The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1933, Page 4

Paze Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1933 es ' ‘ow to Prove to Workers That “Daily” Is Their’s Results With Paterson Dye Strikers Show Response When Workers Are Shown Stories of Own Struggles By SAM ROBERT. PATERSON, N. J.—Last Thursday was the first time I ever attempted to sell the Daily Worker. I was sent by the Daily Worker office in New York to organize Daily Worker sales and decided to experiment personally on how to approach workers who never read the “Dai or even who had | never heard of it Se sonal approach worked better. Where I didn’t sell the “Daily” I often had a few words in discussion and at difficult spot, A meetin rs at Turn Hall, und of the Association Hundreds Being Fired in Woolen Mills of N. H. By a Worker Correspondent NEWPORT, N. H.—Workers in the of the Garden Woolen Mill, which employs 200 workers, will be thrown st advertised the paper. One worker said, “I. don’t want ith) that paper is only for the National Silk Workers Here it was tin: an A, F, of L. union. ot only a question of get- aterested in the paper. a: question of presenting | Textile Workers Union.” a way that those who) I answered, “It’s for all workers. | a Communist paper} Here, I'll prove it. Read this article,| e A. F. of L.| and you can return the paper when prejudiced | you're through, if you still don’t want | it.” This worker bought the paper,| ‘s one method I knew I| and afterwards said to me, “That’s tyould not use, and that is the ap-| straight stuff in there.” yroach, or lack of approach of the| I kept up my shouting around the | Daily in New same slogan, but to keep from get-| | ting monotonous I changed it a little | from time to time. “Don’t go home) without getting the special article on your strike, in the Daily Worker.” Or to use the typical newsboy or sales- man’s pressure method, I shouted: “Who else wants to read the special) silk strike article in the Daily Worker, 3 cents. Everybody is reading the special silk strike article in the Daily | Worker, fighting workers’ paper. Only | paper that prints the real facts on| the strike,” and so on and so on. | In two hours I sold 10. papers. Not | many, to be sure, but 10 papers in) Mo ch noton ts. Only But the magic familiar A per- now in what way it is| aper,” and what find in his reg- e bosses paper. through my “Daily.” I t page story on the silk with the ac- rs under the leader- , 3 cents. Worker” ula: I looke: tivities o ship of the N Textile Workers jn) Union. On page three there was a| the hands of A. F. of L. workers during | sp > on the strike by Carl| the strike, when N.T.U. is thying to} analyzing the strike up to date,| form a united front is a wedge not g the A. F. of L. leaders and| to be overlooked. Besides, at least | 25 strikers must have read the article. Because, as I saw myself, a group of three read the same paper, because | the others didn’t have three cents. | an excellent article and} the hands of to that page, that I could| If I had had red crayon with me, | he rest of | I would have put a red circle around | i in the usual way,| the special article which would have | outside. helped co center attention on the uted in a loud,| “special article.” | article on your| Until the Daily Worker becomes | read the | as well known and as popular among the broad masses of people as the} capitalist papers, we will have to| | e in the fight- the Work- an ea pap' one really sell the paper, not announce it. A newsboy selling the Daily News | or New York Times or Paterson Call | can simply shout, “Morning News, or | Morning Times,” etc. But we have | y to sell our paper; really convince | © bottom and | workers that they should read it. Once | ice no other | in their hands, the next time we bec | This per-| proach them our job is easier. out of work, as a direct result of over- production. The N.R.A. has been in | effect in these mills and the workers there are not getting the minimum wage. The work in the weave room is piece work and the price per yard is figured on best looms with the best} weaver running the best cloth. naturally the ones with bad looms do not hake the minimum. If any weaver makes over $14 some weeks and some weeks below $14 the weeks that he makes over that is used| If a} to make up his low weeks. worker kicks he is fired. This is true of the other three mills here also. ENFIELD, N. H—The American Woolen Co. unit here has been shut down throwing out of work 100 work- ers. Lack of orders was given as the cause. $14 for 60 Hours Under Dress Code in Union City By a Worker Correspondent WEST NEW YORK, N. J.—About one month ago, a friend of mine ac- quainted me with your splendid paper. Since then I have read it religiously every day. The letters published in the Daily Worker about conditions under the Slavery Act around and the following is one of the glaring violations of the N.R.A.| I have a sister who is working as an alteration hand in a dress shop at—— Union City, New Jersey. To attract customers, it flies the custom- ary “Blue Buzzard.” She works over 60 hours a week for the measly sum of $14. This has to pay for the sup- port of herself and her two children? By HELEN LUKE Mere is a letter from Florida which I found most interesting: | Fort Pieree (RFD) | Helen Luke, Daily Worker: | in the “Worker” I saw that yon said if anybody has a recipe to cook, to You can try this one. I call it a crisis food for the jobless—you can Can You Make Yourself? Just the thing to teach little sister to sew—a complete doll outfit: hat, "Em ne sl by > ¢ Cooked Wh Wheat | | is something that will stick to | lenty of bulk— e is a trick will be or 30 min- Then more added as the Then the cked—rough- will burst en cracked. Get a coffee mill it with vice. of wheat be added. 5 hours be of water. id be bought be cleaned. s food twice a ‘ay and other foods with it consti- pation won't bother you. The wheat should be eaten cold with milk and be, | Now it sh fore Clean, ‘ou are eatin: 1 here the peo- ere are over ‘o ha live. T ve. They have them all hor jobs, one or two days scm? three days—at $2.40 a the siterm did so much, harm 1¢ fruit is gone—ruined. Think the packing houses will hardly open this year—nothing to pack. Lots of people that farmed last year lost Pmoney and won't plant anything ‘now. And no such thing as a job shere—only forced labor. If not for }the forced labor jobs, all the people {would starve quickly. They are put- ting out about $800 a week on these _ jobs, and nearly all the stores would ~ have to close if they stopped. You can print this if you want to. | How much longer do you think it will ‘take before the workers rule here. ; William G. Fresh Steamed Spinach Mock Maple Pudding Coffee a te For lentil soup, use 1 cup lentils (soaked overnight), 1 sliced onion, 1 tablespoon butter or fat, 2 stalks cel- ery, salt and pepper. Brown onion in butter or fat, add drained lentils, celery cut small, and boiling water. Cook slowly until lentils are very soft. If desired, this soup can be strained and reheated before serving. A clove, Note.—Well, I was planning to tell | Ot garlic, or sliced sausage will im- Fabout plain cooked wheat (my fa-| Part a fine flavor—Cntributed. , vorite fruit) but William has beat me , os * ' vito it. However, I have been prepar-| For the fish, use trout or whitefish Jing it a little differently, without | if available; otherwise I think mack- {Brinding. I have no coffee mill. I] erel, flounder, or a slice of halibut “bring the grain to boil in the evening | would do. For each pound of fish, cut Qveas he says, with lots of water—boil| 3 medium sized peeled potatoes in :15 minutes or so, then turn out fire | inch cubes; slice 1 carrot and 1 onion, ‘and leave overnight. In the morning | and cube 3 tomatoes. sit needs to be boiled again a mini-| put all vegetables, salted a little, in mum of an hour. I like it hot, with | casserole or pan with lid, (Grease it milk and sugar. 2 first.) Lay fish over vegetables, dot When I was little, we used to have | generously with butter; dust with ‘this on grandfather's farm—not!| salt, pepper, and paprika. Bake until hulled, but in the skin. In winter | vegetables are done. Turn fish over {there was a coal stove hot all day | once—having top side browned when jlong, so as gas was no object, we | done. If you are wearing your troubles eooked it many hours. It swells up| put lightly, decorate it with parsley. like popcorn, and is quite “chewy”; Bonita T. ‘those who do not like other cooked nereals sometimes like this. H. L. Wash spinach 2 or 3 times in a dishpan of water, put in big pan with no additional water, cover, and steam 10 minutes, Salt and butter it. For pudding use recipe for choco- late pudding but omit cocoa and use brown sugar instead of, white. TODAY’S MENU BREAKFAST Concord Grapes Bacon and Eggs i Buttered Toast, ‘ » Coffer | While you are baking the dingfer, + if you want to save gas, bake a pan " LUNCH of apples for breakfast. Otherwise i Lentil Soup bake them tomorrow morning. Wash Rye Toast Cream Cheese and core the apples, set in pan, and fill hole with sugar mixed with lemon juice and a few grated rinds. Pour a very little water around them. Vv. M. K. Hot Cocoa POR Se DINNER Baked Fish and Vegetables | coins or stamps (coins preferred) for send in your suggestions and criticism! coat, frook, panties, and pajamas; |and the “Instructor” that goes with the pattern makes the work easy. If one has some pieces of material about the house, this outfit might be made and pinned nicely on a card for sale at bazaars. Pattern 1552 is available for 16, 18, 22 and 24 inch dolls. See Instructor chart for yardage. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (i5c) in this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pat- tern Department, 243 West 17th St., New York City, NOTE: i Letter from a Westinghouse Worker on the electrical code has no indi- cation as to which city and which Westinghouse Branch this comes from. Please inform us. The mate-~ rial came too late to be published on Saturday, Sept. 30. Help improve the “Daily Worker.” Let us know what the workers in Slavery Existing ‘Worker Tells of Piece Work ry Under Dress Code have caused me to look | | Slave By a Needle Worker Correspondent BRONX, N. ¥.—I wish to bring to your attention the existence of slave conditions still existing in the very heart of the needle trade district, in | mills in this town are already being | spite of the fact that the N.R.A. and the right wing union has signed up laid off. Sept. 28th the entire force | on a wage scale with definite minimum limits. re To my mind the so-called strike has not remedied conditions much, real workers’ d— |Not the N.R.A. but junion settlement will abolish the | sweatshop conditions. My work is fine in quality and I can work as fast as any, but because }I am not an old hand, the bosses | pay me less and exploit me more. | This is what I have seen in the past week. I worked in I. Bernstein’s | dress place, 362 W. 35th St., 13th floor. | There are about a dozen operators, mostly Italian, Negro, Portuguese. I cannot say definitely about the rates of the operators, but as a finisher we got 6 cents a dress for sewing two | buttons, tack down front part in | dress, snaps on sleeves, snaps on side jat waistline, buckle on belt, hook on neck loop. The girls worked like mad, did not dare to raise their heads, Swears at Workers | A forelady with a filthy tongue swore and scolded the girls and wom- en if they did not sew so fast. The forelady sneered at the Italian and Negro women and made fun of them in Jewish. I am Jewish myself and I understood all this well. These work- ers are so glad to be working, they jare so thankful for the job, that they |consider it a kindness to receive 6 |cents a dress. This must not be. Many workers in shops like this work only a few days, sometimes a few hours, and go migrating to look for better jobs. At 6 cents a dress a girl must finish 73 dresses a day to get a minimum wage of $22. It is superhuman to perform such a feat. When I saw I could not make any- thing I asked to be paid off, so I could | look for a job. My wage was 66 cents |for almost a half day’s work. The |forelady, after telling me I was too slow, said, looking at some Negro j girls who were still slower than I, “Perhaps you'd like to stay and break in.” Yes, break my neck for 6 cents |a dress, like hell. Three Negro girls | got up with me and walked out, re- |fusing to work for such “slave” fees. But what 1s done? When we go to NEW YORK.—Workers from many fields, and of many trades are doing their part for the Daily Worker. Even the boys who are drilling in the armed forces of the country are coming to realize that the Daily Worker is the paper that fights for them. The following letter was received j from a guardsman: “Enclosed find § sorry that I cannot contribute more. I wish to say that if every reader would do this our paper wouldn’t have to keep so much space for ap- | peals, and more for real news. | “Tam a married man and haye four | children, but one dollar would not save them from starvation, but this | dollar will help us spread the Daily Worker and establish a workers’ so- ciety. | “T urge all sympathizers in the | armed forces who read the Daily Worker to do their bit. I pledge myself j to do all in my power while under | arms.” Another letter equally appealing jcame into the offices of the Daily Worker. It is from a group of LR.T. | Workers who slave in the New York | Subways. They, too, are putting their | Shoulders to the wheel to make the | Daily Worker go round. “The enclosed five dollars is a con- tribution to the fighting fund of our Daily Worker, from a small group of |class conscious LR.T. workers, We j Wish we could make it many times | five dollars, but the fact that we are slaving for the LR.T. wage and have |families to feed is explanation enough,” write the LR.T. workers. “The American masses are really beginning to stir. The coming months are of great importance to our move- ment. NOW is the time for every class conscious worker in the country to throw his full support to our red press.” your shop think about the “Daily.” owe Total Received AL Wednesday 374.98) 0 M 4 Previously Re- IG 30 ceived 4269.61| CD 180 ————| Sam D. Total Received a pg to date 4644.59 | Total to date 201.87 DISTRICT 1 DISTRICT 3 American Workers | J Vandenberg 1.00 Chorus M_ Stout 5.00 Cambridge Unit, | J Silberling 1.00 Lists 2.05 | T Krames 10.00 Ashby, Mass. Un. 1.20] Memory Leah Lawrence, Mass. Kamphor 1.00 Lists, Vincent wil- | Asvjelt 5.00 Mams | OB Bethpage, L © List 62399 10! Hicks, L. 1. | 1.00 JE 25 | Weinrit, Red HS \| Builders Leader 1.47 ODe¥ 50 Wirak 1.00 HY 50 Lueker 1.00 AB 50 | Krosich, Red AD 50} Builder 3.10 xB -50 | Gorfine 25 SM 50 | Strasnick 110 GB "| Greenberg 235 P © List 62400 1.00 Menkowitz 25 Go 1.00 , Zusman 210 Lv 50 | Lacher 210 Fo 50 | Paroft 15 3B 19 | Neleon 05 BD .50 Amer. Youth Club EDe 8B 1.00 List AD .50-B Blumberg 10 ov :50, Donow 210 DY :50| Anon 10 MS ‘50 | H Gusner 110 Em. V. List 62397 .50/ S Rosen 05 Geo G 25/1 Friedlander “10 IM :25 § Blumberg 28 Henry 8 10 Sol Blumberg 10 AG :25 | Sympathizer 10 MA :25 | N. Thomas 10 om -35 | Paul Pfuller-Ridge, NG iy Lt 50 G D. List 62396 50 F S U Downtown .50 Lans 8 50 Red Front Af. 35.25 oB $0; English Clubs 1.26 EO 1.00 | A.C.W.-Shops AL 50) Lists Mary @ 50 | ® Gantman 50 AM 50 | Zitner M5 PL 50 F Staffarner 78 M 1.00 2 friends 30 D .50 ) Nicin 5195 oN -50 | Sabestiand 35 Frank M 125 | 3 friends 55. A friend 25 ' Benny Bly money order of one dollar. I am very | Workers in Avnal Forces anal On Subways Aid Daily Drive the next: place we find sometimes worse conditions. Another Sweatshop I next worked in the Ann Bee dress shop, 260 W. 5th St., 6th floor, seven operators and two finishers, my- self and a Negro girl. I am paid 20 cents for 24 buttons on sleeves which are very difficult to sew on because of narrow width, snaps on waistline, one hook, two snaps on sleeves, two hard large woven loops for belt, three inches long, two buttons hand made. It takes three-quarters of an hour to complete such a dress. The Negro girl did not complete 10 dresses the whole day. That makes $1.20. Would you call that a living Wage, with the high prices? The boss spoke to the Negro girl privately and scared her into taking 20 cents for so much work. But I told her I would not work for such slave wages. He will either pay me 50 cents a dress for this work or I shall leave. I lost my job in one place when the boss taught the examiner to make buttons on the machine. She holds two jobs but gets paid for one. I do not belong to the International Union because I can’t spare $10 to get a book. Hell, those so-called union shops give non-union wages anyway. Write me and tell me what to do. Editor’s Note: This letter was sent to the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union, 131 W. 28th St., with instructions to “get in téu3ch with this worker. This worker should also get in touch with the union, to get advice. Also, immediate action can be started if this worker speaks personally with others in the shop about the grievances most vital to all the workers, and a grievance committee to start a struggle, first on one important but small grievance, and then gradually expand as a small victory gains prestige for the committee among the rest of the workers, MEK 25) Party 10.00 Charles Hallinger .25 | Sec. 8, Un. 6-List .65 MA 1.00 | See. 8, Unit 11- E Carmine 35 | “List 4.00 © Strickert | Sec. 8, Unit 12-, 8 Barg 29) List t Louts +25 | Sec 8, U. 15-List 4.30 S Landsberg 25 | Sec 1, Unit 5-List Drace-Carrier 2.35 List 80 Reader BB Richman 38 10 Liefer 2B 05; Grunwald 50 3s Lerner 35 35 Hertzberg Bry 05 8 Lorsky 50 08 M Golnick 135 10 Mrs Friedman 20 “08 Ginst 35 1s ©. P. Unit-Nitge- 10 daiget, List 0 Helene B 20 Felix 10 ist, 1.50 Anna 10 & Benjemin 10 1.60 H Dittman -10| Unit 3-Desrborn- Oberry 1.00 | “List 2.80 35 | Sec 4, Un. 1-List 1.40 10) Scandinay. Fract.- List 2.00 Sec 1, Unit 1-List -06 | Garber, /Cohen —.13 -8 | Levy, Winter 12 05 | Kopelow 15 +8 § Brown AS 28 | Lanow 3B 2 | Goldstein, x. 20 1.00 | Pardonotf 10 Sec 1,)-Unit 2- 10 | List a M Malley 35 AS | 5 Harrison 135 381A Segal 15 10) & Movay 10 3 | M Mazin 10 2.53 | Unit 2-Dearborn- Sec. 10 130 | rise Sec. 2, Unit 8 100.00 | 4 Goon aig Total to date 9927.64 | Non Bhiaet e DISTRICT 5 Stammas, Poras .10 Bouth Slav. Club EFTM 0 “Red Star” 5.00 | Tipinskt 08 Ed Witt, Johns- Morcenka, 10 town 2.00 Fontiea, Mich-List friends Totel to date 90.74 nto artes ¥ E Sloan 10 9, Cincin., Ohio * 2 friends “10 ‘Total to date 104.87 DISTRICT 7 puke, Vied 20 On 1905 Show'gs 3.85 P Shefski $i00.| Totel to date 301.00 Finnish Workers DI 13.05 a i ‘Yellow Sap 1 10.00, .00 Bee a TeList | Russian’ mutual aid- Ryba Havlor, ig eanrille List Monts 20 50 Ernest Cis 1.00 | M Mackovie 35 M Biochez | M Didocha » 50 ‘50 | 8 Janoull "25 Folgart vad | NU 3 Woranck (25; J Monyak 125, Kindrat, ~ | J Sediak 138 Rye 18 | W Kovaccie 35 Jos. Ryba wav | J Morons 225 Sec 3, Unit 13- JF Sloan ‘as List-Woytka, 8S Mikel a5 8 Regulsk! 05 | & P Yokubath 25 Golemblenski 10 Adominas (25 Z Dobzel k eee ‘M Dobreleckt ‘10 | Total to date 464.00 © 8 Zour 25 DISTRICT 9 H Kozekiewtcz .78 » Com. Party, B Kranazak ‘25; Paul, Minn. = 1.35 A Wilomouskt 25 | Unit B, Brant- ews 25 | Wood 3 U1 Gustetson, Min. 1.00 | the Mrs. ©. Anderson. List 13 | Daily Worker. . Total to date 11.20 |® “DISTRICT 12 ‘Needle and Textile Workers Describe Under Screen of Codes $ Why Naney Dress Shop Workers Are on Strike (By a Needle Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK.—The Nancy Dress- making Co., Inc., is a custom-made shop. The customers are wealthy millionaires. The bosses have to hire first class workers. It is a known fact that the more skilled worker is usually paid a little more than the unskilled worker. But not in Nancy, Inc. ‘The bosses here during the crisis made one cut after another without any opposition from the workers. Not satisfied with this they changed the system from week work to piece work. And here they did another trick. They settled the prices so, that the result was another cut. ‘When some of the workers finally started to protest, the bosses told them if they want more money they can work longer hours. They did so, but still the workers could not meet the ends. So the bosses-came out with another proposition. They gave the workers home work. Workers often slaved until midnight, amd were really working 75-80 hours a week. But the wages were the same. Finally the workers revolted and walked out. That was last winter. But, being poorly organized, not all the’ workers ;walked out, some kept on scabbing, and so they lost the strike. Now, with the revival of the movement to better conditions, a general strike was called in the trade. And they responded together with other shops, but not 100 per cent. A certain amount of workers did not join yet. They are scabbing. Now is the peak of the season, and the bosses can be forced to give in. With united action this struggle can be shortened. The workers are out to win, i Crippled Workers Forced to Slave for $1 to $3 a Week (By a Worker Cotrespondent) NEW YORK.—There is an Institute for the Crippled and Disabled at 400 First Aye., near 23rd St., in which the disabled are supposed to get shel- ter. But the worst of all is the work- room on the second floor. We do all kinds of work, factory and needle, also machine work. We are on piece work seven hours a day, we are forced to work under terrible conditions. We are working out from $1 to $3 a week. ‘The NRA doesn’t mean a thing to them. Rich parasites come to look at us, and our work is like anicals in a 200: Please, comrade editor, could you do something in this matter? I hope to read your answer in the EDITOR’S NOTE: We are send- ing this letter to the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union» 131 West 28th St. It would be good if this worker would also send her name and address to the union, so some work can be started in the shop. This worker might “also ex- amine the answer given to another correspondent in this section, as some advice there might apply. Letters from Our Readers U. 8. 5. RB. New York. I enclose dispatch of William Allen White, on the Soviet Union, which appeared in the “Times” of Oct. 1. I think if the Soviet workers wish to laugh, they should read Editor White's article. I will not bother your time, Comrade Editor, with a lengthy set-to. To be brief, I'll cite a few statistics on the U.S. S. R. 1, Before the Revolution the working masses of the Ukraine had no idea of what a kindergarten was. At the present time in the Ukraine 1,330,000 children attend kindergar- | SOME STATISTICS ON 20 |tens; and in the entire Soviet Union 9,800,000 children now attend kin- dergarten. 2. The number of students in the primary schools in the U. 8. S. R. has increased from 10,000,000 in 1928 to 19,000,000 in 1932. 3. Before the revolution there was not a single research institute in the Ukraine, whereas now there are 1,058, 4. About two-thirds of the entire population of the former Russian empire was illiterate. In the land of the Soviets there 1s now a 97 per cent literacy. 5. In all branches of popular edu- cation (from political education by various enterprises, to courses in raising the qualification of workers in scientific institutions and various study circles) there are now 80,000,000 students in the U.S, S. R. 6. In the U, 8, 5. R. in the year 1932 the Soviet Union published as many books as France, Germany and United States combined. this is the old Russia, if this is the tempo of old Russia, if this is close resemblance of the methods of the Empress Catherine, as Editor White so flagrantly avers; then hu- man reason is apple sauce. The Soviet Union will have 20,000,- 000 children attending primary school in 1934: and the United States will have 20,000,000 workers without jobs; but Editor White says that the Rus- sians have no sense of efficiency as Americans know the word. DAILY WORKER HAS IMPROVED. Alllance, 5 The Daily Worker is like blood, it should circulate. I placed a copy of the Daily on my desk where a cer- tain youth would find it. After read- ing it I asked him what he thought of the six-page Daily. To my sur- prise he exclaimed it has been im- J Georges a B Adams 1.00 WN Hayden 50 S$ Kornicas 25 Morris —_.50 K Mincovsky 10 | Dist. 12 Plenum 12.06 O M Mincovsky .10 1, Unit 9A 4.50 J Tamol 10 | Hobart Unit 4.00 City Coal Co. 150 | Skid R'd Seattle 3.23 J Milark 2 ioe V Fihpirk "25 | Total to date 67.46 Sec 3, House P'y .60 DISTRICT 13 Sub-Sec. 1, Unit A_Comrade, L A, 10 Cal. Sec 1, U. 1-Lists 1.20 — Sec 2, Unit 2- Total to date 87.58 Pledges DISTRICT 1¢ Sec 1, Unit 2, List | J Hilovirth,J © 1.00 F Zaremba .50| Movie Showing, F Kawcki 105 | Newark F Drill 05 pincabatd P Zunarls ‘| Total to date 99.47 Mroz 10 DISTRICT 15 Kucharskt “OL © Scala Cos Cob. 3.00 Sec 2, Unit 2- J Zimmer, Meri- Lists den 1.00\) ¥.O.L. Collect, 1.30 ‘Un, 8, Sec, House |! Total to date 79.70 proved a hundred per cent. It is a Teal paper, I admire it, —G, Lack of Guidance by from lack of the right kind of Party I can.” © Comrades, last night’s meeting was a replica of the other “dead” unit meetings I have attended since join- ing the Party. First of all, only six members of the 12 who are “sup- posed” unit members, came. Last week’s attendance was marked by only two comrades, while the week prior to last week, somehow drew one member. AND OUR UNIT IS TO CONCENTRATE ON FISHER BODY. I want to ask one simple question, “What analysis can the District pro- vide from the above description of attendance in Unit No. 24? Certainly the Open Letter told us that unless we made a turn to the organization of workers in basic in- dustries, our Party would not grow. Certainly, we members of Unit No. 24 should be concerned, and class con- scious enough to worry over the des- perate situation our Unit is in. That there is concern can be shown by the comments sought of those com- rades who attended the unit meeting tonight. I am quoting them verbatim. Draw your own conclusions. Comrade J:—“My opinion is we should have a new unit buro and a new unit organizer.” Comrade A:—“Comrade S— should settle decision of unit.” Comrade H. W.:—“Unit No. should be liquidated.” Comrade A. W.:—Members of Unit No. 24 be reassigned in order to give more time to unit. In addition, mem- bership be added. In addition to this, there are two weaknesses. Members who work can do no unit work. Other members have been assigned to out- side unit work.” Comrade T,:—1. “Main weakness is low political level of unit members. 2. “We should not liquidate the unit.” 3, “Make unit meetings more in- teresting so members who stay away from unit meetings because they are so uninteresting and do not work, will come to meetings.” 4. “Have less personal squabblings at meetings and more political dis- cussions.” 5. “All members should be visited The Chain Gang. By a Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo—The largest chain of grocery stores here in St. Louis, and in and about Missouri and Tili- nois, the Kruger Chain stores, went on the N.LR.A. The pay of all their workers, who were getting $25 to $35 per week, was cut to $13 and $14 a week, The owners of the chain got wind of the workers trying to or- ganize against the lousy deal of Nutty Roosevelt’s Assininity (NRA) and gave 25 workers the gate. They are now dismantling many of the stores. Carrying Out the Open Letter A Unit in Cleveland “At Work”-- After Open Letter} Leadership Criticized; Concentration Point Is Fisher Body Gompany By M. A. CLEVELAND, 0.—Unit No, 24 of Section 2, in Cleveland is dying, dying % Section and District nourishment, competent leadership, and those comrades who once in a while attend a unit meeting, wave their hands flutteringly in the air, and moan, “What can I do, I am doing all before next meeting» and asked come to the meeting so we can dis} [ cuss and reorganize our unit wo New unit organizer and new unit buro be elected. Someone from Dis- trict should be. present at this meet- ing.” Comrade M. A.:—“The distri should be alarmed at the morib condition of unit. Should have chi ed up on the organizational work ec: ried on at Fisher Body and investix » gated the physical condition of unit.” Unit can still survive over its present ~ illness if the right kind of leadership be given to unit.” Comrades, I am a “raw recruit” into the Party, and it is true that my un- derstanding of Party line is wobbly, but I am terribly concerned over the lack of work carried on by our unit, ‘Times like these, Open Letter, or not, should educate Party members into doing spirited organizational work. We cannot moan, or flutter our hands in Unit No. 24. We demand that the district give us the political guidance necessary in order te reawaken our unconscious Unit. Fisher Body must be organized! e wore Here is an example on how some of the units are functioning after the disoussion on the Open Letter in the District Conference in OCleve- land, after the section conferences and the discussions in the units, Still the'old dry mechanical life; still no attempt to apply concretely the line of the Open Letter to the tasks of the units. Why? Because of the lack of leadership by the Section Committee and the District Committee, This is one example that illustrates the situation of many of the Party units, where because of the low grade of initia- tive the section leadership and district. leadership has to step In. ‘The problem of Unit 24, section 2 is to study and concretize a pro- gram of action on how to organize the workers in the Fisher Body. Does this unit get guidance from the Section which has in its plan as the major task, the concentra-, tion on the Fisher Body? Does thi Section guide the units along th! task? What happened with program of work? The comrade from Unit 24 who raised the problem “Fisher Body Must be organized,” should bring this problem into a discussion of the unit, the unit shall bring ft to the section; the unit shall not wait for everything from above, but when they feel the necessity of being assisted in their work, they must demand the assistance, exer- cise pressure upon the leading com- mittees to’ give the guidance. —ORG. COMMISSION, 6.6. T By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. Chiropractic and Science it. Now, Comrade Ned J, Smith, who lives in Marshall, Mich., seems to be one of those deluded comrades who have fallen victims to the glib tongue of one'of those self-made doctors, and he writes us that this commn is liable to destroy the faith and confidence that many have in the Daily Worker. We hasten to assure him that his fears are groundless. Against the hundreds of letters of approbation which we have received, there are only four or five voicing a reproof of some sort. But we cannot afford to have a single comrade labor under any misapprehension as to our. pur- pose of serving him or her to the best of our ability and by the most scientific methods available. We grant, Comrade Smith, that physicians make mistakes. We may go even further and state that their errors are often buried six feet under- ground and nobody is any the wiser. We cheerfully admit that it might happen that a chiro would “cure” a patient “given up” by regular physi- cians. Patients have been “cured” by Christian Science, as well. Any- body who has been in France can “see” the hundreds of “miracles” per- | formed at Lourdes. Yet, no sane per- son would resort to these methods when he is afflicted with a fracture that has to be set, an abscess to be opened or a tapeworm to be removed. Some psychological conditions, on the other hand, often mistaken for or- ganic diseases, can be cured by sug- gestion, irrespective of whether the “healer” is a “yarb” doctor, a naturo- path, a Christian Science healer, a chiro, a Catrolic priest, or an “old woman.” Regarding the treatment of pine- apple rash which aroused Comrade Smith's ire, please remember that if the sensitive person does not eat pineapple, he needs no treatment whatsoever. But if he insists on eat- ing this delightful fruit, there is only one way to prevent him from getting arash (hives) and that is to get him (or her) used to taking infinitesimally small quantities of pineapple, which are gradually increased to larger‘and larger doses, until he can eat his favorite fruit. This cannot be done by giving him a small piece of pine- apple by mouth; the smallest piece is hig enough to give him (or her) a rash. We therefore extract the spe- cific substance from the pineapple and we dilute it a million times and we inject, at first, a few drops ot tnis very, very weak extract (almost all water). Little by little we in¢rease the dose, until the patient can stand an linjection of the pure, concentrated pineapple extract without getting a rash, Only then do we allow him to eat a piece of pineapple.’ Now, where do you get the idea of injecting poison? Is pineapple extract more poisonous than the fresh fruit? And why jeer at the 50 cents per “shot”? When given by a practitioner who has to buy the special extract and give his time, an injection would cost the patient $2 to $3. We: therefore’ rec- commended him to a clinic where he could get it for 50 cents, Is anything wrong in this? Now, regarding the large number of cases of influenza which ended fatal- ly under “medical ‘care, while the Christian Scientists and the chiros cured a larger number. Don’t you know, comrade, that very few people during the influenza epidemic went to chiropractors and that those who went could not have been very sick. And are there any reliable statistics to show that the chiros followed up their cases? We know pl! who saw an average of 50 patients daily during the great epidemic, and who had no time to even get their names. This man boasted that he did not write a single death certificate, and it was true. But he did not know what we knew, that when his patients felt worse they would call another physician, who would send them to one of the hospitals, where many of them died. Statistics can be easily juggled, you know! As to the ‘crippling and killing of children by vaccination, it is a a propagated by the anti-evolut s anti-vivisectionists and other [id — maids ofboth sexes..We are to stand the damages in any ¢ase where it can be shown that the vac- cine and’ not some pther factor was the cause of death or injury. Typhoid jimmunization does protect, and every case where it is supposed not to have done so has been shown, upon inves- tigation, to have received either no vaccine at, all or too. small a dose, Finally, let us repeat again that the chiros and other ignoramuses have no standing in Soviet Russia, They do not even: believe abroad that such beings exist in a civilized community, Neither could we allow them any space in ily Worker. Scientific medicine i Vareae tae, human errors and _ weal it it has within itself the knowledge to ov past mistakes like Conifa it is based on act. entific principles. The medical are bascd'on ignorance and, like the quack political. parties of capitalism, they must ultimately disappear. —m fer Li Readers desirin, ould address “fh te Dr Feat