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¥ \ Page Six + Austrian Fascists Did Not ’s Empty Threats Fear Bauer’: Knew That He Was Systematically Disarming the dustrian Workers by His Policies By D. Z. MANUILSKY Article X as they should. When Continual Concessions to the Charaeteris' fact that the tematicall cracy, have against cratic le: 7 ag manoeu- question of the U. S ed front, etc. This is ot soived and | the tasks of on in 1918, as, ed the to the Righ' 7 among the 4 its own The gains estion of front, eic. ‘The second social-democ could not solve a thesproleta:ian re ‘a bit of socialism,” fee te ay, the bo ¢ proletariat and keep & say, revolu- ack: bow tasks of the bo proletarian | the nineteenth capitalist reac ‘won by the Av its struggle do not c socialistic. lived. | ut with a decline. s of capitalism can i pe ae Pisa d only by a prole- to calm the proleta revolution. mt of the bour- | ire the Austrian S of a “counter- ‘evolutionary ation,” could speak of consolidation in the camp of the bour; , in the conditions ‘The ‘tasks of the pro tion still remain to be s Austrian pours: are With an improvement in thi uation but with a decline. The| general crisis of capitalism can and | ‘will be ended only by a proletarian revolution. ‘Thirdly, only an 2 geoisie, anxious workers with ta Jutionary situ: consolidation in the bourgeoisie, in the pre: of world economic crisis. of the fascist moven at the present movement in Austria t time does not by any idation of one hand, bs ntensifica- tion in the methods of political re- he other hand it is also tom of the economic akdown of capitalism conditions ‘The growth means signify The ravings of reaction can only the bourgeoisie serve to show how uncerta it is accomy - | bourtcois as to wi tion in the n re- | bring. “Autumn they say, is also | “bite the hardest.” The discon ent economic ~bourgeois and | of of cap’ m of exploitation com- S to speak to thece suage of anti-capi- But this demagogy inning to lose it 3 A bre: ing in the camp of Fas (To Be Continued) bring. of the ie system of exploitation compe! fascists to sreak to these masses in the Sof anti-capitalist demas this demagozy is bezinr fredit among ihe me dQ is Tassie ft: (Characteristic for Austria is Fact that the great mass of “rian social-democratic y tically restrained itself. mages lt ecenery y ers and forestry workers every cs 2 urged about their con- . and their strugzies lease get these let- the sy social- by @emocracy, have not fought against! ters to us by Monday of exch week. to organize. ype, » BY HELEN LUKE THRE DOCTURS PASS THE BUCK The bourgeois press bristl @ un! ith our men, we’ : vith barber in ts r eee With the barbed utterances | 1+ "sou know what we think of you! f ths enemies of women’s weltare. | Ct, hat we think of your ‘One Stich stat<:nent, arousi justi- | ~ cling, baby-stai is talist Can You Make ‘Em Yourself? - fiedrrage and resentment in women, is the dictum re coubly-explo: five y con -step sewing inst ie eh of jobs, and old-age i . control clini ’ the mother for al) nd cultural activity; and first, last | ‘always, constant State sare of | “the health of the workers, care which | @riven the Soviet maternity h-rate down below ours, while | unemployment, the industrial | m, Jack of care for the poor, and s to which our women are | je generally, have our death- (On the up-and-up. | “What to do? What to'do? After all, gets like these put the ruling class ivery bad fix. Clearly a cause this high death-rate must be f, one which will not cost the Money. Whom to blame for “state of affairs?—The women tyes? of course! What could Hatural in the capitalist or- very essence of to make woman “the goat”? we expect anythinz else it the bourgeois doctors p into the breach, and, add- lf to injury, declare: ““Ameri- nhood is paying the pen- f-indulgence with the high- -rate from child-birth of lized nation. . . . The world, lally the United States, has been id to mothers for their own I think the high American @ can be traced directly to lespread use of methods to pain of nature’s process. InsteadOf allowing birth to natural course, we interfere matur- | 5 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1934 | Mortgage Holders Throw T Tax Burden on Farmers in New J ersey “Colored Woman Is Having Hard Time on C. W. A.” By s Negro Woman Correspondent APELIKA, Ala.—The C.W.A. is not y colored women work, har is very ma en n don’t want to pay want to pr hen what shall we do? We need houses to live in. The cow stables and horse lots are better han our hous the still calling on us for ren can hardly live. We are fr uses d jandlord is zing in these old houses and they won't fix | them, The condition we are in is awful. We w hard on the farm and at of the year we get nothing. We are n efooted, can’t a, t t sufficient s and shoes to wear. Some of this community haven’t been to church in three years. We just get enough to live on and | ‘t's work all the time, and nothing | to it {could get anyth We dcn’t mind the work, if we but the C.W.A. from the colored woman and giving it to their own |color, and the landlord threaten- ng to put us out, beca haven't any meney to pay and no work to do, {ond a house full cf children, no hus- ip them. Gov't Pian Hits | Smell Southern | Rice Growers By a Worker Correspondent LAKE CHARLES, La.— Southern rice growers to be held up by the Roosevelt government, in the same fashion as the cotton farmers. Under the new\rice production measure of the Agricultural Adjustment Admin- istration, endorsed by the capitalist American Rice Growers Coonerative Associntion, the small farmer is elim- inated at the outset. Each grower must mail to Wash- eginning of the sea- x 40 per cent of the | parity value of his crop, the amount to be returned minus the onerating | - lexpenses of administering the act. No provision is made for the bank- rupt farmer, the logical supposition being that he must stop the planting of rice. The mafor growers will cer- tainly not mind the payment of the opernting expenses if they are as- sured a virtual monopoly of the crop. The small growers able to borrow j|money for the financing of ‘their crops will find the government giving primary consideration to the banks making the loa Under an amend- ment to the production act, the 40 per cent will be returned to the | holders of the liens. At the same time, the acreage is to be reduced an average of 20 per cent. Rice is a cheap and staple article of food in every Southern state. The rice production act, ccnd ed, means a multiplied price for the , improvement of the H , and enrichment of the big _ Call for Release of Ja‘led Leader GO, Il, to the he ficht of Alfred Tiala, fitht- lender, sentenced to jail for CHIC. n the ficht against the srift. im. noverishbment of the small farmers, Henry Puro of the Nations! Execu- tive Council o* the United Farmers’ League today issued a call for funds to fight the case. Addressed to all farmers’ and work- ers’ organizations, to friends and sympathizers, the appeal states: “After a four day trial, Alfred Tiala, National Secretary of the United Farmers’ League and member of the Executive Council of the Farmers National Committee for Action, was sentenced Feb. 17 to 6 months in jail and given a $200 fine. With him was sentenced Jesse Hann, Indiana farmer, to 60 days in jail and $100 fine. “The United Farmers League and the International Labor Defense have decided to appeal the case. We must fight this case to the last ditch, be- cause if they can lock up Tiala and Hann for defending the rights of farmers to their farms, then any of the militant and active farm organ- ‘gers and farmers can be locked up bv the counts which are defending the rights of the bankers and mort- gage holders against the toiling farm- ers, “Appealing the case costs a lot of money. The U. F. L. national office and the International Labor Defense need the financial support of all the organizations and individual friends and sympathizers of the toiling farm- ers to do this. “We therefore urge you to take up » usually at the desire of yom Women pay with their or this comfort.” n > views,” states the United “were echoed Dean Elias of the University of Minne- al School.” And the doc- ly promise us that, pro- ‘on this sweet theory, they img to do their darndest to “diseraceful” hich death- atter how much it hurts Serid FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in| coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write Plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE | SIZE. : |_ Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, talks. be hearing from us, you i immediately the question of organiz- ing mass meetings, affairs and de- fense dances, the proceeds of which are to be sent to the United Farmers League national office to help cover the expenses of appeal. If we can get Tiala and Hann out on bail, while appeal is pending, we can tour them throughout the nation and thereby strensthen not only the de“ense it- self, but also strengthen the organi- zation work for the farmers’ cause. “Do not fail to act at once. Send all contributions to: United Farmers League, 1817 Scuth Loomis St., Chi- cago, TL” $ a soars es Fight Against This Injustice Can Be Basis for the Organiaztion, Correspondent Writes (By a Farmer Correspondent) | $400 or $500 a year? And there are FS VWOOD, N. J.—We hear and| many of them today. @ great deal about the Western| It would be quite interesting to I However, the farmers of | investigate the other causes. We e East are in no better condition, | would ask them, why the pre-war but on account: of the total lack of | time tax rates of 1 or 15 per cent any radical or progressive organiza~-| rose to 4.5 or 5 per cent? That is, tion among them, their voices are | the farm which in pre-war time paid seldom” heard. |*"9 tax ot nvesent probably paid Among the Eastern farmers the | $200 to $250, or more. New Jersey farmers are regarded as| Of course, we may say that for the most prosperous one, being so} the taxes we receive something, but close to the large cities of the East.| how about the interest on the mort- and ‘we | arm League Issues : Feb. 28.—Calling | 3ut from an official publication of the Agri ural Department of New Jersey (circular 227) we may learn that within the last 10 years 4,324 farmers gave up their farms in that State. in the state. (Of course, the follow- ‘nz revéletions are true of all the Eastern states, in most, even in a greater scale than in New Jersey.)| They selected a typical county, Hunt. erdon, and | there, They found 230 idle farms in this | county, totaling 16,321 acres, though | 82 per cent of the land is suitable | for farming. They found, after in- | vestigation, that the reasons why the | owners, who had most of them put their life’s savings into the farms, | had left them, were: Mortgages, high | taxes, bad roads, unfitness of the .| owner, unfitness of the land. | Last week we had another state- | ment from New Jersey officials, (W. F. Knowles, Extension Economist of Agricutural Experiment Station, N. J.) s'ating that at present there are $57,000,000 morteages and an addi- tional $25,000,000 debts on New Jer- sey farms. | The Tax and Mortgage. According to Mr. Knowles, the farmers of New Jersey have to pay annual interest of $5,000,000, that is, say that much for the privilege to rk and grow food for the others. The present average interest charge on a N. J. farm, according to Mr. omen. 45 ehout $360 to $400. Now imagine the plight of those farmers whose gross income is not more than The officials were anxious to know | why there are so many idle farms | investigated all cases| cage? And the worst of it, the | farmer (and the small property own- er) has to pay the tax on the total | assessed value of the property. | I am informed by the old farmers that years ago the mortgage holder “lustrate this with a concrete ex- {ample. Suppose that a farm has $1,000, and it is assessed to $3,000. | Suppose now, that the tax rate is 4 per cent. Then the farmer has to 2y $120 tex. But inasmuch as he does not own the part represented in the $1,000 mortgage, $40, (that is be paid by the mortgage holder, or is should be taken off of the inter- est of the mortgage. 4 Here Is a Program T repeat, years ago it was that way, and it was nothing but just. But +e hewere pnd rs) et -te sharks: changed this method and put every- “hint en the farmers ahd small house owners. I cértainly would like to see if the farmers and house owners would join together and demand that the mortgage holder also should vay part of the taxes. Of course, I know, that this will not solve defi- nite'” the denr-~ion. imemp'ovm7n* or the vlight of the farmers, but will draw the attention of millions of farmers and small property owners who at present are doubly gypped. It would help to treate an organi- zation, which joining with the work- ers could formulate some other im- mediate demands beside the final aim of abolishing the present waste- ful, anarchial profit system. A Jersey Farmer. Connecticut Tobacco Workers Inspired by California Struggle By a Worker Correspondent F°RTFCRD, Conn. — Last fall e workers in the tobacco ware- were vrep2ring to go out on strike for higher wages. Most of the | workers in the wafehouses were re- | ceiving from $8 to $12 per week. The A. F. of L. stepped in and told |*he workers to wait and be patient. The organizer for the A. F. of L. vromised the workers that he would ~o down to Washington ard gst the ck wages that were due the work- | crs. Under the code for the tobacco in- stry the workers, were supposed to | tet 30 cents per hour, but the bosses | ‘aking advantage of the workers not | being organized only paid them 25 | cents for about four months. Seeing | that the workers were beginning to set militant, they increased the wages to 30 cents. The workers, Bikes were in the mood for strike, {and then, in steps the A. F. of L. nromising to get the 5 conts an houz ‘ack pay for them and in this way “reheading the ‘strike. |The workers ‘are beginning to see | through the demagogy of the A. F. of L. and are falling away. They ore now bezinning to come to the | meetings of the militant Tobacco | Workers Section of The Cannery |and Agricultural Workers Industrial | Union. They are beginning to see |that only through united struggles |with the workers in the fields to- ther with the workers in the ware- |house will they be ab'e to gain real concessions from the bosses. At a meeting of the Tobacco Worke's Sevtion of the Cannery and Workers Industria} Union last week, the workers voted “1 conc cence of the Iatter’s program, We are expecting things to move ~apidly this coming summer on the “chececo plantetions. We have al- ready formed a nucleus among the tobacco workers and expect to follow the lead of the C. A. W. I. U. in Southern California. Columbia Collese - Cutting Pay 15 PLC. By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK -~I think the readers of the Daily Worker may be inter- ested to learn of the conditions of us workers at Columbia University. President Butler, at the last meet- ing of the Board of an- nounced that the income, plus gifts to the university, had decreased 15 per cent less than last year. So, to balance their budget, our wages will be put on the executioner’s block. The dean of Teachers’ College, ‘al- thouzh not publicly announced, told certain members that a wage cut of about 15 per cent was due for the faculty and workers about Mai a But Mr. Butler also announced, but not so that everyone would notice it, that “at the same time the cor- Poration’s capital account showed a net increase of $871,571.62.” In other words, the value of their capital has |gone up through the ‘rising stock | market through increased dividends as a result of the N. R. A. wage- | cutting policy. The only way we can fight that Is by organizing the Campus Workers’ Group, composed of workers and student-workers, in all the shops on the campus, Some of tHe things that happen at our “fine, liberal” university would make a red-blooded worker boil. For instance, not long ago an old woman who had been working for many years was dischatged. “Too old work.” |_What we need is Workers’ Unem- i ployment and Social Insurance, Rochester, NY, Workers Force City To Give Wholesome Meat By as Worker Correspondent. ROCHESTER, N. Y.—A committee i five workers went beforé~Dr. John- son of the Health Bureau here to oxamine meat which was being handed to jobless workers. It ‘was rotten. .I have worked in the meat business all my life, and at one time was a meat inspector for the government during the world war. When Dr. Johnson was apprised of the condition of the meat by the committee of which I was the spokesman, he was at a loss for excuses. As a result of our meeting, the Pub- lic Welfare is now giving better meat. Hosp'tal Employes Must Chase Bsss to Get Ther Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) FARMINGTON, Minn.—I have been working as a nitht man in a hotel and hospital in this small village of Farmington, which is 30 miles south of Minneapolis. Before building con- struction fell off to the lowest point in 15 years (in spite of the P.W.A., etc.), I was a union bricklayer arid received $12 a day (while working), but Hoover and Roossvelt thought I might become too independent if that continued, so they fixed it up so I am now earning $5 a week, board and room. Have bzen getting the board and rocm all right but one has to get on bended knee (first having to run all over the building to locate the big doctor) and beg for the money | that has already been earned. He then sends you to see his office girl, and then she tells you to go see him, and by that time he is gone. I am not the only one, as the nurses, cooks, waitresses, janitor, laundry women, etc., also have to go almost totally unpaid while the doc- tor is busy. I was ill in bed with the “flue” and the good doctor came in shortly after my fever went down (I was still very ill) and said: “If you can’t go to work tomorrow, I will have to get someone else.” My aunt sent me the Daily Worker and now I am a Communist. So let us rejoice as we will all be better off in the future after we have learned to follow the teachings of Marx and Lenin. Big Profit by Orange Packing Plant Bosses By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal.— Some time ago the D. W. gave conclusive proof of the tremendous profits (425 per cent) reaped by over 450 corporations during 1933. Ss Here is another specific illustra- tion. Two liberal bosses, who own a local orange packing plant, confided in me (not knowing I was a “red”) and proved to me that they actually made $8,000 net profit during the month of January alone in 1934, Needless to say the workers in their plant rece've a min‘mum wage from $10 to $15 per week) for very hard work e 1 long hover 71 pr=7- tieally night work (N. R. A. be damned!) As soon as I mentioned the sub- ‘oct of wages, they assumed a typical Norman Thomas attitude. Their song went something like this: “Well, we con't pay any more than anybody tolelse, but, if the workers strike for more money. We'll be the first ones to settle with them and grant their demands,” Maybei paid his share of the tax. Let me} the share of the mortgage) should , heir: Share of ‘Lack of Clethes Keeps Negro Boy Away FromSchool By a Negro Worker Correspondent DADEVILLE, Ala—I am a Negro woman living in the Black Belt, with two small children to support, a boy and a girl. My boy is seven years old and my little girl is two years old. For the last two years we have been unemployed; as we could get nothing to plow, and therefore we have no crop. .And that leaves us all in a needy condition for clothing, shoes, etc. I am trying to send my little boy 10 school, as schools have reoperied, but he has only one pair of overalls to wear, But it looks terrible for him to grow up without any education. I would thank any of the comrades for anything you might give me, as I am a widow. Six Ships Strike In Sympathy in Cuban Harbor By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Six ships, flying the American, English, German and Norwegian flags. struck recently in Puerto Tarafa, in Cuba, in support of the strike of the workers of the Cuban Northern Railways and the sugar mill workers in more than 20 mills in Camaguey province. On Jan. 26, the railroad union (Soceidad de Emopleados del Ferro- carril del Norte de Cuba) called a strike, effecting the lonzshoremen, the completely tieing up the port of Tarafa, In Neuvistas, three miles from Puerto Tarafa, the anarcho- syndicalists (Sindicato Unico de Ob- reras de Nuevitas) agreed at first to a united front strike, in sympathy with the railwaymen and the work- ers in the sugar mills, Later, how- | ever, acting’ under orders from their | central offices in Havana, the an- | archo-syndicalists withdrew their support because of the Communist leadership and, as they exvlained, “g general strike would bring Amer- ican intervention.” The demands of the. united front strike called for the agreements made with the Grau: San Martin government which had never been fulfilled These demands called for the universal eight hour day, the withdrawal of the troops from the sugar mills, and the rescinding of the 50 per cent law. (This infamous law, intended to divide the workers, Negro, white and foreign born, by dividing work equelly among foreign born and native, d-s~‘te an dispro- portionate number of foreign born.) Propose Goneral Strike. As soon as the longshoremen ont on strike, members of the crew of the Gypsum King, flying the English flag, con‘erred with the longshoremen, and_proncsed a gen- eral strike meetin? of the seamen in the port. Leaflets were drawn up, and a “flying squed” of organ- izers visited all the ships. On Jan. 28, forty-five delegates from the six ships in pot met t draw strike plans. The shins rep- resented were the Lynchaug and Helle, of Norwegian registry; the Lasbek, of German registry; the Munl'sto; of the American Munson Lines; and the Treyvola and Gyp- sum King, of English registry. At this meeting the seamen passed a resclution as follows: “We, members of crews of ships in Puer- to Taraia, Cuba, declare our soli- darity with the longshoremen, rail- rord workers, and sugar mill work- ers who are now on strike. “We will prevent any scab cargo from b:ing hendled by every means in our power; by firemen refusing to give s‘2am, and seemen refusing to “work winches until the strikers’ domands are obt-'ned.” j 500 Sugar Workers Join. Leaflets were issued, and 500 sugar mill workers in nearby Gua- jaba also came out on strike. The strike was spreading rapidly. On receipt of notice from their head- quarters in Havana, the syndicalists withdrew their support on the grounds that a general strike would bring American intervention. The seamen’s delegated committee visited each ship, and immediate demands of the seamen were pre- sented to the captains. On the Lyn- chaug, the men demanded: recog- nition of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, one more coal pas- ser to be added to the crew, a seven-hour day in the tropics, wage increases, no logging, and no dis- crimination. After four hours ne- gotiation, the demands were won with a slight concession on wages. The Lynchaug si*ns articles in American ports, and since this is the first time that articles have been broken through a strike in a foreign port, the men realize that thé real fight will come when the men are paid off, since in all proba- bility the captain will claim that he was forced to sign under duress. Force Release of Seamen. of the crew of the Lynchaug was arrested but threats of a general strike forced his release. When the captan ordered the arrest of the members of the strike committee, the captain of the Rural Guard refused because of the threat of a . When the workers in the electric plant went on strike, martial law was de- clared, the workers were arrested, and the plant operated with scabs. The ABC, armed, patrolled the streets with the soldiers, and cleared the streets. Orders came from New York that Gypsum King proceed to New York. With the other ships, the Gypsum King steamed out of Puerto Tarafa During the afternoon a member | 0! PARTY LIFE Many “ Young By J. C. (Cleveland) ‘Three comrades of Collinwood Y.C.L, unit went out to sell “Young Workers” to the workers at Fisher Body. They sold about 35 Young Workers. Many workers asked them to come the next day because they just got their pay that night. This shift was coming out at 10:30 p.m. In spite of the cold weather and frost Veteran CCC Workers At Work Building Road For Maine Paper Co. By a Worker Correspondent GREENVILLE, Maine. — Veterans ‘n the C. C. C. camps here are be- ‘ng used to bui'd a road near Moose- head Lake. The road, ostensibly built that tourists might visit the region of the lake, is really being built for the Great Northern Paper Co. which owns the land here, in order that they might be better able to carry on lumber work. Although most of the workers here are unemployed, the government is using veterans in the C. C. C, to build the road. The road is now completed as far as the Grant Farm, which {s the depot for the Great Northern Paper Co. in this district. Here the lake ‘ds 19 miles from the road. The only local workers employed are the bosses. They have been transferred from the payroll of the paper company to the C. W. A. They receive 75 cents an hour; the veter- ae who do the work get a dollar a lay. It is planned to build the road to the head of the lake (60 miles) at Suboomic Farm, in the heart of the Great’ Northern Paper Company’s timber and quit. If a veteran refuses to go into the woods to work because of frost-bite he is given a dishonorable discharge. He is then kicked out of the camp With $1.50. It's a two day ride on the freights, im sub-zero weather, back to Boston. PROTEST TIALA FRAMB-UP By a Farmer Correspondent SPENCER, Neb—Things are rather quiet here. Farmers think they will get something for nothing on the corn and hog program. I’ve been re- ceiving the Daily Worker. I have no trouble giving it away after we have read it, but farmers are hard up and cannot subscribe. I have several Promises. Expect farmers will start to listen more when they find out how they have been swindled. Give .us plenty of news about the Tiala and Hann arrest and trial. We sent a protest from Boyd County to the daily press—they haven’t men- tioned a word about it. | Letters from “KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK” Oklahoma City, Okla. Dear Comrades: Just one word about the improve- ment of our paper. I have noticed the people that read the Daily Work- er are aware of the improvement ao look for me with my paper every 'y. ‘ Such writers as Michael Gold. are worthy of the praise we hear from readers every day. I personally think the column, “A Genius Ex~- plores Communism” was a master- piece, and many other features too numerous to mention. Keep up the good work, we hes will try hard to do our part. G. W. A Vicious Law Which the Workers Must Ficht Comrade Editor: Chicago, Ill. I wish to coll to your attention the following item taken from to- day’s Chicago “Herald Examiner.” T think Dr. Luttinger touched briefly on this same subiect, not long ago. Bat it would seem that now it calls for more nublicity. law [the Sterilization Law—Ed.] in law (the Sterilization Law—Ed.) in Germany and how two states, I be- lieve, Michigan and Oklahoma, have vut this law inte effect. There is no use denying that properly used it | would be a wonderful thing and in a Workers” Sold But Where Are the “Dailies”? Young Communists of Cleveland Hear Demands for Daily Worker from Fisher Plant Men the next night and instead of the | thcee comrades, eight showed up te |sell the Young Workers. We sold all the Young Workers we had, a total of 80 on both nights, and could have sold more if we had them on hand. : The Fisher Body plant is not our unit’s concentration point, but since they hired some workers lately and the unit that is concentrating at this vlant comes out only during the day, we sell the paper at night. Our unit has raised the circulation of the Young Worker from 50 to 100, and will increase the next bundle order, for we are working towards our goal, | 200 copies, and we'll go over the top. But here is something that I heard | the first time. A worker came up to me and asked whether any one is selling the Daily Worker, and my an- swer was no. After we were through selling the Young Worker, several other comrades told me that they were asked by the Fisher Body work- ers whether they have the Daily Worker. I must state that our Party comrades are committing a great crime to our Party by neglecting such a good opportunity of selling “Dailies” to the factory workers. Didn't Comrade Lenin say that the “newspaper is not only a collective vropagandist and agitator, but also the collective organizer.” Now those workers who asked for the Worker know what the “Daily”. is, It can be used now as a collective organizer. And for those who don’t know about the “Daily,” it will be a good propagandist and agitator. There are more members in the Party than in our League. Isn’t there an unemployed comrade who can go out and sell “Dailies” there, and at the same time make a few cents for dues and car fare. Step on it, comrades! Let's all push forward and drive for new readers and subs for our “Daily.” Let us win the challenge that the Ohio district of the Party gave to the Detroit district. CHALLENGE OF CALIFORNIA UNIT FOR DAILY WORKER AND WESTERN WORK- ER SUBS Comrades: With the crisis deepen- ing, C.W.A. jobs called off, war dan- ger approaching, Fascism at the threshold, and capitalists working overtime trying to figure out some more, bunk to hand out to the work- ers to keep them passive, it becomes more than ever necessary to spread our literature, the Daily Worker and Western Worker, among the masses and let them know the truth about the value of organization and strug- gle. We challenge the Firestone section, which is the next biggest to us, with 100 Western Worker Subs for one month. Come on! Let’s see if you can beat us! So far no one has. B.-Heights Belvedere Sec., C. P. Our Readers few venerati ns we would have a super race. Bat under a capitalist government, it will be used to frus- trate these very ends, and the item I am enclosing will bear me out. This sterilization law will prove a dangerous weapon in the hands of the boss class. It will be used to ter- rorize all Communist and militant men.bers of the working class. The loop holes in this law would seem to have been rut there for that very purpose. For it permits of the ster~ ilization of “even some so-called normal persons, who have diffi- | culties. in, adjusting themselves to | everyday life,” | Think of that! In this era of strife | and despair, and they are going *to sterilize us if we have any diffi- culties! Sessins says further that one woman who had been pronounce ed insane and sterilized was later found to be sane. In other words, this poor woman was framed. And what, may I ask, was done to the psychiatrist, who committed this terrible crime? (Did you also know it is net compulsory for a psychi- atrist to be a physician?) Yet from what I can gather, they are being permitted to go ahead with their guess work and decide whether or not a person has the right to be a normal human being. Here is another weapon manufac- tured against the working class. some blood, in the Party. If you are willing to volunteer a quart of yours, we Should be glad to make arrangements for the neces- transfusion. It is understood, course, that we cannot pay for same, our daily gold shipment from Moscow having been delayed ‘for the last fifteen years. . . Te Prevent Colds in Children. |. Tyngsboro, is no “medicine” that prevents colds. A few weeks ago, we had a series of articles on this subject. The best way to prevent colds in children is to see that they wear the proper under- wear (at least 50 per cent wool), stockings and shoes. If the feet get wet, they must be immediately warmed and the stockings must be dried, or a fresh pair should be vided. Be sure that the chil- en’s tonsils and adenoids are not infected; also not anemic, Ali that they are these things By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Leon Hittler—Yes, we do need cause children to catch colds easily. Once the children have the colds or sore throats, the best medicine to give them: is Elixir Sodii Salicylatis, one teaspoonful every two or three hours. Show this to the druggist and he will give you the right medicine. Al- ‘ways remember, however, that if the sore throat does not improve within a day or two, that you must call in a physician becauSe a diphtheritie throat will not im= prove under any medical treat= be used in such cases. Oger oe — Traumatic Synovitis, Pat Harrington, Chicago—If the x-ray shows no fracture, it is best to allow the blood clot to become absorbed. There is Plenty of time to inc'se for drainaze when the blood clot does not show any ten= dency to become absorbed or be- comes infected. Our advice is to keep the foot immobilized and ap- ply external heat which will hasten absorption of the clot (if there is any, which we doubt), ment; an anti-toxin injection must . Sn