The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1934, Page 4

cage rour ARY 22, 1934 1LW.O. Outlines Next Tasks | Packing House Workers Urge Rank and File/®= ar =~ ds Drive for Members Ends| Mj}i ‘ Attic: f AFT Mislead ;Some False Theories About | 4s Drive for Mem ‘|Mailitant Action; Warn of A.F.L. Mislea ers DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANU 935 Adult Members and 255 Children Enrolled || ————— : During W eek Ending Jan. 15th By MAX BEDACHT Organizing €W.A. Workers AFL Food Union Party District Organizer In West Reveals Wrong Notions Which Handicap Fight on the N.R.A. By KATHERINE ERLICH Dist. Organizer, Dist. 10 | St. Louis Meeting Voted Strike Two Weeks Ago.| Yet A.F. of L. Heads Delay, So As to Give Company Time to Prepare ‘Packing House -aceotes.2| Workers on Coast raw, se| Cite AFL Record rance, the many of our sections from the of the toward the work- By a group of Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal. — Out of 251 tional center, the National Execu' youth, toward the working chil- Committee has agreed to accept the | dren, etc., shall be discussed. In ti workers that went out on strike at Wilson é& Co. packing plant in Los | 4 | hd | ‘Agent Backs Yellow, By a Worker Correspondent _| that they settle this question and the| D 0 g ¢ on t rac ti} ST. LOUIS, Mo. — We are going| result is that a strike vote was taken | igh a bitter struggle in this city|two weeks ago, we have not heard gainst the strong foothold of the A.| from these officials yet, as to when |F. of L. in this packing house, the In-|the walkout shall take place. Why?| pendent Packing Co. | Because they are giving the company However, port. Because of distance The unemployed movement in Dis- tzict 10 was on the downgrade during [\ W By a Food Worker Correspondent |the summer months. The Unem-/and then “ {ployed Councils grew and conducted }ganize the unemployed. DETROIT, Mich.—In our jstruggles in only a few cities (Oma-| Why did such theories arise? There have the Fox Restauran are waiting for bs will be finished applications which come in to the | connection the outlines issued by the | national office up to and including | national office will come in handy. city we _ being that T did not “listen to reason” | _ that my hours would be from 4 p.m., Jan. 22, as part of the membership drive results. This { means that all these applications are per- mitted at the reduced initiation rate of 50 cents. It also means that all these applications are| counted in the calculations for prizes to branches and to members. From now on all adult initiations will again be the constitutional one dollar. Branches and _ secretaries must take note of this, The week ending Jan. 15 resulted | in 935 adult and 255 children. We | fell 65 members short of 1,000. The Jewish Section led the parade as usual. It succeeded in winning 360 adult. members, The Hungarian Section followed with 151, the Slovak | with 118, the Italien with 106 and| the Ukrainian with 101. For the| Italian and Ukrainian sections this | result is excellent. | Numerically weakest in this week | Was the Polish Section with 17 new members. Politically weakest is the Youth Section with 27. The weakness of the Youth Section is greater, al- though their returns are better than the Polish Section, because the whole order is supposed to contribute to the building of the Youth Section. With hardly 3 per cent of the total of new members, the returns of the Youth Section indicate that the Order does not concern itself with the building of the Youth Section. | The English Section achieved 48 | new members. This is not bad, com- | pared with the average weekly re- turns of the campaign; but it is to- tally inadequate from a political point of view. Even the Roumanian comrades almost matched that re-| turn, with 38 new members. In our final campaign report next week, and in the following news and Propaganda material which we will continue to publish in the Daily Worker, we will try to analyze the Tesults of the campaign. NEXT TASKS Now that the campaign is over, the attention of the branch executives, the language olty committees and the City Central Committees must be turned toward the development of the inner life of the branches. The Political assimilation of the new members is a most important imme- diate task. It is also necessary to maintain a continuous recruiting Power of the branches, even though } We are not always engaged in a mem- bership drive. The maintenance of that recruiting power also depends upon the quality of the inner life of the branches. The material that will be supplied by the National Execu- tive Committee for propaganda and education shall be used extensively. One meeting of the branches per month shall be made an open meet- CONG RELEN “AS a Worwer .1at reads the Daily Worker, 1 am sending you a story of my experiences as a waitress in the restaurant known as the ‘Gypsy Tavern,’ where artists and intellectuals are frequent visitors,” writes a bright, industrious, | and decent, young working class girl, whose experiences in the effort to/| Support herself honestly in this great | land of freedom and plenty have been | bitter and discouraging. “I hope,”| she adds, “that the artists and in- tellectuals who spend their money so liberally at the ‘Gypsy Tavern,’ will sometimes give a thought to the con- dition of the workers employed in that place.” MY TWO YEARS AS A WORKER IN NEW YORK | By MARIE §, | Arriving in New York sbout two| years ago from a small town in Penn- aylvania. at the age of sixteen, I im- medilately started in search of work, for I only had a few dollars with me and did not have any previous ex- Perlence. After searching for two weeks, I realized that the only work available for a girl like me, would be ; at this, I would at least be supplied with food and shelter. After tramping through half a dozen employment agencies, I finally secured a job as houseworker. I can truthfully say that in about 18 months months I had to change my house- work position about seven or eight times. I did not mind so much the hard work that I had to do from morning ‘ill night, but I always lost ™my position due to the fact that I Tefused to take abuse from husbands and other male members of the fam- | ily. In most cases I was promised | Presents if I would listen to reason; | resulted in my losing the About two months ago I was ad-| vised by a waitress friend of mine to look for a jcb as waitress, which Paid better than housework. $3, and was sent down to the Tavern,” located at 64 Wash- luare, ‘n the Village. of the “Gypsy Tavern,” as Mary and Flo Kaufman, Me over from head to foot, be pleased about my arance, They told me .m. the next day, and E gs to report at 4 b=] 3am. was told that there were no wages I would average about $30 They also gave me a paper Oo sign, saying that I do not work | Prosperity and secondly, it was de- coins or stamps (coins prefe:red), for this Anne Adams pattern, plainly name, address and style num- ber. These open meetings need not be organized on a large scale which will burden the branches with special ex- | penses for leaflets, hall rent, etc. They should be organized as regular branch meetings, except that the members of the branch are agitated | to bring along to these meetings their | friends and prospective members ae Sees DUES COLLECTIONS Another important problem for the | maintenance of our membership is} to stabilize our dues collections. The | activities of the Order during the| campeign have very considerably di- minished the necessary suspensions. Yet there are still too many. While some of these suspensions can be fully explained and justified by the inability of the members to pay, yet greater and more intense activities of the branches will diminish even these suspensions. Some of the sus- pensions are not explainable by in- ability to pay. They can be explained by the failure of the branch secre- taries to systematize dues collections. If dues collections were systematized, a larger number of dues payments would be collected and the number of those who do not pay would really be reduced to those who cannot pay. With such a reduction, the branch Will have a better chance to initiate activities to raise funds to help pay the dues of those unable to pay themselves. One of the contributing measures | to systematize dues collections is the establishment of monthly collections. We must do everything in our power to gradually liquidate the habit of three-monthly dues collections. This habit is a bad one. It was developed first of all at a time of capitalist veloped among members who did not belong to the masses of the badly- paid workers in the basic industries, This habit was developed among members who could pull @ check- book out of their pockets and pay $7, $8 and $10 at one throw. The masses of workers today are unable to do that. It is possible to collect 90 cents or $1 or $1.25 a month, but it is pretty hard for these workers to pull out $4 and $5 at one throw to pay quarterly bills. The secretaries who resist the in- stitution of monthly payments must learn that the dues payments cannot be regulated according to the conve- nience of the secretaries, but must be regulated to the convenience of the membership, to their ability to pay dues, etc, We propose that this question be discussed in the branches, that the membership express its opinion about it. At any rate, we must definitely orientate toward the universal in- stallment of monthly dues payments in our Order. cD BY LUKE learned that ail the other girls work- ing there had to sign the same paper, to protect our bosses from letting us work late hours, also to protect them against not paying us any wages, (To be Concluded Tomorrow) Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1531 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 344 yards 36 inch fabric. 1531 AG Send FIFTEEN CENTS (5c) in Write BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker, Department, 243 West 17th Angeles, seven men and six women | went back to work, and the rest were left at the mercy of the county and welfare charities, only because the A. F. of L. leaders did not have the guts to look the bosses square in the eye. The Labor Board gave orders that |all men report back to work and the men went, only to be told by thebig- hearted superintendent at the Wil- son & Co. plant that the strikers were only wasting their time and giving a lot of trouble to the faithful scabs that got in to work in the plant, yet the A. F, of L. leaders claim a 100 per cent victory over the bosses. There are 90 per cent of the strikers with light, water and gas skut off and not enough to give their kiddies to eat. All the help the union leaders gave the strikers was that some got two bottles of milk in six weeks and they still have the milkman hanging around trying to collect. This is just a part of what’s hap- pening in Los Angeles to Wilson & Co, strikers for having faith in their big A. F. of L. leaders; and yet those leaders are trying to re-organize Local 244 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen of the A. F. of L. Packing house workers of Phoenix, Ariz., don’t let them fool you. Appeal to Mass Action Wins Hospital Care By a Worker Correspondent SHARPSBURGH, Pa.—Two weeks ago today I sent my boy to St. Fran- cis Hospital, Pittsburgh, and he was treated royally. Through the insis- tence and demand on our part, and the school principal whom I went to see personally and told him the boys were not going to school until they operated on him, he in turn made the social worker get busy and see this through. By telling her that if ‘single press- ure would not help well then we would see if the Unemployed Council and the Rank and File Veterans’ organi- zation would put pressure on her. The boy was taken care of and three days lateer was home recuperating for & week. He is now back in school feeeling better than ever. MRS. JENNIE MOHL, (Signature Authorized). | WAITERS FINGERPRINTED | (By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK CITY—That the |struggle for existence is getting worse jis proved: If I am lucky enough to \find employment as a waiter in |Miami Beach, I will have to submit |to fingerprint, and deliver two photos to the Police Department besides the history of myself, believe it or not. The Weidmann Whiz, published bi- monthly by the Weidmann shop nucleus, Communist Party, Paterson section. Vol. 1, nos. 1 and 2, dated Dee. 4 and Jan. 1. vite ® By 8. L. The Whiz is issued in one of the ig dye houses in Northern New Jer- sey, big textile district, where only a short time ago we witnessed the gigantic strike of the silk and dye workers. The Weidmann shop was signed up by the United Textile work- ers, the American Federation of La~ bor bureaucrats, although the mili- tant National Textile Workers Union actually led the strike, and has the support of a great section of the work- ers, The tasks of the Communist nucleus, thru the Whiz, is therefore threefold: 1. To fight for the consolidation and strengthening of the strike os 2. To raise new de: perhaps those original strike demands which were not achieved, due to the sabo- tage of the A. F. of L. 3. To bring forward and popular- ize the National Textile Workers Union as the champion and the fighter for the united front, for a united dye union, at the same time building the revolutionary onpos'- tion within the A. F. of L., expos- ing the burocrats, Without a doubt, the Whiz sets out coura: to fulfill its Communist duty in the shop, in the two-issues we have at hand. The first issue, in a leading article, points out that the company is again introducing the same speed-up as that which pre- vailed before the strike, and calls for action against it. The second issue also gives examples of speed-up, but does not explain any method of fight- ing against it. The Whiz should make @ consistent campaign against speed- up, calling for specific actions in the fight against it, ang exposing the A. there, but that I own a concession; Patter x “Tt New York City, Fi F. of L. bureaucrats who sabotage the struggle | August, and at the time they had the packinghouse work organized about 80 per cent. Since then the number has decreased to about 50 per cent. The workers argue that all {their promises on actions are con- fined within the four walls of their union hall. Nothing ever becomes of |the A. F. of L. threats against the | bosses | Other causes for the workers turn- ing away from the A. F. of L. fakers | were: | The sellouts of other strikes in this | city in other industries especially the | needle trades. | Failure on the part of the A. F. of |L. officialdom to act seriously in the | struggle to reinstate workers fired for | union activities, The Industrial Union exposing | these Black Birds to the workers, | While some workers called for | strike action as far back as September when we were fully organized, the A. |F. of L. officials openly stated that the A. F. of L. is strictly against any | strike ang this form of action only to |be taken as a “last resort.” Their | method is arbitration. | Strike Postponed | Can the A. F. of L. tell us workers what they have won for the organ- |ized labor of St. Louis through this |method? Workers assembled at the |last Union meeting demanded that a |strike vote be taken, disregarding the | Objection of the officials. The result | was that a strike vote was taken and |the decision was to strike. But in- stead of letting the workers decide when to strike, the offizials demanded The A. F. of L. began its drive in| time to prepare themselves, stoc! | | | | | their coolers and organize thems: in the best way they know against the workers. Why do we permit a few misleaders to mislead hundreds of us workers? Why can’t we take these, our matters pertaining to our interests into our hands, and make our own decisions? Let us workers mobilize into such a strong group of Organized labor that no power on earth can break or mislead us. When this walkout occurs, let us be so strongly organized on the picke' line that no police terror or any ter- ror can drive us away. Let us elect our own strike comittees from our de- partments. Let us make our own settlements, instead the arbitration board and business agent of the union, how Demand that the strike Committee | sit in on all hearings and meetings that take place between the union officials and the bosses. Let our demands be: Recognition of a union of our own choosing. Reinstatement of all workers laid off for union activities. Recognition of our demands as to wages, hours and sanitation. No discrimination as to sex, color or creed. No company insurance. No B system. Unemployment insurance to be paid by the company and government. Let us join hands with any other organization that is willing to help us in our struggle. By a Food Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y—It was ex- actly 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 10, just at | the beginning of the noon rush hour, when the workers of ihe Eton Grill, 151 Montague St., Brooklyn, walked out en masse—cu strike. The general walkout was the in- evitable culmination of the barbarous, inhuman conditions to which these workers were being subjected by the “kick-back” racketeer, Steve Zervos, |the proprietor of the Eton Grill. While the blue vulture is conspicu- |ously displayed at the front of the place, the wages of the waiters and countermen were being slashed down to $2 a week, for 10, 11 and 15 hours a day and seven days a week. The proprietor has forced the waiters and countermen to sign a blank slip of paper to the effect that they got “paid in full” up to the end of the week, without stating the amount paid. Tells Lie About Wages The proprietor then boasts that he is paying these workers $35 a week. That is exactly what he is doing now that these workers are picketing the place. The dishwasher had to slave for 13 hours a day, doing literally the work of three men. He was slaving seven days a week for $9. The cooks were getting the “maximum” N.R.A. wages, namely $15 a week. The second cook —because he overworked and was Tt seems to us, that after such a mass strike as took place last fall, a leading article in the first issue should have dealt specifically with the lessons of the strike. The Whiz, re- fers to the strike, says that the A. F, of L “sold out”, and in a later ar- ticle, talks about some of the strike- breaking steps which the N. R. A. made, and points out the fighting role of the Communist Party in the strike. The latter section is good; but the Whiz should use less phrases, and a little more simple explanation of just how the A. F. of L. put across its maneuvers, its connection with the N. R. A., with a thorough explanation of the whole role which the govern- ment played in forcing the workers back into the shops without winning their original demands. No Mention of N. T. W. I. U. But most important of all, the Whiz makes a major error which over- shadows many of the good points in the paper. It makes absolutely no mention of the National Textile Workers Union. How is it possible to do this, when the N. T. W. U. leq the militant struggle of the Weidmann workers, when all remember the great fight for unity which the N. T. W. U. carried on? This is a big weakness, which the Whiz must immediately correct. In the present complex situation, when there are two unions in many of the shops, the militant National Textile Workers Union must be brought forward as the lead- ing fighter for unity, as the ones who are struggling and will fight for one, united militant union of all the dye workers. The Whiz must popularize campaign for the adoption of this program to be as nearly as possible the basis for a united union. In this connection, the Whiz must popularize and carry out the line of the recent Party Textile conference, which laid down the program for unity among all of the textile work- ers. The Whiz must bear the res- ; the N. T. W. U. program, and wage | whiz ‘Eton Grill Strikers in Struggle Against Pay as Low as $2 aWeek hard to be replaced—got a raise. He got $16 a week. During the lunch hour the business was literally paralyzed. The boss kept calling constantly the Sixth Ave. racketeer employment agencies and soon more than 50 cooks, waiters, countermen, dishwashers, salad men, and bus boys rushed to get the jobs. But as soon as they came face to face with the strikers, they had to tum back. One of them exclaimed: “No wonder the guy at the agency didn't want any money from me. He wanted to make me a strike-breaker, the s— of a b—1!” A few, however, went in. In his desperation, the boss called for girls whom he used as counter girls, Demand Union Recognition In the evening the boss sent a delegate to ask the strikers to go back, promising everything except recognition of the union. The an- Swer of the strikers was: “We'll die on the picket line! Union recogni- tion is our cardinal demand!” “ WORKING IN RAGS ly a Worker Correspondent COLUMBUS, Ohio.—My husband Works on the forced labor work. Sometimes he gets a week and some- times he doesn’t. He can’t get any clothes. He is working in rags. They are all working in rags, except the stool-pigeons. You have to have six children before you can get anything you need. ponsibility, as the Party organ in Weidmanns, to fight agressively for this program, and to systematically and carefully explain its meaning to the workers. This must be made the central task of future issues of the Whiz. 7 Succeseful Fight Against Lay-Off and Wage-Cut On the third page of Whiz No. 2, we find that through a special leaflet issued by the nucleus, the company was forced to halt its plans for a lay- off and wage-cut. On hearing of the company's plans, the nucleus issued @ leaflet, exposing the maneuver of the boss, who proposed to lay off a number of workers, and then rehire them at a lower wage. This is a real victory, and should have been given more prominence in the Whiz, since every struggle increases the fighting power of the workers, and their confi- dence in the leadership of the com- munist nucleus. Whiz No, 2 makes note of the na- tional convention of the Unemployed council, and calls for the election of delegates from Paterson. But this should not appear in such a detached form, but instee” __ linked up closely with a speed-up, showing how one leads to the other, and calling for the struggle against both. In this way, we can raise the political understand- ing of the workers, which must be one of our main tasks. The Whiz contains quite a bit of workers correspondence, which is very good, and has a healthy line of basing itself largely around specific griev- ances of the workers in the shop. This should be of the dye industry and war; points out that it could be rapidly converted into a shop for the produc- tion of poison gases and munitions. However, there should be more ex- is a tendency to lump all these to- jot 20 restaurants with about 500 | workers. They are scattered all over| the city. The A. of L. picked out | the restaurants ot ie downtown sec- | tions and organized the waiters and cooks, charged them $5 initiation and $1.75 a month dues. The wages of the waiters were $10.50 a week and | cooks $18. The dishwashers and the busboys were not organized. They | jleft all the other restaurants of the} chain unorganized, because their wages are so low that they can’t pay} high dues, | In November, 1933, the boss cut the wages of the workers from $1.50 to $3. The workers have refused to accept their pay and complained to the union. The business agent told the workers to go back to work and he would negotiate with the boss, | After three weeks negotiations the workers were ordered to take their | pay and accept the wage cut. On Dec. 15 the boss announced another wage cut of $1.50 for the waiters and $3 for the cooks. The boss also is- sued a yellow dog contract to the workers to si aying that the wo! ers are satisfied to form a company union and agree to work for $7.50 a week, to work split shifts, 54 hours for men and 48 hours for the wo- men. The workers came to the union ;and demanded action. The bosses’ agent told the workers to go back to work and accent the wage cut and when the workers protested, 2 business agent called them dishwash-| ers and told them they ought to be satisfied. When the workers asked the business agent about the yellow dog contract, he told them to sign. The workers are dissatisfied with the action of the A. F. of L. com- pany union leadership. The workers must organize in their local union, a rank and file committee, and force the officials of the A. F. of L. to or- ganize all Fox chain restaurants, in- cluding all the workers regardless of craft. Only in this way they will be able to fight and protect their in- terests. Fellow workers, do not sign the yellow dog contract with the clause reading $7.50 a week wages. The boss will present this signed contract to the N.R.A. board to be accepted. The restaurant code will then be revised to mean that these will be the gen- eral wages for all restaurant workers. Oniy through organization under our own control will we be able to better our conditions and fight against wage cuts, for shorter hours, against split shifts, against the N.R. A. code, for a workers code, as pre- sented by the Food Workers Indus- trial Union. A CERISTMAS CARD FOR BONUS By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Every year up to this year the Edison company has been paying its employes a bonus. This year the bonus was cut out, All we got was a very beautiful Christ- mas card. On the front of the card is a picture of Kings Highway (Brooklyn) as it was 50 years ago. I suppose ihey want us to be thankful that nowadays we have electric lights. But if we can’t pay the bill, the lights don’t do us any good. in the Soviet Union are mentioned, why not speak specifically about tex- tile workers in the S. U., and thus popularize the achievements of the Soviet workers, The Whiz has a pretty good youth page, on which there is a good article on the role of the Young Communist League in leading the struggle of the young workers. There is a brief word on Fascism | thrown in; this should be explained.! What is Fascism, its relation to the increasing attacks upon the workers rights, the N. R. A, etc. Merely call- ing for a demonstration against Fas- cism, when the workers do not under- stand clearly what it is, is insufficient. The youth page contains a letter from a young worker, which exposes the discriminatory attitude of the A. F, of L. bureaucrats towards the young workers, refusing to let them speak at meetings. There is also a complaint from one of the girls of Weidmanns, pointing out that tre girls receive much less wages than the men for the same work. The Whiz should take up these grievances, not in a sporadic way, but systematically, and wage a campaign around them for the abolition of discrimination against the young workers. Around issues like these it is possib’e to b= 'd and cement strong opposition in the A. F. of L. It is useful to compare the attitude of the A. F. of L, with the program of the N. T. W. U. on questions such as these, in order to clarify the workers. The Whiz is pretiy well gotten up. The typing is clear, and the mimeo- graphing well done. The pages con- tain pictures, and a few cartoons, al- though some of these should be more carefully drawn. There is a lack of jokes, quips, and a few of these should be included in the forthcoming issues. a We should commend the Whiz for its laudable attempt to oppear reg- ularly. Two issues did appear in the space of one month. This is good, and should be continued, The nucleus in Weidmanns, in issuing the Whiz, should carefully study comrade Ann Burlak’s article in the Daily Worker a few days ago, ex- Plaining the decisions of the party textile conference. These decisions must be carried into life, and the Whiz bears a good part of the respon- sibility for doing t'ys, in the fight for the unity of the dye workers, for one, ion, gether, Where the wages of workers united militant dye uni a chain} ha, Lincoln, Ft. Scott) and our com- rades waited for the winter when. things would “pick up” again. With the coming cf cold weather, the Roosevelt administration came along with the C.W.A. and gave jobs to a few thousand workers. At once our comrades felt that their plans were “felled” by this act of the admini- are several reasons, but in my opin- ion, the basic reasons are: 1—Ilu- Sfons about the ability of the Roose- Velt admynistration to give jobs to 1 the 17,000,000 unemployed. 2—I- ns about the faith of the workers in the N.R.A. and New Deal. 3—The n conception that the Com- munis¢ Party is a party for the un- employed; that the Communists can- not organize employed workers. The first two reasons have been Bible Publishers | discussed in the Daily Worker Cheat Salesman - Out of Commission By a Student Correspondent PINE ISLAND, Minn st June-T was completing my year at at, third Mankato State Teachers College Mankato, Minn. I got a job with the Universe! Book and Bible House of 1006-1016 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. This Bible House has as proprietcts the John C. Winston Publishing Co., which belongs to the N.R.A. Another young man from the cols, lege previous! m and we both sig: contracts guaranteeing each of $225 for 75 days of { hours eaci during which time we were to di: tribute the regular King James v sion of the Bible and Bible Stor Books for children. We worked throughout Southern Minnesota in an old Model T Ford. We completed our work, although the company, after we had worked over 50 days, seemed to be making things difficult, probably attempting to force us to become disguste:! so that we would quit, break our con- tract, and thus give them 50 day: of free labor. For example, they “assigned” us to: territories hundreds of miles awayy; stating that if we wouldn’t go, our contracts were broken. However, our contracts stated that we were to work territories “agreed” upon between the company and ourselves. We refused to agree to these territories and did not go. We explained our stand and our interpretation of the contract. We asked them for a reply on the mat- ter, bui they refused to admit or charge us with either breaking or adhering to our contract. They delayed payment when my time was up, using various stalls and Suave explanaitons. At that time, I owed the company a balance for. books I had ordered. I sent them pay for all books by writing an order otf the money due me and sending the order witnessed and by registered mail, return receipt requested. They have neither sent me the books and, balance due me, nor explained ex- od. iA & actly why they did not accept the | J order. Mr. J. J. McCoughy, attorney at’ law, at Kesson, Minn., took the case mentioned also took ja:!-. by |other comrades and I will deal main- ly with the third reason. Especially vict where most of the | activ been among the unem- nicyed, our comrades were lost for a thhe. They did not know how to ap- [teach workers who had a job. I S so diffiéult for our comrades to (change the: logans and demands |fxom those of relief to demands for |Wansportation, guaranteed wages, [pr clothing, ete. Our comrades had been so used to holding neigh- tborhood meetings that it was difficult to learn how to arrange meetings of ‘S on certain jobs. They still > to learn this very important ciations of C.W.A. e been organized only in rict, Omaha and ‘Lincoin. Even here we still suffer from the eld methods of work. In Omaha we held a meeting of C.W.A. | workers a‘ ich we organized a " union, Instead of once the organization we continued to meetings. Not that we ss job committees, we did, bub in practice we did not mobilize the workers to build up job com- 'nnittees, Our task is to call meetings of Wwerkers on certain jobs, at these meetings elect a secretary of this | Jeb and in this way take up the eon- 1 crete vances of the workers. ,.2n this connection, it is also im- portant to point out that while we have begun this very important work, we have not issued propaganda leaf- ‘lets to the workers explaining just what the C.W.A. means, etc. We is- Sue leaflets each week inviting work- ers to attend meetings of the C.W.A. union, but these are short leaflets with the announcement of the meet- ing’ place and the demands adopted ata city-wide meeting. This is not enough, wer:rneed clarification on questions which the workers discuss on the jobs. In organizing the C.W.A, workers, there is a danger that our comrades will forget about the hundreds of ‘thousands and millions of workers who did not get jobs. The demand fer unemployment insurance, for ade- Suate relief, etc., are still the main demands for those who did not get , as well as for those who did get Jobs. Due to our one-sidedness in Omaha, the relief officials have cut down on the relief of many families, and after exchanging several letters''Ph!s will be taken up at once with is of the opinion thet they are athe Unemployed Councils. Two relief group of crooks, He believes we could win the case if we sued, but it costs almost more than the debt to sue. neha, of because the trial must be held in Philadelphia which is far away from Minnesota, and my funds are limited I wrote General Hugh Johnson by registered mail. I received the letter back which passed the buck to Mr. E. C. Green of 617 4th St., S.W., Rochester, Minn. Mr. Green is cheir- man of the nearest N.R.A. Compli- ance Board. I have written to Mr Green twice (the first time on Nov. 18) and to date he has not even answered. stations have even been closed in Omaha under the pretext that it was : the unemployed are necessary to “economize” and that }working on the relief jobs. Although Tispeak mostly of Omaha in this article, I am sure that this same weakness is manifested in other ‘ities of our district and no doubt in Many cities in other districts. We should have clarity in the Party on tasks that face us in the field of unemployed ‘Work. We are sending @ letter to our units on this question and will try: to mobilize them for the national unemployed convention. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Rey. Richard’s Remedy Frank P. H., Freeport, L. I—The Rev. R, L, Richard’s Alterative Com- pound Herb Remedy is a “shot- gun” mixture of various laxatives and inert substances which will you happen to suffer. It is a nos- trum which no intelligent person should be tempted to use, Pe os | Sleeping “in Two Parts” Clarence F., Chicago.—You simply’ wake up in the middle of your sleep; it is a thing that happens to many people and which need not- worry you. As to the numerous evacuations, it is probably due to the stimulation of the food in the stomach. We know many people who feel the necessity of having a bowel movement as soon as they begin to eat. If you are otherwise in good health, you need not attach any significance to this condition. It is often hereditary. A Wise Baby ‘ cure (?) any sickness from "nos: [Sore foods, etc., the best thing H. B, Bronx, N. ¥.—Your baby: boy must be eating more than the amounts you state. His weight of 18% pounds for nine months is almost normal, By refusing to eat as much as you like him to, he may be showing more wisdom than you do. Let him drink his half-glass of milk without forcing him to drink more, Also prepare his meals so that they have the consistency that he likes, instead of making them too liguid. Two teeth for a baby of his age is normal. You may try to. give him five drops of Viosterol every day, in a teaspoonful of milk. Weigh him again in about a month and let us know his weight, By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. Pimples and Honey , John B., Buffalo, N. ¥.—The worst “thing you could have done for your pimples was to go on a honey diet, ‘How you could have consumed seven galions of honey is beyond our come prehension. Jf you are sure that Your pimples are due neither tocon- stipation, uncleanliness, eating the for You to do is to wait for their spon- eous disappearance, We are not so sure that ‘you are on a correct diet; witness: the honey orgy. Are yeu sure you are not eating any Spicy food, and that your occupation Not one of the dusty trades? Do ‘you ‘drink a sufficient amount of water? we pee ane Measles Sadie M., Brooklyn.—Not every child must have measles, There is @ certain percentage of people who aioe had the disease. It is wrong to expose children to this disease for the sake of “getting over it.” If the child happens to have a low resistance at the time, an attack of measles is liable to become a serious matter and might be followed by various complications, such as pneue Mmohia, ear abscesses, ‘etc. It is the duty of every mother tg prevent her children from cone ‘tracting anyof the so-called “chile -Gren's diseases.” The older they are when they finally do become in- ‘fected, the better their chances of ‘survivin i. . Measles, as well as other child- hood diseases, do occur in Soviet fBussia, but the mortality from these diseases is decreasing every year, This can be seen in the tables pub- lished in “Red Medicine,” a well- documented book on the present health situation in Russia. We had an article on the prevention of dis- eases in Soviet Russia in the Noy. 4th issue of the Daily Worker.