The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1934, Page 4

“afoot. cf this evi Jfesmiouldering flame of resentment Page Four This is the second of a series of afticles taken from the masterly speech of Manuilsky on the betray- als of Socialist leaders in Austri delivered more than a year ago bi fore the Communist Youth Inter- national. In the first installment printed on Saturday, Manuilsky posed the question as to why the working class of Austria was now faced with the hunger, unemploy- | ment, and Fascism, more than 10 years after the working class of Austria had had power in their hands as a resuit of the revolution- ary overthrow of the monarchy im- mediately after the war. In teday’s installment, Manuilsky to describe the situation as it existed in Austria and Europe immediately after the World War. Mornitke’s 0 let must be mastered by all workers, as it con- tains a rema‘kable analysis of the policies of the Social-Democratic leaders which, step by step, led to the present triumph of Fascism in Austria. By D Z. MANUILSKY PART TWO rising up against *- | nands, etc. class of Ru downtred nationalities | Ing classes of | to the win- ning of a c: the toiti: tes into bourreo! 1 1 2 - | ticians | Revoiution Was Rising. 1 Europe was | | ers should read memoirs of! Poincare and Churchill, about which | the socia!-democ:ats are deliberately | hed up by the| n in the | Whole “The soldiers with war’ and ‘1 live the Russian | Revolution’,” writes Poincare anxi- ously in his diary. Mutiny in the 21st Army Corps Men refuse to go into the trench Next day another division of the 7th Corps re- | fused to go into postiior | y Five corps | In a single a warning ‘down Lonvee “Working cl wrote Mi-, Shael Gold in the Daily of Feb. 12,) “must begin to give their wives a/ break. Believe it or not, it isn’t an/ easy thing to learn. There are many old d to be fou | ploit, rob and starve other womei and overcc the just as there are Jews who exploit, | men as well The rob, and starve other Jews. he geois 0 look down | baby-starvers are not all men, by am won time any means, small boy feelings overnight. Tevolutionist must of human bi : make himself over into a new kind | “Believe it or not, it wsn’t an easy! thing to learn.” Yes, Mike, we notice | that when we read your column on} Gretta Palmer a while back. Under ® paragraph entitled, “A Genius Ex-| Communism,” you wrote: | Gretta saw it all in one flash | of vision. Here is her womanly in- tuition on the subject: read it and weep.” Gretta Palmer did not say the stu- pid and callous things she said be-| cause she is a woman: she said| but always ~ sthem because she is a woman with a| Sourgeois-controlled min men newspaper columnists say the Same ignosant, unfeelin; ings that Miss Palmer says. Heywood Broun and Westbrook Pegler, for example, | in the same paper, have been guilty of columns that for sheer nonsense sould take the prize away from Miss | Palmer. (Pegler's vicious burlesque | on he subject of child labor, for in- stance.) . Bourgeois We know the formula by which the | class maintains itself in power: divide and rule. And in the application of this damnable, cor- fupting formula, they don’t miss any ‘tricks. They raise all sorts of con- troversies to set the white agai the Negro, the native against foreign-born, the city workers aza‘nst the f-rmers, the old against the young, and the men against the women. A thoughtful perusal of the bour- “geois women’s pages over a period| “of time surely make it plain to any-| \ body that what should be the duet the sexes is really a duel, anc _the bourgeois papers, far from wish- ‘ing. to investigate and liquidate the do what they can breach, to fan the of 40 decpen the # Sex for the other, ieeWe must unde: nd clearly that “mere are two classes of women, just} digit. | before the war? _| cdvantage of uw BY HELEN LUKE | bourgeois papers strive to obscure, | using their women’s | medium. Gretta Palmer, for exam- How Did They Lose Their Power, Step by Step, To the Counter-Revolution? ‘Has general disorder ar- And here are the memoirs of Pain- 1917, the units on the} olding open-air meet- | that the war be y, and stating | ss to follow the revolu- | tionary example of the Russian army. | In Soissons in 1917, two regiments | occupied the railway station and} ized trains, to move on Paris and | Aissclve Parliament. On July 7th the situation at the front was so seri- | ous that Marshal Petain demanded | the restorat‘:: of field court-martial. Along the whe'e front between Sois- s and Paris, only two divisions in e whole army were considered to be more or less reliable. From the admissions of another of | the imnerialist war-lords, Churchill, | we find that “on both sides of the| St s of Dover unrest and disorder | 2d commenced.” | In a single week,” we read in the & memoirs of Churchill, “we received | . information from various points of | more than 30 cases of insubordination among the troops. In some cases considerable bodies of soldiers refused te recognize any authority for severat days.” Things went so far that Soviets of | soldiers’ deputies were organized and there were open mutinies in army units (at Luton and at Calais, where the mutineers held the town in their Revoiutionary Situation. | Was this not a revolutionary situ- xtion which should have been utilized by the Labor Party? Was not this casa th arty |the situation which had been fore- coer }ib- | C@8t_ by all the international con- the volicv. | eresces of the Second International At the congress of Stuttgart, the socialist parties stated that in case of war they must teke it “to inflame the masses cf the people and hasten on e fall of capitalist class rule.” Was this so or not, comrades? What really proletarian party could allow these masses to let their weapons out of their hands, to hand themselves over to the mercy of the bourgeoisie? But |t was precisely to disarm the masses that the social-democrats exerted all their efforts. Even in the overthrow |of the monarchy in the central em- pires, they lagged behind the masses, resisting like a bullock being led to slauchter. Wanted to Save Monarchy. It is a historic fact thet such lecd- crs of German social-democracy as Ebert were even against a republic, end wanted to save the Hohenzollern dynasty, at the very time when hun- dreds of thousands of Berlin workers were in the streets demanding the formation of Soviets. It is a historic fact that in Germany the social-dem- ocrats defended the monarchy to the ‘ast moment, and only agreed to a bourzeois republic under the pressure of the Entente, which put forward this demand as a condition for peace negotiations. Scheidemann openly sneaks of this in his memoirs. If the social-democrats had not ac- tively struggled azainst the pro- ‘etarian revoiution in Central Europe in 1918, the world would now bear a different aspect. There would now be no crisis, no unemploymen‘, no fascism, no capitalist offensive. The ominous flames of the war in the ™: East wenld not be menacing the ve \wverkers of all ccuntres with the | danger of a new world war. (To Be Continued.) as there are ...0 ciasses of any giv. nationality; cppzessing and oppres. ed. Women as a class are not unite. any more than Jews as a group are united, There are women who ex: It is this fact, however, that the pages as a ple has been whooping it up and rejoicing for some weeks, because women have such freedom and equa ity these days: “Women Hold Bal- ance of Economic Power,” says the headline on her article in the World- Telegram of Feb. 14. She quotes the book, “Women and Wealth,” by Mary Sidney Branch to demonstrate that “they are the economic over- ladies of the United States at the moment... Women, Miss Branch points out . . . are the recipients of between 70 and 80 per cent of all inherited property in this country. They compose one-fifth of all the nation’s paid workers, and they con- trol, almost exclusively, the expendi- ture of family funds,” Which means nothing whatsoever as far as the situation of the im- poverished masses is concerned. Whether the man or the woman of the family has the task of paying 85 cents for an article worth about 49 cents, does not alter the fact that workers are starving, men and women both. Even though the entire wealth of the United States were in the hands of Women, it would not alter the fact | that millions of other women cannot | Snd food for their children, that three million still cannot find jobs “Inferior,” sings Miss Palmer, “Why, we ought never to let our | Yolces die down from the paean of rejoicing over being women and alive | in 1923.” Now it is not the fact that she is @ woman that makes Miss Palmer chant these silly songs to confuse the real issue to restrain proletarian women from a genuine struggle for genuine liberty and decent living | conditions,—it is, we repeat, the fact | | thta she is a bourgeois woman, a} | coddled, well-fed creature just like | | the coddled, well-fed male columnists | ‘ar | In 1919, the Austrian Workers | Lure High School Had State Power Within Reach | Students Into War Training By a Worker Corespondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa—The italist system added a new twist to war training technique. The new experiment for recruiting was held in the South Philadelphia High School in Philadelphia. The older and un- derstanding groups of students with- out more than a gjanre nassec table covered with shiny little com- passes and other instruments and the | wall plastered with placards and pic- | tures of the navy’s “big gun” ships. | “tS. younger students, the 14- | year-old minds, stopped with “goshes” | sees” before the placards| which read, “Get Your Land and Sca Training Now! Join the Sea Scouts! And a sea scout recruiting officer stood by and wrote the names of the | “brighteyed, patriotic lads” who of- fered to join, while two white capped | sailor boys in natty blue uniforms | posed with arms folded. | ‘Dirt, Starvation in the Bellevue Hospital, N. Y. (By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK.—I had a pain in my | side for a few days and went to Belle- | vue Hospital to be ex2mined. I was! told I'd have to stay for a few days. | Five young student doctors examined me and each one told me I had a different sickness. Now I'm home| after staying there four days and still don’t know what causes the pain. | The first day I was examined, I was put in a bed in the hallway, for the wards were all filled up. The doctor | said I must rest. | I'm telling vou I got a rest with all the noise and pillows hard as bricks, | | and the dirty gown they give you that | Someone wore before. Beds are made | |the day you get in and they don’'t| |change the clothing until you leave, | no matter how dirty they are. All the| | food you get are the same thing over| and over every day. This is what we get for breekfast: Half an apricot, cereal, slice of brcad with a touch of butter you can’t see. Coffee or milk. Dinner: One cooked potato, piece of hard beef, bread cr tea. Supper: One hard-boiled egg, slice| | of bread and tea. The coffee and tea taste like dish- water and milk is about three fourths| | | | a) | | water and one fourth milk. The beef| looks like the salt pork the Home Relief gives us. Most of the patients| have food brought from home. But what my husband makes on the CWA | job cannot afford to buy us food. I stayed there four days and lost ree pounds. One supper the nurs McGee, came running from bed to bed and shouted, “What's the ter- rible odor from?” And we all shouted, | “It’s the rotten egg.” She shouted back, “How dare you say those eggs aren't fresh?” Next morning I was there, a nurse sed us if we want to wash, but we no basins, towels or soap, so we} outdn’t wash. Ididn’t wash my face | or three days. I stayed in bed till I| os up and walked to the bath room| washed up without soap, wiped | face with the bathrobe I had on. Jther patients staying in bed for veral days have no towels or ba in, do not wash until some one cor--s to se them and gets them what they | Dose, Tuesday morning the nurse said to me, “You are gcing heme today.” It was 5 o'clock in the moi . She |told me to get out of the | | th | Mi | D | later took my bed away. So I hai | walk around the hall till 3 p.m. wai jing for the doctor to send us home. | It was so cold in there that. I got the grippe and came home sicker than T was. | The head nurse saw me walking | around and said, “Go in the kitchen and do some work.” I told her I wouldn’t, I’m supposed to be sick. | A social service lady comes around | every day asking every patient a lot of red tape. She came to me and asked, “Does your husband work?” I sald, “Yes, on the C.W.A. Job.” ‘Then | she asked, “Is he a citizen?” I said | no. Then she started yelling, “He| couldn't work.” I asked her what she | meant. “Aren't we supposed to eat?| | I was born here and so were the chil-| dren.” But she said if she went to a} foreign country, nobody would want | to support her. I told her she wasn't | supporting us. My husband works | hard for his money. | Tuesday morning & man patient} Jumped out of the window and killed himself, The nurses would not admit why he did this but said he hod a fight with another man and was killed. ROOSEVELT’S BIRTHDAY (By a Worker Correspondent) BESSEMER, Ala.—Roosevelt’s birth- | day would mean something only if| the industries open up, as President Roosevelt said, so that millions of workers would be put back to work, Mr. Roosevelt took good pain to eat his dinner at home while millions of workers had to go out in the parks and playgrounds to get a little to eat. And what does Mr. Roosevelt mean with his birthday party, fooling the sentimental people in Alabama where the workers had given hours of work for the Roosevelt birthday party? What can workers think of Mr. Roosevelt when he carries out his plans to oppress the workers with the new deal and take the pennies that we are receiving from the CWA jobs? I wonder does Mr. Roosevelt think the workers believe the Indus- j of the capitelist sheets, who reason, “I eat, ergo anybody can eat.” | trial Recovery Act is any good? It is no use at all. = ’ WORKER, NEW YORE, MONDAY, Willizims Penn Hotel Strikers Hold Ranks Solid and Strong Militant Tactics Win Wide, Popular Support; Force Negotiations PITTSBURGH, Pa—Here in the/ ranks, stronghold of capitalism, in the| The next strikebreaking trick was homeland of we workers the ri Mr. Mellon, the William Penn of Hotel have pulled a good strike. Af months of careful day-to- rganizational work we were able ucceed in building up a well dis- ciplined union, When the wage cut struck us we were able to withstand the attack and counter immediately | with a counter attack—a strike. We called a meeting in the hotel of the entire crew: cooks, waiters, busboys, kitchen help, chambermaids, housemen, etc. The workers, dissat- isfied with the miserable conditions which prevailed in the hotel, re- sponded 100 per cent. Unorganized men and members of the A. F. of L. union came down and listened to our justified demands. We forced the manager to come down and listen to the demands. In four days of conferences we won Several minor demands and a reduc- tion in the projected pay slash. But the workers, encouraged by the firm stand of the leaders of the Food Workers Industrial Union, voted to go on strike rather than to submit to such a partial victory. Immediately the bosses’ strike breaking machine got into action. | First the boss tried to trick the | Workers back to work by a nice speech. ‘The workers, however, in a well disciplined manner walked out 100 per cent, 400 strong. As soon as we walked out, a mass police force was thrown around the hotel, and a few minutes later our organizer was arrested. This incident was used to raise the to send personal calls to most of | the skilled help and the boss went | so far as to send taxi cab and de- tectives and telegrams to the work- ers’ homes, containing promises and threats. Fatse rumors were spread but also unsuccessfully. Then the mayor stepped in, but exposed him- self when he declared we were work- ing not for the hotel but for the city taxes, He left the strikers’ meet- ing amid boos and jeers of all of us. In the meantime a strong picket line was continually on duty, even during the very cold weather, with our women even more active than the men. A strikebreaking hotel, the Pitts- burgher, was also picketed. A few arrests were made but they. were dis- posed of the morning after. The re- sult of our activity was a telegram from the manager of the Pitts- burgher promising a hands - off policy. The same tactic was applied successfully to Kaufmann’s depart- ment store. It goes without saying that the capitalist press was busily occupied trying to break the strike. Finally the bosses made several ap- proaches to us; through the maitre q@hotel and the Labor Board. Today, the seventh day of our strike, we are arranging for two _ conferences. stronger than the first day, and more educated in the class struggle. Thanks to our activities we have mobilized public sentiment in our favor, as is shown by the financial support from many organizations. We have also obtafned the full sup- port of the A. F. of L. members. “Red scare,” but it strengthened our Strike Committee Chairman. IWO Plans to Have Trade Union| Members Affiliate With Order By MAX BEDACHT One phase of the work of the In- ternational Workers Order in the coming months is to win trade and industrial unions to affiliate their membership with our Order. This is not only an effort to build the Order, it is also a method of class education of our membership, In the course of this work we must first of all discuss in our branches the importance of trade union organiza- tion and struggle for our workers fraternal organizations. The task of our Order is not only to aid the work- ers in case of sickness, disability or death: we must also help them to maintain their hea'th, their limbs and their lives. The struggle for indus- trial and social hygiene is therefore an important task of our Interna- tional Workers Order. It is imposs:ble to accomplish this | task without a strong, fighting union jmoyement. Only fighting unions can achieve and maintain a wage scale which guarantees a healthy living standard. Only fighting unions can force the ins‘a‘ling of health and | safety devices in the shops, mines and factories. Only with the help of fighting unions can we achieve im- provements in industrial and social hygiene, These facts must be understood by our members. understood by means of an intensive prepeganda campaign. When our members do understand them, they will become active trade union’~ts; our I. W. O. branches will then be- come a force in the building of fighting trade unions. I, W. QO. Must Cooperate with Unions The fichting trade unions, in turn, must be ma in our wor! r. utual aid st of our Order can be mace an element of stability for the unions. A trade union which offers its membership a messure of insurance is an attraction even to more undeveloped workers. It is an attract'on, not a bait. A measure of mutual aid ts a contribution to the solution of one of these problems which make the wovkers organize and fight. A mutual aid feature of a union makes the workers see in it an {crgan‘zation which really tries to solve the problems of the workers. The institution of mutual aid fea- tures:in a union requires the zoopera- tion of the union and the workers mutual aid organization. The union can not organize mutual aid features itself, without endangering its own fighting quality; but it can agree to get mutual aid services from our Internetional Workers Order, Our Options TA-1 and TA-2 sup- ply the base for such a mutual co- operation of fighting unions with our proletarian fraternal Order. To establish this cooperation is our im- mediate task. In this work we must approach all unions. This effort raises very im- pertant class struggle issues. We must try to raise them in all unions. Thus we will build our Order, we will build the union and we will develop a better understanding among our members of the meaning of prole- tarian fraternalism, Furniture Workers Industrial Union Act On February 9-10-11-12, delegates of local unions of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union met in convention in New York City. This convention took up the problem of mutual afd to the members of the union. It found that the provisions of our TA Opticns present a welcome base for mutual aid features of their union, The convention decided: | 1, To recommend to all its local unions to affiliate their eligib'e mem- bers to the I. W. O. on one or the | other of the proposed Options, 2, To instruct the National Execu- tive Committee of tie Union to establish a mutual committee with representatives from the I. W. O., for the carrying through of an effective propaganda and organization cam- | paign for this affiliation. Now it is up to our branches and City Central Committees in «ll cities where locais of the F. W. I. U. exist, to organize an intensive campaign for the affiliation of every possib!e mem- ber of that union with the L W. 0, We must make them; Material for this work will reach all branches and City Central Com- mittees concerned. Social Insurance Campaign Wth the introduction of the Work- ers Unemployment and Social In- surance Billi in Congress, our I. W. O. campaign for social insurance re- ceived a new stimulus. The House of Representatives Bill No. 7598 opens up an additional avenue of approach a fraternal and workers organiza- ions. With the introduction of this Bill, our demand for social insurance has taken on a more concrete form in the eyes of the workers. The House of Representatives Bill has a substance which many workers could not see in cur mere demand for sovial insurance, And, what is more, it has a “reves table” substance which can open for us the doc’s of many an orsaniz on on which hitherto we knocked in vein, The National Executive Committee of our Order will get copies of the Bill, supply them to our branches and will prepare material for the effort to organize the fraternal united front for seclal insurance, which is our aim to ostablish, Build the English Section March Ist marks the beginning of > special campaign to strengthen our nglish Section. All branches of the Order must be activized in this cam- paign. The task of the campaign is, to strencthen all our English branches in a few selected workers districts in our consentration cities and thus increase the membership of cur English Section by at least 1,000. A large number of these new members must be Negroes. This campaign aims to repair a weakness of our last cam aign. It aims to create the quicker growth of the English Section. We must raise the English secticn to a strength in proportion to the relative strenyt of the native American workers in the American working class. This task is so important that ‘he discussion of it and preparations for its fulfillment must dominate the coming meetings of all of our branches throughout the country. The chares for success are great. Our branches are still active as an after-effect of our last campaign, The three weeks after the big campaign have brought us an average of 450 new members per week. These are almost campaign figures. Let them become the figures of our normal growth. Forward to new victories! e New Orleans Relief . ° Den‘es Aid; Work- 9, 3 = er’s Fam'ly Starving (By C.W.A. Worker Correspondent) NEW ORLFANS, La.—The condi- tion of Ben Turner’s family shows the condition of relief here. Ben Turner is married and has five children, all under 14 years of age. Turner suffers from tuberculosis of the glands and low blood sugar caused by starvation, according to Dr. Sul- livan of Charity Hospital here. In March 1933, the last of the family’s belongings were sold to buy food, and, while trying to get relief, Turner's FEBRUARY 19, 1934 | refused. A manager's crony escorted AFL Helps Break | Food Workers’ Strike in Detroit | | By a Food Worker Correspondent | DETROIT, Mich—Monday morn-| jing, Jan. 22, workers in the Book | Cadillac Hotel, (largest in Detroit) | went on strike. Bellboys, elevator op- | erators, chambermaids, cooks and/ kitchen help and dishwashers, waiters and waitresses and bus boys and girls, | walked out from main kitchen, cof-; fee shop and employes’ cafeteria. | Pickets were put at all entrances | to the hotel, and department com- | mittees were elected (except waiters). Waiters were “organized” in the “Hotel and Restaurant Employes In- ternational Alliance (A. F of L.).” Some cooks too, were “organized” in 8 local of the A. F. of L., while bell- boys, elevator operators, and some others organized recently a “Hotel Workers’ Association” (Independent) The elected committees got together and drew up demands expressing the wishes of respective departments. Then all went to the waiters union local to urge the waiters to elect their own committee, which however, they failed to do. The local’s boss, Mr. Louis Koenig “thought” that there is no need for committees to present the demands. At this point he tried to intimidate the committee, that they might lose their jobs, because the manager will know them while “I do not have to be afraid, because I am not employed there.” Calls in Big A. F. of L. Boss Then he tried another trick, ad- vising the committee to get the names of their respective groups, and bring them in, so we could sign them PARTY LIFE District 3 Plenum Reports Show Success in Factories Serious Shortcomings Still Hamper Carrying Out the Line of the Open Letter By Frank Hellman. r | At the District Plenum of District) * 3, held in Philadelphia on Feb, 10] and 11, the basic problems of our) District. were discussed in line with the 18th Plenum of the Central Com- mittee of our Party and the 13th Plenum of the E.C.CI. The report of the District Organizer and the representative of the C.C. were} unanimously accepted and approved. | We could register at this Plenum a number of important definite achieve~ | ments as weil as a number of short- comings. The achievements consist of having organized about 4,000 workers in the revolutionary trade unions as a result of struggle and leadership in these struggles; of hav- | ing brought under our influence a} number of independent unions, witi | workers, many more in number than in the T.U.U.L.; of having organized around 25 opposition groups within. the various locals of the A. F. of L, & number of Party comrades elected to the Central Labor Union. Some definite advancements among he longshoremen and seamen (suc-" cessful strikes on several ships, thé victory of the unemployed seamen in Baltimore, establishment of a local of the longshoremen in Baltimore in the M.W.L.U., recruitment of iong- shoremen into the Party, and the es- tablishment of a dock nucleus it Philadelphia); definite achievements in steel, (successful struggle of the S. M.W.LU. in Baltimore in the tin mill, the reorganization of the shop nuclei and the union, new members recruit-. ed into the union and the Party). Good work has been accomplished in the textile industry (Easton), shoe industry, (Philadelphia) and a mass movement is being developed among the unemployed in the coal region; good work has been accomplishet! by the farmers and we will be in & position to organize a new Party section at the time of the conven- tion, The recruiting drive of the, I. W. O. brought in over 1,000 mem- bers into the I.W.O. in Philadelphia, extending our sphere of influence | up in their respective “unions.” All these tricks ‘were dismissed by the committee, whereupon Mr. L. Koenig Tealized “what’s what” and decided to call up the management of the hotel, the big boss of the A. F. of L. in Detroit, Mr. Frank X. Mar- tell and the business agent of the cooks’ local. This time Mr. Martell msisted that the committee be cut down to two or three. Two members of the com-| mittee yielded, but others steadfastly | che committee to the conference | yvoom, where Mr. Rolph Hitz, presi- ‘ent of the Hitz Hotel System was waiting. Secret Conferences Mr. Hitz took Martell in a side vom, where’ they remained in secret | for some time, Upon their return, Mr. Hitz called Martell and his aids to a larger side room, where they | remained for nearly two hours, while ; the committees was f 2d to wait. | When they came out, Mr. Koenig handed typewritten copies of the| agreement to the committee. The agreement is a typical piece of betrayal for which the A. F, of L. bosses are famous. Under the pres- sure of Mr. Koenig, some of the inex- perienced members of the committee yielded, and decided to return to work, end thus ended the first hotel | strike in the United States since the hotel code went inio effect. The workers struck, partly in pro- test against the dismiszal of some 10 wo:kers; and partiy as a spontaneous outburst of dissatisfaction with the hotel code which permits the bosses to practice all kinds of rackets, such as a deduction of 50 cents for two meals whether one eats them or not, The workers are beginning to realize that so far as wages are con- cerned, they have gained nothing and will never gain under the A. F, of L. leadership, It is the duty of hotel workers to- ward themselves and toward their class to frustrate these racketeering schemes, and organize themselves in an industrial union that will recog- nize no arbitration boards, nor judges to decide whether the dismissed workers shall be returned to their jobs or not. Workers of the Book Cadillac, do not yield to the rack- eteering schemes of A. F. of L. bosses! Elect your department comm’ tiees tc discuss the future course of action. A Message From Pittsburgh to N.Y. Food Workers By a Food Worker Correspondent PITSBURGH, Pa.—To the New York rank and file members of the Amalgamated and the Food Workers Industrial Union, we who are strikers at the William Penn and the Fort Pitt Hotel, 600 strong under the lead- weight dropped from 170 lbs. to 128 Ibs. in a few weeks, and his children grew pale from hunger. Since last March he has had no more than 30 days of relief work at $1.80 a day, which means that in al- most a year, a family of 7 has had $54 to live on. Begging, when finally resorted to, brought in a little food occasionally. The Federal it came government around with one small piece of salt pork in October and hasn’t been heard from since. Turner got a good-sized grocery order January 31, because the activity of the Relief Workers’ Union and the Unemployed Council, in his behalf, frightened the Welfare officials. “This jis the first help I’ve had from the Welfare since November 1933,” de- clares Turner, trial Union, are out in the battle- field the same as you are. We are ership of the Food Workers Indus-| that there Punch Time Card, Then Continue on Job at Cudahy’s (By a Worker Correspondent) OMAHA, Neb.—n Cudahy’s pack- *-g plant in South Omaha, before the N.R.A., the men would work 50 or 60 hours and get paid for the same. But now I know in the hide cellar, where men work up to 40 hours,they are told to go ring the time cards and come back and work sometimes five or six hours to finish a certain work, and they get no pay for that. If you are @ new hand and are not willing to do that, you won’t work very long before they will lay you off. | The specd up is practiced through the entire plant so that you must do 50 hours work and get 40 hours pay.’ In the hog kill they kill 4,500 head of hogs now in eight hours. Before, they would kill 2,500, or some times 2,700, You are not allowed to say anything about it, however, because if you do you will find your time slip pinned to it. One young worker was working for this comvany two weeks ago, and when he hurt his hand, he asked the foreman for a pass to see the doctor: | The forsman told him if he wanted}, to keep his jcb he Lad better go back to his work. The worker demanded that he get his hand cared for, and so the foreman sent him to the office for his time. Another such incident happened when a woman working in the hog kill got some trash in her eye. She was told she had no time to go to} the doctor. Thus, she had to continue her work and have her eye treated at night at her own expense. over a great number of employ crxers in_shops. he most outstanding achieve! ment can be registered in conmec- tion with the Daily Worker, rais- ing the circulation from 600 te 1,000 in ‘the city of Philadelphia and the Saturday edition to 1,500. ‘The financial drive was successful for the first time, raising $800 over our quota, $2,800 altogether. In order to make these experiences the property of the whoie Party, District Committee urges the ccm- rades WHO were involved in th mass adtivities of the Party to als- cuss them in detail in the Daily Worker, to bring forward the methods used, the weaknesses and the results, What Are the Main Weaknesses of Our Work? Alongside of the above mentioned achievements, we have still greater weaknesses. Frist: The failure te apply the opeh letter seriously in connection with concentration in reaching the basic sections of the American work- ing class, the failure to build shop nuclei and publishing shop papers, ‘even where such possibilities exist, Feven though a few shop nuclei were organized. in large and decisive plants—Bethlehem Steel, R. ©. A, Philadelphia dozk, silk, hosiery, lino- leum and others. Lack of attention to basic Party organizations and lack of systematic development of cadres, Second: The failure to carry out a consistent policy of concentration 2 Kensington, Allentown and Budds, Hesitancy, capitulation, failure te build the Party in Allentown, worke ing too openly in Budds, permitting the union to be smashed, the A. F. of L. to enter and lack of attention te the strike;- isolation of the Party in the Hellwig strike in Kensington and lack of attention cn the part of the District Buro, letting the section drift without leadership. Thirdly: Insufficient developmen’ of trade union consciousness in the Party as well as in the mass organie zations, especially the failure to builé the S.M.W.LU, as & necessary pre> requisite to reach the decisive masses in the basic industries, white and Negro. (Midvale Steel, Navy Yard, Disston, Arsenal, General Electric.) Fourthly: The complete absence of unemployed movement in Reading and Allentown, as well as in Baltic more and a decline of the movement in Philadelphia. Failure to develop struggles for jobs on the C.W.A.; exe posure of the P.W.A., the A.A.A, and the failure to develop the broadest possible united front around the issue of social and unemployment insure ance, Insufficient attention to the Y.CL, and proletarian women, neglect of children’s movement. Main Tasks Until the Convention First: Draw the Party into a work.—The establishment of an » F. of L. opposition center; new cor, tacts in the A. F. of L, and inde- pendent “union; mass recruitiag for Party and- mass organizations on the basis of shop and unemployed work. Shop nuclei to be established wherever the possibilities exist. Publishing of a shop paper wher- ever a shop nucleus exists. Functioning section apparatus te be established in Kensington. Registration of party membershi~ to. be concluded within one week. _ Campaign against war and fascisi. to be intensified, especially in core riection with National Defense week (demonstrations, leaflets, stickers, in- doer and*outdoor meetings, postal cards to the congressmen, etc.). ~ Establishment of an apparatus to carry on work in event of illegaliza- tion of Party. “Chek up to be made on the plan worked out on the basis of the Open ‘Letter. Completing the quota of 400 new members for the Party for the ree cruiting campaign. Further tasks to be worked out in.a distriet resolution on the basis | of the resolution of the C.C, to be published not later than Feb, 24. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Offensive Breath R. C. M., Brocklyn.—If you refer to the Feb. Ist issue of the “Daily Worker,” you will find an article on. this subject. If your family phy- sician was unable to diagnose the case during the seven months that you were under observation, how do you expect us to do so from your: letter? We are inclined to believe that, like most “sufferers” of hali- tosis, your trouble is mainly imagin- ary. The very fact that you are so sensitive about a and that al are even afraid to your name shows is a strong psychological factor involved. You must get a thorough physical examination in determined to smash the miserable order to rule out the varicus causes —— By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. conditions that the bosses have im-| of offensive breath which we men- posed upon us for the purpose of/ tioned in our article, raking more profits for themselves ew ° and their parasite bond holders at) ynformation About Spzech Defects the expense of the workers, L. L., Brooklyn. — The Board of ‘The Pittsburgh hotels this period | Education maintains a speech clinic are facing one of the biggest strikes|every Tuesday afternoon, at. four that they ever did before, Out of| o'clock, at P, S. 47, 480 Pacific St., the 500 employes of the William| Brooklyn. For additional informa- Penn Hotel, 400 strong walked out,| tion, write to Mrs. Letitia Raubi- parading in front for half an hour.| check, Director of Speech Improve~ For once Pittsburgh has witnessed | ment, 500 Park Ave., New York City. such a march of united front, white and colored men and women with Chalazion—Electrolysis placards of protest against the wage] Alice B. — Chalazion is a small cut which we rejected. The spirit of |tumor due to the inflammation of gland. It cannot be removed by medical means. It must be incized and thoroughly scraped to preven’ its recurrence. Itching of the eye- lids might be due to s large number of causes and the cure is on the removal of the cause which biatahe kaow ane piven whe | ~<We do not yw any rai rs electrolytic treatmen® free of charge. If you send us # self-addressed and stamped envelope, we will forward you the other ! formation that you desire, Sprained Elbow L B. C, (Jack) Thomas, John ‘The treatment giveh to the sprained elbow was the correct one, the prison physician’s opinion notwithstanding. ‘We trust that Comrade Egan hat made an uneventful recovery. There is always a rupture of tiny blood’ vessels whenever a joint is sprained, or when one falls one the ground and massage is always in place ig such cases, except when the blood vessel is large enough to hat caused a hematoma, a blood due to accumulation of a large tity of blood under the skin. Thanks for Information ; A. K.—Thank you for your me formation and for your contribution to the “Daily Worker.” Address Wanted the workers is 100 per cent. We are|one of the tiny glands of the eyelid. out and will stay out until our de-|The tumor is due to accumulation | land retention of the secretion of the Leo Martin—We sent you a letter which was returned “Not Found,” Hy