The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1933, Page 4

~0 . selt, and a little pepper. Simmer very . about 5 level tablespoons sugar, and empty 4 pound cocoa can, remove _ Chop potatoes in pan with the can Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1933 Negro Toilers of W ickwire Bosses Bring in Prevent. Organizz By MANNINC ation Buffalo District Organizer, € i between the Negro and white work were used as strike breakers. CARRYING OUT THE OPE. N LETTER in Leadership Steel Strike F. of L. Leaders to and Strike Struggles + JOHNSON Pr. U NE of the outstanding features of the strike was the splendid solidarity ers. In the past the Negro workers The employers were able to play back against Worker Corresponde GrowsAgainst NRAS Pig Destruction Brings Sanitation Problem in Chicago (By a Worker C CHICAGO, Ml espondent) Since the govern- white in all previous struggles, but in the Wickwire strike the employers | ment put a bonus on pigs under 100 found this absolutely impossible. So remarkable was the solidarity that | pounds and pig; the capital ers did not this unity Th are talking abo ship of the strik main composed of N first time in the and metal indust was in the | It is the that served strikers sand s and coffee wi on the picket line. The Croa Society gave their free to the Strikers for meeti The Unem- ployed Council w in building of strong t r national International Labor in the defense work work with the Strikers’ Defense Commit- tee. HE strike began on August f4th | and was settled August 26th. The strike was a tremendous vi | despite the fact that the other = | partments refused to support the} strike. The demands of the strikers were as follows 1) Recognition of the shop commit tee of the Steel and Metal Work- ers’ Industrial Union. No favoritism to any workers any department. All workers upon returning work shall not be subjected medical examination. All strikers to return to the same job that they held prior to the | strike. | That immediately upon return to work the shop committee shall begin negotiations with the em- ployers for increased wages for all the workers in the shop. All of the above demands were granted and in addition wage in- creases have been secured as a result of the negotiations. INCE the return of the victorious | strikers the company has called in the Amalgamated Association Iron, Steel and Tin Workers affiliated to the A. F. of L. to organize the} departments, that remained in the} shop during the strike. The foremen are the active agents of the company and the Amalga- | mated Association of Iron, Steel and | 2 in 3) to | to | 4 5) | the starvation minimum w: | struggle.” | stone of thi Workers to organize these de- partment s clear that the com- pany intends to use the A. F. of L aders to smash the Ste] and Metal Wi rs’ Industrial Union The t on their guard e company the Amal- | ry effort is ompany to rob gain and to| and to enslave | help of the A. F. ‘s, who are organizing | into the Amalgamated Association of | Tron, Steel and Tin Workers; may do | well to take into serious considera- | tion the treacherous and shameful | betrayal of el workers during | ste , led militantly | e Foster and by the or- | of this very organization. | ‘ay be well to recall again the | refusal of the A. F. of L. to organize | el industry since the infamous | sell-out in 1919, the open support of of the | steel code submitted by the steel mag- | nates | It may be well also to remember at the A. F. of L. leaders are cal- lin: peace” in the pursuance | 1 of “no strike and no | The honorable Mr. John- | Central Labor Counc; | ated, “we are absolutely ainst strikes and shall go to the mit to prevent them.” The same Mr. Johnstone has expelled hun- a of Buffalo s | dreds of A. F. ef L. members from | the unions for non-payment of dues. | The Steel and Metal Workers’ In- | dustrial Union has won many de-| mands of the steel and metal workers. Its record is a record of persistent and militant struggle for the inter- | ests of all steel and metal workers. | Every steel and metal worker should join up with this union, because it is the only really class struggle union that is fighting for the steel and metal workers irrespective of color, | nationality, religious or political. be- | lief. | | he most important and immediate | of the Steel and Metal Workers’ rial Union in the Wickwire ~ is to immediately extend a} ecial invitation to the workers in the departments that are being ap- proached by the Amalgamated As- sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers is to develop united front struggles under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial | Union. ' du sows, the markets! of the Middle West have been ted with pigs. The most of these | pigs are bing converted into lard| and fertilizer are a Those above 80 pounds “held for export.” According to | statement by Ludo C7... F tt, | | termed a “paymaster,” there will be | the . automobile no pigs or products of used to compete with the “domestic” supply. In other words, it does not matter how many workers are starving within a few blocks of where tons stroyed, none of diverted for the taining life. On the other of Mr. Pickett the food will be hand, in the words ‘As a matter of fact administration) regards it as more important to the success of the pork price project that sows farrowing pigs shortly be sold now than the little pigs.” The cause of Mr. Pickett’s remark is the fact that the farmers are NOT sending their piggy sows to market. They are holding the sows for the pigs that will be ready for market | next year, when, as they correctly realize, there will be “still too many vise” to destroy them. Another side of the picture is the ifficulty the government is run ning into with the fertilizer made from the pigs. It is causing a sani- tation problem in Chicago, and will cause a “market problem” all over. So, it is a mad chase of a mad and decaying system for a way out. Too many unemployed—too many pigs—too many farms. And now | too much fertilizer! | | The unemployed workers who have produced this “surplus” must de- mand the use of these foods by de- manding unemployment insurance and putting up a struggle against forced labor. str RELIEF FLO! GONE (By a Worker Correspondent) STAUNTON, Ill.—We still get | relief, but not any more flour, they tell us that all government flour is gone, only a few thousand sacks left for emergencies. All surrounding towns around here are not getting flour, but get $1 a week in place of that. By Thirty thousand families cut off serjous. That means an immediate si all kinds in regard to home problem: HELEN LUKE. from relief Monday! truggle to force relief. That is very We'd like to hear from some of these families. Comrades, we are soliciting letters of is and suggestions. We want recipes for all sorts of national dishes—we may as well internationalize the cook- book now as later. braten, gefulte fish, tamales, and, pumpernickel? Please contribute. How | has the Blue Eagle affected your| home? ‘We have on hand now interesting letters from F.M.W. and R.C.M. It begins to look as if we'd have to| make short shrift of the cooking/ school and turn it into a column of struggle for plain bread. However, | here’s a suggested layout for today. Breakfast Melon or grapes Lunch Tomato and egg salad, rye bread Tapioca pudding Tea Dinner “Beef cabbage soup Hashed brown potatoes Coffee. Fresh pineapple (optional) For French toast: beat well an egg with salt and pepper in a shallow bowl. Add about 42 cup milk. Dip in # pieces of bread—if soft, briefly; if hard, let soak a few moments. Fry brown on both sides in skillet in hot butter or oil. At breakfast time hard- boil eggs (10 to 15' min.) for lunch; allow one to a person. After boiling rinse.a few minutes with cold water to keep yolk from turning dark; when cold put in ice-box until noon. Then shell, rinse, and cut into cubes. Wash a tomato for each per-} son, cut open in sections, and heap eggs in center. Serve on letture with mayonnaise. Tapioca recipes are on the box, I believe. Make with brown sugar for caramel flavor, using about @ third again as much as is neces-! sary with white. | For dinner there’s Anna's famous cabbage soup (if it isn’t it ought to| be!) Perhaps you have part of a cabbage left from making cole-slaw yesterday. You will need about one medium-sized head. Shred it and seald in boiling water. Drain, and, put in big pan of cold water, along with a pound or so of fresh beef! (a cheap cut will do), some bones, a} whole onion, about two teaspoons of slowly about two hours. Then add the juice of a lemon. Taste as you season to keep proportion right. (Re- move the onion.) ‘There should be cold boiled pota- toes from yesterday. If you have an Jabel, wash, and punch several holes in bottom of can with nail, (To eli- minate suction.) This makes a good chopper; keep it for this purpose, until somewhat smaller than grapes. 9 How about sauer-@- 1 Heat fat about size of egg in large} skillet, tipping so that sides are | greased. Add a finely chopped onion | to potatoes if you like, and salt and Papper, and mix. Turn potatoes into hot skillet, tap down lightly with knife or spoon,| clearing from sides of pan, so it| makes one large cake. Brown over| slow fire, turning pan if flame is un-/| even. Don’t stir while browning!| When partly finished, moisten with| 3 or 4 tablespoons of hot juice from | cabbage soup. Dig up a bit from) bottom to see when brown enough. Shuffle pan cecasionally to keep from sticking, adding a bit of fat if| necessary. When there is a_ nice} brown crust over the bottom, fold over half the potatoes so you have a fat oval cake in half the pan. Tip! out on platter. I am very ‘proud of these potatoes; they are so good! Everyone always likes them. Tonight wash some prunes and kt) stand in cold water for tomorrow; allow about 4 or 5 to each person. Save also a little sliver of the lemon that you use for the soup. Uncooked Relish Four quarts; chopped cabbage; 2 quarts EACH of green tomatoes and medium onions; 2 cups EACH of green peppers, celery, and carrots; Y% cup salt; 1 cup sugar, and % WHY, MY POOR ISAY GRACE BEFORE IMEALS, AND THANK ITHE LORD FOR HIS ENDLESS BOUNTY pound mixed spices or white mus- tard seed.. Use all vegetables raw, as finely chopped or ground as pos- sible. Mix togther, drain, cover with cold vinegar, and seal into jars. Can You Make ’em Yourself ? The dress shown today will be most uitable for the maturer figure, such as could not well wear yesterday's ssign. It would be nice developed in glossy silk, as shown, or in a wool, silk, or cotton crepe using a dark color for dress and lighter tone of the same color for ‘collar, tie, inset, and sleeve linings; as, very dark with lighter rose; dark and medium green; or two shades of brown. Pattern’ 2636 is. available in sizes 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size 38 takes 3% yards 39 inch fabric and 1-6 yard 8 inch lace. [llustrated step- by-step sewing instructions included with this pattern. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St., New York City. Cucumber Pickles Fill earthernware crock with Pickles, and cover with the follow- ing COLD mixture: ' 1 gallon vinegar ;1 cup sugar % cup salt 14 cup mixed spice % cup horserad-/'2 cup Colman’s ish mustard 1 teaspoon powdered alum These are ready to eat in a week; or fine to use for Crispy Pickles, the recipe for which will be given later. purpose of main- | Long Island Pickets Holding Window Cleaner Strong, Shoe Striker Writes By a Shoe Worker Correspondent LONG ISLAND CITY, N. ¥.—Yesterday one of your reporters gaye us a talk on the Daily Worker and asked us all to write for it, so here goes. My shop, the Comfort Sandal in Long Island City, has been on strike | weeks now. Last week the boss got about 25 scabs and thought that he had us all worried and how in a panic we would rush back to work. But all the scabs do is sit around all day -}| and look out of’ the windows at the|is fine. The union is a great union. for three ts and worry how the workers cing to greet them when 5 o'clock comes, p One morning we met a pack of] like the Boot and Shoe did. them in thé when the bo: reet. In the evening, herded them into you should have | Seen the number that had bandages n their heads; Also last week we had a success- | is not | ful meeting in front of the hous | Seltzer, a foreman who has scabs jers learned | herder. that Seltzer He is a skunk in their neigh- borhood, ah@ they know it. Comfort Slipper is sharing head- |quarters with us because their boss jgot out an ‘injunction forbidding the shop. Our spirit from both shops of jexpensive all right last year. -|thinks his workers are going to be and tons of good food is being de-|i%& in his house. Hundreds of work- | forced back, but he’s wrong. In order is a scab|to do that, none of us must: shirk. jthe A. A. A. (agricultural adjustment | them to stay ‘within five blocks of | out their help or in spite of it. It is square and hides nothing from us. Its main object is to~win the strike, and not grab, grab, grab dues, The other shops here in Long Is- land are also strong. I. Miller, the key shop in the industry, is aimost all down. The same with Premier. Five Star is shut down completely. Miller getting scabs, he found them He All of us must picket and collect re- lief. And we mustn't listen to the red scare which only the stoolpigeons and the bosses are playing up. We can learn who our enemies are with- —A Comfort Sandal Striker. | Gives N ‘Many Fired, Few Rehired, But Press, Hails End of Crisis | By a Packing House Worker | =i) Correspondent | ST.LOUIS, Mo.—A few weeks ago | in July the entire Kansas City press went on a campaign to figure out the effect the N.R.A. would have on the unemployment situation in this city and they came to a unanimous conclusion that “unemployment would practically be abolished.” | After the first week of August, the | press came cut heralding the return of prosperity; the Armour Packing | Co, had hired 40 during the week of | August 1, Firstly, for Armour’s to hire 40 is part of the usual run, However, our dear “hunters for the truth” forgot that Armour’s had laid off 150 men The recent hiring for the purpose of killing the young hogs to raise the market, was also brought out as a sign of the end of depression. These pigs were to be stored and given to the unemployed during the winter, | according to Roosevelt, yet about 90 per cent of them were tanked. | The speed up in a great many de- artments has already increased. The rise in wages'that was brought about merely balances the cut in hours in most cases and in none | does it provide for the tremendous | rise in prices. | Letters from Our Readers —! OF THE UNEMPLOYED « COUNCILS Topeka, Kan. |THE AIMS | Comrade Editor: Would you please furnish me in- formation as to the aims and objects of the Unemployed Councils and their plan of organization. We have here in Topeka about 6,000 unem- ployed, with. bu a “makeshift” organ- ization. What little relief they have been receiving is gradually being tak- en away. Thay are beginning to feel the need for. mass action. Any in- formation will be appreciated. ‘Yours for action, The central aim of the Unemployed Councils is to carry on a fight for the adoption by. the United States Con- calls for unemployment insurance protecting all workers who are unable to or deprived of the right to work, whether for unemployment, part-time work, sickness, accident, old age or maternity, The funds are to be raised at the expense of the gov- | ernment and: the employers exclu- | sively and to be administered by | commissions elected by the workers. Until such time as this bill is- adopted, the Unemployed Councils are organizing the workers on the basis of the “United Front” for the struggle for adequate relief, against forced labor, against evictions, for free light, gas and water for the un- employed, for ‘food, clothing, etc., for the children, ‘against discrimination against Negroes and foreign-born workers. This work is carried on by mobili- zation of the workers in the neigh- borhoods, unions, fraternal lodges, ete., building a powerful united front, which at the relief bureaus, city halls, ete., forces the authorities to grant the demands of the unemployed. The results of these struggles have been that where there is a fighting Unemployed Council the standard of relief is higher than where there is none. But the Unemployed Councils are not satisfied and therefore put forward as the central demand Un- employment and Social Insurance. This entails a continual struggle, in which the Unemployed Councils are taking the lead in all parts of the country, uniting the unemployed and employed on this demand.—Editor, NRA Committee, Scab Outfit, o Wages to Workers By a Worker Correspondent LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y¥.—I went down to the N.R.A. at the Cus- tom House, Reom 734 to inquire about work with the N.R.A. I was sent on and the government will have| a wild-goose chase to the Pennsylvania Hotel, to a meeting of the Grover | Whalen Re-Employment Committee. When I got down there they refused to let me attend the meeting. They told me they were taking on only vol- ire ©unteer workers. The heads of the committee were not receiving any pay, I was told—that is, of the N.R.A. ‘The question in my mind is, “How much of a salary is General Johnson getting?” Without a doubt the gov- ernment has handed out billions of collars to big business, and in refer- nts Indicate Revolt peedup Conditions { | Describes Tactics of AFL Burocrats By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I am a_ window cleaner. rank ‘and file. Though not a | membe: of the Communist Party, I am a member of an opposition group which is attempting to overthrow the demagogic, racketeering domination of the industry by the A. F. of L. lo- cal leadership. Window cleaning union agreements expire at this period, and talk of a strike has filled the air. Paul Krat, secretary; William Carlin, lawyer, and the stoolpigeon Executive Board of Local No. 2, A. F. of L., have called a meeting to discuss a strike. I quote from their letter calling this meet- ing: “No one will be admitted who does not have the union card. . . . Final in- structions will be given as to how the strike will be conducted. . . . Re- freshments will be served... . All members must pay up unpaid dues and assessments, as funds are needed for the strike.” We who understand their dirty manipulations expect. that at this meeting the bosses’ offers, arrived at in closed sessions with union offi- cials, will be reported and supported, and that the window cleaners will be advised to accept without struggle. The above quotations give suffi- cient indication of their intentions. All window cleaners, all workers, should see that it is criminal to an- nounce blandly that “instructions will be given.” We are striving to avoid this by wresting control of the union from their hands, and supplanting it with rank and file control, for the inter- ests of all workers. THE BLUE EAGLE IN BLUEFIELD By a Food Worker Correspondent BLUEFIELD, W. Va.—The Royal Restaurant signed the N.R.A. code and raised the wages $2 a week and at once charged all employees $3 a week for meals. The code calls for 40 hours a week and the women em- ployed in the Royal Restaurant work 56 hours a week. ence to the code, the government has not one cent for the workers who do the dirty work in the N.R.A. If the N.R.A. preaches a code for minimum working hours and a mini- mum wage which becomes a maxi- mum, why don’t they stick to the code and not ask for volunteers. It can be plainly seen that the N.R.A. is a scab organization. NEW YORK, N. Y.—Workers of Dupont City, Pa., write that “Al- though conditions of the workers in Dupont City are daily worsening, and there are no signs of improvement, we want to do our best for the Daily Worker, and pledge to do our ut- most.” They have shown that they mean what they say by sending in $24 to the Daily Worker, which was col- lected in two days, while their en- tire quota is $25. “We enter into socialist competition with the Ches- ter section to beat them in their quota,” concludes the letter from the Dupont. workers. The Little Guild Quartet sent in $22.28 results of their concert in Community Church last Saturday. The Guild Quartet announces that they will give their services to any workers’ club that wants to arrange a similar recital for the benefit of the Daily Worker. All organizations that want to do so should write to the Daily Worker city office. Workers of Norwood, Massachu- setts, say that the Daily Worker Cam- paign is on in Norwood. They tell further of their plans for raising funds, and spreading the Daily Worker; “Last Monday a meeting of six working class organizations for the Daily Worker. “This serve as an example to all workers.interested in the Daily Worker and who want to see the . Contributions for Mondsy, September 35, follow: . a DISTBICT NO. 1 Sade oe an, Lynn, Mass., @ Pioneer m ember $ 16.00 Jane Henle, Northampton, Mass, 3.00 ‘Total $10.00 pistrict fo, 3 5.00 35 9.20 11.50 7.50 1.00 J ¥. 1.00 Louis, N. Y. eit George McNalty, N. Y. 1.00 Sec. 6, Unit 1, N. Y. 1.00 3.35 10.55 5.00 1.00 1.00 + DuPont City Workers Raise Complete Quota in Two Days ¥.8.U. Br,, Brownsville, a challenge to other F.S.U. branches English, Red Builder 52 Metz, Red Builder 1.96 Sec. No. 1 33,48 Kolowski, Red Builder fe ‘Total $108.96 DISTRICT NO. 6 . ©. Dalo, Cleveland, 0. 1.00 Total 1.00 DISTRICT NO. 7 E. V. Baker, Detroit, Mich. 1.00 Cultural Club, Kalamazoo, Mich. 5.00 Thecdore Sailazyi, Hawkawlen, Mich. 1.00 List “No. 29834, collected by Mike Avagian, Sec. 7, Unit 2 Mesak Bogostar 35 Hacky Horman 10 ©. Nedoung 10 Mikuil Mikailin 10 B. P. O. Butposofft 10 Omen 19 Hampor Jolobion 05, Soekis Kelosoin Sarkis Bedoian John Doait S. Arengian List No, 18341—Collected by Mike Bagdasarian—Sec. 1-2 ‘Arshak Chamalian Pitre Pogosian XK. Chervartanian Worker Aanna Vartandan Vartik Antonian M. Garegozian Seranocsk Chanien Khag hik Torosian Joseph Gopian _ Leo Vartanian Arshaloos Vartanian Mike Vartanian 10 E. Asatoorian By K. Bagdasarian 10 H. Der Derian 10 Worker 35 Arson Potikian 10 Garegin ‘Chakarian cy List No, 63456—Collected by Karo— Bec. 7-1 John Piesick 925 Joe Plesiack +10 P. D. 10 10 Charles A. Regan 15 John Cad 25 R. Vv. +10 Mike Dosts 2B Adam Hucseinf +10 a List No. lected by Karamekes = ‘Hammer Eugene O'Keefe 50 J. ©. Harris 25 Tom. Murray ® B. Hummel 5 A. Friend 35 A at 50 J. Mulloy 35 Jat Sodaities 10 ‘Total $15.35 DISTRICT NO. ‘Unit 314, Chicago, Ml. 2.00 Bonita Taff, Chicago, Il. 1.00 Jeanette Becker, Evansville, Ind, 15 1 $3.15 DISTRICT NO. 10 George Buritz, 80. Omaha, Neb. 80 Tom Bounds, ‘Okle. City, ‘Okla. 1.00 ‘Total $1.50 DISTRICT NO. 18 Branch 119, International Workers Order, San Francisco, Cal. 10.75 ‘Tow $10.75 DISTRICT NO. 14 Movie Showing, Newark, N. J. 9.00 Unit 5-0. P., Newark, N. J. 2.00 Blumen, Newark, N. J. ‘Total DISTRICT NO. 81 'D. G. Jonson, Milwaukee, Wis. ‘Total 3 DISTRIOT NO. 19 ‘Unit ©. P., Book Springs, Colo. ‘ment when steel workers themselves, |be cured by injection of a certain NRA Breaks Strikes Behind Collective Bargaining. Talk Right to Organize Crippled by Government: Attack on All Revolutionary Unions and Coal, Textile Strikes This is the third of a series of General Secretary of the Communist ing tomorrow will take up the effect of capital. articles by Comrade Earl Browder, Party, The fourth article appear- of the N.R.A. on the, trustification By EARI RROWDER, tI, “But at least the N. KR. A, has g.v the enthusiastic supporter of the Biue right to organize and fight for better In law and in theory, the workei the full right to organize and stri! and proclaimed again by big poli. ticians, this still doesn’t give the} workers anything they didn’t have before. It is still only a law, worth! not one cent more or less than} previous laws. Do you remember the War Labor Board, under President Wilson? Do you remember how it worked to strangle the strike movements of 1918-1919, and hold down wage rates? Perhaps wou do not remem- ber that it conducted its work under a declaration of government policy, stated in almost exactly the same words as section 7 of the N.R.A. The War Labor Board declared: “The right of workers to or- ganize in trade unions and to bar- gain collectively through chosen representatives is recognized and affirmed. This right shall not be denied, abridged, or interfered with by the employers in any manner whatsoever.” What*was this worth to the work- ers? Just exactly nothing. Under it they had the rights they always had, to organize and defeat their enemies if they could, the right to take what they were able to get with their offn power. Strikes were prevented or strangled by “arbitration.” Under this declaration the steel workers, for the first time in history, organ- ized and went on strike to enforce the “collective bargaining” guaran- teed by the War Labor Board. But the U. S. Steel Corporation “denied, abridged and interfered with” their rights, fired the workers who joined the union, and broke their strike with armed force, both with private police and government forces. No one ever heard of Judge Gary, the president of the Steel Trust, being arrested and tried for this crime against the law. But thousands of workers were jailed, and many killed, for trying to get these rights “guaranteed by law.” The same thing is being repeated today. The N. R. A. “grants” the rights which the workers already have, in order to establish control over their organizations, tie them up in “arbi- tration,” squeeze out or crush the militant trade unions, and in general to prevent strike movements by all Possible means, “But the NRA has given the op- portunity for organization, which the workers can take advantage of by organizing into the American Federation of Labor. Wm. Green is even on the National Labor Board. Give it credit for that much.” Thus pleads the advocate of the NRA. What is this “opportunity,” whose is it, and how has it been used? These are intertsting questions. The A. F. of L. officials had the opportunity to help work out the in- dustrial codes before Roosevelt signed them. How did Wm, Green utilize this “opportunity?” How Does It Really Work Green and his A. F. of L. fellow- bureaucrats signed a steel code, which fixed the existing wage-scales and hours of labor as the legally-ap- proved ones without any change whatever. This was done at a mo- en One thing to the. workers,’ argues Eagle: "It has give the worker the conditions.” rs have for many, many years had When this, is written into a new law, in Buffalo in MeKees Rocks, ir. Cleveland, had shown by exampl ; that it is possible now to strike ane. win substantial wage increases also in the steel industry: But the leaders of the A. F. of L. signed away this movement to the Steel Corporation and the NRA. Clearly, the “opportunity” in the steel industry was grasped by the steel trust, with the help of the A, F. of L. to ‘prevent either a wage increase or a strike movement. @in the automobile industry, Mr. Green putthe name of the A. F. of L, to the Roosevelt code which gives government approval to the “open shop.” Truly, this was a wonderful “op- portunity”~-but for General Motors, and especially for Henry Ford, who gets all the benefits without even signing the code, and for the whole “open shop” movement of the. Cham- ber of Commerce of the U. 8, Or take the coal code. It is not even adopted, after months of jook- eying about, ‘but already it effective- ly was tsed to choke the strike of 60,000 Pennsylvania miners, and actually prevent even such wage in- creases as the workers are winning by their own actions in other in- dustries under the pressure of ris- ing prices. The coal code was thus also an “opportunity”—for the coal barons to stifle the fighting movement of the! miners. Or looking at a smaller but equally illuminating example: The Radio and Television Workers of Phila- delphia seized the “opportunity” to organize into the A. F. of L. in Fed- eral Labor Unions No. 18368 and 18369. Mr. Wm. Green used the “op- portunity” personally to supervise the negotiation of a “contract” with employers, “establishing their to collective bargaining,” with personal “‘collaboration of General ' Hugh Johnson, This wonderful con- tract also deals with wages. To ob- tain an increase? No, no, not at all! On’the contrary, to guarantee to the employers that the workers will not demand any increase! The contract'!declares that the unions: “Will not demand an increase over , present scale of wage rates unless ipproved by the President of the United States.” Yes, indeed, this. was a wonder- ful “opportunity”—for the radio em. Ployers to secure the A. F. of antee that the NRA “minimum” shall also be in reality the maxi-? mum, without any strikes by the workers! And if the workers go anyway? Then the NRA @ great “opportunity”—for talists to fight the strike terial and moral support government, from the A. F. and also from the Socialist Party leader, Norman Thomas, has that, in viewof the “new deal” and the NRA, “This is not the time to strike.” Truly, the NRA creates many “op- Portunities’—for the capitalists! (Continued Tomorrow) By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Answers to Questions. Rupture; Hemorrhoids; Birth Control Chas, M., Joslyn, Montana.—Com- rade. M. owes it to himself and to the Party to be operated on as soon as possible. But we are doubtful about the formula from Spain which the kind doctor has to import. It sounds like the Spanish prisoner bunco game. ‘There is only one scientific treatment for hernia and that is the surgical method. As to hemorrhoids (piles), they can substance which causes them to dry up. If you send us a self-addressed, stamped envelope, we'll explain the Jaw against contraceptives and birth control. information. We flatter our- selves that we'll not only convince you of its eminent justice (to the capitalist system), but our arguments will be so forceful that you'll prompt- ly make arrangements to have a baby yourself, instead of delegating it to your wife, as, most men usually do! * Barber Shop Cleanliness Sam W.—Besides the more obvi- ous signs of cleanliness, the barber should (1) Use a sterilized sheet to put over the customer's clothes when he cuts his hair. The practice of merely shaking off the hair from the sheet used on somebody else, is not sufficient guarantee that parasites have not remained on it. (2) Each customer should have an individual shaving brush, previously sterilized, sealed in a package or cups; the seal to be broken in front of the cus- tomer. (3) The razor should be cleaned with an antiseptic solution and passed on the strop, at least ten times, before using; the heat of the stropping kills bacteria. (4) The la- ther should be made fresh in a ste- rile cup, instead of using a piece ‘Total Day's Total $186.11 Previous. Total 2,241.30 Grand Tot) ~ 92,426.41 of soap in a common mug. (5) Hot towels should be sterilized by live steam, instead of holding a towel un- der the hot water faucet. (6) The be in- in sealed wrappers, | Previously sterilized. (8) The electric hair cutter should be pl boiling water before using. (9) sides of the chair on Which the hands Test should be wiped with a solution of lysol before each customer - sits down, (10). If the skin is cut, tinc- ture of iodine shouldbe applied and washed off with alco- | hol. If the styptic pencil is to stop bleeding, it should be first, but itis better to use Fe John W., Chicago.—We cannot, derstand your letter because of its heowrin a4 uy Petar ed that chiro- practic anc loctors gave daughter no relief. It is clear that @ f blow on. the spine (even if the blo./ 25 called ‘adjustment” by the chiro) could have done her no good, But in your next sentence you state that, “at present a medicine-is giving relief Then, medical treatment does seem to help her, If so, why do you ask: “Can you suggest a remedy?” Please write us again and explain. We are reve bright as Ae used to be four- years ago when we bought a $5 share in the Daily Worker Publishing Company, of your city, at that As to the causes of belching, it r mastication (chew! ing), eating too much sugar or swal- lowing air not necessarily hot air), | Does your daughter attend Socialist meetings, by chance? } hy A ee i Readers Gésiring health information | should address their letters to Dr. Pal Luttinger, e-0 St, New Yar