The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1934 | AFL Heads Dare Not Machinists in Akron Forcing Thru Face Budd Workers Without Thug Guard Meeting Demands Negotiations Committee Be Made Up of Rank and File Members By an Auto Worker Correspondent) | He pointed out that the men had Pa.—Richie and| lost faith in the A. F. of L. bureau- F. of L. fakers| Cracy. He demanded that Hines give he Budd work-| 2M accounting of all union funds, i so openly,| Claiming that Hines had not even paid the rent for the hall used for strike meetings. He was ejected from the hall by a couple of strong arm m Wait in Vain for Jobs At Winchester Factory (By a Munitions Worker Corre- spondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn.—A report is bei that Winchester Co. is able to pro- duce a Boy Scout rifle to such per- fection and seling for such a low price that they have taken all the d company, ped, and a new file committee elected. eral other wo: nembers of company union. that they sa greatl: issatisfied the|orders from Sears-Roebuck and anion, but the others, and that the Marlin Arms A. F. of L and the Mossberg concern would touch ied to become useless. Therefore there g circulated around the city that} v numerous th Johnso! there were \d. several kers took the int out that their entire activity had re: ed in having a company union f ed on the men, the most militant union members being fired and scabs hired to re- Place them. One worker said he had worked 15 years in the plant, and was fore- man for seven years. Yet when he was retired after the strike, he was forced to carry about scrap, paid 42 cents an hour, and be taunted by | Was a great run on Winchester for judd, | / bs. I was surprised, on the second, to find long lines of people lined up at Winchester. Three cops were there. We stood in line until 9.40 am. The manager came out and had a conference with the police, who then gave all the long lines|tO overloading of steel flat racks | militant tactics to win the strike. of people the go-by. One of the disappointed men made a three-minute speech on the side- walk. He spoke in Italian. I asked |one man what he was saying. He | replied, that he was explaining to the crowd that there was no use | looking for a job after you are 40. * * 6 the fe nen. Neither Richie nor Hines ld find an answer to that, so they called on their superior faker,| NOTE: Naturally, we do not Edward McGrady. He read a list of| agree with the opinion expressed statements from the President,|by this Italian worker who spoke which in essence demanded that/|to the crowd. The solution for the they cease all militant activity and/| older workers is not through com- put entire faith in the new com-| mitting suicide or helplessly starv- oliance board for the auto industry.| ing. There must rather be a de- He was not permitted to go on,| termined struggle organized for so- but had question after question hurled at him by workers, none of which he answered, except to tell| touch with the national office of| the men that when the new board the questions. One worker insisted that a rank lief and to get advice on organiz-| mobile Industry, the Auto Work- and file committee be immediately | ing the struggle to force Congress! ers Union, the union which the elected to effect the reinstatement) to pass the Workers Unemployment | of the 800 strikers still out of work. cial and unemployment insurance. Unemployed workers should get in 799 |the Unemployed Councils, me to town they would consider| Broadway, New York City, for ad-| vice on organizing to fight for re- Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, CONDUL gan | HELEN HIGH ENTHUSIASM AT BRONX CONFERENCE AGAINST H. C. L. Despite a sudden rainstorm last Saturday, the conference at Ambas- sador Hall, 3875 Third Ave. was packed by 178 delegates from a wide) variety of organizations, including the Amalgamated Bakers’ Union,} the A. F. of L. Bakers Union, the Amalgamated Food Workers Union, and the L. S. N. R. (in all, about 3,000 workers were represented). Largest representations were from the Women’s Councils (51 dele- gat: and various House Commit- tees (63 delegates). After reports on the work ac- complished since the first such con- ference against the high cost of liv- ing, held in the same hall last Fall, and after discussion by delegates, a new Committee of Twenty-Five was elected to go forward with di- recting the work from this point. The Committee meets Thursday A resolution was adopted pledging to continue the struggle against high living costs, on the following basis: first, the development of a move- ment to bring down prices on dairy products but not at the expense of the farmers or dairy employees— by collecting petition signatures by the thousand, by popularizing the} issues with the broad masses of workers through open-air and mass meetings, by demonstrations in front of borough and city offices of the milk companies, by sending dele- gates to the N. Y. State Legislature at Albany and to the Trade Board of the milk companies, and by mass delegations (with demonstrations) to Mayor La Guardia. The second point in the resolu- tion calls for initiation of a strug- gle against the robbery prices on| gas and electricity, the third, pres-| sure on local and federal govern- ment for increased relief and pas- sage of the Worke! Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), The fourth and last point calls for con- ac Ho Unemployment | Yep BY LUKE to them in the consolidation of their victories. This efficient and fruitful con- ference, which convened at one, was adjourned about 5 p.m. The pro- gram adopted will no doubt be car- ried out with the same despatch. Further evidence of the growing revolt against exorbitant gas prices appeared in an article in the N. Y. Times of Saturday, April lv, cap- tioned “Housewives Desrupt Gas Hearings.” “Disrupt,” indeed! wR S NOTE.—Due to lack of space, our series on beauty treatments must carry over until tomorrow. Can Vou Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1768 is available in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size 36 takes 3% yards 36 inch fabric and % yard contrasting. tinuance of the struggle against | high prices on baked goods in those neighborhoods where they have not yet come down. This is a thoroughgoing and well- rounded program which can serve as @ model for women in other cities who wish to organize similar strug- gles. We can not believe our sisters elsewhere are going to let the New ‘York women carry off all the hon-| ors for organizing such struggles against the high cost of living. So let us hear from the others! What are women in other cities doing to bring down living costs? (The Daily Worker has been accused of carry- ing proportionately too much New ‘York news: but if we are to be enabled to give reports on activity in other localities, we must have these reports sent in). But to return to our conference. ‘Two telegrams were sent, one to the Albany legislature protesting the rising food prices, the other to Gov- ernor Miller of Alabama demanding the release of the Scottsboro Boys. Attendance was by no means/ limited to women; a hearty wide) support of the movement was evi- | denced by the attendance of many! men delegates. A determined and | militant yet highly cheerful spirit was manifest: The fighters are | Pattern D:nartment, 243 West 17th Mushed with success, so more power Street, New York City. 4 i PRS 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. Militant Tacties in Spite of A. F. of L Four Killed in| 10 Weeks at Midland Steel By a Steel Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—During the last 10 weeks four workers were killed | and from 50 to 60 workers had their fingers or hand cut off, at the Mid- land Steel plant. Thursday, April 5, at 9 p. m., a young women was killed by steel falling off an over- loaded crane, and another woman had her small finger and part of hand cut off, when this stock fell down and fofced her to the press | {she was working at. About a month ago two workers were killed when a cable broke due | to an overload. One of the workers was colored who was hooking up the crane, and the other worker was white who was operating the punch ! press near where this cable broke. | There may have been more killed | and injured. I am reporting what I actually have seen with my own ve and heard from my fellow workers who worked on other shifts and throughout the plant This butchering and killing of workers is due to lack of safety measures in the factory. Some of the presses trip. and doublt trip themselves due to the wear and need of repairing. The falling of stock and breaking of cables is due | on which the stock is loaded. They are 8 ft. by 4 ft., with hooks at each corner with no sides. There is not enough racks to take care of the work produced. Sometimes these racks are stacked up with stock to a man’s height, with no guards on sides to keep it from sliding off. | I am a young man of 23 years. | When I get home I am completely |exhausted. Must keep going all the |time. Very seldom are we able to |go beyond our day rate, which is | set at 48c an hour now. The company’s profits were $672,- 728 in 1933, not figuring the high Salaries and bonus the high officials and directors have given themselves. In_ 1932 there was a net loss of | $221,295. It is our duty as workers not only to talk organization but to organize on the job into the only rank and file Industrial Union in the Auto- | | | bosses fear because it has proven j in action that its tactics give re- | Sults. Join now, do not wait, as to- | morrow will be too late. Stagger Sytem Is Still On at Gary Open Hearth Dept. (By a Gary Steel Worker Correspondent) GARY, Ind.—The Stagger System still existing in the open hearth department by way of getting the workers from different shops. For nstance, No. 3 open hearth is run- ning about 70 per cent, and No. 5 | |is running on about 40 per cent, | but No. 3 open hearth, instead of hiring more men from outside, they |are switching the men from one | shop to another. At the present time they are run- ning about 11 furnaces with only 3 engines, and before the crisis, the same 11 furnaces used to run with 4 engines. No. 4 open hearth is operating 6 furnaces with 2 engines. The crane operators are driven from Pitts Sisle Cranes to Mixer Pitts, from there to the ladle cranes down to the Stock Yard Seal—cranes, one |of the worst jobs in the whole | plant, hoisted up 90 feet above the | ground and with the lowest wages paid. Concerning the 44-inch blooming mill, the workers have succeeded in exposing one of the worst grafters in that department, but, fellow- workers, do not forget that there was a partnership with Ed. Woll. This partner happened to be the plant superintendent, under the name of W. T. Dean. Two Negro workers, Bush and Robinson, made the collection for Ed. Woll and W. T. Dean. All steel workers read our Shop | Paper, and they like it. One thing ought to have it twice a month in- |bothers us, and that ts that we | stead of once. With the improvement of the Daily Worker the workers are well satisfied, and on many occasions as I walk in the downtown districts, in poll rooms and clubs, we are having more discussions about the Daily Worker than anything else. The Daily Worker is spread out in all directions of our town, and it’s well-liked. I carry one or two “Dailies” in the mill. I just leave them on the worker's bench and so some place where I can watch as to who takes it and what they do with it. Some- times workers take it, and if nobody is around they start to read it. Sometimes they put it away and take it home. Lately there are many more stools in the mill than ever before, and, to be frank with workers, most of the stools are members of the | American Federation of Labor. Fel- | lows that work too smooth with | the workers are the ones the work- ers should look out for. The A. F. of L. is talking about Address orders to Daily Worker organizing the workers, but when |Mmany more workers if the language is ecmes to getting into action, then | i they act differenti Members Demand That Officials Spread Fight To Rubber Tire Mold Workers By a Worker Correspondent AKRON, Ohio—Over 900 ma- chinists in the job shops struck for increased wages and union rec- ognition on March 29 and have kept the shops closed tight with mass picketing. The strikers are members of the International As- sociation of Machinists, and for a| number of weeks the rank and file} tried to force action to call a strike but were repeatedly put off by the officials on the plea that the union was not yet strong enough. Finally the members could no longer be held back and a strike vote resulted. At the first strike meeting the leaders appealed to the members to picket peacefully and not to “gang up” in the vicinity of the shops, but to scatter out in twos and threes, hinting that only afew should be on the picket line. How- ever the rank and file went to picket en masse and kept it up for 4 hours a day and that closed the shops tight. Strike meetings for the most part were given over to discussing everything but the strike, from union label boosting to selling cheap gas and free parking. This was having its effect in thinning the picket line, and, to counteract cams Ah ele Dest working on rubber tire molds in Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone A AFL M are still working and keeping these uto en plants supplied with molds. Now 5 the rank and file strikers demand " that the strike be spread and these | Prax tne Uses ened st) union members be called out. In-|, DETROIT, Mich—The Associa- ternational Vice-President Harvey | tion of Wayne County Division Brown, who recently came to} Chairmen has passed the following Akron from Detroit, is opposing | Tesolution prepared by Jarvis Stan- the spreading of the strike to the| ‘on, Roland Phillips and Jas. E. big rubber plants and pleading for | Slevin. time to give the Regional Labor Roland Phillips is a protege of Board a chance to settle thestrike| State Senator Ray Gorman who before further steps are taken. | strikers the union leaders have | Phillips at one time commenced to promised them ‘hat all A. F. of L.| write a series of articles in a Detroit locals in the Akron district will| daily entitled, “Russia from Within.” support the strike financially by | After the first article it was too | levying assessments on their mem-| obvious that Phillips had never been bers, or by contributions from|in Russia as purported, and the members. One militant striker) anti-Russian diatribe was stopped suggested that this support should! pronto. Slevin is one of the two {come from the Grand Lodge and | Slevins, possibly the cheapest clowns |A. F. of L. treasury, as well as | that have appeared in the local from the local union treasuries, | political ring. and not from the poorly paid work-| “Resolved: That the entire labor ers’ wages, as these organizations | geld in Detroit area be placed under had collected thousands of dollars| an Administrative Board headed by | was a D.S.R. spotter appointed by| in a further effort to pacify the | former Mayor Frank Murphy. Mr.| from Akron workers and should spend some of it for the strike. This statement was applauded and the officials were forced to say that appeals would be made to this, the Rank and File Militants | Group issued a leaflet exposing a} |Pprogram of mass picketing and them also. At a strike meeting one mem- ber told about watching a “Com- |munist Strike” in Cleveland, how Union Officials Use Terror | they talked, then sang songs, and Two workers distributing this | singing as they marched from the leaflet were given friendly greet-|hall to the picket line. Maybe we ings by the striking rank and file,|can learn something from them as but soon two officials appeared |in this way the strikers are kept in and tried to pull the leaflets out good spirits, he said. of the hands of the distributors,| The strike is solid and there is and when this failed they followed them until the police arrived, and then had them arrested. The two workers were taken to the police station for questioning. One union Official appeared twice during the two hours the workers were held, but was afraid to swear out a warrant because the rank and file strikers were opposed to the ar- rest. The day before the arrest of the| of police | distributors three cars forced a loaded truck through the picket lines, and then speeded the} truck through red lights to shake; Tuesday. We urge workers in | off union members who were trail-| these industries to write us of ing them. i their working conditions and of The struck job shops depend! their efforts to organize. Please upon the big rubber plants for| their work and must do the jobs Letters from FATHER COUGHLIN IS FASCIST SPOKESMAN Bolivar, N. Y. Please renew subscription of H.G. S. for one year @ $6. Also I wish to renew my own for one year and to this I add an ex- tra dollar for the illustrated book- let on Das Kapital, thus making a total of $7. Please find enclosed a check of $13 as net total. In this town are two men who think they are revolutionists and that the Rev. Chas. E. Coughlin is doing a lot of good in waking up the masses, and have heard both say that they, since his discourse jast Sunday, have sent him each $1, but they will not subscribe for the | “Daily” or any other working class paper. This is absolutely opposite to my attitude for I can only see in him a bit of agitation and ex- posure of the rotten system but giving no scientific method of a way out, neither can I expect such from the source it comes, There is but one way, ie., Marx- ism-Leninism and that not from a Catholic priest. Therefore my sup- port is going to the true working class agitator and revolutionist—the Daily Worker and may it be allowed free circulation until conditions ripen for the overthrow of this capi- talist system, the emancipation of wage slavery, and the end of ex- Ploitation and suffering. All power to the Daily, Comradely yours, RAS. FORWARD TO A SOVIET AMERICA So. Chicago, Il. We from the Street Unit No. 1203 (So. Chicago), Communist Party, District 8, send revolution- ary greetings to the Daily Worker i and all the revolutionary organiza- tions for their relentless fight for the freedom of our comrades, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff, who today, because of this uncondi- tional fight, are safe in the only workers’ land, in the Soviet Union. We from Unit No. 1203 pledge | a continuous mass mobilization of | workers, Negro and white, to carry | out the program of our Communist | Party. We are going to arrange a banquet to celebrate the victory of the international working class. The amount which will be raised is going to be forwarded to the Daily Worker and the German Communist Party. On with the fight for the free- dom of the Scottsboro boys! On with the fight for the free- dom of Tom Mooney! Forward to. a working-class gov- ernment in the United States. FOR UNIT No. 1203, Frank K. Batten, Unit Crt SIMPLE LANGUAGE IMPERATIVE NEED Oakland, Calif. I have just finished reading the booklet, “Why Communism?” This is a big step in what I think to be the right direction toward reach- ing American workers. Yet it, too, could be improved upon as regards the use of large and strange words. It has long been my opinion that the Daily Worker and most of the Party literature would reach many, were simplified and our principles | and aims made clear i ; good reason why we should not ja growing militancy on the picket | jjines, which are fully manned for | 24 hours a day by participation of the entire membership. No women or children of the | strikers have been asked yet to | Picket. The spirit is buoyant and | determined, with a growing de- |mand to spread the struggle tothe | big rubber plants. NOTE: We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every get the letters to us by Friday of | each week. Our Readers Careful observation has shown me that numerous workers will not even read much of our literature. We have attempted group readings of pamphlets and the “Daily” and they have broken down because of the failure of our members to pro- nounce and understand the in- volved and complicated English. I appreciate the “language” of the Marxian dialectics and realize its value. My criticism is that it| ; Should only be used in articles on | | tactics or principles, All else | |should be in the language of the worker, plain, simple English. That is the first step from sec'arian- jism, Comradely, R. W. ET SUBSCRIPTIONS Corry, Pa. Enclosed you will find $1 for the new press fund. I am very glad the} new press is being installed. With its help the “Daily” should improve | in appearance and readability as it | has in content during the past vear. | | And it surely has improved, I think everyone will admit. The column by Mike Gold is fine. | It is easily read and understood by | anyone. The health column by Dr. Luttinger is a valuable addition to| the “Daily.” I will have to admit that before this column was started, I did not realize that there were such people as proletarian doctors in the U. S. A. All of them that I had come in contact with were of the capitalist type. So I am glad to know that we really have prole- tarian doctors and that we are for- tunate to have one as able a writer and a doctor, for health advice to readers of the “Daily.” - I liked the sports column by Ed- | die Newhouse. But in my opinion it has not been quite so good since Eddie left us. But perhaps that is because it has been more of a sports column and not so much of @ propaganda column. I am inter- ested in sports, but never read the sports page of the capitalist press. In fact it was not until the “Daily” started a sports column that I could | read about such activities with pleasure. | Another valuable addition to the “Daily” is the “In the Home” de-| partment. This offers something | special in the paper for the women, | although I would be willing to bet that it is still more extensively read by the men than the women. I am very much in favor of the Red In- ternational Cook Book. There is no TRY TO G | have the best dishes of the workers of all lands, when we can afford it. Which is seldom. But the workers of all lands under capitalism have to plan and scrimp and try various ways to get enough food to keep living. And so the recipes of the workers of other countries should offer us some palatable dishes at Jow cost. And any radical can ap- preciate that at the present time. Enclosed are two clippings from newspapers. One shows how Roose- velt’s coupen clippers’ prosperity has reached the working class. And the other one how even the miser- able C. W. A. wages may be lost to the unemployed workers of this city because the city has no funds with which to purchase materials or pay its employes, Wishing you all success, T am comradely your W.A.S. Walter P. Chrysler.” Last year, Charlie Winegar, Chrysler's tool in Detroit, who heads that white-washing machine of the) bosses, the Detroit Industrial Safety | Council, proposed that 35 years be} the limit for hiring. This was too} brutal for even the rest of the De-)| troit Employers Association, and the | proposal was not endorsed. There are men on the Chrysler factory police force whose moral code is so low that Ford would not hire them on that job. Jake Spolan- ski organized them. The enclosed cutting shows that the Ford Motor Co. hired boys 14 years of age. A Ford factory was given the fancy name of Trade School, in order that children from | grade schools could be hired. Detroit business circles say there will be a shutdown of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce plants on. May Ist. orders are down. Plants are to re- open with limited production on May 14, they say. Union men are not to be recalled on resuming of opera- tions, according to the plan. Present union men are to be re-hired six months after surrendering their Steel market | union card to the company police and applying for membership in the company union. This is “legally” voluntary, and does not violate the N.R.A., the bosses say. This is only a report and no employe has vouch- | ed for it. The Auto Workers’ Union and the Mechanics Educational So- ciety of America, not having fur- nished lists of membership, will not. be affected during the re-hiring, the reports say. War Plant Builds Up Company Union (By a Metal Worker Correspondent) GLENWOOD, Pa. — The Mesta Machine Co. of Pittsburgh held a banquet for the company employees, Saturday, April 7, at the William Penn Hotel here. The foreman had told the workers to be there or the company would find out why not next week. During the course of a speech | made by a high official of the Mesta Company, the men were asked to join the Mesta Club. This official said that in his travels through the shop he noticed many of the work- ers whom he did not know, and as he wanted to gct acquainted with them, he wanted them to join the proposed club and set up a griev- ance committee at once. He further stated that the initia- tion fee would be $3 and he saw no sense in the men paying dues into an outside orgenization. He stated he was opposed to labor or- ganizations. From the report, the men seem to have been forced to join the company union. The Mesta Machine Co. ts one of the largest and best known ma- chine shops in the country and is working now on war material. It has always been a notorious labor hater, and low wages as well as poor working conditions have prevailed in their plant. The A. F. of L, has been trying to organize this plant | recently. Birmingham Workers Take CWA Organization | Into Their Own Hands (By a Worker Correspondent) BIRMINGHAM, Ala—The A. F. of L. attempted an organization meeting of C. W. A. workers in Birmingham on Tuesday night. One of the speakers was a stool-pigeon who gave his name_as Willie S. Barr and bragged of raiding the Communist Party office in Birming- hani and of stealing some of the records. ‘The meeting was a long drawn- out affair with a lot of A. F. of L. fakers lauding the American presi- dent and patting themselves on the back. The chairman of the meet- ing looks, acts, and talks like a Holy Roller preacher. The rank and file became dis- gusted with the senseless talk of the A. F. of L. fakers and took the meeting out of the hands of the burocrats and appointed a rank and file chairman from the floor, and the work of organizing was put thus in an orderly manner. PARTY LIFE Must Receive Co-oper Recently, at a unit meeting, there were eight present. Of these, five had been in the Party for some| time, having joined the Party through language groups, and three | were young native-born workers. I} | could not help but observe how | every recommendation of these three were not only summarily re- | jected, but rejected with a cold, jdamp decisiveness, which would have cooled a lesser ardor. And | What were the main recommenda- |tions of these three native-born workers? First, the establishment of a cen- | ter in the proletarian area of the | city; second, a shifting of our ac- tivities from the outlying language | hall to the pwposed center; third, | a mass meeting amongst the C. W.| | A. workers, not to be held in the | language hall, which is situated five |miles from the proletarian area, but He the area where these workers | tive. Active Party Workers And just who were these three native-born workers? One is sec-! retary of the local American Fed-| j eration of Labor, and very active in that union. All three have many friends whom they constantly meet with among the native born work- ers. They were greeted wherever they went as “one of our crowd!” | They speak the language of other workers, go into their homes and fraternize on the. One has re- cruited 24 members into the Party in two years. One of these three has succeeded, after long endeavors, to organize an active group at the university in which are professors, students, and two of the staff of the college paper. Also, he aided in starting @ group of teachers in another town. This comrade requested the cooperation of the Section at a Sec- tion meeting. Jocosely another comrade said, “We don’t want to waste our time on that kind of stuff, with a lot of schoolmarms and intellectuals.” The District has’ not answered the comrade’s inquiry, to date, as to what to do with his growing group of professors and students, all organized, meeting weekly, but with no very apparent revolutionary road to travel. He and his two friends, alon: of an entire two-state Section, are of the firm conviction that those native students and young professors will yet be of immense value in our work. Most of our State University students come from proletarian or | farm backgrounds. Native-Born Need Opportunity This tendency is very marked in New Hampshire, and it jeopardizes our chances of climbing out of the old sectarian rut. The native-born workers and farmers, who have a closer and wider cortact with the broad masses of workers and farm- ers, should not only be given an ear, but they should be placed in leadership wherever possible; for, many of the older members, either because of language handicap or sectarianism, have no contact with the native ideology. As long as we are grouped into old timers and new comers, the majority sticking‘ |Sectarianism of Old Party *| Members Must Be Rooted Out ‘Hears of Plan | Serious Work Among Broad Strata of Workers ation of Entire Party together as one vote, fresh blood will remain on the outside. I have seen new units formed, only to disintegrate in an amazingly short time because so many of us have failed to come out of our se- questered halls to work with them, or because these new members were not made to feel the activizing ben- efits of leading roles in directing the Section. The same members continue to hold leadership, the same buro perpetuaves itself, the meetings tend to become mere mb- ber stamping of buro decisions. Criticism Opposed Most serious of all, any criticism of these tactics, pursued on the part of native, or fairly new com- rades, is branded as nothing short of open sabotage, or personal ill- will. Therefore we have long held our peace rather than make our- selves unpopular with an over- whelming language majority. A sharp change should take place, not only here in New Hampshire, but wherever we have sectarianism. I have observed the same situation to exist in Boston. No doubt we have it in many places. Untiy we tolerate, and even invite, the criticism and constructive sug- gestions of new members, yes even until we try newer comrades in lead- ing Section bodies, we will continue our turn-over, and will risk remain- jing apart from the mass of native workers and farmers. Little sliques or older or language comrades who resent innovations, who are hostile toward new faces, but continue to perpetuate their own leadership may awaken one of these days to a realization that their services are rather of the na- ture of anchors than sails. Same Evil Elsewhere This evil is not extant in this section alone. When I was District Organizer of the I. L. D., I saw the same groupings of inactives, the identical perpetuation of a buro- cratic top leadership, in Boston as in Concord. It does appear as if improvement will have to percolate down from the higher bodies. Leaders should go out into such backward, but fer- tile fields as ours, New Hampshire and Vermont. Rather than con- centrate all our active forces in- ward, I suggest a spreading out. The Districts must go into these prob- lems and not, ostrich like, plunge its head into an excavation on Tre- mont St. And what of education for these scattered units? Should the same comrades forever be dele- gates, and the lessons of delegation be lost to promising new elements? Join the Communist Party 35 E, 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Courageous Taxi Driver Dr. R. T., Manhattan.—The people who have told you the story about the taxi drivers’ lack of courage are vile slanderers. In our 24 years of medical practice, we have found no group of patients who display more gumption, fortitude and indifference to physical pain than the taxi drivers we treated during the re- cent strike. Although we offered every one of them to use local anes- thesia before séwing up their wounds, not a single one would let us do it. In one instance where we put in four stitches in a very tender part of the body, the man did not even wince, Those who are spreading slan- derous stories about the taxi drivers must be actuated not only by per- sonal malice but are probably di- rected to do so by the economic en- By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. — ——————- emies of the Taxi Drivers Union. The reason many of them refused to be taken to public hospitals, in- cluding your own, is because they knew from experience that the Po- lice Department is immediately in- formed of their presence in the hos- pital and that they are put under arrest as soon as they leave the emergency ward. It is not the fear of physical pain but that of physi- cians who play the role of dicks which keeps strikers from seeking relief at public institutions. Address Wanted John Marko—A private letter ad- dressed to you was returned and marked “Not Found.” Please let us have your right address. Correct Addresses Wanted Mrs. Mary Borden, Pittsburgh, Pa. Morris Black, Bronx, N. Y. reet the Daily Worker on International Solidarity Day MAY DAY Greetings Ld cieestbce snl eohtdlea el Ee hci peak ADDRESS ........ Rain tan: appa ee Jai ee Sauna RE SG CSTANE GND het All greetings mailed before April 22nd to the DAILY WORKER, 50 East 131TH St., New York will positively appear in the May Day Edition