The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1934, Page 4

Page Four Lumber Workers Win Struggle In Stimson Mill in Seattle Helped by Dockers, They Vote to Aid the Picket Line in Longshoremen 3y a Worker Correspondent SEATTLE, V —For four days she cre on Mill has been on the leaders! anted five tonight we prepare for id voted to zo back an The den all men 1934, to fore an: aid kits be Relief Reing Cut In Indianapolis By a Worker Correspondent Ind. about workers INDIANAPOLIS, rades, word conditions here. here. are being refused just a some Several Hanna No special trustee, again The writer wa thr the trar nt bureau until vO weeks ago when refused reinstatement, They referred him to Miss Noon, who, as three times before, said, let dad do it. There was a fire here at the transit house, 309 E. Ohio Street, the other day. Two hundred men were routed. The fire, according to the Star, started in the base- ment where the cooties are sup- posed to be routed. The unemployed councils should get going here again as relief is) being cut, and in some cases re- fused. Conditions on the jobs are speed-up and small pay. I resigned from a farm job be-| cause the bourgeois farmerette | wanted me to do house work afid| outside farm work too. She has a 30 acre farm at R. R. 3, Green-| wood, money in the bank, finan- | cial connections with Traylor’s corporation of American, Morgan} Packing Co. Austin, Ind., and a! cafeteria at Coffin golf course. She hired a maid though the | Paramount Employment Seensy, | kept the lady one week, and fired her. Wages are $3. Then she| started me on the house work; | wash woodwork, and scrubbing, | etc. I told her to pay me. She} said only board and clothes, and fired me. Then she promised to| Com- | ¥ s Strike places i for com: ee be elected from the Mill Committee and approved by the workers; 4) recognition of a Mill Committee elected by all the work- ers. No montt nen to partici in the election; 5) that no tion be used workers ganizing The NL.WU. in the mi against started organizing ago. up on our ion and found we had over a ajority of the workers in the mill We formulated a demands based on our needs and the condition: doa m in the plant, and meeting of all the adopted by a standing vote. A committee was elected to pre- sent the demands. The committee reported Monday morning at a mass meeting in front of the mill. The answer was “no.”. We animously for a strike. A registration of the strikers be- gan immediately after the election of a broad strike committee. During the strike the company was only le to recruit seven scabs and they t Blue t cabs, driven by A. F. of L. drive: This presented a sorry spectacle, supposedly union drivers hauling scabs through a picket line under police protection. The driv- ers told the pickets that they had} orders from “Scabby” their secretary, to do it. On the other hand, the rank and file of the striking longshoremen helped us on our picket line. We in turn voted tonight to go down to the I.L.A. en masse tomorrow and Brewster, of | uled into the mill in Royal] Higher Pay Won Lempster Strike By a Worker Correspondent LEMPSTER, N. H—Twenty lum-| but as yet they have received no| bermen went out on strike here for higher wages. They have been work- ing for $2.50 a day, but now, be- cause of the strike, they have won an increase of 25 cents a day. | hey work for Charles Emerson, | who has the reputation of paying his men the lea: ator in. this se ion. He makes his jmakes them work after quitting |time, thereby getting around the code limit. In the winter of 1932-33, Emerson | worked his men so cheap that at | the end of the week, in order to | keep his men living, he gave them |a bag of Red Cross fiour with their | Week’s wages. | | | Forced Labor on Relief in Tallapoosa County, Ala. By a Worker Correspondent | CAMP HILL, Als.—The relief of- ficials have started another scheme | in giving relief. This time they are giving Sh—$2.40 a week for a| family of three or more—to those | |who have signed up with the F. E.| |R. A. “rural rehabilitation” pro- |gram. The others are told to cool their heels a while longer. | This is another scheme of forced | labor, and the Tallapoosa bosses are | now trying to force the workers to work for this relief. Ruby Landom, head of the relief office in Camp] help the longshoremen on their) tin, co-operates with the bosses Picket line. The organized unem-j|and landlords who come in demand- ployed also assisted us. jing “hands.” She also gives instruc- This is the first victory won in the Seattle saw mills in a number of years. Our plans now are to prepare for more struggles by get- ting all of the mills to participate | the next time. Our most immediate | task is the building of the National Lumber Workers Union, Our Union. | send me some money through the mail. I sent two letters request- ing N. R. A. code rate of $14.50 and have not received any reply.| Her name is O, M. Young, R. R. 3, Greenwood, Ind. She hires and fires at will both women and men workers. NEWS FROM AN EW YORK FARM There’s a highly interesting letter here from a farm wife of New York state, the first half of which follows: “Dear Comrade: | “In the Daily Worker I saw that) Anna Vasilevna Snegireva would} like to hear from here. I would like | to correspond with her... only I do not know English very well, as/ I am a German, so please excuse my writing. | “T am a farmer’s woman; we live in northern New York State. Last year we had a dry summer; many of the farmers here had to buy hay, as they did not have enough for their cows during the long winter} we have here. So they came more in debi, and have now a hard stand] to pay it off. | “The winter was here very hard; most of the fruit trees, and grass on| the meadows is killed out, and now we have it so dry. If we don’t get rain very soon, then we all don't Know what to do. “We farmers work long hours: we arise in summer at 4 o'clock, and in winter at 5 o’clock, and we go at 9 o'clock to bed. Up here we have had enough to eat, as we all produce our own food. But we are not able to buy any, as the prices are too high. We have three apple trees, and that is all the fruit we eat: we} can’t buy fruit—have no money to| § do so. a few pigs, also chickens. The eggs ° we ship to New York City. The price of eggs after the expenses are paid, is 15 to 17 cents. We ship cream; last cream check was $7.38 (Grade 1, test 40, price 24 cents). We bought some fertilizer for sowing oats; that is very high this year. We are not| abie to buy any grass seed. All we! hope is to get good hay, so we don’t | need to buy any. We are not able to| buy feed for the cows in the winter} —they get only hay. | “The taxes are very high: we are not able to pay these yet. We scrape | every penny together, but there are) always some bills to pay. We live up on the hill. Ajl the farmers here| are poor, and I talk so often to make | them organize. Some hope always for better times, and others seem to be afraid, but the time will come when they will organize too. “Most have large families, and most of them are Catholics. They are very strict Catholics: the priest comes to their homes, and the chil- dren tell me he wants always money. He sure gets it. I think it is a shame to take money away from these poor people. “The children are going to the rural schools; there are not many who can write and read. Their edu- cation is very poor. The population is German, Irish and mostly Polish. The Polish c2n’t read English, and eur local newspaper brings nothing about what is going on in the world. Jt I would not get the Daily Worker from friends in New York, I also would not know what is going on in some of the English-reading farm- ers, and some I send to Ohio. You see the ‘Daily’ goes a far way. “The farm youth was here very enthusiastic about going to war, but I spoke with the young boys, and they changed their minds.” (Second part of letter will be given tomorrow.). Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1858 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. we 16 takes 344 yards 39 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by- step sewing instructions included. “We have a dairy farm, and keep | fi Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams Pattern. Write plainly name, address and_ style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th ‘he world, The papers I give here to Street, New York City. |tions that if the unemployed refuse \to accept this forced labor, to re- port back, and the names will be taken off the relief rolls. Now that the relief officials give out cash, the merchants have raised |the prices on food—flour from $1.10 to $1.25 for a 24-pound bag, and other prices accordingly. Letters from Our Readers IN BANKS—NONE TO FEED CHILDREN OF | UNEMPLOYED | Louisville, Ky, | Dear Editor: | I read your paper, the Daily | | Worker, several times each week| | and admire your frank way of tell-| jing the truth about our economic} ills. I am a retail marchant, very | | Small, of course, and have just be-| | gun to realize which side of the! | fence I belong on. On April 29 and May 1 several of the public schools paraded the school children from the fifth} grade on down to the second grade, | GOLD show them the tons of silver and gold that there are in the bank, and gave the kids a lecture, with the help of the bankers, to tell the kids how much gold there was in this country. While they zave the talk with the vaults of the bank open, so they could see the gold in a pile, two guards stood on guard with machine guns. The following week the kids that had to have lunch checks given them were refused, for the reason that money was short. My kid is in the third grade and I had her ask the teacher, what had become of the gold in the bank that she had seen May 1? And why is it that all the local chain stores of Wall Street in this town remained open all day Memorial Day, while us boobs d up to decorate the dead soldiers’ graves? Also gave her Brisbane's article about so much gold dust being dis- covered in Russia, and had my kid ask her teacher to read iS and cx- plain it to her class. The result, I have received instructions to sec THE YOUNGSTOWN WORKER. Issued by Communist Party Unit, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., Indiana Harbor, In. diana. Vol. 1, No. 3, May, 1934. THE GARY STEEL WORKER. Is- sued by Communist Party Unit, Illinois Steel Co., Gary, Indiania. Vol. 3, No. 5, May, 1934, By SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD 'HE Gary Steel Worker and the Youngstown Worker are both is- sued by Party units in the steel mills of the same section. What is striking at the outset is that al- though the Gary Steel Worker is much older than the Youngstown Worker, it is not much more im- proved than the latter. The former paper is in four pages while the lat- ter is a single page mimeographed on both sides. Beth papers treat important ques- tions, but in the main, the problems ae dealt with from the local, purely job interest, and yet hardly a single question is discussed concretely. In most instances there is little evi- dence to show how the question is part of wider problems. No line of action is indicated, nor is there any specific advice given the workers on just how they should organize the carrying out of the advice in @ practical way. Both papers under review were issued in the heat of interest in the proposed steel strike. Both papers carry front page feature articles on the question. The article in The of any mill oper-| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934 | Red Tape | SPENCER, Neb.—Wallace & Co. gave us the corn and hog program {for which they were going to pay us to raise less hogs. Farmers did their part by reducing 25 per cent, money. In fact, in this county we farmers must reduce 17,000 head |more, for which we will receive nothing, but somebody else that does not produce will get better than $8,000. We also have a County Agent— who put him here in office we know not, as the farmers had ers in the mill. The demands| mill helo start ahead of time and| nothing to do about getting him. He has the power over all feed and | seed and everyone must see him before anything can be done. A great number of farmers need help, but all we get is promises. This County Agent knows nothing about farming. He was imported from the Nebraska University. Farmers ask him questions, but he is unable to answer until he geis reports from higher ups. The Fed- and taxes, and the farmers are go- ing to be worse off than ever. We had some rain, but it was too late for small grain and hay. Farm- eral loans go to pay up old debts} keep what stock will be left after allace & Co. get done with their |W reduction program. | The government ships in feed. but | there a lot of red tape con- |nected. Farmers must sign a death | warrant almos*, must swear that} they have no feed whatever, and| | are unable to buy, etc. Then if you| are fortunate enough to get some | feed, you are required to work for it, driving mules to do some road| work with horses that are scarcely able to do the farm work on ac- count of shortage of feed. | This is the way the farmers get help under the New Deal—when they try to feed themselves and not be a subject for charity. Workers of the city organize! We farmers have started here to or- ganize the Communist Party. We have 18 members in our unit now and expect four new ones at our next meeting. Whenever we can get the farmers to see how, when and where we are drifting today) | they become real C. P. members and | | go out and demand of the New Deal | | the things which belong to them. | A REAL DIRT FARMER. | is Soviet Government Changed Our Life,” Say USSR Farmers By a Group of Soviet Farmers PARIS COMMUNE COLLECTIVE FARM, U. S. S. R.—We peasants of the collective farm “Paris Com- mune” want to tell you through our own “Krestianskaia Gazetta” (peas- ants’ paper) about our life here. We had a very hard life in the pre-war time. We had over 360 grown-up people in the village and only 300 acres of land. The land- the peasants the poorest—sand and clay. Our village was known as the poorest in the region. Out of 170 men, 114 drudged for landowners and rich peasants. We had no scnool. In the whole village only one peasant, Michael Konytchey, went to school in the neighbor village at a distance of five miles. Thirty-one houses had no horses. Only 34 houses had cows. Only two men in the village lived a good life—the landowner and the rich peasant “kulak,” Kalinov. We lived that way till 1917. The Soviet government changed our life. In 1930 we organized the collective farm, and 65 families entered into it. We named our vil- lage the Paris Commune. Since that time our life became to the Federal Reserve Bank to|/H@ppy. All our children are study- ing. We built a school; 14 children are in the high school. The illit- eracy among the grown-up peasants is liquidated. Even the 70-year-old peasant Ivan Polojenko learned to read and write. He was taught by his nephew Vania. Now the grand- father is writing articles in our | wall-paper. He tells us how to plow, | sow, ete. All the members of the: collective farm are on good terms. We work in the best way. There is no place for lazy idlers. We have plenty of | bread for ourselves, and give to our | government a part. We have 48 horses in common, belonging to the whole farm. We grow our collective farm herd. We have 13 cows, Every worker of the the City Superintendent of Schools and make my peace with him be- fore my kid can go to school next term. Sincerely, A RETAIL MERCHANT OF LOUISVILLE, KY. ward the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union as the organizer of, and fighter for the steel work- ers, and ties it up with the June 3rd conference at Indiana Harbor organized by this union to build united front action. The article correctly brings forward the Com- munist Party, who endorses “Call on all workers to elect delegates and join the S. M. W. I. U.” The enumeration of the list of demands as basis for this action is good. There is a weakness in this oth- erwise good feature article in that there is an omission of simple and clear directives to the workers on how to go about organizing the preparations for the June 3rd con- ference. The method and the pob- lems to be raised in agitation, how to organize in the departments, the basis of representation, etc., are im- portant, if we don’t want to let things hang in the air. We cannot expect to issue a call and wait for the results without seeing each ac- tion through to the end in an or- ganizational way. The Youngstown Worker ap- proaches the June 3rd conference with an exposure of the A. F. of I, leaders, and the A. A. fakers like Mike Tighe and Leonard is paticu- lar. In this article the same weak- ness mentioned above is repeated. . Expose Company Profits Both papers print exposures of their respective corporations, show- ing how huge profits were made by them while their slaves were sutfering under the N. R. A. Here again, the June 3rd conference is Gary Steel Worker approaches the Problem by vigorously bringing for- |linked up. But information as to | what concretely is to be done, in owners took the best land and gave | collective farm has a cow for his} own disposition. We have only 33 pigs. Every fam- ily has little pigs. Some families have geese, hens, etc. . The “Lamp of Lenin” In the pre-war time there was no electricity in our village. There were only small oil lamps. Now everyone has big lamps, and very soon the “lamp of Lenin,” the elec- | tric light, will burn in our houses. The pre-war village had a bad reputation. Everybody knew that | the houses were dirty. The cattle | stayed in the same houses as the peasants in the winter. The air in the house was stuffy. Sixty per cent of the peasants had bad sicknesses. All this is far away in the past. Now we arranged a competition for the best and cleanest house. About 20 families have perfectly clean rooms. Every month we have a sanitary inspection. We built aj bath-house. Now even the most/| conservative peasants, who were! against this “invention,” visit the bath very often. Soap and tooth- brushes are the necessity not only of young folks but even of old people. Our focd now is very good. Tea is now not a luxury but an every- day drink; we have plenty of sugar. In 1933 our collective sowed 20 acres of sugar beet. The crop was very gcod. We gave the government 100 cwt. from our crop. We received for it 8 kilograms of sugar for every house. The earnings correspond to our work. The best shock-worker, Aleksei Piskunov, received for his work 48 kilos of sugar. The appearance of the peasant has changed. Some of the young peasants, for instance Misha Polo- jenkov, have three suits, two pairs of shoes and about 10 shirts. A Reading-House We have a reading-house in our collective farm, Very often we or- ganize with our own forces theatre shows. Sometimes we read aloud newspapers, issue our own kolchos wall newspaper. There is no single family which has not subscribed to and does not read newspapers. The newspapers are read by all the peasants. Owing to it we know not only about the happenings of our country, but about the life abroad. We know that the imperial- ists are preparing a war against the Soviet Union. We are able to pro- SHOP PAPER REVIEWS : the face of the exposue to get bet- ter conditions for the workers, is not indicated. Advice on’ how to start a little group in each depart- ment, how to organize petitioning for small demands could be included in such exposures. The Youngstown Worker carries @ paragraph relating how the ex- posure of certain harmful practices by the company in its previous is- sue led to a discontinuance of them. The article merely speaks of of need to “kick hard enough” and to “or- ganize stronger to win greater con- essions.” But how it is to be done is not explained. While the Youngstown Worker writes about two departments, the Gary Steel Worker deals with seven departments. In both papers the problems discussed are grafting bosses, favoritism, accidents, low pay for women, speed-up, company unicns, and lay-offs. But these questions are not made part of a discussion of the role of the Party, the union, the nature of shop work, opposition work and methods of or- ganizing practical actions. These articles are not concrete and there are no notes to the letters con- taining these complaints, advising in a practical way how to organize on the job, and how to carry out Struggles for partial demands to ameliorate these conditions. For example, in the Gary Steel Worker there is one article on the “Company Tries to Hide Real Is- sues,” and the other on ‘“Mer- chant Mill Men Face Lay-Off.” In beth, the question of rents, evic- e Holds Up Feed, and Work is Forced | from Those That Get Relief By Lambertien 18) wiscccmcase 9 ove ee der cane in hopes of raising enough | Hog and Corn Reduction Program of No Aid to Nebraska Farmers Hit by Drought ® | | 1,000. Workers By a Worker Correspondent IRON MOUNTAIN. Mich.—In the past few wecks the Ford Motor Co. has laid off more than 1,099 w rs. The majority of the wi hired last Janu: take care of increased According to reports going around, | the total lay-off will affect 1,500 | workers, or 50 per cent of the April payroll. The workers remaining on the jobs report that the already ter- rific speed-up is being increased daily. In an effort to keep these workers from going to the Relief Office, the County Relief Administration has started a rumor that no one will be given relief until they have been unemployed for at least 60 days. In some cases, however, relief has been given in two or three weeks time. Tho local press remaixs silent on the lay-off, and seeks to still the growing discontent of the u pioyed and employed Ford wo: | by printing an Associated Prers in- terview with Ford in which he demagogicaily sveaks of a six-hour day and a five day week. Ford's purpose in the interview as printed in the local paper appears to be twofold. Firstly, he seeks to pacify the men he has recently laid off by making them believe that the present decrease in production is only temporary, claiming that “the industrial picture is looking better all the time” and “things are very much on the upgrade.” His second purpose is to excuse the speed-up in his factories and call upon his henchmen, the fore- men, supers, etc., to increase speed- up under the guise that this will bring about a six hour day. He says, “The six hour day is coming be- cause. . things can be made faster. But the workers in this locality are beginning to realize that neither their “Dear Father in Dearborn” nor his Wall Street co-rulers of America are willing to give them anything unless they fight for it. NOTE We publish letters from farm- ers, agricultura: workers. forestry and lumber workers, and cannery workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us let- ters about their conditions of work and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of each week. tect ourselves. shoot well. The good relations with the or- ganizers of our farms help us very much. We have in our farm com- rade Sulzer, the chief of the politi- cal department. He is a good man —a professor. The centre sent him to help and lead us, We love him very much and are in very close friendly relation with him. We know everything about him and he knows all our lives. He is very often in our Kolchoz. He teaches us and learns from us. Some time ago we organized a festival. We invited comrade Sul- zer and the secretary of the party district committee Comrade Merku- lov. At this festival Comrade Sul- zer—the professor, danced ~vith the best shock-worker of our farm— Pelageia Novikova. That is in short our life. We hope that the readers of the “Daily Worker” will read with interest how we live and struggle for our new life. We in our turn wait your letters about the life and revolu- tionary struggle of American farm- ers. We read with great interest in the newspapers about the life of foreign workers. We are glad to read about your successes — and Serry to read about failures. In the name of 393 collective workers of the “Paris Commune” farm. — NIKITFOROV, NOVIKOVA AND GLAZKOV. We work good and and unemployed is overlooked. This is of particular importance since the steel workers suffer a great deal frem partial and complete unem- ployment. Here also is an oppor- tunity to build wide forms of or- ganizations that will help the em- ployed and unemployed, as was the case several years ago in the strike of the steel workers in Warren, Ohic. Must Be Strengthened Both papers must be strengthened ideologically so thet they will be able to approach problems politi- cally and in an organizational sense. Comrades will then be able to seiz2 upon every incident, to analyze and explain to the workers the mean- ing and significance of it, and con- scicusly to direct the workers in the most skillful manner to carry out erganized actions. These papers must teach and show by example just how a certain action is to be carried out from the preparatory stages, through the various actions to its conclusion. The workers should also be taught what organ- izational consolidation and gains sheuld result of such work. The workers should be taught how to build committees in the mills, how to build the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Unicn and opposition work, how to involve the women, youth, Negro workers in practical actions in defense of their interests based upon their special provlsms end demands. It would be well also for the Gary Steel Werker to print at the top of the tions, unemployment insurance, etc., are mentioned, but the building of movements to unite the employed paper the city in which the mill \1s located, since many large corpora |tions have factories in other cities. The Iron Mountain | Ford Plant Fires | PARTY LIFE New York District Gives $100 To Pittsburgh for Book Shop aif in Building Class An excellent example of solidar- ity, and of an derstanding of | the importance of g the con- centration 5 hown by the} | following cor: mdence exchanged | between Dictrict 5, Pittsburgh, and District 2, New York. New York has set an example which might well be followed by other strong districts. Frem District 5 to District 2 “Reading and hearing about the really good work New York is doing I have decided to grant your dis- trict a special privilege. You know that Pittsburgh is the most imver- tant concentration district, I will grant however that New York is next to Pittsburgh in importance and next to myself I consider that! you are a very good organizer. Now that this political basis has been laid I will come to the special priv- ilege that we will allow your dis- trict. “You see we are in great hopes | of opening a District Book Store in Pittsburgh by Labor Day, but one of tho difficulties here is, that although all the millionaires are produced here, ie., we give them their millions, but your city has been clever enough to draw all the money from here to New York. Of course we do not hold this against | you, “The result of this migration of the Dollar to New York, plus the hard work of District 2, you ‘have been able to develop the best and biggest Workers Book Store in the country. Now of course we are not asking ten per cent, but what do you think about donating $100 worth of books from_your store to “Our Book Store.” Don’t you think that that is a brilliant idea. “Just imagine what will happen when we write to all our organi- zations: “New York donates $100 worth of books to the Pittsburgh | Book Store.” District Organizer, District 5. From District 2 to District 5 “Your Istter of June 15 received. In all sincerity we really accept and « Contribution Will Aid V ital Concentration Area Struggle Groups agree with the privilege granted our District in helping the Pittsburgh District to establish a, book store. In the past, we have informally discussed how we can give help to the Pittsburgh District since we realizé its importance as the cen- ter of basic industries in the U. S. All the comrades of our District Secretariat enthusiastically agrecd to contribute $109 worth of books to the book store you are estab- lishing. This means $100 worth at the wholesale price you would have to pay for same, “We would like to hear from you as to the kind of books as well as the number of each that you would. like. We will then try to supply. the books according to your list, I believe. that you should have in mind, when selecting the titles that” you want, that there are many so- called old books which are basic and also many of which would be new for the Pittsburgh District. Nevertheless, we leave it to your to’ sond us the lis? and we wil}-fill- it as near as our stock will permit, “With the mood and determina- tion of the steel workers sharply developing towards struggle, we feel that our Pittsburgh District will soon be in the forefront of mass struggles involving workers of other basic industries also and thereby becoming our’ strongest and most important Party District.” District Organizer, District 2, Join the Communist Party 36 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City By PAUL LUT’ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Post-Graduate Courses In Russia M. R., Garden City, L. I—As far as we know there are no organized courses in pos‘-graduate medical work in Russia: We are positive, however, that if you decide to go to the Soviet Union, you will be given opportunity by the medical authorities to visit every medical institution, as well as the various rest homes, sanatoria, clinics, poly- clinics, hospitals and laboratories that you might be interested in. Physicians who have visited the Soviet Union tell us that the Soviet officials are eager to show and ex- plain their work, particularly to medical visitors from the United States. On the other hand, we have received several complaints from directors of medical. institu- tions that most of the visitors are too much in a hurry and that they do not devote sufficient time to study the details of the various medical enterprises. Yes, we decidedly believe that it will be well worth your while to spend six months in Russia and learn,.at first hand, of the remark- able program and innovations which have been introduced by the workers’ government in the prac- tice of medicine and particularly in the prevention of indus‘rial and other hazards. The medico-social phase’ of Soviet medicine is un- equalled. As to whether it would be worth while for your sister to accompany you, we wish to state that in her case there is an organized course of lectures, especially designed for school teachers. It is called the Anglo-American Ins‘itute of the First Moscow University; the sum- mer session begins July 15 and ends Aug. 26, 1934. These courses are under the auspices of the Institute of International Education, Inc., and you may get more information about it from this organizaticn which is located at 2 W. 45th S*,, ‘phone Vanderbilt 3—1924. Dr. George S. Counts, Professor of Edu- cation at Teachers’ College, Colum- bia University, and Dr. John Dewey, Professor Emeritus of Philosonhy, Columbia University, are members of the Advisory Council of this in- stitution, the director of which is Dr. Irving V. Sollins. The American Summer School in Russsia offers two courses dzeling with “Experi- mental Educ2'ional Programs of the Soviet Union” and “Institu- dl vt 4e4: ‘TINGER, M.D, — tional Changes in the Soviet Union.” Among the Russian ex- perts serving on the faculty of the Summer School are Professor Al= bert Pinkevitch, President of the Second State University of Moscow; Professor I. Svadkovski, Director of the Central Pedagogical Laboratory in Moscow, and Professor J. Meskin, Director of the Children’s Museum of’ the People’s Commissariat of Education. These courses comprise lectures on art, education, sociology, economics, psychology, Russian and- aeronautics. The ‘accomodations ate of two kinds: the dormitory plan and the regular hotel service of first, second or third class. Under either plan, three full meals daily, a@ guide and interpreter, and rail and motor travel are provided. Opportunity - for: athletic, cultural and social activities, after school hours, are abundant. There are separate dormitories for men and women and the fees are arranged so that they are within reach of the humblest purse. The total registration fee is $2.50 and the tuition fee is $20 per course. The minimum cost for travel and maintenance for the six weeks in the Soviet Union is $184.50. The approximate round trip steamship fare from New York is about $180. Yes, you can arrange with the World Tourists for your trip, as well as for everything else con- nected with it. Regarding the credits for the courses, the Anglo-American In- stitute will provide the Dean or. other ; administrative officials” of your sister’s college with a full academic description of the courses she takes in the progress of her work. The minimum university credit is two points and the max- imum is six points.. According to a rule of the Board of Education, New York City school teachers may offer the certificates issued: by the University of Moscow; to meet the requirements for actual. salary increment, or what is coni<” monly known as alertness credit. The dictatorship of the prole- tariat must be a State that em- bodies a new kind of democracy, for the proletarians and the dis- possessed; and a new kind of dictatorship. against the bour- geoisie—Lenin. 2 Nopel: IT’s Camp Unity ing July 1st Comrade Ar f course, excellent entertais le and comfortable acco! 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