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a Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1934 [Electricians in Sunnyside Spies, Seabs, Cops, A.F.L. Officials and @| PARTY LIFE .R. Yards Suffer Speed-U, . ye ° P ° |Failure to Safeguard Meet pt Yards Suffer Speed-UP IS cialist Fight Chase Brass Strikers iitinge eevee Workers Fired for Accidents; Company Claims Safety Rules Were Ignored - —2 Workers Return in Orderly Ranks to Build || Carelessly Conducted District Meetings May Secialist Proposes By a Railroad Worker Correspondent SLAND CITY, N LONG want to expo e terrible tions the ce n Yards wo! er used to cover eight tra now they cover 15, a man is off the rest of have to cover 20. The a off and a lampman cov ar @ lampman covers 30 t times one yard on a tr duced us the excuse But then trick and times and the average is 10 and if a@ man is off we do 20. Now how WORKER CORRESPONDENTS! The names of write to the Wo. ence Departmer Worker” are neve’ less we are especi: to do so. The staff of the “Daily Worker” understands that to print these names might mean local persecu- tion. Hence every precaution is taken to make absolutely certain that all names are kept secret. However, we request that all letters sent directly to the paper be signed. We ask this because frequently letters arrive from important shops and industries from which special information is urgently needed. Valuable information concerning the activities of labor tacketeers, secret war prepara- tions, and similar events are fre- quently obtained from worker correspondents with whom we are able to get in touch when any hint of this information comes into our office. The effectiveness of the “Daily Worker” can be tremendously increased if we are able to get in instant touch with correspond— ents in various sections of the country and in various industries as occasion demands. who pond- Is. brake ete., properly like that knows this and ponsible just the hat if anything happens y can blame it on the men and itewash the company of any blame. If a generator belt came off. we're supposed to go to the East End yardmaster’s tower and report that we're going to put up a blue then to the West End ster’s tower and tell him the Then after we go under and it on we are supposed to go k to both places and report that are taking it down. If we did it would take an hour and a alf and the work would lag. Then the company would blame us, so the men have to take the risks to do the work. If an accident happens and a man gets hurt he either gets sus- pended or fired, because the com- pany claims that he did not ob- serve the safety rules and that the accident was his fault. AN ELECTRICIAN IN THE SUNNYSIDE YARDS. me. pu Note: The way to improve these conditions is to organize a strong union, controlled by the rank and file, which will fight on a militant program for better conditions in the yards. For more information on how to organize such a union, call at or write to Railroad Brother- hoods Unity Committee, Room 631, 80 E. llth St., New York City. NOTE: We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- | tion and communication indus- tries—railroad, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- press companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, ete.—and from the com- munications industries—post of- fice, telephone, telegraph, ete. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their condi- tions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get these let- ters to us by Tuesday of each week, marine, Phila, Cia: Describe Fruit Of S. P. Advice By a Taxi Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—After at- tending a mass meeting recently at Convention Hall, Camden, N. J., of the New York Shipyard Workers, we are more firmly convinced than ever before that Socialist Party| leaders, such as Felix and Norman Thomas, are selected by the bosses to throttle the militancy of the To prove our points, we the following: Felix was introduced as the or-| ganizer of the Taxi Drivers Union, Local 156. He did not deny this, | when he knows as well as the driv- jers do, that he never was organizer | |of the union. The sentiment of the taxi drivers is that Felix, in plain cab lingo is a “phoney.” The cab | drivers still remember the 14 kt. iron clause that includes the follow- ing strikebreaker and _ treasury wrecker, “That if a striker is found ssor, the company By convincing and influencing the men to vote for such an “agreement,” today 13 driv- ers are blacklisted not only by the P.R.T., but by all the bosses in all industries. The local treasurer is| instructed to pay $10 per week to these men until these workers find} employment. This item costs our local union $520 per month. | ‘The drivers have agreed to take| |care of these 13 men, and it is no| more than right that they do so,| but we still insist that these men|Mext day, Tuesday, the plant was would have gotten their jobs back, | if Felix had not fastened this clause | around our necks. Felix claimed he did not take a {large part in the strike, but we} |Know he influenced Galbrath and} |instructed him in all his disunion| | activities. | In concluding his short talk, be- fore introducing Norman Thomas, {he told the shipyard workers that | if the taxi drivers had opened their | union meeting with a prayer, the same as the shipyard workers had done, the taxi drivers would have been better off. | Then Norman Thomas got up and said the N.R.A. is the machinery to | keep the workers in order. How |come that in August, 1933, faker | Norman stated that the N.R.A. is the road to Socialism, and that this |is not the time to strike? | Police Office Is Scab Nest S. M. W.1. U. for Bigger Struggles By a Metal Worker Correspondent | the police office to be used as an EUCLID, Ohio—On April 23 the employment office for the Chase workers of the Chase Brass & Cop- Bri Co., and used the police cars per Co. came out on strike under|‘0_ transport scabs to the plant. the lead of the Steel and} The company spent about $20,000 Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, /0" brand new machine guns, which Local 1107. The organization had| Were Placed around the gate house been going on for some time, which |@"d on top of buildings. Movie | resulted in 30 men being fired for | Pictures were taken of the picket | union activities. The company had | their stool-pigeons attending the|‘*® most active union members. | meetings. One stool-pigeon in par- ticular, Steve Merencick, had been | at the union meetings since July, | 1933, until February, 1934, and was} the means of getting a number of | the union fired. | A leaflet was distributed at the| ‘ i ivid-|Sent in their disrupters to de-| factory gate exposing this individ- | moralize the men and telling them to} ual. After this exposure our meet- ings grew larger. The company got |alarmed and gave the men a 5 per | cent increase in wages, which only | meant a raise of one or two cents | an hour to the men; and they laid | off the most active members of the | came to the next union meeting, ready for strike action. The week after this meeting, the company gave the men another 10 per cent increase, with more lay- offs of the active union men. Fol- | lowing this, a meeting was called on | Saturday, April 21, in which a} negotiating committee was formed to go into conference with the com- | pany on Monday, April 23, the men agreeing not to go to work that morning until the company met with the committee. The company refused to meet them and 90 per cent of the men remained out. The closed 100 per cent. Unknown to us, the company had a professional strikebreaker on the job, by the name of Walker, who, together with the city officials, helped the company demoralize the strikers. Mayor Ely of Euclid and Charlie Fox, the chief of police, tried to make the citizens believe that they were with the workers, | but, on the other hand, they allowed © Comat Party Expel Otto Wallin As Renegade line for the purpose of blacklisting On the third day of the strike the company got a temporary in- junction against the union. A. F. of L. Fights Strikers The A. F. of L. leaders took a part in breaking the strike. They leave the S. M. W. I. U. and join the A. F. of L. and the company would recognize them. To crown this treachery of the A. F. of L., McWeeny, the organizer of the A. F. of L., and Sidney Yel- |union. A good majority of the men| in, former state secretary of the|!. Ohio Socialist Party, had a confer- ence with the company without coming to the strikers first. This action of McWeeny stirred up hell among the militant rank and file, who demanded his expulsion. After a week of the strike, during which the men fought against tre- mendous odds, the strikers decided to go back to work in orderly re- treat and build their union stronger than ever to prepare for future Struggles. Five of the strikers, in- cluding Frank Rogers, the District Oragnizer of the S. M. W. I. U,, were arrested and charged h disturbing the peace. The five strikers were let out on $4,000 property bail for each of them and will stand trial on Saturday, May 12, at 1 p.m. On Saturday, April 28, the strik- ers staged a “smash the injunction” parade, with 500 strikers and citi- zens of Euclid and 110 autos blow- ing their horns, right up to the plant and from there around the main sections of Euclid. A CHASE BRASS WORKER. CONDUCTED BY UKE Flashes Showing the Lay of the ;men. Transparent rubber swastika Tand hereby awarded to Dr. McGaughy. Sey ae ENGLEWOOD, N. J.—Domestic (OT content with their phoney |4% Child Health Day, the adminis- | tration is planning (bourgeois) fes- New York “Health” Department | UUHeS and Spesthitying sor “Par- fires 238 employees in economy | “and I see by the Liberator that Grive. “No reduction in health ser- | «a Conference of the Parent-Teach- vice will result,” said La Guardia; | ers’ Association is called to meet at who forgot to tell how the jobless | +6 Urban League May 11 to pro- 238 will keep healthy without eat-| +0: against conditions in the Public ing. ; Schools of Harlem.” This meeting News leaked out of Nazi Germany | win be held under the auspices of Of special agricultural camps for| the qarlem Workers’ School and women where the incarcerated | +i) prepare the ground for protests women toil from sunrise to dark at |i Mayor La Guardia against re- Fewest form work done in primi- | t-enchments in education.” Good tive peasant fashion. “Inculcating | way to celebrate a real “Parents’ a.love cf the land,” is the explana- " to d si tion. And a good healthy hatred | Day" Would be to attend this meet of fascism, we don't doubt. . . . “WJATALIA MIKHAILOVA is the director of the first and prob- ably the only machine-tractor sta- tion in the U. S. S. R. consisting | entirely of women. She superin-/ 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38 and tends the large agricultural farm in| 49. Size 16 takes 3 yards 36 inch the Sineretsk District, consisting of | fabric and % yard contrasting. workers organizing against new law compelling them to submit to phys- ical examination. | Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1839 is available in sizes 1,128 households united into 32) tustrated step-by-step sewing in-| artels, or agricultural societies.”— (Moscow News, April 14.) Jewish merchant imprisoned in| Germany for courting German (aryan) Girl. Her name ena, structions included. as penalty of disgrace. Fascist paper, National Socialist German Jurist, tells about laws for | the celestial new Germany: Divorce | impossible for those having chil- | The Central Committee of the C.P.U.S.A., upon receiving con- clusive evidence that Otte Wallin, business manager of the Tyomies in Superior, Wis. has had con- tinuous secret communication with | Thomas said he is for industrial | unions, and against the practice of | organization on the craft basis. How |is it the Socialist Party of which| | Thomas is the head, suggests to Workers, organization in A. of E: Halonenite renegade elements, oe aes instead of industrial | giving information to the enemy, | : ; | and spreading vicious slanders | ‘We suppose Norman does in Rome | against the Party, decided to ex- |as the Romans do, that is, when| 1 Wallin from the Party, and speaking before independent indus-| Lae ail sasmibare © and ym trial unions, he is for industrial j pathizers of the Party against any eves and Nec gael at A. F.) association with this informer, of L. unions, he ‘or craft unions. | and urges redoubling of our ef- —A COUPLE OF SOCIALIST | forts to spread the influence and SOLD OUT PHILA. TAXI | authority of the Party, the Fin- DRIVERS. nish Workers’ Federation, and the Tyomies among the Finnish masses. RT. Trackwalker Smells a Rat Central Committee, C.P.U.S.A. prea ar tae | Otto Wallin, who has functioned | as business manager of the Tyomies, bership of the Communist Party b; By a TractionWorker Correspondent | a Senet decision of the Cane | NEW YORK.—Recently the I.| tral Committee C.P.U.S.A. As soon |R. T. put on about 20 new men|as the Executive Committee of the |in the transportation department | Finnish Workers Federation re- |of the Manhattan division. has been expelled from the mem-| All| ceived the information about Wal-| dren; “illegitimate” children to be discriminated against. | providing for easier | Ross bills, divorce in New York State, defeated at Albany. : aay ate NNUAL report of State Depart- ment of Mental Hygiene (Al- Dany, N. Y.) shows all-time high record for admission of insanity eases to State Hospitals in 1933. English society gals now having portraits painted on finger nails, and using wine-flavored lipsticks. Shipment of spoiled smoked whitefish poisons 18, killing one, of residents of Brooklyn. N. Y. Wom- en’s Councils can add to present demands: only to be sold.” Wald Child Labor Amendment fatification killed by Senate Com- mittee; host of fantastic “dangers” 4m abolition of child labor found by | opponents of amendment. “er ~ Saeamad HEALTH DAY” cele- brated by national festivities. Dr. Goldberger of New York hands eight-point Child Health Code rs parents, calling for: Adequate medical service, anti-disease in- oculation, etc., adequate diet, with “the protective foods daily .. .” one| quart milk, fresh raw fruits and vegetables, eggs, vitamin D in some convenient form"—sufficient rest, play, sunshine, “appropriate cloth- ing,” and (a mere trifle) a “health- ful, cheerful, and happy home en- vironment.” ‘Mr. and Mrs. Totten of the Bronx two kids in “restricted” section of Central Park, and told to leave kids with whom we ‘em home anyway,” advised | | Magistrate Erwin. Ages of the two} ic Boy, two; girl, three. J. R, MeGaughy of New York that women teachers should . “Good, pure edible food | hhaled into court for letting their | | | | Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in plainly name, address and_ style number, BE SURE TO STATE THE SIZE. Jess pay for same work, tien (an New York’ City. trainmen will be very wise to take a very skeptical view of this move | because it smells suspiciously like |an act of the beakie (rat) de- | partment of Mr. “Rat” igan. | There was no real need for hir- ing these men as the extra men were getting very little work as it | was. Furthermore all of these new arrivals landed at 165 Broad- way with a letter from P. J. Con- nolly (the kept head of the fake brotherhood company _ union) which fact practically clinches the belief that there is something rot- ten in Denmark, when an outfit like the twelve-hour, slave-driving I. R. T. has 20 more men than | they need. As a trackwalker my pay en- velope has been reduced not 10 percent, but over 30 percent be- low the previous rates. Our job is a dangerous one, in fact one of the worst on the system; still we are compelled to put in 10 hours (for 9 houra pay) seven days a week. Good luck to your paper. Yours for the 8-hour day and the 5-day week. Need for Organization on Jacksonville Docks By a Worker Correspondent JACKSONVILLE, Florida.—Last | Thursday, April 29, a young Negro, | Chris Donalson, who was in the | U. S. Navy during the World War, and a taxpayer in Jacksonville for many years, chopped his |thumb with an ax while splitting wood. Barely earning a living loading fruit at the Refrigerated | Service Line Docks, he went to the Duval County Hospital for treatment. The doctor bandaged his thumb but did not care for it properly. | He did not sew up the wound and jhe bandaged the thumb too tightly, stopping the circulation. The pain became unbearable and Donalson went back to the hos- pital to have the wound treated. He was flatly refused treatment on the grounds that he had not signed up with the local relief authorities recently for groceries, etc. Donalson made 35 cents an | | | | } | | | $ home, explained there was no/|coins or stamps (coins preferred) | hour at the docks, rarely getting on to leave them, | for this Anne Adams pattern, Write | over $2.50 a day, and never able to work more than two days a | week. Steps will be taken to organize | Address Orders to Daily Worker| the M. W. I, U. There is no or-/| ment to victory. Pattern Department. 243 West 17th | ganization at all among the long- | |shoremen at present the reasons on the basis of which he was expelled, | Committee of the Finnish Workers Federation expelled him from the membership of the Finnish Workers Federation and removed him from the position as manager of the Tyomies as well as from all posi- tions of responsibility in our or- | ganization. The reason for which Wallin was expelled from the Party, from the membership in the Finnish Workers Federation and as manager of the | Tyomies is as follows: Wallin has been exposed as be- ing for a long period of time in continuous correspondence with the enemies of our Party and our Federation, spreading information of the inner matters of the F.W.F. and the Party to the Halonenite clique of leaders, through an agent of Halonen who resides in Virginia, Minnesota. In these letters, of which several have gotten into the hands of the Party, Wallin has made threats against the Tyomies, at the same time slandered our speakers and other functionaries of the FWF | and the Communist Party. | With these actions Wallin has proved himself to be a betrayer of the revolutionary labor movement and therefore unworthy of being a |member of the revolutionary move- ment, not speaking of holding posi- tions of responsibility. After this no honest worker or farmer can have other relations with Wallin than that which they have toward other betrayers of the workers’ cause such as the Halonens, Mart- tilas and others. This exposure of Wallin is an- other proof of the vigilance of our |Party while serving the interests of |the revolutionary labor movement and its institutions, that in its ranks betrayers will not last long, no mat- ter how “cautiously,” using ficti- tious names, they attempt to do their pernicious work. Undoubtedly our enemies will try to use this exposure | of Wallin to create alarm and con- fusion among our ranks, as they have previously attempted to do with the aid of the Halonens, Mart- tilas and other renegades. How- ever, no honest worker or farmer has any reason to be alarmed, but rather we must, with increasing confidence follow the leadership of our Party and the F.W.F., which \only strengthens itself by exposing | this type of class enemies that have | gotten into its ranks, while it leads |the workers’ revolutionary move- Comrades! Taking this into con- lin’s expulsion from the.C.P., and} the Executive} where to begin work with renewed | determination and tempered energy | to carry through successfully the | present circulation campaign of the | Tyomies, to broaden out the circu- |lations of our literature and other j bublications and to build our F. The Executive Committee of the Finnish Workers Federation and |the Board of Directors of the Ty- omies are confident that all the readers, supporters and friends of the Tyomies, the membership of | the Finnish Workers Federation will give full support to the decisions of the Executive Commitee of the F. W. F. and the Board of Directors of the Tyomies and will more unitedly than ever rally around the Tyomies, our publications, and the Finnish Workers’ Federation. Finnish Workers Federation's Executive Committee. | Board of Directors of the Tyomies | Letters from Our Readers A SOCIALIST MAYOR IN ACTION Bridgeport, Conn. The workers of Bridgeport elected @ Socialist Mayor witl the illusion that he would be with them, but they were mistaken. When German fascists came to Bridgeport on April 5, the bitter enemy of the workers, the Commu- nists tried to hold a protest meet- ing near that hall, but Socialist Mc- Levy sent his Socialist police to break up the meeting. However, we succeeded, in spite of police bru- tality, because we picketed the hall for 2% hours. The next day the capitalist press stated that Mr. Mc- Levy was a guest at the fascist con- cert. Another example: On March 5 snow shovellers demonstrated at the City Hall to demand their pay, which was promised by the Socialist City Administration from day to day. Our Socialist McLevy sent Socialist police, who clubbed the workers and arrested three. The trial of two workers, Sam Krieger and Charles Sparrow, will come up on June 5. Workers of Bridgeport should realize and learn the lesson, that Mr. McLevy is no better than his Socialist friends, not only in Mil- waukee but throughout the whole world like MacDonald in England, Pilsudski in Poland, Mussolini in Italy and Kautsky and others in Germany. Now, workers, you have learned for yourselves how you can rely on Socialist leaders. The only answer to the Socialist misleaders is to organize under the leadership of the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League and the Unemployed Council. Send your protest to free Comrade Sam Krieger and Charles Sparrow. L, WHITE. ps a * SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS New Haven, Conn. Comrades: Will you please publish the pic- ture of Norman Thamas which ap- peared in the Herald Tribune May 2? Kindly decorate it with pansies and quote something from somewhere (you should be able to dig it out of his more virulent speeches) in which he attacks the “Cossacks.” Ie should be the great revolutionary piece of sarcastic humor, Yale readers of the “Daily,” who heard Thomas speak for the Yale Anti-War League ought to appreci- sideration it is necessary every- ate thig particularly. YALE 1936. Fisk Slavery Pact By a Worker Correspondent CHICOPEE, Mass.—Tom Burns, president of the Fisk |] Rubber Co’s A. F. of L, Union, || brought a proposal before the workers of the last union meet- ing to sign an agreement with the company not to strike or ask for an increase in pay for one year. When three workers pro- |] tested his proposal, he accused |] them of being Communists. The same Mr. Burns, at a picnic under the auspices of the Socialist Party last fall, of which he is a member, in his speech said: “We have formed an A. F. of L. union in the Fisk. I have been || elected president. I don’t agree with the A. F. of L,, as they have sold out the workers time and again. So I might as well have the job of selling them out as some Democrat or Republican.” ij Result in Serious Catastrophe for Party | The District Buro of one of our jleading Districts recently held: a meeting together with a leading |comrade from the Center and sev-| jeral leading comrades from other districts. The meeting was held in |the home of a Negro comrade in a neighborhood where it was unusual for Negroes and whites to frater- nize. In addition to this it was the fourth successive meeting held in | this home and the meeting was held |in the daytime. The comrades at- | tending the meeting came in groups | carrying papers in their pockets and a few even had brief cases. All of them had Daily Workers in their pockets, The meeting was about half over when the Comrade from the Center called the meeting to a halt, point- ing to the front door of the house. A detective carrying a dummy war- rant then forced his way into the front parlor where the meeting was Cook Fired for Giving Crew Food They Could Eat | i} | By a Marine Worker Correspondent | | NEW ORLEANS, La.—On the |S.S. Carrabule, tanker chartered | by Cc. D. Mallory of 11 Broadway, | N. Y., the conditions are rotten | and the crew hungry. The steward fired the cook because he was too good a cook and the crew ate too | much. He got a new cook and | miserable starvation started. | The ship carries no wipers, so the three firemen have to do six men’s work. The Ist assistant is a Russian white guard, Serge | Kusnitsoff, he has a nephew who | was director of the Royalist Tea | Gubkin Kznetsopp Co., in Moscow, |& Kupets kulak. He has no sys- tem in the engine room and he will kill some of the crew by un- necessary work. In cold weather | he puts the men to wash the shaft | alley with cold water which turns | into ice. In hot weather he puts the men to wash the dynamo | platform where no human can| | stand the heat. 54 | A fireman asked him about the | | grub and if he would give a hand| |to better it. He said he doesn't | give a damn for the rest of the |crew. He fired the fireman in |New Orleans and said “I had ; enough of you,” because thé fire-| |man was sick from rotten food | and one afternoon he stayed in his bunk with cramps and a belly- ache. The chief mate is the monarch) on the ship and he gives orders to everyone from the captain to the engineers. This company and these slave drivers get away with it because the crew is not organized. “SHOUT IT FROM THE HOUSE TOPS” DENVER, Col.—Some time ago a worker was talking to the relief worker while she was making out his order for the week. In his re- | marks he said that he thought the | United Front of the Unemployed | Movement was a pretty good organ- ization and that he was going to | join them for they sure do see to it | that the unemployed get relief. | He had been getting an order for $3.00 each week for himself and his wife and when he took the order this time he did not look at it, but, went to a grocery store to get food with it, and then he noticed that instead of it being for $3.00 it read $3.75. This worker told the correspond- ent that it would pay every unem- ployed worker to keep talking about the unemplyoment councils and the United Front Against Hunger when they get their relief orders. Moral: Shout it from the house- tops. Special Sale at the Workers Book Shop NEW YORK.—The Workers Book Shop announces a reduction in price for the following books: “Are the Jews a Race?”—$2.50 edition for $1.25; “Coming Struggle for Power,” —tformerly $3, now $1.75; “Menace of Fascism’—formerly $2.25, now $1.25; “To Make My Bread’—for- merly $2, now $1.25; “History of the American Working Class”—formerly $2.50, now $1.65; “A Symposium on the Five Year Plan”—formerly $1.50, now $1; “Bill Haywood’s Book”— formerly $2, now $1. There are also many 29-cent, 50-cent and $1 spe- cials on sale. FRIDAY, MAY 11th, 8:30 P. M. SYMPOSIUM “Theatre of Today and Tomorrow” Melvyn Levy of Group Theatre Sylvia of Theatre Union Nat. Secy., L.W.T. PROSPECT WORKERS CLUB 1157 So. Boulevard, Bronx PHILADELPHIA, PA. Lecture by : CORLISS LAMONT ON “Socialist Planning in the Soviet Union” Saturday Eve. May 12th TURNGEMEINDE HALL BROAD & COLUMBIA AYE. being held. The Comrades in the meeting correctly refused to give any answers to the detectives’ bully- ng inquiries, so the cotective left but returned in about two minutes with a captain of police and another detective. The three police then proceeded to search the rooms and the comrades, threatening arrests and attempting to provoke the com- trades. After about thirty minutes of bulldozing, the detectives left without arresting anyone or finding any important papers. Draw Lessons In summing up this incident we can draw valuable conclusions and Jessons in what we must do to safe- guard our apparatus. It is possible that the police knew of the meeting through some stool pigeon and that the raid was strictly a provocative raid. It is also possible that the police were merely investigating why Negro and white workers were meeting together and were them- selves surprised to find practically the entire district and city leader- ship of the Party together. Taking these features of the raid into consideration, we find the fol- lowing serious mistakes in the work of the buro: 1) The majority of the comrades had in their pockets valuable data which was not needed at the Buro meeting. 2) The front door of the house was not even locked, 3) The comrades made no at- tempt to hide their coming and going from the house. i} 4) The meeting was held in the wrong type of neighborhood. 5) The comrades carelessly held four meetings in a week in the same place. 6) Prior to the four meetings, other meetings had been held in the house for a period of several months, To guard against recurrences of such things, all District Buros must immediately take steps to safeguard and protect the apparatus of the Party. In this district, as in many other districts, the comrades had actually succumbed to legalistic il- lusions simply because there had been no terror or interference with their activities. They had become passive, and as a result became careless. Had the police arrested the leading comrades and held them for a bare 24 hours, the result would have been a catastrophe, as a major demonstration and several strikes were at the critical stage of preparation. This also shows us that we must keep our files in secure places and that we must never carry names and addresses around in our pock- ets. We must now, while we can conduct legal activity, lay the basis for continued work in the event of illegality. Buro meetings and meet- ings of other leading committees must be so conducted as to guard against possible raids. The correct. neighborhoods and homes not under suspicion must be the scene of these meetings. Cadres must be developed with the knowledge that at any time they may have to step in and be- come the leadership of the move- ment. We have a responsibility of leading the entire working class and we cannot take our task lightly. Many articles have been written and many discussions held on safe- guarding our apparatus and yet such a case of gross neglect and carelessness took place. The District Buro of this district must be severely criticized by the Center and this criticism must mark a change in their present loose and careless methods of work. Loose- }ness in the higher committees will result in chaos and disorganization below. Other districts must take this as a lesson. This looseness un- fortunately is not an isolated case. The same thing exists in many other districts. These shortcomings must be corrected. They cannot be permitted to exist any longer. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Our Views on Osteopathy G. K., Ashtabula, Ohio.—We re- gret that we shall have to publish our magazine without your support and that of your osteopathic friends. It is true that the modern osteopath does not cling exclusively any more to the “spinal adjust- ment” with which the founder of osteopathy claimed to be able to cure all diseases. The majority of osteopaths are now using elec- trical, water, and massage treat- ments. They even use anesthesia and surgery. When the Harrison and Volstead Acts were passed, the osteopaths made desperate efforts to secure the privileges of prescrib- ing narcotics. and liquor. This readiness of the osteopaths to ad- mit that drugs, such as chloro- form, morphine, alcohol and co- caine have an effect on the bodily functions, shows that they are at- tempting to enter the practice of medicine by the back door, like their cousins, the chiropractors, and other cultists. Modern medicine does not believe in any “systems.” We, therefore, cannot endorse the main tenet of osteopathy that all diseases can be cured by manipulation of the spinal column. If we should endorse os- teopathy, ‘there is no reason why we should not endorse chiropractic and every one of the 67 varieties of med- ical cultists that we have in America. In New York State, osteo- pathy is a dead issue. Now that the schools of osteopathy require en- trance requirements, equivalent to a high school education; now that one must study osteopathy four years before being able to practice it, the great majority of students prefer to study scientific medicine. Any phy- sician licensed to practice medicine in the United States, can practice any part of osteopathy or any cult that he may think will cure his pa- tients. Nobody can prevent him from practicing either osteopathy or chiropractic or what-not; provided he does not make a system of it, ascribing all diseases to one cause and to one form of treatment. In many nervous diseases most physi- l| Sat. May 12th Admission Adm, 25¢ Auspices: F.S.0. le By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. — cians even practice Christian Sci- ence! It is not our intention to “wise- crack” about osteopathy. On the contrary, it is our desire to be fair which prompted us to answer your letter. Be a physician first and an osteopath second, if you must prac- tice osteopathy. It is because we consider osteopathy a fallacy, that we cannot accept, nor do we desire any help or assistance from osteo- paths. The only reason for the ex- istence of osteopathy is the one given by the brother of its founder who, in a letter quoted by Andrew Still, said, “Hallelujah, Drew, you are right; there is money in it, and I want to study osteopathy!” COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr, Delancey Street, New York City EYES EXAMINED By JOSEPH LAX, 0.D. Optometrist Wholesale Opticians Tel. ORchard 4-4520 Factory on Premises NITGEDAIGET Beacon-on-the-Hudson New York H t | All Outdoor Sports Sr SUN BATHS take all the | kinks out of your body. ; Return ready for real, work. Best food, every comfort, daily programs. 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