The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1933, Page 4

Page Four DA ILY WORKER, CARRYING OUT THE OPEN LETTER a Prepare Unit Meetings With Aim Towards More MassWork Work in Trade Unions and Other Workers’ Organizations Is Task of Party Members Ax this article Comrade s ul is raising the problem on how to simplify tife life and tasks of the units and raise at the same time their efficiency. Similar suggestions based on the experiences of the comrades in the lower Party organizations are reaching the center. The proposal that the units shall meet once every two weeks and the fur- group system in the units needs ther study and consideration. We printing this a for disc’ certain that other comrades will be stimulated and will give their opinion On this vital problem of inner Pa life. It is on the basis of the con- crete experiences that the Center will be able to find the cor solution to this question Organization Department e rect By SAUL An important proble: street unit is to c with action. To or and actually lead the wo Neighborhood it is necess the territory, the con facing the workers in one place some 1 cut off the rel a landlord shut off the w to the Negro tenant a third, the c because ete. Each ne: crete grievanc: A unit in Section 5 a neighborhood bu sponse to the bullet mov went on out; in strike began to in The in is a good issue re- one, four to five hundred being sold of each issue. This is good. But the Bulletin is written prac- tically by one co) de. In can- liscuss their vassing, the comrades do not sufficiently with the conditions. They rather seem to make the point the amount of bul- letins sold. While we would like to sell many bulletins, it is much more important to spend ime with the workers, become friendly with them and get them to tell us their griev- ances. General propaganda without action will not build organization. The same is true of the comrades canvassing with the Daily Worke: One comrade of Unit 2. has eight janitors taking the Daily every Saturday. These janitors were not called together, their conditions Were not discussed, they were not @rawn in to organizaticn around their | concrete problems. This unit had a meeting with 25 workers and elected a Block Committee. But no strug- gle was developed by the Block Com- mittee. Too Many Inner Meetings Our active comrades, our best forces eave so many inner meetings that they have no time left for the work- ers. Unit meeting, Buro meeting every week, etc. takes up all the time. Is it possible to organize the work “so that our units and buros will not have to meet every week? The present unit meetings are poorly organized and are of little value. The attendance is poor. The meeting is dry, the discussions usually general. If we would be able to de- vote every other Tuesday for the Section 15] Ftremendous force we “would have, having all the members of the sec- tion out mir with the wor onth are well organized, em functioning, The keeps the Buro| rs closely in touch with the nembership and makes it possible mobilize them easily. Having meetings once in two weeks would be well planned. The ies of the two weeks lyzed, the experiences re meetings would be nore interesting, the political of the meeting improved. meeting would actually serve ise the theoretical level of the if the t Bu the Captain Car n System to anit iasm which poli- We must have drastic changes in ng out many of our inner meet- M: ms and mass little time for unit work. for our two Tuesdays a month, invade the} working class neighborhood, get ac-|} quainted with the workers and in-| fluence them accordingly. Of course | this should be started with a few units or sections at the beginning. If properly organized and a few units picked at a time we can introduce | this system successfully. Attention To Mass Organizations Many comrades working in clubs lose sight of the fact that the club is not an aim in itself. rades take a great deal of pride in| the club. They work very entertainments, ete, They over- load themselves with these technical problems and, instead of giving the correct leadership in developing the raw workers, adopt a line at least resistance. For example, a comrade in “Club P” was paid no attention to by the leading comrades there. This comrade himself joined the Party. Of course the nrade was new. The leadership stead of helping this comrade to develop and train him, began to criticize sharply Ris lack of inita- tive. This shows that we do not sufficiently recruit for the Party. Our clubs and other fraternal or- ganizations are not imbued with struggle. Especially during election cam- Paign and in our unemployed activi- | ties the mass organizations can and |should play a prominent part. The old practice of assigning a weak member of the section committee as fraction secretary should be dis- continued. We have to pay more at- work in the neighborhood, what a| tention to our fraternal organizations. correctly shapeii diamond pin that does the trick. ‘to belong to the bourgeoisie. By HELEN LUKE. I see by the papers that the bourgeois ladies were having trouble mak- ing their orchids stick to their seductive bosoms, so someone invented a It sure must be h——I I'm glad I'm a proletarian with nothing worse to worry about than the necessity of finding a job. A Highlight for the Fashion Page. ¢——— Comrade Editor: In speaking of shoes and health, your readers would be interested in shaving it brought out that shoe leather is deliberately tanned in such @ manner as to cause jt to wear out ‘quickly, thus necessitating the pur- lasted riuch “Songer before more recent tanning ‘methods were introduced. You advise that we wear low- led shoes, but any woman will teil ‘you that high shoes are better look- img. That is because the shoe com- pany puts its best designers on them more business for them as a thigh-heeled shoe runs over the heel epidiy and loses its shape more ‘gmichly, I think all such little capi- ‘taltst for swindling the con- sumer be brought out in your column. Such as how silk is dyed with weakening chemicals, often causing old cloth to tear around the stamped on it. Silk should @ Tfetime, but then the siik 2 erg minal wouldn't have so very much business. —F. M. W. ‘We have for a long time enter- § dark and ugly suspicious that s such as charged in the letter were facts. We'd be in- in having letters corro- abové statements if any of readers work in factories where have opportunity to check up on practices. We do want to write paragraphs on the subject of too, but it must stand by for present to make room for the department. * TODAY’S MENU Breakfast 3 oon Prunes Baceonamen Toast Lunch Pineapple and cheese salad ry “giewed Corn Tomatoes Tea seca : _ Sausage Candied sweet potatoes Celery _ Apple sauce Coffee fr. \ ‘The prunes, having been in-water night, are now to be simmered slowly about one-half hour, with (about one-half cup to a pint es) and the very small sliver saved. For cinnamon mix together butter, sugar, and ; spread on hot toast, ed | mayonnaise. Old-timers can | If you have fresh ‘pineapple left from yesterday, use it for lunch. Put a slice (peeled and cored) for each portion; add a big spoonful of cot+ tage cheese and serve on lettuce with apple, make thin cheese sandwiches with lettuce and mayonnaise. Since the fresh corn does not look so hand- mic any more, cut it off the cobs, | Slice off the grains about halfway down the cobs; then with the dull edge of knife scrape cob from end to end to take out the end of grain next to cob. Put in pan with fresh quar- tered tomatoes; stew together about ten minutes without additional water; add sugar (about two teaspoons to @ cup of vegetable), salt, pepper, and butter. . For dinner, put the sausage in skillet and half cover with water. Simmer slowly, turning sausage and sticking with fork to let juice out. Water should cook off; then the sausage Will brown in its own fat. There are two kinds of sweet po- tatoes—plain, and yams. The yams are sweeter, more rotund, and of a deeper orange-yellow color. Use which you prefer. Wash, peel (keeping un- der cold water as finished), then dry, and cut into flat pieces three-quar- ters of an inch thick. Brown in hot fat. in large hot skillet; salt them. ‘When brown, add water to half-cover them, and about one-half cup sugar, more or less as you like sweet or thin syrup. Cover pan and let potatoes simmer over low fire, turning them over with a fork after a few minutes, until they are tender and water is reduced to a little syrup. If water does not evaporate fast enough, re-|, move lid and give pan more For applesauce, pare and core apples and cut in small sections. Cook with a very small amount of water, salt, and some sugar—about a heap- ing tablespoonful to an apple. A dash of lemon juice improves the flavor. When very soft stir well with fork. Turn into big bowl and dust top with cinnamon. Wash celery well, scrubbing with brush, Here are some tests of a good cook: Does she wash the celery and spinach clean? Can she make toast without burning it? Can she get a meal so all the items are ready at the same time, hot or cold as in- tended? Can she make gravy with- out getting it lumpy? If you want a desert with today’s dinner, let it be light—a fruit salad, or Jello, The com-| hard to} make the walls beautiful, to organize | | Then he was put in charge} |of unemployed work. If you have no pine-| e this can be done only | mbership and give them the con- | yy of our comrades active | organizations | white the poor step will therefore make it pos- | best forces to go out| | Letters From Farmer Correspondents | Roosevelt Myth Wearing Thin. (By a Farmer Correspondent) SALLISAW, Okla—At this typical southern county seat town last Sat- urday I talked to a number of for- merly well-to-do farmers. They were old time standpat Democrats. They are cleared of the Roosevelt myth. I talked with one Democrat that I have known for 25 years. He said that he helped elect Roosevelt, but that he was ashamed of it. He said that he would vote some other kind of ticket besides Democrat or Republican. The general talk was that some- thing desperate had to happen be-| tween now and spring, and the men that expressed themselves said that they were ready for anything. Eight} cent cotton, coupled on to $2 overalls, that sold last year for 90 cents, flour that sold last year for $1.60 a hun-| This has done more | dred, now $4. than anything else Roosevelt myth. This year, the renters received pay for what cotton they plowed up. The | plan next year is to rent the land | from the’ landlords, not allowing the | renters even the opportunity of rent- ing land. As the land is owned mostly by loan companies, this means that to dispel the the loan companies will be subsidized, | renters will be left) out in the cold. The plan, at pres- ent, is to take 15 acres out of pro- duction next year, by subsidizing the | landlords to the tune of $3 to $11 sll acre. Where is the renter to come in on the new deal? Why, he is to get his by an increase in the price of cotton which he is to raise on the land, but as they will not allow him to plant cotton which the government rents from the landlords, I fail to see where he is to get anything, especially as production credit is to be cut off from even those who may be successful in renting a few acres of unrestricted land. FarmerEx- Serviceman | DrivenOffFarm;Jailed | for Taking Potatoes (By a Farmer Correspondent) BEDMINSTER, Pa.— According to last Thursday’s Doylestown Intel- ligencer, we are informed that Fred Woerner, a farmer near Dublin, Pa., was put in jail at Doylestown. Why?| Because he was caught at night tak- | ing potatoes from another farmer Fred Woerner is an ex-serviceman with nine years in the service, during which time he was wounded, gassed, shell-shocked and disabled. Until the era of the “blue buzzard” got its hooks into things he was getting $12 a month compensation Being unable to find work, Woerner has been renting a farm, which he worked. However, because of condi- tions, he could not meet the rent and so was forced off the place He then found another place and after going to a lot of expenses to move and begin tilling the place, was told to get off again because the place had been sold. So being unable to provide or pro-) duce for his family all this time, | Woerner was naturally forced to do| what he did. And the majesty of the law locks} him aaet ay Can Can You Make Yourself ? The dress today is very practical, and becoming to all figures. If you use plain material for dress, collar 2 "em 1603 AhaneG and cuffs of ribbed material would look well; if you use plaid or checked wool, collar and cuffs should be plain. It would be a great comfort to have two sets of collar and cuffs, made removable by means of snap-fasten- ers, so you can wash them easily and have a change, too. Pattern 1603 comes in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 34, 36, 38, and 40. Size 16 takes 2 5-8 yards 54-inch fabric and 5-8 yard 36-inch contrast. Il- lustrated step-by-step instructions with this pattern. PRICE, FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) coins or stamps (coins preferred). Write plainly, name, address, style number and SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th St., New York City. 2W YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1533 [How the Government Spoils (By a , Worker Correspondent) OMAHA, Neb.—This is to draw attention to the manner in which the meat is being saved from hogs that weigh over 80 pounds; the lighter ones being thrown into the tanks to be rendered for grecse. Hogs to Relieve Unemployed The meat-saved is not being cured in the regular fashion employed by the packers for light sides of pork, which is a pickle cure, Instead it is being given a dry salt cure, that is, salt is rubbed into the meat before | being put into a pile. As the sides | are thin they soon become so thor- | oughly saturated with the salt that | nobody will care to eat it. In fact a continued diet of such meat would probably cause.-seurvy, a dangerous | blood disease. This, it is said, is the meat to be given to the unemployed in the way of relief; and as usual, of course, the ¢- ‘anything enough for them, the N.R.A. is believed to be good especially under If nothing is done about the mat- ter, in time some evil results in the way of sickness and disease will prob- ably become evident. * The Government Inspectors at the Packing Houses know all this, but they have to follow the orders of the Roosevelt government. —A Worker. with the strikers. and cooperation. (By a Miner Worker Correspondent) | DOVE CREEK, Colo—The nucleus here in Dove Creek has pledged its support to the Gallup, New Mexico, coal miners. We have loaded one truck out of here with food for the strikers, despite strong opposi- tion from the sheriff and a small minority of the populace, which forced us to Start the truck on its 200-mile trip to Gallup after night. A great percentage of the people here do support and sympathize We can load out another truck in about 10 days now with more food. than was given the first time. The fodd is contributed by members of the Farm Holiday Associa- | | tion, but the militant work was carried on by the Dove Creek nucleus. The strikers of the Western coal fields will receive our hearty support Camradely greetings, ‘Colorado Farmers. Rush Food to New Mexico Miners —Committee of Action. CHESTER, Pa—‘“I am_ answering |the appeal in. this morning’s Daily Worker for help by sending in one thin dime—all I have—with the hope that it will be’ added to four hun- | dred thousand imore when it reaches \the Daily Worker,” reads in part a letter from ‘Peter O’Brien, unem- ployed Irish worker of Chester, Pa. “Use my name,” continues the let- ter, “any time or any place it is re- quired. I have nothing to lose but my shackles, and they hurt like hell. “T think it is’ a shame, and a disgrace to all the members of the greatest organization in the history of the world that there is not a more ready response to the appeal of the only dafly newspaper in the United States that fearlessly and re- lentlessly fights the battle of the working class. “While it is true that most of us are suffering and in want, yet I wish to say that if every one who is interested in the struggle for bread would do a little at once, that you would have the full amount of $40,000 in less than two weeks. While in one week only $800 has been sub- scrbed. What is the reason? It can only mean that out of the 90,000,000 wage earners in the United States, |200 have responded to the appeal. “Now, as forty thousand workers strike in one «single industry, and millions of workers striking in other industries and factories throughout the country and the discontent that prevails in every hamlet town, village and city — not only in the United States, but, throughout the entire world—I say_NOW if ever the work- |ors should resnond to the appeal of | the only tried, true, and most fearless friend the workers have ever had— The Daily Worker. “The Daily Worker cannot func- tion on an income of 1% cents per copy. I doubt if this sum would be sufficient to pay for the stamps necessary to carry on the correspond- ence the capital check donations, churches. While the Daily Worker must depend more or less upon the pennies the Unemployed Workers can donate.” Contributions for Tuesday, September 28, follow: DISTRICT NO. 1 ou bret ices Little Comp- ton, & TL 00 ‘Total, DISERICT Collection at Jacdh, Kapl House, Far Rockaway, . I. J. Sterback, Long Island City At Party in Brownsville, N.Y. ‘Was collected at Anti-Religt- ous evening at the Goldens- bridge Colony, Goldensbridge, see 333 Pitchersky ————-—___, Blashow Piters Lilenthal, —___—__ Rubin Weissman ii ____ Margulin Zacheim Potash ~ Rosen Genin = ge5s38222s233 Mil Flanenbaum AOD sh 1. Pishmen— Anna Fishman “aa Anna Merlis .. SEP EE EEE OU e. Hennette Shenck, N. ¥. —— At a Party, N. ¥. Lerner Family, Astoria, L, I. Lamb, Red Builder, .N. Y. Krosich, Red Builder Sidney Saltzman, N. Y. Vine Dress Shop Collectio Marcella Glowannini Iria De Goyant Abraham Epler Nettie Drebotnick Rose Aulitto-» - Joseph Napp! ‘Terry King Julius Meneckel Joseph Russo Mr. Newman Frank De Ros» Little Guild Affair. 22.28 Punko, Red Builder ~. Segal Section 1, Unit 6 L. Crews, N. ¥. Progres, Workers Club, N.Y. Vanzatti, Red Builder,.N. Y. Section No. 2, Unit 1 Section No. 2, Unit 3 Section No. 2, Unit 14, Bartles, N.Y. ——. J, Kaplan, N. ¥, szeassseskeehess See wee 33 eeeriNeees 388332223 Last ‘Dime of Chesterite Goes to “Daily Worker” Roumanian Workers Club, List No. 16960—Esther Rudomir G. Rudomin L. Rudomin — 8. Atkin Petts pe Bella Bloom B. Shafron F. Goldberg — » A. Shapiro M. Cherikof — Total DISTRICT NO. 3 George Sapounts, Baltimore _ Philip Schuck & Sister, Balti- more, Md. ae eS S. C. Neblem, Phila., Pa. ©. Tulip - Section No. Section No. 13 Italian Labor Spor Branch No, 173, International Workers Order ©. Giasier—List No. 30132 Branch No. 76—International ‘Workers Order F. Brown—List No, 54892 —_ Freiheit Gesangs Ferein ___ Rank and File Amalgamated Group — | Goldberg—I.W.0. School No. 2 Russian Workers Chorus Branch No. 30—I.W.0. Branch No. f73—1. A. L. Branch No. 9 Branch No. 40—I.W. Lopatin, Phila, Pa. P. Vitulo Paulchin Italian Labor Sports Club — sesssusse = Ae o toes ees Pereeeresses 2. a Z33338383383 se83sS ss Litwinuck 60 50 3.17 2.00 Goldstein _ 5.00 A‘Friend —____ 1.50 Washington, D. 6. — 32.00 I. Passoft 20.00 Sg a ITN 12) Paster T Riveria—Section 13. 1.00 Branch No. 48—I.W.0. 20.00 Tacksey 2.00 Abe Paul 5.00 ‘Total it DISTRICT No Chas. Lits, Sandusky, Ohio 1.00 SOREL bose, ’ DISTRICT NO. 7 Movie Showing, Detroit, Mich. 24.16 Section 3, Unit 12 Kerby SACRE: Y Pontiso, collection 5.02 seein 2, Unit 2—Pledges Lewis, Detroit, Mich. -.25 Jan Runiar, Detroit, Mich. 28 Rosa Shall, Detrott, Mich. .30 John Lulich, Detroit _. a Section 2, Unit 2, List No. ‘No, 17372 J, Karnady 10 co. Main 2 "Tom Pollak “08 George Heavoral _-__ 10 Vasil Soldan 10 Ave Simrak lo Margaret Himovich 10 Hilde —— Hick Agren 105 Jos. Anderson 0 Fetal DISTRICT NO. 6 A. Landerberg, Gary, 1,00 Section 4 (Onits 411’ and 402) 3.88 ‘Unit $02, Chicago, Mil. 6.50 Unit 116, Chicago, Ti 35 John Reed Branch No. 546 __ rosa ‘ DISTRICT NO. 10 'W. Howard, Dakota City, Neb. ‘Woted oo DISTRICT NO. 13 $121.11 31.90 $8 N.0 AerA_C —L_____ etaofe shrdl rd ‘Wm. Urdang, Los Angeles, Cal. 4.00 ba eae 4.00 DISTRICT NO. 14 R. Thomas, Atlantic City, N.J. 50 Jimmy the i candcan Atlantic Oty NW. J... —— cJ Alex, Atlantle City, N. J. ey ida, 35 ed Mr. Frazier, Atlantic City, 25 Louis Lunch, Atlantic City — 25 Philip Kaup, Atlantic City— bo P. Stiene, Atlantic gity, N. 38 e 5 Reed, Ailantic CG Rd, Charles’ Berkanfree, Atlantic City, N. J. OE Oe eee B Kahn, Atlantic Gity, MJ— 38 Levitz, Atlantic City, iL 2 Ginsburg, Atlantis City, N. J. c J. Anderson, Cedar Knolls, ¥.J. 1.00 J._A. Bermes, Merchantville, ji I i OR A Lotaie Singer, Lenola, N. J. 28 Total _ 6.05 Day's Total 9300.96 Previous Total — 2496.41 Grand Total... 93,007.98 Where the Workers, and Farmers Rule. (By a Worker Correspondent) At a recent meeting in the Soviet | Union attended by delegates of old | women on the collective farms, many got up to tell of their experiences. | The following is the speech of one of them: Kumush Nazinova, 64 years old, from Low Kurkigan told about her life. I was forced to marry my hus- band I was simply stolen. Two years after my marriage I spent in Saklie end scarcely ever left it. All day long I spun. We were poor. Then came the revolution, The collectivisation began. I was afraid of the kolkhozes. | I did not want to enter one. Neither | would I let my children do it. "The priests told us that it was bad to work collectively. They told me} that I will be hungry and that my children will leave me. Only after a while I undestood that the new life was a good life. I am quite sure that the kolkhoz is not only for the youth but for the old as well. It is for me too. Let our collective farm grow.” Carrying on Work ‘Among Farmers (By a Worker Correspondent) OINCINNATI, O. — Thursday I penetrated North College Hill and Mount Healthy, two townships never before concretely canvassed by our Party. Friday I walked 12 miles on Van Zant Road into the truck farm district. I was asked many questions. One was regarding the losing of their hogs. I showed them in the August edition of New Masses where one man was plowing under the cotton, burning the. wheat, butchering the hogs and last they were shooting the unemployed down with machine guns. I had this magazine to show, but I had to give it to the farmer, because he wanted to show it to other farm- ers. Nevertheless, I started them thinking about their conditions. As I was walking along the side road, in front of a farm house a car passed me going the other way. A chicken ran onto t6 cross the road and it was killed by the passing machine. This helped me to call attention from the outside to a woman that her chicken Was killed. As there were dogs there, I would never have gotten inside of that fence. Well they gave 4 cents, all they had, and the chicken, corn and tomatoes and pumpkin. For this I gave them all a “Daily” apiece So comrades, if all the comrades would give more attention to the con- crete work among the masses, we would be rnuch further in our move- ment in the United States. And as a suggesticn, any time space is rendered in the “Daily,” put a word on the farmer problem. Here we have small home owners, the Unemployed Council and a Party Unit, and this coming week we will open an ILD headquarters. A short distance away, is the whit: section, where I am working to unit» together through struggles around the needs of the workers. Letters from Our Readers ——$— ——— PRINTERS SEEK GUIDANCE -New York. Comrade Editor: There is located at 13 Hester St. a firm called the Surprise Press. ‘This firm employs 5 or 6 men and pays them a wage in the neighborhood of 5 and 6 dollars weekly. I believe that they work 9 hours daily. I would like very much if you will forward this card to the proper people so that these exploited workers could; be organized. Their lunch hour is between 12:30 and 1:30. —A Comrade. Pipes ened Editor's Note: We immediately -referred this matter to the Com- mittee for the Organization of Un- organized Printers, Room 240, 799 Broadway. If the comrade who sent us this card knows any of the work- ers in this shop, it would greatly help in organizing this place. Give this information either to the Daily Worker or to the Committee men- WHY NO NEWS ON ST. PAUL? St. Paul, Minn. Comrade Editor: Being a reader of the Daily Worker whenever I can get one, usually at the meetings here in South St. Paul, I see you are making a big effort to increase the circulation of this paper that to me and many of my friends that are done in South S. Paul, every- body would be more interesed to buy it. the | Society adopted some years ago. INRA Solidifies Strength of Wall Street Monopolies | Drives Out Non-Monopoly Competitien, and Permits Monopolies to Maintain Extortionate Prices By EARL |BROWDER. ° “But the N.R.A. gives the tight to ton any union the worker wants, say the Blue Eagle boys. “If you don’t like the policy of Wm, Green and the A. F. of L., join another union, such as the fighting unions of the Trade Union Unity League, or an independent amion... The N.R.A, will protect you in that right.” Yeah? You don’t say! But take a look at what the government,and the employers, with the help of the A. F, of L., try to do to those who would exercise these “rights.” The tobacco workers of Tampa were organized in the Tobacco Workers Industrial Union, affiliated with the TUUL. The government of Florida came in, destroyed its head- quarters, sent its leaders to prison on frame-up charges so flagrant that even the U. S. Supreme Court was forced to reverse the verdict, and turned hundreds of its members over to the Washington authorities, who} deported them out of the country as “undesirable citizens,” for daring to take their rights of organizing a union. Later, when NRA became law, the Tampa workers’ faith in their legal rights revived—enough to organize an entirely independent union of their own on a loval basis. They sent a delegation to Washington to talk with the NRA administration. General Johnson and his aides refused to talk with them. When the dele- gation returned to Tampa, they were arrested, turned over to the Ku Klux Klan, who beat them up severely and ran them out of town. The union headquarters were again wrecked, and the ‘members dispersed by police terror. That is the reality of the “freedom to join any union,” as the Tampa tobacco workers found it. aoe Or consider the case of the miners of Utah and New Mexico! In these two fields, the miners, by overwhel- ming majority and secret ballot, de- cided not to join the United Mine Workers of the A. F. of L. They didn’t trust it, because its officers came into the field as the personal friends of the coal operators and gov- ernment officials. Instead they joined the National Miners Union. They went on strike and won wage increases and union recognition. Then came word from Washington, from the NRA ad- ministration, that the local employers made a mistake to settle with the union. The employers broke their agreement. The union went on strike again. The governors of Utah and New Mexico, with the open help of the U. S. Army, of which Mr. Roose- velt is Commander-in-Chief, declared military rule, martial law, arrested all leaders of the NMU and hundreds of its active members, holds them incommunicado without trial, while the A. F.'of 'L. officials openly issue calls for scabs to come in and break the strike, $ These are typical examples of what is going on, in one form or another, all over the country, in all industries. * “Unions of their own choice!” What} a a mockery! * For Whom Is the “Planned Economy” “But ¢ven if everything you say is true,” argues the blind follower of Mr. Roosevelt, “that only means that we must all make some sac- rifice for the common good that will come from an _ organized planned economy under the NRA.” It is true that sacrifices are be- ing demanded—and taken—under the “new deal” and the Blue Buzzard. But who makes the sacrifices? First, the working class, whose in- come has been cut by two-thirds, to . “jess than One-third part of what it was five’}#4ts ago, and is being fur- ther rediced’’by higher prices every | day. ers Second, the poor farmers, whose income has been reduced about the same as that of the workers, and are losing their farms to the bankers and other mortgage holders, thus be- ing turned into tenants or wage workers, Third, the veterans of the world war, who:.are not only..denied pay- ment of the bonus (a-debt acknewl- edged by the government by formal certificates)..but who further had taken away from them:by Mr. Roose- velt and the “new deal,” a half-bil lion dollars per year from their pen- sions and disability allowances which they received under Hoover. Fourth, the Negro people, most of whom suffer as workers, poor farm- ers and veterans, and suffer further as an oppressed nationality, whose wage-rates are omitted-from even the NRA codes; or ‘deliberately set at fig- ures from 25 to 50 per cent lower than the general starvation level, who are more than ever being jim- crowed and lynched: in this time of NRA. Fifth, the ‘small bank depositors (some workets and many middle- class people) whose savings have been confiscated by the so-called “bank failures” (which is only another name for the process of big banks eating up the little banks). Many billions of dollars have been “sacrificed” in this way—to go*into the vaults of J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, and the rest of the little group of “rulers of America.” Sixth, the small business men are also making Sacrifices. The abolition of the anti-trust laws have removed the last small restraints upon chain- stores, monopolies, and big trusts, They are free to use their mass re« sources to the full to crush and ab- sorb the little fellow. At the same time these monopolies'are writing the “dndustrial codes” under the NRA, in such a way as to guarantee monopoly Profits while squeezing out entirely the little fellow. On top of all these sacrifices, which all go to swell the treasuries of mono= poly capital,.of Wall.Street, further billions of dollars are being taken by the government through taxation of the masses, and through the opera~ tions of the’ Reconstruction Finance Corporation are being passed on to the banks, insurance companies, rail- roads and great industrial Corpora tions, at oe ‘These sacrifices made by the broad masses of the people for the benefit of Wall Street, of mmopopoly. capital —these are. called, with a grim hu- mor peculiar to the NRA, establishing economy. But this is nothing else than a gigantic trustification of capital at the_ expense of the masses and of This increased trustification does not and cannot overcome the crisis. It was the previous trustification that made the -crisis so deep-going and protracted. Ht does: not organize economy to oyercome those features which bring about crises and cata- strophes. It only deepens the crisis and drives the world even faster to the further disaster of a new world By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Answers to Questions. a eee Reply to Criticism Al M., Bronx.— We note in your statement that you consider our col- | Of umn “one of the most stupid features added to the Daily Worker,” also your apparently contradictory remark about the’ writer's “witty and clever criticisms and diagnosis.” We accept your suggestion about sending our contributions to the Daily News—only we'll wait for that until we reach our second childhood and then we'll send them in to the Department of Bright Sayings of Children, As to the question of the fee 7a an operation for piles, we wish to advise you that our correspondent was a laborer who evidently. has no money, but apparently was willing to | orifice borrow the sum asked. We still be- lieve that $100 an exorbitant price to ask from a working man in New York, particularly when he can have it done free of charge in a hospital. We intend to continue to advise our readers along these lines, and we may even publish a price list for various operations which the Bronx es . We realize that this would be hateful to you, but we consider the welfare of the masses and not that of the iso- lated individual. Most workers have no physicians to be referred to; thus differing from bourgeois correspon- dents. As to the case of pregnancy in spite of abortion, we are willing to grant that you are a greater authority on “human passions, lusts, weaknesses and desires” than the writer. We have no right to doubt it, for the | ¢jan’ simple reason that we don’t know you. But it so happens that the letter of our correspondent contained a def- | inite statement which precludes any’| doubt about a new pregnancy. Of course, no physician would ever dream of considering such a possibil- ity; they are such a trusting bunch, those medicos, and they rhust learn their guile and their psychology from laymen. As to surgical operations, the writer wishes to advise you that he is not re remain supicous of abortionists be- cause of experience during 22 aaiek id practice. As to the ting .an ad in the papers, we aactine ifwith thanks. The writer needs no. advertising, nor does any thas Physician. As to the question of ‘altruism, it can be left saf to those who know us personally. ey far our intentions have never been ques- eet ig 4 by a few Cae who Sy eaae toa grind. * ‘Bots in the hoc F.™M. B.. Washington, D. C._—Try to fill your with 100 per cent ienthyol Be ent. Be sure you don’t keep picking at your nose. If you have any vibrassae (small hair at the orifice of the nose), pull them out with a tweezer‘and touch up the place with ioditié?''Use the ichthyol every | night. If no‘improvement takes place, see your physician, if you have one; | _ if not, write: us again. eres Desire ‘Under the Elms S.—It“is. refreshing to hear of somebody. who actually. wants a baby in these days of high cost of loving. We cannot tell from your letter whe- ther the abortion, nine years ago had something to do wita your inably to become’pregnant. The tragedy of the proletarian woman, under the cepitalist system is that she cannot _ afford to have children when she is young; later, when Sterner night allow hér to have a baby, she peeps Corer ha Have you oS been examined by @ physi- phen Diagudsts it not Enough M. 8., Hrooklyn—We don't blame you for not ‘being satisfied with the wonderful ae Fe made at the hospital and by the private specialist. You want to get well, Which is an un- pardonable sin! We are’ writing you privately. ~~ Gael scares ee ego a) Mlineen, ce Daily Worker, 38 30h Sts New york Olty, : 3 4