The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1934 AS ONE AIR-PILOT TO ANOTHER rtation accidents witt loss of life and equip- re increasing in spite of the that communications and ent in America is considered he world. Numerous ar in the press comment in the usual confused manner con- cerning the accidents, and the con- radictory statements of the writers t an obvious ignorance. They mention, stricter inspection of this and that, the human factor, pilots, weather, and the maintain- ing of tight schedules due to the competition between air transporta- | tion companies. In the recent bad crash of the American Airw ship in New York State the pilot} Clyde Holbrook was one of thy finest and most experienced pilots in the business. His ability and | character were an inspiration to| very aviation worker who knew| him. Unless the present conditions | improve, such accidents will con- tinue Tight schedules under competitive ure, and maintenance under conditions with low wages for ground crews and a general dis- tisfaction of workers in the whole industry cannot, be ignored as a vitel contributing factor to im- Paired operation. Saddled with} codes that are an insult to these Skilled workers, aviation mainte-| mance today is inferior to the Standard maintained a few years| ago. In 1929-30-31, schedules gen- | erally averaged 130 MPH. com- | munications weather reports, light- ed airways, radio beacons and air- ort facilities were considerably in- fericr qualitatively and quanti- tatively than at p: A number | ef lines operated in the middle | West and transcontinentally with] an almost ni ible loss of life and} equipment as compared with the | BY A GROUP OF PILOTS AND MECHANICS rank and file independent unions Such upheavals are not caused by so-called irresponsible agitators as we are paternally informed by the prostitute press and baldhead judi- cial morons, but are a product of the recognition of the unjust and arrogant attitude of the powerful aviation trusts. These protests spring from the economic condi- tions and will increase in power and effectiveness regardless of all the fascist oppression and prosti- tute press propaganda until the conditions are changed. Assisted by Doc Johnson and his moulting| and file movement has been started | the night shift. Nearly 200 men misery, in conjunction with Ma Per- kins and Bill Green, police terror and hypocritical impartialist boards, the bosses may stall and confuse| McCullough and Hutchinson. Al-|made for working 3 days before. the aviation workers temporarily. | ready six of these mines meet reg-| But if the bosses in their stupidity | ularly to find out their grievances | a assume this effect to be a victory, their optimism is somewhat pa- thetic. The aviation workers are spreading their organizational ac- tivities in factory and field. They are aroused and fighting mad at the bloody attacks of the police and thugs on their picket lines in the recent strikes in Hartford and Buffalo. They paid the price and learned their lessons with bloody realism. The result can be stated with assurance. The aviation worker has no illusions as to his position and action in the coming economic struggles. All the governmental belching about reds or the whin- ing editorial of local gutter sheets will not confuse the aviation work- ers the next time. Masses of workers within the A. F. of L. are disgusted with tactics of the self-styled labor advisors, mediators and would-be labor brain trusts. A labor brain trust is not necessary whether imported or local to enforce a decent standard of living for the workers. The work- present operation. jers have learned that success de- During this period the wage rates| ponds on collective action unham- of air and ground crews were much|Pered by misleading arbitrator: higher. The percentage of unskilled| Who prefer the bosses’ round table or unlicensed help was controlled|to the picket line. These guardian carefully and the general condi-| angels of labor become hysterical! getting on the grievances, and put-|9s Conemaugh Local 6399, which tions of all aviation workers were| when a definite move is made to-| ting them before the Westmoreland! mines are run by the Beth an independent organization | operators. We need the leadership | Steel Corp.) better than at present. Today with | War the finest ships in the world, vastly | Of workers. They are due for a few improved communications, selective| real shocks very soon and we will flying personnel and millions of | hear their deep voices roll in des: dollars in reserve, the increase of | peration against the massed avia- air accidents is unnecessary and a|tion workers in the independent criminal reflection of the disastrous| Unions. No labor advisor or im- result of privately owned compet-| Partialist guardian angel will ad- itive business in which the workers| Vance the workers’ interests at the are subjected to a lower standard of living in the interests of cor- poration profits. Journalistic apolo- gists, careful of their advertisers, Membership contrcl on a united flounder in a maze of monotonous | front policy on the picket lines in thecries such as weather, defective | the open. The A. F. of L. in its instruments, pilots, etc. These ac-|COllaborationist poliey has become cidents with the consequent de-|the tail to the political kite of struction of the lives of workers| President Roosevelt and Co. The and passengers are a reflection of | Strength of the aviation workers is the conditions under which work-| Within themselves united as work- ers exist. |ers towards one objective—to make Even the A. F. of L. with its well | this highly profitable industry pay @iled collaborationist policy was|to its workers an adequate stand- unable to fool all the aviation work- ard of living which the workers ers. They struck over the heads of | themselves will decide. these sell-out artists and formed| Aviation Ma'ntenance Engineer. ers will do the advancing through independent organization with IN THE HOME By HELEN LUKE Pennsylvania Rank and wile UMWA Officials Follow Bosses’ Orders to Speed Up Miners Work Doubled, Pay Spread Drive In Iron County Grow Stronger Cut at Powhattan For H.R. 7598 By a Mine Worker Correspondent YUKON, Pa.—After nine months of organization of the United Mine | Workers of America, the miners’ | Situation is as follows: 1, The operators openly state that the miners haye no closed shop. 2. The attempts are being made to build the company unions, 3. The struggle of the rank and | file miners for a closed shop of rank and file control within the U. M. |W. A. is going on. | In Westmoreland County the rank | by the miners of Westmoreland Coal | Co., namely Yukon, Hahntown, Ril- ton, Westmoreland City, Export, jand methods of fighting | grievances. The U. M. W. A. officials are doing everything possible to split | the rank and file movement, brand- jing it as a Communist organization, | and trying to split the U.M.W.A. The rank and file movement began with only three mine meet- |ings at first, and six mines meet| now, with the exception of McCul- | lough, which local is controlled by | stool pigeons. | The miners plan the following: To fight’ for a closed shop and a uniform scale, for the seven West- | moreland coal mines when the ne-} gotiating commitee meets for agree- | ment next April. The demands are as follows: | A 6-hour day $6 a day, five days) a weck, and 40 weeks minimum a} | year. Payment for dead work, for) | unemployment insurance, and many | | other miners’ demands. | Unless these demands are met} | With a uniform scale, these seven | Mines will strike in April. | At present these mines are plan- ning the following: Each mine is these | of the working class movement. | 3 tls Metal Workers Plan Pre-Conyention Rally STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, July 27.— expense of the bosses.. The work-|A mass pre-convention rally of | | Weirton and Steubenville steel and metal workers will be held at Stan- ton Park, near here, on Sunday. It hes been called to popularize the the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union, to be held in Pitts- burgh on August 3, 4 and 5, and to acquaint the workers further with |the class struggle program of the | S.M.W.I.U. Many unemployed work- |ers, part of the thousands who have |been laid off throughout the Ohio Valley, have been invited to attend. NOTE We publish letters from coal and ore miners, and from oil field workers, every Saturday. We urge workers in these fields to write us of their condition of of work and of their struggies to approaching national convention of | Nearly 200 Fired in Mine, While Others Make Half As Much in 5 Days As in 3 Before By a Mine Worker Correspondent POWHATAN PT., Ohio. — The} Powhatan Co, has stopped the night | shift werk and has doubled every- | bedy up, and now two men work | in a place and get from one to three |cars a shift. And now the mine runs 5 days a week. | Nobody makes anything, although | they are working a few loaders on have lost their jobs, and the ones that are working are making half as much for 5 days a week as they Fellow workers, it 1s nothing but | cut in wages and a big saving |for the operators. Before, they had two sets of day men and now they have only one set and nearly 900) loaders, and they can’i get the cars, as the mine is not well equipped enough to handle so many men on | ene shift. One motor has 45 to 60 loaders and by the time he makes two trips to a place the seve! | hours are up. So two men make what one used to make, The day man is the only one that makes what the code calls for. The loaders don't make what the code calls for in two or three shifts, so I am just wondering how long will we wait with this slavery system. We should load this coal by day work, then we would make what the code calls for. I should like to see ourselves unite at once and get down to real | business and defeat this company machine that runs the U.M.W.A. Because they got an order from the district to double everybody, they did it. And besides, they want the day men to work about so as to split their work. In cther words, they want them to split their pay. | So there is another cut. I do not know what the result will be, but it looks to me like the Officials of the u.M.W.A. and Lewis ought to split their pay. Because Lewis gets his thousands of dollars to serve the compa and for European touring. I understand he is in Europe trying to study how to break Europeans’ solidarity, Defend Communist Program ‘At Meeting of Mine Local Members of Conemaugh Local 6399 Applaud| Militant Stand for Class Struggle Policy By a Mine Worker Correspondent — JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Two weeks ago we held a meeting of the local} |union of the United Mine Workers; jin Johnstown (the local of miners working in Franklin mines, known em | These mines are run jon a vicious open shop basis, which |John Lewis and his whole official- |dom are responsible for, because | | they signed an agreement with the| | Bethlehem officials giving the Beth- lehem Steel Corp. the right to run the mines as they see fit, and to hire and fire, Any mine worker wishing to join the union must sign a slip of paper which reads as follows: “I, the undersigned, agree to pay the check-off, 50 cents, for every | two weeks, to the District No. 2] of the U.M.W.A., and the money is to be sent to Secretary Treasurer of the District, Richard Gilbert, etc. This be deducted from my earnings every two weeks, until I further} notify the company to stop, or de- | duct.” | The agreement also says that any | miner not wishing to sign has a perfect right not to do so, and shall |not be compelled, thus insuring that the company can run the mine | under the vicious open shop system. | For this kind of agreement the ; company rewards the U, M. W. A. eee by deducting the check-off for U. M. W. A, from miners who \this has nothing to do with the | They said that he can’t belong to , Political parties, like the Socialist they to the company. In this agreement it is showr | clearly to the miners again on| which side of the fence are the| great labor leaders” of the official family of Lewis and his hench-j| men, like James Marks, Richard Gilbert and John Ghizzoni. | A mine worker working in this | mine wanted to join the union. The U. M. W. A. local 6399. officials called him into the local union mecting, after he was applying for months and months. Well, his case came up in the local. An official of the local, Murphy Cush, the U. M. W. A. organizer, asked him if he is a Communist. The miner an- swered, that is my business what party I am in, and I believe that local union. I agree with the pro-| gram of the Communist Party on these grounds: the fight for shorter hours, 6 hours a day, 30 hours a week, and $6 a day, and also the right to strike, the fight for the Unemployed Insurance Bill and for a workers and farmers government in America. Every one of the miners cheered him and clapped their hands, ex- cept the officials, Murphy Cush, and the other henchmen of officialdom. i { the U. M. W. A. | Other workers got up and asked | the question, how about the other Party. The official says: Yes! You! can belong to the Socialist, Repub- By a Worker Correspondent IRON RIVER, Mich.—The Iron County Labor Union, a rank and | file controlled relief organization, has been ac-ive in the campaign for the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill, H. R. 7598. We have two locals of this union, which com- prises a membership of over 250 | paid members at present. We have | won many concessions from the re- | lief officials. : In the campaign for H. R. 7598, we have secured the endorsement of the bill, and a resolution has been sent to Congressmen from this dis- trict (12th) after presentation to the following organizations: 1, Caspian Village Council (a mining town with a population of 2. Two locals of Iron County La- bor Union, membership 250, Caspian | Iron River locals. | 3. Duke of Abruzzi lodge, a bene- fit society. The lodge has a mem- bership of 150, located in Caspian, Mich. ea Giordano Bruno Society of Iron River, benefit society, member- ship 150. 5. Local No, 125 International ; Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter | Workers (A, F. of L.) located in Iron River; membership of 500-600. 6. Local No, 1299 United Brother- hood of Carpenters, A. F. of L. lo- cated in Iron River membership 150. 7, Local of the Finnish Workers Federation, a cultural organization; membership 70 members, located in Iron River. We have also sent in over 800 cards signed by individual workers to the Congressmen from this dis- trict. In one mine to which cards were brought by N. M. U. members, both shifts signed these cards, in- cluding the shift bosses. There is a tremendous support for this bill by the miners and relief workers from. this locality, carap. We have found out that mass pressure will force city and village councils to endorse the bill. When our commi-tee was small we had no results. But when we had a large committce and delegation, we forced them to sign. In Caspain which is a mining town, the delegation was backed by 150 workers who used the floor and forced an open vote by the coun- cil men. The miners saw who were company men. The result of such a large committees was to force its endorsement. Fellow workers, forward toward a mass campaign for H. R. 7598. With the best of working class greeting from the backwoods of Michigan, which is a mining CORRECTION In last Saturday’s mine corres- pondence page, a le.ter with the heading, “Strike threat forces pay rise in gold mine” was printed as dated from Grass Valley, Nevada.| ‘The letter came | This was incorrect. from Grass Valley-Nevada City, California, says: If this is so, I don’t want to belong to the Socialist Party any more. I guess I must join the Com- munist Party, as I see it is the only party which stands and fights for the working class. A_ third miner got up and said: We must | PARTY LIFE if Wall Street Whiie Collar Workers Need Organization || Lack of Organization Makes Them Easy Victims || of Lay-Offs—-Must Popularize “Office Worker” area of New York City are increas- ing and wage-cuts are an everyday eccurrence. No resistance is being offered because the workers are un- organized. We must no longer ne- glect these workers. They give a substantial part of the mass support of capitalism and are potentially part of the basis for fascism. We must not underestimate the im- portance of showing these workers that their interests are identical | with the interests of the rest of the working class, and that only through conscious class struggle can they defend and advance their interests. The recent strike of thousands of bank clerks in Brazil—paralyzing business—shows both that such workers are willing to organize and that they are an important part of the capitelist machinery. Further- more, the rapid organization of white collar workers in New York in the A. O. P. E. E. shows that such workers can be organized here in New York. Of this, the Office Workers Union, affiliated with the T. U. U. L. must become aware, and must take steos to start organ- izationel work among the white col- lar workers in Wall Street. The “Office Worker,” the official organ of the O. W. U. must be pop- ularized in the Wall Street area, where it can be sold by the thou- sands. The Daily Worker must par- ticularly be brought to the atten- tion of these workers who will eagerly read it if they are given an adequate opportunity. Only recently the N. R. A. admin- istration granted a request of the bosses to lower the minimum code wages in Wall Street. There was no protest—when thousands of leaf- jlets should have been distributed emong the workers showing them the y to stop this worsening of their conditions through militant | mass action. The New York District of the Party must support the orzaniza- tion of these workers, not by lessen- ing by one degree its concentration on the important basic industries, but by calling on all Party members who are office workers to vartici- pate actively in this work. Further- | more, the “Office Worker” could be brought to the attention of militant left-wing unions, for net only in ithe Wall Street area but everywhe-e, ; these werkers musi be orgenized in lall the shops and factorie-. The Office Workers Union, with added prestige from its victory in the Macaulley strike. must now turn its face toward the Wall Street area ef New York—where thousands of | office workers are gathered together daily beingh exnloited, working long hours at constantly lower end lower weges, and in the face of the in- ereesing lay-cffs. ready to answer to the slogen of “organization.” M. #., Unit 2, Section 3. New York. Kites ae In the Jast three years there | sprang un in the city of New Fore ‘0 an club movement. jen Amerie Mass lay-offs in the Wall Street | some of our Party comrades and even leading Party comrades this is still a dark secret. Although some improvements have been made in the relations metween the leading fraction members of these clubs and the leading comrades in the sections, we still find plenty of reom for fur- ther improvements. Briefly what are some of the difficulties that we find in our path when we go out to organize a club? The greatest difficulty so far has been that the leading members of the section committees seem to think very lightly about these clubs, They have an idea that such clubs are social centers only where work- ers can come and have a good time. If such was the nature of these clubs until recently it is no one’s fault but that of the section com- mittee members. The result of such an attitude has been that very littie attention was paid to these clubs by the section committees. As soon as the club developed a few class con- scious workers, the section came along and drew them out for “more important” work in the Party. In other words, implying by this that club work is not Party work; mak- ing a separation which is very dan- gerous in the revolutionary move- ment. In many instances, as a re- sult of this “snonging” on the clubs for forces many clubs weakened and in many cases gave up their exist- ence. The workers’ clubs perform a very important function in the revolu- tionary movement. Through their activities they are able to attract the young and adult worker who would otherwise not be attracted to the movement at all. We can cite cases, for instance, in Brooklyn, where many neighborhood “hood- lums,” who at one time were in- strumental in giving us a lot of trouble and breaking up our mcet- ings, are now active members of our clubs, The function of the clubs is to draw in the young worker who spends most of his time in the poo!- rocm and to a certain extent we have succeeded to do just that. The compesition of our membership shows that we are attracting larger numbers of native workers. The percentage of natives in our clubs, according to the latest statistics, is well over 60 ner cent. This proves that the club movement vlays its independent part as a revolutionary organization and as such deserves the attention of overv leading com- rede in the higher Party commit- tees. We have developed forces but al- most all of them are now engezed in work other than club work. Not that we begrudge it but that it is time that we make a turn and begin to give our movement its just con- sideration. The problem of devel- oped forces will now become much more acute since the movement is growing to such an extent that no one should be surprised if very soon we become a national orgenization. D. L. Buro Member. organize. Please get your letters to .| don’t want the open shop system. Reader Comments on Farm Articles us by Wednesd2y of each week. In return the U. M. W. A. officials, | “Dear Comrade Editor of the, them to the small city and farm to \ lican or Democratic parties. all join the C. P. it’s the only way One worker got up again and_| out, Dr. LUTTINGER ADVISES By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. — Women’s Column: “I have followed the articles on the life and conditions of the farm woman. I must say that the Daily Worker . . . has raised the issue of organizing the farm woman in the proper time when the/| working class is strangling with the fourth year of the most severe! crisis . . . Now. the Daily as well} as the Communist Party must | penetrate the farms and forward! our revolutionary message to the most neglected of the workers, most | affected by the crisis; the farm | ‘weman. “She was always a backward ele- ment. Suffered from never-ending hours of work. Oppressed by the men folks. A victim of priest and church, Subjected to a dull un- happy life. The articles in the Daily clearly poin‘ed out those lerger and minor things from which th2 farm woman suffers. | “They could be raiited around a demand for free clinics, with com- Petent docicrs to serve them when | Uhey ere in need of an abortion or anything of this kind. The farm} Women in the best times suffered from smail incomes and large} families. In these hunger times she | is losing the ground under her feet, must search for bread under the Most horrible conditions. . . . | .When a woman is faced with a/ situation where she must free her- | self of a burdensome pregnancy due | to lack of bread, she finds all legal | doors closed to her... . -“I say that we must raise an/ educational campaign among the! farm women and strongly expose the existing conditions in our| country; point out the privileges of | motherhood in the Soviet Union. A child born there is a welcome mem- er, a shareholder in the whole Sov-et Union. In the United States, | idren of unemployed parents ate also a privileged class—pri- \Heged to search for food in gar- bage cans. . -“Prostitution in the Soviet Union ij practically wiped out, while in the capitalist world mothers indulge ia prosti.ution in exchange for Tread for the child. At this time of the bitter crisis hundreds of ied men and women ask to be Sterilized (see Sexual Sterilization, Robert G. Dexter) in order not to &22 their offspring die of want. “We must raise in the women the | fighting spirit of Ella May Wiggins | end her kind. A kind that could be found oniy in revolutionary ranks, ready to leave her children behind | end if necessary die for the cause of the working class. We must draft, the Zetkins, Krupskayas, and | Porovskayas of America and send bring the masses the light of rev- Olutionary struggle... .” Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1864 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 3 yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew- | ing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) i- coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. W: plainly name, address and _ st number. BE SURE TO STATU SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St.. New York City. A LETTER FROM CAMP WO- CHI-CA It sems so long since I left home, but I guess it’s because so much has happened since. The afternoon we got here we didn’t do much. Just looked around at everything. It’s so nice here, all grass and trees around, and best of all the lake where we go swimming. There's always someone near to see that nothing happens to any of us. Our tent leader is some swimmer, too! Next day, our program began. You know, while we're playing we learn things that some of us didn‘t know before. Things we should know about the working class that we belong to. Our leader tells us that everything the working people ever got, they had to fight we have to fight till the workers get rid of the bosses and we can run our own affairs. We play baseball, handball and volley ball. We went on a hike to- day. Came back to camp. Gosh, We eat altogether in the big dining room. | It’s so wonderful here I wish every | boy and girl could be here. They would never forget it. FLORENCE L. Wouldn't it be nice if every boy camp can hold so many, and it costs a lot of money to fix everything up nice. and have more children if they had more money. Could you think of some way you could send them some monzy? Tell everybody about it. Perhaps a party or sale or a show could be given to raise funds. They are very much needed. Help to really | for. I didn’t know that but I know} we were hungry. We get lots to eat. and girl could go to camp. But the; They could make it bigger: | WITH OUR YOUNG READERS send many more children to the, camp during the rest of the sum- ; mer. Send any sum, no matter how small, to Pioneer District Office, 35 , E. 12th Street, 5th Floor, New York City. OUR LENIN | by gees is the first picture in a} _* big beautiful book for jchildren called, “Our Lenin.” It tells the story of Lenin’s life from the time he was a little boy until his death, which caused so much sorrow to the Russian workers. For their freedom he had given all the years of his life. Today his memory lives for all-the workers of the world. His work is our guide to a better life. The many pictures (there are 70 of them!) makes very real and alive the exciting things that take place throughout the book. You can see exactly how magnificent were the homes of the rich landlords, how ADVENTURES he's Swimming Over this Poor were the huts of the farmers and workers. You will see Cossacks (the Czar’s police) riding crazily, waving their swords in the air. You will see how the peasants, no longer afraid, stormed the landlord's house with their pitchforks and scythes— how they took what rightfully be- longed to them because they had slaved for it. You will sce pictures of the war with workers killing workers, of the brave Red Army in the exciting days of the Revolution, and of course, of Lenin speaking, | working and escaping from his en- emies. And many other things be- sides which I cannot tell you all about. That would spoil the story | for you. It ends with the glorious building of the workers land that Lenin dreamed about and worked for all his life. Those dreams and plans are coming true under the guid- ance of his staunca follower and friend, Joseph Stalin. The whole wonderful story is there for you to read and look at. I wish every working-class child could read this book. It is worth saving your pennies for. Or perhaps for your birthday if mother or father can spare the money, it will be a gift you can always rem2mber and love. And you can tell them that they will enjoy reading it too, just as I did. Ruth Shaw and Harry Alan Pot- amkin wrote the story, and William Stegel made the pictures. “Our Lenin” can be bought at ell Workors’ Bookshops, or it can be ordered from Internatione! Pvb- lishers, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. The price of the beok is 95e. OF TIM AND MARGY—WATCH FOR THEM IN NEXT WEEK’S PAPER. Conducted by Mary Morrow, Chil- dren’s editor, The Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. PUZZLE CORNER ' The name of nine fish are sug- gested by the pictures. To join the “Daily Worker Puzzle Club,” write as many as you can on a postcard. Send it to Daily Worker: Puzzle j Club, 50 E. 13th Street, New York City. Nemes of members will be printed next week. MAGIC CHANGE ISH Lee) wn | sitll poe ie oa a Gilltt 3 | Change o> let ex each time and imcke a new word, until you change fish into tale. Answer to last wesk’s puzzle, Toledo, San Francisco, New Yer, New Orleans, Detroit, Minneapolis. “Strike” Yes but 1 was terrible tired l sure would Prevention of Lead Poisoning. (Continued) Polishing brass (wiih lead alloy), polishing cut glass (with lead putty powder), making and selling wall paper, retouching photographs with white lead for catalogues, are some of the less known causes of plumb- ism. The making of wire, plumbers’ goods, tinfoil, picture frames, sol- der, babbit, are other sources of lead poisoning. Printers and garage workers show a special tendency to tuberculosis apparently due to the lowering of their resistance by chronic lead poisoning. In order to prevent lead poison- ing effectively, it is of the utmost importance that the shop commit- tee of every factory or establish- ment in which lead is used should see to it thet the following meas- ures are carried out by the boss. Dust and fumes should not be al- lowed to collect in workrooms. They should be removed at the point of origin by special exhaust ventila- tion and the rest of the workroom should be always well ventilated. The floors should be of cement, so that they may be thoroughly cleaned every day; so should the benches and window sills. Lead, in powder form, should be kept in well-covered metal cans. Overalls, gloves and respirator masks should be furnished to every worker whenever required. Gar- ments should be washed at least once a week. The lunch room should be sepa- ‘rated from the workroom. A double lecker should be pvovided for each worker, so that street and factory clothes can be kept separate; also a shower with hot water and soap for every five workers. | No worker should be allowed to work at a lead job more than six months: He should be transferred {to non-lead work at regular inter- vals. If he shows “stippling” in the blood, he should not return to his regular job until the condition has disappeared. A physician should be provided by the establishment: for periodic examination of all wo:kers handling lead or materials containing it. As for the workers themselves, the following rules of hygiene should be observed: Wash hands and face and rinse mouth before eating. Do not smoke, eat, drink or chew while working. Take a daily shower and keep street and factory clothes separate, (To Be Continued) i ever being in the ranks again is $15,000 International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City (cross out one) Liberty Bonds $.... return as agreed. Name ......... Address Free Angelo Herndon! | “ince 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. from Angelo Herndon—Fulton Tower Jail, June 7, 1934. SPECIAL HERNDON BAIL FUND I advance—tI donate $.. toward the Bail Fund for Angelo Herndon with the understanding that this will be returned es scon as this Bail is released. Certificates will be issued for this Bail Fund guarantecing its My only hopes of in your strensth."—From a letter $15,090 a)