The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1933, Page 4

Town Relief Used as Weapon} Against Complaints on Job in 4) for | Acid Company LIVINGSTON MANOR, frasis Acid Factory | ‘The fellows hopping mad x arid There are two shifts employed in the factory, consisting of 25 to 5%| about this double-crosser, Sch’ fish, potatoes, peas, soup andé— Workers. The day shift works 12 hours a day and receives $1.50. Team | bard, but airaid to open our e, sters work : fo} mouths be we can’t afford to| While she did°afl this she laughed | to in the ‘ood PARTY MEMBERS MUST READ DAILY WORKER mi ago, ng last night we t ily Worker been done | se are | s not enough. | to} nis | ker an for the Daily Wor too valuable for ch | if we} fe fakers are is} e treated Pravda as we| Daily Worker, they would m able to accompli us do like| upport our} iso read it and} see to it th workers in the and the mines. We should e the Worker | everywhere and when we do that we| will find that we can organize the| ‘workers and so the per | self-supportin: | I also want to call your attention | when it says “the only working class| daily” it should read “the only Ens-| lish working class daily. H. BG. Livingston 2 Hours Work N. ¥.—The following are the conditions in the | in Livingston Manor, N. ¥ 12 to 14 hours a day and get $1.65. They don’t get pay willing to|W lly before them. |Central Food Market Workers Toil 75 Hours A Week Under N.R.A. (By a Worker EW Two Weeks W ‘orrespondent) YOR K.—My boss, a of the Central Broadway, the N. R. ork 45 hours. Manor Pays ]} te signea sed to ¥ 75 ho But we Ss to N. R.A I wrote Correspondent | ee e even and at times “moved her ~ — | rhythmical poe : ; 2 | "This be too, | Thythmically to'“&* jazz tune being ss One worker worked three where the samne ¢ played on the radi at counter num- months and reecived $9 pay. Most| 3. I wanted to ‘Make her acquaint- or the workers owe the company} ance but becan: le was so busy I money. The reason why these men have to work under these miseasic Capitalist Paper | eal in ated ae, aa conditions is that if a worker wants | Answered by Vet 4 Weel to quit his job, he is immediately cut | eee 0 Two weeks, later I came again. off the town relief. The boss prac- ere she was, ] agked her for a cone tically owns the entire town. As yet} ! What had happened to her dur. there have been no attempts to or- | ck: e those two, ganize the piace, because of the spies | and rat By a Vet Correspondent ks? Her face was ST. LOU Some steps should be made | there appeared an ize this factory despite the | st, Louis Post-Dispatch objec spies and rats. |the demands of the old. | their bc fferent shé “was to everything. I d her why she was sad. She d that sé had been out of r two.yéeais.and that she was t the present job ing to hate it men were one and we ith the rest of else ant to } he Same time sile jcle, but up to | date b led to see them print SELLING THE DAILY WORKER | my ans se to Teel Fin Sitty-two hours a | f {ts yriting eK rushit serving, cookin; This morning, while soliciting from | wij) print the grieva f the peo- a week that infer- | house to house for the Daily Worker. | ie that are being c to up- I talked to sixteen people, ten of hold the profit of Wall ot. |) | bhe ger —altiys whom were unemployed and the re-|"“T fail to find any editorials by the | SMe customers:becoming impatient. | er maining six practically so. I sold} seven Daily Workers, two Hunger | ighters, and one Lucha Obrero, and | S told by 12 of the 16 to come back | next week. | In the afternoon I spent less than | All for $12 a. weeks: | Supporting Family of Four arned No longé® all she smile, How | | wel By a Worker Correspondent I have a pretty girl friend who works in one of Kresge’s : ‘s. When I first saw her she had only been working there k. How happy she was! She ran from one end of the counter to the other with ice-cream sodas and sundacs. She washed and wiped the dishes She prepared 5 and 10 cent sandwiches and quarter lunches consisting of ork at Kresge’s Kills: ‘¥oung Girl’s Vitality, d Finds N..R.A. Raised Living Cost Higher Than | -.. Few Dollars Increase DAILY WORKBR, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 239, 1933 got her job. She thought God was | punishing her for the lies she had told and the wrong things she had cone in the past, but she couldn't understand why he made her mother cu’fer. | When I told her it was the devils on earth, the idle rich, who robbed | the poor of what they produced that caused all the suffering, she began , | to_wonder. But she did not wonder long. The | (Aso famous N.R.A. stepped in with a $3/ ise and a 40-hour week. The rich iL ff. d W re not so bad after all. They even | ayo S an age hired two extra girls. | steady rise in prices followed and my | girl soon found’ she could not buy | many necessities with $15 as she ud before with $12. To make mat- ters worse Kresge’s soon had the code a n ntly and | changed to 48 hours a week. Six girls sly destyoying her youth, her | were immediately thrown out of their her’ very“tife. Now she had | jobs. The remaining girls are now ‘orced to work longer hours, get less ‘eal wages and take care of two and ree counters at a time. ; does not wonder any cio playet” And then there was | more. She knows who is wrecking ffing and | her life as millions of us other work- ‘s know who is wrecking ours. She knows she must fight the capitalist class with the aid of millions of other As we became more intimate I | workers. that. shg,-iwas supporting a | y of four—on- $12 a week, and ' But this 5 at her mother was sick in bed due the terrible and insufficient food head | furnished by the Relief before she ( Signature authorized.) However, a| Chester Velin. an hour soliciting, sold six Western | Workers and four Lucha Obreros, I used the following methods. Broad | smile when the door opens, lots of pep, leaned forward. Paper held right “The Daily Worker is the only newspaper in America for the working class, and I sell it, | ‘ts five cents a copy. All other papers | CONDUCT HELEN 4 nksgiving Day! What a treat—for the bosses! They | get cranberry sauce, | pumpkin pie, and all the rest of it, | while the workers will get the usual condescending speeches telling them | ill alive. (Nice | pecis for Euel Lee, | forris Langer, and many| for instance, huh?) | , this holiday is most | ‘useful to our ruling class as a means | of teaching the workers humility, of | Setting them to go down on their | knees and heads. After | seeing s in “Strike Me Red g a good laugh | over the fine fat chance the N.R.A. have of getting their n their knees! | here to expose il the origin of a fake “democracy” Thanksgiving—and Scottsboro! | In this, the fifth year of the crisis, the vicious character of that “dem~- ocracy” becomes each day more evi- dent, and “Thanksgiving” becomes for the bankrupt and dispossessed work- ers, a hideous farce. Perhaps‘one of those bright bourgeois demagogues can tell us what the Scottsboro boys and Tom Mooney have to be thankful for? The best answer to attempts to put us into a meek and thankful mood is to make “Thanksgiving Day” a high point in an intensified strug- gle uniting more closely than ever Parents, teachers, and children into organizations demanding more hot Junches and free clothing in schools, eash relief for destitute families, and Unemployment Insurance. The Pioneers sang, “The home of the brave and, the land of the free, When we get through with it that’s what it'll be”; and when we get through with “Thanksgiving Day” we, like the workers in the Soviet Union, “will have something to be thankful for! A Tip for the Children Here's a very little idea which the Young Pioneers may be able to put to use to provide amusement at gath- erings planned to help draw new members to their organizations. Paste some of Burck’s cartoons on heavy colored paner (each picture on a different color), trim them down rather closely so not too much white space is left, then mark lightly with a pencil into sections of odd shapes and cut carefully apart to make “jig- saw” puzzles out of them. Let each guest have one of these (thoughtfully serambled beforehand!) to compete ith the others in putting them to- our new next-door the Saturday Pioneer Col- reighbor, ume f are owned by the capitalists and/ the last half /wéek, Seattle, District 2,| Cl. by Mendelbaum | Mace. Group. 15.00 cares nothing about whether we not only held its lead in ay |'ooe Comes 3.00/ Kristaukes 500 sare or tt a ion of at | wae aboot eer ee Serie ag) We ees evel wore ee pega ts own pledge to. increase its original | Youngstown, ne $6 Under the N.R.A. * quota by one half;-H; has already rats- | Ae “ ape fe (be: sisub ot eee tor Panes x2) Jed $788.40 on a ota of $500, or 157.6 n| Unit ie: -240|_(By_a Worker Correspondent) starve. 's your paper. It’s our per cent. Boston-is second with a| Col. by Nichols Unit 3-42 25| OAKLAND, Cal.—The conditions pier setting cere on eee - jrating of 1153.per-cent. Fe ee ere ome ae 3.60] in the shop in which I work, the ie aa rere seventeen millions | Post-Dispatch objecting to No aihte distichiias yetixaieed Vin], Szene 100 tutes Cardinet Candy Co,, have always may The je. PB | The $1,600,000,000 adju: | quota, rs} List 8696 8 names been poor. When the company ac- duced too much. The Daily Worker yallroad hy0 2 7 names 4.10| Col. by Burn: ted the N. R. A. blanket code not only shows us what is wrong but | Pe Tallroad by ©: | Shal-nge Vict te Binks ate ee | ceptes e N. R. A. blanket code i Con- | us Wort nd bout four months ago we workers how to fight for our rights and its| The 2,000,000,000 that same Con . Col. by Machover | nist 110822 al ag only five cents.” At this point hand|gress gave to wartime col _ Section ba ean Ohio, issues. | 3 names -30/ 10 names thought that our conditions would be them the paper and expect their | 0n similar service certificates and this | challenge to Ser* in 5 of the same city Sob i ‘Weissman ea List 113575 greatly improved. We have been nickel. -: group made big profits during the | to go over the wop-on their quotas of | ¢, by Becker | 6 names -65 | thoroughly disillusioned, however. © 2 cident know. the iG feel. ) war. $ tos re moerersubs and sell more} “3 names" 75) Total i1-22 P 7 | Since the company accepted the grcedigcny bation: Whee minconire tot ‘The Post-Dispatch never objected | Daily Workers by December 15th. | Col. by Guarch | Total to date 1027.15 N. R. A. Code our wages have been ing you all have for our press. Don’t | e Post-Dispatch never obje | What do you s9y,-oomrades of Section | 3 names -30| DISTRICT No. 8 | cut $1.50, bring'ng them down to the be afraid to let it out, to tell the world/to the killing and crippling of the |“, Ttia: aeaiaterasavinel Cel. by Fleischman | a. w. King 1.03 | starvation level of $10.50 per week. that its ours and only ours, it belongs|American youth who were used to/°* [C/S Dear tromyou: <r 6©6 | & Malmstrom 79! On top of this very few of us are to us, the working class. save Wall Street billions in 1917-18. | <a pee so| otst 11:33 ata| allowed to work even the full 35 hours DENNIS MILEY. |The Post-Dispatch never objects t/ ‘Tag Day fund are not coming in. | uist 40248 “_ | Totel to date 2190:57| allowed us by the code. Many of us the profit it makes out of the toil|An exception to this is Section 2, of | 3 names 50) DISTRICT No. 9 | draw as little as $6 or $7 some weeks. of undernourished children who sell |New York, which not ony has prac- ee gs Ee epee Te Nat'l Coop Co. 2.00 Out of this miserably small wage jits paper. Many of these children’s | tically raised its-quota, but is also one | rst 20009 “| ‘Total 11-22 2.00| We are forced to pay $1 every month fathers are ex-servicemen who fe | of the first to hand in tag day boxes,{| 4 names 1.50} Total to date 301.55] for aprons. Also, since the inception yaically elie vork. If they] and is living up-tethe pledge to raise | List 40012 DISTRICT No. 11 | o¢ , : | not physically able Ms worl iain and is living up-te-the pledge to rai reel greener 35| R. King 100| 0% the N. R. A., our work has been | could mee higher trates bieatis spore jon the average-of $1 during the tag) col. by Lapin | Dist. 11 8.00] Sreatly speeded up. We are forced were getting adequate compensation | q for each ménber. This Section,| 8 names 1.00 to work on the run, with the fore- | for their injuries, their children | jeading in New York, is setting a fine pis 0 cng | Total 11-22 00} man continually yelling at us to |would not be forced to sell papers | example by intetisifying its activity, | oa TA™Simme *| Tote te dete °48| speed up even more, as cer pennies a day in order to and will more than-go over the top. 7 names .00 | E. Bond * 50] Most of the workers in this shop ED BL | uy ‘ Comrades! Rust’ your tag day re-| Col. by Stamler | W. Anderson 1.50| have already realized that all the LUER |. But the Post-Dispatch sure raises | ceipts. Continue vatsing funds. Read- | 1 name, 2.00| Fish. & Can, N. R. A. has meant to us is more its Wall St. controlled voice in ob- ers, of the Daily Worker, a. dollar | “Saumer "a5! nook es 515 | work for less pay, We are damned es a = Jeon to paring = just debt which | from Aan of yourwill put the drive Osh by Mallet cn ic ee 1 200] tired of waiting for Roosevelt or big | was due in 1917-18. over the top. oy names i nit 1, Rainer 30) business to do something for us, I Can You Make ‘Em)|_tets show them by joining the| Five dollars mote was received in| Si: BY Catalan 20) Seo. 1 10.901 hope within a few months to write Yourself? | W.ES.L. and fighting for our rights. | celebration of thé recognition of the| 6 names 1.05| Unit 1, Pear. 7.50] and tell you fellows of altogether - , = 17 Hor ed |U. 8S. S. R,, one @ollar from Simon OF iy Geet et nai ieee anas different conditions in ,this shop, SE He iGi Roth, Milwaukee, $2 from Larry Lit- ai "3g| brought about by the only weapon Petry, teers, Sum ebia yin, aes Gir of = ope rich ‘and $2 from M. Letb, both of | Totar 11-22 ti452| DISTRICT ‘No 1s| We Workers have in our fight for bet~ 36 38, 40, 42 “ and fs. size 36 takes | in. Vain She Could | ypsitanti, ich.°ttush your dollars. Tota to date 1281220) conte Barbara ter conditions, that is by organizing % yards 36-inch fabric and % yar . +. * * * No. mn 10.34) in the T. U. U. L., the only union contrasting. Mlustrated step-by-step | Find Job Under NR ‘The chart printed below shows how] fat'Besk shop “9s! Total 11-22 ~ aose| We know of that we can really trust. sewing instructions included. | 2 ae jeach District stands as of Nov. 27: 8 names 1.55 | Total to date 970.95 Pyar: nce emp | (By a Worker Correspondent) Fee re ee ees cent Genk A FASCIST JOB AGENCY NEW YORK —I am a girl of 17.) R. roo Ook. bateseur’ ee (By a Werker Correspondent) | I have been looking for, a Job for g 3g SayREiaaad So ae NEW YORK ay wie about two | Six months. S ‘is proof 0! ne N.| = 3 names 22 ol. by L. A. Weeks ago, got a jo! iroug! is | R. I took a test to get into} 4 & 8G wane Council pes Te RCAE ?| Yorkville Central Emvloyment Macy's department store. After sev- $3 10 names. 4.75| Agency, 204 East 85th St., New York | eral See they agreed to ka Pao 11-22 16.57 | Col. by J. fone City. They gave her a job in a bak- test ce jacking | , ‘tal to date 1816.! A which had about 100 small holes in 35.00 Salen cccaop |: ee ee aren meauey Stttey toy to: Hed ont | it. I was supposed to put three little 25.5 Total 11-22 4.00/ what your ideas are, if you are a| | nails in each hole, until the board| 5 60.8 | ‘Total 11-22 2.00| Total to date 212.49 % [ae totely full. 7 bane eet | 52.05 | Total to date 17937| DISTRICT No. 17 | fascist, etc. i wae combi xe a Lae re : oe DISTRICT No. 5 - Nome 150) When I went down there the wo- | s inte as 7.59 | wi ling U.C. 1.00) 8. A. Burg 1.00 Sake | seven minutes, 50 seconds. So I did 44.9 Library Sec. 10.00 | Se ee soeKe Se: aus ae xo | not get the job. The hours were from 25.7 | Wilkinsburg Total 11-22 260 | Mew: Burtniegeia. auere. Were: sone feb 12 noon tll nine in iarmieeRee cand | et 22.7 Unit 5.20| Total to date 53.87| lows sitting around there. They were | also an hour over till 10 o'clock for | 13 naa | ee et [ay eaketes 0 eg eet ec 2 eg aa the thonth ef GRaieeenles ay 4 T71 sh ‘shod ta 35| gument about it with her and she makes it 10 hours per day. They) {3 ap ee 404 | Total 11-22 20.20 otal Rie .25 | wouldn’t give me the money back. flare the N. R. A. banners. The pay|17 Aisbama ‘54 s030| burmor Nes | WO. GOVT. PORK ROUSES PROTEST was to be $14 per week. 18 Milwauk. 2.00 55.4 | Dance, Warren 12.10| J. Reed Br. 134 4.50 i ale keene es tt seems the capl-| 19 Denver 4: 58.7 | Unem, Coun. 10) Br. 08, By a Worker Correspondent talisle Dwi soe ore aking’ Communists Miscel. 135052. No. 12 33.00 N. Arling. 2.00 ST. LOUIS, MO.—With each piece out of us by tietr owt eolgmemeomd | a eee ee a Wom. Int'l ©. oo | Total 11-22 @50 | © Putrid salt side meat given to the you possibly state your opinion? | Total $1429 $28,531.97 $40,000 71.3 | Engdahl Br. ‘ ______ | unemployed there are several recipes Editor's Note:—That other work- |°°™!" % ——.Si42, tame0 eo f Cie mepenae see Ere ees ers are seeing through the N.R.A. Contributiong régeived Wednesday, Contributions received Thursday,| The only thanks the bosses n Wash- illusions is shown by the increasing | Noy. 22: poe fe *| Nov, 23: ‘| ington are getting out of giving this 4 od atk Total Thurs. 463.87 secti . mu eat to the masses is that thi pepe a feat >! ee peace ‘Total Wed. S18$0{'T. Sanders _2.00| Previously See 13, Unita “30 eaanpaved are joining up in the Uns ip and wage-cut tactics. The p) Previously ol, by Arons Recorded 26698.70! Sec. 11, Unit 4 1.30 Joyed Councils and are beginnin: of hasan pO tee bas Recorded — 26322-29" si Sec. 11, Unit 6 1.05 end thats Onesdpleyient and Boo m tages ae A eo ‘New Total to date 26630:70 Piet. waesay| 00, it daa Sep Insurance. Deal, is in the ranks of the Young | 3. 'c Nove) NT tf Oty Gold ee he Se a Communist League, where she can | 7 names 148 col. ‘by Feldman Groans ito] Ses. 8 Unit § 90 help to organize the struggle Total 11-38. ae 9 names 2.75| M. Freeman 1.00/ Sec. 8, Unit 9 60) DISTRICT No. 5 Unit 10-05 4.00 against the conditions she describes. | potai to date 12423 Paes og Ghten fans 4 Psa erat van] oe 300 tal 11-93-0408 eee DISTRICT Ne. 2 ‘Gol. by Mintzer Katz 20| Sec. 8, Unit 12 175] Total 11-23 2.00| Total to date 2284.66 “Election” in Hitler B. Bert Paar anes 20 | Fo He Party (448) Boe/8, Unie 3 wedi] TOL {9 date, S144] | DISTRICT No. 9 a x , Uni x DISTRICT . i A a House P, —. 15.00/""*5 names .85|3'Glicksman —_3.00 Unit Lists Col, by Nuit RNNA, Style at Edison Firms | +. 1.00" 19332 G. Wallace 2.00| Col. by Clay J, Bookman .25| St, Paul 200 Anon. names 1.00| L. Kaufman names 75! M. Bookman 25] Unit 2 25 — B. Gordon ist 19353 5 names 1.10] Col. by Kats r 25) Firestelt ¥ Bs Nate Coma, | sae” oles See, ates, “S| ee ens NEW YORK—I doul whether | 5° 5.0) “ rain. City Ean ula Chr 5.00 anyone would believe the farce the| ¥, cilvert 5.00] col, by wvintner “| Og ARETE og) ot ae Satzon | ro ——“qoo| Total to date. 307,30 Edison companies and Consolidated|P. & M. Denis 1.00| 9 names 1.00| nist 50437, é 2 names .80| Total ta ante 1089-18| DISTRICT Ne. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in| Gas just passed off as an election. - mearenee 10a4 Ge A by Krieger Col. by ..aim DISTRICT No. 7 | N. Sahan * 8. coins or stamps (coins preferred) for| Before the election the workers ger Hamilton — sist 7200 ~~ cal Shy. Gherstitn | DUE MOM, A ee this Anne Adams pattern. Write| to listen to harangues on Rares! bs wy Kaplan 1m 3 names 40 2 names .18| Total 11-23 124,00 | Total 11-23 6.00 plainly name, address and style num- | the company union plan. No speak~ aes call ‘ a yy Weinberg Col. by Krovatz 3.50| Total to date 1615.69] Total to date 976.95 ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE, | ers were allowed to state the case |*'C' 4 e cd List 19728 DISTRICT No. 8 | DISTRICT No. 14 "| for rank and file unions. To give a] nos MP ai, «::00| Se. by Onutein a ee) go) ates. Werme & Address orders to Daily Worker} semblance of freedom of choice the| Dist 13.34) ‘List 18636 3 Nisan 00 Gkaue? ner 100 scott Nearing Pattern Department, 243 West 17th| workers were told they could vote for| F. S. U. Stelin Br. /}* 2names 1.25 | Col. by Frohman | N. Berman 2.00| Icor Br. Street, New York City. pebist "They also were | 184: U. House Wretk,f Col. by len 2 nomes 1.00] PB. itmkoy $30] N. m they pleased. ley Rev. Writ, 5.00pems’ names Col. by Sawruk e warned that no ballot would be} pry. wkrs. v. _LQp/'col. by will é bie Lae echelon ted unless it Bote the voter’s| Piodere "Medel ar slate names 2.10] Salivonehick 9.50 Helping the Daily Worker | Cu vex M4 Cor Prog. £23) Gil. by Zhu ue Sapte Saneska 5.50 Total to date $13.62 name. No phony names were al~ neourse .Prog. #23) Gol. by Zhukowsky 10 names 1.85] J. 1.00| DISTRICT No, 17 Th ik Helen Luk i Sec. 4, Unit 415 3.13] 78 names 1.60 patents 3.00| Als. Share. roug! en Luke gi anh piss the-coatpany, ba Unit 26 14 os Mn ; 00] Total 11-23 154.39 1.00| Union wonder that .60 fr Schiller 00 Total to date12476.89| Pol . 1.00 Contributions received to the credit! yaion plan went over with such al Sec. 2, Unit 1-8 qogyiist 110267 DISTRICT No. 8""| Workers School 1127] Cu" Ofer _10 of Helen Luke in her Socialist com- bang? Unit Lists «+ .Jem6 names 3.60 So, Side Wrks. Total 11-28 00 petition with Michael Gold, Dr. Lut- is ba fitentes my ae by Kahn ax c Miners.’ 29.10| Organization 26.70| Total to date 58.87 tinger, Edward Newhouse ames names 4 ..18| Gol. by Globich Unit 10-1 .00 | LW.0. DUSK to alee BLOO0 Ie gioco | Only your support can help the ol. by ‘Thomas sit 308 go 0c 18 Umit 10 2.36] S. Zuly 130] Unit ior” 3.88 | Schule 48, Bronx 1.00 Baty Water pein f Daily Worker continue. You like | ,,° names 2 names a 15, Unit 23 5.00; A. Globich 9.00] Unit 113 1.70| Schule 19, Bronx 5.00 otal tot hae | the enlarged and improved “Daily.” |("9 names = -4| names s.¢0| Seo! 18; Unie 38 -78| motel 11-29 ~~ aa30| Gok 18 $28] rotet 11-29 600 al to be oe, $100.22 Support it with your dollars. Rush | col. by c. &. Lint 20640 Bes, 18, Unit 25 240 Total to date 1849.71) Unit 10% 2:50| Total to date 2407.24 NEW YORK—Sehding in $250.58 in| 4 names 50 | Frei. Ges. Fer. 1.50 W. J. Sloane & Co. Speeds Rug Repairers Out of Their Jobs’ (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—W. J. Sloane & Co., ith Ave. and 29th St., warehouse} (rug-cleaning department), Oriental Rug Repairing Department, has laid off eight workers. They made us work so fast before that the work J We was finished in a short time. were hired three months ago. Is this the N. R. A. that the bosses and the government give us? After three months we were put out. We worked 40 hours a week, but the speed-up was terrible and the work was finished before we looked around, Only eight workers are left to do all the work now. Cuts Continue at Schweinler Press (By a Worker Cortespondent) NEW YORK.—The Blue Eagle is still doing its dirty work in the Schweinler Press while the workers are driven by the slave-driving bosses who have already cut their wages in half, in three different wage cuts, but are increasing the speed-up and lay-offs. On Monday, Nov. 20, there PARTY LIFE Criticism of Some Methods Used by Block Committees Purpose of Committees workers in the block as possi discrimination against the Negroes, for unemployment and social insur- ance, etc. Function and Task of Block Committee The block committee is not the” basic organization, but the block as- sembly. The committee is elected by the workers in the block who form the block assembly. The function of the committee is not to carry out the work in the block, but to lead in conducting all the activities de- cided by the block assembly. Of course, at times, in an emergency, if is necessary for the block committee to make decisions and mobilize the workers in the block for action, But generally speaking, the assembly must be regarded as the decisive body, making all decisions on the broadest democratic basis. It is one of the basic tasks of the block committee to develop forces— particularly leading forces out of the workers in the block. As the work develops more leaders are needed and they can be obtained only in the block. These workers are the most important, for through the struggle they gain the confidence of the work- were six more workers laid off from the composing department under} the whip of Connelly. | In the Monotype Department, | where three operators used to work, | their wages were cut from $30 per} week to $18 and only two kept work~- ing until Monday. Then the op- erator was laid off, and the third one quit in protest. The workers in the Schweinler Press begin to re- alize what the Eagle really means for them, Cardinet Candy Co. | |them into leadership. ers, who through their own vote elect, The ability they show must be developed. They must be given a training in organ- i ' Isto Activize Workers in Struggle Against Effects of Saemployment By I, AMTER : Block committees—that is, committees of workers living in one blec! |—are applicable only to conditions in the big cities, such as New Yori and Chicago. The purpose of the block committee is to activize as man in the struggle against the effects of um employment—for relief, against evictions, for food for the children, agains ame forward—or if they did, the: were not to be heard. The bloc! |committee conducted some goor struggles and built up a general in fluence, But today it is not a liv |force, for the workers could not fee that it was THEIR organization. The: | did not put into leadership some o the militants who were allowed t develop. The committee is stagnant because the workers did not voici’ their own demands. We told then their needs, on the basis of genera analyses. But issues are issues 0 action only when they are able t rally the workers to struggle. Le | the workers do the most talking. Fin: out from them what is the imme diate need. Then they will struggle | Gaining the Confidence of the Masse The second fact of appointment o |comrades by the section or unit o | the Party into leadership of the bloc} | committee is the greatest hindranc | to the development of our work. Th: jcomrades who go into the neighbor- | hoods are generally not known to thr | workers, Frequently they do not ever live in the block or neighborhood Proclaiming themselves the block | committee, the workers naturally fee |that this is not an organization 0: |their own, but one that is given tc | them. The comrades sent into ¢ ization and also politically and be ; neighborhood should only constitut« rapidly drawn tothe Satty. jan organizing or initiative commit- In smaller localities, the neighbor- | tee. Their job is to rally the work- hood should be selected as the basis, ers on the general demands but more the basic organizational unit being the | Specifically on the demands that the neighborhood assembly, As a rule,| Workers raise. The job of these com- a precinct or ward should be selected, |Tades is to get militant workers of since it also has political significance. |the neighborhood elected to the com- In such cases, we are able to expose | mittee, to train them into leadershiy the alderman of the ward, by forcing|end thus develop a real block or him to bring forward the needs of |neighborhood organization. Not only the electors of the ward. The work-|ate some of our comrades not fit for ers look to him to represent them in |leadership, but by bureaucratically the board of aldermen or city council | putting themselves forward as the and quickly become disillusioned when | leacers, they stifle new leadership and they see his actions. | thereby choke the organization itself. Wrong Methods |The Party cannot make mass leaders; The serious errors that we make in| the masses select thetr own leader- building the block or neighborhood | ship. The duty of Party members is assembly and block or neighborhood | to show through activity, good pro- committee are: 1. That we do all /|posals and proner atttude to the rank the talking and make all the pro-|and file that they are leaders. Thur posals, instead of listening to the|they gain the confidence of the workers and finding out from them | masses, who elevate them into lead- he immediate issues on which they | ership. will struggle and how the struggle should be conducted; and 2. That the comrades who are sent into a block or neighborhood to build up the assembly bureaucratically MAKE themselves the block committee and add a few non-Party workers so that it will appear “democratic.” Both these methods are wrong and cannot lead to the development of ssa Stable Forces | Finally the practice of taking out comrades from block work cannot. but wreck the organization. The workers see that they have no con- |trol of their leaders, who are put in |and taken out. This leads to distrust |in the organization and it quickly vanishes. men If the Party and Party members the block organization. In New York there was a “model” assembly. It consisted of about 60 workers in a thickly populated working class sec- tion. In this assembly, there was only one voice to be heard——that | would adopt a proper attitude to the | workers—talking less and listening more, and not handle them bureau~ |cratically, the block organization | would not only grow very rapidly but | become a solid basis of proletarian of a comrade who went into the block | struggle, out of which would come to form organization, who did good| many miltants as excellent materials work and reecived the confidence of| for the Party and as leaders of the the workers. But no other workers! bitter struggles that face us, Join the Communist Party 38 EAST 122TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. ‘ie Please send me more information on the Communist Party. NAME ADDRESS to know whether any physicians specializing in eye diseases were em= ployed in the average commercial optical soe ve are well aware that optometrists are fully competent, ~ and have the right to examine and correct. any optical deficiencies and that opticians are merely mechanics 4 By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Acid and Alkali Producing Foods T. M., St. Petersburg, Fla.—Among the foods which are apt to increase the acidity of the blood, we may mention bread (white and 5.00 | Minerals have the opposite effect. i bacon, whole wheat), corn, crackers, cran- berries, eggs (white and yolk), fish (haddock, pike, salmon), meat (beef, chicken, mutton, pork, veal), oatmeal, oysters, peanuts, prunes, sardines, shredded wheat and walnuts. Among the alkali producing foods we have almonds, apples, apricots, bananas, beans (dried, lima and string), beets, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, and have no licenses to examine or correct such deficiencies. It is no, reflection on the profession of me tometry for the public to know they are not licensed physiclans " that they are neither qualified have the right to treat patients diseases of the eyes other than those { of refraction. We are sure that no ethical optometrist would attempt to cit cocoanuts, cucumbers, grape~} prescribe for a patient who is suf. fruit, lemons, lettuce, milk, mush-| fering from nephritis (kidney - rooms, mi onion, oranges,| ease). To state that an o} Peaches, pears, peas (dried and fresh), potatoes (sweet and white), radishes, tomatoes and turnips. The blood, of course, can never be- come acid while the animal is alive, because any appreciable increase in the acidity of the blood causes death; but the acid-base equilibrium of the blood is influenced to a certain ex-| communications from you will receive tent, either one way or the other, by| prompt consideration. é the acid and alkaline foods men- ve tioned above. Helping the Daily Worker ‘The salts which increase. the al- kalinity are sodium, potasium, cal- Through Dr. Luttinger © Contributions received’ to the cred! cium, magnesium carbonate, phos- of Dr. Luttinger in his Socialist phate and citrate. The tartrates, lactates and sulphates of the above Petition with Michael Gold, Edward | Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob ij. and Del to raise $1,000 in the Daily Worker Drive: Jane Moore and William Mollenhaver ... Previous total “s Total to date does not possess the title of M. ‘s no slur on his professional On the other hand we know that large majority of physicians are solutely incapable of doing the temetzists’ work, 'Thanks\,for remarks regarding our column, a “i is oPp~ your You may rest assured that any further i Optician, and Ophthalomogist Samuel C, Frank, Opt.D., Brook- lyn, N. ¥.—If you read our answer in the Nov. 20 issue again you will fail to find any disparagement of optometry. Our correspondent wanted