The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1933, Page 4

Page Four ; Y WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1933 ae PARTY LIFE Resolutions Only Not Enough in Carrying Out Open Letter Mechanical Decisions in Units Result in Failure to Enlist Members in Actual Work | Among the resolutions of Party units on carrying out the Open Letter, there was a resolution of Unit 13, Section 1, of Distr nted in the Daily Worker of October 24 or 25. It was a lengthy ing of @ preamble and 16 points. The unit pledged itse Open Letter and embodied ages in the resolution. e reading this document in I ri resolution cons to carry out An) Bolshevik Pa all tively ed and con: Letter wa unit. The or to lead the disc or other ne ed for the mass revo of the Amer ar- h face it in the very near instruction: Let of the Open L of 16 poi There was not even to bring these p resolution 1 i 2 Amer at is needed ut in deeds le one out n attempt made ts into life. The a meaningless | the the words of the letter.” From Comrade L. K’s letter it| scrap of pape would seem that neither of these! doubt. wh 1 Unit 13 is more | Were carried out. No discussion was | guilty in this respect than any other | held, and no attempt has been made uni¢ in our section. These resolu- | * Carry out either the letter, or the| tions should have been planned care- | “800d” resolution which the unit} fully by the units with the help and | #dopted. | cooperation of the section committee.| In the course of the next few days | ~ The section committee should have | We will discuss the role of the Unit | been in a position to judge whether |Buro as the political leader of the or not the unit can carry out all the| unit. In the meantime we print this | 16 points. The section ought to keep | letter as an example of how our work records of each unit’s activities and | should not be conducted. In the first | in the case of Unit 13 (which is very | place the Open Letter should have weak) should have suggested three | been discussed by the entire unit—| points for the three months. | not at 11 o’clock, when the unit meet- | The units should have been in-|ing should be adjourning, but at a| structed to adopt resolutions which | meeting devoted entirely to this dis-| , could be carried out and not for show | cussion. The resolution adopted only. should have been prepared by the | | buro on the basis of the discussion. | The adoption of the resolution is only | | the first step to be taken in the| | carrying out of the Open Letter. Un- | | Jess the resolution, which should ap- ; ‘. |ply the Open Letter to the specific | In connection with the above let-| tasks and conditions of the unit’s | ter, we would like to quote from an|W0rk, is put into practice by the | article by Comrade Green, appearing | daily work of all of the unit mem-~- in the Communist International No. | bers, its adoption is useless. The Unit | 17, dealing with “Some Questions Re- | Buro must have the task of checking | garding the Work of the C.P.U.S.A,,”|UD on the carrying out of the reso- | hould be read by | lution, and see that every member of Comrade Green | the unit is involved in this work. The same criticism applies to the y, all the Party |Section Committee, which should know exactly what is| check up on the various resolution: on of the organization, ; adopted by the units, to see not only what are 1 forces, what are | that they were adopted after a thor- the tasks set ore it by history, | ough discussion and political under- here its main forces are directed, | Standing by all of the members of | ing to what clear and exact/ the unit, but also to make sure that n the whole Party must work from | these resolutions do not remain on! so as to become a real | paper. | ‘The resolutions alone wouldn’t do the work unless the comrades act- uaily carry out the work as planned and embodied in the resolutions. —L. K the real cond pl top to bottom, EY Join the Communist Party | 35 EAST 2TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. send me more information on the Communist Party. | the store dropped to less than half now CONDUCIED BY HELEN LUKE is the postponed letter from Comrade Natalie G. s the height of generosity! de Luke: ute to children’s amusement and education, I offer a very of left over bits of all sort of materials from the clothes | on pace: ns HOME-MADE TOY large collecti a T have been w | FOR TRE | lea: Fy Ai Rr iy LV itant Struggle of Brock ton Shoe Strikers Described By Corresponnent Thai is Drug U Clerks’ ion Grows Thru Struge (By a Worker Correspondent) YORK. - y years e been forced received small years of , Which in | years have almost shattered this hope. Hun- | wners were forced out | Pr mainly due to the es- hment ut price drug sto) he enlargement ‘ice | department group f i at, 1 by the | clerks themselves. However in spite of all adverse criticism and many | other obstacles, they stuck to their | guns. Well, four months ago they had a membership of less than 500, who for the most part thought it is a good idea that may perhaps work out. Then something happened that sur- prised them. A member of the union was dis- charged in a Brooklyn store for being @ member of the union. The miij- tant leadership immediately began ‘o act as a union should. Pickets were established day and night. Leaflets acquainted the neighborhood withy| conditions in the store, and the reason for the strike. To the surprise of most of the rship, the strike was won in with increase in pay and | orter hours. 1,500 Members The Union has, since then, won several other battles and the mem- bership has grown to about 1,500 dues-paying members and is growing fast. At present, there is a strike in one of the worst sweat shop drug stores in the city, Linderman’s, 153 Riving- ton St. The writer of this story is in a position to know the conditions in this store, having worked there for almost two months, The usual hours were at least 12] a day. 10 to 10, or 12 to 12, which meant that you had to be in at least 15 minutes earlier, and left at a half hour late. Most of the days you could only take a half hour for lunch. If a clerk went to the lavatory more than and for longer than three he was reminded that he here to work and not to parade around. Beginning 11 AM., were customers three to fice deep in front of every clerk, and the clerks were made to speed-up and at the same time had to sell certain kinds of merchandise in preference to the merchandise called for, very often inferior products. Since the strike the business in usually and Linderman is} employing reaking tactics: in- me-ups and ar- ut cause, defended a clerk timidation, rests of pick Today the LL.D. who was f di ney Sharpman to jail. However, Com- rades Holtzman and Jean Robinson | years. | strongly together that the manufac- Fought Terror of A.F.L. Gunmen and Deceit of National Labor Board | (By a Worker HOLBROOK, M: ‘On August ended on November The Boot and Shoe Union had It is affiliated with the A. F. of L. ‘s; and in its own i on the most friendly relations, the manufacturers. In return | the 35 cents a week dues demand- it even annulled the small bene- fits it had given its m: rs in past | The workers got miserable} ed, workers were dissatisfied and | | When the Brotherhood Shoe and Al- lied Crafts Union formed, several members stopped paying dues to the B. and 8. Union. Acting in accord- ance with their contracts with the union, the manufacturers barred the men from work. The workers im- mediately struck, demanding the re- turn of se men. This trouble spread | throughout the city until every fac- tory was out, 20 of them. | Labor Board Fights Strike | The National Labor Board wired the Brockton workers to go back to work and pay dues. The clergy met and issued statements urging the peo- ple to go back to work. The workers stood their ground, opened up their own store, collected aid, united so turers had to give in. First one, then another, they all threw their precious contracts out of the windows—all but one. The largest factory of all, the N. Douglas Shoe Co., on Oct. 21, tried} to bribe their employes back by prom- ising a bonus if they worked till the following August when their contract expired; they even c.ve a slight raise. But workers have learned their hard lessons and did not go back, President Mara of the B. and 8S. PARTY UNIT GREETS NEW DAILY Comrade Editor: Rockford, Ill. Unit number four of the Rockford | Section, after a thorough discussion, | wishes to express its approval over the vastly improved six page daily. Especially do we greet such articles as “Mike” Gold, Dr. Luttinger, and the articles of general cultural in- terest, | In our opinion, the weakest sec- tion is the women’s section. Here, as yet, there is room for considerable improvement. However, that section has improved very noticeably since Comrade Luke took charge of it. In the woman's section should be arti- | | cles dealing with womens struggles, articles that help our women com- rades to understand the Party and| the movement. We greet the new “Daily,” and | pledge it our unswerving support. LONG LIVE THE DAILY | WORKER, THE COLLECTIVE OR- | GANIZER. | was compelled to discharge the case. | | This by the way, was the first time | the I.L.D, was employed by our union, and are they glad they did? Just ask any of the members. One direct result from this ctrike | is the unionizing of the neighbor- | hood stores, $40 a week, and 54 hours a week. The code calls for $16 a week and 56 hours, except in an emergency, in which case a clerk may be employed without limit to hours. This is a left independent union, | No A. F. of L. racketeering. The union office is at 612 Third Ave., New lefeated their efforts and the judge York City. It allowed the employers all the wage | cuts they wanted; it broke strikes; it never intervened on behalf of the words it®, | attacked these cars with stones and to move out of the city. During this in favor of the Brotherhood Union. withheld it in the hope that the firm would break the strike. They sent their decision Nov. 2. the members of the B. and 8. union L,}are to vote on the legality of their sent in resignations.) Then all Doug- already.) Brotherhood union decided to return Letters from Our Readers Correspondent) | 28, 1953, a shoe strike began which } been a tyrant here for many years. | Union filled pages of newspapers with trides, protests and self-praise. The company With the aid of the B. and S. brought in strike breakers, gun- men, prizefighters from Boston. They | shot at the sidewalks and in the air | to scare the pickets. The workers were fed up with being peaceful. They were shot at in return, The Douglas company changed tac- tics. The railroad runs conveniently in front of their factory. They hired & special train to carry these strike- breakers back and forth. The work- ers smashed the windows of the train. The city and surrounding towns turned out at these times. Even | young school boys loaded themselves | with bricks. Threaten to Move The Douglas company threatened time the workers voted unanimously The National Labor Board had a decision ready for two weeks, but Under the direction of the board, contract (from which all members Jas workers are to vote for their union (which they have done once On receiving this decision the to work, BISCUSSING THE DAILY WORKER Dear Comrade Editor: We have had a discussion on the merits of the Daily Worker in our unit—and while everyone agrees on the immense improvement—there is one very serious criticism which we think should be considered. Perhaps we are local patriots—but we find that our Daily is fast be- coming a New York newspaper. New York featur2s--the election campaign the Blum case—etc. (very impor- tant, that is true), New York meet- ings—New York ads—in fact—on the three most important pages—we find almost entirely filled with New York happenings. Certainly there are plenty of hap- penings in Southern Illinois—in Chi- cago—in Indiana—in Milwaukee—but the Daily has not been giving them much space. To have an item of an affair inserted in the Daily is an impossibility-if you're outside of New York. We suggest that there be a special sheet printed as an insert in each day of the Daily—or perhaps two or three times a week—as a begin- ner. This would only be for Mid- West news—and the additional cost to the Daily would not be very great. Iam sure that the increased response to the paper would more than pay. Of course the staff of the Daily must get the news—and we should organize Shock Brigades of Worker Correspondents—to see that this ma- terial is sent to the Daily on time. A. F. L. Heads on NRA Board Help Food Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y. — Relief for 2,800 (no, not workers) restaurant owners was granted officially by Whalen. In each case the N.R.A, complaint board acted on evidence showing that terrible hardship was suffered by the employers. For example, among the firms granted relief was Loft’s Inc., a poor starving chain employing 4,032 wait- resses. Others have been granted the right to work the workers extra hours —for the same pay, which goes to show that the N.R.A. is a recovery act—for the bosses, This act is really meant to recover more profit with less complaining. Whalen weeps that with the in- crease of complaints of starving cor- porations, he was forced to increase the personnel of this board, adding the following: Representing Employ- | ers: Bernard H. Ridder, Gilbert T. Hedges; for “labor,” Joseph P. Ryan, Central Trades and Labor Council; Pauline Newman, Union Health Cen- ter; Mabel Leslie, of the Women’s Trade Union League—all affiliated with the A. F. of L. There is only one way out for hotel and restaurant workers—that is to get together, regardless of union or non-union affiliations. Don’t de- pend on the so-called “labor” repre- sentatives. You can readily see how eager they are to give the bosses relief. Bear in mind that Mr. Leh- man, an international vice-president of the Hotel and Restaurant Union of the A. F. of L. is a member of the N.R.A. Complaint Board. Yes, we the rank and file in all organizations must force the issue on the floor, against the wish of the officers, send out a call against this outrage, demonstrate near the head- quarters of the N.R.A. 10,000 strong. -Member of Waiters Union, Local 2, Brooklyn. Some one should be assigned to definitely cover local events. —D., Unit 907. THE OFFICE WORKERS UNION MAKES AN URGENT APPEAL Dear Comrades: Not once in the six years existence of our union, have we called for pub- lic assistance in our work of organ- izing “white collar’ workers; even during the past three years of ex- treme unemployment, our own mem- bers have generously supported all our activiities Today, however, we find ourselves in need of about $300, which we cannot possibly raise from the members of the union, whose salaries have been slashed, and a great many of ‘fiom are either par- tially or totally unemployed. We know that there are many among your readers who are inter- ested in organizing “white collar” workers, and we call upon them for financial assistance in such amounts as they can afford. At the present time, we are con- ducting energetic campaigns of or- ganization in the department stores, in Wall Street, and have assisted in organizing a Dry Goods Workers Union. Our work is necessarily han- dicapped by lack of funds, and only with some outside assistance can we possibly complete the plans for or- ganization worked out by our Execu- tive Board for the next three months. With fraternal greetings, EMERGENCY FINANCE COMM. By Jay Engle. All funds should be sent to the Office Workers Union, 80 East 11th St. New York City. Farm Wome _|Many Come from| T think’ Farms as Delegates to! Farm Conference By SASHA SMALL EATED among their broad-shoul- dered, weather-browned men— about two-score farm women, some of them dressed in their best clothes, many of them in overalls, listen carefully to all that is being said and discussed. Mrs. Mamie Murtland from Minne- Ready to Defend Their Farm = Dolis and doli clothes, blankets, CHILDREN | cushions, co and even a small| : epatch work be made by|, By ALICE W. L. some incu seamstress of What do you do with your old not many I will be glad to| stockings? Not the silk ones, but | : send these remnants to any little | lisle. They make very fine stuffed = girls that write for th dolls. Any woman at all handy with { I have enough to supply at least a| fine doll dozen child: maybe more, even, terials are quite and some of the 1 lovely. Ill also si suggestions for doll clothes, et if | me what they want | Another Offer I would like to contribute to your | ollection in the competition, and not | at some house party, or raffle it off, | er make it on a private order. If someone contributes material (4| 4'5 yards of 39 inch wide or 3} )t0 342 yards of 54 inch wide), prefer- | @biy wool of good quality or velvet- ‘een, I'll make it up in some prac-| tical, attractive style, in a standard | ‘size, and if you can figure out how} to sell it for about $10 or so, it will Pe a good buy for some girl and si0| T thought maybe at some house party tickets at 25c or 50c could be; sold and the dress raffled or auc-/| tioned off. Bgst luck. —Natalie. Condition of Acceptance | The above offer; is most gratefully | aecepted, provided I may be allowed to help finish this historic dress! I! feel sure there will be no great diffi- Culty in disposing of it. And now that we are on the subject of dolls | for the children, it is a most propi- | tious time to present some more of! the tract about inexpensive toys. i ; | the arms cut another sock and stuff and trimming them even with scis-|that land, and preventing other|anq she is confident that her ener- sors. homes from being broken up like! cetic, wiry husband will see to it that ‘ their own. The Welfare Board doesn’t | it's done, As for herself, she'll do Editor's Note: — Natalie can give | think se Muraae if Sn bares what she can, too. | other ways, too, of making cloth | Care of her three children, ie lady dolls, Little girls wanting some of| investigators don’t say anything Fread of Migiting Husband those cloth scraps may write to Com-| @bout the forces or the system that| Mrs. Lena Rose leads in the cheer- 3 satis: hei a | Sota looks at you with soft, sad eyes. oe Ce ee *| Her face is round and tan.” She tries Cut off a foot of hose, leaving the |atd to forget her personal troubles the head of doll,| #24 Temember only her responsibil- heel, whic’ é ‘ . sid Pin ;| ity as a United Farmers’ League or- Val) seems ab sides, (Sew shut ‘hole 2 jeer. Bubive Harding tance teas made by cutting.) After it is stuffed | : : es with old clean rags or cotton, tie|YOUT three children are in a Sta\ | school because they were taken away | from you by the local Welfare Board. ‘It's hard to keep from crying when | you pull out Dorothy’s letter; she’s | the oldest, 11 years old, in which she | tells you that the two little boys are | well and they want some money so | they can send Christmas presents. Now Busy Organizing The Murtlands can’t farm any more. around with a piece of cord. Then stuff the rest of the sock far enough down to make the body, Below this split the sock for the legs, sew them up and stuff. For so that it forms a roll, Insert this in the body by making aho le through | the bor Sew up the ends of the| arms and the body is then ready to | be dressed in whatever you have| They have been completely dispos- handy in the way of old rags, | sessed. So they have been giving all Faces can be embroidered in with | their time to organizing other farm- colored cotton thread, and hair made | ers like themselves—helping those by threading in strands of wool yarn | Who are still on the land stay on A group of along the road. Yes sir. There's lots of organizing that needs to be done destroyed her home, or the starva- | tion that filled it like a thick gray | shadow. Mamie Murtland is not | crushed by her personal tragedy. She | takes part in all the sessions and ing. She has a full, deep voice and she waves her strong arms around as she yells. She is quietly proud of her husband, John Rose, who has just been released on bail and whose rade Natalie in care of tt column. Helping the Daily Worker Through Helen Luke Contributior ons and only once in a while | case is up before the State Supreme of Helen Luke in her list com- | ad eyes are clouded by memory. | Court of Michigan on appeal. petition with Michael Gold, Dr. Lut- | E beth Wright, from Glad- Her skin is quite black and she tinger, Ed Bu oO 9 rd Newh » $1,000 ir cob | win, Michigan, 0,900 | woman, is a cheerful, plump | She's about 35 and mostly tells you proudly that her father was | @ full-blooded American Indian. Her V : Drive. he beams on her husband, BPber| mother had some Negro blood. R. H. Ashley .. $ , Who was elected township; Mrs Pritschau, “that’s what Previous total . They can’t farm their| they call me back in Nebraska where — | sandy land any more, so they sell fee | we organize,” is only 34 years old, Total to date................$32.22| cream and drinks in a little booth} She was born in Sherman County, Farm Conference, where they came to take part in hammering out a fighting program against the Roosevelt farm robbery program, Homes n Also Fight Against Land Robbery Young School-Girl Tells of Struggle Against Misery She and her husband have been Party members since last June. Be- fore that they were Socialists. They didn’t carry cards. They just did what they could without. “Why did we change our way of thinking? On account of our seeing that there were no hopes of getting . ” to the recent historic Chicago Nebraska, but her father moved their family of ten around to at least six different places, trying to find a place where they could niake a liv- ing off the land and pay their debts. She does everything around the farm ~housework, fieldwork, corn husking and raising her two children. The boy, who is 15 years old, finished country school and helps his father on the farm now. He wants to live @ natural life like the Indians he saw in South Dakota. Even their farm seems too civilized to him, he says. Mrs, Maggie has no complaint about the women in her neighborhood. Every time there's a meeting there’s at least half women present. Mrs. Maggie has lots to do in addition’ to her farmwork. She is secretary of the Communist Party in her section anything done for us and the people around us by votes. You have. to have action to get anywhere. That's what changed our minds!” Fifteen, But Not Too Young Elma Torvi is only 15 years old. She is a delegate from Zim, Minne- sota. Her father owns a dairy farm there and though she is a junior in the Cherry High School she skipped school to come in the truck with the other farmers from Minnesota, She has dusty blond hair and wide, blue visit to Chicago—‘it’s such a great big thing,” she says. She doesn’t feel that she is too young to be a delegate or to do what she knows has to be done in Zim when she gets back. “I'll bring back a good report, I think, I’ii tell them about all the different things that were discussed and about what the youth ought to do to help in the work. There's too many young people around our way who think of noth- ing but having a good time, and I'm going to see to it that they begin thinking about organizing.” She won't have too much time be- cause after school she has to help with the house work, and when there is no school she has to make hay and dig potatoes. She doesn’t have to help with the milking, because they have only five cows. But that won't keep her back, Organizing, that’s the important thing to all these farm women. You can’t speak to one of them without hearing that word in the first few sentences. They have learned the, and secretary of the township holi- day associatiof same lesson, How do the Communists explain the fact that the Fascists have out- lawed the Social-Democratic Par- ty? Is the Social-Democratic Party already liquidated? It is not difficult to understand why the National Socialists, after they came to power, also struck at Social-Democracy, why Hitler did not ouly suppress the Social-Democratic press but also put Pressure upon the trade union bu- reaucrats. In the course of the past ten years the Na- zis did come out against the So- cial-Democracy because the So- cial-Democracy Placed itself at the head of the head of the revo- lution of 1918-19 even though it 2 was only to be- tray it, because the Social-Democrats clung to the Weimar Coalition and made it difficult for the Fascists to get the necessary 400,000 good posi- tions, and which were occupied by the Social-Democrats, for their fol- lowers, It wasn’t even an easy thing for the Fascists to chase out the So- cial-Democratic officials and ‘mem- bers of the police force who for lany years had so zealously defended the bourgeoisie. For this purpose it was necessary to link up the Social-Dem- ocrats with Van der Lubbe, at least for a few days, to take this occasion to close down their press so that it should not even occur to it to ex- Pose the Fascist provocation and bes- tialities, and at the same time, to drive the Social-Democrats from the government and municipal institu- tions. The Fascists made use of So- cial-Democracy in order to penetrate into the ranks of the working class through #%. And the /harder one strikes at Social-Democracy, the more 0. Piatnitsky know that the greater their pressure will be on the leaders of the Social- Democratic Party, the more rapidly and willingly will these leaders ad- vance towards them. And the Fas- cists were not mistaken in their cal- culations. The Fascists need trade unions, If they will be in possession of the trade unions it will easier for them to car- ry into effect their program for the inhuman enslavement of the workers. The Social-Democratic leaders and trade union bureaucrats threw them- selves upon their knees before the Fascists, helped them to take hold of the trade unions. Before the Fascist upheaval, the trade unions had sent abroad the hard earned pennies of the workers which they collected in the form of membership dues. The Fascists tried to get these sums of money back and stated that if they were returned they would allow them to remain in the trade unions. With- out bothering much to ask the opin- ion of the workers, the trade union bureaucrats demanded this money back. And now when the money got into the hands of the Fascists, they chased out the reformist lackeys. The entire Social-Democratic press of the countries that are opposed to the revision of the Versailles Peace Treaty, immediately attacked the So- cial-Democracy, but only because the Socialists of the entente countries— just exactly like the German Social- Democrats—supported the imperialist policy of their own bourgeoisie. Just as in 1914-18 the Social-Democracy separated into two hostile camps— into followers of the German orien- tation and followers of the Versailles Peace Treaty. The Social-Democratic press and the bourgeois press of the entente countries acted as if they could not understand how the Social-Demo- cratic Party which had such strong trade unions and other proletarian How Nazi Germany Utilizes the Social Democratic Party Fascism May Need Misleaders’ “Left” Cover- ing to Keep Workers from Communism By 0. PIATNITSKY. i Continuing his answers to the questions of workers about the situ- ation in Germany, Comrade Piatnitsky in yesterday’s Daily Worker described some of the actions of the Social-Democracy which led the masses of Germany directly into the eile easily can this be done. The Fascists ; mass organizations not only did not! hands of the Nazis. Now read om: er offer Hitler any resistance, but, om the contrary, advanced towards him so rapidly. For us Communists that was not a surprise. We said to the workers that the German Social-De- mocracy in the period of the Novem- ber Revolution of 1918 and after- wards, up to Hitler’s entrance to power, Was a bourgeois party, and has remained a bourgeois party. It saved the bourgeoisie and helped it in all the difficult moments of its life. Now, when a bourgeois bloc has been formed around the Fascist par- © ty, Social-Democracy must naturally, be where the bourgeoisie is, because it always carried out the policy of the bourgeoisie. There is nothing sur- prising in this, ; Will this new treachery be without consequences for Social-Democracy Fes ff w and the trade union bureaucrats? *” Certainly not. The struggle within Social - Democracy is inevitable. 4» Symptoms of this struggle dre al- ready at hand. In Wedding, the |), workers’ quarter in Berlin, the So- cial-Democratic Party still had 9,000” members even after the Fascist up- © t # “a heaval and the new members of the id Social-Democratic Party, under the _ assumption that the organizations 6 would go over into illegality, re-elect- ed their various committees and ” chased the old functionaries out of 7 the leadership. Practically the same thing happened in Lichtenberg and _ other districts, where the Social- | Democratic lower organizations un- dertook to re-elect their leading com- mittees. The Berlin district Jeader- ship of the Social-Democratit Party prohibited the calling of party meet- ings and discussions under the pre- text that that would give the Fascists an opportunity to ban the ‘Social- Democratic Party. In reality the So- cial-Democratic leaders prohibited | discussions and meetings oniy be- cause they were afraid of the tre- mendous discontent existing ‘in the lower organizations. There were cases where the Social-Democratic organ- izations got into communication with the Communist organizations, with the nuclei, and in that way informed themselves as to what was ,taking & place in Berlin. Here and there they ~~ even helped in bringing out Commu-g # nist manifestoes against Fascism, The jower trade union organizations, un-| der the influence of the Communists, *, ¥ | ‘ ¢ began to resist fascisation in’ many places. From day to day these mani- festations will undoubtedly becomes more frequent. To the extent that this process is taking place, a constantly greater number of Social-Democratic work- ers who are dissatisfied with the treacherous policy of their leaders are leaving the ranks of the Social- Democratic Party. Part of these workers, who still believe in the radical phrases of the “left. hypo- crites, will attempt to create a new Social-Democratic organization, per- haps even an illegal organization. The real revolutionary workers will go over from Social-Democracy to the Communist Party. It would, however, be a very se . ous mistake to believe that Social Democracy is already liquidated is Germany. To the extent to which events develop, a situation will arise where without “left” covering Fas- cism will no longer be in a position to maintain itself and then it will utilize the Social-Democracy as a “left” party in order to prevent the workers from going over to the Com~ munists. It will require very pains- taking and thorough work ‘by the Communist Party of Germany in or- der to convince the Cerman -Social- Democratic workers that the Social- Democracy is to blame for the fascists taking over the power in Germany. Whoever believes that that can come through the objective conditions alone, without the planned, system- atic, unselfish and courageous work of the Communist Pariy of Germany, is fundamentally mistaken. , Dector PROFITEERING DRUGGISTS Several correspondents have written us regarding pharmacists who have apparently taken advantage of their ignorance and who have chargéd them exorbitant prices. We do not know how conditions are in various parts of the country, and we can only speak with authority about New York and vicinity. As far as our experiences go, we may state the following? There is no doubt that in the pro- © — fession of pharmacy, like in that of | makes all the money. It is mbt rare medicine and every other profession | to see druggists working 18 hours and business under the capitalist sys- | daily for a mere pittance. tem, a certain amount of racketeer-| Finally, we found the average N ing prevails. There are scoundrels| York druggist, particularly .on and swindlers in every walk of life.| ast Side, always ready to The large chain drug stores under-/a@ prescription at cost. All the pay their clerks and promote the sale} physician has to do is to write the of patent medicines, and thereby en-| letters “p.p.” on the prescription and courage self-medication. The “up-|the pharmacist will automatically to-date” drug store, of course, looks | charge cost price, and, in some cases, more like a department store and| make no charge at all. restaurant than a real pharmacy. Here and there, a druggist will over- charge on certain items; but as a rule we found the average New York Helping the Daily Worker Through Dr. Luttinger power of united action and they arefan “exorbitant” ready to teach their neighbors the| cover his overhead expenses, pharmacist to be a pretty decent; Mina Eskenazi . $ 2.00 chap, often hard-put to make a liv-| A. Niehorste ... 1.54 ing and most of the time either un-| A Friend .. 1.00 able to employ a full-time clerk or|O. Helman 1.00 having difficulty in paying him. We| Swan Hohnberg 1.00 know quite a number of druggists who ri . 1.00 borrow back from their clerks on 1,00 ‘Tuesday part of the wages they paid 35 them on Saturday. We know some 1.00 who went nearly “broke” by dis- 4 pensing prescriptions for the Relief LOGY, Administration, which is very slow as in paying. Some of the drugs are quite ex- 2.00 4 pensive, the rent is usually high and 1.00 the druggist has to charge sometimes 1.00 price in order to - 301.51 It ‘ mae 4s the big drug manufacturer who Total to date.............$317.80