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Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1934 Roulston Ex-Me mager Expos Fine Art of Gypping Public Grocery Chain Forces Heads of Stores to Chisel Pennies on Potatoes, Eggs, Ete. By a Worker Correspondent STATEN “ISLAND, N. Y.—I st to work for the Roulston system as a delivery cart and clerking. W superintendent, told and it will you get to be a mana A very good job am. to 6:30 p.n. Saiturd from 7:30 a.m. to 10 pm. No sup) hour, and they did not furnish me with a nose bag. I did as I was told. The first instructions were the art of gyppirn of butter, cheese, su An ounce here and an ounce there. Then the Srading of eggs. For instance, a case of eggs is charged to the store at 25 cents a dozen. We picked out the larger whites which we sold for 31 cents, the brown at 27, and the rest at 25. After seven months of pushing the cart around and being shifted one store to another to get i other managers, ther appointed me as a manage heart and soul was in the work. Mr. Ress said, “Jack, try and build the business up to a thousand dollars a week.’ I worked hard building it higher | every week. The assistant took stock. | Mr, Ross said, “Jack, you are $34/ short stock. Now you must charge more for goods to make up your} short stock. Pick up 2 cents on this, 3 cents on that, and so on. The fol- lowing month, short stock again, af-! ter gypping the poor public for over | a letter | g bef of a store. a@ month. Then I received from Mr. Roulston: ‘Dear = “In looking over the records of the | past few weeks, I find your store shows an increase. I am very happy | to compliment you on the good work | you are doing. By honest, persistent | ‘ort you are bound to be success- | ful. I expect to see your store one | of the best qistrict this gned—T. H. ROULSTON.” | We met 2 of e | re 50 cents. I ca! e learned the art | bleed the pen- | He said, 2 box here and | ure, and I'll be| God damned if I remembe Tl Seven-thirty | * ger had sold | 5 ne line of back and she ever shoulder hams managed. The The said, “Jack, soda and water, soak the wash them off, and hold them over the coal fire to fresh- en. The eme worked fine, but I would not have fed them to my dog. Cent Trick potatoes in five pound stant gave us an idea. Ask the 1 hich she prefers, the 9 cent or 12 cent potatoes. Naturally 12 sent potatoes were pped 3 cents. They own their own bakery and overload the stores with bread be- cause there is a big profit in bread. The stale bread returned to the bakery. I happened to be in their bakery in Brook one Sunday where I saw a man burning it in a large boiler. With the long hours we had to work they asked us to go canvassing for orders in the noon hour and evenings. Another stock was token. This time there was a short stock of seventy dollars with threats of being fired. When business s oa had one customer traded with Roulston continuously x eight years, buying $30 to $35 | worth every two weeks. Due to the crisis he was demoted and forced to work two days per week. This man was honest, always paid his bill and offered to pay $2 per week on the $40 he owed. Roulston’s said, ‘No, go collect.” How could I collect when he did not have it. Roulston’s wanted to cut wages, so what do they do. The assistant superintendant walks in with a man to take my place. He tells me that he Roul-|Mr. Ross wants to see me right | Lewie working on his part-time job, | away. I go to Mr. Ross, and he tells making at most $12 or $14 a week| The | me I am over $100 short stock. following day I went to Brooklyn general office and demanded to see my stock shorts. There was no short stock. Their trick is to fire the old help and rehire at lower wages. This was done to almost all their is 1 Staten Island ice the Blu stores the managers got a raise, but the prices of groceries were boosted to pay for their raise. Three iong loud cheers for the tood workers of the Waldorf-Astoria, who walked out and gave the pot-bellied | bourgeoisie a taste of their own medi- | cine—hunger, The food workers have a vital spot, for, as the exploiters y days ago a who described the é. is a letter from Agnes | B.. who has just gone through a vain | struggle for decent conditions in a} WN. J. hotel. i MY RECENT EXPERIENCES AS A CHEF IN N. J. By MRS. AGNES B, i am a proivssional chef and have worked fo: the past 22 years in large | hotels and summer resorts. At the} beginning of December I obtained a} Job through a New York agency to} go to work in the Goldman Hotel,| | Pleasantdale, N. J. When I arrived at this place, after working about a week and a half, I noticed the miserable conditions and the rotten treatment the workers re- ceived from Mrs. Goldman. In thi hotel the 6 are forced to worl: in the dining room just for their tips and meals. The workers were given to eat th food the guests left over on their plates. Mr. Goldman would stay in the kitchen near the dishwasher and when the plates came back from the dining room he would pick off pieces of scrap for the workers to eat. I couldn't stand such conditions and wanted to leave. Mrs. Goldman begged and finally persuaded me to remain with the promise to keep me all winter and the coming summer. On this basis I remained. During my stay I did everything to see that the workers should get better food; Mrs. Goldman did noi . like this. She didn’t fire me because of the Christmas and New Year: tush. But right after New Years, When the rush was over Mrs. Gol! man came i started to pick on every one of the workers that came into the kitchen ‘The dishwasher was fired, being paid $10 for 11 days’ work, When he co! plained, she told him that her son a lawyer and he had better keep quiet. | ‘Then she started to pick on me She pushed me away from the stove against o barrel, bruising my side | terribly. She told me I was fired and not wanted any more. Then she called in her two boys, who dragged | me out of the kitchen. When I de- wnanded my pay I was given a check tor $58, while, according to the ar- rangement with the employment agency I was entitled to $100. When I refused to accep this check, and insisted on getting my pay in full, she told me too that her son is a lawyeran d I had better keep quiet. When I refused to leave the place she called a policeman and her sons pushed me into an automobile and took me to the bus station and threw me out. In case Comrade Agnes B. has not yet another job, we suggest that she, too, get in touch with the Women’s Unemployed League at 29 E. 20th St., and join immediately the Food Work- | ors Industrial Union if she is not @iteady a member. In any event, judging by the class-conscious and| nt tone of Comrade Agnes’ let-j CONDUCTED BY HELEN LUKE stamps Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number, Be | Who are not registered that can’t find sure to state size. ter, she can b hearty support strike. on to give food workers’ Answer to Comrade R. M. In regard to t me by Dr. Lut that a triage lice: costs $2 ar a Justice of the Peace marriage ceremo free of charge on demand. ill perform a y for another $2, or| Lewie and his fam As toj tion. whether or not you should go through | itiation fee and dues-collecting ban- 2 | Republic Steel Co. Attacks Health by ,,...... Saving onHea (By a Group of Steel Worker Correspondents) CANTON, Ohio.—-Lewie Klingaman | @ floor sweeper and cleaner workin; | in the Berger plant, was found with | his wife and five children in a starv- ing condition. jis tal jout the country: But in U. S. It Means GARY, Ind.—In both sheet and tin jplat> mills, new machinery in four being installed. This process ing place in tin n ls through- throwing tens of thousands of workers out of ork, Vi the four high mills, vhich cost the company plenty to install, as much will be produced as previously nine bar mills did, The new mill will employ 13 men on a j turn, or 39 men, to replace 18 men Lewie has been employed by the Republic Steel Co. for the last six| | years. Two weeks before Christmas | he took sick. After an investigation | | it was found that the family was in| | desperate cimcumstances. Lewie and | garage bungalow, no coal in thi | house, nothing to eat, and not enoug! | bed covering to keep warm. Workers in the mill, hearing of the | | Worker was in, took up a collection | and raised $38 for the family. Some} | donated clothing and other things for} the children. The lousiest thing that we ever) | saw here in the Berger plant was| | the cutting down on steam for heat~ | ing during the cold spell at the holi- | days. Think of it, the weather three or four below zero outside and inside the company has hundreds and thou- | sands of dollars tied up in heating plants and no steam to put in the/ pipes, the bosses saving coal and cut-| ting down expenses for themselves, while on the other hand raising them for the workers in the forms of colds, | sickness, exposure and torture. howled a plenty for heat but the Policy of the bosses was, work in the cold or go home. | home sick, flat on his back and his | family in a starving condition. The | conditions that we are forced to work under in the plant are enough to} | make the strongest of us sick, and} and trying to support a family of} | seven. It just can’t be done. This} is just one example of a family try- | ing to live on the starvation wages | paid under the N.R.A. steel code that | is supported by the American Fed-/ | Tin Workers (A.A.) | | | The workers in the plant showed | | a fine spirit of cooperation by rais- man and his family. | not allow this to continue. This $38 | came right out of the hides of the| | workers. The bosses didn’t give one | cent of it, and we certainly can’t af- on a turn in nine bar mills, or 486 men altogether. Do you realize what this new machinery will mean to us? } It means that 447 workers will be laid off. Here in a capitalist country the ot the regular 9 cent | his family were living in a one-room} machine is used against the workers’ | interest—to make more profit for the boss and lay off the workers. But in | the Soviet Union, where the workers rule, machines are the friends of the | desperate situation that their fellow| Workers and are used to help the worker, by producing more with less labor and giving workers higher wages! Workers, when you are handed walking papers by the bosses because of new machinery, organize in your department and refuse to leave the mills, as the Merchant Mill workers in the Illinois Steel attempted, until guaranteed adequate relief and un- employment insurance at the ex- pense of the government and the em- | ployers. All this can be won only through organization into department locals. Select your department committees regardless of what union you belong We| te. Support the program of the Stee! and Metal Workers Industrial Union for strug*le against layoffs. Don’t listen to the talk of craft unionism by the leaders of the Amal- No wonder Fellow Worker Lewie is| gamated Association, who together with the national leaders of the A. F. Letters from UNEMPLOYED WORKER AN RECEIVES A LETTER FROM HIS LANDLORD Hardiy had the echoes of Christian | wes drawn up by the steel bosses and | good-will and “Happy New Year” died | when the following letter was re- eration of Labor and the Amalga-| ceived by one of our active workers, Eagle flew into | mated Association of Iron Steel and} in Philadelphia. From it we gather jclearly that, following in the path shown by Gen. Johnson's N.R.A., the petty bourgeoisie has resolved to the $38 for Fellow Worker Klinga-| “crack down” on the workers more But we must! ruthlessly and brutally than ever, dropping’ any and all pretenses. Above all it points out the growing sharpness of the class struggle. The recipient of the letter, Louis | ford to take over the responsibility | Wolcott, a Negro, is a member of the get sick, laid off, etc., cut of} meager wages. This responsibility must be taken over by the bosses and the government in the form of Un- employment and Social Insurance | paid at their expense and not taken) | out of the starvation wages we re-; | ceive. The Berger plant of the Republic) Steel in Canton is organized by the A. A, but they take absoluiely no tion of any No action | mi What are we paying these in- all this or not—it is up to the in-| dits our money for. | dividual to decide. | Can You Make ‘Em Yourself? Pattern 1757 is ayailable in s! 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 takes 2% yards 39 inch fabric and 1% tds contrasting. Illustrated step- v-step sewving instructions included. Send fifteen cents (15c) in coins or (coins preferred) for this Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. Every new subscriber gained for the “Daily” ctrengthens our revolu- tutionary moyement. Ask your fel. low erker to subscribe. Fellow workers, we will never get | anything depending on these bloated | Hlabor fakers who receive salaries amcunting to thousands of dollars a| ‘ho spend more for cigars than in wages. To better our com} as We Will have to organize griev- | | ance committees on the job, that will | take up every grievance that we have and act on it, By joining the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, a fighting organization controlled by | | the rank and file members, ‘Back to Starvation Is Result of N. R. A. _ At Illinois Steel Co. (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) GARY, Ind—When the N.R.A. was |created, the Illinois Steel Co. called |us to work after 3 to 4 years of starv- | ation. We were happy, but after a |couple of months or so we were told \that there is no more work. Back |to starvation, All the alarm about the ‘blue buzzard paradise for the | workers was for nothing, |. We waited and still are waiting, but \I believe we'll get our jobs back only |when we, the workers, take the mat- |ter of jobs in our hands. By that I mean when we organize in the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. | 10,000 in Indianapolis Registered, But No Jobs | (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind—A woman fainted here in a crowd of nearly a@ relief order. But they are turning down single people if they live with \their folks, and they only give $1 to @ single person and expect them to live on it for a week. For @ married couple they give only $1.90 a week to live on, A man who has seven to ten in the family, gets $3.75 a week, and then many are re- fused relief, but are sent to the Cham- ber of Commerce or the Free State Employment Office, and when they get there they are turned down, be- cause they say they have so many who are heads of families, ‘They have registered about 10,000, and those registered won't be able to get a job, and yet there are thousands | work, | NOTE We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tuesday, We urge workers in these industries to write us of their work- | ing conditions and of their efforts | | to organize. Please get the letters to ms by Friday of each week 1 | | 500 in the trustee office trying to get | providing food, clothing, fuel and) Unemployed Councils, the Food Work- Iter for our fellow workers when | ers’ Industrial Union, and an active member in all party activities. He has been unemployed for two years and has a family. The letter reads: “Mr. L. Wolcott. Jan. 2, 1934 Very sorry to read of unemploy- ment affecting yourself and Mrs. | Wolcott but unless you can send up @ month’s rent before noon of 4th instant the next best thing for you to do is to find a landlord willing to take hard luck stories instead of punctual rent payment, in any event we can readily re-rent the oc- cupied property to a paying ten- ant so it is merely a matter of paying rent or moving. “Incidentally you might note that organized cherityin Philadelphia will not pay the rent. The ex- pectation is that the landlord nould supply 75 per cent more re- lief by giving free rent and we don’t think much of the idea and conse- quently when we strike a non- aying tenant we put the same out promptly. Signed C. C, CANFIELD.” > % Would Mean Bigger Pay for All in Soviet Union, | Layoffs and Starvation Worker Correspondent | of L. are helping to impose the bosses | | steel code on U. S. Take the | Illinois Steel Works of Gary: In spite | cf all the ballyhoo about the N.R.A. bringing back prosperity and jobs | the reverse is happening on all sides. | The record of layoffs and decline in | production of last month is being | surpassed this month, while the pa- | pers boast about operating at 31 per cent capacity. | Ome of the reasons the rail mill |men are not working steady is be- | cause Superintendent Griffin gets his |bonus for cutting production and maintenance cost. He uses eight | from the billet mill soaking pits and four from raill mill pits, thus cutting cut a heater and a door boy from each turn. Only one man is em- ployed. taking care of the billet and rail mill. | Where two men tended four stoves before, only one does it now, because of greedy Griffin's bonus. There is !no such animal as safety. The only thing that keeps the mills hanging together is a breath. One of these days, when Griffin is trying to make @ production record, the whole damned works will fall apart like the One Hoss Shay. The soaking pits | have about caved in already. On top of unsafe conditions and speed-up, Griffin curses every man who'll take it. He has forgotten the kick we put in against his dirty tongue a few months ago. It just shows how much we can depend on j the company union! We can protect ourselves only by depending on our own organization. We must build a larger and stronger | steel and metal workers’ union—in this mill, then we can take care of Griffin and all the others like him, and fight against speed-up and un- safe working conditions. Our Readers ON GROPPER’S CARTOON IN THE LENIN MEMORIAL ISSUE Kenosha, Wis. i | Dear Comrade: | The cartoon, entitled “Hands Off,’ drawn by Gropper, which appeared In the Daily Worker of January 20, 1934, while a very powerful drawing, would tend to create a wrong and harm- ful impression, especially with new workers and those not thoroughly such matters. To label the figure representing Japanese imperialism as merely “Japan” leaves the impression that ‘unified’ Japanese nation desires to attack the Soviet Union. It plays di- rectly into the hands of the jingoists strings of purely national pride and hatred. What about the revolution- soldiers? For them we must have the most comradely of feelings, yet this cartoon certainly would not foster such bonds of solidarity. ‘That such a politically unclear car- toon should have gotten into the Lenin issue of the Daily Worker, should be a warning to us never to The danger of such covcepiions would become immediately apparent jin case United States imperialism plunged us into a war with the Jap- anese imperialists, a possibility we should never forget. The Japanese military-landlord clique, the great Japanese capitalist interests, these are enemies at home, but the Japanese toilers are our friends, and brothers and would be- come our firmest allies in the event of an imperialist war between U. S. and Japanese imperialisms. D. G. JOHNSON. 5. Himuel Unit 22, Sec. 5 Rosenthal Kersten H. Raskowitz N. Bloosull N. Bulmengarten | A. Lorenfson Schiffman |A. Lock J. Rogers |K. Lucker M. Shames |A. Tiv P. Sheffer | M. Majar Mrs. J. H. Wilson Pat McCollan ¥. Ook. Paul Peozneker Unit 2, Sec. 7 E. H, Johnson Angelo Herndon |N. Spitser Br. I. L. D. 1 Sam Heino family Matt Yikanen family Belden-Van Hook Farmers Club Belden Unit Y.O.L, Polish Workers Educational Ass’n Detroit, Mich. Bulgarian Macedonian Workers of Chicago, Ill. United Ukrainian Women Toilers Organizations Chicago, Til. New York City The Novy Mir Club Yugoslav Workers Club New York City Lithuanian Working Women’s Alliance of District 2 Central Committee of the LETTISH WORKERS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA W. Orange, N. J. RUSSIAN NATIONAL MUTUAL AID SOCIETY, BRANCH 29 Boston, Mass. TURKISH WORKERS 402 W. 40th Street Roumanian Workers Cultural Association 108 E. 14th St. 5 Oe eR ——— Polish Solidarity Club New York City Balkan Workers Educational Organization Boston, Mass. Lithnan’on Workers Literature Society, Br. 24 Brooklyn, N. ¥ Greetings for 10th “Daily Worker” Anniversary Chernishewsky Society Br. 65, R.N.MLA.S. New York City Esthonian Workers Cinb | 27 W. 115th St, New York City "Russian Mutual Aid Society Chelsea, Mass. WORKERS BOOK STORE 2019 Division Street, .. .. Chicago, Ml. | Branch at 4303 Indiana Ave. Oe LITERATURE LS BELMONT RUG CLEANERS 3018 Belmont Avenne Chicago, MM. WORKERS COOPERATIVE RESTAURANT 1343 East Ferry Avenue, Detroit, Mich, Pen & Hammer Club Cincinnati, Ohio 1.W.O. Branch No. 43 Detroit, Mich. INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER BRANCH 65 INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER Chicago, Ml. Stet SS ee eer) cei Unemployed Council, Branch 6 Detroit, Mich. DISTRICT COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER Cleveland, Ohio ————————— Clarte, French Workers Club New York City The W.LR. Band New York City United Front S: ‘ New York City familiar with our Party's stand on} and war-mongers who play on the] ary Japanese workers, peasants and | | New Machinery Being Put Into Gary Mill to Replace 486 Men by 39, Says Correspondent Boys: by Girls in | War Preparations (By a Worker Correspondent) STAMFORD, Conn. Yale & Towne in Stamford is preparing its factory for the forthcoming war. They are replacing a big part of their male help with girls and young women, for two reasons. Firstly, because the girls are paid as low as 3244 cents an hour, while the mini- WOMEN MAKE GUNS NEN GO TO WAR! mum for boys and young men under the code is 40 cents. Secondly, their women help are being speeded and trained to run the machines formerly run by the boys so that when the youth are called to go to war, the factory can again begin to produce war munitions, as it did in the last world slaughter. In the process of this speed-up, two accidents took place in short succession in adjoining rooms. One girl, using a machine formerly run by boys in room No. 112, cut her hand below the wrist and another girl in room No. 113 smashed two fingers and lost them. The day these accidents took place, the whole shop was excited and talking about it as they were leaving the factory at quitting time. The Norma-Hoffman Bearing plant in Stamford is also using the same scheme as the Yale & Towne in replacing their male help with female help. about $28-$30 per week. They mostly have been replaced to a large ex- tent on these machines by girls who Set $14-$16 per week for the same work. Recently a worker was fired from this plant for expressing his workers, 8. BE] All Packing House | (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa—I wrote a | Statement recently of the conditions in the packing house industry here in Pittsburgh to the Pittsburgh Press to help the drive that this paper claims to be making on the sweat- | shop evil, but what did they do? | They sent me a personal letter, stat- | ing that they thanked me very much | for the information that I gave them, {but they could not print such an| |relex our vigilance ior one moment.| article because it was too fiery and | | too radical and it would arouse the people too much, i think it is time to expose the whole damn lot of them, the crooked employers and the capitalist press. As an executive of the Packing House Workers’ Industrial Union I would lixe to hear from some other comrades in order that | correspond as to how we may form ;@ United Front movement in the entire industry, all over this country, from Pittsburgh to East, West, North and South, and organize every shop, inside workers and drivers, and build unions on the industrial plan all over this country. Our strike was broken with the help of the stool-pigeons in our |ranks—our local labor board, of |which Pat Fagan is the exalted |ruler; our police, depul the capi- | talist press and the N, R. A. officials. They told us to organize under the \A. F. of L. as the packing house workers did in 1919. They not only got beat out of their jobs, but their union at that time was busted up altogether and the treasurer has not been found to this day. They also knew that the leaders of the P. H. W. I. U. could not be bought. 5 ‘We sent a telegram to Roosevelt, but we never got an answer, nor did we get one from General Johnson, giving the packing house workers a concrete example of how they were enforcing Section 7-A, under the N. R.A. Fellow workers—get together and organize in mill, mine and factory. For this is the only way we can ac- complish anything, including em- ployed and unemployed. PACKING HOUSE WORKERS’ INDUSTRIAL UNION, 1814 Middle St., N.S., Pittsburgh, Pa. Condemnation Spares Fire Traps Owned by Rich Realty Company By a Worker Correspondent CINCINNATI, Ohio. — Since a mather and four children were burned to death in one of these many human fire traps, 12 rat holes have been condemned, all of which be- longed to private individuals who have spent their whole life to have a root over their heads in their old age. We have here in the steel sub- division a real gstate company by the name of Glasscock which owns many of these “rat holes,” but not one of Glasscock’s human fire traps were condemned. Only homes belonging to poor Negro workers Were ordered torn down. Now their homes have been torn down, and they have no place to go and no security of any kind, but to face starvation and freeze to death. This is what our local preachers are satisfied to call “Christian Society.” Fellow workers, how long will we have to put up with such a criminal “Christian” society? Plants Replacing The men used to make |expose some of the graft that is going opinion on this matter to his fellow | _ Workers of U. 8. we may) | PARTY LIFE | ‘A Plan---But free The recent struggles of the unem-, ployed seamen in the port of Balti more for relief show clearly that when the correct policy is applieti? results can be obtained. W A tremendous sentiment for strug~ gle had been aroused amongst the seamen, due to previous actions, led by the union on several ships. The unemployed seamen were looking to- words the union as something that, was good, and expected more actions, especially on the relief question, “A systematic agitation and propaganday: campaign had been carried on which created a situation where the sea- men began to demand that some- thing be done—some concrete action. Realizing that the situation called for immediate definite steps, the comrades on the waterfront drew up a plan of action and decided to carry, it out. The amount of work that had been already done, the forces that could be used, the amount of organization and existing sentiment was taken into serious consideration, and the plan of action applied ac-~ cordingly. It meant that at first there would be no large spectacular action, which, would be biting off more than we could chew. but some small steps, taken properly, which would create more sentiment, more organization, and put us in a position to take larger actions and would culminate into action on a large scale. First an unemployed meeting was held, where, after discussion on the plan of actions, a small committee! was elected to go to the local relief board and-present the demands. The committee was widely popular- A Grafter Gets A Job on C.W.A. (By an Auto Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—I am writing to on in Dearborn. One of our com- rades got a C.W.A. job painting, but was canned because “he did not | | |spread enough paint,” That was the only excuse they gave him. a Now Mr. Wireman gets a C.W.A, job as carpenter foreman at $37.50 honest day’s work in his life. He is known as a professional bum, real estate ex-salesman, blind pig opera" tor, and other dirty work blotted his/ days gone by. He cannot use any of. his dirty tricks to rob the workers; | beause the workers are broke. | He got a job through working fii’ the Dearborn elections, at Ford’s; bif' of course, he didn’t last there iong, because at Ford’s he was supposed to work. If a worker gets one of thesé.| better paid jobs, he is tried out and. a darn good trial is given him too, But this Mr. Wireman, who never did work, let alone understand car- penter work, gets a carpenter fore- man’s job. Of course, wej class-con+* scious workers know why. ead a week. This man never did do dn|' 5, The Seamen Nat Only Drew Up Carried It Out! Results Achieved by Baltimore Unemployed When Correct Policy Is Applied | ized through leaflets, etc. and also by an ‘announcement that a report would be made at a certain time. A meeting so large that it overwhelmed everyone was the result. The meet- ing was very enthusiastic, showing that our. methods were correct. So further action was planned. 4 large committee was elected to pre- sent demands directly to the offi- cials in the Seamen's Institute, which proved: to be the correct step. The institute officials had already posted an answer-on their bulletin board when the-committee arrived, indicat- ing that, they had been forced to recognize the fact that the seamen were organizing. So a meeting was called right inside and enough re- sponse was obtained to prevent the police from breaking up the meeting. Another meeting was held that evening in the union hall and a vote was taken to strike against the mis- erable relief and for our demands. A committee was elected to go to Washington to present the demands to the head officials while the strike Was on, The next morning, the time set for the strike, there was a response of nearly 100 per cent. Over 200 walked out. Immediately a strike meeting was called, the committee was given a send-off to Washington, and a march organized to the local relief board, to be there about the same time the committee was in Washing- ton presenting their demands. This was cartied through and brought re- sults. Thirteen demands out of fif- teen were won immediately. To go, into detail about what de- mands we won and other small ac- tions, although very important, would require @ lot of space and time. It was the first real victory for better relief that has been carried through by the seamen in any port, and other | ports can learn lessons from this action. It proves that when correct policy is applied that results can be gotten. The main thing is that when plans and decisions are made THEY MUST BE EXECUTED, a constant check-up must be-made to find out why the plans failed or were successful. Many.,new members joined the union and unemployed councils. Betwen ten and fifteen new Party members were recruited through this struggle &nd many more could have been secured if the face of the Party -had been shown during the period of ..} Struggles. This was the main short- coming but can be overcome provid- ing systematic work is carried on };among the workers by the Party, in the name of the Party, in a man- ner not to confuse the workers, The comrades in the union, to- ether with comrades in the section, | should work out such a method. A ruthless check-up should be estab- lished to insure that when decisions are made that they are carried out. ” Systematic daily work, with a real check-up is the necessary step tha, \ ‘we all must learn if we expect toh establish,.a mass base amongst the orkers. H. B. “JOIN THE Communist Party -35 E, 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. i J Pe Name vis...) meStreetactsussseese ANSWER TO QUESTIONS High Blood Pressure Mrs. H. P., E. Pittsburgh, Pa.—A blood pressure of 230, at your age, is a dangerous symptom, The first and most important thing to do it to go to bed immediately, if you have no money to go to the hospital. You must stay in bed until your blood pressure has gone down to about 150,at least. If you walk about and work with your high pressure, you will surely get a paralytic stroke: When you're in bed, keep a hot~ water bottle or an electric pad at your feet so as to draw the blood vent congestion of the brain. When you're in bed, you need not take any | nitroglycerine (not glicerine nitrate) or any other medicine to reduce your blood pressure. The medicines you mentioned have only a temporary effect; they do not cure the under- lying cause. You may continue with your diet which seems to be a sen- sible one; but we see no reason why you should have to take sacchariti; you surely could do without atiy sweets, as so many other people do, * See oS t Rheumatism and a Good Stomach Dorothy Goldstein—“Rheumatism” has nothing to do with the “good- ness” or “badness” of the sto) are liable to contract rheumat * It is true, of course, that most fe ple suffering from so-called rheuma- tism also suffer from “stomach trouble;” but this is a coincidence. It is also true that constipation would aggravate a rheumatic condition. On the other hand, there are thousands no acute articular rheumatism from in- fected tonsils, Many adults Hkewise | away from your head and thus pre-|, Water \dried. The lotion should be allowed who never suffered from constipation | _ By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD, ————______ ‘[Gevelop rheumatism from infected teeth ora fecal infection in any other part of the body. We are glad to hear that you en- ‘joy reading the “Daily Worker” and trust that. you won't forget to send in the proceeds of the bet, regardless who was correct, : * Sidney J.— cessive perspiration of the feet), you may use one of the following astrin- sent lotions, two or three times daily: ‘Powdered alum 1 ounce Water 1 pint or ~. Zine sulphate 2 drams - Wai ipint or Formalin 3 drams Alcohol 1 pint Before applying the lotion, the feet should be thoroughly cleaned and Sect ual’ ithind dae es wed by, ‘ollo’ us ders or. the powders can be ile without “the lotions: applied “Salicylic acid 15 drams Alum ©! 1 ounce = Lycopodium. 1 ounce If yowoprefer an ointment, may use the following: Lead plaster to be the proper one, In due time you wilfmake the necessary contact . and mosteof your stances .with the proper ‘Thank you for the contribution,