The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1933, Page 4

Page Four Bethlehem Steel Workers Hit by Declining Output Worker Cites Open Let Attention to Organi ter in Urging Greater zation By a Steel Worker Correspondent.) BETHLEHEM, Pa.—The decline in production in the steei industries meant wage cuts direct and indirect for steel workers in the Bethlehem Steel plant here. Today in most of the departments the workers are working two to three days a week, but there are many departments which are shut down completely, for instance in a month days = week, the S. M. Beam yard ‘one to two d with many not working at all The only place where there is | some work is the D. E., where at least 300 workers work in three shifts, six hours a day The workers get 35 cents an hour @% common laborers. This was sup- posed to be raised to 38 cents an hour, but since the supposed increase went into ef the ings hours were ‘om eight to the workers are before, and be- 1983. Have yt each a pervision t his job an while production. rinder foreman und, man m the lists for work, if se any. available fut ‘Looks to me viduals | as Moures uperintende D. E..department. It everyone how the bosses workers who are tr} thing against t' drop forge two to threeé—~——— Ingot mould pouring is only working one week | We have a small group in the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, which is the only union the steei company fears. But we get no help frorff’ the section or the district, al- though possibilities are best now for organization. Workers are willing to organize. How can the Commu- nist Party explain this. I refer to the Open Letter about the concen- tration in the basic industries. The National Office of the Trade J $) eague can’t send any- need all the organizers around Pittsburgh. Is the Bethle- hem Steel Works not worth while organizing? Let us send some one here and we 11 have a real turn in organizing Steel and Metal Workers Indus- 1 Union w St. Louis N. R. A. Head Fires 500 (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo—Scullen, owner of the Scullen Steel Co. and chair- man of the N. R. A., gave out to the capitalist ovress that the Recovery Act is a flop. And to show what a flop it was, he closed down his plant, laying off 500 workers that have been lowly starving for three years on stagger plan. M& of these ers have been on relief. HEL days there who surety merits too often plenty of our sympathy. Dear Editor of the Daily Worker: @ Am enclosing another dollar te- ward the D Worker fund, and vill send more later: but now I am at war with my parents over the money. They want money and more money to give to the support of Polisk priests and the church, while I have yery poor clothes for the winter. The other girls are making faces at me because I am the only house member working. How can I afiord to have the Daily Worker, which 1 like? It does not cost much but it has more value to me than all the disciples of all the churches, throw away the Daily give it away; one young studeut who accepted a copy was wondering how such a paper could. come into Meriden. I would like to see ali the Polish peoples join the radical movement. Dear editor, T am not signing my name. because yon krow how it is. —Young Miss Worker Reader. old ecting the way into sold to them by Miss Worker Reader” has @ hard row to hoe ;outside of being | slugged, jailed, or framed, there is hardly a tougher spot to be in than/ to be prisoned in the same house with parents with whom one is at war. T tors parents exp children to pa NOTE TO X-GANDY DANCER What a shrewd sser you turned out to be, Hobo Blackie! How did you ‘know? I believe your statement that | you have been a great-granddad for | gyears, as it is clear you have had a Jet of experience with kids, even} Adult ones like me. . And so you too are “another that doesn’t think | Sex-life under capitalism is funny it’s not fun, but a tragedy.” Judging by the rest of your mes- Sage, you did not have a very pleasant time of it when you were a boy.| Thanks for your two cheerful cards. | An speaking of the kids, here is the | first.part of a tract sent us. | | FOR THE YOUNGSTERS | . In response to the letter in Tues- | day's “Daily” asking for cheap ways of keeping children busy in the man- ufacture of home toys I make the following suggestions, and all toys 4 can be made of materials ‘tobe found in any home. . First, what can be done with the ‘daily newspaper beside throwing it ‘away? Sheets of newspaper make ‘good drawing sheets for young chil- ‘ren four to six. They are not both- ered by the print and can make large Golored pictures. | This not only keeps them busy but | ‘provides large muscular exercise for ‘the arni. For those learning how to ‘read, good practise in reading and in ‘assembling words can be had from) large words of the headlines. _ This can take the form of a game: oS many words, familiar to the ‘child through his reader, can he make ‘by juggling the letters of a headline which have been separated before- hand? For the older child the newspaper can be used in the collection of mate- rial for scrap-books and picture-books on any number of subjects— Soviet Russia, prominent figures in the day's es athletic events, etc. oung children can be kept happy and quiet with a Se Ae newspapers. ‘They can e a whole fe o newspaper dolls. Roll a + of newspaper for the "can be cut down to any de- “the head stuff in a wad of covered with a small paper bag. (Don’t forget to draw in the face wil .) Stuff two smaller rolls of per in at the bottom to be the ; and bend forward at bottom CONDUCTED BY N LUKE SN the home”—it sounds so pleasant and comfy! But in the home these | 45 Many dollars as it has members to | Ms, trouble, Here is a letter from a girl eriden, Conn. paper bag colored with crayon will do) a dress is made. This can be decorated with a bit of ribbon for a belt and fringed at the bottom. ve also some ideas on toys cardboard boxes, butter can be kept fresh s if you keep it in a dish where it can be completely covered h water. Comradely yours, —ALICE W. L. 6 ah LOST AND FOUND DEPT, A girl comrade left in these offices a few weeks ago a pair of cloth gloves. I hereby give notice that if the owner doesn’t call for them and identify them by a description within a few days, I shall take them home and wash them (they got stepped on here) and wear them, as they fit me just right and the cold weather caught me with my old gloves un- mended. Can You Make ‘Em Yourself? Pattern 1646 is avaiiable in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 3-3-8 yards 39-inch fabric and 3-4 yard contrasting. Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5e) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th St., New York City. Patterns by mail only. Helping the Daily Worker Through Helen Luke: Contributions received to the credit, of Helen Luke in her Socialist com- petition with Michael Gold, Dr. Lut- tinger, Edward Newhouse and Jacob Burck to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 | Daily Worker Drive. to nthe feet. The arms, made f Branch, of @zolled sheet, are inserted into the bie am al leas Mavens $6.15 body through a hole made in it. By] Preyjous Total "ed cutting out in the shape of a pat- tern any colored sheet of paper (®! Tota) coos $16.28 | ICalls for Aid in Organizing Jobbing Pay Rates at Illinois Steel Shop Polishers “Hollering” for Improvements Brings Quick Results from General Superintendent @ little house- | By a Chrysler Worker Correspondent | | DETROIT, Mich.—The Detroit Metal Polishers strike scheduled for} Thursd: Oct. 19th, has been sabot, aged, Joe Hakspacher, business man-| Co, p of Deals Tost BO dy rea came into the ‘hands of the general A. » has recei ‘d. Tammany Senator W |ner has appointed Joe to the Detroit | Labor Board. The whole board is an A. F, of L. puppet show to defeat the jaims of any rank and file organiza- | tion. Chrysler polishers are organized | 100 per cent, and are paid much | more than the minimum wage asked | | by the union. Unless the jobbing! | shop polishers are brought up to the! | Chrysler scale, the bosses will bring | the Chrysler polishers down to jobbing shop scale, The Chr | metal polishers are formulating a| new wage scale of $1.15 an hour. We| Ama. | Chrysler employees must help the | whi as held in a ball field before | | Jobbing shop polishers to develop} the game. | |rank and file control and formulate| The chairman, Sause, said, “We | @ wage demand equal to the Chrysler | thought it was soing to rain. We} | Scale. House meetings for rank and| brought Roi | file control must be held | Well, you see the sun has come out. | When the signal to go is given, the| God must be with Roosevelt.” |skids must be put under Business| Now I ask, what has that got to do | | Agent Joe Hakspacher. Joe has a de-| With improving our living conditions | |lusion that “smokers” are just the|in the steel community? That is one | | thing the polishers require. Even if | Subject they avoided entirely. | Hakspacher put on a grass skirt and| At the end of the meeting Sause did the hula-hula at a “smoker,” we | Said, “I don’t like the way we are | would be far from satisfied. getting publicity. We ain’t getting | enough favorable publicity. Mr. Cost | y }made a statement to the an anat | lonly fifty men were laid off. ow | Chicago Takes Steps | investigated and found out that at | | the beginning of the N. R. A. they| | os | hired one thousand. Today they are 10 halSe Fu uota | cutting their time.” | | I noticed he said nothing at all j about several hundred workers that CHICAGO, Noy. 2 (By Air Mail).—| were laid off at the warehouse, Pipe In view of the slowness of the $40,000 | Mill, and the shipyard in wholesale Daily Worker Drive in this territory, | lots and the various other depart- |the District Executive Committee at | ments in numerous retail lots. |@ special meeting on Oct. 28 and 29| They ranted and rared because the | unanimously decided that every mem- | Bethlehem Steel and other corpora- ber of the Communist Party here is | tions were forced to give some small |to raise on contribution lists a mini- | lousy increases. The fact that we| mum of $1, as « part of the quota of | cot wage-cuts to beat hell did not} $5,000 for the Chicago District. This | purn them up at all. | | decision is announced through B. K. I heard them telling a bunch of | Gebert, District Organizer. | jokes on the colored people. I didn’t | Each unit must see to it to turn in| see any colored people there. | Any time you steel metal folks feel the Daily Worker Office, 2019 W.| like dropping around our way, just) | Division St., Chicago, Ill., the major | come right in and I'll join right up. | | part to be turned in by Nov. 7 | It is no use to be scared to death of | |_ Every Section Committee, Unit| the bosses. If you get after them} | Buro and every member of the Party} like the very devil you'll most likely |here is called upon to immediately | kick the stuffings out of them every jearry through the decision of the | time. eee ae The Chicago District | must not lag, but on the contrary ;. \F must reach and surpass its quota, _ |2-Cent Raise Does Not} os \Make Up for Hrs. Cut) igano, at Sheffield Steel Plant ) | (BY a Steel Worker Correspondent) | A.F. of L. Officials Silent on Layoffs at. Bethlehem Plant: : | (By a Worker. Correspondent) | BALTIMORE, Md.—Was up to the : Association meeting ee, Pe Total Friday oe Previously Recorded .... Total to date . $1 4 District 1 ; List 97413 | KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Hear how we | Aftair, Norwood 22.50] Plitkin 50| got a raise on Nov. 1. Steel had been ss i ai 8. Bal Soosher 5°) rated at $1.60. ton for some time, ike id Ba fa ce 33| but is now $1.75. per ton. And we White Luper 95| get a raise of about 2 cents per hour. Eddie Frooling ..23| They cut the hours, one eight ‘Total Nov. 8 Col. by Chriet Co. || hours, one seven hours, and one six | Total to date 10 Col. by German [59| hours shift per day, and four days | __ District 3 Col. by Roth |a week. Now- anyone can see that ge a eas pales this is a-plain eut in our meagre pay. | <apler. Sete | I do not see how they exvect a man Flamenbaum Orville with a family to live. This is evi- | Ss a Kretonac | dence enough that the Sheffield Steel At Guitinin | and N..R. A..and also the A. F. of L. D. Marcus do not give a.damn what happens to A. Kohn us workers and our wives and chil- jas 5| dren x | : Mr. Murry has a soft job and also | RP. runs the A. F. of L. here in the plant. | | aM. MeConnei He tells the f to work their | ee St friends, which makes it bad for some A. Foucek os | Of the older men. M brothers and | | Jackson 1o| comrades, this.can be and must be | Krauss 10| stopped by forming a rank and file | Simao o{ Union, one that is run by you and | Braun |me and the honest workers of the | L. Dorshy 1.00} plant. The Steel and Metal Workers | Litres Plein} | | Industrial Union proposes that we Eg ag tel eo | join them and have an honest, rank | Ower Richter 25, and file w Ts’ union, not the boss- List 52057 es sell-cut plan. | —Steel Worker. | Se a | Take note of this, too. Penrod Wal- | | nut_ Venner Bt Palamastek steel plant here, are | Col. by Nestas ands of gun stocks. They have abcut | | ae | 200 men working at starvation wages. | M. Kaplan 25 | Kramer 35 | x 15 0 | Srylo 1.00 : | Col. by Komeck | Deutch 1.00 c. D. K. 1.00) Cohen 25 Kyuk %| D. Deutch 50| Kripel 35| Col by Puret 1.30] Edis. Wkrs. 3.00) Key 50 | Cus. Tailors .31| Doyle 10| bag ee Club Solomon 1 90 ol. by Bojenoff .05| Bayti 19 ‘Bjack 03} hist 304i A LETTER TO CITY RELIEF | Madison . 3 names . WORKERS jewman : st 53839 : ‘Conseatiine) mel ecneees 10| Fellow workers? Pelin -10| Col. by Morris Now, before the election, Tammany ene | a nassen ‘ 70| got busy. The Citizens Committee Sarlin 35) PGs | for the Election of O'Brien has sent Werner .t9| out a letter praising O’Brien’s work. me -%|In many parks, the workers have re : 3| Teceived with. their pay chetks a Cohen. 35| card telling them to elect O’Brien if 8. Cohen -35| they want to keep their Jobs. Cheap tee 35| politicians have come around and Victor ‘io talked for O’Brien, giving out but- eau Blumberg 10} tons for his election, Last week, many pointed big Krauss | \,| thousands of workers were given List 82098 | Offenberg ‘a3 | Jobs, this being right before election. bei | Sasontea . Fellow workers, we know the truth Stein “AB epmenbacua. 35; bout Tammany. We have been Ratale 10 Applebaum 25| treated worse under O’Brien than we rtino 6} oD. K. 25 | vt r ‘ Sinise oe (eee 33) had ever suffered before, O’Brien Hass 50| Noreen 93; cub our wages ten per cent, from 8. x. 35) Efoon 94| $45 to $40.50 a month, Besides these . 2.00! M. T. 8. .25| measly wages that we receive, we a a. iy on 14.25) rie PH have been laid off for one week with- Unit 2 8i| Abrams ‘10 | Out pay every few months. We have ueh 3 1.50| Schwarts 10| been fired without any reason. aie er foe | Fellow workers, the only workers’ Unit 7 °70| Youth members 75 party that carries on a struggle for Unit 11 2.70| Rais .35| the workers the: whole year and not - - 2.70 | S.E. _ .14/ only before election, is the Commu- b 7.94| Col. by Carplloft nist Party. Ev Sec. Unit 17 1.00) Cohen 1.00] D'S ont ery’ unemployed | and | SECTION 2— | Pasternack 50|Telief worker knows that only due a hey 3.80/ Carpiloft _730| to the mass struggles and demon- Unit ‘LB i i 3.00 Strations carried on by the Commu- Unit 10 .75| Col. by Molkensten | ist Party and the Unemployed ‘Unit 16 12.00; 12 names 1.65| Council have we been able to get our Unit 9 6.90| Col. by Ivanova Unit 11 1.75| 3’ names 3) + — ria Unit 16 17.00| Col. by Shemet : Unit 12 1.29) 7 names ‘ Srolman 15) District 4 Unit 7 5.75| Col. by Beckere Brommer 10) P Karas, Buffalo 1.00 Unit 3 5.40} Miler Lopes 05| ©. P Units, Byr, Wkrs School 42.55| Jacobson Lentim +15| Unit 2, Roch, Unit Lists List $7482 Moresco 10] H. Warner, Val. Col. by Cols 7 names Kaplan 10| Un 8 Ellicott Malyk 1.00| Col. by Redcost Loise 10 | Col. by Tarkelo Ripps Shelin 10| ‘Total Nov. 3 2 10 names 1.95] Sonteky Borod ‘A0} Total to date 120.13 Col. by Russell | Forman Anon to| District Pootiaenko 23] Avid Bernstels\ at R. Auville, Pait- howsky |. Atkin ‘ Lessonbain at 5 Kackusk 10|~ Stern ‘i Bea gener ice Marton 5} Begum +10} Total Nov. 8 98%.33| Totel Noy, 23 List 59061 Berg 10 | ‘Total to date o6i1.21' Total to ate 401! 8 names | Kratz 110 | ge eine & “Di Liet 26960 Fogelan Sto rlay’s receipts from other Dis- o8 |bricts will be reported tomorrow. , ~ Letters from Our Readers On the Election Campaign (By a Steel Worker Correspondent.) GARY, Ind.—The Delay Clerks in No. 5 Open Hearth, Mlinois Steel ied areund a petition for higher wages, which all signed. When it superintendent, R. Campbell, he got hold of them and told them it was a school boy’s job. The clerks’ answer was that the addéd. responsibilities of shipping the heats and of charging them, plus numerous other duties, have made it almost impossible for them to work for the present low wages, and it takes more experience than any school boy ever had or will have to do it. ow iw The first, second and third helpers in the open Hearths have asked for “gas turns” (straight day rate) when they are down for eight hours. They wrote a letter to Mr. Campbell about this, and when he saw the feeling of the men, he said they should have gas turns, and if they had hollered about it, they could have had them before. How many other things could we "| have if we just “hollered” for them! The trouble is, as soon as the men started to holler in $5 open hearth, the superintendent got hard-boiled and started laying off men for bad bottoms and other things for which men had never been laid off before. ‘The reason we want the gas turn is that when the furnace is down for repairs, not producing steel, the fellows repairing the furnace get paid a steel rate for this job, but their time is deducted from the ton- nage of ALL the men, with the re- sult that the company actually has the furnaces repaired for NOTHING. Another thing I want to tell you is how the U. 8. Steel “does its part.” It wae announced that common Ja- borers in the Open Hearths were to get a raise from 40c¢ to 52c per hour. But they never got it. Still working for $3.20 a day, and being gypped out of some 20c a day. Sell-Out of Tool, Die Makers Strike SELL OUT—no. 13 p. 4 cross By an Auto Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich. — The tool and die makers’ strike in Detroit has en- tered the betrayal stage. Griffen, Smith and Harrison, by permitting separate agreements, have done the dirty work, and will no doubt be re- warded by jobs on the N.R.A. Region- al Board, side by side with their fit. ting companion, Martell of the De- troit Federation of Labor. The original demand for $1.50 an hour has been settled at 75 cents an hour in some places. The jobbing shops are the curse of the tcol and die industry. Their cheap competi- tion was the cause of Ford disband- ing his $1.25 to $1.50 tool and die departments and reducing his re- maining few die-makers to 65 cents an hour. With the cheap jobbing shops in operation, the General Mo- tors and other huge auto firms can shut down their company die rooms with the exception of experimental | epartments. Small tool and die shops and small | polishing and stamping shops are the curse of the worker with their con- ant under-cutting. They are hard to unionize and in time of strife they and the rest of the bour geoisie form an outer ring of de- | fense for the capitalist system. We must s mash the ‘Hindenburg | line” of the capitalist system, The Mechanics’ Educational Society lead- ers have helped to rebuild the “Hin- denburg line” of the gicrs auto in- dustries. If they take less than ,090 for that job they are piking! Jaj J. Griffen say: employers will ‘ays find our organization willing to compromise.” When the rank and file elect Paul Co. northeast of the | Grow and John (Fighting Mac) An-| ters and 4 truck drivers joined the : avin’ enone |derson as their leaders, all this will| Auto Workers Union today, | be changed, —Chrysler Employee. jobs and keep them, and get what~ ever pay checks and relief checks that Tammany has been forced to give. The Unemployed Council has started to organize relief workers. We signed petitions on the job for 4 12-day month, cancellation of cuts, and other improvements in condi- tions. A delegation of relief workers and representatives of the Unem- ployed Council went to see O’Brien and Commissioner Taylor for these demands. O’Brien did not have the time to see us! He was on a vaca- tion. Fellow workers, we must organize ourselves! Right after election there will be mass lay-offs. Organize and fight against this. Organize your group on the job. Get in touch with the Unemployed Couneils, City Com-~ mittee, 29 E. 20th St., for help and advice. Only a big Communist vote and a big fighting organization of relief workers can force concessions and better conditions from the city ad- ministration, Relief Worker. THAT’S WHAT WE MEAN BY “THIRD PARTY OF CAPITALISM” | Buffalo, N. ¥, Dear Editor: Here is an example (“Buffalo Times,” Oct. 31) of how Socialists in- tend to “introduce Socialism by the ballot.” In Lackawanna, a steel mill city (controlled by Bethlehem Steel Corp.) Socialists run on Socialist, Republican and Law Preservation Party (now a regular party) tickets! Socialist leaders contemplate no ac- tion; they only act against Socialist workers who become too militant, Notice that among the ofilces are those of mayor and city judge, What better evidence do we need to prove the traitorship of Socialist misiead- ers who themselves pretend to “de- nounce” the other capitalist parties? industrial | ’ WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1938 ‘Open Hearth Men Seek Better Rank and File Union Needed at | Stanley Works (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) | NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—Stanley Works factory conditions are terrible. | Accidents are frequent. The shop is} under the N.R.A., but wages are low| just the same, | Girls under the N.R.A. were sup- | posed to be getting at least $13 a week. But the girls are piece work- ers and have to produce so much work a day, and jf they don’t they are fired. And they earn at an aver- age of $7 to $10 a week. Tool makers, die makers and ma- chinists are organized in this factory. But they are being fooled by the A. F. of L. leaders. They are or- ganized into a craft union and want nothing to do with other production makers, The Steel and Metal Workers | Union of New Britain will help us| to organize a rank and file committee in every department and take in other workers so as to have a fighting organization and so defeat the bosses. Already some of these skilled work- ers received a 10 per cent increase because the bosses found out that they are organizing. When workers start to organize, the bosses become afraid and try to stop them by little concessions. | The Stanley Works workers must | not be fooled by the A. F, of L., which | has sold out hundreds of strikes, for example, the truck strike in Con-| necticut. Wickwire Militant Union Is Growing (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) BUFFALO, N. Y.—The Wickwire | steel plant has in its employ 560 men, including foremen, superin- tendents and office help. The Wick- wire Local 106 of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union has a paid-up membership of 348, All department committees meet every week. Grievances are taken up by the committees. Last Friday the superintendent of the Wire Mill-attempted to lay off 14 wire drawers and helpers. The wire drawers’ committee immediately took up this matter. The results | were that nine wire drawers were put | | back to work as helpers and two wire | | drawers were placed back drawing | wire. | | Our union is struggling to keep all | | our men on the job, but I am sure) | a lay-off is going to take place. The | | plant is short of orders. The union) |has a membership of 33 Negroes. | | There are 36 Negro workers in the| | plant.. I know we will gain these workers. We have a Party nucleus} of seven members. We are recruit- ing members to the Party. The solidarity here amongst the workers is perfect. The Party com- rades organized and led the strike and the union is consolidated. Detroit Strike By an Auto Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich. — The stalwarts are on the picket lines morning, noon | | and night. A few weaklings who ex- pected the bosses weavon, the N.R.A. to sirike the chatas from the w ets have shown the white feath The United: Front for Labor Action | |must be called to the picket lines without delay. Chrysler Motors an- swered the sirike by a lay-off of pro- duction men. The Auto Workers are answering the Chrysier firm with its 200 industrial detectives (stool pige- jons), its horde of service men | (Spolansky spotters) and its army of , Uniformed police, by orro-izing the | onded workers into the Auto | Workers Union. | Five suspended torch solderers, 10 | | crank shaft grinders, 8 machine set- | The Auto Workers Union is be- ginning a house-to-house membership campaign among laid-off workers. | The union keeps its membership list secretly under lock and key guarded | by its special new organizor. Ccempany sicel pigeons who foin} the ranks are unable to obtain a_ copy of these lists. Police raids for information are equally ineffective. As the membershio of the Auto Workers Union swings upward, the Mechanics Educational Society will assuredly become a section of the Auto Workers Union, another step toward the united front of labor. Then the cry will be “On to Wall Street Chrysler plants!” | Let us all pay tribute to the gal- lant unemovloyed workers of Detroit who in the pangs of hunger have refused to scab in the great strike. New Castle Bosses Hold Rally To Sell Company Union Idea | (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) NEW CASTLE, Pa.—-Saturday, Oct. 21st a “rally” was held in the Ma- sonic Temple here. This rally was presumably sponsored by the repre- sentatives in the two local tin plate plants. Practically all of the solicitations, advertising and ticket selling (50c each) was done by superintendents, foremen, sub-foremen, etc. The pro- gram consisted of supper, minstrel show, film depirting the manufac- ture of steel, sheet and tin plate, and dancing. The manager, D. 8. Pyle, was in- troduced as our friend and manager, and he acted as chairman, Irwin, president of the U. 8. Steel, spoke first, followed by Hughes Bennet, president of A, S. and T. P, and Barrett, vice-president followed. Each lauded the employes’ representation plan, praised our loyalty in the past, wanted our cooperation now, stressed the company’s and our interests as mutual, and reminisced of the time when they also put hot bars through the rolls, According to them we are one big family, all working for the same good. New Castle 1s one of the world’s largest tin plate centers, and a big effort is being made to keep them (two mills) going in view of the wave of sieel strikes, PARTY LIFE Waits 7 Weeks After Signing | Party Blank andGets No Word | Criticism Lies with Party Committee That Does Not Act Quickly on Applications The comments in this column on reeru%ti Party seem to have struck a responsive ch ; ¢ our readers, for we have received many le(ters from workers reloting ‘their difficulties in getting into our Party. “I have just finished reading the Party Life co suggestions given there are very goo and should be adopted. “My own experience is that I was approached by three comrades from my mass organizations to join the Party. The organizer of my branch invited me to attend an open forum unit meeting. I went with her and joined the Party. That weeks ago and as yet I wi fied whether I am a desi cant or not. “On my application card I stated that I am an employed worker. I not not'- ble appil- also listed the names cf the mass! ich I belong and noer of the organizations to w! stated that I am.a mi ers, Also, that fourteen was a member of the Socialis and that I left that organization at the time of the split in 1919. “I know that my record is not very attractive, yet it is an honest record | of a worker who is willing to join} | the ranks and should be given the chance to do so. “S. R., New York.” eter wine We do not agree with Comrad 8. R. that she has an “unatractive” record. According to her own char- acterization, she is just the type of worker that we are eager to have in our ranks and she should not only “be given a chance” to join the Party, but everything possible should be done to make it easy for her, and even | g new members into the | the minds of many of ord We quote from one of these: umn, and think that the Commun The org. | mass organ r of the branch of the jon who invited. t. meeting, | 1 her application munist Party should not ied to let the mat- » hould have made that the appli- acted upon, and d to a unit. in this case, as lar instances, lies committees, which ication card to Jay adquarters unat- m weeks, cers are there, who discouraged and disillu- imilar treatment, who en their protest to us? ion to exist which keeps mili- ant workers from joining our ranks? We invite more discussion on this subject. Perhaps the various Party’ Units and Sections can explain how | Such situations are permitted to de- | velop? Or, better still, let us have | the experiences of those Sections | which handle applications promptly |and efficiently. We should like to | make a few comparisons on the flue- | tuation of membership in these Sec- | tions. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. Please send me more information on the Communist Party, ADDRESS Ruth Schneider, needle trade worker, states she finds it easier to collect funds for the Daily Worker than ever | before. She raised $17.25 in three weeks, and ¢x- pects to raise more. She col- lects funds for the “Worker” by approaching shop- mates, friends and store~ keepers in her neighborhood. Ruth Schneider eae ane Besides collecting funds for the) Worker by canvassing from Daily : Mike Artimenko, house to house, Daily Worker Volunteer, has also turned in his profits on his sales of the “Worker.” He dis- tributed 25 col- lection barrels among his friends and acquaint- ances who in tum take up collec- tions for the Daily Worker. Among the Volun- teers Mike Artimenko is known as the “Shock Trooper.” ‘We need more like him to save our Daily Worker! Mike Artimenko Front Line Troopers Who | Fight to Save “Daily” |__Member of the | Hinsdale Work- ers’ Club, Ben Montauk, has already raised $16.50. He states: “I pass collection lists among shop- mates and friends. I do everything to save my Daily Worker so it can battle for our rights against the bosses who OP- Ben Montauk press us.” ce * * . Anna Pearl is a member of the Prospect Workers’ Club, which has passed its quota, the first of‘ the Workers’ Clubs to achieve this, An- na Pearl ape proaches mainly the young work- ers, and raised $10 easily. While asking for con- § tributions s h e tells young work- § ers to read the Daily Worker. She expects to raise still more, as do the other members of ths Prospect Club, Anna Pez:1 Doctor By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Primrose Rash 1, M.—Primrose rash may be cured by injections of infinitesimal quan- tities of Primrose Extract in ascending doses. A dose is finally reached which is equivalent to the normal amount of Primrose Extract in the flower. When the patient can withstand this dose, without breaking out in a rash, he will be able to handle the fiowers without inconvenience. Regarding the wart on the sole of the foot, it may be eradicated by thte use of glacial acetic acid. You must be careful, however, to cover the healthy skin with pieces of adhesive tape because the acid is very irritating. She af: Somnambulism Mrs. S. S.—Sorry that we cannot give you a specific and sure cure for somnambulism (sleep walking). If you take care of the boy's diet by not allowing him to eat any spicy food, and also by preventing him to eat a heavy meal before going to seep, it may help a little. Atten- tion to the general health is very important. Make sure that he is not anemic and also that he does not get over-excited in his play. A warm bath before going to sleep is a good general measure. You may also try to put him to sleep with a hot water bag or an electric pad to his feet. This draws the bleod away from the | brain and prevents him from he- coming excited in his sleep. Plens let us know whether you y2 ob- tained any success with the above measures. Facial Paralysis J.N., Detroit, Mich.—Facial para- lyssi 1s often due to a draft or sud- den chilling of the face. It is ust contracted by sleeping near an window. Diet has no influence om it. Electric massage may be of some help in chronic cases. The’ average case gets well within about three to six weeks without any whatscever. ‘ ee ° Itching Skin Disease A. N., Chicago, Mii—Your descrip- tion is too meager for a diagnosis. You may try the following ointment which you are to rub into the skin of your hands and feet, two or three times daily: Carbolated vaseline, taf ointment diquid), zine salve. Equal parts of each, he Dry Hair i Alexander G., Bronx: The hair tonte You mention is ax geod (n= bad) as y other; Ti’s the castor ofl.in i which dogs the trick, If enemic, thore is no o 2 could suggest except a diet includ ing more butter, fats and nuts; pro- vided you are not overweight sf ( i Hi a } | ; ft