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Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1934 Negro Worker, Birmingham, Joins Party Action and Talk of Police Show Him Who Is for the Working Class By a Worker Correspondent a—I was at id the police i the place and Defenders and s both. They carried Police Department and we should beat the hell out of all Ne- e catch who are m a nm nest and 1 who is a mem- 1 nest. He told thing you can from these white They pug us in the city jail. | The cell we were in had 13 men, | and only eight beds. At night the door boy came in and took} some of them out. We had to sleep on the cement floor. The policeman arrested an old man 70 years old and beat him near to death. A white man had | given this old Negro man a pair | of shoes, and the policeman tried | to make the old man admit he stole the shoes. He told them, “You can kill me, but I will| not say I stole the shoes, because they were given to me.” They arrested an old womanj 65 years old, and the police} whacked her down just for noth- ing. They had eight of us in jail at the same time and kept us in jail three days. They asked us, “Haven't we been good to you? Who is your friend? | When you ask us for a favor don’t | we help you? We always have| been your friend and always will be when you do right.” When he asked us who our friends were I wanted to tell him] the Communist Party and the I. L. D. is the only friend of the working class, both Negro and white. He told us that the Com- munists don’t do anything but break up other good unions. One said I was at a union hall this morning and they said that they don’t want any Communist in this meeting. But listen what they said about the strike. “The Communists are creating trouble in the mine fields, they are the cause of the 11 work- ers being killed,” they said. “Where the Communists havg no influ- ence the workers settle with the company and have gone back to work, and this is the cause of the other mir not working.” I am not a member of the Com- munist Party but most any worker can think just a little and see from the talk of the two debaters that the Communist Party and the I. L. D. are the only organ- izations fighting for the working class. The above facts have been pointed out to let the white and Negro masses of America, and especially in the South know that the ruling class is trying to smash the only organization that is fight- ing for the masses of people, by using the white against the Ne- groes, and the Negroes against the white, telling us that we are in bad company when we are with the white workers. The ruling class does everything they can to keep the white and Negro workers from struggling to- gether for better living conditions because they know when we unite together it will be a dark day for them. The only way out for the work- ing class, the white and Negro, is to come together in a_ united struggle for their everyday needs. As long as the ruling class can use one against the other, we will always get starvation wages and lesser relief for the unemployed. I am calling all workers who want to better their conditions to join the Communist Party and the I. L. D. because the bosses are fighting against this movement, because they are for the workers, and we must build it up and make it strong. I could not see all of this till they put me in jail and the whole time I was in jail I was thinking about the Communist Party. I have been reading the Communist literature about five months and what they say comes true. I don’t know how they can tell, but they hit the nail on the head. They can tell us what is the next step the bosses are going to take to further starve us poor Negro and white people. They arrested me for a member of the Communist Party and I was not, but the next time they arrest me I will be a member of the Communist Party and fight in it until I die. FOR HUNGRY WORKING CLASSiemaitical. WOMEN—JAIL! Of special interest to working class women is a double case coming up in tombs court’Tueésday (today) at 10 am. Two women, Mrs. Victoria Raffee and Miss Bertha Long, were ar- rested on May 22, when, with a huge crowd of other workers, they| congregated before the Spring and Elizabeth St. relief station to pro- test the stopping of relief. This meeting was quiet and or- derly. A committee of five had been elected which was flatly refused ad- mittance. The crowd protested and finally permission was given for the committee to go inside. The cops, wishing to provoke the crowd, began to push them, though they had not obstructed what little traffic there War. Mrs. Raffe was pushed among others, Mother of two small chil- iren, with a third now due, she is pale and emaciated by hunger. Her husband has been long unem- ployed. She had one blood trans- fusion not long ago and should have another in order to bear the child safely. Several letters stat- ing her condition and need of food were given her by Bellevue Hos- pital, which letters she took to the relief bureau. The bureau kept the letters. Her relief had she. had had to many times and been stopped and go to the bureau insist on its con- tinuance. Once they sent her to the psychopathic ward for a gruel- ing ‘mental examination. (Must be a lunatic if you want to eat, says capitalism.) When she was pushed on May 22, she protested. The bourgeois papers said-she had slapped a cop’s face; this-is not true. She was roughly seized by two cops, brutally man- handled, and dragged a couple of blocks down street where she was thrown into a cab and taken away. When Mrs. Raffee was first taken, Bertha Long (unemployed girl who hhas been dependent on relief which had been stopped) tried to go to her rescue and was herself held by sev- eral cops. A photo of this incident appeared in the tabloid papers with the lie that Miss Long had hit a cop with a pop bottle, a lie doubtless in- spired by the fact that Miss Long’s handbag was caught by the camera at an angle which made it appear like a bottle. Bertha Long was here released. She. went with the rest of the crowd who, followed the cops dragging Mrs. Rafiee down street, and went to a nearby jail to see if she was there. Standing across the street from this jail, bothering nobody, Miss Long was errested by Frank Conboy, one of the officers who had taken Mrs. “affee. Miss Long had supported her- self by doing housework while she put herself through high sckool, taking a business course, and graduating three years ago. She has been upable to find steady werk. Some time ago, for fighting for relief, she was ar- rested and released on probation. She is bravely determined to practice workers’ self-defense in court. I. L. D, lawyers (Tauber and Tan- om) ‘are technically handling the 2 of the two women. Raffce is ill. She has been ed to bed. Whether or not che will be physically able to ap- Pear in court at all today is prob- 4 plainly name, number. SIZE. CONDLCTRD BY HELEN LUKE on Saturday to see how it was with her; there was a woman friend from the block with her. She showed me a slip written by Dr. Joseph Santilli, a relief bureau doctor, which read: “Advised: chicken broth, vegetables, spinach, carrots, butter, rice, plenty milk, fruit.” Chicken broth, vegetables, butter, milk—! Try and get ’em! There was an apple core in the house when I was there. The kids came from play to ask for it. Working women and men, pack the court today. See that justice is done these class sisters, demand that they be released and given the relief they need to keep them from actual starvation. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1844 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 35% yards 39 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included, Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams patter:, Write address and style BE SURE TO STATE Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th} St., New York City. I stopped at her house | Welfare Head Is Boss’ Tool Art Metal Workers Are | Hampered by Larson | in Struggles By a Worker Correspondent JAMESTOWN, N. Y—The “New Deal” in Jamestown is changing its | pro. s, from sweet to a bitter} sour. Jack Larson is a man who is parading under the banner, “Friend of labor.” He had been elected into the office of councilman by the | workers on a new deal ticket. But| |the bosses knew that Jack Larson | has a good ability to serve them, as | he proved during the Art Metal| | Strike, so they put him in for Com- | | missioner of Public Welfare. He was last year a chairman of the Art Metal Strike Relief Com- mittee. Now he is a commissioner of Public Welfare, and also a chair- man of the Art Metal Union, and boasts he is a good servant of Man- ufacturers’ Association of James-| town. He plans to put all single work- | ers off of the relief list, by offering jobs out on farms for 15 a month and board. Now the farmers, if they are going to hire anybody, want those with experience, and even those, they don’t pay $15 and board. And how many workers who have been working in the cities all | their lives understand farming? Has Mr. Larson already forgotten that there were over 4,000 workers registered for the C. W. A. in Jamestown? But Mr. Larson suggested to the City Council to pass a law that any worker who refuses to work for nothing on the farm is a subject of arrest and punishment. The following appeared in the Jamestown Post, May 10: | “Mr. Larson after submitting his report, brought up the question of men on relief who refuse to work, He pointed out that in Niagara Falls there is a city ordinance de- claring such persons vagrants, with a punishment of a fine and impris- onment. Mr. Larson suggested that something like that might be done in Jamestown, and the board will take up the matter with the City Council. “Mr. Larson said that he had given considerable time to the mat- ter of deporting aliens, but so far had had little success, and he gave a brief report of the work being done along this line in Niagara Falls.” This is the friend of labor: and the workers are beinning to judge him by his deeds, and not by his mouthpiece. He saved fi4,000 to the bosses during February, one of the worst months in many years, when workers were needing more food, clothing, fuel and shelter, and with 212 more families on the relief list in that month. He saved $4,000, yes, cutting down the food, clothing, fuel and shelter to the workers. The Art Metal Workers recently presented their demands. Their wages at present, in view of the rise in food, clothing and shelter, border on the starvation level. But the management of the Art Metal has rejected their demand for a 15 per cent increase in wages, for the bosses see that their union is not a militant aggressive fighting union, and therefore the bosses have established horse-shoe games to kid the workers into forgetting about wages. The Art Metal workers should ac- cept this challenge of the company. First, they should elect a broad rank and file committee; second, see that committees are elected in every department; third, throw those scums who are running the Welfare- Department out of the union, for they cannot serve for manufacturers’ Association and the workers. Gary Engineers’ Lives Endangered By Coal on Engines Have No Place to Stand, But Company Does Nothing By a Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind.—Several weeks ago the safety man, Davis, was notified of the fact that the engineers face the danger of falling off the coal on the new engines. This is due to the fact that there is no place for the engineers. In spite of this, no action has been taken to change the method of taking on coal. It seems as if the company is marking time, as usual, until some one falls off the tank and gets killed or severely injured, and then, perhaps, they will change this. In thousands of ways, such as this the company endangers the health and lives of the workers in order to save a few dollars here and there and pile up their profits. Workers of the transportation de- partment, organize yourselves into department committees and speak up against these and other prac- tices. Demand safe conditions, de- mand a change in the way of taking coal on the new engine. Fellow workers, what happened on May 10, between 12 and 8, was that a worker in No. 4 open hearth was injured. One of the boards nailed on the windows for the win- ter time was so loose that the wind blew it down and smacked it right on a worker’s face and cut a chunk out of his cheek. Demand that this carelessness which results in crippl- ing workers, be stopped. The only way to fight this is by joining the S. M. W. I. U. of the Gary steel workers. The Daily Worker gives you full news about the struggle for un- Investigation Promised By a Worker Correspondent FLINT, Mich—The rank and file of the Patternmakers’ Local have demanded that the local officials investigate the record of Francis Dillon, the organizer appointed by the A. F. of L. to take charge of the work of organizing the auto workers in Flint. The basis for this investigation is the facts that have come to light which brand this shining light of the A. F. of L. as a guntoter, drunkard and all-around sell-out artist. When the question was raised by the rank and file on the floor of the local meeting, the officials agreed to. investigate this man. That was six weeks ago and there is still no investigation. The basis for these charges was that some members of the local had concrete proof that a number of years ago in a big strike in Indiana- Polis, two workers were standing on the picket line at a certain point when a scab was seen sneaking out of a side door. He was immedi- ately stopped by the pickets who at- tempted to persuade this worker that he was doing the wrong thing by scabbing. They were answered with a volley of abuse, and then this scab drew his gun and forced his way past the pickets. This amiable gentleman was none other than Mr. Dillon. The Patternmakers’ Union of De- trois some years ago decided to have a meeting to instruct the ap- Jailed in\JJamestown |Patiernmakers Revolt Against AFL Drunkard in Flint Six Weeks Ago By Union Officials Not Yet Made makers as to just what the organi- zation meant to do. They sent a letter to the general executive board asking that a member of the board be sent to Detroit to give the message of “hope and faith” to the unenlightened patternmakers. Mr. | Francis Dillon was given the assign- ment. there was a crowd of 600 pattern- makers all ready to be “uplifted.” | Unfortunately, Mr. Dillon was blind He took the platform and ourse was mainly on the of the products of the Indianapolis bootleggers. That is how he “uplifted” the meeting. He was gently led from the plat- form and during the rest of the meeting his drunken snorts were yery disturbing to the membership, who were forced to listen to Mr. Dillon as he lay stretched out on some chairs in front. This protege of “Bill’ Green has the task of organizing the auto workers to Flint. And how he or- ganizes! Recently in the Fisher plant three strike votes were taken and this rat was instrumental in spiking them all, It is very obvious that the sell- out policies of the A. F. of L. lead- ership are being carried out to the letter by Dillon and it is the first and major task of the rank and file to not only expose this rat but to carry on a constructive fight to oust him and place a rank and file prentices and non-union pattern- STEEL WORKERS! STRIKE PREPARATIONS! leadership at the head of the local. WRITE ABOUT YOUR action. Couple Sleep on Floor In a Shoe Shine Parlor By a Worker Correspondent DENVER, Colo. — Caldwell (the relief officer) run me out of his of- fice, and cursed me out. Struck me when I asked him for work on re- lief, and I hit him in self-defense. I hayen’t any money. I am mar- ried and have no work and they won't give me any relief. I haven't any home. My wife and I sleep on the floor in a shoe shine parlor and no one wants to help me, LETTERS FROM OUR READERS Y. WORKERS!—HELP MAKE SEAN MURRAY’S BANQUET A SUCCESS J.C.’s letter criticizing Party mem- bers in Providence for their irre- sponsible attitude toward the Sean Murray meeting, brought out some- thing that we felt for a long time, namely, an underestimation on the part of many comrades as to the role the Communist Party of Ire- land is destined to play in the revo- lutionary movement. That our enemies on both sides of the Atlantic make no such mis- takes, is quite evident. They know that a strong Party in Ireland will also influence Irish workers in America and England, and help break them away from the reaction- ary leaders, and towards our move- ment. It was with this end in view that the Irish Workers Clubs of New York brought Sean Murray to this country. He is now nearing the end of his tour. The Communist Party of America tenders him a banquet at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place, New York City, Wed- nesday evening, May 30th. Earl Browder will be the main speaker. It is the duty of all class conscious workers to attend, and show our solidarity with the comrades in Ire- Jand. AN IRISH WORKER. PENNSYLVANIA EXAMINES FOR INVESTIGATOR JOBS Harrisburg, Pa. Just a line to yet you know that the Dauphin County emergency re- lief used, as the basis of their ex- amination for investigators, the story “Bill Meade,” which appeared in the March 10th Saturday Eve- ning, Post. Much of the original story was deleted, such as, for in- stance, the account of the Commu- nist meetings in the shop of a low fellow who combined business with pleasure, by selling the devotees an especially vile drink known as “smoke.” The omission of this part of the story by the emergency relief seems to have been dictated by the need for brevity rather than de- cency, However, inasmuch as they retained sufficient references to un- employed men being easy prey for “flannel-mouthed Communists,” to be able to find out in advance how the prospective investigator feels about the red question, not to men- tion innoculating him against the virus in advance of employing him. The examination for investigator consisted of two parts: The first, a true-false examination, was given about a month ago. The second, a personal interview to determine if the applicants are of “sound judg- ment,” was given at a later date, and consisted of questions asked after the applicant had read a employment insurance, Subscribe to the Daily Worker, mimeographed copy of a condensed version of the story, “Bill Meade.” A. N, T. The steel workers stand on the eve of great strike struggles. The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union has issued a call to all steel workers for united struggle for the seven most urgent demands | of the steel workers, The rank and file of the Amalgamated Associ- ation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.) have decided on strike action, if their demands are not met by the companies. We urge all steel workers to write to the Daily Worker on the sentiment of the workers in their shops concerning united strika We urge all members of the A, A. to report on the actions their locals have taken, and to expose the maneuverings of the Tighe- Leonard machine. Workers’Enemies Exposed HUGH LONG (DONALDSON), of Yonkers, N. Y., has been expelled from the Communist Party as an incurable white chauvinist and anti- Semite, who is totally unfit for mem- bership in the ranks of the revolu- tionary Party of the working class, Donaldson has been actively prop- agating anti-Negro and anti-Semitic ideas. He has become the center among certain ideologically back- ward elements in Yonkers for dis- crediting our Party, for carrying on disruptive work, for expressing the influence of the class enemy within our ranks. Among others, he has made such anti-working class state- ments, as—“The Negroes are emu- lating the white race ... and more or less they agree to white suprem- acy ...I will not be ruled by Ne- groes (referring to the slogan of self-determination in the Black Belt)” —and—“The fight in the Madison Square Garden was a fight between Communist Jews and So- cialist Jews . . . The majority of the leaders (in the S. P.) were Jews, and they betrayed the workers. As far as the Communist leaders are con- cerned, having been burned once, I am from Missouri, I will have to be shown.” Clearly, Donaldson still holds to the whole rotten ideology of the rul- ing class, fascist ideas disseminated by the capitalists in order to divide the workers, in order to prepare the ground for fascism. He is a South- erner and still maintains the per- nicious, poisonous, arrogant superi- ority ideas of the white hundred- percenters. He has no place in the Communist Party, in the only Party that raises high the banner of strug- gle for unity of Negro and white against all discrimination and all expressions of chauvinism and anti- Semitism. In expelling Donaldson from its ranks, the Communist Party exposes him to all workers for what he is and warns all workers against his disruptive ideas and influence, warns against placing any confidence in COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S.A. NEW YORK DISTRICT. Girls Replace Men In Winchester Plant By a Worker Correspondent NEW HAVEN, Conn.—I stood ; in front of the Winchester em- ployment office yesterday morn- ing, for about one hour. A crowd of men were standing around. The cry was that no one was allowed to enter but girls. I found such was the case. Crowds of young girls, Polish and Italian, were hurrying into the office. Most of them that I saw looked as if they just came out of the Grammar School. They were thin and under-nourished. They all stayed in the office while I was there, so they must have got em- ployment. Sapitalist production makes the able-bodied men walk the streets and have the weak ones | do the work. | 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 eorts to organize. Please get the letters to us by Friday of each week, a When he arrived at the meeting, | Shipyard Worker Asks About War Navy Not Being Built By U.S. Imperialism for “Defense” By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—We got back five per cent of our cut and we're getting back another five per cent in July. Our hours have been cut from 44 to 40 per week. We were getting one day off every two weeks without pay, now we are working full time. There were about 1,500 of us laid off, now they are all com- ing back. It looks Jike prosperity Is coming back to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. New machines, up-to-the-minute stuff are being installed in a lot of the shops, The fleet is on its way to New York. That means more work for us here in the yard. The Vinson Bill has gone through, money has been appropriated for over 20 ships, we will probably get our share here in the yard. That all means we will have steady work for the next couple of years, Now, the Communists tell us that @ war is coming, and that we should fight against a war, and that the | very fact that we are building more battleships proves it. They also tell us that it is against our interests to build more battleships. But isn't it so, that building ships is our job? And a job means money to live with? And isn’t it so that all the papers tell us that if we have the largest navy, then nobody would dare tackle us, and so we would keep out of war. Therefore we are building ships for peace, Of course I wouldn't want to see another war, I remember the other one too well. Besires, I have two sons who are old enough to go in case of war. Of course, I don’t be- lieve any of this patriotic bunk about. “Defending democracy,” etc. I would like to see a few remarks about the position we, workers in the yard, are placed in with regard to war and the building of battle- ships. Yours truly, J. M. * 8 Editor’s Note.—With millions of dollars invested in foreign markets to exploit the people living in the Latin American countries and in Asia, the American finance capital- ists are building up the greatest navy in American history not for “defense of American shores but to guard and to expand their field of exploitation. In their effort to find new markets abroad, because they have no place for their money in their own country where people are starving because of over- production, the American bosses come into conflict with Jap- anese, French and British robbers who have the same trouble. That is what the navies of all capitalist countries are being built up for— not for “defense” but for robbery of colonial peoples. Shipyard workers may for a time get a five per cent increase, but ex- perience has shown that in the competition between the big capi- talist robbers and contractors, wages are finally cut again unless the workers organize for struggle. But the most important thing for PARTY LIFE Trade Union Tasks of By NAT GOODWIN Youth Organizer of Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union HAVE just read the draft resulo- tion of the National Executive Committee of the Y. C. L. for the convention. I fully agree with this resolution, as a correct estimation of the present economic situation, also in reviewing the activities of the Y. C. L, since the last conven- tion. The resolution points out correctly that we failed to penetrate into the factories and that there is actually resistance on the part of league members to joining a trade union or other youth mass organization. The resolution states that in the last few months there has been some improvement of our work in the A. F. of L. (Steel), but the work of the league in the revolutionary unions has not improved and re- mains in the same unsatisfactory position. It points out the reason for this is as follows: 1—That a small percentage of young workers in the Y. C. L. are members and active in trade unions. 2—That there is @ resistance to taking up youth problems, and youth forms “iy the revolutionary union leadership, which is a rem- nant of reformist ideology (Needle, Steel). 3—The lack of understanding in the ranks of the Y. C. L. of the need for economic youth demands and that these form the basis for youth sections, youth committees, etc. I want to discuss two of the most important problems confronting the league at this convention. 1—The work in trade unions and mass organizations. 2—How to work in these organ- izations. I am in the league two years. In these two years, I witnessed the formation of about a dozen youth committees, but none of them ever functioned. I also have been organ- izer of the last youth committee. Here is how they were organized. Our union leadership never took up the question of the young workers, as a union question, to be solved as any union problem, but left to be solved by itself. If there were a few Y. C. L. members in the union that wanted to organize a youth section, these young workers had to do everything by themselves. Most of the league members of the committee did not regard the work in the trade union as important. They were “busy” with unit work! It therefore took weeks just to get them together to a meeting, and after a few weeks, the youth com- mittee went to pieces. We were so busy organizing our- selves that we left out the task of taking up the problems of the young workers of our industry, calling youth conferences in a given trade by our union in order to work out demands for these young workers, and to elect a youth committee from there to carry on organizational work. Our union failed to do this. I was the last one to try to or- ganize the shipping clerks of my trade (Fur). In the fur trade, our revolutionary union was able to win all workers to remember is that no bribery in the form of small wage raises can replace the loss of life that threatens workers and their children in the next world butchery toward which all imperialist coun- tries are rushing. The shipyard workers must organize with all other workers to fight war now, and to fight to defend the workers’ father- land, the Soviet Union, the only land where all workers are sure of getting jobs without having to pray for a war fever to give them jobs for a few years. . Florida Worker Describes Terror By a Worker Correspondent MIAMI BEACH, Fla—The in- teresting articles in the Daily Worker by Joseph Freeman about Florida have inspired me to write about that state. I worked in Miami for the past four years in one of the finest hotels. As you all know, down in the South, the Communist Party is illegal, but the Socialist Party and the Silver Shirts are func- tioning legally! And besides, the S. P. and the Silver Shirts are very close neighbors not only in their headquarters, but also in their policies, in making the same attacks against the revolutionary workers, You need not go to Germany for Hitlers; you have them right in Florida. After trying to or- ganize the food workers, a yellow rat gave me away to the boss and our plot was uncovered. I was forced to leave Miami. Then I went up to my boss to ask him for my back wages, which Was $75. He said to me, “Forget about it, you have cost me enough already, trying to organize work- ers in my place.” When I said, “Well, we have a right under the N. R. A. to organize and demand better conditions,” he said, “Not down in Florida, and besides,” he said, “You know that in one hour I can have you locked up and they will throw the keys away when I tell them that you are a Communist.” Then I realized what the sit- uation was, so I had to leave and forget about my wages. DAVID KRAFT (Signature Authorized) The Daily Worker gives you the truth about conditions in the Soviet Union, the truth about workingclass strikes in the United States and abroad. Buy the Daily Worker at the newsstands better conditions for the fur work- ers, with the result that 95 per cent of the workers are members of our union. In the fur trade, there are quite a few crafts working in the same shop, but our union was able to or- ganize them into an industrial union. But, in this same trade there are shipping clerks and floor boys, who are unorganized young workers, and work under the most miserable Be Organized in the Unions: conditions 50-60 hours a week for $10 to $12 per week. When I took up this question of the shipping clerks, I met strong resistance from the union leadership. Even in this trade, where we have organized the How Can the Young Workers ? Needle Trades Youth Organizer Discusses the the Y. C. I. Convention adult workers, we failed to organize the young workers. In this connection our revolu- tionary union was more reformist than some of the right wing unions, because they started or- ganizing the shipping clerks in the IL. G. W. U., ete., but our union has still not approached the very important question of organizing the young workers, eR Ce UR union has over 23,000 members and there are more than 5000 young workers. But, has our union taken up the problem of making these young workers active in our union? No. Young workers are not interested in attending union mzet- ings only. The union can develop youth activities such as a youth sec- tion, sports club and other social ace tivities in order to keep them in- terested and close to our union activities, When I raised this question of or- ganization among the young work- ers, the secretary admitted that the union had failed to organize the young workers. But what has been done to remedy this situation? No- thing! They still leave this ques- tion to be solved by the young work- ers themselves. I can say that it is partly be- cause of this reformist attitude to- ward the young workers by our union leadership that our league is not active in the trade unions, I am not putting all the blame on our union leadership, but this situation cannot be corrected with- out the close cooperation of the Party and union leadership. In order to organize the young workers in the revolutionary unions, independent and A. F. of L. opposi- tion groups, we must see to it that the youth question becomes a part of our union activities. In this way, we will be able to make the young workers active in the trade unions, In organizing a youth committee, we must do as follows: In a trade where we have a T. U. U. L. union, this union should meet to discuss the problem of the young workers. Then it should call a conference of the young workers, let them work out their demands, elect a youth committee and see to it that leading members of the union are also elected to this committee; then proceed with organizing the young workers in the trade by taking up the eco- nomic problems of these young workers, wages, hours, N. R. A. discrimination, etc. In an independent union, we can do the same thing. In an opposition group, our com- rades must become the leaders in organizing the young workers. It must become a part of our opposi- tion program, We can organize these young workers in the A. F. of L. as our allies in the strug- gle against the A. F. of L. mis- leaders. ‘We must see that this youth ques- tion is put to the entire league and Party; that it is discussed at every fraction meeting. We should also have an educational campaign through the entire membership of our unions, using our papers and trade union magazines, etc. ee aw ‘HE “Young Worker” must play an important role in bringing this change in our work, and if the league will become connected with the young workers and organize them and become the leaders in the struggle for better conditions for these young workers, the “Young Worker” will increase rapidly in cir- culation. T hope that at this conventon, the league will be able to work out con- cretely ways of making every league member active and of turning the league into a mass proletarian youth organization, concentrated in the factories, schools and among the unemployed youth, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Habitual Dislocation of the Shoulders I. J. W.—Once a limb is dislocated from its joint, it becomes so much easier for it to become dislocated again. The oftener it is dislocated, the more chances there are for future dislocations. This is due to the fact that when the head of the bone leaves the socket joint, it streaches the ligaments which sur- round the joint and hold it inside of the cavity. Once the ligaments are stretched, subsequent dislocations will occur more easily. The same thing happens at the ankle joint. It is well known to tennis players and skaters that once they get a sprained ankle, they are prone to suffer from the same accident much more frequently afterwards. We doubt that an operation will do any good. The best course to fol- low is to take a prolonged rest from all physical exercises involving your shoulder joints. Sometimes the ap- Plication of a plaster-of-paris cast immobilizes the joint sufficiently, enough to give a chance to the re- Jaxed ligaments to contract and thus prevent further dislocations. ees cee ie Dandrufi—Rectal Itching Nat G.—Castor oil, applied every night by gentle rubbing, often im- proves a dry scaip. Washing the hair more than once in two weeks tends to further dry it. We do not recommend any patent medicines for this conditions which is often due to the underlying general constitu- tion. Before we can advise you regard- ing the itching in the rectum, we Should like to examine a sample OLA Vth C4, By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. of your urine, The fact that it was found to be negative at the clinic is no reason for us to take it for granted. The avoidance of spicy food which includes alcohol and meat-broth often allays the itching, For a more definite treatment you have to consult a physician, Sve oe Loss of Weight Mrs. R.A.S., Toronto, Can.—Be- fore we can advise you as to how to gain weight, please let us know how much you weigh now, as well as your age and height; also whether you have had your “change of life”. or not. If you could have your urine examined before writing us again, it will help to form a more definite opinion about the cause of your ex- cessive loss of weight. A few points on your medical history regarding former sicknesses, type of work you are doing, etc., will assist us in giv- ing you an intelligent advice. . # ® Nose Bleeds—Gas Pains E. S., Toivola, Mich.—Tell us some more about your age, kind of work you are doing and previous diseases If you will send us a sample of your urine in a clean well-corked bottle we should be glad to examine it ant advise you accordingly. If you a private reply, you must enclos¢ postage. 3 é Addresses Wanted Joseph Martinez Lara, New Yor) City; Maurice Simon, Chicago; H Irwin, Los Angeles, Calif.; Maria H Garcia, El Paso, Texas; H. Hillman Chicago; Anthony Bristol, Chicago} Anton Metzler, Chicago; C. Schi! Brooklyn; L. Singer, Chicago; J Zeigler, Beaver Meadow, N. Y. pore | : |