The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1933, Page 4

i : § “than even a DAW Page Four 866 New Member for [WO Italian and Fewish Sections Make Biggest |} Gains During Week; 139 Children Added By MAX BEDACHT A decisive upward trend marked the tenth week of the membership | recruiting campaign of the international Workers’ Order. 866 new members | were recruited during that week, and 139 children. This brings the total drive in fen weeks up to 6,170 members and 1,137 children. This week’s result raises the weekly ave gain of membership ef our Order during | ee ane : their branches, This ty the. J ot be niaintained in 89 by the I ership in adult tions. T the life of these if ma: s not satisfy their par- copied istified desires. But even mches succeed in continuity of mem- youth, they cannot workers into the séctio: the ocial and cultural They will ewhere and find king class, in the youth and athletic clubs of bourgeois | club: ized ait chang eping the youth in the DY Chicago, some 5 anches does not mean to the Italian branc em, but in many instances throughout ns that we never really get Let this result be an inspiration to | them Whenever youth members are taken adult branches (and there s be efforts to win young orkers), these youth members should {be at once organized into a special | committee for the establishment of a cain 2 Seaton Saute Section ; Youth branch with youth life. Two or is down i It registered |™ore adult comrades should be at- enth | tached to such a commitiee as guides = |e as ecial organization force. These ittees must be given all the h y need. Their activities Sopcicn On the (nat d up. The whole adult by active members of the I. W. O where, to drive out pes bring into the O: growth. a 0 Ip to develop and trary registers up and down, most-| branch must help to devel fide. 4 ten weeks of the cam- | maii intain youth activities in such paign in their regular order show the | branches. Advice and actual support must always be given to the effort a 4 ‘kers to devel- tion: 11, 16, 4, 21, a 55, 18, 40, 26 | the crops of young worl and 18. 7! average is 22 ner week.|OP social, cultural, sports and edu- This is not a s' cp shore | cational ‘lite in our youth branches. : growth | That is the only method by which we e.|teally win and keep young workers. following results for our Youth Sec~ of the Youth It certainly docs a- | NOTE ures, how , do not give; Every Monday we publish letters @ clear picture of the growth of the| from workers In all branches of the transportation industries—rail- read, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, express companies, truck divers, taxi drivers, ete-—and from the communications indus- tries—post office, telegraph, ete. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions of work, and their struggles te organize. Please get these let- | ters to us by Thursday of each week. youth membe p of the Order. members taken They | into | 43 a failure. We must rep ure in a future special the building of the English S the Order. Duties of Adult Branches One of the reasons for the fadlure | of the campaign of the Order in the| Youth Section i ¢ lack of under- $125 FROM UTICA standin ult branches of ITHACA, N. Y—A number of the youth prob! | workers and students in this unt- The adult branches take in many|versity town contributed $1.25 for youth; but they do not make efforts|the Daily Worker when approached to organize these youth into youth|by a student with a collection list. | branches. A false and petty bourzeois| Other students are asked to also desire of possession makes them keep! rally aid for the “Daily.” Tn the Hou / tay Ce CONDUCTED BL Vie 2 HELEN LUEE = = > It was 2 prodigious amount of talking I did last week, but now I hope all the comrades will consider the floor wide open for discussion concerning tevolutionary women and children. Te begin with there is the following sensible letter from Comrade M. Swetlowa: Don’t Frighten Your Children. many instances of , ig their children Can You Make ’em Yourself? @on’t go out in the rain, or Iu} all a policeman,” or, ‘Johnny, stop | funring or the policeman will arrest 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 3 1-8 yards 39 should |inch fabric and 7-8 yard contrast~ is to |ing. tactics ildren with Police. | your children | frighten their Why not reaso @S you would with a grown-up, ex-| Plaining to them the real reasons why they should not do certain | things? | day keep them busy out pictures, or read child will instructions included. ftoriés. to understand ¢ of his, not dor, and wil to respect you. | “Frightening 2 kid is very bad} @hild-psychology. Instead of mak-| ing our children _revolutionists frightening make cowards of | Workingclass Women Active in Colorado. | In line with Comrade Swetlowa’s | letter, we shall assemble some more | material on how to amuse the children and at the same time} ward off the pressure upon them of bourgeois advertising and education. The following letier is also good | news for workers who realize the | importance of supporting the prole- tarlan women’s magazine that Is/ a@ ‘most effective antidote to the distilled by the flossy bour- geois “ladies’” magazines: “Denver, Colorado. a 1 unreasonable super- | be much more apt ‘Comrades :— “We are a little late in getting this letter to you, but the other day had & good meeting in the mame and organizational process of the “Working Woman.” There were forty of us present. “We have ordered material for @rganizational duty; also the in- structions so we can work it up on the proper lines, as we want to start hard work on the Working Woman Organization here in Den- Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) ovins or stamps (coins preferred) for Helping the Daily Worker is Through Helen Luke tributions received to the credit of Helen Luke in her Socialist com~- ition with Michael Gold, Dr. Lut~ , Edward Newhouse and Jacob to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Worker Drive. A. comrade this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker, Pattern Department, 243 West 17th St. New York City. Previous total ..... vey 149.46 $ 10.00 10 Total to date — ...+....$159.56 Patiern 1722 is available in sizes | Tilustrated sten-by-step sewing, Dining Car Worker Tells How Conditions in Tenth Week of Campaign! Worsen While Penn. R. R. Profits Boom Regular Lette Carrier Tells of Gov't Oppression | | (By a Postal Worker Correspondent) | EW YORK.-—I am a regular | | | | : ; Some letters pe: of you: e read with aining to the ing conditiot in Post office. ‘ost of the letters w: written by titutes suffering fi the worst |economy drive ever i | government under the The slogan ¢ postmas official is: s subs as little work as possible.” For examre: If the superintendent | | of a station is allowed 120 hours of substitutes’ s ing the month, he. will use only 105 | master will only allow him 110 ho 190 hou:s, thereby decreasing sub- stitute work each month. regular letter carrier? First: self. my partner. In other words, I not) only take out a double load but cover twice as much territo:y—actually do- ing the work of two men. Second: The government in its economy drive has been activizing that lowly force known as “shoeflies,” whose duty it is to make the carrier (through constant speed-up and spy- ing) carry a maximum physical load in a minimum amount of time. Third: The force is constanty de- creasing in number through retire- jments and deaths. Several hundred men were retired in New York City on Oct. 1, 1983. the remaining force in the stations. Hence, the already overburdened carrier was given more work and more territory. The speed-up is telling on the health of the letter carrier. I should say—the speed-up p.us the furloughs and wage-cuts of the last few years have undermined the health and have broken down the morale of the letter carrier. It is a pathetic sight to a younger carrier to see his older brother carrier, aged 60, pounding the collection beat and bringing back a load of 60 to 70 pounds every half hour or hour after a trip of a couple Of mucs. se is constantly rushing, for he must make time, and if he doesn’t the “shoefly” will be out to test him. The “shoefly” can always make the scheduled time of the trip because he carries no load. However, the speed-up of the car- rier has only begun. Several hun- dred carriers will be retired Jan. 1, it is rumored. Wage-cuts, speed-up and starving of the substitute—these are the methods Uncle Sam is usfhg in “cleaning” his own house. I should add Uncle Sam in our case is none other than Postmaster Gen- eral Farley, the tool of the Economy League. In other words, the Na- tional Economy League, P.M.G, Far- ley and Roosevelt—(what has the President done to improve our con- ditions?)—represent not the postal workers, but Wall Street—the capi- talist class. ‘Haaren School | Student Relief Is Cut by N. R. A. NEW YORK.—The Haaren High School, 59th St. and 10th Ave., has | two-thirds white students and one- | third colored students. The Haaren | High School is called a co-operative | school, where a student earns while he learns. In some cases a student does make money, but only 20 cents @ day. Up till Dec. 6 5 plate of potatoes was five cents. Quite a while ago the students who receive relief got 20 cents free food. The students got & cut and now receive 10 cents food. ‘The most they could get with the 10 cents was potatoes with milk or cake and milk. Sandwiches are 10 and 15 cents. Ten cents sandwiches don’t have much and are too dry without milk. On Dec. 6 @ notice came around, sent by the principal, Mr. Burnham, stating that from Dec. 6 on food prices would be raised and potatoes will be 10 cents. This, he said, was due to the N.R.A, He said that the | object of the N. R. A. was to raise prices. He did not say that the N. R. A. was a failure and how it cut wages. Another bad thing about this is thet the counters do not employ union help, but that students work at the counters for 20 cents a period. | There are three shifts, which makes | about 45 students hired in all. They | give out possibly about $8 a day. The} | student who collects milk bottles gets less, Milk sells for five cents a bottle when it is supposed to sell for four cents. I bring two sandwiches from home, but I don’t eat two sandwiches, but one or one and a half, because stu- dents who have nothing to eat go around begging food. The colored students are worst off. Another thing, I never saw colored students work at the counters. This is also showing a little Jim-Crowism. A HAAREN STUDENT. Editor’s Note: We suggest that these workers get in touch with the National Students’ League, at 114 W. 14th St. New York City. This or- ganization will be able to advise these worker students what to do to im- ptove their conditions The delivery routes | of these men were distributed among | ~ |e ers had f. d by any hours. The following month the post- | and the superintendent will use only!for a run in the same length of How does this concern me a8 4/ hours later. When my partner is ott | ron service due to. this shortage of duty, I must make the full trip my-| workers, and A substitute does not replace take it out on to feed waiters Stes ' interests be cl ‘How they have disrupted the ranks , interest is appreciated and encour- [Size of Crew Reduced, Pay ( Cut, and Many | Replaced by Youths (By a Railroad ‘Wort LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Being a constant at other wor! hed the e: We took a 10 pe ~eame the ma: s (firing) ef hundreds of d ing car wait “Many of these nilies te supp © of them~are rt and now} ping in the vacant buildings and under- low staryation. . Concerning families; “E*yyill leave that to} mn conclusion. of use are supposed to ng heré<afe facing evictions t. “Ieai¥as announced last summer that 26 €efts would be taken from the pay chéck of every dining | ear cook-and waiter each night oe we slept in the company’s qua out of town, Which we formerly an free. going their montn--en” the Commissary |bulletin was a hotiee to all chefs not , chops, fowl} eggs, but to make our meals con- f as cheap, low-grade food as Most of;us can truthfully the above items of food have} jrarely been meals for us, except eggs jand left-over things. In stocking up cars in the yards we used to use five in the kitchen and six waiters. Now in most cases only two or three cooks and three waiters stock up, and prepare the car say that time and the full crew (if used) board the train when it pulls in the station Many times the.food is not ready the. inspectors try to the cooks. “Dead-Heading” Cuts Pay Some years ago Wwe were paid for every hour we spent on the car. Now they have in practice what is known as “dead-heading:*, “Dead-heading” to us mean that after 9 p.m. en route, at Lower W. ker Correspondent.) ages ¥.—I am a dining-car worker on the Penn} er of t*~ Daily Worker and reading the | ts write in from their shop, factory and R. R., I ng conditions imposed upon us by the | nt cut along with the rest of the railroad | the time of the entire dining car crew We lie down to sleep on! is stopped. cots and “peacefully retire” jabout three hours before breakfast, and our time begins again. In the Sunnyside yard above the commissary is a filthy unsanitary pig sty called the crew room, where ex tra (new) and “regular” extra (fur- |Joughed, but who get this chance for holidays), dining car herded like cattle and sometimes wait several days all day long without pay before they get s sign out or run. This damnable hole can be compared to a slave auction block. Here the youth of Harlem, fresh out of school, unable to get work, compete for the bread of the older ‘workers, who are broken and burnt out through spending the best years of their lives in dining car service. During one week last month, nine- teen of these workers were fired with- out pension because they were too old to hold up the pace. 600 Per Cont Rise in Profit I read in the N. Y. Times during the past summer that for the first! six months the Pennsylvania R.R.’s profits for 1933 had increased more than 600 per cent over the same period of 1932, with only a 23 per cent increase in traffic, This increase for the bankers and stockho:ders was, and still is being accomplished by grinding down the railroad workers to the lowest living standards. Col. Atterbury, the faith- ful servant of his masters, the big stockholders and banks, may call this “economic efficiency,” but we railroad workers, in plain English, call it wage cuts, open and underhanded speed- ups, slave-driving and hell. Telegraph Wor kers Need Real Union As Conditions Worsen (By a Member of the Ascociation of Western Union Employees.) NEW YORK:—The Association of Western Union Employees fills the requirements ofa corpany union perfectly. pany union is tha” is complied with excellently in the A, dent of the Association of Western Union Employees,"is not only closely linked with the Western Union com- pany but he has also been recently appointed as a cotadviser on the Na- tional Labor Board-of the N. R. A. Everyone knows What part the Na- tional Labor Board ‘has played in this period of intense labor struggle. Everyons knows how the members of this National “Uabor Board have helped to break ‘coal strikes and tex- tile strikes and countless other strikes. of striking workers with their vile red tape tactics until the morale of the workers is undermined! Letters were sent out to members of the Association announcing the “honor” that had been conferred on Mr. Burton, their president. And in summing up this announcement the letter said that “the significance of this appointment should not be over- looked.” No, fellow’ members of the A. W. U. E, the significance of this should certainly not be overlooked. This shows precisely what the mem- ers of the A: W. U. E. can expect of this organization if it is permitted to be controlled by the company and the government. Now just how Goes such a co. union perpetuate itself?—It 1s done very easily. Meetings ate held at infre- quent intervals and are poorly at-| tended. Due to, lack of interest on the part of the rank and file the same officers continue to-hold their position year in and year-out. This lack of aged by the officers-and the company, since it can then have free rein and jurisdiction without any dissent. Grievance committees meet very infrequently if at all. Members fear to bring grievances to these commit- tees, as they know that they will be taken for a “ride’ by the company for complaining. _Members are leav- ing the A. W. U. E..by the hundreds, and those who still belong feel that their dues are wasted but fear to leave because of the pressure that may be exerted against them. For the Western Union workers the present period is very crucial. If ever they are in need of @ real organiza- tion to fight for their interests it is at this time. Conditions of terrific exploitation confront equally the sim- The first requisite of a com- the officers of the union be company men, that their y and definitely connected with that of the company. This W. U. E. Franklin G. Burton, Preci- Plex operators on te 13th floor as well as in the branch offices. They are equally as bad with the branch managers as with the counter clerks, equally as bad with the underpaid lineman installing a call-box in a patron’s office as with one repairing a broken down wire in some desolate spot; and even worse with the poorly | > paid messengers staggering under the | se, intense speed-up and vicious exploi- tation. Positions are filled and promotions are made even before they are “bull- etined.” Hundreds of “new” people at & lower wage scale are hired and trained for simplex operating posi- tions in the commercial department, while thousands of trained simplex operators are starving on the fur- Joughed list. Hundreds of new em- ployees for clerical and sales positions are being employed, while thousands of trained employees on the fur- loughed list are walking the streets ! discouraged and hopeless. After having given the best years of life to the company, after wearing one’s nerves and energy to a frazzle to keep up with the ever-increasing rate of speed, after giving one’s very life away for the profits of the com- pany, you are put on the “furloushed list.” And this actually means that you're on the dump heap, that you're “through,” that you’ve outlived your day! Hundreds of service branch man- agers and Other employees with high- er ratings, who gave years of enezgy to the company, are going through a forced demotion or weeding out. Many have already fallen by the way- side and a great many others are trembling with fear. What is the A. W. U. E. doing about it? Not a damn thing! Duly elected Seattle More Than Doubles Quota i in $40, NEW YORK.—EStablishing one of of the most splendid records, Seattle, District 12, sent an additional $115.68 during the half week ending Dec. 7th, thereby already more than doubling its quota in the Daily Worker $40,000 drive, eG The credit for,.sending in the largest amount in this period, exclu- sive of New York, however goes to Philadelphia, District No. 3. Philadelphia and California went of- ficially over the top-on Dec. 7th. The following- chart shows the standing of each strict: Walt’ Total to % of District Week Date Quota vee 1. Boston $23.04 4510.24 $1200 125.8 2. New York 698.76 14812.47 20000 3. Phila. 2000 4. Buffalo 750 5. Pitts. 1000 6. Cleve. 2000 7, Detroit 2000 8 Chicago 5000 9. Minn. 780 10. Omaha 350 11. N.D.&8.D, 350 12. Seattle 500 13. Calif. 1000 14. Newark 650 15. Conn, $5.63 326.29 600 until | es and heavy seasons particularly | workers are| wURKER; NEW oes MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1933 ‘Half Hour’ Stolen Daily From | Longshoremen | | stances actual leadership has been given to the workers ready for struggle, the membership as a whole, in the basic unis, I vork Cor dent) Tee Re TS Te Soar errnity | ODE gill (unbdiin Eikvs! nat poacteM forthe resent economic and poltteal NEW YORK.—On Pier 60 (White longshoremen are Star treated month. of the ti Sometimes the men are forced to hang around all day long waiting for a shape because the bosses won’t let us know Many of us hang around all day and then we don’t make the shape. We work two men to the side of the ship, four men in the hold to a Two or three bosses svearing and cursing all the day long, telling you if you can’t “meet the hook then get out.” the work six men used to do about a year ago. Now four men have to the bosses cursing and swearing from the time we start until (25 minutes to six double do it al we knock off Line) worse josses work us like mules, then they | gyp us out of 25 to 30 minutes wages for every day we put in. the men mi ime. lift. ll, sometimes). Here is how they rob us of our hard earned wages. about five to 10 minutes ahead of| time in the morning and in the We knock off about 20 afternoon. to 25 minutes past five o'clock. cording to the union rules we are supposed to quit work at five min- utes to five (five minutes to cover the hatch). 30 to 45 minutes every day we work. We can’t kick to the union dele- gate about these things because he comes around only to collect dues (once every three months). spends most of his time in the office the than _ slaves. ake only when the ship This They shaj We get paid only till five o'clock. So they gyp us out of 5 to 10 minutes in the morning 5 to 10 minutes in the afternoon 20 to 25 minutes in the evening with the bosses. Total Thursday . Previously recorded Total to date ...... DIST No 1 Mycovik I Waychuck 3.00| Battinick 1.00 Coin Cards Total Dece 7 6.00 3 of 2.80) Total to date 1012.94 a DIST No 1 Total Dec 7 ‘Mr, Mrs Sanders 1.00 Total to date 1810. 24] DIST No 2 ‘Org 5.00 I Flaumenbaum 1.00 Coin Cards R Glockler 1.00] 2 of 14 J Smith 1.10] Total Dec 7 7.10 Johnson 6.25) Total to date 605.70 Christianson | DIST No 15 3 names 40, Tat's Market 50 E Kuisna 00 Coin Carés Red Sparks AC 16.53) Welssberg 1.00 Wkrs Carrito Eissenman 1.09 Dress Shop 1,80) Total Dec 7 Prog Wirs Cult C | Total tordave 32628, 4 names 50 DIST No 16 Sec 2, Un 17 16.63 H E Beatty 1.00 Sec 15, Un 3 10.50|Total Dec. 27 1.00 Sec 7 1.50] Total to date 22.45 Sec 9 2.25)... DIST No 18 — Coin Cards ‘Coin Cards 25 3 of 1.28 Tag Days Total Dec 7 1.25 8 3.4 Sec 7 3.5 Unt 35 Un? 3.77 Un 6 1.72) 1.00 Un 7 4.69| Total Dec 7 2.00 Sec 10 48) Total to date 144.46 Un il 6.18 i. W. 0. Lists Branches List 43772 393, Nantucket, 2 names 1.00] Pe 2.00 Col by Zadimapky | 77, Trenton 5.00 3 names 1.25/ 120, Milwaukee 6.25 Col by Marsh 78, Detroit 10.47 8 names 1.40] 519, Baltinore 1.50 Gol by Anderson 2081, Buffalo 1.00 Fr +10) 2114, Chicago 1.45 Col by Simpson 25 | 2041, Cudahy, W 5.00 3 names 128.’ Chi 5.00 Col by Smith 2080, Byersville, 10 names 1.10] 0 3.00 Total Dec 7 91.25 | 2005, Kenosha 6.75 Tot to date 14812.47| 148, Cleveland 3.25 DIST No $ 144, Memphis 4.50 © Groff 1.00 | 58, Los Angeles 3.50 P Schuck 1.00' 61, Chicago 4.75 Coin Cards 593,SanFrancisco 4.60 MM Gleason —1.25| 185, Baltimore 1.10 G Keller 1.50/58, Atlantic City 2.00 Krezanski -40, 807, Culver City, || Total Dec 7 Cat 8.00 Total to date 2190.38 093, Johnstown, IST No 4 M Obreg 50) 76,1 Philadelphia ER 00 E Martin -50, 549, Calumet City, Coin Cards (a 1.95 1 of +10, 2047, Elyria 6.35 —— | 2088; Detroit 4.00 Total to date 287.64| 84, Plainfield, Total Dec 7 110] NJ 6.90 DIST No S$ 624, Chicago 2.00 1 of 1,00; 2121, Barberton 1.29 Total Dec 7 1.00 | 664," Moundsville, Total to date 702.48 ae a DIST No 6 51, Los Angeles 25.20 Bishop Brown 28.00| 58, Los Angeles 1.00 Un 12 124, Cleveland 12.50 Sponsors—Toran ‘Wilson, Norris, Most of about $20 a The hatch bosses make most And he 2,4 Ukrain Women's ‘The docks. | is all ype us Ac- 767.35 657.53 PARTY LIFE Makes Shop Work ¢ By H.C, “While the Party Committees in become more ‘shop conscious’ during development. is the heart of this nation’s industr —transportation, hea’ indus‘ metal and packing. What happens when we concentrate upon a given industry, shop or railroad? I am a member of the section committee of Section 4, and was active in the un- employed movement in Chicago since In July of this year I was assigned to trade union work, specifically to concentrate upon Stewart Warner. In the past four years we have printed truckloads of agitational material and distributed it in front of this shop, and secured only two Party memb: vithin this last year. I immedia tried to get a job in this factory. T! was impossible, so I got in touch with several girls and fellows who worked in the shop, and in co-operation with the two Party members, one comrade from the section and one from the City Committee of Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, we suc- ceeded in building a union with about 199 members. different departments began to strug~ gle, indevendently, stopping work for many hours, proposing strikes, etc. ‘There was general talk about the red union in the shop. Friction Between Union and Party Comrades Prevents Building of Union “Preceding and during this time, proposals were made by the Section Committee to so organize the union, as well as the Party in the depart- ments, that the workers on the jobs would be protected against ‘stools.’ For four weeks we endeavored to to have a representative from the Steel and Metal Workers’ fraction attend our fraction mectings, so that @ uniform policy could be adopted. This we never succeeded in obtaining. There was friction between the sec- tion and union representatives that manifested itself openly in the union meetings, to the extent that the workers stated: “Those guys don’t know what they are doing. When we wanted to provoxe discussion from the floor, the union representative said: ‘Leave it to the one who can take care of a meeting. The workers come here to listen and not to talk.’ Consequently the initiative of the workers was destroyed from the very start. The section committee also suggested that a motion be passed to elect a committee to draw up a leaflet and take up a collection for the expenses involved, and that a 50} financial report be given at every meeting. This was also rejected by the union representative. “Take for example, Chicago, qaitcntt I joined the Party three years ago. | Tne workers in the} Chicago Pays Insufficient Attention to Work in Shops Make Shop Work of Vital Importance of Vital Importance Chicago. District 8, and in the Sections have the recent month, and in some im- fractions in mass organiza- 3,000 workers he S.ALW.L in Stewart Warner into . This work, if hand d have given impetus to all of the workers of. Chicago, “Another weakness in our work was, and still remains, the fact that in of the local and national im- ance of our concentration, it ree mained a concentration of one come rade ai ed from the section come dd this comrade was not even he n, they claimed that they were busy doing something else, con- sequently nothing was done in the mass organizations and very little in the union itself. Language Organizations Under- estimate Shop Work “In connection with our stroggle for unemployment insurance and the ime mediate needs of the workers both in- side and outside the shops, our mass organizations tell us that they have a national policy and that the section committee has no right to interfere with their policy. Since we have so many foreign speaking comrades in our Pai rty, the language organizations adent ti eee ( machin- Q titude the lower Party organizations ae in danger of becoming secondary tions. This creates much mn. In order to master the taks that history has placed upon us of liberating the American working le | .| class from the fetters of capitalist slavery, and in the meantime to fight for their immediate needs, we must make our mass organizations a means to that end, instead of at present, in many fnstances, a hindrance in developing such struggles. “Section 4 has 300 Party members. It has in its territory three important steel and metal shops, five street car barns, several leather shops, railroad shops, the municipal pier, and dozens of large A. F. of L. unions. But out~ side of the concentration centers, no support is given to shop work by the Party. “On the question of the Dailly Worker, 4 units in our section, held their Daily Worker Affairs, without a single copy of the Daily Worker at the affair. It is true they made money, but some of the workers ent didn’t know what it was for” — NAME ADDRESS Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. Please send me more information on the Communist Party. imseccceueeeemerese es0cee ceecee officials have openly stated that they| renholte & Nov | sie, Ghiesss, Sas have no interest whatsoever in a] vikoff, Tinlten "31.00 644, Jacksonville 5.00 member once he is furloughed. And,|, ,, Com Cards sel Elizabeth, ae snyhow, if they don’t look after your | rotai Dec 7 4635 | 301, st. Louls 5.00 ee while you are a member, bigeg oie aie oo 135, fe aa br lo 128, i. JOU tose 9Our fb? |S tn 00] HE real ot 188 The expected merger early in 1934/4 of ‘ 512, Newark 13.61 of both telegraph companies, the|Totar Dec 7 3.40 | 69, Elizebeth, NJ 6.00 Postal Telegraph and the Western | Tl,t¢ dete, oie ig EN gp Union, will result in thousands of our |» sotkus 30 6 menes8.35 fellow emp'oyees being put among the | A Nickels 1.00 12 1.05 unemployed, S Hammersmark 3.50 33 14.25 M Kaligian 5.00, 47 4.25 I Gertler 5.00 | 53 2.85 J Reed 1.25 | 71 1.45 Ohi Wkrs Sch! 17.70] 82 715 LDSA Br 433.00! 73 480 Milan Glumac 20.67| a6 3.65 Office List 1.35] 98 1.60 Un 208 1.95] 116 2.88 000 Campaign | 3"". i) i Un 606, Casora 1.10] 178 3.55 16. N.0.88.C. 1.25 180 Oa ian ; 17, Alabama 15, énse 150 ae Li Ha " 18, Milwaukee 41.52 472.11 750 5.38 | 615 880 19. Denver 2.00 144.46 250 6.75 | 500 150 Misc. —— 33.25 1350 5.00 | 2003 11.80 Lw.o. 476.94 3250.12 8000 133 | 54 135 TOTAL $2491.12 $33424.88 $4000 63.56 isis” ss Jewish We. Cl. $1445.51 $2000 7227] & alan 10.78 iW agg 5.0318 3 18 SHARP IMPROVEMENTS 1.00] 190 an ‘The receipts of $2421.12 in this last ero | 21, 338 half week, compared with $944.24 in 50/33 5 2.40 the prior half week is not only a ao 1.00, 9 is sharp improvement but shows what, i 5.00 the districts can really do by taking 5.21 | 406 7.10 vigorous action. Lis By New York sent in $698.76, com- eae ber pared with $352.25 in the previous aA WY a half week; Chicago, $234.27 against 1.35] 138 $24.39; Cleveland, $165.87, against wloe ; $107.22; Connecticut, $65.63, com- shied ut pared with $13.65 in the prior half 1.00] 146 ut week. Detroit slumped, dei n $28.55, compared with $164.15 in the ‘DIST 82 ry last simite; period. The Interna- | # Rutland 1.00] 17 2 3.94, = contrast with $5 in Nicole 11001 Total Dec 7 ending December 4th. Total to date 325012 By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS How to Live a Tiiousand Years William G., Fort Pierce, Fla.:—Peo- ple did not live six to eight hundred years in olden times. The biblical ‘S| story of Methuselah (who is supposed to have lived 969 years) is 2 myth; ‘unless we substitute the term month for year, which is the primitive way of computing time. Thus 969 moons was equivalent te eighty years and nine months, which is pretty good for & cave man. Eating honey, whole wheat grain, brown rice and all the natural foods you mention, will not help you to live 2 thousand yéars, nor three or four hundred; even if you do not smoke, nor drink tea and cof- fee; the drinking of “good” wine and beer will be of assistance. Living a temperate life will prevent you from contracting many diseases due to faulty diet and habits, but cannot prolong our life beyond the natural limits. There are plenty of moderate smokers, drinkers and lovers who lived to be a hundred, and a larger number of abstainers who never reached sixty. We cannot understand Why you consider macaroni as a bad “civilized” food, while wine and beer you classify as “natural.” We cannot answer (nor understand) all the questions you have scribbled (in pencil) on the torn pieces of paper. As to the amount of honey and salt, you may allow your taste to decide how much to eat; provided you suffer from neither Bright's disease nor diabetes. In kidney trou- ble, as you probably know, salt should be eliminated from the diet; in dia- betes, all sweets are taboo, although | honey is less injurious than cane sugar. No, we do not believe that man will ever live a thousand or even two hun- dred years. If he does, it will be as @ different animal. Sorry that we have no scientific data on which you can base your hope of practical im- mortality. We are satisfied to con- tinue physically (in part, of course) in the bodies of our children and mentally aaa out influence on Karl Marx and Lenin Alcohol and the Duration of Lite subject that we know is “Alcohol and Longevity,” by Raymond Pearl, Direc~ tor of the Institute of Biological Re- search, John Hopkins University. It was published by Knopf in 1926. If you have no money to buy it, we shall be glad to send you the copy we have in our library. You forgot to send us your street address. ren es Chronic Gonorrkee W. J., Philadelphia:—It Is the duty jof every Party member to take care of his health and the excuses you give for neglecting your conditions for two years are not valid. Next time you come to @ conference in New York, come in for an examination; there will be no charge, as we consider a full-time functionary as unemployed (if not Worse). In the meantime try Pyridium tablets; one tablet thrice daily, after meals. Get them from friendly druggist because they are rather expensive. They color the urine ted, so don’t be alarmed. Helping the Daily Worker Through Dr. Luttinger Contributions received to the credtt of Dr. Luttinger in his Socialist come petition with Michael Gold, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob Burck and Del to raise $1,000 in the Daily Worker Drive: 5 Sidney Josephs Previous total Total to date mat At a house party arranged - Anna Richman of Unit 28, with the assistance of mt Unit 414, Section 4, $80 was col- lected for the Daily Worker, sum has been credited to Dr. Ungers’ column, Dr. Luttinger, Morris ' Jacueline Alpert, David Ki the Workers School Theatre and John Bovington were those that helped to make th D. R. Salt Lake City:—The best book on the statistical part of the “te nara Saad - } as ASI ESE