The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1934 Threat of Mass Action by Win Reimbursement For Back Shortage Relief Conveniently ‘Forgot’ to Send Checks and Then Refused to By a Mine Worker Correspondent UNIONTOWN, Pa. — There are various forms of lowering the meager ne workers em- One of the nan, living in South Browns- | Pa. failed to get his relief ville, check for the week ending Oct. 18. He immediately contacted his inves- tigator, to find out if he was cut| off the relief, and for what reasons. The investigator made an investi- | gation and told him that he is not cut off, but there is some slight mistake, and his check would come in a day or so. The check how- ever, failed to appear. So, Jim mad a trip to the Brownsville District | Relief office, a ere he was as- sured that the check would come. But again the check failed to ar- rive In the meantime the worker, who has a family of 12 to feed, got his storekeeper to advance him on credit the food to the amount of | his check. When after two weeks | the check did not come, the store- | keeper threatened to make the) credit good by giving Jim less on | each week’s order until the credit was paid for. The final answer given to Jim by s of the unem-| Pay ‘Back Relief’ such a stand as a conscious policy, and the easiest method to chisel | hundreds of dollars from the relief checks. We instructed the County Executive to send a protest and our demand that all these cases shall be reimbursed for all the shortage from the date they reported short- age. This protest was sent to the State Emergency Relief Board and Mr. Biddle, the State Relief Direc- tor. We emphasized the chiseling part of this method, and threatened |to picket every relief office in the county unless our grievance is set- tled to our satisfaction. This protest was sent in on Nov. 13 and on Nov. 21 two men from the State Emergency Board ap- peared at our meeting and after a short discussion, agreed to our de- mand. The arrangements arrived at are “that in the event of any shortage due to the mistakes in the relief accounting or other depart- ments, this shortage shall be made good, if reported a week from the date it occurred.” Municipal Employee Exposes City Union) By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—This letter is |intended to expose this so-called Miners Stops Cutting of Relief Receives Scant Reward | For Faith in New Deal By a Mine Worker Correspondent VESTABURG, Pa.—Bill Morgan. our local 762 Financial Secretary has been a staunch supporter of the | “New Deal.” He is opposed to the reds, radicals, Communists, etc | Despite all this, his only reward | was a lousy job in the Vesta 5 mine, | that did not enable him to earn| enough to support his family. He sent his oldest boy to the C.C.C.| camp. Last week his boy was return-| POWHATTAN PT., Ohio. — At ing home, but he never arrived.| present there are about 70 to 75 of | Riding @ freight train, there was | us locked out yet as a result of the an accident outside of Pittsburgh] strike we had here a few weeks and his body was found. Both of| ago, eee Panepiee it eemennn | Our case is with the National By a Mine Worker Correspondent ty i | Labor Board. I am sending you 3 | The probability is that he was| ~~". ; ; compelled to ride the freight train,|°#pping from the Blair Daily | as the “salary” of the C.C.C. work. peer which in part says the fol- | } mit. ¢} lowing: | ers is not such as to permit them to |ride on the cushions. And when ; Some one is discharged from the | C.C.C. camp, or goes on vacation, | there are probably no provisions to ; Pay their fare home. The boy was | just a few months under 21. “Seventy of the nearly 200 men at Powhattan who went on strike about two weeks ago, were not per- mitted to return to their places on Nov. 1 when the mine resumed | work. The strike had been called as a result of a dispute regarding the pay for drilling holes. The men oF: 2 | contend that the company is to pay U n 1 t e d Front! for the deep holes and the company Ss | maintained that the men should do of Unemployed 75 Miners Locked Out After Brief Strike Labor Board Handling Case Which Grew Out of Company’s Refusal to Drill Holes | the grievance to be settled later.” You see how they try to smooth things over. They do not say that the company was at first drilling the holes, furnishing powder to | shoot the coal and laying the tracks. I further let you know that I hardly trust our case in the hands of the National Labor Board. But | they assured our local president and committee that they. will win this case. Why, anyone ought to win a case like this one. I myself am locked out with the 70. others. If they don’t win this case, I don’t know what will hap- pen. Some are ready for struggle and | Some are ready to scab. Some say |that they would be a dollar ahead if we did not have a union. But I believe in a union if it is a fight- ing kind of a union. then men returned to work with the work. After a brief suspension In Shamokin By a Worker Correspondent | SHAMOKIN, Pa.—On Saturday, Nov. 24, the County Organizer and | Secretary of the Unemployed Coun-| gy 4 Mine Worker Correspondent cil of Shamokin yisited an Unem-| VESTABURG, Pa.—We miners in ployed League mass meeting at Mt, | Sub-District 4 of District 5 U.M.W.A. Feeney Supports Shifting Aimed Against Militants) | cause according to the code and the | agreement the company “has the sole right to direct the working the relief, was that his case now) was in the category of “back relief” | and the relief administration could | not write checks for back relief. | The case was called to the at-| tention of the County Unemployed | Council, which decided that in cases | of this type, the relief must make | restitution for the sum that the| workers were shortened. There was | also a report of scores of cases| where the workers were shortened anywhere from 25 cents to $4.50 of union of the Department of Sanita- tion. The union has been organized | for the past 18 years, and in that time all they have accomplished was in getting for the men a widows’ pension of $60 a month, and the employees have to die in order for their wives to benefit by it. They have now employed a So- cialist lawyer to fight for us. He certainly does, Since he has taken charge, things have become worse. rs é Paget | We work Sunday without pay, work the actual sum that they were usu- | from one to four hours over time ally receiving. And in all these | without any additional pay. If we cases the procedure was the same.| are late one minute we are sent Carmel. About 150 members were present. The Organizer and Secretary izer of the Unemployed League. The Secretary spoke first on “What Can Be Obtained By Organization?” The County Organizer of the Unem- | ployed Councils then spoke for about one hour and stressed the point of social and unemployment insurance, telling the workers how urgent it is to have this bill passed. He also explained the importance {have for our Board Member Bill; | Feeney, an International Organizer | force.” Vesta Coal Co. miners! This set-} ited Relief Action In By a Worker Correspondent MARION, Il. — Williamson County had its first demonstra- tion of the unemployed on Nov. 24th. The Illinois Workers Alli- ance, the Communist Party and the Socialist Party demonstrated with 250 workers. We then went in cars and trucks to Johnson City, Herrin, Cartersville and back to Marion, the county seat. We had a good meeting and adopted the man- ifesto of the Illinois State Con- gress for Social Security. The workers are getting mili- tant. There were 12 cars of State Police there to intimidate us. A member of the Communist Party exposed their tactics. The work- ers cheered the Communist Party. We organized the first unit of the Communist Party in Marion last week, Anti-War ‘Fighters Block Provocation Organizers of the Peoria Council of the American League Against War and Fascism will have no trouble pointing out to workers who the local enemies of peace are. Thirty-six sincere men and women met for the purpose of organizing a local council in a room loaned by the Y.M.C.A., November 22. A few minutes after the meeting adjourned, a reporter approached the chairman, asking, “Where is the} riot?” were asked to speak by the Organ- | jot the U.M.W.A, | Feeney, by the way, was so rotten that the miners of Fayette County drove him out. John L. Lewis then made a switch, he sent to the Coke | Region, Bill Hynes, our Board Mem- | ber and sent to us Bill Feeney. Since Feeney came here in the sub-dis- trict, he appeared on many cases, but there is not a single case that he settled in favor of the miners. Here in the Vesta 5 mine, on 10 Face there were 4 pickmen. The | Assistant Boss hired 2 more. After That is, they were told it is due to a mistake in the “accounting ” and after a few weeks would be told that the relief | annot write checks for back re-| lief.” | The County Committee of the | Unemployed Councils took the cases | up with Mr. Hibbs, the County Emergency Relief Director, and he also made the decision, that the| home. The men that are at the head of the union are the only ones that benefit by it. They are getting plus their regular pay, $50 a month from the union funds. In other words they are using this union not for the protection of its members but for their own personal gain. Men, do not be misled any longer by these dogs. Let us get together and; oust these men, and elect men from relief could not give “back relief.” our own ranks who will really fight The County Committee branded for better working conditions. Dive Funds Must Be Rushed to ‘Daily’ The Rochester section of Buiia. pushes ahead with another contribution, $16... Jo, in competition with Jamestown, In the Pittsburgh district, the South Slav I. W. O. of McKeesport sends $3 ... The Turtle Creek unit collected $15.75, and from the Turtle Creek shop we receive $4.50... Anna Peck, in memory of a comrade, contributes $50. From the New Haven district, Br. 94, I. W. O. sends $5... The same sum was contributed by the Women’s Council of Paterson, N. J. of the Congress to be held in Wash- | je hired 2 new pick men he laid off ington, D. C., on Jan. 5, 6, and 7, | two more of the old pickmen on the ¥ excuse that he has too many pick- He also told them that as the|men. He offered the two laid off Organizer of the Unemployed Coun- | pick men a machine place. They cil he thought that the Leagues| refused to accept it, because they and Councils should unite, as all! felt that if they accepted such a the workers are working for the | decision it would make it possible same things, and that if they were | for the Vesta Coal to use this as a united they would be 100 per cent | precedent in future cases, where the stronger in their fight for better | company would shift men from job | conditions, at which the house | to job, and use this form of shifting | rocked with applause. | as punishment against good union The Organizer of the Unemployed | men, by shifting them off better League then pledged himself and | jobs and from better places. the League to unity with the Coun-| So these two men took the case |cils and pointed out that by unit-| Up with the Mine Committee. The ing with the Unemployed Councils | Super, Bill Edwards refused to settle the workers would not only be | the case with the Mine Committee, stronger to get more relief and|@nd Feeney was called in on the clothes but it would also be a big| case. Although it was called to step toward the workers’ goal, “A|Feeney’s attention, that these Soviet America.” | methods of shifting the men, are a Pcl | scheme to attack the best union ‘OTE: men, and make it possible for the " company to put active union men We publish every Saturday. let-| into water holes, where they won't ters from coal and ore miners, and} be able to earn anything and be oil workers. We urge miners and | compelled to quit, Feeney neverthe- oil workers to write us of their con- | less settled the case in the com- alae and their efforts to organ- | pany’s favor. His decision is that as ize. Speed every penny collected for the $60,000 fund immediately, and fulfill quotas in the shortest time possible! 410.03 955.25 Received Nov. 29, 1934 $ Previously received eet Total to date $43,365.28 | DISTRICT 2 (New York City) | Frank Broz $1.00 Unit 173 3.50 Principles of Communism No. 12, Workers School 9.05 Total Nov. 29, 1934 $13.55 Total to date $22,567.45 DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) V. Rosenberg $5.00 18.03 Rochester Section Total Nov. 29, 1934 $21.03 Total to date $517.86 DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) South Siav, L.W.O., McKeesport $3.00 Left Wing, S.F.U., Cannonsburg 2.45 Finleyville Unit 1.85 Joe Rady 5.18 Lithuanian Buro 4.00 Turtle Creek Unit 15.75 Turtle Creek Shop 4.50 Wilkins Twp. Unit 1.50 Mike Stanonick 5.15 ler Unit 2.10 Workers Club 5.00 Workers Club, Ambridge 5.00 Anna Peck in memory of by Wednesday of each week. Total Nov. 29, 1994 $105.45 Total to date $852.08 DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) Oberlin Unit, ¥. C. L. $3.00 W. Archibald 35, Total Noy. 29, 1934 $3.25 Total to date $2,056.80 DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) District $250.00 Matysiak Family 1.00 Petr Chylek 50 F. Mack 25 Mary Chylek 5 $252.00 Total Nov. 29, 1934 Total to date $4,195.36 DISTRICT 14 (Newark) Women’s Council of Paterson $5.00 Total Nov. 29, 1984 $5.00 5| Total to date $716.12 DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) Br. 94, I.W.O. $5.00 Total Nov. 29, 1934 $5.00 Total to date $819.46 DISTRICT % (Florida) J. 8. $4.75 Total Nov. 29, 1934 $4.75 Total to date $80.50 TRAILING 119—Denver District Total Percem District Total Percent Date Quota Date Quota aN. ¥. ©. | $22567.45 | 75.22| vs, |25—Districts | $20707.88 | 69.92 Raa. LEONG ge | 1 1--Boston |, 2243.73 [112.18 14—Newark | 116.12 | 95.48 ae Bs ES as \ 1 3—Philadelphia | 3687.57 |105.35 5—Pittsburgh | 062.06; | 71.00 3 | | « | 1—Detroit | 2172.21 | 86.89 6—Cleveland 2056.80 68.56 ! } 4-Buffalo 517.86 | 69.04] © [13—California 827.53 | 41.37 i \ | 18—Milwaukee | 636.00 | 63.00] « [12 —Seattle a 45.13 4 : i f 12—Seattle 451.34 | 45.18 “ }ts—california | 827.58 | 41.37 | | i 381.90 | 95.47 rd 1—St. Louis | V4L.11 | 28.22 | } NAME Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! ADDRESS AMOUNT | Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER New York, N. ¥. A Boy in Spain Pedro rolled uneasily in his sleep and snuggled closer to his com- panion, stretched out beside him, But he could not sleep. His dreams were wild and scary, and he woke up with a start, his heart thumping loudly. He turned on his back and studied the distant blue stars and tried to figure out how long it must be till daylight. His eyes wandered over the other sleepers, covered with blankets, their guns lying alongside. There were workers from the hill villages. They were mostly miners from the broad, rich coal fields that spread for many miles around. Tonight they were hiding in a deep ravine that had once been a quarry but was now over- grown with low bushes. Pedro thought back over the past few weeks and the things that had happened so fast that a whole year seemed to be lived in a single day. |He remembered that night when |his father rushed into their little hut, picked up a bite of food, and was gone, and Pedro after him. After all, Pedro was fourteen and should take his place beside the men. “It is here at last,” said his father as he hurried along. “The workers will throw over the rich scum who starve us, so that they can have more millions.” He laugh- ed and slapped Pedro on the back. “We'll finish them now, won’t we?” In the next village they joined hundreds of others. soon found himself on the highway And Pedro Please get these letters to us| long as the company offers a man another job there is no case, be- WITH OUR YOUNG READERS with the long line of workers grow- ing ever larger as they passed through villages. Pedro smiled with triumph as he remembered how they stormed the arsenal and took out all the guns. In the fierce fight- ing that followed, Pedro ran here and there, helping wherever he could to reload the guns—to bring bullets. In the narrow streets of the city they set up barricades to block all passages. They raised the red flag. The workers fought furi- ously. But more and more troops were sent by the government to put down the uprising. Pedro saw his father fall wounded. He rushed to his side and flinging his arm around his father helped him to the nearby hospital the workers had taken over. There the doctor said that he must stay in bed. ‘ His father waited impatiently while the doctor bound the wound and then dashed out of the hos- pital. Pedro ran around wildly, looking for him. The shooting went on all day. At last it grew dark and still Pedro could not find his father. In the morning he found him— dead. It was all over. The govern- ment troops had conquered. Thou- sands were arrested and thousands were shot. Even the wounded in the hospitals. But many of the workers had es- caped and with some of them Pedro found himself—going back—but not to the villages, where the civil guards were still searching the workers’ homes. From now on, only the hills could be their home. They tlement is against the best interests }of you men. It is an attack upon’ your jobs, and it will become a | method of squeezing you out of the mine, by shifting you from job to job or place into a bad place, where you will be compelled to quit. Shall | we stand for it? Vesta 5 men must strike against such _ settlements. Drive Feeney out as the Coke Region miners did, Poor House Inmate Replies to Roosevelt By a Worker Correspondent ELOISE, Mich.—Here is my an- swer to the New Deal, yes, I am better off than one year ago. The single men of Detroit are sent to a poor house 22 miles west of Detroit, in the country. There is a state asylum, hospital and farm. There are some men that have been here 3 years and haven’t been out of the gate a dozen times. | I am a pauper and work 52 hours oss week under the N. R. A. I am | forced to work 52 hours or take the free road. When married men on the welfare, work 16 hours per week why should single men work 52. Is this American equality? What is the limit of hours per week for unpaid paupers under the N. R. A. code? There are men 69 years old work- ing on the farm. Are we the for- gotten men? The world don’t know we exist, the radio or papers never Says anything about us. It looks like the government is going into the poor house business or the poor house is going into the government business. This is, “paupers for the; poor house by the poor house.” We By are going back, but not one of them , feels defeated. They know what) they have to do. Their mistakes will teach them and next time there | will be no mistakes. And that time is not far off when all Spain will rise again to throw out the rich ruling classes. The whole country rumbles with unrest more than ever. Hundreds who did not realize be- fore that the time to revolt had come, are gathering together. Daily their anger grows stronger. .The great numbers of farm laborers in the South who were betrayed by their false leaders, are learning from their brothers in the North that they must all stand united. The soldiers who were sent against the revolutionists will learn that they must not shoot down their brothers, These soldiers have al- ready seen other soldiers refusing to shoot down the workers. One brave officer is in prison because he said: “My soldiers will not kill their brothers.” When there are hundreds like this brave man, the government will be powerless. Al- ready the workers had formed so- viets in towns they captured. The next time there will be soviets in all Spain. “We'll finish them’—Pedro re- membered the words of his father. “You bet your life we will,” he mur- mured, clenching his fists. A cold wind blew through the valley; the dry bushes rustled. The sky grew lighter behind the chain of mountains. Dawn was approach- The Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. What riot? Why, this reporter had come “to cover” a riot which, he had been informed at the police) station, would by this time be in progress here. But there was no riot, Why? Because the eight unex- pected “delegates” for the American Legion, with their friend the local organizer of the K.K.K., had found themselves outnumbered four to one by sincerely interested persons representing sixteen unions, clubs, lodges, churches etc. They had not anticipated breaking up an assem- bly of thirty-six workers, trade unionists, ministers, college profes- sors, Communists and students. It had been their plan, rather, to haggle and irritate a small group of “Reds,” precipitating their “riot” by the usual methods. Thus the Legion and their Klux not only forfeited their intentions, but exposed their position in re- gard to organized security against war and “fascism. get no pleasure out of life, this is worse than prison. There is a prison fence around you, and you don't go out of the gate without a pass, There are about 3,000 able bodied men out here. Doctor Grufer is our master, land- lord and dictator. If he says work 44 hours per week or 52 hours we are forced to, or take the road. There are no rules or labor rights here in the poor house. ARE OUR CORRESPONDENTS TIRED? | No contributions received to the credit of this department to- day. Quota $500. Total to date +++ $100.82 Mary Morrow, Children’s editor, Puzzle corner: Directions: 1-2 Friends of the Soviet Union 1-3 What shines in the sky? 1-4 Winter Sport Head covering To fasten An Animal Cheer 1-9 Large 1-10 Three 1-11 Opposite of “ON” Answer to last week's. puzzle — The N.R.A. blue eagle. The words should read from the small circle out to the largest one. When the words are filled in correctly, the letters in the out- side circle will spell something that all workers must do, Southern Mlinois | OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES (Continued) That the workers are exposed to skin. diseases is obvious. What is done for them? In many cases, nothing at all. Some go to their family doctors who may not be experienced in these diseases and the period of disability may be unnecessarily lengthened. When the compensation company is asked to pay for medical services and to pay the worker’s compensation, it will have its skin specialist see the case. If any loop-hole can be found to avoid payment to the worker, it will be looked for in or- der to save the company money. If the employer has too many cases asking for compensation, the cost of his insurance will be increased. The insurance company is in business primarily to make money and not to help workers. So is the employer. The result is that work- ers, who have been trained for years at one occupation and who develop skin diseases which en- title them to compensation, are fired under some pretext as soon as the condition is cleared up by the company skin specialist. The rea- son for this is that they know that as soon as the worker goes back to work the skin condition will re- appear and once again they will have to pay. The worker goes out and swells the list of the unem- ployed. The State has no more use for hm. Health and jinemploy- insurance paid out of the profits of the industry would cer- tainly help rectify such an injustice. There is another point of view— prevention of diseases—which one would expect employers to take. After all, if they could prevent dis- ease they could save time and the good old dollar. This involves an initial expense. They would have ment WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily. Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) to hire expert engineers and physi- cians to so build their plants to minimize exposure to gases, fumes and dust. They could have at their disposal skilled dermatologists to examine employes to determine whether they are sensitive to the substances they handle. The physi- cian could have such workers transferred to other types of work If a skin irritant used in the face tory were discovered by the physi- | cian a substitue chemical might be found and the workers spared dis- ease and unemployment. If the chemicals used were irritating and no substitutes could be found, every possible means could be studied to help the workers avoid danger. Such preventive measures would cost money and all employers know that labor is too cheap to waste money on it. It is cheaper to dis- card old employes and hire new ones than to invest money in too costly health projects. To suggest medicines for occupas tional skin diseases is really foolish, The important thing is to know what the cause is and to either eliminate it or avoid it. The skin specialist may discover the cause, but it is up to the State to see to it that proper precautions are taken by the owners of industry. Some industries do take some half- hearted steps in this direction, but on the whole one can say that most are not interested. Only when private ownership is eliminated can we hope for sincere medical and engineering research in this d- rection. ZERO! Nothing was received today to the credit of this column. The proceeds of the dance held by the Medical Advisory Board have not yet been turned in. Quota $1,500. Total to date .. $548.30 IN THE HOME FRIEND from Pittsburgh writes to tell us the treatment the bosses accord wives and chil- dren of workers whom they have imprisoned for their part in the class struggle, The worker in this case is Phil Frankfeld, leader of masses of unemployed workers, former organizer of the Unem- ployed Council of the steel and coal area that comprises the Pittsburgh District. He was ar- rested for leading an unemployed demonstration and sentenced to a term in the Allegheny County jail. His wife and their new-born child are living on “relief” given by the city. Our friend writes: “Today we were visiting the mother and her new-born baby, and we found that the welfare is giving the mother a twenty-five cent raise in the $1.50 a week welfare, since the When the child is two years old, she will be given seventy-five cents a week for its upkeep. That is the “relief” given working women for their children im Allegheny County. They refuse to give her a tub because there is a bath tub in the house. The baby is only ten days old, and to wash it in the bath tub she would have to carry it through a cold hall and use the tub all the boarders in the house use. We are carrying on a campaign for Frankfeld’s release from jail. Pro- tests against his imprisonment should be sent to the jail, and to the Governor of Pennsylvania.” iia as child was born, AM beginning to realize what being swamped really means, Let me share my woes. First of all this column has been receiving quite a few letters recently. I want to use parts of those letters in the column. There is a very useful series of short articles by Helen Luke on household matters that our readers will find very useful. There are menus to be printed. There are a series of articles coming on child education and child care. There are very fine reports of struggles being carried on by women through- out the country in their shops. And day by day the problem of space stares me in the face, and bests me every time. i Slee Pioneer Drive Chicago Pioneers just wrote in | Saying that the first prize, a Bugle ,and Drum Corps, be wrapped ready to ship to Chicago as they are sure to go over the top in this drive to raise $2,000 and will win this prize. What do you say, Pioneers of New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Los An- geles? You can answer by getting busy and selling coupons and rush- ing money to the New Pioneer, P.O. ing. Box 28, Sta. D, New York, N. Y. Ace the foregoing is for the pur- pose of assuring the women who have sent material to me that their material has not gone astray. It is simply waiting its turn to squeeze in our crowded column. And by the early part of next week, I prom- ise to answer all unanswered let- ters. re T™ Committee to Support Southern Textile Organization has asked me to mention that Roy Whitley, the Southern rank and file organizer of the textile workers, interviewed last week in this column, was brought North by the aforementioned committee. The Committee has been sending funds every week to the South to support organizers of the rank and file. Whitley has been speak- ing here for the committee. er anes “4 SUBSCRIBER” sends us a rec- ipe for tooth powder. She says it can be made at home for “ap- proximately one-tenth of what the same amount cosis to buy.” “One pound of finest bolted precipated chalk (20c to 30c in bulk), Baking soda may be added, if and to the extent desired (two to four tablespoonsful) to render it alkaline. Flavor with oil of win- By ANN BARTON Twenty-Five Cents a Week For Babies tergreen or peppermint (ten cents wort is plenty). And if the family misses the foaminess of the com- mercial product, a small amount of fine, granulated castile soap may be added.” ae te dyes now to correct two typograph= ical errors in Wednesday's col- umn. The sentence saying: “We received news demanding further events in Chicago” was as I wrote it “describing further events.” 'Then again it says “After the delegation’s visit, the committee met me.” The “me” was quite a surprise when I saw it in Wednesday's paper. The sentence should have read “the committee met at a hall to decide on further steps.” SORRY, NONE TODAY Has the rag rug winning propo- sition lost its attraction for “In the Home” supporters? Quota $500. Total to date 121.36 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2078 is available in sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 Size 6 requires 2% yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded, Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or samps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. 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