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Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1934 Workers in Sweatshops Still Jobles Carder’s Get Low Pay Despite N.R.A. Many Foreed to Work Charity to KIRSHBAUM trad a stopp’ adway, Canal . Who are working in the sa luded in the stoppage nor the results. Why? The official of the union explained the cotton or work-pants but only | the garments made of silk. N-R.A, is responsible for having two} different codes for one and the same | trade,” he said. So the union is| not responsible, but the N.R.A. is.| How about Hillman? Isn’t he the} big cheese in Washington and the} NR.A.? | 36-Hour Week Won and Lost | About six months ago the workers | in the single-pants trade were or-| ganized by the Amalgamated. They | won a 36 hour week and an increase | in wages. Shortly after that one| of the manufacturers in this line| threatened 'to move out of town un- | less permitted to work 40 hours a} week. The business agent yielded| to the manufacturer's demands. When the rest of the manufactur- ers discovered this they demanded | the same for themselves. The union | then declared a strike to enforce} the 36 hour week for everybody in| | situation is “The | 4 at Extra Jobs or Ask Get Along being out on strike the union allowed ‘acturer to work 40 The rest of the man- it and also week. It is close since this happened re s working 40 hours According to the union, 2 4 ld be done about that, because the cotton code calls for a 40 hour week. the cutters on the cotton wage for cutters is The wages earned s on piece rate range $12 to $25 for a 40- um wages of $13. s de who generally work time ind assessments to the ut why should they do it? y receive no more than to the union or not. In some of these shops they also manufacture children’s play suits. The operators on this work do not belong to the union, yet they earn more than the pants operators who do. The significant thing about this that half of the shop is union and half is not. And the non-union workers can laugh at bers are paying for privileges they io not as yet enjoy. The fact is, however, that those | who have union books are very slow in filling them up with stamps. And I wouldn't be surprised if these shops are not to remain union shops in name only. But these modern sweat shops in the single pants trade are a blessing to the fly-by-night operators. These shops have been very busy lately, but the people sent up from the} union, after working a day or two, shrugged their shoulders, cursed the union and its leaders, and left with disgust. “This is a union shop,” they would exclaim. “Well, this may be a union shop but the prices cer- tainly are not.” And so the bosses would get their help from outside but even these generally do not last, although by their sight and appearance one would say that the victims of the industrial upheaval would do any- thing to lessen their misery. CONDUC HELEN We Get a Lift on the oad to Organization Grace Hutchins’ new book, “Women Who Work,” issued by the International Press, has already been reviewed in the last issue of the Working Woman magazine, and| also in last Saturday's “Daily:” We] wish to speak of it again, however, | in our little corner, because it con-} stitutes so valuable a handbook to all women interested directly or in- directly in bettering the conditions| of working class women. (Costs a| dollar per copy). | In 12 engrossing chapters the status, past and present as well as the future prospects, of “women who work,” (not neglecting the problems of the Negro women work-| ers), is dealt with in a highly ef-| ficient manner. | Do you wish to know, specifically, | in what ways women, especially Ne- gro women, are worse off than men, under capitalism? How and why their doubly-exploited position de-| veloped, and how the fight of the| ruling class women for “equality” differs from that of women work-} ers? The first chapter describes the situation with accuracy and clarity. Do you want to know how many| women work, in the U. S., and| where and how they are employed? Whether young or old, married or single? The second chapter tells you. | Do you want a glimpse of the hell endured by wretchedly-paid married women with children, of| their desperate search for help in} the problem of birth-control? See] chapter three. Do you want to know what life} is like for farm women, and for| the migrating agricultural workers, who rush from sowing to harvest, and starve all winter? How, when, and with what success they have revolted? Chapter four tells it. Are you interested in the hours, the wages, the conditions of work of women who are employed else-| where than in factories—teachers, | nurses, office workers, telephone op- erators, clerks, hotel workers, laun- dry workers and house workers? Chapter five. | Do you want to find out what states have no laws regulating or| limiting hours of work for women, how many looms a textile worker| must watch, what the “health con- ditions” are for the workers at that birthplace of “health-foods,’ the Kellogg plant, on the new six-hour shifts; what is the effect on the nerves of girl workers of the speed- up in the General Electric plant at Lynn, Mass.? What the wages and conditions of women factory workers are, generally, and how the N, R. A. affected them? Chapter six and seven tell it with deadly precision. Do you think that men and Women are equally susceptible to the health-menaces (especially poi- soning) of industrial conditions? Chapter eight will set you straight on this, with plenty of specific facts. Do you want to know what hard- ships and fears the mass of unem- ployed women endure? See chapter nine. Would you like to contrast the/ foregoing description with the lot of working women in the Soviet Union? Chapter ten the He TD BY LURE Do you need a concise picture of strikes led by, or involving women, up to the present time, with notes on women especially active in organ- izing workers? It’s all in chapter eleven. Lastly, do you want a statement as to the present situation as re- gards organizational work among | Women—what has been done, what needs doing, and what mistakes are to be avoided? Then the final chap- ter, twelve, will be highly valuable to you. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1823 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 3 yards 36-inch fabric and 1% yards contrasting. Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included with each pat- tern. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th St., New York City. BE SURE TO STATE — In 1 Small Room Then there is the min-| The girls in| enced card-room hand and is out | of work, so the mother of the two the minimum scale.| babies has to work in a cabaret me girls are made to| from three o'clock in the afternoon jmext morning. The pay is very m scale prescribed, they | usually it whether they belonged| earnings, this mother must support | | one person doing the work of one, that this stoppage did not include | the uion workers. The union meM-| Never in any case are the wages | advanced with the increase of labor | 9) Cents a Week Family of 6 Live | | | By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La—I saw con-| ditions here among mill hands that | were out of work that would melt} the heart of any human not hard-| ened by greed One family especially, a young| | HEALTH UNPROTECTED AT ALEXANDER SMITH | CARPET DYE HOUSE Workers Also Have No Protection Against Unemployment; Machines Replace Men By a Dye Worker Correspondent YONKERS, N.Y.—The conditions| | company expected us to live on} fresh air under the snow, rain and couple of perhaps 24 years of age,|in the dye houses of the Alexander | cold without food. They were not| father, mother and two babies, one} only about eight months, were| crowded into a room ten feet! square. py Woexmeceass marWens until three and four o'clock the small, maybe as much as $7 a week, less. Out of her small} herself, her husband and the two babies, besides paying out of the little she earns $1.25 per week for| rent. | The management of the Lane Mills continues to lay off hands and speed-up their machines and insists on two persons doing the work of three and in some cases of added to the frail shoulders of the young boys and girls, the old grand- fathers and mothers, who are told if they can't produce to get out. For 30 Hours of Forced Labor By a Worker Correspondent LA CROSSE, Wisc.—I am going to send you a few lines. am in La Crosse for some time now. I was in Milwaukee before, and they sent all of us here. Everybody seems to have a bad cough here, but no one seems to care. It’s an old machine shed, this re- lief place is. There are about 165 here. I wonder if there are not some comrades here in this place. We get lots to read here. Lots of Catholic reading sheets—there is the Catholic Sunday Visitor and He |the Catholic Journal and some |more—and sometimes they box down here, and once the Teachers’ | College gave us a band concert. | But I sure wish they would give {us more than 90 cents a week to buy things with, for 30 hours’ work. They give one a shirt and under- wear. But I need a suit and a pair of shoes before I can look like I want to. It’s been four years since I had any of it now. The government spent some mill- ions, but they pass the buck on me, saying I am single. Cheated Out of a Day’s Pay on CWA By a9 Worker Correspondent EVERGREEN PARK, Ill—I just want to tell you how the “New Pros- perity” C.W.A. jobs treated us, while | we lasted on the job. First of all, in wintertime they hired us and in springtime they fired us. From the first day they prom- ised us three months work, but the | average was not half of that, because the job did not last long enough. | Besides that, some of us were short | two to three hours on four or five days, and for myself I was short one day. It was one day of the first six I worked. I spoke to the time-keeper. He said, “I wil check up.” But nothing was done. I went to the offie again. The time-keeper was still going to check up. I went back again and this time the foreman and the time- keeper went to check up. Finally they said, “That’s right, you have a | day coming to you; we'll look in | another office.” I did not hear any- thing of it. Then I asked again, but they promised some more running around like a merry-go-round. They laid off a big gang of us, and I was the first one off, 300 to 350 men, and I stil have this day coming to me from about Dec. 13. I suppose they are still checking up. They told us to come for our checks one week from this day and I did, but I was still one day short. They are still promising me pie in the sky, but this will not work with me. I will organize and fight against cutting my children’s bread away. Action Stops Cuts in C.W.A. Project Salaries By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The key punch op- erators, which is one end of the process of the tabulation system on Project 33 in the old Public School No, 33 on Hubert and Collister Sts., received a cut in their wages with- out warning. When the rumor went to the head of the department that the girls would not be in on Monday, he Politely came back and made the statement—not to be alarmed, they would receive their cut back on one day next week, which would be Monday or Wednesday. This hap- pened, he said, due to the state tak- ing over the tabulation department. Although the key punch operators are not organized, they show mili- tancy and should get together on this floor and organize for this de- mand, no more cuts. Some girls stay and keep receiving constant cuts, while the others in the department quit. So let’s get together and make the demand that. Smith Carpet Mills are rotten. Sometimes we get two days’ work, sometimes five days’ work, and | get no work. We work at four kettles. The/ room is full of steam. The floors are always wet. The dye is full of poison and the smell is plenty bad. The company takes no care at all) of our health. with towels, but they do give us |soda and strong soap to keep our| hands clean so we can handle the thread. Many of us in the dye house have been working for the company | for many years. Most of us had a long “vacation,” without pay, of course, not very long ago. The! | trucks. The company does not supply us| truck, suffering. When we got back to work we found that the company had made The father is an experi-| sometimes a week passes and we, “improvements,” so they could save money and lay off more workers. In the dye house there used to be three gangs to handle the carpeis when they came from the frame. There were three men to each/ truck, and two on the smaller Now they have an electric which one man opt put nine men out on This street. It is impossible to live with a family under such conditions. What we need is a good union, where we can get together and organize for a living wage, decent working condi- tions, and social insurance, includ- ing unemployment insurar How Assistant Dyers’ Pay Was Cut at Weideman Shop By a Textile Worker Correspondent ; | PATERSON, N. J.—It was Chair-| man Frank Ryan who helped to put | over the cut on the assistant dyers| from 60 cents an hour to 5714 cents an hour, When the boss put the assistant dyers working on the dye tubs, they were getting 60 cents an hour, and helpers were sent home. Frank Ryan went to the superinten- dent and told him that the assistant dyers would not work on the dye tubs as long as they were getting 60 cents an hour, because they were still assistant dyers. But they could work on the dye tubs if they were getting 5714 cents an hour because they would become dye helpers. Instead of fighting to help keep the 60 cents an hour, and to keep the assistant dyers off the tubs, so} as to keep the dye helpers working, Frank did not fight for the dye helpers to keep their jobs. He did not care about them as long as the assistant dyers got cut to 5714 cents an hour. Frank Ryan said that he did not want committees to go to the superintendent, because he could go to him and straighten things out by himself. Why is Frank afraid to let committees go to the superinten- dent? Because he can help the bosses better without the com- | mittees. Weidemann workers ought to make Frank Ryan elect committees of workers to go with him when he goes to the superintendent, then the workers would know what was going on when Mr. Frank Ryan goes into the office. Chairman Frank Ryan said that. the Weidemann Dye Shop has 98 per cent better working conditions than before. All you have to do is to ask any worker who is working in Weide- mann’s and they will tell you that the conditions are rotten and worse than before, that the are more lay- offs and speed-up than before. At the Blue Bird Dye Shop, a worker who worked on a Palmer machine got paid off, because the [rubber blanket got torn on his ma- chine 20 minutes after he went home, and the other worker who was working on the machine at the time it happened got paid off, too. The A. F. of L. chairman, Tony Artieri, it is said, did not do anything about it. The workers have more speed-up in this dye shop than they did before. ACW Kickback Racket PATERSON, N. J.—I am worki local is in Passaic, N. J. We make which belongs to the A. F. of L. My fellow workers are afraid afraid of losing their jobs. wishing its success in circulation. Worker Helps LANCASTER, Pa.—William Mur- ray, a worker in a local linoleum plant, is doing his revolutionary share to help realize the decision of the Communist Party Convention in Cleveland to boost the circula- tion of the Daily Worker to 75,000 by the end of 1934, Although he joined the revolu- tionary movement only three months ago, Comrade Murray has already secured 26 new subscribers for the “Daily” in his shop, and he expects to obtain still more. “Most of the workers in my shop,” states Comrade Murray, “took the one-month special trial subscription because 50 cents was all they could spare. Some of them could hardly spare even this amount because their earnings are so small. But after I explained to them what the Daily Worker stands for they be- came so interested that they gladly subscribed. “As their subscriptions are al- most up, I went to my fellow workers and asked them what they think of the Daily Worker. “Most of these workers told me they like our Daily Worker, and that I must come around on pay WORKERS’ ENEMIES EXPOSED - ore R. Westmoreland, of Evansville, Ind., an employe of the Servel Co., has all the appearance of being a company stool pigeon, More than a year he was a mem- ber of the Communist Party and was arrested in connection with an unemployed delegation. At first he was fired by the Servel Co., but was later taken back as a kind of “straw boss.” After his re-employment, one after another, all the militant workers known to Westmoreland were fired from the Servel plant, It was also found that he gave false information about the condition and happenings in the plant. * * Alice Moser (Hays), of New Or- leans, La., has been expelled from the Communist Party for disruptive factional activities and gossipping. Although she was warned against this. several times before, she con- tinued to set herself up against the local Party leadership, gossipping about correspondence with some comrades in New York (where sev- eral years ago she had worked in the Daily Worker office), fraterniz- ing with expelled members, neglect- ing constructive Party work, and displaying other bad traits of her Petty-bourgeois background. All workers and all Party mem- bers are warned against any fur- no more cuts in salary be made. By a Textile Worker Correspondent ing in a garment factory here. We are forced to join the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, which about $13 or $14 a week. Some get less. We have to kick back $1.50 out of our pay every week. The boss takes it out. We have to pay it to this corrupt and racketeering union to say anything because they are Iam a reader of the Daily Worker. I read it every day and I am to Carry Out Convention Decision on ‘Daily’ day, when they will renew their subscriptions for a longer period. I am confident that 90 per cent of these who took trial subs will re- new their subscriptions. Recruits for Party “A railroad worker I got to sub- scribe to the Daily Worker met me on the street, and asked me how much it costs to join the Communist Party. His wish to join the Party was the result of his reading the Daily Worker for three weeks. I have an appoint- ment with this railroad worker at his home to talk to him about his joining the Party.” Comrade Murray’s experience shows that we can easily increase the circulation of our Daily Worker and at the same time gain new re- cruits for the Party. Follow the example set by this class-conscious, active comrade! Explain to your friends and fellow workers what the “Daily” stands for. Have them subscribe. Ap- proach those who have already sub- seribed and urge them to renew their subscriptions. Help put the sub drive over the top! Help rally the broad masses to our revolutionary movement in its struggle against hunger, war and fascism by spreading the Daily Worker. ’ Good Work by “Daily” Agent Helps Section Secure 95 New Subs PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—One of the reasons Philadelphia district has been making good progress in the . Daily Worker circulation drive is the good work on the part of Mollie Hartman, one of our Daily Worker agents. Through her activity, her sec~ tion has been able to secure 95 new _ subscrip- _| tions.so far in —: the drive. Mollie Hartman We think that other Daily Worker agents can do equally good work by rallying comrades to take an active part in the campaign, by seeing to it that the units, in their territories, take up seriously the circulation campaign, and by in- volving members of mass organiza- tions, trade unions, cultural groups in the drive to spread the revolu- tionary influence of our Daily a ther friendship with this disrupter, Worker ;|member, no holiday tomorrow!” Up Hat Boss Does By a Needle Trades Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I got a job at a| factory making children’s hats and| bonnets, run by A. D. Catcher, 64| W. 36th St. I was allowed to sit/ down to work at piece-work wages. | No price was mentioned. I asked one of the operators the price of the work. I was told that | no one would know the price until the end of the week, when, on a slip of paper enclosed in one’s pay envelope, the price would be printed. At the end of the week I| found out that it was impossible to earn more than $10 or $12 a week in return for 49% hours work. Friday evening I was surprised to hear the boss exclaim: “Girls, re- to that time I thought that NR.A.| regulations forbade work on Satur- lays. I also learned that the young girls aged 16 and 17, earning $8 to $10 a week, were working the same number of hours mentioned above. The shop is worked entirely on the speed-up system. The person- nel of the employes changes con- ly, for it is impossible to earn a living in this factory. Man here is considered a machine. NOTE: We publish letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers every Wednesday. Workers in | those industries are urged to write | us of their conditions of work, | and of their struggles to organize. Get the letters to us by Saturday of each week. Letters from Our Readers WOULD RATHER GO HUNGRY‘ THAN MISS “DAILY” Arlington, Wash. I am instructed through our Unit to stop the bundle of three coming to my address until we can afford to pay for them in advance. I have tried hard to get enough out of them to keep paid up, but find it impossible, and now I am busy more than ever getting ready for my Spring work on the farm. I would rather go hungry than go without the Daily Worker, for it has done more to enlighten these poor downtrodden farmers than any other paper or persons. If you will send me the bill we owe I will see that it is paid in full. And if you will send me a sub book, I will get subs for the Saturday edition. It is different here than in the city, getting to distribute these bun- diés. I have walked many miles to do my bit. I find my comrades and neighbors likewise generous. But we are all struggling for a bare existence, have the same things to fight for and our aim is to keep on fighting until we make this world a fit place to live, E. E. R. WANTS NEWS OF “SOVIET AMERICA” Chicago, Ill. In selling 10 Daily Workers every day, I find a good many workers, mostly women, show a hesitation, due to the slanderous propaganda of the capitalist press and radio. Articles published, continuous if possible, in the Daily Worker, and pamphlets for wide distribution on Soviet America, I feel, would be very useful. It is a pity to see men and women act like children that are afraid of the dark. Instead of fighting for their own good, they are fighting against themselves. Any worker wants to know what he is working for and Soviet America is the high- est pay he could strike for. To gain the native Americans, the Party membership should have a knowledge and lead discussions on Soviet America, as it will be in fac- tory, home, economics and culture. For a Soviet America, J. “DAILY” SHOWS WORKERS THE WAY OUT OF THE CRISIS Harrison, N. J. I am renewing my subscription for another two (2) months. Enclosed you will find one dollar in cash. I would like to subscribe for a year but being out of work I am not in a position to do so now, and I will subscribe as soon as possible. I look for work in the morning, making a roundhouse trip to different estab- lishments and then in the evening I go to school. I wil graduate from Barrington Evening High School in June. Due to the depression the so- cial activities of the students have been greatly curtailed, the school be- coming more business-like with no social freedom whatsoever. ‘The “Daily Worker” in my esti- mation outshines the treacherous capitalist papers because it exposes the lies printed in the capitalist papers by telling the workers the truth about the conditions existing in the United States, and the other countries as well. It shows the way out of the crisis by leading the work- ers in their struggle against capi- talist oppression, by showing the workers how to organize under the leadership of the Communist Party of the United States. Also to take control of the government by over- throwing the exploiters of the work- ing class, and establishing a work- ers’ government under workers’ con- trol just as the Russian Workers did in Russia in 1917. After reading the “Daily Worker” I pass it on to my friends, workers that I come in contact with, leave the paper in school, clubs, waiting rooms, buses, street cars, etc. I also discuss things with those I see quite often, getting their point of view and what they think about it. I have discontinued reading the capitalist papers, and read the ‘Daily Worker” because it is the only English paper that fights for and with the workers against the ruling class. Yours for Soviet America, PARTY LIFE lot Tell Price | Self-Defense: Some Lessons Until Pay Day That Workers Should Learn Backed by Mass Pressure, It Is Only Effective Method of-Combatting Capitalist Justice It has been ‘some time since Dimi- By LAWRENCE EMERY The I. L. D. organizer accepted troff electrified the workers of the| the decision, held another discussion world by his heroic and inspiring defense of himself, his co-defend- | ants, his Party and his class before the bar of Nazi justice. The Reichstag fire trial was the most important for the working class in decades. The issues at stake were of the highest political signifi- cance. The outcome of the trial could not have had more far-reach- ing consequences. More than the life of Dimitroff, and the lives of his Comrades, hung upon the result of that trial. The very development of the class struggle was affected by it. Dimitroff defended himself in court. And by defending himself, militantly and defiantly, he changed the entire character of that trial. He tore away the deceptive veil of “legalism,” he brought forward clearly the class issues of the trial and the ruling class character of the court. He transformed himself from the accused to the accuser, he turned the Nazi court into a forum, a tribune, for revolutionary propa- ganda. He spoke over the heads of judges and prosecutors to the masses, exposed the frame-up, fas- tened the guilt upon the Nazi beasts, and rallied millions to his defense and to the defense of the revolu- tionary movement, against fascism. Dimitroff is an exceptionally bril- liant, forceful and developed revo- Jutionist. Not all workers brought before capitalist courts can equal him. Yet the principles upon which Dimitroff conducted his defense hold good for all capitalist courts and can, and must, be applied by revo- lutionary workers brought to trial for their activities. Despite the forceful example of Dimitroff, many Party leaders have yet to learn this lesson. Two recent examples show the need for an understanding of revo- lutionary conduct in capitalist class courts. In Grand Rapids several leading Party members were arrested for unemployed activities. They faced trial on charges which carried sen- tences up to two years in prison. The Detroit district organizer of the IL.D. went to Grand Rapids to or- ganize the defense, consulted with the defendants, and all agreed that self-defense should be used in court. He returned to Detroit, held a dis- cussion in the District Bureau of the I. L. D,, and the decision to use ae in these cases was rati- led. However, the leading Comrades of the Party District Buro had other ideas. They called in the I. L. D. organizer, and decided that the cases in Grand Rapids were quite serious, the arrested Comrades were too valuable on the outside, there- fore they “couldn’t take any chances and could not defend themselves.” They must be defended by a lawyer! That decision was opportunism and capitulation to legalism. jin the I. L. D. Buro and finally pre- | vailed upon the Comrades to change their correct position. They hired a lawyer at $100 a week, expenses ex- |tra. Capitalist legality, capitalist court procedure was not violated. It was a Party decision. Bold, revo- lutionary conduct before a class court was ruled out as risky and dangerous; adherence to capitalist law, capitalist rules, was adopted as the “safe” method of being tried by the enemy. Those Party leaders have not learned much from history, at any rate. Resistance to self-defense is some- times expressed in other ways. In California, the leader of 8,000 agricultural strikers was charged with criminal syndicalism. The Na- tional Office of the I. L. D, insisted that he defend himself in court, (Criminal syndicalism is punishable by one to fourteen years in prison— a serious charge.) The leading Comrades in the District decided against self-defense. Their were that the defendant was too excitable and might outdo himself in court. The Comrade was compe- tent to lead 8,000 workers on strike, but was too excitable to defend him- self and his mn before capitalist justice. Certainly a strange excuse to hide capitulation to legalism, The lawyer engaged for the fense compromised the defendant half a dozen ways, and should have been openly repudiated in couré, But that wouldn’t have been the “safe” the legal and non-revolutionary— method. The capitalist court 4s a class in- strument, a weapon for the oppres- sion of the working class. The class struggle does not stop when we enter its doors; it is raised to higher poli- tical level. Self-defense is revolu- tionary defense, class struggle de- fense. Backed up by mass defense on the outside, it is the only method. which can effectively combat capi- talist class justice. The role of the lawyer must be limited to safeguard- ing the legal interests of the de- fendant which can be turned to his account in the course of the trial. Discussion of the revolutionary tactic of self-defense is badly needed. Many of us had better take another look at the example of Comrade Dimitroff, errata Join the Communist Party 36 E. 18th STREET, N. Y. ©. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name . Street City ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Nue-Ovo, Nurito C. J., Chicago—No intelligent per- son will buy any patent medicines, The leaflet you sent us about Nue- Ovo contains 500 words regarding “What new improved Nue-Ovo is,” but characteristically tells you what it is not, except the vague state- ment that it is made from roots, barks and herbs; the old stock-and trade of all nostrum manufac- turers. According to government chem- ists, “Nurito” contains milk sugar, Phenolphthalein (a dangerous laxa- tive) and pyramidon. At one time the Magistral Chemical Co., which originally manufactured ‘this nos- trum, pleaded guilty to a charge of misbranding their product. If you want to take pyramidon for your neuralgia, you can get it much cheaper by buying it from your druggist under its official United States Pharmacopeia name: Ami- dopyrin, Dysmenorrhea ¥. L. ©, Yonkers—The prescrip- tion you sent us is worthless. Viburnum (Crampbark or High Bush Cranberry Bark) has been shown to be absolutely inert and in- capable of influencing menstrual By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. D @ pain. In view of the fact that the elixir prescribed for you contains 35 per cent alcohol, it is the alco- holic content of the medicine to which the improvement (if any) should be ascribed. Not only is the Viburnum inefficient for the pur- poses usually prescribed by physi- cians and in the numerous “female weakness” remedies; but it is being constantly adulterated, so that what is sold as Viburnum is nothing but a spurious concoction consisting of mountain maple leaves. Help the Workers’ Health Bureau The care of those injured in labor struggles must interest all workers, who never can tell when they them- selves will need first aid, or med- ical advice. The medical units of the Workers’ International Relief, in order to still further increase their usefulness to the worker, are organizing a Workers’ Health Bu- reau. Their efforts must receive the help of all comrades. Send in your contributions or’ attend the Dinner and Cocktail this Sunday, April 15, at 7 pm., at the Golde Tea Shoppe, 43 W. 39th St., New York. Tickets for $1.25 may be secured at the W. I. R. office, 870 Broadway. 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