The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1934, Page 8

(By a Mine Worker Correspondent) BENTLEYVILLE, Pa—There were Over 10 men fired at the Ontario m tn about two weeks. In 0! Seven were fired off of the ni The bosses find an excuse either in dirty coal or that the men did not clean up. their place properly Of course our mine is wo: t.} Same Cars That Riinanatied 60 Now Down to 39 and 45, According to Company Machine rking un aer| The 2 as the N. R. A. code and the U. M. W. A.| © but the company had the scale fixed| | while we were on this last time.| | It certainly i . The 8 per cent a ton increase that we got through| t t powder house rent, e' ss for food, and everything tt up so damn much that 1 agreement; both giving the coal com-| tually we can buy less now for the | Pany the right to hire and fire. Sr mine committee is a joke, bec: Cannot settle any cases. The 1 (Hat were fired never even took n} | he eases up with the mine committee be- | thing is @ause they know it is usele: Of course, is very bad, by e if we) do not fight we can not win anything. | No miner should pass any case b’ Every case should be fough the mine committee. | The sooner we convince the miners | that the agreement and the code are| chains on their arms and legs, the| Sooner we shall be able to win them | Y6r°a fight in which we will sm: this new deal giv the “char of the men. ion” Intense Speed-Up In our mine, we have an intense speed-up! We have what is known as the clean-up system, that is, the min- ers have to load up all the coal that] f is under-cut. ing day the men have to come in for a@ car or two of coal, which means about four tons of coal for two men at $48 cents a ton. I not a Rell) of a lot, and after taken out, union dues thing. While t recognized ment, it ystem Union s enforced be- is not agree- a month. "Then if he is icceeds in dod ed at him, you he comes out of t war to do this is to of the factories contro! the “better and hige #0 thet he may be s! ‘Then let him | him fn one Pico hand and he will do the stewing himself. “The first ingredient for the crust is to throw him out of a job and Jet him interview the relief agencies, tying to get something to subsist @n, and some of their crust might adhere to him—if not, he will de- velop: it himself. “To bake properly and slowly just Ist him join the relief ‘run-around’, @ndin his travels he will come across fi Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League Post and join up in the fight for our ‘Bight-Point Program.’” Cheerio. We feel sure that all the Housewives are solid in favor of all © ght ‘points. Doster to Digest After the Laugh in| the Above Pie Here is a different kind of “Weasel re” of mutton in salted water until ten- Ger. Wash and peel a dozen or ten four apples. of an egg or a little smaller. Oil or grease bottom of a good- d baking pan, and line the sides it with a half-inch thickness of king-powder biscuit dough. Cure apples, cut in quarters or in S, and mix with pieces of mut- Mix one cup sugar, (less for er amounts of meat and apple), 1 tsp. each ground cloves and mon, and a dash of grated nut- irn apple and meat mixture into baking pan, salt a bit, and put mixture over it. Pour in enough ' the broth to barely cover meat- : , cover all with top layer of biscuit dought, and bake in mod- } oven about an hour. Use left- broth, if enough for Scotch Barley Broth n by Comrade Chef.) In a of tablespoons of fat, brown thtly the following, diced very I 2 medium-sized carrots, a white turnip (optional), a small (This is nice for a one-dish | dinner, Simmer two or three pounds) Take mutton out of | broth and cut in nieces about size | If not, then the follow-| cards would not be necessary, | | | money we make than we could before | this 8 per cent increase. Is the U.M.W.A. Recognized? Some say yes, other: s say no! One) certain, every man was given! This, | a card to sign whether he wanted the to check off for his union ore, etc. If the U. M. W. A.| recognition the signing of these Let us suppose for a moment that the coal company gives work to the | men who pledge not to join the U. M. |W. A nere will the U. M. W. A. contract be then? I heard that out of about 300 men e, over 100 did not sign One man told me that| ated to him: “If you don’t | he U. M. W. A. then you are| A. U. man and I will have to| , I wonder if. the super read | 7A and if he believes in it. y he ha: de information, | he knows that the} just to make us} e New Rotten Deal. ke achating must be done in against these discharges, or the union will have Ontario mem, we must a fight to protect our jobs, and will eliminate | the killing Have you sent your Gemteiinition to the fund to finance the National Against Unemployment ‘onal Committee, Un- empleyed Council, 80 East llth St., New York City? <3 cel- | i a cup of | and when well heated, | 2 or 2% quarts mutton and boil a is quite soft, (2 often_so. it will not . The mutton, cut y be also added to the . if it has not been used for er dish. Use neck or breast sa You Make Yourself? Pattern 1746 is available in sizes 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Size 12 takes 3% ards 39 inch fabric and a “Em WZ ae fee 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, Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. | for regular weekly -mcetings. | |ington, Pa., and demand coal, shoes | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1934 Try By Starvation leiaea nees at Vesta Coal Co. Delegates B Being To Force Company Yan y; But UMW Does Nothing Union On Miners (By a Mine Worker | Correspondent) REPU BLIC, mine of the steel f t started to| ice the last ke. But at the same time the Russellton and Searights mine in Dist: 4 and 5 are working. | | Some of our men thought that if we send a committee to the com-| | pany we may get them to start this| mine up. So a committee was sent| to the general manager. He in- | formed the committee that if we will accept the rules as laid down in the company, that the they may con- sider opening up this mine. We all know that the “employe rep- | resentativ lan is a company union | and and the man-| we could not have any vote on what union we choose, etc. On the other hand our officials, | both the local, district and Interna- tional are telling us that we must} obey the N. R, A. code. We can’t strike, we must arbitrate, etc. While there are nearly 500 of us members of the local of the U. M. W. A. unemployed, this township has | hardly any C. W. A. projects or work. Very few men have jobs on the C. | W. A. projects and work for 40 cents | an hour. Relief is lousy, and so the men are getting more and more dissatisfied. |The company suckers are working hard to get the men to affiliate to the “Brotherhood” a company union, and unless we do something the brother- hood will split our ranks, Our local must demand C. W. A. jobs for all the unempolyed! Also | increased relief, shoes, and clothing for those who may not get jobs on the C.W. A. If necessary—and it is nec- essary—our local should issue a call for a hunger march to Uniontown to for the county to give more relief jobs. Of course our local president Minerd. andjhis gang will call this method of fighting “Bolshevism, Communism” and such names, but to hell with that. Bread is what we and our families need, and more of it. Win Demand for Flour and Coal for Jobless Miners (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) | DENBO, Pa.—For quite a while here in Centerville borough, we, the un- employed, were waiting for the “jobs for all” promised by Roosevelt. Fin- aly we saw no jobs were forthcoming and we began to organize. At the first meeting we had 70 unemployed. We established ‘ted officers, an organization, committees, set date The following meeting we instructed | @ committee of four to go to Wash-| ;and flour. Some of the men, and some of the committee wanted to wait | until after the new year, but finally | agreed to go. When we got to the| | Washington office, we were recognized as a committee and promised coal im- mediately, also that the flour will be given again during the month of Jan- uary. Already the coal has been de- livered! Also there was a change in the is- suance of relief checks. Now we will not have to walk miles to the Low | Hill School house, but the check will |be given out at three main centers! We made a demand for blankets. While there were some distributed here, it was not even one. blanket to a family, and all families need blan- kets. We also found out that 40 blankets were “stolen” after they were | delivered to the Low Hill School. Now it is very funny how thes | blankets were stolen. No window wa: the locks were not broken, yet | 40 blankets were “stolen.” Washing- | ton instructed us to investigate. Of course, we know that Fred Smith the man in charge of relief here, could tell who “stole” the blankets. And we will investigate. This Fred Smith used to be Vesta No, 6 clerk, then Maxwell and later Mather weigh- boss. Now he is the whole cheese in the relief here. After the miners went to work he refused to give them the relief checks, although they had no pay, and only gave the relief checks after a bitter fight. We must demand removal of the stool pigeon and agent of the Vesta Coal Company and the right of the unemployed to place the men from their ranks on all the relief agencies, There are practically no 0, W. A. projects here. Blacklisted Miners Chip in for “Daily” (By a Miner Correspondent) STUDA, Pa.—We are going to re- new our sub for three months, we feel that we can’t live without the “Daily,” for it is the only true organizer in the field. It does more real work than 500 men could do. ‘We are men who have not worked since 1931 and can’t get any jobs be- cause we are blacklisted miners, and can’t get any kind of work to do be- cause we have that fighting spirit and everybody knows us here miles around. But we gather up a few pennies from each to help the “Daily,” our fighter, NOTE: We publish letters from coal and ore miners, and from oil field work- ers, every Saturday. We urge work- ers in these fields to write us of their conditions of work and of their struggles to organize. Please get your letters to us by Wednes- day of each week, | following fact: | ance secretary reported that only 150 ; the local meetings regularly, the ma- Coal Penal: |No Supplies, Dead Work Not Paid for, Dirty| ties Unjust VESTABURG, Pa.—Here at the/ Vesta, 5 of the Vesta Coal Co., we are} wo! ig 5 days a week. We are forced| to spend eight hours a day at the! face! One hour for the dinner; every we spend from 30 to 60 minutes, | walking to and from work or riding and waiting for the Men Trip. This is precisely as it used to be. There is no change in this condition of work; we are still spending from 10% to 12 hours a day in the mine! Has the N. R. A. Increased Our Earnings? While the N R. A. and its code for the mining increased our wages some: | the earnings, or what we get each two weeks in our pay envelope, are the same. The best proof is in the At our last local meeting our fin- members paid their dues the previous pay! This out of over 700 miners em- ployed, the great majority of them members of our local of the U. M. W. A. Even the vice-president of our local had to report that he did not pay his dues because he couldn't. Among the 350 to 400 men that attend jority show their empty statements as an answer why they do not pay their dues. This certainly is the best answer to both the N. R. A. boosters and the Lewis-Fagan machine of what the N. R. A. did to increase our earnings. “The Right to Belong to the Union of Your Choice” This part of the N. R. A. was sup- posedly sacred. But the companies have the right to hire and discharge, and here at Vesta 5, while there are many of the miners who were black- listed in 1927-28 strike, also the 1931 strike, these men cannot get jobs. On the other hand the company is hiring men from Cokeburg. It happens that in Cokeburg the brotherhood practically split the U. M. W. A. local; the leader of the Cokeburg brotherhood Gulilonda — former Fire Marshall in Bentleyville, issues out recommendations for the job; also we are informed these men have to sign up to wear helmets in Daily Subs Increase in Wyoming Mine Dist. By a Worker Correspondent ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.—I am for-| warding you a Subscription for three} months for the Daily. We are getting the Daily to the workers here slowly but surely, for the readers have in- creased by half in the last year. The workers here are solely dom- inated by the U. P. Coal Co. and are under a terrific terror as to reading Communist literature, but the move- ment is growing. The rank and file movement is militant here in the M. W. of A. but the fekers along wi! the bosses still-have a strangehold on the workers: I’m glad to see the Daily near its goal in the $40,000 drive, which I can say would be impossible for other op- position dailies such as the “Liberals,” ete, the mine—this while our local decided against the helmets. Our local should list all of the black-listed miners in and round Ves- Vesta No. 5, and tell him that no one shall be hired until these members of done by the locals everywhere else, and if the bosses will not agree, we should strike. While we have no check off for the union dues at the Vesta mines, there is a check off for the company. We must pay $2.10 a month for company insurance; $1.30 a month for doctor, % of a cent for the blacksmith, 6% cents a day for the miners light, also we pay % a cent for the check weigh- men. Then the powder and caps. These overhead charges take 30 to 75 per cent of our earnings. Also here at Vesta 5 the company continously checks miners off for power which they did not get. Our Checkweighmen Are Not Union Checkweighmen! In the old days, before the war, the miners’ checkweighmen called out the weight of the car. Lewis machine changed this, giving the company weight boss the authority to call out the weight. Also the agreement spe- cifically states that the checkweight- men has no voice in the running of the tipple, and the right to contest and put back on the scale any car was conveniently left out of the agree- ment and the code. This means that if a car hits the scale and weights 4 tons, the company weight boss can call out 2% or 3 tons and our check weightmen has no right or the power to check or stop this stealing of our coal. There are many other grievances in our mine. ‘:nere are no supplies; dead work is not paid for; men wait weeks for a parting, turri is not equal, dirty coal penalties are unjust, yet neither the N. R. A. nor the U. M. W. A. higher officials or some of the local officials are trying to change these damnable things. It is up to us to take control of our locals and of the whole U. M. W. A. and make it a real miners’ union. Smash the Lewis- Fagan machine! Smash the N. R. A. created company brotherhoods. Es- tablish a real union in every mine. Harry Ryan, a Cop, Is UMWA Delegate (By a Miner Worker Correspondent) STUDA, Pa—The mines around days a week. The conditions in the mines are very bad. At the Penowa mine of the Avella Coal Co., the U. M. W. of A. is robbing the miners again of the check-off as they did before. The check runs from $1 to $2 every two weeks for | initiations, fees, and dues. Enclosed you will find a yellow dog contract. of the worst type, and they check off from the men whether they sign it or not. Cedar Grove Mine Local 1794, located at Studa, Pa. elected dele- gates to the U. M. W. of A. Conven- tion. He is a constable, Harry Ryan, and he works at Cedar Grove mine. He helped the company to break the united front strike, April 27, 1933. He arrested 12 of our leading comrades. One of them was Jack Stewart, or- ganizer of the National Miners Union. And he also served eviction notics. Now I say to all rank and file dele- gates to expose Harry Ryan before the convention. taburg, present this to the super at/ our union are hired. This should be} Avella Section work from one to three | Handpicked in Wilkes-Barre Area | (By a Miner Correspondent) WILKES BARRE, Pa.—The unem- ployed and employed convention, rep- |Tesenting 4,500 workers that we had here in Wilkes Barre, was attended | by 55, delegates, representing 29 or- vanizations. It was the first time that we have ever had delegates offi- | clally from any of the miners organ- ‘zations. They came from _ the Maloney union, 15 delegates from | four local unions. | Comrade Amier was here for the | convention, and helped wonderfully. |He also spoke at an affair that we had on the night of the 3ist, in the name of the C. P., as a member of the C. C., and I might say that there were about ten Lovestoneites present, ‘and some of them expressed them- selves now as realizing that the C. P. is correct. These are not from among the leaders of the Lovestoneites in the Anthracite, but from the ranks of the workers. The U.M.W.A. convention in In- dianapolis, I expect, will be interest- ing, but from around this section of the Anthracite, we will not be able to do much with the delegates, as they will be hand-picked, for the U.M.W.A. here, as elsewhere, will not allow any such thing as an honest election, neither will they allow any one to run for office, unless they know that he is for the administra- tion. Along this line we are going to be awfully weak, due to the fact that in the U.M.W.A. locals we do not have any opposition grouns, and then the further fact that in the split that took place, the militant miners left the U.M.W.A, and went over to the UAMP. Lots of Excuses But Few Jobs for CWA Anpoplicants (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I was over to the C.W.A. The man in charge said that there were no jobs to be had, and that aliens who hadn’t second papers would be excluded. and he said those that had brass checks should forget about new jobs, because they hayen’t any. He also said to those who had white cards that the cards were useless, because they were applications before the C.W.A. came into power. He also told them not to go to the other C.W.A. agencies, because it was useless, Building Opposition in \Tulsa Jobless Group That Is Run by Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) TULSA, Okla—One year ago, the politicians organized an “unemployed council” here; to try to head off the Tadicals, and the result was, it was soon broken up. I could not get within a block of jit, but that did not keep me from agitating and selling the Daily Worker. This Fall they organized the un- employed into a Council. but we could not get but one half of the workers in the commun‘ty to represent us, so the result will be about the same. But by agitating, I have enough friends here now, so that I can at~ tend the meetings. without fear of being lynched. and the next time we organize, I think the workers will tun. the show. Fight for unemployment insur- ance. Support the National Con- vention Against Unemployment on Feb. 3 in Washington, D. C. WITH OUR YOUNG READERS By M. B. door of the New Pioneer office opened wide and banged against the wall. The clerk stopped tapping her typewriter, turned around, and was about to greet the visitor with her customary smile. But nobody had entered the room. The clerk Scratched her nose, feeling annoyed, mumbled something, and closed the door, shutting out a chilly draught. A short while later, the door flung open again. And once more the clerk turned, smiling broadly. But nobody crossed the threshold! “What the devil!” the clerk: moan- ed, “Has this place gone spooky?” She stood a moment—scratching her head this time—unable to solve the mystery. The draught scattered the papers around her desk. She went again to close the dor. Sud- denly she was met by a crowd of girls and boys. They marched firmly into the room, the clerk retreating to her desk. Her first thoughts at this mass visit were: “Here's where I sel! some Pioneer uniforms. Or perhaps they're bring- ing money for the New Pioneer drive!” “Well comrades,” she said at last. “What can I do for you? Is ét uni- forms? Or what?” “No,” answered one of the boys. “We're a committee.” “A what? A committee?” she asked, puzzled. “A committee, that’s what,” the boy said stubbornly. “We didn’t know who should walk in first, and Bill over here, opened the door and we all ran away, frightened. So we de- cided to walk in, all at a time. Well, here we are, I guess.” “But what for?” she asked, still puzzled. “Here, here's a paper we all signed.” The clerk took the paper, wonder- ing what it could be about. She scratched her cheek this time, opened the wrinkled yellow, Paper, and read: Dear Comrades: We are sore. All the pioneers and workers’ children who read the “Daily Worker” are sore. Since the six pi “Daily” came out we all like the paper a lot. Everything in it is bet- ter than it used to be. Yet we are sore. Why? We'll tell you why. Be- cause on Saturday, of all the fea- tures in the “Daily,” the column for the workers’ children is the smallest, the dullest. How can we expand our revolutionary chests if we are cramp- mand a change! We demand more pep! We demand good stories, poems, jokes and puzzles! Comradely yours, (Signed) Better Column Comm. . A Gewes .. the committee wins! The Pioneer office found a comrade who promised to do his best. The “Daily” promised more space. But remember, a column like ours can’t be run without the readers’ help. It's your column! Send in shrot stories, poems, letters about strikes and demonstrations in your neighbor- hood. Send in jokes and puzzles. If good, we will gladly print them. Also, we are not satisfied with the present title of our column. Let's start a contest. Send in vour sug- gestion for a good title. The winner will receive a prize. Come on, what'll the name of our column be? Write in! Coen (ee WORKER AND BOSS By RUTH SAFRAN There is Mike On a strike Early every morn To fight for bread To fight for milk And then to fight for corn. There's the boss Who looks like a horse Boy! He'll look a sight When the workers win the fight! | bbeniahescleh g knows about the $3,000 drive to save our New Pioneer magazine. And talking about prizes, age} take a peep at these! 1, A national banner for the high- est district over the quota. 2. A national banner for the high- bet troop, group, or school in the ive. 3. A copy of the new book “Our Lenin” to every child raising over ed up in such small space? We de- | $10. 4 A pennant or streamer to every troop raising over $25. 5. An honor certificate to every child raising ove: $2, HANDSOME ADOLF By EMBEE Handsome Adolph, who ts he? An angry fascist chimpanzee! A swastika monkey gland In a dying bosses’ land. Handsome Adolvh, who is he? Cracy boss of Germany! Baioen wild fists and shouts wild Brags about his cut mustache. Handsome Adolph, who is he? Chisf gangster of the bourgeoisie! Shoots down toilers, stebs them too, Hates anybody who’s a Jew. Handsome Adolph, madman bold, Is like the beastly czar of old. And like the czar of Russia shall Meet the fate of his late pal. Brown-shirt Adolph Humpty Dumpty Sits upon a fascist fence, When he'll fee] the workers’ bump-yt They will kick out all his sense, Then handsome Adolph falls to pieces Scattered in the storm of hat, -| And like a filthy spot of grease is Wiped out by the Workers’ State, PARTY LIFE Results of Communist Since Beginning of At the beginning of the month of |Decmber the Party started an inten- sive drive for new members. The aim that we set for ourselves was to strengthen the Party in the factories, among the basic elements of the| American proletariat, to bring into| the Party workers from the concen- tratin factories and industries, from the Industrial, Independent and A. F. of L. unions, to increase consider- ably the number of Negroes in the Party, and during the Recruiting Drive to build new factory nuclei, strengthen the old ones and make! the Party fractions in the Union function. Let us examine on the basis of the tration districts, how these tasks were December recruiting in the concen- carried out. (Here we want to state that some of the districts started the | recruiting drive in the second half of December). 895 New Members In the five concentration districis we recruited 895 members out of which about thirty-two per cent are employed. Twenty-three per cent (201) of the total recruitment in the concentration districts come from the | concentration industries. Only twen- ty-eight per cent (83) of the new centration industries ere empoyed. One hundred of the new recruits from the concentration industries belong to unions; fifty-five per cent to the A. F. ofL. and Independent Unions and forty-five to the Industrial Unions. About thirty-three per cent (88) of the new members from the concen- tration industries are native born; about eight per cent (17) are Ne- groes. Let us look at the concentration districts one by one: New York District New York in the height of their recruiting drive, reports for five weeks 453 new members, an average of about 90 per week, about the same as the number reached by the district in the 1932 recruiting drive with less members then and incomparably less mass activity than now. But this figure is double the average monthly recruiting previous to the drive. We would like to emphasize one New York. Only one employed Marine worker came into the Party during the five weeks in spite of the fact that the main concentration in the district is waterfront. Out of the 53 recruited from the concentration industries, 16, or thirty-one per cent were employed, yet, on the whole, the district reached the second figure as to the percentage of em- ployed new recruits. While seven- teen per cent of all recruits belong to the A. F, of L., only eight per cent of those were recruited from the con- centration industries. One serious shortcoming in the New York Recru- iting is the insufficient number of new Negro members; 41 with only ive of them in the basic industries and 23 in the light industries. Pittsburgh District District 5, in absolute figures, ii only a little behind Chicago which has a membership three times the size of Pittsburgh, The District recruited 114 new members, forty- six per cent of whom are employed; seventy per cent of the new recruits come from the basic industries, six- ty-two per cent of these are em- ployed. Out of the 49 miners, 31 be- long to the A. F, of L. Out of the 14 steel workers, nine belong to the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Railroad and transportation is not a special concentration in Pittsburgh but the Party succeeded in recruiting three native born rail- road workers, two of them employed. The weak point in the Pittsburgh recruiting is the insufficient number of Negro recruits, only 15 (only six from steel and mining). ‘We are glad to note the great im- provement in recruiting over Novem- ber, but the District should pay more attention to recruiting Negro miners and steel workers. Cleveland District District 6—As the figures show in District 6 there is a marked. improve- {ment in recruiting in the month of | December. The proportion of the employed and unemployed is not the best one, 25 per cent. Only about 34 per cent of the new recruits come from the basic industries (40) out of which 37 per cent are employed. Very few new members belong to aj .un wo STINGER, MD. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS From a Russian Sanatorium R. W.—The following letter might interest our readers. It comes from @ woman comrade who, for certain personal reasons, could not get well here. We sent her to one of the Cau- casus sanatoria because of the high- grade medical treatment, the reason- able rates charged to workers ($30 per month, including the fare from and back to the border), and because of the comradely atmosphere which was essential to her complete recovery. “Dear Doctor Luttinger: “Well, finally after twenty-one days of traveling, I arrived in the Cau- casus on December 21. I certainly had a very pleasant trip. Not even one day was I seasick; although I had plenty of sea travel, because from London I took a Soviet boat to Lenin- grad. The Baltic sea has a tendency to freeze in the winter. Our boat stood two days on the ice, but it was a marvelous sight. We did not mind, because we had plenty to eat and it was pretty warm inside. Then the gigantic Soviet icebreaker came and cleared the way for us. I had very nice company all the way to Kis- lovodsk. There were always nice people. who spoke English or German so I did not feel lonesome, 895 New Members Join Party In 5 Concentration Districts Party Recruiting: Drive December Analysed jthe Unions (3 A. F. of I » 2 Indus- trial Union), from’ the recruits of the concentration. Only-four Negro |members were recruited from the |concentration industries’ Fitty per |cent of the new recruits are native |born. ‘These weaknesses in the recru- iting will have to be improved in the |next period. | Détroit District i In the whole month of jrecruited in the whole district. This umber does” not reach" even the average recruiting of the district, |which shows that the drive has not yet begun im Detroit. From Detroit we have only. 33 new members anal- \yzed as to the composition. Out of these 33 only’°10 are automobile | Workers and only two of these 10 are employed. Let us assume that the 23 jmew members about whom we have |no information as to the composition jhave among them the same peércene |tage of automobile workers as the janalyzed figure. That would mean |that we recruited in the whole month lof December in Detroit, with a popu- |lation primarily employed in the auto industry, only one. third (17- 18) of the new recruits from this concentration industry. The District Bureau in Detroit thust.very seriously |discuss this problem and take steps to change this entirely. unsatisfac- tory situation. - Chicago District District 8 recruited only. 158 mem- bers in five weeks. In the whole year of 1933,. we find .only three months in which the. recruiting is lower than in December,. The Dis- trict recruited an average of 174 members in 11 months ‘of 1933. It is very difficult to explain that in December we did not’ sueceed in reaching even this figure especially when we consider the increased activity of the Party in the various struggles in the Chicago District. Out of these 158 members, only 29 come from concentration industries, only 9 of these are employed. Not one railroad worker was recruited in the district during this period. From the Packinghouse Industry, which is one of the main concentrations in the district, we could. recruit only two un- employed new members, Not a single’ Negro--worker was recruited from the concentration in- dustries in Chicago District, 13 new members recruited from ‘the concen- tration industries belong. to the A. F, of L., or Independent unions and four to the Industrial Unions which comparatively is a high figure but, considering the strength of the A. F. of L., and Progressive independent unions of America in»the Chicago District, it is entirely unsatisfactory. We recruited during the month of December in the whole Party, 2104 members which is an,,increase of about 25 per cent over the previous months. Not considering. the con- centration districts, the best districts Seattle and Minnesota, California which shows @ decline in December in recruiting still has a relatively high figure, 374. The recruiting is very small in Districts 1, 3, 4, 15, 18. In another article we wif deal with the composition of the new: eee in these districts. Hand in hand wth the pieobless “Ot recruiting goes the problem of fluc- tuation. Unless we find the solution for this problem our Party. will not grow. We lost thousands of members because of the insufficient attention given from the higher Committees to the Units. The Polburo. has considered the problems of extending the recruiting drive until the coming convention. We suggest that a revolutionary com- petition should start between the concentration districts as to which one will get more new members from the concentration industries into the Party, which one will succeed to build more shop nuclei, or strengthen the old ones, which one will bring in more A. F. of L. and other Union members into the Party. Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburg should com- pete on steel and miming. New York, Philadelphia, California, Seattle, Bos- ton on lonshoremen. . District 14, 1, 3 and 16 on textile. Send in your challenge to the Party Life Column. Every individual Party member should feel that he is res- ponsible for Wirihing large numbers of workers into the Party. “I can’t deseribe the wonderful at- tention I am. getting here in the sanatorium. It takes the Soviets to consider a worker’s health. I think that if I went to any capit place anq paid hundreds of dol I could not get all this. “The following treatments are given Narzan shower, one day, and Nar- zan bath, the other day. I also get electric treatments.for my, head. doctor told me*that I’ Have to five times a day, and because I very weak he wants me..to be strong as I never was before. “The town itself is -picturesgt The weather is pretty cold. We Gen having snow also, but it. certainly is not freezing. ~ abe “I have shown your letter to the doctor in Moscow and also in Kise lovodsk. They don’t reat but everyone understood the words anemia, nervous, etc., and then they knew everything. Here insthe Sana- torium the doctor speaks a little Germen, I told her that, you have suggested that I come here. She was very padi and asked: ie, ‘What kind of a doctor is it who gends you ou here?’ I said, ‘He is alsos h vik.’ She liked this very: “I am feeling much ‘ “With comradely we