The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1934, Page 6

rage Six a ¥ WORKER, NEW YORK, WE VESDAY, MARCH 14, 1934 A.F.L. Helps to Cut Wages at I. Miller Shop Rank and File Unity Can Stop Speed-Up Tricks of Boss (By a Shoe Worker Correspondent) LONG ISLAND CITY, N. ¥.—Let us for a moment summarize the work of the Boot and Shoe (scab union officials in the I. Miller shoe factory). First of all, the collector demands that you y 35 cents a| week, and if you don’t, well, it just means that you can no longer work | in a B. and S. scab shop. | Secondly, if you are making from $6 to $10 a week, you must also pay the 35 cents. If you should say it’s | impossible for you to make more than the amount mentioned above, | they tell you don’t work S are to ve to do some- me, I'll speak to we'll see what we Have they done anything for us? The answ s mo! And they will} keep on putting it off from one week | to another. ie way things are go- ing on, something is bound to hap- pen, that is, if there will be more loyalty and unity amongst the workers. Here ‘is an incident that occurred in the fitting department. The fore- man (skunk) Abe, came over to a group of fitters, French binders, etc., and stated that he wanted to know why the workers couldn't make at least $20 a week. One worker looked at the other, until finally one who was a very good striker told the foreman that the prices were very small and that the work was hard. His answer was an immediate switch to another subject. Now if the rest of the workers would have said a few words about the low prices, there would have been a chance to raise it a little. In case there are still a few work-! | Negroes who have died in the last | Negro Jobless Woman Freezes to Death on St. Lowis Plant Steps (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo.—A Negro woman was found lying on the platform | of the Fulton Bag Co., at 3rd and Cedar Street at about 9:15 a.m.) Wednesday. She died on the way} to the City Hospital. A Coroner's | verdict attributed her death to} freezing. The worker was identified at the | morgue by Henry Johnson, 1213 So. 23rd St. He said she was his com- mon law wife, Mrs. Della Wallace and was 23 years of age, he said. He last saw her Saturday night Mrs. Wallace who was a robust woman, when found on the plat- | | form was clothed in a coat, unbut- | toned under the shoulders. Beside her was a pair of tan oxfords and her pocketbook containing 10 cents. Mrs. Wallace is one of the three | two months in St. Louis on count of conditions. ac- | ns have to make some let me and STARVATION EXPLOITAT ! $8 to $9a Week | In Textile Mills | Of Durham, N. C.. (By a Worker Correspondent) | DURHAM, N. C.—The southern textile industry is a cantankerous | | one, soured by the bile of inhuman | court at all oppression of the Negro worker and | the equent lowering of the liv-| ing standards of all workers. Even | the N.R.A. slave codes are openly | Socialist Boss Protects Foreman Who Hit Chairman | (By a Shoe Worker Correspondent) | | | NEW YORK—On Aug. 17, 1932,| | Alex Rafal, general chairman at the | Carmen Shoe Co., 24 Boerum St., Brooklyn, was hit on the head and was sent to St. Catherines Hospital by the rotten foreman, Joseph Cohen. The Magistrate’s Court held the foreman under $1,000 bail for the Grand Jury, which indicted him. When the trial came on in December in Special Sessions, the boss from the factory came to the foreman’s aid. Mr. Izzy Waxier, the boss, who always elaimed that he was a So- cialist, bought off the detective, who was present at the time when I was sent off to the hospital. The detective did not show up in the So the capitalist court set the foreman free. Last year our shoe workers wmion began an organization drivy and the same dirty rat Cohen 4vorked y the truth, ex-|and flagrantly violated in this city|in the M. & J. Shoe Co. as a laster. plain to you how the bosses make | of 60,000, whose main source of in-|AS soon as the shop was organized up these profits. First of all, they own the res-| taurant on the 7th floor. Then, if | you cut your finger or apply for medical aid from the nurse, you are asked your name and pay-roll num- | ber, and at the end of the day, the | nurse sends in her report, also the | list of names and the pay-roll num- ber. If they didn’t deduct anything for medical aid why do they ask for your pay-roll number? The bosses figure that if they , deduct 25 cents from your pay, you would be afraid to say anything for fear of losing your job. You see, fellow-workers, if it’s not in one way, it’s in another that I. Miller makes his profits from our blood. The only thing for us to do is to unite and fight these dirty ways of theirs. For Unity means Strength and Strength means Vic- tory over all! —A Group of I. Miller Shoe Fac- tory Workers. WHY NOT CRECHES HERE, TOO? “Why can’t all the spinach cook in one pot?” asked Comrade Sally W., in the letter printed yesterday. “Why do we have to be on a 24- hour day?” And she described how the mothers of her neighborhood, who meet each other during the daily morning airing of their ba- bies, buy and cook separately their respective pounds of spinach: a great demand on the time and en- ergy of all of them. She is hanker- ing, plainly, for a creche. We think this creche idea is due} to blossom into a reality in this) country very soon. Under present conditions, real built-for-the-pur- pose co-operative nurseries are im- possible because the necessary funds | are in the hands of the big shots— and workers are not extended credit for bricks, mortar and land to build community creches! (Our organiza-| tions would have to be much larger | and stronger before sufficient funds | could be gathered for such pur- poses!) However, small-scale neighbor-! hood “nurseries” might be arranged even within present circumstances, provided a sufficient number of} women are brought to see the ad- vantages. Perhaps Comrade Sally could be a pioneer in this field by talking to those other mothers she meets? | Once a group of women is inter-/ ested in the idea, however, it might not be too hard to arrange a rotat- ing system of having each mother from a small group take care of all the kids for one day or fraction of a day each week. (The feeding sched- ules of each kid should be put on a card and the cards kept in an en- velope and given to the woman in charge: probably several kids would have the same schedule, so there would not be too many groups feed- Ing differently.) I do not know of any such ar- rangements in this country (day nurseries and socialist schools ex- istent here being more or less on a payment basis) but there were in Austria and Germany, where work- ®rs were strongly organized in cer- tain neighborhoods, creches in op- eration. Here, the biggest_difficulty would be that of space for so many young- sters in individual homes, and the question of high chairs, etc. It might be necessary, for the beginning, to to make arrangements only for kids big enough to creep. The pamphlet, “The Working Woman in the So- viet Union, "by V. Sibiriak) has a number of interesting suggestions. ere are a few lines: “At the recent conference held in Moscow of the working women among the northern peoples, women delegates from the Far East told of the giant strides made by the new order in the North. A creche was organized in the nomad camp of Kargi. At first the “Golds,” the tribe, who inhabited the camp, hated to part with their children: they were| afraid of the creche. However, after lengthy arguments, their obstinacy gave way, and the creches began to be used. “Everything seemed to be going well, when suddenly a new obstacle arose. The children of the ‘Golds’ the Ho come is the textile and tobacco manufacturing enterprises located | here. Local textile workers tell me of pay envelopes containing only $8 or $9 fro a full week’s work. One worker in the Erwin cotton mills told me that he has never received as much as $10 for a full week's work since he has been here, and this in spite of the dastardly $12 minimum (really basic) wage set by the N.R.A. codes, in an endeavor to bring down to starvation level the wages of the few skilled laborers who do receive (or rather did re- ceive) slightly more than this amount. With coke selling for $8 a ton; meat for 30 cents to 50 cents a Ib.; clothing prices up 40 per cent in the last six months, and retail prices in general rising out of all reason- able bounds, it is not hard to pic- ture the poverty and starvation to which workers are subjected here. It is impossible for them to main- | tain sufficient heat in their houses, | sufficient food on the table or any- <eD BY LUKE could not get used to the new at- mosphere of the creches and raised a yell as soon as their mothers left them. The mothers came back to fetch their children, saying, ‘Baby cry—me no happy.’ “Great efforts were required to ac- custom the children to the Russian face and to infant's food, instead of the fish to which they were used. It took some time before everything Was adjusted. But the upshot was that after the completion of the job on which the mothers were engaged, the ‘Golds’ begged to have the cre- ches organized next year, too.” Can You Make ’Em Yourself? 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ORchard 4-4520 Factory on Premises RED BUILDERS Wanted to sell the “DAILY WORKER Call at City Daily Worker Office 95 E. 18th St. Algonquin 4-1754 The following donations were received by the Daily Worker through “Tribuna Robotnicza”: “Tribuna Robotnicza” Bazaar $30 A Group of Polish Comrades at a New Year's Party...... 39 Ss aaaaa Taam Smashed up seven |sound too radical. thing but rags for their bodies, Even then their debts pile up to drown | them, | This condition is the result of | brutal jim-crowing and actual open oppression of the Negro workers who have been forced to underbid the white workers, thus bringing to pass the enslavement of both races of the Southern proletariat to the bour- geois masters, who are rolling in luxury. In 1933, the Erwin Cotton Mills cleared $90,000 profit; the Purham Hosiery Mills cleared $12,000,000, and the tobacco companies profited to the extent of $60,000,000. In the midst of all this misery, Poverty, disease and general oppres- Sion, there is one hopeful sign; namely, that great numbers of the workers are coming to hope for a |Zevolutionary release from their | captivity. While this number is |Telatively small, it is increasing. There are, also, great numbers of the most “solid” workers who are completely disillusioned with the A. F. of L. unions and are ready for Teal revolutionary organizations, Provided they are sure no “stool Pigeons” are sufficiently cognizant of their activities to cause them to lose their jobs. Comrades! Here i task for us. nara Buffalo Steel Workers’ Strike Struggle Growing By a Worker Correspondent BUFFALO, N. Y.—The striking workers of the North Buffalo Hard- ware and Standard Foundries, now in the fourth week of their strike, have recruited mass Picket lines of from 1,000 to 3,000 workers and cabs bringing scabs into the plant. Not very long ago many of these very militant workers were saying that we shouldn't speak — of “struggle” or use the word “fight” to the workers because such terms Now they are proud to admit they are “radical.” As a result of the strikes of last summer and fall, six strong locals of the S. M. W. I. U. stand out as @ grand example to workers all over the country of the successes an in- dustrial union based on rank and file control can win for the work- ers, in glaring contrast to the many betrayals put over through the N. R. A. and the A. F. of L, official- dom. Delegations from plants in and around Buffalo have come to the office of the Steel and Metal Work- ers’ Industrial Union requesting or- ganization, and our ranks are grow- ing daily. A stiff battle is ahead; the em- Ployers have the police, the press, church and civic institutions on their side, with the A. F. of L. al- ways on hand to play the yellow dog role in freezing out strikes led by the S. M. W. I. U,, as in the recent struggle of the Atlas Steel Casting workers. Buffalo workers, help the Daily Worker to help you in spreading the message of organ- ization and broaden your struggles. Send in reports on conditions and experiences where you work, your questions and experiences. Help spread the “Daily”? among your fellow-workers, Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City a hundred per cent, and the lead- ers from the union were busy or- ganizing more and more factories, he became a member of our union, the Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union. It was a big strike at that time against the Manufac- turers Board of Trade, so the same rat Cohen disappeared again from his shop just at the time of the strike. When the strike came to an end, he soon appeared again in the union, and also thought that the union would give him a swell job right away, and he would be able to break workers’ heads and break up factories. As soon as he noticed that he wasn’t welcomed by the union mem- bers, he changed over to the Boot and Shoe Union, affiliated with the A. F. of L., and became an executive member. And naturally, such rats as Joseph Cohen became a scab with the understanding of the scab “Boot and Shoe Union.” He scabbed in the Brasler Shoe Co., in S. 4th St., Brooklyn. The executive of the industrial union expelled this Joseph Cohen when they found him out. (Signed) ALEX RAFAL. Editor’s Note: We have checked with the union and have their authority to publish this exposure. HOW SECTION 7-A WORKS By a Shoe Worker Correspondent. BELLVILLE, Ill.—Just a line to let you know that the shoe workers here are supposed to be organized into the Protective Shoe Workers Union. When the shop steward went to the Bellville Shoe Factory he was told to get out and stay out. NOTE We publish letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers every Wednesday. Workers in those industries are urged to write us of their conditions of work, and of their struggles to organize. Get the letters to us by Saturday of each week. | Starvation Wages at Wallicks, Coatesville | (By a Worker Correspondent) | COATESVILLE, Pa.— Some time |ago, I asked a girl needle-trades | worker where she worked. Her reply jwas, “I hate to tell you. I work | at Wallicks.” Now this past Saturday, I had the opportunity to see the pay checks of four experienced girl workers at Wallick’s Coatesville Dress Co., at 4th Ave. and Railroad St. These checks represented a two weeks’ period of 0 hours work or more. And they were $6.25, $8.25, $7.90 and $8.60. i Wallick’s shop does sub-contract work for a New York firm, and is not under the N.R.A. code. Wages She Works Wallick’s at Wallick’s, until recently, were less even than the amounts mentioned. Jobs in Coatesville are very, very scare, and the girls are afraid to complain. Owing to the bad weather, these past weeks, very little outdoor work has been done on C.W.A. projects. In consequence, many families have had no income whatsoever; and it has meant a distinct hardship for those who had been taken off “the welfare.” I. Miller Boss In Erie Cheats On His Promise (By a Shoe Worker Correspondent) ERIE, Pa.—The Miller workers had voted on which union they would choose. Before the election took place, I Miller and his stool pigeons made a speech to the work- ers stating that if they will vote for the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union he would close the shop. He also promised them to improve their conditions if they would vote of the B. and S. U. The young workers not having any experience with B.S. (scab) union, voted for B.S. (scab) union, thinking that the boss would keep his promise. This is how he improved their conditions. He gave them an in- crease and demanded much better work, therefore the workers can’ produce as many shoes as they di before, and the salary is so, little ‘that the lasters wanted to go out on strike. Samuels, the laster foreman, is very cruel to the workers. Their work is never good enough for him. Gen. Johnson, Discuss Co. 4,000 Bosses Union Strategy (Continued From Page 5.) ernment.” Robert Minor, who made the criticism to which Johnson re- ferred, extended no such offer. Rather he hurled back into John- son's face an invitation from the General that Minor, as the Commu- nist Party representative, “get to- gether” with the N.R.A.! Curiously enough, this was left out of the offi- cial N.R.A. publicity release. It was Johnson who gave one of the frankest statements concerning the coming drive to make company- unionism legal under the N.R.A. He said, “There is no law prohibiting a@ company union as such if there is no interposition whatever by ent- ployers and if the men freely choose | it.” Forecasting, then, the primary contingency the Business Congress met to head off—“the worst apidemic of strikes in our history’—Johnson counseled, “Let us obey the law. Call in Senator Wagner's Board. Let your men express their choice under those public auspices from which no question can arise. Let’s get this troublesome question settled Promptly and for all time.” What Johnson naturally didn’t say is that the way of industry's doing this painless has been fairly clearly worked out already! During the first week of last month a conference of U. S. Steel officials and others of their ilk met in New York City to discuss just that question—how to make their company unions legal under the N. R.A. Robert Dunn, of the Labor Research Association, reported this meeting. And the specific measure by which this may be accomplished is clear also. The company unions are to be divorced, technically, legally, from the companies. William H. Davis, Director of Compliance in the N.R.A,, in fact let the cat out of the bag in a public session this week. He pointed out that many “printed plans” (most of them already ex- ecuted) in the auto and steel in- dustry, contain provisions which are “continuing violations of the spirit of Section 7a.” This statement was the basis for the capitalist press’ launching a powerful story about the N.R.A’s “cracking down” on company-unionism, But Davis happened to give “an example” of just what he meant by company-union “provisions” which are “violations.” He cited the pro- vision “that there shall be no change in the self-organization of the workers without the approval of the plant managers.” Think of it! Only the provision for formal approval of plant managers makes company- unionism a violation of N.R.A.! Now what could be more simple than to waft away the “violation” in com- dient of removing that stipulation from the company-union charters? Then the company-union might still be headed by straw-bosses. If neces- Sary, it could be headed by a “com- pany man” employed as a worker. Swope, Offer to Green As to what that “company man” means, nobody knows better than the companies themselves. They know, in fact, that it includes the American Federation of Labor offi- cialdom. I have it on unquestionable au- thority that Gerard Swope actually offered to turn his company unions over to the A. F, of L., during the conferences here, on one condition: that the workers should not be split into craft unions, causing the com- Pany the inconvenience of dealing with numerous sets of officials! The Federation rejected the offer be- cause of the traditional predilection of sundry officials of sundry, anti- quated craft-brotherhoods of the A. F. of L. for their per-capita tribute. This was what Fred Hewett, editor of the Machinists’ Journal, meant when he testified in a public hear- ing last week that “a big company offered to bring its employes into the A. F. of L. on one condition— but we rejected the condition.” (To Be Continued) CCC Boys Resent War Propaganda By a Worker Correspondent » N. J—Just a few lines to let you know that in the C. C. C. camp where I am, the workers are having a tough time. We hope you can help us by putting an article about our troubles in your paper, the Daily Worker. We have credit cards here which we get on our pay. For a three cent stamp we have to pay four cents in credit. The food is not only cooked badly but it is often not enough. We have our coffee made in galvanized cans. These get black in a short time and the coffee tastes lousy. We sleep in double-deckers in a small cramped quarters. There is also a lot of propaganda about war here, and We wish to state we are not in favor with it. The company store sold sample of tobacco which were supposed to be given to the boys. We have a lousy system of showers. The sewage system is not sufficient for the large number of men we have here, so we can only take a shower twice a week and then it is a free for all to get under before the water goes off. We have many of the boys in sym- pathy with the Communist cause. pany-unionism by the mere expe- ficient attention in our Party. Dye Workers’ ~ Unity Able to Stop Layoffs By a Textile Worker Correspondent PATERSON, N. J.—The workers in the silk dye shops in Paterson gave all kinds of complaints about the conditions in the dye shops. Some workers say they only get a few hours a week, others say there is too much speed-up in the shop where they work. The bosses lay off the workers when they can get away with it, that is in the shops where the workers are divided. The workers have to run two machines or more and have to do the work for two or three men and get one man’s pay. Some of the workers say that the work is so hard in the shops that when they come home they eat} what little there is to eat and go to bed so that they will be able to work the next day. | There are some shop chairmen who take up the grievances of the workers and fight the bosses for | the workers right to organize and | to have better working conditions. | But most of the shop chairmen do| |not care about the workers as long as they get their cut from the dues, and do not take up any grievances of the workers with the bosses. That is why you hear the workers talk- ing the way they do. The most class-conscious workers are working hard to get a united front, to get all the workers to stick together on grievances. Chicago A. F. L. Leader Begs to Cut Millinery Pay By a Millinery Worker Corre- spondent CHICAGO, Til—J. Roberts, vice- president of the millinery union and in charge of the Chicago dis- trict of the union, has joined with L. Shirley Tark, secretary of the Midwestern Millinery (employers’) Association in requesting the N.R.A. to grant a “special dispensation” urally generate in us the kind of permitting slower workers who can not “make the code” to be em- ployed for as little as the em- Ployers choose to pay. The Millinery Code requires work- ers classified as milliners to be paid at the rate of 4744 cents an hour. At this rate, a millinery worker, working the maximum number of hours permitted by the code, 3744 a week, is supposed to receive at least $18 per week’s hard work. The code alréady allows 25 per cent of the milliners in a plant to be paid as little as 37 1-3 cents an hour, or $14 for a full, 37% hour week. Chicago employers are complain- ing that they cannot afford to pay their slower workers as much as $14 a week. Mr. Roberts, A. F. of L. union official, agrees with them. So does Carolyn Wolf, organizer of the union in Chicago. What are the millinery workers of Chicago going to do about the sell-out by their officials to the employers’ group? Incidentally Mr. Tark recently has been named cn the code auth- ority for the Chicago district. Lessons in Fight Against Company Unions in Chicago (Continued from page 5) up the struggle of the workers so workers will not develop real strug- gle. This question was raised cor- rectly in the Party shon paper, “The Gary Steel Worker,” that this demand is to be raised in every devartment, to set un workers’ committees and develop a mass cam- noten to carry on the struetle for this demand and not to depend in any shape or form upon the com- pany union representatives. How to Handle “flections” Later, some time in June, accord- ing to the company union consti- tution, there are to be elections in the tesk of the Communists and the comneny wnion. Then it will be the task of the Communists and revoluiionery workers in every de- nertment to nlace nominees in the election revolutionary, workers who will fight for the interests of the workers on concrete program of demands and will utilize the elec- tions for the purpose of further strengthening and building the S.M.W1I.U. In these elections, we shall establish united front with the renk and file members of the A. F. of L. in each department. This is how we shall approach the question of the company union in this con- crete instance. ‘We can add that experience in an important metal shop in Chicago shows that such a policy is correct because as 2 result of such a policy we were able to win some workers who are in the company union to the point that now these workers are publishing a printed organ of the S.M.W.1U. Where previously we had a very weak Party nucleus, we have grown to quite an extent as far as the Party and S.M.W.LU. is concerned. Main Task But all this work can be success- ful only if we have constantly in view the main task confronting us— to organize economic _ struggles under our independent leadership and fight, and in a very competent manner explain to the workers the meaning of the company union with all its treachery and reforms. Any concession given to the reforms of the company union spells doom for our work. It is by no means impos- sible to win workers in the company unions who are forced to belong to them and bring them into the revo- lutionary unions of the S.M.W.LU. or independent union as the case might be, into the A. F. of L. union for the purpose of strengthening the opposition forces in the given union. The question of the company unions as yet has not received suf- PARTY LIFE importance of rooting our Party in the basic industries. The nearness of another imperialist war makes this task even more important. For some time we have had a general packing house unit of the Party in Omaha. This unit con- sisted of five members for quite a while, and has been meeting once a@ week. Tt was very hard to recruit new members, because it was impossible to take up the work .concretely as to how to carry out the work of the Party in the specific departments. | The packing house workers live so far apart that it is very hard to get them to come to meetings. Most of the members in the gen- eral group lived on the South Side, but we had some very good contacts on the North Side, but they would not travel the six or seven miles to meetings. We decided then to and once a month have a general meeting. After this was done we did get a couple of new members, btu still it was very hard to plan the work concretely. We had two members working in the same department, and one of them in the North Side and one in the South Side group. When some work was to be taken up, each one of these wanted to speak to the other comrade before he could de- cide. ‘We discussed and we tried to find @ way of overcoming this handicap for weeks. Finally we decided that we would try to establish deépart- ment units even if we didn’t have more than two members in each department. Because of the fact that the members live so far apart, we decided to hold the meetings right after work. We decided that the beef kill in should be the first depart- ment that we would establish a unit in. We had two members and one applicant in this department. We took up with these comrades the question of recruiting from their own department. At the first meet- ing that was held right after work- ing hours we had four new workers who made application for member- ship to the Party. We decided to hold regular meet- ings once a week right after working hours. We took up the work con- cretely in this department and it was a better discussion than at any time before. The comrades felt that they would be able to do some effec- tive work right in their own de- partment. The members also feel more protected from stools and speak more openly in meetings. Next week we will pick out the sheep kill in . » and establish a unit there. The general group will still be holding meetings. Those who work in the departments where District 10 Builds Shop Units After Co-Ordinated Work Hold Meeting of Workers in American Federa- tion of Labor Opposition The Open Letter points out the; establish a unit on the North Side, | ; we have only one member will stilt belong to the general unit. How- ever, we will take up with each in- Uividual comrade the work in his department with the view of estab- lishing a department unit in all the departments. We expect to have at least three | new department units in the pack- | ine plants before our district con- | vention in March. | In order to co-ordinate the work of all the units we will call a general meeting of packing-house members | and elect a bureau of three to be |the leading committee of these units in the packing plants. For the | time being one representative from |each unit will meet and plan the ! work. { One experienée that we have had | is not to crowd our members in shop | units with all kinds of meetings and assignmen:s but to give them some | small task to carry out during the week. Then they feel good to be able to come back to the next meeting and report the results. At the last general membership meeting of the comrades working in the packing plants we decided to is- sue a shop paper. The first num- ber of this paper will be issued in the first part of March. The interest for this paper is good among the comrades. Artieles axe being prepared. The leading eom- rades are helping the new comrades to write these articles. In October last year we had members in the packing Since then attention has been peifi by the leading comrades to every phase of the work in the plants much more than ever before. At the same time we have given more di- rect responsibility to the most prom- ising elements. Today we have FL members, and five who made plications for the Party. These the will have their membership books in another week. Most of our new members are also members of the A. F. of L, union, and we have been able to hold one meeting of workers in opposftion to the A. F. of L. Some work was planned there and is now being car- ried out. In other packing centers in our district the comrades are crying that it is impossible to do anything. In Omaha last year we were told the same thing. Today it is shattered in Omaha. Today the Party is growing in the packing plants. The lesson is: pay attention to each in- dividual member in the plpant, and to each contact. Guide them, help them along, be patient and we will get results, Another article is being prepared on struggle against the clause about arbitration board in the memoran- dum of the A. F. of L. Carl Rode, Dist. Org. Sec'y, No. 10, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Yellow Spots on the Whites of the Eye Mrs. Regina B.—The little yellow spots on the white of the left eye of your little daughter is of no sig- nificance whatsoever. It has no con- nection with the tonsils and the re- moval of same will not remove the spots. Anyone who tells you differ- ently is either ignorant or purposely misleading you. From the descrip- tion of your child’s tonsils, we see no reason for their removal. There is no specific treatment to keep the tonsils in a healthy condition. The best thing to prevent tonsilitis, is to see that your child is well- dressed, and especially that her underwear should contain at least 50 per cent wool. You must also be careful that her stockings should contain 50 per cent wool and that her feet should not get wet. You will find that if you can keep her Doctor By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. feet dry that she will rarely con- tract colds or sore throats. Also make sure that she breathes through her nose. If you have a sufficient amount of patience, you can teach her to do so. It would also be advisable to have your child exarnined by a reliable physician in order to ascertain whether or not she is anemic. Anemia in children often leads to attacks or tonsilitis. ea aay Chronic Tuberculosis Eddy B.—As long as you are feel- ing well, we see no reason for you to have the operation you mentioned performed on yourself. As to the effect of local anesthetic, there is no harm whatsoever in it. Tt af- fects neither the lungs nor other part of the body. Be eee Sas, Edrolax I. R., Maywood, T.—Hdroiax is not a natural food. We Have Reopened JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. 12th and 13th St.) Allerton Avenue Comrades! The Modern Bakery was first to settle Bread Strike and first to sign with the Food Workers’ Industrial Union 69IALLERTON AVE. GARMENT WORKERS WELCOME SHERIDAN VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT (Formerly Shildkrauts) 225 WEST 36th STREET Tompkins Square 6-9132 Caucasian Restaurant “KAVKAZ”" Russian and Oriental Kitehen Between 7th and 8th Avenues BANOUETS AND PARTIES 832 East 1ith Street New York City ANNUAL Saturday, March others. — Staged by: V. — Dancing Admission 50 cents. — CONCERT and BALL “NOVY MIR” 17th, at 8 P.M, Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. PRESENTATION OF POPULAR SOVIET PLAY “PROPERTY” with S. Verin, M. Vodiandy, F. Goldberg, 'K. Deich- man, P. Levanuk, I. Loshak, B. Piters, M. Panke- vich, X. Tarasoff, V. Fisher, K. 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