The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1933, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1933 Planned Activity, Mass Work Is Road to Build the Party Open Letter Is Vigorous Step Forward Along Bolshevik Method of Concentration By F. BROWN ‘The Open Letter emphasized the problem of planned work and con- trol tasks. This is one of the keys to the solution of the main questions be- fore us. Only through planned werk shall we he able to systematize and | coordinate our activities, to mobilize all forces in a definite direction for the | reaching of our obejctives, and to develop persistence in achieving the aims | set up in the plans. The control® tasks flowing out of our plans will| press in the periods of conventions serve as the systematic check-up 0n| pjenums and in the period immedi- NRA Committee Shoe Boss M (By a Shoe Work Machinery to Shift Burden of Crisis Workers Describe How NRA Is Bosses’ o akes Workers Fails to Stop Share the NRA Minimum Pay er Correspondent) LEWISTON, Me—In our town, run by the shoe and cotton manufac- Painters’ Strike By a Painter Worker Correspondent BRONX.—Boez Realty Corporation of Long Island employs 15 painters who receive $18.20 per week for five days’ labor. In order that these painters should not be able to or- ganize, it was compulsory for them to live in homes owned by the Boez Realty Corp. However, the paint- turers, they applied the N.R.A, in a way of their own. They fired all the workers who don’t make the minimum. In the shoe factory where I work they fired all the trimmers, all girls, | who used to average $6 or $7 a week. | They told them to come back next Small Shop Owners &: When they came they made | them sign a paper stating they don’t | work any longer for the manufactur- ers, and compelled the stitchers to hire the girls for $1 a day or $2 per results and will control every step in} the direction 6f the concretization ef | the plan. Here again we can take an lustration given us by the Bolshevik Party: the tremendous development | of the socialist industrjalization of the Soviet Union (which does not find comparison in any country in the history of the world) is the re- sult of planned work. A plan of work, Bolshevik determination and ately following them. The plenums are recorded, the resolutions printed. But there is not the effort of raising an intense discussion on the decisions that should have stirred and orien- tated the whole Party on the line laid down, that should have moved the Party to act. We can state that in this respect the extraordinary conference of July, 1933, and the Open Letter to the Jers felt that for them to organize to receive a living wage and they went down on | strike. Those work never belonged before to any ’ organization or union, were influenced by the cap- italist press about the N.R.A. Af- ter striking a couple of days they |went to the N.R.A. office for help | to win the strike. Instead of help- under the conditions | they were working it was necessary | Unite to Fight NRA | (By a Worker .Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa—At a mem- bership meeting of the Progressi Shoe Rebuilders Association here, two men tried to explain Mr. Roose- velt’s Industrial Recovery (baloney) Act. One was Mr. Putter, assistant editor of the “Jewish World,” and Mr. Boneli, an attorney. Both of them | seem to be part of the army of pro- Party, is a vigorous step forward along the Bolshevik method of plan- ning and concentration. Today the Open Letter does not remain the property only of leading committees. It is reaching the base of the Party, is stating to move the Party forward. Every district and section today is working out its plan of work on the basis of the Open Letter. The im mediate important task of the mo- ment is to concentrate the plan in practice, to check on every siep, al- ways having the main tasks before us. The next plenum will have to continuous check-up brought the ac- complishment of the Five-Year Plan in four years. Was the method of planning new to the Bolsheviks in 1928, when the foundation of the Plan was laid? It was not. It wa through. planned work that the Bol- shevik Party throughout all its his: tory went from victory to victory, was | able in. certain periods to retreat with small losses and coordinate its force: for new adv: , Was able to sma its enemies, consolidating the revo- lution. | The Bolshevik Party, under the) leadership of Lenin and later under | the leadership of his best disciple, Stalin, at its conventions and plen- ums reviewed the results of past fork and laid new plans and the control tasks for the future activities A Definite Goal While ing upon the new plans and tasks, the Party was at the same | time ori i the masses of the the weaknesses and mobilize the Par- ty for the next steps. Shop Nuclei—Central Point Today more than every we musi solve the fundamental political and organizational problem of the Party, | of the Bolshevization process, the re- organization of our Party on the basis of shop nuclei, This problem also has been discussed for years and there are libraries that contain the on an international scale but also dealing witk¥this country. In this respect we furthermore failed to learn from the experiences |of the Ford nueleus, the Sparrows Point nucleus, the McKeesport Tin Plate, the Westinghouse nucleus, the experiences of the mining nuclei, the | Chicago stockyard nucieus, etc. ete.| And because of this we were not per- | sistent in reorganizing the Party on the basis of the shop nuclei, Only through extending the net-/| work of our shop nuclei, following | the method of concentration, will we | , succeed in anchoring the Party in) hundreds of shops and mines in the basic industries. | Building Party. apparatus, government | de unions, co- mass organiza- literature ‘as 8 to the road t into practice. the control tasks up the results step r the weaknesses, readjustments ures for overcoming <2¢ | AN energies are concenira‘:d in the common effort. The carry ng out | af the plan wil its multiple phases is a collective undert: . Bolshevik self-crivicism is ple critique! Today there are thousands of of weakness hevik analy- American workers willing to join our tie method of discovering weaknesses | ranks, that look to our Party as the and pointing out simultaneoysly the| champion in the struggle for the measures for overcoming them, the | improvement of the conditions of the determination, the will to do it, the| working class and for the final nethod of f-correction with the | liberation of the proletariat. These aim of strengthening ‘aeir co: ya3- | workers enter the Party with enthusi- ness of the tasks to be pe: | asm, are the most active, and imme- . diately recruit new members. After a while, however, these elements to owing out|2 great extent become discouraged. es the | From. inside the Party looks differ- steps necessary to raise the under- |ently to them than it appeared from standing of the whole Party to the | Wout. significance of the pian, to the tasks| What we need is a ruthless strug- gle against the old traditions and| energies on i the plans? A ed 7 vel Pears BY OE CORNERO) Sa atiodé: Shab in orectice /are sub-) Pe = merging the new ones, continuous re- No Check Up viewing, improving of new experi-| It was not t ences, and a systematic check-up that | Wrong, the shall prevent the old and bad prac- | be reached. major weakness of tices from getting the upper hand | the past lay in the fact that our con- yentions 2nd plenems were not fol- lowed up, that the Party was not mobilized and made conscious of the) tain strategic places, but also con- | plans, of the next tasks, that no/| centration in all the phases of work | check-up was made, no control ex-/ that are part and parcel of the main | ercised. It amounted to planning for| problems before us—the building of planning’s sake, not for fulfillment. |the Party into a mass proletarian +It is enough to go over the Pariy |! party. | again. Concentration work does not mean only directing of our energies in cer- Can You Make ’em| Yourself ? 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Well, when the six page issue came out I thought I would show her the improvements. As I turned the sheets she saw the Cooking Recipes ond asker for them. Now I give her the Daily Worker, which she might vend, 95 well as cut out the cooking recipes. At first I thought the recipes took up 80 much space, but I see they wi their value now. I. Me ? check up the total results, discover | experiences on this question—not only | | walking the streets. | Morgan Line Workers, N. Y. | pagandists who try to fool the people |by prophesying about the coming | Prosperity in 30° days, not 60 ‘as | Hoover said! Praising Roosevelt as god-sent and miraculous, using God, | Devil and castor oil, they both tried |to fool and intimidate the members of the P. S, R. A: all of whom are small shop owners; to follow Roose- | velt. and his strike-breaking policies. They told us to stick together, big jand small shop owners, and raise ing them, they were informed that they had no right to go down on strike under the N.R.A. They were also told th r salary of $18.20 |per week is more than the Blanket ode wage, which is $17.50 per week for painters. After all the informa~ | tion they gave to the worke: the committee of the painters was also | asked under which union they are | Striking. | The above reply of the officers of |the NRA. opened the eves of the | workers and they realized what the ry |Blue Eagle means for them. eer ree ee their After they left the N.R.A. office,! "The shoe repaiing bust |the painters became very militant | pecially for the small shoe he simect and continued picketing. ‘The strik-| Feng’ Post of sae ee is ainost [ers also made a canvass of tenants |to pay even’ Whe’ toot ae living in the strike area for sign-|we have to pay more for bread, ea | atures. Several hundred tenants| ret egal as Mader age | joined with the strikers. | and all kinds of food and clothes. In |" ‘The strike went on for a period | PA°,0f that, the majority of the lof three weeks with the result that | fail for this miedo aon seem to now the painters are receiving $6 per ‘all for this kind of talk, and believe | thi a |day and other union conditions. | back moxeerity, omey wil with us? They seid the same thing These painters organized them-| Of course 7 hi vi |selves. and called the Alteration |tmq out that the MIRA wit Wee | Painters Union for jer Ne | just as much prosperity to them as | | did the beer, Ory the organized jfight of the workers and the smail! |shop owners against the capitalists |and their government will help the | starving working’ people. Executive Board member. L. R. POLK & CO. FIRES 14 (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—A woman work- ing for R. L. Polk and Co. (compilers | of city directories) told me she had been fired today along with 13 other women workers, because of a let-up RELIEF CUT By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK CITY.—The Home Relief Bureau has-cut the relief off in the work, Is the Blue Eagle down-| for me with a big family with six| hearted? I can hear it shriek with small children from 18 months to 15/ joy. | years. Because we are harmless we | | suffer the consequence. AN OPEN SHOP GOV'T. | (By a Worker Correspondent) | BOSS BREAKS PROMISE j RACINE, Wis.—Here in Racine) By a Young Worker Correspondent | there are dozens of union painters) BRIDGEPORT, Conn —Mitchell| The U. §,| Bros. went on a strike two weeks ago| government is having the mail| 894 won it. But the boss didn’t want | boxes in Racine painted but does | a ee ee see bei not pay union wages. The jobs| You held a meeting to'make avotins were lumped off to two scab paint-| strike to follow soon. ers for $45 to paint all of the| : mail boxes in Racine. é Al Wickun, (Signature Authorized District 2 Leads in “Daily Worker” Drive for $40,000 DISTRICT 2 of the Communist 1 Lp, Fifth ave. Branch, N.Y. Party (New York) leads all other) Section 5 Unit 9 $276.42 came in from District 2 on een Regent Women, Manhat- Monday, a large part of this sum} women's Gorell wi having been realized from the con-| Women’s Council No, 48, Bronx, N. ference held in New York Sunday | Women's Council, No. 11, Co-operativ: Women's Council No. 23, 2800 Bronx 2. evening. Monday’s receipts amount-| ,,, Park East, N. ¥. 2.90 é = nt | Cello Nidess, N. ¥. | ed to $361.38, Sunday netted $172.82, Co-operative Colony, 2100 Bronx Perk’ ””| bringing the total at present up to East, N. Y. "50.00 $534. | Mi. Berylson, N. ¥. 1.00 The contrioutions foliow: | Brownsvitie Toot, Noda” NO 26 NX: 200 * * . | Ghernishevsky Society, N.Y. 5.00 DISTRICT 1 Watteman, Volun- | Gait ip gail Branch, N.Y. 2.00 ele bic! Women’s ‘Council No, 48, Brons, N.Y. 1.00 ‘Total $22.00 Bath Beach Workers’ Club, B'kiyn, NY. 2.00 DISTRICT & tse Nat Turner, LL.D. Branch "NEY. 00 New York City Avante Farm Lett Wing Local 38, LL, 2.90 worke Dinner 12.00 3.00 1Ui 3 i enters’ Opposition Group, J.B. 1.00 - Brooklyn, N. Y, John Marshail, Women’s Council No, 38, N. Y. R. 8 50” Volunteer 65 Sidney Goodman .25 Anonymour 1.00 tihgas J. 8. 1.00 Anon; 1.00 EN DISTRICT 31 Comrade Louis 25 Section 2 1.50| ® Morrisette, Butte, Montana | Serlin, Milstein & A. Hirsch 50 % Goodman Shop 2.65 Volunteer (Sus- ‘ Chas. Kellner 1.35 taining Fund Ro DISTRICT 14 | | Jean Hartman |80_ barrels) 1.83 ‘thomas, Atlantic. Gity, N. ¥ 2.00) | Jack Thompson 15. Volunteers oe Frank Kita 125 (Liste) 1.80 Total 2.00 | Fritz Jordan ‘50 L, Cordunes, Sus- Bs DISTRICT 15 ‘A. Kouprianoff 25 taining Fund 69, New Haven Movie Showing, New Haven, A. Glenn. :50 B, Lyons 1,00] 4, Connecticut P. Kosoff 30 Hy-A Worker 1.00 Bridgeport Movie Showing, Bridgeport, Joe Torg 1,00 Dave Rubin 1.00! Connecticut my Daily Worker Conference, Sept. 10, 1933 | St@mford Movie Showing, Stamford, Coleiction at Conzerence 26.18 | Connecticut 14.46 Per Rockaway Unit, Far Rockaway, L,I. 2.00) Middle Bronx Workers’ Club, N.¥.C. 2.90) Total Sec. 15, Unit 6 2.00 SS DISTRICT 16 Section 11, Unit 13 1.00) & W., Durham, N.C, Section 2, Unit 11-8 1.00 | Br. 7, International Workers’ Order, Total Bronx, N. ¥. 1.00 | Day Total 361. Section 15, Unit 33, N. ¥. 2.00 | Previous Total 172.62 Section 8, Unit 10 1,00 Grand Total 534.00 1. L. D, Branch, Ladies’ Tailors and | —-— Dressmakers woe pe 2.90 i Ukrainian Tollers’ Ass'n, B’klyn, N.X. 1.00 | Bo t ; Council No. 21, N. ¥. 2.00 | j ‘= boston Communists 3.00 200, 2.00 Welter Rojik, Bra » Williams. burgh, N. ¥. 1 Section 6, Unit 23 M. Frigind, N. ¥. C. ‘Women's Council No. 8, Bronx, N. Y. Section 1, Unit 11 3338 Nominate Ticket munist Party here has nominated for | the first time a Mayoralty candidate. "| He is Edward Stevens, leader of the 33 1 1 1 1 Women’s Council of Williamsburg, N.Y. 1, Bulgarian-Macedonian Workers’ Educ«- ‘ional Club, N. ¥. 1.90| Unemployed. Ot!ers nominated are Women’s Counell No. 29, N. ¥. 1-00 | Eva Hoffman for the school commit- | Section 8, Unit 1 3.00 tee; James W. Dawson, Negro worker Mon pre ex" es 6, Bronz, N, {30| WhO polled 5,000 votes when running Russian Mutual Aid Br, No. 43, N.y. 1.00/10 Lieutenant-Governor in the Jast French Workers’ Club, ak ne lent elections, for Councilman in Herzl Bt. Block Association, N.Y. 1.00 Ward 9, South End; Meyer Klarfield, Women's Count ae eee, NY $00) leader of the shoe workers, for Coun- Section 1, Unit 19 gna 2° climan in Ward 12, Roxbury. Sistion x, Unit oo rat 2.00) It is imperative that all workers mell_No. 22, Bronx, N. ¥. 1.00| rally to collect enough signatures to Poel cla lla ail *99| put these candidates on the ballot. Steve Katovis Br. LUD. N.Y. ‘30 | Only 20 days are lett to get the re- Women’s Council, No. 35, N.Y. 1.00 | quired number of signatures, which is Italian Proletarian Club, N. 3.00| 8,000 for a mayoralty candidate, and Gun’. 9, 800 for each Councilman. fen 100, The stations from which the signa- | Finnish Workers’ Club, B’klyn, N.Y. 2.90 ture collectors may get their petitions — Bal gd ae Society, Branch 66, | and instructions are as follows: Dor- Youktee pod ©. P,, Jamaica, 1.1, 300 | chester, 74 Wildwood St.; Roxbury, Section 11, Unit 1 1.00 | 42 Wenonah St.; Boston, 93 Staniford | Women’s Council No. 5, Coney Isiand 3.00/ St.; South End, 35 Westminster St. Evelyn Putterman, N, ¥. C. 1.00 | Committees will be in charge at the so 2bove stations every evening from Opposition Group, Local 91, Children’s Y. 2300/6 Pm, on, » Dresses. N. Y. Section 2, Unit 1-8 prices, but will the big ones stick! BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 12.—The Com | 9 | 100 pairs. | A stitcher now get $7.50 for 100 | Pairs so they added 93c so that he |should take care of the trimming. It takes two days to finish 100 pairs. | He gets $8.43 but from that he has to pay $2 to the trimmer so he really jgeis a wage cut, and the same ap- plies to the girls, as they are making only $5 a week, and they get away with it. The boss als has other tricks. He makes us punch the card only two |days in the week, the rest without punching, so e won't get caught \Cambridge Rubber Co. ‘Has Stock Enough to | Last Year, Says Toiler | (By a Worker Correspondent) CAMBRIDGE, Mi ‘One worker jhere told me that the Cambriiz: | Rubber Co plant has got stock | enough to close for ore year. The |workers at this plant had a small | department strike last’ week but they only stopped for two hours jand then started to work again, because of lack of leadership. The grievances of these workers bring | are first the increased speed-up and | |the lousy wages, | down. There is a non-political club being organized under the name jof the Club Luisitania whose main mostly $12 and jtasks are to live as a human being should live. This club con- sists of Portuguese workers, and when I spoke with a few of them they told me straight that they will try their best to give lectures ard meetings, etc., in which they | will teach the workers the néed of organization. give these workers a hand and see if we can’t all be organized so that the next time the workers want to walk out on strike we will be able to help them. NRA Office Studies Violation Complaints By a Printing Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—1 was working in| the Rapid Paper Cutting Co. (manu- facturing paper boxes), as a printer for several months. There are over 100 workers in that shop, working 50 hours a week. About three weeks ago the firm | signed up with the NRA and was} 40 hours But supposed to give the wor @ week with their former pay. oo | the workers are still worked 50 hours | without any pay increases. As soon as the firm signed up with took on a relative of his, paying him $16 a week, while I was getting $25 as an all around compositor and | | the NRA I was fired and the boss | | | Pressman. I compiained to the NRA office at Pennsylvania Hotel of the fact | that the firm does not live up to the agreement on the code and was let me know. I was up there a week ago and was told that they have not yet. investigated, because they have many other investigations to make. The workers in the shop are very much dissatisfied. tI G. told that they would investigate and | Steam Laundry Workers Bear Scars of Trade By a Laundry Worker Correspondent MONTICELLO, N. Y.—I am a worker in the Monticello Steam Laundry, Monticello, N. Y. This laundry employs about 100 worke during the summer and about 40 the rest of the year, since this is a sum- mer resort town. During the winter the workers only work about two or three days a week. We work anywhere from 54 to 78 hours a week. Sometimes the chauf- feurs work 7 days a week in a 12 to 15-hour day. The shakers, who are mostly school girls, get 19¢ an hour. As a result of standing on a con- crete floor all day long, having to bend down into bins too deep for them, one of them got pleur’ An- other got a strained heart. this for $10.26 a week. The mangle girls, working under in- sufficient ventilation. get a little more —28c an hour for summer worker; 25c an hour for all year round work ers. The washroom squad, who all bear the scars of their trade, get from $12 to $20 a week. They are short- handed and for this reason are work- ed like dogs. Their clothes are al- | ways wringing wet. The above three categories of | workers work in a damp cellar. The pressers get from 25c to 30c an hour. ‘They refused to work more than 54 hours a week, that is why they don’t work more. Although it is against the law, the fireman, who is also worked as an engineer and mechanic, has to work all by himself 12 hours each day. We all have at least one | week’s pay coming to us. Some two | and three. In a few cases the chauf- |feurs have about $100 to $500 in back pay coming to them. The bosses who get new cars each year and live in | swell houses with a maid and every- thing else say that they have | money. |Hrs. Cut, Then Raised |By Upholstering Shop| (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo—At the Mid-We. | Upholstering Co., beginning Aug 15th, hours were reduced from 4912 to 40 hours per week with a 10 per j cent imerease in pay. Aug. 28 the | 45 hour per week with a 10 per cent | reduction in wages. The Section Workers: Two of the |arm makers were laid off because they could not make the minimum of $12 per week. They produced 18 pairs of bed davenport arms with ; Outside arms and panels. Thei | checks amounted to $7.79 each, in- | cluding the 10 per cent addition. | Day workers of the shop are now | working 45 hours per week for the same wages as 40 hours per week. | Other shops here in St. Louis are taking the same steps as the Mid- West company. The average pay for the upholsterer is 50 cents per hour | piece work. Orders are stacked in St. Louis. | The upholsterers of St. Louis form~ ed a union and aré members of the | International Upholsterers’ Union. Wilson Packing Co. | Cuts Pay Under NRA |» By a Worker Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Kan—In | Icing Department of the Wilson | Packing Co. we are supposed to zet | 40 hours a week, but never get it. We do not get under 32 hours, but | never 40. Wages are 40 cents an hour, ‘Two weeks before the code got into effect I worked 7214 hours at 34 cents an hour, so it is clear I get less money per week than I did before. Few more men have been hired in my department and this means, for us who are working more speed-up, in addition to lower wages. } “DAILY” AS ORGANIZER Pittsburgh, Pa, Comrade Editor: The writer of this note is like thousands of other Party members who formeriy said: “The Daily Worker is a flat paper,” and never took the trouble to write to the editors to tell him what ideas they thought they had for improving the paper. We realize that only by us in the districts helping can the Daily | Worker continue to improve. At our membership meeting last Sunday one of the brand new mem- bers said “We thought that Comrade Johnstone was writing about us when he said: ‘And among these most advanced elements who are entering our Party it is no accident ‘that we find the most readers of the | Daily Worker.” “We were so struck with the truth of the Open Letter as it was pub- lished in the Daily Worker. that we went around and gathered up the old Daily Workers that had that ar- ticle by Comrade Browder on how to carry out the open letter into life and started a study course on it. Of course one result is that some of us are in the Party.” ts ‘There is an example of the Daily Worker as an organizer. —ELIZABETH J. (All the suggestions contained in your letter (although net printed for lack of spece) have been care- Daily Worker-—Editor). CLIPPINGS S. J—We are always gled to re- send clippings which workers us from local newspapers— giving news. or giving ima’ which we should combat in press. fully noted by the Editors of the, \ ECORSE Mich. Comrade Editor: The workers here are getting star- vation wages One worker was fired outright for passing out leaflets for the union against the A. F. of L. Some were fired at the Michigan Steel and some were fired at the Great Lakes, I have been giving Daily Workers out free, and I have them Daily Workers to pay for and the people are glad to get them when you give them away. Even the little children run in behind me and ask me for a Daily Worker and I give them one, and their parents are in the house peeping. out. The month before last I got three dsys on the county road. I only got six days in tyvo months time and this month I got four days. In the next month I got my card for five days. That is to swell my head (to make me think times are getting better). I meet lots of workers and they tell me Roosevelt is a good man. They tell me he has done more for the workers thei Hoover. Now 1s the time I should be sending for | more Dai'y Workers as the times are | so bad. G. L. Piher sence WANTS TO SEE THE DAWN Hunicr, Arg. Dear Editor: I have Jong wanted to Kuow what jou were doing and saying Lam m my 86ih year. I want to st endl T sce how the A.ners solve | UDis crossword puze! © sure f seo the one and only we; th tie problem of the workers, and I want to seo what @ organ of the workers says abo it it. Yous for a soluiio:.. H W. P. tense heat with poor lighting and in- | no} ihe} Roosevelt’s Bonus | to Vets Is Jobs’ in Labor Camps | Slander Ex-Soldiers as “Bowery Bums,’ Writes Recruit from Vermont Labor Camp , By A VET ; NOTE:—Yesterday we printed the first part of this story by a veteran employed in one of the Roosevelt forced labor camps near Montpelier, Vermont. He described the difficult jobs of digging ditches and Icading trucks which must be done by ex-soldiers, many of whom are undernour> ished and unable to do these hard tasks, ‘This is the concluding jart— Editor. ¢ | * * * MONTPELIER, Vt.—The veterans are all resentful. of the adminis- tration of the forced labor camps, and the fact that they are made to per- form such laborious tasks that they hold no good thoughts for the capital- ist Often I heard remarks when® a clipping quoting Roosevelt's praise of the vets is posted on the bulletin board, “That's some more of Roose- velt’s bull, and the rich intend to | work us to death, after nearly starv- ing us to death. ‘here are a few “patriots” in the . The men were about to pro- | a body about the bad food, vere Si When the men of ike against the of changing from denims to O.D.'s, it was lost because the Lt. | Co! mel Du mbury told them that if they didn’t change in 15 minutes they would all be fired from the camp. But dissatisfaction is general among the men. Organization of Camps The organization of all camps, and this is true of the boys’ Citizen Con- rvation camps, also strictly un- der the supervision of the War De-| pariment. In the vets camp, they are under the supervision of regular army officers. We have a Lt. Colonel over the camp, and are divided into | several compani Then there is a | captain and two lieutenants. One of | these Louies are supposed to look af- | jter the mess. The other over the! work being done by the vets. There are fines imposed by the captain with the ani 1 of the col- onel, These fin st of the War De: Also if a vet t ber of days in any one month and ‘The only recreation in our camp is baseball and volleyball and horse | shoes. These equipments the men | paid for with donations to the com- pany fund The people of Montpelier and Wrighisville are very hospitable to the vets despite the attitude of the government and their agents, who sowed the seeds of slander about the vets being “Bowery bums” and won't work if they were given work. The food given the men is fax from, being wholesome, It is wholly starchy, for example, we get beans, potatoes, a spoonful of raw cabbage, white bread, (no butter) macaroni and potatoes. Still, when we kick, the capiain would come out and tell us that he knows that the food ‘s not what it ought to be but to give him a break and he will see that we get the proper food. He has been peddling this stuff since we were in Plattsburg and no improvement has been made yet. A 90-10 Man He is known among the men as a 90-10 man, that the men must meet him 90 per cent and he meets them 10 per cent. Transportation has been one of the points of trouble for the vets ever since we came to Vermoni The captain has time and again r siricted the men. The use of ihe company truck is to be used only for any reason he quits, his current) for church or baseball parties. Oft- pay earned is withheld and all he| times the truck of the colored com- gets is transportation back home.| pany would stop and pick up their Directly under the military offi- | white buddies, but I have yet to see cers are men appointed by the mili-| the white buddies stop and pick them tary, such as company comman-j| up. Why, the chauffeurs in our der ($45.50 per month), company! company hold themselves aloof clerks ($36 to $45 per month), sec-| from the rest of the men. On Sai- tion leaders ($45 per month),' urday; Agust 26, a chauffeur was and squad leaders ($30 per month).| heard offering another chauffeut a jend squad leaders $(30 per month).| black jack to use against the men So, comrades, let's | blanket code was changed again to|These men are appointed without; when they refuse to get off. | the consent of the men and are| This is the reward we veierans |locked upon as stools by the men.| have gotten for making the “world | There are also police taken from the|safe for democracy’—we should say ranks and deputized in Monipelier.| for Wall Street. Doctor By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. passed to regulate the specialists. A SPECIALISTS law which will require that before any physician engages upon & spe- i. one, he must show a sana 1 ‘aver: ay: som- | Proficiency in it and that he shor reason that he hes no stand- | 10 Years before becoming a specialist. y which he can make a choice.|_ Tt is quite certain, however, that as an ordinary physician is |such-a law will have so many loop- | concerned only an intelligent worker, |N0l8s that, like capitalistic laws, it [in New York State, will look for the | Will be more honored in the breach than in its observance. Unless—un- | registration card which cvery doc- r toi: " i j. less it is passed by Soviet America. tor is to displ: - a. lor 1s enjoine 0 display in a promi. (To tinued.) Cree nent part of his office. This card is a guarantee that the man had grad- | uated from a recognized medical | school and that he had had a cer- Syphiliphobia tain preliminary education before _ Margaret S—Please calm yourself! embarking upon the study of medi- |The chances are that you have not cine. Of course, registration cards, as |the disease, We received both your well as diplomas may sometimes be | letters, but owing to the heavy mail | ccunterfeit, but such cases are be- | We get, we are behind in ouur replies. jccming comparatively rare. It is nervous people like you who When it comes to the specialist, ate the best customers of the quacks. ‘there are no standards for the lay-|It is the victims of syphiliphobia men to go by. There is no law regu- | (fear of syphilis), cancerophobia and lating specialists. Neither the state | tuberculophobia, who fill the, coffers nor the public have any check on|Of the unscruplous “healers” and the capacity or the qualifications of |Spread their miraculous “cures”; for any physician who chooses to call | it is easy to cure a disease that. does himself a surgeon, a psychiatrist or |Not exist. We are writing you pri- a tonsil snatcher. The writer's li- | vately. . cense, for instance, authorizes him to practice medicine and surgery and no one could say him nay if he should decide to hold himself out as a surgeon and open the belly of the first trusting fool who enters his office. The astonishing part of this state | of affairs is not the apparent indif- ference of the public which is suffer- ing from worse abuses than this; but the fact that it has escaped the attention of the politicians. What we mean, naturally, is that the situa- tion has escaped the vigilance of those bosses whose itching palms eternally scratch for graft. After, all, the licensing of physi- cians in these United States is nothing but a graft provosition, more simple than pure. If the State rec- ognizes certain schools as competent. to confer the degree of Doctor in Medicine, there is no educational reason why their graduates should have to take another examination within a counle of weeks after grad- uation. There is, however, a good ex- cuse for graft. “If you want the legal rrivilege to cut un or dos? your fal- low man, you must pay us twenty-five to a hundred bucks, according to the state you want to practice in. If you move across the Hudson to New Jer- sey, you got to pay another hundred berries. Should you, by chance, wish | . to practice during your vacation in| Piekies, hot dogs, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Books on Sexology ; subject at the Academy: of Medi Library. You can read them " mofnings; but you cannot borrow any. We believe that you'll be dis-, appointed in your search for the spe+ . cific information you need. It’s like learning to be a farmer from a book. ‘You may learn more in five min- uutes from a sympathetic physician, We are writing you privately. i Le he ~ Pimples and Blackheads Ruth A.—Washing you skin so of- ten does not do it any good. Try to squeeze the pimples and bi gently, at night before going to Before squeezing them, wash your face with warm water and Castile soap, then dry it thoroughly. After you have bras the blackhead remover (not your fingers, which might carry infection) touch up the openings with tinéture of iodine. The next. morning remove any iodine stain that might have remained with a “pellet of cot- Dry the ton dip: * ‘1 rubbing alcohol. the wet face by tapping it with ton. Do not wash your face in morning. Do not use cosmetics. Cut. out fats from your diet, drink plenty of water, cut down on your sweets’ and forget that there are such de- licious and romantic things as sout pastramt! and other’ Connecticut, we won't let you un- 5Picy foods. less you come across with another | ' ae . jcentury of simoleons. If you move) Mono-Diet « 4 ecross any state line, we are waiting , M. B. Brooktynz—There is abso- lutely no scientific basis to the mono- diet bunk. If your wife goes oh a grape diet. she wil! surely get stouter end may develop b detpaie dnto the bargain. We are ‘ing you privately about your Diet List 8B. fi ages isa to. collect another bunch of cart-| wheels. When you ‘register in any }eounty you plunk down a few iron |mer. Each year, you sot to register | Gn order to check on the quacks) and |for this privilege, you got to pay us more mazuma.” | It is this opportunity for ever- \lasting graft which is the best as-) ‘surance that some day a law will be! Readers desiring health information shonld adérecs their Jetters to Dr. Bast Juttinger, ¢-o Dally Worker, 85 B 12th St., New York City, si Karl A.—You'll find books on the?’ 3 o +