The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1935 New Deal Agrarian Pr FARMER REFUTES ON AGRICULTURE Majority of Nebraska Farmers on Relief— Drastic Reduction in Live Stock | | Experienced Throughout State By a Farmer Correspondent SPENCER, Nebr.—In the Satur- day, Jan. 1 issue of the Daily Worker I saw that Mr. Bill Green puts the blame on the farmers for New Deal increase in 1} g and that farmers who were costs bankrupt in 1932 can now make a iving. just the same as farmers, who has raising crops all the people ings which who have been ig heretofore vas, are working on relief a bean-slip same as f worker. On this farm we used to have over hundred head of hogs at this time of the year, Today there are seven pi There are four horses where We used to have nine. The same ap- plies to cattle; we used to have fifteen and now we nave four. is is the story on most of the in this part of Nebraska out of ten farmers are on re- lief in some form or another—direct relief. ten unit plan, feed loan, or else they have a job on the Corn and Hog Program. cattle buying. ete.. which is nothing but relief When you stop to think. If they did not have those “jobs” they would be going on relief. The New Deal pro-| gram hasn’t helped us farmers any| more than it has helped the work- ers in the city. Today we must take | out feed loans on our own stock. | Everything we buy has skyrocketed | —corn is $1.06 a bushel, hay is $20 | to $30 a ton. | Very few farmers got the govern- Ment loan on their farms. ‘hey Couldn't get enough money to take| up debts. I have talked to many farmers about interest and taxes. | They haven't paid any the last ‘Years. Today they face foreclosure | or else the loan company will add on all back interest and taxes and| Relief Meat | Looks Like Entrails By a Worker Correspondent | CALDWELL, Idaho.—Just, a little @xperience I have had lately, and the Daily Worker is the one pape: that is fighting such hellishness im- Posed on people who are at the} mercy of such contemptible treat- ment. I applied for work on the I. E. R. | A. and was finally called out. After | three days work, the boss said he had some bad news for us, our ‘budget was cut twenty per cent: but that of course did not apply to him. | We worked another three d: nd the whole thing blew up. The} = told us we would get to work out the rest of our budget for this | ‘month. This blow-up came on| Priday, it being their so-called com- medity day. T was anxious to know just what this relief consisted of. Being on the relief work, my name was on the commodity list, and I lined up to get mine. There were two men who Weighed the meat and would say “seven pounds” (that is what they | Were supposed to be giving out) | and one package of “Chinaman.” When I reached home, I opened the package of meat and most of it looked like entrails. | ness, m™ out a new mortgage which means another added burden ot $500 and up, besides all other debts st as feed and seed loans, An- other way is for the farmer to deed his farm to tne loan company. Then the farmer can rent the farm which he has tried to own all these years, giving the loan company the benefit of all the work he and his family had done by slaving and saying all their lives. After the loan company gets the | farm, they can borrow money from | the government to paint and repair | buildings, etc. The farmer who tries to keep his farm, signing up every- | thing, cannot get his loan unless | is income is five times as great as the amount he needs to fix up the| buildings © Whom does all this New Deal benefit—the farmer or the loan company (big business)? Farmers do not need such as Green to tell) them that things are better. We who farm know that every move made is not for the farmer but for the loan company, the banks and big busi- Another point, the farmers around here are still waiting for the second payment on the corn and hog pro- duction program. These-checks were supposed to have been paid in No- Roosevelt's Secretary of Agri- culture, Mr, Wallace, through his ability at crop destruction, has rightfuHy won for himself the reputatiqgn of being one of the prize offsprings of the New Deal Blue Buzzard. vember. The longer they hold these | milling company and the grain gamblers that much less feed will the farmer be able to buy. Who | payments, the more the will harvest, benefits most here? Workers of the city, until we farm- ers will get a better deal there will be no prosperity, no jobs for the unemployed. Pay no attention to the Greens, Hearsts, etc., but let us organize jointly to get the better things in life which none of us have today. CALIFORNIA VIGILANTES | Thugs armed with clubs, shot guns and tear gas bombs to at strike in Imperial Valley, Cal. Mr Hearst sheds crocodile tears at “violence” in the Soviet Union, but is quite calm about this fascist violence which he helps to inspire. Celery Pickers Strike Against Growers’ Breaking of Contract * agricultural workers during the | By an Agricultural Worker Corre- spondent | SAN DIEGO, Calif—Ending their} three-day strike, the 200 celery pick- ers, members of the Mexican Work- ers’ Union, who tied up the Chula Vista celery fields when they struck Thursday, Jan. 10 at noon, at a |meeting of their union two weeks |ago voted to return to work the next morning. Declaring the grow- ers were not living up to the con-| tract made with the union last June which is effective until July 1935,/ the celery workers struck, demand- ing 35 cents minimum hourly wages, instead of the 25 cents minimum of the contract. Saturday afternoon at a session of the Regional Labor Relations Board, the growers made an oral agree- ment to pay 30 cents an hour “when lit is possible to pay it”; making} much of the contract with the union, they claimed the workers had no right to break it. G. B. Jackson, manager of the as- sociation, had threatened the strik- Jers that unless they returned to work they would be replaced by American workers. Jackson in his own words admitted the growers are | getting unusually good prices for celery this year, when he stated the association had been paying pickers |30 cents and packers 35 cents an hour for this season. Picket lines were established | Thursday when the workers went | | | | “ou SAY CAN You" out. At the Lee Jennings ranch the | ranch officials threatened the pickets | with loaded shotguns, At another | ranch three pickets were run down| by a scab truck they were attempt- ing to prevent leaving the field. Ernest Dort, newly elected sheriff, | showed the workers of San Diego) county definitely whose side he was on, when he rushed deputies into the strike zone. Brereton, the | sheriff's star “expert,” when asked | to investigate the reports of threat- | ened violence against the strikers, said the growers had weapons but were keeping them on their prop-| erty. | |resentative of the NRA setup, stated | circles. |in Los Angeles would arrive here to | hold a hearing in the federal build- | Jan. 13 by Otto Heitman, local rep- When the local N.R.A, officials} heard the news of the strike, they| had to wire to Los Angeles, to the executive secretary of the National Labor Relations Board for instruc- tions. Otto Heitman, the local rep- he wouldn’t take action until he was instructed by Towne Nylander, his boss in Los Angeles. Heitman is the big shot of the local A. F. of L. Central Labor Council and very ac- tive in the local A. F. of L. top Later Heitman announced a representative of the labor board ing. Official announcement of the set- tlement of the strike was made on resentative of the National Labor) Relations Board, and high mogul of the A, F. of L. Central Labor Coun- cil. The Labor Relations Board rushed two men down from Los Angeles, Towne Nylander and Fitz- gerald, upon receipt of the strike news, in an attempt at quick ar- bitration and settlement, fearing that the strike idea might spread to agricultural workers in other parts of the county who are also affected by the 25¢c minimum wage contract. Despite this minimum contract, workers claim in some Vista and Escondido fields hourly wages are as low as 15c to 17c an hour. Granite Local |Eleven-Hour Day With |Ten-Hours Pay in Fla. Hits Gag Rule | cottshoro-Herndon Fund International Labor Defense Room 610, 80 Fast 11th Street, New York City I enclose $........-...as my immediate contribution to the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense Fund. Ot Officials. pista | By A Worker Correspondent _| CONCORD, N. H.—The following is a copy of a letter sent by the | Secretary of the Concord Branch of the International Association of | Granite Cutters to the Granite Cut- | ters’ Journal. This letter was kept | out of the Journal by Mr. Squibb, | |International President of the Union. This is the second time that report of the Concord branch has | | been suppressed. The letter fol-| DISTRICT 1— Boston, Mass.: William Caccicla Mary E. Moore DISTRICT 2— New York, N. Y.: Dora Gausner Lorenzo Stokes Clara Reimer S. Soulounia DISTRICT 4— Buffalo, N. Y. Virginia Dix DISTRICT 6— Cleveland, Ohio: George Stefanik Jerry Ziska Anna Schotsneider DISTRICT 7— Detroit, Mich.: Jack Sepeld Ben Green A. Kazamihas R. Shark John Klein Join These Shock Brigaders in the Daily Worker Subscription Contest! DISTRICT 8— Chicago, TIL: A. A. Larson Sam Hammersmark DISTRICT 10— Coleridge, Neb.: Paul Burke Lincoln, Neb.: Harry M. Lux Omaha, Neb.: Calvin Kibbe DISTRICT 14— Little Falls, N. J.: Dick Kamper Singac, N. J.: F, Provenzano Union City, N. J: Camillo John Calissi Benjamin Abromowitz DISTRICT 18— Milwaukee, Wis.: Walter Richter Louis Powell Win a Free Trip to the Soviet Union! SUBSCRIPTION BLAN For the Medical Advisory Board Magazine I wish to subscribe to the Medical Advisory Board Magazine. Enclesed find one dollar for a year's subscription. NAME . ADDRESS CITY .. lows: Concord Branch at its December monthly meeting voted to file the December circular with protest re- | | garding the decisions by the I. E. C., | |on the propositions put forward by | Concord, Barre, Redstone, Mont- | pelier, Buffalo and New York| Branches. | On the Barre and Concord pro- posals for a convention of delegates | of the Eastern Branches, on the| question of wages and hours, this | Branch feels that such a convention ‘could be the means of promoting | and carrying out a united program of action in support of the great de- mand for the shorter working day, | | and work week, without reduction in | wages, and could work out a uni- | jform scale regarding wages and/ hours which would apply in the | Hast with respect towards the higher | wage scale which applies in New York and other metropolitan cen- ters. This proposition could be laid before the interested Branches for |a vote on the question, regardless | of how the I. E. C., may feel about the proposed N. R. A. regional agreement. | We are heartily in favor of the | proposition of Redstone Branch to strike out Section 23 of the consti- tion. This section smacks of Hitlerism and has no place in the constitution of a labor organization whose principles are based on free democratic expression. Concerning the Montpelier pro-/| | posal, Concord Branch feels that | corded the right to participate in the election of the Barre business agent, so long as it is part of his | job to cover the territory under jurisdiction of Montpelier Branch. By the reports which are coming | to Concord, we feel that New York | Branch is perfectly justified in pro- | | tosting against conditions on che} Maderia job. Our association has received about enough promises and pledges from the management of that job. A serious attempt should | until | Montpelier Branch should be ac-| | would like to know why President By an Agricultural Worker Correspondent | LAKE WALES, Fila, —I am writing a few lines in regards to the way the bosses of the Hill Brothers Canning Plant are treat- ing their labor, They work them eleven and a half hours a day and only pay them for ten. I hope that you will | do your best to keep the workers from buying any of this canned | grape fruit for they are working the people from before daylight after dark at starvation | wages. | NOTE We publish every Thursday let- ters from farmers, agricultural, cannery and lumber workers. We urge farmers and workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and efforts to organize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of each week. be made immediately to put that job on a 100 percent union basis, or call a spade a spade. To allow these conditions to go on, only} weakens the morale and saps the| strength of our Association. In regard to the protest of Buffalo Branch against the “red-baiting” activities of President Green of the A. F. of L., Concord Branch feels that it is high time that our Asso- ciation follow the example of other t:ade unions in demanding a stop |to this “red baiting” which only | Serves the interests of the large manufacturers, headed by the | Chamber of Commerce and other open-shop leaders, who seek to establish company unions. Am glad to note that our Associa- tion will be well represented at the | National Congress for Unemploy- |ment and Social Insurance to be | held in Washington, D. C., on Jan. |5-7, along with other large delega- tions from A..F. of L., trade unions; Barre Branch having elected two delegates to the Congress, and che writer having the honor to represent | Concord Branch. The Concord Branch membership Squibb excluded the December letter of the Concord secretary from the Journal. Work at Swenson’s sheds appears to be petering out, with many work- ers having been laid off during the holiday periods. Concord Branch has submitted proposals for a shorter work day, with no reduction in pay, to the manufacturers, Fraternally, Block Granite | fered by the Barre, Vt. and Con- | face by laying their failure to other | for a preliminary conference of rank | nul yqffi etaoi etaoi taoitaotaofhthe | Rast ae File Code Proposal By a Worker Correspondent QUINCY, Mass—Thanks to the publicity given by the Daily Worker | and the strenuous opposition of- cord, N. H. branches of the Inter- national Association of Granite) Cutters, the N.R.A. code agreement as proposed and favored by Mr. Squibb, International President, and his Executive Council has failed to materialize. The union officials may try to save causes than that which sprung from the rank and file, but there can be no doubt that Barre and Concord have done much to preserve the union, than will be readily admitted. Notwithstanding appeals, requests and demands from those branches and file delegates to consider the Proposed N.R.A. code agreement, Squibb and his Executive Council pushed the thing along with undue expedition. So much so, that many did not understand to what the Proposal committed the union. New Agreement Proposed In the meantime, Concord branch proceeded to draw up a new agree- ment to the Concord employers, which would take the place of the one expiring on Dec. 31, 1984. As | required, the Concord secretary sefit a copy of the proposed Concord agreement to Squibb in the latter part of November. That agreement put forward the demand for seven hours a day with eight hours pay. | Squibb and his council merely “noted” the fact that there was such a new agreement proposed. As a rule, in fact invariably, where the International President and the Executive Council disapprove of any part of a proposed new agreement, |such disapproval is given and time is allowed before Dec. 31 for com- munications to be exchanged, be- fore the expiration of the old agree- | ment, on this disapproval, That did |net happen in this instance. Relying upon success in forcing through a code agreement, Squibb ‘and his council ignored Concord’s new agreement other than merely “noting” it. Hearing nothing from Squibb, the secretary of the Con- cord branch, as instructed by the membership of the branch, sent notice of changes and copy of the proposed agreement to the Concord | manufacturers in the last week of December. Jersey iobleas Fight Relief Case of Negro By a Worker Correspondent PATERSON, N. J—The “woman with a big smile and a heart of |stone” is what the Paterson unem- |Ployed and relief workers have to put up with in the relief station at School No. 1 on Fair Street. A Negro, James Pinkey, was told by this “kind-hearted” woman that he had to show receipts of what he did with the insurance money he received after his wife’s death, be- | fore she would put him back on the| relief rolls again. This worker is actually starving on his feet while fighting for relief. Fellow worker Pinkey told Mrs. Dorothy Keller, the smiling woman in charge of the Relief Administra- tion, that he could not eat receipts, that he was hungry now, that he | needed food immediately because he | had a cup of tea in two days. This kind-hearted lady would not give him relief. She has a picture of her little son in the office. He) looks healthy and she sees to it that | he gets the best of food, the best | of clothes and that generally the best of care is given him, At the | same time she doesn’t care if an-| other mother’s son eats or not. | This kind of administrator should | |be thrown out of her office. And an administrator be put in charge who will have some consideration for the | unemployed and relief workers who | have nothing to eat, nor good clothes to wear, nor a place to sleep. She should give the workers medical | attention at once when they need} it, not after they die. | If the relief officials would have seen to it that fellow worker Pinkey | got blankets when he asked for) living today. But they did not, and| now she is gone. The complaint committee of the| Paterson branch of the United Un- employment and Relief Workers’ As- | sociation of New Jersey is now fight- | ing this case for fellow worker Pinkey, and will fight these relief officials until they get him back on relief. 5 Out of 200 Applicants Get Relief Work By a Worker Correspondent MADISON, Me.—The E.R.A. ad- ministrators have just accepted about 200 applications for work re- lief here in Madison. They an- nounced yesterday that out of these 200 applications, five would be given full time work (30 hours at 35 cents, 40 cents for painters and car- penters.) The rest will have to get along with part time work or no work, and only 22 may be employed at one time. $3,600 has been alloted for a ten-week period, which brings week per family. Food and cloth- ing for the unemployed seems to be only a rumor. Most of the victims can now rea- | lize the futility of individual plead- ing and some of them have even become so radical as to consider mass action, Feed the Bosses to Him! Introducing Harry Cohen, the hard-working Daily Worker repre- sentative in Buffalo. A traveling man, he came across this great democracy last year, from Cologado, a place not distinguished for bosses with a fondness for the Daily Worker. Harry ased to put poison in their coffee every morning by selling the “Daily” right under their noses. Now Harry is determined to work havoc among the bloated ilk in Buffalo. Buffalo, he is deter- mined, will carry the “Daily” flag high in the present subscription campaign. He is working for his district to produce the winner in the subscription contest. Don't let him down, comrades! approving of the demand for a seven-hour day with eight hours pay “as it was deemed inadvisable to put forward such a demand at this time.” Squibb can jump when the right party cracks the whip. It | Was very clear from the contents of | the Dec. 26th telegram that Squibb was quoting from sections of the bill as presented to the employers and not the one sent him by the Concord branch. ~ The failure of the N.R.A. code to go through, his ignoring of the Concord agreement during the five weeks that it was in his possession }and very evidently word from the employers in Concord got him at Jast to act, but not in the interests of the Concord branch, nor of the many unemployed in the union who | would welcome a shorter work-day. Clearly, Squibb, although paying lip service to the idea of a thirty-hour DAN McBAIN, Secretary. Within three days of his doing so, he got a telegram from Squibb dis- ' week, does not approve of it as ap- Plied to the Granite Cutters’ union. them, his wife might have been | talk slowly. Don’t be in a hurry to the average down to about $1.50 a | Stuttering in letter, the nervousness, Stuttering and excessive perspira- tion of your hands are all expres- your | commended, |more superficial way by treatment jof the symptoms rather than the jcause. Get a pint of 10 per cent aluminum chloride. Wash your |hands with soap and water three times a day, dry them, then daub |some of the aluminum chloride on | your hands. When this dries, apply some talcum powder. This will re- | duce the perspiration. For the tense- ‘ness and nervousness you might get tablets of sodium bromide of five three times a day, five days a week. You must skip the sodium bromides one or two days a week, because taking it steadily sometimes causes a rash of pimples. If this happens it can be easily cured by stopping the drug. For the stuttering. you should practice reading aloud and singing. You will probably be able to do both doing this until you feel more self- confident, then try singing with others; first members of your family, then friends. If your voice is not good, go to meetings where you can join in the mass singing. If you can carry a tune, hum or whistle at your work. In the meantime always finish the sentence. You are less likely to stumble in your speech of you go slow. All of these measures are designed | to restore your self-confidence. When you have gained it you will stop stuttering. This is not an in- curable trouble. Many have over- come it. Be persistent and do not allow yourself to get discouraged. Many Subscribers for Magazine “I was glad to learn that the Medical Advisory Board is going to get out a monthly magazine of health advice, I am sure it will be| @ great success.” So writes M. S.' By ANN WE WROTE A FEW COLUMNS a month or so ago about the condi- tions of the domestic workers. As a result of these articles, we re-| ceived several inquiries about the Domestic Workers Union. And as & result of this, the Domestic Work- ers Union has organized several ad- | ditional locals. ae ae ONE OF THESE GROUPS is in Sunnyside, L. I. Today a letter comes relating how these organized domestic workers are upsetting the good ladies of Sunnyside. These employers, we are told, besides claiming they simply can’t afford to pay the girls union wages, claim that the girls are “satisfied.” A few of them say that having a girl work for them (at non-union wages) en- ables them to engage in “radical” activity. We are asked to “answer” these questions. * ’ THEY NEED LITTLE ANSWER- ING. Employers have always claimed their workers are satisfied. It is also an old-story that em- ployers very reluctantly deprive themselves of the slightest personal comfort in order to pay employees what their labor is worth, The third “question” is a more serious one. A so-called “radical” who in order to engage in “radical” activi- ties, employs someone to work for her below union wages, can only discredit all radicals. The old Greek philosophers used to believe in a society where some men were meant to be leaders and thinkers and others—all their lives were destined to be slaves. Evidently these ladies believe in this kind of society. The Communists do not. The Domestic Workers Union does not. aaa THE ORGANIZER OF THAT UNION, Mary Ford, writes us the following letter, to show how deter- mined action of the domestic work- ers is pushing forward towards rais- ing their standard of living, It should give domestic workers in Sunnyside, L. I. and elsewhere their cue. Ce ae “A MEMBER OF THE DOMES- TIC WORKERS UNION was em- ployed on Park Avenue as a house- worker,” she writes. “After six weeks she came down with a severe case of grippe and asked her em- ployer to hire someone to replace her temporarily. But her employer told her that if she had to get an- other worker, it would have to be permanently, When the worker re- turned a week or so later, the em- ployer wanted to deduct $4.16 from her wages because she had had two days off. When the worker refused to leave without receiving her full pay, this Park Avenue woman threatened to call a policeman and to throw her clothes out. “A representative of the Union called and told the employer that if she failed to pay the girl the full amount of her pay, the Union would picket, would expose her through leaflets, the press, etc. This made her change her mind, and the following day, the worker re- ceived her wages in full. The mem- bers of the Union were much heart- grains each. Take three of these} of these easily when alone. Continue | it in a fundamental way, you should honest magazine d go to one of the psychiatrist clinies | the best possible advice on health | (for nervousness) which we have re- | and hygiene for workers, Most of You can obiain some relief in a} ogram Designed to Aid Bankers | WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) jot Philadelphia in sending in $1 for | J. S,, Bronx, N. ¥.—As you state |#" advance subscription. | Many Daily Worker readers have decided to take advantage of the | Special offer made for advance sub- | Scriptions. There are several‘‘health” sions of a nervous trouble. To treat | MAgazines now being published but none of them fill the need for an levoted to giving |the other magazines are published in connection with fake “health food” products, others are published for appearance in doctor’s offices only. Many suggestions for names of the magazines have come in. The contest for the best name closes on Jan. 31. The probable date of the first issue will be March 15, Tasty-Yeast B. M., New York, N. Y.—We feel that we can state—with very little fear of contradiction—that all med- icinal products advertised over the radio have little or no value. We are absolutely certain that many of them are decidedly harmful—harm- ful either because of the ingredients contained in them, or because peo= ple taking them are lulled into a false sense of security. It should be obvious to all workers that commercial houses use all sorts of advertising methods to reach the buying public, because it is through such methods that they can over- come the competition of other firms. When profit takes the place of use—science is thrown into the dirt heap. Specially prepared yeast com- pounds, and particularly those which are combined with chocolate, sugar, or other substances, are of doubtful value as a food or medi+ cinal product. Most physicians dis- approve of yeast products, which are taken indiscriminately by the lay- man, and the American Medical As- sociation has never recommended them, The claims made for tasty-yeast are totally without foundation. Such a method of increasing one’s vita- min intake is both expensive and unsound from a scientific stand- point. Other natural food products have more of the needed vitamins and are much less costly, IN THE HOME BARTON She Got Her Wages! proved once again the power of the organization and the possibilities of using this power for raising de- mands for higher wages and bet- ter conditions.” Soe Sete The union has new headquarters at 262 Lenox Avenue and at 340 East 73rd Street, New York City. “P. §S.,” writes Comrade Ford, “Forgot to say that Mrs. S, in trying to prove how good an employer she was, said that she had given the girl six handkerchiefs and a bottle of perfume for Christmas... !” Can Ta Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2173 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 3% yards 39 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by- step sewing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for each Anne Adams pattern (New York City residents should add one-cent tax for each pattern order). Write plainly, your name, address and style number. 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