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; ; } Page Six Article VI. | The Two-and-A-Half Interna- tional had already in 1923 deserted its “revolutionary” talk, and had gone back to the Second Interna- tional. But the Communist Inter- national coldly rejected that oppor- tunistic and unreal view. “To lead means to foresee,” says Stalin; and the Communist International, al- though capitalism had, with the aid | of the Social-Democratic parties, de- feated the workers and peasants, and, with the advantage of its vic- tory of force over the masses, had succeeded in bringing about a rel- ative stabilization, clearly saw that this stabilization was only a partial | could be no more “Out of the stabilization itself, there is growing up the profound- est and severest crisis of world capitalism, a crisis which will ocmpletely upset the stabiliza- tion.” (Stalin, 1927). E Fifth Congress of the Com- munist International in June 1924 had before it the job of cleaning up the weaknesses and adulterations within the revolutionary Communist Parties left over as a heritage from the Second International—the huge task of Bolshevization. The master- ing of the experience of the best seasoned of all the Communist Parties, the Bolshevik Party built up and led by Lenin through three revolutions, with a merciless ana- lysis of the errors that had con- tributed to defeat in Germany, Poland and Bulgaria, became the duty of all Communist Parties in collective work with the aid of the Fifth Congress. The discussion sharpened around the basic ques- tion of the dictatorship of the pro- letariat—“the tap root of the revo- lution” (as Lenin called it)—and the national and agrarian questions, non-clarity of which had played such havoc in three great actions in Germany, Poland and Bulgaria. The problems of mass work, of trade unions, and of the building of mass Communist Parties, the reorganiza- tion of the Parties on the basis of shop nuclei (the Bolshevik form of Party organization), the proletariza- tion of the Party and its leading cadres, the establishment of demo- cratic centralism and iron Bolshevik discipline, the making of the Com- munist Parties into monolithic Parties without federationism and without factionalism—these were problems thoroughly discussed. Communist International | Alone Foresaw World Crisis Comintern Fifth Congress Laid Down Correct Line, Continuing Lenin’s Work By ROBERT MINOR. Only by ruthless self-criticism, by merciless analysis of its own errors can the revolutionary party of the workers temper itself to the steel-like hardness necessary to | victory; this principle is hasic to all Communist Parties and is put into practice by the Communist International on a world-wide seale as an indispensible means toward the success of the “World October” revolution. Se ies IN 1924 the greatest of all leaders died. Lenin had led the Com- munist International only five years. But Lenin’s death — the greatest loss of a leader ever suf- fered by the toiling masses of the world—left no vacancy. Lenin had built too well for that. The Party he had created and led through revolutions, the only Party that stood the test of fire and remained true to Marxism during the World War (not with mere words against War, but with action to transform the imperialist war into civil war, to defeat and overthrow its own bourgeoise)—the only Party which had succeeded in placing itself at the head of a victorious revolution- ary State—this Party necessarily |plays the leading role in the In- ternational. Are there some who wish it to be otherwise? They can only be those who do not wish the revolu- tionary science of Marx and Lenin to become the property of the world proletariat. Such men do not wish for the world revolution! Party Carries On Work The Party of Lenin continued un- interruptedly as the leading Party of the Communist International. The leadership of the Bolshevik Party, in turn, necessarily was en- trusted to the strongest of Lenin’s disciples, As Marx and Engels had worked a lifetime together and had never once been divided, so Lenin and Stalin had worked uninter- ruptedly since the boyhood of Stalin with never a division throughout all the upheavals of political dis- sension, the tumult of three revolu- tions, and the periods of “sagging” between revolutions. Lenin’s “Com- rade Steel” has led the Commu- nist Party of the Soviet Union and has been the world leader of the revolutionary proletariat, the leader of the Communist International, for the past ten years. These ten years have not been quiet years of slow development, but years of sharp and cataclysmic changes and unprecedented events. (To Be Continued) HELEN 4 SOVIET HOME The following letter from a Rus- sian worker was received by a resi-| dent of Newark, a reader of the Daily Worker. Bashkiriya Republic, U.S.8.R. | Dear Comrade: | Your sad letter is to hand. How can you live as you do not work at| all? Even if you work you can only have half the sufficiency. The big part of your earnings you pay for| lodging, electricity, gas, and coal. How was it there four or five years ago, before the crisis? Did you earn} at that time much more than at present? I am a teacher in a workers’ school. We teach our youngsters and girls to work there. We have need of skillful workers. For that reason we have arranged these schools near factories and mills. I am also married, and have a | wife, mother-in-law, and one son who is going to secondary school. My wife works also. Together we | earn 500 rubles a month or about $250. For lodging (three rooms and kit- chen), for electricity, light and heat, I pay nothing. Food and clothing | all workers obtain, partly on norms and very cheap, and partly buy on the market if there is need of some | things we did not get on norms.| Generally speaking we have suffi-| cient for our needs and we have| money left over. For children’s | schooling we pay nothing. | ‘We have an ideal nursing home, nursery for mothers and children, and all that is free. In order to) judge your life and my life, we must | compare our weekly earnings and} expenses. Our weekly expense: five| gallons of milk, $10; four kilograms* of meat, $10; 20 kilos of bread, $2.50; one and one-half kilos of butter, $3.66; one kilo of honey or sugar, $2.50; 15 or 20 eggs, $3.00; for vege- tables and other food products, $10. This is a total of $41. My weekly earnings are $62.50, together with my wife’s. The balance is almost $22, and that is for clothing, theatre, laundry and small things. We have a scarcity of sugar and ‘imported goods. But we have a great deal of honey and fish. The Bashkiriya Republic has very big linden forests and rivers, therefore there are very big bee-hives and good fishing. I have indicated to you my ex- pense on prices at the private mar- ket; part of the products I men- tioned we obtain on State’s prices, which are cheaper, and therefore we have more money left over. Most of the skilled workers earn $100 to $150 a month. All workers can if they want to, obtein food at workers’ dining rooms. Their meals cost from 30 cents up. Write me, please, about the workers’ lives, about your town, Newark, nature, and especially how the unemployed live. That is an enigma for us Russian workers. the Home ved BY LUKE that some time we shall be with- out work, and starve. That makes us very happy. We are masters of our lives, and have full security from crisis. Greetings to your family. PETER W. NIKIFOROV. My address is Blagoveschensky Works, Bashkiriya Republic Ufa, Comrades who wish to do so may write to Comrade Nikiforov. To- morrow or next day we'll speak about living expenses here, and “how live the unemployed. Can You Make Yourself? Pattern 1798 is available in sizes 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12. Size 6 takes 2 yards 36-inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions included. "Em Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c.) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style Is it so, that at present the crisis | number. BE SURE TO STATE We do not fear | SIZE. is not so acute? *A kilogram is about two and Address orders to Daily Worker one-fifth pounds, Pattern Department, 248 West 17th Street, New York City. 1 Workers Force Some Concessions (By a Food Worker Correspondent) LAKEWOOD, N. J.—I am workng in Lakewood, the paradise where the guests and tourists eat the best and sleep in clean warm rooms, while the employees, who make the best foods, eat food not fit for the garbage can and sleep in cellars full of coal gas, damp and poorly venti- lated. Besides that—the employees are underpaid and over-worked; threat- ened and even framed into jail. We've had cases where workers were jailed by the (dis)honorable judge because they refused to go to work under the existing condi- tions. I’ve also been here since the hotel workers went out on a gen- eral strike in Lakewood and now a temporary injunction has been placed over the strikers’ heads. The Jews accuse Hitler of being a bloody beast; what about the Jewish employers of Lakewood who hired the deputies to suppress the strike? However, the solidarity of the workers here forced the release of the arrested strikers. The strike in itself is not yet a complete victory, but a union was formed and the bosses, fearing the union, have conceded somewhat better conditions. Better food, sleeping quarters, one day off every week, etc. These concessions were not granted by the bosses because they've developed a brotherly love for their employees, but because they're afraid that the next strike will not be settled by any injunc- tions. A weakness of the strike was the “Red Scare.” Many members and loyal workers were drawn from the United Front because they still had hopes that arbitration with the em- ployers and the N.R.A. would result in a settlement agreeable to em- ployer and employee. Now the role of the N.R.A. as a strike-breaking factor has opened the eyes of those who believed in conciliation and the role of the C. P. as a leader for their benefit has demonstrated that victory will be gained only through mass action. NEGRO WOMAN DEMANDS RELIEF (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) OXFORD, Miss—This is to let you know how the government treats the Negroes. A woman went to the government Saturday to see if she could get something for a one-legged woman. She signed up three weeks ago and hasn't got \anything yet. She told them that she was going to write to Uncle Sam this morn- ing. This is what they said, “Don’t do that, you might get in trouble about it.” But the last words she | said was she is going to write to Uncle Sam Monday morning. Letters from EASLEY ON THE WAR PATH New York City. It seems that Ralph Easley, the professional red-baiter, is on the job again. Initiating a new red scare sponsored by the Hearst sheets, he moans that the “N.S.L. and Y.C.L. are secretly connected and are mis- leading the American youth.” The “misleading” consists of demanding the abolition of the R.O.T.C. and the turning over of war funds to the unemployed in order to “Make the nation defenseless in time of an armed revolt.” | Easley attempts to make this ar- ticles sound like a friendly warn- ling to parents not to allow their | children to join an organization | which is in any way affiliated with |the Young Communist Interna- tional “because it takes its orders | direct from Moscow.” His articles, | however, are no simple admonition | to the parents, but can only be in- iterpreted as a signal for the com- |mencement of a vicious drive against all revolutionary youth or- ganizations in America, counter- parts of which can be found in Cuba and other Wall Street-con- trolled colonies. Why are the powers of Wall Stret afraid of a strong mass move- ment among the youth in the schools and colleges of America? They are afraid of us because they have seen what has taken place in Cuba and other colonies under the yoke of Yankee imperialism. They have seen that the students can and will help lead the struggle against oppression, and they realize that a well organized American youth can do the same, when and if the need arises. Despite Mr. Easley’s red-scare the revolutionary youth groups are growing by leaps and bounds, and will continue growing till we are powerful enough to smash the sys- tem for which Easley, Ham Fish and Hearst and company are some of the chief lackeys. Forward to a broader and more powerful Youth Movement! EUGENE COHAN, (Signature authorized). ATTENTION COMRADE W. SLEIP Chicago, Til. Comrade W. Sleip: Since you did not send an ad- dress, we cannot answer you per- sonally. We want to say, however, that if you would read the “Daily Worker” every day you would find literally “pages full” of C. W. A. news, on the firing of workers, con- ditions on the job, etc. The item you mention in your letter ap- peared in the March 12th issue of the “Daily Worker,” on pages 1 and 2, under the caption “Fired C. W. A. Men to Be Kept From Relief List.” EDITORIAL DEPT. Our Readers | JAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1934 Union Members Terro (By a Food Worker Correspondent) | NEWARK, N. J.—I have been| reading your paper for the last ten | | days. I like it very much. i | Today I was reading the speech of “our” President Roosevelt. He | mentioned quite a few times that we | are “free to choose,” I am a cafeteria worker in one of the Jersey City cafeterias. Last August about 200 restaurant and cafeteria workers of Hudson County organized into an independent union (National Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Organization). | The bosses’ association from the very beginning started to use every | dirty means to break our union.| They did not succeed. Brother Cleron, the organizer, led two strikes | here against wage cuts and firings. | Both strikes were settled in favor of the workers. Our union was growing. The bosses did not like) it. So they decided to smash the | union. They went to the police and made a complaint that our organizer | is a Communist and that he must | leave Jersey City. | The police and detectives closed jour union office. They ordered | Brother Cleron to leave Jersey City. He refused to quit us. So the po- lice of Jersey City invented a good scheme how to bulldoze every mem- ber of the union. They ordered every waiter to report to the police in the police headquarters. They told us that we must rid ourselves of this guy Cleron because he is a Communist, and the police of Jer- sey City wouldn't stand for no Com- munists in Jersey City. We were finger printed and had our Pic- | tures sealed on the permit. We were told that we must become} American citizens if we want to| work as waiters in Jersey City. This trick of the police worked on some of the members. They said Cleron is very good for our union but the police wouldn’t let him help us. We elected a committee and went to the police headquarters to investigate why Brother Cleron is not allowed to help us to get | better conditions. | On March Ist I received a notice calling for a membership meeting. Friday night, March 2nd, was the night set for the meeting. I told some more members to come to the meeting. When we reached the hall we found four police at the entrance and about half a dozen detectives. ‘The meeting opened. Brother Millas reported for the committee. He said that the police told the committee | Militant Organizer, and Then Restaurants : Announce Wage Reductions. Jersey City Police Mobilized to Clear Way tor Wage Cut by Cafet ‘Lakewood Food rized Into Giving Up| | that “you have a free choice. Keep Cleron and we smash the union or have a union without Cleron.” The} members against their will, voted for another organizer. | It is not yet a week and the restaurant bosses of Jersey City an- nounced a wage cut from $3 to $5 per week. My boss called every worker to a meeting and he said: “Any one who does not like the way I run my business and the wages I am paying, he is free to choose. Accept my conditions or go out of my place.” Every restaurant worker under- stands now who was behind the move that Brother Cleron should | leave Jersey City. Wileox Rich Co. Men Told to Return All Pay for Over 40 Hours (By a Worker Correspondent) BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The workers of the Wilcox Rich Co. are being asked to pay back all the money they earned over 40 hours. This is urged by the State. That is, all that has been earned from November to July. Surely, this is an outrage, that workers who earn- ed a little more must pay it back. This is what the N.R.A. has done for workers who earned something. But it surely hasn’t done anything for workers who haven't worked more than three hours a day. | been asking eria Bosses Janitor Lives In Black Hole; Tied to’ Job All the Time (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I live with a jani- tor, and I notice that he works 24 hours a day, because janitors are not organized. They live in houses with old stoves in the cellars to make steam. The landlord will not put a bet- ter stove in. Every hour the jani- tor has to run down to fix the fire, day and night. The coal that the agency supplies is the cheapest dust, and ruins the janitor’s health with so much dust. For two years the janitor has to have his rooms painted. The walls are as black as charcoal. He has to take care of 30 apart- ments, making steam, cleaning and dragging out garbage. Just figure how much work a man is doing for 71 cents a day. Living in a stable. Even cattle are living better. I wish the Daily Worker can tell how janitors can be organized to demand a living wage. The jani- tors are entitled to a better break. Let’s get together and help them get out of slavery. + 8 Editor's Note:—We want to in- form the comrade that sent in this letter that there is an or- ganization of janitors and ail building maintenance workers. This is the Building Maintenance Workers League, Room 238, 799 Broadway. The comrade should approach this janitor and others vith whom he comes in contact to join up with this organization. Chicago Stockyards Y.C.L. Writes to Editor’s Note:—A letter (which is pubiished in part below) has been sent by a Chicago stockyard unit of the Young Communist League to a group of young stockyard workers in the Soviet Union, The letter has been for- warded to the Soviet Union, and the reply will be published in the Daily Worker. CHICAGO, Ill—We are a group of Y.C.L. members working in the stockyards of Chicago, the largest stockyards in the world, exposed and made famous in the “Jungle” of Upton Sinclair. The workers in the stockyards I WO Branches Meet for Social Insurance Prepare United By MAX BEDACHT The preparations for a speedy ex- tension of the fraternal united front for social insurance are progressing everywhere. All branches and city organizations of the International Workers Order are preparing for united front conferences to organize a broad mass campaign. In New York the general con- ference of dele- gates from fra- ternal bodies is called for April 22. At that con- ference plans will be discussed and adopted for the carrying of the campaign to the masses of workers. All participating fraternal organizations will be mo- bilized for the carrying out of the campaign. To make the general conference @ success all of our sections and branches must canvass within their territory all fraternal organizations with proletarian membership. Wher- ever bourgeois or social fascist lead- ers of fraternal organizations resist the growth of the united front for social insurance, the demand for the support of H.R. Bill 7598 must be | made the rallying point of the work- |ers into a left wing. Let us in the next few months make the support of H.R. Bill 7598 the most important issue in all fra- ternal organizations with proletarian membership. par aes Build the Order Some comrades wrongly believe that in centering attention on the creation of a broad mass movement for social insurance we necessarily neglect the building of our Order. In reality the Order has an unpar- alleled opportunity to establish it- self in the minds of the working masses by being an outstanding champion of H.R. Bill 7598. It is in championing such measures that our Order can and must prove its quality as a class struggle organiza- tion. It is our activity in such struggles as that for unemployment and social insurance that we show the workers at large the difference between our proletarian fraternal- ism and the mystic and treacherous phrase-mongering of bourgeois fra- ternalism. A systematic campaign for social insurance among the millions of American workers in fraternal or- ganizations will make the Interna- tional Workers Order the center of gravity for all masses of workers who look for a fraternal organiza- tion to join, or who are losing con- fidence in the bourgeois fraternal organizations to which they now belong. ER oe See .W.0. Growth Continues That the campaign for social in- surance does not interfere with the growth of the Order is decisively proven by the continuous influx of middle of January we have ceased making special membership cam- paign efforts and have concentrated on preparations for the struggle for social insurance, yet during the seven weeks since the end of the campaign we have taken in an aver- age of 429 new members per week. During the same period we took in a total of 769 children. On March Ist we entered a new campaign to build the English, Youth and Children’s Sections. The first week in March showed the re- sponse to this campaign. 123 mem- bers were taken into the English- speaking branches in the week from | March 5th to 12th. Youth Campaign Weak The growth of the Youth Section does not seem to be influenced very much by campaigns. It is equally bad in and out of campaigns. The first campaign for the Youth Sec- tion only brought in 12 new mem- bers. This is a testimony to inac- tivity of the Youth branches on one hand and inattention to the build-! ing of the Youth Section by the adult branches on the other. Here, too, we must learn that the struggle for social insurance can be a base for mass recruiting of young workers. It is a base for political education of our own Youth Sec- tion. It gives us a chance to make our Youth Section carry on propa-| ganda among the masses of young workers and thus make these young | workers acquainted with the exis-| tence and functioning of our Youth Section. oh ee Intensify Duss Collections With the end of the first quarter of this year the problem arises again of more intensive work to maintain the members in the ranks of our International Workers Order. Experience has shown us that some branch secretaries act in too formal- istic a manner toward .the mem- bers. They are satisfied to decide on suspesion just because a postal card inviting the member to a mest- ing for the payment of dues is not answered. We must concern our- selves much more with our mem- bers. We must propagandize them. ‘We must acquaint ourselves with their situation. Wherever the situ- ation warrants, we must try to help them. Wherever a member is able to maintain his membership, we must try to convince him that he should maintain it. We must draw our members into our activities around the campaign for social in- surance. This requires much work. The Secretary cannot carry the burden of this work all by himself. Other members of the branch must help. In fact, the Secretary must mobi- lize them to help. At any rate, every branch should make it a point to be achieved, to eliminate all sus pensions. Wherever they cannot eliminate all of them, they at least should be able to say that they have Soviet Youth here were put on a 40-hour basis, which means that they were sup- posed to work not more than 40 hours a week, and if they did not work 40 hours during the week, they still would get paid for 40 hours of work. But that proved impractical for the bosses because many work- ers did not get 40 hours work a week, so they dispensed with the 40 hour wage guarantee. A small raise was given, from 22% to 37% cents for the women workers and 42% to 46% cents for the men. A strike sentiment developed and the men squeezed another 10 per cent wage increase out of the packers. But even with these supposed in- creases in wages, we workers in reality got a cut, because prices went up much faster and higher than our wages. And out of these “princely” wages we are forced to pay 35 cents for men and 25 cents for women a week for group insurance, which we do not get any benefit from whatso- ever, because, before we work long enough to actually get hurt and to prove it was the company’s fault, we are fired and a new group of workers taken on. The companies here are supposed to give workers vacations with pay—after five years of steady work (women after three years). But so many workers are fired and then re-hired that few ever attain a full five-year stretch of work. Now, after all the compulsory ex- tractions from our pay envelopes, the besses still draw 3 per cent of our wages out for a pension fund. The girls working on the casings stand under the machinery used to run the steam through the plant, and have oil and water dripping on their heads all day. There is an inadequate platform overhead. Many of them wear rubber bathing caps to keep their heads dry. The water used in washing the casings always gathers on the cold cement. floor, and rheumatism results, even with the protection of rubber boots which the girls have to buy them- selves. The room has no yentila- tion and is stuffy. Doors are con- tinually being opened into the cool- ers, which causes drafts of cold air to blow in on the sweating girls. We impatiently await your reply, which we hope will start a long, in- teresting and mutually helpful cor- respondence. Chicago South Side Reformer Refuses to Help Scottsboro Boys (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO Il—The South Side Negro reformers have begun to carry ové their primary election campaign. Oscar De Priest, Re- publican South Side leader, who selects the candidates for the pri- maries, is es usual coming out with beautiful phrases. Dawson, alderman of the second ward, made a speech in which he tried to give himself credit for cleaning up the alleys, which the C.W.A. hes done. He says he is the best friend of the Negro race, but he did not mention anything about the nine Scottsboro boys, or about the misery and poverty of the South Side. One worker asked him if he as a member of the city council he would draw up a resolution in the inter- ests of the nine Scottsboro boys, but he answered, “I cannot do it. I would mess myself up.” Dawson was among the Negro reformers who lined up with Sop- kins in the Sopkins dress strike, and tried to get the workers to go back for miserable wages. Mr. Dawson claims he is a member of the police commission. He did not try to stop the police from attacking the strik- ers and is responsible for clubbing the workers on the picket line. We workers of the South Side must carry out the broadest cam- paign against the primary elections. and boycott the voting and put for- reduced suspensins to the irreducible new members. Although since the minimy ward our working class candidate and elect them to the city hall PARTY LIFE A Basic Task: Negro Workers in the Shops to Organize Detroit Ford Concentration Units Intensify Drive for Negro Foundry Workers By J. B., (Detroit, Mich.) Our main concentration of the | Party in District 7 is the Ford Mo- tor Company. The Negroes in the Black Belt on the East Side of De- troit, at the present time, approxi- mately, between 4.000 and 5,000 are employed in the Ford Motor Com- pany in River Rouge plant. The majority of these Negro workers live on the East Side of Detroit, the concentration area for Negro work in the Party. The ma- jority of these Nesro workers are employed in the foundries, where they face the most brutal speed-up system in the auto indus a terrific speed: are in danger, minute of the day. Three workers, two white workers and one Negro worker, were killed in the foundry due to the speed-up when a “cuaploaw” exploded Sun- day, Feb. 18, due to the rotten con- ditions that exist among the foundry workers, It is quite evident that the Ford Motor Co, realizes the grow- ing unrest of Negroes and white workers. In the foundry they are attempting to organize a com- pany union to prevent them from organizing into the Auto Workers Union, What attempts have we made to organize these workers in the Ford factory? At present time we could register two Negro workers in the Party in the Ford plant. Very little effort was made to organize the Negro workers into the Auto Work- ers Union, or bring them into the Party. Have we issued a special leaflet for Negro workers in the Ford plant explaining our position on the Ne- gro question, on our support to the Auto Workers Union, in its pro- gram against discrimination and for better living conditions for Negro workers. It is the Party which is to carry out a campaign in the shops and neighborhoods, raising the grievances in the shops and homes, to expose the Negro reformist lead- ers and their agents in the Ford Motor Company, such as Marshall (their attempt to induce Negro workers to join the A. F. of L. unions), who keeps them separated from the white workers by telling them of the Jim-Crow, not to join the unions. This can be accomplished by a systematic campaign of recruiting Negroes into the Party by conduct- ing struggles in the neighborhoods, against discrimination and for re- lief, by organizing clubs, conduct- ing study class, lectures and sym- posiums, to enlighten the Negro workers on our program of the revolutionary movement. c Hallet Mega THE PLAGUE OF SECTARIANISM Sectarianism is a cancer on the body of our Party which retards its growth and development. Be- cause this disease is deep-rooted in the Party and manifests itself in a number of ways under the disguise of Simen-Pure-Commu- nism, it is necessary to fight it at all times. You may classify this as pre- convention discussion or general discussion, but we must always bear in mind that sectarianism is detri- mental to our movement. Here is a typical case. And I am stating this every not merely to criticize some of our [comrades, but to prevent its nepe- tition in our Party. For the past two months I have {been conducting a class in Marx- |ism-Leninism. There are about 25 jin the class, most of them profes- sionals and all of them non-party members. They are all sympathetic to dhe movement and contribute to the Party in a number of ways. As a result of my activities in that group, some of them are now ac- tively participating in the work of the Provisional Committee for the Sustai ig Fund for the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and |three of them have made applica- tions to join the Party. They ex- pressed a strong desire to be pres- ent at a ur meeting, although they still didn’t get their Party books. Last week I invited them to a unit meeting. I notified the organizer of my unit in advance about this invitation through a comrade in my unit. Tuesday night I came to the unit meeting earlier than usual to take up the procedure and the conduct of the meeting so as to give it the proper atmosphere for the new- comers. I was shocked when the organizer informed me that the bureau decided not to allow these comrades to remain at this meet- ing. The Agitprop Director of the unit, an old Party member and a developed comrade, argued that be- cause they didn’t as yet get their books and because this was not an open unit meeting, I had no right to invite them. Meanwhile these three new comrades came im and took their seats. I quietly argued with the bureau that I would as- sume responsibility for these com- rades. I have been in the Party for so many years (a charter member) and they may trust me that T wouldn’t do anything to injure the Party. I insisted that they allow these comrades to remain and then prefer charges against me for vio- lating the “imaginary” Party disci- pline. The Agitprop Director of the unit insisted that this was against the Party rules and that he would en- force Party discipline. He would take the floor and ask these com- rades to leave. The organizer agreed with him. I insisted on using common sense; he argued the point of discipline. It was a tense moment for me, I pictured to my- self the reaction of these new com- rades to a cold reception of this na- ture. They might be driven from the Party for good. I resorted to a tactic that the district sanctioned my invitation and this kept the re- luctant bureau in check for the time being. We carried through a fine meet- ing. The new comrades contributed liberally to the Red-Press Banquet, bought quite a bit of literature and one of them even participated in the discussion on the 13th Plenum Resolution. If this is not a case of secta- rianism, then I don’t know what sectarianism is. Discipline in our Party—yes. But to hide under the phrase of discipline the chasing of workers from our ranks, is criminal. I have no doubt that the bureau didn’t mean to harm the Party. But this is just the reason I am writing this, instead of preferring charges against them. UNIT 13, SECTION 1. advises: By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Compressed Air or Caisson Disease This article is in answer to in- quiries from Mike Bulizik, Vancou- ver, B. C. and from D. R. M., Easton, Pa., and George T., Jacksonville, Fla., who have asked several ques- tions regarding compressed air disease, or as it is commonly called, the “bends.” The painful symptoms which develop among workers in mines, tunnels, subways, and those working under water, are due to the effect of the pressure of the com- pressed air. The excess pressure in the air forces the atmospheric gases into the blood and tissues, until the pressure in the body and tissues becomes even with that of the sur- rounding air. Every thirty feet of depth in which the worker finds himself, adds one atmosphere of pressure. Thus in the case of I \> Bulizik, you were working under a pressure of about eight atmospheres. When the worker comes to the surface, the air in the tissues es- capes rapidly and if this happens teo suddenly, it produces those ter- ribly excruciating pains in the joints and muscles, causing the patient to bend violently, hence the common name of the disease; often the ear- drum ruptures and headache, as well as dizziness, deevlops and may con- tinue for a long time, even after the worker has given up his job. While working under pressure, the respiration becomes slow and deep. The heart beat also slows down. The voice often changes and pain in the ear is often present, which may be relieved by the swallowing of air with the open mouth. This forces some air into the eustachian tube which communicates with the middle ear and equalizes the pres- sure on the inside of the ear-drum. Besides the symptoms described above, some workers who come up too quickly from the depths in which they are working, suffer from nose-bleeds, severe abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea, and sometimes be~ come unconscious. Many cases have been reported in which intestinal hemorrhages have taken place caus- ing death or paralysis. This 4s known as diver’s palsy. (To Be Continued.) Over 7,000 workers came to our thousands to come to this sale? now going on at all Workers Book Shops starting today up to Saturday. March 31st. Some of the specials are: HISTORY OF THE WORKING CLASS . LENIN by Fox TOWARD SOVIET TO MAKE MY BREAD... CAPITAL in Lithographs , CAPITAL by Marx last sale. Will you be one of the The 20 to 50% discount sale is AMERICAN AMERICA. And Many More At WORKERS BOOK SHOPS, 50 Kast 13th Street 27 Hudson St., Yonkers, N. Y.; 699 Prospect Ave., Bronx, N. Xt: 2075 Clinton Ave., Bronx, N. Y.; 62 Herzl St. (Coop. Barber Shop); 4012 8th Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 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