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Page Eight) | Jobless Barred by UMW. From Electing - Delegates Organizing, Sensines to Get Orient Local to || Unite With Others in Fayette County to Struggle for Relief sion that the delegate must be| loyed miner. In other words, will dictate who unemployed. | made this rule because | s some of the Lewis hench-| go, but we may fool him (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) CARDALE, Pa.—I am an unem-/|® “sete miner, are 300 of us t i.W.A., men 14 every two ne a job aa and his gang, as we are not asleep Batra = We are organizing to get the local = wien r ~ | to elect a br employed com- an hour here. The following week oe aio ey ccet dak Gaehican | I got two days and six hours each day; the next week I ‘got one day of six hours, the followir K employed locals in Fayette y, and to start a fight for more | obs on the C. W. A. for all} unemployed, and to make the| M. W. A. really the miners’ union not a property of the Lewis and company stools. | if I was ge ceive $28. shoes were being di not gét any working. LENIN ON | ‘There are ot! en here who re- poping WORKER CORRESPONDENCE | It ia a complete misapprehen- sion to suppose that precisely the educated people and almost e xclu- sively the educated people, are | sapable of successful work upon a | treatment ion of the U.M.W.A., d, there | ceived the si In our loc: while we have are also about 50 em jloyed, who work in the Orient Mine. The president a regular Lewis hench. He will not| mewspaper. The reverse is the et a broad, unem-| case. The ni paper does rot | ployed committ ee; he appoints th awaken to * continued life, until 500 or 5,000 non-<* tions to the work of five leading and permanently active educated | workers. i Telief committee, and those he ap- points are like him Our local is to elect one delegate to the U.M.W.A. convention, and the local president already handed out! Revolutionary devotion and) for the First of May. Long live the ti h ded in| working-class press! Workers of the enterprise such as recorde | world, unite! the following inspiring letter, | “For a classless society, written by the proletarian | “Working Women of women of the territory around Far- | Shenango Valley. Tell, Pa., set a shining example for (Enclosed in letter money order for all class-consciousness working wo- | $64 clear from vetcherinka, $5.35 from men to follow. (A vetcherinka is a|@ collection, and $7.86 for two bun- party, the “Radnik” is the Jugo Slav | dle orders for Anniversary Number— C. P. organ.) | total, $77.21. Comrade S., mgr. of HOW THE souTH sLav worK-|°*"*"? ING WOMEN SUPPORT THE | MAILY WORKER Can You Make °Em ‘On the 6th of January the work- | Yourself? ing women of this Valley prepared a | vetcherinka for the Daily Worker.) The profit trom this was $9412, of| sgn" "a2" jf Available in sizes which we decided to send $5 for the | takes 414 yards 39 inch fabric, te Borich case, $5 for “Radnik,” $5 for | tustrated step-by-step sewing in- Workers’ Educational Club, $5 for structions included. political prisoners in Germany, $10) for the local unit of the C. P., and the remaining $64 to the Daily/ Worker. “This vetcherinka was a success be- yond expectations. We, the commit- tee of working women, congratulate our women sympathizers of the D. W. on and of this valley for their splendid work, giving an example of | what can be done when we work in| @n organized manner. | “Especially vital is such @ cause aK | this, our Daily Worker, which is the| Official organ of the Communist) Party of the U.S. A. During its ten| years of existence it has been a lead- | ing force in all the struggles of the| workers. It is one of their greatest | weapons, the mouthpiece of the work- | ers, exposiag the role of the capital- | ist press which creates illusions in| the minds of some of the workers| about the Roosevelt administration and his N. R. A. | “It openly exposes most sharply | all our class enemies—and our work- | ing women, understanding this, de- cided that they too must do their share in helping the ‘Daily’ to get its new press so that it may. be able to reach ‘ts many readers sooner, help them to organize the working | class in its further struggles, and fortify them against such terror as we have here in Farrell, which is dominated by the steel trust. “The working women of this valley will not stop with just preparing this affair for the Daily Worker, but ex- pect to work activ as much as possible getting subscriptions for it, s0 that many more workers will be acquainted with our movement. “Our working women will also par- ticipate in the campaign of the “Rad- nik,” which began January First and will last until April. This work they will do through our Workers’ Educa- tional Club of which they have now . WGK \N NES \ Send FIFTEEN CENTS (5c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred), for | over th Fascist Group at | Pursglove Coal Co. —— | (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) OSAGE, W. Va—in Run section there are 16 coal mines jand all of them have signed a con- | them to the super, tract with the U. M. W. A. Out of| |the 16 mines that have signed up,| local president. | there are only five mines that do not|he had hire Negro miners. | Why do we say this? ‘The Purse- | glove Coal Co., which owns the same | mine that was owned by the Pasely Coal Co., is now the Pursglove No. 5 Mine. In the No. 1 and 2 mines} they hire Negro miners, but in Mine No. 5 there are no Negro miners} hired. When the Paisely Co. was jxunning the same mine, that com- | pany would hire anybody. Now that |the Pursglove Coal Co. has taken ine we find all of the Ne- groes evicted and in Mines No. 1] and 2 the Negroes are still allowed to work, but how long. In Local No. 4427 of the U.M.W.A., | which is the Purseglove No. 2 Min we find an organization such as thi the White People’s Club. One of the | | | members from this local union, whose } name is Martin Grerel, has been go- ing around collecting funds to help build this White People’s Club into @ branch of the fascists, such as in| Germany, and will begin here by| causing strong Jim-Crowism toward the Negro and foreign-born workers. There is only one way to do away with these fascist organizations and hat is by the Negro and foreign- orn with the native American work- ors uniting, with the help of the In-} ternational Labor Defense. AE edison DELEGATE. Sentenced to the Chain Gang for Selling “Daily” (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) COLUMBIA, 8. C—I am mailing you $1.50 as payment for the Daily Worker. Also we Negroes in South- ern California are getting plenty of hell at every point. I am just out of the County Jail for selling the Labor Defender andj the Daily Worker. The bosses gave me 30 days on the chain gang. I stayed there five days. The sheriff have my damn neck broke off. Three other comrades got a lawyer and got me off. Also, when I came home, the bosses -had raided my house. ‘They had taken all my letters and five Labor Defenders to the county jail, but when I came off the gang they gave them back to me. Also when I returned home all my clothes and shoes were stolen by someone. The bosses said let the “goddam Cc. P. and Labor Defense” give me some more shoes and clothes. On the C. W. A. jobs they make the Negroes work in water waist deep. They don’t make the white men get | in water. They pay the white men $12 per week and pay the Negroes 99. This is the New Deal we Ne- groes are getting in South Carolina. I am sending you a few cards that they mailed one man, Comrade James Dunmore, to get some salt pork, once a week, five pounds. Also they give the white men better eggs and salt pork. The Negroes get salt pork once per week and nothing else. This is the New Deal in South Caro- lina, LENIN ON WORKER CORRESPONDENCE “Give to the worker an ever wider possibility to write in our newspaper, to write about ali de- cisively, to write as much as pos- sible about his everyday life, of his interests and work—without this material, a Bolshevik organ will not be worth a penny, and it will not deserve to be called a real By a Mine Worker Correspondent Fights Negroes : the Scotts |2 of Richland County said I ought to| Bolshevik organ which would lead the masses.” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1934 Miner Reports How Officials of UMWA Conspire to Get Militant Workers Fired | Also Tells tice Bosses Are Allowed to Cut the Wages by “Reclassification” System WEST BROWNSVILLE, Pa. Dec. 23, a number of m mine of the Valle Fri. rs in| Camp| Co: ep. by their section bosses. On| for the reasons, the men were} ed to the pit boss, who referred | who told them to see their mine committee and the He also stated tha nothing against the mer. making the men understand that i was the local officials that demande their discharge. This is the second time that th members of the local union we fired. at the introduction of the lo president, Sophish. While our president professes to: | “believe, obey and carry out” the N.R.A. code he forgets Section 7A. His..charge against the men both times has been that they zre “Na- tiorials,” meaning members of the} National Miners Union. As far as UMW.A. Enters Indiana Mine Area to Stop Struggle (Rv'a Mine Worker Corresnond>nt) ICKNELL, Ind—dJust a few lines to let you know how the miners em- ployed at the Suovly Mine near this city found out what the N. R. A. means to them in improving their wages and conditions; and how the ULM. W. A. District 11 Vice-Presi- dent, Charles Foncannon, helped | them. The Supply Mine is a wagon trade mine and employed about fifty men. When the Coal Code went into effect. the. owner raised the tonnage rate and day wage rate, but did not com- ply with the Code in paying for yardage and dead work. Another feature was that the loaders with the scale provided in the Code could not earn the “day wage scale’ on account of poor turn. Some of the men thought that see- ing that the U.M.W.A. was gaining in.membership they could expect pro- tection and obtain help in improving existing conditions. Charles Fon- cannon, district vice-president, was called in and gave them a speech about the great bevicfits that could be realized if they came back into the U.M.W.A. fold. During his speech he also praised Roosevelt in general and the N. R. A. in particular. He told the miners that the gov- ernment would see that labor got justice from from the operators. He stated that if they would join, the U. M. W. A. would force the operator to abide by the Code. All but some four or five joined. This was about six or seven weeks ago. No improve- | p; ment was realized. Last Friday, Jan. 12, the operator hired four men. This would make conditions worse for those already employed. The men struck and called a board member on the case. They demanded that Foncannon’s words and promises that the U. M. W. A. would force the operator to abide by_the coal code he lived up to. The board member stated to the men that the Code said nothing about the operator having to recog- nize the U. M. W. A., so the U. M. W. A. was unable to do anything in the case. He advised them to place their case in the hands of the Dis- crict Arbitration Board. The owner of the mine told the men to be at work Monday or he would hire new men. The men are determined to fight on; they are about through with the U. M. W. A. These are the kind of cases that should be aired on the floor of the National Convention, NOTE We publish letters from coal and ore miners, and from oil field work- ers, every Saturday. We urge workers in these fields to write us of their conditions of work and of their struggles to organize. Please get your letters to us by Wednes- day of each week. referr t goes some of the fired men were never members of the N.M.U. The majority, however, were, but so were the majority of miners.in every mine Co. were given their discharge] in the Western Pennsylvania district. | Our local president and some other} officials attack the H. C. Frick Com- pany for discriminating, blacklisting and firing members of the United Mine Workers of America and hiring “brotherhood” men; and then he himself has members of his own local, ; men who went on picket line day and night, men who helped to organize| | The fact of the Lilley miners, fired. Checkweighmen Get $7 While the checkweighmen elected by the miners in practically every mine around here get $5 a day, our checkweighmen want $7 a day. This is $2.40 a day more than the average skilled miner gets. It is in line with the policies of the Lewis-Fagan ma- chine to get as much as they can and to hell with the rank and file miners. I suppose if any of us speak against the $7 a day for the check- weighmen, we willl be branded as “Nationals” and expelled from the local and blacklisted out of the mine. Recently our president called the men out of the man trip to strike because the coal company would not recognize as valid the examinations of the local doctor. That sounds good. But it is common knowledge that the sister-in-law of our presi- dent works for this particular doctor. Why do we have such suspicion? Because the condition in the mine are not what they should be. As high as 60 and 70 men have to go home every day, because they either have no working places, or no turn partings, or have falls. Our presi- dent never thought of calling a strike to force the company to give these men work on the days that the mine is working. Pay Cut by Re-shifting Recently the company re-shifted the outside men, and in the shifting re-classified them, This ‘re-classifi- cation” meant a wage cut for these men, Our local president not only refused. to have anything to do with their case, but when these men tried to hold a meeting of the outside men to map out methods of fight, he re- fused to give them the keys to the union hall, and some say he notified the burgess of West Brownsville to arrest them and break their meeting if sited tried to meet in front of the "its certainly proves that he is not a defender of the rights of the miners, but a selfish official who uses the same methods that Fagan-Lewig and the Frich Company use. We miners in the Lilley mine will have to either clean out the gang that uses such methods in fighting the rank and file miners, or else Sophish and his friends will slowly but surely have us blacklisted one by one, and see to it that their friends get our jobs. It is also pos- sible that this type of “leader” will establish a job selling agency, as some of the U.M.W.A. local officials are already doing in some of the mines in the district. Every mem- ber of the Lilley local must become an active member; attend his local meetings; fight for the improvement in the mine; demand that neither the company nor the local officials shall blacklist any miner for his opinions; fight against the high wages for the checkweighmen and offi- cials. Demand that when these of- ficials and “leaders” win $7 or $10 a day for all the miners, then and only then they will have the rights to the same wages. Lilley miners—make the Lilley lo- cal union the instrument of your struggles and not the poiltical foot- ball of local officials, doctors and such alike. become members. (So far, our Club thas 20 new members since Jan. 1, and 9 new subscriptions for the “Rad- nik.” We also expect to pass our quota and to be one of the many to send a delegate to the U. S. S. R. this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker, Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. PEN AND HAMMER OF DETROIT, PRESENTS “FRAGMENTS OF AN EMPIRE” MONDAY, JAN. 22nd :-:_ »~= TWO SHOWINGS: 8 P.M. and 9:30 P.M. FINNISH HALL - 5969 14th STREET ADMISSION 15c ARE YOU HELPING “YOUR PAPER”? We all want to see the DAILY WORKER « self-supporting and better newspaper. The only way the “Daily” can pay its own way ts to secure more advertising. 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It is a real, a brave and, devoted fighter for better conditions, of workers’ and farmers’ children. Every day young boys and girls of America write to us. They tell us how much they like our magazine, and how bad they feel when it doesn’t arrive on time. It teaches them the truth, and shows them the way to improve their living condi- tions. Their letters inspire us, make us want to work hard and build our magazine until tt reaches every home, Aut, and farmhouse. We want to inspire new readers to join us in the fight against hunger and for a better world. So you see what a tragedy it would be to lose the only courageous children’s magazine in America. Shall we permit it? Shall we let the bosses gloat and laugh at the sinking condition of our New Pioneer? No! We must rally to its support . . . collect funds... save our magazine! Districts and organizations . . . enter into Socialist competition! Speed the drive on! Comrades— young and old, join in ... send us funds! We must be victorious! The following have contributed to the $3,000 “Save the New Pioneer | Creators of hunger Drive”; New York District, Y. P. A. $18—Ironwood, Mich, Y. P. A. $3— WITH OUR YOUNG READERS San Francisco, Calif. I. W. O. Jrs. $2.40—I. W. O. Jr. Branches $11.18— Stamford, Conn. Y. P. A. $2—Fin- nish Workers Federation $20—New- ark, N. J. Y¥. P. A. $3.95—Hoquiam, Wash. Y. P. A. $2—Ontonagon, Mich. ‘T5e—Robert Kent 25c—Wm. Schubert 9%ce—J. Scott 50c—Irene Wohl 50c— Joyce Talol 25c—Joseph Czander $1 —P. and S. 50c—Wm. Guty 25c— M. and J. Simanich (Montana) $1— Andrew Olen, Beloit, Wis. $1—I. Ww. O. Branch, Milwaukee, Wis. $i— Jewish Workers Clubs $20. . . Lenin, Remember In 1917, remember When Russia the suffering The war-tortured Russia Like a wind in a fury Swept out the cruel Czar The beastly exploiters Darkness and death, Dumped them out in steel anger Dumped them into the dustbin Where they rot in past history, The world shook It was Lenin, remember Lenin the leader Torch of our freedom Great muscle of struggle Who led workers and farmers Sloganning: Peace! Bread! Land to the peasants! It was Lenin, remember, Who flung to the heavans A light and a beacon— Flung to the heavens The new Soviet Star! pox. forget’ the contest. We ex- pect’ to announce the winner within two weeks. Think of a good title for our column, Then send your suggestion to the “Daily.” The winner of the best name, will get a@ prize ... and there’s a surprise in that too! OW about those poems, stories, jokes and puzzles we asked for? Let us see what you have written lately. Sages A Worker’s Child By JOSEPH PALATNICK T am a little workers’ child, ten years old, I live in a house frozen cold. No food to eat, no milk to drink And so I cannot sleep a wink. My father he is unemployed, For two years today. And I sell papers in the streets And have no time to play. * Prana On the Welfare By SADIE B. JONES Our daddy hasn't got a cent, ‘We haven't any cow To give us good warm milk to drink We're on the Welfare now. Oh yes, our daddy used to work, He'd build or paint or plow, He can not even smoke his pipe We're on the Welfare now. Our daddy says there is a way To make things right—"and how!” So nobody would have to say, “We're on the Welfare now.” If workers who have made all wealth Together’d stand and vow To claim their own for boys and girls Who're on the Welfare now. We'd see the masters rich in gold Who're making men “kow-tow” Get out and beg for work and say, “We're on the Welfare now!” |whereby they promised the miners ‘Anniversary Issue Liked by Miners in Indiana Areas (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) PRINCETON, Ind. — The Daily Worker readers will probably like to hear how the miners in Southern In- diana, have fered sinze the National me effective in this 2s turned out, was very different from what was pointed out by the supporters of the New Deal. At Somerville, Ind., the U. M. W. A. cials brought about a condition that if they would join the U. M. W. A. they would be taken care of by the union. They joined and walked out to be revlaced by a bunch of scabs, who pot t jobs and later on the U. M. A. placed a small number of # y claiming that zed Somerville mine. matter is, they got ven of the old work- crossed the rest of the miners. mine is now closed. The Francisco scab mine also closed down and feiled to pay off. The mines in Vanderbuzg County and Warwick County are operating under the Kentucky code, paying $3.50 a day outside and $4.20 in the mine. While the Daily has no large cir- culation here, it reached the masses in the issue of Jan. 6th, who never had the fe of reading it, not mowing anything like it was being published. Several of the Socialists refused to buy a copy. All who bought @ copy of that issue are very much enthused over it, and we expect to follow up and gain a greater cir- culation. Things have changed here a great deal in the last few years, as we learn to struggle properly. We have seen how the workers try self-help, working on wood piles sawing stove wood, gathering rotten and over-ripe fruit, gathering culled sweet potatoes, and working all day—12 hours—for a bushel of culled ones, passing the hat én short, carrying out the bosses | program, and starving. We have stopped that! We are advancing slowly, but surely. We who read the “Daily” are car- rying on—pointing to the revolution- ary way out. Hard Struggle to Own Shack in Fairfield, Ala. (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) FAIRFIELD, Ala.—We got to have some action. We are struggling very hard to own property in Fairfield, Ala. We are colored people of this town, and the C. P., and we want this to be written up in the Daily Worker. Daily Worker, will you see to this? We are suffering, trying to own property here. The company has sold on* the job they had organi Jobs for ezs and doubl: property to many hundreds of colored people, and we have found out that); it takes a hard struggle to own prop- erty in Fairfield, From the Tennes- see Coal, Iron and R.R. Company, the prices are as follows: Three-room shack houses are selling for $1800, with interest of 5 per cent on first mortgage, and 8 per cent on the sec- ond mortgage. The four-room bun- galows are selling for $2,000 up, with the same interest as above, and; larger houses are above this price. Now we are under a great struggle trying to please, and we demand that some action or adjustment be done, so that we can own homes without so much suffering. We only make $10.80 a week, if we work 40 hours, but we don’t work 40 hours per week, and of course you know that is less than $10.80 a week. If we make $5, they will take this through the time office, and we can- not help it. Because we are working for the company and the boss of the company’s local land office will not allow us a sure. He tells us if you get the time in that office, I am going to get my money. Useless Drudgery for Little Pay Under CWA By a Worker Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sixteen hun- dred workers are employed in Kansas ‘City under the C. W. A. enlarging the municipal airport. Some are spading up the dirt on the high ridges and loading it in trucks. The dirt is dumped in the, low places. Others are digging | stumps out of the ground. With | modern machinery and a little dyna-! mite the work could be done in a last until February 15th. This is $1.50 less than what the workers should receive per week at fifty cents per hour according to the N. R.A. Workers! we must organize and demand fifteen dollars per week, what we should get under the N. R. A. Demand that machinery be used and when the workers can’t be employed that they receive their fifteen dol’ars per week anyway. Organize in the few days. The work is supposed to- The wages are forty-five cents an} hour, six hours per day. Thirteen _ dollars and fifty cents per week. PARTY LIFE 15 Gained for Party by A.F.L. Party Fractien in. Chicago Invite Group of A. F. Of 1: Members to Hear Gebert, Chicago District Organizer The Communist fraction in one of the unions of the A. F. of L. invited a group of members of the union to a mecting to hear Com- rade Bill Gebert on the role of the Communist Party. After Comrade Gebert’s talk, 15 of these members of tre A. F. of L. foined the Communist Party. This is a splendid example of how to recruit members to the Communist Perty, and shall be fol- ‘owed up by the Communist frac- fons in other trade unions and mass organizations of the workers. Fare | ARE WE CARRYING THROUGH THE RECRUITING DRIVE? By Org. Deparment, Dist. No. 8 When in the middle of November we undertook the membership drive in connection with the preparations for the Lenin Memorial meetings, we set for ourselves the objective to com- plete the #x months Plan of Work adopted at the District Committee Plenum, July 15-16, 1933. To what extent the drive is car- ried through successfully can be seen ‘rom the recruiting during this pe- riod. Let us take the month of De- cember when the drive was to be in full swing. During these five weeks of December, we recruited in: Section 1 .... 17;Section 11... 3) Section 2 « 4|Section 12... 2 Section 3 » 8 Section 4... 5 Section 5 .... 7 Section 6 .... 4/Terre Haute . 3 Section 7 ..., 14|Rock Island .. 4 Section 8 .... 0|Rogkford .. } Section 9 .... 6 | Waukegan ri Section 1 1'So, Ilinois ... A total of 158 new members for ive weeks. The important thing, however, aside from the small number of re- cruits, is the question of the main outlook we*have of recruiting from basic concentration industries and trade unions. And when we take the basic industries of concentration we find among the 158 members, the following recruits: Indu-try “oper Unemployed Steel ... 1 Metal ... 8 Mining 9 Railroad @ Pecking 0 = These figures should seriously considered. by the fractions in unions, The trade union fractions must play a very important role in ree cruiting into the Party. Some com- rades (R.R.) have expressed an opinion thet it is not the task of the fractions to build the Party. With such approach surely we will not carry our control tasks in rooting our Party in the basic industries. In these last few weeks of the drive, we should have every unit, sece tiom and fraction in trade unions and mass organizations review their re- eruiting during this drive and see that our control plans are completed. JOIN THE Communist Party ‘35 E. 12th STREET, N. ¥. C. be the Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Street .. City — ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Cure of Superficial Cancers Henry M. Berman.—Sorry we can- not help you place your caustic paste | for the cure (?) of superficial can- cers, on the market. The treatment of superficial cancer by escharotics is as old as Medicine and, at one time, had been used by a large num- ber of physicians. It was given up because it causes excruciating pain} and because it is not effective, ex- cept in very early cases. Your con~ tention that your method of applica- tion is better than those of numerous medical authorities, merely indicates your colossal egotism. If you have cured ten or twelve cases of cancer, as you claim, these grateful patients should have recommended you, at least, fifty others. As this did not take place, we are forced to disbe- lieve your statements. There is no necessity of investigating your claims because there are literally hundreds of similar claims made every year which have, on the face of them, no scientific value. Dr. Kaplan was right in returning your “miraculous” prescription and we do not want you; to send us any further communica- tions on this matter. ree ae 4 The Secret of the Bare Torso Boys John P. Mitchel!—It is an oper secret that all the “Strong Men” have developed their muscles by the simple! method of using “staggering-weight” bar-bells. There is no other system. of developing muscular strength than by the gradual increase in resistance. We did not go into details because our aim was to expose the kind of advertisements which appear in “Physical Culture,” rather than the various frauds lurking behind each By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. |ments regarding the “Strong Men” /who advertise in other periodicals aid we may discuss some of them from time to time. Thanks just the same for your offer to show us some of the booklets. Your letter was most entertaining and instructive. Surgical Cleanliness A. B. C., New York—Your friend’s objections to the doctor's “unsani- tary” procedure was duly investigated. He. remembers distinctly that the supply of fowels in his office had given out that day; but he states that he had washed his hands previous to” the exarhination. He has no apology to offer, because the vaginal canal is much more unsanitary than his hands could have been. He ex- pressed thé opinion that he is not anxious to deal with people who are more pious than the pope, more royal- ist. than the king, and more sanitary than the physician. We are inclined to agree with him in this matter because some laymen jhave made a fetish out of sanitary Cleanliness. As a matter of fact, it | is only during surgical operations that ‘the: most scrupulous cleanliness and asepsis should be observed. In most other instances, the immaculate hiteness of certain doctors’ offices ix usually displayed for show purposes only Germs themselves do not cause. disease; they must find a suitable so'l in the weakened human organ- ism. a) Greetings — Communist Party Units — SUPERIOR, WISC. one of them. We have all the docu- Con cert Benefit’ NATIONAL CONVENTION AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT SUNDAY, JANUARY 21st at 8:30 P, M. PROGRAM WORKERS LABORATORY THEATRE Presents “NEWSBOY” from the poem by V. J, Jerome THEATRE UNION DANCERS NEW DANCE GROUP Admission 50¢ MAC Presents “Anti-War Cicle” “Hunger March 1932” a film—and Soviet Novelty Film presents “Blue Eagle” New School for Social Research, 66 W. 12 St. — Tickets at Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St.—Unemployed Council, 29 E. 20th gt, Workers School Forum Special Ten-Weeks Lenin Series WEISS Raltor of “The Young Worker” LECTURE ON Lenin, Liebknecht, Luxemburg and the Youth Sunday, January 21st, at 8 P. M. at WORKERS’ SCHOOL FORUM, 35 E. 12th St., 2d Floor Questions — Discussion — Admission 25¢ DETROIT! + MONDAY, JAN. 22 Unemployed Council and fight for ‘Unemployment Ameurance! “FRAGMENTS OF AN EMPIRE” THURSDAY;-4N. 25 YEMANS HALL 3014 Yemans DETROIT! THE NEW RUSSIA—THE NEW WORKER—THE NEW LIFE FRIDAY, JAN. 26 M.P.C. CLUB 2006 Michigan Ave,