The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1931, Page 4

Page Font > 48th Be Telephone Algonquin 4-7956. @ Piviitees vy ate Comproaany PHOTRRE Ge; Rie: VEN axteye SeHaBy, at bo wast New York City, N. Y. Address and mall all checks to the Daily Worker, 60 Bast 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Cable “DALWORK.” E ENTER $y HARRY GANNES third winter of the-eeo- he United States. What has e promises and predictions of he “powerful recupera- American imperialism? What are for the workers? e of the weighty promises of sperity. Hoover, Mellon, Lamont Woll had been too often expossd > the capitalist press brought in a new fs predictorn ‘The most distinguished was ot York ‘Times to have made arving workers: dent of the United become of all prosperiiy? tive” force of tir prospec! aca EN, over station WIZ the business depres- s country was sing trade activity.” 1. The New York cross its front page. 1at did happen ti What Gappened Since Then. is best to vss the New York Times in At the ¢ Farrell was end- n= the crisis by hls radio speech the New Times weekly index of business activity 8) per cent of normal. Normal is to be 100. Six months after, plenty he ccuntry to have entered “upon nce here. ime fe vied of increasing trade activity,” the same i-dex of the New York Times was down to 63 ev cont of “rermal.” Worse still, in the wre abent 1,000,000 steel workers, most € on worked part time, were- impressed wi (he “trade recovery” by being handed a 10 per cent wage-cut for which James A, Far- ret? ted. At une time the stock market crashed, in 1929, ing tie fact that the economic crisis had been eating at the vitcls of American cayiialisn, there were between four and five already out of work, the so-called “nor- strial reserve army. This number be- , seven, eight, nine and finally This is the third year of the o@ as not been a single month 1929, when workers have not lost s i ‘The process is now speed~ uo, William Green, president of the Amer- fevatior jor, declared that in Oc- 600,000 more workers lost their jobs. November and December, when the as spirit vades capiialism, not less 1,509,000 more workers will join the ranks nce October d winter cf the crisis finds every basic ite the extremely low point of pro- r, deeper levels of crisis. Outlook Gtcomy. ion has been dregging down be- ) por cent of ci which means that t of the blast furnacts ars closed. Further- 2, there is no premisé of y resumption of y in this bas‘c industry. “Steel,” organ of in its latest weekly summary of 1 the steel industry, offered this “Sentiment concerning business been vitiated noticeabiy in the terior unfavorable develop- in the deterioration of prices end securities. For the present hes lost considerc dle buoyancy. foundation of American capitalism t censideral ney.” But this re- plone to the Guction. With it go wholesale layofis, less and less work for part-time workers. Automobile production has been practically vrecked. This “queen” industry of American pitalism is now back where it was ten years zo in the crisis period of 1921. November, 1931, output was 65,000 cars, as co-:cared to the output of 65,213 in February of 1921. At Seast 80 out of every 100 automobile workers are without jobs, and the spring brings little prospect of increased activity. The plants will stay shut for the greater part of the winter. The third winter of the crisis is here, with 12,000,000 out of work, with production lowered by capitalism about 40 per cent, and going still lower, and yet overproduction, stocks on hand, are now greater than ever before. The cesspools of capitalist economy are filled with rotting commodities and the pile grows higher and higher, The Department of Commerce reports that for « while manufactured goods fn stock were higher than at any period be- teen 1929-30, and that even now they are greater than during the “prosperity” period of June, 197: So far as raw materials sre concerne: ere ix 17 per cent more on hand now in the United States than at any pertod. Three years of crisis, three years ef ster Hon for the masses—and the basic demands of the crisis are worse than ever. Crashing Banks, On top of it all, the whole credit structure is shaking and cracking. What has become of Hoover’s $500,000,000 credit, pool that was to save the United States banking system? So power- ful was this move to bolster up the banking bys- tem that in the month after its creation by Mor- gan & Co., 512 banks crashed! In the one month of October, $566,686,000 was involved in bank failures. ‘There are no months with which we can compare these facts. We have to compare this record with 12-month periods. For instance, in 1928 there were 491 bank failures for the en- tire year, with $138,642,000 involved; in 1929, there were 642 failures, with $234,532,000 Involved. In short, the amount involved for October alone (the month of Hoover's benk-saving credit pool) was twice as much as for the entire year of 1929! No wonder, then, that we have the admission of the New York Herald Tribune, after viewing the present banking situation, in which they say: “The conclusion that our crisis is essentially a major credit ailment seems justified.” We have barely scratched the surface of the extent of the deepening crisis and its prospects for the workers. The crash in farm prices por- tends greater misery for the farmers. The tariff war between Britain and the United States fore- casts contraction of world markets, sharper struggles and a general worsening of the world crisis of capitalism. The German reparations questions, the matter of frozen credits, mean greater stress on banking systems of all the capi- talist countries as the end of the “standstill” agreement draws close. ‘There is the failure of the Chadbourne sugar plan; the world squabbles of the copper trusts; the financial difficulties of the United States government (with the assurance of $2,000,000,000 deficit); there is the continued smash in the stock market, the drop in bonds, the decline in British pounés—which will go deeper and deeper. Rally to the Struggle. Capitalism in this situation tries to enforce greater starvation on the workers. It tries to throw more of the burdens on the backs of the unemployed and employed alike. Only a deter- mined struggle can push ‘back the efforts of the bosses to drive down the standard of living of the entire working class. The National Hunger March, reaching Wash- ington, D. C., Dec. 7, is the central rallying point of the American workers against this program of starvation. This fight to force the capitalists to provide rélief and unemployment insurance for the jobless becomes a fight against the capi- talists’ efforts to seve their profits by making the workers starve to déath or by lowering the standard of those still employed through wage cuts. ‘The imemdiate struggle for unemployment re- lief, which the exploiters fight with every weapon they have, is becoming more and more a struggle against the whole rotten structure of capitalism and its program of mass hunger. The Path ot Negro Reformism my WILLIAM L. PATTERSON PART L error of the bosses ageinst the Negro mas- only being continued but is in- sing in extent and intensity. The ruling winl:s at the murderous attacks upon Wil- aile ke is in the custody of its 1) the Birmingham, Ala., jail. John end Ed-yard Jackson are murdered in t mest vicious fashion by the police in Cleve- land at en unemployed demonstration, and the wols go unpunished. The terror against he Neg-o miners in Harlan, Ky., in Pennsyl- ania, Ohio, and West Virginia goes on unabated. For company thugs, deputies and police, it is “open sea or “niggers.” New Ku Klux Klan ergan‘zations are everywhere being formed. No day passes without adding to the inhuman rec- ord of mob violence and lynching against them. The bloody hand of the cotton barons and the anill owners rests on the shoulder of Judge Lynch directing him and his murderous tools, The mob inciting, lynch provoking capitalist ‘s with its lying slanderous tales about Ne- wpists, conceals the trail of blood and its ‘ing hand wherever possible. But the fail- e to bring the murderers of Negro workers to in itself evidence of the presence of rul- direction. bloody events against the Negro masses another chapter in the long murder ord of America’s ruling ¢lass. Already this year the record notes the conviction of the in- nocent Scoitsboro victims; the massacre of share croppers in Cemp Hill, Als., who sought only to organize the better to free themselves from their slave conditions; the massacre of the unemploy- ed workers in Chicago and 33 lynch law victims. b CSLES book i ine ct i but This lega) and extra-legal boss terror is the weapon by which that class maintains its sys- tem o iper-expleitetion through semi-slavery and peonage over the zo masses. This slave level of N becomes the level towards which the bosces are eriving the white workers. ‘The bosses seek in the perpetuation of this sys~ tem of robbery of the Negro masses with the aid of the misguided white workers to make of these white workers the instruments of their own misery and poverty. The acceptance by white workers of the bosses’ white chavyinist (white supremacy) policy makes them the main teol br which the whole workinz ¢ ex- ploited, At a monient of crisis it becomes more than ever moce for the bosses to divide the werking class. Tt is therefore not by accident that the wave of lynching and of mgb violence now develops Increased intensity. Tt coinbides with the devel- \ and their growing tendencies toward unity of struggle against the unbearable burdens of the crisis, It is precisely at this moment that the intensity of the terror against the Negro masses becomes for American imperialism a most peces- sary course of procedure, The cementing of the unity of Negro and white workers at the mo- ment when American capitalism is in its deepest throes of crisis. makes it a question of extreme danger to the miling class and its agents. It is precisely because of the effects of the crisis up- on the workers as a whole that this unity now expresses itself in struggle. On the one hand is reflected the growing working class consciousness that the strength of the bosses lies in the weakness of working class unity. On the other hand, the savage terror of the bosses is preceded by a campaign of lies and slander in the white capitalist press against the Negro masses, and a campaign of equally vicious calumny against the white workers in the re- formist Negro press. The bosses are seeking to arouse every white chauvinistic tendency they have cultivated in the white workers. They hope thus to turn the rage of the white workers against the Negroes and distract their atten- tion from the true source of their misery and suffering. The Negro bosses seek to arouse the “nationalist moods” of the Negro masses and direct. them indiscriminately against all whites. But the Negro and white workers are begin- ning to see through the haze of capitalist Hes and slander. Life itself has made of the ques- tion of working class unity a historical question. It has become the greatest social demand of the working class. In the face of mass unemploy- ment and slashing wage cuts, while millions are payed in dividends to parasites; in the face of mass starvation, amid warehouses filled with food; in the face of mass evictions of unem- ployed workers it becomes increasingly obvious to them that only the common struggle of Ne- gro and white, native and foreign born workers can defeat.the bosses’ program of terror and starvation. ‘This unity of the working class gives added strength to the workers’ counter offensive against the bosses, and raised to higher political levels, will accelerate the development of that counter-offensive into a direct attack against the master class. ‘The unity of Negro and white workers is what the bosses and their agents fear most. It strikes a death blov at once et the myth of “white bupvemsey” wad couteracis the poizun cf “race loyalty.” In Chicago the demonstrations of the Negro and white employed and unemployed workers against eviction struck a blow at the profits of ‘THE THIRD | INTER OF THE CRISIS | of fhe Negra an wie workexa "the Sega houxpenise, The Near tandionds, Winn pnw. (Be Be Comataded.) eer THE “PLOT” THICKENS eee ‘Sy mafl everywhere: One year, $6, six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York Gity. a SUBSCRIPTION RATHS: Foreign: one year, 38; six months, $4.50. By BURCK. Well Known Working Class Leaders Write for First Issue of New ‘ Caz) . ‘Labor Unity” Magazine HE contents of the very first issue of the new 32 page Labor Unity magazine will almost certainly bring about a wide discussion. The January number off the press on or about the fifteenth of December, will contain directive articles by such noted leaders of the revolutionary labor movement as Wm. Z. Foster, Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, on the lessons and the shortcomings in the Law- rence strike, by Frank Borich, Secretary of the National Miners’ Union, on the Kentucky situa- tion, by Bill Dunne, on the Boston Longshore- men’s Strike. : ‘The Steel Trust is preparing right at this mo- ment to make a second wage cut on 1,000,000 steel workers. The Metal Workers’ Industriel League is engaged in building up a Steel Work- ers’ Industrial Union to lead the steel workers in strike struggles against the wage cuts. John Meldon, Secretary of the Metal Workers’ Indus- trial League, will write on the steel situation and the task of the M. W. I. L. in the first issue of the new Labor Unity magazine. The long planned attack on the wages of the 1,500,000 railroad workers of this country. has been started by the bosses, with the aid of the A. F. of L. and Big Four Brotherhood mis- leaders. What are the prospects for militant organization and struggle among the railroad workers Otto Wangerin, secretary of the Na- tional Railroad Industrial League, will write on the tasks of the TUUL in the railroad industry. When the new Labor Unity magazine goes to press, the National Hunger Marchers will just be arriving home from having placed their de~ mands for cash winter relief and for Unemploy- ment Insurance, before Congress in Washington. A. W. Mills, National organizer of the National March, will review the preparations, results and shortcomings, of the merch and the fight for unemployed relief and insurance, in the first issue of the new Labor Unity. Leaders of the other unions and leagues of the TUUL will write on the situation in their respective industries, they will tell of the tasks of the unions and leagues. Leaders of the revo- lutionary movement will write on the war sit- uation, the growing revolutionary spirit of the Latin American masses and other vital topics. In addition there will be inspiring drawings by Walter Quirt, noted reyolutionary artists, and pictures of the class struggle. No worker active in building the revolutionary unions and leagues, no class conscious worker can afford to be without the new monthly Labor Union magazine. Subscription rates are $1 per year and 50 cents for 6 months. Subscription with cash, should be sent to Labor Unity, Room 414, 2. West Fifteenth St., N. ¥. C. fessionals and boss politicians, leaders of the re~ formist National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, owners of property, bos- ses themselves within the Negro ghetto, called for the aid of the murderous police. Tt was they who called torth the blood bath of August 3. The relatively weak position of the Negro bourgeoisie is made many timés weaker by virtue of the crisis. Theirs is an extremely narrow field of exploitation—the Negro ghetto and the Negro masses. Since the burdens of the crisis fall first. and heaviest upon the weakest sections of the working-class—the Negro workers—the market of the Negro bosses is hit foremost and hardest. ‘They see as their only relief a closer union with American imperialism. ‘They, too, demand the protection of the armed thugs of the robber class. ‘The rising discontent of the Negro masses and the growing tendency toward unity with the white worker only fills the Negro bosses with greater panic. ‘fo save thelr meagre profits they are openly capitulating before American imperialism. Even the fiction of struggle against social and political oppression is now scarcely maintained. The cri- sis has brought about an open alignment of Ne~ gro and white bosses at the top just and precisely as it affects unity of Negro and white workers at the hettem, Therefore the question of the struggle of the Negro masses for full social and political equality and for the right of seli deierm~ ination includes a most desperate struggle egainst Negro reformism. yer e _ PROSPECTS FOR THE THIRD HUNGER WINTER PART If (Conclusion). Coupled with the development of the financial crisis was the continued drop in industrial pro- duction and a further decline in domestic and foreign trade. The Annalist index for general business activity moved sharply downwards throughout the third quarter. The combined in- dex was 78.2 in July, 73.5 in August and 71.0 in September, The Annalist’s weekly index shows that this trend continued throughout October and the beginning of November, despite the optimistic propaganda emanating from Wash- ington and Wall Street. The Annalist’s weekly index stood at 68.5 on October 3, 68.0 on October 10, 66.4 on October 17, 66.0 on October 24, 65.4 on October 31 and 65.3 on November 7. This unin- terrupted decline in the Annalist’s index reflects the deeping of th ecrisis in virtually all im- portant branches of industry. Production in the basic industries has fallen more than 50 per cent below 1929 levels and more than 30 per cent below 1930. Steel ingot production during October averaged 58,977 tons per day as against 59,523 tons in September and 99,724 tons in October, 1930. October produc- tion was lowest for any month since September, 1921. Production for the first ten months is estimated at 22,004,112 tons as compared with 35,094,520 tons in the corresponding period of 1930. There has been virtually no improvement in the industry within the past few weeks, in spite of the fact that there is normally a marked seasonal rise in production during this period. With the automobile, railroad and construction and other steel-consuming industries placing few orders, there is no prospect for any marked rise -in steel production in the near future. Rail- roads, suffering from a drastic drop in freight and passenger revenues, have practically ceased to order any equipment, During September rail- roads ordered only three freight cars as against 565 in September, 1930, and 4,257 in September, 1929; one locomotive as against 25 in September, 1930, and 84 in September, 1929; 7,606 tons of rails as compared with 30,000 in September, 1930, and 128,000 in September, 1929, Pig iron production has dropped even more sharply.. Daily average production in October amounted to 37,848 tons compared to 69,831 tons in October, 1930, and 115,745 tons in October, 1929. The daily average for the month showed a decrease of 2.9 per cent from the September rate. Although there have been continual reports of expansion in the automobile industry, production figures continue to drop to new low levels, Eleven of the 29 leading plants in the country have now ceased production entirely and many others are operating at such low levels that their output is negligible. Estimated production for the week ending October 31 was 10,171 cars and trucks against 31,827 in the corresponding week of 1930 and 78,048 in the corresponding week of 1929. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce places October production at 86,328 cars and trucks, a drop of 40 per cent as com- pared with September and 46 per cent as com- pared with October, 1930. Production for the first ten months is estimated at 2,283,018 or 29 per cent below the figure for the corresponding Months of last year. All branches of constyuction continue to de- cline sharply. F. W. Dodge & Co. reports that construction contracts awarded in the 37 states east of the Rocky Mountains totalled $242,094,200 in October as against $836,706,400 in October last, year, a decline of 28 pér cent. For the ten months ending October contracts in the 37 states totalled $2,804,802,000 against $4,020,105,000 in the corresponding months of 1930. Railroad traffic, an important indicator of general business trends, continues to move down~ wards. Freight car loadings for the week end- ing November 7, amounted to 717,029, a decrease of 23,000 from the previous week, and 164,488 from the corresponding week of last year. For the first ten months loading totalled only a little over 42,000,000 cars as against nearly 46,000,000 in the corresponding period of 1929. Simultaneously there has been # sharp shrink- age in foreign trade. WUxports have dropped more than 50 per cent below 1929 levels. The . Department of Commerpe reports that exports iz fy noe October were valued at $205,000,000 against $326,- 896,000 in October of last year; and imports at $169,000,000 against $247,367,000. For the first ten months of this year exports totalled $2,046/- 728,567 as compared with $3,280,153,000 in the corresponding period of 1930 and $4,372,657,401 in the corresponding period of 1929. Imports for the first ten months were valued at $1,787,- 646,372 against $2,649,222,000 and $3,751,272,489 for the corresponding periods in the two previous years. ‘To an increasing extent the capitalists are at- tempting to unload the burden of the crisis on_ the backs of the working class. Wages in vir- tually all industries are being ruthlessly slashed. Unemployment continues to mount to unpre- cedented proportions. Workers fortunate enough to have jobs are being speeded up to a hitherto unknown degree. Although there is normally a seasonal in- crease in employment during the autumn months, government employment and wage statistics continue to drop sharply. The De- partment of Labor's factory index, covering em- ployment in 54 major industries, declined 0.6 per cent in September, bringing the index down to 69.6 as compared with 79.7 in September, 1930, and 99.3 in September, 1929. Payrolls dropped 5.3 per cent reflecting an increase in partial un- employment and a further reduction in wage rates. The poyrolls index was 55.4 as against 74.2 in September, 1930, and 102.6 in September, 1929. In other words, statistics published by Hoover's own bureaus show that factory wage payments in September were 46 per cent below September, 1929. According to Professor Leiser- son, bourgeois economist, industrial and office workers will receive $22,000,000,000 less this year than they did in 1929. Leiserson estimates, con- servatively, that total wage payments in 1931 will aggregate only $33,000,000,000 as compared with $55,000,000,000 two years ago. Wage payments in the Pittsburgh area, according to Leiserson, are only 52 per cent of what they were in 1929, In a number of important industries total wage payments show a drop of more than 60 per cent from 1929 levels, The Department of Labor's September index for wage payments in the iron and steel industries was 41.1, in the lumber in- dustry 39.5 and in the automobile industry 40.4 as against 100 in 1926. The September em- ployment index in the iron and sieel industries was down to 62.1, in the lumber industry to 50.7 and in the automobile industry to 65\4. Farm employment and wages have shown an even more drastic decline. ; Tie Department of Agriculture’s farm wage index has dropped to the lowest levels since 1916, and now stands. at 113 of the pre-war level, as compared with 150 on October, 1, last year. There is normally a marked seasonal increase in the farm wage in- dex from January to October. This year, how- ever, the index declined from 129 on January 1 to 113 in October. Simultaneously the gap be- tween the supply of farm labor and the demand for farm labor continued to widen. On October 1 the supply inde: was 113 per cent of the pre- war level, while the demand index dropped to 69. ‘The deepening agricultural crisis is impover- ishing the great mass of the farm population and reducing millions of farm families to starvation. ‘The Alexander Hamilton Institute estimates that the net income per farm for 1931 will be only $367 against $598 in 1930 and $887 in 1929. In other words, farm income this year will average about 60 per cent less than in. 1929 in spite of bumper cotton and wheat crops. At the same time, the increased value of the dollar has made the burden of farm mortgages and indebtedness heavier than ever. ‘There is nothing in the industrial or agricul- tural situation that promises improved vondi- tions for the masses of workers and farmers this winter. On the contrary all signs point to deep- ening crisis, to a further intensification of the drive against the living standards of the masses; to increased misery, starvation, evictions, disease and death, There is 10 hope of an economic up- turn this winter, Optimistic statements to the contrary are false propaganda, disveminated by the ruling class io keep the masses of workers and farmers from fighting for relfef. ‘The work~ ~ meen —_—) The Way of A Boss With A Maid The “way of a man with a maid” is, or was, one of the seven wonders of the world, but Lord & Taylor, one of the Fifth Avenue customers has advertized the eighth wonder: ‘The way of boss with a maid—that is to say, a house-maid. In the N. ¥. Times their ad speaks thusly: “She may have a heart of gold and a way of her own with a dust mop. But is she ornamen- tal? .Does she strike the right note at a tea party? Are you proud to have her answer the doorbell? ‘Try dressing her up in colors to har- monize with your walls and draperies; she’s really an important part of your interior decora~ tion, you know.” And so on, coaxing the boss to buy housemaid imiforms “at *16.50. Now folks, we frequently have to correct soft~ headed people who think that capitalists are just as foolishly humanitarian as they are. The “run-of-mine” capitalist does not regard workers as people, as human beings. And the Lord & Taylor advertisement proves that, by its carefully worded acceptance of the way a housemaid should be “harmonized with walls” like any other piece of furniture. She is not a human being to the boss, but 2, part of the “interior decoration.” Take her to the shop for a coat of varnish or & bit of up- holstering—or, if she has too much upholstering in spite of a twelve or sixteen hour day and a diet of left-overs, chuck her out and get one that harmonizes with the draperies! Yet these swine pretend to be agonizéd over the revolutionary workers of Soviet Russia on the excuse that they are “turned into robots”! Well, housemaids, you are a part of the great working class, and though you may not “strike the right note” at a tea party, you had better organize a union to strike—yes, and do your part to upset all tea parties of your socalled “betters” by joining the party of revolution, the Com~ munist Party. Fight for the right to be human beings. A Landlords’ Blacklist’ ‘The Real Estate Board of Bronx, N. Y., is plan+ ning a blacklist against what they call “frac~ tious and dishonest tenants” in, so we are told, “the hope of driving these tenants out of the borough.” Why, we wonder, do tenants become “fractious” right at this time. Maybe they object to giving up their entire wages for the dubious “privilege” of being treated like a convict in a penitentiary, having to give bond for the rent, answering all the imperinent questions asked by landlords, and having nothing left to buy food and clothing after the rent is paid. Why, also, are tenants getting so “dishonest” these days? Maybe they are the proverbial tur~ nip out of which no blood can be squeezed. In short maybe they are jobless and can’t pay their rent. i We sort of imagine that one of these bright days these landlords are going to wish that the Czar was back in Sairit Petersburg, so that there would be some place to go to when tenants in this fair land get their dander up and give them the bum’s Tush. And when, O, when, are we going to stop hear- ing about everybody being te-ribly 7 organiz- ing tenants that somehow get organized in site of that or because of that—and hear about a great big, borough-wide or city-wide *Tenaats’ Strike against these vampire lendlorcs? oo 8 “Hath” You An Estate? From Herman S, of the Bronx, we receive a good one that should be put in the amber of Red Sparks. He writes: “Dear Jorge:—A native guy like me finds it hard to get the hang of these things ... “On Southern Boulevard near 146th Street, they are building a new Samuel Gompers Indus- trial High School’ which looks well, real con- structive stuff. An industrial high school, thinks I to myself, is O. K. , “Then I notice they have engraved in sione over the entrance: . Benjamin Franklin Said: He Who Hath A Trade, Hath An Estate. “Well, I ponder, if Ben Franklin said so... But here my eagle eye catches the emphatic sign, in paint, below the entrance: No Help Wanted Keep Out! “Now I’m appealing to you, Jorgé, which o} these is the true motto for America? And why the hell don’t they engrave THAT one in stone? ~ ‘The comrade should be satisfied. Both insrip- } tions work together. Just like Sam Gompers and the bosses did when the old moth-eaten dutfer ' was alive. Surely, somewhere around that build-* | ing you will find another saying of Gompers: | “Lehor is not a commodity.” Of course, if you can’t afford to be philosophi- cal, we must admit that the “NO HELP WANTED; KEEP OUT!” is an up-to-date motto for capitalist America, But they don’t engrave it in stone. O, no! They engrave it in our guts! * We Don’t Know: But maybe this will help find out, say we in answer to the following from J.P. of San Francisco:—“Dear Jorge; Fleaic ad~ vise me what are the requirments for an ex- serviceman to be admitted to the Workers’ Ex- | hedquarters of the W. E. 5. L. at 79 East 10th received. If there is any objection to me joining, I think it would be correct to let mé know. In reality, there should be none if I am struggling for the same cause.” To this, of course, we might add that a fraction meeting more fre- quently than once in several months might help iron out such wrinkles. see bd y ‘We Give You Three Guesses Why: “Children of the well-to-do generally mature move rapidly and attain taller growth than those of the poor.” —Dr. Franz Boaz, Anthropologist, Columbia University. ganized power and on militant struggle to west concessions from the capitalist class and gain some nicasure of relief, ‘To support the Naiiocnal Hunger March Ir to | help these masses effectively in their struggle for Servicemen’s League. I have sent two letters to | + Street, N. Y. City, but NO ANSWER has been , Net . ie oy