The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1934, Page 4

Page Four We Feel No Lack of Food, Writes Farmer in U.S.S.R. By a Soviet Farmer Correspondent MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R.—Dear com s, I want to inform you about fe and work in the collective} We work for ourselves and farmers as before the Ss why we like our very good crop government year helped us and we had plenty of bread this winter. I, for instance received for my 300 working days quite enol bread, vegetables, and 114 rou We have our own milk. I received from our milking farm @ young calf, which grew and now gives three gallons milk a day. We ve our own potatoes. We do not el lack of food, as my little girl goes to school, where she gets warm dinners. For my exceilent work in the col- lective farm I got a premium—30 rol My daughter received for her good study a pair of new shoes. We have not only good food, but can buy clothing. The winter was a good one and Taxes, Seed Prices Rise, But Price of Milk Drops in N. H. By a Young Farmer Correspondent EAST UNITY, N. H—The condi- tions of the farmers here in the East are getting so bad that I feel that it is time to write an article| into our paper, the Daily Worker. | The farmers have held several Meetings here since the Farmers’ Convention held in Chicago last year. Two delegates were sent to this convention from this locality, and we've been able to organize a few farmers with the help of these delegates. The farmers seem to be ready for action; they want a milk strike, and | T hope we can have one. The price of milk is going down, and grain and seed is going up terrible. Two| Years ago we were able to buy seed oats at 55 cents a bushel. This| year we had to pay 80 cents. Tim-| othy seed has gone up three cents ® pound in the last two years. And, to speak of taxes, I don’t} see how a farmer is able to pay! them. It is almost impossible to find a job around here, and if one gets a job the pay is so small that it is impossible to save anything. Last year my folks were able to! pay the taxes, about $65. This year we haye less stock and the stock is also less valuable than last year, | but, to our surprise, our taxes this year are 18 per cent higher than, Jast year. we do not fear this summer. Dur- ing the work in the field the food is prepared by a communal kitchen, The le children are accepted in nurseries and the bigger ones in the kindergarden The work on our farm is organized perfectly well. Every worker of the collective farm knows his place and his specific work. If you have to work with horses, you receive a def- inite number and have to keep them in good order. The food and water is brought to you. If you are a millwright you do your special work, etc. The collective farm has » milk farm, consisting of 170 cows. The working conditions at the farm are good. The worker receives 200 grams of butter a day. The shock workers receive premiums consisting of cloth, money, etc. We have in the neighborhood a collective farm working much bet- ter than we do. There every worker received for each working day eight kilograms of bread—and there are farms where every working day is paid by 10 to 12 kilograms. Best regards from myself and my fellow workers, S. M. KASATKIN. ga District, Village ssky Region, USSR., Sofino, N Vol C.C.C. FOOD GRAFT INDICATED By a Worker Correspondent HAINES FALLS, N. Y.—There is a C. C. C. camp established near this place. I spoke to some of the boys, and they told me of the rot- ten treatment they get in their camp. Their food is of the worst. The government allows 33 per cent per day per person for food— $66 for the 200 boys in the camp; judging from what they get, some- one is pocketing a nice piece of graft. In general they are treated from the standpoint of a militar- ized charity organization. NOTE: We publish letters from farm- ers, agricultural workers, forestry and lumber workers, and can- nery workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us letters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize, Please get these let- ters to us by Monday of each week, PERSIAN OIL COMPLAINTS GENEVA, June 15.—Persia com- plained today for the second time of English theft of oil in the Bah- rein Islands (in the Persian Gulf), when it was learned that Standard Oil had been granted an oil con- cession there. The first camplaint was lodged with the League of Nations in 1928, when a British syndicate was given a concession. ANTI-WAR MASS MEETING FRIDAY The Harlem Women's Anti-War Committee is holding a mass meet- | ing Friday evening, June 22 at 8) o'clock at the Julio Mella Club, 1413 Fifth Ave, near 116th St. Speakers will be Joseph Brodsky, ILD. defense attorney for the Scottsboro boys; Williana J. Bur- | roughs, chairman of the Women’s | Anti-War Committee; Tillie Littin- | sky, and other prominent speakers of the labor movement. This meeting will be a protest | against the ever-speeding war plans | of the munition makers and Wall Street bankers, which, if allowed to mature will precipitate a war in which millions of working class men, Negro and white, will be slaughtered, and thousands of women and chil- dren plunged into the depths of misery, starvation, and sacrifice. At this meeting the coming In- ternational Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism will be discussed, and delegates for the coming City Anti-War Congress will be chosen. Every Negro and white worker should attend this important meeting to strike a blow against the impending slaughter. Farm Women and Labor Emancipation | To go on with the outline of lit- | erature to fill the need of those | undertaking to organize women, especially farm women (as requested by Mrs. B. B. B.). After a sub— scription to the Farmers’ National Weekly, a good foundation will be the two books, “Women and So- cialism,” by Bebel, and “Women Who Work,” by Grace Hutchins. Bebel’s book gives the necessary historical outline showing how ‘women came to be in the secondary position they occupy in our private- ' property system—the inferior posi- _tion which Fred Chase showed how _ to begin to alter, in the article re- printed yesterday. Comrade Chase's picture of farm | life tallies with such experience as I have had, by the way. On my two grandfathers’ farms, these pa- triarchs (though they did not sur- vey more than a hundred acres apiece, to be sure), were indeed monarchs of all they surveyed: within the bounds of superimposed Federal, State, and county law, they _ Were petty dictators par excellence, _ ,and their word was law; their “wim- _\men-folks” stood in awe of them, ‘walked the chalk-line,” and has- _ ptened to do their bidding. t, So august, indeed, was the maj- _ sty of these two-horse tyrants, that | erhe royal commands were not im-| Biatted direct to an insignificant bit aie 8 “gran’-dotter” like me; oh, no, . e imperial decree was first passed 84 grandmother, thence to mother, | so down to the grandchild. It thus I received news of the ajestic ultimmtum that I would not Tmitted to come to the dinner “ye in the big blue-serge gym mers in which I'd been riding roldut on my uncle’s bicycle (to the 8°0nite shock and horror of the nd Atryside) but would have to ex- pulabee them for a “decent” skirt. | proved in small ways since 1915, but Comrade Chase had the right idea —let the women sit down and eat, not be forced to keep jumping up and opinions be heard, let them go to meetings and follow the course of events with their own eyes, thus presaging and symbolizing their eventual complete emancipation from_house-drudgery. (Further comment on Bebel’s book, etc., tomorrow). Can You Make °"Em Yourself? Pattern 1817 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 33g yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew- ing instructions included, Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write plainly name, number. SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th address and_ style BE SURE TO STATE "2 Péhans such conditions have im- mve. Street, New York City, to serve the men; let their voices | (coins preferred) | Florida Sharecropper Cheated by Landlord By a Sharecropper Correspondent FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.—I was hired by a landlord. In the first agreement he said, “I will pay $12 per week straight and time, if you will grow me a good farm and I will treat you right.” In a few days I received a letter stating, Frank, I can’t pay you $12 a week, but I will give you $10 a week pay, and I will give you 10 per cent on every crate we sell. In two weeks, he said, Frank, I will have to pay you for just what time you work —that is about $5 per week. Then I grew a very fine crop and this is the way I received my pay. This is the letter he wrote me: “I am sorry you misunderstood me. I said if I made lots of money I would pay you.” Mouldy Food at the _ Transient Bureau | | By a Worker Correspondent | MADISON, Wis.—The food at |the Wisconsin Transient Bureau is terrible. They buy rotten fruit, mouldy fruit, deny men clothing they have earned. It takes hours to see a case worker and then no results. There must be a lot of graft in the buying and serving of this food | Other transient camps have but- ter every meal, here we have it twice a week. We get only three | teaspoonsful o sugar a day, one at jeach meal, The milk is watered, the food poorly cooked. They served pigs’ feet that were rotten, ahd made men sick. Something should be done about this tran- sient camp at once. Do what you can for us. About 500 of us are here. Complaint after complaint has been made with no results. A man | who lives in town and whose title |is “cook,” but who doesn’t cook a thing, buys up all the rotten fruit or anything that is about spoiled and has it served to the men. Plumbers Union Asks Aid To Win Strike NEW YORK. — The plumbers, steamfitters and helpers of Samuels }and Dickstein are in their sixth week of struggle against unbear- able conditions existing in their shop. Samuel and Dickstein and | Co. are determined to smash the | strike. The police department of | the La Guardia administration is | mobilized; also the United Associa- jtion of Plumbers and Gasfitters, Samuels and Dickstein against the workers on strike, of their union, the Alteration Plumbers, Steamfit- ters & Helpers Union. To resist this treble alliance of which the police department and the A. F. of L. is playing the lead- |ing role, the Alteration, Plumbers Steamfitters and Helpers Union is calling upon every unemployed member of the building trades, every member of a working class organi- zation to come to the strike head- quarters, 864 Broadway to help Picket. 200 Strike in Shirt Mill CINCINNATI, June 20.—About 200 employees of the Rauth Shirt Manufacturing Co. of Columbuy members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, walked out | on strike for ten demands, the most important of which are a 25 per cent increase in wages, union recog- nition and better working condi- | tions, Hit Seamen’s Y. M. C. A. Relief Racket ‘ NEW YORK. — A charity “relief” racket which is being operated by the Jane Street Seamen’s Y. M. C. A. was disclosed yesterday by a com- mittee of masters and pilots of tug boats from the Chelsea docks. The racket was brought to light in a telegram sent by the tugboat masters to Harry Hopkins, U. 8. Relief Director in Washington, which stated that the captains were denied the right to visit Y. M. C. A. to get crews for the boats unless they contributed a fee “for charity.” It was pointed out by the com- mittee that the relief at the Jane Street Y. M. C. A. was supposed to be supplied by the government. The masters and pilots want to know why they are being dunned for charity funds when the government | claims to be supplying the relief. Seamen Win Relief Fight CLEVELAND, June 20.—Due to a militant six weeks fight led by the Marine Workers Industrial Union the Great Lakes seamen here have forced the local relief authorities to house and feed the unemployed sea- men in a hotel. When the M. W. I. U. organizer arrived here the jobless seamen were being sent to the municipal wood yard. where they were herded like cattle and compelled to do forced labor for their meals. After a fight with the relief offi- cials which lasted about a week, the seamen were taken out of the wood yard and were taken care of in various hotels and restaurants. While the fight was in progress Delegate Sullivan of the Interna- tional Seamen's Union did all in his power to disrupt the movement. “The Seamen of Cleveland are all Communists,” he said, “Don’t give any relief.” Although the men bettered their conditions by getting out of the wood yard, they were determined to continue the fight for a central hotel. On Friday, June 15, a committee visited the relief officials and de- manded that a definite date be set for the seamen to move into the Central Hotel, which was the one selected by the fen. After a hot discussion the officials stated that the men would be given the hotel not later than June 22. The M. W. I. U. is also making great progress aboard the Mke ships. | Local 463 formed a united front with | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934 ‘Must Raise Vo ices Louder, Relief Stopped to Drive the People to Cotton Patches for 30 Cents a Day By a Sharecropper Correspondent TALLAPOOSA, Ala.—My father is a sharecropper and has a large us in the family, and he has only | all | back. This is what I do when I meet my group. I put on my father's }overalls and wash and dry my | dress. I am a comrade, and I do | this to prove that nothing is going | to stop me from working in behalf | of the movement, even if I have to | go in overalls. | We are getting relief, bat the boss at Camp Hill had it stopped: That was to drive the poor people | to the cotton patches from sun to sun for 30 cents a day. These are our living conditions at the pres- | ent.- I haven’t a shoe to my name. |I just wear some old pieces of I have only one dress to my | Shoes. | the wet spell, and we are willing rotten government up a demand for as much as we need, and stand and fight to win these demands. We are tired of seeing our chil- dren go naked and hungry, crying for bread. We must get more ac- tive on these demands. We must raise our voices louder against this. Not only I myself am suffering, but | millions of mothers and children | are suffering. The boss doesn’t want to do any- thing but lynch and keep us under the yoke of slavery. This doesn’t break up the movement. No, I am a comrade, and going to fight till I die. No law, no threat, can stop me, ‘Frost Damage and Trusts | Hit Upstate Cabbage Can’ | N .Y. Farmers Fruit Crops Hurt by Weather, and Crops of t Find Market By a Farmer Correspondent ALBANY, N. Y.—Winter frost damage is much larger than any- body expected. The peach crop for the first three years will be nothing. All the trees are frozen dead. This is as far south as below Hudson Valley. Also prune trees and cherry trees are damaged. One-third of the apple trees are also gone, and one-half of the rest of the trees are with dead branches. The commercial crop of New York state in the line of fruit will this year amount to nothing. Strawberries are mostly frozen. The crop doesn’t amount to one- | Albany by the thousands of bask- ets, did not give a tenth of what it should. Vegetables did have a reasonable start. There was some trouble with wind, storms and dry weather. New Jersey white cabbage is sold in the field for $1 for 100 heads. Cre | Letters from VETERAN PENSION ISSUE Endicot, N. Y. BURNING Dear Sir: President Roosevelt, speech last week was all bluff. If he is so in- terested in the welfare of the work- ing class in this country, why then has he deprived War Veterans of their pension and took away dis- ability pension from the sick and disable poor war veterans, even when Congress tried to give it back a little to the veterans? He vetoed that bill. He could have left the disability pension to the veterans and allowed some to the unem- ployed, disabled and the old, but he |likes to make noise for political purposes to strength his party. Hoping you will bring to the pub- j lie through your paper this burn- |ing veteran's question. Good luck to you, COMRADE. | FRATERNIZE WITH NATIONAL GUARDSMEN New York City. Dear Comrades: A group of workers were giving out leaflets to National Guardsmen before the armory at 168 St. and Broadway, when a group of guards- men suddenly started punching the young workers shouting “Reds.” They severely beat up three work- ers, S. C.. C. R., and I. D. This proves how urgent and neces- sary it is to approach these young workers who have joined the National Guard. In the National Guard they are doped up with 100 per cent partiot- ism and military drill, It is they who are sent against strikers and their own class brothers. It is they who will form the storm troops of fascism, unless we can educate them to their class interests. With Toledo and Minneapolis be- fore our eyes, work should be re- doubled to win over these deluded workers. L. B. FOR A MIGHTY TEACHERS’ UNION New York, N. Y. To the Editor of the Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: In Comrade Gold's column on May 17 there was a letter by George Davis criticizing the Party for its failure adequately to help the pro- fessionals (teachers, etc.) in their own struggles against capitalism, Unit 40, Section 2, District 2, dis- cussed this letter, and approved it. On this basis, we wish to offer the following concrete proposal. We recommend that there be in- stituted in the Daily Worker a reg- ular column, to be published once or twice a week, devoted largely to School and educational news, Such a column could respond promptly to importany events of the day in its scope. It could condust cam- paigns against such bills as the Ives Loyaity Oath Bill (which was scarcely mentioned in our papers!) It could report such actions as are now being taken against four teach- ers in Monroe High School because they protested to the Teachers Union about a case of suppression of speech at their school. It could report the facts and indicate a line of action in the teachers fights against retrenchment. In other words, it would inform all the readers of what is going on in the field of educational struggles, it would attract more teachers to the reading of our paper (instead of tenth of what it had to be. Pan-/ sies, which are raised here around) | and that is bringing the price on the market here also down. We are only in the start of the cabbage season and now already we are see- ing cabbage cuttable standing in the fields, where the farmer can- not find a market bringing him a decent price. As to the Farm Loan situation: There are weekly about five farm- ers who get a loan for this district from the Farm Federal Loan Ad- ministration. As far as my infor- mation goes, nearly two-thirds have to be refused by lack of enough credit. Dairy farmers have trouble with short grass. Feed is too high in price to use. Chicken feed went in the last month up $5 a ton, eggs remaining nearly in the same low | price. | Of the one-cent rise in the milk price, notwithstanding it has the name that the farmer had to have a higher price on account of the | dry weather, he gets only one-third | of a cent. The rest is going to the ‘big milk corporations. Our Readers leaving them to the Sun or the World-Telegram School Pages), and it would organize these teacners and educational workers for mili- tant struggle. The toiling population is vastly interested in education. As has been shown even in the novels of Com- rades Myra Page and Grace Lump- kin, one of the incentives the southern hill-dwellers had to go to milltowns was the desire to pro- vide their children with schooling. Disappointment on this score eften hurt more than low wages. Let us not neglect this field of interest. A regular school column would in- crease our paper's effectiveness as @ collective organizer. Finally, if we got even a small section of the thousands of school teachers to read our paper every day, can you imagine the effect that would have on their teaching. Men like Superintendent Campbell would then really have something to worry about. (Incidentally, why wasn’t his threat against radical teachers and students reported, and even editorially commented upon, in the Daily Worker?) A. H. Ape Wig 4 EDITORIAL NOTE The Daily Worker invites con- tributions dealing with the prob- lems of the schools, etc. However, we are not in a position to have a regular column on these matters. CORRECTION In a letter signed by M. T. S. which appeared in this column on June 15th under the caption gelo Herdon Defense Stamps,” it was stated that protest post cards were being sent by a worker's club to the Alabama Supreme Court, protesting the imprisonment of Herndon. The point of correction is as fol- lows: Angelo Herndon is not im- prisoned in Alabama, but in At- lanta, Ga. Letters and post cards of protest should be addresesd to the President of the United States, also to the Governor of Georgia, demanding the release of Herndon and protesting against the attempt to send him to the chain gang. IN MEMORY OF COMRADE PHILIP FRANK New York, N. Y. Member of the Prospect Workers Center. Although never able to join the Party because he was too ill, Philip Frank is mourned by the members of the Club, and many comrades whom he induced to join the Com- munist Party. From the bed and from the chair to which he was for many months confined, he watched the progress of proletarian strug- gles all over the world, Nothing was too near or to far, too large or too small, for him to be inter- ested in and his prophesies were invariably accurate and invariably along Marxian lines. Imperial Valley, Minneapolis, To- ledo, Soviet China, Bulgaria, Cuba, Florida, Moscow, New York, he watched them all. Although physi- cally limited by four walls, the spirit of this revolutionary fighter was on the picket lines and in the jails, When workers were beaten he winced, and when they were vic- torious, none was happier than he. Comrade Phil, we will not forget you. We will take your place and do the many things you woulé like to have done! With one hundred and fifty mem- bers of the Prospect Workers Center ata the burial given its de It is awfully hard on me through | family to support. There are 13 of| to do anything to break up this| I am putting} |$8 per month to support us out of| forth every effort I can to develop | | that, and that means no clothes at|the union here, to be able to put/| i} | | Says Sharecropper Girl Daily Worker Agent Jailed in Columbia By a Worker Correspondent COLUMBIA, 8. C.—Just a few lines to let you know that the Daily Worker agent was arrested Tuesday. They began to beat him across his head and carry him to jail. ‘Worked Four Hours In Bakery and Received a Dime By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Here is an in- stance of exploitation by the boss class that happened to me Sat- urday, June 16th While I was sitting in Corlears Park, a man from Pechter Baking Co. 468 Cherry St. asked me to work for this bakery. Happy to accept a job, I worked conscientiously from 17:30 a, m. till 11:20 a. m. Having finished my job, he offered me a loaf of bread which I refused. Then he put a dime on the table. But I walked out disgustedly, calling him a bloodsucker of the laboring man. Weinstock Gains Support in Locals Of Painters Union Answers Slanderous Attacks of Zausner Vigilante Clique NEW YORK.—Phillip Zausner, secretary - treasurer of Painters District Council 9, is not doing so well in his campaign of vulgar Slander against Louis Weinstock, the rank and file candidate for the office of secretary opposing Zausner. As statement after statement con- tinues to come from the poison pens of Zausner’s Vigilante Committee accusing Weinstock of being an “impostor” because he supported the recent taxi strike and denouncing him because he is a Communist, support for Weinstock’s candidacy for office of district secretary grows. Speaking Monday night before the painters of three locals, 51-847-459, Weinstock exposed the Zausner machine as a racketeer group which spent over $160,000 of the union funds for gangsters in one year to muzzle the voice of the rank and file. Answering the accusation of the Zausner Vigilante Committee, Wein- stock admitted that he spoke at meetings of the taxi strikers and added that he spoke at many other union meetings and would continue to speak in support of struggles of the workers. He pointed out that Zausner’s statements about Wein- stock being a scab boss in Brooklyn was false and malicious as was the statement about Weinstock hiring underworld characters to protect him, Indeed, Weinstock pointed out, it is well known that Zausner is the man who hired the gangsters, it is Zausner who is known as the scab boss. Rank and file painters from the locals tore up a large number of the leaflets gotten out by the Vigilante Committee. The program of the rank and file group which Weinstock represents has in it the following points: 1. Six hour day and five day week. 2, $9 wage scale. 3. Right of security of shop and job. 4. Job and shop committees. 5. Strict union conditions. 6. Organizing every state, city and county job in the jurisdiction of District Council 9. 7. Every painter in New York @ union painter and for a minimum initiation fee, 8. Full democracy in the union. 9. Rank and file leadership. 10. Unemployment insurance and for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill H. R. 7598. ll. For the right of Negroes to join the union without discrimina- tion, 24 Arrested Picketing At Garside Shoe Plant; Protest to La Guardia LONG ISLAND CITY.—Continu- ing their reign of terror against strikers, police attacked a picket line of 40 workers at the Garside Shoe factory here Monday evening and arrested 24, After spending a night in jail, all the pickets were released at the Flushing Court yes- terday on a motion made by Jo- seph Tauber, attorney for the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union. Strikers report that police came to the scene of the picketing in an- swer to a call sent in by a notorious scab agent for the shoe bosses known as Watson. PARTY LIFE Young Comm Strive to Win Girl Workers unists Must having discussed the Draft Resolu- | .tion of the National Executive Com- | mittee of the Y. C. L., endorses the | general line of the Resolution, but wishes to present the following criticism. Although there are one of two brief references to girls, we find that there is little attention paid to the special problems, political and organizational, that confront girls and young women. This neg- lect is serious. And just as the Party is trying to overcome its un- derestimation of the woman ques- tion, we think the Y. C. L. should exert all its efforts to organize the female youth.. With the introduc- tion of machinery that made it possible to use the comparatively weaker female labor just as effec- tively as men were used before, came a great increase in the quan-| tity of women employed in indus- try. The bosses, of course, used these women to split the working} class, giving them jobs formerly | held by men, and paying them!/ much less for their work. This sit-| uation has come to the point where! the capitalist class, as it moves closer and closer to fascism, is try- ing in many cases to set the male proletariat against the female toil- ers by arguing that women should go back to the home and let the men take their jobs. That is Hit- ler’s famous policy of Women, Go Back to the Kitchen, Church and Children. Issues It is necessary, therefore, to or- ganize girls and young women, who form the major portion of the fe- male workers, for struggle for con- crete demands. They should be led in struggle for equal pay for equal work, for better conditions on the job (with reference to sickness, etc.), higher pay, and so on. Fur- thermore, attention should also be paid to the young domestic workers, particularly to young Negro women, and the Y. C. L. should help build the Domestic Workers’ Union. Aid must also be given to the Office Workers’ Union, which is so effec- tively organizing the innumerable young women in offices. In the case of mass organizations, young Y. C. L. Draft Resolution Places Insufficient Emphasis on Activity Among Working Girls Unit 40s, Section 2, District 2,| women and girls can be attracted to the American League Against War and Fascism, for women are going to play an important part in the next war. Lastly, by organs izing girls and young women, the ¥. C. L. will find it easier to ors ganize the male youth, too, for youth can often best be first reached by social contacts. Special forms will have to be devised for mass work, in the way of social clubs, hiking clubs, cultural clubs, and so forth. If the Y. C. L. cone vention adds to its Draft Resolu« tion a section on special work among girls and young women, and actually puts this resolution inte practice, we may expect to see a real growth of the Y. C. L. There is one minor point we should like to make. In Section $ of the Draft Resolution, paragraph 3 begins: “The S. P., the Y. P. 8S. and A. F. of L.... help pave the way for fascism.” The formulation seems to us weak and misleading, for it does not discriminate between the leadership of these social fas- cist organizations and the honest rank and file members. Unless we do that, we give both the leader ship and the rank and file of thes¢ organizations the chance to accus@ us of attacking the proletarians ip them. We suggest a change “The leadership of the S. P., ete. . / In conclusion, we pledge our cons stant and active support to the C. L. in its effort to grow mto powerful mass influence. AGIT-PROP, UNIT 40S, SECTION 2, u DISTRICT 2, Y.0.1L. Join the Communist Party 36 EB. 12th STREET, N.Y. €. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name .. oo oe Street, City Address Wanted Paul Senf, Bronx—The June issue has been mailed to you and re- turned to us marked “Removed.” Please send us your correct address, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Prevention of Mercury (Quicksilver) Poisoning D. B., Detroit, Mich.—Mercury (quicksilver) is a metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures and gives off small amounts of vapor which are poisonous. Mercury poisoning takes place by breathing in the mercury vapor for a certain period of time. The Poison can also be absorbed through the skin, or by inadvertently swal- lowing small amounts. Daily ex- Posure for two or three months to an atmosphere containing as small a quantity as 0.02. milligram of mercury per cubic foot results in chronic mercury poisoning. The signs and symptoms of mer- cury poisoning are: Loss of appe- tite; anemia; excitability; inflam- mation of the mouth and gums; increased flow of saliva (saliva- tion); a metal taste in the mouth; loosening of the teeth, trembling of the muscles of the tongue, face, arms and legs; fetid (bad) breath; Kidney disease; headache; dizzi- ness; irritation of the skin; weak- ness; failing eyesight; swelling of the glands of the neck; depression and melancholia; persistent diar- rhea, Workers come in contact with the use of mercury in the following trades and industries: The separa- tion of gold and silver from their Tespective ores, which is accom- plished by the means of a mercury amalgams; the prepartion of ex- ture of electric bulbs where mer- cury pumps are used to create the vacuum; the manufacture of scien- tific instruments, such as thermom- eters and barometers; the manufac- ture of felt hats and fur dressing in which nitrate of mercury is em- The United Shoe and Leather Workers Union sent telegrams to both Mayor LaGuardia and Police Commissioner O’Ryan protesting against the police terror used against the Garside strikers, citing the case of the 24 workers who were held overnight in jail. The tele- grams also protested against the use of police against the unem- ployed, FASCISTS WOUNDED BRUSSELS, June 19—Two Flem- ish Fascists, “Dinasos,” were wounded in a battle with anti- fascists last night at Molanbeek. SEIZE UNDERGROUND PRESS SOFIA, June 19.—Police seized an underground Communist press to- day and arrested the man in charge. termined pledge to keep Comrade Frank's ideals alive with his fam- ily at the Red Burial—Mother and sisters, who are also members of the Prospect Workers Center, have pledged to keep the Banner high to reach the goal that Comrade Frank dreamed—for a Soviet America. A. 8. ployed; the use of lead mercury solder; the manufacture of dental amalgams the preparation of ex- plosives, such as fulminate of mer- cury; fire-gilding where an amal- gam of gold and silver is applied to an object which is then heated and the mercury driven off. A few years ago, 60 cases of mercurial Poisoning were found in a period of three months in a section of New York and New Jersey. Mercury poisoning among hatters who use By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. the mercury salts for preparing felt is known in the trade as “the shakes.” What Workers Can Do to Prevent Mercury Poisoning Wash your hands and face bes fore eating; do not eat, drink, smoke or chew in the workroom; keep street and factory clot | Separate; tals a shower at the ent of the day’s work; take a complete physical examination before begins ning your work with quicksilver, and have yourself re-examined as least once a year. Workers who have a chronic disease, especially of the kidneys, should not work with mercury. (To Be Continued) * BERMAE’S Cafeteria and Bar 809 BROADWAY Between 11th and 1#th Streets — Advertisement -~ i THEATRE BRIGADE at CAMP NITGEDAIGET @ The Theatre Brigade, a group of actors from the various work- ers’ theatres in New York City, will give weekly performances of plays under the direction of John E. Bonn at Camp Nitge- daiget, Beacon, N. Y. @ In addition to actors, campers are drawn into the casts as well as workers in the kitchen, dining room and on the grounds. Spontaneous improvisations are a feature of the weekly campfire. @ The big production of the season will be a revolutionary operetta set to the music of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Mikado. O’Ryan and his “red list” will be the basis for one of the skits in the operetta. Dan Davis is writing the words. tertainers are brought to camp for the unusuai Saturday evening lowed by dancing. The Red Syn- copators supoly the dance music. 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