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| / Page Four Florida Toilers Brush Aside ‘Law’ for Relief By a Worker Correspondent making There were about 100 went to i time, told them to ack a couple days later and ve appointed had the Ti on eat and more. moye. Complaint Board Is Full of Alibis By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill—An office worker for the Enoz Corp. of Chicago re- ceived the following letter from the demai N. R. A. Complaint Board in Chi- cago which is the most concrete proof possible, without any legal trimmings, of what the Daily Work- er and the Communist Partv h always said about the N. R. that it is smashing wages and living standards of the American people by making the miserable minimum wages fixed by the N. R. A., the maximum. The letter reads as follows: “Dear Miss:— “We are in receipt of your com- plaint alleging non-payment for overtime. The wage scale for office em-| ployees within the Insecticide and Disinfectant Industry is $15 for a 40 hour week, or 37 and a half cents an ‘hour. “There is also a provision in the Code for working 48 hours per week during peak periods. “It seems from your complaint that you have worked in the neigh- borhood of 48 hours per week. At 37 and a half cents per hour, 48 hours labor would entitle you to $18. As you state that you are paid $20 per week at this time, we cannot see any validity in your complaint. “Very truly JOHN E. CASSIDY. State N.R.A. Compliance Director. The Government thinks that this worker, who has put in countless hours overtime for which she has never received-a cent, is being over- paid, since the Code calls for only yours There'll Be Work In | Heaven, Jobless Told | By a Worker Correspondent ‘Work wil CHICOPEE, Mass. n heaven,” Watson ion at the T n Church. a two col ere. the members of thi h worked in a cotton m over 30 years. This mill jouth three years ago in rder to get lower taxes and wages. This means that 3,000 mill workers were unemployed. Most of them have not found work as yet. But Mr. Reid tells them that they will get work in heaven. But he gets his $40 every week, be sermon mn head in moved | free rent, heat and light. Seems he himself doesn't wait for heaven. ‘Evict and Jail :| Mother of Six) By a Worker Correspondent CALUMET CITY, Iil—There is a woman living in Calumet City, Til, whose husband has died. He | left her with six children and a | big loan on her house, which | she was unable to pay. The chil- dren who are old enough are in | sehool | In the middle of the winter! | this woman was thrown out of} | her house because she couldn't | pay the loan. | When the Workers Society heard | | of this, they helped her to get) back into the house. Then the| police came and tried to stop her from moving into the house. But the workers Society of Calu- met City wouldn't give up with- out a fight. There was a big up- roar; the woman was hurt. They put her into prison, and said they would keep her there for six months or she would have to pay | $60. The children crying and plead- | | ing for their mother didn’t soften the hearts of the policemen. How could she pay? She didn’t have a cent in her pocket. How could they keep a mother away from her children for six months? Then the Wokers’ Society of Calumet City put in a bond. They made a collection and collected the money to get her out of pris- on, to her children, who were waiting with open arms for her. They were found a place to live in. The woman got a job. If the Workers Society of Calu- met City was a little stronger she wouldn't have had to pay that fine to get her out of prison. $15 a week. No further comment is necessary, except to state that if this worker would have gone down to the N. R. A. Board. with a dele- gation either from her office or the | Office Workers Union, and de- manded her rights, action could have been gotten. YOUTH DAY—OF SUPREME IM- PORTANCE TO WORKING-CLASS WOMEN At a cocktail party at the May- flower in Washington, so the World- Telegram of last Saturday informs us, the bourgeois ladies celebrated the “victory for equal rights for women” gained by their securing the consent of the United States, mong other nations, to grant wo- men. equal rights with men in transmitting nationality. Doris Stevens, “in cobalt blue, with one of those smart collars which makea woman look both business-like and attractive,” joined with the other ladies in toasting Cordell Hull. (It was Mrs. Hull, we recall who de- cided she'd better not accept a free ride on the battleship Richmond because her husband thought it no place for a woman.) Mrs. Robert Sanger, reports the Hearst press, is now talking about motherhood licenses for women. That is to say, another license in addition to the marriage license. She -is the lady who campaigns for legalizing of birth control informa- tion, so that destitute people may not have to have so many kids, yet does not see the necessity of free birth control clinics and free dis- tribution of contraceptives. Meanwhile, working-class mothers are beaten and jailed for demanding food for their kids, and the women of the nation are being intensively groomed and prepared for “equal rights” to sufer in the next great hojiocaust. As Major-General Ely said in his already famous state- meht, “The utilization of women in war will grow out of a new concep- tion of warmaking born during the Jast war.” Yes, the “war to end war’—that's the one he’s talking} about. Tn 1918 it was a war to end war, now they confess it merely served to give the bosses ideas on how to con- duct bigger, better, and bloodier wars, with a bigger part played by women. Betrayal! Betrayal! How can such betrayals arouse in us any- thing but the justest rage and in- dignation? Today “Decoration Day” will be celebrated and the World War glorified: tomorrow the American fleet, grim harbinger of the next slaughter of innocents, will be reviewed. ‘Today we have the opportunity to assert our resentment against the former betrayal and the impending one by joining the mighty youth demonstrations against the reaction- ary patriotic flag-waving military displays — displays ostensibly for peace. . We have learned, however that capitalist governments do not build warships, tanks, and planes for peace. If the working-class women Suffered and sacrificed in the last ‘War, we may be sure they will suffer and sacrifice doubly, triply, in the next. For every conscious prole- #arian woman it is vitally necessary 4 CONDUCT! He LURE now, in this crucial hour, to get out into the streets and support the youth movement against war and fascism as well as to publicize the coming Women’s Congress in Paris: for nothing but the government’s fear of the proletariat will avert another international massacre. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1771 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, and 40. Size 16 takes 414 yards 39 inch fab- ric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write Address orders to Daily Worker | Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City 4 \ plainly name, address and_ style number. BE SURE TO STATE! SIZE. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1934 U. T. W. Is Deseribed By WorkersBeaten By Drunken Cop Near! ,, I. Miller Plant By a Shoe Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y member of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union. Last Thursday I went to the I. Miller plant to distribute leaflets to the I. Miller workers, calling upon them to help the Garside strikers in their fight against the bosses and the Boot and Shoe Union. Another Long Island worker went there with me. When we came near the plant, a cop spoke to me and told me that I could distribute the leaflets, but that I shouldn’t let them drop on the ground. Then he went into the I. Miller shop and came back about 15 minutes later. His breath smelled from whiskey and he acted drunk. He grabbed hold of the other worker and pushed him “up the street. Then he hit him and kicked him He then placed this worker under arr and ordered me to go away from the factory. On Friday two more workers were arrested and got the same kind of trial as we did. On Monday we all four were sentenced to two days in the work-house, after each of the workers had protested the arrest and trials. An hour later three of the workers were released, but the fourth one, George Evans, worked two days in the work-house. When he came back he told me that they had worked him from the minute he got in until he left at the dirtiest kind of work. The workers of I. Miller should know about this and should organ- ize themselves as the Garside work- ers are doing, tnto a militant rank and file opposition in the Boot and Shoe and fight against the miser- able conditions in the shops and the stool-pigeons of I. Miller who do the same things to the workers in the shop as the cop did to the workers outside of the shop. Betrayal by N.R.A. Shown by Worker By a Worker Correspondent BUFFALO, N. Y.—I had been working nights at a hotel in Buffalo since Dec. 20 at an extremely low wage, and was told that there was no permanent hotel code. Through inquiry I found that there had been one since November. As there was no union whatsoever in the hotel, and I could not convince the in- dividuals there to fight for decent wages, I myself complained to the NRA. The N.R.A. made an investigation exposing their books and exposing my name. Then when the hotel man- agement found out who it was, they made prevaricating statements to the N.R.A. officials that I didn’t have to put in seven nights a week, and work later than 6 o’clock in the morning, and that I could have been provided with a room, which was all untrue. I was told by letter the case is referred to another code authority in the city, who knew nothing what- soever about the case, and only gave vague promises. I gave up the job as I could not work for starvation wages. In conclusion I wish to say or ad- vise anyone not to play the lone hand or without unity, as in m, case, as the N.R.A. betrays you. FERA Workers Get $1 Checks after Waiting 3 Weeks By a Worker Correspondent PORTLAND, Maine—On Satur- day, May 19, the FERA workers re- ceived their first pay since this new relief administration was installed in our city. The whole afternoon a large crowd stayed around the City Hall. Some of the men waiting for their checks two and three weeks. After hours of waiting, the doors were finally opened and the police started to push the men around. Some of the workers did get a whole week’s pay —$12, but quite a few received as little as $1 checks, and some as little as 50 cents. When the men com- plained, the police were right on hand to shut them up. Those who were persistent enough received extra $1 grocery orders to keep them quiet. The local press in its report had @ very dramatic description of how Mr. Smith went to Augusta for the money, how he hurried back and how he finally appeared at the City Hall with the checks in his bag. They did not forget to mention also the good-heartedness of the city of- ficials, who sacrificed their Satur- day afternoon; but they forget to mention the misery of the workers who went for three weeks without pay. They did forget to mention that those men, who received 50c and $1 checks couldn't pay their rent, nor their grocery bills; that those men had nothing to bring home to their worried wives, to their hungry kids. Are the City Fathers planning to keep those people on a hunger diet and pay them for their labor with a grocery basket now and then or throw a dollar to keep them quiet? Iam a Bricklayers Support Plumbers Strike NEW YORK.—Workers of the Samuels and Dickstein Plumbing Contractors, who have been on strike since May 5 under the lead- ership of the Alteration Plumbers, Steamfitters and Helpers Union, are still out solid. Bricklayers in the employ of the company have stopped work in sympathy with the plumbers, | | | | | Shop Chairman and Approval Committees Subject to by the Boss a Worker Correspondent UNION CITY, N. J—I am a silk dyer, working in Hudson County. We had no previous experience in organization. We did not take part in the big dyers’ strike in the sum- mer of 1933. We expected the Na- tional Textile Workers Union to call us out on strike, but that was not the case. Along came the U. T. W. (A. F. of L.) and by scaring the bosses that the Reds are coming, they signed a yellow agreement with the dye op- erators and only after they got the bosses, they started to sign up mem- bers. We were eager for organiza- tion and joined the union. This is! now Local No. 2052. A number of shops .are still not organized, and one of them the largest shop in this territory, the Warren Dye Works. How the U.T.W. Called a Strike Without at all preparing the shops where we had many members to support the strike, and if necessary to stop them from work in order to win the strike in the most important shop, a strike was called. The boss was much beiter prepared than we were. He had the police and scabs transported from Paterson, while we felt quite alone, not even suported by our own members of the local. The workers were ready to give the support, but Patrick Quinlan, the “leader,” signed a no-strike agree-| ment. The strike was not effective, and this is still an open shop. where the organized dye shops are not closed union shops. The bosses do as they please. There is no equal division of work in the shops. The shop chairman and shop committees do not function, (they are by the | way, subject to approval by the boss). The bosses can fire and they do, The union delegate elected by us, a worker whom we have taken off the job to represent us and fight |for us,—is not admitted to the dye | shops. | The members, as a result of all |this, are losing interest in the | union, and do not attend any more meetings as they used to. I now want to bring out a very important fact—it is necessary to | work patiently and persistently in jorder to win over workers to the | revolutionary movement. I want to give the following example: I know a weaver, a member of the U. T. W., very popular among | the workers. I got to talk to him a number of times, without apparent results. I didn’t give up. I sup- plied him daily with a Daily Worker. He became interested, and asked me for literature. I gave him the pamphlet “Why Communism?” Here is his reaction: “Not a word of it can be disproved, but had you ap- proached me several years ago when I earned $60, $70 a week, I would have laughed at you. Now we make $15-$18 a week, when we are lucky enough to make a full week. By |the way have you more literature, We have a few Communists in| I want to get better acquainted with this local, by far not enough, how-| what the Communists say. It is the ever. If there was an issue raised| only way out now. They call me a in this local, the Communists raised | Communist home, but I don't care.” it. We passed the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill H. R. 7598. The members voted unanimously for it, our recording secretary, notified the senator and the higher bodies of our union that we passed the Wag- ner Bill. The no-class struggle policy of the A. F. of L. has led to a condition But the bosses‘ hireling, Whitie, | I expect to recruit him to the Party shortly. This will mean that he will influence many workers | among the 1,200 in this local. We must set ourselves the task of | winning the key men, with influence among many workers. If it can be done with this worker, it can be done with many more. Patient, persistent work is neces- sary. | Letters from THE CASE OF D. BELLUSSI New York, N. Y. Dear comrades: Is it true that the I. L. D. failed to defend D, Bellussi for whom the Non-Partisan Labor Defense is hold- ing an anti-fascist dinner for the purpose of raising funds to send Bellussi to Costa Rica, instead of Italy where he awaits penalty as an anti-fascist? A Y.C.Ler, . * 4 Dear Comrade: I have just had brought to my attention a copy of a letter sent to the Daily Worker by a “Y.C.L.’er” asking if the I.L.D. defended D. Bel- lussi, a member of the Communist Party Opposition, arrested for de- portation in Philadelphia. The International Labor Defense did defend this worker from the very inception of his case. Bellussi was arrested in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., some- time in July, 1933. An ILD. at- torney was immedately assigned to the case. Later Bellussi was trans- ferred to Gloucester, New Jersey, and another I. L. D. attorney was appointed to handle the case from that point. The Philadelphia District of the I. L. D. decided to wage a defense campaign around the Bellussi case, and since a number of Trotzkyites were concerned about the case, it was decided that any assistance from them would be accepted, » The I. L. D. dealt with them through an appointed representative. After the Our Readers but was refused aid because of his {sympathy for the Left Opposition.” | Such statements are deliberate lies | spread for the purpose of hindering the work of the I. L. D., the only working class defense organization. The I. L. D. appeals to all work- ers to beware of the lies and slan- | ders of all those who seek to de- | stroy the labor movement and urges | them to expose such renegades on | every occasion. Comradely yours, International Labor Defense. LAWRENCE EMERY, Asst. Natl. Secy. FEEDING THE HUNGRY New Orleans, La. People rushng to and fro, like so many ants at work, shrimp being unloaded at one side of the market, at the other side the stands of the big buyers of sea food; one of them jis the property of “Mr. Joe Mon- | teleone,” one of the big moguls at | the French Market. Amidst this agglomeration of fish, shrimp and vegetables there are two forlorn figures, that of an old lady, and that of a little girl. They gaze hungrily at all the good things to eat, all the good things they need so badly and yet cannot get. But wait! I see Monteleone him- |self approaching. He’s toying with a toothpick and he looks like he’s very happy over something. He |looks about him with the air of a |Lord and in doing this his eyes | stop at the spot where the old lady jand her famished-looking little Company Union Set-Up Put Over By Silk Dyer Children “Die Like Flies” in Roswell, N. Mex. By a Worker Correspondent ROSWELL, N. Mex. — I have worked as nurse among the unem- ployed for 11 months, and I find conditions far worse today than when I started. The children suf- fer the most, and die like flies in the unsanitary hovels in which they live, as many as 13 in two rooms and eight in one room 9 by 12, with two beds, one table, no chairs. In one home I nursed six with typhoid fever in one room and a mother gave birth to another one in the same room where the six children were ill with fever, twin girls, five years old, one girl 12, one boy 8, one girl 10 years. The relief agent here has her few pets, as I guess all relief stations have. Some get fresh fruit, milk, butter, eggs, their rent paid and clothes, while other mothers and babies live on the barest of food stuffs, potatoes, beans, flour, with no fuel to cook these few pitiful things with. The Spanish Americans are the worst sufferers here in Roswell. One day I took a Baptist preacher with me and he broke down and cried in one home: and came back to town and got medicine. I have held mass meetings on the court lawn and demonstrated with a baby 4% lbs. that doctors said, what was the use to bother with its people who were poor and had no money, but today the baby lives and weighs 1912 lbs. If only the workers here in Ros- well would wake up to the fact that with mass demonstrations we could do away with all of this. If they only knew that when the police tell them to stay away from meetings or they will jail them, that it is this Police force that is afraid of us. We have held our meetings even with the threat of jail and tear-gas bombs and gun display of the police and 30 or 40 stool pigeons, all armed. The workers have let these men buffalo them until their children and wives are starving and go with- out clothes and fuel and are even put out of their homes on the street. It is the Communists and the Un- employed Council that put them back in their homes again. Why won’t they wake up and fight shoul- der to shoulder, man, woman and child, and force this Relief Station to give what the Federal Relief Ad- ministrator Harry L. Hopkins says we shall have: food, clothes, fuel, rent, lights and medicine, which they refuse to give. Defective Elevator Kills Old Sailor in “Snug Harbor” By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—This is the true story back of the death of Hugh McEachern, 76, inmate of Sailors’ Snug Harbor. Police inspection of the fatal accident decided that McEachern, while lying on a stetcher in an elevator, had kicked the starting lever while drunk and dis- orderly and was crushed to death in the drop which followed. But this is the real story: The elevator is defective. Powered by electricity which is created by city- supplied water power, when pressure is low, the elevator barely moves; if water pressure increases suddenly, it shoots up or down uncontrollably. Hugh McEachern, weak, ill and old, lay on the stretcher. The water pressure increased and the elevator fell like a plummet, killing him, PARTY LIFE Roseville, Mich., Party Unit Reports on Activity in Village Sold 125 Copies of the May Day Issue of the Daily Worker in Town of 6,800 Population The village of Roseville has a population of 6,800. A Party unit was organized in July 1931 of six members, which has doubled since, not counting fluctuation. There are 12 dues paying members at present, a few struggles carried out were victorious, but for the present we are somewhat demoralized, that is, some of us. There is not much activity except the Daily Worker committee which started last Sep- tember with three members and we have now four members; we are Food Workers in Boston Meeting By a Workers Correspondent BOSTON, Mass.—“A. F. of L. lead- ership and structure are in their decaying stage,” said one of the old- est union bakers in Boston, during a mass meeting of the Food Workers Industrial Union, department of H. and R, workers, held at the associa- tion building, 995 Washington St., Boston, last night. “Let me give you a concrete ex- ample of what has taken place in our union,” he said. “In a short period our local membership dwin- dled from 1,100 to 20, and if some- thing is not done in the near future the local will be out of existence. “In conclusion, workers, there is only one way for us to grow and flourish, and that is with your help. At the next A. F. of L. bakers’ union meeting I will raise the question to the local—to enter the F.W.1.U. where the class struggle is the ob- jective.” Local 111 H. R. has been organized and is functioning in Boston. George Corter, chairman of the evening, had labored hard for this meeting. The first speaker, Al. Shaw, spoke on the history of unions, why they came into existence, and why they decay. He also compared the food industry in wars with many other important industries such as the shoe, or tex- tile industries workers who won many immediate demands because they were organized into a strong union. The main speaker, H. Ritch, spoke at great length about the F.W.LU., its aim, where is differs from the A. F. of L., and pointed out what les- sons local 111 should learn from other locals, New York especially. The temporary headquarters of the union are at 479 Tremont St., Boston. | 10th Anniversary issue and learning that the road of struggles, Leninism and the teachings of Marx and Engels is our only path to victory. We have no Section Committee, so we have asked for some political and organizational guidance from District No. 7, Detroit, since about January 1933. Now over a year has passed, but we are still ignored and are left to shift the best way we can. But, thanks to the Saily Worker, with this workers’ paper we have got some help in organizing our- selves again, but not all the help we require. We wish to state what has been accomplished by the Daily Worker committee first. We paid our old | bill of $21.38 left to the unit by former Daily Worker agent; secondly, we bought a pickup to be better able to carry on our func- tions and the Daily Worker route; third, we established a route and at present have 19 “Daily” readers and four extra Saturdays. With the sub campaign we got 12 months daily and eight months Saturday subs. We sold 100 copies of the 125 of the May first issue this year. We are going ahead hell bent for elec- tion and nothing can stop us now, Our committee is composed of an organizer, secretary-treasurer and two reporters. This is our first and more will follow. Will the National Office please send us the name and address of subscribers in the follow- ing towns and also expiration of their subs. Roseville, Mich.; Frazer, Mich.; Mt. Clemens, Mich. and Van Dyke, Mich. We would like to get them so we can get in touch with them to renew their subs. We hail the Change the World Column, Dr. Luttinger, with our young readers and the whole paper is good. DAILY WORKER COMMITTEE. Roseville, Mich. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. NAME ..cccescccececeescereneete Street By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS American Muscovite—Your ques- ; verse diameter of tions are merely academic, but as we hate to see you lose your bet, and as you were a former resident of this city, we'll try to answer your questions although we are sure that any professor of physio- logy or anatomy, in oscow, would have gladly answered them. The bones of women are on the whole smaller and weaker, especially the bones of the pelvis, the trans- which is greater, The doctors and rich trustees has-| it depression is deeper and the tily covered up the “incident,” not} 0Pening of the anterior front) bothering to notify the police for} 0sseous arch is wider. This dif- some time, and now, as far as the| ference between the male and fe- first hearing was held and the de- | companion are, then he keeps on portation order was issued, the ques- | going towards his big stand, nod- tion of finances to carry an appeal| ding as he goes toward his place, to authorities are concerned—the in- cident is closed. male is less pronounced among the savage races and the anthropoid apes. to the Department of Labor at Washington was raised and the Trotzkyites promised to raise part of the necessary funds. At this time they raised a total of $7, which they refused to turn over to the I. L. D., stating that they could not trust the organization, whereupon they were promptly expelled from the I. L, D. office. The Trotzkyites then began a se- ries of disruptive actions and at- tempted to deal directly with ILD. attorneys in which endeavor they succeeded in causing a great deal of confusion which directly ham- pered the interests of the defendant in the case. The International Labor Defense itself raised the money necessary to carry through the appeal and the Italian Branch of the I, L. D. par- ticularly was active in conducting mass activities around the case. When Miss Perkins upheld the deportation order, the I. L. D. took out a writ of habeas corpus and appealed the case to the United States Circuit Court. While this ac- tion was pending, the Trotzkyites, continuing their disruptive actions, went to the American Civil Liberties Union and asked that organzation to make an appeal for voluntary de- parture, thus deliberately harming the success of the appeal to the United States Circuit Court. The appeal was lost and the deportation order was final. Legally the case was closed from that point, al- though the possibilities for voluntary departure remained open. At the present time the Trotzky- ites and a number of other rene- gade groups are slandering the I. L. D. with false statements that the I. L, D. did not defend Bellussi, etc. The facts of the case are that the I. L. D. was the only organization working in defense of Bellussi, while the Trotzkyites conducted sabotage and disruption to the defense strug- gle. Recently, the American Workers Party, headed by A. J. Muste, is- sued a statement on the case ap- pealing for attendance at a dinner in support of Bellussi in which it all of his colleagues. Then he stops where one of his slaves is washing the sidewalk, and looking again to where the old lady and the girl are, tells the slave something which I cannot hear. So thinking the Big Shot’s heart has softened a little, I edged closer. Evidently the old lady thought the same thing as I, for she told the girl something, and the little girl, smiling, pulled from out of her raggedly clothes a canvas bag. They got closer to the big shot’s stand, : The slave then reached under the counter and pulled a basket of mixed fish, shrimp and crabs, plac- ing it right where the old lady and girl were. There was a contrite look on the slave’s face as he did what the big Monteleone had told him to do. The old lady and girl then went to work at the basket, overturning it. Right then and there arose a stench that reminded me of the time when I had to pull |a dead horse to the dump. So they |gathered what they thought the best of the lot and departed, leav- ing as they went, a putrid smell | and escorted by a swarm of flies. Big Shot Monty, looking at them, said to a big pot-bellied com- panion: “Well, they have their dinner, now.” HA, HA, HA, isn’t he the big helper of the working people? An Ex-Fisherman, =P. M, POPULARIZING AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY TRADITIONS NEW YORK.—May Day’s splen- did demonstration was an inspiring, and living proof of the fact that ever larger numbers of workers are being drawn into the revolutionary movement. All the slogans, placards and floats were graphic and under- stood by every worker who saw them. At Madison Square Garden, how- ever, this clarity in slogans and the meaning of May Day was not car- ried through in the entertainment numbers. It is true, that the “Storm Bird” is a strong and beau- tiful word picture by Maxim Gorky, was declared that “Bellussi appealed | but it seems to me that the flashy to the International Labor Defense| and elaborate spectacle was some- Arrested for Pointing eae physical difference is the ‘ eA : ature and body-weight. The aver- Out Discrimination age stature of women of European descent is five feet 3 inches, while the male averages five feet seven three-uarter inches. According to Vierordt, the new-born boy is on day, May 23, at the relief office, one worker was arrested because he re- the average from one-fifth to two- marked: “The doorman has been| #fth of an inch longer than the letting more whites inside than Ne-|DeW-born girl. The trunk of the groes.” The doorman arrested him| human male is relatively shorter and charged him with disorderly] im relation to the whole stature; conduct. but in relation to the length of the Conditions are getting worse in trunk, the upper and the lower ex- South Carolina. I had work one] tremities are longer, the thighs and day in three weeks and nothing to|the legs longer, the hand and the eat. I am living on promises, but | foot also longer; relatively to the I can’t live long on that. I hope|long upper arm and to the long the time will come when the work-| thigh respectively, the forearm and ers will go to the top. I am ready|the leg are still longer; and rela- for a struggle, and I will struggle. | tively to the entire upper extremity, the entire lower extremity is also By a Worker Correspondent COLUMBIA, S. C—On Wednes- NOTE longer. We publish letters from textile, On the other hand, the feminine needle, shoe and leather workers proportions, remaining more ap- every Wednesday. Workers in these 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. proximate to those of the youthful state, as compared with those of the fully developed male, are dis- tinguished by the following charac- teristics: comparatively greater length of the trunk; shorter arms and lower extremities, as compared What inappropriate for the occasion. | to the length of the trunk, shorter No doubt, the old timers in the| upper arm and forearm, shorter audience enjoyed the show very|thigh and leg, shorter hands and much. But I think the Negro com- feet; relatively to the shorter upper arm, still shorter forearm, and relatively to the shorter thigh, still shorter leg; finally, relatively to the entire upper extremity, shorter lower extremities. The width of the shoulders is greater in man than in woman. The average weight of a new-born boy is about seven and a half pounds, while that of a new-born girl is about seven pounds. The average woman weighs about 128 pounds, while the average man weighs 143 pounds. These figures represent the average of the great majority of civilized nations and races. : The development of fat in woman is much greater than in man. Ac- cording to Bischoff, the human male has 41.8 per cent muscle and 18.2 per cent fat; in the female body, 35.8 per cent is represented by muscle while 28.2 per cent is fat. This fat is deposited differently in the respective sexes. The adipose tissue of the female is stored up mainly in breasts and buttocks. Woman’s skin is, on the whole, clearer and more delicate than that of man. The number of red blood= corpuscles is less in the human fe- male than in the male. There are five million erythrocytes (red blood- corfpuscles) in a cubic millimetre of man’s blood as compared to four and a half million cells in a woman's. This means that the blood of the female contains more water, less hemoglobin and that she is therefore more prone to be anemic. (Concluded Tomorrow) LERMAN BROS. STATIONERS and UNION PRINTERS Special Prices for Organizations 29 EAST 14th STREET New York City ALgonquin 4-3356—4-8843—4-7823 rade sitting next to me voiced the sentiment of many others, when she said, “This is driving me crazy.” The singing in a foreign language was strange to her, the whole sub- ject was strange to her, as it was to hundreds of other workers who had attended a May Day meeting for the first time. For May Day, I feel that it would be much more appropriate, much more educational and much more entertaining if we were to have a pageant on Haymarket. I think it is about time our cultural forces started work on popularizing Amer- ican traditions in the class war. ; Amrican history is rich with heroic and dramatic struggles of the work- ing class, and it is our duty to con- tinue and spread this tradition in more ways than one. Comradely, Boat leaves Pier “A’ Battery Park at 1 Vv. Ss On oo Auspices: DISTRICT DAILY WORKER the Beautiful Boat “Claremont.” Spend the Day at Hook Mountain, Return by Moonlight. Saturday, June 9th Dancing — Entertainment — Baseball — Tennis — Swimming, Etc. P.M. Tickets in advance $1, at Pier $1.28, Tickets available at all Workers Bookshops. ERTIES NEE SEY WRAY SES IS ITO LE CIES EE EO LITT DEE TIES Ne.