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Page Four (By a Spanish War Veteran) RIMINI, Mont.—I am a disabled Spanisn-Ameri war veteran, blind, with honorable discharge, the latter! he being a total disability given me in December discharges are excellent character,| to ste. until five years ago. Then I was) Placed on the roll for $12 per month and only after ng for several} years, and being blind and practically & shut-in. Then I was raised to $20, then to $30, and finally to $70 per} month, and drev at amount for only two years I was cut off when the rolls altogether. Now I am © get back on again. The Spanish War Veterans are handling my case in Washington, D. C. We are for the repeal of the Na-| tional Economy Act, and the law Placed on or in full force as it was prior to March, 20, 1933. I person- ally certainly do not approve of the GC. ©. C. or the N. R. A. or any of the rest of Roosevelt's program. I have claimed all along that Roose- velt would have more trouble on his hands at the end of one year than he cared for when out his program, I told all of my friends that on tne rich would benefit by it and not the workers, and that the workers’ conditions would even be worsened. I still claim that his whole za except knows that well that he could deme the workers to such an extent that they could not or would not have the courage or sand to make trouble. But I was glad to learn that the Workers are beginning to find out the only way to obtain justice and are organizing towards that end. In the last elections there were 26 yotes casi in this little town orcamp, and I believe there were only two Communist votes. Now I feel cer- tain that there will be 9 or possibly {1 in the next elections for the Com-! munist Party. I hope for more, and am also hoping that the state as a Whole will show some gain by the next election. Defranding the Miners And now, dear friends, we have just a little example right now of one of the tools of big business who is working a few miners, opening up a large group of mining claims at| W | And I| | square block. We dug out three feet Seab wages and a time. Would not be surp at a padded payroll to boost up oe losses. this way they evade paying income taxes. Evén the nagers have been thlling offpwith pay day, for months ith mer, of the men. And one had ~-put his.case in the hands of an ttorney. But still the manager Stalled them for more than a month, and just before he was hauled into court the manager settled up. But in the meantime the employe, his Wife and two little kiddies were not Blind Spanish W Off by Roosevelt ‘Economy’ ‘discharge |P. Slade of St. Paul, Minn 1900. Both} Great Northern Railroad and an heir the late J. J. Hill estate (the em-| he first started| ar Vet IsCut Glad To Help Paper That Organizes Struggle Against N.R.A. Slavery cient food. And this manager has been carrying on about the same ethod for about three years. is, I hear, a partner of Norman » Of the But I did not draw my pension | pire builder, so-called). And so, dear friend, please send the Daily Worker for the ne::t year, for which I enclose $6. I + | around each copy and try jin any vo help other way that I can, con- sidering my handicap of blindness. | But I can talk and write, that is, I ope it is readable. C.W.A. Chain Gang Kept Digging Holes | And Filling Them | (By an Auto Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—Many thou- sands of workers, Negro and white, have been cut off the relief lists in Detrcit. A few thousands are work- ing out at the Detroit Zoological Park in Royal Oak, a distance of 12 miles from Detroit, on two differe | shifts of four days each. The car- fare costs 26 cents a day, or $1.04 a week. We must buy our own coal, milk, groceries and rent, lights and gas, etc., from this measly $15 a week. The cost of milk is up 20 per cent since last year, bread costs from 40 to 50 per cent more than a yeer ago, and other groceries have risen in proportion. The $15 we workers receive is cheaper by about 40 per| cent. Workers, doesn’t this show the face of the dirty deal we are getting? Ford says that money is only a tool by which to do things. Well, the crkers in his plant are also tools for exploitation and profits. Many jof his laid-off men are working on ; the Michigan chain gang now. Men of all walks of life, youth and aged, Negro and white, are forced into a form of labor at the Detroit Zoologi- cal Park that looks like a prison or insane asylum. Nobody knows what it is the gov- ernment is trying to do on this C. y. A. job. We have dug out aboyt a |of sand to remove the black dirt. In | The black dirt is being piled up like a fortress. We dug out a ditch; then removed the black; then we filled the ditch full again, and again we take out the sand. NOTE: We publish letters from steel, and auto workers every Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their working conditions and of their efforts to organize. Please get the letters to us by Fri- getting the proper quality or suffi-i day of each week. lines As_ these written, the latest news from the front-line trenches in the Bronx is that there is a strike against a large bakery on the corner of 182nd St. and Prospect Ave. The are being bakery has already secured an in- junction and tried to prevent the Picketing that is taking place. ‘Women of the Bronx, there is your ance to do your stuf! More plick- $ are needed, so get in touch with e headquarters at 813 E. 180th St. 1 Women’s Councils close to this erritory are urged to send commit- cees daily. The Rise of Pumpernickel So what could be more timely than vecipes for bread? We may need to do tome baking ov ves before j these strikes on. Our search through the highways and byways for the requested recipe for pumper- nickel unearthed a couple of recipes nnd some interesting historical data on this famous Schwarzbrot. A very old German book printed on thin brown oatmeal paper gives the following information, freely translated and condensed: Pumpernickel is the name applied to Westphalian coarse black bread though it was known by that name pe elsewhere—in Westphalia it was called simply coarse bread (grobes Brot). The name may have come from a story of a Frenchman who | eonsidered this bread good enough only for his servant-boy, Nichole, or for his named horse, named ‘Nicholas. The Original Method ‘The rye-meal used was twice- i and unsifted, mixed with hot at first by hand, then with (Breathe easy, comrades, recipes omit this piquant The dough was not com- cleared out of the mixing- what clung to it soured (fer- and likewise affected the j dough; this leavened it. It was d into huge long square loaves as 60 pounds and placed close in the oven, where it stayed ight or longer, to bake thor- ’ the Westphalian cut it, the crust was so hard he had to the knife with all his weight. had an agreeable sourness, @ good healthy, nourishing Strong workers. Weak stom- eeded a lot of butter with it. this bread was made also a it made one sweat and gave CONDUCTRR Ba HELEN LUKE Grimma, (wherever that was), they drank a strong beer of the same name. (More tomorrow. suspense is terrible.) TUESDAY, JANUARY 4nd, 1934 Can You Make ’em Yourself? Pattern 1745 is available in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Size 4 takes 24% yards 3 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded. We know the times one used along with the buckwheat or barley meal. ts also suspect that the es from “pumpen,” to this case, to belch)—so it was “The Bread That Burp.” In Nereha necr Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Devartment, 243 West 17th Street, Newry York City. Now | + ETE WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2Z, 1934 ‘Worker in Ford Plant Can’t Stop To Blow His Nose! (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Il—I work in a factory posed to pay high wages vays brag about it ave young fellows who are 901 students and who are supposed to get an education, roduction jobs. In one | in the motor building where they work on carburetors, all | trade school boys are working. The jJowest paid production worker in the [gem Dr Blow S\) YOUR NOSE EAN OW FoRDS iM Ford plant receives $4 a day, | these fellows who do the same job while receive only between $2 day at the most. This is one of the ways Ford robs is to make his millions. They work us so fast on this job that you can’t even stop for a mo- ment. The other day one of the fel- lows stopped for a moment to blow his nose, and the boss began bauling him out for blowing his nose. Ford has been getting away with this stuff long enugh. Young fellows are not going to take it on the “chin” quietly anymore. We're building up department organization of the Auto Workers Union, to fight for: 1. Equal pay for equal work, and a minimum wage for trade school boys of $3 a day while not working on produc- tion, Gold Leaf Worker Gets $10 a Week By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I work in the gold leaf trade. Conditions are bad. We're paid little—about $10 a week. Now, with the rising cost of living, and with a family to support, you ean see how hard it is for us to get along. We are not organized. Every boss Pays a different price, so that the worker who takes the smallest wage gets the job. I would like to hear from other workers in this trade through this paper. I would like to hear how their conditions are, and how we can j organize and do something to im- prove working conditions in the | trade. Tries To Tell Negro Workers How To Live Safely in Rat Holes By a Worker Correspondent CINCINNATI, Ohio.—I was called to hear a speech by a Mr. Hoover (not ex-Pres. Hoover), who came to the Steel Subdivision to tell the Negroes what a good man he was , to the Steel Subdivision. He told us all about how he helped the Belgians during the war, but that did not help the Steel Subdivision to any notice- able degree. He told us how he helped draw the Germans out of the woods, and then he went on to say that we need the same willingness in the GoD GAVE ME PERMISSION Pe SPEAK a Steel Subdivision, and we will get a 600-foot hose so that when fire breaks out the volunteers will drag the 600-foot all over the Steel Sub- division and put the fire out. I got up to speak, but one of the many preachers said that I was not a home owner and did not want me to speak. I asked him who gave him permission to speak, as he was not a small home owner, and he said God gave him permission. One of our comrades got up and pointed out to this demagogue, and said, “If you are so willing to stop these rat holes from burning down, why didn’t you see to it before a whole family burned to death?” Another comrade said, “If you want to do so much for the people of the Steel Subdivision, then why in hell don’t you give them jobs with union wages. Then we could have fireproof homes instead of fire-traps and rat holes. GEORGE GANS. (Signature authorized.) Servel Shop Helps To Collect Workers’ Taxes (By a Metal Worker Correspondent) EVANSVILLE, Ind.—Servel shop is now aiding in tax coljgcting. All workers are forced to show a tax re- ceipt on going back to work. When they shut down for inventory, all workers were given a release. Then they sent out new application forms with instructions to fill out complete (religion, etc.), On returning for work, you must show tax receipt for 1932. One worker was not old enough to pay poll tax, so he had to pay on a watch and finger ring. He paid 80 cents on the watch and ring. The officials say in the local press that 1933 was the greatest year in Servel history (for whom?) You must live within the county to get your job back. (If you are not a boss’ pet.) They predict 1984 to be still “better.” and $3.20 a} | Work | Is All a Human ‘The New Ford 1934 Model, And What It Cost Wathen In Machine Shop Only Three Months a Year Because That} 'From $34 To $28 Body Can Stand (By an Auto Worker Correspondent) ; < Henry I ot| on dolla something about of industry. I worked there, I live in | Dearborn, I ran for mayor of Dear-| }born against Hi 's cousin Clyde | Ford. | With all the mistakes made in the | election, the workers polled over 4,000 votes st Ford’s 7,800, and the | result of this victory has caused the big boy a lot of worry and he has’ | organized the Knights of Dearborn to drive out Communism from Dear- |born, But the workers of Dearborn | have seen the light of in the re- its of the election and they will have plenty to say concerning the} handed out in Dearborn. The wheels new are grinding out the and at what a price to | worker! Let's look inside the shop | in Dearborn and not at the two mil- | {lion dollar show now going on in New York. We used to get 6-7-8 dol- | lars per day, now we get $4 and the | speed-up is so great that three months is about all a man can stand. | What is the result? The papers claim Ford is trying to model, jhours. Today 3 men put out 10,000 | new parts for cars and machines, but | just the working conditions where- | y each man will get three months ; work per year. Sounds good from aj icity standpoint, but the fact is} he has increased the speed-up so} much that three months is all you |can stand and it takes nine months to build up that broken-down body, ! which never again is the same on the starvation welfare rations of food hand out in Dearborn. A man and wife get the whole} amount of $2.40 in groceries per week | and the man must work eight hours | for this. In Department 641, Motor Building one year ago, 12 men put out 13,000 connecting rods in eight rods in eight hours. For the new model crankshaft, new machines have been instaiied that do 17 operations, and 45 pieces per hour, The old machine did 56 opera- tions and only 12 pieces per hour. Hammermen in 1929 and ’30 did 50 pieces per hour. Now they hammer ; Out 125 per hour. Old Henry makes can you buy a new part for your) body? Better think this over, and get organized, —DAVID JONES, National Vice-President, Auto Workers Union. ‘Negro Question Closely Bound To Struggles of All Workers Comrade Editor: Due to Theodore Dreiser's support of the N.R.A., our Youth Branch of the International Workers Order changed its name. Haywood Patter- son, one of the Scottsboro boys, was put forward by a member as a fit- ting name for the branch. This mem- ber stated that Haywood Patterson would be symbolic of the struggle to free the Scottsboro boys. A leading comrade objected to Haywood Patterson as a name for the branch, In stating his reason, he remarked: “Let's not kid ourselves we do not want to elevate the Negro race. They want to be treated like other com- vades. We are not exhibitionists. Let's not be white chauvinists. What has Haywood Patterson done for the working class movement? He is not a~conscious revolutionary and prob- ably doesn’t know wh~. it’s all about. Because he is ar’-sted on a false charge that is uot sufficient. How are We going to know his actions after he is freed? We might have to change our name again. There are others who are well-known rev- olutionaries. They are more suit- able.” The suggestor of Haywood Patter- son objected and stated that the comrade was not clear on the Negro question. He said: A Correst Answer “We need not call ourselves the Haywood Patterson Youth Branch, I suggested this name, but other sug gestions are welcome. But to speak of the proposal of Haywood Patterson as elevating the Negro is to fall into the camp of White Chauvinism.” He |argued that we must make it a special duty to fight for the Negroes’ poli- tical and social rights in the North and self-determination as a majority in the South. To prove to the Negro workers that white workers will be foremost in all struggles against dis- crimination, lynching and for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. One cannot separate Haywood Patterson from the Scottsboro case nor from any leader who gave his life for the class struggle. The discussion became quite heated, others taking the floor, One com- rade supported the objection to the name by saying: This Statement Shows Confusion “The Scottsboro boys are hoboes who happened to be arrested. Why are we so concerned with the Negro question? It is not the main purpose of our organization.” The organizer moved we adopt Haywood Patterson. He pointed out that the case was not an accident. “These boys are workers. They are victims of a vicious system. Their names are symbolic for the entire Negro race for struggle and freedom from white boss suppression.” At this point the issue was brought to a head. A comrade stated: “I agree with the statement of the two comrades, in favor of the name Haywood Patterson, as regards the Negro question. However, as a name for the Youth Club, it is an empty gesture, if it does not involve struggle for Negro rights, the organization of Negro members into our branch. What have we done for the Scotts- boro case? Are we attracting Negro members. No, we are not. On the basis of activities we do not deserve this name. It would be a farce to call ourselves the Haywood Patterson Youth Branch without activity to back up this name.” The member who first suggested Haywood Patterson, on the basis of the discussion agreed with the last speaker that it would be an empty gesture to select this name. As a result, we voted to call ourselves the Lovis Engdahl Youth Club. ‘The question remains who was cor- rect. Those who favored Patterson or those who objected on the grounds that he is not a conscious revolu- tionist. We are not going to drop discussion. We must be clear on the Negro question. It must lead to activity. In two weeks we are hold- ing a debate, and the subject is, Re- solved, that Haywood Patterson is a fitting name for a working class or- ganization. Comradely yours, MOE MELTZER. Opposition Was Chauyinistic ANSWER:—The members of the branch who opposed the selection of the name of Haywood Patterson were wrong. Their arguments clearly show the influence of the insidious anti- working class poison of white chau- -vinism within the branch. Most of these arguments were correctly an- swered by the proposer of the name, and by the organizer cf the branch, although the former himself showed some wavering in the fight for his proposal. The essence of the statement, “we do not want to elevate the Negro race,” is to cover up white chauvinism, to ignore the natural distrust of Ne- groes for all members of the oppres- sing nation and to deny the need of @ special approach to overcome this distrust. Such an attitude denies the necessity of the sharpest struggle by white workers for the special demands of the Negroes, for abolition of dis- crimination on the job (lower wages for equal work where employed, bar- ring of Negroes from certain trades), discrimination against Negroes by re- lief bureaus, etc. It plays into the hands of the exploiters of white and Negro workers. Peddles Boss Slander of Negroes Speculation as to Patterson's ac- tivities after he is released is a thin mask for white chauvinism, which is clearly exposed by the statement ac- companying the speculation that he “probably doesn’t know what it’s all about.” This is the usual imperialist slander of the Negro masses as “dumb” and “ignorant.” Every Ne- gro knows what it’s all about—knows this his people are the victims of a special and brutal oppression. Who Are Respnsible for Young “Hoboes”? The Scottsboro boys are not ‘“‘ho- boes who happened to be arrested,” but young workers who happened to be hoboing on a freight train in search of work when arrested in a ghastly’ frame-up. To brand these boys as hoboes is to reneat the slan- ders of the bourbon lynchers that Negroes are “lazy and no-account.” Hundreds of thousands of young white and Negro workers, made homeless by the crisis, are today ho- boing throughout the country. To speak of them as bums and hoboes would be to cover up the responsibility of the capitalist system for their plight. Negro Question Concerns All Workers The question “why are we so con- cerned with the Negro Question” arises out of the crassest confusion on the relation of the Negro Ques- tion to the every-day struggles of the working class and to the pro- letarian revolution. It is not an ac- cident that it is precisely in the South where the bourgeois ideology of white chauvinism is strongest and where, as @ result, the white workers have not greatly concerned themselves with the struggles of the Negro masses, that the conditions of the entire toil- ing population are worse than in any other section of the country. Race hatred and prejudice are in- struments in the hands of the ruling class to split the working class and thereby defeat its struggles for better conditions and for the revolutionary way out of the crisis. “Divide and rule” is the policy of the imperialists. Unity in struggle must be the answer of the tciling masses. The Negro Question is, therefore, a main con- sideration for any working class or- ganization that is sincerely fighting for the interests of the working class and is not merely a mutual admira- tion society. Branch Was Willing to Take a Chance With Dreiser Branches of working class organ- izations should be named not only after well-known revolutionary lead- ers, but after any worker framed up and victimized by the capitalist sys- tem and its courts, thereby expressing support for the framed worker and contempt and hatred of the capital- ist class responsible for such despic- able crimes. In the case of the Scottsboro boys, such action can serve moreover to express the soli- darity of the white workers with the oppressed Negro masses. It is signi- ficant that the branch was willing to take a chance with Theodore Dreiser, because Dreiser is a great author, but is unwilling to take a far smaller chance with Haywood Patterson, a framed Negro worker! Is Branch he re hat Engdahl's «me While it is correct that adoption of the name of Haywood Patterson with- out at the same time involving the branch in the struggle for Negro rights would be only an empty ges- ture, it is also true that adoption of the name could have been utilized to clarify its greatly confused members on the Negro Question, thereby rally- ing them to militant support of the Scottsboro fight and the struggles of the Negro masses. It is to be hoped that with the adoption of the name of the late J. Louis Engdahl, who was a tireless fighter for the freedom of the Scotts- boro boys and the national liberation of the Negro People, the members of the branch will see the necessity of making a sharp turn. Certainly, the faces the necessity of tuthless struggle to root out all uvinist tendencies and to clarify ts members on the Negro Question, N.R.A. Cuts Top Pay By a Worker Correspondent } OMAHA, Neb.—Conditions were bad before the N. R. A., but now they are worse. All trades suffer. We machinists made $25 to $34 a week wages a year ago. But under} N. R. A. codes top wages became | $28 per week. The company employs more men, our wages run as low as $6 to $15 weekly. There is very little work. Last week I got $9.60. My gas bill run $4, so there was $5.60 left for a 9. Pata DITIONS (apRove! Lis family of 9 to live on. Insurance, doctor bills, payment on house, shoes for children, coal, taxes, clothing. It’s a problem to live now in these United Siates. Capitalist papers tell us conditions are getting better. Yes, for whom? Profiteers! How long will this system last? It’s up to us. We have to work a little bit harder, sell more. Daily Workers, and educate the masses on Communist lines, and then we will be able to make the change. Letters from Our Readers FENNER BROCKWAY, BRITISH MISLEADER, SPEAKS IN STAMFORD Stamford, Conn. Editor of Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: The recent article in the Daily Worker by Comrade Rust of the Brit- | ish Communist Party certainly had the right dope. Thursday, Dec. 14, Fenner Brock- way spoke in Stamford on the ques- tion “Must There Be Wars?” The) Jecture was given under the aus- pices of the Stamford University Club. Brockway spent most of his time on the international armament trust, going into great detail about their schemings and plottings for wars. Only at the end of his speech did he mention—briefly—that the arma- ment trusts alone were not respon- sible for war, but that capitalism’ was the basic cause of wars. At this | point he said, also very briefly, that only by beginning to build socialism could war be abolished. His hypocrisy was shown in his at- titude towards the Soviet Union. | That was in the beginning of his speech where, in answer to the ques- tion “Must there be war?” he de- scribed the war preparations going on throughout the world. He stated that in Sheffield the munition work- ers had gone on strike because there was too much overtime. He spoke of the Skoda works going full blast. He showed how busy other armament plants were and then made the fol- lowing statement which you would expect any “Socialist” leader to make: “Although it is difficult to get accurate information, no doubt the nationalized munition factories of Russia are going full blast, too.” It is significant that his only ref- erence to the Soviet Union made it appear that the Soviet Union was no different from the imperialist na- tions in preparing for war. The fact that he himself said that Social- ism would abolish wars did not lead him to say that the Soviet Union was a force for peace. He made no mention whatever of its peace pol- icy. He made very little mention of the role of the workers in stopping war. He did say that the recent British Trade Union Congress had resolved that it would “vote for peace if the king voted for war,’ and that this resolution was an indication of the sentiment of the working class. He reminded his audience that the British trade union leaders were not radical and proved it by saying that they considered Roosevelt the savior of the working class with his N-R.A. ‘When one of our comrades asked him from the floor, after his speech, if the T. U. leaders were so ignorant that they did not know the Roose- velt administration was making in- tense plans for war and had already spent $1,000,000,000 for war, Brock- way answered that this feature of the N. R. A. had not shown itself at the time of the British T. U. Con- gress. As our comrade had also mentioned the U. S. Congress Against War, Brockway added that he had more faith in such organizations than in the T. U. leaders of Britain, How- ever, he made no mention of the program of the American League for Struggle Against War and Fas- cism, Comradely yours, MARCHING TOO FAST FOR TIRED WORKERS New York Dear Comrade Editor: Please print my letter of criti- cism in the Daily Worker in the hope that it will be considered by those comrades that were lead- ing the march from Battery Place to Union Square. They were rushing so much, that it were impossible to keep up with them. Many comrades with weak feet dropped out of the march. In my opinion it was a run instead of a march. I would like to advise these com- rades who lead these marches in the future to think of those under- nourished (starved) workers who are too weak to run instead of march, and the results Bamey. will be much higher. ae \N. BEATRICE M., Philadelphia, Pa. We can't publish your letter for certain reasons, and if you Saas address we will explain. PARTY LIFE Level of the Results of Interesting Meetings Shown.in Work Good Discussions Also Rais * Entire Unit Many letters have been sent to ,rades on committees, with reports to” this column during the past few weeks, explaining that fluctation in membership in our Party is due to the “uninteresting”, “monotonous” unit meetings; to “burocratic unit buros,” or te “non-functioning unit buros.” While fluctuation in mem- bership cannot be explained as easily as that, it is undoubtedly true that the bad inner life of the units is a contributing cause. How- ever. we wish to say to all the com- rades who have written us such let- ters, that it is not enough to diag- nose the sickness, We want to ask all of these com- rades: What are you doing in your unit to change the situation, to make the meetings more interesting. | You are Party members. You have a voice in your unit. If you have write to the Daily Worker to tell us what is wrong in your unit, you can also tell your unit about it. Try it at the next meeting. Make propo- sals, and then write to us about the results. Let us hear from the com- rades in the units who have solved this problem. A Detroit unit has tackled this problem, with good results, as the following letter indicates: sals?prob-. ° “The letter, in the “Party Life” column of December 1, was very in- teresting. I want to tell, in this let- ter, how we improved and made more interesting our unit meeting, “Four months ago our unit meeting consisted of a strictly business agenda. Collecting dues, appointing commit- tees, hearing reports, making and passing on resolutions, etc. Our work was not very effective. Our com- mittees didn’t function properly and our good resolutions were not carried out in many cases. There was a gen- eral lack of interest in the unit meet- ing and work, Many of the com- Toward the $40,000 Fund Below are listed additional con- tributions to the $40,000 Daily Worker drive. 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I am net trying to say that this was the worst unit in the’’section, I am inclined rather to. think ‘that it was about average. While we are not yet 100 per cent perfect we have improved in attendance and general work. Here’s how. We divided the unit meeting in two parts. Business and eduea~ tional. % “We have the group system func- tioning and the group captains are buro members. Finances are taker care of inthe buro meeting, Oth” business is taken up inthe unit mee ing and disposed of in one hour or an hour and fifteen minutes. Then the meeting is turned over to the agit-prop diréctor and we take about an hour of discussion-on the Open Letter or selected articles from the “Party Organizer” and recently the 17th Plenum resolution, We have discussed among other things the Party's position on the national mi- | norities question, on war, the differ- ence between the Party's and the | pacifist position on wat, fascism and the role of sdcial-fi the right danger and what constitutes it. efiase dn‘i‘tileeoté “It is indeed surprising how little some of the comrades understand these vital questions, but the results of our study.have been very good. We have far better attendance and better results in, our work generally. For example, We raised more money than any other unit in the section in the Daily Worker drive and I understand we are second in the ric tees have promoted parties a rooming house and have succeeded in forming # committee “in this house to go to the Welfare Department and demand jobs or relief for the single unemployéd’ men. We also held a neighborhood meeting in a Negro Baptist church and discussed organ- ization relief and the Scottsboro case and sent protests to the governor of Alabama’ and to Roosevelt. We are planning to follow up these begin- nings and build organization, We are concentrating with the Daily Worker in this neighborhood. “I believe’ we will improve our work as we raise the political and ideo- logical leyel of the rank and file members. After all, how can we con- vince non-Party workers if we our~ selves do not understand? “D. L. & » “Unit 15, Section © i “Detroit, Mich. Tenth Anniversary issue of t Daily Worker, Jan. 6. A%, pagt Articles by leaders of Gominemi Party, U. |S. A.; greetings fro leaders of the world Communi movement; special features b staff members, Rush your orders. JOIN THE Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y¥. C. * Please send me more informa- tion on ‘the Communist Party. Name | i, iusisispesnoiasnies des eseeennen Street City By PAUL LUTTE ANSWERS TO QUI Hebrew Medicine “ Ben Zion—Yes, we did write an article on whooping cough in Harofch ‘Hoivri,” several years ago. What of it? This does not make us a Zionist. We also write French, German and Yiddish and we know how to count up to five in Japanese but the last accomplishment does not mean that we are in is Gora with the inva- sion’ of Manchi As to “playing “up? Medicine, we are sorry that it can’t be done. The Hebrews had a fund of medical lore which they shared with their neigh- bors, the Egyptians, Syrians and Babylonians; but most of it is anti- quated stuff which should be of little use to modern working men. It has its historical and efhnographic value, of course. ‘The illustrations you give were not happily selected. Circumcision was never, and is not now, the prerogative of Jews only, Arabs, Turks, Abys- sinians and many Negro races prac- tice it. The biblical method of spot- ting an adulterous wife is magic, based on shrewd knowledge of human na- ture. A guilty woman, when given the drink containing the ashes of the red cow, accompanied by the awful ceremonial of the priesthood, would easily become confused and show her guilt by hesitating to drink or drop- ping dead by suggestion. The inno- cent party, on the contrary, would fearlessly quaff the mixture which in itself was not poisonous. The procedure of ascertaining femele virginity, in the Talmud, is a silly one. It is based on two wrong assumptions. The first, that the vir- gin communicates with the mouth; the second, that the hymen is an ab- solutely imperforated (without an opening) membrane, in the virgin. pve suspected damsel was made to sit over the tiny opening in the Basan! oe wibresy epee Oona ae t / &@ sour smell in her Soin wee ae sm vi | ho, because there is no communica+ tion between the mouth and the female sex organs. And if there were, a virgin would smell as “sour” mother of sixteen children, the great majority of virginal mens are perforated; otherwise. menstrual flow could not escape. Such stuff might be interesting i student of folklore, as you see; hardly appropriate for a bere column ithe greatest poke paper in the country. . J. P., Milwaukee, Wis—The remedy for stiff legs depends on what th stiffness is due to. provement. - Tonic for a weeionds Mrs. Dorothy J., —Sorry we cannot prescribe a for your heart without you. If you*have a “leak” of | heart, it might be a serious condi- tion which requires more than cod liver oil. Have your doctor preseribe for you. , If you have no confidence in him, you had betie> come to York. n of your age 5 who eighty-nine should any time consulting a @ riggs physic ERT eka M. G., Brookiyn—At your it would be-best to follow of your physician and be on, Drugs-do not Hee in dition. There is also d: ged age, that @-cancer may develop in the eiflirged (35° e prostate; sooner you.have it removed, t You neét not be afrair it is a relativel _ usualy done to 8 ‘one ter. tb