The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 PMA Hoalls Adee Striking Sh Miners to ‘P By a Mine Worker Correspondent GLER, Ill.—Just a few lines of the offi- ve Miners of hold a meeting members of the local never get a port: on these meetings. When members of the why they did not get ack Allen said there stool pigeons at the meetings. A pretty good ex- se, “Brother” Allen Money is sent to our local to finance the strike. Sometimes as sent. This taken and I wonder if all of it was spent for gas and oil teemen of this local got so God damned drunk that he tore his card up, and a couple of pints were still in the car. The local leaders tell us miners to , play pinochle, go to sleep g to forget the strike, we'll win Well, that good thing to tell us fellows to keep us out of the way and in the dark as to what they are doing. Not very long after the strike was called, there was one of our broth- ers that knew that the strike was Penn R. R. Thugs Jail Three for Picking Coal By a Worker Correspondent HILLSIDE, Pa.—I wish to let other workers know of the fascist terror that is spreading in this section of the country. Three workers were arrested by Penn- Sylvania Railroad Company thugs for stealing coal and trespassing. They were picking a few buckets of coal along the railroad. The boys ranged in age from 16 to 12. The parents had applied to the relief board for coal three weeks before and did not get any. The family had no means of cooking or keeping warm. The boys were merely trying to help their aged parents, who can not stand much cold at their age. You can not get clothes to keep you warm in the summer time, Jet alone in December from our relief machine. I sincerely hope that the work- ers in this country will under- stand what they face in the fu- ture and organize and fight for a Soviet America. TO THE RESCUE! The Worker Correspondence Dept. jumped with jubilation at the $33 from the wilds of Nit- gedaiget. The joy, however, was shortlived. (See Ann Barton’s score), Not only is this a blow DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1934 lay Pinochle’ lost and that we should organize the men that did not come on strike nd those that went back to work. When this was me at one of our regu etings, Charles “Hawkshaw” our president, made a long speech on he way these damned “reds” are ng to tear up our orga on, Allen Miners Bring Rifles as “Deer Hunting” Season Begins By a Mine Worker Correspondent ALICIA, Pa.—On December f the third time in as many months, the miners at Alicia No. 1, a company patch of the Mon- essen Coal and Coke, a Mellon sub- sidiary, stopped the eviction of the tore ech say 150 men of t local that hold a seperate meeting hen come to our meeting to ur organization. He tO ge fishing, play | Mullen family, whose boy, Joe, is wenochic, anvthing to pass the time | #e president of the local of the away and not let the damned “red” | UM-W.A., at Alicia No. 1 pita The fight with the company, and ‘ : Jo. | its super, Jim Gerry, started when BOLE tan montis eao, Local No |i super, ola See ee eo eoCesoltn, | the men demanded equal division tion suggesting’ the same thing. | Of Work, and pay for the dead work. Again, “Hawkshaw” and Jack Allen | This fight led to the picketing of Mean at ia aust another move. | the mine and eventual closing down ment by the “left wingers,” trying |Of the mine. This was over three | months ago, and even since then | the company tried to get rid of the pes: Rare pee + | Union men out of the patch. are? Bap cite een une The first attempted eviction was ‘ame men are fighting for the |/ed by “Preacher” Brady, who with same thing, when it should have |Seven other deputies and a truck been started 18 months ago. That’s | Came to Alicia, arld began to carry a bunch of smart leaders for you, |the furniture into the truck. But, k q bs before they were able to carry out play pinochle or sleep, as. these | Wives gathered and carried it right crooked leaders ask, wake up! See, | ack into the house. what these lowdown leaders are do- again to tear up the organization ess and brainless Harry Rev- UNEMPLOYED MINERS BLOCK EVICTION AND OBTAIN CLOTHES Relief Head Ist, | A deputy got} ” smacked in the scuffle and a miner} Councils or any other organization was arrested; but the men and wo-| of their own choosing. with you, Can a union win without a struggle? Never! It must |™en forced his release. =| fight, not sit around playing About ten days ago, his Nib: pinochle or going hunting. That's | Sheriff Hackney with ten deputies came himself, but was unable to carry out the eviction. However, he told Mr. Mullen that he either move or be evicted by Dec. 1. Expecting the eviction Dec. Ist, the Alicia local of the U.M.W.A, un- dertook steps to organize to pre- vent the eviction for the third time. Committees went and visited local Unions throughout the District No. 4; also in District 5. Finances were raised through a raffle and a dance, so that the work would not be handicapped for lack of some gaso- line money -for transportation. A no way to win a strike. U Delegate Promises To Seab on Fishermen By a Worker Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO.—I am at pres- ent working on a sardine reduction boat, and have put out some good propaganda for the eight-hour day. The bosses gave a slight wage raise in an attempt to kill the growing militancy. before the joint committee of the captive mines and got endorsement in this fight, also a pledge of help. Despite the bad weather on Dec. 1 }and the fact that mines worked, on Dec. 1 delegations came from as far as Lemont, Oliver, Masontown; also miners from Grindstones, Braznell, Fayette City, etc. Sheriff Hackney, knowing of the sentiment and or- ganizational steps taken to resist the eviction, failed to make an ap- I am putting out a leaflet for all reduction boats, calling for three watches, etc. The seamen and firemen on the “Lansing” have se- cured three watches, though sea- men are still working 12 hours on the Lake Miraflores. The I. S. U. delegate, when asked what his union's attitude would be for supporting the Fish- ermen’s and Cannery Workers’ In- dustrial Union's demand for three watches, said: a “I can’t do anything. That is a Communist union.” He also said that if we got the sailors to strike in sympathy they (I. S. U. officials) would send down union men to scab on us. to Gerry, the super, also spoke to Hackney over the phone, and got “postponement” of the eviction. One remarkable feature of some | of the delegations was their prepa- rations. of the deer hunting season, and some of the miners came to the eviction with their rifles. Their comment was that they expected “to get a buck.” Probably; the first reason Sheriff Hackney did not come was thet he figured also that | the miners were preparing for the {opening day of the deer hunting, NOTE: We publish every Saturday let- ters from coal and ore miners, and oil workers. We urge miners | and oil workers to write us of their conditions and their efforts to organize. Please get these let- | ters to us by Wednesday of each to our proletarian pride, but it’s an awful sock at our masculine Come on, you Worcorrs! ego. { You can still help us make good. || Week- A hie ilar eek | Camp Nitgedaiget .....§ 33.00 Little Lefty | Previously received .... 13692 || [ite Tat So enportant tet- | festat te dake $189.92 ter to you all, and so please | read it. It’s on page 7.” | | Left Wing of Local 9 ILGWU Contributes Again to Drive HE executive of the left wing group, Local 9, International Ladies T Garment Workers Union, contributes $19.25. : “We send this to our paper which helps us in our daily struggle against wage cuts,” they declare ~ Camp Nitgedaiget, Beacon, N. Y., sent $33 for the drive . . outstanding contribution from New York is $25 from the Associated | Workers Clubs, the organization of all English speaking clubs... An| affair of the Icor, Asbury Park, N. J., brought in $16.53 | Only one week is left in which to raise the balance needed to end | the Daily Worker drive. Concentrate upon raising as much as possible | | to complete the quota! | | | | | | | | | Received Dec. 6, i934 $354.09 Z DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) He | Previously received $1,153.24 | 8: W- Picci an | Total Dec. 6, 1934 8100.00 | Total to date $51,507.21 | Total to date + ccmeagey 2200 | 2 (New York City) DISTRICT & ( cage’ Be yaa pce jaremks $1.75 | Three friends from Rock Island Bec. $1.80 | Bec. 1, Unit 1D a bert p pao ss ag teed 20.00 | Total Dec. 6, 1934 $1.80 | eS ee ie 100 | Total to date $5,147.58 | ey cat io 1.00 | DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) | po a unit 3 20.00 | Seattle $3.68 Olympia 3.00] ciated Workers Clubs 25.00 | Aberdeen 9.00 Everett io aaa tm 5.00 | Renton 647 Tacoma 29.25 | 2.00 | 2s ea & 78 | Te $54.40 t Birthday Party of Baby Feder 6.75 | Total Dec. 6, 1934 40 | Beuay: Class 1. W. O., Br. 167 1.35 | Total to date $741.33 8. Dickman 25 DISTRICT 14 (Newark) 5 peal 2, | W. N., Exe. Left Wing Tag Day $1.55 Hillside, I. w nes oan 19.25 | Polish Workers Br. 5.00 | Workers of Meltzer Shop 1.50 Club 5.00 Icor affair, Asbury | Dora Smith 1.00 | Tag Day 5 Park 16. si! rative Opticians 2.35 paRSeE CSE Sen Nowe zrele 2:80 | Total Dee. 6, 1986 saa | Camp Nitgedatzet 33.00 | Total to date $991.48 | ve Stmit 19 DISTRICT 17 (Birmingham) | ue Ki on J. Grant s - tal De 6, 1934 $152.28 | w. A. Humphrey b Total fo. date #27.813.34 C. Humphrey 19 DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphi2) =| G. Veller $1.00 Karl Richter 28 | Total anh 6, 1934 om o <1 25 A. Hilling 20 | Total to date \ Me 2 6. vAnon 05 DISTRICT 22 (W. Virginia) ©. H. Wyagerte 75 ——— | pr. 125, RN. M.A. S . 6, 1934 23.00 | nes Total rar $3,721.92 | Total Dec. 6, 1984 sit re 6 (Cleveland) Total to date payion. Cl DISTRICT 25 (Florida) unit 7, Dayton, Ohio Ed, Knusela, Canton | Sehermer __ #49} "97.98 | 6, 1934 3 .40/ 6, 1934 $7.95 | Total Dec. 6. Total to date $2,388.78 | Total to date $125.20 Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT | 5 i} a Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER New York, N. ¥. 50 EAST 13th St. Another | i and he did not want to be mistaken | for a “buck.” The Unemployment Councils of Fayette County helped in the prepa- rations. helped to prevent the previous evic- tions and gave its full support to the struggle against the December 1st eviction. In Alicia itself, prac- tically the entire patch belongs to the local of the U. C. The prevention of the eviction in Alicia is blazing a new trail in the struggles of the coke re- gion and the miners generally! It has shattered the traditional fear of entering in a mass force a company camp! committee from the local appeared | pearance. A committee went to talk | December 1 is the first day | Delegations of the N. U.| | C. locals were present! The N. U. C. | Police Against Committee U. C, Organizer of West Virginia Attacked While | Presenting Unem By a Worker Correspondent KINGWOOD, W. Va.—A commit- tee of fifteen was elected by the| Unemployment Council of Preston | County to present demands to the} county relief administration for: 1) Fifty cents per hour on relief jobs with no reduction in hours. 2) Immediate increase in direct relief. 3) Warm winter clothing, shoes | and bed-clothes, 4) Dental and medical attention with the right of the workers to choose their own doctor or dentist. |- 5) Payment of gas, light, water| and coal bills. | 6) Unemployed representation on the county relief board. | 7) An end to intimidation and | threatening to cut off relief work- ers who join the Unemployment | 8) The endorsement of the Work- | ers Unemployment and Social In- | surance Bill, H.R, 7598. The demands had been presented | by Lowell Watson, State Organizer of the Unemployment Council, who | had been elected spokesman, to | Rhena Leason. The committee de- | manded an immediate answer. | She began “craw-fishing” by | stating that the wages had Been | set by an “impartial” board with a “labor” representative on it after they had determined that 35c was | the prevailing wage rate in Preston | are more determined than ever to} County. The committee challenged | Mrs, Leason to indicate the indus-| wages, more relief and for enact- | try in the county that paid 35 cents! ment of the Workers Unemploy-| an hour, The committee then| pointed out that practically the only | industry in the county, coal min- ing, paid labor 5144 cents an hour.| Then Mrs. Leason admitted that) the wage scale was set at 35 cents! ) because the rich farmers had pro- eriff Decides to Stay Away As Miners : With Rifles Mass in Company Patch Calls State ployed Demands tested against a higher rate, stat- ing that they would be unable to secure cheap labor if the relief rate were higher. The committee was very efficient- ly exposing the whole relief admin- istration for what it really was, a bunch of contemptible, chiselling “silk stocking’ parasites, when the relief administrator called for the Brown Shirts of West Virginia, the State Police. These fascist gun thugs of the coal operators seized Watson and began twisting his arms, thumbs and neck and slugging him in the face in true Hitler Brown Shirt fashion. The whole committee was ejected from the relief office for the sole “crime” of exposing a band of crooked relief officials and demand- ing a decent standard of living. The various locals of the Unem- ployment Council of Preston Coun- ty are now preparing large mass meetings all over the County to protest against this brutal attack and complete disregard for the rights of the workers. All working class organizations are urged to send protest telegrams and resolutions to Charles F. Brown, Sheriff and James T. Daly, Mayor, Kingwood, W. Va. Demand an im- mediate stop to the brutal police terror. The workers of Preston County intensify their fight for higher ment and Social Insurance Bill, and to elect delegates to Washington for the Unemployment Congress on Jan. 5, 6 and 7 to help formulate a fighting program of struggle around these issues. Butte Wastes in Mighty United Front Demonstration By a Worker Correspondent BUTTE, Mont.—In response to a | call from the National Action Com- mittee for the Noy. 24 demonstra- tion, 200 members of the F.E.R.A. | Workers’ Protective Union and the Miners’ Union (I.M.M. and S.W.U.) Local No. 1 paraded through the business district here with banners demanding passage of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- | ance Bill (H. R. 7598) and a $30- | for-thriyt-hour-week public works | | bill, workers’ administration of re- lief, all war funds for unemploy- plain, blunt man who tells you the things you already know” and with forceful logic appealed to the work- ers not to depend on Roosevelt any | longer but on their own organized strength based on a clear under- standing of the alignment of class forces. Charles Juttner, attorney long-time supporter of workers’ strluggles, exposed the demagogy of the New Deal politicians and the hypocricy of Roosevelt’s “recovery” program. This demonstration assumes un- and | ment relief and other demands. usual significance due to the fact | The parade terminated in a dem- | that this is the first time in Butte | onstration in front of the Court | that Communists, trade union lead- House, which serves also as the/| ers and members of various politi- quarters of the local relief admin-/| cal groups have united publicly on istration. Prominent among the list | a common program. General opin- of speakers, which included two at-|ion indicates that the éarly hour, torneys, some members of the F.E. | six a.m., of the demonstration pre- R.A, Union and several members of | vented a much larger attendance. the Communist Party, was “Bob” In spite of this, the demonstration | Brown, local president of the | was an inspiring expression of soli- | Miners’ Union, who was defeated in | darity and the growing determined |the recent elections for the office | struggle against Roosevelt's pro- ;of international president through | gram of hunger, fascism and war. | an under-hand campaign conducted | The Communist Party calls on the jagainst him by the reactionary A.| workers to continue this struggle | ¥F. of L. bureaucracy. land to rally ever greater forces be- Brown referred to himself as “a | hind it. : | Threat To Take Clothes) now to Forces Relief Heads To Come Across By a Mine Worker Correspondent UNIONTOWN, Pa. — Here have two locals of the National Un- employment Council and a scattered membership in every part of the town. Our committees took up | cases, and settled them favorably | to the unemployed. However, on the question of clothing, we always got promises but no clothing. there is no clothing. Our local No. 1, consisting of the Bailey-Gallatin Avenues, decided to demand the right to inspect and examine the relief clothing warehouse. We | elected a committee of 15 and went down to the relief office. We had a meeting with Miss Davidson, the isfaction. Our committee then went had a conference and could not meet us that day, but arranged to meet us a day later When we met with Mr. Hibbs, he told us a sad story. There was nothing in the warehouse, He called the warehouse, and he told us the same sad story. We asked Mr. Hibbs where shoe and clothing stores | in charge of money. We asked to inspect the ware- house. Mr. Hibbs stated that he would have to write to Harrisburg for an O.K. as no committee of unemployed ever inspected the warehouse. He admitted that there | 1s lots of “red tape” to go through before we would be able to get a permit to inspect the warehouse. We told him that we don’t care for no damn red tape, either he would let us inspect the warehouse or we would go out and tell the people that the warehouse was filled with shoes and clothing, but the relief refused to give it out. We got permission to make an inspection. Mr. Hibbs knew, if we made such a report, there would have been enough unemployed on hand to take the warehouse apart, Our committee saw over 500 blankets in one bundle, but those | Were for the Red Cross. There were | Shoes and underwear, some of it | was packed ready for shpiment. Of | course there was not enough shoes | and clothing to supply the needs of the 15,000 Fayette families that are | on relief; but, neither was the ware- house empty. Thus, we caught Mr. Hibbs, Mr. Baum and the whole gang in a lie. We went back to Mr. Hibbs and | we told him, “Either have shoes and clothes to meet our needs with- | in ten days, or we will organize all those that need shoes and clothes and take them into the stores, and supply their needs, and we will tell the storekeepers to send the bill to the relief.” Mr. Hibbs begged us not to do it. He promised he would go to Harrisburg and demand shoes and clothes. Other committees from the Un- employed Council and local unions in the county have placed the same kind of ultimatum before Mr. Hibbs and a few days after our meeting the paper carried the news that ten truck-loads of clothing and. shoes have arrived in Uniontown. Our ten days are not up, but, if we do not get our demands by the day the dead-line arrives, we are going through with our program. The relief is either going to give us shoes and clothing, or else the stores will supply our needs, and the re- lief can fight it out with them. WITH OUR YOUNG READERS By Mary Morrow, Children’s editor, The Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. SOLIDARITY-NOT CHARITY Only 17 days till Christmas says the big sign in the department store. Everywhere people are rush- ing about, their arms full of pack- ages. The counters are heaped with beautiful things. The store is burst- ing with crowds of shoppers. But this store is in a very big city. | And though it is crowded inside there are many thousands of others who will never see the inside, who have no money to spend. Perhaps some of them who live inthe nearby poor sections will come to look longingly into the bright windows that are filled with beautiful toys and soft, warm clothes, things that they cannot buy. Their children will pull them into the store: “Come, I want to see Toyland.” A whole floor is filled with nothing but toys. The boys and girls stare with eyes bright with excitement at the wonderful things. In the crowds, | | the clerks cannot notice i | the ragged children sit in some of he shin- ing automobiles or touch the dolls it home. whose fathers cannot get jobs. Christmas will be lovely for those who have fathers that can buy them everything they want. For them there will be presents around the tree on Christmas Eve. The next day, after they’ve had a good dinner, they will play with their faye their moms and pops with them, and when it seems that every | one in the world should be happy, | these children will feel very sad and | alone. Wouldn't you like to’ show | them they are not forgotten? That | we know why their pops were sent | to jail, and that we are proud of | them? Wouldn’t you like to make be Salvation Army charity, This will be real solidarity. Send what- ever you can, or if you have any questions about what you can do— write to Prisoners Relief Depart- ment of the I. }. D., in care Mary Morrow, The Daily Worker, 35 E. 12th Street, New York, N. Y. The excuse of Mr. Hibbs was that | | district supervisor, and got no sat-| | to Mr. Hibbs, the relief director. He | | in} cerning Uniontown, Pa., Fayette County, we| This often reduces the doctor’s task | | to guess-work or magic, and makes | Mr. Baum, the man in charge of| i} | | | | | | useful advice difficult to give. | WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) Ask Your Board a Medical Question [ANY of the letters received by the Medical Advisory Board give insufficient information con-| the inquirer’s complaint. For this reason, we are publishing the following directions to aid inquirers in presenting personal complaints: 1, Always mention your age, sex, occupation, . whether married or single; whether any members of the family or friends are having similar illnesses at the same time; any operation or diseases you may have had that may conceivably have any relation to your present complaint. If you ever have had a venereal disease, was it treated? How long? 2. Have you lost weight? Gained? Have you lost strength? Have you become very pale? Haye you any fever? 3. Always give the time relations { of your complaint—how long you have had it? How often do you get it? During the day? At night? Re- lation to means, sitting, lying, walking, working? Does it wake you | for money and we would go to the| UP? 4. Give the bodily location of there is plenty of clothing. He told | your complaint in as great detail} us he could not give us money as/ as possible? he had none, that Harrisburg was} Front or back? Upper or lower part Right or left side? of chest, abdomen, etc.? 5. If you complain of pain, de- scribe the pain. Is it sharp, dull, crampy, shooting, lightning, con- Stricting, etc.? 6. If it is an abdominal (stomach) complaint, have you heartburn? Nausea? Vomiting? What color is the vomitus? Diarrhea? Constipa- tion? Have you ever had jaundice? How is your appetite? Character of stools—tarry, bloody, clay-colored? 7. If it is a chest or heart com- Plaint, did you ever cough up blood or sputum? Do you sweat at night? If you have pain, is it worse when you breathe? When you walk? Are your legs swollen? Do you wake up out of breath in the middle of the By ANN YEAR AGO, fifty psychologists set out to measure the faith of the nation’s housewives in the NRA. They questioned 16,500 women in forty states during a year. The results were announced by a Dr. Achilles, of Columbia Univer- sity, and a Dr. Likert of New York University, who conducted the ex- periment. They discovered that the housewives have undergone “an apparent decline in faith in the IN THE HOME night? How many pillows do you sleep on? 8. If it is a urinary complaint, how often do you urinate by day? By night? Does it burn? Have you trouble ‘starting the stream? Does | it dribble when you are through? Have you pain in the loins? Does the pain move in any direction? 9. If the complaint is of “female” trouble, or menstrual, how old were you when you began to mensiruate? When you ceased menstruating? How frequent are your periods. | How long do they last? How pros fuse are they? Do you bleed bee tween periods? Have you any dis- charge? Have you pain? Where and what kind? Any abortions? Mis- carriages? Children? Abnormal de- liveries? Methods of contraception? | 10. Have you had any laboratory examinations? State which and send in reports if possible. | . fi The “Safe” Interval M. G., Brooklyn, N. ¥.: It is, true that there are only three or four days between one menstrual period and the next when a woman | can become pregnant. HOWEVER, | those days vary in different women and vary in the same woman too, | There is still no scientific evidence at hand that permits us to tell a | Woman that on such and such days | of her menstrual month she will surely become pregnant—nor can we tell her the reverse: That on such and such days of her menstrual | month she will surely not become | pregnant. DOCTORS NEED FIRST AID The Advisory Board, which started out with such promising gusto, has lost some of its hale-and-hearty spirit. How about administering a doctors? Womens Council No, 22..$ 5.00 Previously Rec’d. 190.95 + $795.95 Total ... “Lissen everybuddy: “There’s somethin’ very spe- shul on page 7.” BARTON Housewives and the N, R. A. | lineoleum, fibre or mat rugs are available at very low prices, woven in good-looking modern designs, | These can be cleaned with a broom and mop. They are light weight, and easily handled.” WOMEN’S DAY! With the splendid cooperation of the Council of W. C. Women, Ann Barton gets the highest contribu- tion today and passes Ramsey in to- little oxygen to your department, | tal amount in the drive, progressing | news toys or go to see their friends’ | ‘hem feel what the word solidarity presents. They will not think of | Means? A book, or a toy, perhaps those children who have nothing, |0m€ Of your own, or even only a no toys, no clothes, no dinner, On| letter will mean an awful lot to Christmas morning, the ones who | these boys and girls, And this won’t have nothing will be unhappy. But among these there is a} group of children who will be par- | ticularly unhappy. They are boys | and girls whose fathers are in cal because of their loyalty to the work- ing class. Their fathers were put in dark cells because they fought for the right to strike and picket and organize, because they wanted food for their families and yours | too, or simply because their skins | were black and they dared to de- | mand their rights. Some of these prisoners are in Directions: —here’s how you work it. | the spaces filled, read from left to right and you will find one line Long months go by and | a tine does not. At Me es ia als AY uli ‘This is a new kind of puzzle ‘When you have of a with hair that is so soft and curly, | jail for months, for years and some | Popular revolutionary song. A black space A short trip into fairyland. What | for life. \fun it would be to take some of they do not even see their children. | But they know well that |The jails are far from home and | these things are not for children | there is no money for carfare. | means the end of a word, but the end Ca If you can work out the answer, mail |it in-and you can become a member of i e | the Daily Worker Puzzle Club. New mem- Christmas time when other children ‘bers are Harriet Axler, Sara Nadel, Rosa Here’s News of the New Pioneer Drive Los Angeles, sent in $17; New Jersey, $8. Where are the rest of you? when their wages are cut, 2-16-38 - 13-12 — ClarenceNorris was put in jail be- cause he iss poor 25-24-17-7-23 - 32 — One of the Scotts- boro boys. 1-6-15-20-5 -— Res- cued. 26-2-36-27-14 - 10 — | 27-19-39 —Rxclama- American worker tions. in jail. 38-34-25-4-28 - 22 — What workers do Union unity League 11-8-18—Suitable, Halpern, Katie Stecko, Eva Patrusik, Ruth Whitman, Lilyan Reich, Joseph Letwin, Robert Korstensen, Anna Kapral. GEE - | HOPE GRANPA GETS ADVENTURES OF MARGIE, TIM AND JERRY. SEE W HAT HAPPENS NEXT WEEK. ANG j ih ' 9-21-31-3 — Trade! practicability of the NRA.” They found by interviewing 2,000 women during the period of Oct. 2 to Oct. 6, 1933, that 48 per cent of the women said the “NRA has been working well in my neighborhood.” ‘Twenty-seven per cent said “It has not worked at all.” And 25 per cent were undecided. In September, 1934, questioning 4,000 women, 38 per cent answered “yes,” 26 per cent said “no,” and 36 per cent were unde- cided, 'HE HOUSEWIFE herself does not not have to interview thousands of women to find that the NRA has brought her nothing but an added strain. She goes to the grocery store. The price of flour, milk, bacon, make her angry enough to start a hullabaloo right there with the storekeeper. By the lessened amount of food she can buy with her husband's wages (if he is work- ing), by the inferior quality of the food she purchases, even at the higher prices—she knows that some- thing has done her wrong all around. But, of course, spluttering and fuming alone will get her no- where. The duty of the readers of this column is to explain to their housewife neighbors that they must conduct an organized fight, to- gether with their neighbors. The readers of this column can organize the most backward group of house- women are being organized all over the country, to picket stores, de- manding lowered prices. Organize such a club, and write us your ex- periences. ELEN LUKE continues her ar- ticles on advice to the couple setting up housekeeping for the first time. She deals here with the treatment Of floors, “If your proposed home hasn't been ‘done over’ and you have found low enough rent to warrant. it. you may want to do a little | painting yourself. In any event, | if the floors, woodwork and walls have crevices and irregularities, if these are filled in and made smooth, with putty, plaster, or plastic wood, and painted with a hard smooth finish, the house- work will be much easier. “What about the floors? 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