The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1934, Page 6

| AS ONE ATR-PILOT TO ANOTHER BY A GROUP OF PILO need for a Na ich will be discussed at r aviation organizations TS AND MECHANICS nal Independent Industrial Union which a National Conference of all| , to be held on July 2, was clearly demonstrated in the recent Buffalo and Hartford | strikes and the eatened Air Line Pilots’ strike on October | 6, 1933. . of supervising air commerce are In the Buffalo strike which | woefully inefficient, there is little | oe ck ronautics)| doubt that from such a groyp i ene ties several times 388 men (only 388 ts were involved in strike—Ed.) | Id pi co in short order the nec- | . ry special qualifications re- | at “batiaa | Gan f those who fly the air ganizations. The unio failed hepa s a to spread the strike to all the sub-| “> “" . 7 We know for a fact that Sidiaries of the company. We also ha information on hand that/ when the Aircraftsmen’s Federa- | tion, a newly organized independ-| ent organization in the East, rep- resenting pi cians, aircraft s ~ On the local airports, approached the union for information concerning | the strike and the possibility of} helping in the strike, they received | a reply from John Murphy, Labor | Advisor of the union, thanking| the Federation for the offer, etc.; but giving no information at all concerning the strike, the strike} demands, the possibility of joint action, etc. In spite of this the Aircraftsmen’s Federation success- fully prevented the recruitment of scabs from Roosevelt Field, Floyd Bennett, etc.; and also sent a tel- egram to the chief of police in Buffalo protesting the police at- tack on the strikers, There w: no attempt made at all by the union to set up a joint strike com- mittee of the Hartford group and} other aircraft organizations to spread the strike in the industry. In the Hartford strike against | Pratt. and Whitney Co., subsidiary | of the United Aircraft Co., which | was led by the Industrial Aircraft | Workers of America (an independ- ent union), which had split away from the A. F. of L., the union also made no attempt to spread the strike to all of the subsidiaries of the United Aircraft Co. There was no provision made to pull out the engineers and office help who remained working during the strike, although a committee rep- resenting the engineers approached the union on this question. The union also failed to approach and set up a joint strike committee of the Buffalo group in order to spread the strike to other sections | of the aircraft industry. If the above had been carried | out we are quite sure that the story regarding the settlements wenid have been entirely different trem what it is today. | On October sth, 1933, an ai: jine Bs ‘s’ strike threatened which| was lea by the Air Line Pilot sociation, a narrow craft union of the A. F. of L. consisting only of pilots employed on transport air lines. This was completely sold out by the A. F. of L. officials. In this threatened strike, the of- ficiais agreed to an “unnamed | federal fact finding committee,” to settle their strike. The com- mittee was supposed to give its| report within six months. The six| months period was up on May 5,} 1934, but still there is no report,| and nothing is being done about | it. Meanwhile the income of all air line pilots has been cut tre- mendously by installing the hourly Pay rate in plac eof the mileage| pay rate. | During this threatened strike | period, because of the A. F. of L. narrow craft policy, there was no attempt made to involve the me- chanics and other air line work-| ers in the strike. No attempt was| made to elect a broad rank and| file strike committee, instead all} negotiations were conducted by David L. Bencke, president of the} Pilots Association and other offi-| cials. The Pilots Association de- | liberately barred all pilots from) membership who were not em-| ployed by the Transport Air Lines. | The result of this policy can be| clearly seen from the following excerpt of an article in the N. Y.| Herald Tribune, October 8th, 1933 by C. B. Allen: (Department of Commerce rec- | ords show that on July Ist, 1933, ) there were more than 7,000 li-| censed transport pilots in the U. S. Wnless the Government's methods | Five of last Saturday’s article should |es and stool-pigeons are busy firing |as being “too slow” or “work not | Chicago hotels were full of unem-| called a special meeting without any| ship stock ore. ployed pilots who were held in| reason. They just wanted to pretty | families have been ordered to vacate | readiness to take the jobs of the/ themselves up for the election day | company houses by June 30, They} | which is to take place June 30 at, were notified by the T. C. I. labor striking pilots. As to what the airline pilots were | thinking we will quote the N Y.| Sun of October 21, 1933, by S. B./ Altick (“Some of the pilots on the} lines are disgusted with the way | the heads of the organization have | handled things. But to use their| own words, “Our hands are tied| and we cannot do anything but/| abide by what the committee does in the matter.” There are many others who would like to speak up and tell the leaders in the “union” what they would like, but they can- not get up the courage, etc.”) It can be clearly seen from the above-mentioned strike actions that there were no efforts made by any of the organizations involved to en- list the aid and support of all sec- tions of the aviation industry in support of the strike. Therefore this move on the part of the rank and file of the Buffalo Aircraft Union which is being carried for- ward over the heads of the A. F.| of L. officials is of tremendous im- portance and a definite step for- ward in the aviation labor move- | ment. We as a group appeal to all work- | er aircraft organizations to support this conference by the election of @ delegation to represent your or- ganization in this conference which will be held at 244 Forest Ave., Buf- falo, N. Y., on Monday, 10 a.m. July 2nd, 1934, Forward to one independent na- tional organization of all aircraft | workers, both field and factory, em- ployed and unemployed, and air- craft students, to improve and pro- tect their economic and political in- terests. Correction Due to a technical error, Proposal have read as follows: (“The National Organization | should be independent, because the majority of the workers, etc.”) ae aa | ‘Today we are printing the follow- ing letter from an aircraft’ worker correspondent: “Hicksville, Long Island. | “I have been reading the column |‘As One Air-Pilot to Another,” for |some time and today’s article (6-| | 16-34) was very interesting. As q| see they are going to hold a cen-| vention in Buffalo, July 2, for the | purpose of organizing into one in- | dustrial union for the whole air-| craft industry, I have been work-j ing in this industry for about three years as a sheet metal worker, and | ‘wages are low for all workers in this | kind of work. In Grumman’s Air- craft Manufacturing Corp., Farming- dale, Long Island, bombing planes for the U. S, Navy are made; they are very busy; they work two shifts in the assembling department. Boss- militant workers who are rebelling against low wages, speed-up and discrimination; in the time I was employed there, three workers were | fired singly, not even two fired at the same time, and the reason given | satisfactory.” No doubt most of these workers were fired for talking about the lousy wages and speed-up conditions, and second-hand ma- chinery that often was dangerous to work with. Yours for an Indus- | trial Union of Aircraft Workers, | controlled by a committee of rank | and file workers. | “Signed “Aircraft Sheet Metal Worker.” NOTE.—We urge all aircraft workers to follow the example of this worker by writing to this col- umn concerning their experiences and conditions in the industry, also additional proposals for this conference. By PAUL LUT’ Mercury Poisoning (Continued) The shop committee ought to see to it that the following working conditions should prevail: All ap- paratus in which mercury is used should be enclosed; hoods with forced raft and other devices should be installed to keep the mercury fumes away from the workman. The only place to remove mercury vapor and dust is at the point of origin by special local exhaust ventilators; there should be good general ven- tilation of all workrooms; all floors should be of cement or other non- absorbing material. This is very important because mercury vapor can be given off from floors which have collected mercury dust; all floors should be washed every night with water containing ammonia, which neutralizes mercury vapors. The shop committee should also see to it that the management fur- nishes overalls, gloves and masks when necessary, to workers who are exposed to quicksilver fumes. All workers should also be informed by (a printed leaflet of the dangers of mercury poisoning and of the pre-| cautions to be taken against it. Every factory in which quicksilver! OUI DAL OS: TINGER, M.D. — is used to any extent, should have tow lockers or a double locker for each worker to keep factory and street clothes separate. There should be a shower bath with hot} water and soap for every five work- ers. The lunchroom should be sep- arated from the locker room and work-rooms. No worker should be allowed to work longer than six months at a time handling quick- silver. The shop committee should insist that each worker should be rotated to other work at least once every six months. Finally, there should be medical supervision for all exposed workers. The diagnosis of mercury poison- ing is sometimes difficult. It is, therefore, necessary for one who works with quicksilver to tell his doctor the nature of his work be- fore the examination begins. Some- times a clue may be gotten to the diagnosis of mercury poisoning by counting a certain kind of white blood cells, known as lymphocytes, which are often increased in the blood of those poisoned by quick- silver. The best treatment of mer- cury poisoning consists in causing the bowels to move freely and pro- moting the elimination of urine by flushing the kidneys with large |and have a company union? DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURD. JUN E 23, 1934 Tennessee Coal & Iron In Eviction Drive! Officials Full of Promises to Bury Memory of Sellout’ Call Meeting to Seek) Votes After Fighting Powhatan Miners By a Mine Worker Correspondent POWHATAN PT., O.—I will write a few lines on how a special neet- ing was transacted at Local union 5497 at Powhatan mine. The officials, who are playing into the} the hands of the coal operators,| expect trouble when they try to our Local. will win. The old machine started their special meeting by telling the rank and file that something should be done about the layoff which the coal inspectors are the cause of. The I hope the opposition | same machine didn’t give us any guidance at the time when the super laid most of them off April 9.| The workers refused to go in for| one hour and the super laid most of the inspectors off for that day. But they went to the district president, | and John Chingue told them that the operators can have jas many) inspectors as they pleased. So fel-| low workers, when us workers burst | the chain, our officials who are the) Lewis machine weld it back to favor the operators. | Now what we need to do is to clean up the officialdom and fill it ir. with real rank and file members from inside the mine, and then we will have a real rank and file, and a bona fide union. We already had the super de- feated. But our officials won the big victory back for the super. So, shall we elect new officials and have a fighting union, or shall we keep the same bunch of crooks) acts About the Smelter Strike By a Worker Correspondent GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Thej Great Falls smelter closed last week. | The smeltermen were ordered out by the International “a month after | the Butte miners struck,” after they | had filled all orders and stocked their fabrication plants back East) for at least a year. The smeltermen | did not vote to strike, as had been} reported. A strike vote was taken some time ago, but of the 1,000 or so men, only | around 600 voted, partly due to the| trickery of the officers, in reporting that only those with paid up cards were eligible to vote. They lacked 18 or 20 votes of getting the two- thirds majority required before the local could call a strike. The smeltermen forced the Local Relief Commission to promise to feed all strikers that apply for aid before they are investigated. Noth- ing was said, however, so I under- stand, about rent, light, fuel, or evictions, clothing or medical atten- | tion. IN MEMORIAM | Dear Editor: New York City. | We regret the sudden death of} our beloved Comrade Rose Himel-| farb, who died on June 12. Com- rade Himelfarb was an active mem- ber of the Needle Trades Workers’) Industrial Union. She took an ac-| tive part in the struggles against, the “International,” which was car- ried on by the left wing group of! the Knitgoods Department of our| union. KNITGOODS DEPARTMENT, Ne DW. 2. .U;. ATTENTION, READERS OF PIONEER COLUMN The Editor of this column has prepared a beautiful strip for this issue. But due to technical reasons, it is not available for readers of this column that it | workers on street corners. | Gouncil of the International Union| Sisselton Farmers. this week. We promise all the | of it, and it will be soon;I hope Strikers’ Families | Company Clears for Battle by Ordering the Ore| to Vacate at Once By a Mine Worker Correspondent | BESSEMER, Ala. — The unem-} ployed workers in Bessemer are not supplying enough food, and in| many cases is cutting off relief} orders. We have to make out on one or two very poor meals a day The property owners are getting together to clean all the unem- ployed, who cannot pay rent, out of | their homes. The Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. has notified all ore sthikers’ families | near the stock ore pile, also the Sloss-Sheffield strikers near there, to vacate at once. The idea is to) clear the battleground because they | All other strikers’ | agent, A.D. Maddox. This is a good example of the duties of company union officials—ordering workers out | of their homes. | Chief of Police Seph Ross ordered the National Guard to patrol the streets of Bessemer to terrorize the citizens, They scatter all groups of Last week National Guardsmen bayoneted a 14 year old boy for calling them “Tinhorns” and the boy is still in the hospital. The main purpose of using the National Guard is to terrorize strikers and| to smash the picket lines. | A committee from the Unemployed | of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, | won six relief cases and prevented | six evictions this week. Militant workers in the organization are or- ganizing relief and rent committees to get relief for all needy cases in Bessemer. Smash Injunction (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) SISSETON, S. D, June 22.—| South Dakota farmers and workers ‘Wednesday smashed the vicious in- junction against their organizations and newspapers. Mass actions in defiance of this injunction which outlawed the United Farmers League and the Unemployed Coun- cils, and forbade the circulation of the Daily Worker, Farmers Na- tional Weekly and other militant papers, forced Judge Fleeger to de- clare the injunction void. Attorney General Mitner made a savage attack against the United Farmers League and the Councils, and stated that unusual means should be taken to crush such move- ments. This victory, brought about di- rectly by the open violation of the injunction, followed closely on the successful mass defense of the seventeen workers and farmers charged with rioting. Suflors’ eee Pay Was Cut; But Must Buy} Their Own Uniforms By a Sailor Correspondent, U.S.S. Pennsylvania NEW YORK.—The life of the seamen is not as rosy as it appears on the surface. I will tell you that all seamen, no matter on what ship, are dissatisfied with the pay. A first class seaman averages about $54 a month less 10 per cent. A second class seaman gets $36 a month less 10 per cent. Now figure out the expenses that we have: Uni- form $10, pants $5, shoes $3. Tear your pants, you have to replace them and pay for them. You go ashore in your dress uniform and if this is made by a tailor it costs generally $25. Last year, in 1933, when F. D. R., the commander-in-chief put that 15 per cent“cut through, we felt very bad, and we were thinking of the Invergordon “mutiny” of the British fleet, but we could not get together, we didn’t know how! Five per cent was returned in February and they say that they will give us another five per cent on July 1. Not Enough! Imagine a married seaman who has to support a wife and kid on $48.60 a month, away from home. It’s tough. It can’t be done. We get ashore and we have to spend money. The admirals and the of- ficers are invited all over. The city, clubs and society ladies entertain them freely; they save money. We, the gobs, spend our few dollars on bad gin and a little good time. I am in the Navy because I could not get a job, but when my time will be up, I will get the hell out before war breaks out. I dread to will appear next week. THE QUESTION BOX Children’s Editor: I have read the statement of the Scottsboro boys and have known all about them from the beginning. My idea might be altogether dif- ferent and maybe not. I think it is a shame and sin to keep those in- nocent boys in prison for something they have not done. My questions are: Why should they be condemned to die? Did they commit the crime? They have been proved innocent. Why are they keeping them? They are ycung. They should be at home; on a job, or in school trying to make the best of things. Just because they are of the black race that does not mean that they should die. That is not a reason. The International Labor Defense is trying very hard to set them free. They have not succeeded so far, but, Practice makes perfect. My mother and father and many quantities of water. relatives and friends have worked be on board the flagship and enemy }our Unemployed Councils because planes above. It will just be too | WITH OUR YOUNG READERS with them, and I think, they are doing their best. To my knowledge I think that these boys should be free and not kept cooped up in dark cells for they are innocent. I am appealing to all race, white or black to help set them free. The colored people ought not to let their race fall. I am appealing to you white and colored to help those nine innocent boys. They are suffering terrible. My family are praying that they may go free. I am writing to give others the example. So please publish it to show others what can be done. Sincerely yours, BERTHA LEE HAWKINS. Age 16 ae re Negro people are oppressed, not simply because they are black. The reasons are deeper than just that. | In the South, where oppression of the Negro is the greatest, the rich owners are interested in keep- The Sccretary of the rolling mill} local of the I. U. M. M. S. W. spoke} at a meeting of the Unemployed} | facing the fact that the welfare is| Council and asked them to let him know who the Communists were, | and he'd take care of them. The| union burocrats realize that Com- munism is spreading fast in the unions, and it won't be long until these burocrats are thrown out. You'll hear bigger things from we're organizing for real support of the strikers and a greater fight for relief. Victimized Miners Find No Strength in P.M. A. Leadership By a Worker Correspondent KINCAID, Ill.—After two years of the most brutal suppression of the striking P.M.A. miners in the Midland territory, the Peabody Coal Co. is now master of the situation— thanks to the P.M.A. leadership's Telicy of no picketing, separate aveements, and peaceful court pro- cedure, The striking miners, still full of heroic determination to win the fight, but held back from activity by the promises of the P.M.A. lead- ership, today find the Peabody mines operating full blast with U. M. W. A. scabs, who not only live all around them, but have grown so insulting and bold, that today the strikers are on the defensive— must go armed, and find it neces- sary to guard their properties with nightly vigils, much in the manner of our frontiersmen. Half of the middle class is with them. Insult upon insult has been heaped upon the strikers by the local and national government. Only a torch is needed to kindle the smouldering blaze of resentment. If only the leaders would give the word the Toledo strike would be enacted a thousandfold more intensely. The P.M.A. leadership knows that in the Midland, it is sitting on a powder keg. To drop these strikers would be a great relief, but they cannot do it openly, so they have resorted to every trick in the reper- toire of a modern misleader. The latest distortion painted before the | eyes of the workers, was a demand | for a State referendum on the mine | controversy. This could not solve/ the trouble. Because he has been accused of | trying to make a company union! out of the P.M.A., Pearcy openly comes out and admits that before they will return to the U.M.W.A. they would rather go into a com- pany union. Only recently he prom- ised the miners that he would re- turn to the U.M.W.A. if the refer- endum so decided. The strikers find their hands tied today. A bit of miserable relief is doled out by the relief committee, but until recently, no fight was made for State relief. The leadership in and out is mainly composed of job seekers, The people must wake up and elect an entirely new slate from the young rank and file who have not had! the contaminated experience of the older leaders, The P.M.A. cannot hope to spread into West Va., when its own State is unorganized, neither can it grow upon the filthy carcasses of double-crossing leaders willing to bring in a few stray sheep for a consideration, NOTE: We publish letters from coal and ore miners, and from oil field workers every Saturday. We urge workers in these fields to write us of their conditions of work and of their struggle to improve their conditions and organize. Please get your letters to us by Wednes- day of each week. bad. We saw it during the war maneuvers, and although we are not technicians of war, we can im- agine what a one-ton bomb of ex- plosives would do to our flagship! Give my greetings to all young workers. Cc East ing the whites enslaved as well as the Negroes. The wage scale is very low, so that the factory and plantation owners can make more profits. The wages are even lower than those of the North. But make no mistake. The poor white in the South is very little better off than the poor Negro. In order to keep the white worker con- tent with his miserable lot, the bosses tell him that he is better than the Negro. The bosses don’t care a hoot about race superiority. All they really care about is their profits. And to safeguard these Teofits, the Negro people are sup- pressed. The bosses encourage lynching and race hatred. Hatred Keeps the whites and blacks sepa- rated, ‘The bosses are afraid they will unite. They know that Negro and white together would be too strong a power and would-force the bosses to give up some of their profits. The Scottsboro boys were framed and thrown into jail because they are poor Negro workers. They are | local 494 of Homer Ci dren’s editor, The Daily Worker, 50 Homer City Local Elects Rank and File Officers Ohio Communist Party Issues A Manual on Making Leaflets ‘Workers’ Leaflet Manual,” Tells Technique of Leaflet Construction; a Great Aid District Office Trying | THE “WORKERS LEAFLET MAN-| failure of leaflets to direct the ace To Void Election by Miners By a Mine Worker Correspondent HOMER CITY, Pa—v. M. W. A. y, Pa. has elected rank and file officers. Two out of three of the officers chosen are rank and file workers. Matthew Smith, for Mine Commit- tee man, pulled 109 votes, Mike Romanik pulled 37 votes for Check Weighman, John Taylor, the third comrade, lost out by 6 votes. The company sucker and the dis- trict office are trying to protest the election by using the excuse that you can’t campaign for any candi- dates. The fakers are trying to throw the militant workers out of office. This the rank and file will fight, and demand democracy in the local union, The rank and file opposition has gained a few demanas. 1) 70 cents for :ross bars. 2) 65 cents for cat of rock. 3) 42 cents for car of bony. Before the rank and file opposition won this, the workers had to put cross bars for 33 cents and load rock and bony for nothing. Strike of Railroad Section Gang Solid Issue Now Centers on Reinstatement Daily Worker Midwest Bureau CHICAGO, June 22.—The strike of the extra gang of the Milwaukee Railroad at Bellingham, Washing- ton, is still solid. These strikers have been putting up a militant fight for conditions on the job sim- ilar to that of a regular section gang. Twenty men are involved in this action. The Railroad Brotherhoods’ Unity Movement here today stated that the company has been forced to put in a regular section gang at Bell- ingham, thereby granting the de- mands of the workers. “Howevre,” the unity movement statement declares: “In order to break the militant organization of the workers and to intimidate work~- ers in other departments to prevent extension of similar action among the other men where thousands of similar grievances exist,” the com- pany has refused to reinstate the strikers. “The strike now centers on this issue. The Bellingham unity com- mittee which is affiliated with the National Unity Movement, is rally- ing workers in other depariments in support of the strike and is visit- ing lodges of the Railroad Brother- hoods, and United Mine Workers and Longshoremen locals. In ad- dition, leaflets are being issued on the Milwaukee Road in Chicago calling for solidarity with the strikers.” A relief committee has been set up to care for the strikers. Iron Workers Win Strike BRIDGEPORT, Conn., June 22.— The four weeks’ strike of over 80 moulders in the Eastern Malleable Iron Company foundry which closed down the plant of about 200 workers, was settled Monday af- ter partial wage increases and shop committee reccynition was granted by the company. The basis of settlement which was ac- cepted by a meeting of the strik- ers after hearing a report of their strike committee included: (1.) The minimum day rate shall be raised from 40 to 50 cents per hour. (2.) Increases of prices on piece work jobs shall be from 5 to 15 per cent. (3.) All points in demands for sanitary conditions granted. (4.) Shop Committee is recognized and members of the Committees will be paid for all time lost in conferences with the company. The strikers’ meeting gave a rising vote of thanks to the leader- ship of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and to Sam Krieger, Communist organ- izer, for their assistance in con- ducting the strike. All former strikers have become members of the union. 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. ‘onducted by Mary Morrow, Chil- it 13th St., New York City. scheme to keep the Negroes and whites in thé South divided against each other. The white race will not let the “Negro race fall,” Bertha. Because if it falls, the white race will fall also. So you sce, this is the con- cern of both. Only fighting together will each be free of their oppressors. All over the country Negroes and whites are learning to fight to- gether. One thing more. All race superi- ority is bunk. Bosses invented and encourage it because they’ve always found it useful. For example, the English bosses have always called the Irish people inferior, said that they were drunken, illiterate and unfit to govern themselves. They say that to the people in India, too. Hitler, the mad dog of Europe used the same stunt. The reason in all these cases is the same. The bosses want the different parts of the working class to fight each other so the boss can gyp all workers more easily. UAL.” Issued by Agitprop Com- mission, District 6 (Ohio), Com-| munist Party. | By SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD The Agitprop Commi Communist Party, Dist | ion of the ict 6 (Ohio), | and highly instructive little booklet | which helps to fill a great need in| our movement. It is called the} “Workers Leaflet Manual,” and deals with purely technical matters. It is a readable, simply gotten-up and easily understood booklet filled with very practical advice and in-! struction in its 13 mimeographed | pages, accompanied by nine pages| of sample forms of lettering and leaflets to illustrate how leaflets! are to be made up. | The “Manual” discusses in a helpful way, the general purpose and approach to the planning of} the leaflet from the standpoint of appearance, lay-out, and effective- ness. In dealing with the contents of leaflets, the manual fails to/ touch upon a very important factor in getting up an agitation leaflet.) This factor is that of understand- able demands of, and organizational | directives to the workers. This is! very important if our agitation is to take root in the masses and if they are to know what to do about | the lessons they have learned from | the leaflet. } It is therefore important that this | should be stressed in a later im-| proved edition of the manual. The| tions of the masses makes them general, abstract and purposeless, This is especially significant when we stop to realize that whereas an agitator or organizer reaches seve eral hundred, a leaflet can reach even millions of workers. It is bet- | has just issued a very interesting) ter to round-out our agitation and propaganda with simple, practical organization directives to the worke ers, as for example, “Reject Roose velt’s Arbitration Pian;” “Elect Rank and File Committees;” “Fight for Mass Strike Meetings;” “No Setilement Without a Rank and File Vote;” “Spread the Strike! No Delay! Don't Give Company a Chance to Mobilize Their Forces!” “Organize Mass Picketing!” etc. It is this important feature, the incorporation of organization direce tives, that has increased the value of the editorials of the Daily Worker. In this way the editorial or leaflet actually guides the masses in struggle. This is a detail of great political importance. A clearer formulation {s needed than contained in the “Manual,” of the difference between a “union leaflet” as the expression of “ihe position of the union as an eco- nomie organization,” and “the Com= munist Party leafiet” making “clear the Communist position with regard to the strike.” To-improve its value as a guide, the “Manual” should be theoretically clearer on the differs ence between the union and Party leaflet than the introduction. (To be continued.) CONDLC HELEN the Hie ‘teed IN ADDITION to “Women and So- cialism” (Bebel), and “Women who Work” (Hutchins), with the supplementary books listed yester- day, there are a number of pam- phlets dealing with women’s and farmers’ situations and problems. Similar to the ‘book, but very brief, is Grace Hutchi There are “The American Farmer,” by George Anstron, and “Modern Farming, Soviet Style,” by Anna Louise Strong, a pair that should have wide distribution among our rural population (each ten cents). At five cents there’s “Chil- dren Under Capitalism” (Grace Hutchins). Also her “Women and War.” At a penny each is “Our Children Cry for Bread,” by Sadie Van Veen —-an Unemployment Council leaflet. The final chapter of Clara Zet- kin’s “Reminiscences of Lenin,” is available in pamphlet form at five cents as “Lenin on the Woman Question.” Then, by way of furnishing a concrete picture of what's being done in Socialist lands, there are “Chinese Toiling Women,” “The Working Woman in the Soviet Union,” by Sibiriak, at five cents. “Collective Farm Trud,” as told by Eudoxia Pazukhina (ten cents), which will make you laugh, and cry too, maybe; it gorgeous. Similar to this is “Kolkozniki,” same price. There’s a list of 14 pamphlets, in- cluding those mentioned, on collec- tive farming, in the catalogue of the Workers’ Bookshop, which cata- logue will of course be forwarded to Comrade B. B. B. In case of meeting with any of the moth-eaten old capitalist-in- | spired fish-stories about the “na- tionalization of woman, etc., haye handy a copy of “The Soviet Law on Marriage,” (five cents), which | plainly shows how the kids of the! U. S. S. R. get a real break and/| no monkey business by bad-tem- | pered or irresponsible parents al- lowed. Last but not least—a copy of the Communist Manifesto (a dime). It should be read and re-read. Part TT, “Proletarians and Communists,” contains the paragraphs dealing with family relationships as de- termined by the bourgeois private property system. Don’t be afraid to move for fear of making mistakes: that would be the greatest of all mis- takes. If a method or argument Plainly does not succeed, abandon it after fair trial. Clara Zetkin quotes Lenin to this effect: “Non- sense! . . . That danger (ie. of making minor errors—H.L.) is pres- ent in everything that we do and Say. If we were to be deterred by fear of doing that from doing what is correct and necessary, we might as well become Indian Stylites. Don't move, don’t move, we can contemplate our principles from a high pillar! . . . Aecarding to the prevailing circumstances, we must. fight now for this, now for that. YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT, WOMEN— AND FARM——FROM THESE— And of course, always in connection with the general interests of the proletariat.” (We hope the past few columns have been of assistance: Will try to go into the question more con- cretely next week. We'll also speak of the “Working Woman” magas , | zine). Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1913 is available in size’ 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14. Size 8 takes 2% yards 36 inch fabric and 3% yards edging. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write plainly name, address and _ style number. 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