The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1933, Page 4

Page Four Letters from Our Readers OUR ANSWER TO THE WORKER, COST OF LIVING IN MOSCOW FROM ST. LOUIS N. Tonawanda, N. Y. “Ef you were younger, then we would | Comrade Editor | say — “Go ahead, come out in the| Enclosed a clipping from the} Open, develop the struggles of th falo FE Tew: Williar J hi ] . is ts cour torn Butta ) E News by Willian F, | osep Son, ne. immediate demands.” McDern ng a list on the cost the best protection i tion ‘would be found in the mass movement. Ho particular case, takir of eating in the Metropole in Moscow. | W k S k I ae not wish ee ratapiie aos | or ers k e e | sir . res, but would like eohin| : Leadership you could give me the Meer es nee, ond the c I do not believe this, no ‘oo ating your dev thelr wants fe Tear hee tase (By a Worker Correspondent) the ‘working cl old Russia is the only country open| NEW YORK.—I am a worker in opinion that the best met to criticim by the capitalist’ press: | the shop of Josephson, Inc. 622| you tan pursue is to : oh SS./ Broadway, New York City. This firm self With a group of —A. M. | makes stationery supplies, like en-| known to yourself f i | velopes, fi'es, novelties. The workers, Who will become inst True Facts. which consist mainly of girls, are veloping the movement out your The following information given by | dissatisfied with their wages and con- being exposed immediate! the Friends of the Soviet Union gives | ditions. Me Stuithediate ts the real facts on the Metropole} When the N.R.A. came into effect fo get some worker Hetel the girls who made below $12 were Daily Worker, and The Metropole in Moscow and| Siven $12 and a few were raised only | unemployed to take similar hostelries in other cities are | 51, from $12 to $13. The majority are | for the immediate demands in town | maintained by the Soviet Govern-| ™#king 12 asd 13 and a 40-hohr week. on tlieir shoulders. And to see how| ment in order to accommodate fo: Girls are Kicking because they were | in the most important factory of | eign tourists. Their service is com-|CUt twice and not given back their} MeGr town, 1 ‘a parable to that of the finest hotels tm | {ul_cut. The girls demanded $15] { there is no sic indu ou Western ope, and the rates| @ week and wage cuts back. No over-| time working. No make-up time on holidays. No speeding up. | The girls are willing to go out on around t in the develop some movemen immediate de’ charged (in foreign currency) are on| a par with those of London or Berlin hotels hote The fact that without exposing One can obtain a 4-5 course | strii. | ; A | strike, but because cf lack of lead-| yourself in the street you will give| Meal for a little over $1. The clien- ership are afraid to. If th ary guidance to a group of young work-| tele of this and similar hotels also| union to back them up, they would ets makes you already active. Later|icludes foreign specialists employed | surely go on strike. . on, on the basis of the development !m the U. 8.5. R. Many of these en-| wij you please send this letter to| of the movement, you can judge about | Simeers and technicians draw high). tyUL union for action. ae the possibility of working open salaries in roubles, For these people | 3 aris Auge oer ete to spend 25 roubles for a meal can WAS a _In general, concerning the pr hardly be considered exorbitant | - EDITOR'S NOTE:—This letter | tion of the Party organization and aera s eee | this been sent on to the Trade | individual comrades in towns where The ade orkers do not patron-| Union Unity League office at 799 | ize the Metropole. need to do so. at the factory charge is no kopeks a meal the terror is great, tead the article in munist which dea tion, They have no| They get their meals | stalovayas where the| more than 50 to 60| we advise you to the October Com- ls with this ques- Broadway. If this comrade has not heard from them, we suggest she | go up there and get guidance as to | concrete actions as well as organiza- | tional help. | | White Collar Worker's Pay Sliced in Half to Carry Out N.R.A,) NEGRO RIGHTS By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The other day I was eating in the automat at Canal St and Broadway. One of Negro Workers employed there as a bus-bo asked one of the customers to pleas stop smoking. And this white man raised quite a fuss. He went to the manager and I heard him say, “Don't you ever let a bi man tell me not FEWER ABBREVIATIONS Boston, Mass. Comrade Editor The Daily Worker gets a great deal of criticism here on the number of | abbreviations it uses, but the other | day I really realized what it meant | not to understand what was in the | Daily Worker. When I dropped into | the headquarters in Providence and By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—It may interest you know of a concrete example of J | to smoke.” Later I went over to the| found three y: ‘ ee | now wonderful the N.R.A. works out | manager secing me. them knew 50 per cent of them. We| , Until two weeks ago I was get-| T am sure when he it he will | will have to write less of them be-| ting $30 per week in a certain in- be convinced that nternational | cause not many workers in the U, §. | Stallment house in our blessed city. Labor Defense for Negro! know them all. | Then my employer decided to accept | right L. J. | the “blanket code” and gave me a| ——| vacation without pay consisting of | | two weeks. After the two weeks were | over, he informed me that he must | jemploy another man. And in order | to do this it can only be done if I am | willing to work for $15 per week and he other $15 to be paid to another | 2an. Not having any choice at the noment I was forced to accept his | ise i i ro Va > vee Let plan,” as he called it. And now, in- | L PSE. By HELEN LUKE stead of one man making a living in We have previ spoken of the development, under capitalism, of | % half decent manner, two are com- | fashion as a racket. The extremities to which “style” goes—fancy high- heeled shoes, elaborate dresses and coiffures, red varnished finger-nails, and the like—are the result of competition among the purveyors of these commodities, 1h ting lines on these subjects from Comrade Na ic G. She s Let ring the pas a_iort so’ I have Editor's Note. — Guidance in struggle against such intolerable | conditions of N.R.A. “plans” can | be obtained by writing or calling | at the Office Workers Union, 80 E. lth St. N.Y.C. | | pell to work for starvation wages. | n regard to sewing, I can give| er suggestions, as to what kind of materials to buy, how to test fab- , | oth mi a deal. about clothes. s values, | TiS, how to combine colors and | | RrtfaW sis ones Auer ene Seed! WORKERS | girls throwing their hard-earned | VG eae hte some | | wages away 2 ue J { athe: that Peat iook Srell ee | Bod economical recipes, which we | wear well . | shall use later. Here are a couple of | “I have very definite ideas on this little “household wrinkles.” If you | subject of fashions and styles, Nat- | 2% Using any of those metal curtain | j 2 2 | urelly. a Communist girl dees mot |T0U8 With the sharp ends, cut a HUNTING A JOB want to attract undue attention by from an old worn-out pair of By a Worker Correspondent ed too differently from | He@vy cotton gloves. If there is a| NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The recov-| the average working girl. On the | Dole in the tip, sew it shut. Slip this|ery boomers have put so much other hand, for her to appeal in|0Ver the end of the rod before| propaganda around this city here,| sleazy. rayons with a rhinestone| Slipping a fresh curtain over it—the|we were told anyone could get .a| | curtain will not tear and will go on| job in Hamden. So therefore Mon-| more easily. Also, my mother says that if you are hanging clothes out of doors on a cold day it helps a lot to heat the buckle, dime store jewelry, high heels and red nails is not only bad taste | but _bad Communist tactics as well. “Our girls should dress in becoming simple clothes, within the prevailing atyles but w: > a simplification of its | Clothespins first, in the oven or on intricacies. e question is, where | *P of the stove. | can the po s get them? It is| | S ee & well-known fact that simplicity in|Can You Make ‘Em clothes is exp plenty of $59.50 es devoid of all ornamentation except that of its ex- cellent material and workmanship— but I'll be darned if I ever saw it in ® $5.95 dress! My answer is, as it Was years ago, to solve my own clothing problem—make them your- Bel?.” nsi I have Yourself? Pattern 1631 is available in sizes { 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 72. Size 16 takes 1 5-8 yards 54 inch fabric and 244 yards 36 inch contrast- | step-by-step sewing ons included. ,day morning I hiked out tnere all} says fee) i |the way. The first place I tried 1 thi was the Acme Wire.Co. The man-| tance to those ager in this place is a woman. The | themszives. Such help will be very welcome, I am sure. However, I think that, though some Gf us will be able to solve a problem by making our own clothes, there are | Many who cannot do so, either be-| Cause they do not have access to 2| sewing machine, or have jobs that | » tire them out so much they could not | Possibly sew at night. | So I think we should agitate for | the kind of clothes we do want. Let | the manufacturers know what kind | of things we want. What about those | nice “shirtmaker” frocks that sell at | | $15 or $16? When a girl makes $6 to $10 or $12 a week, how can she buy | dresses, be they ever so sensible and durable? Why can’t we have gome such dresses at half the price, Without such “finish,” perhaps, but still a simple, sensible dress of ma- terial that will wash, and last awhile? lan girls have very little; if any, to spend for dry~- @leaning. I hope a manufacturer or two will hear and heed. place was crowded. She sized me |up first, seeing that I was up in years. She pointed at the door and said, “Get out, no work for you.” I hid out in the hallway to see how the young people would make out. She ordered everyone of them out. No one got a job. I next went to the Whitney-Blake | Co., another large concern. A big) fat man shooed them out as fast as they entered. The next place was the Safety Car Heating Co. No work. They might put on a few later on, but could not guarantee that. So that is all that the new deal; consists of. | THE DIE MAKERS’ PARADE (By a Chrysler Polisher) DETROIT, Mich.—The M. E. 8. of A. striking tool and die makers marched in Detroit 6,500 strong, ac- cording to the confidential report of Sargeant Barney Celeski. The sight Comrade Natalie continues with of these militants brought showers of some very useful st:ggestions: | paper from the white collar workers. “By the way—about low-heeled | ‘The leaders, when nearing the hoes. . It has been my problem for} . I will not wear high heels, and have a short, wide foot, very hard to fit. I found that the only simple | food-looking shoe with fiat heels | ‘that will wear well is the theatrical fet or tap shoe. You can buy them in any theatrical shoe store in forties at about $4 a pair. Most of them come with bow ties, but the will change those for neater straps with buttons, I cer- tainly believe they are good-looking ‘enough for anyone, and they have of the silly frills high-heeled have. And they will wear. 1, "To solve Ungerie problems: For | small sizes only, I have discovered | t the regular child's white cotton | City Hall, ordered “All hats off” as/| a salute to the City Council. Many of the marchers obeyed the order of the lick-spittles. Soon there rung out the cry of the fighting Irish, “Up the Rebels!” to which was added, “Keep your hats on, men!” The next time Griffen gives any such order, we will kick him out of the paarde! ' | i LEARNING TO ORGANIZE (By a Miner Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa. — South Chester Tube Co, shut down last week. The workers were preparing to strike and the bosses resorted to intimidating the workers by laying them off. £ j q Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in| Ty is the terrific speed-up that the i tie ge as girl - qi coins or stamps (coins preferred) for| posses use in trying to produce as Jor 16 and is only 15 cents. They| this Anne Adams pattern. Write! much in 8 hours as they did in ten “fit tight, are very comfortable, cool, plainly name, address and style num-| hours with a smaller crew (in most “and easily laundered, You can| Pt: BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. | factories), along with the automatic | st them in wool for winter and get | _, Address orders to Daily Worker| jowering of wages that has at last iti m Department, 243 West 17th | awakened the workers to the peril of New Yer Cit | unorpanized ranks and the necessily (Peiterns by mail only. | of a united front, ' ‘NRA at Curtiss Candy Co. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1933 |Toilers Describe Growing NRA Attacks Big Stores Cut Brings Layoffs, Pay Cuts Out Time Cards to CHICAGO, Il.—At the Curtiss Candy Co., before the N.R.A. got in, the | workers (girls) had to work every day, Sunday including, 6 hours a day | and 7 days a week, “By that time they could make about $12 to $14 a week. | They put on four shifts, each shift 6 hours, so the machines were going night | and day. girls (they never said anything about that in the newspapers) and the rest | of the girls got out a letter that they} were going to work 7 hours a day} and 40 hours a week. But that time | the workers got fooled. After N.R.A, got into effect the! most we have been working is two| days a week, and under a terrible} speed up. We have to make about 60 to 65 boxes of Baby Ruth (penny bars, and 100 bars in every box). Many girls in there can not keep up with the speed up, so they got} laid off. The biggest check we get | (under N.R.A.) is $5 a week. Some girls can't even make that, they make little more than their street car fare. | | 10c. an Hour Is Log Cutters’ Pay. Men Must Fight for| Measly Wages Due (By a Worker Correspondent) SOUTH NORFOLK, Va.—At the Ropers Lumber Mill) they are paying. ten cents an hour for cutting and laying up heavy logs. Tell me this is not slavery? -understand that they are going to increase it two cents an. hour next week. - The blessed Blue Eagle! Men sometimes get hired and} work a week or two and then don’t | get paid unless they threaten a law] suit. | | | They owe Mr. Robertson four dol- Jars for nearly two. weeks work. I don't know how he is going to get it unless some frittids’ help him get a lawyer—and this’ Negro family is hungry. But the price is 12c an hour under the Bonnie ‘Blue Eagle—when you get it! After they joined the N.R.A. they laid off one shift, about 350 | NRA Board Exposed | As a Spy Agency, for the picture frame industry is 43| week, which bi nough, | rinage Fe ae eee Ride in this Rc hagebasiy.el cards so that no employee can/| ing in its sage tees naan pie people till eight, nine and ten o'lock |Complain against working more | any other assignments. Patt every night, Saturday and Sunday|than the required hours. They |be known to be their major Party included. have shifted the hours so that| work. Not as now. Now is is At 4.30 the men go out to eat and come back at 5 to resume their work for the evening. He calls this a double shift. The girls in the office and the salesmen work just as long hours} without getting a cent extra in pay} for it. | Many of the workers are getting! below even the code minimum. Er- rand boys get $10 and $11. One of-| fice girl gets $12 a week. | One of the workers reported this condition to the N. R. A. office and that worker was promptly fired. The boss upon receiving the complaint, went to the N. R. A. office and told| them the following: “I have to make money, that’s all there is to it. I} took the Blue Eagle because I wanted | to be a good citizen, but if it’s going to hinder me in my business you can have it back. And, by the way, I want to know who gave you the re- port about me, because I don’t want! nosy bodies around my place.” | The N. R. A. then told him that | everything will be all right, but that he should just try to cut down on the hours a bit, and they gave him the name of the worker who reported the case to them. The boss to make sure that he will not be “bothered any more by | this foolishness,” then went down to Tammany Hall, and got things all fixed up. Aged Worker Celebrates 76th ay by Helping “Daily” Birthd NEW YORK —Joseph Hain, of i29 Hide Violations By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—I have just | read an-article about the girl who | complained that Klein’s 14th Street store were mi Now I want to give you | Party wor! an idea of conditions in New York’s | carry thro lange depratment stores. stores are |employees more than NEW YORK.—The blanket code |49 hours by enforcing rest periods | erable. Many during the day. while the with the money NRA Polk’ explo! workers, working. others the conditio! working the req there taken off. have raised executives. |, Why can’t there be more union- jism. for the workers in this line? | Cuts Pay at s, New York By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—In a recent edition of your paper I read in the workers’ correspondence a letter written by an employee of the R. L. Polk Co., Detroit, Mich., office. telling of this | company’s itation of m in their uw They have taken away the time |in trade unions—that is, participat- many of their employes who make | known as their trade union work. over the NRA pay work afternoons and nights, to make them quit so that they can hire someone cheaper. Where do we gain by the NRA? We used to work regular hours and now we are shifted around so that We haven’t any time for ourselves. By this shifting of hours they do |of functions each member shall be not have to employ more workers | assigned. Other members should be have to) assigned to work in the building of rush to get just as much work done|and leadership of one or another as before the NRA They have cut the pay from one! his or her major Party work. Those person and hired another person | who do!not happen to fall into either They | of these categories should be ts- their In the interests of a friend of mine who is employed in the above com- pany’s New York office, at 354 4th Ave., I would like to tell you of the conditions under which the girls are Before the N. R, A. went into effect the girls were paid $1.35 for typing 1,000 envelopes. The average girl can do only from 1,000 to 1,400 envelopes per day at a constant grind. Under the N. R. A., conditions are more intolerable than ever. It calls v | for a minimum amount of work per Franklin Street, Astoria, L. L., had} day, which in many cases it is im- his 76th birthday recently. He cele- | possible to do. If you do not reach brated it by coming to the office of | this minimum within a few days you the Daily Worker to contribute to the are immediately di*charged. $40,000 drive so that the “Daily” al D. G. might live. peo Editor’s Note—The writer of this He 1 Tri: ‘ letter should get in touch with the i Ree saa ill ta kd rsccr oie _ | Office Workers Union, 799 Broadway, from Bavaria in 1881. A cigarmaker |New York City. by trade, he joined the Cigarmakers’ al ERD E RES Eeeeer eee awe | Union, Local .132, .of Brooklyn. At | that time Samuel Gompers just started on his career as arch labor- oe: ours a ay betrayer. se ae | ' . In 1886, Hain: joined the Socialist | W k B k Labor Party in which he was very | or In a ery active. At that time the S. L. P. was not an official sparty, but a part of| | By a Worker Correspondent the United-LaboF “Party, influenced | | BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Vincent and| by the Single “faker, Henry George. | Rodriguez, owners of the Gold Medal | After the expluSlart of the 8. L. P.| Bekery at 221 Bond St., Brooklyn, are | from Henry ‘Qabige's organization, | working 16 hours da‘ly, 7 days Hain helped orggpize the Progressive | weekly, Labor Party atctts first convention On Sept. 23 I did not feel well and | in Webster Hgifjn 1887. In 1889, |sent word that I could not work on | suitable Hain also helpetorganize a Branch | |Friday and on Saturday. I went of the Workin; Sick and Benefit | back to the bakery to collect four Society, of which he is still a member. “ | days’ pay, and because I refused to When the Progressive Labor Party! ‘ wns ieee os neues every Cokes ba split in 1889, Hain, sided with the! au nd gre es yoo tmaukea 5. L. P., because hi vs he believed | » y even’ Smashe ihatood tar Cemimnciine : | ; my gold watch and’ chain, and my ; 1.00] nonsburg 1.00; clothing was torn up. T had to run Today, Joseph Hain stands square} x i 28 | 2. Brickett, ..|into a barber shop near the bakery footed for the Communist Party. He| Bushwick ne | ce to protect myself. reads the Daily Worker every day.| Got" "25 | Total oct. 18 1.50; The rest of the workers are still ‘Iam unemployed now,” he said, but! Kreichman 25 | Total to date 203.12) working there 16 to 18 hours a day, I get work from time to time and] Plotkin 1.00 Fs DIST. NO. 6 and fearing that they will be as- when I do, the Daily Worker geis| eae onion | ‘aoieee 100{Saulted by the owners. They have something, because-it’s my paper. It! ponde .25|M. R. Clappe, not made any complaint. gets better every day. It’s improved | Akron | The only way to stop these abuses fine in the last six months. I haven't ini peeve s0| 38 to get together and have a few missed reading it-for the last six| $0/L. Catton 299, Speakers right in front of the bakery. years.” Furn, Wkre. Union | Lucad 250| LETTER BEINGS ets Despite his advanced age, Joceph| List 24720 Col. by Ma Allan (By a Worker rrespondent Hain is still vigorous. Those who| Schlsfowitz 10] ive Priends 3-00| CINCINNATI, Ohio,— My letter were with him in the S. L. P. in the] Anon. ‘05 | T. Brad 2.00| printed in the Sept. 28th “Daily bygone days remember his devotion | Youth 38 a as Brod in Worker” has caused much comment to the Party. He was never too tired| Pareer 30| Coun by Guster. "| among the comrades here, and many to pass out leaflets or do other re~ | see: 2, unit 5, vies, U. 102 of the Negro comrades want to get volutionary work. “When there was|_ Sus. Fund -10| a copy of the 28th issue, 50 sa core nobody else to call on for work for | St 18) pelled to ask you, if possible, to the party, Joe Hain volunteered to | gec. ‘35| Send me one or two copies of this do the work,” another old-timer, now | Sec. Manuel Bros. _.25| issue to please the Negro comrades. a member of the Communist Party, Dy tiny Es I am an ex-American Federation | said as he met Hain in the Daily | §°° Varet -12| of Labor hotel worker. I waited on Worker office. beg na satin many capitalists in my 30 years of I ih Hain at 76 years, urges all | 5° 25 | Total Otc. 22.70) hotel work. Since I am past 50 years mj i. years, Ure Sec, Total to date 392.55] of age, they kicked me out of the workers to read the Daily Worker and | sec. 4; Unit 401 1.00 DIST. NO. 7 A. F. of L. for not paying my dues to support it with contributions just| ‘section wists | 2: Strizivh 30] to Mr. Green, as he does. Col. by Alegret .25 Pe 22 % Muskegon Sec. 3.00 wakes e, . Ravish Contributions received Monday,} #.,ierah a Anon. 10] 54, DIST, NO. 12 bas tat 0 Oct. 16, 1933: AES ARR teh ‘$8 | "Tacoma 2.00/ Bachnke, Jr. 10 Total received Monday .....8 458.10] p. “eon #200| Samer Ve Bicoer gone | Berna Pr Previously recorded . .99 | Col. by Wucecla 5| Total Oct, 16 Seattle 1.65} Pevok 10 pA, nad AW | Total to date 603.03] Symp. pss 1.00] Laat +10 | Total to date .......4..4..-$9,577.00! Att eb trae aad Berio D IST. NO. 1 5 a in| Woocelia 10) 3. ‘Taylor Seattle 1.81} Col. by Bwirbul DIST. Ni ] 8 Porper Pelaceon 08 yI Dinner, W. Vin- A. Henig a5 Peterson (03 A. Merch Unit 3, Ana- Malk 00 cent,Lawrence 12.00| Anon. 5) Raetaln “gs | Decatur Unit cortes Kainin 10 ———| "8. Deedat 10]. Anan o3| Wo. P. Miler Unit 5, Ana Boeknke, Jr. 10 Total Oct 16 12.000) 8S. Newman 05] Fretin’ “os | Gary Units | cortes 10.00} Gravity 35 Total to date 548.65) C. Kuhn 10] Soppa o3| Unit 1 Ualt, Monahan 17.00! Swirtul 198 DIST. NO. 2 8. Mayblum 28 Gerieon “bs |p Unit 3 Mende 38 Baer 25.00| Brownstein 251 Got by ‘Molinart |’ Unit 4 Total Oct. 16 Drobnick 05 W. West 2.00{ Feurstein 10 Mikis 5 Unit 5 .f ‘Total to date 165.86/ Col. by Kalnin Rose 6. 100/ Boro Pk. Wkrs Jasper "30| Hammond Units DIST. NO. 13 F. Boehnke, Jr. .10 Com. Louis 98} Club 033] Gane ‘ag| Unit 3, J. Anon., Caspar 4.00) Sakis aT) Laly & Ben 1.00] Ital. Protet. Molinert ‘20| ,Siora 2.5 J. Kalnin 10 J. 8, Kingston 1.00] Club 3.10 Untt 3, Yur- Totel Oct. 16 4.00) Ocalu ‘25 Ted ‘Weeks 10.99 00 | Col. by P. Pavin kevten 1.50 | Total to date 199.54) ‘Trayman 15 A. K. 1.00 Debauque 1.09 =i. UIST. NO. 16 Benish 05 Dr. Levenson's Prenedu +23) Tote! Oct. 16 26.21| J. A. Bermes, Jacobson cr Party 38.30 Milanca '35| Total to date 799.63 | Merch 1.00 Monduk to P, Kampf 1.75, ‘Turney D4 DIST. NO. 9 Col. by Kiss, Werner +10 Anon. 2.00 Spon. -25| North Ironwood unit 5, Weldum 10 Minchink 80] Council No, 8 2.50| Koelbt 1.00) Unit ‘Three names —.0|Z. Kalnin 10 D. Levinson .50| Council 8 2.30} Pavin ,., 1:00] C. P. Unit 1, Ro! 1.80 —- BS.K., Council 10 30,09 |: Cah oe Oe Mien Duluth .95 | Col. by E. Brown Total Oct. 16 5.20 Univ. 25) Council 11 30.00) Gorkin +95) Whrs,-Farm. A Friend -20| Total to date 184.13 E. B.C. 10.00} Council 16 6,30{ Anon. 19) Coop, Unity Kankenberg 1.00 DIST. NO. 19 M: F. 50} Council 16 6.30) Fisher 10) Alltance 25,00 | Col. by Ingra~ L. M. Litherland, M. A. 60| Council 18 Shapiro 10! Dalbo Unit, o. P. ham, Unit 6 Ovid 4 L. F. +50| Council 20 4.00| Fields +03) W. Deaf Carl Wereman 8. Luks 25} Council 24 3.00 +19) ©. Anderzon 60] A. Sleber A. Stams, Ger Council 32 1.00} Gingold “0) A. Dahlin 60| J. Monwich, Jr. Buro 4.40) “Gouncil 33 1.75| Luker 4 Silberberg ¥. Hats $Be-gouncll 34 70, Gabrieber, 10) Total Oct, 16 Symp. Harris L neil 41 2.29| Tratner -05! Total to da Milwit Jacobson, Col "Council 46 80 DIST. NO. 11 Kornblatt Box 1.26) Council 48 1.00} Tota! Oct, 16 295.01) ©, m, Kirkpatrick, | Total Oct. 16 3.00 M, Trust, Bkin Staten Ts, Total to date 4526.33) wolt Point 1.00 / Total to date 216,13/ Unit 1, Erie 2.00 Col. 28 | 'Councit 10.00| MIST. NO. 4 Jos. Aller, DIST. NO. 18 [Unit 2, Erie 2.00 Red Front 5.00| Upper Bronx L,, Buffalo 1.50] Fusten 1.00} ©. P., Gleason, Unit 3, Brie 1.50 8. Katovis T.L.D. 4 _Geuneil 10.00 | yeti! —_—_— ‘Wis., Col. by W. Grishober 1.50 Col. br Fig “<“TTeipesiel Valter Tote! Oct, 18 1.60] Teter Oct. 16 2.08! = Drobnick pevatite D, Neiditca @3| LD, Col. by Totai ty date 45.46, Total to dale 31.09 L, Drobnick —.2_ | Totag 10.00 | 5 | “Sensitive” to onions, just as some Carrying Out the Open Letter What Is Party Work? the Unit and Its Tasks The Party Unit Is the Organization Center for the Mobilization for Mass Work | conditions in | membership. Unit Buro must decide as to what is k and how and who shall ugh each form of activity, |The Party membership’s energies | must be so divided as to bring the bast results. Each should have his * her definite function. | ‘Those that are best fitted for work | Work in the trade union fraction is not considered Party work. For Party work, the Unit Buro usually insists on assigning them to terri- torial canvassing. This is incorrect. To do one job and do it well should |be our aim. To such specialization |mass organization. This should be jsigned to the Unit's concentration point, factory or territory. One case will exemplify the extent |of our present incorrect form of work: A comrade has been assigned | to work in a certain American Fed- eration of Labor trade union local. He happens to be on its local execu~ tive board. He is on some of its committees. He is the local fraction secretary. All this is not considered as doing his Party work. For Party work, the Unit Buro insists that he goes to sell Daily Workers within his Unit's residential territory. A new comrade would be driven from the Party through this tactic. But this comrade is a fighter, and does his (assigned) major work, and has end- less fights with the Unit Buro (executive committee). Another case will further prove our present incorrect method of work: One. of our members told the Unit that he expected to be lost to Party (Unit) work because he was to be assigned to a new medical workers’ union for major activity. He asked the Unit to fight the District against his assignment to that union work. If assigned to that, he would be un- able to go in the residential terri- tory and canvass for contacts, or sell the Party literature. The fact that he might help organize hundreds or thousands of medical workers was considered not Party work. Take Into Consideration Other leading Unit Buro and Sec- tion Committee comrades believe in dropping leading trade unionists from the Party roll for not attending Unit meetings. They propose to transfer these comrades out of their sections to other sections as a solu- tion against the so-called inactive comrades. These same leading com- rades do not consider the fact that trade unions, especially the A. F. of L., do not prefer to leave all Tues- days for the Party members to go to their Unit meetings, and these unions, instead, and probably incon- | siderately, arrange committee and to themselves. And our Party members active in these com- mittees must rather skip Unit meet- ings than these union meetings. The Unit Buros and Section Committees refuse to react favorably to these | conditions of work among the masses, ‘The ‘Unip Buros, and Section Com- too, must be taught to the meaning and signifi- specialized major Party Party work is work among the masses. The masses are firstly in the shops; secondly, in the trade uni thirdly, atsong the unem- | ployed; fourthly, in the various mass | organizations (which undoubtedly | and curely need building); and last, but not least, among the workers in the territories. The Unit meetings should be gath- ering points for the exchange of ex- periences, through reports and check- up, and for discussion and adoption of plans for further work for the | mitte | evaluate cance of work. growth of the Party. and its in- sub-committee meetings at any time | The Open Letter, issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party to its whole membership, answers this question by analyzing the present he U.S.A. and placing definite tasks before the entire Party This is good, but, in line with the Open Letter, the Party should define the tasks of the members more specifically. The Party leader- me : ; the¢————_—_—__________—_____ ship from the Center down to the The Unit meeting must not be just another routine internal meeting, which the comrades hesitate to at- tend. The Unit meeting must be made so attractive that the comrades will look forward to coming to it and re- port progress, as well as to hear the report of progress. More could be said. How about it, comrade editor? What is Party Work? Comradely yours, M. KAYE, Unit %4, Section 15, District 2. We are printing above an article by M. Kaye, a Party member in Dis- trict No. 2 (New York), because he expresses the opinion which is pre- valent among a large number of other members. While Comrade Kaye and others try to find the way out-on how to better divide the work among the Party members, in some instances they bring forward wrong conceptions. The idea of having no other assign- ments for leading comrades, other than their work in the union, is in- correct. ‘The task before us is precisely to draw at least a part of the leading comrades in the trade union move~- ment, into the leadership of the Party, into the section leadership, dis- trict leadership, etc., because it is only along this line that there will be established the correct relationship between the Party leadership and the fractions in the mass organizations4 between the Party and the red trade unions; and also in order to utilize the rich experiences in mass work of these comrades. Concerning the fraction work: Yes, we agree with Comrade Kaye on the importance of this work. However, we would like to point out that while all Party members, members of mass organizations, constitute the Commu- nist fraction in this mass organiza: tion, it is not necessary that all of these Party members shall have as their major Party task mass organi<- zation work. All the members of the fraction will participate at the frac- tion meetings, but active fraction work can be carried out by a sma‘l group of selected actives. This especi- ally for mass organizations as the In- ternational Workers’ Order and other fraternal and cultural organizations. When we come to the fractions in the trade unions, however, there we must keep in mind that the major task of the Party members in the trade unions is to build the union in the shops, and simultaneously draw the best elements from the shops into the ranks of the Party. In this way we will build the Party nucleus in the shop. And where the Party members are scattered in different street units their orientation must be towards their shop and this work has to be led by the units in which they be- long. The individual Party members working in some shop must report about their Party work in the shops, to their units. In this manner, especially in New York, where the Party organization bases itself mainly on the street units, they will more and more realize that their major task is to orientate the Party mem- bers working in shops, towards the building of the unions and the Party, in the places of work; and that the friction going on at this moment concerning the assignment will be eliminated and the comrades active in the shop or the Trade Unions, will not be criticized because they don’t participate in the activity of the street units. Then their activity in the Trade Unions and other mess organizations will be considered as party activity. Comrade Kaye is correct in ¢riticiz- ing the unit bureau and section com- mittee comrades who believe in drop- ping leading trade unionists from the Party roles for not attending unit meetings, and propose that they be transferred to other sections; and also concerning the conflicting meet ings. The remedy of this situation consists in the establishing the correct relationship between the Party and the trade union and in solving the problem of the division of work among the Party members. of the By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS to QUESTIONS Anemia Tillie R.—Your low blood pressure, the indefinite symptoms pointing to every organ in the body and the other signs you mention, would lead us to believe that you have been suf- fering from anemia. You are lucky, they did not operate on you every time you were under observation at the various hospitals. A good diet for you should include spinach, liver, rare steaks and chops, onions and lots of green vegetables. ee About Onions T. R.—There is nothing wrong with you if onions do not agree with your digestion. There are lots of things and people whom we like, but who do not like us. You are either individuals are sensitive to straw- berries; or your stomach is unable to digest them. The feeling of diz- ziness, as if you were drunk, that you experience after eating onions shows that you would be better off by leav- ing them strictly to themselves, or creased activity among the masses. | Dector Commission Central Committee. makes them appear as if they were Sweating. You may also try thi : a & j i 3 ERATE ES boiled or fried, when they lose th | it pungency. Finally, you may scallions (young green onions) which do not seem to be as “strong” as the regular bulbs. We also know some people who can eat pickled “pearl” onions, but not the raw vegetable. iy You are right about our friends the Naturopaths. Nobody prevents them from living a “natural” life, The trouble with them is that they want scientific medicine to endorse their vagaries, Helping Dr. Luttinger to Win Contributions Received Yesterday $2.00 George Pojar Henry Newmark Herman Schmidt Leonard Spier . Eleanor Paul Evelyn Anderson . Joseph West .... to others. Did you try to “sweat” 7.60 them, before eating them? This Previously received soveene 100 consists in salting them until the ee onions begin to exude a liquid which Total to date .......... $8.60 sess ee «