The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1934, Page 4

Page Four Told To Work Even He Would Lose His Job had taken sick with pneumonia. He how it had happened and is story a job at Chevrolet. It is ssible to wot! ere; they treat just as in the chain very sick. I e his second ime to find out you're just busy ving. I hadn’t worked there for such a long time so I was afraid to tell him how I felt. I suffered antil the whistle blew for shift and vas time to go h ohn, the for called me over and told me that I'd have to is John name. k that day and able to come and work turned and come in ses if I tried to explain want yo in vain that I couldn’t stand on my feet and had a fever. ‘Well,’ he said, ci be helped.’ “I we me and went right to bed thinking that maybe I'd feel better in the morning. “The next morning when I tried to get up, I couldn't. The whole night I had tossed around in a fev- | erish state and had consoled myself by saying that the next morning I would tell them and everything would be all right. The next morn- ing I went and told them that I couldn’t work and John said, ‘You better stop being foo! work if you want to keep your job.’ I replied that I would try. “I went in to work but couldn't stand on my feet. I asked John} if I could see the factory doctor, but | he told me that the doctor was not in on Sunday and he walked off. “Tt was impossible for me to work, for the work was hard anyway for|in the town and its surroundings, | anv human being under better con- ditions than I was then under. “T sat down and John came and said he’d give me something else. | He took me over to another place. I had to sit down again. I just couldn’t work. He chased me from one part of the factory to another, | and when I asked him to let me go| home he wouldn't. He made me| work the whole day. | “When I got home I called the | floctor immediately and was in-| formed that I had pneumonia and had been goiag around with high fever. He informed my wife that I was in critical condition. After I| had told the doctor what had hap- | pened he said it was the foreman | that is responsible for my serious | Chevrolet Speedup Drives Negro Worker to Pneumonia While He Was Sick or On Monday ior to see a neigh- wife and a nurse saved me worker. He| from death nd “I am still very sick and I wish that this kind of slavery at Chev- rolet be checked up somehow.” I promised him that I would write it up in the workers’ press. Silverplate Plant Speeds Workers by Constant Threats By a Metal Worker Correspondent ONEIDA, N. Y.—I am employed in the factories of the Oneida Com- munity Ltd., manufacturers of sil- lated ware in Oneida, New} The factory employees here are unorganized and consequently have to accept whatever is allotted them by the owners. In the room of the factory are men who are paid to stand around and see that all the employes keep busy. Either they watch openly or stand behind racks of silver, always waiting to report workers who talk or laugh or attempt to make the work seem a little lighter. Efficiency men they're called—and, incidental- ly, one of them calls himself a So- cialist. Recently when some of the women employed as wrappers were unable to earn the N.R.A, minimum rate because the prices were cut so| Judd and one in the Vulcan Iron|#nd called a low, they were called to the office} Works, which is a branch of the|Pany made a and given “fair” warning that if their work did not improve in a of these workers own their homes here or at least are trying to own them, so such threats as these have a strong effect. Isn’t there some way to organize these people — to make them see that they can’t do anything sa individuals? The company controls everything and any literature which might en- lighten the people is withheld from them—or immediately destroyed. If you have any suggestiors I would appreciate very much hearing them because anything I can do, from the inside, I am anxious to do. EDITOR’S NOTE: —We have taken steps to get this worker in touch with organizers in her vicinity. However, this worker can prepare the ground by sound- ing out various trusted workers he knows in the plant on the ques- tion of organization, and organiz- ing a small, carefully selected group for a first meeting with the organizer. LETTERS FROM OUR SISTERS The letters which we hereafter present, just came from a group of women workers in the Soviet Union who begin their correspondence with a collective statement, as fol- lows: Dear Comrades: | We are with the greatest attention | following the information given in the press and at meetings on the heroic struggle being waged by your | workers against fascsim. All news on the participation of you, women workers, in pro- test movement and manifestations against oppression and fascist ter- ror calls forth our deepest sympathy, support and hope that, entering the correct path of joint struggle with| the revolutionary workers under the leadership of the Communist Party, you will win your liberation from) slavery, oppression, and poverty. Through this letter we want to lay the beginnings of a regular cor- respondence with you, to tell you the truth about the U. S. S. R., which) the lackeys of capital are in every way hiding from you, to acquaint you with our life and work, our par- ticipation in the struggle for the) building of a socialist society. It is impossible in one letter to write about all that we have| achieved under the leadership of} our Communist Party and wise and| great leader of the proletariat, Com- | rade Stalin. We have therefore de- | cided in this letter to write you in Short only about our partcipation in the direct management of the State | without leaving production. | Over here, the Party and Govern- | ment in every way welcomes and encourages the promotion of women | workers — women collective farmers and toiling women workers—to lead- ing posts in the State apparatus. Women occupy responsible posts in the organs of the State, from chair- men in the village Soviet up to People’s Commissar of Republics. During the last year a new form of workers’ control and help to the State apparatus from below, has de- veloped; the patronage of factories and plants over state institutions, nd social voluntary, assistance— carrying through work in the State apparatus (after the working day in the factory), which is not “paid” for. We are in this manner fighting againts bureaucracy in institutions, for the improvement of the work in the State apparatus, for consolidat- ing its connections with the toiling | masses, for turning the apparatus | into a flexible one, working for the cause of socialist construction. | Through patronage and social | voluntary assistance, there is being | prepared in place of the paid ap-| paratus, the management of the! apparatus by toilers who combine | their work in the factories with the | carry.ng out of State obigations. | How do we participate in this new; mass proletarian movement? That question is dealt with in tne SOVIET i tt | Series of six brief personal letters that follow, the first of them from Iraida Lobanova, which tells of her life before the revolution and after. | The letter from Lobanova, who is | assistant in the factory named after Lenin, and social voluntary assistant | of the chairman of the Kostromski City Council, will appear tomorrow. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1853 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 334 yards 39 inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Tlus- trated step-by-step sewing instruc- | tions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in| coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write Plainly name, address and_ style number, BE SURE TO STATE THE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1934 Steel Union Sargent & Co. Cheats Activity In New Britain By a Worker © spondent president of cal union of the Central Labor Union got fired for union activity, and also the secre- tary. The vice-president of the In- Workers On Overtime Men in Foundry Depart Must Work More ment of Hardware Plant Than Eight Hours Because of Low Piece Rate By a Worker Correspondent NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Sargent & to make up for the increase which the day workers got. At the same ternational Machinists Union in this) qo a Jarge hardware shop in this| time, the piece workers were speeded shop also got fired. When they had a membership meeting of the Central Labor Union, | the vicepresident of the I. M. U.| ., attended and asked Cedarholm,| the organizer who was present, what he was going to do about him get- Ting fired? Cedarholm told him that he could do nothing as his union} is different from the Central Labor | Union. This made the worker mad. He asked Cedarholm whether or not both unions were affiliated to the A. F. of L., Cedarholm said yes. Well, the worker asked, why couldn't something be done? The meeting | was immediately adjourned. | The workers who were fired have} put in a complaint to the N. R. A.| comrades in the shop who was also fired told them that they would not accomplish anything this way. He went with them to put in the com- plaint. Now the workers in this shop are seeing through the A. F. of L. and with the opposition that we have developed in both these unions, they are going to establish one union in the shop along the lines of a class struggle union such as the industrial unions. They are talking of strike for higher wages and the reinstate- | ment of the fired workers. | We have in this city two locals o! | the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union, one in the North and | Eastern Malleable Foundry. The workers in the Vulcan Iron Jish and go to|™onth they would be laid off. Most| Works have put in their demands| for higher wages and recognition. | The industrial form of union is ap- | Pealing to the workers here. We also with the help of some workers and sympathizers in the B |and K, which is a branch of the | Landers, Frary and Clark, and em- | ploys 2,500 workers, organized the Independent Industrial Union of the |Band K. First we tried to organize | the Steel and Metal Workers Union, | but on account of the Red scare, | which we didn’t meet properly, they | organized into an independent union. But the leadership is good and we are working with them. They put in their demands a week ago and most of them were won. Workers in some departments Te-| ceived a wage increase of over eight | cents an hour. The union is recognized and so is the shop committee. Workers in the | other plants of the Landers, Frary |and Clarke are all talking about it | and also the workers in the other | plants. In regard to the Stanley Works, we | issued the first shop paper, which | we called the Stanley Worker. The | bosses in the shop threw a fit about |it and a concession was won. Be- | fore the N. R. A. the workers in this shop had to make 60 points an hour | to get their day rate. After the N. |R. A., the workers had to make 70 | points to get the same day rate. | After the bulletin was issued call- |ing upon the workers to fight for the abolishment of the Point Sys- | tem, the bosses have cut down the | points to 60 as before the N. R. A. May Day Spirit Scares Boss in Tractor Plant By a Metal Worker Correspondent CHICAGO.—We had a real May Day struggle in the Tractor Plant of the International Harvester Co. this year. The workers were all | aroused by the “Tractor Worker,” shop paper of the Communist unit jin the plant, when it came out in the May Day edition. The workers all talked about May Day and the slogan of “Down Tools May First” that the paper carried. The spirit was good. The workers are plenty sore at the rotten condi- tions here. We couldn't pull a walkout on May First, but the bosses were wor- ried. In one department the boss | came around on May Day and shut off the power, calling us to a meet- ing. He gave us the usual line of | soft soap: | “Now, boys, I understand you are | thinking about walking out. What's the matter?” He said that he knew wages were too low, and promised us a raise. The workers wanted an immediate raise, and told him so. He dodged around, and finally said we would get a raise around June 1, In another department in the tractor plant, a bunch of workers went to the boss demanding higher wages. He gave them the same story, a raise on June 1. The spirit in the plant is good, and the workers seem to realize that these promises won't be worth a hoot unless we organize strongly enough to make the bosses come across. Mesta Workers Vote Down Company Union By a Metal Worker Correspondent GLENWOOD, Pa. — The Mesta Machine Co. of West Homestead recently held an election to decide | between the company union, an | independent union, and the A. F. of L. craft unions. We were unable to gain any information as to the | status of the independent union. One thousand two hundred men are | employed, and the vote was reported | as being about 500 for the A. F. of | L., 400 for the independent union | and, 300 for the company union. As none of the unions got a ma- jorty, the Mesta Co, is trying to | have another election, but the men are opposed to any other election and now seem to favor the A. F. of L. The Mesta workers have the illu- sion that the *. F. of L. ison thor side and will do a great deal for them, board in Hartford, but one of our city, pays some of the most miser- able wages in the country, and has been paying these low wages for To illustrate how the N. R. A. worked out in this shop; the truck- the piece work rates were cut down Aluminum Bosses Still Trying To | Disrupt the Union By a Metal Worker Correspondent | NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — Less | than a year ago the aluminum} workers of the New Kensington | plant started to organize a union. | As the movement immediately | gathered momentum, the company moved to check-mate the workers by putting forth a campaign favor- | ing the company union. | | The workers’ union got stronger | and eventually demands were made |for higher wages to meet the high | t cost. of living, better working con-/| it has no money, Of course, it has| | ditions, etc. | | On Feb. 28, the workers moved | “holiday.” The com- | futile last-minute ef- | this | giving a small wage increase the |fort to move, by same day. At this meeting, the | representatives of several of the other aluminum plants pledged | their support to this local, but their | promises were not kept. The case was brought up before | the Regional Labor Board composed of hand-picked Mellon men. They fixed a settlement which the work- ers rightly refused. The local news- paper, Mellon interests, came out with the headlines screaming the lie that the workers returned to their jobs. A. F. of L. organizers went among | the workers trying to persuade them to return to work. Rotten whiskey was fed to the men on picket duty by employes of the company. The final blow was when a Federal gov- ernment representative, namely, Col- vin, indirectly ordered the men back to work. Stool-pigeons and spies of the | company are stationed in our union, but in time these will be sorted out. The company is still making efforts to disrupt the union. Under the cloak of forming a good-fellowship club, they made moves to have the warkers sign a card, which, if they had done so, would automatically enroll them in a company union, but this plan was exposed and nipped in the bud by the workers refusing to sign. Application Blanks Fool Jobless at the Hammond Brass Co By a Metal Worker Correspondent HAMMOND, Ind.—A line of work- ers looking for jobs formed on May) 1 at 7 a.m. at the gate of the Ham-| mond Brass Co. Until 9 a.m. the boss did not look at us at all, though we were pre- viously advised to be at the gate early in the morning. While waiting for the boss, two young girls entered at the employ- ment office asking for employment. The girls were not over 20 years of age. We saw the boss from outside the glass window open a drawer, and with an ironical smile hand them applications, and after they| led them out the girls left with the hope of employment. A few minutes later a well-dressed man wearing glasses entered and found the applications on the desk. He tore them up and threw them in the waste basket. Now these young girls are hoping for jobs in the fu- tuer, the same as ourselves, I have been unemployed since July, 1930, and I am satisfied with smiles and promises. What we need is a strongly united unemployment organization so we can speak to the bosses in a language which they un- derstand. We workers, men and women, black and white, young and old must unite and demand the right to live! Navy Yd. Guarded Against Literature By a Navy Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The marines at the gates of Brooklyn Navy Yard have begun to get snotty and take away the papers that the Commu- nist Party distributes in the morn- ing. On May First when we were going to work, the May Day edition of the Daily Worker was being dis- tributed free. I took my copy and folded it inside the Daily News, because I saw | the marine taking the paper awey | from some of the workers who did | not think enough to hide it. “Wotcha | got there!” says a marine to me. “What does it look like? and I flashes the News at hm. | the workers are talking about or-| | really controlled by us. a daily, controlled by the} | the thousands who were thrown out |up so inhumanly that it is absol- | utely impossible to make the rate ;per hour which the code so gen-| |erously gave to us. Also, the ma-| | chines are so old that anybody working around neer then is lia! le |ers got a 2 cent raise per hour and| to get hurt from some piece flying | | | | | locse. | In the brass and iron foundry, the | moulders are supposed to work oni eight hours a day, but how does it actually work out? Our rates are| so low that we have to come in long before 8 o‘clock in the morning to get the sand ready for our molds, and we have to rush through our lunch for the same reason, so that it comes nearer to 10 hours than 8—and then we don’t make enough | to eat. | Just now the whole shop is work- | ing on three days a week—you can imagine how much money we make. | In most of the departments there is | only a skeletor crew of workers, th have been so thinned out. And 3 there are plenty of orders to h-re back all the hundreds of laid-off workers and keep them all working | five days a week. | Even the bosses say there are| plenty of orders, but they claim the | company can’t get them out because | plenty of money to pay the salaries of the big shots. It's funny, too, how towards the end of the month we are always speeded up to get out} the orders, so the company can rake | in the checks, Well, we're not going to stand all these lay-offs and speed-ups and/| grievances much longer. A lot of ganizing, because they see now the need for it. And we're not going into any A. F. of L. union either to| be split up and be sold out. We're going to organi: into a real fight- | ing industrial union, one that is! Thats’ the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, and if we are ever to get satisfaction from the company for our grievances, that's the only union that'll get it for us, with every worker in the shop solidly backing it. Otis Elevator Co. Allows Workers To Dig for a Living By a Metal Worker Correspondent YONKERS, N. Y.—Workers of the Otis Elevator Co. are very much loved by their employers. They are given an opportunity to dig in the Mother Earth for a living. Just} as the chickens scratch for their living, so are the Otis workers al- lowed to do so by their very big- hearted bosses. They are offered plots in the Sub- sistence Gardens. Oh! What big tomatoes we had last fall; you should have seen them. But by| the time tomatoes and beans grow, | why workers may live on the joy| that those tomatoes will bring in the fall. Jobs that have been already timed are at present being re-timed over again. Bosses are running around with stop-watches, and they tell us workers to never mind them, that they don’t mean anything. Look at) the tomatoes you'll eat next fall! But the workers are awakening. The bosses don’t even have faith in their loyal spies. They put two or three on with stop-watches at each machine, so that what one does not see, or care to see, the other one will. Gary Relief Jobs Go Glimmering By a Steel Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind.—Roosevelt’s program for business recovery and unem- ployment relief has done little for of the factories here. How low pro- duction is can be seen from the fact that, of 13 machines in operation, only two remain. They promised work for 6,000,000 of unemployed, but these promises remained on paper. The price of products of immedi- ate necessities rose close to 50 per cent. Out of several thousands of unemployed of the city of Gary only a few hundred got jobs. They began the sanding of dunes, of which there are many around Gary, carting the sand from place to place, but an end has come even to this work. Again the army of un- employed is left helpless. The 30-hour week, with 50 cents pay for the week; $2 a month cash, a place to sleep, and black coffee, is all there is. And if an unem- ployed worker is unable to come early in the morning to work, he is left in the evening without this meagre “happiness.” s Comrades, it is time to wake up. Join the ranks of the fighting un- employed in the Unemployed Coun- cils and only through struggle will we improve our conditions, the shop paper, it was a swell look- ing paper, but a lot of the workers didn’t get one, and others had it taken away at the gate. A lot of workers were sore. “What I read is my business,—and no damn yard cop is going to tell me what I'm going to read or not read.” That’s the way a lot of us feel here in the yard. The Daily Worker gives you full news about the struggle for un- employment insurance, Subscribe | they are lined up are laid off for ‘St. Louis Chevralet [New Speed-Up|| parry tire Trick In Gary} Cleveland Party Pledges Full | Support to Trade Union Line Open Hearths By a Stee! V r Correspondent ARY, A new rule in the op hea as put several weeks ago, which is that if| one of the men in the shops fails to show up for any reason the shop must work short-handed. This means that the rest of the men Ind must do his work. The melters are not allowed to send out for another man, Only two days after the rule went | into effect, a melter in No. 5 open| hearth failed to line up enough men to come out, with the result that] the men had to work short-handed | —beceuse the boss mede a mistake. Not only that, but the men who fail to show up on the day for which} two weeks, | This means that we are being| speeded up and more work is being piled up on our now overburdened | shoulders. The open hearth men | have more work than they can} handle now, let alone having to do | another man’s work. Just so the) company can cut its labor costs. | We were working hard organizing for a time, that things died down, but this new rule has fanned the sparks up into flames again! Let’s go fellow workers, and show them they can’t rub it in. Come down and visit our headquarters at 1985 Broadway of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. —E, P. M. Strikers’Ranks Are | Split by Misleaders = By An Auto Worker Correspondent | ST. LOUIS, Mo—The Federated | Auto Workers’ Union (Independent) officials agreed to call off the St. Louis Chevrolet and Fisher Body strike if the company would call conferences to discuss the taking back of 118 union men fined for union activities. The strike was celled to force the company to take ‘hese men back. The company announced that it would run the rest of the season with only 2,200 men instead of 3,500 hired at the time the strike began. Instead of getting the 118 rein- s‘ated, 1,300 men were laid off. The Federated Auto Workers’ Union officials had rejected the support of the T. U. U. L, and threatened the workers with loss of their union cards if they made de- mands other than those the union officials proposed. It was apparent a week ago, when the union offi- cials split the picketing into eight four-hour shifts and ordered the picket lines be reduced to a few} men, that the strike would be sold out, at which time the revolution- ary workers who sought to aid the strikers were driven from the scene by police co-operating with the union officialdom and by hand- picked deputies, and turned over to the police. New Tool Men at Chevrolet Get 50¢ an Hour By An Auto Worker Correspondent TOLEDO, Ohio—The Chevrolet tool room, I find, is the cheapest joint I ever worked in. They start new men in at 50 cents per hour and tell them that if they make good they will get more in 30 days. Well, sometimes they do get a raise to 58 or 60 cents an hour, and after that you have to fight like hell to get more, for they pass the buck from one to another. The old-timers get a reasonable wage, but new men never can get the same rate. The boss says that they do not produce enough, but this is not so; they are expected to produce as much as the old-timers. When the bosses can get by with that kind of stuff they feel that it is another feather in their cap. The daily papers here published an article that the Chevrolet was go- ing to raise wages 10 per cent April 1, but no one in the tool room that I know of got that. The floor sweepers make as much as the tool- makers. Many of the production workers did not get a raise. Apparently only those that could be speeded up received this wage in- crease. Production was speeded up from 175 to 250, which is an in- crease of more than 10 per cent in products, and to do this we are speeded up like an automatic ma- chine and we create a great deal more profits for the boss and grind our lives from youth to old age. NOTE We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their working conditions and of their efforts to organize. Please get the letters to us by Friday of each week, The deliverance of the oppressed class is impos- sible without a forcible revolution, and also with- out the destruction of the State machine which has been created by the ruling into efiect} | Read | | Posi ions Because of The Party and Y.C.L. function- aries of the Cleveland organiza- tions endorse the report of Com- rade Williamson regarding the ac- tion of the Central Committee and District Committee in removing Comrade Zack from all commit- tees and functionary positions, be- cause cf his opposition to the line of the Party in trade union work. ‘We endorse the st-tement of the delegation of the Ohio District at the National Convention which re- jected and disapproved the line of Zack, as one that could oniy lead to sectarian isolation, and con- fusion and was in opposition to the line of the Central Committee of our Party. The Cleveland functionaries associate themselves with the will of the entire Party as expressed in the convention, in endorsing the line and activities of the C.C. of our Party. Instead of correcting his pesi- tion follewing the stern action of the C. C., Comrade Zack has stub- bornly resisted the sharp warnings of the Party that he change his attitude. Beginning with Com- tion Stachel with liquidating the revo- lutionary unions, now since the convention, he brands the whole Pol Buro with pursuing the same line. that the Party line in trade union New York City. Dear Comrades: The fascist funeral at our won- dezful parade on May 1st was or- ganized 100 per cent by Comrade Ramon Pi, Jr. ef Harlem. He was dressed as a capitelist. and hod a sign on his back that read: “His best friends are capital and re- ligion.” Everything in that group vas Comrade Pi's idea. It sure was great, and met the approval of thousands of comrades lined on the sidewalks. They certainly ap- plauded and cheered. Comrade Pi spent over $20 to build the casket, etc., out of his own money. It is a great example. Also thousands of comrades cheered the great work of comrade Pi as an actor. Ten newspapers took pictures of the funeral. It was a splendid idea, and an examvle of how much a comrade can do. Soa ee Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Comrades: Did the Younz Pioneers take part in the Mey 1st demonstration? Ac- cording to the write-ups in the Daily Worker, they ddn’t. Well we Pioneers took a very active part in the demonstration and we think we deserve recognition by our news- paper. We had two wonderful bands leading us, the Red Star Band and the Red Front Band which consisted of Pioneers. We Pioneers. worked real hard at the demonstration and we had a big turn-out. We wish the Daily Worker would take more notice of the Young Pioneers of America. After all, we are the future revo- lutionists of the Communist Party and we deserve some credit for our present work. Comradely yours, —A Few Pioneers of New York. Omaha, Neb, Dear Comrade Editor: We sure painted this town red one or two nights before the first of May. A few of us comrades pasted leaflets onto the windows and also painted slogans on the sidewalks, board fences and on empty buildings. We not only pasted leaflets on windows, but put Comrade Zack Removed From All Functionary rade Zack’s speech at the conven- | where he charged Comrade | This accusation would mean | ers’ Reflections on May1 Continued Opposition work which was unanimously en- dorsed by the convention (with the exception of Comrade Zack’s vote) has been a right wing line. This functionaries’ meeting repudiates this charge. We pledge to correct energetically the outstanding weaknesses of the |Party in rooting its influence in the shops and particivating and leading the workers in the trade unions. While giving more atten- tion to organi into the revi 3 yespecially pledge to conduct serious jorganizational efforts to establish broad opposition groups inside of a number of A. F. of L. local unions in Cleveland and recruit Party members from shops and unions (both T.U.U.L, and A. F. of L,) into the Party and Y.C.L. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. ©. Please send me more informa- |] fon on the Communist Party. Name Street City where they would be sure to see them. Then on May Day we had an open air mass meeting on 23rd and M Sts., but not as big as we ex- pected. The police came up and told the chairman to move the chil- dren back out of the crowd—that the school children should not. listen to any of the sneakers. But we had a permit and it did not say that the children should not be at the demonstration. —C. B. Bee oe New York. Dear Comrades: Though the Nurses’ and Hos- pital Workers eLague has pre- sented a small group at the Mav Day demonstration, the strength and solidarity for our demands and for future struggle has been sup- ported by several hundred work- ers who were unable to operate at that time. Our pride in joining the ranks of the revolutionary com- rades makes us call attention to the mistake in the N. Y. Times which stated that we were in the march of the Socialist Party. ‘We hardly believe that there was a single nurse who had conviction and pride in the Socialist Party to take the forefront in their parade, —k. H. oe tae ie New Haven, Conn. In order to stimulate more ac- tivity I think our comrades every- where should know how the May Day copy of the Daily Worker was received by the workers, on April 29, 30, and May Ist. Here in New Haven, 2,500 copies were actually sold. We have never been able to sell but a few hun- dred at any time before this. I sold 50 copies on a street located 2% miles from the center of the city, averaging one sale out of every ten houses. Other comrades were kept busy just by selling from street corners in the city’s central streets. After this experience I think that the Saturday issue can be built up for regular sales by con- centrating on certain streets, ac- cording to the number of available comrades, them right up on church doors —k. 8. K. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS The Shelton Ad A. Mattison, Bronx.—An article exposing “Doctor” Shelton was printed on May 10 in this column, which explains why announcements of the activities of “Doctor” Shel- ton have no place in a workers’ newspaper. We are so used to be- ing slandered by people of his stripe that we do not care for the par- ticulars of his “lecture.” League for Health Education V. T., Brooklyn.—We do not know anything tangible about the League for Health Education, except that we have a leaflet in our files stat- ing that the membership fee is $1 and that the secretary is Miss Rose, 129 E. 34th St. From the wording of the leaflet, it seems to be put out by some cultist, as it prattles about “rational” living and “na- ture” cure. Unless health educa- tion is imparted by physicians with wide experience in preventive medi- cine and hygiene, it is liable to do more harm than good. In spite of its high-sounding name, we would advise you to suspend action on your membership until we obtain some more definite information about this League. We wish to draw your attention to the fact that the yearly subscription fee, payable in advance entitles you only to “mem- bership in the Forum.” What privi- leges and benefits are accrued from such membership, the leaflet sayeth not, Nee ae Correct Addresses Wanted Alexander Goldfarb, Bronx; Flo- rence Marlette, New York City; Frank Weyzen, Bronx; W. H. Lew, The day before May Day we got to the Daily Worker, class —LENIN By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Central Falls, R. I.; Roy H. Story, Phoenix, Ariz.; Mike Giove, Dan- bury, Con Helen Braunstein, Brooklyn; Conrad Pettenen, Brook- Se ACE | Chronic Gonorrhea H. S.—Your disease is so chronic (18 years!) that we hesitate in ad- vising you on the matter; especially when you have been treated at the Cornell Clinic for the last nine months, without improvement. As you are unemployed, you may call on us for a free consultation. If your condition warrants it, we might be able to get a specialist in- terested in your case. | The May Issue of HEALTH The May issue of Health is now on the newsstands. It has been de- layed owing to technical reasons. The number of contributions and subscriptions received will make it necessary that the June issue should be increased to 48 pages, in- stead of 32. The following is the Table of Contents of the May issue: The Medical League for Socialized Medicine Samuel A. Tannenbaum,M.D, What Workers Should Know About Psychology, Psychi- atry, and Mental Hygiene Daniel Luttinger, M.D, The Role of the Medical Units in the W. I. R. Wm. Mendelson, D.D.S. The Wilbur Report on Medi- al Reorganization P.S.,M.D. Medicine and Hygiene in Soviet Russia Paul Luttinger, M.D, How About Your Glasses? William Bell. Opt. . Answers to Questions. .The Editor ~ Bronx; Sophie Harrow, Bronx; Noel Ickestort, Brooklyn; Tom Lester, Letters to the Editor