The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1933, Page 4

'\No Cod Liver Oil for sak acters Kio re i me ~Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1933 A. F. L. Steel Union Letters From Steel and Auto Workers ‘Are NRA Policemen. p Pay At Mil Form Reserve for Bethlehem Steel Co.’s Pigeon Army in Speed-up Drive Amalgamated Assn. of Iron, Tin and Stool By a Steel Worker Correspondent BALTIMORE, Md.—The officials of the Baltimore headquarters of the | called unskilled workers and to the Steel Workers claim to be the police- men for the NRA. They hope to utilize this as a “drawing card” for the i <stecl workers to come into their clutches, but little do these leaders realize “We Do Our Part” “What they picked the wrong card. “Already the steel workers begin to tihderstand that NRA means lower pay checks and higher for breed and pork chops are beginning to see supports the NRA supports the Beth- lehem Steel Co. in its wage cut syeed-up. drive In the galvanizing department of he sheet mill of the Bethlehem Steel Mill here, the young Boss O’Brien told the assembled workers that they will have to get the same tonnage out m the reduced hour week. He tioned the men that the company hired more stool-pigeons, detec- tives and policemen “fo guard over the workers.” He told the the men hat they had better watch their step,| nenngrise someone else will get their | fobs. prices hes the Black Plate department of| they Tin Miil, the work got 35c| @n hour on the 55-hour week. Their hours have been cut to 40 hours at the same rate of pay 35c an hour. This mekes $14 a week. Of this Money, $1.50 goes every week for car fare. 25c a week is deducted from the pay for the “sick relief plan robbery,” @md about 50c to 75c a week goes for workine gloves and other little neces- sities Thev actually have left about $10 or $11 for food, rent and clothes, When the workers asked for 10c} More per hour, the superintendent} mindful of his masters in Wall Street, | told them in a cunning mann ‘he! Bethlehem Stel cannot raise waves be a vielet’on of the e A. F. L, Ama'gamated Association of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers do their part as “policemen of the NRA” in the bosses’ atempt to bind the workers’ with the NRA chains of slavery. icaGors of the a department, get together in the mill, mest group of workers e, discuss and make Tor the eny| UP the demands th e ee gan or the en-/ on, send the demands in with the co PR ease | committee, stand by. fc answer. In the blast furnace. the wo Were cut to 6 hours per hour in wages A’) over the plant. the company| tr Oe eemneled the company to regardless of d . 4-1} to put over the 10-hour day week. but the men resisted it and agree on whet wh: the basis (sheet Iso tin mill), either ‘wers vunch their cards or the with no increase} 4 boss punches their card after 8 hours. | and then the worxers go back and| Phish vn their work after they punch the esard. Under eHextor NRA as result the week tin in the workcrs are getting a cut >ges from 5 ner cent to 40 per of Kenidents and deaths increase no- ticeably (Black, Kozikowsky) as a re- sult of the vicious speed-up system under NRA. z is NR4. In a Kiplin m letter (circulated p r letters they F sbor department influence, on many occasions in future, is quite aot to b® against labor and strikes if it. appears that labor is misbehav- ine.” his is what NRA means. The A F. of lL. leaders are proud policemen If the rank and file wor! carry out actions themselves without the aid of so-called labor leaders, com- pany r nd stool pigeons, then the steel w 's can win anything they the st. Steel a rial Unio. E Eastern Avenue, altimore, Md Ready for Action BE ott The Policeman Of the HRA for NRA. Mr. Sause claimed in his : Sparrows ae oe he is opposed ainst militant workers who Beene ut he is not opoose fight far: better: conditions: this @ starvation of th rkers under ASFOR: “policeman OF the NRA”. * Only the militant Steel and Me : © Workers Indus Union led by| *tands ready to break strikes * honest rank and file has the correct) through deceit if possible, or Program that means victory for the workers in their struggle against} Worsening conditions. All workers of through armed attack, as John L. Lewis’ thugs have done in the Pennsylvania coal fields. > Can You Make ’em, Yourself ? e is another satin dress (espe- | cially adapted to flatter the ma- tronly figure. The bodice drapes | softly and reveals a bit of contrast to harmonize with the collar: Pattern 1573 is available in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46, Size 36 takes 3% yards 39-inch fabric and %% ward contrasting. Illustrated step- “by-step sewing instructions included | with this pattern, | Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in) ns or stamps (coins preferred) for | 1 Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style} umber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. orders to Daily Worker he Department, 243 W. 17th St., wNew York City. (Patterns by mail { only.) Babies of Jobless NEW YORK.—Beginning Sept. 1, Home Relief Bureaus have cut the soe allowance for the two weeks p of cod liver oil given to ies with undernourished vabies. Excuse for this action is that ome of the starving families were using this money for food. »From now on the cod liver oil money will be given only on presen- tation of a signed statement from a doctor or hospital that the child is ee ad i. Of Pa. Steel Co. By a Worker Correspondent CHESTER, Pa.—The Pennsylvania| Steel Co. plant here pays the starva-| tion wage of 20c per hour to the so-| others 27¢ per hour for the rottenest| vent, for example Six or seven men were sent to chip a turbine about 25 feet high and about 12 feet in width. They worked eight hours and when they reported for work the next day they got a bawling out from the sucker boss and were told they had to finish the tur- bine before they could get any, more pay for their work. | Two of the men went home and the rest finished the job for 10 cents per hour, and it took them over eight hours to finish | Steps are being taken to organize | the plant in the Steel & Metal Work- ers Industrial Union. | This plant works night crews 12 | hou They have been working five days a week, but now under the N.LR.A. Code the workers are work- ing but 3 and 4 days a week and the wages remain the same, 20c and 27c per: hour. Letters from Our Readers MEMORY OF T. E. BARLOW Houston, Tex Comrade Editor It has been suggested by a com- rade here that we start immediately to raise funds for a memorial to our late comrade T. E. Barlow. Because of the “Uniawful embly” minded- ness of the city s there is no bos nossibility of free movement here in Houston. Some judge always says $100 when workers are brought be- | fore him for assembling in the public | parks, | A small hall, erected in his mem- | ory would provide a place for workers to gather. Do you have any sug- | gestions to offer? —W. H.C. (There can be no opposition to such idea if the money is raised locally. The comrades in Texas, especially in m, should consider that the s District is new, that we have only a few Party members there, and | that we have to enlarge our basis in | Houston, Dallas and in some other | concentration points in order to | | create the basis for spreading our ac- tivities. The assassination of Comrade Bar- y should spur the Texas comrades ify their activities in building A strong Party in Texas to i the Party. not only will be the best memorial to Barlow, who gave his life for the movement, but will create also the possibilities for raising a real memo- | rial in the form of a hall, as suggested | in this letter—Editor.) HAILS WASHINGTON BUREAU Staten Island, N. Y. Dear Comrade Ecitor: The improvement. in the “Daily amazing. The Washington Bureau is the best yet! When are we going to have a daily column answering the sort of ques- tions that the chance reader of the “Daily the typical conservative American—asks? —W. R. Sussman. | Editor's Note: This is a very cor rect suggestion. We are considering it_esrnestly at the present time and ere working on putting it into prac- tice. PEACEFUL ROOSEVELT Brooklyn, N. Y. | Comrade Editor: | Several months ago our President | sent cablegrams to 65 (or some such number) countries including the USSR. This message called on all couniries to keep their armies within heir own countries. America the Peaceful! Roosevelt, the little father. Peace! Today the U. S. A. is sending down | battleship and marines to Cuba. But Roosevelt still strokes his chin hesi- tatingly. “We shall try to keep out. | No intervention.” If the Cuban masses | rise to overthrow the Imperialist | plunderers, the marines will land to restore order. We shall say America was “obliged” to create an orderly government. Let us remind Roosevelt and the masses of his demagogic message of several months ago. Let us raise the ory— “Hands off Cuba!” The Cuban workers and peasants will win! BERGENS. KHAKI SHIRTS REBUFFED New York City. Comrade Editor: ‘The American road to Fascism is beint hammered out in a_ typical American Fascist manner. Using every method of deceit from the Con- stitution to “them dam furriners” Art Smith's Khaki Shirts are recruiting for their army. Two young boys of about eighteen years of age have been going around Central Park trying to enlist the homeless American boys to their cause, by talk of “furriners and damn however, by the boys" resistance to their method. Most of iaese boys are those who talk about Jefferson, Rouse- velt, etc. The contstitution of the Khaki Shirts is very Hitlerian in chasacter. They talk about drivin: out chain stores, ete., but underneath it all, in a very scummy manner, its anti- working class character is revculed. A YOUNG IRISH WORKER. I. H. and A. T., Brooklyn.—Our re- ply to the article printed in the New York Times about the Soviet Union appeared in the editorial entitled “How Poison Is Brewed” on Friday, o one another. Boss Bans Conversation to Increase N.R.A. Speed-up (From a Negro Worker Correspondent.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Superintendent Price of the Birmingham Stove & Range came out and called the workers together for a speech, and this is what he said: “I was at another foundry the other day, and when I walked in not a single man looked up at me, for they didn’t have time, and this is the way I want you all to do, for I am going to operate beginning next week 6 days and I want you all to do the same way and don’t even talk to If you do, you are fired.” speed-up system that man could in-| is scabs.” They are a bit taken aback, | in their present condition because of | Workers, we can’t put up with this any longer. in the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. We must organize By a Steel Worke GARY, Ind.—At the Illinois Steel pers. sentative who is supposed to represent the big shots do all the talking, so® nothing is done to improve our working condition, Up to the first half of August we were working five days weekly, but since then we have been dropping to four and three, and finally to two days only. Since the first of September there has been a mass of engineers laid off. Now there are 10 engines left on the job with 11 switchmen extra on each turn. And the biggest per- centage are Negro workers, and they get only two to four days at the most on the pay. Then, the engineers are doing their own firing, on engines of from 60 to 75 tons in weight. They have de- manded their own firemen, but they gain nothing, not any sort of help, and the real reason is that we are not organized. The reason for this Big Shots Do All the Talking at Company Union Meetings tion department, and handling the ingots output from open hearth to strip- It is a killing speed-up, working an eight-hour shift, and we have no lunch time allowed, and now we have the company union, and a repre- r Correspondent Co. I am working in the transporta- it us. They have shop meetings, but is that we need a real Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union in this steel center. I think we should have a special steel organizer in our district. And now something on the N.R.A.: In the last 10 days the Blue Eagle has been placed on each department. office. I asked a fellow worker to give me its meaning. He was one of these “100 per cent Americans,” and told me if I do not keep out of his way he'll turn me over to the safety inspector. But I’m sorry to say that it happens he got laid off for working under cover for the A. F, of L. There is the biggest chance to or- ganize the workers that ever was be- fore in the Gary’s history into the only true organization to gain some conditions for the workers. SPARROWS POINT, Md.—When signed protest petition against the 10. | electricians are preparing to fight for || Steel Workers Honor Two Victims of the Bethlehem Speedup | By a Steel Worker Correspondent SPARROWS POINT, Pa. — One night last week in Sparrows Point, on company land, 300 Negro and white steel workers attended a memorial meeting for Joe Black, a Negro labor- er on the C. B. gang, and Ben Kozi- kowski, a white heater i tne tin mill, two recent victims of speed-up, heat, and intense overwork in the | Bethlehem Steel Company plant. Called by the Steel and Metal Workers Lndustrial Union, the meet- | ing was dedicated to struggle against | the speed-up and inhuman conditions |that killed these workers and have killed and injured many others. The | speakers succeeded in exposing the |N. R. A. which is trying to combine increased speed-up with reductions in hours and pay, and they outlined concrete steps for forming shop com- | mittees to resist the bosses’ attack. In spite of the presence of Chief of Police Miles and some twenty uni- | formed policemen, grouped under the | arc-lights or skulking in tne snaaows, | the workers refused to be frightened | by this show of the company’s armed | power and displayed a good fighting | spirit. Loud applause greeted the ;Teading of a telegram from Greens- | burg, Pa., which announced the strike }of 1,100 workers at the Wallworth Foundry, and it was unanimously | voted to send a telegram expressing | sympathy for the strike. At the close | of the meeting a collection was taken to aid the strikers. RL. \Pipe Mill in Etna Now Slowing Down By a Worker Correspondent. ETNA, Pa.—The pipe mill here has slowed down. Last week they put out one pipe furnace that was work- ing 3 shifts, 8 hours each, on 10 hours a day, 1 hour for lunch, 40 hours a week when they have work. This put off about 50 men. I don’t know how long this change is going to last. The galvanizing department was working day and night Saturdays and Sundays. For the last two weeks they did not do anything. The warehouse is full of pipe. Sparrows Point Workers Win ‘First Skirmishes With NRA pany agreed to work them on an 8-hour day and 5-day week instead. wages are 25 per cent lower asa result of reduced working hours per week. | sheet mill electricians submitted a -hour day and 4-day week; the com- The increased wages, because the present In the Black Plate department of the tin mill, under the leadership of a militant Negro worker, both white and colored followed his lead and forced the company to agree on the 8-hour day and 5-day week. They asked for an increase in wages from 35 cents per hour to 45 cents per hour. they cannot increase the wag2s be- cause it would be a violation of the N. R. A. The Black Plate workers are preparing to win a wage increase. The shearmen and openers in the tin mill held meetings in the mill and presented their demands. They have won the 8-hour day, and the openers won the fight against the} extra work of “faniolding” the tin for’ the normalizers. Just a couple of days ago about 50 stick pullers threw their tongs down at the end of eight hours and refused to work any longer. This action has resulted in a victory, for today the openers are back to work on that basis. The backbone of many of these actions are the militent members of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Indus-/ trial Union. | The main driving force as yel the “call for action,” that was by the SMWIU at the correct time on the day after Labor Day. The workers are especially inspired by the Steel Code that was issued by the SMWIU, as it appears on close ex- amination that the workers are fol- lowing out the rank and file action methods, ete. | The A. F. of L. leaders have gone | to the ridiculous extreme of putting a@ policeman’s picture on their head- quarters saying they are policemen for the NRA, the very same NRA that is being used by the company to put over the miserable conditions. The next few weeks will determine whether the workers can see that the NRA is an instrument of ihe company to rob the workers and that the A. F. of L. is helping the Bethlehem Steel Co. to tighten the NRA around the workers’ necks. The workers, next fight is for increased wages and against speed-up. They will be able to win only by follow- ing the program of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Write te the Daily Worker about every event of interest to workers which occurs in your factory, trade union, workers’ organization or lo- cality, BECOME A WORKER COR- RESPONDENT! is ed | Toward the $ August 25th. Contributions received September 16 in the Daily Workers’ Drive for $40,000 fotlow: Distriet No. 1 Russian National Mutual Aid | Society, Lynn, Mass... $22.00 co $ 22.00 District No. % Bernard Eife, Bronx, N. ¥.. 25 L, rooklyn, N.Y. 5.00 Section 1, N.Y... 21.45 Edgar Hornof, N. Y. 1.00 Julio Mella Club, TLD—Lis —~Alexander ‘Coca - 180 Post No. 1, W.E.S.L. Sy Sag 8. A. Fox, Volunteer—Dona- Cpe 3.00 Alex. Schaeffer, N. unteer Barrel _ - BB Pledge - - 1.00 Chodrow—Volunteer—Collec- tion List John Smith “ ms Grafl Drug Store, Ridgewood, 1, T. 1.00 Georse, Ridge for the Daily Worker 40,000 Drive 38 LL cd R. Chakerian, 1.00 Chodrow—Voluntee 1.08 af 38.26 6 F. Lawrence, Cleveland, Ohio 1.00 Unit 2-28, Cleveland, Ohio. 4.00 Youngstown, Ohio __. At ©. Nelson, Cleveland, 5.00 The company answered that! * Work Two Days To Make Up for Labor Day Rest By an Auto Worker, Correspondent NEW YORK—The workers of A. W. Rosen & Co,, manufacturers of auto- mobile supplies, where I have been working for.some time, are unorgan- ized. For a month the bosses were pro- mising the workers that soon they would sign up with the NRA, would install the 40-hour week and would increase their wages. Many workers, believing everything the bosses say, refused to join the Union, hoping they would get better conditions with- out any union. On Friday, Sept. 1st, the boss finally brought the Blue Eagle into the shop. He told us to come back on Saturday, because by working half a day on Saturday, we’d get paid for Labor Day. On the same Saturday, Sept. 2nd, he laid off about 40 per cent of the entire working force of the shop. On Saturday, Sept. 9th, the boss told the workers to work all day, saying that we had to do it for Labor Day. Many of the older workers pro- tested for having to work two Satur- days for one Labor Day, and went home at noon. The boss promised to deduct 4 hours from this weeks pay of all those that didn’t work Sat- urday afteroon. ‘The wages of all workers, except a few boys, who used to get less than $16, the minimum wage, remained the same. Workers on power presses with several years of experience work for $16 a week. Now with the cost of living rising every day this is actually @ wage cut. Besides, the bosses are expecting the remaining workers to produce as much as before the layoff The conditions in A. W. Rosen shop prove that the bosses are not going to improve the conditions of the workers yoluntarily, with or without tite NRA. Only by organization into the militant Metal Workers Industrial Union, and the formation of a strong, well-knit shop-committee will we be able to)‘ fight for and. gain higher wages and better conditions. Difference Between AFL Robbers, Union Controlled byToilers By a Metal Worker Correcpondent EVANSVILLE, Ind.—Workers were held up and $3,000 to $4,000 taken by} A. F. of L. thugs. Here is how it happened. Mr. Roosevelt with his demagogy says, organize. Correct, if you have rank and file control. Well, the A. F. of L., labo? fakers| who are working for the Morgans and Mellons, etc., get busy and send jar. with a lot of ra- and soon get your ig out of the pic ® lzeving you with a charter and your same old grievances, with a reduction in pay, thanks to inflation, and open shop too. How many are left on the job in the Servel plant. About 40 per cent, maybe 50 per cent, and what is the A. F. of L. doing about this whole- sale firing? Exactly nothing. They ton’t believe in strikes, in forcing the boss to do anything for the workers. The Sieel and Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union, however, works to es- tablish shop committees of the rant: and file, to carrying on union work directly in the shops where you work. These committees consists of you, fel- low-workers, not of someone sitting in a swivel chair, smoking 50c cigar off of your meagre wages. In thi way, you know what they are doing, if they are really fighting for you or the boss. The new unions establish a real democracy among the workers. They wipe out the corrupting high salaries MLR OR Gatos Amerne THe Commer: of the old unions and pay their of- ficials only the regular wages of the shop that you work in, Two or Three Years’ Work Ruins Health of Chipper in Steel Mill By a Steel Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind.—A chipper working in the mills finds that after two or three years of this work, his health is prac- tically ruined.. Pushing the hammer behind 120 pounds of pressure is a backbreaking job. He finds that he is affected with rheumatism and can scarcely walk erect. And for this work, chippers in the Illinois Steel receive in wages 37¢ an hour. We were working 9 and 10 hours a day but the first of June the company cut the hours to 8, which represented a direct wag: cut for us. For lunch time, the bosses tell us to stop and eat, and after 5 minutes they call us back. Along with all other workers the chippers must organize in the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and fight for better pay and against our miserable conditions. ASK AID OF C. P. By a Worker Correspondent STEUBENVILLE, O. — The NRA Blue Buzzard in Mingo Junction, O., had brought the workers of the U. S. Steel (Mingo Work) so much “pros- perity” that a carful of workers came to Steubenville Sept. 3 asking someone to go and help them to organize a Communist Party section in their town. They recognized that the C. P. is the only Party fighting for the workers. The majority were Negro workers who asked the Party at Steu- heniville to give all assistance possible, 10.47 1.00 Haymerket Blanch, LL.D. ‘Total 1.00 Previous Total 2 ‘is30 Grand Total « Help improve the “Dally Worker.” send in your suggestions and orttictem! keep in mind the powerful influence very much strengthened by drawing the young steel workers into workers’ sports, by developing social events for the working youth. It is necessary to pay special attention to the building of Y. C. L. units. While the prepara- tory work is being done, like party recruitment, this has not yet been taken as seriously as it should be. Daily Worker Circulation Increases One of the most powerful instru- ments, the Daily Worker, is only being used in an isolated and unor- ganized manner. The Daily must be used in the building of the Party, the union, and to popularize the victories true that the circulation of the Daily has been increased, and that the Daily played an important role in the’ building of the union. This increase, however, is small in comparison with the opportunities. This is not because the workers do not want the Daily. This is because the Party members do not push it. A good example of the underesti- mation of the Daily was exhibited by our comrades in the McKees Rocks strike, where objections were raised that to sell the Daily would scare the workers. Only through pressure was the Daily Worker agent allowed to sell the Daily. And the workers grabbed it like hot cakes, The circulation of the Daily can be increased by several thousand and by hundreds of new subscriptions ong the steel workers. Inside the mill branches, Daily Worker commit- tees should be set up not only to cir- culate the Daily but to develop regu- lar workers’ correspondence on the issues in the mill. The Daily in the mills can be used to build the union and to build the circulation of the Steel and Metal Worker. gle, this is the great school; but it also learns from the accumulated ex- perience of the working class. These two branches of working class educa- tion comprise the workers university. A revolutionary union is not worth its salt if it ignores the education of its members. While it is not so easy to set up classes, the distribution of the workers’ press and the wide sale of literature ‘should go hand in hand with organization and struggle. A pamphlet on steel decided upon by the union has not yet been writ- ten, nor have a number of excellent 1, 2 and 3 cent pamphlets published by the Communist Parity been cireu- lated to any degree among the steel workers. Strengthen the Election Campaign Probably one of the most glaring weaknesses in the steel campaign is ; legal the election campaign. While thou- and the growth of the union. It is; The working class learns in strug- | CARRYING OUT THE OPEN. LETTER. Se ARR ESE ENTE TAPE “Daily” “Played Partin theBuilding of the Steel Union | | “A Revolutionary Union-Is Not Worth Its Salt If It Ignores the Education of Its Members By JACK JOHNSTONE my In developing work among the young steel workers, we “of boss’ controlled through these and social affairs, the youth are drawn into support ef | capitalism, drawn into the war machinery of the bosses. Proach in organizing a young steel and metal workers’ conference The correct can \be — sands of steel workers are entering into struggles, thes struggles for eco- nomic demands are not yet »connected in most steel town with the election campaign. The parties of the steel trust, the Republican and Democrat # candidates and its minimum election program. In a number of steel towns, the election campaign, being strengthened, has been liqui- dated. Such an attitude expresses a capitulation before the red scare by the Party comrades, which is not at all shared by the steel workers in general. ah Party Moving Ahead However, in spite of these weak- nesses, our Party is moving ahead steel. The steel factories have ‘penetrated for the first time 1919, and while the union has ente: this Wall Street fortress in its small- er sections, mills of 2,000 and less, substantial groups have been organ- ifs quipa, in Homstead, etc. ‘The weak spot in the of the campaign is, however, Pittsburgh, and it is exactly at the point selected for concentration, the J. é& L. “The splendid advance of the union and the wide publicity given to the S. M. W. I. U. by the press has not been utilized for concentration in the J, & L. The Unemployed Council layed quite a major role in helping ‘the struggles and in building the Stéel and Metal Workers Industrial ‘Union, but on the South Side, the Party, the union and the Unemployed Councils have gone almost out of existence. When a Serbian priest tells his Jones & Laughlin steel workers con- gregation to join the S. M. W. I. U. he is expressing the discontent of the steel workers. He is not on the pay of the mill and probably also feels the pinch of a shrinking collection plate. He evidently is closer to these workers than we are. Once the Party 'is able to convince itself of the neces- sity of such concentration, the J, 4 ‘L: will be organized, but not until ‘then. “Ta sci, wi cll of the weaknesses mentioneu, we are applying the line of the Open Letier. We can and we will overcome these weaknesses. We are only learning how to put into effect a coordinating plan of work. We are not yet very good at i Iam of the opinion that we are »proving right along. The thing needed is to increase the tempo this improvement. ag al By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Bernarr Macfadden’s Books O. J.—We doubt whether your friend will get his money back. How a man can Spend $45 of his hard-ea’ned movev on svh a set of “health” books is beyond our com- pr~ antic t 2 nd ¢s :not | get his money back, he may send the books Collect, as to the writer Express he would not pay a j penny for the whole lot! * Baldness—Fake Ads S. G—There is positively no medicine, salve, ointment, tonic or injunction on the market which will grow hair on a bald head. Every advertisement you see, no matter in how “respectable” a ma- gazine or newspaper, irrespective of whether it is “guaranteed” or not, is a fake. The celebrated or rather notOrious actors and ac- tresses, as well as other “celebri- ties,” who inorse hair growers are paid by the manufacturers. How this can be allowed to go on? You are very naive for a man who has} d lost his hair and his illusions (the two are supposed to go together). There are loopholes through which the publishers can crawl out when action is brought against them. That’s what “high class” law- yers are hired for! You are wasting your money. As to wings, or toupees, we don’t know of any make which will stay “put,” unless you paste them on. Two years ago, injections of An- terior Pituitrin (a certain gland- ular extract) were recommended by a research worker fof growing hair. It was widely advertised in the press. A young physician known to us became enthusiastic about it and claimed to have obtained re- markable results. He even spoke of opening a “hair raising” office on Park Avenue; but he stopped talking about it soon afterward. | The writed has used the remedy on|' some patients who insisted on throwing etheir money away. He never saw a single hair grow, al- though the patients kept on dis- covering tiny hairs with their magnifying glass. This is to be as- Let us know what the workers in| cribed to the psychological effect your shop think aboet the “Daily.” and they s0on grew tired of pre- tending. Experiments are going on in Soviet Russia on the growth of wool and hair. As soon as something tangible is discovered ws will report it in this column. Sorry we cannot give you any encourage- ment at present. Re tw Cheese and Meat—Preventive Diet in Kidney Stone “W. H. L.—There is no sense in eating combination cheese and meat sandwiches. Both foods are concentrated proteins and it is a jane in scientific dietetics always to eat balanced meals, If one eats either cheese or meat, it should be followed by a non-acid forming ‘food, such as lettuce and tomate The only value we can see in eating ‘a~combination cheese and meat sandwich is when you are with aw orthodox Jew and you want to tease him; but then you are cutting your jnese to spite your face. ~~Stone of the kidney is liable to recur, no matter what the diet is Itvis advisable, however, t© avoid Spicy (including salty) food, cut | down on meats, eggs and meat \.sops, and above all drink plenty ‘oF -water. ¥ bo» * * . Strain on Feet and Heart j.Charles S., Providence, R. 1. We remember you and your pperfectly and are glad to hear that you are both Party members. What astonishes us is that you survived after having us as your doctor, way ‘back in 1917. Did the pills de Celia any good? Running errands and standing on your feet the whole day long can- not of course, improve your heart, especially if you have to climb up- ‘hill, Could you not engage an er- and boy or get a second-hand automobile? Your feet should be ‘lobked after by a podiatrist (ehire Opodist). The tiredness might be ane to flattening of your arches. ou,.ought to have your doctor tenoto your heart and advise acordingly. Do you ever come New York? If so, please call for a friendly chat. awe eine Readers desiring health information should address their letters to Dr. Luttinger, e-0 Dally Worker, 35 5. St, New | GE