The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1934, Page 4

oe se Page Four . AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934 | How a PartyUnit Was Formed| Reformists Forge Chains for Fla. Negro Worker | At Thief River Falls Meeting ) Farmer-Labor Leadership Exposed, and Way Out Through Mass Action Explained By a Farmer Correspondent THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn.— monthly tion. So when Harvey C r of tt J} dues, r County, ex- ank -and file or- kers could easily see was wrong with their organi- the relief officials ch such things as could get away firing 16 men from CWA on frame- up charges of “ too slow” and exposed. the Thief 2 paper, c and one of eys that feed at the pub! every legislature got up in the ers meeting and told the workers that they should vote all Farmer- Laborites into office; vote out all Democrats and Republicans, and this organization should support Congressman Lundeen, Gov. Olson, etz., etc. Then he began to give a long anal of why the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill didn't get put into law and that he was sure the workers didn’t want to get br over the head like they did in Minneapolis While he was speaking, Ed. C. Baumann, Communist candidate for the legislature and a miltant farm organizer, came in. After Ala- bol was done, Mr. Baumann ex- Plained just how these political fakers worked, showed actual proof for eve statement, pointed out for rank and file or- hat the only time the er did anything was ers demonstrated their mass power. Mr. Alabol never said a word, but the workers decided that th wanted Mr. Baumann to talk again the next evening. So the fol- lowing evening Ed. Baumann talk- ed for over an hour and a half to “We Are Naked and Hungry But We'll Fight for Rights” By a Sharecropper Correspondent DADEVILLE, Ala. — Since they have found out that we were in a union, they have shut down on us. wont even buy us a print . no food, no nothing, and here are nine of us in the family and no way to get anything. a packed hall of workers. He told of the conditions in the Soviet , of the conditions of plenty tarvation, of happiness hter of children instead of ty and want, of the shin- ure under a socialist form ernment, possible only after the workers and farmers overthrow capitalism and eliminate the profit system. After the meeting many workers | and farmers joined the Communist | Party, and a stron; rty unit | was established, with many former |OTanize and fight to try to better Farmer-Laborites and Demozrats| Conditions! joining the only true Party that I am an International Labor De- leads the workers to final victory. | fense member, but my husband is beste anaemia 0 eae) a share cropper union member. He} . and my brothers and sisters are| White Star Bakery going to say we are giving the boss | 2 | Hell as they give it to us. I was . | one that was run through the woods, | Workers Find NRA swemps and valleys on the night| = : that the mob crowd run in on us,| - s {but I am going to fight till I go} Gives NoProtection |éov, ior se Necro and roor wn 5 . | aa We are real unemployed. No way | to get food, no nothing. But the By a Worker Correspondent ROCHESTER, N. Y. — Cur ex-| Communist Party still grows strong. perience in a strike against the We know that the Scottsboro boys White Star bakery in this city | wuold have been dead if it had not | shows to us that the Compliance | been for the organization. Even it) % we are naked, hungry, an 1 Board of the N. R. A. doesn’t mean by the s, we are going to stand| a damn thing because we had, for) 11» ang fight for our rights! Because | four weeks, hearings every week and | we all see that this fascism grows produced plenty of evidence, and|every day. We comrades don’t care | nothing was done about it. On the|if they treat us bad, we are going | jon | to stand up and fight and organize Labor Board we got the oncorgaeeg CS Getter nonditians, jin our favor, and that’s about all, | | but the bosses know that they can r—Prin jignore the decision of the Board, James Butle Prince |and in the meantime you can walk! Of the Church and | the streets until such time as the | i loiter Labor Board might give you a deci- | Champion Exp ou | | sion and force the boss to recognize | | the Union Agreement or the repre- | | | sentative of the workers. | | | | | By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — James Butler, | founder of the chain grocery stores bearing his name, a pioneer in the} field of the chain store system, | ‘ j |passed away Feb. 20, after a lory| y we eiv i ‘ | tection they were to receive from epeaetinl baxeets | these Compliance Boards, but which | SUC¢es : liege materializes, and then of|, It is Meisel to see sie of | | course after they find out that they|the dead, therefore most eulogies | were fooled again, then the men| and newspaper articles pay tribute become convinced that they have|to him in the usual manner. He | was a prince of the church, a pa- |mo protection and consequently ‘ their attitude becomes different to-| tron of horse racing and a contribu- | | wards the System in which they | tor to Catholic church activities that | had so much faith. are doing good service. For his a | faithful devotion to its tenets and | { Members of BAKERS' UNION 14. his munificent gifts, he was created a knight or prince of the church The workers, of course, ever since | the N. R. A. came out, are all | worked up about the supposed pro- }as an unusual honor. With all his philanthropies, he |was only paying back in his own | way, for favors received and for} / \the great injury (though he had a) perfect legal right) inflicted on people of his own faith by exploit- USnwv -a0 BY HELEN LUKE EXPLORING THE COLOR {it yourself, do this: get a small ISLANDS brush on a stick (dime store) or As we have pointed out, there are| use an orange-wood stick with a/ two ways of altering our coloring—| bit of cotton wrapped around the by chemical reaction, or by coating |end, dip in lemon juice and wipe ing them; in the form of poorly paid f employes, that gave him the whip hand in competition with individual | |stores. It is well-known, that his! {spesiaity, was hiring grocery clerks | |and helpers from the Irish immi- | grant class upon their arrival, Young men, eager to start in the} promised land flowing with milk} Landowner, Commission Merchant, Government, Through C.W.A., Unite to Exploit Labor By a Farm Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, Ohio.—We started a labor union to protect the |: of the Negroes of Browerd Co., and we were at that time defeated and suffered a long time against the effects of it. I was sentenced to two years at Rayford as the effect of a frame- up, and after my return I joined companies on the credit system. The Negroes were forced to work share-crops, and the bosses would ship the produte North and we wouldn't receive any returns. And it grew out of the white farmers’ club to charge a Negro one tenth on the dollar to sell The commission merchants take |our produce such as tomatoes, egg produce. | |the farm workers of Florida Who | plants, pepper beans, potatoes, | were making strenuous efforts to | squash, spinach, cabbage, cucum- | unite. | bers, sweet peas and all perishable | In 1932, the Negroes were de-| and several were put in jail by the | | sheriff forces. This land belonged | |to the Government; only Negroes |eyery hundred crates are $20 that |; were deprived of all the land of | any value. | The seed and fertilizing could not be bought by the Negroes from the C. P. Organizer in Southern Ilinois Hurt in Accident, Drunken Coal Thugs, | Driving Recklessly, | Kill 1, Hurt 5 PANA, Ill, April 18—One person was killed, and Ralph Shaw, organ- izer of the Communist Party in Southern Illinois, and four others were injured recently in an auto- mobile accident which was the re- sult of a wild drunken orgy by four company thugs, employed in Taylor- ville, near here, by the Peabody Coal Company. After drinking and carousing | here, the thugs, Ralph Lockard, Jesse Lockard, W. Spinner, and J. Benen started back to Taylorville in a large, new automobile. About four miles out of Pana, traveling at an excessive rate of speed, the intoxicated driver lost control of the machine, and smashed into an automobile containing Ralph Shaw, his wife, and two other workers, Ernst Jones and Frank Gushes. All four workers were severely in- jured, while in the thug’s car Jesse Lockard lost an eye, and Banco re- ceived injuries which resulted in his death. Coroner Nolan of Christian | County is trying to whitewash the accident, because the driver of the death car, Ralph Lockard, is the son of Art Lockard, deputy sheriff of Christian County, and personal | guard to Mr. Aurgus, Supt. of the | Peabody Mines. Committee’ of 100 Urges Return of All Collection Lists NEW YORK.—The financial sec- retary of the Committee of One Hundred on C. W. A. and Unem- ployment urges all delegates to the conference to return all collection boxes, stamps, and collection lists Sa RAS ITER IEPs IO with a colored substance. The changes usually attempted by | women are: tinting of hair that is| turning white due to age, reddening | brown hair to get a livelier tone, | bleaching dark hair to become} blonde, and bleaching “streaky” | gray hair to get an even whit also darkening of eyebrows and ey lashes for various reasons. As t0| (Next article: “Other Bleaches, and | skin: bleaching to get a lighter| color, or to banish spots (freckles, | etc.). reddening of lips or cheeks to | get a “healthy” effect, and coating | skin with tinted powders not only | to get a more en” color, but to} prevent the gloss due to natural oils | of the skin. | pointed out, thick | opacue ci S cannot be used for most such purposes: therefore, the usable colors being transparent, a dark color of the can be} changed to light only by bleach-| ing, that is, by a chemical reaction. | There are a number of bleaching | agents, some harmless, some de- cidedly not. For bleaching the hair | or skin, peroxide of hydrogen, the | antiseptic, is harmless except that | such bleaching dries the hair a lit- tle. Fancy preparations are sold containing this bleach, but it will be cheaper and no less efficient in any way to use the plain peroxide, di- luting it with water as necessary where a slight bleaching effect is desired. Aside from the questionable taste of bleaching, there is a practical ob- jection: the hair grows out dark, so constant treatment is necessary to avoid these dark roots—a nuisance at best. (The employers of sales- girls for perfume counters in most large stores, by the way, like “gen- tlemen,” prefer blondes. The taste | of the ruling class is imposed on the | povulation, as Marx pointed out.) Peroxide is also safe for use on the skin: and, since powder, paste, or liquid depilatories contain inju- rious chemicals, peroxide is useful for bleaching hair on face, arms or legs to render it inconspicuous, when the skin is of a light tone. Ammonia is also a bleach, but be- ‘ng a powerful alkali, may cause ‘urning of the skin. Never use it vniess very diluted or in the form f “toilet ammonia,” and then with he greatest discretion. (It tends to “roduce a dead, pasty, white.) Lemon juice, while not nearly so ~owerful a bleach as peroxide, is ~referable. The juice of a lemon used as a hair rinse gives the hair > very nice gloss. It is also useful for removing vegetable, fruit, and such kitchen stains from the fin- 7ers. Comrade Natalie speaks up for lemons: “For hands: keep a lemon in the Kitchen and after finishing with preparing meals and washing dishes, serub hands in water with good, pure soap (Ivory or castile) and rub well with lemon, especially rough or stained spots. It helps also to smooth and soften them, to rub in every night a mixture of glycerine and rosewater, and if hands are very neglected put on an old pair of cottcn gloves over night. | “Tf you cannot afford time and meney for a manicure and can’t do > 8 | under the nails and push back cu- ticle. If you do this fairly often, your nails will look well-kept and will not form hangnails unless you cut the cuticle. “For rough elbows and knees- lemon again, and a little rubbing ‘| with a pumice stone while taking a | bath.” Hair-Dyes.) Can You Make ’Em Yourself? | Patiern 1827 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 4% yards 39-inch fab- tic. instructions included with each pat- tern. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5e) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and _ style number, BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. ~ and honey, accepted his uncondi- | immediately. Funds for the con- Illustrated step-by-step sewing | 1827 Cha Chlams | | tional terms and low wages, below | |the scale of a living stipend, and | |from the savings effected by this | exploitation, he was enabled to ex- ~| tend his chain of stores until it be- | came one of the largest in the sys- | tem of grocery stores. | Master Grange Fails | To Stop Showing of | Soviet Film in Bryant By a Farmer Correspondent BRYANT, Wash.—Local farmers and workers in this community are | Master Grange when he dictatorially cancelled the use of the Local motion picture “Fragments of an Empire” was to be shown. This motion picture is being toured in connection with the “Voice of Ac- tion” $1,500 campaign drive. When the workers and farmers arrived at the hall, Comrade Dirk De Jonge, in charge of the tour, called a mass protest meeting, ex- posing the role of the leadership of the Local Grange as misleaders of | the poor farmers. Many rank and file Grangers joined with the United | Farmers’ League in condemning the Master Grange (and his satellites) | who is commonly known as a Ku Klux Klanner, At the protest meeting it was de- cided to issue a leaflet exposing the fascist elements who are trying to prevent the UF.L. from gaining prestige among the poor farmers here. Despite the sabotaging by the Master Grange, the motion picture was shown in a local farm-house the same evening. A good collec- tion for the “Voice of Action” was realized. NEGRO BOY FRAMED, BEATEN By a Worker Correspondent FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla—c. E. Parks, Inc., here, hired the son of |John Taylor's wife to cook in his cafe. There was a white girl work- ing there, so she told a Negro wo- man that this Negro boy told her to leave him a note in his pocket. She said that she would see to it oe C. E. Parks would turn him off. So he quit and went away to work and Policeman Barfield arrested him and brought him back and put him in jail, but he was taken out by the sheriff's forces and taken to the county line and beaten up, and was told to leave town and never return. | NOTE: We publish letters from farm- ers, agricultural workers, country workers, and forestry workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us letters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize, Please get these Ietters to us by Monday of cach week, indignant over the action of the| Grange Hall where the Soviet Union | tinuation of the activities of the New York Conference on C. W. A. must be had at once. Please bring all funds to 29 E. 20th St., the new headquarters of the Committee. dance to be held on May 4th for the Tickets are now ready for the | produce, This is put in the com- They don’t want us in the Share| Prived of all the land that they| mission mechant’s hand and he Cropper’s Union, but we are going| ad cleared up to farm on, by the|keeps it until it ripens, and sends | to die in it because we intend to|0sses putting up signs around it,|for the Negro to come and get the | The crates cost 15 cents, | g costs 5 cents, therefore} crates. packi: ck our we have to pay before w preduce, or our produce is Women and children starve and are naked at hands of these no- | good bosses. And in 1933—such farmers as} Decker, Lockley, Wiley, Sullivan, McJunkin and numerous other farmers from Homestead, Fla., and all other points where produce is grown in Florida, make it impos- sible for Negroes to carry on and to receive a livelihood. The bosse: adopted a plan to pay $1 per day. | They let the Negro work five days and one half. When I says days, comrades, I mean from 5 a.m. until | 7 pm. The Negro reformists are made bosses over others, so we plainly | see that Negroes as a whole don’t have to die to go to hell; we are now in heil, when we have a white and Negro boss to contend with. At that time, Roosevelt's New| Deal came in force, such as the CWA. The Negroes worked four days and were cut off, and the Sheriff, Wald Clark, Bob Clark and Chief Shan Charley Becker of the police department, authorized the} Negroes to go to work for Mr./} Decker. This farmer built up a front with the city and county of- ficers to make Negroes work for him at $1 per day and 5% days per week, which netted $5.50 per week, Wemen go before daylight to pick beans at 15 cents per hamper, they can’t pick as long as the dew is on, henceforth they wait in the fields until about 11 o’clock before going to work. Cleveland Furniture Workers Win Complete | Victory in Their Strike) CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 17.— Two hundred workers of the Cleve- land Furniture Co., who recently were on strike under the leadership of the National Furniture Workers | Industrial Union, went back to work | with a 100 per cent victory. They gained recognition of the union, a | 15 per cent flat increase in p2y for) | all workers. All the workers fired in the last strike were re-hired. The strikers maintained a 24-hour | picket line during the strike. They forced the city to grant relief fcr} 47 of the strikers, during the strike. Most of those who were involved in the strike are young workers. The union is formulating special youth demands and youth activities for the young workers. i | What is your Unit, trade union, | mass organization doing to get mittee, and can be had at the above address. OUR OWN “BOARD OF HEALTH” New York. Dear Comrade: With regard to the comrade who | Was mistreated by the Board of Health when he applied for a food- handler’s card, I want to say that this has been the experience of nearly everybody who has had any business with LaGuardia’s new boloney deal. But why doesn’t the comrade ap- ply to our own Board of Health, to Doctor Luttinger. If he is a Party member and has no money, he'll get a card for nothing. I got ;one and not only a thorough ex- {amination, but was treated better than by private physicians. The comrade doctor actually told me, “It was a privilege to serve me” and pushed a half buck into my hand. That’s the way our Board of Health treats us! Comradely yours, H.M. SUGGESTS A BOOK REVIEW COLUMN New York. Comrade Editor: Ever since my reading of the “Daily” I have found our paper to be a true fighter for the workers, through its exposing of the bour- geois “labor” parties, reformist or- ganizations, strike-breaking organi- zations as well as all fakers and slave drivers. But Comrade Hatha- way, one thing I feel is missing, and that is a column for the daily criticism of our books, which can be turned into a powerful educa- tor. Here is my reason: In the Y.C.L. I see mainly ex- perienced members, who know what books or pamphlets to read, for their education in the movement, economically as well as politically. This, comrade, is equally so in our Party. We have our schools, but only our comrades and close sym- pathizers go for their education. What is most needed in the move- ment is the masses. Among the masses we find work- ers who are on top of the fence, yet do not know where to drop. Many of them read the “Daily,” but are very cagy about taking an active part in our movement. That means that these workers must be clarified theoretically as well as in activity, as to what we mean. The way to draw them in is through criticism of our literature, in our daily paper. This will given them a stronger benefit of the united front com-| Letters from Our Readers new subscribers for the Daily | | Worker? Help put the sub drive over the top! desire for reading of books which explains and clearly points out the need for a socialist society. The criticism of our literature. which shows their life a hole of misery, is a@ strong way of drawing the back- ward, as well as those “on the fence” nearer to our ranks, as well as a tightening and strengthenig of ourselves in our ranks through education, The “Daily” must be a powerful fighter as well as a good educator. “Books for the Daily Worker” can be a strong weapon in our hands. Comradely, J. G. Y.C.L. Sec. 15 Unit 12. TECHNICAL ERRORS - New York Dear Comrades: I have a criticism to offer which is, I think, of supreme importance. I am in complete accord with your attempts to increase your circula- tion and broaden your scope in the class warfare as a weapon of the Communist Party. Your purpose in reaching a constant array of new readers is being sabotaged by a constant and persistent technical inaccuracy, which can be under- stood by a Communist like myself who fully agrees with your policies. But a new reader who, inculcated with all the capitalist demagogy against the Daily Worker, and pick- ing up the issue of March 24 to find that “the cabmen are striking for 23 dollars a day,” and on page 5, column 3, “The sixth Congress—in the summer of 1823.” These inaccuracies are local points for persons only too ready to seize the slightest excuse to attack the party. Whether we want such ele- ments or not, it is not to our benefit that they—this class—do have them. Furthermore, with the advent of the new and modern press and the union wages received by our print- ters, the Daily Worker staff must be severely criticized for this failing, if only on the score of good jour- nalism and a Communist standard of discipline and production. So I close with a knowledge that this criticism will be regarded as entirely of a constructive nature and will be treated in such a light. Should I be guilty of confusion or lack of experience on this score, I am only too ready to avail myself of your experience and knowledge for my correction. Comradely, | falsified. Farm Woman Toils For a Little Milk And Torn Clothes By a Farmer Correspondent TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, Ala—I am I am a widow woman and I live with my mother and father, and both of them are old. I have no one to help me at all and the people that I live with make me wash for them and they don’t pay me any- thing but things they don’t want,| a little milk, and old worn-out| clothes. But I have to put up with| it to have a place to stay. | I haven't got clothes to change | I have one dress to wear to| church. I wore it all last year,| and I am still wearing it. I think that if there was ever a person needed help it is me. I did all that I could when the women were working at the grave- yards, and they would not let me on. I have gone to so many people for something to do, and they turn me down. Just any little thing that I can do to earnestly help my- self I do it, and I am doing what I can in the local. Musicians Gain in Fight on Burocracy, InLocal Number 802 Rank and File Nail the Lie of Canavan at the Union Meeting By R. F. NEW YORK.—On Monday, April 9, 1934, at a regular membership meeting, the members of Local 802, American Federation of Musicians, reached the turning point in their militant fight for local autonomy (self-government), The rank and file took the offensive and the offi- cials were decidedly on the defen- sive. The members gave their pop- ularly elected by-laws revision com- mittee and special-elections com- mittee a vote of confidence. In a resolution, unanimously adopted, the members demanded thas the two committees continue with the work of revising the local’s by-laws and holding a special election for re- placing the seven appointed offi- cers with democratically elected of- ficers, Mr. Canavan, the chairman of the governing board, appointed from above, used the filthiest tactics in his attempt to stem the flood of| rank and file revolt and indigna- tion. He had rats, disrupters and police-spies from the industrial squads mingle with the member- ship. (The members kicked out one nolice-spy whom they caught entering through a side door. He could not show a membership card and he said Mr. Canavan had in- vited him. He was ejected despite his high official references and he missed a beating.) Canavan Stalls Mr. Canavan stalled along, hoping the members would leave without adopting their resolutions. He openly lied about the minutes of the previous meeting which he had The members booed Mr, Canavan to his face and called him a liar. In his pathetic and idiotic attempts to save his face he accused Richard Cohen, a member who re- cently died, of having introduced a question into the minutes as io whether the action taken by the members at the previous meeting was legal or not. Mr, Canavan stood before the members and seriously stated that “Tt is unfortunate that Richard Cohen whe asked this question has committed suicide since the March 19 meeting and therefore he can not verify my statemen’.” The members howled with laugh- ter at this absurd claim. The mem- bers forced Mr. Canavan to expunge this lie from the record of the previous minutes and overrode him at several points by appealing from the decision of the chair. The members unanimously sup- port the rank and file committees and if they continue their present line of action there is no power which can prevent them from get- ting local autonomy. In sending ir ney subs to the “Daily” please write the name and address of the new sub- scriber clearly. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS! The names of workers who write to the Worker Correspond- ence Department of the “Daily Worker” are never published un- less we are especially authorized to do so. The staff of the “Daily Worker” understands that to print these names might mean local perse- cution. Hence every precaution is taken to make absolutely cer- tain that all names are kept secret. However, we request that all letters sent directly to the paper be signed. We ask this because frequently letters arrive from important shops and industries from which special information is urgently needed. Valuable information concerning the activities of labor racketeers, secret war prepara- tions, and similar events are fre- quently obtained from worker correspondents with whom we are able to get in touch when any hint of this information comes into our office. The effectiveness of the “Daily Worker” can be tremendously increased if we are able to get in instant touch with correspond- ents in various sections of the country and in various industries as occasion demands. S| ~'| Dist. 8 Members Pledged to || PARTY LIFE Carry Out Convention Tasks Basic Tasks Among the Negro Workers and in Metal, Railroad, Stockyard and A.F.L. CHICAGO, Ill, April 16—At a the Chicago Party organization, after hearing the report of Comrade Gebert on the 8th National Conven. lution: “1. After hearing report of Na- tional Convention of our Party, by our District Organizer, Comrade Gebert, we, the active of the Chi- cago Party organization, fully agree with the davisions of the Eighth National Convention. We note with satisfaction the increased growth of American and Negro proletariat and the ever greater participation of our Laundry Workers Plan Gen. Strike |2,000 Meet in N. Y. C. Conference NEW YORK.—Delegates repre- senting 2,000 organized and unor- ganized laundry workers met in conference Sunday to discuss their problems. The representatives, among whom were delegates from the A. F. of L. and the Laundry Workers Industrial Union, elected a unity committee of 15 for the purpose of calling mass meetings and issuing circulars in order to popularize and organize a general strike movement as the only solu- tion the present miserable condi- tiens that exist. The conference also instructed the unity commit- tee to consider the establishment of an independent union to unite all the existing organizations of laundry workers. In night court, Doris Vanderpod, young Negro woman strikers of the Spic and Span Laundry, was given a suspended sentence. The arrest grew out of the numerous attacks by the police on the strikers. Ap- pearing in court with the picket sign still on her back, she testified how the policeman attacked her on the picket line and how she de- fended herself. Make sure that your greeting will appear in the May Day edi- tion by mailing it at once, ad- dress, Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. tion of our Party, the Active unan-/| imously adopted the following reso-| our Party among the native born| | Party in the struggles of the Amer- going to tell you my condition. | Meeting of the active members of| ican working class. “2, We further realize that such an improvement and growth was made possible not only because of the correct analysis of the economic | and political situation in the coun- |try, but in the daily application of this line in the daily struggles of |the American proletariat. We also note with satisfaction the complete absence of factional friction in our Party and the complete unity of our Party, on the line of the Comintern, | for the tasks confronting us. It is jonly such a Party that can success- fully lead the American working class to final victory. “3. We, the active of the Chicago | membership, pledge fully to support | and carry out the tasks outlined in the National and District Conven- tions and to carry out the central tasks adopted by the District Con- |vention especially in the Stock | Yards, steel mills, metal shops, rail- |road and work in the A. F. of L., j|among Negro masses, unemployed, | youth and women; and to build the unions of the T.U.U.L. “We further pledge to carry out the tasks of increasing our Party membership in our District to 5,000 dues-paying members by January 1; to triple the Daily Worker circula- tion and the Y.C.L. in our district by January 1. “Our foremost immediate task be- fore the entire Party membership is to mobilize the working class of Chicago to come out 50,000 strong for the demonstration on May Day. “Forward to an increased tempo of our work in the organization of the working class under the leader- ship of the Communist Party in District 8! “Forward to a successful mobiliza- tion of the working class in struggle for their everyday needs, against social-fascism and fascism; for de- fense of the Soviet Union, and for the final overthrow of capitalism.” Join the Communist Party 36 E, 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name |] Street City D @ iI AAAVises: ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Dinitrenal for Obesity D. M, Providence, R. I.—The patent medicine “Die Nigh,” which you are referring to is probably Dinitrenal, the chemical name of which is Alpha Dinitrophenol So- dium Compound. It is composed of the sodium salt of the dye, dinitro- Phenal, to which has been added charcoal and suprarenal substance and it comes in pink colored cap- sules. The dose is two capsules daily but we advise you not to take it unless you can be under medical supervision. An article on Dinitrophenol appeared some time ago in this column. By referring to back copies of the Daily Worker, you can get all the information on the possible dangers in the indis- criminate use of this drug. egress The Organ of Writing M. M,,sDayton, Uhio.—We do not understand what you mean by the “organ of writing.” The hand is usually the organ with which we write, although some people who have lost their hands have trained themselves to write with their feet by holding a pen or pencil between their toes. If you mean creative writing such as writing novels, plays or essays, then the organ of writing is the brain. The ability to write can be developed to a certain extent; but the power of thinking, imagi- By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. nation and other faculties of the creative mind are to a great extent hereditary. The school of writing which sent you the circular cannot teach you to think, nor is there any medicine which will develop your brain power. The rules of punctuation and gram- mar can be learned from text books and style can only be acquired by | constant reading of the masterpieces of literature, unless you are born with an individual style of your own, Alcohol does not develop the “or- gan” of writing; black coffee and strychnine might stimulate you for a short period, but this is followed by a depression which has to be overcome by larger doses of stimu- lants. ‘i * 8 The Work of the Physiotherapists V. U., Danville, Va.—Physiothera- pists are licensed to practice in the State of New York, under su- pervision or under orders from duly qualified physicians and surgeons. The work they usually do consists in administering various forms of electric treatments such as High- Frequency, Galvanic, Faradic, and Sinusoidal currents; Diathermy, In- fra-red, Ultraviolet (Mtrcury-quartz and Carbon arc) radiation; Thermo (heat), Hydro (water), mud, para- fin treatments and electric baths; massage, medical gymnastics and high-colonic irrigation, MAY Gree —H, H. reet the Daily Worker on International Solidarity Day All greetings mailed before April 22nd to the DAILY WORKER, 50 rast 131m St., New York will positively appear in the May Day Edition DAY tings AMOUNT $:.......:..s000 NX