The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1934, Page 4

BAO ANI AER Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1934 BETHLEHEM STEEL WAR PRODUCTION GOES ON AT FULL CAPACITY Accident in Steel Mi Layoffs Also Multiply A partments Drops, and New Machines Are Introduced By a Steel Worker Correspondent BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Production | everywhere is declining in the steel | industries and Bethlehem Steel Corp. is not an exception. Many of the workers are laid} off (temporarily). In the D. E.| chipping department 156 men were Jaid off on July 18 and 19. These workers were told that they will be taken back as soon as work Picks | up. The Communist Party predicted | this and exposed the steel barons | in the shop bulletin, reporting the installation of a new clipping ma- chine which is able to do 20 men’s work, operated by one man. Many of these workers are married, with big families. In the drop forge 70 workers were laid off (temporarily) and were told that if they can find anot job they would be glad to give tk a transfer to the other department The shell shop and bridge shop shift were eliminated for a while Ingot mould foundry, one shift eliminated for good and this on all along the line. There are a few departments that are running full capacity. These are: Hammer building, where they are pressing | armored plates for battleships; mill- ing department where they are heating and testing cannon pipes (big guns for the U. S. Navy); brass foundry making brass pipes for can- non, rings, etc. Meany accidents are occurring lately in the steel mill, hammer building, five men being hurt in three weeks’ time—broken legs, hit in the stomach, an arm cut off. One man died from gas in the| power house. A man fell into the pit in No. 3 open hearth. He has a broken leg and is in the hospital. Another man fell from an ore crane, 75 feet high. He’s in the hospital with a broken hip. Three workers died of lead poisoning in the bridge shop, and four are still sick. These accidents happened in the last Seven months due to the speed-up. The workers in Bethlehem e: NOTE: We publish letiers from steel, metal and auto workers every Tuesday. We urge workers in these industrics to write us of their working conditions and of their cfforts to organize. Piease get the letters to us by Friday of to wait, and did not issue any calls, | Increased Il Speedup s Work in Regular De-| pected a big turn when the steel strike was supposed to take place, although not much preparation was carried on in Bethlehem. The leaders of the Amalgamated Associ- ation of Iron, Tin and Steel Work- ers told the workers to be patient, and held no mass meetings to learn the true sentiment of the steel workers. The shop sections of the Com- munist Party of Bethlehem Steel issued a bulletin and told the work- ers what is to be done. Homeless Youth Almost} Killed by Meal After Three Days of Hunger By a Worker Correspondent | EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Thomas Newcomer, age 17, of| Windber, Ps., (a boss-owned town) near Altoona) walked into a beer} garden in East Pittsburgh and| asked for food, a handout of some sort. He explained that he was on the road and hadn't eaten for) three days; that he had no parents, | just one brother in Panama. | The tattered clothes, the faltering voice, and the unsteady step of the} boy were convincing. The owner of | the beer garden gave him a meal,! which was eaten quickly and heartily. | Newcomer thanked the man and| offered to pay for the food with | work, but the owner wanted nothing | | and the boy left. Five minutes after Newcomer left the place he began to get violent Pains in the stomach and, seeing a | doctor's office across the street, he Tan over. Fortunately, the doctor was sym- pathetic and after diagnosing the case, rushed the boy to the Brad-| dock Hospital. Here the usual) howl was raised about “charity case, | ;mo money, etc.” but the doctor} | Overcame this and got them busy| | with the stomach pump. | The youth came through all right, | jbut where will he go after he does get better? His case should be |taken up by the Young Communist | League, in their fight for relief for |the unemployed youth. The bosses gave him starvation, we can teach each week, (him to fight. IN THE HOME | By HELEN LUKE Bread Strike On 174th St. in the Bronx, the fights militantly in the interests of bread strike conducted by the|the farmer. In the Weekly itself Neighborhood. Committee is being| Mrs. R. Bremseth of So. Dakota contested with unusual bitterness by the bakers. The strike has been in progress fer about three weeks now. Bak- eries of this territory had signed an agreement with the women (who struck against a rise in prices of baked goods last spring) promis- ing seven cent bread and eighteen cent rolls. Later they broke this agreement, again raising prices. The Neighborhood Committee, end women of the Women’s Councils, immediately went into action, and again celled a strike. One bakery settled. But three have held out for the price rise. On the same day that the bakery bosses came out with a leaflet at- tacking the strike, the Bakers’ Union, Local 507, A. F. of L., came out also with a leaflet. compared with which that brought out by the besses was a florel horseshoe for the strikers. This leaflet attacked the “Women's Councils of the Communist Party” as leading the strike—not to get cheaper bread— but to destroy the A. F. of L. union, ete., etc. Copies of these two leafiets are posted side by side in\the windows | of the struck baker: Meanwhile the Councils have held | daily open air meetings and picketed regularly. To date 33 ar- tests have been made. The local judge before whom arrested women are haled, declares they have a right to conduct peaceful picketing —and proceeds to give sentences of two days or $5 fine. The women don't pay; they serve their time. Three pickets were azrested last | Thursday evening; one was ac- cused of stealing a pocketbook. One bakery has settled—let the other three do likewise. More sup- port from the women of the neigh- horhood will hasten the settlement. ecto) 508 Farm Women Questions relating to the griev- ances and organization of women, especially farm women, as discussed in the letter from Comrade Ida F., printed last Saturday, we expect to follow up with further material. In many places the farm women are already stirring. Among the delegates to the Women's Paris Anti-War Congress who sailed last Saturday, was Maggie Pritchau, representing the farm women of the sua-West. She is a fine husky _woman, we took note when we spoke sto her last Friday at the Willi -Muenzenberg farewell meet; and the Farmers’ National Weekly tells “us that she “is the mother of two children; and is a dynamo of | energy. She has planned her work eo that on her return she can de- vote considerable time to a cam- “paign to bring the message of the Paris conference before the farmers ani farm women of the mid-West. Viole, Tiala, wife of the nationel president of the United Farmers’ League, and Marie Larson, in three days’ canvassing, got 23 subs to the Farmers’ Weekly, the paper that Pinca irene writes: “I heartily agree with Mrs. Jennie Beltz in the June 8th issue that more farm women should write to show some interest in this line of work, for it’s for their own and their children’s salvation as much as our. Yes, the farmers and work- ers should get together faster than they are doing.” Can You Moke’ ‘fas Yourself? Pattern 1905 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 16 takes 2% yards 36 inch fabric and % yard 55 inch ribbon for bow. Il- lustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions 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 a@ . ek RE SS x s\ | Three Day Vacation If Large Carburetors Sent to War Bases By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—In the fac- tory where I worked they cer- tainly are sending out war ma- terial. They send out regular shipments of large carburetors which are sent to war bases. This is at the Smith carburetor fac- tory at the foot of Hart Jeffer- | son. | Just recently, about March, they sent about 150 airplane car- | buretors for the U. S. Navy | which were inspected by a gov- | ernment man before they went | out. A FIRED WORKER. | | | | Aluminum Ore Pay Is Cut By Relief Tactics | | By a Worker Correspondent EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill—Six hun- dred workers of the Aluminum Ore Corporation (Mellon interest) mem- bers of the A. A. voted to sirike if the N.R.A. code would be put into effect, a code which would reduce wages from 42 cents to 30 cents per hour. The majority of the work- ers in this plant work only two or three days a week. Many have been given jobs through a foreman in the plant who is working hand in hand with the Relief Commission; the workers are taken off the re- lief rolls and work in the plant for | the equivalent of the relief orders. | This *hole strike maneuver is an | attempt of the company and the top leadership of the union to pre- vent and curb the growing strike sentiment amongst the workers. The workers must prevent this man- euver by preparing strike commit- tees in every department, making | every effort to win the Negro work- ers to the union. They should de- Mand through their department rank and file committees that the demands of 80 cents per hour, 5 day week with maximum of 30 hours be presented to the company regardless of whether the code is changed or not, The workers must constantly bear in mind that their union official- dom prevented them from joining the last strike in the industry and because of this the stretch out sys- tem and sneed-up has increased be- yond endurance. The question of he right of Negro workers to work in every department and to belong and have full rights and representa- tion in the union must be raised and clarified to all of the workers. You Work 10 Years at} Westinghouse Plant By a Worker Correspondent EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa.—In a letter from the president’s office of | the Westinghouse Electric, it was recently announced that a few scraps of meat would be thrown to the hungry dogs. Of course the wording of the message was much more clever. Mr. Merrick, the president, stated that “after weighing the circumstances carefully, it was decided that vaca- tion privileges would be estab- lished on the following basis: em- ployes on salary to receive five days; empleyes on check with 20 years service to receive five days; em- ployes on check with 10 years ser- vice to receive 3 days.” No mention was made of those with less than 10 years of service— seemingly they have not yet cre- ated enough surplus value to merit a three-day vacation “privilege.” One worker stated that “the pater- nalistic spirit of the Westinghouse just kills me.” What a far cry this is from the Soviet Union, where it is not neces- sary to give the major and best part of one’s life to rate a 3 or 5| day vacation privilege.” The Soviet worker must work only one year to gain his leave. We must die to get | ours. Busy on Torpedo Caps | And Shell Ends at Mat| Tube Company Plant By a Steel Worker Correspondent McKEESPORT, Pa.—Here in the Mat Tube Co. about one-third of the men work 5 days, 8 hours a day. In the Chriscy Park Dept. for the past siix months: they have been making torpedo caps and some shell ends. These are sent to Wilmend- ing to the Westinghouse to be fin- ished. I understand these are then sent to New Jersey to some arms factory. Last month, in June, here in the Mat Tube Co. they hired several hundred extra men, for they fig- ured on using these men for break- ing the strike, which was about to come off around here. Every young school boy from the high school who wished work was given a spe- cial paper from the principal end was put to work. This lasted for six weeks. Now everything is down. $10 FOR TWO WEEKS By a Worker Correspondent ELIZABETH, N. J.—I was up to the relief and asked the relief di- rector to give me an order to do me until my next order comes. He asked me how much I was getiing, and I told him $10.00. He said that ought to be enough to do me two weeks. I told him the way the stuff is selling I can’t live on that. I told him they sent me a work card, and I asked him how does he expect a person to work without. eating? Twenty thousand new readers by Sept. 1st means 20,000 addi- Grumann Aireraft Corp. Finishing 54 Bombing Planes By a Worker Correspondent HICKSVILLE, L. I—I know from talking with friends who work in Grumman’s Aircraft Corp. at Farm- ingdale, L. I. that this firm has nearly finished an order for 54 bombing planes for the U. S. Navy, and that they are already working on a second order of 69 bombing Flanes. About 250 men are working in this plant; about 50 work on a night shift doing assembly work; many of the workers realize they are getting ready for another capi- talist war, but most of them seem to believe in the poison printed in the bourgeois press: “We are preparing for Peace.” “We have to defend our country.” A lot has to be done yet to make the workers understand the reason for this mass activity for building of war panes. I am at present trying to get a job in another Aircrest firm in Farmingdale, L. I, Kirkham, craft Eng. Corp. They are located next to Gumman’s Aircraft Corp. We hear they are building planes for a South American government. Air-| WAR PREPARATIONS Working Day and Night} On Magnetos for | Aeroplanes | — (By a Worker Correspondent) SIDNEY, N. Y.—We are working | here, five of us from New York, all) carpenters, members of L. U. 2090. As you know, people are suffering | here, but still are fooled by the) | churches, etc. . | We found to our surprise about | 800 men are working day and night, | ' manufacturing magnetos for aero- | planes. In fact, this firm supplies | 90 per cent of all aeroplanes in the | United States. If we stay here we) will try our best to enlighten these | workers. There is a silk mill here, where the conditions are very bad. ‘The farmers here are also badly off. The name of the plane is “Sey- ersky;” this is the same engineer who was working with Zikarsky in| Bridgeport, Conn. | | At present about 25 men are woi ing in the shop and about 15 in| the designing and blue print offices. |The:e are rumors (maybe fakes) | that they are going to hire about 100 more workers. | Work in the Army LOS ANGELES, Calif.—As an ex-serviceman of the World War, I want to substantiate the story in the Daily Worker on June 13 on page three about the strike at the Virginia Rifle Range. In fact, they were even worse during my stay during the war. In October, 1918, these barracks were cold and damp during the rainy season, with no means of heating up the place. Our food was served outside on the fields, with no tables to set our plates on. (The C, P. O. and the of- ficers ate indoors with service.) We couldn’t sit in the grass for it was wet and damp after a rain, in fact it rained for days. Due to the flat ground, water did not drain off easily. For five days they fed us with sour beans, three times a day. With the beans we were to get three slices of bread. The sixth day we were fed with so-called stew. There were 100 men in the com- pany. By the time three-fourths of the men received their chow nothing was left but potatoes for the rest. A few of us got together and told the boys (who were rebellious by this time) to tell the cook to feed us fresh beans, plenty of bread and with plenty of meats. A strong com- mittee called on the cook demand- ing these things. Letters from Our Readers FORWARD RED BUILDERS New York. To see our Red Builders in the various corners throughout the city sends an undefinable thrill through me. It makes one proud and happy to ihink that there are men and women without regard for compen- sation who have the honesty and courage to sacrifice their time so that the heavily laden may come to know the truth, which, when done, will make this world a better one to live in. “Daily Worker, morning paper” —is a cry that gladdens me and, while it may be distasteful to some, this will change, for this hatred for our movement comes only out of ignorance. I speak with authority on this subject, for I, too, was a patriot, a K. K. K. and mos‘ly a damn fool. Keep up this work, Red Builders, and know that you have an army of appreciators. Forward to a united red front and a country fit to live in, a Soviet America! TRANSPORT WORKER, No. 59. see oe Toledo, Ohio. May I tell our comrades an ex- perience? The Edison, Co. of our city failed to send me a bill for the current used one month and tacked the penalty charge on to the next month’s bill. Gouging, I called it, and told the lady clerk that if she did not take off that penalty charge I surely would get three new mem- bers for the Communist Party and three new subscribers for the “Daily Worker.” She answered that she could not. say much, but that all the employes of the Edison Co. of our city and elsewhere are very dissatisfied, and that she would like to talk to me on the outside of the company’s proper.y and time. She, of course, refused to take off the penalty charge, and in that way made sure that I keep my promise. It cost me a couple of dollars, but I have made good in part aiready and will continue. It is costing us in every way and at every turn to remain where we are. JOIN! SUBSCRIBE! BOOST! every time that you are gouged, and that is often. DR. G. P. poe ae PROTEST TELEGRAM TO HITLER London, England. Dear Comrades: One hundred passengers on the 8. telegram to Hitler “demanding the unconditional release of Thaelmann, and Torgler, and the cessation of persecution of Jews and anti-fas- cists.” The money left afier pay- ing for the telegram was donated to tional recruits for organized class struggle an anti-fascist organization. AN AMERICAN COMRADE, He called me aj} S. Paris centributed toward 2. socialist, because I had raised my voice several times before, The cook paid no attention to our demands. We organized 100 per cent strong to upset the food and yell until the} officers would come out to see what) all the rumpus was about. | Bugle blew chow. Everyone, in-| stead of standing in the line as} usual, made a bee line for the chow, | grabbing everything in sight and| dumped the sour beans, also yelling. Officers came out to see what it) was all about. Everybody yelled about the lousy sour beans and no bread. It just happened some of | the beans where left over in the pot. The officer tasted it. He spat it out. The cook told the officer that I was the cause of the trouble, but the boys stuck with me 100 per cent and called the cook a liar. We re- ceived plenty of good food after that. In addition we protested against rifle practice. Due to the epidemic, we refused to lie on the damp ground to learn how to shoot. So during our stay at the grounds we did not fire a shot. So you see, Comrades, in the Army and Navy the workers can be or- ganized during war as well as dur- ing the so-called peace time. AN EX-SAILOR. (Formerly in the World War, now in the ranks of the Communist Party) “Fish Club” Is Used to Spy on Food Workers By a Food Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Austin Nich- ols Co. is not only the distributor and wholesaler of “Sunbeam Pure Food” and liquor, but also manufac- turer of Sunbeam coffee, pork and beans, olives, all kinds of jellies and extracts, mayonnaise, and many other food products, all “Sunbeam pure food.” If they run short of their own “pure food,” they re-label goods made by other companies with “Sunbeam pure food” labels. What- ever it is, it is made “pure food” in no time. This “pure food” building takes the entire city block from North 3rd St., Kent Avenue, North 4th St., to the East River. All six floors are packed with goods. All excepi those who were scab- bing about five years ago are paid ‘not more than $2.50 a day for 8 hours. The company has organized an “Anco” Fish Club, where the bosses, foremen and some youth belong. Also there is a baseball team. Din- ner hour is used up with sport: fall and winter, football games; spring, baseball; summer, horseshoe pitch- ing. They play two and three teams, while the rest watch. And in thet way they keep the workers from talking to each other, also from or- | | ganizing, Organization work is al- most impocsible, because fish club members are scattered oui on the different floors, and there are many spies. But the worst enemy of the work- ers is Jack Barkenskas, known as Charlie Malonis, and his son, The said Jack Barkenskas, joined Sec- tion 6, Unit 23, of the Communist Party last year, and slandered not only C. P. members but all Party work and the Communist Interna- tional. i Here is one job he did. On May last an article wes printed in Laisve xposing Anco conditicns and a cer- tein spy (J. B.). There was also an article in the Daily Worker on | June 4. J. Barkenskas ran down to Super- intendent A. T. Walcott. He named the wrong man, who was laid off. But all this will never keep work- ers from organizing. eee eS U.S.S.R. HOLDS GENERAL MOSCOW.—On the ground that the constitution of the U. S. S. R. Tg hibits extradition, ihe press here erts that the Soviet Government 25 ropiied to the Sinkiang (China) provincial government that it can- not concede io its request for ih2 xtradition of General Ma Tschu Yin. General Ma took part in armed struggles in Sinkiang, and, | Fellow _ cisco strike, a resolution was intro- | duced to the Cenral Body pledging | fornia workers. | fuses to give Martel his cut, so High Carbon Plates _, Shipped Out for War By a Steel Worker Correspondent | GARY, Ind.—Many of us | | workers do not know it, but what | about the 160-inch plate mill? What do you suppose they are rolling those high carbon plates that are shipped to Milwaukee? Do not think for a minute that they are just ordinary plaies. workers, I am sure there is more war materia! ship- | ped out from Gary Steel Works than I can point out. Laid (Off for Week at Gary Open Hearth By a Steel Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind—On July 19, on the 12 o'clock shift, No. 4 open hearth shut down. Every worker was tcld that he need not report for a,week unless he was called. What does that mean? It means | that neither the N.R.A. nor the A. F. of L. have cone anything to pre- | vent the lay-offs or get relief for | those that were laid off: Because | the leaders of the American Fed- eration of Labor or of the Amalga- | mated Association do not help the | workers, but instead they are help- | ing the bosses. Many workers had the illusion that the N.R.A. would force the bosses to produce more work for the American workers. Well, you know that we were wrong on that question, because the N.R.A. is nothing else but a man-grinder, and that means you and me. What is left to be done? Join the militant Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union and fight. Solidarity Resolution Shunted to Committee With Aid of Detroit SP By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—The _ never- ending circus conducted by that noted ringmaster, Frank X. Martel, had another session Wednesday, July 18. The two points of inter- est to the delegates were the seat- ing of Kroon, a member of Paint- ers local 37, and the strike in San rancisco, Kroon, sent to represent his local, had been rejected three times on the basis that he is a Communist. The real reason is that Kroon is the very active secretary of the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance and Relief, which is the problem that is causing Mar- tel many sleepless nights trying to find a way to smash this militant movement that is not separate from the A. F. of L. but a very big’ vart of it. The ethod that will defeat this feker is to elect rank and file | delegates from the locals and drive out the political job-seekers infest- ing the Central Body. The failure to win a seat in the Central Body for Kroon shows the immediate need for an organized cppogition to the machine. On the question of the San Fran- support and greetings of solidarity with the great struggle of the Cali- This was very well received till there arose the baliy- hoo man of the Socialist Party, a Mr. Davidow whom Mr. Martel in- troduced as a “friend of labor” (what a friend the Hotel-worke:s whispered, “he took us for $500 when he was our attorney at the Regional Board meetings.”). This Mr. Davidow asked that a committee of action be appointed to handle such matters in the fu- ture in conjunction with the So- cialist Party. They elected a com- mittee of five business agents and two flunkeys, or I should say that Martel picked them out of the as- sembled delegates, so we can look for future general strikes to be taken care of. A ‘problem that is worrying some of the native delegates is the one ef just why the federal auto unions do not affiliate with the Gencral Eody. The reason, brothers and sisters, is that Mr. Collins just re- Martel is doing all he can to pze- vent you from affiliating to the Central Body; the action of the White Motors local in Cleveland is a living example of what. you should do. That is a rank and file control union. Group Insurance at Stenley Works Gives Men No Protection By a Work-r Correspondent NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — The Stanley Works has a groun insur- ance on its employes through the Etna Life Insurance Co. of Hart- ford, Conn. This company pays no attention to the conditions in the factory. especially in a large number of departments, where there sre trucks thot carry the steck from one department to an- other. ti trucks used to eaures the wr to become ill, Yet this same insvrance company yuts up posters throughout the the factery with all kinds of safety Slogens, warning the workers about accidents. If a worker becomes ill because of unsanitary conditions in the shop the bosses have no use for him and lay him off. Then if such a worker should die because of such disease after being thrown out of work. the insucvance company will not have to vey insurznee be- caus? his policy will be ended when he is laid off. Aout 300 workers have been laid eff in the nest several month, Ti® majorit of these workers b2ienting to the Fedcral Labor*Union. The union after being organized about seven months, has done nothing to when defeated, crossed the Soviet border, where he was interned, get the workers back, nor even to better the sanitary conditions, ~ PARTY LIFE Cites Unemployed Activities In the Anthracite District || Pittsburgh Communists Must Politicalize the Every Day Struggles of Workers Our around the unemployment move- work is centered mainly ment that we have built up. In Lackawana County we have 13 Un- employment Councils at the present time with an approximate member- ship of 5,000. Some of the councils are real large bodies made up mostly of foreign born workers, particularly Polish, Men and women are involved in the activi- ties of the councils. At the pres- ent time most of the activity cen- ters around discrimination in the giving out of relief and a fight against evictions, for payment of rent to the small landlords. The movement is rather in a low political stage, primarily because of the. weaknesses of our Party units and the newness of our member- p. The Party units are often olyved in daily routine work around the unemployment councils, leading committees to relief boar poor boards, single men’s bureaus, etc., that we do not take and do not try to find the necessary time to give the Party membership more systematic training and education. This is particularly felt all around this area. Political campaigns of the Party are brought into the Un- employment Councils very often in an amateurish fashion. For in- stance, on May Ist, we had 3,000 workers demonstrating in Scranton, 1,000 in Wilkes Barre, 500 or 600 in Pottsville. The demonstrations were militant. but we did not make it clear enough to the workers what May Day is, but mainly concen- trated on local demands of the un- employed. Another example, for National Youth Day we went into the councils, elected delegates to this conference and succeeded to have 600 workers marching through Scranton, but the workers were not told sufficiently, while the delegates were elected, what the purpose of CORRECTION In yesterday’s articl2 there were two bad errors: instead of “cooking with lead.” it should have been working; instead of women beinz subject to “ebb and blow,” it should have been “ebb and flow.” ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Address Wanted Unemployed Comrade’s Dr. LUTTINGER ADVISES the demonstration was for. These weaknesses characterize our main Party shortcomings in this region, The‘movement is not brought up to a higher political level. However, one thing must be stated, that we have been able to cut through the isolation and come forward into these mass struggles, We have made valuable new con« tacts, brought some into the Party, Now our job is to train them dur« ing the course of the struggle. Regarding the structure of the Unemployment Councils, in small towns we have on@ council on a regional basis, in latger towns, we divide the town into four sections, North Scuth. East and West. At the present time we are organizing regional committes, ich will di- rect the work of the councils in a close-by area, sometimes three or four towns. This is especially good from the angle that it devel- ops new forces, new workers are given a responsibility to take care of this or that council, this and that demonstration and workers take pride in being responsible for cer- tain work of this nature. In this way they are developed, and learn both politically and organization~ ally. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. NGG (os s5ce Cheeseesevedeongacs: Street City make. Their discoveries are al- ways on the point of being made, but somehow never materialize. No first rate or even tenth rate original discovery has ever been made in that institution built with the bleod and sweat of exploited labor. The clipping about influenza you sent us is another one of those “discoveries” that are “soon-to be made.” How Wife,— | £00, only the god of greed and lies You failed to sign your letter, your | Could tell. address was not on it, and you for- got to enclose the self-addressed, S‘amped envelope. We cannot give you, the information here, so please send us your address and write in ink. “Free” Hospital Treatment HLS., Brooklyn.—Your experiences are those of nearly every proletarian who applies for a treatment at our “charitable” institutions. We do not know why the Post-Graduate Hospital wanted to charge you $12 for a pair of shoe plates which you got at half price at the Jewish Hos- pital; nor can we explain why the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled had to charge you $5 for an X-ray of the knee which other hospitals furnish for $3; even the baking at $1 each which this hospital gave you is ioo high for a “charitable” institution. There is only one way out of this racket; fight for a social system where all medical services will be absolutely free for every worker, as in Soviet Russia. Brinkley Rejuvenation Fake R. MeN., Topeka, Kansas.—Yes, John R. Brinkley, who is running for the Republican nomination for Governor of your state, is the same individual whom we exposed in this column as running a fake rejuvena- tion racket by the implantation of goat glands. His campaign prom- ises are on a par with his medical claims. He knows tha: he can no more rejuvenate the outworn capi- talistic system than he can infuse youth in the anatomy of decrepit Kansas farmers. But a glib tongue still finds medical as well as polit- ical dupes! Rockefeller Sensational Discoveries Robert B., Prinecton, N. J.—At this time of the year—when news is apt to be scare2—the Rockefciler Institute or those connected with it always concoct some sensationel announcement about some grrr-ea‘ discovery that they are going to | { Tincture of Iodine Internally Minerva.—Your informant was wrong; tinciure of iodine is used in the mouth, throat and nose, the same as on the skin. During the experiments conducted by the Army Medical School, a few years ago. it was found that iodine was superior to mercurochrome when applied to mucuous membranes (the lining of the mouth, nose, throat, etc.), We use it extensively to paint the ton- sils, mouth sores, cuts on the tongue, cervix of the uterus (mouth of the womb). Some gastro- enterologists (s'omach specialists) even prescribe the tincture of iedine to be taken by mouth and swallowed. Certain forms of goitre are also treated by a certain num- ber of drops of diluted iodine tinc- ture daily. Of course, care has to be exercised not to take too much, owing to danger of poisoning or of thyroid irritation. Weakening of the Bones Philip W., Bronx.—The usual “weakening” of the bones is rickets. The term softening would be more appropriate. The usual remedy is cod-liver oil, sunshine or ultra- violet rays and a diet rich in cal- cium. We trust that your cough is bet- ter by now. 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