The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1934, Page 4

Page Four | Explains Wage Raise in | {kron Rubber Factories | Was Preceded By Many , Wage Cuts; Is Attempt to Stop Rank and File Organization (By a Rubber Worker Correspondent AKRON, Ohio—A crease was announc workers here Jan. panies such as Good and Firestone Yes, there is soi production in the not @ general pick u: in the General Rubbe which produces tires © there is 5 days a week 6 hours work. This means that the pro imereased on tires alone. Still many other div ag before, or are sl ning down Firestone battery laid off 400 men four weeks ago; one woman draw 71 cents in her pay in Seiberling and had to report two different days to make this amount; & worker reports here that in Goodyear his highest pay was $14 a week and lowest $8 a week). wage in- ions remain ber workers. This is being ar- f a growing dis- rubber workers with s. (A wide move more dues to ect support of nd, Ohio. So this in-| attempt to stop the k and file movement for of their unions and for »| improvement in their conditions Owens, Illinois, (lass Workers | Denied Rest Time. (By 2 Group of Worker Corres- pondents) GAS CITY, Ind—A rest of 20 DAILY WORKER, N’ W YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934 Government Hog Program Added New Tax, Gave No Benefit, Says Farmer Nebraska Farm Convention Will Be Held in March By a Farmer Correspondent LOUP CITY, Neb.—The are preparing for a State Conventio: to make complete the pledges made at the conference in Chicazo, have little or none. We are going out with trucks and z we know that nearly all Farmers have } eg at least a little corn and we are going to ask each one to give a bucket or we |’, But that won't} ;, Price Dropped From $6. on Seattle Market, 10 Per Hundred to $3.85 Noy. 1 to Dec. 13 ® | (By a Farmer Correspondent) AB’ the time ig hogs, at $6.10 per hun- This gave the The gov price. s butch- id to pay for these hi % cent Nov. 1, S ver Ib. n Ne . 1 up to hundred on the 6. Seattle market. addition who mt to slump, her our this st. pa} the gov which after Feb, a to about $4 per We are supposed to add this to the selling price, but try it. The ogs dropped in price from | To my estimation, this pic’ due to, first, war pre , Pos- sible government orders on tires, and, | second, @ seasonal pick up in the rub-| ve ber industry about this time of y than no rest periods at all for Or. it could be based on expectation) six terrific hours. This is what we of @ war in near future and the rub-| boys who work on the machines at ex barons are preparing for it. | the Owens Illinois Glass Co. at Gas Preceded by Many Pay Cuts | City, Ind., got on the 8th of this month, This increase in wages can be af-| forded very well, when for the last| A nice outlook for 1934 for a bunch weeks since the adoption of the rub-| 0f Workers who used to get their ber code, there was a constant process| hands and faces blistered even un- p is minutes in preparation for spending xt 40 minutes at a tank with e ic temperature doesn’t seem y long. But it is a good deal bet- of wage cuts, covering the workers in| der the old conditions. That is—a/ ert |x tlook for those workers who nearly all divisions except tire de-| Mice ou A partments, (Women workers in Good-| 8% still on the job. For this new rich, in some instances, were cut more | Toutine has enabled them to lay off than 20 per cent in hourly rates.) 18 more men from this department, purchaser has something to | | | | | | | | | Had it not been for this tax, hog raisers could have kent off welfare | for a time. As it is, we must get rid | of, what we have and quit. I have an investment of $2,000, in- | cluding hogs, at/the November price. A man who has fought it out all through the depression hates like the devil to reach for a handout now. two. That way we can get the needed | money and no one would feel the | hardship. jon | .-We are putting on a drive for the; ON LETTERS FROM A. F, OF L.| | farmers National Weekly, a very good | WORKERS | paper, so the organization has set one | Chicago, Tl. | special week for the paper. Dear Comrade Editor: | | I know the workers in the city are| I would like to congratulate the; interested in what the farmers are| Daily Worker on the letters from doing for themselves and others, so| workers who are members of the A.| | I thought I would write a few lines. I) F. of L. which were printed in the} | also want to greet your Daily Worker | issue of Friday, Jan. 19. That sort | for the splendid effort you are putting| of testimony from workers who are | Letters from Our Readers But this is not the only way in| which they cut the wages. There is This is what the government code has come to mean in every depart- ment in this factory: Our co-work-/| | forth in making the paper interesting | themselves experiencing the betray-|Kulaks, expropriate or reduce to an It|als of the high-paid labor officials| impoverished peasantry the | for farmers as well as workers, teaches us the right way. out that the only road to freedom is through a workers’ revolution; which also is the only way their children can be adequately fed and guaran- teed opportunities for development. 3. The farmers should have been given an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the Communist posl- tion on agriculture. The President's | program, designed to strengthen the great will be more convincing to otherrank | Mass of farmers, should have been ‘Caught Between Low Prices and High Loan Rates By a Farmer Correspondent ALBANY, N. Y.—Two farmers re- cently arrived in the market here, huckstering, which was against mar- ket regulations, but you have to pro- vide for your family. It was awful cold. They were both young fellows, one who came for his father, a big farmer and the other for himself. The big farmer’s son had heather in his truck, the other young fellow could not afford this luxury. The latter had his truck for three years, but still had to pay instalments on it. He told, in conversation, how his brother-in-law, coming from the West, passed through Arkansas, where he visited his father-in-law, a dairy farmer. He learned there that cream that used to cost 25 cents a gallon now cost 16 cents, and how they had to sell a fat cow for $22 to pay a feed bill of $20, because the full check from the milk plant was too small to pay for the grain feeding. “The old man,” he said, “had some stock in the bank, and he had to cough up $5,000 when the bank bust. This took all our ready cash, and now, when we had to buy licenses for our cars and truck, the old fellow went to the bank to borrow $500, but they told him he was at the end of his credit.” Later on the same young fellow had to go to different loan sharks. He could get a loan, but he had to give a chattel mortgage on his place and tools and his car, and had to sign speed-up, more work for the same} ers laid off and our own condiions| pay, more work for less pay, Hours! made increasingly unbearable. And were cut all over. All workers are, by| we know that our factory isn’t an| now, in the chief divisions, on 6 hours a day work. The profits have increased. Some shops have doubled their pro! since last March. Mr. O'Neal, president of the General Tire & Rubber Co., re- ports, at the annual meeting of the stock holders: “Net profit for the year, after all charges, was more than| double that of 1932,” and then he concludes his report by saying that: “Every month since March has been & profitable one.” But there is another prompted these rubber make this increase at this time. This is a growing discontent among the rubber workers that has sion in both the A. F. of L. unions and in the shops (left wing opposi- tion actually forming an organization in the A. F. of L. locals. And workers are actually demanding increases in their pay). In the Seiberling local, the demand was raised for a 25 per cent increase, and for three meetings the bureau- srats have tried to sidetrack this motion; groups of workers went di- rectly to the department heads and iemanded increase in their pay. Leaflets and Pay Raises Coincide factor that barons to} ‘Ss expres- | | exception. Well, when you work till you're} staggering, and pay $10 to $15 a month for houses that aren’t fit for) | cow barns, and pay 20 to 25 per cent! | more for food, the talk the bosses | put out in the newspapers doesn’t | | carry much weight. | The loaning gangs in the shipping department here are driven so hard | that they don’t get more than two or three days’ work per week. And even that is supposed to be a privi- lege. The women workers are not better off. In the packing room they are | forced to work at top speed with no| rest at all. Women who tape the| boxes work with their fingers bleed- | ing and are always getting bawled | out by the boss. The women have a good example of the N.R.A,, too; in | the corrugated department vach one is doing what two used to do before. | FACTORY COMMITTEE. | mpnainatlaat re voc | WIN AID IN INDIANAPOLIS By A Negro Worker Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS, Ind—The Un- }employed Council here forced the }removal of a Trustee Investigator This increase was announced on| by the name of White for refusing ihe same day that the left wing op-| to give aid to a blind man and his position seven point program was dis-| wife. A woman investigator was put tributed to the rubber workers. Some| in his place and now this blind man small leaflets were issued just a week ago to almost the same effect. The left wing opposition is plan-| ning for an open mass meeting, with Louis Weinstock us the chief speaker, to put forth its program openly to| jand his wife are getting anything they want, But if the investigator don’t do what the Unemployed Councils think she ought to do, we will also cause her removal from office. Cabbages and Kings Seeing that Comrade Chef (the first) gave us a recipe for Scotch Barley Broth, Comrade Chef (the} second), not to be outdone, has come | forward with another recipe, which| HELEN LUKE Can You Jiake ‘Em Yourself? Pattern 1532 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42, he describes as “a proletarian dish| Size 16 takes 3% yards 38 inches oven fit f , tsk, Com- | f rade Chef ( second), I’m surprised zt you. ov, here is the recipe, to: Boiled Shortribs of Beef With Horse- -radish Sauce A proletarian dish, much too good for a king) Buy a strip of short ribs (about} 3 or 4 pounds), and ask for 5 cents worth of beef bones. (These you may be able to get free). Place beef and bones in a pot, cover with water and after boiling one-half hour add the Yollowing vegetables: Three carrots, | two onions, three stalks leeks, six sticks celery, a very small head of cabbage (quartered), and such soup greens as you may be able to get | ‘parsley, etc.). Add salt and boil slowly 2% hours, or until meat is Strain off most of the broth and cook if with some vermicelli: This, yith a dash of nutmeg, gives you a tine soup. Sauce: Melt six ounces of butter, yaix well with % cup flour, and add gradually three cups of the broth or| hot milk. Stir weil together over | tire about 15 minutes. | Add one-half to one cup grated | horseradish, according to taste, and two tablespoons vinegar. (Make half | the amount of sauce if you wish), | Serve all the vegetables which were | Cooked in the broth, aolngside the | teat, with boiled. potatoes. (This | verves four to six people). Painful Confession That little oil stove described the other day got its first workout last | Saturday night at a small red affair, | All we can say is that if anybody ts | figuring on cooking breakfast on one | of those, he will have to get up| prety early in the morning. A large pan with a lid will be best. ‘The pans we used were too small in diameter and too deep. We couldn't | boiling water to supply ourselves | ies enough. Next time I’ll| - enough to get there with} e Stove an hour early so there will be plenty of hot water for tea. For kceepini hoe kettles of food previously a at home, the stove is the| however. 3 | 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 Street, New York City | The convention will be held in Grand Island some time in March, The date has not yet been set. Reports Gov't Is Planning Bill To Force Corn Loan By a Farmer Correspondent ORNIFINO, Cal.—During an inter- view with a farmer’s wife who lives a few miles north of Holbrook, Neb., we were told this: Three days be- fore, about Jan. 16 or 17, a well dressed stranger drove into their barnyard and came to the door of the house. On one of his fingers he wore a huge diamond ring. His car carried a Douglas County license. He introduced himself to the farm- er’s Wife and began to ask numerous} questions, whether they held home- stead rights on their place, etc. When asked why so many questions, he stated, “Well a great many farm- ers north of here and in this vicinity are not taking out the corn loan, and the Government has a bill up that will force all farmers who refuse to take out this loan to secure a license before they can farm, When asked how much he was get- ting paid to do that work he said, $o a day. A good many farmers are already saying, “Just let them try and col- lect.” The question is to just what ex- tent these four-flushers in Washing- ton think that they can bulldoze and brow-beat the farmers before they retaliate. here is one of a bank director who wrote a letter to the county attorney | of Frontiers County asking him to restrain an elevator man in Holbrook, Neb., from paying one cent a bushel more for corn than the other eleva~ tors pay, stating that the farmers were already getting too much money | for their produce. We will try to | secure a copy of this letter for the | Daily pretty soon, | NOTICE We publish letters from farmers, agricultural workers, cannery work- ers every Thursday. These work- ers are urged to send us letters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get letters to us by Mon- day of each week. Another case that recently occured | and file workers than reams of edi- | torial comment. I am an office worker and find in my conversations with the other clerks that facts and not phrases are the best revolutionary ammunition. I would like to see more and more of the “Daily” taken up by such letters from workers, particularly those who are members of the A. F. of L, Of course, interpretation and direction in an editor’s note is always neces- | sary to help both writers and read- |ers of these letters. The article on the Chicago street car men and their organization, printed in the special anniversary | edition of the “Daily,” also seemed | particularly good to me. I ordered 25 copies of that issue, and those that I was unable to sell on the day | it came out I gave to street car con- |ductors. Every time I got on the | street car and paid my fare, I gave a copy of the “Daily,” with that ar- ticle showing, to the conductor. This plan was suggested in the article it- | self, and proved to be very effective, One conductor who didn’t want to |take the paper at first, because he | said he “had no time to read,” came {up to me afterwards as I sat in the | street car and said: “Say, that was great stuff! That sure hit the nail on the head!” I would like to, see more articles on the street car men’s organization, In_a city like Chicago, the public| utilities, such as street cars, are really a basic industry. If every reader of the “Daily” would give his paper, | after he has read it, to a street car} conductor, I believe the results would | be well worth the effort. We all ride} the street cars a good deal, and this | might be one effective means of reaching the hundreds of street car | workers. AE. WE AGREE! New York. I have seen the “Worker” become } a better paper both technically and in content during the past few | months and hesitate to give voice | criticism. But there are three crit{- cisms which I feel should be made, which were particularly evident in| the anniversary issue: | 1. There should have ben a sum- mary of the achievements of the! | Soviet Union in cultural, health and | jmaterial progress—stressing th e| necessity for building an American} | Communist Party, which alone is| capable of not only ending the de-| pression but of bringing about in a| short time the highest degree of pros- | perity the world has ever known, | 2. There was burning need for an article appealing to women; pointing plenty of papers. For a loan of $90 cash he had pay back $4 a week for 25 weeks. concretely exposed. The slogan: Cancellation of farm debts and taxes, clarified and PARTY LIFE lands Neighborhood The central slogan of our Party) is for Unemployment and Social In-| surance at the expense of the gov- {ernment and employers. But we have never conducted an organized consistent struggle for unemployment insurance. By our every-day activ- ity, we showed that we did not be- lieve we could win unemployment in- surance. In the -Chicago District we conducted struggle against evic- tions, for more relief, etc. But there Was never any consistent struggle or | agitation that ALL unemployed were entitled to relief. Our struggles were | centered only around those who were | entitled to relief according to the standards of the relief authorities. Therefore, in practice we admitted (aside from our National and State Hunger Marches for Unemployment Insurance) that those who were not paupers were not entitled to relicf— much less unemployment insurance. In Chicago in Januray, 1933, there were 850,000 unemployed, but only 125,000 on relief. Our struggles were centered around 125,000, mainly fam- ily heads. The 725,000 were left to shift for themselves, Action Started Roosevelt's C. W. A. job scheme was intended to divert the struggle for unemployment insurance. But at the same time’ the N, R. A. and C. W. A. aroused the illusion in the masses that there were jobs for all, The workers started spontaneous struggles for jobs. Of the 376,000 who applied for jobs in Chicago, only 60,000 or so were on relief, Over 300,000 workers in Chicago, alone, whom we never before brought into motion, were brought into motion by Roosevelt’s dema- Bogy. The Fight for ALL Not Only Those ‘ert Lists’ should have been | brought forward. The collectivization |of agriculture should have been | brought forward as the only per- |manent solution of the farmers’ ‘problems. It should have been boldly | pointed out that while there are | millions of units in agriculture capable of deluging an ever narrow- ing foreign and local market, com- |peting with one another, only the | biggest and most vicious “chisellers” (could gain; while the majority of farmers are doomed. Tho downright plunder of the Wall Street food| processing and distributing menop-| ‘olies at the expense of both pro-| |ducer and consumer should have | been emphasized. And the way out —the formation of a nation-wide as- sociation of poor farmers and farm laborers to fight the rich farmer, the | Wall Street monopolies and the} Roosevelt farm policy should have} been stressed. | I believe the Party must bring for- | ward its program with much greater boldness and speed than in the past —in order to counteract the growing fascist reaction. A distributive mechanism for the Party’s literature and for propaganda work must be built up to reach every nook of the | country, capable of pouring forth a torrent of leaflets at once all over the country to expose every danger- ous move of the class enemy. I be- lieve it would be a good move to print regularly on top of the first page the slogan: “Capitalism can only bring workers of America hunger and | war; Communism alone can bring | everlasting peace and prosperity!” SAM STEINBERG. WITH A LITTLE EFFORT Evansville, Tl. Just to show you what a little effort will do: This morning, Lenin Memorial Day, four of us comrades of Unit 401 met at 10 ’oclock. We had 75 copies of the “Daily.” After a few hours of concentrated work we had sold 55 papers. We also made at least one good contact whom we probably will be able to recruit into the Party soon. By doing so in new territory (Evenston), we shattered the defeat- ist theories of some comrades who maintain that the people of Evanston are different from the rest of the 120,000,000 in America and that it is no use, a waste of time, etc., to work among them. We, the four of us, decided that we will continue this work every Sunday. Naturally we feel very en- thusiastic about the results. —A. D. Huckstering doesn't pay much. Merchants from New York City come here nowadays with turnips, packed in new bushels, covered, etc., and sell them for 50 cents a bushel, and also beets, and how can one make a living this way? The depression is working overtime for us farmers nowadays. —wW. . . Five Join Party ° . At Lenin Memorial . . eyes Meeting in Bemidji By a Worker Correspondent BEMIDJI, Minn.—In this locality, the workers as well as the farmers in the surrounding territory are ex- periencing Roosevelt’s New Deal. ‘When the Communist Party units decided to hold a Lenin memorial meeting here, and circualted leaf- lets to advertise the meeting, the | city bosses through threats got the owner of the hall where the meeting was to be held from giving us the use of the hall. When a commiittee went up to the City Attorney to find out what was the reason for not let- ting the meeting going through, he immediately told the committee he objected to the slogan “Fight agains the starvaiton wage level of the NRA codes,” and to the other calling for the defense of the Soviet Union, When the workers and farmers heard about the actions of the city officials it caused intensive discus- sion. The committee went to the Coun- ty Court House and got this for the meeting. Despite the confusion resulting from such a short notice, close to} 200 workers and farmers jammed the Court House. The District secretary of Young Communist League, Comrade Hal- berg, spoke on what he saw while on his travels in the Soviet Union. The applauding and the questions showed the deep feeling among the workers here for the defense of the Soviet Union. A large amount of literature and Daily Workers were sold. Five work- ers joined the Communist Party, with prospects of many more. The C.WA.. has collapsed here as elesewhere, (By a Farmer Correspondent) WABASH, Ind. — Farmers at a meeting at Leesburg, Ind. Jan. 19, voted to stop a foreclosure sale of 151 acres belonging to Clarence Gearhart a couple miles west of Leesburg, Ind. On Saturday, Jan. 20, they elected a committee of three to see Federal Loan Bank attorney Bowser of the Warsaw, Ind., county seat. Attorney Bowser called the Louisville, Ky., bank. Afer waiting an hour, the bank called Gearhart, the owner of the farm and refused to give him another year extension on his mortgage. By this time 200 or 300 farmers had gathered. They filed out on the courthouse steps, and the sheriff started to hold the sale about 11 a. m. A spokesman for the committee. of farmers explained what the farmers had decided to do at the farm meet- ing, and asked them if they wanted to see the sale go through. Farm- ers yelled, No! No! and when the sheriff began again they booed him until he could not proceed. Federal Loan Bank Attorney Bowser wanted to. make a speech, but the farmers yelled him down and crowded around him as well as his bodyguard of policemen and sheriffs deputies. They walked him out in the court house lawn about 100 feet so he could not bid. A deputy exploded tear gas in the center of the crowd. The farmers were fighting mad and chased him into the courthouse, and the depu- ties exploded another one on the courthouse steps. The sheriff and deputy locked themselves in the courthouse until a big force of state new forces arrived. Then there were plenty of them around. Federal Loan Bank Attorney Bowser was scared and about 4 o'clock he coaxed the farmers to let him loose. He promised not to bid. He did not bid, but the farmer sheriff of Kosciusko County did. ‘The mortgage was $12,000. The property sold for $6,600. This sale was started about 11 a. m., and after the forces of law and order arrived South Brooklyn Section of the LL.D. Greets the Daily Worker Julio Mella Branch John Reed Branch Oreski Branch Polish Branch No. 57 Talapoosa Branch Italian Branch Billings Branch Greetings for 10th “Daily Worker” Anniversary GREETINGS from Party to MR. and MRS. BROWN On Their Tenth Anniversary GREETINGS FROM UNIT 3, SECTION 11 Communist Party, N. ¥. GREETINGS FROM EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE Waiters Group Local 2 N.T.W.L OU. New York City New York Unit 7 Section 15 J. M. GNIEWECK Communist Party Hempstead, L. I. Unit 9 Section 7 Communist Party PEN AND HAMMER New Brunswick, N. J. Working Womens Clubs Communist Party |police with riot guns and gas ar- rived about 3 o'clock. The Warsaw Police had not appeared until the Young Communist League Young Pioners, of NEGAUNEE, PALMER, ISHPEMING Unit 15 Section 11 IcCOR Communist Party Newark, N. J. Greek Buro New York City batantas aed ‘ Brighton Beach Branch 139 L W.O. Harlem Br, 69, I.W.O. epee ea New York City GREETINGS to the DAILY WORKER, from M. Vinshevsky Br. 115, I.W.O. Marquette Iron Range New York City Finnish Federation District Workers Clubs BRANCH 615 International Workers Order Meets Every Ist and 3d Fridays of the month at the Brighton Workers Center Brighton Beach Ave., N, ¥. .. Farmer Describes Fight Against Indian Foreclosure about 3:30 p. m. they were able to hold the sale about 3:55 p. m, ‘Tiala Arrested Tiala, Mrs. Tiala, and Jesse Hann of Syracuse, Ind, were arrested about 3:40 p. m., as well as two local farmers. They were kept in Court House behind locked doors until after the sale was over. They lined a half a dozen state police on the steps of the court house in front of the bidder of the farm and deputy with gas bombs and riot guns. Farmers talked of rushing them and probably would if they had been organized better. The two local farmers were turned joose. Alfred Tiala, his wife, and Jesse Hann were taken out of town Bee ee Gomeenr we leaned r. The farmers held meetings in the country since and they are rather miliant. The sheriff has called these two farmers he turned loose to the jail tonight and 10 farmers (last night meeting) decided to tour the county today to mobilize the farm- ers in Warsaw as a protest. Bail for Tiala, his wife, and Henn is placed at $5,050 a piece. The charges are resisting an officer. The prosecutor is threatening to place more serious charges against them. Elkhart Truth. says they have re- moved the three to City. Every reader of the Daily Worker should send a letter of protest to the Governor Paul V. McNutt, as Well as President Roosevelt, and the Koscuisko County Court Judge and Sheriff. Local attorney Wideman of Warsaw for the farmers says the charge of resisting an officer will not convict, but they are doing all they can to discourage organization in Indiana, We discussed this in our Party Section Committee and decided to utilize the spontaneous action of the workers in order to develop the struggle of the unemployed for jobs or relief, particularly those who registered for jobs but got neither jobs or relief. Our formerly strong unemployed movement had entirely disappeared. We had to start all over again. ‘There was a mass response to our slogan of jobs or relief for ALL un- employed workers. But we made the mistake of trying to organize an un- employed local of the C. W. A. Workers’ Union. This weakened the movement. We learned by our mis- take, however, and organized a sec- ond committee near a large metal shop—our point of concentration. Here we came forward boldly in our attack on Roosevelt’s war program. We took the names of all those who were unemployed but not on relief and an action committee was elected in order to get these workers either jobs or relief. One hundred and sixty-one gave in their names at the first meeting. The committee is unaffiliated. There are no cards, etc. although the question of affiliation with the unemployed committee is starting to come up. The committee is called the “Archer Highlands Neighborhood Committee.” In five days of continued action, the committee has grown to 26. We visited two C. W. A. offices. In one the workers were told that 100,000 had been given jobs—50,000 of whom had been on relief; that there was no discrimination for jobs, but that no more were to be hired. ‘They were sent to a second office, a special complaint station, Here the workers were told that they had just being sent here for a stall—that only 62,000 had been employed and 32,000 on relief. That only 5,000 who were not ex-service men and not on relief had been given jobs; that there was discrimination in giv- dabless a Describe Valuable Experiences, of Areher High- Group in Chicago ing out jobs and that the A. F. of L, hhad picked those that were paid up in dues to be,.given jobs. Workers Become. Convinced of Roosevelt's Anti-Working-Clasa Policies Former Roosevelt supporters on this action committee had become convinced of Roosevelt’s anti-work- ing-class policy= “About half of the action committeé“are youth, not a single one of-whom had ever been in our movement. A sport commit- tee had been organized to demand that the promises of the local poli- ticians for a gyntasium and play- ground be fulfifled. Relief has gjso been gotten for = few families and several single work- ers. For the first time in almost a year an unemployed committee had been recognized’ as a relief station. The workeis ‘are becoming con- vinced_ through their own experience that there are no jobs and the whole neighborhood is.seething. A young worker who heckled the first meeting and stated that the C. C. C. campa were not for war purposes was beaten up by some ofjshis own friends for lying to them. Program, of Action The following,program of action hhas been developed by the committee: Election of a delegate to the Washington ‘Unemployed Confer- ence, eae The names of all the in the neighborhood to be sent to President Roosevelt, Governor Horner and Mayor Kelly te de- mand jobs or relief. To bring pressure on the local alderman and priest. While the names are gotten on petitions, the workers are invited to our next as- sembly. The question of mass action to demand jobs: or relief is coming from the workers themselves. Sub- committees haye been developed almost spontaneously, which have won gas, etc, Our first committes is being organizéd as a loose organ- ization without: books or cards. The workers are enthusiastic and we are involving ourselves in every-day work—more than we ever did through the unemployed bran In both these neighborhoods the local unem- ployed council branch could not bring 15 people to a meeting. Now the halls are too small to hold us. For the first/\time our every-day struggle is organized with the idea that ALL unemployed workers are entitled to an income (jobs or relief). The workers, through their own ex- perience, are beginning to understand the need for atid to feel that they can win unemployment insurance. P. T., Chicago. Has your organization made » donation to the’ fund to finance the National Convention Against Unemployment, Feb. 3, in Wash- ington, D, C.?' Send funds to Na- tional = Ui iommittee, nemployed Council, 80 E..11th St, New York City. r JOIN THE Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name iat Street City 4.2.06, ‘ Bad Breath ‘Thanks to the high-pressure sales- manship of a certain germicide man- ufacturer who has succeeded in in- stilling a widespread fear of posses- sion\of an unpleasant breath, we are constantly called upon for advice on this subject. In the great majority of cases, we find that the alleged pos- sessors of a bad breath, have no such ailment. But it is impossible to con- vince them, They believe that we are trying to save their feelings. Some of these cases not only have no offen- sive odor but have actually a normal, wholesome and even sweet breath, But the poison of capitalist advertis- ing has made such an impression on their mind, that no argument is strong enough to counteract it. The friendlier we are, the surer they are that we are “kidding” them. “Your best friend won’t tell you.” For the sake of quieting the fears of those who imagine that they are suffering from an unpleasant breath, we wish to enumerate the conditions which are apt to cause a bad breath. First comes inflammation of the gums, known medically as. stomati- tis, often seen in children who are own to suffer from ulcerative stomatitis, a condition in which the gums are soft and swollen or spongy. In scurvy, the gums may become so inflamed that they begin to bleed. In pyorrhea alveolaris or Rigg’s disease, pus can be seen oozing out of the teeth sockets when the gum is squeezed. In this condition there is evident a disagreeable odor of the mouth, Workers working with mer- cury, lead or phosphorus, will also develop a stomatitis with fetid breath. Next in importance comes bad teeth, People suffering from dental cavities are liable to have an offen- sive odor coming from the mouth. Infected tonsils and adenoids might By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. In certain stomach ailments, fere mentation of the. food takes place with formation ‘of lurtyric or of lace tic acid and & “corresponding foul odor, This is “asily distinguished from the laden breath which devel- ops when the stomach has remained empty for a longer period than habitual. We are all ae the “beery” odor of the Seca beer guzzler, ug stale beer; heavy breath of the whisky drinker, due to chronic gastritis; the acid effulgence of the constant smoker and the heavy. redolance of those who prefer , garlic or lim- burger cheese, to the purest breath. Inflammations f the nose and sinuses are liable to cause the de- velopment of a slightly disagreeable odor. disease known « of the lung will develo exhalation. But, ‘the Sul, and the o1 actually nauseating in its takes place in eatigten e of the lung; fortunately a rare condition. Certain poisons. impart a charac- teristic odor to fhe breath: Thus, hydrocyanic acié be detected by the scent of bitter almonds; phos phorus suggests garlic; while are senic and valerian are strongly rem= iniscent of onion, — Finally, there sare a number of diseases which are-sometimes diage nosed by the bréath. In advanced diabetes, a fragrance like overripe apples comes from the mouth, which changes into that of vinegar when the patient becomes comat (un- conscious). In severe kidney trouble, there is a smell-of ammonia in the breath; in obstruction of the bowel there is the stench of feces; in ad= vanced cancer of the stomach and, most fetid ‘oulest of all one which is ulcers, there is the also be the cause of a heavy breath. to a lesser degree, in severe gastric r j unmistakable putrid emanation of rotting flesh,