The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1933, Page 4

be S Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1933 STIR RIRREO What Workers Should Know About the Roosevelt NRA The NRA Promise to End “Overproduction” Proven False by the Actual Facts; Piled Up Goods Now.Greater Than Ever The following article is the first ; of a series by Comrade Eart Browder, General Secretary of the Commutiist’ Party, on all the phases of the Roosevelt NRA. In these articles Comrade Browder, Seamen Gum Up Hitier Party Given on the &. S. bic get Aboard Nazi Ship; Talk to Members 0 Crew Who Say “It’s Not So Good in Germany,” ” Flood Ship With Leaflets (By a Marine Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—“What a beautiful ship!” “This is one of the best ships Letters From Transportation Workers "Gov't Lets lis Get About $4 for Unloading Contractors 1,500 Tons at Morgan Line Fire Militant Workers by Fake By S. RI S. RIGER, Marine Worker sailing the water today.” chatter in order to hide our real feel Resolute, owned by the Hamburg American Steamship Co. where a party @nd scrumptious om in honor of the ‘ air was goi lew Germany.” This affair was held by that or- Ganization formed to support the murderers of the German Workers called the “Friends of the New Ger- many.” Detectives and galore were guarding the ship. Nazi storm troopers in uniform were all over the place. What a feeling we had in pit of our stomach. Six Com- rades irom the Marine Workers In- Gustrial Union, 4 men and 2 g had paid to get on the ship had leaflets for the crew a sur- prise for the Nazi’s. There were speak- We ers; speaking in the Main Salon. roamed around getting ow Distribution of Leaflets At one time the whole crew of S.S, Resolute were members of International of Seamen and Ha: Workers Union, that is before Hitler came into vow These leaficts had to get to them. A group of Storm Trocpers stood at attention in double lines. They the crew that had been forced put the troopers outfit or could almost tell it by the i their faces. Ev now a shouts of “Heil Hitler!” cut. And we couldn't a ringing “Red Front! the the ‘e some members of to would had a helluva time control! Selves. Comrade B. was get up and shout out the Communist Party of G He contented himself for being with mutterins hardly hear, Hitler can’t finally e Sal where they ordered un were nervcu rades had g' Criminy, how some of them ba their dircy } end Ww s four fi patierns fe iS what we are fi Becrritics of life. so wh; We must somchow go on eating, gle for the Creda ‘shment of a bet order of things, wherein the elemen- fary prcblems of food, shelter - clothinz will have been “*orrect of food the capitalists ng what is ir discoveries er with a mass fashions racke There is a technique clothing, too. Oi, yes have been busy gcod and wi hay But tt been plastered addition: into a . and to learn the value of a knowledge of proper feeding and practical clothing. As to food. The object is to 1 the wear and tear on our bodice: &@ We eat foods of various c in appre: and slassmaics and I simple and sensible formula, taught as Tt wes this: Eat about 2-3 carbohy- dates (starchy food, such as pota- toes, bread, rice, macaroni) and 1-3 proteids (‘meaty” foods, meat, eggs, fish, cheese, also beans). tion, there must be a small amount of fat meats, cheese and cream), and some minerals which occur in various veg- etables, in fact in nearly all foods; | so that you can scarcely eat at all) without getting your minerals. Lastly, in order to avert constipa-| tion you must take in a generous amount of “roughage,” fibrous mat-/ ter, something for the intestines to| grasp in order to push along the| waste matter; this is most important. Too much “pasty” and concentrated nourishment will play the devil with your intestines; so get the roughage in potato skins, all vegetables, espe- cially celery, string beans, and the! 1913. | like. Thus they taught us in And then, along came vitamins! There has been so much “Sturm and Drang” in all the public prints on the value of vitamins, I'm sure every comrade is vitamin-conscious. They assist the body in assimilating other foods, in building reisstance to diséase, and in children in growth. They are present in most vegetables, especially those of which we eat the part that grows above the ground, and in fruits; that is, we get indi- vectly the sunshine they absorbed. Now along comes Harper's Bazaar with the sad news that the stomach must be alkaline to digest one kind, and acid to digest another kind of matter, so we mustn't have starches and proteins at the same meal. No! This really is too much! And after Tye been so carefully balancing my 2-3 and 1-3 all these years! How have I survived? I rebel! If I must count calories, and make each meal sither protein or carbohydrate, then * give up the struggle here and now. Life isn’t worth it, and I’m through. Ne, 4 think it’s botier for the “homan system” that we just go - long eating something of every c1ing in sight as palatably prepared as possible, for I know by experience Blah — blah!” policemen | and ¢ a thi In addi-| (which you get in butter,) We had to carry on this idle lings cause we we're on board the S. | ee to the |letarian Revolution that will really make a NEW GERMANY. Ward in the Main Salon. Then Into the toilets. anked out of our pants leg Into the Dining room be- will eat break-.| a s g a and be Ss, low where the crew fast and be greeted with the leaflet. We couldn’t go aft to the crews It was locked, but in spite guards the leaflets were put n came the big thing. Let damn beasts know that we are there fighting them. Onto the crowded dance floor. The girl com- re talking to two members é ae the remai! der of the week at $1] : ; day One of them asked them very in-|Pe" day. r ly as the troopers went march- Be ik cavemen sovetneeY mid the shouts of “Heil Hit- apne. S0 me stg aoe ene atts ot eetoe ig| NERA. dictum. If this N.LR.A. was| Rennaie | actually for the workers wouldn't the Germany? Bedeouuaer | oo eet etaen the Ne Ae toe t’s not so good.” And his | § 8 pres tetas ee |sist uvon firms holding their con-| aa " |tract, whether contracted before Ne Hitler can’t keen therh down very long. I hear the bottle crash as the music s. It’s a bottle of stink | rie Every one is in their place. A stiff breeze is blowing in from the | star board side and soon the whole | place is covered. There sniffing and grabbing their hankies. One smart m_ Troo) finds the bottle and ™m ciously finishing our job. They were | in a panic y went for x in double time speed. ; ant evening ee that g at the hands cf , and we were not affair take place in d without i LUKE baka stil remain the two prime a mot impo may be is not ant ec . and clothing ourselves, while we strug- | Can You Make Yourself ? comes “em in and 1 5-8 ya Tlustrated | \— | Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15¢) | coins or stamps (coins preferred) for in |this Anne Adams pattern. Write | plainly name, address and style num- |ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to the Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. Patterns by mail onl, that when the meal and your temper are good, everything digests beauti- fully; but if you must eat in a rush, or while worried about your job or your eviction notice, anything at all gives you colic, Comrades, including inexperienced, | men comrades who would like to per- form on the stove, too! have a simple course in cooking from the very beginning, including daily menus? Of course, everyone knows the World's Fastest Meal—if I'm not dead wrong, most comrades have it at least once a week (usually Tues- days); you open and heat a can of baked beans, boil some wieners (if | the water turns red they've been col- ored) and slice some tomatoes, Well, any nj ice e241 ake that, and ater all, it is a mer t there till Dancing started | the fore clean back aft bottle upside down, .uncon- | “Communist Jews are on| fully stricken voice. the shore and gang- | Shall we | | Cheat Workers) NEW YOR }am now emplo: ~ | tracting Co., Inc of 17 |fore the depression received a con- | tract from a firm which had previ- ously contracted with the United | States gov t ‘uct @ | breakwater at ay Point at Far Rockaway (some times |called At | | The contract was based on the pre- | |depression was le. The wages | | paid to the work 'd therefore | be at the pr 1s scale, but instead those fat bellied robbers took advan- tage of the crisis ahd reduced wages — $23 a week to from $1 and $2 e $2 scale, | during the d | emplo; a c t, they per- eu them to pay wages than | others do: private work. | Now. workers, since we now | know of that great- | est of the INIRA and t or, what further use of us kidding ourselves }about retur . knowing | well vith the machines | full in displacing the e ‘and more each day, ay out is to join the Ma- Industrial Union, read | |the Marine Workers’ Voice and the Daily W * Negro Longshore- man Blames ILA Of-. Rv a W: ‘espondent NORFOLK, Va—I am a_ hard-| working man when I can get it to do. And I am a taxpayer of Norfolk. T came here in 1915, and worked at | the Norfolk Western, and left here for a time, but came back in 1920} and have been e ever have not worked in any other place. | In 1933 I was put off the job. In 1920 I joined the LU.A., Local 978. I paid $100 to join that union; and I have done all I could, and now I am put off the job i id it has put me in very bad shape. I have a fam- y of five, am without a job, and e no food, and have been put out in the street. The way we men are} treated on that job! I feel that the officers of this local are somewhat to blame for this condition. LLA, LONGSHOREMAN. LS.U. Pirates Invade |Ships to Hi-Jack Dues By a Marine Worker Correspondent BALTIMORE, Md.—“Delegates” of the International Seamen's union are boarding ships collecting signatures their “code,” which contains no- ig but that the LS.U. should be ed to represent the seamen the _code hearings. These “dele- i dare go aboard a ship vhere the conditions are the worst, for feer of being thrown overboard. They only board ships where they have a few members, then hijack these members out of dues money. If these members who pay dues | would follow these “delegates” ashore they would see what the dues money is used for. They would discover that the “delegates” would be found seated in a hooch joint, hoisting one beer at allows ed | | nt | that, - ficals for Lay-Off | nce and | NEW YORK.—Casual work, speed-up and numerous rake-offs are the | general conditions of longshoremen on the Morgan Line, on Piers 48, 49 and 50. The Morgan Line is owned by the Southern Paci Co., one of the largest | corporations in the United States, making a profit’ above 21 million dollars in the second year of the crisis, 1931. While making so much, they pay their | longshoremen oniy 67 cents per hour.@——--—— RK SCI Sts | A longshoreman unloads close to | pier, your face must be seen by the |1,500 tons a day, getting about $4| foreman for a long number of weeks | for it. And when he gets 12 hours a| before he hires you. Old-timers earn week he is lucky. | about $10 a week. The new average They force the men to overload the | eight hours weekly. hand trucks and thus hurry up the| Up to April, 1933, the wages were | work, The man is Usually followed by | 75 cents per hour. The men. belonged curses and abuses. Gangs in the hold|to J. P. Ryan's racketeer union, the have been cut to such an extent that |1.L.A. In Aopril, 1932, while the strike |@ man is hardly able to clear in case | was going on on the Morgan Line, jof a break in the slingload while | Joseph P. Ryan held a conference | working in the square hatch doing| with the officials of the Morgan, | the work of two. | Clyde-Mallory and Savannah lines. Many Accidents | As a result, the wages were cut to Especially hazardous is the posi- | 67 cents per hour from 175. This sell- |tion of the longshoremen moving | ing-out of Ryan broke the strike and cargo between lighters on a sheet of | the men are skeptical towards A. F. steel placed on..asloping angle, so|of L. union bureaucrats: when the cars are ready to| Lately Frank introduced a method ‘er, the worker behind the heavy | of walking copper ingots to the pile loads driven at a tremendous speed, | which was formerly done on trucks slips and often gets seriously in-|in order to save the expense of trucks, jured. Compensation starts only after | A man walking ingots of 400 pounds unless it lasts|can hardly finish his allotted: hours. Dockmen of the Morgan Line, in- | The shaping occurs at all hours | cluding straw 5-cent bosses, check- and when you get hired you work | ers, office helo and watchmen. The from one to a few hours—and not | company has submitted a code with every day. When you try the next'a 20 cent minimum. | trans | seven days of injury, | more than 49 days, Forced to Sign Lunch Hour | Away on Subway Newsstand | By a Subway Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I saw the letter from another subway news-stand worker in the September 18 issue and want to write some more to you about the | terrible conditions under which we work. We are the B.M.T. and LRT. sub- way newstand agents. These newstands are owned and controlled by the | si Collier Service Corp., of which the president is Barron Collier. The majority ‘ot us are recruited’ |from among the “foreign-born work- | ers. When we sign up for this job, we are taught to bélieve that we arc ot workers, but really “managers.” | When we get the job, we have to sien @ printed form,;-which states that the employer is complying with the Unit- ed States labor laws. Then there is |@ printed question, and printed an- | swer, thus: “Dd'you need the 45- | minute lunch hour period, as stipu- ed by the U: S. labor laws?” An- rinted out): “I do not.” This we are forced to sign to get the job. We must also place $50 se- curity, and pay out $5 for a badge. | This money is kept by the company, which never permits his salary to go over $14 or $15. It works like this: There is no stendard verctntage of commission; it is changed azound, so that if the income of the new: stand gets b'gger, the percent reduced, so that tie worker si remain within the $12 salary. However, in the slower season, | when the income drops considerably, the company delicately ignores this | phenomenon, so that a wotxer can | get a pay check of $8 or $9 efter| putting in 72 hours work ver weck. (To be continued Next Mondey) ud s | acting as a tool in th Examination By a Marine Worker Correspondent DULUTH, Minn.—The longshore- men of Duluth and Superidr were this spring forced to go Gexouab a fake medical examination and through this the company was able to blacklist 23 workers. This, how- ever, was done only in one company of the two that are operating in these ports in the line of package freight, because the company that is weaker is testing the feelings of the workers and will next spring try the, same stunt. The fight of the rank and file has mainly been to rehire these 23 men that were laid off from the gangs on the Great Lakes docks. Although we have a union, what has it done to re- place these men? The president of the union, (LL.A., Local 1279), has been telling us that we can do no- thing about it. The company even refused to tell what was wrong with these men, but finally gave out the reports when the workers indicated moe they thought of this examina- tion, All of the reports that were given were that they had varicose veins. I have s2en most of these men in Steam bath houses and on the beach and there are several other cases that are far more serious and they were not let out. Why? Because the company wanted fire the men who were striking against a wage cut in 1831 and won several demands. The workers at that time also organized 100 per cent into an organization which this spring showed its colors to the workers by betraying them and hands of the bosses. (The I.L.A.) President Stalls The president of our local has been calling off all summer any of the proposals made in regards to a work- ing agreeimemt. At the last meeting he was unable to get out of it any longer, and said we already have a Si 88s of agreements. MNeonan, the district s2c- of the I for the Great Las and all of the work- ers know what to expect from him. Howoyey, at the last meeting the tank and fle were able to sct up a committee to draw up an agrec-| ment which got the demands out to the.men on the docks. We must support these demands 109 ner cent, as they are ours, not thos? of the fakers like Noonan. so that whenever a newsstand agent | has a shortage, which is often, the } |company deducts the shortage from | the security placed with them. The | ho are 12 hours a day, 72 hours | per week. The busiest day is Satur- |day, when we must stay on duty | from 7 a.m., the whole stretch, with- | out one minute of relief. We are not allowed to go to the toilet, but must keep a urinal bottle with us. Lunch we must eat right there on the spot. The agent is paid by a vicious system of commissions, ‘Best Praise of Is Supper N. NEW YOR ¥.—Zneourege- ment is git iy ‘Worker | through the fospouse i many out of | town sections to the apneal of the | Daily Worker. The Salem ces of Salem, Ma:s., to the Daily | “Daily Worlzer,” | poper that fights for Unit 1305 of Philadelphia sends in| a “starter for the financial cam- | ;paign” of the Daily Worker by do- inating $2. “This is only a beginning. | ae se the | say, “is the| {Western Union Forces: Messengers to Parade Bya Telegraph Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—On September 2, the | Western Union ‘Telegraph Co. dis- played N.R.A. signs in all their of- | fice windows. They did not shorten |the hours of work or increase the pay of their employees. Messengers earn $8 a week. On September 13, | 1933, the company compelled all mes- engers that could be spared to par- ticipate in the N.R.A. parade or lose their jobs. The messengers were paid 20 cents an hour to keep quiet. —A Western Union Employe. possible to make this campaign a jccess, and we hope every unit in| The Philadelphia comrades go fur- | ther to-express their support and praise for the improved “Dally.” “We | certainly enjoy reading the new fea- tures, and we are taking steps to in- crease the sales and subscriptions to the Daily Worker.” A worker from Holy Mill, S. C., does his part by sending in 50 cents | with apologies to the Daily Worker for not doing more. “Would send| more, but am just s_aviing beck to work after a four-month fore:d va- cation. All power to our improved Daily Worker!” - Workers of Bellingham, Wash. have sent in a full report as to their activities and plans in support of “Our ‘Daily’ Drive.” “Plans,” reports the secretary, “are going ahead full speed to raise the money for our ‘Daily Worker. The units in this sec- tion are planning entertainments, and meetings to further the rais- ing of funds. Street meetings will be held. One was held on A.F.L. HEADS SELL OUT CABMEN By a Railrond Worker Correspondent LOUISVILLE, Ky.—I like the en- larged “Daily,” and I am doing ev- rything I can to push it. Lat employed by the City Railway Co. We haven't got our Blue Buz- zard yet. I can see a wage cut for us when we do. The A. F. of L. sold out the Brown Cab men here. I will write you when we, get our code. after another, and talking about the Prospects and live-wires on some —H. B. other ship that is due. Letters from PROTEST ABSENCE OF INSTRUCTORS New York City Comrade Editor: We, the students of the Young Communist League Week End School, protest the continuous absence of our various instructors, Comrade Blom- field, in particular, should be criti ized for his failure to deliver a pro- mised lecture on the Soviet Union. siastic about the arrangements of the school till our teachers began to miss classes. The irregular attendance by the teachers began to have a demoraliz- ing effect upon the students, and caused a sharp drop in the students’ attendance. Therefore, we, the stu- dents, sharply protest and criticize our various instructors for negligence of our classes, Comrade Overgaard was absent on | Aug. 13. Julius Fieldberg, rere a | Bloomfield, Overgaard Explain I was not the instructor when the classes started. I was called to take over the class in question when Com- rade Markoff took sick. At the first session that T attended, I asked, “How many here studied your assignments?” Five hands went uo in a class of about 47 students. The discussion proved that no one) ~1 studied, *t the second session | 'I conducted, I asked the same qi The students have been very enthu-| of their attendance and instruction | already Monday, the llth, and we plan to hold more.” Our Readers What is your club, unit, union, mass organization doing for the drive? sqgienttibutions for Priday, tion. Two hands went up in a class bd of the same number as the week September 22, DISTRICT NO. 2 before. Finnish Federation, N. ¥, 930.00 When the session was over, I gave Rs Seyi é no assignment for further sessions 1.00 | because, firstly, no one took the mat- | ter seriously enough to bother about 74 them anyway. Secondly, I did not | know what the curriculum was to be. I knew nothing about the plans or | arrangements, - If it is lectures that were wanted, the Workers’ School invites all to come to the regular Sunday night forum lectures that ‘1+ conducted at | the School auditorium, 35 East 12th Street on the second floor. I don't mind lecturing. . But I dislike to lec- ture in class room, I like to listen to and discuss with the students and guide them, but not lecture to them. Sidney Bloomfield. 1 “a tt Ps Tat ei ete ing Fu ra “In answer he criticism by the ae ea | ¥. ©. L. students, the comrades have fection %, rere ad one justified criticism, but insofar as my own classes’ are bio ga only one was missed, The weakness was in the explana- j tion by the comrade sent there to take up with thém the questions and Harry Gannes, Daily Worker Section § and Wed 3 A 8 eeeeres. per SS Section Section 1 Election Cam S sbeeesssessesssckebhbsss {Our unit pledges to do everyihing | 4 adeiphia will do the same.’ | M the “Daily” of Caumpuign DISTRICT NO, 3 Jennie Cocper. Beitimere, Md. on List No. 38952: 1.00 1.90 1.90 50 as 50 os | 3.09 3.09 , imer 1,09 em & Friend, Baltimore 7.00 Total = DISTRICT NO. 6 wm. Aton, 0. ait 1, Coloumbus, O.. 1.00 ‘Dal 14, Detrolt = Section 8, from affair, Detroit Section 8 from ue: , troit, Mi¢h.: Ukrainian Working Women W. W. of Hemtramek - List No. 17940 —. From funeral — V. Lertis, Unit 7-14, List No. 121686, Detroit, Mich. Priend: Hogopean: — G. Dsoirgian 8. Garegin N. Chavdariman Friend — ydia Lamp: 5-1, No. 18744, Detroit, Mich. George Ogren ~. Binard. Kruppinen Mary. Nururl _... Hilma Pennanen Frank Johnson Olga Naki Elu Makele W. Cuitch! Lizzie Nienis John loerr _.. Zz. feat mit 5-4, hist 8824—Detroit, Mich. Brown patents ‘Flom-—Unit 5-4, “List ), Detroit, Mich... Sym mc Rehernts ca A. Thonrn .. Kamunisary — Kay List Mich. Unit 5-4, $56.30 Total DISTRICT Collection at 14th musvereely Celebration Meeting, Down- Weak Bection C. P. " Beatle, ‘Wash. so 47.96 st ‘Tote $17.25 SECTION NO. 13 by Jouraich, Los Angeles, ‘Total DISTRICT Ni A. Ackerman, Paterson, N. $1.00 Mee nics wGoleraso, Springs, mencsintbarae “Golo. Springs Colo, Springs Movie Showing a | What Does the N.R.A. Promise | NRA, ‘can find. ft (| «we VERY newspaper is writing about industrial codes, ers hold forth on the streets about it. and signbeard. worker? answers to these questions from all the mass of writing and speaking. Why Was the N.R.A. Made A Law By Act Of Congress? Because the economic system of America had broken down. Four) years of crisis, closed factories. mil- lions unemployed and starving, banks unable to pay and closing the... u-c.., wages being slashed, strikes breaking out—these things forced everyone to see that something was fundamen- tally wrong with the whole system. The thing simply wouldn’t work any more. Nobody believes any more in the old system. Everybody demands a new system. Everybody demands that a way out of the crisis shall be found. The NRA was the offiical recogni- tion that the old system was smashed, that the masses of people who work, when they can get a job, and who depend upon a job in order to live, must be given something new. That is why we have the New Deal | and the NRA. | To Give To the Workers? It promises to remove the cause of the crisis. It promises to reopen the factories, restore production, bring back _ prosper’ It promises to remedy the disorder, the chaos, the anarchy of the economic system, and put in its place a planned economy | without crisis. It promises higher wages, shorter hours, and the right of the workers to organize, according to their own desire. All these things would be very fine, if we cou'd get them. They would make life easier, they would remove the terrible conditions which today make life a horrible nightmare for millions of people. These ave wonderful things that have been promised. Even the simple promising of these things, before any of them aze realized, made Roose- velt a popular hero with millions of | peop'e. The masses want these things. need them in order to live. Therefore it becomes a very im- portant question, as to whether these things are being realized through the We don’t want to be fooled again, as we were fooled with the promises of Herbert Hoover, when he was Pre- sident and promised us “prosperity in ressidesy “a right not to trust in any- is any more. We have mn Fed to co much, thet we would be stupid fools to believe in. any words thet cannot be proyen* by facts. So let us examine what facts we HEN we look for facts, it is no lorver enough to read the news- naver heedlines and front pages, or listen to the speeches of “big men.” In such places we don’t find those facts which show the true conditions. We must turn to the financial and business pages, read the economic journals, and get reports from the workers in the industries all over the country. Newspaper headlines tell us: “Roo- sevelt and the NRA have started the factories to producing again. Pros- perity is coming back.” Is it true? Millions of workers wish it to be true, but if it is a lie, then it is a cruel one, raising high hopes oniy to dash them to the ground again. To judge this question, one must study the collected figures of the) reveals, step by step, the real purpose of the NKA as an intensified, masked attack on the workers of the country:°In the second article, appearing tomorrow, Browder examines thé question of inflatien and what it means to the workers in their everyday lives. EARL BR'VYDER I the _ xtional Recovery Act and the Every radio carries speeches’and propaganda. Speak- Even our homes are visited by NRA advocates to talk to us. The Blue Eagle stares at us from every window But what is it all about? What does it all mean in the daily life of a It is not easy to learn the @—-———— business of the entire country. Such figures are collected by organizations supported by. the big capitalists; we can be sure that they will show the situation as. favorably .as possible. Such an institution, for example, is the Index Numbers Institute, Inc., | whose figures are published in big newspapers all over the country. At j 7andom we pick up the Pittsburgh | Post-Gazette, for Sept. 11, which pub- lishes these figures. What do they show? Economic activity for August, 1933, (production, business, etc.), is repre- sented by an index figure of 79. This means that if all economy of 1926 is represented -as 100, then Aug. 1933, would be 79, or 21 per cent less. Or if it is compared with a five-year period of pre-crisis times, which showed a combined index of 125, that means we are 40 per cent below “normal.” That is certainly not “prosperity,” as yet, is it? aie SauinrY S¢MUT things are better than they were,” saythe newspapers, “No | matter how bad they are now, they get better, and move towards pros- perity.’” Is that so? True, things were going up for a while; now they are going down again; up and down, up and down, that is the way the capitalist system is always going. But how far up? Remember last year; during the presidential election, Herbert Hoover also told us things were getting better. And they were—in the same way as in April to July this year. Hoover's boom rose. almost as high as the Roosevelt boom this year—up to the index of 76. But that did not mean that we weré approaching prosperity again; instead’ we were coming to a new crash, which followed in Decem- ber, January and February, the worst the country ever saw. Remember also, that Hoover's boom, (which went almost as high as Roose- velt’s boom this year) was brought about without much effort. Hoover did not do much of anything. Roose- yelt’s boom cost a thousand times the effort, and required inflation, going off the gold standard, the NRA, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the new banking law, the codes, the Blue Eagle, and so on—and still it went only 3 points higher than Hoover's, and now is already dropping below. We cannot say, with any truth, that “things are getting better” until at least things get better than in the last year of Hoover's administration. Wa 464) VERPRODUCTION, which caused the crisis, is now being over~ come,” say the newspaper headlines. Is it true? Has the NRA reduced the extent of “overproduction”? Unfortunately, the facts do not show it. On the contrary. No one will deny that last December there was “overproduction,” that is, great stocks of unsold goods with nobody to buy them, which was the reason that more factories than ever closed down last winter. Are things any better in this-respect as we approach the winter of 1933-34? No, things are worse. Today there is twice as much goods in the warehouses as in De- cember, 1932. ~ A Productié did go up in April to July. But instead of making things better, it ‘made them worse, because most of thé Boods went into stor~ age, increased “overproduction.” The goods were not being sold for consumption. (Continued Tomorrow) By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Answers to Questions. Let the Child Remain Vegetarian. Mrs. L. G., Hicksville—As your child is in good health and seems to be thriving on his vegetarian diet, we should advise you to let him con- tinue. Furthermore, the yolk of eggs contains quite an appreciable amount of assimflable iron. It will be time enough to change his diet when and if he shows signs of be- ginning to slow down in his develop- ment. Only strict vegetarians who do not eat eggs are liable to become anemic—and not all of them, at that. Most of those who live in the country, with plenty of sunshitne, are doing very well, indeed! Our re- marks referred to city dwellers who are cut off from the beneficial influ- ence of the sun’s aye. * Eye Glasses Free of Charge, D. R.—If you are a Party HSMP EE unemployed and have no money to buy glasses, Dr. Sommers, 624 West 164th Street, New York, will supply you a pair free of charge. You must bring prescription for ae, . Prevenception K. K., Chicago—We are glad to hear that you like humor and that it helps to digest the dry por- Total 2. $9.75 Day's Total $267.03 Previous Total -.. 1847.75 who failed to orzanize them for the x. st study of the outlines, S, Ross, Bronx, N. ¥.—— 36 Unfortunately’ (or fortunately) a Mario Roberts, N.Y... .30 certain strike situation arose involy- ag ng ag tapeicaeeweiaape ing 4,000 workers, which at that mo- Anonymous, NY. Se ae ment took me away. Otherwise every| A. Shaw, b 2 1.00 | class has been attended regularly by | Section 3, nie 17, Sustaining me on time and without any hitch, Ae PRN BNET cane haa Andrew Overgaard, ‘Total ... $181.57 Grand Total. tions of this column, Unfortunately, the law against dissemination of in- ___-.| formation on birth control, although renrery 78 a ghastly joke, cannot be treated with levity. We.arewriting you privately explaining the law to you and urg- ing you to!have more children, so you can all starve’ more and more and become better and more docile slaves for the masters of this country. _ " * Sea-sickness ‘ D. C., Baltimore—We have a list of remedies.. against sea-sickness numbering 129 different drugs and medicines. The very fact that there are so many..shows that none of them is any good. My advice is ta take noneaee especially to avoid any “inf .. medy recommended by the nite ptuin or steward. The only thing fi may help is to avoid eating anything sold the day you board the ship, except orange or grapefruit..juice.at the rate of glass every two. hours, As to the, pimples and the other thing, you’! receive a letter in due time. Sereeanie 6 Has Ayybedy Got’a Monkey? Does any of our readers happen to have a monkey or an ape which he would like to give away? A poor devil who .is suffering from exhibi- tionism has been advised to obtain one for curative purposes. It is easy for a rich man tO make a monkey of himself, but you cannot buy one without, money. | Readers ! deviring xe information should addtess! thoir letters to Dr. Paul Luttinger, ¢-o Daily Worker, 3 &. 12th St, New York City 4