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Page Four Farm Workers Union Has 300! Members in Long Island Area Grows Rapidly in One Month As Result of Correspondent $7 a the $9.90 ‘om. other words the! Great Exploitation | work 57 hours a week It these farm and Union re one it organization 300 We now about women er in which you will print this. will see to it that these fellows in Mr. Tinker’s estate get to read our good paper. A FARM WORKER. Chicago Casket ‘Bankers Get Farm Makers Oppose A. F. L. Grafters By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, I The k and file members of the newly organized A. F. of L. local 19306, called the Chicago Casket Union, openly showed their spirit to John Fitzpatrick, boss of the Federation of Labor, and his pupil, W. Rossi, by electing two rank and file delegates, to the conference called for April 29 at the Ashland Makers @uditorium by the executive com-| mittee of the Chicago Federation. Rossi is an open aspirant for a fat union job and with Brother J. Rogers, financial secret has completely stopped the progress of our local (w has grown to 200 members within the last few weeks) by using the A. F. of L. stale tactics. Mr. Rossi has visited every shop boss for some unexplained reason | without consulting the membership of our union, or without any au- thorization from the workers. This mysterious visiting has caused the bosses almost within 24 hours toj organize company unions. And now by threatening and firing a few members of our Union they have successfully lined up the workers into the company unions. The rank and file members pro- pose that our union outline a OUR IMPORTANT TASK NOW In addition to the drives against high gro prices, for unemploy- ment insurance, and for better so- cial and industrial conditions for women, there must now be a great intensification of the movement to support the International Women’s Chicago | ‘After Farmer Puts All Ris Toll Into It By a Farmer Correspondent SIDNEY, Ohio.—I am a working class farmer who has been forced to sell out or give all of my toil to the bankers. So I gave the farm away and I am coming to the East to live. I was one of the four soldiers in Dayton, Ohio, who was arrested and | sentenced to the Dayton Hell Hole in 1932 for using the sidewalks of Dayton, Ohio. I have done the best I could to get subs for the Daily Worker here. The Daily Worker gi you the DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1934 Farmers Turn to U.F.L. for Leadershi Only Oranges and Butter Given to Negroes by RFC in Camp Hill; Organ- izing Against Hunger By a Sharecropper Correspondent CAMP HILL, Ala—In February except those y let them stay on in order to rob the Negro. | The C.W.A. paid 40 cents per hour to unskilled work, They give each man 30 hours a week, and Cliff leadows, a landowner who was| king on the C.W.A., hired a Negro for $7 a month and he him- self was getting $12 a weck. They |are doing everything here to keep the Negro down. On March 10, they were giving out rations from the R.F.C. and they | gave white people meat, flour, meal and lard, coffee, sugar and rice, and only gave the Negro people oranges and butter. That is what they are doing here with the C.W.A. money | and they are trying to starve the| poor people to death here in Camp | Hill. W. F. McGinty of the Camp Hill plantation had some sharecroppers living there who had lived there |last year and paid their rent. He needed a kitchen to the house, and they had to get logs out of the wood to build a kitchen on his place in order to get somewhere to stay and pay for it themselves. | Another landowner told his farm| hand that everybody that was get- | |ting work on the C.W.A. had to | |place that money back. | Another landowner, named Kyles | Orrs, had a Negro man working for | |him for 10 years. Kyle Orrs tried | | Organization in Sheridan County, Montana, Protects Machinery and Grein By a Farm Worker Correspondent PLENTYWOOD, Mont—The United Farmers League has been fairly well organized in Sheridan Cc y. We have other organiza- such as the Farmers Union ie tions tam Thrown Off CWA Jobs ana Holiday Association, but when it cones to real struggle and really getting something done, it is the UF.L. that people come to for help. Some call us the “Reds,” but when it comes to a showdown, it is the “Reds” who have to do it. By united action we have saved upon to go to nearby counties, and responded to the calls. At Poplar, in Roosevelt County, over a Sears-Roebuck sale. Sold a set of farm machinery and a bunch of horses for a couple of dollars and gave it back to the farmer. There have been no more sheriff’s \sales in that part as far as we know. The call was sent out by the local | Holiday Association, but it is safe to say that had the “Reds” not | showed up, the sale would not have gone over as it did. “Here come the ‘Reds’—then we are all right!” was the cry at Sco- bey, in Daniels County, Mont., when a truck was to be taken out of the implement yard and given back to the farmer it had been taken away |from. We have had no occasion to go back to that place a second time. Near Bonetrail, in Williams Coun- ty, N. D., t U.F.L. of North Da- {kota and Montana concluded an- other Sears-Roebuck sale and saved the property for the owner: The | banker threatened to have every- body arrested, but changed his mind. | The UPL. is the only organiza- sses cut everybody off machinery and grain for farmers | tion putting up a fight for relief s white | in this county. We have been called | and more of it. We haven't got all | we need nor all we have asked for, | but we have got a lot more than | we would have gotten had we not |Mont., our U.F.L. helped to put| Put up a struggle for it. People who do not belong to the U.F.L. are get- | ing in on the relief too, but when it comes to putting up a fight getting it—t is left for the “Reds” to do it. pin Struggle| Forced to Work For Nothing in Landlord’s House Sharecropper Family of 9 Children Has No Clothes to Wear By a Sharecropper Correspondent TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, Ala.—I am a farmer's wife, and there are only three of us in the family now. I am the mother of nine children, who are all away from us but one. We have to work very hard for our living and can’t get the clothes we need for winter to protect us from cold, or shoes. This is the hardest winter we have had for a long time. It has been hard on our girl to The Daily Worker is Amzrica’s only working-class daily news- paper. It fights for the interests of the working class, A subscrip- walk to school, from two to four miles. We have no way for children to ride here, My girl and I chop the cotton and tion for one month daily or six months of the Saturday edition costs only 75 cents, Send your sub today. Address, Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, New York City. $7.20a Week Is Liat on F.E.R.A. Jobs in Florida Vew Application Must Be Made Every Week in Red Tape Torture By 2 Worker Correspondent truth about the Soviet Union, the |to put him in prison because he| ORLANDO, Fla.—A few weeks truth about working-class strikes | stopped working for him. | the ago, in Orange County, Fla., in the United States and abroad. | We are organizing ev ery day for |C.W.A. was called off and the F. E. Subscribe to the Daily Worker | beiter conditions, and ask every |R. A. started. An announcement today. straight, constructive program at onee, by organizing a committee to | work out a universal price scale for |all departments of the casket in- |dustry. By electing an organizer, and by giving a clear and under- standable financial report to the members, creating immediately strike and lockout funds, and stop-} ping the squandering of the union's} money, and by making clear to |our workers in the casket industry |that we have nothing to do with | professional racketeering of our top | chiefs, CONDUCTED BY HELEN LUKE fhe Home shown in a letter from Wisconsin, | which will appear here tomorrow. | Bright Sayings Department “Although it is class-conscious, it has an honest affection for the raf- | | fish roustabouts who load cargo for |‘Mr. Oceanic Steamship Corpora- |tion’ and lounge around Binnie’s | Co Against War and Fascism, | 4@tX-town lunchroom when the| fo convene in Paris, July 28, 29 |4a0"s labor is over.”—Brooks Atkin- ‘Negro Youth in | Black Belt Pledges: | Fight Against War | | By a Negro Youth Correspondent | DADEVILLE, Ala—I am a Young | Communist League organizer in the| | Black Belt and I love the work fine. | We have 67 members who are ac- tive in the work. Although the bosses try with hands and feet to keep us down, we are not going to stop working for higher wages and | better living conditions. | The bosses are now training the| youth for war. What are we, the | Young Communist League, going to |do? We are going to organize and | fight against the rich landlords and bosses, and build a larger mass revo- | lutionary movement. I have been doing all I can to enlighten the youth, boys and girls, to the work of the Y.C.L., because now is the time that we as youth| must stand together. | Because the bosses have the de- | termination of all manners of the | rotten system of forced labor in the Black Belt, we the youth have a great role to play. We, the youth, was made in the local capitalist newspaper that all unemployed seeking this work should appear at Exposition Park, Orlando, on a re- cent Monday morning. There the workers were told repeatedly that it made no difference how much they received per hour, they would be paid their budgeted amount in any event. The spokesman at the park for the local F.E.R.A. said that the lady investigator would again call at the home of the unemployed applicant, and arrive at an amount which in her opinion was sufficient for the family to live on each week, and which the worker would receive. The worker applicant was also led to believe that the work was to be steady during the life of the pro- gram and that the one investiga- tion was for that entire period. But the boys find that they are allowed to work three eight-hour days only per week, and draw only $7.20 per week or less. The budget doesn’t mean a thing and the bosses are unable to give any explanation of it at all. One man with only two in the family (himself and his wife) was budgeted for $9 per week. Another man with five in his family, the wife being undernourished from lack of food, according to several doctors’ statements, was budgeted at $10 per week. The family of two owns a cow, chickens, garden and has an inter- , just cloth stretched over the open- ings, and the building coi ts of siding nailed onto two by four frame work, like a cheaply built chicken coop. Their ground is too poor to| raise a garden, they have no money for fertilizer, they have no cow, they don’t even have a stove to heat this one-room shack. All they have | is an oil stove that smokes, that | they try to cook some food on when | they are lucky enough to have food | to cook. There is no work for workers on Saturday. Workers have to make a special trip to another place on Sat- urday to get their pay. They usually have to wait around a long time before their names are called, only one man paying off, although they have about six clerks around check- ing something or other. One worker has to walk about seven miles to get his pay and then has to walk the same distance back home again. The biggest surprise of all is that after all this ceremony, office rou- tine and poppycock, the work ticket the men get is good only for one week’s work. If you want to work another week you have to start go- ing back to the assignment room, in the old court house, where their office hours, mind you, are only 10 a.m. to 12 noon, and coax and plead and beg for another week’s work. One man with a large family kept going there almost daily for two months before they gave him any work. After the one week's work he was forced to start calling on the assignment room again. I wish the circulation of the Daily Worker in Florida would double and | that other workers would express hoe the cotton, then they turn us loose. Then the landlord’s wife wants me to come and clean her house and cook and wait on her for two or three weeks. When her company leaves she sends me home and gives me not a penny for what I did for her. That is the way I am treated here. Shows How AAA | And NRA Can’t Aid| Producing Class By a Farmer Correspondent OLIVER, Ill.—I am sending in a copy of a letter I wrote to the edi- tor of Prairie Farmer, one of Amer- icas oldest farm papers, asking him to publish it in his paper, I amj| also sending a copy of what he ac-| tually printed which was merely a few extracts of the letter, leaving out the most important points. I would like you to print these two letters, which exposes him as a tool of capitalism. eee | To the Editor of the Prairie Farmer—C, V. Gregory; Dear Mr. Editor: I have been reading some of the letters written by the read- ers of the Prairie Farmer, discussing some of the most important prob- lems of today, and wish to add my bit. As for the result of the N.R.A. and A.A.A. administration: Anyone who is honest with himself and has not allowed his mind to be cramped with the spirit of patriotism can see that they have utterly failed. When I speak of failure, I mean failure to help the conditions of the farmers and working class as a whole, It is true it has helped a certain section of the farmers and working class, mostly the petty- bourgeois or middie class, but as for helping raise the conditions or living standards of the mass of the people, it has failed—and badly. To prove my statements, I have an example in my own family. My brother, who works in a pack- ing house, has had his wages slashed between 30 to 50 per cent since the beginning of the N. R. A. Not only my brother, but about 20 other workers in this plant, also got |est in a farm four miles from where their views through its columns. | the same medicine. As the result of and 30. Mother Bloor, in the editorial of- fices the other day, reminded me to stress the importance of this, Clara Bodian’s report before the Annual Conference of the Women’s Councils, made this statement: “We must organize an effective campaign amongst women to sup- port the World Anti-War Congress to be held in Paris in July. Around this campaign we must protest against the military training given to our boys in the C.C.C. and de- mand that they get a living wage. “We must educate the working- class women to understand their role in time of imperialist wars. | We must expose the pacifist move- ments, This work can easily be linked up with our every-day struggles against the high cost of living. We must counteract the war propaganda of the various patrictic and peace organizations. ‘We must print more leaflets than ever before and sell literature dealing with this question. Espe- cially must we awaken the work- Ing women to the danger of an attack against the Soviet Union, the only government where work- ers rule.” Boss Class Ladies Like Imperialist Wars The D.AR., as reported in the Daily Worker of April 27, isn’t in- terested in this Anti-War Congvess. And these heroic “daughters” of a revolution are afraid to talk out loud about revolution except in the past tense. (Takes red blood, not blue, to become a member of a fig- urative M.S.AR—Mothers of the Second American Revolution!) What the pious society ladies want is a bigger navy to protect their family investments, cratic rumps in soft, workers. A whooping big Anti-War Con- gress will make ‘em squirm in their silk cushions! Fashion Outiock Here and There After 15 long years of just get- ting down to brass tacks to put heavy industry on a firm basis, our Soviet sisters may now give a thought or two to good-looking garb ... the first Soviet fashion show held in Moscow, April 21, having been a decided (and decisive) suc- cess, for the 40,000 working women from various parts of the Soviet Union who attended, selected 50 of the 150 models shown, to be pro- so they | may continue to park their aristo- | upholstered | furniture at the expense of the| son, in his (ruling-)class-conscious review of “Stevedore,” New York Times, April 29. Can You Make ’Em | Yourself? | | Pattern 1679 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46: Size 36 takes 3% yards 39-inch fabric jand 1% yards binding. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded. i i } | | | duced in quantity. | Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in The show was sponsored by the|coins or stamps (coins preferred) Dress and Lingerie Trust. There | for this Anne Adams pattern. Write were working clothes, sports outfits, | plainly name, address and style children’s wear, and dressy things number. BE SURE TO STATE THE for evening—also pretty summer | SIZE. frocks for young girls. | Address Orders to Daily Worker What the clothing situation is | Pattern Department, 243 West 17th hereabouts and points west, is ' Street, New York City. | are the ones to fight against the new war that is being prepared. Family of 3 Gets About 8c Weekly in Greenville, Mich. By a Worker Correspondent | GREENVILLE, Mich.— The wel- fare only gives a family of three| |about 80 cents per week for gro- | ceries. No doctor or medicine is al- |lowed unless very necessary; no | clothing or shoes that amounts to much; the shoes are not worth| carrying home. We are putting on a campaign for the Workers’ Unemployment In- |surance Bill, H.R. 7598. We have |sent nearly 500 cards to Washing- | ton and are going to send more. We | are in the fight to help poor suffer- | ing people everywhere. | I will send in all the Daily Worker | subs I possibly can. Please give us all the news you can from the U.S.S.R., for we are very much interested in the only | working class country in the world. AFL No-Strike Pact Fastened on Furniture Local By a Worker Correspondent WILKESBORO, N. C.—The Re- gional Labor Board at Atlanta, Ga., and the leaders of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (A. F. of L.), on April 13 have tied down the work- ers at the American Furniture Co. Plant in Wilkesboro, N. C., to a one- year no strike agreement. The work- ers went on strike against the dis- missal of a fellow worker, Quincy Yates, for union activities. Besides the no-strike clause of the agreement, the regional board also refused to let the local have any say about hiring and dismissing workers. A board of arbitrators was set up and the regional labor board will serve as “court of appeal” if this local board does not succeed in keeping down the workers. The dictatorship of the prole- 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- geoisie—Lenin he lives. The family of five live in a one room shack about 10 by 20 feet with no glass in the windows, Workers, you can all help yourselves in just this way, if you would wake up and do it. Letters from FOR WORKERS’ RULE IN THE U. S. A. Dear Comrade, Chicago, Ill. I am late, but sure, with greeting to Comrade William Z, Foster, our new press, and our paper, the Daily Worker. Our great leader, Comrade Foster returned from Europe in im- proved health. He was glad to see that our Party and the Daily Worker were double in strength. We have to show our leaders that we will build a stronger Daily Worker and Communist Party after the 8th Party Convention. We have to fight fascism, the American Legion, and the A. F. of L. The American Legion and the American Federation of Labor made hypocritical speeches on the radio about disabled veterans on Nov. 11 Jast year. A big shot of the Amer- ican Legion exposed himself, show- ing what they do for the veterans, and then he called on them, if the country needs you, you should be ready to die for your country. This after another had said that there will be no more wars. Fascism may be good for kings and millionaires who never worked a day in their lives, but not for the working class. They are preparing for war to destroy the working class instead of feeding and clothing them. The Communist Party is the only Party in the world that educates the working class and organizes them to fight for their right to live, to fight for their rights in work and wages, and for unemployment insurance, as well as against war and fascism. The workers should organize to overthrow the parasites of capitalist democracy and establish a working class government that will be ruled by the workers of the U. Ber . MR. HEARST IN OMAHA Omaha, Neb. Hearst goes fascist. Among the Middle West farmers and workers, Hearst is trying to steer the tide of discontent and unrest into fascist channels by demanding Congress to investigate and stop Communistic activities. A series of six articles by the notorious Ralph Easley, attack- ing Communist activities in the United States published in the Hearst Omaha Bee-News indicates Hearst's desire to create a fascist ideology among the working class. His appeal is made to those few be- levers in the “freedom” to exploit \ Our Readers man by man, thereby ignoring the millions slaving in capitalist indus- try, ignoring the millions forced into starvation by unemployment. The millions of midwest oppressed farmers and workers, with their ad- vantage in numbers must organize and fight against the few “liberty” and “freedom” loving capitalist sup- porters of the fascism of Hearst. H. 8. | LITERATURE IS NECESSARY Covina, Calif. I am a reader of the “Daily Worker,” and have been, off and on, for three yéars, but don’t belong to the Communist Party. I tried to join two years ago, but couldn’t make the grade as I had to go out of town, but since I have read six- teen pamphlets by Lenin I have learned a great deal. I think the “Daily Worker” Is the best paper in the U. S. A. and that every American should read it, and that Communism is the only thing that the working class can turn to, to keep from starving in this country. I find that there are a lot of people who are afraid to read any- thing that has the word Commu- nist, why I don’t know. I never went to school a day in my life, but I learned to read and am not afraid to read anything. What are the best books on the foundations of Communism, as I will never learn too much about it, for as soon as I can get a few nickels I will be looking for some more books to read, for my good as well as others. —C.A.8. oe haha Editorial Note Since we do not know exactly| what pamphlets you have read, we would nevertheless suggest that you read the following: “Why Commu- nism,” by M. J, Olgin, “Questions Concerning the History of Bol- shevism,” “Foundations of Lenin- ism,” “The Teachings of Karl Marx,” “Religion.” These are just a few pamphlets which cover the fundamentals of Communism. They cost from 10c up to 40c, and may be obtained from the Literature De- partment of the Communist Party, 35 E. 12th Street, New York City. The dictatorship of the prole- 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- geoisie—Lening this, eight or ten more workers were given jobs in this plant. I want to ask any sane or thinking person, at whose expense were these workers given jobs? And will it help conditions any? They were given jobs at the ex- pense of those 20 workers, with little or no increase in the payroll. This meant that the purchasing power of the masses was not in- creased and that the families of PARTY LIFE Negro Textile Worker Tells About Work in Lodi Shop Says Party Carried on Good Work During Strike But Stopped When Strike Was Over I just want to explain how I be- came acquainted with the Commu- nist Party. During the strike in Lodi and Passaic I became ac- quainted with the Communist Party. I liked the policy of the Communist Party. During the strike the way the strike was carried out there were many workers in favor of the Communist Party. But since in the strike we noticed in the be- ginning that the bosses started with the red scare, the workers were slow in joining the Textile Workers Union. Later on the workers were con- vinced that the National Textile Workers was working in their in- terests and they began to sign up very fast. We carried on good work during the strike. We carried on, I say, during the strike, but after the strike it seemed our work ceased. We stopped doing such great work. We went back on our jobs and we forgot about what the National Textile Workers Union did for us during the strike. I have to criticize here the lead- Croppers’ Union Plans Youth Groups in Union County By a Tenant Farmer Correspondent UNION COUNTY, N. C.—In the next three months the Share Crop- pers Union in Union Co., North Carolina, plans to take in 85 new) members in five parts of the county and set up two qouth groups with 35 members. Some of these are white farmers where we already have some contacts, You see that this means work in getting together and organizing. We find that people are ready and willing to work. We must make plans to better our condtions. @ur struggles are very hard in working cotton. They have cut the acreage of cotton. What does that mean? Where we got 300 Ibs. of flour last year, we will now get 150 or 175. If we made 10 bales of cot- ton last year, this year the most we will make is six. Our conditions are bad, and getting worse. The people are now saying that by getting together and sticking to- gether we can better our conditions. Laid Off If Over Five Minutes In Lavatory (By a Worker Correspondent) CHESTER’ Pa—The Sun Oil Co, has started a new law, that when a worker needs to go to the lavatory, he must not stay over five minutes. If a worker stays over five minutes there he is laid off for two days. The workers who clean out tanks are forced to work in the tanks filled with a cangerous gas. They don’t even get masks, thus endangering their lives. If a man gets sick and fails to notify the company he is fired from his job. ers of the National Textile Workers Union—I don’t mean to say the or- ganizers. We have leading com- rades in the shop who are sup- posed to do the work. We make certain proposals, we go into the shops and many times we do not carry out these proposals. We should not forget these things when we go back into the shop. The workers were convinced our union worked in our interests. When we go into the shop we must have the strength of the National Textile Workers Union and especially so we can take up the grievances of the workers. If we would do this when we went into the shop we would have gained lots of workers. One of the workers in Lodi was arrested for issuing leaflets and after he went to the police station he went to the headquarters to get instructions and then he went to the employment agency and the woman there told him to go back to work. If work would have been , carried on in the National Textile Workers Union would be much stronger today. We know that the organizers cannot do that. On the Negro question. I want to say here there is something on the Negro question that many of us do not understand. I understand some of it because I am a Negro myself and know the struggles we had ‘te go through with. Yet the Negro i not complaining, because if you tak( something for the stomach may the head will stop hurting. So it ir with the Negro question. He has been misled so many times by the whites of the South; he has beer. misled so many times by the mini- sters and today he is misled by the ministers here. If we could get inside the churches where they foo! the Negroes, it would be more easiei to lead them. I know mysif, becaust two years ago if you would mention Communism to me I would not talk two minutes to you. I knew there must be some way out of it, but T didn’t know what. When I became acquainted with the Communist Party I began to go along with them and I found out more about them and today I would not work with any party but the Communist Party. As for the Daily Worker. Even in the Lodi shop we have a good many comrades in the Lodi shop, but all of them are not good work- ers. We have many in there but they are not working so good. They worked hard during the strike. About the Daily Worker in Lodi, I don’t feel that the work is carried on as it should be. I think we should be interested in the next worker getting the Daily Worker, not only ourselves. COMRADE C. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. these 20 workers were deprived of from $5 to $10 a week with which to buy food and clothing—“The Very Necessities of Life’—thus put- ting them all on a stagger system. It is very obvious to me that we cannot speak of returning prosper- ity under this present system of society, where capitalist stabiliza- tion has ended and can no longer properly feed the mass of the people. ‘The purpose of the N. R. A. and the A. A. A. was to regulate pro- duction to approximately equal the consumption of commodities, but this cannot be done under a com- petitive capitalist system, because of the contradictions within the system itself I would like to make a statement about Mr. Albert Bisping. You say that someone has been filling him full of poison. Well, Mr. Editor, I think that Mr. Bisping’s reasoning power is more logical than what you would like it to be, as you are the one that is putting out the poisonous propaganda and hope that the people will swallow it all; but you know the old proverb: “You can fool some of the people all of the time; all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.” FRED SLOAN. Clark County, Ilinois. eit ehh (This is the extract of my letter which he actually printed.) Recovery a Failure . A. A. A. and N. R. A. have failed to help farmers and working men as a whole. It has helped a few of the middle class, but not the mass of the people. My brother who works in a packing house has had his wages slashed 30 to 50 per cent along with the 20 to 30 other work~- ers, As a result eight or ten more workers were given jobs at the ex- pense of the other workers. Pur- chasing power of the masses was not increased and the standard of Capitalistic Health Medicine vs. Communist Health Service (Conclusion) The young medical student smiles when his “vocation” is mentioned. It could not be otherwise under the economic and social anarchy of capitalist countries. The socialist state, on the other hand, organizes in a@ real and logical manner, con- forming to a general plan and with the view of realizing a final pro- gram which is that of the Commu- nist Party. Under the capitalist system the private doctor lives from hand-to-mouth according to the hazards of the various diseases which happen to be prevalent in their locality. They are satisfied in repairing the accidents of human existence and the results of the vari- ous conflicts between man and his social, as well as his natural con- dition. It is, therefore, quite natural that the physicians cannot have any plan in their activities. The “plan” of each physician consists in having more patients than his neighbor; more clients meaning more sickness. But even the various organizations which are supposed to protect the public health in capitalist countries have no program and cannot have a program. The organization of public health in each country de- pends on its social structure. Capi- talism having no program, seeks merely to preserve and defend it- self against Communism which is the next step in our social evolu- tion. Capitalism lives from day-to- | heart day and the Public Health Service has to live from day-to-day by adopting itself to the possibilities left. by the capitalistic scheme. It has neither a final program nor a plan of action. What distinguishes Communist medical organziation | in&. from that of the bourgeois coun- tries is the existence of a plan By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. living of the old workers was de-| Which conforms itself to the pro- eae AAA. and N.R.A. cannot|8t@am of Socialism. Every year is succeed under a competitive capi-|@ new step towards the realization talist system. It is you instead of|f this plan, a new step forward Mr. Bisping who is putting out is a new extension of the protestion poisonous propaganda, but you can’t | °f public health. fool all of the people all of the; A more detailed description of time. the contrast between the medicine under the capitalistic scheme and the Public Health Service under Communism, will be found in a series of articles on {the subject which appear in the monthly peri- odical HEALTH. These articles on medizine in Soviet Russia will be collected in pamphlet form and is- sued before the end of the year. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Syphilophobia G. K., Seattle, Wash.—The symp- toms you are complaining of are not due to syphilis. The fact that your blood and spinal fluid have been consistently negative, is the best proof that you are cured. It was unnecessary to take the two courses of treatment and it would be foolish to take the malarial or diathermy treatment. Ringing in the ears, scabs in the hair, slight stiffening of the legs and losing a little weight might be due to any cause. You seem to be inclined to- wards neurasthenia and you are probably suffering from syphilopho- bia, or fear of syphilis. I do not know the cost of the malarial and diathermy treatment in Seattle; but in New York, you will have to enter a hospital and you have to count on having about $500 cash for the treatment to tide you over during the time that you will be incapaci- tated and unable to work. Rheumatic Heart Mrs. S. B., Cleveland—You art apparently suffering from a chronic disease which may have started at the age of 13. You are not the first who has had the mis- fortune of remaining crippled fo1 life, because the rheumatic pains in the legs due to tonsil infection were mistaken for “Growing Pains,” dur- childhood. Outside of rest and digitalis, we know no remedy that would cure your condition. If you are careful with your diet, whick should be strictly vegetarian, ang see that you do not overexert your- self, you can live as long as any normal person. If you should strain your heart, do not delay in con- sulting a physician who will surely prescribe a certain amount of digi talis for you. Co) ana