The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1934, Page 4

Page Four D AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1934 Metal W orkersin Soviet Plant/ Organize Rich Cultural Life By a Group of Soviet Metal Worker Correspondents Dear omrades or machine and department, caters Ford Fires More Men; Drives Rest Faster By an Auto Worker Cor- AFL Jim Crow Policy, Helps Steel Bosses d union and fight for the leadership, — respondent was held at wl h actors performed. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The and, finally, there was dancing. The Ford Motor Co., lad off 250 evening went off excellently and/} men last week, and 150 this || bd gave us fresh courage for even bet-|] week, on June 16. oO r m oO n J 8) n ter and n fruitful work. They are driving the men e : May First we hope to meet with || just as fact as they can go. One better indicators; we are mak- || young man just came out of = 3 refect order at our place o t 3 bud- || « ; Dae arsine ancbatiie ee the plant and famed. His bac’ | Correspondent Tells How Ore Strikers Chase partment and the whole plant with || job and it got too hot. lowers. with slogans in honor of || ‘They are talking of shutting May First down the first. of July. And I AT eS aE NS CAPT Dear Comrades! We have now]! mugt that Ford’s is a hell By a Steel Worker Correspondent told you a little of our lives, and the shops of our plant to many other branches of throughout the Soviet the international pr May Fir: workers women. | We have public nourish- ment—the mother and father work- ing in the plant can have good and tasty meals at a comparatively low re m small, are which the before k to hem y play, sing, etc. he parents are sent to the country. of school age willingly go to school not only study there, but they have dif- ferent circles, where they learn trades and thus prepa the fu ture. They eat in the school g rooms. The workers, men and woraen also increase their knowledge. Th: are many circles at the plant courses, etc., which help us improve | our theoretical and practical knowl- edge. The administration rewards | the best students with premiums: | With money, with promoting them | to higher-paid categories of work, | with books, etc. | We not only work, we lead a cul- tural life. Our enterprise often or- ganizes collective outings to the theatres, movies; we organize de-| bates on the works of our prole- tarian writers, we also organize | artistic reading, musical perform- | ances, etc. | Recently we celebrated Interna- | tional Women’s Day (March 8th). | On that day the women stopped work two hours earlier, a pleasant evening was organized, at which the best women workers were rewarded; afterwards. comradely banquet s ri to would like to hear the same from you. Please write to us how you live, how you work, what are the material conditions of yourselves and your families. We are anxious set up regular correspondence connections with you. We will write to you later and the “Stalin” Electro-Mechan- ical Works. Zavod “Chem: Tzolaziony Zech, Kharkoy, U.S.S.R. Packing Boss Calls On Cops to Prevent Call for Walkout By a Worker Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—A_ total of 1800 Kingans Park and Beef Packing Co. workers have joined the American Federation of Labor and hi asked Kingan to recog- nize their union. Kingan refused to recognize those workers’ union. On a strike ballot the workers voted 92 per cent for a strike, and othi voted to strike in sympathy f Kingan does not recognize the union. On June 18, Galloway, one of the A. F. of L. leaders, was up Speaking to those workers not to strike, and along came police thugs and arrested him and his bond was set at $50. And now Kingan has a squad car with four in it, watching. He thinks those police will try to scare those work- ers and keep them from striking. But those thugs can’t scare of a place to stave in. re FAIRFIELD, Ala T will deal with the steel mills in Fairfield and Ensby mills here. The Amalgamated Association union and the A. F. of | L. are coming out here and workers are preparing for the steel strike. The Tennessee Coal & Iron Co sen- try is keeping a watch on the Fired from (.W.A Job for Not Voting ALBANY, Y.—On Dec. 6, I|gamated Union. The reason why signed up for work on the C. W. A.| they join the company union is be- and presented a copy of my military|cause the leaders in the Amalga- service. |mated do not fight discrimination I succeeded in getting on C.W.A.| against the Negro workers in the work as a painter January 2 last| union, and this also holds true in with five other men. One of these] the A. F. of L. unions in the steel and myself were the only two on| industries. this job that were enrolled Repub-! licans; Eugene Horning was the|has only six Negroes in the union,| f Bessen foreman of tinis job on Bath No. 3) We tell all the Negroes to join the| mass me Fak on Central Avenue. T reported the job as In many mills the Amalgamated| 4nd Republic mines. but the leadership is Jim Crowing | the Negroes in the union, and this/| has given the company a basis for} its company union. The Communist Party is calling} }on all workers to join the Amal-| |gamated Association, and build the} union and fight for the leadership |tell you how we celebrated May 4 workers. | —tank and file groups to fight for ’ | First. ‘For Richt Party Many workers have joined the|the leadership in the A. F. of L. Frate yours, 7 bY + J |company union but when the strike| Unicn. | Twenty Men and women Work- ~ | cor we will see that many of the} In Bessemer the situation in the} ers of the Insulation Dept. of By a Worker Correspondent | workers come out with the Amal-|ore field, where the workers are on strike for more than five weeks, has the workers defending themselves| | against the National Guardsmen in the Raimund ore mines. In Besse-} mer the miners sent a protest to Governor Miller in Montgomery to move the National Guard from the red ore miners’ area of the T.C.I.| The citizens | er Sunday night called a ing to see Governor Mil- protest and | tional Guardsmen. Monday morning but was informed| yy, The whole city was in an up- by foreman Horning that I had Fil 0 t | roar Saturday and Sunday in Bes- | been laid off. He told me he had | m per a Ors | semer. The workers took two ma- | < from a Mr. Sweeney, a paint- chine guns from the National | ing inspector for the city of Albany (This Mr. Sweeney was a shoe clerk before the politician made a paint- ing inspector of him) to lay off the other Republican and myself, and | T would like to state too that he and I were the only two men on the job who were paid up members of! the Union of Painters, Paperbang- ers and Decorators of America. I went to the city hall and saw the “shoe clerk” inspector Mr. Swee- ney, who said, “It don’t make any difference where I got the author- ity; you are done.” I then went to Mr. Oliver Warhus, the assistant director of the C.W.A.. After waiting 5 hours or more, I made so much noise that at last he showed me a card purporting to have come from the city engineer, James Brennan, saying that in or- der to equalize the work on that job Vote Down Big Pay For Harry ‘Sherman By a Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—Harry Sherman re-| cently moved his chair from Para- mount Publix where he was labor} arbitrator at $15.000 a year to be-| come President of Local 306, Motion Picture Operators, A. F. of L., at a salary of $1,800 a year. He was also made chief organizer at $18,200 a year. This gave him the full power to organize as he sees fit. He succeeded Sam Kaplan, who, with one of his henchmen, just went to jail for a period of six months to three years for misappropriation | of funds. | tional Guard away from the shafts Guardsmen Friday night at the Raimund mine, and ran the Na- | of the mine, and up. to the bunk house of the scabs. | The workers see that what the Communist Party has been telling the miners about the N.R.A. and} President Roosevelt is true. Hugh §. Johnson is also a misleader and | strikebreaker, and also Mrs. Boxdaill is a president’s agent. They are carrying on a campeign against the Communist Party because they are playing a two-handed game with the company to mislead the workers in their strike, but the reason is that the Party is teaching the work- ers how to fight against the mis- leaders in the union. I found that the bombing in the striking area is done by stoolpigeons against the Na- six those workers. Kingan is also try- ing to scare them by telling them he will send out of town and fill their places. it was necessary to lay us off. This card was signed by foreman Horn- ing. | How this equalization was figured eT LAE S out. I can’t tell, for the other four The Daily Worker gives you the| men were ieft on the job that went| truth about conditions in the Soviet|to work the same day as we did.| Union, the truth about workingclass | also two new men that were placed strikes in the United States andjon the job by a politician of the| abroad. | 14th Ward named Charles Bonaugh-| ConDuc’ HELEN OUR RURAL WOMEN | tington. Mr. Warhus told me at that time |that I was not discharged but sim-| ply laid off, though the seme day} jhe told the other worker that he | would get back to work on the C. |W. A., but I never would, although Sherman has seen fit to spend ajof the company, and police and few pennies less than a million| company thugs. It has happened | without organizing any theatres,/that the National Guard sat up all| but losing nearly 50 per cent of the| night to guard scab houses all over theatres that were union. The only| the Bessemer area. circuit which he gained back was the Manhaitan Playhouses, but the salaries were reduced from $85-875) to $32-$28, and the hours were in-| creased froni 36 to 50-58 hours. | Sherman was today defeated | | unanimously by rank and file mem-| bers of the union, as chief organ-| izer. Gypped on Overtime Pay on $6 a Week By a Worker Correspondent Now let us see if the so-called] LANCASTER, Pa.—t recently got labor leader, who waited for the|® job with Howard Brock, one of N.R.A. to organize the moving pic- | Lancaster's largest radio repair and ture operators trade, will remain as| auto instatlation men. The first Jobin Radio Shop| the He RD BY LORS Some of the grievances of farm Women we mentioned yesterday. Besides enduring the drudgery and lack of facilities for comfort and sanitation, women of rural districts are faced with two serious needs: that for better maternity care, and | for better recreational and educa-| tional facilities, for themselves as} well as their children. In an article (the first of an an- nounced series) on the question of maternity care, the Pictorial Review ‘According to the most recent istics, says this sheet, there are seven deaths of mothers to every thousand deliveries in the country at large.” And the Pictorial Review, as well as the bourgeois press generally, is highly wrought up about this alarm- ing figure—higher than in any other | “civilized” land—and talks about it at some length, with the usual re- sult in bourgeois papers: placing of the responsibility on the mothers themselves, but without recommend- ing that these mothers try to bring about the necessary drastic changes in our social and economic system. The article describes at some length the hh standards and low Geath rate of the Polyclinic Hospital ~f New Yo: admonishing the wo- men everywhere to “demand” simi- | lar facilities and high standards of | medical it also indicates that generous fees should be paid since | the doctor's time, skiJl and knowl- edge, and the mothers’ lives, “are| worth i (The old impasse.) | Naturaily, the greatest sufferers | are in the rural districts, where! hospital facilities and highly skilled nttendants and doctors are jacking. | I would suggest that Comrade B.| B. B. send io the Bureau of Vital) Statistics (at Washington State Capital) and ask for the statistics fiving the rate of maternity mor- tality in cities and in rural dis- tricts of that State. Not only are the deeths of the mothers to be con- sidered, but also their crippling through bad deliveries, and the death and ill-health of children due also to the same lack of adequate medical care. The jack of recreational life was shown by the letter from ancther organizer of rural women published some time ago; she said the women could elways get away to go to a dance but not to a meeting. This goes to chow how hunzry the women are for recreation. In the Soviet Union such conditions (of isolation and loneliness) are being overcome by building on the collective farms theatres, cultural clubs, schools, gymnasiums, et cetera. On my farms, as well as on iy art museum was the cutdocr “ nouse,” pasted full of et: catalogues. You could ond contemplate beautiful wo-! z stallions. big bright to-| matoes. huge purple pansies, and} resy kids feeding salt to woolly) grandfathers’ others, the on | Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- and (possibly) forget the odor and the flies. Levity aside, there are innumer- able grievances which farm women can and will discuss; there are in addition to the miserable conditions touched on yesterday and today, even bigger and broader issues around which to rally them, which cluding paragraphs of this series. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? I at that time told him that I plainly understood that it was be- cause I had voted and worked for the fusion ticket, and had been a candidate for alderman in the 14th Ward in the last election. He denied that it was politics, and offered me a ticket so that T could work with a pick and shovel, I sup- pose that was to teach me that it is absolutely wrong for a man who works for a living to use his own judgment and vote as he sees fit. This statement I tried to have printed in the Knickerbocker Press, Albany Evening News, and the Times Union of this city, but was told that it was not news as it con- | we'll mention tomorrow in the con-| cerned only myself. NOES: We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every | ay. We urge woukers in 7 Se _..| these industries to write us of Pattern 1914 is available in sizes| |... Ride comatcehe Gh We 36, 38, 40, 4% 44, 46 and 48, “Gize). |" \* WPOrRinK: conditions and: 36 takes a 3% yards 39 inch fabric. structions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write! plamly name, address and _ style! number. BE SURE TO STATE) SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker) Pattern Department, 243 West 17th) sheep, and thus elevate your mind, a Street, New York City. | unemployment, their efforts to orgavize. Tease get the letters to us hy Friday of each week. Musicians Win Right of Local Autonomy At Cleveland Convention CLEVELAND, June 24—The rank and file committee of the Amer- ican Federation of Musicians scored a victory in. their fight for local autonomy at the convention of the union which just closed its sessions here. The convention decided that all) locals shall have the right to elect) all officers with the exception of the chairman who will stay in two years. Leaders of the locals and national officials of the union were opposed to local autonomy in selecting local officials. The fight for local au- tonomy was started and led by the | Rank and File Committee in Local 802 of New York. Brooklyn Metal Serie Enters Its Fifth Week NEW YORK.—The strike of 60 | workers of the Metco Manufacturing | Co,, 722 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, is entering the fifth week of their strike for higher wages and union recognition. Messers Levey and Lubin, owners of the plant, have hired a flock of gangsters, among whom is the noto- rious William Sabella, to intimidate and threaten the pickets. The strikers answered the gangster in- timidation by building a stronger Picket line. The strike is being led by Local 302 of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, The Daily Worker keeps you informed of the world-wide strug- gles by the working class against hunger, fascism and war. The Daily Worker for one month daily or six months of the Saturday edition costs only 15 cents. Send your sub to the Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St., New York City, president for $1,800 a year, when he was getting $20,000 a year. He squandered over a million dollars, and all the membership knew, was that it was spent for “rehabilita- tion.” How much went to his pocket, no one can tell. The membership put up a hard battle to take their union back. They have also won a 5 per cent cut of the 12 per cent assessment that they are paying. | ON PRISON LABOR New York, N. Y. Editor of the Daily Worker: While a guest of the City of | New York, Hotel Tombs, I had the pleasure of meeting another tran- sient who is destined to spend | quite a little time at the hotel. During our: conversations, I learned that my good friend had arrived at the hotel about nine months ago from Wethersfield, Conn., after spending an enforced vacation of six and a half years there as the guest of the State of Connecticut, and this is his story: “For the six and a half years that I spent at Wetherfield, I was employed in the shirt factory. Our work-day consisted of nine hours, five and a half days per week, for which I received the munifi- cent sum of 15 cents per day. I was assigned the sum of 40 dozen shirts’ work, which is a darn good day's work in any man’s country. “Failure on my part to perform the task assignea meant loss of yard privileges over the week-end, and three such failures per month meant solitary confinement for the following month. It is needless to say that the guard received a bonus for any overproduction pro- duced in the factory. It is oniy gratifying to learn that one of Jour great patriotic department stores was the largest purchesers of this prison labor.” “I have seen men hung by their tinger-tips, toes barely touching the floor, from morning till noon for five-day periods for supposedly shght infractions of prison rule.” (Signed) CHARLES WILLIAMS FREE CLINICS Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Editor: I would like very much to have this printed in our “Daily Worker” as a letter of protest to the New York Post Graduaie Hospital, for the humiliation one has to go through in order “not to get 45 cents worth of credit for just one week.” ie For the past one and one-halt years I have been going to the semi- free clinic for treatments. My rec- ord will prove that I paid for what- ever was done for me. Today the doctor gave me a prescription and told me that it must be filled right in the drug store of the hospital. It only amounted to 45 cents. I told the doc'or that I could not get it filled there because I didn’t have any money that day, unless I took it out and would have it made up somewhere else when I have the Letters from Our Readers couvle of days I worked from 8:30 to 5, then the boss started to ask me to work overtime at night. I did this the rest of the week until I asked for my week’s pay, and he tried to pay me only $5, not only ignoring my overtime, but trying to gyp me of $1. He boasted to me one day he had made $30 that day. I have a wife and two babies to take care of and have been out of a job three ysars. money. His answer was that it cannot be filled in an outside drug store for the reason that they don’t vised that I go down to the social service department and heave the carry that particwlar item. He ad-| “They Speed Us Up More Than a Horse Is Able to Stand’ By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—Conditions in the city of Detroit are getting bad.| Every day living costs are going up.| The factories are laying off men} every day. I am working for the | Dodge Motor Corp. They speed us up more than a horse could stand.| | Besides that, we got a wage cut. | Maybe you heard that they raised! Guardsmen Away With Their Own Machine Guns the price of the car, then they cut! | our wages. I read your paper every it because it is a |day and T like | workingman’s paper. Floral Employes Find Conditions By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. —Since 1929 the number of workers in florist shops, and the wages, have been sliced and re-sliced to such an extent that the cut in wages for salesmen is as much as 75 per cent; for truck drivers an average of 50 per cent; for sundry workers from 25 per cent to 50 per cent. The hours have by no means been csened. Where 15 men, for ex- ample, worked 12 hours per day for] and a half days per ¥ 1 the average eight men are dis-| charged and the remaining seven! are speeded up 50 per cent. | Since the N.R.A., the employers | have been more wily in preventing the workers obtaining any better conditions. For example, this par- ticular firm employs a salesman} and two helpers. Before the de- pression the position of salesman claimed a salary of from $75 to $100 per week; the helpers received $20 to $40 per week. The hours were from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. for six and a half days totaling 69 hours per week. At the time of the drawing of the code, the salesman received $25 and the helpers $14 to $18 for the same amount of hours—minus vacation. The Florists’ Code calls for a 48- hour week at a minimum of $15 with time and one-third for over- time. A scale of wages was written into the code to cover minimum wages for all levels of the retail trade. Wages under the minimum were raised. The salesman was formerly dubbed manager, automatically ex- | empting him from any raise. Hours | Were not shortened. The store is allowed to remain open Sunday with the stipulation that the worker must have a full day of rest during the week. The day is never | given, but the store opens on an} Sunday the employer felt necessary To make a complaint to the N. |R. A. board would not only be job suicide but blacklisting. There are }@ number of organizations and Florist Boards to protect the em- | ployer, but not a single one for the worker, A system of partial employment is utilized by a group of these flor- | ists to scuttle the need and defray the expense of hiring extra men for delivery work and at the same time give a false show of generosity. To return to those regularly em- ployed, the majority of florists do not pay for holidays but force the workers to work not only overtime but in the case of Christmas and Eas‘er clear through the night till | well into the next afternoon with- out, in the greater amount of cases, | @ cent of pay. | We, as floral workers know the | hopelessness of gaining the rights | that the code describes. We know that its enforcement is farcical. We know that we can hope for noth- ing from the employer. The only force that can be used is_unioniza- tion of all floral employes. prescription O. K'd until the follow- ing Tuesday. Well, I went there and was sent around the whole hospital to loo for higher officials to O. K. the 45 cents, and each one sent me to somebody else until I landed back to the social service. There I was told that I am not telling them the truth because the prescription is written plainly and can be filled in an outside drug store. What did I do? I tore up the prescription and left it on the social workers’ desk and told them to hell with this rot- ten system. This is what is in store for workers under the old and the “New Deal.” Comradely, “NATIONAL FARMERS WEEKLY” FOR THE FARMERS Gladwine, Mich. and pushed, called “Drought, and Crop Destruction,” or “Drought, and Destruction.” I think it would go over big with the masses of farmers. Crops here are a total failure. —F. W. Editorial Note:—The National Farmers Weekly, organ of the United Farmers League, is a paper very popular with the farmers, It can be obtained by writing to the United Farmers League, 1817 South Loomis Street, Chicago, Ill. FUNDS FOR THE “DAILY” IN- STEAD OF FLOWERS New York, N. Y. Daily Worker: While convalescing in a hospital following an operation, I requested my friends to contribute to a “Daily Worker Fund” instead of buying me flowers. Result: $4.96. I think it is a worth while idea for workers unfortunate enough to be confined in a hospital. c. B. FOR DEFENSE OF HATHAWAY AND RAYMOND La Grange, Ill. Dear Mr. Hathaway: I am enclosing four your defense $5 in a post office money order. I only wish it was $500, and I wish every subscriber would send you $5. day late so I just read about you and Mr, Raymond. I want to see you win as you have so far. Yours with great hopes you will win, —W. W. M. I would like to see a paper printed | You see I get the “Worker” a School Board Refuses To Grant Auditorium To Pittsburgh, LL.D. PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 22.— The Pittsburgh Board of Education has refused to grant a permit for the use of the Fifth Avenue High School auditorium to the Interna- tional Labor Defense which re- quested the hall for the celebration of its Ninth Anniversary June 28. No downright rejection of the ILD.’s request was given by the Board, but stalling and shifting responsibility have forced the local ILD. to engage the Bethel AME. Church, Elm and Wylie Sts., for the celebration. Richard B. Moore, member of the national committee of the I.L.D., will speak. Railroad Shopmen Reject Co. Union In Colorado Vote, | PUEBLO, Colo., June 25.—The | railroad shopmen throughout the Denver and Rio Grande We Railroad System voted overwhe'm- ingly against the company union. They voted by 1,212 to 461 to reject the company union and affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. To Enlist 100,000 New Youth Into CCC Camp | tory and to | traditions of 1776 and 1861, under PARTY LIFE Plans to Popularize Slogan Of Soviet Power on July 4 Party Issues Directives t Traditions of Am We are printing today the direc- tives for July 4 as issued by Dis- trict 6, as an oxample to be followed by all Districts. It is the duty of the Communist Party to revive the revolutionary traditions of this American holiday, translating it into present day conditions. Every District and Section should work out similar plans to popularize the revolutionary objectives of the Communist Party, and the slogan of “Soviet Power.” “On July 4, the bourgeoisie will let loose a flood of chauvi ic pro- paganda in a special effort to mobi- lize the masses behind its program of hunger and war. The revolu- tionary traditions of July 4, 1776 have long been forgotten by the im- perialist bourgeoisie, which brands the revolutionary way out of the crisis as “un-American.” It is the task of the Communists to expose this falsification of American his- the ocsasion of July 4 to popula the revolutionary | cut and the slozan of Soviet} Power. | “As the Manifesto of the 8th Na-| tional Convention of our Party states: “Today. the only party that carried forward the revolutionary the present day conditions and re- lationship of classes is the Commu- |} nist Party. Today, only the Com-| munist Party finds it politically ex- pedient and necessary to remind the American working masses. of how, in a previous crisis, the way out was found by the path of revo- lution. Today only the Communist. Party brings sharply forward and applies to the problems of today that old basic document ‘Ameri- canism,’ the Declaration of Inde- pendence. “Applying the Declaration of In- dependence to present-day condi- tions, the Communist Party points out that never was there such a mass of people so completely de- vrived of all semblance of ‘the right to life, liberty and pursuit of hap- pinecs.’ Never were these such de- structive effects upon these rights by any form of government. as those exerted today by the existing form of government in the United States. Never have the exploited masses suffered such a long train of abuses er been so reduced under absolute despotsim as today under capitalist rule. The ‘principle’ which must provide the foundation of the “new government” mentioned in the De- claration of Independence is, in 1934, the vrinciple of the dictator- ship of the proletariat; the new form in the form of the workers’ and farmers’ councils—the Soviet Power. The “new guards for their future security,” which the workers must establish, are the installing of the working class in every position of power. and the dissolution of every institution of capitalist class rule.” In this connection it is necessary” to overcome the shortcomings that were manifested in our May first demonstrations with regard to the popularization of the revolutionary way out of the crisis. The central committee in reviewing the lessons of May Day pointed out that in the united front literature (for May Day) the slogans and agitation were limited to the immediate demands, while the Party had little if any material printed in which the revo- lutionary objectives and slogans of the Party were brought forward, es- pecially in connection with the fight for Soviet Power.” (Lessons of May Day, June, Communist). The principal slogan of all Com- munist Parties today is the siogan for Soviet Power, but so far we have not learned how to make this, a SLOGAN OF EVERY MASS POLI- TICAL AGITATION, growing out | Daily jat central points, o Revive Revolutionary erican Holid work. It is absolutely wrong to cons fine the slogan of the revolutionary way out and for Soviet Power to general agitation alone. Comniu- nists must seize every occasion, every struggle and event to prove is necessity for the revolutionary way out, the way of struggle for Soviet Power. It is in this spirit that we must take fullest advantage of July 4th to popularize the slogans for Soviet Power and hte revolutionary way cut of the capitalist crisis. Every section must take steps to organize mectings in the name of the Co munist Party, bringing for sharply the ccnditions of the wo ers today, and the strikebreaking role of the New Deal, the need for united working class struggles and the sclution of the crisis by Prole- tarian Revolution. We must. use these meetings to expose the So- cialist Party hypocrisy with regard to the revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist system brought fore recent Detro:t Conven- rial “Ni ean in the in this Thomas Work connection. In addition to open air meetings special isafiets should be issued in the shops. using conerete issues and the material ap- pearing in the local press as a basis for the exposure of the bourgeois July 4th propaganda and bringing forward the necessity of Soviet Power. . Every effort should be made to hold shoo gate meetings on July 3rd, using these as a mobilization for our July 4th meeting.. Our shop papers issued on July 1st must con- tain articles leading with the revo- lutionary way out, drawing upon the American revolutionary trdai- tious. In connection with the July 4th campaign and meetings, special ef- forts must be made to secure a mass distribution of the Manifesto of the 8th National Convention of our Party, which should be the main propaganda literature for July 4th. The pamphlet: “The Way Out —A Program for American Labor.” ccotaiting the Manifesto and the principal resolutions cf the Conven- tion should be sold at the meetirgs, with the cha::man and the spcek- ers calling special attention to it. In this conection the sections should immediately complete their previous Manifesto quotas and make efforts to order additional Manifestos: To fail to distribute thousands of these Manifestos is to show a total lack of understanding of the central slogan of our Party today — the struggle for Soviet Power. Party speakers should begin to prepare for the July 4th meeting by studying not only tine Manifesto, but also Comrade Browder’s report to the 8th National Convention, atid particularly the newly published pamphlet, “The Wav Out—A Pro- gram for American Lebor,” aswell as the first article in No. 6 of Communist International Magazine. This whole question should be taken up at the next Section Come mittee meeting and plans worked out at once. A report on these plans should be sent in to the District Committee. t DISTRICT AGITPROP COMMISSION, District 6° Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa-- tion on the Communist Party. 8th, Name Street fey \= ganeahe sett gas Pee eeeeeceseeee of and tied up with our daily mass ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Drug Donations to the W. I. R. The Medical Units of the Work- ers’ International Relief appeal to all sympathetic druggists and phar- macists to donate drugs and med- ical supplies for use at first aid staions, during demonstrations and hunger marches, as well as for the hospital at Camp Wo-Chi-Ka, Workers’ Children’s Camp, at Wing- dale, New York. Drug articles, euch burn, absorbent cotton, bandagss, applicators, adhesive tape, aspirin, are badly needed. Please phone ALgonquin 4—9239, or write to W. I. R., 870 Broadway, New York. Somebody will be sent to collect the donations. Ingrown Toc Nail M. R., St. George, S. I—The con- Gition you describe is called in- grown toe nail. It is due to irrita- WASHINGTON, D. C. — More than 100,000 young workers, war veterans and woodsmen will be “se- lected” this month for enrollment during July, C. C. C. director Fech- into the militaristic C. C. C. camps ner announced Saturday. The new enlistment into the dol- lar-a-day military C. C. C. camnos will bring the enlistment up to 303,- 000. Thousands of young workers, unable to endure the military con- ditions and the bad food are desert- ing the camps each month. The C. C. C. camps, which Fech- ner recently indicated would be re- tained as a permanent instituticn of the Roosev2lt war preparations, also limit the term of enlistment tion of the flesh by the sharp edge of the nail, aggravated by wearing shoes that are too narrow. Ingrown toe nail is no: dangerous in itself: but it might become infected and, if not treated properly, may result in blood poisoning. We would ad- vise you to consult a podiatrist (chiropodist) in your neighborhood. The treatment is either palliative which means for the purpose of relieving pain and permit you to walk in comfort, or curative, the aim of which is to permanently cure the conditions. In the first instance, the podiatrist will put a certain medication on a piece of gauze, between ihe sharp edge of the nail and the flesh; trimming to six month periods in ord-r to militarize a broad section of the American working class youth, the nail and shielding the too against the shoe with felt strips. As to a permanent cure, it cannot be By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. —. as iodine, ointments against sun-| achieved without a radical opera: tion. About one-third of the nail is cut away, lengthwise, down to and including the root of the nail. When the wound is healed, the nail will be narrower than before and will not impinge on the flesh. To prevent ingrown toe nail you musg wear broader shoes and trim your toe nails square; not pointed, as yov do your finger nails. = ie aia Diabetic Gangrene M. N., Terre Hante, Ind,—Yow physician was right in “scaring* | you into going on a diet. People who suffer from diabetes (sugar disease) often develop gangrene of the foot. Sometimes, the foot has to be amputated to save the pas” tient’s life. Even this does not help in all cases: The late Sarah Bern- hhardt died of diabetic gangrene, in spite of the fact that her entire-leg had been removed. By going. ona diet you will not only save yourself | from having to take insulin treate ments, but also from possible gan grene, if you sustain an infection, are giving the GIRLS boys a hot race in selling the “Daily” on busy intersections. Join. the women’s “Battalion” and put those 20,000 new readers on ice while earn- ing expenses. Apply to Williams, 35 E. 12th St. (store).