The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1933, Page 4

aS: Page Four Workers Bi Terminal Station Is Full of Disease Breeding Dust Post Office Correspondent) B: Po YORK.—I am a regular posi | office clerk, working in one of the} terminal stations in New York. With} the Christmas rush almost on us,| I know that the ate going to show “happy, smiling | clerks,” handling the increase in mail | coincident with this holiday. Nothing | 2 can be further from the truth! | A mere giance at Terable | eenditions in onr station will bear) this out. Our building has very poor | ventilation. In winter we freeze; in summer we roast | While we are “boxing up” the mail, | we wear only a sweater or an apron. Suddenly the door is opened, a truck- load of mail comes in, and we are assailed with a terrific draught of | cold air. This is repeated every five rainutes, On top of this, are carrying out the foremen who the orders of the big bosses are so intent on speeding Us up that they frequently display mplete indifference to | r the worker. | king on the | of example, we are -up” table. Above, 50 sac are ing piled up. These empty bags must be dropped on a waiting truck Just in back of us. Rather than have us stop work for a minute or two With Dust | in our place is he fine dust raised by the neelling machines and the handling of the mail sacks. Every tow and then the shop is cleaned with blowers so that the layers of dust will not pile up too high in one | place. At such times, ryone is} treated to ¢ : Gust bath | | miners and post have a common physi- heir lungs are lined | Many a worker has | tal ailment, black with d contracted monary diseases at | ‘work, while si: trouble is a gen-| ¢ral condition among us. | ‘The Wo! | s the paper for | ber it ex-/| enemies, the real e behind the furloughs the millionaires in the Economy League. I have about our miserable working s to the capitalist press, but | are controlled by those nte they hi all post boses our that Monday is Post | the Daily Worker. I office clerks in the and _ subs, would flood With letters | about their conditi Last Mon- day there was nothing printed about | * the post weren't all the isliows di | ATTENTION AL LEWIS As you did not send us your ad- dress we are unable to send you sev- ‘oin cards as request. Please Xmas Brings Post Office gger Speed-up Holiday Work Means Very Little Money | for Extras | NEW YORK—Things in the post| office are worse now than before the} N.R.A. started. | As a letter carrier, I visit a large | variety of business houses’ and in| id newspapers | speaking to the workers I find that they also would like to know what the N.R.A. means to them. In fact most of them openly laugh at the} NUR.A. and knock it for all it is | worth. Even managers and bosses ad-| mit the N.R.A. is a flop. | In the post office all work is being condensed and some trips of mail delivery and some collections from the corner boxes have been eliminated entirely. The regulars, besides getting a 15% | cut are hounded and greatly over-/| worked. The subs are making starva- | tion wages and are hanging around | 14 to 16 hours a day, getting paid for only a few hours. Now that it is nearing Xmas, there | are less ships coming in from the} ther side and plenty of those that} do come in fail to bring the usual amount of Xmas mail. It is very light | and naturally plenty of help is not| needed. Yet, according to the news- papers, thousands of extra men will be put to work. Arrangements are being made to put on this extra help for the holi- days. This extra help will be limited to 10 hours a day. (If they make carfare and lunch money, they will be doing well.) The large army of subs have their troubles getting along, so what can these extras make? The Xmas rush last year was a flop, but this year it is beginning worse than ever. ‘The postal workers are openly squawking about the speed-up, the cuts, and the hounding. This open squawking is something unusual in the post office. We are getting wise to these phoney unions where we have been contributing dummies all these years and a few racketeers on | top did all the steering. How about you who are reading} this letter doing your part by cptting into the habit of giving your Daily Worker to a postal worker? Bronx Co-op to Have a Full Page Greeting in Jan. 6th “Daily” NEW YORK.—The Bronx Co- operative has reserved a whole page of the Jan. 6 anniversary edi- tion of the Daily Worker for its revolutionary greeting to the American workers on the tenth anniversary of our paper. Several pages will be taken up with greetings from units of the Communist Party. Party units, trade unions, mass organizations, will your name and greetin appear in this issue? A minimum of 250,000 copies will be printed. At least 200,000 readers who never before read the “Daily” will read the anniversary edition. Make sure your name and greeting willbe in it. All greetings must be in our hands by Dec. 30. j Yao ahvady been a @ good formula for home use. If i ge ar does not materialize in 2 day or ij deluge of replies to Comrade ¢wo, we -shall continue the a J. R.’s request for a suitable | elsewhere. home for his little girl. (It gives one = sort of heartache to see | how meny workers want a child, or | another c' s.) These | replies arc d over to Com- rade J. R. immediately. ; The many comrades who will neces- | farily not receive the little girl must not feel too grievously disappointed. A factor affecting Comrade J. R.’s decision will no doubt be that of ~-I mean he will want his! him as possible. | iow “Goes On | the Road” Here is another letter specially con- «erning our younger generation: Dear Comrade Luke: We have a message to bring to/ ‘working class children which your could most efficiently send ‘Will you play bugler for those stend “always ready for the . of the working class”? It ts ebout H. A. Potamkin’s operetta, ‘During Christmas week, the same 79 Negro and white children who per- _ formed at City College so success- fully, will again enact the operetta _ in four different parts of the city, _for neighborhood children primarily, Brooklyn: Monday, Dec. 25— -| Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sack- tan St. “Harlem: Wednesday, Dec. 27—Pin- ot. who cause 1 i ' t ' "nish Hall, 27 W. 126th’ st. “Bronx: ‘Thursday, Dec. 286—2075 _ Manhattan: Friday, Dec. 29—Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth st, All performances will take place at 2pm. Tickets for children are only five cents. (Adults, 25 cents.) Child laborers witli be contacted and ad- mitted free. Adults are asked to buy ‘ children’s tickets and hand them over ‘to, bootblacks and newsboys. “We wish to advise the comrade who Wants the pumpernickel recipe that ‘#fter considerable research, we failed ‘fo find one suitable for home use, though large-sized bakers’ formulas “tre readily avatiable. A couple of “comrade bakers say that it is very ‘difficult to make at home. However, /% friend has faithfully promised us ¥ ~~ Helping the Daily Worker Through Helen Luke Contributions received to the credit ‘ot, Helen Luke in her Soctalist com- petition with Michael Gold, Dr. Lut- finger, Edward Newhouse and Jacob Burck to raise $1,000 in the 440,000 Dive: Be TOTAL TO DATE .. . ++ $100,396 HELEN LUKE ® | Same office earned a few cents more Wireless t Messenger Boys Unite to Fight | Overtime Trick By a Messenger Correspondent NEW YORK CITY—We messengers change our clothes at the wardrobe |: on 47 East 19th St. In talking over our problems we find that the com-}t pany is preparing to order us to work Jong hours on the three days before Christmas as well as on Christmas| s Day. The trick is to send us to re sidential offices to work after we have} already worked 8 hours Last year I worked Brooklyn the day t 18 hours before Ch: in ion DATLY WORKER. NEW Applaud Spe Workers | wi p appeal for support in the impending YORK, Operators at Strike | Stirred by Report on USSR Conditions aker Marine Worker a Marine Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Arriving from a tip to the U.SS. I walked into a trike ‘action bre’ in my union, io |=Telegraph: zation of m: rs, In being at had x e. ‘The spc delegation man of the M. T. up and made a ‘ot brilliant and well stated address to In the course of his ged the support of the he operato! peech he p M. T. W., but evidently couldn't re- and earned $1.05 because the se sist taking occasion to deliver an was new to me and I as paid on | 0Pen warning to the oper rs against commission. Ten other boys at the ine Workers’ Industrial Union The dispatcher sends more boys than are needed because, being on commis- sion basis, there is not any extra ex- pense to the company. t We messengers decided to refuse to} ‘ work elsewhere than our regular office unless we are paid a guarantee of 25, cents an hour and 35 cents an hour for each hour overtime. Also 35 cents] 1 an hour on Christmas Day Two years ago the company paid} a uncing that the M. W. I. U. branch of the nd also that 1 lest this orga Immediately following this speech, address the meeting i report on conditions of wireless on Soviet which I had ited in the U. S. 5S. R. as a duly uthorized American delegate of the 50 cents an hour on Christmas Day] American operators’ union, I in- when the boys refused to work for! formed the meeting that whereas in Jess. We can win again by organized] the U. S. A. radio operators are now action. Pass the slogan along! dMessenger Boys Ready for Action (By a Messenger Correspondent) LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.—We are messengers of the Western Uhion of Long Island City, and we read various letters in the Daily Worker written by other messengers in this slave driving company. It is a well- 1 t t ci t | | known fact that these lousy condi- tions prevail in our office and many others that we know of. Only through reading the Daily Worker we found out that the com- Pany was compelled to pay some mes- sengers 20 cents an hour for soliciting holiday greeting and delivery of spe- cial errand services. The motor men in our office re- ceived an increase in schedule which Was never even mentioned to the bicycle boys. Our manager is a Simon Legree of the messengers and office, force. For $8 2 week top pay we are forced to display the sign which advertises the comapny. Recently a boy in our office had his bicycle stolen upon which the sign was displayed. He not only had to buy a bike but had} to pay the company for the stolen} sign. | We don't get our vacation any more which had been promised us after one year’s service. j We are with the other offices in! organizing a committee to maintain a | decent living salary. How about the rest of you fellows in other offices? To the Editor: We are thankful to know that there fi 1 t t Can You Make ’em | Yourself? Pattern 1738 is available in sizes} 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. 36 takes 35, yards 39 inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5¢) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Addre:s orders to Daily Worker is one paper that is backing us up in our fight for our rights. | 4 COUPLE OF HARD WORKING MESSENGERS. | Maintenance Union Head Talks Big But Allows Starvation Pay By a Railrond Worker Correspondent i te " : Rules. Reports 2.8 DETROIT, Mich—The collabora-|thrown into the ne tion of church and labor misleaders| and the employe with the capitalists in betraying the workers is clearly depicted to Detroit workers in a picture and azvide in the Detroit News of Dec. 5th. Pictured together were Elmer EK. Milliman, representing the railway maintenance of way workers, confer- ving with a Catholic Dean and Charles T. Winegar, of the Chrysler Cor. (Chrysler is the Detroit automobile representative of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and it was Chrysler who gave $150,000 last spring to a fascist group, 11 others of whom gave $5,000 apiece, to lobby for repeal of the anti-trust laws and increasing sales taxes to take the place of the income taxes in the higher brackets), Leo E. Keller, statistician of the Maintenance of Way employes, with national headquarters in Detroit, pre- sented the workers’ case as follows: “A new social order is in the mak~ ing, and, provided they have the in- telligence to do so, employers and em- ployees can be of great service to one another in meeting the mew condi- tions.” Read this statement again and find this union leaders’ plea for the low- est paid section of railroad labor, In Michigan, railroad section-men get- ting 40c an hqur were laid off, others put on part time, three days a week, and unemply’ed section men, brake- men, clerks, firemen were hired as extra gangs, doing the work of the ( i i often paid or deckboys, and are forced to work} ) Senger” ship: | Railroad’s Interstate cident, some unfortunate ally violate any num! | audacity of report: of that time—Ed.) States should be carefully watched by our trusted men. One must take little more than firemen 2 hours a dé on virtually all pas- in the U.S.S.R. the hipboard radio men stand only two hree-hour watches day and are paid on a basis fully equal to and sometimes above that of anybody on he ship with the exception of the commander, From direct observation IT had found also that on Soviet ships even he most unskilled crew members were not placed more than two men to a room, with conveniences and Communist | in ‘ i : : »| ning-like swiftness with which the} FRIDAY. DE Industrial Union jequipment entirely excelling | found on American ships. | Wireless operators are furnished | with a separate sleeping cabin to each man. Food is substantial, well cooked and far better flavored than the stuff flung out for consumption on most American vessels. Discip- line on watch is very similar to that those ;|0n American vessels; off wateh, all | distinctions vanish, The men off duty gather in a large well furnished saloon or ward room, have their ship’s orchestra entertain them, play chess, read, hold intensely interesting discussions about their | ship, their work and about world af- fairs. They are all exceedingly en- thusiastic workers, devoted to the idea of building socialism in the U. 8S. S. R. and ready to defend their ideals to the’ last man, as was strik- y displayed in the grim, light- crew of a big Soviet ship assembled | to defend their commander and ves- | sel in a German port, when Nazi soldiers tried at revolver point to force the commander to remove or conceal the ship’s name, because this name was that of a German Com- munist hero-worker who had been beheaded by the Nazi butchers. ‘This report, at the operators’ meet- ing, immediately following the de- nunciation of the M. W. I. U. by the Marine Transport spokesman, and totally unexpected by him, cer- tainly proved to be nothing less than a bombshell to that dumfounded gentleman. Shortly after the en- thusiastic applause of the operators in response to my report, the Marine Transport delegation quietly left the meeting. I concluded that time and events would probably tell quite con- vincingly as to whether the alleged “future political aims” of the Com- munistic element in the M. W. I, U. were not perhaps correct in their essence. ‘Safety Rules” Nothing But A Spy System Real Causes of Accidents, However, Are Not Eliminated by Company By a Railroad Worker Correspondent | JAMAICA, L. I—According to the Commerce atal accidents increased in 1932 over 931. -In 1931, on the Penn. R. R., ‘Safety First Rules” were taught, but he new spy system was not intro- duced until 1932, The Assistant Yard Masters are now compelled to report at least one violation of Safety Rules a month. He must report one of his own men, and he must be given a reprimand, or a suspension of a day or two, or @ week or two. ‘Yord Masters were taken out of ser- vice for ‘failing to rat on their men. There ‘are over Safety. First Book. of the rules: Several Assistant 200 Rules in the Here is a sample “RULE 2102—Take proper posi- tion on car as indicated by type of brake to be operated. Have firm foot and hand holds to prevent slipping and failing, sprain or strain from losing hold, footing or bal- ance.” move to you the rule. ety, Book of. Rules and Special Instruc- ions. Instead of your mind being on your work, you think of the new rules, ready to rat on you and cause your suspension: and the Ghost behind you Twenty-five years of service with- be: may have is @ violation of a Safety Rule. Care- lessness ‘is given as the cause. Officials, from the Superintendent o Assistant Yard Masters, continu- ber of Safety ig @ superior, I do not wonder at the increase in accidents under these Czar-like con- ditions. I know the dread the men work under, Letters from UNITE AND FIGHT A reader in Barnhart, 'Tex., sends us an excerpt from a bulletin called ‘Wall Street’ published as far back as March.1, 1892. Among other things, it has this to say: “Alliance and Knights of Labor millitant working class organizations in the United immediate steps to either control these organizations or disrupt them. . . Capital must be protected in every possible manner through com- bination and legislation. The Courts must’ be called to their aid. Debts must be collected. Lands and mort- gages must be foreclosed as rapidly as possible. “When through the process of law, he common people have lost their homes; they will be more tractable and easily governed. . . . A people Commission, regular men but at 20c per hour! NOTE Every Friday, we publish letters from workers in all branches of the transportation indus#ties—railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, ele- express companies, etc— vated lines, truck drivers, taxi drivers, without homes will not quarrel with their rulers. . .. The people must be kept in a condition of political an- tagonism. . . . By thus chviding the voters we can get them to expend their energies fighting each other over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to lead the common herd. Thus, by discreet ac- tion, we can secure all that has been How does the company live up to Safety First? Platforms with broken planks and holes in them in dark places in the yards, where many men work, loose planks that flip up and catch the next man in the shin. Heavy trucks have to use these and the carefulness of the men has avoided thousands of accidents. Rubi ‘sh cans in dark places, three inches and less from the side of moy- ing trains, material between tracks, pose railings on stairways, and yer- bal orders to trains where written should be given to avoid misunder- standing. Editor’s Note: Another vicious fac- | tor in this Safety Rules system, aside |from its being an efficient spy sys- | tem for the company, is that it makes | it possibte for the company to make @ railroad worker take the rap when it comes to criminal persecution in ase of accidents due to overwork or speed-up, A union on the job uld protect the men from such persecution by the companies. The Brotherhoods and the A. F. of L. unions now op- erating in the railroad shops, make no effort to remedy these evils. Therefore it is up to the rank and file members of the union to or- | ganize their own committees within their locals, or on the job, to force ction by their officials, or to force ction by organization on the job, agai the mest outstanding grievances. The Railroad Brotherhood Unity Movement, at 80 E. llth St, New York City, is an organization of rank and file members of all unions coy- ering the railroad workers, no matter what affiliation, working toward the end of fighting for redress of | grievances of this kind, and we ur | gently advise the workers in the Jamaica shops to get in touch with Our Readers dreds of years ago, when the Roman Emperers held , & Councillor slyly suggested that all slaves be made to wear a distinguishing mark. “No,” said the cunning old Emperor. “That will show the slaves that they are many and we are few. They will over- throw us.” Well, the Roman Emvpire fell. So did the Russian Czar. The unity of the working class will always defeat the “divide and rule” policy of the bosses. MILITANT STUDENT EXPELLED Dear Editor: Philadelphia, Pa. This is a sample of American free- dom of speech. Irving Katz, a stu- dent of the South Philadelphia High School, was expelled for wanting to lead in a discussion in a school club on “The Bloody Reign of Hitler.” ‘The principal of the school was re- sponsible for this dishonorable act. Many students of the school pro- tested vehemently but to no avail. Boys are prohibited from expressing their tdeas freely. However, Irving is devoting his time in fighting for the struggle against the ruling class, and is urging all to follow suit. He won many su . Many poor boys, in dire circum- stances, are beginning to realize the e this Movement. The National head-! quarters of this Movement are at 208 N. Wells, Room 309, Chicago, Ill. and from the communication in- dustries—post office, telegraph, ra- dio, etc. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con= ditions of work, and their struggles | Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, \ to organize. Please get these let~ so generously accomplished.” This bulletin, the reader adds, was never ‘intended to be read by the working’ class. It was mailed to em- ployers: gf labor. . “Divide and Rule’—the old stand- ters to us by Tuesday of each week.! by of the ruling classes, Many hun- cause of their never ending plight. —J. K. Rush your orders for the Jan. 6 Tenth Avniversary issue of the Daily Worker, 24 Pages. The big- gest and best Daily Worker in the history of our paper. Meeting IWW Delegates | Shorn of Their Stolen Plumage (By a Marine Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Last Thurs- day, Dec. 14, two doubtful looking characters came on board the 8. 8. Cliftwood and began to shout about the “One Big Union” (I.W.W.).. They said: “We are leading many strikes all over the coast. Right now we are leading a big strike over in Wilming- ton on the Muneric.” Fortunately for the crew there were members of the Marine Wortk~ ers’ Industrial Union on the C:'ft- wood who, in fact, helped organize the strike on the Muneric and they quickly exposed these rats and the crew run the “One Big Union” (?) off the ship. During all the 27—the Muneric is i the 28th—strikes led by the M. W. I. U., not in one single instance did the I. W. W. offer a single picket to help vin these strikes, White tese despicable creatures join with the shipowners in slander- ing the M. W. I. U., which today is without question established in the eyes of the seamen as the only or- ganization which consistently fights in their interest, they are always so low and ready to use the splendid achievements of the M. W. I. U. in order to lead the seainen astray and disrupt their progress which is lead- ing to better conditions and wages. For the benefit of the “one big union,” I want to inform them that after they were properly run off the ship three men lined up in the M. W. IL. U., and the whole crew is a Federal Relief Head Orders War on the Homeless By a Worker Correspondent AMARILLO, Texas.—Federal “Re- lief” Administrator Harry L. Hopkins ,has sent to the management officials {of all railroads in the United States @ decree in which he asks that they cooperate with his department in making effective a ruling which will become operative Jan. 1 that will ‘prevent riding on freight and pas- senger trains of the United States persons who are not holders of tickets or who are not employes of the road over which they are riding. | Under the pretense that “the de- pression is waning and employment is again becoming normal” the govern- |ment has desided to “put a stop” to , the indiscriminate riding of freights, jete. The corrollary of this will, of , course, be that our told-time friend, the Railroad Dick, will again be re- stored to his full power and glory, to work in conjunction with the local police force which will meet all train arrivals with the hurry up wagon to escort such culprits to the county jai in some case, where the fee ; System and the county jail feeding is done under contract by the jailer ai exhorbitant rates for “board”, these {men will be taken before the mag- istrate or “squire” who will get his fee for the “trial” of the defendants. In the South the chain gangs will | Profit by those who are turned over | to the contractor-road builders who pay the county 50 cents a day for c In other paris, the quota patrolmen and the jailors who throw the victim — in for a night's lodging and breakfast of “coffee and” and then charge the city for 72 hours board and lodging— after ordering the victim to “beat it” from town as soon as released, will all profit. In his statement, administrator Hopkins says that proper arrange- ments will be made at local concen- tration camps to take care of all who fall into the clutches of the law in violation of his decree. is hounded and subject to a fine as a misdemeanor—as Hopkins says he will be under his ruling—even for asking an automobilist for a ride; when the very fact that a shabbily dressed individual is seen on the streets by a city policeman will be prima facie evidence that he is a {bum” and subject to arrest—what are we going to do about it? Submit. to this Hitlerism quietly, or start such a vigorous protest throughout the nation that organized workers in the autocrats of these government agencies? MUST ORGANIZE FOR RELIEF By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—As an unemployed worker in the United States for the past three years, I have been resid- ing at my sister's and brother’s home for this length of time. I am very thankful for their confidence in me. I hope to repay them some day. I am a blaster’s helper by trade. I also know how to run a rock drill. I’ve worked on subway and railroad construction jobs, rock, etc. If the workers in the United States would organize, I say within 24 hours the ruling class would rush relief at ‘once, including unemployment insur- anca, PARTY LIFE ‘How Is Open Letter Carried Out in the Marine Industry? Local Party Leadership Responsible for Guiding and Carrying Out Concentration By R. B. HUDSON m. In Boston the longshoremen organ- ized in the LL:A. rejected the agree- ment proposed by the I.L.A. officials. For over a month they carried through a strike on the job in connec- tion with one of their demands. The comrades on the waterfront did not know how to react to the situation. Although it was reported to Party committee meetings several times no serious attention was given it. It was only when the struggle had be- come so effective and serious that it became the object of leading edi- torials in the capitalist papers that the situation was given consideration and 8 policy worked out. In other words, it took us exactly one month to react to an issue around which the workers wanted to struggle. This article is not intended to be a thorough analysis of the strikes that are mentioned. Neither is it in- tended to convey the idea that mis- takes were not made by the com- rades directly involved in the work and that these comrades do not bear ® major responsibility for the work of the Party committees in these ports. What we must concentrate our at- tention upon is that the facts brought forward reflect a complete isolation of the Party committees from the work on the waterfront and a con- sequent lack of political guidance to the work and failure to mobilize the necessary forces and support that the situation demanded. And if these things happen during times of a strike, it is easy to understand that there is little serious attention given to the daily systematic work that is necessary to win firm contact with these. workers in preparation for struggles. What is the reason for this? Or better still, who is responsible for the work in the decisive industries? Who Is Responsible for Our ‘Weakness? The representative of the District Bureau in Philadelphia, who is as- signed to the waterfront and is po- litically responsible for the work to the bureau, put the question in the following manner at a recent meet- ing. He admitted that he observed the failure to carry out decisions, after the longshoremen’s strike and the liquidation of our activities. What had he done about it? Nothing. Why? His excuse was that the lead- ing comrade of the marine fraction was in charge, was responsible and the initiative should come first from him. But it is just the opposite. If the marine comrades are weak then it is all the more necessary that ini- tiative be shown by bureau members in leading and helping the comrades in the fractions to solve their prob- Jems. Thus this comrade’s idea ts that work in concentration industries is kind of independent from the gen- eral work of the Party, that it is of no particular concern and responsi- bility to the leading committees of the Party. He certainly did not have the idea that the leading committees of the Party must accept the respon- sibility of guiding and checking up the work in the concentration indus- tries. Yet the open letter very clearly states: “The entire work of the Party and the best forces of the Party must be directed first to building up and consolidating the Party and revolu- tionary unions in the most important industrial centers of the country, te effectively and systematically win the decisive sections of the American workers,” It further demands that the Party break from the past habits where “the leadership of the Party has not adhered to a fixed course for overcoming the main weaknesses of the Party, allows itself to be driven by events, and does not work out carefully with the comrades of the lower organizations ways and means for carrying through of resolutions and the checking up on their execte tion.” This, in my opinion, reflects the’ approach of the vartous Party come.) mittees in these ports to the question® of “concentrating its attention upon strengthening our base among the decisive sections of the American workers.” Not only does this isolation from the work prevent us from utilizing the situation for building the move- ment. It has a serious effect upon those workers and forces whom the Party has already won into its ranks, One of the forces who has been very active, who has given leadership to a number of recent strikes, who is daily seeing the union grow—and has no cause for demoralization—writes: “In regards to the Section, it’s the same as ever and I am to think that perhaps I don’t belong in the C. P.” This comrade does belong in the C. P., but he cer- tainly is correct in stating that the work of the Party in his section re- mains fundamentally im the same grove as before the Open Letter. ‘The Party in these Districts has not yet made the penetration of the basic industries its major task which the Open Letter demands. Because it has given little study to the question we have naturally not learned how to control and guide the work of the Party forces available for this work. The mobilization of the Party forces and resources for the carrying through of the work in ths concen- tration industries has consequently been totally inadequate. No more favorable opportunity for winning the masses in the marine in- dustry has ever existed. We have some organizational base and a wide and growing influence. The coming months will be of decisive importance. Immediate steps must be taken to correct this situation. Each District, should review its work in the marine », industry. The shortcomings of past work and plans for future work must, be discussed with the entire Party membership in these districts.’ The Party membership én these districts must be made politically conscious of the importance of carrying through @ concentration program, must know the details of this program, must know who is responsible for its exe- cution, in order that the entire Par- ty membership will act as a check on the Party leadership in its work. The program already made shows that it is possible to make the turn. This turn in our work can only be carried further forward if every com- rade, especially the leading com- rades, fullfil their responsibility in Jeading and carrying out the work that is given them by the Party. Com- yades who are not able and willing to consistently work as the Open Let- ter demands should make place for elements growing out of the strug- gles, who will devotedly carry otut the decisions of the Party, Join the Communist Party % EAST 18TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. Please send me mere information on the Communist Party. NAME ADDRESS By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Tired and Nervous H. B.—It is impossible to advise you in this manner without a physical ex- amination. Your doctor’s suggestion about having a child might be a good one. At the same time you may be suffering from anemia. Did he ex- amine your blood? The method of prevention that you are using cer- tainly aggravates your nervousness. . * Neurasthenia A Worker.—There is no doubt in our mind that you have no organic defect of either the heart or the stomach. You are probably suffer- ing from neurasthenia brought about by excessive mental and physical work. Our advice is to stop running , The “milky” quid which you observed is prostatic fluid which is overflowing due to your sexual con- tinence. A man of 25, who abstains for six months, is lable to show signs of even if he is other- wise normal. Fen) eee Dandruff and Falling Hair Sol B., Cleveland.—If you consult the back numbers of the Daily Worker, you will find several articles on the subject. which may be, of in- terest to you. 8. M.—We should advise you to refrain from smoking. You will find that if you.gave.up.smoking for a sufficiently long time that the red- ness, as Well as the inflammation cf your throat, will disappear almost en- tirely. In case you still have trouble, we should advise you to have self examined as we are reach a definite diagnosis by mail. We see no reason for you to continue to go to the clinic. Thanks for your willingness to contribute to the Dally Worker funds’ in the future. . Kidney Trouble? Pasquale A., Akron, O.—From yeur description, it does not seem as if the lady has kidney trouble. There might be some trouble with the tubes, and she might be unwilling tell you about it. If you could her hospital records, it would help lot towards a diagnosis. If unable to obtain the records, try to get the lady to write to us herself; she might tell us some things that she cannot tell you. . . Krushen and Jad Salts ticle on these salts will appear in a few ad in the Daily Worker. Watch for it, Helping the Daily Worker Through Dr. Luttinger Contributions received to the credit of Dr. Luttinger in his Socialist com- petition with Michael Gold, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob Burek \\' and Del ta raise $1,000 in the $40,000, Daily Worker Drive: Bronx Medical Unit of the Ww. TR. Ann M. Cooper. Previous total hee TOTAL TO DATE f