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Page bour BAILY Wore, Now Lunn, PaivAY, Phone Co. Speed-up Keeps the Operators at Hysterical Pitch) Chained to the Switchboard, Working By a Telephone Worker Correspondent) was girl until The girl the to iviswold was up- af that one also office was laves. We were aple of them. For we ined to the switch- , forced to sit ith our eyes on the board rking OTE: We publish leliers every Friday from workers in the transportation and communications industries— railroads, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, express companies, truck drivers, taxi dri- vers, ete.—-and from the commu- nications industries—post office, telephone, telegraph, ete. We urge workers from these in- Gustries to write us of their con- ditions of work, and their struggles te organize. Please get these let- ters to us by Tuesday of each week. coNnDUC HELE! Greta Palmer and Communist Etiquette "A few days ago,” es Comrade who ‘al recipes and an ar- ticle on child-training, “I read an article by Greta Palmer, woman’s page editor of the World-Telegram, entitled “Communism in the United States.” “In her article she states that Communism is a religion and that fa ics. I, ts article that Miss Palmer never had to go through the hell of class struggle. Was she ever beaten up by the police for picketing? Did she ever have to leave hungry children at home and go look for evident ir i work without finding any for months? | “Wa: e ‘or not hav- evicted f han s She would unde: we ‘working women belong to the Communist Party. Communism is our sole salvation from all these hnardships. “She goes on to say there are no| happy faces on Union Square: all you see there is threatening fero- olous faces. My dear Miss Palmer! We don’t go to Union Square to smile. We go to Union Square to demand the rights of our class, to demand bread and the right to live. “We threaten those who take away all we create and let us go hungry. We don’t smile because under capitalism our conditions are such that we can’t smile. Miss Pal- mer, you are paid by your boss to write articles defending his inter- ests, the interests of the capitalist class. You have no opinion of your own. You feel very sure about your job, but don’t be too sure: even you who defend the interest of your boss may some day be forced to join the army of the unemployed.” ae “M. Swetlowa.” _ Yes, Comrade Swetlowa has given ‘Miss Palmer's article just the an- swer it deserves. | Heip the I. L. D. To Get Our Worker- | Brothers and Sisters Out Of Jail and | Into the Home We beg to remind our class-con- Selous women readers of the urgent necessity of supporting the Annual Bazaar of the International Labor Defense, Manhattan Lyceum, Feb. 21 to 25, All those who have not al- veady volunteered to help should do 80 without delay. (You need not be an I. L. D. member to do this.) | Ads and greetings for the journal must be sold; raffle tickets and ad- mission tickets also; and these tasks ‘gust be carried out immediately so} she Journal will be ready to print on lime, and there will be funds on nand to finance the Bazaar. | We need only read any issue of | the “Daily” to get a good idea of | the tremendous amount of defend» 6 one | like mad. | already con-| Must Sit for Hours Mad Like 2s I have been drenched in y efforts, more than be called out to get little trifling thing . The ng the ator understz was appl, k also. Terrific Speed-Up for Longshoremen on Savannah Line By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—On Dock 40 of the Savannah Line they began to dis- charge longshoremen last November. = \ THERES THE Rea ENE! J] Clerk Urges Unity ‘With Western Union Messenger Boys By a Telegraph Worker Cor- respondent | NEW YORK espousal of messengers’ the Daily | Worker has awakened me. Long }enough has the Western Union used |the clerks stationed at the branch joffices to exploit the messenger. In this fashion the Of 200 workers, 150 remained. This} AS boys vented their does not mean that there was|atred against us instead of their less work. On the contrary, more|'ue enemy, the officialdom of the work was added. The terrific speed- up is injuring the workers. In the course of some two week: * six men were injured. Those work-| ers who receive serious injuries, are not taken back even after they re- cover. The workers are often heard to say It’s N. R. A. is to fool the They speak of the neces- y to fight openly against speed- Before, there existed here an A. F. of L. union, but the workers were \tricked by the leaders of that union, And now they have no confidence in the A. F. of L. The Marine Workers Industrial A considerable number of workers are sympathetic towards the union, | but as yet a very insignificant number of workers have joined the union; they fear to be discharged. There are also Russians among the dock workers. Dock Workers of New York! Unem- ployment is growing. Not long ago it happened that the wife of discharged worker wept before the | boss, begging him to reinstate her discharged husband. Very often a worker on the job for a whole week does not earn even $5. The committee of unemployed Rus- sian workers is calling a meeting to expose the poverty among the unemployed and among the par- tially employed, in order to register every single man and family man | who is in need of help, and then with | combined forces to obtain relief from | the city. Come and report your needs. Unite in struggle for bread, shelter |and clothing for the unemployed and partially employed dock workers. The CTED BY N LUBE Jing needed b3 ¢ jing a time of Ss today, dur- great strikes, | The I. L. D. has its hands more than | full, Not only this. but furthermore, says Comrade Nemser of the Bazaar Committee, “we are eager to bring the message of all revolutionary or- ganizations before the thousands of workers who will come to the |Bazaar.” (The district I. L. D. | headquarters is at 870 Broadway.) Can You Make ‘Em Yourself? Pattern 1643 is available in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Size 4 takes 2% yards 36-inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions included. | Send fifteen cents (15c) in coins or | stamps (coins preferred) for this | Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. Be | sure to state size. | Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Union is distributing leaflets and the | 5 ‘Y | “Marine Workers Voice.” | Western Union. I am employed in the district g|north of 59th St. to the city line(. The superintendent, a Mr. Carroll, inhuman and unreasonable in an |official. Young, immature, owing his | Job to his father (famous for his ter- |rible temper), who is the real general | manager of the company, he apes him in every mannerism. He covers up his lack of experience, both in the |administrative and telegraph, by a tyrannical attitude that brooks no \interference. His word is law. He |stalks the district putting fear in the hearts of the exploited clerks and messengers, He vents unusual spleen on the unorganized messengers. He makes heir conditions of work intolerable, jespecially during the Christmas holi- day season. He forced messengers to |use bicycles in sections where their juse is dangerous. Boys are crippled |but what cares Supt. C? We clerks, operators, messengers |must unite for the ordinary decencies jof life, and use the Daily Worker to |help us to rally to victory. Although I am Irish, I think this baloney about only foreigners having guts enough to fight is spread by the workers’ enemies. —A DELIVERY CLERK. ‘Railroad Shop | Workers Defeat Comnany Union By a Railroad Worker Correspondent RICHMOND, L. I.—Charles (Snooper) Rob, machinist, former A. |} F. of L. misleader and former walk- jing delegate of the Morris Park | Shops (of the Penn. R. R. Co.) com- | pany union, went down to defeat this past week in trying to save a good ole Kangaroo “railroad shop whip” union of Richmond, L. I. Rob, the tool of Davis, chairman of this company union, was hard at work on a petition circulated for the purpose of securing signatures and j contributions to justify the continu- |ance of this type of union. | were to use contributions to defray | expenses of @ trip to Washington for a@ conference with Co-ordinator Eastman and plead with him to per- mit the signers of the petition to continue the “union of their own choice.” The men openly refused to sign or contribute, for the union of- |ficials were well paid tools of the | company. | A Kangaroo Committee was con- stantly in action against the work- ers and would inflict unjust penal- | ties upon all who did not know how | to fight them, for minor infractions | of “so-called safety rules.” For ex- emple: An order issued by this com- mittee, which was styled “Safety Committee,” read: “No employe | Shall use tools without the protection of _goge! Employes are watched carefully for infraction of this rule and when making fine, accurate tool adjust-| ments without goggles, which does not endanger their eyes and must be | made with precision, they invariably | are immediately charged with care- (lessness and called upon the carpet. | | Every week foremen are compelled | to issue no less than five “layoff” tickets per week charging men with | carebessness. Every offense under this charge means a loss to the men in their pay envelopes of between $5 and $15 per month and a saving to the company of that amount, since the same work is carried on with so much less help, This is an organized move on the part of the railroad officials to reduce payrolls each | month. | ‘The railroad does not live up to | the safety rules of ‘the Interstate Commerce Commission and the state. They violate their own rules as well as those of legal bodies, compelling | workers to jack up cars having rot- | ten flooring, endangering the lives of the men doing such work. Poor equipment and tools are kept in service, against the protest of work- ers who must use such rotten equip- ment. When a worker is hurt due to violation of rule and carelessness of the company, no medical report is made. The object is to cover up and | shield railroad officials responsible | for this neglect of tool replacement and protect the company against fu- ture payment of compensation, Men who are hurt and not covered by a medical or accident report of the company’s carelessness are denied any redress, in the event of an infec- tion setting in, and the injured worker sacrifices all right entitling him to compensation under the Jaws. of the state. The Railroad Brother- hood Unity Movement has issued a leaflet, calling on these shop work- ers to organize into this movement to fight for better conditions, and for militant policies on the part of They | | ers digging scraps out of garbage cans jor begging food from restaurants; |as professional bums or panhandlers. | But seldom does this press openly |condone or | workers should do_ this. |the liberal World-Telegram has no} Broken Leg, Sprained Arms Among Injuries Suffered by Sped-Up Longshoremen By a Marine Worker Correspondent | YORK.—Last remen were injured at| two 1 Dock No. 46. One worker, Max, who worked be- fore as office , was put work to unload a steamship. Another worker sprained his arms. | ers work on Wednesdays and Fridays, Wednesday | only those selected by the stevedore. | The workers are hired when the ship arrives from Boston. Wednesday, Jan. 17, the ship from to| Boston arrived an hour earlier than; He/| usual, and some workers came later. | broke a leg while doing that work.|When the workers came the steve-| dore yelled: “Get out of here, you JANUARY 20, 1934 140 Driven to Unload 1,000-Ton Ship in, | 3 Hours, Worker Correspond | e= — Cut THAT SOB STUFF. AND FORK Tt is no wonder that workers are |s—— of b———.” The workers com-| injured so often, because the speed-up | at work is unbearable. Last Saturday a 1,000-ton steamship was to be unloaded. About 140 men worked on the the job, and job was in three} tinished. were insane. | On Dock 46, as a rule, not all work- plained to each other about this For instance: | abuse: “See what treatment we re-| ceive. They drive us like dogs, and there is nobody to fight for us.” ‘There is somebody to defend us, s The | there is the Marine Workers’ Indus- | foreman drove the workers as if he) trial Union, but the dock workers | have to join it and strengthen the organization. Must Take Strike in Own Hands; Pennsylvania Miner Declares The Operators Are the Government and They Have (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) ; | PARSONS, Pa—The mine pickets | | sition in and around Parsons, a little | | mine district. Why, after two o'clock | |in the morning ,you can’t even go} home without a state trooper ques- | | tioning you about ten minutes, and, | |if a state trooper does not like the| | color of your eyes or something, why | | then you've got to leg it, and, if you| | don’t get going fast enough, then it’s | | your hard luck. | The only way you can stop these | | scabs is by mass picketing, and now | the bosses are going around the| | miners’ homes to tell the miners to | |go to work or else take their irons | |out of the mine. So that’s how the| | miners that do not understand class | struggle go to work, instead of going jon the picket line and winning the | strike, and that makes it bad for the ones that are out every morn- |ing telling the miners to join the |ranks of the pickets to better their | conditions. - | So now the operators, through J. P. | Morgan, Mellon and Schwab's court, |are trying to introduce injunction, }and the miners are trying their best | to eliminate the proposals of the | D. & H. and the Glen Aldens opera- | tors, and it can easily be done if the workers get after these cutthroats. The workers must take the strike | in their own hands and present the | demands that would be for the bene- | fit of the miners and strike against | those miserable conditions and de-j mand for reinstatement of colliery rate, sheet rate, pay for all dead work {and a six-hour day and a five-day | week and no discrimination, along |Cappelini’s, Maloney’s and their clique’s demands, such as recognition jof their union, U. M, W. of P., and | the abolition of the check-off, so the | workers could be more interested, | | and go on the picket line instead of scabbing. 2 | The workers must elect broad strike committees from each local, and if |there is any negotiating to be done the rank and file should negotiate instead of depending upon Cappelini and his gang. | We must be very careful and not Slippery Tongues, He Warns get robbed again, because the opera- : | tors and manufacturers are the gov- | lis the personification of all that ig 2° confronting a very tough oppo-| ernment and they are pretty clever and have slippery tongues. Hamtramck Bosses Insult Negroes at Mock Trial By a Negro Worker Correspondent HAMTRAMCK, Mich.—I am writ- ing you of some of the things that are taking place in this city. You see on Dec. 23rd the police and the firemen and the judges were out to raise money for the Good Fellow Fund, and one of the judges of this city by the name of Lewondoski sent @ policeman out. with s bunch of fake warrants to bring in certain persons so as to have a mock trial and fine them and have the funds turned over to the Good Fellow Fund. The first one to be brought before him was a Negro stoolpigeon by the name of T, Bell Richards who pa- rades around with a Deputy, Sheriff badge on and placed on the witness; stand in court where a well dressed white woman stood and raised her right hand in regular capitalist court fashion and swore that this was the! man who attacked her and insulted her on Nov. 16th at the corner of Caniff and Lumpkin 8t., arid the judge sentenced him to donate to the Good Fellow Fund. i A few hours later a Negro worker was brought in on the same charge and this enraged the Negro, workers of this city, and as Judge Lewon- doski was going to run for Mayor of the city, many of them sect hus and asked for petitions so that they can run Communist candidates and yote Communist to answer such slander of the Negro people at the Mock Trial (The judge charged this Negro also with attacking a white woman). | | TELEGRAM LETTER! ANSWER | New York |'To the Editor of the Daily Worker: | Occasionally one reads in the cap- italist press stories of starving work- hotels, etc. Usually these unfortunate workers are classed by the boss press suggest that starving However, qualms about printing such a sug- gestion. A Mrs. Brill writes in a letter to the World-Telegram suggesting that hotels and restaurants keep a special can for food which their guests leave; this food to be given to unemployed workers when they come around looking for a “handout.” She de- plores the fact that so much food is being wasted. (How about the mil- lions of dollars worth of food that is being dumped by speculators in rivers?) However, here is a hint for the stewards of the Waldorf and the Ritz. When your well fed millionaires order too much, don’t throw it away. When they get through slobbering over it have a special garbage can handy to throw the food in; then SAVE YOUR GARBAGE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED, Letters from Our Readers SAYS WORLD- BY INCREASING FIGHT FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE when hungry unemployed workers came around, let them fish ouf what they want of it. And in closing here’s a real hint to those hungry unemployed workers. Don’t Take It Lying Down! Fight for Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill! Demand a Decent Living for Your Family and Yourself at the Expense of the Bosses and the Government! —WILLIAM LAMB. Red Builder. ON THE DEATH OF A COMRADE New York. Comrade Editor: I wish to express my deep regret at the death of Comrade Brooks. I met Comrade Brooks at my first unit meeting in Los Angeles, Calif. I believe that his death is a great loss to the revolutionary movement. I have full confidence that Com- rade Miriam, his daughter, will con- tinue in the footsteps of her father in the struggle against the capitalist system. Comrade Brooks’ sincerity and will- ingness to fight against misery and exploitation must not die until final victory of the workers will achieved. ROSE KUNTZ. Greetings to Daily Worker on Tenth Anniversary Street, New York City. the Brotherhood and A. F. of Ii: Union covering this shop, Boris Kliban Robin Adair Jos. Dickman L, L. Whitford Milles W. Russell J. Koat F. Langenbach DIST. 6 E. E. Wentworth Cleveand, 0.: J. W. Peterson George Coie Powers, Ore.: J, Kacsandy R. Riddle A. Zavocky Mr.& Mrs.Mawietz Mrs. E. Pollack Mr.é&Mrs.Smichile Mike Sam Alex Aubin Peter Radover . DIST. 15 Mike Steciod Greenwich, Conn.: Carl Perry H. Perin Harry G. Ebas E. Da Pre A. Boryk I. Carin S. Yoruks Peter Radder A. Zurubus James Pugtuse J. Shwarski | Ralph Cami A. Chopolbrek G. Meleni Alandraspsky DIST. 2 Holland, Ohio: Corona, N, ¥.: W. Byers Samuel F. Julius C. Mason | Jacob Morton Stanley Dydek Cc. Lipschitz B. Hall Michael Buno “W. Scheets | Samuel Shabus DIST. 12 | Heywood Patter- Olympia, Wash.: | son Br, ILD. WwW. n Newark, N, Ju: M. Budel 3. Rosenblatt { DIST. 11 DIST. 1 Gt. Falls, Mont.: | Ashi . Parrotte Mass.: G. Stein M. Wartt FP, Raketa 4. T. Peckman M. Maloney O. S. Hjelm H. Smith S. Nisula J. Kessler W. Haikkila Dr. Ditto *. Dichley M. Burbank (J. Snakka, GILBERT LEWIS BRANCH LL pb. West 53rd Street, N. ¥. for the Daily Worker GREETINGS From a Group of Workers From Laachupke and Auburn, Alabama Promise of More Time Used As Whip Over Postal Subs | (By 2 Postal Worker Correspondent) | BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—I have been |reading the letters of post office Yorkers in the columns of the “Daily Worker,” and it does me a world of good to see the men protesting egainst the sweatshop conditions ex- listing in Uncle Sam’s largest busi- | ness. |_ Tam a substitute working in Brook- |lyn, an office which is generally re- | garded as a gold mine by post office {men over the country, because the | subs in Brooklyn make $900 to $1,000 @ year. And, because this salary is | kind of high, the supervisors feel that the workers haye no kick coming. Recently, however, some of the subs felt that $18 per was not enough for their needs. Most of them had wives and kids, and all had families to sup- port. They marched up to the office and got the following spiel from one of the assistant postmasters: “I can’t see why you boys are kick- ing. Don’t forget business is so rot- ten that you ought to be lucky that | you have a job. If you don’t think you get enough, why don’t you re- sign? I can get thousands of men to replace you. And we won't have to pay them as much (!) as we do you. They'd be willing to work at 10 cents an hour. Come on, clear out and get those funny ideas out of your heads. Don’t forget you're subs, You're auxiliary men. If we need you, we use you; if not, you’re out of luck.” A Vicious Speed-up System This is what happens upstairs in the office. Downstairs on the floor the foreman uses a vicious speed-up system. Naturally a sub is not in- clined to run his head off, especially since he works by the hour and the quicker he does his work the less pay he gets. So the foremen will hound the subs who “lay down” and prom- ise more time to the sub who works the hardest. He will play one group of subs against the other, expecting the men who get less time to break their necks in order to get more the next day. He will stand behind certain subs and make them work harder by growling threats at them. He will stand outside the toilet, watch in hand, and time each man as he en- ters to perform his natural needs. Dissatisfaction! Why, everybody in the place is discontented. The men hate the work and curse the fore- men under their breaths. It makes me sad to see these men live with the hope that some day they will break loose from this hell-hole. They cannot see that they could make con- ditions better for themselves if they carried on the fight right in the post office and organized themselves for || better working conditions and decent living wages. A POSTAL WORKER. Misleaders Worry Over Dues After Weakening Union By a Railroad Worker Correspondent PEORIA, Ill—I note Manion, of Railroad Telegraphers, entering a complaint with the Railroad Labor Board as to reclassification of tele~ grapher-agents, and the force cutting recently. The per capita dues are dwindling and hence the squawks. His chickens are now coming home to roost. Manion and the rest took a series of slaps at me after the 1922 strike, and again in 1929, after my article in “Labor Unity” on “The Worker and the Machine,” even go- ing to the extent of trying to get my job. However, what I outlined then has happened with a vengeance and the remedy proposed is more needed than ever before. If we can reorganize the move- ment here again which went to pieces in 1982 and early 1933, per- haps we can co-operatively purchase badly needed technical material. That is my reason for taking the small pundle of Daily Workers to try to build up some circulation and attempt the reorganization of a Party Unit, U. C., etc. Would it be possible to establish some Worker Correspondent contacts between actual workers on the rail- ways in the U. S. S. R. and those in Unity Committees here or on the job? This was done in other indus- direct testimony as to organization work on railroads in Russia in pre-revolution- ary times, during the revolution and the status of the My 8. 5. R. practi workers at present, organizationally, economically, health and cultural programs and results, the railroad workers’ network of Workers’ Corre- snondents and their daily “Gudoks,” etc. The work in the raflroad industry here badly needs a strong injection of “pep” and such a system of con- tacts would greatly assist in cre- ating 8 better spirit for struggle. Editor’s Note: We have written to the Soviet Union on this matter, and will shortly get a response, since the comrades there are always very eager groups. in other PARTY LIFE Really Why He Found the Membership ent Reports) yecting “Exciting” || Chicago Section Concerned Itself With the Urgent Problems | The following article, dealing with | @ section membership meeting, | came to us with the following note. | “E have just returned from a very exciting Section Membership meet- ing, which insp:red me so much that I felt that I should write it up for the Daily.” . 8 “AND NO IMPOSSIBLE RESOLUTIONS WERE PASSED” A really thrilling Section Member- ship meeting of Section 7, Chicago was held, centering around the ques- tion of concentration. In the past, Section meetings have been windy every one went home tired and dis- couraged at a late hour. ing did, it is true last until close to 12, but we all felt elated and stim- ulated and ready to carry out our work, First, the agenda was limited to three points, AND THESE ONLY: Stockyards work; work on the C.W.A,; and Lenin Memorial Drive in the light of these two basic points of concentration. Concrete proposals within the power of our comrades were assigneed in the form of a mi- meographed report. The report of the organizer wandered somewhat afield, but the report, given by our new organization secretary pertained di- rectly to all three items on the agenda, Following this, discussion from the floor, relative to the work assigned, took place. Since our assignments were all down in “black and white,” it was difficult for even the most loquacious comrades to stray from the path of the agenda. points raised in the discussion were: How to approach workers on C.W.A. with the Party and its line; how to develop contacts among employed stockyard workers; how to existing masz tions in the territory (International Labor De- fense; Unemployed Council; Sopkins Union, etc.); and how to increase the sale and influence of the Daily Worker. A few comrades actually had small successes to report. One C. W. A. worker, in particular, gave an espe- cially valuable example of how he succeeded in organizing the men on his job to “stick together” in their demand for an extra fire, and to prevent the leaders of this action from being victimized. It would have been better if a larger part of the meeting had been given over to such reports, and less time taken with speeches on the general problem of concentration. The report of the D. O., coming in} |the midst of discussion, and covering | a wide range of topics, somewhat dis~ connected the discussion from the floor which proceeded and followed his report. He made it clear to the comrades, however, that our task in the stockyards is a political one, since the most vital sections of the pro- letariat are here, and in similar heavy industries. He explained the type of industrial organization to- ward which we aim in the Packing- Workers Industrial Union, and de- seribed certain actions which can be carried out by workers organized into job committees within the yards. Finally, he called for the recruiting of workers from the yards into the lJong-drawn-out affairs, from which | This meet-| Important | of Concentration Party, so that when the Lenin Mem- orial Recruitment is announced at he Coliseum, we may have some stockyards progress to record. At present, .our recruitment from the yards is negligible, but this can still be remedied before the date of the Lenin Memorial. Following the D.O.’s report, a com- rade from the Packinghouse Workers \Industrial. Union gave some actus! data of importance to us for recruit- ing purposes, location of the uniopa hall, methods of organizing, an- |nouncettient of union affair, etc, The |meeting closed without the usual |paper promises, but with solid work |to look forward to. I. F. Unit 704, Chicago | eA ars Why was this Section Membership \meeting so exciting? Because the | meeting concerned itself with the real problems of concentration with which the membership is dealing. Because the discussion centered around the jactivities of the comrades, and be- cause political guidance was given to them for the carrying out of their concentration task. This Section is making a beginning in overcoming the weakness potnted out in the Open Letter: “Why is that the Party adepts resolutions . , , and does not carry them out?” .. . Because in the Party, and partie~ ularly among the leading cadres, |there is a deep-going lack of poli- tical understanding of the necessity for strengthening our basis among the decisive sections of the American workers. From this follows the fact that the leadership of the Party has not adhered to a fixed course for overcoming the main weaknesses of the Party, allows itself to be driven by events, and does not work owt vse | carefully with the comrades of the lower organizations ways and means for the carrying through of resolu- tions and checking up on execution” The result is talk about factory and work in countless resolutic out carrying this work out,’ We would like to hear again from Comrade L. F. of Unit 704 with a re- port on the practical results of this exciting membership meeting. How has it been reflected in the daily work of the units? How many members have been recruited from the stock- yards? What organizational work has been accomplished among the C.W.A. workers? What organizational re- i z 1 i i $ i sults have been obtained in the stockyards? JOIN THE Communist Party 35 KE. 12th STREET, N. ¥. C. Please send me more informa- tion onthe Communist Party. NAME 5.656 c escne cscs City By PAUL LUT ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. . An Over-Patient Patient — Your complaint about the dental clinic the proper authorities and we are certain that conditions will greatly improved, in the future. Owing to the necessity of an in- vestigation, the reply to your com- plaint was unavoidably delayed. Please communicate with us if you do not find conditions to your satis- faction, when you next visit the clinic, Red Spot On Cheek I. R., Maywood, Mil—The nature of the red spot on your cheek cannot. be diagnosed by mail. As to the condition of your eyelid, you better consult an eye specialist next time you happen to . Catnip for, Ovarian | Deficiency Mrs. A. C., Lawrence, Mass.—Your excessive weight and your irregular periods indicate clearly that you are suffering from ovarian deficiency. That a “nurse” should have recom- mended catnip in this condition taxes the limits of our credulity. Very little can be done to improve your condition, as there are no medicines which have any effect on Injections of certain extracts of the ovary sometimes seem to bring limited results; but these have to be given with the needle and by a phy- sician who has had experience with this type of medication. If you are anemic, the improvement of your might also tend to regulate your menstruation. As to irae you are “in family way” or not, we must defer the diagnosis until the introduction of television. If you have any doubts about it, it might be best not to wait until then and consult @ local physician about the matter. a, oe Germs Alone Do Not Cause Disease Alice Buchbinder. — The great pathologist, Rudolph Virchow, once swallowed a culture of cholera baccilli, sufficient to cause ey not mean, of course, that we should expose ourselves likewise nor would has been investigated and referred to | be | .|Indian medicine men, TINGER, M.D, ————_—_____ any of our readers be foolhardy enough to scratch spirochetae pallida on his foreskin. On the other hand, typhoid baccilli may be swallowed with impunity by people who have been vaccinated against typhoid | fever. * Singing By Mail Edward W., Chicago, M—If you had read carefully our articles on the fake ads in “Physical Culture,” you would have found the name of “Professor” Feuchtinger among them, If you consult your own common sense, you will know that nobody can Jearn to sing by J. If you must throw away your money, throw it into the gutter when nobody sees you; thus avoiding making yourself ridiculous. As to information about the Come munist Party, you have probably noticed a blank form printed in every issue of the “Daily Worker,” entitled “Join the Communist Party.” If you will fill out this blank with your name and address and mail it, you will receiye all the information you desire, Celie ean S Chiropractic Eli Leonard.—Chiropractic is mot a science; but a delusion, at its best. Your experience with a single case hhas no scientific value. Magicians, Christian Science Healers and other pseudo- medical cults oc “cure” & patient. Women who have been constipated, are known to improve their cofdition after they had bes come pregnant and vice versa; with out the taking of any drugs or other treatment. We do not engage in any public debates. Chiropractic is not recognized in Soviet Russia. _ Chiropractic A. C. Benn—Please see our answer to Pt ech Being a plumber, your s about chiropractic are as valuable as that of any leader of that pseudo-science; but we must decline to take you seriously when you voice opinions on medicine. It would be-equivalent to our advising you to a joint with glue in- stead of solder. We have known quite a nmber of plumbers, as well carpenters, aS » Who have become chiropractors and we have no objec= tion to your embracing this cult. a