The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1934, Page 6

3 ; i DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934 Wagner Bill Is Machinery to Weaken Strike Effectiveness Peace of Death Is Only Peace Proposed by Measure, Dunne Tells Senate Committee By WILLIAM F. DUNNE white workers, to Keep them as a Article VIII t submerged, oppressed thus maintaining a continual division in the ranks of the working class. We demand the abolition of the use of injunctions against workers nd their organizations; the cessa-| ion of all prosecutions of unem-| d workers, of strikers, of un-| ed organizers and of union} ers for labor activity. We) e cessation of espionage reign-born workers and Import: the Bill are. cance when bill the intention to delay, and the provisions for delaying, deci- sive action by workers against em- ployers on questions of wages, hours and working conditions. The more important the employer, the more decisive the industry, the) o daere thant foe. labor more workers it employs, the more| 2ctivities, ‘These are proposals that would the National Labor Board Sin ie teeee tee wore under the provisions of this bill riogae apeineat soir manoeuver to delay action by 1 the history of cap- workers until the favorable mo- ment had passed. Aieiicly oabatatiabae’ hea oo The American working class does| ceived great favors and the best of not need does not want any| service from its government. Con-| as this, There is such I centration of capital with the ac-| v 1 companying ruin of farmers and/| uge sections of the midle class and | ishment otf | Class is the outstanding | feature of the New Deal. Never in American history has this process been so rapid. The main burden falls upon the working class, The peace that the Wagner Bill and the official program of the A F. of L. proposes is the Pax Ro- mana—the peace of death—for the | American working class movement. | It is a program of preparation for | a new drive against the working class, preparation for imperialist war, and another step towards fas- cism. We are against it. We shall| do our best to expose it, to arouse which means the cap- trick them further into he swamp of starvation wages and permanent mass unemployment We propose a flat 35 per cent increase in wages for all the em- ed States immediate | 2 people and S and organize American workers | enactment of the Wor Unem- | against it. | ployment Insurance guar-| The measures we propose are anteeing to all unemployed work-/ those the working class needs, But ers at least a standard of living ot| these measures in themselves will minimum decency—all war funds| not solve the main problem facing to be turned over for this purpose—|the working class—the question of main finance to come from taxa-| power, the question of which class tion in upper brackets. | is to run this country—a minority nd the cessation of the| of multi-millionaires and_billion- use of pi police and gangsters, | aires with their hangers-on holding | of labor spies paid by employers! the natural resources and control | and employ organizations. We} ling the government in the interest | demand the cessation of the use ot| of their small minority, or the police, state troopers and the Na-| working class with its dependents, tional Guard against striking work-| the overwhelming majority of the ers. We demand the cessation of| population of this country, who will the organized lynch and murder] rule it in the interests of the work- terro: used against the Negro|ing class and its allies, the ex- masses of the South, to prevent! ploited farmers and oppressed their organization, their obtaining | Negro masses. political rights and equality with! THE END the Heo | CONDUCTED BY LUKE EVENING AT HOME |The “home” that disappears with Just a glance through the bour-| the loss of their jobs? geois papers. Like a magic act, they| Miss Palmer knows as well as are full of doubtful surprises. Ads,| anybody knows, that women cannot ads, and more ads: astouding dis-| “compete on equal terms” with men, coveries in tht field of cosmetics—|for the simple reason that women i eT now all we need is a hundred dol-|bear children. But she is paid to lars or so apiece to become Venuses| ignore this vital fact in the inter- overnight. And here’s an item from|est of preventing working women the New York Times, “Health is|from demanding proper industrial Ranked Second to Beauty,” report- | provision for their health. In a so- ing that “an ultimatum to health, | cialist system this provision is made, in case it should get in the way|and moreover in such a system of beauty, was laid down flatly’ at|there is no vicious question of the International Convention of| women “supplanting” men in in- Beauty Shop Owners, in a “beauty| dustry, because there are always pledge” Jobs for all. So, in the interest of the “beau- —_—_——___ tification” business, we are to be} > made “beautiful” even if it kills us. Can You Make Em how women can be beautiful with- out being healthy remains one of Yourself? | rgeois mysteries. | bene eenry | silly ultimatum| Pattern 1822 is available in sizes | ymbolic of the whole bourgeois | 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size upside-down philosophy resulting |36 takes 444 yards 39-inch fabric, from a cock-eyed system of pro-| Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- duction and distribution, and fur-| structions included with each pat- ther, vividly illustrates the bour- | tern. geois notion of the subordinate posi-| _* tion of women, for while it neglects | to explain the “reason for being” of man, it declares that women’s ex- cuse for existing is to please the| eye—necessarily of man. Surely nobody objects to being good-looking, but stuff like that is enough to get any self-respecting gal’s dander up, and it’s our own non-apologetic guess that capital- ism, which tolerates such sick phi- losophies, will make a hell of a Swell-looking corpse one of these} days. The World- Telegram, women’s| page again. Its editor, Gretta Palm- | er, is still sticking up ostensibly for Women, actually for bosses. She says -“The most ardent and belliger- | ent feminists cannot urge that |I was under arrest for a serious C. W. A. Lay-Offs in Richmond, Indiana By a Worker Correspondent RICHMOND, Ind. — The C.W.A has been g the workers off | every 2 about seven gangs. On the the one I work on, gang they laid off three last week, and the week before they laid off four. | Some more will go this week, or | STATEMENT OF THE STRIKERS | Forward and the New Leader came | OF KARP BROS. FRUIT MARKET | out with the cry: “Stop thief,” and Renat— THAT HWiNG? ITS A Puoney ' maybe all. On another gang they | laid off 17 last week and on an- other gang a week before laid off twenty And I have heard from one of the dressed-up men, as I over-heard him, that this work will stop any day now. I have been talking to some of the farmers and they do not like the way the C.W.A. is run, or the Blue Eagle. The workers have been believing in their Presi- dent, but I believe they are begin- ning to study about it. Keep the Daily Worker coming— we are going to win out—we can- not lose! Jail Is Limit Of Southern Hospitality By a Worker Correspondent MIAMI, Fla.—Last fall, another | comrade and I left Cleveland for the South. In Savannah, Ga., we applied to} the R-F.C. office for work, but we were told to go to the Transient Bureau. When we got there it started with a third degree ques- tioning. We were told to wait till 3 p. m. for another interview. My partner said, “What if the second interview | is completed—what do we get out of it?” “Well,” said the R. F. C. agent, “we will send you to the Sal- vation Army and there you wait till we need you. Your board and lodg- ing will be taken out of your pay.” “Well,” said my partner, “because at the end of the week the Salva- tion Army would collect every cent I earned for board and lodging and I would get nothing.” So we left—it was not worth the trouble. It's a great racket for the Sallies. ‘We arrived in Miami, Fla., Nov. 18. One day, on Second Ave. N. W., two policemen in a roadster | stopped me, They asked my name, where from and what I was doing. I replied that I was on my way looking for work. “Get in this road- ster. We will have to take you to Police headquarters.” I saw that crime—looking for work that I} could not find. In the jail new prisoners were brought in right along, like myself arrested for walking the streets of Miami with a worker’s appearance, Next day, the prisoners were brouht before the Chief of Detec- tives to be investigated. If penni- Jess, you are kept in jail till the} next truckload of unfortunate work- ers is dumped at the couny line. And now a few words about the big wages paid in Florida under the N.R.A. codes. Restaurants: $4-$5 a week, no room. Farm work: Negro, only $1.25 to $1.50 per day, no room, no board, 10 to 12 hours work, Job Sharks Must Be Eliminated By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The misery suf- fered by the food workers in the hotels where they slave 12 to 14 hours a day is only accented by the insults and degradation which we have to put up with ef the em- ployment agencies on Sixth Avenue. According to law, they are only supposed to charge a fee of 10 per cent of the monthly wages. In many cases, however, one job let’s say, a $100 a month, is sold 4 or 5 times, the same sign appearing again and again on the board. Where there is this 10 per cent, each worker fired within a week is given back three-fifths of the fee, which is $6. The remaining $4 is pocketed by the shark. This is done four times and he has made $16 for the month, plus $10 of some worker who is allowed to keep the job more than one week, women have a right to supplant men unless they are at least as efficient. “Women and children first” may be a proper slogan for sinking ships, but it has no place im the world of business and in- dustry. “If women cannot compete on equal terms with men, then they do not deserve their jobs, and they would do much better to admit the fact and scamper back to con- tinue the work of continuing the race, on which they have a firm monopoly.” At the Barnard College Sympo- sium, however, Miss Palmer de- clared that of 48,000,000 women em- ployed in industry, 1,000,000 were working “for pleasure” whereas the other 47,000,000 were the bread- winners of their families and de- pendents. Where she got such fige ures I don’t know: in the new book, “Women Who Work,” by Grace Hutchins of the Labor Research Bureau, the number of women em- ployed in industry is given at 10,- 750,000 in 1930; the fact does re- main though, that of the women who are working, we all know well enough that the vast majority do not go out to work because women as a class wish to “supplant” men as.a Class, but because they jolly well have to find a job or starve. “They would do well to scamper back” says Miss PaJmer. Scamper back to what, we'd like to know? Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) 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 St., New York City. in which case nothing is returned, realizing thus a profit of $26 on one job. There are hundreds of such cases. These job sharks have spread their tentacles all over the state of New York. It is impossible to es- cape them, and once on Sixth Ave, the sharks take care to have you return ever so many days, back where you leave off, round and round in a vicious circle from boss to agency. When Gov. Lehman called a meeting in Bryant Hall just before election time, he promised that if elected steps would be taken to change this situation. He has been in office for two years, but the sit- uation is worse than. ever. For in- stance, the Hippodrome agency has printed contracts where they pre- pare to extract from the worker a fee of 10 per cent of his weekly wages for 10 successive weeks; which is actually 25 per cent of the monthly wages. Soon a petition will be issued by the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union demanding the abolition of these shark agencies and the setting up of free employment agencies where the workers will be in con- trol, to be maintained by the city. In sending in new subs to the “Daily” please write the name A. F. of L. Union Signs Up Scabs, Then Tries to Have MilitantPickets Arrested | 2221-65th ST., BROOKLYN Lately the “socialist” press, the and the “New Leader,” have been publishing articles about an agreement that the officials of the Grocery, Dairy and Fruit Clerks Union of the A. F. of L. signed with Mr. Karp, who, so they claim, opened a fruit market and took in| 20 workers, all members of their union, and that the Food Workers | Industrial Union put up line in front of that store. | Such lies could only be printed in these “socialist” papers. | We who worked for Karp Bros. | for many years had to work under | the most unbearable conditions. On | Thursdays and Saturdays we had to come in at 6:30 in the morning and had to work until 2 or 3 the next morning. The officials of Local 338 of the on A. F. of L. union never came to} our support. We, the workers, then | got together and decided to join| the Food Workers Industrial Union, under whose leadership we walked out on strike on March 20. Then came the officials of Local 338, Messrs. Sadofsky and Hoffman, an old injunction they had against the F.W.1LU., and had us all arrested and charged with vio- | lating Section 600. But when even a capitalist judge | in the Coney Island court, had to rule this injunction out, and dis-| 4 | missed the charges against us, the | a picket | hi jin this way trying to confuse the | residents of Bensonhurst. At the last membership meeting | | of Local 338, the rank and file re- volted. Cries of “scabs,” “We wouldn’t scab against our fellow workers,” were thrown into the faces of the officials, who broke jup the meeting in order to silence the revolf, of the rank and file. Of course, the “Socialist” papers wouldn't mention anything about | is. Comrades and sympathizers! We are only a short time in the labor movement and we never| heard of such an open betrayal by leaders of a union. We challenge the “Forward” and | the “New Leader” that if they can | prove Local 338 had one worker working for Mr. Karp prior to March 20, the day we walked out , We will withdraw from the picket line a we'll give these | racketeers a free hand to go on with their strikebreaking. HARRISS WOOCIKER, IRVING NEMEROFF, WILLIE KAPLAN, SAMUEL KNIGIN, |to quit ‘Karp Bros. Market Strikers! “4 Aub Wab., ‘DenounceSocialist Press Lies Pays $3 Per Week By a Worker Correspondent AUBURN, Wash.—On the C.W.A. job I was on, we made as little as $3 a week! The work’ was staggered among | two crews. We were laying a pav- ing and couldn't work in the rain as the stuff would not stick. ‘The workers are becoming less docile every day. “There’s going to be a revolution sure as hell,” and Eeuco a stag GR ert mn ren ib “They can’t keep up this relief for- ever and they haven't the courage it either,” these are the common remarks now. We have a new Friends of the Soviet Union local functioning here, and are reorganizing a C. P. unit. We expect an attendance of 15 at our next meeting. Braintree Bosses ‘Break Promises on ANTONIO. ROSALIA, | MORRIS ZARROW, | PHILIP ROSE, | SIDNEY EINHORN, | DAVID DRESNER, | ABE KAUFFMAN, | IRVING WEISS, | BEN NEUFELD. | Exposes More Rackets Of Steuben Taverns | By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The Steuben Tav- erns, a chain organization of nine units, in addition to its kick-back system, as exposed recently in the Daily Worker, conducts a Sixth Ave. employment agency whereby its em- ployees are further robbed of their wages. To get a job with the Steu- ben Taverns, you have to go first to the Cameo Employment Agency and pay them a fee of at least $5 and often as much as $25 in ad- vance. Then you have to go to a doctor to get yourself examined, but it’s the doctor they pick out for you, David M. Brown, of 434 Sev- enth Ave., who charges you anothe: 50 cents. The writer doubts that there are 10 employees who have been with Steuben’s longer than six months, as Steuben’s policy is to fire their help shortly after they are put on, so that they can collect another fee from another sucker. The Cameo agency is operated by Nat Stark, a brother of one of the owners of Steuben’s. There are several other rackets worked, including the charge of $10 for bonding some of the workers before they start to work, and charging 50 cents for meals of food that can’t be sold, and taking away in addition 28 cents for the time spent in eating. Philadelphia, Detroit Score Sharpest Gains in Sub Drive NEW YORK—Philadelphia and Detroit, Districts 3 and 7, respec- tively, showed the best improve- ment in the Daily Worker circula- tion drive during the last week. Philadelphia sent in 67 new daily subs last week, compared with 50 the week before; Detroit obtained tained 47 new subs, against 30 in the previous week. The following chart shows the number of new daily and Saturday subs each district sent in during the week ending April 4th, com- pared with the number they ob- tained in the week ending March 28th, ‘New Daily New. Sat. Subs Quota Subs Quota 1. Boston 212-200-160 1,000 2. New York 298 — 51 3. Phila. 335 500,123,000 4, Buffalo 93 150105300 5. Pittsburgh 137 300 77 600 6. Cleveland 324 500 245 1,000 7. Detroit 199 500 89 1,000 8. Chicago = 424. «= 750 575—«1,500 9 Minneap. 160 200 184 400 10. Omaha. 121100 7 200 ll, N.&S. Dak. 53 100 76 = 200 12, Seattle 56 300 58 600) 13. Calif. 94 350 22700 14, Newark 175-300 45 600 15. Conn. 77 ~~ 200 37 = 400 16. N.&S. Car. 12 50 5 — 17. Alabama 45 50 200 18. Milwaukee 96 200 48 400 19. Denver 60 = 150 53300 ae F 6 — 4 — TOTAL 3,032 5,000 2,048 10,200 The sub drive, now in its twelfth| week, should show marked gains, But as the above table shows dis- tricts are falling down. While 620 new daily and Saturday subs came in during the week ending March 28th, only 575 were sent in last week, There can be only one answer to this, comrades! More forces are district should take immediate steps to mobilifie forces in the cam- paign. Only in this way can we obtain a Bolshevik victory in the drive to gain new subscribers for our Daily Worker, one of our most powerful weapons in our struggles against the capitalistic oppressors, The Daily Worker appeals to every class-conscious worker, to every Party member, to every member of militant trade unions, AF.ofL., opposition gorups, of mass organizations, especially of the LW.O., the ILD. to help put the drive over the top. Every reader of the “Daily” get- ting only one new subscriber will assure victory in the drive. Ap- proach your friends and fellow workers, explain to them how the Daily Worker fights for the work- ingclass, urge them to subscribe to the “Daily.” Do this at once! The table below shows the num- ber of new subs obtained by each district since the start of the drive up to and including April 4th: needed at once in the drive. Every Daily Subs Sat. Subs Distr. Apr.4 Mar. 28 Apr. 4 Mar. 28 1 18 1 7 i aT 5 7 37 25 13 9 16 16 10 16 M7 24 35 70 18 8 iL 48 34 103 16 5 18 7 2 5 3 4 8 * 3 15 7 1 8 a1 3 9 8 ee 5 3 2 5 16 1 13 5 7 7 4 rs 278 174342 CONTRIBUTES TO ORGANIZE MASSES AGAINST N. R A, STARVATION Albany, N. Y¥. Dear Comrade: Enclosed is $4.00. Two dollars from Comrade Katchman and $2.00 from myself. Two dollars for the new press, and $2.00 to have Com- rade Minor’s speech before Boss Johnson of the N, R. A. published in pamphlet form for united front propaganda to organize the masses against N. R. A.’s hunger and star- vation campaign against the mid- dle class, poor farmers and the working class. I also suggest that we change the name of the “Daily Worker.” The name “Daily Worker” would indi- cate that we are working daily to feed all the ruthless exploiters, mur- derers, and thieves, and all their lickspittles in the country. It doesn’t sound revolutionary to me. I am sure most of your readers and the executive committee wil support my suggestion. Let us call the “Daily Worker” «The United Front,” which sounds more revolutionary and more appealing to human intelligence. and address of the new sub- scriber clearly. Comradely, Rk. M. Our Readers THE SLEEPING GIANT “LABOR” IS WAKING New Kensington, Pa, Being an ardent admirer of both you and your paper for quite a while, I have become very enthusiastic and I write these few words on how I interpret your paper and your party —the Communist Party. If I were a cartoonist I could do it better and clearer but as I’m not, Tl try my best with pen and ink, I think of labor as being a sleep- ing giant—unaware of his great strength, tied to the earth by a group of little men (with apologies to Swift for extracting this from his book—Gulliver’s Travels”), And I think of the Communist Party using the ‘Daily Worker” for a spear prodding this sleeping giant to awake and get his rights. But maybe I’m getting to be a pest. bothering you like this and more than likely I’m wasting some of your valuable time, so I'll close with a toast and a hope that the Commu- nist Party goes over the top.—L.J.L. (Editor Note: — Fred Ellis, the American cartoonist who is now living and working in the Soviet City Employes’ Pay By a Worker Correspondent SOUTH BRAINTREE, Mass.—In 1932, the municipal employes of the Sacco-Vanzetti frame-up town of Braintree, Mass., which is domi- nated by the Braintree National | Bank and the Morgan - controlled Cities Service Refining Company, were “asked” by the town offi- cials to “donate” 15 per cent of their pay to the Welfare Department; the 15 per cent cut to stop in January, 1934. A week after the local elec- tions of last March, at a town meet- ing, the question of restoring or continuing the 15 per cent cut came up and the workers voted over- whelmingly to restore the cut. At the same meeting, it was voted not to reconsider this question. When the town officials, selectmen and finance committee, all business men, realized the great victory of the workers against pay cuts, they at once condemned the votes as il- legal and not being in the town warrant; then adjourned the meet- ing until the following week. At the second town meeting it was easy to see that the bosses had not been idle. The town hall was packed, including all the aisles and lobbies. Amplifiers were placed everywhere. The head of the finance committee opened the barrage against the workers by stating the town was the second worse off in the state. “The Finance Committee,” he said, “after careful consideration makes a motion that all the items in the budget for the following year, for which an appropriation of $302,- PARTY LIFE | Unit Leader of Interest Outsi fered to sell 15 copies of the special A. F. of L, issue of the Daily Work- er, when a motion was made to order 50 additional copies, for a unit of 19 members. Daily Workers every Saturday, which is very poor for such a large unit. This special issue is to boost the the development of mass struggle for unemployment insurance. | The unit organizer spoke against ordering 50 extra copics. An amend- ment was made to order only 20 extra copies and the unit organizer led a majority vote in this amend- ment. During the discussion I stressed the importance of circulating the Daily Worker among the A. F. of L. workers and pointed out that a big unit like ours should handle more than 50 extra copies as that is less than three copies to a mem- er. We haven't recruited a new mem- ber in our unit for several weeks and the last one was recruited by ja new Party member transferred from another unit, who came in through a strike. How can we build the Party and the Daily Worker if the unit lead- ership does not show the way? Unit 314, District 8. Sec. Org. Sec. 8., Chicago, Ill. eer eas Knowing that the district is con- centrating on the stockyards, I be- Party Task With Daily Worker Chicago Worker Criticizes Unit Buro for Lack As a member of the Communist Party, at my unit meeting I of-| We only get 30| yards. most important task of the Party, | The above facts are correct—CF., | Underestimates de Own Territory came acquainted with a stockyards worker who works in a day depart- ment in a key plant, Armour’s, while I was selling Daily Workers. He moved outside the territory of Section 3 to a place near the stock- I visited his home paying my own carfare (I am unemployed) and made arrangements for a meet- jing with him at his home with a number of other workers in his de- partment, under the personal guid- ance of one of the leading members of Section 3. I reported all this to my unit buro, and asked for 14 cents car fare, which said it wasn’t interested and even criticized me for going outside the section to work. I know if I didn’t take care of this contact no one else would. I am bringing an | A. F. of L. member into the Party, I am trying to do the most im- portant work that the Party is talk- ing about. The leaders of the unit are not doing this. On top of this | they criticise me. L. K., Chicago, Unit 301, Section 3. | Join the || Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. ¥. 6. |] Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street ..scssssesecseevssccscees City ... On Venereal Disease B. C., St. Joseph, Mo.—The tone of your letter shows that your ap- proach to the subject of venereal disease is not in the right frame of mind. You seem to be actuated by mere curiosity in a question which should interest you vitally. How- ever, the figures that we are going to print below might interest other readers of the Daily Worker ,who will appreciate the seriousness of the venereal peril. Gonorrhea is not merely a “lover's catarrh!” The incidence of ven- Doctor By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. 000 is asked, be voted for under a|ereal disease is entirely out of pro- single blanket vote.” portion to other infectious diseases. The trick in this motion was to| Gonorrhea was known to the Chi- smother the question as to whether|nese 5,000 years ago. The Bible this appropriation did or did not in-| describes the disease and provides clude the amount of the 15 per|rules for the prevention of its cent cut in wages. However, several workers de- manded to know what the appropri- ation would be when the 15 per cent is included. The Finance Chairman was com- pelled through mass pressure, to disclose that with the restoration of the 15 per cent cut, the appropria- tion would have to be $362,000. Only three or four workers spoke. The moderator had promised un- limited discussion, but after only eight people had spoken and it was still early in the evening, a motion was made by one of the clique to close the discussion and put the question. The result was a defeat of the workers. Workers of Braintree! Force the town officials (you voted them in to protect your interests) to keep their promise to restore the 1932 wage rate. Demand that absentee millionaire owners of the huge profit making Cities Service Co. pay at least the same rate of taxes as the workers are forced to pay, instead of the much lower rate they are assessed. BRAINTREE TAXPAYER. $3.30 A WEEK By a Worker Correspondent PASSAIC, N. J.—A few days ago, @ young worker said to me: “I am working for a lawyer in Passaic as an office boy. I run er- rands to other law offices and banks, keeping the office in order, taking care of the files and aiding the stenographer in typing and other work. For this, I receive $3.30 for a 48-hour week. “This lawyer also employs a ste- nographer who is kept very busy and is paid $10 a week. The office boy who worked before me also re- ceived the same wages and after working for three years, he gave up hopes for a raise.” Spring Is In Full Bloom The Easter Week Rush Tel. Beacon 731 Cars leave daily at 10:30 a, m. from Co- operative Restaurant, 2700 Bronx Park East. Ph.: Estabrook 8-1400. Private Quarters Again Available (Classified ) FURNISHED studio room, private en- Union made an exellent drawing of this and we published it.) trance. Eastern Parkway and Utica. Telephone SLocum 6-6250. spread. Six hundred and seventy- nine thousand (679,000) new cases of gonorrhea are reported in the United States every year. Over eight per cent (8.6) are male and nearly three per cent (2.7) are fe- male, In other words, nearly six (5.7) per cent of the population of the United States are suffering from gonorrhea alone. It should not be forgotten that this represents only about half of the number of the cases reported. A large number of cases are never reported, either by the physician or by the health au- thorities. The main reason for this is that there are more cases treated by pharmacists and “friends” than by physicians. Those who treat themselves with a dime’s worth of potash (potassium permanganate) in a gallon of rain water only apply for treatment to the physician when their condition becames seri- ous. There are twice as many cases of gonorrhea reported than there are of diphtheria; there are four times as many cases as of smallpox and six times as many cases as of typhoid. There are more cases of gonorrhea reported than there are of tuberculosis. A little over 19 per cent of all the totally blind in New York City owe it to gonorrhea. These are the figures for 1924 and 1925. In 1928, owing to more rigid observance of using prophylactic drops in the eyes of the newborn, the figures dropped to nine per cent. One-third of the infections are in individuals under 25 years of age and the Survey of the United States Public Health mentions eight thousand seven hundred (8,700) cases of fresh gonorrhea in young girls under the age of 15. Every year there are nearly a half a million people (423,000) who ap- ply for treatment for syphilis. There are probably three-quarters of a million syphilitics in the United States that are now under. treat- ment. The incidence of syphilis is 3.46 cases per thousand; males 4.42 and females 2.32. The number of unreported cases is unknown, (To Be Continued) Training for the Class Struggle WORKERS SCHOOL 35 East 12th St., New York City Telephone AL gonquin 4-1199 SPRING TERM OPENS TONIGHT! Courses for Workers Principles of Communism Political Economy Marxism-Leninism Organization Negro Problems Trade Union Strategy American Labor Movement Russian Revolution History Communist International Historical Materialism Revolutionary Journalism Public Speaking English Russian A Few Classes Are Still Open COMMUNIST PARTY fet 66 EAST 4th STREET COLLECT ARTICLES 5 Build a Powerful Red Fighting Fund! Buy $25.00 worth of tickets for $15.00 5-DAY MAY FESTIVAL and BAZAAR May 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 MANHATTAN LYCEUM aes NEW YORK DISTRICT (Entire Building) -: ORGANIZE A BOOTH 12th ANNIVE New York Coli: Speakers: Program: FREIHEIT SINGING Admission 40c MORNING FREYHEIT Saturday Evening, April 14th, 1934 EARL BROWDER, Secretary, Communist Party M. J. OLGIN, Editor Morning Freiheit Maxim Gorki’s “STORM BIRDS,” presented by ARTEF, NEGRO QUARTET, members of Hall Johnson Choir, RSARY seum, E. 177th Street SOCIETY and DANCE GROUP. in advance, 55¢ at door, 5