The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORE m, NEW YOPK, FRIDAY, / “Forward to a United Frent of All Utilit 35% of Brooklyn Edison ies Workers Employes Reject Tricky Company Union Plan By an Edison Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN “ April 17 union. for collecti opposed 266. the company those opposed r less direc! But, like all corpor: the company has its loop- holes. One Page 6, Article 3 of “The Employee’s Plan for Collec- tive Bargaining Through Employee documents, Representation” (that is, the com- pany union) we read, relative to participation in the proposed or- ganization “All employes 1 be en- titled to be * vote in the selec tatives on the Bu yee with the to hire or discharge em- be permitted to power ployees shall not be members or to vote or hold of- fice or in any way participate in this plan. (Emphasis mine). Foremen Allowed to Join The workers were quickly dis- illusioned when foremen in all de- partments, bureaus and divisions were listed as eligible for office. Of course, these foremen are not vested with the power to hi and dis- charge employees t as one worker remarked, “They can do a whole lot toward getting you fired.” The loop-hole is found on Page 5, cle 1, 2nd paragraph: “Collective bargaining under this Plan may relate to wages, hours of emplo: r Plan, President lyou of the Consolidated Gas announced to us through m C. Parker, the Morgan-Cor- telyou mouthpiece and sycophant in Brooklyn, that half of last year's Pay-cut would be restored by May 1, 1934 The employes recognize a step to prevent th a nt rank and fi the restored cut a 1 2 hours pa: lost when the sy P ers on the five-day week in May, 1934. Furthermore, the Brooklyn Edison employes, thanks to the N. R. A., have been deprived of their annual Christmas “bonus,” which was from 2 per cent to 8 per cent of their “regular pay.” Th employes do not consider mselves radical, but they un- tand the maneuvers of the fi- ho dominate the utilities ginning to under- y of militant de- he Brotherhood of Jtiliti s Em- es has been suc 1 in or- ganizing the power station men in Brooklyn and in New York, but the Brotherhood is a reformist union and its leaders hobnob with Nor- man Thomas and the Labor Board and will no doubt soon be flirting with company executives and even Father Morgan himself. All metropolitan utility workers should labor toward incorporating their demands into a Program of United Action against wage-cuts, intimidation, discrimination, 1 offs and trade union bureaucracy. Forward to a United Front of Utilities Workers. Get “Dailies” to L. A. Railway Uses Vicious Spy System Worker Railroad the union, the Amal. under system, the and I wi discipline in the way to be demerited out of my job, so I| wise and quit talking organiza- ht men on the Pacific rmed a union there ar rter and they were ir fired. The boss didn’t make bones about he told them t were fired for organiz- ing the union. When the complaint was sent in to the N. R. A. the company was fined for being too frank, and took the men back. I don’t know whether they paid the fine, but the L. A. Railway learned their lesson and used some tricks. After the Amalgamated got their charter, the L. A. Railway formed @ company union, the Association of Employees of L. A. Railway, then they gave a few petty conces- sions and ballyhooed them on the bulletin boards. In the meantime a lot of the A. F. of L. union men were fired all of a sudden on one pretext or another. The organizer said the company didn’t really understand his union. Since then the company is getting pretty friendly with the Amalga- mated, and that looks bad to me. I tell the fellows that any union the company approves of is no good for us. In 1929 I was making $168 a month, and I was able to begin | buying a house. Now I'm getting $98, and can’t make the payments. The state law requires all em- ployers to insure their employees. We have to pay our own insurance. It’s not supposed to be compulsory. | When it started, one of the men Lessons of Struggle on|Deser the Munson Line Union Members On Ships Must Learn to Develop Corps of Friends ine Worker Correspondent 'W YORK.—The strike on the son Line is over, So far we e gained back pay for the crew nd besides that acquired more ex- perience in leading future strikes. On the ships where you have over 200 workers in different depart- ments, five or six members of the union are not enough to start strikes. The only remedy I see is they should draw into their body more and more sympathizers and grow in numbers. Meetings should be called in each department as often as possible. Delegates from each department should be organized in ship’s committees and be trained to respond to the call at once. More | Party literature be put up all over. | | Fractions | Party work. | When I came aboard the ship two should be engaged in days before the strike took place,| the ships “black gang,” Spanish | firemen, water tenders, ete, had been deceived so many times by| Wobblies, International Seamen's} Union and the rest of the racket- eering outfits, that they had lost faith in all unions. We told them about tion of the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union to the Trade Union Unity League, and that in our union are many Communists, and | by this we gained their confidence. | When we pulled out on strike| every man of the deck and engine | departments and walked to the} stewards, a funny argument took | place between strikers and the| colored chef. The chef said his boss is the white Chief Steward} }and if he wants to they will strike. | We told him he might as well ask | for permission to strike from Mr.| Munson himself. | In the process of paying, men} have been taken individually by | the affilia- | their authorities and put to work.) | We didn’t have a chance to call labor, working conditions, safety, Postal Men education, recreation, and like mat- ters affecting employment, together By a Postal Worker with the adjustment of grievances Correspondent arising out of the relation of Em- NEW YORK —The bosses are ployees with the Management; pro-|| continuously at our backs driv- vided (emphasis mine), however,|| ing us to an ever faster tempo. that this plan and any actions|| If a man so much as goes for taken hereunder shall not apply to any matter which is under the reg- ulatory power and jurisdiction of any public board or body created by statute or as to which a public} duty or obligation is imposed upon the Company as to public utilities.” Very slick, Mr. Morgan. If the a drink of water, the boss im- mediately follows him and checks the time he takes. Every reader of the Daily Worker should help the Postal workers by letting them know that here is a paper, the only paper, that takes up their griev- apparatus of the company union|| ances and fights for them. They should fail to check the growing|| should throw their Daily Worker militancy of theBrooklyn Edison|| into the mail boxes every workers, they would be reminded|| day, but especially on. Friday, that militant action is against pub- lic interest, and the same laws sup- posedly desinged to check unlicensed looting by the utility robber barons apply to the latter's victims and wage slaves. The day that it was announced when special space is given to the Postal Worker. This method will get many new readers. The selling of the Daily Worker on | Friday before the Post Office may also be: tried. the Ho CONDUCTED BY HELEN LUKE Brownsville Women's Councils Ask| rade Houseworker of San Francisco, Support for Delegation Against if she will send me an address. H. C. L. to Go to La Guardia | We'll tell more about the “Do- Monday |mestic Workers’ News, and the “We must learn to react much| Union's demands, next week. faster to neighborhood issues,” de-| clared Clara Bodian in her report! Can You Make °Em Yourself? before the Eleventh Annual Con- | ference of the U. C. W. C. W. last} Sunday, “instead of being at the} tail end of things: for example, | fighting against fire-traps, race-| prejudice, bad housing, high gas and electricity rates, etc.” This effort to increase the tempo of work of the councils is reflected in the increasing momentum of their activity. Three sections are now very ac- tively campaigning against rising prices: Williamsburg, Brownsville, and the Bronx. The Brownsville section Com- mittee of Action met last Mon- day night and made a decision to send a delegation as large as possible to interview Mayor La- Guardia, Monday, April 30, at 11 a. m, to demand a lowering | of living costs. Their delegates have been drawn from house-committees, mass meetings, and open-air meetings. The Committee of Ac- tion urgently requests all mass organizations to send additional delegates. Those from the Pattern 1852 is available in sizes | 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. ; Size 36 takes 4% yards 36 inch |fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew- |ing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in | wouldn’t pay it, since he had lots \of insurance already. They called | him in to the office. “It’s not com- }one meeting. A bunch of us, all| | union members, have been fired. | | | | pulsory, is it?” he said. “No,” the| Tat is a drawback. | | superintendent said, “It’s not com-| We should have at least one | pulsory to work here, either.” | union member in each department | Beside that, they've been taking | “underground.” Next day a leaflet! |$4.50 a month out of my pay for | Was issued by the M. W. I. Uz “Re- | | what they call the providence fund.| fuse to sign on, and strike for | When they put through a seven| Shipping Board wages!” Since the cent fare, they raised our pay. . . | most active strikers were dis- and took exactly the amount of) charged, nobody could take the in- the raise for the Providence fund, |itiative. We failed. which they promised to pay back to| Nevertheless, we remained aboard |us doubled. We can’t draw on this|the ship, in spite of the officials, jfund; you have to quit or die to/ who told us to get off the ship. |get it. One of the fellows told; The “Black gang” pledged to |me when he quit they paid him | carry on if the first to sign refused. | back what he put in, no more,/ after 15 or 20 men signed, they| |though it has been invested in) still came to us and asked “What | bonds and drawing interest. |should we do?” Being isolated, we| | The street railway companies| couldn't stop the men, so we told have a vicious spy system. People| them to go and sign. |often wonder why we're so strict| The very men that were bitterly }about late transfers and missed |up against us, came and shook our fares. If they could only read the| hands and decided that the only lrules of the company! And know/| union they will join is the M. W. I. what a system of spotters they’ve|U. They pledged to carry on agi- got. Two late transfers or missed /tation and to prepare the crew for |fares, and you're fired, no matter/a strike at the first opportunity. how long you've been working for | ES ea eS them. And discipline and demerits | all the time, and you don’t even know what you're getting a de- merit for. | I'd like to see the street railway- men get organized in a real union. —L. A. Railway Worker. | NOTE: We publish letters every Friday | from workers in the transporta- tion and communications indus- | tries — railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- taxi drivers, etc. and from the press companies, truck drivers, , communications industries — post , office, telephone, telegraph, etc. We urge workers :rom these | | Letters from | | there is more than $2,000 of this| A New Orleans Scab Ne NEW ORLEANS, La. — The crew of the SS Robin Hood went out on strike against a $10 wage- cut on April 17. This brought into activity the scabherders to furnish scabs so the Lucken- back line should not have to || withdraw the w cut that these this ca; at 531 es to do the supplying. This has been established beyond a doubt from admissions from those that they shipped and from the seamen that saw them running scabs to the ship. Sam Unger, who also has a saloon on 200 Chartres St. and a partner in the Marine Ex- change, with the other ones of ibes Two More Rats on Boston Docks By a Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass. — The printed about his longshore racket the port of Boston| right on the head. ir circular was right when you |mamed the racket gang, namely: |D. Donovan, F. Fitzgerald, 8. | O'Malley and T. Logan, but you left | out more members of that commit- | tee, namely, H. McGinn and W. | Haskell. McGinn is the financial secretary 805, International Long- Assocition of Boston. ives out free cards at election | | time to his racket men of said local, | so you see he has the power to; elect all its officers from the presi- dent right down the line and es- pecially the auditing committee. That's why the books of 805 have not been examined for the past 15 years. This secretary of Local 805 writes out his own report every quarter and gives a picked committee the the “Kamil” Bros., are nothing but crimps and suppliers of || scabs. | The Marine Exchange intends || to make it both ways, one way from overcharging the seamen and the other by acting as the scab supply house for the ship- owners. U. S. Marine Hospital Robs Dying Seamen By a Worker Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Here in the U. S. Marine Hospital, an in- stitution for the seamen of the American merchant marine, there is a lady employed by the U. S. Government, and the Community chest of San Francisco to super- vise and assist in occupational therapy work. Theoreically this work is a non- profit affair, and all the proceeds are supposed to be given to the patients after the cost of the ma- terials are paid for. However, we have investigated and found that an article for which they pay us a dollar -often sells for as much as $2.25, and as the material of this piece of work cannot cost more than 60 cents, this leaves 65 cents for some one with whom we are not acquainted. Many of the men think that it goes to the pockets of a Mr. Hop- kins. Mr. Hopkins is the head man for this section of the community) chest. It is also interesting to know that this man is “manager” of the San Francisco branch of the Sea-) man’s Church Institute, an organ- ization that is well known for its exploitation of seamen all over the world. Mr. Hopkins visits the hospital] every weeks to check the books. I think it is most degrading for| an organization of this kind to fol- low a seaman to his death bed and pilfer him there. This graft may seem small, but} handicraft sold each year, industries to write us of their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each week, Our Readers BEWARE OF SWINDLER! Chicago, Ill. The picture below is of a man | who has acted as literature agent of | if | | By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La. — Richard | Sellan, an oiler, died from stomach jailment resulting from poisoned water aboard the Tidewater tanker | Byron D. Benson, less than 20 hours out of Mobile. An autopsy claimed his death as due to heart failure. But Sellan was an un- branch of our mass organizations, such as the I. L, D,, F. 8S. U., L, 8, N.R., T. U. U. L., L.S. U., Pioneers, Women’s Councils, etc. should strive to prepare and present for public view in the demunstration, at least one dramatization of a working class demand, at least one live educational float or picture or sketch, or what you will. In order that you may get the idea, I will describe here one ef- fective development of our demands. | Murdered by Shipowners | pearance of a doctor who deemed Brownsville section will convene at the Utica Ave. station (Lex- ington subway) at 9:30 a. m. Delegates from mass organiza- tions, and all other workers who | can go along to City Hall, may join the main body of delegates at Utica station at 9:30 or go | direct to City Hail at 11 a. m. | Housewives—working class women| who must keep the market basket filled: support this drive to lower the cost of groceries! Those who; cannot possibly attend—support the} delegation by postcards or telegrams | to-reach La Guardia Monday mor- ning. More About the Domestic Workers’ Union Comrade Husband brought home some copies of the “Domestic Werk- ers’ News,” a new paper issued by! the Domestic Workers’ Union. For such a young paper it’s the berries; there have been two issues so far. It’s full of news and letters, and} also gives the code drawn up by! the Union, which code the N, R. A. refuses to write. The Union code) demands minimum wages of $20 a week for full time houseworkers, with a maximum of 8 hours daily, six days a week. Union headquarters are at 415) Lenox Ave. (Harlem), open from 10 to 12 m. and from 8 to 10 p. m. There are already four locals, not} just two, as we reported last Wed- nesday. The paper is three cents. I'd like | Pattern Departinent, 243 West 17th to send a couple of copies to Com-Street, New York City. |the Finnish Workers Club in Chi- cago for nine months, during which time he managed to swindle a con- siderable sum of the committee's | funds. He may be identified by the | following description: about five feet, nine inches tall, dark com- plexion, black hair, slightly hunch- back, lisps, born in this country but speaks Finnish well. He used the name of Nels Kangas here. We ask the comrades to clip this out and save it as we believe that Kangas will avoid the Finnish peo- ple for awhile and then appear again. Chicago Finnish Workers Club, BOARD OF DIRECTORS. SLOGANS FOR MAY DAY SHOULD BE LIVELY New York. | Dear Comrade: After several of our \lomonstra- tions during the past year, I have heard comment and criticism on the | insufficient interest aroused by these | important events because of the | unimaginative way in which their | purpose was presented to the on- | looker. In our unemployed dem- onstrations, no attempt is made to | dramatize the plight of the unem- ployed in the midst of America’s for this Anne Adams pattern. Write | plenty. Too often faith is shown plainly name, address and_ style |in the effect on the mass mind of number. BE SURE TO STATE | the simple unadorned slogans which SIZE. | are no doubt politically correct, but Address orders to Daily Worker | need dramatization to compel mass V interest and support. Every lower Party organ, every coins or stamps (coins preferred) In one demonstration for jobs and bread, a whole troop of children carried in their right arms, an empty milk bottle and shouted to- gether, “Fill them up!” Their ban- ners said, “We demand milk!” A crude ‘but effective replica of a fire-trap was carried with the slogan, “Strike for Lower Rents!” “Demand an end to fire-traps!” | There can be no doubt that such a scene causes comment in the homes after the close of the demonstra- tion. In the May Day parade and dem- onstration, the Pioneer Troop of the Cuban Julio A. Mella Club will show a mud or clay reproduction of the island of Cuba with 30 Amer- ican warships surrounding it. They will carry banners saying, “Down with American Imperialism and Hands off Cuba! Free Porto Rico and Philippines!” This will be their contribution to an intensely inter- esting demonstration. Let our slogan for the May Day and all other demonstrations be, “Dramatize our slogans, symbolize our demands, enliven our demon- strations, enrich their content.” Finally, to put this slogan into practice, I feel that a special sub- | committee of the Agit-Prop De- partment should be formed to gather data and to spread it among | the mass organizations, with spe- cial articles in the Daily Worker a few weeks before each major event, |of our movement for a Soviet America. H. HADLEY, Organizer. ¥. C. L, Harlem 1, usually healthy looking man in his middle thirties, and two other oil- ers were similarly effected. Enroute south, the condition of the three grew steadily worse. They could not eat, and received no medical attention whatever. They could easily have been sent ashore for the proper care they deserved and needed at the Marine Hospital in Miami. Without delaying the vessel’s nine knot clip a doctor could have boarded at Miami. Later on a radiogram re- questing a doctor to investi- gate the cause of death of Sellan and the suffering fellow oil- ers plight was answered by the ap- an hour’s chat coupled with cigar smoking on the bridge followed by @ brief nap of four hours was jus- tiflable before attending to his duties. It was too late for this croaker to do anything, but there is no plausible reason for Sellan’s premature passing, which was as unnecessary and as inexcusable as the general condition aboard Amer- ican Merchant flag vessels today. Seamen of the Benson deeply lament the loss of the late Richard Sellan whose nearest relative, ac- cording to the Mobile press, is a brother in Sydney, Australia, through whom we may learn of any possible nearer relatives and inform them of the simple truth. ONE PATH FOR RAIL WORKERS By a Railroad Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The conditions in the railroad shops in and around St. Louis are in a bad way. The abolition of the shop union has put the men in the shops, so to speak, Of the fence. The shops union was bad enough, and the A. F. of L. is worse. Until all the R. R. unions, all of the standard 21 crafts, some under one organization and some of the present officials, act together to win rank and file control, the unions will dance to railroad dic- tation. One of the big four officials went. hay wire, but the rest have not been found out, whicn is only a difference of exposure. There is only one remedy, @ solid body of report to read at the quarterly| meeting. | Now this man Haskell, because | he is the middle or silent member, | thinks he can do whatever he wants to. This man is the gear for Jarca at Commonwealth Pier. He tends gear all week, and on Saturdays he hires for passenger | boats. We call him the middle or | silent member because if you want | a@ card and have not got the $100 initiation fee, you can go to him} and he will take whatever you have from $5 up and guarantee to make you a member of Local 805. Do you know that Joseph Ryan, the racketeer president of the L L. A, put D. Donovan, the rack- eteer president of Local 805, in the icebox, and picked Whiskers O”- Malley the president of the check- | ers’ local, to act as organizer of the port of Boston. What a blow that was to Donovan. He thought for sure that Ryan was going to pick him because of all the dirty work he did to the longshoremen of the port of Boston. Donovan gave every condition we ever had away. When you called him a rat in your circular you named him right. Do you brothers know that Local 805 is being sued for $800? Well, they are, and by an undertaker named F. McGrath of East Boston. They’re being sued because they never paid their death benefit which they should have paid. Please put this news in your next circular. Say, if you knew the good work you brothers are doing with your circulars you would print one a week. Down tools May 1 against wage cuts and for higher wages! LR.T. Workers Are Forced to Pay for Beer for Bosses By a R. R. Correspondent NEW YORK. — Enclosed find a notice from the Brotherhood union calling us I. R. T. employees to | this meeting. | When we received the 10 per cent pay cut nearly a year ago, we also! asked that the dues which we pay to the Brotherhood be reduced 10 per cent but we were told that the | dues do not cover the expenses of our so-called union. Now the en- closed shows that our union offi- cials are entertaining the Bosses of the Transportation Department on Wednesday. The entertaining con- sists of barrels of beer and sand- wiches, which will also be distrib- uted to the men as a sop. Employes of the I. R. T. know that if we had a real union, it could not spend time swilling beer with the bosses, whom we have to fight to get better hours and pay. The circular says: All motormen, switchmen, train- men, and conductors of the sub- way division: A joint meeting will be held at New Terrace Garden 181st St. and Boston Road on Wed- nesday, April 18th, by locals No. 7, 8 and 9. The purpose of this meet- ing is to promote safety, and the supervising officers of the Subway Transportation Department will at- tend and address the men in the interest of safety. The members of these locals are expected to attend either the morn- ing or noon session and present their passes for identification, as a record will be kept of each man who attends. Negro Workers Refused Relief In Chambers Co. By a Farm Worker Correspondent BUFFALO, Ala—There are over 1,000 men in Chambers County without jobs. The C. W. A. has shut down and they can’t get a chance to do anything for a living, Negroes and white. That all is on account of plowing down cotton. The landlord and the agent told us that would be the very thing, to plow under our cotton. We would get 3 times as much for the cotton that was left and we would get better wages a day. We was getting 50c a day at that time, and since, we have been reduced. We don’t get anything. The Relief even refuses to help the Negroes any. They will give to the white people but they won't give the Negroes. When the poor Negroes go and ask for anything they tell them that the Relief does not help Negroes in Chambers County. They carry relief by the truck- loads to the bosses to help support. the hands on their places and charge them for it, double the worth. Is the relief for the rich the 21 Standard Crafts, landlords and bosses alone or not? | Every | Day We Forge Ahead, | Says U.S. Machinist in USSR “Another Ten Years W. ill See This Country the Most Educated in W orld,”’ Says Worker By BEN THOMAS Philadelphia Machinist ROSTOV-ON-DON, U. S. S. R.— As a native American machinist working in the Soviet Union for the past two years and three months, I find life and work the most interesting during my 45 years of life. I came here with my wife and five-year-old child and have never regretted it. I am working in a farm machinery plant employ- ing 15,000 workers. Nearly eve: day brings forth something n in the way of hu- man and material progress. New inventions, new industries, new campaigns to correct some evil, or furthering some good idea or prin- ciple. For instance, during the past few months, we have had a cam- paign on for the full utilization of the seven-hour work day. Every day at lunch hour or after work we held meetings and discussed ways and means of eliminating every minute of our working time that was not productive. We kept ac- count of reasons thi i, and at the end of the month we reported our time and took measures to elim- inate the causes for lost time in the future. When we read about the new machines or processes, we are very happy, because new labor-saving devices for us means greater wealth, greater well-being and _ shorter hours. Every worker is encouraged to make inventions and suggestions for better means of production. I have received several hundred rubles for several suggestions I made to improve production meth- ods. We read of new discoveries, such as new mineral deposits, oil, gold, iron, etc., with great delight, be- cause all these things belong to the workers. It means greater wealth for us, and not for the capitalists, as it would mean in America. Education for Everyone We are also in the midst of a campaign to raise the technical level of the workers. Nearly every worker attends some kind of an educa- tional institution. I myself attend classes in drawing, mathematics and the Russian language, and I am 45 years old. In my opinion, another 10 years will see this country the most highly mass-educated country in the world. Most of cur stores are becoming well-stocked with consumers’ com- modities, such as clothing, toys, mu- sical instruments, food stuffs, etc. Of course, there is still some short- age, especially of housing, due to the constant expansion of our in- dustry. | Victories in Agriculture I suppose most of the American lost time and the} of. losi | bumper harvest last Fall. The cus cess of our harvest was a great vic- | tory for the principle of collectiviza- tion of farms. It was rather a hard | struggle for the farmers, due to the | activity of the remnants of former. rich farmers in their campaign of struggle against poor and middle farmers collectivizing their lands and labor. They, the former rich | farmers, used all the tricks known |to the ruling class in their fight aaginst the poor working farmers, |The only force they could not use | was the force of the government. | The government was on the side of | the poor farmers helping them to collective and organized farming. So the poor farmers won, and this | Year sees many of the former poor | farmers now on the road to a con- dition of being well-to-do farmers without exploiting the labor of others. I attended a meeting of our union on the 12th of January, 1934, and at the meeting, our director of the plant made his report to the work- ers for the administration of the year 1933, He stated that the value of our production for the year 1933 was | 102,000,000 rubles, and this does not. include about 18,000,000 rubles paid | to various social funds by the plant. Of course, the surplus for last year | Was not sufficient, but when we | consider the fact that the plant is jonly three years old, and that 93 | Per cent of the workers have been in industry not more than three | Years, it must De considered on the road to success. Next year our plant calls for the manufacture of products to the value of 115,000,000 rubles gold, with a much greater profit. The workers of American are not, |much interested in the profits of the plants in which they work, be- |cause the profits go to the stock holder who does not work. On the other hand, we are in- in reducing the cost of production, and increasing our sur- plus, not by decreasing wages or in= creasing hours, but by the produc- tion of labor-saving machinery and rationalization methods. All the profits of our industry go back to the workers who create the profits, in the form of increased wages, shorter hours, better community liv ing and service; better social insur- ance, etc. Hence, every day we forge ahead, improving our condition of life, while marching on the straight road to Communism. Then there shall be no more poverty or war and all that goes with these evils. Then shall the human race emerge from the jungle of irrationalism to the sense and rational life of Commu- nist society. | terested BEN THOMAS, Combine House No. 6, Apt. 27. papers have written about our Rostov-on-Dun, Rostelmash, Doctor By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Castoria “April 15, 1934 “Dear Doctor Luttinger: “The first thing I read in the “Daily” is your column of advice. I am certainly glad that this column was added to our paper, and can truthfully say that I have learned much by reading the same. Perhaps you can help me, and maybe others, by answering my inquiry through the paper. “I suppose by this day and age ‘Castoria’ is out of date. Just start- ing to raise a young family, I would be pleased to have you write some- thing about it. That is, if it is as good as advertised, etc. “T certainly was glad to learn about Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. I never used any, but knew some that did, and was glad to be able to show them just what they were taking. “Thanking you for answering this inquiry, I am “Comradely yours, “MRS. J. W. M.” Castoria, in spite of its suggestive name, does not contain even a trace of castor oil. It is a concoction of senna leaves, sodium bicarbonate, Rochelle salts, potassium and so- dium tartrate and flavoring. This remedy was patented about fifty years ago by Dr. Samuel Pitcher and was the foundation of the late Mr. Fletcher's fortune (the same Mr. Fletcher who discovered pro- longed chewing as a remedy for all ills). The patent for Castoria has expired long ago. It called for the following ingredients: 135 pounds of senna leaves 65 gallons of water (at 65 C.) 48 ounce sodium bicarbonate 210 pounds sugar 4 ounces Rochelle salts 18 pints spirits of gaultheria (wintergreen) 2 pints spirits of pepo 2 pints ot of chenopodium aromatics (flavorings) which are added in order to disguise the odor of the senna and prevent competi- tors from putting up a preparation which would taste exactly the same. Addresses Wanted M. Harris, New York City; Miss Anna Herbst, Bronx; Lily Hochman, Brooklyn; Harry Kaplan, Bronx, We Love Brooklyn For some reason which we can- not understand a rumor has been spread that we dislike the Borough of Brooklyn. We have tried to deny it, but without avail. It is true that various organizations have tried to get us to lecture before them and because we always re- ferred them to the District Or- ganizer, they got the impression that we do not care to lecture in their borough. Finally something had to be done, and in order to demonstrate our love for Brcoklyn, particularly for the East New York section of Brooklyn, we have de- cided to deliver one of our most interesting lectures to that part of New York. Those who have never heard us before, will have the opportunity to hear us lecture on “Workers Health in U.S.A. and USSR.” at the Hinsdale Workers Club, 572 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., Sunday evening, April 29, at 8:30 p.m. The lecture has been arranged under the auspices of the Carnarsie Youth Club and admission will be 25 cents, Down tools May Ist! Show your will for the overthrow of capital- ism, for a Soviet United States! COSTUME BALL and ENTERTAINMENT FAIDAY, APRIL 27th, 9 P.M. at the Village Gymnasium Hall 224 West 4th Streeet at Christopher St, Sub. Sta, Excellent Orchestra (wormseed) Refreshments 5 oh seis ef peppermint Auspices: Ella Reeve Bloor Apis Ch anes Branch LL.D. Tf you want to make your own Castoria you can percolate the first three ingredients and add the rest ually. It will be much cheaper to get it at the drug store by asking for the official U. S. Pharmacopeia product known as Syrup of Senna. We wish to draw your attention to three points about Castoria which is common to nearly all patent medicines, First of all they always claim that the medicine does not contain any drugs or chemicals and that it is a purely “vegetable” com- pound. You will note that Castoria contains several salts which con- tradicts this claim. Secondly, note the large amount of water used (65 gallons) and sugar (210 pounds) for which the consumer pays fancy prices. Finally, note the numerous Subscription 35¢. RUSSIAN NITE Entertainment & Dance Friday Evening April 27th Flatbush Workers Center . 1576 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn Arranged by Professional Com. to Support the Struggle of the Waterfront Workers Subseription 50 Cents | |