The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1934, Page 4

AEE RRS espe, » been rescinded, however, so the fight establish communication with such - Russian women. Page Four $8 for 50 Hours of Sorting | Garbage in Freezing Plant/Ty Plant of the Midland Steel Products Co. Five Girls Fired by D. Graf & Son for Complaint To Washington, But (By a Worker Correspondent) HALAMAZOO, M 5 Aeries of notes T read this ni this worker and that th be exagge! true can b three years a in this place and W plant about two week: ported the same c The place is traf & Son {Paper Stock Co.) Kalamazoo, Mich. 1. At present the: a 50 hour week—9 hours urs on Saturday. Wor! They were on R.A., 40 hours a ¥ 2. Bailed garb; Detroit for in sorting the par rabbits, rotter vegetables. and every mess. week. | this rk in this | in a rot-| d for | the health-and it makes these work- | ers sick and coming home from work they often cannot eat from | being sick to the stomach. Also} they cannot wash thi hands with | common ‘soap. | 3. Girls cannot dress in private as the doors has a big square hole | in it, and if the girls put a card- hoard over this hole at quitting time) in the morning it is gone. | 4, Five girls fired because Isaac ). Graf said he found out the five irls wrote to Washington about | ese conditions. When they were fired they were off the N.R.A. Never- theless Washington did not a thing about these conditions. This is one | of the ways workers are being ter- | rorized in this place. 5. One girl was fired on Dec. 30th for staying in the toilet too| long. 6. A month or two ago two fires broke out one week after another. These fires, it is reported, were pu by incendiaries. The workers in this Plant were questioned but nothing | developed out of this. The fire in- surance man when he investigated found the window leading to the fire escape nailed down. Also bales of paper were strewn all over the place. The firemen could hardly get to the fire. This place is a fire trap. ‘The windows to the fire escape are at present nailed down. 7. (Sanitary Conditions.) Nobody cleans the toilet. The sink in the rest room is stinking rotten. There are no towels and no soap. Both these places are filthy rotten and not cleaned at all. 8. The State inspector was here | from ; number, NRA Does Nothing things had to be changed but not a thing was done 9. There is no ventilation at all. | Girls who work on the belts stand | in boxes filled with rags and paper wo eep their feet from freezing (I| © keep their orker got kind | to keep our feet of sore and freezing. There is an awful speed up. Because five girls kicked about 10 ul being che out 60 c Isaac D. Gi was a couple of months ago. Detroit Bait Used As War Draft Plot (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich—I have been g in the lines in front of De- auto factories for two years. vouch for the fact that the| in their pay | lines are growing enormously of late. The reason is not far to seek. The| bosses are getting ready to spring a/| trap on the unorganized workers. | Rumors have been spread that De- | troit’s auto industries are hiring ex- tensively. Our benign, fatherly, child- loving President is starting a drive} to round up all the unemployed, using | Detrdit as a concentration point.| When the accumulation of hungry hopefuls has reached a large enough | they will be gathered to- gether by job promises and fooled} into signing some paper or other. They will be signing their freedom away; and find themselves herded like cattle into trucks and boxcars and ‘transplanted’ to huge labor camps. The penalty for desertion will probably be the same as in the army, imprisonment under worse conditions. They will work for little or no pay and lousy food. Should one of them squawk about the grub or conditions, he will be labelled “Red,” and “seg- regated” in a concentration camp that | will be no different from a wartime | prison-camp. | Of course, the “project” will be given a fancy name to disguise its real significance. We must fight this menacing development toward imper- jalist war. It will be another step toward fascist dictatorship by Roose- | velt. | NOTE | | We publish letters from steel, | metal and auto workers every Tues- day. We urge workers in these in- | dustries to write us of their work- ing conditions and of their efforts to organize. Please get the letters three or four years ago. He said to us by Friday of each week, | conpu Yesterday we printed here a letter from Comrade Edith S., of Sand Springs, Okla. who gave us several Suggestions, made a request for sup- Plies for a Red Corner, and asked heip in starting a Workers’ Book Shop out there. Comrade Edith’s opening remark, as to our luck, we have no desire to dispute. Now, as to the half page—wouldn’t ‘we like that, though! But under pres- ent circumstances, it’s no use to hope for it. Space is at a premium, due, of course to financial considerations. For the present, we must be thank- ful for our small corner. When the Daily can enlarge—perhaps we'll be given more space, which would en- able us to run a more uniform sec- tion: if we should expand now, we’d have to crowd out other very valu- able material. Just the same, even in this small Space we think we can contrive to carry out some of Comrade Edith’s Suggestions, perhaps by “boiling down” the recipes a bit. We have al- teady checked up about the welfare | of Editi Berkman. Her health has improved sufficiently that she has been released from the hospital wherein she was incarcerated and ts Fecuperating further. She is not free, though, by any means. Miss Perkins, the Doak’s successor, to secure an effect of liberality, has given Edith Berkman stay of depor- tation for a year. The order has not to free Comrade Berkman should go ‘on unceasingly, and not be allowed to relax as it has done. Letters from Russian working ‘women we are not in possession of just now, but we will surely try to day or two after receiving Com- rade Edith’s letter we forwarded a “picture of Lenin as she requested. We found to our amazement we had to around considerably for this, mone of the four book shops at the ‘Workers’ Center here having the sort of pictures specified. We bought the ‘one Amkniga had of a lithograph color, very nice (10 cents), and it down to fit a good-look- ‘red-and-gold frame we found in _nickel-to-a-dollar store, for a er. We hope Comrade Edith was Y with the picture. We also along a few little postcards with ss of the Russian revolution on ‘The banner we could not make present. we have no sewing hine. So we forwarded a design ‘the banner, with star, hammer sickle, drawn on paper, and be glad to send a similar de- to any comrade who wants to a banner, if they will specify wanted. (Bookends we could n we have made arrangements the use of a sewing machine. we might follow out Com- ith’s tip and make some ban- HELEN LUKE | fired five girls. | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1934 Forced To Work in Freezing Temperature Every Job a Rush Job for the Tool and Diemakers | (By an Auto Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich—The |diemakers of this area, | Supposedly unionized, | tool and hell of a time. Viciti ing on uninterrupted; |smaller job shops, having made agreement with the Mechanics Ed warkers /// DONT LET U.S. SHYLOCK PAW YOUR LIVED FOR CAPITALISM f cational Society, came right out and discharged their shop stewards right and left. Instead of working eight hours per day, five days per we are made to work any kind of hours, and every job is a rush job. In the brief period of about two months or so which they_ graciously granted us, we were made to burn up and break our backs to please | their whims, and now on top of all our grief, our big-hearted President Reoosevelt is bringing inflation to break us down completely. Chester Enamel Co. Helped by N.R.A. to Cut Wages 20 P. €. (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHESTER, Pa.—Chester industries are rotten with N.R.A. graft and high ~obbery of the workers. The Atlantic Steel Co. has for a year been holding back from 10 to 30 per cent of the workers’ wages, and when the workers demanded this money which was due them they were told to try and get it. When they are laid off the workers are generally denied a food order until the bosses are forced to grant it by the active members of the Unem- ployed Council. The Penn Steel Co. has been work- ing the workers 60 hours per week |under the N.R.A. code. Those work- ers do not get paid for overtime but get a straight 50 cents an hour. The Chester Enamel Co. worked one of their watchmen 7242 hours per week, and the other 4742 hours. Those two worked 120 hours per week, taking the place of three men. CTED BY for a few weeks. We spoke to the management of the Book Shop here, who promised to cond information about opening a shop there. If Comrade Edith has not eard from them, and has not re- ceived the picture of Lenin, will she please communicate with us? (We nsured the picture). Best luck to Comrade Edith in the ‘uznishing of that Red Corner. We'd ike to see a picture of it when fin- ‘shed. And will we follow out the ‘ip about news of women in the class ~truggle? See tomorrow's Daily! Can You Make ‘Em Yourself? Pattern 1598 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 16 takes 3% yards 39-inch fabric and % yard con- rasting. | i Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write vlainly name, address and style num- ‘for sale, to finance that Red it Book we spoke about before. not be in th> very near*fu- er, as our hands are full [ ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker, Pattern Department, 243 West 17th When 8 complaint was sent to the | Compliance Board, the leather code, ‘thich is under the protection of the Tanners’ Council of America, was ‘ead as follows: All the workers in , ‘he industry can work as many hours } 18 Is demanded of them by the com- | Dany, paying a little extra for over- |time. ‘Thus two workers can take | the place of three workers with very little extra expense to the company. After the company’s victory they “icked out one militant worker and discharged him, claiming he reported the company to the compliance although the worker did not do so. Then the company shut down the factory for two days, called the workers together, and told them that the assistant superintendent had been to Washington hobnobbing with his friend Mr. Johnson and received permission to cut the wages 20 per cent. So he fired all the workers but 12 and told them to take the cut or leave it. The 12 workers took the cut because they are not orga- | nized. Efforts have been made to organize the workers in this shop, but they were afraid they would get fired, and now they are fired because they were not organized. This is an obvious fact, that where the workers are or- ganized in an industrial union they are in a position to protect them- selves. In a few days or a week the boss will have the factory working in full force again with high salaried straw bosses and a new system of speed- up. But I think that now the work- ers have learned lesson and will organize their forces industrially and force the boss to give them better wages and working conditions. PETER O'BRIEN. (Signature Authorized.) Thru With AFL. in Nash Plant Kenosha (By An Auto Worker Correspondent) KENOSHA, Wis.—Last November there was a big strike in the Nash plant in Kenosha. It started in the final assembly line where I work. We picketed the plant for ten days, and then the big shots in the A. F. of L., with the help of the Labor Board, sold us out. Today we are working only 25 hours in every two weeks. We work five days each in every two weeks, and though our wages average around 75 cents an hour, we can only make $9.50 to $10 a week. And we are turning out plenty of cars per hour for that 75 cents, too. A number of fellows have had to quit and try to get jobs somewhere else, because they couldn’t support their families on this lousy money, In our department there are very few that belong to the A. F. of L. We got a very militant bunch of men, but the A. F. of L. sellout was too damn raw for us. The only union that could win anything for us is the Auto Workers’ Union, and we know that we should have taken their ad- vice in the first place. And, when prodiction picks up again, believe Street, New York City. me, that’s the union we're going to have \ : Accidents Caused by Greed pondent) Steel Worker Corres; rROIT, h.—The ting system, to is no room or for that matter any lace in the factory. Workers are -| compelled to walk over piles of scrap iron and finished stampings. Al | cidents ai Iam numerous. g but a short time in and in by id steel. man was run over by an automo- ig in the factory from one to anothe s thrown from by an overhead riously injurued, due to the 2 y of W Ss. fa There about 30 welders work- ing around the shop without any Midland | is the cause of more injuries. e | 1 shields to protect their eyes, which The aprons, etc.| curred during the six weeks I have ents per hour.| been employed in the factory. | Sanitary conditions are awful; there | is an absolute disregard for sanitary Tules in this factory. Worst of all is the restaurant. They have wooden tables that have not been washed since they were placed there. Since |I have been employed there, the it of consideration for the} | dv¢‘on men in this factory. floors in the dining room have not "| been washed. I am not exaggerating in my de- have witnessed} scription of these deplorable condi- One manj tions, but I am rather minimizing her his finger, one| them. Now, we ask, where are the a| State safety engineers? Where are man lost his| our State and city officials, that are Another | supposed to look after the welfare of the factory workers. There is no orr7nization of any kind among pro- mm I herewith call the Midland Steel workers to organize in the Auto Workers Union and organized body through the militant organization of the auto workers and fight to the finish against these kinds of working conditions. LA. F. L. Bars Strike ‘At Simmons Bed Despite Bis Vote (By a Woeker Correspondent) KENOSHA, Wis—The situation in the Simmons Bed plant here in Ken- osha is unbearable. The majority of the members of the A. F. of L. Fed- eral Union want to go on strike. At a recent meeting held to take a strike vote the count was 604 to 288 in favor of going on strike. And, can you believe it, we couldn't strike, because of a rule of the A. F. of L. requiring a three-fourths vote in order to call a strike. That means one-fourth of the men can tell the other three- fourths what to do. And they say there is democracy in the A. F. of L. The local Trades and Labor Coun- cil President, Felix Olkives, comes into our meetings and hollers his head off about how hard it would be for our families if we go on strike. He isn’t working in the damn shop, and doesn’t care how hard it is on them that do WORK there. If you make 50 cents an hour or more you're lucky. But, rule or no rule, we can’t go on working this way. If we have to scrap every rule in the whole con- stitution in order to strike, we'll do it! And let any outside official take the consequences if he tries to stop us. Which Union for Sary Steel Workers (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) GARY, Ind.—I want to write about the role of the company union and the Steel and Metal Workers’ Indus- trial Union in the Gary Steel Works. Since the representatives were elected last June, we have never been called to a meeting. No action has been taken on our demands, and all the good it does is to give the rep- tesentatives a break by having lunch with the bosses. It was established to kid us into thinking it was a union, so we would not demand mili- tant organization. The leaders of the Amalgamated Acsociation (A. F. of L.) are no better. They are trying to build another com»any union. They are in favor of craft unions, which disorganize the workers. The leaders of the American Federation of Labor work hand in love with the bosses, as was seen in the strike of the Standard Forging Workers in the harbor last October, where the A. F. of L. lead- ers helned herd scabs into the plant to break the strike. The Steel and Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union is controlled by the rank and file. It has led sucessful strikes of the steel workers. Work- ers of Gary Steel Works—Mr. Grif- fin, the rail mill superintendent, still { LIFE’S SAVINGS LOST Dear Comrade Editor: In yesterday's issue, the financial part of the New York Times (Jan. 29), page 23, col. 4, this paper boasted that the tremendous sum of $446,000,- 000 out of $600,000,000 has already heen vaid to closed banks in order to free frozen deposits, to give the gen- eral impression that everything is well on the financial front, but this is not so and especially so with financial conditions of Indiana state concerns. Herewith, I am trying to draw a picture of financial conditions of South Bend, Ind. By accident, be- cause my parents as well as my whole relations had invested their whole life savings in an institution by the name of the Building & Loan Asso- ciation of South Bend, Ind., I also deposited my savings in this institu- tion when I was a resident here some time ago. | Everything went on nicely until 1931, when I was in very great need of some of my savings. I was then notified by this bank that I could not draw a higher amount than $25, but this happened only once. It beesme smaller every month and since February, 1933, payments have been stopped altogether. A year ago, on Christmas, my mother died and we had no money for her burial. We | had, to take up a loan from the un- dertaker, and it has not been paid yet. Through the inflation every depos- Men Work for Meals Only in Fisher Plant (By An Auto Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—In the Fisher body plant, because of alleged inability (from the “increase in employment”!) to keep a regular working staff up, ali men must work—a notice said recently, one day a week. The no- tice was posted Jan. 15. (This work is forced labor, for one meal extra). I don’t know what the actual in- terval between workers is, but haven’t noticed anybody T could spot working twice yet. I know nothing, to assume that turns are kept equal and regu- lar, but the announced requirement said once weekly. Since the labor is unpaid, more are taken per day than actually needed, @ complete going-over of the place is done daily (mopping, moving all the beds, etc.) instead of weekly or so as had been customary, and men are kept plodding away at silly non- sense, straightening the exact align- ment of bunks, etc. There is definite meanness and threatening talk to the Negroes— which the whites, if well enough equipped with knowledge, can inter- pret as a foretaste of what will be gotten away with against them. There is nothing, of course, in the Negroes’ conduct to call for this special dis- crimination, The men should get together and demand pay, and I think it should be retroactive to even past days unpaid. I don’t think keeping them on un- necessarily long would need to ne the subject of a demand. It would adjust itself if the pay point were won—pay by the hour instead of the day, if that is better tactically. There is criticism and some understanding and resentment among the men. Jones-Laughlin Worker Nets 86 Cents in 6 Days (By 2 Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Because of my interest in the wages given at the South Side Branch of Jones & Laughlin, I bought a “pay check” from a worker at J. & L. This man walked an average of 46 miles in six days, or, if he rode, it would cost him at least $1 to come to work. He earned $3.52 for six days, and $2.70 was deducted for insurance, which left him 83 cents, or not enough to pay his fare in going to work. EDITOR'S NOTE: For certain technical reasons it was impossible to make a photostat of this check, but we have it on file in the office. continues with his old tricks, as now he is supervising not only the rail mill but the billet 44-inch blooming mill and the plate mill. Letters from Our Readers itor has already lost 40 per cent on the dollar, and if he does not soon receive his hard-earned savings it will melt away like butter in the sun. These are the true conditions of South Bend, Ind, and I would like to hear from the victims of other states and cities over the U.S.A. BANK VICTIM. LEARNED FROM “DAILY” (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Back in 1931 I heard the words at the relief bureau: “You must be put out on the sidewalk before we can he’ jou.” “If tenant is present whe:i called by this court, five days is given to pay the rent or move out. Presence or absence of landlord is of no concern to these proceedings, but if tenant be absent a grant of only three days will be allowed.” “If you are a father of three and make $4 or $5 a week you are not entitled to any relief.” my paner, H. Y. T., praised heaven- high the “welfare,” the “courts” and the “H. R. B.” for their wonderful deeds. When I began to read the Daily Worker I began to understand the tactics used by the “kept press” and all other agencies of our oppressors to keep us chained down. Thanks to our Daily Worker, I not only en- lightened myself but helped others to| the Daily Worker means winning come to understand that Communism! another worker to the revolution- is the only way out for the genuine betterment of all workers, ; seed” ¢ | Correspondent, on Job Six Weeks, Reports Many | | By a Metal Worker Corresoondent | | | | Aerovox Corp. Fights Union by | Discrimination | NEW YORK.—I am a worker from the Acrovox Corp., which employs} about 1,200 in the busy season, I ws} laid off. I took part in a spontaneous | strike that broke out last August. Just a few words on what hap- pened during the strike. A few workers walked out demanding a minimum $14.40 for a five-day week and abolishing piece work. They came to the Metal Workers Industrial Union, and with their aid pulled the rest of us down. An elected com- mittee of the workers went to the boss with our demands. The boss called in the N. R. A. to prove that we were | getting the minimum wage under the ecde. At that time we were willing to listen to the N. R. A. and went back} at the original code rate of $12.80, with raises to individuals. We were | also granted re*ognition of a shop| committee, to be elected under “supervision of the N. R. A.” The} majority of us were laid off during the slack season since November. Among the first were the shop com- mittee (if they did not become super- visors). We workers who were laid off have gone through a great deal of suf-) fering. Many of us have registered | at the C. W. A., were promised jobs, | but have never received them. Many of us have registered at the Home| Relief Bureau and have neve gotten | relief. Some of us have remained| home starving, too proud to do either, Those of us lucky enough to remain at the Aerovox (part time,) have had} to support a family with payrolls ranging firom 90 cents up. Most of us are realizing what the N. R. A. meant in the first place; to starve us out, to cut our wages, to lay us off, and to expose the most militant ones among us. We also know now what the Metal Workers Industrial Union meant to us, that is, if we would have listened to what they advised, we would have probably stayed out longer and gone back organized, with greater concessions on the part of the concern. At the present time, some of us who worked previously at the Aarovox are being rehired. It is evident that the most militant strikers will not be taken back. We should not sit home waiting to be called back, but come daily’ to the factory and try to get back. If this does not work, I won- der what we could do next? a, sea Editor's Note: — This situation, where the employers can play with the lives of whole families by laying off the bread-winner, and taking him back on whenever he pleases, will continue until the employers are deprived of their power to do this, In the Soviet Union, where the workers run the government, where the workers own the factories and determine their own working con- ditions, such problems as_ these workers have to face are undreamt of, There is no unemployment, and there is no arbitrary firing from jobs by the management of the fac- tories, The Communist Party of Ameri- ca is organizing all workers to lead them in a struggle to grasp the power of government and take the factories away from the rich owners. Workers who are tor- mented by the problem of “What next?” should get in touch with the Communist Party at 50 E. 13th St., New York City. Disrupters in the MES.A. Described (By an Auto Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—Disillusioned by the results of the recent strike, the rank and file of the Mechanics Edu- cational Society of America is mov- | cussed, closed with | pledge on the part o. comrades present to come to the | ment shown. Only after the leadi ing to the left. The left movement would be stronger except for the machinations of the disruptive re- actionaries. i ‘The union has disruptive elements within the gates. Stadwick, the Ford die-maker turned lawyer, is ever to the fore with proposals to make the membership open only to men whose proficiency can be guaranteed to the ‘bosses. Henry Ford should create Stadwick the Marquis of Miller Road for his services. Hoof, the Fascist of the De- troit Body Die, and his conferee, “Harry the horse,” are other disrupt- ers. This element insists that the U.S. constitution be incorporated into the constitution of the M.ES. of A. The halfwits do not know anything about the constitution. The anti-Syndicalist Law of Michigan prohibits sym- pathetic strikes. The die-makers of Detroit struck in support of the Pon- tiac and Flint men, violating the state law. Mass action can nullify any slave law. Is it possible that Hoff and “Harry the Horse” wish to crip- ple the M.E.S. of A, by prohibiting sympathetic strikes? Mike the Butcher, known by vari- ous names at the Kotcher Toll & Die Co., is another disrupter. Or- ganizer Griffin’s efforts are upset by the stoolpiegon statements of this Mike to the unorganized. One of the statements is that Smith beat it to Britain during the last strike with $500 of union funds. Smith is daily at tne Schiller Hall union headquarters, claims to have been in the Y.C.L., and to have the dope that Anderson, local president, is preparing to beat it to Russia with the funds during the next strike. The funds are in the hands of the trustees and Anderson has no access to any money of the ‘union. ‘This man should be closely watched by all union men. He carries M.E.S. thefacts, Mr. Woll says: “The The- of A. card which makes him doubly dangerous. Every new subscriber you get for ary struggle against exploitation, war and fascism, PARTY LIFE Chicago Distric# Increases Tempo of Party Recruiting || 173 New Members for Cau munist Party Gained in January; All Sei_to Better Quotas The last District Committee meet- ing, where the 13th E.C.C.I. Plen- um and C. C. Resolutions were dis- % unanimous all leading National Convention with a mini-_ mum of 500 new members. The recruiting drive until Lenin Memorial Meeting was not carried through in @ manner as was ex- pected. Only at the close of the drive was there a slight improve- Baa committees called special meetin: the sections, and of fractions in the trade unions and other mass organi- zations have we begun to move the membership. and enthuse them for recruiting. The results have begun to show al-/Snonths of ady in January when during the 45 weeks in January we recruited 173 members while in December during 5 weeks we recruited only 158 mem- bers. The quality of recruiting, that from basic industries and trade unions has also improved as can be seen from the weekly analysis. And when the question of recruit- ing came up at the end of the Dis- trict Committee meeting a motion to recruit 500 members was oversub- scribed by the comrades present. We are confident that we will achieve our goal. The following quotas were nledged by the comrades: Section 1, 50 new members and 1 addi- tional Unit in the International Harvester. Section 2, 20 new members, 50 per cent from concentration industries. Section 3, 50 new members. Section 5, 30 new members. Section 7, 50 new members. Section 8, 25 new members. Section 9, 40 new members, and no fiuctustion. At least 10 Negro workers. Section 10, 25 new members. Section 11, 30 new members, and 1 shop unit, in the Stockyards. Section 12, 25 new members from con- centration industries, Gary Sec., 45 new members. So. Til, 190 new members, minimum of 3 shop and mine nuclei. Rockford, Ill, 20 new members and establish Party in 2 new towns. Waukegin, 9 new members. ¥.C.L., 15 additional members for Party, 2 from Stockyards. T.U.U.L., 15 new members, 25 if which will come’ from the §.M.W.L.U. who will help to establish 4 new shop nuclei. U.C. & C.W.A., 35 new members. A. P. of L. Opposition, 50 new members, Needle 25, Painters 15, Carpenters 10. So. Slav Buro, 10 new members from the steel region. St. Louis, To bring the 500 members in the sub-district into good standing in dues payments, and organize 1 more R.R. shop unit challenging Chicago in number of RR. units. Skilled Men Are Fired to Keep Wages Down (By a Worker Correspondent) WILLIAMSPORT, Pa—The Ly- coming. Mfg. Co., at Williamsport, Pa., lauded the blue eagle or buzzard with a large increase in vay in the Morgantic papers, They do not hire mechanics here, and as fast as un- skilled men become experienced they try anything to get them to quit. The work is done collectively at piece rates. We are charged for errors, so that we get 40 cents an hour average. They also play the insurance racket here. This is an Auburn Auto En- gineer shop. Expose Stool Pigeon in Blechman Store Strike | NEW YORK .—The striking workers | of the S. Blechman store reported to the Daily Worker that they have un- covered a stool pigeon, Joseph Strass~ ler, living at 2430 63rd St., Brooklyn, who has been attempting to under- mine the strike. Strassler was caught speaking over | the phone to Aaron Hochberg, assist- ant credit man of the company, giv- ing him information as to what hap- pened in a recent strike meeting. All workers are warned against this agent of the bosses and should aid the Blechman strikers to isolate him and expose him before the working class, Indianapolis, Terre Haute id absent. We would these sections what there is a noticeable in- ‘treaSe in recruiting. In the second ek after the meeting the coal fields already recruited 52 new mem- ‘s of a quota of 100. by the time ‘of’ the convention. Section 5 has fade good-in the first week, and the copwades report that the Section Committee decided to raise the quota from 30 to 50. Sections 2, 7, 11 and the fraction in the Packinghouse Workers Industrial Union undertook + to recruit 50 stockyard workers by the time of the convention, The T. U. U. L. leading fraction has |raised its quota from 75 to 93. After hammering home the port of recruiting we have suc- eceded in beginning to move towards real mass recruiting. « We. have ,begun to develop special methods of recruiting. After a méeting with the section organizers, Some units and even sections called open meetings inviting close sym- -pathizers of the mass organizations, and quite a number were recruited this ‘way. And these are not work- ers who cOme and go. They knew about the Party. All it was neces- sary to do was to give them more encouragement explaining the role ofthe Part¥"in the mass organiza- tions they belong to, and many joined. The same with the trade Uhion fractiéns. After meeting with ‘nem, arrangements Were made to invite growps:af workers and explain }to,them the-role of the Party. We |zecruited quite a number this way. \From among the painters alone we recruited 15 4t one meeting. -Our apparatus however in the Party still works clumsily and a nunrber of these workers have as yet Bot, been attached to units. Dozens ‘Of applications have been sent out tovthe sections and units who have }as yet not been called to unit meet- |ings. This must be corrected if we |are to carry this drive successfully. © Im connection with the present \ drive it is also timely to raise the | question of fluctuation if recruiting is to mean anything. It was raised ery sharply at the District Comit- } tsérimeeting, and must be repeated sheve when -we publish the chal- lenges made at the meeting. When we speak of recruiting we also mean net’ to lose the same number as we reeruit. It was meant to increase therdistrict. membership by 500. This must reflect itself in dues’ payments throughout the district. This will be the gauge—whether we increase the membership or not. Southern ‘Tllinois is showing the way to the rest of the sections in ouY ‘district, the way of mass recruit- ings: No doubt if the entire Party membership is mobilized properly we can,even double our minimum quota. if, we recruit in the course of our ivities. ‘The most encouraging sign is the manner in which our active trade union comrades begin ta.see the need of building the Payty. Now the task is to improve ott’ thethods of keeping the new members, through improving the life ef:our units, throwing every ounce }of.our energy into mass activities. aha JOHN LAWSON 4 District 8. , JOIN THE Communist P hip» | 3B. 12th STREET, N. ¥. C lease send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name => eee eeeeceeeeseccccoose tty ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Varicose Veins (?) Mrs. J. S., River Rouge, Mich.—The veins you describe, on your left leg, might have followed “milk leg.” As|_ you have not given us any detailed information, particularly whether you have had any children, we cannot make a definite diagnosis. Also let us know what you mean by the “out- side” of your ears, Do you mean the skin of the neck or do you mean the ear itself? ie aes Astoria Dentist Readers who live in Astoria and are unable to pay exorbitant dental fees can cali on Eugene I. Kreinin, 24-06 29th St., Astoria, L, I. Dr. Kreinin offers his services free on Mondays only. When plate and bridge work are necessary, the fee will be nominal, which means that it will be just enough to cover the cost of the material and the mechanical labor. eee Pulmonary T. B. (?)—Feeble- Mindedness (?) T. B. Glassport, Pa.—From your description, you are apparently suf-|* fering from a chronic pulmonary abscess, rather than from T, B. AS to your baby, it seems that he is feebie-minded and we see no sense in operating on him. If he had a clot of blood on his brain, he would have convulsions. Our opinion about yourself and baby is, of course, a tentative one; no definite diagnosis being possible without a physical ex- [souatiees, Owing to your economic condition, there is nothing else for By PAUL LUTTINGER, MOD. orn’ otis you to do but to continue under the treatment of the local clinics. If -thete are any developments, please ieaieentrntoate-with us again. 3 : Sra ee Hard Lump Following Boil “A Young Y. ©, L. er.—The hard “imp “which remained after the pus from. the boil-was evacuated, will disappear gradually by itself. To hesten the ptocess you might paint it with tincture of iodine every third aight, before-@ding to bed. -Determination of Sex by Diet “Marvin Wick, Tenino, Wash. — @ere~is no scientific means of in- fluencing the sex of forthcoming ehil- drene Diet cértainly does not seem ‘© have any) definite effect. At one ‘time, starvation of the mother was Supposed to ‘itterease the chances of) having malé‘children. It is also a common observation that men over fifty. are midre apt to have female offspring, but there is no scientific ¢Xplanation, 80 far, for either pheno- menon. eory Be 8 Offensive Perspirat °“Nario M., Brookline, Mass.—There no. specific internal remedy for bromidrosis (offensive perspiration,) ‘Wut{wwe have found from experience ‘that hy increasing the amount of salt ig, the diet, the condition can be Meliorated (improved) and even gured,. As a rule, it is best to con- siyne,as little salt as possible because of; ,its, effect on the kidneys; but in this condition relatively large amounts /t i { a ¥