The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1933, Page 4

DAILY WORKERy NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1933 Ten-Week Training School to Be Organized by Party ndustries s Needed Basic Fun Will Equip Wo With Marxist-LeninistTheo d Thé Party is ben a down in the arrying out of the tasks r Ma: obstacle: ave to be overcome to of the obstacles is the lack of trained forces, achieve greater s especially felt in { industrial centres. This obstacle must be reome. The f t be improved, new forces have to uudy eps is the decision Committee to organ- full-time training active workers ies and the nt ri centres rawn into this School. ake the work of these com- ective, they must be main- attending the School. class be won The atti and its Stat y funds for the upon the w School, the ing masse out an appeal for more vici tic organizations workin: Some organizations are resi answered splendidly, a yet responded. and can organization cenit s basis. The } is gles must be the National tiative, self-sacrifi developed through di ary theo when it is genuine th tical workers the power of orier tion, clarity of perspective, faith in their work, confidence in the victory of our caus.” FE shool are made. Its real- m depends upon your immedi- sponse. Contributions to be o A. Markoff, Treasurer, 35 E. St., N. Y. C., 3rd floor. Tennessee Woolen Mills Curtailing By a Worker Correspondent NIOTA, Tenn—The big woolen ill at Sweetwater, Tenn., has laid me off and has gone on three days a Also the big woolen mill at ens,’ Tenn., has laid off among the workers some and gone on three days a|Pense paid by the local, so she can | weavers. A number of werkers in t week. A lot of the colored schools around nere have never opened up this winter sacrifice. { Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 122TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please serd me more information on the Communist Party NAME : A Oe 4 Ss CONDUCTED BL SESS HELEN LURE ‘They must really Lave lots of carrots out there on the West Coast, as Comrade Goodman implied, for there is here a letter from Olympia, Wash. ington, containing among other recipes, one for mock pumpkin pie that looks very interesting. It goes like this: Grate or shred raw carrots fo make 144 cups full sf t ginger, 4 @- Se oe ORT. MOL Make ‘Em Yourself? Mix ingre ly bake in in lin Pattern 1657 is available in sizes 30 minutes. Beat white of egg, add/ 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size a bit of sugar: spread on top of pie /36 takes 3% yards 39 inch fabric and and return to oven to brown—From yard contrasting. Ilustrated step- Florence K. step sewing instructions included. Not Such 2 Bad Bed of Spinach! This unusua beneficial and been sent | has After spinach is steam in off any water, and ch ‘ 2 very fine. Make some French to: use left over white or whole wheat bread) | put the spinach on top of the toast,| put on a dab of butter, and bake tty for about 5 to 10 minutes. If you} have eggs, sliced Td-cooked eggs laid around it m it an attractive and very substantial dis And Now That They've Had Their | Spinach— | ‘The children need some recreation, oo @re the final paragraphs of treatise by Alice W. L. “There is nothing better for a fancy party than a disguise made & paper bag. Use one large @Rough to slip over the head. In the then be decorated with cray- any number of designs. slip over the head, slit on the fare enuf to stap on the head. 4 that the sides are decorated | for they fit over the shoulders. ideas I have given cover but of the uses to which materials about the house (and which are thrown out) can be put. old spools, and other small things thet you generally can see no for. We'll send in another let-~ r soon dealing with how to use such Materials, which are ordinarily dis- carded.” ¥ july i. 4 i aie » i we ql f ~ & “Break” In Protein ie again speaking of food—I got chestnuts on Third Avenue for “ cents 2 pound—nuts are a good Snes Se Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St., eee are cheaper than meat. what I want to know is.how to cook 1? I can boll or roast them, but I! “have heard that the Italian people) know how to fix “meat-loaf” out of |New York City. them, and other similar dishes. I elpiiig/ tia Dally worker wish an Italian comrade would send dn one or two such recipes. Maybe Through Helen Luke e| Contributions received to the credit | of Helen Luke in her Socialist com- x ue | petition with Michael Gold, Dr. Lut- And a flock of “thank-you's” to the | tinger, Edward Newhouse and Jacob j ‘Contributors (including the John/ Burck to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 “Reed Club for $60) that have brought | Daily Worker Drive. my lst over the hundred-dollar mark! Total to date ores $107.23 {Over 100 Stahl-Urban | NeedleWomen Workers [Thrown Out on Street) | | | (By 2@ Worker Correspondent) TERRE HAUTE, |are getting better, muc | workers are awake: |value of these | statements, learning through jexperience of the loss of to face a winter of s “It's all a lie,” declared HAL | | the more than 100 women needle | workers, who lost thi | Stahl-Urban company plant recent while the employes of the Terre Haute paper manufacturing compa mill were thrown onto the street | with the information that ther no more business in sight for | coming year. the | Workers Pay ACW | Dues, Get No Aid | (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) | SHAMOKIN, Pa—We of local 129 |of the shirt workers of the Am: | gamated Clothing Workers are in |need of your help. The local is un- |der control of a bunch of fakers from New York City calling them- | selves organizers. They are pressing | this local too hard. |agent, as she calls herself, wants $25 ja week, and all the oil and gas ex- ride to New York every week, and she never cares about our grievances. They have organized a joint board, las they call it, that takes quite a large percentage of our money. We can thank them for opening our ey |to joining the union, but why not ve us alone. We can manage it with our local president, for I think that is his job. Instead of him being out of a job, why should those fak- jers hang around here and take all |of the money and live a high life. | ‘The silk workers union in this | town don’t have all this expense. | Why, half the workers don’t like her. | So as it is, they don’t get any satis- | faction from her. When any que: |tions are asked, she gives all kinds | o of excuses. No one in the shirt factories gets the $13 a week minimum wage, if | they don’t make it, so what good ar¢ | they here? | there will be a strike and no mon jin the treasury Our president doesn’t get any salary and they ex- {pect him to do wor | Paid for it. This coming pay there | will be next to nothing for union | dues, because we have been working |only a few hours each week for al- | most 6 weeks. * . Editor's Note: We advise the | members of the local to exercise their rights, under the Amalga. mated constitution, of electing their | own officials. Get together as many | members of the local as you can, | | . | who are also chafing under these conditions, and bring up at a gen- eral membership meeting of the local, the question of new elections. Then simply elect a local organizer from your own ranks, who will take. pot-luck with the rest of the work- ers. | We will be giad to help the | workers with advice on how to pro- | ceed with this program if they will | write again. If you prefer a private | answer, let us know to which ad- dress to send it, Workers Shut Out In Haverhill, Mass. |By a Shoe Worker Correspondent HAVERHILL, Mass.—Over 5,000 shoe workers have been closed out of the factories here. This is the worst winter we have ever had. More shoe wrokers are out of work how than at any other time. ~ While we were working a few weeks ago the NRA had the work- ers believing in it with the exception of the militant workers who were wise to it. Everybody believed that there would be no more unemploy- ment—higher wages and prosperity for everybody. The press certainly did the job for their masters. Especially the leaders of the Shoe Workers Protective Union led the workers to believe this bunk, Every time workers protested about shop conditions and wages the union leaders, Kelleker, Leo Toffe, Ham- ilton, Nolan and the rest of these guys would say, “Well the NRA is here and the government will stop worry.” We militant shoe workers in the Protective union pointed out that if we depend on waiting till someone does omething for us we'll never get anything, but we must enforce those promises given to us in the NRA Program. Just as the newspapers had pages full of articles shouting plenty jobs, etc., bang, in two weeks over 5,000 walk the streets. The illusions poured in the minds of the workers are fast being driven out. The rank and file groups have taken up the question of unemployed relief from the local city administration. Food stuffs have jumped over 35 per cent in the last two months, NOTE | Letters from textile, needle, and | shoe wrokers are published on this page every Friday. We ask work- ers in these industries to write us of their conditions of work and efforts to organize. Get the let- ters to us by Tuesday of each week. r jobs at the | The district | The first thing we know | and don't’ get | all this stuff. We don’t have to’ International Tailoring Co. Workers Prepare Struggle Rank and File Group Calls for Organizing of Strike Next Spring rf (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—trregular working hours, low wages, vicious speed-up. These are the conditions existing in the International Tailoring Co. at 12th St. and 4th Ave., after nearly two months of the N.R.A. code in the men’s | clothing industry, Complaints of code violations by the workers have not , been investigate@ by the N.R.A. All departments have worked from 40 to 44 hours a week, since the code was » instituted, in spite of its 36-hour |so high that @ strike for an addi- & week clause. Older and inexper- tional 20 increase to meet higher ienced workers have been fired for |living costs, decided upon a month make the $14.40 |ago, was called off only through imum >,However, the rank |the bull-dozing of the workers by file group .of,.the Amalgamated |the hated business-agents — Patsy thing Workers., Union has been jand Silver. job. As a. result of its ac-| At present, the rank and file , the workers in most of the |group, with the very active aid of departments teceived a 22 1-2 per|a downtown Young Communist c wage raise “when the hours|League Unit, is aiming at, and is reduced,, instead of the 18 per |calling upon the workers themselves t originally.agreed upon by the |to organize, a group in the shop Union officials, |which will be powerful enough to Although the rank and file group |force the crooked Hillman-Hollan- the shop is not very strong, the |der-Catalano clique to call a strike sentiment of the workers is running 'next spring. Hazelton Silk Worker Tells Details of Sellout by A.F.L. a yy a Textile Worker Correspondent) HAZELTON, .Pa.—This is a letter which a Hazelton worker wrote to the United Loomifixers and Twisters club, an independent anion in Pater- son: 5 | Dear Mr. Hicks? I am sending you a little information about Hazelton. y, th ; ¢ four men from & a Hazelton in P: pen. One was busi- | workers to go back as an open shop, ness agent from the A. F. of L. and| and Haxel Hitz is starting on Thurs- he got instructions from Mr. Schweit-|day. They will get: $1.60 per 100,000 zer how to settle the strikes or rather| Picks, auxiliary workers nothing. how to break ‘Strikes. It was done| Only McKinley's Silk Mill | with this way = | looms is not starting, he hasn't got wie oa | work at present for all the workers. |_ They sent backtwo shops to work | That mill is running the most fan-v | with a 20 per cent increase for the/ jobs, Duplan is working in full in Other:‘erafts got nothing. | ‘present strike. A. F. of L. issued a | They are Freeland:with 100 looms and | separate charter for Duplan and |McAdoo with 300 looms. Then next} kept that mill running with charter was the Standard Broad Silk Works,| protection. jordered to go,.bacK to work on Tues-| Loomfixer got fair play in Hazel- |day morning,. auxiliary workers and | ton. Duplan is paying $35 and bonus. | Weavers on’ Wednesday with 7 per) Freeland is paying $32.50 for 33 lcoms jcent increase~for the weavers. Aux-| ¢> two fixer $33.50 to one fixer for |iiary workers got nothing. ‘The | 34 looms. McKinley's is paying $37.50 | auxiliary workers’ was told to wait,! per week, Thirty looms to fixer fancy | maybe N.R.A. Sif do something for | fobs, Progressive is ‘naving $37.50 per | them. > week. Hazel Hitz $32.50 per 30 looms The McAdoo*emd Freeland weavers | per fixer. Standard Broad Silk works are getting now$465 per 100,000 picks | is paying $35 per 36 looms per fixer. and Standard Broadsilk workers are| McAdoo is paying $35 per week to getting $1.55 ber’ 100,000 picks. The | fixer and Progressive loomfixers re- | Progr ve Silk. Mill don’t want to | fused to join the A. F. of L. union. | recognize the ufiloli, so business agent, ‘Yours truly, | of that yellow, guton suggested to the Hazelton Worker. | Last week on Women Workers Intensify | Action in the $40,000 Drive NEW YORE —tThe last two weeks | ¥ pasate cel DISTRICT 9 p, eon | D Marmon .00| & Dragter Ef | has seen a noted improvement in ac- | 2 siowe 25 | AS Hergren ‘33 | tivity among working women’s organ- | y¢ ‘Kruth 1.05 | Cegovich sto izations In the, Daily Worker $40,000 ; Adel .65|R Kennedy 1.00 drive. Workers School 20) Col, List 1.00 ‘ Pen & Hammer 2.00/ Jackson Unit 15 Among those sending in contribu- | yrdatetown 150|G Libeck ‘a4 | tions are includedthe Jamestown, N, | ¥., Women’s Council, $15; Landspur Chech Br. ILD 15.00 Workers School 63.08 | Total Nov. 27 He ; , , li-Grand Youth © | Total to date 337. Women's Section; Eben Junction, ‘hones 2.50 ADIOURICT SL Michigan, $1; ~ Working Women’s |r Moore 1D 6.50| H Larson 25 | Council, Reading, Pa., $7.15; Lithuan- | United Front jo P 6.84 ian Working: Women’s Association, | Supporters | 238.64 PEG arene Wyoming, Pa, $2; Branch No. 2, | sec 2 unit 9-8 1.76| Total to date 104.24| Lithuanian Working Women’s Alli- ed Z oe 3-5 tad DISTRICT 12 ance of Ameries, $1.30; Working | Sec aldged 120) Unit L-6 j oy : 7. $1: Sec 6, Unit 10 20 5 Woman's Club;-Keene, N. H., $1; Gile| Seo 6° unit 24 a3 was | Working Women’s Club, Gile, Wis., Lista | cor Forum 7.03 55 cents, Col by Fleury-aN 2.50 | 3remerton 4.30 | Units 8 and °@8, Section 11, New |, Y Berman | || tugene ell | York, raised $40-at a party for the | col by Miler | rortland-W.S. 20.50 | “Daily.” Ironwood Town Unit, Iron- | 2 names 20) sento 4.05 | Wood, Mich., somt.4.40; Unit 1, Gary, | Ti, Boo “8 | Zortland oe | Ind. raised $16.60; Unit 692, Colum- | “6 names 1.5 | Hoquiam aan bus, Ohio, $6.55; “Unit 1, Section 8, ‘ag Days Aberdeen. 71 j bus, Ohio, $6.55;"Unit 1, Section 8, Be ae wie) Crown Heights, ‘raised $10 at a party | Se be bey tech ‘ |of Negro and white workers, with | °° $,7nlt 26 te ey | Williams, a Negro Ww Tr, member of | D W Volunteers 1.70/ Sec. 9-Portland |the Alteration . P; ‘s Union, of ———— | B Miller | Brownsville, N..¥. pledging a day's | Total te date iassee| oN racet, | Work, amountirig to $9 for the Daily DISTRICT 3 S Beseaft Worker. Y. ©."L. members helped oe hs 1.00! Mozoft ‘ |Mmake this party.@ success. Two dol- | 3" P. ee ri 7 Theol ‘ lars and fifty cents came from the | moros 1.00} A Emerzas ‘ | Bristol Unit, Bristol, S. D.; a similar | Movie Showing, D Digoft x |amount from thé.Casey Unit, Casey, | ,gnamokin | 30.00 Penne ieee ie IL; $6 from..Unit 8, Minneapolis, | totel to date 1717.27|3 Webber 100 | Minn., to mention only a few. y pbsTRICT 4 | Priena 6.50 | The John Resdibtub, Detroit, Mich. |7 Poles —_1.00 | Several’ Friends 1.50 | will hold a party-for the Daily Work- hon Nov. hed aon Units 1-3 50 | er Saturday, Dec. 2, 8:30 p.m., at its | Totel to da 87) D Konowalyk 5 clubrooms, 108 West Hancock St., with | ru s5a7 °° =| hopeck 50 @ splendid program of entertainment, |R Cendon 5.00|@ Enanow ‘100 including a playlet; vocal solos, quar- bea & J Beckman 1.00 tet of Negro singers, dancing, refresh- | Snches Teele Seneae | ments, and a unique prize winning | xrznarich ‘30 | Everson Unit hh | contest. : Ng ae pa a a 8 io Rush Tag Day receipts. Raise your | Tote! Nov. ‘ jec 2, 8 9 | oe Tota! to date 608.14 x | District's quota. Contribute, Help | "io ,a's Tete te | put the $40,000. Drive over the top. | Victor 141] List oe lhe . © P Bec 10 1.38) col by Roberts ae CUT WOODFOR “DAILY” names 3 ‘Total Nov. 27 2.66 aay, ANACORTES, Wash—A group of | Total to date 1041-18 | rote) Nov. 27 a40.73 workers cut wood and sold it to raise funds forthe Daily Worker— Names not printed Total to date 788.40 et pier Mac. DISTRICT 13 |Southern Mill Worker workers, do you know that the N.R.A. is closing up on you every day? Every day your wages are being cut by the high cost of living, and still you sit still and say, “We have got to get together.” But if you wait till b themselves. t/ booing and hissing the parading policemen S| foot swinging clubs and Dillies, tr §| cifully breaking a club over his head. "| matched my ideas perfectly. PARTY LIFE Calls for Struggle |? 4 Against $8.90 Wages, (By a Textile Worker Correspondent) CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Fellow mill Stimulated Members, the N.R.A. gets you a union, you will wait a long time. The N.R.A. gives you the right to join a union. We have always had that right. That is, if you will join the A. F. of L., the company union. When the time comes, they will sell you out. The textile code calls for a mini- mum wage of $12. A cleaner is not in the code there, and $8.90 is the cleaners’ wages. The N.R.A. calls for a living wage. Now if $8.90 is a living wage, for a man and family then I will give up and say on with slavery and the NRA. The only way is to join a union, but not the sell-out union, like the A. F. of L., but a workers’ union, the National. Textile Workers’ Union, that will not sell you out. Code Allows Wool Plant 12-Hour Shift Comrades, the question has been party, when the materia! conditions our unit meetings duil? initiative? retarded? Planning of Agenda Let me tell you how my own unit | functions. We are far from perfect | (but hell, false modesty is not a Bol-} shevik virtue). The fact is that our fore the comrades come on time, and | out unit has grown constantly. In| four months we have split twice and | are ready to split again. | What is the basis of our wth? | well functioning buso that is ni burocratic, planning of the work, Planning of the meetings agenda jcarefully, plenty of educational ac-| | tivity, and plenty of discussion at the |meetings. To begin with, we keep + }it as a strict rule that every other in Weymeuth, Mass. | week is devoted to political education, | that every meeting must start. prompt~ (By a Worker Correspondent) | jy at 8 and end at 10 or at 10:15, that EAST BRAINTREE, Mass.—An/the buro meets on the business nights | “emergency clause” in the Wool code|at 7 and on the educational nights allows a wool scouring plant in ‘Wey-|at 7:30. Let us first examine our mouth to work a 12-hour shift. It’s| business meeting: The buro consist- a@ wonder workers can’t get some/ing of the organizer, agit-prop di- “emergency clauses” in that code for/ rector, literature agent and financial | {secretary meets at 7. The agenda is In Rockland, Mass., is the App|planned so that each item should Shoe Co, This company was forced | take only a certain time. At the side! to leave a town in New Hampshire |of each item we mark the time when | when workers there refused to toler-|it should be terminated as a cue to| ate sweatshop conditions. This was|the chairman. The buro sees to it) before the N. R. A. They now, how-|that each member of the unit act as/ ever, still maintain a reputation for|chairman. The first things on the) low wages and sweatshop conditions.| agenda are literature and dues. At} Since the N. R. A. they have re-|8:15 promptly that matter is done| sorted to considerable trickery in| With. The second item on the agenda | their effort to stay within even the|is given over to the organizer and the} capitalist law. For instance, when| Section tasks. The third part of the | workers do not make the minimum| @senda is devoted to the work of the) wage, which is quite often, they are| Unit. The fourth item is new bu: either threatened or deliberately|ness. The fifth is Soe igorcigyromieg fired. Continually there is a weekly|At 9:54 we are finished with that, | process of hiring and firing. and from. than to 10:15 is devoted to} The selectmen of Rockland have|% discussion of current events. boasted, with the opening of this) How Unit Meetings Are Conducted shoe shop, of the increasing indus-| Now let us see how the meeting is | trial activity which has been influ-| conducted. At 8 the meeting is called | enced by the N. R. A. It is to be|to order by the chairman. We had regretted that only the brotherhood} given him (or her) the agenda and | union is at hand to organize these | instructed him to run the meeting} workers, but when this bureaucratic} snappily, to allow discussion, but not union is exposed in some treacherous | too much talk that is getting nowhere. | act a revolutionary union will proba- | Up to 8:15 the meeting looks chaotic. | bly tell Mr. App where to get off. | There is a scramble for the literature. | Aside from the Party press, occa~ sionally one or two choice pamphlets | show up and they are hastily bought. | Occasionally too, the agit-prop di-| rector brings down the more expensive | | books and sells them on the installment | | plan—15 cents a week. It is our hope! in this respect to start a circulating | | library among our own members. At | 8:15 the business begins. A brief ex- planation by our organizer that we| are preparing for a hunger march, |that the following committees have | to be set up, and that the buro makes certain recommendations for those committees. A brief discussion on the | recommendation, some remarks and | Suggestions on carrying out the work, and the matter is disposed with. In} like manner we follow through on | the remaining tasks that are assigned | to our unit by the section, At this stage too, there occasion- | ally comes up a criticism of our past | |work for the section. Where mis- | deeds (or rather mistakes) are made|! by the leading comrades in the sec- tion, such mistakes are exposed and | our organizer is instructed to give all round hell at the next organizer's | meeting. Occasionally we doubt that the policy or tactic of the section is correct. We have a thorough discus- sion on the point, but unless there is preponderent number opposed to’ such policy or tactic, the matter re- mains in our unit. We take the at- titude that the leading comrades might have known circumstances or | conditions that we were not aware of,| | hence the policy that we adonted. We next come to unit work. The first part of this is the Daily Worker. We are trying to establish a route, but have not been successful as yet. Now we are going to go about the work systematically, We will con- centrate on one territory, and every week the Daily Worker agent wiil have to cover that territory and re- port on what progress he has made. Next we hear a report from our Open Forum Committee. We have establish an Open Forum in a pub- lic school, and through this forum we have exposed the N.R.A, ap- proaching Fascism, etc. Next we hear brief reports or shop or trade union work, or mass organizations. One business meeting we have the first, the next we have the second. In this way, the members of the unit are made to feel the responsibility for the mass organizations in our territory. They report on how well or badly the Letters from Our Readers BRUTALITY AT ANTI-WHITE GUARD DEMONSTRATION New York Dear Editor: I was one of the many who so enthusiastically responded to the call of the F. S. U. for a demonstration against the White Guards protesting the recognition of the Soviet Union, the Fatherland of the toiling and op- pressed masses of the world. Being a night worker and having worked all Friday night I reached Union Square rather late. There was a large group of workers assembled on the sidewalks of 14th St. and University Place White Bandits—exploiters and tor- torturers of the Russian workers and peasants and murderers of National minorities in Tsarist Russia. Of course, I joined my voice with those of the workers. . Suddenly and without any warning a number of mounted policemen cherged the workers, followed by and plainclothesmen on ing to disperse the crowd. One work- er was beset by about eight cops and bulls who were beating him unmer- Beaten for Giving Worker First Aid When the worker fell to the ground I rushed over to render him first aid —the rieht gusranteed me by the American Red Cross in a First Aid Course in college—but I do not sun- nose I can use this right to aid work- ers assaulted by ec>~. 7 did not even reach the wevl-r for I was knocked down by some cop, I was in a doze when a few workers nicked me up and I heard the cries, “Get that Red bastard” coming from a few husky throats. Before I realized I was seized by a few “strong arms” and pounded with fists and clubs. Patrolman Edear Denham of the Mercer St. Station was the last one to join tm the festivity. partaking of his dessert with his billy over my head, splitting my forehead, necessi- By N. |new business. | way: tating a number of stitches. Bleeding profusely and mvself reauirine first aid I wes shoved into a nolice car mass organization functions, we of- Need Lively, Instructive Meetings to Enlarge Units Attracted Outsiders B. asked, Why isn’t our party a mass make it possible for “becoming so? This question finds its reflection in many similar ones, such as: Why are Why do not the party members have sufficient Why is the politicalization of new menibers (as well as old) p Hae fer su msyand if he needs any help, ve it to him. “In the mate ter of trade union work, the mem- ber reports..om the work he is doing in his ‘ormist union, and what in In the matter -of shop work, we keep constantly before the mem- bers the need for rooting ourselves 1 the shops. As each member na- ts to report progress, we , that each member is carrying on good Bolshevik work. By these reports, the unit keeps in touch with the fractions in the various or- ganizations. The members are made to feel that the whole unit is behind them in the work they are doing, Now we come to the fourth item— Here the floor is open to suggestions for work and criticism, We find that the new elements that come into our Party often have ex- cellent criticism of our methods and approach. Such criticism is listened to attentively: we try to make the new member feel that he is among comrades that are always willing to learn), and where the criticism is incorrect, our.agit-prop.director gives the explanation of what the correct line During this stage too, we have excellent, suggestions for new work, often coming from new mem- bers. At 9:45 the agit-prop begins a review of the week’s current events (3 or 4 items), explains their poli- tical significance and when he is through after each item, gives the floor to the rest. Occasionally, he only synopsizes the news events and asks for politcal analyses of it from the members. ‘ That, comrades, is our business meeting. It is alive, snappy and at the end the comrades -would like to stay another 15 minutes instead of desiring to run home, Just before the close of the discussion, the agit- prop director gives assignments to three comrades to prepare for the next week, which was to be devoted to political education. Let us see how that meeting is conduéted. From & to 8:15, literature and~dues; 8:15 to 8:30, necessary business: (We make , sure that only that business’ that can’t wait till next week is allowed. on the agenda). Now we turn the rest of the meeting till 10, over to the agit-prop director. He calls on the three comrades that have assign- ments. The first gives a short talk on chauvinism. Questions are fired at him when he is finished, and at the end. of the period the agit-prop sums up. The same octurs with the second subject, “What ‘Is the Swope Plan?” and the third, “Why Is the United States Buying Gold?” These are sample subjects. It is at these meetings that we bring the new mem- bers (and they usually remain in the | unit). How to Train Agitators On other occasions We arrange the political education in the following The agit-prop director states 4 to each member in ‘turn an argu- |ment that is eroneous because it Is not class consciovs. Each member is to argue with the agit-prop director showing him where he-is wrong. Thus erroneous viewpoints. on the War Danger, the Soviet Union, the Negro Question, are.stated, and refuted. In this manner we find out how good we are as agitators. It really is a lesson in agitation and propagandiz- ing. When the member is through, then the agit-prop director tells him how he could have improved his ar- guments, and the other members add their suggestions. Well, comrades, I have» made this letter longer than it should have been. I hope these suggestions will prove helpful to you. Let us.get to work and improve the Party life in our units. i N. B. Unit 4, Downtown Section, Los Angeles, Calif. ee be The Org. Commission would like to hear from other units in regard to this letter. of this plan for unit meetings? What kind of unit meetings are having? What are improve them? We would hear from Comrade N. B. concrete activity of the unit. What struggles is the unit ‘ What shop work is being done? us hear from the units on than three double space pages to the Org. Commission, P. 0. Box 87, Station D, New York. and taken to the Mercer St. Police Station where the “balance” (exores- sion of Patrolman Denham) of my punishment was administeved, Canitalist Medicine All this time I was b'eeding and received no treatment until the ar- rival of the ambulance exactly 45 minutes after I was so brutally wounded. ‘The patrolman whose eye was hurt received first treatment, while I was left waiting. In this won- Aewt-” -~-t--9 Of ours even the medi- cal profession—that Good Samaritan Institution is prostituted. The “Doctor” voiced his unpleasant surprise that I still had some blood left, to which I rejoined that the rest of my blood was just as red fee Alien and Radical Squad officials treated me just as courteously and “promised” me some more when “this heals.” They insi-te4 tht, I was in the em- “7 7" “4-¥in and they were going to deport me back to Roosha—a great calamity indeed. The cop charged me with felonious assault, but under cross examinrtion bv the LL.D. attor- nev. Fanny Horowitz, he could not explain how the inner eye was hurt by a bludgeon (my alleged instru- ment of attack), leaving the cheek and forehead without a slichtest scratch, I am out on bail of $1,000 awaiting By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Influences of General Disease On the Eyes To continue our discussion of the effect of various bodily conditions on the eye, let us review some of the infectious diseases: Cerebrespinal Meningitis is often accompanied by conjunctivitis, of swelling and drooping of the lids and strabis mus (cross-eyes). In severe cases, there are hemmorrhages into the retina and neuritis of the optic nerve. In Cholera, the eyeballs dte sunken and there are bluish circles around the eyes. Diphiteria is followed in some cases by paralysis of the muscles which move the eyes. In Erysipelas the lids are so swol- $1.70 was raise” A collection in LO. 4.07) Stockton Sub-8. 9.20 | Unit 26, in this tity, netted $2.95 for |°%,"¥ Fliyuse |, | ¥ Brandstetter 2.00 the “Daily.” ..A,.big wood cutting 1 Weber, Oakland 2.50 |drive for the::"Daily Worker is) Lieb | 3.00/-Beren, Landau planned in “egnjunction with the ig can lise a 3.0 United Farmers League. Salutsky-7N_ 5.50/11 names 3.00 fone . J Moore & W yo. by Softer MINERS SS QUOTA’ gi Neer hs Ae — wie SHENANDOAH;::Pa. — Although | Joldst thousands of-"atithracite miners in Mu i a Ny b Mandi sagen hae | this vicinity are jobless, the workers | unit 8 Sec 2 1.00| Total Nov. 27 26.70 jof this town raised $47.80 for the | Unit 3 Seo 4 -10| Total to date 970.15 Daily Worker; passing the original | Qmt 7 Sec 4 50 Banaue Hee 8 |quota for this town which is $25. |Unit'1 seo 8 ‘60| “waver 18.57 |Minersville also passed its quota. Unit 12 Seo 8 .20| Anon 80 | eee oe Unit 15 Sec 8 —-35| Anon |WORKERS' CLUB TOPS QUOTA | Pn }t,,Se¢ 7 | .80/F Laracea | NEW YORK.—The Pelham Park- | 6 names 1.30] B Seaman | Way Workers"CHM-2179 White Plains OO) by areata ag | 2 Praduee {Road, Bronx, is the first English uf ahs |speaking club to.pass its quota of |" by Smith | Totsl Noy. 37 34: $25 in the Dafty Worker Drive, ye 18167 s DISTRICT 17 re having raisdd $30.75. It is still) 10 names 1.75) H Ash. Bir. t. | Col by Lisoskt 10 continuing to raise funds, sei eee Tota Nov, 27 wit 1 ‘ ‘ota! lov. . Total to dal 5 | Total Monday |O Schutts 1.90 | “Nov. 37° T7k60 Ht Hirechmen 100 | Teeth sr dee wont ed err | Previously re~ Comrade Louis .25| 1, ghute 65 00 | corded 2765.28} J. Richards 80] A Jones i Ferret Anon 1.30 | Henderson 50 DISTRICT 19 s 1 Same ‘ost let . gv ir S | 4 ated indian. See, i ‘Ses Prosehestes Cahir pasion Unit 915 3.15| Total Nov. 27 3.00! leon statk: 0) aaeeee ae Onit 908 4.00 | Total to date 139. | Rosindale’ Unit” 3.00 |. Berkowits ei dae OG | dae PI eee Poe i le capeet ey Unit H 26 1.00) Boro Pk. 1 2.20 {isenhap nines We at ae Unit 718 4.50] Br. 27, N. ¥. 12.95 Total to date 1285:201 Tomehin Total Nov, 27 3649! Total Nov. 27 3 DISTRICT ‘2. “6 names a di di $ ln ceaea * noo! B "Secobson sao Total to date 2970.00 Totel to date 1656.64 | len that they cannot be separated, When the disease enters the orbit, grand jury trial. ~DOLIA MYSHNE, | the inflammation may cause the loss of eyesight. me The eye complications of gonorrhea are too well. known to, need discus- sion. The new-born “suffer from ophthalmia neonathorum, which is probably resvonsible for the largest number of those so-called blind from “birth.” In adults, s careless brush ing of the eyes with fingers which have touched.pus fromthe genital organs, may result in severé con: tivitis, Which, if neglected; often re sults in blindness. “fees Everybody knows the.catarrhal con- jJunctivitis which gtcompanies © moenzsles and makes the Mttle suffer. ers shun the light. — In Paszmonia bilcvevgand ulcers of the cornea may devélaps In Scar- jet Fever the same cofplications are seen as in measles, but gnilder (To Be Contimmed) \ i