The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1933, Page 4

e a a e is t Page Four =—_ 250 Worker on Discipline in Federal Tra End Pris Armed Guards Compel 50 Strike Leaders to Léave Camp By PUCSON, against ur attempts at PAUL STEELE Dec. 20.—Revolting conditio! and prison discipline z in age from 18 to ke at the Federal three miles north of £35, went nt C minimum wage of setting up cks as protec- tion agai: sleep at night next to impossible, an res~ cinding of the order cutting down to- ampers, bacco allowances from three times to} ied the reinstate- e delegation which had travelled to Nogales to investigate | conditions there and had been/} “pusted” when it r end to the disci fn rector, an army man, was trying to impose The resentment ers, many of them &@ series of comma camp director. mation of a 1 ‘The campers were young workers who had been forced by the crisis to leave home and take to the road. They are gradually being forced into these concentration camps, by propa- at . 1, 1934, s ‘ge, by force. i that the militia will be necessary to force young into these camps built throughout the country Although there were stoves stored tn the camp storeroom, the director, Richardson, refused to let them be set up in the barracks, although he admitted that it was colder in the barracks at night, than it was out- side In i eamps, ary of ni But Richardson and his superior, State Director Murphy refuse to pay @ single cent to the workers, some z at skilled trades ten evidently put the pockets began to run nce route, Rich- se concentration ent N. R. A. sal- money When the cam away via the be ardson ordered the themselves, to “take cl them on the head if th ape.” Rumors be eemp was to be trified barbed-v On Friday the tobacco allowance was cut from three to two sacks weekiy. The food, pre- viously fair, due to militant protests by the campers, n to drop off alarmingly in qu ity and quality. ‘The workers decided that something had to be done, and a meeting of the SPECIAL DUTY squad was called in their separate barracks, which was made of adobe and therefore fairly warm at night be: They demanded recognition | now being | nts a week ts paid. | is, campers | and knock inded by elec- | nsient Camp 0 town At the meeting, the Special Duty squ formulated the demand of “Cash for all special duty men.” This was to be an opening wedge for the demand “Cash for all campers.” How- ev not to neglect the rank and file, the demand of “stoves in the barracks” was also made. Officers of the union, which was to be called the Transient Workers Union, were elec- ted and then all the Special Duty men, 50 in number, marched down to the office. | Richardson flatly denied that any camps in Arizona were being paid |cash, and implored the men to dis- |band and in the future to send one |man to speak for them in cases of | this sort. The Special Duty men then went back to their barracks as previ- ously agreed upon and secretly de- cided to send a delegation to Nogales, the nearest camp, 68 miles away, to investigate whether or not they were paid. They got a pass to use the | camp car, and bought their own gas- olene. They talked with campers | there, and learned that some were | being paid. They returned about 4 jam. and reported their findings. Richardson, tipped off, was waiting for them, and “broke” them. An organizational meeting of the entire camp was called, and 225 of the 250 campers joined the union and promised to support its policy. A | committee was sent to Richardson with the six aforementioned demands and he agreed to all of them, except | the first, asking us to give him one | week’s time to investigate. The camp doctor, a government secret service stool pigeon, who pretended to be for the union, even urging several recalcitrants to join, instigated Rich- ardson to call armed guards and throw out the most militant union men. Armed Guards Drive Out Workers That night, 20 armed guards came |down and the officers of the union were called into the office and told | to leave the camp immedaitely. When they refused, they were given until the next morning. Although they had apparently brought the guards |down to remove the officers of the union from the camp, the author- ities, thought better of it when they |looked through the windows and saw the entire body of young workers in |the camp mobilized in front of the | office determined to defend their rep- tatives. Through a pre-arranged they had been quickly gathered, y of them from bed, and there they stood, a grim, silent, mass of | aroused young workers, ready to show | their solidarity, at all costs. The next | morning, 50 of them, the special duty | squad almost to 3 man, left the camp. |By false propaganda, during the |night, the main body of campers were | turned against us, and only 10 of the 200 rank and filers left. The guards | intimidated a good many more from leaving. Almost all of the demands were granted after the strikers left. Mean- | while most of those who stayed be- t ‘ é turnip, leeks, or any similar as- “(essen danger of burning.) The Special Duty squad are camp-/ hind kept the camp in a constant ers with special jobs: maintenance} turmoil, and five days after we left, men, doctors, kitchen squad, cooks,|the guards were still holding 24-hour dishwashers, stenographers, guards,| watches. To most of the young work- and barracks’ captains, in short, alllers, it was their first lesson in the the key men of ithe camp who were| value of organization. The strike given petty privileges which was sup-| attracted considerable publicity posed to make them think themselves | throughout the West and Southwest. better than the le campers |'To the bosses, it showed that’ the who did pick and york. They | young workers are determined to re- had their own ba s which were | sist the savage onslaught on their warm, at own table and|standard of living and the attempt were about ones who were | to force them into the coming imper- pr he camp to go ‘ialist slaughter. Yo continue with the series; ot Russian di » here are} two more. The first is for | Can You Make ’em Yourself? another kind of mushroom] Pattern 1737 is available in sizes foup—it was sent by Natalie G., and | 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. she writes apologetic preface: | Size 36 takes 214 yards 39 inch cloth. ve dish and | long while.” | sian shroom Earley Soup Put to soak overnight four or five | Russian dry mushrooms, and sep-| | “arately half a pound or so (for small | family, quarter pound) of dry coarse harley. "Make a stock as previously directed for Stehee. (By boiling a shin-bone ut of meat and marrow bone, with a few black peppers, a few leaves of ‘bay, one onion cut in four, a sprig “parsley, leaves or stalks of celery, two one carrot, last two diced, Russizn M ‘ it of available soup greens). _ When meat is cooked, strain all tarough colander. To the broth add he soaked barley, which has been hed and drained, also the mush- as chopped very fine. The juice 1 the mushrooms have soaked uld be strained through a cheese- loth and also added to the soup. ‘stirring to prevent barley from cking, until barley is done, | i Pilaf | Bhis ts 2 dish made with lamb or i (Shoulder is okay for it.) about a pound and a half, cut Theat from bones. Boil the bones out a pint of water, half an ur or a little less. Strain out bones. rown the pieces of meat in butter — SSRBSSAISS Pour over this the broth B with about a fourth cup of : % cook very slowly without stir- ‘ihe until meat and rice are done. “Would suggest cooking over one of those asbestos mats, or baking, to ss pilaf can also be made with d leftover meat and cooked rice. or partly cook the rice, then together with some meat stock. the meat (cut in pieces) in or fat, with chopped onion: s these into the middle of the pan ing the rice, (A cupful of tomatoes may be mixed with tice.) Then stew or bake slowly iry enough to turn out on Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) 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 West 17th Street, New York City. | | ACCOUNTS | Tartar Village in USSR Celebrates Bumper Harvest ONLY 20 PER ceNT wAVE BANK| Kak! Marx Collective Farm Has 82 Ploughs,| and Seeding and Cutting Machines Brooklyn, N. ¥ | Editor, Daily Worker —— Rageaeig tee Gok printed the follow- | (By a Soviet Worker Corresponden® jing item | Dear Corr le: | “gince 1928 the number of savings} I have only just returned from the banks depositors has been declining, |‘Tarter~village of Timerlik where I, ‘oday only 31 per cent of the|in my turn, spent my leave of ab- lation has any savings account| sence. The Tartars, as you undoubt- as compared with 41 per cent four | edly know, were one of the last peo- years ago. The average account is| ples to be made subject to the Tsar's now $62 per person as compared with | regime. $232 then. A few y ago the inhabitants of “At no time did more than 41 per|the vill of Timerlik organized a cent have any deposits at all.” kolhoz which they dedicated in the I agree w the 1e of the aver- |name-of Karl Marx. When I arrived age account but I cannot see how 31 per cent of the population have sav- tngs accounts, because there are peo~ ple who have more than one bank book. Even some workers who uy have a little money have in certain cases two accounts This does not mean that they have so much money that they cannot have this amount on one book instead of two. The people have done this during the last four or five years be~ cause one could never tell which bank would close. It was for this purpose that some |people divided their few dollars into two accounts so in case one bank closes they should at least have 50 per cent of their savings left But having two bank accounts to- day is no longer “security” especially since the invention of bank holidays, Now taking into consideration that some people have from two to five bank accounts the percentage of peo~- ple having savings accounts will fall far below the “31 per cent,” probably to 20 per cent, BN, DOING PARTY WORK In 1931 I came in contact with O4J.A. who set me on the road to correct living and helped me to get the most vital thing back, energy, with which to carry on my work. Through her I met B. A. And then the discussions began! Everytime we got together, it was vital discussion. This has been going on now for these last couple of years (which was interspersed with not only their contributing, for instance, substantially to the Hunger March to Washington, clothing and money; but B. A. actually arguing and dis- tributing our Party pamphiets among fellow-workers, friends and strang- ers). On Friday, Dec. 8, I was asked to be their guest without fail. When I arrived there was a room- ful of people to begin with. On the wall was @ picture, covered up, O.J.A. said. “No doubt you are all wondering just what it is.” She unveils it and we see before our: es a picture symbolizing OUR ideas! This, in tt- self, was a pleasant surprise for me but then the next thing deeply touched me. O.J.A. continued by say- ing that this picture is being pr sented to me as a gift from them in appreciation for my courage {n being a Communist, this picture is pre- sented to their friend, the Commu- nist! In that moment it flashed upon me, that here, this worker had gone not only to the exertion of doing something, but spending money for the material, inviting all his friends, that he may state, openly, frankly, that he is deeply sympathizing with the leadership of the Communist Party, that he wished to align himself unmistakably with the revolutionary workers HIMSELF FRAMED, CALLS FOR MORE ENERGY TO FREE SCOTTSBORO 9 Woodbury County Jail. | Sioux City, Iowa. Comrade Editor: Worker has improved greatly. I would like very much to be out at this time with every worker who Tealizes the necessity of and the Political importance of the fight for those nine Negro boys in Alabama, and I appeal as a worker in jail, charged with Criminal Syndical- ism, to even use more energy and effort and revolutionary action in forcing the murde: masters of Alabama to release these nine inno- cent boys. Workers—colored and white—our time is short if we allow this bar- barous Fascist plundering of our workers’ rights to continue. It is our duty as workers to organize with each other. Break the bonds of slavery that this despotic capitalist society now forces on us. Workers would you want to be electrocuted, legaliy lynched, ' for riding freight trains. Then, comrades, wake up. Put on your revolutionary banners of Marx and Lenin and get out of that shell. Comrades, cease being afraid of be- ing called Communists. Be proud of it—but do not puff up over it. Being a Communist is organizing and leading your fellow workers, paving the way to Soviet America. Workers, the Scottsboro Boys must not die! Norman Hazelrigg. (Sig. authorized.) A CHARGE AND A DEFENSE. Daily Worker: y What kind of an organizer Is Laut, of the Food Workers Industrial Union anyhow? When dairy drivers begged him to organize them, they were told by this supposed leader that they must first show him a demonstration of their strength. Instead of agitat- ing among the workers who were still dubious as to the possible success of @ union, he left all the organizational work to the men who had come to him asking for help. Of course, the inevitable happened. The A. F. of L. got wind of the preparations and published an ad calling for a general meeting at the Forward Building un- der the leadership of Thompson who is operating under the racketeering influence of Local 202 of the Inter- national Brotherhood of ‘Teamsters. Now all these drivers have joined this famous sell-out union and another splendid opportunity to form a revo- lutionary union was lost through the misleadership of Laut. Comrades, we must go forward and see that these workers are not sold out. Expose the misleaders who throw away chances like these. —A Driver. . 8 STATEMENT OF THE FOOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION. The letter of the worker is not a true statement of facts in the situ- ation. Comrade Laut had a meet~ ing with these workers, In fact two I would like to say that the Daily | there the members of the kolhoz were finishing: up the last details of the work. of. gathering in the harvest. And the harvest was a fine one. The workers: associated in the Karl Marx kolhoz: harvested 80 pood (3,200 Ibs.) to the hectare (3% acres). Galiahmetov, in whose home I lived, an old man nearing the seven- ties, neyer remembers such a plentiful harv as this year’s. “I don’t re- membi he said to me, “when our earth has given so much grain. And how could it have yielded such a har- vest in“the past when the best earth was owned by the big landlords? ... “Out on the landlord’s fields the labor was forced and slavish. In the kolhoz’ each man works under his own initiative. In the time of the landlord: we tilled with the old, out of date Russian plough, and we gath- ered in the harvest with the sickle. “And now? Eighty two-edged ploughs ‘plough up the land of the kolhoz. Out-on the fields are working the seeding machine and the cutting machines. Instead of in September, in August now, the earth is turned over and allowed to rest during the win- ter months, after which it is again brought under cultivation in May. When the plan only called for 3,000 fhe workers in the kolhoz brought 8,000 cartloads of manure to fer- tilize the land. Invest 175,000 Rubles in Track Gardening “What tomatoes, cabbages and cu- cumbers grew this year! Cabbages weighing from 10 to 15 pounds, on- ions the size of one’s fist, and to- matoes from 30 to 40 on a bush. Twenty-seven hectares were taken up in truck gardens. From their reve- nues the kolhoz workers were in a positidn to invest 175,000 rubles in truck gardening this year.” Old Galiahmetov led me to Ga- liev Gassan, a former day laborer in fields of the landlords. Once he, san, had been a poor orphan. His family id always lived on the border of starvation. Gassan joined the kol- hoz, began to work in the collective nd at a new rate of speed. And now you would not be able to recognize the former laborer, Gassan. From his income last year he was able to build a good hut; and he painted the floors. He bought a cow, Sheep, and geese. He even managed a sewing machine, a looking glass and a clock. ‘Gassan’s wife, Mensafa, wears & new dress cut in the style of the latest-city fashion. In the evening Gassan drinks tea from a new samovar. A three-course dinner is always served at his table now, soup, and meat cooked with potatoes, or vegetables with butter and milk. Before the Revolution Gas- san had never seen sugar, butter, or meat. For the rest day Mensafa makes blinneys (a thin, sweetish kind of pancake), crackers made of milk and eggs and butter, and small rolled pies with meat and cabbage centers. After his work Gassan reads the newspaper or listens to the radio. Gassan used to be illiterate. Mosque Now a Nursery During the time of the Tsars in Timerlik there was only one sub- stantial building, which was a mosque. Now, the kolhoz workers no longer have any need of a mosque. At & meeting of the members of the Kolhoz it was unanimously agreed to turn the mosque over into s nursery for children. Besides a nursery in the Karl Marx Kolhoz, they. have built stables with places for from 60 to 100 horses. They have also built a pig farm and a rabbit farm, a storage house for vegetables, and s warehouse which will hold 15,000 poods of grain. The workers at the Timerlik kol~ hoz are planning to establish a breeding. farm for blue-blooded cat- tle, and to build an electrical power station on the kolhoz. Before my departure from the kol- hoz for Moscow I was present at a most exceptional event. A long train of wagons proceeding from the warehouse. In the. ninth wagon was riding the best grain shock worker, Shemordan Minebaieff. And how many vegetables! Money, wealth rolling into the yards of the kolhoz workers. Shemordan, lifted up in the cart, and speaking to those meeting to- gether in the yard, said: “T’m not able to speak well... . You know how Shemordan lived. I have crossed two shores in my life, and only now on the shore of the kolhoz I see that Shemordan Mine- baieff floundered around all his life in the darkness. And now I have caught up with and gone ahead of those who were better off than I. “Here ts my 500 days’ work brought me in grain to my very door. Look at the whole cartload. Nine cartloads! Look, my old woman, Gatanavat, is crying. She is crying from joy. “We have fulfilled the golden, strong words of Comrade Stalin and have made the wealth of our kolhoz @ reality.” I would like an answer to my let- ter. If my comrades are interested in such matters I: would be more than willing to answer their questions and to keep thern informed in any way that I can. With comradely greetings, G. J. Slesunger US.S.R., Moscow, Arbat 2, Sterokonyoushenny St., No. 31, Apt. °, G. J. Slezunger Half of Pear Crop Thrown to (By a Farmer Correspondent) CENTRAL POINT, Oregon.—Please nd enclosed 50 cents. Wish I could make it $50. I live on a fine five- acre farm, irrigated, on which I have not been able to pay the interest and taxes this year. The market for vegetables and berries is very poor. The hens just about make their keep. By working in the pear orchards I earned about $95, and by trading produce for other jes we are trying to get along. At that we are better off than those who own large tracts of land. Hogs While Jobless Starve Owner of Farm Has to Work As Laborer in Orchard to Make Ends Meet Pears are the principal frui here in commercial! quantiti 50 per cent of the crop was culled out to keep it off the market, con- sequently the hogs of the Rogue River valley enjoyed fruit by the carloads, while the unemployed went without. The fruit pickers themselves will feel the pinch of want. The school teachers of Medford were hired for a four and a half month contract pending the outcome of the tax collections, and at that the warrants are hard to cash. meetings, and tried to establish an organization committee in order to prepare for the strike. However, these workers insisted that the Ex- Servicemen’s League and the union vhould give them fifty men to go around pulling workers off trucks, declaring the strike in this way. Naturally, this is not our policy, which is that strikes must be pre- pared through organization, and that the workers at the proper time must be the ones to decide the strike. A number of these men also worked in one-man shops and Com- rade Lant informed them that be- fore these one-man shops could be taken ont on strike and would be necessary to do organiza~ tion work in a few of the larger shops, so that the strike contd be effective. ascertains ‘The reason that ths workers went to the A. F. of L, is because they fell for the propaganda of Thompson who told them that the bosses would sign with the A. F, of L. without a strike being necessary, and also be- canse the bosses told them that they, would sign with the A. F. of L, and picketing and other strike activity. organizations, would have to do the However Comrade Laut, at those particular meetings, did not con- vince the workers that they must be the ones to go with the union, to participate in the organization work and that they together with other union members and workers of other not with us. Not having been with these workers for a sufficient length of time, we were not in a position to influence them and those work~ ets who wemanded that the union and the€x-Servicemen should or- ganize a committee of fifty to pull drivers off, the trucks without any previous work, took the workers to the A/F. of L., and naturally they were sdld'out, We even explained to them that it was through such methods that the bogses ‘had succeeded in fram- ing up, on*serious charges, twelve of our union workers only a few months ago. However all of this was to no avail. This does not mean that we have given these workers up, by any means. In fact at present we are conducting some work amongst these workers in Local 202 and one shop has already been signed with our unior Why Destroy the Crops When Millions Starve? FarmerW ants to Know (By a Farmer Correspondent) COPE, 8. C.—All one can hear ts “crop reduction”! Farmers must plant Jess cotton! Why? No! What then? tion, of course. can’t find a solitary family dividual who had a bed fit to sleep of wheat, millions of pounds of beef and mutton mould in houses? The churches have so many nice papers printed, intending to abolish race hatred. All of you should read them, but, when you do, be sure to go back home, like they do here, and, if you have a colored person working for you, let him or her eat on the cook table out of tin plates and sleep in the cotton house on a pile of seed cotton and covered with jute bags. I think that’s so religious! Don't you? , “Who is that coming down the road?” “Oh, that’s Brown’s Negro.” “What's he riding?” “Oh, that’s Brown’s horse.” - Brown may. have his Negro today, but the day will come when all Brown will have left is a kicked rear end and a good hoe and shovel to work with along with this colored man and woman he one time owned. Then his beautiful soft white hands will be toil-worn, too. LA FAYETTE EDWARDS. (Signature Authorized). NOTE: ‘We publish letters from farmers, agricultural workers, and cannnery workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us let~ ters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by ware- Monday of each week. Forced Labor on ‘Michigan Sugar Co. {By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—The Michigan Sugar Co., Lansing, Mich., isobtain- ing large numbers of men from the Volunteers of America of that city. A man whom the Flint police ar- rested at a Flint “jungle” related his experiences in Lansing is as fol- lows: Starving men come to the Volun- teers of America for something to eat and are sent in truckloads to the beet fields and compelled to work eay! eight hours per day for the miserable food given them. “They perform all the necessary work, such as digging up sugar beets, loading, trucking, etc., delivering the product to the Michigan Sugar Co. They do not reecive one cent of pay. If they don’t work fast enough, they are kicked right out without any ceremony. “The Volunteers of America are known to receive $8 per head for each man thus furnished to the sugar refinery.” If this is not slavery or forced labor, what else could it be? ‘The capitalist press of this country accuses the Soviet Union of impos- ing forced labor upon its people. This is merely done to camouflage its own inhuman, vicious practices upon the helpless, starving populace. ‘The writer has spent one year in the Soviet Union and found the people happy and contented. Everybody has a job there, In my extensive travels, I have never seen or heard of any such thing as forced labor. Small Upstate Milk Dealers Hit by Crisis By a Farmer Correspondent ALBANY, N. ¥—When, about 10 vears ago, Albany passed stricter laws about pasteurization of milk, some of the peddlers of milk who were not strong enough to erect, plants got their merchandise from - bigger concerns, and were able to make a living. Conditions have been getting harder and harder for these small dealers. Last week, for instance, one pasteurization plant took the bust- nes over of three of those small deal- ers, whose receipts were too small to get along and pay their debts. The city of Albany has nearly 9,000 men on the list for work by the C. W.A.. Only a little more as 2,000 are working. The rest are waiting at home, filled up with good promises. My congratulations, with our new press. May she find work till capa- city. Our “Daily” is the most trust- worthy paper I ever laid hands on. I would not miss it. Only, under cir- cumstances as they are now, it is @ great trouble to know where to get the money to pay. Farmers’ Conference a Big Historical Event By a Farmer Correspondent LOUISVILLE, Ky.—I went to the Chicago Conference and it was the most wonderful meeting that I had ever attended because it was com~- like of which had never happened Retake, Si Rls canes Seber opt I hitch-hiked to Chicago being unable to get anyone from Kentucky to go with me. Government Worker Spurns Chest Drive; Gives $30 to “Daily” ‘They've been running the Community Chest drive here, all the government departments, using all the high ora tors from General Johnson down PARTY LIFE Plantations of the| How Is Open Letter Carried Out in the Marine Industry? By BR. B. HUDSON I “The organization of a firm basis of owr Party and the revolationary trade union movement among the decisive strata of the American workers in the most important in- dustrial centers.” ‘This is the first task outlined in the Open Letter. One of the most im~- portant industries in Baltimore, Phil- adephia and Boston is marine. It is time to ask ourselves to what ex- tent the Party in these districts have begun to carry out the line of the open letter. In the period since the Party Con- ference the Party and revolutionary trade unions have made considerable progress in the marine industry. In comparison with the situation six months ago we are far better off. But in comparison with the favor~ able possibilities that have, and still do exist, we have merely scratched the surface. Only the daily, systematic applica~ tion of a correct mass policy can re- sult in winning the workers in the basic industries. The extent to which we carry through this daily system- atic work is best reflected during the course of struggles. An examination of some recent struggles that have taken place in these Districts will en- able us to find out to what extent the Party committees have made a turn in their work. Strikes in Baltimore Baltimore has been the scene of the most important struggles that have taken place in the marine in- dustry in ten years. A number of im- portant ship strikes, led by the Ma- rine Workers Industrial Union have taken place. The union played a ma-~ jor role in the militant strikes of the ‘International Longshoremen’s Association and was the instru- ment for developing united action of the seamen and longshoremen. During the course of these struggles there was a mass response to our slo- gans and we made some headway in exposing and isolating the I.L.A. of- ficials. Largely through the initia- tive of the M.W.1.U. the strike move- merit soread and for a short time actually became a general strike Four hundred police were mobilized to break the’ strike, machine guns were openly mounted on the docks and ships and militant clashes be- tween the strike and police occurred. In no other industry in Baltimore have such militant struggles oc- curred. In no other industry in Balti- ence and a more solid base among the workers. In no other industry in Baltimore has the Party so many capable and willing proletarian forces to work with. The Leadership of the Party ‘To what extent did the Party Com- mittee in Baltimore give leadership to these forces and how was the Party mobilized for the support of these struggles? Despite the mass character of the strikes the Section Committee was not aroused to’ the importance of the situation and no steps were taken to establish close contact with the situ- ation. It is reporied that several times during the course of the strike the comrades spent hours and hours try- ing to find the Section Committee in order to get advice upon important questions: of policy that arose. Efforts to get additional forces and support to carry on the struggle were unsuc- cessful. Ne political guidance, little practical suy .is the char- acterization of the situation, made by the District Organizer from Phila~- delphia, at a meeting of the Section Bureau in Baltimore, and which was accepted by them. The complete isolation of the Party Committee from the situation is best illustrated by the reaction made to an injunction which was is- sued near the conclusion of the strike. This injunction, issued at the request of the LL.A. officials, supposedly was to restrain the police from interfer- ing with the picketing of the docks. The capitaMst papers were full of stories that the so-called injunction was in the interests of the workers. Surely this maneuver deserves an ex~ planation to the workers. But it is doubtful whether the section is even aware that it was issued because the Party and union have never issued a statement on it! Neither has any se- By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS again about bran as a breakfast food and as a cure for constipation. Some of our correspondents eat it to beau- tify their complexions, others to cure colds, sluggish livers, bad breath or what have you. Misleading advertise- ments in the magazines subtly sug- gest and encourage the indiscrimi- nate use of bran for every imaginable ailment. the fact that bran consti- tui ” in the intestinal tract, it is sometimes useful in cer- tain forms of constipation. But what the Kellogg and Post manufacturers forget to mention is the still more im- portant fact that this rough “food” may become harmful and even dan- gerous to individuals with delicate stomachs.. The ity of physi- clans have Pagan their opinion years ago, it was prescribed indis- criminately to everybody. Since then, it has been found that, while some people can eat bran for a long time without showing any symptoms or disease, others may develop chronic bowel inflammations ‘soon after they eating it. As a matter of fact, roughage craze is putting more money in the pockets of stomach Party Committees Isolated from Concentra- tion Industry in Recent Struggles more has the Party.so much influ- |y jrious analysis of the strikes been made by the Section Bureau. Recently a North Atlantic Confer- ence was held in Baltimore by the M.W.LU. Despite the recent struggles, and the favorable opportunities that exist, the Baltimore Party Committee played absolutely no role in helping the comrades prepare thelr reporte and proposals for the conference. Netther was any assistance given to help care for the out of town dele- gates. At the last minute the writer, after spending two days searching for leading, responsible members of the Bureau, had to take charge oft the section apparatus and issue orders |) in the name of the Section, which couldn't be found, in order to get’ anything done, ash In Philadelphia recently there was a strike of unorganized longshoremen. We were aware of the possibilities of a strike because of wage increases that had taken place in other ports and also among the men organized in the I. L, A. For several days prior to the strike we had contact with the men and knew the sentiment for struggle was developing. Our. task then was to help formulate the de- mands of the workers, show them how these demands could be won, and actively organize and initiate the struggle. Instead of doing this, the main point debated by the of the District Buro was whether the workers should be organized into the M. W. I. U. or an independent union. While making up our minds on this question, the workers began striking on one dock for their demands, A telegram was sent to Philadelphis urging that we take the initiative is spreading the strike—which was the key task. The marine comrades digi not sufficiently understand this, ané the District Committee was not om the job to help explain it to them— and as a result the workers them~ selves, despite the influence of the I. L, A. officials, who had gained holé of the situation, marched from dock to dock pulling out the workers, It is true that we did some good work on one dock, Pier 46, but the results obtained here only prove that had we teken immediate steps to spread the strike it would have beer possible to do so under our leadership. After the first few days of the strike the work of our union t slacken. Our activities were allowed te nearly cease. It was meetings? To map out a new concen- tration policy for the District! while this meeting was on even the deepwater longshoremen took action on one dock and seamen on one ship came out in support! It’s lke Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Immediately after the conclusion of the strike the I. L, A. officials inten~ sified their activities in order to con- solidate their already weak position. We helped them by liquidating prac- tically all of our activities, A state- ment decided upon at the Bureau meeting was not issued. For a of two weeks there was no of the forces assigned by the and Union for longshore was absolutely no checkup on the carrying out of a number of decisions, And this happened main concentration point trict, for which a member trict Bureau was politically sible, and who was supposed touch with the work daily. (To be continued) 35 HE. i2th STRBET, N. Y. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. 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