The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1934 1.W.O. Must Establish Central | Terrific Speed-Up AF'L Helps the Kick-Back Miami Restaurant Base Among Negro Workers Concentrate on Harlem, Chicago Black Belt and the South To become fraternal organi- n working mal Workers its central native American sent campaign for English section is steps toward one of the this en work S$ a most The Negro m percentage of n workers. The orga: in our of the on among mpor- our Ne: Central st give to agitation and organiz among the Ne- gro masses. This work requires the collective efforts of all sections of the Order. It requies special mo- bilization of all active forces of the ora ional Executive Commit- ssued special propaganda folders for work in the Negro sec- tions; these folders can be secured free of charge. A systematic house- to-house distribution of this folder sections, followed with| e-to-house canvasses, must be} hou: organized by volunteer members of | the Order. To mobilize these volun- | teers and to organize and systema- tize their work is the duty of the ding committees of the Order. The National Executive Commit- tee decided that as part of our ef- the Negro masses into pecial organization work done in the South. Ac- an organizer was sent a result of the work of | our Order has now hh branches in| smouth, Norfolk and | The response to our | lization work, especially among | egro workers in these southern | hows the tremendous pos-| ities our Order has for growth | expansion as the fraternal ie most exploited masses of American workers. | rk in the Harlem territory of York and the Black Belt of ago has begun. However, it is 1 very weak. It is the work of a few volunteers. It is not y ncentrated effort of the| whole city organizations of the Or- de Instead of a dozen comrades | *pezttiqour eq ysnut spezpuny ‘Mou sz | Instead of a few individual mem- | of the Order, all branches, all committees and the City (Central. Committees of New York | and Chicago must make the work | in the Harlem Section in New York | and on the South Side of Chicago | their major task. ‘The National Executive Commit- tee has , purposely confined the major ac in the next few months to s As 3 organizer, and Order of t ies the general situation lately that we | have been neglecting to feed our} What with food prices ad- 5 20 per cent in the last year, | ther optimistic to talk about! but soupbones. Risotto -Peel and cut in pieces four small tomatoes and two or three onions. (Use canned tomatoes when fresh | are too dear.) | Brown lightly in fat. If you can} acquire a quarter-pound of mush- rgoms, cut them fine and put them in, too. When browned, transfer to saucepan or casserole, add one cup d rice, salt, pepper and three cups hot stock. (Plain broth from | bones will do.) Bring to boil, then transfer to hot oven and bake 15 minutes. It may be stirred occa- sionally, and may require a few minutes’ more baking, especially if brown rice be used. (The rule is siMply three times as much stock as rice; the other ingredients may vary.) Serve with grated cheese. Comrade Bonita sends the follow- ing recipe, and incidentally the price of peanuts also took a leap when the blue buzzard flapped its wings—they used to be a dime a pound, now you only get 10 ounces, i Peanut Cookies Cream together one cup of short- ening and two cups sugar; add three beaten eggs and mix well. ‘Then add, again mixing well, 44 cup peanut butter, one cup peanuts (in halves), three cups flour sifted in with one tsp. soda and half tsp. salt. When ingredients are well blended, roll out and cut with cut- ter°or make into loaf, chill well, and slice thinly, baking cookies on lightly greased tins 10 to 15 min- utes in moderately hot oven. This makes a hundred small cookies. Keep in covered stone jar. Comrade Rose S. suggests a “salad for those who do not like onions; chopped celery and hard- boiled eggs. Chop celery fine and then add eggs (about equal amounts) and chop again. Add oil or other fat and salt to taste.” She says further: “We use beets in the following manner: peel a bunch of beets and cut in halves. Cook in medium-sized pan filled | with water. When beets are done, add lemon juice, salt, and a bit of sugar to taste; drain beets, and add putter if desired, for side dish. The liqtid, when cold, makes a delicious ything By MAX BEDACHT ~ | geois KS/ poisons are not counteracted and|them that they have a right to the! conditions of the waiters: Pro- | killed only by propaganda speeches. | wages that men used to get for the | waiter and w: ables us to conce forces. We must carry t is con- centration by doing eve ing hin our power to mobilize the last outh and children’s branches, especially in the Negro sections of the cities. To ca: ugh this concentra- tion work ecially in the Negro section is a piece of concrete propa- ganda work. By this kind of work we will really actively combat the) poison of white chauvinism. Bour- | influences and ideological y to draw the work- | participation in the | It is necessa: into ac rs learn the poisonous char- of bourgeois ideology. It is| in this work that the workers them- selves will learn to make efforts to cleanse their conceptions from bourgeois influences. The last week saw a slight im- provement in the campaign to build the Youth Section. Fifty new members was the total for the week. However, only 13 out of the| 85 youth branches recruited new | members. | An adult Slovak branch has set} an example well worth following. | With a membership of only 27, the Baltimore adult Slovak branch or- ganized a youth branch of 12 mem- bers. Of these, nine are young steel workers, bakers, etc. This is what we mean by adult cooperation in winning young workers for the I.W.O. Every adult branch can co- operate in the building of the Youth Section. Discuss the youth question in the branch; follow with a reg- istration of members whose chil- dren are eligible for the Youth Sec- tion (intermediate ages 16-18 and seniors ages 18-25). Many of our adult members work in factories side by side with young workers. These young workers can be recruited into the Youth Section. Guidance to Youth Branches Every adult branch, city commit- tee and city central committee should elect a special committee to meet with the youth branch in their territory for joint activity in stim- ulating the drive. The existing youth branches need the guidance and leadership of our experienced adult comrades. Our adult comrades can become a factor in heJping the youth branches in solving problems of headquarters, etc., which today stand in the way of the develop- ment of the necessary youth activity —-sports, etc. Many adult branches have youth members on their rolls, These youth members are not drawn into the life of the I.W.O. and remain in- surance members. We want to draw these youth into the life of the I.W.O., to give them the ad- vantages of a proletarian education and draw them actively into the struggle for their needs. To do this, we should transfer them to youth branches where such exist, or make these youth in adult branches the In Loose-Wiles Biscuit Plant |By a Food Worker Correspondent CONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y—l, |a Latin speaking worker who works in the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co. | would like to analyze our work. We work under the pressure of ter- | rific speed-up and low wages. Some- | even though there is no more work. | When we ask the boss if we can} join a union, he reminds us of the girls who work until their hands | bleed because they have to. He| does not need us, he says. | Two years ago men got good wages for what these girls do. We try to get the girls to join the union on the basis of telling | same labor. | We are organizing the union in-| Workers’ Industrial Union. Distillery Plant — Shutdown Breaks | Another Illusion (By a Worker Correspondent) | TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The| Roosevelt chameleon “Prosperity” has changed its color again, this time to poverty blue. At least 100 workers lost their jobs at the local distillery plant of the Commercial Solvents Corp.,| when it suspended operations re- |cently for an indefinite period. This plant had been boosted in propaganda about the expected del- uge of business following the re- peal of the 18th amendment. | The press now is playing the po- |litical game of appealing to mass prejudice, pointing to the im- portance of Cuban “Black Strap” | molasses, a cheaper commodity for | distillation of alcoholic spirits than ‘the grain alcohol fermentation pro- cess, and blaming this industry for the failure of the local plant. | Lengthy feature articles are being run under the captions of “The | Middle-West Pays Again — Federal Decree Cripples Farmers,” urging | the workers and farmers to protest | this supposed injustice, lamenting | the loss of a potential grain market | linked with the decrease in em- ployment, hiding the real cause of the shutdown, overproduction and the inability of the poorly paid workers to purchase the products of their labor. The lie was given the whole story in a press dispatch ad- mission that this same company operates three “Black Strap” mo- lasses distilling units; two in Louts- | jana and one in California. Then there is the fact that the Cuban cane fields and the distilling units in this country, inclusive of the local plant, are all owned and operated by the same gang of bank- ers, N. J. Crosby. (Signature Au’ horized) AN EGG VICTORY | (From a Worker Correspondent) SYRACUSE, N. Y.—On the CWA | project here every family was given | eggs and butter. About three weeks ecial work to build the| basis for buliding new youth g section, This en- | branches. Cones led BY HELEN LUKE one te ve, Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1806 is available in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 434 yards 39 inch fabric and 54 yrd 2 inch lace. Illustrated step- by-step sewing instructions included. $| S ie Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c.) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly mame, address and_ style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th drink, like wine.” * | Street, New York Cit~ ago, however, they wanted to dump a load of eggs in the Hiawatha |dump in Syracuse. There were |many workers there who saw this | and took sticks and told the others that if they broke the eggs, they, the workers, would break their heads. The workers chased the | other men away and took the eggs home. Letters from Our Readers | | | NO RELIEF FOR JOBLESS WORK- ER BECAUSE HE’S SINGLE Long Branch, N. J. I am a young man 24 years old. Unemployed for the last year and a half. In desperation I applied for work on the Public Works. They asked me about a hundred ques- tions, but I shail only mention the most pertinent or impertinent, any one will be correct. “Are you keep- ing company with a girl?” I answered, “What would I be doing with a girl when I can’t even support myself?” “Have you a family to support, a mother or father?” Not having any, they positively told me that they could not give me a job, especially when they heard where I lived on Potter Ave. “What? Why that’s a colored section! What are you doing there?” “Well, I answered, “They were the only ones that gave me a bed to sleep in, and food to eat, which is more than you are willing to do.” Finally they referred me to the American Legion. Arriving at the’ American Legion they also gave me a questionnaire with a legion of questions in them. A repetition of what happened previously, except that they said, “What, staying with Negroes, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. I bet you're a Red.” Again, not having a wife to starve with me, or a mother and father, they could do nothing for me, but they re- ferred me to the Welfare Board. At the Welfare Board the same procedure. Potter Avenue. Living in a Negro’s home, single, etc. So they gave me a little lecture on the duties of a good American and told me to join the Army. That is how they solve the unemployed problem. But we workers have another solu- tion and that is Fight for Unem- ployment Insurance, and for Soviet America, * Comradely yours, A Young Worker. Long Branch, N. J. NEWS ABOUT RUSSIA AN INSPIRATION Comrade Editor: Please keep Sovief Russia’s news in our paper as it is an inspiration Graft in Steuben Tavern P Waiters Fired If They Don’t Hand Back 50 Cents | A Day of The ir NRA Wages | (By a Worker Correspondent) , days when a waiter makes less than | ay $5 Per Week (By a Worker Correspondent) MIAMI, Fla.—Of all the non- union towns, Miami is the worst. This is appallingly true during the NEW YORK—In New York City, | $1 in tips but he must pay 50 cents | winter, especially in the restaurant there is a chain of restaurants . i |called Steuben Tavern. When the} ce of energy to build English, | times we must stay in the building | Ra was born the American Fed- | eration of Labor organized these restaurants, that is, they organized the waiters and no one else. Here is a graphic picture of conditions in these restaurants. Dishwashers get $12 a week. $40 a week get here $25 a week and less. | just the same. | An additional 50 cents a day is| taken off the wages for meals which | jare rotten. They also take off one hour each day from your time card for eat-} ing your meal. For talking on the} | floor, they fire you or they lay you| off for a week. | The tablecloths are seldom wash- | |Cooks that get elsewhere $30 and|eq. They are put on the table and folded at night and put on the next day. Every tablecloth is filthy, | jto 15 a day, 7 day line. It is not an uncommon occur- rence to find young men working for $5 a week, with he from 12 a week, That there is plenty of work to be found in Miami is true but that working conditions here are un- believably disgraceful is also true. Fellows move from one job to another, after working at each aj day or so. They all hope to i nd And the following are the union| but they are of a red and white|® job which is half way decent, i aitress must join the union and pay an initiation fee of “ $20 and $3 a month for the privi- | to build workers organiza-|side the factory and would like} loge of working | carry out working class| everyone of you to be a militant/ waiters and wa: In these practices the|member of this union, the Food| here is the trick: The wages for the tresses are NRA, but Each waiter and waitress must pay day kickback money. to pay, out yuo go. If you refuse There are 50 cents each | dirt. | On the sign outside it says that a force o buy a glass of beer for | 10 cents. If you don’t like beer you are charged for it j the same. | The NRA and the A. F, of L. unions ually made slaves | of the restaurant workers. Ss. (By a CWA Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I am one of the CWA workers, Project 52. I did census work for four months, They changed my wages about 4 times. My last, and highest, wages were | $20.64 a week. Last Friday, March 9, thousands of CWA workers were supposed to be discharged. When my turn came, Mr. McManus at 154 E. 68th St., said to me, “All I have is lunch room work; washing dishes and scrubbing tables for $13.44 a week, 5 hours work, hard labor work.” I told Mr. McManus that I never did it before, I can’t do this work. So he said, “If you don’t want it, I have to drop you off the list.” So— with tears in my eyes, I said, “Yes” | otherwise, if I had refused, I would have starved. I was then transferred to a school in the Bronx. The job is not only feeding every day 300 children in our school—no, it is mostly washing dishes, and they won't give me any rags for washing them. I am sup- posed to use my hands for this, and to scrub tables. I protest against this. I want my clerical work back; or nursing. old, Catholic, had a Convent School education, six years in Vienna, also two years training in nursing, medi- cal, surgical and maternity and one year Commercial Secretarial School in Vienna. I know stenography, typing, bookkeeping, nursing, can handle a switch-board, I speak four foreign languages and I have a knowledge of music. I do not un- derstand, with my education, why Mr. McManus didn’t give me any- thing better. I am a resident of the United States for 14 years, also a citizen. I am all alone in New York City and I have a lot of debts to pay. Before I started at the CWA, I Years of Edison Lead | toCWA Dishwashing Job I was born in Paris, am 33 years | ues two years out of work, but, between I worked two to three weeks on special private nursing 24 hour duty, for $25 a week. My nerves are not so strong any more and I can’t do 24 hour duty in nursing any more. I wrote a letter to McManus last Thursday. He is an assistant di- rector. I wanted to be put back on clerical work again, but he didn’t |answer my letter. Today I tele-| phoned him and asked him the| | Same question but he said, “No,” in ja bad voice and hung up on me.| |Today I wrote a letter to DeLa-| | mater. If I wouldn't have been so bad | j off, I would have refused that kind of work, but I have a lot of debts to pay, no bank account, no insur- ance, no relatives or anything. I am not lazy; I want to work but I am just not used to do this kind of work. Also, they are supposed to give us meals, The lunch, I call it slop. What I take is only bread—whole | wheat, because everything else is| |slop. Maybe you would give me a |little advice what to do? I am a |mew member of the Professional Emergency Employes. They tell me e write to Col DeLamater, so I | ‘id. Editorial Note: Only through mass organization and action can the conditions of discrimination and exploitation in the CWA be! remedied. We advise all workers to get in touch with the Relief Workers League, 29 E. 20th St., New York City. Workers from other cities writing to this main office will be put in touch with the local office in their city. New York workers should call at the office |and a delegation will be sent to the | CWA office to force action on their case. Tate Mich. So Into a Forced Labor Hell ldiers’ Home By a War Veteran MICHIGAN SOLDIERS’ HOME, Grand Rapids, Mich—I have writ- ten a few letters to the Daily Worker and sent some newspaper clippings concerning Grand Rap- ids, but never wrote about the Michigan Soldiers’ Home. The Michigan Soldiers’ Home takes care of about 400 people, men and women, all veterans of the Civil War, Spanish and World War. You must be disabled or in age to be eligible to be a member of the Home. For the past two years the Home authorities or Michigan state poli- ticians treated the inmates fair, ex- cept the paid help. Some civilians and some members of the Home got cuts in their wages of 40 per cent. Civilians getting $65 a month are (now receiving $45 a month. Mem- bers of the Home received $30 a month; and now receive $18 a month. Kitchen and dining room help must be on the job at 5:30 in the morning and work till seven in the evening, with no day off ex-| cept a couple of hours between meals and one afternoon each week. Now, since President Roosevelt and the Economy League took over the political machine, things are getting worse for the ex-servicemen day by day. Nor are the brutal/ Politicians satisfied with labor and slavery. A week ago they made a rule that all members under 50 years old must work three hours a day without pay, no excuse for disability or sickness. If they ro- fuse, they get thrown out of the Home to freeze or starve to death, Comrade Editor, the brutal forces of the capitalist class are getting so vicious that even disabled and sick ex-servicemen are put in servi- tude. They took away the few dol- lars we received in compensation and force us to work three hours a day without pay. I don’t know how long I will be able to stand their brutality and abuse, as I suffer of shattered nerves and other ailments, U. S. Employment Buro Sends Painter to Job Paying 31 Cents An Hr. (By a Worker Correspondent) card to go to the Statler Hotel here, to work as a painter. This hotel offered him 31 cents an hour. This above place happens to house the Democratic headquarters. The job office that sent him there is Employment Office, City Hall. This hotel takes $1 of your pay for the doctor. copy off the new press, so give us some news about the same. eer EDITOR’S NOTE: The new press has been in use for the last few days, and you can see that the print is legible now, but some improvements have still to be made so that the full results have not yet been attained. a Soviet America. I rather believe the examples of the European countries will make it an eye opener for a lot of Social Democrats and liberal elements in this country. Comradely yours, to a lot of readers striving towards fF ge. CLEVELAND, Ohio.— The other day a friend of mine received a job none other but the United States We can hardly wait to get a new! Landlord Threatens to Rob Jobless Widower of Six-Year Old Daughter (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—I am a widow- er with one six-year-old girl and a Welfare dependent, so we are chased from place to since “~~ paying the rent. Besides that, I think this place we stay now must be one of the K.KK. nests. ‘thcy blame me terribly for refusing to work for the city, 13 hours a week at 50 cents an hour, and out of that I would have to pay all the bills for living necessities, includ- ing rent. My landlord mentioned something about taking my child away from me and putting me in the work- house. My determination is that they should not take my child away from me while I am alive. I am taking the best care of her under the present miserable conditions. I am willing to work, but not for $6.50 a week, The cause for the prejudice of these people is that they see my Daily Worker lying on the table before I get it, and on account of not sending my child to Sunday school. s but inside they |° cheap | ;, Each | combination that does not show the | PUt most of them wind up disap- pointed. I speak from my own ex- i and from questioning high class eating houses to the rich element down | w their patriot- y signing up under} the N.R.A. but they were finally stripped of their Blue Eagles tor | flagrantly violating the hour and wage clauses of their code. The other restaurants didn’t even want to bother pretending thev| were behind Mr. Roosevelt, as it might result in their receiving some unfavorable publicity, if they, some- how, were cited for underpaying and overworking their help. Mass Layoffs In Tampa Cigar Trade (By a Worker Correspondent) TAMPA, Fla.—Another flagrant case of the use of ‘convict labor to beat down wages has just come | to light here. The Tropical Brewery Co., owned | by the notorious red-baiter and Ku Kluxer, chief of detectives Bush, is employing prisoners from the city stockade in its plant here. This is the very man who, together with Chief of Police Logan and others, has been conducting a campaign of terror against the cigar workers of Tampa and their militant leader- ship. Last week saw the almost com-| plete elimination of the C.W.A. and| P.W.A. works in this city. Thou- sands of workers and their families are in the most horrible misery and there is no relief of any kind. In the cigar industry mass lay- offs took place this week in the largest factories, and those who still have jobs are earning $7 or $8 a week. The contemptible leaders of the Cigarmakers International Union, an affiliate of the A. F. of L., are doing their utmost to keep the cigar workers from struggling against these damnable conditions. The Communist Party is putting forth every effort to weld the solidarity of the employed and un- employed workers in preparation for a mighty united struggle against the cigar bosses and the Roosevelt hunger and war offensive. Inside every cigar factory solid unity of the workers is being formed. The Party is bringing before the unemployed and employed the workers unemployment insurance bill (LR. 7598) and already the movement is afoot to develop a broad and powerful struggle to force the bosses and the Roosevelt government to pass this bill. here wan ism rec Yellow Dog Contract in Stewart, Willow Chains The Daily Worker would like to have correspondence from work- ers in the Willow and Stewart Cafeteria Chains on the conditions in their shops. A few months eorkeets F the Willow feuarl Ciera: Lets hear from youl ago a “yellow” dog contract was signed between the bosses and the A. F. of L. The Daily Work- er would like to hear from work- ers on what change has taken place in working conditions since this contract was signed, and how the workers feel about it. How Board of Health Treats Food Workers (By a Food Worker Correspondent) NEW. YORK.—On Feb. 23, early in the morning, I dropped down to Center St., in which the offices of |the Board of Health are located, to get my food worker card. As soon as I walked into the office the first person I met, was a “re- spectable” lady about 65 years old. She asked me, “What do you want, mister?” I told her that I needed an examination to be able to get my card. She answered back. “No... no more cards for food han- dlers,” and snatching a leafiet, walked away. I stood like a marble post. In a couple of seconds a “gentleman” addressed me, ‘What is it, mister?” I told him, too, all about it. He said, “Hm, hm, you must see a private doctor.” I pleaded that I couldn’t afford to pay because I had no money. He said again, “Ho- ho, that is the matter with all of you boys, no money.” Then I pro- tested, but what did I get? “Go ahead ... come on.” Now I imagine it is a good policy for such a public department tc give such nice treatment to th~ Ask your friend, your fellow worker to subscribe to the Daily Worker, a public; citizen or no citizen. Or j Qn 15-Hour Day) it an agreement between the Boar of Health and the private docto to beat, rob and kill the workers? PARTY LIFE Smail Group System Is an Aid io Organization in Ford Plant Improves Unit’s Work and Gives the Party Members Better Protection By MAX The 13th Plenum of the C. I places before all Parties the task of winning the support of the decisive sections of the workers, particularly the workers in heavy industry. In the Detroit District our chief task is to win the workers in the Ford plant. This task assumes greater importance in view of the position which Ford occupies, not only in American industry, but in most European countries, roblem was to build our organizations so as to be able to ‘ully combat the highly de- veloped spy In the past we had large Party units in the plant. | Under such conditions it was not possible to give adequate protection to our Party forces in the shop. We changed our form of organiza- tion in order to try and most effec- tively carry through our mass work. We established one unit in the shop. The unit consists of groups of no more than five. These groups choose a captain, a meeting of the captains elect the unit buro. Then @ member of the buro meets with a number of the group captains and through them transform the deci- sions of the unit buro and higher bodies to the comrades in each group. The groups meet independently, and take up all Party problems. The members of one group are known to each other, while the members of the unit buro are known to as few persons as possible. In this manner we hope to establish the form of organization necessary for the development of our mass work, which at the same time pro- tects our Party organization from the attacks of the company. The adoption of this form of or- ganization is only valuable when at. the same time we develop mass work among the Ford Workers. The situation in the shop is very ripe for action. In a number of depart- ments the workers have resorted to mass bocing of the foremen and superintendents who order them to work overtime without pay. In one department the workers forced the company to close windows which had been opened, through mass boo- ing. In some departments workers have beaten foremen who were particularly brutal. Workers are talking back to the foremen, @ SALZMAN , thing unheard of in the Ford plant | since 1919. | These indications of mass resist- | ance show the rising indignation « | the workers against the speed-up | and especially against the failure of Ford to give the raises, promised | the men some weeks ago. | More than one year ago we began to organize groups of workers in the | Ford plant. However, we did not | sufficiently work out the tasks of | these groups and relied too much | on the activities of the leading com- rades rather than leading comrades | helping develop the initiative of | the workers in the shop. | United Action on Basis of | Grievances We have worked out a program | for developing united action of the | workers in the shop on the basis of the grievances in each department. The experiences have so far showed the willingness of the workers to get into action. Our main task is to work in the department of these groups so that each comrade in the shop builds around himself a group of at least five workers. It is neces- sary to give concrete detailed direc- tion to this work. Meanwhile the leading comrades must more ener- getically work in developing groups of organized workers in the depart- ments. Their main task is the de- velopment of the initiative of our forces below—that is the develop- ment of each of our comrades as a leader in the groups of which he is part and in his department. Here we must also give attention to the organization of study circles among the workers which will also serve as a means to prepare workers for leadership in the struggles which are already beginning in the auto industry. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City Dector By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Unreliable Suppositories A. R., Philadelphia—The suppos- itories sent you by the Dr. Pierre Chemical Co. of Chicago, Ill, are unreliable for the purpose you want them. Furthermore, they contain formaldehyde which dries and hardens the delicate mucous mem- brane of the vagina. It also con- tains carbolic acid which, when ab- sorbed through the delicate skin is liable to injure the kidneys. The testimonial circular “The Final Proof” is no proof at all, and it is not true that these suppositories have received the highest recom- mendation of the medical profes- sion. Every dollar you spend on these suppositories is worse than wasted. Addiction to Cigarette Smoking Alexandra H., Hicksville, L. I—If you have not got sufficient will power to stop smoking cigarettes all at once, the only other method is to cut down on them gradually. ‘Thus, if you smoke a pack a day, take out one cigarette from the pack. Put it away in a drawer and smoke ths remaining nineteen only. Do this for several days and then take out two cigarettes from your ration. Keep doing this every few days and you will note that at the end of a few weeks, you will be able to get along with only half a pack daily. Stick to this for about a month and then begin to cut down the same as you did at the beginning. With this method you will find that you might be able to get along with only one cigarette after each meal. Or you may be able to do without smok- ing altogether. Let us know the re- sults you obtain. ae Questions That Cannot Be Answered Curious—Your questions cannot be answered in this column, at pres- ent. You will find them fully dis- cussed in the forthcoming magazine Health, which will appear on May 1, * hie 3 Everett W.—We are writing you a private letter in reply to your second question which we cannot answer in this column, ce All Comrades Meet at the’ NEW HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA Fresh Food—Proletarian Prices—50 E. 13th St.—WORKERS’ CENTER. 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