The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1933, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1933 Letters From Steel and Metal Workers Little Success $3 54Weekly Payroll in One ‘Iron Worker Tells For AFLHeads At "Tom Now $144 Under NRA How ALL. Heads re tal Wo ii | Martins Ferry, 0. shi gre 8 og Weaken Local b ~ By a Worker Correspondent From an Tron Worker Correspondent | James 8. Alle ici O1 ye us during the strike of the workers of _ fy, A png Fork Baie Corn. “vig ie thi oh of the radio workers Bete MARTINS. FERRY, Ohio—I have NEW YORK. —As an old member | the Daily Wor vhe Aerovox Radio Corp., and to show the re: never aiteed Dine @senbersinae ter of Local 28, Sheet Metal Workers! of the 8. L. P We are organizing our factory. Union, affiliated with the A. F. of L., Page Four | What Is the Character of the Socialist Labor Party? Removed from All Struggles Today, S.L.P. Lives in the “Glory” of Its Dead Past This is the first of a series of articles on the Socialist Labor Party by written in answer to letters which workers have written to er requesting information about the character and histery Aerovox RadioWorkersTurn to Real Struggle Program First Reject Program of Industrial Union, But See Now That It Is Correct By a Metal Worker Correspondent | By a Meta! Worker Correspondent BUFFALO, N. ¥.—This is how the N.R.A. actually works in our shop. | In the American Radiator Plant, located at 2,000 Elmwood Ave., tool makers | were paid from 75 cents to 80 cents an hour, and about 15 were employed the Daily since it was first started. Our strike, which took place during the last week of August, involved |T am an American of pre-revolu- about 850 young workers. At that time we did not have much faith in the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Unions we still believed in the N.R.A. ° h in that strike- organization we did not follow the ad- able leadership of the ‘cooled into going back to work winning any _ substantial Since the end of the strike, withou gain: the majority of the workers have realized the strike breaking role of | the N.R.A. (N al Racketeering | jon) and recognize that | Admini: of the S.M.W.LU. was a t if we would have stt + for a few more days (and the N.R.A. representatives and go| back to wo: would have gone | back to wo ith better conditions, nd not with the same and in man: hrough the strike | ion of our shop com- mittee. Even though we have some very) Militant elements on the shop com- | mittee, it took the union representa- tive and me of the more class-con- scious wor three weeks to con- vince the shop committee that they | sherld suvvort the drive of the S.M. | W.IU. to ganize the workers of Aeroyox, Si he beginning of this week the I.U., together with | the shop committee, has been holding meetings with some of t seven de- | partments of the factor. | A |. umber of w with e elected del 45 Hi-Wer Coner zates from these de- represent us on tee of the New hs A Iso elected di to al partments Yeuth Com soup use fresh or canned. If you use tos with little or no addi soup i: soda just the f the milk; have been should any For the sa toitate che: mix cream or chopped p and raisins. Put s of bread with a lettuce nice sandwich for chil-! hes, th a few the boiled vetatoes from mix with a can of Inc!nde a finely chopped brown well in a e fat ” off the beans if red beef nion if you like iNet with a Peel the necessary, wash, and cut in sections. Boil until tender season, and “cream” them according to directi yen last Friday for creamed peas TODAY'S MENU Breakfast other fruit Melon or Here's an amusing letter received the other day. _ Dear Heien Luke: The cartoon attached to your col- “umn in today’s “Daily” prompts me to. write this to you: My niece, who is atending kinder- garten in Philadelphia, came home from school one day and said that it was necessary for her to bring 25 cents to school each week. For this, the kids are served milk and crackers once a day. ‘The next day, she came home and asked, “Mama, why does teacher us fold our hands and say ‘We ik ‘you Lord for these crackers milk,’ .when we pay for it? _ —Daily “Daily Worker Reader. It is a good question, little one, itis a very good question! And now We “want to print the other recipe from Sadie P. (Florida I. L. D.). It is. for chocolate cake “2 cups flour “1 teaspoon soda t cups brown sugar 2 eggs unbeaten 1% cups milk 1 teaspoon valnilla ~@ generous %% cup’ butter or lard pnd butter ~-G squares. chocolate or 6 table- Spoons cocoa ~see@ream butter and sugar until light “and fluffy. And eggs one at a time “end beat well. Add chocolate that has been melted or cocoa dissolved in hot water, and a pinch salt, Beat again. Add flour a little at a time, alternating with the milk. Add vanilla and soda and beat well. Bake layers and put together with icing between layers and on . top. (Baking time 30 minutes 350 degrees.) Now all we need is a good recipe + for boiled icing. Who can supply ‘it? I won't offer mine—it never _comés out right! At present I am » tracking down a pumpernickle recipe to its lair. pie vass i not be cooked | Pha ee eee 16th Anniversary of Russian Revolution Celebrated Nov. 5th Rallies in Two N. Y. Halls Are Also Election Meets NEW YORK.—The Sixteenth An- niversary of the Russian Revolution =e if | will be celebrated in two large halls | n the advice of |in New York on Sunday, Nov. 5, at| 7 p. m. Workers will .rally to ‘the Bronx Coliseum, East 177th St. and in yn to the Arcadia Hall, 918 Halsey St. The celebration, arranged by the Communist Party, will also be the final election rally. Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, U. S. A, bert Minor, Communist candidate fayor of New York City; Williana ‘oughs, candidate for Comptroller, the candidate for President of Beard of Aldermen, Ben Gold be among the speakers. end the will District of the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union. The workers of Aerovox have taken the first steps in organizing their factory. You workers in Dubilier and Levitan, who have been betrayed by fakers of the A. F. of L.; you in Emerson, Philco, etc., all radio workers, organize under the leadership of the. Steel and Metal Workers Industriel Union and: rid the | the radio industry of its slavery con- | York | d An Aerovox Worker. fresh, cut the tomatoes in bits, cook itional water; season well with salt, dach of sngar and a whisper of all spice; then add about | ralizo the acid, stir well, and add hot milk to | em are, I think, insufficient for | srowing children, especially after de- duction of such things as they should not have; the kids should have some- thing additional in the form of gra- ham crackers and milk or a chocolate malted milk between meals; but what ironical advice to give to families that have little or no food! House- wives and mothers will have to or- sanize into consumers’ clubs, demon- strate for relief, and struggle in a powerful way against rising food prices. Can You Make Yourself ? a neat dress for sister, pretty enough to make her happy, and-so easy to make that she could it herself. Since it has short sleeves, we think a cotton print would be most suitable. A dark- colored cotton print in a fine pat- tern often resembles woolen cloth, and if that is used sister could wear it all winter if she has a good warm coat. : em do Pattern 1621 is available in sizes 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16, Size 10 takes 2%, yards 36-inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in. cluded with this pattern. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address o#ders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St., The menus as I have been giving New York City. tionary stock, union carpenter, when | there is a chance to work. | The betrayers of steel workers, the | Amalgamated Association, has been | trying to organize in this vicinity | Since the advent of the NRA slavery | act, but with no success that amounts to much. On Sunday, Sept. 10, they called a mass meeting at Eagles Hall, asking all steel workers to attend |The capitalist papers said several | hundred attended, but the truth is that less than 50 attended. Two good loyal Amalgamated Association men, one estimated 50 and the other said he counted only 25. Wait for Recognition. We have three tin mills there with- in four miles of each other and what is.called corrugating works, employ- ing about a 1,000 men. The organizers claim. they have 250 men in the union, but no one is to pay dues till they are completely organized and recognized by the Wheeling Steel Corp. In this plant the workers are mostly young coal miners and boys and girls, children of miners. These workers have had no experience with the Amalgamated Association before. Harry Norington of Wheeling W. Va. is one of the organizers. This | misleader has no influence in tin mills where he is known by workers, but in a place where he is not known, a few will heed him. | Workers that know him say he | never did any useful work in all his life in 40 or 50 years, except for about in the union. He drives a large auto. Business. men say he is the dressed man in town with no v! means of support. In the three tin mills in vicinity, the U. S. Steel employing about 1,200 | hes got. enough dues paying members | to fill the local’s officers. The York- | ville mill, employing about 1,400, have | no Amalgamated Association local. The sheet mill, Martins Ferry, em- ploying about 600, has not 50 in union. One of the so-called organ- izers in this mill, Mr. Jake M., tried te get young workers to go to Fol- lansbee, where a strike has been on | pened last, fall. Creek mill in Wheeling has a small local. This local is called the Price Whittaker Lodge, in honor of Whit- taker. The Whittaker families are founders. and large ‘stock holders in this mill, now the Wheeling Steel Corporation. ‘Firings Frequent At Sperry Gyroscope Co, NEW YORK.—I work in the Sperry Gyroscope Co,, 40 Flatbush Extension, Brooklyn, New York. This company is making all navy and army equipments. It is producing |mostly for the government. We |make searchlights, airplane parts, etc. Conditions in the place are not so | Sood, There are frequent firings on |the slightest excuse. In July and the beginning of August, we had plenty of work. Just before the N. |R. A. was adopted, they promised us everything was going to be al- tight. As soon as they signed with the N. R. A. the hours adopted were 40. We used to work 45 hours. They promised us that we would get the same pay, Now we work 40 hours at 42 hours’ pay. They took away three hours’ pay from us. | Fifteen years ago, they say there used to be a union in this place, but now they have a “Company Council.” The Council is always on the com- pany’s side no matter what comes up. The Council promised to send a dele~ gate to Washington to make an agreement of 36 hours for 45 hours’ pay. They never sent a delegate. Since that time the Council has not called a meeting. Fewer Jobs At Sheffield Steel By a Steel Worker Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The NRA does not work so hot here in the Sheffield Steel Mill, and the ac- tions of the A. F. of L, are rotten. There are less men on the same jobs than before the NRA time. The company is laying off men at the age of 40 and 45, and re- placing them with young men. Now the younger men have not many years to go before they will be 40 and 45. Then what are they going to do? I suggest that both old and young organize into a real union, not the fake A. F. of L., but the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, a real union that has thousands of members, has never been sold out yet, and has won several victories lately in the east. “FORD HAS OVER-REACHED HIMSELF” By a Worker Correspondent CHESTER, Pa.—Yes, the Ford workers are out on strike, first for protest against the terrific speed-up imposed upon the workers, and secondly for an increase in wages as a relief from the starvation wages that are now being doled out to the workers as the direct result of the Roosevelt N.R.A. program. Henry Ford says he will shut down the factory. All right, if Ford shuts down ‘the Chester plant, the strike will spread until he will be forced to shut them all down, or recognize the rights of the workers. In Ford’s industry the workers were denied all liberty, in some plants they were not allowed to speak to one another. Ford has over-reached him~ self this time. Peter O’Brien. (Signature authorized.) | 4744 hours a week. The force employed was gradually reduced and two 10 | per cent cuts: put through, Last November cuts ranged from 2744 to 53 per | cent at one time. This left the force® at six men getting 45 to 50 cents per ; hour. Shortly .before the N.R.A. they got a 10 per cent.zaise and when work was reduced to 40 hours }* week they got afiother 10 per cé..t raise ting 50 c | at the wor | Rper week. ‘Néw he gets 6 | 40 hours, $24. Hé-was 25 cents a week |better off ‘ii: ferms of “woodin” |money, but if is safe to say that | prices have ‘Advanced 33 per cent, so that his ability to consume is that much lower. Perhaps some will say that the bet- terment has come by putting more ;men to work because of the shorter | week. Not one man has gone to work in the machiné shop up until date. So | that leaves the’ dollar income of the shop about 1° per cent above the iowest yet, an@ the consuming power | of the shop about 30 per cent below | the lowest figure before N.R.A. Some men have, been put on in the | per cent. This throws more work in production department. I am_ told production has increased about 100 che tool room, but it is obtained by speed-up, and not by putting on more men. One of their best men told me that a job which was considered quite satisfactory if done in one-half day, they now expect in one and one-half heurs, and that six men are now turning out approximately the same amount of work 15 formerly did be- fore N.R.A. So it amounts to this—when 15 men got 75 cents an hour for 4714 hours, the total wages paid were $534 per week for this department. NOW, with six men getting 60 cents (this is too high) for 40 hours, total wages are $144 per week for this depart- ment, which is turning out about the same production as formerly. These figures may not be true of every department or every shop, but these are the conditions prevailing in my shop, and I know of other shops right here in Buffalo where similar conditions prevail. Soviet Machines Good As Ours Writes American Machinist By BEN THOMAS. } ROSTOV ON DON.—I thought perhaps you would like to hear some two months—just long enough to get | for over a year, to scab. This hap- | Mill, Kansas City | | news from an.American worker who has been working for the past two | years in the agriculture machinery plant in Rostov. We produced 2,010 combines for this harvest, and according to all re- ports they aré working as well as any previously imported from America. | The Soviet Union is now the largest o— | producer of combines and tractors in | benefits of collective farming for the the world. ‘¢ | working farmer. As a result of the | I have been. working in this local- | vigorous sowing campaign which lity for the past two years as a tool | Was directed by the political sections jmaker, and I have seen much prog-| Of the machine tractor stations, the ress on all fronts. Progress in in-| Whole land just smiled with golden |creased production and in improved | stain, vegetables, fruits and indus- | quality of our. machines. And al-| rial crops, such as cotton, flax, etc. most unbelievable progress on the| In this region, the North Caucasus, agriculture front. where things were not so good last This is the North Caucasus region yt eal el an ig ae poe pyrene where the old cossack rich farmers Raved ae caer foiatbee = ae still persisted in doing all in their Je that ti he a the |power to distupt the work of the| SUSY Dat we nays everyone ‘hes collective Socialist farms. They, the fitiy bus teint Be hett all uy |former rich farmers, would hide} \ icin, ee one is Eadierd full |grain from the-government and. per- time ae a ae t the ith a suade the other members of the col- Shel aca fancied 4 iia ei seven hours per day. lective farm to do the same. They| "wen 1 can say th as ti would persuade the more backward . ae er eer 2 rous and happy. No fear of poor farmers that the collective farm | PtosPe! : |was the work .of the devil, They what tomorrow will bring forth. The te slogan of Comrade Stalin, that every one try to. corrupt the leaders of | conectivefar mer must become well- he collectives, and sometimes suc- to-do, is being realized much faster ceeded, by the use of money bribes,| nan’ many sul ed. American |drink and just, good fellowship. AS | Pe eee a eee teen a result of the disruptive tactics of | Z ip re. os r from your Russian comrades. the former rich cossack farmer, last year’s harvest was poor Socialism is being built with yigor, . i determination and the conscious en- The collective. poor and’ middle | thusiasm of millions of farmers and | farmers, under the leadership of the| workers, under the leadership of the ;Communist Party of the Soviet} Communist Party and its Leninist | Union, were convinced of the true! leader, Comrade Stalin. cat |nature of the.former rich farmers.| We have many difficulties, but | They found out that the former rich | they only spur us on to greater de-~ | farmers were their enemies as well! termination to overcome the diffi- jas the enemies of the Soviet Gov-| culties. The workers defeat all ene- | ernment, mies, both inside and outside of the | Under the leadership of the Com-| Soviet Union. I appeal to you to} |munist Party~Political Sections of | take a lesson from the workers and) the machiné. tractor stations which | farmers of the Soviet Union. Fight serve the colléeti¥é farms, the farm- | against the war danger. Support the jers weeded ‘out» their class enemies | workers’ fatherland. Our - victory | and went té-work with renewed en-| here is the victory of the world’s | thusiasm, better understanding the! workers and farmers. | Steel - Workers , Cab ; Drivers, ‘Party Units, Send ‘Daily’ Help NEW YORK.-—The Philadelphia district telegraphed the Daily | Worker campaign office that the | |Party membership of District 3 will stand behind the Daily Worker drive. The telegram.reads as follows: | “Party membership listens enthu- | siastically to ‘teport on the Daily settled a general strike of five weeks duration and the’ treasury is not only low but has a deficit of | $200, still the Executive Board | realizes the importance of the Daily Worker, and therefore the sacrifice and contribution, Contributions, received Saturday, Septem- fact that thé-wnion has recently I expose that local as well as other A. F. of L. locals of the Sheet Metal Workers Union. The officials are car- rying on a racket to keen old mem- bers cut and refuse to reinstate these members because they are in arrears with dues and because they dre out of work, and in some cases dropping them off the books when they were sick in the hospital. I appeal to the rank and file mem- bers fo stop these racketeers from de- nying an old member to be re-in- stated for no other reason and re- move these officials, and I appeal to the rank and file to take an ac- tive part; all members in the union, and ‘keep them working in union shops. Make these officials understand they are wrong and a change must be made or else there will be trouble. Member Unemployed Council. The worker is right when he calls for removing these bureaucratic A. F. of L. officials that are inter- ested only in collecting dues and not in building up a strong fight- ing union. But when he calls on workers to “make these officials see they are wrong,” he is uncon- sciously weakening the fight to throw out these micleaders, because such a statement may give the im- pression that it is possible to con- vince such officials to change their tactics —"Aiter. Layoffs In Many Chester Plants By a Worker Correspondent CHESTER, Pa—The Penn Steel | Co. has laid off men, the Sun Ship and Dry Dock Co. has been system- atically laying off workers until there are but a very few working. The General Steel Co. at Eddystone is practically shut down. The Eddystone Print Works closed down a couple of weeks ago and practically all the other plants in the city have laid off workers or they are only working part time. The. Harbison C. Walker Brick Co. laid off 20 or more workers last Mon- | day. Although this company has as much work to do as ever, and ships are coming in from Czechoslovakia and Italy ‘and irom other foreign countries to load bricks, yet the speed-up, system inaugurated since the N.R.A. code went into effect has thrown hundreds of workers out of employment in Chester. Letters from Our Readers THE KNITGOODS STRIKE New York. Comrade Editor: There is a general strike in prog- ress in the knitted outerwear in- dustry tinder the industrial union. In the September 24 and 25 editions of the “Daily” nothing has been pub- lished about it. The paper is sold in our strike halls, but workers depend- ing on this paper to give them in- formation. are sadly disappointed. ‘The one paper which they rely on is failing them, A Knitgoods Worker, We try to cover all strikes as | completely as possible, but often lack forces to have reperters at daily strike meetings. We urge all strikers to have their own press committees to keep us informed daily of developments and we will strive to publish these reports. Of- ten, however, space limitations may crowd out a strike story, much to our regret.—Editor. raat aa ILLUSTRATIONS GO OVER BIG Bluefield, W. Va. Comrade Editor: ‘The worker correspondence on Sep- tember 18 about the lordly police hoodlums in Williamson went over If you recall there was a sinall sketch in connection with the item. Worker campaign. Pledges: its SUD- | ber 20, 1933, follow: In the past you have favored several port to increase circulation and | 7otel recelved Saturday + jilyt| of my items with small drawings, and subscription drive, and to raise two “| they are a big help in drawing the dollars per Party member.” The | Total received to date 3762.54 eas oe the tai i ie et telegram is signed by Comrade DIST. No. 2 J. Natkowits, ave heard a number of favorable Miller of the Philadelphia District, | Kester $8.09| ‘Deenter”” 45| COMMents on this method of iilus- ‘i i } Diost 2.00| Af. Kalstein ‘10| tration, and the workers here like Workers of Section 8 in Boston, | is sim 708 woe ona ¢ finn saneeluity tists: they, how! tay Massachusetts, were given a quota | H. Bernstein :50| ‘Sec. 2, barrel’ 8.34! the item in its true light. of $30 for the Daily Worker drive. rane if 1 ‘eae . Workers of ‘Salem were allotted | american Youth — A ‘ . nd $4, which they promptly raised to| Club 1.00 | Total Sept. 30 175.60 QUESTION OF TAXES $15, Peabody Was assigned $11.50 | "nnishers 159 | || Totel, to date 1825.03 Comrade Editor: which was increased to $25. Lynn ay Mir '¢ Club hte Sec. 4, ae Bal panne sg hdr sent ee a increased their quota from $11.50 | "eo Com DW. | Cester, bd Hier, of the ‘Open: Korum, 3 i ° ter and Tribune,” Des Moines, Ia. to $15, and a shop nucleus Whose | Julio Mella LL.D. Total Sept. 30 8.50/ oar Sir: ig : quota was $3-raised its fund to $5.) or gi nmer | Meee. F174) “On your comments on taxes, etc.. |All of which means that Sec- | Research 3.25 | Donated previously | wish here to state that I see but one tion 8 of the Boston District has ae A assis ot Mage Sa. Mor | true method of reducing the taxes doubled their\quota to $60, and now | pea Front 300| isnhauer, Det 6.00/0f the small homeowner and the quot 00 er, Det. 6.00 | © rhe boil rm Patel ation 3 of the same | pent ira iiaae Dist. No. 9 general an e toiling masses it istric' lo likewise, bw . 2a sig ) P. Krogen general. ‘Along with the’ letter telling the| ‘No 3. Cet A | rota Sept. This is it, why put a sales tax on s heck for $5| No. 23 14.06 | Total to dat the laborer to be extorted from him, | BUOVE REWS: CAINGAR «CREE ¢ No. 34 10.00 No. 18 |or take so much out of his salary from an American Workers Chorus, | No. 30 5.00 | H. Cohen, San ~ either as a full or part-time worker we Pagal and bundle for the | Mg i. * Francisco 1,00 to, keep those that are unemployed? aily Worker. | No. 37 5.00 Total Sept. 30 1.00 iy not make the Barons o: - A group of Chicago cab drivers & 48 "100 Foal, ‘date ga nance, suffer, namely, the brains of employed by the Yellow Taxi Com- DEAD SEO Sind th snowing, poe tres ae aes ee vany adopted “the following reso- | Exec: Gom., Local Newark 10.00 | sewh y t girs ‘Ford lunon: “We pledge that we will 9, 20 donors, 50 Picnic, Br. 49, elsewhere, namely organ, For this. 810 by. ecend.of tha cptes flies each 10.00| Nat. Mut. Ald 9.50 we pare pris here Des 4 PI Ne aren ry not levy a 10 per cent tax on ent drive for $40,000 for the| (rie RR Toll ee date tery | their vast incomes and put ie the Daily Worker and will turn it over} Vaapman "38 ‘Dist. No. 15 Federal Treasury? Seems to me to the District Committee to help | M. sCatiany, list, Symp., Danbury, aire could wan pay repairers Hs te this districts’ ota of | CMa Conn. 90) surance, old age pensions an ie int” ar : - A dollar. bill’ followed ‘the reso- | scm ‘unit 6, Totel to date gan controls $68,000,000,000 wealth. lution “as part, payment, said the see Oh ee ee understand $68,000,000 of this taxi drivers, “on-our pledge. pay) eed poured into the federal treasury The Silver Local of the Steel) Greenbiatt .25| Unit 301 each year, it seems, would do more and Metal Workers Inlustrial Union 4 Barres 38 Man 4 than the mere pittance exploited donate five dollars to the Daily| Meme o™ $2) Unt fos from the workers. If this were done Worker Campaign. The Executive | King, Gold 2 —_| we would not need any welfare Board of the: Silver local voted $5 Miller :80| ‘Total to date 32.46| boards or other charitable organiza- ee ot eee he Daily | sim 50 1. W. 0. tions, I do not believe. For the big from its treastiry to tl ie Daily s ee fier ! sa hie ‘Schule Bi boy would see that all were steadily Worker Gampaigti. In spite of the} { jo} | employed, as it would be cheaper Spivak, Spanier .35| Total to date 104.16! than this insurance, paying By JAMES S. ALLEN Although the Socialist Labor Party today reposes in a seckuded and | sheltered corter, from which it takes pot-shots at the Communist Party, in the past it p! d an important role in the labor movement. Especially | since the present-day S. L. P. likes to bathe in the glory of its past, let us |first briefly look into it. | fariy Hi The $, LP, was one of the first|Teady shown the effects Eales Socialist ‘parties in the United States, |Otles of Daniel DeLeon, who Was 18s and the fepresentative of socialism | @cknowledged leadet of tae fl. fs in this country during the final quar-| ftom 1895 unti o | ter I re |Like all out-worn sects the S. L. P, |ter of the last century. In 1900 a ges to hang together partly on | split occurred chiefly on the question | manages fe eg aay acne te the of the attitude towards the trade|the basis of i Ligh saat oh Sw uwhions, ‘The official party leader- | Steatest assets of Hs past wes jship, headed by Daniel DeLeon, was | !e! DeLeon, w an “ple tie eet pc Jopposed to any activity within the | Policies and Sega riey lexisting trade unions, a policy which| Tied on a s oe se pica jes thoes lreflected the sectarian course being |‘unism: and ele th i a \followed by the S. L. P, all along | ores ie Son hoon toe the line. They were becoming more | is bd more isolated from the Ameri. |the sectarian course pursued by the \can workers. The split in the SLP.|S: L.P..-have since been nee re |led to the formation of the Socialist |® Tesular dogma and cult by the Since the split, the S. L. P. nas | basis for the present 8. L. P. posi- managed more and more to recede|tion and as such they must be sub- |from the main stream of the Amer-| mitted to a brief and cursory exam- |ican class struggle. It violently op- |jnation, | posed the cJorts of the Socialist Tiddetelal’ Wasonban, | Party of America to win control in| Dereon, in his writings and the American Federation of Labor | speeches, fought energetically against and later, although it participated in | the leadership of the American Fed- the convention which founded the! eration of Labor and against its craft I. W. W., it was quick to disconnect | inionism. He held’that craft union- itself entirely from that organiza~/icm was already out of date, a hang- tion when it was» participating in| over from a period when large-scale | militant labor battles. It broke its/ingustry had not yet become dom- ‘ties completely with the labor move-|inant. To craft trade-unionism he ment by refusing to admit into the party officials of the American Fed- eration of Labor and members of re- actionary unions, and by forbidding its members to join the existing trade unions. Immediately following the split in 1900, under the influ- jence of DeLeon, all immediate de- mands were dropped from the pro- gram cf the Party and practically since then the Party has been ask- ing for nothing less than the “un- conditional surrender of the capital- ist class!” century, Engels in his letters | American socialists, had jcriticized the S. L. P. for its sec- jtarian policies (policies which result to itself loose from any bonds with the American workers. Despite the re- formism and opportunism of the Berger-Hillquit leadership of the American Socialist Party, that Party was in the main struggles of the American working class before 1919 jand represented the real revolution~ ary sector of the working class in this country. After 1919; that role was filled by the Communist Party. Despite the justice of its criticsm of the 8. P. leaders, the Socalist Labor Party at an early date had already been shunted off the main stream of the Amercan class struggle. ° The final judge in matters of Even during the 19th) sharply | in isolation from the workers). Since | 1900, the S. L. P. has deliberately cut | opposed industrial unionism, which would organize the workers, not along narrow craft lines, but according to industry. That is, instead of the ma- |chinists, carpenters, molders, etc., in a single stecl mill being organized separately, all the workers in the mill would be organized into one union which would take in all work- ers employed in this industry. In this way, the workers would be in a position to strike effectively against the employers and corporations, in- stead of being split up into separate |crafts which included only the skilled workers. We can have no argument against jindustrial unionism. This is the basic policy of the militant sections of the organized workers today and the unions of the Trade Dnion Unity , League are organized on this basis. But for DeLeon and the 8. L. P. this was a purely abstract theory. Instead of trying to win over the workers inside as well as outside of the American Federation, of Labor, | they expected the mountain to run to Mohammed. They scornfully with- drew from any contact with the A. F. of L. members, and mounted their high horse until such a time as the workers would suddenly call them to battle. This resulted also from an- other mistaken conception of DeLeon and his followers. (Continued Tomorrow) By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. Answer tor Questions Should Morphine Be Given—Yes or, No? T. BR. This question can no more be answered categorically than the trick legal query: “Do you still beat lyour wife?” If you answer “Yes, then your goose is cooked. If you answer “No.” you admit that you used to beat her. * Generally speaking, morphine should not be administered because it does not cure and because there is danger of contracting the morphine habit, which is often' worse than the original disease. On the other hand, there ate cases where withholding the drug, on general principles, is a thoughtless and unnecessary cruelty. Take, for instance, a case of renal (kidney) colic, due to a stone in the ureter (the canal from the kidney to the bladder), where the patient writhes on his bed or on the floor with the most atrocious pain; or gallstones, when she (it’s usually a female) feels that she is going crazy with suffering; or incurable cancer (late stages), where the torture is so continually exxcruciating that suicide ‘which cause such agonies of stinging and burning that the patient feels ‘himself crucified .on the rack in ‘everlasting torment. Under such cir- ‘cumstances to refrain from using the hypodermic needle is not only cruel, but criminal. The exceptions to this are cases of pain, due to appendicitis, where an immediate operation is absolutely necessary and where the giving of morphine mizht induce the patient to postpone the operation under the impression that he is getting better because his pain had disappeared. * * * Pyorrhea—Rheumatism—Weak Feet Louis M., Pittsburgh: The history of your cas¢ proves for the millionth time the - relation between dental (tooth) infection andj “rheumatism” as well as weak feet. The fact that you hgve gained 25 pounds since your tecth were taken out shows that you are improving. Continue going to the clinic and carry out their sug- gestions. Because the doctor is a young man does not mean that he must necessarily be a student, Don't eat any meat or soup made with meat and drink plenty of water. We can- not tell how soon you'll get. well. eee Stuttering D. W.: To have no money is con- sidered ‘a crime under the present system and you are} therefore, con- is often resorted to; or severe burns,’ Doctor demned to do without the servi¢es of a specialist in the case of your little son. We do not know of any clinic for speech defects which might be of benefit to him. Let us see whether we could give you practical advice. First of all, are his tonsils, adenoids, nose and ears normal? If so, is there any emotional or linguistic (lan- ‘guage) conflict in the family. What we mean is whether your son wit- |nesses any outbursts of anger, fear, | tears or whether several, languages jare spoken in the home. Are there \any defects in his diet? Is there ir- regularity in his sleeping hours?’ If we can rule out all these factors, then there is only one thing for you to remember:. According to the best | authorities, stammering and stutter- ing are usually due to an emotional upset in hypersensitive . (oversensi- tive) children and even adults. This prevents the stutterer from improv- ing because he notices the reaction of his social set to his affliction and, therefore, becomes more confused and stammers worse, thus, creating & vicious circle. The first thipg to do, jtherefore, is to be casual with him. Don’t notice and don’t allow any- body else to show that they are aware of his defective speech. Secondly, teach your son to talk slowly by slow- ing down your own speech tempo and of all those who come in con- tact with him. ‘Thirdly, encourage him to read aloud (as soon as he has learned to read) slowly. It is well known that stutterers stutter when they read by selves, You may leave the door his room slightly open so that could hear how he reads. Correct his errors later, not while he is read- ing, as to his difficulty in pronoun. cing the letter F, find words begin- ning with f, such as fire, foam, fig, far, fun and let him watch your lips while you pronounce them, accen- tvating (making stronger) the lines rs vour lips and the baring of the Tt requires great patience and persistence for the complete cure of stuttering and dyslalia (defective speech), and that’s why few clinics succeed in doing it. The “guarane tee” of the commercial schools to cure stammering in a few weeks ts, therefore, always false. Let us hear from.you again. ager ie * Readers desiring health information should address their letters to Dr. Paul Luttinger, c-o Daily Worker, 35 B, 1th St, New ~ rd f theory is in practice. Time has al (