The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1933, Page 6

ibaa. | 3 Page Six House-to-House Canvassing Best Way to Spread D. W. Comrades in Chelsea Visit Negro Family, | Show Them How to Organize to Fight | CHELSE : - ce, SN ahcarinit By a Miner Correspondent.) OSC. (By for Relief; Get Subscription UNIVERSAL, Ind—The miner's $< —— children are striking, too! By HARRY FIN : All the school children of the Uni- , Mass.—Some examples of experiences while getting readers | versal Grad walked out | forthe Daily Worker with a comrade who was supposed to take me out and | shew me what he does with the Daily Worker. The comrade took it upon himself to get rid of the Daily Workers, ef which we get a bundle of 15 that remains hidden away until it gets old enoligh to be given away. We ,we to the park where there are udually unamployed, but there were none thafeday. We went to a pool room bustwe could not get them to take The comrade did not else to do, and so he to go home. I suggested another way of circu- lating the “Daily” and we went can- vassing in the houses. We knocked at the door of a Negro w 's home aud s e to the m Id us that he could not b thing be- Cause he was workil the city he did on the relief jobs for whic not get paid but only got basket and his rent of. food for the we He had even children and he and $ wife made ni He worked four vs a week at $3 per day. He got one bottle of milk for his children find no meat. “The groceries I get is med goods, a bag of flour and lit- i ” Because he did cash he could not buy ny clothes for the children and the: are almost naked and bare-footed. Three tied children come for meals a few times during the week and sometimes for quarters. You see, he went out to the dumps and picked Up rags and sold them, After cover- ing a large ter he would make $1 a week. Sor es he has to do extra jobs for wh’ he does not get paid. We suggested that he go to the Welfare and demand to get what Was coming to him and convinced him that he was being cheated by thé Weilfere. He said he would go to the Welfare and demand every pen my cf which they had robbed h a ving children. We made im tand that it would carry more ight and prevent him from beii jated some more if he spoke to th her “men on t job and showed that they also were being and to get them also to go er and demand to get what ins to them nthusiastically agreed ked us about the pa- | ling. We told him it ly Worker and that since difficult for him to buy 1% we would reduce the price to 10 and deliver it to him eed and thanked us d asked us to come and called us broth- 1 that we got for the Daily by canvassing the homes o° w Write to the Daily Worker jabhout every event of inter- sect to workers in your fac- _ tory, neighborhood or city. ‘BECOME A WORKER COR- RESPONDENT! | Miners’ Children Join Walkout in | Universal, Ind. ion (scab) min- ing their school, This strike involves over 350 children. Yesterday, c eight children from the company ro’ uses attended | |school. And fc children, who are the fe 2, ere afraid to attend Lette hee a oe The strike has been in progress for over a week, and the state officials | |are baffled as to what action to take | against them Deceit and threats are of no avail. They cannot use force, because the Our Readers ALL CORRESPONDEN' TAKE NOTE entire community is backing them in | 3 : Chicago, Ml. | their fight and any form of brutal- Comrade Editor: jity against these children would Don’t you think it will improve our} arouse the most militant town in| Daily Worker if you print streets and| Vermillion County numbers where a strike is conducted? | fighting capacity Do I have to explain? The one strong point of the strike | * if is that the st is showing the | THE MATTHEWS EXPOSE | children their wer and will un- Comrade Editor: New York. doubtedly lead to a strike for hot The murder of James Matthews school lunches, provided by the school | and the attempts to frame-up and/| this winter, use most of these | lynch New York Negroes by Tam- ‘sare unemployed many should not only be exposed in e to work below the the “Daily” but should also be ex- posed in pamphlet form. I suggest at the Communist Party, District 2, two-penny pamphlets, one on the Matthews murder and the other on the attempted lynchings as re- corded in Thursdays “Daily.” These would be excellent election campaign material. Suggested titles are “Tam- | many Murdered James Matthews” and “Tammany, the Lyncher of the N. Y. Negroes.” to its highest | UMW Leaders Get Miners Just Enough Work to Collect Dues | ssue By a Mine Worker Correspondent BEAVER MEADOWS, Pa.—The | |leaders of the U.M.W.A. make sure | We work five days every month to get . | their money by checkoff. Congratulations on the Matthews) ‘They can’t mislead the miners any scoop. Keep up the good fight for) more. We ‘have the people talking the Negro people. It is only through | about the National Miners Union, and having such good material that we| they say it is truly all right. white comrades can convince the| The mine here belongs to the Cox Negro masses of the necessity of hay-| people, but the Jeddo Highland Coal ing unity of Negro and white. | Co. has a lease on it. Comradely yours, | . « 4% |List 1,200 Pieces of a Former yest Property for Tax Sale Cleveland, ©. in Day in Birmingham LETTER FROM Comrade Editor: I was a member of the Socialist Party until recently, when I resigned By a Worker Correspondent to join the ¥. C. L. While a member; BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Age- of the S. P. I had the opportunity | Herald of September 18 carries 16% of studying Karl Marx and other | Pages listing real estate in Birming- writers, I began to analyze the Labor | ham to be sold for delinquent taxes. Movement and attempted to apply Approximately 1,200 pieces of proper- what I had learned. I began to see| ¥ listed in this issue. that labor reform is in itself just that) Tis is N.R.A. in Birmingham. and no more, and that the system of |God, I thank thee that the NRA. | has ended the depression.” | Owner, Priest and UMWA Heads Forge Miners’ Chains. By a Mine Worker Correspondent ST. CHARLES, Va—I will try to write you our conditions. We were| forced back to work under the N.R.A. Slave act. Our organizer, Bill Mitton, called the men together and the op- erators done the talking. The presi- dent of VIC Coal Co. was the first speaker. The next speaker was a sky nilot, who began with a prayer, “O, God, I thank thee for bringing these men together. As a matter of fact, O God, I know you will do justice be- tween the company and the men. O Comrades, beware of the sky pilots. This one has played hell with us. Now this is our condition. We are back at work. Bill Mitton, the organ- izer, read our contract to us. Every man that had been fired will be taken back, but one, the president of our local, the company will not take back. His case will go before the ar- bitration board. Every: man will have to load 100 per cent clean coal or drag his tools from the mine, “If you are fired for loading dirty coal we don’t want you in our union.” The contract quotes this. Mines will work scales and there had better not be any discrimination between union and non-union men if you want to work at these mines. We need the National Miners Union, Contribute to the Daily. Worker SustainingFund! Help to keep up the 6-page “Daily”! social order itself had to be changed. And I began to study Communist Party literature and I realized that the reforms of the Socialist Party were impossible | I then began to see that the pro-/| gram laid down by the Revolutionary | Socialists was the only logical pro-| gram. Onward to a real United Front| NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—“Realizing of all workers and to the day when | the importance of the Daily Worker Finnish Federation Backs “Daily” Drive for $40,000 we can throw off our chains and real-| ize Karl Marx. —New Ycler. —K. P. as the main organizer of the Am- | erican working class,” says a resolu- | tion adopted by the National Execu- | tive Committee of the Finnish Work- | ers Federation, “it calls upon every- -y —— | one of its Worker, Working Women’s and Youth clubs to give the fullest | possible financial support to the Daily Worker in its present —cam- | paign to secure the $40,000 necessary 9 insure its uninterrupted appear- snce.” Backing the action, the commit-/| se contributed $150 to the drive. | All local organizations affiliated | with the Federation are urged to! Can You Make ’em Yourself ? Pattern 1559 is available in sizes 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12. inch Size 6 takes 25% yards. fabric. Illustrated step-by-st ng instructions in- ¢€uded with this pattern. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plaiziy name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. 36 Addzess orders to the Daily Worker Pcttern Department 243 West 17th y. Patterns by WE AGREE WITH HARVEY! Pittsburgh, Pa. Comrade Editor: Mike Gold did a magnificent job in contrasting the Times and the Daily Worker, in his two columns of Sept. 13 and 14. But why did he have to say that the “Daily” is “crude” and | “badly made-up’? I’ve been in Newspaper work for 15 years, mostly on the make-up end, and the “Daily” seems to me to be a mighty well Made-up paper. _ And while the “Daily” is always direct and vigorous, I can’t see the “crude” stuff at all. If Mike will take the trouble to wade through the Times again, he vill see plenty of lapses from ordinary grammatical Tules and frorn many of the technical rules of journalism. —Harvey O'Connor. Adventures in Bamboozle Lani Baeza THE BRAINTRUST AND NEWDEAL SET OUT TO HUNT FOR THE ROOT OF OUR TROUBLES; IDABOUT Wi’) BY CHEWING THE | YY MARCHED AL! DAY INA RO! ANY BIAWING SPLENDIFEROUS BUS immediately set up campaign com- mittees responsible for conducting the drive. The resolution says that “The | Daily Worker with six pages every | | day and eight to ten pages on Sat- urdays will be a real agitator and orgenizer of the American working | class” and continues: | | “The National Executive Commit- | tee of the Finnish Workers Federa- | tion realizing the importance of the | | Daily Worker as the main organizer | |of the American working class, calls | upon everyone of its local Workers’ | clubs, and the Working Women’ | clubs and the Youth clubs to give | the fullest possible financial support |to the Daily Worker in its present | campaign to secure $40,000 which ts) | necessary to assure the uninterrupted | | existence of the Daily Worker.” Contributions for Thursday, September 21, follow: DISTRICT NO. 1 Concord, N. H., Unit of the ©. P. J. Dalugu, Central Fal Total __ ae DISTRICT NO. 2 Harry Lester, Brooklyn, N. ¥. 26 Harold Slater, Bklyn, N. ¥., Sustaining Fund Finnish Federatior I. Tomchin, Local No. 91, No. 35084) _ 203 J. Finkelstein, Local No. 91, No. 51920 4.00 Julio Mella I. L. D. Branch— List No, 53323—Alexander Coca Antonio M. Diaz, Cuba 20 8. Royes, Bronx, N.Y... .20 G. A. Quintero, Bklyn,_ .25 G. Bello, N. ¥. 25 Boléan A. Socauas T. Lajorchere 10 Unit 1, Section 2, List No. BB608 creat tse Unit 1, Section 2, Pledge of C. Malamud _" - 1,00 8. Eidensohn, N. ¥. 1.00 Anon., Weekly Pledge, N. Y. 5.00 Sympathizers, N, Y. 1.00 F. Weiss, List No. 53152— Amalgamated Clothing Workers 2.10 Deckerts, Farmer, % 2.00 Unit 168, Section 2, List Ne 26980 | 1.15 Section 2, Lists Nos. 59047, 59046, 26972, 226976 and 6420 17.60 Royal Hat Shop, List» No. 49828—-F, Unterman 1.00 ‘Total 198.88 DISTRICT NO. 8 Philip Schuck, Baltimore, Md. 1.00 ‘Total be 1.00 DISTRICT NO. 4 Rochester Movie Showing, Rochester, N. Y. —__ 12.61 Buffalo Movie Showing, Buf- Ce ae ae Total __. sii 21.61 DISTRICT NO. 5 Total 4 6.50 DISTRICT NO, 6 Peter Stevens, Massilon, O.. $1.00 ‘Total me $1.00) DISTRICT Ni Movie Showing, Detroit, Mich, 75.00 ‘Total act 75.00 DISTRICT NO, & Jackson Scarles, Muncie, Ind. 50 Nathan Berman, Chicago, Tl. 1.00 A Guardsman, 33rd Division Chicago, Mil. eee”, } Unit 809, Chicago, Ml. —__ 1.00 Unit 802, Chicago, TM, 138 Croatian Fraternal Lodge No. 202, Chicago, Ml. - 1.00 Unit 504, Chicago, Ti. 3.20 Unit 414, Chicago, Tl. —___ 50 John Reed Branch No. $46. 26.00 ‘Total ne 33.45 DISTRICT NO. 18 I. J. Blocor, Bagby, Cal. 1.00 Total Bigs 1.00 DISTRICT NO. 15 Eugene Fisher, Waterbury, Conn. MAURIE SIC, 6 | i Total 1.00 DISTRICT NO, Dan Davis, Jonesville, Va.. i le RE 1.00 DISTRICT No, 18 John Christanson, Conover, Wis. _. ———— 3 SDOERY ipa coeta cI Day's Total __ § 346.69 Previous Total 1501.06 Grand Total $1847.75 ONE DAY THE PENSIVE GOAT ON THEIR THORNY ROAD SO GUILESSLY DOES HIS PART, BLES ae TAL SLAVERY CODE AD VIGESTING IT IWARD BY KCART THE ROOT OF A | is a gem for the archives. He said, weighman, and we thought that now we will get better weight. However, we made a mistake. The checkweigh- man is a damn good man, but the scales are rotten, and secondly, the checkweighman has no power to stop the cars and make the company put them back on the scales if he feels that weights are rotten. Sometimes, when the tipple has plenty of coal, cars go over the scales so fast that not one in ten comes anywhere near being weighed cor- rectly. The company weight boss calls the weight of each car, and since the men’s weighman has no right to put the cars back on the scales, he has to “take it or leave it.” This situation developed to a point where we could not stand it no longer, so we struck for better | weights. How Union Official “Helped” Since the majority of us are in the U.M.W.A., we thought that we would get help from the officérs in our fight. We called a meeting and James Malone, an organizer of the U.M.W.A., came to the meeting. He spoke to us, and gave us plenty of hell for striking. He told us that we can’t strike; we were as bad as Mon- tour No. 10, which is striking every day; we were discrediting the U.M.W.A., and that it was wrong to strike.” His explanation of the poor weights “The reason you are getting poor | weights is because it is getting cold- er, and the oil and grease thickens, so the scale cannot record the weights | correctly, but after the tipple gets running for a couple of hours and the oil and grease softens, you get your weights.” I never heard such a lame excuse for poor weights in all my life, and |: the U.M.W.A. leaders are thinking | nights to find new alibis for the coal companies. Majority of the men were | not satisfied, but are afraid to say anything, because the U.M.W.A. leaders have issued orders not to ac- cept into locals “any one who talks radical.” $25 Initiation | Also the U.M.W.A. is issuing threats that it will cost a man $25 initiation to join the U.M.W.A. And that those who are not U.M.W.A. members will not be able to get a job. This scares many miners, and it shows the role of the U.M.W.A. lead- ers as a bunch of company egents who are ready to violate the very law they supposedly uphold, that is the N.R.A, Because in the N.R.A. the miners are guaranteed the right to have freedom of choice to join the | unions of their own chcosing. | The U.M.W.A. is trying to collect | dues here, 25 cents for two weeks. In | the Pittsburgh Terminal, which is a part of the same district, with the same rules and constitution, the min- ers are paying $1.50 a month. This | shows that the U.M.W.A. fakers are | still afraid to come out here openly with high dues and assessments, but want us to start with small dues and then increase our dues later. Lots of us miners are not paying, hundreds of others would not pay also, but are afraid that if they do not. pay they will lose their jobs. ‘What we should do is to stop pay- ing the dues to the District and In- enough space between the upright to DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1933 Rotten Scales Rob Miners in Spite of A Checkweighman U. M. W. A. Gives Lame Excuses to Workers) to Exonerate Boss for Cheating The Men at the Mine Tipple By a Mine Worker Correspondent FITZ HENRY, Pa.—After we went back to work when McGrady was kere from Washington, many of us thought that our troubles were over. We thought that we were now getting the “New Deal,” but we found that the “New Deal” is the ‘same old rotten deal. Here the main complaint of the miners was poor weights of coal. When ‘Swe went. back we elected a check- Urges Miners’ Committees to Enforce Safety By a Worker Correspondent | POWHATAN PT., O—With the | conclusion of the N.R.A. code and the | frantic attempts of the go’ ment | to strangle any body of workers ing for better conditions and right to live, we find thet conditions in our mine are getiine The safety laws are being entirely neglected. Saturday morning at 3:30 @ motorman was murdered in the| course of his employment. He w: pulling a car out of an entry when his motor hit the uprieht of a cro: timber that fell on him, knocking him under his motor, killing him in- Stantly. This cross timber had not clear the motor. He had previously told the boss of this condition, so therefore I main- tain it was a brutal murder by the coal company bosses. This worker | leaves behind a wife and three chil- dren. The State inspector of mines made an investigation a day or so later, and of course, said that it was an accident. Miners should have committees elected by the miners who are ex- | perienced in coal mining and are honest. This committee should make an examination of the mine. It should be their job"to have dangerous conditions removed from the mine until the same has been removed and all time lost to the workers be paid by the coal company. Leaders Block Miners’ Fight for Checkweighman By a Worker Correspondent BENTLEYVILLE, Pa.—It is nec- essary again to say a few words about the developments in the On- tario mine. The ex-president of our local union, while in power, handed down a decision at the local union meeting that any miner loading “dirty coal’ shall be fired for the first offense. The company fired 20 miners in one day. The ex-president, Sokol, in- structed the mine committee that they must not accent this case of the 20 fired miners. Because of this and because the company réfused to recognize the new checkweighman who was elected to replace Sokol, the com- mittee went to Pittsburgh with the demand that ‘a representative of the UMWA District Board must come to the next local union meet- ing and settle tese controversial questions. Jack O'Leary, Interna- tional Board member was to come to the meeting. Over 250 miners, all members of the UMWA gathered to atiend the yegular local union meeting. In- stead of O'Leary the county chriff, Seaman, came to the UMWA Iccal meeting. The Sherif gave the miners the following inscructions: “There will be no meeting today because no one from District 5 of the UMWA is present here. Every one of you must go home now.” This makes it clear that the UMWA leaders are working hand in hand with the strikebreaking forces in order to mak2 it possible for the coal operators to do what- ever they please with the miners, { ternationc], collect dues for our local | ; needs; call upon the other locsis to do the same; demand an immediate convention to adept a consiiiu-ion; and an immodiate election of all the District and International officers end organizers. We also must fight | for the right of the miners to be- long to any union they wish. —T. S. Home in Roosevelt burg No place like home— if you've got one, any Here’s a sewer tile: swell chimney. Jeez! Swelles: home in Rooseveltburg. Some place, Rooseveltburg, across the broken door: died about a week ago— lve without eatin’ Rooseveltburg. ’ —Harlan Crippen, 16. Aberdeen, South Dakota. vo ee International Children’s Week ‘The week of October 2-9 should be marked on the calendar of every Pioneer troop in red. For this week sie iH 7 is International Childrens’ Week. During this week we should show our | solidarity with the Pionecr of other countries, with all other workers’ boys and girls, and with our parents, who| are struggling for decent condition: of living. During this week every Pioneer troop should write to a trouy either in another city or another country, particularly to Cuba, China and the Soviet Union. Letters sent to this office will be forwarded. Next, we should make a real effort to draw outside boys and girls into the YPA ‘We should arrange affairs to which we will invite boys and girls-of our school or neighborhood.’ And we should visit our adult organizations and make them realize the necessity of their cooperating with -us, in our struggles in school and elsewhere. We should show our solidarity with them by going on picket lines wherever there are.any in our neighborhoods. | Last of all, we should write in to| the Daily Worker, telling them what we are going to do. We must build up a Pioneer Correspondence Column in the Daily Worker. Which will be! the first troop to write in? FORA MONTH IN THE WOODS, ON ONE FOOT THEY STOOD | ‘* TO GET OUT OF THE RUT, WE WILL HAVE TO CUT) THE FESTIVE SOW, AND THE SPORTIVE COW BY THE NATIONAL TREE OF PLENTY ; **T00 MANY GOODS, WE MUST TRIM THESE ROOTS” SAID THIS WISE COMMITTEE OF TWENTY * | QUR NATIONAL BREAD , CHASE BUGS INTHE ETHERAL BLUE ; BY THIRTY PER CENT, OR THERE’L BE NO END | HILARIOUS,LEAP FROM BOUGH TO BOUGH TO OUR TROUBLES”? THE NEWOEAL SAID.! AMOST SENSIBLE THING TO DO. ” ‘Young Strikers at Novelty Mirror Determined to Win NEW YORK City, BY A WORKER CORRESPONDENT Our strike, Noveliy ‘ror, is two weeks old. The majority are young workers who are striking for the first time, Previously we used to work for 6 and 7 dollars The bess did what he pleased. We ha holiday, were ki Also Exploited in Labor Camps x Correspondent —I will try to re- conditions of the port once ir workers of Al oa The Democratic leaders of Alaska promised lots of things in the news- papers, but workers didn’t see much prosperity any better than in the Hoover times. Some time ago we started a few camps, Roosevelt starvation recruits under the National Recovery Act. They hired a bunch of young men, whites and natives, for certain camps for $1 a day. The bosses do not work | for $1 a day, but they received clear pay of $165 a month—you see how much difference between the bosses and the workers. Two weeks ago lots of young re- cruéts quit the camps and came back to the city, because the boss drove them like horses eight hours for only $1. The crisis all over Alaska is growing hard at present, and the future will be more difficult for the workers. 1,004 Families Cut off Relief in Three Months in St. Louis County By a Worker Correspondent EVELETH, Minn—The workers of Eveleth are still hanging around street corners or cooling their heels waiting for some boss from whom they hope to get a few days of work a month. With chances for employment practically nil, 1,004 families in St. Louis County have been dropped from the relief rolls in the past three months. And the ole Buzzerd still smi Eighteen million tons of iron ore are to be shipped out of northern Minnesota this summer. This ore is necessary no doubt for the prepara- tion of the murderous machines to be in readiness for the next capital- ist war. Tremendous military appro- priations have been meteg out not- withstanding the fact that relief funds are shamefully inadequate. Workers employed by the city of Eveleth receive $4 a day for eight hours’ work, Good. Now say a man gets five days of work a month, this entitles him to $20. But does he get it? First of all, the Steel Trust hos- Pital gets $125 from each men who puts in more than three days of work. That leaves our worker with $18.75. But the city is broke, so he cannot get cach for this amount. According- ly, the worker issues an assignment cn his wages to some store! say to a grocery store. For taking the assignment the grocer deducts 15 or 29 per cent. Say 15 per cent. That leaves the: worker $15.94, which out in groceries. The graft- Roe . For al- he tek the work- to 10 cents over the ing dcesn’t eve: The city elections are in the off- ing. Ovr good man poviticions sre <5 dshaking lepping +campeign.’ Men y have not known in the p2si two years are agein the famil- isr Jack, Frank and Tony. But will Fra end Tony be fooled in this year as they have been in pest? * nts have proved essity for a United mt! Work for a United Front at elect i Drow vy a Workers’ ‘ight for the Workers’ et! In Unity we'll sweep to Victory! Help improve the “Da‘ly Worker.” rdin ycur sugycesiions and criticism! Let us know hat the workers in your shop think about the “Daily.” @aplen' keeper— | per week, putting in a 50-hour week, rdly had a~ ach period, worked every 2d out whenever it pleased the boss and heard yelling y “Hurry speed up ther Now we want a 40 hour week with a minimum of $15, recognition of the union and shop committee, holidays with pay, etc. And we'll get it. Of’course the bosses are using all so of tricks to break the strike and the cops are with them. They trying to buy the best workers with a sweet promise. But we know that the bosses will have to give in if we stick together and hold out as long as is necessary. Mr, Nesin from the Trade Union Unity Council is with us; like a true worker he is helping us all he can, Remember, Mirror workers, we'll win the strike, if you show the bosses that you are not as dumb as they think. Let us not fall for their tricks. Let us stick together and we will win more and more. —A Mirror Worker, Gets Fired, Finds NRA Committee Aids Boss Only By a Worker Correspondent To the N.R.A. New York City: The N.R.A. is a big fake! You're just a lot of noise, but when it cfmes to actually going through with your threats you don’t do it. The MR.A. made me lose my job, but you stifl stick to the boss. I worked for Julius Kohn aaa Shop, 40 E. 28th St., as a sal Your code says that I should work no more than 40 hours and g¢t no less than $15. I worked 57 hours and at the end of the week my employer offered me only $8 plus $1,80 commission, claim- ing that that’s all his former gales girl made. When I mentioned that he has the N.R.A. out in the window to attract customers and so should follow the code or that I’d report, jhe cursed the N-R.A. and fired me, claiming he doesn’t need any N.R.A, sympathizers, I went to the NRA. thinking it was my friend and expecting justice from it. Instead, after complaining twice and sending a letter to the de- partment as instructed, I received a check from my employer for only $8 plus $1.80 commission, He gets away with everything and |rm minus a job with $9.80 (which is now worth half the amount, with prices gone up more than double) ‘hanks to the N.R.A. And this is justice! At least I'll do my part and change my opinion of the N.R.A. and inform. the people what the N.R.A. really is AFL Prepares ; Window Cleaners’ Strike Betrayal By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The window clean- ers are going out on strike October 1, under the leadership of the A. F. of L. The field organizers have stopped me while at work and de- manded that I join up at a $2 fee. It looked to me like a drive to fill up the pockets of the clique of graft- ers in the N. Y. local. My premoni- tion materialized this morning when I showed up at the office. The boss said that he received a letter from the union with the names of six men that joined. I did not see this letter as it was destroyed, but if the members who just joined up with the union and the old timers still have faith in the leaders I ask this question, Where did the bosses get the names of the ones who joined up? And how did the Premier W. C. Co., the American W. C. Co. and all the other open shop hosses find out that their shop was organized? ip girls, hurry boys, —A Window Cleaner. By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Answers to Questions. Speakers’ Dry Throat. George P.—The dryness of the throat you are sufier\.g from is un- fortunately a ¢ommon complaint among public speakers and Jectur- ers. Wiinzss the g:ass of water which the poorest organization men- ages to supply for the chairman and which occupies the place of honor on the speakers’ table. The dryness is due to a chronic inflammation of the larynx (aryngitis) resulting in cess- atin (stoppage) of the secretion of mucus which ordinarily lubricates the larynx or voice box. It used to be called clergyman’s throat, before money bogan to talk in the churches. The only relief the writer can rec- ommend is: periodic rest from public speaking cr, when this’ is impossible, keeping a piece of licorice candy between the gums and the check. As to the perspiration, it might be a nervous reaction. Please let us know whether you have been losing weight lately and whether you suffer from night sweats. sah Nee Seanty Menscs—Shortness of Breath, Mrs. I. G.—You are 13 Ibs, over- weight and your ovaries are ap- parently not functioning properly. Shortness of breath might be caused by either of these conditions. How- ever, you ought to have a physician give you a thorough examination, in- cluding a metabolism and a hemo- globin test, y Dector Skin Itch—Acid Condition? H. W.—It might be advisable that you adopt a strict vegetarian diet and drink plenty of water. If this does not help, have your urine ex- amined by a competent physician, Dead Teeth—Neurasthenia, B. S—If the teeth are really “dead”, ie. when the “nerve” has | been completely “killed”, they have no effect on the nervous system, | Most of the time, however, teeth are | not completely devitalized and the infection which often takes place at their roots may have a very serious effect on the rest of the body, Treatment for anxiety neuroses and neurasthenia may be obtained at the Neurological Institute, Coe a puan Blue Lips—Pimples, Helen B.—If you are certain that your heart is in good condition, you need not pay any attention to the color of the lips. It might be a nervous reaction, If the pimples ap= pear periodikally, there is probably a connection with the menses. Many | girls are subject to this breaking out. which disappears within ten days. Nevertheless, it would be advisable’ that you eat more vegetables and fruit. ‘ H ate a : Readers desiring health information | should address their letters to Dr. Paul | Luttinger, e-0 Daily Worker, 9% K, 19th ° St., New York City, 7