The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1933, Page 6

Page Six a Letters from Our Readers | IN D. W. SIMPLER LANGUAG Bluefield, Va. Comrade Editor: You frequently err in assuming that femdeveloped. workers know more tha they do. Your lingo is well-en understood in the Union Square but fur often is not Party members an h Other readers unde: nance-capital is not going to over “gradually” and peaceably government to the workers, But miljions you are try yeHch are b “yelp of the point. The against the Sc acknowledged Your ability to clear up fe- the American wor! Socialist confusion point m their fail to under- n of the State—for painstakingly wherein thi the cor Si ness of SALARIES OF SOVIET OFFICI/ New York. ld like to get some informa- tion about the salaries of the Party membes Uf Soviet Union because Z had an argument with different worke:'s who do not believe in th ernment that exists in the So’ Union, so I would like to get full in- formation if possible on the subject t and lowest salary of members of the Soviet World War Veteran. rhe wages of Communist Y working in a factory ame as those of all other 5 doing the same kind of work. Communists holding paid executive n the government or in the organizations cannot receive more than a skilled worker'in a fac- receives. This amount varies aecording to the town the member lives in. In 193L. this fixed amount waS nowhere over 300 roubles (about $950) a menth IMPRESSED BY OUR FIGHT FOR NEGRO RIGHTS Boston, Mass. Comrade Editor ed here are three clippings. use I have ed by the een so rematl Clea--cut and unc ing stand by your paper on the oppres- exploitation of all work- Negro workers, the most ink there is here 2|man here to help, I think. indirect connection with | Scottsboro case. | nd to some measure | n, as I was born r portion of mj ony. e my clippings I unders the new six-page Daily | tinued and greater, yes, success, and I will en- art in bringing this S. A. R. NEW UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL} avenworth, Kansas, c d ome g I hear the people are to get the Daily specially the Poles, | interested in the| as an ex-serviceman. | daily to. ... He} give them to!} ager to read them. sure a few Worker, paper 2 Send 5 will those tha of us| almost | rt an Unemployed Council | Kansas City should send a} I will each week and put my shoul- to the wheel for our cause. | der IT WORKED Bluefield, K, Va. | Dear Comrade Editor: The Daily of Sept. 27 contain- | jing the item about the Royal Res- | taurant arrived in due time and distributed among the em loyes of the restaurant. They are well pleased and the restaurant owner is as mad as a hornet. —C. | | | LOOKS FOR LITERATURE IN VAIN Chicago, Tl. Dear Comrade Editor: | _ Although I am not a member of the | Communist Party, I will say this | much: If every Party member would take the pains to carefully examine Comrade Browder’s report in the | August “Communist” and get down | to brass tacks instead of so much | ballyhoo, I think that the security | of the Daily Worker would be assured, | The report of your correspondent | who came upon a scene somewhat | unnoticed is correct. I, too, have made the rounds of mass organizations | looking for literature, buf all in vain. | Some of the comrades looked some- what surprised upon being questioned. ;At the District Headquarters they | promised to get me the “Communist” | and told me to come back in a couple |of days. Lo and behold! When I | came back on two different occasions, | nobody seemed to know anything | about it, only that “whosis” had gone on a two-week vacation. Comradely your | Wm. 8. 4 big red raspberry from Boston, reads as follows: De-~ Comrades: had betier go a little careful inch uch av) uce .. —Lynne, J. P, S—You should really look at wethat Cookery column once in a while. mazes you laugh sometimes, especi- if you e ever tried to cook a family the food for and . Myself I 20 and ac- c@za'nted with behemians before I 2's. meals like most of them So my presence seems to demand splanit'on. The one about the out at For the rest: I ink I'm an} “Officially” ook until I was Prior to that I only helped With table-setting hwashin at grandfather's farm (in *Ohio), wh there were about a dozen or so able, when there was } no “company.” Our diet was bal- % gnced then, I wo y the f individual me: . oF $ even by ti ag? was loaded Wish fresh veg In winter, ere were a copule of barrels of kraut in the cellar, the bins were full of apples, potatoes, carrots and cabbages; the shelves, of jars of fruit And vegetables; the smokehouse was full of pork. All the year round, in the center | of the table were dishes of “smear- | ase,” apple-butter, pear-butter, ap- | ple-sauce, various jellies, jams, and ickles, cream, butter and bread. For breakfast the men would eat a big thick slice of ham and several ‘ ‘ ‘ew other items. on. Meat, potatoes, vegetables (we jput -butter and cream on our sweet ‘potatoes), and pie, cake, and fruit ’ for dessert. On Sundays there was always roast chicken or duck, noodle soup, mashed potatoes, gravy, an as- ortment of vegetab'es, and desserts as’ mentioned. i q ‘ i ‘ = For supper there was corn-pone, {mepte syrup, and sausage, perhaps, ‘oftcdid meats and vegetables left over from dinner, plus des S and stand- ing dishes. Just before bedtime a } piépan or fresh apples was put out, | with a paring knife. M ' ft i t i We ate all this ‘and thrived. And seensidered ourselves extremely “poor.” Precious little money was spent for clothes or gadgets. But when I con- trast this abundance with the way workers are starving today, I want to tear capitalism up by the roots, I am just trying to bring out that I have been at least in the vicinity j of quantity cooking. The farm women “~~im- those days were absolute slaves, fo’ doubt still are, in many places.) “Imagine what wash-day, baking-day, an@ the canning season were like. No running water (pump it, and heat it on a coal stove), no gas or electric lights, no ice. Butter and eveam were kept in a stone trough in the cellar; cold water from a spring ran through it, But you see, silly most of the time and workers criticize it—sardine sandwiches @ggs, or a stack of pancackes, plus a) Dinner came at’) We made dinner at noon for about THE Hom By HELEN LUKE Mass., has been turned over to me. It \ | with our In the Home column. It is e=- es | there was no great “shopping” prob- | Jem. had fourteen kids | Grandmother and lost only-one. That was con- sidered a pretty good record in those | days. | So the diet must have been not too ruinous. The point ts they got ENOUGH to eat. The present Boards of Health and some people| seem to get more excited about aj slightly “unbalanced”, meal or “un- sanitary” bulk (loose ) foods than about the fact that workers don’t get enough of ANYTHING to eat. When I was in the city with my parents, of course, I did not fare so richly. If “Pop” got tight before coming home on payday, when he did have a job, we got ~ornmeail| mush. . i} When I got to the seventh and| eighth grades, all the little girls went each Wednesday to cooking school | and all the little boys went to Manual | Training to learn carpentry. I was | furious. I didn’t want to go to cook- | |ing class and piddle around with sauces and gravies; I wanted to go to Manual Training and say wood and | hammer nails. { So if I am not such a hot cook, it strikes me as one more good argu- | ment for Communism. I might have | been a good carpenter. Under Com- | ; munism a girl can choose. | Eventually I got interested in the | cooking. My mother worked in a factory at $9 a week. She rented | half a house and sublet three rooms. | After school I kept this clean and | did the marketing and cooking. In | another city I cooked for the two of | us until I finished high school. Then | I went to work, and we did not cook | much any more. | Still later I helped my mother for a summer in her little lunch stand. |eight or ten people. The rest was | mostly sandwiches. | But this is practically all the | experience I have had with cooking. | Almost none with feeding children | and babies. So I have been in cor- | Yespondence with a comrade who has | had such experience, and she is now | preparing some material. | I know quite well you cannot cook quite the same for a lot of people as for a few. More about this later also about really cheap dishes. But the important thing {s that all this cooking business is not so im- portant. There are too many other pressing matters to discuss in this column. If there’s going to be too much dissension about the menus, I shall toss them overboard and make room for really important matters: Women and War, Letters from Read- ers, Sewing Problems and Sex-life under Capitalism. Maybe that last one is funny too, but I'll be darned if I think s0. We have a growing army of 19,000,000 each of single women and men, who cannot live normal lives, marry and have children, So what happens? A lot of dangerous things, including the. spread of prostitution, disease, and abortion. A comrade doctor is preparing some material on this subject, Our column {s definitely limited in | must be given Negro miners | the school DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1933 Letters from Negro Correspondents Negro Miners Are In Forefront of Strike Struggle! By a Mine Worker Correspondent ARNOLD Pa.—The . ot! day rumors spread ¢ Bennings mines went hack to work. Over 50 Negro, miners from this town got to- | gether and decided to go picket these mines. They walked the distance of 15 miles, determined to re-strike th mines in cae they k. I pa never saw such unity of all the min- ers as in this strike. Great credit ‘or their militant participation in the strike. On every nicket line, at every mass meeting, at every local union meet- ing, everywhere the Negro miners are in the forefront, \ Negro ‘Woman Urges Stronger Fight for Relief in Terre Haute! By a Negro Worker Correspondent) TERRE HAUTE, Ind.— When my girl couldn’t buy her school things, board sent a woman to ' Sh» came end found. me sick in bed. She asked me, couldn’t T find enoug things? It hurts me to say this, but I lost my feet slaving for the ruling. class. I asked her, how did she expect me to get a job, when there are thou- sands of people walking the streets with two good feet and cannot find work. The girl went back down there, and they threatened to send her away. When I get well and can get enough food to get strong enough to walk, I am going down there myself. ‘When we had a good movement, I did get $10 a month through the help of the workers. But now our movement is broken up by the mis- leaders. There is still a handful of us left yet. I do wish we knew something to do to build up a real movement in this town so we would be able to force relief. Miss Ora Easley 455 N. Second St. Editor's Note: Steps are being taken to bring about a better or- ganization in Terre Haute, and we hope this comrade will again be able to join with other workers and force the bosses to give them relief. Can You Make ‘Em Yourself? + Pattern 1634 is available in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 36 takes 3% yards 39 inch fabric and % yard con- trasting. Illustrated step-by-step sew- ing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15e) in coins or stamps (cofns preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number, BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St,, New York, N. Y. Patterns by mail only. space, and all this material must somehow be accommodated. I have had a valid criticism about the menus, that I do not state-how many people will be served by a given dish. Tl try to figure out something about this, If I thought 1 knew all there is to know about the subjects to be dis- cussed in this column, I'd be too dumb to live. I only meant to act as a catalytic or as the ae teed that sticks the bricks together. e main thing is to get the drinks mixed or the house built. The column must be steered in a revolutionary direc- tion, So I am only the chairman of this meeting; I'll introduce. the speakers as fast as space permits, | The way the poor women there have There are very few of us that the $9 a Week Is Top Pay At Dangerous Job in Laundry By a Negro Worker Correspondent NORFOLK, Va.—I am a presser in the Sunlight Laundry. Our work is dangerous. There is not a one of us colored women that are working the irons that cannot show great burns and scars all over our arms and even on our breasts. I've known women ruined for life by these burns which sometimes be- come poisoned and full of infection. There is not one of the 50 pressers that is free from these burns. And how much do you think we make working at maddening speed for 45 hours a week? From $7 to $9 a week. We are actually working harder now and making less than when we did not have the N.R.A. fastened to every window in the factory. We are all saying to ourselves— what kind of a bird is this? It is a strict rule on the part of the com- pany not to let any presser make more than $9 a week. Before the N.R.A. eagle flew over our heads we made $10 and sometimes more. evo Tobacco Workers in Norfolk Are Speeded Up and Cheated By a Negro Worker Correspondent NORFOLK, Va.—I worked in the American Tobacco Co. in Norfolk. to slave, I think it should be exposed her | everywhere. First you are fired if you can't stemnine pounds of tobacco a | day. I have been fired twice inside two weeks, boss will let make full weeks. One week work two days, another week one, and sometimes if you are a good slave he will give you three. Sometimes the boss will come to the bench where you are working and tear up all your work, and make you go over all that work again. If you will just look at him in protest he will fire you. Third, after 11:30 a.m., you can’t go to the water or the toilets. The poor women have no place to dress, they have to get their clothes on and off the best way they can. It’s a strange but real sight to see women stoop to their knees to dress and un- dress as the windows are low. When you get ready to go home the boss is standing at the door where you have to come by and you have got to let him look in your bag no matter whatis in there. These con- scious robbers and bloodsuckers of human labor always think we are going to steal something from them. You stem, stem, stem all day until you stem enough for a mule to carry. The boss who weighs the stuff with- out letting you look, shouts. 614—17 or 8, and God knows there must be more than 15 pounds. He might call 9 or 10 pounds sometimes—and that’s only when you have worked yourself sick and you must have made 20 pounds. That's how we are robbed so we don’t make 40 per cent under the N.R.A. minimum, NEW YORK.—Only the efforts of the most class consscious work- ers and of some of the workers’ organizations are making it at all possible to somehow keep publish- ing the Daily Worker. On the whole, funds are coming in so slowly that we are facing imme- diate danger of going back to four pages. And then what? The Red Front, of New York City, brought in $32.25, net pro- ceeds of an affair it ran for the “Daily,” and challenges all similar organizations to do the same for our “Daily.” Twenty-five dollars was raised by I. W. O. Branch No. 512 at a house party, to which members donated refreshments. All I. W. 0. branchés are urged to accept the challenge by Branch No. 512, to do as much for the “Daily.” New York District, Communist Party, took action by rushing more than $500 to save the “Daily,” and pledges to “make all efforts to raise more immediately.” How about the other Districts? J. Blumen, of Newark, N. J., turned in his fifth collection list, his collections totaling so far $18. Newark pledges to raise $350 in- stead of $175, its original quota. Another Daily Worker Conference will be held in’ Newark, Sunday, Oct. 15, at 7 Charlton St., starting 1 a. m., to quicken the drive. All organizations are urged to send jdelegates, and all workers are in- vited to attend. The Yugo Slav Workers Club of New York, after winning the vic- tory in the Radnik Fund Drive Which closed Thursday, pledged to raise $100 for the “Daily,” and sent in yesterday $7.35 as a start. IS YOUR NAME IN THIS RED HONOR ROLL? resent 4 Total Rece: Sec. 2, Unit 1-B 8.25 ‘Thursda 688.31 | Sec. 2, Unit 20 60 Previously Re- Sec. 5, Unit 1 1.75 corded 652.97 | Sec. 6, Unit 10 5.00 ra RGA Unit 10 2.80 Total to date 8,341.28 Unit 9 1.75 Unit 6 2.00 DISTRICT NO. 1 . 7, Unit 5 2.70 A, Rodgers, Will. 1.00 Sec. 1, Unit 1 5.00} Friend, Newport, Sec. 1, Unit 18 1.70 | R. I. 1.00] Sec. 2, Unit 4 5.75 | Collect by Semenuk:| Sec. 5, Unit 2 1.50 Stepchin -25| Sec. 5, Unit 7 4.00 | Novick +10} Sec. 51, B.M.T. 2.85 } Pasternick 10} See. 8, Unit 5 1.20 | Minjo 10] Sec. 11, Unit 1 6.35 Grandp! 15 | Seamen's Unit 2.02 Saymond 15 | Sec. 5, Unit 23 6.75 Ayen 25 | Sec, 1, Unit 3 1.70 A & B Dress Shop | Sec. 1, Unit 6 5.00 —Damsky Sec. 15, Unit 28 3.00 White 50 , Unit 13 2.00 Putits 50 i, Unit 8 3.60 Patterson 50 » 1, Unit 13 10.00 Berren -50| Sec. 2, Unit 10-8 4.25 Dutz .35 | Sec. 11, Unit 6 5.00 Brodsky -25| Sec. 2, Unit 9 3.00 Lantora 25| Sec. 2, Unit 9 1.40 Jiovenni -25 | Sec. 6, Unit 11 1.00 Gaglio (25 | White’ Plains Karcio 25 6.75 List 111442 3.00 Franchino 28 1.50 Dodwell -35 5.45 Burnette 25 6,00 Bionelli 25 3.4 Spiwack -50 3 Greenblatt 50 1.40 Damsky 50 2.05 Di Donate 25|Sec. 4, Unit 422 2.25 Cooper .25| Hotel Imperial W. E. Unit Af- Wks. 2.05 fair 12.00] Unit Collection Lists N. E. Unit—List 1.75 | Collected by Tamer: 2-—Lists 3.60} Lockshire 50 Borofsky Zolo Robeck: 5 Wks, 5.50] M. Lockshire 25 ‘Tamer 25 Total 10-12 32.45 Gorodkin 09 Total to Gate 485.26} David 08 DISTRICT NO, 2 8. Roback a A. Habaek 2.00| Fyn eo P. Schmidt 1.00] Koplowitz a Dr. B. Stasheft 2.00} 0. Lockshire .25 Anon. 1.00| Collected by Besada: L. Tabishch 1.00] Kumolos 2.00 J. Grau 5.00] ‘Telekides 2.00 J. Lipson 50| K. Kumolus 1.00 J. W. Johnson 1.00 A baker 50 Rubin 1,00 Morrison 2 Vanstti, Red BL'r .90| Mack “10 Raynos 110] Dave 20 G. Brown 2.00] Gh-ist.” 3B Amador Drug A butcher 35 Wks. G, Kumulus 35 Brook Ave. Wks. Collected by Collection 5.18} Lubenow 50 Collected by R. 135 Schrieber: (35 Spoth % Schrieber i 30 Roomer d 25 Dan . 05, Schapiro :25 | Cansky 8 Resnik 60 | Kirylo 25 Collected by Dakum 05 D. Malyk 1.00} Hornsdesker 05 Sec. 2) Unit 18 3.00] Hucal 125, Sec. §, Unit 29 3.15) Kupen 08 Unit §, ¥.C.L, 1,00] List 53807 Bec. 4, Unit 118 1.50] Malkin 50 Sec. 5, Unit 11 5.00 Markman 25 Sec. 7, Unit 7 5.00} Woolfin 25 Bec, 6 Unit 19 4.00 Lifshits 50 Funds for ‘Daily’ Coming In Slowly; Action Is Imperative Schrieden 50 James St. Unit 5.11 Weis 10) Beelevue Unit 5.12 Magid z % .25| Manchester Unit 5.11 Hofman .8| Woodsrun Unit 5.11 Anon 10 rai List53898 Total 10-12 39.32 Malkin 50 | Total todate 195.98 Ringel .25| DISTRICT No. 6 Markman 25 | Sec. 10, Cinein. 1.23 Dollected by Dr. wm. E, Lee +.50 Soderberg P. Sale, McQue 10] “Youngstown 2.00 Seeanssen 05] Dr. J. L. Higbie, ‘Heavy 10] Jenera 1 Quinn 29 Serrer {95 | Total 10-12 4.73 Soderberg 100] Total to date 324.18 List 22828 DISTRICT NO. 7 Koopoutott 1.00} A. Baker, Det. .50 Hassin 1.00] 4th St. Block Wobnick 25| Comm. 60 Collected by Sosenoif | Russ. Mut. Aid 5.80 Rachbach 50 | Sec. 8 40 Segal 5 8 ,Unit 1 6.n0 Steine 8, "Unit 10 2.70 | List 40736 Unit 11.7 H. Lemer Unit 12 1:50 8. Lemer ec. 6.85 M. Lemer 10| Sec. 5, Unit 5 10.00 Keusch 10] Sec. 7 Unit 9 1.65 Schnieder +10] Ccllected by Gorntek List 46000 0. K. Rest 05 Caklander .%| Termon Groe. ™:10 Mintz 10) Bezora 10 Frank 115| Nowinskt 10 Deuteh 210} Anon, ” Press 10| Bigos Gurek :05| Anon. Frankel .23| Tlected by. Snyes Glim 15| Dworzamn Davis .05| Zaweett | Collected by Proper | 7lelinski Palermo 03) Kwak Ralein 03} Michalak Roteald .05| Kowalski Liehteh etaoine hr] Riekersisi Ratz 03 Podell (05) Totat 10-12 36.78 Libinkner 03| Total to date 617.20 Licht 05| DISTRICT NO. § Gurstelle 10) Lict—Casoyri Anon. 10/5. H, Maisch 5.00 Fischer 05} F. Kemp 1.00 Collected by Colow R. Bluemner — 1.00 Sigal 10] E. Bluemner 1100 Haas 08) J. J. Wasser 30 Kantes 25| J. Palette 20 Alpert 05| V. Bluemner (25 Krantz 05} P. Marino 1.00 Schenhaus 10) J. Bluemner 1.00 Potague 03) YY. Becker, Browder 10] St. Louls 1.00 Isquiti 119] Bureta 1:23 Goldstein :05| 8, Levine 9.00 List 54078 Mariz 2.95 Wilkes 25] B. Friedman “70 A student ‘65| S. Zollinger, Collected by Colow | Chicago 1.00 Colow .25| K. Koster 1.00 Kelem 1.00 Meisner 125| Total 10-12 30.72 Jinsky 25| Total to date 723.63 | Gclelcfed by DISTRICT NO. 9 Erdmane .25| Unit 5, St. Paul 7.50 Han 25 — Frederick 25| Total 10-12 7.50 Tafella .23| Total todate 46.3 4 anon DISTRICT NO. 11 Bracker 110; Sheridan County Krylak 10] Sec. ‘ Total 10-12 195.04 | Total 10-12 11.44 Total to date 3841,30| Totaltodate 25.44 DISTRICT NO, 3 DISTRICT NO. 14 Lazuran, Phila. 2,00| J. Sabados, Pass. 1.00 P. O'Brien, W. Leader 2.00 Chester .70|B. Nagy, Bloom 30 8. Rulnick 5.00] E. Leknitzky [5 AMerien 10] W. Hudson Labor J. Jay ‘0] Ly. 3.00 B. Loring ‘15 Jersey City Col. 3.00 Dimpatises 103] Tribuna Rebot- ‘W. Morten 15) netka 10.00 Dimyiatise ‘10! Collected by A friend :20| Stein 6.25, A. Weinem 15) Krasik 1.00 A. Levit ‘10! Aretide 1.00 Larson 1,00| Marasovich 1.00 ‘M. Choseed ho} Antride 1.00 M. Riser (38; Annunst 80 M. Lit s10] Larmak 50 Pennypacker ‘10; Gunnet 50 Rosenfeld (10| Stein 25 B. Miller :20| Stein 8. Schwine 10 - 8. Miller “08 Total 10-12 31.55 E. Spencer Ef Totaltodate 204.83 H. Cohen DISTRICT NO. 15 F. Novack E. Pagle, Richman Waterbury 1.00 Mr., Mrs. Banks New Haven, ©. Tulip Conn. 6.00 M. Green Collected by Rackin Weinman L. Raskin 33 A friend . Grossman 25 ine 3 Wolfson 35 Brussel ei) Shutehrhan 35 Belford eC) Higlikin “05, Difone 50 Hartman Collected by f Brown Laperts 50 G. De Stephano .30| Anon. 10 Weiss Parfinovich 25 Mozer Anor. 10 E. Grumberg Rodas: 8 Br. 95 Konopelko 10 Br. 95-D, Tall Bayek “f0 Unit 902 Kul 10 Rich. Unit Modet 3 Unit 101 Anon. 110 ‘Wilmington, Del ‘Total 10-12 11.00 Total 10-12 .35| Total todate 91.70 .Totalto date 504.79] DISTRICT NO. 17 DISTRICT NO, 5 | Wm. Grabin, Universal Unit 3.97| Pt. Pierce 1.85 Woodsrun Unit 10.00 —— F. Liberty U, 8, 4.00| ‘Total 10-12, 1.55 Jewish Buro 1.00 todate 23.55 er,” the circulation must be doubled, 4) sion on his face at that. Everybody in —;,|Tortures Her Mother 5| big rain came up and washed some Seize Furniture (Of Unemployed for Property Taxes By a Negro Worker Correspondent NORFOLK, Va.—I am the mother of two grown boys and I live in a three-room shack on Princess Ann Road. Both of my sons have been out of work for over a year. Some- times I get a day’s work with some well-off white people, but they don’t pay much because they have to have swell cars and play golf. For the last three years I have re- ceived a notice from the city that I must pay taxes on the junk that I have picked up here and there so that we could have something to eat and sleep on. Several times the col- lector called at my house and raised hell about it. I told him that I would pay the tax but that I didn’t have the money. But he wouldn’t let up on me a bit. The other day I received a notice that the city was going to sell my furniture for the taxes, leaving us with nothing to sleep or eat on. They want taxes from me but still they won't give me or my boys de- cent wages or work so that we can pay them. And if we do pay the taxes it don’t do us much good. No lights on Church St. at night. Most of the streets in the colored district are un- paved. The houses that they charge so much rent for are nothing more than shacks. Our preachers tell us every Sun- day that God will take care of every- thing and for us not to worry. They been telling us that for 70 years. But he lives swell—off of our money. We women in the Negro and white working class districts have got to erganize and fight against the awful conditions. We've got to follow the examples laid down by the Unem- ployed Council and the International Labor Defense. Negro Worker Nearly Lynched for Entering Store. Through Front By RALPH GARRETTE A Negro Worker Correspondent SIMPSONVILLE, N. C.—On Aug. 30 a Negro worker, John Sherwin, was told to get out of the City Restau- rant. He said that he came in to buy something. The clerk told him: “J don’t give a damn what you want, get out and go round to the back door.” And when this worker started out the front door, he was grabbed by the clerk and others who were in the place. He was beaten-badly. Then he went to have the clerk arresied. The police told him that the clerk ought to have killed him. He said thas he did not have any right to go into the front door and not to do it again. If he did he might get killed. Those are the words that were spoken to this Negro worker by the police of this city. Millionaire Boss Grabs, Poor Worker’s Dollar By a Negro Worker Correspondent NORFOLK, Va—For three years I worked for a big wholesaler of this town. I did the dirtiest work and | worked long hours for the smallest pay. Some time ago when I went to get my money on Saturday, he shook his head sadly and looked at me with | tears in his eyes almost. | He said sadly: “Jim, I’ve got to take a dollar,gout of your enyelope after today.” | I say: “Why, Mr. D.?” He answered: “Business is very bad, Jim, I've got to cut you a dollar.” He was near tears, Mr. D. was, He put his hand up to his forehead and the big diamond ring on his finger almost blinded me. Maybe, it was the ring; maybe it was the big Lincoln car outside; maybe it was because I recalled that he had just returned from a vacation in Cuba. Anyway, I got mad. I said: “Mr. D., you are worth thou- sands of dollars. Why are you tak- ing one measly dollar from a poor man like me?” ‘You should have seen the expres- the office laughed. Meanwhile I was telling him some facts about his busi- ness, his fine home, his fine cars, and his expensive trips. es In the end he laughed like a snake and the next week my dollar was in my envelope. At the first opportunity, however, *he fired me. This is one one case in thousands. I realize that my victory was not or- ganized with other workers. We Nor- folk workers, black and white, must organize in real fighting unions and} stamp out of existence a million Mr. D's. Tells How Ruling Class By a Negro Worker Correspondent TERRE HAUTE, Ind—I am writ- ing a piece on ‘hat the ruling class did to my poor mother in the South some time ago. My mother went to wash for the landlord one day and a ue ducks off in an old fashioned well. \ They wanted to tie a rope around my mother and let her down in the well to get the ducks and~she re- fused to do so. Here is what the damn. bloodhounds did. They hung her in a smokehouse up by her heels and made a fire under her and smoked her. I was small when that happened but I will never forget it. I never knew a time would come so I could expose it, and this is what I am doing. Some day I hope the colored peo- ple in the South will wake up and organize and join the ILL.D. They are the only ones fighting for our rights scaly the oy oe to smash the Jim ing anc ie lynching terror in the South. : You need the revolutionary move- ment, The revolutionary move- “Daily” needs funds to continue. Help the “Daily” with your im- mediate contribution, Spur Work Among Children During International Week Workers’ Children’s Week Sets Tas k of Workers to Win Children from Capitalist Influences International Children’s Week is tions and to all workers that they have a duty toward their children. By MAX BEDACHT. a reminder to all workers’ organiza~- In this respect our Workers’ Children’s Week distinguishes itself from the bourgeois Children’s and Mother’s and Father’s Days. These bourgeois days are merely an attempt to veil the cruelty which bourgeois society perpetrates on the proletarian children and their¢é—-—— fathers and mothers. The workers’ Children’s Week is a rallying cry for struggles against the cruelties of the capitalist system to- ward the .children. It is a rallying cry for struggle against the exploita- tion of children, against. mass star- vation of workers’ children by capitalism. Every - workers’ organization owes closest attention to the interests of the workers’ children. There is not a proletarian purpose around which workers organize that does not also touch the lives. of the workers’ children. Therefore every workers’ organiza- tion has the duty to make itself con- scious of this connection of its pur- pose with the interests of the workers’ children, Every workers’ organization has the duty to organize its own members for efforts on be- half of the proletarian children. Every workers’ organization has the duty to organize workers’ children around its own endeavors. Failure to fulfill this duty means to play into the hands of the enemy of the working class. That enemy, the bourgeoisie, does concern itself with the children. Its schools, its movies, its books and magazines, its churches, its scout organizations, etc., pump our children’s heads full of capitalist ideas and “ideals.’. These ideals evolve around the accumula- tion of capitalist property. Such ac- cumulation, in turn, costs the very happinéss and blood and the lives of the working masses and their chil- dren. These capitalist ideals there- fore are part of the chains which tie the working class to the juggernaut of capitalist exploitation. Our task is to break these chains. When we neglect our duty toward our children, we on the contrary help to forge these chains, Which militant workers’ organiza- tion would consciously open itself to the accusation that it helps to forge the fetters which chain its own children to capitalist exploitation? Yet many of our workers’ organiza- tions unconsciously help to do exactly this. They do this by complete in- activity in the field of workers’ chil- dren’s organization and workers’ children’s activity and struggle. They do it by leaving the development of the minds of their children to the capitalist schools, churches, movies, HOPE FOR THE OPPRESSED (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) AYDEN, N. C.—I don’t know just why I am suffering with this local impediment only I know that it is a breed of capitalism. When I can realize that I am in a country where class antagonism is; and that my race is at the bottom of the economic ladder of scciety, then it gives me vital life to know that I am yet able to stand without fear and fight boldly the bosses in their faces, —A Southern Worker. Has your unit, club, union, LW.O. Branch, your organization held a collection for the Daily Worker? Help save ovr “Daily.” story-books and scout organizations. Children's Week is the occasion to review the activities of every militant workers’ organization in the field of children’s work. It is the occasion to mobilize physicially .and ideologi- cally for more intense activity of the workers’ organizations among the children, Children’s Week is the oc- casion of mobilizing as many chil- dren as possible to make them con- scious of the identity of their in- terests with that of their organized and struggling parents. The workers’ children are the most burdened sufferers from the present capitalist cr! At the same time \they are the most helpless. This helplessness is not the result of their youth, It is the result of the negli- gence which worker-parents and workers’ organizations show toward the problems of the children. This helplessness is the result of an inac- tivity of the adult workers toward their children, an inactivity which grows out of the capitalist theory that the children are outside of the class struggle and that the drawing of the children into the problems and activities of the class struggle is cruel to them. According to this theory, we owe it to our children to keep the knowledge of the sordid cruelties of capitalist society from them. Ac- cording to this theory, we are to let our children live in an imaginary wonderland in which fairies reward goodness and Cinderellas marry princes. Such an attitude toward our chil- dren, however, does not keep away from them the sordid realities of bankrupt capitalism. It does not feeti their hungry stomachs, nor does it dress their shivering bodies, Even the unconsciousness of these suffer- ings, because of the occupation of the mind of the child with fairies and princes, does not solve any prob- lem for the child. On the contrary; this unconsciousness is merely the basis of the continuation of their misery. The first prerequisite for the end of that misery is to make every man, woman and child of the work- ing class conscious of it. After they become conscious, they will fight against it. As long as they remain unconscious of it, they will submit. The capitalist theory of the treat- ment of children is based upon the desire of capitalism to paralyze’ the children’s consciousness by illusions about fairies and the “once-upon-a- time.” The duty of the working class is to counteract this paralysis and ~ to awaken their children to a reali- zation of the world in which they live. Only then. will the working class be able to change this world into a better one Children’s Week should be the oc- casion on which every workers’ or- ganization discusses this problem of the workers’ children. It should be the occasion on which every workers’ organization takes definite steps to organize around itself as many chil- dren of its own members and of the children of the working class in gen- eral as possible, and thereby attach the children to the struggles of the working class and wrest them from the control of capitalist ideology and capitalist organizations, By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ‘Complete Examination for $1. Noah M.—Thanks for the circular and for Dr. M.'s opinion. An ethical Physician does not have to advertise, ner distribute handbills or throw- aWays. Any person with sense knows that a physician cannot give a com- plete examination and treatment, in- cluding “a complete urine analysis,” for $1. There is an Ethiopian in there somewhere in the Itmber yard. Quite a number of physicians have been working this racket, particularly during the depression. The joker consists in finding that the paticnt “needs” X-rays, electric treatments, stomach washings and other imaginary treatments for which he must pay extra. Incidentally, this Dr. Maurice Pearlsiein’s name cannot be found in the irectory of New York physicians, nor in the Bulletin issued April 15, 1933 by the Univer- sity of the State of New York (the Jatest available), which contains the names of all registered physicians, licensed to practice in this State. As to our friendly chats, you may inform your relative that when we ask a correspondent to come for a friendly chat, we mean exactly that and nothing else. When we want somebody for an examination, we say so and we only invite either friends or those unable to see another doctor. “ee A Universal Food Mrs, Albert S., Anacortis, Wash.— We should be glad to test your “uni- versal food” as soon as you let us have some samples. In the mean- time we note that you were compeiled to discontinue its use yourself. Why? If you have succeeded in banishing Pain, disease “and even tiredness” why withhold this universal panacea from an eager impatint world? Yes, the medical profession is baf- fled about sleeping sickness. You be- lieve that it should not take much investigation to show that the disease is due to some harmful food. Why don't you make this simple investiga- tion, sister? Why don’t you find out in a jiffy the food responsible for encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sick- ness)? If you would only do this and let share your wonderful secret (Don’t tell anybody else, dearie), we should both become rich. We shall continue to recommend fruit, as an article of diet. People have been eating fruit, long before there were any doctors or “universal foods.” Too much fruit is harmful, of course; but this is true of anything done to excess. Salt, as you state, does attract moisture and excess of it is harmful; but we are sorry we cannot agree that a particle of salt causes hardening of the arteries, “leakage” of the heart, tuberculosis, amd “in fact is a root cause of all disease.” You want us to condemn sugar, honey and vegetable fat. You have no proof that these foodstuffs, when consumed in moderate quantities, are harmful. Do you know that olive oil is a vegetable oil and millions of People have been using it for thou- sands of years without contracting any disease from it. In fact, cancer js more widespread in countries where animal fat is preferred. How do you get that way? What right have you to make such sweep- ing general statements on diet and health without the slightest proof? We advise you to drop the hodge- podge of dietetic laws which you hav: evolved out of ycur “inner cpnscious: ness” and follow the results ol ‘y nutrition experts using scientific methods of investigation, er eee aa How to Clean Fruit \ Housewife: — The magazine mention has no scientific standing, ‘We do not expect to ever review it or any of its kind. It would be giv- ing them free publicity. The best way to clean fruit is to place it in a puree and let the cold water m. faucet run over it, shaking e Pagan a one to time. water pressure is sufficient to any arsenic. or other might have been sprayed on the Neither soaking, wiping, nor F| with commercial profit. " 8 8 Readers desiring health information should address theli oY \\ {\