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Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1934 |How Boot and Shoe © mas Sleep in Converted Pig Pens Jung’s Shoe Co. Poor Collect Spoiled apes 2 aye Strikers Are Helped Meat Dumped Out By “Relief” Warehouse PARTY LIFE By Mass Pickets| Answers Criticism At Minnesota Transient Camp (By a Worker Correspondent) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—M Lake Transient Camp, located on the shore of Medicine Lake about 10 miles from Minneapo is under the supervision of Reveren There is usually about By a Worker Correspondent TAMPA, Fla.—I’m going to tell you just what I saw with the Emergency relief council. I had business at the emer- gency relief farm and while there I. Miller ane Are Allowed to Hire and Union Helps Bosses Ofifcials Let Boss Send | Out Work to Scab By a Shoe Worker Correspondent SHEBOYGAN, Wis.—Jung’s Shoe Co, workers had been on a strike for nine weeks. Unemployed and |sympathizers wanted to help them! of Party’s Attitude To Boston School Had to Draw In New Forces to Build School— u 3 r ci ah jin a mass picket. but the strikers | e Oaded With Work Paul, whois also in charge of one small toilet for 50 or 60 men|| I noticed quite a few men out in |/¢ Fire At Will Coittactar Said they digas went «mikes cake Comrades Already Overload Union City mission of of the ancient type, infested with|| the woods putting something in 2 By N. S. SPARKS This camp was originally set up| f There is no sani-|| burlap sacks. I asked one man — | | Eight weeks went by, and they | District Organizer by an association of 170 churches in any part of the|| What they were doing and he said By a Shoe Worker Correspondent | By a Shoe Worker Correspondent |S@W they didn’t make any success, | of Minnesota. farm except the main building,|| they were getting some of the || NEW YORK—I am a worker in| NEW YORK.—As a worker in the |f0r there were only 160 strikers, so} 44 ig necessary to correct certain munism, Trade Unionism, and h is used by the convention- | Smoked pork that the relief coun- |/I. Miller Shoe factory, I worked | i they asked for a mass picket. | points raised in the article by Com-| above all Organization Principles, Medicine Lamp is now a govern- 36 URS 2 1h “St t M hi fe h lied uni he | Palter & Delisso shoe shop, I want | point ise y $s n Se ; 1 ists, The men must wash in basins,|| ci! had dumped there. Most of |/ there before this so-called union, the F The first two days of the mass|rade J. G. on the Workers School | This so-called “emphasis on theory ment camp for jobless single men it was mottled, and some had | Boot and Shoe, came in, and I am | to say that conditions here are be- | picket he <poliea dokee cols ehe'| ie iaaeaion published “417 ie: iigily| was in liaalt wallaecesion cr-theoryi Tegardless of residence. worms. working there now. Conditions| coming almost unbearable. This is | , = i 4 " Since the government started to pay the bills for Rev. Paul Mission Grove Farm, a few tions have been mace such as con- verting hog pens into sleeping quar- ters, and some tents have been erected on the grounds. In the summer the bosses who hide under the cloak of religion Spend it at Medicine Lake Tran- sient Camp. They all arrive at one time, and so it becomes a conven- tion paid for out of the pockets of the followers of religion. When the first convention ar- rived the men were moved out of the main camp building and their lodging houses, and moved into the tents, which are 15 by five feet, and contain eight beds each, no lights. Also the converted pig pens and Were brought into use with the beds Placed 18 inches apart and no place to store cept a few nails on the wall. The are given medical treatments by the govern- ment physician, while the men of the samp are forced to wait. They are also given the use of cam ute! grounds, six basins to 60 men. There are not sufficient ice boxes to keep meat and other food from getting spoiled, so very often meat and other perishables are mellow and rank. On this account there have been a number of times here when the men of an entire camp became sick. In fact a Convention of hristian Endeavor Soceity w also poisoned. Fortunately there has been btu one death during the month I spent here. There are about 600 of us here. where we are separated from the society of the outside world, with Now for four or five weeks be- fore this they were not giving out any meat to the poor and needy. Seems like they were just hold- ing it up in the warehouses, let- ting it spoil, and not giving it away to the people that need it Since then they have dumped more at the same place. Now just what’s wrong that the people can’t get this before it |] spoils. Public Hearing Bares Conditions At Hull House By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill.—A few of us at- tended an open hearing held re- cently at Hull House by the Workers Committee. This is the outfit the leaders of which at all times have refused to cooperate and work in were ba@ enough before, but now with this so-called union it’s worse than ever. The foremen can do whatever they please. They can lay you off or fire you whenever they like. And you can't complain to anyone, for the chairman and the foreman both agents of the boss. | Anyone that complains is liable to be fired, for only reds ask for better working conditions. And reds, as the boss calls workers who de- |mand better conditions are better jout of the factory than in. }@ union in the shop is when the agent comes to collect dues. | Fellow workers, it’s time to wake up to the realization that only we |ourselves can better our conditions by organizing groups in the dif- ferent departments to fight the rotten conditions and make this a real union shop, and not a com- pany union shop. work hand in hand, for they are| & Boot and Shoe Union shop, but |it seems that the only function of the Boot and Shoe is to condone every sort of rottenness that is foisted on the workers. The men have been getting along | prolonged slack season. It is so bad jthat many of them are carrying | around dispossesses in their pockets. | And on top of all this, when a little | work does come in, what do we | find? The boss gives the fitting room | tractor by the name of Pofkin. Complaints have been registered with the chief organizer Penner, but have been consistently ignored. | Union, and Carl Stefenson of Chi- | District leadership to explain to the | sympathizers | picket lines with tear gas bombs |and let the scabs go in to work. But on the third day, there were | about 5,000 people at the shoe fac- |tory to help in case help was needed, and others were there just to see what happened. On the/ third day the police force did a} on starvation wages, due to the | little interfering and this made the | This is absolutely contrary to the people mad, and in turn they blocked the whole street. This left | pene whole police force powerless. |if this were so. After seeing the great mass of pecple, who were mostly sympathi- zers and unemployed, the police and Mr. Jung, owner of the Jung's Shoe | cago, representative of the Interna- tional Bot and Shoe ‘Workers Worker of June 29. One would | since Marxian theory is inevitably gather from Comrade J. G.'s ar- ticle that the “Strugle to Build the Workers School in Boston” was primarily a struggle aaginst the dis- trict leadership and that the main obstacle to be overcome was the resistance of the district leadership. |distorted when divorced from prac- | tice. It was further necessary to |combat the tendency of some ele- |ments on the School Commitee to concentrate on a greater variety of more advanced subjects for better- |educated selected groups rather than jon a greater mass of worker= facts, and it would certainly be a/| students to take the most elemente remarkable situation in any district | ary courses. i A second general difficulty in the It sometimes happens that com-| work of the School was the coh- rades attempt to start a mew phase| stant underestimation on the part of work upon the same ingrown |of Comrade J. G. of the necessity basis and narrow circle of Party|of Party guidance and of the in- The only reminder that there is|W0rk out to a strikebreaking con-|Company, offered an agreement to|members who are already over-| volving of the Party oranization in ‘d i |which Frank W. Anderson, of Chi- | loaded with sc many tasks that they| the work of the School. It was the are unable to do anything well. In| Party organization, with the une such cases it is necessary for the| doubted and valued help of the on the committee, The shop chairman is afraid to say |cago, representative of the United | comrade that new projects must be | which built the School. It was the anything. That the Boot and Shoe | is a bosses’ and not a workers’ or- | | ganization is only too evident. They cem bent on letting the whole [crew here starve. States Regional Labor Board, Chi- | cago, agreed, and told the pcople | to agree. The agreement was that employes are to receive a 10 per cent increase in pay, recognition of the shop committee, and that all em- ployes who were employed before the strike are return to work. started on the basis of drawing in|same Party leaders who were up to new circles of people who can be|their necks in other work who specifically interested in this proj- | unfailingly served as instructors in ect. If the comrade concerned does | the Schoo}, popularizing the School not understand this fundamental | and fixing the interest of the stu- necessity and does not have a cor-/|dents in the movement. It was the rect attitude towards Party leader- | sections and units of the Party and ship in general, then they may mis-|the Communists in other organiza construe this guidance and say,| tions who got the workers to regis« Greatest Mobilization Needed cooking play no more liberty than the prisoners! bathing beach, boats, and the men “The Party won't let us do any-|ter. Yet, despite all this and de- of a penal institution. unison with other organizations thins.” This is exactly what hap-| spite Comrade J. G.’s statement. in to help raise the standard of living Minneap'lis Hungry \ ae 5 pened in the case of J. G. The|the article that “the Party must of the camp are given the job of| The men here are of all walks of| of the working class. a Success ul Garden Meet statements attributed to the District | take the leadership in the work of cleaning up the sleeping quarters | life, accountants, artists, farmers,; The master of ceremonies sure or £ leadership are doubtless due to in-| the local school committee,” despite and rubbish left behind by the! engineers, ex-servicemen, truck | was slick at choosing the ones he 0 ess e Pd! e correct recolection after two years;|the fact that J. G. and others on prayer leaders and their favorites,|drivers, youth, high school and|wanted to ask questions. He had jand the fact that the Party posi-| the committee are themselves Party and then are given strict orders | college graduates, and boys just out|his usual stool pigeon of La Marr, to remain near their own sleeping|of grammar July 6th Rally Brought Deficit; Urge Those Who Can Afford Dearer Seats To Buy Them ——. By CHARLES KRUMBIN members, there remained the unac- countable tendency to create issues between the School Committee and the Party and to reject Party school, old men |in|who was previously kicked out of | quarters after their work is done,|their dotage. |the Unemployed Councils for his| and not to disturb visitors by their; On Sunday afternoon, just at/dirty work, who tried to give a presence. meal time, three automobiles loaded | glowing account of the garbage he| | bi m by ‘Meat Carted Away ist is: ie'ciniade tintiy unwillingly did grasp the point and By a Worker Correspondent | funds | ea Of course there are lots of bosses|down with religious fanatics drive here to see that the men work.|up to our door and proceed to save They ride around from one campjour souls with lengthy preaching to the other in big cars and trucks,|and singing, telling us we aze sin- and then theer are more bosses who/ners jand must be saved. They remain on the grounds at all times.| should be sent to annoy our way- The work consists of farm work,| ward politicians. We can’t sin; we faising crops to sell to the govern-| are watched tco closely. fi NEW YORK. — Demands that the price of milk be set at eight cents a quart and that free milk stations for children of the unem-| ployed be set up throughout the | city were presented to Aldermanic President Deutsch on Monday by} a committee of 30 women repre- senting the United Council of | Working Class Women, Unemploy- ment Council, and consumers from | the Bronx, Brownsville, Williams- | burgh, Crown Heights and Beach sections. Claiming that he himself could do nothing, Deutsch promised to got to eat in the flophouse. He was jtrying te refute statements made | earlier by a few single men, regard- ing the inhuman treatment meted out to them in the flophouses. He |also tried to make excuses for the flophouse superintendent robbing men of their 25 cents after working five hours for it, just for being a few minutes late. Mrs. Grasso, a comrade, demanded and got the floor. When the mas- | ter of ceremonies saw the reception she got, he tried to tie her down to a few silly questions and got rid of |her as soon as possible. He soon }found out she was not so easily fooled; she answered his few ques- | tions, then gave a talk, and general |expose of the whole rotten system of relief. She was given a great ovation, which showed quite clearly gates. Tickel are 60 cents cents. (Tomorrow: Briefs on activities of English women.) for meeting only 25 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1931 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 34 yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by- step sewing instructions included. | to the tactics of this group of mis- leaders. | Organizer, Distric' A castes is a political event of jmajor importance. Not only are \thousands of workers informed of a given situation, but they are im- bued with their mass strength by the fact that so many get together under one roof. Further, the capi- talist press is forced to give pub- icity to a Madison Square Garden meeting, which results in additional | hundreds of th ds of Jing acquainted with the issues raised at the meeting, as for ex- ample, the publicity given to the meeting held by the Communist |Party on July 6th about the Ger- man situation and the campaign for the s, including banquet, |@ Seneral awakening of the workers | mann. A problem in connection with Madison Square Garden meetings, | for the revolutionary working class | organizations, is one of finances. With proper isues Garden mectings can be made a political success as lis proven by the July 6 meeting which was on one of the hottest In Decatur, I]. s2*,v2s, 02, one oe nouss By a Worker Correspondent DECATUR, Ill—¥For the past three or four weeks, Miss Elizabeth Graham, emergency relief director meet the commitiee from the Un- only on four days notice. The normal cost for a Garden meeting is The usual rent # $3,500. (The rent for the July 6 meeting was} Of Men Oey noe Sete $2,500 because it was mid-summer | becom- | freedom of Ernst Thael-| approximately $5,000. ' ee ee arrange a hearing for the com- mittee. with Mayor LaGuardia and the Milk Control Board. The committee was instructed to write to Commissioner Hodson, informing him of the number of free milk stations needed, and preferred locations. No action has as yet been taken by the au- thorities, pending the presenta- tion of the Committee’s demands | by mail to Commissioner Hodson. > har gee Big Sendoff Demonstration at Pier for Paris Congress Delegates The “Weasel” band (from the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League) will be out to help give the dele- gates to the Women’s International Congress Against War and Fascism a rousing send-off at Pier 57, West 15th St., New York, 9:30 a.m., Sat- urday, July 28, when the delegates board ship. All out! It will be a big occasion. Eyery man, woman and child op- posed to war, and not compelled to be at work at that time, should be there. A thousand leaflets were issued but the demonstration should have all the further publicity we can give it. “When the delegates board ship,” we said. But alas.’ if funds are not raised in a hurry at least some of them will not be able to board , ship. New York volunteers should report about 10 a.m. to the Com- mittee at 213 Fourth Ave. on July) 21 for the big tag day. They will| get material and directives for col- | lecting. Half the proceeds will go) to finance the delegates: the other | half toward the expense of Anti- | War mobilization on August 4. As a huge farewell banquet to} Willi Muenzenberg (a meeting also | in defense of Thaelmann and other | German prisoners) has been ar-| ranged at Bronx Coliseum for Fri- | day, July 27, and the delegates to | Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) “the Paris Congress invited to par-|coins or stamps (coins preferred) in ticipate. This affair will constitute | for this Anne Adams pattern. Write! their send-off mect, too. |plainiy name, address and _ style The N. Y. Women's Committee|number. BE SURE TO STATE (above address) has a quota of a/| SIZE. thousand tickets to dispose of for| Address orders to Daily Worker this affair, the proceeds to go to| Pattern Department, 243 West 17th the fund for fare of the Paris dele-' St., New York City. TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Daily Worker 50 East 13th St. New York, N. Y. Send me the Daily Worker every day for two months. I enclose $1 (check or money order). ste vecees sdeeeceees SHAG) os side owcdey: Note: This offer does not appiy to renewals, nor does it hold good fer Manhattan and Bronx. | and the date was open.) penses in connection with the Gar- den itself averaged $700 to $800. Be- |employment Council. | The police were kicking against needed. So the committee went to Jets, cte.. which costs an additional see Chief of Police E. F. Wills, and | $500 to $700. : asked him to use his influence that The seating capacity of the Gar- they might mect Miss Graham, as| den is about 18,200. Therefore, with there were so many families in a the usual expenses running about ¢ | starving condition that needed im-| $5,000, it can be seen tbat each mediate attention. | seat costs about 27 cents. However, the chief gave them to! From the above it must follow |understand he would not intercede | i,,4 unless we can convince those jin government affairs. He said he who are able to pay more than the | would take part neither way unless bal eral admission to do so, |the unemployed started a disturb. | 25 cents gencral admiss ink Teas }ance. Nevtrtheless, he tried to the meeting will be a financial los smooth the situation over with the | Which no revolutionary organization |can afford. This is especially true | commitee, told them to go and see| : \C. H. Logan, chairmen Brahe county | When we realize that thousands of |relief committee. As soon as the| Unemployed workers peas ne |committee was out of his office he| admission and cannot be turne called Logan’s coffin factory, and| away. | told him the committee was on its) For this reason the Communist way over there. | Party generally charges 25 cents for When the committee got there| general admission and 40 cents and | they were told Mr. Logan was not | $1 for reserved sections. Of course, | in. So they decided right there to go! we take a collection. But the col- |to Mr. Logan’s home. The girl in| jection seldom, if ever, meets the | the office told them he was out of | jocs incurred at the gate. The above |town. So the committee started | does not take into account the need |away, but one man went beck to! for profit from such meetings so get a drink of water. He over-| that the revolutionary organization | heard the office girl call Mr. Logan's | noiding the meeting can further its aes ae fu tees he ee better work. leave, for “that unemployed com- x Sis jane on their Wway to your house.’’ the higher priced tickets, that they a Hersh ore So" | should do so. Often many workers when they attempt to assume a) ad |right for a voice in their living| knowing that unemployed are ad- | conditions. mitted free, come to the meeting | Mis Graham says she will not |respond to a committee which has \the idea of taking relief adminis- | tration into their own hands. The ;poor hungry workers are not | capable, in her estimation, of know- ling their needs. Comrades, every- | where, let us put our shoulder to the wheel, and help along the cause | that will erase this demagogic sys- | tem that is trampling us into the | earth, | SPYING BY GOVERNMENT By a Worker Correspondent | BOSTON, Mass. — Specialists in | Washington are trying to figure out |a test which will enable examiners to determine whether applicants for citizenship believe in “an organized | form of government.” The test is to be some sort of set of trick | questions. | The country wants to make citi- | zens, to assimilate the alien ele- ment for machine slaves and can- |non fodder. But so many citizens are beginning to demand the rights | that citizenship promises but does | not fulfill, the government is try- ing to invent a test to pick out the yellowbellied workers who “believe” cce MILITARY DISCIPLINE | By a CCC Correspondent | JONESBORO, Ill. — I was talk- | ing on the job this morning, and | Harris, the state man, called me to him and said to get to a tree Other ex- | Help the Drive for 20,C00 NEW READERS— | | and trim the brush by myself, and | for me not to let him hear me | talking or he would send me to the captain, We had signed the payroll on | Wednesday, June 20. After we | signed the payroll we got threats | of getting a discharge for a little | bit of nothing. That's when we | got most all our threats for a dis- ‘honorable discharge. | NOTE: We publish letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers every Wednesday. Workers in these industries are urged to write us of their conditions of work, and of their struggles to | organize. Get the letters to us by Saturday of each week. in the present capitalistic form of government; from the Communis!s who fight for a workers’ govern- ment. Bolgna Makers Continue Strike NEW YORK.—Eight hundred bologna makers, members of the Amalgamated Bologna Makers Union, Locals 211 and 422, con- | tinued their strike against the Hi- {grade Company in New York and Newark, following a meeting at the | Regional Labo: Board offices where the owners of the plant refused to jagree to the strikers’ demands. Picketing of the New York branch Thursday. of the company will take ume t 2, C. P. U.S. A. MEETING in Madison Square | without paying, whereas, they could | South Side branch of the Salvation | pay the general admission price. This should not be done in the fu- | ture if the New York workers want | us to, and we are sure that they do, | to have as many Madison Square | Garden meetings as the issues of | the class struggle warrant. The problem is best illustrated by | the following financial account of | the July 6 meeting which not only had the purpose of acquainting the | New York workers with the situa- | tion in Germany, but the additional very important object of raising money for the German Communist | Party, the leader of the struggle against the German Nazi. | Financial Account of the July 6th Meeting Financial Account of the July 6 Meeting | Expenditures Rent... a | Garden Expenses: } Special Garden Police $153.50 $2,500.00 | Platform & Cleaning 200.00 | Loud speakers nn. 30.00 | Liebility Insurance... 35.00 | (AIL above items obli- | gatory) i | Band | Platform Decorations Signs... Buttons : 20.00 | 200,000 English Leafiets 390.00 20,000 Jewish Leaficts 45.00 10.000 Italian Leaflets 16.00 | sent | Collection ‘Trays. Expenses a/c Publicity Penny Tax to Unem- ment Councils Telegrames Adcpted & | | ‘Tetal Expencitures.. | Income Admissions Sale of Button Collection . Total Income Expenditures Inceme Deficit . . $470.68 \if the Salvation Army had to buy | | workers who were waiting for their organized an outside committee and MINNEAPGLIS, Minn.—A few! days ago an incident occurred at the | Army which should be published in the Daily Worker. A truck was| seen hauling awzey over 1,000 pounds | of government pork which had been | allowed to spoil. In view of the fact that the un- | employed mar?, ! men of Minne- | apolis are forc.i to work on the| R. A. for a miserly starvation budget, and have been cut off from obtaining any more Government provisions, it is a crime that this meat could not heve been distrib- | uted among them before it. spoiled. | Of course it is needless to say that | this meat it surely would have been | taken care of in a different manner. | In & conversation with some work orders last week in-the relief line, I learned that some of these married men with families were al- lowed as low as $5 per month for rent. I asked them how they were expected to make up the rest of the reni, and they replied that it was impossible to find any extra work, so all they could do was battle it out with the landlords, One worker told me that he re- | ceivod $11 per month for groceries and $5 for rent, making a total of | $16, for which he had to work 30| hours. Out of this check he had to Spend about 90 cents for carfare. He also said that the relief de- |partment would not allow him to | Work a few hours longer so he could | pay for gas and lights, so he had to| |use a gasoline portable burner to cook on and kerosene lamps to see with. But this fellow is lucky as I know of lots of families who sit in the dark every night and can not even afford a kerosene lamp. Of course one could very easily connect | | Letters from | Our Readers | “DAILY” THAN MORE ACCURATE CAPITALIST PRESS New York, N. Y. Dear Comrades: I want you to know how in- creasingly effective one comrade re- | gards the Daily Worker. several late instances in strikingly demonstrating the which our paper reports the news, and in showing that the “doctor- ing” of news is done only by the capitalist press and by its social- fascist and renegade allies. An outstanding instance in which you made clear the policy of the “Daily Worker” was contained in the editorial statement of some months ago, addressed to a worker correspondent, admonishing him to stick to facts: That facts needed no adulteration at the hands of the Communists — the revolutionary class-conscious vanguard of the working class. The sincerity and integrity of your editorial position finds con- firmation in today’s “Daily Worker,” The World-Telegram of July 9th states that 85 men quit their jobs on the Virginia when they docked at Pier 61. Teday’s “Daily Work- er” headlines that 68 quit! On an issue of working class soli- darity the “Daily Worker,” in ad- hering to precise facis, gave figures lower than the “liberal” World- Telegram, This indeed gives the lie effec- tively to anyone prattling about the “prejudice” and “distortion” of the “Daily Worker.” With best wishes in the present drive. Cc. W. LIKES IMPROVED MAKE-UP OF “DAILY” New York City. Editor,. Daily Worker: There was great improvement in yesterd2y’s Daily Worker. Why is it not possible to make the paper up like that ever day? The headlines in the articles were very clear, and the general make- up and appearance of the first page was much better. iH. E. B, I have been very successful in| fidelity with | up the gas and break the seal on |the electric meter, but then one doesn’t like the idea of digging worms for the guards out at Park- ers Lake Workhouse to go fishing | with, In trying to obtain signatures on the Communist Party nominating petition last week, an amusing in- cident happened. I was accused by a strong Farmer Labor voter of being highly paid by Stalin who was the “Dictator of the Republican Party of Russia.” When I got through talking to this worker he promised faithfully to pay a visit to the Workers Book Shop. | Strike Wins Better Grub in CCC Camp By a C. C. C. Correspondent JONESBORO, Il]—We talked of a strike on the job this morning. The state men said, go an and strike, After dinner was over and every- body was in the bunks we told the fellows to hold their seats and stay in their bunks when the time came to go to work. We stayed in our bunks, but the rookies started out. I hollered and said for them to get the hell back where they belonged. They arrived | last night.) | We struck over the grub that they ; gave us. It isn’t fit for a hog to eat. The boys are still here in the! bunks. The captain arid Louie called us out in front of the mess hall. They asked why we were striking. We vy him about the grub. Then the Louie asked us what was the matter with the grub. We soon told him. Then he said the allowances were too short. Then we said the new Taine got by on that amount, didn’t e2 The captain said, yes. We asked how much did he save? He said $10 while he was here a month Then the captain said for us to point out some men to help with th;- menu. We pointed out four men. They are to see the Louie this evening and help out with the menu | ever, there were two additional dif- got the Party “treasury.” The statement that the District Organizer refused | to sanction this work, saying “There | was no need for a Workers School | at that special time” is pure imag- | ination and would be impossible on | the part of any District Organizer. | Of the other points raised by Comrade J. G. as to the difficulties in popularizing the school, etc., these are largely correct. How- from outside the ficulties. The first was the tradi- tion of numerous elements in and | around the movement in. ‘Boston | towards thoory without practice. It was for this reason that the Party suggested to the School to adopt as its motto Stalin's slogan: “Theory | without practice is sterile; practice | guidance and advice. With the record that the School has now built up of two years’ con- tinuous functioning, with the open ing of the new bookshop opposite the School, with the increased cir- culation of the Daily Worker that we expect to obtain in the drive, we have no doubt that all minor dif- ficulties will be overcome and that the next season will see a great increase in the number of workers drawn into the Workers School. Join the Communist Party 35 _E, 12th STREET, N. Y. C. without theory is blind.” The Party had to conduct a con- stant struggie against those ele- | ments in the School Committee who Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party wished to place all the emphasis NAME oe eee eeceeeeeneenseenesers on advanced courses in political t econcmy and other such subjects, Street esc sessseeesesseseeeeee while completely underestimating Sity courses in Fundamentals of Com-! Doctor ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Our Refrigeration System Martin Games, Minneapolis.—The emperature of the body, in warm- blooded animals is always the same, in cold as well as in hot weather. The body heat is regulated by a nervous mechanism, assisted by cer- tain glands, having a central control in the medulla, which is the upper mart of the spinal cord, nearest the brain. This heat center receives stimuli (impressions) from the skin nerves and transmits impulses to other nerves, called vaso-dilators and vaso-constrictors, whose func- tion is to either dilate or contract the blood vessels in the skin. In cold weather, the vessels carrying he warm blood contract, thus caus- ing it to remain in the center of the body. In hot weather, or in fever, the blood vessels in the skin dilate, which allows more blood to come to the surface of the body. The more blood we have in the skin, the more active our sweat glands become. They pour ou! a lot of perspiration (sweat), which cools the body by evaporation. a ck Number cf Venereal Patients in the U. 8. A. Margaret D.—With all due re- spect to your biology teacher, we are not as “syphilized” as all that. Certain groups of men might show a percentage of venereal diseases as high as the one quoted by him; but ihe number of cases in the en- tire population is much below this figure. We have published some By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. statistics on the subject in the Daily Worker before. Roughly speaking, it has been estimated that only one person in every hundred is being treated for some venereal disease in this country. Thsre is no reason, therefore, for you to look with suspicion on four out of every five men you meet. Your teacher might have been thinking of pyor- rhea and even in this disease the figures were grossly exaggerated for publicity purposes. N. ¥. U. Comrades Patronize VIOLET CAFETERIA 28-30 WAVERLY PLACE New York City Allerton Avenue Comrades! The Modern Bakery was first to settle Bread Strike and first to sign with the Food Workers’ Industrial Union 691 ALLERTON AVE. PATRONIZE Southern and West Indian Markets 201 Dumont Ave. — 325 Livonia Ave. BROOKLYN, N. Y. Dickens 6-9792 Free Angel me. I am deathly gick as a resu ever being in the ranks again is corded me curing my two years of confinement. o Herndon! “Since the Georgia Supreme Court upheld my sentence of 18 to 20 years, the bosses and their jail tools have inercascd the pressure on It of the murderous tzcatment ac- My only hopes of in your strenzih.”"—Trom a letter from Angelo Herndon—Fulton Tower Jail, June 7, 1934, $15,000 SPECIAL HERNDON BAIL FUND International Labor Defense Reem 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City ToAAVANCE $. 0. ccees cece ne cdl CBSH, Liberty Bonds $.........- era twee NGS) io eaiin eine Saas as vermin toward the Bail Fund for Angelo Herndon with the understanding that this will be returned as soon as tais Bail is released. Certificates will be issued for this Bail Fund guarantecing its | return as egvesd. 3 $15,000 » for tomorrow and all the time, so the captain said. They, the captain and Louie, tried to smile. This is after supper, and the sup- per has sure changed, for the pres- ent at least. i Addvess