The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934 | NRA Shields Hospitals From | Improving Work Conditions Women Slave for 10 t Miserable Pay in St By a Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo—The hospitals of St. Louis some time ago sent representatives to Washington pro- testing against the N-R.A. inter- fering in the operation and work- ing conditions of these institutions, and asked that no code be drawn up regarding these work houses. Through the generosity of John- son and the N.R.A. board these institutions were exempted The fact of the matter is these hospitals do not even abide by the state law governing the hours of labor for women, which is supposed to be nine hours a day or 54 hours a week. These institutions work women 10 and 12 hours a day and get away with it, from the mere fact that these poor slaves are afraid to protest or complain; fear- ing and knowing they will lose their jobs A woman worker just recently was fired from one of these hos- pitals because she complained of the long hours, which constituted 10 and 12 hours a day, and she had stood this condition for a year. Her Wages were $16 per month, and one half day off in seven. Missouri Baptist Hospital One of these hospitals, the Mis- souri Baptist on Taylor Ave., has reduced wages to a genuine star- vation and peonage point, paying Painters $35 per month. firemen $36 per month, maintenance men $40, laundry workers some $24 per month, maids $24 per month, de- livery boys $20 per month, orderlies $20 per month, housemen $20 per month. waitresses $16 per month. diet kitchen women $16 per month ‘The wages of all kitchen and office help compare closely to the above The student nurses are paid $5 & month after spending about four months free gratis, and are worked like mules. These nurses are put on 12 hour shifts many times, when there is no protest, and many of them are worked to the point of exhaustion, and then carried off to the charity division and put to bed under a doctor’s care in order to get them back on their feet again. Now with these low wages these| workers are askd by this institution and the United Relief organiza- tions to contribute 2 per cent of 0 12 Hours A Day at . Louis Institutions their wages to the poor of St. Louis. Many of these workers have their meals served to them in a cold dining room, within a few feet of the morgue or dissecting room, which has a tendency to throw off in the eating place. e not allowed the e of the main dining room, where they might be comfortable. A Slave Driver In one department of this in- stitution they have one genuine slave driver, who has charge of the house men, orderlies, maids, paint- ers maintenance, laundry and some other workers. A 12 or 13-hour day among her slaves is just a drop in the bucket for her department. The name of this generous old girl, I believe, is Oberg. In case anybody says anything about a raise in wages, the reply comes back at once, we are just about ready to close the doors of the place. But any time you go there for a room and service you pay from $20 to $45 per week. I will say in conclusion the work- ers in these institutions do not need | the N. R. A. but they certainly do need working class education and a good solid union for their own protection. In the last two weeks this hos- pital and women because they were try- ing to organize these workers, and they were making some inroads on the other workers. American Can Ga: Adds | Four Guards to Stop Leaflet Distribution (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill.—Four weeks ago I passed out some leaflets on the inside of the shop of the American Can Co., were I work. The bosses did not know how the leaflets got in and ever since they have placed four additional guards at the gate to look out for more leaflets. This shows how the bosses fear the Communist message to their | required to run around at a dimy | workers. But they won't stop the | pace. This is one of the most un- leaflets from getting in. CONDE SOONER OR LATER— | present circumstances just lly generate in us the kind of thoughts expressed in the following| tons of the lieutenant’s coat are| There’s no getting around) hidden with the type of uniform| letter. it—were headin’ for socialism! Dear Miss Luke: Every morning, as soon as I clear| away the breakfast dishes, I take my baby daughter for a walk—into the fresh air, if any, and every} morning I meet many such moth- ers, who, like myself, watch for changes in weather as diligently as the weatherman. On the way back, I meet all these mothers again. It’s just before lunch: we each stop off at the vegetable market for our respective pounds of spinach, and we each go home, and wash the sand out of it, and cook it in our respective sauce- pans, and strain it (when the baby is little) and then have four or more dishes to wash. Where there is more than one} child—say one going to school and| the other an infant,—they have their meals at different times. Along with a million other house chores, | there’s this business of baby’s lunch} —which all told must take about! two hours off each day and many| years off the mother’s life. | The younger generation of moth- ers—as much as it tries to avoid becoming the house drudges that | our own mothers were—is falling! into the pit. Why can’t all the spinach cook) in one pot? Why do we have to be on a 24-hour day? I have no definite plan, except a vision of a sort of a children’s restaurant, with rows of high chairs, and huge sterilizers—and food cooked in the most healthful | way for the little fellers, who will soon have to be getting into the | class struggle: a chance for the housewife to do something more | than just drudge-work. I don’t know whether a matter of this sort comes under your de- partment precisely (It sure does. H. L.) but if you think it has Bos- | sibilities and that something could | be done about it, please let me have your suggestion. Don’t you | think we ought to concentrate on| the youngsters as they did in the| U.S. 8. R.? | Sincerely, | SALLY W. | We heartily agree, Comrade Sally, | and will discuss it further tomor-| row. The Field of Fashion | The New York Times of March | 4 ran in its magazine section a feature, “Even in Communism | ‘Women Are Women.” (Not really! How touchingly naive its author, Walter Duranty, is. Or seems to be.) “Feminine Kussia,” it tells us, “Now Under Less Pressure, Turns to Gay and Better Clothes.” (More power to ‘em.) However, along comes the report in the New York Sun of March which brings us down out of the) Super-sex-conscious dream-world of bourgeois society to sober reality— an article showing that women have no monopoly on an interest in clothing. “Policemen Must Spruce Up,” it announces. “Police Commissioner O’Ryan Is Still Worrying about the} Appearance of His Policemen.” he gave orders for various altera- tions in the garb of his lackeys, “All in the Interest of Smartness,”— the He | rank is not visible. 2kD BY HELEN LUKE The Commissioner confessed that “when a prisoner is arraigned be- fore a station house desk the but- now in use, and his insignia of This reduces the respect the prisoner should feel for the law, the Commissioner be- lieves.” But If You Think THAT’S Funny— Just listen to this paragraph: “The Commissioner announced . . . that the intelligence tests be given by Professor Ben Wood of the psy- chology dept, of Columbia Uni- | versity te 1,110 picked policemen will be applied . . March 16. Offering policemen intelligence tests is purely an experiment, the Commissioner explained, and if it proves to be a failure, will be for- gotten.” Cen | You Make *Em Yourself? Pattern 1794 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 3% yards 39 inch fabric and % yard contrast- ing. has discharged several men | Mobilizing Big Detroit Spy-System Bosses Intensify Their Attack by Firing Shop Stewards By An Auto Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich—Just as the production workers in the auto fac- | tories began an intensive drive to organize, the big auto interests come out boldly and openly to counteract the union movement by inaugurating a spy system on a grand scale. Victimization of union men and | Graft Robs Niota, Tenn. CWA Workers of Jobs (By a Worker Correspondent) NIOTA, Tenn.—All C.W.A. work- evs in McMinn County had a “holi- day.” The C.W.A. workers were only allowed one day and one hour in one week, on account of padded | The foreman has said that men | were on the payroll that were never |heard of, and another man said |that men were drawing C.W.A. |money that had been déad four or | five years. The table factory at Athens, Tenn., laid off nearly all their hands, while the woolen mill at Athens had been shut down for several weeks. But in the stone shops in Athens where the molders went on strike last summer, some of the molders are making about the same money Daily’s Aid In Aluminum) | Strike Cited | Contrasted With Attack | Boss Press By An Aluminum Worker | Correspondent | a worker of the Aluminum Co. here, Republic Steel Worker Tells Why He Was Fired (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill—I started working at the Republic Steel Co. plant at 118th St., Chicago, on May 25, 1924. as a brickliayer’s helper, helping | three bricklayers. It was not so badj during the first 5 years, but the last | By A.F.L., NRA, and |5 years the company had in the} service stool pigeons and all kinds of spies; the bosses of the different departments acting as slave-drivers. January 17, while I was working supplying my three bricklayers, PARTY LIFE How to Train HOW TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN WORKERS INTO LEADERS We are publishing another ques- | NEW KENSINGTON, Pa.—Being | standing waiting for their orders of | tion and answer from the pamphlet, | what they wanted, George Johnson | “Tactical and Organizational Ques- |and being a member of our Local|came over with—— “You son of a| tions of the Communist Parties of | | No. 18356, I was called out as you | | probably know on March | for what was, and still is termed, a “holiday.” The reason we walked out was to discharging of shop stewards has as they did before the strike, and demand the check-off, better work- been going on freely in the large auto plants of Detroit, Flint, Pon- tiac and Toledo area. Tt is high the code has done them no good. The A. F. of L., however, got $5 a throw to go with a union and come out |ing conditions and a general in- lerease in wages. As yet we have| | reached no agreement on these def- time that the officials of the Me-|on a strike, and try to get them | imite demands. chanics’ Educational Society ot America, Auto Workers’ Union, A. F. of L., etc., took the bull by the horns and compelled the auto | plants to honor the shop stewards’ | authority. | A trade union is not meant to be |a mere office where monthly dues are received. It must guarantee | protection to its aggrieved mem- bers, by taking aggressive steps against the auto plants and stamp | out the spy system. | Job shops are also very frequent | The Elwood Tool and Machine Co. discharged its shop steward and arrogantly told him that they simply won't stand for | offenders. back for the same old job and the Same pay, under the N.R.A. $17 A Week for 45 Hours Work in Chicago Foundry | By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill.—-We workers in By a Metal Worker Correspondent the Malleable Foundry in the Mc- | I want to compliment you on yur paper because it helped me to| get an inkling of what to expect when the rank and file comes out against the capitalists or the bosses. Three days before the day of the crisis was reached, with our ship heading for a storm, our noble cap- tain, the president of our local, de- serted us and left us to face the battle alone. And when we were out y on our “holiday” the bosses turned | out all the possible power at their |command to get us to return. | I don’t expect them to run in strike-breakers here, as the greater |part of the jobs in the mill are| |either skilled or semi-skilled. But any of his “union nonsense.” The |COMmick Works work 45 hours for their weapons they used the N. Electro-Master, Inc., 1801 Atwater St.. discharged Ms shop steward after a formal agreement to a 40- hour week had been concluded. The foreman at this shop, Dan Brennan, who is a member of the Flint local | of the M. E. S. of A., openly defied the union. The membership of a stool-pigeon of this type should be cancelled at once and he ought to be barred from any connection with | the union in the future. | The Wolvering Tool Co. is an- other slave shop where union men are fired and a terrible speed-up | maintained. Some men are known to run two machines at one time. The Fitzsimmons Mfg. Co. has been in the habit of discharging union |men for the slighest cause. Tool jand diemakers at this slave joint are |reasonable shops in town. Both | workers and officials must back up |the shop stewards! Their efforts |and devotion must be ited. |@ great deal more than has been shown in the past. ‘Negroes Hardest _ Hit in St. Louis _ C.W. A. Layoffs By a Negro Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS.—The Negro C. W. A. workers are being laid off here at the rate of 200 per day, and the formen are using all sorts of speed- up methods to drive the men. The Negro workers are forced to take | their work tools home with them} every night and are sent to the! farthest jobs to work and if they are five minutes late the foreman | will not let them work that day. One worker asked could he stay |there and start at noon, but the foreman said that he could not work there at all that day. The bosses |even turn their time in short and offer no assistance in helping the |C. W. A. workers get their time| | Straight. | what they call Hold back time. We know it’s hold back time and |the C. W. A. bosses intend to hold it back until the first of May, when the C. W. A. offices will be abandoned and the C. W. A. work- ers will not know where to go and collect this back time. ‘$10 a Week for tl Hrs. Paid at St. Mark’s Laundry | By a Laundry Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N.Y.—My place, the | | St. Mark’s Laundry, where I work, | is supposed to be under the N.R.A., but I am getting $10 a week, and the rest. are getting less, much less, | and we are working from 7:30 a.m.| to 7:30 p.m—11% hours a day. I am sorry to say that inspectors come almost every two weeks tothe |place and don’t do anything about | that. I suppose my boss pays them | off so they keep their mouths shut. | So I beg you to do something about it if you can, because it is very | hard to live on the $10. | I forgot to mention that we are | working Saturdays, too, when, un- der the N. R. A. we should not work Saturdays. I hope you can do some- thing for me and the rest of the workers sure will appreciate your | help, Lincoln Carpenters to Fight for $1 an Hour (By a Worker Corespondent) LINCOLN, Neb.—Friday evening, Feb. 23, at a meeting between con- tractors and construction union members to set wage scales and working conditions for the code, the contractors granted $1 per hour to Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c.) in So| coins or stamps (coins preferred) |The carpenters left the meeting and | for this Anne Adams pattern, Write Plainly number, name, address and style BE SURE TO STATE changes affecting the cut of coats, | SIZE. color of shirts and ties, and loca-| tion and slant of buttons and but-| Pattern Department, 243 West 17th|per hour and the contractors were Street, New York Cit» A { tonholes, Address orders to Daily Worker i ‘ ,|mated that they would organize a the bricklayers and plasterers and offered 75 cents per hour to the carpenters. The carpenters, consist- ing of the executive committee of the union and eight non-union men, voted ten to one to refuse both 7 cents and 80 cents. A contractor spokesman then inti- company union and pay 60 cents. at the suggestion of Fred Eisler, the executive committee of the local carpenters’ union, called a mass meeting on Monday, Feb. 26, at which they resolved to fight for $1 week amd receive from $16 to $17 | a week. Today we work without knowing what we get or how much. The | bosses and the timekeeper do not give us the time-cards to mark our | time that we put in. When pay day | comes most of the workers get dis- guste and swear at everything be- cause they don’t know what to do. The main thing they discuss is the question of safety, but we work- ets while working get so disgusted and mad we have no time to think of safety or watch accidents. Working around the foundry we almost freeze to death. There is no heat. When we make an open fire the smoke gets so terrible that it is almost impossible to see. This is not all. There are times when water pipes freeze and break. The floors get wet, and of course, you know what happens to our feet. R. A. and the press to turn public sentiment against us and to divide | the workers. and the biggest weapon | they are using is the A. F. of L. | | Being an irregular reader of your | |paper for the first six months. I |had been taking your news with a | grain of salt, as it was practically | new to me, and it had to offset my |Past 10 or 12 years of reading the capitalist press, which follows a dif- ferent policy than yours. But I see now that your paper not only gives |the people the true facts of the | past, but also enables them to be |able to look further. And, in clos- | ing, I might state that the pound- ings that we are receiving in this | strike, through the capitalist sys- |tem using the N. R. A. and the A. |F. of L and the press as tools and resorting to other trickeries, give me just a faint idea of just what pai paper has to withstand to Letters from THE ADJUSTMENT SERVICE “PLACES” YOU New York City. Because I was tired of being re- | minded everywhere of my failure, I decided, at last, to pay a visit to that much-advertised adjustment service. And, indeed, after enter- ing its busy and up-to-date office at 17 E. 42nd St. I thought that it might be different from other in- oo that the exploiters. con- So I submitted to five hours of filling out a number of blanks, tell- ing what I liked, what I didn’t like, what I thought, etc., and tired my- self out on a variety of work tests. One of their questions is: Are you a Communist? Of course, I answered yes. Ninety-nine per cent of my ex- pectations from this bureau disap- | peared from my mind, I decided, therefore, to a least get: a medical examination, consulting The workers are cheated | the doctor, with the result that he| | of from ten to twenty-five dollars of found me perfectly O.K.—thought | |I had skin trouble. After returning several times, I was told by my advisor the tre- mendous reason that had prevented my “success.” “You seem to be good for a teacher,” he said. Now, the adjustment service claims that it may help “to find oppor- tunities to add new skills that are in connection with and necessary in one’s work”—and so I was in- structed to see Mr. White about a job. (In my application I stated that I was a clerk.) “Well,” he said, “here are some addresses of restaurants. I’ve heard of the great labor turnover in them and perhaps you might get some- thing.” Summary: The adjustment bu- reau made very clear to me what I want: I want to be a COMMUNIST! M. T. PRAISE FOR ARTICLES ON AUSTRIAN SITUATION New York. Congratulations on the splendid article, “Austria—How Tt Hap- pened,” by Otto Lessner in yester- day’s “Daily.” Such a clear, con- cise account of that post-war his- tory of the Austrian workers and the treacherous role of the Socialist leaders should be issued in pam- phlet form for immediate distribu- he among the Socialist rank and file. All my immigrant friends are supporters of the British Labor Party, but are rapidly losing faith in the yellow Second International; a few more articles like Otto Less- ner’s will complete their disillusion- ments and win these workers for the revolution. I am not a member of the Party, but have not missed reading a single edition of the “Daily” for three years; it has improved so much of late that I have stopped buying the smug, hypocritical N. Y. Times. More power to the “Daily,” FORMER BRITISH LABORITE. THE ‘ANTI-HITLER MEETING’ AT MADISON SQ. GARDEN Editor, Daily Worker. Dear Comrade: ‘There were several aspects of the Madison Square Garden “mock trial” of Hitler which were not ade- quately treated by Edwin Rolfe in his report of the meeting on Fri- day. I refer, particularly, to the speeches of Arthur Garfield Hays and Roger Baldwin. While I agree that the general purpese and spirit of the meeting notified of this action, was such as Comrade Rolfe de- | Worse still, Our Readers |seribed, I think it is significant that | when Arthur Garfield Hays men- tioned the names of George Dimi- troff and Ernst Torgler, his words were greeted with loud and warm applause from many sections of the house. Hays, speaking as “an eye witness,” took a generally liberal and negative position throvghout his speech, but he couki not fail to admit the brilliant fight that the Communist leaders carried on against the Nazis in the court-room at Leipzig. I quote his words, which a Stenographer-friend took down ver- batim at the meeting: | “Whether or not the Nazis set | fire to the Reichstag (in these words | you have the typical liberal and “fair” attitude of this bourgeois lawyer), they cannot deny that with all the power of the terror they | failed to show the complicity of | anyone else; that they immediately took advantage of the arson and were the sole beneficiaries of it. however, in order to justify their earlier lying claims in| the official press, they charged Ernst Torgler, George Dimitroff and two other Bulgarians (loud and pro- longed applause) with having con- spired with van der Lubbe to set the fire. The brilliant defense of Dimitroff, who refused to accept representation by Nazi counsel, will stand out as a landmark of legal history. Dimitroff was magnificent! By pure moral force, alone among his enemies, he put the court, the Nazi prosecutors and audience com- pletely on the defensive. On one occasion when he denied connection with the bombing of the Sofia cathedral in 1925, turning squarely away from the judges and to the Nazi audience, Dimitroff declaimed, ‘That was a provocation act ar- ranged to throw blame on the Com- munists. Those things sometimes happen in Germany.’ These men, for months kept in chains and sub- jected to the mental torture of the constant threat of death, were treat- ed as criminals even after acquittal, Ernst Torgler still remains in a concentration camp, the victim of Nazi fury and lies.” The very applause that greeted these words proved that the work- ing class part of the audience recog- nized who were the real fighters and the real leaders of the struggle against German fascism—the Com- munist Party, and its heroic repre- sentatives who underwent the tor- tures of the Nazis undaunted, and who emerged to expose the bestial- ity and reaction of the Nazis to all corners of the world. Baldwin, of the Civil Liberties Union, who not so long ago was in typical and liberal fashion demand- ing the “civil rights” of Nazis in this country to hold meetings, was also forced to admit the difference between the Nazi dictatorship and the proletarian dictatorship in the Soviet Union. Fascist Germany, he said, unlike the Soviet Union, offers “no economic freedom to the masses, no abolition of exploiting classes, no freedom for national minorities, no larger education for youth, no progress to greater liberties.” Aside from these two errors of omission, the Daily Worker's re- port was essentially accurate and complete. Comradely yours, We, ‘Wil Support Aluminum Strikers Cleveland, Ohio. ‘We read with much enthusiasm about the strike of the aluminum workers /in New Kensington, Our i 4 bitch! What the hell you waiting for? Move on or get the hell out of here!” threatening to strike me with his fist. This gentleman got his medicine with a final knock-out. | When I got him down, his brother | hauled on the back of my neck, pull- ing back. After three days I was laid off. The only thing that we workers need is to organize into such a strong union and force the bosses and their tools out and make them accept our demands. The shop committee, when I was fired, did not take any action on my case. Let's go, workers, and form a@ union such as the Sheet and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, which represents the workers. Detroit Reactionary Club Fights Against Compensation Law By a worker correspondent DETROIT, Mich—The forward movement of labor in Detroit is be- ing strangled by the political fakers. | The Forgotten Man's Olub is the happy hunting ground of the fakers. Workers seeking the light flock to the club only to have the wool pulled over their eyes. The “Forty and Over Club” is an- other fake. The object of this fake is to abolish the Workmen's Com- pensation Law! They kid the mem- | bers that when the Compensation | Law is abolished or transferred to | the state, men over 40 years will be employed. Where is the guarantee? Pass the Workers Social and Un- employed Insurance Bill, and there will be no necessity or even excuse for the assistance of these groups of fakers! NOTE We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their working conditions and of their efforts to organize. Please get the letters to us by Friday of each week, Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the Daily Worker but who would be interested in reading it. Address: Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, New unit, unit 17, section 1, has been concentrating on the aluminum plant in Cleveland. We pledge to increase the tempo of our work in support of the strikers in New Ken- sington. We have the task of de- feating any effort on the part of the Mellon bosses to use the Cleve- land plant as a strikebreaking tool. Aluminum workers are very much in sympathy with their fellow-work- ers in New Kensington and strenu- ous efforts will be made to spread the strike to this plant, which has been grinding sweat and blood out of the workers for so many years. We would also like to have 50 copies of the Daily Worker rushed to us as soon as more headine news breaks out in regard to the alum- inum strike. L, A. BARTON. P. S. 119 copies of the last Sat- urday edition of the Daily Worker were sold at the shop gates here which shows that the aluminum workers here appreciate the import- ance of the Kensington strike, Starves On Job Dear Editor: A lady I worked for about three months in New Rochelle told me her husband had eggs and bacons for breakfast and she had only orange juice while I could have only black coffee. At lunch time she had it all figured out—one baked potato and some canned sardines. For supper we couldn't have meat just some left over vegetables, Every single day I had the same food. So one Thursday I was so hungry I went to the ice box and took out a chop which I started to fry. She rushed into the kitchen and shouted, “Martha, what are you do- ing? I don’t buy meat for you. Only my husband has meat in this house.” I said, “But I do heavy work and I get hunery. I have to have a meal sometime.” “Don’t talk to me so fresh,” she said. “I'll call a cop.” She did and he came with a police wagon. But when I told him I only wanted something to eat he went away. A DOMESTIC WORKER. one Dear Editor: A colored girl migrated from a white family in the South to rela- tives of that family in New York and this family took her away to the suburbs of New York where bungalows are equipped with only one toilet that the girl was strictly barred from using. She had to walk about one mile away from the bunugalow to the woods whenever she needed to go to the eee is India and Indo China,” by Com-| rade Orgwald. We cannot empha-| size too emphatically the necessity | of every functionary of the Party Possessing and studying this pam-| phlet, which contains many ques- tions, which are of the greatest im- portance for our Party also. The Central Committee is prepared to supply thir ‘pamphlet to all Party | functionaries for 10c postpaid. Dis- | tricts and Sections should send their orders at once, as the supply | is limited. “Question: How did the Bol- sheviks educate@ and train the workers into leaders and what is the best means te prevent the leaders beoming separated from the masses in the Party and in the trade unions? “Answer: Here are two questions, which, however, can be com- bined. There is no such factory for turning workers into leaders. | But if the workers work well, some | of them will develop into prac- tical organizers, propagandists | and writers. The Party organi- | zation must place these working class members of the Party in such conditions of work that will | not lead to their premature ar- rest, But I do not suggest that one should evade arrest if such ; evasion is harmful to the neces- sary work. For instance, suppose it is necessary for some of them there is a possibility of having the Party line carried and win- ning over the workers, In such @ case one should take the risk and be prepared to go to prison for a while, and upon leaving prison to start work again. It is necessary to send these workingmen to apply themselves to all the branches of Party and trade union work. It is necessary to learn how to put questions | Property to choose rapidly and | correctly the right moment, to correct the line in good time, to write a good article,—good not in the sense of style, although good style wouldn't be a bad thing | either—but in the sense that the questions in the article are put in a proper way so that they are quite plain to the workers, They should work all the time among the masses. They should be made to understand that they must have an ear for what the masses Leading Posts in the Party Pamphlet by Comrade Orgwald Should Be Studied by Party Functionaries Workers for say. But they should not always do what the masses the contrary, they should the masses what the masses have to do. Then real leaders will arise from the workers themselves. With such workers the Party and trade union organizations will not be isolated from the broad masses, and there will be no separation of the leaders from the mass of workers. Then the problems which you now raise, namely to prevent such separation, will cease to exist. One cannot make a leader out of a worker who is class-conscious and analyzes events, but fights shy of work. The Russian Bol- sheviks had a school that tarned ture, and so on, times quite a good deal of knowl- | edge, in addition to the experience which they had prior to their ar- rest. With such an equipment they would take up revolutionary work. These were the elements which produced workingmen lead- ers who bore the a eae fight waged by the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party, later the Russian Comme- nist Party, and who took part in and organized the October Rev- olution. Some of them are now in leading positions in the Soviet economic, Party, trade unton, and kolkhor institutions engaged in the work of socialist construction; we see the same in other countries.” Join the Communist Party 36 KE. 12%h STREPT, N.Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Com- pound Mary P., Canton, 0.—Shades of Lydia Pinkham! It does not seem possible that people are still dosing themselves with this nostrum, and | yet, here you are asking us whether | you are doing the right thing by using Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound. Way back in 1906, Samuel Hopkins Adams exposed the notorious fake in the series, “The American Fraud,” in Collier’s. At that time it was shown that the only active principle in the Pinkham fake was alcohol. It contains almost 18 per cent alcohol and the benefit that the women who were induced to use it thought that they were ob- taining was entirely due to its alco- hol content which gives the par- taker of it a mild alcoholic jag. Many a woman has become a chronic toper by becoming addicted to the Pinkham bottle. This quack remedy which is supposed to be a sure cure for falling of the womb, Jeucorrhea, inflammation and ulce?- ation of the womb, diseases of the bladder, painful menstruation, dis- eases of the ovaries, uterine tumor, and for all female ailments and af- fections, as well as the prevention of miscarriage, has been found to have been falsely and fraudulently labelled, way back in 1918 when the Pinkham Co. was fined $50. For years the women were writing let- ters to the mythical Mrs. Pinkham thinking that they were receiving individual and personal attention by one of their own sex. It was shown several times that Lydia Pinkham died in the eighteen-eighties. The Mrs. Pinkham to whom the adver- tisement directed the inquiries was the daughter-in-law of the original Mrs. Pinkham and took no active part in answering the correspon- dence. This was done by a ten- dollar - a - week - typewriting - girl. Later the company was forced to direct inquirers to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. Our advice is that you stop tak- ing this nostrum. It is of no use whatsoever in mtny of the ailments that it is advertised to cure or pre- vent. The oric*nal Lydia E. Pink- ham is said to have died of one of the ailments for which the Vegetable Compound is so persistently recom- mended. When you buy this so- called remedy, you are not getting anything élse but a strong alcoholic solution. You can do better by buy- ing a bottle of wine. This is more palatable and will give you the same effects as the so-called Vegetable Compound. If you have been taking the Lydia. &. Pinkham Vegetable Compound for any length of time, we are not surprised that it is hard for you to give it up. You have simply become. accustomed to tak- ing an alcoholic drink. No doubt By PAUL LOSTINGEsE, MD, ——_—_ Pepping up; but do not kid your- Self into believing that you are tak- pedis icine: you ate taking a stiff rink. eee * Vaginal Discharge A. B., Kenosha, Wis.—Let your wife take a vaginal douche ‘every night before retiring. The water is to be as hot as possible and should be no less than two quarts, to which should be added one tablespoonful of bicarbonate of soda and one table- spoonful of boric acid. Let her try this for two weeks, then stop for one week and let us know whether the vaginal discharge returned or not. * 8 « Pyelitis and Tonsilitis R. & J. L, Lynn, Mass.—Some- times there is a relation between infected tonsils and the kidneys. The pus from the tonsils is ab- sorbed into the system and is liable to cause damage to the kidneys. This is what is known as focal in- fection. If your child’s tonsils and adenoids are diseased, it would be best that you follow your physi- cian’s advice and have them re- moved. In the meantime, try to feed the child on a diet free from animal proteins. Eien eae Streaky Reddish Hair Margaret, Remsen, N. ¥.—Instead of using “Blondex” or any of the shampoos, we would advise you to use the natural henna leaves; meaning the actual leaves and not the chemical powders that go under the name of “White Henna” or other patented “henna” compounds. ‘You can get the actual henna leaves in any large department store and you can see that they are the leaves with your naked eye. There will be directions on the box on how to use the henna and you will find that your hair which is streaked now will become of a uni- form dark red color. Instead of the soap you mention, you ought to use plain castile soap of a good quality. Face powder does not cause pimples unless the nus of some of the existing pimples is brushed over the rest of the face when the powder is applied. We are flattered to note that you are scanning our photograph daily, but we differ with you regarding the improvement in our picture: we think it is as bad as ever, if not ‘worse. Gear aera Ulcer of the Stomach D. S., Philadelphia—From the de- scription of your ailment it seems to us that you are not suffering from any. gall bladder or kidney trouble. | It is more likely that you have an ulcer of the stomach or of the duo~ denum. The institution that you went to is a fake hospital. If you you feel a certain amount of ex- hilaration and a slight temporary can raise the car fare to New York, we will be glad to emamine you free of charge. ee