The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1927, Page 6

a3 al aR SBOE 228 * € ete Get tet rt et bh Vage Six peewee oo 5 - ee nas. fy 7 3 . CMe! NG ite. oe Beat YHE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1927 ica. a aan ii The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat to the Trade Unions of Pacific Countries Dear Con The Pan Trade Union Con- ference took ple in Hankow from May 19th to May 26th. At this Con- ference were represented the Trade Unions of China, Japan, the U.S.S.F Java, Great Britain, France, Korea > U A. Due to Government e the delegates from Au and Formo: d not atten r and tec! n the ppines and e countries of Latin attend the Confe id not 1 reasons the} Our Conference held its sessions at a critical moment, when the Chinese Revolution is threatened by armed imperialist intervention. Not from the meeting hall of the Confer ence were stationed dozens of foreign | ,| Warships The first word spoken by the Pan-Pacific Conference was in struggle against imperialism. Its t appeal ends with the slogans: Down with the imperialists,” “Down the reactionary militari . the imperialist pirates fi | with “Oust China.” mn far | support of the Chinese Revolution in| Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference has laid the foundation for a rapproachement and militant alliance of the brave unions of the Pacific countr The Pan-Pacific Confer- ence has created an organ of connec- tions, propaganda and action—The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. The aims and objects of the Secre- tariat are as follows: 1. To carry on a joint struggle against the dangers of war between the Powers of the Pacific; p To counteract the imperialist dang that the Chinese menace judices which still divide the exploited classes and oppressed peoples to the jadvantage of the exploiters and op- | pressors. | 5. To cement and to maintain a |Yeal fraternal united front of the ex- ploited classes in the countries of the Pacific. 6. To organize and to carry out joint actions of the exploited classes and oppressed peoples against the op- pressing Pawers. 7. To fight for world Trade Union Unity and for the creation of a single United Trade Union International. trade union organizations of the Pacific countries. The Pan-Pacifie Trade organizations to respond to its call for close and permanent connections between the trade union movements of the different countries, and for the co-ordination of all actions and the exchange of experience. We are sending you the Bulletins Secretariat, The Pan-Pacifie Worker,| tion laid by the Pan-Paci: of Proceedings and the resolutions and decisions of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference, with the request to popularize them among the trade junion organizations to send to it | regularly all statistical and any other \and to inform the Secretariat of the most important facts regarding the labor struggles in the particular coun- try. The first issues of the official organ jof thé Pan-Pacific Trade Union ‘are already published. The Secre- ‘tariat requests all active trade union- ts to collaborate and to send in ar- | ticles dealing with the life and strug- Union| material dealing with the living and! Secretariat requests all trade union! working conditions of the workers, | ;), | | and publications dealing with prob- lems of the labor movement. Fully conscious of the difficulties at confront it, the Secretariat hopes that all those to whem the cause of labor has some serious meaning, will do their share to help in its work. The Pan-Pacifie Trade Union Secretariat ‘hopes to see the founda- Confer- ence enlarged and reenforeed, and that all the trade union organizations of the Pacific countries will ratify the decisions and resolutions adopted Fully conscious of the ever-growing | Revolution. It will also be the task of the|union membership, to discuss these gles of the working class. The Pan- by the Conference. ; ‘, notwithstanding all these | political and economic contradictions 3. To help all the oppressed peo-| Secretariat to maintain permanent|resolutions and decisions and then to! Pacific Worker will have a special With _fraternal greetings, a The ss and « o less than|in the Kast, and of the impending ple of the Pacifie *o liberate them-|connections not only with the organ-|communicate the results to the Pan-| section dealing with the labor move-| Pan-Pacific T rade Union Secretariat. d were | danger of a new imperialist war for selves from the yoke of Imperialism. | izations of those countries which were | Pacific Secretariat. (Address: P. O.! ment in the various countries and an-| Hankow, July 1, 1927. the Pan-Pacific Trade | markets and sources of raw materials {. To fight against and remove all|represented at the Pan-Pacific Con-|Box 65, Hankow, China). | other _ section for reviews of the : 5 Sree sraaTe Te : Union Cc rence, | and for new fields of investments, the | racial and national barriers and pre-!ference but also with all the other! The Secretariat requests all trade( periodical and non-periodical press| GET A NEW READER! Es ak = HE WORKERS By MARY MOSCOW (B 1c -Third iet Hou here n put at f ions that have come t ox the Red Sport W blonde Norwe- gians, s ed Finnish com- rades, tive cos 2 Germany akia, where the sport has been highly developed, and southern Rus- sian n Moscow for the first time—a ager to absorb as much of it as they can in their short stay here. Powerful Workers. While their contact with sports in the U. S. S. R. has increased their enthusiasm for building up stronger workers’ sport movements at home, | with the constructive | their * contact work oi the Soviet government has opened their eyes to the fact that the development of the sport move- ment here has been made possible be- | in the hands of i of in the hands . As one German cpr cause the power the workers ins of the capitalis Social Democr ed it to me, after seeing t oviet health work in oper t home there are} s of doctors that work- ers can go to: doctors who are paid by the employe and whose interest is to give the minimum help neces- sary to keep the workers at the ma- chines. ad private do their living from the s: workers and whose interest is to have them keep on paying. In Rus- sia the doctors’ interest is to build up the health of the workers.” New in Norway. Norway ' the in workers’ sport ..movement is still young, but in four years the number of workers organ- ized in reached 14,000 (about nt Communist), as against 000 in bourgeois sport or- i The gain last, year was a greater gain is expected e figures are signifi- Norway every mem- orkers’ sports organization must be a union member—a condi- tion which is as yet only an ambi- tion in other countries. And in Nor- way the bourgeois sport moyement is subsidized the government. At- tempts are being made to obtain a subsidy for workers’ sports, and it is hoped that the newt parliament will pas: ch an appropriation, but the affiliation of their organization with the Red Sports International will, of course, be counted against them. Strong in Finland. In Finland the sport movement is very strong, and closely linked up with the political situation. Every small town | its sports clubs, and as a Finnish comrade puts it: “There are twice as many sport clubs as churches in Finland.” The Workers’ Sports League has a membership of 30,000. Setween seven and eight thousand are women and over 3,000 are children. It has three sports paprs. The General Sports League, which is the bourgeois organization, is numerically much stronger, but has recognized the superiority of the workers’ organization by, making constant overtures for cooperation, which have been rejected by the Workers’ League. Both are officially subsidized by the state, though the! proportion going to League is much higher. Form there - was only one organization, the General Sports League, dating back to 1902, gaining impetus after the 1905 revo- lution when growing class conscious- ness increased all forms of workers’ activitie: Since then the general tendency was more and more to the tight, taking»on a definitely bour- geois character during the civil war in 1919, when the Communists were the General driven underground, and the left wing was expelled from the General League, which was then reorganized by the white guards. At once the Workers’ Sports League was organ- ized by the left wingers, and has been growing steadily ever since, While the general sentiment of the nev ague remained left wing, a t wing tendency developed, which succeeded in capturing the convention last June through the familiar meth- | ¢ of ods and exclusion of left wing delegates recognition of lo paper from the convention. A hot fight is now on in the league. This month a referendum vote for secretary of the league resulted in the in the face leadership. May Change Affiliation. * The Workers’ Sport League in Fin- land is affiliated with the Lucerne International (Reformist), but since the refusal of this body to grant the to the new right wing fs . who make} ness of the| election | § of a Communist, which was a slap) .“EORN TO SPORT floor to a delegate from the Red Sport International enti singfors a yes been a growing sentiment a; Lucerne International and in of cooperation with Red Spor ganizations. i fied. by the of the executive council at Lucerne last week to expel sections whose delegations took t in any Communist sport demon- n of the shown by the fact that all ser i the decisi tional the delegations marched in the pa- rade on Sunday in defiance of this order. » Germans Defied Rulers. The German delegation risked even more, because their own organization, |the Arbeiter Turn and Sportbund, affiliated with the Lucerne Interna- tional, refused permission for the delegation to go to the U. S. S. R. Four of them are Social Democrats and six without party affiliations. The Social Democrat leadership of the sports movement in Germany is very much afraid of Communist con- trol. Already the Communists have the strongest influence in the organi- zations in Berlin, Essen, Halle and Stuttgart, and there is a growing sentiment for affiliation with the |Red Sport International. This ex- | plains the refusal of the officials to permit a delegation to go to Moscow. The control of the German sports movement is not something to be {easily given up. Unified under the Zentral Kommission fur Arbeiter- sport und Korperpflege, the member- | Ship already numbers 1,400,000, con- | stituting most of the Lucerne Inter- | tional. So if the Communists get ;control of the sport movemest’ in |Germany, it will mean the end of | the Lucerne International. | 600,000 Organized. The main organization under the ; Zentral Kommission is the Arbeiter Turn and Sport Verein, which is a general athletic organization number- | ing 600,000, 30 per cent of whom are women. Next comes “Solidaritat,” the bicycle riders’ organization, num- | bering 250,000, all of whom are | union members or members of politi- jcal parties. The Arbeiter Adledend- | bund for boxing, ete., numbers 60,000, |the Samaritterbund 30, 40,000; the |Schutzenbund 10,000, and so on. | There is a stadium at Grunewald, |on the outskirts of Berlin, which | Seats 40,000 people, and is equipped | with many sport facilities, including ;a 100-metre swimming pool. and in |the city there is the indoor sports | Palast, seating 20,000, where not only | sports events, but Communist meet- |ings are held. } | Half Million in Bohemia. | In Czecho-Slovakia there are about |half a million members in the work- ers’ sports organizations, the most Lucerne Interna- | Proletarian Sport, with 100,000 mem- ternational, and the Arbeiter Turn Verband, affiliated with the Lucerne | International. | section numbers 95,000, and the Ger- }man_ section in Czecho-Slovakia | 40,000. The Red org&nization originated in 1921, after a split in the Arbeiter {Turn Verband. The history of this Split shows very clearly the reflec- | tion of the political struggle in the sports movement. At_this time Hum- |mellans was president of the Ver- band, and also a member of parlia- |ment. It was during the Hungarian | revolution, whén the workers had or- | ganized a Soviet government there. |Hummelhans organized regiments | which were sent to Hungary to throt- | tle this new proletarian government. and part of the Vexwband supported his action. There was a vigorous protest on the part of the lefts, and a convention was demanded, but the Hummelhans adriinistration, realiz- ing that they were in a minority, succeeding in blocking it. Feeling ran high. The opposition officials were expelled. Locals supporting these officials were also expelled, and the fight went on until whole districts were expelled from the Ver- | band. | Mass Sports. The opposition at first focussed itg efforts on getting reinstated. Mean- while the Verband administration | took \the Olym@ad, a mass sports demon. ration in Prague. The oppositioi , of course, excluded from partici- |pation, but bourgeois nationalist and military organizations were invited. This was enough for the opposition, and at a conference on May 8, 1921, it was decided to hold a sports dem- onstration, to bescalled the Sparta- kiade. This demonstration lasted The respect fom ste important being the Federation of | bers, belonging to the Red Sport In-| The Czecho-Slécakian , refuge in the organization of | te Md 5 By 2. J, O’FLAMTERTY. \NE hundred‘ and fifty thousand dollars were added to the British national debt since last year. The total national indebtedn now unts to the stupendous sum of over 38 billion dollars. The Labor Party executive proposed a tax on unearned incomes over $2,500, but this proposal was met with an angry roar from the capitalist press. It was branded robbery by progressive Needl to say the reac- and highly respectable con- ative Labor Party leaders will not make a mass issue out of the or embarrass the govern- any way. Still, the way in which it was received by the capi- talist press attests to the truth of the contention that the capitalist tiger will fight to protect the tips of his whiskers as well as his hearty realizing that the remoygb of his whiskers would be fgi6wed by a more deadly mie © F, * * A A. PURCELL, former president of the Tnternational Federation of Trade Unions was eased out of that position at the recent meeting of the international in Paris because Purcell in his presidential speech made a plea for international trade union unity and spoke favorably of the Russian revolution. Any speech that even in the mildest degree favors the Soviet Union is gall and wormwood to the reactionaries, so when Purcell’s re- election was moved by the British delegation, the continental delegates, under the control of Oudegeest, secretary of the international voted against him. But to show that they were not moved by anti-British pre- judice they voted unanimously for George Hicks, president of the Gen- eral Coutteilof Trade Unions. * HAT the Amsterdam leader's know their onions was demonstrated at the Edinburgh conference of the British Trade Union Congress when Hicks delivered a bitter attack on the Jeft wing movementetind on the Rus- sian trade union Yeadership. He fa- vored breaking off relations with the Russian central trades body and dis- solving the Anglo-Russian Com- mittee. Even the conservative Cramp of the Railwaymen held that this ac- tion would be a signal to Stanley Baldwin that British labor endorsed his break with the Soviet Union. It means in fact that the right wing British labor leaders are behind him and are to all intents and purposes part of the governing machine of the empire. * * * * * HE British trade union movement has experienced a big swing to the right since the defeat of the general strike. The right wing leaders have come out openly in their imperialist roles. The pseudo-left leaders have followed the trail blazed by Thomas, MacDonald and Clynes. They re- tained their positions by prostituting themselves. At best they were only barometers of ma&$s sentiment and swam with the current. The right wing leaders are made of sterner material and have no mental con- (flicts as to which side of the barri- cades they shall fight on. Thomas, MacDonald and Co., are dyed-in-the- wool imperialists and insist on the world knowing it. * * * Hees SMITH, president of the Miners Federation has now de- generated into a red-baiter. Tho the workers of the Soviet Union contrib- uted more funds to the relief of the miners than the workers of the rest of the world combined, assistance that enabled the miners to hold out for nine months, Smith joins the most extreme reactionaries in his attacks | on them. In the meantime Frank Hodges, former secretary of the Miners Federation is organizing scab unions and the organization work is financed by Havelock Wilson, arch- from June 8rd to June 6th, and com- pletely overshadowed the Olympiad, 36,000 workers taking part. The re- sult was the formation of the Federa- tion of Proletarian Sport. The last Olympiad, if’ July, 1927, went even farther than the~ first to reveal its bourgeois character. Not only did it collaborate with nationalist groups, but President Maseryk, Schwedler, the white terror mi er, and the ial guests. Workers’ songs were not heard, but the band played the Czecho-Slovakian national anthem. The answer of the Red Federation is a second Spartakiade, to he held in 1928, which promises to make the federation the mass sports organiza- tion of the workers of Czecho-Slo- vakia. French military attaches were offi-} |reactionary of the Seamen’s Union, |who in this work of trade union d ruption is the agent of the mine|cognition of a slave who is owned) owners. While the reactionaries of | | the British Trade Union Congress are | |levelling their fire against the radi-| jeals they are mild in their cri m | of Hodges and his scabbing activities. | jA. J. Cook, of the outstanding leaders | jin the Miners Federation, has stood | j with the militants in the trade union | ;movement. There is no doubt but} the reactionaries will now plot to re-| |move him from his position. * HERE is no difference between the British workingclass sap who | votes for the tories or liberals and \|his American prototype who votes for either the democrats or republicans. !4 Daily Herald reporter knocking laround with his ear to the ground| met a worker who believed that la-/} bor would do better by voting for | the tories than for the Labor Party because the former had money and could create prosperity. This fellow |was also in favor of war on the theory that it was necessary to | periodically kill off the surplus popu- \lation and because during war-time |money is moré available. You could | meet this type in any cafeteria in the city or even on the benches of some of the city parks. This patriotic fel-| low’s salary was $12.50 per. week. | * * * * % 'T may be a surprise to many of our |" readers that chattel slavery exists jand is legally recognized in the | British oo In a legal decision | recently hantied down by the supreme | ‘court of Sierra Leone which has been a British protectorate since 1805. The decision held that slaves are legally held{in the protectorate and that their owners have a legal right of recaptures and to the use of rea- sonable force in effecting it. The number of slaves held in the Pro- tectorate is not known. The opinion of the Christian British judges that decided in favor of a slave master whose human chattel escaped from} him and wasjrecaptured is taken from the Daily Hfrald: Mr. Justicd Aitken, in the course of his judgement in the Court of Appeal, which was published in the Man- chester Guardian, after reviewing the history of the Protectorate since it was constituted in August, 1895, said: “At that date it is admitted, on all hands, that the institution of slavery flourished throughout the territories comprised in the new Protectorate; and their can be no doubt that na- tive law and custom clearly recog- nized a right in the owner to re capture his runaway slave by any means within his power.” Quoting from an amended ordi- nance passed in 1926, he pointed out that the amendments provided: After the commencement of this ordinance (1) all persons born or brought into the- Protectorate are hereby declared to be free. (2) All persons treated as slaves or held in any manner of servitude shall be and become free on thej death of their masters and owner. (3) No claim'for or in respect of any slave shall entertained by any of the courts in ‘the Protectorate. “Now it seems to me,” continued the judge, “that the former rights of | a slaveowner over his slave remain in force in the Protectorate, except in so far as they have been modified or taken away by the express provisions of the Legislature, or by any neces-! ‘sary implication. | “T hold that the defendants in each | of these two cases should have been! acquitted, and that the judgments of | conviction in the court below should be set aside.” H | Mr. Justice Sawrey Cookson con-_ | curred, | | “The question invflved here is,” he | said, “can a runajvay slave in the;| Protectorate territory of this Colony | take action against his master who} retakes him and so regains his rights | of possession in him ‘against baal |. The Arbeiter Turn Verband is mak- | ing a desperate fight, but recoguis.s } that it is losing ground. Its bitter- | ness can best be illustrated by tne | fuet that the Ozecho-Slovakian yep- | j resentatives at Lucerne wece respon- | | sible for the threat to expel fom! | the international any sectiyns whose | celegates participated in Moscow) | sports demonstrations. } | The Lucerne International may | fear the influence of the Red spoits movement. The Red Sport International numbers 8,375,000 mem- | bers, 8,500,000 being in the Russian | section, the remaining 250.009 from Czevho-Slovakia, Norway, France, Argentine and Uruguay. ‘Tho work- ers’ stort movement is growing, but the Red Sport Internatiouel is grow- ing muth facter, British Labor Notes lave’s will? 3 “We have the clearest possible re- much as a chattel can be owned, and it must logically result that there is a right to follow and regain by use of any lawful means the rights of ownership in and possession of the property of which he has been de- prived by the absconding of his slave.” WO directors of Russian Oil Pro ducts have been deported from {Great Britain by direct order of the! home secretary. Since the raid on Arcos and the termination of offi- diplomatic and commercial “re- lations between the two countries the British government has sought in many ways to interfere with the work , of Soviet trade officials that remained, in the country. Russian oil has been underselling British oil and the British oil barons have been pressing the government to interfere as much; as possible with the Soviet’ officials handling the distribution of the oil. Of course the government claims that the two directors deported had this treatment meted out to them be- cause of alleged interference in the internal affairs of Great Britain. The real reason however is the successful competition of Russian oil with the products of Rolal Dutch Shell. Extend Growth of Tea In Transcaucasus; Five Year Program On Hand MOSCOW (By Mail)}.—At present \in Transcaucasus, chiefly in Georgia 1904 hectars of land are under tea culture. “According to a five years plan the entire area of tea planta- tions towards the end of 1932 will be brought to 20,000 hectars, In accordance with the growth of tea plantations will expand the con- struction of tea factories. Preacher Paramour Told Her to Poison Husband HER LIFE ASKED by state of H- linois for murder of husband. She is Mrs, Elsie Sweetin, who on her first trial was sentenced to thirty- five years in prison, New trial epens on Tuesday. Says Religious Movie Stolen to Start With VALESKA SURATT, vaudeville “star has filed suit against Cecil De Mille asking $1,000,000 damages for alleged ‘ism (From, “The Worker,” Toronto) It is inevitable now that our class brothers, Saeco and Vanzetti, have been murdered by the American Plutocracy, that there should be a split between the liberal social demo- cratic elements in the Boston Defence Committee, under the direction of Mary Donovan, and the Left Wing- Communist defence organizations in ‘New York. While we welcome support of middle-class elements in the fight against big business, in the fight against \imperialism, or the fight against class justice, we wel- come their support but not their leadership. If the middle class sub- ordinates itself to the class aims of the proletariat, its support is accept- able, but when it seeks to subordinate the proletariat to its own mulligan conceptions—then we get the Social Democratic Party. At the present time it is the favorite talking point of certain lib- erals that it was not only the work- ers but other classes in society who sided with Sacco and Vanzetti. They instance the Atlantic Monthly, the New York World, etc. Their use of the New York World has been a little dented by the fact that the same New one of its column writers, because he insisted on talking about the case— a little more than was polite in re- gards to Harvard University. The aim behind this incessant quoting of bourgeois support of the two mur- dered anarchists is clear. It is for the purpose of saving the face of class justice. We Communists and the revolution- ary working class as a whole have correctly analyzed the whole frame- up and murder of Sacco and Vanzetti as class justice. We deny that there is any such thing as an abstract and impartial justice in the relations of the capitalist class and the working class. We deny Baldwim’s contention that the State is “our child,’ mean- ing the child of all of us, workers and capitalists alike. The Sacco-Vanzetti case has demonstrated for the thou- sandth time that the State of the capitalist system is the Capitalist the} York World fired Heywood Broun, | ‘CLASS ISSUES AND SACCO-VANZETTI an instrument for the sup- pression of the working class. The justice of that State is class justice. There is no democracy. There is only the dictatorship of the capitalist class. If that dictatorship with its “justice” is to be abolished it can only be done through the dictatorship of the working class as in the Soviet Union. But the middle-class intellectuals d liberals are afraid of these con- clusions. They fear to admit the reality of the class struggle even after the Sacco and Vanzetti case. They seek to prove that there was a “miscarriage of justice,” that the Sacco-Vanzetti case was exceptional, that Massachusetts was more brutal than any other state, that the Puritan witch-burning tradition was stronger there, etc. The workers must reject all such superficial and apologetic ex- planations. These are explanations which would reconcile us again to class-collaboration. Put good men in place of Thayer, or abolish the death penalty, or revise the appeal system of Massachusetts, or do a little tink- |ering of some other sort and the im- plication is there there will be no repetition of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Some socialists, as a certain Rogoff in the notorious New York Forward has already written, state that Sacco and Vanzetti were executed for no reason of concern to the labor move- ment at all. That the execution was no issue of the labor movement. Just as Renaudel, a prominent French So- cial Democrat, says: “The Sacco-Van- zetti case, although it had no connec- tion whatsover with France’—the anarchists or what is left of them in New York have also voiced their ob- jection to a class interpretation of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Perhaps the most hopeless, the silliest contribu- tion made to the whole literature of comment on the Sacco-Vanzetti case came from the anarchists’ organ, Freie Arbeiter Stimme, in New York. This sheet came to the conclusion that such murders will go on practically forever—or until there is a “change of heart.” Nothing distinguishes this anarchism from simple Christianity. Arsenic is a health hazard in hide curing and leather work, some paints, oileloth, glass work, dyeing industry, fur, and, of course, in the mining and smelting of arsenic ores. In acute poisoning with arsenic there are di- gestive troubles, such as nausea and vomiting; also. abdominal cramp-like pains, weakness, anemia. In chronic cases the stomach and intestinal symp- toms as well as the anemia and more or less costant or come frequently in the form of attacks. Dryness and ul- ceration of the skin and of the respir- atory organs and irritation of the latter with catarrhs also occur. Some- times one or several nerves are in- volved and paralysis of the limbs may be the result. Brass workers suffer sometimes from attacks of weakness, headache, various pains, dyspepsia. Chrome, used in the manufacture of dyestuffs, paints and colors and other industries, produces inflammations, catarrhs and lesions of the breathing organs and horrible skin ulcerations, the “chrome holes.” Lead poisoning is the most frequent of the industrial intoxications. Lead is used in nearly two hundred trades and chemieal processes. To mention but a few: white lead manufacture, paint manufacture, painting, type foundry, printing, glazing, tinsmith- ing, cosmetics, artificial flower mak- ing, plumbing. Years ago, visiting some white lead factories in Brooklyn, I was astonished to see the careless- lowed to be inhaled by most of the workers—they were actually drowned in clouds of it-—and the fumes of mol- ten lead surrounded the men from all sides. Even where masks were used, they were really of little help in that ocean of poison. I learned later that this condition was not an exception, but the rule. Many workers can keep their jobs but a short time. Those who are not rendered ‘invalid from lead poisoning often become otherwise ill and unable to work for long pe- riods. The symptoms of plumbism consist of colicky abdominal pains, disturbances in the bowel movements, paralysis of some of the nerves with resulting Jameness of the joints (wrist-drop), general debility and oth- ers. Asgthe lead is stored in the body for a long time, the effects of intoxi- cation may not cease after the work that has caused it is discontinued and ness with which the lead dust was al-! | Industrial Poisoning may produce permanent cripples. Ex- cept that, frequent bronchitis cases and a disposition to lung tuberculosis, due to the mechanical influence and irritation of the dust as such, are not to be ignored. Workers employed in industries where mercury is used often becom@® affected with chronic mercurialism, which consists of weakness, head- aches, pains in various parts of the body, anemia, loss of weight, bone dis- ease, inflammations of the mouth, de- cay of the teeth, fetid breath, dis- turbances of the digestion, tremors and pains of the muscles of the arms, legs and face, kidney trouble and al- buminuria, pallor, depressive state of mind, inflammation of the skin and eyes, asthma, paralysis of the limbs. Mercury is used in the manufac- ture of felt hats, barometers, thermo- meters, in gilding and bronzing, mak- ing cosmetics and hair dyes, rubber manufacturing, making of antiseptics, jewelry making, artificial flower col- oring, cartridge making, in making caps for the setting off of blastin® powder, making electric light bulbs, / some paints, mirror making (althoug! less now), amalgam making, in the extraction of gold and silver and, of course, in quicksilver mines. Workers exposed to such hazards, should work but four or six hours daily, should be alternately shifted to less risky divisions of the same work, should keep very clean and de- mand that the working place be kept perfectly clean, light and airy, and be provided with all the necessary come forts and all the modern devices to remove dust, ete. They should avoid tobacco, alcoholic beverages and over- eating. There are many preventive cevtces in all industries, but only few plants are equipped with all that is necessary for the workers’ safety and not many ate constructed correctly or kept in a really clean and sanitary condition. The ignorance and neglect of the workmen adds to the dangers. Organized labor should have its own industrial health inspectors and should enlighten and instruct its mem- bers as to their rights and duties in regard to industrial preventive meas- ures. It should fight energetically for the proper improvements and for fun- damental changes.—R. LIBER, M. D., f Dr. P. H., New York. Keen Un the Sustaining Fund/