The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 15, 1934, Page 4

Page Four New York Central Railroad\I.R.T. Bosses |Railroad Layoffs Show What Machinists Endorse H.R.7598 Force Agents Roosevelt’s Promises Mean All Transport Men Are Urged to Get Behind the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Measure By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK the last reg’ lar meeting of Loc: 6 (New York Central Railroad), Internationa sociation of Machinists, a letter was Yead by the secretary calling for the end ment of H. R. 7598, the Workers Unemployment Insurance Brother was pres- told in bill 1 of its vised its adoption . The membership unanimously en- dorsed the bill and instructed its retary to draft a resolution to Congress calling for its passage. | This action clearly indicates the in-| tention of railroad men to fix the for unemployment on ent where it belongs. It | railroad men will not led by the many fake bills that have been offered, all of which saddle at least a part of the burden on the wage-earners, and carry many other restrictive clauses which would make them valueless as real relief measures. The Washington administration as & result of mass pressure is now talking about unemployment insur- ance. Many substitutes for the real thing ar offered in the hope of dece' millions 4 kers. For the unemployed, abso- Stop depending for news “and in- | formation on the capitalist press | that favors the bosses and is against | the workers. Read the Daily Worker, | America's only working class news- paper, |lutely no provision has been made. Only H. R. 7598 takes care of these | millions. The fake measures call for | time limitations of 17 weeks. After ~|that the worker is again forsaken We congratulate Local 226 for their action and t that in the immediate future every A. F. of L. local and brotherhood lodge as well as the Switchmen’s Union locals will get behind this bill, and thus com- pel Congress to put through this measure, which is the only real so- lution for the millions of unem- Ployed in this country. Force Railroad Men To Join the Y.M.C.A. By a Worker Correspondent The railroad Y. M. C. A. (New Haven) is conducting a mem- bership drive which is being highly successful. And why shouldn’t it be? For it is a drive to force railroad workers to join the Y. M. C. A. (R. R. Branch), a drive supported by the officials of the road. The worker to whom the “invitation” is ex- tended has it handed to him by his foreman or boss, and this let- ter is accompanied by another one from some of the officials of the road extolling the good work of the Y. M. C. A. Thus is pressure brought to bear on the worker to join. And if he doesn’t, it is hinted that he might lose his job. The R. R. Y. M. C, A. is also a jim crow organization. Mem- bership in it is limited only to “white railroad workers.” Na b conpucaap wy WAR IS THE FOE OF WOMEN—ALL WOMEN | SHOULD BE FOES OF WAR «<]T SEEMS a pity that more pam-, Vienna barricades. In seeing this | This company violates every city, | phlets and literature have not|the world has had a good taste of | state and human law at will, and been drafted to warm and draw vast thousands of women and girls from : strata” to Bolshevism—} by emphasi: writes Comrade Keith M. | He sends us a4 timely extract from Olive Schreiner’s “Women and La- | Popularize the Congress, raise funds | bor,” a passage appropriate for re-| printing at this time during the in-| Where, organized and unorganized. | tense preparations for the Interna-| tional Women’s Anti-War Congress | to be held in Paris in late July.) Comrade Keith sends this passage | ith the remark, “In this hour of | navy parades, vile Jingoism, and} cannon-rattling, we must work hard | Pattern 1912 is available in sizes | lest the powder smoke, cry of the dying, and orations of the sadists make for another hell on earth.”} The excerpt from Schreiner’s book: | “In supplying the men for the | carnage of a battlefield, women have not merely lost actually more bleod, and gone through more acute anguish and weariness in | the months of bearing and in the agony of child-birth ... but in | the rearing, the women go through a long, patiently endured strain which no soldier on his longest march has ever more than equaled; while, even in the matter of death . .. the probability of her dying in childbirth is greater than the probability that the average male will die in battle. “There is, perhaps, no woman, whether she has borne children or drawing life at women’s breasts— battlefield covered with slain, but the thought would arise in her, ‘So many mothers’ sons! So many young bodies brought into the world to lie there. So many months of weariness and pain while bone and muscle were shaped. So many hours of an- guish and struggle that breath might be! So many baby-mouths darwing life at women’s breasts— all this that men might lie with glazed eyebalis, and swollen faces, and fixed, blue, unclosed mouths, +++ This, that an acre of ground might be manured with human flesh, that next year’s grass of poppies might spring up redder ++. or that the sand or a plain may have the glint of white bones | ++. and we cry this must not be, | for no woman who is a woman | says of a human body: “It is | nothing.”’” . Slowly but surely toiling momen are coming to realize that fascism and war are the bitter enemies of the freedom and welfare of women (it follows, “as the night the day,” of children as well)—and on the heels of their mental emancipation from reactionary ideology, will come a struggle the like of which the world has never seen: or, more pre- cisely, of which it has witnessed the beginning, in the manner in which the women fought besides the men to establish the Paris Commune; the manner in which they came} out of Russian factories in the face of police terror in 1917, to demand bread, land, and peace; and the way in which they lately fought on the what's to follow. The coming Women’s Anti-War Congress in Paris marks a new high on the freedom, justice, | Point in the struggle, the beginning | and fairness to women under the|Of & more organized and determined | Soviets, and its enmity to war,”| Struggle against war. We can ex- | pect great things of this Congress if and only if we support it fully. to send delegates, women every- Can You Make °*Em Yourself? 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 3% yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew- ing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) 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. MAX BEDACHT, Main Speaker Emile Babad from Musical Program Direction: Take Broad 8t Transfer to Car No. 6. Get Ave. Walk two blocks west GRAND PICNIC OF LW. 0. AND DAILY WORKER SUNDAY, June 17th at Old Berkies Farm Subway or Car No. 65 to end of line. Artef Refreshments Entertainment Of at Washington Lane and Ogontz DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1934 888ssaasSsamaanasaanama9aSSaSSS- ass Into Perjury Compelled to Swear to} Inspections They Can | Never Make By a Subway Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—An I. R. T. agent puts in 12 hours a day in a dirty. stuffy booth, hardly big enough to turn around in. A half hour is all| the time he gets off for his dinner: No eating is allowed in the booth, so I have to wash up, walk three blocks to a coffee pot, eat my meal, and be back on the job in 30 min-| utes. The “beakie rats” are everywhere, and if an agent working under these | |lousy conditions for 45 cents an/ | hour, smokes, reads, or talks to pas- | | Sengers, he is written up and su: | pended. | | The company union from P. J.| | Connolly, down is nothing more |than a nest of “labor lice,” that jeringe and crawl at the bidding of | | 165 Broadway. Some men are fired | for a slight violation of the thou- | Sand and one rules, while known | Scabs and strikebreakers could com- me murder and remain on the pay roll, Men are compelled to go into| court on company cases and com- mit perjury. For instance, on a | ten-minute so-called “toilet relief,” | in addition to answering the re- quirements of nature and washing | his hands, he has to sign a state- | ment that he has inspected the | conditions of the platforms, railings, | | benches, setees, and other furniture | and fixtures, including all stairways, | lights, toilets, etc. These signed statements are to protect the I. R. T. robbers in court when any pas- senger sues over some injury due to neglect of the company. It would be utterly impossible te perform even half of these things in 10 minutes, but the agent must swear to his signed state- ment or get out on the breadline. Many hundreds of the riding pub- lic have been defrauded in court, and prevented from receiving ver- dicts in their favor, because of these lying statements and per- jured testimony forced from I. R. | T. men under pressure of losing | their jobs. | | then fires its 12-hour slaves for| some slight violation of rules. | We are fed up with the whole damn mess, and are organizing into our own union. The response has} | been tremendous and we can as- |sure 165 Broadway that when it | played the Irish immigrant for a submissive fool it made the mistake of the man who created the Frank- | enstein. |. James Connolly was murdered, | |but his teachings are very much | jalive in the hearts of the Irish | | workers today. | “Holy George” Keegan, and “Rat” Taylor cannot stop the growth of | the Transport Workers Union. The | slave working conditions are a chal- |lenge to the manhood of the work- |ers, and the challenge is being an- | swered. | More Intensive Work | Needed to Organize Telegraph Messengers By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent NEW YORK —Every now and then I read the Daily Worker to try and get a better understanding of the labor movement. The most | interesting of the columns is about so-called concentration work by the trade unions and the’ Party mem- bers in various industries. For ex- ample, I read of two distributions | by women comrades in the Long) Island R. R. shops, also distribu- tions of leaflets and Daily Workers down at the piers. This undoubt- edly brought workers closer to the movement. What I cannot understand is the lack of any such distributions in front of the Telegraph buildings at 60 Hudson St., where I work. I read articles about the messengers’ | strikes and a certain committee of | action, but up to date failed to see’ any kind of distribution, | It seems to me that this im-| | portant basic industry is being neglected by the trade unions as | well as the Party itself. What is going to be done about this? WESTERN UNION MESSENGER. This worker is correct in point- ing out the importance of the communications industries and the necessity of concentration on the telegraph wrkers. It is true that the Party has neglected this work, until recently, when several Y. C. L. units undertook to con- centrate on telegraph offices in their neighborhoods. It is also true that the United Committee of Action has done practically nothing. In relation to the importance of | organizing telegraph workers, this | work is inadequate. However, with | the increasing growth of the membership and activity of T. M. U., they will reach the over- whelming majori | gers, This ran has issued several leaflets and bulletins in the past. If this messenger will get in touch with the Telegraph Messengers’ Union. he can obtain copies of those and in addition discuss what activity he can carry on in his place of | work. NOTE: We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- tion and communications indus- tries—railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- press .companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, ete., and post office, telephone, teiegraph, etc. We urge workers from these in-. dustries to write us of their con- ditions of werk, and their strug- -gles to organize. Please get these. Jetters to us by Tuesday of each «Week, Physical Examinations Method Used to Drop Steady Workers from List By a Railroad Worker Correspon- dent NEW YORK.—tThe old St. John’s Park Terminal will be closed with the opening of the new St. John’s Park Terminal at West Spring Street on June 28. With completion of the viaduct between West 30th and 60th streets, 105 crossings will be eliminated. Recently 20 trainmen at the Grand Central Terminal] were laid off. Maintenance men were laid off. Young workers, who hope to get their jobs back, and go to the superintendent of power, Mr. Mont- gomery or Mr. Gilmore, are turned down because of “lack of ex- perience,” even though they were capable and efficient before the lay. off. Workers who try to get their lost jobs back on seniority rights are discriminated against through the sledge-hammer tactics of physi- cal examination. Through the examination of fur- loughed and steady workers, most of us will be dropped from the list as physically unfit or incompetent, disqualified. This is in line with president Roosevelt's statement a year ago thaf no railroad worker will be laid off after May 30, 1933. The officials of the 21 standard railway unions has reached such a stagnant stage that what once was Threaten Injured Pullman Workers With Loss of Job By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill.—At the Pullman works, which grew from a million dollar original investment to the big present concern through the surplus it skinned off the workers, the con- | ditions are very near the same as caused the 1893 strike. At the Calumet shop, which suffers the 10 per cent cut the same as the rail- road shopmen, the wages run from 35 to 79 cents an hour. Men are pushed like race horses, and if any one gets an injury and goes to have it dressed they have to report two or three places, and are called care- less and threatened with loss of their jobs. At the 111th St. shop at piece work, after a job is finished the worker must run the boss down to get another, all on his own time. ‘The company union, wholly main- tained by the company, restricts elections to American citizens who have been employed by the com- pany for two years. When the po- lice refused to let workers park | their cars on the streets and the company union applied to the com- pany for parking space they were refused. Pension Promises Broken by Bosses By a Worker Correspondent DAKOTA CITY, Nebr.—The rail- road workers are looking forward to their day of retirement pension and seniority rights. There should be a leaflet put out exposing the fake promises of the boss class in regard to a retirement pension. We must find a way to reach these railroad and other industrial workers that never see the Daily Worker, and I believe a pamphlet or leaflet sold or distributed by the party units is the best and quickest method. I_ know one section hand who worked over 30 years thinking he would be retired on a $75 a month pension. He was retired in 1929 on $57.50 and has since been cut to $28.75 per month, and has been told that now the pension fund is in danger. Co. Union Gets ‘Active’, Trying to Prevent Rank jand File Organization By a R. R. Worker Correspondent JAMAICA, L. I—I want to say a few words concerning the company union called “Shop Craftsmanship” now being manipulated at Morris Park by the man with the rolls of blue prints—(Fellows, you all know his name.) He recently went around to a few of the workers in various terminals in and around Jamaica, (personally, mind you!) for the first time since he was “elected,” which is some years ago. He asked us if there were any grievances, and he made himself as “nice” as possible. This is not an accident. Remember that on pay day before last we got that Atter- bury letter in which he proposes that representation plan. He then put Charlie to work and to appear as the guy who has the workers’ interests at heart! All this is in the plan to stick us with a form of com- pany union that will be in line with Harriman’s bull. The R. R. managers don’t want any union controlled by the rank and file and they have seen that we don’t want the A. F. of L. lead- ership that sold us out so many times. This is why they are fran- tically trying to concot things in such a way as to fool us. The trouble is that the railroad workers have learned their lessons. We must {a sham resemblance of leadership forms today the archbetrayers of labor. Wresting from the bureau- crats the control and power of our unions which is now centered in the | immediate setting up of a broad |rank and file committee in each local and Lodge, truly representa- tive of all workers in the railroad industry, | ‘Time Limits Turn Chicago Car Shop Into Speed-Up Hell Men Rushed All Day, Then Forced to Sign They Were Loafing By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill.—I work for the C. & N. W., not in the car shop, but &@ group of carmen, members of Car- mens Local 227, asked me to write | up the speedup system in that shop. The facts as related to me were as follows: When a car comes into the shop | the inspector lists the work to be | done, the office checks on this list }and sets a time and date when | the work is to be finished. Then | the men assigned to the job are | told to finish it by that time or |else— In the first place the time | allowance is such as drives a man to the limit and when delay is | caused by no fault of his own he | Still is held responsible for getting | the car out on schedule. | These delays are caused by | waiting for material, due to’ short- | age in store-rooms or because wrong material is ordered by the foreman. During delays men are put on other jobs. Then, too, when the men start on a car they usually find addi- tional work that needs doing, which was not included in the original checkup. Of course the additional work must be done, but no allow- ance is made in timing the job. Now for the “or else.” When a car is not ready as per schedule, the man is called into the office and tried before a “Kangaroo Court” with Sam Shaw, General Foreman, as judge and jury. What the man has to say about the job carries little weight, only the efficiency Sharks schedule is considered. On first “offense” the worker, under threat of discharge, is asked to sign a statement that he was slow on the job. Naturally, such a statemnt is used to terrorize him and his fellow workers into further speedup. On second “offense” this statement is used as grounds for discharge. This working on a speedup sched- ule is worse than piece work and the carmen are all sore over it. man that has had hell driven out of him to be asked to sign a state- ment that he was loafing is rubbing it in, At two meetings of Lodge 227 this question has been discussed. The members have been told to refuse to sign statements and to call on the grievance committee, but I under- stand that in sessions of the “Kan- garoo Court” where the grievance | committee was present, they did not make a very determined defense for the man on “trial.” Even if the grievance committee | did put up a stiff fight to prevent the individual worker from being terrorized—this is not enough. Each particular case should be the basis for a broader fight against the whole thinly veiled piecework system, against the setting of time limits for jobs. A rank and file group, following the program of the Railroad Brotherhoods Unity Movement, is being formed in this lodge to organ- ize the resentment of the carmen on this grievance and many others and to carry on a determined fight for the betterment of their condi- tions. Letters from Our Readers ANGELO HERNDON DEFENSE STAMPS New York City Comrades:— As a member of a worker's club which has had a good deal of success in distributing post-cards to be sent to the Alabama Su- preme Court as a protest against the imprisonment of Angelo Herndon, I suggest that other groups adopt the same plan. Instead of giving out cards which may or may not be mailed, we have the people sign and ask for a contribution of five cents or more to cover mailing costs and to aid in the defense. In this way, we get support from people who would not otherwise hear of the I. L. D. and its activities, people who are not necessarily sympa- thizers: shopkeepers interested in keeping trade, naive people who are indignant that such things should exist, neighbors, and even ardent church goers. One church goer at the same time that she promised me a dollar as soon as she gets her monthly check, said that she felt that a fellow like that should get a break and showed me a book of stamps she is saving for the church. So comrades, let’s collect nick- els and postcards from everyone who is willing to listen. Yours, —M. T. 8. struggles unite as one and we will be strong. Three cents a copy. | hands of the misleaders calls for the | For al Keep informed of the world-wide by the working class against unemployment. hunger, fas- cism and war by reading the Daily Worker. Buy it at the newsstands. ‘Post Office Ventilation | Workers Speeded-Up in Heat That Reaches 95 Degrees | By a Post Office Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Our post office is | one of the biggest in the city and is considered above the average in | working conditions and treatment of employes. Our supervisors are | worthy lackeys of their worthy masters, ignorant brutes placed in | their position through the influence of some “rabbi” (as a politician is called in post-office parlance) and the ability to bulldoze and speed-up to an inhuman degree. Since one of them has gained the position of superintendent, due to his ability of economizing on the working time allotted the substitutes by the de- partment and due to his merciless disregard for the most elementary rights and feelings of his subor- dinates, all the foremen are vieing with each other to emulate him, and, if possible, to do even better in the treatment of their employes. Sanitary’ conditions are inde- scribable. The antiquated ven- tilating system is long out of order and we are forced to work many times in 95 degrees of heat, so that) during the summer it is almost a daily occurrence that some worker collapses from the heat and has to be carried out, but only after he has been revived long enough to punch his card out. There are enough openings for spying, though, to make Argus turn green with envy. The drinking water is tepid, as we have to dis- pense with such “luxuries” as ice, in order to balance the budget, and the basin of the fountain is caked with a heavy layer of dust, as is everything else in the place. To complete the picture and just to make our: drinking more appe- tizing, right under the fountain there is an overflowing pail for refuse and sputum. If you are “fortunate,” you get permission to go up to the toilet, but just try to be there over 10 minutes, or try to go up there every day, and you find yourself in great disfavor with the boss. The toilets are filthy, and if you are dauntless to use one of them nine times out of ten you find that you get a ter- rible itching around a certain region of your body, and ten times out of ten you find no toilet paper, and that brilliant idea was actu- ally proposed by one of our “effi- ciency experts,” that everybody should bring his own toilet paper. So much for the working environ- ment. All day you hear the menacing tone of some foreman: “Come on, come on, come on, keep your hands moving!” while you struggle with a large pile of work in front of you, feeling hot and miserable, the mad- dening noise of the cancelling ma- chines crashing upon your brain. The subs can be ordered in any time of the day or night, kept wait- ing around for hours and then sent home without any remuneration. If you do get a few hours of work, you are driven even more than the regular employe, and the fewer working hours you are given the better are the chances of your fore- man to climb into a superintendent- ship on your back. We have learned many things these last few years. We have learned that our position of secur- ity is and always was only a mirage; we have learned that we are no exception from the rest of the workers in outside industry; we have learned that our conditions and fate are inextricably bound up with the conditions and fate of the rest of the working class, even if we are called “federal employes.” Last, but not least, we have learned that only through united effort, only through organization, only by mass pressure, can we wring con- cessions. Jim Crowism in the Morris Park Shops By a Railroad Worker Correspon- dent MORRIS PARK, L. I—Jim Crow- ism on the Long Island Railroad is current and the cases of discrimina- tion against the Negro workers are very common. First of all, the Negroes are al- ways made to do the most menial jobs and the hardest. If in a gang you have a couple of colored fellows, these will be put to do the dirtiest tasks, like cleaning toilets etc. Furthermore we the employes have the “right” to get passes, in accordance with our seniority, to go travel and see the folks. But if a Negro worker asks for a pass for say, his wife to go and see her peo- ple below the “Mason Dixon Line,” he has to pay half fare on certain Southern railroads. This doesn’t do much good with the wages we get. It means that no pass can be gotten and the so-called “rights” don’t mean anything for our Negro fellow workers. Atterbury and his gang of R..R. bosses surely know how to try to keep the ranks divided. These conditions will be done away with the day that all the R. R. workers will have real represen- tation in the form of a strong union covering every one from en- gineer to gateman and porter. The Daily Worker is a great paper, but it should write more about the rail- roads. A MORRIS PARK WORKER, ae ae Editorial Note: The Daily Worker will gladly print more letters from R. R. workers and appeals to all R. R. workers, to write regularly on their conditions. The Daily Worker gives you full news about the struggle for unem- ployment insurance. Buy the Daily Worker at the newsstands, Three cents a copy, Unbearable | prepare themselves is one of the ‘ enough. PARTY LIFE Workers’ Schools and Class Struggle Education in Conn. Must Establish Classes in More Cities Especially in War-Industry Centers By J. M. District Agit-Prop., District 15 ‘The past year has seen regular classes in Marxism-Leninism for the first time in the Connecticut District. Not only is this in itself a step forward, but it points espe- cially to the deep-going demand for more political training and ed- ucation in our ranks. Our District is dotted with relatively small cities, the most important ones running from 75,000-150,000 in population. We cannot therefore speak of one metropolitan center which would be the logical place for setting up a Workers School, in the same sense as in New York, Chicago, etc. We find it necessary and preferable to have a series of classes, once a week, in as many cities as possible, in which we run through an entire course such as Principles of Com- munism. This past year we have carried through such regular classes in New Haven (for the second sea- son). Bridgeport, Stamford and Hartford. Already we must think in terms of covering more cities next year—in view of the number of industrial centers, many of them vital centers of war-industries, that make up our district. The attend- ance at our weekly classes ranged from about 15 in one city (Hart- ford) to 25-35 in the others. In one or two cities we ean point to real results immediately forth- coming from the classes: develop- ment of new comrades, increased sale of literature, and the be- ginnings of an understanding of the nature and methods of our type of workers’ education. Main Shortcomings What were the main shortcom- ings in our classes? (1) the organ- ization of the classes. This was done too loosely, without sufficient firmness or preliminary agitation and propaganda. The classes were not brought forward in the light that assignment to them and at- tendance at them were Party tasks, and as such, required of the com- rades in question. Moreover, the students at the classes were not drawn sufficiently into the organi- zational problems, so that they would feel that it was their class. (2) As a consequence of this, the composition of the classes was loose, fluctuating, unsatisfactory, Many comrades came simply to listen and to sit in without dreaming of par- ticipating. To many, these classes were a novelty, and once the novelty wore off, the interest subsided. We were especially weak in attracting workers from the basic industries, and from the very struggles we had led or participated in. Besides, very few of those who did attend did any outside reading or preparations for the classes. This problem of getting the comrades to read and most difficult nuts to crack for us here. (3) The classes were too much lecture courses. The instructor talked too much of the time; and/ there was no way .of telling how many students followed him, were interested or understood him. Out of 25-35, we could count on 6-10 at most who participated actively in the classes. (4) There was a lack of instructors. One comrade cov- ered three cities, and only toward the end of the year could another one be drawn into the work to some extent. Such a situation calls for. the immediate development of nev cadres for teaching. Main Lessons What have we gained as a result of these experiences? What cone crete proposals can we make? (1) Broaden out the territory covered to include all, or nearly all, of the industrial centers in the Districtt for example, Springfield, New Brie tain, New London, etc. (2) Emphasis on quality rathes than quantity in our classes. Im« proving the composition of the classes by recruiting workers from the shops and trade unions, rather than allowing indiscriminately groups of comrades to sit in when they feel like it, and stay away when they don’t. To this end, more strictness, firmness, and chec! in organizing the classes, in att ance rules, outside preparations, eta, The mass-class, in reality a lecture course, must give way to a well-knit even though smaller gro’ of comrades, workers from the shi and the unemployed ranks, wi will be able to apply immediai what they have learned in course of day-to-day struggles. (3) Paying more attention to cons crete subjects such as Party organte zation and trade-union work, ine stead of an exclusive study of Prine ciples of Communism. In other words, attention to more directly practical problems at the same time that the other theoretical problems are not neglected. (4) Finally, developing more ine structors to take care of the grows ing demands in our District for more political schooling. This is a pressing problem, and cannot be leisurely put off until some future date. Therefore, intensive efforts on our part are required, and in line with these concrete proposals, We expect to go forward to more and better classes in Marxisme Leninism next season. Join the Communist Party 35 BE. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street, City ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Gray Hair B. S., Poughkeepsie, N. ¥.—Nu- merous articles about gray hair and dandruff have already appeared in this column. Gray hair in a girl of your age (18) is usually due to heredity. Nothing can be done to change the color, except dying it. As for the dryness, we would advise you to rub olive oil or castor oil into your scalp once or twice a week, and to wash the hair as rarely as Possible; once in two weeks being Poa Stat a Best Climate for Sinus Trouble and Bronchitis M. T., Detroit—Your physician was right in advising you to go to Arizona. The climate of Moscow is not exactly the best for sinus trouble, or for bronchitis. If you go to Russia, the best climate for you would be the Crimea, which is in the south, By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. Cae See Diabetic Gangrene ! S. M—At this age (56), it is, doubtful whether the infection on) the toe could be cured without curing the underlying sugar disease _ from which he is suffering. These diabetic infections remain station- | ary for a long time and there is nothing else to do but to wait until | the physicians at the hospital de- cide whether it is necessary to op- erate. If an operation is decided upon, the whole toe will be removed in order to save the leg. They never operate on the bunion alone in a case of diabetic gangrene. | Urethral Stricture B. J.—You are undoubtedly sufe fering from stricture of the urethra following your attack of gonorrt! four years ago. The only method improving your condition is by stretching of the canal with gradu« ated metal sounds. This can be done in any clinic having a genito« urinary department. Ree . Frequent Micturition—Dry Mouth F.K,, Sacramento—The symp you are describing would point inflammation of the kidney possibly the beginning of diabetes Have your urine examined in a rev liable laboratory and let us know the results, together with your age and data regarding any previouwt disease. 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