The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1931, Page 4

F Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc, dilly except Sunday, at 50 Hast Page Four th St, New York City, N.o¥. ‘Celephone AL nin 4-7956. Cat JALWORK.” Address and mail cl checks to ths Daily Worke ast 13th Street, New York CAP ITALISM ESEARCH ASSOCIATION. 0 32ll Ward, job- , Delaware, shot and then her- nevis agency, t for work placed i family at Reese- ned home with > prospect of a job, 1 who could not bear d so Killed them common tragedy Proin New York ‘City, aha, Los Angeles and rt stories, tucked away t press, of jobless murdered lives rather then die the slow Fathers have killed their end then themselves. Great umber of suicices are reported on. in ry center. Tor New York, the American Jou:ne! of Public Health admits “Suicides in 1930 in the entire state of New y numbered 2.545, the greavest total ever Tecorded. This figure is an increase of. 22 per cent above the averag> rate for the pre- ceding five year e and murder kill swiftly. Bu; the-lon3, esverat nonths of unemployment kill € sure thoveh rovaly n c Jobless women are not quite so mu 1e puvie e no | or? in jobless men; th hey park t puvlic © beer t Us do net so often sleep s and squares—alt oh in Ch‘cago parks in re- rey are hidden away in capitalism does not see fo u th c wih of Jobless Are \Jomen, : Be 1 X e, ectuniate unemployed must girls and unmarried vome I ny vxr2 ef the jctless wemea ave may- r jeren, the Ccuneil does no But it warns all girl world’s richest city unless heave at 22 to live on It epertion of jobless women out of ihe tota uremployed holds good for the ecur nnole it seems that probably 2,000,000 giils avd women are nor out of worl. No one Knors thre fizure, but since move than ono- fi Ne women, end as there « r revo 11,999,000 unemployed. the t of 9.090,000 jcblecs sitls and women ont in ae com- r ¢ Ss men © memployed women eins G “s, ii vas admittsd Commissioner of 1931. No fexer thai Lincoin Parks, on © of those in tie t a fir: come to as were efter a muibér of the pets, Bowed Miatked nd health,” reporitd tue Or'y one ire? he city of Chicage, Besse 1 enon dress a je ve women’s i acom- women are moilit bh then es Caey ict air, Tiocy ye Wo:tIn a little warmth. byt ot biankkcis” ay the parks, {1 <n n ot to Not n Chiesa ie ‘sburgh and other p! ave been forced to lee) on benches and on gras im the parxs. In ene cmall pars of Fitisbursh, a war vetzran, his vife and their four-menth-old havy ware forrd 7 the police who elo counted 478 men 2 in the same park. and 17 wo All dairy farming is divided into two types, ero is marke. milk production, (milk for sale in é = ed cs liquid fiesh milk) the is butter fat preduction (for butter, cnee"2 other manufactured products). This report will concern itself with th> merket’ milk farmer who is closer to the city proletariat, (ex ‘oletariat which works on the “Kel rm) beth geographically and #1 economic interesis, than perhaps any other group of smal anc middle farmers. This group is ¢ c¢ cthez Cai eroys rac red acound a big city, the r-cius of their area deponas on ihe size of the cty. The milk shed (area of e radius) is usually about 75 miles. New Yorl, of cecurso, is mueh larcer, The who ecl's milk has the us: piles of mo“igages, 3, taxes, prie2s and sanitary inspections, xo has some weapons of s-ruggle as the coope ative aid the mil: corse. Go have becn used to win victories in the nas 3 ond texas do mers so I will ion bring in new factors with possiblities rized strurgle. ‘The farmer totes his milix way ond places bis to the stave hi ed cans in a milk plat- form, as his neigibo: o do, A truck comes, collects the milk of the many farmers along the road and hauls it to the local milk stetion.. The station is owned by one of the largé corpora- tions—Bordens, Sheffields, etc. Here the farm- er’s milk is weighed and tested for butter-fat. ‘The company pays for the milk in two weeks according to the weight and percentage of but- ter-fot, but the company men do the weighing an) testing. The dairy farmer has no option about the place ie sells his milk; he must sell to the near- est stetior. He mvst have an otilet that will take h’s milk every day in the year; he cannot, if he does not lile the vrice he is reciving, go meth oT 1) Snother lovality and find another outlet, srother meiket for bis labor (in the form of Pe) cd. It must move to the city fact. The owner of the local milk station is in jicn to dictate prices and con- ditions just like the local telephone and electric light companies. There is no need for the corporations to own the farms. They can fully exploit the farmers by just owning the stations “5 Jone on between the poor and middle farmers and the dealers who control the city milk market continues today. ‘Thirty years ago the New York milk shed wae N H NX their children and | oy are not often | KILLS WOMEN 1 In admitting the “disgrace to Chicago,” wealthy | city of the Insulls and the McCormick’s the | welfare commissioner warned that many of the | jobiess women are facing lives of shame—having | no other alternative. Procurers for houses of | prostitution were, of course, active in the parks, soliciting the womtn and making profits for their | masters out of the helpless poverty of the girls. | | Increasing numbers of women have been forced | to sell their bodies in return for shelter. Knowing that the numbers of pfosti- tutes must Have increased as the crisis deepened; the American Social Hygiene Association wrote a letter to all’ social agencies’ throughout’ the | country, esting for exact information as to the increase. But the agengies in each communiiy were entirely unwilling to commit themsélves as to the increase of such vice in their own centers, and so the Social! Hygiene Association reported to the Labor Re rch A: jation that “nothing could be substantial” in any feport of such an increase. Back of the ‘homeless women, sleeping out in | r2vurn for a mex, is broken ub, eviciiors, One social agency ‘alone, ty Organization Se ty of Mew York, | adinits that for more tian 3 months an average | of 500 families a week have been coming to the to’ report complece destitution. Ubually e ¥omen that come, bringing the children ng if some way cannot possibly be found ep the home. Charity’s acswer is a lonz igation, to find out every intimate fact out the family’s lize, and then a meager gree: orcer or the arswer that there are already too | | | parks ot giving their s | the long story ‘of houses | hunger arid ‘desnair, scclety it is tk and a manent effect of these starvaiien con on the health and life of the working- class wes to a certain extent admitted by ces Perkins, industrial commissioner of New York state when be spoke before the LePoilette com- | mittee of the Senate in Octebr, 1931. | ing on the increase of all minor illnesses due to | moInutrition, she stated: “It is a result that we | sill not fully understand until several yeers have ed and the crisis is all over.” "yen 'n “Normal” Times tae so-called “normal” times capitalism is king yomen. The death rate of mothers in child birth is higher in the United States, richest } enditaMet cou > than in any other country in which stetisiics ave bs Ne yorld for | the Untied States has held this vecord for lo 020 raothers econ yeas in the Uniicd @ betind them their nov-horn | 10,000 cf thece dead mothe«: | could. have t each year, 1 | | | er ed admit, if the women bed hoi money for pooper cal est ard security. lorment kills kehics bas alvecdy ibe Labor Research Association. | 5 cricts of 1929-31, the Unii2d Svates | Ould “C2.U PTOY in a number o. | that the ti of babies in i rotated to the carnings of the father. fe‘iors were jebloss and had no rate of cceths is 211 for every 1,600 Tn (22 loxer incciné groups the rate 3 167 for every 1,000 live births, bui in the iuigher income >> only 58 for every 1,000 live birws. | Pormards of Jobicss Women Workers f these conditions and the feilure raunent to take any action, loved women w ‘© making the fol- demands; 1, Gqual unemployment in- j tures or men ond women worl full wages for all unemployed workets. 2. Equal unemploy ment insuranes for ail single end married women workers. 3. No di of merricd women. 4. Special free munic'pel lodging hot honicless “pleyed women. 5. I'vee | care ior un2riployed pregnant | expense cZ tine suate. 6. Pree hoc hag soment and eeks ailer confine- | ment for mother and food and | Comment- , Dairy Farmers and Their Struggle mainly ussex County, | County, New Jersey. higher prices and were | tuted the first milk strike, The strikers refused | to sell their imilk, posted picketson the roads and prevented any inflk from leaving the region. So some victories were won mainly because the territory was small. As the city grew the milk shed area e:.panded. In 1915 another milk ctrike took place, this tim over a wido area taking in | New York State, parts of Pennsylvania and | northern Ncw Jersey. The favmers won and as | a result of the struggle the Dairymen’s League | ¥23 formed. The Drirymen’s League was a | militent organization of poor end middle farmers. | Ta’se-note—we say it “wes.” ‘Tiren came the war and costs of everything the farmers bouzht rose in price. The farmers de- manded a higher price. The dealers refused. The Daliy:nen’s League pwepared for a strike. Suddenly Herbert Hoover, then food administra- tor became chief strikebreaker. He arrested all the lenders of the Dairrmen’s Leazue and used reliable strikebreaking weapon, the in- . le smech thi ce. ymen’s League led 3 fe and won a pa: clory. Borden's gave d recognized the Dairymen's League and commenced to buy only through that organiza- tion. Sheffield’s held out and ‘organized farmers who soli to them of the lires of “a company union” and called it the Sheffield Producers Association. Since then Bordein’s and the misleaders who have gained control of the Datrymen’s League have been able to make the Dairymen’s League a class colloboration organization Ifke the A. F. of L. The Borden organization itself has expanded into a gigantic trust owning plants from coast to coast. Sheffield’s have been absorbed by the National Deiry Products Co., also a coast to coast trust. “Both Borden’s and Natioriel Dairy Products ate vontrolled by the Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Wall Sweet interests, Against a united froat like the above, the farmers muct ergerire ¢s broadly as possible to meet the monopoly, which will tap reserves, in the case of New York, as far as the midwest, aané local milk strikes must be spread es for and as fest as possible, although they sre NOT “hopeless” as some comrades think. The milk strike needs close stucy. In many respects it is similar to a worker's strike except that when a milk strike is on, farmers must continue to produce milk due to the fact that to stop milking cows suddenly will stop the natural flow for a year, A milk strike ts not & stompere-ef tabey, it ih PeEpRpERcE of bhor The farmers demanded New Jevsey and Orange | refused. They then insti- | | Hilton Young who moved the boycott resclution, | of BUPSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3) twe months, $1: Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign one year. The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. of New York City gave $386,000 to the Unemployment Emergency Relief Fund. The EMPLOYEES of the A. T. and T. contributed $300,000 of this sum. By BURCK. The New British | Cabinet By R. B. (Louticn). 'HE new Cabinet oi Rains MacDonald is a corefully chesen collection of reacwonaries who can be relied upon’ in any and every cir- cumstance to pursue a volicy of hostility to the Soviet Union, and to wage the capitalist offen- ive relentle: at home. Its composiiion is 11 Tories, 2 Liberal followers | of Sir John Simon, who today are in | able from ‘Tories. 3 Liberal followe! b Samuel. and four folioy Donald from the Labor Party The anti-Soviet venom of the leading mem- bors of the Cabinet is well-known to all, but amongst the lesser-known members are also | sbané with a long record of arti-Soviet activity. Th is Sir Samuel Hoare, the Secreiary for Tadia, who was Minister for Air in the last two Baldwin Governmenis. He comes of a mercan- tile family which for generations had done iis | main business with Russia, until the Revolution. During the war he was attached to the British Intelligence in Russia, and ever since the Reyo- lut'on he has consorted constantly with White emigre; and participated in every anti-Soviet propaganda body staried in Britain. ‘There is Sir Edward Hilton Young, the Minis- t _ | ter of Heelth, vho commanded an armored train | in General Ironside’s exnedition in Siberia in | 191 He lost an arm during this exredition and | was rewarded with the Distinguished Service Oréer ie~ his share in the slaughter of the Rus- sian workers. It was he, along with Churchill and Lord Brentford (Joynson-Hicks), who founded the Trade Defense Union early this. year, a body whose object it was to get the Government to declare an economic boycoit of | the Soviet Union, putting forward tie mosi | pious and Christian reasons for this course. This organization held a demonstration at the Albert dignant workers. At this demonstration it was and running through his speech all the time was the implicit threat of war, Hilton-Young is a Director of the Hudson Bay Company, which exports wheat, timber and furs from Canada. The revival of Russian exporis of these articles has hit the company hard, and only drastic reorganization saved it from col- lapse this year. Hilton Young's iaterests in this | direction afford a more material basis for his | consistent anti-Soviet activities than do his pious platitudes about “slave labor” to which‘he con- fines himself upon the platform. Another new Cabinet Minister is Ormsby-Gore (Cominissioner of Works), who after the com- pletion of the Pact of Locarno announced that it was to be welcomed primarily as paving the way for a united European bloc azainst “that menace to civilization,” the Sc ‘ie: Union. ‘The new Minister of War is Lord Hailsham, a lavryer ho has been Aticrrey G 1 and Lord Chancelior in previous Tory ada rations. He it was who initiated and conducted the prose- cution of the 12 Cemimunist kc in 1925 on a charge of “conspiracy.” He hes consistently aligned himself with every form of anti-Soviet propaganda and was to the jove in 1926 in urg- ing the breaking of political relations with the Soviet Government. At the War Office he can be relied upon to make common cause with the French and other European General Staffs in furtherance of the anti-Communist campaigns. Im charge of the Air Foroe is Lord London- derry, «the wealthiest, most influential and (among the miners), the most hated coalowner in Britain. A leading member of the Anti- without compensotion in the midst of struggle. ‘The Dairymen’s League is now primavly a poor and middle farmers mass organization led by a bunch of lawyors and politicians. The CPUGA should make an attempt to build, upon the rank | and file discontent, a militant movement, linked up nationally with the United Farmers Leagué, of Committees of Action under whatever name the farmers themselves propose, but in any event a rank and file organ of struggle totally different in structure than the Dairymen's League which neither in form or policy eny longer serves the farmers but does serve the robbers of the farmers. The demand for their own weighers and testers to check robscrz by the compares, fs’ just. as. log:cal as miners’ demand for check weizhmen. And such demands serves as the point around which to organize ¢ of ad Hall in March last, which was broken up by in- | | By HERMAN REMMELE (Berlin). Ges is at present producing 30 per cent lers goods than in 1913. Industrial produc- tion is abovt as large as it was in the years 1999-1903. The number of unemployed amounts to 5 million.” This short suntation from the official report af the Tnctitrte for Buriness Research expresses the ut*erly hensless rasition of capitalist eco- | romy in Germany. The “Borowrkszeitune.” | the organ of the Rhenich heavy industry, a few weal; pen declared anite onenly thet on the Ruhr and the Lower Rhine. only the bie works in the heavy industry which are supplied with “Russian orders” have works: all the other works are at a standstill or will have to close down in ?, short time. The closing down of works in the heavy industry in Central Germany and Upper Silesia and in the finishing industry in | Saxony, Berlin and South Germany is reported daily. The iron industry (the chief industry in Germany) has declined 62.4 per cent since 1929; the production of coal has declined by 35 per cent in the same period, the output, of the en- gineering industry by 39.7 per cent, the agri- cultural machine manufacturing Industry by as much as 80 per cent, the electrical industry by 25 per cent. Wages have fallen 25 to 30 per cent. and the total sum of wages is about 13,000 million merks less than in the year 1929. Not only is capitalism in Germany experienc- ing an economic and commercjal collapse, but the bourgeoisie also is witnessing the bankruptcy of its foreign policy. Only a year ago the Ger- man bourgeoisie dreamed of being able to con- duct an independent foreign policy which would enable it gradually to loosen the Versailles chains. The Austro-German Customs Union was to be the first step to a new independent foreign policy. This incursion of the German bourgeoisie into world politics ended very badly. Not since 1918, since the Versailles Treaty ne- gotiations, has it been compelled to make such cpen confession of its impotency as at present. The attempt of the German bourgeoisie to frus- trate French hegemony on the European Con- tinent ended with the complete victory of the French bourgeoisie. The hopelessness of the economic, commercial and financial situation, the tremendous unem- ployment, the despair of the bourgeois middle strata who are faced with bankruptcy, the com- mencing rebellion of the peasantry, which is suffering terribly es a result of the agrarian nay aa Socialist and Anti-Communist Union he will / ably back up Hailsham’s efforts in planning war upon the Workers’ Republic. The rest of the Cabinet are no whit behind these individuals in their anti-working class venom. At hOme Londonderry and his kind insure an intensification of the wage offensive against the workers. Hoare at the India Office and Thomas as Dominions Secretary will see that colonial oppression and exploitation is relentlessly pur- sued. The world of finance is represented by Sir Herbert Samuel, who has family connections with the Rothschilds and the big banking houses. The Cabinet represents a complete united front of every capitalist interest in Britain, Alongside of the wage reductions, and the attacks on the social services that are presaged, the appointment of Neville Chamberlain, the Arch Priest of Protection, the son of Joseph Chamberlain the original propagandist of “tar- iff reform,” insures a vigorous tariff war being initiated, and a consequent raising of prices of all commodities to the workers. essity of farmers struggling against all the cap- italist robbers, it would help them if, with the assistance of the city workers, these workers would build thcir own consumers’ cooperative organizations ard thus by cooperation with the small and middle dairy farmers provide for mu- tually beneficial relations, But it must always be kept in mind that, just as such cooperatives of city workers are by no means a substitute for their strike struggles for higher wages, so farm- ers’ cooperation of a real kind with workers’ and consvmcrs’ cooperatives of the cities does not solve ail the problems of capitalist robbery of all toilers. So long as this is understood, such cooneration is, however, a helpiul auxiliccy to | over the business of government. the common struggle to overthrow capi.al sin, Every large city has some dairy farmers’ or- ; similar to the Dairymen's League, ang Rolielee seneravy apply to them, crisis, the threatening danger of a revolt of the working class, the national humiliation and the bankruptcy of its foreign policy drive the bour- seoisie to play its last card. In all circles of bourgeois Germany, from the Social democracy to the fascists, it’ is now an accepted fact that in the near future the Hitler movement: will take At present the the participation of the government shall | only dispute is the form the Hiller movement in take. The social democracy, the strongest and hith- erto tho only relicble support cf the Bruening covernment, is already preparing to cepitulate to the new constellation of forces. Just as hitherto it has described the Bruening government as the “lesser evil,” so also now it is preparing to desig- nate a Bruening-Hitler coalition asa “lesser evil” than a purely Hitler government. Respon- sible leaders of the social democracy have al- ready at a number of meetings openly spoken of this “lesser evil.” Hitler wishes to enter the government in order to get into ‘this hands the social democratic positions of power. The pre- torian ghards, numbering over 100,000, which Hitler has gathered round himself, are demand- ing their reward for their faithful services. The Hitler movement is not a party like other bour- geois parties. but it is the party of declassed elements, petty bourzeois who have lost. their means ,of subsistence, former Hohenzollern of- ficers, who are fighting for the positions in the state which are now occupied by the social dem- ocrats. Politically, the social dem«cracy has al- ready capitulated to fascism. It hopes now, by means of well-considered diplomacy, to save from its collapse whet still remains to be saved. This is causing great demoralization in its own ranks. Cases are becoming more and more fre- quent of social democratic state and municipal functionaries going over to fascism. And, to a far greater extent than was the case with the Italian social democracy, the German social democracy, when fascism takes over power, will go over to fascism, whilst its working class fol- lowers will go over to Communism. The steady and uninterrupted growth of the Communist movement, the going over of social democratic workers to Communism, brings the Communist Party ever nearer the aim which it has set itself of winning the majority of the working c’ass. This is what terrifies the bour- geoisie, which is therefore organizing with fev- erish haste a pretorian guard in the shape of the fascist organizations of the Hitler movement as the last hope against the threatening danger of a proletarian rising. All the big towns and industrial centers are covered by a close net- work of barracks of fascist shock troops. The number of mercenaries which fascism finances and keeps under arms with money supplied it by heavy industry is estimated at 100,000 to 120,000, The masses, numbering millions, who have hitherto followed the treacherous social demo- cracy are beginning to recognize that the policy of tolerating the Bruening Cabinet has only served to prepare the way for fascism. ‘The fresh betrayel by the social democracy of the interests of the proletariat, the open capitula- tion to fascism, is driving them still more to the red united front. The Reichsbanner, the social democratic defense organization, in many districts fights together with the Communist workers in a revolutionary united front against fascitm. In this embarrassing situation the commander of the Reichsbanner, Herr Horsing, himself proposes the dissolution of his organ- ization in order to prevent its district organiza- tions going over in a body to the red united front. The attempt to prevent the social demo- cratic workers from going over to the revolution- ary camp by setting up a centrist buffer or- ganization, the Rosenfeld-Seydewitz party, has proved an absolute failure. This so-called So- cialist Labor Party has not bean able to gain a footing anywhere in Germany, and is doomed to become an isolated sect without any influence, The membership of the Communist Party, on the other hand, has more than doubled, in fact nearly trebled in the course of the last 12 months. The Party has grown strong, both qualitatively and ideologically, and, thanks to its firm, determined policy and unshakable unity and discipline, ts exercising increasing influence over the working cleus "Phe shining exampic which the proletariat of the Govie. Onion hes gen to ths we'd poois- tariat and especially to the German proletariat, will inspire the German working class in its vic- torious fight for emancipation excepting Boroughs $3; six months, $4.5u. “Erving Brothers” of the A. F. of L. A comrade writes in about the “témptations” that no St. Anthony could withstand, as explained to an awe-struck crowd up in the Bronx by an A. F. of L, organizer in defense of the A. F. of L. organizers. It appears that in the Borough of Bronx, two movie operators’ “unions,” one the racketeering union of the A. F. of L. owned and operated for and by a gent named Kaplan, and the other a rather brazen company union built up op the basis of the operators’ discontent against Kaplan, are contending for mastery. It therefore behooves the A. F. of L. outfit who is frozen out of ong of the big show-houses by the company union, or rather the other one not only to picket the place but “appeal to the populace” in defense of the A. F. of L. Thus an A. F. of L. organizer came around to speak to the multitude, and the mul- titude did rub its ears and listen to the follow- ing, when some bumptious person asked a ques- tion about the A. F. of L. officials taking graft from the bosses: “How can any union official resist the temptation, when so much money is offered him? It’s not within human nature to refuse. We must not blame these worthy brothers who succumb to the temptation of the moment, No! It’s all the fault of these rich blokes who attempt to corrupt them.” How sad! .Surely any rank and file member of the A. F. of L. who has had ‘his strike sold out by the union officials and his wages “stage gered” until he himself staggers from hunge?, who sees Mattie Woll waxing fat on National Civic Federation funds for sicking the police on the National Hunger March and condeinning} un- employment insurance this rank and file A. ®, of Ler needs—surely, we say, this worker will Row understand . . . It is not Mattie Woll’s fault. Dear no! Nor Bill Green's, nor the fault of any A. F. of L. off- cial! The rascally capitalists ave to blathu, yes, sir! But, boys and girls, how these A. F. of L. officials do cling to their seducer: When we “reds” make even a teency-weeney aii < o& the bosses, when we support the National Hunger March, for example, look how Mattie Woil guts up! It seems that the only way to st2p tke cor- ruption of these A. F. of L. “ladics'of eesy virtue” by the naughty capitelisis is 10 overtarow them both: So Things Are Not So Rosy! Recently we read of the indignation of “our® | National Guard officers at the Young Communist League leaflets, so ‘twas said, that voiced the | complaints of some “inaleontents” in the Guard, ‘The commander sternly declared that the mem- bers of the Guard were the favoved sons of benign officials and the complaints weve “without basis.” But behold, the New York press had to come cut the other day with a story about Sheriff Moran of Bronx County refusing to accept mili- tary prisoners at the county jail who “failed to attend drill” and were the result of “numerous courts-martial” by Colonel Paul Loeser, com- mandant of the 258th Field Artillery. And why didn’t they ailend driii’ it seoms that a great many were frantically looking for a job. And others were so weal from hunger they couldn't drill. The N. Y. Post states, for example, that, the Sheriff said: “Many c’ them cav1> to him urde~ ten te thirty-day sentences in an undor-ovtisicd con- dition due to unempio; ren’. Two nad been sent to Fordham hospital, he said, so serious was their condition.” But they got courtmartialcd just the same. And this after American boys, about 100,000 of them, died to “whip the Kaiser and put an end to militarism”! Let our imperialists dare to put these boys on the firing line asainst the Red Army! Cee ae ee Civilization Must Be Saved In view of the fact that the United States goy- ernment is supporting Japanese imperialism in its war on the Chinese people and the seizure of Manchuria because, for one reason, Japan must “save civilization” from Bolshevism, we mind find out what kind of “civilization” Japan has. Happily, we have received a concrete example from the Far Eastern Press Correspondence, and here it is: “OSAKA, Japan:|— Twelve prostitutes of a Matsushima brothel here went on a hunger strike demanding better treatment and work- ing conditions. The strike lasted five days, at the end of which time the Osaka Braneh of the Federation of Proletarian Women intervened and settled the dispute to the satisfaction of the gitls.” In Japen prostitution is just as openly and frankly a legitimate business as sclling shoes; but of course it is based upon capitalist condi- tions (poverty of the masses) as in all capitalist countries. As poverty grows worse right here in America, all the hypocritical laws against pros- titution will fail to cover up its widespread And as for its prevalence in the Philippines, American “civilization’s” Far Eastern colony, @ man walking around Manila streets any evening will get an offer from any “caromata” (cab) driver of young girls at bargain prices. And this is the “civilization” that you will soon be asked to die for to save from Bolshevism! . That was a good article: We mean the one Comrade Foster wrote in the Daily Worker of Oct, 26, about the “good resolutions versus bad practice” in Negro work in the red trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League. He panned the Needle Trades Union ecu cially, and this reminds us that we “have b2 importuned to inquire why, when everybody in the New York union understands English, coes Ben Gold persist in speaking only in Jewish, in spite of insistent requests by Negro members who would like to know what's being said. Why not speak English sometimes, Ben, and we know you do it well? ‘We understand, also, that not one new mom- ber was recruited for the Party out of the recent strike, and a comrade tells us that new union membess are left so in the dark that onc Negro worker was amazed to learn, after some morths in it, that he had not joined the Party when he Joined tho union. Te thought jt wes ol the same thing. It would seem that nobody fimas “time” to talk to such comrades. \