The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1934, Page 4

ey | i *, there were any Page 4 DAILY ORE NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1934 Birmingham Police Raid A.F.of L. Rank and File ‘Office MOVE TO BLOCK JOBLESS PARLEY PREPARATION Aided By Legionnaires Chief Dete Detective Searches | Files and Delivers Oration Against Negroes and New ‘York Jews By a Worker Gostoimeialant BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The police and the white Legionaires here are making an openly combined at- tempt to smash the growing move- ment of rank and file workers for control in the unions and for un- employment insurance. Saturday, Dec. Ist, City Detec- tive Bryan, and two other plain- clothes men who were not intro- duced but who were later found to be Gullidge and Rosdick, two red- hounding white Legionaires, strut- ted into the A. F. of L. Rank and File office demanding to know if Communist litera- ture around. When Louise Reese, the office sec- retary, answered that there wasn't any, the place. When asked if he had a warrant, he answered, “Naw, I don’t need no wagrant. Who do you think you are anyway? Now, you can save yourself some trouble, little girl, if you don’t try to get funny. I’ve goi a gun and a badge.” Guilidge and Rosdick started rum- maging the desk, pulling out rank and file literature, Unemployment Insurance Bills, reviews and calls for the. National Congress for Un- employment and Social Insurance. As Bryan looked over the liter ture, he questioned Louise. When he asked her whére she was born, and she answered Alabama. three pairs. of eyes bulged out, and Bry- an blurted, “That’s a lie! Our wo- men don’t go in for such rotton stuff, they got better blood. You're from New York or up east." Louise answered that never been to New York or up east, and Bryan again accused her of lying, saying that he knew better, that she was a New York Jew. “Some of them New York Jews sent over from Moscow to stir up our poor folks and make them dissatis- fied.” Then he went into the Negro question, but his tone changed to one of conscious benevolence, “Now take the poor ‘Nigger’ he wasn't born nothing and he won't never be nothing ‘cause he ain't got pride. | He ain't proud he’s a ‘Nigger,’ he’s ashamed of it, and anybody that’s ashamed of his race can’t git no- where. You folks and the Com- |moonist Party come along stirrin’ Bryan gave orders to search | them up, making them dissatisfied with their conditions, and talk to them about organizin’ and fighting against the government. Then they git into trouble. We have to punish | them, and it’s your fault. I don’t like people that whine about con- ditions. The ‘Nigger’ is just the poor offcast son of Ham,” he added. Gullidge and Rosdick have been doing all in their power to break the Arrangements Committee for the National Congress for Unem- | ployment and Social Insurance, But he’re not going to let him |stop our fight or Dreak our com- she had Jamaica Unit mittee. We are going to send dele- gates to the National Congress if they turn all hell loose on us! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! It’s been a long time coming, but at last the Worker Corre- spondence Dept. beats “In the Home”—in today’s contributions. Howeer, they're still oer $100 ahead of us Comrade See. 4 Unit SG 13... Previously received Total oe eeccencseeeee+ -S21192 3 i intrest Cooperative Workers Contribute $150 Three the most workers from the Hamtramck Co-operative, Detroit, outstanding contribution to the Daily made Worker drive last Friday—8150. This is more than half the total from the entire Detroit District on that day. Received Dec. 14, 1934 $1,594.83, Union 1 Freiheit Gesangs any other doctor : :: Previously received 54,164.78 | Nature Priends 1.2! Ferain 00 | aap 9 except Dr. Chap ies he Bs 3.28 © Women's League, man ause the said doctor did Total to date $58,759.58 | Silver Coll. 8.4 No. 5 oo |not belong to the Medical Society DISTRICT 1 (Boston) Br. No. a Mati im here, According to Miss Arnett, if Donation at Beston Banquet, C. C. LW 2.00 Br. 101, \anything should happen they would Jewish Workers Children School $5.00 Br. No. 32, LW. 0. 00 | Siame ie Pie mating Tile, Giteuss | Roxbury Cuisural Aid 6.00| 1. W. 0. 10.00 Unit 602 2.00 | Ae s . Chelsea. Cultural Aid 5.09 | Br. 40, School No. 1, pass the buck). Lower Dorchester Cultural Aid im Ww. 0. 3.00 Z x °. i Big than any other doctor here. As far Winthrop Cultural Aid 2.00 Br. 95, I.W.O. 1.00 (To be continued) |than any oti ator | Dorchester Gessangs Ferein DISTRICT { (Buffalo) eer Be eee tl Working Women’s Council 300| Harry 1. Cohen 97.90 | 5 Ss ans’ Freiheit Committee 2.50 | ——_——_ |great many calls of the poor with- Jewish Buro 2.00| Total Dec. 14, 1934 37.90/out the damnable question, “Have Roxbury Workers Club 1.00 | Total to date $688.74 | you got the money?” Jewish Schools 5.00 DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) auntie sate Msg sees Dommunist Party Roxbury Sec. 3.00| James Gregorvich $1.00 MP ming the doctor Dhelsea Unit 1 eal ae yise ae brag are prescribed a diet for Dorchester Unit 3.00| Total Dec. 14, . . Frazier which will be filled by Worth End Sec. 1 2.00] Total to date _, $3110.54) anice Arnett, the tefder heated ¥. C. L, (Group) 1.92 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) png a Swedish Comrades (Group) 5.00 | Section 8 $ .80 Clara Zetkin 4.00|/ady from Kansas City, Mo. Her John Reed Br L. D. 1,00 | Sec. 5, Unit 11 5.50 3 Wkrs. ee father is a big politician there, so on at 7.00 | See. 5, Unit 11 1.55 Cooperative you can see that she has lived in im Citizens Club 2.00| Red Bu ‘30 Lincoln Park U. .70 t Helden Youth Chip 1.90| See. 5, Unit 1 _'3i__“Individual ro9| Want and poverty all her life and ———_ | See. 5, Unit 19 3.00 Silver Coll 6.05 | knows our needs and wants, and!| Total Dec. 14, 193¢ 83.99 | Sec. 5, Unit 4 3.00 Sec. 1 fad 7 254/works in harmony with us just like Total to date $2,429.11 | Sec. 6, Unit 1 3.50 Greek Wkrs. | Henry DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Sec. 1, Unit 2 5.00 club 20.09 | and J. Baa eae D.. Rockefeller, Sec. 4, Unit 61 $1.30 Unit 10 13.00 | Sec. 5, Unit 12 3.60 McKenzie House ‘ore’ Subsection 10, | Finnish Orgs. 6.25 Party 7.50 | a 2.00 Jamaica Unit 3.00| Br. 78, I.W.O. 5.00 A. Heinty 1.00 | UI 3.85 Sec. 10, | Sec. 5, Unit 3 1.00 G. a 2.42 | Unit 14 1.50 Unit 6 57 | Sec. 4, Unit 9 2.00 Mrs. A. lar 5.00 | Unit ‘Im 5.00 Unit 1 2.00 | Comrade 1.00 1a) < e oO Ina n) Unit 7 6.56 Unit 2 §.00 | Sec. 7, Unit 1 3.50 Br. U.U.T.O. 4.67 Unit 19B 35 Unit 2 10} Women's Council See. 9, Unit 3.20 Unit 198 28 A. Kahn 08 No. 2 1.50 Sec. 2, Unit 4 10.20 | dl a n s ast Unit 6 2.65 D. W. Medical | Sec, 1, Unit 1 6.00 Sec. 2, Unit 14 2.78 ‘Unit 1 5.00 Board 13.00 | 3ec. 2, Unit 7 2.00 Rusian Wkrs. Settion 4 7.15 Furriers Workers | Women’s Council ‘3 tu ; 0 ° Bee. 4, Ind. Union 21.30} No. 4 5.00 jection 30 t. Unit 428 3.23 D. W. Medical Unit 7, Sec. 9 3.00 See. 8,Unit 2 1.75 ommunis Ss Unit SG 13 5.90 Board 10,00 | Joe Russell Sec. 10, Unit 6 .68 Unit 420 15 A. Siegel 5.00 Club 2.50 Sec. 7, Unit 4 1.08) —_ Unit 420 2.35 A Comrade 1.00 | Women's Gounsth = ui By a Worker Correspondent Unit SG 14 19.00 J. & Miller 2.00| Total Dec. 14, 193 Dnit-SG 4 $09 J. S. Turter 1.00| Total to date $2,995.83 | ABERDEEN, Wash.—Mrts. Gritten, L. 2 50 T. F. G. 2.00 | oe STRICT % (Chicago) a 09 1309 W. Market St., Aberdeen, 1.00 4. 0, Zionari 1.00] Christiany | : 21 ‘Three Friends 2.09| Indianapolis John Reed Club Wash., was cut off of relief about oat 414 350A Ls 3.00 | He Base shi imo) months ago. She is 57 years old, Unit. 413 182 J. Sloane 1.90 | Total Dee. 14, ‘< aeldine ere Sez. 18, Unit 21.80 C. Wanderbar .90| Total to date ss.ant.sa| (4 EA Aen in -very poor health, Bec. 18, Unit 213.50 Fordham Prog. | DISTRICT 9 (Minn.) certificate was received from a See. 8, Unit 6 248 Club 23.20 | George Bever $2.00 | doctor stating that she is unable to Subsection 19, — | — a) Total Dee. 14, 1984 $185.52 | Total Deo, 14, 1934 $2.00 ie ‘ Total to date $29,376. 29) Total to date $344.03 peatedly she went to the Wel- DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) ee 18 (California) ‘ice fare Board asking that she either District Proceeds from Victory | has. Pankin ‘ " =| Banquet $998.98 | George Jones 100 | be Siven relief or work. Eunice Ot: ecrenid ——_—— | terstein, stenographer of the county Total Dec. 14, 1934 $908.95 | Total Dev. 14, 1934 $1.50 | indigent department had the gall to Total to date $4,639.73 | Total to date $1,037.03 | 3. A See. 1 $80.94 Br. 43, | DISTRICT 14 (Newark) give her contacts for 2 housework Sec. 3 89.75 I Ww. 0. 16.29) Women’s Ukrainian Org., jobs. Mrs. Gritten, at the point of Sec. 5 18.25 Br. 96, | Council $1.38 Bayonne 4.00] starvation, anplie Sec. 6 39.82 = W.0 3.00 | Women’s Br. 77, 1. W. 0. reaiie pee ore bub wes Sec. 8, Br. 101, | Couneit 4 ‘Trenton 2.20) refused work. e Welfare Board Perkasie 10.00 IL. W. 0. 16.00 | Affair Jewish Group of Working | condemned her to starvation by re- Lancaster Sec. 6.00 Br. 173, | Buro 24.37 Women 2311 fusing to nut her back on:relief Allentown Sec. 10.00 LW. 0. 3,50| Pretheit Gesangs Armenjan Wkrs. .30 | pa & Oherter Sec. Br. 168, | Ferein 1.50 Peseaic Unit 10.07; Mrs. Gritten appealed to the Com- Freihelt Gesangs L Ww. 0. 15.60 | Paterson Sec., Garfield Unit 5.00, munist Party for help. The West 100.00 Br. 169, | ¥ oO L 6.00 tS uni f A Str. Man. Wrks. LW. 0. 1.00| Total Dee. 14, 1934 $87.53 pee Piiele Ss ate ea ey ag Party Club 3.00 Br. 581, | Total to date $1,062.29 | C8! upon the workers in her im- Dorntown Wrks I. W. 0. 20,00 hart w te bane | mediate neighborhood to rally to Ciub 7.00 1 W. 0. Window and House Cleaners Union a | W. Phila. Wriss, Schools 27.73| _ of Hartford 412.00 | ‘he Welfare Board. | ‘oly 6.00 Italian Orgs. +00) Bridgeport Pienic 3005| AS a result of the struggle carried Phila. Art. Ukrainian if ee Reser ion _— {on Mrs. Gritten has been trans- Ciub 3.00 _Toilers 8.00 | Total y 52. nea Grask Wkrs. Russian Orgs. 3.20] Total to date soaiag | ferred to the County EES fe- club 0 Lithuanian | DISTRICT 17 (Birmingham) | partment and is netting $1.75 per Polish Wrks. Orgs. 18. co | W. Jensen $2.00| week on the voucher and 1 quart club 2.00 Jugo-Slay Wkts. — of mile date, Str. Man. Women’s — Club 3.00| Total Déc. 14, 1984 $2.00 De ‘| 5 6.00 Arbeitsgamein- Total to date $10.85 Two individuals in particular have League ‘Wemen’s League shaft 11.70 1.00 No. 6 Freiheit Gesangs Teer 2.00 Ferain LL. G. w. 0. Rank & File 5.50/ Unit 602 110 Office Wrrs. DISTRICT 21 (St. Lewis) Distriet Total Dec. 14, 1934 Total to date 3, 840 DOLLAR ‘BILLS NEEDED! Here Is My Bit To Put the Drive Over the Top NAME ADDRESS: AMOUNT Tear of and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 38 FAST 13th St. New York, N.Y. | Reaction of Building Employes to ‘Daily’ By a Worker fer Correspondent NEW YORK.—This is to let you know of the response amongst the | service employes of the real estate firm of Meyer and Steffens, to the stories that appeared in the Daily | Worker about conditions amongst | them. Some of them were greatly en- thused. “Gee,” remarked one | fellow, “I did not realize how bad | | my conditions really were.” “They should haye been exposed | long ago,” said another, | guy who wrote it forgot to say how one janitor runs two houses,” said still another—an so on. Their deepest concern, however, has been to find out who wrote the | letter. The reaction of the bosses was | more palpable. They fired the non- union plumbers and now the work is done by licensed men. Besides | that, they made a move to break | the solidarity of the employes by making the janitor of each house the boss over the elevator operators —quite a new thing with us. Many other new systems are hinted at, and I am waiting for things to break. Joplin, Mo. Council Wins Concessions By a Worker Correspondent JOPLIN, Mo.—Here we are Joplin, |Ozarks—the land of a million jSmiles—isn’t that rich! Who in hell can smile under these deplorable |conditions? Unless it is the capital- ists watching us wiggle and squirm in |under their iron-shod heel like a/ | worm that has been stepped on. | We, as & committee from the Un- | employed Union, have been pretty successful in getting relief for those |who were denied by the relief. | Sometimes we would have to make |two or three trips before we got lresults, but constant plugging is lour motto, One case in particular was that of Mrs. Martha Frazier, a Negro woman, 203 N. Cox Ave., Joplin, |Mo. She had been denied groceries, ae linen and medical aid. We (Q) anany forced the relief to come ;across much to the delight of the | Frazier family. One difficulty that confronted us |was the problem of a dactor. The . Chap- | |man, but Miss Arnett, the head of | |the welfare, said they would send come out evenly in support of a system which condemns the working class to starvation and death. As allies of the canitalist class they have tried to influence this old woman away from The Communist Party and its leadership. Mr. Ken- von. investigator of the County in- digent denartment, stated to her. “Whenever you need heln just let mo know end Tl see that you eet what you need. Don’t go to the Communists.” Dr. Milton Graham, doctor to whom she went for a phy- sical examination, also brought for- | ward to her a “red baiting” line. asking her to stay away from the Communists. | Mrs. Gritten remains firm in her} the only political nartvy which leads {in the feat for the daily needs of ‘the working clas “But the} Mo.—the gateway to the| | belief that the Comunist Party is, ‘Yuletide | | Greetings In Macy’s | Speed-Up, Lay off,Macy’s | Xmas Gift to | Workers By a Macy Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—Christmas for the| |Macy workers means layoffs, speed- | |up and staggered hours. 18c Per Hour ‘Tobe Offered in Chicago Bya Worker r Correspondent CHICAGO, Til, — For the past! | three weeks the Chicago Daily News help wanted columns contained the following: 15 Men Wanted Unskilled work; steady employ-| ment until Christmas. Good Pay. | 6305 S. Ashland Ave., room 12. 3325 Lincoln Ave., room 321 225 N, Crawford Ave., room 210 When the applicant applies for work he is informed that the wages | are eighteen cents per hour, eight| hours a day, which makes a grand total of one dollar and twenty-four Many old employes making $18, week will be fired along with) ones of other workers after| the Christmas season and hun- dreds of new employes making $14) per week will replace them. The speed-up is so tremendous | that each employe does the work cents a day. After paying his car-| fare he hasn't very much left. Sometimes I wonder what the boss class is trying to make of us. Perhaps a nudist colony. The peo- | ple who work for these wages can not possibly purchase clothes. The price of clothing material is going up, ask any merchant. of two and three. Take the case of a merchandise packer, a young girl of 18, working on the fifth | floor, toys, which is now the busi- est floor in the store, who sud-| denly slumped down to the foor in a dead faint. Instead of im- mediately rushing to her aid, two section managers of the depart- ment stood by snickering and the following conversation took place: | First section manager: “Do you think I should make out a hospital | report?” Second section manager: “Oh no, if you had to make out a report \for every one of these little things, you'd have twenty of them a day |Let her rest a while, she'll come | around.” | Finally, a few of the sales clerks |helped revive this overworked | | packer. By constantly keeping the pack- | ers supplied with work every min- ute of the day with the exception of one hour for lunch and fifteen minutes during the afternoon for) relief for which they have to beg, these young immature girls are| overworked so that their health | impaired. At many bargain counters, ee there should be at least six clerks, we find only two. Stockmen and markers in the receiving depart-| ment are running around madly | to fill orders. They aren't even) given a fifteen minute relief period. Are we going to permit these con- ditions to go on? The answer is NO! We must organize against | layoffs, against speed-up, against | low wages. We must build a rank and file union. We must join the Office Workers Union, 504 6th Ave.| Only two more weeks are left for the membership drive of the Inter- national Workers Order. The ex- press provision in the limitations of the drive were that the new mem- bers recruited during the drive shall figure in the growth of our Order | for the year 1934. We set out to achieve 25,000 new | members exclusive of the children. | Only two weeks of the drive are left and we have not yet reached the half-way point of our total) }quota. The total members re- | cruited, including those of last week, | are 11,267, With the 2,898 children, | | the grand total recruitment amounts | to 14,165. We recognize that the elimination of the States of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts somewhat limited the possibilities of recruiting. We had hoped, however, that more intensive activity in the remaining concen- tration districts would make up for this loss. This hope did not ma- terialize. Yet, even discounting these two States we are hardly justified in eliminating more than one-fourth of the quota. That would still leave us 18,750, with the liberal allowance of 25 per cent discount for the two eliminated States. Our quota still would be 18,750 adult and youth |members. Since we have only re- cruited 11,267 we still have 7,500 to go. For the recruiting of these 7,500 we have two more weeks. By decision of the Organization Com- mittee the incoming applications up to Decemer 31 will be counted a3 belonging to the results of the drive, although these latecomers could no longer figure in the growth for 1934, because these members could not be billed before February 1. | audience of students, professors and | | neighborhood _ people. Greater Effort Is Needed Last 2 Weeks of IWO Drive || English, Jewish and Children’s Sections Lead 8 As Others Lag Behind By MAX BEDACHT N.S.L. Exposes Hearst Writer In Chicago By a Student Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill. — The National Students League at the University of Chicago has carried on some good work during the past three months. We have extended our influence | more broadly than ever before. | Our latest activity was the ex- posure of R. W. Child of the Hearst | Press when he spoke to a large Everyone who entered Mandel Hall was pre-) sented with a -leafiet revealing Child as an avowed fascist, After the lecture, questions were asked| which aroused the audience from) the stupor induced by his heavily sugar coated fascist speech. Our questions showed him as 4| fascist lobbyist for the utilities trust, an open and lying apologist for the fascist regime in Italy and as an avowed enemy of every liberal, revolutionary or enlightened idea. He resorted to every mean low trick to confuse the questions and evade those that he found so embarrass- ing to answer. Remarks caught among the dis- persing crowd showed that we had) done much to shake the liberal | complacence and indifference of) the audience. sections must mobilize their last ounce of energy to bring the grand total of returns for the remaining three weeks of the year and of the campaign, up to several thousand per week. A check-up of the results of the various sections shows that with very little additional energy con- sidereble improvements can be made. The status of the various sections at this date is as follows: Total Percent Section Quota Achieved Achieved Children 3000 2898 = 6% English 2000 1713 85.6% Jewish 5000 3869 114% Roumanian 1750 420 51.2% Italian 1500 ‘187 524% Youth 1500 12 51.6% Ukrainian 2000 868 43.4% Polish 1500 582 38.8% Slovak 2000 146 31.3% Hungarian 2500 818 32.7% We have no doubt that the Chil- dren, the English and the Jewish Sections will go over the top. We know that even though it will be a hard job the rest of them can still go over the top. We appeal to all members, to all Sections, and to all leading committees to do everything within their power in the remain- ing two weeks to lift their Sec- tion over the top. In plain num- bers, the necessary recruitment of the various sections, other than those which have nearly reached their quota, is as follows: Roumanians still have 330 to go. Italians still have 713 to go. Youth still have 728 to go. Polish have 918 to go. Ukrainians nave 1,132 to go. Slovaks have 1,254 to go. Hungarians have 1,682 to go. Comrades, to work! Forward to This is a last call for action! All Letters from “FATHER COUGHLIN AND WALL STREET” New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: Although I read your paper every day, I am sorry to tell you your headlines do not come out effec- tively, such as Father Coughlin’s | trickery by Milton Howard, I am very positive if you had headlines such as “Father Coughlin and Wall Street,” and such, I am sure when people see it they will buy it to read. Even thcugh I am Catholic I do not agree with fhis enemy of work- ers. W.M. | HIS MASTER'S VOICE | Fiushing, N. Y. | Dear Comrade Editor: | Isaae Don Levine's letter in the New York Times of December 12,/ | inadvertently contained one true statement. Whether through over- ‘will take the pains to inform him- 75,000 members! Our Readers spleen, he characterized his pro- posed anti-Soviet slander drive as a “virulent” campaign. If Mr. Levine self as to the real meaning of the word “virulent,” by consulting any reliable dictionary, he will find something like this: “very poisonous or venomous; bitter and malignant.” Needless to say, its use in the con- tent to which he assigns it happens to be so apt that it might fairly be described as felicitous. Mr. Levine has in recent years repeatedly ex- posed himself as a gutter pen- prostitute of so filthy and truly “virulent” a sort, as to be thoroughly | worthy of a high place in the retinue of that master scoundrel and arch enemy of progress, civilization | and humanity, William Randolph | Hearst himself. If perchance tuere may nave been any faint and lingering: doubts in) my mind as to the wisdom or right- eousness of Soviet retribution for sight or the violence of his venomous the murder of Fiirov, they vanished | lodging. | Committee. (Girpeen: Hit! Waterfront Rackets |Initiate “Fight For) Eliminating Them | From Relief By a Marine Worker Correspondent PROVIDENCE, R.I—Unemployed | seamen, led by the Providence Un- | | j employed Seamen’s Committee, have presented demands for the} ending of relief rackets conducted for some five months against the unemployed seamen with the knowl- edge and consent of McKenna, Director of the State Transient Bureau of Rhode Island. Within the past few weeks the seamen have demanded food, clothing and proper shelter as per the instructions sent by Aubrey William last July from Washington to the local relief administration. McKenna has been winking at) the boarding house racket which has been conducted here at the ex- | pense of the seamen. The office of Irving Richter, Seamen's Relief, Washington, D. C. has been pze- sented with the following demands: 1, For the right of a seaman to live and eat three meals a day in any place of his own choosing. Minimum allowance to be 25 cenis per meal and 25 cents for a night's Against forced labor for relief. 2. For the immediate issuance of | winter clothing. 3 Against any discrimination and for the recognition of the Seamen’s 4. For all seamen eligible for relief to be also eligible for entrance into the United States Marine Hospital. 5. Against relief racketeers and crimps. 6. For a Centralized Shipping | Bureau to be controlled by the sea- | men themselves. Concluding these demands, the committee placed full responsibility upon the shoulders of Richter with | the declaration:— “These are our demands at present. McKenna can not hedge any longer and pass the buck to Washington as he has done in the past. Our committee has a copy of the instructions issued by Aubrey Williams from Washington on July 5th and we are in a position to know what the seamen in other ports are doing and just what they are get- ting in the way of relief. We de- mand the same consideration in Providence and we call upon your office to abolish the abuse com- plained of and definitely end the racket of one, Sullivan, who is be- ing supported by McKenna against the will of the majority of the sea- men. We are of the opinion that the Federal Relief Administration is now in possession of complete in- formation and there can be no fur- ther delay in taking McKenna in hand and instructing him to comply with the ukase which we shall ex- pect your office to issue. These matters have been called to your attention before. We do not intend to carry on endless corre- spondence. If no change results from these letters we can only take it to mean that you don’t give a damn for the life and health of men who are supposed to be Federal charges, and we will be compelled to turn to more effective methods of fighting for our rights. U.C. Exposes SalyationArmy Provocation By a Worker Correspondent CINCINNATI, Ohio—The unem- ployed workers of this city sure have the bosses and their welfare racket, on the run. For the third time within the past three months they have tried to frame up our spokesmen of the delegations to the welfare. Failing in this, they have tried something new. Sunday, Dec. 3rd, the Salvation Army was sent to our headquarters, 1327 Clay Street, to hold church services at 2:30 p.m. When the crowd had begun to gather, right in front of the door, a speaker of the Unemployment Council opened the door, and in a voice louder than the music thor- oughly exposed the Salvation Army. He explained that it was not al- together a religious organization but was registered under the law as a rag picker’s association, be- sides being licensed beggars. They were also charged with being sent for the purpose of provoking trouble. By this time, the police had ar- rived. They, too, were roundly scored by the speaker. The Salvation Army and the police all went away whipped and no arrests were made. Mr. C. A. Dykstra, in refusing the Unemployment Council a permit to hold a street meeting at Court and Vine Streets, made the statement that the Salvation Army would not be permitted to hold a meeting just anywhere on the strests. Mr. C. A. Dyckstra, just why the change of front? Just why did you send such an outfit right to our door? Only by organizing can we force the bosses and their lickspittles to cease their activities against the working class. like a flash upon reading Mr. Levine's letter. If Soviet justice was! guilty of any error, it lay in having harbored too long these deadly rep- tiles at the cost of the priceless life of a brilliant leader and heroic com- rade, 15. WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Docters on the Medical “Advisory Board do not Advertise) | Cost of “Subsistence” Diets Goes Up T THE clinics of New York City so many of the complaints of the unemployed and relief workers were found to be due entirely, or in part, to insufficient food, that the dieticians decided a year ago to show the unemployed how to buy! their food. They went to the neigh- borhood stores, noted the prices of foods and then constructed a diet) which was sufficient to supply the worker with enough calories, yite- mins, etc., to sustain health—or, if not sufficient, well then, very nearly sufficient; for the diet is apparently at least somewhat deficient in pro- teins, meat and fish. Of course. it is not to be praised for its appetiz- | ing qualities, and in no way would it be considered a treat for variety’s sake by hospital trustees who are | simply bored to distraction by eat-}| ing day in day out at the Ritz and Longchamps. A year ago the dieticians found| that their feast would cost a family of five, $6.50 a week, if bought with the greatest care. But since then, conditions have beén improving un- der the N. R. A., business has been getting better and prices have been going up, so that the unemployed by the latest figures from the dieticians should be glad to find that this subsistence diet costs $7.50 a week | for a family of five—glad because they know that this increase of 20 percent means increased profits for those who got used to real profits | in the old days before the crisis and | now simply can’t do without the! This diet (among others for spe- cial diseases) is to be found in a} pamphlet on low-cost diets pub- lished by dieticians connected with the institutions supported by the Jewish Federation of Charities. However, for the unemployed this | increase spells another story. With relief checks growing smaller and| relief-work providing pitiably small wages, it is no longer possible for hundreds of thousands of families on relief to buy even this subsistence IN THE HOME By ANN “There Ought To E print today the letter of a | Southern woman, mother of children. The letter came to the Committee for the Support of | Southern Textile Organization. whose work is to send money to the South for the support of rank and file textile organizers. The letter is full of a seething anger. It is an emotional out- burst against the hold the mill has on the textile workers’ life. The Committee is helping in the South to turn this woman, and other workers of the South, in the direction of organization, the re- sults of which will make such an- ger against the mill owners, as is displayed in this letter, effective. ogee: ‘VE and my husband were in the strikes in 1930 and 31. We were barred from the mills on account of the strike. I went to the employ- ment office ever so often and tried to get them to put me back to work. But it was the same old story. They always told me they did not need spinners. They always told me to keep coming back to the office. Si I went as much as two times every day. Palins Site “MINALLY, I seen that they were not going to give me a job, so I thought of a plan. I would lie, before I would see my little girl suffer. So I went to the office once more. I asked them did they have a job for me. I told them if they were keeping me from work on account of my husband that me and my husband were not liv- ing together. “From then on things was dif- ferent. It was ‘Miss’ this and ‘Miss’ that. Old Murray asked me if I ever intended to live with my husband any more so I told him that if I did, I would have to change my mind. He told me to go and see Broome, who I last worked for. I went to Broome, and he let me know that if I ever went back to my husband I would lose my job. I went to work, and I worked every day that I could. ges one day my husband and I were Seen together on the street. From then on, things did not go so good with me. They went to sending me out to rest. When they went on eight hours, they sent me back, until I got tired of going back. They said I could not run ten sides. So I lost out little by little, after I was seen with my husband. eRe WW I think it is a damn shame that any one will have .to leave their husband. before they are allowed to work. I did not know whether to believe it, for I did not think that anybody could be so rotten in what they call a free country. It is not free for the workers. I think there ought to be some way out! Poe ane This kind of freedom reminds me of the freedom of some of the steel towns I have sesn. The company owns the houses, the stores, the lives of its workers. If a strange car comes to town, it is reported, and possibly stopped to know what busi- ness it has in town. All workers’ gatherings are investigated. And yet organization grows. Under the very noses of the company, the workers ere organizing, their union growing. | The company cannot, despite all its power. stop that, no matter how much it attempts to interfere. . diet. This, in turn, means that mal- nutrition and disease dependent on malnutrition will continue to ine | crease no matter how good are the | intentions of dieticians and doctors of the hospitals and clinics. They ; might just as well tell a relief worker who gets nine or ten dollars for two weeks work to buy cake as to buy that just.sufficient diet which it took the greatest effort and cork- screwing to bring down to $7.50 a week. And then, how about gas, j clectricity and clothing? But many doctors are not tacitly accepting these directives of the | bosses. They are not convinced that all that can be done for uneme ployed sick workers is to tell them | to buy food which they cannot af | ford. Doctors, as well as workers are answering the call of the Con- gress for Unemployment and Social ; Insurance. They are going into the | mighty movement that will force Congress to enact the Workers’ Bill, and in this way, at the expense of the employers and their government, make more secure the lives of the | working population against the hardships that threaten them. Book on Sex and Marriage . B. E., Fallon, Nevada:—The sim- | plest book we know about is one | called “Marriage” by Oliver Butter- field. The cost is fifty cents. You | can get one by writing to the author | at Monterey, California. PROLETARIAN SELF-HELP The Medical Board is among the |tep-notchers today, raising $80 to their credit. Notice that most of lit is through their own tireless ef- forts! J. S. Miller . ik Seigel .. Medical Board \Ferdham Prog. Club | Previously received . Total -$951.20 BARTON Be A Way Out!” “MASS” SUPPORT The plea of “In the Home” is answered for additional contribu- \tions from sources other than the |loyal Women’s Councils. Take a \look at the supporters below! \Greup of Working Women of Trenton $ 221 ‘Sec. 4 Unit SG 4 1.00 |Sec. 4 Unit 420. 2.35 H, Christiany . 1.90 \J. S. Turner ... 1.00 Previously received 331.03 Motel secs boon esis $338.59 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? 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