The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1933, Page 4

Page Four D/ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, W Johnson Tries to | Sell NRA Codes to” Tet it brown without stirring when You, _ Spoonful of salt, 1 pinch of red pep- Working Women ‘Also Appeals to Housewives, Forgetting Rise in Cost of Milk and Bread Caused by By LOUISE BROW SUNDAY, General Johnson flew to St. Louis to talk about the National Recovery Act. One-third of his speech was an appeal to the women of the community. He tells them that the final success of the Act will be determined by their co- operation. He urges the women to organize into committees to see that the tradespeople and factory owners | in their towns sign up under this Act. Also, that they should bu nothing from dealers who do not display the Blue Eagle, and -hat they should see that the food and goods that come into their homes should be 100 per cent Blue Eagie material HY does Johnson pick St. Louis for such a speech? Why does he appeal especially to the women of} St. Louis? For the simple reason that the working women of St. Louis successful have just proved by a strike that the best way their standard of living, way to have their wages raised, mot by having the boss gn under the National Recov but by a real fight against They did this with a good Picket line and active w neighborhood to get supp their struggle from their and neighbors. There is no strong in the rt for families mention in Johnson's speech that there are working women in St. Louis. There mention of the heroic strike of the Negro nut-pickers who fought heroic- | ally for ten days before the boss agreed to their demands. And why does the Gen hard to whip a patriotic among the wo the homes’ ing to divide the wcrking women in the kitchens from their husbands who are feeling the effects of the codes in the factories, who are pre- | pearing to fight a: t them IN. HIS speech there is only talk about sm and getting be- hind the government; he calls it following “blin the demand of the President a blanket starva- tion wage. He sa: that there can be a decent standard of living for the ple” only if they back up} this Act. Aren*\ the w “peo- ple’? If the Act bene why are they pninz to rise all over the count inst it? Because under the ne se Je, even with an increase, the new wage does not keep up with the risint living. There is not enough money to provide miik for © workers’ shiléren, to pay higher rents, and ‘uy clething for their families. is. no| cost of | Roosevelt Program General Johnson was very careful not to mention the very cc ‘es for which he asks the support of the women are causing a rise in the cost of living. These codes have Jalready caused the price of milk to rise 4 cents a quart in Chicago. |And the price of bread has from 1 to 3 cents a pound all over the country because of the Roosevelt uty of working ‘orkers to follow 3 sident to put over the recovery Act. It| is their y to their homes and; |to their children to fight with their menfolk for a decent living wage for |the employed, and for Unemploy- |ment Insurance at the expense of |the goternment and the bosses for | those who cannot find work. “blindly | ALL working class women should | learn how the working women of | . Louis made the boss “cough up” | In the August issue of The Working Woman is a complete first-hand ac- }count by the strike leaders, Carrie | Smith and Cora Lewis, of how the) women of St. Louis did it | $3.a Week for 12. | ‘Ar. Day in Rag Firm (By a Worker Correspondent) DENVER, Colo.— A bag and rag firm by the name of J. Sheffeel & Co., pays its workers a wage of only | $3 a week for twelve hours a day. | vident that er is ruled , sters, while the widows] and children are crying for bread | Conditions like this cannot exist | much longer. | Let’s wake, up, wo and fight to the finish! to end the rotten con- | ditions now existing here. | | C.C.C. Cuts Wages | of Woodsmen| (By a Worker Corresponnedt) | BOYD, Wash—The Citizens’ Con- servation Corps from the East are getting established in their camps with a lot of cheering and hand-| waving on the C. C. C. side. If they| are all like those I saw disembark here, the local woodmen will be wet- | rurses for the next 4 or 5 months | for these youngsters who have never been off the paved streets. | This C. C. C. project automatically | cuts the wages here for local woods- | men to $1 a day and board. Today’s Menu BREAKFAST 1—Fruit or fruit juice ~2—Rice and milk. 3—Coffee for the adults. Milk for shildren. LUNCH 1—Celery salad. —Corn beef hash 3—Brown Betty. Coffee or tea. Gelery salad requires 2 heads o selery, 3 ‘d-boiled eggs (or 1 cup of English walnuts), one-half cup very stiff mayonnaise. Wash, wipe and cut the celery into pieces as large as the first joint of your little finger, and then rub it in a clean towel ‘.it is as dry as can be. Cut up the eggs, sprinkle all with salt and } the mayonnaise and lay on let- Or mix the celery and the ‘walnuts and mayonnaise. _ | For corn beef hash take 1 pint '9f chopped corn beef, 1 pint of cold, boiled potatoes, 1 cup of clear soup br cold water, 1 tablespoonful of minced onion, 1 tablespoonful butter, % teaspoonful of salt, 3 shakes of pepper. Mix all together. ‘Have a hot frying pan ready and put “im a tablespoonful of butter or fat when it bubbles shake it all id the pan. Put in the hash ‘4 scraping from bottom of pan. When “none of the liquid runs out when you lift a spoonful it is steaming hot ‘and ready to be served. Or you can ‘you turn it as an omelette. ‘may add poached eggs if desired. SUPPER 1—Cheese fondu. 2—Stuffed tomato salad. Coffee for adults—milk for chil- | Take one cup of bread crumbs, 2 ‘cups of grated cheese, 1 cup of milk, | 1 bit of soda as big as a pea, 14 tea- per, 1 tablespoonful of butter and 2 RBS. Put the butter in a saucepan to eat while you beat the eggs very ight, let it stand while you stir »werything else into the pan, begin- | ung with the milk, cook five min- ites; stir all the time, put in the ‘88, cook 3 minutes more. Place 6 ange crackers on a hot platter and your the whole over them. Serve ‘ob toast instead of crackers if de- Tet and cook till dry, stirring it often, | Can You Make | Yourself ? This has been suggested as a party dress, but it is so simple in style that we believe it would be quite | | suitable to wear to work (if you're | one of those whi find it) No- tice the way ft sh tics in i | back? We ourselves could never re- | sist sashes. i Pattern 1579 is available in sizes} 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 16 takes 35 yards 39-inch: fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded with pattern, Send FIFTEEN CENTS (5c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern, Write plainly name, add:ess and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders fo Daily Worker Pattern Department 243 West 47th Seg “he, St., New York City ¢ ( No. 1.—Unfortunately, the old Amalgamated § Association under- took too much in its organization work at the conference table and not enough at the mill gates. Con- sequently, more than once it found itself in deadly quarrels with the employers, when a live organizer working among the non-union men would have solved the problem in a few weeks. No. 2.—It was plain, therefore, | that the proposed campaign would have to affect all mills simultane- | ously. It would haye to be national | in scope. and encompass every worker in the mill, in every steel istrict in the United States. The essence of the plan was quick, en- ergetic action. Great mass meet- ings would be held everywhere at the same time throughout the steel industry. No. 3—The year before the cam- | paign began, 1917, when the coun- try was straining every nerve, the United States Steel Corporation | alone, not to mention the many independents, after paying Federal taxes, and leaving out the vast sums that disappeared in the ob- secure and mysterious company funds, unblushingly pocketed the fabulous profit of $253,608,000. ESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1933 No. 4.—It remained to be seen how far the mpions weuld susiain euch a rancr-l po7 energetic exm- peign. The iateful conference met at Chicago, Aug. 1-2, 1918, Repre- sentatives of 15 international unions were present, No trade felt able to cope with the Steel Trust single-handed. Joint action was decided upon. The National Com- mittee for Organizing Iron and Steel Workers was organized. and 18th Street. They hired plenty of girls at the lowest possible wages and ‘made them work at the highest possible speed. Now they have a stock at hand that will last well into the next year. A st produced at slave wages and that will now be sold at an 80 to 100 per cent profit un- der the famous price-raising, Code. The day the Code comes into effect the people that created that stock will be kicked into the street. The speed-up in the shops is so terrible that every day girls are fainting from exhaustion. Kaplan, out of kindness of heart, has provided a camp cot for the |fainting ones, but the penalty he ex for fainting is that he docks you every minute you lie unconscious on the camp cot. So when you-drop under the killing they~ don’t send for the doctor, they send for a a time-keeper, to time the minutes you spend on the cot. The terrific speed-up is worked this way On each table is placed an alarm clocs. So many pieces of work have to be produced in an-hour. Every hour a checker counts your work, but the standard for an hour’s work is set so high that it is un- attainable. After the fifth or ‘eighth hour you must produce as much as the first hour. Pity to the girl that falls behind a half dozen or so! In the midst of that nerve-racking speed-up you see the forewoman (I couldn’t say forelady), the picture incarnate of the Roman - slave driver, jumping from one table. to the other, urging, pushing, crying or clamoring for more speed and speed, The language she uses. yyould put a “tough” to shame: _“Bas- tards,” “Bitches,” and “brats’), are her favorite appellations. It is forbidden to go to the wash- rooms ‘during working hours. you see women working under the most inhuman conditions, .and_ on top of it all they must suffer pains from not being allowed to: attend natural functions. And all, this, so that production shouldn’t drop! Everybody is paid somewhere from $5 to $10 a week. Every week on each pay envelope the shortage: is marked in red ink, to make-you: be- lieve that you have been loafing half of the we If you make- $8 a week you can expect to find. mark- ed on your envelope an average of $2 to $3 shortage. As we firmly believe you will print this letter will you let us know when so that we can tell the hundreds of girls to buy the Daily Worker and Chicago Heights Meet (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill,—The rejection of the company union by the steel workers of Chicago Heights has resulted in the reappearance of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, affil- jated to the A. F. of L. These*fakers Jare badly discredited here hecause of their betrayal of the workers a few years ago. Their meeting Sunday, August 6 was a complete failure. Only about 36 steel workers were present... To make their meeting look somewhat impressive, they had a number of A. F, of L. members from the car- penters, bricklayers and other A, F. of L, locals present. Otherwise the hall wouid have been almost empty. Most of their speeches were de- voted to praise of Roosevelt and the NRA. At the close of the meeting a worker wanted to know if: they intended to run away with the work- ers’ money like they did a few years ago. Another worker started to give his experience as a member of the A. F. of L. Machinists Union. But the chairman refused to allow him to finish. Before the meeting ad- journed the workers started walking out. Not a single worker signed\an Bh card, ‘he Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union fs holding meetings here. We appeal to the workers, to join the only union that fights for the interests of the workers, Here | Walk Out of A. F. of -L.' Alarm Clocks to Time Speed-Up at Kaplan’s FROM A GROUP OF WORKER CORRESPONDENTS. NEW YORK CITY.—I wish to bring to the attention of the readers of the Daily Worker the unbelievable and inhumane conditions that exist in the shops of Kaplan Brothers, Artificial Flowers and Decorations, 6th Ave. From the very day the Kaplan firm heard of the NIRA Code, they ad- vanced their season by three months. @ he days thereafter. We hope this letter will make, the Kaplan workers class-conscious and lay the foundation, for a union. EDITOR’S NOTE:—The Trade Union Unity Council at 799 Broad- way, second floor, will be glad to help these workers to organize. t Men Hurt Thru Lack| of Safety Devices and Speedup onCanalLocks (By a Worker Correspondent) MINNESOTA CITY, Minn.—I want to tell you of the conditions here on- the building of the locks for the nine- foot channel. My friend is a carpenter that worked on the job. They work six shifts of four hours each. Carpen- ters receive 50 cents per hour; la- borers 35 cents an hour; 7-day week workers pay $6.50 per week for board. On July 31 three men were brought up hurt because of the speed-up and lack of safety measures. The speed- up is to the limit of the men’s en- durance. NIRA Cuts Hours at Simmons and Decreases Workers’ Wages (By a Furntiure Worker Corresp.) KENOSHA, Wis.—I see that there are some articles in the Daily Worker about doings in Kenosha. I am work- ing at the Simmons Co. here. It is part of the war machine, They made about five thousand army cots in five days with a small crew. I am a membet of the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund, and I am entirely with the Daily Worker in the fight on the eviction case on Fox Street. Our national officials think they are running a capitalist organization and I will do all I can to wake up the membership to fight these officials. For about three months, the Sim- mons Co. have been working at full speed, but not in all departments, mostly the mattress, spring and stu- dio couch. These departments have put on the most men, and talk about the speed-up — everything is rush, rush, rush! They have piled up stock to the ceilings and they have been working three shifts to do it. Now they have cut down the hours to eight on account of the NRA, but only give a five per cent raise in some departments and some work not at all. Some workers never got anything, but Simmons raised the price of their products three times far. Yesterday the paper stated that Simmons is completely under the N RA, and what happens? Most de- partments are slowing down. In one department they laid off one shift. Some of the night men work only a few hours and then are sent home. The rolling mill and steel press al- ready sent home some of their day men. The furniture only work one or two days this week. So it looks like a general let-up all over Sim- mons, What about the howl about the NRA bringing back good times? I think it is all the bunk and we are going to see worse times yet. The workers want to be organized and are taking anything that comes along. The A. F. of L. is signing them up. We must fight against the A. F. of L. because they betrayed us once before and will do so again. The workers must organize in an industrial union where they have full control. The Furniture Workers’ In- dustrial Union is the only union that is any good. So workers of Sim- mons Company! Remember what the AFL. did a number of years ago, and join the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union, so Pocket Book Workers Sold Out After Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y. — We are members of the International Pocket-Book Workers’ Union, af- filiated to the A. F. of L, Our place has been on strike for 7 weeks. Our so-called union has to a settlement with the come pers are getting $10, re getting $12, Editor’s Note: For certain reasons we are withholding the name of this shop. The Pocket- book Workers Rank and File Committee at 35 .E. 19th St. New York City will be glad to 81.20 for Four Days Work, 8-Hours Each (By a Worker Correspondent) BLOOMFIELD, N. J.—The Siand- ard Container Company is a racket sweatshop combination that is hard to beat. Upon being hired by this outfit re- cently, a worker was told that she would have to work only eight hours aily, five days a week for $12. Fa'y enough in th: hard + times, thought. Ske wec very quickly di: ilucioned howeve! After working four days, she was handed a check for the magnificent total of $1.20. Indignantly, she quit on the spot. From what she has seen, she is convinced that this is a regular advise these workers. Letters from Columbia, S, C. Comrade Editor: Studying the Open Letter to all Party members I am glad to know that after Aug. 14 the Daily Worker will be a 6-page paper. I would like to see the Daily Worker in every) Negro and white worker’s home in’ South Carolina. It is the paper for | the South. Please print this letter in the Daily Worker, Magnitogorsk, U.S.S.R, Comrade Editor: After 30 years of activity in the labor movement it is pleasant to watch the crashing of the capitalist systems and to help to build Social- ism and a base for a Communist society under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, At the present time the cleansing of the Party is taking place here— very interesting part of the work to build the Party and to build up in- dustries, to remove all the undesir- able elements which only hinder the work to carry out the Second Five- Year Plan. Revolutionary greetings I. SIROKY. Tonganoxie, Kansas. Editor of Daily Worker. Dear Comrade: Enclosed find money order for $5.50 which please put in the Daily Worker fund. Will make it more if I can dig it up. ‘$2.50 of this is contributed ,| teachers mass movement almost en- racket, Our Readers by another, lad and will try and rustle some more, I would like to see you run an article in the Daily Worker and pick this money racket to pieces and ex- plain it in simple terms. Tell us how money ie made and what ic hark of it, and how the value is fixed. In short, show us how they hook us/and what they do when they inflate cur- rency, go off the -gold.standerd,: is- sue money and explain it as simply as you can from a Communist. view- point. Ater you get through reading a capitalist explanation of money, you don’t know any more than when you started, which is what they want L realize that the Daily Worker must live and grow. Good luck to you. Will dig up some more funds later. Respectfully, —E. B. H. Chicago, Ill. Comrade Editor: It is my opinion that now, when the Daily becomes a large paper that we should have more articles on dif- ferent fields. For.instance in Chi- cago, we have been neglecting the tirely, and same holds true in regard to the “wrecking” of the schools. Hundreds of thousands of people are interested on these matters but we don’t take advantage of them. Maybe you could drop a line or two to our comradés here instruct- ing them to take up some of these problems. We are improving the sak Girls Tricked by Macy of Commission They Paid DuringRushTime (By a White Collar Worker Corresp.) NEW YORK CITY.—I am one of several hundred girls laid off four weeks ago at Macy’s, for the slack summer season. I worked in the—— Department. Some weeks ago I got a letter to report to the employment office. Most of the other girls also. We were told to report next day for a half day’s temporary work, and to start at 10:15 and work till 4:45. We are told nightly to return for another half day’s work. We lose our one per cent on sales that we form- erly got as staff employes. In this way Macy’s save hundreds of dollars by using us hard-worked girls during the rush hours and calling it “a half day.” They steal the extra few cents we made daily on the sales percent- ages by the trick of re-employing us under the head of “temporary.” The girls all feel the injustice of it and are realizing they are giving five working days and only getting five half days pay and no commis- sion. Some of us get $6 to $10 week- ly by this method. I told them we are helping one of the owners to pay his income tax. Perhaps some girl in another de- partment may write you. I hope so. There is a rumor being spread, per- haps to quiet the girls, that every- one’s pay is going to be raised. I really think it is high time we Macy Department Store girls should do something. We work harder and longer hours and have more expenses in clothes and laundry than girls working in the needle trades and factories and shops, but what do we get. Our pay and hours are cut to help J. P. Morgan make profits and pay his lawyers to evade his income tax. T do hope some other cirls will fol- low this letter. Most of them must be thinking or resenting the raw deal Macy’s is giving us. No Chain Store Jobs But Profits Rising (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The Amer- ican Stores Company, next to the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., is the largest chain grocery, meat provision and miscellaneous store system in Philadelphia and all its environs, in- cluding virtually all of Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Dela- ware. It has adopted the Retail Stores Code. As a result the heavy talons of the Blue Bird of Prey have dug deeper into the pocketbooks of the workers, the eagle’s neck is bend- ing over to give the beak a chance to.dig down even into emaciated workers’ bodies for further drainage. NIRA ‘has in the cases of some au: a ed the cost of many pa v4. Can a worker get a job at any American Stores, Atlantic and Paci- fic Tea*Co., or any cther stores? No, no jobs available. NIRA does not mean that. As for the smaller chains and “in- dependent” stores, they don’t count, even though most of them have sign- ed up and put up a NIRA emblem on the front window. Just the same their days are numbered. In one block on Richmond Streét in Phila- delphia, where nearly all the store windows are trimmed a la NIRA, one store’ instead, /honestly. enough, ad- mits in huge letters: Retail crisis! Selling ont! On the other hand, American Stores reports sales of $8,615,951 for the four weeks period ended July 1, 1933. The report says that this is the first time since December 1930 that sales have been higher than those of the same month of the pre- vious year. Where did this increase of $767,036 come from? It came from out of the» mouths not figuratively but ac- tually of the werking class and’ the children of the working class, It was in June that the American Stores started to raise the price of all com- modities. Especially heavy were the raises in the most essential of staples pag as bread, milk, potatoes, eggs, ete. Write to the Daily Worker about every event of interest to workers which occurs in your factory, trade union, workers’ organization or lo- cality, BECOME A WORKER COR- RESPONDENT! Daily here right long. The workers are glad to see the Daily to come out a larger paper. The subs are rather hard to get, but we are increasing our bundle sales and have the bundles paid for. Comradely yours T. N. CARLSON, , ‘ | to Fig Que:tion: What is chauvinism? What is the origin of the word, and does it apply to race, nation and group, cr just to one of these? Understanding fairly well what white chauyinism is, we would like to ack: does Negro chauvinism exist | enywhere in the world, U.S.A. in- cluded? Can we speak of yellow chauvinism as for example with” the Japanese ruling class? Is there Negro chauvinism in Abyssinia, for example? Answer: The word chauvinism is taken from the name of Nicholas Chauvin, French soldier in the army of Napoleon. Chauvin was a rabid enthusiast for all of Napoleon's deeds, especially his military aggres- sion. For this he. was ridiculed by his fellow soldiers. The word has gotten to mean generally exaggerated, or super-patriotism, great military enthusiasm, or extreme support to the national aims of the big bosses. The ruling class in the leading big nations, the bankers, the industrial- ists, and their professors and press, in order to support their policies of enslaving colonies, have developed the myth of. while superiority. In other words, white chauvinism is not so much based on color differences. It is based on the policies of the lead- ing imperialists to justify their en- slavement of other nations. Because of the fact that most colonial peoples are either Negro or of the colored race, white chauvinism becomes a justification for this en- slavement of the colored races. To get the workers in their own coun- try, themselves enslaved, to support their imverialist policies, the ruling class stir up hatred against the colored races. At the same time the various im- perialists spread their own particular brands of chauvinism against each other. The American imoerialists try to work up a hatred against the Japa- nese people by the cry of “yellow chauvinism”. This is called the “‘yel- low peril” by Hearst. They do this in order to intensify the white chauvi- nist spirit in the United States. Japan, just as the other imperial- ists, follows a policy of stirring up chauvinist feelings in order to justify its plunder of Manchuria and China, as well as to stir up a war spirit for the contest with Wall Street for Pacific.colonial robbery. Like the white rulers in the other imperialist countries, the Japanese bosses tell the Japanese workers that the Jap- anese are a suverior race. They tell them that the Yamamoto race is destined to rule the world. This again proves that white chauvinism is really imperialist chauvinism. It is twisted to suit the needs of each imperialist power. In the case of Japan the main object of robbery, plunder, murder and enslavement are the Chinese people, themselves of the yellow race. In Japan, as in the United States, England, France, and other imperial- ist countries, the scientists try to help their imperialists by writing “scientific”. works to whip up chauvi- nistic feelings. The Negro and other colored races are oppressed as a people by the im- perialist. nations throughout the world. This applies not only to the Negro masses in the United States. The Negroes are oppressed in Haiti, in all the island colonies, in all of the colonies of British, French, Dutch and Belgium exploiters in Africa. The same is true of Abyssinia, Where- ever you find the Negro people, you A Pictorial History of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 by pan mi0 | V7 hb tte Chauvinism-- (Based on Wm. Z. Foster's book, “The Great Steel Strike”) What It Is and How ht Against It An Answer to a Worker Who. Asks Origin of Word Chauvinism; What It Means in Present- Day Conditions; Is There ‘Negro Chauvinism?’ find them enslaved by imperialism, Abyssinia is surrounded by British, Italian and French imperialism. The main gateway*to Abyssinia is con- trolled by French imperialism. The Negro people have no imperial] aims, and we can in no way speak o! chauvinism ‘in Abyssinia or othe Negro countries. ‘The capitalists in all countries ad- vance chauvinism by every means. They create suspicion against the colored races: - Write lurid articles about them.‘ Slander them in the movies. They do all this to continue their oppression of the colonial peoples. They do it to justify new wars for colonial thievery. At the same time where a people has been enslaved, even within the territory of the imperialist country, as the Ne- groes in the United States, and the national minorities in other coun- tries, the e chauyinist spirit is spread to keep up the» subjection. The Negro masses in the United States, struggling against this oppres- sion, developya national conscious- ness. The Papper approach on the part of all workers to this national consciousness; and struggle for na~ tional liberation. of thesNegro masses, is important for the ‘general attack on the oppressors of all toilers. The Negro masses, struggling for national liberation and self determi- nation in the Black Belt, are an ally of the proletatiat, struggling for pro- letarian #@Volution. They are both fighting st the same imperial- ism. The. Negroes are struggling for their liberation as a nation. The pro- letariat, fof ‘their liberation asa class. Both are directed against the same enslaVers, and-the struggle of both can be united for the mutual success of both. Tt can be seen from what we have said that the expression “Negro chau- yinism” is incorrect. The Negro people do not aim to enslave other nations. They are struggling for their own national liberation. The accepted leadership of the Ne- groes, those,.who are wined and dined by the white ruling class, help in spreading this view. This Negro leadership, in the main, is sold out bag and baggage to the white im- perialists. For measly concessions for themselves, they sell out their people. They attempt to use the growing mass consciousness to de- velop, nota struggle against the white ruling class, but to bring about a division of ‘the Negro people from the toiling masses. They try to break the alliance with the revolutionary workers which would guarantee the success of the struggle for national liberation and self determination of the Negroes. Thus it is not a question of “Negro chauvinism,” but that of a struggle against the distorted nationalism of the Negro bourgeois leaders which they use to justify their support to the white ruling class. For example, Du Bois, of the N.A. AC.P., and others like him, declare that the white proletariat is the ene- my .of the Negro people. They do this on every occasion to keep the Negro masses, in their struggle for national liberation, from becoming the ally of the proletariat. But this does not prevent Du Bois and his ilk from acting with the white exploiters against the’ Negro and white revolu- tionists. The white ‘workers must wage ® relentless struggle against chauvinism and strive by all means to establish the unity in struggle of all toilers, | \ i By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. SCIENTIFIC vs. SECTARIAN MEDICINE Let it be understood from the very beginning that this column will be run along scientific, not sec- | tarian lines. Scientific medicine is based on the discoveries in the fun- damental sciences, not on any sin- gle theory or particular method of treatment. Sectarian medicine, such as chiropractic, homeopathy, osteo- pathy, naturopathy and all the fifty- seven varieties of cults, follows a certain dogma, or tenet, very much alike to certain religious principles, which is'based on the sole authority of the’ founder of the cult and ex- cluding the experiences of the ma- jority of scientists. The principles of scientific medi- cine followed in this column repre- sent the majority opinion as taught in the medical colleges of the world. They are the same principles which guide the Soviet authorities in their endeavors to prevent and cure the physical and mental diseases of the Russian worker. There is no room in this column, therefore, for fads and cults. Those who have sure cures for cancer or who are itching to exploit quack remedies under the guise of “radicalism” will find no support in this column. On the contrary, from time to time every fad, cult and quackery will be mer- cilessly exposed for the benefit of the workers’ health and pocketbook. Their fallacies, misconceptions and exaggerations will be discussed, so that the readers may be prepared to knowingly rebuke anybody at- tempting to deceive them, . * * ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Swollen Ankles, Diet and Pneumonia Question: Can lack of proper diet caus swelling of the ankles and pneumonia? Answer: Yes. It has been found in ordinary medical practice and it has been demonstrated by labora~ tory experiments on animals that the lack of ‘in vitamins in the diet will timately cause edma Vegetables and Kidney N. F.—Are all vegetables people who have kidney trouble? Answer,—Nearly all; provided. they are not salted or spiced. There two vegetables wn.ch might vate the disease, musiirooms paragus. I would advise you. eat them. ou 3 ni * Peruna Marie D.—A. fellow worker has recommended <‘Peruna for menstruation: -Is it allright? ae Answer.—Peruna is a patent medi- cine ,which has absolutely no“scien- tific value in, your condition: I did nee Bon that. they were ‘still sell- ing it. there. Is there a way to prevent one from breathing it? i Answer.—You should insist that the owner install better ventilating and exhaust machinery; also that: he furnish you»with masks. If all the workers ire the factory present @ signed petition to that effect,. he'll haye to listen to you. In the meane time, breatte through your nose, in stead of the mouth, and wash your nose and mouth with salt solution (one teaspoonful plain salt to one glass of lukewarm water). In one of my future articles IT] discuss the problem of dust. ©: ee Readers: desiring health inform- ation should address their fs to Dr. Paul Luttinger, ¢c-o Worker, 35 East St, York City. dew