The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1934 Note: This column is a weekly featur 2 with all the branches of the aviation indus- try. It will appear every Sat- MORE OF EVERTYHING—BUT— + quack towards codes that had the same ect as heaving a rick at a drowning child. WAGES ARE CUT per cent of the com- ts were fired from 1931 1934. Wages were cut month by substituting ge rate with an hourly iness increased, more ere flown and this was re- in increased maintenance hours flected work for the ground crews AT LESS WAGES. These conditions exist because we had “fi ” A beautiful mirage fos- tered for the benefit of the bankers through the medium of “Impartial Labor Boards” and the gold braid ling A. F. of L, Airline Pi- ation. The mechanics had “faith’—without the gold or and the impartialis Fact Finding Committees, etc., succeeded in laying the mechanic horizontal nd hé has been on his back ever , round table disc’ sions (A. F. of L. style) or naive faith in the sincerity of doubtful aviation experts and impartialists Name calli ng tee DOMESTIC WORKERS’ UNION | GROWING RAPIDLY very welcome letter came to| wing upon our items about! ic Workers’ Union e more than pleased to ak of us all that about the difficulties of ng domestics is true, but it that the unbearable con- under which they work make 2ow them the need for ion and struggle. This is true of the Negro do- mestic workers, some of whom are getting ten cents an hour or ten dollars a month for full-time work "The Domestic Workers’ Section of the Food Workers’ Industrial | Union now has three locals, one in Port Chester at 105 King St., one which meets in Yorkville every) second Wednesday at 347 E. 72d St., and one in upper Harlem, which meets at our headquarters every! Thursday night at 415 Lenox Ave. “The local which you chose to visit, at 115th St. had that very) week been consolidated with the} Upper Harlem local. Our member- ship now numbers well over 200. | “So far because of the peculiar conditions of the industry, we have conducted no major struggle but we! have been successful in getting re- lief for unemployed members and! in dealing with some grievances | where the very threat of exposure has forced ‘respectable employers’ to pay back wages, etc. “We are at present in the midst! of a campaign to expose Grant's | Employment Agency of 103 W. 131st| St., which sends out cards offering | to furnish help at $2.50 a day. This | is an inducement to employers to! fire their higher paid help. ... In| epite of difficulties the comrades are | working with great enthusiasm be- cause they are convinced of the} importance of the organization which can reach the masses of Negro women, 65 per cent of whom are domestic work We would be glad to let you know of our progress from time to time. | “Comradely. | “MARY FORD, for the | Domestic Workers’ Union.” | T have also a copy of a letter sent by the N.R.A. to the union in re-| sponse to their demand for a code, which letter we hope to find room} for soon. Oh, is it a honey! And} here is a letter telling about a | Connecticut Strike Involving Many Women Workers “About three weeks ago, workers of the Prentice Manufacturing Co. of Kensington, Conn., walked out | on strike, under the leadership of | the A. F. of L. There are about 200/ workers employed there, the major- | ity of them young women workers. “The strike was conducted under | the leadership of Fred Cedarholm. ‘This man is such a crook that even! the Socialist Party of Bridgeport kicked him out. Now he is a paid organizer ci the A. F. of L., in charge of New Britain end sur- rounding cities. “At the beginning of the strike there were never more than six pickets on the line. Workers were} allowed by the union to go in and fill out application cards for jobs. AS ONE AIR-PILOT TO ANOTHER BY A GROUP OF PILOTS AND MECHANICS flection of industry, realized their collective impo and have organized in self defense. Organize now—a of all aircraft workers is our answe |of their lead ; some urday. We invite all aircraft workers, pilots, mechanics, of others connected with the avia- tion industry to write to us. Chauffeurs”— s definition of a r employee —and t is a re- mental and eco- nomic development Organization Vital s of the bui fly, ain and the aviation transportation Whether you are a pilot, , or a helper, your par- ticipation as workers makes aviation possible. Other have ince industrial workers There is no other way but a united economic organization mili- tantly active in promoting the eco- nomic demands of all the workers. united federation (See also the article on Page “The Real Slant on the Air M: WITH OUR YOUNG READERS For technical reasons the column “With Our Young Readers” cannot appear Today. It will be published in a few days. WIN BUILDING WORKERS STRIKE NEW YORK, (F. P.)—A 20-day strike of building service employes at 1016 Fifth Ave., large New York office building, resulted in wage in- creases from $60 to $65 a month to $75 to $95 for members of the In- dependent Building Service Em- ployes, Local 1. Not only 14 original employes but three extras were re- turned to work. The union was not officially recognized. bosses were tough and needed lots of persuasion. “The company refused to take back all the strikers on the ground | that there isn’t enough work. The strike is over with half the workers out of a job. Now the company will | get a sudden rush order and hire the worl who filled out applica- tion cards during the strike. Before the strike was over we issued a leaf- let to these workers, warning them ship, and proposing mass picketings and rank and file control of the union; we also sold Daily Workers and union literature. “Many of the workers are raging mad against the A. F. of L. “WORKER -CORRESPONDENT.” Can You Make *Em Yourself? Pattern 1840 is available in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 5 Size 36 takes 414 yards 39 inch fabric and 1-6 yard 6 inch lace. Illustrated step-by structions included. Send Fi¥TEEN CENTS (15e) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name. address and_ style number. BE SURE TO STATE THE SIZE. Addr s Orders to Daily Worker The A. F. of L. leaders gave as an/| Pattern Departmeni, 243 West 17th excuse for the long strike that the! Street, New York City. ( ‘ Communists Praised by Ala. Striker A gainsi By a Mine Worker Correspondent BESSEMER, are on strike wages and shorter hours. the most militant strike that ever happened in the Southern The bosses said the un on Monday. but have not let a man Ala.—The ore mines fighting for higher This is 5 Try states The workers have Ry a Mine Worker Correspondent line ever since Friday morn- RAL CITY, Pa. — In the ng. The Negroes and white are; Central City mine strike in Rictz on the picket line side by side in|Coal Co. 850 miners joined and the ore field struck job by loading one The bosses of the Republic and protest against the the T. C. I. are shaky here at this ing the mine com- time when they see the white ar president of the Negro workers are fig local, Mike Balya, inspect the scale. bread in this district. and By mt of the local was fired trying to stop the strike by » by company officials. The super- the workers that the oc » |intendent s that he will not be mion is good for them, b taken back either, but after the workers are fithting for a workers’ miners were on e for four days, union, the company off promised to n his job back. The Communist Party has opened the eyes of the white workers to| Now, I am dealing with the role fight with the Negroes on the picket |of the United e Workers of line here. The white and Negro; America officials in th strike. | |workers turned the scabs back| After it was promised to take the| Monday morning and told them not to go to the mine. The bosses said they would see to it that the mines would be running Monday, but we president back on the job, the U.M. W.A. officials called the mine com- mittees and the prestdent in Win- ber, Pa., and proposed to them that were on the picket line all night; Mike sign the agreement a) Sunday. That he wil! not be President in the This is a time when all the work- | local; (2) That he will not run for any office in the Union and also, that the Arbitration Board is guilty for striking and are subject) to pay $1 fine for each miner for a four day strike. But John Lochrie, the owner of the mine: ys, that he will not de: duct the doliar fine, since he know: the miners will strike against it, also the Arbitration Board upheld the company stand for firir Local Makes Decis The Committee and Balya told them that when they join the union they pledge “One for all and all for ers of Alabama are fighting back against the wage cutting system of capitalist slavery and the speed-up | system. | We see in the May Day | stration this has given the of the South a double with the bosses, but the worke?s are meeting the situation, and the workers will not be fooled by the misleaders. The Communist Party should be given due credit for this work in| the Southern states by their activ- ity here, and they have taught many demon- workers struggle of the workers here how to fight | one.” The local makes the decisions for themselves, for recognition of| and all members will abide by this) the workers’ union, against the,and the decision of the local} stands as the local makes them. and go by these decisions and no in- dividual has the power to call off the strike After this local last Friday, May 4, company union, munist Party We love the Com- Bleak Prospects For Miners of Alaska Interior |By a Mine Worker Correspondent | NENANA. Alaska.—For the inter- union meeting and the Mine By a Worker Correspondent FORT lass consciot of Arkansas and Oklahoma coal min is manifested in the fact that loads of them that |were shipped into West Virginia, where they were told by the U. M. ior of Alaska, where I'am now liv- |ing, things are strictly on the bum, and I am quite safe in saying that that is equally true throughout the | whole territory. In the interior the principal in- dustries, placer mining for gold, and| w. A. officials that there was | trapping of fur-bearing animals, are “plenty of w re now returning jmow at a stand-still. Under normal! nome. The miners found, when they conditions, with the increase in the! reached West Virginia, that they price of gold, now selling for $35|haq been imported as scabs by the U. M. W. A. lead to break the strike of the West Virginia miners, who belong to an independent or- ganization. Lewis Terror in Ry a Mine Worker Correspondent BENLD, Ill.—I was victimized two or three times by the company and the strikebrea politici When ’ Enemy No. 1, Big John L. came to West Frankfort in (formerly should reasonably look forward to a resumption of small seale placer per oz. for $20.67) we Lewis, July, 1932, he gave us a nice, flowery ‘o they are unable to buy a | Speech. with 200 or 300 loyal gunmen he trouble is that five years crisis have left the miners | grub-stake to go to work. In the|Teady to force a wage reduction on early days of the camps, any trust-|T@Nk and file union members shortly worthy miner would have no trouble | 2fter- Some of his guards tried to in getting an outfit here on credit;mob me that day. The Chief of |from the merchants. But the crisis| Police told me to leave the city has hit them as well as the miners, | limits inside of ‘five minutes if T | So now it is come up with the cash- | Wanted to live any longer. or-nothing-doing, and there is not| Some time ago I went. to ask the ; one man out of 20 that has got any Mine Manager some information | cash. about my job, I happened ‘to be | Trapping for fur here was always | fired defending the U.M.W.A.’s con- a fall-back for unsuccessful prospec- | stitutional right of peaceful picket- | tors or miners, but even that is now|ins. He forced me to leave the played out. The fur-bearing ani- | Company's grounds at once, called | mals have been trapped out so that| me @ criminal, and said he had to few remain. Many thousands of| Use the gun against me. I hap- dollars worth of furs were shipped |Pened to meet him before the three | out of Nenana a few years ago, and| of the Local Committee and three | now there are scarcely any. company bosses, the general super- | The future of interior Alaska de-|intendent. vice-superintendent and pends entirely upon the develop-|another boss. I demanded some | ment of its mineral resources, indi- | Proof. some evidence. The gentle- | cations of which are to be found}™an failed to reply—only that he |in many places. What is needed |has to use the gun against me. |here is prospectors in the hills and| 1 Went to Gillespie to help build |on the streams with sufficient pro-|the rank and file movement of the | visions to enable them to success- | Progressive Miners of America and fully carry on prospecting. Instead | Stayed a couple of months with of idle men in the cities, or tourists | Progressive friends, then went back traveling through the country, |t0 Franklin County and went to see neither of which contribute any.|the Relief Board at City Hall, and | thing to the development of a new| demanded that they continue to country. When the prospector in a| five me relief. The chairman got mining country is driven out of the| UP and told me: "No more relief | field, the rest of the population will |for you in Franklin County.” I soon follow. | asked them how and why they break | — |the law for me and he said: “You | OLD AGE PENSION LAW are 2 avi ibs ire aae aee Mag against the UD ad replied: By a Worker Correspondent We have all kinds of Progressive SILVER CITY, Ia—The old age | sympathizers.” He said: “You are Pension law they are about to get | the one wfo is most responsible for in this state provides for a pension breaking a real American union, so only to those over 65 years of age,|no more relief for you regardless of Sue who lived in the state 10 years.| what you do.” ‘ou have to be in the state 10 years I tried every way, shape and form. jand in the county two years, and i mmitte ‘ All the County Relief Committee ‘ou mi ye ust have an income of hel was that way. Then, on April 19, than $1 a day. Then, i - ‘ ‘i ify, you get the chhanirisene net 1933, Special Deputy Company Night $25 a month. | Watchman Harry Jones got me in All others, past the age of 21|the dark, with his friends, gunmen, j years will have to pay a head tax|2bout 8 p.m., a couple of blocks {of $1 this July and $2 after this| from my home at the point of guns. | year. Now ain't that just fine?) They told me that the Benton law |Past the age of poll tax, which is|wanted me at once. I always re- 45 years, they still tax you $2. That | spected the law, so I gave myself up | Sure is a graft, but then nothing to th: but when we passed the uncommon, county Sian eG TE sidnapyed whon it was too late. NOTE They took me to a_ well-known We publish Ictters from coal m * battlefield place at Mulkey- and ore miners, and from cil town, cutside the equnty line, 20 field workers, every Saturday. | miles from my home. That night 1 jlanded at the Duquoin Police Sta- tion and was under the care of the \Chief of Police, and then went to |Benld. Stayed with a Progressive | friend until about Oct. Ist and again We urge workers in these fields te write us of their conditions of | werk and of their struggles to orzanize, Please get vour letters | to us by Wednesday of each week, Arkansa -Oklahoma Miners SMITH, Ark.—The growing| at, I realized that I was/I UMW Enters Fight Striking to Get Locel Leader Fired, and to Fine Strikers for Daring to Struggle Committees, and Mike reported to AFL Exposes Salt Workers | To Dismissals By a Salt Mine Correspondent) WEST TULSA, Okla.—The Salt workers were organized into an A. | F. of L. union in December by G. Ed. Warren, The N. R. A. was used | as the basis for the right of labor to organize into a Union of their own choosing, and great stress was laid | on Section 7-A wherein the workers | could not be leid off or fired be- the Local Union what kind of an| cause of affiliations with a union. agreement the U. M. W. A. and the| company wanted him to sign, the miners voted again to continue the “al e by loading one car a day until! their demands are won, the Local) president is reinstated and the scale be fixed. | It is three weeks already and no scale inspector has come yet | The Rietz Coal Co., is spreading | the news that they will shoot down! the miners, but the miners can’t be} fooled, | The immediate task is for the| miners to form a United Front with | the Unemployment Council andj push forward the demand for relief | from the County, as miners worked | recently only two and three days a week, and to build a stronger op-| position in the local, Must Spread Strike Also to spread the strike in other| locals, like, Cairnbrook, Pa., in the} Loyal Hanna Coal Co. mines, as the} conditions there are unbearable. No| peyment is made for slack. Miners are forced to load or shovel in the} gob pile for nothing, no payment for dead work, etc. Last week we held an Unemploy- ment Council Meeting in a field. Many miners joined and we took) the cases for relief immediately and| some were investigated and relief) promised for this week. The Company is aware of this unity between employed and un- employed, and last Thursday the company suckers raised this ques-| tion in the Local Union and told) the miners not to join the Un- employed Council. They threat- ened that if anybody joined or at- tended their meetings, they would be expelled for 99 years f-om the U. M. W. A. Nevertheless the} miners put up @ fight and they said, | “we want to eat.” | The Arkansas-Oklahoma miners | recently revolted against the buro- | cracy and strike-breaking tactics of |the Lewis appointed officialdom, called an “outlaw” convention, and jset up rank and file officials. These officials have been refused recogni- |tion both by the N. R.A. and by | John L, Lewis. | The recent attempt to get the miners here to break up the inde- pendent miners’ union by scabbing on their brothers in West Virginia only further discredits the Lewis- Fowler-Mickel leadership in this | field, Terror and Graft | Franklin County In Helper, Utah Boing onWronsSide By 2 Mine Worker Correspondent | HELPER, Utah.—I want you to |; know and also all our comrades |that the Mayor of this town and | the others that hold offices are giv- \ing the workers a dirty deal. Last jevening the workers gathered at | the City Hall and wanted to get a permit from the Mayor for the right to march on May 1 and also to protest against the cutting of the lights on April 28. The Mayor would not grant a | hearing of either protest. while in our City Hall hangs a blackboard with the names of the chosen few to work for lights. Some have had two turns, while others have never been able to get on once, although | their names have been on the list for over one year. One man on the blackboard for jhis turn has a daughter that holds a good job in our city bank, and when people went to get their re- lief orders last week, they cut them from 25 cents to 75 cents a piece. If you complain they say there is no more money. There are also children without | shoes. Perhaps they are saving the | money to pay gun thugs on May 1 | to whip the workers. It looks like there is a chosen few to run Help- er, and they also run the Mayor of Helper, too. Even the C.W.A. work was a crooked deal. Some people who are well-off worked and even bought new trucks to work on the C.W.A. work, while other needy men with large families starved. I can say there is no justice in this town. They even refuse milk to the sick. Between the coal operators and the Mayor and the rest of the crooked few, they think Helper does not be- long to the U. S. A., but to them alone. The coal operators whipped us last year with tear gas and gun thugs. Now they are going to try to whip us again. But I hope there are enough men and women with good red blood in their veins to stand up for the rights the Declaration of Independence grants the workers. went back to Franklin County. I went to State’s Attorney Marion Hard and Sheriff Browning Robi- son’s office. Both gave me a nice flowery talk and the action of big | words. I was at the Sheriff's office | until the middle of the night. That was the only safe place for me. In Franklin County Jail eight days. demanded legal investigation from the law on my case and brought | for proof my own records of .3 years residence in Franklin County. He |said he would investigate in eight | days, so I swore out a warrant and gave it to the Chief Deputy. After a week, I called from Ziegler City Hall. Mrs. Robison replied twice that the Sheriff hasn't succeeded yet, but he will, He hasn’t yet. « Eighty percent of the salt workers joined the Salt Workers Union with} this assurance. | A great many of the workers get | from $5 to $10 a week, skilled labor get around 50 cents per hour. | The workers were very much dis-/ satisfied with the starvation wages/ and were eager to organize. They) were told by Ed. Warren, president} of State Federation, politician, lawyer and ex-Judge, and by Wild Cat Williams, organizer politician, | gunman and misleader that the only} way to better conditions was to or- ganize into the A. F. of L. In December one of the best union | workers was fired without any cause. The superintendent, a Louisiana slave driver, well noted for his} slave driving tactics, came to the| plant at two o'clock one Sunday} morning drunk and told the men that they were cutting their own throats by joining the union and that all the Union men were good for was to loaf on the job and strike and also challenged the men to a fistic combat. The next morn- ing he fired Pruitt, one of the most active members of the union and would not tell him why. Pruitt had been employed by the Company two years and eight months and had been advanced from common | laborer to shift foreman. Wildcat Williams was hired as business agent for the Union at $25 per month, to take necessary steps to get Pruitt reinstated. After! taking the matter up with the N. R.) A. Board, Bill Green, and the Labor Board in Washington, and draining | jall the money out of the Union's | treasury, he reported that he could) do nothing. On Monday, April 16th, the mem- | bers of the union decided to take a | strike vote, demanding a hearing on| the case which we were entitled to as explained by the organizer when | getting the workers’ money. Judge | Warren rallied to the Company’s | defense. He discouraged and inti- | midated the members present to try | and stop the strike vote. However, the vote was taken and carried two thirds majority. Warren ruled that it would take three fourth majority) to carry so the vote was taken again and only failed to carry by one vote in spite of his intimidation of the workers. When Warren was asked if the company might form a_ lockout against the workers he failed to quote the N. R. A. that no com- pany shall form a lockout against | the workers, but he did quote the N. R. A. “no strike” policy, which deprives the workers of their only | weapon, the right to strike. What the workers in this plant need is a union controlled by the |rank and file and not by political | misleaders. || PARTY LIFE At a recent meeting of Unit 6, | Section 1, District 2, a discussion | was held on the veterans’ problem. It is very significant to note that} when the Agit-Prop of the unit read! off (a few weeks previous to the} discussion) a list of topics to be dis- | cussed in the unit, he failed to men-| tion the veterans question. Why was| this? The answer is very clear. The reason for this is because of the) lack of political understanding of so vital a question. This lack of un-| derstanding cannot be blamed on} the unit only. It is the fault of the! . The only reason that! this discussion was held is that one| comrade (not a veteran) pointed out! that there is a mass movement of veterans on Washington, for their| demands (immediate payment of| the bonus, repeal of the Economy Act, and for the immediate passage | of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill, H. R. 7598). It is im- portant to note the Unemployment Insurance Bill is for the entire working class. This part of the vet- erans’ three-point program will very sharply be put forth at their con- vention in Washington on May 10. As I am writing this letter, the statement of the Central Commit- tee in support of the veterans ap- pears in the Daily Worker. This 1s very gratifying. It is also a very good sign that at last the Party has taken a decisive turn. The Daily Worker, which has been printing very little on the veterans’ movement, has finally begun giving publicity. This also is a very good sign, and we hope that in the future proper publicity will be given the veterans in their struggles, as this is the only paper thaf can be de- pended upon to give the workers all over the country a true picture of the veterans’ struggles. | At the time of the discussion, Unit 7, which meets in the same hall, de- cided to adjourn their meeting ear- ly so that a joint discussion could be held on this very important prob- lem, The discussion on the part of the unit membership was very poor because of their lack of knowledge of the veterans’ movement, al-| though the comrades said that the discussion was very ably led. The following proposals were made after the discussion, They were accepted by the unit. | 1) That a letter be written (to | Problems of Veterans Discussed at Unit Meet Attention Is Called To the Lack of Political i Understanding of This Vital Problem be printed) in the Party Life col- umn of the Daily Worker, point- ing out the necessity of more knowledge on the part of the C, P. members and the working class on the subject. This decision was based on the statement of Com- rade Browder in his report to the Eigkth National Convention of the Party, that the veterans are the allies of the working class. The suggestion was also made that eyery unit of the Party in ail dis- tricts, hold a discussion on the vet- eran question. This will to a great extent make our Party member- ship “Veteran-conscious.” 2) Where no post of the WESL exists in the locality of the Unit or Section or in small towns, a responsible Party Committee, com- posed of at least one veteran, be set up to contact veterans for the purpose of forming a post of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. Full directives must be obtained from the National Headquarters so that a proper approach can be made to these veterans. 3) That when comrades go can- vassing, that all veterans they con- tact, their names to be turned over to the local WESL posts for the purpose of organizing them into the militant Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League. 4) That at every street meeting that is beld by the units, the speakers very clearly bring forth the problems of the Veterans, It is hoped that all these sug- gestions be carried out not only by this unit, but by the entire Party membership. UNIT 6, SECTION 1, Dist. No, 2, C.P. U.S.A, Join the Communist Party 35 FE. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Ple send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. NAME sscereccescesssereneeeser® Street .. City CHRISTMAS SEALS | Dear Comrade Luttinger: | Tuberculosis can be stamped out, Denied Relief for Of Political Fence From a Mine Worker Correspondent FINLEYVILLE, Pa.—The writer, | having made application to the R. W. D. for employment as a fore- man, was assigned to a job on April 23rd. I reported for work to find there was no slip with the time Keeper for me. After waiting for threg,days, and no work, I went to the County Engineers office to see what was wrong, and was politely told by the County Commissioner that I was on the wrong side of the political fence. I tock the matter up with the manager of the R. W. D. and was promised resultS at once. All my references end credentials were first class and I had been approved by the R. W. D. engineer, but it seems as though what that two-bit County Commissioner, John O'Neil, says is law. He knows well enough I did not vote for him, for I had guts enough to fight for my birth- right. It has been promised that men would be given work without re- | gard to politics, race, creed or re- ligion. But that is just as false as all the rest of the stuff that has been handed out to the workers. Matters are getting worse. All R. W. D. has been stopped, and all relief for those on the work list has been stopped, and when a commit— tee of workers has to go to see Mr. O'Neil he calls them “reds” and has his big bad sheriff there ready to arrest them. Well, there is another election coming soon, andthe workers will not have to have a tax receipt to vote. Ever think of that, Mr. O’neil? Do you know what it means to one who tries to keep an honest worker from making a living? Cc. W. WOODY. (Signature Authorized). MINERS FACE EVICTIONS By a Worker Correspondent SHENANDOAH, Pa.—The crisis is ever more depressing the miners. The Roosevelt measures, N. R. A. and cw. A. did not bring any- thing good for the siarving miners. It is a fact that on August in can be prevented! So have we read| a thousand times in a thousand! places. The red double-cross of the} National T. B. Association is as fa- miliar as the red face of Santa! Claus. Perhaps it is more than a| coincidence that the mythical Santa Claus and the Christmas Seal al- ways appear together. | Having been out of work for two| years, like millions of other Ameri-| can workers, and having missed) many more meals than I like to re-| call, both during the much heralded | days of Hoover prosperity, and} equally during the Roosevelt “raw| deal” or was it “dirty deal’? it was of no great surprise when I devel- oped a persistent cough which re- fused to go away. Recalling the propaganda of the Christmas Seals, I betook myself to one of their clin- ics. The first thing that struck me were large colored posters on the wall, one of them depicting a beautifully arranged collection of eggs and vegetables with four bot- tles of milk in the background and; a caption: “Eat this every day.” When I jokingly asked the nurse if the clinic supplied information on how to obtain such food, she gave me a blank stare. In due time, I was examined and X-rayed and my suspicions were justified: Tubercu- losis in both lungs. With all credit to the doctor, he was sensible) enough not to give me the old! standby stock of advice about, drink- | ing plenty of cream and milk, and eating good wholesome food. If he had I probably would have fainted as the Home Relief only allows my} family of three, 50 cents a day for food. On my way out, the nurse in- quired if they could do anything for me. I asked, “For instance?” She replied, “Well, is there any medi- cine you would like to have?” T said, “It’s common knowledge, all the medicine a tubercular person re- quires is good food, rest and pure air. Can you fix me up with a square meal?” I received another | icy stare and with a “Oh, no! We can’t do that,” I was curtly dis-! missed. Being one of the saps, who in 1917, believed in making the world safe! for Democracy (or was it Idiocy?), I betook my weary feet down to the | Veterans Bureau where I was told that due to Mr. Roosevelt’s new “lousy deal,” I was no longer en- titled to hospitalization. So down to the Department of Health with by Theatre dance theatre ball MAY 16 Wednesday SAVOY Shenandoah and surrounding area, 7,000 homes are designated to be sold in auction for non-payment of debts, LENOX AVE, 140th and 14st St. ADMISSION 75 CENTS By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. —. an admission ticket for a city hos- pital, There I was told that I had to be investigated to find out if I was entitled to hospitalization. A month after I am_ still walking around with a dangerous disease en- dangering the life and health of thousands of other people. If inves- tigation of my case proves two years residence in New York state and when somebody dies in the hospi- tal, I will be let in, In the mean- time, for each day I am going around I will probably have to stay ‘an additional two weeks in a sani- torium at the cost of $3.50 a day to the state. Such waste of taxpayers’ money can only happen in a capi- talistic state. Certainly T. B. can be prevented and stamped out, but not before we workers have suc- ceeded in stamping out and pre- venting the return of capitalism, not only in the United States but all over the world. Has the National Tuberculosis As- sociation ever advocated better housing or cleaner working condi- tions in the shops and factories? Have they ever scored the Trinity Church for owning the worst slum area in New York City? Have they ever objected to the adulteration of milk in New York City? No! Think of that, comrades, next time you buy Christmas Seals! In contrast, notice how the workers are for in the Soviet Union. That's the only place where sincere efforts are made to combat and prevent the white plague of mankind. So let’s get wise and organize! Comradely yours, JOHN ANDERSON, SPRING | i] given by > CLARTE, French Workers | Club, 304 W. S8th St. |Z SAT., MAY 12, 8:30 P.M. | Pierre DeGester Orchestra | ©) NOVELTY PROGRAM Coat Room, 25 Cents Ss PHILADELPHIA, PA, Lecture by CORLISS LAMONT ON “Socialist Planning in the Soviet Union” Saturday Eve., May 12th TURNGEMEINDE HALL BROAD & COLUMBIA AVE. Adm. 25¢ Auspices: F.S.U, CARNIVAL- Collective and Vanguard From 9 to Morning 2 bands Harlem's Hottest Jazz Bands program BILL ROBINSON, TARTER, acts from COTTON CLUB RE- VIEW, LABORATORY THEATRE, THEATRE COLLECTIVE and many others, LEIGH WHIPPER, Master of Ceremonies ETTA MOTON, MARA SHOCK TROUPE, WORKERS VANGUARD ce AOE ENN