The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1934, Page 4

Page Four ‘DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1934 All Agencies of Bosses Used to Attack “Lancaster Worker’ || Workers, However, Gladly Buy Paper in the Streets of City and County By a Worker Correspondent LANCASTER, Pa.—The first is- sue of the “Lancaster Worker” on May 26 brought an attack by the bosses through all agencies, the newspapers. the radio, and the A. F. of L. offic’ Newspaper sellers were instructed “not to handle the red paper.’ Over the radio the sses shout are active. What to our peace-loving The Linoleum Cork Co.. which made a profit of $3,500,000 for 1933-1934, according to its own re- sued a statement to the s just aft he situa- The company ignores the work- ers’ demands for better conditions, and hollers, “The reds are doing it.” The A. F. of L. officials, in their organ, appeal to the small business men to support only their paper. ‘hey st the N. R. A. a sug- gest t to gate the police those ‘e col ng the “Lancaster Worker.” Despite these attacks, however the “Lancaster Worker” is being sold on the streets of Lancaster and in the county. The workers buy the paper gladly and make inter- esting comments, indicating they are satisfied with the paper, and for NOTE: We publish letters from farm- ers, agricultural workers, forestry and lumber workers, and cannery workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us let- ters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to or- ganize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of each week. have made remarks that “We should have had such a paper long ago.” Articles are coming in from workers in various factories, urgin: the editorial committee to expose the rotten conditions, and to guide to organization. which the Lancaster Worker” intends to do. Workers are urged to send in their contributions to the “Lancas- Worker,” 418% Green St., Lan- ter, as well as articles of condi- ns in your shop. them Negro and White: Workers of So. Car. Learn About NRA By a Worker Correspondent COLUMBIA, S. C—We Negro} workers here only wish we had al hundred dollars to mail to our| fighting paper, the only newspaper in the U. S. A. that fights for Ne- gro rights and the working class. The white workers and Negro workers are learning to hate that damn Blue Buzzard all over S. C The damn ruling class in S. C. is| telling us workers to go and pick} Plastation ie Establish €. C. €. : Camp in Dadeville By a Worker Correspondent DADEVILLE, Ala.—The planta- tion masters here have established a C.C.C. camp that will enroll from} 300 to 500 young workers, Negro and white, but on a Jim-crow basis. | The sight of this group of soldier clad working youth no doubt is meant to raise the morale of the bosses who have been slightly wor- ried by increasing protests and signs of militant activity of the} Share Croppers Union. While the landlords were about it, | they also succeeded in having the} governmen’ clear off an airplane} landing field at Camp Hill. circling over this county. | The C. C. C. boys come from all over the states, and some of them have ap- proached the Negro youth, want- ing to get acquainted. The Y.C.L. will make efforts to gain contacts. We certainiy could use back copies of the magazine FIGHT, if anyone} wishes to send them down here. | Bosses are sharpening their eyes| for profit now that the C.C.C. boys are here. One merchant in Dade- ville got a contract to do the laun- Landlords Hand in List and Gov’t Orders Those Vamed to Work from Sun to Sun for 30 Cents By a Sharecropper Correspondent DADEVILLE, Ala.—“The damned | ‘niggers’ aren't hungry chop cotten yet.” was the reason | Landlord Tom Wilson and Boss} Henderson, spokesman for the landlords of Tallapoosa County, or-| dered all relief to needy croppers and Negro families stopped until} the cotton chopping season is over, | in June. enough to Ever since Roosevelt said “Yes,| SIR,” to the landlords by cutting! off the C. W. A. work relief jobs in| February, there has hardly been any relief here, just dribbles of it,| if we had the patience to keep | fighting for it. j Weak from lack of food, few| day laborers responded to the| to-sun slavery under a scorching | | processing heat. don’t. Nearly everyone feels we should get at least 75 cents a day, if not $1, for 10 hours’ work, as the Share Croppers’ Union says, since it costs | so much more to live now after the N.R.A. and the acreage reduc- tion scheme gave subsidies to the bosses which we poor farmers and | workers must pay back, by sales and | taxes added to the| Some give meals and some | prices. In Chambers County some bosses hand in a list of their croppers working reduced patches and order the relief officials to give out gro- ceries, etc., which thé bosses put on the book as “furnishing,” while the government says, “Not to be sold.” Then those who are evicted, | the bosses hand in another list; Also| bosses’ call for cotton chopping at/| this is “Don’t give,” so they can| | army Planes have been busy en-/| 30 to 50 cents a day, which is sun- force them back and work for 30 cents a day when they need them. Bosses Fear Power of Sharecroppers Union By a Sharecropper Correspondent , fatalist views. “Dawgone, this cot- | CAMP HILL, Ala—Among ‘the | ton reduction program and so on blackberries three days in the week,| dry work, and he turns around and| local bosses there are pessimists | 18 leading us right into Commu-} the other three days to go to the| hires Negro women to wash all day and Roosevelt optimists. Perry river and fish, then on Sunday they say go to god and tell him all your | troubles and he will make things | all right. In the first resurrection, | they say, we will have plenty of | everything. They tell us this time! lis about 1,000 years from now. We} | workers, Negro and white, say to | hell with them and their 1,000 years | stuff. One thing we know, and that | is a workers’ and farmers’ govern- | | ment set up in S. C. will do the | work for us Negroes and white| | workers in answer to their bunk. TEMPORARY VEGETARIANISM We've been assembling some sug- gestions for meatless dishes, suit- able for use during a butcher's strike. With fresh corn and other vegetables coming on the market now, there’s a wide variety of pos- sible ingredients. For example, a substantial chow- der may be made as follows: two cups sliced young okra, a half cup each of tomatoes and minced onion: two cups minced sweet peppers: a half cup of sliced car- rots and potatoes, mixed: boil in a@ quart of salted water until vegetables are done. (About three quarters of an hour.) If high seasonings do not dis- agree with you, a little curry or Chili powder may be added. A little salt fish may also be included. The chowder is to be served with a big spoonful of boiled rice in each plate. Okra, or Gumbo, by the way, is more substantial than it looks; it has a carbohydrate content of about 7! per cent, protein over 144 per cent: also a very little fat and mineral; and vitamin B. It may be steamed or boiled or sauteed: it may be cooked together with corn and tomatoes (equal quantities, and a little minced onion, seasoned, and used as a sauce over plain boiled brown rice or spaghetti, with or without grated cheese. Beets are also rather substantial. having carbohydrate to the tune of nearly 10 per cent; protein over 112 per cent; and’ vitamins B and C. The fireless cooker, incidentally, proves useful for cooking beets without getting the kitchen “all het up” in hot weather. ~ Carrots have almost the same content, but.in addition, vitamin A, _and pectic acid which aids in digest- ing other foods; they are high in iron content: should therefore be used as liberally as available the year round, grated raw in salads, or baked or boiled: they may be combined in a white sauce with asvaragus or cauliflower. \ Here’s a little “tip” useful in summer: when it’s too hot to cook meat for broth for use in risotto or other dishes requiring stock, a can of bouillon or consomme may be used: (Available in the “21- kinds” series.) With the following potato dish, lettuce or other fresh salad greens should be served if available: boil five minutes in salt water, four eups peeled diced potatoes and a small chopped onion.- Add ‘four »chovoped peppers. (previously skin- ned after scalding, or scorching over fire), boil another five minutes, and drain. Make a sauce by melting four . tablespoons fat, stirring with equal amount of flour, and a pint of milk (use milk and water mixed if necessary) season with salt and pepper, add 114 cups grated cheese, stir, and pour over potatoes. Bake until brown in moderate oven. | Can You Make ’Em Yourself? | Pattern 1911 is available in sizes | 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 36 takes 34 yards of 36-inch fabric and 1% yards of 5-inch rib- bon. Illustrated step-by-step sew- ing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) 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. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, ll GRAND PICNIC OF I. W. 0. AND DAILY WORKER SUNDAY, June 17th at Old Berkies Farm | MAX BEDACHT, Main Speaker Emile Babad from Artef Musical Program Direction: Take Broad St. Subway or Car No. 63 to end of line, Get off at Washington Lane and Ogontz Transfer to Oar No. 6. Ave. Walk two blocks west Refreshments Entertainment | of the A. F. of L. unions have given | little time they were again laid off. long for 75 cents, which he will pay out in groceries, Cops Threaten 100 Dayton, 0.,Strikers. With Machine Guns Unemployment Councils Join Picket Line; Call for Mass Picketing By a Group of B. & B. Strikers DAYTON, Ohio.—The workers of Brown and Brockmyre shop, at Dayton, Ohio, have been out on strike now for the last four weeks. | Their main demands are: minimum | wage of 75 cents per hour; 36 hours per week; union recognition. The Dayton city police from the very start have lined up with the) bosses and the scabs against the | strikers. Inspector Gregar would not allow more than four pickets | on the line in front of the shop. | When the strikers tried to form a| mass picket line in order to stop | | the scabs from entering the shop, Inspector Gregar called out six cars | full of police and threatened to use machine guns against, the strik- | ers. He also threatened to arrest | anybody that shows up on the picket | line whom he does not approve of. One of the strikers’ friends was ar- rested for refusing to leave the picket line, but was immediately released when the indignation of | the strikers was raised. Inspector Gregar is doing the work of aj strikebreaker; he has told many | strikers to go to work or to go| home. | Tuesday, June 5th, “Papa” al agreed to give in to all the de- mands of the strikers including the | firing of all the scabs. The next | morning when the strikers came to | work they found the scabs armed with knives, clubs, etc. ready to work. Mr. Brown offered to hire only 21 of the 100 strikers. The strike was supposed to be under the leadership of the Inter- national Association of Machinists. But this union as well as the rest no support to the strike as far as Picketing is concerned. At the same time the Unemployment Councils are mobilizing all their members to help put the strike over. We call upon all workers and sympathizers to come to the picket line every morning from 7:30 to 8:30 and help win the strike by picketing and keeping the scabs out of the Brown and Brockmyre shop. Shopmen Put to Work By Chi. N.W.R.R. Are Laid Off After Few Days By a Railroad Worker Cor- respondent CHICAGO, June 6.+The Chicago and Northwestern Railway some time ago called a number of shop- men back to work. Among these were several who had secured other jobs. They quit these jobs and re- ported for work. After getting in a A few were sent to the Illinois Central to work as coach carpen- ters; others were left in the lurch. Our Northwestern Unity Committee group of carmen intend to take this matter up with the grievance com- mittee of the Carmen’s Union and insist that the company now help these workers get jobs. Some of these men are not members in good standing, having become delinquent because of lack of money, but since the union as the representatives of the men of that department handles grievances, we shell insist upon their taking the matter up. Many of these delinquent mem- bers would be willing to pay the fees to be reinstated in the union but haven’t the money, so we are also going to make a fight to have them reinstated without any, or for @ small payment. When the men do not make a job quick enough they are called into the office and ordered to sign a statement that they are incom- petent. The Carmen’s Local 227 has been opposing this and our Unity Group must make this an issue and defeat this attempt on the part of the company to weed out old em-| ‘in the union, r ployees and those who are active | Slogan was: “I'll crush the Share- | smith, defeated in the primaries |for the judge’s office, expressed | himself as hopeful that the lead- | | ing candidate for sheriff, whose out that croppers Communism,” task if elected. Policeman Matt Wilson, of Camp Hill, mutters “Yea, that’s what we been a-sayin’. But you will notice that the harder we try the more it props out from underneath everywhere. You boys can go to it. But it’s a world-wide job.” Matt never did get his nerve back after the Camp Hill struggle of 1931 and the landslide of pro- test that followed. And he’s see- ing the “Red monster” raising its head everywhere despite all boss suppression. Another local landlord, George Harper, also seems addicted to Union, and wipe would fulfill INAS By a Worker Correspondent SOUTH FALLSBURG, N. Y—I am @ young married man. I worked for the Alpine Hotel in So. Falls- | burg in the capacity of chauffeur. | At the salary of $60 for the entire} season starting May 14, 1934, to Sept. 4, 1934. I was forced to do the following tasks: Wash dishes, scrub floors, clean sinks, and I washed 400 win- dows. I did the following mechan- ical repairs: Install a new clutch, bearing, universal and drive shaft, overhaul a truck. I split rocks un- der a boiling sun for three days, I painted and did electrical work. I was given a room in a barn in a filthy bed which was overridden with bed-bugs. I had to sleep on A CHAUFFEUR’S nism, All the poor folks you will see rising against the go’ment. I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole country ain’t jist ‘bout red.” The local bosses have been studying the Birmingham situa- tion, and with varying reactions. Some believe a Red hunt ought to be staged right quick here and wipe the Commoonists out. “That, s—— of a b—— white speaker in here we'll have to gang up on.” The leading lynchers are puzz- ling mad because they failed to recruit a mob among poor white farmers on two occasions recently. When Bert Brown was urging ac- tion to “get” a leading Negro comrade suspected of carrying a gun, poor white farmers retorted, “Well, what of it. You're carryin’ a gun.” - “Well, I'll be damned, but he’s a ‘nigger’!” steamed the Negro-phobiac Brown, who jumped im a car alone and gave chase. WORK UMMER RESORT the floor to prevent being chewed up. When I refused to do any more filthy work, and when I said I was hired as a chauffeur only, the boss fired me. I worked 22 days, for which he wanted to pay me $13.06. When I tore up the check he had me ar- | rested and sentenced to 30 days for disorderly conduct, due to the po- litical pull which he controls. A good samaritan tried in my be- half and my sentence by Justice Ben Newberg was suspended. Ac- cording to the N. R. A. I was to receive $15 a week, and, according to the Hotel Men’s Association, I was to receive $100 a month. He has other help which he pays $8 a month, Letters from Our Readers | Mees ae “MILLIONS UP IN SMOKE” New York City. Today's World-Telegram states, in remarking about the fleet: “The guns that saluted President Roose- | velt ran up an ammunition bill of | $50,000!” Starving and fellow workers, how | does this hit you? Is any further proof needed of the kind of animals that are running this government? This country. in the depths of a great crisis, with millions on park benches and on strike for the right to live, can support a group who spend $50,000 for an hour’s exhibi- tion of noise and smoke. Not even the justification of target practice goes. Fifty thousand dollars for the big shots to amuse themselves for a little while. Why, even the fleet sailors themselves have had their small pay reduced 15 per cent. You who have never had any part of $50,000, can you imagine spend- ing it for a little black smoke? It seems as if in times like these Frankling D. might have made just the slightest concession. The fleet could have given him enough flag dipping and bugle blowing to please even ,jhim—and the $50,000 might have gone to relief. Workers. or- ganize and force them to give re- lief! J. F. WELCOME TO A NEW RECRUIT | Chicago, Il. | Editor, The Daily Worker: It is indeed a pleasure to write in this letter of acceptance, and let you know that at last I have become awakened to the significance of our Party. ‘ For the last three or four years I have been nothing but a sympa- thizer of the Party, but now I want to be an active member. Onward! to the success and hap- piness of all of our Party. W. R. POPULARIZE VICTORIES OF M. W. 1. U. Houston, Texas. Editor, The Daily Worker: I read the Daily Worker every day. Why do you always put suc- cessful struggles of the Marine Workers Industrial Union on the back page or stuck away in the corner of the paper somewhere? How do you think these things are won, by prayer or something? Put them in big type. Let those other workers who think that struggles jcan’t be won see what this wonder- ful organization does, Every small piece I have seen, and I have seen many, should have been headliners. Let's see them there, not because of the glory, but so that the other workers may learn that struggles can be and are won almost daily by an organization that has the correct line, and by putting this correct line into, not talk, but action. MARINE WORKER. THE EX-MAYOR IN ACTION New York City. Editor, The Daily Worker: Ex-Mayor O’Brien tried hard to work himself up into a frenzy last Saturday afternoon at the dedica- tion of Legion Memorial Square (downtown New York). The opca- sion was obviously only an excuse to fan up patriotism in the insur- ance district, but His Honor could not resist the temptation to get in a dig at Communism. Although his oratory rose to such a pitch that the buttons of his vest were serious- ly endangered, his startling revela- tion that certain obscure references to “those among us who sow the seeds of hatred, who would abolish the R. O. T. C., etc.” really meant the “Reds” failed to get any re- sponse from the crowd. .. . For all the bands and uniforms utilized, one cannot help wondering why the entire celebration aroused less en- thusiasm than a Methodist Sunday School meeting. Can it be that 100 per cent Amer- icanism is on the decline? A. R. ON THE PICKET LINE New York City. Editor, The Daily Worker: For about a month now Wein- stock Bros., Inc., 384 Third Ave., has been resolutely patrolled by cne or two pickets affiliated with the A. F. of L. There is an infuriating sign on the window: “There is no strike among the salesmen of Wein- stocks; the strikers are two errand boys.” The pickets had a new sign today, besides refusing to recognize the union: “The Weinstock’s buy German goods.” These poor work- ers will never get anywhere with the A. F. of L., but I am not the one to tell them so. Someone should get in contact with them and or- ® | Relief Officials Drive Negro Families Into Forced Labor of Cotton Chopping > S. P. Officials in Atlanta Slanders Angelo Herndon By a Worker Correspondent ATLANTA, Ga.—At the meeting of the local of the Socialist Party here last week the faker, Attorney Jacobs of this city, took the floor and was forced by mass pressure to half-heartedly support the strug- gle of the Communist Party against Assistant Solicitor Hudson’s attacks, terrorizations, and raids. At the same time the chairman of the local, after several lying expressions of intention to help the workers, began an attack upon the CP., stating that facts published by the Communists that Angelo Herndon, militant Negro leader of the unem- ployed, now in jail, was unable to get medical aid were untrue, and that he was offered medical aid and refused it. This chairman thus showed herself up to be a real agent of the bosses by trying to break up the militant struggles of the work- ers. This same faithful agent of So- cial-Democracy, a Mrs. Mellis, and member of the petty-bourgeoisie here who once served on the Angelo Herndon Defense Committee and even presided over a mass protest meeting seeking his freedom, has showed her true political color (yel- low) by openly attacking this De- fense Committee and the Commu- nist Party, for which she once pretended sympathy. The weakling, Jacobs, was forced to support the struggles of the C.P. in his speech, although it was evi- dent that it was a difficult task for him to do, because of the fact that the local workers, even rank and file Socialists, are becoming con- vinced that the Communist Party is the only organization struggling for the real welfare of the working class. Whereas the week before there were 17 present at the SP.| meeting, this week there were only 9 present, including the officials and speakers. Lumberjacks of the U.S. S.R. Write to Workers of U.S. A. By a Group of Soviet Worker Correspondents ARCHANGELSK, U. 5S. S. R.—To lumberjacks in America: From the forest of the North | Region we lumberjacks send you our brotherly greetings and we want to tell you a story about how we workers build our own happy life. In the U. S. S. R. there is now no unemployment. We are all members of the col- lective farm, the Kolhoz. Our timber industry is pro- sressing rapidly. We are building a number of sawmills. A long time ago we surpassed the pre-war figure of the timber indus- try in the North Region. We take our part in the large work and we know well that all this is destined for us and not for the bosses. We have a seven-hour labor day. We are using with great success the socialist methods of work-shock brigade and socialist competition. We live in the light, warm timber houses and we have nourishing dinner and supper every day in our eating house. We have in the for- est a good club, where we spend our free time. Our dramatic circle often gives us theatricals, and we go to cinema pictures. Also there is a good medical service. To work for seven hours is suffi- cient to have some money for us and for our families. All work in our forest is mech- anized. Our government built a railway and tractor-stations. We would like to get from you letters about your life, work, especially about mechanization in an Ameri- can forest. Send letters to: A, ERJUCHIN, P. O. Box 20, “Pravda Severa,” Archangelsk, U.S.S.R. PARTY LIFE The Wrong and Right Way To Conduct Canvassing Doorbell Ringing a Pleasure When Concrete Political Issues Brought Up, Says Comrade My first experience on a Red Sunday Canvass with the Workers’ Press, the Daily Worker, was a chilling and fruitless affair. It ex- plained to me the aversion of other unit members to this particular ac- | tivity. No wonder that it-chills the enthusiasm of many newcomers in the Party. Especially those, be- cause of no mass activity, are al- ways harrangued to go out on can- vass committees and Red Sundays. Results. Poor attendance or total absence. Here was my experience on the first Red Sunday. The comrade in charge handed me a diverse amount of material—Daily Workers, Young Workers, a collection list, an as- sortment of literature. He paired me up with another comrade, also with no previous experience, gave us the number of a house and said “Go.” We went. Door after door, as soon as we opened our mouth, the actions were all similar. The remarks of, “I’m sorry, not today,” or, “Who's there?” or a curt shutting of the door in our faces and with other such re- | marks; this was- the sum total of cur experiences. The exceptions were few and far between. We did {door by jotting them down an blank form prepared for us by the! junit buro. On most occasions Tf | was invited in to sit down and furs | ther discuss the matters of the bill and ‘the problems in general. My approach was as follows. Ringing the bell. If someone asked, “Wha is it?” I answered, “J .L.” That was the fact. And the door opened. “I want to speak to you about the Workers Unemployment Insur« ance Bill now in Congress. If this bill is passed, it means that every member of your family will receive insurance, the means of living dur] ing the period he is out of work! It means $10 for each working member of your family and $3 in addition for each dependent, child or invalid. , The Bill is now in Con- gress because of the efforts of the workers throughout the country, through their workers’ organizations, the Unemployment Councils. They forced one Congressman, Mr. Lun- deen of Minnesota, to introduce the | Bill in Congress. And there it is now, pigeonholed away, possibly to die, But you and I can wake up all these congressmen by sending ;to them hundreds of thousands of | these postal cards calling upon them |to pass this bill. We want ‘you sell some copies to very close sym- | and every member of the family to pathizers. A saie to one worker who | Send one such card. Here is a ree perhaps had never purchased the | Print of the bill as it is now in paper before. Congress. It has been reprinted so Good results? Hardly. One worker | 8 t oreach. you, who are really in us this way: “Me, a member of the A. F. of L. for 26 years, but THAT paper? Never!” And the door was shut flat into our faces. Four such houses, all new ones, never canvassed before—and the result? Sold 12 “Dailies.” Eight to sympathizers, the rest, possibly to first buyers. I can already hear some comrades remark: “Comrades, you've done well. It’s good Bol- shevik work. Carry on.” Well, I did. But I applied a method which has changed the whole outlook to the problem of canvassing. The method is not new but usually ignored by members and organizations. It is never mentioned or recalled by those who give out the canvass assignments. This is how I did it on the fol- lowing Red Sunday. Given my quantity of material (this time I went out alone), I sat down before I went out and connected up all the material in a logical order. I chose as my “door opener” the H. R. 7598 Bill (reprint) and the postal card already addressed to the local congressman. For this I selected from the mass of literature, the pamphlet by Amter on, “Why Un- employment Insurance?” (Been told it has gone out of print. Should be reprinted for the coming drive on the bill). Then I looked through the copy of the Daily Worker of that day for articles referring to the Bill. I blue-penciled these so as to easily find it and direct attention to it. In addition to this I bought some penny stamps in readiness for those who would be ready to send the Postals to Congress. Thus, finally armed with muni- tions and a clear idea of what had to be done, I went to it. And comrades, the feeling of ap- proach was now entirely different. I had, what is so often spoken of “a perspective,” an “objective.” All feeling of dread of the coming ordeal left me. I was politically conscious of what my approach to every worker in the famliy would be. The experiences that followed were, not a single door was shut tome, The only refusals came from those who, because of language dif- ficulties, could not understand me or make themselves understood. (This can be easily overcome by reporting back to the unit and send- ing a comrade who can meet this situation). On all occasions I made @ record of my experience at each answered | terested in workers. unemployment | insurance. We urge you to take # copy of the bill and several post cards. For this we ask you, as & worker, to make possible the reprints of thousands of more. This by pay< ing the cost of the material which’ is two cents.” ¢ No one refused this appeal. “Now the press and literature. To understand better about the H. Ry 7598 Bill, we have a pamphlet, writ- ten by the leader of the Unem- ployed Councils, I. Amter, which exe Plains ‘Why Unemployment Insur= ance’ and how to obtain it. It sells for the cost of printing, two cents. The struggle for the bill is a day- to-day struggle which is carried on in every neighborhood by all work- ers’ organizations and the local organizations and the local house, block and Unemployment Councils. Here is what the workers’ press, the Daily Worker, tells us of how the fight is going on. Here is an article that tells us that because of these struggles, 40 congressmen were |forced to give their support to the bill to bring on the floor of Con- gress. I've marked the article. I suggest you take a copy of the paper. It is the only working class paper | published in English and is full of news of direct interest to all work- ers, especialiy those who are feeling | deeply the conditions of today.” The whole approach is coherent, | flowing logically anc naturally from one item to the other and the re- | sult is that the worker does respond, | by purchasing some of the material, if not all. And the door is then wide open for a return visit. The method therefore consists of choos ing a proper matter for the first approach (and the H.R. 7598 Bill is such), tieing up the literature and the articles in the press with this “Door Opener.” This in contrast to the haphazard assortment of material that is usually taken out on a canvass. This method most probably will be welcomed by many. members of the units, especially to those who have a justified dislike toward the usual “cold canvass.” Put some political sense into the thing and it becomes a task easily. accepted and carried out. To make this possible it is urged that the unit buros and sections present this method at all unit meetings at the time of assignments and also at the mobilization points on the Red Sundays. J. L, Unit 12, Section 5, Bronx, N. ¥. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Sanitary Conditions in American Jails Robert G—We can tell from fanize them decently, They have! down so consistently and in all kinds of weather, to knuckle under to some probably Nazi sympathiz- ers. I hope you do something about. this. The Wanamaker pickets are spec- tacularly effective. When I boarded the “courtesy” bus the other day a well-dressed, indignant woman on it was loudly voicing her opinion: “And Wanamaker’s is supposed to be so good to their employes. Why, the N. R. A. expressly grants them the right to join a union! I never heard of such a thing! Well, I've made my last purchase there!” Many other expressed the same sentiments, if not so loudly. The passenger next me was cu- rious—and deaf. So, from Eighth Strect to 42nd, I regaled her with the meager knowledge at my com- mand. She wanted to know about everything—company unions, Mos- cow gold, were Reds all foreigners? She shied away from the thought of another war, but asked me where she could buy a Daily Worker. The driver and most of the other pas- sengers sat literally bending their ears, while I expounded. Another thing, in Central Park these days there are dozens of workers, Negroes, Porto Ricans, Italians and others, landscaping the park, I think the “Daily” could be sold to good effect here. Comradely, R. B. Editorial Note.— The strike at Weinstock Bros., Inc., is being re- ferred to the Department Store all too much guts, parading up and| Section, Office Workers Union, your letter that you have never been in jail before. Had you ever been such a “guest” of Uncle Sam, even for a day, you could have never evolved the idea of getting arrested for the sake of having enough leisure to write a novel. The political prisoners of the United ‘States are living under one of the most barbaric prison regimes in the civilized world. There are more than 3,000 federal and state prisons, reformatories, workhouses, farms, chain gangs, county and city jails. More than one-third of all prisons were built more than 170 years ago. The space allotted to the prisoners is insufficient. In a survey made in 1928. it was found that 17 per cent of the inside cells had less than 132 cubic feet of air- space, per man, which means that each prisoner had less than one- third of the necessary 400 cubic feet of air-space which is the minimum necessary. Forty-three per cent of the other cells had less than one- half the minimum. Nearly 20 per cent of the prisons still use the bucket, instead of the flush-toilet system. The prisons are frightfully over- crowded. In 1930 the federal pris- ons had 65.9 per cent more prison- ers than their capacity. Healthy prisoners are confined with the tuberculous, insane, syph- ilitic, feeble-minded, drug addicts and with sex-perverts. If you think that you will get the necessary medical attention in case of illness, you will be sadiy dis- appointed. There is little medical attention in most jails. Out of 100 Prisons where records were avail- By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. able, 60 had part-time physicians only; in the other 40 which had full-time physicians, it was found that the doctors conducted private practice on the outside. If you want some more information about our prisons, read the article “How Po- litical Prisoners Are Treated in the U.S. A.” by Irvin Goodman in the June issue of the Labor Defender. Then read the discussion on Rus- sian prisons which appeared in Mike Gold’s column on June 7, and note the contrast. Siroil—Psoriasis M. C.—Siroil does not cure nor relieve psoriasis, Any statements to the contrary are lies. So far, medi- cine has not found any cure for this disease. Anybody who has had experience with psoriasis knows that the skin improves spontaneously for a certain time, even if no treatment whatsoever is taken. The improves ment, however, does not last long. Quacks take advantage of these spontaneous periods of improvement by claiming that their particular “discoveries” have the power of bringing them about. You failed to enclose the advertisement men- tioned in your letter. We take this opportunity to ad- vise our readers that starvation as a cure for psoriasis is another de- lusion. A very intelligent comrade who had been suffering from this disease for a number of years has recently gone on a twelve-day star- vation “cure,” but his psoriasis did not disappear. Double Hernia G. S.—Your question cannot be answered in this column. It will be answered in HEALTH, or, if you send us your address and postage, we'll send you a private reply, SS stents tsetse i