The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1934, Page 4

& ie Four DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1934 Zimmerman Rushes to Aid | United F ront in Doherty & Wadsworth | gee ‘tsloaders in Auburn! Silk Mill Wins Wage Increase of 10% Forces Rule pF McKee and Costello in Face || iaig's, | A.C.W. Delegates of Workers’ Opposition chats «| To Convention PARTY LIFE Milwaukee Section Sets Self Two Months’ Control Tasks Must Recruit Negro Workers, Push Shop and Unemployed Work, Expose Social Fascists Members of Two Unions d Un iz | Te 7 : | Workers Join in Militant Pirate ‘ Jack Dubin Hat Workers Average | By a Textile Worker Correspondent! worth with the role of the leaders From tt « Two Starvation 176 Executive ntown, won a 10 per cent in- of the A. F. S. W. here in Allentown j have set for themselves to be car- them A H d . k d ADL RNCO WES satis he) i. bee A. F, Ss. w in Paterson where J | The Milwaukee Section, at its re-; issue a shop paper regularly in the ee in oherty an adswort ilk} they helped to force a wage cut on 9 W k W. cent convention, adopted the fol-| Nash plant. + re an pict e Mill, the second largest silk mill inj the workers recently, or the policy $ a ee a eS lowing control tasks, which they (3) To strengthen the fraction work among the German masses. a pe ,0ca e in’ wages recently, “This ‘an’t G ried out by July 3rd. We publish/To establish a functioning Party ey men Hi d I i cn iD All th a raise in pay of $1.50 to $1.80 - t Get More oar cea these, as an excellent example for fraction in the various German eS i oare oes / the huss FL ials i other sections. The comrades from| organizations. tomestea sim ‘ This shop is unorganized but due AFL Officials Forbid 6).'To bilild ‘a functioning Polieh | Milwaukee explain the small quota |of Negro workers to be recruited| fraction and to extend our influence |into the Party by the fact that in| into the various reformist and mass | the entire city there are only 200) organizations of Polish workers. Correspondent | Negroes, and at the present time} This to apply to other predominat- NEW YORK—To us, the workers | there are no Negroes in the Party| ing national groups (Italian, Rus- \of the Jack Dubin millinery shop, | there. The District, in commenting) sian, Croatian). |the “collective agreement” of the| 0 this point, states that the Sec-} (7) To recruit at least 2 Negro |boss and union officials has been | 0m could have set themselves the) workers into the Party. workers subsistence 1 pniidend ta a or else the workers would strike. | more than a huge joks, because the| t@sk of recruiting 5, and realized it.) (8) To carry on a fight against steads in the Piedmont area is| fap Dee ee hE ni The next day the entire night shift] | joke has been on the millinery|We therefore suggest to the mem-| the war plans of the Roosevelt gov- ea ge >|N. ¥. Do you want to mow how | stayed out of the mill for 15 min-| where they refused to put up &/ trimmers. The only thing collective| bership of Section 5 that they at-| ernment through extending the in- g taken with the es:ablishment | they democratically elect delegates? | ytes. When the bosses saw that the| fight when the workers in Roberts-| renee 0 tempt to carry out a counterplan of| fluence of the American League ° Yo. 176 as 5 ; : ¢2 for has be 40 cents +b ; fj of two such “homesteads” at Tay-|Take my Local No. 176 as an ex-| workers would strike, they imme-|Muma silk mill had to take a 10 per | malleeted seks, naine LE ae recruiting a minimum of five Negro| Against War and Fascism, by sell- to the low wages and bad condi- tions the workers picked a commit- tee of militant workers right in the| shop and sent them into the office} to prevent the demands for the in-} crease. The committee gave the manage- ment till next day to come across Electing Struggle | By a Needle Trades Worker | | Correspondent South Carolina By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y—Some time COLUMBIA S. C.—The first step|in May, I believe, the Amalgamated in the campaign to herd part-time | Clothing Workers of America of} iB the A. F. of L. is going to have a} | By a Millinery Worker | | pic in the 1d a show e local mee textile onto lors and LaFrance, South Carolina. | ample. : | diately announced the 10 per cent| cent cut in wages and 25 per cent | millinery i workers into the Party in this|ing the magazine Fight, etc. hi ; - ae pot - , a Hinery union. 4 n, secretary of (Both of these will be located: rear | a> the first place we never got | increase. |in hours. This proves again the| “About three weeks ago we all de-| Period. (9) To help build the Y. C. L. official notice of the convention. It| on This action proved to the workers | Jeaders of the A. F. S. W. will not a amit m i The Party to recruit at least seven ating Committee. jj lafge cotton mills which are run on| got to us by the same route we| that only by militant struggle can| fight for our interests, but help the| or HAE. Pa We ee Control Tasks of Section 5, | members into the Y. C. L. from the Eehian belie: oo “even |® Seasonal basis, These will be| learned we had become part of the | we win better conditions and more| bosses to cut our wages. |did not give the agreed $1.06 an District 18 |shops. To build a Y. C. L, nucleus sin, | 12 the Simmons factory. (1) Every Party member eligible; (19) To recruit He least five to become a trade union member to| women into the Party. To push do so within one month. To! the organization of a woman's strengthen and build up the frac-| auxiliary in the Simmons Federal tions in the revolutionary and A. F.| ynion, of L. unions. (11) To develop cadres for our (2) Every unemployed Party) mass work: member to become active in unem-} Shop nuclei .... ployed work:—Unemployment Coun-| Fractions in mass orgs . cil, Workers Committee, at the! Editors of shop papers .......... relief station. A. F. of L. opposition groups ... (3) To carry on activity for the| Worcorrs endorsement cof the Workers Un-|Agitators & prop. .. employment and Social Insurance| Unemployed work A. F. of L.—by rumor. Then the| money. The unity of the workers | Our action shows clearly that only | local executive board met and the | was very important here. On the| by a United Front of the workers,| business agent proposed himself | fighting committee were members| and a militant policy will win, and and the local chairman. This was|of the American Federation of Silk| not the policy of the A. F. of L. followed by calling in their lack-| Workers (A. F. of L.), the Allen-| which says no strikes, the N. R. A. |eys (an activity meeting, it’s called) | town Silk Workers’ Union (Inde-| will help us. However, the workers to endorse them. Then they said: | pendent) and unorganized workers.| realize more every day the N. R. A. “Maybe we'll call a meeting of the) A real united front in the shop. | does not help us but the bos: | is ev ; S 06 | rank and file and maybe we won't.”| This United Front action was a| The action of the Doherty-Wads- | eee dean Hoiuilnies ya They didn't. big step in cementing the unity of| worth expresses the sentiment of} with anger and refusal. | All this was done despite the fact | ll workers in the shop, which is|the Allentown silk workers who are) When we demanded 75c an hour that the constitution of our union, | Mecessary to win any fight for bet-| ready to fight and will fight for | we took into consideration that we and a letter sent to all locals by| % Conditions. The confidence of| better conditions. We must now! worked part time, not full time. the joint board, called for demo- bag gee) ee grey areas consolidate our victory and build a) Our work is seasonal and the aver- cratic nominations and elections of | ©M@4 for future struggles ani 0| strong organization run by the | age of the 24 girls in the shop is three to six acres. It is hoped, according to M. L. Wilson, director of the subsistence ting | homesteads for the federal govern- to use| ment, that these starvation home- oe aseliac es steads will spread through the 3 “| Southern textile regions. Work 7 A.M. to 10 P.M. At Basket Stores Co. hour, but didn’t even average 50 |cents an hour, was not going to be | tolerated by us any longer. The | price committee, together with the} girls, worked out a list of prices that would give the girl with aver-| age rate of speed about 75c an hour.) will of the workers, me down to © ignored all 1eir letters ommittee, and ing rule over the no different from ree leaders. At the said meeting, the chair-| an, under Zimmerman influence | ad instructions, came down with prepared list of speakers, all so- uled “leaders,” not giving time to nn oo EF te usual questions and discus- By a Worker Correspondent Melneutan build a union. Rank-and-File and not by the A.| about $9 a week. Bill (H. R. 7598). To secure its; Women .... ons from the floor. When one| ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—I am going to The reason is quite obvious. The| CO™Ppare our militant fight and| FP. of L. misleaders—to prepare for) Our boss immediately turned the| endorsement by at least three local| Simmons .. arted to speak from the floor, the | write a few lines to let the work- local officials (Brother Cimenatti| P@Y increase in Doherty and Wads-! future struggles. matter over to the millinery bosses’| unions and five mass organizations,| Nash .. tairman closed the meeting, stat-|ers of other places know how the and Johnny Patti included) are sa Ss Tae ri er Raa association, We turned the matter| other than those directly under our} Allen-A .. . tg that Brother McKee will be or- anizer and everybody should shake ands with him. Brother Zimmer- ian spoke of union democracy—of ank and File control, and other onderful things, when the dirty 2b of forcing on us leaders—or alers—was put up. | It is interesting that Brother Mc- see had such a cold reception | nat he did not speak more than | few minutes—it was too much for im. Costello did not speak at all, ae atmosphere was too thick. It is now left to see, will the vorkers in Auburn stand for such A. F. of L. and N.R.A. are serving the retail sales corps. The corps were organized into the A. F. of L. union last September. Their business agent and chairman are owners of the Basket Stores Co. The N.R.A. code calls for 60 hours | Per week. In one basket store, the corps work code hours on week days. On Saturday they go to work at 7 a.m., and work till 10 p.m., with- out any lunch. They are afraid to raise the issue for fear of losing their job. In our factories one worker does the work of three workers. ANCHORED OFF THE ROCKY | SHORES OF BRILLIANT | ANILINE ISLE | | Due to the news and messages oming in this week over the ship's | adio, we didn’t leave the “Beauty | quest” as early as we had expected, | 2_explore the color-islands further. | In old times, mineral, or non- | yoisonous colors from animals or | fants, were used in cosmetics. Un- | il rather recently, pigments used in | vainting pictures as well as in mak- Og cosmetics, were drawn from a vewildering variety of sources, (The| hemistry of coloring matters is ‘liven in an intensely interesting | wook, “The Permanent Palette,” by Martin Henry Fischer—a splendid | rook for any artist to read.) | Anilines and a whole family of re- ated colors, are now drawn from | oal-tar and coal-tar products. Coal | ed decayed vegetal | Plants; also | and the like: all | he accumulated contents of the liv- ng forest, dead and compressed— his is coal, from which the anilines | ive produced chemically. The vivid, | varied hues of long-dead flowers | gloom again in the In addition to th: aniline vats. | ir wide range of | they are “thin” and | ent”—there is little solid| in them, so they Possess | great powers of penetration, es- | decially in substances like flesh, for | which they have an affinity. They | are highiy soluble in water; they are in fact dyes, which penetrate | “ind do not lie on the surface like | @n_old-time grease-paint. | ) Unhappily however they happen | ‘to be poisonous, con‘aining toxic| Substances which react badly in the | ody; sufficient amounts may have | 2 deleterious effect on the eyes and | ‘sidneys, or cause a rash or eczema. | | Their brilliance, wide range of| ‘hue, their cheapness, and their in- | Helible property, are all duck soup for the cosmetic manufacturers, | What is it to them if anilines are | ‘poisonous, and that a law prohibits | their use in lipsticks? ‘dollars roll in over the cosmetic founters, are they going to he! stopped by mere laws, when infrac- tions carry such trifling penalties | ‘as they do? 1 _ Anilines are also used for tinting ‘photos, as the gelatine film on the ‘paper on which photos are made ||. also absorbs anilines as skin does— | gelatine being chemically like skin. | Anilines used for photo-tinting are | sold in powder form, or liquid, or | spread on small paper sheets bound nto booklets. The “Peerless” bock- £t contains a brilliant bluish pink valled “Geranium Pink.” It has a deculiari® In solution it appears a sick yellowish orange. Now I see “geranium pink” flood- ing the toilet counters everywhere, im powder, in lipstick, in rouge, in fingernail goo. The manufacturers have seized on its peculiarity to ‘make magic.” Marvelous “color- change” lipsticks are advertised— orange lipsticks, and the color shanges “to the correct rosy tint Just for you” when you apply it, or some such blarney. | One company has just come out | with a “Natural Developing” rouge; it’s powder covered with dye and then coated with some oily stuff, {ft comes as a pink powder: you| are told to apply a little and “rub antil the desired depth of color is ~~ Possess a spe- | | While the | |, the Home CONDUCTED BY LUKE obtained.” Old friend Geranium Pink again. When you rub, the warm moisture of the skin pene- trates the oily coating, the dye, which immediately tints the skin. This rouge, and some “sun-tan” powders are very un- certain, as the color may get more brilliant, and in patches, after you’ve perspired a bit. Rouges and powders, except pos- sibly the brown. shades, contain scarcely enough aniline to do any damage by absorption through the skin. It is in hairdye and lipstick that the aniline and kindred dyes may prove harmful. A lipstick that is “indelible” is surely made with aniline. (We have some additional notes on rouges, lotions, etc. for later use.) Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1833 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes three yards of 36- inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions included, YAAK? KRSNA ON Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and_ style number, BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, releasing | afraid of the rapidly growing oppo- sition in our local. When we issued a local rank and file bulletin, they let loose a campaign of terror and intimidation against all militant elements. They threatened to fire and expel them. However, despite all this, workers are going ahead in their fight for a democratic rank and file union, to insure better condi- tions in the shop. Members of Local 176, join the A. C. W. Rank| and File Committee at 116 Univer-| sity Place, New York City. Write for your local paper, send it finan- cial aid. Down with Hillman bureaucracy! More About The Spy Who Heads Drivers’ Local By a Needle Trades Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—There ap- peared in a recent edition of your paper an article by Hy Boris relat— ing to the many injustices to which members of Local 102, Helpers’ and Drivers’ Union, affiliated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union with the A. F. of |L., suffer. As spokesman for a group of members of this local, I have been selected to write to you telling of jour complete agreement with each and every statement made by Mr. Boris in his article. Through fear of loss of positions, we must remain anonymous, but we want you to | know that only this fear prevents each and every member of this group that commissioned me to write to you from signing this let- ter and coming out in open support instead of merely writing to show that spiritually we are with him | 100 per cent, It is true that Mr, Metz is an | entirely selfish person who is using his position only to extract as much | personal gain as is humanly pos- sible, and he cares not a whit for enforcing union conditions, and it is true that he reports what is re- lated to him (supposedly in strict- est confidence) right back to our bosses, and then between Metz and the boss, the man is framed and discharged, forcing the remaining men to put up with less than the union wage scale, no overtime pay, and no voice at all in the govern- ing of our union. I will close now with our sincere congratulations and thanks to Mr. Boris for the championing of our cause and the prayer that some day in the near future we may be all able to openly side with him. Thank you. 18 Cents Paid For Completing Dress By a Needle Trades Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Conditions at the shop run by Paul Respole at 35 West 2ist St. are very bad, and I will be very pleased if you will send an organizer to investigate and if possible to let us join a union, I will explain briefly some of the conditions we are working under. 1, The hours are just as the boss pleases to make them and if we say ; Some*hing he tells us if you don’t like it to go home. 2. The prices are unbelievable. We get paid 18 cents a dress, This is for completing the whole ‘dress. 3. The conditions of the shop itself are terrible, such as the dress- ing room, the shop and so forth. * * 8 Editcr’s Note:—This letter has been referred to the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus‘rial Union at 131 W. 28th St. for immediate action. However, the process of organizing the shop would become very much easier if the worker would get in touch with the union himself, in order to give advice and assistance in mobilizing the other workers. In sending ir new subs to the “Daily” please write the name and address of the new sub- scriber clearly, the | | By a Needle Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—On April 12 the silk branch of the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers Union, Local No. 50, was called to a meeting for the purpose of elect- ing delegates to the National Con- | vention of the union, which will be held in May. Due to the fact that Reisberg steamrollered at the last | meeting and no question of the trade were taken up, the workers were disgusted and the turnout was | Very poor. But the meeting proved | to be a lively one. | Right from the start the tactics of sidetracking important issues was tried but failed. On popular de- mand the ficor was thrown open to discussion and the leadership was forced to admit things which they | certainly wanted to keep a secret. | The question of a raise for the union staff was brought to the fore- | front and it was revealed that they | already received these raises since | Feb. 12. The manager of the union, | who was getting $70 per week, is getting $85 at the present time and the business agents who were get- | ting $40 are getting $50 per week }and so down the line. Even the members of the Joint Board are to | get $1 each meeting they attend. | Workers Indignant | The workers were indignant, first | because raises were granted, and | second because it was done without | approval of the membership. For |three hours the workers discussed the question. When Reisberg took the floor his face turned deep purple, and for lack of a better method he tried | the good old tactic of blaming the | Communists. A half dozen workers were on their feet at once to declare that he should not bring in side is- sues. One worker exclaimed that every one had a right to his politi- cal belief. Then Reisberg got on the defen- sive. “Didn’t the workers get a raise in the shops since the N.R.A. came into effect? Why shouldn’t we who run your business get it? Be- sides,” he said, “aren’t you ashamed to refuse your own ‘workers’ a raise? How will you be able to ask ILGWU Officials Caught one will be ashamed to face the | manufacturers if you reject the} raises for the officials.” | Refuses Financial Statement As to the financial statement of the union he informed us that we cannot have it for the simple rea- son that the manufacturers must not know how much money we have, therefore, we, too, must be kept in the dark. He also informed | us that the other two branches, the | cotton and the cutters, have ap- | proved the raise so that it will go through anyway even if you people don’t approve. Nevertheless, he | ended his talk with pleas for the | raises. By that time most of the workers were on their feet clamoring to be | heard. Mr. Reisberg quickly took | advantage of the disorder and ad- | journed the meeting without taking | the question to a vote. He an-| nounced that the following Monday a continuation meeting will be held to vote on the raises and make nominations and vote on the raises. At the Monday meeting no dis- cussion from the floor was allowed. To gain still more time the chair- man proposed to take up nomina- tions first. Again the leadership | was forced to admit that the two-| year ruling (that is, that only mem- | bers who are two years in the union are permitted to run as delegates to | the Convention) hold good for our local in Philadelphia, in spite of the fact that 95 per cent of our membership came into the union 11 months ago during the general strike, which means that these workers actually remain without representation. It was also revealed that Reisberg was deliberately falsifying when he said that the question of raises were passed in the other branches. It had not even been taken up in the cotton branch, and the cutters only passed it because they were | promised a $5 raise from the bosses. | In the end Reisberg succeeded to maneuver in this question in such a manner that it was referred back to all the executives of the local. Officially the case is still pending, while in actuality they are getting for a raise from your bosses? I for these raises. (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK — L. Kirshbaum’s article published recently by you on modern sweat shops called to my mind the interesting career of this worker who almost single handed carried on what may be termed an individual struggle against corrup- tion and graft in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. In 1926 he published a pamphlet in which he pointed out the arch enemy, parasite and racketeer, the present notorious Dr. Benjamin Squires. He showed there how Squires and another honorable pro- fessor, Leo Wolman, devised a scheme of Unemployment Insur- ance, so-called, which was nothing else than the biggest source of cor- ruption and graft for the racketeers and its machine. It was and still is “insurance” in name only, He repeated these charges four years later in “Justice for Organized Workers.” Before he published the latter pamphlet he submitted the Thomas and a number of outstand- ing liberals, most of them intimate friends of the Amalgamated and its leaders. The latter were called upon to refute the charges, but they couldn’t. They were trapped. These liberals then wrote forewords and indorsed the pamphlet. But the Amalgamated leaders is- sued statement after statement in which they lamented that this man who “enjoyed a national reputa- tion,” said they, should be thus ac- | cused. The Advance, the Amalga- mated’s official mouthpiece lavished ACW Heads Protect Grafter, Persecute Militant Worker manuscript and charges to Norman | he: The professor grew and expanded. He reached Washington. He was go- ing to stop strikes. He was now a Federal mediator. Yes, the professor was on his way to the White House, with the crooked labor leaders push- ing him ahead, for the highest honors. And then came a Chicago Grand Jury and suddenly indicted the man with a “national reputation,” for graft, conspiracy and coercion. But let us return to Kirshbaum and see what happened to him as a result of his persistence. For nearly four years he was kept out of his trade. He was ultimately compelled to get a job in a different line. Here he worked and earned less than one half of what he could make in his own trade. But he'd rather do that than submit. This lasted a year and a half. Then the Amalgamated came in and organized this trade. They wanted him to join, but he de- clined on the ground that he had been declared “expelled” without a aring. The local officials conferred with the higher ups in the organization about giving him a hearing but the latter said nothing doing. They would rather have him out of the organization and let him work in a union shop without belonging to the union than give him a hearing be- fore their own machine. It should be decided once and for all whether the machine in this union and other unions should be permitted to eliminate their op- ponents and the friends of the rank and file by declaring them sus- | struggle to better our conditions. over to the union. Then began one of the most disgusting and hu- miliating experiences the girls had ever witnessed. | Almost daily the shop committee had to go to the association to hear| the negotiations between the union} officials and the bosses’ representa- tives. This ham-stringing went on for three weeks during which time the girls were not paid. They were, however, given permission to bor- row money on account from the of- fice “up to a certain amount.” A committee of six went up to see Miss Deutsch, an organizer of | the union, and intimated that we were going to stop work unless our prices were settled. She tried to/ soft-soap them, but she soon found that it didn’t work. The next day the prices were settled, but so mis- erably low that they were nearer to 6 cents an hour than $1.06 an hour.) There is a mass resentment against these misleading A. F. of L. officials and a strong desire to The incident is not closed, for we intend to fight against these prices | and change them for fairer ones. One thing we know, and that is} not to depend on the union officials, but to fight with our strongest weapon, strike even though we are forbidden and intimidated by the union officials. LAY-OFFS AT CURTAIN SHOP By a Worker Correspondent STATEN ISLAND, N. Y.—At the | West Brighton Clay Smith Oo., which makes curtains, there have been employed 150 men in March at 35%2c an hour for 46 hours a week. Now for April they have paid off the day and night shift except 50 men left temporarily. NOTE . We publish letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers every Wednesday. Workers in those industries are urged to write us of their conditions of work, and of their struggles to organize. Get the letters to us by Saturday of each week. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS TWO OF A KIND New Haven, Conn. The capitalist papers announced that Professor Dana of Harvard would give a lecture on Soviet Rus- sia, on the 19th, at Trades Council Hall. The lecture would be accom- panied by pictures, About eighty- five people attended. The A. F. of L. chairman announced to the audi- ence that the professor got his dates mixed up and wouldn't be there, but Reverend Lakewell, of the First Methodist Church would take his place. No pictures were shown. His whole lecture was taken up with an endorsement of the A. F. of L. unions. He said President Roosevelt, Johnson, Miss Perkins, and Wm. Green were the greatest friends of the downtrodden. ‘When he came to mention Wm. Green as a friend of the poor peo- ple, four women that were seated right in front of him, got up and walked out simultaneously. This em- barrassed the Minister. It took him several minutes before he got his composure. He never said one word in defense of the Soviet Union, He said there are a certain crowd of radicals in this country that are mad because these great people are pulling this country out of the de- pression. He stated that a new form of trade unions are in the works, which will be known as the Federal Union. It will be inspired by such people as Roosevelt, Perkins, Green and a score of others who have the interest of the workers at heart. They then had a short discussion on trade unions. The pure and simplers, and Socialists that were present, gave him a rising vote of thanks. w. L, i and without even their own hear- ings. Think this over, workers. It is for your own good, It is your duty not ‘to neglect this, lest you lose what you have gained after many years of hard struggle. that you are paying him for repre- Remind Hillman influence. | (4) To strengthen the two con-| centration shop nuclei by more de-! cisive recruitement, by developing leadership and self-initiative; and to build shift or department nuclei in the Nash and Simmons factories. To E.R.A. Called the Evil Robbery Association | (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW ORLEANS, La.—The ERA is supposed to be Emergency Re- lief Administration, but here is the real meaning of the ERA here in New Orleans, at 739 Grondilet St., | Evil Robbery Association. Old, blind, deaf, dumb, afflicted cripples, yohng, insane and sane— these grafters will rob all. Three- tenths get relief and the others get promises. Visitors “did call and no one. was at home” that’s the way they pass the buck on the unem- ployed. Those that get relief have to give an account if any in the family is dead, what did he or she die of and how old they were, | when were they born and what date and year. All those silly | questions. If they have one in the family working, they tell you there is no relief for you. | Girls ranging in age from 16 up are the committees. They don’t know any more about what a family needs than a hog knows about Sunday. They will ask you everything in this world. Fellow workers, unite together and organize and stop this vicious attack. (12) Increased sale o! and mass literature. Daily Worker. Subs. increase 10. Bundle inc. 10. (13) In the carrying out of the above tasks to boldly and openly expose the class role of the social- fascists. (Socialist Party and Amer- ican Federation of Labor leaders) (Using scabs ads in Leader, articles in press showing role of Social- ist Party in Milwaukee expos- ing local Socialist Party coun- cilmen). To fight against any de- viations from the correct line, es- pecially in the carrying out of the United Front. To bring forward the slogan of “Soviet Power” and its accompanying demand for a Workers and Farmers government, To popularize the achievements of the Soviet Union, thus mobilizing the working class for the defense of the U. S. S. R. (14) To carry on a day-to-day check-up on the fulfillment of these control tasks through the use of a wall chart to be placed in the Sec- tion office, and to stimulate the units through revolutionary compe- tition for the completion of their tasks. Adopted by the Section Committee. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street Blty csc Capitalistic Health Medicine vs. Communist Health Service (Continued) At the Stalin Automobile Works there are surgeons on duty day and night so that an injured worker can receive prompt medical aid, no matter whether he belongs to a day or a night shift. There are eleven medical stations operating in the different departments of the Stalin Automobile Works. In each department there are health nuclei composed of the most active work- ers who are interested in health work and it is these “activists” as ; they are called, who see to it that every worker in the factory should utilize all the possibilities that are offered by the medical sanitary system of the factory. It was one of them who saw to it that our young friend got immediate preven- tative medical attention. After staying at the Crimea health resort for three months, our young friend has gained thirty-five pounds, his lung condition has been cleared up entirely and he is pro- nounced fit to return to his job. After working at it for a year he got a leave of absence to come back to the United States to see his family. Is it any wonder that, after hearing his story, five other mem- bers of the family are anxious to go back with him to the Stalin Automobile Works? The great con- trast between tne medical treat- ment received by these two young men, shows the great difference be- tween the two economic systems under which the workers live in this country and in the U. S. S. R. In Soviet Russia where the social philosophy has abandoned the in- dividualistic gauge and everything is thought and acted upon from the collective point of vivew, medicine is not a merchandise which is sold by a few of the initiators. Medicine which in its essence is made to protect, to cure and to relieve has come into its own. It has broken with disorder and mercantilism. In Russia medicine is organized and By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. dertaking and has become social- ized. The treatment our young mechanic received shows the fallacy of the well-known argument that only the private family physician is capable of interesting himself in his patient. No doubt that at one time, the private physician, the “good doctor,” the country doctor was able to take care of his patient, put this is no longer so. The private physician, under the present capi- talistic scheme has become a busy little business man. His morale has flopped. (To Be Continued.) ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS | _ Vital Information Forbidden Dorothy—We regret that we can- not give you the information you request in this column. The capi- talistic laws forbid such informa- tion to be broadcast, no matter how vital it is for the health and happi- ness of the people. We should be glad to advise you if you call at our office. There will be no charge for the consultation. Chancroid A. J., Montgomery, Ala, — From your description, it seems that you are suffering from a bubo (not “blue ball”) which follows the venereal infection known as chancroid or soft chancre, If the gland in your groin (at the juncture of the abdo- men and thigh) is sore again, you better go back to the physician who first lanced it and have him look at it. The “knot” is liable to remain for many years as evidence of your carelessness. It is fortunate for you that this venereal disease does not have any effects on the general health, nor is it hereditary. Super-Adjuster An Inquirer, St. Louis, Mo.—Sorry we cannot reply to your inquiry re- garding that “wonderful” machine in this column. You will find a detailed answer in the May issue of HEALTH. In the meantime do not buy it. You will also find some in- formation about the same contrap- perceived from a given plan: the praise for the honorable professor, pended or expelled without charges to the N.R.A. or to the bosses, senting you and not for selling you plan of universal socialism. Medi- cine has ceased to be a private un- tion in the Daily Worker of Nov. 24, 1933, in_anSwer to an inquiry from F. S., Detroit. .