The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1934, Page 4

y Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1934 \ Officials Break Up Mass tee oon oe, Struggle In New Mexico) Metter of 3 Tricked PARTY LIFE Chisels $5 a Day From Out of Her Job by Nazi . : und for Sick ies Employ: Mana, L u ECCI Plenums Picketing In Rochester "1!" For Wages on PWA Jobs| P"%2me'Mevwer| Literature of is Demonstration in Raton Forces Issuance of By a Worker Correspondent Poorly Distributed by Units , $1,500 for Relief NEW YORK—The country home Only Small Number of Propaganda Pamphlets By a Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—I am a mother of | three children who has been look- | ing for any sort of work to feed my family. I went to the United | Employment Agency, 165 East 72nd Discourage Further Action after 5,000 Demon- strate in Support of Drivers for convalescent babies at Sea Cliff, L. I., accommodates about 60 babies. institution $1.40 ld per day for their main- ce, The new city administra- “By a Worker Correspondent so that complains Mrs. W. D. Guthrie, BY & Worker: Comrespondent would be arrested. I asked him how vi e out, an ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Follov Avon Dairies strike was| President of the home, cut the sum| RATON, N. M.—I took pa:t on a/ B® Was going to get me out, and mass picketing 5,000 wor! er ee months, scabs per child per day. Every | Committee to demand relief for the Cannty, Ghee aad A lauaned under the leadership of the C heir jobs. Scully came the home, states Mrs.) workers on the work program, P. W. hen We mmnitnicated” With the ides and Labor Coun 1, led by nd pleaded for them to » is convalescing from seri- A, These workers had already most class-conscious workers about the Amalgamated Clothing Work- s to the jobs, s Iness, and is undernourished | worked four or five weeks without this. si or . ts:and supported by the C: whine aa} maciated. The cut of the city’s |heing paid, and with no relief.| this. ; : : nist “rag the Unempioym working so | idy aggravates the condition of This happened in Raton, New peri are ee — Council and the Rank and File Re- ick babies. . Mexico. The administrator of the|MycUrs, and te Word they aiant lief Workers’ Organization, an i A little arithmetic. The city pays p w. A. said that they had not re- a ag Rap lbata icine Junction issued this week z: for one-third of the babies in the| ceived any money from the State| Wnt Policeman puty shi 4 Weak leadership of ‘Local 115. Te home. The accommodation is 60 Capital ‘We went to the relief sta- and stool pigeon. Then he said he ‘sters, Chauffeurs re -| children. So the city pays the in- ¢ = was going to destroy the League. and Helpe Union the excuse for calling off ™@ss action and preventing the Winning of their strike at one of the-biggest department stores here Sibley, Lindsay & Curr. After @niouncement of the injunction Camre, both the Amalgamated and Central Trades overrode the strik- ing truck drivers’ militancy and re- fuSéd to carry on mass picketing to break down the injunction. The company is spreading thou- Sands of leaflets to discredit the Strike, being backed up by the local Chamber of Commerce. His suc- cess as a strikebreaker coincided With the appointment of the com- Pany’s president, Harper Sibley, One of six directors to the United States Chamber of Commerce. Attorney John Scully, who is the legal sellout advisor for the Central Trades Council misleaders, has been fastened on to the Milk Wagon Drivers’ Local 645, well as on the*Sibley strikers. He helps the union business agents institute a vile form of dictatorship in order to Hold any left wing movement in check. His first act was to justify giving strikebreakers preference on he engineered a which the company was given free right to deliver scab goods—while the workers were prevented from mass picketing. Although mass pressure of the workers was strong enough to force a five per cent wage increase, sur- render of the A. F. of L. paid offi- cials left settlement of workers’ grievances out of the contract. In- Stead, the contract provides that if other packing companies go on ke, these workers are forbidden ruce,” during 8 With Scully advising the T. C. nd H. U., the Sibley drivers’ strike rags on to a defeat that will leave he strikers out of jobs, while in shops previously signed with the union scabs are given first pref- erence, Demands of the rank and file are for mass violation of the injunction, calling of all the work ers in this store out on sympathy strike, and buiiding of an industrial union. Winning of control of Lo- cals 115 and 645 by the workers in- stead of by capitalist lawyers’ is the burning need. > Shall We Have Salad, or Shall We Have Salad? If we're not having a good long Stretch of salad-weather—then we don’t know what salad-weather is— though if it stretches out much longer we won’t have ingredients for-salad or anything else. On such hot days many house- Wives wisely prepare the day’s food, as~far as possible, in the morning. A-type of salad that can be pre- pared even a day ahead is the kind Moulding an assortment of chopped vegetables in jelly. Almost any preferred combina- tion: can be used: a mixture of equal parts of finely chopped celery, cab- bage and green or red peppers, | Moulded in lemon or lime jello, giv the variety known as “Perfection.” For a pint package of the gelatine, use about three-fourths cup of each veBetable; add one teaspoon salt and*three tablespoons vinegar (or four of lemon juice) to the gelatine after it has been dissolved in one cup of boiling water. Add another two-thirds cup cold water (as vege- tables are wet, less than usual two full cups of water are used) and when cool, the vegetables. | Pour into bowl of mould, put in icebox or other cold place. When “set,’”’ serve blocks or spoonfuls on lettuce with mayonnaise. Grated| or shaved carrots could replace the Peppers or be used in addition. For a very attractive salad set in a ring mould the following: One Package lemon or lime gelatine dis- solved in one and two-thirds cups boiling tomato juice; add one tsp. salt, dash pepper and ground cloves and grated onion; one fourth tsp. paprika and 4 tbsp. vinegar. When chilled and set, unmould and fill center with cole-slaw, with more slaw and, if available, lettuce and Mayonnaise around the outside. In preparing “French” dressing for cole-slaw and similar salads, a marked bottle will be found con- venient. An empty syrup bottle answers nicely. With paint or lac- quer mark two rings around the! bottle to indicate the proper levels | for+vinegar (or lemon juice) and | oil’ Then measuring is unneces=| sary—just put into the bottles the | seasonings, pour in vinegar and oil to the proper levels, cork, and shake. The usual proportions are one- fourth to one-third as much vinegar as oil, depending on acidity of vin- egar; and a half teaspoon salt plus a pinch of pepper to each cup of dressing. A pinch of paprika, dry mustard, or both, may be added. ‘Though there are various cheaper codking oils on the market, some} workers prefer to stick to the real | olive oil, for flavor and excellent food value, including vitamins. | Widespread adulteration of olive) oils was reported last fall, but we found a brand which comes in) tamper-proof packages (except | smallest size) carrying the chem-| ical analysis on them. It’s a Span- ish oil, virgin, of mild flavor due) to the soil of the region supplying time (at least two years from date of packing). Packages are filled a bit over the required amount so there will be full measure in cold Weather, when oil contracts. (The smallest size, at ten cents, is a bot- tle shaped not to slip out of the hand if taken to the beach for use against sunburn.) Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1924 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 5 yards 39 inchfabric and % yard lace. Illustrated step-by- step sewing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (5c) coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. , | Stitution for, let us say, 20 children. The economy is there for 20 quarters a day, a round sum of $5 a day. The richest city of the richest country in the world economizes, saves $5 a day on the sick babies. Mrs. Guthrie also complains that because of the economic crisis, dona- tions to the home greatly decreased. The idle rich spend thousands, millions of dollars on luxurious parties, balls, etc., despite the eco- nomic crisis. The Astor boy has just spent a million and a half on presents to his bride, despite the crisis, and the Astor boy is one of many. Millions of dollars are collected in the name of the poor and sick. Where does that money go? Just one instance. A small orphan asylum paid $6,000 a year and com- plete maintenance, including a pri- vate maid, to its supervisor, a young flapper girl, a friend of the president, who eventually married her. Only in a Soviet system will the | workers and their children get all |they need, and not in the form of charity, but as their right. LaGuardia Brazens It Out About Food at City Flophouse “Never Tasted Better,” He Tries To Tell Committee By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — The struggle be- tween the homeless men in the Mu- tion or administrator to see about relief. We were at work, with no pay, no relief, nothing to eat—how could we work? He said there was. no money or funds. We said the peo- ple of Raton were not going to| starve any longer. Later the eal | mittee was called by the adminis- trator to tell my people that they had $1,500 ready to issue for relief. He got even by stealing $3.75 from | I’m going to give you another| the treasury of the League and 50) |report about New Mexico, of one| membership cards, and the papers| | betrayer of the workers, whose name) of the League. The workers had to is Elesello Galvan. This betrayer|take them from his wife by force. was the secretary of the Spanish} When we selected a committee to Workers League, and he made him-|get the pay for the workers thet self very friendly to me, but Ij work on the relief wo:k program, he did not trust him. He told me that|was named on this Committee and I could speak as radically as T|he accepted, but when we were ready wanted, anc I told him that the|to present our demands he said he police were after me and maybe I! had some business at home. That same afternoon 50 more joined the League. Then he wanted to attack me, but the workers d: not let him speak against the or- ganizer. I told them to let him,} but again the workers insisted that) he could not speak against me. I} took the floor. I attacked him | severely, telling him just what he is. | The wo:kers put him out. | | Fight on Injunction in Grand Rapids Spreading Rank and File of Unions Ready To Join with} Hardware Workers in Sympathy Strike By a Worker Correspondent | The City Paws started to carry | GRAND RAPIDS, Mich—To the/| out their his rical role and the) |slogan of “Smash the Injunc'ion”| Workers were given the royal | |the workers of Grand Rapids are|@round. They were sent from de- |rallying to the support of the|Partment to department and per- | strikers of Winters & Crampton,|™ission was withheld for several \hardware manufacturing plant.|4ays—then on June 29 a news item | This is entirely a rank and file|@ppeared on the front page of the | movement, as far as the A. F. of L,| afternoon paper stating that per- | officials are concerned. mission had been denied; but, nev- Brother Pickle, president of the| ertheless, the committee was kept| Polishers & Buffers Union, Local 7,|‘unning about for several hours whose members are on strike—| More till the authorities felt that | promised injunction Judge Verdier | it was too late for them to make| that he would produce in court | Other arrangements. This had al-| in| and lumber workers and cannery nicipal Flophouse and the officials | of that place has in the past weeks | grown so intense that the officials |have hired a special strong arm squad in addition to their regular | | staff. | Saturday noon, instead of the| regular beef-less stew a dinner of | two hot dogs and spoonful of sauer-| kraut was put up on the dock. As| | per invitation, Mayor La Guardia | appeared. He took a bite of one of| the frankfurters and tasted the kraut, and then he went with the! an out of the way place at which officials from the dock to “invest!-| the City Fathers are always begging gate” the liouse. |the workers to hold their demon- The men immediately decided to| strations—and leaflets were put out put their grievances before the) all over the city calling upon work- mayor. Officials got wind of this,| ers to attend. and called several police radio cars |to keep the men away. The men! stood their ground and demanded that they be heard. They would not move, so the Mayor agreed to see a committee, i} Mayor La Guardia told us that he never tasted better food than he ; Pe Cache, Ill. j dust ate on the Rieger When in I toga echiv’ paper avery gaeebue |formed about the clam-less clam} des Lal fomines Bie chowder we had the day before, he |S0me days I miss ae gu a 2 said he wished he had been here. ed ee ae a eens. | When we tried to tell him about} There wes a fine May Day all |the unsanitary conditions, etc., he over the country. I was glad to read | told us to put it in writing and give| abouts te aha, the: first, stab? in Heke niet a eee ving America’s problem. With The Municipal Local of Council of | SOLVn8 : si | Unattached, Affiliated Unemployed fascism facing Saat Oras oe Councils of Greater New York, | against it. |mects regularly at our own hall, | 517 E. 14th St., every Tuesday and) the Mississippi river and I will be Friday at 2 p.m. We hold open/here for 6 months, and then back |air meetings 4 to 7 times a week | to Southbend, Ind. outside of the “Munie” and night| | meetings all over the city. | * * . Here are the victories we have) STAND 100% FOR HATHAWAY won this week. | AND RAYMOND Tuesday. We forced the officials) Cahone, Colo. to feed all men applying for food] Our unit has just mailed a pro- instead of just the men who sleep|test to Mayor LaGuardia and also there. We accomplished this by a)the Governor of New York. Tell members of the union against whom the court had issued warrants for continuing to picket in spite of the injunction. Mr. Pickle is will- ing and eager to turn his boys over to the lions—and for his collabora- tion the judge did not press any charges against the union leader. strike, the rank and file committee planned a mass protest meeting for June 29 and asked the City Com- Letters from A FINE MAY DAY R. Mc. thugs on the dock. |Raymond that we stand behind Thursday. We forced the offi-|them 100 per cent against the city | cials to give out shirts and socks to| thugs and fascist misleaders. |many needy men, for the first time | Revolutionary greetings, |since the “Munie” opened. Theis | ALLEN C. HERRING, intention was to keep these shirts) Unit Secretary. | for the men who work there only. | Es * x6 | Friday. We forced a promise of|4- F. of L. RAISING FUNDS TO | soap towels, also of better food. COMBAT RADICALISM Saturday. Interviewed Mayor. Buffalo, N. Y. All unattached men, build), If any more proof is needed of branches of Council of Unattached, | the collusion between the A. F. of L. ‘anch, 5 |and_ the owners of industry, come | or join our b-anch, 517 E. 14th St. |to Buffalo, | NOTE: | The Central Labor Council thru | z its paper, tral Lal 1 | We publish letters from farm- pep panes, Wie Cee pee omnes | Herald, is carrying on a campaign | ers, agricultural workers, forestry | for funds pre ene the erouing | tide of radicalism among the rank | workers every Thursday. These /and file. The method used is a tele- | workers are urged to send us let- | phone appeal to the business men ters about their conditions of | to advertise in the Herald. “We rep- | Work, and their struzgles to or- | resent the conservative elements,” ganize. Please get these letters | says the voice, “you are the only In the latest development of the) mission for the use of Island Park—j I am way down on the farm near | militant stand defying police and|Comrade Hathaway and Comrade | to us by Menday of each weck. ones that we can call on combat Address orders to Daily Worker | it, and of low acidity, which means | Pattern Department, 243 West 17th it doesn’t turn rancid for a long’ St., New York City. ‘An Opportunity to See the CHICAGO WORLDS FAIR FREE Two round trip tickets will be given away at the Morning Freiheit Day and Moonlight EXCURSION TO BEAR MOUNTAIN On the Beautiful Steamer CLERMONT 4 Saturday, July 14th, 2 P.M. Boat leaves from Pier A, Battery Park. King David's Jazz Orchestra Tor Dancing. Refreshments and Drinks to appease your appetites at : city prices : Admission; in advance 85c — at Pier $1.10 | the rising tide of radicalism in the rank and file union mombers. If we |do not weed out the radicals at the | | DR. EMIL EICHEL | coming state convention to be held here in Buffalo, the union may fall DENTIST 2 ' ' 4150 E. 93rd St.. New York Cityy { Cor. Lexington Ave. ATwater 9-8833 ' and help us now to fight the radical elements, you will be amply repaid in the future.” | This is the sams union leadership that has heiped to defeat every strike movement in the city of Buf- falo, A worthy recommendation to present to the business men of | Buffalo. Verily, these are men who |can do their jobs well! | Is this the kind of leadership that we workers of Buffalo and America | want? Most certainly not! Hours: 9 a. m. to 8p. m. Sun. 9 to 1 Member Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY | 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M . B. a WILL FINDER PLEASE RETURN PURSE New York City. WHERE Our Comrades EAT RAPOPORT'’S Dear Editor: |_ I wonder if you could spare a few |lines in your paper about an acci- dent that happened to me. I lost my purse Sunday, July Ist; about 5:30 at Tibbets Brook Park, on the east stairs going up to the restau- DAIRY 4nd VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT | 93 Second Ave. N. Y. City b into bad hands. If you come along) |most the effect desired by the! | bosses, for by having to change the} | meeting place at a moment's notice | and the story in the paper could} only mean a small meeting. | However, this is just the begin- | ning. A conference is being ar- ranged for by an Anti-Injunction | and Defense Committee to be held) jat the A. A. S, Hall on Friday,) July 6, for the purpose of arousing the entire working class of Grand Rapids against the menace of the | injunction. Several unions have} unofficially declared themselves: as) being in favor of a sympathy strike. | Soon the city may expect to find) | itself no longer isolated in the ‘chronicles of the class struggle. Our Readers rant inside the refreshment pavil- lion, where I sat down for a few minutes to ccol off. There were) several Communist picnics that day; perhaps some comrade found the purse. It was small and black, like the kind usually found in pocket- books and contained $42 and some house keys and a shoe repair ticket. This is all the money I have in the world; $30 for rent and $12. for my sister and myself to live on for two weeks. The reason I have the nerve to bother you about this is that I am a worker and you are my paper, and besides my father just came out of the hospital. This makes every penny I have triply precious. Will you give some space to this and say that I will be glad to give 25 per cent reward; also to have finder get in touch with either the Daily Worker, or my office, Monu- ment 2-3750, 100 Morningside Drive. | I shall be more than grateful for anything you can do. JOAN ROSE CUSHMAN. a ae IN CELEBRATION OF A NEW-| BORN SON | New York City. I herewith wish to announce the arrival of a son born Thursday, | May 31. Enclosed you will find check or $5 for the “Daily” in celeoration of the youngest theoretician of the Communist Party, U.S.A. He can only go in for theory, he is too young for practice. ROSE and HARRY SIDNEY. HOLD “BINGO” AND RAISE MONEY FOR TOM MOONEY Homestead, Pa. To the Editor, Just to let you know that the Unemployed Council of Homestead held a “Bingo” for the freedcm of Tom Mooney. We collected the sum of $5.10 for this brave victim of cap- italist injustice. / Comradely, PTO saa A CRITICISM AND PROTEST ON LONG MEETINGS Sacramento, Calif. Editor Daily Worker: | I have a word of friendly criti- cism for a Leo Gallagher meeting held here on May 21, 1934, in Na- tive Son’s Hall. |. This meeting was widely adver- tised and the hall was well filled with paid admissions, The local speakers occupied the time until a late hour, so Leo Gal- lagher spoke but a short time. I think these people paid to hear Leo Gallagher, and not Mr. Wilson and Mr. Hogarty, who can be heard almost .any afternoon or evening (free of charge) at the “Plaza” park. What does the editor, or the Central Committee think of con- ducting a meeting like this? | the arrested workers to the jail. St., not knowing that this place was run by a Nazi. While wait- | ing in the office, I met Mrs. Free- man, a nice Jewish woman, who was looking for relieffKifih s looking for a general house- | worker. Mrs. Freeman offered me a job in her home at $40 a month, and the proposition being attrac- tive, I accepted. Just then, the manager came over to us. When he learned that we! had already discussed terms, he be- | came very angry and abusive, call- | ing Mrs. Freeman a “big Jew.” He continued in this vein, and after Mrs. Freeman, who became fright- | ened at this behavior, left, this fas- cist said: “What this country needs is a Hitler to put the Jews where they belong.” I became very angry at this, and answered him: “Germany is going to overthrow Hitler there, and we certainly won’t stand for him here.” Mrs. Freeman had written her address on a newspaper, and the manager had seen her give me the Paper. This anti-Semite took the | paper away from me, and crossed | out the address. As Mrs. Freeman | was already gone by this time, I} had no way of locating her, and I lost a good job. Company Union in Tobacco Shop Used. Against | Workers Foremen Are Members, | But Employes Have No Voice | By a Tobacco Worker Correspondent | LOUISVILLE, Ky—The ° Axton Fisher Tobacco Co. of Louisville, Ky., is a union tobacco shop em- Ploying members of Local No. 16. These employes have no voice in this company union. The company demanded that all) employes wear a uniform, with the color, make and cost to be decided by the officials. Then on Monday, | June 11, the company laid off 150| employes without mentioning or| giving a reason to a person or com- mittee. | Tuesday, June 12, a new shop | rule was made—any girl having to go to the rest room must report to a timekeeper on going to and com- ing back from the res room, and is allowed only a three-minute Period twice a day. All foremen and foreladies are| company union members. | The company manufactures 20/ Grand, Spud, white mule twist, and other smoking tobaccos (Old Hillside), | 300 Pack Court at | Trial of Jobless Lincoln, Neb., Workers Free Demonstrators LINCOLN, Neb.—Three hundred workers, in spite of scorching tem- perature of 110 degrees, packed the court on June 28 during the eight- hour trial of Burleigh, Miller, Waples, Corbett, Richards, and Hazelzigg, six workers arrested during a jobless demonstration here. Defended by I. L. D. attorney Holeman, four of the workers were freed, and two, Burleigh and Hazel- rigg, were fined $1 and costs, from which verdict appeal will be made. Beth ave now out on bond. The arrests grew out of police at- tack on a sustained struggle of the jobless, demanding adeouate cash relief. On June 13, at the call of the Workers Unemployment Coun- cil, 300 workers massed at the county relief offices. 7. On June 20, the workers marched on the relief offices, demanding an answer to their demands. Police attacked and arrested Burleigh and Miller. Protesting the arrest, the workers marched on the City Hall where Corbett, Waples and Hazel- rigg were seized. Richards was jailed when the workers followed On June 27, 400 unemployed workers massed at the county re- lief offices. Britt Pryor, president of the Central Labor Union prevailed upon the workers to stop the meet- ing, and a committee was sent to the F. E. R. A. for a reply on the workers demands, South Bend Bakers Win Demands Thru Rank and File Action (Daity Worke= Midwest Bureau) SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 3.— Workers in Ward Baking Co. here, forced the company to grant their demands in the question of hours, wages and working conditions yes- terday. Rank and file organization for strike action won this victory. | A few da: ago, the workers drew | up their demands and elected a committee to present them to the boss. They also agreed to strike | Monday, when they have to do double baking on account of the Fourth, if the demands were not met. Practically all of the men, most of whom are youth, refused to have anything to do with the A. F. of L., and elected their own rank and file committee to lead their fight. Eighty-five per cent of what they asked for was granted by the com- pany at the last minute before the strike deadline. ‘The Daily Worker gives you the truth about conditions in the Soviet Union, the truth about workingclass strikes in the United States and abroad. Buy the Daily Worker at | and Chicago—popularized the Thir- |man Party. | Party, workers of revolutionary mass Sold in Concentration Districts By the Agit-Prop Commission, C. C. For the first six months of this year the Communist Party has published tens of thousands of Pieces of very important propa- ganda literature. This literatu:e consists primarily of the reports, resolutions and most important speeches of the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, the seven- | teenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the} eighth convention of our Party. | If we aze to judge the carrying} out of the decisions and resolutions of the thirteenth Plenum and the eight convention of the C. P. U. S. A., in -the various districts of our Party by the sale of our literature, then we surely have a very sad pic- ture. From the literature sales as vecorded by the C. C. Literature Department, it is evident that the| Party membership, not to speak of |the broad masses of revolutionary workers following the Communist Party, have not been made familiar with the contents of the reports and resolutions of the thirteenth plenum of the E. C. C, I. and the sevens teenth Congress of the C. P. S. U. No: is the situation much better in Tegards to the published material of our convention. It stands to reason that if our Party member- ship does not read the resolutions and reports of our national and in- ternational plenums and conven- tions, how will they car:y them out? In examining the sales figures of some of our most important publica- tions, one gathers an impression that somebody is hiding our litera- ture from the broad masses of workers and from our own Pa:‘iy membership. We shall illustrate this by sales records of recent pub- lications up to June 25th: Eighth Seventeenth THIRTEENTH PLENUM SERIES Convntion C.P.U.S.A, 0. i > F a z | 2 5 Bag |2 5 by $ neat sk 3 3 FS = : 3 2 3 ee Genres bees i, Yer: Fy : 2 5 & < 2 Fi] yes edi & a ¥ EES Sees Se = le @ 3 1 3 70 100 3 30 214 210 20 138 2° 1,500 1,503 2,502 754 2,551 2,440 3.781 1,801 2,727 1,500 3 61 49 134 98 61 360 233 im 344 cd 4 1 6 _ 1 1 w 2 1 2 1 5 95 a2 80 6 187 120 231 51 4 we 6* = 102 702 61 501 700 oon 150 1,087 100 7 35 ud %S 7% 35 ‘335 185 ~o 263 an 8 108 8 161 112 111 9388 472 410 ‘506 235 9 45 cy 20 2 30 185 ® 16 B 5 10 a 5 _ 6 3 7 16 a aca 13 pe _ — _ — _ 17 2 3 5 5 2 35 31 30 41 cou 279 cu ay 106 J 13 29 95 1867 181 214 980 633 413 436 101 4 5 5 25 30 1 20 125 41 iL 3 40 15 _ 2 7 15 5 10 10 85 BM ld aT 30 16 4 12 4 9 4 4 4 35 30 10 “4 5 17 — 5 5 3 ei st pat Be get eee 1 Pig 18 16 20 26 31 30 4 14 61 _- 5 16 5 19 a 25 45 40 35 5 30 38 36 50 28 “ i - 1 > 1 1 1 1 3 _ _ — TI epee od eter lad se erence = 23 fae hth o/b aie whee pial ay. eae Lele = Pi 10 15 15 5 10 _ _ a0 — 25 5 2 7 6 6 5 6 se ad - 26 _ _ _ - oe _- — — _- _ _ _- Dae 2,158 2,643 3,260 2,191 4,142 1,495 3,859 7,081 6,610 4,024 5,737 2,488 lis] 5,000 5,000 8,000 8,000 10,000 5,000 7,300 9,600 8,000 8,000 10,000 8,000 * See Comments on New York and Cleveland Districts below. The figures in the table speak for themselves. How have two of the most important districts—Detroit teenth Plenum when Detroit pur- chased up to June 25th only 85 and Chicago 103 copies of Kuusinen’s report and 71 and 208 copies respec- tively of Piatnitsky’s report? This shows that not only the Party mem- bership did not read these vital reports but that even the most active comrades, the functionaries of the Pa:ty organizations, the or- ganizers of units and sections, the secretaries of Party fractions, the Party agitators and propagandists! have not read them. | Or, take the sales of the report of Comrade Pieck on the German situation and the work of our Ger- The members of our organizations, manifest such great interest in the German situation; but Detroit could not sell more than 70 copies of this report, Chicego, 8| (1); California.*95; New Jersey, 25; Connecticut, 15; and Milwaukee, 31 It should also be called to atten- tion that the above figures of sales from the center do not necessarily mean that the literature is actually distributed or, if it has been sold to the sections and units that it has actually been read and studied as it should be. In studying the figures from this point of view one naturally wants to investigate first of all the large figures for New York. The large ‘sales in the N. Y. District is due to the development of extensive sales to the mass organizations by| the district literature department. A check up in the district literatuze department revealed the following pamphlets remaining on hand of the Thirteenth Plenum Series on June 26: Kuisinen, 325; Piatnitsky, 225; Knorin, 250; Pieck, 400; Man-| uilsky, 1100; Wan Ming, 125; Okano, 1,400; Theses, 125. It is of course, more difficult to get a complete pic- ture of the situation in the sections and units. However, it is reported that there ave sections that wish to} return considerable quantities to the district literature department. On the whole, there appears to have been no consistent activity for the study of the reports and decisions) of the Thirteenth Plenum organized through the District Agit-Pron of the Party. Whether the pamphlets were distributed or not depended almost entirely on the initiative dis- played by the particular unit. For instance, we have the following reports from Section 11: One unit organizer Jecided that there was no comzade outside of himself in the unit capable of understanding the speeches at the Thirteenth Plenum: He therefore bought one of each of the pamphlets for him- self until he was criticized at the section conference, Another unit drifted along without a literature agent. A few of the Thirteenth Plenum pamphicts vere bought from the section but they retu:ned most of them unsold. A third unit, Unit 16, in the seme neighborhood as the above units, having an active literature agent (who has since been promoted to Section Agit-Prop): sold about 50 copies of the Theses and Draft Resolutions; Pieck. 30; Manuilsky, 25; Piatnitsky, 20; Kuue sinen, 20; Okano, 15; Wan Ming, 12. This unit it-is reported, reacts im mediately to all local struggles. The Cleveland District also shows a considerable pu-chase of pam- phlets of some of the titles. How- ever, the larger figures represent pamphlets sent for the Convention Sale in April, most of which re- mained unsold. The Cleveland Dis- trict is now asking to return the following pamphlets: Manuilsky, 200; Theses, 150; Okano, 250; Piat- nisky, 250; Knorin, 250. The Cleve- land District has ozdered none of the main report of Comrade Kuu- sinen to the Thirteenth Plenum. (To Be Continued) Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. ¥. C. Please send me. more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. — (Continued) CRAMPS Occupational cramps from over- worked muscles are more easily con- tracted by those who are in poor health or who work in a faulty pos- ture or in a cramped position. When the hand or foot is injured, cramps are more likely to develop in the affected muscles. Among writers and stenographers, writers’ cramp develops sooner among those who are neurasthenic, anemic or who worry a lot. Occupational cramp is really an affection of the nerve supplying the overworked set of muscles and should be treated as a neurosis. The first and best treatment is complete physical and mental rest. Some- times a change of cccupation or of scenery is necessary; while other cases require an iron tonic, better food, or iron injections and sun- shine (artificial or natural). Stim- ulan‘s, such as alcoholic drinks, coffee, tea and tobacco aggravate the condition. On the other hand, Oo. O. M. the newsstands, graded exercises, massage, dia- thermy (deep electric heat), alter= nate hot and cold compresses and baths are often beneficial. Besides heat and occupational cramps, Wwe ‘must mention the monthly cramps to which women are subjected. It has been este mated that nearly 50 per cent of all women engaged in industry suffer from dysmenorrhea, or menstrual cramps. Female workers who suf- fer from these periodic pains can- not afford to stay in bed for three days every month, and they, there- fore, resort to all kinds of drugs which are guaranteed to either cure or stop the pain. In the spasmodic type of menstrual cramps, five grains of amidopyrin (sold under various trade names) thrice daily, gives relief, but does not cure. In cases due to congestion, certain ex- ercises, such as “creeping exere cises,” might ulimately cure the condition if faithiully performed for a long time; this being particularly true when the uterus (womb) displaced backwards. (To Be Continued)