The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1934, Page 4

Page Four | Paid Off More Than Mortgage In Interest; Faces Eviction Home Loan Office Refuses Aid baie He Helps Struggles of Unemployed Jewish Agriculture | Society to Evict | | Starving Farmer (By a Farmer Correspondent) “2- 2 Werker Correspondent wrote to th TER, Pa— LAN me It answer. ime, an office opened I went to the office | MARLOW, N. H—A poor farm family is being skirmed alive, the skinner in this case being the Jew- g ish Agriculture Society, Inc., of 301 i: your mort~ E. 14th St. The family lin this case of Marlow, N. H., ni |vation and freezing, together her four children, being short in food, clothes and shelter, more than half a dozen people being herded into a one-room shack This farm won ‘What d, | Gas City Jobless Council Growing: lived and ‘ked here for about one-quarter of a century. Her four children were @ Worl ker Cor born on th m. All of t are of school age. | She is of Jewish stock, and so she here. Some- time ago she applied for a Federal Land and Bank mortgage, with the government took away from her the | $10 which she had borrowed from neighbor and gave her no loan. | At present the Jewish Agriculture | Society is holding a mortgage agains! |this little farm family. The family | Bas no income and not even one from $1.80} id a sack| and tt loan. We could | dollar in cash, The mortgage holder i did not : has recently given short notice of Nevisalte foreclosure. bene mas soe face ‘The farmer-woman appealed to her ; - » an aA ish | ld Jewish father, who scraped to-| bahosaidson gee . th 25 by donations and handed or Christmas. The | gether $1 by d sie it to the society to appease their in- | satiate greed for money. That society , did not disdain to accept the raised fund, which should have gone for the relief of this poor Jewish family } in distress. The husband of this farm woman is unable to work because he was; d another $1,000 would not turn it over et their plans to with the help y their gods} and the} fficials and| manufacturer put me 1 cigar on cig ask the r go that ut of ease D GC broke UP | crippled in a lumber mill while at 1 the Le bey ed | work there, and was given no com- policies ' opene : tL Bid anes \Grespribr Dias. an appeal cto they ee eon es cee! n Legion to reign terror upon | Mayor and the| is threw th sete of ane] open for card playing. told the workers they Fetal attended the U. C.! The Trivial Excuses Used in Omaha with | - jand ispent a great many hours of labor winter and another Christmas Not one cent for milk, not one | 2 turned off all, over town, no hich caused the| ‘ker’s child. No shoes} for the mothers and opened twice a week, | pe s once a week, no card playi n one of your Daily once a ¥ 2 hgaiarabdeat , ity building. The preache ae — enjoyed a big Christmas while the| children starved. U. C. is coming back-—| etings being held each week and| getting ready not to st Thanks to the “Dail OTE letters from h farm- fight sed to send t ditions tes to organize. get these letters to us by Monday | of each week. Please S LUKE ne subject ; soapstor 1 ded. If you do ng adequately dealt | not have ill be necessary to reheat the meat the e following morning | while you are getting breakfast. Then you can season it and put it back into id a few words as to In answer to Comrade with we mv its limitations. rene’s © the recent ob- patty of the method, we advance the | the cooker, to be served in the noon surmise that these cookers fell some- | Meal or at night, what into disuse with the discovery of ee the importance of vitamins. an You Make ‘Em Yourself? Pattern available in sizes 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 3% yards 39 inch fabric and 4% yard Illustrated step-by-step sowing instructions included. and other | yes: but ap cuts of | contrasting. the c2se of most highly vitaminous foods, dried beans and tough che: meat, and starchy foods such as bi Jey and whole at, need long cook ing: surely be! ‘0 cook them in the economical and convenient fireless cooker than to eat them half-cooked or not eat them at all. Many unem-| ployed families have little else to eat wut the above named foods. Comrade Bonita T. dropped # few) jaumorous “tips” on the subject. She | states that leading chefs warned) against their use as generating gases | and causing oxidation (of vitamins). “Vitamin B, though, is a sturdy | fellow, and starch foods must have | their cooking at length. If the gad- | gets cook at too high temperatures | they are just nix... if however ny keep in juices, prevent oxidation, and do slow cookin~, what a pal! ... but | the advertising literature of the) manufacturers saying these cookers | summarily solve the whole food) problem. . . makes nice coats _ , holders.” Be Im short, the “Fireless” is not put | ‘tor spinach and must be used with | ' discretion. Dr. Luttinger suggests | * that highly spiced foods should not be “made in them. aa Hot Breakfast in Winter Comrade Irene’s method for cereal: ‘Whole wheat or rolled oats should be | put to bed before supper while you are | cooking the evening meal. Get the | water boiling well, salt as you like it, | and add the oats or wheat. Boil a/ few minutes to be sure grain ts heated | | | “Use the plate or not as you please. Put in the cereal and close cooker. ‘The cereal should be ready for break- | . fast the next morning but if the | paper was not packed in} cooker very hard indeed, you per M have to reheat the cereal al 1755 OFF $ For Meat “**Ghoose a cheap cut, but one that| Send fifteen cents (15c) in coins or ‘will not be too tough, and will have a|stamps (coins preferred) for this flavor. Sear it all over well, add | Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly water (cold would toughen the | name, address and style number. Be | good cuts after searing) let it return Sure to state size, 8 Cac baad boil, and boil for} Address orders to Daily Worker | Pattern Department, 243 West 17th! mary Goanes: “meat the plate (or! Street, New York City, 1 4 |he went some place to keep warm (.W.A. Layoffs (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) OMAHA, Neb.—C. W. A. conditions are getting worse. ‘The workers were fired and laid off in Sarpy County, Neb., because they made a fire to warm their hands and feet after riding in an open truck for six miles |at 10 degrees above zero. And the foreman put them out to work and | until 11 a.m., and, when he returned, | some stool-] pigeon put a finger on | the ones who made the fire. He fired two young workers and told them not to come on his job again. | When the young workers went to consult the C. W. A. employment agent, he would not talk with them, | Just told them to go home, and that | they can’t run that job. | When they work they only get 40) cents per hour, and are not allowed ‘to ask about the other dime. If they | say anything, they will lose their jobs. Douglas County pays 50 cents, and they are both C. W. A. jobs. Sarpy workers pay 20 cents a day| transportation to the job. Some- times they have to ride as far as 29 miles in the cold, open truck. How | long shall we tolerate this? This county only registered about one-third of its unemployed, and when some of the unemployed work- \ers go to register they are told to go to Douglas County. After they sign up they are never called for. Now this is the way out; we have called together some of the workers | to draw up some resolutions, reading {as follows: (1) We, the undersigned, do de- mand 50 cents per hour for work on C. W. A. jobs in Sarpy County. (2) We demand that Sarpy County | get the money grant for all of the ! | unemployed to have work in the | county. (3) We demand the removal of all |foremen who are not in favor of a} fire, when weather is cold, and who practice speed-up. |” (4) We demand free transporta- | | tion, and a warm vehicle, and the 20 men laid off be put back on the job. SCAB MILK By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal—I had been taking Borden’s Milk during the strike, not knowing it was scab till I read about it in the Western Worker. Right away I told the driver to stop the milk He said there were too many unions; there | should be only one union, the A. F. of L. But the A. F, of L. never organized the milkers, and it is {even letting the bosses make the | arivers Tesponsible for bad ac- | counts, so their big pay isn’t so much after all. My little girl, Rose Pravea, four years and ten months old, can sing “Long Haired Preachers” by mem- ory and whistle “The International” perfectly. She has a boil on her chest, and when someone asked her how she got it, she replied without wasting any time, “From drinking scab milk.” SMALL TOWN HIT BY CRISIS By a Farmer Correspondent. CLAREMONT, Va. — Claremont has gone down very much since the crisis started. We have lost our paper that had been published since 1879. The train is gone and now our bank. The post office and two stores and choolhouse remain. Don’t know how soon they will go. I saw in a paid advertisement in the “South Side Virginia News,” that Petersburg (a city thirty miles from here) is also going down in spite of the blue eagle. They lay it to the chain store that their home merchants are going bank- rupt and people moving out. Every new subscriber gained for the “Daily” strengthens our revolu- tutionary movement. Ask your fel- low worker to subscribe. ; criticism that exists in the Commu- | fractional misunderstanding that was | | only 200 of 30,06 000, in ‘te Tellapiets County Cet |, Anything, and These Are Mostly Bosses (By a Farmer Correspondent) i} he Black Belt The land- is in lord tells the f can’t furnis cropper that they can’t furnish them is in order to keep them on the farm id work them for 50 cents a day, while the landlords work on the C. W. A. for $6 and $8 a da; And there | 50 to $7.50 | the Negroes 50 the landlords clear fre a day after pay does for the day hands. Now| the wages the landlord pays them is really $7 a month. The bosses pay the white more fo work than | thei they do the Negroe: 4 landlords } tell the Negroes that they aren't worth as much as the white men. On the C.W.A. the landlords take the jobs themselves and don’t give |the sharecropper any job whatever. |'This is the case with the poor white las well as the Negroes. Tallapoosa | County has about 30,000 population, | | but only 200 have been given C.W.A. | jobs, and most of them are landlords. The poor cropper has a long walk from Dadeville and back going to the C.W.A. office to sign up, and all they get is a scrap of paper, and the | C.W.A. office tells them to come back two weeks later. They can’t even get clothes to wear and the landiords say they aren’t going to let them have | anything. We will have to do some- | thing. Canadian Bosses Evict and Scatter Farmers’ Family By a Farmer Correspondent. COVERDALE, Canada—My fam- ily is scattered to the four winds. We owed some rent money, and on Dec. 19, almost Christmas, the sea- son of good will when even nations at war call a truce, we were evicted. The sheriff accompanied by four ugs, arrived at 2 p. m. I was alone so I could do nothing. They took my washing off the line, sheets bedspread, (white) and flung them in a box with tools and oil cans, hand grease, etc. Three hun- dred head of cabbage that I had on were flung in the road to le for days, rained on and snowed on, and finally hard frost, Our winter's supply. A neighbor lent us his garage for the furniture. My husband was out looking for a place, for we had notice to leave. He came back after the sheriff and thugs had left, darkness coming and cold windy weather. Some boys watching took our son, friends took: our daughter. A Chinese gave shelter to me. And Canada blows about “British jus- tice.” But it has to be bought be- fore one can have it, I bet you have enot trouble of your own so please excuse me for F amily of 7 Toil for Rich Farme for $35 a Month ROCHESTER, Minn.—Last week a committee from the Unemployed Council investigated a case of peon- age on a farm near Rochester. A rich farmet had working for him a man and wife and five children. The family got a house to live in and $35 per month. When the man was injured by a bull, he was docked for the time he was laid up. His wages for that month were only $20. They are milking 41 cows by hand, producing 100 gallons of milk a day, and out of this the family of seven is allowed two quarts per day. No butter, no meat, no fuel. The whole family, up at 4:45 a.m., does the milking, the father, mother and oldest girl of 18 work like hell all day, while the younger kids are at school, then all turn in again at 5 pm. to milk and do the shores. “And the rest of the day to them- selves.” The Unemployed Council will write this up fn the next issue of the Hun- ger Fighter, and try to get them re- lief from the local relief administra- tion. On Wednesday night, Jan. 24, the Unemployed Council will hold a meeting to elect a delegate to the National Unemployed Convention. pment Racha using you as a safety valve. I had to blow steam off on some one. Letters from Our Readers T.U.U.C. Answers Question on Needle Trades and Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Situation Bronx. Dear Editors and Comrades of the Daily Worker: I have heard and read about self- nist Party. I therefore decided to write in a genuine criticism on the Needle Trades Industrial Union to find out if they act right. I am not a member of the C. P., | but_a sympathizer and a straight | \C. P. voter, I have been a union man at the line I worked years ago, where a union prevailed. But now I am not a union man because the industrial union refuses to take it upon itself to organize the line I work at now. I am a tailor. For several years I have been working at the retail tail- oring and cleaning stores. In differ- ent occasions whenever I came in contact with a group of workers, chiefly Negroes, employed as pressers mostly in this line, I was trying to talk about organizing, even collected names and addresses, showing a wil- | lingness to organize. The continuous | always raging in the two labcring organizations, prevented me from bothering myself with organization work. A short time ago, I came into the industrial union, was introduced to the chief organizer, presented the problem of organizing this pari of the cleaning industry. His first an- swer disappointed me. “We have no department for this line.” On my further question, can’t a department be created, his advice was to go to the Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers Union, which was then involved in @ strike—a struggle for their very existence, which was lost. I deemed it impractical and dropped it. No doubt, it is very important for the Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers Union to undertake to organize these | workers because it would give them added strength in the future fight for better conditions, due to the dependence of the wholesale clean- ers and dyers on the tailor stores for their work. We as workers can tie up, hinder the sending of the work, instead of coming as they, the Clean- ers, Dyers and Pressers Union did come, to these very storekeepers, the Retail Tailor and Cleaners Associa- tion, for a sympathetic strike against whom? The Wholesale Cleaners and Dyers Association! Well, I submit this action to your Daily Worker. What right, moral or otherwise, did they have to come to these business people for sympathy, with a promise to reciprocate in their struggle with their own employers— that is—to help my ‘boss win advan- tage from their boss! Why not or- ganize me—the worker, because as workers, whether working for retail- ers or wholesalers, our interest is identical, while business people, whether retailers or wholesalers, theirs, too, are identical. Is it not 80? 8. B. * EDITOR’S NOT E—Regarding your letter on the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and the Cleaners and Dyers situation, we have made a thorough investigation and are giad to give you below the report of the Trade Union Unity Council which is responsible for the policy of all unions affiliated with it: STATEMENT OF THE TRADE UNION UNITY COUNCIL We cannot but agree with the writer ef this letter in his criticism * ¢ of the organizer of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union who told the writer, “We have no department for this line.” It is true that at the time the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union was engaged in a few major struggles such as the strike of the furriers, custom tailors, witch | occupied a great deal of the atten- | tion of the union. However, this does not mean that the brand should not give its assistance to any group of workers who desire to organize in order to improve their conditions, re- sardiess of whether the union up to that particular time has undertaken any campaign in that branch of the trade or not, especially when there are a group of workers who take the initiation in coming down to the union to ask for their assistance. With reference to the cleaners and dyers, we also agree with the writer that it was not the best time to refer him to the Cleaners and Dyers Union because of the condition of the strike, although there are much closer con- nections between the tailors in the retail stores and the workers in the cleaning and dying trade than with ‘he necdle trades workers generally, As to the second point raised in the letter, with regard to the retail cleaners and dyers, we wish to -tate the following: As far as we know the leadership of the Cleaners and Dyers Union did not by any means orientate itself on the retail tailors and cleaners, but, on the contrary, carried on a militant struggle in which the masses of the workers were involved. However, this union, as the writer no doubt is aware, was the out- stowth of revolt on the part of the workers against the A. F. of L. and had not as yet sufficiently developed its work so as to embrace all branches connected with the cleaning and dye- ing and tailoring trade. Due to the weakness in the lead- ership, the union was not able to defeat the wholesale strikebreaking activities of the A.F.L., which resulted in the loss of the strike. It is never- theless an established fact that this strike wos the most militant ever con- dusted in the history of the union ‘or the past 15 yearz. As far as the relation of the clean- Cie ae ee is concerned, we want to state that while it is the policy of the class struggle unions to base themselves entirely on the mobiliza- tion of the workers against the boss- es, there are certain situations where it is permissible for militant unions to take advantage of the division that exists in the rar’ 2 the bosses, if such divisiox: 1 help to advance the interest of the workers, provid- ing this does not constitute the major policy of the union. This particu- larly applies to the cleaning and dye- ing trade where the wholesale busi- ness is in the hands of a group of racketeers who are iting the workers most ruthlessly and at the same time are also oppressing the petty retail tailor and cleaner. In this situation the union did not go to organize the retail stores, but merely attemnted to broaden the fight against the main bosses in the trade by trying to shut down the retail stores. The criticism should be made not against the attempt to broaden out the struggle, but against the failure of the union to carry on activities among the workers in the stores at the same time when the movement of the retailers was de- veloping. Our advice to the writer is not to Beaks WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1934 S ‘Gives C.W.A. Jobs in LaCrosse Only | to Close Friends By a Farmer Correspondent LA CROSSE, Wis—I am a farmer's | daughter, so I'll write a few things I know that the farmers are cheated out of. The airport being made here is about a quarter of a mile from our farm. The government alloted some CQUSINN OSCAR=1 GOT A JOB $32,000 for this airport, to be built under the C. W. A. Now work has been put on this airport for about one week, but people from our farm districts are not work- ing on this project. Henry Jolivette, our chairman, hires his relatives and close friends to work there. Lately workers and farmers that live close to this airport have been looking into things and found out that a man living some 150 miles away from here is working on this project with two trucks and a hired man. These workers told old Henry J. that here they are living right where this airport is being built and will have to pay taxes on it for the next five years and can’t get a job. Old Hank always says, “Well, I can’t help it. We got too many men now and wil have to fire 600 as it is.” Recently Jolivette promised the farmers that starting that week they would begin working with the team. There cannot be more than one mem- ber of a family working on this pro- ject. A team working gets 50 cents an hour. A man from the city gets 60 cents an hour for shoveling, while a farmer gets only 50 cents. They also have arranged it so that a group works first two weeks, then another group the next two weeks. Henry Jolivette gets $4 a day just for riding around to see how the C. W, A. is working. Two workers happened to get a chance to talk to Henry J., and one of them heard that $63,000 has been missing from the city treasury. Henry J. said that a mix-up was made in the books, that so much changing around of money has been going on that the books are all jumbled up. A near neighbor of ours has a gravel pit on his farm. One day two men from the committee were sent down to get gravel for some city work. The farmer said that he sells his gravel at $2.50 a yard. They wanted! to buy it for 25 cents per yard. The farmer would not sell it, because he figured out that these two would buy his gravel at 25 cents a yard and in the city books they would write that it was $2.50 a yard, so that they them- selves could pocket the difference. I wish we could organize the work- ers of La Crosse into Unemployed Councils and other workers’ groups so that we could win something. But I think it’s pretty hard to do so after somebody comes to spoil things once. The first organizer we had wasn’t the workers’ kind, even though he was sent here from Milwaukee as a party organizer. Capitalist Paper Lauds Legion’s Brutal Attack By a Farmer Correspondent. BRAMAN, Okla.—My subscription te the Saturday edition of the Daily Worker expired a few weeks ago, However it was through the gen- erosity of a friend that I had the privilege of reading the Daily Work- KISS THIS er one year ago, and as I see you are fighting for downtrodden hu- manity I am sending you 50 cents and asking you to renew my sub- scription 4 months. Time are mighty tough with us farmers out here in Oklahoma. We are picking up what few jobs the government is throwing out to us, A few months ago a Communist was billed to speak in Blackwell, my home town of about 9,000 inhabi- tants. A mob of American Legion thugs met the Communists at the hall, tried to force them to kiss the flag, and after beating them, took them out of town and com- pelled them to leave. And this outrage against free speech and humanity was upheld by the Blackwell daily paper. I don’t see how anything can ever be done to help conditions unless all labor get together under one banner. be discouraged by these unsuccess- ful attempts to get cooperation in this exploited section of the workers, but on the contrary, as a mijitant worker, it is his duty to fight in order to correct the mistakes of the organizations which are lead- ing the struggle of the workers. We would advise you to immediately get in tcuch with the T.U.U.C., so as to arrange for a definite organizational campaign for the formation of @ fighting union of the workers in your trade. Their address is 799 Broadway, Room 238, C. W. A. Jobs Denied to Sharecroppers in Black Belt to Keep Them Tied to Landlord PARTY LIFE = | Startling Facts About the ‘Daily’ and Concentration Says No Papers Are Sold in Lackawanna, N. Y¥5 An Important Steel Center In connection with the subscrip- tion drive of the Daily Worker we are printing two letters from.unit members, which may explain why our Daily does not have a circula- tion of 100,000. Our Party‘as a whole is not mobilized to sell and | get subscriptions for the Daily. ‘This work cannot be left to the Daily Worker Agents. “Every Party mem- ber a Daily Worker Agent.” must be the slogan with which we carry out the subscription drive. cpa edi A Shop Unit in Philadelphia Does Not Sell the Daily i I want to give you an illustration how the Daily sales were handled in two units where I had experience. I belong to a small unit—eight members. About six weeks ago the question arose about selling the Satur- day edition. Only two members volunteered. 15 copies were ordered. Now, with only two members ori the job we sell 36 copies, got 1 siibscrip- tion, and 2 promised to subscribe. The question of subscribing is not pushed. We want them to read thé Daily, we discuss with them each time they get the paper, and when we feel they are ready, then we talk about. subs. Now, our unit has been dissolved and the members were sent to different concentration points. The unit I was assigned to has 20 members, all workers, in an industrial “section. Here. I thought, the Daily must be sold, and how astonished I was when the “Daily Worker” was discussed on the order of business. The Daily Worker agent reported that he was selling about 20 copies daily. But his bike was stolen, so he can’t have this “job” and asked that another :com-~ rade be assigned. When the question was raised how many comrades. sell the’ Daily Worker besides the agent, the answer struck me like a blow— not a single comrade! And this in a territory with many factories!‘ ‘Here we say the masses are slow in coming to us—what irony! After the discus- sion, no one volunteered to ‘sell. the Daily Worker, but the unit decided to order 5 copies each week. ‘The truth Fatigue and Fear Fill Life Under Capitalism (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY.—I am a clerk in @ mall store, do not get through until late at night (8:30-9 BM.). By the time I get home and have supper it is too late to go anywhere and most of the time, I am too tired, after a long day of miserable white collar work. These inabilities are of no asset to me, and I fully well realize it, but ever conscious of the fact that one’s life ig’ en: tirely dependent on capitalism's pay envelope system of wage slavery, whereby it is figured out to pug iia the envelope enough to last.only, to the next pay day, so that the mere stoppage of this envelope for, say even a few weeks, means the de- moralization and oft-times the ruln- ation of not only individuals,” but entire families, fully aware that this system not only enslaves ws, but causes a paralyzing fear of -body, soul and mind. Tt is this paralyzing fear which should be rooted out from our midst, and all their other agencies of corruptions that benumb our-na- tural inherited instincts, befog. our minds and poison our souls...and which should and must be gotten rid of. Conscious of all this, and more, so I try within the best of my limi- ted capabilities to help and enlight- en others who have not as ‘yet “be- come aware of the burning fact that his (all our) salvation lies. not in capitalistic-forstered hopes, but lies only in the strength and solidarity of all the workers, not only here, but of the world throughout. .. Medical Students Here and in Soviet Russia (Continued) How different the situation in Soviet Russia! In the proletarian fatherland, the medical candidates are chosen by committees of their fellow - workers, manual workers having the preference, if else is equal. There is no discrimina- tion in regard to race, sex or nation- ality. A medical student is paid dur- ing his or her training. If he is able to do other work, in addition to his studies, he or she receives additional compensation. Most of the cities now have a medical faculty for training students. The commissions which receive applications for vacan- cies from schools and workshops (Workmen's Committees) consist of a representative of the administrative medical faculty, the professional staff, the trade unions and the student workers. This commission makes the final selection of the recomme candidates. ‘The medical course in Russia pate five years (instead of four, as in ‘the United States). As soon as the medical student graduates, h2 is gof- fered a position immediately. In 3932, there were 3,000 medical students. In- stead of trying to lower their. num- ber, as in the United States, Dr -Via- dimirsky, Commissar of Health of the RS.FS.R., hopes to add 20,000 more is we gre very | or should I say reluctant? How do we | expect the Aele to come to us? Just | because we give out on certain oc- | casions a leaflet calling them to a | demonstration or mass meeting? They jdo not know us, and therefore don’t | come to us. It is only thru the Daily | Worker that we can acquaint the | masses with our Party. The Daily | Worker will convince them that this | is the only Party that represents their | interests, and the Daily Worker will teach them that their place is among our ranks. If only every Party member would | realize the significance of the Daily | Worker penetrating deeper and deeper into the masses and move to accom- | plish it—just as the comrades realize when it comes to a finoncial crisis— | that we must help the Daily to live, | we also must do everything in our power for the Daily to grow. I suggest: the following: 1. Each unit in each district should order at least five copies for each member (10 would not be too much,) that comrades go out in groups of two to sell the Daily from door to door; and explain that they are not doing this to make a living, but— then explain why. 2. That the question of the D. W. should be thoroughly. discussed in the District Buroes and directives be given. to the units proposing how many Dailies each member should sell weekly, to increase week after week, and also a strict check-up. Comradely, c.F. C, P. Section 2, Philadelphia. No Daily Workers Sold in Lackawanna I am working in Lackawanne with the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union and I guess it is up to me to see that we have the Daily Worker out among the workers. When we had a unit meeting the other night I asked the question: How many ‘Dalies’ are sold here a day? The reply that I got was, none. Haven’t had any for some time, as the agent in this town owes a bill. We can’t meet the bill, and we stopped getting it. Well, I told them that I ordered 100 for Jan. 6th and every one must help to sell it. I came here from the Pittsburgh District and they have a different way of handling the, Daily than the Buffalo district. In Pittsburgh the units have a Daily Worker agent. This is the only way to sell the Daily and get it in the hands of all the workers. But here in Buffalo they don’t get into the hands cover the whole city and that is no way to get the Daily in the workers’ hands, I wish you would write some- thing in the paper about this. Each unit should sell the Daily. To make a long story short, at this unit meet- ing we elected a Daily Worker agent. I will give you his address. Please send him 5 copies every day to start with and as soon as we can increase it to 10 copies a day, we will. I have only been in Lackawanna for one week so I don’t know just what amount we will be able to get sold each day. I will try to have some kind of a party after a while to pay up the old bill which we owe the paper. | HH. P., Lackawanna, N. Y. JOIN THE Communist Party 36 KB. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City beet eee eecereeceeeseceees sé By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. iby 1937, to make up the deficiency of physicians in Rialas the ideal be- ing to have one physician to every thousand persons. The contrast between the pitiable condition of the medica! student in this country and the proud position of the candidate of medicine in Rus- sia is due directly to the difference between the capitalist scheme of private profiteering and that of planned economy for the benefit of the working class, which characterizes the Communist system. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS “Congenital Heart Jack M., Detroit, Mich—The term “congenital” heart is used to de- signate a defect of the heart which existed before the baby was born. There are no drugs which can be of any service in these cases. The beby is liable to have spells similar to the ended one he had before. In order to pre- vent them, you must be careful not to excite him. Don’t allow him to cry, etc. His lips and his nails be- come blue because, owing to the defect in the heart, the blood ts not sufficiently aerated. The cough is due to congestion of the lungs which is brought about by insufficient blood. circulation. The baby may also get an ordinary cough which will have eae to do with his heart cone of the workers. One or two comrades , {