The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1934 Southern Textile Mill Workers Organizing in Face of Terror eats Won't Stop Woolworth How Strike Was Won Wages Low| rary ure Struggle in Atlanta Pay at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Is Not Enough To Buy Food, To Say Nothing of Rent By a Textile Worker Correspondent ATLANTA, G2.—Conditions in the Fulton Bag and Cotton mill here are not af all on the up grade. We are working but six hours each day and that is hardly enough to| buy actual food with, to say nothing | of having to pay rent to the com- pany, besides medicine and other} Necessary expenses that must be/| met. | It is rumored that some of the workers went off to a union meet- ing uptown, trying to organize a textile union. But the next morn- ing they were sent out indeZinite! LETTERS FROM OUR READERS | WORKERS IN STEEL MILLS APPRECIATE DAILY WORKER New Castle, Pa Received your request for my opinion of the Daily Worker, and I want to say that it should be read | by everyone. It would be a fine} thing if possible to get the 87 per | cent of the people to read and di gest it. It gets the old dormant brain to working. I have been a “thinker” for some time, but can still digest more. In regard to my subscription, I} just cannot afford the money, hav- | ing a family to support with food, | shelter, and clothing. New Castle) is a U. S. Steel town, and my work is in the steel mill, which has been | shut down for three years. You may | rest assured that the fact that I cannot subscribe will not deter me | from being a booster for your paper. | I wish you all the luck in the| Rush Drains Out Energy By a Worker Correspondent | NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Any obser- vant customer in Woolworth’s can | The owners of the mill said dis-| notice that practically all of the tinctly that they would not allow | sales-girls are thin and drawn. We| perc berate A ceirod needy ~— who work inside there know why, they would close down the plant| ith the speed-up and system of first, | perpetual nagging, relayed from the About 16 years ago the workers| foor manager to his seconds, and pulled a strike here and not being /the girls in charge of the various properly organized they lost in the| gepartments, and so on down the attempted strike. Some were al- lowed to go back to work, but many wee ste ae Revco. Oe of them were driven off the prem- ises, . Full-timers work 12 hours on Sat- ift i ve for New workers, however, drift into|Uday (they deduct two hours ‘ | the two lunch periods, and call it the mill bringing new blood, new 10 hours), draw their. NR. A, pay ideas and new determination. ry Something must and shall be done | ‘8irls who have been there a year's | about it. | time earn $12.40), go home and rest t up for the next week's grind. poe ce Stuer 2 We are told that the customers Swen bosses”; that one error con- ly papers ers, and whisper, “We will some day soon | Fe Our pull one of the damnest strikes ever | Stitutes ‘sufficient excuse for firing; in the history of the South.” |that we must assume the dignified There are plenty of Communists |Status of “salesladies,” not just | throughout the mil districts in and | Clerks | around the city of Atlanta, and| Pushing sales, being sweet and they ere slowly but surely getting | well-mannered to customers, in be- on in their work. tween cleaning and straightening At a meeting of the Ku Kulx|stock, crawling around under coun- Klan in an effort to reorganize in | ters to restock and pile up wares, an outlying suburban ccnccr, .ionn| does not lead to a “dignified” feel- Hudson, the god-serving asgstent|ing, but rather to a nervous strain district solicitor-zene: : ‘*s | and irritability that frequently takes | good Christian who sent Angelo itself out on our fellow-workers, | Herndon up to the Georg.c v...... | passing on the bawling-out that we gang for 20 years, remarked 3) receive, Is exploitation and terrori- follows: “We the good, law-abiding | zation anywhere more effectively citizens of Georgia are going to run organized and put through? I} every Communist out of this state. | gout it, If they don't skip we will give them | 3 " And some of us wage slaves are ca Bang or maybe the electric | peginning to wonder, too, why we chair.” | ‘ , 4 of | have to sacrifice our youth and en- ia ines sea atie es | ergy under the conditions and star- and are taking heart. vation wages we put up with. We |think Woolworth workers should j organize. I think, from what I've heard of what the Office Workers Union is doing in organizing store Coast Guards Given At Natl Buiscuit Co. News of Struggle in Philadelphia Stimulated Action In N, Y. That Brought Victory By a Group of Food Worker tee was truly representative, the Correspondents | Philedelphia representative gave evi- NEW YORK—We, a group of | ence of his solidarity. He said that workers of the various departments |if our demands were not granted, of the National Biscuit Co., read a|the plant he represents will shut few lines in the “Daily Worke:”| down. telling of our strike. | Well, the company toox it all as A remarkable and important|@ joke. They soon became disil- point in connection with our suc-|lusioned, however. Within 15 min- cess is that the participants during | Utes came the news that the Phila- the organization of the union and| “elphia workers had gon on strike. during the course of the strike were | Within an hour, all the workers in led by workers totally inexperienced | Ur Plant were on strike. in organizing. We are proud to have such militant leaders among our workers. Here is how our started. Conditions in the plant be- came unbearable. A group of work- ers got together and decized that we had to put an end to these out- rages. After informal talks to work: ers, the group began to grow by leaps and bounds. We applied for a charter and became members of the American Federation of Labor. Meanwhile, we learned that the workers of the Philadelphia plant had also become organized. We got in touch with them. A committee of 16, elected by the workers, was sent to the company for recognition of our demands. Present also was a rank and filer of the Philadelphia union. When the company doubted that the commit- our committee to get the other workers out on strike they did it rranizati within an hour, wiich certainly was Pinte | ar piece of geod Wun s ave tad all the workers down, and prepared | for picketing the next day, Three jhours afterward, the management | and the regional labor board called |our headquarters and requested our | committee to come for negotiations. | After a one-hour conference we won | our demands. The demands we won are as fol- | lows: 1.—Recogntion of the union. 2—No discrimination. minimum to maximum) 4.—Equal days of work. 5.—Fair treatment of the old. 6.—Extra help wherever needed. 7—More relief. 8.—Slower machine work. 3,—Equalization of wages (from | Regular Rifle Drill workers, that we will, and will may- onChemical Poison Jobs By a Chemical Worker Cor- respondent NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.—The big shots in this town have had things their own way tco long. The | Wages paid to in these jchemical plants have always been }lower than any piace along this |side of the frontier. Even in “good times” the Carborundum only paid from 32c to 40c an hour for men and 18 to 20c an hour for women. It’s one of Andy Mellon's plants, And there was little vaziation of these scales throughout the city. woz Although it was a hard job for |The work in these chemical plants!a gradu: is about the lousiest and hazardous of any I know. If the different kinds of stuff t! ma facture don’t get you all at once, they're bound to get you in the lonz Tun and m2ke a wreck out of you. most |main thousands of unemployed in ; the city. So we can see that even lif industry did get back on its old schedules, millions of men would never be needed again, They select the men they do hire jas. if they were recruiting for a marathon. You have to have a physique like a wrestler to get a |job. And if your eyes are weak, o: your teeth need to be overhauled, they must be fixed at the workers’ expense. I know cases where a worker has gone into debt to get himself in shape and then they tell him they can’t use him. Most of the plants have no unions whatsoever, The DuPont hes a }company union set up, where all |the wo:kers’ “representatives” |known stool pigeons and if a man | voices a grievance for his “delegate” | |to take up, he gets canned, are | Y. C. L. Aids in Organizi ng Telegraph Messengers Union Bosses, Exploiting Boys on One Hand, Give Them Bunk About Being Great Some Day What can the Y. for the Telegraph Mez rs Ul | S, cis: | trict. Unit izes the impc-vtiance ngers in this key industry controlled by great | financial capitalists. (Rockefeller | interests control the Western Union; | Postal~is controlled by Morgan in- terests.) Recently, the Western Union had ion exercise for their own messenger continuaticn school, chartered by the board of education. vere put thru and singing milita dent White cf the | This winter and spring these m made a speech, telling plants have been :unning 24 hours thot he was onze a a day to capacity, filling Roose- " and velt's war orders, and there still re- on tomor- presidents! This same W. U. also censored Daily Worker news dis: |patches from Birmingham recently |Company unions, bribery, thugs, dismissals, intimidation, are their |other fascist weapons. Armed with the Telegraph Mes- |sengers Voice in one hand, and the knowledge of importance of union- ization, especially in this industry, where thousands’ of youth are ex- | ploited ($6.50 average weekly wage, |according to A. Welch, company | union official, W. U., for a 48-hour |week), Unit X organized the mes- |sengers. Unit X has done it. Let jevery unit follow this example. A T.M.U. YCLer. . - in a Cleveland Steel Mill This mill is one that the A. A.) the | Pa Building a Revolutionary Opposition | C. L. units do|their work in the various depzrt- the majerity of our own mombers are new, and do not | app: e impertance of organ- ization, we find that as a result of the failure to have a well-knit to- | Seance rank and file opposition that the work of this oppesition is not |consistent and is very much of a hit and miss character. At certain jtimes they are able to achieve cer- tain things, and at other times they are defeated. They were able to elect a fairly good delegation, which carried through a fighting policy at she District A. A. convention. able to initiate They were a V rict officia A. three department strikes have been initiated and called primarily by the members of this opposition group, which won | them small concessicns. In the time of the pre-strike period the reac- ticnaries in the local started a big red-baiting campaign, raising the ery of “Communist,” which the com- | rades successfully replied to. The Party reaches the workers in this mill about twice a week, on the average, with leaflets. These are distributed mostly outside, but some inside the mill. Two shop units and one Y. C. L. unit have been formed }in this mill. Join the Communist Party 12th STREET, N. Y. C. H i fo eS 35 E. world. We are sure to gain our be smash some of the dusty ideas s Folly ids Good luck to the Party. By a Coast Guard Correspondent | workers have about the passiveness By a Worker Correspondent next war will call for’a nation in| The U. S. L. Battery plant formed |hed the majority cre jai Please send me more informa- G.W.Z. | PROVINCETOWN, Mass.—For the of “white-collar slaves.” BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—As a worker arms. Every individual will play an Won and aifiliated to the A. F. (cur line up until now Mee inside || tion on the Communist Party per ae first time in years, the coast guards | Friends in Stamford, Conn., who |in the Brooklyn Army Base, I wish| important part. Most likely every- Of . AS ish aoe @ 60 per cent cut | primarily gio ine Te aieaniauttie | Get Daily Worker Subscribers! are being given regular rifle drill | work in Woolworth’s there, tell me|to describe the war preparations|one wil be drafted for either front |" All dues, etc, and then refused the See U, We have a very loose || NAME ...seeseeeeeee ——$___—____— under the supervision of men from | that a girl bought a copy of a mag- | here. \line sezvice or labor service here. ie ee ea bara eC Pee cenin adeabennn oa ee ee ee i enaaananane SR nee | We have two piers here used by| Since imperialist war is created by | conditions. They satieed thom to %. which does not moet regularly || Steet «++-+-+++-+++++-sseeeeers and her lavish wedding. She began |*H¢ War Department. From here is|the rich for their profits even the| Wagner's A:bitration Board which | but has a considerable influence in || sity ........ce00eesees ae ye shipped war equipment to garrisons men behind the lines will pay their gave a decision partizily in favor of | the union mectings and also through IN THE Is Birth Control Barbarous? Comrade ,,Joe X., who is doing valuable work for the movement, wrote in a letter to another member of the Daily Worker staff some lines Frotesting the Communist sanction of birth control and capital pun- ishment. They have been referred to us with the suggestion that we try to answer the objections, which are as follows: “Please cut out from our interna- | tional Party birth control as a bar- barous act. By advocating bar- | barism we cannot call ourselves civilized people. Barbarism was a time of the past. } “Today and in the future cut out those two barbarous acts if we want | our Party to progress. The strong- est emperors and kings used bar-/ barism and what became of their kingdoms? Down to nothing. But we do not want our Party to fall. to call the Communist Party a bar- barous Party.” | Reply Comrade, comrade! Do I hear you telling me that the strongest emperors and kings used birth con- trol and now their kingdoms are down to nothing? Oh my, oh my. No, comrade, the convictions you have expressed are just the sort of beliefs the ruling class wants to instill into the workers, in order to render the workers helpless and harmless to their rulers. Birth control. was never a prac- tice of barbarism: quite the con- trary. Church and capitalist state op- pose birth control. Why? The former wants parishioners, the lat- ter plenty of slaves and cannon fodder. The rich have birth con- trol if they want it, whether it is legal or not. | Wherein is the “barbarism” of | birth control? Which is the “bar- barous” act, to condemn a woman to bear children that must after- wards starve and suffer. or to let her prevent these births? (I wish Comrade Joe could read the thou- sands of piteous letters that pour in yearly to Mrs. Margaret Sanger, | birth contro] advocate.) If the “bar- | barism” of birth control is simply that it interferes with ‘“nature’s processes” then shaving must be pretty barbarous too. Our Party aims to free all op- pressed peoples. Women are very much oppressed, and they consti- tute half the working class. How could you say that women would not be oppressed if compelled to bear More children than they want, or than are good for them? Our Party acknowledges that women them- By HELEN LUKE ® | showing it to the girls in the store, | | Whereupon the manager attempted | to buy it from her, with an implied threat, She refused to let go of it, however, so he proceeded to buy | |out all copies of that magazine on selves have the right to decide such |the stands. What are they so matters. afraid of? We'd like to hear from women on| We would like to hear from other the question Comrade Joe has raised. | Woolworth workers about conditions —————— in their cities, etc. and what they ? think about union organization. Can You Make ’Em WOOLWORTH EMPLOYE. Yourself? ae eee Pattern 1935 is available in sizes 16, 18, 20 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 ana 4,, Strikers Still Suffer Size 16 takes 35, yards 36 inch From Discrimination fabric and 14s yards ruffling. Il- | lustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. HOME ;Campbeli Soup Co. By a Worker Correspondent | | CAMDEN, N. J.—The strike in| | the Campbell Soup Co. was sold | |out by the leader of the Socialist |Party, Manning. It became known that during this strike he had| secret meetings with the police. | At present a good half of the compelled to work ten hours a day —--9 |Members Who Have) Detective Experience) By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal—tI was ex- pelled from the Utopian Society be- cause I asked an embarrassing question of the “Coach” of my meeting. The coach didn’t answer the question. Five minutes before the next meeting, when we were all gathered, we received a telephone message from the coach, telling us there would be no meeting. Then he arrived and gave everyone pres- ent except me a new number and address to go to another meeting | the same night. You see, the Utopian Society | | doesn’t believe in expelling anyone, | it is so nice and peaceful. But I) | was given the run around. | As a result, the whole circle dis- | banded. Only two or three out of thirty attended the other meeting | that evening. | I had been in the Utopian So- ciety about six weeks, having taken four of the five cycles. When I joined there were about 20 in the circle. Ten or 12 joined every week, but new and old members were continually dropping out, disgusted or simply not interested. Two peo- ple got up in the middle of one meeting and said they'd had enough, end left. Fourteen new people came in on the night the meeting was called off, but there were still only 30 present. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write Plainly name, address and style number, BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St.. New York City. Daily Worker 50 East 13th St. -New York, N. Y. $1 (check or money order), for Manhattan and Bronx. TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Send me the Daily Worker every day for two months. I enclose ‘ pledge allegiance to the constitu-| Name HE oD 6a va a oewie'y 8.9 6ua ves CAMOOND Uc c eo 4k 9 55.0 95.4 ¥ 06 06 bus 0d | tion and the N. R.A. We are asked | if we have had any detective ex- | MUMS E sales orce nes reveseevisenss seas State..... sWSandeasiisaotesetes perience and whether or not we) Note: This offer does not apply to renewals, nor does it hold good | Help the Drive for 20,000 NEW READERS—' I am certain the Utopian Society is a fascist organization, although it’s a good racket, too. The mem- bers are called upon to be super stool-pigeons, reporting small mer- chants who violate the N. R. A. code. Nothing is ever said about the big corporations who pay no attention to any code. When we join we are required to swear allegiance to the flag and | would be willing to take part in a campaign to exterminate “criminal” and “un-American” elements, with- | | out our knowing who the Utopian Society means by “criminal” and “un-American” clements. in foreign service. The amount of war cially Hawaii, is tremendous. Enough | supplies have been shipped to. Hawaii to make it one of the most, fortified areas in the world. We in the base know very well that this country is on the verge of another war—-for profits. We are the ones who physically carry out the war plans of the government. This is making us think a great deal, these days. Most of the fel- jJows here were in the armed sery- ices in the last war. We know what war is at first hand, However, many of the boys here are kidding themselves along. They think because they are middle aged now they will be exempt in the next war. May yes, maybe no. They do not realize yet that this instead of eight. And this at a time when each morning from two} |to three thousand workers stand in Workers all over the world, against! | former strikers are fired, others are | line before the gates of the factory, War and fascism, | in expectation of work. | Utopian Society Seeks Burning of Literature and Raids on Workers’ | Halls Reminiscent of Hitlerism By a Worker Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Yes, we got an open fascist dictatorship in sunny California now. They are just like Hitler, burning Commu- nist Party literature and books, as in Germany. ‘When the shipowners, with their agents, the press and A. F. of L. fake leaders couldn't stop the on- coming general strike, they resorted to a vicious campaign and attack against the Communist Party and Secret Indictments Drawn Up in Portland For Militant Workers By a Worker Correspondent | PORTLAND, Ore—tThe terror Is | very severe here at present. Head- | quarters of all organizations have | been raided and many of the ccm- | vades held for Criminal Syndical- ism, under $500 to $2,000 bail. The Party is continuing to func- tion under illegal conditions, War- rants have been issued for those who escaped the dragnet, and we have information that secret indict- ments are already prepared for us. The Oregon National Guard: was called out last night, but the rank and file of waterfront strikers are uniting more solidly and expressing their determination to fight it out, in spite of the attempts of the A. F, of L. officials to behead the gen- eral strike and sell them out. GRAFT ON BREADLINE By a Worker Correspodent NEW YORK.—I was down at the Municipal Lodging House to eat, and I found out some pretty cold facts. The handling of the line-up of men is very poor. They give you very small portions of food, cold coffee all the time. They pour out too many cups ahead of time. Some men get better portions than others, as the handlers know them. The food is usually sour. On the street you find men sell- ing work tickets, and this also holds up the line. Men are working there little mite to the profiteer. We will) material again pay shipzocket prices for food, | .y, |shipped to these garrisons, espe-|Shelter and clothing. We will work | under strict military distipline. Our | wages will probably remain about! the same, if not lower. There are several hundred young girls working in the office here. They do not realize that they will suffer as well as we will in the war. They will be driven slavishly at work and many will lose husbands and sweethearts to the army. Fellow Workers! Let us not be bribed or lulled to sleep by more or less steady jobs and the return of the ten per cent of our cut (we only got this back pecause of the effective protest of the Navy Yard, post office and other government employes). We must fight against imperialist | war NOW! Organize an anti-war and fascist | group in the Army Base! | Let us support the struggle of the ARMY BASE WORKER. the men, and gave the company a ‘eek to comply. When the committee put the de- cision beiore MacLean, the genoral manager, he drove them out of the office and said, to hell with Wagner | and the President, etc., and that’s! all that was ever done about it, The company never compiled, the gove-nment did nothing, the A. F. of L., did nothing, and the active members in the union were all fired, The U.S. L. is one of the lousiest | places to work in town. The sul- phuric acid fumes eat the clothes; off the workers, makes their teeth drop out, and they have to get new ones at their own expense. And the pasting room, whee they put the lead oxides on the batter plats and mix the oxides, sends men to the sanitagium, in six months, with lead poisoning that ruins them for life. The company employs Negro workers to mix the oxide, which is the wozvst job in town. It is the only place in the plant they “PATRIOTS” RUN AMUCK ON WEST COAST their headquarters. Bands of vigi- lantes are now running around like wild animals hunting for leading C. P. members, wrecking their homes and halls. The press calls it “De- fend law and order.” The capitalist. press and radio given an open hint that now is the time to hang the “reds.” In the main part of Hayward, a small town near San Francisco, fas- cist (vigilantes) erected a real solid scaffold with the traditional 13 steps leading up to the trap, deco- rating it with a big sign, “Reds beware.” In spite of all these frantic use- less efforts by the capitalists to stir public sentiment against the “reds” and to destroy our Party, we have received a tremendous increase in support and influence emong the masses. Now they know their enemies and their friends. The lying capitalist press has un- wittingly exposed itself before the masses and their sheets are not believed any longer by intelligent workers, That is why the capitalist. class is now forced to throw demo- cratic pretence away. Every reader of the Daily Work- er should pass the paper along. Clean your shelves of C. P. litera- ture and pass it along also. It is a crime to allow people to be kept in darkness. Stream of Calumny Turned on Bridges By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal—The Gen- eral Strike in Frisco has thrown the fear of god into the ruling class, and they are still quaking. You'd think they’d gone mad. Every paper (including the “pro-labor” Daily News, edited by a hypocrit- ical faker, Manchester Boddy) came out viciously against the organized workers. They've turned a stream of cal- umny on Harry Bridges now that the regular leaders have sold out the general strike. They were afraid to do this before on account of his great popularity with the workers up and down the coast. p sincace eu ek employ them, Three Short Sketches Summarize Events In San Francisco Strike By a Worker Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Calif—The proletarian funeral of, the two workers slain by the mercenaries of the boss class on “Bloody Thurs- day,” July 5, was the greatest dem- onstration of workers’ power ever seen in the West. This was no pa- rade of the bourgeoisie, but an out- pouring of workers, grim and deter- mined, many with bandaged heads, showing their contact with the clubs of the “sympathetic” cops. Thousands dressed in overalls and) corduroy, There wes no white, :ace, | or national chauvinism about this parade, but white, black, brown and red, women and children, marched ‘side by side. |mazched, 20.000 strong. |on Market Street stopped and not |a cop in sight. We attended a meeting of our union, the Sign, Scene and Pictorial Painters Local 150, and listened to the report of the delegates from the general strike committee, calling off the strike. The workers were. told to go back to work, provided there is any work, lend their moral and financial suprort to the striking stevedores and marine workers, and while waiting results of arbitration, be subject to call at any time. ae Aa Bands of so-called vigilantes (van- dals would be a more app-zopriate word), under the refuge of pa- triotism, demolished every workers’ center, including the Western Worker, and hundreds of “radicals” were arrested. Then the “patriots” celebrated their ‘victory’ by dis- playing the stars and stripes from all public buildings. NOTE: “every Wednesday. Workers | those write us of their conditions of work, and of their struggles to all day without pay. What we want to know is who gets the pay? Now they're trying to make up for lost ground. For one hour they) All traffic | We publish letters from textile, | needle, shoe and leather worker, — in industries are urged to | |Dr. LUTTINGER ADVISES ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Medicine in Soviet Russia J. Donovan, Jersey City: Sorry to disappoint you, but physicians are required to study just as long in Russia, as in all other civilized coun- tries. The government is using every possible method to arouse the population to the dangers of ven- ereal and other contagious and in- fectious diseases. As a matter of fact, no worker can start on his job, in a factory, before he is vac- phoid fever. It’s too bad they did \not think of consulting Donovan of Jersey City, who would have taught them how to abolish all diseases in a few words, according to “natural” methods. Your ideas about health saur or a corset cover and as valu- able as a horse-fly on the rump of a jackass. Thermalaid E. K.. Brooklyn: This contraption made by the Electro Thermal Com- pany of Steubenville, Ohio, is a fake prostate gland “cure.” It has been exposed as such on numerous occa- |sions; but it seems that it still finds people to bamboozle. The “positive cure” that the manufacturers prom- ise is a snare and a delusion. If our government were really inter- ested in the health of the masses it could have stopped this swindle long ago. We Take a Bow K. James: We are glad to hear that our column weaned you away from the N. Y. American, the N. Y. Telegram and the Paterson Call If we had more space and less mod- esty, we should have printed your letter in full. We have received a number of letters from Telegram readers exprecsing the same opin- ions as you do. This accounts for \the vicious attack Heywood Broun made on our column some time ago. It’s the iirst thing this erstwhile “friend” of ours would like the Daily Worker to abolish. All good Marx- ians understand the reason why, As to your suggestion that comrades should stop reading medical advice from non-medical sources, it is an | ever being in the ranks again is $15,000 || International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City I advance—I donate $. (eross out one) Liberty Bonds $..... return as agreed. Neme . organize. Get the letters to us by Saturday of each week. Address cinated. against smallpox and ty-/ and disease are as modern as a dino- | from Angelo Herndon—Fulton Tower Jail, June 7, 1934, toward the Bail Fund for Angelo that this will be returned as soon as this Bail is released. Certificates will be issued for this Bail Fund guavantesing its excellent one; but it takes time and perseverence. Letters like yours en- courage us in our task. Thank youl “Peculiar Constipation J. Brill: From the description, it seems to be due to some nervous cause. When a condition has lasted 20 years, it is hard to cure, espe- cially withcut a physical examina- tion. Disclaiming Snobbery Mildred: The physician you name does not discriminate between a worker who is a Party member and one who is not. As his energy and time are limited, it would be impos- sible for him to treat all the un- ‘employed in the city. He cannot solve the problem of medical care for the masses'all by himself. He must therefore establish some kind of limitation for those seeking ac- cess to his services. If you know of a better plan, we should like to hear it. Diagnosis of Pregnancy by Laymen J. S., Queens: Even an experi- enced physician cannot diagnose pregnancy, positively, before two weeks after the expected menstrua- tion. It can be done by a test known as the Aschheim-Zondek urine test, any time after the fifth day of pregnancy; but this test cost’ $5 to $10. When a woman continues to menstruate, while pregnant, the difficulties are increased; but the A-Z test rarely fails to clear up the situation. We do not know exactly why some women continue to men- struate sometimes throughout preg- nancy. The only thing a layman can go by in such cases are the swelling of the breasts, nausea and vomiting (“morning sickness”) and later en- largement of the abdomen; but all these signs may be absent, or when present, do not always signify preg- nanc; We know of cases where the wife used to get nauseous and where the abdomen kept swelling up to the ninth month, but there was no baby in it. The latter cases are known as pseudocyesis and are due to an intense desire on the part of the woman to be with child; the swelling being caused by gas and fat. Free Angelo Herndon! “Since the Georgia Supreme Court upheld my sentence of 18 tu 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 only hopes ot in your strength.”"—From a letter ¢ SPECIAL HERNDON BAIL FUND $15,000 seegeeeceeeecoveeesss Sn Cash wyetaceseesecge | NOB cies ess eeseeescesseewy mae Herndon with the understanding I