The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1934, Page 4

| 1 Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1934 Negro Janitor Shows Need for Organization Workers Are Speeded Up to Cut Pay Further Feels So Tired After De in Paterson ay’s Work He Can Hardly || Eat or Sleep By a Janitor Worker Correspondent or three weeks at once remember very read to seen is oe to smear I pay my own nd instead of it the to see upon a on in all job connect else to go and no} money | upposed to} was | up piping, electrical . but instead I hired a iver and told the ten- ould stay there over sais) ich I got plenty of hell. of ordering coal for every furnace, I had to wheel the coal from | the cellar. I never got through earlier than 10 or 12 midnight. In those real cold days I refused to wheel the coal as it would mean my death. One day all the hot and cold water pipes froze and another day a boiler busted. For coal, buckwheat, with dirt and! coke, is used. This makes enough | to blow a mine. A terent oven boiler was overcome by the gas ped after the boiler nc.se. gave in. s and nights to help the plumber fix the thing. Too Tired to Eat After a day’s work I would feel so tired that I could hardly eat or sleep. It got so that I had no dren. Mendelsohn wanted m= ver the work on Harrison St., also, but I refused to take the other man’s job, as he also had a family. Then one day I got a letter that I would have to move, as my contract | expired. I reported this to the Un- employed Council of which I found out through another janitor. The Unemployed Council has put | up a wonderful fight for my rein- | statement, also that all repair work | should be done by men hired for this | purpose. They pointed out to the tenants how tenants and janitors must organize, how Negro and white must show their solidarity. to take I and my wife told the Negro truck driver, an old friend of mine, that this is an eviction and that he should | not touch a piece of furniture, so he | didn’t. My ants were there. Before I took this janitor job I worked as a wire drawer in Trenton, also a saga maker (skilled). I worked | as a skilled laundry man in Phila- delphia, making my own soap out of oak-wood ashes. I learned this from my mother. Having a very hard time getting a job, I accepted the janitor’s jail without bars. Now | I am so broken down that I will need quite a rest before I can come back to my old self again. I amr 70- g to try to organize the janitors so | that deal. they won't get such a dirty ad them on | OF OUR Bilan, WGMEN minute-biographies of women active | in the class war. MOTHER BLOOR. Ella Reeve Bloor, a real veteran of the class struggle in America, cele- brated her 71st birthday on July 8, 1933, Daughter of a (Union) soldier in the American Civil War, descendant of @ soldier of the 1776 Revolution, | Ella became a rebel at 14 against the religious affiliation of her family, and found Paine and Inger: reading than the Bible. This led her into a study of so- cialism. In 1893 joined the Textile Work- ers’ Union, during a strike, in order to organize strikihg women into the union. There followed 40 active years in the revolutionary labor movement; years of intense activity even while mother of small children, as orga- nizer of innumerable strikes. Repudiated her membership in the Socialist Labor Party because of its sectarianism, and was for 14 years Wationsal Organizer of the Socialist Party. Active in every great labor strug- gle in the U. S. up to the present time; frequently arrested, kids some- times jailed along with her. As employee of Chicago packing house, gathered data for Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.” Took. firm internationalist anti- war stand during world war; left So- cialist Party and helped found Com- munist movement in U. S.; supported Ruthenberg’s Marxist-Leninist posi- tion. Delegate to Red International of Lal Unions at 1st and 2nd Con- gresses; delegate to all Congresses of C. BUS. A At age of 63, and again at 69, 1 healthier | itch-hiked across continent during rse of her activities. 's now in mid-west engaged in or- anizational work among farmers. (A more complete record of her active life appeared Worker on July 10, jer Trachtenberg.) Bloor is our militant Val- }entine—a big throbbing red work- |ing-class heart. We hope that one | of these days she will be able to find time to write a little message to | working-class women through this column. She wrote a stirring article | | for and about women which appeared jin the July 1933 issue of the “Work- | ing Ridcaccid : Can Sous Make ‘E Yorr--lf? Pattern 1764 1. ..ilable in sizes | 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12. Size 6 takes 2 1-4 | yards 36 inch fabric and 1 518 cate contrasting. | { Send FIFTEEN CENTS (50) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker, Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. | Every new subscriber you get for the Daily Worker means winning another worker to the revolution- ary struggle against exploitation, Once I was even told to hire| ck driver in order to put} patience for my house or my chil-| When Feldman was to be evicted, | Little Work in Allen-A Hosiery Mill, Yet ¥ h Workers. A. F. L. Union Splits Ranks by Craft Unionism; N. S oe Rank and File Organization Urged Jobless Council | Wins Some Relief ((By a Shoe Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK—There are nearly 10,000 shoe workers in New York City searching for jobs every day. Jobs are not available. We were fooled | into believing that N. R. A. will help | us. However, we soon learned dif- |ferent. The shoe workers, realizing that only through organized efforts can the workers get relief from the city, have formed the Shoe Workers’ Unemployed Council. | Our Shoe Workers’ | Unemployed T had to work two| | Council demands from the city, state | jand federal governments that a shoe | cone BACK IN| YoU SA\D qHAT, WO WEEKS 1] TWO WEEKS “40 x project be opened immediately where workers can get jobs at union scale | of wages, the shoes to be distributed | among the unemployed men, women | and children. The committee of shoe workers | appeared at the C. W. A. office, 28th | St., before Kitzkaufman, demanding | jobs for the shoe workers. We were referred to the C. W. S. When the shoe delegation demanded a definite answer from the C. W. S., all we again got was another promise, that the shoe project will be opened for 4,000 shoe workers, with 500 jobs for the shoe repairs at first, and that a committee of six will furnish de- tion. After weeks of rosy promises to us that the project will materialize, we insisted on knowing when it will open. | They then came out openly and re- jected the project, blaming Congress for no funds. We immediately proceeded to or- ganize into stronger delegations. We called upon the W. I. R. for help. | The W. I. R. encouraged us to form a stronger committee to go down to the C W. A. and demand immediate | relief, kitchen food, ete. The C.W.A. saw that we meant business and sent @ representative down to investigate. | But we told him that we know who ;meeds relief immediately, and de- |Manded that the tickets be given to all applicants without discrimination. but We demanded 1,500 food ticket: all we got was 250 the first w With more pressure, we rece’ about 400 the second week. As for the kitchen, nothing has been done |yet. They still keep promising that |to us. The Shoe Workers W. I. R. Committee will not wait much longer, but will again elect a delega- tion to the C. W. A. to see about the | | kitchen. The importance of the W, I. R. |can be seen by this, The W. I. R.| | has also helped us to collect food and | is Strengthening our committee to | carry on the struggles for our de- mands to the C. W. A. | We will continue our fight for our project and for unemployment insur- ance. We call upon all workers to do | the same. ‘How § Scab Union _ Was Put Over in I. Miller Shop | By a Shoe Worker Correspondent |. NEW YORK—Two days before | the vote was taken,at the I. Miller | shoe shop under the auspices of the | National Labor Board, we were all called together to listen to a speech. The first one to speak was Zasofsky, | j the chairman of the fitting room. | He said a mouthful of nonsense | with a grin, and ended by saying, | “Vote for the Boot and Shoe (scab) | Union.” | Then came a Mr. Matthews, who | Shed crocodile tears about how the | strikers called off the strike, and his | words were as follows: “You all know that the Boot and Shoe is an American union, and I. Miller & Sons have signed a three year contract with them. If you vote for the United Shoe and | Leather Workers Union, you will have a lot of trouble. So to avoid {all trouble and have peace and a tailed plans and figures of opera- | y a Textile Worker Correspondent KENOSHA, Wis—I work at the Allen-A Hosiery Mill here in Ken- osha, Wisconsin. Back in 1928 there | was a strike here in the full-fash-| jioned knitting department. The com- pany wanted to introduce stretch-out, making one man operate & machine, without a helper, as it | had been before. The leaders of the Pull-Fashioned Hosiery Workers’ Union (affiliated to the A. F. of L.) prevented the strike from spreading | to the other departments, using the excuse that they were not interested in organizing the “unskilled” labor. | In the opinion of most of us work- ing in the old plant (the unskilled departments) this failure to organize and pull out the entire plant was| what caused the strike to be lost. Today the Pull-Fashioned knitters are making only about 50 to 55 cents | an hour, where back in 1927 they made as high as $1.25 an hour. Pressers on full-fashioned stockings today make only 40 cents an hour, and work under a real speed-up sys- | tem. | A group of about 8 to 10 pressing | mock-seam stockings make only 30} cents an hour. | The full-fashioned loopers (doing | | work that is very hard on the eyes and very tiring) make only 45 cents | an. hour at the very most. | Seamers working on heavy silk full-fashioned stockings are not | making more than 35 cents an hour. Menders have it much worse than | Years ago. They have to do three times as much work for less money. Where before they only had to slip the stockings on one hand, then mend any small holes they found, marking the large ones, runs, etc., the | | have to put it on a machine which turns the stockings inside out, and | they must mend every hole, not just the small ones. This throws the one who before used to turn the stock- | ings by hand, as well as the inspector, out of work. One of the worst things about con- | ditions today is the few hours that we get to put in each week. Seme- times we go in in the morning and wait around and are then told to come back in the afternoon. Of | course we don’t get paid for this time we have to put in waiting. | Many weeks we only get 12 to 15 hours and we can’t live on this little | amount. | In the press department the air is so stuffy as to be almost unbearable. | The ventilation is awful. There are no fans and in the summer months | Working in this room is like being |in hell. Even in winter when it is below zero the windows of the press | department have to be kept open in order to keep it cool enough to work there. And the floors throughout the |plant are filthy with dirt, tobacco | Juice and general grime. Recently the company tried to form |@ company union. They issued a printed pamphlet called “Suggested Plans for Employe Representation Plan,” and called us all to a meeting to decide on this. But we were too wise for this trick of the company. So few showed up that it had to be called off. What we have to do here is to or- | ganize our own department commit- tees to take up these grievances and work toward the building of a fight- tional Textile Workers’ Union, that will organize all textile workers, |for the day worker to do; now they| skilled and unskilled alike. ‘Centralia Sh CENTRALIA, [ll—Rank and file members in the trade unions of Cen- tralia forced through a general strike here in sympathy with the strike of the workers at the Johnasen Shoe Co. At meetings of the Glenridge Min- ers Local 542 and the Trades and La- bor Assembly Committee the call was issued. All building trades unions answered the call, also the moving pictures operators, the bakers union, the teamsters and ice and fuel work- ers. The painters and paperhangers and decorators, and even the trade |unionists on the C. W. A. school projects. Local 52, U. M. W. A., were ordered to work by District President John Mentler on Jan. 31, 1934. But on the morning of Feb. 1 a strong picket line of men and women was formed at the | Bell Zoller Coal Co. The company |called the District President John | Mentler, who saw to it that the min- ers went to work that morning. Many | of these miners went down in the pit with tears in their eyes, but they called a special meeting the same night and decided to come out in sympathy with the Shoe Workers’ In- dustrial Union. This was a victory for the rank and file miners. + The bakers also came out on strike in sympathy with the Shoe Workers’ Union, and out-of-town bread trucks were stopped at the city limits by vickets and were told to deliver no bread in Centralia until this strike was over. The drivers showed their solidarity by returning to their re- spective towns without delivering any ‘read in Centralia. The barbers also came out in sup- port of the shoe workers and strong ion barber shops, and they "so closed in symvathy, This is the first time in the history of Centralia that there has been a veneral strike and the bosses and Chamber of Commerce were shaking steady Job, vote for the Boot and | Shoe.” | Then Zasofsky (the runt) ran to | get Mike (the guerrilla) Miller, and | said, “I’m for an open shop, but if I were a worker, I’d want an Amer- ican union. Besides the government ee your help, and you must help e] Well, the vote did turn out for the Boot and hSoe, but not because the workers wanted to, but because they were afraid of losing their lit- tle bit of pay for their hard labor. But Mike Miller will not rest, be- cause he knows that he has 350 fighters in his factory, General Strike Backed oe Workers (By a Shoe Worker Correspondent.) in their boots. All workers were on the picket lines. The Centralia Evening Sentinel (the boss newspaper), true to its anti- labor character, spit forth its ven- omous attacks against the workers. The printers of this paper also voted to come out on strike, but a settlement was made the same evening, so they did not get to join in the strike. The shoe company agreed to dis- charge the boss ad forelady if the Executive Committee would resign and the committee agreed, and this was voted upon by the rank and file shoe workers and accepted by them. So the strike was officially declared over Thursday night, Feb. 1, 1934, with everyone to return to work Mon- day, Feb. 4. We should now consolidate our gains by organizing the unorganized stores and the stove foundry and other unorganized workers into strong rank and file controlled organiza- tions. Letters from Our Readers PRAISES ANTI-WAR ISSUE; URGES PAMPHLET BY GARLIN Comrade Editor:— I feel that it is only right that I should congratulate the staff of the Daily Worker on the way that our paper is forging ahead. It now gives @ fellow confidence to open it wide up in the subway, and let all who look, see, wonder, and maybe learn. The change in the make-up is evi- dent, and if it keeps getting better like this' all the time, I shall have to stop buying the New York Times. The anti-war issue of Saturday (Feb. 10) was a real tonic. The ar- ticle on the “Technique of War Propaganda” by Sender Garlin was the real goods. His exposure of George Creel was the thing that a fellow needs who knows lots of so- called “liberals.” May I suggest that Sender Garlin write a series of articles on this type of mind. He should do one on the Berles, the Tugwells, the Ickes, etc, as these are the most dangerous people that we have to contend with. With their “radical utterances.” They are the smoke screen laid down by the Roosevelt Administration to fool the workers, and the “puzzled misled middle classes.” ‘The photographs of the war post- ‘ ing industrial union, like the Na-. (Made to Sign False (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK—I have worked for the Master Leather Co. at 56 W. 24th St. (who also specializes in novelty kits and cosmetics), for 342 months, and have experienced the following conditions still existing. The total number of workers at present are 25 young girls, as well as adult women and two men. The wazes are as follows: a dollar a day for 9 hours per day, or $5 for the girls and $7 for the men, at 45 hours per week. However on pay days these work- ers are forced to sign statements that they get more than they actually re- ceive. For instance, the girls are rated for 30 cents per hour and the men are rated at 38 cents. This would entitle the first category to $13 and the lat- ter to $17.25, for 45 hours per week. The boss has the State Labor Code bulletin, which calls for the 8-hour day and 40-hour week, hanging on his shop walls, when it comes to hir- ing his future slaves he compels them to accept the 9-hour day work at the $1_rate. In addition the boss hired a pro- duction manager to see that the workers are speeded to the limit in the unventilated shop, where there are bad odors from the toilet (no toilet paper is provided for us) and the terrible smell of rotting moldi- ness creeping from the cheap wet heavy paper he bought for us (the boss had bought it on a “fire sale” to make profit out of. Since the health inspectors got after the boss, he got it cleaned a little. The workers also suffer from in- haling the smell of acids, remover and various colored chemicals which are used for finger-nail polishing, etc. The filling of the small bottles is done by an electrical process. This job was done by men before at a higher rate. At present it is done by girls for a dollar a day. This job is dangerous to the lungs and as a re- sult at the end of the day these girls sometimes faint from it. The boss often sets his watch back at least 5 minutes (the quitting hour is 6 p. m.). Then they must clean their place of work. During the day these workers are compelled to sit on boxes and bad chairs. Sometimes this sort of cleaning takes 5 to 10 minutes extra time for which they are not paid. Dressing and leaving the shop usually is 20 to 30 minutes ater, and the overwhelming major- ity of these girls live in the far Bronx, Brooklyn, Coney Island. The boss once nervously admitted he paid greft to the inspector. The duties of these workers, as being a section of the chemical in- dustry (cosmetics), is to organize a grievance committee to take up their immediate problems which can be rec- tified quickly on the basis of the above conditions and following de- mands: 1. Reduction of the hours. 2. Substantial increase in wages. 3. The recognition of the grievance comunittee. Also other demands, a locker for every worker, and same on_ towels, and adeauate ventilation in the shop. For further information inquire at the Chemical Workers’ Industrial Union, Room 238, 799 Broadway, New York City. ers were timely, and to the point. The “liberals” now doing all the ranting about the “Roosevelt revo- lution” will be the same fellows who will do, and are doing what George Creel did in the Wilson epoch. May I suggest that a pamphlet by Garlin on the same lines, but extended, be printed, and distributed by the League Against War and Fascism. A pamphlet on this order would help to clear up all the confusion that exists among certain types of the liberal middle classes today. Maybe Garlin could do a series of articles on this type for the Daily Worker. We should have more arti- cles of this calibre. —PAUL CALHOUN ATTENTION: COMRADE H. L.: Come into Daily Worker Editorial Office at once in regard to your communication. See Comrade Jean. Mention the Daily Worker when addressing advertisers. Help put the Daily Worker cir- culation campaign over the top. By a Textile Worker Correspondent { PATERSON, N. J.—In the Arrow Dye Shop most of the workers belong to the A. . of L. The chairman is forcing the National Textile Workers Union members into the A. F. of L. The chairman does nothing for the workers when the bosses tell the workers they have to run two dye tubs, or when the bosses make the workers rush like hell. It is plain to see that the chairman is trying only to get his share of the dues. The National Textile Workers Union got leaflets in this shop to ask the A. F, of L. members to back the N, T. W. U. members, because in section ‘7a of the N, R. A. the workers have a right to join the union of their own choice. These workers like the N. T. W. U. better because it is a working men’s union. In the Victory Dye Shop they have an A. F. of L. chairman with the N. T. W. U. policy, who ts fighting for the workers’ interests every time trouble bobs up. The workers in this shop ought to join the N. T. W. U., then they would not have to fight the leaders as well as the bosses, but war and fascism keep up the good work, At the textile dye shop the bosses are trying every possible way to speed up the workers. It is said that the A. F. of L. chairman does nothing about it. The shop is divided between the A. F. of L. and the N. T. W. U. The A. F. of L. does not want unity with the N.T. W. U. There have been hundreds of workers laid off in this shop, A. F. of L. members and N. T. W. U. members. The boss laid off the workers because he knew they were not united and therefore he could get away with it. In the boil off department of the Weidemann dye shop there were about 700 pieces of goods a day. The boss laid off 14 workers, and makes the workers still on the job do 1,000 pieces, They have to rush around like a bunch of wild men to get more work done with less men to do it. The chairman, Frank Ryan, who belongs to the A. F. of L., does nothing about this, and most of the workers in this department are A. F. of L. members. The A. F. of L. dele- gates in this department only talk about dyes and not about the condi- tions under which these workers have to work. In the finishing department the workers have to run two frames, and if one of these frames should stop, one of the two night bosses, Joe or -|Ben, would hurry to the frame to get it started again. And these two night bosses now come in in the day time to show the day bosses what speed-up is and how to do it. These night bosses often send the workers home early and run the frames themselves. They must be afraid that the workers will make too much Money in their pay. In the Blue Bird Dye Shop most of the workers are in the A. F. of union, It took Tony Autieri two months to get four girls back to work after they were laid off. It was the unity of the workers that kept after Tony till he girls go back o work. Why is it the 30 workers in the LaSalle Print Shop and the 30 work- ers in the Blue Bird Dye Shop will not join the . F. of L. union? Because these 50 workers are class-conscious workers, and they understand the role the A. F. of L, leaders play, Because 4. F. L. Increases Efforts to Tie Hands of Paterson Workers As Dye Bosses Look for Way to Cut Wages they know the National Textile Work- ers Union fights for the interests of the workers and not for the bosses. The LaSalle does the printing and the Blue Bird does the finishing and dyeing. These workers have the same chairman. The workers are so dis- gusted with the chairman that 75 workers signed a petition asking Tony to resign as chairman. But Tony said it would be taken up at the next meeting. The A. F. of L, leaders have told their shop chairmen to try to force the N. T. W. U. members and the unorganized workers into the A. F, of L. so that they can have closed shops. The class-conscious workers know why the A. F. of L. leaders are doing this, because a lot of their own members are not paying dues. If they could get closed shops they could force their members to pay dues and again they could help the bosses give the workers a wage-cut, which the bosses have been trying to give the workers since the strike, Let us see a real united front of all thelr 35-cent luncheons are superior the workers for better conditions,| to those in the average “American” higher wages and less hours, PARTY LIFE _ Detroit Party# Chauvinism Within lts Ranks The case of Clarence and Anna Bradley, of the Pontiac Section in the} | Detroit District, who were expelled | from the Party two or three months| jago, illustrates the need of greafer| care in the selection of responsible) Party functionaries and the inpor- tance of paying close attention. and taking prompt action against any manifestations of white-chauvinism | within the ranks of the Party. | Clarence Bradley, before his expyl-| sion, was the Section Organizer of the | | | | Mrs. Pinchot Sews Slavery Label on™ Dress in Phila, (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The offi~ cials of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union celebrated: an important event this week. Mrs. Pinchot, the first lady of the state,. came to Philadelohia to sew on the | first label on a dress, thereby giving | her sanction officially to the misery and low wages which the label with | the blue eagle on it spells. oF A day before the event took place’ the factory was made spick and spap, windows were washed, floors scrubbed, even the elevators were decorated. Two o’clock promptly she came and the ceremony starte The press turned out in full force, including the Socialist reporter of the liberal Philadelphia Record. The unions, too, turned out en masse, managers, . business agents, the en- tire joint board; even the complaint clerk came. It is important to note that the only Lovestoneite on the joint board took a half day off -te witness the ceremony. euied Needless to say, we got a holiday. that day. We didn’t work. Only we have to make up the time by work~ ing an hour overtime for the rest,-of the week every day. Mrs, Pinchot performed the céte- mony of sewing on the label agafhst a background decorated with an enormous American flag, also a ‘flag with the blue buzzard on it. ‘i The participants in the event were dressed in their best. Among them} was Mr. Lenitas of the Eastern Code Authority, one of the Gimbel Bros., and Mr. Reisberg, the manager of the. union, All made speeches, including the boss, and all emphasized _.the same thing; namely, that the work- ers gained more from the new deal and the blue eagle than any group, involved in the industry. Mr. Réeis- borg was too elated to be able to make an impromptu speech. He read. his from a carefully prepared paper, reiterating his old policy of class-col- laboration, and promised that ithe union will do all in its power for, the benefit of all involved in. the industry. The climax of the affair was reached when Reisborg purchased the | dress on which Mrs. Pinchot sewed on the label—in the name of ‘the union and presented it to Mrs, Pin- chot as a gift. He also made her an honorary member of the union, pré= senting her with a union book. NOTE: We publish letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers~ every Wednesday. Workers in | those industries are urged to write us of their conditions of work, and of their strugzles to organfve. Get the letters to us by Saturday. of each week. ‘ights White Expulsion of 2 in Detroit Shows. That Great Care | Must Be Taken in- Selecting Functionaries Pay Statements at: Master Leather Co. Party in Pontiac, and had previousy belonged to the Ku-Klux Klan. He had always taken an antagonistic attitude toward the district leadershiy of the Party and displayed disruptive tendencies. When his wife, Anna Bradley, wa: found guilty of white-chauvinism, he refused to take a stand either way thereby showing that he himself dic not accept the Party’s position of un. compromising struggle against whites chauvinism. Anna Bradley had been active fc short time in the work among the ua. employed, when one day a Negr | woman worker was taken sick anc needed.a dector. She was taken to : doctor by a committee, which includec Mrs. Bradley. The doctor was bein; paid by the city to take care of al patients who were receiving relie: from the welfare organization. Als this doctor happened to be the docto: of Mrs. Bradley. When the doctor did not want & examine the Negro worker at once but told her to come back later, wher no white patients would be there, the committee, with the exception of Mrs Bradley, took issue with the docto: and told him that he was discrim. inating against a Negro worker, Late; also Mrs. Bradley refused to struggk against this doctor, stating that hi was her family doctor and that she did not want to antagonize him. She was called to the section com: mittee, who explained that her atti- tude was an act of white-chauvinisn and individualism, and that she wa: capitulating to white - chauvinism She not only refused to be corrected but even stated that if the Party tool such a stand against her she saw nc reason for her staying in the Party. The expulsion of both Clarence and Anna Bradley shows that the Party does riot and will not tolerate any white-chauvinism or any coneiliatory attitude toward white-chauviniam ip its ranks, eo * SPOKANE UNIT REPORTS O08 CONCENTRATION WORK Comrades: The,unit has asked me to report on the work of their shop concentration |.committee. This committee went te the White Pine Sash Co. mill here three days ago to issue some papers. The committee was unprepared to sell any literature at that time, so took nothing but some back numbers of the ily. One member of this committee weni into the-shop (a box factory) and was ordered out by the foreman, But the comrade returned at s later date and caught. the workers at lunch and passed out a large bunch of leaflets on the Scottsboro case and @ bundle of Young Workers. The workers were all busy readin« these papers the last the comrade s: of them. The unit believes that they ha’ made a good start at a shop unit. the White Pine, J. 8. Sec’y, JOIN THE Communist Party, 35 HE. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion .on. the Communist Party. Name Street City J. R., Buffalo, N. ¥.—You are un- duly prejudiced against tomatoes, Be- cause you get a rash after eating them, is no reason to condemn them. A number of people b-eak out in, a. rash after eating strawberries, pine- apple, shrimps, mutton or even cow’s milk. As a matter of fact, the tomato | is a fruit, although commonly referre: to as a vegetable. Ripe tomatoes con- tain as much vitamin C as orange, juice and, in addition, about twice’ as much vitamin B and six times. the, amount of vitamin A. Furthermore, there is 50 per cent more iron, 200) per cent more manganese and 300 per cent more copper in tomatoes, than in oranges. With all due respect to your friend, the naturopath, infants will tolerate, twice as much tomato juice as the more popular orange juice. Tomatoes do not cause rheumatism. His rheii-| matism was more likely caused. infected tonsils than by tomatoes. Duud Population Stanley Martinsen, Boston:—THeré | are more physicians in the Unitéd States, in proportion to our popp=|'' tion, than in any other country “in the world. Yet, there are ten Americans who are unable to get’ medical attention, while thousands of. physicians are poverty-stricken ear jack of patients. You can draw own conclusions as to the causes of By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. = ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS % Food Value of Tomato Juice ‘by plan. Pevpartiee = Physicians to ES De ance of ve~-‘sh'es. Chinese vege- ales are tasty and rich in vitamins Do not i... .. .vu-appointed dlet-- itians who have axes to grind. Wé oan eat in Chinese restaurants our self, Chad, ae ‘The New Orleans Hospital Pian John R., Cleveland.—The plan you are referring to was first tested at ed! the Touro Infirmary of New Orleans, La. Now all five of the New Orleans private. hospitals have adopted it. Each person pays nine ($9) dollart in advance, or on the installment plan, per year. For this he or she receiveall required medical atten: tion, except for tuberculosis, mental, — -quarantinable or acute venereal dis- ease, The subscriber pays his or her subscription to a central corpora-— ition, which reimburses the hospitel — where the patient has elected to be admitted. It is too early to commer* on either the success or failure of th et Se Mate “Coffee Fiend,” Baltimore:—! ‘ is the native name for what we call “Paraguay tea. It consists of the “dried leaves of a shrub which grows — ‘in Paraguay and Brazil. It is pre- pared in a special container (Mate in Spanish means a vessel) an ia drunk hot, like ordinary tea. people have to develop a There are mate fiends just this apparent paradox. But for us, it 1s merely one more instance’ 6! of the divine efficiency of our capitalist. scheme. Chinese Food Y. M., Staten Isiand:—The food in gine restaurants is clean, whole- me and reasonable in price. Even are coffee fiends. Contrary. “advertisement you saw, mal contain caffeine, as well as "The cost is about the same as ‘ore “| dinary’tea and higher than coffee. ‘If you buy ten pounds at a time, you can get them for 50 cents a pound. We see no advantage in your chang- ing from coffee to Mate, Before you restaurant. There invest in @ mate set, be sure you try ‘the beyerage in a Spanish restaurant is a preponder-'| You might not like it ne lia