The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 25, 1933, Page 4

Page Four I.W.0. Membership Drive Approaches Its Objective Twelfth Week of Campaign Lifts Total to 7,652; One Month Still Remains By MAX BEDACHT The twelfth week of the member. of the concern about the existence ip drive of our International Daily Worker, this revelutionary ers Order resulted in 741 new nouthpiece of our mover can- bers and 275 children. This ‘ot exist. Without TevOlt, ‘onary the grand total of the results mouthpiece of our movement, our campaign to date to 7,652 new bers and 1,612 chidrer mem- organization will be weakened. All of our branches shouid consi With more campaign weeks |the ccc: n of the 10th birthd left, there should be the Daily Worker as a good } no difficulty in reach- tive to do their duty by the I ing a total of 10,000 Worker, to help win new reac new members. The twelfth week the campaign showed a considerable incre in the activities of our tion. That section secured 285 new members this we bers registered in the are based on doctor's mitted, and do not dresses. extend the influence of that aper. All branches should participate in the circulation of the anniversary issue. They should organize distribu- {tion of this issue and should send ; bundle orders prepaid to the Daily Worker business office. ‘The anniversary number will con- tain a full page of propaganda and agitation material for the Interna- tional Workers Order. In the distrib- represent e Hun ion held its own | ution of this issue of the Daily Brite ou In a steady | Worker, therefore, our members will rt the Hungarian Section has | demonstrate the unity of interest be- effort c achieved a we: average during the campaign of 124 new members. achievement was tween the paper and our I. W. O, They will serve both the paper and our organization by giving it the widest possible circulation, 1 of the very commendable the Ukrainian and English with 66 and 51 new mem- About Pessimism ‘Two weeks ago we reported about @ battle against pessimism in Chi- cago and informed our comrades that @ representative of the National Ex- ecutive Committee, Comrade Saltz- man, succeeded in accomplishing this attack. We received a number of communications from Chicago pro- testing that the write-up that Chi- cago got had unjustifiably created the impression of pessimism and inac- tivity in the leadership of our drive in Chicago. Of course, we intended no such ac~ cusation. We knew that the com- rades in Chicago were active and working. However, we also knew and still know that one of the most se- tious handicaps in our drive is a ten- dency to pessimism among many comades. We meet it in personal contact with the membership, as well as in communications. They ask us, “What can you do now with a drive? The workers have no money. Even if you would take them in, you would have to suspend them again.” Others say that their field of solicitation has been exhausted, all the left wing Jews or Hungarians or Slovaks in their town are already organized. These comrades do not see, first, that the condition which more and more disabled the workers from paying dues also increased the need for the protection of membership in a frater- nal organization among the workers. They do not see that the conditions are good for mobilization, not bad. They also do not see that the mobili- zation for the I. W. O. must not be confined only to left wing workers. The I. W. O. must become an instru- ment to reach into all sections of the working class. Recognizing the existence of pes- simism, not as a particular Chicago phenomenon, but as a fact among certain sections of the membership throughout the Order, we took the opportunity of the report of Comrade Saltzman to point to the baseless- ness of such pessimism and to show the real possibilities confronting our Order. The write-up, therefore, was no slight on our Chicago comrades, nor was it a special glorification of Com- rade Saltzman. It was political pro- paganda. We still believe it was time- ly political propaganda. If the Chi- cago comrades read the item again from that point of view, they will agree and will convince themselves that the item did not contain any in- jury to them, directly nor indirectly. Campaign Prizes All branches and all comrades who have earned prizes are requested to send their claims to the National Of- fice of the Order, so that they can be checked up and the prizes. shipped out immediately after the close of the campaign. outh Section went back into its hele again. Baila the Youth Section ‘The weakness of the Youth section is no accident. It is the result pri- marily of an almost complete inatten- ton of the adult branches of the Or- der to the problems of building and oi leading the Youth Section. In the last days were received a considerable batch of applications fvom Chicago, over a hundred. Vari- ous language sections contributed their share to this batch. But the lot did not contain one single ap- pication for a youth member. — We cite Chicago not to hold it up as a horrible example. On the con- trary, Chicago is quite active and at- tentive e campaign. However, in its inattention to the building of the Youth Section, it is as bad as all cur otk districts. Surely the fact Ynat the efforts of the City Central Committee to organize the drive, an their success in getting 100 new mem- hers in short while, when taken together with the fact that they did not succeed bringing in a single youth member, is indicative of a neg- lect to ask young workers to join. ‘This same neglect is the weakness of in New York and in all tion centers. s is a political -weak- nM It shows that our comrades do not se the young workers, It shows especially that they do not see the particular pro»! the young drive cone2nt of the problems of the young workers results not only in to organize them, but it also ii negiect to lead them, to ir organizations to develop orts and educational life from a working class point of wew— end all these neglects combined are responsible for the extremely slow growth of the Youth Section, when jin reality the Youth Section should wesent one of the best opportunities cf the Order to build itself. The work of the Order contem- plated for the next 6 months will try to repair this weakness. It will pay special attentton to conveying to our Order a clear understanding of the purposes end aims of our Youth Sec- tion. Daily Worker Anniversary Number On January 6 the Daily Worker Will issue an anniversary number, celebrating its tenth birthday. The occasion is one in which the whole militant labor movement must par- ticipate. The Daily Worker is our paper. It is our mouthpiece, voicing our programs, our aspirations, our hatte Without our intimate criss, vawowaby & ELEN LUKE A levter accompanying a dol-{aninnies you cver saw.’ Such com- lar for the Daily Worker fund tad ea ta" Sll” Conspi _ through this column says: “We But it does exist, doesn’t it— are a small group of women! °ntrary to the headline on your here in far-off. Santa Cruz, Cali- tract? The whole intent of the ar- fornia, working as an auxiliary to| “le % to belittle the importance ) the LL. D. We sew, we quilt, and of race-hatred, to minimize the i give dinners and card-parties to tragic results. Here is a poisonous raise funds to help carry on the! paragrap! - f "work of labor defense. “This passive race prejudice, | which we all possess, is simply a | preference for people of your own _kind. It knows no cruelty and cer- tainly no desire to injure those who “We are aware also that we _ should support our labor press. We wish we could send a more liberal contribution; however, a little is are different from yot f. It is i 1 caltceae® sae only when demagogues flame it into J "LAURA M. H.” | Datred that it becomes a cruel and i ‘e 5 Fee @ dangerous thing.” This reminds me that there has| 4 Jf Such statements do not con- Geeatiees teom some’ com: done chauvinism, what does? in the west for quilt blocks. These a ee require too much space to! The writer concludes the article ee in our Daily Worker, but With this blithe paragraph: there is nothing to prevent our “America has plenty of race prej- collection of udice. But Americans have learned how to live good naturedly and courteously with persons who differ widely from themselves. We have learned to keep our prejudices, for the most part, in the home, where they belong.” Consider the sublime nerve of that! First, how callously it ig- nores the cases of Lee, Armwood, Cheek, and the Scottsboro boys, just _ AS soon as we have enough of these, _. notice will be given. What Goes On in the Bourgeois Women's Page. By the way—have you seen an article in the World-Telegram by _ Gretta Palmer, titled, “Race Preju- _ @ice Is Part of Everyone's cei ad * Te sets out to prove that we are ail afflicted with prejudice, but suc- to mention a few victims of Amer- seeds instead in conzeding the pre- | ican race hatred. Second, what cise opposite. Witness this para- 40 they mean by telling us that ra [Bae paee eee eaten “These prejudices are silly and nm @ chau in small, and {t is high time that hu- his home but not out of it?) manity outgrew them all. But it|, The whole business has one sig- will take a lot of time. Few Amer-|Mficance—that in case there are icans who grew up in the South | Some of us really free of the taint ean echo the remark of one char-|°f chauvinism they will do their acter in ‘All Good Americans’ who | evel best to talk it into us. was asked, ‘How would you like it An “Agony Line.” if your sister married a Negro?’ He| Will Comrade J. R. please call at cheerfully said, ‘She did. And they] the Daily Worker editorial office for ~ have two of the cutest little pick-!a package that is here for him? h v ,| up to $6 per week. ‘Got $6 A Week For Creosoling Railroad Ties ent) INGSTON MANOR, e the conditions in the sole Co., where I had a talk with one rs at the company espon N to 20 men. These men are all Ne- groes. He told me that working there year, he r The from 250 pounds to 300 pou: man has to carry the ties 60 f File them up. Two years ago they got, for big ties, $2.65 per 100 ties, for small ties they got $1: This year t Bet $1.25 fe and $1 for i ties per 100. When they run the ties througt the creosole, they have to w nights, bec if thes mn the sun, the creosole burns the face, hands and bodies of the worker: They get 90 cents per 100 for thi The company supplies the worker homes. These are not home, they are pig pens. There are so many cracks in the houses that you can See everything from the outside that is happening inside. These houses are one mile from the town. When not working they are refused relief because the company tells the town that the workers have a place to trade at. This is just another one of the company tricks to rob the workers of their meager earnings, through the company stores. There are about 50 of these com- panies throughout the country, and one in Canada. The main branch is in Louisville, Ky. Would like to hear from some other workers from the Federal Cre- osole Co. of the country, in the Daily Worker. |Joe Till Bosses’ Spy, Slanders Food Workers’ Union (By a Workers Correspondence) PITTSBURGH, Pa—Joe Till, the catering manager of the Wm. Penn Hotel, is the same fellow who on Dec. 15th, published an article in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph about the mass meeting of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union Local 115, branch of the Food Workers’ Indus- trinl Uriion. After clipping the ar ticle he posted it on the blackboards of the various departments of the hotel. In this article, Uncle Joe, as the workers call him, described the meet- ing as a failure and at the same time attacked our union as being a Red union, and also branded the organ- izer, Harry Reich, as a Communist. Well to your surprise Uncle Joe, we the workers certainly know what union we belong to and who our leaders are. Also we know that Joe Till is the so-called efficiency man (for the bosses) of the William Penn Hotel. Joe Till no more than eight years ago was a waiter, a cook, a kitchen steward, and reached his present position only through his stooling around for the bosses and reporting to them any unconscious istake | On top of it rly he can slash cut out their meals, and made every man and wo- man in the hotel do the work of four or five. Doctor Up Dirty Lard Not to Lose the Profit By a Worker Correspoudent, CLEVELAND, Ohio—Recently at! Swift & Co there was some dirty lard dumped into the lard tank by mis- take. This spoiled the whole tank which had good clean lard in it. The bosses doctored this lard up and plan to use it and sell it at cheaper price. { Anybody that knows anything about | this would certainly hate to buy Swift’s lard. Yet Swift & Co. is re~ puted to be among the leading pack- ‘ing houses of the country. If this lard were not used, and, | was thrown in the rubbish tank, it would mean a loss of over $1,200. ' But Swift Co. is more concerned about the $1,200 than about the people’s health. Gone by the workers. he showed how cle TRANSIENTS EXPLOITED By a Farmer Correspondent, LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Transients jin Arkansas are already being rounded up on highways and rail- } Toads. They are given the choice of the cell and chain gang, or working on the wood pile, credited with 40 cents an hour, four hours per day. If they leave, it makes it tough on them “up the line when they are caught.” The Transient Bureau of FERC pays 9 cents per day for a cafe man to serve meals, while the transients are charged 90 cents per day for room and board, plus de- ductions for other “services.” They must work a week, and can stay longer “if they want to develop into useful citizens,” NOTICE The “Daily Worker” would ap=. Preciate donations of comfortable chairs and one settee, to place in the reception room, so workers can make themselves comfortable while se for the comrades they come see, W YOR i rae MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1938 Gen. Johacan Helps C Mill to Figh ereal t Organization Returns Vague Answer when Workers Appeal on Right to Union of Their Choice d by the A. F. the grounds ig to back ir duty by or- their here o} it was put the N.R.A. over of co their and r ganize: er went first to the tt of or i ne of the mills a for members which they y, at Eod_ Carriers the request of the union. When thi: as brought to the floor of the company, ement ci 29 scale of wages, r: hat level. 1 these six that were refusing to join to hold back still more. The A. F. of L. organizer and president of the Trades and Assembly, working with the com tee from the cereal workers, w then told by the manager of the mill t he did not think he had the right to sign the agreement until such time as all the men in the m weré org d, be violation of the N.R.. tee appealed to General Johnson for a decision on this, and when the decision came back it was that sec- tion 7A would apply, and of course that ‘can be interpreted by the boss asin favor cf the onen shop, in fact that is why it is in the N.R.A. Locked Out The first mill organized a full 100 per cent, did not give the rai the 1929 scale; and of cour: ers started out to get it, along nition of the union. Their ds were drawn up and signed 100 per cent, and a committee elected to present them to the management. Before the committee could present the demands, the mill was shui down for repairs, which would be till after the first of the year, before they rted up again. They proposed to work some of the married men part time during the shut down. This looks like an effort to split the ranks of the workers, but I do not believe will be successful, as the most nt workers have pointed this to the workers and they have n to stand behind their commit- tee solid, and in case of any dis- imination to strike and demand the nstatement of any worker who ht be fired because of union ac- The workers failed to see the dan- r in signing their demands, and ting them in that form, even ough they were 100 per cent on Some of the workers, fear- to have their names go into the e on them, might by trickery on 2 part of the management, be in- ed to withdraw their names and us only the most mi%tant ones id be left on the list, thereby § an opening for discrimination, The cereal workers as a whole de- ire to have a good strong and mili- nt union, and if they do not get misled and ad of the workers in one mill referring to the workers (2 the other as the Royal Mills bunch or the Montana Mills bunch, will stick as one and not let this or that small concession on the part of either boss split them in their demand for recog- nition of the union and their raise in pay and other demands, they are bound to win. They should also refuse to be told that they should not strike at this ‘ume for their demands, nor should they be carried off into a strike with- cut first knowing that they are going to stick solid till they win. —W. C. HODGES. (Signature Authorized)... Knott Hotel Corp. Plans to Fingerprint All Employees Al Smith, Other Tammany Officials, Grind Out Profits by Intensive Exploitation {By a Worker (srrespondent) NEW YORK—‘he Knott Hotel Corp. holds periodical meetings of managers and engineers, for the sole purpose of cutting down operating expenses. In- variably, these meetings lower the standard of living of their numerous employees who at no time earned more than a meagre living. The Knott Hotel Corp. is the largest of its kind in the United States. There are about 40 hoféls under its manage- ment and they are known as the severest exploiters of workers. David Knott, a former sheriff of New York County, and his brother James, are the chief executives of the corporation. Of the many Tammany members of the Board of Directors, Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New York State, is the outstanding one. At a recent meeting of Knott Hotel Corps managers and engineers, two men from the fingerprint bureau pro- posed a scheme to eliminate undesir- able workers from hotel employment by finger-printing, This finger-print scheme is to be aimed primarily against workers who at one time or other were arrested and convicted for militancy in the labor movement. The following is an authentic ex- cerpt of the minutes: “Minutes of Enginecring and Manag- ing Committee, Hotel Chelsea, Dec. 1, 1933, 10:30 A. M. “Two representatives of Commis- sioner J. A. Faurot appeared before the meeting and explained a system of fingerprinting of employeas as a means of identification and refer- ence. To an employer adopting this system, a certificate is given. The employee, at a cost of 50c to $1 is given a card which covers his record of previous employment. “The selling points are: “The adoption of the plan elimin- ates all criminal applicants. “Employees are proud of their identification cards, “Employers are protected from criminals securing employment. “The adoption of this plan by us will give us a lot of excellent pub- licity. “Some of the committée felt that the system should be imposed upon the hotel fraternity by association action and not by individual action, The question of adoption is respect- fully referred to our executives.” Synagogue Threatens’ Members They Must Buy From Its Market By a Worker Correspondent SHENANDOAH, Pa.—Having “im- ported” a meatcutter a year ago} from Philadelphia to work in its store, the Community Meat Market, owned by the local synagogue, fired this man suddenly recently without notice, in order to replace him with @ relative of the president of the synagogue. The policy Meat Market is not only to charge exhorbitant prices for its meat, but also to demand the payment from each of its customers of a subsidy of $2 per month to be turned into the coffers of the synagogue with the threat of refusal to sell meat to those from whom the money is not forthcoming, Ousted from his job, the former employee started a rival meat store with much lower prices. The Com- munity Meat Market is doing its best to drive him out by sending letters to all the customers threat- ening them with expulsion from the synagogue if they purchase theat at this new store, denouncing him from the pulpit, and sending around cards proclaiming itself as “the only kosher meat market in town.” GOVERNMENT FORCED LABOR By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Just a word to enlighten the comrades who are not familiar with the New Deal gov- ernment transient camps, It was recently this writer's ex- perience to board “for over a month” at Uncle Sam’s Boarding House at Las Vegas, Nev. where Eddie Kane, ex-prizefighter, throws “cold” hot cakes and insults at the patrons, while other waiters pour coffee that is unfit for any human to drink. Many men are working long hours “without pay” in that, and other camps, and herein Los Angeles hundreds of men are being sent out to work in forced labor camps, for as low as $5 per month, Lets build our Daily Worker and keep up a constant militant fight against such conditions. —PERRY HILL. (Signature Authorized) of the Community | AFL Officials, NRA Help to Cut Wages at Harbin & Walker Co. (By a Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa.—The Harbin & Walker Brick Co. forces the men to join the A, F. of L. capitalist pet union, trying to keep the workers from forming a rank and file organ- ization, so that they can continue to rob the workers’ pay checks of a dol- jar or so every week. The N.R.A. has caused a speed-up system to be used here that has never been used at this kind of work before, which has caused a decrease in the number of workers to about one half of what it was before the N.R.A. came into effect. Ihe N.R.A. has also been the cause of a greatly reduced weekly nay check. PETER O'BRIEN: (Signature Authorized) “DAILY” SHOWS RIGHT WAY Fort Worth, Texas. Editor of Daily Worker, Comrades of the Daily Worker: Organization in this territory is progressing slow, but positive. The capitalist press misinforms workers. The Daily Worker is the only paper that gives the workers eyes, and shows the right way. Enclosed find $1_to help in the $40,000 drive. Hoping for a regular 12-page “Daily” shortly. Comradely yours, W. F. A Workers’ Ciub Hurls Challenge on Selling Anniversary “Daily” NEW YORK.—The Bath Beach Workers Club, with a membership of only 28, placed an order yester- day for 200 copies of the 24 page, tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker. The club challenges all other clubs with a similar membership to equal or beat this order. It will take as many copies over 200 of the January issue as will any’ club whose membership does not exceed 30. Clubs, accept this challenge through the columns of the “Daily.” Restaurant Boss Helped by Nazi to Spy on Workers (By a Food Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I was working in a restaurant located at 866 Broadway, three doors from the International Labor Defense and the Workers In- ternational Relief. This restaurant is under the N. R, A., but the work- ers have to do plenty of slavery for the boss for a little money. The regular hours are supposed to be 9 hours, but we work 11 to 12 hours. A worker washing dishes has to do some cooking. Another worker works 5 hours and gets 50 cents, which comes to 10 cents per hour. A girl works 815 hours. She gets $6 per week and I had to work like a slave, washing dishes, doing coun- terman’s work and short order cook for $12 per week. While I was speaking to the work- ers to better the conditions in this place, the boss somehow learned of this. He waited until the dinner rush was over, and started at me with an angry mean way, telling me that he will try his best to put me in jail. he asked the workers to repeat what I was saying to them against the bosses in order to get them as witnesses to jail me. One of the workers is a German Nazi, whom I have exposed a good many times. This Nazi stuck with against me, and I had to lose my job. And now comrades I want to ap- } peal to all comrades in the I. L. D. and W. I. R. who are near there and have patronized this place, to listen to what I have said. The boss is using the meanest way against the workers with a fascist Nazi to help him. Worried Over Job on C.W.A., Negro Drops Dead in Atlanta, Ga. (By a Worker Correspondent) ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 22.—Daniel Howard of Atlanta, Ga., who had just been assigned to C.W.A, work on the local Negro High School (Booker T. Washington High School) dropped dead on Dec. 15 en route to his new C.W.A. job. His friends state that his death was due to despondency over not being able to make. ends meet for his family. He had worried over trying for several weeks to be put on the Roosevelt C.W.A. “chain . gang.” Next Step After Strike Victory at j wards wrote an I told him I wasn’t afraid. Then} the boss and told him everything‘ PARTY LIFE PittsburghCommunist Party Reports Rise in Recruiting Stress Need for Carrying Out Control Tasks in the Main Concentration Points By Org. Secretary, Dis. No. 5 The Org. Secretary of District No. 5, analyzes the recruiting in the Pittsburgh District during the month of Decermber; On Friday, Dec. 15, Comrade Ed- article in the Daily Worker in the light of the control tasks of the open letter and pointed out some of the weaknesses of the Pittsburgh District in recruiting inj the basic industries, It is a fact that during the month of November we had the biggest slump in recruiting generally and especially among mine and steel workers. I will not go into the causes of this in the present article. However, it is nec- {essary to state that in the first three jweeks in December we see a great , improvement in this connection, es- pecially. recruiting of miners into our Party. We have succeeded in forming three new mine units—one in West Virginia, one in Central Penna. and ; one in the Library territory. Thirty- one miners, members of the U. M. ; W. A., joined our Party in this time. Of those, 15 are employed miners. | Here it is also necesary to state that - . six women, wives of these miners, have ais jolaed the any euses| LOD IN $40,000 Drive this period. In Steel we recruited only seven| CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Section 1, of workers in these three weeks. One of | this city, leads the way in showing the main weaknesses still remaining how to support the Daily Worker by is the fact that only one of the min- ae alan aean one on a ers recruited is a Negro and only a quota. o: in the $40,000 campaign, few of the steel workers are Negroes. | This section also secured 119 monthly Here it is necessary in the course of and 11 Saturday subs for the “Daily. our Lenin recruiting drive to pay the , Cleveland has raised so far a little closest attention to draw in Negro|ver 82 per cent of its total quota workers from the mines and steel Of $2,000. ek we ae ne ohie Ae: Hie Ding oet wen Faees Iu audtn o-GNO: Gaon &, Bale this recruiting, though we see im-|(Wuota of $300; eats a ons provements in relation to last month, !@Uota of $125; Canton, $93.92 on a 4s the fact that in mining most of this ;¥ota of $125; Youngstown, Trees recruiting did not take place at the /2 quote of $150; Toledo, $121.25 on concentration points which indicates initia eh bd oat ey Gidae that we are not seriously enough put- 0 $44.75 on $125; Beatign it, Cleve- ting into effect the control tasks that land, $66.28 on $100 quota; Da: We set ourselves at the July District | iC Mone on w uote at ees Pelnum. This is also true in connec- | Fro #620 on $5 aaa Section 14, tion with the recruiting young work- Cleveland, $65.06 on $100 “quota; min- ers and setting up of ¥. C. L. units 'ing section, $10.27 on a quota of $25, especially at the points of Party con- ‘Among foreign language groups, the ceateenn Russian, Ukrainian, Slavic organiza- In order to be able to overcome tions raised $65; Ukrainian Working some of these weaknesses, We are Women, $12.15; Uj Elore employes, tightening up our work in and around $15; Greek Buro, $17.50; United Ruse the concentration points vf mining sian Workers Society, $10.77; Russian and steel and in these fields in gen- Mutual Aid, $15; Lithuanian Buro, eral and especially in the course of $18; South Slavic Workers Clubs, $15. the next month of the recruiting drive} Unemployed Councils raised $24.30. we must bring in many more sec- | Council 14 accounting for $23 of this tions of employed and unemployed amount. miners and steel workers into the| Unemployed Councils raised $24.30, ranks of our Party and thereby make| All sections and organizations are the first step in seriously applying urged to do their utmost to fulfill that section of the Open Letter which , their quotas to help the Daily Worker tells us to “Root ourselves among the! install its new press, basic sections of the American pro- letariat.” * * * Note By Editor The improvement noted in the above article in regard to recruit~ ment among the miners, and the establishment of three mine units, and particularly the recruiting of 31 members of the U. M. W. A. inte the Party is a noteworthy achieve- ment. We expect that the next report from the Pittsburgh Distriet will indicate a similar improvement in the recruitment among Negroes and among the steel workers. We want to hear from the other Districts and Sections in regard to their recruiting. What have been your gains in the first three weeks of December? What are your weak- nesses? Write your experiences for the benefit of the entire Party. Cleveland Section 1, Is First to Go Over Paper Bag Shop | Join the Communist Party } By a Worker Correspondent (Note: This letter was given to the “Daily Worker” by L’Unita Operaia, Italian working class paper, at the request of the writer of the letter.) . ene BROOKLYN, N. Y.—My shop is about the biggest bag shop in New York and Brooklyn. We're out in Erie Basin, and the shop is called the Brooklyn Standard Paper Bag Co., located at the foot of Van Dyke St. We went out on strike a couple of | weeks ago and won raises. We elected a strike committee and the bosses rec- ognize it. We won raises from $1 to even as high as $8 for low paid work- ers, when you figure it in the piece work system we have here. I think that’s a good start. We organized a union that we cal! the Brooklyn Standard Boys and Girls Benevolent Asz*<iation. We know about the regular union. That's the Paper Plate and Bag Makers’ Union. They offered their help to us while we were on strike and after, and they tried to organize us before the strike. I think most of the boys and girls want to join up with this union, but I guess the committee and some cthers don’t know how most of us feel about the union. What I mean is I guess they don’t know we want it. I'm not afraid, but I don’t want to be the first one to talk because the bosses might fire me. We ought to put it up to a vote of the whole momber- ship. Most of us are signed up already. A Standard Worker. . . « Editorial Note: We gave your let- ter to Section 7 of the Communist Party. They have a special leaflet for you and they will give you copies of the “Daily Worker.” Their ad- dress is 132 Myrtle Ave. Benjamin Pipe Shop Workers Force Gains By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—We workers of the Benjamin / Pipe Shop have just gained increases of from 8 to 15 per cent, which the boss promised us months ago. Before, our shop was weak and divided, and the boss didn’t pay the increase. Now, our shop is strong and united. The boss knows we are all 100 per cent for our union, the In- dependent Smoking Pipe Makers Union of America, and behind our shop committees, and he knew we ‘would strike if he wouldn’t pay us. So he had to come across with the increase. —A Pipe-Maker. ALASKAN PRAISES “DAILY” Ketchikan, 5 Editor, Daily Worker: Only a short time ago reading the Daily Worker. I find it interesting and standing for the suf- fering unemployed working people, and against such contradictions which gives hunger to many of us because feild produced too much of every- 8. T am sending a dollar for the Daily Worker bg fund. Sincerely yours, aL 3% EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. Please send me more information on the Communist Party. NAME ADDRESS By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. method.is a lie. We advise you te have nothing to do with him. : ‘The best treatment for syphilis con- sists in alternate courses of salvarsan (“606”) and mercury injections. Your opinion that this treatment is merely suppressive, has no value. You are not a physician, and you have no ex- perience in medical treatment. You are merely talking from hearsay. We have had years of experience with the above treatment and we have seen ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Non-Specifio Urethritis Don K., Detroit, Mich—We doubt that you had an attack of gonorrhea. The “shots” in the arm were entirely unnecessary; the red tablets was all the treatment you needed. Even in gonorrhea, we are giving up the treat« ment by injections in the urethra. i acid. This mixture looks like chalk, _ Smear it over your several times in succession. results you obtain with this are not completely satisft ¢ may try to snip the warts Sterilized sharp scissors cauterize them with nitric ing the above treatment you are perfectly cured, dust. tire area with a generous calomel which comes in powder oe which you can get from a aRR Ree G ET e Delay in Our Bud Fallon—Our failure your letter is not due to to the large number of receive and to which we cording to date, urgency according to whether it interest to the majority of the Worker readers. Enclosure stamp does not entitle ent to an answer. If the 46 ; “Auto-Bio-Chemic Treatment” of Syphilis Anthony B., Chicago—The abovelit. As to a private reply, it is on intent epi, comni of ae [ene hen publ anaver cag be*made or when the case ts as advocated by T. Wilson Deachman, | that, in our opinion a personal pola ocr yn ee Rekteanet i og You mine nave c really carries and wait until your t comes, - ‘will cause blood poisoning in every Cee Ti I, ke case. If he sterilizes the urine be- e fore he injects stroy any syphili i$ may contain conrse, useless. can cure the worst