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Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1934 ° [Lodi Dye Workers Defeat|Southern Mill Bosses Call In AFL Heads A.F.L. Heads, Win Demands National Textile Workers Union Prevents UTW Misleaders from By a Worker Correspondent mands ing fi past the leaders (A. F. of L.) have ring in t plant to discredit the work of the N. T. W. U. It was the N.T.W.U. which L pulled this plant out on strike in the national silk strike and which conducted mass picketing daily at the plant during the strike. The U.T.W. leaders called a mass meeting of the Lodi workers, buted thous ef ediately is- he workers mislead for sued a lea agains and ¢: the N.T.W.U The A, F. of L. meeting was called for Saturday, April 7, at 1 pm. Among the six speakers was Mr. Yanarelli from Paterson, whom the workers know as a misleader dur- ing the last strike. When the meet- ing started, members of the N. T. 'W. U. got up and exposed the A. F. of L. leadership. Comrade Saller, organizer of the N.T.W.U., spoke for half an hour, proving to the workers by facts that the A. F. of L. mis- Jeaders were just trying to dis- rupt the work of the N.T.W.U. When he asked the workers, “Who Was with you every morning on the picket line during the silk strike, these gentlemen on the platform or the leaders of the N.T.W.U.?” great cheers went up for the N.T.W.U. and booing for the A. F. of L. lead- ers. The workers then got up with Oomrade Saller and left the hall, leaving the A. F. of L. misleaders to Speak to empty benches and to their bodyguard. The workers then marched in a body to the N.T.W.U. meeting. A committee was then elected to see the United Piece Dye bosses. The following demands were formu- Stopping Struggle per ‘etch- ion 0: of jobs for union to join the out ers ss meeting “4 organizer Saller, ap- YY offices at 10 e demands Lodi, which had eived the N.T.W.U. the workers to sup- port the committee, was aroused "|and eager for the committee’s re- port. When the committee appeared jat the office, the company officials |tried to keep out comrade Saller, but at the committee’s insistence, he was admitted. After a sharp and heated argu- ment, lasting for two hours, the company was forced to grant the above demands, and beneficial changes have already been made in several departments. The bosses further promised to take up all complaints of the workers with the worke: grievance committee. Now |the A. F. of L. misleaders are dis- and the workers | credited, signing up in the N.T.W.U. Sailor Killed While are NEW YORK., April 24—Ray M. Edwards, a sailor aboard the U.SS. Cole, a destroyer, was knocked from a boatswain’s cair, badly mangled and drowned when the ship broke away from its moorings in Brook- lyn Navy Yard yesterday afternoon. ‘The ship's officers were trying out the engines while the destroyer was tied up to the dock eye-witnesses report. Edwards was painting the ship’s side. The ship swerved and swung away from the dock, knocking Ed- wards into the water, when the of- ficers placed too much strain on the lines. Edwards’ body was picked out of the water three hours later. He is survived by his mother, who lives at Phenox City, Alabama. Down tools May Ist! Rally the fight against the N.R.A’s attacks on living standards and workers’ organizations, Domestic Workers In the Soviet Union Replying to Comrade House- Worker of San Francisco, who in- quired concerning the attitude of the Communist Party toward these workers, and what conditions they have in Communist countries, we promised to say something about the latter question today. Communism aims to utilize ma- chinery to the fullest extent to cre- ate plenty of the necessaries of life for everyone (everyone willing to work, that is) and at the same time to do away with unnecessary labor. To this end there is “social plan- ning,” not only in the administra- tion of factories, farms, mines, etc., but also in the building of workers’ homes, clubs, factories, and so on, these being built in such a way as to reduce the labor of housekeeping to a minimum. For example, “city heat”—steam piped underground into the work- ers’ homes from a central heating plant, does away with tending fur- naces in each home, at the same time saving valuable natural re- sources—coal, oil, wood, etc. Community _ kitchens, dining rooms, etc., do away largely with cooking, dishwashing, marketing, by each family, again saving time, labor, fuel. There are community laundries, which do away with washing and froning at home. So, since there are nurseries where children may be left while the mother is busy or at work, there’s not much house- work left except that of cleaning the house itself—washing windows, cleaning floors, etc. These tasks too may later be done as they are done here large hotels — by workers going through the house with vacuum cleaners, window-washing imple- ments, etc. Those who work at any of these tasks — in the community kitehens, laundries, dining-rooms, heating plants etc. have regular jobs with good living wages, a seven-hour day and their unions, like any other workers. Since there are plenty of jobs for all, naturally many house- maids take these other jobs: this creates a shortage of housemaids, so those who still do housework can demand good treatment and wages. Girls who in capitalist countries would be forced to do housework, have under a social- istic system, access to good jobs with short hours and good wages, giving them time and money for study or recreation in the eve- nings. For these reasons, and also be- cause the wealthy classes of old Russia have been dispossessed of their lands and factories by the workers, who now own these things collectively, the “housemaids’ ex- changes” in the Soviet Union are disappearing. In the pamphlet, “The Working Woman in the Soviet Union,” by Sibiriak, you can read about this, as well as about what the ex-house- maids are doing now. You might also like to read the leafiets “The Soviet Union—Your Questions An- swered,” ‘by Margaret Cowl, and “Why Communism” by Moissaye the He CONDUCTED BY HELEN LUKE in| will send her address I will send her these, and answer any ques- tions not clarified here. If you join the Party, and raise the question of a domestic work- ers’ union out there, and show ability in organizing one, I am sure the Party will help. There is a code being drawn up by the N. R. A., for domestic work- ers. Whether it will improve their conditions remains to be seen. If it does promise to—after it has been signed—the domestic workers will no doubt have to unite to see that it be enforced. We invite further correspondence from domestic workers. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1830 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 3% yards 36 | inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) 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 the Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 Qr~ * Comrade Houseworker West 17th Street, New York City. Painting Warship | _ To Stop Militancy of Textile Workers NTWU Active In Plant At Concord, N. C. Leaflet on Speed-up Results in Gains for Workers | | | By a Weaver Correspondent CONCORD, N. C—In the mill where I work, in the lapper room, they are installing automatic machinery to cut out one man on both the day and ni shifts. But that was not enot they had to go and fire a worker even before this machinery was installed. The superintendent said that he saw a man spit on the floor, so they fired him. In the card room since the N. R. A. there has been speed up; five frames have been speeded up to do the work of six frames. They are putting more work on the hands in the card room. In the weave |room the overseer said that they |are getting the same or even more } Production in the eight-hour day than they got in 11 hours and 20 | minutes before the N. R. A. In the spinning room the spin- ners are speeded up. Some of them don’t make any more than before, in spite of the speed up; practically all are getting the minimum wage of $12. The doffers are speeded up to make more production; yet the price was cut so that now they make less than before. This speed up ruins the health of the young workers; it is killing the women in the spinning department and the young men too. Work On 30 Looms I am a weaver. Two years ago I had 18 looms. We ran from 16 to 18 looms, and made $3.60 to $3.85 per day. Since that time they have stretched us out. First it was from 18 to 22 looms, and we didn’t make as much on 22 looms as we had on 18. Then it was from 22 looms to 26, and now to 30 looms. Still we don’t make as much as we did on 18 looms! They came back around and gave us another 10 per cent cut. They did give us a 10 per cent raise two weeks before the N. R. A. In the weave room there is a man called the blow-off man, who comes around with a torch and blows the lint off the machines. He is making 22 cents an hour; about $18 each two weeks’ pay, and, before, he made $23 each two weeks. At his job he is likely to blow out a shuttle that will kill him, or maybe a weaver. Before the code in the cloth room, where the cloth is inspected, the hands averaged not under $15 @ week, and some got as high as $18 to $20, After the code what happened? There was no speed up; instead they cut the speed on the frames in the cloth room. This was because after the code the weavers are supposed to make better cloth on 30 looms each than when they had 18 looms, and the speed of the cloth room frames was cut so the hands would be able to inspect the cloth closer. This resulted in more docking of the weavers, because the mill docks for every little thing. N. T. W. U. Active We have a local of the N. T. W. U., and are coming along right splendid. We have our charter now, and are bringing in one or two new members a week. It is our intention in the next three months to have 50 members in our mill local, including some Negro work- ers. The A. F. L. union, the U. T. W., tells the workers when they ask about bringing in Negro work- ers, “Organize the whites first and then we will study about the Ne- gro workers.” We are going to bring the Negro workers into the N. T. W. U. We are intending to have a shop paper. We also have some of the Labor Unity going around, which is doing good work. In the Locke mill we put out a Jeafiet against the stretch-out from 10 to 20 looms, the elimination of a safety hazard, and the bad light- ing system which was the worst in town. We had connections in this mill and got the leaflets out, and all the demands were granted. We haven't a local there so far, but we are working hard. After this happened at the Locke mill one of the A. F. L’s leaders went around and began talking how the A. F. L, was doing things for the workers, He was exposed, and be- fore his own members had to admit that it was the N. T. W. U. and not the U. T. W. that put out this leaflet. Law Bans Negroes In S.C. From Job on Textile Machinery By a Worker Correspondent COLUMBIA, S. C. — There are many large textile plants in this territory, and the Negro workers are not allowed to work in the textile plants at the machines. There is a state law that won't allow the Negroes to work at textile machin- ery. The white workers in the tex- tile mills are in company controlled unions like the A, F. of L. The mills have company police forces and company mayors. The Negro and white workers are hungry for bread and jobs. The preachers are telling them the same old thing they have said for 300 or 400 years—to take their troubles to Jesus and leave them there—and to starve. The Negroes are begin- ning to break away from this. I think the time is very ripe for us Negro and white workers to get among the other workers and give them the necessary things they should have, and to build a local Jeadership for our movement. We must build the leadership in the Workers Ready for Struggle Against Wage Cuts and Increasing Stretch-Out By a Textile Worker Correspondent CONCORD, N. C.—The grievan- ces among the textile workers in the South are many, but the} stretch-out comes first. This most severe since the introduction of the N. R. A. code Wages in the mills are being | continually slashed through the way the bosses work through the co The code calls for $12. The weavers formerly got $18-20; now they are forced down to the $12 minimum. We are also suffering | additional wage cuts through higher prices of groceries. | We have one of the largest chains through the South—Cannon, the towel mills, king of cotton in the south. This chain has 14 plants, and none of them are very small. Cannon involves thousands and thousands of southern textile work- ers. Their main plant at Kanna- polis is one of the largest mills in the world. This town is owned and controlled by the Cannon chain | and it is one of the largest unin- corporated towns in the U.S. The company has its own police. There is no mayor, The company does as it pleases. In the Kannapolis mill the Can- nons try out any new scheme be- fore it is introduced elsewhere. Kannapolis is ja few miles from here, and there are 5 Cannon mills right here in Concord. The mill owners are seeing the growing discontent of the workers and are openly inviting the A. F. of L. and the U. T. W. into these places. We have reports, especially from Gaston County, where even the superintendents of the mills make speeches at A. F. of L. meet- ings and urge the workers to join the U. T. W. This shows to the workers that the A. F. of L. plays the role of the bosses and try to get the workers, so as to smash the growing struggles. When the workers at the Cleve- land Cloth Mill in Shelby were on strike a few weeks ago the U. T. W. paralyzed the workers by telling them to stay off the picket lines and to have prayer meeting with the scabs. In a Southern mill in Spindale the textile workers showed a militant spirit and they appealed to the railroad workers not to carry out goods from the mills. The workers wives and children got on is} and sat > the rails down on th tracks to stop shipments. Here in Concord two mills are din the A. F. of L. The are being misled by the | A. F. of L. You don’t find the same |faces as those who sold out the rs here and in Charlotte in | 1920-21; they are sending different people this time. In Concord we have two locals of the N. T. W. U, besides contacts in many other mills. These locals are carrying on everyday work through leaflets and personal contact and have won some concessions for the workers. In the Locke mili a short time ago a leaflet won every de- mand. The T. U. U. L. and the N. T. W. U. should send someone touring the south to hold mass meetings and acquaint the workers with the T. U. U. L. and the textile union. I and ‘other workers can go out and hold meetings with workers; but our Jeaders can through mass meetings, explain the program to hundreds and thousands at one time. If we can build a good strong or- ganization here, we will be able to make a break all through the south, I think, This will have to be done through careful work, through the help of the T. U. U. L. and the na- tional office of the N. T. W. U. We want to establish at least three new locals in the next three months. This is just the beginning, and a good basis is being laid. One of our weapons is the maga- zine, Labor Unity. We are to take 100 a month, and we feel the Labor Unity will be one of our strongest organizers in the South, In the textile industry, where thousands are employed, there are only a few Negro workers. We find that throughout the South all Negro workers are ignored in the codes; that the codes are drawn up so that they do not apply to their jobs. The Negro textile workers are cleaners and are in the dye houses, and these are not in the code. The cleaners get 22!5c an hour,, where the minimum by the code is 30c, Also the code sets the work day at 8 hours, but there is no limit for the dye house workers and the cleaners. the N. T. W. U. in Concord has made it one of the major questions to draw in Negro workers in each local. Lovestoneites Betray Fight for Militant Program in Local 10 in Unit of By a Needie Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—To understand the conditions within Local 10 today, the possibilities for control by the rank and file and its relations with the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union as a whole, we must. look back to the period before the August, 1933 strike. In this period, Local 10, like the rest of the I. L. G. W. U., was fast becoming organizationally and fin- ancially bankrupt. Their entire activity was given to helping the bosses’ associations break strikes, particularly strikes led the Needle Tradés Workers’ Industrial Union. As a result, the bosses were able to continue their attacks upon the conditions of the workers. Cutters were working for as little as $12 a@ week and for as many as 60 hours a week. Alongside of which thousands of cutters were out of jobs. This resulted in a group of cutters —members of Local 10; members of the N. T. W. I. U. and unorganized cutters—getting together and form- ing the Cutters’ Club. In a short time 1,200 cutters joined the club, whicn had a militant program. It pulled down shops on strike; carried on mass picketing for “struck” shops and called large mass meetings. Forced General Strike The Cutters’ Club, as much as any other single factor, forced the I. L. G. W. U. to call the General Strike of August. The success of this strike is history now; 70,000 dressmakers responded. With the help of the N. R. A. and the bosses’ dress association, the I. L. G. W. U. was able to draw in almost all of them. At least 3,000 dress cutters joined Local 10. Bosses sent their cutters to Local 10 to join up. Although the mass of cutters did gain con- ditions to some degree, the union leadership gave the bosses their op- portunity to drive down these gains by giving up the fight for limita- tion of contractors and permitting the three-scale clause to go through. ($27 for stretchers; $37 for chop- pers; $45 for cutters). Many cloak cutters and miscel- Janeous cutters also joined the local. The administration permitted a lower three-scale system in the mis- cellaneous industries (white goods, raincoats, etc.) $22 for stretchers, etc. Those making less than the minimum are to be brought up to the minimum in a period of 18 months, instead of immediately; or 6 months, as in the dress trade. Locall 10 now includes about 8,000 cutters, many of them former mem- bers of the Cutters’ Club, which had taught them what the Local 10 ad- south, and we must give the workers the necessary training to carry on the work. Some of aur national leaders should com? through the south and make addresses and talk in meet- ings to both Negro and white work- ers. We must win the people and give them the necessary theory and get our papers end literature to them, Real Rank and File Opposition Work Needed LL.G.W.U, ministration was, When the elec- tions for the Local Administration came in December, none of the new members were eligible to vote, not having been member for six months, Still, the old membership gave a rather large vote to the Cutters’ Welfare League—the only “opposi- tion,” which was able to put through one of its candidates onto the Executive Board, where he has remained quiet ever since. The League refused to put up a can- didate for manager. Consolidate Forces The Administration immediately started consolidating its forces and drawing in many of the young, in- experienced cutters into its “high school” by giving jobs to its own “boys.” The Welfare League also started consolidating its forces, not against the betrayals of the administration but against the militant cutters, who had joined the Welfare League as the only “opposition” in Local 10. The leadership of the League, true to its Lovestoneite ideology, developed a clique around itself and secluded itself into the corner of a “strictly legal’ opposition, and stopped all activity among the mass of cutters. The League finally called an open forum on a Saturday when the cut- ters do not come down to work, with the result that the mass of cutters wouldn’t come down, and the administration, by sending its strong-arm group to break up the meeting, frightened the leadership of the League from even opening the meeting. When the League retailiated by calling another open forum the fol- lowing Tuesday, the Local 10 Ad- ministration sent two Executive Board members to tell the cutters that the meeting was illegal. The Administration brought two mem- bers of the League up on charges of “fostering dual unionism.” One of them, the Gitlowite Zwer- bon, rejected any responsibility. The leaders of the League did nothing to mobilize the cutters for their defense, not even issuing a leaflet until it was all over, with the result that the Administration succeeded in putting over its frame- up, suspending Signer for a year and merely reprimanding Zwerbon. The rank and file of the League became so disgusted with the lead- ership that they demanded a re- organization, and when the leader- ship refused to take up this ques- tion, about half the active members of the League dropped out. The cutters of Local 10 should become aware of what is happening in their Local; they should see many rank and file Socialists are disgusted with the policy of the “Socialist” Perlmutter — his open support of the N. R. A.; his starv- ing out of militant cutters, includ- ing Socialists; his reign of terror in Local 10. They must come to the realization that not the bureaucracy of Local 10, but only the cutters themselves will maintain the gains of the last strike, by fighting for their demands and forcing the Ad- ministration to take them up, Millinery Union Official Helps Lish Violate Agreement Conspires With Boss in | Attempt to Fire Chairlady | By a Needle Trades Worker | Corrrespondent | NEW YORK, — The Lish shop, | which is one of the outstanding | Slavery shops in the millinery in- | dustry, gets the support of the | union officials in eliminating those militant workers who are fighting in the shop to improve conditions. Wednesday, April 11, the work- ers of the Lish shop called a meet- ing to discuss how to fight for equal distribution of work in the shop. When the workers came to the of- | fice of the union and asked the of- ficials for a meeting room, the of- ficials first refused, but then were forced to give them a room. When the meeting started, Mr. Spector, manager of the union, came in and said to the workers, “I am not go- ing to listen to what you have to take up here, but I am going to say something. Mr, Lish (the boss of the shop) told me that he will not give the workers the conditions as signed in the collective agreement, unless the chairlady, who is a Com- munist, will be removed and a num- ber of other militant workers will be cleaned out of the shop.” If we will give in to this demand of the boss, Spector said, the boss promises to give the workers better condi- tions. The workers at the shop meeting told Spector that they don’t care what political views the chairlady has, that she has proven to be a good fighter in the shop, and that since she is chairlady she has suc- ceeded in improving the conditions of the workers. They also under- stood that it was a manuever of the boss and the union officials to re- move the militant workers from the shop, so that the boss can have a free hand in forcing slavery con- ditions on the workers. Mr. Spector then told the workers that “If I will find it necessary I will appoint another chairlady, and you girls will not have anything to say about it. It was done before and it will be done now.” Alex Rose, General Secretary of the Union, began to insult the Chairlady, by calling her a dirty piece of humanity, and also told the workers that they are following the Chairlady like a bunch of blind sheep. To this the workers an- swered that they see with their own eyes what the chairlady is doing, and they are confident that she is right because she is fighting for the interests of the workers in the shop. Negro Shoe Repair Men Must Pay 45c A Day to Foreman ‘By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill. — The other day while I was at the S. and G. Shoe Repair Shop at 5 N. Clark St., I noticed that the Negro foreman was going among the workers in the shop and collecting money. I asked one of the workers what it was all about. He turned around to see if the foreman was watching him then quietly told me the following story: Every worker (mostly Negroes, who number about 10), is forced to pay to the Negro foreman 25 cents every day in order to keep the job. Besides that, they are also forced to pay 20 cents a day to the foreman for bringing them to work and tak- ing them home in his private car. ‘The foreman wouldn't let any one of them go by street car. This makes 45 cents each day from each worker. Besides this, they only work for tips. If it is a good day like Sat- urday, it leaves them about 60c or 70¢ a day to support their families wit!*. Every day they work 12 hours and ‘%aturday 15 hours. They also have to clean about 200 suits, spats and hats a day for which they don’t get paid at all. They also have to clean up the place, washing floors, windows, etc. The worker also told me that the boss was one of the first to display the Blue Eagle, and when the workers complained to the Chicago N. R. A. office, nothing was done to better the miserable condi- tions. The only way the workers in the S. and G. Shop and other shops can better their conditions, is by joining the Trade Union Unity League (T. U. U. L.) 1853 W. Madi- son St. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS A SLOW BUT SURE PROCESS Gloversville, N. Y. I am not a member of the C. P. but am very interested in it, and am acquainting myself with its phil- osophy, and am working on some of my friends. I find it very dis- couraging that just as soon as you get them in contact with facts they smell the power of them, and the result is that they get disappointed with my talk. But I can see that I’m on the right road, and so is the C. P., and we are some day bound to win. I like the Daily Worker, which I have been receiving once a week for about nine months, and I hope your new press will give great ser- vice to the working class of Amer- ica, I am a subscriber ot Soviet PARTY LIFE For Railroad Consolidate Party Forces Concentration Aeros: every important railroad | enters Chicago from the South | side. Almost all these roads have | Stations, yards, roundhouses and| machine shops located between | 55th and 75th Sts., straight across the city. Yet not one unit in the whole of Section 7, which takes| in most of this territory, thought about railroad concentration. Not only are the terminals, yards and shops located here, but most of the railroad workers live in the neigh- borhood; they live in the same apartment houses as our Party members, their bungalow are right next to the homes of Party Com- rades, their clothes are cleaned and pressed by Party members, they are even members of the mass or- ganizations which are guided by Party fractions. In a few units there are railroad workers, still holding jobs. In others there are blacklisted railroad men now un- employed. Question Brought to Units | The units are fairly small and| much of the time of the more ac- tive members had already been as- signed when the question of rail- | road concentration finally found its way onto the order of business. It | was quite evident that no one unit, | as at present constituted, could | take the responsibility for carrying out effective concentration work even on one road. We selected the territory of one railroad roundhouse and yard and approached the four units functioning near these yards. The Unit which proposed the plan selected two Comrades to visit the other three Units with the request that two members best qualified for the work be appointed to act as a steering committee to plan the concentration tasks for our railroad work. Each of the three units responded with enthusiasm. It was interesting that just as we arrived at one of the Units the Comrades were discussing the 13th Plenum resolution and wondering what plan of concentration this street unit could undertake. In the Unit was a former railroad black- mith, now unemployed. Next to the house where the meeting was being held lived a railroad worker, who had already been approached with the Daily Worker and had asked for extra copies. One rail- Toad shop was only a few blocks away. Yet railroad concentration hhad never occurred to the Comrades as a task for this Unit. Steering Committee Plans the Work The Steering Committee met on the night appointed, every Unit be- ing represented. A report was heard from the Railroad Concen- tration Unit on the North side and the following plan was adopted: The four Units to join in con- centrating on the selected rail- Comrades to be selected from each of the four Units to visit a list of railroad workers which we already had, using the Daily Worker te bring the revolution- ary movement to the attention of these men. The same Com- rades were to visit the same men until they had been brought close to our Party either as subscribers to the Daily Worker or as Party members. Comrades to be selected from the four Units to distribute 200 Daily Workers (Saturday’s rail- road edition) at the railroad shop at 6:30 to 8 Monday morn- ing and 2:30 to 4 Monday after- noon. Joint meeting of the four Units following the first distribution of One Day of Unified Work by Four Chicago Units Results in Valuable Contacts to Party the Daily and the visiting of as- signments to report on success, and plan permament work based on results of our first approach to these railroad workers. The Steering Commitiee mem- bers took their assignments seri- ously and the first steps in this concentration plan were immedi- ately carried, out. Two hundred copies of the railroad edition of the “Daily” were given out at the yards and the men received them very favorably. Although, as one Comrade reported, he expected to see the Daily Workers thrown out on the sidewalk, not one copy was destroyed. This was when the men were coming out from work in the afternoon, after the men going in had already taken 125 copies of the paper into the shop. Only one worker refused to take the “Daily.” The reports from visits to the | list of railroad men was not so complete a success because only four of the Comrades had been able to visit their contacts as the time this article was prepared. Two men had moved away. One was at home but could not be seen. Three were seen and were very sympathetic to the movement. One took out a Saturday sub to the “Daily.” The others took the paper to read and asked the Comrades to come back. One of the men was the Secretary of his Lodge. Joint Unit Meeting The joint unit meeting was at- tended by about 35 comrades. The report of the steering committee was read and accepted. The Units voted unanimously to continue the work, placing a permanent bundle order for 100 Daily Workers for every Friday, the day when rail- road correspondence is supposed to appear, The comrades who had done the distribution and visiting agreed to continue the work, A representative from the Section suggested that we conduct a Study Circle on railroad questions so that the Units would become more fami- liar with our tasks in bufiding op- positions in the railroad unions, or- ganizing the workers and helping them fight against wage cutk. The steering committee was enlarged and instructed to act for the Units on railroad concentration. The joint meeting was held in one of the language clubs to which many members of the Units be- Jong. Eight new railroad contacts sympathetic to our movement were added to our contact list by mem- bers of this Club, who already knew these railroad workers. The com- rades now felt that they had some definite reason for approaching these workers and through them hoped to bring others closer to the movement. It will soon be possible to call these sympathetic railroad members of the club together and get their active help in building a group to carry out our policies in the shops and yards of this road. Join the Communist Party 36 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name SUECE iescccsecescsscderscecen City ... ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Addresses Wanted ‘ John Grusea, Bronx; Ruth Er- lich, Bronx; Mrs. Julia Bernstein, New York City; M. Brown, New- ark, N. J.; Alfred Burns, New York City; A. Greenberg, New York City. Not Interested “The New Humanist,” Chicago, Il.—We see no relation between youx magazine and this column. We are not interetsed in religion and yours is a religious , in spite of its disguise. No matter how thin you slice it, Mister, it is baloney just the same. Codein and Papaverine for Colds J. B. Bronx—tThere is nothing new about this treatment for or- dinary colds. Opium derivatives have been used for centuries in all cold remedies. The fact that the University of Minnesota patented this remedy only shows that all uni- versities, like every other institution Russia Today, and I love to read about the success in political achievements in that land of love, work and justice. I have a large acquaintanceship and a, few friends, who are all hide- bound conservatives. We are all well-preserved and some are quite successful in robbing others, but a few are getting shaky about the causes of the shrinkage of their in- comes, and I’m working on them little by little. They haven't yet arrived at the point of dignity where they read the Daily Worker. Some of my Sunday schoolmates, a class of men, in which everyone is over 40, get quite angry with me. But they elect me their secretary every year just the same. I have served ten years as secretary in an organized clas of 60 men, but I’m coming at them so strong now, I think this will be my last. Success for the O. P. of America, By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. —- under the capitalistic scheme, are mercenary. They ought to have known better than to patent a” remedy for ordinary colds. Every intelligent person knows that the average case of coryza (which is the medical term for a “running nose”) does not last longer than three days. In complicated cases, the remedy is not claimed to be effective; therefore, what good is it? Rectal Dilators E.S.S., Buffalo, N. ¥Y.—Rectal di- lators are not only useless in cases of hemorrhoids (piles) but they are positively harmful. There are a number of quick remedies, adver- tised as “sure cure” for piles, the stock-in-trade of which are a num- ber of graduated hard-rubber di- lators, together with some kind of a soothing salve. It is the salve in- troduced by these dilators into the rectum which gives the little relief that the patient sometimes expe- riences. It is not true that piles can be caused by a too small anal (not rectal) aperture.. The only cases in which rectal dilators are used to advantage are those in which there is stricture (narrowing) of the rec- tum due to neoplasma (growths, tu- mors) or to scar tissue following an inflammation. Red Urine D. S., Brooklyn—The eating of a certain quantity of beets will in- variably cause the urine to assume a reddish hue. If a large quantity of beets are eaten, the urine may become blood-red. There is nothing to worry about in such cases. If your urine should continue to be red, after you have stopped eating . beets, there might be cause foi alarm. Bed Wetting at 41 M. L.—Life is supposed to begin at 40, according to a recently pub- lished book, but not bed-wetting You better have yourself and yow urine by a reliable physi- cian, ‘ i]