The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1935, Page 4

| | | | DAILY WORKER YEW Y FOP¥, MONDAY. TANT. RY 14, 1925 Two CCC Boys Jailed for Protesting Unjust Fines IWW Member [SU Heads Sell Members Are Threate ned With Corporal Punishment They Are Handcuffed and Paraded Through Camp as Example to Other Youths By a C.C.C. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—Two of and I e expelled f my friends CCC. rted with our e. We arrived from truck at 1 a.m. very t m. we were awakened 1 eall. We were told that ther be no work. We went to town tayed all night. The next morning we saw our names on the bulletin board as A.W.O.L. (absent Without leave). We went into the office and were finsd dollar for the day. We told the ieutenant that New Years Day be- longed to us and we were fined ther doliar for talking back After the fines we decided to go to town and we went to a dance. The lieutenant was also there and he saw us. We decided to wait for him so that we could get a ride back to the camp in his Ford. We waved as he passed us but he re- fused to step. So we decided to stay int vn for the night e got in the next morning and jscoyered that wea, were OL. again. We imme ent to the lieutenant and we were egain fined one dollar. We decided that since we were not getting paid for the day anyway, we might as Ye'l not w The leader of our squad was in- formed that we would not work the Half day u 2 got paid for it. The “looie” insisted that we work and we decided to go home. When We told this to the “looie” his an- Swer was, “Get out of here or I'l) get Benny to whack your heads @gainst the wall (Benny is the scipline” the fel- leader to We e told by stuff ani our go home. d to the looie’s office. There a stable was waiting. “You' under arrest, put out your hands he told us. We were informed t the charge was disorderly conduct. The constable then led us around the camp so that all the other fel lows should see our hand-cuffs. We were given two days in and the food was lousy. The looie then escorted us to t station and refused to let us saj good-bye to our friends. As we left on the train I opened jail | that I will vote myself if the Party the window and told the looie. ‘You'll hear from me soon,” and| you can bet your sweet life he will The food in the camp is putrid and when we had oyster stew only 75 of the 250 in the camp went in to eat. Many of the fellows have a disease called “whirl-worm” and we are given no treatment for it. I it on two of my fingers and it rting to break out on another. Editor's Note: There have been a great many struggles in €.C.C. camps. However, the trouble with most of them was that they took on a spontaneous and unorgan- ized character, or expressed them- selves in the form of individual revolts. In order to really gain lasting improvements in the €.C.C. the boys must build a strong er- zanizatien. There is an organiza- tion in existence that has a pra- fram for the improvement of con- ditions in the €.C.C. It is the €.C.C. Boys Protective League, Room 238 799 Broadway, New Yerk, All €.C.C. boys should get in teuch with this organization. ES Donations Received in ‘Daily’ Drive | | | | a good many others to vote likewise. j to fight for their rights by Makes Bid To Join C. P. By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill. — The following | letter has been received from a railroad worker, an I.W.W. member, by the Communist Party. The let- ter reads in full: “Commu Party, ‘Chairman, “Dear Sir: ‘I have not been quite certain when writing this letter if you are still at the address on the envelope, | will make my letter short. I can and will only state that your Party hould be represented very much in this coming election for mayor and other city officers. I can sta will appear on the ballot. Also, cause I am willing to go and electioneer and canvass my precinct, the 23nd in the 48th ward, distribute litera-| ture or whatever you may have for that purpose. I believe most steadfastly that) your organization is the only one that really does step out and fight for the rights of the laboring class. T am a railroad man in an office,! skipper of th S.S. Washington, who | sation but mind you, that the time has ar- | rived when the office people, as well as the blue-shirted man, are wak- ing up, realizing that the capitalist machinery serves the kings of in- dustry and squeezes and sweats the working men and women out like a lemon and throws them out after | the youthful and useful life juices have been extracted. Oh, how they | would love to sell one’s carcass too, if only that could be done by these vampires of industry. | May the people wake up and rise | force, | since it cannot be done otherwise | today. I am not a member of your! organization. However, I would gladly join if I knew in what man-| ner or where, ete., etc. I have very little means, but no doubt I can pay the feg and dues, attend meet- ings if advised where I may go) nearest to my home address. I am a member of the I.W.W. To Inexperienced ‘Letter’ Boys Aim to Deeasualize All Militants in the Industry By a Marine Worker Corresponden: NEW YORK.—The officials of the |International Seamen's Union are }now using “Roosevelt's New Deal” of collective bargaining as an in- strument to remove the militant sea- men from the ships ang place them on the beach, where they will be subjected te the fascist program at foreed labor, and inject new and younger blood inte the marine in- dustry. While eighty thousand bona-fide |Seamen are unemployed and strug- |gling for an existence, the officials \of the L.S.U. are enrolling young, in- experisnesd slaves into the union for $6 per head and when possibie | charge them $11 for a book in the| stewards’ department where mess- | boys toil fourteen hours a day for | less than nine cents per hour. | Evidently Olander and his right bower, Axtell, are following the ad- | vice of “Gold Braid Fried,” former recently mentioned the need of | drawing young Americans into the | Merchant Marine. This again re- minds us of the U.S.S. Mercy, for- mer Naval hospital ship, now in| Philadelphia where 450 recruits are being trained for the Merchant Ma- rine, also the school-ship, “Nan- | tucket,” at Boston, which recently! verify the above statement. Any-|naticnal Seamen's Union, Fraternal Delegations From Jobless Insurance Parley By MAX BEDACHT | slaves who are not IWO Records Achievements At Washington Conference supplied the S.S, Julia Luckenbach with students to replace seamen who would not sign on for “Lucken- bach wages.” At the same time we must not forget the phoney system | of hiring that is going on in the I.S.U. hall in Baltimore. All these things lead us to belicve that the officials of the LS.U. are using the organization for the purpose of de- casualizing the Merchant Marine and to swell their bank-rolls with the money they wring out of young familiar with the 1S.U. officials’ treachery. These statements are made from actual facts that have been gath- | ered together since the signing of the agreement. The following letter clearly ex- poses the tactics now being used by and between certain steamship com- panies and the officials ef the 1.8.0. SUSSMAN WORMSER & CO., Fine Food Products. 33-34th St. Brooklyn, N. Y. Jan. 10, 1935. Luckenbach Steamship Co., 120 Wall St. N. Y. My Dear Mr. Maule: Referring to our recent conver- this will introduce Mr. Nathan Daniels. Mr. Daniels is interested in get- | ting a job on ong of ta? Lucxenbagh | surprised to learn of their mistake— | Steamers plying in the intercoastal | they thought they were in th I.S.U. trade. He has a mechanical turn of mind and has an intimate knowi- edge of machinery and such. I am sure that if tr he will Largest Block at the The Washington Conference for| other Sections, except the Jewish hip Books \Carry Through Policy While 80,000 Seamen | Are Jobless | thing you can possibly do for him will be greatly appreciated. With best personal regards, I am, (Signed—H. Tannent) Sussman Wormser & Co. | WORKERS’ HEALTH Condyeted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) | Man and Wife—Comrades Your brother-in-law is fifty-three | Years old and no longer has any sexual desire; but his wife, who had | her change of life about three years ago, feels like a young girl. This has led to many fights and both of vhem are nervous, You want to | three years after her menopause, is her way of saying: “I am not fin- | ished even though I have had the | change of life. J am still a human | being and I want love and reecagni- tion,” Of course, a revolutionary worker | Should not share bourgeois pre- judices toward women but should Mr. Maule, of the Luckenbach | know if there is any medicine that| #Y to develop the attitude of equal- Company, referred this letter to My, Cyme-ford, who told Daniels that the company would willingly Place him aboard one of their shivs | providing he join the Internatione] | | Seamen’s Union. However, when Daniels came to | join the union he got inte the of- | fice of the M.W.LU. by mistake. | He told us that he had the job and | the necessary amount to join the | |union. After he gave us a lot of | information we directed him to the LS.U., 70 South St. In Baltimore three young fellows came into the Marine Workers In- | dustrial Union hall the same as | Daniels. They had been employed | 88 orderlies in a local hospital and | were told that if they joined the | 18.U. they would be given jobs| aboard ship. They were very much j hall. When they left the M.W.LU. | they walked over to the 1.S.U. and |signed up with John Bley, Balti- | more business agent for the Inter- Macy Worker Urges Backing For H, R, 2827 By a Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK—A month ago the | secretary of the National Youth Congress wrote a letier to the Macy Social Service calling for a delegate and will become the second largest | to a Regional Conference. Support section of the Order. | was urged for a youth moyement| There is still evident a consider- | that embraces Y.M.C.A.'s, ¥Y.M.H.A.’s, able weakness in the general life of | churches, student and other organi- the sections and branches. There | zations united against war and for is no lack of activity; but there is| did not answer. can stimulate him so that he can satisfy her. Your brother-in-law’s condition eannot be cured by any drugs, in- jections, mas;age cr x-rays, so do not let him spend any money for these things. However, the family situa- tion can be helped a great deal, though not in the way he thinks. He believes that if his sexual power ¢ame back he woul satisfy his wite and they would not fight any more. This is not a correct analysis of the trouble. In our capitalist society a woman is not regarded as the equal of a man.- Women are an_ oppressed group. just as racial minorities are oppressed. This is in addition to the oppression that comes to them as members of the proletariat, Many ayenues of work are shut to them and many ways of self-expression are denied them. As a result many of them are left with sex, love and children as the only outlet for their activities. For this reason these things bscome much more impor- tant for them than for men. The Change In Life Men and women alike reach a time when their sex glands and other glands do not work as before. |In women we call this process, dur- ing which these glands give up their work, the menopause, or change of life. This period in our lives is a @ifficult one to go through fer both sexes. They realize during it that soon their sexual powers will begin to diminish and they have a hard Job getting used to it because they are afraid that soon t®ey will be a back number. Since love and sex to our female comrades. such 2s e: in the Soviet Union. However. | there prejudices are planted deeply | in us by the bad trainine of the | capitalist svstem and are difficult to overcome. Even when we think we | have gotten aver thsm they lingsr | OR and influsnce our attitudes. | Take Her to Mostines If your brother-in-law would regard his wife as a comrade who | has shared his struggles for thirty | Years and would treat her as such, much of the family diMoulty would | disappaar. Does he ever take her to | meetings and try. to involve her in the fight against the capitalist sys- | tem? Does he give her an opportun- | ity to exoress herself? It well may | be that due to the handicaps that | this social svstem has imposed on her, she is politically more hack- | werd than he. Doss he then treat her as he would another backward | Worker, expleining things carefully | and patientiy. asking her for her | opinion and listening to it without | contempt; or does he say, “Go bask to your pots and pans!” ar worse Yet, not even bother to answer? | If a worker takes a correct atti- tude towards his wifs, if your brother-in-law will loak on his wife | 38 &@ comrade in distress, he will try | to be nice to her, to shaw har sane little extra attention during her dif ficult time. Although she apparently seems to crave more intercourse, she jis getually looking for more than that—for love, recognition and equality. Let him give her these and he won't have to worry about his sex glands. Start a competition with your comrades to see who can callect BETES HAO EUS ve | but I regret to state that we cannot ia lagen a H Kyezoneack 80 Gul Pinex 50) A. Rothenberg 30 Adam Otvorys 30) Attain anything, sitting, wishing| Social and Unemployment Insur- | M. Cherry 30 Luray 50| and hoping our life away, but must | Ree showed that the sections and | Gus Blamsker .50 B Termandez 1.00 y a: | ping our Ys ;; peg 59 | 2ecobson 50M. Gold 25/do something, before it is too late, | branches of the International Work- | T Paserb é 50) Stiver 50 1B. Langner 3 ers Order had done considerable ss 4 4 organize and use severe tactics to 4 A-Hrynyshyn 25 28 | Goldberg 35 oN. Cifarelli 25 | 4 work for the establishment of a 35 35 | Goldberg 25 Brown .25| smash the whip the vampires have 7 4 venk S| Rudo 5 Rice ery hagas i wal ployme: su 4 1.90 Chas Gordon 1.00 A. Bander 1.00 Rice mince Jf given conpetabion. Tang lve cS Sition ot Galggutes fren is 530 Shapira Job- H. H. Cole 1.00 Rice Communism and Soviet Russia! 1/ [he vee MiB aaah “the. Waatl so ing Co 50/8. Ohavkin 8. aon, anticipate to hear from you soon| eae beer a hae aacat ft itter Co 30 | A Fedinac +i ‘ | sonfer VAS 3b Rocent 30 | H. $0 Trais Sohgnea 49| SUG advise regarding membership,|voidapis single delegation ona | 3 BR 50 | H 50 Tina elas a5 | ete. I am, | th +” | Rabbani gall 160 Louis Grass 3 F 2 Sema Hoffman 25 Yours truly, | ae OSS SUE Ane SOT. JUAe 1.00 T Raymon a3 Geo. Witanen 1.00 (Signature), | Sfandpoint of the strength of the 80 Liberman 38 25 Ruhimaki organizations behind these dele- 30 P Marris 28 | Mrs. Cherry 35 Bros. 1.00 | gates. 1H Brown 3% Jack Meisnga 80 Friedman 2 A. Runo 2 § Richard Brown .25 J, Fagen 50 | Gatzow 50 Heiktinen 50 The various language groups of Lymich 35 = Pruit Store 50 B. Pollack 50. Stenback 50 the delegates met and pledged their Cpcemes SM umes RAR Bore” — S| LALLETS FON | acuive ss0p0r to. the united trent 3 35 Sam Sikara a5 John Kallis 5 movement, for this Bill. They or- 2 25 | Joe Crans % Frank Niemi .23 eanized skeleton ton organizations | 25 1.00| P. Silvery 1,00 Abe Salmen as 0 R d for the direction of t a ifr §9 §. Nirenblatt .25| Bdelson 1.00 Natt Pinnola _.23 ur eaders ie Fipiein aot es annie | 50 Morgan 1.00 | Walsi Perlinow .25 A. Niemi 1.00 ph K Foil Sa 80 Bernard Kahn .50\ H. Honirich EB. Gonder 1.90 Slovak and the Italian conferences 23H, Resevelt 50 | Pi 25 6. M. Joslyn 1.00 , 2 S 4% W. Melon” “ia | Wm. Wolt k_ Betty Gonder “s0| © STRUGGLES OF THE C.C.c. (ere, the bys ena res yet 25 A. DeMayo 25| Ben Atrim 38 ©. M. Gonder .50/ Comrade Editor: e P Starinos 25. E. DeMayo (25 | Harry Shapiro 128 Joe Thnot 23 | 1: ‘orker | ferences. f MC Chaiono 25 Gold 25 | Saul Gorn (35 “Kalle Kato —1.00| ane borane ae ee ee These national committees for the Tom Ferrys 25 Paul 25} J. Danziger -% = Kalle Kato 1.00 i ad direction of the campaign in the J Nathanso 1.00 M. N. Ruben- |M. Silverman .25 A. Niemibin .50| centers attention on one of the various languages will supply a 1,00 stein 1.00/L. Sabinson 25 Frank Makie 50 most important mass actions in the eee wa iy 50 E. Fligensmith 1.00| Harry Paul 1.00 A. Pieppo 8) OG. that took place in South sul intial apparatus to the gen- 30 M. Rubinstein .50| Davis 1.00 A. Pakanen 30} O.0.C. tha Bf eral national committee of the 25 Hanna Cole -30/ Jones a Hanna Lippale .25| Mountain Reservation, New Jersey. fraternal united front and te the 25, 50) Sol Ames 50 Trick Lippala 38 Tt is necessary to add, however, - is : ¢ ra 25 | Edmonds ‘35 bis - Ns '}national united front committe | 5 2 " 5| that this is not “the first mass ‘ - nett edkian, | 2 28 Paul 25 3 elected by the whole Weshineton 10 35 A. Penaanen 1.00/ mutiny” in tho C.C.C. by any means.| Conference. for the future work. id 38 — be Ea et There have been literally hundreds| " ppo fraternal section of the Con- | Mee selanger 3% D. Stalobin 25 | Paul Lttle Leafe 59 Of camp strikes and struggles dur-| ference pledged itself unanimously im Silver 2% W. Portnoy 25 Paul V. Hankkola 50 Ing the twenty-one months of the/(1) to do all in its yower to reach elden 25 Hataclotx Adam Emil Pirtanen .30/ existence of the C.C.C., many of| out and win the millions of mem- Sales- rown 25 Aul Cagger 2 L. M. Wirtonin 30 Some i J Aa ee a tasacs 25 Tremont Prog. 25 Wm. Paanasun them hard fought. 2 important | bers of the fraternal movement in| H Loichternko 1.00 Jack Ratner 25 | H. Straube H. O. Rankane struggles took place in the past year America not vet in the united front: Kasprak 1.00 Dr. D. Loebman .25| Mina Greene John Maki in Camps 45, 54 and 18 in New York, during which the C.C.C. Boys Protective League was established. Other revolts took place in Camp Vernon, La., in one of the T.V.A. camps in Tennessee and in many | other places. The figure of 16,286 “discharges” from the C.C.C, during the first two enlistments is a proof of this. Al- though many of these struggles were spontaneous, some took on the form of mass desertions. The Young Communist League played an im- portant role and led numerous strikes and protest actions. Its firm line of struggle for the immediate demands of the boys set a very good example fct: all to follow and ral- | lied many ©.0.6. boys for its central m Hoffman .50 J. M. Hotzen .25|/0. Pernsihoff 35 Isaac Salo & Sefton 30 Jack Ratner 25) P. Gitnick 1.00 John Sludeh Chester Sym- A. Ames 5 | Chris Shaw 1.00 Mike Tarick -pathizer 50 «6D. ~Geser G, Sklar 50 H. Berkasky PR .50 Goldie Welsh L. Rickler 1,00 w. T A Sulano 25 D. Gezer M. Greenberg 1.00 Charytazak 35 Jee Correia 25 Lon Warren Hickis Piroh 50 E. Curry 5 P Rymorenko 25 H. Levitsky R. Lapidus 50 A. Pawlakowski .25 Red Messigers Bagdon | R. Lapidus : Ponarick 1.00 | Late a 25 M. Forn S. Lawtsk Ponarick 1.00 Yetta Luller 1.00 Bagdon Mosholu Panorick 30 Yetta Zuller 1.00 Bagdon Cleaner 25 Panosick 50 Addo Bertan 50 ©=B. Model S Lewak eo Panosick 0 M Greenfield 25 Jack Rmzle Lewak 125 Panosiek 50 H Nemw 1.00 Friedman S. Medel w Panasick eo) Ger Kost 1.00 B. Schwedel 1.00 Panosick eo Mike Lamend sod N. Spector 50 Panosick 28 M Kunnos 80 Stor Egon Konig- John Plistis 1.00 Signid Koner 50 J. Berger 50D. Holda 1.00 L. Oroik 30. ©. Marrison 50 A, J. Mildice 50 & Erkkila 2A Imrey Klein 50 L, Mandell 50 William Hill 8.25 L. Ph. Fuedland 25 J. Sampson 30 Laakso % iL. | Wachman 3B Gusylak 30 Michael Ood 25 A. Chubrius Nelly Leviwe 25 J. Yesuisky 238 Fred Linger 1.00 J. Gibet R. Ulrich 25 W. Orozewski 25 BD Yankoveky 1.00 A. Polsh Ferdman & Michael Zabs .25 $% FCsponny i A. Heuctneck | Mills 25 N. Mochiniork .25 St J. Malmeister Brown 5 ALPBD Klub 1.00 Flora & Anna .25| F. Workoft 25 ALPBD 1.00 Jos Raiser A. Bilte 25 | 1. Duke 50 ALPBD 50 F Milialy 135 “Field's Cafe- |B. Murrison 50 ALPBD 50 Rennie Spitxel .25 teria 1.00 | Frensel 25 ALPBD 50 Cyrecuhut 2 «1. Milmon .50 | Drug Store 35 ALPBD V Kovats 25 Wurman’s Shoe |M, Schwartz 25 ALPBD Alex Mallet 1,00 Store 50) M. Berger 25 ALPBD Rale Herse ‘50 3 Decker |Fred John 1.00 ALPBD ‘Tianngs ‘30 ‘Restaurant 50 | S. Schad 50 ALPBD Youngs Hat L. Kostofsky 28) R. Lenning 150 Paul Zkula "Store W. Bronstein .25| Allen Benger .25 8. Moroze Youngs Hat Boutt 25 | Jery Karrahs 25 0 «J. Press Store A. Ment 1.00| Taraba 48 = Shalup Clerks of Young: Myron Rubin .50| A. Meumayer .25 Jack Smith Clerks of Youngs .25 Max Kaplan 50| John Schmidt .25 A. M. Zinow Clerks of Youngs .25 Dave Seigel 0 | I. Siegal 25 Iwon Deniee eo Glerks of Youngs 25 Bender :25 | Odonid 25 Chas. Cosentino .25 Joe Bachowski 1.00 JI. Davis ¢ .25| Fannie Karp 25 A. Deno 1.00 Joe Bachowsti 1.00 A. W. Foster .25 | Newman 35 G. Moan 1.00 3M Ginevek 50 Girondi :25 | M. Sala 25M, Siver 50 JH Girondi eo | A. Lindag 5 Y. Gabscilski 8 J Dombroski S. Andrew 50) W. Hill 2 G. H. Carrolb .30 Stanley, Stinre A. Spero 25| Nathan Katz .25 Peter Damis B § Okrasinskt ©. Ranaldi Goldie Katz 25 G.B. Cotton 28 H Ioknoberynski .25 8. Catnest (88) Abe Scharf .95_—J. Seputowski 25 Ioknoberynski .25 Mariano De G. Scharf 2 «LL.D. Baginskt Toknoberynski Luca a5 | L. Jaluby Branch 1 Pavelka A. Krause 1.00| “ Huehok 30° LL.D, Baginski Fred Bores Silver 1.90 | J. Warberk 30 Braneh America! | + (AN. greetings, which must be order, will be published in the Daily Worker.) HAIL THE DAILY WORKER! 1th Anniversary and Lenin Memorial Edition SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 I send revolutionary greetings to the Daily Worker, the organizer | of the American working class, the leader in the fight for a Soviet accompanied by cash or money \ slogan, “the replacement of the ©. C.C. by jobs or unemployment in- surance.” Why did the capitalist press give Space to the mutiny in the C.C.C. camps at South Mountin? While practically all other previous ac- tions were ignored, the news of the revolt there was published. This was because of its mass character, soli- |darity and especially because the boys marched into town and en- listed the sympathy of the civilian Population. We can draw the les- son that in order to win their de- mands, the ©.C.C. boys must not only be well organized but that the workers and poor farmers as well as other sections of the population must be rallied to support their struggles. Every Communist and class-con- oo scious worker must help to organize a and lead the struggles of the 0. Protest letters and resolutions Should be sent to Fechner demand- ing the re-instatement of the lead- ers of the New Jersey mutiny, de- manding the removal of the army officers from the camps, for the right of the C.C.C. boys to organize. In the trade unions, in particular, we should mobilize support for the C.C.C. In this way we can not only defeat the proposal before Congress to completely militarize the ©.6.C., but by demanding union wages for them, prevent the lowering of the living «standards of the workers to the dollar a day rate of the 0.0.0. These boys must be drawn into the united front being built by the Communist Party and Y.C.L., mo- bilizing all sections of the toiling population against war, faseism and starvation. NATIONAL EXBOUTIVE COMMITTEE, Y.C. L. | -jaction for social insurance to the (2) to work through meetings, leaf- lets and other forms of propaganda and agitation for the winning of | |larger masses for the suvport of | |the Social and Unemployment In- | surance Bill; (3) to organize a cam- paign of resolutions and petitions in the fratenal lodges and organi- zations demanding the passage of | | the Bill; (4) to organize mass pres- | sure of fraternal organizations and of members of the fraternal move- ment upon Congressmen, Senators and upon local government agen- | ies in favor of the passage of the | inl. The Conference also discussed and approved the raising of the demand |to local relief agencies for the | | Payment of the fraternal dues of | | Unemployed out of relief funds. A resolution adopted points out that the unavoidable age and other limi- tations for membership in the fra- ternal movement devrive many un- employed, who are temporarily un- able to meet their dues, of all the protection the fraternal organiza- tions are able te give them. Be- cause of age or other reasons they | cannot rejoin. Since at the present | |Moment the protection that fra- ternal organizations can give the workers {s the only protection avail- able within reach of the workers, | this protection must be preserved | for them by acknowledging the dues to the fraternal movement as an integral object of immediate relief. The Oonference also nassed a resolution calling uvon the leaders jof the various fraternal organiza- | tiens represented to discuss the Possibility of extending united front establishment of more efficient and less expensive united front medical departments. One Year of Growth Our International Workers Order in the past vear has worked hard | to build itself into a more fermid- | able workers’ fraternal organize- | tion. In the course of the year the sections have grown to the point that our national organization has marched over the 60,000 membership mark by December. These figures | include 9,000 children. | The most valuable contribution to the strength of the Order is the growth of the English Section. The English Section aione has trebled | its membership during the year. The | Enzlish Section is now more than a mere nucleus. Tt has flesh and! bleod. It has enouzh organizational substanee te ement that within the | year 1935 it will outdistance all | could a lack of system in the activity. | specially evident is the inability of the leading committees in the cities and districts to combine political | with organizational work. During the last few months the| to act with representatives from | of the ones he is losing, but women) j branches and especially the lan-| other cities on pending unemploy-| are shut out from them. guage sections were very seriously orientated toward the work for so- cial and unemployment insurance. Intensive activities were carried on. Conferences in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, etc.. bear witnes: to the effectiveness of this work. But there was somathing leekine in it. It was work nayallel to racruitine. ‘The energy spent for this work was lost for the work of recruiting. This shows that there is na clear under- standing of the relationship between the activities and functions of the Order on one hand, and its recruit- ing work on the other. The struggle for social insurance could have become the source of tremendous enthusiasm of the mem- bers of the Order for the Order, It have been the method of provine to the members that the Order is not only a worthwhile or- ganization to be a member of, but | is also worth being built bigger and |more powerful. The enthusiasm de- veloped in the struggle for social insurance could have been trans- formed into additional energy on the part of the membership for re- eruiting members for the I. W. O. from among their fellow workers in | Shops and neighborhoods. In_other words, the building of the Order is not merely the adding of new members. the recruiting of additional work- ers to the Order; it is also the changing of these workers into class conscious proletarians. This can evidently only be done through such activities as the struggle for social insurance. If, however, the strug- gle for social insurance is sepa- rated in its conception and in its execution from the effort to build the Order, then both the Order and the campaign for social insur- ance will suffer. The energy spent for agitation and propaganda will crystallize only very partially into organizational strength. Much of it will be dissipated. National Convention Coming Within four months the Third National Convention of the Order | Will open in New York. This prob- lem of combining internal life with the effarts to build the Order will be the major problem of this Con- vention. The experience we have gathered during the last few months will be a cnide to this’ Convention for its decisions. Meanwhile the Order has launched a new effort to build itself. It is appealing to all branches to secure for themselves representation at the Convention by bringing their branches uv to the minimum num- ber of members necessary to entitle them to a delegate. Branches al- ready entitled to delegates are asked to increase their delegations by add- ing definitely fixed numbers of new members to their ranks. In the past year the Order has cenvinced tiself of its possibilities of growth. The members have con- vinced themselves of their ability to build the Order. With this seif- confidence established, we look without a shadow of a doubt in our minds. Forward to 75,000 members at the time of the Convention! Sellers of the Daily Worker: What have your experiences been in slling the paper to workers be- fore factories, on street corners, at meetings, and in the hame? Write the Daily Worker, Letters will be published to stimulate participation im the ‘ireulation campaign, It ts not cnly | In the New York Post of Jan. 8, the following item appeared: “The | Retail Merchants Association has | unanimously elected a committee | of three (ingluding Perey S. Straus) ment insurance legislation.” Has our management changed more greetings fer the Daily Worker on its Eleventh Anniver- sary! Play such a large part in woman's life, for the reasons given before, it | is particularly difficult for them.) The man can always go in for) other activities ta take the place! Make sure that you do not for- heart? Is it possible that after the | mass lay-off of thousands of Macy | |employes on Christmas and New | Year's Eve. Mr. Straus repents and | |feels something ought to be done} | about it? The recommendations | that were urged upon the commit- tee show that Mr. Straus’s first con- | cern is profits. The Merchants As- | sociation wants legislation that is “economically sound” and “socially just.” Our experience with the Macy| Mutual Aid proves to us that what | Mr. Straus means by “economically sound” and “socially just” would be unemployment insurance out cf our pockets to be administered by | himseif and his executives. Neverthsless R. H. Macy & Co. was represented at the National | Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance, by a Macy worker. | | Two million people sent 2,500 dele- gates to deliberate on the need for social security. Since Mr. Roosevelt in his January 4 speech washes the |hands of the Federal government clean of the business of relief, ex- |cept for five million unemployables that will be given forced labor jobs, it is up to us. |The keynote of the Congress was | Sounded by Marv Van Kleek. of the | Russell Sage Foundation, in her analysis of the principle of social and unemployment insurance at the exponse of the employers and the government. The systems establish- | ed in England, Germany and Russia were discussed, We found out that any system of unemployment insur- ance that calls for contributions from the employes defeats itself. Unemployment insurance to be administered by the workers is a new Principle in democratic govern- ment. | When Mr. Ickes of the P.W.A., Mr. | Hopkins of the F.E.R.A.. Mr, Mc- | Intyre, Roosevelt's secretary, and Mr. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, were visited by delegations including your correspondent. they | soft-soaped us. The administration will do nothing. When Mr. McGrady was told of the thousands of miners’ wives in West. Nissin Who must give fat pork to their children in | Plage of milk, he almost cried and | said, “Yes, nine million children suffer from malnutrition through- out the country,” and offered to send the mother a booklet on child care. “What is needed is money,” | said the mother and urged that he support the bill. He said that the department of labor was studying 17 bills and had not yet arrived at any conclusions. Although the present Congress is under a gag rule that makes it nec- essary for 218 Congressmen to sign the round robin before a bill comes to the floor, united action can force ; through the Workers’ Bill. Senator | Huey Long, Congressmen Connery, Lundeen and others, Norman Thomas, the Communist Party. six International Unions and 2,500 locals of the A. F. of L. have al- readv expressed their approval of the bill. Just as we were urged by Mr. Straus two years ago, in his interest, to bring pressure on our local Con- gressmen against the sales tax, so} | today in our own intersst we must | Write to our local Congressmen to enderse the Workers’ Unemploy- ent. Mid Age and Social Insur- nee Bill (H.R, 2827), We believe that your sister's strong desire for sexual activity ~——— xet to send your greeting te the Daily Worker on its Anniversary, | Send your greeting TODAY! IN THE HOME By ANN BARTON Child Labor in the Saar Here is an item sent us on the Saar, ee it “YOUNG workers under 21 con- stitute 20 per cent of the total number of workers in the Saar region. The conditions of the youth are appalling indeed. And it is precisely these wretehed eon- ditions and partly the as yet un- developed class-consclousness of these young workers, which the fascist agents use in order to win over these workers, in connection with the January 13th plebiscite. “WHE Hitler agents talk in their high-flown speeches about the new and healthy conditions await- ing the young workers in the Saar previded they vote for the reunion with Hitler Germany. What, then, are the benefits Fascist Germany grants to its ‘newly found sons’? “These benefits consist of unheard of bloodthirsty exploitation of the youth and children. The fascist government js in favor of disgrace- ful exploitation of proletarian ehil- dren, who leave school at the age of 14 and heve to serye as cheap labor power. In the Ruhr region the youth, aged 14, 15 and 16, are et titled ta vacations of four days a’ year. In the Aschen, Upper Silesian, Lower Saxon and Ibbenbueren dis- tricts, the workers under 17 years of age are entitled ta a three days’ annusl vacation, and in the Lower Silesian and Saxon districts, to a four days’ vacation. Such is the jood care taken by the German fazis of the young workers. ee Oe “DUT the fascist advertisers evi- dently feel that matters are nat quite straight regarding the benefits with whieh they want to fempt the young Saar miners. Therefore they are Sogtaning to Jaud the new ideal, which oan- sists of a four years’ term ef apprenticeship, the apprentice getting a twelve days’ vacation in the first year, a fom days vaaa- tion in the seoand, an cight days’ vacation in the third, and a six Gays’ vacatiqn in the fourth... . And the Nazis have alsq provided for the youth by throwing num- berless young workers out of the factories and mines onta the street under (he pretest that their jobs should be given over to the | heads of families, while the dis- misced young workers were put in Yarious forced Iahoy camps, Cieee Wee “""HERE is another ideal for youth —in the Soviet Union. There youth under eighteen need not work. They are provided for. There are elso every year month vacations working week, leisura time for rest, studies, sports, theatre, ete. It is the Soviet ideal to which the moat advaneed young workers of the Saar are pledged.” ’ 1 Can You Make *Em Yourself? Pattern 2119 is available in sizes | 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 36 takes 5% yards 39 inch fabric for entire ensemble. Hlystrated step- \by-step sewing instructions in cluded. Sand FIFTEEN CENTS s in or stamps (coins preferred) for Anne Adams patttern (New Oity residents should add one cent {tax for each pattern order). 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