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layers in, for a depth of about i ‘inches. It is important that ~~ Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934 ay Bemidji Indians Struggle For Payments Due Them One Group Forms Council to Unite With White Workers and Farmers (By a Worker Correspondent) BEMIDSI, Minn.— Indian workers in the Bemidji section, are beginning to struggle for their rights. The first year of the crisis and prior to that, the Indians received a per capita Payment from their tribal fund of $100. The sum has continuously been cut, till last year they received only $25. Now, with the fifth year of the crisis, they are threatened with no payment whatever. This situation led to the fact that on one reservation, the White Earth, @ series of mass meetings were held. The total number of heads of fami- Hes in all meetings was 550. of these meetings a committee was elected to represent the Indians at @ reservation conference. This con‘ezence, which was held on Dec. 24, undertook the task of be- ginning action on their demands for @ per capita of $5 mittee was elected to draw up a peti- | circulated, not c: ation, but cna all te of Minn one reserv: tions in t ers on the White Earth. The conference is a success. All work was left in the hands of the yank end file Indians. About 50 at- fended this conference. Workers Council has been established m one group. It is based upon prac- | | tacts received from the Indian work- | | | | Many Groups Aiding LL.D. Bazaar Plans Stellar Program Planned for Feb. 21 to 25 NEW YORK.—Representatives of @ number of organi: ms are on the bazaar committee organizing the In. ternational Labor efense which. will be held F: 21 to 25, in- clusive, at the Man an Lyceum, 60 E. Fourth St. The organizations represented a‘ present are the Needie Trades Work- ers Industrial Union. The shoe and leather workers, the furniture work- ers, metal trades workers, the Russian Mutual Aid Society, the Young Pio- neers, and the Film and Photo League. In addition, many groups of artists, including Group, Workers Da eit Chor- us and the Artef are coonerating in preparing a stellar pr s, A petition com- | uly on the | erva- An Indian | | tically the same principle as the Un- employed Council. It will, according to its constitution, participate in all | | Struggles for the benefit of the In-| | dian workers, as well as join hands | with any other workers and farmers. |The control in the organization kes | strictly in the hands of the rank and | file. On Sunday, Jan. 7th, the Peti- tion Committee will meet in Bemidji, where methods of work will be jadonted for furthering the. struggle for Tie payment. In the evening the | Unemployed Council will hold a re- | |ception meeting, greeting the Indian |delegation, and where the relation | between the white and Indian work- At each | ers can be very much improved, thus | | breaking the tactics of the Indian | representatives in office, who have | thus far, only been able to develop and hold Indians prejuciced and even antagonistic between the white and Indian workers, but between the various reservations also. The Com- munist Party of the Bemidji section is active in giving the struggle cor- rect guidance and leadership. Seattle Workers Give Rousing Welcome to Visiting USSR Seamen SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 17—Amidst cheering and applause of more than 1,200 workers gathered to greet the Soviet crew of the recently pur- | chased Soviet ship Karise, at Moose Temple here, a red flag with ham- mer and sickle was presented by delegates from the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union and the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association to the ship's captain. A second red flag was presented |to the crew by delegates from Ma- | chinists’ Local 79 of the A. F. of L., | the International Labor Defense and the Young Pioneers. This flag will | fly over the seamen’s hall in Vladivo- | stok. | | Defense of the Soviet Union was |the keynote of the mass reception held here under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union and the | revolutionary and A. F, of L. trade unions. Hundreds of marine workers in the audience applauded when a pledge was made by representatives of the | seamen and longshoremen to repeat whenever necessary. the action they took in 1919, when they stopped the | shipment of munitions to the Amer- ican forces engaged in aiding coun- | ter-reyolutionary forces to destroy | the workers’ and farmers’ government, of the Soviet Union, of things to save ‘king women them time for yed work,” h- d ich few years ago, mother happens to I use it almost every once. It cooks tough eat tender, without make beans taste at didn’t come from it will cook by any other to find a 3 in most stores reasonable nrice, it is more than possibile to make one. They work @n about the came principle as the bean hole, that is, the heat is put into the food, and then kevt there To be container of a little larger sel containing that this Tt is necessary container have a tight cover. “For a moderate-sized family, some sizes of lard pail would make a good kettle for cooking beans, stews, oats, the food. or whole wheat. In this case the next ze larger lard container would do for the inside of the cooker. “After deciding on the inner part, get a ‘good tight box at least six imches higher than the can, and at least three inches larger than the cam all around, and with a good lid. This lid should be hinged to the box —strips of leather will do if they are strong, and you must arrange 3 hook or other means of fastening the lid down, “Now if someone in the family has eeen collecting junk. you need only _ get hold of a good sized bale of this faper, being sure that it is clean, _ (not fragrant) and dry. This paper the very best kind of insulating terial if it is torn sufficiently fine. it into very fine shreds, or it be possible to cut it into shreds. this into the box, tramping his shredding and packing be done r . When this layer is three “Mnehes thick, set into the center of “whe box that container which és to rve as the inner part of the cooker. larger size pail.) continue packing in the Waredded paper until there is a solid 6s Of it filling the entire box all I the can, even with top of When this is tight, it can be ed, cither with oilcloth, tucked the can and tacked to the of the box, or with a board, if {have a carpenter in the house sean cut a round hole to fit top| | “make a cushion or slip of | I, as large as the the box, and a bit more than inches thick. This must be very full of the same shred- er that you used in the box. | to crowd th jlid of the box. | “After you think it is full enough, | Just put in a few more handfuls of | Paper for good measure. Loops of | tape sewed to the edges of the cush- jon will prove handy for removing | the cushion. Use a good heavy ma- | terial so it will wear well and the | cooker will last for a long time.” (To be continued. We suggest that those who intend to make a cooker wait until our series of articles is completed.) | CORRECTION |. The recipe for soup, given last | Monday should call for “14 pound of fresh ground beef.” | | Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1752 is available in sizes 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12. Size 10 takes 2% yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step- by-step sewing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in cons or stamps (coins preferred), for this Anne Adams patiern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker, so full that when the lid an is in place, it is necessary Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. Toil on Louisiana Cane Plantations From Sun-up | Spread Fertilizer GAM. to 8 PM Under Blue Eagle (By An Agricultural Worker Correspondent) WAUKENA, Cal.—Three |men went to work for the |Gin Co. of Corcoran, Cali | ing fertilizer on their ranch six miles from Corcoran. They were told to be there ready for work at 6 am. |The fertilizer was loaded on trucks union read- | | by machinery at their feeding yards | |mear their gins. Three trucks, each | hauling about 10 tons each load. | As soon as one truck was unloaded |the next one was right there, so all | they had to do was step off one right | jon to the next. At noon they tock| just time to eat one sandwich with-| out even washing their hands and| face, and you could not see their skins for dirt. |_ That pace was kept up until 6 p.m, | Finally at the end of the fourth day all were worn out, just ready to go home, when two more trucks cam | loaded, and in the dark it took un 8 p.m. before they could go home. | | The following morning three men| |temained at home, all worn out, and | this company has an N. R. A. sign jin nearly every window, saying We| | Are Doing Our Part! | Wake up, you non-union slaves, |and join the workers’ union—the | Cannery and Asricultural Workers’ | Industrial Union! How the RFC and C.W.A. Work in the Black Belt | oe | (By a Woman Worker Correspondent) | | DADEVILLE, Ala—I am sending | you_an article on the work of the R. F.C. in the Black Belt. I want to expose the way they are treating | | the people, my husband, brother and} many others. They take the job that | some men had and give it to some- | one that was not needed to be on the| work. | What did the C. W. A. do? Noth- ng but give out little pieces of paper o the worker and tell people that| f they don’t have work to do by| the 8th or 16th of December or Jan-| uary they would give them some.| | So the people went back, but still no |work. The people just carried that little piece of scrap paper back and forth. | What we comrades say is that we must organize and fight because that and we are hungry as hell. Then when my husband worked they did not want to pay him. They put him to a great deal of trouble} to come and get the pay. He worked in November and just got this pay Christmas Eve. Isn’t that a long time? Oh, how bad we are treated here} by the boss. We must be orga’ and fight and lead the masces in such a way as to educate them and strencthen them for the overthrow of the bosses. FARMER PRAISES ANNIVERSARY EDITION (By a Farmer Corre-pondent) HAMILTON, Mont.—Comrades, the farmers here are really commencing to get acquainted with the new d A let of the relief work here is going to the small farmer. They think the Producers News is okey, but they don’t like the hammer and sickle so well yet. A lot of the comrades here think we should hide the ham- mer and sickle, but I know damn well when they learn something about it, they will want it. More power to the “Daily.” 250,000 good sharp tools for edu- cating the class conscious is what I think the Tenth Anniversary edition is. NOTE We publish letters from farmers, agricultural workers, cannery work- ers and forestry workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us letters about their con- ditions of work and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of each week. Childs’ Dishwashers Speeded Too Much to Obey Sanitary Rules (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The employes at the Childs restaurant are tired and over- worked helpers, not organized and subject to rotten treatments if they protest, and fired. The dishwashers must entirely disregard sanitary rules, being unable to work fast enough, and the reduced help, must work lke horses. The employes are not allowed to eat meais from the bill of fare. Only coffee and eggs allowed, and get deducted 50c which is a hand- some profit for the boss. The employes have no faith in complaining to the N.R.A, Has your organization made a | donation to the fund to finance the National Convention Against Unemployment, Feb. 3, in Wash- ington, D. C.? Send funds to Na- tional Committee, Unemployed poses 80 E. llth St, New York Ye Jers t Boswell | . | tle for a fract: |them. The planters also juggle their j scrap of paper ain't worth a damn, |“ C.W.A. Officials Help Supply Negro Workers for To Sun-down for Only 50 Cents to $1.25 Per Day Brutal Exploitation and Torture (By a Worker Correspondent) BATON ROUGE, La.—Negro work- rs of this vicinity are returning from sonal! work on the cane planta- , their hands calloused and no y in their pockets. These work- iled from up until sun- for sums averaging 50 cents 1.25 per day. Due to rain and the of the planters in repair- n-down machinery, their wages averaged $9 per month— they were lucky enough to collect that much. Cheat Workers Out of Wages The planters have a favorite trick of pretending not to have sufficient funds when pay-day comes. Des- perate for cash, the workers will set- ion of the amount due down books in order to cheat the workers. Anyone who protests is driven away without being paid a cent. Out of their miserable wages, the tkers must buy food, the planters furnishing nothing but leaky shacks a little firewood. One aged Negro is city went to work on the Catherine plantation, honing to earn enough money to buy a pair of shoes, The old man slaved in the fields, ruining the shoes which he did have. | Now, with the approach of cold weather, he is practically barefooted. Catherine Plantation is Hell-Hole The Catheztne plantation, owned by Frank Carruth, is one of the worst hell-holes in Louisiana, but certainly not the only one. Tregg, the brutal overseer of the Catherine plantation, has the same contempt for the Negro people that all of his kind have, Like all the others, he carries a loaded gun, in order to prevent any expres~- sions of protests from the: workers. Like the others, he takes a savage pleasure in beating and kicking Negro toilers, Many Negro workers expected to receive better treatment on the plan- tations this year, since they had been sent there by the relief officials. They have learned, to their sorrow, that the relief officials were merely assist- ing the planters to obtain a supply of cheap labor. Back from the cane farms, they must look to the C.W.A. bull-dozers for employment. These gentlemen are now arranging to send the workers to rick strawberries, at another starvation rate of payment and under the same oppressive con- ditions. Potato Crops in Aroostook County Bound to Gov't (By a Farmer Correspondent) ANSON, Me.—Conditions in Aroo- stook County, Maine, the so-called second richest county in the state, are terrible. A lot of farmers have not paid their taxes for one to three years. In many localities farms have been foreclosed, and the original own- ers left on them with the chance to redeem them, The farmers must pay the taxes and try at least to make some payments, The government for the last three years or more, has been lending the farmers credit to nay for fertilizer to raise potatoes (the principal and big money cron cf the county). That gives the government the first claim on the crop. One man went to the government agent and asked if he could sell enough potatoes to buy some storm windows, “You cannot sell a potato until we tell you that you can,” was the reply. At the county seat, Houlton, the barter system is in foree. The farm- ers aim to exchange butter for gro- certes and necessities. The merchants complain that they need some money to do business, not butter. ‘High Living Cost Robs Farmers of Wheat Price Gain By a Farmer Correspondent SPOKANE, Wash.—The farmers of eastern Washington in some locali- ties suffeer poverty. In other locali- ties, in rich soil districts, attempts are made at 5 cent and 10 cent sales, ‘These were not successful owing to lack of leadership. The farmers get less today for) wheat than last year when the higher cost of living is taken into ac- count. Spokane is digging sewers with C.W.A, money. Seventeen thousand are registered for this work, but only 2,000 are working. The work is being Gone with picks and shovels, There is not a piece of modern machinery to be seen. This again gives proof that capitalism is destruction. Two five-hour shifts are being worked at 50 cents per hour. Men with large families are given preference inas- much as then a saving is made in relief supplies. Single men are scheduled to re- ceive one day’s work per week at $4, which must cover expenses for food, shelter and clothing H. T. AHRENS. (Signature Authorized) Letters from Our Readers A LETTER TO COMRADE GANNES | conditional agents of the bosses GIVES SOME ADDITIONAL FACTS | (somewhere around 1912 and after Tampa, Fla, ; Dear Comrade Gannes: | they sold out their strikes and stole | large quantities of money from I have just finished reading your | them). article, “Shades of Gompers Over N I. R. A.—Trickery of Cigar Union| thro Heads,” an facts itten in order to have the full sig nificance of the agreement under- stood and also to expose the N.R.A. machine and A. F. of L. bureaucracy for what they are worth, I do agree with the characteriza- tion and facts given in your article, 3-| feelings of the workers when but believe you forgot to mention a} very essential fact, namely,’ who are the A. F. of L. officials and what I give here to make a short article or note, In the first place I believe you nis letter or use the facts * , Worst, | oil, tar and feathers, etc.). should go a little into recent history | of the struggies of the Tampa work- (And if you should do Ing lers of the A. F. of L. are ‘going through hours of worries, the longest in our life.”) You must remember that only two years ago there took place in Tampa @ general strike (the first general strike to occur in the U. S, after the war) that paralyzed the whole city (including schools) for 72 hours. This strike was declared as a protest for the imprisonment and frame-up of some ten workers which had its origin in the disturbances created by the police, American Legionaires and K. K. K’s of Tampa, when a few thousand workers assembled to cele- brate the 13th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. + This frame-up served the tobacco manufacturers of Tampa to do away (for a while) with the outstanding leaders of the Com- munist Party and the revolutionary Tobacco Workers’ Trade Union, which had been organized in two months time and which embraced somewhere around 9,000 workers, and also it served to unleash a reign of terror of brutal proportions and succeeded in smashing the revolu- tionary union. Only last year another strike took place, which also was smashed through the most violent means. The union this time was an independent union under revolutionary leadership and this union also had a very quick and unprecedented growth. (A mem- bership of some 5,000 members in a period of five months.) Now, I am only giving these two examples to show you that you left cut a very important factor, the fac- tor that gives “worries” to'the A. F. of L. leadership, that is, the tremen- dous prestige of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League among the tobacco workers ot Tampa, specially among the Cu- ban workers who are the majority of the workers in the industry. Also you should have mentioned the fact that the workers of Tampa hate the whole A. F. of L. bureaucracy like poison because history (their very own) has shown them in unmis- takable terms such leaders in their true colors of strikebreakers and un- The negotiations just carried ugh prove clearly (once more) and I want to bring out some | that the N. R. A. boards do not take which must necessarily be! into consideration altogether the sign- ing their codes and put through agreements which will insure benefits to the bosses alone (in this case of course more openly than in any other), Also, I believe it will be in place to mention the fact that every effort of the Tampa workers to organize themselves and every attempt ot legal or semi-t anizations in Tampa tas bren ond is beint met with t ind ef terror (beatings, castor Undoubt edly that the bosses will see with pleasure the A. F. of L. gaining a foothold among the fAobacco w S in Tamra, because they know what the A. F. of L. bureaucracy stand f and, as a matter of fact, the man facturers in that city have made pesals to the workers on more thon one occasion agreeing that the werk- evs could organize with the A. F. of L. or in some company union organ- ization, LUIS ORTIZ. MILLIONAIRE HEARST FAVORS TAXING THE POOR New York. Dear Comrade Editor: ‘The Hearst newspapers throughout the U. S. are running a campaign against the income tax in favor of a Sales Tax. This anti-working class stand in a newspaper which is al- most exclusively read by members of the working class should be sharply exposed, The working class is told to support a measure which would increase the cost of living! The stand of Hearst against the income tax (which is a tax ex- clusively against the rich) is born of a desire by millionaire Hearst to keep his millions intact. Surely we should be able to show the selfish, miserly, and unscrupulous attitude of Hearst to the workers and thereby under- mine his influence over them. An income tax is the only tax of a capi- talist system against the wealthy. It was won after a long struggle cul- minating in a constitutional amend- ment. True—the very wealthy evade paying it anyway! But we must make them pay it! Hearst says he wants no sales tax on food, clothing and rent. Let us remind workers that soap, razor blades, furniture, pins, pencils, etc., donot come under these headings and yet are necessities. Equality is not equality when a man who makes $10 a week must pay 15 cents for a cake of soap as well as the man who has an un- earned income of $300 or more a week, Have you sent your contribution to the fund to finance the National Convention Against Unemployment to the National Committee, Un- employed Council, 80 East ith St., New York City? @ gal organization of; Farmer Reports on Vain Hunt for Relief Work By a Farmer Correspondent ERWINNA, Pa.—Many of us here are always looking for work, even though tied down with farm chores, etc. For one thing, cash is needed for taxes, and so one goes to the County Commissioners. So far this has been of no avail, except for polite, non-committal opinions. | Well, we tried again. We went to the county seat at Doylestown, after trying to get a job at the upholstery shop that had moved from Brooklyn and was paying $8 a week here for 40 hours. There was no job, We picked up a couple of others going to sign up for work and went to the Administration Building in Doylestown. There we found Others leaving because it wasn’t the right place. The Statae Highway Building, we were told, was the place, to the| right, on Broad Street. But after a half hour's trudge we found it was to the left, There we were immediately told we must apply to Mr. Shaw of the Relief, at the courthouse. Shaw looked rather disturbed at our now enlarged group, but informed us that |we must first go home and apply for |relief in the regular y, rom an agency, but we could go over to the Employment Office near the Admin- ‘stration Building and sign there. ; In three rooms we found a large group being questioned, and some of the disclosurees brought gasps from even the hardened agents. One girl }had been a librarian for Newton |High School at $8 a week; one man lhad been last employed in a glass factory in Toledo, Ohio, for $7 a week, me man came in who had been sent on a job to report he was let off after two half days. Two from Bristol who had signed up three months ago had heard nothing yet. found, and over 1,100 were enrolled. On the way home we really did find a dozen lucky ones, chopping the brush out in the creek bottoms, for flood control. We'll be back, and not alone, and demand work. Farmers See Need of Mass Action to Fight Fascist Menace (By a Farmer Correspondent) NAMPA, Idaho—I have taken the started and previ had taken the “Appzal to Reason” about 10 yi or more. Heretofore of my ac- quaintance e ni 1] been op- posed to socialism and saw no need | for mass action, but now it is differ- jent. Some begin to see that we are at the end of the period of capitalist jcontrol by the means of republican form of governm ‘as~ vill be ti all re- ‘Many Farmers on By a Farmer © ‘Ss have the consent government to print paper money, first $2 for every gold dollar, aiter thet $12, and now $28.50, If this is the truth, how would it be possible to stand the Pressure much longer? The farmers, I am sure, are all in such shape that pretty soon none will be able to pay taxes. The busi- ness men of my acquaintance are in the same boat. Many farmers are on the C. W. A. lines, in increasing numbers, and cther thousands are also there wait- ing for jobs. Gave Renters 26 Cents Out of Government Loan of 45 Cents a Bushel (By a Farmer Correspondent) LOUP CITY, Neb—The State Board of the Holiday Association had a meeting at Neroman Grove, Neb,, and it was surprising to hear the report of the fellow farmers and their activities against the capitalist class. One farmer told how they had re- plowed the corn for one of his neigh- bors, but the farmers got busy and Shelled the corn and took it off the farm and placed it among the farm- ers so he could get the corn as he needed it for feed. Another farmer told of a doctor that owned 98 farms and had sealed all the corn cribs and took a gov- ernment loan of 45 cents per bushel and he gave his renters only 26 cents. One farmer coming home found the doctor nailing up his crib. The farmer asked the doctor what was going on. The doctor raised the hammer and struck the farmer, The farmer warded off the blow and the hammer flew out of his hand and struck the farmer's wife in the stomach so she had a premature childbirth that night, The farmers are bringing the doc- tor to CWA Lines Upstate | PARTY LIFE “Less Talk, More.Work!” Says Party Section 6 of Chicago Section Examines the During Lenin Week To commemorate the tenth an- nivercary of the death of Lenin, Section 5, Chicago, undertook to examine the work of the Section, on the basis of the carrying out of the Open Letter. As a result of this examination, the Section is- sued a Section Disciplinary Leiter, in which the work of each comrade on the Section Committee was ex- amined and criticized. This letter was discussed in each of the units of the Party. The results of this thoreughgoing analysis and self- criticism of the Section, are given in. the two articles written by the Section Organizer, which we print today and tomorrow in this column. renee“ neey LENINIST SELF-CRITICISM VERSUS CONFESSIONALISM (“Fewer high-falutin’ phrases, and more simpie, everyday deeds...” —Lenin. To the honest Party member, who | carries his assignments to the shop gates, and learns the problems of the workers in the course of concen- tration, the Revolutionary phrase- monger is a stumbling block in the work; or in plain, everyday lingo, “a pain in the neck!” It is not strange, therefore, that the comrades who really carry out the work have so little patience with those who talk well, but do little! We are referring here to some com- rades in our section, who are in the habit of coming to their unit meet- ings and, during discussions, deliver themselves of some choice potitical remarks on “the correct Party line,” on the “Open Letter,” and even quote sections from Lenin, Marx and Stalin; but when it comes to accept- ing some assignments, these com- rades even more eloquently beg to be excused! In the light of the above statements it might be well here to give some concrete examples of how one unit in particular (a concentration unit at the North Western Railroad yards— a district concentration and the ma- jor concentration point in Section Why? Because only 300 jobs were)Five!) proceeded for a long time to carry its concentration work after the Open Letter. This unit presents a classic example how not to do work. This unit in particular, endorsed the District Resolution—the Section Resolution—made its own resolution, and a plan of work for three months. Not one of its decisions were carried into life, after a period of two months! We held a special meeting with the comrades, and began a close examination of the work. A check-up of the assignments revealed the fol- lowing situation: Open Letter Not Taken Seriously Out of 14 members, only three were actively engaged in the work at the shop gates. Comrade assigned to sell Daily Workers at the gates, reported that his little boy, Bobby, (six years old), was not having any luck at all with the sales. The unit as a whole, expressed amazement at this. While they had assigned this comrade for this work, they had not checked, ta see how he was doing it. At this point, one of the leading comrades, a district functionary, ob- jected that the discussion was not political enough. When another com- rade took the floor, he said: “Now Tl make my confession!” And he admitted, that while he was very busy with other work, he could have ed at least one night—but never id! Small wonder then that Section Five hea not yet recruited one rail- road worker into the Party, during the Lenin Memorial Drive! But it also proves that we have not yet outgrown the old sickness of believing that documents alone will make the Revolution for us—or as it is often said—“make the turn.” Further than Work of Each Member that; we can see that the Open Let- |ter did not as yet, penetrate deep into the Party. <The Open. Letter instructed each Party member. to begin with him- self, and in the light of the Open Letter, try toimprove his work. We invite our membership to join us in this self-examination: did we honestly do this? We ask the com- rades in the units to follow the ex- ample of the’ Detroit unit and use the Party Life,corner of the Daily | Worker to relate their experiences and opinions. Qur Section Committee found, after | MiOnths of discussing our work in the light of the Open Letter, that we ourselves had not yet fully begun te'anderstand it and its application in our work. We hammered away at our membership about the im- pogtance of the Open Letter. At a Special. membership meeting of our Section, we even presented a resolu- tion, which was adopted by the mem- bership, which stated that “the poll- tical Tevel of our membership was very low.” But we failed completely tosearch out the real origin of this Tow political level! Section Carefully Examines Work Quite by accident, so to speak, we stumbled on the truth. Instead of looking with a searchlight, trying to discover what..was wrong with our membership, we sat down and began toSearch out our own weaknesses andshortcomings. What we did find Was.@ revelation to every one of us: We found that the looseness, irre- sponsibility, inconsistency and mis- conceptions which existed in the Party, were to a great extent in our- Selves. We did not merely discuss the Sec- tion, Organizer. We examined his work ih the Section—his approach to’shrop* concentration, etc. We like- wise took in turn the Org. Sec., the Agit-prop, and so on, down the line. in each case closely examining their Work, analyzing the main weaknesses, ferreting out irresponsibility, loose- nes$,,and wrong conceptions and at the ‘siime time giving each comrade definite assignments to overcome their particular shortcomings in the work: 4ti'a special Functionaries meeting, where, this document was discussed, some comrades said we were merely giving out another document. Others Saldwthat this policy of self-criticism was merely a new form of fetishism; that instead of worshipping such terms as “sectarianism,” “opportun- ism,” or “tailism’—the Section had merely discovered a new god to wor- ship,..In other words, that the Sec- tion was just malding a gesture to the membership in order to white- wasl'“its sins—another confessional! We'‘convinced the comrades that this..policy was actually being car- ried into life by the Section, That it was Tot a new policy—but that we were’'Simply ‘carrying out the Lenin- ist principle of Bolshevik di in order to improve the leadership, and to more tbly carry out our plan of concentration. ene os” JOIN THE Communist Party (95 KE. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- on ‘on the Communist Party. sy PAUL LosTINGER, M.D. ANSWER TO QUESTIONS Ear Noises Mrs. James A. Methuen, Mass, — The noises in your ears are due to chronic catarrh. After so many years, it is too late now to do anything for it. There are no drugs that will help and no operations. Even inflation of the ear through the nose, which helps in the early stages of the dis- ease, will have no effect on you now. Sorry we cannot send you a more cheerful reply. Your deafness need not prevent you from being active. We are glad to hear that you are a ted head because we have a weakness for this color-of hair. oe nea Physical, Wreck r Mrs. 0. C., Les Angeles —You have so many troubles that we do not know how to begin to advise you. We be- lieve your case is too complicated to be diagnosed by mail. these in- fections might be due to Colon bacil- jus. If so, try to go on an acido- philus milk diet, which will change the flora of your intestines, in time. It would be best to follow the sug- gestions of your present medical ad- visors and write us again if you need some suggestion on one particular subject at a ime, » 4 . Economic Inability to Marry A Worker.—Sorry we are not in a position to assist you. Under the present crazy capitalistic scheme a young man of thirty-two who has no steady work is forced to repress his urge to found a family, Laryngitis N. G,, Brooklyn.—The best way to recover your voice is to take a com- plete rest. You must also limit your speaking so as to give your vocal cords a chance to recuperate. In the meantime, spray your throat with alum. To make the solution use one teaspoonful of alum to a glass of lukewarm water. Spray your throat a few times with this solution every twooor three hours. tit ie ae Anemia Following Cesarian Section M, A., South Chicago, IlL—Owing to, the great loss of blood following her cesarian section, your wife is probably suffering from anemia, Her menstruation will reappear in due time, viding she has plenty of nourishing food. Your English has nothing to do with the delay in an- swering your letters. We receive hundreds of letters every week and we,, must answer them in rota- tion and according to what we think is important. If you have more questions to ask please do so; but you must be more patient in awaite ingica reply. , 6 Pamphlets On Health Subjects “CU. B,, Brooklyn.—Your idea of have other readers of the “Daily Worker.” Inr‘due time, we expect to have @ numiber of these ‘pamphlets for tribution; but we must await summMicr time when we are not so busy before we can put this plan in execution, Thank you for your letter. and your suggestions, ie * * *. Rest Increaces Weight “T.D.M., -—We think that PS estate ane sleep and not to the Haliver Oil cape sules!) + tp bid i Exercises for Sagging Breasts Rose K., Brooklyn.—With all re- spect to the “Telegram,” no form of exercise will cause sagging is to wear an uplift brassiere. our answers to two similar questions which appeared in the column this week. The “pocket” brassiere is of no value, except in very large breasts, to become firm. ht ee ; erm