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Page Six ] Otto Bauer Feared United Front Would Reveal HisRole} Wanted to “‘Negotiate” | Strove to Stem Tide of Working Class Unity; By D. Z. M. JILSKY Article XVIII the cause of the Austrian 5 weakness is to be found ng of the international movement? Possibly the responsibility for the bankruptcy of Austrian social-democracy’s policy falls on the proletariat of the U. proletaria in the S. R., which has working class mover the path of proletar i No, com es, it is not here a ques- tion of c age, but of the fact that one part of the working class, un- der the influence of social-democ- r » is entering into a bloc with the bourgeoisie against the other part of the working class, the Com- nunist and if the working ‘ia still ret. f BD) be like if this prole- talist world bulwark tarian did not exist? Where would the volicy of social- democracy have led the interna- class? If there is as perialist war, if the offensive has not con- pean workers into se coolies and Indian pariahs e of all the capitulationist of international social-de- cy. if fascism is not trium- phant along the whole front, it is just the government of proletarian dictatorship which is victoriously constructing socialism stands a counterpose to world capital and world reaction, because the organized movement of World Communism, united into the world- wide Party of the Communist In- ternational, is barring the path of befare nunism and Proletarian Revolution UT the imporiance of the or ganized Communist movement] does not consist only in the tre- mendous echo which its slogans meet with among the working masses of all countries. This im- portance is to be attributed to the| tenets of the Communist Interna- | tional—the tenets of irreconcilable | class struggle. Whether the Com- munis® workers in capitalist coun- tries succeed in forming a broad united front with the social-demo- cratic rkers or not, the Com-} munists will fight just as devotedly | against the capitalist offensive, against fascism, against war, as they have fought up till now. They will always be an active factor against reaction in all its forms. It is not the Communists who are holding things up! In places where they have not formally entered the| united front,” they have done} everything that lay in their power for this united front of working) c struggle, making tremendous sac ces for the cause of the work- ing class. In places where the social-democratic workers are com-| mencing the struggle against the bou oisie, no power wielded by the social-democratic authorities will prevent the Communists from standing shoulder to shoulder with the social-democratic workers in this struggle. The problem of the united front encounters the attitude of the social-democratic workers. Therc cannot be a united front if therc is no class struggle of the prolc t which stands in profoun contradiction to the whole policy o Austrian social-democracy and it leader, Otto Bauer. But the unitec workers’ front of Communist and social-democratic workers would in- crease the fighting forces of the vorking class many-fold. It would permit the proletariat not only to hold up the attack of the enemy,| but to take the offensive itself. Let the millions of social-democratic Only reflect what the In-| ternational working class would rep- resent now, with its vast mass or-| zations, basing itself on the letarian revolution of the U. S. S. R.. if such a united front of struggle on the basis of the class| struggle were really brought about.) And if the Communist Parties were really confronted with social-demo- cratic organizations whose leaders now adopted the standpoint of the class struggle Jike the rank and file masses, the duty of the Com- munist Party would be to con- clude an agreement in order to bring about a united front with these leaders. But this state of ffairs does not exist. (To be continued) Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- the Communist Party. tion on boomin HELEN HOVELS, HOUSES — AND THE) DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT From Comrade Irene H., of In-} diana, who wrote the article about| constructing a fireless cooker, comes| sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36,/ The women kept this money until letter. It zoes | “Today while reading my “Good Housekeeping another excellent like this: neighbor's Magazine,’ I found an article which| step-by-step sewing instructions | was really worth reading and think- ing about. This blurb, part of the! Housing Program ballyhoo, was| written by Frazer Hunt, whoever he| is. In this he gives the following} Startling statisti “Despite the claims made for the American Standard of Liv- ing, barely one-third of the popu- | lation is living in houses which | even approach modern. One third are living in HOVELS; unsanitary, | houses hardly fit for ais. Another third are in houses which are barely over the line of decency.” “From this point, Frazer Hunt| goes on to tell how much the hous- ing plan is going to help ‘Mr. Aver- age American.’ Remember, from this Frazer Hunt's own figures. | ‘Average’ is now living in a house! which is barely fit for an animal | Yet our ‘Great (B)leeder, Frankli Depression, through the P. W. A— end the Westinghouse Corporation | —is going to give this ‘Mr. Average Citizen’ a chance to buy the ‘Home of Tomorrow.’ “These houses are to cost ‘as soon @s mass production is started, $12,- 000 each, though the first ones wil cost considerably more.’ | “He describes how ‘Average’ and| his family wiil open the garage door | by a radio beam, light the lights with the same method, go in and teke the already cooked meal out of the electrically timed and con- trolled stove, serve the meal in the air-conditioned dining room, then} wash the dishes also by electricity. | The funny thing is that the first | of these houses has already been built, and money is being borrowed | through the P. W. A. to build sev-| eral more. “The only thing that neither | Frazer Hunt nor the P. W. A. tells| us is how ‘Mr. Average Citizen’ (the unemployed or part-time worker), who up to the present has not had money enovgh to occupy the few decent houses there already are, is suddenly going to acquire the twelve thousand smackers for one of these houses. “It sure is a picture worth try- ing’ for—all but the twelve thousand dollars. What difference that Frazer Hunt doesn’t tell us how to buy one of these palaces? The Com- munist Party and the Unemployed Councils show the workers how to get out of the hovels which are not fit for animals. “Let the P. W. A. build a lot of these houses, and equip them with their 68 installed motors, their electric ice-boxes, and the other gadgets. But while they do this, let's get together and build the even finer sfen-'s--, the DICTA. | TORSHIP OF THE PROLE- | t | » BY LUKE Can You Make ’Em Yourself? 1790 Pattern is available in 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 3 1-8 yards 39 inch fabric and 3-4 yard contrasting. «Illustrated included, RY YY V\ = Send 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. iy Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. TARIAT, and then when that time comes, these playhouses of the bosses will really be the homes of the then rulers of the world, ‘Mr. Average Citizens’ ” Oh—but Comrade Irene! Didn’t they forget about the creche, the community kitchen room and laun- dry, the gymnasium or recreation room, and the city heat?—but you're right: let ‘em go ahead—we can tack all that on later. Am holding the additional re- cipes for the R. I. C. B., and will look up information about pennar etc., and write you in a day or two. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1934 Yukon, Pa., Miners: Break Thru UMWA) Law Against Strike’ By a Miner Correspondent. | YUKON, Pa—The mine here is one of the Westmoreland Coal mines. This mine was shut down for many months. It used to em- | ploy 400 men and now it has re- | opened and employs 116 men. | Conditions are much worse than before. The sections that are work- | ing are the rottenest sections and the good ones are shut down. Well, all the men belong to the United Gwe them The damn mMan-tne Mine Workers of America as in| other mines, but now we have | started an opposition in the local to fight for the every day needs of | the miners. On Feb. 12 we put up| a good fight to win our demands. | ‘We had a very funny strike here for a man-trip. The thing was that | the miners had to walk to their | working places; this is about % of | a mile. Well, the miners did not | like this—they wanted a man-trip. | So, what was to be done? The men discussed it. The main thing was, the clause in the agreement, (the Lewis Operator Agreement), which | Says, $1 a day if you strike, and this was the question. So the men de- cided to go to work Feb. 9, but only to load one wagon a day. This did not work so good the first day be- | cause the men in other sections loaded more than one car. So on| T >. .10, they all decided to load on. ‘agon apiece, but again that day, the pit committee was not | working, so again it did not work }out. On the 12th they all got to- vother and beran to load one wagon | apiece, and this day the company | bed a 1.600 ton order and one wagon apiecc was not enough to | fill this order. | The miners had won the man-trip | demand. Faker’s Itching Fingers AreBurnt, | By a Mine Worker Correspondent PANAMA, Ill. — Our local presi- dent, Mr. Novak, is losing his grip | over the women’s auxiliary. The | women are beginning to realize that | all the sop Novak was giving them all this time was to keep them under the control of the Pearcy | machine. This came about when | Novak overstepped his bounds. | Last month the women received a | little over $100 from the head-j} quarters in Gillespie to be dis- | tributed among the unemployed | families as a Christmas present. | | | | two weeks ago when they decided to apportion some of it for various Purposes to the membership. At this time, Mr. Novak came to | them and tried to force the women to take these funds into his own hands to be spent as he, “the big leader,” thought best. The women got mad and sent a delegation to Gillespie to demand a show-down. Mr. Pearcy could not do otherwise than say that the women had a right to spend it the best way they saw fit, because if he didn’t he would also be on the spot with Novak. When the women came back they told Novak to get the devil out of their way, and since then there has been a good deal of other stuff that came to light, where this tool and stool pigeon tried to defeat the workers in this county and town. For those miners who don’t re- HONOR MEMBER Last week we were very glad to hear from Esther Cohen, of the Vanguard Pioneer troop in Chicago, who asked us a question, from Mildred Pabst of Bronx, New York, who wants to write for us, and from Charles Libove, aged 10, of Brooklyn, N. ¥., who sent us a very nice puzzle. Let us hear from more of you. CAN YOU ANSWER ‘THIS ONE? The boy or girl who answers this ques- tion correctly, will have his letter printed in next week’s DAILY WORKER, and will receive a Lenin Plaque as a prize. Get out your pen and paper and step on it, boys and girls. You know our address, 35 East 12th St., New York City. Atten- tion Editor, With Our Young Readers. THE QUESTION “Are the children in the Union of S0- cialist Soviet Republics allowed to go to church or synagogue, and how old must they be before they can go there?” —Sent in by The Vanguard Pioneer Troop, Chicago I, | LAFFS “Mom, why do you always give old clothes to poor people?"’, asked Junior of his mother, “Don't they like new ones?” —As heard by a Pioneer. Why do they always call cops bulls? Because they get sore when they see) reds, —Martin Fleer, aged 11, DO YOU KNOW THESE? ‘The best answers will be printed in next| Saturdey’s Daily Worker. The names of all boys and girls who send in answers will also be printed. Be sure to men- tion your age, your name, address, city and state, so we can answer you. 1.—Who is Dollfuss? 2.—Who is Mussolini? 3.—Who is Hitler? 4.—Name three countries where Fascism already exists? 5.—Who are the real fighters against Fascism? Here is Bill, Junior’s, Pioneer uniform. | He got this uniform through his Pioneer| troop. The troop arranged a big affair, at which they collected enough money buy uniforms for all their members. Did You can color this unjform exactly as; the orignial. with a red kerchief, and red and orange emblem on his arm. elsort of gold. aca teten a6 the petier you can paste the suit on stiff paper, and | — U.M.W.A. Heads Rob Miners by Check-Off But | Refuse to Defend Pay Against Attacks | By a Worker Correspondent BOOTH, W. Va.—Wages are cut under the N. R. A. in West Virginia, in River Cime Coal Company mine, by indirect methods. Miners got paid doing extra work bailing water and cleaning slate. Now, this last week the bosses refuse to pay for this work. Miners are pushing the/| empty cars, and also dropping the tools out of the working places, which is very dangerous. The com- pany cut the main trip off. In the evenings miners have to walk out of the mine for one hour after the hard day’s work. Before the U. M. W. A. the miners did get pay for the work they did on the main trip. not say a word about it. The only thing they talk about is the dues. The union has no agreement with She company. The cars weigh much less than they did before, and we elect the checkweighmen on a tipple. Miners go into the mine at five o’clock in the morning, and | come out at four and five, andj | sometimes at 6 pm. The cleanup | System is here. If you do not clean up 2-3 cars before the next day, you are turned back in the mine to clean up. Miners are looking for rails and ties all over the mine. U. M. W. A. officials do not see this thing. We have a preacher for a President, in the local, and a stool Pigeon acts as secretary. The New England Mine Cooper Coal Co. cars are five tons. When the cars go over the scale they onl: weigh two tons and 12 hundred or a little more. There is no pay for extra work. Water miners are working 10 to 11 hours a day. A U. M. W. A. meeting was held last Saturday, Feb. 10. One Negro got up and told the miners that his baby boy does not know him any more because he leaves the house in the morning when he is sleeping and comes home at night the same way. In this mining camp work- ers work from 12 to 14 hours a day. Negro and white workers are segre- gated—Negroes on one hill, and whites on the other, Mine No. 39 Consolidated Coal Co. 450 miners are working. 36 are paying dues to U. M. W. A. grafters. No pay for extra work, same as in other mines. They check weighmen on a tipple and coal weighing is worse than without him. Also he is chairman of the local. Now that the new cars have come into the mine miners claim that the cars should weigh 6 tons, but the check weighman and the superin- tendent told the miners that the cars cannot weigh more than 3 and one-half tons, and that is what the miners get. All the coal-leaders are against the J. Lewis clique and the Bitners. In this mine the workers are dis- charged if they put up a fight for better conditions, and they see the district officials of the U. M. W. A. but the officials are telling the miners that they cannot do any- thing for them. In the Edna Gas Coal Co. Mine two young workers were discharged for not working in water and doing extra work without pay. These two miners went to see Tony Titay and the District Superintendent of the U. M. W. A. When the workers told them the story, the officials said they couldn't do anything for them, so the miners said that if you can’t do anything we will do it our- Selves. We are going to stop pay- ing dues to your grafters, and tell many others not to pay. They went back to the boss, and asked for their jobs again, and told him if he did member Novak, we want to remind you that this is the right hand man of Claude Pearcy, the same fellow who few months ago called a sheriff into Panama to arrest Zipp Koch and Tony Minerich, when they organized the unem- Ployed. This is the same Novak who has been trying to undermine in every possible way the Unem- ployed Council. So far this tool did not succeed and he will not, be- cause We are convincing more and more miners and showing them who this guy is. ‘The color is a blue grey, ‘The buttons are We have an U.) M. W. A. local here, but pit com-| mittees and officials of the local do Gmase THe Lewis, MACHINE not give them their jobs back they |code an account of slow turn. The| mittee; are going to beat the hell out of | him right now in the office. The boss was forced to give the job back} 0 these two miners. | The unemployed Council in John Y. Mining camp forced the C. W. A. grafters in Morgentown to pay some more of their money that they earned working for the C. W. A. Before we were not organized, we were walking 24 miles to Morgen- town and back, and asked for our money, but they told us to wait.| Now we call a meeting of all un-| employed workers in John Y and} | Louisville and go to Morgentown, | and force C. W. A. officials to | | pay us. | ‘Set Up Fictitious ‘Strike Committee’ ‘To Stop Struggle | By a Mine Worker Correspondent | | BELLEVILLE, Ill—I am a mem- | | ber of local No. 4 and voted with| the rest of the members to endorse| the call of Local No. 8 of Edge- mont, Ill, for a one-day strike on | Feb. 12th, also to send a protest | | against the coal code to Washing- | ton. I found, hov that rig | next day, the local “little fake got into a huddle. They called up S. L. Jones, Board members of this | district, and also Pearcy, and told} him that “hell was breaking loose| here because these damned com- | munists got a ball rolling for an- other strike.” Among! these local stools were Drexel Collins and Jesse Biggs. | They immediately went over the head of the membership of the three | locals (No. 8, 4 and 7) and called a} meeting of a non-existent “strike Committee” and issued a counter- statement against the one-day| strike; they also sent word to Pearcy and Keck and asked them| to make a statement notice in the paper in order to disrupt the | militant action. | | What I want all the P. M. A.| miners to know is this: Collins and Biggs signed a statement for a| “strike Committee” (enclosed here- with). There is no such a thin, in our sub-district. They just put} themselves up as such. They were discharged after the settlement of the last strike and even then they were serving only in capacity of leadership until each local elected their own executive. That was at the time of the formation of the P.M. A. Since then we have had two elec- tions and every one knows that these people were not elected to that capacity in neither one of our three locals. And it is common knowledge that unless elected they are automatically out after the election. yet these tools of the Pearcy-Keck machine continue in this fictitious “strike committee” role with the approval of the P. M. A, leaders. The miners here are beginning to call them “The offi- cial strike breakers” and they cer- tainly are. I wish you will print this in the “Daily.” | | NOTE, We publish letters from coal and ore miners, and from oil field workers, every Saturday. We urge workers in these fields to write us of their conditions of work and of their struggles to organize. Please get your letters to us by Wednes- day of each week. Across 1. — The great] leader who led the| Russian workers to a victorious revolution. | 5. — That great ortental. country which hes declared! Soviets in many) states. 9 WITH OUR YOUNG READERS a . | 10.—A cereal. 12, — One of the bones which encircles the chest. 13. — A common shell fish having ten legs. 15.—Technical (ab- brev.) 16. — Similarly (a conjunction), | 17—All. | 18.—The fifth and fifteenth letter of the alphabet. 19.—An exclamation of inquiry. 20. — Railroad (ab- ) — A long time 23.—Purpose or ob-| fective. 2%.—To leave, | 2,—A negative. i 28—The rixth note of the scale. 30. — A chamber ated) means no good for the workers. 4.—A negative. 5.—Count (abbrev.) | €—Anger. | 7.—Agreeable. with an arched roof,| &—Hate. especially one under-| 11—The frst name ground; banks have of the man after them, whom America is 31, —Railroad (ab-jaamed. His last brev.) name is Vespucius. 32.—A pain. 14.—Make it neces- 34—A male deer. [sary |for (rarely 36—Anger. ased.) 15. — Autocratic rulers. 19.—A chicken laid 39.—The 18th, the 9th and the 1st letter of the alphabet. 40. — A high male voice is called a z n- ~ 21—The first part of the capital of Brazil. De Janero. 41.—“For the —— nakes us strong.” 24. — Interweave; Down oraid, 1. — Confined to a| 27.—A musical in- city, itrument, generally) If you followed the direc- tions from Inst week's DAILY WORKER, is will lost much longer. 2. — Corn grows in| ised in a church. Rese | 29.—A measure of) 3. — National Re-) and. } \covery Act (Abbrevi-| 31.—Ratio with the | file taking an active part in their | sented to the operators in the near |UMWA Grabbed $3.15 | Answer to Inst week's Cross word puzzle Wage-Cut Tricks in West Virginia Mines Strike Sweeps Away Dead Hand Of Arbitration By a Miner Correspondent BICKNELL, Ind.—Some time ago, I wrote you a letter about a supply} mine near Bicknell coming on strike against the hiring of four/| men. This action was taken be-| cause the leaders in the mine were| unable to earn the day scale of| $4.57 as provided in the N. I. R. A. leaders consider it good when they} can earn $10 and $12 a week and) in some cases, these men draw as little as $4 a week. They joined the United Mine Workers’ of America. Some 6 or 8 refused to follow the majority. The District 11 Vice President assured these men that they would have the protection of the union in making the company comply with the provisions of the Coal Code. When the strike was called, a Board member was called in but he stated that there was nothing in the Code that made it compulsory that the operator recognize the U. M. W. A. or any other union, so it would be impossible for the union to do any-/| thing in the case. He adyised the | men to piace their case in the hands | of the Arbitration Board, which | they did. 5 But they continued to strike. In| a few days the men won their point, | but the case has not been decided| yet by the Arbitration Board. At their local meeting, this body if men endorsed the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill, and condemned the action of the 33rd U. M. W. A. Convention in rail- roading resolutions, These men have been awakened to the necessity of the rank-and- union. They can see that it wasn’t the leaders of their union who won their strike; it was their determination to strike until they got justice that won out. The N. R. A. has been exvosed to these men as a weapon beneficial to the operator and against their interests, It clearly states that to strike is unlawful. Yet any fair-minded miner will have to admit that any- thing the miners ever had was wrung from the operators through the united action of miners striking. The members of the U. M. W. A. should demand that the scale of wages and conditions to be pre- future be drawn up by a scale com- mittee elected from the ranks of the miners. They should refuse to have anything to do with the N.R.A. Worked Only 2 days,But | By a Miner Correspondent. KENILWORTH, Utah. — Iam a miner. I was working in the Kenil- worth mine, and they made me join the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica before I could work. Then I worked two days and then they laid me cff. But before paying me they took off: Bath House. .$1; Water..$1; Wel- fare..$1; | Checkweighman. ..$1.15; and Check-Off..$3.15; Total $7.30. When they robbed me of this, they laid me off at the same time. MINERS DEMAND C.W.A. WORK. By a Mine Worker Correspondent NEW KTNSINGTON, Pa, — On Feb. 6th 300 CWA workers marched from Arnold, the place of our work, to New Kensington, the C. W. A. administration. They demanded work, and protested against dis- crimination. Over 200 miners were laid off at the Barking mine of the Hillman Coal Co. The whole of the night shift was tak en off. Last week a young miner, 23 years, a snapper on the motor at the Logan’s Tierry mine of the West Penn. Power Co., was crushed by the motor, when it jumped off the rails. He died before he reached the hos- pital. lefé out. 33. — A female Either. hicken is called a | 38. — Soviet Union aa sbbrey.) HOME!) MM Mariale Fic, Ofer T 1 IN! nM re T 10] OO) LE (ies A aa hi. WAM Aaa LIA APFARE En @Rane BIE ns & Are AF BAUS anh STEIOLAINTS | PARTY LIFE Failure to Follow Contacts Loses Prospective Members Canvass by Org Commission Shows Lawity in the Districts During the course of the last year, 800 requests for information about the Communist Party have been re- ceived by the National Office in response to the blank which ap- pears each day in the Daily Worker. Each one of these requests are re- plied to by a letter from the Org. Commission of the Central Com- literature is sent to them/ and their letter is referred to the| District from which the request comes. We wanted to know what hap- pened to these workers who wrote to us for information. So we sent a letter to all of these contacts ask- ing them whether the District Or- ganization had gotten in touch with them, and whether they are now members of the Party or of any revolutionary mass organization. Re- Plies have not been received to all of our letters. But we have re- ceived a great many, which are very interesting. Out of the first 100 re- Plies, 33 stated that the district or- ganizations had communicated with them, either by letter or by per- sonal visit. Of these 33, 16 are now members of the Party, and five of them members of one of the revo- lutionary mass organizations. But 50 of them are still waiting to hear from the districts, and the letters from many of these state that they| want to join the Communist Party. The Party has been conducting al recruiting drive. The Open Letter has set before the Party the task of becoming a mass Party. Yet out of 100 workers who have sought out the Party, asked for information about it, and want to become mem- bers, only 33 are reached by our Party organization. We are well aware that not all of the people who write to the Party asking for in- formation, are prospective members. Many of them sincerely want in- formation and often want to join the Party, but don’t know how to go about it. We speak about the Daily Worker as our organizer, and yet we neglect these workers whom the Daily Worker recruits for us. Every one of these inquiries must be investigated. If they are un- desirable elements, the Party should know about it. If they are honest workers, as is true in the majority of cases, they should be drawn into the Party or one of the revolution- ary mass organizations. In the next few days we will publish a number of these letters from workers who are still waiting for more informa- tion about our Party. Here are a few from workers who have already joined the Party, and whose first contact was through the application blank in the Daily Worker. Read these letters, District Organizers, and tell us if such contacts are not worth following up? ade HOO From District No. 14 — Tasks of Party Inspire Worker to Join Dear Comrades: Please accept my apology for failing to answer All Negro Workers In Columbia, S. C., On C. W. A. Fired By a Negro Worker Correspondent COLUMBIA, S. C.—All we negroes on C. W. A. jobs were out of work on the Ist of March. Just an army of Negro and white workers walking about now, all over South Carolina, with nothing to do at all. The jails are run over with Negro and white workers, They only give one meal a day here. Also they cut off our meat, butter and eggs and all relief. Mr. F. M. Baker, secretary of the state C. W. A. said he is proud of this, because this sort of thing in the Southland ruined the “dam niggers” and the “poor white trash,” to pay them 30 and 40 cents an hour. Also comrades. there is plenty of white terror here now. When we Negroes get on the street-car or the coach-line to ride, there are only two seats in the back for us. Now only 28 per cent of the Negro children are in school here. This is the New Deal the Negro girls and boys are getting. promptly, your letter of Jan. 36th in which you inquired as to whether or not the district organi- zation had communicated with me, and if I had been connected in any way with the movement, About two weeks after your first letter reached me, together with the literature, a comrade called on me and took me to a unit meeting. While sitting there listening to the various reports, and observing from the inside what a tremendous task con- fronted these honest and sincere workers and with what supreme courage they were carrying on their struggle, in the face of such overwhelming odds, my enthusi- asm for the cause mounted stead- ily, I joined the Party that night, and now, though I consider my- self a 100 per cent American, hay- ing been born right here in Hwd- son County, educated in the local schools and brought up in an en- vironment of patriotism, taught to cherish and revere the ideals and traditions for which, as his- tory tells us, our forefathers fought and died, I am now a mili- | tant Communist, fighting with my | fellow workers toward = brand new Declaration of Independence, the independence of the prote- tariat of the United States. R. 0., West New Yorks, M A reps | pert amas Reagan: tap ag New Unit The District hes property communicated me by sending a special delegate who accompanied me here for a few days and returned to his head- quarters some six or eight days Secretary of the Ua, Laredo, Texas. From District 5—New Mine Bnit Formed "IT am glad to let you all hear from us. We have started. We have five in the Party and several more will join soon. We want to start two or three units soon. This is a hard place. We will have a hard time here. The Coal Oper- ators make it hard. I have scat- tered $5 worth of literature. We are getting ready for a lot more soon. We received a letter from Pittsburgh with cards and books. Mrs. J- at Crab Orchard said she got a letter from you too. She is now in the Party.” 0. O. W., West Virginia. ee Sr Also from District 5—Steel Worker Joins Party—Will Build New Unit “I wish to inform you that yes- terday Comrade B of the Erie Unit of the Party accepted my application card for membership as well as that of Comrade B. the man with whom I board. My working hours do not permit to cooperate fully with the Erie Unit, so we are attempting to form a unit of our own among the men who work the same hours as we do and who live in this commu- nity. In this we feel sure we must succeed. “We shall also carry on a cam- paign to organize the workers of General Electric Company into the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. I hope that these activities meet with your ap- proval. W. €. 0., Wesleyvilie, Pa. From District 2—Joins Party and Forms Shop Nuclews I am in receipt of your letter of Jan. 30, 1934, inquiring as to whether my application for méor- mation concerning the Commenist Party had been followed up. I am happy to inform you that Sec. 7, Brooklyn, got in touch with me promptly and that not only did I join the Party, but succeeded in drawing in two other workers in the same shop as myself. We have, accordingly, established a» shop nucleus of which I am at Present the organizer. men best revolutionary greet- es, é F. M., Brooklyn, N. ¥, Dector advises: By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Dear Dr. Luttinger: In this period of severe eco- nomic crisis, when the capitalist class is using all means at its dis- posal to make the working class bear the entire burden of the cri- sis, the role of the Medizal Units of the Workers International Re- lief assumes ever wider importance. The effect of the five years of hunger is beginning to tell on the health of the workers and their children; and yet most munici- palities are cutting down appro- priations to hospitals and clinics under the guise of economy, thus crippling the already inadequate medical service to the masses of the people. The medical units call upon the members of the health professions for a united struggle with the un- employed workers for adequate med- ical relief at the expense of the city and state authorities. At a recent meeting of all the branches of the Medical Units of the W. I. R. steps were taken to inten- sify this struggle as well as to estab- |lish a Workers Health Bureau fo: |the care of those active in the revo- lutionary labor movemeni. All members of the allied medica, professions, physicians, dentists anc nurses, are urged to join and suppor is movement, sending their name: and contributions to the Worker: Health Bureau, 870 Broadway, Nev York City, care of the W. I. R. Comradely, DR. W. M, eae tian ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Entertainment and Dance The Medical Branch of the Allie Professional Committee to Aid thi Victims of German Fascism is givini a dinner, entertainment and danc at the Samovar, 142 West 49th St. on Sunday, March 11, 1934, at 8:3! p.m. Tickets ($1.50 each) are avail able at the office of Dr. Jacob Aus lander, 520 West 110th a ! ~->