The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1934, Page 4

rage Four Musteite Unemployed Leaders Have Police Oust MilitantW orkers Kn Klnxer, Supporter of Fascist Silver Speak at Their Meetings served as a check on Co; Relief Commission that it erable program ced and won The several nerease of 20 per cent pay, for removal of ees as foremen be- cause they were petty politicians getting double pay and better dis- tribution of work among farmers with te: Then the president, a former Ku Klux city councilman attempted to expel an old glass worker who had been elected sec- retary, because he sold Daily Workers. The rank and file voted against removing him but the next week the president had two coppers present who forced the secretary and.dragged a worker who sup- ported him out of the hall. Presi- dent Truex of the Ohio Unem- ployed League and Elmer Cope, ice president, were at both meetings and approved of this action. Since a former Municipal Court Clerk and Chief of Police Berry, a K.E.K., have spoken at F. & L. mectings and made lying attacks on -the Communist Party Two weeks ago the F. & L. attended in & body a e meeting organized ‘by the Republican Club. Charles M. ewcome, former professor of elo sution at Ohio Wesleyan University, former industrial commissioner of | Cleveland, now financed by the| Foundation of Christian Economics, and Tom McCaw, commander of Ohio American Legion, spoke. New- come through his Foundation is| linked up with Silver Shirt Chief | William D. Pelley, who says he vis-| ited God for seven minutes to get} ‘nformation for his Christ govern- | ment. His speech was a repetition of Dr. Wirt’s charges against the Water-on-the-Brain Trusters and such slanders and lying charges as ‘the Communist Party is a gigantic} Jewish scheme to rule the world,” and that Negro people and foreign | born are inferior. Legionnaire McCaw, nerve-wrecked by the war| for the capitalists, for whom he still | does service, gave the chairman| what he called a fascist palute.| Especially agitated because of the Y. C. L.'s program of fighting im- Perialist war, he unwittingly gave it Publicity which was received by INQUIRY REGARDING WOMEN’S ; ANTI-WAR CONGRESS Esther S. K. writes from Phila- delphia to request particulars about | : the Women’s Anti-War Congress | Scheduled for Paris in late July, and the address of the Philadelphia Committee Against War and Fas- cism, The June issue of the maga: zine “Fight” gave a great deal of | information about the plans for, and purposes of the Congress: It can be ordered from the office of the American League Against War and Fascism, 112 E. 19th St., N. Y. C, We'll forward a copy to Comrade Esther. Tn the column some days ago we | gave some reports on plans and ac- | tivity of the Ohio and Pennsylvania | districts. Apply to Kay Lewis Harris | (secretary of the League in Phila- | delphia) ,at 1627 N. 16th St.. for} information and directives on the | work there and in Pennsylvania gen- | erally. We'll try to have more news about | the progress made in various local. | ities in publicizing the Congress, en- | listing support, and in electing the| 12 or more delegates it is hoped can be sent from this country. JEANETTE OBJECTS TO HEY- WOOD'S OBJECTIONS | Dear Comrade Luke: | My attention has just been called | to Heywood Broun’s outraged equa- nimity because of your beauty ad- vice in the column of the Daily Worker. If you erred a share or two} on your lipstick-rouge combination —-hever mind. Better luck next time. | I myself do not profess to be a connoiseur in the cosmetic art and| can't say to what degree you sinned. | I must therefore cede to Heywood | Broun’s better judgment in this. I) am-ready to bow to his authority. For..he moves in a circle where beauty culture is practiced to per-| fection, at ten dollars a throw in beauty parlors. But as to the principle of the/ thing—what’s wrong with telling| working girls to employ a little art to enhance their appearance, to con- | ceal th eravages of capitalist ex- ploitation that indelibly stamp pre- mature age on the faces of women toilers? Of course, in a sane society, women will not need to resort to make-up. “You do not need to gild the lily.” Normal, healthy living needs no make-up. That is why make-up is frowned upon by the Party of the U.S. 8. R., but there, young women | forthe most part, still have the| ruddy glow of the open field. Their faces do not bear the imprint of economic insecurity, the strain of physical exhaustion, due to speed- up, nor the tortuous nightmare of involuntary motherhood. And worse coins or stamps uths just the opposite way. he expected. This mee’ was adjourned, even though the another speaker, when a Com- munist Pa: member asked for the loor to reply The opposition group on beir d by the police from the F L. formed an Unemployed Council The police threatened the owner of ,| the store room donated to them to retract his offer. The president of the F. & L. and some of his hench- men had informed the police: they also spread rumors that the Unem- ployed Council is anti-religious. The trustees of the Colored Elks Hall locked out a Negro I. L. D. speaker. The F. & L. rank and file finally kicked out their Klu Klux president because he and Truex called a relief strike without first organizing the men, and then deserted them. But many of these workers who are honest and sincere have been so in- fluenced by the nationalist-socialist teachings of the Musteites that they have lost sight of the class struggle. Some man-handled and threatened to take for a ride a worker who exposed Rev. A. J. Muste as a coun- ter-revolutionary in his speech here Saturday. “Why,” this worker asked, “if you believed in the action of 1776, the revolutionary way out, and the solidarity of the workers, do you attempt to start a second so-called revolutionary party when there is already one Party, the Communist Party, leading the workers’ strug- gle?” His veply was an attack on Red Unions. No answer was per- mitted because this worker was roughly shoved to the street. He came back the second time and was shoved out again, this time with Muste's approval. Party Active in Aid To Belleville Strikers By a Worker Correspondent BELLEVILLE, IUll.—The Knapp Monarch has been on_ strike since April 14th. Through four leaflets issued by the Party and Y. C. L. we have been able to get the foundry workers to back the Knapp Monarch strikers. Shoe factories and shirt-pants fac- tories are also expected to be in- volved in the strike. Some sluggers of the A. F. of L. are looking for me and even came to the place I live to get me for exposing the leadership. The president of the local was one of them. He has been the one who sabotaged the mass picket line. daintily, artistically, so Heywood Broun won't catch on, until a sane society will restore your natural Yours for a Soviet America, JEANETTE D. P. The criticism referred to in the | above letter will be commented on | Salvation Army is being carried on tomorrow. Can aar Make "Em Yourself? Pattern 1828 is available in sizes | 24, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 | lieve these meals could be had for | | takes 414 yards 39 inch fabric. Il- lustrated step-by-step sewing in-| structions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in (coins preferred) still, they are spared the agonizing | for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write ght of starving childhood. By all means, girls, primp up a bit, if so inclined. It should not cctract from your revolutionary ac- tivi But by all means, when mak- ing up, learn to apply it sparingly, Beis, plainly name, number, SIZE. address and style BE SURE TO STATE Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th | s’ruggle that we will be able to im- Street, New York City, ee = Worker D eae @ Although the strike of which this correspondent writes is already over, we publish this letter because it contains a number of valuable suggestions and conclusions which can be utilized in other strike struggles. By a Worker Correspondent BUFFALO, N. ¥.—It seems to me re leadership of this strike not done all the things it could to win s does not have some- i to do all the time. Hundreds of men are hanging around getting ss and losing their spirit be- they are not kept busy every to help the strike. We could e a tag day, or we could hold dozens of short street. meetings all over the city every evening to report on the strike, or we could drive through all working-class districts with cars with banners on and give out leaflets about ourselves very often, Or we could just go from door to door in all workers’ districts and ask them, “How do you like our strike The strikers will find out that every worker is on the side of the strikers. They hope they will not lose their strike or go back to work until they make the company come across. They will help the strikers on the picket line or in a/ demonstration. The strikers would not lose their morale if they would go around and | talk things over with other workers. | I think the leadership has deliber- ately ignored this sympathy. I think | they were afraid to use it. Fighting the “Red Se: They should send strikers and their wives to every part of the city with leafiets and the “Daily Work- er,” which has printed very good | accounts of our strike. Very differ- | ent from the Buffalo News and the Times and Courier Express, which | try to make us out as a bunch of | “rioters,” “‘wreckers” and “Moscow | Reds.” Of course, it is now clear to | is that it is because the newspapers | are owned by the rich that every- | thing in them is carefully written to discredit the working class. Well, | if it is a “Moscow Red” that fights to keep the scabs out so we won't | have to go back to our old rotten conditions and low wages, and so that we can have something to say about our own lives, then I am not | against the Reds. And I don’t think that anyone has to come from Moscow in order to feel like fight- ing back when he gets cracked on the head with a police club for try- ing to hold the picket line tight and keep the scabs out. I think we should form our picket | lines into smaller groups and organ- ize defense corps. Then we could do something in our own defense | if they jump on us again. I'm abl to see that the bosses own tt ernment, like like they own e thing else in this country, and they want to run it all for their own benefit, no matter how much mis- (ery it ngs to us workers and our famil | I was glad when I heard we had | @ paper which would print every- | thing we send in, and that we had/| set} up a committee to issue official | reports every day. | I figured we should try to get the Daily Worker into every home in the city. We have lots of men who| rest Salvation Army Cleans Up Big Profits on Gov't Transient Bureau! | | | ;auieanns | | By a Worker Correspondent FIRMONT, W. Va—The most open, glaring, racketeering of the| |in this town. The Salvation Army is carrying on the Transient Ba- reau. They get 75 cents per day| for each man that boards with them. The following are the meals provided: Breakfast, oatmeal and bread; dinner, soup; supper, beans. I be- two or three cents. The supervisor says that the| government demands four hours of work from each person for payment for board. They can hire out men to work for them, to clean up yards, Spade gardens, etc., and then the men have to turn the money over | to the Salvation Army so that these | racketeers have it everywhere, both | from the government and from any | people who hire the men, at the | expense of the unemployed work- | ers. If a worker works 27 hours, that means three hours over his meal ticket, he gets 90 cents for three hours’ work, 30 cents an hour. (He must work 27 hours before he can get this 90 cents.) There are about 50 men here all the time. Some of these workers, | who have been hunting jobs all over the country, say that you can get a job with Jesus; you don’t have to pass a medical ex- amination. But Jesus just don’t Pay any wages. i} | | Get 50c for 30° Hours| | Relief Work in Gary, Ind. By a Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind.—President Roose- | velt with his New Deal promised “recovery” in industry. The first effect, of the New Deal was the rise | | of nearly 50 per cent in the prices |of articles of first necessity. The unemployed of Gary did not get | the relief they were promised. Of the several thousand unemployed in Gary only a few hundred have secured public work, consisting in that they remove the sand dunes and carry them off to another place. Soon there came an end | to this. At present the workers who receive relief are compelled to work |for it, 30 hours per week for 50 cents, $2 per month for a place to | sleep, and black coffee. If a worker is ill and unable to ride early in the morning to go to work he is banished from the paradise—flop- | house. And this, workers, takes place not in backward China or India, | but in the richest “civilized” coun- try, America. It is time that the | unemployed begin to organize be- cause it is only through class | Prove our conditions, | And also the Daily is sold all over j to iscusses DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY. JUNE 5, 1934 Correspondent Stresses Importance of ‘Daily’ As Strike Weapon; Calls for Unity With are doing nothing, and it is very easy to sell the Daily. One of our} strikers sold over 200 just walking} from our Hertet Elmwood hall to the Curtiss plant. All you have to do is to tell everybody in the stores, houses, restaurants, barber shops, etc., and all over that you are from | the aircraft strike and the strikers | are writing their own news now, which is not a bunch of slimy lies | like the News and Times and Cou- rier Express write, and they all say, “That's a good idea,” and buy the paper. I know this is true because I tried it. I sold 30 copies in four | blocks. I could have sold more. the country, so our strike will get sympathy all over. When you try to sell the paper, | everyone asks “How's the strike,” and so on, which gives you a chance tell about it, which many never heard before. With so many men doing nothing, it is a crime that we are only ordering 300 Dailys a day. I think we should have a press table in all three headquarters and have some- one there all the time to encourage all sirikers to bring in written news items, etc. and have pep slogans, etc., like “Into the streets with the ‘Daily’,” and from which strikers can ke sent out to every part of the city. We can easily take at least STEE The steel workers stand on the Steel and Metal Workers Industri: of the steel workers. strike action, if their demands are sentiment of the workers in action. Leonard machine. Relief Bureau 2,000 “Dailies.” That means that 100 strikers have to sell 20 each which is a picnic. And we have 1,500 men idle each day. It is the only way we can fight the damned lies that are printed. We have to be organized and to do these things for ourselves. Otherwise how can we ever expect to get somewhere. We have to stick together, I can see—foreign-born and native-born. I think we surely need the Daily Saturday’s “Daily” about Ryan. It here now trying to get us back, and our president, Cooke, is playing ball with him and & bunch more like him, Unity with Negroes and Foreign-Born We found out that they will club a 100 per cent American worker just as soon as they'll club a foreign- born worker—you only have to qualify as a worker to receive the application of their clubs and gats as if you were an outlaw. Well, I guess you are an outlaw now when You strike—you are an outsider of the bosses’ law, and this Wagner bill will sure sew us up if we jet them pass it. Speaking about Negro workers: There have been several on the picket lines with us, and this . WORKERS! WRITE ABOUT YOUR STRIKE PREPARATIONS! eve of great strike struggles. The al Union has issued a call to all | steel workers for united struggle for the seven most urgent demands The rank and file of the Amalgamated Associ- ation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.) have decided on not met by the companies. We urge all steel workers to write to the Daily Worker on the their shops concerning united strike 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- Invents New Stalls to Starve Unemployed By a Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—Recentiy the home elief bureau changed its method of paymen’ Whereas they used to give food tickets, they announced a few weeks ago that checks would be issued which could be eashed. In order to receive these checks the re- lief benoficiaries had to go to River Ave. and 149th St., where the Bureau is situated. My mother, Dora Shapiro, has received such cruel treatment at the hands of the Relief Bureau, as have millions, that constantly we live in dread of the next brutal step they may take. We have been evicted five times in the past year and a half, and have gone without food and electric for days at a time. Well, my mother went forth on Fri May 25th, a rainy cold day. My mother had only three cents to her name. As 2 last resort she ap- pealed to a big fat cop to put her on a street car, explaining that she had to get down to the Home Relief Bureau and hadn’t the carfare. With a sneer on his face the replied that he hadn't time to waste end he thought that everyone should have a nickel to his name! With he walked away. Mv mother stood there, not: know- ing which way to turn. But for- tunately en acquaintance passed and my mother, sure that she would get the check that very day, —_——_—. Letters from L——. MORE NEW READERS Dalbo, Minn, Received our bundle of 100 May Day edition Daily Workers on Sun- day, April 28. That same evening we attended a county meeting of the Isanti County Holiday Associa- tion at which Attorney-General Peterson spoke for the Farmer Labor Party. According to Peter- son there is nothing as sacred as our constitution and the Olson Moratorium Law has been held con- stitutional by the “impartial” Su- preme Court, thus proving that given sufficient amendments to the constitution we might even have Socialism. The only discord was the fact that the moratorium has not stopped foreclosures in Isanti County, there being three sales ad- vertised in the county paper now. In this crowd of about 400 people were many that didn’t even bother to listen to the Farmer Labor poli- ticians any more. Half the crowd stood around and talked among themselves. We sold 34 copies of the May Day edition of the Daily Worker, about three-fourths being sold to those who had never seen or heard about our paper before. We frankly told these new readers that “this is the Communist Party paper.” Since the Farmer Labor Party is being held up as a radical party by the capitalist press of Minneapolis in order to deceive the workers and farmers into voting for the third party of capitalism, they should begin to look to the Communist Party as the way out of the crisis. G. A. ONE LIVES AND LEARNS Brooklyn, N. Y. I have been sympathetic to the Socialist cause all my life, and in the four opportunities I have had to go to the polls I have voted a Straight Socialist ticket. Since last November, however (and I regret exceedingly that this could not have happened much sooner), I have learned that only by pursuing the policies of the Com- munist Party can we successfully combat and destroy capitalism. But even if I were not yet con- loaned a nickel from her and went down to River Ave. without return fare. Finally she arrived at the bureau. There she was met with compli- cations. She had been sick for a few days and had given me the necessary paper to fill out. She pre- sented this paper at the‘ bureau. The supervisor returned it, saying, that’ no one but the mother of the family is allowed to sign it. My mother asked her to erase it and she would sign it. They refused saying that she should go home and wait a fow days until she received an- other paper. AS my mother went out everywhere she saw people in tears. Through “her questions she learned that the tickets had been lowered to $2 and in places $3. Then my mother was faced with the realization that she possessed no return fare. She got upon a street car and shoved through, but the. wary conductor approached and demanded the fare. She showed him her empty pocket book and offered him the three cents, coP | which he refused. Immediately he stopped the car and ordered her off. There she was, stranded, with but three cents to her name. At length she went into a nearby drug- store, explained the circumstances, and received two cents from the proprietor. Thus she arrived home. So we stay, without sufficient food and again fearing an eviction. Our Readers vinced that Communism is the only and correct solution, as opposed to the impotent, compromising tactics of the Socialist Party, which are so harmful to the struggles of the working class, the latter’s position on the issue of the United Front alone (I refer to Comrade Milton Howard's fine article on the subject in today’s Daily Worker) would be sufficient for one to renounce his Sympathies in their behalf, The stand of the Socialist Party on this vital point is cowardly and inde- fensible, and unless we can win all the workers to a United Front, we may have them to blame for a re- petition of the German Fascist sit- uation, To fix the blame after the injury occurs is small consolation, comrades, for it does not repair the damage. One Lives And Learns. —H.. 8. G. Seite tN WO Ltt Editor Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: In an editorial published in the Daily Worker of May 8, “Republi- can Strategy and the N.R.A,.” it appears to me there are some in- correct and unclear formulations which should be clarified. First of all, it gives the impression that the N.R.A. is hampering the drive toward fascism, whereas it is one of the instruments of bourgenise in the development toward fas- cism. Secondly, while it correctly points out the “historic trickery” af the two-party system in the United States as a means of deceiving the masses and diverting their discon- tent into safe channels, this is in- complete without at the same time mentioning the vole that social- reformism plays in this regard, especially with recent develop- ments toward a third-party move- ment. I hope that the Daily Worker will clarify this question, as it has a very important task in dispelling the confusion that is widespread among the masses about the role that the Democratic and Republican parties are play- ing and the role of social-fascism, in carrying through the capitalis? program of hunger, fascism and war, Wm, Schneiderman s re vt eee has had a great effect. They were {Outstanding figures. It showed | plenty of us that it is surely in our j interest to be friendly with Negro workers and fight jointly with them. Now the only difference there seems to be is that his skin is | black and mine is white, and it is through no particular cleverness on my part that I am white. As long |as we are workers we have to stick | together against the boss. When all | of us realize this, then I believe we will be on the way to getting some- where in the labor movement, Another thing is this citizenship [racket Everyone had to be a citi- |zen to work in these plane plants. | Worker to keep us wired up. Espe- | This gave us all a 100 per cent | cially to point out about these rat | American feeling for a while, and |labor “leaders” like the article in|™ade us feel like we were a part of this government, and that we |comes at a good time, for he is in|lived on a different planet than foreign-born workers, which, of |course, kept us from sympathizing jand uniting with them. This was all to the bosses’ interest. But now I think that is all it was for—so that we would only think about the | glorious America, champion of |Democracy, and continue building |planes for murdering by masses. | Because now we see the company will hire anyone so long as he will rat, and there are darn few. And they still try to keep us divided by saying that now the foreigners are the ones who are taking our jobs, when actually the percentage of non-citizens among the scabs is only perhaps a half per cent. But it is enough to show us one thing: that the company is only 100 per cent American and a fine flag- waver when it is in their interest to be. And they will build war planes for anyone, even to arm the enemies of the U.S, A, We should have sent leaflets everywhere the first day they broke up our famous picket line. If we bring back a picket line four or five times larger than anything we have had, we sure won't be discour- aged and we'll soon win. The com- pany can’t build planes with pro- fessional strike-breakers — it takes skilled men. It took them seventeen years to build up this force that is striking for a living scale now and one thing is shown—that it is the boss who depends on labor for | everything— not labor that depends on the boss, as he would try to make you believe all the time. We have learned more in the last two months than we have in many long years before. We can see whose government it is now, and how it is possible to stop a war if the working class will only have sense enough to stick together by that time, which is not far off, and strike instead of building war machinery to blow up other workers whom we have nothing against, or, as I said before, which might even be used to kill us ourselves—for the company doesn’t care who buys. It is very broadminded about that—it is so patriotic and fond of America that it will sell the equipment to murder American workers to our rival coun- tries. War is a profitable thing for them; but it is disease, crippling, blinding, degenerating and killing for the working class, whom they send out to do the fighting while they very patriotically promise to stay home and back them up with all the bloody machinery they can —of course at small profits of 400 or 500 per cent, and so forth. AN UNEMPLOYED ELEC- TRICIAN WHO HELPED THE AIRPLANE STRIKERS TO PICKET, Forced to Slave 80 Hours A Week at Standard Spring Co. By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — The Standard Spring Body Co., located at 104th St. is producing automobile parts. The manager of the shop is Hirsch Raskin, He is hated by the work- ers for the brutal speed-up he has introduced into the shop. Accidents are frequent because of the speed- up. Raskin is continually remind- ing the workers that there are 15 million unemployed ready to take their places if they are not. satis- fied. The workers are working 44 hours per week although Mr. Shaw, the main boss, signed the N.R.A. cods which provides for a 40-hour week. The workers are getting from $12 to $18 per week. In addition to the regular hours they are compelled to work overtime till 7 and some- times 10 p. m. In order to earn enough for their living they are compelled to slave from 80 to 90 hours per week. In order to raise the low spirit of some of the workers, the manager sometimes takes one or another to the nearest saloon and treats him with a drink. The workers must realize that the agent of the bosses Raskin, is not their friend. Neither can they expect the leaders of the A. F. of L. to fight for the improvement of their conditions. The A. F, of L. leaders demanded from $10 to $25 to join the union. The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union is a truly working class union. The leaders of this union could not be bought by bosses for any amount of money. All of us should join this union in order to carry on a struggle for the im- provement of our conditions. The address of this union is in 35 E. 19th Street. NOTE: i We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their working conditions and of their efforts to organize. Please get the Ietters to us by Friday of Buffalo Aircraft Strike]? Largest Cleveland May First Was Insufficiently Prepared Every Responsible Committee Must Examine Weaknesses in Light of Own Activity (Resolution of District Bureau, Cleveland) May Day, 1934, was organized in| the midst of an important wave of strike struggles and sharpened class relations throughout the city. As a further stimulus, there occurred the historic Eighth National Convention | of our Party at the beginning of | April. The District Committee be- gan mobilizing the Party already in the first week of March and issued sufficient political and organiza-| tional directives and material. The | surrounding circumstances and early | directives of the District Committee | presented every opportunity for a tremendous May Day. | The 10,000 workexss who partici- pated in the Public Square demon- stration and 5,000 in the main pa- rade, was one of the largest May Day events in the history of the Party. Although it reflected in- creased activity on the part of our Party and it was more conscious, spirited, colorful and solid than a year ago, it cannot be considered as satisfactory. This is a reflection of the fact that the preparations for May Day were not carried through on the basis of the winning new masses of workers to the poli- tical slogans and demands of the May Day campaign and that the Party committees, units and frac- tions did not carry through energetic organization work; but depended upon the non-Bolshevik practice of spontaneity. The parades and demonstration were characterized by fairly satis- factory organization work, the foun- dation of which had been laid through the material of the united front conferences and special mo- bilization of forces. A larger num- ber of Negro workers participated than in any demonstration for the past year and a half. The main parade, through the heart of the city, with the repre- sentatives of all working class or- ganizations on a reviewing stand in front of the City Hall, was the most impressive and best organized part of the entire demonstration, which created much enthusiasm among all the workers, Weaknesses The outstanding weaknesses, which every responsible committee must study and examine in light of their own activities, are: 1, Inability to connect up ef- fectively the preparations for May 1 with the series of strike struggles, Issuance of special leaflet to Fisher Body workers by united front com- mittee only on last day of strike and no special May Day leaflet to Chase Brass, Cleveland Worsted, Gas Operators, etc. This is a fur- ther reflection of our inability in the A, F. of L.-led strikes to be- come a real factor influencing de- cisively the policy, and in the 8, M. W. I. U.-led Chase Brass strike, our leadership reflected a “pure” trade union approach by failing to tie up May Day preparations, 2. No serious approach to mobili- zation of employed shop workers. The demonstration was organized at such a time as to permit partici- pation of all shop workers who were not yet organized strongly enough to strike on May Day, There was no appreciable increase in the size of the Public Square demon- stration after 5 o'clock, showing our failure to bring the workers in or- ganized groups to the demonstra- tion. An examination of our activ- ity shows that the Party members in the shops did not carry on indi- vidual agitation and distribution of leaflets and stickers. The work on the outside of the factory was poorly organized and haphazard, and only four shop leaf- lets were issued, with sections 2, 3, 11, 14 and 16 not issuing a single shop leafiet. The positive feature in our factory concentration was the issuance of five shop papers (Otis Steel, Midland Steel, White Motors, Fisher Body, American Steel) with the “Spark Plug” ap- pearing daily during the Wisher Body strike. T. U. U. L. Failures 3. The unions of the T. U. U. L. were not made conscious of May Day. Not a single leaflet was issued by the T. U. U. L. While four locals were represented at the united front conference, not a single local union of the T, U. U. L, marched as a body in the parade, hough individual members participated, This refiected the inadequate devele opment of class-consciousness in the unions of the T. U. U. L. and ig a direct result of systematic under- estimation of work in the A. F. of L., which is only now being serious- ly approached. Only two A. F. of L. locals participated in the united front conference, but not as an organized group in the demonstra tion, 4. The practical non-existence of youth organizations at the united front conference found its direct reflection in the absence of worke ing youth or youth mass organizae tions in the parade and demons stration, . 5. Especially outstanding was the poor mobilization of workers in the tributary parades in Kinsman and Buckeye territories. These are two territories where the Party has had influence for years. If the meme bers of the Jewish speaking organ- izations (I. W. O., Gesangs Ferein, Icor, ete.) under the direct inffuenos of the Party and Freiheit had alone been mobilized, the size of this pre- paratory parade would have been at least six times its sime; and in Buckeye territory, where the Party Hungarian daily is located and has its influence, the mobiliza~ tion of the members of the organi zations who follow the leadership of Uj Elore would have multiplied the size of the parade eightfold. The ritories where the Party has greatest support in electoral paigns and is considered the base of the Party, merits est and most far-1 ination by Section 3 and and also of the Jewish k garian Language Bureaus, lesser extent the Bohemian Bi These sections and the Jewish Hungarian Bureaus are warmed to approach weakness in th ner, but to find of the strike situation in Sections 2 and 14, the line of march from these territories was unsatisfactory. 6. Recruiting into the Party did not reach the objectives set by the District Committee, Instead of re- cruiting 100 new members, only 73 were recruited, of whom 33 were employed. Such sections as Section 3 did not recruit a single new mem- ber in the month of April. ‘The weaknesses enumerated above were a direct reflection of the cone tent of the campaign and prepara- tions. While two united front con- ferences were organized involving 156 local organizations, only a small minority were working class. organi- zations being involved in stich ace tivities for the first time. The Home Owners branches showed a better response than ever before, but repre- sentation from A. F, of L, unions, Negro organizations under reformist leadership, etc., was very poor, This reflects the sectarian character the Party units, sections and lan- guage buros, who live only among the revolutionary minded workers, thus isolating themselves from the great masses of workers who are moving to the left. The entire Party must learn from this analysis of our shortco) The best means is a careful and application of the decision the National Convention and tha District Convention resolution and energetic mobilization of all our forces for fulfillment of the controf tasks adopted at the District Con vention. To fulfill these coni tasks, means that every Party ors gan (unit, section, fraction, lan« guage buro) as well as the District Committee must apply the line of the resolution in their daily work. bass goth The Prevention of Arsenical Poisoning (Continued from Saturday) Every worker who is occupied in a factory where arsenical compounts are used must never forget to wash his hands and face before eating his lunch, Before going to bed, it is advisable to take a shower or a bath. Nobody should smoke, eat, drink or chew in a workroom where arsenic compounds are handled. Whenever possible the street clothes and the worker factory clothes should be kept separately. Every six months, a worker should have himself examined by a competent physician. People suffering from a chronic disease, such as Bright's disease, should not work with ar- senical compounds. It would, there- fore be advisable to have oneself examined before starting on the job. The shop committee should bear pressure on the boss and see to it that the following requirements should be carried out: The workroom should be well ventilated. Suitable exhaust venti- lators should be installed for the re- moval of arsenical dust and vapors. The work-table should be equipped with down draft exhaust ventilators. Arsenic fumes can be eliminated by passing them through coke and nitric acid. The floors, of the work- room should be of cement which will minimize the amount of arsenic absorption and allow a more thorough cleaning. All the recep- each week, By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ered pounds are kept should be made of metal to prevent breaking and leakage. The worker should be furs nished with free overalls, gloves and masks, whenever it is necessary, The floors of the workroom shoul be cleaned at least twice daily by washing them with water or with a vacuum cleaner. An adequate number of showers with soap and hot water should be installed in the proportion of one shower to every five workingmen, Each workel should be furnished with a doubl¢ locker: one for his street clothes and one for his factory cloth: which should be kept separate. there is a lunchroom, in the fact it should be kept separate fro) the workroom and the locker room The shop committee should als¢ insist that the boss engage the services of a physician who will hav¢ medical supervision over the exe posed workers. Medical Treatment The best way to get rid of ar. senical poisoning is to promote eli: mination through the kidneys ant the bowels. This means that 1 quantities of water, preferably wit lemon or orange juice, should used. No worker who handles senical compounds should alloy himself to . become constipated There is a drug which has beet found to be almost a specific if arsenical poisoning: sodium thio’ sulphate. This is usually given injection into a vein; but it can tacles in which the arsenic com- be taken by mouth, ee