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Page Four And Post-War The 3rd Comintern Congress United Front and Workers’ and Peasants’ Government Slogans Given Much Attention Developments Action,’ condemning the right op- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934 my none N08 How Railroad | Iv. | The Congress fought out the/| | it was at this second Congress| Problems of the German “March | Burocrats Try | that the famous Theses of Lenin on | the National and Colonial Question was placed before the world in| sharp antagonism to the socia chauvinism of the Second Interna- tional in which the labor bureau- cracy plays the foul role of ally of the imperialism capitalists against | the vast millions of colonial slaves. | “Proletarians of all countries | and oppressed peoples, unite!” This slogan, accurate, as Lenin explained, “from the aspect of pres-| ent day polititics,” sharply marked | the course of the Communist Inter- | national. | “The Socialist revolution will be not only and mainly a struggle of the revolutionary proletarians in every country against their own bourgeoisie; no, it will be a struggle of all the colonies and countries by imperial- ism against international im- perialism.” | From faraway Asia and Indonesia, from Turkey, Persia and India, be- gan to vibrate the first tremors of the awakening of the three-quarters of the world that would come to al- liance with the revolutionary in- dustrial proletariat, confirming the words of Marx written in the 1860s: “We may boldly prophesy that the Chinese revolution flings a spark into the powder magazine of the modern productive system and precipitates the long prepar- ing general crisis, which will be immediately followed, when i spreads across the frontiers, by a revolution on the Con- tinent.” The year 1920 was turbulent in Europe. The Red Army was de- feated in Poland in July, 1920. In Italy the workers’ “factory occupa- tion” occurred in September. The Third Congress of the Com- munist International met in the summer of 1931, at a time of great moment to the world revolution. The “March Action” of the German proletariat of that spring had been crushed. The Kronstadt rebellion had flashed its ominous threat to the life of the revolutionary re- public. “War Communism” had giv- *n way to the New Economic Policy N. E. P.). The bourgeoisie, on a world scale, was on the offensive. The Third Congress of the C. I. said in that situation* “The task of the C. I. in the present period consists in the leadership of the defensive strug- gle of the proletariat, in the broadening, deepening, and con- centrating of this struggle, in its transformation in accordance with the given circumstances, into an offensive struggle, and in raising of this struggie inte a revolution- ary struggle for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie and the establish- ment of the proletarian dictator- ship.” portunist passivity of Levi and the “left” “theory of the offensive.” ‘To the masses!” Mass Communist parties must from 52 countries. A great strength- | the orientation of the was brought | labout at the Third Congress, after | which the united front slogan and} ening of Communist Parties the slogan of the workers’ govern- ment were brought to the front. C. P. in U.S. A. j Immediately following the Third | Congress of the C. L, the First Con- gress of the Red International of | |Labor Unions took place in Mos- | cow. In the United States, the newly formed American section of the Communist International, then con- taining in an open political party the decisive sections seceding from the Socialist Party, had been) smashed as an open organization by the “red raids” of Attorney Gen-/ eral Palmer and the “liberal” pres- ident, Woodrow Wilson, in January, 1920. The Communist Party in the United States was living a narrow underground existence, harrassed by countless prosecutions of its leaders. It was the time of the great post- war economic struggles. Railroad, coal, steel and textile strikes were either raging or maturing. Greatest of all was the big steel strike of 1919-20, the leader of which was William Z. Foster, a man of a wide revolutionary background both in the Socialist Party and in the trade union movement, the I.W.W. as well as the A. F. of L. The inevitable treachery of the A. F. of L. bureau- cracy in relation to the steel strike leading to the defeat of the work- ers, brought to a head the sharp differences between the bureaucracy and the strike leader, Foster, who had come to symbolize the revolu- tionary trend in the trade unions. Foster attended the Third Con- gress of the Communist Interna- tional and also the first Congress | of the Red International of Labor Unions, at which he played a prom- inent role in the shaping of policy. From the Third Congress of the Communist International there fol- lowed the fusing of a considerable section of revoluionary trade union- ists under Foster's leadership into | the Communist Party of the U.S.A.; |and this brought a big increase of | strength to the weakest side of the American section of the Communist International. Foster, already the most widely known leader of the American workers’ economic strug- gles, became, with Ruthenberg, the foremost of the leaders of the | American Communist Party. ! (To Be Continued) Comrade Leo. M. of Erie Pa, recently, saying some reference was made to birth| sided one. control, in your ‘Home’ column. ———— However for several weeks now ’ nothing on this subject appeared. Can You Make Em “I am greatly interested in your Yourself? and Dr, Luttinger’s departments in the Daily and assure you they have served me greatly since they made their appearance. “While I fully understand that pirth control is not ‘it,’ yet I real- (ze very well how birth control can immensely lighten the ‘conditions of struggle’ of workers, though it can never be looked upon as a subs- titute for that struggle. “Undoubtedly it is the lack of space which prevents your giving more publicity to this important question (Correct!—H. L.) and it is for this reason that I’m asking you So send me the address of the Birth Control Review to secure more di- rect information on the birth con- trol movement. “Again assuring you that I do not ‘ook upon birth control as a sub- :titute for struggle, I remain, comradely, | “LEO M.” We sent this information, as fol- lows: (Others may also find it use- ful.) The “Birth Control Review” is published (monthly) by the American Birth Control League, Inc., 689 Madison Ave., New York City. Mrs. Margaret Sanger is Nat'l. Chairman of the Nat'l Committee om Federal Legislation for Birth Control, 17 W. 16th St., New York City. ‘There are 10 state organizations affiliated with the American Birth Control League listed in the Birth Control Review of May, 1932; for Conn., Delae., Ill., Ind., Mass., Mich., Minn., Mo. Penna. and R. I. (Will send any of these addresses on request.) The July 1933 issue lists also Ark., Fla., Ga., Ky., Me., and Va., but without addresses. Comrade Leo is correct: legalized birth contro? will not solve the “un- employment problem,” as the ladies associated with the above organiza- tions fondly imagine. (We must have an article showing why not.) For the present, however, it is well to be acquainted with the progress of the movement for legalization of birth-control. Dae ean Axother Little Household Wrinkle Comrade Zelke sends this “House- hold hint for impoverished worker- dollar course strop.’ The tumbler, of has to be a plain straight- | Pattern 1797 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. | Size 16 takes 3% yards 36-inch | fabric. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c.) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style families: razor blades can be used} numi tem times longer than designed by soe ees eee ee the Razor-Blade Kings, by rotating Address orders to Daily Worker them briskly on the inside of a wet tumbler. Works better than a Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. was the cry of | the Third Congress to its section. | | be | formed. There were 600 delegates | resented | To Stop Struggle, (By a Railroad Worker | Correspondent) | ERIE, Pa—The Railroad Labor| Bureaucrats try to avoid giving the rank and file any opportunity to voice their disatisfaction at the coming wage negotiations. The! bureaucracy knows that any attempt | to continue the present 10 per cent cut, or to cut still further, will be They, therefore, are try- ing to cover up by asking the chair- men of local grievance committées to give the General Chairman full authority with no restrictions, to settle as they see fit, on a national basis. The only alternative on the ballot is to vote for settlement by individual railroads. Oh, yes, they know the rank and file believe in national agreements, that the men know that a solid united front action of all railroad labor could defeat the attempt of the railroads to still further econo- mize at the expense of the workers. That is the reason they have worded the ballots in such a manner, as not to give the rank and file an opportunity to voice their demands for increased wages, the return of the 10 per cent cut. Union Heads Back Plan to Give More Cash to Railroads (By a Railroad Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—George M. Harri- son, Grand President of the Broth- erhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks and Vice-Chairman of the Association of Railway Labor Exe- cutives, but not an association of the Rank and File railroad work- ers, requests Cofigress to create a Railroad Credit Corp. to finance the railroads with two billion dollars for the next two years. This plan was approved by the chiefs of the 21 labor unions, at a dinner party Miss Perkins, Secretary of Labor; Alex F. Whitney, Chairman of the Executive Association and G. M. Harrison were present, and David B. Robertson, president of the Brother- hood of Firemen and Enginemen, was toastmaster. The plan and purpose of this 3 day session was solely to give two billions of dollars to the railroad companies, not one cent of which is to go to the workers in the form of unemployment insurance. The plan is now in the hands of the Federal Railroad Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman for study. and of Henry Bruere, advisor to President Roose- velt, and various bond-holding com- mittees, but not one rank and file worker is represented. Package of Food In 5 Weeks Is All Relief Negro Gets (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) OXFORD, Miss.—I am writing a letter concerning the government, I went up there to sign up about three weeks ago and they told me to wait until they came out to investigate the house and so I did. About two weeks ago, which is five weeks since I signed, they came k and asked me about my need, and I told them all about it, so they told me to come to town the following Saturday, so I went. They gave me three Ibs. of flour, the same amount of sugar and rice and coffee; no lard, no meat, no clothes and a very little of anything, and one of them said, “You could get some work to do.”—when they know there wasn’t any for the poor colored worker to do. And they haven't been back to see just how we are getting along. I don’t know how they expect us Negroes to live. Daily W orker Reading Circle of Railroaders Planned in Hornell By a Worker Correspondent HORNELL, N. Y.—We are just getting organized here. This is a railroad center. We are plan- ning to have a reading circle of tailroaders in the near future, and will increase our Daily Worker order accordingly. The Daily has a very good a) ypproach to the problems of the workers. Try and have more news about the railroads, Coie au. EDITOR’S NOTE: One way we can have more news about the railroads is for railroad workers themselves to send us more letters about their condi- tions of work, their opinions |Big Brooklyn Building Allowed to Go Unheated | in Winter Weather Because Cold “Compels Men to Work Faster to Keep Warm” BROOKLYN, N. Y.—I want to tell my fellow workers what a great privilege it is to work for the Fed- eral Government in this “land of the free.” I work in the largest Post Office building in the city, and our government is the richest in the world. In spite of that, I have seen better buildings used by some of the rich families as winter quar- ters for stabling their strings of race horses. Every winter, and especially during that last period of unusually cold weather, the numerous govern- ment employees suffered terrible hardship. In fact, we were com- | pelled to dress as though on our way to an Arctic expedition. The build- ing was so cold on one occasion that no work could be done in an entire section of it. The Simon Legrees here, however, argue that the colder it is the better, as the men are com- pelled to work faster to keep warm. The lighting system is damnable. No thought is given to the eyes of the workers, who must work under glaring white lights continually. And talk about sweatshop condi- tions. The slave-driving owners and managers of private industry are mere tyros compared with the numerous supervisors, foremen, sub- foremen, and what-nots under which we have to work. Here the main qualifications for a boss’s job is the ability to speak four words: “Hurry up—move faster.” The regular clerks are driven at top speed, being timed even when certain physiological demands com- pel them to leave their posts for a moment. Useless foremen give com- mands which are countermanded by other useless figure-heads. condition beggars description. They are the chief media thorough which the numerous and unnecessary fore- men show their efficiency. They are lucky to get two hours per night. In fact, each man whose turn it is to put the subs to work vies with the other to see which one can give them less time each night. Thus, the subs experience the same speed- ing up and other general conditions as do the regulars. It is obvious that their salvation lies in a united fight through one organization for working conditions to which human beings are entitled. Shipyard Worker Delegate to USSR Reports What He Saw By a Shipy’d Worker Correspondent Some impressions by Jack Ger- aghty, delegate of the Central La- bor Council of Pallejo, Cal. to the Nov. 7 anniversary celebration in Moscow. Written for my former shopmates in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.) * * Although I brought back from the USS.R. six note books crammed with date concerning the First | Workers Republic, interesting to me and perhaps to all workers, I have but short space for a synopsis of what I saw there. ‘The delegation, after traveling by the “hard” class trains through France, Germany, Esthonia, Lat- via and a section of the USSR., arrived at the Leningrad station, where we were greeted by a large group of workers, headed by a brass band. ‘This was a shock to us. We knew ‘thet Jimmy Walker or Queen Ma- rie of Roumania are received in capitalist countries with a brass band, but not a workers’ delega- tion, even though an aristocrat of labor happened to be one of the delegates. Of course in America we have seen workers’ delegations greeted by the police force but not headed by the police band. Seven-Hour Day In Leningrad we visited the fac- tories. The seven-hour day was in operation. Complete medical atten- tion was furnished to the workers and their families, principally at the factory hospitals. Activities of all kinds are centered around the job, sports, culture, education, etc. ‘We met our first “Triangle” in the Stalin Metal Plant at Leningrad— the manager, the trade union chair- man and the Communist Party rep- resentative of the factory. We visited Soviets and found them to be truly representative of the working class. We were told of and saw the improvements in the housing conditions, industrial ex- pansion, cultural and educational developments made since the Oc- tober Revolution. The trade unions of the Soviet Union administer the Soviet Insur- ance Fund, and see to further pro- duction and to increase the mate- rial well being of the workers by rapidly industrializing the entire country; 95 per cent of the indus- trial workers are unions. Reviewed Parade We were in the reviewing stand in the Red Square in Moscow dur- ing the Nov. 7 celebration. We saw a splendid army,- well equipped. Workers from the factories in their civilian clothes, marching with ri- fies, and other workers, men and women, hundreds of thousands, marching, dancing and _ singing throughout the streets and Red Square. Banners, models, placards, were held aloft. We went to Kazan, capital of the Tartar Republic, and found that the Soviet Union grants full equality to in the trade | the national minorities. A part of the delegation visited a collective farm and was favorably impressed concerning foodstuffs and food in| general. One of your delegates has and still has an enormous appetite | and it took a Tartar collective farm ' to satisfy it, at least for the day) of the visit! At Sverdlovsk we saw one of the best equipped plants for machine building in the world. It was} equipped with the latest German | and English operated machine tools of all sizes. Ill say we were im- pressed. At Magnitogorsk, we saw the Iron Mountain of 60 per cent iron ore. We inspected the ore crushing plant. We saw the ore smelted in the Marten ovens, blast furnaces and electric furnaces. We saw the iron poured into ingot moulds. We saw the ingot rolled out in bloom- ing mills. We were impressed with skill and efficiency of the workers. It is not yet quite up to the effi- ciency of the American standard, | but the ambition of the Soviet workers to reach and surpass us along these lines impressed us. We were entertained at the work- ers club as well as in the factories. We visited the tractor plant at Che- lijabinsk, modern, well - lighted, properly laid out factory buildings. | This plant produces 60 horsepower caterpillars, equipped with Ameri- can machinery throughout, straight- | line production. Of course we asked for and got information concerning housing, | wages, trade union organizations, ete. We checked the information re- ceived from the “Triangle” by questioning the workers on the job and found it O.K. We saw men and women working side by side and receiving the same pay for the same class of work. We visited workers’ homes, dining } rooms, theatres, etc. Some were not so good, some very good. We visited apartment houses in various stages of construction, and didn’t like the way bricklayers layed the bricks. | The alignment was poor. The: ce-j ment mixture was wrong, nine and up to eleven parts of sand to one part of cement and a little lime | added. The Soviet building worker | has a lot to learn in Russia. We | didn’t like the plumbing, what there |was of it. Lavatories and toilets are not kept in proper order. Transportation service and effi- | ciency is below the American stan- dard. We closely inspected a coke plant designed by the Kopper Coke Co. of America. The workers knew their stuff and working conditions were good. We again visited Moscow and Leningrad where we attended So- viet and trade union meetings, the- atres, workers’ clubs, prison courts. We were guests of the Red Army at their headquarters. We saw the unique fraternal relations of sol- diers and officers. These soldiers pledged themselves to defend the workers of the world. How Soviet Sailors Live By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—After practically using the best part of my life going to sea and sailing on most every ship that is built in the capitalist world I find myself, a native-born of the “greatest country in all the world,” on the bum as far as get- ting a job on U.S. A. ships go. T have just arrived from a coun- try that can show all the world what she has done for her people, the Soviet Union, and I want to say that she has that in the ma- rine industry, for I made that my business to find out. I am ashamed to say this, but it’s the truth, their ships are far superior to ours in every respect. Compare their liv- ing conditions to ours. ‘Take the two best ships that were built in the U. S. A. the Man- hattan and the Washington. The quarters there are just like living in a barn, compared with the Soviet ships’ quarters. Sailors on Soviet ships live like gentlemen, not like cattle. To begin with, there are two men top of the other. Each bunk has/ a reading lamp at the head of each bunk, with a shade to save your eyes; white linen and the best of bed clothing; nice leather sets in the room. Some have running water in the rooms, some have not. You just step outside of your room into a nice tile lavatory washroom and shower bath, so one accom- modation is just as good as the other. fine social and lounging reading room, where they can bring their girl friends, mother or sister aboard and not feel in the least bit ee to show them where they ive. A sailor or fireman is considered as much as the skipper aboard these Soviet ships. Now I want to mention some more of the good features about these ships. When the boys are working during the day, when the ship is at sea, the ship is run on watches, four on and eight The most wonderful thing is that | © “Hurry Up—Move Faster!” Is All Foremen (Need to Know for Job in Post Office Telegraph Union Rank and File (ust Reactionary (By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY.—I was one of the first to join the United Tele- graphers of America, which is an in- dependent organization. I dropped out because I plainly saw the manouvering of Shinnick. to drive | the meqnbership into the C. T. U. A., an A. F. of L. affiliate. I see now, however, that Shinnick As for the substitute workers, their) is out and so are his hangers on. | Goot for ihe U. T, A.! Shinnick reigned supreme over the union for six months. He re- puliated decisions of the board and the membership. The rank and file ras acted in this case and showed its indignation against such leader- ship. The rank and file must crush all issues that tend to vest authority in the hands of a few. None other than company unionism can result from such practice. If the U. T. A. wants to grow let it show definite action in the direc- tion of a real union controlled by the rank and file. A POSTAL TELEGRAPH OPERATOR. Editor's Note: — This worker gives sound advice, and we assume he now sees that it is wrong for a class conscious worker to drop out of an organization because of a reactionary leadership. He should stay in the organization, as he now points out, and fight for rank and file control and a militant pro- gtam. Postal Telegraph MessengersAre Not Paid for Overtime (By a Postal Telegraph Messenger) NEW YORK.—The office where I work certainly treats the messengers like dirt. If we put up any kick about working overtime, which we have to do many times, then we're told we'll get the gate. They don't say anything about the extra time that we put in, but if we come late once, then we're in plenty of hot water. If the company expects to be so careful about every minute of work, then why don’t they check up and pay us all for the extra time? But I guess it only works one way, and that is the way it suits the com- pany. All of us are pretty sore. Militancy Wins Demands at Bklyn. Paper Bag Plant INDIANAPOLIS, Ind—A memo- rial meeting for John Reed, Ameri- can Bolshevik who died in Moscow in 1920, will be held by the John Reed Club of Indianapolis on Friday, March 16, at Columbia Securities Building, 143 E. Ohio Street. Paul Romaine, correspondent of the New Masses in Indianapolis, will speak on “John Reed—and After.” Police Terror and Graft in St. Louis (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The cops here have started a holocaust of beating workers and intellectuais. They students who was a spectator at a demonstration at the Austrian Con- sulate’s office. This sadist, Bowers, is an offender at beating up workers that are in the picket lines during strikes, Mayor Dickman was called to Washington to answer graft charges. The city fathers stole over three weeks’ pay from the C. W. A. work- ers, as the C. W. A. here did not start here until weeks after the rest of the National projects on Soviet ships. I wish I was a Russian. I would be in the marine industry now. As I explained about the social room for the men. When they are working, the upholstered daven- ports are covered with linen, so as to keep the social room in first- class condition. These covers are laundered just like the bed linen. Now the Manhattan and Wash- ington are ships of about 35,000 2 z j selves, beat one of the St. Louis University | Cleveland Dist. Mobilizes to Carry Out Convention Tasks The Ohio District Plenum met on Feb. 3rd and 4th, and on the basis of the reports given, opened up the Party convention discussion, and adopted a sharp resolution revising the work of the past three months and outlined eight control tasks un- til the District convention. On the basis of an analysis of the resolutions and discussions of the 13th E. C. C. I and 18th C. C. Plenums, the District Committee ex- amined the work of the past three months. The Plenum emphasized that: “We see clearly that a new strike wave of larger proportion than | even last year will mature swiftly, combined with mass discontent, and struggles of the unemployed, homeowners, intellectuals, vet- erans, and petty-bourgeoisie, be- cause the N. R. A., while failing | to overcome the crisis of capital- ism, has chained the masses to the industrial codes, and they will | now be faced soon with the sharp- est rise in prices, thus launching a still greater attack on the living standards and conditions of the workers. There are deep rum- blings of discontent and already beginnings of struggles, which our Party must give leadership to at once. To prepare the Party to Jead these struggles and the maturing strike wave in Ohio through intensifying and im- proving our daily mass work, is the central task of this Plenum. Around this, all questions—defeat- ing influence of Social Fascists (A. F. of L.—American Workers Party); concentration tasks; over- hauling life and work of units to make them conscious that they are the decisive base of the Party amongst the masses; drastic ad- justments in language work and financial policies to fit in with concentration tasks; deepening political understanding of Party, and swift building of Party and Y. C. L. in basic industries—must revolve.” (District Plenum Res.) The Plenum emphasized that to prepare the Party to lead these struggles now, it was necessary to arouse the Party to an understand- ing of the demagogic moves and phrases of the bourgeoisie and their Social Fascist supporters of all shades (A. F. of L.—Ohio Unem- ployed Leagues— Farmers Labor Party—American Workers Party.) In dealing with the opportunist un- derestimation of the A. F. of L., the Plenum stated: “In Ohio, we see that in many | places, we have given way to A. | F. of L. penetration of shops even where we previously had a foot- hold of the Revolutionary unions. This is particularly true in steel (Canton, Newcastle, Farrel, Car- negie in Youngston, Otis in Cleve- land, Ete.) where there was too much the attitude, “The A. A. is dead—the workers will have no- thing to do with it.” Precisely be- cause of this underestimation of | the A. F. of L., which was accom- | panied by underestimating the need of intensifying the building of the Revolutionary unions and, of course, complete neglect of working in such A. F. of L. unions, the A. F. of L. comes forward and NOTE: We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- tion and communications indus- tries—railroad, marine, surface | lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- press companies, truck drivers, etc.—and from the communica- tions industries—post office, tele- phone, telegraph, etc. We urge workers from these industries to write us of their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get Communist Party of Ohio Adopts Sharp Rese- lutions in Reviewing Work of Past 3 Months grows. General underestimation of the growth of the A. F. of L, and the need of intensifying mani- fold Party fractions and opposition work inside the A. F. of L. and various independent unions is evident and must be swiftly and decisively eliminated. This im no way changes our main task of building the revplutionary unions, In the steel and metal industry, while carrying on opposition work wherever the A. A. has a foothold, owr main task is the building of the S. M. W. I. ©.” (District Plenum Resolution). The Plenum recorded similar un- derestimation of the dangerous role of the Ohio Unemployed League (Columbus, Toledo, Hocking Valley, etc.) has been evident and the entire Party must be alive to the great danger of “left” Social Fascism in the form of the American Workers Party, which will find fertile ground in those parts of Ohio (Columbus, Hocking Valley, Youngstown, New- ark, Toledo) where the Ohio Un- employed League has a foothok and this movement. Similarly, be alert to the menace of the Amext- can Workers Party feat this new factor which will the workers, to the eigen 4 of left phrases and subtie ism, needs the most energetic Plication of the United Front by every unit, every shop as well scale—on the basis talks of leaders only. The Plenum examined the work of the Party since the last (Oct. 28 and 29) at which time we recorded no decisive improvement in the situation from the very unsetis- factory status at the time of the fillment of the Plenum decisions. In the three months under ex- amination, fhe Plenum registered that we had:— “stopped the continued (ectine in the Party work, membership and morals. We can record 2 slight upward swing in unem- ployed activity; beginnings of penetration of A. F. of L. tm isol- ated instances; slight increase of Party membership and dues pay- ments, despite a huge fluctuation; establishment of Cleveland Work- ers school; organization of six new shop nuclei; recruitment to I. W. O. of 800; strengthening of some leadership, broadened mass agita- tion (especially in Cleveland, Akron, and Canton) and definitely overcame demoralization in mem- change has been made in develop- ing the mass work of the Party and leading struggles of workers in the building of revotutionary unions, oppositions on A. F. of L. penetrating the shops, struggle for Negro rights or building broad mass unemployment Councils. Furthermore, the concentration tasks adopted in July have been seriously neglected, especially in Youngstown. This means clearly that there must be no tolerance of attitudes of satisfactions, with these slight gains, but an intensi- fied tempo of political mobilization to carry through the decisive mass tasks set in the Open Letter and the July District Plenum, espe- cially the concentration tasks.” these letters to us by Tuesday of each week. —District Plenum Resolution. (To be Continued) ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Gastric Ulcers W. H., Everson, Wash.—You have to be careful with your diet; other- wise you will find yourself in a | dangerous condition. If you do not | wish to be operated upon, ask your | druggist to give you the following prescription which might prevent heartburn, hyperacidity and tae pressure pain that you complain of: Bismuth subnitrate Calcium lactate Heavy oxidé of magnesia Fifteen grains of each to be taken three times a day after meals. Let us know how these powders affect you, after taking them for two weeks. £5 iy * Pregnancy During Menopause E. D., Lawrence, Mass.—Yes, pregnancy does occur during the menopause (change of life). It does not happen very often, but it is frequent enough to teach us to be cautious. We would advise you to continue the precautions that you are now taking until the meno- pause is definitely established. This means until at least one year has passed after the last men- strual period. * # Halibut Martin G., Indianapolis, Ind.— The halibut belongs to the flounder | family. You do not see it in aquari- ums because it is hard to catch halibut alive. It can only live in deep, cold water. The liver of the halibut contains more Vitamins A Doctor aAadvises: By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. the fish was reserved for the feasts ;on holidays. The male halibut weighs about 30 pounds, while the female may attain the weight of isla, 400 pounds or more. Like ali floun- ders, the halibut has a “migrating” eye. In the young fish, the eyes are normally placed; but, as the fish grows, one of the eyes begins to “migrate” until both eyes lie on the right side and the fish swims on the left side, which becomes white. Most of the halibut fisher- ies center around Seattle, Washing- ton. We do not know why the hali- but liver contains more Vitamins in A and D than the cod liver. The halibut livers are smaller. 5 ee Wipe Addiction to Pantopon ¥F. M.—Your mother has become a morphine addict. Pantopon is a narcotic drug containing morphine notwithstanding the claims of the manufacturers. We do not know of any remedy which will make it pos- sible for you to further decrease the amount of the narcotic which she has become accustomed to take. As to building her up, we find that foods and tonics are of not mech use in these cases. Injections iron should be tried. With the a certain amount of calcium should be injected. In fact could inject the iron and lime gether with the tablet of Pant that you are using. Ask your drug- gist to give you two dozen ampules of glycero-phosphate of iron like number of ampules of gluegnate. Give her ene m each every des z