The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1934, Page 4

Page Four Dust from Dried Soap Hurts Lungs and Nose at Colgate’s By a Worker Correspondent JERSEY CITY J—I've read about the fu up and take off weighing 200 pounds that carry 1,600 pounds soap. Then they push these trucks to the elevator to the cutting department Here the bonus system makes us work so damn fast for a penny that every man is forced to kill himself to keep on the line. We are machines. Even if it necessary for us to go to the toile we've got to wait iine goes. of un i from dried Soap, gag you and hit your lungs and nose. Makes you sniff as if you have a permanent cold after & while. They pay 36c to workers under 21 who do the same work older men do who get 55c. Of course, the result is they are laying off the older help, or when they hire, they} hire only young fellows, who even if they are over 21 lie to get the job. Then some men get 59c who do the same work he 55¢ ones. These men don’t get the bonus. They lows who have let- ation from poli- hire fe ters of recommen: ticians or bosses in the shop. Til tell y how they get rid of older w Say that one gets hurt, strains his back, shoulder, or something. He stays out on com- pensation. He comes back, works a@ couple of weeks, then they lay him off. They allow no smoking | anywhere in the plant (except in| the offices). | | Dyers Local No. 1733. ng good nes it was difficult e company to get help, it was to form a union, A. F. year. It kind of petered we're going to form a union, our own, not A. F. of L. Union Agent Upholds Boss in Firing of Dye House Worker By a Textile Worker Correspondent PATERSON, N. J.—One worker from the De Gise Piece Dye Co. was fired on Friday, July 6. He The shop chairman came and handed him his pay to him check. The worker asked him why he is being paid off. The chairman} said: “You have some oil spot over the goods on your machine. There- fore the boss is firing you.” worker answered that the oil spot ran down from the bearing of the machine. But the chairman said that he had to be laid off on ac- | count of that. The worker is a member of the He reported to the union office about his case. Mr. Pirola, business agent of the union, ¥ sent to the sitOp. After he had a secret conierence with the boss and the shop chairman, they | decided that the worker had to be fired Two other workers lost their jobs worker. This proves that the so- called leaders of our local are help- ing the bosses to fire workers out of the shop. A DYE HOUSE WORKER. Glimpses of Workers’ Lives—As a Doctor Sees *em By DR. LONE { 1.—True “True Story” | “I have been hunting for a job) ever since I came to this country. I was not so bad off on the other | side, in Scotland—I was poor, Bebe.” | “Why did you come?” | “I don’t know, Dector. I used to] see American papers in the library in my city, and in them some ad- vertisements, like those in the “True Story” magazine, you know, full-page advertisements, with large type, and they painted the condi- tions here so rosy. I thought I'd make my life easier. “Yes, even since the depression such advertisements continue to be printed. They would say ‘The pres- ent vast spread of wealth down) through the masses’—'the integrity of the home, the protection of the children, the triumph of the simple, homely virtues'—it sounded so as- | Suring, didn’t it? Or, ‘The workers | are going around with their pockets jingling. Wealth has descended to/ the masses, millions of people now | have more actual money than any- one ever dreamed they could have’ —my husband and I used to learn these words by heart. “Or, ‘They marry and build their own homes, they furnish them, they study bathtubs and kitchen ranges and parlor radios and finally buy the inevitable automobile; and then | they buy those innumerable things | which change the entire social set- | tinz.’—These sentences, which were | written down to fool the workers | and prospective advertisers, sounded | to me like fine poetry or holy scrip- tures. But now I'd like to go over to the offices of the papers and slap somebory in the face and spit into it, too.” 1.—The Chamber Maid i She is the chamber maid of a family living for years in an ele- gant suite at the select Hotel Plaza in New York. But her room is dark, devoid of fresh air. She is permitted to go out but once in two weeks for a few hours in the afternoon. Working daily from seven in the morning to nine in the evening. “T am like in a prison. And my mistress is a very severe lady—und listig,” (cunning) she adds in Ger- man. “And so it was natural that Brighton Comrades Patronize Parkway Food Center Fish Market 3051 Ocean Parkway corner Brighton Beach Ave WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY | 2700-2800 BRONK PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several good apartments available. Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. Direction: ‘exington Ave., White Plains Trains. Stop at Allerton Ave. station Office open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 triday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m | | I should become so pale, so anemic, and weak.” IIl.—Solidarity of Misery A man incurably sick in bed. His wife and children take care of him. The neighbor and his wife help. A tight friendship has developed | between the two houses, although there is no other relationship be- tween them. The real bond is pov- erty. When the neighbors happen to arrive 15 minutes too late they are scolded. The false politeness that trickles down from the ruling classes has disappeared, The distances kept among strangers, among non-rela- tives, are gone. Yourself? Pattern 1881 is available in sizes | 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16. Size 12 takes 2% yards, 36 inch fabric. Illus- trated step-by-step sewing instruc- tions 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. 31 (check or money order). Name for Manhattan 2nd Bronx. TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Send me the Daily Worker every day for two months. T enclose - Nete: This offer does not appiy to renewals, nor does it hold good Help the Drive for 20,000 NEW READERS— ing in the dye house de-| The | feet high into the hold. | would stop buzzing in their ears. | digger giving up his job on account| |of a mosquito? DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1934 |Speeded To Do 1314 Hours Work in 8 at National Refining Co. By a Worker Correspondent CLIFFSIDE, N. J.—I work for the National Refining Co. of New Jer- sey, which is supposed to be paying 54c minimum under the N.R.A. and publicly states that it does. How- ever, the facts are these: Men who worked here prior to 1930 are got- ting 54c, the majority are only get- ting 44c, and the most they can reach is 49c (if they live enough at this job) or $19.60 a | The foremen have shares in the} Fulton Bag & Cotton Workers Organizing Joining Union Despite Company's Threats of Dismissing Those Who Get Together By a Worker Correspondent ATLANTA, Ga.—The tang of or- long | ganization is in the soft southern| the last few days. air. Hundreds and thousands are into textile unions. Alabama is in the throes of a matically fir himself. | have been S joining at every meeting, | Communist pointing out the best | route to the goal. Always, every- company, and they push us so that| cotton mill strike that presages a| where, one finds the tireless Red we do the work we did in 13 and| long drawn out battle. An old say-/ trying to save civilization for the | a half hours in 8 hours (the N.R.A.| ing among southerners to the ef-| workers. What a tribute the ages said 8 hours, but didn’t say how] fect that “The South is slow to| owe him. much work) Especially one, Babcock by name, is rotten. He won't let us get time} off to eat. We have-to eat on the| run, hauling bags of 100 pounds| each, carrying them 40 feet or more, and then throwing them 11| It doesn’t seem possible, does it? But that is what we do three or four times a} minute for 8 hours. These bosses | don’t let us go to the toilet when} we have to. We have to wait until there is a lull or all the men make a stop. | During that cold spell last Winter when it was 15 degrees below, we | would sneak off to a stinking toilet where we eat in the Winter, to get | warm. The foreman would stalk in like a raging maniac, threatening | to fire us if we didn't keep on the 5. | Job. recently in the same way as this | ’ Now when it is so hot, some of | us work down in a hold, no air,| all heat, and we are not allowed | to get water to cool us off. This | is the right to happiness, | Let us workers in our shop, in| every shop, organize and struggle. | Letters from | Our Readers | TROTSKYITES NOT COMMUN ISTS Bronx, N. Y. My dear Comrades: | Will the Daily Worker please help | us find certain “friends” in hiding who send copies of the “Militant” (Organ of the Communist League of America) to sympathizers of the genuine Communist Party of the} U.S. A? Now the kind “philosophers” who | send copies of the “Militant” to C.P.U.S.A. members and sympa- thizers no doubt do it with the in- | tention of “putting us poor misled workers wise to a thing or two.” Well, the game is unfair unless both parties involved have equal chan- ces to put each other wise. If those “friends” who take the trouble of sending the “Militant” to us of the C.P.U.S.A., would make themselves known, many of us would present them with a copy of the “Daily Worker” for each copy of} the “Militant” sent. Isn't this fair | play? It is strange that in the left cor- ner, situated in a box on the title page, the “Militant” prints Marx’s immortal organizational s‘ozan: “Workers of the world unite,” at the same time how utterly the “Mili- tant” strives to divide the workers. | Class-concious workers, the grave diggers of capitalism, do not mind | the work if only certain mosquitoes However, have you heard of a grave | i} Comradely yours | ane East Pittsburgh, 2a.| Dear Comrade Hathaway: A copy of the “Militant” has come! into my hands, and it is because of this I write you. My head is filled with questions, but to save your time, I will limit myself. League of America?” Where does it Firstly, who is the “Communist stand in the movement? Secondly, how can a Communist paper be published today with ab- solutely NO reference to the Scotts- boro boys? Lastly, if the “Militant” is a true Communist organ, why the vicious attacks on the “Stalinists” and the Daily Worker, to which they devote most of their space? I will look for your answer some- time soon in the columns of the “Daily Worker.” Yours for a Soviet America LAWRENCE ROTH nat Sees Editorial Note: The Communist League of America is a small group of foilowers of Leon Trotsky, renegades from the only party that is fighting for the best inter- est of the American working class, the Communist Party of the U. .» affiliated with the Commu- nist International. As you have noticed, their chief role and the chief role of their paper, “The Militant,” is to attempt to split the ranks of the revolutionary workers by vi- cious attacks upon the Communist Party and the General Secretary of the C. P. S. U. Comrade Stalin. The correctness of the Communist Party line in fighting the battles of the working class is shown daily by the steady recruiting imto the Party and mass support hein; given more and more fo its actio! As a result, these splitters, to- gether with the “right” betrayers of the working class, the social democratic parties the world over,. the Socialist Party of the U. S. A. and the A. F. of L. bureaucrats are intensifying their disruptive efforts, The importance of the Trotskyites to destroy the soli- darity of the revolutionary workers is shown by the smallness of their numbers. No Communist paper today can be published which does not support with all its forces the campaign te free the Scottsboro boys. who have become the svmbol of the oppression of the Nezro people by their white rulers, and withent whos liberation the work- ing class cannot be freed from the shackles of capitalism. | unable to start but she never gives up to the present state of unrest. It is learned the Fulton Bag & Cotton mill in Atlanta has issued the order to all workers that any worker that joins the union auto- Mrs. RAFF | At the present rate of joining | last man,” appears to typify the| the union, it is safe to predict that | within another fortnight, the Ful- ton Bag and Cotton mill workers | will have pulled a strike that will paralyze the region about a 50 mile radius, E’S STORY Pregnant Woman, Bri utally Kicked by Cop, Gives Birth to Dead Baby By a Worker Correspondent My baby was born dead, July 2, in Bellevue Hospital, because of | Nant and starving. A crowd of a| starvation, when the home relief bureau refused to increase my food check and because of brutal treat- | ment I received from the police. When I was in an advanced stage of pregnancy I had four hemmorhages, and Bellevue Hos- pital doctors said I had to have @ blood transfusion. But the home relief bureau and the city refused to help me, and I never had it, The doctor and Bellevue Hospi- tal gave me four or five letters to the home relief bureau, saying I was undernourished and had to have an increase in my food check. My two children did not have enough to eat, either, My husband over by an automobile. Judge Panken, a Socialist, the dirty skunk, was my husband's lawyer. He postponed the case for three and a half years, and then said the company who was to pay was bankrupt. My husband is work. I went to Mr. Fagin of the home relief bureau, and he kept telling me to get more letters from Bellevue. I gave him four or five. I was exhausted running back and forth in my condition. I went to Welfare Com- missioner Hodson, and he said he would take care of us immedi- ately, but he never did. On May 22 I went to a demon- stration at the home relief bureau called by the 13th Street local of the Unemployment Council. We had a peaceful and orderly open- air meeting. A delegation of five was elected to go inside the relief station and present our demands. They were denied entrance. The policemen then tried to break up our meeting. Patrolman Conboy, badge 9747, pushed me and nearly knocked me down. I was then eight months pregnant. He hurt me and I protested. He arrested me, and he and another policeman dragged me about five blocks. I fell a few times, and begged them to let me ride. Bertha Lowenthal and others Boot & Shoe Gives No | warned the police not to handle |me so roughly, saying I was prez- |few hundred workers were follow- }ing us and shouting, “Leave that woman alone. You will be respon- | sible for what happens to her.” ; When TI could no longer walk, and the crowd was becoming very | angry, they threw me on my face into a taxicab, At the police station I was faint- ing and asked for a drink of water, and they said, “The water is shut 0.” They took me into a back room of the police station. When they took me to the patrol | wagon I saw Bertha Lowenthal | there, and she tried to comfort me. At Clinton Street a very rough | and insulting woman searched us ; ; |for knives and scissors, and the | | suffers with his spine, and is un- | policeman told |able to work because he was run| her | Bertha in the nose. The International Labor Defense |sent a lawyer, Eli Tannen, I was | paroled in his custody. Bertha was |put under $10 bail, The 13th | Street local of the Unemployment | Council held an open-air mecting jand collected some money, and | borrowed the rest, and paid her bail. The day of he trial I was sick, | and Bertha paid $1 of her $2 relief check for a taxi. I was found guilty by Magistrate Dreyer, who gave me a ten-day suspended sen- tence. He said he would have made the sentence harder if I weren't pregnant. But the real reason was that the courtroom was packed with workers and I was defended by Mr. Tauber. I. L. D. attorney. Bertha was given ten days in the workhouse. When I was arrested, all tne newspapers lied. They said I as- saulted a policeman and that I was a “menacing red.” But when |my baby was born dead, the re- porters rushed to my house and said they were going to help. me, | and said warningly, “You’re not a Communist, are you?” I said, “The Communists helped me when I was |in trouble.” | I am going to take my case to jthe I. L. D. | | MRS. VICTORIA RAFFE ! (Signature Authoried). to punch Protection at I. Miller By a Shoe Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The conditions in the fitting department in I. Miller Shoe factory are as bad as in the lasting department. The folders were making between $15 and $20 a@ week. The fancy pasters are making 40c and 50c an hour. The stitchers also make as little as the other branches. The folders used to do folding and piping, so as to be able to make at least $15-$20 a week. The boss hired girls to do the piping for less money “and the folders sit idle. When the stitchers are being timed on a new style shoe, Squire, the superintendent, uses a_ special watch. It is called a French watch because nobody can read it except Squire, and in case the thread and needle breaks when timing them, Squire stops the watch, so that they should re-thread it or put in a different needle in the machine on their own time. The Boot and Shoe Union, to which we. belong, called a shop meeting. One of the workers de- manded that we get an increase in pay. The next day the boss fired him, and the union didn’t do any- thing about it. The B. & S. U. officials made a new deal without the consent of of the Negro people, together with the movement for the liberation ef colonial peoples from imperial- ist domination, must be an integ- ral part of the revo"utionary strug- gle of the toiling masses in all parts of the world to overthrow the slave system of capitalism. That is the Communist meaning of the campaign to free the Scotts- boro boys, and the reason why we say that no “Communist” paper can be published without refer- ence to it. Here is another proof of the “sincerity” of the Trotsky- ites as a revolutionary party. The fact is that the “Militant” is not a Communist paper. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country mexns a tremendous step dictatorship of the proletariat! The movement for the liberation Earn Expenses Selling the “Daily” toward the | the workers. What the grafters of the B. & S. mean by a new deal is, if one branch makes more money than the other, the boss should cut the salary of the branch, and raise the other. So in the end the total salary of the whole shop is not one cent more, and we con- tinue to work for starvation wages. The present business agent of the B. & S., Silverman, who brought the B. & S. into the factory while we were striking for the recognition of the United Shoe and Leather Union and better wages, has now the nerve to tell us that we are scabs. Sma be, EDITORIAL NOTE: This letter by an I. Miller worker should prove very clearly to the workers as to just what kind of a union the Boot & Shoe really is, A rat like Silverman, the present agent of the Boot & Shoe, who helped to ram the Boot & Shoe down the workers’ throats, pours salt on the open wound of the workers, calling them scabs. Can the work- ers of I. Miller expect anything in their favor from such a “leader”? They certainly cannot and they certainly should not. Only their fighting opposition to the boss-paid Silvermans can force these rats to bring up the demand of the workers to the Millers. Only control by the rank and file—not by the grafting of- ficials—can insure a real active unien that can win higher wages and better conditions for the workers in I. Miller. If you want to get more infor- mation on the Opposition in the Boot & Shoe, write to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., N.Y.C, Build rank and file committees in the various departments. Dis- cuss your grievances and join the organized opposition in the Boot & Shoe. NOTE: We publish letters from textile, necdtc, shee and leather wert every Wednesday, Workcrs thes ws of their cond'ti: and cf their st ize. Got the to us by Saturday of each week in industries cre urg7d to write jin their | she Several} me it among week, providing you get a full week,} making application for membership | which is the energetic ever-present | which is seldom. | rents, Section 9 held a mas3 pro- | Gloversville Relief | Buro Gives Starving Workers Rotten Meat By a Worker Correspondent GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y. — The relief bureau gave cut smoked ham orders. This meat was mouldy and rotten. I called in a home the same night the woman received this stinking meat, and d me the meat and told was two small hams or I cut one and gave the dog the meat raw, and he refused | at first to eat it, but I saw later he ate it. This was at noon time. At night I fed him as usual, and he would not eat all day and all day next day he did not eat. I thought he was going to die. This is just some more of Roosevelt's recovery program. The woman has three small chil- dren. The oldest is five years old. What would have happened if they had eaten this stuff? Registered Four Years Ago and No Job Yet in Sight By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Can you answer this question? How many yea | must a man be registered at the! New York State employment office, which is located at 40 East 40th St., New York, before he will be} eligible for a job? This is the kind of job I was sent to, after being registered for four years: I was sent to interview Mr. Cohn of 299 Broadway, office 1601, for a) position as camp cook, I acquainted Mr. Cohn with the fact that I was not a Kosher cook. Mr, Cohn re- plied that it was perfectly all right, that he did not want a Kosher cook, but a half hour after I arrived at Camp Silver Spruce, Sussex County, N. J., the camp director came to see me and asked me if I was a Kosher cook. He stated that he was going to send me back | to New York City. I replied that it was all right with me if he paid the expense, and for the time and trouble of my getting my clothes. He agreed, but when I arrived in} New York at 3 a.m. this young man | handed me $3. I complained to the New York] State Employment executive, and I wet told I could do nothing about it. I am registered at the New York State Employment office since June 19, 1930, and before that at 114 East 2th St., New York. I presume I will be entitled to a job by 1945. Ask Mr. Lang, director of the New York State Employment office, 124 E, 28th St., New York City, or Miss Henrietta Rothstein, superintend- ent, at 40 East 40th St., she might be able to answer this question, R. HENDERSON, (Signature authorized) Jobless Join Scovill Council In Cleveland Name Locals After Victims of Police Attacks CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 23.— While the bodies of Vinnie Williams and Salvatore Arzentini, the two workers murdered by the police in the Prospect Relief Station on Fri- day, July 13, lay in the offices of the Unemployment Councils, at 3631 Central Ave., workers from the pov- erty-stricken Scovill Section, where Williams and Arzentini lived, filed pass the bodies. More than 500 workers from this section joined the Unemployment Councils of lower Scovill. Arzentini was a member of the Council at 3210 Woodland Ave., Wil- liams a member of the Council at 3631 Central Ave. The day after the mass funeral, the Council held its regular meet- ing. It was proposed to name one the Williams Local, and the Coun- cil at Woodland Ave. the Arzentini Local. So deeply had the symbol of Negro and white solidarity pene- trated that workers said: “We can’t separate them now. They fought side by side; now we must keep their names together.” One of the locals will be the Wil- liams Unemployment Council, the other the Arzentini Unemployment Council. A mess initiation of the new members is being arranged for Thursday, July 25. Communists Uncover Killing of Negro Youth By Police In Chicago (Daily Worker Midwest Burean) through attempts to hush up the case, the Communist Party, Sec- tion 9, has exposed the brutal po- lico murder of Jamz: Trou men, 18-ye2zr-old Negro youth. Troutman, according to the rec- ords in the police station, died of an “accident.” The truth, workers who knew him say, is that he was killed by Third Degree methods, on a robbery charge. To organize a fight against such tactics by the police, and also to popularize the victory which Dora Huckleberry, Negro Communist candidate for state assembly, won in forcing relief autherities to pey j test and election rally at Scot sbor | Hall yestordey. the macs of workers is a pre- requisite to their successful sirug- gles, CHICAGO, July 23.—Breaking) following his railroaded conviction | The srread of the “Daily” to | PARTY LIFE | . . | Districts Must Carry Out Party’s Educational Plan Training of New Members and the Political | Development of Old r spoiled and asked me to} quietly retired within| take it home for my dog. I took the | Hundreds are | meat, it | shoulders. The decisions of the eighth con- vention of the Party are very slowly penetrating into the ranks of the Party membership. The district and section committees, in many cases, fail to popularize these decisions and mobilize the membezship for their realization. A case at hand is the decision of the Eighth Convention cf the Party in regard te Marxist-Leninist edu- cation. The main resolution adopted tion emphasizes the bership. It also stzesses the neces- sity of training new leading forces for the Party. This is not a temporary task but one that must be carried on daily. Special attention and forces, must be given to this task. The training velopment of the old, cannot be neglected. The training of new cadres was emrhasized in the Open Letter. tricts made a sevious properly train and equip the new fo:ces. Net being armed with the theory of Marxism- Leninism, the new forces are not fully effective. The mechanical ap- proach toward Party instructions made to carry out. the task of de- veloping new cadres in a real bol- shevik manner, Some districts even interfere with the steps undertaken by the C. C. to carry out the deci- sion of the last Party Convention regarding Marxist-Leninist educa- tion. «Immediately after the Convention the C. C, mapped out a program a concentration plan for the tzain- ing of new forces. For this purpose, the C. C. decided to raise a fund of $10,000, setting a quota for each District. A communication was sent to all Districts, to be transitted to the Units on May 15. The response to this communication is weak. The reason for this is the fact that some Nevertheless, very few dis-{ attempt to/ theoretically must be dropped and a serious effort; of educational work and worked out | Unit and minimum quota for each} Cannot Be Neglected District and section organizers did net transit this communication to the units. Others failed to populares | ize the decision of the C. C. and to mobilize the membership for this task. The Bolshevization of the Party cannot be accomplished without jequipping the Party membership with the theory of Marxism-Lenin- ism. This task can be accomplishet when every party member is made conscious of the fact that this task need of raising the political and|cannot be relegated only to top come theoretical level of the Party mem-)} mittees; but that every Party mem- ber can contribute in one way or another to the successful realization of this task. “If every member is made to understand that the study of theory is not something which merely has to do with the im- of new members, the political de-| provement of his intellectual level, but is the forging of the weapons of struggle which have to be used every day in the fight, then we can not only train our member- ship but by training them we keep them in the Party and solve the preblem of fiuetuation and mu!- tiply many fold the force of the Party among the masses.” (Com-. rade Browder). The means of realizing the :n- structions of the Convention must be found. Every Party Unit must make its contribution. Every sec- tion and district organizer must be held personally responsible for the fulfillment of the G. C. decision. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. NAME cicccocsccecvecccseacccare Street City By PAUL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Prevention of Lead Poisoning The problem of lead poisoning is one of perennial interest to work- ers, and although we have often discussed certain phases of it, there is a constant demand for more in- formation on the subject. It is quite natural that so many Daily Worker readers should want to know as much as possible about the pre- vention of lead poisoning when we realize that more than 150 industries are using either the metallic form of lead or its compounds. We have, therefore, decided to concentrate all we know about the prevention of lead poisoning, in one article, and rades cut the clipping out of the paper and paste it on a piece of cardboard, so that they may have the information always available. Of all the occupation intoxi- cations, lead is the mest frequent and serious and, at the same time the most insidious because its ef- fects are not noticed immediately. Lead is what is known as a cumu- lative poison which means that small quantities taken into the body day by day finally cause death as sure as if a pound of lead should drop suddenly on the workers’ head. The prevention of lead poisoning consists in avoiding of these minute quantities in the system. What Lead Is the Mest Poisonous, All forms of this metal are pois- onous; but the basic carbonate or white lead and the suboxides and oxides, such as litharge cr red lead are the most dangerous. Lead Chromate, sulphate and sulvhide, being less soluble are less poisonous; while acetate, chloride and nitrate, although water soluble, are little used in industry and need not con- cern us. Chronic lead poisoning is xnown as pdlumbism, in medicine. It may also be contracted from other than occupational sources. Thus “epidemics” of plumbism have been known to follow the drinking cf water, beer, soft drinks and food conteminsted with lead. Bekiny powder, fece powders, and other cosmetic: “silver” tobacco wranners made of Jead-foil, lead bullets car- ried in the body or even in the pockes are liable to caus? plumb'cm. There are some very peculiar cases of lead poisoning; one of them r2- LUTTINGER, M.D. — would suggest that interested com- | ported by Rosenau, where a baby was’ poisoned by eating the lead paint from the crib. Most of the cases of lead poison- ing are found in the following in- dustries: Where lead compounds are manufactured, storage batteries, potteries, painting, printing, plumb- ing, lead smelting and lead refin- ing. The articles containing most lead are putty, paint, pigments, glazes, polishing powders, solder and spraying solutions. How Does Poisoning Occur? The most common way of con- tracting lead poisoning is by in- halation (breathing in) of lead fumes and dust. Lead trades are dangerous in direct proportion to their amount of dustiness. The lead dust and fumes are quickly and directly absorbed into the blood, while the lead ingested (eaten) has to go to the stomach and intestine, as well as the liver, where some of it is neutralized. Lead may also enter the body through the broken and even un- broken skin. The lead mixed with “high test” or “ethyl” gasoline (te- traethyl lead) can enter the system through unbroken skin. The lead in cosmetics and hair dyes also reaches the blood through the in- tact epidermis, When the air breathed during working hours contains more than five milligrams of lead, brain lesions, paralysis and colics will surely oc- cur. As the lead circulates in the blood, it is liable to damage any organ of the body. Later, it is stored in the bones and may cause poiscning again when liberated. (To Be Continued) Dr. Maximilian Cohen Dental Surgeon 41 Union Sq. W., N. Y. C After 6 P.M. Use Night Entrance 22° EAST 17th STREET Suite 703—GR. 17-0135 DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY Office Hours: 8-10 A.M.. 1-2. 6-2 P.M PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 107 BRISTOL STREET. Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn ever being in the ranks azain is $15,909 International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. .New York City i | : t Cortificates return es egveed. i Nome Address SPECIAL HERNDON BAIL FUND $15,000 | TRAVERSE. Sie ise ses ve dane .-in cash. 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