The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1934, Page 4

Page Four | | | { | | Front for Mass a Sa By MAX BEDACHT : a campaign for sc and spec f of HR. Bill International ginning to take on general ur fraternal 1% York, organiz of the Fraternal cial Insurance. rater! tensive campaign for the passage of House of Representatives Bill 7598, the Workers Unemployment by the confere @ widespread p paign for the b: lication and dis' through the syste of all fraternal or; the pub- natic mobilization izations for the Passage of resolutions in favor of | the bill coupled with demands to Congress to pass it, the organization of demonstrations, petitions and Gelegations to convey and back up demands to local Congressmen and local government authorities for the Passage of H.R. Bill 7598. The value of the united front established at the conference in New York will have to be proven in action. The composition of the con- ference was good; but if the united front established by this conference will not develop stematic continuous action of all the partici- pating lodges in favor of H. R. Bill 7598, then it is not a united front. The united front must be one of action, not merely one of opinion. The conference showed that there exists between the Workers Bill 7598. This united front of opinion must now be trans- formed into a united front of action. The first action in this tran: formation should consist in the is- suance of agitational mass leaflets addressed to the proletarian mem- bers of fraternal organizations. For the systematic distribution of these mass leaflets, volunteers must be mobilized from all the fraternal ledges represented in the conference. Funds must be raised from and by these lodges to bear the cost of this campaign. Extend the United Front The next ection of the united front must be to win new allies and new participants. As many commit- tees as possible must be organized to appear as official spokesmen of the Fraternal Federation before such fraternal organizations as are | Fraternal Federation for Social In- away. and | tribute toward the achiev-m f leaflets, | de articipants a | united front of opinion in favor of I, W. O. Social Insurance Campaign Gets Fraternal Organizations Form United Action for H. R. 7598 These aga nee Bill 8. ation of the commit- They must agitate for the nt of H. R. Bill 7598 and ds 1 of resolutions de- of Congress and of indi- men the passing of abers of the International ler have a special duty is connection. They must be| Ww fr that lems of ‘king class as its own. Such an| ude and such activities on the part of the Order will make the surance a force which will con-| ne ne Insur- nent and Social passage of H.R. will also make the among the worker: help to build our Or ill show the American workers how a proletarian fraternal Order functions and acts as the defender of workers’ interests, as causing the It of the bourgeois fraternal | less phrases and rituals. | To carry through the campaign all the branches of the Interna-| tional Workers Order must’ carry through an educational campaign about social insurance. Every mem- ber of the Order must become thor- | oughly acquainted with the mean- | ing of unemployment and social in- surance, Every member must be- come armed with all arguments in favor of it. Only thus will our menibers be mobilized to talk un- employment and social insurance to their fellow workers in the shops, in the neighborhoods, in their work- ers’ organizaticns—in fact, every- where and all the time. For this purpose the branches of | the Order everywhere should imme- diately organize discussion meet- | ings on social insurance. pared outlines for these discus- sions. The outlines may be used as a guide for speakers; but they can also be used as complete introduc- tions to discussions. Anyone in the branch can read them in the meet- ing in place of a speech. for these outlines and should organ- ize open membership meetings of the branch to carry through these discussions. The members of the Order should be encouraged to bring friends and fellow workers to these discussions. In these discus- sion meetings we can make friends for unemployment and social in- surance, and we can and must make new friends for our Order. TOMORROW! “Will you kindly tell me where the Women’s Council is located on Staten Island?” asks Victoria G., in an urgent letter frpm that locality. “T live on Staten Island, and would like “to join, but don’t know where to go. Will you let me know as soon as possible, so I may be able to demonstrate with them on May Day?” The Staten Island Council meets at its headquarters, 2047 Richmond ‘Terrace, on Wednesday evenings at 8:30. The directives given in the “Daily” on April 27 show that the Women’s Councils convene tomor- row at 11 a.m. on 2ist St., west of Eighth Ave. I take it that the Domestic Work- ers will march with the Food Work- ers Industrial Union, of which their union is a section. These line up at 11 am. on 18th St., west of Eighth Ave. The Office Workers’ Union, which must include many women workers, assembles. with the downtown groups at Battery Pl. 9 a.m. Womey,-not yet organized, and not friends or relatives with s aving 4 wee to march, might well march th the Women’s Councils. Others # g0 with their organizations. And Why Should We March? Here’s a letter from a Browns- ville member, received the other day by the Women’s Councils: “I went to the Cumberland Hos- pital Clinic. A woman with a baby en her arm was also standing in the line. It took quite a long time before the line moved. Then one ‘woman said, “Let that woman and baby go through.” “So they left her through. I was standing at the window; had given in my prescription. I looked at that woman and baby. The woman looked half starved, and the baby was burning with fever. Its lips were black. Every minute it licked its lips—you could have seen that it was trying to revive itself. “The mother told me that the baby has 103 fever and is sick al- ready two weeks. She had no money to call a doctor. She lives in Bay Ridge, and called up the King’s County Hospital. They didn’t want to accept her there; they sent her to the Cumberland Mospital. She said, “I had no car fare, so the neighbors gave me car fare.” “In Cumberland Hospital they gave her some medicine and told her to come back with the baby if it gets worse. The woman also told me that her husband is unemployed, ‘and that she had more children at home. “The Board of Health, and the schools preach ‘Give your children » medical care.’ But when you have no money, your children and your- s all go out on May First 5q.—protest—demonstrate re i CONDUCTED BY HELEN LUKE against the misery and starvation here, and for the defense of the Soviet Union. “Forward to a Soviet world. “IDA G. “Council No, 15.” | Gan Yor Make °Em Yourself? | Pattern 1851 is available in sizes |14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 3% yards 39-inch fabric and %2 yard contrasting. Il- lustrated step-by-step sewing in- | structions included, Due lla 1851 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 Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 7th Street, New York 4 The Na-| tional Office of the Order has pre- | Branch executives should write} our | prices on articles |since then, as part of the sales} | girl's job, to take care of her stock. | against the anti-working class poli- sia i | cies | movement hidden under meaning- | special prices, Then the rest room | was turned into a place where the Official Bitterly DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1934 Dep't Store Piece Rates Keep Pay Toa at Add Foreed Under Way “Pay Raise” Cuts Wages Porteous, Mitchell & Brown Co. Adds $1 But Takes Off $5 By a Worker Correspondent PORTLAND, Me.—A few weeks ago, the Porteous, Mitchell & Brown Co., the largest department store in Portland, announced a raise of $1) a week for its employes. The truth of the matter is that the em- loyes of that store were granted | tensified speed-up in their work. They were also robbed by the company of other privileges they used to , like a separate rest room gi and ecial hey bought for themselves. | It all started with the coming of the efficiency men invited by the company to help drive depression th It happened that the assistant | buyer, who was taking care of each | counter’s stock, took sick and the girls, out of devotion to the place} or friendship for the sick woman, | took her duties over and did her work while she stayed in the hos- pital. Well if, has been established | Next, followed the abolition of | company, keeps all kinds of odds and ends. The girls call it the junk room, But here's how the raise was ac- | complished for the company’s bene- | fit. The girls, previous, were get- ting $12 a week and a bonus every three months, which averaged from $60 to $70, or between $5 to $6 a week extra. The company is pay- ing them $13 a week instead of $12 now, but it took the bonus away and the girls receive about $4 to $5 less each week. | That's how the Porteous, Mitchell | and Braun Co. granted an increase to its employes. Forced Labor in New Orleans for Transient Youth By a Vet Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La.—The tran- sient problem in New Orleans is being tackled in a bigger and bet- ter way by the Emergency Relief Administration, announces State Administrator Harry J. Early. The Algiers Naval Station has been turned over to the F.R.A. There, the old transients will be fed, housed and forced to labor. The young transients, 18 to 25 years old, will be concentrated at the old Y.M. C.A. building at 815 St. Charles St. Because of the isolated locality of the Naval Station, the older men will be better disciplined than is possible under the present condi- at AND 0 HT For we Fie me! At the Naval Station the men tions. will be compelled to grow flowers, and vegetables. We can understand and see the reason for the cultiva- tion of vegetables, but what we need is not flowers but food and clothing. The Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration also plans to work the men in the machine and carpenter shops, making garden rakes out of scrap iron. Herr Hitler also regiments the un- employed into labor battalions. AFL Jewelry Union Fights H. R. 7598 By a Jewelry Worker Correspondent NEWARK, N. J.—At a meeting of the Jewelry, Workers’ Local No. 2 here, a communication from Pres. Wm. Green was read stating he was sorry to hear that they have en- dorsed H.R. 7598, that it is a Com- munist bill, and that he hopes the local will rescind the “Lundeen” bill in favor of the Wagner bill. Immediately after the communi- cation was read, Beardsley, the In- ternational Secretary, launched a vicious attack upon the Workers’ Bill and the Communist Party, say- ing, “They have tricked you into their phraseology but their main objective is to break up our organi- zation Many of the workers now know very well that it was Beardsley and his hireling who, with the help of the National Labor Board, broke both the Gemex strike and the pre- cious metal workers strike, with the result that over 300 militant workers are now walking the streets because of a blacklist. These sell-out leaders were suc- cessful in having the Wagner Bill endorsed, only after they terrorized the rank and file with lies that the Communists were attempting to break up the local. The workers of Local No. 2 must now begin to realize that their “Beardsleys” are responsible for the plight they are now in, and a rank and file movement) must be started PARTY LIFE GoodyearRubberSundries,Inc. yj og} to Cut| Our Line on Negro Question ike te os 7 Must Be Raised Very Firmly Workers Urged to Join Rubber Workers Industrial Union (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn Goodye! majori and you do the . the of the workers are women nz girls. meny ef whom can several skilled jobs. few A ago dozens were laid off, of whom were never called Most of the workers are on many back. Ppiece-work. There is also a day- work quota, which the workers can- not reach because the piece-work rates are so low. For instance one experienced girl working on aprons could not make any more than $7 thin the |® Wage cut instead of a raise and/| for one week. The! T.Wi,0; 45 [83-2 Recently the girls on some jobs received slight increases. At the same tir however, the work be- came harder, as on the belt, where| it was speeded up to the li The increase On the belt is only 5c. an hour so that the girl gets about $14 a week. The work is dangerous on many jobs. Many girls have contracted T. B. and rheumatism from the soapstone and dampness. Many girls are covered with inches of starch and soapstone. This soap- stone forms a lump in their throat, so they can’t breathe at the end of a day. The sanitary conditions are very bad. There are not enough lava- tories or sinks. No soap or towels are provided. Only one half hour is allowed for lunch! Previous to the time the Rubber Workers’ Industrial Union began talking to the workers, only fifteen minutes was allowed for lunch! The half hour was granted because the boss evidently became afraid of organization. The men in the moulding room are also on piece-work, and if the boss thinks they make too much, the rates are cut. Two jobs have re-| | cently been cut, namely the soap-| | dish end sink stopper jobs to about | | $3.75 a week. The men went to the| ! office to protest, but they said no-| | thing could be done. | The lesson to draw from this is to | ORGANIZE! The moulders work) very hard. It is very warm in the] mould room. In the summer men} have fainted from the heat and hard | | work. The work is so hard that| some were forced to stay home be- cause they became muscle-bound. | One moulder had to stay out be- cause a heavy mould dropped on his foct. Accidents take place ail over the shop. One of the printer’s hands | got caught in the press, and four o: his fingers had to be amputated. | Mr. Murray the owner, through the foreladies, foremen and stool- pigeons, is trying to discourage the workers from joining and building the Rubber Workers’ Industrial Union. The workers are spied upon, no talking is allowed, they are not allowed to look out of the windows, and in spite of this the workers are beginning to see who their friends | end enemies are. | Workers in Goodyear's! Organize! | Elect your Department committees | and bring your grievances to the boss. | Join the Rubber Workers’ Indus- | trial Union, a union controlled by the workers themselves. Only in this way can you force the boss to improve the sanitary conditions, raise your wages, cut down the} speed-up and stop lay-offs! AUBURN, Me. — The Socialist Party, like the other capitalist par- ties, is coming out, like bears in the spring, for the election cam- paign. We didn’t see them in any of the struggles conducted by work- ers and farmers in this state all the year ‘round (except Mr. Max- well’s speech to the Westbrook Silk Workers not to strike, not now, any- way). Now for the election campaign, they dust themselves and come to- gether in a state convention. “We don’t know what we are go- ing to do.” This was the predomi- nant spirit in the convention. It seems as though Roosevelt took the ground from their feet, as one of the leaders said. “All that we were ighting for for years Roosevelt gave to them and he has the credit, and we don’t know what we are going to do if we are elected,” is the way he expressed it. You can see that these people, especially the leading spirits of the convention, don’t know the prob- lems of the toiling pdpulation of the state. For example: One reso- lution calls on the governor to es- tablish a state arbitration commit- tee, which is the strongest weapon in the hand of the manufacturers, especially in the last shoe strike in Auburn. But even in the Socialist Party convention the influence of the class struggle is felt. On the one side the conservative leaders, up to the ears in capitalist politics: Stern, the chairman, once elected as a Democrat to the State Legislature; Maxfield, staunch defender of the N.R.A. and friend of industrial peace. On the other hand there are delegates who feel something is wrong, but who are still illusioned {that they can make the old S. P. Letters from CAMPS WANT “DAILY” San Bernardino, Cal. Dear Comrade: Due to the fact that we are in a Government Relief Camp, and getting no pay, we are unable to send any money. A Daily Worker would be very, very much appreci- ated. We are sure of that, as we have a copy of the Daily Worker, dated Feb. 15, which is just about worn to pieces. Although there are 500 men, all out of state, in the four camps, the majority are just boys in their teens and maybe a few past 20 who are still green as to the cause of present existing conditions. Will you kindly send us a copy of the Daily Worker, as some news on International affairs would help not only us but those who are also here and ignorant of the true facts. We may be able later on to take up a collection and be able to put some Daily Workers in circulation in some of these camps. Comradely yours, 8. Cc. J, GET “DAILY” TO RELIEF PROJECTS South Ozone Park, L. I. I like to write you a few words to show my appreciation for your pa- per and the great work you are accomplishing for the working class of this country. I have been buying the Daily Worker regularly of late and have also taken steps to join the Com- munist Party. I have been working on the C.W.A. during the winter, and I have not yet been fired. So, I guess I will be one of the lucky ones des- tined to a slow death by starvation wages, which will be even lower than the lousy $13.44 paid by the C. W. A. I have joined the Relief Workers League local at Brownsville, N. Y., and have also succeeded in getting many of my fellow workers to join. It’s my earnest hove that we can get every relief worker, unemployed and Home Relief cases to join our organization, so that by mighty united front we will be able to force our demands through. I would like to see the Daily jenemies of the working class, é OE ee to oust these betrayers of labor and Worker pushed out in great cir” Wisk ce Correspondent Tells About Maine S.P. Convention a fighting party. These latter in- troduced resolutions to support the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, to instruct delegates to the Na- tional Convention not to vote for anything contrary to the interests of the Soviet Union, etc. It is not to the credit of the members of the Communist Party that some of these militant dele- gates are not enlightened as to the real role of the S. P. “Labor” was represented by an A. F. of L. official of Augusta, part of the state machinery and the paid official from the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union from Au- burn. I wonder who sent the last one to represent us there, as we never took up the question in our meeting. During the convention and the mess meeting, the spirit of the C. P. was always there, although the leaders tried their utmost to keep it out. All the questions asked to the speaker was about the Soviet, Union and C. P. Even one of the workers suggested that the S. P. should disband since they proved unable to lead the fight for the working masses and let the Com- munists do the job. In the debates on the platform the chairman was forced to warn the delegates not to fall under the influence of the Com- munists present. (The writer of this letter was the only one there.) The capitalist press did its ut- most to build up the convention. It gave them front page publicity and even went so far as to announce that 200 delegates were present, when only 25 were there, and com- ing out with attacks against the C. P. by calling them enemies in our gates. Seems that even our local press understands the histori- cal role of the S. P. and is prepar- ing them to break the revolution- ary front. Our Readers tion. Your circulation drive should include every relief project in the City and State. Send men to every project to sell the paper every day in the week. They will buy the paper for they are looking for in- formation and only in the Daily can the real truth be read. Now we have a chance as never before, for the workers are looking for leaders to lead them together in their struggles. The year 1934 will undoubtedly go down in history as the beginning of mass organization of workers under the Communist banner and consequently the down- fall of the capitalist system. Yours truly, bs M. SOCIALIST DEMAGOGY Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Comrade: Last night I listened to a speech made by an Englishman, Sir Staf- ford Crisp on the radio station WEVD. Practically every statement that he made in his speech, was an un- forgivable condemnation of the tac- tics and policies of the leaders of the Socialist Party in Europe. He pointed out very clearly that in such countries as Germany and Austria, where the Socialist par- ties were more in power, instead of uniting the workers for the com- plete overthrow of capitalism, their leaders played politics with capi- talist politicians adopting a policy of opportunism and lesser evil, and thereby helping fascism to rise in- stead of socialism. He asserted that the workers have only one way out, and that is, to build a strong united militant and revolutionary working class, and uncompromisingly overthrow the rotten capitalist system and estab- lish in its place real socialism. ‘Yet in conclusion he ended up with a hearty good wish for the So- cialist Party of America, whose Jeaders are exerting every day, all their efforts to obstruct every move of the Communist Party to unite the workers of America, into one united front for militant and revolutionary struggles. If this is not demagogy, what is? \ M. R, Down Wage French Tavern in Phila. | Takes 25 Cents a Day | More Out of Pay | (By a Food Worker Correspondent) | PHILADELPHIA. Pa—The man-| ager of the French Tavern; 16th and | Walnut streets, invented another | trick in order to cut the workers 25c. a day more. Up to this time the workers were allowed to eat only once during the day, just a little slop and a cup of coffee, for which they were charged 25c. Now they are notified that from now on they will have te eat once more before} they go home at night, when the place closes, for which they will be} charged 25c more; or 50s. a day. All of the workers, cooks, wait- resses and dishwashers, are against | this rule, for they prefer to eat in their homes or outside, but they are afraid they might lose their jobs. To some of the workers who told the manager they will not eat a second meal there at night he answered, “Eat or not, you will have to pay 50c. a day.” Workers must organize into the} Food Workers’ Industrial Union to fight for better conditions. Trust Wipes Out Paper Factory in Monopoly Drive By a Worker Correspondent DENVER, Col. — A paper mill located on the outshirts of Denver, which has been in at least a half- dozen receiverships and which has been reorganized as many times during the past 15 years or so, has been employing from 80 to 100 work- ers until the past week, when it went into another receivership and was sold. It was sold at auction and bought up by the paper trust, which has decided to close it down for good as the trust has too many paper factories running and too much paper is being produced for the market. Since the N. R. A. went into effect and the president has set the Clay- ton anti-trust act aside, the paper trust can do this, and in that way it can buy up many small factories and put them out of commission, keeping them closed for good, and the workers formerly employed in these places will have to go into the army of unemployed. The unit of the Communist Party in the packing house district here jis going to try and get enough Daily Workers with this article in it to distribute among former em- ployes of this factory, and try to arouse them to the necessity of or- ganizing against this kind of in- human treatment. Organization Of Substitute Teachers Needed (By a Worker Correspondent) BRONX, N. Y.—There is a large group of toilers who are as yet un- organized. I refer to those “lowly” men and women, the teachers-in- training or “substitutes.” These “subs” are assigned to a definite school where they report each day in hope that they may get a day’s work, $7. Usually they are asked a “favor” by the principal of the school, to aid in some clerical work or run an errand. For this, there is no payment. To refuse means disapproval in the eyes of the principal who is the Almighty. A young lady told me of the con- ditions in her school, P. S. 63 Man- hattan. During all of last month she “subbed” a half day for $3, yet she comes in every morning and does not leave until late afternoon. The assistant principal happens to know she is writing a book and she hhas been asked to “aid” him in the clerical work. Here is a field for the Teachers’ Opposition Group. The time to be- gin to organize our teachers is when they are young and still open to realization of what unity and revo- lutionary leadership means to them. Why not develop an organization of such a type? Heckscher Dental Clinic Insults By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—My husband and I are suffering from bad teeth. Be- ing a C.W.A. worker, I had to ap- ply to the Heckscher Dental Clinic which is supported by the City of New York. I had to go through many abuses until we were accepted. My husband hardly received any treatments and they kept stalling me off for weeks and nothing was done to my teeth. Then they told me, “You are through and can go home.” My husband went to the clinic and told the doctor, “What's the idea, my wife’s teeth were not cared for?” The head doctor told my hus- band to send me back to the clinic so he will examine my teeth. When I got there all the doctors looked at me with angry faces. The head doc- tor said to the social worker, “I have to get through with this one up there,” pointing at me. I was called into his office and there was an- other doctor, Both of them started abusing, laughing and _ hollering, calling me names and telling me, “Who do you think you are? You are not paying us for this work. Don’t forget you are getting charity. Go fight City Hall.” The city pays them for all work done to patients and the doctors tell the patients they are giving them charity. The doctor told me if I will pay him he will do the job, Must Do Away With Liberal Approach To Negro Question By N. FELD Section Organizer, Cincinnati, Ohio A liberal approach exists among some of our Party comrades to- wards the Negro members of the Party, such as, “there is no dis- crimination on the C.W.A. jobs, therefore, it is not necessary to in- sert a paragraph in the constitu- tion of the Relief Workers Protec- tive Union against Negro discrimi- nation,” or “we are all equal in the Party and it is not necessary to dis- cuss it at all times.” Even among the leading com-|meeting by having a rades, there exists an expression that, “the Negro workers are back- ward, and we have tried to give them some responsible work, but they don’t seem to carry it out.” Then there is another extreme, which reflects exactly the same lib- eral approach as stated above, and that is: if some of the Negro com- rades begin to show some activity, immediately the units begin to pile up some of these comrades with so much work, that it is impossible for these comrades to carry it out. Or in the case of some of the new Negro workers joining the Party, there is some kind of an artificial approach, which the Negro workers do not like. All such expressions re- flect the remnants of white chau- vinism. How can we expect work of the Negro comrades, when many comrades have already made up their minds that the Negroes will not carry out the work given to them? Especially here in Cincinnati, where Jim-Crowism and discrimi- nation is being practised openly by the “model form of government” and where the A. F. of L. is com- pletely discriminating against the Negro workers. The two suburbs of the city, Steele Sub-Division and Lockland, and even in the city proper. we find most of the restau- rants and moving picture theatres are closed completely to Negroes. Negro workers in these neighbor- hoods live in condemned houses, the sidewalks and the streets are so dirty and dark that it is impossible for a stranger to find the number of a certain house. All this only proves that we do not understand the conditions of the Negro workers. Many comrades cannot see that we must raise the Negro question at all times, even at meetings and shops where there are no Negro workers. However, some beginnings have been made in our section. Here I wish to give one example which may bring some light and lessons to other districts and sections. For a period of more than three months we were stagnant in one concen- tration shop with a group of about 15 or 17. Finaliy, we broke through and penetrated almost all the de- partments. But not one single Ne- gro worker had been drawn in to the union. We sharply raised the questien of drawing in Negroes into the union. We explained that the union will not be able to make any headway without taking the Negro workers into the union. We raised the question of the whole system of Negro oppression, explaining the approach of our union and the A. F. of L., the meth- ods that the A. F. of L. uses against the Negro workers. One of the workers present at the shop meet- ing raised the question, “You mean to tell me that we are going to sit together with the ‘niggers’?” An- other worker had a more “liberal” approach towards this question and stated that “it is not necessary to sit together with the colored, they can have their meeting separately, ete.” ‘We again explained all this in more details and took a firm stand and explained that we do not or- ganize workers to separate them, but to unite them. At the same time the chairman who was not el- together sober tried to disrupt the “fist” fight with the speaker. The reaction of the workers was very surprising. Not only was the chairman called to order by the workers, but was forced to resign. At the following meeting we had 14 Negro workers present at the union meeting, all of them joined the union. The characteristic fea- tures of this meeting were that some of the Negro haters nominated Negro workers to the Executive Board and some white workers nominated Negro workers. That meeting proved that there is no differences between white and Ne- gro workers when they come to- gether. The Open Letier states: “The Party must mobilize the masses for the struggle for equal rights of the Negroes and for the right of seif- determination for the Negroes in the Black Belt. It must ruthlessly combat any form of white chauvi- nism and Jim-Crow practice. It must not only in words, but in deeds, overcome all obstacles to the drawing in of the best elements cf the Negro pyoletariat.” If we are really to carry out some of our tasks stated in the Open Let- ter, we must sincerely begin tc think of how to overcome the rem- nants of white chauvinism, and, in the first place, do away with the ee approach on the Negro ques- on. It is no longer a question of send- ing a Negro worker in a commit- tee, but it becomes the paramount question before the entire Party to fight for the Negro rights in the neighborhoods, on the jobs and in the shops. We cannot be satisfied because we have had in the com- mittee or we elected a Negro worker into the Executive Board, that is only the preliminary step, and we must develop this step further. We must at all times speak and point out in all the minutest details the actual conditions of the Negro workers. The dictatorship of the proic- tariat must be a State that em- bodies a new kind of democracy, for the proletarians and the dis- Possessed; and a new kind of dictatorship, against the bour- gecisie—Lenin. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street, City Doctor ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Address Wanted Fred Skriwanek, Chicago, Ill.—A private letter which was forwarded to you addressed “General Delivery” was returned to us marked “un- claimed.” tone tedhar Locomotor Ataxia Worried and Anxious, Union City, N. J.—If you were properly treated for two years, we doubt that you are suffering from locomotor ataxia. It might be your fears that make you see signs and symptoms of the disease which may be due to some- thing else than syphilis: The first thing to do is to have a Wasser- mann test. If this is negative you need not worry. The majority of physicians charge about $5 for sal- varsan injections; but some physi- cians make it as low as $3. If you are down and out, please call at our office. 8 ie High Blood Pressure H. B., New York City——A person aged 51 who has a blood pressure of 240 or 260 months is in indeed, unless al to suddenly, patients are apt to feel weak in their extremities (hands and feet) because the heart is not strong enough to maintain the proper circulation in the parts of the body farthest from the cen- ter. The best treatment for pa- tients with high blood pressure is rest; the second method is again complete rest and the third treat- ment, which is better than all others. is complete rest in bed. We trust that this will impress upon you the importance of rest in high blood pressure cases. The next thing to do is to ascertain the cause of the blood pressure and take the necessary measures against it. A hot water bottle or an electric pad By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. to the feet of the patient helps draw the blood from the head to the lower extremities; thus preventing an apoplectic stroke which is the complication most, to be feared. Dementia Praecox C. C., Bronx.—Judging from your description, your cousin seems to be suffering from a mental condi- tion. The state in which he finds himself is known as “negetivism,” which means that he refuses to do anything that his friends or care- takers want him to do. Sometimes this is accompanied by “mutism” . during which period the patient re- fuses to speak. You have not given your cousin’s age; but if he is about 22, he is probably suffering from dementia praecox. The stomach symptoms are merely the “aura” which usher in his mental crises. Cold showers and fresh air will not cure this condition. We fear that you will ultimately have to take him to the observation ward in Bellevue Hospital, whence he will be committed to Central Islip. Low Stature E. P., Brooklyn.—A person’s sta- ture (height) is determined chiefly by his heredity. You will probably gtow another one-half inch or one inch by the time you reach 24; but there are neither exercises nor drugs which can make you grow more. There was an article on this subject some time ago in this col- umn. We know of some actors who are not much taller than you are and who have managed to play roles requiring taller men. This is ac- complished artificially using shoes with high heels. If you are a good actor, your stature will not keep you from playing these roles later on; although it might prevent you from doing so now in the dra- matic group that you belong to. It is said that abstinence from rich foo¢ and from sexual intercourse has a tendency to increase the height in young men who have not reached their full growth; but we have no scientific data confirming this be- lief.