The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1934 Omaha CWA Wakes Prepare| Steel Lying Unsold in Yar d of Gary r lant to Fight Government Attacks lo Be Prepared three off this t (By a Worker Correspondent OMAHA, home la’ the count Since men ; Deal. m we are going to project and fight C. W. A. work- protest aga! orter hour. you r worke what money I shine gun bulle job in a cold weather, cro fo} d of er the world about) s. Therefore I the “Daily HARRY FISHER Injured CWA Worker Is] Denied Compensation | sO job at 40 (By TERRE A, wo a Worker Correspondent) HAUTE, Ind.—aA local C. er narrowly escaped death trapped beneath a fall- pinned him against the of Honey Creek, so pain-| him that he has been the Saint Anthony hos- past three weeks.| ident occurred as} being forced to this hazardous ines- le by a brutal driving gang were handed to us on th cents per hour.” On announced tt per week f: he laid off Is this his living were promised? Everybody on the job, upon r ing all of th nooey thrown in thi faces, started to able and prot amongst the’ I got o and pencil “Worke! Ww. Vv ng fined at 1 here for the a direct descend compensation pro-| any C.W.A. en ajured on tk ) 66 2-3 of his regular p e days after the in- ed, evidently meant | upport in legi: family of this escued from the plight nd cold by contributions on the job, after hout adequate fuel grafting C.W.A. the mandatory these cases re- rker must allow tion of 21 days following the the accident before he is for compensation. Because ed on a C.W.A. job, the as so far failed to though other work~ n of the dis- notified. he list got in at S governiny All fight back when I said to do, and they risec is family BUD CROSBY, Signature Authorized). q|that a bad start, Building Steel Workers’ Union in Yorkville, 0. (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) | YORKVILLE, Ohio—Am working for the Wheeling Steel Corp. and| trying my best to build the Steel and | Metal W Industrial Union. | After ting something started. | Weil, now we have over 20 signed | up in our union. And don’t think | Also there are good | chances of many more good union men inside of the mill. Have called | few meetings but not many workers | did show up are real fighters. ‘Well, the local of the union here is calling a meeting Sunday, Jan.| lar switchmen being sent home with| ing house. 28, at 2 pm., and I am pretty sure it | will be the Polish Hall or the Greek | Hall at Yorkville | The Amalgamated Association can’t | get a foothold. They sure did jump | the fence in the 1921 strike. The workers are very much in favor of the Steel and Metal Workers Indus-| trial Union, And they say, to hell with the A. A. Once the A. A. was passing a leaf- let for their meeting. It happened to staan)! WE WANT FOSTER be on a cold day, so the cop came) }out of the office and told this fel-) low to come inside to pass leaflets to| the workers. So he did, | About the same time one of the | S.M.W.I.U) came down to pass out} jour leaflet in front of the mill gate. |So the same dirty bluejacket cop | came out and ordered him off the sidewalk. A lot of the workers know about this, and did not like it. The | workers know that the A.A. is a company union. And yes, we have a company union here also. The committee company union get 70c or 80c an hour all the |while in the meeting, and anything |that come up to put a little more | dough into the pockets of the work- fers, they reject and it’s all forgotten. ie “tin the Hav HELEN LUKE ~ ADVICE TO MARIE And to Other Girls in Similar Straits) recommend that Ma- St. Here she will > and strug- rganization ved women is now actively at this address; and the Women’s Conference ce at 2 p.m. inday, Jan. 28, quite often 2 refus got an argument from the b also noticed that some of the « girls in the place were friendly the men and would manage with somebody (Supporting the oe ae th somebody when the ee. 5 Due to the fact i Iso join the Food “sociable” as the oth 1 Union. a few tables in the i om a Can You Make ‘Em uday. Yourself? After working thse ee pees is available in sizes 14, , 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size weeks and not being abie to ave! more than $9 a week, I told my t that I ddnce, drink a the men and that I believe w would average more.” About three weeks ago, seeing that the job hardly paid for my room and the necessities of life, I got up the | courage to ask my boss for a small pay raise. She told me to go on working and she would fix me up. A| week later, as my boss did not keep her promise, I again asked her about the pay she had promised me and | mentioned the fact thet under the | NRA. I was entitled to average $15 | I could see that she did not like | this, but she told me to go back to work and she would take care of it My reward was that on Friday and Saturday, the two best days, I was | laid off, and was told to come back Sunday, From Sunday till Thursday | I made about $3. Thursday I asked the boss about the | promise she made and told her that 1| eannot exist on the few dollars I Make and told her that I’d be forced | 40 Teport her to the N.R.A. She did| mot answer, but as soon as the cus-| tomers left I was told in abusive lan- : i to take my uniform and get out | | the place and not come back. When asked for my pay I was threatened by the boss and her brother that if I | ever report them to the N.R.A. or| _ ome near the place they would dis-| figure my face. They even threatened to get in teueh with my people in Pennsylvania and make up a story that I'd been no| od, in order to have me thrown out he family, I realized that arguing h them any longer would result in g g abused more, and possibly O getting beaten. So I left. T find myself once again with- Position or money, tramping the of New York. But I feel a lit- ppier than before for I am be- to realize the nature of the | under which we are living. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (45c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred), for this Anne Adams pattern. Write | plainly mame, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker, Pattern Department, 243 West 17th ort the National Convention Unemployment, Feb. 3, in ch fabric and | — i Aug. 8 Wi N.R.A,—There is no use to report jabout the N.R.A. The fellows say, |to hell with the N.R.A. That’s all. Plants Guarded | By Cops From Job Applicants |Board, the very same board which | Describes Steps Being Taken to Prepare for Further | Curtailment in Production (By a Steel Worker Corre Ind—On Jan. 1 and 2 I{ d in the Gary steel mill on the | fe o'clock shift. On Jan. 21 ¥ told to report for w on Jan. 6. happened? On the last day thet I worked we| had 16 open hearth furnaces in op-| eration with eight engines on service | and when I returned on Saturday, | rk back again | So what do you think| trying so hard, am finally get-| Jan. 6, I found that five out of the} stocked up as high as 25 feet. There eight engines were taken to the round house and the fire knocked out, and I found the rest, three en- | gines, in the yard, but only one en- gime doing any work and the othe two engines were back into one o} the strippers with their fires banked > ‘ vho| UP, and the No. 3 open hearth shut} workers half crazy on the job, but snow up to the hall, But those who| tent, and right away the three yard| what few days they make in their monsters were being put on the foot- | board to switch cars and the reg pondent) , the understanding that they are only | to get one day a week. So that’s your Blue Eagle, or the} and they still say that) they will do something by the middle | of next week. I don’t see where they expect to send that steel unless they | are figuring to dump it into Michi- gan Lake, because there is steel lying | in the yard since 1929. There are millions of tons of steel in ingots is steel enough piled up for all mills to roll in full force for three months. Mr. Edward Wall here not only tortures the men on the job, but arts a saloon on Pith and Work ts. and a rooming house upstairs. | It isn’t enough that he drives the| pay he collects it back, through his scheme in the saloon and his room- Brooklyn Shipyard Workers Are Victimized by Layoffs (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN.—A large number of workers were combed out of the Todd and United drydocks in Brooklyn last week. What is especially ag- gravating to the workers is seeing the old timers who participated in the recent strike in the shipyards getting the gate. Most of the strikers lined up with the different A. F. of L. locals involved in the strike. Now they find themselves on the shape-up wherever there is a lay-off, while the strikebreakers are kept on the job. In the meantime “Stand-Pat” Mel- lon, business agent of the Brother- hood of Boilermakers Local 24, the outstanding “leader” (misleader fits) him a hell of a lot better), is keeping mum. During the strike this sell-out artist was raving about giving the drydock companies the fight of their lives, His heroic part in the fight was to work behind the scenes with | Davis, International vice-president of | the boilermakers, Prendergast, of the | district, and the whole gang of A. F. of L. fakers, in stabbing the men in the back. Now none of these “labor leaders” can propose anything worth while to buck this latest attack of the com- pany. The only thing they can think of doing is to secure affidavits pro- testing the discrimination, which are to be shipped to the National Labor spiked the shipyard workers and is directly responsible for the establish- ment of company unions in the Todd drydocks and the present situation in the shipyards. The shipyard workers ‘Daily Worker’ Helped Fight Abuse in Plant By a Steel Worker Correspondent SPARROWS POINT, Md—The Daily Worker has given us very wonderful oocperation, much bet- ter than the section, the district, or the center. We are guilty of great neglect to the Daily Worker. ‘The comrades don’t take the Daily Worker as seriously as they should. Here I must say I am also guilty in that respect. The Daily Worker has published all of my correspondence. Last summer, Sheet and Tin Manager O'Brien ordered the men in the warehouse to keep their shirts on. This was exposed in the Daily Worker, Advice was given which some workers acted on. After that the order was not |} enforced. same bitter experience as the Budd, Weirton steel, and the transportation workers in Philadelphia. The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union is proposing to the shipyard workers that they compel energetic action from their locals and to set up rank and file committees on the drydocks, representing all trades, and all workers organized and unorganized, employed and unem- ployed, as the only way of putting the skids under the company’s con- of Greater New York are going the tinuous ttacks and the treachery of the AF.L, officials. Letters from ON THE JOB FOR THE DAILY | (By a Worker Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—I sold 10 pounds of junk today for five cents, | which is enough to write you regard- | here recently since Aug. 8. | I went to the Chevrolet plant yes- terday morning after their ad ap- peared in the Star and News, and was met inside the gate by a cos- sack and told to get out. I told him the sign on the gate read Employ: ment—hours from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. | He said he didn’t give a damn, but | cutside for me. The Real Silk plant has a cop on every door. Also the P. R. Mallory end Marmon Herrington plants have police guarding their entrances. I sure would like to get something to do so I can take the “Daily” again. The copper at Chevrolet said they laid off 1,500 mechanics there two Horrey for the damn nd C. W. A. bunk, gang in office registered the ed et Tomlinson Hall about ith a promise of jobs. Then the gang’ moved to the Surveyors office in the court house and 23 8. Delamare. The Indianapolis Star flaunted their big headlines “County to Give Work to Thousands.” Then the gang moved to Wm. H. Books’ quarters at 310 N. Meridian St. next door to the Chamber of Commerce. Then all three of the boss sheets flaunted the headlines, Federal Loans Give Work to Millior. Men. I have been registered all the time, but they have kept silent. Their iad jis that they notify you by mail. The crowd at 310 N. Meridian got so large that they placed three cos- sacks there. Yet the gang has the guts to put a nice blue sign on the window, “U. 8. Employment Service, Affiliated With the State Employ- ment Service.” The cossacks keep you out. My dad has got a good taste of the N. R. A. bunk. He operates a station for the Polar Ice & Fuel Co. When they signed the N. R. A. sheet, they put him on straight commission, Week before last his check, after pay- ing station utility bills, was 18 cents. Before the company put him on com- mission, his salary was $15 per week. Their code calls for $14.50. I think the Unemployed Councils should be more active on maiches, etc, to the governors and mayors, especially this mayor here, as he is trying to emphasize the “Battleship Annapolis” too much. Governor Nutt has gone nuts about Fort Harrison. I am reading a book on civic train- ing in Soviet Russia, by Harper, and will say the Party and Komsomols both work there systematically, NOTE We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tues- day. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their work- ing conditiens and of their efforts Street, New York Ci .|ab Glen Cove our candidate WORKER Great Neck, L. 1, N, ¥/ ; Dear Comrades: }and sympathizers, do not want to be left out of the wonderful issue | that is to be put out on the tenth anniversary of our “Daily.” Here in Nassau County our move- |ment is gaining ground by leaps and | bounds, despite the police terror, and | the K.K-K., which, as you know, that | their headquarters is in this county. As a show in our gains in 1922 for the Presidential jpaign, | Foster only got four votes. Compare | that to our showing this year. Dur- | ing the local campaign at Great Neck, our Party received 146 votes. At Mineola we received 296 votes, and for Mayor, Charles McLaughlin, despite thet this is the horhe of J. P. Mor- gan, and thousands of votes were stolen, thousands bought, and whiskey |Biven away like water by the capi- talist oppon , Comrade McLaugh- lin recevied over three hundred votes and had the voting been fair, there is no doubt that he would have been elected. At Hicksville, Hempstead and all other towns in this county, we received a fairly good vote. At a demonstration led by our Un- employed Council in 1932 we forced $125,000 appropriations for relief, and we are planning another demonstra- tion before the last of this coming January, Our mass organizations are grow- ing. Our Unemployed Councils in every town now are fairly well or- ganized and doing very good work, The I.L.D, is now organizing in Min- eola, Glen Cove, Great Neck, Hicks- ville, and there is one being organ- ized now in Manhassett. In Great Neck our Lithuanian com- rades are doing good work in the L. D. 8, and the A. L. D. L. D, as well as the youth branches, In Mineola our Ukrainian comrades are also at work, and the Ukrainian Toilers have a very good membership, also in Hempstead they have a beau- titul hall, and are doing great work. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League has only had an organizer out here for two months, but he al- ready has ® post of 45 in Mineola, one started in Glen Cove, and is now active in Great Neck, organizing a Post there and one in Manhesset. In Mineola the I.W.O. has a very large and active membership that is on the job at all times, So, comrades, this is to remind you that we are on the job for the “Daily” also. We have had a few affairs here and the money has been sent in through Section 10, also we sell quite a few, every day. All our Units have ordered 100 each to order more. Christmas day here in Great Neck we sent in a comrade specially to get 20 copies extra to be sold that day, and we are sorry we didn’t get more, for we sold them all in ‘about 20 minutes, in fact, only about’ one block was covered, In to organize. Please get the letters | to ws by I'riday of cach week, i the future we are going to try ard sell more, | 5 : | Dear Comrades: Women’s Unemployed | ing conditions as I have seen them| We, the Workers Party members| Comrade} for the special edition and some aim | f, Our Readers RECEIVES INTEREST CHECK ON SOVIET BONDS—SENDS $5 TOWARDS NEW PRESS Tucson, Ariz. | You will recall the first half of the | Daily Worker. $40,000 drive I con- | tributed a dollar several times. I am sorry that I have been unable to con-/| tribute recently, but I have been hard pressed to make ends meet and on top of that I had to scrape up two bucks to renew my sub for three months. However, this morning’s mail brought me a welcome windfall in the shape of a check from the State Bank of the U. S. S. R., said check representing the interest due on m Soviet 10 per cent bonds. I am there- fore rushing $5 by airmail to help pay for our new printing press. One dol- lar of this represents contribution and $1 apiece for four Daily Worker readers whoever they. may be, who would like to contribute, but who are financially unable to do so. For connection with my Soviet bonds I want to acknowledge my in- debtedness to the Daily Worker and also to “Soviet Russia Today” for the information I acquired concerning the true conditions in the workers’ Fatherland, which information in- fluenceq me in investing my small savings in Soviet bonds. —Yours Towards A Soviet America. PAPER WAS A DANDY CLEVELAND, Ohio. Editor, Daily Worker: That paper you put out last Satur- day was a dandy. Where the deuce did you get such a bunch of good writers? Let us have some informa- tion about the stock Uncle Sam bought in Chase National and Na- tional City Banks, etc. Say, man, John Labor is awfully hungry for C. W. A. news. To keep posted, I would walk 20 miles to get that famous D. W. SLIM. SOLD ON C.C.N.Y. CAMPUS. New York. Editor, Daily Worker: Since I joined the Young Commu- nist League, some nine months ago, I have made it my practice consis- tently to read the “Daily.” But I find something lacking. You see, I am a student of the evening session of the College of the City of New York and a worker by day. The “Daily” adequately covers workers’ views, but only occa- sionally devotes a little space to the question of the student. I don’t think I will be original when I state that we should not neglect the development of Commu- nist ideology among the students. For, if we do not align them with us, the students will drift toward Therefore, Comrade Editor, give a little more columnar inches to the student; perhaps conduct a column, if not every day at least once a week, in which to point out the various dangers facing the student bodies (such as cuts, etc., in the edu- cation budgets of the cities and states.) Point out differences be- o Since 1929, Worker Correspondent Writes Beginnings of Wage Cuts and Layoffs Warn Men |j- Machines Replace Hand Workers in Gold Leaf Trade (By a Metal Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, Mass.—In the of Jan. 2 there was a letter from a gold leaf worker. I am a worker in this trade. Gold leaf has been for centuries manufactured by hand. However, within the last two or three years this trade has been partly mechan- ized. There are now shops equipped for machine beating in three cities, Philadelphia (Hastings); Hartford, Conn. (Swift), and New York City. These shops are the largest in the trade and they have cornered the great majority of the trade. But people don’t seem to buy many gilded bibles when their bellies are empty, so there is only a small amount of trade. The amount left to the hand-beaters fs so small that they cannot hire labor. I am the only apprentice working in the city and there are no journeyman beaters working at all. The women who put the gold into books are similarly un- employed. Working conditions are -poor, too. The tools, bundles of gold-beaters’ skins, called “moulds,” become almost useless when they are three or four years old. Yet we are work- ing moulds broken in during 1919, 1920 and 1921, There is constant danger of hitting a finger with ham~- mers weighing from 8 to 18 pounds (as I have done on occasions), No provision is made for antiseptic care of such maimed and mangled fin- gers, and of course there is no insur- ance for the worker. As to organization, I am the only employe in Boston. The bosses have tried to organize, to fight the ma- chine monopolies, but their anar- chistic mode of production breeds distrust which is readily blown into flame by Mr. Swallow of Coe & Co., of Providence, R. I. who is the middleman in the business. N. Y. Iron Workers Defeat Speed - Up and Layoff Attempt (By a Metal Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—An attempt recently by the bosses to reduce the number of workers employed on the new Municipal Building now under con- struction at Center and Worth Sts., New York City, was stopped by a spontaneous strike of all the work- ers involved. The workers are all structural iron-workers; one of the most hazardous trades in the city. The bosses’ scheme was to lay off one man in each raising gang, and speed up the rest of the workers to produce as much as before. When this plan was announced, the work- ers marched off the job and massed around the gate, ready to stop any seabs if they tried to get in. None tried. This time the bosses were taken by surprise by this show of militancy and solidarity by the workers, who are unorganized. In two hours the bosses withdyew their nan. One of the reasons why the bosses gave in so quickly is because they didn't want the wages they pay ex- posed too publicly. The prevailing rate of wages for this city is $13.20 a day for mechanics, yet on this the men only get $11.60 a day. On other jobs they get as low as $8.80 a day. This shows that some boss or politician or both is lining his pockets with the hard earned money stolen rom ironworkers, These workers must use this expe- rience and lesson in unity, in order to win back their wage cuts and to eliminate the murderous speed-up. They must keen their ranks united in crder to resist the next wage cutting scheme of the bosses; who work 24 hours a day planning how to put over more wage cuts and to furthe: reduce our standard of living. The ironworkers have no faith in the A. F. of L, officials because of the treacherous sell out of the 1924 “Daily” | strike. Since then various indepen- dent unions have sprung up and died down. They failed because they had no fighting program of action; be- cause thetr officials have misled the rank and file into believing better conditions could be had by dickering with crooked politicians and lawyers and telling them to have faith in Roosevelt and his N. R. A. The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union, 35 E. 19th St., N. ¥,, a rank and file controlled union, calls upon the structural ironwork- ers to set up a union of their own, with rank and file control; uniting employed and unemployed; work out @ program of militant action, for higher wages, less hours, no speed- up, for those employed. For the pre- vailing scale of wages to be paid on all C. W. A. and P. W. A. jobs: For the unemployed fight for immediate adequate cash relief and UNEM- PLOYED INSURANCE. STUDENTS AID “DAILY” NEW YORK.—Upon the failure of the instructor or a substitute show- ing up for the Trade Union Unity Council class in the Workers’ School, Saturday afternoon, the students voted to turn over $3.70, collected at the door, to the Daily Worker. The admission charge to this class is 10 cents, tween education in the U.S.S.R, and the U. 8. Show how the interests of the students are interwoven in- separably with those of the workers. Also, the “Daily” should be made @ means of reaching the students. Tt should be sold on the campuses. We, at the evening session of C. C. N. Y., sold over 40 copies of the Anniversary Edition, and could have sold more had we the funds with which to purchase additional copies. A STUDENT. PARTY LIFE The Chicago “Daily” Agent Ts Requested to Explain How Red Tape Was Respwrisible jor Holding Up Work at Int'l Hartéester Company By C. C., Unit 125, Chicago, Hil. When the Open Letter to the Party membership was received it was discussed in practically all lead- ing Party organizations as well as. by the Unit Bureau and unit member- ships. Each district and section commit- tee checked up on the most impor- tant industrial plants in their par- ticular territory, and certain Party units were assigned to concentrate on this or that plant. Unit 125 with three other units was assigned to concentrate on the International Harvester Plant. Right after the assignment some of the comrades got busy and began to sell the Daily Worker at one of the I. H. shops. Also comrades succeeded in getting some of the newspaper stands around the I. H. to sell the Daily Worker, Unit 125 supplied the Daily Worker daily to these news stands up till now, and we secured still some more of the important news stands in that vicinity, but which were too far apart Labor Board Plea Didn't Go With Iron Workers (By 2 Steel Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Following up on the heels of the strike two weeks ago of the number of men to be used in each gang, the iron workers employed on the new Municipal Building, Cen- |" ter and Worth streets, struck again on Jan. 15 for an increase in pay from $11.60 a day to $13 a day (the prevailing rate of wages). This time, as in the previous strike, the work- ers refused to go to work in the morning until they got a settlement. The bosses tried to get the workers to go back to work pending the deci- sion of the Labor Board hearing on Jan. 17. But the workers were too wise to fall for this, and they stuck to their demand, with the result that after one day of strike the bosses were forced to confer with a com- mittee appointed by these unorgan- ized workers, and had to give in. This is about the sixth hearing held regarding the wage scale, and in each the Board has usually recog- nized $13.20 as the prevailing rate. But they have done nothing and will do nothing to see to it that this scale is lived up to. It is only through such militant action as was taken by the workers themselves that will win for them better wages and better con- ditions, This is a direct exposure of the program of one of the reactionary unions in this field, Local 4, with the demagogue Jim Ryan at its head, which only a few months ago in a letter to the majority of the contrac- tors, pledged a no-strike policy. On this job the last shipment of steel has been all erected and the workers have been laid off until the next shipment comes in, which will be about a week more. Again at this time, the Steel and Metal Workers Union, a militant, rank and file con- strolled union, calls upon these work- ers to keep their ranks solid, in order not only to hold what they hare al- ready gained, but also to be prepared to fight against any signs of discri- mination by the bosses against any of the militant workers, when the job starts up again. And also to extend the fight to get the wages back to the 1930 scale, —J. RB. from each other (242 miles, actually S:miles back and forth) to be han- dled_by the unit. So“Wwe decided to notify the Daily Worker District Office to supply Daily Workers on these newsstands. One comrade reported this to D. W. District Office and was promised that they would supply the Daily Worker to these newsstands. Investigating later on, we found out. that the District Office of the Daily Worker did not supply papers to thése stands. Again a comrade wens down to the D. W. District Of- Aice inquiring about this simple negli- gence, ‘This is not the first time that we Rive dealt with this office and that comrades weré disappointed. Almost every. time we want to increase or ‘Wéérease, order or stop papers, it takes us over'a month to get satise |faétion, plus several street car fares ‘and-letters in exchange. I do not be- Mieve.that through all this red tape (section agit-prop, District, ete.) - it should take a month to get what you went. jioiWorst of all is this, that you never Bet the guilty person or persons. ere ts always a loophole through which one might escape, a:Im this particular case the poor teuck driver was the guilty one. But ‘m in doubt that he ever received those names and addresses of these particular newsstands. Let us do less paraphrasing from our,,various Party conferences and Jmegtings about the shop work and -bofitentration points, and pay more “practical attention to this work. ae > . ‘Can the District Daily Worker Office explain this bureaucratic handling of Daily Worker distribu- (tion and Jack of co-overation with .&,Mnit concentrating on one of the most important sh trict? ops in the Dis- A.F. of L. Officials Fight Moye for Unity Against Layoffs in Baltimore (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md.—aA delegation from the Steel and Metal Workers ‘Thidustrial Union was sent to the Athalgamated (A. F. of L.) seekiny a united. front on the coming lay-offs, which, will take place in the next week or so. They refused to make a united front with us. Some of the members of the delegation made such @ good appeal that warm applause was drawn from the A.A. members, ‘They closed the meeting on us, how- ever, without taking any action. ‘When the meeting was opened, the chairman called on one of the A.A, members to read a piece of poetry. ‘t was about men and monkeys. ' ‘Then an official got up and made ‘wrong spiel, ‘telling the workers to .gome up, pay your initiation, join ‘the A. A,, and Roosevelt and the N-R:A. will take care of you. . JOIN THE Communist Party Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name oe Street MARE, fines cotcaccoeusssacccustor 98 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Nux Vomica Tablets—Suicide J. McK.—Your wife may have to take thirty of the tablets you men- tioned before she shows signs of ; In case she tips focation (choking). dotes are phenobarbital (which can be given in the form of veronal or whiskey, emetics (anything that would make her chloroform and artificial respiration. 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