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sage Four obless Woman Writes |A Pictorial History of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 %>4x 80 Mother BI DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1933 Letter About Babies to President’s Wife Tells of Children in Coal Mining Areas Whose Pictures Were Never Included in “Babies, Just Babies” , By JEAN LANDIS “I_want you to write to me.” urges Mrs. Franklin D. F nm the | current issue of the “Woman's Home Companion.” Very well, Mrs. Roosevelt, here goes. My dear Mrs. Roosevelt: What has happened to your magazine, “Babies, been informed that you have stopped publication. Was this for lack of ables? The photographs of the babies from Coolidge Hill Road, Back Bay, East Orange, New Jersey, etc., were good, but what about the babies from Red Hook-Brooklyn, Harlem-New York City, Coverdale- Wes Virginia, or Molinaire-Western Pofinsylvania? I could have sent fou some good photographs of these, too. T have one swell photograph, Mrs. Roosevelt. It is a picture of a West Virginia coal miner with his wife and seven children, the youngest baby is‘ only two weeks’ old), and a few sticks of furniture—all on the side of the road underneath a large oak tree. A sign on the large oak tree says. “Protect the trees, avoid forest fires.” This man and his babies were evict in the last Southern West Virginia coal strike. This ‘would have made an attractive illus- tration for your magazine. Not Pleasant to Look At Somehow the babies of the coal mining areas do not photograph so well: for the nice magazine--it isn’t pleasant to look at pictures of babies with rickets and ugly head sores. Condensed milk, pinto beans and fat-back don’t produce the rosy cheeks and husky. limbs that fresh orange juice and certified milk do. Yet, Mrs. Roosevelt, these are the babies of America. What was the purpose of the Publication, “Babies, Just Babies,” anyway? Did you think that it would be nice for coal miners’ wives to cut out the pictures of the nice babies and tack them up on the Sooty walls of their clapboard shacks a= reminders of what a baby should be to grow up strong aid healthy? Again in your. article in the “Woman's Home Companion” you ask us to write you about “what has brought joy into our lives, how we Are adjusting ourselves to the new Conditions in this amazing, chang- ing world,” and, to those of us who have taken holidays inexpensively, you ask us to tell how we have done it. You say you waut these stories so that you can pass them on to other Companion readers, When I have more time I will write you about the “holiday” which I have been having ever since the crisis be- gan, and how it has brought joy into my life and how I am adjusting to Today’s Menu BREAKFAST juice Grapéfruit Plain omelet ‘Toast Coffee Mili eae Veal Cutlet Creamed potatoes Bread and butter Peach pie For veal cutlet-—Wipe meat with @® wet cloth and then with a dry. Dust with salt. pepper and flour. Sliced Tomatoes Heat fat in pan till it smokes a lit- | tle. Lay in meat and cook till brown. Look inside and see that it is also brown for cutlet must not be eaten red or pink inside. , SUPPER Cream of green p2a soup ‘Bread and butter Pineepple salad One pint of fresh peas. 1 pint of water, 1 pint of hot milk, 1 table- | spoonful of flour, 1 tablespoonful of butter, \% teaspoonful of salt, 3 Shakes of pepper, 1 thin slice of onion. ; Cook the peas with the water; make the white sauce with the milk; Strain. the peas and water through the sieve, pressing well, and add the milk and strain again. Even toasted cubes of bread may be dropped inte each plate on serving: - - - 1,000 Hear R.B. Moore, Mrs. Patterson, Carter in Seattle Meeting SEATTLE, Wash.—‘We must do nore. than pray,” said Mrs. Janie Patterson, mother of one of the Seottsboro boys, at a rally here ittended by nearly a thousand vorkers. “If prayers could do the rick the boys would be out long go. We must fight.” Lester Carter, who also spoke, aid that the speech delivered by Yichard Moore, secretary of the nternational Labor Defense, was he best made on the tour. Moore oused by the lynchings in Tusca- do8a, pointed out the increasing anger to the Scottsboro boys aris- ig from this incident. Jamp Unity Meeting Raises $200 for LL.D. CAMP UNITY.—More than $200 ‘aS collected for the Burke-Taylor ase_in Birmingham here Saturday, Alice Burke, one of the prison- now out on bail, and Allan Taub, aternational Labor Defense attor- ty, who was driven out of Tusca- esa after being retained by Dan ippen, Jr., A. T. Harden and Elmore Just Babies?” I have <a | | the new conditions in this amazing, | changing world. In the meantime| I hope that other readers of the/ | Daily Worker will write you theirs. | “Happy Days” There is still another thing that I would like to ask you, Mrs. Roose- |velt. When I picked up a copy of Liberty Magazine in the park the | other day, I noticed that your daugh- |ter has a page in it that she calls ‘Happy Days” and it states that it) | takes only four minutes and fifty-| | three seconds to read it. Since I'm| still having my ‘inexpensive” vaca-, tion I have had time to read it sev- jeral times. Your daughter, Mrs. | | Roosevelt, tries to define success. | |She says she doesn’t see “how any- | one can be happy who hates the) thought of getting up in the morn- | jing to go to work, or sighs with re- | |lief when the clock says that the| | day at the office or shop is over.” | How glad the millions of us would be if only we had the opportunity of | having a shop or an ofvice to go to) |in the morning! | After her definition of success, your |daughter shows her versatility by | giving a recipe for salmon loaf, then | lists the following things which every boy and girl should be able to do: swimming, boating, shooting, first | aid, building fires, driving a car in |the back yard, simple mechanics, | cooking, sewing. typewriting and tra- veling alone. She says that if our children can do these things. with |the exception of typewriting, life on }a desert island will’ not frighten | |them. Of course, life on a desert | | island is just what we must prepare | our children for in this amazing, | | changing world! | But the main point is—that the |kids of America, save those of the | owning minority, don’t have the op- | portunities to do the things anyway. | | Circumstances make it impossible for | them to swim under a street shower, | | and how are they going to get hold | | of a car to learn to drive it—and in | what back yard? As for traveling! | alone, and being able to read time ; tables, we didn’t know the BM.T. | had time tables. And by the way, | Mrs. Roosevelt, have you ever hitch- | hiked? | | Yours truly, A JOBLESS WOMAN. (Can You Make ’em| Yourself ? The jumper is most convenient. It can bé made up in any material from gingham to satin. The same can be said of the guimpes (blouses) | to wear with it. If you use organdie, | we suggest organdie with a perma- |nent finish, which we believe, keeps | its crispness after having been wash- |ed. Long sleeves for the winter could be substituted for the short ones pic- tured; Of course, more material would be needed for long sleeves, \ Pattern 1589 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 16 takes 2% yards 54 inch fabric and 15-8 yards 36 inch contrasting. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded with this pattern. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to. DAILY WORK- ER, Pattern Depariment, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, (Pat- arke, to defend them, spoke. terns by mail only. aemir @ whole shift. without stop, | |they are paid for 44 hours only and |Lays Off Other Half (Based on Wm. Z. Foster’s b sige Rae No. 1—The free speech fight was very good for the unions. For one thing it infused the necessary hope and confidence into the steel.work- ers. So tremendous “had “seemed the strength of the Sttel Trust; that the men had long Mad a.fecling of helplessness. But now they sim- ply had to cast their lot with the strike movement. They felt: con- fidence in their leaders, men they had seen jailed time and time again in their battles:* ook, “The Great Steel Strike”) No. 2.—A mass of difficulties soon arose, The demands of the workers for relief from their slave condi- tions in the mills were insistent enough. But infinitely more seri- ous was the need to take care of the army of steel workers fired for their union activities. Thousands of these walked the streets in the steel towns clamoring for protec- tion. Niza. No. 3.—Right in the face of this, the Amalgamated Association of Steel workers, one of our group, | made a separate bid for separate consideration by the steel compa- nies. Its president, Tighe, sent a letter to Gary of the Steel Trust asking for a separate conference. This threatened the existence of the whole strike movement. But Gary's refusal to deal with them, kept them in the fold. No. 4.—Iit was decided to hold a national meeting of the unions to decide on the next steps. It was the larzest gath of steel work- ers in history of the country. The reports of the men present made it clear that action had to be taken to protect the interests of the men. The Conference decided before go- ing ahead to enter into a joint ef- fort to negotiate with the Steel companies. Among the Committee were Gompers, Fitzpatric, Foster. Needle and Textile Workers Organizing Worker inForstman Co. Passaic Factory By a Worker Correspondent | PASSAIC, N. J.—The Forstman | Woolen Company in Passaic and Garfield claims it is paying the high- est wages in the woolen textile mills, but we workers inside the shop know | how this is done. There is hardly any department in Forstman’s. where | the piece work and speed-up system is not established. In the finishing department, shearing, or where the machines are there is no time given. if machines stop. Many accidents have happened from this speed-up. On August 17, a worker was crip- pled. He lost two fingers on his right hand. For the last three months, this mill was working day-and night. On August 14, a notice was given of the 40-hour ‘week, to be paid for 48 hours. Now the workers: find out that besides lay-offs, some- departments are working 4 and 5-hour shifts. The workers begin to realize what the NRA means to them. It’ means many of us will be out of a job for many months. Stocks are prepared for many months The only way out for the Forst- man workers is by-organizing into a union, the National Textile Workers Union, which is fighting against speed-up, and for higher wages and Unemployment Insurance paid by the bosses. Especially Mr. Forstman, who has. enough money for a mil- lion-dollar yacht, and who is. cruis- ing around the world at the’ present time while we workers are slaving in | his factory. Editor’s Note—The address of the National Textile Workers Union in Passaic, is 25 Dayton Ave. Mill Doubles the Work for Half the Workers, (By a Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa.—A woman was sent to work at the Irving Worsted Mills. She worked one week, When she reported for work the next Monday she found that the company had not, exhausted its resources on the speed- up system. a It has always been considered a very good day's work to run.40 ends from a winding frame. Now she found that two workers were. allotted 170 ends, one had 80, and the.other had 90 ends to handle, This forces one girl to do just twice as much work as formerly and the other 10 ends more than twice as much, so instead of going'to work, she and two other girl workers were laid off, sent home. The N. R. A. is quite a money maker for the bosses, but the work- ers axe dearly paying the price, and the increasing discontent in -prac- tically every plant in the city will verify this statement. Praise for Worker © Correspondents ASHEVILLE, '. C.—From-any angle, the new “Daily” is great! The workers’ correspondence _ is much better. In Wednesday’s ‘Daily’ Aug: 16 [ have in mind particularly the letters from a furniture worker of Kenosha, Wis., and the group of workers at Kaplan Bros:, New York. These letters are praiseworthy for their clarity and the definite state- ment of conditions and means of aah ies All worker correspondents should emulate writers of this kind, and remember not only to tell of work- ing and living conditions, but that their letters can be of service in leading their fellow workers and others in their industry in the struggle for better Sone » D. | years, the A. F. of L., under the |ers of America, affiliated to the A |fected by the application of the Speed-Up Cripples A. F, OF L. STARTS GN FOR NRA Striker Leave Open Shop Town Alone for 13 Years; Conditions - m Mull Get Busy as Workers Show Resentment at Worsened Conditions , CAMPAI (By a Worker Correspondent) LITTLE ROCK, Ark—After 13 impetus of the Nira campaign. has begun an organizational drive among the various crafts, trades, | and clerical workers in Greater Little Rock and next largest cities in Arkansas. Seeking to organize the needle workers, the United Garment Work- F. of L. were given information by these workers of eonditions af- codes, which verify the charge that the NIRA is a slavery act. This contradicts the A. F. of L. claims of a victory. for organized labor. Of the 15 or mote pay envelopes submitted at the meeting none ex- ceeded the minimum, or even reached the $12 a week, and “most of these workers were among the skilled. They told how old, ex- perienced workers were let out, while 24 new girls were taken on for six weeks “for qualification.” The code does not apply to appren- tices, and so the Southern bosses will hire “learners” and fire them at the end of the period. Employes of Beal-Burrow, mak- ers of men’s garments, said the bundle boys had been recently dis- missed, thus putting extra work on the girls. The manager also cir- culated a petition asxing workers to pledge not to ask for increased pay for the next six week period. This is an attempt to stifle by in- timidation any movement to demand increased wages due them. Tuff-Nut overall factory has a government contract, and the girls reported miserable working condi- tions, speed-up, etc., as a result of the new code. Since the war, open shop has pre- and Striking Against NIRA Conditions vailed in the light industries here. A union smashng war by the State Chamber of Commerce destroyed all union activity. Simultaneously, it prevented larger industries from lo- catng, namely, Ford Motors, and various factories, because it would tend to curtail cheap labor, so nec- essary (7?) in cotton production and associated industries of the feudal South. But today the A. F. of L. comes out, maintaining that the NRA codes “legalized” or8anization, as if work- ers never had the right to organize. It speaks of the NRA in a tone that would have you believe it is the high heaven for labor. They vaguely mentioned something about patching up the economic system to avert something disastrous, meaning revolutionary overthrow of the cap- italist system. About 700 girls are employed in the four garment factories here. They have many real grievances. Many older ones see the need for organization. but don’t know how to go about it, fearing loss of job. Workers would like information on the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union. * * Editor’s Note—Workers in these shops should form committees of their fellov--workers whom they can trust, and try to build up a shop committee inside each shop by care- fully approaching the honest work- ers who are ready to put up a fight They can get advice in their work from the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, with national headquarters at 131 West 28th St. New York City. This union is con- trolled by the rank and file mem- bers, and has a clear record of fighting the bosses for better con.’ ditions. Letters from Our Readers NEW YORK CITY. Comrade Editor: Norman Thomas is faithfully keep- | ing up his. job of misleading the |, workers into making them believe that the Roosevelt administration is eve aUng the workers could hope ‘or. The other day in Albany, at a gathering of worker delegates to the Continental Congress, Mr. Thomas said, among other things, that “the recovery efforts showed a logical trend toward Socialism.” This is at a time when workers should be told that the so-colled*‘recovery” act is nothing but a slavery act and that some capitalist papers are forced to admit that the N. R. A. is used by the bosses to reduce the workers’ wages to the very minimum of $14 per week without employing addi- tional help. Keep it up, Mr. Thomas. Mr. Mor- gan will not overlook’ it. ALEXANDER LESTER, (Signature authorized.) . PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Comrade Editor: I wish to congratulate the Worker on some of the recent stories pub- lished in its pages as well as on its general improvement and, of course, the increased size will help enor- mously. I think that the stories and news matter in the Worker should be of a simple character—the simpler the better. 7 That is the only way you can im- press the great mass of readers and wean them away from the bourgeois poison dispensers. , 18; ah) igh iia New York City, Comrade Editor: During all the years, Rose Pastor Stokes was a member of the Com- munist’ Party, she took a keen ‘in- terest. in drawing Negro workers into the revojutionary movernent and fighting against white chauvinism. In her speeches throughout the country she made this known in no uncertain, terms. We no longer have Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes with us but we have the example! she set that we would do well to follow. Nothing would please Rose. Pastor; Stokes more than could she know that there are many white workers who must “boldly jump at the throat” of those who justify the op-/ pression of the Negro. Let's carry on the work of our departed comrade by offering a Scholarship in the Na- tional Workers School to the. worker | Who puts up the best fight for Negro} Rights during the year. The Negro workers of America are willing to contribute to the Rose Pastor Stokes scholarship. Are the white. workers willing? Comradely, KH. F. CABOT. . . Editor's No.c: ‘hese suggestions will be taken up by the National Workers School, and a reply will be published in the Daily Worker. Join the Communist. Party | 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. | | i} Please send me more information on the Communist Party. NAME .. | ADDRESS | Kahn and Feldman Striker Reports on. By a Textile Worker Correspondent | BROOKLYN, N. Y.—I have been working for the past four years for Kahn and Feldman silk yarn mill, which is now on strike. I started at $14 a qeek but worked more than 12 hours a day at times to be able to support a family of eight. Since the day that I came into the shop I have always been rushed by the foreman and had to work in great heat. Most of the girls in the mill are getting from $7 to $13 a week. Girls in the mill work much harder than the boys and many a time have to take abuse from the foreman. One day -the foreman was very abusive to one girl, who later fainted from the heat: The boys avenged this insult to the girl and beat up the foreman. Next day the foreman pointed out two of the boys, with the result that they were sentenced to serve thirty days in jail. The girls in th mill look half dead, because they cannot eat on account of the heat and lack of air in the mill. Girls faint quite often and are immediately picked up by the mill nurse, who revives them by giving them pills. Some time ago a girl dropped in the mill at her machine and died there. She was removed to the hospital, but too late to revive her. Most of the workers did not know of this and were told that she was home sick. A fow days ago later two men rup- tured themselves from lifting bob- bins, because when they get hot they stick to the spindles and this makes it hard to lift them. I myself took off a week during the hot weather, as I could not stand the speed-up and the heat in the mill. For a small-sized fellow I lost 20 pounds oor Describes Beginnings of Communist Party of United States Tells of Early Struggles Against Reactionary of Strong America | Socialist Party Machine; Calls for Building: n Communist Party | faves be Eis es as | Ella Reeve (“Mother”) Bloor celebrated her seventieth birthday at | the Extraordinary Party Congress held last month in New York. ‘ By ELLA REEVE BLOOR | PREVious to the infamous Chicago Convention of the Socialist Party in Chicago in 1919 we had been building many rebel groups inside the 8. P. | | As State organizer of the New York opportunities to meet with the rank !and at the next-to-the-last State | Convention of the Socialist Party | before the Communist Party was or- | ganized. These workers came to the | New York Convention from Buffalo and Syracuse and nominated me for Lieutenant-Governor, much to the dismay of the Hillquit-Panken ma- chine. Panken threatened me, told me not to accept, as Jessie Hughan, | their respectable pet, had been slated | for that post. Of course, I accepted | the nomination of the workers, and ran ahead of the ticket when the | votes were counted. | This campaign gave me a wonder- ful opportunity to talk to the work- ers of the struggles of the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union, ; and of the real condition of the workers of Germany, of the treach- erous leadership of the Second Inter- national, Scheidemann, Noske, Ebert, and Co., with their followers in this country, Hillquit, Germer Gerber, Branstetter and many other rene- gades to the revolutionary move- ment whose names have gone into dark oblivion. Led Strike Struggles During the war, while acting as State Organizer of New York State S. P., I incurred the serious displeas- ure of that party by joining the Machinists’ Union of Utica, N. Y., and leading the Savage Arms strik- ers to victory in spite of the fact that they were making Lewis Avia- tion Guns, etc. I also acted against the desires of the S. P. chieftains in leading the picket lines of the big Smith Wesson Arms strike in Spring- field, Mass. After this rebellion on my part, I was called to Kansas City, Missouri to help “create a demand” for the “Workers World,” of which Earl Browder was the first editor. I was immediately elected organizer of the “Left-Wing” Socialist group there, and with the paper as a good organ- izing medium, I helped lay the basis for the organization of the Commu- nist Labor Party. The federal prison at Leavenworth had 150 radicals there serving sentences of from 5 to 20 years—Harrison George, Ralph Chaplin, Bill Haywood, Charles Ash- leigh, Earl Browder and his two brothers, who were actively engaged with me in fighting the Germer-Hill- quit machine and building up a closer relationship with the vic- torious revolution of the Russian workers. Earl Browder and his brothers had been found guilty of “conspiracy to defeat the war legislation” in 1917. They were sentenced to one year in jail and two years in Leavenworth prison. In July, 1919, they were taken to prison with four others and we shall never forget that day when we walked with them to the iron doors of that prison which shut them away from the work, away from our great need of them to help us build the new Revolutionary Party. HEN Adolph Germer, National Secretary of the Socialist Party in that 1919 Convention, called the since I'm working in the mill and I'm now only 22 years old, The same goes for the others. ? After discussing the N. R. A. with the rest of the strikers I believe that | this code is only for the benefit of | my bosses and not for us. I'm will-| ing to stick with the rest of the strikers and fight on until our de- mands are granted. I do not think that the Kahn and Feldman mill is just a mill. I call it the“Hot House.” I fesl that with the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union, of which I am already a member, we | will be able to win our fight. Dye Workers Signing Up With Nat'l Textile Union Despite Terror By a Dye Worker Correspondent LODI, N.J.—The United Piece Dye Works in Lodi, N. J., is the largest mill in New Jersey. Many wage cuts took place here since 1932. Since the new code went into effect, the work- ers found out that they are in a worse condition than before. ‘The wages are the following at present: 45 cents per hour for male and 35 cents for female, Since this a new code, most of the departments are working on a 5 or 6 hour shift, which means $10 a week. The National Textile Workers Union has succeeded in organizing workers from different departments. The bosses are carrying on_ terror with. the cooperation of the police. In the last week, eight workers were arrested for distribution of leaflets. In spite of this, many workers re- sponded to the call for a mass meet- ing, where also a gang of the bosses hung around outside the hall trying to scare the workers. But the work- ers answer was that they will bring more and more workers to the next meeting. They understand that the only way out is by organizing the workers in their shop. Many have signed up with the National Textile Workers Union, NOTE We publish letters from needle and textile workers every Friday, Please get them to us by the preceding Tuesday. a Socialist Party, I had especially good _ and file of the members, the workers, \ | ene z police to keep out of the hall- all delegates with a taint of “left-wing” action in their work, the ousted rebels met in another place and or- ganized the Communist Labor Party. The returning delegates reported this and charter members of the new Party organized everywhere. 24 proudly signed my name at the top of the list in Kansas City. Comrade Browder signed his, while still in Leavenworth prison. All around. us were fierce struggles. The “Workers World” was literally smashed by the government raiders. The print shop where it was published had all its type pounded to pieces with ham- mers. Comrade Ruthenberg and many others were sent to Sing Sing prison. We organized the Workers Defense in New York City, a united front of all labor and sympathetic organiza- tions to protect and defend the gréat number of political prisoners. Eliza~ beth Gurley Flynn was the local or- | ganizer; Fred Biedenkapp, the treas- urer. I was the National Organizer,” going from coast to coast to raise money to get the prisoners in S| Sing and other jails out on while their appeal was pending. This organization finally merged into the “National Labor Defense,” with Edgar Owens as national organizer, This, of course, was the real begin- ning of the International Labor De- fense. pear HEN I review the fourteen years of mur Party life, I feel a deep sense of joy that in spite of our | weaknesses our whole army~ is stronger, better equipped than ever before. The quality of our fighters has been tried out. They have stood. the test. We have new allies from the ranks of ‘the militant farmers, from teach- ers, students, from the Negro share- croppers of the South, from the agricultural workers of the Coast. Here in Pittsburgh, the very citadel of capitalism, of brutal capitalist terrors, here where the coal miners are seething, only yesterday I talked ‘to hundreds of miners with their heads up, their spirit great, beginning a new struggle, not bewailing the last strike. The steel workers under the black slavery of the Jones and Laughlin masters the U. S. Steel, and the united forces of Andy Mellon, Pinchot and Co., are being | roused from their slumber. But they need us, comrades, need all we have to. give, our-papers, our leadership, our experiences, our guidance, our life. Only by staying with them ull the “final conflict” can we win. _Qur party is going forward, and I, ag the oldest fighter in our American class war, I greet our party as a whole. We are building today a real American Communist Party. The youth are looking to us and we will not: fail them. Let us look forward, not backward. Forward to a revolutionary mast Party—the C. P. of the U. S. A. By PAUL LUTTINGER, M. D. V. Minor Neglects Many Party workers are so much taken up with their “big” work that they often neglect what they call “little” things about their health. If they would stop to think that all big things begin by being little, they will soon nay more attention to what appear to be trivial mishaps. Take the matter of cuts or needle pricks. The application of a little iodine is sufficient to prevent any in- fection. But many Party workers are so busy with “higher” things that they neglect this little precaution. The result is often a painful inflam- mation, an abscess which requires a surgical operation or the more seri- ous septicemia (blood poisoning) which often kills the patient. A sprained ankle will get well quickly if sufficiently rested. But many Party workers have tried to “walk it out” and had to remain in bed for weeks. A plain cold, when neglected, be- comes the Grippe and the Grippe often turns into Pneumonia with many “wise guys” who don’t be- lieve in coddling. Corns and bunions are allowed to cripple the feet, distort the posture, cause premature (early) tiredness and make one fretful and miserable, when the condition could have been avoided by the proverbial stitch in sim e. The teeth have cavities? Never mind. Frequent sore throats. Nitche- vo, A vaginal discharge? Nobody sees it. Frequent headaches? It will pass. Heartburn after meals? Bicarbonate. Blurred vision? I'll attend to it af- ter the plenum. Pain in the ear? I'll put some oil in it. How about that hacking cough you have had since your grippe? Oh, go milk a duck! Now, everyone of the above “little” troubles are known to have become so serious in some cases that they not only impaired the worker's health and efficiency, but in many cases personally known to the writer have resulted in permanent dis- ability or in death. RE Occupational Diseases D.P.—We contemplate to run a se- ries of articles on industrial hazards to health in the near future. There is a wealth of first-hand information on this and allied subjects tabulated by the untiring efforts of Graree Burnham of the Labor Research As- sociation, which we intend to put be- fore our readers as conditions arise. over ore J. R., Detroit—There is a signifi- cant lack of health safeguards in the various codes so far published by the various industries, under the NRA. It Js up to the militant workers to fsee'that this oversight” be corrected. d Peary Gonorrhea L. 8., Chicago.—The correct name fer the disease is gonorrhea. The common name “clap” is not used: in gdod society; but the disease itself attacks the most respectable “pillars” of society. a) In most cases, in the male, the disease can apparently be cured. Some authorities claim that females are hever cured completely. From. practical point of view, it seems that the acute manifestations of the dis- ease are cured, although it may leave some after-effects which become ap- parent many years later. b) Gonorrhea does not affect the children, except that the eyes of the newborn may become infected with the pus. To avoid this a good doctor always puts in a drop of 1 per cent silver nitrate in each eye of the new- born, which kills the germs. The san- itary code in New York prescribes that every midwife and should use these drops in all new births, irrespective of whether the thother has the disease or not. reaper want Aluminum Ware—Sangwin Mrs. L. M., Bronx—There is no sci- entific proof, so far, that aluminum cooking utensils are harmful. Not a single case of poisoning has been reported in the medical literature, as tar as I know. “Sangwin” is not considered to be effective as an “immune blood in- unction” for tuberculosis, whatever these three silly words ‘may mean, Do not waste a cent on quack medi- cines. Up to date, there is no better cure for TB. than sunshine; fresh air sand good food, *Readers desiring health inform- ation should address their let to Dr. Paul Luttinger, c-o i Worker, 35 East 12th St, New York City, —