The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1934, Page 4

| ' | / | rage Four NAVY CR Layoff: Come Fast In Camden Shipyard Four Torpedo Boats Also Constructed Under Burdensome Efficiency Schemes; Greater | Union Reaction to Grievances Needed | By a Shipyard Worker Cor- respondent ry four or five men are under a pusher. This means speed-up. The contract signed between the company and the union specifically stated that upon completion of the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa the workers would be transferred to o:her jobs. N. our hree battle cru construction f Navy at the New York Shipbuilding Co. Two high speed Young Workers Defy Missouri Jimecrowism 26. BOONVILLE Police on Monday arrested young workers, one a Negro, for the crime” of fraternizing and travel- ling together through the jim-crow state of Missouri The four workers, on their way back to Kansas City from the Dis- trict Convention of the Young Com- munist League in St. Louis, Mo., were threatened and delayed by the ent police force who a npied to isolate the Negro youth, Riley Di , from the others and to use the presence of a white girl com- rade in the group to engineer an- other frame-up. Both attempts were defeated by the militant soli- darity of the group which included, four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1934 Unity Movement on Chica go- Northwestern Begins Bearing Fruit Rank and File Militancy at Meetings Forces Company to Withdraw Speed-Up Tricks pondent concen is beginning to bear fruit. The various leaflets, Daily Worker and | Unity News that have been distrib- | oil tankers are being built for a private concern. nce the strike the company has increased the speed-up of the workers in the yard. Chiefly through | efficiency experts and the piece work system the work is being car- neck speed. reamers push s speed and re laid off ior 2 Ti ried forward at brea the Dept. at after drilling holes da at at the speed-up of the piece-work system. Although reamers and riveters recently have been hired as first class at 67¢ per hour for day work many of them are only receiving the second-class hourly rate of 62c mn hour. of Department 61 this issue. In The grievance committee is not fighting Department the Erection However, in recent weeks not less than 500 workers have been laid off and are now listed among the umemployed. The grievance committee of the various departments fail to func- tion properly—some not at all. This immediately must be corrected. The union membership must check up that they react to every | 2inst the interest of the 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, ete. We urge workers from these industries to write conditions of work, IN THE Various On the cover of the new issue of I am glad we don’t have to buy | the Working Woman magazine, | which will be off the press in a} day or two, will appear a picture | of one of the Battles of Seabrook | Farm, which shows how valiantly | our Negro sisters fought in that s.rike. | This militant cover will wrap up a lot of other lively material, in- | cluding an article by an organizer | of the Seabrook Farm strike, and | one by Marguerite Young, concern- ing the role of Hugh Johnson’s $6,800-per-year female assistant in| the fixing of the wage codes for HOME Matters milk, we have our own milk. . Starvation just about got us, . ... 1 was pleased to know that all the berries were good pint. ...” Now I'd like to know how much the California workers get for picking those nice five-cent peaches. Yourself? Pattern 1933 is available in sizes in that | ities of the committees + us of their | | the strike sentiment and the T. M.| First they issue ihe cards (ap- women; pictures of some of the, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. delegates to the Paris Congress, a| size 36 takes 31% yards 36 inch short story, new material about | fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew- women in fascist Germany, and! ing instructions included, anti-war articles. Reminder May we mention again the big send-off demonstration for the delegates to the Women’s Interna- tional Congress Against War and Fascism? This farewell will occur et Pier 57, W. 15th St., on Satur- day, July 28, at 9:30 am. Tomor- row! (As funds are still short—$150 as these lines are written—rush con-| 7 tributions to Reina Evans, New) York Committee Against War and Fascism, 213 Fourth Ave., or take them to the Coliseum tonight, where last collection will be made.) And As for the Cupboard—— It’s nearly bare; with the help of A. A. A. and the drought it will | soon be bare altogether, by the looks of things. Milk still up—l2 cents a quart in N. Y. C., although if you've had to take the pauper’s oath you may be able to get a quart or so for “only” eight—the | pakers in the Bronx are bitterly fighting the bread-strike there— nd sugar, thanks to the new tax,| is also going up. And you have to watch the po-| tatoes and onions closely, or you'll) be sold plenty of bad ones, And) New York is flooded with green peaches. And how outraged the dealers are if you complain! | “Green!” they exclaim, looking | fat you with indignation and horror, “Those peaches green, lady? Nice ‘n ripe, nice, ripe, red peaches!”| Red, maybe, but not ripe. In the! language of gran’-pa's farm, a! green peach was an unripe one, no mat‘er how red its skin. We'd) have our hides tanned plenty for| picking and eating such peaches as re on the stands here, which are | fit for nothing but cooking, and) mot very fit for that. Good, ripe California freestone peaches you can get—but at five cents each. A friend of mine bought a pint box of strawberries a few weeks ago, on which was the penciled legend, “Whoever gets this box of berries please write to Beatrice x—, W—. Louisiana, and tell how much you paid for it.” My friend wrote and told her she paid 15 cents for the berries, and asked Beatrice how much she got for picking them. The answer came | back: “We get for picking berries out here 14% cents a pint, and for packing them. 15 cents a crate. I wish you could see all the berries we throw away while we're packing them. It is not only in New York that it’s hard to make a living. Out) here too . . . we haven't got to worry about rent, but we have to page this year quite early. They give some of the crops we make.+are giving wholesaze furloughs and The people here are not any bet- | cutting down time and speeding up ter since the N. R. A. came on. .. ./ like never before. 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. Telegraph Company On Rampage In Chicago By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill. — The Western Union Telegraph Co. is on the ram- 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). -Address...... State.. Note: This offer does not appiy to renewals, nor does it hold good for Manhattan and Bronx. : : | a nape | together with Davis, Lewis Hurst,| uted where I work—in the Chicago | Communist candidate for Congress| Passenger terminal—have stirred) in Kansas City, Florence Wayne|the fellows up to try to improve} and Leo Blanken, the latter of Pitts-| their working conditions. They} burgh, Kansas, | have been putting pressure on the - | officials and grievers to get the | enforcement of working rules, Some | results have been obtained which; have led to increased membership | |and interest in Lodge 236 of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. And the officials are being forced to s results or get shown up. n in the baggage and mail de- par’ got over $8,000 back pay as result of a strike ballot settlement, and when the company, with the aid of General Chairman Goble, tried to nullify this gain by asking for a change in shifts that would have led to lay-offs, the scheme was defeated and Goble | Was shown up at a special meeting | | with the rank and file in full con- trol. A while back a rule prohibiting smoking in the terminal and train | fessengers Fired to Cut Gains Won N the Western Union Takes On New Boys at Previous Pay By a Telegraph Worker Cor- respondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—I work for wn after a Unity flet called cn the men to fight t ugh .b2 orga: for the right to smoke. Mcre re- cently two jobs (a loader and a handler in the mail department) were abolished, and the work done by lower paid men. This was a violation of the working agreement, and the department head was forced to give several men, who had been shifted, a day off with pay to keep from violating another rule which calls for the paying of time and a half for working more than six days in a row. A move is afoot for all C. & N. W. lodge in the Chicago area to call a mass meciing demanding a six hour day— y day w with no reduc in mont earnings to put men baci to wo Also to demand relief from ihe company for the thousands who have been laid off. In general the men are beginning to realize that only by our own efforts can we maintain and im- prove conditions. They are making more insistent demands on their | officials and building Unity groups in many lodges to carry on a united rank and fight if and when the Western Union Telegraph Co. in Brooklyn. I have worked for this concern for three years, and/ have seen many raw deals imposed on the messengers. However, the one I am going to describe is the worse one yet. During the strike situation that) threatened the company in late April, the Western Union started giving out many petty concessions. | Among some of the increases were: 1. A daily bonus of 10 cents to all bicycle messengers. They Sign Up For Pension Fund By an LR.T. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—July Ist, 1934, the I. R .T, with the aid of its various 2. A 10 per cent increase in all! agencies, put into effect what they errand-services, jare pleased to call a voluntary 3. The cancelling of the $1 limit | Pension Fund. A book of articles on books of messages. | of this pension fund idea along 4. Traveling-time for going to| with an application was issued to New York to change uniforms. |each of the 17,000 or 18,000 em- 5. Increases of one or two ployes, which book stated that the schedules in most offices and other | fund idea was not compulsory for small raises. | old employes, but was compulsory There intentions were to shatter | for men hired after July Ist, 1934, U. by forcing a company union on us. The Western Union figured that plications) for you to consider, the |mext day they were around, and the day after, and if you refused | NIIMIDATION ON LR. | Men Hounded Daily Till) | then, if the above methods were success- ful, that is the shattering of the only fighting messenger union, the T. M. U,, they could then use their trump-card — the reduction and abolition of all increases granted the messengers prior to the strike situation. However they were fooled. The T. M. U. did not col- lapse. Now they've pulled a new one. Knowing that they would not be able to take away the gains from the older messengers without hav- ing a battle, so they have started a drive of firing these messengers, under the pretense that they have been working too long. They also hire young boys within the ages of 16 and 17. They pay these mes- sengers the same wages we used to receive before we organized and gained the increases mentioned above. They promise them that after they have worked in the com- pany a half-year they will “raise” their wages to our standards. They hope by that time to take a slice out of the wages. However this they will not be able to do. Unemployed? Join the Red Builders! Get Daily Worker Subscribers! to join, an official of the compan; was around wanting to know wh: hinting that your job was safer, in case of any jam that might arise, if you were in on this fund, | If you still refused to join this; ; Wage cut and robbery, these offi- | \cials asked for your badge and) | pass number, a bold-faced act of | | intimidation. You were then notified to come down to the brotherhood hall, | hoping that you could be more easily intimidated there by a sigh: of the “brain trusters,” Keegan, Connolly, McKenna and a few more of their kind, on your own time. Signers of this robbery have only been got through intimidation and fear of their jobs, and those that have not signed are having all kinds of intimidation put their way. Men of the I. R. T., on these facts of intimidation alone you should easily see that as far as your interests are concerned you can only accept more of this deg- radation as long as we stay unor- ganized, Don’t say, “What can you do about it?” Join the Transport Workers’ Union, and let’s fight these attacks. our paid officials fail us. T. Terrorism Sweetened By Calling Workers “Fighting Irish” By an LR.T. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—Here on the LR.T. exploitation of labor is an art not duplicated in many other concerns. Not one stone is left unturned by the company to gain its end. For instance, the religious issue is always held before the men, the better to keep them in subjection. This is always used in the com- pany’s favor, not in the men’s. Various cases of men’s appeals to Mr. Keegan, a high and active Knights of Cclumbus man, have not received any attention at all, only sarcasm passed off as Irish wit. We were also treated to the spectacle of another great churchman, our own “Papal count,” Dowling, ac- tively championing a 10 per cent wage cut for us, while grabbing $5,000 monthly plus graff. Mr. Mur- ; ray, the same a5 Dowling, publicly states that no working man on the LR.T, is worth more than $20 a week, Egotism is always used by appeal- ing to the men’s vanity, by calling them “fighting Irish,” while the ter- rorism of the company against us with its fear of unemployment and its attendant charity and bread- lines in a foreign land, has made us more truthfully docile rabbits, Messrs. Keegan, Murray, and Doyle, and Connolly's. “voluntary” pension fund is another attack on us, impudently handed and adver- tised as the greatest thing the com- pany has done for us in years. Ninety per cent of the men that these jackal hirelings have signed up have only been signed through intimidation. The proof of this is easily seen when you ask any of these men that did sign, “What do you think of the pension?” Invari- ably they answer, ‘No good, lousy.” Communist Party Members Active In Spite of Attacks By a Worker Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO. All the workers’ centers are now smashed all over the city. We were all prepared for it in advance. The enraged capitalist press is now trying the “red scare,” in order to focus attention from our common enemy, the bosses, and they are also using it in trying to split the solid united front, but the strikers are not fooled. They are militant, but those labor fakers leading the strike are doing everything to sell the strike out. Meetings should be organized all over the country and protests sent to Mayor Rossi and the local “red squad.” We expect a big vote for the Com- munist Party in the next election because workers are now waking up to the “new deal.” I am not a Party member at the present time, but will {sin soon. I am_ active in the distribution of leaflets, which are very effective now. In fact, they helped a great deal in the general strike. Every Bolshevik is active now. 'Still Tl From Effects | Of Gas Thrown By Cops By a Worker Correspondent SAN FRANCISOO, Cal.—On Bloody Thursday I was down at the waterfront and was chased, shot | at and severely gassed: I have been ill from the effects of the gas since The police used gas pis‘ols and rifies—the workers had only rocks. Since the beginning of this week, as you no doubt.know all the Com- munist headquarters in San Fran- Help the Drive for 20,000 NEW READERS— cisco have been demolished (we believe by deputized legionnaires), By a Worker Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — Tues- day, July 17, at noon, A. F. of L, thugs and plainclothesmen, with I, L. A. union buttons, in several autos started raiding militant working-class headquarters, such as Marine Workers Industrial Union, I. L, A. kitchen for strikers doing picketing duty, C. P. headquarters. Due to the fact that the Presi- dent of Municipal Carmen A. F. of L. Local 518, is also President of the San Francisco Labor Councl (i. e, Ed Vandeleur) the municipal Railway employees were the last to come out and the first ordered back to work. However, the Market St. Railway employees, who for a large part were used to break the carmen’s strike in 1917, were or- ganized only recently in a combina- tion company and A. F. of L. union, Here the A. F. of L influence was not consolidated and therefore un- able to stem the tide in favor of the general strike, so the Market St. Railway Co, cars are still (at this writing) tied up 100 per cent, and the employes refuse to consider going back to work until the con- trol of hiring halls is granted the longshoremen; this in spite of the fact that the company has granted the demands of the street car em- Ployees for $5 for an 8-hour day. Coming back to the general strike committee meeting in the Labor Temple Tuesday, July 17, it can be explained as follows: a roll call vote was prevented by the Labor Coun- cil officials, the attendance was not | strictly limited to delegates with | “bona-fide” credentials, in fact a |Tequest for credentials was made | only on one occasion by the chair, when one rank and file delegate from Local 44 asked for the floor. | The motion was contrary to the | original agreement by A. F. of L. leaders with the joint marine Strike Committee that under no circum- stances would the question of the| The control of hiring halls be submitted or 2,500 Now on Strike Ta Cal HAMMOND, et Territory Ind., July 26.—The number of work on stzike in the Calumet indus area rose to | 2,500 yesterday as workers struck at 10 am, in Hammond and East Chicago plants of the Shell Oil Co. | Almost 1,500 walked out in both plants. | The other men striking in this region are: 709 building trades | kers in Whiting; 300 on Great | kes tuzboats, and 100 metal work- | ers in East Chicago. | Western Union 3 Pushes Drive To Fire Jews Anti-Semitic Campaign | Extended Even to UISERS BUILT UNDER TERRIFIC SPEED-U PARTY LIFE OrganizationalConsolidation in Alabama. District Needed Suggests Reasons for Membership Fluctuation In Party—Offers Remedial Measures Ctioas of th h. if ¢: rT toverd cutting uctuation in Party mem- aD. The apparatus for issuing Party | books should be perfected. At pres-| Party well enough, drop out. o'd) who do ot h-~e | Ot: who do not understand the In ent in Section 7 and 7A in District | turn, it discourages recruiting be- 17 (a steel concentration point) we have perhaps 100 applicants (some Penn. RR Refuses Pav for Forced Messengers | W ie hee ts . pee Waiting Tima By a Telegraph Werker Cor- | vipa respondent sf ; NEW YORK. 2cently Mr. YOR" Samuel J. Liebow! addres:ed a Railroad has not only minimized letter to the New York Legislature | wages, but also minimized time, | requesting an investigation of the| which are almost synonymous. So- | utilities in this state for their anti- | Semitic attitude. Mr. Leibowitz was | absolutely correct in all of his statements. However, he failed to | include the Western Union Tele- | raph Co. among these fascist in- | clined corporations. This large corporation has started | on a campaign to eliminate all | Jewish employes now in their ranks. |A certain percentage of Jews had | found employment in its ranks | during the life of Jacob Schiff and | his son, Mortimer. However, they were limited to certain depart- ments, principally the sales force. | A few were also found in the traffic department. Five years ago the executives de- cided that this Jewish element should be eliminated quickly, but | without any publicity. The first step in this program was to trans- fer a Mr. C. H. Carroll from the Southern Division to New York as assistant general manager, because of his K. K. K, background. Several years passed in which the | depression accomplished some of | the tasks that Mr. Carroll set ous to do. However, in the last few years | while hundreds; of experiencea and higher salctied employes were placed upon the furlough list, hun- dreds of new people were hired. This contradiction can be easily | called swing waiters and cooks (this includes extra men whose time is | even more drastically cut) are made | to report in the depot for trains. usually between 10 to 30 minutes | before leaving time. The regular |men report from one to about three hours before leaving time, the al- | lotted time being inadequate for the chef and second cook to prepare a | meal, | A train having arrived at its des- | tination, if any men must make |leaving time of the later train is three hours or less from the leaving time of the first train. After a man is off for an hour or two. the time | is so short that he is unc re) this time to advantage. Men are ordered to report in the |New York station at 5:30 and 6:30 |in the morning, and are given no compensation for it, and, as is often the case, are still there at 5:30 and 6:30 in the evening. Another evil which numerous men are subjected to is the oft-repeated errors in figuring working time. The pay drafts are usually one or more hours short and unless working time lis kept and checked (which I am ‘sorry to say many of the men do |not keep), these errors are never corrected. In order to get work done, a man | another train, time is cut uniess the | explained. First, these new people is told to eat on the car he’s making were hired at much lower ratings | and secondly they would eventually replace the Jewish workers who were being weeded out. This lat- | ter phase of the plan has. been| speeded up in the last six months. | | “Recen ly attempts h'|'s been | made by the poorly paid messengers | to better their working conditions | |by organizing into unions. Mr., Carroll used the excuse of their leaders being Jewish in most of the | cases to extend his cleansing and purging to the messenger ranks, Asking them why they signed, they say, “Yes, what the hell could I do? I got to work cause I got a family.” Fellow workers, prepare and for- tify yourself to fight. Join the Transport Workers Union. You have nothing to fear. This is no company or A. F. of L, racket, but a union owned and controlled by the transit workers. We also call on all honest transit workers to read the Daily Worker, the on!y decent and honest working man’s paper that is not controlled by the bosses and will fearlessly publish our letters and publicize our working conditions. Support it! TREACHERY AND TERROR ON THE WEST COAST How tne Strike-Breaking Role Was Put Through | YMCA and Gov't to arbitration. The motion was introduced by Kidwell of the Bakery-Wagon Drivers Local 448, who has been signing permit after permit for this, that and the other branch of industry resuming serv- ice, Then the delegation from various unions such as the typographical workers did not come out on strike at all, The delegation of Local 518 was still there, and they were out on strike only 15 hours. Then the majority of delegates appointed by Vandeleur who has been opposed to the strike from the start, and on top of all the one who introduced the motion counted the votes himself. Even then all he could stretch the count in favor is as follows: 207 for submission of all issues to arbitration; 180 against, 300 at least abstained from voting. Immediately the various unions began rejecting the vote of the delegates where the issue was submitted to the rank and file members for a vote of approving. To illustrate, Local 44, A. F. of L. Ccoks Union, unanimously adopted @ strong resolution repudiating the yote, and pointed out that they will conthinue to support the mar- itime workers in their demands for control of hiring halls. Local 1104 Market St. Railway employees did likewise, and of course, the mar- itime unions repudiated~the arbi- tration. M.W.L.U. Paper Still Comes Out In Frisco By a Worker Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—No. 765 Howard St, was completely demol- ished by the police and legionnaire “vigilantes,” as you doubtless know. “Western Worker” print shop was burned down a couple of days Institute Help to Recruit Scabs | By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—In the Jane St. Seamen's Relief Institute, run jointly by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Y. M. C. A., at 507 Jane St. and West, they have been offering licensed engineers and mates scab jobs for Seattle and Frisco. Wages were offered running into $300 per month with transportation and ex- penses thrown in and if the strike is settled when they arrive there their expenses are supposed to be covered. Several licensed men were of- fered this scabby job last week, but I am glad to say that most of the men have refused to sell their brother workers out on the West Coast. The seamen and licensed men are beginning to realize that the strike on the West Coast af- fects them vitally and know that_ those who take these jobs are cut-! ting their own throats. It is well’ known now all along the beach that 99 per cent of the phoney jobs that come into the Seamen’s House, | the Seamen’s Church Institue or Jane St. are scab jobs. Notice how busy these joints have been since | the West Coast strike. ago. Even the I, W. W. hall was Searched for mimeographs and the windows smashed. In spite of this, the “Foc-sle Head” (M. W. I. U.) appeared the next day and was joy- fully received by the strikers. The complete sellout by Vande- leur, Casey and Deal has tem- | porarily demoralized the workers, but has also violently angered them. 1 There are also the “I told you so’s” who are using the opportunity to attack the M. W. I. U. They are, however, receiving a rather cool reception, (usually he can’t get an assignment, until 11 o'clock) and consequently he is on the car many hours before | his time starts, Deadheading is still another way to cut time, 15 minutes being al- lowed for making the dead-head, the men sleeping in the dining cars. Then there is the charge of 25 cents for sleeping in quarters in Washington, Pittsburgh, Harris- burg and Altoona, and 15-cents in Philadelphia. Crna verae NOTE—To correct these condi- tions, the workers in the dining car should join the Brotherhood Dr. Prevention of Lead Poisoning. (Continued) Besides the symptoms described above, sufferers from chronic lead poisoning, owing to their lowered resistance, are apt to contract other infections; the tendency to tuber- culosis being the most prevalent. Arterioselerosis (hardening of the arteries), chronic kidney disease and their complications often ac- companies plumbism. The _ blood, besides the lack of hemoglobin, shows a peculiar “stippling” of red | corpuscles which is another cliag- nostic sign, together with the pres- ence of lead in the urine and feces. English statistics have established the fact that lead is a race poison. i. e., that its effects are passed on to the children. Women effected by plumbism show a high incidence of sterility, premature deliveries, still- births and a high mortality of their offspring during the first year of life. Svontaneous abortions and miscarriages are higher than in al- coholic intoxication. As in syphilis, lead may so injure the fetus that, if the child is free from lead. a “leaded” father is ant to affect the offspring. When a growing child is exposed to lead poisoning, its growth is dwarfe“ and its mental condition is stnted. Some people are less susceptible to lead poisoning than others, They | | cause the functioning members realize that most of their contacts drop out for this reason. This also explains to some degree the low percentage of dues payments. The main fault for the existing situation lies with the District Buro, Every comrade on the Buro can and will benefit from ict 17, where the Party ly illegal, the most rigid discipline should be exacted from Jeading comrades. When this is es- tablished, the weaklings who are at fault will make way for the real Bolsheviks to fill their shoé¢s. What this means in practice is a Dis- trict Org. Committee that meets regularly; section representatives that carry all applications in each week and return with the Party books; unit organizers that keep contact with the Section Committee and get the Party books for tie members. This has been said be- fore. Criticism has been made. Now the comrades must be disciplined if they fail in their tasks. The con- centration sections should be made to function first. Then the other sections should be brought into line, We should not have a situation where the Black Belt receives more attention in response to Party books than the steel, coal and ore center. We have the material for good Section Committees, Section Buros and Unit Buros. The organizational stsps to form these Party commit- tees must be taken at once. The simple method of getting Party books; must be expiained and a comrade made responsible for each step. Then we can lay our finger on a weak link and replace it. This will not only develop efficiency but will develop respect, for organiza- tion and Communist discipline. The present period. a neriol of organizational consolidation and res cruiting Yor the Party in pop; tion for the coming struggles steel, coal and ore, must see the Party build these Party committees in | into strong functioning organs c2p- able of operating under all condi- tions of boss terror. TC. ef Dining Car Cocks and Wa and attend the meetings. There they should demand that the Grievance Committee take up the complaint of the men and demand pay for all waiting time and no LUTTINGER ADVISES ———. By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. — charge for sleeping in company quarters. either do not absorb the lead or are able to store it away and eliminate (excrete) it, A diet rich in calcium (lime) seems to cause “immunity,” probably by favoring the fixation (storage) in the bones; while alco- hol or other factors producing acidosis increase the susceptibility. It is well established that young people and women are more likely to be affected by lead than middle- aged men. This is why it is for- bidden in England (since 1898) to employ women in the manufacture of white lead. The most dangerous occupations in which lead poisoning occurs are in the mining, smelting and refin- ing of lead; in the manufacture and use of red and white lead; in the manufacture of pottery and earthenware and in tetraethyl gaso- line. Litharge (red lead) is used in making storage batteries, rubber compounding, paint for bridges, structural iron work, railway cars and battleships; in glazes for tiles and terra cotta, enamel for porce- lain and sanitary ware. A large majority of glazes contain over 10 per cent soluble lead; some even as high as 50 per cent. American potteries show an inéidence of over 20 per cent cases of lead’ poisoning among their workers; while the English factories have less than one per cent. (To Be Continued) 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 sick as a result of the murderous treatment ac- corded me during my two years of. confinement. My enly hopes of ever being in the ranks again is in your ’strencth.”—From. a letter from Angelo Herndon—Fulton Tower Jail, June 7, 1934. $15,000 International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City T advance—I donate $.........sesepeseeueee (eross ont one) Liberty Bonds $. SPECIAL HERNDON BAIL FUND $15,000 in cash Nos.. towerd the Bail Fund for Angelo Herndon with the uncerstanding that this will be returned a Certificates will ke return as agreed. Name Address soon es this Bail is released. for this Bail Fund gusrcnteeing its