The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1934, Page 6

Page W YURK, MONDAY, JANUARY Drunken Bosses, Tired Food| Waiter at Park Central Hotel Deseribes How Industrial Union Gives Leadership Workers Greet the New Year While Parasites Celebrate Orgies, Workers Are Driven at Unbearable Speed Food Workers at Statler’s Fed on Left-Over Scraps (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich—Mr. and |Guest of the Statler Hote morning, as the last} by the Detroit Fre of his dame left and we|on lamb chop that cost the hotel actually become numb} $5.20 per Ib, This succuyent lamb, a strain, we were ordered| Was bought by the manager of the the litter of broken bot-|Detroit Statler Hotel, from Newton ich covered | Packing Co., Detroit, after winning a ter this | Srand prize at a live stock show’ held ey came| in Det; This prize lamb sold for P hich on an| $572, “nothing cheap for one sheep.” to about two measly dol-| Prosperity is here? (As Uncle Henry in the ball- er who had nt about at doi | Guest. Did you ever stop to think how others slave on sweatshop wages |to supply you with every service, to |make it possible for you (after put- ting over your racket to get your un- Drapery Workers at Sammax Shop | in Militant Strike: By a Group of Worker Cor- | respondents | NEW YORK.—The workers of the] Sammax shop went down on strike) on Tuesday, Jan. 23. The workers Y | have been organized into the Curtain-| ar |Ford says) For you: Mr. and Mrs.) Helped Workers Win Wages, After Amalgam Officials Told Them to Delay Action (By»a Food Worker Correspondent) , dues regularly. Now the F.W.LU. has proven itself to be different, because as soon as this worker got fired, a meeting was led and it wes decided to send a committee. We are, however, still Jin the min and be | AF.W. refused to do anything, boss felt secure in refusing the | mand for his reinstatement. ho fully realize Park tt be derived or the first time as a re- the de- under the leadership ‘ood ©=Workers Industri m, three weeks ago At that time the although | Here it should become clear to us organized gamated Food |that the policy of the A.W. pre- abet vented us from reinstating this fired efore | worker, actually splitting us up on an ork. had ir hypocritical advice, whi e is no different from the bosses’ desire to make us work jand wait in si | Luckily, howev | ter to the workers. The conditions in the Park Central | Hotel are still rotten. The food which |we get is uneatable. Many do not jeven eat there because they can’t | stand the smell of it, while last week jing for no ii we realized at e of the AF.W. no longer and sides out after eating the hash the; |gave us. All this could be improved |if all workers, regardless of their union affiliation would stand to- gether. dustrial Union, under whose leader- ship, as stated above, we gained more favorable conditions and wages. Three weeks have passed since then, and during that time the A. F. W. has used all means to discredit |the Food Workers Industrial Union. | Already their poisonous influence is | putting us to sleep, and the boss was quick to take advantage of this situ- ation. Whereas he promised to cut be done. We must not slacken now, but must work on for better condi- tions and decide on the basis of our own experience to which union we will belong. Worked 16 Hours a Day issue as important as bread and but- | | three workers had to vomit their in- | In the past, we found that it could | the the dishes y could make h bottled goods, I the boitles, and so at top e out of ne crowd became 0 more straining the was Letters from Readers SOUND CRITICISM New York City. IT am roud of our Daily Worker. But the press reports on the Far Eas juestion are not Communist line. have already Written in a The capitalist begun th ‘opaganda for another war, Japan and the U. S. A. are two beas' narling at each other. At, this when the capital-| ist press i tons of paper which teach the kers that war} with Japan is not only inevitable but | would be beneficial to | an workers, it is} the revolutionary press | repeat the capitalist press | = part of the ca) This is not in venting war if p vorking cl: war into civil war. the t the masses of dangerous for to merely press hysteria. | our task of ble and teach- s to change the | propa- | Worker | les show- ie really mean if comrades! Remember it Comrade Lenin said, that it is v whit too late to fight war when it hap- pens. Now is the time to fight. HERMAN ROBINSON. HELEN After the gorgeous panning Mike gave Gretta Palmer in last Friday’s| “Daily,” another tract about her today in ‘our cozy corner must necessarily ery Section of the Furniture} Workers Industrial Union. | The conditions in the shop were | very bad. The boss was the big shot the shop and did with the workers/ what he wanted. He would come in| the ning with a sour look and} walk up to the machines and see| what his slaves were doing. Occa-| sionally he would yell to his heart’s| content at the girls, saying that he| isn’t getting enough production, and | that the girls spend fifteen minutes | in the ladies’ room. He would hire and fire at will, without consulting} the workers in the shop. | The wages were $13 a week for all} the girls, regardless of what work they did or what experience they had. There was one girl, Lucy Ma- rotta, who was earning $18. She worked in the .ace for the last six | years. When the w rkers went down on strike for a $3 -aise and recognition | the “hours of the service from 14 to 9, actually the waiters are still working 11 hours, which is three hours less than before, but still not what the agreement called for. And what did the AF.W. do? Absolutely nothing to improve these conditions. All the waiters are paying dues to this union, with what purpose? Brother Vincent was fired two weeks ago for union activi When he requested the AF.W. officials to take action for his reinstatement, he | was told that nothing could be done. They refused even to send a com- mittee up to the boss, although Vin- | cent paid his initiation fee and his! earned money) to pay for lamb at| $5.20 the 1b.? | Come with me just one moment to} the top of this great hotel. Fire haz- | ard? Yes! The help, in case of fire,| likely would never get down. dust in time to eat with them, if} you care to! These chamber maids, | laundry girls, pantry and waitresses live here on the comebacks from your leavings, scrap bread, scrap meat, all scraps, scraps you refused to eat, These chamber maids get 70 cents per day, $4.90 per week. All help, male and female, pay back to the Statler) Hotel $2.50 per week for their room. | This is taken out whether you live in| But Got Paid for Eight By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Calif—Here are some of the things that are going on in the Metropolitan Water District. Shea & Co. cause I wouldn’t put in 16 hours a day and take 8 hours pay. He has been working several men 16 hours per day and paying them for eight. He said that according to his con- tract with the politicians he didn’t have to make any change. the hotel or not, ‘What, you ask, are those small bugs | on the ceiling? Just plain common | bed bugs. But here is a secret, Mr. Guest. It | cost good money to renovate rooms | Food Boss Works His I was working for a contractor, | I was discharged be-)| CONDUCTED BY of the shop committee, this girl re- mained working. A committee went to visit her and for over an hour spoke to her and pleaded with her that she could not scab while the shop was on strike. She refused and of the help, Therefore your rooms are yenovated three times while the hotel help’s rooms are renovated once, And this room, Mr, and Mrs, Guest, should have great interest to you, as |in Number eight one of your fellow came in to work the next day. | guests blew his brains and hair of One of tne bosses, Max Kaplan, | his head, all over the ceiling, on Dec. became afraid of the strikers and/ 7, 1933, asked Eddie ener ai bent ety He, like you, Mr. and Mrs. Guest, law to help him. is ie is | was ways right. : a5 member of the Fur Department of s always right. But it seems he the N.T.W.LU. A committee of the strikers went to the furriers’ union and preferred charges against Jinkins. A commit- e waited for him in front of the op and spoke to him. He denied that he escorted scabs from the sub- way to the shop, and promised that there won’t be any more scabbing in the shop, The boss called up the N.R.A, and stated that we were striking for | unfair demands. The N.R.A. called | up our union and arrranged a con- ferences between the bosses’ union ind N.R.A. The strikers’ spirit. is unbroken by | the attempt of the boss to bring in| the N.R.A. | | By SAMMAX STRIKERS. your game called Business. He lost blew his brins and hair all over the room. He left a note saying, “I am sorry!” Who to, the chamber maid or painter that had to clean up room No, 8? Oh no! His heartfelt sorrow went to the manager. Now, Mr. and Mrs. Worker of Stat- ler Hotel, From a man on the street, speaking to you, Mr. and Mrs. Guest will always be right until you organ- ize into a rank and file union. | al “NOTE ON WEIDEMANN “WHIZZ” jet On Monday, Jan. 22,, the Daily x | Worker published a review on the {| Vorce, “From the practical stand-| Weidemann “Whiz.” ‘his paper point, the process . . . is simply | issued by the Communist Party more costly than the Soviet system.| Nucleus in this important dye (what's $50 or $100 to a well-heeled| house. The Nucleus is doing good come as literary ti-climax. His-| bourgeois scribbler! Phoo! A mere| work in this shop, and the paper torically. however, it is no anti-climax| trifle!] Here too any woman who is! reflects this work. sinte the for equality for| interested can easily obtain birth | a 3 ai through Communism, is not| control knowledge and technique?| _ However, the review fails in a Scripps-How-| {What 2 lie!] Here too, though,| "umber of important respects to rpetrated another | ‘omen Elsewhere | which all pro- entitled to hear| Get Soviet ‘Freedom’ letarian women 4 Each ,packing-house has a goat| called Judas, whose business it is to| lead the sheep to slaughter. He goes up at the head of the line and comes back alone. The bourgeois news- papers each have a female garbage- writer whose business it is to persuade women to like their slavery. It doesn’t matter whether this well- groomed two-legged Judas-goat is| called Gretta Palmer or Dorothy Dix or Mrs. Maxwell: they are all willing, | for a few lace-trimmed rags and hairy| hides of dead animais and the “plover | on finely chased old Sheffield” to sell all female humanity into bondage. “The astonishing thing about the| Russian woman is less the life she} lives than the fact that it is all eyed benevolently by an up-to-date and approving government,” pratties Gretta, who doesn’t remotely suspect that this same “government” is the creation, the will, of the Russian} woman and of her brother workers. | Russia has recognized the existence | ‘of the modern woman and assured} her that the sky is the limit. . . .| | Wishes.” | geois women’s sheet. there is discrimination in wages| Outline adequately the tasks of the against the woman worker in an | Communist Nucleus, through the erica,” yet “she can work and sup-| “Whizz.” It gives the “Whizz’ port herself in independence if she| three tasks. All these tasks are of | am economic organizational nature. Not one of these three mentions the task of building up the Party Nneleus, of the basic task of edu- eating the workers on the revolu- tionary way out of the crisis, or of the duty of the Communist Party in the shop to gain the leadership of the workers. This was a basic defect in this review and should not have been allowed to pass into the paper. Also, the reviewer threw out the slogan of a “united militant dye union.” This is not the policy of | the National Textile Workers’ Union, nor is it supported by the Communist Party. Although there was a time during the strike when this slogan was put forward, the policy since then has been for one general union embracing all the | workers in the silk industry in all its branches, including the dye against her having an unmarried | workers and the workers in the love affair, but if she keeps rea- | rayon industry. The National Tex- sonably quiet about it she is in | tile Workers’ Union is now taking scant danger of being stoned in | the leadership of the movement Gretta hasn’t yet heard of the crisis. She didn’t see that recent ar- ticle in the New York Times, “Women Victims of Depression Present a Huge New Problem.” She doesn’t know there are now 3,000,000 unemployed Women in America, and if she does know, she doesn’t give a damn. As for the social insurance in the Soviet Union, the maternity insur- ance and medical care given mothers and babies, as for the practical liquidation of prostitution” in the Soviet, these things are not even worth mentioning on a good old bour- However, the most nauseating, rev- | olting passage in the whole article, is the following,—the perfect, the clas- sical expression of the hypocritical, aenattti, bourgeois female slave- soul; “There is a social prejudice ‘There are plenty of women in the| the streets.” toward one union in the silk indus- ‘Western World who move through| Well, we don’t care for that kind| try. Thus, the putting forward of life in serene disobedience of the} of “freedom,” Miss Palmer. We'll| thig slogan of a “united militant convention and laws which would de- prive them of equality with men. If the United States were to adopt the Soviet constitution and attitude to- morrow their way of life would undergo no revolution whatsoever: it hwould simply be a sort of Moral Re- peal day.” Says she! Briefly, the whole purpose of the article is to forestall revolt on the part of women by deluding them into thinking that here they have the game freedom as in Russia, except that here it is illegal and unconven-/} tional. Women here can’t send their thildren to the government creches, nut they can send them to the pro- take Communism, wherein we can dye union” is incorrect and may have jobs whenever we need them, | bring confusion into the minds of and at wages equa to men’s; where-| the workers. in we don’t have to fear starving in ° our old age; wherein cohabitation | constitutes marriage; wherein ali “THE SHAPE-UP NEWS,” Vol. 1, No. 2, issued by the North River had not been very successful playing | turned yellow, took a shotgun and} | Own Kick-Back Graft (By a Food Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I worked for about five weeks for the Parkway Cafe- |] teria on Pitkin Avenue, Brownsville, as a bus boy. The boss came to me | and said: “You have to give me $10 out of your wages for charity.” He said: “If you can’t pay the $10 at omce, you can pay $2 a week |}, out of your wages for five weeks.” I told him: “I can’t give you $10. $2 is all I can give you.” So he took $2 out and then next week he took $2 out without asking me. |] I went to him and I said: “Don’t take any more. I can't afford it. He says: “Alright.” The next week he paid me out and fired me. Afterward he called the cook. She makes $28 a week. He said to her, “You have to give $25 for charity. You are working here a long time. You will have a hard time finding another job.” She said: “No, I can’t give you $25.” He said: “If you don’t pay you'll lose your job.” He is now taking $5 every week out of her wages. | ‘There are about 14 workers in this place, three countermen, cook, { babies are well-cared for and there is no such thing as an “illegitimate” child; whereni we can stend up on our hind legs and recognize our mates as such, and not be forced to sneak around like pole-cits in the night. | The Soviet State recognizes the Rank and File Action Committee of the I. L. A., 799 Broadway, Room 238, New York City. (Reviewed by Gertrude Haessler) On Dee. 25 the Daily Worker gave a thorough review of the first issue right of women to bear children. | To a bourgeois “lady” this is just a| string of words: but to the women gressive school, Here too a woman may get a di-/ found and vital significance, | of this new longshore A. F. of L, Opposition paper. The second issue, just distributed on the North River docks, shows that the group issuing of the working class it has a pro-|the paper has gone in for some pretty drastic “soul-searching” with second cook, bus boys. 29, 1934 that the | | | | i | | | | | pulls the leaf lard became overheated. | only through the Daily Worker | the field we red builders will do our Speed-up, Must Pay for Doctor (By a Werker Correspondent) OMAHA, Nebr.—The speed-up in the hog-kill at Armour’s is such that sometimes it is impossible for the fel- lows to stand it. Since the N.R.A. was enforced, it has become worse. A few days ago the fellow that The company nurse called an am- bulance in which to take him home. After he got back to work, he was told that he to pay $5 for the ride in the ambulance. The doctor visited him three times and charged $3 for each visit. The company is taking $1 every week out of this worker's check until the bill is paid, The heat in the place where this ker is working is between 90 and 90 degrees, and the speed runs some- times to over 400 hogs per hour. We must prepare for a stoppage next time things get so bad that we can’t stand it. Demand that the com- pany will pay all doctor and am- bulance bills. “We Red Builders | Will Do Our Part” By a Worker Correspondent ... ST.LOUIS, Mo.—This is my fourth year in helping build the sales of the Daily Worker, also in getting articles on the unbearable conditions in the shops, mills The Worcorr News is a big item in building the revolutionary Industrial Unions. Another reason why I strug- gle to keep the Daily Worker goin i) wae Js that the Daily Worker 1s the right arm of the revolutionary move- ment here in the U.S. A. Tampa, Florida, was organized Editorials that were translated in Spanish so the Spanish and Cuban workers could learn that there are American white and Negro workers fighting against starvation. Here in St. Louis the Daily Worker is getting a foothold in the South- ern part of the city. Three months ago a Daily Worker in South St. Louis was a curiosity, but today there are on the average of 40 or more being sold daily. So here’s to a bigger Daily Worker. Let the staff of workers do their part in the national cffiffice, while out in part. regard to its organization policies. The unclear, indefinite, hazy charac- ter of the organizational line of [issue No. 1, which placed its main jemphasis on “protesting,” has been supplanted by a clear-cut policy of | organized action on the docks. The former orientation only toward fight- ing the leadership of the union, has | been supplanted by a program of docks, and directed mainly against the employers, without overlooking |the fight against the corrupt union leadership. Now the next step {s to explain to | the workers how io achieve the main purposes of the Rank-and-File Ac- tion Committee, and the form of organization best suited for this ac~ tivity. The Campaign Against War » One of the best features of this issue is the article, “Stop War Ship- ments!” A new imperialist war is so close, that one can almost {eel its fiery breath. “The Shape-Up News” also feels it, and is preparing the longshoremen for the role they will be called upon to play against it. ‘The imminence of war is well ex- plained, and the tie-up of war with fascism is the central point the ar- ticle drives home. Organizationally, the paper throws out the slogan: “Stop the Shipment of War Materials to Fascist Germany.” However, the anti-working-class character of the fascist government is not clearly brought out, and the plans to attack the Soviet Union are not mentioned. Thus, the workers will not feel the call so keenly, to fight the shipment of war materials to a fascist government. Also the work- ers are not told how they can stop the munitions of war in a concrete manner. We vresume that the paper considered this rather as an intro- ductory article on the anti-war cam- paign, laying the basis for organized action, and that some special form of action on a united front basis will be developed on the dock to put this slogan into organizational effect. We suggest that the next issue stress also the predatory capitalist charac- ter of imperialist war, the horrors of the last imperialist war, the effect of the last war on the marine work- ers, the war character of the N.R.A., and the still more drastic effect this one will have on these workers. This struggle over the heads of these lead- | ers against the grievances on the and make them more open to our call for solidarity action, as part of the entire working class, to do their share in the struggle against im- perialist war preparations. Above all, we must bring forward the specific united front organiza- tional instrument, which the Com- munist Party supports: The Ameri- can League Against War and Fas- cism, In any case, the question of im- perialist war should be handled in some phase or other in every single issue of this paper, for we have very little time left, before war breaks out, to prepare for working-class action. In an early issue the unfolding of the anti-war campaign, the question of the coming attack on the Soviet Union should be dealt with by a strong appeal for the defense of the Soviet Union. This can be developed by showing the conditions of Soviet Jongshoremen, and why such good conditions are possible. This “why” will also explain why every capitalist government is ready to fly at the throat of the Soviet Union, and why the attack on it is so imminent. As part of the concrete war mo- bilization on the docks, we have the infamous “Decasualization Pian.” This is, not only a further drive on the workers in the form of forcing great numbers of them out of the in- dustry and making still worse the conditions of those allowed to re- main; it 1s a direct war move for registering longshoremen, This is handled in a very concrete manner in the paper. In place of the long, dreary, abstract ~~ ysis which issue No. 1 gave, +> .ave it explained in three different articles, from various angles, all based on the conditions on the dock. This makes clear, on the basis of the longshoremen’s own experiences while at work, what the significance of the vicious “Decas- ualization Plan” 1s. Attractive Make-Up ‘The make-up of the paper is good. Spacing is good, pictures are excel- lent, and there are plenty of them, and the general lay-out is attractive. A full-page “strip,” on the dock speed-up, is a feature of the back page which every shop paper could emulate. But again the editors have failed to get the right quality of paper, and this excellent technical work is again spoiled by paper so thin that the printing on one side ‘Will. make them feel the direct effect of imperialist war on their own lives, f t shows through on the other, blurring the entire appearance of the paper. Also the words are broken into syllables in a way that makes the paper heard to read. The word “stand” cannot be separated on two lines as st-and. The word “speed” cannot be separated as sp-eed. The word “while” cannot be separated as wh-ile, The word “hoss2s” is generally over-done in all shop papers and leaflets. This paper is no exception. Occasionally the word “employers,” or “company,” or the name of the owners of the company, may be used by way of variety. Worker Correspondence The appeal to the workers to unite ls comradely and will no doubt move the workers to co-operate. But the signature, in spite of the fact that there is blank space, is not followed by the address. It is not enough to publish the address under the mast- head only, Publish it wherever there is appeal for information. You may catch the worker just when he has an impulse to write, but this may die if he has to read through the entire paper for the address. The letters from the workers are very good, bringing up concrete grievances on the job. The editorial note advocates concrete action of an organized mass character. This is a basic feature of any shop paper that makes it the property of the workers concerned—the fact that their own letters supply the informa- tion; that their own problems are dealt with; that their own opinions, written to the paper, help to formu- late the policy of the paper. Unemployment Insurance Twice the slogan of Unemployment Insurance is put forward. But there is no explanation of this demand, and it is not tied up with the prob- lems of these workers. This paper shares this weakness with many other shop papers mechanically putting forth this basic slogan without any mobilization around it in the form of explanation and struggle. “In Other Ports” is an excellent feature, giving news of struggles of marine workers in San Francisco, Baltimore and Norfolk. It would have been more effective had the name of the city in each case led off the article. Solidarity of the various divisions in the working class should also be- come part of the campaigns led by the Action Committee. Particularly must the question of discriminating against the Negroes be taken up very seriously. This is an important issue PARTY LIFE What Four Communists Did In A St. Paul Steel Shop Shop Unit in Guffen Wheel Local of Steel, Metal Union Led Drive for Organization I wish to inform you of the activ- ities of the Griffin Wheel local of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. There were only four of us Communists working in this shop, and we started to organize the union about @ year ago, but up until the N.R.A. came into effect we were able to secure only ten members but could get no cooperation or activities from them. When the N.R.A. came into the shop, we understood there was to be! a 10 per cent raise for all workers; but those on piece work, and they were in the majority, did not receive the raise. Then the workers began to talk union, and we explained the A. F. of L, and its methods of craft unionism and their policy of selling out workers. And then we explained the industrial union and its militant policy, and we told them that we already had 2 nucleus of this union in the shop, and the workers asked us to call a meeting for the purpose of | organizing in this union. We did, and the first meeting we signed up around thirty; the second meeting we signed up about thirty more, giving us about sixty out of 120, or about 50 per cent, before the company became wise that we were organizing. They then got busy with the “red scare” telling the workers that the Bronsons, Larsc(1s, and Ossia Anderson were Bolsheviks, and we were unable to make any fur- ther progress, notwithstanding the fact the union had already won a demand for a 10 per cent raise for the piece workers, Then came the Armour strike in South St. Paul, led by the Packing House Workers Industrial Union. When this strike was broken by the South St. Paul police, N.R.A. and A. F. of L,, all but a few of our mem- bers lost faith in our union and dropped out cr failed to attend meet- ings, We tried many things but were unable to revive the interest of the workers, Two weeks ago the shop closed down indefinitely. Two days before the shop closed we called a mass meeting of the union and succeeded in having a committee elected to de- mand C.W.A. jobs for all workers of the shop, both the union and non- union members. A committee of eight was elected, consisting of three of the Party members and the rest non- Party members. The committee went first to the county surveyor, who sent us to C.W.A. officials. They told us they had nothing to do with the giv- ing out of C.W.A. jobs, but were just taking care of the financial end of it. They then sent us to see an official by the name of Stall. When we got there we found about 150 men and women already lined up to see this Mr. Stall, and a big fat policeman sitting by the door to keep the work- ers from going in. Committee Gets Run-Around The committee, led by Ossian An- derson, who is running for Council- man on the Communist ticket, went around the line up to the door where the “law” was, and attempted to en- ter. He told us we could not go in Laundry Worker Got $4.75 After Working 19 Hours Under NRA By a Worker Correspondent PEORIA, Ill—Enclosed find “pay tally” of girl worker at Ideal Troy Laundry here. [The pay tally shows that for 19 hours of part time work the salary was $4.75. This was all the worker earned in a week—Editor.] This laundry is owned by a man named Triebel who ran for mayor on the Republican ticket last elec- tion. This-Ideal Troy Laundry is under the N. R. A. Code. Help put the Daily Worker cir- culation campaign over the top. and that Stall was not there. And son attempted to enter anyway, but’ was forced back by the cop, but when the committee closed upon the cop and he saw that Anderson was not alone he said he would see Stall, and when he did we were admitted im- mediately. When we went in, this Mr. Stall commenced to talk red and sald he was a socialist and that he was in sympathy with our cause and would be glad to do anything that he could for us. We told we did not come there for sympathy, that we came for jobs, He immediately informed us that he could not give us jobs, but told us to go to Dr. Lindquist, who is head of the Board of Public Welfare. We told him to call Dr. Linquist and tell him that we were coming down, Dr, Lind- quist told him he did not want any- thing to do with us. The next day, which was the last day for the shop to work, we passed small slips around the shop calling for a mass meeting of all workers of the shop for Satur- day afternoon at the Scandinavian Hall on Payne Ave. G. Cogar, Section Organizer of St. Paul, spoke to the workers and it was decided that all were to go to the State Board of Con- trol in a body to demand C.W.A, jobs or adequate relief. ‘Then all workers present who were not union members were asked to join the union and they responded 100 per cent and on the following Mon- day we met at 57 E. lth St, and marched to the State office building in a body, about 110 men from the 120 who compose the entire shop. The men all stood in the hall in front of and around the State Board of Control offices. A committee went in to see Mr. Youngdahl, who is one of the head men of the Board of Control. We asked Youngdahl to come in the hall and talk to the workers and tell them just what he could and would do, but when he saw the mass of militant workers he re~ fused to come out and talk to them, but said he would talk to the com- mittee. The workers agreed to let the committee deal with Mr. Youngdahl because they knew the committee was composed mostly of Communists and they could trust them. When the committee came in the office, Mr. Youngdahl immediately began to pass out cigarettes, but we told him we did not come to smoke cigarettes, we came to get jobs or adequate relief for every worker in the shop, He called in Mr. Carlgren, an N.R.A, Official, who asked us if we were affiliated with the Packing House Workers Industrial Union. We told him that we were. He said that the Packing House Workers Indus- trial Union, after he had helped them out, had stabbed him in the back. We asked him how. He said that after the Armour strike there were about 200 blacklisted workers and that they had had a committee there to ask him for relief for the blacklisted workers and a relief station was set up in South St. Paul for their benefit and that they published in their paper, the “Packing House Workers’ Voice,” that they had “forced” relief, We told him that they did force re- lief and that our S.M.W.LU. is fore- ing you for relief right now. And he asked what we would do if he didn’t grant it. We told him there was plenty to eat in St. Paul and that we would take trucks and go out and get it, He immediately called Dr. Lind- quist and told him to take care of every member of the shop. All but two cases have been taken care of, and We -believe they will be, as they nee been granted relief, but not After leaving the State building the whole union went to the City Election Bureau and signed for our 7 candi- dates, and since then we have brought our union up to about 95 per cent and some of the members are applying for membership in the Com- munist Party. (Signed) Shop Unit No. 4, Griffin Wheel Local 8.M.W.LU., St. Paul, Minn., 865 Payne Ave. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Backache and Chills Mrs, A. H., Philadelphia, Pa.— Your backache is probably due to pyelitis. You must go on a vegetarian diet and eat plenty of citrus fruit (oranges and grapefruit); also drink plenty of water. Cut out this answer from the paper and take it to your druggist and ask him to give you twenty tablets of Hexyresorcinol. Take one tablet three times a day, after meals, for two weeks, Let us know the rsults. 2 or ce Continuous Bleeding Someone Who Depends on You.— ‘vou failed to give us your address. We should be glad to examine you free of charge, if you call at our office, Seow yh Continuing the Debate ’ “Castleton, Vermont. “Dear Dr. Luttinger, “In your column of Novemmber 23, you published a letter by David Hol- lander on the subject ha chad ea on these docks, and no organization | trol. Comrade Hollander a setting out seriously to organize the| ‘under a system analogous to that in workers for struggle can allow itself | the Soviet Union . . . birth control to side-step or overlook such 2 burn-| will eventually become obsolete.’ ing issue. “TI wish to take sharp to The paper was issued on time, as| this. Under any system the interests promised. It was sold on the docks,| of the workers is furthered by the and grabbed up by the men like hot-| intelligent use of birth control. cakes. It has achieved for itself a| “Does Comrade Hollander expect prestige and popularity which will] that after our American revolution make it possible for it to take up| we shall make women breeding- earnestly these important organiza-| machines and have a be§’ a year? tional and political issues, Z Granted that we may be confident ‘ By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. ———_________. that at that time the problem of supporting and training children will be incomparably more easy, but no. one can expect that this will result in inconsiderate and promiscuous breeding without regard to the con- siderations of health and sanity. “Proper spacing of births and con- sideration for women of the working- class have little encouragement under capitalism, but under a Soviet gov- ernment they will be considerations of considerable importance. “GEORGE WRIGHT.” ° Dizzy Spells Anna Schwartz, Brooklyn. - We wrote you a private letter which came back marked “Unknown at Address.” If you will communicate with ua again, giving us your correct ad dress, we should be glad to advise you according! Vaginal Discharge yi R. L. S.—You failed to enclose your address and a stamped envelope, Please communicate with us again, A. R.—Try one tablespoonful each of boric acid, bicarbonate of soda, and alum to a douche-bag of hot water. If you obiain no relief, coms municate with us again, er ay Jam Dells Tablets Irving G., Brooklyn.—These tablets are a snare and a delusion, We ‘now a number of little Jimmies and ollies running around, owing to the isplaced *