The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1934, Page 4

REC cence Staten Island Relief Workers’ Groups Divided By Disrupters Yaekel Raises “‘Red Scare’ Against Unemployed Council To Split North and South Shore (By a Worker Correspondent) STATEN ISLAND, N. Y. the Bummer a group workers were talking of organizing a union. This group con: of Em-! ergency Relief workers working in the Park, Engineer and Highway depart- ments. They came to the Une P: byed Council, Mr. Cassidy gave em the program of the Bronx Ac- mM Committee. small group was organized and with the help of the Unemployed Council and W. E. 8. L. a demon: tion was staged at Obors Hall. A the demonstration a mass me was held at Svea Hall. | A delegation of about 20 came from the South Shore. They had read of our demonstration in the Staten land Advance and glad to The North Shore was in favor affiliated with Unemployed Council because they know s the Unemploye Council had been putting up for the unemployed and part time workers. | A Disrupter Does His Work Mr. Yaeckel of South Shore got up and said he was opposed to affiliatio: with Unemployed Council, that it i @ Communist organization; that he has been in the labor movement for many years, has been an I.W.W.., and| @ Socialist, and knows all about the} Communist Party, that the Unem-| join us. of being ployed Coun7il is supported finan- cially by the Commun: Party that Cassidy is a paid Comm nd said many lies too s to mention. | Mr, Yaeckel and Baker to their meeting at S Yaeckel boasted a meecti: more. Not more than 79 eluding our North Shore 24. Mr. Yaecl.el again | Red scare Council, etc., as regards to affiliation. Settled the quest were not to be other organization. ° be the Emergency Relief tective Association with the North ar South Shore to work in harmony and on the same platform. We were unable to was doing at their me Yaeckel attended ou: taking the floor to poison the mr of the North Shore workers. He tried} all means, up to the point of objectin: to our meeting in the Unemployed| Council hall, which we we nted | rent free for our meetings until we} got organized | Appeal for Unity Last.night, Dec. 8, a committee of} 20 of us went to their meeting to make! @n appeal to the membe: us in unity. Instead of a Meeting on how to organi: relief, coal and a living hey had two speakers, Mr. Bri and Mr. | Sabo, who told us about the beautiful) trees and how the litt! i acorns and the tall acorns grow We tried to get the floor to speak to the membership on unity. refused, but after a lot of talking and| plant} Meals from Sea and Lond Would the comrades care for a few more for the Red Inter- national Cook Book, I wonder? For instance, gefullte fish, a Jewish standby. ‘This you may not like at first if you are not born Jew- ish; the taste for it, like that for olives, sort of grows on you after you eat it a few times. Comrade Anna R. sends a recipe: Gefullte Fish White fish, carp, or pike are used. (To each pound of fish use about in portions (crosswise scrape out meat from under skin; as fish is filled back again, keep skin from tearing. ¢ Ohop the boned fish with onions , or until very fine, add eggs, Pepper. Chop together, ad- crackermeal or matzos- mixture is solid enough to into skin. Boil some water It. and a couple of carrots and cut up, for flavor. Add fish and simmer three hours. More or less onion may be ording to taste. Some of friends do not bother to the fish skins, but simply make of the fish-mixture and boil hours. Usually served cold. One is a fine appetizer—H. L.) © Comrade M. Swetlowa sends an- ! other good one, with a little post- script, “I am a she.” It is very ;Sratifying to know that the article BE tf i ; reat : i Comrade Swetlowa says: “I have seen pot cheese sold at 6c a pound, so I PRought some comrade would like to @ nice Russian dish made of cheese.” ‘ Voreniki | Beat together one egg, %4 cup water 8 little salt. Sift in sufficient to make a stiff paste, work it smooth. Roll out thin, and cut Squares. Fill these with pot which has been well mixed ith an egg. (You will need about : id of cheese.) « Fold into triangles, pressing the firmly together, and boil in water 10 minutes. Eat with P butter or sour cream. 9 Something just tells me these would be great with some apple sauce *so-—H. L.) ™ Postscript: Regarding the carp. In & wild cooi-book recently brought by 2 Russian ex-princess, I read Mat the Russian nobility kept their eeecmnine around in milk a few ys Before eating them. Well... Baybe*7’m net a very good carp- 4 o uring of disgusted! .. Is-|* ny | York Shipya | dent, We were to receive a decision from they granted the floor to only two of i gation of 20 with a strict g not to bring out any cretary of the North Shore t given the floor. The South Shore leaders d criticized the North Shore organizer that our secretary is a Commun: The secretary wished tell the rank and file that he joined the Relief Organization be- cause he is a relief worker, that the organization is non-politizal, and the reason he is secretary is that the body elected him, not the officers or Communists, Mr. Yaeckel and Baker summed up h the same false lying “Red scare” anda. = They boasted how nicely a d by the N. R. A, or and others, and that e other welfare agencies such as Amerivan Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars are coz- dially invited to attend any of their Fi the chairman ke the proposition to a 76 men in room inclu but the tenight because som bers are not present. They boast of a members! of 400 or over, so he appointed a committee. The chairman appoints the com- mittees and the officers and the in- vited guest speakers of the Conser- vation Association do all the talking. —A RELIEF WORKER, By a Worker Correspondent GLOUCESTER CITY, N. J—Mulin Company rats misled the New workers in the inter- do & Co. Also the Sun Ship ip misled them. The only me was J. Green, vice-presi- the National Labor Board last Wed- nesday. Well, the meeting opened last Saturday, and the first thing off the bat, either a yellow group, or a roup of company agents working in ongst the workers, got up one by one and urged the workers to vote against strike. Here was the motion tr did the trick for the bosses, “I mi 2 motion that we leave every- thing in th. hands of the National Board and stop this talk about ike So it was seconded and passed, and of course they knifed John 3reen, who called this meeting as he as president, due to Mullin But Mullin soon got on the job for the interest of the bosses this day, and urged the workers to vait for the decision of the National Labor Beard. I am a sympathizer of the Commu- ist Party and retiring member of the jocialist Party, due to inaction of leadership. D BY LUKE bought was abcut 10 years ago.. if you know what I mean... being as how a proletarian can’t have a fish tank filled with milk, if nobody minds I'll take the pike or whitefish. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1651 is available in sizes 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. | Size 16 takes 344 yards 39 inch fabric and 1 yard contr ing. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded. Send FIFTEEN coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- CENTS (15c) in ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Denver (. W. A. Workers Face Stagger Plan By a C.W.A. Correspondent DENVER, Colo—The NRA, with| the rest of the alphabet which Roose- velt is using to fool the workers a litle while longer, is having its ef- fect here in this mile high city. With all the attempts by the Relief rack- eteers to force workers off the re- lief lists by creating supposed work they have found thai there are still jthousands that cannot be employed under the scheme. Out of around 40,000 unemployed men and women forced labor has been found for not over 8,000, which has caused discontent amongst those who jare still on the relief rolls who think by going to work on one of the work projects they will be better off. But take it from me who happen to be one of the first workers picked to straighten out the kinks in the Platte River, which is just as crooked as he poliicians who run this town. The latest news is that we who are now working will have the stagger plan forced upon us by the first of the month. That will mean that we work one week and lay off the next, which will also mean that we will be getting the handsome sum of $9.37 to keep our families from starving and freez- ing to death this winter. The Daily Worker, to my opinion, is becoming a real working-class paper. Keep up the good work. Greeting to the bigger and better Daily which I never fail to read when- ever I can get the price to get one. Spend $1,500,000 To Find New Ways of Cutting Jobs By 2 Metal Worker Correspondent MILWAUKEE, Wis—The A. 0,' Smith Co. here has a big research plant that cost about $1,500,000. It was put up in 1930 so they could beat. out other plants. They put in new machinery by the use of this research plant and then they fire the men whose work the machinery begins to do. These men will never get a job again, as they) don’t know any other trade except the one the machinery is doing now. The research plant also shows the company how they can speed-up the men better. One example of the speed-up is this that happened the other day: In Dept. 148, where they are mak- ing auto frames, the boss wanted the hooker (or hitcher, the man who hitches the steel sheets to the chain that hangs from the crane so they can be carried over to the presses) to unload a truckload of steel, do all] _|the hitching alone and finish in one hour, or he would get fired. Generally it takes two men to do this job, and |two hours to do it, even when they {work fast. It is impossible for one man to do it in an hour. The hitcher tried to do it, but he could: asked for a helper. one, but he thinks he’s going to get fired now for asking for a helper. | I have just heard, since I started |writing this a couple of days ago, |that the wages were cut in two or three departments and that the men are sure raving mad, I hear also that in the South plant} of A. O. Smith there are men working @ 12-hour shift, although the com- pany is supposed to be under the| N. The sooner each department elects representatives to a shop committee which includes the whole A. O. Smith works, the better is will be, because this committtee can go up to the company and demand higher wages and no speed up, and no firing of }men because they join a union, The |Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union will help us to put up a real fight against these conditions. All of us have to help together to elect this shop committee, Editor’s Note—Comrade H, your let- ter is very valuable but a little long. We are therefore publishing this part today and the rest of it in an early 6 gele Again |Union Members at Rand’ School Meeting Were | Terrorized by Thugs Till Report in Paper Stirred Discussion a (By a Metal Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—To many of our comrades the simple truth that the Daily Worker is the best organizer jot the working masses still remains but a phrase. From my own experience, I can enumerate many instances where the Daily Worker was directly mental in my obtaining contacts and organizational results among work- ers. The following instance may seTve as an example: Some months ago the steel par- tition manufacturers tried to build up a racket union of the workers in the trade which was to serve a cer- tain purpose of the bosses. I was working at that particular branch of the metal trades at that time. We were sent down by the bosses to a meeting in the Rand School. There we were told by some racketeer, who was hired by the bosses to form the union, to pay in $10 apiece and we will be organized. No questions were allowed to be asked which were not suitable for the racketeer, under the threat of being beaten up by the instru- | thugs who were well represented at the meeting, and there could be no refusal to join under threat of losing your job. I could not communicate with some of the workers as to how to act. We were watched at the meet- ing and in the shops. But the racket was to be exposed. I here related the happenings to the “Daily.” An article appeared, exposing the meaning of the bosses’ union and telling the workers how to organide a real union. The “Daily” with the special article was well cir- culated among the workers. The re- sult was that at the next meeting, where about 300 workers were pres- ent, many of them were asking questions as to the nature of the union and many others, which were very unpleasant to the racketeers. Later on we were able to organize a strong group which carried on a fight and defeated the racketeers. The article in the “Daily” did the trick, A. ROSENFELD (Signature Authorized). Sign in front of the recently ington, D. ©. “No Parking” on U.S.S.R. Grounds established a: Soviet embassy in Wash- Gary Switchmen Get Fewer Jobs As F urnaces Close GARY, Ind.—Here in the Gary Steel Works, on Friday, Dec. 29, No. 3 open hearth had in force 10 fur- naces and some of us, the switchmen, were told to go back on Saturday to report to work. As it was before, some of us worked a day or two a week, and naturally we did not know what was taking place while we were off. So when we reported Saturday, we got a good surprise, for they not only told us to go home but there wasn’t a@ sound in the entire mill. So, as the times are hard, we had to go in the mill and line up, and the ones that did not report to find out when they were to report for work got the worst of it. Instead of stay- ing home two days they were told to stay home four days in rotation, And in cutting the furnaces from 10 down to five, naturally they had |to pull off more engines, and that means instead of making five to six days a pay now we are given three or four days to the pay. And this does not mean that they are reduc- ing forces in the open hearths alone, but that includes the transportation department. And what happens in other depart- ments? Take for instance the 44- inch Blooming Mill. The plant en- gineer, Mr. Dean, and another tum foreman named Edward Wall are liv- ing on the work: dinner pails. They never carry lunches of their own, So finally we pass out a shop bulletin printed by the members of the S. M. Ww. I. U. Mr. Edward Wall starts out with a mass layoff, beginning with the 1st of January, laid off 25 workers of each turn, and this means 75 work- ers from one department. This de- partment happens to be one of the largest model machinery producers. From 15 to 25 were cut. More work with less workers, and speed-up. There are three to five labor fore- men on each turn that are constantly on the shoulders of the workers, and it seems like the A. F. of L. repre- issue, sentatives can’t say a word. -| mobile Workers News.” Fisher Body Workers Seek Militant Union (By An Auto Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich—I am sending you the item from the News” about the treatment which the Fisher Body Corporation offers us under the N. R. A,, if some of us speak in favor of the trade union to other fellow workers. (The clip- ping tells of how the Labor Board upheld the Fisher Body Corp. in dis- charging Bert Harris for union ac- tivity—Editor.) I am a diemaker employed by the Fisher Body Corp. in Detroit, Mich., and I am writing you to let you know that many diemakers and tool- makers of the Fisher Body Corp. are so disgusted that we talk of strike for to better our working conditions. We want to join a trade union. But what trade union should we join? A fellow-worker, F., proposes that we should join the Auto Work- ers’ Union. Auto Workers Union is that even F. does not know where the Auto Work- ers’ Union is located. F. said he will try to get in touch with the Auto Workers’ Union and then maybe they will help us to do something. Now, tell us why the organizers of the Auto Workers’ Union are wait- ing for us to come to them, when they should at least let us know) where they are located. My friend F. said that the Auto Workers’ Union publishes “Auto- would bring that paper to the shop. I do not accuse the organizers of the Auto Workers’ Union of sleeping on the job, but I want to tell them than many of us workers do not even know that there is such a union as’ the Auto Workers’ Union, wie ae EDITOR'S NOTE:—The Auto Workers’ Union is at 4210 Wood- ward Ave., Detroit, Mich., and their paper is published at the same ad- dress. We know that the union would he only too glad to help the workers in this plant to organize. “Detroit | ‘The trouble with the | I wish they | OAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUBSDAx, JANUARY 9, 1934 (Metal Worker Tells How Article in “Daily Worker” \Helped to Organize Stru st Racketeers Ford Striker Calls For Organization Against Boss Spies (By An Auto Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa.—I am a worker of the Ford Motor Car Co. at Chester, Pa. As you know, we were on strike there, but we were sold out by the A. F. of L. Strike conditions are much worse now than formerly. Smidth, personnel manager, is dis- charging men, though there was not supposed to be any discrimination of workers. Smidth pulls men in the office and tells them that their ser- vices are no longer required, and, if they ask why, he replies, “You know why,” but he always gets a former union man or a militant worker. Smidth and Harris have a spy sys- tem second to none, What will be- come of the working class if they do not organize against a bunch of bosses like Smidth and Harris to put them down for all time? Organize fellow-worker! under militant leadership and not the A. ¥. of. Is, ‘Will you please publish this letter in your wonderful workingman’s paper? Thank you for the good work you are carrying on through your paper. FORD WORKER. . Editor’s Note:—We know how dif- ficult it is to develop shop organiza- tion after an unsuccessful strike. However, you developed the begin- nings of organization during the strike by forming your branch of the International Labor Defense. We believe that through this organiza- tion, by reviving it, and nurturing it carefully, you can begin the forma- tion of a shop apparatus for fight- ing the spy tactics, the discrimina- tion and the terror of the employ- ers in the shop, Department committees, carefully built up, excluding all spies and boss suckers, will greatly increase the morale of the workers, for they will feel that there is an organized strength to fall back on. When these committees beconie strong enough, they can come out in the open and figh! back at hte em- ployers. The Auto Workers’ Union will gladly help to build these com- mittees. Be sure to include all hon- est fighting workers, regardless of their present union affiliation. A united fighting front of this kind will eventually lay the basis for the kind of fighting union, under your own control, that you want. Layoffs by Dozens at Schweinler Press HUGUENOT PARK, Staten Island, ;N. ¥.—On Nov. 17th, I wes fired from Schweinler Press for collecting money for flowers, which I was asked to do for a fellow worker's father that died. It has always been a custom in | Schweinler to take up a collection for flowers. Sometimes it is taken all through the building. But that was only a good excuse for John P. Hag- gerty, our foreman, to get rid of me to Save some more money for Schwein- ler's. That is only one case. There have been lay-offs regularly by the dozens in the last six months in Schweinler Press. Where are the N.R.A. investi- gators who are supposed to benefit labor? It is about time the supposedly organized labor will wake up and see if the A. F. of L. is a workers’ union or a bosses union. Workers, there is a very good cure i for this, just follow me as soon as you are laid off or fired. Join the Unem- ployed Council and then the Com- munist Party. e JK. Editor’s Note: We would sugge that the workers in the shop immc diately prepare to struggle again: lay-offs. They should apply to Bi Six for assistance to reinstate thi: | laid-off worker, and to demand short- er hours in place of lay-offs. |, Get in touch with the Amalgama- ticn Party, at 40 W. 18th St., which i carrying on a struggle against lay- offs on the job and also trying with- in Big Six to force the leadership to struggle against lay-offs, It is not correct for the workers to wait till they are laid off and then join some other organization. Their most important fight is right on the job, for their jobs, Letters to the “Daily”, Tell How Audiences Are Disappointed By Workers Correspondence Dept. From time to time, letters have ap- peared in the Daily Worker from in- dividual workers and organizations complaining that speakers scheduled to appear at meetings failed to come as promised. These letters invariably carried with them-the story of how the dis- appointments played havoc with patient, intensive efforts in arranging the meetings and drawing in “out- side’ workers, They spoke bitterly of the effect the nonappearance of speakers had upon these workers, many of them for the first time ai a revolutionary meeting, and the re- action and demoralization of the members of the organizations. Perhaps because these letters have appeared in the “Daily” singly and at separate dates, it may have given the impression that these cases were rarities. But examined collectively, the impression changes to a realiza- tion that there is something funda- mentally “rotten in Denmark.” Important to consider is the fact that the letters published are but a small fraction of the dozens received &cker or mavb= I went to the wrong @arket, but the last carp I ever os Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City constantly by the “Daily”, which are answered personally, through the Regarding Those Speakers Who Fail mail. We will discuss some of these let- ters before making conclusions, The Herzle Weizenberg Branch of the International Labor Defense in Chicago arranged a meeting in de- | fense of the Scottsboro Boys and the four Communist Defendants in Germany. The district I, L. D. office was notified more than a week in adyance and made definite promises to provide speakers. On the strength of these promises, leaflets were printed and distributed. The hall was pretty well filled the night of the meeting. “Comrade Editor", writes peared... As a consequence, instead of having a successful meeting, it resulted in a complete failure and many individuals got bad opinions of the I, L. D.” From Ossining, N. Y. comes a similar tale And again it is an I. L, D. branch. “In this case the meet- ing was also called to rebuild a fail- ing branch and in all communica- tions with the district office, this was stressed.” The speaker, due on the 8:25 train, did not appear. The meeting was continued with impro- vised speakers with the hope that he would appear on the next train, 9:18. “But”, writes the secretary, “he did not!" Unit 12, Section 8, District 2 ar- the branch, “not a single speaker ap-| ranged a lecture on the topic, “Col- lapse of the N. R. A.” Arrangements were made two weeks in advance with a leading comrade of the Dis- trict to deliver the lecture. Depend- ing on his promise, elaborate prepara- tions were made for a successful meeting. The comrade did not ap- pear to keep his assignment. Work- ers appeared in large crowds and had to be turned back, because of his failure to show up. Money had to be refunded. The effect of this, wrote the organizer, was to “turn the workers away from us and demo- ralize our comrades. , . and we will have to work hard to wipe out this blot and convince the workers that the Communist Party is worthy of respect.” The Jack London Club of Plain- field, N. J. was especially bitter on the experiences they have had. They | stated that “repeatedly” they have arranged lectures “and the speaker put in no appearance.” “November 13 was our last straw,” writes the Executive Committee. “The Anti-Imperialist League prom- ‘ised by all means to send a comrade to lecture to us on Cuba. The club made a big affair of this, inviting all friends and prospective members to cur open forum, and as usual, the speaker never appeared. How much longer are we to permit this laxity to continue?” they ask, > to Show Up Work of “Oxganizattons Hampered Because of Irresponsibility These are just a few samples, typifying what is happening on an alarming scale. The letters quoted tell their own story of what damage is being done. Though a number of such letters have been published, the practice continues. Explanations and apologies have been made by the guilty organizations and individuals, But the deed was done and the harm could not be repaired. If a sched- uled speaker cannot appear, it is his bounden duty to supply a competent. substitute without fail. This cross-section of the dozens of letters received, shows that this lax- ness is not confined to any particular organization, but is widespread. Every letter received by the “Daily” is not only a complaint, but an indict- ment. The writers clamor for an ac- counting. They echo the question of the Jack London Club of Plainfield, “How much longer are we going to permit this laxity to continue?” A promise made to send a speaker, or to appear as a speaker, is a pledge to the working class, members of whom will be at these meetings. To fail to appear is to be guilty of irre- sponsibility before the masses PARTY LIFE Hiding Party, No Solid Shop Base, Defeat United Front Aim Detroit District Cites Mistakes in Election; United Front Mistakes as Example of Opportunism This is the second and conclud- ing part of the resolution by the Detroit District Committee of the Communist Party on work in the aute section of the country. Opportunist Pitfalls Hinder Struggle Let us take our work in the city of Dearborn. The correctness of our policy of concentration was proved. We succeeded in developing a mass movement of Ford workers against Ford terror and around the issue of relief which resulted in a broad united front movement under the leadership of our Party that reached its high- est point in the second Ford Hunger March, and in the Dearborn city elections. The workers’ candidate for Mayor received almost 4,000 votes, Here our Party surely showed it knew -how to organize with non- Party masses, and to make a sub- stantial increase in membership. But the failure to avoid the pitfalls of opportunism not only limited the Party gains, but was responsible for the spreading of parliamentary illu- sions, which hindered the develop- ment of the struggle, and created conditions under which it was pos- sible for Jones, candidate for Mayor, to temporarily mislead many of the workers, come under the influence of capitalist politicians and thereby | objectively carry out the policy of | our class enemies, This opportunism expressed itself in the failure to develop the work in the shop as the chief means of de- veloping the mass movement of the Dearborn workers. The failure to Workers’ Enemies Exposed James Barton (real name Leroy Crum), of Bcorse, Mich., has been ex- Pelled and exposed by the Detroit District of the Communist Party as a stool pigeon, who has been respon- stble for the firing of a number of workers in the shop, in which he worked about a year ago. At present he is employed in the Dodge automobile plant, and lives at 12 Broadway, Ecorse, Mich., where he operated as a bootlegger and was in_close relations with the police, Description: about 30 years of age, 5 ft. 7 in. tall, black hair, brown eyes. Always has plenty of money to spend freely, and only recently he bought a new car. Eli Thomas, of Pontiac, Mich., was expelled from the Communist Party about a year ago as a stool pigeon for the Manufacturers’ Ass’n of Pon- ne Sees had connections with e notorious spy Spolansky in De- triot, and he ‘was instrumental incaus- ing the deportation of a Swedish worker by turning over to the Fed- eral authorities a draft leaflet written by this worker. He has also created factional disruption within the Party. Description: about 6 ft. tall, weighs about 170 pounds, always well dressed, drives Ford V-8 automobile, NOTE: We publish letters from steel, me- tal and auto workers every ‘Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their working condi- tions and of their efforts to organ- ize. Please get the letters to us by Friday of each week. Help The Fight For the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill.—See “Peace on Earth,” Jan. 11, Thurs- day evening. Tickets at Unemployed Council, 29 E. 20th St. establish a solid base amongst the decisive elements is emphasized ir the Open Letter in the following manne: . the Party and particu- larly am ing cadres, there political un- the necessity for strengthening our base among the decisive sections of the American workers.” No Salid Base Among Ford Workers Because of failure to organize a | solid’ base among the Ford workersy 10p, despite some general) good resulis, the united front move- ment,.did not serve as a means oi build: the A. W. U. inside the Ford shop.” ‘What was the basis’ for this mistake? 1. The underestimation of the rad- icalization of the workers inside of the-Ford shop. 2... The failure to boldly apply the line of the Party, This can be seen in: a. The weak fight which we made.in the begnning on the ques- tion.,.of selling the Daily Worker at the united front meetings. b. Failure to develop mass ac- tion.during the course of the cam- paign. c. Failure to develop mass re- cruiting for the A, W. U. d. Not having Party members who were candidates of the United Front’ conduct their campaigns as Communists, which resulted in al- lJowing the candidate for Mayor to hide his Party membership, thus creating confusion among the workers. Other Serious Weaknesses Follow From this follows other serious weaknesses of an opportunistte na- ture: 1, Holding only one Party elec- tion meeting in support of the United Front. 2. Issuing only one Party leaflet on the election campaign. 3. Failure to make use of the Daily Worker as an agtator and or- ganizer of our Party during the course of our mass activity in this campaign. Concretely what are the experi- ences of the Party in Dearborn? Is it correct to say that the application | of the, United Front policy in Dear- born or ina similar situation in any other séction is wrong in principle? No, this would be wrong. However, the experiences of our Party in Dearborn have shown conclusively that without the establishment of a solid base among the workers in the shop and without bringing forward boldly and unhesitatingly the line and face of the Party, the United Front cannot sufficiently serve as a connecting link to root the Party among the decisive sections of the working class and under certain con- ditions, may even hinder the develop~ ment of the Party’s mass work. r This is a lesson that has to be made clear to the whole Party. JOIN THE Communist Party 3% E. 12th SPREBT, N.Y. C. Please ‘send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name . Street City By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Not Overweight ¢ Anastasia D., Alliance, Ohio—The average weight for a girl of your age (18) is 89 pounds; but you are two inches taller than the average girl and for a girl who measures 61 inches, 102 pounds is not considered over- weight. Of course you are taller than the average girl, but this has nothing to do with the veins which appeared O¥er your ankles. We do not think that you ought to give up your dancing lessons. Massage of the foot, after your dancing lesson is indicated. You ought to massage your foot up- wards from the heel to the knee, never downwards. It is also advis- able to keep your feet for a few minutes in a basin of warm water and then in a basin of cold water, alternately a few times. Cod-Liver Oil Pills Leo G.—Cod-Liver Oil Pills are of no value for a person who is under- weight. There are some cod-liver oil globules which contain a standard amount of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil reenforced with viosterol. These are of some use in certain condi- tions; but not for the purpose of weight increase. The young lady is decidedly underweight and she ought to consult a physician regarding tii! matter. There might be a reason why she prefers “had” foods. Only One Daily Evacuation—Pyridium P. S—What do you mean by only one evacuation? There is no neces- sity of having more than one. If the substances you mention produces a daily evacuation of the bowels, you ought to be satisfied. As to the Py- ridium pills, they are extensively used in gonorrhea, but the December 30th number of the Journal of the American Medican Association con- tains an article to the effect that Pyridium has been rejected from New Mis | against the and Non-officlal Remedies, because the evidence does not seem to bear out the claims made for this anti- septic.” Much as it may displease those who are opposed to the AM.A., bd fa abide by the decision of the ‘ouncil on Pharmacy and Chemistry. We disagree utterly with the political views of the A.M.A.; but froma sclen- tifie point of view, the Council is an excellent authority to follow. Missing Heart Beate Mrs. Dorothy B., Cleveland.—tIf you miss .evyery other heart beat, you ought to have yourself examined as soon as possible; particularly when it is accompanied by pain. In some cases a few drops of Digitalis is all one needs to reestablish the cardiac heart) rhythm. In others, it might be due to angina pectoris, which is a serious ‘disease. Lack of Virility Henry C., Chicago—At your age } (60), it is perfectly natural for the sexual power to begin to ebb. There js no reason to feel “cheap.” Sooner or later, a person must resign him- self t6 4 limitation of the sexual act; just aS’ we have to resign ourselves to become old and die. There is nothing to be ashamed of, when we submit-to the laws of nature. It is the person who tries to struggle inevitable who makes himself ridiculous. Sebaceous Cyst J. E—What you take for a wart is nothing but a sebaceus cyst. This is due to the plugging up of one of we the tiny glands which secret the oily substahea for the hair follicle. You have No venereal disease and you do not have to come to our office for an examination. As ta your habit of looking at the pictures, it is only a form of mas- turbation_which you will outgrow as soon as you mix more freely with the opposite sex wont Maa * roo