The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1935, Page 4

Pa-Ze 4 = HOME LIFE ND still the letters come in an- hhow she can best raise her chi dren to be good members of their class Here is one of the most interesting from a Clevel: Ohio, mother. “| HAVE three children and here leaving them ipless This education can be s almost when the baby first s to talk. My oldest ehild; now six and a half, went to Council meetings he was just a toddler. had absorbed a num- Unemployment with me when He showed he ber of ideas. I now read to him “Bows Against the Barons,” an ex- working class version of 1 Hood, explaining the back ground of the oppression of the workers during feudal times. And every n I read the Pioneer magazine to him, and every day the y comic strip in the Daily indispensable in teach- 1t would not make is by itself. I do to interpret for my children -day occurrences. For instance. boy made a doll in school, | r he brought it home, made for it. He took it e three boys him that Is. I explain- ed to him that he knew boys grew up to be fathers, and the reason the boys laughed was because they had the old idea that women were in- ferior to men, her only job to take care of the children and slave in the kitchen, There is no reason why boys shouldn't be interested in dolls (or le sister should not use @ saw or hammer). POINT out to my children why we don’t have this or that. I ex- children are cold and sick, because their have no work and can- relief. The older boy under- happens because the own everything and run the factories for their own profit. I con- Sider it a real Bolshevik responsibil- ity to so condition the attitude of My children at the earliest possible | age, that if the bosses should take | them away from me, as the children | of some of the revolution! Spain were put in ins October, they could teach them to be enemies of their class. You know the old saying attributed to the Catholic Church: ‘Give me @ child until he is seven, and you ean have him for the rest of his life. . “Psychologists and educators say | that-a child's disposition and mental attitudes are pretty well set before he enters school—that his education begins in infancy. Parents must make oftheir children clear minded proletarians who cannot be led into out and out scabbing or into the under-cover scabbing of the fake friends of the workers. We must train our children to evaluate what they are taught in school. Flemington Victory purs Messengers By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. - I am a Western Union messenger. The clerk in my office gives me the Daily Worker to read on Fridays, and I sort of like the paper. I read a few days ago in the papers that the messengers struck in Flem m and Omaha, and in both cities the messengers won, In Flemington, where the Lindbergh trial is going on, the boys won a two-dollar increase. We messengers in New York ought to get wise to ourselves and get together like the fellows in Flemington. We can all stand a two-dollar increase. And we can get more if we get together. Of course, it is harder to get to- gether in New York than in Flem- ington because there are more mes- sengers here. But even at that there are a lot of fellows that al- ready started in the Telegraph Mes- sengers Union, 63 Park Row. | I joinde up. The Telegraph Mes- sengers Union fellows told me to get the other messengers in my of- fice, just like the other members do. So I told the fellows in my of- fice and they all signed up. A fellow knows a messenger in another office and he is going to get him In this way we'll get enough fellows and then we'll strike for higher pay. And the company will have to come across like they did in Flemington. What we should demand is fifteen dollars a week, forty-hour week and vacations with pay for all messeng- | ers Telegraph Merger To Hit Workers By a Telegraph Worker Corre- spondent NEW YORK.—Recent develop- ments on the merger of all tele- graph companies now being rushed in Washington should a danger signal to all } | through serve as workers. What does it mean? Under the old conditions of competition, the employers have been able to cut the messengers’ wages, worsen condi- and, above all, completely our status, Before the crash, a messenger was lured on with the promise that if after sev- eral months work in the company he proves himself fit, he would be promoted to a higher position. This opened the prospect of a career to a fellow—something to hang on to. But what have they done now? Now, messengers are “transient em- ployes,” that is, they kick you out after a few months in the com- pany. When you are out and look- ing for a job, you find that the boss wants experience but he can’t use your type of experience in his busi- ness. So, you find yourself back where you started. Nothing gained from work for the telegraph com- panies excepting a few bunions. All this has taken place before any merger was in sight. Now, with the merger becoming an established fact, with the whole apparatus in the hands of a few monopolists having absolute control, they can do anything they wish with us un- less we are prepared to fight them. One of our first demands should be an end to this intolerable con- dition of absolute insecurity. We must demand preference in the hir- ing of clerks, operators, etc. The tions, change operating full blast in New York, turning out clerks, operators, etc., but you will not find one messenger among them. We must demand j{ promotions along with our other demands. We must prepare ade- quately to meet this new great danger of merger with its layoffs, ; wage cuts, etc. Let’s use the one powerful weapon in our hands jagainst the employers. Organize into the ranks of the Telegraph Messengers’ Union. Radio Operators Win Strike on West Coast SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.—Strik- ing freightship radio operators of the McCormick Steamship Company won most of their demands when a move was made by the Radio Tele- graphers Association to call a coast- | wise strike. The union won a wage | increase from the former $75 to $100 @ month, for coastwise operators, and from the former $85 to $110 a month for intercoastal operators. Other demands won are the eight- hour day, first class accommoda- tions, transportation if laid off any- where away from the home port, and hiring through the union. The | strike was mark\i by repeated at- tempts of police to break up picket lines. Districts Move Into Action | In Daily Worker Sub Drive | drive front. | the start has been made. j “Action!” is fast becoming the ringing cry on the Daily Worker With the subscriptions that have already been received, Every part of the country has now had time “We know that a large percentage | to set up a functioning apparatus—and the Daily Worker now expects ict. of the children of even Party mem- bers-do not belong to our organiza- tions. I believe it is of the utmost importance for our movement to dis- cuss. this thing, and hope that many comrades will send in their ideas et ing class parents.” Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2182 is available in sizes 6. 8, 10, 12 and 14. Size 10 takes 25%_ yards 39 inch fabric and % et 2 inch ribbon, Illustrated step- “step sewing instructions cluded, ‘Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins 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. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE WANTE Acadzess o: to Daily Worker Patiern Departimeni, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. ter job as work- | | to hear regularly from every distri: Western Union training school is( DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1935 “You never read Lenin? Good! Write something about him!” Horses Receive Better Treatment Than Men in Lumber Camp By a Lumber Worker Correspondent ROCKWOOD, Me.—In this camp, owned by the Great Northern Paper Company, which is built to house from eighty to one hundred men, ther are three windows. Each is 18 inches by 24 inches in size. Two are at the back end of the camp and one is in the roof. At night we have a small kerosene lamp in each of the four corners of the camp. We have semi-darkness 24 hours a day. Th stable, or hovel at it is called, which is the same size as the bunk-: house is built to house 25 horses and has four ventilators and eight win- dows. There is no ventilation in the bunkhouse. There is a horse doctor that travels from camp to camp and ad- ministers to the sick or maimed horses, while the men must travel 100 miles to the nearest place where they can receive medical attention. They keep a supply of hay and oats ahead for the horses, thing when we workers come to eat. We are equal to the horses in one respect, we all drink out of the same brook. We have out-door plumbing. The outhouse is made of small poles with tar paper on three sides and the roof. It was so stuffy during the fall weather that holes were broken through the sides for ventilation. The seat is a pole about ten feet long, with another pole as a back rest. A great place in this sub-zero weather. Lice Galore There {s no laundry connected with the camp. Men are forced to do their own washing. Every Sunday we are compelled to wash our clothes or become so lousy that life would be unbearable. Every man in camp has some lice. We must wash our clothes out-doors. We build a while } there is always a shortage of some-} time here. On the shortest day of the year it got dark at about 4:30 p.m. Although there has been quite an increase in the hours of daylight it still gets dark at half past four. On Friday last we went to work at 7:10 a.m. by the boss’ watch. By all the other watches it was twenty minutes past six. However, our watches are never behind his at night. He is forever barking about us getting in too early, On Thurs- day last, the teamsters and helpers were forced to go to work in a severe storm, One man froze his face, and others froze their fingers and toes before they got together and decided to go back to the camp in spite of the boss. There is deep feeling among the workers to force the company to grant better conditions, more money and shorter hours. I have talked or- ganization continuously since get- ting here. When spring comes every effort should be made to rally the workers to fight for better camps, shorter hours, higher pay, free transportation to and from camps, medical attention at the camps at time of injury, fresh vegetables and meats, and any other grievances that may crop up in the meantime should be added to the list, AFL Urges Dining Car Men to Join By a R. R. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—A meeting was held by the Dining Car Employos’ Union, Local 370 affiliated to the A. F. of L.. to which dining car workers of the Pennsylvania Ratl- road were invited. There were many speakers who proposed to the men of the Penn- sylvania Rail:oad that they join the Dining Car Employes’ Union. The in- « fire and heat some water for scrub- | speakers pointed out that during the bing and then we have to boil all of| fourteen years of the Brotherhood our shirts, socks and undewear in| of Dining Car Cooks and Waiters, order to kill the lice that are sure}Temus the Grand President of to be on them. Two and sometimes | Council No. 1. never represented the three sixteen-quart pails are fur-|men against the company. He was nished by the company for this pur-] only a puppet of the railroad and HEAR HELPER! Helper, Utah, in the Golseado| | District, raises its voice. Helper | marked up an enviable record in| the financial drive. | “You will hear from Helper in | the sub drive,” writes Adam Ostoich, | the Daily Worker representative | there. | “We are getting into full swing and intend to surpass our quota of 45 daily and 65 Saturday subs.” There is no more time to lose! Trade union unity is the most important question before the trade unions of the world. In France and Norway great ad- vances have been made in uniting the trade unions. We publish be- low the reply of the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions to the Norwegian Trade Union Federa- tion on the question of the unity of the world trade union move- ment, * rh To the Secretariat of the Norwegian Trade Union Federation, Comrades: The Executive Bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions hay- ing discussed your letter dated De- cember 20 and the resolution of your Congress, expresses its satis- faction with the fact that the recent Trade Union Congress in Norway recognized trade union unity as a vital necessity, declared for organ- izational unification on the basis of class struggle and stated that the! workers’ National Trade Union Fed- | eration of Norway was prepared to| a HERE IS CHICAGO! Chicago's conference on the drive will be held Sunday, Feb. 17, at the People’s Auditorium. Chicago has secured more sub- scriptions than any other district in the drive, so far, but it is only in fifth place in percentage. Its quota is 1,500 daily and 2,250 Saturday subs. It is now picking up fast. The District Committee of the Communist Party in that city has decided that one member from each Party unit is to enter the subscrip- tion contest. ' The above are the latest reports, Every District must now push on hard and fast to the goal—10,000 daily and 15,000 Saturday subs. render every assistance in the achievement of this aim. The question of Trade Union Unity is the most vital and impor- tant problem of the international trade union movement at the pres- ent time. Trade union unity is par- ticularly imperative today when the offensive of capital on the living standards of the working class is carried out all along the front, when fascism brings terror, slavery and starvation to the toilers and when imperialist war threatens them with new, unheard-of calamities. The capitalists wish to shift the burden of the crisis on to the shoulders of the working class and it is precisely because of this that unity of the trade union organizations and unity of action is now more imperative than ever. The R. I. L. U. as a whole and its largest section, the trade unions of the U. S. S. R., are the most active supporters of a rapid and complete restoration of trade union un‘ty in every country and on an international scale. The attitude of the R. I. L, U. pose. Pails are busy from 4 o'clock }Suunday morning till 9 o'clock Sun- day night. The bosses are all slave drivers. The Great Northern started up their camps last summer after being clos- ed for seven or eight years. Prac- tically all of the bosses are working for the Northern for the first time and are out to make a name for themselves at the expense of the workers. This is also true of the cook in the woods camp. The bosses are forever telling the men that there are four hundred men in Ban- gor, all of whom would like to get work in the woods. One straw boss in camp is always warning the men that they “ill be forced into a bread line in Boston if they don’t work hard, as he will be forced to lay them off. They have a unique system of towards the question of trade union! unity in individual countries is fully reflected in the proposals which were and are made by the Unity General Confederation of Labor (C. G. T. U.) of France to the General Confederation of Labor (C, G. T.). This attitude of the C. G. T. U. met with the sympathy and support of not only all the revolu- tionary trade unions of France, but also of a number of large unions and federations, affiliated to the Cc. G. T., which declared for the methods and forms of restoring trade union unity, brought forward by the C. G. T. U. of France. Si- multaneously with the C. G. T. U., other trade unions affiliated to the R. I. L. U. (Czechoslovakia, Spain, etc.) also raised the question of trade union unity. Therefore, the decision of your Congress on the necessity for trade union unity has met sympathetic response among the broadest work- ing masses and is bound to facili- tate the organizational unification of the trade unions for the struggle against capital, sacrificed the interests of the men for his own benefit. They said the Brotherhood was only a corpse. The men in the Sunnyside Yards are disgusted with the Brotherhood and are seeking a solution. The A. F. of L. program met with a good response from the workers present. The speakers of the A. F. of L. promised better representation and that it would fight for the grievances of the men. The Daily Worker has always pointed out that Lemus was acting for the company and not for the men. The Daily Worker has always urged us to organize under real rank and file leadership. We think that if we are to seriously consider the A. F. of L. union we must insist that a clear policy of struggle against the company is carried out under rank and file control. The R. I. L, U. Executive Bureau which fully consents to meet your wish half way believes that the pro- gram which met with the sympathy and support of the French working masses may be adopted as the basis for the restoration of trade union unity on an international scale, We consider that this platform of the unification of the world trade union movement should contain the fol- lowing points: 1. Struggle against wage-cuts and for wage-increases. 2. Struggle for social insurance, including nen-contributory unem- ployment insurance. 3. Struggle for the freedom of workers’ organizations, for freedom of speech, assembly and workers’ press, 4. Struggle against fascism and the danger of a new imperialist war. Thus, class struggle against capi- tal and for the immediate demands and general aims of the working class should serve as the basis for the organizational unification of the trade union movement, Fishermen Face Loss of Boats By » Fisherman Correspondent SAN DIEGO, Calif—Many of the market fishermen in San Diego have had to give up fishing, and some of them their boats, because they couldn’t make enough to feed their families. Lots of them are tying up their boats and going on the SERA—that’'s the only way they can get something for their families to eat, under the present condi- tions here. Market fishermen get about two to three cents a pound for fish that is merely taken up to the down town stores where it retails for a price of fom ten to eighteen cents a pound. At the end of the week these fishermen are in debt for gasoline and oil which is seld at a high cost to the fishermen. Food, clothing and fuel has gone up, but the profits of the fishermen have gone down. In spite of these miserable condi- tions facing the fishermen, they are persecuted and even arrested by the state officials if they don’t get licences to fish, and boat permits etc. And the county tax collec- tor is always threatening us if the taxes aren’t paid by such and such a date, our boats will be seized and sold for taxes. After the tuna fishermen have had to go 2,900 miles below San Diego on the banks there to catch their fish, by the time they get back with a fair catch some of the fish has spoiled, but they get no- thing for it, after it cost them fuel, ice and labor to catch it, al- though if goes to the fertilizer plants. The workers in the can- neries are working under poor pay and bad conditions, too. This summer schools of albacore and blue fin tuna come to the coast of San Diego that hadn’t been seen in these parts in several years. This was because there was no target practice by the navy here most of this year, The war maneuvers and | firing of the big guns has driven much fish away from the banks here. The sardines are being ruined too, here, by the oil companies, and the big shipping companies. The oil tankers of the Union Oil and Standard Oil companies wash out their tanks leaving a coat of oil on the surface of the water which! kills the spawn along the beeches and kelp beds. This oil is found floating and polluting the beaches as far south as the fish banks off Mexico and Panama. Other boats pump out oil from the bilges which pollutes the water. All boats over 30 tons should be equipped with grease traps. It would save many hundreds of tons of fish for foad. What is ruining the sardines too, is the fertilizer plants. Hundreds of tons of sardines are caught only for the reduction plants, not for food, since the canneries figure they can’t make any profit packing them. Some of the. reduction plants around San Pedro are operated on boats, and these along have used up 100,000 tons of valuable fish food to make fertilizer. The state fisheries officials claim over 500,000 tons of savdines have been caught this Army Base Worker Writes on War By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — The Bzooklyn in a better position to see the actual preparations for war than are most workers. We see from four to five hundred trucks being shipped monthly to the Canal Zone and the islands in the Pacific together {with large quantities of machine » oe guns, coast defense guns, search- lights and other equipment. This has been going on for If so much material is being shipped from this coast, one can imagine the amount that is being shipped from the Pacific Coast. The Army Base worker is between two fires. more money appropriated by Con- gress for war purposes the safer is his job. On the other hand he knows that he, his children and relatives are going to be driven to| trucks to enrich the capitalist class. The Army Base worker belongs to the working class and is being exploited by the same capitalist class that exploits all workers. While he is compelled, at the present time, to help in these ghastly war preparations for a living, he should never forget that his real interests are with the revo- Jutionary working class in its fight for the abolition of war and the protection of himself and his dear ones, No Pay for Standing By On Pennsylvania R.R. By a R. R. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—What I would like to know is what is to become of the workers that were hired for the rush the Pennsylvania had during the holidays? Apparently something could be Season, where only 250,000 tons should have been caught, if the sardines schools are not to be ex- terminated. It makes some of us fishermen get pretty hot, when we think about these hundreds of thousands of tons of good food being wasted this way when millions of workers all over the country could use it 1o stall off starvation a while longer. Pullman Company Tries To Wreck Union By a R. R. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Hope you will give the rotten condition in Sunnyside yards for all workers to know what is going on under cover. The Pullman Company wants our independent union because they done about the system now being used. The majority of the men hired during the rush were held in the yard or office to protect certain jobs and were not paid. Some of these men were held in the crew Yeu DON'T HAVE To WaRRY ABout THE MEN, Boss,— THEY'RE NOT ORGANIZED think they will be able to dictate to us. But they are mistaken. We intend to get what we want. They have fired one of our mem- bers with eighteen years service, but this is not going to scare us. They will have to fire all of us before we are through. The electricians and mechanics have a separate union. But if they ; know what is good for them they = let us all be one. We are me space in your paper to expose all workers. United we stand, divided we fall. Win a free trip to the Soviet Union, a free vacation in a work- ers’ camp, or cash. Join the Daily Worker subscription contest. Write to 50 E, 13th Street. An Important Step Toward International Trade Union Unity The organizational unification of the Trade Unions affiliated to the Red International of Labour Unions and to the International Trade | Union Federation, as well as those workers’ trade unions which are outside of both the Internationals could, in the opinion of the R. I. L. U. and the trade unions of the U.S. 8. R., be carried out in the following manner: 1, Amalgamation of parallel unions and elections of manage- ments on the basis of proportional representation. 2. Inner trade union democracy, ie, freedom of opinion and the right to defend one’s views inside a unified trade union organization. 3. Discipline in the against the capitalists. An amalgamation of the parallel organizations on a national scale would be an important step for- ward along the road of building a unified Trade Union International on the basis of the class struggle. This is the attitude of the R. T. }L. U, as a whole, of the All-Union struggle room for three days to a week, sometimes longer without receiving food or carfare while really protect- ing the trains that might have gone into service. Something should be done about this. These men should receive compensation for services rendered while protecting these different trains. : Why don’t the Brotherhood offi- cials look out for these men? I'll tell you. It’s because the Brother- hood officials are company men, a bunch of yes-men. What the rail- | road workers should do is form an independent union or Brotherhood out of control of the company. Council of Trade Unions (V. Z. 8. P. S.) and of other trade unions, affiliated to the R. I. L. U. towards the question of restoring inter- national trade union unity. The R. I. L. U. Executive Bureau is fully confident that the Norwe- gian Trade Union Federation will declare, in accordance with the de- cision of its last Congress, for the amalgamation of both Interna- tionals and for the formation of a unified Trade Union International on the above-indicated basis. This is a great and complicated question which requires a detailed dscussion and therefore the R. I. L. U. proposes to meet with the rep- resentatives of your trade unions in order to discuss concretely the forms and methods of a joint strug- gle for unity of the international trade union movement, Comradely yours, EXECUTIVE BUREAU OF THE RED INTERNATION- AL OF LABOR UNIONS, General Secretary of the RIL, U, Army Base employes are probably | He believes that the) the slaughter in those nice new| * YOUR HEALTH | ee | Medieal Advisory Beard | Exfoliative Dematitis (Redness, | sealing and weeping of the whole skin.) B., writes:—“My brother, who | has a primary type of exfoliative j dermatitis has now been confined to Kings County Hospital for about | six weeks. Before he entered the | hospital he had been suffering for | about a year and went to various }skin clinics where they gave him salves and lotions, but this condition | kept on getting worse. | “He is twenty-eight years old, five feet three inches, weighing {about a hundred pounds. When he }entered the hospital he had lost ten pounds in two months. While he has been at the hospital, they | have not aided him in the slightest, ; He was told when he entered that |he would be out in two months. |Now the doctors say he will have | to be there for at least five more !months. The doctors display an in- | different attitude. Examinations, which should be three times a | week, are conducted when the doc- | tors feel like it, which is about once ;@ week. The atmosphere is so de- | pressing, being in the old building | that it has had a very bad effect on | his morale. “What I am Interested in knowing is whether or not we can treat the @ disease at home with any degree of | success?” * > | ESPOLIATIVE dermatitis (redness | sealing and weeping of the | whole skin) is a disease which may be due to one of several causes. It ; may be due to poisoning by certain | chemicals, or it may be a symptom | of certain disease of the blood form- ing organs. It is often difficult to | find out the underlying cause. There is little that you can do for your brother at home in the way of j treatment, since the basic trouble | has not yet been found. However, since little is being done for your | brother at the hospital in which he jis at present, you can take him | home for a while to build up his morale. Later, he can be taken to another hospital or clinic whera conditions are more favorable. rete Is Hodgkin's Disease Curable? F V. of Philadelphia, writes: “I have a brother who has a disease called Hodgkin’s Disease. | What I would like to know is if that kind of a disease is curable?” Ss ee ;youx brother is suffering from a disease which is considered today as a type of cancer. It is unfortunately a type of cancer that is not curable. The average life of a person after the disease is diag- nosed, is from one to three yeats, jalthough occasional cases have lived longer, ‘We are glad that he is able to jTeceive X-ray treatment, since that is the one way known at present to make the patient feel better and. io a limited extent, to prolong his life. For these reasons, we advise that he should continue receiving the treas- ment at the hospital in which he is | at present being treated. ne ae Children of Deaf Couple . S., of New York, asks whether a married couple who are both deaf and dumb can have normal children. aha Sativa ‘THIS depends on the nature of the 41 deafness in the couple. Did the deafness follow some disease like meningitis, mastoids, scarlet fever, etc.? If so, then it would in all probability be safe to have children, On the other hand, if the deaf- ; Hess in the couple came on ape parently, without cause, in child- hood, or if relatives of either parent suffered from such deafness, then there is serious danger that the con- dition is “hereditary,” that is, transe mitted from parents to children, There are such families, in which successive generations become deaf at about the same time, for no ap- parent reason. . When a young child becomes deaf before he learns to speak, he is un- able to hear people pronounce words, and therefore, loses the most important means of learning to speak. That is why dumbness is so often associated with deafness. NOTE Every Friday we publish letters from workers in the transportation and communications industries; railroad, marine, trucking, trac- tion, taxi, telegraph, telephone, ete, We urge workers in these ine dustries to write us of their con- ditions and efforts to organize, Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each week. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK HEALTH AND HYGIENE Medical Adisory Board Magazine I wish to subscribe to Health and Hygiene. Enclosed please find $1 for a year's subscription NAME... cesses sseseesseseneece Address Scottsboro-Herndon Fund International Labor Defense Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City I enclose $.... ssa my immediate contribution to the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense Fund. —— mA POS. Se oe oe won ee oe ee ee —