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Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1933 Celebrations of Ly Forces of Struggle Gather in Steel Mills| Forced Labor Camp 14th Anniversary Against NRA Wage Cutting, Speed-Up]Is Reward for Vets Called for Sept. Heaters Sweat While Bosses Yell, “Faster” : “Daily” Plans Special Issue Sept. 23; Will Recount History of Communist Party; Camp Unity Workers Send Greetings By a Metal Worker Correspondent | CUDAHY, Wis.—The condition of | a heater in the Ladish Drop Forge Plant is worse even than that of a hammer man. A heater stays between NEW YORK.—Workers at Camp Unity, Wingdale, New York, held a celebration commemprating the 14th anniversary of the founding of the: | Communist Party, U.S.A., on September 4. This is one of the many cele- | By an Auto Worker Correspondent ‘Wages at Milwaukee Steel Plant Cut 100 P.C. by NRA MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The A. C. Smith Corp. makes all of General Motors automobile and truck frames, some gasoline cracking stills, oil line pipe for | (py a Steel Worker Correspondent) the big oil companies and the big thing right now is steel beer barrels. They | have at present about 4,000 workers. About 3,000 of these are.used in the | manufacture of beer barrels for the big brewing companies, of which several —are in Milwaukee. brations that are taking place all over the country in celebration of this'| two furnaces pitching cherry-red iron é event, The workers at Unity sent the fol- lowing telegram to the Central Com mittee: “A meeting of twelve hundred | Swedish Hall, .|N. Sparks, district organizer of New | England will be the main speaker. 58 Chestnut Street. | Plainfield, N. J.—On Sept. 17 a pro- gram has been arranged for celebra- to a hammerman; his eyes are always | ready to pop out because of the heat; he has nothing on but underwear | soaked in oil and scale; his nose pro- | tection is a cloth, Closed 4 Open Hearth | Furnaces Under NRA) (By a Worker Correspondent) | INDIANA. HARBOR, These 3,000 workers are divided into three shifts of 1,000 each. This is all line work and they keep on speed- ing up this line until they have now reached a point where they can run 450 barréis per hour. Under the ‘Tin Mill Men | Forced to Share © With Learners SPARROWS POINT, Md.—in the tin mill department of the Bethlehem Steel Co. plant shearmen and open- ers are being forced to work 10 hours a@ day 4 days a week, because there are So many extra men on the “race.” These extra men are working as “learners,” at learners’ wages and on a piecework basis. So the company is doing its part for the National Re- Ind.—It’s| "R.A. they have cut the hours from | covery Act by putting the shearmen| MONTPELIER, Vt—The entire sists of building retaining dams sows lies within the site of the dams and wheeling whatever dirt and rocks | the slave drivers want taken away. jit also includes loading trucks by. shovel which is a heavy drain on the} underfed and undernourished vets. | Trucks are expected to be loadéd’) in ten minutes, the longest time. | They must also load trucks with | rocks. The earth is of heavy clay | which is very hard to dig on account | |Undernourished Men =Must Do Heavy Work, | Writes Worker in Vermont Camp By A VET. 7,000 vets located in the Winoski | River Valley of Vermont are engagéd.in flood control work. This work com- to check the flood waters. The work | performed by the vets consists of digging ditches with pick and shovel, break- | ing rocks, with rock sledges and clearing the dam sites of whatever timber payable one quarter ($7.50) to the men at the end of each month and the balance to the allotted dependent. If the vet has no dependents, it is credited to him to be paid upon ex- Piration of service. There are fines imposed on the veta for the violation of any rules and regulations, or orders of the camp officers or their lackeys, punishments of the suction and sandy rocky soil: | in the form of dismissal with loss of campers at Camp Unity hail our Bol- One very seldom digs six inches, current earned money, or fine of any i Heaters sweat so much they have | shevik Party on its 14th anniversary. ey Hard ee ares a > cut the | to drain the water from thelr shoes. | sop ounce for a worker to get @/60 and 70 per week to 35. But they i * ; | and openers on a 40-hour week—l0 | job during this time, but if they do|did not raise the hourly rate one tion of the anniversary. The pro- hours a day, 4 days a week—and let- | ‘We pledge our active support to the Party in its struggie for the toiling white and Negro masses, for the struggle against imperialist war, for gram includes music and a play by | I |the Jack London Club. | New York City—St. Nicholas Arena | has been engaged for Friday, Sept. | Every once in a while someone is overcome by the heat. The big shots, | bosses, Steward and Smithey, walk uz the shop like monkeys in| | penny. Everybody gets about 40 cents | per hour. Before, we could, by working inhu- ting them share their work with the learners. | Shearmen are still protesting without striking rocks, which jars the: |shoulders. The same is true for the, |man with the shovel. | Of course, I am speaking of | amount the officer feels like impos- img and loss of liberty, that is, con- finement to tent. the freedom of the Scottsboro boys |22, where Earl Browder, Robert | and down ie shah (oe Weta oe |manly long hours, make $25 to $30 @ | cainst the new speed-up technique, | Wrightsville, where companies 2201, | Sanitation—Medieal Care Tom Mooney. Long live the|Minor, Communist candidate for | ® age, Ty cinds the gate.” jweek, which was just about enough |io" particular against the hand-overs | 2202, 2203, 2204, 2205, 2208, 220% <| i i an ee oe ae e é Ben Gold. of the Needie|‘‘There’s lots of men at the ae to feed our families since the rise ee a oi p Rettaccae rt Ald bred tes eal er ne, 2207. 2208.| There is no sanitary code in the “ian eds ease s harles Krur listrict organizer | times to see that pri a week. i 7 areuatpe a5] + bd throughout the country. Those in Ae eripeier esl Party, will speak.| ‘The hammers thunder like can- | |" Besides this, when we work on the |Shearmen. The openers in the same| The contract hours of work até is no washroom, no baths, the latrine the east inciude: Ce Elixabeth—Workers will: gather at | ons in & ‘war. lines the company cheats us by mak- | department have lately been forced from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. from Monday-| is a crude cesspool with seats. There Hillside, N. J—A_ variy has been mil: gi ling us clear the lines after quitting |to count and stack the sheets of tin|t0 Friday, but the officers try to iti-| is ever present an annoying stench. arranged here for the 14th anniver- sery on Sept. 15. sburgh—On Sept. 15 at 7 p. m. at the International Socialist Lyceum at 805 James Street, NS, speakers and the Russian Hall, 408 Court Street, | to celebrate the anniversary on Sept. | 23. the anniversary will be held here | hammers Sept. 23, Paterson—A meeting to celebrate Roosevelt. Bunks | The commodity they are most busy | on now is beer barrels—bunks. We call them Roosevelt bunks. A dozen forging them day and first thing they do is time. Piece Work System In the frame departments we have | the piece work system. It is averaged | up for two weeks, and if we make less in piles of eight, which takes them at least three hours longer. The shearmen and opgners re- cently held a meeting demanding the 8-hour day, 5-day week, no more | night, each hammer puts out from entertainment have been arranged. puts \1,600 ‘to 1,800 bunks if eight hours. to take your fingerprints like they | than 40 cents per hour then they give hend-overs, and the return of the |duce some (if possible, all) men to volunteer in doing some kind of work | on their own time without compen- sation, for. example, the cleaning of mess tables (rough boards). After each meal, every swad has to do it on his own time. They burn hay in the cesspol once @ week, sometimes once every two weeks, during which a very offensive stench is emitted. There isa croaker (doctor) attach- ed to Companies 2210-2211-2213. This Newark—Ear! Browder will speak wae YM. and¥.W.H.A. J orium | The Daily Worker will commemo-|Two blows with the hammer—Mr. | do criminals. |us 40 cents. But they have a way |48 feed-boys. The company repre- ine fellow, no matter what ails you, the at ‘Heh an w Tinney Streets "on rate the anniversary na cope 23 ty Bunk is out. ow long will this bHunk| When you come into the mill you|of making us work. They give us’a/ sentatives persuaded the workers to eae Hae saat ae wot medicine is ©.C. pills, salts, castor Sep!. 16 et 8 p.m. A program of |a special issue containing articles by | business last? Another month, I| see a blue eagle flying, but that | job once or twice a week where we | put off the meeting for the sole pur-/ ing the tables and raking the ground! oil, or aspirin. There is no such Music and a the workers |Party leaders on the beginnings of | think. Then good-bye bunks for an-| eagle doesn’t help you any. The|can make 50 or 55 cents for a few | pose of giving the company a chance On tha aa "| thing as putting one on light duty Laboratory .Tn also been | the Party as the Left opposition with- | other 20 years. That’s what they are | biue eagle doesn’t guarantee 40-hour | hours and then we have to work like | during the three free days, Saturday, | ‘Wei ate called ate Ps beac Suk and the only time you are confined arrange in the ranks of the Socialist Party | guaranteed for. Steel barrels, by A. O.| work because. some departments are | hellall the rest of the time to make| Sunday and Monday, to split the| hours before ‘we: start work. pare =f to. bed is if you absolutely can’t move, 40 cents so as not to lose the few/ranks, In the meantime, they have | ;. ri. hey | His dispensary is in a tent, no floors, Providence—A banquet will be held and its struggle to become a mass|Smith and Hills Bros. | only working two or three days. here to celebrate the Party anniver- | Bolshevik Party, the real leader of| The time: If workers do not punch; since the blue eagle is flying in sary cn Sept. 17 at 8 p. m. at the! the American working class. | the clock 5 minutes before the start-| the Inland Steel they have closed ing time then they cut half an hour | four open hearth furnaces. off. The workers change their clothes| the posses are making the work- | | first, then walk through the ma- | ,,. hehine shop on a job, then punch the ers work faster. The individual | higher rate of pay, |cents we made on the job with the advised many to join the Amalga- | mated Association of Iron, Steel and Now they have begun to stagger the | Tin Workers. work more by making the men stay | home one or two days a we But we are building the Steel and | worker is doing more than his share | Metal Workers ‘Union, We hav ek. e sev- | SCHOOL FOR TIRED WORKERS Chicago, Tl. American-born elf, who are been employed entire crisis, and have been actually cut very little in salary. I know of others like me. No imme- diate needs or sharpening of the erlsis brought me into the move- ‘e just come into iv because we are determined to help overthrow & system we G , for the sake of * ebildren. decisive industries. s the sectarian cal ation we ex] stagn rience so often. Perhaps the lessons could be given in the Daily Worker, once or twice a week. The answers to be sent in, ete. FRED STANLEY, Editor’s Note: We have asked the National Workers’ School, located at | 35 E. 12th St., New York City, to re- ply. They write: Dear Comrade: You have raised a very important question in your letter with regard , do not work in the|to the need for theoretical training Yet ever since | of active comrades in the Party. Al- | clock. The washroom is hard to compare | with anything else but a tunnel or | horse barn—long, narrow, sooty, dark, | decorated all around with sweaty | 9 Hours Taken Off | By NRA Are Taken Out of Pay Envelope | (By a Machinist Worker Correspondent.) |. BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—In the Brook- | \lyn Machine Shop we have been | working under the worst conditions | of speed-up and long hours until the blue eagle flew in. Now our condi- tions are worse. Last week, the blue eagle was posted in the window and a notice appeared I have been in the Party I have though you have not expressed it on the clock announcing the 40-hour been in leading committees of our | Clearly, you seem to have in mind a Section 8 of District 8. I work hard, Correspondence course, which would and, though tired at night, I believe | undoubtedly be very helpful. In fact, | Ihave given more time to our work |the Workers ’School in New York has than 80 per cent of the unemployed |™ade an attempt to introduce & membership. I mention this merely Correspondence course in “Principles to show that the saving of time is|Of Communism,” but, due to the/ for employed members if | Shortage of forces, this work could to be physically fit and To date I correct leedersiip in most cases. I feel the need for schooling. The school is way down on Michigan Ave., which is at least one amd three-quarters hours’ ride. few member: the school, especially employed mem-~- e been able to give Yet bers. Yet the employed are the ones to make leeding cadres of. What to do? T thims this could be done at nom- imal cost. There should be instructors Who can chi up on the progress of the studeni Questions should be asked by students, ete. Perhaps a Study of the methods used by the In- ternational Correspondence School of Seranton, Pa., would help. If such a method of study could be had, meny of us could take our Place confidently, and without the hesitation we have at present. It is this fear of going wrong that often sates Section attena |ets’ School in the territory of Sec-| not be continued. As to the suggestion to have the lessons printed in the Daily Worker. we shall consider that and perhaps we will be in a position to do it in the near future. u. BROOKLYN TLE MACHINE SHOP | week. At the end of the week, the nine hours that had been taken from The Steel and Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union, which supports all | struggles of the workers for better of work and receiving less wages! eral groups and more are joining ev- | conditions, warns the shearmen and than he got.in 1929. mills have no washrooms for the workers and they have to wait to get home to wash. Once in awhile they hold a safety | meeting, but this is not to protect the workers’ but the bosses, If a worker gets ‘hurt they tell him he isn’t careful ‘and sometimes the workers get bawled out or fired be- cause of this. They also tell workers to wear safety shoes, which are shoes with a@ piece of tit protecting the toes, and the company sells them to the | workers—which is not right because |the worker ought to get them free. |The company seljs the shoes for $3| jand $3.75. You can buy them in | any army, store for -1.98, ‘Forced by Mayor to |Take $1 a Day Jobs or Lose the Relief EUSTIS, Fla.—Roosevelt’s dol- lar-a-day forced labor scheme is being pushed. through here with the cooperation of the Mayor.r The | Mayor is also county chairman of |the relief board, and he recently {had an item printed in the local But your problem can be solved by | our time had been taken out from | paper which stated: “I will appre- establishing a branch of the Work- tion 8, or, if this is impossible for the present, classes should be organ- ized on a section scale under the guidance and with the co-operation of the Workers’ School of Chicago. ‘We had the same problems in New York, and we are solving them now through this means. It is our opin- ion that you should take up this question with the comrades of the Workers’ School of Chicago, and un- doubtedly some arrangements will be made to the satisfaction of the members of Section 8. Your with comradely greetings, A. MARKOFF, Director, Workers’ School. Can You Make ’em) Yourself ? This dvess is simple enough and mot too sober, so that it can be worn almost anywhere. In the winter it might be worn under a cont, Sheer wool, faille, line or a wool-like crepe are sug- sted. If you are broad-shoul- Gered, wait until a dress with a simpler shoulder line comes along. Pattern 1612 is available in si- zes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 2% yards 54 inch fabric, 1 yard piping. Illustrated by-step sewing instructions included with this pattern. | SEND FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) - in coins or stamps (coins prefer- d) for this Anne Adams _pat- _ Write plainly name, address ad style number. BE SURE TO TATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker ittern Department, 243 West Street, New York City. (Patterns by Mail Only) _ NEW YORK, Sept. 10—That the again of school children who graduated from the public l face joblessness was admitted by Edward Rubicki, director of city’s froe employment agency to- . He said: ‘I nove with great concern the con- ual increase in the number of _ ‘hildren of school age who are seek- ng employment. It is estimated - kat 80 children respond to every call. benga- | [Promised Jobs But | our pay envelopes. ‘Then the boss began hiring new |}men for lower wages. gether, talked it over and decided ynot to go in to work Monday, Mon- |day morning we stood outside three | and a half hours, refusing to start | working. Finally, the boss decided | that we work 45 hours. If we had | organized under the Steel and Metai Workers Union, we would have been gble to force the boss to give less | hours and better working conditions. |. This will nevertheless give the workers in the shop something to think about. They will understand | that the quicker we organize the bet- ter it will be for us. | Action of AFL Union |Leaders Involves Only Picnics, Beer and Dues |ciate reports from all employes |of laborers who are not willing to We got to-| work for a dollar a day, and prom- | | ise to deny them any relief in the future.” |had a gate meeting explaining the | union, and the workers are now com- | ing to our office at 1105-2 W. Vliet St. every day. | We are going to*keep the “Daily Worker” for sale at the factory gate. | Articles like the one by Ernst Henri in the August 25th issue on what the German factory workers are do- ing in spite of the Hitler terror, is like somebody giving us a push from little.” : THE WORKERS’ UNION | By 2 Worker Correspondent | HOMESTEAD, Pa.—Miss Frances |v. S., came to our city and held meetings in two places. She declared that all the workers must have a | union, so that the capitalists should | not be able to throw out the workers | on the street. We are having here eens and everyone praises him- self. I'd ask you to point us out which is the best union. The Amalgamated Metal Union is no good, so please answer quickly. | Editer’s Note:—The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union with its program of rank and file control by the workers themselves, and its record of militant struggle, helps the workers fight for their | own interests and not for the in- | terests of the bosses. Its herd- | quarter are at 149 Washington Pl, Pittsburgh, Pa. 6 ‘Daily’ Appeal Brings $172.62 on First Day Communist Party Uni it of Woodridge, N. Y.,| Is First to Respond to Call for $/»),000 Needed NEW YORK.—“Enclosed find $50.00 as a contribution to the 340,000 | Sustaining Fund of the Daily Worker. 1 will contribute $5.00 each week for | (By a Steel Worker Correspondent.) | 9¢ year. Consider the $50.00 in advance payment for the first 10 weeks”— | KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The workers | 80 writes one of our readers, G. McDonald, in the first letter received in of the Sheffield Steel Co. have been | organized about a month in the | A. F. of L., and there is not a damn | thing being done. We have had about four or five meetings, and about all we have is picnics and beer drink- ing and dues. ‘We go to work Monday 8 hours a day. That will mean we will get 50 to 75 cents less on the day. The workers now see that NRA means less pay. They are starting to read the Daily Worker now, and to find out about the industrial union. One of the bosses got a hold of a “Dally” and was reading it. He went into his office and sat down and looked it all over. Then he came out and tried to find out who was bringing it into the mill. He said, “I don't like this thing of putting a Negro on the same footing with a white man.” Down in the washroom they got a | sign up, “White Men Only” but we rub the damn thing off every time we can. Meet Locked Doors | By a Metal Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, Ohio.—On Aug. 21, there appeared an ad in the Cleve- land Press, stating “Moulders wanter | —apply Lake City Malleable Foun-| dry.” When we called we found about 100 men milling around the street with all the doors locked, . Some had spent their last cent for carfare. We called at the office of this company later and were told they had all the moulders they need- ed but we could leave our names and addresses. gO Aiea WN mle ony To keep up a six-page “Daily | Worker”, the circulation must | |L enlarged Daily Worker. The balance of Saturday’s mail contained many other encouraging replies, indicating an ever more immediate response to our appeal than we had expected. The first day’s returns totalled $172.62. Sol Mandel, of So’ls Luncheon- ette, 12th and University Place, New York, sent in $25.00, The Communist Party unit of Woodridge, N. Y. was the first workers’ organization to respond. “We received advance informa- tion,” wrote the Secretary, “and wishing to start the campaign in a spirit of optimism collected don- ations at our membership meeting totaling $32.05 .... As the cam- paign progresses you will hear from us again.” The Monticello, N. Y., unit was also on the job early, “We ran a successful bonfire and entertain- ment last Sunday night and raised $25.00 for the ‘Daily’,” said that letter, “please” credit $11.18 to our account and the balance to the $40,000 sustaining fund.” This, comrades, is the spirit that will carry the drive for funds suc- cessfully forward. It is this spirit that has enabled the Daily Worker to live for the past 10 years, and that guarantees its future. The total contributions for Sat- urday, September 9th, the first day of the drive, follow: DISTRICT 1 Natapor P George, Peabody,| P Andrew Mass. $5.00 | 1 Planin DISTRICT 2 Comrade Sain Daily Worker Bust- | Bob Hamburg ness Office $42.00; H Banks Sol's Luncheonette,| Sol_ Feit nyo 25.00) B Friedman Olympia Hotel Str 1 1 os 1 1, 2. 83333338 3! M Goldberg, Monti-| cello, NY 13,67 getting new subscribers reply to our appeal for $40,000 to guarantee the continued existence of the e X Bain 100 | A Malllsoft 3.00 er .00{ DISTRICT 14 Margerat-Bella 3.00 | Edwards, Newark, D Yor 1.00; NJ 2.28 Forest 1.00 CANADA Comrade Rosen 1.00 | Robotnicke Slove, ‘To- Rudy & Joy 80 ronto, 1 H Pionin 3.00 | Miscellaneous Por 1.00 G McDonald 50.00 Contributions Before Saturday DISTRICT 1 DISTRICT 7 'W. A., Provincetown, | Detroit ae ‘$4.00 |J Latin, 3s D.W. reader, New| 5 Cojerean G4 Bediord, Mass, 1.00/M Herman 3.00 DISTRICT 2 A en 00 N tekestort. 2.00 | Antonymous rr New York City aa * Fglsirset 00 | Minneapolis Unit 8 Sect 1 1.35|B Rubin sb Giauberman Ea peated he S ats 1.00| Jugeslay Club “Ker! Organ'l Comm. NTT! Marx’ $09 WU oy trom Qot| DISTRICT 13 ‘apology from cafe- teria owner who| p'chueles 25 | made misrepresenta-| J Torso 136 tions of Union in| Dan Churich 80 front of above com-/ 8 Riley ‘05 mittee) JB Terzin "25 New York City J Lang’ cy G. Brown 2.00 | Frits 15.00 fenkin 1.00 ji @ Altieri 100, pumas 16 Monticello Unit 50 | ™ Pinger, Leonia, x Sect 2 Unit 17 1.00 3 wusstan M’l Aid 3.35 | Paulson, Jersey City Btout 5.00 2.00 Caoner 200 | Lettish Wks Alliance Club Cubano 38, | WY Orange, NJ 1. Collection Box Acme | 7 Gabriel, Hillside N ‘Theatre 4.42 | 45, 25 Unit 2 sect 6 10.00/ Unit 1 Newark | 1.50 Anonymous 1.00 | Ostepick, Newark .50 OE lane 400 | Lithuanian Liter. So- Fortanenars 8 clety, Newark 15.00 Portchester Unit 1.00/ DI 15 DI Connectient Philadelphia ____| Banger, Norton 1.00 Julius Bresin — 1.60| RNMAS Br 9, Anso- DISTRICT 4 Gratton, NY __.|__ DISTRICT 18 G Titcks 5,00 | Wisconsin M Babinchak, Orwell | Group Workers, Su- ‘Ohio 1,00 | _ perlor 1.60 Finnish Camp, Ash-|G Vital, Beloit ‘so tabula, O 00 | Jugoslay Wks Club, P Stark, Cincinnati, Kenosha 5.00 DISTRICT Colorado 1 1 1 1, 338 behind and saying, “Step on it a} Perkins, Secretary. of Labor of the} | meeting after meeting and many or- | $0) Japanese government. Some of the|ery day. We distributed leaflets and|°Peners against the company reps | who have tricked the workers again and again in the past. Do not trust | their promises! Elect your commit- | tees of honest workers to represent | you now and in the future, and let | the whole committee you elect carry | your demands to the company. Fol- low the methods that won six strikes jin the last two months for the Steel jand Metal Workers’ Industrial Union! |Bethlehem Steel | Speeds Work But | Adds No Jobs (By a Worker Correspondent) SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa.—I heard in New York about the Beth- Jehem Steel Co. A fellow-worker told me everyone could get a job here, so I came here about three | weeks ago, but no job yet. |. We workers have to stand up at the office door from 8 o'clock in the morning till 4 pm, There are more than 600 waiting for a job. Some |days they teke two or three. They jsay they pay 35 cents an hour, but | today two fellow workers of the De- |partment Ynglo Molding Foundry, | after the day’s work, were told they jonly got 60 cents apiece, because | that was piece work. In other departments, like D. E., | they got 35 cents and a bonus. A | fellow-worker told me that he worked hard all day and got a ticket | with four cents for a bonus. That | is only to speed up the workers. | Another thing. The workers here | only work 26 or 30 hours a week, | not like the newspapers said. Stage for Struggle Against NRA Pay ® Being Set in Tin Mills (By a Worker Correspondent) NEWCASTLE, Pa.—The Blue Eagle with the seal of approval from the | White House and a letter of intro- | duction in the form of the Steel Code | grasped in its talons, folded his wings | and came to rest in the Tin Plate | Industry! Men previously working a full week had their total hours reduced to 50, with a corresponding cut in wages. The 40-hour week is not guaranteed. The “Race” in the Hot Mill is practically abolished while the steady crews lose a day every third week. The hourly paid men are affected the most by this cut. The cut varies with individuals, anywhere from $6 to $20.00. With the abolishing of the “Race” 200 men are practically laid off, but in order to\ keep them off the relief rolls, their names are still kept on the payroll. Workers, however, are discussing | things. A change is in progress. A | different attitude pervades the tin © mills, Slowly the stage is being set. | Sun Shipyard Helps Japanese War Lords By a Worner Correspondent CHESTER, Pa.—There has been |& Japanese ship docked at the Sun | Shipyard Docks, undergoing repairs | and @ general overhauling, presum- ably bound for Markus Hook, where She will load parts, castings and other steel material for the Japanese gov- ernment. The Sun Shipyard and Docking Co. owns three ships. They have recantly sold the “Challenger” to the The “Chal- lenger” will shortly be loaded with scrap iron for the imperialist war lords of Japan. The engineers for this trip will be furnished by the Sun Oil Co. This crew of 100 per cent Americans will bring this war material to Japan and the generous Japanese government will give the soy crew free transportation back. The Sun Ship Co. and the Sun Oil Co. are owned by the same group of capitalists. There is only about three weeks’ work in sight now at the Sun Ship- yard, scrapping the last of the U. 8, government shiy Cut | knock us off at 11:55 and fall in at 12:55. It takes at least 5 minutes. to get out of the hole to the tent. We have to rush to beat hell to wash | up and get in the mess line, It takes from 5 to 20 minutes in line for chow. Sometimes the men would be rest- ing, waiting for the bugle to blow, The officers seeing this, would not let the bugler blow retreat. Then, again they want the men to do K.P. (kitchen police) Saturday and Sun- day, but the writer and the rest of the men refused to do so, Pay. The pay is $30 per month, for men doing the hardest manual work and $36 and $45 per month for the officer- appointed slave drivers. These ap+ pointees in nine cases out of ten prove themselves rats, stools, spies, against the men. This amount is The front of the tent is used for dis« pensing and examination of patients, ‘The back of the tents are used as a hospital. The joke of it is only one spare bunk is there to accommodate the sick or the lame. It has accom- modations for 4, but 3 beds are oc~ cupied by the croaker’s helpers, only one of which is of any account. There is a large percentage of rheumatic cases, but lots of the men are afraid to go to the croaker. A disabled vet dropped dead while. at mass two or three weeks ago, of heart failure. Some days it gets as warm as 86 in the shade and at night it would drop to 38-42-46 degrees. This accounts for the dampeess and resultant rheumatism and other cases of illness. (To Be Continued) | | By PAUL LUTTINGER, M. | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Sangwin Again! Francis K.—I{ there could haye, | been any doubt in the writer’s min regarding this alleged cure for tub- erculosis it was promptly dissi- | pated by reading the two pamphlets sent by the business manager of | this medical fraud. The National | Tuberculosis Association and the | American Medical Association have rejected it. The contention of the} | “inventor” that the medical pro- he is an ordinary practitioner in- stead of a professor is a lies Professor Robert Foch the dis- | coverer of the tubercle bacillus and |the greatest authority on tuber- culosis in his day, also tried to introduce a remedy for tuberculosis, called “tuberculin.” After years lof experimenting, tuberculin was given up as a curative agent. It is still used as a disgnostic test and Professor Koch’s name is held in h honor for his discovery of the germ which means T.B., but hig remedy has been given up, in spite of his authority, his influence and his professorship. This is the say- ing trait of scientific medicine, that only facts count- No name, no repution is big enough to main- tain a remedy that as no scientific value. The claim that the exploiter of Sangwin is a Communist is a lie. trum is used by the Soviet govern- ment. An ethical physician and especially a comrade would not com- mercialize a remedy for tuberculosis, and exploit his poor misguided fel- low-comrades whom he lures to his, office by advertisements, At the time of the German Re-~ yolution, another fake the Fried=/ man tuberculosis vaccine, had a brief burst of notoriety; mainly, because the ‘inventor’ had ceeded to bamboozle the comrades. into believing that the capitalists had made a conspiracy against his “remedy” because they wanted the workers (how about themselves?) to- remain tuberculous. According to the pamphlet sent me, Sangwin is not only a cure for | T.B., but also for Neuresthenia, | Goiter, Epilepsy, Disturbances off Menstruation Disturbances in De-y velopment, and what haye you. Bunions and corns are not men~ tioned, but we have no doubt that, it is equally “good” for them too. its existence, not a single ethical: physician has ever endorsed it. So far, no better remedy than, fresh air, sushine and proper food, has been founr for T.B, Any man who could discover a better cure should become a millionaire over-_ night and he would not have to commercialize it, either. to do is to send it to the Research fesssion rejected his “cure” because} It is equally untrue that the nos- |. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Poisonous; All he has,}; came in the case of the discovere? | of insulin, | There will be no more replies on | this subject. If the “Laboratories” which manufacture the nostrum, ‘ean prove that Sangwin is a speciife remedy in T.B., they can sue the writer for libel. Here is a chance for more easy money—maybe! ee fe Kidney Trouble John H., Chicago—You ought to go on a strictly vegetarian diet (except |mushrooms and asparagus, which ‘have a tendency to make you urinate more). We are ‘writing you privately. If you really have kidney trouble a .prescription will not do you any good. Drugs are of no use in this condition, caer uae Thanks for Them Kind Words | M. Goldstein—We rarely acknowl- ledge letters of praise, but yours de- serves special thanks because of your | sincerity and because of the fact that | you are so enthusiastic about Michael Gold’s column. In capitalist papers, “fan” letters always “knock” their idol’s colleagues, instead of praising | them, ’ . Vaginal Discharge | Edith F.—If the discharge is white, | there is nothing to worry about. A vaginal douche consisting of one ta- | blespoonful of bicarbonate of soda to a quart of luke-warm water, before retiring (a bourgeois retires; a work- ying girl having nowhere to “retire,” simply goes to sleep) often clears up a condition. Let us know the re- Bult, B. C. and A. M.—The congestion of vthe uterus (womb) which takes place ‘before menstruation causes the glands which secrete the mucus to become more active, resulting in the discharge known as “whites.” The -process is similar to what takes place dn the nose when same is congested, as in an ordinary cold. Emotional ex- ;citement of a certain kind might, of course, bring about the same condi« tion, necking and petting particu- ‘larly. ss + 8 Sterility (?) Following Abortion ‘and Prevenception M. 0.—We do not know what to advise you. If you were pregnant once, we see no reason why you +should fail to get into this “inter- esting state” (as the French call it) again. However, several possibilities suggest themselves. id a self-ade dressed, stamped envelope for a pri+ Vate reply. SS ear “Weak Biadder—Varicose Veins ‘John 7%. Beaver, Meadow, Pa.—We ‘cannot tel! from your letter whether ‘it’s a weak bladdor or kidney trouble, Tell us how often you poss water dur- It is odd that during the 25 years of fine the dey; your age; was the urine ed. The injection method is now con- Sidered best for varicose veins. A sue ¥ar solution is injected into the vein, which causes it to become obliterated (closed) and it “dries” up, meaning the blood stops going through it, ’ . ” Readers desiring health inform. Laboratory of the Department of Health which is investigating a num- ber of such remedies every year | The rest will come by itself—as it ation should address their letters to Dr. Paul Luttinger, c-o Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St, New

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