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fe, . x Page Four Speed-up, Insults, Fight Against Lay-Off: Begun on Chi. & N.W. R.R. Spying in BMT. Power Station omeano, a orthwestern Ra a movement ag g that above the profit de- the railroad stock end bondholders, A few weeks ago the Railroad Brotherhoods Unity Movement, re- alizing that mass lay-offs were ap- Pproaching, issued a leaflet to the nen on the No: warning to m their forces and to report to the r see or hear ow workers. trust their fellow-/| the many orkers thought we were wolf,” but sure enough it was only a week later that lay-off notices were posted on the bulletin boards on the Northwestern. One Few around worker on account of stool pigeons sent by the bosses.| sweeping order furloughed 8,000| There is no freedom of thought/ men, while the union leaders did there. In the fire room there used to be seven or eight helpers, but today three are forced to do the work Those men | msers, used }not move a finger to rouse the | workers into militant action to pro- | tect their jobs. But a wave of anger swept the shops. Lodge 915 of the Interna- 1 Association of Machinists de- to elect a delegation to visit of seven or more men. who work in the c to get from the compar clothes ed and boots, b | mediate response? have to ay. and: a We belong to the company In the elections in Decem- the company assigns the and the officials. They | union. ber, watchers tell the men to go to vote. not to} ask questions, and to shut up. “Keep your mouth shut,” they say, and so on. The men, afraid of losing their jobs, vote for the bosses’ | officials. | A BM.T. Slave. brother Lodge 478, to propose action for a mass meeting to srotest these lay-offs and develop a campaign for the sixhour day. mpaign for the six-hour day. tically accepted and 478 in addition proposed a parade. These proposals, while a sign of militancy, showed that the rank and file leaders were stil under the influence of their top officialdom, who had taught them that the right of the railroads to hire and fire was sacred. The proposal for oso 8 sD Beating of Workers Not the lie CONDUCTED BY U a] Allowed on Sutter Ave.! Always news to pick up by “dropping in” at the headquarters | of the U. C. W. C. W.—vivid word-| movies, newsreels showing how the) Women’s Councils become a force in the neighborhood where they} develop—a force, we predict with| assurance, which will be highly} potent in determining the future) economic and social life oy America. . . It seems there's a small market on Sutter Avenue, near Saratoga, in| Brownsville. In the market is—or| WAS—a vegetable stand, the one of which hired several sales-clerks.| Few days ago he got a new one.}| New worker sold a dime’s worth of| fruit to a housewife, who, after| tendering the dime, decided she| wanted something else. New worker held dime, awaiting her complete} selection of goods. . . | Another “worker,” of the stool-| pigeon variety, sneaked back to boss} and informed him a dime was about | to be stolen. . . boss and his aide-| de-camp attacked new worker—in| rear of shop where they thought! themselves unobserved—and beat | him badly. Worker was taken to hospital, it was reported. | But a woman had witnessed the) beating.—news spread like wildfire.| No time at all until a great crowd of workingclass housewives — and) unorganized, mind you—had sur- rounded the vegetable man’s stand,| demanding redress for beaten work- er. . . plenty of excitement. . . use your imagination about the vege-) tables. . . one or two of the women} thought worker had been killed. . .| Women’s Council 7 of the neigh-| borhood held open air meet, telling of whet happened and commending workingclass solidarity in defense of beaten worker, whom they had failed to find through a checkup of hospitals, but whom they found at his home next day: hospital had bound up his wounds and released him. He appeared on platform at) another open air meeting by the} Council and, like Mark Twain, as-| sured the anxious populace that| Teporis of his death had been ex- aggerated.. . | The vegetable man, naturally, is out of the market. One woman was| arrested — “disorderly conduct,” of| course—when crowd of angry wom-| en surrounded stand. She's out on $500 bail. Members of Council 7 will aid in her defense. | And Discrimination Against Foreign- | Bern Kids Forbidden in Red Hook! Council 51 of Red Hook discovered that discrimination was being prac- tised in selection of kids to be sent to Charity Camps. Selection is| made through schools. Red Hook population mostly foreign-born (many Spanish) yet selections were| made on basis of one foreign born| kid to nine native. Council sent) delegation to principal of schoul,| forcing him to register all kids re- §ardless of nationality. Council 51 is trying among others to finance trip to camp for a couple of kids. (Councils having membet- ship in better circumstances try to help those having utterly impover- ished membership.) They find that even when arrangements are made to send the kids, the youngsters are practically naked, so they have to | cils will be able to get City Admin- apply to W. I. . for clothes for | ‘em. (Anybody have any extra kids’ | things?—Send’em to W. I. R., 870/ Broadway.) | Re Oe Committee of U. C. W. C. W, is| working on requested letter to| Commissioner Hodson stating need| of free milk stations and preferred locations. Sure be great if Coun- istration to set up such stations. Postcards to Hodson will help. Bakers’ Convention decided bread | will have to go up a couple of cents. Struggle ahead on that too. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1930 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 4 yards 39- inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step | sewing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) 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 W. 17th St., New York City. Daily Worker 50 East 13th St. New York, N. Y. TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER | push the issue and complete the | first steps taken by the two lodges. | | out, combining the proposals for a | relief for the men laid off. | diately jointly with the other lodges who agreed with the program, but} « | sanction are be | unity of the rank and file is also ;coming forth the idea that this DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1934 & mass meeting auld have been point for a ay-off, not as hing which immediately f eveloning a move- Settlement Was a six-hour day, * y accepting lay-offs Railroaded as the six-hour day was established. By a Street Car Worker Corre- But despite this weakness, the spondent proposal was of great importance, as a step away from servile accept- ance of the attacks of the railroads. The mass meeting and parade would serve as a powerful weapon of rallying the railroad workers in go, the steel workers, the of the country against the pri iple of accepting lay-offs as the right of an employer over which the worker can not take action. It should have been called immedi- ately and would have received im- | Therefore, the proposal to delay | action and bring the matter before | the local board, the proposal to wait | until the board acted to get official | sanction from other lodges, was bad. The fact is that to date the local| board has not taken any action,| although it had a meeting after the lay-offs went into effect. other hand, the enthusiasm which proposal for some kind| of ac‘ion is proof of what the re- sponse of the workers would have been to such a mass meeting. Thus much valuable time has al- ready been wasted, and it is very| needed only our consent to make it | t0 recommend a company solely| a contract for a full year. likely that the matter, if left to the local board, would have died of old age. But the Unity Graup in Carmen’s Lodge 227 at a meeting decided to A four-point program was worked | six-hour day with the immediate fight against speed-up and lay-offs, for immediate It was proposed, and accepted, at the regular meeting of the lodge not only to hold a mass meeting imme- also to call on the other lodges to elect three delegates to meet in con- | ference with a similar committee | elected by Ledge 227 and push the | fighting program against the at-| tacks of the management. | Once again the Grand Lodge} restrictions were brought forth by | local officials, who had been con- | tent to allow the lay-offs to take | place without a murmur of pro- test. They pointed out that the constitution required the sanction of the Grand Lodge. Of course these same individuals never pointed out that nothing could be} expected from their Grand Lodge, | which had allowed the C. and N. W. Railroad to reduce its forces from 65,000 in 1928 to 29,000 at the pres- ent time, without offering any re-| sistance, These forces have attempted to stall off action and have wasted | more valuable time in the hope of demoralizing the militant sentiment of the men. But they have not reckoned with the power of rank jand file unity which is being set up between the workers of the various ledges through the Unity Movement. Through this move- mont the restrictions against cir- cularization without Grand Lodge ig overcome. | While 227 is waiting for its an-| swer from the Grand Lodge, the} supporters of the Unity Movement are spreading the word about the four-point program, mobilizing the rank and file to go into their re- spective lodges and take similar action. Thus, the union misleaders may or may not sanction the program, but the rank and file is mobilizing to put it over, regardless of the Grand Lodge. For in the growing program is what the workers need and those who opposed it are ene- mies who must be discarded. Against the program of the Brotherhood officials which leads to lay-offs, speed-up, wage cuts, is being forced the unity of the rank and file around this four-point pro- gram of acton. It is a guide to action not only for lodges in Chi- cago, but for railroad workers all over the country. NOTE: We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- tion and communications indus- tries—railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- press companies truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc., and post office, telephone, telegraph, etc. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions of work and their struggles to organize. Please get these let- ters to us by Tuesday of each week. Go to Lavatory On Own Time At- Western Union By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — Having read your interesting article and be- ing an employe of the Western Union Telegraph Co., working in the capacity of clerk, I would like to submit some of the de- plorable Working conditions which I have found to exist in the main office at 60 Hudson St., || Where I have worked for the past || eight years. Send me the Daily Worker every day for two months. I enclose 31 (check or money order). Name City Note: This offer does not appiy to renewals, nor does it hold rood fer Manhattan and Bronx. —Help the Driye for 20,000 NEW READERS— Men and women have to ask permission from the foreman or | supervisor in charge, to get a || drink of water, and in several |] cases, must go to the lavatory on || their own time, having to “clock |} out” on their time cards. In several cases, men and women were sent home or sus- pended for several days for talking while working. Also, men and women have been suspended for days at a time, on |} account. of mispelling words or not detecting misspelled words or incorrect. spelling i ntelegrams. |gree of success. faced misrepresentation I have ever | | that is, the foremen, trainmas- Chicago Surface Car Pacific Electric - Men Plan Struggle Anger Stirred By Way Demand More Than 3%) CHICAGO, Ill.—This is how Divi- sion 241 of the A. F. of L. put it over on the street car workers of Chicago last July 2 at the Carmen's Hall Auditorium. | First they called off the names of the committee men and each one had to answer “present,” or “here,” and I noticed that each one was in a separate section of the hall. My impression was that each committee man had his own little corner to carry, and of course the poor, unsuspecting working man who sits down in the same section with the “pal” from his own barn is putting himself on a spot—a wage-cutting spot—because if he is too loud in his protests his “pal” no- tices it, and besides his committee Wage Rise Put Over By Union Officials Chicago Surface Lines who are | ruling the street car men as their union “leaders” finally came out with the 3 cent per hour raise prop- losition disclosed two months ago in the “Daily Worker.” We know |from an authoritative source that |the measly raise was agreed upon by the union fakers and their com- |pany bosses to still the growing |clamor among the men, who were | slowly being crushed by the N. R. | A. and increased living cost. We were warning the rank and file of Division 241 that an 8 hour day means fewer runs, and more economy for the C. S. L. so that they will break even_in the measly raise granted to us. We advised the men to demand time and a half pay after 7 and a half hours. man is a “good scout” and he wouldn't go along with anything| On the that wasn’t “O, K.” It’s funny how | Division 241, after telling us a long they fear these “good scouts,” it? isn’t | yell, the propositions that were | rejected were read off first, and| then came the one that was ac-| cepted by the committee, and/| Instead of the 80 cents demanded it was/ chopped down to 73 cents an hour, | and what was supposed to be an eight-hour day turned out to be an eight-hour minimum day—time and a half not starting until after 814 hours’ work. The secretary read off the prop- osition and said to the men that after trying 14 times this was the best offer he could get from Mr.| Richardson. He said, “We had to} accept it, what else was there to| do?” and a ery went up, which showed there was real awakening in| the men. “Strike!” And he said,| fow, brothers, don’t you go talk-| ing that way—we don’t want a}| strike—-we can’t strike because the surface lines are in the hands of “government” receivership, and we don’t want to buck the government. But the men were riled and I could sense an undercurrent of dis- satisfaction with the leadership. Every time someone walked up to the mike to of applause. It seemed they were just aching for a “Red” speech. And if the speaker was for acceptance you could tell it by the little ap- Plause he received (started by the claque mostly), that he wasn't so hot. But if he was for rejection of the proposition, the crowd just roared, What I have revealed here ought to be remembered by the men of our division who read this, so that the next time they go to a meeting they will know what to do. Keep away from your own committee man, or, better still, get behind him if possible, so that you can watch his actions but he can’t watch yours. This will show you how much he is for you, or how much he is against you. This will con-. vince you of the rotten leadership you now possess. When you sit down in the hall, look around and choose your seat, | and when they call the roll of these committeemen, watch in front of you, and spot one of them out. Watch him. He’s your enemy or your friend. How else can you tell if not by his actions? Men of Kedzie Ave. station, your} Jimmie Dineen isn't so hot. The World's Fair is still on, and there was never an opportunity like this to win all your demands, remember that. half pay for overtime will begin as speak there was a roar | At the meeting of the membership | on July 2nd, Kehoe, Secretary of story of 14 conferences with the| company, which pffered him first 1 cent an hour, then 2, then 3 cents in installments of 1 cent each after) several months, finally they came out with the dirt that they agreed offer of| a 3 cents raise as from June Ist,| (predicted in this paper!) and an 8 hour day as of September 15th. | This 8-hour day will be the same| kind of fake as the present 7 and} a half hour day, because time and a now ater 8 and a half hours work. The men did not like the idea of this measly handout and demanded a strike vote. They booed the union lickspittles who mounted the plat-| form and tried to tell them that it| was the best offer they would get in view of the fact that Roosevelt has not succeeded in pulling the country out of the depression. One especially provoked the men when | he announced the lamentable fact that the company, instead of having $63,000,000 income, as in 1929, was forced to exist on only $47,000,000! yearly. When the motion to accept the offer came to a vote, about 40 per| cent voted against it. It should have been the other way, (60 per| cent) but it was a good beginning. Now our job is to organize the oppo- sition group of Division 241, to wrest |the power from the corrupt leaders jand place it where it belongs—in a/ jdemocratically - elected and con- trolled rank and file organization. As the first step toward it we will issue shortiy the first copy of our own journal, “Chicago Traction Worker.” | Through agitation and unmasking | of different stool pigeons we will lay a broad basis for our organiza- tion. Write immediately to the editor, “Chicago Traction Worker,” Room 300, 160 North Wells St., |Chicago. Write us about the union, the board members and their rela- tions to the superintendents, | As a beginning, we are warning the workers of the Limits Depot against Conductor Hennessey, who came over from the Belmont avenue | line. He was recognized as a pro-| fessional Buffalo scab who is a| protege of Richardson _himself.| Through the medium of the “Chi-| cago Traction Worker,” we will drive| out of our ranks Hennessey and other stool-pigeons who are here in order to terrorize us and hinder our fight for decent bread, clothes and shelter for our families. “(But in order to print our journal we need money. ‘We cannot solicit subscriptions, because subscribers Wage Restoration By a Pacific Electric Worker Correspondent LOS ANGLES, Cal.—According to stories by officials, the railroads ate in a sorry plight. Among the sorriest, according to this story, is CHICAGO, Ill.—The tools of the|the Southern Pacific. It is practic-| SHORTCOMINGS IN Jally on the rocks, so to speak, in spite of the $26,000,000 profit in 1933 | (covered in the books by “deprecia- tion of equipment”) and the addi- |tional loan of $26,000,000 the same year of the peoples’ money from the |R. F. C. Perhaps its most impor- tant subsidiary, the Pacific Electric. lis a characteristic cross-section of |the company’s business. The P. E. is the largest electric interurban line in the world, oper- | ating daily over 1,300 miles of track- age. Its extensive freight service which includes nearly all of San Fernando Valley and a large portion of San Gabriel Valley. In 1929 the company was, according to its own statement, barely breaking even. As a result Mr, A. T. Mercier was im- |ported, to cut expenses “to the bone.” With no regard to promises, service was cut unmercifully, leaving in some cases only the franchise runs. It was estimated that this act alone decreased the operating! expense nearly 10 per cent, mostly through dismissing employees. As the next step, 10 per cent was cut) from the wage rate of all remaining | employees. Then, men who had been getting 10 hours’ work daily, six days per week, were cut to three or four days per week. Next came another pay cut. Five per cent straight seemed a little drastic, so all workers receiving more than $100 for a given month were cut 5 per cent of their total salary, with the proviso that no salary of $100 or above could be reduced below $100. Various cuts after that brought the standard down to approximately | 20 per cent less pay per hour, 50) per cent fewer hours per week, and an average of about 60 per cent of the previous total number of men employed. This brought the oper- ating down to a level at least 70 per cent lower than it was in 1929. When the Brotherhood unions made their requests for more money, the company offered, after five months’ deliberation, a 2 and a half per cent increase, in the early part of this year. This was not accepted. Now comes a headline in the capitalist press that the P. E. has increased wages 5 per cent. In fact, wages were increased 2 and a half per cent. Probably the reason for the 5 per cent announcement was the fact that the nation-wide sellout agreement of the Brother- hoods with the steam ‘roads calls for another 2 and a half increase next January. This agreement, to which the Paci- fic Electric is not a party unless it feels inclined to be in order to avert union organization among its men, calls for a pay restoration of 10 per cent by April, 1935, as a “compro- mise” when the original agreement, with the Brotherhoods was to re- store this cut last January. contributions by mail or messenger. Put the money in an envelope and mention from which depot the money is being. sent. Send in cor- respondence. We will treat every- thing confidentially, you may be sure, because we are street car men ourselves and are taking the big- gest risks. Remember the address: Editor Chicago Traction Worker, Room 300, 160 North Wells, Chicago. Let us start to organize and when June Ist, 1935, comes around, we shall be in a position to dictate to the com- will be risking too much. Send| pany instead of their dictating to us! Intimidation Methods) Used to Force Applications By a Subway Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The latest wage cutting device of the I. R. T. is not meeting with any marked de- I am referring to the 3 per cent wage cut dressed up to faintly resemble an old age pension. This scheme is the most bare- | come across. From beginning to end it serves every purpose of the company, and does absolutely nothing for the men. It contains an open strikebreaking, anti-union clause. To the eternal credit of the LR.T. men it is a fact that they are showing determined resistance to the adoption of this “signed wage cut.” Every form of pressure is being applied to these men in an effort to bully and itimidate them into signing application cards au- thorizing the company to make the necessary deductions from their measly pay. The “Henry Dubbs” of the LR.T. ters, inspectors, etc—are being used by the company to apply pressure upon the men. Men are told, “If you don’t sign you will have to > e see Mr. Merritt.” “All the men who/| don’t sign will be gradually fired.” “You are the only one who hasn't signed.” And so on. And this is the ILR.T. interpretation of the word “optional.” These petty bosses haven’t enough horse-sense to see that when they harm the men they bring harm to themselves. They are just a lot of 10- and 12-hour LR.T. slaves themselves, and they lack even the foresigvit to see that their inter- ests are identical with the inter- ests of the mass of the workers. These yokels have to form mu- tual aid organizations of their own, such as the 50-50 clubs, in order to support one another in case of sickness and loss of time, and yet they do all in their power to help cram another 3 per cent wage cut down the throats of the men. The LR.T. is being rapidly organized by the Transport Workers Union, and not for much longer will decent men be forced to submit to the will of great or insignificant tyrants. The spy system is working over- time at present. Plenty of 35 A men are being scattered around in the departments, shops and lines, in all kinds of jobs. We can assure Mr. Keegan, Connolly and Taylor, that such steps are useless and will only speed up our organizational tempo rather than to slow it down. We can build our membership as rapidly as we desire, for we have the sentiment of over 90 per cent of the men right now. The LR.T. by its 10 and 12 hour day, its seven day week, its hunger wage scale, its beakie system and its yellow dog company union, is a challenge to the manhood of every employe. One motorman answered the challenge |in a few words, well put. H2 said: |“Build the organization, brother, build if quick. I'd sooner die fight ing this scab outfit than live work- ing for them.” IRT Workers Rising Against Company Union Pension Plan Men Threatened With Dismissal If They Do Not Sign By a Subway Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—H. T. Broughton, trainmaster on the LR.T., went Personally to some of the terminals to try to talk the men into sign- ing up for the pension. Grosso of the company union admitted that this pension fund was voluntary, but stated that all new men must are) 2 THE SUBWAY SuN THE FASTEST (uTTING) RAILWAY IN THE WORLD — OUR MEN KNOW ( s THEIR TORS. "ELEVATED" OFFICIAL, join and that it was very easy to make new men out of the employes by firing them and taking them back again. He said this while talk- ing to men who would not join at the 180th St. terminal. When asked why men had to subscribe 3 per cent of their pay according to the rate men got be- fore the 10 per cent cut, he said, “On the books you get the old rate of pay. We have to take the per cent according to that.” “As you know,” says Grosso, “it was not the company who gave you the 10 per cent cut. Mr. Hed- ley was very much against the cut. It _was the recciyers.” I think more publicity should have keen gotten out dealing with the pension as the compeny offi- cialis and the Brotherhood people are ruching around forcing the men to join, although it is stated that we have three months to think Earn Expenses Selling “Daily” {, the matter over. PARTY LIFE Offers Crumbs As | Must Have Discipline, Order At Thaelmann, and All, Meets Worker Criticizes Conduct of Participants at Meeting Where Muenzenberg Spoke | THAEL- MANN MEETINGS On July 3 a rally was held in | the Needle Trades Market, 36th St. and 8th Avenue, for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann. I understand this meeting was held under the auspices of Section 2 of the Communist Party. However, while a great interest was expressed by the workers, the meeting did not accomplish its full task. | There was not a single pamphlet on fascism. As a matter of fact there was no literature at all. There were no Daily Workers, no Thael- mann postcards. The workers were eager to learn more about the situ- ation than they could hear in the 15 minute talk. There was not any sign on the platform to indicate what kind of a meeting was being held. There was actually no com- mittee that could make any or- ganizaticnal gains from this im- portant rally. Such diforganization must not be repeated at other meetings. L, L., NEW YORK. ak wae The issue raised in the above letter is of basic importance to the work of the Party in pene- trating the masses, not only in How Dining Car Waiter Paid Penn. R. R: for Working By a R. R. Worker Correspondent LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.—T. R. Johnson, waiter, leaving on train 129 from New York to Washington, paid the Penn for the privilege of working. He lay down in Washington for 4 days and was even refused food for one day. For the 4 days’it cost him 25c. a night for sleeping, or $1. On the run down he made a lic. tip. Working time was 4 hours and 50 minutes, 90c. Out of this he has to pay for the 75c. a month relief and the 10 per cent cut. The sign-out man in Washington sent him on a train as 7th man. The steward refused him and wrote on his slip: “Am very sorry. This man deserves something good. I have a 7th’man.” Our conditions are getting worse and worse because we haven't got any organization to put up a fight against the Penn, Johnson ought to get his dollar back that he paid for sleeping over. We ought to get our protecting time back and straight time for dead- heading day or night. We have to stop supporting the Penn with our 25e. per night for sleeping quarters. We want to be fed by the Penn when we lay over out of town. Let's get together in groups and join the Brotherhood of Dining Car Cooks and Waiters and make it our fighting union. We go in there and put up a fight for our conditions. ‘We must get leaders who fight. SUNNYSIDE YARDS WAITER. the Free Thaelmann campaign but in all our agitational work as well. In how many of our meetings is the Party’s literature completely absent? How many of the Party’s sections and units realize that a meeting, no matter how gocd the our pamphlets, pericdicals, cur Press are there to be distributed among the masses whom we must reach, In the preparation of a meet- ing, whether on the Scottsboro case, police terror in strikes, the German situation or any other subject, whether it is an open-air meeting or in a big hall, the com- rades responsible for the organi- zation of the meeting must con- sider it part of their job to see to it that the literature agent of the district, section or unit in- volved arranges for the sale of our literature there. What is more, we must learn to select the type of literature that is closely related to the sub- ject of the meeting. A meeting on Thaelmann and the German situation should push the litera- ture specifically dealing with Ger- many, such as Piatnitzky’s pam- phlet. Pieck’s report on Germany to the 13th Plenum of the E.C.C.1, Henri Babusse’s pamphlet on Thaelmann, Knorin’s 13th Plenum report, the “Arbeiter,” the “Gegen - Angriff” and material. At a Scottsboro meet- ing, Haywood’s pamphlet on Ne- | gro liberation, Ford’s pamphlet and the resolutions of the &th Convention on the Negro ques- tion should be raised, together with the “liberator,” ete. Only when our comrades realize that the pushing of our literature is the fundamental method of deepening our agitational ap- proach, and when they concen- trate on the material closely bound up with the subject in hand, will our meetings’ effective- ness be made a lasting one. The failure of literature sales at the Thaelmann meeting de- scribed above illustrates that our comrades approached the whole business of organizing the meet- ing in too slipshod a fashion. Literature is an essential part of our agitation and propaganda, and we must organize its distri- bution in a truly efficient manner, Only when our literature is push- ed and sold at every one of our meetings, no matter what topic, will we really be doing the agitation and propaganda thet present situation requires of us. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party Name Street City ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Cancer of the Esophegus Middletown Citizen—We cannot urge you to go to Russia for Dr. I. N. Kazakoff’s glandular treat- ment. If you have plenty of money and if the radium treatment is not improving you, there is no reason why you should not take the trip. We wish we could go there ourself. As far as the scientific value of the new glandular treatment is concerned, we zegret that we can- not express an opinion on the re- port of one case, published in the Times from second hand informa- tion. So far, glandular treatment has failed in cancer. From time to time a notoriety-hunting physician breaks out in the public press with the announcement that he cured “a number” of cancer cases by gland- ular extracts or what not; but the ballyhoo he creates is soon silenced by facts, leaving a number of bit- terly disappointed and financially depleted patients. ' nis applies also to those who report about other physicians’ “successes.” There is By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. usually a good reason for such praise. As soon as we get some author- itative information regarding the results of Dr. I. N. Kazakofl’s new method of preparing glandular ex- tracts by water under high pres- sure, you'll read about it in this column. (meaning bad) “disinterested” 8 ae Vitamin Information Rebert Engels, Rutherford, N. ¥. —You may consult the tables pub- lished in Sherman’s “Chemistry of Food and Nutrition” (4th edition, 1932) or Rose’s “Foundation of Nu- trition,” revised edition, 1933, or “Vitamins: A- Survey of Present Knowledge,” 1932, published by the Lister Institute, conjointly with the Medical Research Council of Eng- land. The claims made by various manufacturers regarding the vita- min content of their products are vague, non-informative and mis- leading, in the great majority of cases, ever being in the ranks again is $15,000 International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City I advance $...... Liberty Bonds $. return as ogzecd. Address toward the Bail Fund for Angelo Herndon with the w that this will be returned as soon as this Eail is released. Certificates will be issued for this Bail Fund gusrantecing its Free Angelo Herndon! “Since the Georgia Supreme Court upheld my sentence of 18 to 20 years, the bosses and their jail tools have increased the pressure on me. I am deathly gick as a result of the murderous treatment ac- corded me during my two years of confinement. My only hopes of in your strength.”—From a letter from Angelo Herndon—Fulton Tower Jail, June 7, 1934, SPECIAL HERNDON BAIL FUND NOS...