The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1934 Jurisdictional Fight of A. F.L. How Cloth Officials Ignores Workers | I.L.¢.W.U. and U.T.W . Fight for Power, but Pay No Heed to Rank and File Demands r Correspondent By a Needle Wor! heir fight A. F. of L. leaders, for union; for ex- jues-paying for the members and for the ion conditions in cere and mili I 4 shops. . union. | The workers were beginning to com-/ plain and to fight against the rot-| ten conditions in the shops. It is! to smash the revolt and militancy | of rs that Mr. Ninfo w t at the last meeting | anded that in the d that 2 up at the question of go to the National Convention inj Chicago. When he _ said that) whether the workers like it or not, he is going to rule the meeting and | will not allow any other discussion, | the workers booed him and showed | their hatred toward him and his fascist methods. And when in spite of his threats to the militant workers a rank-and- file worker got up and pointed out the seriousness of the situation in the knit goods trade, when the agreements with the bosses will] soon expire and the existence of three unions in the trade will make it difficult to put up an effective) struggle against the bosses, and} when he urged unity in the coming | strike for one united militant lead- ership, he was enthusiastically ac- cepted and he got a tremendous! applause. In spite of the efforts of | the officials to stop him, the sym-} pathy of the majority of the work- ers and the strong mobilization of the Rank-and-File Opposition | s : \t ‘one knows about the con- tt member‘ of our local should] vention th: opened this week in join in this fight with the Opposi-| Rochester. Our local elected five tion Grow delegates - Three Metal Shops, ™ Strike in New York NEW YORK:—Two hundred sixty work: of three metal shops are out on strike under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union in New York for higher wages and union recognition. The si Welbuilt St ing Ave. 5 tered its second wee ers who were arrested are back on the picket line and the trial of three workers will come up on May 21 on the charge of assault. Forty workers of the Sanitary Daisy and 80 workers of the Yankee Metal are also striking for a union agreement and a 20 per cent wage increase, and time and a half for overtime. NOTE We publish letters from textile, needle, shee and leather workers every Wednesday. Workers in those industries are urged to write us of their conditions of work and of their struggles to organize. Get the letters to us by Saturday of each week. The dictatorship of the prole- tariat must be a State that em- bodies a new kind of democracy, for the proletarians and the dis- possessed; and a new kind of dictatorship, against the bour- geoisie—Lenin. coNxpuc’ HELEN RUSSIAN REVOLUTION BROUGHT WOMEN FREE AND INTERESTING LIFE One of six Russfan women writ- ing to us about their lives, Loba- nova (assistant in the factory named after Lenin, and social vo- luntary assistant to the chairman of the Kostromski City Council), writes as follows: I, Iraida Tlinishna Lobanova, am 43 years old. I am already working 32 years in production. My life be- fore the October Revolution was one of hardship and misery. The beg- garly earnings of my parents forced them to send me to work at the age of 11 in the factory of Kishin. I worked 10% hours a day. To this heavy labor, labor beyond one’s strength for beggarly wages (I altogether received but 15 kopecks a day) were added all kinds of taunts and mockery of the bosses’ lickspittle assistants. These as- sistants not only jeered and mocked at us at the factory, but after a hard day’s labor forced us to do work for them: to do their washing, polish their boots, prepare dinner, etc. Had you refused to do it— misfortune and bad luck ending in dismissal was your lot, and dismis- sal meant—the streets. We lived with a family in a small room in a ramshackle house. Only after the October Revolution did I begin to live like a human being and become a person among people. At present I am already a social voluntary assistant and a brigadier. I have 40 persons in my section. We are month after month overhauling our industrial-financial plan and have completely overcome spoilage. We work only seven hours. My section is considered the model in our department of the fac- tory which now bears the great name of Lenin. I was within the last two years five times awarded premiums. From the very first days of the Revolution I have been taking an active part in social work. I be- gan this work as a member of the Commission for Labor Protection in the factory in 1917 and row I am a member of the govern- ment of the Soviet Union. I was elected a member of the Central Committee of the U.S.S.8. and am continuing to work in the factory in my section. Beginning from 1932 I am work- Ing as a social voluntary assistant of the Chairman of the Kostromski City Council. After my seven hours’ ‘work in the factory, I go to the City Council. There I attend to four of the most important sections of its work: the Complaints Bureau, the ‘Tax. Commission, the Commission for Aiding State Credit and the favings Bank, and the Commission of the District Military Commis- gariat for Class Recruitment to our glorious Red Army. For the last three months alone, I independently handled 700 mat- ters. Besides myself there is a patronage brigade from the factory ‘working in the City Council. But this is not all. I, as a member of the government, deal with the ap- plications and statements sent in by the toilers. At the factory I am ‘working as Chairman of the Com- mission for judging the quality of the He TKD BY LURE Very big changes have taken place in my life. It is already ten years since I am living in a family of five people in a room of 43 metres, which is warm and bright, a room which before the. revolution we could not even dream about. The Soviet Power has helped me to bring up my children and make them use- ful builders of Socialism. The eldest daughter is a technician; two are studying at the courses and in school. I, my husband, and my daughter, are working. =) ee (Women readers of the column are encouraged to write to Loba- nova or any of the other five women whose stories will appear here.) Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1625 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 16 takes 3% yards 36 inch fabric. [Illustrated step-by- step sewing instructions included. 1625 AT Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly mame, address and_ style number. BE SURE TO STATE THE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th goods produced { § Street, New York € ¢ | | x ‘ACW. Officials in Struggle for Big) By a Needle Worker Correspondent W YORK.—On Friday, May 4,| attended a meeting of Local 32 ) of the Amalgamated ers Union. I am sure |r I On the day of the election, four | trucks or busses of workers were brought down from out of town to The local is divided into three! s: The Monut group, the Stein | roup and a group that is called} he rank and file. The Monut group} gets the cake for the di job they pulled off. But this wouldn’t be so bad. They had the nerve to put up a fight that lasted till one o'clock in the morning, demanding more money than the executive board de- | cided, which was $125. They claimed that wasn’t enough money for them} to have a good time on. None of these delegates claimed that they] | Were going to the convention for any other reason. A resolution was brought in for the elected delegates to propose to the convention that exempt stamps should be issued the workers that are unemployed. This resolution was brought in by the rank and file workers, which was very just and human. When workers have no work and are lacking food, milk for their children, they should not have to pay dues. This, the elected gang fought against. When one of our brothers died and three car- riages were taken for the funeral, the managers, Mr. Reich and the rest of the gang fought bitterly against it. “If they want joy-rides, let_them*pay for it,” they said. Now the executive is paying Mr. Reich $75 to go to the convention. Workers, members of the Amal- gamated! Wake up! Take an in- terest in your union. Come to your local meetings and put a stop to these two gangs! Both of them are | fighting for power at your expense. They have nothing to offer to the workers in general. Come to the meetings and side with the ones who are always fighting to improve the conditions of the workers. Zz Corrects. Article on Shade Factory By a Worker Correspondent STATEN ISLAND, N. Y.—Am in- forming you of the incorrectness of @ small article that appeared in the Daily Worker of Wednesday, May 3, 1934, which dealt with the lay-off at the shade factory of Claysmith & Co. in West Brighton, S. I. “As far as the hourly rate was con- cerned, the item was true. The hours of work should have been 40 instead of 46, as reported. The report stated that after the lay-off there were only 50 left and only temporary, out of 150 workers. That is very incorrect, inasmuch as we always have a force of about 125 workers, of which there were 40 to 50 new workers put on during a rush order which could not be handled by the permanent force under the Blue Vulture, so they were compelled to hire extra help. Naturally after the rush orders were filled, which lasted approximately six weeks, or little more, the extra help was laid off. Hat Union Officials Blame Workers for Violations of Pact By a Needle Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The hat trimmers; of Local 7, A. F. of L., had their special meeting May 10. A price list for 1934 was drawn up. The general sentiment was for an in- crease in wages due to the rapid rise in the cost of living. After some discussion it was de- cided to ask for a 25 per cent in- crease, which would bring it up to the 1929 scale. Conditions in the shops were taken up, especially in one shop where most of the union rules were violated. Miss Teitel- baum, instead of taking steps to stop such practices in the future, threw all the blame and responsi- bility on the workers, calling them suckers and other names to that ef- fect. The writer, being a member of this union, disagrees with Teitel- baum. Such conditions exist not because the workers are suckers, but because they are terrorized in the shops. They have to learn to sup- port each other in the shops and by such actions force the officials to support them in case of trouble. A HAT TRIMMER. Don’t Need Workers’ Music, Says LL.G.W. Marshal on May Day By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—Being a_profes- sional musician and sympathetic to the revolutionary working class, I decided to arrange revolutionary music for parade bands, and dis- tribute it to the bands that were to play in the united front May Day parade. I did this with the half a dozen bands playing for the Needle Trade Workers’ Industrial Union, the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union and other workers’ organizations. As I was standing on 28rd St., a band came by playing “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” I quickly rushed up to the leader and told him I could let him have music that was close to the hearts of the work- ers, and which would therefore be more appropriate, I was about to ing Bosses Use System of Classification To Cut Workers’ Pay Change Grades from High to Low To Cover Up Reduction in Wages By 2 ole Worker Correspondent W YORK.—For the last 10 years I worked, with fanatical zeal against an_ evil which, for lack of a better name I called the bargaining system. I referred to it sometimes as the European bargaining stem, because it was in fashion there on a large scale. The large majority of immigrants continued this practice on their arrival in this country. Hence we find this system mostly in the needle trades where the majority of the Jewish immigrants are engaged as workers or bosses. The chief evil of the bargaining system is that the bosses used it to reduce the worker’s wages. It was also instrumental in creating a feel- ing of jealousy and discrimi: mn among the workers, directly and in- directly. In the slack period the bosses would tell the workers that they could have all the work they want, provided they would allow a reduc- tion on their wages. Or else they would tell the workers that the reason why other shops are working more than they do is because those other shops are making the same grade of work for less money. The workers, even in union shops, with or without the union's consent, would take the hint, and allow a re- duction, in the hope that they would have more work as a result. This happened for a week or two, Then slack again, Standard System Installed I proposed that the bargaining system should be abolished and that in its place should prevail a standard system of prices for the respective grades in the same trade or industry. About a year ago the standard system was put into practice by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, They divided the work into three grades, good, middle and cheap line. Each shop, under an agreement with the union, had to nay the price fixed for the respective grades. And now the managers of the union report, in articles published recently in the press, that the standard system is a success and that they are satisfied with the re- sults. But the workers have a different story to tell about this new system. They claim that since the standard or classification system is in opera- tion, the bosses stopped making the good line; or rather the good line is made as the middle or cheap line. In other words, they reduce the worker's wages by mixing the grades from high to low. The workers should be on guard not only against the above practice but also against a similar evil that almost | pened | cotton line, and will | better line | that was only as far as the lower 2 a result of t system. The follow in the single- m: cation as well, are not going to be on guard against it, Pocket-makers Attacked Until about a year ago, there were frequent reductions ‘in a certain shop in the cotton line, as elsewhere. Finally the boss himself admitted that he could not cut anymore. But sections were concerned. The pocket-making section which in- cludes highly skilled workers, was not included. He thought that these workers could still stand an- other reduction. Befcre informing the workers that| he would exact a reduction, the boss would call one worker from each operation and inform him about it. He selected one who did not have the courage to say no, Following this the boss said that he would use a special machine vnich would sew and cut the back- poc at the same time. Now this} was only a trick to ge another re- duction on the same section, for this machine is no longer used on this work and if used would not saye any labor or expenses. But the boss got what he wanted, perhaps more. The reduction amounted to about one dollar per day for each pocket-maker. What was done by this one worker and his shrewd boss has not yet been undone by the union and the N. R. A. The prices paid in this shop and on this particular section were copied by the rest of the shops; in this same trade. This operation. the most important and most difficult, is now also the most un- derpaid. And the union and the N. R. A. refuse to do anything about it.! Now, there is a lesson in the above for the workers. The classification of grades and prices is a good thing to avoid reductions in wages and discrimina- tion. But you, the workers, not your leaders or your bosses of the N. R. A., will have to stand guard! so that it will work for you and not against you. In connection with the classifica-| tion system remember the expe- rience you had with the Unemploy- ment Insurance, if it may be called that, in the Amalgamated. Unem- ployment Insurance is good for you. But you allowed them to make a! racket out of it. The machine men and the politicians get the money which rightfully belongs to you. If you will leave the classification sys- tem entirely in the hands of your leaders you will live to regret it just as you do the Unemployment Insurance scheme. A. F. L. Leaders Block Mass Pickets at Fisher Body Strike By an Auto Worker Correspondent FLINT, Mich—At a meeting of the Fisher Body Local 1, A. F. of L., the gencral membership voted to support a strike after a number of departmental strikes against speed- ups and vicious insults from the bosses. The leaders of the A. F. of L. were forced to take action, and after seeing that the men had tired of their no-strike policy, they bally- hoo themselves as leaders and tell the men what great leaders they are. They have already advocated no mass picketing and keep harping on preserving the dignity of the work- ers. The strike vote was carried with only one dissenting vote. The lead- ers told the workers that the more radical workers had been calling for a strike and now they were going to Readers’ Reflections on May 1 Bridgeton, N. J. Dear Comrades: The contents of the Daily Worker is steadily improving, but the paper still has faults (which are to be expected). One of the most glaring of these is that reports of demon- strations. strikes, etc., are too often exaggerated. This May Day for instance the Daily Worker said: “Forty thousand in Philadelphia.” Really there were no more than 15,000 or 20,000 people at Rayburn Plaza. Things like this Jead new readers of the “Daily” to say, “You can’t believe anything they tell you.” In some reports the new reader is made to feel that there will be barricades in the streets in a few days. We must be more accurate. —D, M. oe Beacon, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: ~ I believe it is necessary to note the following correction in the re- port of the Beacon, May 1st dem- onstration. Although there were some 100 per centers armed with overripe toma- toes, they did not use them owing to the size and inspiration of the demonstration. In fact the meet- ing was very orderly and attentive, many workers buying the “Daily Worker” and other literature. —Jack Ross. . . Roswell, N. M. We held our May Day demon- stration here with a meeting on the courthouse plaza. About two give them the music, and they were about to accept it, when a well-fed important looking parade marshal came rushing up and told me to beat it. He said the band didn’t need any other music. I glanced at the ribbon across his chest. It said, “International La- dies’ Garment Workers’ wien give it to them, when in reality the leaders are trailing the rank and file of the shop. The management of the factory has taken the attitude that the workers will either work at their prices and conditions or will stay out and the job will be done elsewhere. The local radio station is broad- casting anti-strike policies by telling the public that the local managers did a great thing in bringing the building of the much-heralded new series 40 Buick here, so as to keep Flint labor at work, and that it is a calamity that there has to be labor trouble to disrupt President Roose- velt’s Recovery Program. The workers can help themselves very much if they demand a broad rank and file negotiating committee, and that no compromise can be ac- cepted by the committee without a vote of all men on strike. hundred attended, but that did not discourage us as this is the first May Day demonstration ever held in Roswell, and the workers were told the meaning of it all, and we will continue to do so. We are going to awaken the workers of Roswell, and we are making history here each day, and putting the town on the map. You will hear from us again soon. HG. R. THAT’S THE SPIRIT! New York City Proletarian discipline played a great part in the demonstration on May Day. Sincerity plus determina- tion were ‘Strongly evident on the face of every marching worker. Standing on 28th Street corner waiting for the school contingent to pass, I heard remarks like the following. “Gee Rose, this is the swellest thing I ever saw, come on let's march with them.” “No Helen, we can’t march, you've got to be- long to some group.” “Oh, I know a friend of mine who is marching with the International Labor De- fense. We can join her.” A police captain stops to give orders to a cop. The said cop had been quite friendly with the on- Jookers, who for the most part were sympathetic to the working class display of strength. “Okay chief,” he snapped, saluting. Turning to the crowd, he began to push them back. “Come on get back there,” he yelled, also using his physical strength. “Where do you want us to go?” asked Helen. “Get the hell back there,” snarled the cop. “Nert’s to you,”cried Rose, and pulling her friend with her, they rushed for- ward to join the marchers. Their class-consciousness awak- ened, they marched proudly to the ® | Square Court, Boston, Mass. stirring music of one of the bands. With clenched fists raised high they loudly screamed, “For a Soviet America|” ~ E. A. Jail 25 Furniture Workers in Boston For Picketing Shop| Get 20 Days for Defy- ing an Injunction: Rush Protests (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., May 15.—Twen- ty-five furniture workers were sen- tenced here yesterday to 20 days in Charles St. jail upon refusal to ac- cept probation when they were found guilty by a jury, of the charge of sauntering and loitering. They were each ordered to pay a ten- dollar fine, but they refused in a body. As a result they were sen- tenced to jail to serve a term equal to the amount. Four of the defendants and Burke, of the I.L.D., acted as attorneys. All five of the defense counsel argued today, insisting on an exposure of the attack on the rights of the workers. Despite every effort of Prosecutor Campbell and Judge George Hayes to silence the truth, the alliance between the employers and the police court was clear and evident. This is an historic case in the fight against injunctions. A big campaign is now being started by the LL.D. to free the 25 men, and also Gilbert, previously sentenced by Judge Hammond for refusal to give up his right to picket, Address all protests against this injustice to Judge George Hayes, rict Attorney Foley, and Judge Hammond, all at the Pemberton Also Mayer Mansfield and Governor Ely should be flooded with protests and demands for the immediate free- dom of these 25 men. Conditions Grew Worse for Jobless in South Carolina, By a Worker Correspondent COLUMBIA, S. C.—I am thinking about some of the conditions in South Carolina. In the present conditions in South Carolina the workers cannot exist much longer. I am, myself, trying to struggle for better conditions, but the workers, black and white, are not united. For that reason we are not putting up @ good fight, but I am trying to work out a campaign to get the un- employed together. I am working out an application for relief and to begin a city-wide unemployment movement. This registration card says that we de- mand free food, clothes and shelter for the unemployed workers and further demand the stoppage of evic- tions and immediate work or relief from the F. E. R. A. for the starving people. Fellow workers and friends, I am so badly hit, and then I’ve been evicted from my home, but I am trying to do the best I can. I also want to talk about the War Program in the South. The camp is rushing to get ready for June. Camp Jackson will be ready to place 3,200 soldiers in camp, and they are busy all the time. 20 Strike in Phila.' Cigar Shop Against: $8 a Week Wages By a Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa—At the Bazarte Shop about 22 are out on strike now for a 20 per cent in- crease in wages and better sanitary conditions. The average wage is $8 a week, 10 hours a day and five and a half days’ work. The boss has just ordered a ma- chine to make bunches. Before this the cigars were entirely hand-made. This machine will likely throw some of us out of work. As yet there are no scabs working there, because it is very hard to find Cubans to scab. Most of the workers are Cuban or of Cuban descent. Five of the workers read the Daily Worker. They are very class-conscious, hay— ing been in many struggles in Tampa, Fla., belonging to the Tobacco Workers’ Industrial Union there. Paid Enough Rent to Buy the House, But Now Face Eviction Notice By a Worker Correspondent LANCASTER, Pa.—At least eight of us families have lived in_the homes of the landlord A. B. Rote, for many years. Some of us have lived and paid rent enough to al- most pay what the house is worth, but because of this horrible depres- sion, with most of us out of work for a long time, we were not able PARTY LIFE Cleveland ILD Fails to F, ight Against White Chauvinism By SAM STEIN Secretary, Cleveland Dist., I. L. D. In Jan., 1934, the Cleveland I. L. D. could not record one func~ tioning branch of the I. L. D. in Scovill, Cleveland's Harlem, where 75,000 Negro workers live; this, after the I. L. D. for three years had stayed the hand of the execu- tioner raised against the Scottsboro boys and from its inception nearly ten years ago, had waged a relent- less war on all fronts against the terror of the bosses which is sharp- est against the Negro people. Why hasn't the ILL.D. entrenched itself organizationally among the Negro masses of Cleveland? Aside from organizational weak-/} ness, I believe the chief cause must/| be attributed to the fairure of the I. L. D. to put into life the above quoted resolution of the World Con- gress on Tasks of the I. L, D. in Work Among the Negroes. It has not waged a merciless campaign against white chauvinism, open and concealed, its most dangerous form. Nor has the district leadership of the past two years had a proper realization of the importance of Ne- gro work. For a correct under- standing of the situation, we must look back to events of a few years ago. Two years ago, one of the most disgusting open expressions of this poisonous boss class ideology occurred when the National Con- vention of the I. L. D. convened in Cleveland. The local committee in charge of housing the delegates Plainly marked the sleeping accom- modations cards, Negro and white, showing in which houses Negroes are not wanted as lodgers. The Convention severely condemned the district leadership at that time for this and the district pledged to cor- rect itself and launch a powerful educational campaign and struggle against white chauvinism. This never materialized. A short time afterward, a Negro girl was raped by several white men. Not only did the district leadership fail to mobilize the I. L. D. to leap to the defense of the girl on its own initiative, but it did nothing after receiving directives to start @ mass campaign to force the pros- ecution of the fiends who attacked the girl. At a meeting of the present dis- trict bureau, after taking up various angles of our work, we came to the question of work in the Scovill section. There was a discussion of the importance of Negro work. A proposal was made that a small headquarters be opened in the Sco- vill section and that one of the leading comrades be assigned to this territory. “What do you want to do, or- ganize only the Negroes?” was the question of Comrade M., who has been in the I. L. D. and Party for many years. This despite the World Congress I. R. A. resolution that, “A special drive for a recruiting of new members among the Negro Masses must be organized.” This at a time when the I. L. D. did not have one single regular dues paying member out of five hundred who was a Negro. When the question of fighting white chauvinism was sharply raised at a functionaries meeting, Com- rade M. stated, “As far as white chauvinism goes, we know about it, it exists everywhere, in every dis- trict of the I. L. D.” This comrade did not say a word about the work- ing class duty of every I. L. D. member and all workers to fight this boss class theory which is con- sciously spread among the workers to divide their ranks. It can readily be seen that the district leadership of the I. L. D. for the past two years has suffered from a lack of understanding of the Negro question. Further, it is clear that in the leadership there is a rotten opportunist underestimation of the importance of work among the Negro masses, and opportunist capitulation before white chauvin- ism, as the last incident shows. Now with such a condition in the leadership, -it is not surprising to Did Not Organize Negro Workers Because of Failure to Understand Negro Question find a reflection of this line in the rank and file. Recently, when a Negro comrade came to an affair given by an I. L. D. branch, he was denied admittance. “If you come in, everyone will run out,” he was told. An I. L. D, member was at the door. The incident was immediately re- ported to the District Buro. A com- mittee of two from the buro went to the branch and investigated the matter. The branch members were highly indignant and bitter against the comrade who had denied the Negro worker admittance to the hall. The guilty comrade, whose hours of work are irregular—sometimes days and sometimes nights—was not pres- ent, It was voted that he be called into the district where a committee would investigate thoroughly the facts of the case and take suitable action. The comrade did not come on the date agreed upon because of his work. However, he met the Negro comrade he had barred from the affair and said that he had acted purely on his own volition and that he still believed in the rightness of his actions. The mat- ter was then again brought up at the buro and the question of action in the matter was discussed. It met with a subtle form of resistance. However, we are now proceeding to act on this question in a firm, iron, unsentimental, working class man- ner. We are now beginning to make a turn away from the rotten line which has marked the work of the Cleveland I. L. D. in the work among the Negro masses. The Jim- Crowing of Mother Wright, the mother of two of the Scottsboro boys, was immediately answered by the district with a tremendous dem- onstration before Mills’ restaurant, which resulted in the smashing of the long established segragation of this well-known restaurant. Two new branches of the I. L. D. have been formed in the Scovill section and a third branch is in the process of formation. One of the buro mem- bers, realizing her leck of under- standing on the Negro question, is now taking up a course at the Workers School on this subject. Un- der the leadership of the District I, L. D, a delegation will present a resolution to the City Council de- manding the enactment of a city ordinance forbidding Jim-Crowism in any public establishment—the punishment for violation for this law to be revocation of license. Also a resolution will be presented to the City Council calling for the con- demnation of Congress for its main- tenance of Jim-Crowism in the House of Representatives restaurant. At nearly every Buro meeting the work in Scovill is on the agenda. All these actions, however, will not result in any gains being made by our district among the Negro people if we do not take the resolu- tion of the World Congress which was quoted at the beginning of this article, get it off paper and put it into action. The following should be done: 1, The barring of the Negro com- rade from the affair by an I. L. D. member must be made the central point of the struggle against chau- vinism in our district. It must be raised to the highest political level. 2. A powerful educational cam- paign on the Negro question must immediately be launched through- out the district. 3. At the same time we must combat nationalism fostered among the Negro masses by the Negro mis- leaders. Join the Communist Party 35 E, 12th STREET, N. Y. ©. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Marmola R. F. Brooklyn—Marmola is a dangerous nostrum because its main ingredient is powdered thyroid gland which has a powerful action on the heart and the nervous sys- tem. Besides thyroid, Marmola contains phenolphthalein, sodium chloride, bladderwrack, extractives and spirits of peppermint. Pow- dered thyroid should never be taken by anybody without being under the close supervision of a physician. Even experienced physicians are very careful when they administer thyroid for the reduction of exces- sive adiposity (fat). When thyroid is given in sufficient quantities to reduce, it causes a rapid heart beat and the patient’s nervous system is greatly affected. When taken in- to mect our rent this last month. discriminately, it has been known to But little does our landlord care) have caused fatal heart attacks and about our misery, and so a day ag0! exophthalmic goitre: a dangerous Mr. A. B, Rote came down to Cherry | and often fatal conditions. Alley and gave us notice that “all Furthermore, thyroid does not al- of you must be out by the 10th of| ways succeed in reducing weight. May. If you are not out by the 10th, I will sell you out and collect all of my back rent.” (This includes a widow woman with 4 children who have lived on relief for 3 years.) When I went up to the Commun- ity and asked Mrs. Kramer what I am to do with the $5.30 pay I got, she said, “You buy food for the family, and never mind the rent.” My last pay amounted to $4.40. T had to buy food for the wife and Kiddies. My job is gone. I don't know where the next one is coming ‘There are many cases of adiposity which are not due to deficient thy- roid secretion and which do not respond to thyroid treatment. We would advise you to have nothing to do with this dangerous “remedy,” notwithstanding the statements of manufacturers to the effect that By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. — It is due to a reflex action from the over-distended stomach. Try to eat smaller meals and see what will happen, Regarding senna leaves, these are not as injurious as some of the lax- atives and cathartics prescribed or sold as patent medicines. an ae Fasting—Flaxseed Oil—Gonorrhea A. P.—We did not believe that there were any people left who would attempt to cure gonorrhea by fasting, until we had read your let- ter. About 25 years ago, Upton Sin- clair claimed that this was possible; but he had to admit that he was wrong. You must have been read- ing Macfadden’s “books” on the subject, which accounts for your having the disease for such a long time. We must admire, however, your courage: in spite of the fact that you fainted after your first ten-day fast, you went on another one. Now you are on a milk diet: another fallacy! You cannot cure gonorrhea by either fasting or by drinking milk. Milk and water are beneficial in gonorrhea, because the more fluids you drink, the more dilute your urine becomes and the larger quantity you void. The passage of large quantities of urine through the urethra helps to wash out the germs and the pus from the canal. Marmola is perfectly safe. FN Ae Sneezing After 2 Meal—Senna Leaves N. B., Brooklyn—Sneezing after a from, or whether it will come at all.| meal is of no medical significance. As to the flaxseed oil, we have never heard of it before as a curt for this disease. Now, flaxseed o1 linseed or olive oil will not do yor any harm; but it cannot cure thi disease 1 oceans