The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1934, Page 4

lc. P Candidate Exposes | | Farmer-Laborite’s Demagogy | Police Attacks On Politician Returns to Hear Communist After He Fails to Draw Crowd By a Worker Correspondent THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn On May 26, 1934, the va where new lutionary way out, in line with our Declaration of Independence, writ- ten by our farsighted revolutionary A B nm had talked for about 30 minutes, A. C. Town-| ley, a Farmer-Labor speaker sched- | uled to at the same an amplifier on the top of his car announcing that he would talk from the corner of the Post Office, and urged the crowd to come and listen to him. The crowd was evi- dently satisfied with Mr. Bau- marm’s speech and remained where they were, until Townley came back the second time and at- tempted to scatter. the crowd When Mr. Townley understood that people did not care so much about his Farmer-Labor talk, he came back the third time. and listened to Mr. Baumann until he had fin- ished his speech. Commu Baumann challenged | Farmer-Labor Townley to debate the issues with him, but Townley did not feel just that way. While | Mr. Townley was listening, Mr. Baumann pointed out that the Farmer-Labor party of Minnesota | was just a third capitalistic polit- | ical party run by Wall Street. He] also. pointed out that the clubs used by our Farmer-Labor Gover- nor rivers of Minneap- olis were made from the same} stuff and perhaps in the same | factory as the cluds Herbert) Hoover used to club down those | hungry people during the hunger | march to Washington, D. C. Baumann ended his attack on| Governor Olson by saying, “I heart- | ily endorse the spirit of the strik- ers and wish them the best of luck.” When Mr. Baumann was| through with his speech, he pointed | out what Mr. Townley was going | to say when he got the floor, that | he would tell all our troubles with- | out having any remedy. As Mr.| Baumann prophi the outcome Townley spoke like this: “The reason we are broke is because we have no money. What we need to do to destroy monopolies and get. money into circulation,” etc ar | final windup he preached ttle Socialism, but he forgot to or maybe he was ij say, that “the next time I tal Thief River Falls I will Communism. ORGANIZATION NEEDED By a Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—There is a group of three restaurants on the Bow- | ery operated by a firm by the name of Fuerst Bros. I sometimes eat in the one at 221 Bowery. There is in this place at present a lot of atscontent. | While the writer has spoken to al few of the men within a period of time, I believe this firm’s employes need an organizer. The help is mostly German, with a few Trish- | men EDITORIAL NOTE: For as- sistance in organizing for im- proving their working conditions, these workers should get in touch with the Food Workers’ Indus- trial Union, 4 W. 18th St, New York City. FARMERS ENJOY READING | “DAILY” By a Farmer Correspondent LYNCH, Nebr.—I received the Daily Workers and am reading them and passing them around to my neighbors and friends. I enjoy reading them. Let the good work go on. You can see we have one of the! worst droughts in this part of the country we have ever had. Some- thing must be done. Farmers can- not stand it any longer, and it must be worse for a laboring man. CONDUC THE BLESSINGS OF SCIENCE | tresses—regales itself with delicacies A column presenting a rosy pic- | ture of the way the destitute are dining these days appeared in the New York Times of June 4. It gave rations and menus for a family of | five as figured out the Associa- tion for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor. It was shown how much better the desti- tute are fed today than in 1847, in which year, the article solemnly points out, it was “not considered wise to pamper and coddle the un- fortunate.” Now the diets of the destitute are scientific, and tomatoes diet of the destitute was scientific- ally unbalanced; today the num- bers of the destitute have multi- plied many times, but their diet is scientifically figured out (to the last fraction of a calorie and the last wisp of vitamin-content). That’s progress! The first dinner menu given in their weekly list: scalloped pota- toes with onions and cheese, and ginger bread. (Serve bread and butter with all meals, says the re- lease). Quantity of butter allowed weéskly: one pound. Spaghetti and ch c e@-sauce, are two more cheese dishes on the weck’s menus for the | “family of five.” Amount of chee: v weekly: one half pound. Higher mathematics, in our en- lightened age, are not devoted to figuring out how to provide plenty of everything for all, but to the dis- covery of the barest minimum upon which a human being can keep alive. We have also an edifying list of recipes utilizing canned beef, sent out by the Bureau of Home Eco- jomics, U. S. Department of Agri- culture, in cooperation with the Federal Relief Corporation. Canned beef hash, canned beef-and-cab- bage, canned beef sandwich, canned beef stew, canned beef and turnips, canned beef scallop, canned beef and cornmeal pie. It’s a great life. system, It's cheaper to re tin cans and seal the beef in the cans and then let the unemployed fish the beef out of the fresh beef to the workers. Then there’s the question of absorption of metal from eating canned goods too consistently: that’s just another of the hazards of living in this glorious pre-revolutionary era. ‘The continuous ding-donging about minimum diets leads one to wonder what the bosses, whose capitalist system of exploitation end robbery of the workers brought on the need for figuring out these skifipy diets, are dining on these days. “While the millions of workers who have been thrown out of jobs by the logical development of this profit-system of production and distribution are handed monotonous starvation diets, or are clubbed dowh for demanding even that much, the cream of creation—the bankers and their industrial and political allies and satellites, with their wives, daughters, and mis- the He containing cabbage | A century ago the} and creamed potatoes with | again than to have the tin} cans out of the picture and get| ‘toxk from the far corners of the earth, picks and chooses between Caviar ‘Prais and Melon d’Espagne, be- tween Poulet Saute Chasseur and Grouse en Creme, between Arti- chokes a la Lyonnaise and Salade | Avocado, between Peches Melba and | Souffle Rothschiid. | We'll present tomorrow a por-| trait of the sort of thing consumed | by the “big guns” in their fine es- | tablishments. | Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1907 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 354 yards 36 inch fabric and 1 1-6 yards 4 inch ribbon. Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. hire dans SY \QOT Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. | Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1934 Karp. Bros. Strike By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y. — After a militant strugg’ by workers of Karp Bros., frait market at 65th St. and Bay Parkway, Bklyn., Mr. Karp made a fake sale of the market to Dicker Co. Inc. in an attempt to stop these workers from picketing. These men had been working for Karp Bros. for quite some time un- der most miserable conditions. They had worked as many as 92 hours per week, at a starvation wage. They were not class-conscious but had spontaneously revolted against Karp Bros. and presented demands to their bosses, especially stressing the long hours, demanding 62 instead of 92 hours per week. The bosses listened attentively, but brazenly rejected all demands. The Karp Bros. workers were, im- mediately informed by some of our comrades about Union conditions, and were convinced to join the Food Workers Industrial Union, which would lead them in the struggle against the brutal bosses. They joined the union and declared a strike. ® When the workers commenced to picket, Karp Bros. immediately signed up with the notorious local 338 A. F. L. Gangsters began to terrorize the peaceful strikers on the picket line, who were arrested many times, one after the other, under the charge of violating an in-| into a small grocery. The boss | junction, This injunction had been | smiled broadly and said: “If you're | acquired in 1932, when workers | looking for work or got sump’n to struck in one of the former places | of Karp Bros. Apparently, the in- junction was powerless to stop the determined strikers from picketing, | therefore the judge had to outlaw it. | The workers were again allowed to picket, but were terrorized by the A. F. L. gangsters and gorillas with the support of the police. In spite of the brutality, the militant work-| ers continued to picket, supported | by the C. P., as well as, by the| neighborhood workers. The C. P.| buttressed the strikers by means of open-air meetings, and various af-| fairs, arranged through the work- ing class organizations, at which! funds were raised. But we had to deal with the So-| cialist leaders of Bensonhurst, When we held an open-air meeting on one corner, the Socialist’s held one on the opposite corner. They have vili- fied the workers as “Communist trouble makers.” BOARDING HOUSE FOSTERS CHAUVINISM BROOKLYN, N. Y¥.—I saw an ad- vertisement in the papers for a re! resentative for the Cornwell Hou: an upstate boarding house, which IT answered hoping it would lead to a job. Here is the letter I got: Farlton, N. Y. | Dear Sir: “Received your letter in re- gards to a representative. Have a summer boarding house in the Catskill Mis., which accommodates 60 people. Board and room per week, $12 for two or more in a room, and $14 for one in a room. “Raise all our own vegetables, also have our own milk, eggs and chickens. Meals are all home- cooked. Cater to all classes of people with the exception of Italian and Jewish. ‘I pay 19 per cent of total amount of board. For further in- formation, please write.” Letters from Our Readers ON TRADE UNIONS New York, N. Y. | | | | Dear Comrades: I would like to have the follow- ing question explained: “Is paying dues to two unions, right and left, opportunism?” Comradely yours, —M. B. F. * Editorial Note: As a rule, where there are two unions in the same industry, a worker should pay dues to one union, and thereby give his undivided attention to working for the best interests of the member- ship. On the other hand, there are some situations which arise where it is found necessary to pay dues in two unions. For example, a worker may have joined a union of his own choice and at the same time be forced into a company union by the employer. Although he should fight to refuse to pay dues to the com- pany union, he may be compelled to do so. In this case he would be pay- ing to two organizations. We will be able to give you a more detailed answer on the basis of con- crete information on the given situ- ation about which you have written. * * HOLLYWOOD USES POISONOUS TACTICS Brooklyn, N. Y. Thinking I could rest after a long day's work by attending a movie I saw “I Believed in You,” starring John Boles. Instead of resting I became so angry at the vicious, ly- ing film, I could hardly sit still. This subtle, lying, cheap piece of anti-communist propaganda pictures a Communist organizer dressed up like an artist trying to get a group of miners to strike. The miners be- come enraged at this outsider, who no more looks like a worker than the man in the moon, and they give him a good thrashing, etc., through @ poisonous and lying film. (Re- viewed in the June 1 Daily Worker.) Pictures of this type show in the sharpest manner both fascization of the movies along with the fasci- zation of the government, and it shows the rotten decay of Holly- wood. It is heartening however, to know that we have such splendid organizations as the Theatre Union, the Film and Photo League, etc., to counteract this poisonous propa- ganda of the polluted, stinking bour- beois movies. Let us double our efforts in building the Film and Photo League, and other cultural or- ganizations since this is one of the many paths that lead to revolution. —M. J. G. .|dated unpainted | AFL, SP Heads Join\ Cabbage Growers Get Effective Fight $216 for Crop, But Must Pay $180 for Fertilizer Southern Business Town Is a-Hummin’—But Workers Are As Bad Off As Ever By a Worker Correspondent JACKSON, Miss.—After the} rawberry picking had been fin- hed at Hammond, Louisiana, I | was told about the cabbage, bean | and tomato fields a few miles north in Mississippi. My informants were | Louisianans and they said: “Things are pretty good up there.” Being @ sort of a New Dealer when there are any good jobs going the rounds |or loose cash: to be picked up, I hied myself thither. About the only persons now who | will pick up a fellow in distress are |the traveling salesmen (they used |to call them drummers) and the |first one that came along honked and motioned me to a seat along- side. He asked me if I had a gun, and without waiting for the answer, jee away. | Arriving at McComb, the cheap |hotel and flop-house man told me: |“Boy! It's been tough, but she’s! |sure a-hummin’ now. The six hun- |dred cotton mill workers have gone | back to work and the Illinois Cen- | |tral has ‘put’. back 900 shop men. | |My house is full’—at $4 a week. I} |ate a good dinner there and walked | sell you're in the right place now. Saturday will be the first pay day; you just wait till tomorrow and see what she looks like.” I could hardly wait for Saturday to come, but having ‘sump‘n to sell’ went out to look the town over and contact a few prospects for tomor- row’s clean-up, There are many ten to fifteen thousand dollar homes in the part where the trad- ing class, the doctors and lawyers live in this little ten thousand city —like there are in all others like this one in the South. A neat young colored maid meets one at the door and with a smile and perfect sang- froid assures the caller that the “madam” is not in, Tiring of so much repetition, the inquirer mean- ders over into the section of town where the poor white population lives. The gaunt, poorly-fed worker is just bumming the “makings” of his equally ill-fed neighbor and is sending his eight-year old kid across the street for a match—so that both of them may smoke. With the utmost cordiality he in- vites the visitor to rest himself, meantime pulling forward a dilapi- cane-bottomed chair of the vintage of 1912, Ail the other furnishings are in keeping with and are parts of this self-same | “set” of 20 years ago for small farm homes—for these men are the ones who came in to town to break the I. C. shop strike of 1911. Many of} the same men voluntarily went to Paducah, Ky., “to take better jobs” when the big system strike oc- curred there in 1921, One 80-year old woman told me: “My man come here in the strike 25 year ago and he went to Paduky in 1921 to help break the strike—whur he got the fever and never did git over it. He died a year ago—without a job —and we're awful pore.” One mid- | die-aged man said that the mill} workers ought to be satisfied with whatever the owners could afford |to pay them. In the homes of young parents who are poor, the | children go without shoes and many | times their clothes are rags held together with patches. The Emer- gency “Relief” Administration pro- vides the head of the family with one day a week at $1.80 and some- times two days. Finding no money in town, I scraped acquaintance with a Bene- fit (mutual-insurance) Association man who invited me to travel with him to Crystal Springs. In two days he “wrote-up” one contract and col- lected $3 of the $5 initiation fee and traded-in th edollars of the fee for our night's lodging with another farmer on another contract, The farmer said he would charge nothing at all for our lodging, but at the same time my friend knew that this was the only way in which he could have gotten the contract at all, This farmer said he doubted whether he could ever meet the dollar-a-month requirements to keep it in force for the $1,000 death ben- efit. We saw many more who wanted it, but said they could not even obligate themselves for 50 cents a@ month should the initiation be waived entirely. Four miles out we met a canvassing agent who was talking and selling 15 to 25 cent small, much wanted articles. He had sold to only seven people on his 30-mile route. He said, how- ever, that as some of the newly re- employed shopmen drove their fliv- vers from five to 20 miles, between their farm-home and work (every day), he had taken some orders for future delivery. Most of the land is owned by the town store men, in large tracts of 500 to 5,000 acres. The store men provide the land and the up-and- down boarded, unpainted residential houses, the fertilizer, the food, the live-stock and farm implements, and take half of what the farmer pro- duces. The farmer pays for his own seed and his own food and pays for half of all the other stuff that the store man furnishes. About $30 worth of fertilizer per acre is re- quired for cabbage and the yield is about si tons to the acre, This year cabbage averaged about $6 a ton (30 cents 100 pounds); so that if a farmer cultivated six acres and got $216 for the crop and paid $180 for i fertilizer he had a net profit of $36 for the work of himself and family. This $36 had to be divided between himself and the merchant, leaving him $18 net from the cab- bage crop. But the merchant sold him the fertilizer and sold it to him at whatever price he wanted to charge him; and—the merchant himself sold the cabbage to the northern commission house buyer (now on the ground in person) and “settled” with the farmer on what- ever basis of sales price he chose to submit to the farmer. Notwith- standing all this, however, it is un- questionably true that the sale price of cabbage was very low this year. | ‘Gov't Makes "pound price on cabbage delivered | aboard freight cars here this Spring (and 500 carloads have been shipped already) consumers in the Northern markets are paying many times this price. Nothing but the abolition of the entire capitalist profit sys- tem and the substitution of the So- | cialized non-profit system, as in the new Soviet Russian Republics, un- | der Communist control, will cure these evils. The oppressed growers wrote the Emergency Relief, or other agency, in Washington, requesting that this surplus be bought by the government and distributed to the starving people of the U. S. A., but received a refusal to consider. Half the cabbage has since been plowed under and now the green beans and tomatoes—just beginning to be shipped—will meet the same fate. That these 900 men be put back in the I, C. shops was a condition imposed by the R. F. C. Corp. that the $25,000,000 loan must be used for “improvements” during the year 1934—so I’m told. Sharecroppers Pay for Relief By a Sharecropper Correspondent | CAMP HILL, Ala.—Just a few words to let you know of the con- ditions here in the Black Belt. The relief is offering the farmers a steer to plow with, and feed for it. And then the farmer is tosend a claim to the government, and the relief is to feed the farmer. But he is to pay the government this fall, and he is not allowed to plant any cotton at all. This is the way that the small farmer is treated here, so that he nothing to live on. What are we to pay our expenses with; what will we do this fall for clothing? We see clearly that this new deal is a dirty deal, and means more misery for us. This relief is to be paid for this fall at our expense. I know that anyone can see this as well as Ido, I am has | | young workers soon took up a | Against Evictions | In Decatur, Il. By a Worker Correspondent DECATUR, Ill—There have been several evictions lately. One fam- | ily on East Orchard St. had their | | furniture set out. The unemployed Council set it back. After they left, | the constable came back, loaded | the furniture on a truck, hauled it to Haman’s warehouse and stored it. The next day there was another | eviction on Eldorado St. There were a number of workers at the Council hall when the news came | that the furniture on Eldorado: St. was set out. We went out, and set it back in. Then we drove up on Orchard St. to see how the family was making out that had been evicted the day before. We found them scattered about among the neighbors. Immediately we went to the Haman warehouse and de- manded the furniture. We got it, too, hauled it back to Orchard St., and put it into the same house it had been taken out of. It was getting late then, and some left. | Two workers went back to East Eldorado St. to see how things were. Here they found the family being evicted again. They were loading the furniture on trucks to take to the store rooms. Our collection among the crowd and paid the truck driver to haul the furniture to the home of a rela- tive. At once the word was passed among the workers, and at 7:30 that evening a crowd of about 350 people gathered in front of the place. The furniture was brought back and again placed in the house. In the second eviction of this furniture, the woman to whom it belonged was roughly knocked off the porch by a policeman and badly bruised. Following these, there was an eviction on North Clinton St. The Unemployed Council waited till evening before taking any steps. We loaded the furniture onto trucks and moved into an all-mod- ern house. NOTE We publish letters from farmers, | agricultural workers, forestry and} lumber workers, and cannery work- ers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us letters about their conditions of work. and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of without farm or employment, each week. Religious Dope, No Food For Poor, in “Farmer-Labor” State By a Worker Correspondent BEMIDJI, Minn.—The State of Minnesota is a Farmer-Labor State. And while the Farmer- Fe [Ged IS ANGRY WITH You— (ims WHY you sraRve! Labor Party is supposed to be for the interests of the farmers and workers here, the farmers and workers have to fight for everything they need. One of the investigators, when she is investigating, not only puts up a lot of questions, but also carries a searchlight and goes through your house and every cor- ner of it, to see what she can find. As she was to one woman's house and saw that she had some cans of spoiled food, this investi- gator asked her if she could not boil it up. and put some more sugar into it. This is what they expect workers to do, to eat the food that accidentally spoiled, while the government permits the ruling class to destroy tons of good food, | And while the workers are not | getting sufficient relief here in this town, different religious sects are distributing tracts, all the time, in order to bring into people’s minds that it is God who is punishing them for not being faithful to their saviour, in order to keep them from looking into the real issue to find out that their proper standard of living is being stolen by such gods as Morgan and Mellon. “Kirsch Beverage” Workers Organize for Strike Action By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN. N. Y.—When a new worker at H. Kirsch & Co. Inc., manufacturers of “Kirsch’s Bever- ages,” at 925 Flushing Ave., Brook- lyn, N. Y., discovered that men work 6 and a half days a week, and from 12 to 14 hours a day, he confided to another worker that he would ask Jimmie Dudgeon to take action. Jimmie Dudgeon is Secretary of Local 345 of the A. F. of L.; the Union to which soda water workers belong. “Now what is the use of telling Jimmie Dudgeon,” replied the older worker, “don’t you know he won't do anything?” “Why won’t he, he's Secretary isn’t he?” “You'll learn,” grinned the older worker, as he continued loading cases on a truck. The new worker did learn, He learned that Jimmie Dudgeon was once a soda water truck driver, who became active in the A. F. of L. and pulled down a soft berth as Secre- tary of the Local, at a salary of $60 a week, He learned, too, that Hyman Kirsch, the boss, lives in a large and gaudy private house, with two garages. His employees cannot afford anything better than old fashioned, cold water, R. R. flats. Kirsch is especially facile in han- dling employees big promises and small pay envelopes. The Kirsch trucks are manned with a driver and a helper. Helpers get 50c. a day, and when a helper asks for more he is promptly fired. When this issue is raised at a union meeting, or if a worker raises the question of the long grinding work- ing day, or Kirschs violation of the $6 a day union wage scale, then Jimmie Dudgeon, true to his colors, jumps to the rescue—of the boss. He nips these discussions in the bud by reminding the workers that such matters should be taken up at an executive meeting; but at the ex- ecutive meeting he closes the argu- ment with a promise to “investi- gate.” These investigations are well known. They consist of a meeting between Kirsca and Dudgeon, in Kirsch’s private office, and behind closed doors. Nothing ever comes Regardless of the third-a-cent a of them, and when a worker be- 1 comes too insistent, at a union meeting, Dudgeon brings him up on charges. The workers at Kirsch’s have be- gun to realize that Jimmie Dud- geon’s principal endeavor is to safeguard his steady salary of $60 per week, and to continue his pleasant job of conferring with bosses behind closed doors. They have begun to realize that the A. F. of L., through Jimmie Dudgeon, has really protected Kirsch from the workers and not the workers from Kirsch, and one by one they have dropped from the Union, until to-day there are only three union members in his employ. The A. F. of L. has treated Kirsch very well indeed. In the 30 years of his business he has had no strike; he has cut wages and in- creased hours, without any serious protest. In the season he takes on “Extras” at a dollar a day and fires militant workers just as soon as he detects them. And, Jimmie Dud- geon, following the footsteps of his teachers, Wol] and Green, sits idly by. But it will not remain so forever. The men are learning fast that the boss's house. and cars and trips to Europe are brought with the sweat and blood of their labor. They have learned, too that their faith in the A. F. of L. has been misplaced and sadiy misused. Some of them are thinking of joining the Food Workers Industrial Union. When they do, they will have real rank and file leadership; there will be no room for sleek, well paid Jimmie Dudgeons, whose main endeavor has been to “smooth over” labor conditions, without ever get- ting one single benefit for the work- ers. When these workers are properly organized (and it’s happen- ing now) under the F. W. I. U., Kirsch will experience his first strike. A strike at the height of the season—not a filling machine re- volving—not a conveyor moving— not a truck rolling—picketing in front of his shop. Then, Kirsch’s greedy eyes will be more watery than ever, and his protruding belly PARTY LIFE Chicago District Plans Series of Section Training Schools Will Train Cadres fo Well as in Basic Theory By BEATRICE SHIELDS, Dist. 8 The National Convention of the Party made various decisions on the question of development of cadres. The importance of this task cannot be stressed too strong- ly. With the developing struggles, the party is growing, and the training of Party members to assume leadership is issue. In view of the situation, we cannot be satisfied with the regu- Jar routine classes and District and National Training Schools. Our schools must be more concrete and must answer and prepare comrades for the immediate tasks confronting them in their locality in connection with trade union, shop, unemployed work, etc., while at the same time giving them a firm theoretic base for their work. Since the National Convention, the Chicago District has thorough- ly considered new methods for a mass training of our cadres. At a meeting with the Section agitprop directors the proposal for a system of training schools was accepted. The method suggested was as fol- lows: To conduct in each section of concentration training schools of about from 25 to 30 comrades. These schools to be conducted four nights a week to give the comrades employed in the shops an oppor- tunity to attend. The subjects should consist of Principles of Com- munism, Trade Unions, and Party Organization. A program of prac- tical work in addition is proposed. The practical work will involve not only the students in the school but the entire party section. Comrades attending the school will be sent| to various meetings with definite instructions from the class as to what to accomplish at these meet- ings. The results of the meetings will be discussed by the students. On Unit nights the students will be sent to the units to lead dis- cussions. The discussion will be prepared beforehand by the school. In this way the entire party will be stimulated to political discus- sion, literature will be introduced to the units, etc. The cost of such schools will be a minimum, since there is no ques- tion of feeding or fare. The com- rades all live in one locality, and each section has one or two halls @ burning | r Immediate Tasks as in which such classes can be held without rent. will be for material and for this the units can raise one dollar each. At the close of the school, all the books accumulated will be the beginning of a library for the section. Other details were worked out. Already the following sections have set to work on this project: Section 5, railroad concentration (together with Section 8); Section 4, concentrating on Stewart Warner, metal shop. Sections 3 and 10, concentrating on Western Electric, etc. Sections 2, 7 and 11, concentrate ing on the stockyards, will make arrangements for such a school on the South Side of Chicago. There will be meetings of the agit prop directors of the units, together with the school instruc- tors in each section, separately to work out details for successful schools during the month of June and July. In the coal fields, where because of distances and other difficulties, it is impossible at this time to hold a full-time training school, a circuit school will be conducted to cover the major towns based on our mine ‘concentration plan. The feeling among the comrades is that this type of training will be superior to the District Training Schools because the studies can be concretized and immediately ap- plied to the urgent problems of every-day work. The Chicago Workers’ School will not conduct summer classes, but will instead throw its forces into the Section Training Schools, Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. ¢. Please send me more informa- tion oh the Communist Party. NAME secsesccccsvcssccccecccces Street City Docter e4: HOSPITAL CARE — UNDER CAPITALISM By A. 8. (Continued from yesterday) Air With fresh air, the hospital is grandly generous, and at all times; even during chest examinations, when the patient is compelled to strip to the waist on the porch, while his nibs, the doctor, discourses to the internes on the peculiarities of the case. I saw this performance repeated several times (my own turn included) in an atmosphere of below freezing temperature. It does not matter at Bellevue that pneu- monia’ is nearly always fatal to tubercular patients, Fresh air seems to be of primary importance, especially if its loss means a little trouble in removing the patient in- doors for examination. In all my experience with chest examinations, this Bellevue technique was unique, for it is invariably the practice to conduct such examinations in rooms where special effort is made to pre- vent drafts and exposure. Nor does it seem of any particular concern to the dispensers of “medi- cal care” at Bellevue that the beds are so close together that only com- plete outdoor conditions could really keep the air “fresh.” The patient next to me had a lung infection the sputum from which carried a foul odor, This was gently and insis- tently wafted to me by the constant circulation of “fresh air.” The mass use of bed-pans also lent content to the air. These are brought in wholesale at intervals, for it is considered to be too much trouble to bring them in for individual need. And if you cannot time your need to the convenience of the attendant, the latter, by way of exhortation, will inform you of the many rules which cover the function of excre- tion at Bellevue. Much attention is given to the effect of this on doctors, for when a doctors is in the ward patients are not supposed to be sub- ject to the more unesthetic human impulses. Thus the air is always fresh. . . for the doctors. phone his friend Jimmie buageon: but Dudgeon will have no power over the awakened workers. For the first time in Kirsch’s experience, the workers will dictate working conditions to him. I want to be there to see the beafy-bellied Kirsch speak to a committee of workers, instead of using Jimmie Dudgeon as his mouthpiece, as he has done in the past. I want to see Jimmie Dudgeon and his whole A. F. of L. official's tribe back to physical labor where they belong, and I want to sce solidarity of the workers against the bosses instead of split ranks, so carefully kept broken up by the machinations of the A. F. of L. officials. I want to see the day when the workers will own and operate, for their own use, the very plant where they have been exploited for so long; the day when the hammer and sickle will fly from every factory as a symbol of a U.S. S. A. will sag to a new low. He'll tele- JOHN ?4&TOR By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. I found myself in a sweat of em< Toward the creation of conditions aiding in increasing the factor of contentment and peace of mind, not the slightest pretense of an effort is made. From beginning to end, the attitude is one of “beggars can’t be choosers.” With rare exceptions, any request for individual attention is met with a sour-faced amazement at the patient’s nerve. At my re- quest for a spoon washed of the last meal's traces, the attendant asked why I could not wipe it off with my napkin. Another atten- dant, by way of consoling me for my disgust with a bed-pan still un- washed from a previous user, said “don’t be so particular. It doesn’t cost you anything.” My session with the social service worker was especially pleasant. I was propelling my way along the ward from the x-ray lab. in a wheel chair, when a robust voice from across the ward said, “are you the new patient?” A woman came over and stood before me with a pencil and note book poised for action. Then followed a series of questions concerning my past and present economic status, delivered in a voice loud enough to divert the whole ward. At any rate, it seemed that the whole ward waited expectantly for my answers. Ifound myself in a sweat of em- barrassment and guilt. In general, the attitude of the attendants with the exception of the doctors who consistently back-patted and patronized the patients, is just this: how dare you, who have committed the crime of being too poor to pay for service, come here and expect to be served? Atmosphere of Misery The material conditions in the ward are sufficient to color the men- tal attitude of the patients to such an extent that no amount of kind- ness on the part of attendants could soften the effect. No patient, no matter how hard-boiled, could be unaffected by the everpresent slimy retching and coughing of the fare advanced cases,, thrown so indis- criminately among the lighter cases, Aside from the fear of added infec- tion, the spectacle of these far-ad- vanced cases can only further de- press the lighter ones by the pros- pect it holds for them in the future, I am more or less informed medi- cally of the possibilities of my own condition, yet I found myself deeply affected by the realistic impressions obtained from actual contact with these far-advanced cases. In addi tion, the unconcern with which the staff looks upon the mental attitude of the patient is exemplified by the fact that patients have free access to their own charts. It is held that for some patients, knowledge of their own condition is advisable; but for the large majority of patients, this knowledge is disturb ing. In most institutions, the gen- eral practice is to keep the patient uninformed, except for purposes of encouragement or warning. It.may seem inconceivable to the doctors who tolerate this carelessness that these “poor devils” might value themselves enough to be disturbed by the usually half-understood in= formation written on the charts. (To be Continued) The only expense” cx ie]