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Page Four oar.LY WORKER, NEW YORK, TURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1934 Shop Paper Forced Use of ‘Revolt at the (Qust Matthew Smith, Safety Device in Gary Mill By a Steel Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind. Well, we have spotted another Ed. Woll, only this new grafter’s name is Andy Sehles- singer, the foreman of the Pickle House in the merchant mills. w we have su Ed. Wi f crane. This enables them to get along without a regular crane op- erator. The result is that Hender- son gets the cables all tangled up, endangering the lives of the workers. Fellow workers, demand that lar men be employed. Fight inst the bosses operating other jobs! the Open Hearth Depart- ment, the big shots threaten the workers not to pay for off heats in all open hearths. There is talk that the company may raise wages, but in return they will refuse to pay tonnage on the off heats, (heats of the incorrect analysis) until they are able to sell the heat to some other company which wants to use such type steel. In plain English this means the men won’t get paid for off heats and will have no way of checking up when their heat is It is a wage-cut on a grand As a result of the} st issue of the Gary paper in the cannot take} | sold Open Hearth men must fight against this proposal of the com- trial Union. Unless the work- tis they cannot WORKER CORRESPONDENTS Help Us With the May Day Edition Many of the readers of the “Daily Worker” have partici- pated in May Day struggles in the United States. A good many of them undoubtedly took part in the historic 1919 May Day demonstrations. Still others remember the May Fisher Body ~ Local Meeting McKinnon’s Red Baiting | Fails to Explain AFL Treachery By a Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, Ohio. — The open meeting of the Fisher Body local of the American Federation of Labor showed the growing indigna- tion of the auto workers against |the sell-out which Miley, McKin- |non, McWeeney, Green and Pres- ident Roosevelt put over on them. There were a couple of moments at the meeting when it looked as | though the chairs would fly any | second. A developing opposition to |the leaders of the A. F. of L. is| to the Mc- | becoming a real dan: Kinnon-McWeeney clique. The central point raised by the |men was on the recognition of the | Washinigton.” J iboritpeat Ak : is niggers ry : 2 y, and fighting the company’s| Union and the running of the union. | Washington. ourneys to “liberal atmosphere” cos! e M.ES.A. rank eal i cae to erganise Inte the|'The Workers wanted to know how | and file a lot of money. Victories must be won at the soene of the con- ing Steel and Metal Workers’ |the settlement gave them recogni- | flict, by mass action and mass picketing. tion. And they forced from Miley, tt back,|the president, the admission—well, | — | that there wasn’t real recognition until all the names of the union |members were turned over to De- | troit, and after they were certified they would have real recognition. | Another wanted to know how they expected to get a 100 per cent or- ganized shop, when the open shop was still allowed. Another proposed to reduce the dues. The meeting rose to the hottest point when the vice-president of | the local spoke and said: “This is jour union. We've got to run our Urges Detroit Worker Leads Men to Verge of Strike, Then Beitrays Movement; Works Hand in Hand with NRA By an Auto Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—Militants of the Mechanics’ Educational Society of America must begin the movement to oust Matthew Smith without delay. By his telegram to Roosevelt he defeated the militant produc- tion workers in their intended strike. His is a sham radicalism that leads men to a strike or to the verge of a strike and then betrays that strike movement into a movement for arbitration. Encouraged by the words and actions of Matthew Smith, the gov- ernment set up a Mediation Board but managed to leave Smith on the ;mat. This Mediation Board by its first ruling against union activities | during working hours wipes out the Shop Steward system, further | strengthening the open shop! The shop representation scheme deprives | the MES.A. of a voice. The government thus forces the M.ES.A. to resort to militancy—or perish. If the way of militancy is to be the choice, the M.E.S.A. must, first of all, ditch Matthew Smith, the com- | promiser. abor victories cannot be won “in the more liberal atmosphere of Martell, Exposed As Spy Agency Aid, | Yells, “Stop Thief” By an Auto Worker Correspondent | j DETROIT, Mich—Sunday, March 25, the Bellmen and Hotel Porters’ | Association of the A. F. of L. called an organizational meeting at which | Day struggles during the time that the Communist Party |, union our own way and put fellows was underground. Possibly there may be some readers of the “Daily Worker,” still alive, who remember the historie days of 1886-1890 when the International Day of Workingclass Solidarity was born in this country. Workers who took part in these historic demonstra- tions! Write us of what took place, Let us know how the shop workers were mobilized. Let us know about the the spirit of those demonstrations. Let the new readers of the “Daily,” who have come into the movement recently, hear from your own experiences what the militant tra- ditions of May Day are! Write us now! The last day for this material to be received is April Help us make our May Day Supple- ment a glowing history of May Day struggles and achieve- ments! the He CONDUCTED BY LURE ‘MASS ME AGAINST LUNCH-| to the purpose of a single Political SNATCHING | party. Whoever pays the fiddler Here is an announcement of | Calls the tune.” importance to parents of school (Oh my goodness, Mr. Smith, you children, especially in Brooklyn, | don’t really think that things will N.Y. ever come to such a pass that school "For a while, children in P. S. | Children would be taught, for in- 19 were getting food tickets and | Stance, that the N. R. A. (of the some articles of clothing that they | Democratic Party) {s a joy and a need badly. Lately the food | blessing to our suffering land, do tickets have becn taken away | You?) from many children, and no Mr. Smith blurs over the really clothing is given any more. A | significant point: That in Russia it committee visited the principal |is the workers who “pay the piper” but he said he could do nothing | and “call the tune” in the schools, about it. | while in Germany, Italy, and other “A mass meeting is being called | Fascist countries the schools are for Wednesday, April 11, at 284 | controlled by the ruling class, which S. 9th St., Broadway and Rodney | uses them as schools are used here, St. at the Y. M. H. A. for the |for the perpetuation of bourgeois purpose of discussing this prob- | ideology. lem. The meeting is being called eee ene under the auspices of Women’s 9 Council 13, and Schule 3.” Can You Make ’Em (Reported by Mrs. H..) And Other School Matters Here’s hoping the meeting will be well attended and that an effective line of action will be worked out. | 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. We invite a report on what is de-|Size 36 takes 24% yards 39 inch cided and what action taken, and | fabric. with what results, so we may an-| cet nounce this too. We'd suggest that copies of the very valuable new pamphlet just} issued by the International Press, | ithe Crisis,” be brought | ing for discussion if >, and for sale. It will ni vith many vital facts of use in their struggle for better education and better school condi- tions: for their kids. Our Educational Don Quixote Mrs. Roosevelt, we might mention at this point, is as busy as usual—! her latest gyration being a speech | at the Citizens Conference (at Columbus), urging “educational re- forms.” Fancy architecture and| marble halls, she declared, don’t make a good school. What we need, She feels, is a plain school, so there May be money for teachers’ salaries and books. She tills at windmills for the sake of publicity. (And to make the masses think that something is really being done for them.) She doesn’t denounce the elabo- | rate designs, complicated “architec- ture.” and costly materials of the 1,184 new bombing planes and 102 new battleships, whose construction Was authorized by her husband through the Vinson Bill, which de- dicates $750,000,000 to these arma- ments, while the administration ignores the shortening of school terms, the closing of schools, and the payless teachers. The pamphlet, “Schools and the Crisis,” gives for example such flinty facts as that in 24 states nearly 2,000 schools—regardless of WHAT architecture—failed to open Yourself? Pattern 1737 is available in sizes jin the leadership who will run it |, Tight. If the strike is delayed too Jong it would not be effective. The }| company would shut their doors and tells us to keep on striking—they |prepared all the stock they need for such an emergency. We should do as the White Motor workers did. Then we would get recognition and our 20 per cent increase and...” McKinnon, all excited, jumped up and demanded: “What about White Motor. Who told you what they | did? That has no place here. Who told you—” And from the floor voices demanded that McKinnon shut up, that the fellow be allowed to tell what happened at White |Motor, that McKinnon didn’t be- long there anyway Then a line of demagogy fol- lowed. President Miley—some fel- low from the Press Dept., Brother Spizak( appealed to the “sanity” of the men. Brother Spizak praised the union, reminding the men that it was backed by the government! That it was supported by President Roosevelt and General Johnson. And when someone wanted to know | why they weren’t recognized—he | Said: “Why we just gotta be recog- nized. It’s against the law not to recognize us.” | McKinnon was allowed the floor at the end of the meeting and threw out a real red-baiting and dema- gogic bunch of poison. He gave his usual spiel of what a wonderful record he has in the labor move- ment. with the leaders. He will always back them up. That he is 100 per cent for Roosevelt—that if Roose- velt should call him to shoulder arms to go for war today—he would gladly do it. He said that the workers talk about rank and file leadership— about White Motor—because the “Spark Plug” writes about it. He said that there ought to be a fine of $10 levied on any man who re- peats what takes place in their union meetings. He pleaded with |the workers not to pay any atten- tion to “Spark Plug.” He said that | President Roosevelt told him to get | those who are putting’ out that | paper, not to spare the government |any money in routing them out. |He said that the men are looking |for this propaganda now—and the | Communists take advantage of the | situation. “Spark Plug was distributed that same morning before the meeting, and told the workers what to do. | Ford Has No More _ Use for Veterans | (By an Auto Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—Last year when dJigadeer-Brindle Johnson threat- ened to use the N. R. A. to crack down on Henry Ford, Il Duce of Dearborn yelled for help. Rex Humphrey, chief scab-herder of ‘Wayne County’s American Legion, rushed to the rescue and Henry promised to give the Legion mem- bers jobs in the plant. A few got jobs. Then Johnson changed his mind about cracking down on Ford, and the Legion members were laid off. There are many veterans who still hug the illusion that Ford wants them. These poor worn-out shells hie themselves unto Councilman Bunk or Judge Punk for a letter to Ford’s. To the Ford Administra- tion Building the veteran goes, grasping his cherished letter ad- dressed to Harry Bennett, who never even sees or hears about it. Mr. Cameron, the famous lecturer, receives the letter, glances at the contents, then places it under the desk. Cameron then (unless in- terrupted) resumes gazing into Space, ruminating on his next lec- ture on “Maggots—Their Manners and Customs.” After about half an hour, the veteran, who thinks his letter is He said that he is always | in the fall of 1933, and that “the building of schools has almost stopped.” Doesn’t Like the Little RED Schoolhouse At the same Columbus confer- ence, Ex-Gov. Alfred E, Smith sent @ written speech which gave a gor- yusly comical excuse for oppos- (‘Jong-term”) Federal aid for schools. He thinks the aid of jools should remain the duty of the states, because if Federal aid ere given, politics might flavor ‘e education! He said: “In Russia, italy, in Germany, we have h) our own days seen the school 4 of a great people diverted re th being reviewed in the deepest chambers of the office, is handed his letter which has been under the desk all the time, and, rising from his seat, he commences his one and three-quarter mile walk to the em- Ployment office. Inside there he may wait for hours. Then he s hustled to the desk FIFT) ‘ENT! of the employment officer, who Has alien gees writes his address on the letter and coins or stamps (coins preferred) ater for this Anne Adams pattern. Write|™mumbles: “Will get in touch with plainly name, address and style | YOU when something comes along.” number, BE SURE TO STATE| 1D¢, veteran has not been asked SIZE. what sort of work he can do, as if ‘ there will never be any job for him. Address orders to Daily Worker | Home goes the veteran to wait for Pattern Department, 243 West 17th/a card calling him to work at St., New York City. Ford's, but the card never comes. A Mr. Martell, who is president of the American Federation of Labor in Detroit, was the principal speaker. Martell started by saying that he has no “quarrel” with his “revolu- tionary friends.” In fact, he said, he thinks he will be for “revohi- tion” if it comes! “Industrial unionism is not prac- tical, especially not in the hotel industry,” he said. Workers must organize into “their” trade unions, and then they will receive “con- sideration” from employers! Roosevelt received high praise for his “labor” policy. However, he felt the need to attack the Auto Work- ers Union and Communists. The A. F. of L. was the only organiza- tion that protested the wage-cuts, it is the “only” organization that or- ganizes workers for “collective bar- gaining” he went on. “Where were the Communists and their Auto Workers Union........ Why didn’t they organize auto workers?......... Instead they are attacking A. F. of L. lead- ers from top to bottom as betrayers. ‘They are paid by manufacturers to attack the A. F. of L.” he said. Who are Martell’s “revolutionary friends”? It is very clear! The S. L, P. speaker who indulged for half an hour in abstract phrase mongering about industrial union- ism, did not antagonize Mr. Martell. No danger is coming from that sect. In fact, they are very helpful, be- cause they too, attack Communists. Mr. Thomas is one of his friends. Martell is not afraid of that “rev- olution.” But Mr. Martell and his gang are, very much afraid of the rank and file opposition groups which are growing daily in all A. F. of L. locals. Workers at this meeting were mostly from the Book-Cadillac Hotel. It was a small meeting of about 60 or 70 workers, men and women, who were highly disgusted with all the proceedings. Martell, who attacks “dictatorships” did not allow the Bellmen and Porters’ Lo- cal’s president to preside at this meeting, but appointed an A. F. of L. lawyer to preside. To organize all workers, it is nec- essary that dues be as low as pos- sible. If this is Communism, then Mr. Martell is in contradiction when he says that Communists want to destroy the A. F. of L. With his accusation. that Communists are paid by manufacturers he cannot convince anybody. Workers know too much about racketeering in the A. F. of L. to take this accusation to cover his own connection with spy agencies and other enemies of the working class. { CHICAGO, Ill—wWhile this Dis- trict is doing good work on the whole in the Daily Worker cir- culation drive, a number of sections and Party fractions in mass organ- izations, trade unions in this city still fail to take decisive action to help put the drive over the top. The most important section in the District, Section 11, a point of con- centration, for |: H example, has not obtained a |single new | Saturday sub on a quota of 16, and only one-half year- ly sub ona quota of 8 daily subscrip- tions. Not one new sub has come from the stock - yards, | con cen tra tion industry. While Sec- tion 2 has se- cured more than 14 new Saturday subs li on a quota of “po 24, it has ob- Robert Behrik tained only one yearly sub on a quota of 12 daily subscriptions. Sec- tions 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 are lag- ging far behind. Section 5, which is credited with more than 26 new Saturday subs on a quota of 50, has obtained less than 5 new daily subs on a quota of 28. The International Workers Order Lagging Chicago Roce ce Hamper Sub-Drive Progress and the Inernational Labor Defense are doing very poorly. Very few members of this organizations are trying to spread the revolutionary influence of the “Daily.” Robert Behrik, an I. W. O. member and also a member of the Young Com- munist League, is doing good work. “I approach workers who I know don’t read the Daily Worker,” he says, “and let them read my copies. After this, the Daily Worker just seems to sell itself.” How about other I. W. O. and Y. C. L. members following Comrade Behrik’s ex- ample! Leading Sections Section 4 has obtained more than 11 new yearly subs on a quota of 28 daily subscriptions, and 21 new Sat- urday subs on a quota of 50. Sec- tion 9 has gained more than 11 new Saturday subs on a quota of 50, and six new yearly subs on a quota of 10 daily subscriptions. Two comrades of Unit 803, Sec- tion 8, obtained 13 new subs in one day! Units 803 and 808 of this section are linking up organiza- tion of C. W. A. and unemployed workers with the Daily Worker circulation drive. Experience shows that when workers are approached with the “Daily,” and its revolutionary role is | explained to them they subscribe to our paper. Every Unit and Section | leadership every Party fraction is called upon to take immediate steps | to rally every class-conscious worker into the important work of spread- ing the “Daily” by getting new subs- cribers. Help put the sub drive over the top! Letters from TO THE HAMMER AND SICKLE BARBER Lancaster, Pa. Dear Sir: Your sincerity is explicit—keep up the good work. Sorry to say as yet we have not accomplished a true proletarian barber to found your admirable insignia in our town. We are not Communist members but our talk, speech are daily re- lated, intended for barbers in various wards in our city. We are hoping to accomplish a suitable “spot” for agitation para- phernalia and we will succeed. Our endeavors are as well as your en- deavors worthy of the workers’ recognition. We wish to thank you for the amiable attitude you have taken regarding the hammer and sickle insignia on your windows and al- though we are not barbers, we hope your reward may be an ever in- creasing measure of good luck and an abundance of health, every last- ing happiness, providing your in- tentions are directed in the cause of the revolutionary movement. GR, 0.K. Our Readers ASK FOR PRINTING TRADES NEWS IN “DAILY” New York City. Why is it that hardly any news appears in the “Daily” about the printing trades? Many of us young workers look for guidance and ad- vice in the “Daily” since we are underpaid and unorganized. The N. R. A. means nothing to us even though the boss flies the buzzard. We look forward for news on this important industry. A COUPLE OF COMPOSITORS. eam Se (Editorial Note:—If the “Daily Worker” has not printed news about the printing trades, it is often because such news is not re- ceived by us. We urge workers in the printing trades to send us in letters describing conditions in their shops. We will be only too glad to print such mews. P. S.—Permit us to extend our \Jobs Decline At Republic. | Steel Plant! | |Stagger Plan Used by | Company for Great Discrimination By a Steel Worker Correspondent YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, — The open hearth department of Re- public Steel was cut down from 13 furnaces in operation to 6 recently. | Quite a few new workers have been | hired, and the work is so much “staggered” that many are getting only one day a week—and quite | often, in the case of the new men, | the one day that they work falls on Sunday. | Every day hundred of workers come out for work and are sent] back home. Some are forced to report twice and even three times| a day. If they don’t come out, and| the boss notices that they’re not | there, he calls their check number to work that turn, and then lays | them off for a week or so for not | being there. | The bricklaying department is subject to call by telephone at any | time of the day or night, some- | times being called out for only a | few hours and told to go home at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, when |no street cars or busses are running. | This system makes it possible for great discrimination, with some) }men working steady and others) | getting only a day or so a month. | The men are demanding equal | | division of work and the S. M. W. |I. U. local demands “Weekly Post- | ing of Working Schedules” and also “guarantee of at least one half day’s pay when called to work.” The bar mill has been working so unsteadily that employes in that department of 20 years standing have made as low as $20 for the last two years. One worker $112 for 1932 and $131 for 1933. The electric weld mill was com- pletely idle for weeks. All depart- ments operate with practically skeleton crews, with one man doing the work that 2, 3 and 4 men used to do. A leaflet issued by the Steel Me- tal Workers Industrial Union local to the Open Hearth department on the filthy No. 8 toilet forced the company to clean up the toilet a bit and give the men lights in the toilet at night. The S. M. W.I. U. is issuing another leaflet to this de- partment demanding that the com— pany fix the broken water pipes so the men can get drinking water without going all the way out to the gate for it. This way they some- times get sick working in the heat without water, and sometimes get sick going outside in the cold when overheated in order to get water from the pump-house by the gate. | The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers signed up about 300 workers, but the men have become disgusted with the “do- nothing” policy of the A. A. and only 10 or 15 attended meetings of the lodge. They called a mass meeting of Bessemer department employes, and only four workers showed up. A few days later the capitalist press which always boosts the A. A. and knocks the S. M. W. I. U., carried an- nouncement that 100 Bessemer de- partment workers “on their own initative” had applied for member- ship in a Bessmer department lodge of the A. A. and the Jodge had been formed. The S. M. W. I. Us united front program for united actions of A. A., S. M. W. I. U. and unorganized workers setting up joint committees in each and all departments has awakened considerable response among the Republic workers. Such a united fighting front is a matter of absolute necessity if we are able to win the wages and conditions that we need. The S. M. W. I. U. which was practically sleeping during the win- ter months, has become much more active inside and around the mill, and is making progress. It is safe to say that the S. M. W. I. U. has considerably more actual member- ship in the Republic than the A. A. Build the fighting union of the rank and file strong in Republic. Join the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Form joint ac- tion committees (of A. A. men, S. M. W. I. U. men and unorganized workers) in every department to fight against every grievance and for higher wages and better con- ditions. Songs of the Weirton Steel Co. Strikers (Ed Note: These songs were made up by the Weirton Steel Co. strikers). OUR VICTORY Let’s arouse to our rights and our Liberty, |Let’s shave off the shackles of slavery, Let’s learn the truth—and be set | free From J. C.* and all his company. They have made millions from our blood and sweat, They have our souls—still they want more yet; Come on, now, let’s show them that we are free From their damnable slavery. *Pres. J. C. Williams of the Weirton Plant. * * THE 100% UNION MAN* What's the use to chew tobacco ‘When you spit away the juice? What's the use, oh, what’s the use? What's the use of going hungry When there’s food laying around loose? What's the use, oh, what’s the use? | What's the use voting company union When the Amalgamated will cook their goose? What's the use, oh, what’s the use? congratulations to the “Daily” cor- respondents regardless of their na- tionality, color or creed, ===, PARTY LIFE | Correct Work 34 for Part I want to gay a few words in connection wit a shop in New York which you heard mentioned by Comrade Browder in his report. First, I want to show how the Party members in the shop forced the boss to grant the demands to the workers without a strike. We have an agreement with the boss for six months, which was due a few weeks ago. Of course the boss mo- bilized all his henchmen, to make propaganda among the workers, in order to break our organization in this shop. So we, the Party mem- bers, with the cooperation of the union organizer, mobilized our Party members in order to raise the spirit of strike among the workers and explain to them the trick of the boss, whose only idea is to break our organization in the shop, in order to bring back to the workers the low wages of $6 and $7 a week. The boss got a few girls and workers to go around and explain to the workers that they do not have to go on strike, that he would give them a raise (the wonderful wages of the N.R.A.). So we took this opportunity to bring the Party among the workers. The boss started by trying to merge with another metal shop in New York. We found this out, right away, and by working in close cooperation with the comrades in the trade union, we decided to issue a leaflet in the name of the Com- munist Party unit and Young Com- munist League exposing to the workers ali the tricks of the boss. One of our comrades took the ini- tiative of handling such a leaflet and distributed it by himself in the shop. Of course he was fired, but we got him back. The point I want to bring out is that the workers accepted this leaflet unanimously. ‘We had a meeting the same day, exposing the boss still more, and we raised such a good spirit for strike among the workers that they were in the shop singing: “On the Picket Line” and were ready to go on strike. When the boss saw this, he was forced to grant the demands of the workers without going on strike. I do not think there would be a union in that shop, if it were ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS On Venereal Disease (Concluded) It has been estimated that there is a loss of $84,000,000 in wages every year due to venereal disease. The medical bill has been estimated to be about $15,000,000; allowing an average of eight treatments per case of gonorrhea at one dollar for the dispensary and at four dollars for private practice, and 22 treat- ments for syphilis at two dollars and eight dollars, respectively. In public institutions the cost of syphilis to the various state gov- ernments is eleven million two hun- dred and seventy thousand dollars ($11,270,000) annually. Besides this economic loss of over $110,000,000, the life expectancy’ of the syphilitic individual is cut to exactly half of the non-infected one. A lot of this waste could be avoided by proper education. While there are a number of books to be found in a bookstore on sex in gen- eral, there is very little anti-ven- ereal education. “Keep them in ignorance and they can’t go wrong,” the slogan of capitalist sex morals, is mainly responsible for the appal- ling spread of venereal disease, its terrific economic losses and the horrible suffering of the infected individuals. Erythema Nodosum M. S., Providence, R. I.—Most pa- tients that we have seen suffering from the above disease show signs of general infection rather than of a simple skin reaction, There are usually headache, fever, lack of ap- petite and pain in the joints. This disease, as well as erythema indura- tum, might turn out to be a form of tuberculosis. At the present Delegate to Eighth Party Convention TeHs How Threat of Strike Forced Higher Wages By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. in Shop Won 14 for Y.C.L. not for the work of the Party. Our Unit is divided into three groups, one leader to each group, which we have developed in order to cover all our political work in this shop. We received much help from the Section of our Party. We have a Comrade leader, appointed by the Section, who helps us in our prob- lems, and who shows us how to fight in a political way, because we are new Party members, I myself am only five months in the Com- munist Party. We try to teach the workers that the Party is the leader of the workers. In our strike, six months ago, we had a Socialist Party chairman and we exposed him, and with the help of our trade union, he was removed as chairman and lost his prestige among the workers. A proof of the radicalization of the workers in this shop, is the fact that in spite of the slanders of the capitalist press of New York, accusing the striking cab drivers of being Communists, our shop unanimously voted to help those workers and gave them $100. This situation was handled very wisely by our Trade Union Organizer. When the boss saw our leaflets (one on his desk) he said he was not dealing with the Communist Party but the union. Nevertheless, we recruited 34 Party members and 14 Young Communist League mem- bers, and even if the boss does not want to deal with us, we are not going to siow down in our activities until we have painted thet shop red. “NATIONAL CONVENTION. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name .....00 Street e ° time, medical opinion 4s divided re- garding its cause. Erythema nodo- sum is more prevalent among chil- . dren than adults. Furunculosis—Parry’s Vegetable Compound Andrew F., Struthers, Ohio.—The only remedies we know that might have a lasting effect on your con- dition are (1) an autogenous vac- cine made from the pus in your pimples; (2) ultraviolent radiations. Parry’s Vegetable Compound does not cure gallstones or anything else that we know. You might try it on corns and bunions and let us know the result! Detachment of the Retina William G., Brooklyn, N. Y.—The outlook in detachment of the retina depends on its cause. The best prognosis is in cases where it is due to an inflammation of the kidneys. When the detachment of the retina follows trauma (a blow) or a disease, the outlook is not so good. In such cases there might be a slight tem- porary improvement with numerous relapses; finally ending in complete blindness. Rest in bed with local applica- tions of atropine, dionine and a firm bandage over both eyes, is the best treatment in this condition. For general effect, we use iodides and injections of pilocarpine. This treatment is for recent cases and should be kept up for six to eight weeks. Among the treatments for chronic cases, we have puncture or trephining of the sclera, subcon- junctival injections of 5 to 10 per cent of sodium chloride, and igni- puncture. All these procedures can only be carried out by a good oph- thalmologist (a physician who spe- cializes in diseases of the eye). you can do this by below. Trial Offer--50c ELP win over your friends and fellow workers to our revolutionary movement, DAILY WORKER. Present them with a real revolutionary gift, a trial subscription of the “Daily”. FOR a limited period, we will send the “Daily” for one month every day or for 4 months every Saturday for only 50 cents. | Fea below the name and address of the one you want to receive the trial subscription. Use coupon reaching them with our This offer does not apply for the Bronx and Manhattan, New York Trial Subscription Blank DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th St., New York City Enclosed find $.. .. to pay for the following sub- scription at the special trial rate. 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