The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1934, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1934 Workers io Read and | Kager Spread “Daily”, Letters Show Energy Squeezed : ‘from Ford Workers) Continues Organization Work Despite Threats of Every Ounce of Den ver CWA Worker Stands. fearths in Gary Up Against Bullying Boss Falling to Pieces from Long Disuse PARTY LIFE Speakers’ Failure to Appear Hampers Work of Our Party THE PAILY WORKER IN THE PARTY MEMBERS, ANSWER! C t Sto 1 ° | LUMBER COUNTRY Los Angeles, Cal. By an Auto Worker Correspondent yovernmen olpigeons | By 2 Worker Correspondent 5 ae a Powers, Ore. | Comrades | GARY, Ind—No. || Allentown Comrades Save Meeting by Holding mall loge’ town, and one cor at that the red scar the only wo | and There are still too many Party members who can and should be regular subscribers to the Daily Worker and are not. Why not? Why are some of them afraid to ask for ptions when the news in the of the greatest interest importance not only to Daily the | DETROIT, Mich—I am an em- | ploye in the foundry of the Ford | Motor Co., better known as the “mad j house.” If I had a mule and would j curse and drive him as those men jare driven, I should be reported to | the Humane Society; these men are driven to every ounce of energy. With the latest improved machin- (By a Worker Correspondent) DENVER, Col.—The some of my exper: worker. I iS one of the first called to work as I had been on relief for over three years, not being able to find work in that time. I was sent nces as a CWA | were getting. But they all Gecided | following is| not to work unless I worked aiso. | So to the City Hall we went to| Room 406, to a Mr. Stinson, who! |turned out to be the chief stool | pigeon for the CWA here in Denver, | and going into his office I found} 1 open hearth, which has been down for almost three years now, is falling to pieces and the same goes for No. 2 open hearth. It has been down better than four years. Whenever there is @ breakdown in any of the other shops, instead of going to the store Tooms to get new material, they are Open Forum in Absence of Speaker A large number of the which come to this column deal with she question of the failure of s>cak ers to appear at meetings for # letters | letter. The failure of speakers to peer at meetings has a demoraliz- g effect upon the workers, who come to our meetings. This can be gr vorking class that there is a large force of detec-| turning down the wheels over shafts : | sions Sah ae | NOrki’g class elements but to any-/ery many men are thrown out of|to the Platte River, which is very | ives hired and being paid with GWA| from the idle imachinery and’ noi | {ev have been advert'sed. Th:s col- | overcome in two ways: Sirs, on oe ’ : ; he capitalist cesspool? {@Ployment. Two new miachines| crooked, to help straighten out its|funds to spoop around and get all|on the breakdowns. And that’s what |Umn has dealth with this question be-| part of the organizers 0} the meet a O.W.A. job, wth "Lone live “the Daily Worker, the | 22¥@ been installed in the foundry in| banks | the dope they can on all who show| we are getting under the NRA. |fore. Obviously we cannot publish | ings, that they make sure Pee 7‘ tered, However, becal mili- | moulder of revolutionary opinion aaa the last two weexs; one displacing 10; One day a bunch of us were work- | themselves dissatisfied with things as all of these letters. But we wish to| speaker has agree working class. and putting it into workers. backward sec- far as the social rs is con- who are f both rn to use it more by We must more effe Weare tion of the U consciousn: of us respect Newton, Mass. Dear Conirades: I am renewing my subscription for | a year. The Daily Worker is im- proved, both in general news and its make-up. Mike Gold’s colurn is great. The workers’ letter column is good. I notice many new mem- {|bers writing and showing up the class conflict that is going on today. The capitalist system cannot last h longer. Now I am on my h year and I hope to live to see men and the other 25 men; this con- | and drudgery of the workers, but I do believe that as this mass produc- | tion 1s forced upon us the hours of | labor should be reduced and those | men displaced by the machinery be kept on and given a chance to sup-| port their families and provide them| with the necessities of life, rather/| than force them on the welfare. Lives Are Further hour, as that is the scale set for skilled workers by the government. Well he got mad as hell and stated that I should be glad that I was working and had a nerve in asking for so much wages. He then went to one of the straw bosses who singled }me out and sent me to work with a 16-lb hammer breaking stone. While doing this work one cold morning I slipped and fell, getting | one of my feet in the water, andj after getting home I found that my trying to get workers to join the Workers Protective Union. I told him that I had. He then went over and pulled out a drawer of one of the cabinets and showed me a couple of leaflets that the union had issued calling on all CWA workers to a mesting, and he also told me what I had said to various workers, on what | ay I had said it, and to whom I had spoken. I asked him if it wasn’t true that “our” president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had asked and urged The production is still coming mills the regular men happen to be off on their particular day, so the foreman lines up an- other worker to run the cold roll with an extra helper, and neither one knew the job. On the first load of bars the helper lost one of his legs, and that happened because of nothing but speed-up, by placing a Man on a machine to operate who really didn’t know anything of ma- chinery. If you can’t keep up with the speed of the machine, you might as well stay home because you are either sent home or get crippled for Eagle Pencil Co. Spies Help Speedup (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—There is an awful spy systme and so it is very hard for me to speak to my fellow work- ers. If we dare to leave our work for one minute to speak to other workers, the boss will lay us off. I realize that a union in our place meeting, before they advertise him, /. tant action, relief is be issued to mG. E t ing shovelling mud when the fore-|they are on the jobs, and those who| gown, 2 tom | CxDress our complete agreement wae : - ies who accept : all in need. W se make| champion of proletarian struggle! ee aa eee Rid a the} man hollered down asking us if any | try to organize other workers into petit tives Ree ence Se tbe Lie hc Ei al Sige ci earn pe renarare a becrgeens feel that a special note of you must “What are you doing to help get | niant. sacri *he!of us could do rip rapping (aying| fighting class struggle organizations | duction will go up. But here is what they are being held responsible to ight 2 if we are tO) new subscribers for the “Daily”? |~ ” | rock), I answered that I was a stone | or unions. really takes place throughout the speak. This means that our Districts ive. The Daily rker is a hun- pest | I'm not opposed to machinery in-| mason and could do the work inform-| The first thing Stinson asked me| whole steel mill, Last week in the! and ‘Sections must be intolerant of cired- thou pound machine gun| FROM 78 YEAR OLD READER | asmuch as it could lighten the misery| ing him that I demanded $1.10 per | was if it wasn’t true that I had been| merchants’ a the pract‘ce of breaking engagements to speak at meetings, and must deal~ with- comrades who persist in this’ practice. We congratulate the comrades at Allentown who were resourceful enough to hold a good meeting even though no speakers were present. The initiative shown by these com- rades must be developed everywhere, so that we never turn workers away because a speaker failed to appear. It is not always possible to secure “outside” speakers, and yet every would better our conditions, and I the Change. E d & foot had irezen. | us to organize. To this he said, “That | life, think that there are other workers Se saan weaes Hy degen ed M. J. M. ni angere I t @ hTe next morning I asked the fore-|is all baloney!” Well then, I in- —A GARY STEEL WORKER. | in the shop who feel the same way | Jocal comrades must learn to do this, double our sera ae | man for a slip to the doctor and he| formed him that if that was the case 2S Sei about it as I do. | and when they feel they cannot fe voice FORA nia < Gar St e el Mill jtold me that as I was working I|he, President Roosevelt, and the * ep am, Writing, this letter hoping | speak, to hold the informal kind of ay Wor rooklyn, N. ¥, could ay for the tor. Then | whole bi balone; tl ou will it it so that other and poor'| Editor Daily Worker: : 8 eee anne fat ee ee io N Er Leadership ¢ ¥ COMMUNIST PROM A C.W.A. WORKER Lexington, Ky. Gentleme: or your fi Sd ysevelt’s war pro- »| and those who work with me. $| Comrade So As a reader of the Daily Worker I would like to see the circulation go up to a million or more. become a real mass paper. My method to help put the circu- lation drive over the top is to buy extra copies of the Daily Worker and give them or mail them to my friends BN. LIKED TAXI STRIKE ISSUE New York, N. Y. Exitor:— much has been said lately the improvement in the Daily er that for me to repeat it be trite. It should | (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) GARY, Ind.—Ever since Mr. Grif- jfin took charge of all the Central Mills, Rail, Billet, and 44 such bloom- ing and plate mills, safety has been disregarded in all the Gary steel cen- | tral mills. The cranemen are speecied |up by Mr. Griffin’s general superin- tendent to such an extent that they have no time to heed the engines and carry their lifts over the heads of the switchmen, because of the economy program of Griffin, who wishes to keep down repair expenses Ba to make extra bonuses for him~ self. I got sore and he and I tangled, I throwing him into the river and very nearly drowning him. Well I knew that it wouldn’t be long until I got mine after what hap- pened. But I went right on work- ing as if nothing had happened until about a week ago things again be- gan to happen, for one morning this same skunk who calls himself a work~ ing man came up to me and told me to go to the tool house and wait until he came over there. So I picked up the tools I was using and went over, saying to myself, well I guess my time is up. But looking around I noticed that he was singling out other work- far as I was concerned. He then notified me that he would see to it that I never would again |get work on a OWA project if he could help it. I asked him when he became so big that he had the power of Dictator Mussolini aud also told him that as far as I was concerned I didn’t give a rap if I worked or not as all that I had gotten out of working on the CWA was a frozen foot. I also informed him that outside in the hallway 29 other workers -vere waiting to see if I was going to work again or not. He thought I was try- ing to bluff him, I guess, for he went Mobilizes Against Toledo CW ~A. Men By a ©.W.A. Worker Correspondent TOLEDO, Ohio—The C.W.A. and Relief Workers’ Union, affiliated with the Unemployed Council, hay- ing been able to sign up 200 C.W.A. workers and set up three nei¢hbor- hood branches, has caused the city administration to be alarmed. The Ohio Unemployed League (Musteite) has failed in its counter movement workers in the shop will see it. I have been working in Eagle Pen- cil Company for the last five years. When I started to work here, I was making $20 a week. Since that time I have been getting one wage cut after another until now I am get- ting only $12 a week. At the same time, the price of food and clothing has been going up so high that I can hardly get along on the money that I am making. ‘We are all working on piece work execept those who are being hired now. They have to work for six weeks at $10 a week. Then they are put on piece work and can make no more than $12 a week, and some- discussion which is described below. ae ee “I want this printed in the Daily Worker. On Sunday we were to have a lecture in the Labor Temple at 2 o'clock. A speaker had been adver- tised. No speaker showed up. Our organizer was in Philadelphia. One other comrade and myself were there but neither of us could speak. There were 30 people there waiting to hear the speaker, Three o'clock came around and the crowd got impatient, What was there to do? ‘The other comrade and myself held a short consultation, and the other comrade opened the meeting. He gave a short talk of five minutes, ex- plaining why the speaker was not pet ting subs for the However, I must tell you that! The brak ers, sending them over to where I : times less. There is no minimum. | present and then threw the floor Da as ; ; issue (Feb. 6th issue on| cranes are ote ier bad pecans | as Thirty in all came over, not tad se ahaa astro: hag aa Viet alae of ne W.| “although we workers are anxious|onen for discussion from the floor. strike) was remarkably|of this the cranemen have no way|knowing what was going to happen 2 - but is still attempting counter ac-| t> get on piece work at first, we Soon |The meeting lasted until 5:30 o'clock HELEN the een n content and form. I am Communist Party member, ytime I see a nice issue earless, open) of the ker (and I see it every feel a sense of personal that end 1c, 2 wl wacom I ask that e in it, as though it was really | of warning the men on the floor when they carry lifts to and from the pits. Time and time ugain the electrical department has attempted to repair the cranes, but Mr. Griffin would not allow them to! Organize and demand safety by! the workers to see that the yard- | masters and the company union rep- |resentatives are working hand in |hand to get more out of the workers. We must depend on our own or- ganization to help us. The company | union helps the-bosses. Join the mili- | , fighting, Steel and Metal Work; Industrial Union and help win! mproved conditions for yourself and| fellow workers, is ie ink The campaign of the “Gary Steel to them either. Backed Up By Other Workers Shortly the boss and a large truck came up to the timekeeper’s shanty, and he told us all to climb in, that we were going for a long ride to the mountains on another project ‘The other men who had jumped in the truck, hearing us, climbed out and refused to go anywhere unless I went too. They told me that they would go along with me to the City Hall and help see that I got a square deal. I told them not to go out of their way for me,.as they. all-needed the miserable work and wages’ they hall, he slammed the door and came over to me and began to oack water. | He said that if I would promise to behave myself and let tlic workers alone he would see what -iue could do in getting me back on a job, I then again got sore and told him “instead of breaking rocks with 16-pound hammer as I was once do- ing on the Platte River Project I am now carrying water and organizing relief workers into Relief Workers Protective Union. But my foot is still sore and so is my conscience, | towards the whole administration of | the capitalist system. | Cole was a strike-breaker; that Cole tions. The Socialist Party, dormant since election, has finally come to life and issued a call to the C. W. A. workers, urging them to attend a meeting in the Roi Davis Auditorium Feb. 7. One hundred and fifty workers re- and appealed to Real Americans to join, and that there is to be no dis- crimination; that there should be real freedom in this new organiza- tion. Bitker, a member of the C. W. A. relief workers’ union, took the floor and, although he was ruled out of order by the chairman, stated that in a Socialist meeting last summer, when asked about his stand on the United Front strike against the local realize that we gain nothing by it. ‘We only work harder and faster. It seems to me that the only way we workers can put an end to such low wages is by organizing against any wage cuts and this terrible speed-up which the boss is trying piece, I was considerably confused until it dawned on me what was really meant. The writer is speak- ing not of the Fisher Body Plant, but of Fisher Lodge, a place where unemployed single workers live. Fisher Lodze is located in an old factory building belonging to the Fisher Body Co. There are between 1,000 and 2,000 men quartered there, and the place is run by the Volun- teers of America with funds provided by the city. —A. B. MAGIL. | and it was quité interesting. Now this is my opinion. If the Communist Party is to be the Party of the masses it must adhere to the following: 1) All meetings and lectures to start on time. 35 KE. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- sion on the Communist Party. Name .. paper. | r : + of | 85 far as I was concerned he could} sponded. The auditorium has 4/ to put over on us. 3 2) If a speaker cannot come, the & "ite ‘and power to the Dai oe sist committees fe ae ig Nees Aig not | Stick his job, as I was only starving | seating capacity of over 800. Karl local comrades should be given 5 Worker. pe S | gece Gs tbe ae ae present your knowing where they were to be taken, | 97 the wages I was getting anyhow. | Pauli, Ohio Socialist ated alee . days notice, and not let them ar- of DELIVERY GOES ON | In the Transportation Department, |5° I spoke up and said that before he orhdgeae ee ne pacts aad Presa Ancasioe: Paull satd the | Forced Labor in ey ie bad aren a Batons 4 Atlantic city, Ng, |there is much favoritism going on|1 went on another Job T would pe eine BODE Os EVO Ue sOnee "| cae enlets erp eraiciatecs eal by | ‘g 3) The least little mistake gives beet te the cam is aig vu“ and with the help of the company|to have my foot taken care of by)" eo ve me an order to go back |New York. He also said the Protec- Lod e our opponents the opportunity to a sg8h ft sli union representatives, there is dis-|@ doctor and again asked for an O se th t. This | tive Association had obtained per- is er tell their followers about our fail- oo etait en aaeerpn ges ahs Pe een crimination against Negro workers.|order. Well, he again blew up and megs Sis to tea a vinlorts woe mission of the city officials and got ee ures and take advantage. since, but it is coming | It el Sree ead it Ce Je Rohe eee hetero shalt But there is one thing I found out, es ie bo a ez se Detroit Comrade H., Allentown, Pa. ; majo! are Negroes, but the rouble-~ , “ A : ized that th ective Associa~ f i : placed He the ioe: unclean Hobe Pee men work, and was always kicking| that whenever workers wake up to Hae ound arco the eovernment. Arcadian in the Daily Worker | ool’ to deliver she papers ‘rather | Most dangerous of being. |about something on the job. So he| thelr real conditions and try to bet-! Col. “iocal organizer (SP.), in his|of Feb. 13, you have a workers’ cor- | JOIN THE you. I a bein Chawe hie “teacets vidoe any of| Burned by riding on the hot metal| told me that I could go over to the bad Se ene ae aia speech said that the Protective Asso-|respondence from Detroit with the | e dollar, | paper. Send it|this valuable matter which the|cars which are used for transporting | City Hall as they wanted to talk to) (2 Ans i other workers are bound | ciation was to work side bv side with | headline “Men Work for Meals Only Communist Pa fy ‘ ‘at’ once. i Daily Worker exposes. —G.H. | the ingots, it doesn’t take much for|me about something anyhow. ed Dipce. Roosevelt to continue C. W. A. jobs,|in Fisher Plant.” After reading this i ‘Wall, who gives special favors to those | Slave for $18 A Month at Hotel he wake the following morning to | Worker” to expose the grafter, Ed attend the baby he flatiy refuses. I suppose that too will be helped | who give him presents, | | nose-bag relief (forced labor), said | they would not participate in the | strike. | When it became known there | would be no question period, many the losed, Ho has borne | Edward Wall was fired last | Butter Paid to er the revolution. It’s bad enough | fruit. to struggle along financially under | week. ay the Tead. i ao his. Shirt, for ve don’t head o every ¢ 38 my brothe ave Herve, of Brance, said the same thing after More than 100 years. Ant this uu will live to hear old. stiff hopes ~ the gals say, ‘The world ts our coun- | try, and every man is our pal. And (owe Want to take the hunted look ») Out Of the eyes of our class.’ (Martha Millet’s poem in the Daily Worker) “Take the message to them.” Righto, Hobo Blackie. That’s what We are aiming to do, among other © things—liquidate the duel between Kis ¥ class men and women, in to unite them to fight side by side in the Great Duel, as they ee Vienne. A Letter Comrade Helen / Rought my 18-month- id son a Peehinchilla coat with a red the kind you see worn by all - assure you neither the oy -eagle-mor. the gold army buttons at- tracted. me at the time of the pur- he low price. When husbend noticed the jle he- immediately ordered it to be oved, explaining he does not wish help the-capitalists propagate war lisplay .the Fascist eagle, the and everything else you could to the little sleeve worn by It didn't mean anything to ig sympathetic myself. but paticsi did irzitate me (TD took it off. ashamed to admit that the that-I didn’t agree to its re- le no difference to him. Par eae some, Helen, I iove my hus- much as when we first Tam not happy. It seems olution. is brewing here in m little nest. He is not all he is further ahead in the 0 it, and FT can’t keep am afraid to attend demon- although I’ look forward “80, but in the meantime mts all the time. He off till later, we might just as | Well not exist now. comrade whose eyes are set ‘da Soviet America. “E. D. N.” fore going on to answer this , I want to ask Comrade E. D. © Was not so terribly upset she wrote it that she wrote nesite of what she mesnt— seems one sentence should read, hamed to admit that the I agreed to its removal no difference to him.” Or do sunderstand something?— , this letter, believe it or not, somewhat describes the situation in my own household, though it’s not so bad, I having no baby to look after, but only a little column. I thought I was pulling a smart one |to marry a chef, with the idea that as he ate where he worked I’d escape *he job of | fooled, for er’s strike. | Now he dashes madly in and out |from the picket line, the court- |room, and meetings, the household is at sixes and sevens, nobody has the least notion when mealtime Is, |and the slate posted by the kitchen {door proves handy for each of us to let the other know if he's still alive, Your letter, Comrade E. D. N,, came the day after I took the bright copper buttons off a navy corduroy | raincoat so I wouldn't look so much |"ke a policeman, Comrade Husband has been raising h—— for weeks be- | cause I run around looking like “the | Wrath of God” so I bought the rain- coat because it was the cheapest | thing I could find to wear while the | regular coat is cleaned and pressed. But Comrade Husband couldn't bear the sight of the coat until the but- tons were changed for plain ones. He cooks rarely, and just to show me how it should be done, and sits and reads up on the Austrian situa- tion and gets a liberal Leninist edu- | cation while I do the dishes. But I | ask you—how can you stop loving a man who pickets for half an hour and three quarters of an hour straight in 14 below zero weather and gets up at 6:30 in the morning to try to sell the Daily Worker in the subway—and presents a gal with the books she needs in her business? But justice is sweet. Here’s a per- fectly swell passage from the very first book he gaye me, Clara Zetkin’s “Reminiscences of Lenin.” Last chap- ter, “Women, Marriage, and Sex.” Your husband must have missed it too, and a lot of other radical hus- bands, if I am to judge by what I hear. It goes—heck. Our space is along came the food work- to attend some affairs all used up. I'll quote it tomorrow. system, but when everything is | cooking, and oh how I got | Don’t forget for a minute that there; | are more like him yet. | | Write in to the workers’ papers and | | expose the grafting bosses, and don’t} | forget Mr. Dean, the 44-plant super-| intendent, because he happens to be jone of Ed Wall's best friends. | |The Bronx Home News | | Slanders CWA Workers | | By a C. W. A. Worker Correspondent | | NEW YORK.—The Bronx Home |News carried an article on Feb. 1 that 66 C. W. A. workers were dis- | charged for loafing. This same issue | carried an article that the depres- |sion is over because the number of dispossesses for the month of Janu- ary, 1934, was much below the usual monthly figure. | Iam a C. W. A. worker myself. I am working at Echo Park, Bronx. Many members of A. F. of L. unions are in Echo Park. Bricklayers, car- penters, cement finishers, stonema- sons and painters whose trades exist in Echo Park are working at their trades, but are classified as laborers | ‘and receive laborers’ pay. A few, of course, take picks or shovels and do | the best they can. | Many of these mechanics have | taken up this classification problem | with Hanley, Miller and others. They | were told adjustments were to he! made from the second week in De- cember last or the latest by the first of the year, but we find things and times have gotten worse. | For the past two weeks there is an agent on the job continuously. No one seems to know where he is from. He is there spying and speed- ing the men, saying you must keep moving. On Thursday, Feb. 1, three brick- layers and stone masons who had be- come disgusted with promises were told by him to hand stones to other masons. They told this agent they were masons themselves and were not gcing to pass stones to anyone. He told them they would pass stones | or be given a yellow ticket. These masons refused definitely. He took these men to the office himself and they were given yellow tickets. The Bronx Home News, no doubt, will publish this without making it clear that many A. F. of L. members are working as laborers in the farks, that the bricklayers’ union is trying to collect dues from its members who | are working in the parks, that brick- layers in vain asked their officials to see to it that all bricklayers get union | wages, | | In Lakewood, N. By a Food Worl MIAMI. Fla—Regardine the many interesting letters now running in the Daily Worker regarding condi- tions in various hotels, I wish to give you informetion relative to Laurel- in-the-Pines at L2kewood, N. J. Conditions there are absolutely un- bearab'e. The proprietress is one slave-driver. Last season sirls were hired for $18 a month. They were put to work over the week-end and were charged $5 for room and board. Another rotten practice is that when- ever the help complains they are threatened with deportation, by re- porting them to the immigration authorities. A young bus buy, 22, was x Corresnondent absolutely crippled by his work there, | making it necessary to amputate his foot to save his life, By carrying out their miserable | practices, the owners have become very wealthy. We are waking up, and the enlightening articles in the Daily Worker are at last showing up true conditions. Keep it up. A FORMER WORKER. Denial of Sick Pay Force H. R. Worker Tato: Icy Cold ba. Bie By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Not daring to lose his much-needed pay as Home Relief investicator at Precinct 73, Brownsville, George Hardy, middle- aged world war veteran, continued on the job during the zero icy blasts of the past week despite a heavy cold, contratced ravid pneumonia, and died Tuesday. Fellow employes at the R. B. found his wife without food and heat in the house, and no money for rent. Hardy had been going about with worn-out shoes and a thin over- coat. they remembered: before ob- taining the Home Relief job he had heen broke and without employment for many months. Home Relief workers are now or- ganizing under the E. H. R. E. A. and demanding that all employes be paid for days missed because of ill- ness, George Hardy's death is directly placed at the door of the Home Re- lief administration, who have cal- lously refused up to now to pay for absence because of illness or any other cause, or to provide free med- ical service to employes. BERTHA LETUCBI: There is a letter for you in the “Daily Worker” editorial office. CWA Workers: By a C.W.A, Worker Correspondent | DETROIT, Mich—The government | is viving us small handouts to cover up the wave cuts we got. We eet two pounds of butter and a viece of vor’: @ week. Onr cut wes from $3 a week and up. We set 50 cents worth of | butter and a viec of perk that the | Workers sav must have come from King Tut’s tomb. Now the vetty | erafters step in and take the butter | by the cases. Of course I don’t blame them for not taking the pork. | The men are organizing to expose these conditions. We sent a commit- tee down to the C. W. A. headquar- ters to report it, and if they don’t do the right thing we workers will see to it that these political job hold- \ers get what is coming to them. We reported a car license of one ;of the cars that hauled the butter away. We have quite a few witnesses that saw this butter being taken away. 3 Food Workers Talk About NRA By a Worker Correspondent LANCASTER, Pa—The following | is a conversation of three restaurant workers overheard in the kitchen of |@ rather fancy restaurant: A (who is the general manager in the kitchen): “Well, I hope to Christ this new year brings a change in things. Think of it, me working as hard as I do, and, when the work is over, I get a paltry $7. I figure and figure how to meet my bills, but $7 will go only so far.” B (the dishwasher): “Well, I ain’t been kicking much, but I do tell you the N. R. A. ain’t done nothing for me yet. See my hands? They are all sores. They’ve been that way a long time before the N. R. A. came into being, and they are still full of sores now. And my pay has been $5 a week, and it is $5 now.” C (the waitress): “The boss wished me a happy new year, but do you all want to know how I spent my ‘happy new year?’ Well, the boss had a party of 18 people. It lasted all night. A good time was had by all, and when it was all over I had to remain for the rest of the night and clean up. I got 60 cents in tips from the 18 . . , and not a penny from the boss.” | I don't think, gamble or have an workers walked out. About 30 sivned up to join the C. W. A. Protective Association. Some of these were S. P. members who signed to give it a start. j Small Retailer | Pnined by Big Mononoly | Business By a Small Storekeeper CHICAGO, TIl.—I boutht a erocery and market in 1992 for $3,000 and pronerty for $11.000, imvrovement $1.000, totalling $15.000. I did 42.090 worth of business in 1925, $4,500 in 1933. I never had a day's vacation, auto. I didn’t lose a dollar in cash, stock or bonds. I made $10,000 in two previcus stores. I could not sell the whole outfit for my mortgage of $5.000. My profit in 1933 was $900. Taxes, interest, coal, insurance, uvkeep, gas, heat, telephone was $650, which leaves $250 to live on a year for four people, with a $10,000 cash invest- ment. Big business monopoly has ruined me. I bought this for an in- vestment. Now I am 55 and broke, In 1923 I was a Republican. Now Iam a radical. I am expecting a letter from my relatives (Amsterdam, Holland), as I am following the international ques- tions (Russia and Germany). Three months ago ‘they wrote me that the dollar was only worth 50 cents in Holland and that in Ger- many the poison gas and ammunition factories are working full time. NOTE: We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every ‘Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their work- ing conditions and of their efforts ‘o organize. Please get thé letters to us by Friday of each week. GETS FIVE SUBS - AKRON, Ohio.—B. H. C., a worker of this city, secured five trial sub- scriptions for the Daily Worker with- out difficulty, showing that if we are active we can get new readers for our “Daily.” The capitalist class plots our des- truction through imperialist war. Fight these plots by gaining new readers for our Daily Worker, our powerful weapon in the struggle for a Soviet Amer* _ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Health Services in Soviet Russia John A. Kingsbury, co-author of “Red Medicine” will speak on this subject, Thursday, March 8th, 9 p. m., at the Concourse Plaza Hotel (161st Street and Grand Concourse), under the auspices of the Northern District Dental Society. Admission free! Cee Poe Use of Dead Men’s Blood M. D., New York—Dead men’s blood is being used to quite an extent in the Soviet Union, whenever a live “donor” is not available. It began with the experiment of Professor Chaumow who showed, five years ago, that the blood of a d@ad dog could be transfused to another, with- in_a certain limit of time. Professor Judine, who is the head of a Moscow hospital has been using it extensively in cases of would-be- suicides, needing blood transfusions. The blood can be kept in a salt solu- tion in a frigidaire for a month; but Professor Judine rarely uses blood that is older than twelve days. It is understood, of course, that all blood is tested before it is stored away; the main test being the Wasserman test for syphilis. It is also “typed” and only blood from those who have met with a violent death is used. Blood from those who have any kind of acute or chronic disease is dis- carded, eiiceys Chronic Nasal Catarrh Samuel G.—The only remedy that might be of some service to relieving your condition is Infra-red heat. You seem to have tried almost everything and we are mentioning this remedy as a last resort. he: * The New Health and Hospitals Commissioners Martin V.:—It is too early to com- ment on the activities of the new Health Commissioner. As a member of Mayor La Guardia’s “cabinet,” we should not expect much. He has not come out to “prove” scienti- fically that the recent police brutal- ities were good for the health of the citizens; but it may come to that, yet! At any rate, Dr. Rice does not broadcast commercial products, en- J dorse advertisements and does not By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Ptaciice medicine privately, as his predecessor has done. As to Commissioner of Hospitals, Dr. Goldwater, we'll keep an eye on him. We have known him since he was Commissioner of Health, under the Mitchell administration and, earlier, when he published an articls praising “Sanatogen,” a recommended by the “crowned heads | of Europe” as a remedy for every imaginable ill, He also forbade the public funeral of the Lexington Ave- nue bomb victims, (1916) as “detri- ental to public health.” To the ‘committee on Investigation of Mor- risania Hospital he stated recently that: “Patients should be questioned before being admitted to the wards instead of after a as is now the case; and a greater effort should be made to exclude the undeserving.” ‘This means that the present admin- istration is planning to further limit its medical relief. We have a pre- monition that every applicant known to be in sympathy with Communism, will be promptly found to be “un- deserving.” he are: Physicians “Recognize” Economics For centuries, the physician was considered by the populace as an ethereal being, beyond the economics Jaws which rule the rest of society. This aura of superiority them was carefully nurtured by the members of the profession them- selves. For years, it was to crash the gates of the medical societies with an article on the economic problems of the medical rank and file; the “leaders” had good reasons to suppress all such “unseemly” discussion, But the economic laws, so clearly promulgated by Marx and are relentless, Wiily-nilly, papers on economic subjects began to find their way into the August assemblages dedicated to pure (2) science, And here we have the Bronx Conty Med- ical Society, at its January meeting, proposing an amendment to the By- Laws: “The Bronx County Medical Society shall establish an Economie Council for the control of the econo- mic status of its members.” Shades of Rugged Individualismt