The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1933, Page 4

ge De Ty, Se Paze Four ” WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1933 nee - Found ‘Daily From Its Post in “Chicago Struggles ’ Absent 4 Pictorial History of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 PAN Rico! (Based on Wm. Z. Fostgr’s book, “The Great Steel Strike”) On the Birth of the C. P. of the U. S.A. By I. AMTER On September 4th we will celebrate the fourteenth anniversary of the formation of the Communist Party of the United States. The Communist Party was born out of the heat and passion of the world war, of enthusl- asm for the Russian Revolution, and of an appreciation of the correct revo~ lutionary policy of Lenin and the Communists of Russia in bringing about Paper Should Be One of the First Weapons} Comrade Editor: Someone asked me on my return flid you come back so soon? exaggerated. I was in Chicago two we -s and ing all this time, I met no one selling#—— Only during the Aug. 1 stration did I meet a “Daily” seller. My biggest shock came when I went the headquarters of the Needle Trades Worker: Industrial Union the Par offices. I looked forward to the —not only to find out “what’s doing” in Chi- cago, but to get a much-missed “Daily. No one with “Dailies” at either place At the N. T. W. I. U., there was a strike meeting of 250 pocketbook makers. I saw plenty of Tribunes and Daily News around, but no Daily Worker. I spent two days with the strikers. During this time, not a hint of a paper interest in the} strike was u y other paper in America. Thi the first strike for most of the ers. Fresh ideas em. Here were Daily”—anxious paper, but as far * agent in Chi- erned, thes® 250 strikers stent. A live member of should also have noticed us defi ney. were coming people ripe fo: for a workir ~cla: To Fight “Red Baiting” ‘There was an additional higher i on for the Daily being e leaders should rs were doubling to quiet, as they ‘s of the word “red” As a result, the strike kept on a low political ¢ what the leeding e opportunis- a© bically with, and same time, bout other he N.R.A., ant notes Worker should agencies organ- of, using in sup- A Letter from a Vorking Woman rgh, Pa rtainly swell. We vhole series of greet e. It is so} women’s para- | * put it com- | ling that the Menus | italist syndicate | who is not ex- | 10 ecunumy to re- | s that are cheap so| far as food costs are concerned if| one has to use a lot of gas to cook | them, and I feel that we are treading on rather dangerous ground when we | i bbage d and cabinet | +. a supper. Steak | t ble, capbage | salad and cabinet pudding is a sup- | per and just because the N.R.A. is} forcing down standards and there are Millions on the bread line is no reason | } why we should help Mrs. Roosevelt | 4, to put over her cheap menus. Besides | ‘t* coffeee for the adults is a tine I can’t | “| bear to see in our paper. Most of the #, adult workers in the U. S. today are | half starved and one of our demands | should be healthy on. TI think that one reeipe a day would > be sufficient, and then put something | in that would interest any one in the | home. For instance, how to make a strap book. How to make a file that _‘pme can find quickly in the daily ‘W“articles on any subject. How a pion- seer troop can make a flag. How to @@ocarry on a home birthday party for the Daily, how to conduct a home | reading circle. How to make the land- lord paper your house. How to or- | “@ganize a bazaar. Yuur child and his | “teacher. How to get shoes for the | © thildren (150 kids here in Wilkinsburg | = Marched before the City Council). | The capitalists have almost suc- | = veeded in busting up the homes of | sethe workers and we must begin to 4} Ptealize that the only happy workers | @omes today are the ones where the | husband and wife are working to-| “Sa gether in the class struggle and| * bringing up their children to be ** fighters for the working class. We| “had a big example when several | J& months ago we started to organize | house parties for the D. W. Husband | and wives who had not spoken for) 42 months (on account of the crisis) | $2 Sang our songs together. One comrade | “y said: “This is a Party of loving kind- | @) ness” (this is the Negro district). One +» Negro comrade said to me, “Will you go and see my wife? She is against | -. us because she does not understand and she is against me because I| don’t ges 4 job, and if you explained alf to eé she would be with us and 'a good fighter, and I like her, and it’s not our faull we fight.” milk for them to get | ae BABII OS oats * All of this is just to express that © my opinion is that our “In the Home” | feolumn should heve as much life as} the rest of the Drily has, | Babe E. J. Senet A “To get a Daily”, I said. se of red-baiting, |‘ “| talk La Gui An the Ho | can be made from any of several ma- | Used by Organizers in Support of Struggle | SES | New York City. from a short trip to Chicago, “Why And it’s not terribly Dur- traveled the city considerably. port of a struggle. Articles on the strike or other struggles should be sent to the “Daily” with arrangements for @ shipment to the strike headquarters | of a special order of the issue in which the article appears, there to be sold and distributed. The effect | of the printed word is often more forceful than the spoken word. The | contact with the Daily” will not only help create a better situation for the strike, but will win readers after the strike. A new reader of the “Daily” coming into it through a struggle is| a fresh force for the revolutionary | movement—the beginning of a con- scious revolutionary fighter for the overthrow of capitalism. ee P.S—Hurrah for the six-page “Daily.” It’s love at first sight for | any worker to see it. | P. O. Employe Reports | Discontent on Pay Cuts) | | | | (From a Postal Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY. — I am a} joyee working in one of | -siations in the City. There | wide discontent among the} workers in this station on account| of wage cut, furlough, ec The sub-carriers | demonstration | s at City Hall a few) raised discontent to a her degree. | some of the workers ia has been accepted as the man. Enclosed you will find a leaflet addressed to all postal em- |} ployees, calling to a mass meeting. | La Guardia is to speak, and besides | led by some of the workers as THE man”. Th dangerous!! T don’t know k and file} opposition a.nd here | Cy Peag. | Editor’s Ne worker can get help in organizing against these cenditions fron the Trade Union Unity Council at 80 E. 11th St., New York City, GRamerzy 5-857. Can You Make ’em| Yourself ? | Having a few blouses, no matter of | what material, certainly does dress up the skirt. The blouse pictured terials—cotton, wool or silk. Rayon we do not advise, for a friend of ours) who knows, tells us that when mois- ture strikes it, rayon loses quite a bit of its vitality. | | | | | | | | Pattern 1566 {s available in sizes) 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and/ 42. Size 16 takes 2% yards 39-inch fabric, Pattern 1565 ts available in sizes} 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20, Size 16 takes) 215 yards 39-inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded with each pattern, EACH of these models is 15¢ (30c| for both). Send coins or stamps (coins preferred), Please write very plainly your Name, Address, Style Number and Size of each pattern or- | , dered. | Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Departmeat. 243 West 17th Street, New York Cily, (Patterns by mail only * | these workers to organize, 140 Broad St., New York, N. Y.| No. 1.—First free speech and free towns about Pittsburgh were still ing the winter incessant attempts had { No. 2.—In vain a special convention — ssembly has to be established, The| of the unions in Western Pennsyl-| Secretary of Labor is reported to have No. 3.—In answer to inquiries, the vania had appealed to the Governor) said, that “its publication would be closed tight against the Unions. Dur-| for assistance. For a moment the | inadvisable at this time.” That may Federal department of Labor had dis- be one reason, and another may be en made the embargo by political| played a languid interest in these| that the Department, in its eager | methods, but without avail. | conditions and had sent a half dozen men to investigate. But until this day the report has never appeared. co-operation with attorney General Palmer was so busy deporting hun- dreds of workers without trial, that it hadn’t time for such trifles. No, 4.—The unions determined to exercise their rights lawfully and peacefully, and take the consequences, A special “Flying Squadron” of or- ganizers was formed, superintended by Wm. Feeney, who hired a couple of lots and held meetings. The com- pany tried to break them up by hold- ing concerts and ball games at the same hour. But it was no use. The workers attended' and joined the unions in droves, Letters from Workers in Transportation and Communications Ind Rs Paradise for Parasites ”o, Upstairs on “Manh’n”; Hell Below for Workers | (By a Group of Marine Worker. Correspondents.) NEW YORK, N..Y.—The worst conditions exist for workers .on board the luxurious liner of the U. S. lines, S. S. “Manhattan.” Pride of the U. S. Lines! ° Upstairs beautiful salons and cabins and dining rooms—the playground of the parasites. Down below, rotten sleeping quarters, long hours and speed up for the work- ers. In the stewards’ department, for instance, we get as low as $9 a week pay. Out of~that we have to pay for our laundry and uni- forms. The working hours are from 6 a. m. to 10-p. m., with an hour off in the afternoon. ' Total 15 hours a day work. If that is not slavery, we don’t knowt’~ Every time a trip is over, a score of workers quit the ship, because on account of these miserable con- ditions, they’d rather starvé’6n the street than make another trip on this “beautiful” ship. The stool pigeons and spies also do their dirty work. Fat belly Chief Steward King (a relative of Congressman King in Washington) plays his role perfectly by terror- izing and abusing the wokers. The jsame goes for the” kitchen chief, Kleist, and his flurikey, Hans—a bunch of Nazis, ‘working aboard. They also cause a lot of trouble. Similar rotten conditions prevail in the engine room arid °all other de- partments. Many workers are shifting from one boat to another, but they are disappointed, because it is just_as bad on the S. S. “Washington,” S.S. “President Harding” © and “President Roosevelt.” The workers on these ships: need organization, which is also a hard problem. Mr. Roosevelt, where do you come in with your fake NRA (National Recovery Act) program? * . 8 EDITOR'S NOTE.The head- quarters of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, which nee is a . 3. Layoffson NY Central and Long Island R; R. (By a Railroad Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY.—Up to Aug. First there were 21 floatmen on the | float bridges in the Marine Dept., of the Long Island R.-R. Since Aug. 1 they left only 9 men, three men on each shift, and these men have to do the wort: of all 21 men. The papers published that were going to put 1,300 mem, back to work in the shop on the New York Central freight®ternyinal at 72nd St. and North River. Only 25 were re-employed, About a month ago they put an extra engine to work in the, freight service. Last night this exira en- gine was taken off—seven men, out of work. That's N.R.A, they what we get from the Joe Beef, (Signature Authotzed). Gov't Arbitrator in Effort to Break Sun Ship Yard Strike CHESTER, Pa., August 20. — Not heeding the government arbitrator, 165 workers at the Sui Ship Yards are still out on strike, demanding higher wages, The arbitrator is advising the 's to join the A. F. of L. union h is favorable to the bosses, The welders are expected out on The burners held a meeting 8 azo and sent.a committee working | ‘Fisherman Works Nite ‘and Day andClears $30 'for the Entire Season (By a Fisherman Correspondent.) BALTIMORE, Md.—I have been a fisherman on the West Coast |of Florida for about nine years. Up to 1930 we averaged about a thousand dollars a season. The price of fish steadily went down from five cents a pound until now it is one cent a pound. The price of gasoline has risen from 19 cents }a gallon in 1930 to 24 cents in | 1933. The prices of nets, net | leads and corks etc. have not been reduced. | Between three and four thousand | fishermen are engaged in fishing along this coast. In the low tide months I fished day and night when weather was permissible, and cleared no more than thirty dollars all told. By chance I got a job as an O.S. on a ship at $30 a month, There are some delegates of the Marine Workers Industrial Union here who convinced me that our only hope lies in organization. I have joined the M.W.I.U. and intend to try to organize the fishermen. Messenger for Western Gets No Pay While He Waits for Assignments (By a Messenger Boy Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY.—In many of | the Western Union offices, the mes- sengers must wait for messages. | This is called “waiting time,” and | correctly so, because we are not paid |for this time. We are paid only |for the messages that we deliver. | If I receive six messages to deliver, |the pay is 4c for the first one and | 1¥4c for the five others. Many of us have difficulty in keep- |ing record of the fractions of a cent jand when we are paid for a few | hundred messages a week we only have an approximate idea of what is coming to us. ' The Company, knowing this, systematically gyps us out of a few cents on fractions every week. When it is busy we earn a few |cents more than in slack periods, |but if this busy period keeps up |for a few weeks then we get a lower “schedule.” That is we get | 3c for the first message and 1c for all others. Some of us have had our schedules lowered seven times in two years. The Company saves in wages and we work much harder | and try to earn as much as before. | We run instead of walk, ete., which | means speedup. The Company gets more work out of us every time they |pay less per message. | Another method of cheating us of {our pay for overtime is this: when a boy that is working downtown has to ride to the Bronx at 5 o'clock in the evening, and he lives in the Bronx, this boy gets his 5 or 6 cents for this message (a message like this gives a cent or two more to us but they are few) but not a cent for the two hours or so spent on the train. After delivering the mes- sage he must return downtown to change from his uniform into street clothes, It seems that the company takes good care of their property, I mean their clothes. When it is raining we get “hell” if we don’t wear the raincoats provided by the company to protect the uniforms. But if we have holes in our shoes because we cannot get them fixed on the meager salary we get, that does not con- cern the Company. We get all kinds of colds, and do not get any pay if away on sick leave. We hope to get higher wages under the NRA but think that the Company, by taking advantage of the clauses on minors and appren- tices, will still be able to rob us unless our schedules are raised. We must demand: $15.00 a week minimum as is done in other trades under the NRA. Pay for time used in changing uniforms and for waiting time. Rubbers to be supplied by Com- pany. The only. way this can be done is when we ai! get together and demand these things. “In Union there is strenr he Editor's Note: The Office Work- ers Union. at 80 E. 11th St., is help- ing the telegraph company employ- ees to organize. NOTE: We publish letters from workers in all transportation and communica~ tions industries every Monday. Get | the letters to us by the preceding | Thursday. Police Bully, Browbeat N. Y. Tax-Cab Drivers (By a Taxi Driver Correspondent.) NEW YORK, N. Y.—Nowhere else are taxis under the supervi- sion of the police department. We are looked upon by “New York’s finest” as criminals, and treated as much. The great majority of hackmen. are family men, trying to make an honest living. Due to the dc\ression, there are thous- ands of men from other trades who are driving taxicabs, thus making competition keener, not only in ob- taining fares, but also, and this I consider pimary, making it harder to actually get a cab and start working. Fleet owners give their cars to those who can book the largest amount of money. They have a blacklist system to exchange in- formation and prevent a man that one of them does not. like from working for anybody else. The police department bully and | browbeat us because they may give tickets for “hacking other than a hack stand.” A hackman who goes to court with a ticket of this sort must plead guilty if he does not want to lose another night’s sleep. If he pleads not guilty, he must come to court on another day, after working all night. Nine cases out of ten the magistrate will believe the officer’s story in preference to the driver’s. He then pays a fine, if he has it, and is forthwith watched by all the other police and given a ticket for any minor of- fense. —J. S. | * * * EDITOR’S NOTE:—The Taxi Workers Union at 37 E, 13th St., New York City, is taking up the case of this fellow worker. All cases of police discrimination against hackmen should be reported to this Union. Seaman Waxes Poetic for the ‘Daily Worker’ PHILADELPHIA,Pa.—There is a place called the institute where busted seamen go. At least so Stockman tells the rich when he begs them for dough. He tells them he takes care of the boys, and feeds them twice a day, but he doesn’t tell them that the boys have to sleep on beds of hay. He doesn’t tell them that the stew has very little meat, nor that the coffee which they serve is very seldom sweet. The institute is sure a fine place, the beds are full of bugs, and the spineless men who run the joint are Stockman’s hired thugs. But their rule will soon be over if we'll only all: unite in one great organization and show them how to fight. —Bozo Butts, Donations Toward the Sustaining Fund J. Dion, Haverhill, Ma: Anna Rochester, N. Y. ©. Frank Frank, N. ¥. ©. Gertrude Brown, N.Y. K. Pomerants, N. ¥. ©. Anonymous (We do our 8. Levin, N. ¥. ©. — Mutual Ald Soctety Br. 69 Harold Slater, N. ¥. ©. Jugoslav “Tambunica & Dramatic Club, Johnstown, Pa. —__ ¥. A. Leeds, McMechen, W. Collection by Kanofsky. Chica: W. Craske, Chicago, Tl. Carl Brown, Chicago. T. Dufty, Chicago, W. Schilling. Chicago, TU Wm. F. Miller, Chicago, Ti, ——___ Wm. E. Lee, Cleveland, 0. mayo) V. J, Detroit, Mich. — M. Kurnick, Detroit, Mich. A. M, Mutulicnun, Detroit, Mich. A. M. Detroit, Mich. ‘A. Ulinskol, Detroit, Mic! P. Arigus, Detroit, Mich. +. Rudzevich, Detroit, Mich. ————. M. Baisenas, Detroit, Mich, wee eens &s3333333 P. Jotons, Detroit, Mich. —___. 28 Peter Thompson, Graham, Wash. .... 1.00 D. Tano, Reno, Nevada -__. ee Etta Weissberg —.... = 5.00 ustries ® Workers Desert Co. Urion to Form Their Own Militant Union (By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN. N. Y.—I am em- ployed by one of the biggest tele- graph companies in the world and have been a member of a “Yellow Dog Union” in order to keep my job. But recently I’ve seen such injustices done the workers by the officials of this company union that I took the liberty to resign from it and a good many other workers fol- lowed suit. One of their pet tricks was t» give us 3714 per cent of our back pay to give us the illusion that the company union was fighting for the workers, and also to draw us renegades back into this damned company union. But none of us have rejoined and expect to branch out into a real militant union very soon. Hoping this testimony will help to enlighten the minds of the op- pressed workers of all industries. Piatt Editor’s Note: The Office Work- ers Union will be glad to help these workers form their own Union, or affiliate with the O.W.U. The ad- dress is 80 E. 11th St., New York City. We ask this worker to send us more information on conditions of work on the job. Where the Workers Rule (By a Soviet Worker Correspondent) | movie houses, given to workers, etc. MURMANSK, Soviet Union—For- merly there were only a few wooden warehouses in this port, and some miserable trawlers, belonging to the private fish companies, were tied up at the landing piers. But now you can see the huge building of the gov- | ernment fish trust; there is a newly- | | before had read a workers’ paper. built electric power plant; a cold storage plant; a fish cannery; ma- chine shops and even a ship repair- ing works, last word in technique. Murmansk is of great importance for our whole country. Before the! revolution, in 1917, there were only | a few piers, but now we can moor Seventeen ocean liners at one time. In a short time these plers will be equipped with the most modern load- ing and unloading machinery. The Five-Year Plan had a freight turn- over of 560,600 tons in view for 1932, with a force of 1980 men. But actu- ally 794,098 tons were transported, so our freight transport plan has been | realized 141.6 per cent. For 1933 the plan is to increase the freight transport through our port to 945,000 tons, and the force will be in- | creased to 1998 men. There is no unemployment in our country. Our industry is constantly expanding and in many branches there is a shortage of workers. The population of Murmansk 50,000. On the 15th Anniversary of the Workers’ Revolution, in Novem- ber, a great “House of Culture” was opened here. It’s hall has a capacity of 1,200. There is also a movie hall and music auditorium. Besides the schools for the children, we also have public technical schools. ° Dear comrades, the work of social- ist construction in our country is not our work alone. All that we have achieved here belongs to the interna- tional proletariat. M. GUBINSKY, | Men Workingfor Keep Replace the Paid Men (By a Marine Worker Correspondent.) GALVESTON, Tex.—Newspaper headlines say: “Our City Embarks ow Recovery Program.” The mer- chant gives 10 per cent wage in- crease and jumps the price of his wares to pay for it. The steamship companies don’t sarry the number of sailors that the manning law requires. They'll | put on extras alright—college boys, scenery bums, relatives and friends of the moneyed class, who work for gratis, for scenery, scoff and flop, and incidentally rob the paid sailor of his job in the process, So you see! The Steamship Com- pany can raise these birds 100 per cent and still be paying them peHtig This NRA stuff is just an- other handful of’ sand thrown into the eyes of the workers On the water you can/ see hundreds of new trawlers—the | is | the revolution. The corrupt leadership of the American Socialist Party, opportunist to the core, and supporters of, or tac- itly in agreement with the entrance of the United States into the world war, sabotaged the struggle against war of the rank and file led by the revolutionist, Comrade Ruthenberg. This leadership showed again, as they I. AMTER had shown throughout their leader- ship of the Socialist Party, that they are typical supporters of the capital- ist state. The Russian Revolution, following a few months later, in- flamed the left rank and file, as it did the honest workers throughout the world. The first successful Work- ‘ers’ Reyolution showed even more clearly the class-collaborationist pol- icy of the American Soclalist Party and its leadership, hastened the formation of the Left Wing, which finally shook the Socialist Party to it® depth. The LeftuWing took inte "Y@ fold all the reallyrevolutionary éle ¢ ments in the Soflalist. Party. q inevitable split took place with 60,- 000 members laying the base for the Communist Party of U. S. A. It was 1919 and the bourgeoisie of the United States was affrighted by the revolutionary events which came as the sterner Russian revo- lution and the we war... After the war in 1918, the “German workers fought to establish a Workers’ and Peasants’ Government; but the Ger- man social democrats, true to the role that they played in “1914 in sav- ing the monarchist-capitalist gov- ernment, again betrayed the German revolution and drowned it in blood. The Finnish, Hungarian, Italian rev- olutions in succession were defeat. On the American continent, the gen- eral strikes in Seattle and Winnipeg, the great steel strike led by Comrade Foster, filled the capitalists of the United States, as of the entire world, with fear. It was natural, therefore, that the capitalist governments would not allow the young Communist parties (Communist Party and Communist Labor Party), which were formed on September 1 and 2 respectively, long to continue their activities un- molested. Driven underground by government raids. in January, 1920, the Communist Parties, which finally merged into the one Communist Party, section of the Communist In- ternational. Letters from Our Readers Dear Comrades: I have formed an idea of a meth- od by which the readers of the Daily Worker will easily do much toward popularizing the Daily Worker be- sides doing our utmost toward get- ting new subgcriptions. I know that it is a fact that in few instances is the current issue of the Daily Worker passed from its buyer to the hands of another worker. Why this should be so, I don’t know, unless it is a desire on one’s part to completely finish read- ing the contents of the paper, or let the other worker also help sup- port his paper. At any rate, what happens? Issue upon issue is either thrown to the paper can or is al- lowed to pile up at home, nesting | side by side with the capitalist pap- ers. Comrades, all copies of the Daily Worker, magazines, etc., new copies or old copies, must be given away to be read, must be left on the sub- way seats, left on the park benches, They will be picked up, they Will be read. As an example, I left 5 back copies of the Daily Worker on the benches of the small tree- bordered park next to the 42nd St. Public Library, and everyone was picked up and read with an en- thusiasm that foretold they never Your comrade, JLD. New York City. Comrade Editor: is) I think the Daily Worker should carry a:regular slogan appealing to workers to spread the Daily—every \ copy of it—then we will get some re- sults. A slogan on these lines: Workers and farmers, smash the Roosevelt new hunger program and war maneuvering by spreading every copy of the Daily Worker to new workers; give out all revolutionary literature, renew the subs, make this a regular task; let’s build up a strong opposition against this starvation and war program! : A constant slogan on these lines will keep the workers awake about the “Daily.” + Six-Page “Daily” The Daily Worker has now six pages, This. means that the “Daily” carries more mews and more interesting events, but on the other hand the expenses are going to be much greater than ever, so the life and growth of the “Daily” is ab- solutely depending on the ‘workers. We, as workers, must support this |, fighter more than ever, now. We as class-conscious workers must put all our energy into build- ing up our fighting press by getting new subs and distributing every copy of the “Daily” into the hands of the new workers. ' Let’s. make this a regular habit. You know one seed planted bears a | dozen or more of the same seeds in time of harvest, By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. I1L—MALNOURISHMENT Next to the “Weary Willies” and “Tired Tillies,” we have the skinny roosters and pale Pollies. Of course, there are a few Party comrades who carry a little bay-window with them, but they are pale just the same and anybody can see that their fat is not the healthy kind. The “full-time” Party functionary is the best known specimen of the malnourished frater- nity. You can pick him out in any gathering. ‘The main reason is well known: You cannot live on Delmonico steak, or even Filet Mignon, on six cart- wheels, fron men, berries, plunks, bucks or dollars per week. Chronic undernourishment is the invariable! result of starvation wages. . My theme, however, is not under- nourishment, but malnourishment. The difference in the two terms is that undernourished people have not enough to eat, while the malnourished may eat plenty, but not the right kind of food. Paradoxically as it may seem, the very rich are just as apt to be malnourished as the poor. On the other hand, a person with the most modest income might succeed in being well nourished if he knows the basic principles of scientific feed- ing. ‘These principles will be discussed in this column from time to time. At present, it_will be sufficient to draw attention to three dietetic er- rors which Party comrades often commit. ‘The first is to eat too much starchy food. The reason is obvious: It is the cheapest form of food. For five cents one can eat a large plate of cereal or bean soup or potatoes. Be- cause it is filling and because it often increases the body weight, many comrades rarely consume anything else but starchy food. The addition of some vegetable, fruit or dairy } product would be enough to prevent malnourishment by supplying the necessary vitamins and minerals. Out of carelessness, rather than ignor- ance, many comrades thus neglect to balance their diet. \ eat ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Compensation—Lump .Sum E. E, K.—You would be entitled te a lump sum if you had received some permanent injury or defect. You must appear before the Workmen's Compensation Board before any award can be made. No X-ray seems ; to be necessary in your case. Don't © return to work until you are able to do so without experiencing pain,- see I. W. O. and Compensation Cases) Ed. C.—If your friend pays. medi ‘ benefit dues he was certainly. entitl’ to the needed advice. But if he merely a member of the I. W. 0. he is not legally entitled to any services. Upon receipt of fuller particulars, I’ll take up the matter with the proper authorities and advise you’ accord- ingly. Please give‘his name, address, name of I. W, O. branch. ‘In the near future, we expect to publish a few articles ci ine compensation rackét, aie ec PIL iT, Warts—Callous- Charles L.—The two warts on thumb are best removed, by ic fulguration. It can also be done, more slowly, by painting them ‘with glacial acetic acid, every night; care being taken not to touch the hy akin, Todine does not do any good. We do not know the origin of warts. As the callous, try a compress of soap every night and scrape off | softened skin with a razor, blade next morning until the healthy flesh appears, natant oe Ba Readers desiring health.inform- | ation should ad their. letters to Dr. Paul Lattineer ¢-0 Daily | lew Worker, 35 East Yo. se