The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1934, Page 4

, Page Four | . ° ° Austrian Socialist Leaders Developing Crisis Turns Social-Democracy Into Social-F ascism | | ‘NRA and Company By D. Z. MANUILSKY Article VOI Social-Democracy Defends Capi- talist Rule Every political party, whatever it may say about itself, if it stands for capitalism, is a party of bour- geois distatorship, no matter | whether the form be fascist or par- Mamentary. And we have to judge of social-democracy and its Aus- trian leader, Otto Bauer, not by their declarations on “socialism,” ‘but by their deeds. In reality, the ‘social-democrats are a party which stands for the conservation of cap- ftalism. All their post-war history shows it. After the revolution of 1918, the German and Austrian social-demo- erats were in power, but the existing order did not change an iota. The Yasis of capitalism remained un-)| touched and the means of produc~| tion remained in the hands of the| | revolutionary period of 1918? | | | | to divert the workers from the| struggle for the overthrow of cap-| italism by various trifling concessions | on the part of the bourgeoisie, at the | present time, under conditions of | crisis, we have social-democratic re-| formism turned inside out, “re-| formism” which gradually places the working class in a worse and worse/ Position. And this is the fascization | of social-democracy. In order to conceal this process of fascization, social-democracy an- nounces the capitulationist slogan— “The period of reform has ended, the winning of socialism is at hand.” But when social-democracy is in power, as in Sweden, or when it was in power, as in England, Germany and Austria, where did it win, or try to win socialism? What has happened to the famous socialization project of Otto Bauer and Hilferding of the It is sufficient to remember what the} sociai-democratic newspapers wrote| in these revolutionary years when old ruling classes. Did the bour-| they abandoned socialization. We] geoisie in England lose their priv-| must not take the ruined heritage Meges because the Labor Party was| which capitalism leaves behind it at im power twice—in 1924 and in| the present time, they said. Socialism 1929-31? On the contrary, everybody | cannot be built up on the ruins of knows that the Labor government productive forces, but only by taking | carried through a series of measures| over from the bourgeoisie the nor- whose aim was to lower wages and} mally functioning apparatus of cap- reduce insurance benefit, sweeping | italist economy. Therefore, the years @way all that the British working | of post-war economic ruin and infla- Glass had gained during the number) tion were followed by capitalist of years. stabilization. Thus the social-democratic theore- |g papapetraige see workers are | ticlans have made a complete right- often at a loss to know why we/ about-face in their arguments. They Communists speak of social-democ-| began to put forward the theory of racy as the party of social-fascism.| “organized capitalism. But it was But this description does not contain | found that even with the “organized’ @ shade of polemic or exaggeration.| functioning apparatus of capitalist It is merely the statement of a his-| economy, the social-democrat, were torical fact in the general evolution| not in a position to win socialism, of social-democracy. If in the epoch| because in the period of capitalist ofthe general crisis of monopoly | Stabilization the position of the bour- m, its general tendencies EE beaapeeae Leki while the fascization, 1. e., to the aboli-| proletariat becomes weaker. ton ed the social and political gains} In short, according to the Social- of the working class, to an Increased | Democratic leaders, revolution can- resorting to methods of political ter-| not be made either from ruins—or yor and the growth of reaction, a/ from surplus. party which in practice repudiates; (To Be Continued) the proletarian revolution, and there- ERD ISS | fore stands for capitalism, cannot CUT RELIEF IN HAMILTON help passing through the whole of By An Unemployed Worker capitalism’s process of evolution, Correspondent together with it. HAMILTON, Ohio—The welfare Why did Austrian social-democracy | declare that the famous Twenty-| Eighth Decree, which cut down the/ already meagre unemployment benefit | was a victory for its policy of the “lesser evil?” It explains this meas- ure by stern necessity occasioned by} the difficult situation of Austrian) capitalism. Capitalism is passing) ‘through a crisis. It must maintain | ‘its, accustomed profits, and for this/ purpose it makes attacks on wages and social insurance. Social-democ- | Facy, like a convict chained to a cart, through the whole gamut of, departmen: here is trying to cut the relief. of the workers who did not get in on the C.W.A. The welfare is get- ting government meat shipped to the | workers, but the C.W.A. workers were | cut off the relief completely, and the outcome of this was that 1,400 pounds of meat were spoiled, and they sneaked it out at pight and| burned it in the incinerator while the workers are starving on the job. They are now cutting the C. W. A. workers in Butier County, and when these men come back to the relief station they ask what they did with “@ifficulties” together with decaying | capitalism, endeavoring to persuade | the workers to accept every new re-| of their standard of living | arent a@ murmur. But this posi-/| tion expresses the historic fact of| the fascization of social-democracy. Under the circumstances of a} severe world crisis, the bourgeoisie are deliberately allowing social-dem- | @cracy to take power as a result of | parliamentary elections in a number | be able which the r to main- eir own hands, but through the agency of social-democracy. Such was the case im England, such is the case at the present time in Sweden, where a) was | social-democratic government formed a few months ago. Whereas, the pre-war reformism of soclal- democracy «cusisted in an attempt their $12 pay for the work the pre- vious week. We now demand of the welfare that they give us work or feed us, or we will fight. JOIN THE Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. me more informa- Communist Party. Please send sion on the Name ...... treet | City | THE BOvKi 261 TLE FC “EQUAL RIGHTS” GROWS - LOUDER—AND FUNNIER _- (Continued from Yesterday) AY we pointed out that Y ‘the much-publicized battles of the ruling class women for “equa). rights” are not in the interest of working- women. I wish to cite a fur- ther instance to show that these em- ‘battled ladies often not only are not ‘the real champions of proletarian but are, through their poli- playing into the hands of the the last chapter of “Reminiscences of Lenin.” Lenin is holding forth on ecessity of building a power-ul "6 movement. He refutes the that there should not be work among the women, de- s that their special demands | ' should be drawn up and put forward | evem-that it were better to risk draw- img them up a bit badly than not to draw them up at all. (This me breathe easier.) He says: “That is why it is right ‘us to put forward demands favor- to women. That is not a mini- _@ reform program in the sense the rule of the bourgeoisie state. It is not an attempt women by reforms and from the path of revo- Struggle. It is not that nor reformist swindle. Our de- conclusions the shameful humiliation » in bourgeois society, de- and without rights. We trate thereby that we recog- needs, and are sensible of tion of the wejian, the of the man. That we hate, everything, and will abolish which tortures and op- he woman worker, the house- ‘peasant woman, the wife of yy trader, yes, and in many women of the possessing ve demand for women from bourg! society show that we understand the position and interests of women, and will have consideration for them under the proletarian dic- | tatorship. Not, of course, as the re- | formists do, lulling them to inaction | and keeping them on leading strings. No, of course not; but as revolution- | aries who call upon the women to/ work as equals in transforming the old ideology and economy.” “Lulling them to inaction.” This, women comrades, is the function of | the bourgeois women’s publications, of | bourgeois women writers. | We have stated that women in in- | dustry have biological needs that | should be allowed for by state laws, giving them maternity insurance, etc. it these demands, unlike the ballot and ease of divorce for women, etc., | will cost the ruling class money, and | the bourgeois champions of “women’s rights” don’t want to dilate on them. Gretta Palmer, editor of the N. Y. World-Telegram women’s page, con- tinuously shouts about the merits of women. “Women’s Superiority Seen Implied by Nazis,” says the headline |on one of her recent articles. “Sex | | Equality Would Start ‘Tooth and Nail’ Competition, Says Goebbels—Let It, Answer.” And Miss Palmer goes on to declare she is all for this “tooth and nail” competition between men and women in business. This is what this holder of a sinecure thinks about conditions for working women: “Any fair-minded woman who holds a job in any country today must be willing to take her chances in competition with the men. She cannot, with a shadow of justification, demand that her empjoyer show any signs of chivalry or special consideration which he would not give her brother. And she is, on the whole, quite scrupu- lously fair in carrying out this phi- lesophy of equality.” There you have, in black and white, what the bourgeois “equal rights” re- forms lead to. Working women! Those who must undergo illegal abor- tions in order to retain a miserable job: women who must stand on their feet long hours in stores and fac- tories: I just ask you, woman to woman, comrade to comrade, was that paragraph written by a friend, or an | nich oafLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934 Union Cut Pay of Steel Worker By a Steel Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind—The so-called em- | ployes representation plan company union forced upon the workers by the bosses turned out to be one-sided as usual, with that one side benefitting the company only. Many workers now are disappointed to see the real working of the so-called Employes Representation Plan. At the last committee meeting, one of the company’s representatives in- troduced a resolution on saving waste material, economizing on oil, grease and other material in the mill. A workers’ representative reported that the workers want general wage in- creases. He was told that that de- pended on the prosperity of the com- Dany’s business, also that it wasn't a ‘ocal matter, but it was up to the Board of Directors of United States | Steel Corp. It was reported at the meeting that 85 per cent of the workers in the mill are working only half a day a weck end many are working half a day in | two weeks. The answer from the | company’s representative was that it | cannot be helped. Where does the N. R. A. come in? | Workers were supposed to. get 40} hours of work per week. Workers | spite of the fact that they worked for the same company for many years. | This so-called employes representation | Plan does not help him any. | Discrimination and favorit used in general in the mill, especially | against the foreign-born and Negro | the bosses for no reason at all, pe workers. This makes the biggest per- | centage of the workers in the steel | ndustry. Workers have no one to| complain to. The N.R.A. flags are | flown all over the mill and offices. | We were told that N. R. A. is sup-| Posed to give work to more men and | also raise our wages, but are they doing it? .No. | For instance, in the Billet Mill | Yard, the loading cranes, be‘ore the | ntroduction of the N. R. 4. were | working three hookers, two loading, one unloading. Now only two load and unload. In the locker room, be- fore there were three cleaners, now two. The same in the tool room. Chippers in the yard are driven like slaves. Of 150 chippers, the boss seeps 30 and drives them up and down the yard to do work for 50 men. It’s the same tactics all over the mill. We workers are realizing what the N.R.A. new deal is doing for us—cut- ting our wages 25 to 40 per cent, driv- ing us like slaves at every turn we make, and giving us work one to two | days in two weeks, Workers are realizing that Unem- ployment Insurance is what we need. The Social Unemployment Insurance Bill, sponsored by the Communist Party, is what we steel workers sup- port. The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union supports this bill. We must all join this union of the bo Ltects reanized we will be able to fight for better working conditions aad ae wages, Organized we will Pharmacists in Detroit Force A Settlement (By a Pharmacist Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—A union of De- | troit nharmacists, known as the De- | troit Registered Pharmacists’ Associa~ |tion (affiliated with: the A. F. of L.) won its first battle here. Two pharma- |¢lsts active in the union were dis- charged on the eve of negotiations | that were to take place to gain jshorter hours and wage incre | After several days negotiations with |the management of the Kinsel Drug |Co. and with the boss-conirolled Local Compliance Board (of the N. Haren voted to go on strike and vicket the stores of thi i Drug Stores. prem When the strikers arrived at the store ready to picket, bearing the banners, until the reinstatement of ager called a meeting between the Negotiations Committee and the of- ficers of his company, and agreed to reemploy one of the discharged men, not to discriminate against the active union pharmacists, and to treat in the future with the Grievance Com- mittee of the pharmacists employed in that chain. He also agreed to meet the Executive Board of the union in the near future to talk recognition of the union, ‘The other man discharged (who did not appear at the N.R.A. board for discussion of his case, nor on the picket line to protest discrimination against him), was excluded from the settlement by vote of the pharmacists employed by the Kinsel company, to whom the final settlement was left by the Negotiation Committee, While this victory shows the power of the mass organization of the workers involved, it also shows a lack of clear political understanding be- cause of their failure to continue the fight for the reinstatement of the other man who was not reemployed. A lack of leadership that is alive to the political implications of this struggle, and a lack of unity on the part of the pharmacists themselves, half of whom did not appear to take up picket duty and several who failed to defend their fellow-workers before the vicious attack of the general man- ager of the Kinsel company, shows a jack of understanding of their class Position by the men. A rank and file movement is needed in this organization to fight the auto- cratic tendencies of some of the ex- ecutives and to make this union a real militant tool in the hands of the pharmacists of Detroit. ‘The rights and social regu- enemy? i Pharmacists interested im joining are laid off and fired at the will of | | itism are| y the discharged men, the general man- | Hounding by Foreman Direct Cause in Crippling | of Mother of Baby ; | By « Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill.—On Wednesday, G | Feb. 14, “Butcher” Davis, head of the| ,7He, workers im this department punch press department at Stewart Warner's caused another young girl to lose a hand by his constant ram- | pages of speed-up. This is the sixth | Such accident in a period of about three months. | Here is how it happened. The first | thing in the morning Davis, as his | custom is, came yelling at the girls | to make their rate, which is set too | high for the girls to make. He went up to one girl and told her to step on it or he would fire her. She tried to work a little faster and | made a double header, which broke the die. She was immediately fired. This put all the girls in a nervous state. Then he went to another one and| | said: “You better step on it. | don't make rate, Til kick you out| the profits taken from the lives of too.” This one, 19 years old and with a baby to support, started to} ery, afraid for the job which she needed so badly. She tried her best to speed up. It was not more than a few minutes later when we heard her scream. This time it was not a die broken, but her hand. Three fingers gone completely and the fourth one left a stump, Here’s one mother who will not pet her baby with her right hand any more. The sixth worker crippled be- If you} j Cause of the rampages of this butch- jer foreman, Davis. are working 10 hours a day at 319 | day week so that the company can | get in four shifts during the week, | Saturdays and Sundays included. The blue eagle flies over the shop, but the girls are getting only 30 and 32) cents an hour. They have to speed up to make the balance to the $12 minimum on bonus for 4 rate that is set at about double of what it was six months ago. Therefore if a girl cannot make this high rate she gets fired. Also if the rate is not made completely every day a certain amount is deducted from the pay. One woman worker made the rate | on three days, and on the half day | just couldn’t make it, and $2.25 was taken from her check. The money stolen only in this way from the | workers is enough to add millions to | some 2,500 workers. | We have got to get rid of Butcher | Davis and the rest like him. We have got to defeat the 10-hour day| | and fight for a decent living wage. | In the South plant (hot shop), the | | men did get together and refused to work 10 hours. They won and are still working 7 hours 5 days. The conditions of the punch press are also true in the other departments of Stewart Warner. We've got to put up a real fight | against these rotten conditions. | To OLD RENT BANK Le matronne orvice & ‘ és $ THS. Geand Magid, Mich (By a Metal Worker Correspondent) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.— Rapids Brass Co. has proved them- selves violators of the NR.A. The code for Metal Workers called for a minimum of 40c an hour. Mr. Casi- mer, after working for eight hours, received this check of $1.39, which is around 17 cents an hour. The conditions of this plant are poor, and pay is small, A man named Frank Razmus, a worker of this fac- tory for nine years, after finishing buffing a box of material, heard the harsh words of his boss Lewis Jones | D. W. in Every Public Library Cleveland, Ohio | Dear Comrades: |_ In the interest of spreading the | Daily, I would like to know if it | Were possible for you to print in the |paper an article asking the various groups of Communist Party locals to try to place a copy of the Daily Worker in various branches of city | libraries. | I happened to go to Cleveland | Main Library several months ago jand found that there is a copy of | the Daily Worker there every day. | have found that there are so many |neonle wanting to read the Daily Worker that the paper, through constant handling by the :r rs, becomes so dirty and torn that they have to take it out. There are mony young students | going to public libraries that we could lenlarge the subscription through | this medium. | Marks Paper “Read and Pass On” Eret via State Line, Miss, Dear Comrade: Nearly every issue I receive after | being read by my family is handed or mailed to some one. The majority have informed me they greatly ap- preciate my sending them the paper. |I mark with red crayon numerous passages, also write across the mar- gin above headline, “Read and Pass n,” and I have learned of the paper going the rounds of several neigh- bors, T attenled the C.W.A. relief today at Buchstma, Miss. Several hun- dred were present. About 125 |bushels potatoes, as many gallons |of syrup and about 2,000 Ibs, meat distributed. The largest portion of \the crowd got nothing! | SATURDAY ISSUE, USED FOR | CANVASSING, NEEDS SPECIAL ATTENTION | New York. | Let me relate my reactions to our canvas of the 24-page “Daily” two | weeks ago. In contacting workers, when intro- ducing the paper, I feel the reports given on struggles should be made simple. Since, in general, units do | canvassing ond use Saturday's issue, can’t we take particular pains with this problem? In connection with this, permit me to give a personal reaction, When I first began reading the “Daily” (about two and one-half years ago) it was a real effort to read it thor- oughly. Today, however, I do take | Pride in my paper, but then, I stop to ques'ion, “Is it because I have be- come more theoretically developed and can understand, or does the paper have an appeal for the begin- ner?” It seems to me that when we do this type of work, it is agitation, and, like the agitator, must be close to the average worker who does not understand the class struggle and this union to help make it the strong body it should be, communicate with |the Trade Union Unity League, 4210 | Woodward Avenue. Detroit. ) { $1.39 for Eight Hours Work Se a Rear NTR dee naam mtabageRD Grand | (———_— ' Letters from Readers Show ‘Daily’s’ Organizational Value telling him to do his work over. Mr. | Razmus replied that if more work | | Was needed on this material he could not make any money because of the low piece work price, ‘Thereupon Jones, the boss, became angry, and| choked and knocked the worker on the floor. The worker got up and went back to his machine and went back to work. The workers of the plant should | know of the Trade Union Unity League, then this terror wou'd stop. Where there is organization, things! of this nature do not occur. j therefore it would be wrong to use | highly technical phrases. I feel a column like Michael Gold’s is very valuable because he does not develop any high theoretical problem, In fact, that whole page devoted to cultural affairs is a gem. I wonder if it isn’t possible, at least for every Saturday's issue to devote prominent space to articles dealing in the introduction to the whole class struggle and our move- ment. To pretend in Saturday's paper that we are in a home speak- ing to a worker and trying to arouse him from a passive, indifferent state, to a realization of the class s‘7nifi- cance. This is the problem I am confronted with. Comradely yours, R. R., Unit 9. ALL PLEASED WITH ISSUE Dear Friends and Comrades: In answer to your letter asking if I received the sample copy of the tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker and if I found it interesting. I enjoyed it very. much and helped to sell 35 editions of it in this city. It has been over a week ago since I received the sample copy and I have never read all the news in it yet, there are so many good things in it to read and as I am unemployed I have plenty of time to read it and still I always find something new in it. Everyone I have talked to that got a copy of the anniversary edition told me they were well pleased with their investment. One person quit taking the paper after having received the big January edition because they did not have time to read it. So I questioned them about it and found out it was be- cause they cannot read the Daily Worker in a few minutes like the capitalist newspapers. I think that is a tribute to the workers’ news- paper. I am a member of Local No. 19 of the Hod Carriers, although not hold- ing office, simply because I did not attend the meeting on election night, although I was nominated for bust- ness agent, secretary and other of- fices. But being a reader of the Daily Worker and understanding the work- ing class program of the Communist Party, I have been able to get the membership of our local to have a rank and file controlled union. Our local has also endorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and contributed to the support of a del- ne to go to Washington Feb, 3 to You should have the official en- dorsement of Local No, 19 by this time with our local stamp and signed by the recording secretary and pre- sident. Also seven locals have en- dorsed the “Workers” bill in Cen- tralia and you should have received them by this time. I wish now to extend to you my thanks for the Daily Worker. Also tell the pressmen, Comrade Kelly and other workers, also Comrade Hathaway, editor-in-chief, we appre- ciate their good work, | and mechanical | | Young Girl Loses Hand as Result of Stool-Pigeon Squad Organized in Phila. Navy Yard CWA Job By a C.W.A. Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—I am on one of the Philadelphia Navy Yard Projects. When the job started, the workers were supposed to receive 5 days a week and a 6-hour day with a wage of $15. Nothing less and nothing over. Now the bosses have cut down to 4 days a week; no pay for overtime; no pay for bad days when the men can’t work. The bosses on the job have or- ganized a-stool-pigeon squad—this squad is told that whenever they see any small groups of workers stand- ing in a bunch talking, they must ease around and try to catch their conversation, and if it is anything about organizing, or complaints about the job, they report it to the bosses. ‘These stool-pigeons even go so far as to stand around on the outside of the toilets, listening to the men on the inside talk. Then they have another system. Last week the bosses sent 75 men to the office, They told these workers that when they got to the office, they should present their cards and they would be sent to another job. At the end of the week I met one of these workers that was sent from the Navy job. He told me that when they got to the office the bosses told them to go home and rest a while and they would be sent for soon. That same morning they were sent home, 75 more were taken on the job. The fact is they have a new way of firing and hiring workers on the job. This now goes on every week. I see now what the C.W.A. means to the workers, |A. A. Attempt to Build Up Police fangs Defeated By a Worker Correspondent MONROE, Mich.—The Amala- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers held a meeting on Feb. 15. The new mayor of Monroe, Knaggs, who himself is “liberal and non-partisan,” together with the new chief of police, Fisher, who has formerly been chief of police force of the Newton Steel Co. for the last three years, proposed to organize a new police force to combat thugs, gangsters and robbers. They asked the cooperation of this union to or- ganize such a police force. During the meeting a worker got up and spoke against this proposai, and the other workers spoke, follow- ing his example. The workers said they did not want the cops to mix up in their affairs, and did not want the police to club them in case of a strike. The majority of the workers Were against this proposal of the mayor, and so this trick failed. The mayor also made this proposal to the Paper Mill Union, but the question was not raised at their meeting yet. William Smith Put on NRA Board to Cheat Diemakers By an Auto Wovker Correspondent VETROIT, Mich—Matthew Smith. “f the Mech~nics Educational Society ~f America, he of the ra‘ical phrase- clocy, hes become a dulv-errolled member of ‘the Democratic Perty, and as a reward for spreading il- lusions about the NR.A. has been spnointed to the Regional Labor Board. The Tool’ and Diemakers’ Code calls for double time for Sunday work. The chairman of Local 7 at ABC Hall made the statement that Mat- thew Smith on his own authority had siven permission to the Cadillac Mo- tor Co. to pay only time and a half for Sunday work. All men who had worked overtime without being paid at code rates were requested to file claims with the union and the union would collect. The union has collected nothing to date. The Renk and File Shon Stewards’ movement in the M. E. S. of A. is the keystone of the workers’ strength. CHRYSLER EMPLOYEE. Jail 4 South Dakota Men Asking for C.W.A. Jobs (By a Worker Correspondent) SIOUX FALLS, S. D.—Four aged workers, protesting against their dis- crimination by the C.W.A. here, were arrested, jailed, and held incommuna- cado, These workers had gone to the C.W.A. to demand jobs, as delegates from United Workers League, which recently applied for a charter from the Unemployment Councils. No sooner had they stepped inside the C.W.A. office than those in charge attempted to throw them out without asking them what they had come for. The workers tried to exlain, and one of those employed in the C.W.A! office, who is an ex-convict and boot- legger, kicked one of the workers. The sheriff was called by the C.W.A., and the four workers were jailed. They are now out on bail of $500 and are awaiting trial. NOTE: We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tues- day. We urge workers in these in- dustries to write us of their conditions and of their efforts to organize. Please get the letters to us by Friday of each week. The capitalist class plots our des- truction through imperialist war. readers for our Daily Worker, powerful weapon in the peated for a Soviet America, || PARTY LIFE Applies 13th | The following resolution was adopted at an open Party memb: | Ship meeting, with a good attendance }of Party members and close sympa- | thizers: | The mighty upsurge of the Euro- | pean workers against Fascism, espe- | cially French and Austrian workers | fighting on the barricades, general | strike movement under the leader- ship of the Communist Party, tre- | mendous revolutionary uvsurge of the | working class in Soain, etc., confirms | the corrsc’ness of the 13th Plenum| of the Executive Committee of the Communist International—that we/| are in a period of revolutionary mass | struggles of the workers for power. It proves the correctness of the | junt’ed front policy of the Commu- niet Tatormatonel unitine Commu- ; Mists, Socialists and non-Party work- ers, over the heads of the social fas- cist leaders, in the struvgle avainst the commonenemy and their agents in the ranks of the revolu‘ionary masses. The meeting pledges its solidarity with the battling workers of Austria and European countries. We pledge to raise a strong protest and mass activity of the De‘roit toiling masses, especially in the automobile industry; against the bloodthirsty fascist hang- men, and pledge to supvort in every way possible the battles of our class brothers, The best way that we can show our revolutionary solidarity with the working class of Europe is to struggle against our common enemy and its agencies in the home land—Ameri- can imperialism—in intensifying the struggle against rising fascism and war prenarations of the Wall Street, government. This means, first, the strengthen- ing of our work inside of the shops, especially Ford, Brizgs, etc., in ac- cordance with the directives of the 13th Plenum Resolution, the 18th/ Plenum of our Central Committee, | and the Dis‘rict Plenum for the win- ning of the majority of the workers under the revolutionary leadership of the Communist Party. The wave of department strikes in the last four weeks in many of the automobile shops, the increased struggle among the C. W. A. workers, the militant mass indignation of the | Negro and white masses generally, is a clear example of *he correct and powerful analysis of the 13th Plenum | resolution. It further means the placing of the struggle for Unem-} ployment Insurance on a real uni‘ed mass basis. concentrating especially on the employed and unemp'oyed | automobile workers in the basic} shops. It means that we must in all) seriousness take up the fight for the} rishts of the Negro people and the most relen less struggle avainst every | manifestation of white chauvinism. The heroic battle of the Austrian | | | } |Detroit Open Party-Meeti Speed-Up in the Stewart-Warner Plant] 4,0 );0 31h Plosum The 6 Plenum Thesis || Pledges to Concentrate on the:Biggest Auto Plants to Build Union women and young workers fs a fure | ther demonstration of the correcte ness of the 13th Plenum Resolution ds nding the immediate improves men‘ of our work among the young and women workers in and around the industries. The meeting further pledged itself to carry out in the shortest time pos- sible: * 1. To prepare the Party and the mass organizations for an intensi- fied campaign of shop activity, as our immediate perspective, espe- © cially in the decisive automobile plants, such as Brivgs, Ford, eto. (a) For united action of all workers im the automobile shops, for increased wages, shorter hours, against speed-up and unemploy- ment and for Unemployment and Social Insurance. (b) For one industrial union ts every shop, ‘united in one powerfal union of al! workers in the aute- mobile industries, (c) To smash the company union for rank and file control, and e relentless strugele against the highe salaried. A. F. of L. and other offi« cials, who split the ranks and be- tray the interest of the automobile workers, 2. For at least five shop nuctel and five shop papers by the time of the Convention, 3. To fulfill the recruiting drive for 500 new members Into the Party, as decided by the District Plenum, by the time of the National Convention, and to increase the subscriptions of the Daily Worker for 500 daily and 1,000 weekly subs, increase the bundle orders for mass sales, especially around the shops, . . Resolution of Membership Meeting Section 15, New York District This membership meeting of Sec« | tion 15, District 2, CP.USA,, after hearing the report of our Section Or- eanizer, John Santo, and District Committee representative, Comrade Rose Wortis, who wholeheartedly ap~ proves the estimate and tasks eme bodied in the 13th Plenum resolie tion of the ©. I. and the 18th Plenum of our Central Committee, We pledge to multiply our daily work for the winning of the major- ity of the American workers, so as to assure the taking of the revolution- ary way out of the crisis, Long live our Central Committeet Long live the Communist Internae tional! Forward to, a Bolshevik mass Party in the U. S.! Every new subscriber you get for the Daily Worker means another worker to the revolution- ary struggle against exploitation, war and fascism. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Bananas For the last few weeks we have| received quite a number of inquiries | rererding the place of bananas in} the dist, ‘heir chemical comnosition, ete. Instead of replying to esch letter senarately, we have decided to pool the answers t-gether, in the form of a short article, Firs‘ of all. let it be clearly under- stood thet the bananas we get in New York are an entirely different fruit from the one known in the Sovth or in tronical countries. Our pushcart bananas are gathered when they are as green as grass and are artificially ripened under o'd rags, in dark cellars, or by ethylene gas. ‘To convince ourself, it is sufficient to pick up anv banana on the market (and the “red” bananas, or plantains, are no exception), peel it, and appl: a few drops of tincture of iodine to the surface. The brownish color of the fodine immediately turns bluish- black; the reaction indicating starch. A na‘urally rivened banana, on the other hand, gives no bluish reaction with iodine, due to the fact that nearlv all the starch has been chanced into fructose (fruit suear) and in- vert sugar by enzymes (ferments) present in the fruit. In o*her words, the ereen banana is a starchy food which is hard to divest, especially by children; while the rive banana is a mixture of fruit sugars easily digested an absorbed. Furthermore, the ripe banana con- tains vitamins A, B. G and C, only traces of which are found in the im- mature frui*. It is a nourishing and wholesome food, containing 22 ver cent carbohydrate, one and one-third per cent protein, a little more than one-half of one ver cent fat, an av- oreciable ount of iron, calamine and phosvhorus. A banana weiching three end one-half ounces will pro- duce ahout calories of heat and, owing to its mineral con‘ent, tends to maintain the alkelinity of the b'ood: in other words, it is a protec- tive food, like oranges, There is a wisesn-ead imoression that benenas are hard to divest. This is true of the sim‘lacrum (imita‘ion) of the fruit that we get in the North; but those who have access to the rine Southern fruit need not fear this fea‘ure. The youngest children, in the South, can thrive on ripe ban- anas. With the increased transportation facilities at our disposal, there is no reason why we should not he able to obtain fully ripe bananas, from Flor- ida, during the season (summer), at least. But the American Fruit Co. finds it more profitable to import bananas raised by the slave labor of By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. | secial revelution. the*South American peon and we might as well resign ourselves not to taste. real, bananas until after the ‘This powerful com- pany will ra spend millions in subcidizing po'i‘ical cliques in Nica- ravua and other banana-growing countries to ken the peons enslaved on its plantations than spend some tioriéy antl 'thoncht for the better cons*rvation and distribution of this excellent fruit. Nevertheless, since Haas (1924) has shown that the ripe banana is almost @ svecific remedy for certain ail- ments like spruce and celiac disease; and, .other investigators have found that the intestind1 flora (bacteria like the colon bacillus) can be more readily changed to the acidophilus group by the consumption of ripe bananas, attempts have ben made to secre the fruit in powder form. We have now, on the market, a banana powder, prepared by the Nortjohn process and manufactured by Merck, which comes as near to the rive fruit as it is possible under the capl‘alisi scheme of things, The powder is made from bananas artifi- cially ripened in rivening chambers for 10 to 14 days. The peeled fruit is ground to a pulp (mush), which is sprayed into receptacles where the air and temberature are so regulated that the vitamins and enzymes are not. destroyed, except vitamin ©, of which 20 per cent is destroyed. The banana powder thus prepared is yellow, with a sweet, bananalike odor and ‘taste. It mixes well with milk and.water. It takes 10 pounds of fruit to produce one pound of powder. Two level teaspoons equals one Banahd: Three level tablespoons weigh one ounce and produce 116 cal- ories. The powder can be obtained in drug stores in 10-ounce and 22- ounce cans. Infants may be fed this powder in *heir bottles. Older children some~ times dislike the powder because it smells like “furniture oil” (banans oiby: It seems to influence the growth, but not the weight of in- fants. It is valuable in cases where children cannot tolerate starches or o‘her sugars, Banana powder ap- pears also to have a favorable effect on the stools, the appetite and in certain exzemas of childhood. We believe it to be a valuable adjunct to the.diet of children and adults. With the.exception of the odor to which some “finnicky” children object, we found, so far, only one drawback: It should not be given to people with intestinal inflammation because the body might become sensitized to ban- ana protein. In such cases, the child will get a rash or an asthinatic at= tack every time he tries to eat bane a ’ iis: