The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1934, Page 4

Bsus S National Secretary of Militant Fraternal Order Discusses Plan of Work for 1934 By MAX BEDACHT of the , ducati campaign must make all The fifteenth week is m sections conscious of the need International Workers Order |of concentrated attention to the membership campaign brought | building of the English, the Youth gps 5 ig 153 | 8nd the Children’s Sections. At the in 733 new members and same time a concentrated effort shall children. be organized during March and April The Jewish Section again led the cruit one thousand new mem- campaign with 289 new members for into the English Section, one the week, the nian Section sand new members into the reaching second e with 105 new) Youth Section, and two thousand new members. members into the Children’s Sec-| The Hungarian Sectio pped | tion. ack from its previously steady good) he propaganda campaign #3” record. winntiig 62 new members fot/aim also to overcome reflect!<:.s of the’ week. The Slovak white chauvinism in our ~2:Ks. The Section, too, showed organizational campa‘~_ shall aim to some recession, bringing recruit Negro ms eee anters. The |_At the ©7e time the National| er ‘eg af aortas Executiv= Committee shall organize oe ave Rencnr ak ane & “sual campaign for the building| ee 20, BN + the Order in the South. Spanish 13. ai kde South Becti ight | _T8@ mobilization of the unions for ie Youth Sect > e |organization in the I.W.O. is another rise in recruit in 30 new task of outstanding importance for members. The Er r n ° our Order. It ll be made a part} meme. ior the week. lof the efforts to build our Order into| ee, par see v i nene ce ond! an American workers mass fraternal] oe winding installment of the/c.eanisation. ‘The National Hxecu- ave Work for the coming siX| tive Committee, therefore, shall ore Bee Cenided upon by the National! (i> and direct during the next six Executive Committee months a sy winning ten members for TA-1 tematic campaign for usand trade union affiliation and TA-2. Third Weakness of the Order | The third of the weaknesses of the | Order is an underestimation of the} importance and a neglect of the needs | of the I.W.O. itself and of its mem-| bers. This has led: (a) To an accumulation of debts of Pen of Work for First Six Months ° 1934 Note: The first part of the plan Was yas.sacd 1a .ast Monday's issue of the Daily Worker). The second outstanding weakness of our Order is the slow growth of our English, our Youth, and our Children’s Sections. This ly ‘a weakness of numbers; it is a Political weakness is also caused on Options | by the inability of the Order to find its place in the class struggle. As Jong as the class struggle activities Of the Order are looked for outside of the activities of the Order proper. there can be no inner unity and no the branches to the nationai office. | (b) To a complete neglect of the collection of a volunteer contribution | share of $12,500 to the Unemployment | Loan Fund, as decided upon in a referendum a year ago. | concentration on one definite pur-| (c) To our failure hitherto to give pose. effective help to the establishment of The basic clacs gle task of the| youth centers, T.W.O. is to chalicnge bourgeois lead-| To overcome these weaknesses, the over the masses of American rs National Executive Committee shall Workers in the movement, organize in the course of the next and to lead the: workers out Of|six months, an internal campaign to bourgeois iltusions into proletarian| raise funds, The methods and forms consciousness. This task is accom-! of this campaign shall be worked out plished by or; ing the life and| by the Organization Committee. There shalt ne no general member- ship drive during this period. How- ever, every section shall utilize sys- However, © cannot accomplish|tematically all planned activities for this task we remain basically a|the purpose of improving and system- federation of language organizations.|atizing the regutar and continuous ‘We must become an American work-/jrecruiting of new members. To stim- ers mass org2 with language|ulate this systematization of recruit- sections. jing, special quotas for growth shall The building of our Order into su | be assigned to all sections, in con- an American proletarian mass fra-|sultation with the sections. The sec- ternal organization must become our) tions themselves shall determine the conscious purpose. To this end the! methods of this recruiting. activities of its members around the| fraternal class st le issues enu-| merated above. HELEN LUKE Comrade George L. T. of Chi- some mate concerning fabrics, ‘ ae jfurniture, etc. The magazine is 15c; cago, who has already Sent |, pattern and the magazine together some menus and recipes for |are 25c. use at red affairs, sends a sug-| We ask our readers who order this gestion for a soup to feed the del-|book not to be too shocked to find egates of the National Unemployed |¢vening dresses and such in it! It’s Convention at Washington, and ex-| all in the service. There is as yet no presses the wish to go along as con-|Pattern-designing service making vention cook. A real comradely de-|St¥les especially for workers. And sire, sure to be appreciated by the |Pethaps there are quite a few class- delegates: however, I have been ad-|Conscious workers who have to go vised by the committees in charge|Tsguised as bourgeois sometimes, that there will most likely be no ef- | Just to keep the job. fort this time to cook for the del-| 2 egates en tasse, but that arrange Can You Make ’Em Yourself? ments are being made to have the) delegates given lodging along the} route and in Washington by resident pee | Pattern 1748 lable in sizes > me + - stion | ‘atitern 17: is available in si ie pip making ei ee ieaeat by [1 16, 18, 20, 32, 94, 36, 38, 40 and Comrade George might prove very 42. Size 16 takes 3% yards 36 inch useful, if not on this trip, then on| fabric. others, so we give it here. | “Delegates who rides for long hours through cold and w often grow ill] with stomach trouble, and like to| have. something hot to eat,” says | Comrade George, “‘so I herewith send | you a method of making something | ‘on which every delegate could hold | up on the trip. . . with this between | camping all that they will neeq is! bread and crackers.” | Delegate’s Hot Soup | Mix well together the following: | % Wb, fresh ground, 1% 1b. small diced white potatoes, 6 medium sized onions minced fine, 6 beans garlic minced tine, 4 tablespoons salt, 2 tablespoons | pepper, 1 tablespoon (hot) red pepper “or 6 whole red peppers minced fine, ‘1 tablespoon paprika, 1 small can ‘tomato puree, 1 can drained green “peas, 242 cups flour. When well mixed make into loaf and wrap in brown paper. When ready to use, have 3 gallons boiling ‘water ready, and add the above in- gredients slowly, in small pieces, stir- | Struggle, dating away back to the| |Seabs, fought a pitched battle with ving to prevent sticking. Cook for| 20 minutes and serve. | In commmenting on the above} | formula for an emergency soup, I ‘must state the seasoning seems very thigh: those who prefer could reduce ‘the amounts of onions, garlic, and| pepper, especially the garlic—i or 2) would sufffice. I think too “gh ttcrackermeal or half-and-half “@ackermeal and flour would render the soup more easily digestible and Jessen the danger of burning, lumping end sticking. I think it should be heavily " wrapped in waxed paper before wrap- ping in brown. Naturally, as the meat is carried uncooked, the mixture “must be kept very cold en route. The amount of water given seems to me too much: 2 gallons ought to ‘be plenty to make a nourishing soup f the ingredients named, if part om, ermeal be used in place of all- rr. Of Interest to the Seamstresses | Asks Help in | Organizing | By a Food Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK —Are you aware of | | th Ke, errible conditions existing in is since the N.R.A. went into e*- fect. I am also one of t zves | and I want to tell you that “is com- pany and their boss * wothing but | blood-suckers. The= uon't even live | up to the code <.vner in wages or in| } working h- Of ~vurse, I am terribly disgusted with them long enough to organize every employe and I come to ask you to help me in my efforts. It is my honest belief that the Food Workers Industrial Union would be the prover organization for us to join, so please make an appeal through your Daily Worker that every Childs employe join the union and form an organization of our own which would better our conditions. I would very much appreciate an earnest appeal to my fellow workers to get together and d o something real soon. Editor's Note: The need for fight- such conditions as described by this Childs worker is seen in the con- ditions themselves. And there is only one way for such a struggle to win any changes, the way of rank and file organization; not by trusting a few top leaders like the A. F. of L. people who time after time have shown that they regard the unions as a dues and graft col- lecting agency, but through the soli- darity of the workers themselves. The Food Workers Industrial Union helps the workers to organ- ize in this solid rank and file way. Every Childs worker and every food worker who reads this should go to 4 West 18th St. and get direc- | tions and other help on what are | the first steps to be taken to organ- ize for solidarity and better condi- tions. |Police Thug No. 259 in| |Detroit Assaults Worker By a Worker Correspondent | DETROIT, Mich.—A worker, while | | waiting for the miserable relief, was | brutally attacked by Police Officer 259 at the Relief Station at West- ‘mninster and Woodward. Police Thug 259 slugged this worker for the mere reason that he did not find a seat as fast as the drunken cop said, “Sit town.” The worker was dragged into a| mall office, where the police thug began choking him. A tussle took |place, where the worker was badly | beaten. But the chorus of the hundreds of men and women saved this man from |eritical injury. A load of detectives | Were called up by this officer, but |they didn’t dare arrest this worker, | because they also heard the voices lof the angry crowd. | Workers: This police office 259 is |your enemy. Be on the watch. De- mand he be removed from duty. ~ my job, but I would like to stay j DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, iy. bd | xploitation Militant Hotel Workers Union Cook Worked 18 Winning Victzries in Lakewood By a Worke- ~orrespondent ‘ LAKEWOO®, W. J.—Seizing an op- | portune **.¢, the New Year holiday week-tud, the newly formed Hotel ‘“<«kers Resort Union of Lakewood, affiliated with the Food Workers In- dustrial Union, carried through s strike as a result of which 17 hotels | were forced to grant all of the} union’s demands. Another result of the strike was the improving of con- | ditions in every hotel in Lakewood, although they did not deal with the union. | |. The conditions under which the | | hotel employes worked were tntoler- |able. They were given but $2 or $3 a | week in cash; the rest of the wages | being in the form of a place to sleep, | | which was either a fire trap attic or |@ damp, disease-breeding cellar, and | miserable scraps which the hotel guests left at the tables and which were served to the workers as “food.” These miserable conditions produced |such a militant spirit among the | workers that the union grew by leaps and bounds. | The signal for the declaring of the strike was a demonstration of over |300 workers bearing aloft banners | which carried the union’s demands. These demands were—and are, for | the workers are still on strike and | picketing at a number of hotels—as | foliows: | 1—Recognition of the union. | 2-—At least $11 per week for all employes, with no deduction for room and board. (Previously they had re- ceived about a fourth of this amount.) 3—A six-day week with extra help hired on th eseventh day. (Hotel em- ployes in Lakewood had always worked seven days a week.) 4—A nine-hour day. (Eleven or 12 | hours had been the usual custom.) 5—Decent food and living condi- tions. (In sharp contrast to which I have spoken of.) 6—Only union men to be employed. (A consequence of this was a sharp blow at robber employ~cnt agencies —Jupiter, etc.—which had charged workers four times the legal fee when they gave workers jobs.) 7—Reinstatement of several Hotel Clarendon employes (who were fired because they helped the union.) 8—Freeing of the six arrested work- ers (who were arrested a week before on framed-up charges of “disorderly conduct” when many workers dem- onstrated to demand the reinstate- ment of the Clarendon workers.) 9—$3 per day on holidays and week-ends (since the work was doubled on those days.) 10-—$2 extra for midnight suppers (these “suppers” mean working all night). 1i—Round trip fare for all em- Ployes hired in New York. Many more strikes are slated to be called and by the end of the Lakewood season the union believes that practically all of the local hotels will have been forced to grant all of the union demands. those | Hours in One Day | On $7 a Week Pay By a Food Worker Correspondent MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Just came home from my job as cook at 15 minutes after 12. I worked from 6:30 in the morning to 12 at night, 18 hours for $7 a week. They told us to stay after 8 for the night party to pay $1 as extra, but we never got it. They told us that we will get it on pay day after they make $150 from the night party. They told us they were short of money on the so-called pay day on Wednesday and Thurs- day. They are supposed to pay extra {money at once. They know that we | have families and that we were look- jing for the $1 to spend for New Year's, but they don’t care. Comrades, I had only 2 cents in my pocket. The only way out is to join the union. I mean not the A. F. of L., but the Food Workers Indus- trial Union and then tell the N.R.A. fascist white guards where to get off. I am working in a hotel as a sec- ond cook. We used to get, on a job like this, $150 per month. A.F.L. Grabs $128 From Each Painter | On St. Louis CWA (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Here is just one of the raw deals that the A. F. of L. is putting over on the craft unions here in St. Louis. All during the depression when thousands of workers and their fam- ilies were living off fake charities The six arrested workers are being and other rackets that kept them on defended by the LL.D. @ stravation diet, many of the Weary Labor for Workers A. F. of L, members had to drop from the rolls of their unions, losing their insurance and seniority in their re~ spective unions. L. M. Raferty, secretary of the | Painters District Council, Amerfcan | In Cozy Villas of Seagate From a Worker Correspondent Place: Sea Gate, Brooklyn. Full sunshine, fresh air, trees, flowers. Near the azure of the sky and glittering sea. Window shades, soft music, craftex walls. Cops at the “gai desirables. Classes of People in Sea Gate I. The Petty Bourgeoisie Those who own one house or many houses all within Sea Gate, or only one house in Sea Gate and others either in Coney Island, in Brookiyn, or in the Bronx, in Manhattan or in any other part of New York State. Il, The Workers The hired men, before they came to Sea Gate, were skilled painters, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, railroad and automobile workers. These “men” are over 30 years old. They smoke a great deal and chew heaps of tobacco. Sometimes they get desperate, They then begin to drink. ‘They are not hopeless. They some- times talk of getting together with the other men; for there are many of these men. The maids are former teachers, nurses, factory workers, young girls from the South or from Harlem. As soon as the woman becomes a maid | her boss assumes that she is a pros- titute. Consequently, all the male members of the family try to insult her. The girls don’t like this. Those who can get another job quit imme- diately. Those who can’t stay. But vety soon they are fired. Why? Be- cause they are so overworked that the slightest exposure to the air gives them a severe and painful cold, and the bourgeoisie do not want to keep ” to keep out un- sick maids fro their children. So the maid is actually thrown out. These workers do all the dirty work. The men paint, wash floors and dishes, install radiators and ra- dios, drive cars, clean windows, run errands, go shopping, make the stove to give steam and hot water. The Women wash dishes, run errands, go shopping, clean the kids, cook, wash clothes for the whole family, play with the kids all day. When the kids get sick the maid stays with them all day and all night, getting no sleep. They have to sew, they have to stay around the house. In the summer the maid can't take the kid to the beach. No, she has to stay near her madame and her madame’s family, and listen to their stupidly empty gossip. ‘The most a comestic gets here is $30 a month. By the way, we have many members of the “intelligentsia” | owring houses in Sea Gate, and they, too, are guilty of inhuman exploita- tion of these workers. The pay is supposed to be given every month, but it is often paid a week or so later, and often in checks, on holidays when they can’t be cashed. The workers should form committees to get paid promptly. Sometimes when a worker is given a cheap room in the apartment he is given no rest. At all hours of the night he is called on to do emer- | gency jobs. | The food is uneatable. It is not | fresh. The workers are seldom given chicken. Most of the petty bourgeci- sie are Jews who use religion as an excuse to give stale food to the work- ers, The workers often get only her- ring’ for supper. Federation of Labor, is bold enough to give figures of what is to be stolen from these workers—$16,000, to be taken from painters on the C.W.A. jobs. Each worker will have to pay at least $128 back dues, but this day- light highwayman doesn’t say a damned word about what the work- ers are going to use for money when the C.W.A. projects jobs and money are gone. There are no Negro painters get- ting $1.25 an hour; the same goes for other building trade workers where the worker was unlucky enough to be born of the Negro race. A worker has to be lily-white to get any of the jobs paying a. F. of L. unicn wages. Read and learn how to carry on work in your union and stop helping to line the pockets of the smaller pie carde! Raferty, H. A. Summer-ot. secretary of Laborers Council, J. C. Sippa, sec- retary of the Carpenters’ District Council. Most of the carpenters, white and Negro, are on C.W.A. work, but are on the business end of a pick and shovel (muck stick). C. H. Morrill, chairman of the C.W.A., has started driving the workers worse than any old time slave herder of old slavery days in the South. * The “Ground Hog,” month by the Communist units in the Superior mines, Gillespie, Ill. issued every Reviewed by 8. L. “There is a lack of ability to com- bine the struggle against the em- Ployers, the government and the fas- cists, with the struggle for winning the workers away from the influence of the Social-Fascist agents of the bourgeois;"—(Twelfth Plenum E. C. C. I. thesis). This particular mine paper bears on its shoulders a heavy load of responsibility. The “Ground Hog” organ of the Communist miners, appears at a critical moment for the Miners in Gillespie, and for that matter in Illinois. The Illinois min- ers have a long record of militant | ‘nineties, when armed miners, seek- | ing to prevent the importation of | company gunmen, and buried their martyrs at Virden, Ill. A little over @ year ago they broke away from the United Mine Workers of America, embittered at John L. Lewis’ strike- breaking policies, and formed an in- dependent union, the Progressive Miners of America. Now, after a year’s back-sliding, the disillusioned miners are finding the Pearceys of the P.M.A. very much like the Lewises of the U.M.W.A. In this situation, the “Ground Hog,” bears the responsibility for teaching ‘the miners of Gillespie, which is the nerve center of the PM.A. It must point the way out of this muddled situation, what with the necessity of criticizing the leadership of an inde- pendent union, and at the same time exposing the Musteite and socialist fake “oppositions,” with Communist clarity. It is in this light that we must welcome the much-needed ap- pearance of the “Ground Hog,” even if belated. Does the “Ground Hog,” fill the bill Send FIFTEEN CENTS coins or stamps (coins preferred), for (15e) in this Anne Adams pattern. Write Plainly name, address and style num- “The svring edition of the “Anne|>e BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. | tor q ciear, Communist mine paper? Adems” pattern magazine is now; Address orders to Daily Worker, |Only to a certain extent. The Agit- gngy. Patterns for adults and chil-| Pattern Department, 243 West 17th | Prop department of District 8, in aren aze shown, and there is also| Street, New York City, reviewing the paper, on the whole correctly points out certain weak- nesses; although certain essential points, in our opinion, are not raised by the district. The district 8 review correctly points out that the major weakness in the “Ground Hog,” is the fact that it is much more of a “left” P.M.A. bulletin than a Party mine paper. ‘We would put it even more strongly. The paper attacks the union leader- ship and the fake oppositionists, without linking this attack with the attack upon the Superior Coal Co. It is our policy, as Communists in the coal fields, to lead the fight against the daily grievances of the miners in the mines to expose the close conection of the coal magnates with the government at the same time exposing the misleaders, the Pearceys, because they serve the coal barons. In this way the paper will make the miners class-conscious and educate them politically. There is another weakness, which the districe review should but does not stress, This is the first issue of the “Ground Hog.” Very well. In this first issue, there should appear, on the very first page, a sort of intro- ductory article, popularly written. Who are we, the Communist units of Gillespie? What do we want? Hello, Fellow-workers! Such an article is very important, and should be in- cluded in the next issue. The “Ground Hog” carries with it traces of the former weaknesses of our work in Southern Tlinois in that it does not speak sufficiently about specific mine grievances. Why is it not possible, for instance, to have an article dealing specifically with speed- up in the mines, with the fact that the coal-diggers are being bullied and pushed to load up to 14 cars a day; linking this carefully up with the general overproduction in the in- dustry and the unemployment and part-time work from which the miners suffer so much? The correct steps would then be to expose these constant attempt at speed-up, propose some forms of or- iganization (mine grievance commit- SHOP PAPER REVIEWS tee) to fight this, and some simple} form of struggle against this; by the workers themselves. There are other concrete grievances which must be raised, such as the attempt to make the miners work Saturdays, against which they are sharply resentful. It is in the course of struggle against these grievances that the miners will witness the sabotage of the P.M.A. leadership and the tricky Allard “op- Position,” and thus through their own experience will learn who their en- emies are and who the leading van- guard are. The “Ground Hog” carries a weak article on Soviet recognition which is criticized by the district review. But in our opinion, :sither the paper nor the review raise an important point, namely, why not at least briefly con- trast the conditions of Soviet miners with those of Gillespie? The victories of the Donbas miners have achieved world-wide recognition, and are talked about by the southern Illinois miners. This point could and should be linked up with the national meet of the liberation movement. PARTY LIFE | Breaking Down Race Hatred In Capital of the. United States In this column, today and t- morrow, we are dealing with a very important question, i. e., the fight to break down race prejudice, in- stilled by the capitalist class, in the minds of the workers, and the struggle against white chauvinism in the Party. Today’s article deals with the situation in Washington, D. C., and the progress that the Party has made there in breaking the jim-crow laws and practices. Tomorrow’s section presents the struggle against white chauvinism within the Party. The article is written by the Party Organizer in Washington. * Race Hatred in Breaking Down Wi D.C. Washington, D. C., is the Capital of the United States. One-third of the population is Negro. Washington has no Jim-Crow laws. ington has Jim-Crow practices. ‘Fhat is, a Negro is not prevented by Jaw from going to a “white” theatre, hotel, restaurant, or otherwise exer- cising his rights as an American citizen. But if he actually tries’ to exercise these rights it is an entirely different matter. Then we see that <2 '¢ Crow laws and Jim-Crow practices. Since Washington is the home of the President, the defender of the Constitution of the United States (including the 13th, 14th and “15th Amendments!) it would not be good politics as far as the 12,000,000.Ne- groes are concerned, to make. Jim- Crow laws. But it is easy for the government to close its eyes to Jim- Crow practices. a Struggle Against Jim-Crowism However, the revolutionary move- ment, under the leadership of the Communist Party, is exposing these practices, and is breaking them down through struggles of Negro and White workers. Especially during thé*past few years, during the deepening. of the crisis in Washington, have we been able to do this. The Communist Party of Washing- ton, which has only in the past few years come forward as a party of struggle, as the leader of the fight against unemployment, wage-cuts, oppression of the Negro people, etc., has not been able to shape a clear program on the liberation movement. The comrades, many of whom, have been in the Party for years during its period of sectarianism and isola- tion, are now unable, and in» some cases unwilling, to understand the role of the Party on the Negro ques- tion in Washington. It is only.now that s clear Bolshevik line is being hammered out. It is only now, when the Party is actually leading the struggles of the Negro masses» of Washington, that our comrades’who are still inclined to remain in»their sectarian shell of the language mass organizations are facing the question of the liberation movement of the Negroes. Must Expose National Government Washington, being the Capital, | where Jim-Crow laws remain un- written, but are enforced by the President and the Congress, has a most important role to play inthe The Party in W: has the task of exposing the National Gov- ernment as a government that sanc- tions the oppression of 12,000,000 Ne- gro people. The excuse that the states are violating the 13th, ‘4th and 15th Amendments in opposition to the wishes of the Federal Govern- ment crumbles beneath ‘the .Jim- Crow practices allowed in the,Cap- ital. 1 Second, the Party has the oppor- tunity, and duty, to actually break down discrimination against the Ne- But Wash- | The Fight Against Race Prejudice and Struggle | Against White Chauvinism in the Party @e6"in Washington, and thus stimu. late similar struggles in the South. We-say South deliberately, in orde to establish, once and for all, the fac that Washington is not @ Southerr city, but a Northern city. Against Party’s Struggles Jim-Crowism The Communist Party, nationally and locally, has made noteworthy forward strides in breaking down Jim-Crowism in Washington. ‘The two National Hunger Marches which threw overboard all the Jim- Crow practices of the Capital City, set many Negro and white workers thinking. 3 ‘The Veterans’ March and Conven tion likewise violently shook the Jim Crow practices of D. ©. by the roots , Even the reformist “Crisis” carried an article on this virtual resolution in Washington conventions. ‘The recent delegation of textile strikers from Paterson, N. J., under the leadership of the revolutionary National Textile Workers’ Union, crashed through the Jim-Crow prac- tices of the Tourist Camp, the semi- official lodging place for large visit~ ors’ delegations, and forced the Camp to lodge the Negroes on the Delega- mn. there is no difference between: Jim- | tio: The local Party has carried the fight further, and with more consist ency. A fight to force the People’s Drug Stores to serve Negroes at their lunch counter took the form of a Series of open demonstrations, under the leadership of the Young Com- munist League. Demonstrations The Unemployed Council, under open Communist leadership, has forced the Relief Station to grant equal relief to Negroes, and has fur- ther forced the relief station to stop asking applicants for relief to fill out their questionnaire answering whether the applicant is Negro or white. Inter-racial dancing is regular practice in affairs under Communist Jeadership. Joint demonstrations of Negro and white workers for release of the Logan Circle Boys and the Scottsboro Boys have been frequent. Washington workers, Negro and white, staged its first May-Day dem- ) Onstration in 30 years last May. The photographers of the capitalist press caught a striking scene. It was a picture of a Negro and a white worker holding aloft a banner against the background of the U. 8. Capitol, reading: Down With Jim-Crowism! Such activities have won for the Communist Party the respect and confidence of the Negro masses, and Jarge numbers of white workers. Even the government employees, which have made a practice of Jim- Crow unions, have recently, in one department, formed a union of both Negro and white workers. Race discrimination is being to a great degree broken down, and this is due to the leadership and influ- ence of the Communist Party, which ts the only force which is carrying on a real fight for full social, eco- momie and political rights for the, Negro. And, of course, the ground is being prepared by the deepening] of the economic crisis in Washing: ton, with its wage cuts, unemploy- ment, etc. The white workers, suffering under the severe blows of the crisis, are gradually losing their ideas of white superiority. Even the arch-conser- vative National Student Federation, which held its convention a few weeks ago in the aristocratic May- flower Hotel, met the issue of dis- crimination, and the militants pres- ent won over the conference to position of “No Discrimination.” (To Be Continued.) Unemployed Councils in Washington. The P.M locals have sent delegates to unemployed conference dozens of, times, and this provides an excellent | fighting point. | This article should appear in the forthcoming issue, as should also an-' other on popularizing the victories of the National Miners Union and the Gecisions of the Pittsburgh mininz conference, in the drive for a united, nation-wide union of coal diggers. True, we are not calling upon the Gillespie miners to join the N.M.U.; but at the same time it is highly im- portant to point out that the N.M.U. is the only mine union in the coun- try which has organized, led, and Won struggles, wage increases. for the miners of New Mexico, and Utah. The Youth page of the “Ground Hog” is very attractive; it does have columns, short articles and a good, honest- -to- -goodness conversational style. Yes, it has an article on, “What is the Y.C.L.?” Good! We urge the comrades, however, not to *parate the Y.C.L. from Gil- lespie, speaking about it as if were apart from the Gillespie youth, and doing things for them. Let us rather say, “We the Y.C.L. of Gillespie, are the young employed and unemployed coal diggers, striving to better our conditions.” As to the technical make-up and composition of the “Ground Hog’— the typing and mimeographing are clear and readable—so far, so good. But there are too many long, articles, up with the Communist solution for}and then again, they are not in the miners’ problems, with the defense |double column form, but right across of the Soviet Union, and also with|the page. This makes very difficult the forthcoming convention of the|reading comrades. Let us have col- Friends of the Soviet Union in New|umns from now on, and shorter ar- York, Jan. 27 and 28, It is entirely possible that, with a good agitation, the Gillespie local of the P.M.A. would send a delegation to the F.S.U. conventon. We must remember that the Gillespie local sent seven delegates to the Mooney Congress, and the leadership would not find it easy to block such a pro- There is further a great lack of mine correspondence in the “Ground Hog.” This should be corrected im- mediately, and a call for such letters issued, as this serves to knit the workers much closer to us. In view of the fact that all of the Gillespie miners are part-time work- ers, getting in only two or three days work a week, and often less, the ques- tion of unemployment insurance is of exceptional importance. There should be an article on this, linked snail ticles. Also, we should throw in a few simple cartoons, and a few jokes, to liven things up a bit; let’s have some mine notes, a few quips etc. It would be well, in view of the great mili- tancy displayed by the Women’s Aux- iliaries, to continue the special page for them, with an appropriate head- ing drawn. Without a doubt, in spite of weak- nesses, the isssuing of the “Ground Hog” for the first time is an achieve- ment, coming as it does in such an important concentration point. We urge the comrades to carefully con- sider our criticisms and suggestions, and to make every effort to carry them out. We on our part want to do everything in our power to help the “Ground-Hog”" become the political leader and collective organizer of the militant miners of Gillespie, Til. By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Bow Legs—Flabby Breasts—Fasting for Sore Throat J. B., Brule, Wis.—Your physitian seems to be on the right track and you need not worry about the occa~ sional white spots you get in your throat. Follow the advice regarding 4 's bow legs. The condition is usually due to rickets in infancy. When this condition is properly treated with'cod liver oil or viosterol, bow legs can be Superfluous Hair on Je M. S.—The growth of hair on your chin is probably: due to some gland- ular deficiency. Nothing can be done to stop its growth; but the hair may be removed by electrolysis. is Raw Turnips and Karl Marx R. M. G., Bronx—Neither -“Nu- Dita” nor “Vitabs” will cure your father’s eczema. The claims products are grossly exaggerated and in some cases they may prove harmful. ‘We take the liberty to quote a jpor- tion of your letter which will surely interest our readers: s “I have been trying for a time to find out the connection between Raw Turnips and Karl Marx and still cannot see the reason for the existence of such tions as “Vegetarian Workers’ Clubs,” etc, What in the world has vegetarian- ism got to do with the class. gle? You'd think that Volume of “Das Kapital’ was a book of menus, monodiets, etc. from the way many proletarians combine their revolu- tionary with their vegetarian prope- ganda. Why?” And the echo answers, “Why? " ADS IN “PHYSICAL CULTURE” (Continued) Next to the advertisements of the books/of the universal medical spe- cialist, Bernarr Macfadden, who has never seen the inside of a medical school, come the blurbs of the Torso Guys or the Big Muscle Boys. The first of them is Charles Atlas, “The World’s Most Perfectly Devel- oped Man.” This modest individual has a name which is ap- propriate to his line. Was it not Atlas who, according to Greek myth= ology, carried the whole earth on his shoulders? “Just seven days” pleads this. giant in his tiger-skin breech clout, “Just seven days—that’s all I need to make you over into a new man of vitality and power.” He is to send you his book, absolutely free of charge, and a 7 day's trial of his, methods which he emphasizes not to be a “contraption” and which builds any namby-pamby body into one of vitality, strength and pep that will “win admiration of every woman.” If you clip the coupon and send for his book, you find that his wonders ful system can be gotten for a mere bagatelle. Thirty-dollars—twenty if you wait a little longer. In order to induce you to part with your cash, @ profusion of bare torso are include. together with testimonials from supposed pupils. All you have to do to be like them and not dis- appoint your sweetheart and your mother, is to enroll. If you fail to become the physical giant, the virile manly man they and you had hoped you'd become, well—it’s because you had failed to carry out exercise No. 8, exactly as préscribed. (To be continued)