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

4, 1934 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY Describes Some of | PARTY LIFE on the §.S.Robin Hood The Evils of the) Ohio Party, Y.C.L. Leaders Workaway System | Set Tasks for Building League 4 Also Used} Nerve-Wracking Lessons of the Strike Speed Toriures Telegraph Men Simplex and Multiplex Systems Add to Walked Off Ship and Left Town Instead of Staying on Picket Line Phoenix, Ariz., Meeting Endorses Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill | Stowaways i Pledge to Build Communist Youth Movement by Shipowners to By a Worker Correspondent asked a dozen Mexicans to hes in Shops; 500 by A ) ae cantare whike “woe Burden By a Marine Worker Correspondent) pital, and the other, the ship's Keep Wages Low PSs AUR | ers. he comr must take pants) NEW ORLEANS, La.—On Tues-| delegate, who remained in town. Z | iar “Odio: Mae ba aA ie up. Chauvinism must be com-| By a Telegraph Worker Corre- | ay, Avril 17th, at 7 am. the crew| This was the biggest blow to the| a nt | CLEVELAND, nO, .. May.” 8: = € members attending this i spondent of the S. S. Robin Hood, after having| whole strike as the events that fol-| BY * Seaman Worker Correspondent | rhe meeting of Party and Young functionaries meeting pledge to es aE prepared the night before, went on| lowed could have been prevented) NEW YORK.—I joined the SS.| Cofpmpaet League functionaries, | carry out by August 1 the following NEW YORK.—There is only one| strike. The mate upon arrival in| and the strike brought to a success-| Hanley of the Meyerhauser Line, in| S@thered at the Workers School! control tasks: | Auditorium on April 21, whole-| heartedly approved the report of} }Comrade Bart dealing with the ine of work that is as nerve- wracking as the telegraph business, and that I imagine is the telephone Orleans on Monday afterncon/} ful conclusion drydock at Portland, Ore. She was announced to the crew that} These men should learn a lesson,| renewing the propeller, as the old their wages would be cut by $10. The} not to play around with striking, as}one got damaged by an old tree answer of the crew, with the excep-| it does not mean to just walk off the| stump in the Columbia River. tion of the licensed men, was to} ship, which places as much blame} The chief mate explained to me immediately prepare for strike ac-| for the eventual loss of the strike on|that the articles were full, due to tion. | them as on the scabs that took the| the fact that when the carpenters) — The steam to the winches was/ ship out. | quit a man who came through the} 1. Build the Y. C. L. up to a membership of 500, Particular stress to be laid on building the League among shop workers, work- ! ers in unions and in the Scovil area 2. Build Y. ©. L. shop nuclei on SET Mie Ns ARE NE a functioning basis at the Otis Stee) jand Pisher Body. | problems of carrying out the Party} | Control Tasks in the building of! te 3 A 9 under 10, 12, 14 and sometimes 16 hours 2 a continual strain, the Union Officials Offer | $1aHead for Followers day, there comes a time to let loose and spread ourselves. Per- haps we weren't in condition to re- Active Was conducted i Spanish. It was tru Pioneer types side Mexicans, There were tall ng be- whit lean short bronzed Mexicans. Th v tall raw-boned Indians and hand- Some slender Mexican you they were men a And (By a Worker Correspondent) PU RTLAND, Me. — A few months ago, before the men at | Rigby, the Portland railroad shop commenced to be organized, the Railroad Brotherhoods ap- | proached the head of the com- pany union saying that if he'll | swing the company union over to | the Brotherhoods they will pay him $1 per member. Even the chairman of a com- | pany union felt ashamed to ac- | | ceremoniously. | reinstated. cept such an offer. | and old, married a sing. While of all shone the fire ation to struggle in jobs and more relief rimina shortcomings could be pointed out. A chairman should not make a speech every time he introduces a speaker. Long-winded harangues drive workers away. We must cut out the flowery style of speech. One worker who took the floor was the youth organizer. This comrade called upon the raw work- ers to join the Y.C.L. A walk-out began. To the sound of tramping feet of fine old Arizonians, this comrade then called upon the youth to organize, “because,” he said, “to- morrow, the young will rule the world!” Most of the mistakes were com- mitted because of the greater error of not calling a fraction meeting | Somebody is pocketing the money. beforehand. Comrades must learn| The men are greatly dissatisfied that grouping about a table five; against these inhuman conditions. minutes before a meeting begins to| It is time to organize and build a make up an agenda does not con- | real union like the Steel and Metal | Stitute a Fraction Meeting | Workers Industrial Union. Only But the most serious error was/| this way can the men better their committed by a Party member who | conditions. le Group Speed-Up System at Hyatt Roller Bearing) Some (By a Worker Correspondent) HARRISON, N. J.—I am working | in the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co.| Conditions in our shop are very bad. | Speed up and firing for the least| little thing is on the order of the| | day. The work is done in a group | system and we never get more than $18 a week. This is true for all de- | partments. Last Spring we were given a five | per cent increase in wages, followed | by another ten per cent in the |Summer. This means that we | should get now at least $23 a week,! | but instead of finding more money | |in the pay envelopes we find less. | the Home CONDUCTED BY IN LUKE “THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE IS POOREST SHOD” A letter from Racine, Wisc., “For the children there were no shoes. I saw children walking with their bare feet on the ground in |the Postal Telegraph, | shut off for but an hour as the en-| | gineers, with the exception of the/| | 2nd assistant pulled guns and ran} the firemen, out of the fireroom. | |The captain and company agents| And maybe after! hog called the police and the riot| eating a bit of humble pie, we are| squad answered and were posted on| I said maybe. .,| the dock by the gangway and on} Or perhaps we have been a bit| the ship. | too militant and would try to better) The seamen on the beach answered our ‘conditions, and that would! to the call of the union through | certainly let us out as a disturbing |two different leaflets, for picket duty. influence upon the other workers, | Many potential scabs were stopped | after which we could never eat from going to the ship. Some that humble pie to get back. We bumped | hag been sent by the head office of around from ene place to another; | the company had the passes taken from one railroad to another, gath-| from them and torn up. cring no moss, but gathering a lot} The plan of the strike committee of experience. | was for the crew to remain on the| We finally put on a good front,| snip until driven off by the police, | and try to get back to work among] and then join in active picketing of | the old cronies we used to knoW.| the ship with the others. port for work, or couldn't find a nickel in our pant’s pocket for the telephone call to report off “sick,” and the company let’s us out un- authority, but they have our! after this, instead of remaining on, previous records in the books, and! }oard as long as possible, every man| we don’t get the job, because we) with his bags went ashore. Instead| jobs are directly assisting the ship-| were at one time too militant. |of joining the pickets they went} owners to cut wages and thereby Consequently, not finding any-| straight to the bus station to get| cutting their own throats. thing in our particular line, We tickets for out of town. Every one of| scab herders in this town are being | drop over to the “other” company, | them did this, with the exception of and after) four, of which two remained on the | they are satisfied of our ability) snip scabbing, and one in the hos- they put us to work, but we don’t pickets were kept on the| job, and the company did not suc-| ceed in getting scabs aboard. At o'clock, in order to shift the ship, | the company got four Negro long- shoremen, kcown professional scabs, having scabbed on the longshoremen in previous strikes, to handle the| lines. Many seamen who had volun- teered for picket duty, upon finding out that the actual strikers had left} town, themselves gave up the| struggle. Later on that night, Tues- effice as a workaway had to be | signed on as an ordinary seaman, | making an extraordinary seaman in the crew, and he could not sign any more men on the articles until the ship got in to Seattle. He told me I could be sure of signing on the articles as a carpenter at $60 a month and that, as he had written to a carpenter friend of his who lives in Brooklyn to meet the ship there, I would have at least a month's wages by the time I reached i | At about} crew of scabs aboard, and everyone We find new faces in the chairs of | noon every man aboard was paid off.| of them was a seaman and not a the east coast, ay¢#hat if I agreed to get off the articles in Brooklyn, I could have the job. I was, of course, surprised to be presented with an offer of a job as carpenter. I expected to be offered a workaway job as a seaman; either A.B. or ordinary seaman. My plan had been to accept the latter to Seattle in order to create an atmos- phere among the crew which would help to put a stop to the workaway system of forced labor at sea. As it is 36 hours from Portland to Seattle, I could refuse to work. Even If I had to act alone on board, our organization, the Marine Work- ers’ Industrial Union would be on day. a well known crimp got a few scabs aboard. The police were kept on the dock, and an armed watch- man at the gangway. Two of the pickets were arrested Wednesday and thrown in jail. On Thursday the company finally completed the| farmer. The seamen who took these scab} The ferreted out, and the seamen will deal with them as they will with all scabs and crimps. have the salary we used to aa mand with the other company. The difference usually runs from | $30 to $60 a month Jess. Our heart | isn’t in the work. We know we are | getting gypped as to salary. | We can certainly sympathize with | the workers in the steel mills, mel coal pits, the textile and auto fe plants, for their valiant efforts to| By a Young Worker Correspondent slow down their speeding wheels of] INDIANAPOLIS, Ind—I arrived top-speed production. We who|here from a farm in Johnson} have learned the new system of| County about three weeks ago. I) telegraphing (simplex, multiplex),| was referred to the U. S. Transport know what the speed-up means. | Bureau, 9 S. Senate. I was given Not a minute to draw two full|a two-meal ticket and a flop, and breaths one after the other. “Put| told to come back the next day. that light out,” bawls one super-| J was interviewed by a case visor. “Don’t take that light, take| worker, Miss Smith. She took my this one,” bawls another, and good-| past history and then gave me a ness knows there are enough super- | relief work card good at the Cen- visors to see that we are kept work- | tral Housing Foundation. They im- ing every minute of our hours of; mediately put me to work on a duty. Anything to cut down the| carpenter job at 30 hours a week. cost of production. When pay day came two weeks There is only one solution to the | later, the envelope contained 50 whole system, that is to keep on/cents cash, They claimed the bal- trying to enlist the up and coming| ance of the money I earned went! Indianapolis Flophouse Pays 50 cents for 30 Hours Work the job in both ports. I feel that I acted individually, perhaps too much. My plan did not carry through, showing that I was wrong in attempting to do this without being sure I was right. A Rich Man’s Son I managed to contact the pro- secuting attorney's son. He is a college graduate but his papa shipped him out to scab on us, be- cause the boy drank too much booze | and wrecked a few cars, and some of the town as well. He refused to sign off in Seattle. As there is a difference between $35 a month for ordinary seamen and $60 for a carpenter, I demanded | that I be paid out at carpenters’ wages, as the pay-roll had already saved this money since Mansfield had signed on, and I packed my tools to quit. The mate put me on the payroll and promised that I would be signed on in Everett for sure. He said that he would put Mansfield off in his home port. A Stowaway one plate of food and only one side dish of either prunes, raisins or cocoa pudding. The breakfast is always oatmeal, except Sunday, when they get eggs. The only thing about their sick room is that when a worker is ordered to tha sick room, he is hardly ever visited by the house doctor, but has to go to his office on the lower floor, even though he has pneumonia or typhoid fever or any serious case. If ordered on a milk diet it takes three or four days to get milk from the kitchen, then most of the time they give you skimmed milk, very thin. The Daily Worker is on sale here| regularly, at the Indiana Book Shop; propos of our remarks about good Shoes for the workers: “I still have a radio set and have | October. The top of the shoe was | workers who only know the ma- there for appearance’s sake, but no|chine way of telegraphing. It is aj) bottom. Finally one of the leading | killing pace, and only by all of us citizens—a local manufacturer who/| getting together, in one form of | for board and transportation and} $1.80 for clothes. I have made two requests for clothes, and the case worker has the guts to say that we and at the John Reed Club every} Friday night, third floor of Co-) lumbia Securities Building, corner of Delaware and Ohio. I stayed on the job and went to Everett. Some argument with the mate. I was on the payroll till we tried to keep it—just to listen to the voice of the world; it’s an ex- pectation I have—waiting, listening {had made a fortune in the good} years, and discharged his men | workers for women at 22 cents an/| don’t work for clothes but that they only get clothes when we become nude and actually need them, | organization or another, for in- stance, the U. T. A. (United Tele- graphers of America), can we dis- reached Longview, \Wash. The skip- | per signed me on in this port. The | mate forced a young, ordinary sea- |man to get off in Pedro, Cal., his NOTE We publish letters every Friday for a thunderclap here or there, forerunners of the storm that will clear the air. “I know that behind the “silly babble” are the struggling masses now gagged, but some day break- ing through proclaiming new vic- tories for the workers. So I turn on the radio . . . hoping for news, but capitalist news is of little value | hour in the lean—offered to pay for |25 pairs of children’s shoes, for | which he received great praise, and | hopes to bribe St. Peter. “I wonder how many of these | |$35-ensemble ladies could make| their own garments! Don’t they | understand that American working | women do not receive for this work | cuss our problems and make plans for united militant action, for we will never get a fair deal from this so-called “New Deal.” The tem- porary code shows us that. We can and will make-our ef- |forts of organization felt the same as the auto, steel, textile and other militant workers, The case workers go well-dressed, from Gov. McNutt and Rep. Book} on down to the flop house office | force, and enjoy their fine offices | furnished out of Roosevelt's “New Deal” money. The regular slaves | are taken out on the highway work and P. W. A. projects at pick and! shovel work and general carpenter} work, painting and surveying and! from workers in the transporta- tion and communications indus- tries—railroads, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- press companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc—and from the communications industries—post office, telephone, telegraph, etc. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con- home town. Well, an addition again to the crew. A young man wanting to get to the east coast stowed away on this ship in Frisco. He was found after we got out to sea. Sup- posed to put him off in Pedro also, but did not. He had to work his way. I talked to him as much as I could, but he was young and and has to be measured, weighed,| enough money to buy decent food, sifted, put to the acid test, dipped|shelter and clothing for them- in “lie solvent” and treated with | selves? every kind of varnish remover to| “Comradely yours, drafting jobs. Skilled or unskilled Tell. yous feieaids. and sbepmnles get their same 50 cents cash at the about the Daily Worker. Let them | end of the week. read your copy. Ask them to sub- = elt The workers’ scribe. board consists of thought he was doing no harm. I hope the shore workers will stop stowing away, like this, as they have to work for no pay and accept whatever conditions are given them ditions of work, and their strug- gles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each week. find the little grain of truth it may | “MRS, A. A.” contain. ) “Well, the other morning .. . I} ’ got the Milwaukee station) Can You Make Em “Woman's News of the Day.” A| Yourself? women’s voice, discussing Russian | women and their fashions ran} something like this: after the revo-| lution these women had smashed their mirrors and forsworn any- thing therewith connected, but now hhad brought them back, | “They also stand in queues out- side the thousands of beauty par- lors waiting to have their hair washed in cold water with alkaline soap: even their hands received at- tention, indeed you saw more enameled fingernails in Moscow than anywhere else in the world. Until recently they had worn short dresses, but now longer ones: long black sleazy things with cat-fur at the neck (as if the rabbit with which the capitalists swindle their customers is immensely superior). "These were often worn with bed- room slippers; and the wearers had some difficulty adjusting their proletarian stride to this new style. “You should have heard her gush and gurgle in her imagined super- jority; it positively nauseated me| hearing her try to make the Rus- sian woman look foolish and ignor- ant. “She went ‘on to tell how in this} glorious U. S. A. you could get an ensemble for $35 that would make you fit to meet the Prince of Wales. “T sat right down and wrote her that there were many American ‘women wo do not even own a pair of bedroom slippers: that the dif- ference between Russia and Amer- ica was that in Russia one woman did not wear a $35 ensemble while another had to get along with a germent made of floursacks. I urged her to visit a ‘Service Shop’ or ‘Clothes Depot’ to see what an American working woman is com- pelled to wear. : | “Among the other things she mentioned was a $5 hat. I wish I could show her the window of the Madison, Wisc. ‘Service Shop’—a sight to make you laugh and swear funny, but damnable, too; and talking about shoes! I wonder if she ever saw a shoe department in ® similar place. “I saw one such place where the ‘Literary Society’ of Elkhorn, Wisc., had collected clothes ‘for the pene ut 50 pairs of shoes, eee vio Pphidiehers time, | for this Anne Adams pattern. Write hightop, with buttons, from 18-|plainly mame, address. and_ style what: shuffled over, down at the| number. BE SURE TO STATE THE) heels, black or brown, also some | SIZE. soiled white ones, a few pretty new} Address Orders to Daily Worker Pattern 1834 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and | 42. Size 16 takes 3% yards 36 inch | fabric, Illustrated step-by-step sew- ing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) Greetings to the “Daily” Readers such as sleeping on deck, or worse at times. It prevents us quite a lot from being able to win our demands for full manning of crews. The stowaway, however, acknowledged MORE MAY DAY GREETINGS, Unit 24 Section 5 ones built for some lady's fancy,| Pattern Department, 243 West 17th but never for any human foot Street, New York City. me RECEIVED AFTER MAY FIRST eed Leh Aaa DISTRICT ONE DeSissa Lila Cohen Lynn, Mass. ‘na N.N, B. Seidel Bakers‘ Local No. G. W. Rose Vinetzki 235 Summer S!., Lynn, Mass. J. Meyerswitz Clara Gouler J. Donatelli C. Modertz New York City I. Silverstein John Patrick Br. 4, I.W.O. B. H. Santoro Harry W- I. Hirsh Torak Geo Price LM. E. Rubin Unit 10 Section 5 2; Kislinger S. Hoffman Henry Rose A. Kaplan John Smith Walker Ch. Hollinger M. Shulman Chas. C. Dave Shuder H. Williamson Mollin Mazeroff Joe Reeve FE. Kahn Max Rosen Witkus Bros. 5. Silverlicht Louis E\lstein Sam Hirsch J. Oken Josephine Snow Taxi Driver Schneider Goldin Taxi Driver Unit 20 Section 5 Warech Unit 4, Sec. 5 5: Jacob Sacks Pushinsky Ee ty eee Geo. Powell I, Opechinsky Greenberg Brain é& Gross, A. Gebrowitz Schmuckle Fink Unit 7, Sec, 5 Louis Baker Heyman Friend Adolf Tirsch, D.R. Greenberg —_Leslikin Finfer H. Gee oie Eobaiee Mass Hy. Fel in, Mrs. Levin ‘W. Dambling Unit 405 Section 4 Adelman M. Gerson R. Sheldon Brown Fine Unit 13, Sec. 5 John Gan Mayers Grantz H. R. R. S. Mayers Plak Gilinsky Annette Drosky E. R. J. Roth Millicent Gale Clara Nagel James Frank Unit 18, Sev. 5 Nicholas Y, H. Berger Lustig Molineris Krumbeck Le vee Mihaly C. Angela . Lisser Matolej B. Punter Tarnofsky Oscar Pelcan Un Obrero SF. A Worker Barney P. Valdes M. Gans Frank Cuerro AD H. Reichlin C. Bratsos M. Punales B. Molinari C. Papados Dolores Punales S. Molinari G. Kasamatis Pablo Gonzales I. Greizer Milton Costell A. Santos A. Spiegel M. Gonzales H, Higgins D. Liss Bernardo Punter K. ae Rob H. Gomez K, Midelson : AI Sages hine Seach TS. Ridin Zuller Anna Helandar D. E. shinee Marda Aalto E . Bron eas > M. Lubin Zuller paras ate tetas J. Warren Kahn ZR. HB Solomon G. Bradune BR. RF ee x ic 29 iy 8. J. H se aes is Glicl eD, cea eta SR. Wahl Blanche Peck ‘J. Enright Benj. Gobel if Sarah Ulman M. Doherty Unit 18 Section 5 Helen Schonfeld Frank tT sae Ornstein T. Ruiz Section 3, Unit 7, District 2, Slucki H. Ruiz Communist Party A. Singes he was wrong in taking a job in STRICT 2 Unit 3, EG os clea nist Party me way and he will not do so again. a Re Omarnan ‘ey signed him on the articles af- ‘Dave Gebtios ter we got through the canal at the rate of 25¢ a month. Branch 35, I. W. 0.: The Marine Act is violated con- D. Waxman Sam Olson tinually by its sponsors, the ship- S. Friedman owners. The plan of the boatswain and mate was to force most of the seamen off the ship in the first port on the East Coast (Boston) by giving the ones they do not: like the meanest kind of work, until they will agree to get off. The bo'stin Mrs, Cyprus—679 9th Ave., Bakery Mr. Cyprus—679 9th Ave. Bakery Italian Bread Bakery Brooklyn, N. Y. Unit 24, Section 8 B. Vilow tH. R. boasted he could do this to get a ‘A. Zucker 5 sien crew of his friends in Boston. J. Tannenbaum J. Yonowitz One of the foulest plans I ever heard of, was to force these seamen Unit 6, Section 11 to paint the fan-tail out with a Jos. Breslow C. Roth spraying-gun, while we were in the H, Smith A. H. Bloom tropics. Death, or at least, terrible H. Forster Pratkin sickness, would be the result. I in- L. 8. formed the men as soon as I met them alone. Results were; that the Unit 14, Section 11 whole crew became aroused. Those P. Rubin A. Palmer who were the marked men did not cero eral hens paint this hell-hole, the fan-tail, but David Gachs Gefiner’ the bo'sun and one of the favorites IL. H. Friezner ecdacuid had to paint it instead, and on turns Wolfson H. Kessler go down in the fan-tail. While still Blum PE in the co climate I see him hold- Paul Stein H. Millma ing the job as bo’sn, but also doing J. Kotkin M. Mandel @ seaman’s job—painting shipping, W. H.Garretson, HS. ete.—doing his job and a seaman’s Unit 3, Sec. 11 GB, job for one pay. Another form of J, MacMahon LK. working away to hold a job. The L. Masci zB. mates all do likewise. That is why N. Fournier the big ships run with small crews. The bos’n and his picked day gang Hempstead, N. Y. worked one half hour each dinner Ukrainian Branch 1511 I. W. of Hempstead, L. I. DISTRICT THREE Philadelphia, Pa. O.| hour—worked night and day with practically no time back. A wiper in the ‘black gang’ slipped off a ladder in the engine room, Charles Dean by name; he tpsa J. Baranowkas | complained of pains in his testicles 2 where he was hurt in this accident. DISTRICT FIVE He was sent os a apa epee ere Wilkes- Washington. I met hi ore. He petiesries ri told me the Pain Mle extended 3 as far as his knee. le doctor sent Pioneers of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. | him back to work. He tried to carry DISTRICT SIX on. I advised him not to. lk Finally he collapsed was aaenaa aa placed in the ship's hospital with a sign on the door for us to keep out. I got in to see him and found that _| he was so ill from pain, which he told me felt as if his intestines were dropping out on both sides. I ad- vised him not to let them operate on him for appendicitis which they told the crew he was ill with. He was sent to the Marine Hospital in Bos- ton and operated on for appendicitis, so that there could be no case I. W. O., Branch 526: Frank Ladyger, Thos. Pirvouris DISTRICT SEVEN Detroit, Mich. Greetings International Labor Defense Detroit, Mich. Stratford, Conn. F, and A. Peterson against the ship for a double rup- Children With Food TicketsAreTreated (By a C. W. A. Worker Cor- respondent) I am on C.W.A. taking a schcol census in N. Y. City, going from house to house asking names of the children are attending, etc. So many of the families are destitute: families of 10, 12 and 15 children, almost no furniture, children with- | out shoes or coats. youngsters shift-| ing for themselves every day while their parents are out looking for work. Children were in bed trying to keep warm no matter what time of | the day I called. No coal, maybe a loaf of bread in the house, or the remains of some relief food that. had turned bad. Boys under 17 were often tne only ones working in a large family. I never realized how good to me those people were till I was later transferred to a “nice” section. Al- ways the poor asked me in, very) often wanting me to share their meagre food or insisted on giving me tea or coffee if they had it. | In the neighborhood between Williamsburg and Brooklyn TI found | Gypsies, Japanese, Chinese, Italians, | Syrians, many Negroes, mostly Jamaica Negroes but a few directly from Africa. During the Easter vacation I was working in a school where there is a relief station. The destitute children with food tickets come there even if there is no school. They were forced to march like little con- victs, not daring to say a word. After reporting with their cards they went to the table, took their half orange or apple, small bowl of soup, one sandwich, small cup of milk, sat down and ate silently. If ever there was the slightest talking they were bawled at: “Shut up; hurry up and eat and get out!” About one-third of these children were in a pathetic state of health: waxy skin, rickets, clothes so ragged they were falling off their little bodies. I often carried the Daily Worker with me. know how many recognized it. Letters from IMPORTANCE OF READING THE DAILY IN PUBLIC New York City Dear Comrades: In answer to Michael Gold’s plea for a larger circulation of the Daily Worker and the New Masses: How can we build up the Daily Worker to 100,000 a day? That should be very easy today after the grand flop of the N.R.A. and the deepening of the crisis. We can build up the circulation of the Daily Worker and other revolutionary literature if we would only read our revolutionary literature in public places like the subway, trolley cars, etc. There are thousands and thousands of people who do not yet know of the Daily Worker or the New Masses. Like Little Convicts: parents and children, what school} You would be surprised to | 3. Build up youth committees in the revolutionary unions and | make a start in developing oppo- sition youth work in the A. F. of L. | 4. Build youth sections and or- ganizations of the Unemployed Councils, Small Home and Land Owners Federation, and language | movements. 5. Work forward to a successful Anti-War Youth Conference on May 5, aimed at setting up a per- Manent youth movement against war, at developing a powerful National Youth Day action, at fur- thering our struggle among the youth, against war and fascism. The entire Party, and through its fractions, the mass organizations, are to be mobilized to make Na- tional Youth Day this year a truly historical occasion in the mobilizing of youth and adu’ts in struggle against war and fascism. The period between now and the National Convention of the Y. C. L. (June 15) will be utilized by our Party as a period for intensive work in the building of the Y. C. L. and the revolutionary youth move- ment. In order to guarantee that these decisions. and control tasks will not remain on paper, but will be carried into life, the function- aries meeting calls on each unit and section buro to check up on its control tasks on the youth ques- tion, at least once every month at its meetings. The functionaries meeting de- clares that a thorough change must be made to guarantee that the Party will give political leadership to the Y. C. L.; that every unit and section will give serious at- tention to involving youth in the various Party and League cam- paigns, in working to develop strug- gles around the specific issues fac- ing the youth, in working to buil¢ up the Y. C. L. into a mass or- ganization of the youth. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Our Readers around 13th Street in the restaur- | ant, but as soon as they leave the revolutionary atmosphere of 13th Street, in goes the Daily into their inside pocket to read after they get home. In public places these “parlor Bolsheviks” read the N. Y. Times. Comrades, until we overcome this bad habit, the “Daily” cir- culation will remain as is. May Ist you will admit is a very im- portant day for demonstrations of the workers of the world, but May Day is only “one” day in a year. Let us from now on demonstrate every day in public, by reading our revolutionary literature. The editor should at once start < slogan and have it inserted each day in the Daily Worker about readin But we can advertize our press by reading it in public. Many com- rades will read their “Daily” down the “Daily” in .public. Comradely yours, F. Ww. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Oily Skin—Max Factor’s Makeup Y. R., Kingston, Idaho—If you had carefully followed our articles in this column you would have known that there is no cure for an oily skin. Natural sunshine or the ultraviolet lamp have a tendency to dry the skin, and are therefore tem- porarily beneficial. Repeated wash- ing of the hair or face with plain water or with toilet waters contain- ing alcohol also improves the con- dition momentarily. The end re- sult, however, is that the oiliness is apt to increase when the washing and the rinsing ceases. A diet free from fats and oils, as well as spices, ture. Our union {s trying to keep in touch with his case there. We arrived in Boston. The mate refused to give me my time back. I got only one day and a half a day off in Frisco. In port in Newark, he tried to tell me I would have to get off without time back. I gave him one more chance to live up to his agreement. He finally came to, and I got my time back in full and a lecture to him included on the workaway system. We won, of course. But I am not at all satisfied we won enough. So I got off the articles and I am now under the advice of Dr. Luttinger, whom I was glad to get to the East Coast to see. to him at the Daily Worker office and he will answer them in the health column of the Daily Worker. D e By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. He tells me that all seamen can write! seems to have a more permanent ef- fect. It is quite possible that the “fam- ous” movie stars are using Max Factor’s makeup. We have no right to doubt it, as long as they say so over their own signatures; but from our knowledge of other advertising schemes, we cannot help but be somewhat skeptical. As a matter of fact, there is no reason why they should not use this particular makeup; the cheapest and the most expensive articles in this line have exactly the same effect. The differ- ence between them is merely in the perfume used and in the container; the more expensive powders being packed in specially scented paper. DR. 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