The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1934, Page 4

Page Four Gov't Holds Back Pay, Then Cuts Wages at Camp By a Worker Correspondent LANCASTER, — Wh March 14 the Fe Gove: announced a pa. an how Cal rs at the da peti- tion stat to work ing the 45 ce originally tion we month's e had p “trou! after P rangers poste: San Francisco it that we the end of the v not up t this pr The Federal the - at (The week is range: those who refused Slash to “leave quie of 125 left. As to the 175 who remained, they} had either no place to go, or no money to go away with, as the Fed- eral government owes us a month back pay. The Federal gover a fine r They held back our pay h and then announced the pay slash, figuring we would acecpt the wage cut if we had no money in our pockets. Well, they found out different. Even before the cut hours work a week rate pay check was never more $5.75. ment played at the the weekly than Down Tools, Demonstrate May Ist to force the adoption of the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, H. R. 7598! : ice would see to! Ar 15} | The Open Shop Is | Path to Hunger | | By an Auto Worker Correspondent | — The Detr 2 carries the fol- headline Alfred P. Sloan, of | surprise, we found 800 workers, Ne- General Motors Co! for|gro and white, men and women, New NIRA Labor “Sees | waiting for us. A committee was ;Trouble Ahead Unless Provisions elected of 30 workers, Negro and e Clarified,” “Calls for a Decision | white, women and children, to go Favoring Open Shop.” This is exactly what could be ex- cted of a man like Alfred P. oan, Jr. He wants the despised “open shop.” In other words he is | chiefly concerned in having genuine m buried in the graveyard | i is motivated by a desire to pile} jup huge profits at the expense of the struggling workers. Whether Mr. Sloan likes it or not, jthe “closed shop” is just exactly |what organized labor wants. We refuse to be dominated by our in- | dustrial kings with their contempt- |able “open shop,” while our families, jfathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, }and loved ones are brought down jand kept on a starvation level. | NOTE: We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their working conditions and of their efforts to organize. Please get the letters to us by Friday of each week. MINIATURES OF OUR MILITANT WOMEN Williana Burroughs True daughter of the working class, Williana Jones was born in Virginia, of slave-born parents freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. Williana’s mother had_ been brought up in strictest tradition of unceasing labor as the lot of un- happy race torn from native trop- ical home: as a tyke of three or four years was perched up on box to busy herself with dishwashing. This little girl-worker, when she grew up and married, had three LIANA- WHOL RROU GES babies, one of them Williana. While babies were still very young, father died and Mrs. Jones came to New York hoping to be better able to tare for brood. Found work in domestic service. When unable to keep children with her, placed them in orphan asylum then at 143 St. and Amsterdam Ave. One child died, leaving Williana and brother. Williana went to school in city, nd in times when Mother Jones could keep children where she worked, the little Williana’s services were considered part of labor bought by the mother’s meagre pay. After school she had plenty of work to flo, dishes, cleaning, scrubbing—per- petual round of house-drudgery. Sometimes exhausted, stopping to read book, explanation was demand- ed by Mother Jones. “But I’m so tired!” Williana would protest. “Tired!” repeated mother in @mazed rebuke—“but THAT'S no reason for stopping work!” As Williana grew older, she con- tinued schooling, working out of school hours: passed through what is now “Hunter” College. Here, fi- nally received meagre payment of five dollars monthly. During two summers, went out to work caring for children. After Hunter, in 1903, Miss Jones became a teacher, placed always in working - class (primary) With growing knowledge, growing consciousness, grew also urge to help her oppressed race, to seek best way of doing so. Did volunteer settle- ment work, helped Negro children’s clubs, engaged in other like activi- ties. Was asked why she did not join a Labor Party. Jim-Crow attitude of Socialist Party repelled her. Experienced years of restlessness in search for correct alignment to aid in deliverance of her people. Like many others, felt that urge to go South to work among her people there: yet felt also, essential futility of individual efforts while pressure from above was not lifted. Mean- while read widely, seeking a road. Miss Jones married. Had to leave eff teaching because of ban on mar- f pas i the Home t HELEN schools, | inv BY LUKE ried women teachers. When ban was later lifted, Mrs, Burroughs re- turned to work, To bear her own four children, was forced to leave again, but later, in need of funds, again returned to teaching. Finally through persistent inquiry, found way to American Negro Labor Congress, thence made way to Com- munist Party. Comrade Burroughs was active in efforts to save Scottsboro Boys, also in Parent - Teachers’ Association, and was active member of left-wing group in Teachers’ Union of A. F. of L. Bronx school teacher, Isidore Blumberg, was expelled in frame-up “open” hearing at Board of Educa- tion, due to activity as chairman of Teachers’ Committee to Protect Sal- aries. Comrade Burroughs became sec- retary of Blumberg Defense Com- mittee, and was suspended along with Isidore Begun, another teacher | who attempted to defend Blumberg, Comrade Burroughs was Commu- nist candidate for Comptroller at last municipal elections, polling 30,- 749 votes, highest number of votes received by any N. Y. C. Communist candidate. Is now active in our movement; teaches at Harlem Workers’ School, and is contributing editor of the Harlem Liberator. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1832 is available in sizes 4,6, 8, 10, 12 and 14. Size 10 takes 2 yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded, | way downstairs and around the cor- jteered to defend the case were not DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1934 Butler County Workers Rally to | Fight for Relief; By a Worker Correspondent HAMILTON, Ohio.—Never before in the history of the labor move-| ment in the state of Ohio, or in| fact in the entire United States, | did labor show a more complete solidarity than was shown by the wo! s of Butler County here in! | this strike. | Fifty of us Hamilton workers were in Middletown on April 14, to at-/} tend a meeting at the City Hall to organize t first Unemployed | Council in the city. To our great} the Welfare to demand relief for several starving workers. The chairman asked for volun- teers to go to the demonstration in Hamilton, and the entire audi- ence from Middletown stood up. They were willing to go 16 miles, even if they had to walk. No more than 10 men work in Butler County on all the PER.A. projects, and Middletown will stand solid with workers striking for bread and butter in Butler County. This morning two comrades that were arrested on picket duty were tried. When the court opened at 9 a.m. the room was packed so that a fly couldn't squeeze in, all the ner. The lawyers that had volun- there, so the case was continued! to next. Wednesday at 9 a.m. Sunday, April 15, a committee of four strikers and I distributed 5,000 leaflets in every village and hamlet in Butler County for our demon- stration in front of the Welfare of- fice of Welfare Director, Mr. Browning, who is passing the buck with the lying statement that he is powerless to decide on wage in- creases, though he has the power |to cut the wages of the workers to | starvation standards. On War Orders At Illinois Steel Mill Inspectors from Japan and China Supervise Work on Products for Torpedoes By a Steel Worker Correspondent | union and the A. F. of L. that sold SO. CHICAGO, Ill.—In the Illinois | out the strike in 1919. The bosses Steel Mill machine shop department,| carry on “red scare” against any production is going on day and| activities for the workers; the work- night with great speed. The best kind of steel, 24 inches in diameter, 18 inches long, is turned out on the lathes. Strange steel tester inspectors come from somewhere, stay a few weeks and leave. These metallur- gists, chemists, engineers, inspectors, say they are from China, Japan. They speak English fluently, they talk to workers very little, just what they have tc, to explain about the work, but they won't tell what these orders are for or by whom they are sent. Everything is kept in secret. This is a war product for tor- pedoes. Everything is rushed, but is handled with great care. Very care- ful inspection is given. At night this steel is packed in boxes and shipped away. The conditions in the machine shop are terrible. Intense speed, equipment machinery worn out, re- pairs needed, but it seems the bosses care only fo: one thing—profits. The worker working on worn out me-| chines have to worry how to turn out the work right. It’s up to the worker himself to make that ma- chine go perfect as close as he can, which is not an easy task for the best mechanic. The workers hardly talk to one another, fearing to lose their jobs. The workers are looking for lead- ership to fight for better conditions; to form a shop or department com- mittee to take up the demands. They are opposed to the company ers are for strike against such rotten conditions—such is the ex- | Pression of the workers. Workers’ Union Left Out of Mesta Machine Co. Ballot By a Steel Worker Correspondent HOMESTEAD, Pa.—In this steel town where the burgess declared that as long as he is ruling here, Pat Cush, National Chairman of the Union, will not speak in the Bor- ough Hall, the workers are begin- ning to wake up. Of course, eve! smooth, according to the Messenger, the town paper. Even the coming election in the Mesta Machine Co., will be only in favor of the work- . But you don’t need to read be- | tween the lines. Look at this: “A committee of workers was ap- pointed (by the bosses of course) to supervise the arrangements” and further, “it was decided to place four different ways to vote on the ballot, viz: Employees Union; Amal- gamated Association; American Fed- eration of Labor; Mesta Club. The workers must vote for one of the ebove unions.” How nice! After saving them the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial | hing is nice and | ‘Workers Speeded Up Murray Body Corp. Speeds Workers Into Accidents By An Auto Worker Correspondent | DETROIT, Mich—In the mad rush to make profits and rush through production as quickly as possible, the Murray Body Corp. re- gards the safety and lives of work- ers less and less. As a result, seri- ous accidents are occurring daily. Only recently, in Building 107, an elevator fell five floors, sending two workers to the hospital and knock- ing the teeth out of another. This was caused by overloading and lack of repair to equipment. The company puts up hypocrit- | ical safety slogans all over the place, and, at the same time, through speed-up, forces workers to con- stantly risk their lives and limbs. In the Murray subsidiary, Jenks & Muir, hundreds of men and women work in a dangerous wooden, oil-soaked fire trap. Only such ac- tion by all Murray and Jenks & Muir workers, as was taken by the Murray electricians on Friday, | April 13, will remedy these condi- tions. By a two-hour strike the lectricians forced a 10 per cent increase from the company. trouble of electing a committee to Supervise the election, now they are given a list of four unions, but the Steel and Metal Workers Union is not On the list. You might wonder why. Bring your friends, and on elec- tion day, remind the boss that he didn’t put your tinion on the list by writing in the S.M.W.LU. on the ballot yourself and voting for it. DISTRICT 1 Cambridge, Mass. CENTRAL SQUARE 10 A. M. Revere Unit COMMUNIST PARTY Revere, Mass. DISTRICT 4 John Menelley ENDICOTT, N. Y. ENDWELL BAKERY 352 Clinton Street Binghamton, N. Y. Tuckahoe, N. Y. PETER NOMOS Section 6 Unit 22 COMMUNIST PARTY RUSSIAN NATIONAL MUTUAL AID SOCIETY Branch 53 87 Clinton Street, Yonkers, N. Y. The Friday Class in ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES Under the F.S.U. Unit 25 Section 2 COMMUNIST PARTY THE COMMUNE 1363 Bronx River Ave. Bronx, N. Y, MARION MACAULAY Bronx, N. Y. Greetings to the Daily Syracuse, N. Y. L Cheronis M Vangel S Marshall M Divin A Costakie Women’s Council and Scandinavian Workers Club Jamestown, N, Y. DISTRICT FIVE Pittsburgh, Pa. M Brozenic Z Baker SL ray DISTRICT FIVE Scottsdale, Pa. N A Cheff East Pittsburgh, Pa, Croation Serbian Workers Club Workers Home Corporation I, L. D.—Jugo Slav Br. Turtle Creek, Pa. PL A Petti D Richardson W Adams Mrs B Douglas Mrs M Warner Mrs R Blackburn Mrs N Riggs Mrs S Duke Beckley, W. Va. Greetings Worker on May First DISTRICT FIFTEEN "Polish Baginikki International Labor Defense Detroit’ Mich. Polish Women’s Chamber of Labor 6551 Central L Milton Detroit, Mich. La Belle, Pa, — iS zat ee V Dlearose DISTRICT EIGHT es Chicago, Tl. DISTRICT SIX K, Sinba Greetings Polish Workers’ Solidarity Club Unit 1, Sec. 4 Chicago, Ill. Akron, Ohio International Workers Order Branch No. 1147 Adena, Ohio FINNISH WORKERS CLUB Port Richmond, S. I. Branch 19 INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER New York City Branch 87 INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER New York City Workers of SEMINOLE SILK New York City Rose Pastor Stokes Br. International Labor Defense New York City from a Fenian’s granddaughter DISTRICT 2 New York City Ray PLR. Mary Bill Gorges Harry I. Tzimoitz Sarah M. Gorelif Liuba. R. Seligman Unit 22 A. Siegel N. Pekini O. Loyano S. Chyze Leon Blum, A. Frederickson Comstock Prison A. Frederickson A. Jankunen J, Schaffer R. Marl A. F. {. Reinhoffer M. Susman I. Burger A. Moshanitz E, Molnar Unit 10 Sec. 5 M, Baum M. Shenek R. Rosenberg J. GL, B. Merl J. Fisnk Lith, Work’s. Lit. J. Kiussis Society, Br. 1 A. Stamatis A. Balcuirra L. Sweet Marcuikene P. Vekelude A. Visockies Phaskos S. Sasna J. H. A. Mureika 8S. Pekis M. Simonarreus G. Bixis P. Poskaitis C. Palo M. Banitiene P. Pappas P. Buck K. Rontio DISTRICT THREE Baltimore, Md. M. Murrell B. Broun A. Clark C. Daniels L. Brown L. Bennett Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in| A. Southerland coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write DISTRICT FOUR plainly name, address and_ style Corning, N. ¥. number. BE SURE TO STATE| Amos Duffey Phineas Gould SIZE. Clarence Cowen G E Shaddock Address orders to Daily Worker | Howard Waters E Burris Pattern Department, 243 West 17th | Fred Castor O Pelham Street, New York City Wm Connors May Day Tribute to Feargus O’Con- nor, Bronterre O’Brien, William Thompson, Fintan Lalor, James Connolly, Spartacus Branch 738 International Workers’ Order Chicago, Ill. DISTRICT FIVE Greetings Ukrainian Toilers ee Toledo, Ohio Rural Ridge’ Pa, DISTRICT SEVEN La Belle, Pa. Detroit, Mich, Victor Delarose T Zen cM T Zimmerman M H Chicago, Ill. K Zeid S Chobeter Anna Wolner Martin Polefka S Man P Hudyman A Blatniak Geo Miadok Cc Myers D Ladutto PS Maria Stulajter M Meyer N Atamanduy SP Berta Ciger M Botke M Kozlo Emil Donoval F Mieler MG East Chicago, Ind. G Banik M Robsky Theor Sitea 45 Christey DISTRICT NINE SA J Saesan Minneapolis, Minn. NM T Tabra A Kuzen B Reskin L Chelemen E Tabra R Hilman F Wallin D Lazar D Ylutes AR M Sigel M Johns J Kucharik P Sutzhoff F Danek N Mihanovich Detroit, Mich. B Amrich J Miller B. Silver U. Korpi L Kulricka B Keef F. Boorstein S. Ressler AEA A Ranish J. Hoffman N. Kangas B Ferraro C Markel Cc, Suranin J. Epstein J Katich Raispir Bros. R. Whitehorn Cc. Greene J King J Peitz S. Victor Post Homolka A Katan J, Anderson A. Koinsker New member A. Triqud I. Fischoff Feinstein L, Kaplan Greetings I. Sumlin 8. Z. Becker Unit No. 130 A. Kain M. Schreiber Chicago, Ill. E. Laget L, Shack DISTRICT NINE H. Goldberg Z. Becker L. Bester J. Kruiss A eens Be J. eavechnae 1! Finkler E Niemela Brittmount, G. Miklos D. Horowite Sty Students Minn. A. Kirk atta Matt Johnson Unio Perala V. Maki M. Reiner Toivo Maki A. Solo S. Blumefield ig eid DU A. Tayneyla W. J. Wynnph Greetings J. Laitinen N. Harris Fairway Grocery Store A, Cuttay P. Golozoff Ironton, Minn. Detroit, Mich. S S Cerovsky Sam Meletski Tronton, Minn. Anna M Mann T Lpoli George A Worker Angora, Minn. A Petrivec Smolnick M Hannula A Saloni J Mosel Antenette T Hiltunen L Raati Andrew John Tiarpoak B Ketoea Vladimir A Salwawski Cook, Minn, Joe Barnes Anna Salwawski [A Rajari A Finnila shea poe DISTRICT NINE faci ou. Minneapolis, Minn. Abe Jacobs John Doe Peterson Bros. J. C. Olson Henry Marks = Frank Foe. E. Malson E. T. Olson John Sou J Krause O. Malson A Plesuchenko Edward Hines pe acai 0 S Metelski DW Brown DISTRICT TEN D Zornowski N Waklych Kansas City, Mo. M Yagowdik M Sylanchik S Sternfield AC Brenner John Alan Hudyma K Brenner L Eagelstein pee ae eter ia R Baker rasa een setae DISTRICT THIRTEEN Unit 3, Section 1 Los Angeles, Calif. R Shaff-r Russell J Ginsberg Darwin Crane Los Angeles, Calif. Beckman Lucas A & J Silver H Margolin Unit 18 Harris and M Dem MBL H Allen Steinberg M Kompaniez BR A Kunitza A Adler S& Rabinow T Davis Wm C King N Goldstein Py Rosenfield be { j L. W. L, Association, Branch 52 M. Czuckrey Detroit, Mich. New Haven, Conn. P Louear DISTRICT 2 Mike Evanoff = M Arbich Boro Park Br. 71 G Rupich INTERNATIONAL WORKERS M Consar ORDER L Jerkovic SSeey a; a N Gurlan M, Schpiro, Secy J. Douger J Kirvich H. Abramowitz S. Slavsky A Worker J Rupert D. Borman M. Feiner George Kisoff KG J. Kenis M. Chapnick J Evanoff P'Lheofolos I. Semt N. Kovner P Bogoreff P Kavinsera H. Davis Nick Dimoff N Peronos Pete Siminoff J Parasase beens S Young Petroff A Romanos Giace Resa Letters from S Stoichoff Peter Boomtas M Rodolff John Demetrov Our Readers SUGGESTION FOR MAY DAY New York, N. Y. City Editor, Daily Worker: I wish to call your attention to the following: I have noticed in practically all demonstrations that many workers walk on the side- walks, especially near the front, where the band is, In large dem- onstrations the number runs into hundreds. It is the duty of all workers to participate in the demonstration and not be spectators. I suggest that an item to this effect be put in the “Worker” be- fore May Day. —A MARCHER, “WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE” Arnold, Pa. America today stands out as the richest country in the world. Its value is not restricted to actual money as it also has commodities and natural resources of great value. The situation as it exists in America can be described, I believe, by the lines from Coleridges’ famous poem, “The Ancient Mariner,” in which he says, “water, water every- where, but not a drop to drink.” All this value we see around us is like the water that he spoke of. It is also “salted.” Here’s hoping for the time when we shall have no use for the well known phrase, “The rich are al- ways with us.” —E.G.S. Depositors of the U. S. Bank to March in May Day Parade NEW YORK.—The Committee of 25 of the depositors of the defunct Bank of the United States, issued a call yesterday for all the plundered depositors to participate in the May Day demonstration in Union Square, 2 p. m., and to join the huge parade to the Square. De- Ppositors are urged to assemble at the corner of 22nd St. and 8th Ave., at 11:30 Tuesday morning to march in the parade to demand the re- turn of their savings. Organized Demand Wins Relief Cash NEW YORK (FP)—The effective methods used by the New York Un- employed Councils were illustrated when a committee of six forced a $25 relief payment from the Charity Organization Society. The committee, made up of an unemployed writer who did the talking, a hulking longshoreman who frightened the social worker into hysterics by his bulk, and four others read off a list of the needs of the jobless family involved and their cost, and said, “We want that money for this family.” They got it. The social worker spent the rest of the afternoon in tears. In her 10 years of doling out funds to the hungry, she had never before had the experience of meet- ing organized force, | PARTY LIFE Building Circulation for the| | Daily Worker in New Haven For Handling of A few words on the “Daily” in |New Haven. | | After the report at the Extraor-| |dinary Conference, last July, by| Comrade Hathaway, on the serious situation of our press, we decided to do something about it. Pre- || Two Units Criticize Cafeteria Workers Union Strike Situation has about 20 workers and is mostly patronized by the radical students and workers from the Columbia Universi*y district, was partly or- ganized. When a worker was fired for ac- tivity in the shop, a meeting of the viously the circulation here had} west End workers was called that been limited to a few subs by mail.| afternoon at the Cafeteria Union which had been dwindling, and a| bundle of about 20 copies over which we had no control. One comrade who heard Hatha-| way’s report took it upon himself to| get a bicycle and make a route| through all sections of the city. From Party members, sympathizers and newcomers to the movement, | the route has become 35 regular daily, and 40 Saturdays, plus 22} Freiheit readers. In all, this bundle of both papers amounts to 78 papers | daily and 88 on Saturday. Sales have been established in front of one concentration shop. Three new stands have been __ established. Whereas the Jan. 6 edition was 500, the May Day edition is 4,000 copies. In view of the favorable possi- bilities in New Haven and the eagerness with which the “Daily”| is bought when workers are ap-| proached, the surface has merely} been scratched. What are some of | the shortcomings in our work for | the “Daily” here? The Daily Worker agent for the city is not an agent in the real sense of the word. He is unable to guide the comrades in this work because of his own job. He is un- able to carry on much activity him- self. The Section Committee has left the work of the D. W. to the D. W. committee, which is far from being a good one. The Party mem- bership, as a whole, has not been! made D. W. conscious, nor has this question been brought to the mass organizations. The units have done little to increase the circulation. | The main concentration, Winches- ter’s, does not even know about the paper. The writer has to severely criticize himself for the looseness in paying his bill to the D. W. regu-| larly. No effort was made to con- centrate the route in the neighbor- | hood. epee cette Bureaucratic Approach In i Handling of Strike The members of the Columbia University and West End Cafeteria shop nuclei wish to sharply criti- cize the Cafeteria Workers’ Union} for a bureaucratic approach to the problems arising out of the firing of a militant worker out of the West End Cafeteria. The West End Cafeteria, which headquarters. A number of union members were still working at the time of the meeting, but only five workers attended. _ Nevertheless, these workers knew the sentiment in the shop. After considering all the factors, the workers, together with the representatives of the union at the meeting, decided to strike the shop the next day. A full list of demands was drawn up. The evening was spent in prepar- ing the strike. The workers were approached and told of the plans, and the response was very good. The next morning one of the workers came down to the union to make final arrangements for the strike, and was told that the strike was called off. The union officials had thought the matter over anc had decided that a strike would no! be successful. The workers in the shop, how ever, were expecting the strike te be called at any minute that morn- ing, and the news was so wide- spread that even the bosses heard about it. When the strike didn’t come off. the militant workers had been ex- posed to the bosses as the ones wht had been talking about the strike and were in serious danger of being fired. When the workers went dowr after this for advice on what to dc next, the union had nothing to of- fer. The workers became confused anc demoralized by this playing arounc on the part of the union with the question of strike. J.C, Columbia Nucleus Organizer N. H. West End Nucleus Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Capitalistic Health Medicine vs. Communist Health Service A vivid and concrete illustration of the sorry plight in which the worker finds himself under the capi- talistic scheme when his health is Shattered and the inspiring con- trast of the Soviet system of health preservation has strongly impressed itself upon our mind, a few days ago, when two young people, auto- mobile mechanics, happened to visit our office. M. A. had worked for the Hudson Automobile Company for four years. Three years ago he was laid off, following the “reorganization” of the shop. For two years he had tackled more than twenty-six “jobs”; wages shrinking in indirect propor- tion to the number of his jobs. A year ago he lost his last job in a garage and had to apply to the re- lief for rent and food for himself, wife and two children. Following a cold that he had contracted a year before he was discharged from the Hudson Automobile Company, he developed a cough which seemed to be getting worse and worse. The Hudson people were not interested in that cough; nor were the fifteen various dispensaries and hospitals where he had appealed for medical treatment. They kept feeding him pills and cough medicine and in spite of the fact that he was rapidly losing weight, nothing was done to prevent him from getting worse. The Relief Administration refused his appeal for a more nutritious diet: $5 a week is all he could get for himself and family. And any- body who tried to buy food for four people during the past year knows how far $5 can go. A month ago he had a hemorrhage from his lungs. Then things began to happen: he was x-rayed, social workers began to interview him and his family and when his sputum was found to be positive, that is, was found to be full of tubercle bacilli, they be- gan to urge him to go to the Muni- cipal Sanatorium in Otisville and he was “promised” that if his wife would accept a position as a do- mestic with a certain rich lady on Park Ave., his children would be taken care of in a certain orphan asylum. In the meantime, in order to induce him to consent to this wonderful arrangement they in- ereased his food allowance. But like everything else under this sorry capitalistic scheme, the so-zalled re- lief came too late. The young man has pulmonary consumption and it will take years before he could be cured, if he ever is cured. if his lung condition can be arrested, it will take years before he can J.D. was blacklisted as a danger- ous “red” by the automobile indus- D @ By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. — again become a productive worker. | made it possible for him to go to Russia. He was examined at the Tractor School in Brooklyn before he left, at the beginning of 1932. He was in fine physical health, but when he reached Russia, and se- cured a position at the Stalin Auto- mobile Works in Moscow, he de- veloped a cold which seemed to persist for a little longer than the average. When his cough had lasted one week, he was made to come to the Medical “Cabinet” of the Mechanical department in which he worked. He had received a ticket when he had entered the depart- ment which permitted him to see the doctor at any time. The phy- sician in charge of the Medical Cabinet of the department did not like that cough and he immedi- ately asked for a consultation with a specialist of the Polyclinic or Health Station of which the Cabinet is a branch. The specialist decided that our young mechanic needed a special diet, as well as medical treatment. He was therefore as- signed to the special calorial din- ing-room which has accommodations for a hundred people and where the food is prepared according to instructions of the scientific food research statistics. Before that our young friend had been assigned to the dietary dining-room which has @ capacity of five hundred feet. This was done at the time that he entered the factory and after he had been vaccinated against smallpox and typhoid fever. The examining physician had noticed that he was below weight and had found out that he could not digest the ordinary Russian diet. By the end of the third week of his sick- ness, when our young friend had been x-rayed and passed through the various tests and a consultation of the specialists had taken place, it was decided to keep him in the hospital under observation. The hospital at the Stalin Automobile Works has three hundred and fifty beds and is run on the most modern Scientific line. At the end of a month, he was sent together with three hundred and nine other work- ers of this factory to a health resort of the Crimea. He told me that two hundred and fifty- nine workers of the same factory were sent to various sanatoria and three thousand eight hundred and twenty-five during the same period were sent to the various rest homes. He also showed me tables tabulat- ing 6,378 other workers from the same factory who were sent to the one-day rest homes and 980 to the floating rest homes that go up and down the Volga and the Kama. (To Be Continued.) Down tools May Ist! Rally the fight against the N.R.A.’s attack: try in Detroit. A member of his family who had saved a few dollars on living standards and workers organizations