The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1934, Page 4

Page Four Jail Will Not Stop Us, Say Class War Prisoners Letter From Indiana State Farm Tells of Determination To Continue’ Struggle By a Worker Correspondent , Farm everything was going to die out CHICAGO, T—I have just re-|in our home town, Clinton, Ind. This ceived the following letter from some|is really building up our organiza- of our comrades that have been rail- tion more than ever. We are ready to Toaded to the Indiana State farm: | go to any jail or penitentiary for our Indiana State Farm, class at any time just so we can bet- Greenwich, Ind. | ter our conditions or advance towards We got your letter and was sure|the overthrow of this rotten capitalist glad to hear from you. I would have | system. Written sooner but due to the discip- | Tom Mooney has spent 17 years line I am only ellowed to write one} behind bars, so a hundred days is Tetter every two weeks and I've had/only a drop in the bucket for us, We other comrades’ letters to answer be-/do not approve of being here, but fore yours. |since we have been proven innocent We sure appreciated the dollar you|and with the sympathy of the work- Semt us, Thanks, and thanks to the|ers to back us up and fighting for us comrades outside. They have surely | outside, we really feel proud to be here treated us swell. They kept us in| for the purpose that we are in. tobacco and we have been having| It was no joy to be framed to fail visits every two weeks. |when we were needed most. Never- You have heard by now how we) theless we had to laugh during the were railroaded in the Indiana State/|trial when, our LL.D. attorney made farm. When I get out of here, which |a fool out of the chief of police, police will be Jan. 11th, I will be able to tell/ and the rest of the hypocrites. Never- You more about it. We are all feeling | theless it was agreed among the jury, Tine, in the best of health and spirit.| judge, and so on, ahead of time to We are getting great experience here | railroad us and sure enough we got curing the 100 and some days. Wejrailroaded, even though our attorney @fe not here for that purpose, but|saved us months of time and prob- since we are here to serve time we) ably a stiff line. Wight as well make the best of it. We want to tell you that this little We can sure thank the I.L.D. for/| arrest is not stopping us even in here what it has done for us. The pro-|and if they don’t feed us when we get Sector during the trial wanted to/out you will see more stirring up give us the limit. That would have|than ever with us in the front line Meant a year or so. But our good/and they will have to use more than © ELD. attorney put up a real fight for|three tear gas bombs to disperse us. Us, He told the jury that we didn’t} We know that people are not willing Want mercy or begging; what we/|to starve themselves and their families “Wanted was justice. |and we know that they will fight, for You can see what justice we work-|we have experienced that. They will @f8 got in the American courts. They| have to better our conditions or feed ‘think that by putting us in the State | us in jail. Negro Vet Driven fo Militant But Individual Action the grocer and his wife as to what should be done with X. The grocer cursed X with filthy insults, Then the wife became more practical than her spouse. She threatened to call the police. X told her to go ahead and get all the law that she could, but he vould stand his ground. Suddenly a scout car full of five burly police pulled up in front of the (By. & Worke: Correspondent) store. “Is this the hold-up nigger NEW ORLE/ La,—This inci-| that’s taken the bread?” X reminded dent occurred on the day of the re-| him that no hold-up had been com- ‘opening of the trial of the Scotts-| mitted. The coolness of X flustered boro boys, Noy. 27. | the five police, one of whom wanted The hero in this i rthern-! | to pacify the wife of the grocer by Weeto who bas been in New Orleors| hauling off X to the precinct. But over three years. On account of dis-| before this could be put into action, abilities incurred in the World War| Snother policeman in the group dif- he had to spend three years in the| {ered from the first and said that it Marine Hospital here, having been| Would be useless to take the Negro discharged early in 1933. Since he| #W8Y- left the hospital, he has not been able! Once more X spoke up, He told the to find work. Neither has he been) police, one and all, that he did not able to pay rent since April, 1933. | care what they would do with him, In March, 1933, Roosevelt's new | ut he was mighty sure of one thing, deal for the vets cut this Negro off | namely, nobody was going to get that the list of those receiving compensa- | bread away from him, as long as he tion from the government. was alive. The police became more Last Saturday night X (as we will| Puzzled at these words. They barely him) was searching for some! ‘00k a moment to frisk X, and when odd job as he has been doing for the| they saw that he was entirely un- many months. But he could not | @tmed, they scarcely knew what to ~wWork.. His plan was to ask for/40. Again the second speaker among Work so. thai. h® might earn a little| the cops said that it was useless to food from storekeepers. But he sel-| arrest X. But the blue coat and the “dom found the work, and almost as/four plainclothes dicks warned X seldom found a meal. |never to come back to that store, Ome Monday morning X did not| Whether or not he had money to pay have a morse! of food. As Monday | for food. ‘Morning advanced, he was tortured| So X was allowed to go his way *‘with pains from the acute hunger,| With the two loaves of bread which Gravel Haulers DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934 Win Demand Thru Farmers’ League By a Farmer Correspondent OWEN, Wis.—Gravel haulers on a C. W. A. project in Beaver township, Clark County, who were hauling one | and a half yards to a trip and had to make three trips a day, which re- quired about nine hours, for which they only got paid for six hours work, were told by the boss if they didn’t want to make three trips they had to make their boxes big enough so as to haul 4 1-2 yards in two trips, which still would require six hours to make the trip. Two and a quarter yards is too much of a load, for team and wagon, and those who had made their boxes bigger were soon kicking, along with those who were still hauling 1 1-2 yards, but had to make three trips. The United League stepped into the picture and called the farmers in meeting, where the following demands were formulated: 1. That they would only haul 1 1-2 yards to a load. 2. That they would only make two trips a day, which would be within the six hour day. 3. That in the event it took longer than six hours to make a trip on longer hauls, they would not work longer than 30 hours a week. 4. That every hauler would go back By a Cuban Plantation Worker LA MAYA, ORIENTE, CUBA— Enclosed I am sending you another dollar to support the Daily. I am ‘sorry I cannot send you more as my economic conditions do not allow me to do so. This is the coffee picking season, so there is some work avail- able. Wages are 5 and 7 cents per lata of picked coffee. Some pick up 7 or 8 latas daily, receiving 50 or 60 cent wages. This, however, is only for two months in the year, so you can imagine how one can manage with this little to live on, and what the future can be. The U. S. A. anti-imperialist del~ egation really saw very little of what goes on, True that they were per- mitted to reach Oriente. In Oriente, Haitian workers are being picked up in the streets, from the hospitals, whether they have families or not, or whether they have any property, for they are not allowed to liquidate in case they own houses, and like crim- inals, they are taken away—deported. Even many workers help in the hunt, because for every Haitian the Cuartel de la Guardia (Police Depart- ment) pays 20 cents, The first group of deportees was left without food for four days until the captain of the ship, the “Julian Alonso,” brought them bread and canned stuff, as an act of humanity. The workers are divided with the 50 per cent to 80 per cent law (Ne- groes, whites, etc.), but the struggie is growing every day. The people do not follow any more the first politi- cian, and they are realizing that they were miserably misled, and that all these politicians say are demagogic phrases that they cannot and are not willing to fulfill. To obtain victory in. our struggle we call for the support o fthe world proletariat and especially of the United States, for our struggie is a common one, against a common en- emy. We are approaching a society where the motto is “Whenever does not work shall not eat and shall not govern.” The bourgeois press here publishes ho news of importance, and because of our lack of workers press we lack a very important weapon. We await the “Daily” every day with great in- terest, even though it is hard for us to translate. With greetings of solid- arity. to work after Christmas with the 1 1-2 yard box on his wagon. A committee was elected to visit each hauler and get his signature on the demands. The next day the committee got the signatures, and then went to Mr. Lee Clouse, chairman of Beaver Township to present the demands. When he saw the demands he hit on the table with his fist till it jumped off the floor, and said he wouldn’t listen to them. But the committee was not to be bluffed and the boss had to listen and he had to accept them. The result was the farmers went to work the morning after Christmas with the 1 1-2 yard box and made only two trips a day, thereby winning their demands. This is another ex- ample of what a real dirt farmers’ organization and mass action can accomplish. Three Fatted 1,500 Ib. Cattle Bring Only $2) By a Farmer Correspondent ASHBY, Minn.—Herewith find en- closed one dollar to apply on my sub- scription. I sent $5 in September and | Socialist Stifles Struggle Against C.W.A. Conditions (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) GIBSON COUNTY, Ind. — The C. W. A. works have been under way here for some time, with the prom'‘s2 that the workers would be given jo and taken off relief, but so far this has failed to take place. -Only a few have been given work on the U. S. highwey No. 41, the Dixie Bee- Line. The bosses drive the workers and fire them on the least pretense. One worker was fired for talking. You have to pay for the transpor- tation furnished. When some of the workers were fired off this job, some of the militant workers took it up and called a meeting. ‘They went before the Central Labor body to ask their cooperation. Some of the central labor delegates were from the rank and fife of the miners and they forced the central labor body to take action. So they appointed a coal miner delegate as chairman, to select his own commit- tee. I want to state right here that this man is a militant and O. K. They knew this but I might endeavor to show how they tried to pass the buck. The president of the Central Labor body is a Socialist and he rides around the square on Labor Day at the head of the misled and misin- formed coal miners. The rest of the year he helps to keep them in sub- jection to the bosses. His name is | Fritz, So when this mine delegate went to these other members of the cen- tral body, who had been poisoned by this Socialist renegade, they refused to act. this will make $6 for one year. Farmers are gravely looking at des- truction and despair. Eggs are 12c, cream, 14c; a carload of cattle brought $99; three fatted 1,500 lbs. cattle "To quote from X’s own words, he was and nauseated because his was in such a spasm from eating. matter where he went and oa ae work, he was turned down with words: “We are lucky to be “Wetting along at all. We are just as bad off as you are.” X went into the next grocery store ‘Gnd sure enough, when he politely Piked for a little work, the grocer “turned him down curtly, saying that 3 himself and his wife were doing work was necessary in the ~ %& did not fuss with the two ‘tore people. He stepped to the coun- ies ‘and took two loaves of bread for rT ‘Threatened with Shotgun grocer and the wife showed their hatred toward the Negro ce. The husband asked his wife to the shotgun while he (the grocer) hold of the Negro, who, by the Was not even thinking of run- out of thé store, Firm in his de- a X kept the bread lately an.act of self-preservation, back and forth between SASS Saw Ba Bel TN d beautifying the home we ve not touched so far; there so few of us who can get to eat and then find any for paint, cretonne slip-cov- oilcloth, growing plants, and But we greet with a shout Jey a useful decoration brought . the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s u No worker should miss it ‘Re can possibly find two bits to! st in this real honest-to-goodness calendar. many months I for one have g why we have had no é » with the fish-Fridays fom Kippers, etcetera left out, i Significant in the history class-struggle emphasized. And ‘the WESLS have gone and done ‘Within the next few minutes both | | ture, alternately with 2-3 cup milk, he took to his unemployed sister. Lat- er that eventful day X found two friends who gave him food and sent {him home on the trolley. Editor's Note:—This Negro worker certainly was brave and militant, but after all he cannot keep on doing this time and again, and yet he accom- Plishes nothing beyond the imme- diate gaining of a few pieces of bread. If he gets together with other work- ers who are in the same condition, and who together exhibit the same bravery and mititancy in an organ- ized struggle for relief, much more good can be accomplished for all. AID FOR NEW PRESS A party arranged by Harry Warner, Negro worker, at the New Lots Workers’ Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., netted $13.15 for the Daily Worker. This amount was raised to help put the $40,000 drive over the top and enable the “Daily” to install its new press. This week is the last week of registration for the New York Workers’ School, 35 East 12th St. third floor, One of the recipes enclosed is for Fairmount Cake: Sift together three times, 2 cups flour, 1-8 teaspoon salt, and 2% teaspoons baking powder, Cream together % cup shortening and 1% cups sugar. Next add 2 eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each egg. Then add a teaspoon of vanilla and ¥ cup fresh grated or moist shredded cocoanut. Now stir in the flour mix- and bake in a lightly greased loaf pan in moderate oven for an hour. Another One for the Sweet Tooth No frosting recipe is given with this, though one could use a plain frosting if desired. We tried the recipe and found it fine without frosting. As the above formula re- quires three eggs, it might be well to give also this one. It is for a milk- less, butterless, eggless cake. In fact, comrades, it’s damn near a cakeless brought a little over $2; hens over 4 1-2 Ibs, 5c; hens under 41-2 Ibs., 4c; chickens 4c and 5c; geese and ducks so cheap they don’t sell them. Farmers are beginning to organize. The Daily Worker is eagerly accepted, | and if one could be among them, no doubt. some subscribers could be se- cured. I save all my Workers and send them to people and distribute! them all, 160 Apply But Only 60 Get CWA Jobs in Powers, Ore, By a Lumber Worker Correspondent POWERS, Ore—The C. W. A. al- loited $18,000 for a sewer project here at Powers. Though over 160 men signed up for work, only 60 men have been given jobs at 50¢ an hour, six hours a day, and five-day week. The unemployed section of the Na- tional Lumber Workers Union, which is growing fast here, sent @ coiamit- tee to Judge Tamron at Coquille, who is relief administrator for Coor County, demanding work for all un- a cash relief of $5 a week for the head of each family, with an addi- tional $2 for each dependent, and free water, light, rent, medical and dental care until a bill for social or unemployment insurance is passed by the State or National Government. We will also present these demands to the Government relief adminis- trator at Marshfield, Ore. Vaudeville Show Ushers Cut to $10 (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Previous to the code, ushers were receiving $14 and $15 a week. They worked about 52 hours, sometimes more. When the blanket code came into effect a few months ago, ushers received a standard level wage of $15 a week. Now that the new code came in (last week), the ushers on the rT 4th to $10 a week and the doormen and that it is supposed to help. Comrade Editor: ing. It is excellent work! the center of Government activity, and we get the working class point of view so that we can check up and show off the capitalist press. That article on Ickes’ “Sunshine sta- pete of December 8th gets the cake. better still. Why does Milton Howard write so seldom? Springer-Cocalis Circvit were cut ;40ne—sooner or later. I want to say right here that I used to be a Socialist under E. V. Debs, and I see plainly what the slimy Socialists are doing. The C.W.A. head here is a Repub- lican old guard and is taking care of his relatives and friends, that is, the big shots, while the worker can- not get a job to buy bread with. Letters from A DISH FIT FOR “EVANGELINE” New York, N. ¥. Just a few lines exposing the great- est racketeering organization in the world. able institution “The Salvation Army,” Inc. has shown itself to be not only Under the mask of a charit- graft, but a poisoner of the humans The folloyving article was printed in the “World Telegram” on Page 19 of the Wednesday edition, on Dec. 27, 1933: “Sacramento, Calif., Dec. 27—More than 20 homeless men, fed a Christ- mas dinner at the Salvation Army kitchen, were recovering today from employed of Coor County, Ore., or | eating “tainted pork,” I think that a dish of the above “pork” would make an excellent meal for our beloved “Evangeline Booth.” think that she might even have time to sing, “Nearer My God, To Thee.” PRAISES OUR WASHINGTON BUREAU New York City. I want to commend highly the work ~t the Washington Bureau is do- Right in Mike gold is good. Freeman is Here is what I would like to see 1. A weekly column on science cake, (That's the way things go under capitalism.) Boil together for three minutes a |cup of brown sugar, 1% cup water, 2 rounded tablespoons finely cut cit- |ron, 1 cup seeded raisins, 1-3 cup shortening, 1 tsp. nutmeg, 1 tsp. cin- namon, add 44 tsp. salt. Sift together 2 cups flour and 5 tsp. baking powder, and add to above mixture when it is cold. Bake in round loaf-pan in moderate oven about 40 minutes, Frost with plain white frosting. le in the forefront of the Struggies. Good-sized read- too, (If you are in- your quarter to W, E. e Nora L, of Spring- “to help the workers’ wives, ‘what it means to try to ling. I have recipes, to cook. But if others the cashiers were also cut to the|f"om workers’ point of view; science minimum wage requirements of the|in Soviet Union; radio news, dis- code, coveries and swindles of scientists by It seems that they are using the|*he capitalists. code as an excuse to cut wages. More news on Soviet Union; They are living up to the letter of |Progress of construction; breaking the law and nothing can be done. |Fecords, success and failures; more The ushers aren’t organized and | Correspondence, are helpless, and if they do make| 3- More international news and in- a complaint they run the risk of|tetmational workers’ correspondence. losing their job. They have nobody} 4 It seems to me that the workers to back them up. correspondence of the D. W. shouid be organized in every city. They Send your greetings to the -24- |should have reps in all mass clubs recipes, I'll be glad to Substitute another flavor for the nut- _ more.” meg if you dislike nutmeg. | the page Tenth Anniversary edition of |and organizavions. Daily Worker, ~M, F, ‘. ‘Police and NRA Fight Lakewood Food Workers (By a Food Worker Correspondent) LAKEWOCD, N. J.—The enclosed article will enable you to see how the police are operating with the bosses of the hotels and the N.R.A. The reason for this is that two weeks ago the Lakewood Hotel workers or- ganized a union and affiliated with the Food Workers’ Industrial Union. Wednesday night, the workers met at the newly-opened headquarters, and a general strike was favored by the membership. The following day at 2:30 p.m., each member of the executive board received a telegram to appear at the Newark N. R. A. of- fice. When the Executive Commit- tee arrived there, they found the Hotelmen’s Association represented there. After two and a half hours of talk and arguments the only conclusion that the N. R. A. representatives from Washington came to was that the workers should wait with all the struggles until after the Christmas rush (which means to work during the busiest times under the worst conditions, and then be kicked off the job, because then the bosses will not need us until another rush, which is the Easter holidays. The workers’ answer was a flat re- fusal to allow things to slip out of their hands, which meant that they will strike in spite of the N. R. A’s frantic protests. As you will notice on the bottom of the enclosed article, an innocent worker was framed up on the charge of disorderly conduct. Through the mass pressure of the workers, he got @ suspended sentence with the agree- ment that he gets out of town im- mediately, These are some of the difficulties we face here in Lake- wood. What we need is a rank and file movement of the railway shopmen, miners and ex-servicemen to demand their rights, Our Readers SUGGESTS THAT HATHAWAY'S ARTICLES BE PUT IN PAMPHLET FORM Bronx, N.Y, Comrade Hathaway: I think your article on why join the Communist Party is material not only timely, but which should long ago have been published. Some time ago a group of us who recently joined the Party, discussing the pamphlets used for mass distribu- tion, were of the opinion that the contents were “flat,” all repetitions of each other. Without wasting much words I suggest that these ar- ticles referred to above should be put into pamphlet form, to be sold at one cent a copy. A pamphlet of this type is ideal for canvassing. A decided improvement is the more simple terms, though there is yet room for improvement, Perhaps also certain passage@ pertaining to the Party's activity be emphasized. An- xious to see this pamphlet and its reception by the workers. I am yours comradely. MacDonald, INSURANCE IN THE SOVIET UNION AND HERE New York. Comrade Editor: Your Dec. 22nd issue of the “Daily” carries a write-up by Vern Smith describing the farce of compensation for workers in the United States compared with that of the U.S. S. R. From the standpoint of an insur- ance broker who is quite familiar with every phase of insurance, I may add that not only did the report not magnify the merits of the Soviet system and did not exaggerate the demerits of the U. S. system of com- pensation insurance, but really has underestimated the benefits of the one they are in favor of and did not reduce the criticism on the other to a minimum. For example, in pointing out part | of the red tape surrounding the! worker in the U. S. before he can receive any adjustments and compen- sation claim, you may rightfully state that very often after adjustment is completed, the worker learns that the insurance carrier is out of business by reason of bankruptcy. Uncertainty of that nature does not exist in the Soviet Union. —wW. Cuban Plantation Worker\Strugsle Wins Sends 2nd Dollar for ‘Daily’) Imnroved CWA Oriente Coffee Pickers Get About 50 Cents Per Day for Only Two Months in Year Conditions (By a Worker Correspendent) BEMIDJI, Minn.—Enclosed find a subscription for the “Daily.” This territory up here is one of those where, the workers and farm- ers are the most oppressed of any section of the State, the farmers be- ing hit the hardest. As a result of organization and militant struggles the situation is much improved. For instance, those working on C. W. A. projects are paid 55 certs an hour (which is higher than wages are on other projects in this State). This they get paid promptly in cash every week. As a result of this there is begin- ning among the workers a sort of a “good feeling.” This “good feeling” we are going to utilize for the benefit of the “Daily.” Last night received the following report from a unit of the Party. “Our Unit of the Party, No. 6, de- cided to get 18 months of subs. for the ‘Daily’ during the menth of Jan- uary. We challenge Unit No. 4 to do Wwkewise.” Insert this challenge in some corner of the paper. We orcered 50 copies of the Jan. 6th issue. \Soviet Collective Farm Workers Describe Progress By a Group of Soviet Farmers ARCHANGEL, Soviet Union, — the farm collective, “Organizator,” in the Northern Province, U. 8. 5. 8. came to know that a story about us papers (Western Worker). cesses, tional improvements in our life. formation about our collective “Or- ganizator.” In 1929 our collective was born. }Then only nine farm units were col- | lectivized and we had one common | cowbarn with 10 heads of cattle and {15 horses. Then little by little with great efforts we reconstructed our life Now the collective includes 518 farm units. We all work for the best of our collective and for the best of our be- ‘loved workers’ state. When we worked singly we used our hands and muscles only, but now new technic has made our life easier, ‘We have altogether forty machtnes. Even milking is now done electrically. Our modern cowbarn now contains 360 cows, 400 calves and 170 horses. ‘Besides, we have a pig farm. Every- where we now have running water and other conveniences for cattle breeding. A newly constructed eating hall, where 1,000 people are served, frees jour women from superfluous home ; cares, Seven infant homes take care of more than 350 children until school age. In the evening the children are taken home. We haven't one illiterate in our col- lective, even the old can read and write. We fullfill the slogan of our comrade and leader Stalin, “Make every collective Bolshevik and every collective rich.” Wishing to receive @ letter in an- swer from the farmers of your land, we remain, your sincere friends, Signed by the members of the Organizator: Valkin, Belovsoy, Senukov, Popova, Trozdova, Kuzmina, Zaboskaja, Okulov, Kazakov. Write letters to: K-do A. Erjuhin. Archange'sk, Box 20, “Pravda Severa’ U.S,S.R. 75% of People in One Velley in Arizona Working on Relief (By a Farmer Correspondent) , DUNCAN, Ariz.—As I have been a reader of the Daily Worker for four years and have written news to the “Daily,” I know it is the only paper that tells the truth. In this valley three quarters of the people are working on relief at $2.40 per day and most of the farmers can’t meet their taxes and debts and are losing their homes. Everything fs getting worse all the time. Any working man that votes the old ticket or the old Socialist Party ticket is just the same. I am a farmer, 61 years old and made enough farming to live without working for years, yet I have got nothing but my eyes opened, and have had them opened for 30 years, I know some day the whole world will be Communist and then the workers will be free and can live and be happy. —John Havis. (Signature Authorized.) “Bankers Are Taking Farms One by One” (By a Farmer Correspondent) NIOTA, Tenn.—In the county I live in, I have tried to start a farm movement. Some haven't paid their taxes in two and three years, and the insurance company and bankers are taking the farms away from them one by one. ‘Thousands of people have had their life savings and farms taken away from them, When all the henchmen get $5, then they will cut the wages on the C.W.A. jobs so the ones that really need the money will have to work 4 or 5 times as long to get the same money as the favored few did when the C.W.A. work first opened up. Of course, they will have lots of excuses, but I know their racket. I am sending a new sub for the Daily Worker Saturday Edition. With great pleasure we, members of appeared on the pages of one of your Therefore thousands of comrades of your land, our class brothers, became familiar with our life, achievements and suc- The news of this fact created in our collective members a new enthusiasm for work to reach addi- Here we give your additional in- PARTY LIFE The experiences in the work of our fractions show that our comrades are not yet politically and organizational- ly prepared to carry out the tasks of the Open Letter as outlined in the six month's plan of the Jugo- slay Central Buro. For this basic weakness the Central Buro is pri- marily responsible, because it did not undertake an energetic campaign ize the Open Letter and break down the sectarian and opportunist ten- membership, and to develop con- sciousness among the comrades for the systematic drawing into the Party of new factory workers. Many of our oid forces are per- meated with sectarianism and oppor- carry. on a political and ideological struggle against opportunism in our fractions and to consciously concen- trate on drawing into the Party new factory workers from strikes, and from the struggle of the unemployed, and in this manner to create the organizational guarantee for carry- ing out our concentration tasks. Must Mercilessly Unmask Opportunism The most eiiective methods of struggle against opportunism in our ranks is to mercilessly unmask op- portunism with concrete examples. For this we have sufficient material. In District 6 (Ohio), where at- tempts were made to recruit new members into the Party, the real causes why our fractions are not able to carry out the tasks of the Open Letter were revealed. In all steel centers in Ohio, where our Party carries on concentration, the frac- tions were instructed to select new factory workers and call them to a special meeting, at which a repre- sentative of the Central Buro was to speak and ask them to join the Party. In Farrell, Pa., to this meeting our comrades called two opportunists, who left the Party after the adoption of the Open Letter, declaring that they cannot carry out the Party tasks. In Youngstown, Ohio, the comrades “had nobody” to call to this meeting. In Cleveland, Ohio, the Jugoslav District Buro was so “busy” that it had “no time” for such a meeting. Only in Campbell and Masillon, Ohio, where we have new comrades in the Party, was this question taken seri- ously and meetings were held there where we recruited a few new workers into the Party. Sectarian Opportunism What conclusion can we draw from these concrete examples? Here is manifested the old sectarian oppor- tunism, the isolation of our comrades from the masses of workers, lack of confidence in the working class, which is the main hindrance to the development of mass struggles and the drawing of new members into the Party. This sectarian opportunism showed itself especiallly in Farrell, Pa., where we have a dozen old comrades, who, during the last five or six years years have not brought a single new mem- ber into the Party. The whole orien- tation of the comrades in Farrell dur- ing the period of several years has been—not into masses—but away from the masses. They have up un- til recently, until we forced them, maintained the hall of the workers’ club in Massury, Ohio, where we have only a few Jugoslay workers, and the main mass of the Jugoslav steel work- ers in Farrell they left to the agents NOTE: We publish letters from farmers, agricultural workers, cannery workers and factory workers, every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us letters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of each. week. By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Self-Abuse. A. S—You may send your letter to our office. You will find the ad- dress in the: Manhattan telephone directory. After we have read it, we will reply in this column that there is a private letter waiting for you, You can then call at the of- fice and ask our secretary for the letter, without seeing us. Just tell her that a friend of yours has asked you to call for a letter addressed to A. S. If this arrangement does not suit you, let us know and we shail carry out any precautions that you think are necessary to save you from embarrassment. Thank you for the complimentary note enclosed | in your letter. We fear, however,' that after you have read our reply, | you might change your opinion about our genius, 5 Chis | i Soaps. Margaret—There is advantage | in using any of the sogps that you mentioned. They arg usually. of inferior quality for “which their, manufacturesr try to make up by adding some Perfume or scm? erude carbolic (cresol), as in Lifebuoy soap. e@ soaps adyised I ticura have no The tar which small in quan- Greet the “Daily” on Its Tenth Anniversary January 6th! | tity and the soap does not remain in contact with the skin in a suffi- cient amount of time to have any effect on the skin disease. The best you" Jugoslav Buro Calls for Uprooting of Opportunism Must Develop Comrades Organizationally and Politically To Carry Out Open Letter By LOYEN amongst the membership to popular-| dencies that are deeply rooted in our) tunism. For this reason it is the, main task of the Central Buro to} of the city administration and the steel trust, who have thereby gaires control of Lodge 126 of the Croation Fraternal Union end organized: their own club, which: serves the city ad- ministration in combatting every struggle of the steel workers. Workers Willing to Struggle When the wave of strikes against the codes of the N.R.A. started im the steel industry, the steel workers of. ell showed their willingness for organization and struggle. About 300 steel workers joined the 8. M, W. I. U, and a good start was mada, but then the terror of the steel set in, and what did our comrades do’ Instead of mobilizing the steel worke ers into struggle against this terror, our comrades discontinued the meete {ings .of the workers’ club in Farrell, andraised the question to again move to Massury, Chio. Naturally, with such a political ree treat and run away from the strug- gle, we cannot get the confidence of the Workers. Here our comrades, as Party members, have not shown themselves as Communists, but re- mained cowards in the eyes of the workers, and it stands to reason thas with. such a policy they could not get the workers into the Party. Farrel Picture Typical ‘The situation in Farrell is only one of the most vivid pictures of the work of the rest of our fractions. Central Buro will have to take up the special situation in Farrell and on the basis of.it initiate a concrete struggle against opportunism in all our frac- tions, and aiso to take energetic steps for the carrying out of the six month. plan by regular check-up to see that it.is really carried out. ‘The struggle against the right wing danger in our fraction will be suc- cessful only by drawing our comrades into’ the daily struggles of the workers for higher wages in shops and C.W.A. undertakings, by drawing our works ers'.clubs and lodges of the fraternal societies into the struggle to aid the unemployed and for unemployment insurance, against the fascist terror and the danger of war, In the three months’ campaign for new members in our clubs and new readers of “Radnik,” our fraction must take up the problems of the workers, and’ to Jead them in the eaagend bead daily needs. In such a will find new, militant, revolutionary workers, whom they should draw inte the Party. Bring Militant Workers Inte Party All Jugoslav District Buros and frackions must select groups of work- ers from shops, mines, from the unemployed, especially those distinguished themselves as ageous in strikes and demonstrati and call them to special meetings Lenin Memorial and ask them to jg the Party. On such a meeting ou comrades will learn from these work ers Why they have not yet joined th: Party, they will discover their owa' mistakes in their work, and on basis of such concrete experiences, they. should write articles for “Rad- nik,” so that we can carry on @ systematic struggle against the main hindrances in the carrying out of the six months’ plan—against sectarian ism and right wing opportunism, — ¢ Please send me more informa- ion on the Communist Party.’ JOIN THE ommunist Party “E. 12th STREET, N. Y. ©.’ Nambets's «acs patancseaenpenes a Street se eeeeeeeeeetencesoesece City soap is one made of olive off which you can obtain by genuine Castile soap, : relatively expensive; but if you buy it- by the bar, in a department store, and cut it up in small squares, you will find that it is more econom- - ical than any other. If it is too expensive for you, the next best are the glycerine soaps which you will recognize by the fact that are transparanent, will mot cure your pimples. would be better to consult a - cian first and find out the cause of your skin blemishes. Paice ane E f The B. & M. External Remedy, Machinist, Detroit—The “B. & M. External Remedy,” is one of he most heartless fakes on the We note that they are to cure your brother who is s fering from tuberculosis; but if ; could read the circulars that menufacturers are distributing, yor will find that the above remedy “good” not only for tul but. for almost every ill that affliciS mankind: As we have, repeaicdly stated in this coh 7 there is no better cure for tul culosis than fresh air, sunshine good food. Any physician or tution which underiakes to consumption by any other means is cut to’ swindle yeu out of your money, We are not making any — Teservations on the above statement. — You-can cut it-out and send it to those who are trying to a ‘trom ‘sings your hard-earned