The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1933, Page 4

© @ hard day's work, especially if he | ‘has a hard evening ahead of him. | “eate the “Let him do it himsel Page Four DAI LY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, PARTY LIFE Communist All White No Special Tes Part of Exploite: Editor of Party Will you p A few days statement that th are not to be a organization such a: and Life s—made a ch workers id be well ve the A Clear Example Blue Eagle Mocks in Window Union City Mission i Piece Work Used of Empty Stores in Farm Area Pockets Part of As Speed-Up Device By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—A certain firm em- ng about one hundred typ’ monthly salary, varying in in a cases according to seniority ded that it might be able to get re work out of its workers by eding them up and paying them n a piece work basis, The work was consisted of longhand reports, the| ih countéd, | as uni- | ronted the} y e at the r item of piece work| the ility of} imum it and} outr Sens P. for their money.| uineton tt conscious workers whe|An efficiency expert evolved the fol-| I alw d ) in line of | lowing plan: Toward the end of a| Sanea ‘ ; I of|certain month, the typists were| the Party. I {told that they were to be put i) Ge ix ie, s ja piece-work basis beginning the fol-| chine’ not ; of the Party) | lowing month, but were not informed| that the i r ice was to be paid per line tive of ershi d- D: Party establish a which would b Mi the purpos wade and wou ing rebuke to cl: bers of the white-collar Are class-conscious Proletarians to be allowed Part in the sharpening class s @fe, or are they to be cast asi Decisive Sec- very the y fo: s of the working cl in the basis indus- —those w tries as follows: “Tt is time that the entire Party should understand that without a solid basis among the decisive ele- ments of the American workers, | the Party cannot lead the revolu- tionary struggles of the working class and free from the in- fluence of the social democrats and . The White Collar Worker—Part of the Working Class It is not the opinion of the Party that the white-collar wo: ould | the bourgeoisie, which still prevails Clay, the schoolbook bourgeoise not take part in the lass | among the decisiv ments of the jeconomist, si (Principles of E7o- struggle. Most c working class, ho r favorable |nomics, Chap. XVI) “Presumably| @ part of the wo | the condition: influence | the employer endeavors to get the} only should not it | may be. It i: same amount of work for his money should fic ‘ about the re the |whichever method he adopts.” 'This miners, stecl y unless jis definitely false, since this is a ers, and all other basis case in which the employer reczived| working class for ; the miners, metal | considerably more under the piece) capitalism. Tt ers, railroad work- |work system and the reason was that| ers are exploited ers, auto, marine and textile work- |the typists not being organized in| ® greater degree than ers. It is idle chatter to speak jany form of union or labor organi-| of the working cla and ¢ about the leading role of the Party |zation, were unable to protest against ¢ establishing contacts with e strata of the workers, ing these workers and win- ning them over to our side. “The working class will be in a position to fulfill its role as the most decisive ciass in the struggie all class-conscious white ers have a place i Party. The Commun U. S. A. has no to white collar w applied to all wo Communist Party collar w withou W lief in and adhi against finance, capital, as the | of the Commu leader of all toiling masses, only | The white c | if it is headed by a Communist | the past have Party, which is closely bound up with worker: Howev while sti ing the im- portance and the necessity of streng- thening the Party’s base among the dicisive sections of the working the decisive strata of the identity with the working class. must be the task of the Party and of the revolutionary unions to win these masses of exploited workers in- | masses, the Open Letter also points to their ranks, jout the necessity of winning to its Party Members Must Prove Fitness | ranks the white collar workers. In in Soviet Union }America these form a large section ‘The Communist Party of the U. S.|of the working class. The Party A. does not have a division for “can-| wants them within its ranks. It didates.” Such a division is found | must intensify its work among them. HELEN LUKE Here is an S.0.S. from California, along with two bits in answer to my own S.0.8. It goes, in part, like thist Dear Comrade Helen: Since you have got into the race, I am sending my pittance to you because I am a suppressed feminist and that last crack got me. Also be- eause I thoroughly approve of your®— column even if it can’t be a political treatise on the role of women in the| Tevolutionary movement and a p: tical help m the home all in small corner. I suggest that one of these days ‘when you get around to i Ject some information as t poor Komsomolkas are goir ganize our own lives. Ali I have ever been told was just “get organized. Por instance, if you have a worker for.a husband, who co thome pooped from the shop and has to rush to a meeting within half an hour, and your section organizer de- cided that just at that hour you ha’ to go to a meeting, and you consid Can You Make ’em Yourself? Pattern 1654 is available in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 kes 44 yard 36 inch lace. MIlustrated step- step sewing instructions included. un #t your Bolshevik duty to go, and iso your Bolshevik duty to see that the young husband is fed so that he | ean carry on this work mentioned, | what do you do? | T’ll bet two bits that even erate I ®o-and-so can’t answer that one. an hear smart and single comra gay, “Let him do it himself.” But) with what energy and when? Lolli, | What Shall We Do? Lolli is right; a flippant aswer is | | tion that needs a good sensible an- Bwer. The husband should not be| to get his owa dinner ae) And I certainly would never advo- at- titude for any gal that loves her hus- Iam beginning to get a bit squee myself between volutionary wo: nd the household, so I feel very much inclined to maxe the kind of @ collection mentioned, and as fast as I learn new wrinkles I'll pass ’em right along... . In this connection my mind is run- ming more and more to the subject of fireless cookers... . I never had one, but I have read in books that you can make one at home, and soon ‘as I creep out from under some other duties I'll try it and report. Tt begins to look more and more as if “we poor Komsomolkas” wi o Send FIFT NTS (5c) in have to work out some method running a wee two-by-four “alw Open” restaurant in our homes. Write ainly My mind also runs to the kind of |P" and style num-||cion on the Communist Party. dinners that can be cooked in the! “aden ise or a day ahead; I mean) potter pe inne Name rt er particularly vegetable soup (with meat | ag fe lati potatoes), and which I lke so|S%» New York Ci [SERGEU:. scab keveocasaentnaeenyes much I could almost live on it. More | the June 1933 issue of the Birth Con-| | ‘ity VB . Feo eeeeseeeeee about this problem later. | trol Review; { here are interesting ar- By the way, Lolli, you might enjoy ticles on pp. 140 and 145, ards 39 inch fabric and % | red) for | ypewritten copy | lines done |to . This total then divided] |by the sum of wages which would} jhav been paid the operators had |they been working under the month- \ly wage system. The pay check for |the month represented exactly the |same amount expended the previous month, but twenty-five per cent more work had been sweated out of the typists. The price per line| now fixed upon was the total salary| paid out the last month of the old [Fesime, divided by the total number) jof lines done by the typists who had| j}ben speeded up in anticipation of in- |creased pay. such an adjustment of the wage \schedule. | ‘Eastern Oklahoma | Farmers Held Ready | for Real Leadership (By a Farmer Correspondent) | SALLISAW, Okla—Can’t there be | |a little more pep put into the move-| ment? For instance, here in Eastern | Oklahoma seething for revolt. All it |lacks is leadership. I surmise the en- |tire United States is in the same con- \dition as this section. I am not mis- taken—this country is ripe for action. Even the county editors are talking revolt privately. An old comrade visited me not long ago. He was foreign-born and though we had many interesting conversa- tions, he never could organize the farmers. Why? Simply because he doesn’t understand farmers, He can’t get out and be one of the boys, He didn’t know how. What is needed in the farm section |now is workers that can go among | yO. \the people and sympathize with them. |They like to talk of their troubles, jand their troubles are legion. The | workers need to know how to enlist the farm people’s sympathy. Then organize, organize, and gradually build up class consciousness. The comrade that visited me got |the impression that these people are of inferior intellect, which isn’t true jat all. They have had poor oppor- |tunity, but as to natural intellect, |they are an average on nearly any community. ‘The time is ripe; hit while the iron is hot. Next year may be too late. I am glad to see your effort at build- jing up a united front with the So- |cialist Party. I know when I was a Socialist, I would have been in per- fect sympathy with the united front. Sunshine Farms, Inc. Aims to Cut Drivers’ \Pay to $5 Per Week | By a Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK—My brother works | for the Sunshine Farms, Inc., 466 11th Ave., as a truckdriver’s helper. He I worked there for two years. He was being paid $6 a week by the com- | pany and $2 a week by the one on the | truck. Now, ofter two years, the com- pany wants to cut him 50 per cent, which means he would get $3 and $2, 5 a week. He works 6 days a week, rage of 12 hours a day. Some- | times he works 14 and 15 hours. JOIN THE Communist Party ||25 BE. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- NRA Fails to Pay Depositors, But Protects Mortgage Interests of Banks | | (By a Worker Correspondent.) | FARIBAULT, Minn.—Your correspondent has a list of zealous workers ,|for the N.R.A. in this section who plastered their little store fronts with | forced labor. the buzzard’s pictures, but who have closed their doors, owing hundreds of | dollars, plenty of them pulling out during the night to join the 17,000,000 | already looking for jobs. And when they moved out they left the buzzard’s | d to a piece work basis since|Pictue still sticking on the door, “We@— do our part.” And as everybody passed, they laugh and shake their heads and exclaim the N.R.A. is do- ing its work. This is happening every day in nearly every town and city in South- ern Minnesota. In connection with Mr. Roosevelt’s Buzzard program, banking is another stunner, when that gentleman an- nounced that all bank depositors where banks were busted would be “cared for.” After waiting a long time for these busted banks to open, depositors were notified that if they would take 45 cents on the dollar (and the bank officials keep 55 cents) the banks would open, otherwise they would remain closed. Some of the anks ri d, so we are informed, e depositors having signed up. Big Mortgage Burdens Your correspondent has before him the official report of the Board of County Commissioners for Rice County for July, 1933, the most fer- tile county in the State of Minnesota, where the farmers and other work- ers are mortgaged to the sum of nearly $12,000,000, besides owing money to feed the blue buzzard, couped up in the Federal Reserve Bank vaults. This report shows that 482 tax payers in the county were scratched from the personal property tax books, because there was no property left to tax, in addition to as many more who could not pay for the year 1932. And in the list of those who had no personal property in 1932 and were scratched from the books, are nine banks, every one in the county, two national with a total tax and scratch- off of $4,538.59, and this is only eight per cent of the real value of the property taxed. The worst of it 1s one of these banks claims it has over half a million dollars of farmers’ widows and old people’s money on deposit who cannot get a dollar of it. And another good bit of food for the blue buzzard is the fact that these nine banks are foreclosing as many farm mortgages. Colleges Rob Farmers Even our great charitable institu- tions of learning, Seabury Mission, Carlton College and Norwegian Col- Jege, where it costs the student $1,000 a year to get a “charitable education,” have mortgages on farms and on workers’ homes amounting to nearly $3,000,000, drawing from 5 to 95 per cent interest and don’t pay one cent of taxes. Even the International Harvester Co., with divisional headquarters at Faribault, Minn., has its personal tax of $141.29 cancelled by the Rice County Commissioners. The Faribault Furniture Co., with thousands of dollars worth of new furniture piled in their warehouses had their personal taxes scratched off the tax books amounting to $742.12. This factory with four others, once employing something like 350 people up to 1930 has scarcely turned a wheel for over a year, about 15 people now | being employed, two and four days @ week, at Blue Eagle wages. One of the banks which had its taxes scratched from the records by the county board owes the. manager of this furniture corporation $6,000 on deposit, while the warehouse of this corporation is packed to the roof with no sales and with hundreds of men, formerly employed, hunting for | work. 20,000 in District Starving In this district, composed of five counties, there are close to 20,000 heads of families unemployed, with absolutely no credit for food and clothing, with no fuel, light and water shut off, and still the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of the Little Flower Church of Detroit, Mich. told his radio audiences on Sunday, Noy. 12th, that, capitalism is the oniy practical system known to promote the well being of the entire human race of the world. So Mr. Coughlin is howling like a sick calf in an empty milk pail for capitalism, the Federal Reserve Bank, and Roosevelt, while the farm- ers and workers starve and freeze. For weeks Mr. Roosevelt's outfit has had a retinue of high salaried poli- ticians in every county west of the Mississippi River, making allotments to farmers in every township for the number of acres they must not plough for next year’s wheat crop, amount- ing to some 26 per cent each town- ship, with a bunch of high salaried farm bureau ex-members as aides to the racket, and each farmer to sign up to letting the land stand idle. In conversation with some of those who were at the meeting I found that only about two per cent of the dirt farmers signed up. So that shows how much truth there is in Gen. Johnson’s radio bunk, that the farm- ers are about unanimous for the Blue Buzzard and the N.R.A, Praise for “Daily” From Steel Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) ARGILLITE, Ky.—I understand the steel mills at Ashland, Ky. and Portsmouth, Ohio, are laying off men by the hundreds. You will find enclosed $1 for which please send me the Satur- day edition for one year. I like the Daily Worker better than any paper I can get hold of. Would take it daily but financial condi- tions won't permit it. I was a member of the Socialist Party when they split. I quit them then. My ideas are the Communist way out. I live back in the rural dis- trict and am almost alone in my Communist ideas. But conditions are getting riper for Communism. 1933 Forced Labor Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—The Union City Mission feeds 2,000 single men per day. Of these there are 400 on The workers at the waiting tables prepare food, make beds, scrub floors three hours per day, and receive no money. They get nine cents worth of food and one 10 cent bed, which means they are receiving 19 cents for three hours work. For the same 400 men, according to Mayor Bainbridge, the Welfare Board of Minneapolis is paying 30 cents a day in cash to this racketeering out- fit. There are 1,600 single men that do not work, and the city pays 30 cents per day for these. The city will pay $43,800 a year for something that is already paid for. There are 1,600 single men that cost nothing for la- bor, for these 400 do all the work. If the city of Minneapolis would look into graft of this outfit, school teachers would not have to go with payless days. This Union City Mis- sion has a quarter of a block, in- cluding the St. James Hotel, a 12 story buildiig and four other large hotels that are tax free. \Letters from Readers THE “FORWARD” LIE Bronx, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Fave you any statement to make concerning the charge made in the Jewish Daily Forward on Nov. 17, 1933 that the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union sent scabs to the firms “Paris Maid,” 463-7th Ave., and “Mutual Frocks,” 247 W. 35th St. (both owned by Prince Brothers) to break the strike of the I. L, G. W. U., Local 22 there? —P. D. We have the following statement from the Dress Department of the Needle Trades Workers Ind. Union. “The statement of the Jewish Daily Forward of Nov. 17, 1933 that the Needle Trades Workers Indus~- trial Union sent scabs to the “Paris Maid,” and “Mutual Frocks” to break a strike of Local 22 of the I. L. G. W. U. is a deliberate lie and is for the purpose of shielding the officials and their strike-break- ing tactics. There has been no strike called in the Paris Maid and Mutual shops, and furthermore these two firms have no inside shops. Only cutters are employed there and these cutters have been members of the Industrial Union. The con- tracting shops of these two firms are controlled by the International Ladies Garment Workers, but no strikes have been called in these shops. The I. L. G. W. U., however, has been aiming to get the cutters working in the shops of the Paris Maid and Mutual to join their union and leave the Industrial Un- ion and have used threats and other methods to intimidate the workers. “With the aid of the bosses of these two firms, they have suc- ceeded in forcing a number of these cutters into the I. L. G. W. U. Many of these cutters, however, are sympathetic to the policies and pro- gram of the Industrial Union and many of them will probably retain their membership in the Industrial Union. “The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union has never sent scabs to any shop on strike and has no intention of doing so. “The charges made by the Jewish Daily Forward are part of the cam- paign of the A. F. of L. officials aided by the bosses to drive the Industrial Union out of the shops in order to be better able to beat down the conditions of the workers.” NEWS FLASH CHICAGO, TiL—Waukegan Sec- tion, of this District, has fulfilled its quota of $75 in the Daily Worker Drive. Waukegan Section is not stopping its campaign for the Daily Worker, the only American Daily newspaper that fights for the interests of the working class. Waukegan challenges all other See- tions in the Chicago District to beat it by raising the largest sam over their quotas. : Se NEW YORK.—A tag day army of several thousand workers in New York City alone is preparing to in- vade the factories, shops, subways and workers’ homes during the Daily Worker National Tag Days to rally mass financial support for the “Daily.” The Tag Days start this Friday and will last three days. The Daily Worker Volunteer office, fifth floor, 35 E, 12th St., will be open every day this week to pass out tag day boxes to the Volunteers, to their friends and supporters. Members of the workers’ organizations are asked to get tag day boxes at the head- quarters of their organizations. Ad- ditional information can be obtained from the District Daily Worker of- fice, ground floor, 35 E. 12th St. » 'e * Cleveland Ready With tag day stations already ar- ranged in practically all sections of the city, the Cleveland District calls on all members of the Communist Party, trade unions, mass organiza- tions, to actively participate in the tag days and help to save the Daily Worker, The stations are listed in today’s “Daily.” . Philadelphia Stations A similar call is issued by the Philadelphia District to all workers to report to the tag day stations listed in today's Daily Worker, to take tag day boxes and make a con~ certed effort to raise the District's quota in the $40,000 Drive. The National Tag Days taking place in all parts of the country this Fri- day, Saturday and Sunday are three battle days for the life of our fighting “Daily.” Volunteer in the revolutionary tag day army, which will battle these three days to raise funds. Mobilize your comrades, your friends to join you in making the FS eA TS ON NA tag days a revolutionary achieve- Tag Days to Rally Support for “Daily” ment! Below are listed stations for the Daily Worker Tag Days, Nov. 24, 25 and 26th. Clip out the list of stations in your City. Volunteer to take tag day boxes. Help make these three days victories in the battle to save our Daily Worker. Visit shops, of- fices, factories, workers’ homes, ap- proach workers on the streets with Daily Worker Tag Day Boxes on this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. All Districts, airmail lists of your stations immediately. NEW YORK c1ry DOWNTOWN—Workers Center, 96 Ave. ©. East Side Workers Club, 165 East Broadway. MIDTOWN—Greek Workers Club, 269 W. 25th St.; Armenian Workers Club, 56 W. 25th St.; Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union, 131 W. 28th Bt. HARLEM—Finnish Workers Hall, 15 W. 126th St.; Esthonian Workers Club, 27 W. 115th St.; Harlem Liberator, 2162 7th Ave, YORKVILLE—Hungarian Workers Home, 350 E. Bist st. Center, 669 LOWER BRONX—Workers Prospect Ave.; Prospect Workers Club, 1157 So. Boulevard; Bronx Workers Club, 1400 Boston Read, UPPER BRONX — Workers Center, 2075 Clinton Ave.; Co-op Unemployed Council, Barker and Britton Streets; Middle Bronx Workers Center, 3882 Third Ave. SOUTH BROOKLYN—Workers Center, 132 Myrtle Ave.; Workers Center, 240 Colum- bia St.; Scandinavian Workers Club, 5008 Fifth Ave. BORO PARK — Finnish Workers Home, 746 40th St.; Workers Center, 1109 45th St. BATH BEACH—Bath Beach Workers Club, 87 Bay 25th St. BENSONHURST — Bensonhurst Workers Center, 2006 70th St. CONEY ISLAND — Coley Island Workers Center, 27th St. and Mermaid, BRIGHTON BEACH— Brighton Beach Workers Center, Brighton Beach and Coney Island Ave. WILLIAMSBURG — Workers Center, 61 Graham Ave.; Bridge Plaza Workers Club, 285 Rodney St.; Laisve, 48 Ten Eyck St.; b Seciercc ie Workers Center, 159 Sumner ve. BROWNSVILLE — Brownsville Workers American Youth Hinsdale Workers Club, 313 Hinsdale St. JAMAICA—Jamaica Workers Center, 148- 29 Liberty Ave. CLEVELAND SECTION 1 infan Labor Temple, 1081 Auburn Hungarian Workers Home, 4300 Lorain Finnish Workers Home, 4528 Detroit Ave.; Bulgarian-Macedonian Workers Home, 10515 Madison Ave., rear. SECTION 2 South Slay Workers Hail, 6021 St. Clair Ave., 3rd floor; Workers Center, 156 E, 105th St.; Lithuanian Workers Hall, 920 E. 79th .; Scandinavian Workers Hall, 7010 Wade Park Aye. SECTION 3 Jewish Workers Center, 14101 eye Rd.; Uj Elore headquarters, 5366 Broad- way. SECTION 11 Workers Center, 3843 Woodland Ave., 8rd floor; Unemployed Workers Hall, 3874 Ave.; Milk Station, E. 27th St. Avenue, SECTION 14 Workers Center, 1943 Coltman Rd.; Un- employed Workers Hall, 15255 Saranac Rd.; Martuccl Home, 15906 St. Clair Ave. PHILADELPHIA St.; 3115 Dauphin St; 2456 N. St.; 2016 ja St.; 2922 Master St.; 1208 Tasker St.; 1829 S. 5 St.; 710 Passyunk Hee 1086 Locust St.; 2530 N. 2 Bt.; 1810 CANTON, OHIO Workers Center, 1101 E. Tusc. St.; I.W.O. Hall, 1732 8th St., N.E.; Hungarian Work- ers Home, 1572 15th St., N.E.; 723 Marion Ave., S.W.; 903 McKinley 8t., N.W. Ca eee Conclusion of list of contributions, received Thursday, Nov. 16: Col. by Griger 50 ) Col. by Greenblatt .10 Woldrich +10 | Fedowitz aT Petras 25 | Kiatzkin +10 Konrica +10 | Col. by Alperowitz Duorak -10 | Scaplowitz 15 Podazimth, +10 | Schechiman Aldrich -10 | Zipperman Posler +10 | Persoft Patzell 10 | Shapiro Batscha 310 Ricar -15 | Total Nov. 16 — to date Total Nov. 16 23.45 DIST. No. 17 Total to date 1970.24 | Col. by Arthur Gol. by Bancord .50 | 2 friends 35 A, Schroder, Son .50 | W. B. 208 W. Reichenbach .25 | Johnes 10 Col. by Christianson | Arthur 115 Osterberg .41| Martines 121 A. Osterberg 50 | Fernandez 210 Christianson © .16 | Matles 10 N. Osterberg 83} 5, 5. Mun 103 J. Christianson .12| H. 8. 230 ——— | On List, N.O. 1.07 Total Nov. 16 — 3.34 | A. Herndo: Total to date 279.00 | Atlanta DIST. No. 13 . L., Birming- Petalum Units 9.17 | ham A, Althouse, L.A. 1.00 Total Nov. 16 Ci 10.17 900.21 ‘Total Nov Total to di DIST. No. 15 ‘D. W. affair. 17.46 Lists 16 at Unemploymen Hitler Government Un Offensive Agains set of questions by workers on the helped to usher in the Nazi rule. Fourth Set of Questions. Can the Hitler dictatorship even only temporarily improve the econ- omic situation in Germany and the material conditions of the workers? Can the Hitler dictatorship main- tain itself in power? The Hitler government is a govern- ment of the most ruthless offensive against the working class entirely un- precedented by its brutality and scope. The Fascist Papen government was overthrown because it was not in a position to guarantee this increased pressure upon the working class. When the bourgeoisie called General von Shleicher who ha.. the support of the Reichsbanner, to the government, it calculated that he will succeed in creating a mass basis for carrying out the Papen pro- gram. General von Schleicher, who was 0. Piatnitsky inclined towards “social reforms,” at- tempted to reach an agreement be- tween the Center Party and the re- formist trade unions and to bring about a split in the National Socialist Party with the help of Gregor Stras- ser. He did not succeed in this. The bourgeoisie could do nothing except hand over the power to the National Socialists. Funk, the theoretician of the Na- tional Socialist Party, in a speech which he gave at the “Herrenklub” even before the Hitler revolution, de- fined the tasks of his party in the following manner: To lay down the lowest possible rates for wages, to break up the system of wage agree- ments, to force exports without con- sideration as to what influence that would have upon the standard of liv- ing for the laboring masses. ‘The first steps that the government took entirely corresponded with this program. As far as the forcing of expays is concerned, the bourgeoisie has already been able to convince it- self that that also is not so easy to realize even with the help of fascism. On the other hand, however, the abolition of the collective agreements is in ful swing. A number of wage agreements have already been con- cluded on the basis of which the former system of wage agreements is abolished and wage rates may be paid which are higher as well as lower than the agreed upon rates for wages, that means that by evading the former law, the wages are de- termined according to the productiv- ity of labor..The new form of the fascist “wage agreements” therefore Jays down the wage rates for each individual worker, whereas the wage agreements were formerly ‘oncluded by the trade unions with the employ- ers not only for the organized but also for the unorganized workers and the violation of the wage agreements was punishable by law. Simultaneously with this the fas- cists proceeded to abolish social in- surance and militarize the unem- ployed. Even before Hitler came to power, unemployment relief in Ger- many was considerably reduced. In 1928, 60 per cent of all nuemployed workers got relief, in 1932 only 29 per cent were still gettir.g this relief. In March 1933, i. e. already under the fascists, only 12 per cent of the officially registered unemployed re- ceived relief. Formerly the lengta of Under Nazi Dictatorship By 0. PIATNITSKY In yesterday's Daily Worker Comrade Pistnitsky answered the third t Increases precedented in Brutal t Working Class : German situation, dealing with the role of the Social Democracy and the ways in which the S. D. misteaders was paid amounted to 48 weeks; now it is only six er the si weeks expire, tion’ to dete: by means of ¥ unen yed who app’: sien eve dentived of henefit. But as is generally known the number of unemployed in Getmany is increasing. In January the number of those empioyed in industry dropped from 42.1 per cent to 40.2 per cent in comparison with December 1932, Those who were employed in January 1933 worked 33,3 hours a week instead of 36.1 hours as in December 1932. Before the elections of March 5th, the National Sociali: increased un= employment f two marks a month, By d t the fascisis wanted to sho their govern- ment was the on vernment since 1928 that did not reduce unemployment relief but, on the contrary, even added something to it. That had a certain amount of influence onothat section of the unemployed who,;were not class-conscious. Instead of unemployment insurance, the fascists now want to inttéduce compulsory labor service, which’ ¥eally means forced labor for the unem= ployed. The main purpose of the camps which the fascists are estab- lishing for the unemployed is to form an army out of them. Within @ year they intend to organize the military training of 600,000 young .unem- ployed, who are of military age and in that way they want to create an army of 1,200,000 soldiers in the course of two years. Inasmuch as the fascists aré“treat- ing an army for the eventuality of war, under the cloak of relief ¥or the unemployed, they cre already now giving the landowners extraordinarily cheap labor power from the camps of “Voluntary Labor Service.” These unemployed do work which was form- erly done by building workers, ex- cavators, lumber workers, etc., ‘and of course receive a much lower’*wage for it. On the basis of the laid down “‘con- ditions,” they should receive a daily wage of 38 pfennigs in cash and 2e- sides that something is supposed to be “saved” for them which is not handed out but placed to their credit, to the extent of 24 pfennigs a day.’ The municipal administrations which fin- ance these camps give 1.79 marks per day for every unemployed worker for a six hour working day pius.a few hours drill. In actual fact 1.73 marks a day is spent for the unem i. e., the camps count 1,23 mark food, 18 pfennigs for the bed fn the barracks and 23 pennigs for work- ing clothes. Tuezefore there issa re- mainder of 9 pfennigs ecit.to be handed out and for the “saving.” Even if one counts 1.79 marks per day, this wage is only half ef the wage which an unskilled worker re- ceived at the end of 1932. This {s the position regarding the payment of the unemployed in the “voluntary ,Jabor service camps.” be In these camps. the fascists mainy want to carry out military training and only use two hours a day for productive work, That will of’¢ourse not prevent them from trying to utilize this army as strikebveakers. In that way the fascists want,to re- place unemployment insurance. The draft o fthe minirrum-program further provides that state officials who are not member’ of the National Socialist Pariy are to be rétioved from their positions. Th. t has élready been carried out. time for which unemployment relief (To be continued). ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Cancer Cures Since the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, in 1906, the fed- eral government has instituted 80 court actions against more than 40 so-called cancer “cures.” This num- ber represents only a small per- centage of the cancer cures which are being sold to the gullible public. Most of them are sold within the state where they are manufactured and are therefore immune from fed- eral investigation. Some weeks ago the Greenhalgh 3 |Remedy Co. of Salt Lake City, Utah, pleaded guilty and paid a fine of 28 |$200, for shipping, in interstate com- merce, @ number of drug prepara- tions recommended for the treatment of cancer, all of which were labelled with untruthful and misleading claims. These concoctions included a “cancer powder,” the “Greenhalgh Wash,” the “Greenhalgh Naturello.” Some les wrote us regarding some of these and others and we advised them privately against their use. We were unable to print any- thing against the Greenhalgh outfit 1.00}on acocunt of the libel laws; but we a5 |°82 now publicly warn our readers against the use of the above nos- trums which only prevent the mis- guided cancer sufferers from getting relief at the time when it is still possible to be obtained from either surgery, X-ray or radium. From time to time more articles on such medical swindles will be pub- lished and we urge our comrades not to use any patent medicines before consulting us as to the claims made by thelr manufacturers, On Swallowing a Button Jack M., Brookiyn—When a boy of four swallows a button, it is not necessary to do anything. The reason that you didn’t see the but- ton come out is due to the fact that 70 |it probably was inside a lump of feces. X-rays are only necessary when the swallowed substance is Kinsman ‘Ra.; Hungarian Workers Home, 11123 Buck- Col. by Weissman .30 Haimowits 35 E Magegit 15, 10 Liebna 38 . Col. by Spector Ester, Bella 30 ‘Rosenbaum 10 it +10, Ziskin 115 | Levine 10 Spector -10 | Sch, 1, Phila, 5.00 Klatakin 15 | Sch. 6 . Col. by Br. 40 1.00 Weissman 10 “ee 8. AL +15 | Total Nov. 16 16.95 Cabpien -10 | Total to date 2366.22 t sharp or when there is any doubt as }to it having been swallowed at all. Sometimes children breathe im for- eign objects and then of course‘they show symptomns of a respiratory: em- barrassment which necessitates the taking of an X-ray. - ae Regarding Birth Control Clinics Dear Dr. Luttinger: aan This is in reference to the subject of Birth Control, that a comrade has recently written to you. As a com~ rade and a reader of the Daily Worker, I shall take the privilége in expressing my notion about “Com- rade Constance’s thesis on the’ above subject: Any class-conscious worker,*that is active in the revolutionary move- ment, is to a certain extent intelli- gent’ enough to realize the, -fact | that if under the capitalist system | is necessary a limitation of the most pressing necessities of life, so @ restriction of the family is a Positive requisite. og Concerning adequate activity in the movement on the partiiof a comrade’s female mate, I think, this is absolutely a personal matter and, that neither a writer nor, an editor of a revolutionary pofftical paper should attempt to comment. When the time shall arrive, that we shall commence to live under a system analogous to that in the Soviet Union, where economic, life is secured for ali toilers, Birth Control will eventually become_ob- solete. Therefore, Comrade Con- stance, there is no need to worry abont such trivialities, han! DAVID HOLLANDER. : : 5 Helping the Daily Worker Through Dr. Luttinger Contributions received to thé Giedit of Dr. Luttinger in his Socialist com- petition with Michael Gold, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob Burck and Del to raise $1,000 in the $49,000 Daily Worker Drive: f | i” >: Do & H