The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1934, Page 4

4 "Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934 *Industrial Develooment Hinders Revolution”-Bauer Facties of Social-Democratic Leadership Paved Begin Action to Fight Abuse at Western Union, Way for Fascism in Austria |By a ‘Telegraph Worker Correspondent | seis NEW YORK—I have been working} ‘Rubber Boss Sore at “Daily Worker” Story Calls Author Names, But Can’t Deny Facts About Seamen Continue Fight Against | Standard Oil Co. (By a Marine Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md.—Feb. 15, 1934, This is the fifth instaliment of the series on the theories and ac- tions of Austrian Social-Democracy hich led to the trimmph of fascism “in Austria. “The articles were first delivered as a speech before the Young Com- mounist International more than a year ago. In the previous articles, Manuil- sky showed that the Austrian pro- letariat had power within its reach, and could have gone the road of Socialist construction if it had smashed the state apparatus and marked improvement in the icultural laborers — all this ave welded the vast majority of the peasants together in| close alliance with the proletariat,| and not have delivered the peasantry,| as now, into the power of fascist demagogy Russia could feed itself. This is true. But the Russian proletariat, betrayed by international social-dem- ocracy, was not confronted with the starvation which Otto Bauer is now employing to scare the Austrian workers. To avoid starvation, says Otto Bauer, the proletariat of Cen- set a proletarian dictatorship. He showed how the Austrian Social- Democracy held the illusion of bourgeois democracy before the eyes of the workers. Manuilsky showed how the So- cial-Democracy tricked the workers away from the path of Soviet power. tral Europe had to capitulate to the) Entente, which alone was able to give bread to the Austrian workers. had the proletariat of Central Eu- ropi Rus tral Europe. been an alliance between the Russian rian revolution and the prole- n revolution of Central Europe, would not have been necessary for the Russian proletariat to resort to communism, to wage a hard struggle for bread to feed the work- id the Red detachments By D. Z. MANUILSKY The “Marxist” Otto B: that the economic industrial devel rope is a fi adopted a correct revolutionary} ia would have been able| But} Had there} for the Western Union Telegraph Co. for a number of years in an office north of 59th Street. Our conditions have steadily become worse during} the past years. We were forced to accept wage cut after wage cut, our| sick benefits were cut to the bone,| the furlough lists are growing by leaps and bounds, All of the older workers are shi) ering for their jobs because the new policy of the company is to put the} jolder employes on the furlough list and replace them by new ones at much lower salaries. I have seen many of my friends put “in storage,” and | we don’t know who's next. Also there's a lot of anti-Jewish feeling in the company. Jewish branch managers in many offices are being replaced by the “Aryan” brand. These Jewish managers, who have given many years of devoted service to the company, are demoted to much lower positions. This tendency is growing fast. Everyone knows that there's a lot of dicrimination against Jews, to say nothing about Negroes. } I thought that nothing was being) done about it and that we'd have to continue to suffer all of these things. advent of proletari: The Russian pes of different class Peasants of Central was just because t ers’ cent nd peasants, who were against counter-revolution, and domestic. Had there cal and economic col- between the proletarian This was before I received a circular | the other day that was put out by |a group of employes from the Plant, | Commercial and Traffic Departments. | This circular was swell. It hit the Condition: By a Rubber Worker Correspondent PROVIDENCE, R. I.— Some time ago an article was signed “Jepru” was printed in the Daily Worker, a work- ers’ newspaper, explaining some of the conditions in the Phil¥ps Baker Rubber Co. of Providence. | This little article got our bosses’; goat. They got so excited over it they | posted a notice on the time clocks in| the factory with wild remarks about} the fact that “Jepru” was a “red mon- | ster” in the factory, telling things | that were lies about the conditions| in the mill. This is just an old} bosses’ trick and they use it all the time just to prejudice one worker against another. But the workers in this plant know it is no “Red” bogey-man that is try- | ing to say anything that is not so. | It is a worker, just like yourself, who thinks he has the right to tell things | that are facts. If the article was not true, why} didn’t you expose the fact that Jepru | lied by posting it up on the time clock? But the article IS true. Isn’t it a fact, Mr. Phillips and Mr. Baker, that (D) There is no locker room in the | factory? | (2)The workers were forced to give | to the Conimunity Fund Drive? (3) You removed the stools so that | rooms in the mill, so the worl s in Shop place are bad, and the conditions mentioned in the article ARE true, and so you are afraid that the work- ers will strike ant fight back against these conditions. (And I personally heard four or five workers say: well, maybe that’s just what we need in our place!) Therefore Jepru is not a “red monster” but is a worker in Phillips & Baker Co. who is in- terested in improving the conditions of all our workers. The notice on the time clock also mentions Mr. Woll of the American Federation of Labor and what he says about Soviet Russia. Maybe Mr. Phillips and Mr. Baker would like to get our workers into an American Federation of Labor Union? Because Mr. Woll and all the leaders of th A. F. of L. work with the bo: They are just like bosses themselves. ‘When workers rganized into @ union, usually the bosses of the ft ry can buy out the leaders of se unions to sell out the workers. They just make a racket out of the whole thin these A. F. of L. leaders, can live like the bosses do on the money the bosses bribe them with. No, we workers don’t want that kind of a union, Mr. Phillips and Mr. Baker. We want an hones | workers’ union, like the rubber work- ers in other sections of the country have (The Rubber Workers Indus- trial Union). This is the kind of a union that the workers themselves control, and no one can buy it out. Why does Mr. Woll just hate the Soviet Union (Russia)? Because that is the one cou here they won't stand for people to betray worke: because the workers own everything in that counti Take the Russian rubber workers—they work a seven hour day, they get the best sanitary conditions, radios going in the wor kers can listen to music and plays while they rork, three weeks’ vacation with pay J (except for the ones that in the chemical rooms, th: a month), working clothes free all workers, and the pay going up all the time and nice clean sun) dining rooms for the workers to in, And no layoffs, no unemployment, oat | the mass demonstration and parade |against Standard Oil Co. was held | here in Baltimore, under the auspices of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Placards condemned the Standard Oil Co.’s blacklist system and their re- fusal to recognize the Centralized Shipping Bureau and their refusal to haye the rotary system of shipping controlled by an elected committee of seamen, etected by the rank and file seamen with no discrimination regardless of race, creed or color and no favoritism shown regardless of | what union or affiliation a seaman may have. The parade went up Broadway to Baltimore St. and continued through the heart of Baltimore to St. Paul | St. then to the main offices of the Standard Oil Co. where a mass meet- ing was held and a delegation of sea- “}men went up into the offices and pre- sented the demands. | As is usual when you have to} deal with rotten concerns, they work) the old army game of passing the| | buck. We were told that they had | nothing to do with the shipping end |It is evident that the Standard Oil Co. will give us a hard fight against the Centralized Shipping Bureau as they want to keep the crews terrorized ,| aboard their ships with their black- ball system. We, the M.W.LU. and the Waterfront Unemployed Council, jare placing pickets on the Standard Oil Gas Statiort in Baltimore and also at their docks in Canton. have been biackvalled from the |company for writing an article about the conditions on Standard Oil Co. |ships. They do not like to have the :|truth about their ships exposed to the public. We are also fighting these Standard Oil shipping crimps who sell jobs by getting a seaman to pay a month’s board and room in advance and then ship him out in a few days with no | refund. In Boston they haye their crimp who lives and runs a store and board- | ing house in Everett and from per- sonal experience I know that in order ;|to ship you must run a bill with him. New York has its boarding house crimp on Staten Island. an end to one of t , not only would victory over} nail on the head by showing us how card i . wars, in wh ntionists and counter-revo-| we can get back the last 10 per cent) “Ovomers Would not sit down? | ing by It been many times) wage cut by forcing the officials of) surance policy? etn | millions storation of the na-| the locals of the Association of West-| (5) The lunches are kept under the | class. They fe would have pro-|ern Union Employes to bring up th’ rk tables, so that cockroaches run! gave them the n more rapidly. The gov-| question. This circular was very en-| 2) oyer them and all over the place? the big landlords nent of the proletarian dictator-| couraging to me and my friends. We| go they make a fuss because I am and the tzar, togeth ia would have sent bread) see that the employes have started to/_ worker with children to. support, | Prements belongi to rials to the workers of| do something and we see how we can} put up a kick to better my condi-| their debts to the and the industry of] help in this action. All of my friends] tions. Isn’t it that the right of all| them to the urope, controlled by the Pro-| and myself are going to get busy. We| Americans? the s\at would have found a@ vast| want to thank this paper for its as- A Wage Cut ae ree And if now, after| sistance and hope it will continue iis] ang isn't it a fact that just re-| dren the een years, Otto) good work, |cently, ever since this article was posts - Bs ea heeee Bs | A Western Union pers paned tee ee of workers > in. as he pela SA perator. | were laid off, and the working hours | has proved s nde ustria tad proletarian | Ed. Note: The Daily Worker is glad FD ae Eee O taee, SUN arian Austria F ; Why was this article printed in the aot have been c y fro e very first days of the| to be of assistance to the telegraph i | from the 'y first da; 5 ; Daily Worker and not in any of the| revolutionary \ y m? The proletarian revolu-| Workers and will publish communica-| 1007 papers? Because the local | tral Evrope the ion of the U.S.S.R. took this line|tions from ae ae fe OF ek a oaaed Bettie bossa Mich ensanis to th the first days of the German) come personally for information, borg | tariat and ne dlution, offering the government] | ——————— |ribune and ‘Metcalfe and harpe of u Lut e x | e and Sharpe of with the middie pe I of socia emocratic representatives ° | tne Bulletin and Journal, who are all fiscation of the lar nd impl to send shiploads of grain immediate: ‘New Bedford Mills | millionaires and are only interested of the Prussian Junk whose I the German proletariat. The jin keeping the workers down and ileges were refusal of Haase to accept this help/ |making profits for themselves. But is oni of the most dastardly betrayals| |the Daily Worker isn’t interested in | no wage-cuts, no speed-up. Workers of the Phillips Baker Rubber Co, The bosses are afra‘ we won't stand for our bad condi-} tions. Let's take the hint, fellow workers, Talk it over with the worker next to you, let us form committees Portland CWA Men Close Every Other of the cause of the proletarian revo-) anything except the workers’ inter- | lution and solidarity ever known in history. The younger generation of Austrian workers should be reminded of this episode. (To Be Continued) from the gover tarian dictate have the dividual farms, the supply of chear the ests. The Daily Worker is owned by |the workers and publishes news which | is important to us, the workers. Afraid of a Strike | The notice posted by the bosses says | that Jepru is trying to organize a| Week to Cut Pay NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—The N. R. A. textile code has introduced a new | strike. agricultural machinery for pea- | wave of slavery into the mills here. The minimum wages have become Mr. Phillips and Mr. Baker, if conditions in our mill are so good, : isn’t very healthy, ae By the way, Comrade Herbert, yor con REL TED BY LUKE greatly ‘I was Comrade Herbert S Licht’s protest against overcrowding | wishes to part with a sewing ma- pleased. writes Comrade R, Solon inquires, “Do you “to read Sara|at any time hear of anyone who in the schools. However, I believe | chine, either for very, very little, or that parents should welcome the op- | for nothing? I am very much inter- portunity of having their children | ested in getting one, an old one but skip one or two grades. Hight years|in good working order, as I have a of dreary, monotonous servitude in} Sood deal .of mending and sewing the capitalist schools are too de-|to do.” Moralizing for any active. intelligent| Any comrade who has such a ma- youngster. chine may write in our care, and the “As to other school matters, | letter will be forwarded to Comrade warents have been too lax in permit- | Solon—or perhaps the machine could ting the ‘economy’ program to be|be taken to the Bazaar just men- foisted upon their children. They | tioned. should strongly protest against hav- | wien ing their children crowded 40 to 50) Can You Make ‘Em Yourself? into a room. A moron understands that decent education is impossible thus. Not only is this done for ‘econ- omy’s’ sake but purposely to prevent | any education that will develop| Pattern 1778 is available in sizes thinking, from going on in the capi-| 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and talist schools. | 42. Size 16 takes 31%4 yards 39 inch “As I-know your space is limited | fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew- ZT am stopping although I should like | ing instructions included, t mention other school matters | parents should vigorously protest against. “Your articles the last two weeks have been unusually palatable (to a male mind). I hope you will elimi- nate the recipe and pattern stuff. Is there really a demand for them? "Sincerely yours, “Herbert S.” Yes—(to travel backwards up over your letter)—there is some demand for them, and while it would be a shame to eliminate them altogether, | ‘we can soft-pedal them a bit. Thanks | for the boost, and now I’m just hop-| tng I didn’t lose a friend with the | last three columns. | Despite our lack of space I'd really | like to have you mention those “other | wchool matters,” for this is really | important. Concrete issues are just What’s needed on which to build pro- fests. Id like also to hear if any| Meetings are being held in this con-| nection, or what steps are being | taken to register protests against | ‘My cousin writes me from Cleve- | land that her little boy (age 6) | is not going to school at all Just | mow as the schools are closed for ack of funds. And as to the crowd- ‘ing, I'd, just like to mention that it | in addition to} else. Comrade Herbert’ ij on the skipping of grades is r » I'm laughing. T hadn’t thought of that angie before, “but there’s truth in it at that. _ Sent 25 cents in stamps and I haven't “any idea what they are for. I think { must have got them in the wrong Send a return address and -mail them back. Or call at the editorial office and ask Jean _. These Are Bargain Days Don’t forget, comrades who still @ few dimes together, the In- m Labor Defense Bazaar is f going full blast at Manhattan Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and_ style um. I must find time to go and/number. BE SURE TO STATE e @ bit for a bargain equal to | SIZE. and if the things I said in that ar- ticle are false, why should you be afraid the workers will strike? But| you KNOW that conditions in our| the maximum wages, and even the minimums are not paid in some cases, The majority of the workers find their pay envelope smaller than before the N. R. A. Even those whose |pay is @ little higher can buy much} | less than a year ago. Also now the workers are laid off day by day. Before, some of the | mills usually ran two or three months jat a time, but now these mills are | |doing “our part” for Roosevelt by | operating one week, and shutting! |down the next. In this way they keep the unemployed workers off the city welfare, because as long as a | worker has a week's work in amonth CONTRIBUTE MONTH'S DUES. URGES OTHERS TO DO SAME Editor, # | > HG 7% ob longer given relief or a ©.) he Daily Worker. : Comrade: | At the Gosnold and , Dartmouth plants there are weavers working two or three looms for the last three At the Anti-Fascist meeting in the Bronx Coliseum last Sunday, Com- Readers Readi In Call to Aid German C.P. months, making as little as $8 and $9| |a week. At the Page mill there is janother form of speed-up and wage cut introduced under the N. R. A. The weavers on the draper looms used to be paid $15.90. Since the tex- tile code came into effect, the boss three weeks ago cut the $15.90 to the |$13 maximum. The weavers went to the boss and asked him why they got that wage cut. The boss told them they were not making enough production to get more than $13. A few workers got together to organize against the wage cut. As soon as the boss found out, the mill was closed for a week, and now the mill closes every other week. The National Textile Workers’ Union has called upon these Page mill workers to elect a rank and file committee of Draper loom weavers to organize and fight against the wage cut and for better conditions, We should select our department committees or groups of workers re- gardless of nationality or political belief. Workers get together with a group of workers in each department, in your house or in your club, dis- cuss the grievances of your mill, and report them to the National Textile Workers’ Union, 639 So, First 8t,, New Bedford. Railroad Unemployment Rises During December By a Railroad Worker Correspondent PEORIA, Ul—The Jan. 13, 1934 issue of “Railway Age” on page 49, eports under the heading “Railway Employment in December”: “The number of employes of Clas No. 1 roads ag for the middle of December was 964, 328, according to the I. C. C. monthly statement. This was a decrease of 33,177 as compared with the number in November, 1933.” NOTE We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transportation and communications industries— railroad, marine, surface lines, sub- way, elevated lines, express com- panies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, ete.—and from the communications industries—post offiee, telephone, telegraph, etc. _ We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their condi- tions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters te us by Tuesday of each week. Send to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. New York City, names of leather D’Orsays I got last Address orders to Daily 75 cents, and which are still Ye ae Pattern Department, 248 West 17th Street, New York City g scipameorreee rene © those you know who are not read- ers of the “Daily,” but whe would rade Browder told of the heroic, self-sacrificing struggle carried on by the German Communists against the Hitler terror, and, appealing for financial aid for that battle, he stated that the Communist Party here assessed every member with a monthly payment equivalent to a week's dues in the Party—the money to be sent to support the German Communist Party. In view of the fact that Hitler suppressed not only the Communist Party in Germany, but completely destroyed every working-class or- ganization, including the conserva- tive trade unions, I feel that it is the duty of every trade union worker to help the only organized body that is fighting for the workers’ rights and interests against the Fascist monster—and I pledge monthly pay- ments equivalent to one week’s dues I pay in my union. (The Furniture Workers Industrial Union). I believe that tnere are many thousands of workers who feel the same obligation—as was evidenced by the large attendance in the Coliseum—and will respond to an appeal for monthly pledges when they will be approached by the Party members working*with them in the shops and factories, and meeting them in other workers’ or- ganizations, Furthermore, by the burning of books, persecuting intellectuals, and the ruthless torturing and murder- ing of Jews, the Hitler cut-throats have engendered an undying hatred for themselves in all intellectually honest people. And though many of them have no sympathy with the philosophy of Communism, they will recognize the importance of the only fighting force against the brutal Hitlerism, and might be willing to give financial support to.the German Communist Party. By a systematic, organized house- to-house canvass, the Party members here might be able to multiply many times their own pledge to this sacred cause. T am sending this to the “Daily” with the hope that many readers will not wait for somebody to appeal to them, but will send in their pledges immediately. Yours for a successful fight against the Fascist barbarians. H. B. EFFECTIVE WAY TO FIGHT FASCISM Syracuse, N. Y. Comrade Editor: Since the advent of Hitler, there have been many anti-fascist cam- paigns for material help for the vic- tims of the Brown terror. However, the decision of the Cen- be interested in reading it. tral Committee of the Communist of action against these conditions. Let’s build a workers’ union in this | plant that will protect our jobs and improve our working conditions. “JEPRU” P. S, You are all invited to write to the: Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York, about what you think of this and you can be sure that your name and address will not be printed or given to any one connected with the bosses or their interests. ly Respond Party as announced in the Daily Worker to come to the direct, aid of the Communist Party of Germany is} in my opinion the most effective way to fight fascism, for it is the Commu- nist Party of Germany. and it alone, which can and will lead the Ger- man working class out of the Brown terror. Though I am not a Party member I feel that every reader of the Daily Worker, every sympathizer of the Communist Party and every honest anti-fascist should contribute to this campaign above all others, As the local Communist Party has not as yet entered this campaign (to my best knowledge), I am en- closing $2 directly to the Communist Party, National Office, for which you will kindly mail me the prope: stamps. S. RB. FOR THE GERMAN PARTY Vancouver, B. C. Dear Comrades: Enclesed find 50 cents for two stamps for the German Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party. 1 Wish I could do more. Your issue of January 29 has just come dealing with the 17th Congress of the C. P. of the U. 8. S, R. and it does give us the spirit to prepare ourselves for the tasks ahead of us, which is to build up such a fighting organization which will give us the power in our hands for the overthrow of a rotten decaying system and the building of a new world where those who do not work and are physically able will not eat and where the work- ers will rule in the interests of the workers, —A, P. A SUGGESTION WHICH WE SHALL | ACT ON IMMEDIATELY Editor, the Daily Worker, Dear Sir, On the third page of today’s “Daily” there is a large article headed, “Out of their own mouths comes proof of Austrian social-democratic leaders’ treachery, etc.” I found this very important and convincing since the burden of proof of the stupidity and inadequacy (to say the very very least!) of the so- cial-democrats comes from their own mouths. This article will show to any sensible person that their crime is theirs by their own admission. Because of such importance I would suggest that you use the already set linotype for a small throwaway and would be very glad to furnish five dollars toward its cost. For a REAL United Front, —C. 0. . . Editor’s Note:—This is a fine sug- gestion and we are taking steps im- mediately to publish this article in pamphlet form. The $5.00 will be a big helo for this purpose and we urge all our readers to contribute as much as they can to help pub- lish this pamphiet. Get City Relief in PARTY LIFE ‘tT LEADERSHIP—INITIAT&VE OF A TRULY LEADING SHOP NUCLEUS I am a member of the Communisi Party, quite recently recruited into our shop nucleus. It has always been my opinion that the work of the Party Unit is to steer. the workers along the correct revolutionary line; to declare its problems and to urge the workers to use their immeasur- able class pressure to win demands. A shining example of Party unit leadership took place in our shop| during the week of the heroic} Struggle of the Austrian workers against fascism. As soon as the Amer- | ican press announced the events in Food Thrown Away While Dining Car Workers Go Hungry By a Railroad Worker Correspondent LONG ISLAND CITY, N. ¥.—We have read several articles in the “Daily” about conditions in the Dining Car Department by dining car cooks and waiters at the Sunny- side’ yard. We are several of the many who see the benefits of the articles, particularly. the one written | about the filthy conditions of the crew room, where the waiters and cooks have to wait, sometimes all day. .The writer described the crew Toom as a pig sty, and it was a very good description. These write-ups have met with | very favoreble response amongst us | and created quite a lot of comment. | Evidently the company must have recognized the dissatisfaction among us and finally came to the conclu- sion that the crew room was a pig sty and made some changes and in- stalled new benches instead of a box to sit on. Extra and regular extra cooks and waiters come to the crew room and are ordered to wait sometimes from 8:30 to 5 pm. without pay or any food all day long. Most of us have | only carfare and no money to buy food. The company has refused to} provide any food, saying meals are included during reporting and work- ing time, with three hours’ time for | Addition to Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) PORTLAND, Ma.—After the severe weather here recently, C.W.A. workers in the Portland Relief Workers Pro- reporting. Since the depression and a 10 per cent wage cut they have abolished all agreements, including free sleep- ing quarters. A notice has been is- tective Association visited Miss Waldo,|Sued forbidding stewards, chefs, cooks of the Welfare Department, demand-|and waiters to give even a crust of ing supplementary relief. In many|bread to any dining car or railroad | cases the workers had not more than] Worker or he will be immediately | one day's pay coming to them. After/fired. Just this wek, steward’ San- long negotiations, the Welfare agreed|born and chef Anderson were fired to co-operate with the workers in sup-|for giving a hungry dining car em- plying relief. ploye food, yet the garbage cars are At the last meeting of the union,| always filled with wHolesome food the workers told of the suffering in| thrown away at the end of each trip. their families due to the small pay| The superintendent and his whole | they received because of their inability| staff get the meals from the same to working during the cold weather.|P. R. R. commissary men, who are | The Welfare Department had refused| subject to be fired if they give food | to give relief. A committee was|to their fellow workers. | elected to present the workers’ de-| If they can provide benches for mands to the Welfare. All the de-| workers to sit on instead of boxes mands were granted. The workers| they surely can provide this food in- i are now realizing that only through} stead of its being thrown into the organization can they win their de-| garbage cans. This should hold good mands, for not only Sunnyside, but out of The workers have also raised the|town also. Every dining car worker demand that they be permitted to| should demand to be fed while wait- complete their weekly work in three days instead of the existing four day week, On many jobs where the men are best organized, this demand has already been won. The Relief Workers Protective As- sociation here elected a delegate to the National Convention Against Un- time since the formation of the asso- ciation and the opening of the Wash- ington convention, the workers were unable to raise the necessary money with which to send him, M—, a railroad worker, came to. me and said that after reading Comn- rade Hathway’s “Answer to F ur Workers” in the Feb. 3 issue of the Daily Worker, he had decided to join the Communist Party, Big Money for Graft, But Starvation Pay For Postal Substitutes (By a Postal Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—I have been a substitute clerk for 444 years, work- ing for starvation wages under well- ted, well-paid supervisors. Tt is at once apparent that the government is unable to give its sub- stitute workers decent and civilized working conditions because huge ap- propriations are needed for subsidies to air-ship and steamship firnis. The army is now handling the air- mail. It is very obvious, this is a political move of Postmaster-General James A. Farley to transfer the sub- sidies from Republican to Democratic control (and to prepare for war.—Ed.). Enclosed find literature from the United National Association Post Of- fice Clerks, who don’t seem to help the plight of the substitute workers. Substitute postal workers would ap- preciate it if you would print more about the sweat-shop, tnctvilized conditions in the Postal Service. We Want C. W. A. Correspondence Lately there has been a great shortness of Workers’ Correspond- ence from C. W. A. workers and un- employed workers in the Southern states. Because workers’ correspond- ence is the life-blood of our paper, we urge Southern workers to write us of conditions and struggles on C._W. A. and relief. We cannot promise in ev. ‘y case to publish the letter in full, but the correspondents can be sure that the information contained in the letters will be utilized in some effective way. Names will not be published un- less the worker asks that we do so, employment, but due to the limited), ing for assignments. A GROUP OF DINING CAR WORKERS. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Nervous Scratching—Viosterol G. S—The itching you are com- plaining about seems to be of ner- vous origin brought about by the dif- ference in temperature upon removal of your clothes. You will find that this urge to scratch does not occur during the summer months. Our ad- vice is to sponge the itch parts with rubbing alcohol as soon as you re- move the clothes, and allow it to evaporate. You will find that this will prevent your skin from itching. Viosterol is a substance which has been irradiated with the ultraviolet ray and has acquired Vitamin-D properties. It is used mainly in rick- ets. Your two-month infant and three-year-old child do not need it, if they have no signs of rickets. The indiscriminate use of Viosterol is to be condemned. If the children are below weight, it is better to give them cod-liver oil. The fresh cod-liver oil does not lose its efficacy when fla- yored with mint or chocolate; but unscrupulous manufacturers often disguise an inferior or stale oil by adding these and other flavors. Our regards to Mrs. 4 % 4 a Sinus Trouble Y. C. L. Member, Brooklyn.—The specialist you mentioned is not rec- ognized as such by the medical pro- fession at large. If you have no money, you better call on us for a free examination. * @ Cancer N. W. H.—Cancer is not contagious. It cannot be transferred or “caught.” We do not know the actual cause; but we. know that chronic irritation is the exciting cause in most cancers. If. the father has cancer, it does not necessarily follow that one or all his children will contract the disease. ’ * White Spots On Tongue By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Shop Unit Leads in Active Support of Austria Workers Holds Shop Meeting; Sells Daily Workers; Rallies Workers to Protest Meeting Austria, Wednesday morning, our shop nucleus called a special meet- ing of the workers at 12 p. m. in the lunch room and after a fervent and inspired speech made by one of our comrades, @ resolution was drawn up and read, protesting the slaughter of women and children by the Austrian fascist government and pledging solidarity to the heroic Austrian workers in their struggle for free« dom, The workers of our shop unanle mously voted in favor of this resolu- tion. This resolution was then sent to the Daily Worker and printed in the Daily the following day. One of the comrades made a suggestion to send somebody to the Daily Worker office for 50 copies of the “extra” Daily, which came off the press *t 1 p. m. on Wednesday. This was done. A girl was stopped from work for a couple of hours, at the expense of the union. Fifty extra Dailies were brought and distributed among | the workers in the shop. Thus did our shop unit serve to interest our workers in the class conflict raging in Austria. Our workers were made aware of the inseparable bond be- tween themselves and the revolution- ary Austrian workers. Friday, at 3 p. m., all New York workers were called upon to close the shop in a mass political strike in support of their brave Austrian com- rades and go in a body to Madison Square Garden. Once again our comrades, acting upon their own initative, called, thru the Shop Committee, a meeting of our workers at 12 o‘clock in the shop lunch room. They were told about the demonstration to be held at Madison Square Garden as an ex- pression of support with the heroic Austrian workers and as a protest | against murderous Austrian fascism. And it was, therefore proposed by one of our comrades, who felt the sentiment would be in favor, that we stop work at three o‘clock and go in a body to the Garden, After the discussion for the prop- osition, a motion was made and carried. One hundred workers of the Bleyer’s Shop of various political af- filiations, rallied enthusiastically to the support of the Austrian workers. This is an example of the awaken- ing of class consciousness in the minds and hearts of the American workers which can be accomplished by the initiative of a truly leading shop nucleus, It is my belief that a lesson in unit leadership is to be drawn from this write-up on the ac- tivities of our unit. A, M,, Shop Nucleus No, 8, See. 6. Every new subscriber you get for the Daily Worker means winning another worker to the revolution- ary struggle against exploitation, war and fascism, JOIN THE Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. €. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name oo ccc casseseceee mes doe Street City you to stop running around to physicians regarding your “afflic- tion.” The white spots are without significance and the only way to get rid gf them is to pay no attention to them. You are intelligent enough to see that the doctors you went to are treating you for your “nerves,” rather than for your tongue. They are giving you the mouthwash, just to keep you busy. How an intelli- gent man like you could have been so gullible as to take Neo-Salversan for an ailment which is mainly im- aginary, is beyound our comprehen- sion. Lipema Mrs. Y. K., Chicago, Ill.—A Lipoma is a fat tumor of no significance. It does not become malignant and does not recur after surgical removal. If yours came back after an operation, it is either not a Lipoma, or another small tumor near it might have de- veloped. You better show it to the surgeon who operated upon it. Thanks for your subscription to “THE RATE ADVISER.” * 8 Address Wanted A. H. Wolfson—A private letter was sent to you and returned to us marked, “Not at Address Given.” ei Nee ok Polish Speaking Physicians For the benefit of our comrades in Chicago who speak Polish only, we are giving the names of the following three reliable physicians who are connected with the International Workers’ Order: . Dr. L. Tabachnick, 2958 North Ave. ‘phone Brunswick 4880, hours 2 to 5, 7 to 9 p.m. : Dr. H. Gomberg, 4600 S, Ashland Ave., ‘phone Boulevard 9194, hours 11 a.m. to 1, 6 to 8:30 p.m, Dr. Marjan S. Swiont, 4231 Archer. Ave., ‘phone Lafayette 6868, hours 2 H, G., Brooklyn—We would advise to 4, 6 to 8 pm