workers to finish out a small order of 300 dozen for the old price of 50 cents per doz., but when the shop crew refused he immediately changed the ticket from 50 cent to $1.80 on each dozen. The men realized how easy it was to get the money when all like one, stuck up for their demands. Build Up a Daily Worker Carrier Route! that a man that old should recover from that disease, but if I am not getting well, there is something funny taking place within me, I feel like a new man. It is hard to kill a bolshevik. PAO, DAILY WORKER HELPS STUDENTS New York City Dear Comrade Editor, The Post and World Telegram have both come out editorially against President Robinson of City College. Their reporters covered the mass trial of Robinson with well over 1,200 students present last Friday. The verdict of that trial was that Robinson was “guilty,” and that Robinson mus: go. Yet these papers that appeared so eager for the removal of the Presi- dent of O. C. N. Y. did not print one word about the mass irial in their |columns. This was obviously a cen- sored article, news too hot to print. Only the Daily Worker published the story. The Daily Worker con- tinues as the only newspaper that will help the revolutionary student movement in the United S'ates. My small contribution will be found in the envelope. J. J. but they take it all on debts. The bosses say they will allow us to gin a bale or two free. Then we will have to pay tax on the others, which will be $25.00 to $30.00 on the bale. Me and my family have worked hard this year. We are not going to get a damn penny. My husband worked in the R. F. C. this spring. They allowed him to work once. | Then they cut him off. We didn’t | have nothing to eat at that time so we ate bread and drinked water. He begged to work but they wouldn't let him work. I am a comrade. I don’t care how bad the bosses treat me. I am going to stick to the union. It is a fine thing for the poor working class of ae “Hoping to (oka ike Them Take Notice!” New Hampshire “Dear Comrade: Enclosed please find One Dollar for the Daily Worker drive. I AM WRITING TO FIND OUT WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE WOMEN SUPPORTERS OF YOUR COLUMN that they will let the M. | D’s, Change the World, or World Front, beat the women. Not that I have any quarrel with any of them, I read them every day and feel something wrong whenever any of them are left out. But the argument is that the women should show a better front. If every woman reader of this column would go out and beg or bum a dime from ten friends, we would be some- where. That is just what I tried to do and here is the dollar. SO COME ON, SISTER COM- RADES, send in the small dona- tions. It is not so much the large sums, as the many, many small ones | that count in the end AND OUR DAILY NEEDS OUR SUPPORT. HOPING TO MAKE THOSE Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coints or stamps (coins pre- ferred) for this Anne Adams pat- 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. GREETINGS TO THE DAILY WORKER Brooklyn, N. Y¥. Dear Comrade Editor: The workers of the Premier Knit- ting Mills, gathered at a party made for our militant fighting chairlady, | Kate Weisinger, realize the signifi- cance and role played by the Daily Worker in the interest of the work- ing class, in the knit goods strike as well as in all other strikes, Through the exposure of the A. F. of L. leadership, also the rene- gades like the Lovestonites, Trot- skyites, etc, who work hand in glove with our enemies, the bosses, the Daily Worker makes it possible for the workers to have a clear- minded understanding of their struggles to improve their condi- tions, We therefore send you revolution- ary greetings; also a contribution ot $11.72 toward the $60,000 fund drive, —Workers of the Premier Knite ting Mills,