The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1933, Page 4

Paze Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1933 r Develop Campaign rd For Celebration of. 14th Year of Party Recruit Members Mainly from Basic Industries; Hold Meetings Between September 4 to 15 “The working class will be in a position to fulfill its role as the most decisive class in the struggle against finance capital, as the leader of all toiling masses, only if it is headed by a Communist Party which is closely bound up with the decisive strata of the workers. | “But a Communist Party with a very weak and inadequately func- | tioning organization in the big factories and among the decisive sections | of the American industrial workers, a Communist Party whose entire | policy, whose entire agitation and propaganda, whose entire daily work | is not concentrated on winning over and mobilizing these workers and | | } | | winning of the factories, a Communist Party which through its revolu- tionary trade union work does not build highways to the broadest masses of workers, cannot lay claim to a policy capable of making it the leader of the working class within the shortest possible time.” —From the Open Letter to the Members of the Communist’ Party. The 14th anniversary of our Party falls in September. In the short time left between now and the anniversary date the districts must immedi- ately check up on the plans and activities of the campaign. ‘The celebrations of the Party anniversary should be utilized for carzying through a wide campaign of mass propaganda connected with all of the daily struggles carried on by workers, especially in the factories, and among the unemployed for recruiting members into the Party. In order to carry this through, an agitation campaign must be conducted in the Party and among the workers in mass organizations close to the Party, industrial unions, etc., on the role of the Communist Party. In view of the fact that a large majority of our Party members have only recently joined, we should bring before them the whole struggle of our Party towards Bolshevization. We will iiave to bring forth the struggle against sectarianism, its roots in the history of our Party and in the American workingclass move- ment, the liquidation of the factional struggle which followed the Commu- nist International Address in May, 1929, and the present tasks confront- ing us in building a mass proletarian Party in line with the Open Letter. Activities should be conducted around the development of our Party during the past 14 years, dealing spe- cifically with the role of the Party in the struggles of the American work- ing class, the task of the Communist Party in winning the American work- ers for revolutionary struggle. Em- phasis should be laid on the situation in the United States, bringing forward the Communist Party as the only Party that leads to a revolutionary way out for the working class. The districts should immediately check up on the concrete steps to be taken in connection with the 14th anniversary: 1. Special Party Week should be carried through during the first two weeks of Septerhber. The detailed plan for this week shall be discussed at the District Bureau. The plan should contain such activities as increasing the circulation of the Daily Worker through house to house canvass, mo- ilization for visiting mass organiza- tions, arranging lectures in the various organizations on the role of the Com- munist Party and discussions on why £ they should join the Party of their the® class; financial support for the Party. 2. The organization of mass meet-' ings and celebrations between Sep- tember 4 and September 15, These meetings should be utilized for mass recruitment into our Party. 3. Functionaries meetings, section conferences, meetings of units, frac- tions from now on held with Party members should discuss the political importance of his caraprign. Leading commitees should sketch the histor- ical development of our Party and deal with the tasks laid down in the Open Letter for building our Party into a mass proletarian Party and the immediate tasks confronting the Party members In work among the masses in connection with recruiting. 4. Lecture coursees in the various schools of the Party, cities and sec- tions on the hisory of the Party. NRA Reduces Full . Time Workers to Part Time Work (By a Worker Correspondent) GREAT FALLS, Mont.—Congratu- lations on the six and eight-page issue. I am doing some work in the farming sections and hope to be able to send in a number of subs, espe- cially for the Saturday issue. I recently left New York City and note that steel plants are opening and the copper refinery at this place is running two shifts per week. That means by the N. R. A. code half time. The output capacity of the plant is 1,000,000 Ibs. per day, besides zinc. The N. R. A. has infected the whole town. The laundries close on ‘Thursday. 5 Crops are poor, and burned up in most cases. All crops look bad and are reported bad from Wisconsin to here. A business man, an insurance man, said that this country would be in good condition if crops had been fair, but due to past failures from 1928 no crop. Today’s Menu FRIDAY BREAKFAST .1—Stewed fruit. 2—Hominy. 3—CCoffee for adults, milk for the children. Use one cup of hominy to two cups of boiling water and 1 tea- onful of salt. Mix and cook in a louble boiler 40 minutes. Do not stir. Take off the cover of boiler and gentle turn over with a fork. Put in oven to dry. Serve with . milk (and if desired—sugar.) LUNCH 1—String bean salad. 2—Codfish balls. 3—Cornstarch pudding. 4—Coffee or tea. ~ Pour boiling waver over a pack- age of prepared codfish in the col- ‘lender and drain it. Heat a frying - pan and while you are waiting beat the yolk of an egg. Squeeze the y water from the fish. Put one table- +, Spoonful of butter in a hot pan and - when it bubbles put in two table- oases of flour, and stir and rub till all is smooth. Pour in slowly a + pint of hot milk, and mix well, = ppobing in the flour and butter till =. there is not a single lump. hen stir in the fish with a little pepper and when it boils put in the egg. Stir it all up one and it is done, Serve on slices of warm buttered toast. =e_UeOO en SUPPER 1—Scealloped cheese. = 2—Tapioca Pudding. )8—Coffee for adults and milk for \ "the children. For scalloped cheese you take 6 slices ~f bread, % pound of cheese, 2 eg: t 1 tablespoonful of butter, 1 cup of cream, 12 teaspoonful of salt, % teaspoonful of dry mustard, % teaspoonful of paprika, Butter the bread and cut it into stripes and line the bottom and sides of a baking dish with it. Then | beat the eggs very light without | separating them and mix everything with them. Put in the dish and bake half an hour and serve at once. Write to the Daily Worker about every event of interest to workers which cccurs in your factory, trade union, workers’ organization or lo- cality, BECOME A WORKER COR- RESPONDENT | i Can You Make ’em Yourself ? For school—and play—this. Our talking point is that it can be made up nicely in gingham or some other |cotton material which washes well and lasts long. The belt can be successfully left off, we’re told. Pattern 2547 is available in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14. Size 10 takes 2% yards 386 inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Illustrated step- by-step sewing instructions included with this pattern. Send Fifteen cents (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. Be sure to state size. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th A Pictorial (Based on Wm ; No. 1—In the face of such sup- pression of constitutional rights and in the face of other staggering difficulties, it was clearly impos- sible for our scanty forces to cap- | ture Pittsburgh for unicnism by a | frontal attack. Therefore, a sys- | tem of flank attacks was decided | upon. The outlying districts that dot the counties and States around Pittsburgh were to be won first. His tory of t ed S4eika?) No, 2—It was waich the counter-moves of the Company. They were typical. At first the bosses contented them- selves by stationing company de- tectives halls to jot down the names of the men attending. When this failed, they applied their most dreaded weapon, the power of discharge. interesting to in front of the meeting | he Great Steel Strike of 1919 *y 4% Rico No. 3—The men sacrificed were the oldest and best employees. Men who had worked faithfully for ten, twenty, and thirty years were dis- charged at a moment's notice. The plan was to pick out the men mest economically helpless, men who were old and crippled, or who had large families dependent upon them, and make examples of them to frighten the rest. No. 4.—But the terrorists over- shot the mark, Human nature couJd not endure it. They goaded their workers to desperation and forced them to fight back, however the circumsiances. The National Committee met at Johnstown and erdered a ballot among the men, They voted overwhelmingly to strike. Must Make Code Min-| imum on Commissions| or LoseJobUnder Eagle) (By a Worker Correspondent) | BROOKLYN, N. Y.—My boss in a rash moment of confidence tells me: “The N. R. A. is en artificial attempt to boost business, but it can’t be done. | Isn’t business bad enough in. the summer months (he forgets the busy months of the year when each of us| did the work of 3 clerks), without | our having to worry about having to} think up ways of getting around the N.R.A. in order that we might, keep | the salary percentage down? Believe me I am a Socialist at heart, and| know more about Socialism than} most of the Socialists, but it simply | can’t be done.” | Three days after: the “New Deal” | went into effect we were handed a/ “New Deal,” as my boss expressed it. | By the way, the 40-hour week does | not apply to porters, elevator men, etc., in department stores. «Also one porter now does the work of two, to make up for possible increases in a day in other departments..In my store and most stores, the porters are colored, so tha’ is probablyswhy even the farce of the new deal does not apply to them, My boss was geting cold“féet. We were getting too much morey, for too little work, so something had to be done about it, He handed tusthe fol- Jowing ultimatum: 4% of “What we sold had to equal $14 (our salary ac- cording to the new code) or We would be given the air! = Our force was decreased’ ‘This also meant a decrease in salary ac- tually, because not only is it impos- sible in the slack months of the sea- son to sell that much, causing us to work so much harder to reach the 4 per cent, but before we earned a straight salary, also received a slight commission asa further incentive for us to increase the boss's profits. ‘This | we were deprived of to meet our “raise.” I have found it to be almost, use- less to quote the Daily Worker to workers not as yet class-conscious, since they claim the paper exagger- ates. In your editorial of Aug. 10, entitled “The Fraud of ‘New Jobs,’” you under-estimate rather than ex- aggerate, as I shall try to point out. In quoting figures indicating the supposedly high percentagé of pro- duction increase, you compare that with the very low incfease in employ- ment. “More work—done by prac- tically the same workers.” That statement should be “More work done by less workers,” which would be nearer the truth. Bosses Use NRA to Lower Wages and How You All reports, no ma‘ter how brief, or reporting incidents of open war preparations, help to mobilize the masses against war. All manufac- ture of munitions; the increase of production of war materials such as chemicals, ammunition, etc.; all transportation of war materials, such as scrap iron, which is used almost exclusively for shrapnel; all reports on conditions of work in war material plants; all reports of Living Standards of Workers _ Can Help increased activities of the war prop- agandists; all reports on the in- crease or movements and maneu- vers of armed forces—are necessary not only as information for the Communist Party in its struggle against imperialist war, but also help to convince the unclass-con- scious masses that our statements that war is in preparation, are cor- rect. Then they will join us in our struggle against war. Blue Eagle Brings More Unemployment to Lynn, Massachusetts (By a Worker Corresponnedt) LYNN, Mass.—Sharaf’s Ine. 27 Central Sq., a chain restaurant sys- tem displaying the blue eagle, and thereby claiming to support Roose- velt’s program by- increasing wages and employing more help, is cooper- ating in the following manner. Before joining the N. R. A. they employed two workers to do kitchen work at $9 per week each, including two meals per day, and their linen. After joining the N. R. A. they dis- charged those two workers and hired one in their place at the $14 min- imum, charging this worker $2 per week for his two meals and an addi- tional 60 cents for his linen. If this plan is carried out by all the bosses in general we will have millions more of unemployed added to the 17,000,000 that we have at present. Shoe Factory Boasts of Hiring More Men; Actually Fires Them (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Here is how the N. R. A. really worked out in the factory in which I am employed, the Rohn Shoe Company. From August 1st we started working under the N. R. A. and immediately they fired about 15 or 20 workers. Where there were five workers doing a certain work, there are now only three. Where there were three workers, now there are only two, etc. For doing this work, they wouldn’t raise our wages even one cent. Yet when we see the “Milwaukee Sen- tinel,” we hear the falsehoods about this whole campaign, where the Rohn Shoe Company boasts that they are hiring many workers as a result of the N. R. A. N, Letters from Our Readers New York. Comrade Editor: As a reader of the “Daily” for many years, and as a class-conscious worker, I am greatly interested in the present effort to spread, and increase the circulation of the Daily to at least 100,000 copies, But it is just because of my great interest in our newspaper that I am doubly pained and embarrassed to find in the “Daily” plenty of little and bigger shortcomings. An instance: In the six-page is- sue where Foster’s article appeared, the last line was missing! Why should the workers’ press be ineffi- We print below the first read- er’s letter to “IN THE HOME.” Surprisingly, this comrade dis- likes both our daily menu and our column. But she tells us how the job should be done, so we gladly turn the column over to her. Pos- sibly, after reading this letter, other readers will have contributions to make. We invite recipes, house- hold suggestions, kitchen hints, or other suitable material of real in- terest to our women readers, But no political theses, please, What we want is interesting material written particularly for the house- wife who has not learned to take her Communism straight. Comrade Editor; A workers’ paper can present a wo- men’s corner of real value to the wives of workmen. It should not be a poor imitation of the women’s page in the capitalist press filled with bourgeois ideology. The revolution must be waged on all fronts, in the kitchen, in the shops, in the sport clubs, in the theatre. The function of the corner which makes its ap- peal to women, to housewives, is two- fold: 1. To aid them in their struggle against poverty, 2, To radicalize them. And how did the writer fulfill his duty? if 1, He submitted menus with fancy names in order to hide poverty. 2. He held up a bourgeois: blood- Jess female in a stylish dress.as a model to be copied. It is interesting to examiné the lunch which is the main meal of the day. : The principle dish is a can of sal- mon deprived of the juice which con- tains food value, the soft bones which contain calcium, much needed for the building of teeth, and the skin which also has fat and minerals. This emaciated canned salmon is Street, New York City. then dressed up with white sa ~~ WE’RE BAWLED OUT! which first has to be made, and bread crumbs, and then baked in an oven. The oven creates heat and is ex- pensive to run. At this season fresh fish is much cheaper than canned fish by a half and more, and it is certainly more healthful. Cooked, or broiled plainly with a lump of butter melted over it, it is less labor, cheaper and more beneficial than escalloped salmon. ‘Today tomatoes are cheap. They are most beneficial to the health and should be eaten daily. Vegetables such as carrots and wax-beans are also at their lowest, lower than the fresh or canned lima beans which were recommended, The fruits of the day are grapes, plums and peaches. These too are cheaper than the recommended orange. It should be the function of the writer to point these out; to make up menus of the cheapest current foods which will make a completely ade- quate diet, and not a minimum main~- tenance diet. He should also attempt to steer the housewife in the maze of prices. Socalled fresh eggs can be bought from 17 to 42 cents a dozen, It is perplexing to choose the correct ones. Usually larger sized items are cheaper by weight altho more expen- sive by the piece. But this is -not true at present in the egg market. Very large eggs are 20 per cent more expensive, although only 15 per cent heavier than the next size, The most expensive article is not necessarily the best. There is much trickery and fraud in the markets which should be exposed in the “Daily Worker.” By exposing the rotteness of the food markets of the capitalistic sys- tem a step will be taken towards the radicalizing of the women, and by aiding them to select the right foods a healthier proletariat will result. It is a big and worthy program. —F, D. cient? Or take this: The issue of August 2 had two articles describing the demonstration. Both articles began on page 1 and continued on page 2. I had to turn the pages back and forth to see which continuation be- longed to which article. Why don’t you indicate which column? You can see this in every bourgeois paper. Why not learn efficiency from them? Yours for a bigger and better and more efficient Daily. —©. P. EDITOR’S NOTE:—The mistake about the S. P. in this worker’s letter was corrected the following day in the paper. New York. Comrade Editor: We know that all the boys and girls and even men are interested in some kind of sports, and very little has been done for them to show them that the workers have a Labor Sports Union. I know ‘if something were done to show them the sports union s the workers they would fall in ‘ine. How could this be done when we are so short of forces? One way is for every speaker of the working class organizations to give some of their talks on street corners for this needy cause. The young worker wants sports. The second way is to get the ad- dresses of all sports clubs, send the Labor Sports pamphlets to them, and ask them for a game in the parks where hundreds of workers who know nothing of the LSU will become ac- quainted with it. Playing games with other LSU teams will not cause them to expand, and they must step out of that circle to reach the mass- es. This can only be done by all workers pushing thent’into a larger field. be Dakota City, Nebraska. Comrade Editor: In your article on foreign cops meet in U. S. in Chicago in National Annual Convention, it would have been complete if you had gone ahead and showed up how much better it would have been to have produced food, shelter and clothing, than to have advocated the building of roads while people go hungry and naked. Show how the bosses improve their properties with money they would save by lowering the standard of liv- ing for the workers. Would not producing and disburs- ing the necessities of life be working the people and at the same time raising their standard of living? Why not spend more on education as a public works scheme? You should have shown ‘this up directly under the same article. The article I refer to is on page six, column one, Wednesday, July 26. —w. i 11 Hours for Stewart Employes Each Day; Blue Eagle in Window (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY. — Stewart's cafeterias now sport the N. R. A. sign. This is supposed to mean an eight- hour day. Today I overheard a con- versation between two Stewart em- ployees. “What time do you quit?” “1:30.” (A. M.) “You started at 5:30 then?” (P.M.) “No, 2:30.” (P.M.) The questioning worker looked at the answerer with surprise. The worker who was working eleven hours The S. P. What is the difference between the peaceful, gradual change from capital series of parliamentary reforms (in C Party really fights for the immediate ® interests of the workers, and pro- claims that there can be no gradual, peaceful change from capitalism to Socialism. It considers that its task is to prepare the working class for proletarian revolution. The Socialist Party teaches the workers that capitalism can be over- thrown and Socialism established through the election machinery of capitalist “democracy”—by a majority vote in Congress, for example. The Communist Party bases itself on the teachings of Marx and Engels, and proclaims that there can never be any real democracy under any capitalist government, that the forms of democracy in this country are only a covering for the real dictatorship of the capitalist class, and that there- fore the working class will have to forcibly seize the state power and set up a new form of government —a Soviet form of government of the workers and toiling population. The Socialist Party deludes the workers into thinking that the capi- talist class will give up its possessions and State power at the mere request of a majority of the workers. The Communist Party declares that the capitalist class will fight to the last ditch with violence and bloodshed fegainst the loss of its power, and that therefore the workers and the toil- ing, masses must prepare for the forcible seizure of power. ‘The Socialist Party is, thus, a party of peaceful reform, while the Com- a day while the store adyertised an eight-hour day merely shrugged. He works in an open shop. That means he works eleven hours, N. R. A. sign or no N. R. A. sign. The worker does not know that only through a mili- tant union can he achieve an eight- hour day. SmallFry AmongBosses Resent Big Profits of BigBossesUnder NRA By a Worker Correspondent PEEKSKILL, N. Y.— A manufac- turer from Louisville, Kentucky, who gave me a lift in his car while I was traveling to New York City, told me a few facts about the National Re- covery Act the papers don’t print. He said that 1,000 workers had been laid off in his plant since last month. He was bitterly opposed to the clause in the bill declaring for higher wages. It was interesting to hear this ex- ploiter denounce Morgan and “the other 18 rulers of the country” as be- od the only ones to profit from the “But isn't there more {ndustrial ac- tivity?” I asked with deliberate in- nocence.” He exploded: ““Tnere is not. The merchants are not buying, they can’t sell, there’s no money.” “But the papers say different,” I said. “You've been reading the wrong. Papers, young man,” he answered. Blue Eagle, Like Blue Vulture, Soars Over Los Angeles for Prey By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK CITY. — The Blue Eagle is making itself known and seen all over town, with its claws deeply sticking in the workers’ flesh. On Sixth Avenue near 37th Street one can see the NRA Eagle in the window of a restaurant, the Eatmore Cafeteria, where the workers are on strike against the 12-hour a day work, which the Blue Eagle boss imposed on them. The Food Workers Indus- trial Union is leading the strike and the restaurant is being picketed, warning the workers not to patron- ize the Blue Bird. All along Broadway the Beauty shops are displaying the Blue Eagle hoping to increase their business with it, while the workers are getting $7 a week for 10 to 12 hours a day. A meeting of Beauty Parlor owners was | held Monday evening at Hotel As- tor with Grover Whalen presiding. ‘The bosses enthusiastically applauded the speakers, who were representa- tives of various trade journals, who urged the bosses to unite so that they can raise prices, Supposed Wage Rais¢ in Cafeteria Actually a Thirty Per Cent Cut (By a Worker Correspondent) LONG ISLAND CITY—An_inde- pendent teria owner near Queens Plaza said he had raised the wages of his force from ten to fourteen dollars a week under the code—for which he received permission to flaunt the N. R, A. sign. But the code also allows him to charge his worl one dollar a day for meals, which he never did before. So the workers in this shop under the code have received a 30 per cent wage cut. The boss himself, a petty bourgeois, almost in the proletariat because of big capitalist competition, made cynical remarks about the code. NOTE: The correspondence from textile workers, which usually appears in this section on Fridays, will appear on the special textile page tomorrow | instead. In future it will again ap- pear Fridays. Get the letters to us by the preceding Tuesday munist Party is a party which leads the daily struggles of the workers in preparation for revolution. But the Socialist leaders say that the Communists are not interested in the welfare of the workers here and now, that they are only inter- ested in some distant revolution. They also say to the workers that the Communists believe in the per- sonal rule of a “dictator” over the workers. < Then, the Socialist leaders say that the Communists welcome and even incite “violence.” These are only a few of the distor- tions and false charges that Socialist Party leaders propagate against the Communists. But let us see what the real situa- tion is. And we shall find that in all cases the Communist Party represents the best interests of the workers, while the Socialist Party really weak- ens and betrays the fight for these interests. On the question of the fight for better working conditions, for higher wages, etc., for example. The Social- ists say that Communists are not interested in these, but only on some faraway revolution. The Socialists say, “We believe in the revolution, but that is too far away; we want better conditions now.” But in actual fact it is the Social- i¢t leaders who always betray the struggles for these immediate Henefits right here and now. As a matter of fact, it is the Communists who best defend these immediate interests of the workers, because they fight for them in a revolutionary way. In strikes, the Socialist leaders always hold conferences with the employers to settle on some “com- promise.” And the Socialist leaders are this very moment urging the workers to accent the N. R. A. codes, which beat down the wages and working conditions of the workers. Even now Norman Thomas is telling the workers not to strike against the codes for higher wages. All through the crisis the Socialist leaders have been telling the workers that it is “hopeless” to fight against wage cuts. And in Milwaukee the Socialist ad- ministration cut wages just as much as other administrations. The Communists say that it is impossiblé to really fight for better conditions and higher wages unless the fight is carried on on the basis of unrelenting class struggle, on the basis of preparing the workers to carry the struggle ever higher, to the final goal, the overthrow of capital- ism. The Communists know that every concession from the employers must be fought for. . and the C. P.--What Is the Real Difference ? e Reply to Worker’s Letter Shows .Communist Party Alone Fights for Interests. of the Working Class Socialist and Communist Parties? _ P. D. KELLY, Brooklyn. 'HE Socialist Party puts itself forward as defending the immediate, day to day interests of the workers, while at the same time it preaches the icm to Socialism, It teaches that » ongress) will usher in Socialism. The Communist Party, on the other hand denies that the Socialist In the words of the founders of modern Socialism, Marx and Engels, “The Communists fight for the every- day interests of the movement. But in defending these, it also fights and prepares for the future of the move- ment. The Socialists betray both the present and the future of the move- ment. pete Fans g On the question of “democracy,” “violence,” dictatorship, etc., the So- cialist Party deceives the workers, while the Communist Party defends the interests of the workers. The Communists point out, what Marx and Engels pointed out in their works, that there can never be any democracy for workers while the capi- talists own the newspapers, the fac- tories, and control the ‘State power and the Army and police. The Com- munist Party declares that the right to vote is only the form that conceals the real dictatorship of the capitalist class, and that therefore the dictator- ship of the capitalist. class must be abolished and replaced by the rule of the workers, the dictatorship of the proletariat. The Socialists are opposed to the dictatorship of the workers. They believe in permitting the capitalists to have all the rights of workers, after the workers are in a position to seize power. nates So The two opposite®-pdlicies have already been tested. In Germany the Socialist Party was inthe majority at the Weimar Convention after the Kaiser was overthrown. Instead of going forward to the” establishment of Socialism, they established capital- ist “democracy.” And since all the factories and the real organs of power were in the hands of the capi- talists, the ,capitalist democracy de- veloped into what we see today in Germany, ‘ism. In. Russia, the Communist Party put its principles into practice, and established real workers’ democracy, democracy only for the workers, by establishing the proletarian dictator- ship. And today they are laying the basis for Socialism. In the Soviet Union the workers are stronger than anywhere in the world. There one can see the results of the two differ- ent policies. Art Crayon Co. Used NIRA toCut theWages By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK CITY.—The NRA is a plan to to spread the misery of the jobless workers onto those whi still have jobs. 4 I am working for the Art Crayon Co. Some of the men, the molders and the wrappers, used to work 14 hour night shifts and the rest 9- hour day shifts. The men on the night shift, let us say, received from about 40 to 45 cents per hour. For 14 hours this amounted to from $28 to $31.50 for 5 nights’ work. Now they have been cut down to 8 hours and they put in 3 shifts. Now for 8 hours these men receive from $16 to $18 a week, as no raise has been made in the wages yet. This saves the boss from $12 to $13.50 on each man per week. On the new shifts he is hiring healthy able - bodied American young men from 18 years up, and paying from 20 to 30 cents per hour, which means $8 to $12 per week. By this method he saves him- self actual cash from $1.50 to $4 per week on each man. , Hence, the boss displays the blue eagle for saving himself actual cash and speeding up production so that he can throw us all out on the street that much sooner when the market is again overstocked. NOTE: The worker who wrote the letter a /ut R. H. Macy & Co., which ap- peared in the Aug. 16 issue, is re- ested to get in touch with the ffice Workers Union, at 799 Broadway. The Union will put her in touch with the Macy Group ‘of the Union. By PAUL LUTTING, M. D. The Health of Party Comrades I. Comrade Wilber Howard, Dakota, Nebraska, has written an interest- ing letter containing several sug- gestions, well worth discussing. To- day we shall limit ourselves to quote the first paragraph: “It has been my personal opinion for some time that the Communist Party does not give enough consideration to the health of its leading com- rades.” True. This has been the experi- ence of all physicians who have the welfare of Party comrades at heart. The late Comrade Doctor Mislig, never tired of criticizing this ten- dency of minimizing the importance of physical fitness. There is no question that the Party should not have allowed comrades like Foster, Potamkin and Ruthenberg to neg- lect their health to the degree they did. In the case of Ruthenberg particularly, his death which was entirely preventable, not only robbed us of his priceless services, but gave an easy opening to a cer- tain element which thought that they could seize the opportunity of wresting the ieadership, and when this pena vain. ‘fasion, ferred to organize a faction of thelr own. But the fault of neglecting one’s health is not to be attributed solely to the Party. The individual is just as much to blame. ‘here seems te be rampant among the comrades, and especially among our lead the mistaken notion’ 'that p! health is of slight importance com- pared to Party activities; forgett ine that without a sound body, all activties hl sooner or later — or become dangerously impaired. * In Romani s issue, we shall dis- cuss the main physical drawbacks from which Party comrades usually suffer. Ra ends 4.4 Readers desiring health inform- ation should address their letters to Dr. Paul Luttinger, c-o Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St, New 0 ue