The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1934, Page 4

| Stark Poverty Is Covered By Palm Trees of Florida 100,000 Fired By Negroes in Unpainted Shacks Cheated and Enslaved by Low Wages and Instalment Payment Swindles (By a Worker Correspondent) MIAMI, Fila. a, to the Northern workers, is a Occasionally the show pictures of Tumyin the warm bal Florida beaches. But millions in Florida tramp the roads for jobs that can’t be found, or freeze to death waiting all night | for a day's work shoveling snow. The city of Miami is very beautiful, | | | of a semi-tropic, Spanish character. | : If its beauty alone be considered, it | hould be called Eden.” Stark Poverty in Palm Trees | In these pretty cottages hidden | among Whe palm trees and other | colorful tropic plants, stark poverty | is hidden. After the prosperity of | the boom days, things have settled | down to normalcy, that is: Waiting for tourists. Every cottage, shanty bears the sign “For Rent.” =| Prices of food and other commodi- | ties have gone up during these few | months. Among the tourists are | workers who come to seek employ- | ment. These workers often bring their families with them. Those who | bring their children of school age | are hardest hit, as a tuition fee has to be paid for every tourist child, of $4 to $6 a month, besides books. There are therefore many children } who are kept out of sehools in the } supposed “Land of Universal Edu- ation.” Many children come to school half “Garden of | the starved. Those are fed with the | left-over lunch: at the school afeterias for ich the achers | contribute out of salaries. their $10 a week Negroes Exploited On the edge of the cit: railroad track is “Colored out of the city is a place with the fancy name of “Coconut Grove” where the Negroes | d, unpainted and $3.50 and up per week The Negroes ted from t are owned store- the peddlers o: mon the $1 ing enormou for $5 or | miy get $2 | work for CAPITALISM WITHERS LIFE IN THE “GREAT AMERICAN iOME” (Presentinz s tetures of th I misery inflicted on of life and activity—marriage, de- , cent jobs, sports and culture—Dr. , Harry M. Toozan cites for us, ; @mong other, the cases of Tillie and Lilly. “he story of the first > girl was told W y—now we 7 may read the sert of life ; «Lilly has bac.) Pilly and Liily t By DR. HARRY M. TOOZAN Fi Lilly passed that dreaded thirtieth ¢ birthday ten years ago. e was the r only girl in the family of three brothers. Just the Lilly suddenly ness of-her life j. She.was s hody was so hopelessness that » Scruation for this year. But Lillie was not only good-look- | ing and good-natured, but of a strong constitution, a real physical speci-| men of perfect womanhood, and she | recovered. She found enough| motherly satisfaction in caring for | her “baby brother,” six years younger amd not so strong, as to endure " Sweatshop conditions, speed-up, sub- Ways, noise, fear and many more unhealthy factors that injure even the strongest worker. | At 40 a second catastrophe over- | € Her h terror and lost her me! BY took her. Her weak brother at last | ay (el a victim to our industrial big | ) ty civilization. Brain inflamma-! ¢) on, involving mind function. He ym W488 removed to a state hospital. Bt “What Am I Living For!” 5) Zhen she went to bed. Could not | seep for a hundred nights and more. 1% Menstruation again left her. Dread- ful, insane melancholic depression Obsessed her. She stopped eating | and sleeping. Just brooding in bed,! Suicide. “What's the use fighting any more!” } fer brothers and cousins were sure twas insane and were ready to @ her to the same “free boarding ” to which her brother was But the doctor and mental alist assured them that it is only me depression, melancholy, that nly danger is suicide. She some- passed throuch a few months. e older single brother had no le anyway, so he decided to the Big City Civilization with its Rockefeller beauties and, along poor Lilly, buried him- on some farm up-state. Another of the infernal hell of capi- grinding lives into human ism! Only hyena-business- tiger-lawyer-politicians construct, run, praise and y such a system of barbarsm. should wake up and see jocracy” now, he would in- reason th e, | articles iii | grocer } that beat and he attends to it, beat- | ONDUCTED HELEN LUKE 42. ‘fabric and 114 yards ribbon 10 to 12 hours a di y stop payment on these chased, all the peddler or is tell the cop on —T. Cc. | Questions--Answers How is the money appropriated for he farmers’ relief distributed? In just where the money goes that is appropriated to the farmers. ANSWER: The A.A.W. (Agricultural Adjust- ment Administration) issues checks |to those rich farmers who are willing every to sign contracts with the government | promising to destroy part of their wheat, cotton and tobacco crops, and to reduce their acreage. These checks are then turned into cash by these rich farmers. This plan of Roosevelt has for its purpose the reduction of the coun- try’s food and crop production in order to raise prices. The theory is that rising prices will give higher income to all the farmers, In prac- tice it works differently. In practice, |the government turns over to the rich | |farmers money which it has collected | from the city workers in taxes. The| |city workers are subsidizing the rich| farmers to help them raise the price of goods which the city workers must |buy, such as cotton, wheat, corn, ete. | |The small farmers are ruined by this| |process since, having only a small] crop, they cannot afford to destroy any part of it without reducing their income to zero, They are hurt in another way by the fact that the Roosevelt. price-raising program se-| verely reduces the purchasing power of the consumers in the cities who steadily reduce their buying as prices rise. Thus, the Roosevelt price-raising and crop-destroying program bears down heavily on the city consumer whose cost of living rises, ; the small, impoverished farmer whose market is reduced. Only the rich farmers and the Wall Street dis- tributing monopolies profit from this arrangement. In addition, the Roose- velt crop-destroying program is driy- ing hundreds of thousands of tenant farmers and agricultural laborers into pauperi ce, as the acreage of the count no further use for their and this swells the army of foyed and further aggravates the crisis by restricting the purchas- ing power of the masses, (Many of our readers will recog- nize in the cases of Tillie and Lilly counterparts of the lives of girls and quaintance, of their satisfactory lives. Would they like to w les? ie road back to a wholesome life Mes only in revolutionary ac- tivity?) Can You Make °Em Yourself? attern 1626 is available in sizes 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and Ilus- rated step-by-step sewing instruc- tions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) 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 Department, 243 West 17th St., New York City. and on} s reduced, the farm land- | | Phone Company In Last 4 Years ( By a Tele e Worker) | _N h I'm not a Comm mber of any other organiza’ r that matter—I | | have long been buying the Daily Worker on the news stands. As a] straight-forward, de-bunking paper, | it's hard to beat. | I haven't worked in the past two years, The last job I had was with the Telephone Company, And that’s an organization that I’d like to tell | | you about. } | Although the telephone company | gets more than half of its New York | | revenue from Jews, less than one | other words, I would like to find out| employee in a thousand is a Jew. The | tight and water department work; the | company has discriminated °°~'-~¢ | | | Jews for many years—long before | Hitlerism was ever heard of under its present name. I worked for the company more than 12 years, and I know the facts. Unfair as the company has been towards Jews it has also been far from honest and decent with respect to its non-Jewish employees. During the past four years it has dropped more than 100,000 employes through- out the country, has cut pay several times, and has placed many workers |on part time. And yet, through its high-pressure publicity bureau, it would have the public believe that it is “sharing the work.’ The com- pany hasn’t “shared” a single job with the unemployed. On the con- trary, it has made matters worse through discharging the large num- | ber of workers mentioned. But the company continues to pay its usual nine per cent prosperity dividend. The slogan of the company seems to be, mil for stock-hold- { ers and insiders, but hing for the discharged workers who helped to earn it. Of course, you won't be surpr to know that in the face of this | unfair treatment of employees, the company’s “union” did absolutely nothing. This is to be expected from |an “organization” dominated by the company itself. The so-called “union” is nothing more than an association of yes-men, jellyfish, and trafned | seals. The sad part, however, about the company’s “union” is this: It is maintained at great expense and the money for this comes from the | telephone subscribers. EDITOR’S NOTE:—The tele- phone company soaks the sub- seribers as much as it can get vway with, and the expenses of a ompany union have very little to do with it. It would be more orrect to say that the expenses for running a company union are taken out of the workers’ pay. Shows How C. W. A! | Is Relief Cut Plot. | “y_a C. W. A. Worker Correspondent | COATESVILLE, Pa. — The en- closed material may be of some in- terest to you. In conection with the C. W. A. jobs in this vicinity. ; -A- skilled electrician with a wife and several children has been out of work for many months, also out of mons Lately the family has been dependent upon the Welfare artment, which furnished a $5 a K grocery order, of course better han nothing, but not much at that. | Tris electrician got placed on a C. |W. A. job last week and is earning exactly $7.50 a week, for three days work a week. 5 hours a day at 50c an ho The Welfare of course was discontinued as this worker is now considered employed And thus worketh the New Deal. Size 16 takes 3% yards 39-inch! 'Puerto Rican Worker Tells of DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1934 Letters From Transport and Communication Workers ro General Strike on Island 2,000 in Walkout in Centrale Alone; Warns of Treachery of Socialist Leaders (By a Worker Correspondent) GUANICA, Puerto Rico—We are oing our best here, although we have no organization of our own. We have many contacts. We are confronting the biggest | trike movement in Puerto Rico. Here in Guanica the leaders, Socialists, are | trying to pacify the workers, but the vorkers are so militant that the So- talists are to a certain extent forced so accept the struggle. The factory is dead, except the | plantation is 100 per cent stopped. | There are in the Centrale alone here } over 2,000 workers in the strike, and, as I said before, they are so mili- tant, that they don’t pay any at- tention to the police in stopping any- body who titles to go in. There is a strike against the “oil trust” too, and the whole island is ni a general strike. The drivers are fighting like hell to win this strike. Our comment is that we fear the the workers’ hall; we advise the work- ers to be on the watch, and to force the leaders to come clean. We need Spanish literature here, and cheap, so that we can sell it. We ave going to form a workers’ book shop. As soon as everything is fixed up here, we are going to send money for the “Daily.” We cannot stay leaders’ treachery, but we are near without our paper. More Work with Fewer Jobs At Telegraph Accounting Dept. (By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK. — Historically, galley Slaves may be an anachronism, but not to us overworked typists and clerks of the Accounting Department of the Western Telegraph Co. at 60 Hudson St. How speedily our hopes in the N. R, A. were dashed to smithereens. Tt is true that our minimum wages of $8 to $11 (which was the maximum for most of us) were increased to $15 on paper and $13 in actual wages, But at what a price! Where, before, the speed-up was bad enough, now it’s intolerable. Under the eagle eyes of the super- visors who, in turn, are egged on by the hypocritical, benign Mr. New- man, we are driven to exert our- selves to the point of exhausition. We are forced to work overtime one to three hours several nights a week without any extra pay. Only through grumbling did they'agree to buy us a measly supper in the com- Dany restaurant. By this cruel | method of exploitation they evade hiring any additional typists and clerks, In fact, we are doing more work with less personnel than be- fore. Letters from SAYS FORD! New York. Dear Comrade Editor: “Depression Over, Progress Being Made, Says Ford.” So reads a head- line in the Daily “News.” This vicious enemy of the working class again takes it upon himself to tell us how good the depression really was for us, the workers. But his own employes cannot be placated with this tommyrot. We see this very Plainly in the strike at his Edgewater plant. LG, pee sce iN Lederer INTERESTS OF INTELLECTUALS LINKED TO REST OF WORKING CLASS, SAYS READER New York City. Dear Comrade Editor: I happened to read Smychka in U.S. S. R. by Comrate Michael Gold and the way he proves how the John Reed Clubs are class-conscious mostly in theory but very little in practice. I would suggest that all these in- tellectuals would start to study for a change, the Communist Manifesto, where it proves how we are all vic- tims of exploitation. The only dif- ference is that we toilers are ex- It is well known that this tyrant boss of ours, Mr. Newman, suc- ceeded in having a clerk of four years’ service in the personnel de- partment replaced by his own daughter. This cruel action violated every agreement with the A. W. U. E. The highly-paid company union president Elsden ignored this action, although he professes it was never brought to his attention. The A. W. U, E. eid nothing for this discharged girl, so what can we expect it to do for us? Please have your powerful Daily Worker continue your exposure of rotten conditions in the W. U. My co-workers read it. Please comment on this letter as it will help us. More power to you. —i. ane a ED. NOTE: The Daily Worker is slad to publish more letters such as the above from workers, expos- ing the conditions under which they work. We are also interested in sssisting these workers to erganize. Workers are urged to make con- tact with the Daily Worker person- ally, or through the mail. All names and addresses are kept con- fidential. SSSIEESRSEEnenecaercenene res a Our Readers cient I would remind them the article written some time ago by the same comrade how six hundred men with Phi Beta Kappa, BA, MA, PhD, de- gree applied in a Times Square restaurant to start as bus boys for 15 bucks a week etc. And also the 10,000 teachers who are still on the list waiting for ap- pointments (which they will get prob- ably after the revolution). And the recent article by Oakley Johnson who applied for a C.W.A. job and how the girl at the desk was throwing hints to him that a plain worker has more of a chance to get @ job than a college professor. In other words intelligence is a curse under capitalism, where in the Soviet Union it is a blessing. Perhaps all these facts will help them overcome the feeling of the bourgeois superior- ity complex. Comradely yours, DAVID GLUCKMAN. F. K., New York—With regard to |the letter on the Central Food Mar- ket, you are correct that it should have inctuded an editorial note. And ploited physically and the inicle-- tuals mentally. If this is not suffi- this was done, but unfortunately it was lost in the printshop. Our Readers Extend Revolu to the Daily Worker on Its Tenth Anniversary tiomary Greetings DISTRICT 2 J. Keminstky R. Lopes H. Greenstein A. Adams Goldstein J. Ray Max Gorowitz ©. Vazela Gronofsky A, Vilar Louis Roseman Unit 33 Sam Israelowitz i Morris Charad pre ees 3am Zaslowsky H, Dare Anna Charad E. Saniel Anthony Longp Unit 15 Joseph Longo M. Millenk Louis Finkelstein 8. Gok a y Louis Schwartz Hohe Mina Eskenazi | M: Bimbaum Joe Goldman L Ham Ellen . Avnet Max Bloom Finnish Working Lou Goldberg Womens Club Sam of K. & 8, | Finnish Workers Elkins Club. Brooklyn A Lawyer M. Anisfield DIST. 7 Gostlinsky G. Tavel Pia Lillian, Tessie, Tom Mooney Br., Charlie ya G. Galomech Polish I.L.D. “An- reas tonina Sokolicz” | 1 Reiten Br. * E. Olim Ci Al & C. Caplin Newberry, Mich. | pickles Newberry Wkr. Cl. 3 suitivan Newberry Womens Julie, Ann, Caplin ati Madeline & Clara Young Com. Leag. | 4 Lipofsky DIST. 3 Mr, & Mrs. Feld- Wilkes-takre, Pa.) man {. Isaacs Mr. & Mrs. Gard- Unit 20 arett E. Mendez D. Feldman Bigas J. Shimsky A. Maiten Geo. Gairodi Karl Max Louis Stamtis G. Game N. Nicholson Marilyn Schwartz /R. E. Tuton Dave, Milton W. Larenkar and Sidney Jay Svobonia In Memory of Anonymous Henry Roden | Koon Rudolph Micik G. Kuldin Paul Skodacek Chanos Gramatas Anthony Uherek | Alex Alhanacion Anna Skodacek | John Voogel Suzanna Schulz | Rosenblatt M. Hlavenka John Boussoule F. Belak George M. Skodacek George Bond J. Sutlovich Thomas Hukoles 8. Justicov N. Tainowsky Levin and S. Nickles Yagolnitzer Rizo Davuty Christ Nicholes | Koritos Diana Georgeon | John Markor Louis Georgeon Meismus Shop P. Packer T. U. Bryan John Chasalis Alex Fodoroffs Leo Cohen Fine Gold Paul Blachman | John Polos J. K. Margaritis Louis Greenblatt Gedtae Zallais Adolph Kosofsky Andrew Vianoz a eae Talia Mikane Bernstein Popathimitrios P. Zupster G, Zemue H. Daniels Chas. Michelson Unit 35, Sec. 2 | 4. Baghdignan Ella. May Br. ILD | $8 Zassar Hinsdale Wor'ers | Morris Zivow Youth Club iho I. Bresalier Polish Chamber of K. Oribicess Labor Joe Vinsky Club “Jednosc”” Harry Hary D. Johnson Frank Miller M. Christensen Thomas Prifh G, Bels Elmira Jones Shapiro Bros. D. Ciccarelli Pure Food Dairy G. Lione J. B. Kass A. Surk Chere Fish & Pietro Recchia Food Market John Ladysmith | J. Sosnowski Gibac V. Sicoboda J. Milton. Sam N.N. F. Zappala N. R.A. Felix 8. Josephine Zimmerman M. Blazak Pasterozyk Macan Lech V. March S. Ressler Hlia Radeff T. & A. Kurk Kolio Vasiloff L.&A. Henrickson Sam George D. Maki E. Tamoff A. Adamson Mincorsky Prank Johnson Stoichase Wm, Salmi Christ Baajietf | Welno Maki Vv. GC; W. Wilen MN. Nex Kuhna B. Boedgriff . Kainu Pitrai A. Lindquist P. Kostoff Hill Sam _ Soucoff | Abatalo R. Hammond Kubho Me saad NT. M.L R. Pp. A. S, Nowakowski A. Eklund B. Krawezak C. & L. Salo ee R. Jakela Ly Pitkkuinics M. Perhonen Dave's Shoe Store | Frank Maki peek een Fred Ekholn ien Pai Pred and Manet Siogel Lima dant Jays Men Weer | Nannie Strengel J. Paimi Mr. and Mrs. C, Rosenbaum Postal Subs Made to Wait Hours for Possible Jobs (By a Postal Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Under the guise of \ regulatory labor codes, such as the Postel Laws and Regulations in the Post Office, the workers are denied any sort of direct action, such as strikes. Despite furloughs, salary slashes, and speed-up, the most ef- fective instrument of reprisal has been declared illegal. The Post Office is an excellent ex- ample of sweatshop practices. There are two categories of workers, regulars who work on a yearly wage, and substitutes who work on an hourly basis, when they are employed. Both have become the victims of drastic economies and neck-breaking speed-up. The lot of the substitute workers is an especially sad one. Despite a rise in the cost of living of about 23 per cent, their earnings, averaging from $7 to $12 a week, have been subjected to a 15 per cent slash. In a great many cases, they are married men, unable to provide prop- etly for themselves, wives or chil- dren. During the last year, several hundred have applied for relief, which was denied them on the ground that they are Federal workers. A considerable number have been dis- Possessed. Every sub is called upon to report for work at 6 a. m. to deliver special delivery letters. The payment for the specials is calculated on a strictly piece work basis. With the specials gone, we hang around, by orders of the superintend- ent for another detail. We often wait two or three hours before we earn anything. Frequently, we are sent home for the day without earn- ing anything. Then again, we might be ordered to return in the evening for an hour's work. This makes it impossible to supplement our wages by taking an outside job, even tf it were possible to get one. The conditions of work indoors show absolutely no concern for the health of the workers. I haye worked in four stations and have found each worse than the other as a health menace. The walls are dirty, peeling, and unpainted. The electric lights are poor and badly placed; the ven- tilation is crude and of the most elementary sort. Socialists Block Union Support for Social Insurance NEW YORK—Realizing the cry- ing need of Federal Unemployment Insurance, I have been devoting my Spare time to the A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment | Insurance and Relief. In this con- nection, I was sent to Butchers’ Local 174. Before I got the floor, a gentle- man spoke for the German socialist paper “Neue Volkszeitune.” I got the floor, I stressed the need of unemployment insurance, and asked them to send two delegates to a rank and file conference. Imme- diately after I got through, a member ef the union (a member of the So- cialist Party) asked me if the official body of the A. F. of L. sponsored the conference. I answered by saying that this conference was supported by A. F. of L. locals and was com- posed of members of the. A. F. of L. only. Then he got the floor and spoke against the election of del- egates by saying that we were not members of the A. F. of L. The} president also spoke against. another Socialist. elected. While Socialist officials shed croco- dile tears in public for the unem- ployed, this is how they act. Witr millions cut of work, with thousand. i Jess, they oppos Insurance because th heir lackeys, the official dom of the A. F. of L. do not want it. Rank and file members of the Socialist Party, YPSLers and other affiliates, wake up! Join an organi- zation that fights with deeds, not} only in words. Slow to Hire and Slow to Pay on C. W. A. Jobs (By a C.W.A. Worker Correspondent AUBURN, Wash.—Just started on Roosevelt's C.W.A. It sure is a joke, a tragic one for the workers. Only a few of us have been employed to date, with much difficulty about getting our pay. Some workers get a few weeks work, then are laid off and aut off relief. I was called in to the relief office and was told by the “head man” that I wasn’t employed sooner due to my agitating and selling literature. They surely don’t want the workers to hear our message, so we must be on the right track. Anyway we are still “agitating” and will continue to sell the Daily Worker in fact we will intensify our ef- forts along that line. The political No delegates were He is|t. PARTY LIFE Although we announced some time ago that the Saturday column would be devoted to the Y.C.L. and the re- lation of the Party to the Y.C.L., the youth comrades apparently do not ap- Preciate the importance of a discus- sion of their problems in the Daily Worker, and supply us with no ma- terial. And, is the fact that al- though we receive letters from every district in the country dealing with every phase of Party work, except the ¥.C.L., evidence that the underes- timation of youth work, stressed in the Open Letter, still exists within our Party? The two letters which we are print- ing today, written by members of the Y.C.L., would seem to indicate that this underestimation still exists, both in the Party and in our unions. The second letter gives a glaring example, not only of the underestimation of the work among the youth, but of a lack of understanding of shop work. Perhaps our Party comrades over- looked the following section of the Open Letter: “The Party is confronted with the task of drawing in the young work- ers in the class struggle. This de- mands that an end be made to the underestimation of youth work, and of the necessity of putting up spe- cial youth demands. All Party or- ganizations, especially the factory nuclei as well as the fractions in all trade unions and mass organiza- tions must organize youth sections and give active support to the Young Commuist League. Every Party factory nucleus must help to or- ganize a nucleus of the Y.C.L.” “Since the Extraordinary Party Conference and the Open Letter, our Party and Y.C.L. have made a turn to the shops and to the basic in- dustries. However, here and there, there are still certain comrades who have not made the turn. I think it is fitting to write to the “Daily” about two incidents which I experienced re- cently and to criticize the attitude of certain comrades involved. Lack of Understanding “In our Y.C.L, we are now carrying on a Lenin-Liebknecht-Luxemburg recruiting campaign. My unit in try- ing to arrange for an anti-war meet- ing, in which we hope to involve some young Negro workers of Union Ave. in the Bronx, which is our concen- tration point, approached the house committee of 1400 Boston Road to try and get a meeting room for a certain night. A Party member re- plied that the Y.C.L. should go some- Where else and that they didn’t want any Y,C.L.ers around the center. The attitude of this comrade is an op- portunist one. Instead of cooperating, he tried to disrupt the work. In the Open Letter and the resolution of the District Conference, cooperation between Party and Y.C.L. is stressed, but evidently this comrade doesn’t know this. Letters Indicate Unions, Party Are Still Underestimating YCL Open Letter Stressed Task of-Party, Unions and Organizations Toward Youth Work “The other incident concerned me Name Street City By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. The “Health” Magazines Macfadden is also an obstetrician and a child specialist. If you do not betieve aL oe ea ose us “Preparing for Mother] |,” “How Raise the Baby” and “Predetermine Your Baby's Sex” $2 each. What no scientist has bet able to 2 \ -n- plish Macfadden can teach in a few minutes. Do you want a boy? $2 please! You prefer a girl? Easy as pie. Follow directions. It’s too bad that the author himself should have failed to consult his own text book when his own family was in the making; he might have slipped in an eceasional male child, among his many daughters! But this is not all. Macfadden has a “simple, easy treatment for asthma and hay fever that gives relief” (for $2). He ts also an eye specialist, if you please. For $3 yc can get his book on “Strengthen’ , the Eeyes,” which shows that you: -d no glasses at all. Fast and exercise your eyes, that’s the secret! Do you need a nerve specialist? For four bucks you get one book on the spine and another level of the workers of Auburn is ris- ing, and we hope to have some subs to turn in soon, Mike Gold says Ham Fish is ner- vous. That is good; Now comrades and fellow workers, let’s build our paper up and give him the “fitters” for fair. He and all the rest of his ilk of the parasitical, useless ex- ploiters. NOTE Every Friday we publish letters from workers in all branches of the transportation industries—railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, elev- ated lines, express companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc.—and from the communication industries—post office, telegraph, etc. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their condi- tions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters Lars Paavala to us by Tuesday of each week, .jactual mazuma, on the nerves. Do you suffer from diabetes? Macfadden has his own method which you can read about, for two cartwheels. ‘Tooth Troubles” and “Foot Trembles” cost you only one berry ea. “Skin Troubles” promises a “really beautiful complex- ion. No more pimples or blotches,” if you only part with two éron men. For a little more cash, you get two books on “Digestion Troubles” and “Constipation.” For two dollars in you “eliminate” colds, coughs and catarrh. “You can have the beautiful head of hair you desire. This great book (‘Hair Cul- ture’) tells you how,” for two beans. How to build viiility, keen fit, avoid headaches, be married sweethearts, there is no medical problem which this untrained mountebank does not claim to have solved and which he is not ready to sell you for a few pieces of silver. Throughout the magazine, these books have special display advertise- Join the Communist Party 33 EAST 12th STREET, NEW YORK CITY alone. When I got in a fur shop, I immediately went to the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union in erder to join. There Comrade W., & union official and a Party member, told me that the union is not organ- izing floor boys. This was a stupid and harmful reply. If a young work- er who is not a Y.C.L. member had gotten such a reply when applying for membership in the union, he would either have joined the I. L. G, W. U. or no union at all. Must Clarify Comrades in Order to Build Y.C.L. “We must root out this ideology among Party comrades about the in- Significance of the Y.C.L. Only then will we be able to build a mass Y, C, L. Only by fighting on all sides against these attitudes of Party mem- bers towards the Y.C.L., can we and will we root the Y.C.L. among the toiling youth. WL, New York.” * « Building Shop Nuclei “One of the main slogans of the Party in its present recruiting cam- paign is to build a Y¥.C.L. nucleus wherever there is a Party nucleus. A very striking example of how the Party nuclei are not carrying this out has just. come to the attention of our unit. “A young worker who was working in a shop of about 80 workers (a large percentage of whom are young workers) felt that her place was in the Young Communist League. She approached the chairman of her shop (Millinery Workers Union, A. F. L.) whom she knew to be a Party com- rade, and. told him that she wanted to join. the Y.C.L. His instructions to her,were that she should join a street unit of the League. When she applied for membership to our unit. we inquired if she knew of any other Party or League comrades in her shop. She told us that she knew four more Party comrades in the shop, “From these facts we drew the con- clusion that either the Party com- rades did not realize the necessity of organizing a nucleus in their shop, or did not_want any Y.C.L. comrades in their. shop nucleus. Shall we draw a conclusion from this that the Par- ty membership agrees to the slogan, “a Y.C.L. nucleus wherever there is a Party nucleus” on paper only: and does not carry it out in practice? Or is it that the district of the Party has not placed enough emphasis on the fact that one of the main tasks of the Party is to build the League. “Comrades, let’s break away from this policy of having beautiful slo- gans on paper only! Lets really reach out. to the mass of sympathetic workers, both adult and young, and draw them into our League and Party. Member of Unit 3, Section 15, 1.” « Please send me more information on the Communist Party ments if the usual American slogan and ballvhoo style: “Why Gamble with your Life?,” “She was Just a ‘Stay-at-home,’ Now Her Telephone Is Always Busy!” “Even His Daughter Kidded’ Him Because He Was Bald,” “Don't Gamble With Your Baby's Health,” “He Noticed Her Eyes,” cale pulse to shame, sere cretion the readers into buying these misleading and often agen pseudo-medical compilations, (To be continued) QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Aching of Shoulders and Head details as to how long you have suffering, whether the pain is ways present, how long it whether it gets worse during weather, your age and whether have had your change of life. _ «Physicians’ Unions Dr. R., Detroit—We do not know of any actual unions in this country, in the sense of a trade union. Amerie can physicians consider themselves publishe@ a monthly journal, “Medico-Economic Journal”; but the organization, as well as the publica- tion, did not last long. In Soviet Russia, the physicians have novseparate union, because the trade unions are not organized ac- cording to craft, as in capitalist countries, Each trade union in So- viet Russia is really an industrial union, and represents all the work- ers in a particular establishment, ir- respective of whether one is a skilled artisan, a laborer, a cook, a clerk or a physician, We therefore find doce tors in ‘every one of the 46 trade unions of the U.S.S.R. f f