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Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934 No Equality in Bargaining “Telegraph Messengers’ Voice” Helps Win Victory Under Capitalist Ownership | Bill Dunne Declares at Senate Hearing Workers Can Advance Only By WILLIAM F. DUNNE icle VI. s that ned, be- in these ny sort an e, there is a great tendency for workers to organize their own struggles under the leadership of an elected rank and file committee which may and often does repre- sent all the workers in various or- extended ganizations and quite often has rep- resentatives of so-called unorgan- even at times workers been forced into in the pre- Green, ficials of the lize its causes It is a product of of the terrible conditions ng population; it is a y and homogencity of the American w ing clas fica. the crisis. tories and ustries it build these united commit action against company unions and various grievances of the workers, shows that it ‘stood the r of American workers in this pe: It shows that we have confidence in the initiative and ability of the} working class. This is entirely lack- ing in the kind of leadership which Through Struggle | big employers do not believe that| the A. F. of L. leaders can control | rkers sufficiently to enforce their class-peace policy; and third, they ared to recognize the A. F.| amid the pledge of allegiance to the| concerning vacations for messen-| of L. leadership as an alternative, | flag, the Scout oath “to do my duty) gers. It was as follows rather than unions organized and|to God and my country,” the N. Y., 3-9-34. led by T. U. U. L., or indepen- | Athenian oath (administered by La, Terminal Handlings anions so-called, led by mili-| Guardia) “to fight for the ideals Cireular No. 45 dent t committees of rank and file ers, Now as to some specific provisions of the Wagner Bill: The Wagner Bill proposes t0|t, the Boy Scouts of America, a) Manual For Messengers that mes- alize” the bargaining power of! minion strong. Acting upon the sug-| sengers are entitled to one week's i i employees. This | gestion of Hopkins, Roosevelt calls yacation with pay after one year, in it ates one of its decep-| upon his “fellow scouts” to do a) ete, Please arrange to delete that tive There can: be: 09) 1 good turn,” to aid the paragraph as vacations are no € g power be-| of the nation” by collect-| longer granted to messengers. tw employees as hold furniture to help suf-| The response of the messengers | ‘operty is recog-| sources, and the | ction and distri- of the Bill speaks of} gencies for the peaceful of disputes. No one} ject to the peaceful settle- | should ol | ment of disputes between capitalists ; regarding questions of ‘ions, etc., pro- policy with prompt ' phasis on peaceful settlement | joes not militate against the inter- sts of the working class. But the| present system is based on the em-j ployment of workers solely for profit. The workers produce commodities for sale in all of which there is a certain amount of surplus value— unpaid labor time. Surplus value is created only by workers in the proc- | ess of production and this is the | source of profit. But profit is only Letters from | Our Readers SS WEEK” “PREPAREDN' New York City. Dear Comrade Editor: Preparedness Week, as I caught it over*the radio: On Saturday, and the sacred things of our city,” the U. S. Marine Band playing the Star Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful, the President of the United States issues a call of service fering humanity Walter Head, president of the boy scouts, cites the war record of the Boy Scouts of Amer 2 collect- ing of fruit pits for g ks, the selling of $880 per scout of Liberty Bonds, as proof that the B. S. of A. can now take up this new challenge. ! m Sunday, “Has the League of Nations Failed”? The gist of which was: We must have patience. Mis- takes do not mean failure. We do not condemn the N. R, A. or the National Labor Board because mil- lions of work strike. We do not condemn our courts because un- convicted prople are lynched. The League Aasn’t the power to use force, but it 1s the only constructive thing we have for peace. We must have patience. The renewal of world trade will bring about peace. On Monday, the Del Monte pro- gram, a commercial program called “The Del Monte Ship of Joy.” In Mr. Gorman represents. They fail} realized through the sale or ex- | celebration of Lincoln’s birthday, the to understand that great sections of American workers are coming to know that so-called industrial peace means surrender of workers’ rights and lower living standards. The question will be asked: If the official policy of the A. F. of L. lead- ership and that of most of its affil- iated unions is a class-peace policy, why is it that so many powerful emplo and their press are an- nouncing opposition to organi- zation under the A. F. of L. label? The answer is, first, these big em- ployers like those in steel, auto, oil and the decisive sections of the| mining industry, etc. do not want any organization of their workers. Many of them did not even have company unions as was the case of the steel trust, but organized them simply as a formality; second, these change of the commodities. The worker therefore is always at the | mercy of the market, because, al- | though he and his class are the | greatest market, he and it are | always producing more than their | Wages can buy back. This is the main cause of capitalist crises. And} these are the facts of capitalist pro- duction which render all talk of equality of bargaining power under up the real causes of the low social |and economic standards of the | working class as a whole. It is only by taking advantage of | favorable opportunities the workers | are able to prevent themselves from | becoming a group of “broken | wretches,” as Marx said. (To be continued) t turns on its axi The rich own the gas wells, The poor pay the taxes.” (Apologies to H. A. Potemkin, author of “Strike Me Red. * 8 Winter came, and though spring was far enough behind, it finally got here, unless we’ve been fooled again. We're not putting what’s left of the winter coat into moth- balls yet, but the wool underhose is off and the fire’s out—not only be- cause spring is (supposediy) here, but because a whooping big gas bill is morning, along with a ing the buck for the vernment taxation. Not that we doubt or enjoy the following facts, given in this leaf- let: “Even if you own no property and pay no income taxes, you are taxed indirectly in your grocery bills, your rent, your bills for gas and electricity . . . In 1923 taxes took 10.90 cents on the average out | of every dollar paid for gas, elec- tric, and steam service. In 1933 taxes took 16.38 cents out of every dollar paid by customers of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York and its affiliated com- panies for such service—an in- crease of more than 50 per cent.” Or, to make a long story short, the less you’ve got the more they soak you, which describes the whole * that cheerful beginning, which struck a snag, we'd better go back and make a fresh start. We had set out to say that spring is here and cookery ideas begin to run counter to roasts, gravy, hot soup, and in the direction of fruit, salad, and—fish. (Are your worms and bent-pin ready?) It’s a bit late for ersters and a bit oily for stream fish, —but recipes will keep, and here are a few suggestions. | It will be easier to trim, scale, or | skin fresh fish if you sprinkle salt | on your hands and the fish: you can get a better grip on the critters. (Really fresh fish is red about the | gills and the eyes are bright.) | Those lucky enough to drag their own fish out of a lake or brook will not worry about recipes—they will just clean ‘em and fry ‘em in bacon fat or roast ‘em in ash-paste ac- cording to the ancient and honor- able custom of fishers. Fish to be boiled whole (innards cleaned out, of course) may be wrapped in a bit of clean cheese cloth to keep it intact; it should be put to boil in warm water, since cold will draw out too much flavor and hot may break the skin. After tt begins to boil, allow 10 minutes per pound to finish. For mild, flavorless varieties, flavor the water with soup greens, such as a carrot, celery, onion, leeks, parsley, first browned in fat. For frying, it is tasty when first dipped in cornmeal or flour. For baking, it is good with stuff- ing. (Shad, bass, haddock.) For filling use very small cubes of dry bread, or bread crumbs, mixed with what is available—an egg if possible, high price of gas to the door of} | public, master of ceremonies announces j that the studio is filled with mem- bers of the Grand Army of the Re- Sons of the Confederacy, and other scns and daugiicrs of this and tuat, end boy sceuts and girl) scouts, “Come on, boy scouts. Come on, girl scouts’—the plecge to the | flag and the Star Spangled Banner. | A Civil War veteran recites the Get- tysburg Address. The master of j ceremonies plays up the Grand Old such a system an attempt to cover| Roys with a lot of ballyhoo about the Civil War. Then some slosh | about those “men who have not died in vain,” and a wish for these “Grand Old Boys—for peace and prosperity for this our beloved coun- try.” Also on Monday, on the National Radio Forum, Senator David I. Walsh, of the Senate Committee on comparing the relative strength of the British, Japanese, and American navies. He elocutes. His voice is ned fish with mix- | ture, and if it is a big one, make | three or four slits in the back with a knife and fill in with little strips of bacon or salt pork. If they are just adolescents, or bantam types, simply drape a bit or fat pork over them and bake. Little strips of clean cheese-cloth laid under the fish will make it; easier to take from pan without sticking and breaking, (To Be Continued.) .... Can You Make ’Em | Yourself? Pattern 1812 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. | Size 16 takes 342 yards 39 inch fab- ric and % yard ruffling. Illustrated | step-by-step sewing instructions in- | cluded. 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 SIXE. Seasoning, chopped parsley, fine- chopped onion, celery—and a bit of milk. ‘ Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th St., New York City. insinuating, threatening, melodra- matic. The poor little American Then he presents his solu- tion for world peace: The last arms reduction conference failed because the United States, with an inferior navy, was forced into a position where it could not offer to reduce /its arms, but could only ask other j; countries to scrap their ships. But now, With a navy built to treaty strength ov 1936, the United States will be in a position for the first time since 1921 to argue about dis- arming. With a strong navy the U. S. will be able to offer to scrap its ships if the other nations do likewise. (That is why we must enter upon this naval building program). If we don’t arm, how can we disarm? If we don’t have something to scrap, ferences? Then suddenly he broke down. His voice quivered with emo- tion: The war clouds... like the hand of death ... no one can know : +. at any moment ... our be- loved ones . . . our commerce and our foreign investments.... J. S. BEST WORKERS’ PAPER Allentown, Pa. Every worker's red heart the world over is happy that Comrade Dimitroff is safe in the land of the Soviets—the Fatherland of the Working Class. That the Daily Worker is the best workers’ paper outside of the U. S. S. R. (this is not flattery)—there is no doubt about it. Even the ene- mies of the workers and Commu- nists admit it openly. The men- tality and the worth of any man is not the amount which is in his bankbook, but what kind of paper he reads and what kind of books. The articles by Comrade D. Z. Manuilsky are the best one can read about conditions in Austria since 1918 and the role the Social- Fascist leaders played ever since. But comrades—be careful—75 lines in Article X—by D. Z. Manuilsky, twice. Comrades, here is a sugges- tion: Start a pictorial section in the Daily Worker, with photographic and cartooned faces, titled “You Shall Know Them by Their Deeds.” On one side of the page print the photographs of all true leaders and heroes of the working class the | world over; on the right side of the | same page print the faces of all} misleaders and traitors of the work- | ing class, since time began. | We want to see and know our| leaders and the workers’ traitors. Comradely yours, D. J. G. 8. CAPITALISM FORCES CHILDREN TO LABOR New York City. Believe it or not, I once believed the following statement which I read in a capitalistic newspaper: “A feather in President Roosevelt’s hat is the decree recently enacted which abolished child labor in our coun- try.” But now I have a confession to make. Today I was guilty of having exploited a young boy who is one year older than my little daughter. The boy is eight years of age. T was coming out of the Canal St. subway station, when suddenly I heard a meek little voice saying to me: “Shine, mister?” I looked down and lo and behold I saw a little mite of a black-haired boy, who should have been playing with his friends. His ragged appearance Naval Affairs. He gives figures| gead-heading. It’s true we are not how can there be any peace con-| page 6, of March 1, are repeated | | 50. cents.) Must Continue Fight for Vacations to Include Those Under 21; New Paper Stirs Interest the “Telegraph Messengers’ | Voice,” which was put out by the | Telegraph Messengers’ Union, 114] | West 14th St., got results immedi- |ately. The bulletin quoted a notice that was sent to managers of the| Western Union Telegraph Company ; Manager: A number of messengers have raised the question about vaca- | tions with pay in view of the statement made in Rule 64 of the to this new ruling was so wide- spread that the Western Union Co. immediately sent follow-up notices | saying that messengers over 21/ years of age are to receive vacation | time at 75 per cent of their pay, vhich is what the clerks and other employes of the company get. Although this is a victory which was achieved through the “Messen- A Fighting Program for the Dining Car Workers, NEW YORK.—The first edition , of gers’ Voice,” nevertheless it shows up the move of the company to divide the messengers on the basis) of age, By making this distinction between messengers under 21 years old and those over 21 the company } hopes to weaken the attempts at organization and arouse antagon- ism between the messengers. The messengers must be on their guard to see that their ranks are not divided and continue the fight for vacation with pay for boys under 21 years of age. From all over the city messengers | showed their enthusiasm over the |paper by asking when the next one will come out and sending in all sorts of letters and articles to be ublished in it. This is the first time that this large body of young workers, who are suffering the most intense exploitation and misery, have ever had an organ to expose these conditions. For the first time the messengers are being or- ganized and organized under a union run and controlled by them- selves. What this means to the hundreds of messengers is shown by the steady growth of the Tele- graph Messengers’ Union. The next edition of the “Messengers’ Voice” will be put out shortly and the Western Union Agent Apologizes | For Huge Profits Says Firm Only Tried To Fool Bankers By a Western Union Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—The New York district head of the Association of Western Union Employes (company union), in a recent visit to the newspaper offices, was heard by at least three witnesses to make a statement that is a fair indication of what the company union offi- |cials think of the mental capacity | of their dupes. | In a whining plea for the inter- ests of the “poor company,” he said that the W. U. “really didn’t make any money the last year or so—they just fixed up the books to fool the bankers so they could get a loan from the bankers.” ... (1!!!) Just fawncy, dontcher know . the poor, guileless and misled bank- ers. paper will improve continually. | een 3 * | By a Worker Correspondent LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.—Fel- low dining car workers: | We hope you have all read the | letter from the dining car worker | which was published in the Daily | Worker on Friday, March 30. He | shows just ‘how the company is con- tinuing to give us worse conditions by firing us without cause and then taking us back at lower wages. We also know that when we) fought for better conditions we won them. When we went down to Washington and asked the agent to be fed, he said that he couldn’t do anything about it and to take it up with Sunnyside, but when so many! | of us came and demanded to be fed| he acted plenty quick. In fact, he| j had Jimmy Barnes down in Wash- ington the next day handing out slips to different cars which fed us. We won the same thing at Har- risburg. Then we started being paid for paid for every dead-head run, but we have been paid for some of | them. | Then we forced the company to |take back Chef Anderson. But we |must continue fighting for Ander- | Son. He was a chef when he was fired and has been taken back as a third cook. This means he has had a wage cut of 40 per cent. We | must keep fighting to have him re- instated as a chef with seniority, and pass rights and to be paid for the time he has lost through this action by the company. The company has an argument with the Brotherhood of Dining Car employees which caHs for a set seale of wages. Now just in order to keep this argeement in force, the company is running about a dozen crews at these scales and the rest of us on an hourly basis. That means that we get paid for the hours we are actually on a run, with the result that while we may be away from our homes for a week} or ten days, we actually make only| $5 to $10 all during that time. Since the company has an agree- ment with the Brotherhood of Din- ing Car Employees, our first job is to join this organization and begin to fight. Not that we think the Brotherhood by itself can do any- thing for us but that we can help Tie-up of Millionaire Press and W. U. In the report of the W. U. earn- ings on March 28 appears the fol- lowing quotation from the N. Y. | Times: “Although the economy program has been successfully pursued and operating expenses further reduced by about $4,800,000. without sacri- fice of efficiency. the wage deduc- tion of 10 per cent, in effect since Aug. 1, 1932, was terminated July 1, 1933, and $4,000,000 was thus added to the annual pay of our em- ployes. Vacations with pay were partially restored effective Jan. 1, 1934.” This would lead one to believe that the 10 per cent cut had been restored, when in fact it was the second 10 per cent cut that was re~ stored. The total cut had been 20 per cent. And the 62% per cent of the second 10 per cent cut is still not returned to us. Answering a recent article which appeared in these columns from ourselves by using the Brotherhood. | S™eone who was not a W. U. em- Council No. 1 meets at the Urban League, and as members we can take the floor and bring motions on the floor for adoption. Every member: shoutd go to this meeting, and as members, when “new business” is being discussed, bring motions up for reinstatement of Chef Anderson as chef, a motion for pay for reporting time with a| three-hour minimum, a motion for) meals while reporting and a motion for full time scales and the aboli- ticn of the hourly basis, and a mo- tion against lay-offs. Then, when these motions are passed, a motion should be made to| circularize every other council on the Pennsylvania Road with a copy of them asking the other councils.to support them. UNITY COMMITTEE, Sunnyside Yards. In Omaha Tra Salvation Army’s iron Hand nsient Shelter (By a Worker Correspondent) | OMAHA, Neb.—The Federal tran- sient shelter was opened up under Salvation Army rules and restric- | tions Dec, 22. The very first morn- ing the S. A. tried to feed us mouldy bread, but the transients did not stand for that. Four of us took the mouldy bread down to the main of- | fice, to John McPherson, who is | Supposed to be an F.E.R.A. director. | On Dec. 26 the Salvation Army started a fight down in the base- |ment with one of the fellows. The | fellow worker did not know what it was all about, nor did he fight back. | The Salvation Army then called the | town riot squad which came in the | place and hand-picked six fellow | workers out of the crowd of 101 men and railroaded them right on to jail for 90 days each, without giv- ing them a fair trial. i asked for five workers to come with me down to the Unemployed Council meeting which was held on Tuesday night of every week. Then we found out there about the In- ternational Labor Defense, which | helped to get the fellow workers out of jail after they had served 10 days. Chrystie St., is in grade 2-B in public school. I asked him who had taught him to shine shoes, and he told me that his 16-year-old brother did. I asked him what his 16-year- old brother did, and the boy re- plied: “Oh, he plays baseball for money.” (Scrub games which are} played in empty lots; each boy chips in his share, usually about His father is out of work, and his mother takes in clothes whigh she makes at home and earns abdut $4 a week for it. (when she works). This scene can be repeated by the thousands in our great and glorious city. 8. R. EXPOSING THE “NEW LEADER” Bronx, N. Y. C. Comrade Editor: Some comrades in the Bronx sug- gested, upon reading the March 3 “New Leader Editor's Corner,” that the “Daily Worker” publish the whole column. In this column the most vicious slander and lies that could he printed show how diseased the minds of the leadership of the So- cialist Party are. I believe it’s a good suggestion, because everything the “Daily Worker” has ‘said of the Socialist leadership is summed up in that article. Also, to prove to the masses of workers the differ- ence between the Daily Worker and the New Leader. aroused my curiosity and I decided | to do a little research work. The | boy’s name is J. » he lives -* Hope this point ts taken under consideration, I remain. IS BECKER, I joined the Communist Party then, and have been an active worker among other transient work- ers in the so-called Government Shelter, Although we had two com- rades that stuck with us for a while, they dropped out later. Even the comrades that were released out of jail did not stick to the organiza- tion, Some of the transients listened to | the misleading organizations which | swe trying to organize them. The} organizations are the Salvation} Army, the American Legion, the I.| W. W. and the F, FE. R. A, The Salvation Army is still run- ning this place, but is trying to tell the fellows that the government is running it. We have changed the conditions considerably by fight- ing the way we have, but the work can be improved a lot yet. At the so-called Government Shel- ter at 22nd and Hickory Sts., they have an elected committee of ex- servicemen which was supposed to be elected by the majority of tran- sients, but I understand that they were proposed by the Salvation Army officials. They were supposed to help to better conditions, but it can’t be seen where they have done anything except to take the men out of the line and seat them at tables, family style, and throw out fellows that they hold in Kangaroo Court behind closed doors. Seamen of Baltimor ' Elect Delegation To Soviet Union May Day BALTIMORE. — Five hundred seamen elected R. Minor, a mem- ber of the Marine Workers’ In- dustrial Union, to represent them at the May Day celebration in Moscow. Minor is 22, an American and has worked with the U. S. Coast and Goedetic Survey and the Coast Guard. He has been a member of the M. W. I. U. since January. A joint mass meeting of the Friends of the Soviet Union and the M,. W. I. U. will be held Sat- urday at 8 pm. at Workmen's Circle Lyceum, 1029 E. Baltimore St. There will be speakers and entertainment. The F. S. U. urges that funds to assist Minor’s passage to the Soviet Union be sent immedi- ately to the International Book Shop, 509 N. Eutaw St., or to the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, 716 S. Broadway, Balti- more, Ploye we can say: “Sure! We know what ‘reduction of operating ex- penses means’ in the W. U. finan- cial report—it means it comes out of our hides (salaries).” The re- duced time workers can especially understand it. It’s about time we did something about it. Marine Union | Takes Offensive Against P & N Forcing Concessions on Hampton Roads Ship Line NORFOLK, Va. — The Marine Workers Industrial Union has put the bosses on the run in Hampton Roads, The P. & N. steamship line, better known as the black boat, forced men to work like jackasses, stay on the dock for 15 and 18 hours, and only make an average of $1.80 per day and then be chiseled out of 40 or 50 cents of that. But the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union is organized on six docks, and in spite of all the bosses’ terror has organized a local on the black boat. The thing that started them on the run was when the M. W. I. U. drew up their own code and elected two delegates to the N. R, A. code hearing, where the dele- gates exposed the rotten conditions in Hampton Roads and opened up on the facts on the P. and N, As a result: of this, the company has shortened the hours and hired regular gangs. They are now talk- ing about a pay day once a week, and this is something the P, and N, never had. They are trying to make the workers think that the company had a change of heart. But the men are not being fooled. They are taking the line of the M. W. I. U. and are working out an agreement to present to the company along with other docks, Who benefitted by the change that the P. and N. made? Isn't Beck up to his old trick? When he pu on his regular gang, didn’t he leave off many old men and put. a3 lot of boys that he could speed up’ Let's take a look at the other rob- ber on the north bound, Mr. Cham- bers. On the same week the change was made, the men made four hours and 23 minutes on Thursday and only drew $1.20, and on Friday they made three hours and 10 minutes and drew $1.20. Doesn't this show that you will have to make condi- tions for yourself better and not to, rely on the company and the N. R. A, code? If we can force them to move one thing, we can force them to move on to others. The M. W. I. U. points the way. If you have not been written up and don’t know the delegate on the dock, you can find the national organizer at 553 Church St., Norfolk, any day from 10 to 2 o'clock. Open charter, no joining fees, dues are 50 cents per month, NOTE: We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- tion and communications indus- tries—railroad, marine, surface lines, sybway, elevated lines, ex- press companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, ete—and from the communications industries—post office, telephone, telegraph, etc. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions of work and their struggles to organize. Please get these let- ters to us by Tuesday of each week, Company Union Officials| PARTY LIFE Discussing Draft Resolution . Revives Activity of Unit Chicago Member Criticizes the Indolence of Leading Section Comrades The discussion in our Unit was based upon the draft resolution for the eighth Communist Party con- vention.. At first we considered it dry, routine, monotonous material, but finaily we entered into the spirit of the document with sur- frising results. . The stress placed on Y.C.L. work made us realize that we had ne- glected our youth work. Immediate steps were taken to resurrect and revive our Y. C. L, Our work around our concentra- tion factory improved considerably. We passed leaflets to all shifts go- ing in and coming out, even passing leaflets as late as 11 p.m. to catch’ the night shift. The response to our leaflet was immediate and en- couraging, furnisning us with Meuy| cpportunities to form a mass move- ment of the workers. We have im- proved our Daily Worker subscrip- tion drive considerably. Our wor in the Relief Workers Union has improved also to a cer- tain extent. Our distribution of literature has become a reality. In short, the Draft Resolution has helped us to realize our wrong and incor- rect methods of work; has helped us to overcome some of the (mostly imaginary) obstacles in our path. As I said in the beginning, we thought the Draft Resolution a dry document, but if it is interpreted to our every day events it imme- diately becomes an advisor and as- sistant, in that it seems that those who drew up the Draft Resolution had known very intimately the con- dition of every unit and section. We hope other comrades and units find the Draft Resolution just as helpful and interesting. Section Leadership Gives No As- sistance to Shop Group Speaking. about concentration, why is it that comrades, often lead- ing ones, talk their heads off about getting contacts, but, when revolu- tionary shop groups contact us themselves, they suddenly wilt and become strangely inactive? Here is a fact about a group ore ganized in a certain important shop of about 400 to 500 workers. This Party member went to the organizer of Section 9, in which the shop is located, asking the assistance of the nearest unit in systematic distribu- tion of literature. Nothing was done. ‘Two months later the shop worker met the section organizer again and repeated his request. The organizer | took the shop-worker’s phone num- ber and another three months passed without any results. The district secretary was given at a membership meeting a note by the shop-worker, calling the at- tention of the district to the inac- tivity of Section 9 organizer. So far, everything is quiet... . Is that penetration, rooting them- selves in the masses, or is it plain . dodging of work, hiding behind revo- lutionary phrases? B, A. Unit 510, Chicago, ™H. Join the Communist Party 36 E. 12th STREEF, M. ¥. 6. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Parby. Name Street City .- oa Beth David Training School Throws Student Nurses Out Girls Who Worked Hard for $10 to $15 a Month Not Allowed to Get Diploma (By a Group of Worker Correspondents) NEY YORK —We are former students of the Beth David Train- ing School for Nurses, associated with the Beth David Hospital at Lexington Avenue and 113th Street. For the past two years and three months we have been admitted at different periods into the Training School as students, with the under- standing that during the period of two years and four months we would be trained, and would be graduated with a diploma at the end of that time. Now, suddenly, without any previous warning what- soever, we are notified by the authorities in charge that the Training School is no longer in existence and that we must leave as soon as possible. We believe that the trustees of the school must have known for some time that this was about to take place. Why then did they continue to allow young women to enter the hospital under the false pretences of receiving a complete course in the study of nursing? A few of us have been attending the school for four or five short months only. Surely, at the time of en- trance they had some idea of dis- continuing the training of nurses, Such ideas are not suddenly born overnight to be carried out next day. A number of us are orphans, with no one to turn to, with no funds available. One of us comes from San Francisco and has not even the funds to return there. Tumor From Aniline Dye George Feldman, Staten Island.— Aniline, as well as such substances as benzidin, toluidine, diphenyla- min, auramin, as well as other amines often form tumors, espe- cially in the bladder. The irritat- ing substance is breathed in by workers and it enters the blood through the lungs. It is excreted through the kidneys and on the way out it remains in the bladder for a number of hours, where it causes irritations and the formation of new growths. These are very malig- nant, causing metastases (colonies) throughout the body. Most of these tumors are inoperable when they are diagnosed. Neither X-ray nor radium seem to have been of much use in these cases. The best thing is prevention, or, as it is known medically, prophy- laxis. Besides proper ventilation and the use of closed apparatus, a microscopic examination of the urine of every worker should be made at least once every three months. If there is the slightest suspicion that there might be some bladder irritation, the worker should be cystoscoped; which means that an electric apparatus is introduced into the bladder, which can be in- spected for any irritation. Workers who are suffering from tuberculosis, syphilis or other tumors should not be employed in a factory where they are exposed to the amine fumes. PSY, NR Graolene and Lustre Shampoo D. N., Chicago.—It is not true that Graolene acts on the hair “from We know, and admit, that the hospital is low in funds and can- not continue to educate and train nurses under the circumstances. Nevertheless, the students who have already. completed part of their studies should at least be permitted to continue. The act calling for the the termination of the Trai School should not have been ma retroactive. A number of the hospitals of the city, including Mt. Sinai Hospital, have closed down their Training Schools for Nurses to all newcomers but the old students are continuing their studies. If the hospital is low in financial resources, why. does it not apply to the city or state for a loan, inas- much as the city has a ward in the hospital and is already making some contribution? Why should the two students who would have ended their studies on April 26th of this year be allowed to remain only with the understanding that they must pass examinations on questions covering material never taught at the school, and which will probably be so difficult that they will not be able to pass them? Why should we have to suffer because of the laxity of teaching methods? Why should we, after working for so many months in the capacity of regular nurses to the salary of $10 or $15 per month paid to student nurses, suddenly be turned out on the streets like so many dogs for whom no one has any further use? BETH DAVID STUDENT NURSES. By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. the inside.” It is a dye like all other dyes; the claims of Sprague- Kitchen & Co., notwithstanding. Of course it brings back the “original” color of the hair because it dyes the hair brown, instead of black, and to the superficial observer it might seem (for a short time) that the hair is regaining its “natural” color. The “bargain” that they are offer- ing you of twelve bottles for $13, instead of $1.50 per bottle, shows how anxious they are to get as much money as possible from you with the first order. They know full well that you will never order again. As to Lustre, this shampoo is offered, at a reduced price, be- cause the company is afraid that you might use soap as a shampoo which removes the dye. Another proof that Graolene is a dye, is that they ask you to re- move same from your hair when you take a permanent wave. It is well known that dyes, containing lJead and acetate, or other chem- icals, must be thoroughly rinsed out before a permanent wave can be applied to the hair. There is no substance which, when rubbed into the scalp, would be absorbed into the hair follicles and restore the original color of the hair. Anyone who would invent such a substance would become a millionaire within a few months. Our advice to you is to keep your money, unless you are itching to throw it away. i