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Page Four DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1934 Gov’t Tries to Scare J obless Out of Applying for Relief Pay at Lane Army of ‘“‘Welfare’’ Snoopers Sent to Worry Single Worker Who Dares To Ask for Job CARLSBORG, Wash.—The fol- lowing is of an open letter ad- dressed by a worker to Harry L Hopkins, Federal nergency Relief Administrator. Dear Sir When I r red for work with your local “re-employment” estab- lishment I was required to fill out a comprehensive questionnaire. The queries were imper- ighly but uperfluous, at this were that I queries g t with the incurable of consuming at least two of oatmeal or beans per day at I was a worker without a job, and had no legitimate means of procuring these indispensable viands except by earning them by al labor—that I NEEDED A I left your “re-employment” office a cheerful man. I was just about to be given a place in the sunshine of the New Deal. For several months afterward your bureaucrats kept shrugging their shoulders at me whenever I applied for a The formula, which they heart and whick y recited to me, s this: First come s, then the married men 17 dependents or more, then lose with 16, then those with 15 ete. We haven't half enough jobs to accommodate these privileged eases; hence, it is highly improb- able that there evér will be a job to reach down to the single man. In the meantime a federal officer, clothed with formidable legal au- thority, paid me a visit to ascertain whether by any lucky chance I might not be a deportable subject After this investigation your men reluctantly decided that I was en- titled to work sufficiently to earn $8 worth of groceries per month Unfortunately just then your ad- ministration saw fit to adopt a new policy, which required a more thor- ough and more humiliating new in igation. And your inquisitors promptly swooped down upon me. Profound interest was taken in my religion, social and labor affilia- ions, and my political convictions. Like a fool that I was, I to) people the truth and nothing but the truth. I confided to them that my home was burdened with a $400 mortgage and that I was in arrears with interest, taxes and installments, and I gave them the names and addresses of all my creditors. Studying my case, your hirelings at the Clallam County headquarters decided that I was not sufficiently meek; or, perhaps, that my en-| thusiasm for the New Deal was somewhat tame; and so they set forth to besmirch my character be- fore my creditors; and also to coax | the holder: of my mortgage to fore-| close upon me immediately. I hope that this experience of mine will serve as a lesson to other workers so that the next “welfare” rat that ventures to sniff around their bean and teapots will be handled with the spirit of 76. NOTE: We publish letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers every Wednesday. Workers in these industries are urged to write us of their conditions of work, and of their struggles to organize. Get the letters to us by Saturday of each week. For a Fund for the Kids’ Camp Due to an error, part of an an-| nouncement was omitted from the column on Monday last; it con- cerned a fine symposium for the benefit of Wo-Chi-Ca (the Work- ers’ Children’s Camp), to be given at the Manhattan Industrial Trade School at 22nd St. and Lexington | Ave., on Thursday, June 14th at | 8:30 p.m. x. Frankwell E. Williams will| deliver an address on “Education in the Soviet Union.” Dr. James Men- denhall will speak on “Attempts at} Progressive Education in the U. 8.} A.” and Clarence Hathaway on| “Teachers and the Crisis.” This) program will without a doubt pro-| vide a very large evening for all who aré interested in educational | topics. Miniatures of Our Militant Women | ANN BURLAK | (Note—The following account was writtten by Ann for our section). Born in Pennsyivania in 1911, eldest of four children. Father a steel worker. Grew up in shadow of Bethlehem | Steel Company (Charlie Schwab's domain). Low wages in mill and part time work forced me to go to work in silk mill at age of 14 to help increase family income. Couldn’t finish high school. } Made $9 in silk mill for 54-| hour week. Was | aggressive by nature and be-| came involved in | @ number of small moves for im-| proved conditions (such as acting the spokesman for girls in the mill, | serving on committees, etc.). When first convention of N. T.| W. U. was called in New York City | in 1928, elected as delegate from un- | organized workers in mill. Thus| became charter member of N. T.| Was fired numerous times for union activity in 1929. Finally be- came blacklisted. In Fall of 1929 sent into Scranton as full-time organizer for N.T.W.U. ANN BURLAK In December, 1929, sent into | South (South Carolina). Worked | under great difficulties, had to} dedge cops, K. K. K. mobs, etc. | In April went to Atlanta, Ga. | Arrested at unemployed mass meet- | ing with three others and charged with “Insurrection against State of | Georgia.” Held without bail for six | weeks, in Fulton Towers, same as | Herndon. Toured country for three months in behalf of “Atlanta Six.” Went as union organizer into New England. In 1931 played leading | role in Rhode Island strikes; ar-| rested many times during those | strikes. | In July, 1932, at Third National Convention of N. T. W. U., elected national secretary of union. Young- est national officer of any union in U. S. A. Since becoming na- tional secretary, has participated in numerous strikes in country—in Rhode Island, Salem, Paterson; Pennsylvania, etc. HELEN CURE Here ends the account as Ann wrote it. We shall just add that when she wrote this, very recently, she was helping with the issuing of the new paper, the Textile Workers’ Voice. She, with the other five of the “Atlanta Six” (organizers), faces trial, and possible sentence to the chair, as reported in the “Daily” on June 4, Of these “Atlanta Six,” two are women—Ann Burlak and Mary Dalton. The I L. D. has is- sued a call for a flood of protests in behalf of the six, to Assistant Solicitor Hudson and Governor Tal- madge, address Atlanta, Georgia. Can You Make ’Em | Yourself? | ana | Pattern 1811 is available in sizes | 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36,| 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 3% yards/| 36 inch fabric. Mlustrated step-by- | step sewing instructions included. | | | | Frune, Fda 18 iH Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write plainly mame, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. GRAND PICNIC OF L. W. 0. AND DAILY WORKER SUNDAY, June 17th at Old Berkies Farm MAX BEDACHT, Main Speaker Emile Babad from Musical Program Direction: Take Broad St. Subway or Car No. 65 to end of line. Transfer to Car No. 6, Get Artef :: Refreshments Entertainment off at Washington Lane and Ogontz Cotton Mill Robin Redbreast Staff Is Burdened by Long On FERA Job By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La.—The Lane Cotton Mill has got its speedup and stretchout about as perfect as it is possible to make it. Not only are the employes compelled to do more work than they should, but they are blamed because scmetimes the looms and other machines get out | of order. It is not the fault of the loomfixers and weavers that looms get out-of order, nor is it the fault of any other operator. Mr. Rickman, the superintendent, tells the people that anyone can live on $5 a week, and that is all that most of them get now and has been for the last three or four weeks running 18 hours per week, and under the blue buzzard’s | Code of 30 cents an hour the people get the magnificent sum of $5.40 on pay day. The Lane Cotton have swallowed the master for so long that they are almost starving. Some of the mill hands have large families, and quite a number have some of their kin folks with them. In some families are aged and infirm men and women who have spent their lives slaving for the benefit of the cotton mill barons, and now that they are old and in the eyes of the indus- trialist useless, they are not given any consideration whatever. Mill employes mush of their Held As Lunatic For Being Sick and Having No Home By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Three weeks azo I got fever and went to the New York Hospital, where I got a medi- cine which did its work; I went back, was given a svinal test, and | was unable to stay in bed at home, | because I have no home, and I was told I had to be in bed. So I went back to the hospital, where I re- mained for two days, and then they sent me out with five cents carfare to go to Bellevue. Before I got to Bellevue I fainted in the street. Two men assisted me as far as the hospital, where T lay down on a bench. The man at the desk refused to believe that I could not walk. When I told him my case, he answered that I was lying. They made a blood test, which was nega- tive, and for three days in succes- sion the doctors tried to send me home. On the third day they took the bed away and told me to go home. I collapsed on the floor, and they called me a liar. When I protested, they called |another doctor who claimed that I was a lunatic, and they sent me to a psychopathic ward where I stayed for three days. I was then released, and told that unless I kept away I would be sent to Welfare Island. Public Works Job Is Trick Used To Cut Down Relief By a Worker Corresnondent MASONTOWN, Pa. — After the change from the C.W.A. to the R.W.D., many workers here were hired for the various public jobs. After they started to work on the R.W.D.. they were cut off of the re- lief. The following is as good ex- ample as any of the methods the government uses to keep down Telief. First, the heads of large families were given “preference” on the R.W.D. jobs. A man with a large family was placed to work on the | Schoolhouse. On Monday he worked seven hours and earned $3.50. Tues- day it was wet, also Wednesday. Thursday he made 8% hours. Fri- day morning the men were sent back home because there were no blocks to block the steam shovel. The men were told to come in the afternoon again. After waiting round for a few hours the men were finally told if they want to make an hour’s work, they could do so. This meant get- ting into the mud at the bottom of | the excavation! Thus, for the week the men made $7.75. Many of them while on the relief were getting anywhere from $6 to $9 a week, shoes, clothing, milk, free coal, and medical attention. Now, all this is cut off! Thus, their “earnings” are actually way below what they received while on relief. The unemployed here are build- ing an Unemployment Council to fight against these intolerable con- ditions and fight for more relief, also for H.R. 7598. Strikers Protest Augustine Assault NEW YORK.—Thirty strikers ot Nathan’s Famous, Inc., of Coney Island, accompanied by William Beale, organizer, and Charles Oberkerch, organizer of the Brooklyn Local of the Food Work- ers Industrial Union, went to sce Mayor LaGuardia Monday to protest against the brutal assault last week by detectives, on Patsy Augustine, militant strike leader. Over 1,000 workers domon- strated in front of Nathan's Sun- day night, and as spectators booed Police who arrested ten workers, nine for violating terms of an in- junction against picketing, and one for refusing to move when Police pushed into the crowd. The National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners sent letters to the Mayor and Com- missioner O'’Ryan demanding a line-up of detectives and police, so that Augustine may pick out his assailants; demanding that fe- lonious assault charges against him be dropped and that criminal Ave. Walk two blocks west assault charges be placed - against the police . 1 coe EnS bene tetera . aig The mill is} 540 a Week Hosiery Office Workers | Find Out NRA Is a Fraud Army Mules|Half-Minute Open Air Talks | Irregular Hours of the Robin Redbreast Hosiery Co.| |in New York we have about 25. fel-| | lows besides the office force and/ those working in the retail stores | througout the city We have the N. R. A. code for the fellows. This code provides for 48 | hours, 6 days a week and a mini- mum of $15 a week. But is this practiced? Not at all. The regular working hours are 10 hours a day and up. The early shift, 9-6. usually works till 7 or later. The late shift, 1 to 10, never goes home before 11 ov 12 at night. Only the other day the manager made the re- mark not to let the boys work more | than 10 hours a day. And the code| | says 8 hours. | There is no pay for overtime. The| | foreman says accumulate hours and| | you'll get @ Gay off sometime. What | happens is you accumulate as many | as 30 or 40 hours and then they give | you as much time as they please. Any time you say anything to Livingstone, the fellow in charge of | the force, about hours you become | |a “bullshevik.” Last, Saturday he | gave the boys a 15 minute speech, on how necessary it isto work extra time, its an emergency and we've got to come thru for the company. And when the company doesn’t need us—out we'll go. He even spoke about the “slave in Russia, for-| getting about the law wages, long hours we're working here. No one spoke to contradict him for fear of losing his job. | A couple of weeks ago someone} | wrote to the N. R. A. about the violation of the code. Since then Livingstone is threatening anyone who “squeals” again. Did the N. R. A. do anything? Even Linvingstone| said the N. R. A. was a joke. One| | bootlicker in the place comes around | | and all the fellows sign a book say-| | ing they worked only 8 hours every | day, This is for the benefit of the| N.R.A.—almost all the fellows know | the N, R. A. won't do a thing for} them, | All the fellows are disgusted with| | the long, irregular hours. One time| |some fellows worked 25 hours | straight through from Friday morn-| ing at 9 till Saturday at 10 and| then they all got special delivery! (abe THE PEACE POLICY OF THE SOVIET UNION Bronx, N. Y. | I joined the Young Communist | League three years ago and shortly | afterward dropped out again for |Yeasons which, I willingly admit, imply no fault on the part of the | League. I have always been a | sympathizer and a “Daily” reader since then, however. | Certain things about the Com- |munist “line” puzzle me. For ex- {ample, I have often been in a situ- | ation where I could have favorably | spread my idea of Communist propaganda but confusion on the proper line has held me back— along with natural reticence per- haps. Take the international situation. I have been shown a clipping from the “N. Y. Times” dealing at length with the report of a French mili- tary commission on the probability and manner of engagement of a war between Japan and the United States. The French experts de- clare that the U. S. would have a very slim chance of defeating Japan in a purely naval war fought in Japanese waters, and hold that only a war fought mostly on land, say, around the Amur River, in co-oper- ation with an ally willing to permit the landing of American troops, could be successful for the U. S. “Russia” is supposed to be this friendly power. The troops could be taken from Puget Sound (Seattle) in a deep arc along the jchain of U. S. North Pacific |Islands, and be landed somewhere |in Kamchata, from which they | could be transported by sea and \land, safe from Japanese interfer- | |ence, to somewhere near the Amur | | River. Japan . would seize the | Philippines and land troops in all the China ports on the outbreak of hostilities. The combination of a Russian and American attack would alone suffice to force the “Japs” back into their narrow islands and as- sure for Russia safety for her Siberian border and railroads, and for America unhampered “open door” opportunity for the exploita- tion of 500,000,000 Asians. Agreed, that such a war is pos- sible, where will all the slogans raised by our Communists be? “Down with imperialist war!” “No funds for war,” “Turn imperialist war into civil war.” They would be politely forgotten by the Com- munists who would, in defense of the “Soviet Fatherland,” don the khaki of the United States army. Lenin told us to play our enemies off against each other—he once accepted the technical aid of French royalists in repelling a Ger- man attack prior to the treaty of Brest-Litvosk. What about the Ox- ford Pledge? “I will not support the government of the United | States in any war that it may con- duct”? At a meeting of students recently I refused to vote for the Oxford Pledge because I could not con- sciously endorse its PACIFISTIC, NON-DISCRIMINATING policy. I would, moreover, feel like a rank hypocrite in raising and propa- gating these slogans among o‘hers | when I do not believe in their ap- Plicability to all situations. aa = * - EDITORIAL REPLY On the question of an alliance be- tween the Soviet Union and the United States against Japanese im- perialism, your whole conception, comrade, is incorrect. In order to understand this ques— Letters from Our Readers BROOKLYN, N. Y.—In the offices| letters to come in Sunday to work. | this story is: “The New Deal.” The only thing is that the fellows) can't see that by sticking together | they can stick to regular hours, and | what's more they can even get} shorter hours. Livingstone is afraid | of a union, and is continually telling | the boys to tell him about any} union men, or bullsheviks in the} place. | Let’s not ‘be afraid of him. If} we'd all stop working at 10 he wouldn’t try to stop us. If we'd demand pay for overtime, and stick| together doing it, we could get it I think the Office Workers Union should come down, any afternoon at 1 P. M. when, both shifts are ready to go up and talk about a union. We'll do our part inside. The fellows hang out on 4ist St. just below 5th Ave, at the freight | entrance. A YOUNG WORKER. St. Louis Unemployed’ Council in Successful Struggles For Relief By a Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo.—We are winning victories at Unemployment Council | No. 7. We have the fakers now on | the defensive. Our bulletin, “The| Exposure,” is doing things here. Every copy is to have some mass | event. advertised, such as National Youth Day. Last week it was for H. R, 7598; next week something | else. The Negro workers say the sheet is the infant of the Red| Press here. Our Council has grown | on the average of three to seven) new members at every meeting. We hold two meetings a week. When| we go to the fakers for relief, we| say we have our calling card. We| are from Unemployment. Council | No. 7 Do we get service—and how! | The dictatorship of the prole- | tariat must be a State that em- bodies a new kind of democracy, for the proletarians and the dis- Possessed; and a new kind of dictatorship, against the bour- geoisie—Lenin. Government is a government not based on imperialism, It requires no territorial expansion or the ex- ploitation of colonial peoples, since it is ruled not by an exploited class, but by the working class. (2) The imperialist contradictions between American imperialism and Japanese and British imperialism, intense as they are, can never be greater than the major contradiction between Socialism and capitalism, between the Socialist Government of the Soviet Union and the capitalist | world. Within the limits of these two| conceptions we can hammer out the correct Communist line regarding the war danger, the Soviet Union, the U. S., etc. (in this regard we suggest that you read “Stalin's Re- port to the 16th Party Congress of the U. S. S. RB.“ and the recent writings in the Inprecorr and the “Communist International” on the Soviet Peace Policy). No one can predict the precise forms which the capitalist inter- vention against the U. S. S. R. will take, whether they will be begun by Japanese imperialism alone, or in alliance with United States im- perialism. It may be that U. S. imperialism will attempt to provoke Japanese imperialism into an ad- venturous assault against the U. S. S. R. so that Japanese imperialism would be weakened. And it may be that they will be able to overcome the extraordinarily intense capital- ist antagonisms between them. That the future will decide. But one thing is certain, and that is that the Soviet Union could never enter into an im- perialist alliance with any capi- talist government. This is dic- tated by the fundamental char- acter of imperialism and the fun- damental character of the Soviet Government. In considering the foreign policy of the Soviet Union, the dominant factor in this policy is the firm peace policy of the Soviet Union. This peace policy if the expression of the Socialist character of the U. S. S. R. and its complete anthesis to imperialism. Having abolished exploitation within its own borders, the Soviet Govem- ment does not seek to exploit colo- nial peoples. Thus the peace policy of the Soviet Union is not a pacifist peace policy, but a revolutionary Peace policy, a policy that is or- ganic with its entire revolutionary character and the building of So- cialism. In all its diplomatic relations with imperialist powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union is motivated by the purpose of main- taining peace, and the staving off, as long as possible, counter-revolu- tionary intervention: In all its diplomacy it makes not the slight- est retreat from its Socialist prin- ciples. You quote Lenin about playing off our enemies one against the other. That is a true Leninist principle, but you will search all through Lenin without finding any advice on Lenin’s part that Socialism should make fundamental conces- sions to capitalism on questions of fundamental principle. The analogy which you give about Lenin using technical help of French engineers is, as you can see, not quite the Same as forming an imperialist al- liance with an imperialist govern- ment. Between technical assistance and imperial alliances there is a world of difference. Under all circumstances, the fun- damental slogan of the Communist is to “Defend the Soviet Union, and to turn imperialist war into civil | Workers are herded into a bunch, | | work) was put on with two others | paytime came, they were told by | cer told them he did not have their [Driven Like! | By a Worker Correspondent | PORTLAND, Me.—The name of Twenty-two F. E. R. A. workers are building a cement road at Fort'| McKinley. They are gone from | Portland 11 hours each working | day, They have a civilian boss and an army boss. Preparatory to board- jing the boat en route home, these | and guarded by an armed soldier, | and are held back until all other passengers are aboard. Tuesday morning (June 5) they} heard the first crack of the capital- | ist whip from the army boss, The workers “had looped on the job,” and were told what was going to happen from now on, in the good old army style. One of the workers (too light in weight for such heavy hauling a cement cart. Along with the heat, and pulling until they nearly had to travel on all fours, he was so dizzy at times she could hardly see. The only difference between the way they and the army mules were driven was that the workers had no bit and reins. By noon they had used 124 bags of cement, and by 2:30 had made as much road as had} been supposed to be done at 4 p.m. | A nice little example of the stretch- out system. That evening they had | two guards instead of one. | At the end of the week, when| the fort officer that there was a delay with their checks and to go back to the fort the following day. When they got to the fort, the offi- checks, and could find out nothing about them. The workers returned to Portland, and in mid-afternoon, as this letter goes to mail, the workers are still at City Hall, wait- | ing to learn something of the mys- | terious pay checks, An Open Letter To Misleader In Bakery Union By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—An open letter to Jake Goldstone, organizer of the International Bakery Workers of New York. Dear Mr. Goldstone: Your most favorite anecdote you so often repeat to the bakers, that you challenged a Communist baker to establish Communism by putting down on the sidewalk his six dol- Jars, and to call on all workers to do likewise and then to divide equally proves how little you un- derstand the road to Communism. What you are trying to do is to hide the fact that the workers are the | dispossessed class and not the pos- sessing class. Your road to success for. the baker by cooperating with the bosses through arbitration, your ridiculous Proposition to ask for the good-will of a boss not to accept the trade of a storekeeper who patronizes an- other union concern of the same international is as impracticable and as foolish as your road to Com- munism. You blame the Communist Party for instigating public opinion against the prestige of the baker, No, Mr. Goldstone, the Party is not instigating the workers against the bakery workers of any union, but against the bakery workers’ mis- leaders, like yourself. You say that the Communist Party of the U. S. A. is antagoniz- ing the international union and therefore the international Union must help to fight the workers of the Soviet Union, and to establish a democracy as in the U. S. A, a democracy of injunctions, strikes, starvation and misery, Mr. Goldstone, get out of your rusty head that the organized work- ers of the U. S. A. are going to fight their own fatherland, the U. S. S. R. The bakers of the inter- national union are not swallowing your anecdotes and your outdated misleading war instigaitng propa- ganda, Synagogue Head Evicts Member By a Former Business Man NEW YORK—I was a_ business man for the last 20 years. I man- aged to get along until last June. I never refused credit on food to anybody, therefore I was forced out of business and went to work last June, ' ki In July I had an accident and was disabled to the extent that I cannot work in my line as a but- cher any more. However, I man- aged to get along until last month. For the first time in my life I did not have the amount of $35 rent due to the Sahoff Corp., of 49 Wall St., owners of 184 apartment houses, I tried to get in touch with the president, a Mr, Schneider, but was. not granted the privilege. So my furniture was thrown out into the street, and my home broken up by my own synagogue brother and president of the synagogue, where we prayed together. I phoned my grievance to the N. Y. Journal, as I was a reader of that paper, and they promised to take the matter up, but did not, and therefore I am writing to you that you expose this matter to the people. If I had been given a chance of one or two more days, there would be no home broken up. I would not have to sleep in the park, and the landlord would be in the rent, and the apartment not empty. ; Keep informed of the world-wide struggles by the working class against unemployment. hunger, fas- cism and war by reading the Daily tion properly, several things must ‘be remembered, (1) The Soviet war =o PARTY LIFE Swell Jobless Collections Arouse Parents’ Interest To Win Support for “Young Worker” on Nat'l Youth Day Two of us were assigned with col- lection boxes of the Unemloyed Council of 1,400 Boston Rd., New York, for collections along the line of march. Our method was as fol- lows: All along the way we stopped in front of the crowded onlookers on the sidewalks and curbs. We made a half a minute “open air When the crew reported for duty | speech” infront of these onlooking | fellows workers. The outline of this half minute speech was as follows: “Workers, these thousands of fel- low workers, men woman and chil- dren, have come out into the streets today to demonstrate against starv- ation and unemployment. They are passing you with placards and shouting slogans for Bread, Jobs and Peace; for Cash Relief and Unemployment Insurance. In this fight they follow the leadership of the Unemployed Councils who have carried on this fight every day in the interests of all workers, black, white foreign born and native. We call on you to support them in this struggle by contributing your pen- nies, nickles, dimes and quarters. We do not look to millionaires to support such a struggle; their in- terest is to crush just such strug- gles for which th gladly sent thousands of dollars. It is your pennies and nickles and dimes and quarters which make possible to continue the fight for Bread, Jobs and Peace. Support the Unem- Ployed Councils.” The experience in front of each group was the same. A worker would say, “You're right.” and would open his purse or dig into pockets for coins. Others around would do likewise. This method was carried on all along the crowded curbs along the line of march. The result was manyfold. First, both of us brought back full boxes of pennies and sil- ver. The workers addressed were sympathetically aroused and even if they did not or could not con- tribute at the time, went home with an understanding of the meaning of solidarity, not charity. And they were made fully conscious of the meaning of the thousands of marchers that passed them by. Yes the method contains within itself the maximum possibilities of re- sults; material support; propa- ganda direct; and organizational re- sults for the immediate future. And the method applies equally well in any similar drive for support, no matter what the organization or purpose may be; the response will be the same. The call is for work- ing class support of the workers’ own struggles. And the response is there. . Red Builders’ Experience on Na- tional Youth Day, 1934 T was assigned to sell Daily Work- ers and Young Workers along the line of march on National Youth Day. I carried it out in this way: All along the line, I faced the huge gatherings of spectators along the curb. I stopped and made a “min- ute speech,” addressing myself to those in front of me. The speech outline was as follows: “Every parent, mother and father | Should take a copy of the ‘Young | Worker’ which explains the fight |of these thousands of marchers, and girls, their parents, jagainst war and fascism. A war |that takes the young sons, and | daughters, too, sends them into a | Slaughter, sends them back as crip- ples and paralytics. All this for the purpose of making millionaires richer. And for us nothing but |starvation and unemployment. | That's why these marchers are out on the street today. It's their fight against such a war. And this pa per, written by just such young workers, for your sons and daugh- ters and easy to read because it is their own language in their own in- terest, should reach them. Every one here, every mother and father, every young worker, should obtain a copy, read it and pass it on among the young people of your | neighborhood. It sells for two cents |@ copy.” | The experience in front of each | group was identical. Parents would open purse or dig into pockets to get this paper. Their sympathetic support had been aroused. They understood the need for this sup- port of solidarity. And the sales were easily made, with a half dozen sold in each group. The total sales were large and could have been larger, but no more papers were obtainabie. Why? Be- cause of a policy of quantity free distribution. Result. I saw dozens of mutilated copies laying around on the streets everywhere. The same experience was met with the sale of the Daily Workers. This points out an interesting and effec- tive way of getting the workers’ press into the hands of workers. In contrast to the discouraging and fruitless efforts of merely going along the line of march with the curt announcement and appeal, “Buy the Young Worker; two cents @ copy.” Proof enough in the con- trast, the latter method has often been mine with very disappointing results. Let's use the method of ‘minute speeches’ for all occasions 6f selling the workers’ press and also for the sale of all literature. All that’s necessary is to take ade vantage of the above outline of an actual experience. It could become the base for a group of shock bri- gaders going out with this method consciously in mind. In this man- ner they can cover the whole line of march, with its thousands of sympathetic onlookers along the curb. And the quantity sales would be of an assured large amount. An interesting and sure method of in creasing the circulation and sales. J. L., Unit 12, Sec. 5, Bronx, N. ¥. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Codliver Oil and Veg-Malted Mrs. L. P., Malden, Mass.—Cod- liver oil should only be given when there is an indication for same, such as rickets, loss of weight, etc. If your child is healthy, there is no sense in giving her codliver oil “just because the neighbor's child is get- ting it.” You are, therefore, not de- priving her of any essential food element. The Vitamins A and D of codliver oil are also found in but- ter, carrots, etc. We have no objection to Veg- Malted, except that it is a concen- trated food and, therefore, un- natural and also that the price is exorbit ¢nt. Some of the statements made by the Food Balance Corpo- ration regarding Veg-Malted are untrue and misleading. For exam- ple, carrots are referred to as con- taining sulphur and chlorine which are “beautifying”; beet tops contain sodium and chlorine, which are “purifying”; the sodium of okra is referred to as “anti-acid” and ‘‘cal- cium solvent,” which is not true; the chlorine and sodium of celery is labelled “nervous system,” with which, in reality, they have no re- lation whatsoever. Volunteer Blood Donor Wanted! A comrade who is in great need of blood transfusions and who is unable to pay for same, would ap- By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. preciate it if any of our readers should volunteer to give 250 c.c. of blood; he must be Type 3 or 4. Jerusalem Artichokes Marigold: The Jerusalem artl- choke is a tuber (like a potato) and is entirely different from the better known Globe artichoke, which is a bud. Jerusalem artichoke, or gird- sole, or topinanbourg, is a native of the United States and has nothing to do with Palestine. We have no objections to your proposal to adopt it as the national Jewish vegetable, except that peole will laugh at you. From the medical point of view Je- rusalem artichoke is a very whole- some and nutritious food which should be used more commonly. It is a popular article in the diet of Europe. Owing to the fact that the tuber stores its carbohydrates in the form of inulin and that it con< tains 10-12 per @ent levulose, we prescribe it to patients suffering from diabetes; but it is hard to ob- tain in New York markets. The vegetable is very prolific; the Mam- moth White French Jerusalem are tichoke being known to yield as much as 15 tons per acre, while you per acre of ordinary potatoes. Ex- periments are now being conducted in Russia on using Jerusalem arti- choks as a source of industrial ale cohol. 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