The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1934, Page 6

= <A OO EPRI Ra Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1934 ‘Bowery YMCA Is Institution For Recruiting Slave Labor Make Unemployed Borrow a Few Cents, Then Make Them Work (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK. — An unemployed worker as been a the Ce the te M. C God knows why, to a bed in the white each and told I was expect ny and all employ offered me or else... Sold Into Serfdom “or else” sounded ominous I agreed to take any ex That and naturi ut mn covered h into serfd The first thing I knew I found} myself putting in 13 hours a day at hard labor in the cafeteria, earn- ing 86 cents per day toward pay- ment of my bill. days of rising at 5 a. m. ing at 7:40 p. m. palled I quit. Then I was giv to understand be given one more I found a card requesting me to report to The Tillman Distributing System, 91 Seventh Ave. at 6:30 a.m. The Y is at Bowery and 8rd St. The Tillman office is above ssigned by |. | would be paid to the house within | ther Hard To Pay It Off 15th St. on Seventh Ave. The only | practical way to get there is walk. When I came down in the morn- I was advanced 35 cents for nch and carfare, and told that pay would be $1.80 for six hot wo! or 35 cents per hour, and | two weeks, and apply on my bill, but if I wanted I could have 25 cents in cash that evening when I returned. I arrived in the office in time and was held there for an hour, sent out with two other men and a supervisor. 2,000 Circulars At 8:30 we arrived in Jamaica, | our circulars, which were | ed in lots of 1,000 in cloth bags. weighing about 50 Ibs., e carried and emptied by according to the supervisor. ppen to know that 1,500 cir- culers and 8 hour day is considered good work by most concerns and | jis generally paid at a rate averag- | ing $2 per thousand. The way the supervisor pushed, | however, explained much. That bag began to get heavy very |soon, About ten o'clock it began to snow, and the going got nasty. | Especially so for poorly clothed }men. I was nearly dead by noon. The day wore on... on me and the rest of the crew until 4:30 which was designated as quitting | time. Now, fr 8:30 until 4:30} is considered by this company to be six hours. That I learned was customary. And one hour out for lunch frequently is cut in half. And don’t forget the early report and |late start. | The soreness of body I ac- }cumulated climbing door steps, and | | the shocks to my pride received after sneaking into apartment houses and taking abuse from janitors for having gained my en- trance by tricking tenants into re- leasing click locks (according to orders) put me into a pretty mis- erable state. DANCE—BUT BE CLASS- CONSCIOUS! From the South and West come letters asking how to organize the women; these indicate that the task in many cases, is far from easy..For instance—thesé few lines from a letter from a northwestern state: “I’m writing . . . for advice in re- gard to interesting housewives in labor movement. “Our men are organized in the N.L.W. Union, as this is a lumber mill town. There have been several good speakers from nearby cities and each time they extend an in- vitation to the ladies to attend. Do they come? Perhaps ten at the very most!—and you don’t see them again unless they attend a dance given by the union. They can all seem to come out for that! What bothers me is that they don’t come to the meeting along with. their husbands, and try to understand what it is all about. It wouldn't be difficult if they would only come and listen to some of our speakers. “There are a few, perhaps four, besides my daughter and myself, who go. Sometimes I have been the only woman present. ... “We have organized an ILD. branch and hold the meetings in our homes, and have a social hour at most meetings. This has helped to bring out a few younger women but they want to leave early for| the dance! “There seem to be so few class- conscious women here. great need to interest the women in the movement as there is no doubt there will soon be stirring times in our little town and we women must do our part... . I talked with my husband and son about it at breakfast: in re- gard to getting a good woman speaker to come in and lecture or hold a meeting ‘For Ladies Only,’ or something to get their attention. We thought we could send out cards to an afternoon lecture on “Work- ing Women and What They Are Deing. . . . What are women in other small towns doing? It seems ~~. even the farm women are more alive to the labor situation than these working-class women, wives of wage-earners who have been canned because they dared to orga- nize and affiliate with a militant union... .” <i. ae ‘We have had sample copies of the “Working Woman” magazine sent to this comrade, who inquired about it, and are writing also privately, @s our space is limited. For the benefit of other women facing the same problems, we advise here that “Ladies Only” lectures are all right, with invitation cards as the writer suggested. Such lectures might touch on conditions of working- class women under capitalism as re- gards economic situation, lack of maternity provision and free nur- series and birth-control clinics, con- ditions for women working in fac- tories, etc. Contrast with the lot of women in socialist countries. We'll print here soon a list of pamphlets which supply material for such lec- tures. “Moreover, it appears to me that the very fact that these women are so fond of dancing, should be uti- lized, if it is financially possible. The obvious thing to do is to give _ dances, with political talks first on the program, and again during the evening, between dances, (Adver- the “Working Woman” and “Soviet Russia Today.”) The drive to interest women should not rest solely on love-and- marriage questions: see last chapter i There is a} Lenin”—or the pamphlet “Lenin on the Woman Question,” at 5 cents, which comprises the chapter men- tioned. At this point I should like to stress the importance of an activi= ty which has, in my estimation, been grossly neglected in the drive to recruit women. I mean sports. Not only is physical culture an asset to health and beauty through the provision of enjoyable exercise: it provides a relief from mental concentration on our problems, and it serves a high social purpose. I wish all American girls might see the German film “Kuhle Wampe,” which graphically illustrated the re- deeming effect, mentally and physi- cally, of labor sports unions. According to locality and facili- ties, working-women’s clubs (or clubs for both men and women) for swimming, rowing, tennis, sprint- ing, skating, hiking, basketball, or whatever is preferred, should be formed. 2 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1810 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46.* Size 16 takes 44 yards | 36 inch fabric. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c.) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern, Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. i |UMWA Comm. | Creek Gas Mine, is supposed to be a union| because I was one of the many| 20d spoke to their leaders here on They have the check-off| progressive Miners who went back|the Strike Committee, and they | days and received $14.70, an average | Put Negro Miners in Mud Holes Takes Yo Action Against Discrimination (By a Miner Worker Correspondent) FINLEYVILLE, Pa.—The Peters & Coal Co., Knot Hole mine for the United Mine Workers’ of} America. There are about 180 men/ four men to one room. There is one section of the mine where all of the colored miners are given places. This section is known and water; there are no supplies such as rails and posts to make this place safe to work in. There is rank discrimination used | in this mine. This discrimination comes about. in different rotten mud-holes are given only to the colored miners to work in?| Next-they tell the colored miners| they have to take the mule in and haul their own coal without pay. These mules are worked night and| day. One mule has to pull coal) from so many workers that there is a shortage of cars. The miners, many of them, barely make an existence, One miner, colored, worked 21| of 70 cents a day. For one month this same worker was asked to fur- ther scab and take a mule in and haul ais own coal, by Tom Evans, | the mine superintendent. This| worker told the super, “Old Boy, you've had me scabbing, but you wili never make a real scab out of me!” Many of these colored workers | have been forced to leave the job.| The Local Committee and officers do nothing about this discrimina- tion although there is one colored| mine committee, but they are all| part of the same machine of Fagan and Lewis. They work in nice, dry, clean places and receive the best} attention that Mr. Evans can give. We are going to go to the meet- ing and take up these points with the whole Local and demand that we have action by forcing the Com- pany to give equal turn and equal rights to all miners, regardless of | creed, color or nationality, Call for Action By Rank and File Member of P.VLA. (By a Miner Correspondent) BENLD, IN.—A call from the | Rank and File of the Progressive Miners of America. A call for ac- tion to the officers and leadership of our P. M. of A. We are tired of flowery speeches without any action, like Roose- velt’s “prosperity,” We do not have confidence in the N. R. A. and capitalist laws and court injunc- tions and Progressive Lowers. We demand a National Conven- tion which will call for a strike on a national basis, on the United Front of Rank and File Unity. You, Mr. President Pearcy, you know, and all your friends, that at the 1st District Constitutional Conven- tion Oct. Ist, 1932, only Frank Borich, secretary of the National Miners’ Union outlined a program of action. We called him a Red. Mr. President Pearcy, now is the time to be red or yellow! Come out or step out! Give the leadership to leading militant Rank-and-Filers. Now is the time to correct your mistakes of the past or be yellow forever. In sending in new subs to the “Daily” please write the name and address of the new sub- RANK AND FILE MINERS’ UNITY OVER HEADS OF MISLEADERS IS URGED Member of U.M.W.A. Orient Local 2 Points Out P.M.A. Officials Re jected Plea to Help Struggle Against Thugs (By a Miner Correspondent.) WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. — Last |Sive Miner explaining the condi- | tions in our mine and telling them week I attended the Orient No, 2| there are lots of men who are in local meeting for the first time in| the last three months. This was to the mine under the U. M. W. A,, after we have seen that P. M. A.| working on two seven hour shifts, | officials betrayed the strike and we | 2nd then they will talk. sympathy with the P. M. A., but they didn’t answer. I then went told me, if I was a true “progres- sive” I should first quit the work} U°DS | I x! I felt they | It is interesting to note that the ten | [Building Up the Party in PMA Ranks | Hysterical Attacks by Misleaders Result of C.P. Growth | By a Miner Correspondent | NOKOMIS, Ill.—The renewed hy- | sterical attack in the “Progressive |Miner” against the Communist Party is ample evidence of the suc- |cess of the Party in building frac- tions within the local P.M.A. unions, had no other alternative but either | Were not sincere and, since reading | Party members recruited in the last to go back or be blacklisted. |the exposure of these so-called P.| Week and a half are as follows: I went beck the third day with|/M. A. leaders in the Daily I am| Three members of the P.M.A, work- about 150 others, when we saw no picketing. When we got back! into the mine, we were not allowed to attend any local meetings of the/| U. M. W. A. for a long time. Roy ves, Was appointed by Lewis as ways. | Provisional president for 900 men| A. proposes. First, why is it that these dirty|in this mine and a clique of 20/ the best proof that the Communisis other gun-thugs did the local “business” for us. | So last week I went to see what} can be done to arouse the men to} come to force the officialdom, elect our own president and officers of | the local, and to fight against the vicious speed-up which is going on in the mine. The men are forced to load 15) and 16 cars. Shooting of the coal is done in such a way to make us| slave double. In the local meeting I found only about 35 men present out of 900. Groves is still president. After preliminary reports of the sec- retary, correspondence and the usual rigmarole, what did I hear?| The president gets up and intro-| duces Mr. Curtis Mundell, Secretary | of the U. M. W. A. subdistrict No. 9, who made us a speech. Among other 109 per cent patriotic bunk, | he told us that his brother Stanley | Mundell (well known chief deputy gun thug under the present sheriff Robinson who killed three P. M. A. miners) is running for Sheriff and| that we had better support him if) we want to keep our job, Mundell| made the usual attack against the reds and closed with a regular Hitler style that he is for Roosevelt | 100 per cent and that the rank and| file of U. M. W. A. must stand be- hind the president. Advice from P. M. A, Leaders Because most of those present| were cohorts of the officialdom, I didn’t ask for the floor, because they would have pounced on me. I sent several letters to the Progres- “DOLLAR AND A DOLLAR-AND- A HALF” By a Miner Correspondent LIBRARY, Pa.—A couple of days ago we heard rumors that the Monitor 1A at Library (Mellon in- terests) would hire some men on the job, and one of my boarders went up to get a job too, They were waiting for a while for a boss to come. Workers was coming from the mine and two of them start to pass the words “Dollar and dollar- and-a-half.” Then one man asks what he means by that and he said, “You get a job here and you'll he said, “the men in this mine can- not make more than one dollar or a dollar-and-ahalf. That’s what you could make here.” It is pretty hard for old miners to get a job. Some of them come from some other places with some kind of slips. This is from the other Pittsburgh Coal Co., and they got hired. They work here two shifts, two men day-time; two men night-time in the same place, and we have rumors here, but we don’t know how true it will be, that they are supposed to start a third shift. If they will, then the men would not be able to make half-a-dollar and they will be far away from a dollar- find out what I mean. That means,” | glad I didn’t listen to their slick as 14-Left Butt. It is full of mud| there was no strike leadership and | betrayals. I fully agree with the position of the Communist Party that we miners of both unions have to get together, in spite of the leaders, but this can’t be done like the P. M. Orient No. 2 mine is are correct. When the strike was called by the P. M. A. most of the men were for it, but no one organ- ized properly, and the result was that 600 went back right away and about 200 were blitklisted. There is lots of sympathy for P. M. A. yet, but the men feel that just walking out without inside or- ganization and without unifying the men on the job will be a fiasco. I think what we should do here in the mine is to organize groups in every section of the mine, secretly at first and fight for conditions in the mine, demand to elect our own officers in the local and then unify ourselves with P. M. A. rank and file on some demands on which we all will agree. I know that P. M. A. officials will not do this, because it means work and not play with miners lives, This is a job for the Communists and I hope you will do it. Refuse To Starve In Midst of Plenty Says Native Texan Salt and Oil Workers Reported Organizing As Never Before (By a Worker Correspondent) GRAND SALINE, Tex. — The people are waking up in Texas as they never have before. Old-time Socialists are coming over to the Communist side. We have the Salt Workers’ Union here, affiliated to the Federation of Labor. The Morton Salt Co. has the biggest salt mine here in the South. They work 291 men and wo- men, of which we have as paid-up members 228 in the union. As you know, we have also the | greatest oil producing area in the world. Oil workers are organizing as never before. We have organ- ized thousands of them in the last six months. Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico— these states have been slow to take to organization, but they are fall- ing in line by the thousands. I have been with the labor move- |ment 35 years. I’m a rebel soldier, fought with Pancho Villa in Mexico in two revolutions. If we had any nerve, we would not let a few blue bloods starve us to death in a land of plenty. I’m a native Texan and over five million of us natives down here poy no superior, only God him- Self, We have asked Congress, asked H. S. Johnson, begged and prayed for relief just as long as we are a-going to. Now they can do some- scriber clearly. Here is a picture that we hope explains itself, at least as far as it goes. It looks very much as if the man (it isn’t very hard to guess what he is) were saying—“Help, we need you. Save civilization, save your families from the barbarians.” That's what he says to the worker, but he is really thinking something like this— “Business is getting worse and worse—no more profits—we must have war! The Soviet Union, the Jand without unemployment, grows stronger every day and the life of the happy workers grows better and better. We must destroy it. That is a bad example for the United States where every day the work- ers are thrown out of homes and jobs.” The worker looks a little puzzled. What will he do with the gun? You can see that our picture needs an answer. Suppose you draw an- other picture and show us what the worker will do. The best picture will be published next week. And do you know what happened Apri! 6, 1917? and-a-half. WITH OUR YOUNG READERS Here is the poem with the best line sent in by Charles Galen. Three Hitler eggs sat on a wall They certainly thought they knew it all, But the first chance the workers get They'll beat them up, you bet. The following readers have be- come members of the Puzzle Club: Ruth Bialon, Irwin Marquit, Alex Berger, Sylvia Greenwald, Helen Greenwald, William Cohen, Martin Kloomok, and Charles Galen. Here is RED PEPPER’S Pioneer uniform. Answer to Picture Talk: 1, Lenin 2. Mooney loose. Taxe the letters that the, meaning of the sentences thing to put these men all to work or Hell itself is a-going to break arrange these letterr to form any word that fits unto the ing in the mines; four P.M.A. mem- bers who are not working due to | strike reasons or because they were thrown out when the West mine folded up; and two members of the Women’s Auxiliary of the P.M.A. Is it any wonder that the reaction is alarmed at the growing anger of the rank and file who are turning to the Communist Party for leader- ship? Arrival of the Bulgarian Bolshe- | vik heroes in the Soviet Union has aroused great enthusiasm among the workers in this section. I forgot to mention that six of the aforementioned ten recruits were former Socialist Party mem- | bers. This is the Nokomis unit. Southern Strike _ Wave Against Slavery Program (By a Miner Correspondent) BESSEMER, Ala.—The Roosevelt Good Talk; we cannot eat it at all. And this is the same thing that Mr. | Hoover said when he was President |of the United States. He said that | prosperity is around the corner. In the period of Mr. Roosevelt’s time, it is different from Mr. Hoover's time. At present they are out with the New Deal. What has the N. R. A. meant to the working class of America? It means more unemployment, wage cuts, and strike-breaking. In Bessemer, Ala., we see the com- pany underground police are riding the mount of the Raymond Mine and also the Reeders Mine. The Birmingham News said 30,000 miners were out. The Post gave 20,000 miners in the walkout in this district. The strike wave in the Southern States is against the N. R. A. pro- gram of Mr. Roosevelt. The steel corporations are prepar- ing to fight down the strike here in Birmingham, Ala., all the time. Roosevelt was also preparing to break the strikes of this district. The company has done all in its power to make the workers sign up in the yellow dog union, particularly in the Raymond Mine, where the company boses tell everyone that they will give them a good job if they leave their union. The Communist Party of the United States is the only guarantee for the white and Negro workers of the South. This Party calls on all workers to organize themselves on committees in all shops and mines and mills. NOTE: We publish letters from coal and are miners, and from oil field workers, every Saturday. We urge workers in these fields to write us of their conditions of work and of their struggles to organize. Please get your letters to us by Wednesday of each week. Conducted by Mary Morrow, Children’s Editor, Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St., New York City. Preture=Tack J pictures spell, = + 1R PIE + ONEA = PIONEER c aa Sokast 331 Join THE DAILY WORHER PurZzLé CLUB NEW-YoRK- Arithmetic Say, did you ever think over things? Let's do it now-and see what it brings. you know, One's got nothing, the other's got dough. Let's stop and take a look at the two. Maybe there's something we can do. Look at the fellow on the left— He's what we call a capitalist. Bags of money and limousines. Now look at the fellow on the right, He owns nothing but brains and might: A worker he is, who never gets fat,— He's one of the proletariat. ‘There's the picture—funny, I'd say. How did the fat one get that way? He didn't build factory or machine, And yet—he's got the limousine. ‘The worker there made everything. Slayed all his life from Spring to Spring. ‘That house, that bridge, that factory, He built them all—most satisfactory. But, oh! this bothers my head a bit, Makes me dizzy, come on, let's quit. One does nothing, has limousines, The other does all and hardly has beans. fy ‘There's two kinds of guys in this world, He owns all the factories and big machines, Wait, don’t quit now—let’s go on ‘This is where we start the fun. A bigger one. See what you can do. Workers + workers, = what, you say? Masses and masses who get no pay. wise. Workers + workers = ORGANIZE! Workers + workers +- brains + might Gee, it seems we're coming out right. Don’t stop, go on! that means FIGHT! All for the workers! Down, leon y C. D. The April issue of the New Pioneer is out today! it. happenings in the New Mexico desert. Then there is a story about James Connolly. in the greatest him? NEW PIONEER. PARTY LIFE How an ILD Branch Was Built In Negro Section of Cleveland Death of Pauline Preston from Starvation Re- Tl give you a problem; not one plus two, That's right, you know, but you're not so We cannot tell you about everything that’s in There’s an exciting story about On April 24th, 1916, James Connolly led his army Irish uprising against the English ruling class. Do you know anything else about If you don’t, read the April sults in Organization Comrade Preston, an I. L. D. member, active in the struggle for the release of the nine Scottsboro Boys, died recently. She was on the relief list. The charities only gave her a $1.85 weekly food check. The | last two or three days of every week |she had nothing to eat. Despite the worst winter weather in the history of the city, with sub-zero weather prevailing for weeks at a time, Comrade Preston received no coal for her home. The combined} lack of heat and food brought about} her death. The I. L. D. and the Unemployed Council jointly held an open hear- ing and Public Trial of the Asso- ciated Charities. A few contacts were secured for I. L, D. member- ship. We then followed this up by carrying thru a Memorial Meeting for Comrade Preston. A delegation of I. L. D. members and friends and fellow church-goers went to the minister to demand use of the church for the Memorial Meeting. It was granted. We then gave out leaflets, calling the mem- bers of the church and the workers and others in the neighborhood to the Memorial Meeting. The leaflet stated that the Associated Charities were responsible for Comrade Pres- tons death. A few days before the meeting, we were notified that we could not have the use of the church for two reasons: 1, That the attack on the Asso- ciated Charities was not justified. 2. That it was a reflection on the church to say that she died of starvation. We then went to the pastor with @ delegation of 25 and explained our position—that we were not attacking the church but the Associated Charities, and that we had definite proof that she died of starvation. | The Charities were the only ones | we said who knew of her condition, for she would not tell her sisters or brothers in the church or her fellow I. L. D. members of her condition. The minister still refused to let us have the church. We then stated that we had al- ready distributed the leaflets, and the people would come to the church and he would be responsible to the people if the meeting would have to take place on the street. He then ssid if we dared to hold the meeting in the street he would call the police, This enraged the workers on the delegation. We then left and those on the delegation pledged to work with might and main to make the meeting a big success, The leading I. L. D. comrades then discussed the advisability of holding the meeting before the church and the probable effect that it would ‘have. Considering that we had no strong influence in this territory, nor with the workers in- volved, we felt that it would be bad to have the meeting in the street if we were barred from the church. Also the weather was sub- zero and it would be iimpossible to have a good out-door meeting from which organizational results could be gained. We then rented a hall right next door to the church and assigned two comrades to stand before the door of the church and direct the workers next door, where the meeting would take place and an explanation would be made why the church was refused to us. To answer the charge of the min- ister that Comrade Preston did not die of starvation, we went to her of Branch in Scoville neighbors and procured affidavits from them which stated categoric- ally that in their opinion the Asso- ciated Charities were guilty of starving her tc death, because of the inadequate food supply she was given by them. The affidavits quoted conversations between the signers and Comrade Preston. One of those who furnished an affidavit was with Comrade Preston when she died. We printed these affidavits and distributed thousands of them be- fore the Memorial Meeting to counter-act the attacks made upon us and on the stand by the minister at the regular Sunday church meeting, and Wednesday night. A half hour before the Memorial Meeting was to take place, the pas- tor notified us that the church would be granted to us. The afii- davit distribution brought pressure from the’ church-goers to bear on him. About 150 came to the meeting. The minister exalted the virtues of the Associated Charities and at- tacked us sharply, when he ad- dressed the gathering as the first speaker. Our comrade then ex- posed the reason for the protection of the charities by the pastor. The Charities have recently begun to work hand in hand with many churches and societies in stifling the struggles of workers for relief by setting up a small committee of a social worker and two or three mis- leaders at the head of these groups to “take care” of the relief needs of its members. The Associated Chari- ties felt that the workers would place more trust and be more docile in dealing with one of their own body in whom they had faith. The workers present thunderously applauded our speaker again and again as he lashed the charities and pointed out their discrimination against Negro people and called upon all to honor the memory of Mrs. Preston, their friend and fellow church-goer by taking up the struggle for the Scottsboro Boys and the liberation of the Negro people. An appeal was made for membership. The speaker proposed to honor the memory of Comrade Preston by building an I, L. D, branch in her name. It was enthu- siastically taken up and 18 signed as I. L. D. members. The hall next door was hired when the minister refused to grant us a meeting room for use of the branch meetings. The first meet- ing found 22 present. Officers were elected and the branch immediately set to work. A mass meeting against a legal lynching scheduled to take place in Mississippi, and a social affair, at which over 150 were present has already been held by the branch. A meeting on the Scottsboro Case is now being planned. s. Cleveland, Ohio. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Prohibition and Alcoholism D. T., Boston—The book by Haven Emerson that you are referring to is a political, not a scientific treatise. This individual was one of the rabid prohibitionists who were responsible for the passing of the Volstead Act. We have known him for many years, ever since he was (for a short time) Commissioner of Health in New York City. He has been gnashing his teeth ever since the Prohibition Act has been repealed; but his opin- ions are not based on scientific data. It is not true that the number of cases and the death rate of alco- holism had diminished under Prohi- bition; on the contrary. Statistics published by the New York State Board of Health, a few days ago, show that the death rate in New York State for January was only Doctor aAdvthe4: By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. 3.1 to 100,000 of population. This is the lowest point for the last twelve years and one must conclude that the Repeal has materially reduced the alcoholic mortality in this state. In New York City, there were only twenty-seven deaths in January and nineteen in February; while sixty- five deaths from alcoholism were reported in the month of December which just preceded the Repeal. . 8s Dry Skin—Dew of Sahara Carmelita, San Pedro, California. Yes, sunshine has a tendency to dry the skin. Try the following ap- plication. It is known as Pusey’s Mixture or the Dew of Sahara. Get your druggist to mix one drachm of boric acid and of tragacanth with five drops of phenol, glycerin and oil of bergamot. This should be shaken with four ounces of olive oil and distilled water up to one pint, CLEVELAND, OHIO Welcome Delegates to GIGANTIC MASS MINOR, HATHAWAY, MONDAY, PUBLIC AUDITORIUM—MUSIC HALL, E. 6th ST., and ST. CLAIR Mass Singing Cleveland District. ‘CLEVELAND, OHTO 8th Nat'l Convention! OPENING 8th NATIONAL CONVENTION COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. EARL BROWDER, Secretary of the Communist Party—-FORD, STACHEL, PATTERSON, BLOOR, BEDACHT, AMTER, HIMOFF APRIL 2nd, 7 P. M., and Chorus of 400 Voices Adm.—25c. Unemployed with cards 10c On Sale—1514 Prospect Ave., Room 806 AUSPICES—Central Committee Communist Party and a