The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1934, Page 4

ananassae me. Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW Janitors’ “Living” Quarters Are Dirty, Bug-Ridden Cellars Yet Landlord’s Argument Against $14 Pay Is That Such Rooms Cost $25 a Month Rent 5 at a dog trot all day and often evening, doing other work in on to looking after the furnace, taking down garbage and| mopping the halls, such as helping with alterations of the apartments, | doing plumbing work, doing electric wiring, painting, etc., that is taking the bread out of the mouths of many skilled and comparatively well-paid tradesman. He gets nothing extra for all this (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The Real and | Financial section of the York American of Sunday, Dec. 10th, con- tains a contemptible lying item under the head: “N. R. A. Apartment Code Decision is Postponed,” written by I. Berger, General M: er of Greater New York, Taxpayers Association. A hearing was held in Washington, Dec 5 on a code for apartment houses, and Navy Yard Workers Tell How Capitalist Papers Hid Facts About Their Struggles & $7 to Sil a Week at the Allentown Mack Truck Plant (By 2 Worker Corr-spondent) ALLENTOWN, Pa.—Outside of the textile mills in Allentown, Pa., the Mack Truck plant is the largest plant in town. In the good days it em- Reporters Carefully Took Down Data on Wages and Conditions, But Nothing of That Appeared in Next Day’s Articles | By = Group of Metal Correspondents | that the press release was a true| BROOKLYN, N. Y., Jan. 15—Due|Teport of the meeting? to an announcement in the Daily| | The news report also stated that| News of Jan. 9, 1934, calling for a|1,000 men waited to hear the result mass meeting on Jan. 10 in the New|! the meeting. This is absolutely York Navy Yard, under the auspices | false. There were only about 10 men lof the Metal Trades Council, an | Waiting. They waited only until they | American Federation of Labor organ- | Were told that they absolutely would |ization, several hundred Navy Yard|Not be let in to the meeting, and employees massed in front of Build- | then went straight home. owing to the representations of Mr. Berger looking after the landlords in- terests, the possibility of a code for owners of apartment houses has been eliminated for the time being. These are the worthy fourflusher’s trumps: “1. Landlords of housing property would be wiped out if a code imposing maximum hours of labor (60 hours per week) and a mi Wages ($15 per week wi an expenditure of $782.1: gether with the re living quarters to janit “In thcusands of tenements, the total rent income amounts to $2,500 to $3,000 per annum,” says the article, “so that the labor cost would reach @ prohibitive figure if owners of such properties would be obliged to operate under a code.” Janitor’s Quarters The gentleman tries to tell us that the “quart ’ the landlord furnishes the janitors cost him $300 in cash. How come? Does the landlord pay rent for it to himself? This can’t be figured in the 2 labor costs, n even in the potential income, because the room or rooms, generally rooms, furnished to t a value of free ent for it. around such a} vouch for e damp idden cellar. The of junk thrown out The janitor has job at the fact. dusty, dirts ‘urniture ci n is used throut. T small houses is calle to extinctio: * on the super » an. Sometime: ‘ged for Gas I personally w of houses con- taining from 27 to 44 occupied apart- | ments, where the fireman gets $50 a month (in some he even has a meter | on the miserably amount of gas he uses and has to pay for it), and is} Mr. Berger doesn't mention the ele- vator man of apartment houses. The houses I have been talking about pay elevator operators $45 2 month for a 68-hour week. No room is furnished. When you pay caretaker out of that as most do, and spend an hour or so day in the subway, you can imagine the coolie existence of the free American who holds down one of these job: Bear Mountain Workers in Danger of Wage Cut Mov (By a Worker Correspondent) BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y.—Wage cuts on C.W.A. projects have started. The men up here understand that the minimum pay was to be 60 cents an hour for a 734 for the working week of four days, but the 300 workers who came up from the city Jan. 8 are receiving only 56 cents an hour. When the men protested against | this, they were met with the excuse that there had been a bookkeeping error, and that this mistake would be adjusted the next pay day. It is up to the workers on the job to see hour day, or $18] ployed over 3,000 workers and, ac- cording to publicity reports, Mack workers were getting good pay (not much, but good). Since the depression the stagger system was introduced, which gives two or three days of work with $7 to |$11 per week. In some departments, |like blacksmith and sheet metal, a | system of groups, teams and gangs are practiced, to work for a bonus. Into these groups the management sets in unskilled laborers, so that in- stead of bonuses the teams are al- ways back of the schedule (a new system of slave driving). Workers in all departments got an edge of discontent. Talk about a strike was brewing. The welders walked out spontaneously. The rest | were too slow to follor | There is no organization in the Rank and file were looking | that this promise is kept, and if it! is not, to protest vigorously and mili- +|tantly against this wage cut. D nation and favoritism here are common. Some men, favorites of the foremen, are receiving 90 cents and $1.20 an hour as skilled laborers. Men close to the officials say that although the skilled workers have "|been promised that they would all "receive higher wages, only a selected *|few would get them, making dis- crimination easy, Three men who missed the regular train from Weehawken, which leaves at 6:40 am. ‘Tamso: and arrived at Bear| ‘S| Mountain one hour late, were forced § to lay off for the day by the super-|4 fight. y | vi This slave driver not fs | for union officials to help them or- | Banize and call a strike. | Meanwhile the welders formed a Picket line. Police mobilized reserves around the Mack plant, making up three policemen for every |The Mack's flooded the place with | dicks and stool-pigeons. | Was spied. | filled. Then it became evident that |@ general walkout is imminent. The | Sacks declared a 15 per cent in- | crease in wages for the whole plant. ‘This increase was a result of just | an attempt of the workers to put up The strike was averted. The only refused to let them work, but| was compelled to yield under pressure, also refused to allow them to return| and is now taking revenge by firing home on anything but the regular} aj; militant workers active in organ- evening train. Has your organization elected a delegate to the National Conven- tion Against Unemployment, in Washington, D. C., Feb, 37 izing the shops. The same manager |who addressed the workers on the |N. R. A. and raved about the rights |the N. R. A. gives to workers to or- |ganize into any union they desire |is now firing the workers for the | mere attempt to organize. | Some of the workers laid off worked there as long as 10 to 12 years. the Mack struggle. picket. | Every move } A meeting was called, the hall was) management of Mack’s Plant) ing No. 27 in the Navy Yard. | The meeting was called for 5 p.m. | At 5 p.m. the lights in the meeting hall were still out. One of the coun- |cilmen standing in the hall suddenly said that there would be no mass meeiing. However, most of the men remained to find out for themselves. About 5:15 this same councilman disappeared. One of the men there jheard him telling two apprentice boys (who had come to voice their | issues) that the council was meeting |in a restaurant across the street. A |group of three of the employees went in as a delegation, to the office of {the Duty Officer, to find out what | was what. He told the group that the newspanermen were also there for the meeting. We then went out to search for | this meeting. We found it. After ask- ing to be admitted, we were informed that it was a closed meeting. The newspapermen were also excluded. |announcement of the mass meeting | Was not authorized. During the day, the Secretary of phone and asked whether it was to |be a mass meeting or not, and he said it would be a mass meeting. The they would be admitted. Outside of the meeting place, the yard men told the reporters of the conditions in the yard prevailing. These same reporters seemed eager enough to gather all the details of wages, hours, etc. In the news report | this morning in the Daily News, not }one word was mentioned with re- |ference to what the men told the reporters. Not one word was men- tioned about the conditions in the Yard. However, the article re-affirmed | the fact that the meeting was to have been a mass meet. It also said that the crowd was too large to be accom- |modaied. If this was true, why did one of the councilmen say that it was @ closed meeting? Why, after we did |find the meeting, and’ most of the |men had gone home, leaving only a handful, did they not allow these few men to sit in and hear the | meeting? Why were the reporters ex- | cluded? How did the reporters know | Mr. Engel of the Council said that the | the Council was called on the tele- | ce ea ite bat behead alee gat | ideas of the ruling class. That is | We are sending this bit of news to several newspapers, in an effort to have the truth published. We want to know whether it is still possible to have the truth circulated through | the press. The papers will be followed up very carefully for two weeks, to see this in print. A GROUP OF NAVY YARD EMPLOYES. * . 6 Editor’s Note—The above letter is a graphic example of how the cap- italist press distorts all working class news. The reporters probably handed in to the editors of their papers a | doctored report of their interview with the workers who were turned away from the meeting described. But even this did not get in. The report- ers handed in their reports, which, not meeting with the policy of their boss-caddying papers, were slashed beyond all semblance of recbdgnition. Of course, the reporters—who were | Hot present at the “closed meeting”— could not tell whether the press re- leases about the meeting held be- hind closed doors was correct. But capitalist papers are in the habit of taking for granted the word of the bosses and those that serve the bosses (the American Federation of Labor | leaders). These paners reflect the life and | their reason for existence. Only the Daily Worker reflects the life and needs of the workers. Only the Daily Worker reports accurately | all working class events. The Daily Worker is the paper for the workers. The Daily Worker is glad to print the above letter entire, and any other letters coming from the Brooklyn Navy Yard workers. We urge the Navy Yard workers to call a mass meeting of their own junder rank and file leadership, The Navy Yard workers who belong to the union demand from their union rep- resentatives that the Metal Trades Council cooperate and give full sup- Pot to the organization of the meet- ing. We urge all the unorganized Navy Yard workers to join the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, a militant, fighting union, under rank and file leadership. Their headquar- oe at 80 Smith St., Brooklyn, Open Letter By Mido Wacken to This is not the last page of | Johnson About Ford’s Methods (The following letter was sent bythe price of anything was. I did jan oy worker to Hugh S. Johnson,|manage one day to find out from chie: (By an Auto Worker Correspondent) jour supply, we seldom knew just what | “Wihy not really a ‘Red Tn. | ternational Cook Book’?” writes “A Constant Reader.” | She goes on to say, “The re-| cipes could »e mimeographed and} the pages clipped together in pam- | phiet form, even if only with staples | The cost would be little, and the books could sell for about 10 cents @ach. Then the proceeds might go to} the Daily Worker. I, for one, would | be among the first purchasers!” | ‘That is really encouraging; but I} wasn't kidding a bit in speaking of | the Red International Cook Book! I had every good intention of collect- ing the contributed national recipes | into a book, when enough national- ities are represented. So far, many have not been heard from, for in- | stance, Swedish, French, German, |! Spanish; and only one real Jewish dish so far, though there are hosts of good Jewish dishes. | The library has national cook- books, but we want real proletartan dishes, fairly economical and not too | complicated to make. I had dizzy | dreams of binding our book, when | complete, in red oilcloth. And to make | #® comprehensive household help out of it, having a section on hints and helps for organizing the housework: on the “demands” of proletarian women, including, too, some of the | fine material written by Bonita T. | {to appear here within a few weeks): some notes and a bibliography re- | #arding modern dietetics, and as a/ preface to the whole works, a good} “speech” on the subject of differing | tastes in food as a barrier between nations of workers just as difference of I je is—a bartier the book will help to break down, (Maybe we an draft Comrade Hathaway to write that.) The book will be the natural out- towth of a transition period in jouseholding and the mechanics of ition, picturing past and present pcrnabe foreshadowing the e to the expense of putting it " Ott—obviously some of us interested 3 will give a great International D ! (Will it be delicious? And ~ will we charge PLENTY!) » But comrade housewives! Uniess the recipes come in faster, it’s hard to say when that will be! Meanwhile act on “Constant Reader's” ion and bectn to get together we now have and put out a edition as per her direc- Who knows how to make hot CONDUCTED BY HELEN LUKE you are using and Keep it from -be- ing splashed too. Glass out of a dis- | carded picture would serve. Correction The Fairmount Cake recipe, given several days ago, requires 3, not 2, Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1749 is Size 16 takes 3!2 yards 39 inch fab- ric and % yard contrasting. Mlus- trated stey-by-step sewing instruc- tios includ: available in sizes | 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. | # nales? Tsimmes? Shish-ge-bob? andel soup? And real Jewish corn- - ed beef? And kreplach? “While we're on the subject of ook-books, here is a suggestion. A | heavy piece of glass, about 7 by 10 or a little larger, with the bound with gummed tape partout tape or plain adhesive : : : i Send FIFTEEN CENTS coins or stamps (coins preferred), for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- (15e) In ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker, ‘will do), if laid over the open keep it open at the page Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, Steel Workers’ _ Lives Menaced by Intense Speed-up (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) FARRELL, Pa—Some of the mills |are going about 50 per cent, and some are not working at all. The American |Steel and Wire is working five and six days a week. The Sharon Steel Hoop of the Shenango Valley is only working two and three days, and some weeks none at all. And when they do work, it is the same old speed-up system, with no safety for the pro- tection of the workers’ lives. On Dec. 20, a young worker lost his |life at the Carnegie Steel Plant, while |repairing the roof in ‘the rain with- lout a safety belt. He lost his foot- ing and fell to his death, Some of them here are not any better off on C.W.A. then they were ,on the poor relief that they were |receiving for 35 hours a week in the | same jobs. And officials have started |the same old rotten buck-passing sys- jtem here, keeping the workers stand- jing in line three and four hours, to jhear the bosses say, “Your checks |did not come in; come back three or ‘four days later.” | | They are going around on the | Projects now checking up on the |part time mill workers who are not | making a living on three or four days |a month, and trying to brand them jas chiselers, But the workers know who the real chiselers are, and are beginning to take some action against the political reket. The workera want | to get some of the alphabetical money before the A.B.C.’s are used up, be- jeause there are but few more left, |so far, and when X.Y.Z. is gone, who |knows what is to follow. Fighting greeting to the Tenth An- niversary of the Daily Worker, NOTE We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their working conditions and of their efforts to organize. Please get the letters to us by Friday of cach week i of the N.R.A., at Washington, |D. C.) Dear Mr. Johnson: |_I have worked for the Ford Motor |Co. several different times during my career, One time I was making $1.15 an hour. This last time, I was mak. ing the magnificent sum of $1 a day I worked for the Ford Motor Co. approximately six months, this time as tool and die-maker on this so- called $1 a day system. When I went to work, I was taken into the em- | Ployment office, signed the slip of 12% cents an hour, and through his \investigating, I was given the under- {standing that the contract on my |home would be paid for at the rate |of $20 per month and all other bills |that I had incurred up to that time | would be paid. At the end of six months, I went jto Mr. Brown, who is the head of |the so-called Welfare Department or |$1 system, and asked him for a state- jment. He refused to give me, telling |me that they weren’t giving out any \system. Then I went to see who hi |been paid. I found, upon inve: gating, that no money had been paid upon my home. In fact, the onl; jbills that had been taken care of wa the electric bill, which amounted to jabout $6 and $4 of my taxes had been paid. I had a balance of $4.80 taxes to try and pay myself, | I have a family of seven. We were |alloted $4.75 per week for groceries, During the time I worked for Ford on this system, I received five tons of coke and a clothing order of $48. When we would go to the grocery for |the grocery clerk that we were paying |nine cents a pound for lard when it was selling for five cents other places. I could cite numerous other things and shall be glad to furnish you with jother data if you would care to hear| |them. If you are interested, I can) ive you sworn statements which will| |convince you that the people of Ink-| ster, Garden City and Dearborn! |Township are held up by the Ford! Motor Co. during these days of the NRA. This 124 cents an hour was getting too strong for the Ford Motor Co. recently, so they called their $1 slaves | |into the office and asked them if they would be willing to. purchase their groceries, clothing, coal, etc., from the Ford Motor Co., and if so, that they would be put on a scale of 50 cents an hour. Of course, the employes agreed to this. Shortly after, these employes receives bills from the Ford Motor Co, ranging from | $200 to $900 back payments on items which they had been receiving, as| Ford would not give a statement. If you care to send an investigator, \I can give you sworn statements of several other men around here re- arding their dealings with Ford, which would without any doubt, sat- \isty you after the investigation that King Henry First of England looked out of date handling slaves, alongside jof King Henry First of Dearborn, Tf you care to interest yourself in this matter, I shall be glad to meet any of your investigators any time at pany Place, within a reasonable dis- ce. Fired Because His Brother Led Auto (By An Auto Worker Correspondent) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich—Some | weeks ago a worker was fired be- cause his brother was a leader in the Auto Workers Union in another part of the city. Yes, they want to keep their employes from learning what the company is doing to them. If workers wou'd stop and consider for a minute they would understand that the company would not stand back of the A. F. of L. if it did any good for the workers. The A. F. of L. organizers in the plant here are workers who don't know anything about the A. F, of L. except that the company wants everybody to join. A new gang of men were hired in one department. Instead of the organizer talking to all the men, he singled out the group leader and told him to sign up his men in the A. F. of L. The group jleader told him to do his own dirty work, ‘This open dictatorship of the com- pany is nearing fascism as they have jin Germany. It must be stopped. |Organize in industrial unions, with rank and file control, No high sal- aried officals. A KELVINATOR SLAVE. | Workers’ Struggle. Ford Worker _ Seeks To Contact Correspondent (By An Auto Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—In your is- sue of Jan. 9, 1934, I saw a communi- cation from a Ford worker. I hap- pen to be one that they have not called in the office as yet, and I hope I will not be until I have had a chance to put more men on the road to the organization, as I know the need of organization in Ford plants, and I hope in the near future that I can have enough good, honest, militant men convinced that there is one organization that will not sell out like the A. F. of L. did the Ford workers, And when we are ready to organize Ford plants we will know that we have an organization in back of us that will fight to the finish for the workers. I also wish the man that sent you the communication of Jan. 9, would come to 49 N. Eighth St., Philadelphia, or Chester office, so we may get acquainted. Please publish this letter, and through your good paper taking the faa the workers we shall win our le. YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1934 Group System at A. 0. Smith Co. Is Speed-up Method (By a Metal Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis.—I’ve been working about three years here in the A. O. Smith Co. I worked in) Milwaukee in different factories for about 20 years, but this is the worst place I struck yet for speed-up, They've got men put in groups in each department. They give the group a certain amount of work to do and if any man doesn’t keep up with his group he’s fired. For in- stance: In the pickling department they've got men rushing the steel sheets from the trucks into the shop till the men nearly drop, they're so tired. Each sheet averages about 30 feet long and 500 pounds in weight. Each man helps to carry in more than 1,500 of these in the six hours he works per day, (Two men on a sheet.) Besides this he has other work to do—picking rods off the floor and cleaning up. The men have to work in high hip boots and are always slushing around in water and acid about six inches deep. The foremen are always hounding you to do more work and all the men have to suffer from the sharp acid fumes that are enough to choke them. If a man works there three years that’s about all he can stand. ‘The foremen are not like human beings—they have no conscience and don’t seem to have any feeling for the men who have to work. They have a so-called safety de- partment, but it doesn’t do hardly ‘anything to protect the men, but lonly helps to speed up production. The other day I saw two overhead cranes 30 feet above the floor fall |down with two men in the cabs oper- ating them. If the cranes hadn't fallen on the big steel press they were lifting up, the two men would haye been crushed to death in their cabs. This thing happened because jthe posts were too weak to keep up the cranes lifting the machines, These posts ought to be inspected but A. O, Smith doesn’t care whether the men get kil or not. They only want big speed-up and big pro- duction so they can profit, I thought I would see something in the papers about this but there wasn’t anything and that’s why I'm writing to the Daily Worker to put it in because I know the Daily Worker is a real workers’ paper and puts the truth in. With all this speed-up we are forced to do in six hours under the N.R.A. what we did in 12 hours be- fore. We only get 40 cents per hour, and besides, the night shift men don’t get paid in the shop on pay day. They have to make an extra trip to the shop and pay street car fare so they can get paid. Besides this, 75 out of 100 men are wearing ban- dages on their fingers or hands and are always getting treated in the hos- pital every day. This is because of the terrible speed-up. The only way to stop this is by getting organized into a union like the Steel Workers Industrial Union. Misled by A. F. L. Into Stoolpigeon Tactics (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—There is a great sympathetic movement towards the revolutionary leadership in the trade unions, among workers now employed at the Budd Manu‘actur- ing Co. in Department 5A, but there | PARTY LIFE = Continuing the question discussed yesterday—the breaking down of race hatred in Washington, D. C., the Capitol of the nation, where the Federal Constitution prohibits Jim-Crow laws, but where Jim- Crow law practices have been wide- spread and accepted—the follow- ing article, by the Party Organizer in Washington, deals with the ques- tion of white chauvinism within the Party, and the struggle against it. Important lessons for our Whole Party are to be found in the Wash- ington experiences. . 8 a ‘The struggle against race prejudice. and against the Jim-Crow practices in Washington is comparatively a re- cent one. Consequently our own Pary members and sympathetic mass organizations are not yet clear or convinced of the necessity of carrying on a daily struggle for equal rights for Negroes in Wasliitigton. The ugly head of White Chauvihism bobs up in our Party, -especially among those elements who are-least active in the Party campaigns,.espe- cially among those elements who still cling to the Socialist ideology which they had for so long a time accépted. The Party in Washington; “which has only in the past year or: so re- cruited into its ranks many native white workers, and Negro. workers, has as its fundamental task the wiping out of white chauvinism in the Party. Because our Party has won for itself the confidence of the Negro masses, the struggle against “white chauvinism becomes a life and death struggle. A recent incident of open-white chauvinism was handled inthe fol- lowing manner: ak Word came to the Party that four Negro comrades and other Negro workers with them, were denied ad- mission to a Peasants’ Ball, which was held in the Pythian Temple on Christmas night under the auspices of the Women's League. A Meeting was immediately called with all the workers involved and the Secretariat of the Party, where the facts were threshed out. wien The investigation disclosed the fol- lowing: (1- The Negroes were not” per- mitted to enter the hall. (2) The ticket collector at the door was a Party member. (3) A Party member “diplomat- ically” advised the Negroes. this affair was of interest only to Jews. (4) A Jim-Crow hall was rénted for the affair, Z (5) The affair was planned at meeting of the F, S. U., where Ne- groes were present. The white comrades and close sym- pathizers involved claimed: (1) The Negroes were drutk, (2) They had no tickets. (3) The manager of the “hall would not permit Negroes, |... (4) Some comrades admitted they had made a serious mistake. The Negro workers refuted this by showing: . (1) They were not drunk. x (2) They were willing to~ buy tickets, i The Party Secretariat pointed’ out: (1) The cry DRUNK 1s °s° sub- stitution for the cry RAPE which the bosses use. ie (2) The issue of tickets is an excuse which cannot hide discrim- ination. Our comrades cannot look at this question from the stand- point of a petty sh wits How Party in Washington, D.C. Dealt With White Chauvinism Relentless Probe Started When Negro Workers Were Refused Admittance to Ball Negro-hating landlord, but con- tinues on to struggle with the gov- ernment and the -police. (4) The Communists in the Women’s League and other mass organizations which participated in this ball should have put up a stiff battle against the management and have rushed to the defense of the Negroes. (5) The Party members in these organizations should not have per- mitted a Jim-Crow hall to be rent unless they were prepared to pro-- tect and defend the Negroes whe wanted to attend. A series of discussions were heid with the Jewish fraction and with the Negro comrades. These discus- sions showed that the Jewish com- rades who committed this act of white chauvinisng were those com- tades who were stll poisoned with the ideology of the bourgeoisie and the Socialist Party. They do not have the least understanding of the national movenient of the Negroes, and its relation to the revolutionary movement. They speak such strange words as: “There must be sonething wrong with the postion of a relent- less fight against Negro discrimina- tion, since to carry on such e fight is not PRACTICAL.” In no case do | these comrades admit chauvinism (ex- cept in the case of one), but they defend their policy on the grounds that the mass organizations like the W.O., Women’s League, Icor, etc, would split up on this question, and that it would be impossible to run a “successful” affair—that white peo- ple would not come; etc., etc. ‘These ideas were completely broken down, by exposing these ideas as typical Socialist ideas, as ideas of the crassest bourgeois degeneration. When these comrades were told how the Negro comrades were alarmed over this incident, how outside Negro workers were holding meetings among themselves on this question, how the danger of actually losing the pres- tige among the Negro masses of Washington, and over the entire country, may result from such un- communist action, the comrades all jadmitted their errors, and the fol- lowing action was agreed to: (1) A statement to be written by the Jewish comrades involved and to be discussed in the mass or- ganizations on the mistake of ex- eluding the Negroes from the Peas- ant’s Ball, (2) Our comrades not to permit the renting of the Jim-Crow hall again unless they are prepared to defend the Negroes. (3) These white comrades to or- ganize themselves into defense groups at the next affair which is being run by the ICOR at a Jim- Crow hall, (4) A membership meeting of all , Party, ¥.C.L, and sympathizers where a thorough and frank dis~ cussion shall be carried through. (5) A statement te be sent to the Party press. While we do nt by any means be~ leve this discussion will break down white chauvinism in our Party, we do believe that these comrades in- volved are not incurable chauvinists. We believe that in the process of ) i jinyolving these comrades in the mass | campaigns of the Party, especially in \the struggles for Negro rights, will, \these comrades be able to understand |the correct Communist position |the Negro question, and be able (3) The fight for Negro Rights does not stop withthe rules of a bring this position into the mass or- ganizations, are also members of the A. F. of L. unions employed there, and among cone of these grouns there 's a membe> of said A. F. of L. union, Bill Flem- ing, who told one cf the wo-kerg, the there are about 12 “reds” in his de- partment, and if they don’t stop mak- ing opne’on avainst him, he will see to it that they get fired from their job. Letters from Our Readers CHILDREN’S SHOUTS OF “WE WANT SOUP“ PENETRATE INTO JAIL HOUSE Woodbury, Co, Jail Sioux City, Iowa Dear Comrade Editor: I believe the Party Life Column is the best column to make its appear- ance in the Daily Worker, has been more of a big help to me and I hope the general membership has bene- fitted as I have. Yes, our Daily Worker improves every day. Why couldn’t we run short stories on the subject, “Why I joined the Communist Party,” by comrades es- pecially who are national figures, like Bob Minor etc. or Section organizers, etc. It would give the lower cadres in the Party a clear analysis of them- selves and we must get ourselves or- ganized before we will make serious headway to toss capitalism overboard. I see in some districts we have made slight headway that way. I’ve been a Daily Worker reader for over 7 years and haye seen the steady climb our Party has made and the steady degeneration of the Social- ist Party which I used to belong to for years. I was lying asleep on my back in my cell when I was awakened by a child's voice, “We Want Soup.” I be- lieved I was having another dream, which I often have, as I always dream of the millions of suffering. But no, this was no dream. I heard several voices cry again, “We Want Soup.” I got up and rushed to the window and there was a group of children down in front of the Y.M.C.A. shout- ing, “We Want Soup.” They stayed there 15 or 20 minutes before they left. I see the kids are ready to fight. It gives my heart great joy to have seen this little demonstration. I love youth. I hope my baby Caroline Mar- gine, 7 months old, at home in Lincoln will be a leader for the downtrodden By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS A. B. C.—The cheapest solution to rid the hair of lice and nits is kero- sene. You must be careful ‘not to allow the kerosene to enter the eyes. If you object to the odor of kerosene, you may try Tincture of Larkspur Which you can get in any drug store. etait ta uM R. 8., Akron, Ohio—As long as you improve when you go on a diet, we). see no reason why you should ask for any other treatment. Evidently, the doctor who told you to eat “every- thing” was wrong. You ar. under- weight and for this reason alone, and for no other, you ought to refrain from eating too much. Just stick to the diet which keeps you in good health and don’t place your faith in Pills, oe e@ Rubber and Sore Eyes Q. E. D.—There is no scientific basis to the popular superstition about the relation between the wear- ing of rubber goloshes and eye trouble. The eye-sight of many per- sons often becomes worse in rainy} weather and this is what probably lead to the misconception. The wearing of any article made of rub- ber next to the skin is, of ceurse, harmful because it may cause_irri- tation and inflammation of the part. Superfluous Hair—Coarse Skiti— Sagging Breast . ~ << 8. L. M.—Breasts cannot be. re- stored to their former firmness; once they begin to sag, except by a plastic operation. If the breasts are small they may be prevented from further. sagging by wearing a proper up-lift brassiere. In some individuals...the taking on of weight causes.fatto be deposited in the breasts and condition may be im Be does not apply, of course, children. It will not be my fault if she isn’t so, ‘The sudden growth of hair and the coarsening of the skin would in- AAdvihes:; dicate a disturbance of the adrenal glands or of the ovaries. Let us have some more data about your menstrual history, The color of eyes cannot be re~ stored. If you are disturbed by cold as well as warm milk, we see no other form of taking ft. You might be sen- sitive to milk and therefore should give up its use; adults can get along without milk. ADS IN “PHYSICAL CULTURE” (Continued) But, Mr. Atlas has competitors: #H. Broom, “Britain’s Premier (mean- ing First) Physical Culture Expert” offers you the “greatest physical cul- ture course of all time.” This heavy fellow seems to believe in “contrap~ tions,” among which ther is a “New type of Spring Grip Dumbells and other exercises. lessons. George F. Jowett is to undersell him. “I will add 3 ches to your chest, 2 inches biceps . . . or it won't cost cent!” You can have his six “hooks” which will build “nerves of steel muscles like iron,” for one Farmer Burns School offers to, wrestling by mail and the Physical Science Institute promises to shapely legs for men and women by the “New Improved Leg Developer.” The Hercules Exerciser “guarantees” big husky muscles for only $2.96; the “German Iron Shoe Muscle Builder” z inches of muscle on your arms, the. Pandiculator Company wants you “pandiculate” for health (whatever, that may mean); Anthony wants you. to buy his book for 256 Which is “equal to a $20 course”; Joe Bonomo offers you a “free trip to Hollywood” (with strings Dy where he'll develop you into the “ en the Studios are Seeking” and nally David P. Willoughy is ready to tell “The Truth About Physical Cul- ture,"—for a consideration. So much for the Big Muscle Fellows, (To be continued) s