The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESD. JUNE 20, 1934 | Bowery “Y” Gets City Money| Officials Help Bosses Fire Militant Shoe Workers Institution That Gets Rich Donations Pays 55 Cents Cash for 13 Hours Work By a Worker Correspondent are losing money. EW ‘ORK. — The Bowery h g Men’s Christian 8 East 3rd street, is o be the hest Y. M. C. A. the It collects of money yearly ms and dona- intensified, go- rive for charity- hey call it neh of ¥. M. ©. ployed men sup- or Federal gov- relief - money directly to the Bowery which is p Branch of Y. M. C. A. Yet these needy young men as they so nicely call them in their propaganda - brochures and pam-| phlets, are treated and rated as “bums” and outcasts. Besides they have to psy back to whatever has been extended to them on credit. | B. Y. M,C. A., collects vy in three ways in compensa- tion for one service, namely: 1, Relief-money for each one on/| the relief- ns by private people. tever the poor needy men te) back with money extra jobs, and so 1¢d on small few figures officially the B. B. Y. M.C. A ncome of bread-lines and em they served 887,597 meals and 10 cents cafeteria. Still th im that they do not make any profit. It is outrageous to think, when one hears about how the Bowery-Y. keep the buss-boys| and kitchen-help working 13 hours a day with not even a half an hour off) for lunch. They have to eat in| between picking up the dishes, etc.| The N. R. A. code hours are not} only violated, but they do not even} pay the code-wages, they pay only 85 cents a day, out of which 30 cents is taken as a payment for their beds, | leaving only cents as compensa- | tion for 13 hours work. $45,895 was | extended as credit in the dormitory, which has a capacity of about 300; beds at $2.50 a week. Every week/ they collect $750 from one floor} c The Bowery Branch Y. M. C. A., claims that in 1933 oniy 40 per cent of the men paid their bill. The rest left without ever paying a cent The Bowery Branch of Y. M. C A. has printed and publicized a brochure “A Living Memorial” among their donating public in which they inform them that in 1933 they housed 8,000 destitute men But as far as is known, up to now every one that ever got anything from the Bowery Y, had to pay for it in one way or the other, by manual labor, such as porter work, painting, kitchen-work, etc. for which they are always underpaid, but this is not told to the general public. The medical service employs a medical student who gets free lodg- ings in exchange. The law prescribes that they should hire a full-fledged physician, but they always seem to get away with it as with everything else. When a man gets sick he is usually forgotten in his bed. Not much is done for him, unless he puts up a noise about it. Last winter during snowfalls the Bowery Y used to hire out men for snowshovelling to various companies and stores, etc., all over the city The hourly rate was 50 cents all over the city, as every one knows, but for every man the Bowery Y hired out they collected a royalty of 10 cents an hour. Thus the poor person received only 40 cents an hour, which the Bowery Y also the | collected in its entirety as a down- payment for board and lodgings, even though they were paid by the relief bureau too. It is really heart-breaking to hear some of the men telling how they were forced by the Bowery Y to go out snow-shovelling without ade- quate clothing... Some had no over- coats, no soles under their shoes, some were bare-handed, little or no under-wear, etc. After every such turn of snow- shovelling many of the men in- variably caught colds, pneumonia, often consumption. They were then taken to the Bellevue hospital in THE FARM WIFE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT In dealing with the question of] Now what shall we gain in or- organizing the farm women (a sub- ject broached by Mrs. B. B. M. of Washington (state) we are helped by a clipping from the Farmers’) National Weekly—an article written | only a month before his death last | Fall by Fred Chase, dirt farmer and former member of the Executive| Committee of the Farmers’ National | Committee for Action. The clipping was sent to Mike Gold by Mrs. Chase, after Mike had | stressed the need of organizing the workers’ wives into the mov>ment. Mike some time ago turned over to us this and a few other letcers on similar subjects, perhaps because he lacked space for the multitude of letters he received and thought these suitable for use in our cor- ner. This one fills a need most beautifully. Mrs. Chase said in her letter: “Comrade Chase believed firmly in the importance of organizing the working woman. He realized that without her we could not overthrow the capitalist system and establish @ workers’ and farmers’ govern- | ment. | “In our family,” we both worked in the interest of the Communist | Party. We also belonged to the| Grange, the Farm Bureau, and the | militant organizations; when our| children were little, we used to take turns in attending the above organ- izations. We brought up five chil- | dren and they are all Communists.” We reproduce the article on THE PART PLAYED BY FARM WOMEN IN STRUGGLES By FRED CHASE | The securing of more farm women | Jor work in organizing the farm people is a seriious need. They are coming into the movement, but far too slow. The number of women at the Washington Farm Confer-| ence was small, and it is also a fact that at nearly all State and Regional Conferences the percent- agee of farm women is small. To understand this question it is necessary to realize that the small and most of the middle-size farms are run by the family as a unit. The farmer still exploits the whole family—the minor children and especially the farm wife. The fact that the small farmer does not get, @ decent living after long hours of toil, that he is in turn ruthlessly exploited by others, does not alter the fact of the exploitation of the famiiy. | How to Rally the Farm Women | Now we have come,to the break- down of farm economy as it has been, and it is necessary to get the whole farm family to fight for bet- ter conditions. So the question arises, how shall we get the farm women to share more fully in the Struggle against exploitation? As a result of my experience I weuld suggest the following: 1, Whenever a farm organizer visits 2 farm-home insist firstly that the wife and older daughters take part in the discussions and making of plans. Also if lunch or meals are served ask that the women be seated with the men, even if the men have to lower their dignity by waiting on the table or washing dishes. 2. That every possible effort be made to have farm women attend mectings and serve on committees. 2, That farm wives and daugh- ters go to the big farm confer- ganizing farm people for militant action if we get a greater number of women to assist? ‘We may safely-say that our work will go ahead with more pep and vigor. Women are not so apt to postpone action as men. They are far better sub getters for our papers. In fact they will assist in every line of activity. The greater activity of women will mean that we men will have to change from a position as farm boss to real co-operation with the whole family. This is one of the absolutely essential steps in our its big bankers. (More Tomorrow) Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1872 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 16 takes 3% yards 39-inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Il- lustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. ig y 4 \A SSS Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write plainly name, address and _ style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker ences, even if this means that some of the men must stay home. Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, heavy struggle against Wall Street and | ‘Stitchers in _ Boston Seek | | New Prices Unanimously Against Extending Present Agreement By a Shoe Worker Correspondent | BOSTON, Mass—The stitchers’ local of Boston voted unanimously | to go on record on June 13 against the extension of the present agree- | ment, and for price negotiations | on the prices worked out by the| | Price committee, and that an| | agreement be signed on the basis} |of these prices only until March, | 1935. This decision was made after a |report on the present situation j given by the members of the | Joint Council. Brother Clarfield, |members of the Joint Council in |his report made clear that the workers of Lynn, Haverhill, and Lowell extended this wage cut | agreement because they lost faith ; that the present leadership will | ever fight for them. that by giving in to the manufacturers we will |not build a union, that we must | all get together in spite* of our) | officials who have no fighting | spirit in them, and build our un- ion through increases in wages. It was also decided that this! resolution be sent to the other | locals of Boston. One-Third of J Lane ‘CottonMill Families, Now on ERA Relief | By a Worker Correspondent | NEW ORLEANS, La.—Yesterday | | an old woman fell in the Lane Cot- ton Mill and injured her head on the concrete floor. She had spent the better part of her life in the cotton mills here in New Orleans, and now she is so old that she is unable to operate a machine any more, so she is compelled to clean the sweepings. The frame hands are only making about $5.40 for a week’s work, so the sweepers and cleaners cannot! make very much. | One of the old hands who was unemployed was sent for to go to the mill as they had a job for him. He got up out of bed. He had been sick for several days, but he needed the work. He was only able to work for one day and two hours, and then had to go to the hospital, where he was compelled to remain |for several days, and when he re- turned to the mill after being dis- charged from the hospital he was told that they had to get someone else to take the job. Since the advent of the N. R. A.j j there are no extra hands in this mill. There never were many ex- tras. About one-third of the mill fam- | ilies are on the EF. R. A. for support. | Cutting Wages By a Worker Correspondent KENOSHA, Wisc.—The Nash company is beginning to slash at our wages! The first attempt to cut wages took place in the Rear Axle Gear | Cut department. A few years ago this department was changed from piece to’ gang work. At that time | the rates were cut and the men were forced to work more machines. After the strike last spring, the company promised to do away with the gang work system in the de- partment. This is how they did it: Since, in the rough and finish cut, the company couldn’t add any more machines (the men were speeded up as much as was humanly pos- sible), rates were slashed 20 per cent! Instead of the 5 per cent increase guaranteed by the strike settlement, they were eut from 80 cents to 65 cents an hour. On the lapping jobs they were compelled to run an additional ma- chine. One man was laid off and the others are expected to make up his production. They call it the} “hop, skip and jump.” Frank Panlaner, the labor-hating foreman, and his flunkies, Ovie, two-faced Abe, and Jake Kemen, tell the men that if they speed up and cut the rates, then they will get the work from Racine and have more to do. This is probably be- ing done by the Racine foremen too, so that what will happen is that the company will get the work done cheaper and the men will get laid off quicker. Union brothers! The whole shop | must be prepared to come to the defense of this department. The company will cut us next, if they get away with it there. Demand that the company carry out the settlement! No wage cuts! No speed up! NEWS OF YORK, PA. PLANTS By a Worker Correspondent YORK, Pa.—Today, Saturday, the York Wall Paper Co. posted notice on the plant that the plant was closed. The Red Lion Pa. Cabinet Co. has signed a closed shop agreement with the furniture operatives. re- newable May 9, 1935. Th 7 plant in the U. S. or anywhere de- voted exclusively to rat.o «1 can employ 800 men. York Ice Machinery Corp. men} are organizing, also the A. B, Far- quhar Co. Seventy-five per cent of the former and 52 per cent of the latter are organized, I guess, in the American Federation of Labor unions. Reactionary Leaders in Boston Stichers’ Local Try to Pave Way for Arbitration BOSTON, Mass.—Though the/ to the bosses and the Joint Coun- United Shoe and Leather Workers’| cil, and on June 13 voted down Union is a new union, and the bulk| this gag decision of the J. C., only Nash Company of the shoe workers of Boston looked forward to an organization that would eliminate the bad fea- tures of the reactionary A. F. of L. Beot and Shoe Union, nevertheless the executive of the stitchers’ local and the Joint Council of Boston do not base their decisions and ac- tions on the policies outlined at the Amalgamated Convention, where the rank and file fought for a democratic organization. The Joint Council passed a de- cision that any shoe worker dis- tributing leaflets not authoried by the J. C. will be suspended from the union. The decision was based on a May Day leaflet issued by the Harvard shoe nucleus of the Com- munist Party and Young Commu- nist League. The leaflet, among other things, pointed out that “the increases in wages in some depart- ments were due to the activities of the militant rank and file workers, and especially members of the Communist Party and League. Immediately the reactionary ele- ments of the Stitchers’ Executive Board, who follow the Lovestone Tenegades, made an attack on the leaflet. The lead in this attack was taken up by the notorious J. Kass- ner (expelled from the ranks of the left wing for his strike-breaking ac- tivity in the Clayman Shoe strike Jast March). He made an hysterical speech that it is poison for the workers, and the rank and_ file members of the Executive Board who follow blindly these misleaders | brought in a recommendation to the | local meeting “to condemn the leaf- let.” This recommendation carried by a majority of three votes. The Salvagios and Zeligmans then took it up at the J. C. and ‘passed the motion to suspend any member giving out leaflets. But what is behind this motion, | and why do the manufacturers ap-| Prove of it whele heartedly? The present officialdom of our union is unable and unwilling to lead the workers in a fight for in- creases in wages. Basing them- selves from the outset on arbi- tration, grading and concessions to} the manufacturers, they are afraid of the Communist Party members and all other militant shoe workers, who have been the only ones to point to the shoe workers the treachery of the officials, and this is what these leaders are afraid of. Therefore they passed this motion so as to try to silence the leaders of the rank and file, and at the same time give an opportunity to the manufacturers to fire these workers for fighting for better. con- ditions. As it has ben proved, the bosses understood very well this decision. Right after, Sarrah Barr, a mili- tant rank and file worker, was fired from the Dartmouth, the boss giv- ing the reason that “the pamphlet she was selling was the Communist posi‘ion on the Haverhill strike.” Evidently what is poison for the! Joint Council, is also poison for the manufacturers. But the rank and file of the Letters from SKILLED LABOR AND THE APPRENTICE New York City. Dear Comrade Editor: I would like a thorough explana- tion on the attitude of union men working in very skilled trades, toward apprentices. In the trade where I work, skilled men get sore whenever an apprentice does some- thing that is very simple, and which he can pick up very easily. The skilled men say, “You must work for just a few years and then you can do this kind of work.” I think this is unfair and holds back progressiveness. What do you think? eae aa 3 Editorial reply—The problem of the apprentice is a very serious one, and the A. F. of L. leaders have shown no desire, nor have they made any efforts to solve this problem. On the contrary they have taken a very antagonistic attitude toward the apprentice question generally. In certain skilled trades, the A. F. of L. leaders, in order to mo- nopolize the trade, refuse to allow apprentices altogether. Such action, they think, would enable them to divide the jobs among the few skilled men within the organ- ization. They overlook the fact however, that outside of the juris- diction of the A. F. of L. there are hundreds and hundreds of workers who have learned the trade and compete with the organized workers. In those trades where apprentices are allowed, strict regulations are applied as to the work they may be permitted to do in the shop, The regulations, however, do not deal with the specific needs of these ap- prentices. Many A, F. of L. unions, in their constitutions, have a provision which states that an apprentice is to learn the trade within the period of three to four years. In practice, however, we find that in most cases, the apprentice does the work of a skilled man in two years. Instead of forcing the employer R. F. to allow the apprentice four hours |* of work during the first two years, six hours of work during the third year, and at the age of 18 full time work, with wages equal to that of a mechanic, the A. F. of L. leaders have made no provision a8 to hours nor wages. In fact, the apprentices work as long hours as the journey- men and receive only a third of the wages received by the skilled men, The employers would, of course, rather employ an apprentice to do ‘he work of the skilled journeymen —and this is where the conflict arises. It is a fight between the journeymen against the apprentices, who are forced to do the job for one-third of the amount received by the mechanics. ! The solution to this problem is to organize those apprentices in the was | two voting for it-—Jack Kassner, who is sorry that he can’t put a/ police badge on and help the bosses | to fire these militant workers, and | Jack Shapiro, 2 muddle-head who, | under the cloak of sank and filism |is going hand and hand with the | reactionaries and renegades, in| | forcing cut-throat conditions on the| shoe workers. | | But this is not settled yet. The) |rank and file workers know that | now, when we are faced with Au-| | gust 1st and the fight for condi- | tions, a reign of terror will start| | against the Communist and militant rank and file workers, to deprive the shoe workers of their spokes- men. It is therefore necessary that we all rally behind the mili- tant workers, for democracy in the union, guaranteed to us by the Constitution, for increases on Au- gust 1st, against arbitration, grad- ing and 18-month agreements. Offered 84-Hour Week “Relief” Job At Wage of $11 | By a Worker Correspondent | LOS ANGELES.—Recently I ap- plied for relief from the county and was offered a job. It was in | a hash house. I went to see about | it, since I have been a cook since 1913. It turned out to be in Glendale, 15 miles from my home. They wanted me to work 12 hours per day (longer if the crowd stayed), and seven days per week. The pay was $11 per week. When I refused to take this job the county closed my relief case. They said at the restaurant that this wage scale met with the ap- proval of the N.R.A. | A “Simon Legree” on Portland FERA Job By a Worker Correspondent PORTLAND Me.—Simon Legree, in the person of Mr. Blumer, is lord and master of the “punishing gang,” as it is fittingly named by the FE. R.A. workers. Mr. Blumer believes in having the workers earn their, dole, and keeps their noses on the | grindstone until the whistle blows, and then some. Monday, June 4, had been an unusually hot hard day. The men decided to have their tools in the box and be ready to leave the job at 5 instead of a few minutes past. Boss Blumer made a great com- motion, but the men were not in- timidated. Heap big chief lost a feather or two out of his bonnet, and has had a little more respect for the workers ever since. Our Readers shops and factories on a program based on shorter hours for the ap- prentices, for a living wage, for san- itary conditions and for equal wages for equal work. Only such condi- tions gained by the young workers in the shops and on the jobs, will guarantee the ending of the conflict between the apprentices and the journeymen. Get in touch with the Youth Or- ganizer of the T. U. U. C., 80 East llth St. N. Y. C., for further in- formation, BE A VACATION UDARNIK New York City. Some comrades in our mass or- ganizations look upon the summer season as a time of slackening ac- tivity, a time for taking things easy. It is true that quite a num- ber of comrades manage to get away from the stifling heat of cities. Naturally the result is smaller at- tendance at meetings with curtailed activity. This unavoidable situation’ if properly approached can be changed from a drawback into an advan- tage. First of all, those who have to stay in town must see the ne- cessity of attending meetings more regularly than usual, so as to make up for the absence of the comrades who are on vacation, and for the same reasons they must also carry out their task with greater energy and promptness. As to the vacationists, they should be made to see the opportunity that is theirs in being in a position to spread on a far flung field into remote places, the cause for which they work and fight. Many con- tacts can be made. Literature can be sold and distributed, collections made. Moncey can be raised through parties, picnics,etc. Lectures and meetings can be organized, also study circles. In this manner can a vacation be made to yield not only wholesome rest and recreation, but also excellent results in our class struggle work, Branch organizers should take this matter up at their next branch meeting. The subject should be discussed by the membership. Every membcr who is going to leave town should be asked to pledge himself to carry on the work of his or- ganization, to report by mail re- sults to the organizer or secretary as frequently as possible and have literature sent out for distribution. By working along the lines in- dicated above, we can turn slack- ness into activity and reap a har- vest of results where nothing was expected to materialize. Every class conscious vacationist an organizer! agitator! propagan- dist! every class conscious vaca- tioner a shock brigade worker! ADOLPH WOLFF. Hat Union | Diy = Whine Warkis Cairespintent | Sisichurs Goal enue a tear ganas | Bars Talk of Grievances Girls Who Complain Are Deprived of Right To Speak By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—At the Chester- field Hat Co., 43 W. 36th St., em- Ploying about 100 workers, the fore- lady treats the girls very bad. All day long she chases around, holler- ing at us: “Step on it, or I will take your work away from you.” When one talks a syllable, she shouts: “Cut it out, I want quiet.” It is like in a jail. All she needs is a whip to make her a real slave- driver. Once a girl said that she would go to the union to get justice. And the forelady said to her: “Go to the streets, that’s where you will get justice.” This matter was taken up at a shop meeting, and the other workers did not allow her to fire the girl. But she gave her less work and treated her worse whenever she could. Two preparers were fired because they refused to work overtime. They left at 6:30 instead of 8:30. They did not get a full week's pay, although they should have gotten it, because they were fired in the middle of the week. The preparers don’t belong to the union, because the union does not take them in, although this is a union shop, Prices that were settled before May 1 were supposed to be in- creased 10 per cent, but we did not get it. Piece prices are so low that the girls cannot make more than 30 to 50 cents an hour, although the minimum is supposed to be $1.10 per hour. Even the fastest girls cannot make it. During the season we were sup- posed to get time and a half for overtime, but the boss settled with the chairlady that we should get 10 per cent of the week's earnings. Since he did not raise the prices, we got practically nothing. One girl went home half an hour earlier than the others, so she did not get paid for overtime at all. Any girl who fights against such conditions gets only a temporary book from the union. THat means she has to pay dues like all others, but she is not allowed to speak at shop meetings, and is not allowed to come to local meetings at all. Because a girl in our shop spoke up for our rights and against these bad conditions, the union gave her a temporary book in order to shut jher up. There must not be such a thing as a temporary book. This girl is one of us, she works with us in the shop. If we stick together, we can force the union to give her a good book, like all of us, which is coming to her. Packing House Strikers Left in Lurch by AFL. By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal. — After eight months, what do the Wilson packinghouse strikers have to show for their patience and trust placed in Hobart of the A. F. of L. and the National Labor Board? The National Labor Board has rejected the demands of the strik- ers and left them to the mercy of the benevolent Wilson and Co. Mr. Hobart with his ability as a “negotiator” has arranged with Mr. Peterson to issue application blanks to all strikers who wish to work for Wilson’s again, which means that when the company needs men it will hire those who have been “good boys” and who have signed the application. Any worker who is labelled “Red” or “Communist” by Hobart will not be able to go to work. In fact, Hobart has convinced Mr. Peter- son that there are many “Reds” now working in Wilson's and that they should be replaced by good A. F. of L. men. This raising of the “red scare” by A. F. of L. officials is their usual tactic when they feel their influence over the workers slip- ping. They use every means to prevent any militant action on the part of even their own A. F. of L, members. “The fact that the packing house workers are disgusted with the A. F. of L. (Amalgamated Meat Cut- ters and Butchers’ Union) is shown by the great support and sympathy they give to the Pack- ing House Workers’ Industrial Un- ion, a rank and file controlled union which offers the only real method of fighting against the in- creasing rotten conditions in pack- ing houses. Hobart is splitting the solidarity of the workers by holding out a vague promise of a job if they are good boys and do not join the P. H. W. I. U. Just how afraid Wilson & Co. are of this fighting union is shown by the tight board fence and locked gates they have erected around the plant. It is shown also by the fact that they sent their chief stoolpigeon and snooper, the watchman, one Tom Walton, with two armed body guards, to a meet- ing of the P. H. W. I. U. to see what Wilson workers were there and to scare them away from the union meeting. The chairman had to stop the speakers and invite these rats to leave, explaining that their presence was an insult to honest working men. The spirit of the meeting was not dampened in the least by the visit of these rats, but continued after they left. The workers en- thusiastically applauded Ezra Chase, who spoke on conditions of the workers under the N, R. A. Six new applications were turned (Signature authorized). in and promises to bring still more workers were made . PARTY LIFE Building the Mass Movement In Small Industrial Towns || Erie Section Neglects to Penetrate Into the Factories and Lead Strike Struggles By T.N.C. For three weeks an important | strike of metal workers was going on in one of the most important factories in Ashtabula, Ohio, with- out any planned work of our Party during the entire period of this | strike. This strike was called by the A. F. of L. union and as a matter of fact it was the first strike in this factory, or at least the first one for tens of years, as far back as the workers can remember. This shop is producing parts for the Fisher Body Co. and is, therefore, @ very important unit in the auto- mobile industry. This shop, which is known as the Ashtabula Bow Socket Co., has been one of the worst sweat shops in town. An idea has been created that the workers of this shop are so backward. that they would never fight. However, the strike broke out, in spite of our failure to pene- trate into these shops. Our Party section does not seem to be awake to the situation, although a number of strikes had taken place in Ashtabula. The Greenhouse work- ers strike is still going on, which has lasted over a month now. There {was a fishermen’s strike, and our Party section did not give any lead- | ership but left the workers to be betrayed by the A. F. of L. and] N. R, A. bureaucrats. The workers of the Bow Socket Co. voted almost unanimously to pull another strike unless the com- pany came across with the promises that were made. Our Party sec- tion has not given help to the small sectarian unit that we have in Ashtabula, in order to raise a mass struggle, to demand freedom for the 62 or more workers who are being indicted to face the cap- Slave 10 Hours a Day at Wall Street Gamblers’ Estate in New York State ' By a Worker Correspondent PORTCHESTER, N. Y.—There are about 60 of us working at the estate of a Wall Street gambler, Dr. Paternd, Route 22, New York State, between White Plains and Bankville. About a year ago he stated that a worker is not worth more than 50 cents a day and this for working 9 hours per day, making roads, cleaning the lake, etc. We are compelled to get up at 5:30 in the morning, and get back home at 5:30 in the evening. We are not paid for time lost on account of rain, or other causes. On May 23, some of us decided to go on strike, but we suffered a defeat because there are workers of many different nationalities, and we couldn’t get along among ourselves. The Spanish, Portu- guese, Russian, Polish, four Ital- jians and a few Negroes were in favor of the strike to demand 50 cents an hour (later we cut our demand to 40c.). But nothing came out of this because the rest of the workers who are the ma- jority were against the strike, es- pecially one Mike Scarpo. We ur- gently request the language papers, particularly the Italian, Spanish, Russian and Polish to print this. 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 Satur- the strikers that they must not give up their strike before every one of those arrested were freed. There was a militant fight against police force and thugs, who were shooting tear gas bombs on strikers, wha were picketing the factory and de« fending themselves. The strikers who were inexperienced in tha strike were willing to accept any sensible advice from the Commus nists, if any of our comrades had been there to lead and advise the strikers. But as it often happens, tion activities, but not involved in the strikes. The result is that when We are not on the job the A. F. of L, takes advantage of our negngence and our weaknesses. Then we won- der why we do not make sufficient headway. There is no reason whatsoever why our section comrades could not take better care of a situation like this, If the section does not have one capable comrade who can be used to build the Party and unions 45 mile distant from the section headquarters, then the section must inform the District Buro of the Party about those strike develope ments and demand forces from the District and T. U, U. L. Our Central Committee hae spoken many times about the im- portance of building the Party in small and middle size towns. f want to say that precisely in these, towns we very often have a situs ation which is ripe for our work The same holds true in regard te our unemployment activities. We have neglected these small towns, It is not enough that a section committee send a “special letter” as the Erie section did, when the above mentioned metal workers’ strike had gone on for 16 days, telling the Party unit what “pose sibilities exist” to build the Party. among the strikers. That is not enough. It is not enough in a town where our Party unit does not meet for three or four weeks, The Party section knows that but it does not consider it necessary to take steps to remedy the situs ation. In the first place it 1s the duty of the section to see that enough help is gotten from the district to build the party in towns like Ash- tabula, where there is a base for a strong Communist movement. At present we have in addition to the small Party unit, a Finnish Federation club, which has been very sectarian and lacking leading comrades who would be able single handedly to broaden the move- ment. By joining all our forces together there 1s a possibility to revolutionary movement in Ashta- bula in the near future. But it needs real direction and assistance from the section committee and the district. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name rere ee eeeeer erst were Street day of each week. City - N. Stevens, Chicago, Ill.—Louis Kuhne's book, “The New Science of Healing,” is neither new nor scien- tific nor healing. The idea that vaccinations are poisons is as old as vaccination, His other contention that baths can cure all diseases, and that all diseases are due to fermentation of foreign matter in the bowels, is another one of those fallacies that cannot be eradicated from the mind of the ignorant and the semi-educated. It is a waste of time to refute these superstiitons. We can say about the teachings of modern medical science what Lenin (whom you quote) said about Marx- ism: “The teachings of Marx are all powerful because they are true and they cannot be reconciled with superstition, reaction or defense for bourgeois oppression.” Louis Kuhne’s By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Another Medicine Humbug “science” is as much of a quackery in the medical, as Hitlerism is in the politico-economic field. It is not worth wasting 8 moment of your time on either reading or dis« cussing such trash! t+ JUL > 4 I auspices Communist Party, Cc New York District N NorvtH BEACH PICNIC PARK c Astoria, L. I. — ADVERTISEMENT Soot! to Communist Party to 27 inclusive fer the benefit Communist Party, but to help ‘support of Communist affairs. The next test for them is the this picnic so that it may be MAY FESTIVAL NETS OVER $3,000 N. Y. District Thanks Co-operating Organizations @ The Five-Day Festival and Bazaar held in New York on May 23 munist Party has been a tremendous financial success, netting over $3,000 thanks to the co-operation of various mass organi- zations, trade unions and workers’ clubs. The‘Communist aPrty is sure that the mass organizations and trade unions that have so well co-operated in this last Festival and Bazaar, with the assistance of hundreds more organizations will direct their membership not only to accept the political leadership of the carry out these struggles through mass collections and mass at North Beach Picnic Park. Let us have greater co-operation in of the N. Y, District of the Com- in raising the necessary funds to Red Picnic to be held on July 4th as successful as the last bazaar. italist court in Jefferson, Ohio, in| || the county court. Our Party com-/| rades were not on the job advising |’ We are busy somewhere else in sec= — build a broad English speaking { | | | |