The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1933, Page 4

% Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1938 CARRYING OUT THE OPEN LETTER. Building A Unit Into A Mass Unit A Resolution on the ot the Party Open Letter Showing Lack of Initiative and Confidence We are publishing a resolution adopted by a New York unit on the Open Lette Party. We invite the comrades of the and the comments of the Organizational Department of the unit and the section to express their opinion on the comments of the Organizational Department.—Ed. Note. Resoiuiion and Pian of Work Adopted by Unit 11, Sec. 5, N 1, The unit picks for tration the terr St. and Home St pect Ave. by Ne- gro workers. | 2. Ita rikery b; ing Block basis in Hi least {ive he 3. ‘fhe a of th mittee is to organ the gle the of living ination white and and unemrio: mproving unit we shall nent funct on- | hold et | Yeading reg and the Communist, uni; the work in the involving every mem in our | tration | of concentra- On ure we pledge to sell at least eight copies of each of the and to sell y 100 copies of every | one and two-cent pamphlet issued} by the Party. | 8. In order to carry this plan out | we request that the Section Commit- tee instructs C. Sherry to consider the unit c jon work his ma- jor Parts We further re- quest that the Section Committee instructs C. Bruce to attend regu- larly our unit meetings and in addi-| tion devote to our concentration work at least one evening a week. Otherwise we do not assume respon- | sibility for carrying out the plan of | our concentration work. Unit 11, Section 5, R. Wein, Organizer. How to Improve the | Unit Resolution | This resolution and plan of work | shows the good intention of the | comrades of Unit No. 11, and is | /an encouraging sign of an earnest attempt to apply the Open Letter. A serious weakness of the reso- | lution is the fact that it shows a lack of confidence in this unit. This is seen in the pledge of raw- ing in enly five Party members during the election period. Why only five members? Don’t we be- lieve that the situation is ripe to build Unit 11 into a mass unit, that the situation is ripe to sell | in the territory of the unit more than 10 copies of the Daily Worker? We do not oppose the idea that we shall start bringing the sale of the Daily Worker to 10 copies a day, but our outlook must be for a gre increased circulation. Further, do not the comrades br ye that their re- quest to the Section Committee of instructing one comrade to attend regularly the unit meeting and | | ou |“RevolutionaryWork | Is the Task of the | Entire Membership” | At the same time the Party | y on a sysvematic strug- | ainst the bureaucratic isola- the apparatus from the fast the suppres- ner Party democracy, for lopment of political life lower organizations, par- ularly in the factory nuclei, for the development of thorough- cism, for the devel- itiative in the lower and for the im-| its Tunctioning | of y Party member, and espe- every Party functionary, be a real organizer of mass ‘uggles in his particular sphere ork. From this standpoint, rty must judge the activity functionaries and must hoes leading bodies. All lead- ng bodies, especially those in the must recognize their asis of the carrying | Revolutin york is the task of the entire membership The secretaries of the leading bodies in their work must not re- | place the work of the membership. It is their task to plan and or- | ganize the work, together with the to members, ctical out their t {on the carryin; give the members tance in carrying s and to check up | out of these tasks. | As delegates to all Party confer- ences, section and district confer- |ences, and above all to the Party | Congress, there must be elected |comrades who carry on active |mass work and who have distin- | guished themselves in mass strug- 1 From the Open Letter. Stop Forced Sale In Massachusetts MAYNARD, Mass.—Following the lead of the farmers in the Middle West, 30 workers led by the Finnish Youth Club stopped the forced sale of Amelia Kangas’ home on Parker St. The auctioneer’s flag was already flying, but when the agent saw the militant crowd of workers the sale was postponed two weeks. The workers of Maynard are pre- paring for the next sale. then devote to the concentration work of the unit at least one eve- ning a week is an exaggerated de- mand? Exaggerated for the simple reason that if the section buro is composed of five comrades and the units in the territory are 24, there is the physical impossibility that five comrades shall be divided among 24 units which meet during the same night. Yes, while it is correct that a member of the Buro shall help in the concentration work of the unit, the categorical request and statement of throwing responsi- bility on the section committee for eventual failure, shows lack of confidence in the unit itself of be- ing able to carry out its concen- tration task, and it also shows lack of initiative. ORG, DEPARTMENT. Can You Make ’em : Yourself ? We anticipated your needs for Some pajamas. Pointed seaming de- fimes the waistline and sleeves puff saucily. Picture them in a sprightly cotton or silk print with the frills at neck, sleeves and trouser hem of or- . Or use a monotone sateen with a gay bit of contrast! Pattern 2505 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20. Size 16 takes 4% yards 36-inch fabric and 5% yards edging. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions included with this pattern. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15 cents) 4n coins or stamps (coins preferred). Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. » Address orders to DAILY WORK- Pattern Department, 243 West 1% Street, New York City. (Patterns ‘by mail only.) .* NOTICE ON PUMPERNICKEL \ subscriber of the Daily Worker uests a recipe for pumpernickel. | ‘1 some one please send one in| ype published in this column? fENEMENT CHILDREN PLAY “EVICTION” | NEW YORK, Sept. 14—The for- \Gible eviction of workers’ families become so common a sight in he working class neighborhoods of 2 lower East Side, that the chil- en now play a new game called ‘iction,” Miss Mary Ellery Gibbon --the Children’s Society reported ‘ay. Mthey no longer play the old nes, they play ‘eviction’,” she id. _ Letters From F ‘Potato Farmers ‘Get Fourth of What City Public Pays By a Worker Correspondent RUPERT, Idaho—I have only been here abou and ac- | cording to the local ly) Mini- | doka County News, the workers and farmers were supposed to be 100 per cent behind the N.R.A. However, at | a meeting Fri night, September‘ 8, called by the workers who are on county welfare work, it was plain that the workers here in Rupert are becoming thoroughly disillusioned with the N.R.A. and the Federal Public Works program, for which this county (Minidoka) has not re- ceived a cent of Federal Public Works money, and there is no pro- spect of getting any because the lo- cal business men and ci missions shape. These same business men all have the eagle on their windows and | | are profi g outrageously. The cost of living here has risen | 40 per cent since the Blue Eagle| There | workers he: not yet any} | solid org: tion of the workers here, but t will soon be an Un- employed Coi in Rupert. At the meeting last night a com- mittee was elected to go to these local business men demanding they take action in getting behind some public works program for the unem- Ployed. Also a motion was made} ied to go in a body before Welfare Chairman de- ediate relief. an agriculture country, mostly raisiag potatoes and sugar | beets. The potato warehouses here are offering 80 cents to the farmers} today for 100-pound sacks of No. 1 Idaho potatoes; but expect the con- sumers in the city pay four times that much for the same amount. SENDS $5 TO “DAILY” (By a Farmer Correspondent) WHITE EARTH, N. D.—It is now | a long time since I had the “Daily,” but it has been so far between the | dollars that we almost forgot how money looked. ‘This five-spot was in- tended for shoes for my children, but we all need the “Worker” just as bad, so here it is. ‘Wall Street Rosey’s new deal is not new to us farmers. It is the same old rotten deal we always got, and let me tell you it is not accepted by the farmers as any fundamental change. It is just the hope that we get a few pennies that make us sign the allotments contracts. —J. Help improve the “Daily Worker.” of slackening and sabotage on the Every newspaper in the Soviet | appear. | light by them in their reports to the press. | to read the letters coming from worker correspondents but to take steps | to correct the shortcomings brought to light by them wherever they part of the kulaks was brought to} Union has a special staff not only Vegetable Pickers Get Starvation Pay,ButAre Charged N.R.A. Prices INDIANOPIS, Ind.—The Indian- apolis Vegetable Growers, a mem- ber of the association and a mem- ber of the NRA, works labor at | starving wages at day work. Those laborers pick tomatoes at 10 cents an hour and 11 and 12 hours a day, and those picking beans get paid by the hundred. from 55 cents up to $1 a hundred pounds and all you can picky is 100 pounds and they work you from six in the morning until’ ‘six at night, and they belong’ to) NRA, and when you go to buy anything they have for sale you have to pay NRA prices, A man who worked on the farm of the Indiana’ State Insurance House was fired recently because he did not belong to the Demo- cratic Party, although he had been on that job nine years, Two workers-here, Sanford Giv- ins and Albert Wells, that have worked for the ‘Peoria and Eastern Railroad Co:'fér 11 years, got laid off, and they said two more were going to get it, dnd for this month they only get 144 hours and got | send in your suggestions and criticism! | Let us know what the workers in| your shop think about the “Daily.” to pay rent and buy food ont of that for 30 days. | Letters from THE “DAILY” IN JAIL Allegheny County Jail, Pa. Comrade Editor: Was delighted to read that the “Daily” was increasing its size. On the outside one does not realize what |a grip the “Daily” has on himself and workers, There is one copy coming here to} this jail, and so far I have been able to trace that copy to 15 workers. One worker is as pleased as punch if he gets the paper 10 days late instead of 14, which it usually is for him, as the others all want to keep it one night. To give an instance: A worker was reading about the strike in Fayette County in a capitalist paper. He had just finished; then he turned to me and asked: “What has the ‘Daily’ got to say about this strike? I want the truth, and that’s the only paper that tells it, the way I see things.” I am writing these few lines to ask the workers to stand by the “Daily” in its biggest venture since its birth. Revolutionary greetings to the big- ger workers’ “Daily.” Let’s have a | bigger circulation. CRITICISM THAT HELPS The Bronx, New York. Comrade Editor: Your editorial “How Poison Is Brewed,” in the August 25 issue, is excellent. By quoting Walter Du- ranty you convincingly proved that the facts he gives contradict the statements which his bosses want him to make. A class-conscious worker can easily detect the lies in orig- inal article in the Times, many workers may be led to believe these lies. Your editorial is especially use- ful in opening the eyes of these back~ ward workers. However, you forgot to point out in this editorial the role the Socialist Jeaders play in spreading lies against the U.S.S.R. While Duranty writes that the supposed death rate in- crease is not due to “acute starva- tion,” and that any estimate as to loss of life is guesswork, the Jewish Daily Forward, a socialist paper, fea- tures a big headline: “Two Million Died of Hunger in Russia.” Blanshard’s Blarney I must smile when I remind my- self that Paul Blanshard of the League for Industrial Democracy said to a group of C.C.N.Y. students (about a year ago) that the Social- ist leaders do not slander the Soviet Union; that if he lived in Russia he would join the Communist Party. Sure, when debating with Commu- nists the Socialist leaders have to deny their treachery hypocritically, but actually they are too glad to spread lies preparing for war against the Workers’ Fatherland. This shows how important it is to have the “Daily” reach the masses. All lies against Soviet Russia must be exposed and refuted; and is there any better medium for this than the Daily Worker. We must therefore do our utmost to spread the “Daily.” The editors have done their part splendidly. The new features are ex- cellent. I don’t see any further need for improvement. (The only thing I miss is Sparks.) Only a bigger cir- culation is needed now. Our Readers copies. " Yours for a mass circulation, A Non-Party Reader. Paes ; Editor's Note: Our policy in edi- torijls is to keep them short and stick to one) peint. However, this worker is correct in his criticism. We should have brought out par- ticularly the role.of the “Forward,” and we must constantly explain the motive of, the Socialists in their attacks on the, Soviet Union. MEET THEM ON THE JOB Bronx, N. Y¥. Comrade Editor: There are some who think it ad- visable, in any, workers’ struggle, to avoid the cries of “Reds” and “Com- munist.” Your editorials for Aug. 24, 25, take the proper stand against such an attitude. Such an attitude means a surrender of principles. I suggest that the Party leaders should bring this matter up to the attention of units, and that it should be in- cluded in the discussions on the Open Letter. The fur strike at Gloversville, N. Y. (reported in “Daily” Aug. 25) is a good example of how the red scare should be combatted during a strike. I suggest the following: When a mass meeting is held after a strike declaration, the workers are very tense. At any time during their strike they are also eager about strike news. It is therefore a very psycho- logical moment, when at the mass meeting, to tell the worker that all strike news will appear in the Daily Worker, I am 4 furrier. I am ashamed to say that at the headquarters of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union there isn’t a Daily or even a Freiheit for sale.or on show. Neither could I get one (if I didn’t subscribe) on Seventh Ave. from 30th St. to 37th St. At lunch time the workers swarm. from the factories into the street. If Party comrades: wish to reach the working people, this is the time. Only once did I see a worker make collections for the Anti-Fascist Week. By showing himself among the work- ers, this comrade not only got con- tributions, but he showed that the Party is living, and the flesh and bone of the workers themselves. Class-conscious workers should re- member that they should meet the working mass at.or about their work, and not only when they demonstrate, or at Union Square. Ss. B. CODE MINUS BLANKETS. East ‘Chicago, Ind. Comrade Editor; As we see thatthe capitalist press 4s beginning to fool the workers with Roosevelt's “blanket code’”—but no blankets—for the working class, and at the same time, we see that the best way to combat the ruling class lies is by giving the working class, the Daily Worker, which is the only daily newspaper that clarifies the workers’ mind, --telling them how Roosevelt, the bosses, the priests, the gangsters and racketeers are prepar- ing to attack the’ proletarian class. It is our duty to prepare the prole- tarlans against the bosses attacks. I congratulate you and wish the “Daily” would sell in thousands of So increase the bundle order with 3 more copies every day. Bosses and Co and Jail Cranberry Pickers By an Agricultural Worker Correspondent WAREHAM, Mass—There are many strikes in the cranberry bogs came in—such is the opinion of the |_around here. , Last year the workers’ weges were cut in half, but the price of the cran- berries fell about‘ third. They pay $1.50 for weeding, and from $1.80 to $2 | for other labor on the bogs, for the —*'cents to 40 cents an hour and 15 to ps Wound nine-hour day. Last year they paid 35 18 cents a box, on piece work, for picking, and this year, even with the | rising cost of living, they were going to pay the same as last year. The strikers are being organized into the Cape Cod Cranberry Pickers Union. The union demands 80 cents an hour for men and 70 cents for women on day work, and 35 cents a box on piece work for pickers and 50 cents an hour for other labor Many of the biggest bogs are out on strike. The strikers have been go- ing around in big gangs to different bogs getting the workers to strike. Some have returned to work, but most of them have stayed out. In South Carver, four of the strik- ers were wounded when the bog own- er shot one man in the hand. Then special police guards wounded three more. Five were arrested there, and 58 of them were held when they went to Middleboro, The strikers did not have any wea- pons, as some of the local papers claimed. All the arrested were bailed out by their friends and members of the union, who had their homes as se- curity. Their cases will be taken up the 25th of this month in court. The bail set for most of them was $25 and a few were from $100 to $1000. A Cranberry Picker. Where the Workers and Farmers Rule NALCHIK, U. 8. S. R.—In the re- cent conference of aged women here, as recently reported, 506 delegates, aged women of different nationalities, took . The following is the cocoon of Zuka Lakunova, 75 years old: “Our workmen do not remember such a conference. And how could you speak with them before? They were never honored like this. We have finished our sowing this year, but there are some kolkhozes which have not, and we help them. “Landlords forced us to work with- out a rest. Are we not able to work for ourselves now? We shall dig the ground with shovels and simple sticks, but our kolkhoz will exist. “In the beginning our kolkhoz was very small and our enemies tried to Prevent us in our work. We were told about the gangs of bandits hired to harm our fields and cattle. Some- body told us that there were no kol- Khozes left, that they had all fallen to pieces, that as long as I am alive, nobody will leave our kolkhoz. I am an old woman, but the rest of my life will be devoted to securing prosperity for our collective farm.” “But we were not frightened. I said | armer Correspndents Worker Correspondents Play Law Makes It Chime: a Big -Role in [ U. S. S. R When the National Committee for the Maxim Gorki Plane Fund in | the Soviet Union arranged an air circus in the giant plane ANT-14 fo | August 6 in connection with an outing of journalists of the central | |newspapers and large magazines, “worker correspondents” were selected | to participate*in the outing. They were selected on the basis of the record of activities’ over the period of the last three months. In the sowing campaign and in the successful harvest in the Soviet | | Union, the worker correspondents played an important role. They were | jon the watch~and reported activities in the collectives and every sign ‘to Give Orange Culls toStarving Workers By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal.The New 2°1 is not working out very well here for the fruit pickers. Many of them are hard put to make 70 cents to $1.50 per day, even when they work, which is about half-time. The box, and through the fact that groves are poorly cared for it is impossible to gather more than 18 to 40 boxes a day. Orange culls are now being de- stroyed instead of marketed. Tons and tons are dumped on the ground to rot. From the standpoint of cal- ories these are just as good as any marketed. The poor classes here could buy these culls from about 15 cents to 25 cents per peck, but now they are out of luck as it is a statutory offense to market them, under the “New Deal.” According to statistics broadcast by various investigators, (looking to the mest healthy diet for children as well as adults), orange juice is really a necessity. If such is the case it should be considered a crime for growers and marketing organizations to wantonly destroy one of the real necessities of life. There is a heated controversy here as to how many hours constitute a work day among the men working on the county welfare jobs. The men are gven tickets calling for a certain number of days work for the month. Single men without dependents are given from five to 12 days per month at 40 cents per hour. Married men are given tickets calling for from 15 | - 30 days per month at 40 cents per | jour. At first all the men worked an eight-hour day but now the bosses have reduced their days to four hours at the same 40 cents per hour. The workers are calling for a show- down, maintaining that if they are reduced to four hours per day that they should have twice as many days. Nebraska Governor Gets His Bonus Out of Pig Destruction (By a Farmer Correspondent.) OMAHA, Neb.—Governor Chas. A. Bryant netted $752.40 on 180 head of “bonus hogs” at the South Omaha stock yards. Governor Bryan has several large tracts of farm land and other real estate. price paid is 4 cents to 414 cents per | {they had expected. 1 || Workers to through California, Oregon and Washi diversified fruit profucing area in the Hundreds of thyusands of freight |from this region, annually and® | more than three milion people are, actively engaged propagating,| picking, packing an{ shipping this | product to all parts| of the globe. In addition to thes: millions may be added several mere thousands of buyers, speculators and profit- mongers, who, while, contributing nothing to the wealt) of the na- tion, nevertheless ajfpropriate to themselves probably §| per cent of | the price which the wtimate con- | sumer pays for thes¢ necessities and luxuries of life. When the NRA code was boosted | by the bosses as something that would revolutionize the fruit and vegetable industry, the propaga- tors, pickers and packers enthusias- tically acclaimed: “Roosevelt will make ‘em do it!” (equalize condi- tions). They are now certain that he has already done it,—although not in exactly the same manner Instead of the Big Steck being the mailed fist behind the code, they have discovered that whe U. S, Chamber of Commerce is ‘the dy- namo through which the power is generated. Last year the orchardists re- ceived 15 cents a box for forty-box lots. These grove picking boxes weigh 50 pounds each, Thus, 40 boxes make a’ ton and sell for $6. This year they get 40 cents,—or $16 a ton. Minimum Wage, the Standard Wage Last year the ordchardists paid about 83 cents a box for picking. An average picker could gather about 70 boxes in a day of ten hours. This year Nira says the. orchardists must pay a minimum of 24 cents an hour and must not work help more than nine hours, The orchardist agrees to this but tell the worker that he must pick 75 boxes a day or else get off the job. The minimum wage has practically now been -made the standard wage. Under this speed- up the workers received $2.16 this year as against $2.10 last year. hard Qwne 's Sign - Pick 75 Boxes a Day or Lase Job; Make ljc. More a Day Under Speed-Up (By a Worker Correspondent.) MEDFORD, 0¢—¥rom San Diego, California, om the Mexican border, | to Bellingham Bay,on the Canadian line, a distance of'more than 1500 miles, | you please.” WhatNNRA Means 4o Toilers in the Coast Fruit Belt NBA. Code, But Tell ington, extends ‘the greatest and most world, car loads are produced and shipped Living expenses in the meantime have been increased about twenty Last year’ the canneries paid their women who peel,. core and split the pears in half, 10 cents a box, weighing: 40 pounds per box, The women could work “go as This year the N.R.A, says you must pay 27 cents an hour for no more than: eight hours per day. The forewomen tells every applicant that she must peel and core 24 boxes per day, after a three day “breaking-in” period, or be laid off. $2.16 a Day Only for Experts. Beginners usually, make six or sexen boxes the first day and in: crease to 15 or 20, by the third day. Only experts can qualify for these $2.16 a day positions. The others may return home and pa- tiently await’the next “New Deal.” The season’ only lasts about two months and very few packing houses operate more than four or five hours per day. Work begins at 7:30 and goes without intermission in this fac- tory until 12 noon; half an hour for lunch and quit at four. No time for drink of water or any- thing else on the belt, Last year, hops sold for 10 cents a pound and. 40 cents a hundred was paid for picking. This year, the whole crop Ras been sold in advance, as it stands in the fields, for 50 cents a pound,—but the hop speculators are paying 50 cents a hundred for picking. This in- dustry is not yet coded. Possibly Mr. Johnson, overlooked. the (new) beer industry! Even in California cities peara sell at an ayerage price of 4 cents & pound, in retail stores. A 40 ound box would cost $1.60 cents, ‘ntil capitalism shall have been abplished we will continue to pay to | intermediaries the difference between a total production cost of 27 cents for a 40 pound box and the (consumers’ price of a $1.60 —Craridall Miller. He lives in the city of Lincoln and hires workers to labor on these various enterprises in the country, so that he can collect large profits therefrom. Another item of interest in re- gard to Roosevelt—Wallace hog bonus campaign is the mystery of the early information that specu- lators received in regard to the hog bonus going into effect. It enabled many of them to steal a march on the farmers. Farmers Get Less But Pay More for Feed, Overalls and Dresses By a Farmer Correspondent SALLISAW, Okla. — Overalls that sold last year for 75 cents are now $1.70. Workshirts that sold last year for 40 cents are now 75 cents. Chopped corn for chickens sold last year for 70 cents and is now $1.60. Dress goods that sold last year for 10 and 12 cents a yard is now 24 cents. On the ovher hand, small farmers are getting less for their products. Poor farmers here have a dread of the blue eagle of the NRA. They say it is the “mark of the beast,” whatever that may mean. Shop Workers, Doing Its Part NEW YORK, sued by the cit Worker to all N.Y. workers in your shop! “Use the ‘ ” to help carry on your everyday AM sogonietantions for , Sept. 19, ollow: DISTRICT NO. 1 Ignateus Watchuck, Portland, Me. $1.00 Geo. P. George, Peabody, Mass, 118 ‘Total $2.16 Py DISTRICY No. 8 Ns H. A. Stringer, N.Y, ‘ 1,00 OF Unit, Camp Unity So0 ‘Abe, Charlie and Miltiy W.%. Loo Is Your Union for the “Daily” Collection at the wedding of Com. Gulke’s daughter, member of 48d st. Block Committee of U. ©. of Boro Park 3.00 Section 1, Unit 1, List 9193 05 Harold 05 Frank 35 John 30 Jack 10, D. Jotte 110 & Harris 210 deo Ee Hatters Group (by ¥. Unterman) 6. tty ‘Clubs 300 J. Cory, N.Y. 1.00 Post 36, WEGL, Let No. 57408 Rubin, N.Y. BO Stationery’ Store 2 8; Sympathizers, house party, N. Y. 2.50 Eugene Ciancia, N. ¥. 5.00 E. Horn, ¥. N. 1.00 $66.38 DISTRICT NO. 3 Joseph Demko, Dameron, Md. 55 I. Goldfarb, Washington, D. 0. 1.40 Age DISTRICT NO. 6 | Jugo-Slav Club “Zora,” Youngstown, O. 2.50 ‘Total $.250 DISTRICT NO. 8 Emanuel and Rosle Knotek, Cicero, 1. $125.00 Section 5, Sustaining Fund, Chicago Section 3! Sus Fund, Chicago ection 3, Sustaining 40 Unit 907, Sustaining Fund, Chi 60 Russian Prog. Women’s Soc., col. lists 3.25 Biegel, Chicago 2.00 ‘Unit 912, Sustaining Fund, Chicago 60 Frelhelt Singing Soc., Chicago 1.40 Unit 511, Sustaining Fund, Chicago —.70 Unit 520, Sustaining Fund, Chicago 60. ‘Unit 122, Sustaining Fund, Chicago 1.10 ‘Unit, Sustaining Fund, Chicago 38 A. Nichols, 1.00 Bection 9," Chicags $0 Section 1, Chicago 2.20 ‘Siegel, Chicago 2.00 ‘Chicago 2 3 Grand Total $1320.05 By PAUL LUTFINGES, MD. Answer to Comrade Reed’s Letter Reed’s letter is due to the numerous urgent letters which keep pouring in from every part of the country and tequiring immediate attention, Prac- tical, everyday problems must‘ take precedence over theoretical disserta~ tions. Let us consider Comrade Reed's objections seriatimt First of all he claims that the health column in the Daily Worker is a piece of capitalism creeping into Pages of the “Daily.” And why? Because modern Medicine is “a prod- uct of our capitalistic schools.” This is not logical because all our knowl- edge, including the basic sciences, such as mathemattos, biology, chem- istry, physiology, are products not only of the capitalist system, but their foundation was laid way back in the middle ages, in Greece, in Babylonia and even during the Periods of savagery and the stone age. The sciences have followed the laws of evolution and have lost gradually ments. Thus, astrology developed into modern astronomy and. chem- istry emerged from the gibberish of is following the same lines of evolu- tion and Soviet American will adopt it, just as Soviet Russi did, irre- | Spective of its “capitalistic origin.” The day after the revolution will économics of the Mamchester school and the statistics collected by the various governments Under the present capi- talist system, there is no doubt that the average physician cannot or will sia these principles are applied for the promotion of the physical and’ mental welfare of the proletariat. Perhaps the’ reading of the Health Column in the Daily Worker has convinced Comrade Reed since he hastily wrote his letter (Aug. 17) that we are trying to do exactly what our Russian comrades have been doing. . We grant Comrade Reed’s state- ment that the average income of the | to the exploited class and that their interests are identical with that of other workers. The ridiculous atti- tude of the majority of jicians who think that they are “above com- mon workers,” simply shows their ignorance; the same ignorance dis- The delay in replying to Comrade | Fed their superstitious _ ele- | codfish, alchemy. The science of medicine| Various city where a gynecologist in female surgery) should perform a regular amputation of the cervix (mouth of the womb). or a: plastic operation, if necessary. * x Strawberry Nose A. G., Arnold, Pa.—We discussed © your case with a friend of ours” who is a plastic surgeon and we are sorry that we are unable to suggest anything that would have the least chance of improving your aenens Could you send us a) hotograph of your face, showing one front view and one profile of - each side? played by some American workers who consider themselves above for- eigners or Negroes, Tt is not true that ieal Trust. The there Is a Med- rank and ia ate | Readers desiring health information should address ‘their lettérs to Dr. Paul | Luttinger, c-0 Dally Worker, 95 B. 29h file!) st, New York ‘City, :