The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1934, Page 6

* ruling. Page Six AS ONE ATR-PILOT TO ANOTHER 'N THE merry month of May 1930 the “alleged” spoils onference on Air Mail con- ted number tatives tracts with a li on aviati pretty broke out. There was one | who persisted on howling | antly. He operated a line known} as “Safeways.” His name was} Haliburton. He has a ca Texas Third Rail and an emphatic la ge. He used both and lacked the dignity to take it from the others laying down, He squeeled kicked and fina in a of eloquent invective thre: a government investigation. Demand- | ing in a loud uncultured manner his share of the pork he aroused indignant surprise among the op- position. This increased the volume and quality of Haliburton’s vocab- | ulary and threats. The aviation moguls went into a huddle and re- shuffled the deck. Haliburton waited with blood in his eyes. When the battle was over Aviation Corp. bought out Haliburton at a ver; satisfactory price — to Haliburton He returned to the oil fields and | Corp.—American Airways) Aviation — took possession of the corpse Hangars, shops and equipment at Tu were padlocked and soon ac- quired the pathetic appearance of a defunct bank on the corner of a] busy street. All that Braniff, Bowen, Robertson and other inde- pendents got was the razberry American Airways the operating Co. of Aviation Corp. reformed its routes as per agreement—(No col- lusion of course)—It was originally | a central route from Garden City, Kansas, through Kansas City, Chi- | cago and Cleveland but was changed to Continental ork City to At- id Los Angeles. In s City and Fair- nificent hangar, ‘ool, test the Southern T 10-year lease vestment hundreds of thousands The central administrative offices in the C! in Bldg. in New York where tea was served every | austed brain | sk fted to St. Louis ally was and finally ago, its present location. The | ‘don of this constant shuffling of | tive control and the monoto- The fourth of a gzoup of Sovict) women who would like to have I want to tell you the following | about myself. I, Anna Vasilevna Snegireva, am working ten years as a weaver in the factory named after Bubnov in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. Have several times been given premiums for sys- tematically over-fulfilling the indus- trial-financial plan. For my active shock work in pro- duction I have been elected by the workers as social voluntary as: tant of the Province Court. Since September 1933 I am working as social voluntary assistant to a member of this Court I have, together with the Colle- gium for Appeals, handled 370 mat- ters and independently more than 70. All matters dealt with by me are accepted without any over- Working in the factory as @ social voluntary assistant, I am advanzing my general education, Pelitical and cultural understanding. I am studying law courses. Pee aie" “The weaver Markova is working in the Complaints Bureau of the Province Executive Committee, the woman worker Ribakova of the fac- | tory kitchen is working in the First | Branch of the Workers’ and Peas- | ents’ Militia. The weaver Isakova | has greatly developed in her work as a social voluntary alread: has the highest education and is at present working | @s a member of the Ivanovo Prov- | ince Court. | “S¥e are returning to our factories | inspired and sure that we will carry Cus with honor the decision of the Seventeenth Party Congres: 0} patronage and social voluntary assis tance. | “We wish you success in your) strugle and are impatiently await- ng your answer.” These letters show in a graphic way how the workers themselves, men and women alike take direct part in the administration of the} Jaws they have formulated. We once more repeat the invitation to} American working women to write| to these six Soviet women, telling) them abcut the lives and struggles of workers here; we hope workers and domestic worke! di- n,| Patiorn \ Street, New York City, BY A GROUP OF PILOTS AND 3 from their American sister- | MECHANICS ————'! tition of errors due to in- reflected in the decreased wages who were moved ne as the equipment less consideration. The jor airlines were all re-! as the mail contracts planes ion of U tion of ted the Percentage of Company Name Ownership cing Airplane Co. 100 ng Aircraft of Canada 83.3 Hamilton Stand Propeller ....100 | Pratt and Whitney Aircraft 100 Canadian Pratt and Whitney Ltd. 70) is tion Corp. 99.6 Stearman Aircraft Co. 100 | Chance Vought Corp. 100 | Transport Companies | United Airlines Inc. 100 | Boeing Air Transportation Co. 100 National Air Transport Inc. 100 Varney Airlines Inc. ssseseeeb 00 Other Operations United Aircraft and Transport | Corp. 100 | United Aircraft of Connecticut. 100 | Boeing School of Aercnautics......100 | United Airport Co. of California..100 | | United Aircraft Exports Inc ......100| | United Airports of Connecticut..100 | | Curtis Wright Manufacturing Co. | is tied up in a similar manner with | operating companies. At present there are two militant ikes of aviation workers in Buf- falo and Hartford forced by the intolerable conditions and low wages. Pratt and Whitney at Hart- ford is a wealthy company ex‘ract ing enormous profits—through go | ernment contracts for the Army and | Navy aviation service. The follow- | ng statement by Philip G. Johnson, | sident of United Aircraft, of | which Pratt and Whitney is a sub- | | sidiary, is interesting. | “Earned profits at the year end- | ing 1933, $8,207,426.50; paid in sw plus, $836,827.27; assets at $33,308, | 167.75; unfilled orders at close of 1933, $10,758,016.68 of which $2,200,- |000 were for export.” The average | | wage of mechanics before the strike | was less than $18 per week. These | Profits have been accumulated | through a vicious and oppressive exploitation of wor! all over the system. The excessive profiis and | \the low wa: are a direct cha! 'Ienge (o the exploited workers and | ¢. y equipped | ed and aban-| the challenge has accepted. There aviatior been militantly | is another eruption in | the return of the Air | Mail to € operating compani but it is logical that the same gai booted and spurred by the N. R. A: | will continue to ride on the backs of the workers, Ah. But these| trikes—the material for a different | | Story is now in the making. The | work ers have taken a hand. This jis the one genuine bright spot (not | for the bosses) in aviation at pres- lent. | | ten | But we got fooled! The double shift | | other, |the International Double Shift e' Vesta 5 Mine I Starvation Plan By a Mine Worker Correspondent BROWNSVILLE, Pa, — Recently we struck here in Vesta No. 5 of the Vesta Coal Co. Our strike was for the recognition of the United | Mine Workers of the s an agreement with thegl. M. W. A. Many of the miners ht that} the ing of the agreement would mean the end of some of the r conditions that existed h was not only continue men were hired, at a apes e that were in the mi nothing. There are m that tr led to work from Marianna, Cokeburg, Bentleyville, etc, and} while this is only about 10 to 15 miles away, they had to quit be-| cause they could not make enough | to pay the transportation. The local union officials do not | seem to see hundreds of the griev- ances that arise daily. They are isfied! They have either good jobs or good places. For example, our president, Sam | Rhodes, was loading coal before he was elected the local president. Later he was put on the machine cutting, where some claim he makes $100 in a two-week pay period The double shift here is an abso- lute curse, Two men in a place, on each shift, means thet four men ork in one place. With the best intentions, these men cannot leave the place in a good shape for each One shift cleans the coal out, and lea only a car or two | for the next shift, the second shift cleans the place out, gets the place cut, the day is over, and they only made a few dollars. After the com- pany deducts the charges, for the doctor, light, company insurance, union dues, powder, etc., the men have nothing left, and many are forced to ask for relief while work- ing 40 hours a week. The Vesta mines are now work- ing five days a week, but we all know that the Vesta is stocking | coal at its Aliquipa mill (Jones and a hlin), in the event a strike | place after this xpires, In our local we are beginnine to organize a rank and file opposition and the majority of the miners agree with us. Onl; ome of them} still feel that if Lewis doesn’t do | nothing, President Rooseevit will. But the “new deal” bunk is also losing out fast. ~ CORRECTION This note did not represent the editorial policy of the paper but was contributed by a member of Longshoremen’s | Association. This reply to the worker correspondent contained many serious errors, which will be | dealt with in Monday’s paper in an) {article which really reflects the Raiden of the paper. Can You Make Yourself? 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White Miners Condemn Birmingham News for Slanders Against Negro Workers By a Striking Miner BESSEMER, Ala.—This pont on the ore ines of the Bes- e month to headway The Party forced thi | of the unions to call a str this means. that the workers see » us | as the leaders of the working cla: , the plan in The bosses of the ore mines are seared because the leader of the union could not put off the strike when the workers voted for a strike | | here, {> ao the strike in the mine fields. Miners Lose | Every | (By | Miners in the Pennsylvania, | are not satisfied with the agreement. Also in Curtisville No. | 2, miners have bad conditions. Fagan said the miners good victor work in the water as we do, not get paid for it, it would not be such a “victory” miss cars on a Miner Correspondent) water. Supplies are hard to get here. We | hunt for rails and ties. When we have pit | cases we lose, as in a case we had for boney. The bosses claim the boney is only 12 inches thick, but in some places it is 24 inches thick. We wanted pay for this. The U. M. W. A. board me.aber, Murray, to a place where it was 12 and we lost the case. | So where the boney is thick. | We had another case where the | loader had to make a pr <2 th the break-through. It took abcut fous hours and | get any pay. We also lost this case. It ‘0 cost the local $13.08 to lose this case. Our scale is to be on the bottom jof the mine. Now they place it in the tipple and a lot of coal is lost ea it is weighed. The scale is sh bad anyway, Since we started to work the seven-hour da} loaders make from $3 to $3.50 a day. We do not get* many cars, hiring new men. Last year we worked 200 days in this mine. We averaged from $690 to $850. When the expenses were taken out, what did we have left? Lewis gets $1000.00 a month, and we don’t get that for a whole year. And some of his fakers are saying | that there is no graft in the union. For us miners it is necessary that we organize an opposition in every jocal union, to fight for better con- | ditions, and they keep on A TRUE STORY Bulgaria is a small country in | southern Europe, where the workers }are greatly oppressed. Our brave comrades Dimitroff, Taneff, and Popoff are from Bulgaria. This is a true story that happened in the small town of Svishtov, months ago. School for the day was over. Two boys almost two in the quiet classroom were wiping the chalked lessons the blackboard. With long ps Peter quickly drew the big wet sponge across the board. Ste- phen had put the last piece of chalk away in the wooden box. Peter had hurried with his share of the work. He wanted very much to speak to Stephen. ‘This was one of the few chances he had for he seldom saw Stephen out of school. They lived in a different to him and began to talk very quietly. In the high school that Peter at- tended he had many friends. They admired him greatly, particularly for his courage. There was a time when the teacher had been giving out the marks, Strangely enough, though he was very good at his studies Peter received a very low mark. While Feodor, the son of a well-to-do shop-keeper, who never knew his lessons, received a very high mark. Peter had stood up right there in the classroom. He had looked straight at the teacher. “You've given Feodor a hizh mark, only because his father’s rich, and gives money to the school. To me you have given a low mark on ac- count of misconduct, That's what you call it when I tell the boys what's right and wrong.” The teacher had been terribly angry. He clutched the steel-edged ruler in his hand, but all he said was “Peter you shall remain after school. We shall see whether your Communist ideas are right or wrong.” Although Peter was always leader, almost all of the boys agreed with his opinions. That why the teacher was afraid to punish him in school. certainly be trouble. even be a real riot. So the teacher found other weys. And Feodor— he was willing to earn his high s in ways that hed nothing to There might Peter ‘and Stephen left puliding, they did not neighborhood. Peter came up close} There would} | WITH OUR YOUNG READERS © opened the door and that sharp ears had been listening. They had not seen the figure of Feodor who had softly tiptoed down the hall, and then waited until they left. They did not see him run first to the prin- cipal’s house then to the police just a tiny bit, station. Next morning before school ;Opened, the boys were gathered side of the yard talking. Some reparing notes on the day’s lesson: Others were planning what they'd do the next day, which was a holiday, “It’s nice and warm. Le)’s down the river,” said Ivan. “Sure” said Vassily, “if-our boat’s still all right we can take it out for a row.” g0 “Here's Peter, let’s ask him. Maybe he knows about the boat.” “Hello, fellows, what's new?” Peter greeted his friends. “We thought if it’s a nice day to- morrow we'd rowing. Have you been to the boathouse lately?” Through the crowd of boys, two Policemen pushed their way. Every- one surprised, stood around and stared. They approached the group around Peter. One of them said. “Which of you is Peter Bakard- jieff?” At once Peter looked up and said, “I am Peter Bakardijieff.” “You are under arrest. Come along witn us.” With that each one grabbed an arm and led Peter through the crowd. For a moment We must go after ther They've about 60 of them dashed at top speed down the street. Soon they caught up. The boys quickly sur- rounded Peter and the Policeman. Though taken by surprise, the policemen drew their guns and threatened tp shoot. The boys were not afraid. They tried to wrench hands, the crowd. a cried Peter, °. e we have been| the} “| main they leaders are trying to sell out We can get in no newspapers the demands | Time In) Arbitration area | new have a| 2 White miner’s wife, But if Fagan had to| and | for him. Also to ccount of the water. And every morning to start bailing have to go from place to place to committee | came and measured it, but he went} inches | He would not} him | he did not! taken Peter to the railway station. We can casily get him away. There! are only two policemen.” “Sure, let’s go,” answered many voices. Then the crowd of boys, \the revolvers from the policemen’s but not before they had al-j| reacy had a chance to shoot into “There's an On ‘the curb stood an army offi- of the strikers at all but the strik- ers are still on the picket lines and | these strikers have got Roosevelt up a tree. The National Guardsmen are telling the strikers that they are with them. At the meeting of the union the officers only speak of fighting the industrial bosses but do not say a word about Roosevelt at all. In the are prepared to break the strike in a clever way. They are planning if the strikers don’t go | back to work. to take the unem- | ployed miners and put them in their places, The great thing that we have ; done here is, we are showing the white workers to unite with the | Negro workers. The bosses have | done everything in their power to break this unity of the workers here in the Birmingham District, in the | strike, When the Birmingham News came out to frame up Negro miners, the white miners began a campaign against the Birmingham News. The white strikers told a Negro striker |not to buy papers that are against the workers. The Birmingham News truck came into the mine field Sat- urday. The white workers and the | Negroes took all the papers and threw them in the creek, because it | said that a Negro was in bed with A white miner had been to town and he saw it. He called the picket line and told them to see to it fhat no copies of the Birmingham News were sold in the mine area. NRA Stifle Strike Of Salt Workers’ WEST TULSA, Okla—The work- ers at the Texas Company Salt Plant, 217 strong, being forced under Roosevelt’s slave code to organize for self preservation, managed to organize 80 per cent without the consent or knowledge of the Com- pany. One of the organizers, Claude Pruitt, who had worked himself up from common laborer to foreman, had proved himself a profitable slave according to company stand- ards, but due to his union activities was promptly fired by them. This fcrmed the basis for a grievance ator, but there was nothing doing, under Section 7A of the N.R.A. code. The union sent a committee to in- quire the cause but was not received. The company let it be known that they had fired him in perfect accord with the N.R.A. (incompetency). The fired foreman was willing to go back to where he had begun, as an oper- so the union took it before the Re- gional Board and after a long time they were informed that ‘the Board would hear the case in Kansas City, Mo., and in order to get any action on it all witnesses would have to appear there. Being just organized there was no money in the treasury for trans- portation, so the union decided to take a strike vote. One Judge Warren, President of the State Fakeration of Labor, made it a point to be present at the meeting, the time set for the strike vote. The vote was better than two thirds majority for the strike but his au- gust highness (Ed Warren the Judge) curtly informed them that according to the constitution the ee must be three fourths major- What a different picture from the above would have been had they lined up in the fighting T.U.U.L. By a Mine Worker Correspondent, striking 1 MOUNT OLIVE, Ill. — Frantic with fear because the militants are | gaining control in the face of the coming elections, the incompetent reactionary leaders of the Progres- | sive Miners of America are resort- ing to vicious terrorist tactics | against the honset militant rank and file. Joe Picek, iron ruler of Local 1 Gillespie (who has often threatened {to organize a “gang” if he was ignored) openly admitted his uncon- stitutional dictatorship at a recent “special” meeting (purposely called in order to intimidate all those ad- hering to or favoring the “left- wing”), but excused his violations of parliamentary practice on the grounds that he knew what was | best for us. To get sympathy, he then told a tearful tale (as usual about his dear 70 year old “rev- clutionary” mother who trusts him so much (but who really does not know that Joe's love has long ago turned from Communism, Anar- chism, etc., to capitalism). The unorganized “left-wing” (a figment of Allard’s imagination) is *| really nothing but militant fighters (from “Anarchists” to Catholics) all fighting for a “militant” policy and opposing the “conservative” policy being shoved down our throats by the leaders. Pearcy’s eas: amet for the NOW sire ove * NES DIRECTIONS To spell out the names go from square to square in any direction. Do not skip any squares, and do not use a letter twice in the same word, See if you can find at least four more enemies of the working class. To become a member of the Daily Worker Puzzle Club, work out one of the puzzles, and send it The membership cards are being the boys just stood and looked.! printed and will be sent to mem- Then they burst out in excited| pers as soon as possible. shouting. $e “They don’t dare!” 3 “Let's do something.” REGISTRATION FOR CAMP “They have no right—” WO-CHI-CHA Ivan’s voice rose above the x js jothers. He motioned for attention.| NEW YOR. — Registration for the Workers Children’s Camp is open. The camp is at Wingdale, N.Y. The fee is $13 for two weeks, including fare. Children from ten to fifteen years old are eligible for camp. Registration at Room 509, District Pioneer Office, 35 East 12th Street. ‘Picek Spearhead of Attack On Militant PMA Members striking miners (13,000) has become a disgrace to the P. M. A. After two years of striking, the miners find themselves hungry, black- listed, and in despair, pecause on account of the “no-picket” policy of the leadership, the Peabody mines are working full blast with scabs and U. M. W. A. adherents. Our wonderful brain trust (Pearcy, Dowell, etc.) make regular trips to see Johnson and the N. R. A. and come back with wonderful tales but no results. While our leaders wax fatter our pays get thinner. During the “special” meeting, Battuello cornered Pearcy till he bellowed like a wounded monster. Then to everybody's surprise Pearcy defiantly declared that no “left- winger” could eyer speak to him and that he would answer no ques- tions! Just previous to this, Picek and McGill outlined a policy to isolate or expel all militants! Under the gus of “radicalism,” Picek is able to confuse a lot of honest men, and is becoming a growing menace to the life of the P.M. A. Ou every occasion he has defended the company and the “contract.” As member of the school board, he plainly opposed the Organization of a ‘teacher’ union and frankly advised the president to appoint a spy in each building to report the “bad” teachers! Conducted by Mary Morrow, Chil- dren’s editor, The Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. ANSWER Te LasT WEEKS PUZZLE- 5 a | «16 (Bet Ong, YOUTH DAY Ld : 3 3 J ” 5 ‘be PICTURE PUZZLE With your pencil draw straight lines from dot to dot, starting with number 1 right up through to 30. cer who was waving his sword, and firing his revolver into the air. A few boys frightened, ran away. Just then a police siren screamed, @S a car drove alengside the group of boys and suddenly stopped. Out jumped a dozen policemen. At |once the hoys stood silent. Then— “You're all under arrest,” barked the captain; and to his men—“Don't let any of them. gst away.” They were marched to the railway sta- them to the prison in the nex¢ town. Each and every one of the boys was glad and proud to be there with Peter. “They won't dare do anything very bad to 50 of us,” said Ivan “They'll have to let us go. But just think if we had let Peter go by himseif.” “That's right,” said Vassily, all have to stick together.” “we By a Mine Worker Correspondent tion to wait for the train to take eliminated within a relatively short PARTY LIFE Workers Ready to Str Following is a transcript of a report by a metal worker delegate to the 8th National Convention of the Communist Party, in Cleve- land. The Pittsburgh District has sent me to this Convention to tell you a few things that go on in the Elec- trical fac ories, one of the large electrical factories in the East, the Central City Miners Fight UMW Chains By a Miner Correspondent CENTRAL CITY, Pa—Iin last. week's article I dealt with the Cen- tral City mine strike, where 850 miners struck. On May 9th, the fired workers, in cooperation with District No. 2 of the U. M. W. A. officialdom, called Mixe Balya and the committee to Windber, Pa., the home of John Lochrie, the owner of the mine. The U. M. W. A. wanted Mike to sign an agrecment that after the first he would not be President of the local and would not run for any office in the union for two years. The signing of anti-work- ing class agreement would mean the selling out of the miners. Mike refused. A meeting was immediately called where the committee and Mike re- ported on the request made by the U. M. W. A. officials. A report was also given on the notice imposing @ $1 fine on all strikers for every day they struck. This notice was posted by the Eastern Bituminous Arbitration Board. After the reports, the local union miners voted to strike all mines of the Rietz Coal Co. On May 10, all mines came out, with the excep- tion of Mine No. 2, and No. 4 mine went in. Nevertheless, the miners are on strike from other mines. A parade was immediately formed of the workers in every mine and of unemployed workers and workers on the Emergency Relief works, who dropped their tools and joined in with the striking miners to; picket the No. 2 mine. ‘she miners) came out at 10 A. M. and joined as} one unit in front of the ,it. A sympathizer brought up 15 gallons of beer which was given to} every miner. The UM.W.A. offi- cials were called upon to come to} the miners. They never appeared | at the local meetings. The miners demanded the re-instatement of Mike, On May 11th a local union meet= ing was called to elect a large Strike Committee. No represerita- tive came from District No. 2. Instead Marks sent a telegram that all miners shall go back to work Saturday, May 12th, or the local union charter would be revoked. The workers said, “Let them take it. We will get a Bolshevik Char- ter.” The miners were immediately mobilized and set themselves the task of building a strong opposition in every local in Somerset and other counties to protest and fight against the corrupt officials of the U. M. W. A., and demand that the charter be left. The capitalist press printed vi- cious articles against the miners on strike, by stating that Balya was discharged for refusing to perform his work in connection with a motor repair, which is a deliberate lie. The capitalist press is also trying to break the unity between the employed and unemployed workers. Miners in other local unions should take up the question of boy- cotting poisonous propaganda of the bosses’ press and defeat this three cornered fight against them by reading and subscribing to our working class papers the Daily Worker, the Coal Digger, and the language working class papers. NOTE We publish letters from coal and ore miners, and from oil field workers every Saturday. We urge workers in these fields to write us of their conditions of work and of their struggles to improve their conditions and organize. Please get your letters to us by Weakness of Union Due to Weakness sof Party Nucleus| to Work Out Effective Program ao aia Ric LURE LR EY | uggle, But Party Fails | -f Westinghouse Electrical Manui {q turing Co. In 1916 there was a strike the: and it was organized by the A. of L. Of course, like all of thi A. F. of L. organizations, they sol¢ cut the workers, and the workers, aj a result, lost faith in unionism. Aj the present time we have a Sicd ‘d Metal Workers Industrial Uniog here. It rose and it fell back and the feeling among the wo is, how do we know should we buii another union up that it mizhty sold out like the A. F. of L. [pl them out. So it is very hard st keep the workers’ interested Vi unior We started out with four or fiv hundred members, and we have ver} interesting meetings. But therj were no struzgles. We couldn’t for) mulate any form of action for th¢ workers, and that was due to th) fact that we had a very weak Part; nucleus or shop unit there. There were no two members in any on) depariment who could lay out @ plan of work for the workers te follow. We have gotten togethe and laid plans for the future. Wi have lacked guidance in this matte due to lack of local leadership. Workers Ready to Fight Speed-Uy I want to give you a little instance: of how the workers will fight. = work in the tool and die making department. They have started ar intensive speed-up system. Wher. ever possible, two machines are operated by one man. The worker: are arranged in group systems with a leader at the head. This leadey is @ company man, a capable com) pany man, and he is the driver, The company picks out the men ay leaders who are good drivers anc he sets all limits. Wherever he car he cuts down time and increase: production. And wherever it is pos- sible, one man runs two machines We let this opportunity go by. But there are struggles ahead, There is one particular struggle I would like to mention in the tool-, making department, when the mer were told they had to run two ma- chines. Some workers refused tc operate them. The leaders usually picked out the old timers for thit work. Even they put up a fight About the third or fourth day there, was a whole band who wanted tc sign up with the S. M. W. I. U We didn’t follow this up with mor¢ agitation and didn't give it. leader ship. It set us back. The con tion is still there for struggle, anc if we work out the proper plans o action in that plant, we will have some action there. i Shop Paper. Irregular We also issued a shop bulletin’ that is, a union paper and we named it the Live Wire. It went over good the first time. I hearq very favorable remarks all over tee plant about this shop paper. A other trouble we have is that | wait too long between the first is: and the next issue, so when it cam out, some of the workers didn’t wan to take it. One worker said to mi that we didn’t do anything in be} tween the first issue and the seconc issue of the paper. The worker: themselves tell us what is wrong. Now there is a rumor in our plan) about a 10 per cent wage ineeae | This follows the increase in th! steel and coal industries. wi haven’t much faith in rumors. He is where we will get busy. Some! the members are busy now swell) out a Party paper, agitating t a 15 per cent wage increase. rt That is about all I can tell you about my experiences. I-am dow at the lower ladder of this struggl Iam not a public speaker and can’! talk like some of the other comrades, here can, | lj I Join the Communist Party 35 E, 12th STREET, N. ¥. ©.- Please send me more informa- | tion on the Communist Party. | Name j Street City The Daily Worker gives you full news about the struggle for un- employment insurance. Subscribe Wednesday of each week. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Trachoma in Russia H. G., Sioux City, Iowa. — Yes, trachoma is still prevalent among some sections of the Russian pop- ulation, particularly in Chuvashia, Tartary, Udmur and other republics. The Russian government is making strenuous efforts to free the pop- ulation of these republics from trachoma; but it will take some time before the Russian workers will be able to rid themselves com- pletely from the physical filth transmitted from capitalist society. Judging from the energetic efforts’ which are being made by the various health agencies, we have no doubt that trachoma will be completely time. Piet ees Relation Between Physical and Mental Development T. M., Gilbert, Po.— Size and weight of a person have little to do with his mental development. Some of the brainiest men and women were of smal] stature. We also to the Daily Worker. By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. — qualifications as a soldier, nor o: your chances of becoming a genera As a reader of the Daily Worl) you should have found a better to spend your time than to loaf || three years. We cannot give yor list of all the “small” men in smallest general in the Unite States Army was Major-Gen: Frederick Funston, who was born ij Kensas and was only five fect an, four inches tall and weighed le: than 120 pounds. It was he wh) captured Agiulnaldo, the Filip’ leadez, and he was known as “Th ttie Giant.” The workers in thi country have a better name {' him: they called him “The Lit, Brtcher”! « * Citroneila Oil Paul W., Pittsburgh, Pa—Citr nella oil is not made of citron or any of the citrous fruits. It is e: tracted from a grass which is culti vated in Ceylom and in Java a protection against mozquit prefer cheesaclcth netting, althicug! know some big bullies who are cowards. We cannot pass upon your ritronella oi] also sesm to have slight repellent effect, . vy Ve tory who became generals. Th wit My |