The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1934, Page 4

basements or Page Four ! a . J _|\Dye Workers in Move for Unity Against Low Wages Committees Proposed for Joint Struggle in the W eidemann, Hawtho Workers, w Was asking for ers of both Joe also stat stand, divide: A we could h L. union Piece Dye W A.F. of L. ley, then the N Lodi Piece D; have the same b shops: belong to Works. The N. union in the L James Gor! the workers the compa: ant dyers to w sending direct t which states that n the wo: s home. 2 N 1 of t ‘orema nan or take make as low as pay. The A. F. of L. not do anything about A. FP, of L. shop. At the B Bird Dye Shop, a wor] said the were working 10 ho big bosses w 1933. This i h| Shoe doesn’t believe in calling the} |ist in the commissary department of | is a good e iat tenths it| workers to strike or walking in the| (By a Textile Worker Correspondent) the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. | shows how the A. F. of L. jers and streets for months. In other words,| PATERSON, N. J.—This is what a | of 1 Madison Ave. The world’s rith- bosses work together they are saying, you don’t have to! silk worker overheard when a group | est insurance company is about the The A. F. of L. Pater- son dye workers’ members meet- ing Saturday, Jan. 6, where the leaders told them that they had to get all the N. T. W. U. members to join the NOTE We publish letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers every Wednesday. Workers in these industries are urged to write | us of their conditions of work, and of their struggles to organize. Get | the letters to us by Saturday of | each week. { | speeches | are rne and Lodi Plants k that all the rson are crazy to id $1 a month to leaders work with he very rea- mg to the ause the leaders Ss and not the not get robbed dues. When they as the dye workers ugh to pay to join a@ month dues is nm they get such y as $8 ~ $13 for two AFL Boot ‘snd Shoe Fakers Hunting |. Miller Workers By a Shoe Worker Correspondent NEW YORK is now five weeks f I. Miller workers ack to work under ions. We all know been rc pagandists who in one h the workers and the with the bosses are now r utmost to continue the ¢ Miller, by making Boot & Shoe, and to force a few of to sign up with the spe even go s for far a als who were always er, although they came the class-conscious work- decided to strike, made a speech e other day stating that the Boot & work for nothing and there won't be any cause to strike. Thave had tk leasure of seeing a few fellow workers just turn away when these unks start their We, the class conscious pests of the Boot Shoe. ing every means to have ith them. The chairmen helping them along by having them in the Miller Cafeteria during lunch hour. Fellow workers, let us all think and fight for the one union that is of the rank and file, the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, in the reer TT men rt a puc “Just read in today’s ‘Daily’ * | that you invite contributions, | writes the marine worker who } spoke up for a pumpernickel recipe. “Like many other readers T enjoy all the + conducted and signed columns in our paper. | Surely some people think it strange | that a mere man should look foward | with pleasant anticipation for your | informative articles. | “The fact is men are also interested | in home, and there are many who have to keep the home fires burning without the aid of womenfolk. Pe: sonally I am of the army of une ployed and am anxiously awaiting t article on how to make a fireless cooker. Hope you will write it in Plain every-day language, as the in- formation will be anxiously consumed by thousands of men who are in the| same position as I am... . “In the bourgeois press I always | pass women’s pages as not of any} interest to a lonely working man, but | it took your column to open my eyes | to see that there are many things about home and children’s education written by women or girls that are of very good value to any man... I remain comradely yours, | “A J. Allen, M.W.LU." Tt certainly makes us feel very good to be of some service. The ar- ticle on the fireless cooker was writ- ten by Comrade Irene, and we shall | begin to run it tomorrow, with addi- | tional notes and maybe a sketch or | two. Meanwhile here is a little | BACHELOR’S CORNER Something useful to keep in mind | in the household is that paper ts a/| very poor conductor of heat and cold, | so it may be utilized to preserve or | repel one or the other. In my family | it is a custom to put thick layers of newspapers between the springs of the’ bed and the mattress. Not only does it help to prevent the springs cutting into the mattress, but if the | latter is a thin one or is packed loose- ly with a cheap filler which lets the cold through, the paver helps a lot, if one sleeps in a cold room in winter, to keep the cold out. It’s no use pil- ing a lot of cover on top of yourself if the cold can come through the mattress from below. Newspaper torn very fine and re- duced to a pulp with boiling water can be used to stop up bad cracks in walls or around doors or windows. Heavy thicknesses of newspaper are also laid under rugs, to make them seem softer and to keep cold air from coming through bad floors, from colf rooms below ‘@hough I suppose most everyone | jows that). | ish called “Mexican Bunny” can | red in a few minutes by com- and heating a can of corn ind a can of tomatoes, seasoning with pepper, and butter, and adding HELEN or finely cut cheese uickly over fire until cheese is well melted, and serve be- fore it grows stringy. With bread or crackers, practically a meal. Crisp bacon, fresh celery, lettuce, or a boiled Potato, go well with it. % to } DAILY. WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934 ILGWu $14 Tax Burden Follows | Mass Layoff | (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y—I am one of those young workers who was re- cently organized under the Roosevelt- Green “N. R. A.” labor (?) clause. Section 7-A. We struck for four weeks. | Four | gle, during which period most of us| | Were near the starvation point! ...|/the Amalgamated Rank end File| We were returned to work by the A.| F. of L. bureaucrats with a dubious | | $4 increase. Out of this, the Green- Boss clique decided to deduct $3.50} per week for our union book. Dur-/| ing this period there’ was a rae | | lay-off which averaged us two days| | work per week. And now, upon| working steadily for about three | weeks, we must pay our Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment | who can say what more burden we | will have to carry after that. | | In addition, our employer is an open and avowed anti-labor man. He | | attempts to browbeat the workers on | | the least pretext. | Needless to say I have turned Com- | and English languages. Then a young} ¥.C.L.’er and threatened him many munist. | made up my mind for me, | rea cages Editor’s Note: This worker will be | jmade very welcome in the ranks of/ ance, only about $50,000 was given|the methods utilized by the Amalga-| | the Communist Party, where he will} | probably speedily | struggle of the rank and file mem-| | bers of the A. F. of L, to secure hon- | jest fighting leadership in their) unions. The address of the center | for coordinating this struggle in all| |A. F. of L. unions is the A. F. of L. |Rank and File Committee at No. 1 | Union Square. | | Plot to CutDye | Workers’ Pay to | GuardsGarhage Scrape | Hours in Vain 45 Cents An Hour of Weidemann dye workers were dis- | cussing about their bosses. There | was a big lay-off of workers Jan. 11) and 12. The workers said their bosses were getting worse every day, that the head dyer was trying to make assistant dyers rush the work- ers up and get the work done as soon | as possible, so they could send them home. The workers also said that the) | company is trying to scare the work- jers by having a big lay-off, so they | can try to bring back the starvation | wages again, 45 cents an hour to the} | workers who are still working. Then when they send for the workers that | were laid off they will tell them they | will have to work for the wage cut, | 45 cents an hour, or go home again. It is good for the work«rs that the | Communist Party can se} what the bosses are trying to do. When the bosses bring a new trick to fool the workers the Communists teil the workers what the bosses are trying | They also tell fhe workers |to do. | what to do, so the bosses will not be | able to fool the workers so easily. The workers will have to stick to- gether and put up a fight. win. That union is the National ‘With | the right kind of union they can) (By.a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y—I would like to use the Daily Worker columns to expose the racketeering and maneu- vering of the officials of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, especially in relation to their latest shameful racket—a $12 tax on each member. In.my local (176) we had a meet- weeks of bitter, heart-breaking strug-| ing last Wednesday night to take up| majority present sided with the ¥. C. the tax question. Previous to that Committee issued a leaflet to my shop, exposing the tax as an attempt of Hillman & Co. to extort more money from us to benefit them — not us. At the local meeting the delegate got up and boosted the tax, lauding it as something of benefit to us. He |claimed if we voted for and paid the| under threats and cajoling about 40- Workers’ | !@X, no more bundles of work would|45 stood up in favor, while almost Union local a tax of $14. After which | 80 Out of town (Passaic, Paterson,| twice as many stood up against| comes our regular dues, and then| etc), that it would stay here in New| (many were neutral). York and Brooklyn. He practically threatened us with loss of work if we refused to pay the tax. ¥.C.L. Member Shows Up Tax Despite his talk, many workers took the floor and spoke, both in Italian for what it was. He pointed out that out of $600,000 in the union treasury, supposedly for unemployment insur- out.. That, taking a conservative es- ; learn that one of] timate of 30,000 members in New| down the throats of the tailors. | Bis most important tasks will be the | york, $360,000 would be gotten for| Hillman & Co. He pointed out a few more points and warned the workers against the local. chairman and delegate that | they were clever politicians and could | File Committee, at 116 University |make you see black when it is really| Place. | Membership Voted Three But Chairman Announced “Motion Carried,” and Adjourned Meeting A.C.W. Member Reports How Union Racketeers Faked Vote in Local 176 to Jam Tax Thru ~-—- Times Against $12 Levy, ; | white. Sure enough, no sooner did} |he sit down, than the local chairman | got up and attacked him on the basis | |that he was a Communist sent down | by the Communist Party to disrupt | the meeting and poison the minds of | | the workers, and accused him of dis- | | tributing the opposition leaflets. Of | course, he wasn’t given a chance to | defend his position. Nevertheless, the | Ler. Only one (an executive board mem- | ber) dared to defend the tax and jhe received spattered applause. | Then the vote was taken. Three | times, once by hand, once by saying | “Aye” and then by standing up. | | Chairman Cheats | ‘The first two times were decidedly | against the tax. The third time| “60 for, 50) | against!” shouted the chairman. “I | object,” shouted the Y¥.C.L. member. “I demand a recount, the vote was |the other way around.” “Meeting | adjourned,” from the chairman. | Then the delegate approached the The heroic struggles of the fellow took the floor who was a mem-/ times, going so far as to say he'd|}, | industrial unions and the essential! ber of the Young Communist League. | take him off the job. However, the jrealism of the class struggle have|In his speech he showed up the tax} ¥.C-L’er was not bulldozed by his |threats and the delegate left him) | alone. | The above is a classic example of | mated to shove their slimy proposals Brother tailors, young and old — | organize strong oppositions in the C. | W.A. to stop such racketeering and | robbery of our hard-earned money. Join the Amalgamated Rank and Life Insurance Co. Commissary Dep't (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I would like to ac-| quaint you with conditions that ex- meanest. They have en expert stool-pigeon or so-called inspector, whose name is Antonietto Del Monte. officials of this company to take any dismissal, and it is for this purpose that they employ this “Inspector” to snoop. around and find employes | with food on them. I may mention employes get very | Small wages, and nearly all thes¢ em- and they take chances by stealing scraps that would otherwise go in the garbage can. With true “Christ- mas spirit,” however, they stretched & point in the favor of a woman who was caught taking some butter and gave her “four weeks of absence” without pay. And no doubt she had | to bring the Holy Carpet of Mecca |to pray on before this high official, | Have you sent your contribution | to the fund to finance the National | Conyention Against Unemployment to the National Committee, Un- employed Council, 80 East 11th St., Textile Workers’ Union. New York City? It is a crime in the eyes of the! garbage can scraps and subject to! ployes’ husbands are out of work,| ‘Hundreds Wait for Snow Jobs By An Unemployed Worker Corres- pondent HARLEM, N. Y. — Wednesday, morning, after reading in the papers about the 130 men they hired to |shovel snow. I went to the nearest D. 8. to where I live. I got there three o'clock and when the line | formed I was about tenth in line. About 4:30 there were about 150 men in line, and at 6 about 500. | Well, only about 6 or 7 got jobs jthose that were in line in front of jme, all the rest got hired on their pull with a foreman of a street | Sweeper or some other big shot or jelse sneaked in thru a tollet window that was broken. About 100 fellows (young, from the neighborhood) went | thru that window and about 20 got in thru whom they knew. In the meantime a cop held us out- | side, two fellows who did not get jobs | waited from 11:30 the night before |and were in front of me when they |let the line in. They already had all they needed; they let in about 15 of us and then said, “no more”. There were only three cops out- ‘side when the fellows heard that. They tried to crash thru the cops to |the door, and they cracked the wired |glass in the door. One cop said some of the fellows he knew inside who were getting the o How Pay Is Cut At Shops of Dress Contractors, (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y—As a class- conscious worker, I find myself greatly perturbed at the scurvy trick- ery employed for the purpose of cheating their workers, by the petty bosses in the dress business known as contractors. These contractors own and op- erate their own factories where the garments consigned to them already “cut” (by the jobbers) are made up complete and ers. Here are some of the means used, through which they contrive to cheat their workers. When they take in a lot of several hundred dresses to be made up, which are known as $5.75 line garments, they inform their fac- tory help that the said lot is only that of a $3.75 line, and must be made up for prices (piece-work) in accordance with that cheap scale. The workmanship must, of course, be Perfect and worthy of the better line. If the workers militantly demand a few cents more, claiming there is too much work for a cheap garment, the contractor boss pretends to re- luctantly give in to some compro- mise, weeping and lamenting that he is going broke, that they are a very bad set of help, that they don’t ap- preciate that he tries to be nice to them, that he takes in work without profit in order to give them work, etc. He pulls this kind of “act” and fre- quently gets his workers’ sympathy. Actually, he is making his regular profit, based on the $5.75 labor (charge to the jobber) and in. addi- tion he is making an even greater profit; the amount which he has managed to cheat his workers. All this has been explained to me by a dress contractor who is located on West 35th St. He is ignorant of my true sympathies, and further bragged to me that by dint of the above mentioned tactics he has man- aged to live very well and made sev- eral thousand dollars additionally in one short season, only half of a small plant working. Such despicable tricks should be ferretted out and can only be done so by making the proper investiga- tions into the books of the contractor in order to ascertain as to who the jobbers are who give in their “work,” and especially the price of the gar- ment the jobber manufactures. Close watching will bring to light hundreds of cases where contractors are guilty of such practices, from the neighborhood and would not work anyway. The crowd got so militant that one cop quit shoving in his friends and put three fellows in front of our line instead, and we saw to it that they did not get jobs before we did. The police were also talking about the 113th St. riot, and said it is sure getting to be hell when Jobs were just a bunch of hoodiums the people have to riot to get a job, Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1577 is available in sizes | 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 16 takes 2% yards 39-inch blouse fabric, 244 rt, and 1 yard for scarf. p-by-step sewing in- Z Liza Send FIFTEEN CENTS (45c) in coins or stamps (coins prefezred), for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Bee Lid Address orders to Daily Worker, | Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York ‘City, { — THE GREATEST PAPER ‘Williamsport. Editor, Daily Worker: Kindly allow me to take up your valuable time to say that I have read |your anniversary issue and will say lyou have the greatest paper in this country. | Will also say your paper has the | only solution to make this country | very much better place to live. I sincerely hope you will continue to educate the people and show them the way. A DAILY READER. | A HISTORICAL MILESTONE (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The tenth anniversary cf the Daily Worker is, unquestionably, s historical mile. stone of the working class movement in America. As a worker and sub- seriber since the summer of 1924 I send my warm concratulations to our best fighter—the “Daily.” I don’t know of any other steady reader of the Daily Worker in my neighborhood, but, all those work~- | ers, white or black, that come in my small shoe repairing shop to whom I give the Daily after I read it, admit that the Daily is the only paper that tells the workers what's what, Many such workers, when they get puzzled reading the cap- italist press about the situation in Germany or elsewhere, come to me and ask me what the Daily Worker says about it. A DYNAMIC FORCE Ellwood City, Pa. Editor, Daily Worker: The Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker enthusiastically receeived. A wonderful example of what is possible in a revolutionary paper when the militant workers of the United States build its circula- tion and supply correspondence. Through its pages we have a dynamic force which is insur- mountable once the enslaved worker understands. Long live the Daily Worker in its untiring efforts toward a Soviet | America, “THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND” New York. Dear Comrades: In the Anniversary issue of the Daily, I found nothing about the youth, the young workers and how to win them and why. Don’t you think that we have to talk to the adult workers and party members of the importance of winning the youth too? Do our Party comrades and workers understand the importance of winning the youth? I would say definitely, “No.” Is there not the slogan: “One Y.C.L. unit to every Party unit?” How many party units take this seriously and act accord- ingly? Cetrainly not many. And that’s because the comrades don’t un- derstand of building the Y.C.L. and other youth organizations. As a German young worker, I have worked on the German boats for seven years. I have been involved in many little struggles. I am sorry to say in our struggle against the bosses, we young workers had to fight also against the older workers. On some ships it was so bad that we young workers were not even al- lowed to sit at the table at the meals with the adult workers. I remem- ber the time when I made $2.75 a month (1923), for 14 hours work a day. On this ship, the adult work- ers forced me to sit on the floor while taking my meals, and some of these workers hav ebeen on the barricades with the spartacus—but they did not understand the importance of win- ning the young workers. I am even of the opinion that many young workers have been driven away from the working class front to the Nazi front by class-conscious work- ers. It was only in January, 1933, when young seamen of the North German Lloyd steamers, running in South America, were on strike in Bremer- haven. The young workers ashore supportea them by not taking jobs on this ship. Hiring of Nazi boys broke this strike—aad the adult workers did not move. They did not A STEEL WORKER, understand, Young Workers, However, Find Serious Lack in Omission of Material on Youth T would like to ask you why there was not any youth features in the “Daily” on Saturday. I understand that the Y.C.L, is a lot to blame, but don’t forget that the main respon- sibility rests with the Party. It was promised that in the “Party Life” there would be articles on Y.C.L. life on Saturday. Did we forget that “those who have the youth have the future?” —wW. Ss. YOUTH UNDERESTIMATED Editor, Daily Worker: The editorial of Tuesday, Jan. 9, asks to hear from us on the Tenth Anniversary, special of the D. W. Therefore, I dug into every line of the “Daily” and placed myself as one who had never seen the “Daily” be- fore. I'm a Y¥. C. L. member, read most of our literature. Being only 24 years old, I looked for youth material. Why not? After reading the resolution of the 17th Plenum on the Party’s daily tasks, I expected weeks be- fore the Tenth Anniversary D. W. came out, going to a quarter of a million workers and their friends, children, etc., throughout the country, we'd sure have c_.> page of youth activity. So many new readers got a hold of this issue and on Jan. 15, the Young Communist Leagues all over the world will commemorate the death of Lieb- Imecht and Rosa Luxemburg—a day of struggle against war and fascism —and this wasn’t even mentioned in the Jan. 6 special daily. It is so important to remember the role of the youth on these occasions. The ©. C. C. Camps, discrimination in relief of young workers, especially Negro workers—transient youth camps being built for only food and few pennies a day for a lousy meal and flop—and many other important new points could have been brought out to especially interest the youth and show them the way out, through struggle. Hoping this point is not forgotten Letters Praise “Daily’s” Anniversary Issue A CULTURAL AID New York. Editor, Daily Worker: I wish to congratultate the Daily Worker on its Tenth Anniversary. I hope it will be able to continue in exposing the capitalist system, its demagogues and apologists. For one who has been blinded up until six months ago by capitalist illusions, I can frankly say that your efficient and timely editorials, masterpieces of propaganda and other revolutionary articles have contributed tremendously toward my liberation from political uncertainty, I might add that not only does the Worker help me in a political sense, but also in a cultural sense. I don’t think it necessary to men- tion that I was one of the fortunate workers who has read your anniver- sary issue, but I do so mainly to disagree with the criticism of the “Daily” by Comrade Olgin. He states in his anniversary article that the Daily is becoming “stereotyped.” I feel that perhaps to many old Party members that may be true. But when one realizes that the “Daily” has yet to reach millions of workers who are still influenced by bourgeois newspapers, then one might pe that such criticism is prema- ure, I have engaged with other readers in discussing this very important question, and we are all of the opin- ion that the present set-up of the “Daily” is very effective in bringing about class-consciousness to those workers who are disgusted with the demagogy of Roosevelt, Green, Wal- lace, and others like them. Comradely yours, SYMPATHIZER. SOLD LIKE HOT CAKES Middletown, N, Y. Editor, Daily Worker: One hundred Daily Workers sold to Middletown workers like hot cakes despite the cold rainy Sunday. I mean Red Sunday, and it will be Red Sunday from now on. Tnerease our Saturday bundle order to 40 papers. at such important times, I remain, Long live the Daily Worker. PARTY LIFE Only 31 New Party Members Recruited in Philadelphia Only Three Negroes, Very Few Workers from Basic Industries Gained for Party In Saturday's issue of the Daily Worker we reviewed in this column the recruitment into the Party in the five concentration districts— Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit and New York. District No. 3, Philadel- phia, is not a concentration “dis- trict, but it contains within sits territory all of the concentration industries,—shipbuilding and other sections of the steel industry; mip- | ing, marine, and textile, and im- | portant struggles have occurred in this district in many of these in- dustries. This district also contains three cities, Philadelphia, Baiti- more, and Washington, all of which have large Negro populations. We are printing below the analysis of the recruitment in this istrict, which indicates the same unsatis- factory situation in regard to win- ning the workers from the basic in- dustries for our Party, as was found in the concentration districts. The district analysis, however, fails. to. point out the additional shortcom- ing, in that during December only three Negroes were recruited. This district has been in the forefront in its struggles for the rights of ‘the Negro masses, The National Anti+ Lynching Conference was held in Baltimore. Why are not more Ne- groes won for the Party, Comrades? Sle ce The District Org. Dept. Analyzes | the Recruitment More Pep Needed in Recruiting Drive Philadelphia District Committee finds many sections absolutely inact tive. The Philadelphia District Commit- tee set itself the goal of recruiting Rest of CWA Jobs in Princeton, Ind., Soon to Give Out (By a Worker Correspondent) PRINCETON, Ind.—Six weeks ago everyone was going to get a job in this county, everyone that was able to work. Now the picture has changed, and the C.W.A. workers are being fired here in the middle of Winter. Some projects have been completed, others were not approvad. The last accounts showed 2,500 registered for jobs, while only 600 or 700 got jobs. Now those that have jobs are compelled to register-:the third t#me for the purpose of further Weeding out those few left on jobs. The weather has been so severe that the men could not work the last few weeks. Previous to that time, the state highway road work fired half its forces, telling those who were dispensed with, that the jobs would be staggered, and that there would be work for theny next week. As yet this has not happened. Those Jaid off applied for relief and were told nothing doing, as they should Taye saved their wages for a rainy ay. Ma One comrade informed me that. he had not gotten pay for two weeks and could not possibly get another one even if permitted to work for another two weeks. Yet his $12.50 should tide him over in this severe weather, although he was compelled to-feed eight—24 meals per day, seven days per week, or 168 meals. . For the period of four weeks we find this comrade has a total of 672 meals to manage to get on his table, and only 512.50 to spend, besides paying for fuel, ¥ichts, water, ete. The Unemployed Council here was able to win some gains for the work- ers in the past, but it has been’ crushed by the terror of former mem- bers of the K.K-K. and stool pigeons, together with the sabotage of the CxYU. 400 new members for the Party. Th’ drive is to last until Feb. 18 an started Dec. 15. Membership books issued this year show that the members recruited amount only to 15 per cent, or 31 members. Some of the most impor- tant sections such as the Wilkes- | Barre, Minersville, Scranton and Bale timore sections have not recruited even one new member. The same ts true of the Chester, Wilmington, |Reading and Camden sections. Lan- caster section reached 50, 40 per cent ofits quota, Section No. 3, 30 per cent. The rest of the sections hav. not recruited any more members thg are brought in under ordinary . cumstances. Fractions in the trade unions and mass organizations have not yet got into motion, as far as the drive is concerned. The slow motion of the drive is not its only weakness, and while it is true that out of 51 new recruits, there are only three housewives, there have been brought in only 11 workers from decisive industries. One steel worker, two auto workers, two seamen, one machinist, one blacksmith, one me- chanic, two longshoremen, and one weaver. The rest are from the vari- ous light unimportant industries. Not one steel worker from the concentra- tion point, not one hosiery worker, only one weaver and not one miner. What Are the Reasons for This ‘Slow Motion’ in Recruiting? First. It proves lack of contact with workers in the basic industries. Second, lack of conscious orienta- ion to recruit, wherever we have such contact. Thirdly, the conception that we must wait until workers fledged Communists before we take them into the Party. This is a sad picture, and deserves to. be studied very seriously by the whole Party membership. The open letter must be studied over again, as well as the first recruiting bulletin issued by the Org. Committee of the Party district. In line with the open |letter and the points outlined in the first recruiting bulletin, the drive must be intensified and systemati- cally developed by the Party com- mittees and fractions. Workers are moving into struggles. Splendid opportunities exist for our Party to strengthen its ranks, We must collectively take advantage of this most favorable objective situa- tion to build a mass Party that will be able to meet the struggles that are developing daily and to give lead- ership to these struggles. Org. Department, bi District No, 18. NOTE BY EDITOR In connection with the above statement, we would like to ask the District for more information on the 51 recruited “this year.” Does this mean in the period from Dec. 15th to Jan. 9 (the date the letter was written). Reports from the Dis- trict in the National Org. Depart- ment, show a total of 40 recruited: during December, 19 of which were recruited since Dec. 15. Have 32 new members been recruited in the first nine days of January? JOIN THE Communist Party 35 KE. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa-' tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City. eee cess cent ee ee eemen eee, By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ADS IN “PHYSICAL CULTURE” , (Continued) A full page ad of Fleishman’s Yeast, which is known to cause painful ab- dominal distention in many cases and 4s occasionally contaminated with streptocoecus viridans, features: the bearded Paris Dermatologist who has: become such a familiar figure in American magazine adyertising. To offset the distention draw-back, an- other advertisement extolls “Yeast Foam Tablets” as different from or- dinary and which “cannot cause gas or discomfort.” Taking the advertisements in rota- tion, we find one about “Parkelp,” on which we commented in a recent of the Daily Worker: Nancy Lee is ready to give away her “Miracle Cream” to her flat chested sisters for $1, guaranteed to develop a “lovely feminie form.” “Why be you can gain 7 Ibs. in 5 days eating ‘Kelp-A-Mal’ tablets for $1.95.” The Brooks Company does not want you to worry about your rupture; buy its “automatic air cushion.” C. Fran- klin Leavit, M. D., in a full-page ad, offers you @ book and an analysis-of your nervous condition for only 25° cents; a bargain if there ever was one! ~W. J. Kirk offers to rejuvenate | you, if you are over forty, by an “electric” cantraption which works on the prostate gland. This faker displays the N. R. A. emblem which forcibly reminds one of the proverb that birds of a feather flock together. The Psychology Press will send you the “Secrets of Fascinating Woman- hood,” “free of charge,” so that you may win a husband, home and ‘hi piness, The American College “will mail and the National will stop your hair from falling if you fall for its Japanese Oil (whatever that means). George P. Way sells @ con- traption to make the deaf hear; while Prof. Feuchtinger will sell you a book (for $1) which will teach you how to sing. Landon & Warner guarantee to take 8 inches off anybody's waist- line by. their director belt. What happens when the belt is taken off, at night, is nobody’s business. There are other advertisements in Physical Culture which, being non- medical, do not interest us. Those we have mentioned are sufficient proof that this “health” , like other capitalist publications, is prim- arily interested in the profits to be derived from advertisements. It does not concern itself with the “injury to life and health which misleading deliberately false claims may caus) to its “dear” readers! « ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS . Bed Wetting Mrs. Sam R., Luttrell, Tenn— When a boy or girl continues to wet the bed at the age of 16, the best — thing to do it to take him to a physi- — cian and find out whether it is due to some irritation of the bladder, kidney trouble or other causes. There is no medicine which would cure this con- dition unless the cause of it is found In a case recently seen, bed wettin was due to a stone in the bladder an as soon as same was removed young man was cured, Delay in Luetic Treatment. N. F.—If you had stuck to the treatment in 1920, you would have been over your disease long ago. Now you had better continue the treat- ments until your Wasserman test re- teach you to become chiropodist by mains negative for a couple of years, _