The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1933, Page 4

eorrecting the org Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1938 PARTY LIFE Control Day, ten ten dance, Coo Full At Statement of District Secretariat, New York District The Party Control Day scheduled fof Tuesday, December 19th, is of tremendous imp our dis- trict as it will be comings of whic fered in the pe the center of 4 District Orga: Té will enable uv certain our for our assets p work in our District our Party and Conference. to take stock, as- and on the basis of are plans for ac~ jons even ignore the to! aber of Our trade union fractions r he Party members who shirk msibili memb, Sorgan of our ¥ solved be un- our 3 atends towing purpc 1) Tighten organizational Apperati by knowing our member- Ship, its composition, its exact num- ber. (Up to now the only means of @etermining our membership has been the average dues sales, which, hecamse of the looseness in our apporatus, very often does not give the correct estimate.) 2) Get back to the Party those | members who stayed away from unit meetings for a long period of time. | > E e all Party members te pay their dues up to date. 4) On the basis of the trade reg- istration establish functioning trade union fractions. | 5) On the basis of the registra- tion of the place of employment, heip in the formation of new shop | the the fol- ont nuclei. (We have instances where | several Party members work in Some large shops, unknown to each | other, and belonging in street nuclei while they could form a shop | Ritcelus and display their activity in and around their shop.) | 6) On the basis of the registra- tion of the fratcrnal and other or- Qanizations where our members | belong and also of the place where | they are giving their main activity, | “Fe-arrange the fractions in the | Mass organizations with a vicw to | ‘eliminate friction and bad fune- | tioning of the fractions. | 7) Assist the Y.C.L. with leading | Significance of Membership Some | t |-Open Letter—the task of building the | |Name .... | December 19 | To Improve and Strengthen Organization; yperation Imperative forces on the basis of the registra- tion by age. 8) On the basis of the fluctation that will be shown by the registra- tion, establish the strata of the membership it affects, its causes, and find the remedies for it. 9) Secure a basis for . further plans on how to intensify the pres- | ent recruiting drive, establish con- tinuons recruiting and accomplish the task which we have set our- selves at the Extraordinary Party Conference-—that of doubling our membership within a period of six months. ( The importance of the above points nnot be too muc.1 stressed, and to ty this control successfully we need! the cooperation of each and every Party member. No Party member the unit id be absent from ing of’ December 19th. st mee A must take place in our Party in order e 100 per cent attendance on x 19th. Active comrades in units and fractions must see that the inactive members are brought in to the unit meeting in question. They visiting such comrades with a v! to haye them present on Control Night. wide popularization of the date} ' member should after th carry a book with the mp pasted on it. It should be lege for every Party mem- ber to carry this stamp as it will signify that he or she has done his or her share in trying to solve the or- ganizational difficulties of our Party. It will signify that our Party mem- bership is ready to carry through by all m the task set for us in the Party into a mass Party. Let us all cooperate in the success-~ ; Sharecroppers ‘Arkansas Farmers Struggle Hear Report of Against Hypocrisy of C.W.A. Farm Conference onty 250 Finally Promised Jobs, While at Least 6,000 in Stone County Need Aid (By a Farmer Correspondent) | NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark— Driving home a militant account of | (the Farmers Conference at Chicago, | (By a Farmer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ark.—Farmet Correspondent) rs of Stone County, outraged at the the Pulaski County Negro sharecrop-| flagrant abuse and hypocrisy of the C. W. A. relief scheme handled by a per delegate brought a vivid response from 150 Negro workers and croppers attending the Homecoming meeting arranged by a committee for the League of Si gle for Negro Rights, the International Labor Association, the F.P.A., and the Communist Party Spokesmen for these organizations c tended greetings, pledged solidarity to the struggles of the sharecroppers, and gave a brief outline of the activities of each organization. | The spokesman for the Party was| well received as they heard for tho first time an outline of the role it played in the liberation struggle, and in giving militant leadership and support for winning immediate de- mands while showing the revolution- | ary way out of the c: | | | Where the Workers And Farmers Rule From a Soviet Farmer Correspondent SHILOVSKOVO REGION, U. S. S.| R.—My name is Ivan Leksin. wife and I worked very well this year, | and for the work we did we received) our full due. Before, I was always preoccupied vith care, how to keep my frail little house from falling to pieces and my children from starvation. And now I have & good house, and bread, a suffi- cient variety of vegetables and small animals running around in my yard. Now another care has appeared on my horizon, one I never had to take into account before. I have no place to put my grain and my vegetables. Believe me when I write that it is no| mall matter to know what to do with | 2,000 poods, (72,000 lbs.) of potatoes, | political clique, threatened to throw distribution, out the officials and take charge of | Leaders of the relief workers and farmers ‘told the sheriff, Walter Brewer, “to keep to his office” in» event that they would be compelled to carry out their threat. He tel- ephoned to the state headquarters for stigators, and three were dispatched, to whitewash the dis- criminating policies of the officals. Farmers gathered on the streets |in large numbers, and local speak- ers urged united action to oust the Looney-Johnson political ring graft- ing at the expense of starving workers, who placed relatives and friends on payrolls who were not in need while hungry hundreds stood by “Canse for Agitation” Admitted. The United Press sent its special investigator to this remote moun- tain settlement, sparsely settied by subsistance farmers, who reported “adequate cause for agitation.” The sheriff departed for Missouri, leav- ing a deputy in charge recruited some months ago. An organizer of the Farmers’ Pro- tective Association, in April brought to the attention of the farmers of the backwoods section the. dirty work going on in the county seat, and formed three locals. A com- mittee of action was sent to the court house in April, but the relief officials evaded the militant farm- ers, who then drew up a vigorous protest and list of demands sent by registered letter to the Governor and the state officN's. This immediately brought an R. F. C detective (social investi- gator) on the scene, who was curi- ous to know “who was stirring up folks to trouble,” although he pre- tended to be interested in actual needy cases But when the F.P.A. chairman, G. W. Davis, offered to take him to these starving homes, he was more interested in “seeing j what this fellow, Fredericks, looked like,” whom he had “trailed from White County where he was also | raising hell with Red Cross offi-| cials.” The farmers of the mountain pla- | teau have been continually ignored, but after several protests in April, | some more R.F.C. relief was ob-| tained. This was cut entirely off in June, and only with the C.W.A. set-up, have they been promised relief again. | The investigators recommended | change of personnel in charge of the CW.A. and announced 4650/| men would b: vut to work in place | of 100 as at present. But of the 9,000 population of Stone county, ‘at least two-thirds require aid. More Action Needed to Put $40,000 Drive Over the Top NEW YORK.—Receipts in the ful carrying through of the Party, which are the returns from my work | Daily Worker $40,000 drive during Membership Control on December 19th! | JOIN THE | ‘Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please ion on send me more informa- the Communist Party. yur * a ) The paper toys described by Alice W. L. reminded me of 2, favorite amusement of us kids in St. Louis—the “peep- Show,” usually made out of a card- board shoe-box. ‘The inside of this was decorated to Tepresent a room, with remnants of Wall-paper pasted on the we and windows cut ovt and pasted over with bits of colored tissue paper. Diminu- tive curtains, too, were hung over the Windows, pasted along the top edge. This room was furnished with paper furniture; for a cent you could’ get a sheet of it ready to cut out and Paste together; lacking the cent, you Made your own or cut some out of Catalogue. Tiny dolls were put in too.} There was a half-inch hole cut in ‘oneend of the box through which to “peep”: a string was attached to the other end. A small lighted candle’ Was set into the middle of the box @nd a three-inch hole cut in the lid above it. | ‘We were deeply thrilled by the ef-} fect. of the light shining through the colored windows as we pulled these ac CONDUCTED BE { HELEN LUKE { ;Similar dish may be baked: also, the {Sauce may be made sweet-sour ‘with !lemon-juice and sugar.) Can You Make ’em Yourself? Pattern 1635 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 16 takes 2 1-2 yards 54 inch fabric and 7-8 yard 39 inch contrasting. Mlustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded. Boxes along the sidewalk, of an ‘evening, charging a pin or two a peep. ‘Tt was a sort of neighborhood Social- ist competition to see who could make the most interesting box. Variations on the Theme | This idea could be adapted for use| _ foday but the candles, of course, must | be taboo. (How I never set the house! on fire, I still wonder.) A larger box} ‘than a shoe box would be better, if { available. The interior might be} made to represent a workers’ club yoom, & nursery, or an attractive ‘ Toom, with tables, chairs, tiny ‘paper plants and wall-pictures. Or ® workers’ living room with a Red Corner in it. ) The windows could be made quite Yarge and filled in with cellophane; = if placed before a real window, interior would be illuminated. If there is a relic about the house in the shape of a string of Christmas tree lights, these could be used by ‘Cutting hoies in the lid of the box to hang bulbs through. Or a flashlight be used if there is one in the i ‘The possibilities for ths interior are tniimited. By making the bottom part green and the upper blue, to Tepresent grass and sky, a kolkhoz Might be built, with paper buildings, animals, tractors, etc. 8 8 Culinary Departinent Another Russian Recipe: this one from Comrade M. Swetlowa, for Golu- bizi. It takes one big cabbage, one can tomatoes, one or two onions, one pound chopped meat, one-half cup tice, and salt and pepper. Take off the leaves of the cabbage, pour hot water over them to make them soft, and mix the meat and rice, with eg. “Stuff the cabbage leaves with the mizture, rolling up a small handful in @ach leaf. Put these in @ pot, ‘pour over them the tomatoes, slice an onion or two over it, and stew one hour.” By, using cooked meat and rice, a ‘ Yr VM FiFV@EEN evins or stamps (coins preferred) for Send CENTS (l5c) in 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 Street, New York City. Helping the Daily Worker Through Helen Luke Contributions received to the credit of Helen Luke in her Socialist com- petition with Michael Gold, Dr. Lut~ tinger, Edward Newhouse and Jacob Burck to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive. Total to date........0++.-8161.81| only up to the first of August. And at | the end of the year I shall receive | another half thousand. So it is that | after my work on the kolkhoz I must | work at home to make the cellar of | my house larger in order to have a place to put my potatoes and my vege- tables. I have made the old kitchen over into a warehouse for my grain. Our village never remembers such a harvest! Before, during the best harvests, we were never able to gather in more than 500 or 600 poods (18,000 or 21,600 Ibs) of potatoes to the hec- tare. And now 1,000 poods to the hectare! That is our reward for good work, and the careful attention we have given to the land. We are living well, and our lives are | sufficient and plentiful. And to tell} the entire truth, the kolhoz workers have begun to talk about electricity. We are beginning not to be satisfied | with sitting around our kerosene lamps. And soon in our kolhoz, as in others, we shall have electricity and @ radio, IVAN LEKSIN, Kolhoz, “The Foundation of Socialism,” Shiloyskovo Region. Gets Half as Much | for Cattle While He Pays Higher Prices (By a Farmer Correspendent) SALLISAW, Okla—tIn this county I can show you hundreds of families in destitute circumstances. Hundreds do not know where they will exist next year; houses are rotting. People are existing without suffiicent bed- ding, with insufficient clothing; with insuffiicent food. The land has been taken over by loan companies, mostly. I pick up a paper, and what stares me in the face? Destruction of food, in order to make food higher, des- truction of cotton, in order to make clothing higher; destruction of hogs in order to make meat higher. I am a poor farmer. I had a few cattle to sell last year. I have about the same number of surplus cattle to sell this year. I can’t get half as much for the same number of cattle as I did last year. On the other hand, what little I do get will not buy helf as much, dollar for dollar, as the same amount. All I can say is I should like to see Senator Capper, Andy Mellon, J. P. Morgan, yes, and President Roose- velt, put out on a poor hill side farm with a team of mules, an old Jersey cow, a brood sow, one hound pup and @ cultivator. I should like to see them display their rugged indivi- dualism by making a living. I should enjoy seeing them display their su- Perior ability in thrift and financial matters. There is no question but what the field is ripe for propaganda. We have several hundred colored people in this county. They offer a fine field for agitation, for I have talked to some of them. But the same is true of the white people. All are ripe for agitation. “Subsistence Center” Sites Planned as New # Methods of Slavery, (By 4 Farmer Correspondent) FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.—Subsistence center sites are being considered in Madison and Carroll counties by rep- resentatives of the United States De- partment of Interior, Division of Subsistence Homesteads. The brain trust is figuring where and how to herd the permanently unemployed industrial workers and displaced the halt wack endint Nec. 113h to- tailed $955.04. In the prior half week period receipts amounted to $2,421.12, which means that there was @ decided drop in the last halt week. Receipts by districts in the four days from Dec. 7th to Dec. ith, and their standing in the drive is shown by the latest chart he- low. Funds raised by the var- ious districts through branches of the International Workers Order is credited in this chart to the districts. The chart t-low is cor- rected in a numh~— of instances as shown by the etter “co,” Diatries Past Halt Week ‘Total To Date Quota % & Quota 128.6 86.34 $1543.63 $1200 17269.20 20000 2452.19 2000 360,85 750 714.01 1000 1644.93, 2059.96 3254.17 411.19 117.68 140.34 1111.36 1241.30 793.63 379.80 47.45 102.86 527.36 Boston $62.66 New York 416.88 Phila. 14.68 Buffalo Pitts. Cleve. Detroit Chicago Minn. Omaha I. N.D.&S.D. 12, Seattle 13. Calif. 14. Newark 15. Conn: 16. N.C.<28.0. 17. Alabama 18. Milwaukee 19, Denver Mise. TOTAL Lw. pe rag eee 10. 6.20 25.15 27.10 28.02 32.07 12.08 2.70 4.25 6.30 $955.04 $34419.02 $131.78 $3443.38 .W.O. $8000 Jewish W. Cl——— $1445.51 $2000 With a spurt of real action, com- Trades, we can put the entire drive over the top There is more en- thusiasm for the Daily Worker than ever before. Workers will gladly support our fighting paper, espe=- cially now with the additional ex- pense necessitated by the new press. Gives Up His Pennies. An example of devotion to the Daily Worker is given by Melvin Levy, a little boy of Bronx, N. Y., who saved up pennies given by his parents for ice cream until he had $1.30, Yesterday he turned in the entire amount to the “Daily.” From Barbeton, Ohio, a worker, G. H., out of work for 3 years, sent 95 cents. ‘These are only a few of the many examples we could give. Workers aprroacked will give gladly. Hold affairs. A bad example is set by a Unit in Hamilton, Ohio, which when asked by its organizer to hold an affair for the Daily Worker took no action. We ask each Unit, every workers’ organizations that has not yet heid affairs for our fighting paper to do so now. Help put the $40,000 drive over the top. Help us retain our new press by rushing whatever amount you can at once to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York, N. ¥. Total Monday ...... 8 371.43 Previously Recorded . 34,048.49 Total to Date ...... + $34,419.92 All District Totals Corrected To Include I. W. O. Totals Distrct No 1 Schule 8, Col by Semenuk ! 4 names 2.00 Br_167. IWO Long Cove {5 Flatbush Unit 11.56! No. 2 Unit 3, Wor 40.00 Finn Womens Coin Cards names i ‘2-0f 2.40; Col by Raymond cn 0 names 1.20 Total Dec. 11 55.96 Sec 2. Unit 710.00 Total to Unit 28.5 15— te 1472.90 cor] Unit 414, ‘0 20.00 Dai Twe 70.73 Sec 15, i) it , 11.21 Branches ‘orrected mi Total 1543.63 cor Sec 6. Unit 2 1.05 | Coin ‘Cards inen .80 District No 2 J.T, . S. Wertaii A. Hofschmidt 28 Tag Days Kalman = 1 Sec 7 25 Unit 9 100: Unit 10 100, Unit 11 00! Uni za! Ss 2. 1, A 1 00 .25| Gropman 3.00, Col by Corzollt ‘Work 2s! ibe tin e f v Yortviile Wkrs |S names AC 00, Col by Berg Jugo Slav WC .90| 3 names 2.10 Ukrain Toiters, | Gna 3.70 in Toile: names i Col by Kowalski, | Col bv Marinal names c mes 115 1 by Bihun, rt sharecroppers. Colonization proposals for Negroes have also been proposed. | (_4 names. 3.90, List 51690 | 2 ni fe} names M4 ames List 51693 Col by Charkowa. 10 names = 4.20 i 12 ld 99 x it Lists 60 Col by onek .00 5.00 List 54101 1.30] Col 1.25 15. e A O Eaisley 25 K_W Sottwidel 3 names Taliarench 25 Col by Kestin. Belester 2.00 names Col by Cooper 2 names Col by Cohen 7 names Col by Holub (35 List 51711 3 names 5, Col by William 5 names ‘ Col by May Col _by Perry 25 ius > Section 12 Coin Cards 2-of Total Dec, 11 24.91 Total to 1.8! Branches 270.49 Cor total _ 3254.17 DIST. No. 9 50 E W Peterson .25 ft 1.92 Katz ‘ Col by Tarney 3 names at | Col by Arn 25, Col by William. 10 names 1 Col _ by Freedman Col by Reed 5 eS. Tota] Dec, 11 2.67 5 | Total to 385.34 Branches 35.95 .25| Cor total 411.19 DIST. No. 10 .50| Coin’ Cards 1-of 30 Total Dec. 11 30 Total to date 117.68 DIST. No. il AN Wamkel Coin . Cards 2-of 5 2.05| Total Dec. 11 1, Bei 3 159.83 Total to \2 Date 15280.65 cor Branches 2038.55 Cor total 17269.20 DIST. No. 3 Col by Joisak 4 names 95 Col by Senkevich names, 5 Coin Cards Anon i-of Total Dec, 11 3.05 Total to date 2205.05 Two Branches 247.14 Cor total _ 2452.19 DIST. No. 5.00 tal 1111.36 er, Elk 25 3 1.79| Anon. 1.00 65|43 Blocer 1.00 Santa Barbara Sec Coin Cards 5-of 3.30 Total Dec. 11 9.17 Total to date 1080.95 cor Branches 160.35 Cor total 1241.30 DIST. No. 14 Total to date 637.77 155.86 Branches Cor total "793.64 past. No. 18" Total to date 313.95 Bg Branches 46.90 Cor total 360.85 DIST. No. 5 Coin Cards 2-0) 2.00 ES Dec, 11 2.00 date 710.76 we Waterbury 638 Iwo nae Branches 3.25) pasanys «$08 Denisuk 1,00 Coin Cards 5| Club of Plainfield, Our Readers THE FOOD WORKERS INDUS- TRIAL UNION IN THE CANDY STRIKE New York. I am writing these few lines to criticize the Food Workers Industrial Union. There is a candy strike going on at Crosby St., downtown. As a member of the union, I volunteered to help in the strike. I was trying to mobilize forces for a mass picket. I went to the union to ask for heip and they refused to give me help by sending me to Bill of the Cafeteria Dept., to Bill Albertson of the Candy Dept., and Albertson sends me back to the Cafeteria Dept. ‘The Strike Committee made a com- plaint to the T.U.U.L. and they ar- ranged for a meeting at six o'clock. ‘They all complained against the or- ganizer. They complained against him because he isn’t capable or able to organize any strikers. He made the strikers so discouraged that the majority of them left. If it wasn’t for the comrades of the Y¥.C.L., the strike would have been lost a few days ago. Even though % is in a very bad condition, we omrades do not like to lose a strike without putting up a battle. To my opinion I think that when one strike is going on, one department should help each other if needed, especially ® revolutionary union. I would like to see some of this criticism in the Daily Worker. All, if necessary. oa ee Statement of F.W.LU.: Most of the facts as stated by the comrade whe wrote the letter are generally correct, The union during the period of the strike realized the weakness of the leadership, the lack of leading forces and other short- comings of the strike. However, as far as leading forces were con- cerned, it was impossible to add anyhody else (t) the strike situation. | All the organizers of the union and | the leading comrades had their hands full with strike situations and injunctions. I personally was involved prac- tically full time in the preparation of and the work in the general strikes of the Confectionery and Tobacco Jobbers Workers Union, although I am not the organizer of the candy section, as the comrade claims in the letter, but am acting as secretary of the union. Certain rank and file comrades from the union were sent in to the strike to help as much as possible, but the strike was lost, mainly due to lack of proper leadership. We did have a meeting with the comrades of the Strike Committee, and the shortcomings of the organ- izer were yxinted out, but no de- mand was made to take him out, but only to add to the leadership. At that meeting a fraction here of the Y.C.L. members and the organ~ izer was established in order to take up the daily problems in the strike. However the ¥.C.L. comrades cer- tainly must take some responsibility for the demoralized situation, be- cause instead of helping. the or- ganizer to overcome the demoral- ization, they themselves were de- moralized, although they were not strikers, but were only participating in the strike. WM. ALBERTSON, For the General Executive. Failure of Speakers to Appear Plainfield, N. J. About a year ago, the Jack London . J., was formed. In the past year, through much hard work, our club has grown. It in- creased its membership and became popular in nearby cities where our Agit-Prop Dram Group performs for all affairs. Our club has even done more than that in aiding the movement. The success with which we are meeting induced the left-wing elements in other cities to organize clubs like ours. Now there are nine clubs under the leadership of the “Cultural Federa- tion of New Jersey,” of which our club is a member. Comrades, since our club has been in existence, we have never had a lecturer come to any of our forums. We've tried again and again to get one to come out to deliver us a. lec- ture on economic or cultural topics, but repeatedly, the speakers put in no appearance. Monday night, Nov. 13, was our last | straw. The Anti-Imperialist League promised by all means to send us a comrade to lecture to us on Cuba. The club made, a big affair of this, Cor total 714.01 7 Bradley © ‘100 Col by Shefchuic | 10 names 2.’ Col by Javorich, Ruse, Ural, & Eine” Unit a4 Springfield 1.70 Total Dec 11 De 11 12.08 care 338.37 Branches 41.43 CBSE Noe Total mail pat Iw : Branches 25.00 DIST No. 11> + No. Soe 50 Unit 3—44 13, fof tal Dec, gee date 1582.65, Branches | 62.28 Cor total 1644.93 DIST. No. 7 T Szilazvi 1.00 Coin Cards 1-of 1.10 1.60 ‘Total Dec, B Total to aa Iwo Branches 39.50 Cor 103. DIST. No, i Y J. Reed C—Masi nena ; 6 hares tae Total tort 20 Col by Xedes date 476.36 names | 2.75) 1WO Col by Mordig Branches 51.00 ae ass Col by Grash Cor 527.36 Gol'by'geres | cot Mom Po 1.13] Coin Cards 2-of 2.20 names . ol by Smith 220 Dec. H 3.70 etal names. 50 Gol. by Bisenberr Colby Midich 1:00 150.76 Sens i Branches — 15.00 Cor total 165.76 Lw.o, Br, 167 5.00 E Flat Sch me 15 7 names No. 2 3.00 ts 5 names 2150 forgetting them to fall into the bour- geoisie and reactionary snares. Exec. Com. Jack London Club of Plainfield, N. J. . Reply of the Anti - Imperialist League: In reply to the comrades from must ¢ that ai = KE SEERERRSE 23 tae oe Be s Schule No. 8, say! — 1 » 11 9.15 ae in District has Cor total 3443.38 Total Dec. 11 2.10 Tots dase 1945.57 Branches 114.39 OG gta Og handle, Is Hailed in Colorado Town Workers and Farmers in Dutaiigo Glad to Hear That Their Support Helped (By a Worker Correspondent) DURANGO, Col.—Despite the fact that I arrived’ in Durango suffering not a little from a healthy sock on the nose from no jess a dignified gentle- man than General Wood himself, champion of Hétace “Holy” Moses of the Gallup American Coal Co., who is determined to protect the profits ef thé Kennecott Copper Co., and the Santa Fe R. R. with utikr disregard to Tallapoosa Cropper Sees War Move in Civil Works Camps By a Farmer Corresjondent DADEVILLE, Ala.—Share croppers, tenant and poor farmers of the South are now wondering what to do. The worker of the South is seeking for knowledge. Now the landlord and bosses are taking wide measures in the new deal of Roosevelt. Under the NRA the landlords have issued a plan which is to change the R. F. C. workers into civil workers. They are calling the masses into every county seat throughout the South to sign up in this plan. Signing the masses, both Negro and white into camps is the main plan of Mr. Roosevelt. This is to divide the masses into small groups where they will be easy to This is an easy way to slap us into world war, Mr. Roosevelt sees that it easier for them to do this than to come out in the open. —iLH. (Tallapoosa Cropper.) Force Release of Trappers’ Leader Landowners Seeking Fur Monopoly NEW ORLEAN La., Dec. 12.— Nearly five hundred workers crowd- ing the courtroom here forced the release on bond of Albert Gonzales, president of the Trappers and Fish- ermen’s Union No. 18,408, framed on charges of conspiracy to murder and attempted murder. ‘The frame-up was engineered by the combined efforis of agents of northern sportsmen who have leased thousands of acres of trapping Jands as hunting-grounds, and other land~ owners who are trying to get a mon- opoly on the fur-buying industry, to force the trappers to sell them furs for practically nothing. The trappers have put up a mili- tant fight against being driven off their trapping grounds, and against the grinding process rapidly being ap- plied to them under the N. R. A. The A. F. of L. Leadership is at- tempting to divert the defense action of the trappers by assurances that “everything will be all right” if they keep calm and let the lawyers handle the case, but the trappers flocked to the court-room in mass defense of their framed fellow-worker, in defi- ance of their “leaders.” Alabama Boss Is Paid for Destroying Negro Toilers’ Cotton Crop (By a Farmer Correspondent) BUFFALO, Ala.—The rich bosses, landlords and the merchants made the poor working Negroes plow up their cotton. They said this is the best thing that ever been known in Alabama to:make the Negroes plow up their cotton. It will make us get @ better price for our old cotton, the landlords say, then we will get the ‘to more than’ $150,000 @expense, which has already mounted in pay to keep the troops'in Gallup in a vain attempt to break the miners’ strike. {I was v happy to find such ® spirit of solidarity and. sympathy among the workers.and farmers of Gallup. Durango is quite an out of the way place, yet it has a few staunch supporters Of ‘the “Daily. These comrades were’the only ones that Imew the.) truth about the settle- ment of the Gallup strike, but were unabie to convince the workers and farmers here “that the strike was really wonOne worker, a reader of the American Guardian, insisted that the S,.P,.led the strike, I explained the hard-won victory of the Gallup’ miners” under the militant leadership of the National Miners Union. , The reports that the most of them had was from the local reactionary press that gave Major Moore of the N.R.A. the credit for “Settling thé strike and that all that was necessary now was to get rid of all the. “1 ” and outside leadersand;the miners of Gallup would be satisfied. After I had explained the role of Moore and the tremendous victory of the Gallup miners, I assure you that these workers and farmers were very happy to know that their solidarity and ‘support to the strik- ers was a large factor in helping to win the. strike. . One worker was just preparing to send 50 cents of his last dollar , to the Daily to help'the campaign | to save the Daily. With the whole- hearted support of the local com- rades here, I, made a_ protest against my deportation with the local officials, Gov Hockenhull and Gen. Wood, and with this mass support was,able to. force the State of New Mexico to send me a ticket to Denver, and after the col- lection taken"up among the local workers we decided to divide it with the Daily. and Western Worker, which amounts to $2.50 for the W. Worker, $1.50 for a Daily sub re- newal, which is collectively owned, and $1.50 .doxiation. : The workers and farmers her who have. read’ the: Daily like» it very much and the farmers were very much, pleased Nip the report of the Farmers’ Conference. The workers of Durango ate determined to organizé* a-“real fighting unit of the Communist Party here. (CARL HOWE. (Signature Authorized), “NOTE” ‘We publish letters from farmers, agricultural workers and cannery workers everyThursday. These work- ers are urged to send us letters about their conditiéns’ of wotk and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of each week. a checks too, for the cotton the Neé-\ groes have plowed up. The landlords got the money for the plowed up cotton, and the Negroes did ‘not get anything but.a,darn hard time for the plowing up cotton. y The Aibafiia’ workers @re slaves for the rich landlords of Alabama. The landlord says if they keep money out of the workers ‘hand, they can man- age him just like they want to, they can make him work, for low prices, that is, two meals a day and no money at all. a The poor Négroes and whites of Chamber County are ‘in a suffering condition. The Negroes of Chamber have ‘no school for their children. _ By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Basal Metabolism Tests basal metabolism test is a valuable adjunct to the scientific physician's Brady is against it, is no reason for condemning it. The older physicians have never had a chance to use it and it is a rather complicated proce- dure. Furthermore, the apparatus costs about $300 and few physicians can afford to buy it. All this may explain some of the opposition. As Marxians we must always remember economic factors in medicine, as in every other human activ- Your tachychardia (rapid heart beat) was purely cardiac (due to the heart) and your physician was either too in- experienced to make the diagnosis or needed the extra $25. Incidentally, @ worker who makes $18 a week should not be charged more than $5 for a metabolism test. ‘The main purpose of the test is to find out the rate at which your food or tissues are burned up in the body, In cases of goitre (for instance), no ordinary examination can determine the exact condition of the thyroid gland (which is the organ involved). The mere enlargement of the neck is not sufficient evidence of whether the gland is too active or not active enough. The metabolism test, when accurately done and calculated, tells exactly how much oxygen is being burned in your body during a certain period of time (8 minutes). The more oxygen you use up, the more active is your thyroid. Without such a test, it, is impos- sible to know exactly how much fodine, for instance, certain cases of a $ g goltre need. Many women pear Ng be Stier eee a thyroid secretion vi found to have angaee diligent search revealed: the f¢ their obesity: (fatness) was lack of ovarian function, women often get thyroid or | Preparations which not only does cure them, but-actually makes worse and »frequently causes their death. " : On the other hand, we fully agree _ with you that many physicians are | inclined to, rely too much on “teste” | and laboratory findings. They are disinclined, to,,1ise_their five senses and their brains.. and the most modern apparatus without judgment are useless! iy . ent See8 7 Cure for Irregular and Painful Men- __struation ; An Office Worker:—The cure de- pends on the cause. Have < examined by a reliable physician. Some cases can be cured or improved by correcting the position of the uterus (womb) ‘or by the administra- tion of certain ovarian‘extracts, Helping. .the Daily: Worker. Through Dr. Luttinger : Contributions received to the credit jot Dr. Luttingt his.Sosialist com» petition with aeb Gold, Edwara , Newhouso, Helsn=Luke, Jacob. Burck jand Del to- 1,000 in the $40,000 | Daily Work si Ed Rose ..%% Vv. Feinald .. Orange Co., ; i ral ils ig i HB