The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1933, Page 4

[ J 1 : Page Four C.P. Unit Suggests _ Methods to Improve _ Six-Page “Daily” , We Are Very Proud of Our Daily Now,’ Writes| ' Umit; Makes Plans for Larger Circulation } Prunes. But Suggests Bett z (Editor’s Note: We have rec er Strike Writeups elved some communications from units, giving their suggestions and criticisms on the new 6-page Daily. The one published below publishing it in full. “ We ask all units to follow the //% discussion on the Daily Worker. opinion on the Daily with concr is particularly good, and we are example of this one, and organize The unit is asked to send in an ete suggestions and concrete cri- ticisms. These will all be considered and a reply will be published , im the Daily Worker). Comrade Editor: At our last Unit meeting (Unit 2, the new 6-8 page Daily Worker. All New York City. Section 2, District 2) we discussed comrades present were very enthusi- astic about the new Daily, and a very lively discussion was held. Some of the features which were hailed were: The sport section, “In the Home,” the “SS Utah,” “Comic Strip,” and of course the Editorials, which are simpler and better and generally more news. All these things are the making of a mass Paper. It has features that will appeal to the entire family, so th:\ if the father does not buy it one day the mother or child will Our Unit has two comrades— printers—and they of course dis. cussed the Daily from the technical point of view. Some of the sug- gestions made by these comrades, in order that the Daily will be more readable and more attractive are: —The print in the Editorials is too small. They suggest 10 point type or 8 on 10, and no very small type for any section. The Heads should be more uniform and_ balanced. When these terms were explained to the comrades we saw that if these suggestions were followed the dail would be more attrative. The back age, for instance, has heads of dif- erent type, size, ec. This has a tendency of blurring the page and with nothing standing out. Other suggestions : humor column with a “sting.” (2 ‘Witstions and answers, especially on puilditA. (3) All Workers Corre- inauence on one page, unless policy 3.to group according to trades, ete. (4) Once a week or so a column of Progress in Science, Inventions and Evolutionary Activity. (5) Cross word puzzle (labor). (6) Every Ssue to contain a Sub blank. (7) Still more simplified language. Patterns can be eliminated be- tause from the wo point of view it costs more to sew one’s own slothes than to buy them. In the Home Column have a Chil- iren’s Section, something on chang- ng of prices, Behavior of children, American History popularized, from yur point of view, etc. The writ on recent strikes, Iress, etc, were very poorly done. Che reports on the ss strike are very dry. ‘ants a special reporter, with pep. Our Unit also discussed how we crease the circulation ean and will f the Daily, establish routes, ete. Today’s Menu BREAKF. T Farina. Whole wheat bread ) Coffee—milk. xa Wash the prunes, then soak in old water overnight Cook slowly in the water in which they were soaked until soft. dd 1-4 cup sugar to every 2 cups f prunes and cook 5 minutes mger. Season by cooking with Ne’ prunes a slice of orange or Mon skin or a bit of ginger. * * + LUNCH Cooked carrots, rea beans, vinach. Chocolate pudding Tea—milk. To the cooked vegetables add | Tump of butter and salt and oe The vegetables should be ed in very little boiling water. The comrade who sent in these enus did not send directions for @ chocolate pudding so we are fain at a loss. ee : DINNER 'Wegetable soup. add meat. Curly cabbage. Melon. Coffee—milk. | df the. stem end of the melon is | ft (but not from too much| ‘ndling) and the melon has a) yeet smell, and the skin is rather | larse, it will almost certainly be ‘good melon. Note:—Comrades must send iNrections for cooking with the (amg iq orking Woman Club iewly Formed, Wins ‘Two Relief Victories DLEVELAND, 0.—The “Working yman Club” recently formed here) © alteady won two relief victories. ‘e@ was a $12.75 check “Yor a mother “ch eight children who had been “fied relief, and the other a $1.85 order and new lodgings for a 9) sti the platform of the Working Wo. -n Club is the winning of imme- te relief for urgent casey, and did you know—that with a 40 or 50 cent can of naptha, ob-| ied at any paint store, you can clean several dresses ke like that war- | A lively committee, the best com- |rades in the Unit, will be selected | for this work. “ee Blue Eagle Screams for More Profits as Transport Workers Are Speeded Up Worker now and feel certain that it will be easier to approach workers with it now than heretofore. Comradely yours, UNIT 2, SECTION 2, Per F. Heller. Prepare for 14th Party Anniversary Districts Throughout U. S. Plan Events NEW YORK.—Preparations are |being made throughout the coun- |try to celebrate the 14th anniver- |sary of the founding of the Com- |munist Party of America on Sep- tember 4th, Boston workers will celebrate the event om the 4th with a big picnic at Camp Nitgedaiget. Prov- idence and Worcester are prepar- ing their own celebrations. Minnesota will have pienic on September 10 and inside affairs are beng planned. Other cities of the District are arranging a | series of affairs for Sept 3 and 4. Detroit will celebrate the Party anniversary on both Sept. 3 and 4. Other sections in Michigan are busy preparing for the celebration. NAZIS JAIL SWISS WOMAN BASLE, Switzerland, Aug. 25.— Zita Fertzg, a 31-year old _ store- |keéper of Breuzlingen, Switzerland, was held in jail by Nazis in Kon- just across the border, with “making comments unfavorable to the German govern- ment, | She had gone to Konstanz to pro- | test against signs on the Swiss bor- |der warning Germans against buy- Jing anything in the Swiss town. stanz, | charged > | after 5 p.m |Can You Make ’ Yourself ? | And have you ever tried dyeing your slips to match your dresses? The lace may be left off this slip, but be sure to bind the top strongly so that it doesn’t tear, especially where the shoulder straps are at- tached. em | | Pattern 2530 is available in sizes 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 34 takes 1 7-8 yards 39 inch fabric and 1 1-4 yeards lace, Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded with this pattern. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (165c) 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 Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. (Patterns |A Pictorial History of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 4 1 | |Lumber Ships Pick Up) ,. “Y WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUsiT 28, 1938 (Based cn Wm. Z. Foster’s No. 1—When President Wilson was informed of the true situation in the steel industry, that all the men were asking for was a confer ence at which to present their grievances, he admitted the justice of the committee’s position, He agreed to use his influence with Gary to arrange a conference. Longshoremen of : Coast Cheated of Overtime Pay Others to Finish Work After 5 p.m. By a Worker Correspondent SAN PEDRO, Calif—Here is’’ati- other trick of the bosses to get away from paying a living wage to the workers. The lohgshoremen that ‘dre working on the lumber schooners ‘are getting 75 cents an hour. After’ 5 p.m. they are supposed to get $2.15 an hour, The men that are working in the lumber yards are getting from 30 cents to 40 cents an hour and only work a few days a week. Whenever a lumber schooner” is coming in to E. K. Wood Lumber Co: to be loaded or unloaded, the long» shoremen work till 5 p.m. And after 5 p.m, a crew or a gang is picked up at the yard end some sailors from | the schooner and finish the job at 50 cents an hour, thereby saving many dollars in wages for the lumber company. The work is very dangerous. . You can see workers that are working™ifi | the lumber industry walking with crutches or with ken arms, or | otherwise injured, all the time. | Workers of the lumber yards! Do | not scab on your fellow workers, the | longshoremen! Demand the full rate of pay for longshoring! Demand decent wages in the yard } }so you will not be forced to work A Lumber Schooner Longshoreman, AFL Heads Hunt for Dues Under — Banner of NRA (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—Things are get- ting no better: In fact they are W as the price of everything is up and men are still walking | eets looking for work. In fact I am doing it myself. . I was up to the Labor Temple this afterncon trying to get a line on the | meeting to be held there to organize the Western Tablet Co. into a union nt some of the rail- road men, and I guess he is still a representative of some of the rail- road boys. He got rather sore when I told him the shop men were sold out by the heads of the union in 1922. A Closed Meeting This fellow was going to be one of the main speakers of the afternoon. I was of the understanding the meet- ing was going to be an open affair, but when I got to the hall and sat | down for a while, I was informed it was going to be a closed meeting, and I have a hunch this big pros- perous looking organizer for the railroad men who was going to speak was the cause of changing the meet- ing from an open to a closed meeting. The Rank and Filer was handing. out $2.40 to either join this union | or for payment of dues, of which the biggest part will go into the hands. of the president of the union~ andt} his lackeys. | Why the Sudden Activity? | It seems that the A. F. of L. has| all of a sudden taken a lot of inter- est in the affairs of this particulaa)' shop and others. The A. F. of L. pocketbook is getting dry due to un- employment, and the cow needs milking again, so they go out with | @ bunch of the ballyhoo men to drag, in some more of the workers. Men I talked to that work for the | Western Tablet Co. said they could not get radical during these times while Mr. Johnson (the biggest scab on earth) was trying to make things’| better for the working men atid) women. Of course, you know where they got that dope. Right from th¢; organizer from the A. F. of L, and. the capitalist press. | The boys or rank and file men of the Western Tablet Co. here do not figure what their dues cost, and how much more they will have to get per week or day in order to pay these book. “The Great Steel Strike”) No, 2—A week passed with no word from the President. Condi- tions in the steel industry were frightful. The companies, realizing the importance of striking the first | blow, were discharging the men by the thousands. wait no longer. They informed Wilson that; they would mect on September 9 to consider immediate action, The unions could | No. 3 wait 48 hours for an answer from the President. On the following day Wilson’s Secretary, Tumulty, sent | | a telegram holding forth no hope | — The un‘ons decided to for a conference with the Steel Trust, and he was silent as to what he thought the unions ought to do. Clearly the unions had to act. RICO MORNING BLAH® pe a STEEL STRIKE CALLED OFF! No. 4—Accordingly, we set the strike date for Sept. 22. Then came a bolt from the blue. Next morning the papers carried a telegram from Tumulty to us stating that he had requested us to postpone the str’ke. We rubbed our eyes. His telegram had menticned no such thing. And then we got a telegram from Gom- pers also asking us to postpone the strike until Oct. 6. Crews Speeded Up to Take | Jobs From (By a Marine Worker Correspondent) This will apply to the steam schooners of the Pacific Coast, where k is being done with the aid of coast, where the crews of these ships are doing all of the work and where men are working themselves to death by doing all of this work, when there | starving to get work on these same/ are longshoremen that are | ships. Now we will take ships like the McCormack: Line, Nelson Line, the | big freighters that are plying up and | down the Pacific with four and five gears that take lots of work to load and discharge, and the crew are doing 75 per cent of the work. Eliminate Longshoremen They come to Puget Sound and | the Columbia River, where they move from one port to another. The crews |are doing all of the work. Here is the Nelson Line that is putting on |automatic oilers and now carrying | 12 sailors, so that they can do away | with longshoremen entirely to do the work, and the Nelson is now paying the lowest wages on the Coast for all this work. Men killing themselves for $45 a month and 40 cents an hour overtime. Instead of working 8 men in the hold, they now work 6 men against 8 longshoremen, and the mates and winchdrivers are on deck, one driving the gear, the mate tending hatch, and when down south the mate goes out on the docks and builds the piles. This is keeping all the men ashore from getting a job on these ships, |and the sailors and mates working their heads off for nothing. Health Broken Down There are men sailing on these ships that have broken themselves down in health and worn out from this hard work. When working in Puget Sound, the crew goes from one hatch to the other to get the ship jloaded, and are always in a rush, hollering from the time they go to work until they stop. The only time there is peace on these ships is dur- ing eating hours, and then the men are discussing their problems of the hard work that they are doing. If there was ever a mad house, they are these shins. And when at sea, because all of the gears is made Longshoremen the crews of all ships sailing on the up for the work on shore, you are working all the time doing real re- sponsible work for very little pay. A Copenhagen Lesson for Workers of N. Y. to Take to Heart By a Marine Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK CITY.—Nazis of the SS. Reliance were sadly disap- pointed when on arriving at Copen- hagen, Denmark, they were, contrary to their expectations, greeted with a “shower of rocks” instead of confetti, yet, as they explained to themselves, there might have been a shortage of the more usual tickertape, and the morose Danes only wanted to~ make the reception more “impressive.” But when half a block away from the dock, they were greeted in their mother tongue, words on a huge placard carried by two workers say; ing “Hitler and Nazie Verrecke—only then were they convinced that Copenhagen was no place for them after all, and valiantly retreated to their ship. Our Nazis like the port of New York best of all, and write home that all New York sympathizes with them, telling them at home how un- molestedly they can play hockey at the foot of the pier, swastika arm- bands and all, while high above, on the foremast of the good Nazi ship Reliance, flies the swastika murder- cross unchallenged. NOTE We publish letters from workers in the transportation and communica- tions industries every Monday. Get them to us by the preceding Thurs- day. Letters from NEW YORK CITY. shop affiliated with the ve F. of L, T | Comrade Editor: was in conversation with some of| The organizations of the Restau- the ound an organizer who! y:nt ‘Trades announced to their | members the adoption of a code. Male labor is taken care of as fol- lows: 1, Twelve hours a day, with three hours off in between. The aggre- gate of the working week, “not more” than 54 hours. 2. 28 cents an hour, with a deduc- tion of $3 for “food” (steaks and chops, of course)! whether they want to be fed or not. Since the avowed purpose of the Recovery Act is the spread of em- ployment, you can readily imagine how effective such an arrangement will be. Inasmuch as the press unanimous- ly keeps quiet about all this busi- ness, I am asking you, Mr. Editor, what the inducement for such silence might be. Rie: 6 . . . NEW YORK CITY. Comrade Editor: Congratulations on your editorial on fighting the “red scare.” I had a personal experience with a “red scare” last year at the I. Miller strike. When the bosses raised the “red” ‘| issue, Rosenberg, the organizer, faced it squarely. As a result, the strikers,, who were mostly backward workers, became sympathizers of the Party. I suggest that in order to. combat Our Readers | {this opportunism, the readers of the “Daily” write of their expcriences in | fighting this tactic of the bosses by | bringing forward the face of the Party and the Daily. I also suggest more be printed about the 8. P. and the N. I. R. A. and the doings of the Musteites about the Nira. Also, I would like to see some articles on International Youth Day in the Daily, HJ. ee NEW YORK CITY. Comrade Editor: Recently I was with a group of striking dressmakers, and some of them asked me if the Foltis-Fischer Cafeterias are still on strike. Of course I told them the truth, but in. order to complete my duty,, please notify the workers in general that. the bosses’ court granted to the Foltis-Fischer Cafeterias, as well as to the Willow Cafeterias, injunctions against the Food Workers Industrial Union as a scheme to demoralize and break the real unions that are fight- ing for the interests of the workers. Workers, do not patro-ize the above companies. Food workers, join the Food Work- ers Industrial Union, the real rank and file union. A Food Worker. (Editor’s Note.—The addrecs of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union is 4 West 18th Street, New York City. NAME. ..., dues into the union, and they ‘Wwilt) not figure the rise in the cost..of:) living, so if they do get a boost. of-| by Mail only). wages through the union they will’! not be any ahead. 7 ADDRESS Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Communist. Party. Telephone CHelsea 3-0505. |pledging solidarity, Swedish Workers Greet Finnish Travelers .to USSR Big Demonstration at Dock Defies Police Attack By a Marine Worker Correspondent $8.8. GRIPSHOLM.—As I wrote in the previous report of the August First Demonstration on board this boat, there are a group of 63 Finnish workers travelling to Karelia, U. S. S. R. The group is travelling under the auspices of the Finnish Federation, U.S. and Canada, a workers’ organi- zation. We landed at Gothenburg, Sweden, Sunday evening, August 6. The Fin- nish group, in company with some other workers, were greeted at the dock by a member of the Swedish Communist Party who invited them to their hall. They were met there with revolutionary greetings, ex- changed experiences, and sang revo- Jutionary songs in three languages until late in the evening. At 10 pm. a large group of Swedish comrades (about 200) came to the dock to see us off; revolu- tionary salutations were shouted back and forth between the group on board and the one on shore, and there was much singing in unison. After a short while, the Swedish police began to interfere with the comrades on shore. We, from the deck of the ship, could see that the Swedish comrades were militantly continuing their salutations, despite the fact that the police began taking their banners away from them and tried to force them off the dock. As 11 p.m. approached, the com- rades on shore began shouting and singing louder and more militantly. The police, seeing that this spirit was spreading rapidly through the rest of the crowd on the dock, made a frantic effort to dissolve the group of comrades. They began beating the Workers with their swords and scab- bards (which they wear in Sweden). The comrades scattered for a mo- ment, but returned immediately and began singing and shouting louder than before. This time the police went aro making individual ar- rests. The ing went on! We left Sweden wit ¢ shouts of our Swed- ish comrades ringing in our ears— telling us to exnect a Soviet Sweden, promising , sup- Port to the U. S. S. R. and the Com- munist International. J. H. SHIPMAN. i Trae drivers Paid With Waste Paper (By a Taxi Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The sudden spurt in war industries that has taken Place throughout the capitalist world has sent the price of waste paper in this city from 5 cents per 100 Ibs. up to 40 cents per 100 Ibs. The bosses operating private gar- bage trucks are taking a rather veculiar advantage of this windfall. Whereas, in the past, the paper was dumped with the rest of the refuse, it is now utilized as a means of pay- ing the chauffeurs and helpers oper- ating the dump-trucks. Not a few of the men employed are doing this heavy and noisome work for what- ever cash the waste paper picked up on the route brings in. Workers are engaged upon the understanding that no wages are to be paid; that the sole compensation is the money gotten by selling the waste paper—a transaction which the workers must carry out them- selves, The police are working hand in hand with the bosses in this new scheme of exploitation. The cops are handing out tickets to the drivers of vehicles that attempt to follow the dump trucks for the purpose of picking up the paper. Member of Taxi-Workers Union 2 OAR LEAT | Farmers to Fight Again || Dairy Farmers. Learning Fast That Kank || and File Leadership Will Win Against the Milk By BEN FIELD Trust 1 eaiecerameantents the milk strike is lost, New York dairy farmers |*" are ready to fight again. ‘They | square enough in the lest strike. realize that the hammer did not hit They. know now that the Woodheads | and the other leaders held their arms'back in their struggle, to get cost | of production for their milk. The v arnish has blistered off that “liberal,” |Lehman, the milk board, and the@————~—————— state troopers. These as well as{Wéshington: Clemens was not at |the dealers are their enemies, ‘They | home. He was in Europe on a vaca- tion. The organizer was told to see |need a leftwing farm organization with real militant leadership. And | they are ready for it, This is what | we found out talking to farmers | and farmhands in Tioga and Broome | Counties, Hate the Dairymen’s League Even the middle and more con- servative farmers are beginning to stir. We met a farmer who owns 200 acres, most of it rich land in jthe flats bordering the Susquehanna River in Tioga County. About half of the farmers in his township be- |long to the gteat scab outfit, the Dairymen’s League. He was not in the strike, but he was ready to cuss the League. He said: “I cut my herd down to 14 cows. It don’t pay to produce milk when you get 2% cents a quart. Did the Dairymen’s League help us? When the Milk Board raised the consumer a cent a quart, the League helped Bordens get 13 cents of the 47 cents. The League and Bordens wear the same glove. And then these certificates of indebtedness. The League keeps anywhere from 7 to 15 cents of the dollar you get for the milk and gives you a certificate of indebted- ness bearing 6 per cent interest, re- deemable in 5 years, sometimes seven. Farmers can’t wait that long. They need all the. blamed cash they can lay hands on. So lots of farmers cash theirs right, off the bat for low’s 60 per cent. And then if you kick, you lose your market.” All this farmer could suggest was stabilizing production to help the farmer. s © He showed, however, that his eye was clearing. He showed a great interest in the unemployed who were being hired to work on the roads and bridges and were being speed- ed up by the contractors, wound up and down like a lot of toys, and laid off with every blow of the wind. He said that most of the government’s farm plans were everything but how the farmer could make a living. The farmer must cut more off the mid- dlemen’s fat meat pie. A Farm Worker Talks A farmhand, an unemployed mech- anic from Scranton, tallked to us as he was cleaning the cowstable. He got his job only about a week ago. Looking for work near Green in Shenango County, he walked down a road where 400 farmers were lined up*in an army. They had a road scraper drawn across the road, old farm machinery, and planks and railroad ties full of spikes. “That stopped the trucks all right. Not a@ can of milk but was dumped, They knocked off the troopers like a lot of bottle corks. It was too bad they didn’t stick together a little longer. Here the fellow I'm working for, he got arrested and was in thé coop. But he’s ready to fight again. They got him under a $1,000 bond. Why the devil shouldn't farmers get 4%c for their milk? Feed’s gone up like a kite. He uses two tons a month, and that costs between $80 and $90, and maybe a farmhand could get more than $10 a month. A farmer’s got to have a hired man or he can’t go it any more than having one horse. If he don’t get anything, he can’t pay. A farm’s the last place I'd work if I wasn’t starving. A fellow’s tied to the wagon wheel. It’s a bloody shame, I tell you.” He banged his shovel on the barn floor till his overalls were splattered. Pees, wea Tr Rutland Plan organization was Jeading the strike in this section of the state. Clemens is the presi- cent. This man Clemens is a rich farmer. Last fall an organizer was sent to his home to find out whether the farmers in the Rutland Plan would send delegates to the Farmers National Convention in another one of the leaders of this farm organization, a millionaire who was in the dairy business fer the Sport of it! How did Clemens and Porter and other leaders conduct the strike and the organization in southern New York? They went around telling farmers to join up, they would guar- rantee them a market, so many hun- dreds of farmers had already joined. Dues are 1 cent for every hundred pounds of milk to be deducted from the’ milk check by the dealer, A few meetings were held. Many of the farmers didn’t know about them. There was no real preparation for the strike. Dealers who were will- ingeto pay 30 and 40 cents more than the Dairymen’s League weren't approached by a committee of farm- ers. The leaders did everything with- cut consulting the farmers. Why, ‘many of the farmers didn’t hear about the strike until the news was broadcast over the radio one morn- ‘hg. No delegation of farmers was Sent out to encourage the more timid farmers, none to members outside of the organization. | As the two farmers talking to me tell the story, they begin to see that the leadership was responsible for the crushing of the strike. “That's true. If we'd been set right, that “Lehinan and his riot act couldn’t have stopped us. We got the Pennsylvania farmers with us. Not even a lady- bug could get thru our pickets with- out being spotted.” The tall lanky brother had been arrested. Their neighbor was arrested with 82 other farmers in Tioga Coun- ty, put under $1,000 bond, for which they had to pay $30 a piece as they were from Broome County. Lawyers soaked them $15 each. They were arrested for trespassing on another »man’s property and for rioting. All they were doing was waiting on the road for milk trucks of scabs. They were to have been tried the 15th of the month but the trial has been postponed to the 29th. The other farmer says, “I don’t think they'll go thru with the trials. Lanky here punched a trooper off one truck. We locked some of them up in a creamery. We had things humming fine as a new top. They had to get milk from Wisconsin. Our dealer was getting in a carload of dried milk. He was losing $2,000 a day. But then some of the farmers got scared. Sure, the fellows like Woodhead and Clemens began back- ing out. They thought the Dairy- men’s League would fine them for not shipping milk. They was afraid of being pinched. Maybe they would be Sent up to break rocks. The contract of the Rutland Plan guarantees a market for the farmer. -Now many of the farmers have been laid off by Sheffields and other deal- ers for being in the strike. How will they find a new market? Lanky speaks up, “Hell, we do need organ- ization. We want you fellows to help us. I worked in Chicago 15 years ago as street car conductor. When we had a strike, everybody went out—repair men, sweepers, switchmen, ticket punchers, everybody. A union’s got to-be organized such a way wjth the farmers. r His brother nods. They no longer Teel so plumb disgusted so as to swear they'll never picket and strike again. Farmers can be o1 d. Farmers can ‘stick thru hell and after. They listen to the story of the Pennsylvania UFPA. to the United Farmers League, and the Holiday Association in Nebraska, Rank and file control of real dirt farmers. No rich farmers dn.the organization. No business men. or, bankers. ‘That's the pitchfork,” they ery. “That's the pitchfork.” By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. VII—A Sane Sex Life Looking back the 14 years, the writer has been dealing with work- ers he may say that are there so many saints and so many—well not so holy. From the point of view of paynicet health, both extremes are armful, if persisted in for any length of time. There seems to be a mistaken idea among many workers that sexual continence is harmful per se. There is no such evidence. A woman and even a man may remain continent for a number of years without show- ing any ill effects. The allegations of professional seducers to the con- trary nothwithstanding. The only bad effects the writer has been able to note were mainly psychological. There, is of course, no valid rea- son why any worker should suffer from a veneyal disease. Ignorance is no factor in this respect. It can only be ascribed to negligence, to carelessness. The use of an ordin- ary antiseptic wash or a douche is sufficient to prevent veneral in- fection. V4 On the other hand, the promis- cuous are prone to become lax. At the risk of being accused of being an old fogy, it must be admitted that this business of changing sex partners at the drop of a hat or of having sev- eral at the same time, is doing the individual no good. Workers who are not too well fed exhaust them- selves under such conditions and have very little energy left for their jobs or for Party work. They can not afford to ape the bourgeois, if for°no other reason than that eahnot be a Don Juan on milk crackers or even on orat Sexual excess, when coupled hard’ work, malnourishment and the other hygienic errors mentioned in these articles, will put the Kibosh on the best constitution. (This ends the series on the ‘Health of Party Workers). ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Mrs. A. G.—As long as your health is in good condition, you need not worry about your hair turning white. You are right in thinking Mnusual for jet black iow white at the age | see such cases from time to ‘skin clinics, it is not so men and women in with grey or white hair, know what causes the pigment (color) tO disappear. Fa amg with white . They are albinos. Marie Antoinette is said to have turned white the night before was executed, But weare inclined to believe that she merely forgot to apply the customary dye. Your van- ity need not suffer from your condi- tion. Snow white hair with a youth- ful complexion is all the rage im Paris salons and some debutantes in New York are putting on white wigs, = Readers desiring health inform. ation should address their letters to.Dr. Paul Luttinger, ¢-o Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St. New York City, —