The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1933, Page 4

Filing Applications Is Only Work on Tennessee Project Public Works Jobs Remained Only on Paper; C. W. A. Is Government’s New Stall | ci (From a Professional Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—A boon to engineers | laborers, ec Tennessee Valley Project. Immedi- ately after last spring the mass of unemployed technicians believed it to be the lowg-sought manna; the ulti- Mategoal for which we had been aseking for four long years According to administration offi- eials millions of dollars would be Spent in flood control projects, water- powered developments, sanitary Works, reforestation and in the con- struction of abodes for the profes- sional and unskilled workers. To date the entire proposed con- struction program has proved to be a fiasco. During the month of April, 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority, with Dr. Arthur Morgan at its head, ablished to ferret out the dif- A corps of experts was ed to aid the T. V. A. in 'g up the designs and plans md announcements in the news- and heayy industry papers the T. V. A. has done noth- ing in the way of relieving unem- the construction the aforemen- will re- among prove ally and by fellow technicians who have applied for work in the Ten- nessee Valle; Applicat are open to any and all interested in securing employment in the Tennessee Valley! Such was the announcement made at the En- gineering Societies Building in New York in June, 1933. Those who were fortunate filed forms within the next two weeks, but latecomers were re- fused applications after July 8 on the pretext that too many were seek- ing work in the South. The writer and several others were fortunate enough to have mailed their appli- cations to Washington before the ve edict was pronounced. Enclosed with the applications re- ceived from Washington were an- nouncements that no political influ- would be tolerated. Yet an im- nt cog in the Brooklyn Demo- machine sent letters to all ve recipients of jobs re- esting them: to communicate with “Sim for placement on the proposed works, August passed, September passed, but no work in sight, contrary to all expectations! Inquiries were ad- dressed to the T. V. A. at Wash- ington and the responses were far from encouraging. “You can expect work in the taut,” | stated the Washington dispatches. Late fall has arrived and the bu- reaucrats at the capitol request all concerned to have patience; work will be offered in the early spring of 1934. Ponder over the following reply to @ recent inquiry as to possibilities of employment in the T. V. A. Dear Sir: I am informed by our personnel div:sion that your application is on file at this office and has been given careful consideration. We Tegret, however, that we are un- Vable to offer you encouragement in \ategard to the possibility of your , becoming associated with the Au- thority. Your application and communi- cation is being kept on file and should an opening occur in which | your services could be utilized, shall get in touch with you Very truly yours, Tennessee Valley Authority. Now the lying burea S at Wash- ington have announced the Civil Works Adm. tration to take up the slack in allocating employment be- cause of the delay in the Publi Works Administration. The vast ma- jority of economic exiles who tor- tured body and soul during th> past several weeks to register em- ployment in the C. W. A. ° ill be] bitterly disappointed at the outcome for the same treatment will be ac- corded them as the P. W. A. appli- cants. Few Jobs Now in Big Rhode Island Worsted Mills | By a Textile Worker Correspondent | PROVIDENCE, R. I—The Wan- Kuck Co., one of the largest worsted companies in New England, has three large mills in Providence and one in Woonsocket. The three mills in Prov- idence, the Steere, Geneva and Wan- skuck mills, employing well over 2,000 (altogether), most of whom are young people, after having worked two shifts under N,R.A. regulation during the seasonal pickup, has now laid off the entire second shift in the three mills. | The first shift in the three mills is now working from two to four days @ week. These mills are situated in an Italian section, where the majority of the workers are dependent on these mills for an existence. | ‘The Wanskuck has always been one of the cheapest paying textile com- panies of R. I. The Metcalf family are the owners of these mills, one of which is Jess M. Metcalf, one of the Republican senators from Rhode Island. Jesse Metcalf has always given donations to churches and to Community funds. There being no militant trade union in the mills, Metcalf has always been able to cut wages at will and exploit the workers to the lowest depths. The last time Metcalf was elected he ordered all the foremen to tell the workers to vote for him, and immediately after he was elected he gave the workers in all his mills a 20 per cent wage cut. In most departments of the mills after the N.R.A. was put into effect in the mills, half of the workers on the first shift were transferred to the second shift. The work had been speeded up so that the same amount of work was being turned out by half as many workers in less than on one shift. Now with the second shift being ‘laid off, many workers who had been working days have joined the ranks of the unemployed. The present out- jlook is that there will be a much , Smaller number of workers employed in Wanskuck this winter than last winter and a much shorter week, Send your greetings to the 24- page Tenth Anniversary edition of the Daily Worker. Rush them to us before Deo, 30. 23 uo by leaps and bounds! Those who can scrape a few dollars together will do well to lay in some staples now. I went to the “dime” store to stock up a few things in cans or jars, but was too late to beat the first price rise. The five- cent cans of sardines that were available last summer, are no more, and ditto a number of other items. And how the “dime” store is blossoming with fifteen and twenty cent price tags! Glassware, dishes, dish cloths, wash cloths—all on the limb. A wooden tray for silverware, a dime last summer,—fifteen cents now. Of course the half starved, over- worked Woolworth clerks will get a handsome wage-increase out of those fifty-percent price rises—I don’t think! A strike by those girls would certainly be a most welcome novelty in the history of the class- struggle. It is not to be forgotten that Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress, (now “Princess Mdivani”) recently bought in Paris the most lay- ish trousseau on record, and has just come into possession of more mil- lions of dollars then she or any other Yaa could find any good use or. Culinary Department Meanwhile to prepare something to keep us alive while we think about how to organize the Woolworth girls, here is an old French kitchen-wrinkle. When a stock is needed as a basis for soup or any other dish, and no soup meat is available, it can be made from bread in the following way. Put a large, thick slice of dry, stale bread (white is usually used), in a pan, add several cups of water, salt ‘pevper if you wish) and simmer very gently a minimum of an hour; two heurs preferably. (A good one for a fireless ccoker.) Then the bread is to be lifted out carefully with a pancake turner: or simply turn broth and bread into sieve and let drain a bit. Discard the ex-bread. This broth may be used as a basis for a great variety of soups, either clear, or with milk for cream soups; these soups are called panades, from the French “pain,” meaning bread. Any bits of left-over vegetable may Can You Make ’em Yourself? Pattern 1527 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 40, 42 and 44. Size 16 takes 3% yads 39 inch | fabric and % yard contrasting. H- lustrated step-by-step sewing in- struction included, Send FIFTEEN CENTS coins or stamps (coins preferred) for a5) in be cooked in with it for flavor,— onion, parsley, celery, carrot, or such leaf or herb seasonings as you prefer, We can list, later, a number of pan- ades. this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Denartment, 243 West 17th St., New York City, | should not be charged any more than | wishes, as they are doing now. A Program for the Dressmakers | ew Haven up of Needle Worker | ondents | nn,—<Although the } ed the New Ha-| if they did ” the installa- not com tion of Local 151 to irst meeting in four months . The workers were ed to hear speaker out the wonder- shops, but which . “Democracy” , as part of the cere- mony of presenting the charter, called all the ch dies on the stage and christened them the Executive Board, without having the workers vote on this important question. Out of so many speakers, not one dressmaker was called upon to speak, The strike was supposed to havé done away with the sweatshops, but it didn’t, The minimum wage has be- come the maximum. Speed-up is worse than before, and even though wages earned are a trifle higher than before the strike, we get “boloney” dollars, since prices on necessities of life have gone up. Meanwhile the workers are forced to pay 35 cents a week dues whether they work or not. This is deducted by the bosses. The initiation fee now is $5.95, whereas before it was $1.95. Many workers can't afford to pay such big initiation fees. The pact guaranteed the right to have the price committees decide on the price of a garment. This, how- ever, is noi cicouraged by the union, so that the workers don’t know the price before starting work. Many workers were fired after their initia- tion was deducted. They have no re- ceipts for the money paid and no one knows where the money went to, Workers are laid off daily on very poor excuses. Complaints are made, but the union keeps passing the buck to the bosses and vice versa. What Must Be Done? What shall the conscientious dress- makers do in order to change the ex- isting rotten conditions? A leaflet stressing the following points was given out by a group of dressmakers in the LL,G.W.U.: 1—We must get groups of workers together whom we can trust and get them to press the chairladies and union officials to hold regular shop meetings, where all problems facing us will be discussed. 2—We must have re-election of price committees and chairladies, so that the most sincere workers will be elected, who will put up a fight for higher prices and not compromise with the bosses. (This committee will have to see to it that prices will be fixed so that the operators, finishers, pressers, etc., will be able to make their minimum, at a normal pace of work.) 3—We must insist that union books be issued immediately. 4—We have to insist that the dues be lowered and that when we are not working we should not pay any dues. We must have the right to elect our own treasurer in the shop to collect dues, and not let the bosses do it. 5—All workers to be rehired who were laid off after the strike. 6—New members joining the union $1.95, 7—The Executive Board to be lected by the workers themselves and not appointed as was done by the tnion officials. Workers, the I.L.G,W.U. is not pro- cecting our interests, but the bosses’. We must force the union officials to listen to us and do as we tell them, and not run everything against our By a Group of Dressmakers, Members of the LL.G.W.U,, Local 151, New Haven, Conn, Celebrate Tenth Anniversary of the “Daily.” Send greetings to the Daily Worker for its Tenth Anni- versary 24-page edition of Jan. 6. Get ads. Speed your orders for this historic edition. Bright Sayings of Socialist Officials (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—On Dec. 18, at Ar- lington Hall, the administration of Local 10, International Ladies Gar- ment Workers Union, had itself in- stalled after being re-elected last Saturday, Every speaker, except Jonn Cc. Ryan, an old-time President of the local, was a Socialist, and I was able to write some of their bright sayings: David Dubinsky, president of the LLG.W.U.: “While we did not gain our point, at least they (the bosses, represented by Senator Reed at the code hearings at Washington), didn’t gain as much as they expected.” “You always have a chance to speak out and express your opinion in this local.” (Ask any cutter!) Julius Hochman, president, Joint Dress Board: “The N.R.A. label is under present conditions practically @ union label.” Isidore Nagler, president Joint Cloak Board: “President Roosevelt is being fought by elnents (big in-| dustrialists) who are trying to break | down everything we have gained un- der the N.R.A.” “We are glad to get the advantages that the N.R.A. has given us.” “The N.R.A. tends, in my estima- tion at present, to balance produc- tion and consumption.” How? By decreasing production? Rush Your Order for 24-Page Anniversary Daily Worker! {L. an@ the United Leather Workers s}as\msual-are doing nothing. The A. Gloversville An Example for' A, F. L. Racketeers yUuuunt, Witw YOu, Webs AY, D mane 27, 1953 t Tannery Men in Phila. Area Leave Muddy Trail A.F.L, and Yellow Socialists Diseredited by Tactics in Recent Strikes (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The condi- tion of the tannery workers in the; Philadelphia district, which includes Philadelphia, Camden, and Wilming- ton,.is deplorable and the A. F. of F. of :L. is thoroughly discredited in this’district, but no attempt has been made.since 1929 to organize these workers into an industrial union. When Roosevelt came out with his N-R.A} the tannery workers in Wil- mington’ had no illusions about the United Leather Workers and refused to join that union. The leading mem- bers of the U.L.W. in Wilmington then did what they considered the next best thing, and told the unor- ganized~to organize in the National Leather, a yellow Socalist group led by “Massida. A strike was called in the Amalgamated Leather Co., but Massida only called three depart- ments, the stakers, the shavers, and the glazers, leaving at work the cel- lar men, because stoppage in the cel- lar. would spoil the skins and Mas- sida did not want to do that. He also agreed with the police that mass picketing was not necessary and had} only 12 pickets on a factory that takes in a whole city block. In’ Philadelphia, Local 64 of the United Leather Workers did the same as Massida. At the Quaker City Leather they called out two depart- ments, the stakers and glazers, and when the cellarmen walked out in sympathy, Barney Quinn, organizer of the U.L.W., sent them back to work, saying that they were not al- lowed to strike. The firm afterwards locked all out and the strike was lost. At Dreudings the men struck, join- ed the U.L.W. and Quinn sent them back to work and allowed Dreudings four weeks to decide what rate of pay he would give. At Dungan-Hood the men have wanted to strike for more money sev~ eral times, and were held back by the loyal adherents of Quinn, It is the opinion of a large number of workers in the tanneries that it is time that the U.L.W. either adopt a militant policy or that we form an independent industrial union, such as the workers formed in Gloversville, N. ¥. The workers in Gloversville showed what could be accomplished under militant leadership. All leather workers in the Phila- delphia district who are in favor of forming an independent Leather Workers Industrial Union, should write to, or get in touch with the Tannery Organizer of the Trade Union Unity League at 49 N. 8th St., Philadelphia, Pa, DAILY WORKER MUST EXPOSE ROLE OF CAPITALIST PRESS Brooklyn, N. Y¥. Comrade Editor: In the Daily Eagle’s Sunday Re- view for Dec. 10, 1933, is an article by a Mr. Burke Van Allen entitled “At the Left of the Revolution.” This article is a vicious, bare-faced attack and misstatement of the theory ‘and practice of the C. P. U. S. A. Following are a number of excerpts supporting the above-men~ tioned appraisal: “The Daily Worker, foremost Com- munistic newspaper, is a Russian dingo sheet and receptacle for anti- capitalistic complaints in weak Eng- lish.” “Between these Incipient reyolu- tionists (. e. Communist sympa~ thizers) and official Communism stands the Communist Party of America, Bulwark of c>vitalism.” I could quote man other examples of this despicable attempt to mis- inform and miviead the readers of this paper, many of whom are work- ers living in Brooklyn. To prevent this and to point out to the workers the increased ferocity and rawness of the attacks of the prostitute capitalist press on the only militant labor movement in America, it becomes absolutely necessary for the ‘Daily’ to expose the role played by papers such as the “Brooklyn Eagle” and writers such as Van Allen, as forcefully and clearly as possible. —B. S. B. GOOD WORK Buchanan, N. Y. Editor Daily Worker, Dear Comrades: Summing up our cultural activities of the summer season of 1933, we find that after having raised $45 for the Morning Freheit, $125 for the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and W. I. R., $72.34 for the victims of German Fascism, $90 for the Communist election campaign and $40 to Daily Worker drive for its emergency fund, $69.29 for the ICOR and also $30 for the Office Workers’ Union, as said, we find that we still have a profit of $15 from the sale of literature and news- papers. As the Followers of the Trail Camp is already known as a prompt responder to the call for the support ; of our press, we feel that now when @ modern press is beinz installed, we should put our shoulder to the wheel. We are glad to do it by con- tributing $15. We help the Daily Worker this time through Comrade Mike Gold,’ and we wish that all workers or- ganizations follow our example and when we'll all meet Dec. 30, at the Bronx Coliseum to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Daily Worker the $40,000 drive will be completed. Comradely yours, Followers of Trail Camp. Letters from Our Readers | SUPPORT STAND OF FOOD WORKER ORGANIZER New York. Dear Comrade Editor: I was quite interested in the ar- ticle that charged Comrade Laut of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union vith negligence of duty. = was present at the meeting where Comrade Laut spoke with a group of men who represented these milk drivers. They had personally come to us for assistance in regard to a strike. Before we decided to take a step in the matter we went to the Food Workers Industrial Union for advice as their leaders are ac- quainted with actions of that sort. Comrade Laut came to the meet- ing and I remember him specifically stating that forcing workers off of trucks was not the proper way to conduct a strike and also notify- ing them that the proper way was to work in the shops and when the proper time came when an organi- zation was completed to pull a strike. They stated that there were too many rats among them who would squeal and they would be exposed. He notified them that that was the chance every worker took when he worked in exposing the rotten con- ditions under which they were work- ing. He told them there could be no successful strike without a proper basis of organization. I hope this clarifies the matter. I think that Comrade Laut was correct. If a successful strike could have been carried out we would have } furnished 50 or more men to assist them, but we know that no success- ful strike could have been carried out on the bacis that, they desired. Comradely yours, Peter Cachhiony, Organizer, Post 191, W. E. S. > L SCOTTSBORO BOYS MUST BE FREED Cleveland. Comrades: By the exposure of Governor Rolph for justifying the lynching of the two kidnappers, the Daily Worker again Proves to the workers that it is the only paper that fights in the inter-j{ ests of the working class. The Daily Worker clearly points out that the lynching in California is an encour- agement to the lynching of Negroes and militant workers, The Daily Worker clearly proves that the scene in California is an inspiration to the lynching of the nine Scottsboro boys. Realizing the danger of the nine Scottsboro boys we, Unit 17, Section 1, District 6, on behalf of the workers protesting all over the United States, demand the immediate release of the nine Scottsboro boys. UNIT 117, SEC. 1, DIS. 6. The Daily Worker fizhts Fascism. Fight for the “Daily” with your dollars.’ Rush all funds to save the | Toward the $40,000 Drive Below are listed additional con- , Office Wkr 1.00) Seo 15, Un 7 10.00 Sribitions | 6 “the: $40,000), Wally | Oo) Sy Jeomaleal [ci eee aca tree Worker drive. Such lists will be | p stasson 10.00] Portchester Un | 2.00 published in the Daily Worker once |K Rider 3.00] Sec 15, Un 22 1.10 a week. Send your contribution /4 PX eyed 1.90 and. help your Daily Worker install | 6,')’ News Wkrs 1.10 | Seo & pe its new press, oc. | Sec 15 i Total Friday $ 2,039,22| Col by Fostovsky i! 1.35 Previously rec ve 35,728.47] 5 names 106) Gare <a Total to date ..........$37,767.79 | 498 Blg Group 3.00) tn 7 25 DIST No 1 B Zzitter 1.00) ee oe Oe | en at 40, Kicclinen 380) we, OES Roms al BChase | | 10 abo | Maeene ae Bec 7, Un 4 $0 Wers Forum 5,00 3 | wes Comm O 137} See a un it 3100 righton Un 2: é Un 18.10 Maynard Un 3.44 80) Colby Mykystern . |tn a, feo 7 7.87 Coin Cards names Tn 20, Sec 1 20.00 L Gers 1.00 Fee te En are Wkrs of D & F 1 of al Ce en 30 yaevian ILD Printing Co Total Dec 22 22.84) Wkrs Yth Center 3.00/ “kraln City Com a rae 3580 Toral to date 1610.92, T Clyman 508 |< Sen nee Pe ON Rs on yd DIST No 2 | Col by Orlove | Tart 50138 ca Rabe ote J Plotkin 1.00 “Kessner 00 Se 4iit neato oy M Wolf 20.00 Marcus 33 poumpoladt ora me Want Zito & Buhr 1.50 Glucksman 5 Cr by Beet PDL ao a er Clara E ‘38 P Kessner COTM od agar eat dpe Cepeamn noe Jerome 100) Rubin OD Gol by cibisty, set ke tains rice Peas ate Chern Soo Br 65 D Zzslon 5.00 oo Meet eee} Col by Pa H Chandler Schenk 10.00] Krowlts 38 | 5 nawen 90! A Stein bree boobkige ie Sst tetoiky 435. Col by Balagurchik | H Rabinowite 5.00 Pinceble Game, 1.00/ German wir 1.00, Gnames |» 340) A Forte | 18.00 ji <1 taser rani 6 names 125] Me Black 75-00 coi lM Porto-Rican @ Mason 23.10 a = sol00] A Friend Anti-Imp 85] M Salis 5.00 ‘anon 200] A Frederickson 1.00| Weng school 1:00| F Eaten 1000 00] A Lurie hia bic 7 Petit Bourgeoiste 2.00] H Kustle mee ag i Bemingo ‘ho A Contyads he | ak Warshew, N Rochelle Un 4.15] M_ Rubin 5.00 ‘Two Social Wkrs 2.00] L Levine 35) Seok On a. nel a woek 3.00 Dave Korn 1400} Col by Simmons 1.00] Ser 3° Gn ie. a3] Me Sckeiman 200 Shree 00 | Mekitey Party 1175] wire’ schoot 2.85] J Molnnis 61.28 ‘echner .( x ie 1 ° S le 24.00) Didmen 8c 1, Un 33 13.801 B Welman —1.00 in New Orleans, La. By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La.—In a recent trip to the office of the United Tex- tile Workers Union, near the Lane Cotton Mill here, to inquire about the union membership book of Mrs. Essie Bordelon, a former employee at that mill) I learned that the A, F, of L. union officials had surely carried out their plan to rob the workers as much as possible. Here are the facts, as told to me by Mr. John Hurdy, the secretary and treasurer of the Laurel Social and Carnival Club. The Laurel Social and Carnival PARTY LIFE Right Opportunism, The following is the concluding part of an article by John William- son pointing out the need for spur- ring the work of the Cleveland dis- trict of the Communist Party to achieve the goal set in the Open Letter of the Party. i. Club is a small neighborhood club, located on Annunciation St., one block away from the big Lane mill. When the A. F. of L. officials needed office space to carry on their work in en- rolling the mill employees, the Laurel Club rented the club rooms to them. In all the time that the A. F. of L. used the several rooms on two floors of the club house, they did not pay a single cent of rent. Finally Mr. Hurdy had to put out the union of- ficials because of the unpaid rent. The ent amounts to $18 at least. The club reduced the rent to the very moderate sum of $3 per week, A telephone had been installed in the club by the order of the A. F. of L, men, Mr. Hurdy said that he him- self had asked the telephone com- pany to remove the phone when he ousted the racketeers. There is like- wise an unpaid telephone bill of near- ly $20. While the U.T.W.A. was being built up at the Lane mill the officers man- aged to collect from the poverty- stricken employees nearly $2,200. Only &@ small number of the employees re- ceived their membership books, Th A. F. of L. officers tried to run a night club called the Riverside Inn, in New Orleans, but it went bankrupt from bad management, While the U.T.W. was in the Laurel Club, the union builders arranged for a party called a biock dance. The street near the mill was roped off for the celebration, All sorts of stores near the mill were dunned for food and other sorts of donations for that par- ty. The Laurel Club itself contributed several large bags of beans and rice to the union to help make a success of the affair. Mr. Hurdy told me that the U.T.W. made a clear profit of more than $500 from the dance. Owing to the facts given here it will be a very difficult task to win over the mill employees to the Na- tional Textile Workers Union, but I will do all in my power to get these workers into an honest union, Lawrence N. R. A. Board Looks Only After Mill Profits (By a Worker Correspondent) LAWREN' the “Evening Tribune” states that a Lowell N.R.A. Enforcement Board re- signed because they had no power to settle disputes when workers com- plained. The board in Lawrence, however, is not so watchful and persistent in Safeguarding the wages of workers under the woolen code provisions. I have been told by two young women workers in the Arlington mill of their filing an exactly similar complaint when they were not paid the rest of their piece-work pay above the min- imum $14. At the post office headquarters of the Lawrence board, they were told that no attention could be given their complaints unless the girls’ names were given also. As workers, they could not afford to lose their jobs (which would have resulted from the cooperation of the N.R.A.-Arlington managements), and disgustedly left the N.R.A. office and the N.R.A. spirit. Their very mild s:rutgle agrinst the boss’ overseer is in giving him only a3 much production as they are paid for: $14 worth. However, whatever may be the dis- tinctions between individual N.R.A. boards, they can never shield the hidden rottenness of the boss’ woolen code, which is guaranteeing the American Woolen Co. increased profit: and dividends for the 1933 fiscal year as compared with last year’s reports, while the workers’ dividends are in the form of inflated dollars, increased speed-up at automatic machines, and petty pilfering of piecework pay en- velopes, every Wednesday. Workers in these industries are urged to write in of their conditions of work, and of their struggles to organize. Get the letters to us by Saturday of each week, © Cross 10.00] No 17 R J Toole 5.00' No 24 J Allen 1.00 No 28 W_Becker 1.00 No 29 I Kelenson 5.00, No 41 D Dineson 1.00' No 47 A Kaufman 5.00 Seo Ch Rubin 1.00 | Sec ‘T Billda 30.00] Sec J Lelsorowitz 12.00! Sec A Sorkin 125 Seo ‘The Scotch 1.00! Sec 1 Benson “79 Sec Grobsky +50. Seo Coin Cards {Un Kess! 20 Un Tot un Iwo | Un 24-3 65° Un 233 2:30 Un it 144 16-9 $5 Un 12 37 5-3 1.55 Un 13 14 138, 1.15) Un 18 6.86 3 2.55' Un 20 1.04 6-3 35 Un 23 25 60-3 09, Un 38 35 147 4.25| Un 26 28 2003 5.50) Un 34 30 ise 733| Un 36 3 i 3.65] Lugoway 33 10-3 1.30, Sec 7, Un 9 1.66 85-3 40) Un 3 1.92 500 425| un 5 68 33-3 1.00] Un & “61 5d 1.65] Un 11 2:26 8 1.50; Sec 9 2.36 640 1.50| Bec 4 1.20 54-5 -10| DW Volunteers Bat ng pars 22 | Sel Boxes ‘ag Days ‘Kropot 14 No. 181] Kosett “79 a ‘a elk 2 0 8 .25| Berg Bt No 13 1.72| Dime Tubes No 15 2.26| Kosett 70 (To be continued), While the basic weaxnesses of the entire Party were present in an ac- centuated form in Ohio.as we will examine, the District Plenum em- phasized that a decisive factor was the inability of the ‘Party leadership as it has been constituted to cope with and meet the situation. The most brazen examples of Right Opportunism took place in connec- tion with the election campaign. This subject needs an entire article de~ voted to it exclusively, therefore, it is only possible to indicate the depth of these conceptions without an- alyzing the sources or arguments. The basic mistake was the nega- tion of our fundamental election pol- icy of class against class, as well as @ complete opportunist distortion of the policy outlined under special cir- cumstances of a local united Front Workers Ticket. Instead of a local United Front Workers Ticket, the policy led to turning the Small Home and Land Owners into a separate political par- ty. In Cleveland, this was done in all its political essentials in the ma- jority of the councilmanic contests. Instead of the Party being alert }and sensitive, and initiating the local workers’ ticket on a united front basis, with the Party stating openly its reasons for joining such a united front and at the same time bringing forward our basic revolutionary pro- gram as well as calling for support for the Communist mayoralty can- of supporting the Small Home and Land Owners candidates (the ma- jority of whom were Communists) but never brought the Communist Party forward, evaded and tried to conceal the Communist identity of these can- didates, never secured endorsement for the Communist Party mayoralty candidate by the Small Home and Land Owners, In Bellaire, this wrong policy with- out being theorized resulted in Party members heading the local ticket of the Small Home and Land Owners, and issuing a platform which con- tained this gem: , “These candidates represent a coal- ition—has Democrats and Repub- licans, and Home Owners—as Inde- penlents, and are qualified to give the City of Bellaire, Ohio, what it needs —planned economy—in fact, some are students of Economic Planning, and that is the only way to lift Bell- aire out of its maze of financial dif- ICE, Mass. — An item in ficulties. Our New Deal to the citi-) ; zens is not to be used as a campaign slogan to catch votes, but to give the , citizens a real New Deal in all that the words imply.” In Mansfield, the Workers Ticket became a Mansfield Labor Party, with our comrades heading the ticket and. issuing ‘@ platform of which the following are just examples: “The Mansfield Labor Ticket can~ didates and platform are wholly of, by, and for the masses, pledged to accept dictation from no political of other sources except the majority of voters. “Our candidates realize that un- , Justly used organized power such as the Chamber of Commerce, Manu- 'facturers Association, Bankers So- \cleties, Chattel and Loan Companies ‘and Public Utility Corporations (espe- ‘cially light and fuel) who are bleed- ‘ing Mansfield people and who have ‘brought untola suffering into our ‘homes without any opposition from the old parties, can be stopped only by the organized support given the Labor Ticket Program. , . . Invite, urge and encourage transient manu- facturers and other employers to lo- ‘cate, establish and operate plants in Mansfield so as to broaden job op- By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. , ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Poisoning from Apples N. A. T., Buffalo, — Washing the apples in running water removes a certain amount of the insecticide, but: not all of it. In order to re- move the poison, known as lead ar- senate and which is used as a spray, it is best to use a dilute solution of drochloric acid. If this is not hy obtainable, cut out the stem and the calyx part of the apple, are the two ends of the core where oie agg reac hae cecal tes. Poisoning from eating apples or cherrie: Cleveland Must Spur Work To Gain Open Letter Goal Election Campaign, Must Be Sharply Combatted By JOHN WILLIAMSON didate, we followed a tailend Policy Especially Brazen in portunity and increase mass purchas- ing power.” But even in the Communist pro- gram and campaign for Mayor in Cleveland, we find outstanding weak- nesses which explain very clearly the decrease in votes, The platform jomitted all mention of the NRA, although this should have been the political kernel. Not a single mass struggle among any strata of the workers was initiated and led against the direct effects of the N.R.A. on the workers, during the whole cam- paign. The Communist election cam- paign was not taken into the trade unions or shops or the Small Home and Land Owners. The election platform was merely , partial demands, without # single reference to the revolutionary way out of the crisis—of connecting the everyday struggles With the of capitalism and the bourgeois state. These Right Opportunist theories and practices served as direct ob- stacles to developing mass struggles of the workers. The District Plenum branded them as such and undertool: to explain them thoroughly to the membership. . A third contributing factor to the unsatisfactory situation since the Open Letter was the failure to carry through the policy of concentration, Outlook for Mass Struggle—Party Can Lead The District Plenum, while stating the situation in the Party so sharply, emphasized that there was no basis for pessimism. To fail to recognize in the leading communities what every member feels would be an ostrich policy and would not clear the way for decisive change. The Ohio District of the Party out- lined a series of modest tasks, in j ecordance with the Open Letter and the 17th Plenum Resolution, which it is determined to carry through. ‘With the help of the C.C., certain organizational adjustments were made to help create the prerequisites for .a collective leadership, with close ties to the bottom of the Party and sen- sitive to the moods of the workers. In important sections, a series of nex elections have taken place, to create the same basis in the bottom of the Party. 5 Through t#rning more attention to the steel and metal industry (Cleve- land and Youngstown), n struggles among the unemployed (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati) extending the circulation of the Dail Worker, beginning intensive training and the establishment of a Workers. ‘School in Cleveland, giving close at- |tention to the Scovill territory and ‘developing struggles for Negro rights {based on specific discrimination in Cleveland as well as the basic prob- lems—strengthening the Party organ~ izationally (especially Cleveland, Youngstown, Akron and if East Ohio)—and building the Party from among the broad masses of emi- ployed and part time workers, as the guarantee of a solid foundation, of all its mass work, the District Plenum is determined, if it secures the as- sistance each concentration district must expect from the C.C. to go for- ward in mobilizing the membership to successfully carry through these first steps in achieving the tasks of the Open Letter and the 17th Penum Resolution. JOIN THE Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C, Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City is not made of pure silk, but of “weighted” silk or rayon, fabrics have a considerable of lead in them which is : sorbed through the skin, when we perspire, _ The amount of lead arsenate the Department of Agriculture al lows the fruit packers is twelve thou: sandths of a grain in each pound of fruit; but owing to the small num- ber of fruit and to the eee than ‘the health and life of theo sumers, avera; shipment. ab- \