The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Work 12 to 14 Hours at Hotel | | Endicott Under N.R.A. Code | Kitchen Windows Nailed down, So Workers Don’t “Waste Time” Getting Breath of \ir in order to By a Worker Correspondent <—“Towards a ition, by the boss, quiet them down. more The anitary, unhealthy cor tions prevalent in the kitchen this} der it completely impossible for resembles the| anyone to maintain his job for ed by the] longer than a.few days, ally the chef ind the fire, as the room is absolutely void o: y ventil whatever. The atmc ere is | ting old ma two windows, . There w for ins e but the workers u: t umbus Ave. has,| after the code has been signed for almost 5 months, everyone employed | there working on an average of 12| to 14 hours a day, 7 days a week.| As an example of that greater abundance of life; the restaurant| y a chef, a waiter, three waitresses, one pantryman, and two dishwashers. The chef works from 8:30-in the morning until 9 at night, is supposed to have two hours off in the afternoon, but he never gets| y that. The pay is $75 a month and| the boss wants first class work for} that pittance, on top of which he} has to work seven days a week, no} days off. | ers and waitresses get e do a week. The waiters| work from 7 in the morning until 9} at night. The waitresses from 9:30) to 9:30 without a day off. The pantry and dishwashers work | indefinitely from morning _ till) night, more than 12 and to 14 hours, sometimes. The pay for the dish- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1934 ‘YS === Police Protect Scabs in Celotex Strike in Marrero By a Worker Correspondent RRERO, La—In the Celotex in Marrero, as always the es of law and order are taking | e of the manufacturers | the wo! Because a scab g ed over by some of the authorities arrested c als of the local and put them in jail. They were let out on bond and then re-ar- rested on the claim that the prop- erty put up for bond for these men was not worth the amount of the bond. Bonds were set at $1500 and the property is listed as being worth 000, and is being taxed as listed. These men took no actual part in the beating of the man who wanted | | to help take their jobs by scabbing | and -hauling scabs. Besides, he was armed. He had a gun in his car. f Lanes Cotton Mill Continues Lay- Offs; Increases Speed-Up Worker I t Permitted To Go to the Washroom During Working Hours | By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La—The Lanes Cotton Mill, continues to lay off their workers as they have since the First of the year. They are very proficient in the art of adding more and more work on the people that work in this mill, also in re- ducing their wages. The workers are required to do almost as much as two should do. They must put in every minute of their time while in the mill. The} management does not want the| ber the Rev. Peter Wynhoven, and all that he said was that we should not get excited. In other words the people should do as they are told by the boss and keep their mouths shut : The mill is at present running only three days a week and six hours a day. The cost of living continues to rise while the wages of the mill hands are cut by every | means known to the management. | These people know that they are} being imposed upon and exploited |people to have time for anything | but because of the actions of the | except labor, if some one is com-/A. F. of L. last year they are afraid | pelled to answer the call of nature, | of organizing to defend themseives. |they are told that they are not/There is some that can and do Only 30 To Get RL to go over sometimes to snatch a breath of air, and this could not be tolerated, so they were nailed down. If the workers really want a more abundant life the only way is to join the F. W. I, U. and by organized ac- tion achieve what, and more than the N. R. A. hypocritically promises while handing us just the opposite. The chef's job is advertised on all agencies on the avenue as follows; washers is seven dollars a week, that | $75 a month in a small hotel. Work- 4s a dollar a day, no days off. I} ers should watch out for this sign, could not ascertain the wages of the} as the sharks are realizing a hand- pantryman, because he is shown as| some profit on this job. I was fired = Work on $85,000 | Relief Project By a Worker Correspondent CAHONE, Colo.—Last fall, on the ovening up of the C. W. A. project No. 1, West Dolores Co., the farm- ers and workers were all promised jobs, and at that time there were about 140 registered for this work. But approximately 32 men were put to work. There were protests made and petitions signed and mailed to Harry L. Hopkins without avail. | Then some more promises that P. | W. A.. would open up jobs for all | on February 15. But when the ap-| pointed time came for this new| fowl to fly to the rescue of the| an example whenever anyone raises | his voice against the miserable con-| because I objected to guest after 9 o'clock. farmers and workers, the same | crew of workmen who had been working on the C. W. A. were put serving a CSNDLC HELEN HEYWOOD WEEPS FOR THE WORKERS. Apropos of the letter from Com- rade Jeanette D. P., printed here yesterday, we have some remarks to make. Since your attention was called to Heywood Broun’s column, Comrade ette. why didn’t you read it? You would have seen that his com- plaint was not that I erred or sinned “a shade or two.” I did not err.nor did I sin in this respect, ner_was I accused of that. Heywoed’s complaint the Daily Worker, i cut in one of was that the workers, is supported by the small change of the said workers, is doin’ fem dirt by % space on col- umns. Fiddling while the labor movement burns, he called it. He who: throws. gasoline finds himself | in a position to give gratuitous cri- i about the policies of the “Daily. . He pays his three cents, so he ured the world, to find out what Ss poening in the New Jersey strike and so on. (What! Hey- weod! Can’t you find that out from at prints all the news fit to print, or from the ad- able sheet on which you yourself are employed? Tsk, Tsk!) But here the “Dailv” turns up full of columns, and Heywood feels that he doesn’t get his three cents worth. That was the gist of his com- plaint, and he explained what he would do if he were running a work- ing-class newspaper, which nat- urally he isn’t. If grandma had Wheels she'd be a street car. pensed with, he ns the women's column. He Id like to sell our editors the del which he himself pretends to la- bor: that the entire working class consists of striking longshoremen from Seattle. But es it happens the striking longshoremen and the other male workers have wives, and like as not, re ary wives. And a Teacticnary wife can be a demned effective strikebreaker. Hence the wish of the boss press, a wish to which Broun gave expres- sion, to liquidate our column among the oth The real objection is not that it talks about lipstick once in a while, but that it talks a lot about other matters—the struggles of the Women’s Councils: the Do- Particularly méstic Workers’ Union; the Wom- | the op- en’s Anti-War Congress; pressed condition of working-class women generally, the need for ma- ternity provision, and the fine in- dependent position occupied by Soviet women. As the mining comrades pointed WORKERS 2700-2809 ERONX PARK EAST COOPERATIVE COLONY has reduced the rent, several geod apartments available. “Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. Telephone: Estabrook 8+1400—8-1401 Stop at Allerton Ave. station Lexington Ave., White Plains mn daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m, and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Folding Chairs Cheap Also Office Furniture 50 KALMUS, 35 W. 26th Street E & K STUDIOS PHOTOGRAPHERS --Real artistic photos for a price you can afford = to work on the P. W. A., which only lasied a short time till the workers were laid off anyhow. The hours were cut from 30 hours per week to 15. Later the P. W. A. went Cy Ese: leaving the people without ab | work or adequate relief. | But this was not the end of their | LORE promises. The agents of the N.R.A. then told the people that the state | of Colorado and the Federal Goy-| out in a letter some Saturdays ago,|emment were going to appropriate | Lewis doesn’t want the mining | $85,000 to build 5% miles of new | women’s auxiliaries organized. Just | highway, known as US. 160. ae so the bosses don't want the work- | bids were opened, and the lowest | ing women stirred up, for if they, | bid was $7,000 above the estimate. | who have even more to gain from| Now the contractors sit up and| a revolution than their men, are|look wise and tell the people that! ever thoroughly aroused, they sure |this is not a project to put suffer- will “turn the patches upside down” |ing humanity to work. There are and it will be Goodbye Capitalism,|at this time 202 applications for and in short order too. ;this job, but the big boys say it| That I may have, in fact did, make | Will only take about 30 men with| mistakes in the administration of | @ll the speed-up machinery to com- the column I am not prepared to |Plete this job. | deny. I do however mean to do| But the workers and poor farmers my best as long as I am working | are getting tired of all these prom- on it. Anybody who thiziks that|ises, and are becoming good mili- Grade-A revolutionaries are going |tant fighters for the cause, | to be dispensed to the revolution- | Workers of the world unite, and ary movement as a gift straight | fight, under the leadership of the from heaven, and not developed in|Communist Party. and by the natural course of events, | ~ is in a pitiable state of mind indeed. | N. Ro A Our editors know this as well as! that it is vitally necessary that the | working women be brought to un- | derstand their position in the capi- | talist and in the Socialist state, and the necessity of struggling for the institution of the latter, which offers them health and happiness. Whether I do the necessary editing here or whether it passes into other hands, the women’s section will go on, whether the Heywood Brouns like it et - Brings Pari- Time Work, Speed-up for Woolworth Girls | By a Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—We are 24 girls Working at one of the Woolworth Department Stores. Getting 31% cents per hour. A few weeks ago the manager decided we are making |too much money, so he cut our or not. |hours. He couldn't possibly cut our aunae | Wages without cutting hours, as the Can You Make °Em |store is under the N. R. A. and |he was afraid someone might re- | Port him. What the manager actu- jally did was this: He gave us one | of the beautifully cut speeches, say- jing that business is slow and we should co-operate with him; instead | of firing some girls he would rather | |shorten our hours and that way | he could keep us all. He made out | |@ schedule making some girls come | Yourself? Pattern 1848 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 334 yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by- step sewing instructions included. | in a half hour later in the morning, | some coming in the afternoon for the rush only, and those girls that came in early go home earlier, also giving a day off wthout pay to every | girl. This means that girls coming selves and the other girls. When | having a day off, the next day the | girl has to catch up with her work and so she doesn’t only use up her usual amount of energy but more, as she has to be up-to-date with her | work, Christmas time, when we were | | busy, the manager practically didn’t employ any extra help, but made us | work for three weeks 54 to 56 hours | a week. That, too, he said, was under the N. R. A. He claimed | they are allowed to do it, saying there is such a labor law. There is a good chance of or- | ganizing the girls. The Office Work- | | ers Union knows about the condi- | tions, and they did start. I hope | | they will get busy and try to ac-| complish something. Work 56 Hours a Week| for $5 in Beauty Shop | By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—A little notice} could be taken of the Beauty Shops where they keep girls working 56 | hours a week for $5 per weck. And those shops carry N. R. A. signs, | Some of the poorest paid ones are | to be found out at Sunny Side, Long Island, the one out at 47th St., called the Golden Rule. How can any single girl exist on such’ pay? | No wonder so many girls kill them- | selves as have in the past year. | So many firms seem to be hiding under the N. R. A. sign. They seem to think as long as they display | | the N. R. A. they can pay just what | they like. | Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in| coins or stamps (coins preferred) | for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write| needle, shoe and. leather workers plainly name, address and _ style! |every Wednesday. Workers in these number. BE SURE TO STATE) industries are urged to write us of | SIZE. |their conditions of work, and of Address orders to Daily Worker| their struggles to organize. Get the | NOTE We publish letters from textile, 42 UNION SQUAT\E, N. ¥. C. Pattern Department, 243 West 17th| letters to us by Saturday of each Street, New York City, i week, | piece work rates, are fired. |purpose and function of the N. R. in earlier have to work for them- |}: | Daily Worker would gain many new) | getting paid for that, but that they | understand. They are talking or- jmust remain at their work. This has been going on for some |time, ever since the beginning of the N. R. A. This was mentioned |to the Cotton Textile Board mem- ganization and as soon as they can build a good local, they can begin getting the consideration that is their due as workers and men and women, NRA and AFL New York City, M. To tons Tn formulating carefa) consideration. observed with the vi niet, On May 23 we printed on this, page part of a letter from a worker in the men’s neckwear trade, to General Johnson, N. R. A. admin- istrator. The letter described how under the N. R. A. regulation of wages and working hours, the manu- facturers with the help of the union Officials speed the workers up, by cutting down the piece-work rates. Workers who cannot reach the min- imum weekly rate of $20 stipulated by the N. R. A., with these reduced The letter stated: “Not long ago the union reduced the workers’ prices on each dozen to such an extent that even the fastest worker cannot make $20 a week, which is the limited scale at present.” We now publish a reproduction of the answer received by this worker to his complaint. This an- swer from the N. R. A. administra- tion proves, first: that it is the Letters from ASKS CHANGE IN DAILY WORKER | New York City. | Dear Editor: | I am a new reader of the Daily Worker. Since I have been reading the Daily Worker, I realize the im- | portant role and the power it has to/| inform the workers of the truth| about their daily struggles and ex- peses the treacherous betrayals of the Wolls, the Greens and the So- cialist leaders. But I believe the readers if it would alter their style in writing. By that I mean without sacrificing the truth and continuing to expose the enemy of the work- ing class to write on a literary style. Not in a propaganda and slander- ing way. Sometimes it is necessary. But not in every article. My experience in trying to inter- est my friends and acquaintances to read the Daily Worker compels me to write this. The style of the Daily Worker as it is, is all right for the class conscious or organized workers, who know by experience that noth- ing is too harsh against the enemies of the workers. But the unorganized workers who are under the ideology of the bour- geoisie when they first commence to read the Daily Worker, it effects them as a paper full of scandal and propaganda. They get discouraged and lose in- terest before they become class con- scious. That is the main objection every one of my friends gave me in my approach to recruit new sub- scribers for the Daily Worker. Tuan, ek Editorial Nete—The Daily Worker strives in its writing to do two things: To give a true picture of what is going on, and at the same time, to show to the working class what it must do, on the basis of what is happening, to fight for its liberation from capitalist exploita- Speed-Up, Fire Workers, Answer to Complaint Shows NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, D.C. requested by General Jo! of your letter with reference every condition and factor Ar participates in all of the code becomes effective, the results are to making such a modifications as my dest meet the requirements. You may feel assured the N.R-A. im endeavoring + to correct and adjust any anf all unfair methods which might operate to the disadvantage of workers. Help Bosses Mey 23, 1954 in industry. codes of fair competition, ting to labor is given iments and Singerely yours, a.1. Fa- A. Re Forbush Correspondence Division A. to help the bosses in speeding up and laying off workers. It was under the N. R. A. that the speed- | up and lay-offs, described by this | worker, were instituted. Second: That the A. F. of L. lead- ers participated in formulating the code and establishing the N. R. A. machinery, making it an effective | instrument in the hands of the bosses to carry out their attacks on the workers. Third: That the workers cannot hope for any help from either the A. F. of L. leaders or the N. R. Ai to remedy these conditions. The only effective method for accom- plishing this is for the rank and file to organize a strong opposition group in the union, to conduct the fight against piece-work, speed-up and lay-offs, and against the union misleaders. They should get in touch with the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee, 1 Union Square, which is leading and co-ordinating the struggles of the rank and file | oppositions in all A. F. of L. unions. Our Readers | ers’ and farmers’ government. Naturally, the Daily Worker is far) from perfect. In a way it is accom-| plishing both of these tasks. In many cases the language of the, “Daily” is complicated and could be} much simpler. In many other in- stances, the writing is not interesting, and instead of giving a simple, clear picture, dramatically told, the writ- ing is merely the repetition of for- mal phrases. These are defects which the editorial staff is con-! stantliy striving to overcome. | On the other hand, the Daily Worker gives a truer picture of what is happening, and the only correct analysis of what is happening. You say that “when a non-class con- scious worker begins to read the, “Daily” it affects him as a paper full of “scandal and propaganda.” For this there is a reason. The rea- son is that the capitalist press con- tinuously and deliberately teach their working class readers that all Communist writing is “propaganda.” * But supposing a worker in a fac- tory picks up the “Daily” and finds in it an item which describes ex- actly what is going on in his shop, how the boss exploits the workers, ! how their wages are cut, how the | foreman speeds up the men, how, they get no pay for overtime, how they are laid off, etc., etc. In this case, with this worker, even if he were not class conscious, would he say that these facts are “scandal! and propaganda”? On the contrary, he would eagerly greet this news! item, because he knows from his own experienze that it is true and he knows that no other newspaper would print such information. He! never sees such information in any| capitalist newspaper that he reads. ! This shows us what we must do to win over workers to the fight against capitalism. We must get as much as possible, reports from the workers themselves, such as we now tion and the setting up of a work- have in our Workers Correspondence } i ‘Fight Persecution | of Militant Hat | | Worker by Boss By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK —The Kurtz and Davidman hat shop used to be a shall shop with 40 workers. The bosses in that shop always intimi- dated the workers. The worker | never dared to speak up at any shop meeting. Many times, the workers worked under the price. For many things that they had to get paid they never got paid. For. single hats for which 40 cents had to be paid, he only paid 20 cents. By those methods he was able to open a new He shop with over 130 workers. still kept on with his old method: “Keep your mouth shut, you'll make a living, otherwise get out.” Two weeks ago he picked on a militant worker, claiming his work wasn't any good. The committee was called and the hats were passed. As soon as he saw the ac- tion of the shop, he wanted that the workers shall at least fix the hats, but the workers rejected that proposal. Then the bosses passed them without giving them to fix (for which he would have had to pay) to make his bluff good that the hats are not passable. In order words the hats were passable, but the boss wanted to get rid of the worker. Since that day he started Picking on that man. He even called the worker down for a fight. Last week another dozen were re- turned, but the worker refused to | fix them. The committee was called and later the shop decided that they don't look over the hats, but stick with the worker. The shop decided to walk out until he stopped both- ering the man, Hundreds Sleep On Bare Ground (By a Worker Correspondent) BOISE, Idaho. — Several hundred men and women and children are sleeping on the bare ground on the bank of the rivers. There were two men who stopped at my cabin the other day and asked for a bite to eat. They had come up from Utah. They were workers at the point of starvation. | They said they had gone to a bakery | man here and asked for a loaf of bread. The man told them to clean out his furnace for bread. It took them 2 hours to do the work, and he gave them each a loaf of bread. They asked the bakery man to give each two doughnuts, but he said no. There was a hunger march here on the 3rd. About 2,000 were out. Most of them are democrats, but some are learning. Jobless Must Use Food Relief for Light Bills (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—We've deen trying to get relief since April. This week we finally got investigated and re- ceived a food check. Our gas has been shut off. The Emergency Home Relief Buro gave us a paper to present to the Gas Co. and Electric Co. whereby they would consider us as new applicants. When I came to the Gas Co. they refused to open up the gas unless I signed a statement that during the time that we are get- | ting relief we will pay them one dollar every week on account on the old bill and the E. H. R. will pay the current bill. I asked “How can they expect money from people Who have to live on so small bud- get?” They said “You can pay one dollar a week from your food al- lotment.” I said that we cannot pay anything on the old bill at all, as we are destitute. The answer was"If you don’t sign, your gas will not be opened.” I was forced to sign it. The Electric Co. forced me to sign an agreement that we will pay previous bills. Alone I could not do anything. We must orgenize and ga in committees when we make this new application and force the companies to stop such practices, of robbing the destitute from their food allotment. Got $1 for 9 Hours: Work in Dry-goods’ Store By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I worked in a dry goods store in the Bronx for $1 a day. I only took 15 or 20 min- utes for lunch. When I went to werk was I not entitled to one hour for lunch? On week-days I worked from 9 to 6 and Saturday from 9 in the morning till some times 10:30 at night and had to wait for my money till after 11 p.m. that night, I worked from May till July, 1933, and I did not even get my $6 some- times, Had to wait. By educating the workers’ party, Marxism educates the vanguard of the proletariat, thus fitting it to seize power and to lead the whole people towards socialism, to carry on and to organize the new order, to become the teacher, the guide, the leader of all who labor and are exploited—their teacher, guide and leader in the work of organizing their social life without the bourgeoisie and against the bourgeoisie. LENIN Department on Page 4. Based on this information, when we show the workers how to struggle, how to improve their own conditions right in their own shops, in their day to day life. From this we must go on to show how not only the boss, but the whole government has the func- tion of keeping the workers in mis- ery in order to maintain profits. And from this we can raise the class consciousness of the worker, along the road that leads to the revolu- tionary struggle for Soviet power. The Daily Worker welcomes letters from its readers with criticisms and suggestions. Above all, it urges its readers to write worker correspond- ence, what they themselves know, what is going on. In this way the | Workers will know that what they|for the tuberculous is what is find in the “Daily” is not “scandal and propaganda,” but the truth that alone, can show them the way to a bel life—a life free from ex- Ploitation, : PARTY LIFE | Foreign Born Denies Neglect of Negro and in Rochester Our first contribution to the col- umn, which we follow regularly, must be in the nature of a criti- cism. On May 28, you printed an article under a “Syracuse, N. Y.,” address, concerning the Rochester, N. Y., relief workers’ strike, writ- | ten by one who said he was a “vis- | itor to Rochester.” His comments are not Bolshevik self-criticism, but abuse and perversion. The strike now enters its eighth week, in- velving over 5,600 workers. As many workers read this article, it caused Workers’Enemies Exposed | ne All workers and all working-class organizations are warned against the following swindlers. Carl Miller (Chas. Coder), pres- ent whereabouts unknown, who came as delegate from the San An- tonio, Texas, branch of the Friends | of the Soviet Union to the National | Convention of the F. S. U. (held; in New York at the end of January this year), has robbed a member of the German Workers’ Club in New York, who gave him lodging, of a) considerable amount of money | (about $60) and disappeared. Under the name of Chas. Coder he was expelled from the Commu- nist Party in March, 1931, as an unreliable individual who disap-| peared from Trenton, N. J., with-| out accounting for some funds of the International Labor Defense. Later he turned up in Kansas City, Mo., where he was permitted to work as a sympathizer. In Sep- tember, 1932, he went to Little Rock, Ark.; and from there in Oc- tober 1933, to San Antonio, Texas, where he joined the F. 8, U. branch. According to reports from San Antonio there also, as the literature agent of the branch, he has left behind unpaid bills for literature from the F. S. U. National Office and for the-Daily Worker, although | he was selling the literature and the paper, according to his own re- ports, in sufficient quantities to pay these bills, His latest actions, in failing to re- turn to San Antonio to discharge his duties as a delegate to the F. S. U. Convention, and the out: st robbing of a worker who had oc- friended him, brand Carl Miller as a despicable thief and swindler and an enemy of the working class. aye ee \ George Smith, of New York City, to where he came from Spokane or Seattle, Wash. has been expelled from the Communist Party as an unreliable and irresponsible indi- vidual, who disappeared with funds and supplies belonging to the sea- | men’s union (in December, 1933). | Description: about 37 years of age, 5 fect six inches tall, weighs about 170 pounds; has black hair, dark complexion, red cheeks, brown eyes; he blinks his eyes slightly when speaking. He belonged to the | Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, ; claiming to be a marine engineer. Shortcomings Exist in Approach to Negro and Italian Workers and Must Be Overcome | ers. confusion and certainly didn’t help the morale. Will you see that this is corrected by publication of this letter as soon as possible in the same column in which the article appeared? The Syracuse visitor charges the Communist Party of Rochester with being chauvinistic both in regard to Negroes and foreign-born. It is true that the struggle for Negro rights is weak here, but the presef ent strike has done more to overe come our isolation from the Negro workers than any previous local} campaign. Two leading positions on the strike committee are held by Negroes. Several strike meetings | have been held in Negro neighbor hoods. With the help of relief workers, more Negroes have been drawn into the Frederick Douglas branch of the LL.D., and two have joined the Party. Of the 330,000 Population of Rochester, only 2,200 are Negroes, which accounts for the small proportion involved, and dif« ficulty in finding issues of discrimi« nation around ‘which to develop mass action. In regard to the foreign-born, the visitor's staterients are completely misrepresentative. A continuous struggle against discrimination against the Italian workers, who are the majority of the population, has been carried on at the reli#f bu reaus, in court rooms, etc. This re« jflects itself in a large Party mem= bership of Italian workers and a mass following, together with a mi« nority of American and other work= While the Party hes tried ta support American workers for lead= ing positions, it has also supported Italian comrades as leaders and fa< vored speakers in Italian having a place at all mass meetings. Efforts of the relief administration to cor= rupt American workers by slurs at the foreign-born have been exposed and repudiated. A weakness of the Party that needs correction along these lines, however, is failure to build English- speaking unemployment councils\in Italian neighborhoods, where the youth and a large percentage of the workers speak English. This sece tarianism must be overcome. Also, the gravest shortcoming of the strike is drawing factory workers into the united front, for support of the strike. Many neighborhood meetings have been held, but none at factory gates,—though the strug- gle against the budget is for the greatest advantage of factory work- ers,—since it opposes forced labor, and its general lowering of living standards, (Signed) G. W. Org. Sec’y Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. ¢. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name .. Street City HOSPITAL CARE— UNDER CAPITALISM By A. S. In the issue of April 7, the Daily Worker published a letter from a correspondent describing his ex- perience in the T. B. Ward of Belle- vue Hospital. I also have had the “pleasure” of a stay in this resort and I can well understand the fear which an average uninformed patient would experience on being thrust into the closely packed at- mosphere of this ward; for whatever their methods, the carelessness with which individuals are treated is such as to easily give the impression the above mentioned correspondent re- ceived. But being a medical worker, I was able to observe the general procedure with a greater degree of objectivity, and to draw therefrom conclusions pointing to practices more vicious than carelessness in preventing the spread of germs from one patient tc another. Granting that some effort is made to prevent the spread of germs from one patient to another, the question arises: what else is necossary to the effective curing of T. B.; and how many and to what degree does this hospital supply any of those other needs? My own experience with the disease and with the medical opinions concerning the cure of T. B. are sufficient to say with absolute , certainty that the mere control of germ spread is only a negative espect of the cure, and is of no im- portance whatever in the actual curing of infection already present. It is universally held by physicians that the cure of T. B. depends uvon sufficient rest, a high caloric diet and much fresh air. Their impor- tance is in the order named. But of most importance is the existence of one other condition, without which the others named are utterly ineffective; and this is the factor of contentment and peace of mind. Without reservation, I can declare that outside of mere bed rest, no attempt whatever is made to create the other conditions so vitally neces- sary to the effective curing of T. B. Diet® In gfieneral, the diet prescribed known as a “quality” as well as quantity diet. That is to say, the diet must not only contain energy- producing factors such as found in starchy foods, but must also be rich 6 By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. in those factors, which build resis« tance: vitamin-containing foods such as oranges, cheese, eggs, butter, cream and green vegetables. In addition, it is considered advisable to supplement this diet with cod- liver oil. Of all these foods con= sidered absolutely necessary, we re- ceived only two eggs per day, hard boiled and ripe, and butter in such quantities as to detect its presence only by the greasy coating of the single slice of dried bread furnished with each meal. The otk®r food consisted of non-descript sttz-like messes, palatable only to advanced cases of starvation. Except by spe- cial permit, it is strictly forbidden for relatives or friends to bring in food, on the grounds that, as one attendant put it, “it would clutter up the patients’ stands.” Candy and ice-cream, efficient appetite chasers, are permitted between meals, and nothing else except the highly “bap-_ tized” cocoa or milk supplied by the hospital soon enough before meals, to make it ineffective as between- meal nourishment. Second helpings of food, while not forbidden, ap- pear to place such a strain upon the attendants, that a request for more food takes on the qualities of a hoggish crime. It is less trouble to remain hungry. Three days of this “high caloric” diet cost me four hard-won pounds of weight. The patient in the bed on my right lost six pounds in an eight-day period, and the patient on my left side d clared a loss of five pounds in the week of her stay. (To be Continued) Chicago, Ill. @ SMASH THE POINDEXTER FRAME-Up. Comte to the. 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