The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1934 AFL Shop Steward at Philco Strikers Find ‘Nice’ Ford Now Allows Union Strike at Newark Radio Acts As Stool-Pigeon Has Increase By a Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA.—The A. F. of L. shop steward at the Philco Radio Corporation plant got a an fired for dema ction on wage rate adju About four we ago, Philco workers were organized into a fed- eral A. F. of L. local, and succeeded in getting a 10 pe crease. At the sam in the R. C. A. plant in Camden just organized into the Radio and Metal Workers’ Industrial on (Inde- pendent), and got a sim increase. However, the union leadership suc- ceeded in getting an additional 5 per cent increase for some the tool shop .thro nt in the differentials. Philco tool makers learned of this, one tool maker approached the shop steward, Scott, and demanded that the union take some steps to adjust the $9 differential among the tool makers in the plant, but Scott told him that nothing could be done about it. This worker then got up a petition to that effect, and succeeded in getting the entire day shift to sign it. When he raised the question at the next union meeting, he was told that this was not the business of the meeting, but City Hospital Sues Poor Worker By a Worker Correspondent JAMESTOWN, N. Y. — I have been working in a hardware store in this city for over ten years. About one year and a half ago the ‘Wages I received were cut to the handsome sum of $10 per week ‘When the N.R.A. came along I got the grand raise of $3 which made the tota of $13 per, to feed my family and pay rent, gas, electricity and all the other bills. We tried to get along on that the best we could, and then my wife was taken to the city hospital and gave birth to our little daughter, and then the fun began. First of all, the doc- tor wanted all of his cash, which he didn’t get, and of course, all Kinds of letters came telling us| what to do about the bill, but we just couldn't convenience him, so nobody knows what he will do. Next the “city” hospital wanted me to sign a note which I knew I couldn’t meet when it would come due, so T just gave them $10 and told them I would pay the rest when I could, ‘but that wasn’t good enough, so the city sued me for the balance. I didn’t sign the note. I was in sourt this a. m. and instead of “telling” me I told them that if they would garnishee my little $13 Worker Fired Who Initiated Action for in Wages to approach the grievance commit- tee. He did, and the grievance committee decided that nothing could be done. Another tool maker then took the petition among the night shift, get- ting all the men to sign it. Last Friday, June 2, the foreman told the worker who had first raised the question that he had received a letter from the management that this man was “an agitator and a trouble maker” and to “get rid” of him. When the worker asked if he was fired, he was told to take it up with Scott, the shop steward. Scott told him he could do nothing about it, since it was AN ACTION BY THE MANAGEMENT. A little} while later, the foreman called this | worker on the phone and fired him. | From all these facts it is clear} that the shop steward reported the tool maker to the management, | playing the role of a stool-pigeon | and informer for the company. It is also clear why the company plasters the walls of the plant with | notices saying that it gives full co- | operation to the union in the plant. In other words, the A. F. of L. Federal union at the Philco plant | functions exactly like a company | union | Staying at Transient Camp is ‘‘Almost Like | Living in Jungles” | By a Worker Correspondent PATTERSON’S FIELD (DAY-! TON), Ohio—This will inform you} | of conditions here at Transients’ |Camp No. 7. We have in front of us two years’ work with conditions almost like living in the jungles—| | insufficient and half-cooked food, | and 90 cents per week, with 30 cents held back to be chiseled from | | you. When you leave, a week is | held back. The camp is run by National Guards, who chisel any and all ways to have skilled men | overhaul their personal cars and | do paint jobs on them, on the prom- |ise of pay which is never realized. Dressed all like workhouse prison- ersmen in camp, hurt and crip- pled by careless truck-drivers, left to suffer in camp with the doctor at Dayton, nine miles away. There is no literature here and any peti- tions are ignored, and the signers beat up and run out of camp with-| out their pay. I would just settle down on the city and they would have to pay all my bills. The officials were so taken aback by my boldness that they just told me to do the best I could and) they would wait. | | We are surely in the midst of the season when the cookstove looks like a real instrument of torture to the harassed housewife; imagina- tion and appetite leap to greet the chilly salad like a parched duck swooping into a cool pond. In such} warm weather one scarcely waits to ask, “Is it customary to use this or that in a satad?” but pops | it into a bowl with lettuce and} dressing and says, “To heck with | Hoyle.” And the results are usually | surprisingly tasty—cold fish, meats, | vegetables, all fit into the role with grace. A few suggestions for those ad-| venturous souls who fecl well enough acquainted with standard salads—cole-slaw, and so on—fol- low. Rather substantial: Three} parts finely shredded cabbage to one part coarsely chopped peanuts: mix with half to three-quarters part | of salad dressing, serve on cress or| lettuce. | Another with peanuts: peeled split bananas, moistened with dress- | ing, rolled in chopped peanuts, and serves on lettuce with white grapes. | Another, do for a meal: a cup each finely | shredded cabbage and cooked beans | (green or Lima); half a cup each| , of diced cooked carrots and flaked | salmon. Mix with a chopped hard- boiled egg, one large or two small} tomatoes (cut small), and two| small, finely chopped pickles; stir in (French) dressing <0 moisten, | and serve 4n lettuce. | ‘We'll welcome any of our readers’ fgvorite recipes for unusual salads, also for unusual canned or pre-| served fruits or vegetables. By DR. LONE She is 23: Married two years. As a girl she always dreamed of children. Her plan was to have} two within the first two years after marriage; then, about five years later, one more. But shortly after her marriage her | husband lost his job and never! found a decent place since, working | only once in a while and earning} very little. Lately, not being able to stand the misery at home, she went to work. She is earning $12 a week, and for long periods at a time, she is the only breadwinner. Of course, she had abandoned the hope of being a mother. She has sacrificed it on the altar of poverty. But today she is complaining of a few symptoms, which she believes to be temporary and unimportant. | When I announce to her that she | is pregnant, her struggle is terrible. | She is fighting against herself. Her old desires and ideals are re- awakened. She would be so happy to bear a child. But she cannot, she must not! I see her sketching gestures of caressing the baby, of taking its head between her hands, of press- ing it to her bosom. And then she suddenly repels it, and I can hear| hex whisper: | “No! No!" ¢ j | | EMPTY ARMS | | CONDE substantial enough to| | a Then, aloud, “Are you sure, Doc- tor? ... You cannot imagine how that would complicate our situation. | It is terrible. Maybe you are mis- taken? But I am inexorable: there is no doubt.” “No, no,” she says, going out: “It shall not be.” Can You Make Em Yourself? Pattern 1910 is available in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 takes 35, yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. “Sorry, 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 SIZL. Ad Pattern Street, ; orders to Daily Worker Dzpartment. 243 West 17th New York City, AFL Tacties Don’t Lead ’em to Victory By a Worker Correspondent GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The workers are indeed on the move Even in Grand Rapids, a city con- sidered organizationally backward, | strikes are on the order of the day. Over two months ago the polish- ers and buffers at Winter & Cramp- ton, hardware manufacturers at Grandville, Mich., made an agree- ment with the bosses for an adjust- | ment in the rate of pay on over 50 items; rates were to be raised till the men would be able to earn at} least 70 cents per hour instead of | the 24 cents to 40 cents that was possible under the then ruling rate. This was a great victory, a victory gained without struggle shouted the A. F. of L. leaders—but the bosses | knew a trick worth a dozen of that, | as events soon showed up. Their} trick was to make adjustment on| one minor item—then string the workers along for a couple of weeks before making the next. This worked | for a couple of months, then the| men struck. | For several days Old Man Cramp- | ton, a firm advocate of law and order, paraded about threatening the unarmed pickets with a loaded | shot gun till the boys brought charges against him and the police persuaded him to desist from his display of capitalistic militancy and leave it all to them. | At first the strike was conducted | as a nice quiet sewing circle affair and scabs were allowed to come and go at will, but as the realiza- tion that the bosses showed no signs of being brought to their knees by those tactics grew, the strikers are showing more militancy and de- termination. Especially the younger workers are ready for battle. Rot- ten eggs are the only weapons used against the “rats” up to the writ- ing of this article. The car of a} deputy sheriff was struck, quite by chance, by an elderly hen-berry, much to the sorrow of the by- standers. On June 5 the pressmen in the plant voted to go out the following morning and that will in- tensify the situation. The bosses boast of having $100,- 000 with which to bust the strike and the union, which is significant, for it is only a small concern, so must be backed by larger inter- ests. Unfinished work from this plant was sent out to another metal plant in Grand Rapids to be buffed and polished, but the workers there struck, too, refusing to scab. This may lead to larger struggles in a very short time here. I have suggested to some of the strikers that they form a strong committee and march to the county | welfare and demand that they be | put on relief while on strike—but | the novelty of it was as yet too much for their imagination. Never- theless, they are not rich and if they are going to conduct a mili- | tant strike they will have to eat—| so Why not? | Co. Union Keeps | Negro and White Workers Divided By a Worker Correspondent | FAIRFIELD, Ala—In the West- | field plant of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. we have a company union, that we do not want at all. But this is the best that we can do at this time because the bosses of the Southern States have been able to keep the working class divided and this makes it hard to build an independent union here. But we know that the company unions are not for the worker at) all. We see now what has got to be done to build the union in the Southern States. The race preju- dice must be broken down in the South. The T.C.I. is trying to save itself by a company union but this | will not help at all when the work- ers’ conditions are getting worse all the time. The wage cutting system is difficult at this time. We did not understand what the differen- tial wage in the Southern States means. The foreman of the T.C.I. told me that the reason why the T.C.I. wants a company union is because they do not want to pay a Negro the same wage that they pay a white worker, but if I understand it, it means the same thing to the white workers. The Negro workers ought to get the same wage as white workers get. I will tell you how I first got the Daily Worker. A Negro worker was reading it to himself and I saw the headline and asked him for a copy. He gave me two copies of the paper. FROM A WHITE WORKER IN FAIRFIELD, ALA. Agency Traps Waiters | Into Job Without Pay By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—This is what can happen to those who are looking | for a job. On May 22 I went to an employ- ment agency at 108 12th St., and 1 asked for a waiter’s job; the office | man told me that there is a boss booking three waiters to Long Beach, to the Nassau Hotel. The boss asked me if I was an experi- enced waiter. I told him that I worked in several places. So the agent told me to pay $50 for the job, and to be ready the next morn- ing for work. The next day I landed at Long Beach, and the head waiter told us to fix the dining room. At about one o'clock we asked for something to eat. The head waiter told us that the kitchen is not open yet, that we should buy our own meals until the place would open on May 30. At night he gave us a filthy place to sleep, but, on accoun: of the bed bugs, nobody slept that night. So we all | quit. Then he told us that the boss didn’t pay any wages until May 30. We had one hard t collecting our carfare back. at's the way vhe besses get r because they fool the poor workers, WAITER. Activity --- But Only by An A. F. of L. Organizer | By a Steel Worker Correspondent Attempts to Divert Workers’ Strike Sentiment | “ 29 | Into “Safe” Channels | Drum Co. and its subsidiary, By an Auto Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.— Henry Ford, the labor hater, brings into the Ford Motor Co. of Dearborn the strikebreaking American Federation of Labor, Ford knows that the workers are getting ready for strike action against his speed-up and he has decided to have the A. F. of L. organizer of Dearborn go from department to department to or-| ganize the workers, telling us that| they are for $1.00 an hour and time | and a half on Saturday. But we know that all they want is that} $200 and your du We workers of Ford want a union, but we want one that is controlled by the work- | ers and not by the strikebreaking | Officials of the A. F. of L. Workers | of Ford, get on the job and organ- ize. Organize into a union of our own choice, the Auto Worker: Union run by the rank and file. | Trick Workers Petition Asking Roosevelt To Prevent Steel Strike | men to the place where the meet- Into Signing By a Steel Worker Correspondent ECORSE, Michigan. — The steel workers of Ecorse are ready to strike. The village president of Ecorse is working overtime to avert the strike, hand in hand with the bosses. Here thete is a general sen- timent for the strike. Many of the workers say that they are read: to fight for their unions and for} higher wages. The village president of Ecorse called a meeting for tonight in the municipal building of the merch- ants and business men to find a way to avert the strike, and believe me, some funny things happened there, | A man got the floor from River Rouge; I was unable to learn his name, and he talked about what Ecorse ought to do, like Rouge, to stop the strike. He talked and talked, but I still do not know how it was done. After him a business- man got up and he told the meet- ing and the president of the vil- lage that if they want to stop the strike, to raise the wages of the mill workers, because the pay that a steel worker is getting is impos- sible to live on. The meeting voted on a resolution to be sent to Presi- dent Roosevelt, asking the Pesident to prevent the strike by raising the wages of the steel workers. The fun comes now. Honorable Mr. Wm. Voisine made everybody present sign their mames on an} empty sheet of paper. The people signed their names and went home. A few men ayed behind and | asked them to read the resolution. Some official from the steel mill was there also, and he read the resolutions, and it was the same thing as proposed: that we, the business men of Ecorse ask the president to stop the coming steel strike, and that’s all. The raising of the wages, oh, forget about that —you are no one to bother the president with things like that. So we can see that even the busi- ness men's sympathy is with the workers, and that only the village president and the steel mill officials want to turn them against the work- ers. I am anxious to see the next issue cf the Ecorse Advertiser, to see how this rotten paper will play up the above mentioned resolution. American Mechanic in U.S.S.R. Answers Inquiries from U.S. By a Worker Correspondent KISLOBODSK, U. S. 8. R.—This is an answer through the Daily Worker to several letters I received ag a result of my article in the Daily of March 22. The letters were from workers in many parts of U. S, A. who were disgusted with life under capitalism in America. Some of these letters) were from workers who are not connected with any labor or radical movement because they addressed me Dear Sir etc. This fact indi-| cates that even the so-called hack- ward American worker is getting wise to the humbug schemes of) capitalism and its leaders and look- ing toward the land of Leninism for| the way out of the economic jungle of capitalism. The letters ask questions about) wages, hours of work, cost of living, | what kind of apartments, system of wage payment etc. For good to excellent lath and milling machine hands the pay is from 200 te 350 rubles per month and in some cases more, depending on the industry and locality, some good to excellent die makers receive from 400 to 800 rubles per month. Almost all wages a re paid on the piece work basis, most work is spe- ciglized. Almost all industries work 7 hours per day, with 5 days work and 1 day off in every six day period. All workers receive 15 consecutive days vacation every year with pay. More responsible workers receive one month vacation every year with pay. There is no lost pay through | sickness. We receive full pay for every day, we lose upon doctors’ instructions, with dectors’ services and medicine free. I am wrting this letter in a sanitarium in Kislobodsk, a moun- tain mineral water health resort. I was not feeling well, went to the doctor who examined me together with two other doctors. The doc- tors recommended to the union that I be sent to this resort for rest and treatment and in about three weeks time our trade union secretary handed me a paper which was a pass for one month for this sani- tarium with train fare included. In addition I received my wages for the full month. If there is any worker in America who ever received so much from his employer I have never known one. I worked in America 30 years for all kinds of employers and I never had such humane treatment as I receive here and I am no exception. It is the rule and the law of the land where the workers rule. In regards to cost of living, food stuff, clothing, fuel, rent, etc. The cest of foodstuffs with the excep- tion of bread is high compared with the American, prices; the same with clothing but prices are now coming down. They are to be 40 per cent less in 1937, The high prices are due to socialist accumulation that is the high prices do not go into the pockets of coupon clippers as profit, but instead of individual accumula- tion for the present we are building thousands of new factories and plants which are socially owned for the welfare of all, the people, hence we are for the time being consuming less individually in order to lay a firm foundation in modern means of production that we may in a few years consume more and all we want without fear of exhaust- ing our individual or collective supply of necessities and luxuries. In fact, this year we are receiving more of all kinds of goods and food- stuffs. Our stores are supplied with feeds end other gsods. I am having | that this is the best country in the over last year or two years ago. | About housing and other living conditions. This again depends on location. Some places the apart- ments are quite modern. In other} places they are not as modern as good American apartments; for in- stance, some houses have not yet running hot water and very few have gas, outside of Moscow. But| these are small things compared! with building a new social-economic structure over one sixth of the earth’s surface. All new apartments now being built are as good as the best American apartments. In conclusion I want to say, after three years working and living here, world for workers. Especially for young skilled workers here lies the future. For workers over 40 years who know no Russian it is rather hard, as the language is difficult to learn for Americans. Comrades of the Daily Worker, please acknowledge receipt of this letter of article and please send me personally a copy of the issue in which this article appears. Thank you —BEN THOMAS, American Machinist Combine House No. 6 Apt. 27 Rostov-Don Rotselmash U.S. 8. R. A Classic Case of “Impartial Justice” | By a Worker Correspondent HARRISBURG, Pa. — My eldest son was driving a Florida Fruit Route up from Florida to Philips- burg, Pa., a year ago today. He met with an accident while mak- ing a short curve on the way home between Philipsburg and Bellefont, Pa. A man by the name of Prusic drove his model T Ford, an old car, just in front of him on pur- pose to get a new. car. He had done the same thing to another comrade, killing two of his family, but the law up at Bellfonte, Pa., won’t take a case unless its against a poor man. He was put off for 13 months, he was up for trial on the 28th-29th of this month. On the first day they appeared at court 12 sharp. I watched every move of the judge. After all the liars had spoken and the public disappeared, including me, who had not been called, he called the defendant to his side, shook his hand, took him into his private office. The jury was made up of friends of this man Prusic, They had the jury of his neighbors—two women and ten men. Witness number two was stand- ing 1,000 feet away from the curve from where the wreck happened. He testified that the truck which my son was driving was making 75 to 80 miles an heur. This truck could barely make 35 miles an hour. Wit- nes number three was around the curve, 800 feet from the accident. He heard a crash, saw my son fly out of the car. He was caught in the wreck, which went over three times until the door of the car tore off his leg. After the jury was addressed by the district attorney and the judge, instead of going to the jury room the judge called a recess, and they went outside the court and talked with the defendant and everybedy. After the court resumed again the judge toid the jury that if they knew which side their bread was two new suits of clothes made toj verdict in favor of the defendant, ‘order, There is much improvement as my son was no resident of Cen- buttered on they would bring in a | system or masks, Steel Drum Co. Led By S.M.W.LU. LINDEN, N. J.—Allow me to tell you about conditions in our plant in the recent past. Most of us in the employ of the Newark Steel the Reliable Steel Drum Co. of Linden, New Jersey, are between the ages | of 18 and 22. There are about 60} employed there. We had been work- | ing for as low as 30c per hour.| Many of us have to work with acids | and as a result burn oi clothes | rather fast. Gloves and shoes too| go as fast. These we had to buy ourselves. Some of us are working on spray apparatus with no vent| To top this all, we are being pushed to an abnormal speed. Many of us are turning out twice to three times as much work as pre- viously. A group of us got together and helped form a Local of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union in the shop. During the time this was going on none of the bosses were the wiser. Yet only last week somehow they learned of this. They sent several of the fore- ing was supposed to be held and tried to scare some of us off. To others they told that they would receive telegrams that they need not report for work Monday. Some were intimidated in other ways. We have most of the shop organized and are presenting demands. The shop committee with a repre- sentative of the union presented demands Monday, June 4th. No one in the plant went to work un- til they reported back. They re- ported that the boss refused to negotiate with the, committee. The men then went out and reported this to the others, who immediately began to picket the plant. Police were soon sent for. Individual workers were approached and were | given individual proposals. The strike was militant throughout the day. As a result of strike action one worker was picked up and sent to jail AFL. Neckwear | Union Leader Helps Bosses Cut Wages By a Needle Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—Mr. Fuchs, the manager of the Neckwear Workers’ Union, A. F. of L., some time ago worked with our bosses to give us! a 40 per cent wage cut, which is the largest cut we have ever had, | promising that if we work under| the new prices we would be able to make from $25 to $28 a week, | not mentioning the long hours and | speed-up. Of the worse conditions that fol- lowed this cut, the true value is the outstanding example. In this shop the workers were paid on account $13-$20 a week, being told they would receive back pay after the code is signed. Evidently, the boss and the union had a secret agree- ment for low prices and now the boss, with the full approval of the union officials, asks the. workers to pay back hundreds of dollars, on the ground that the workers, after slaving for 56 hours a week “have not produced enough work.” March 15 home work was sup- posed to have been abolished, but our union officials, without con- sulting the membership, extended the home work period to June 15. Now, that June 15 is approaching, the bosses are terrorizing the home workers into signing petitions ask- ing continuation of home work. What, if anything, are our officials doing to organize the homeworkers and abolish home work? The R. and F. neckwear workers are calling a meeting to protest against these bad conditions within our trade on Wednesday, June 13, at 7 p.m,, at Irving Plaza. NOTE: We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their working conditions and of their efforts to organize. Please | get the letters to us by Friday of each week. Letters from Our Readers RECRUITING FOR C. P. IN ALABAMA Citronella, Ala. Dear Comrades: I wish to thank you for being so kind and continuing the “Daily,” and if I do not get a job in a short time I will sell two of my wife's hens and send you the money. The Daily Worker is the only paper that my wife or I can read and believe what we read regarding conditions of the working class. There is no work here at all and no one has any cash at all. I sell eggs that I need to mail cards into the Birmingham office, and your paper has sure helped me a lot here getting Communist Party members, for every copy is handed around until it is worn out. I sent in 12 new Communist Party membership cards last Monday and will send in more when these books come. I will not fail to get some money sometime soon, I feel sure. Best wishes and comradely greet- ings, —J. H. P. ter County, where the case was tried. So you know how I feel. My wife worried herself to death. The last words I heard from her were: “What will happen to my boy?” Then she went into a coma, never to be brought back. She died three weeks ago last Sunday, leaving me with four children, Even the re- lief up here’ laid me off a C.W.A. job saying, “Now your wife is dead, PARTY LIFE Des Moines Sec. Speeds Fight Against Negro Discrimination Pledges Struggle Against White Chauvinism, Jim-Crowism—For Full Social Equality Statement by the Des Moines Section, District No. 10, Commu- nist Party, on the question of White Chauvinism. “There is no surer touchstone of the revolutionary understand- ing, the Bolshevik clarity of any member or section of our Commu- nist Party, than the degree to which we understand the struggie for the national liberation of the Negroes as part and parcel of the struggle for the emancipation of the working class.” —From “The Communist Position on the Negro Question.” Case White Chauvinist tendencies have been shown in the Des Moines sec- tion of the Party in the slowness of taking up the defense for Thomas Rolland, Negro charged with killing a white person who used insulting remarks against the Negro people, and in general neglect of taking up an effective struggle for Negro rights. These white Chauvinist tendencies are based on a lack of understand- ing of the importance of struggle for Negro rights, and unclarity on the Communist position on the Ne- gro question. After discussing this question at two special membership meetings at- tended by representatives from the District Bureau, we, members of the Des Moines, Iowa, section, make the following statement: Realizing our slowness of taking up and organizing the Negro and white workers for struggle for the rights of the Negroes and further realizing that this is a manifesta- tion, of white-chauvinist tendencies contrary to the rogram of our Communist Party, we pledge the following: 1—To carry on a tireless struggle against every manifestation of white-chauvinism inside our Party, mass organizations where we belong, and among the white workers in general. 2—To organize white and colored workers for struggle against all forms of suppression, segregation and jim-crowism against the Negro people, understanding that this struggle must be a part of the gen- eral struggle against capitalism, for a workers’ and farmers’ government here in the United Stas. 38—In the Party to clarify our- selves, and among the workers in general carry on a struggle for and popularize the demand for full po- litical, economic and social equality for the Negro people. 4—In order to show our sincerity we are supporting 100 per cent the decision by the District Bureau to remove the Section Committee, who failed to take up this struggle ef- fectively, and pledge ourselves to support the Special Commissidn set up at the membership meeting Mon- day, April 23, which will function temporarily as the leading Party Committee in the section, and, with the special task to see that this resolution will be carried through in the shortest possible time. Also, at which time the Party is satis- fied that concrete results have been made in the fight against white- chauvinism, a new section commit tee will be elected on the basis of the successful struggle. 5—We further pledge to order |and sell a regular bundle of the | Liberator and to organize a branch |of the L.S.N.R. within the next two | months. The membership of this branch to consist of both Negro and white workers. The above statement resulted from criticism levelled toward the Des Moines Section by the District Office of the International Labor Defense and the subsequent action taken by the District Bureau of the Party to correct this tendency tos ward .white-cls uvinism. At the time the Des Moines sece tion comrades were slow in taking up the defense of the young Negro, Rolland, their municipal political campaign was under way and nece essarily drew all the comrades into the struggle. Because of their lack of clarity on the open letter and the Party emphasis on the Negro | question in general, the tendency | toward white-chauvinism rapidly crystallized around this one case. | Another contributing factor was the | lack of initiative shown by the lo cal ILD. attorney in preparing | adequate workers’ defense corps for |the trial. During the preparation |of this statement by the District Jand section functionaries much \eriticism was directed toward both the District I.L.D. office and tha District Bureau for neglecting to give the Des Moines comrades the necessary directives in leading the struggle for the liberation of the Negro people. The Des Moines comrades further pointed out that as a young sec tion, deeply involved in its first Political campaign along with its unemployment problems they did not immediately respond to the empha- sis of the Party on this question. The Open Letter states: ‘The Party must mobilize the masses for the struggle for equal rights of the Ne« groes and for the right of self- determination for the Negroes in the Black Belt. It must ruthlessly combat any form of white-chauvie nism and jim-crowism. It must not only in words, but in deeds, overs come all obstacles to the drawing in of the best elements of the Ne- gro proletariat. With this as a guilding force in our activity here in drawing the Negro workers to the Party, con- crete gains have been made since the drafting of the statement. One Negro has been recruited in- to the Party. At the present time the Party is giving leadership to a strike of relief workers on a state- let highway contract job. During this struggle the comrades have been successful in recruiting many unemployed Negro workers to take up militant action with the come rades on the picket line. Another important contact was made with a Negro miner, who at the pres- ent time is carrying on a fight with other miners of his local against the lockout order given by their op- erator. Section forces are now being die rected towards the building of an LS.N.R. branch, This task will be accomplished within the next two months. Open Forum Medical Fraction Member. — We have never received any communi- cation from the organization you mention. If it is still alive, we should be glad to print anything sent in by the Committee or by in- dividual members. When the mat- ter is of general interest, we'll print it in this column; otherwise we'll make room for it in HEALTH. We have invited the chairman of the Dental Division to contribute regu- larly to the magazine. As to the doctor you mention, we have asked him to contribute his article to HEALTH, but he thought the magazine was too “Commu- nistic.” We, therefore, gave him a letter of introduction to the editor’ of the magazine who accepted it. Regarding the form of a Bul- letin, we would suggest the format of the Transport Workers Bulletin. You can get a copy at 80 East 11th Street, New York City. Our time is too limited to permit us to attend any meetings, except those of prime importance. We are even trying to devise a scheme by which we could be absent at our own lectures! Doctor By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. —- Diet for Increase in Weight R. A. S.—A detailed diet has ape peared some time ago in the Daily Worker, A general method of in- creasing in weight is to eat plenty of starches, sweets and fats, such as cereals, potatoes, cream, butter, bacon, etc. A supplementary meal in the middle of the morning and in the middle of the afternoon is also advisable. You must also limit the amount of work you are doing and rest as much as possible. Before starting on your diet, you ought to have your urine examined and have a metabolism test made, The metabolism test has to'’be made in Toronto. Its purpose is to find out whether your thyroid. gland is not over-active. When this gland is too active, the food we eat is burned up too rapidly. It would also be advisable for you to take a test of your blood to find out whether you are anemic. These two tests can be left for later; but the urine examination must be made immediately, because if you show any sugar or albumen in your urine, certain articles of the diet must be given up. Removal Notice PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Announces the Removal of His Office to 5 Washington Square North (Between Fifth Avenue and University Place) Telephones: GRamercy 7-2090 and 2091 The office will be conducted as a private Group Clinic. There will be no change in the policy of free medical ser- vices to unemployed members and full-time functionaries of the Party. The other members of the group, so far, are Daniel Luttinger, M. D.; William Mendelson, D.D.S. (den- tistry) ; Philip Pollock (optometry). you don’t need work.” So that shut off our small relief, Theodore F. Daiell, Pod. G. (chiropody), and