The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1934, Page 4

| Why No Appointments Dialogue on BSE BS SII Bea PRD @ Page Four Negro and White Solidarity Will Win Next Strike in Mobile DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1934 For Post Office Subs? R. R. Unity Denied Vacation, But Are Told on Other Hand Mo Vv ement Yhat There Are Not Enough Regular Jobs By 2 Post Office Worker Corre- spondent BROOKLYN, N. Y Stating that it is handicapped by a short- age of men, the Post Office De- partment has refused to grant Jeaves of absence (without pay, of course) to all substitutes, and in many cases has recalled those who had previously obtained such leaves. When it is remembered that not so lang ago, to be ex-| act March 22, 1934, President Roosevelt publicly declared that the Post Office Department was overmanned by 15,000, an analysis of the present situation seems to be in order. To begin with, substitutes are men who have taken and passed civil service examinations and now been in the service from three to nine years, awaiting their regular appointments. During this time, as the auxiliary men of the Depart- ment, they have been employed, and still are, on a part time basis. They must report for duty six days a week, and make from $10 to $20. If the past five years had been “normal,” most, if not all of these men, would have already re- ceived their regular appointments. But no appointments have been made for the last three years. tn the past, substitutes obtained Jeaves of absence for the asking. But not so today. Not only are substitutes not given a living wage, | not only are they denied what is their just due, ie., regular appoint- ments, but they are also denied | proper thing for the Post Office to| the chance of making any money on the outsitie. By being denied their leaves of absence, many of the men who could obtain work of this unity movement for us in summer resorts, ie., hotels and | workers? | camps, could not even take ad-| Bill: I don’t know; what is it all vantage of this opportunity. As| about? for those substitutes who are still! Jack: Well, I don’t know too in a position to borrow or scrape together enough money to go away for a week or two weeks’ yvaca- tion, they must stay in the city.| After working for the government from three to nine years, men are | not.even entitled to a vacation, let alone a living wage. | Under such circumstances, it} would seem that the logical and} do would be to make regular ap-| pointments. That has been the! contention of most of the rank and file substitutes in the Post Office. What are the substitutes going to do now? On the one hand, the Post Office Department tells them that it is undermanned. On the| other, it still refuses to make ap- pointments. Do substitutes expect to get anything by waiting? How much longer are they going to | wait? Our only guarantee is our) own mass strength! We have been | made meek and humble and be-/ sought too long. If substitutes and | regulars would activize their trade unions in mass action and protest, | they would force the department) to act immediately and give them | their long overdue regular appoint- ments. IN THE By HELEN LUKE HOME Expense Accounts and Expense Accounts Greatest show on earth, comrades | and fellow-workers, ladies and gen- tlemen, step right this way and see the great marvelous, magnificent, thrilling and breath-taking capital- ist system in its daring display of startling contrasts! See how that) intrepid capitalist sheet, the New York American on July 30 performs } the audacious feat of swallowing | the red-hot double-edged sword of | living costs of heiresses and unem-| ployed, without batting an eye or) turning a hair! With the report of the expense account of Lucy Cotton Thomas, the poor little rich girl who’s running} over her monthly allowance, appears | a handsome two-column full-length | picture of Lucy and her guardian, | all dressed up on a gilt-plush back- ground, and fondling the family | pooch. With the report of the allowance for living expenses for the “one in every six” of the population who! was on the relief rolls in June, there isn’t any picture. Evidently they figure we know how we look, so why waste a halftone. e “average total relief per fam- fly was $44.09 for the month.” | But little Lucy—daughter of the | late Edward Russell Thomas, “noted | | sportsman,” and Lucy’s guardian, Mrs, Lucy-Cotton-Thomas-McGraw, | just can’t seem to get along on | mere $5,000 a month. | The unemployed workers on home| relief have a merry mathematical | time figuring out how to get a nice/ clean fireproof flat on a shady) street, bath, electric and running water for the eight smacks and 48_ cents per month average allowance | from the home relief. | But little Lucy found a great bar-| gain in accommodations at Fifth | Avenue and 61st St. for only $1,500} @ month, “rent and sundries.” | “The mother of the family on/ home relief has a busy time doping | out whether one pound of rice and a bottle of milk at fifteen cents would go farther to stave off star- vation than two eggs, one loaf of bread, and an orange at sixteen cents, when trying to feed the fam- ily on the $17.69 average monthly from the home relief, and wonder- ing meanwhile what will go up again tomorrow. But little Lucy manages for a} month with groceries amounting to! only 200 iron men. " Two dollars and twenty-two cents | has to see the family on relief through for a month, for fuel and light. But while Lucy has such items included in the monthly rent| to the Pierre, she has other serious!) ‘expenses to worry about, as follows: clothes, $300; telephone, $37; den-| tist $29; school tuition and books, | $285; and massages, $24. | ‘The worker's kid spends the Sum- | Mer splashing in the muddy water | of the gutter when there’s any to| splash in. | Little Lucy pays $250 monthly to} the Lido Country Club for a breath | of fresh air now and then. Does the worker's kid need a dol- lar prescription filled? Try and get it! But Lucy needs $55 worth of drugs in a month to keep the old a safe dis- gent with a scythe at tance. | The worker’s kid has a pleasant evening listening to rattling trucks, | the grinding L, alley cats and dogs, and the cacophony of six radios in six keys. But to keep Lucy’s piano in order as regards polish and tone, needs 150 smacks a month. If the worker’s kid wants to play, | Jet him find an old ball or roll the} ashean lid around. To keep Lucy amused needs $70 worth of toys a) month. | Can You “Make °Em Yourself? 1936 is available in sizes 12, 14 and 16. Size 10 Pattern 6, 8, 10, | unity groups, who will take up the | We give our right to think and talk | | keep still. By a Railroad Worker Gor- | respondent San Francisco, Cal. Jack: Say Bill, what do you think much about it, but I picked up a} pamphlet the other day and it said that they were going to organize the rank and file of the unions into fight for the interests of the mem- bership. Bill: My union, does that now. Jack: How are they doing it? Bill: I don’t know, but our offi- cers say they are fighting hard to make our conditions better, and that the management is so well intrenched behind their economic set-up that it is impossible at this time to secure advances for our} welfare, 1 Jack: Do you believe they are trying to secure better conditions for us workers? Bill: Now that you have asked | that question, it makes me think. | I will have to analyze it before 1 can answer you. It may be that they are not, still they tell us in| their communications that they | are, and it looks reasonable that | they are working hard. | Jack: Well, Bill, you and I are Jetting those guys tell us that we | don’t know anything about doing | business with our bosses and that we have to keep these fakers on our payroll or we will be lost. Do you know, Bill, I don’t believe a word of it. I have not been “lined up” as long as you have, but I studied | my constitution and find that we | can’t do any thinking for ourselves. to our union officers, who, I be- lieve, are parasites. They have a fine job and a fat salary, and are more interested in getting new | members than they are making it less expensive for us to stay in the union, or in creating better and) safer working conditions, or getting what money we earn. | Bill: I have never given that a} thought before, Jack, but now| that you mention it that way. I| believe you are right; why only the other day, when Art got hit in the | leg by an air-hose and lost five | days from this injury, his boss told him he was a careless worker and was lucky to be permitted to come back to work, and that he should) be paid, but the grievance man said the same as the boss, you are lucky to be working so you had better Jack: I asked our safety man to | prevent that kind of an accident by | using a cock with a relief port. When the main pressure is cut off the relief port will be opened and | the hose may be uncoupled without | \any danger of a kick, but he said | takes 2% yards 36 inch fabric. 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 City. | Daily Worker 50 East 13th St. New York, N. Y¥. $1 (check or money order). Name City _ tor Manhattan and Bronx. TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Da Do MESOADR AD HN ne ene eemaaREONENNNNR Ce Send me the Daily Worker every day for two months. I enclose | | Note: This offer does not apply to renewals, nor does it hold good —Help the Drive for 20,000 NEW READERS— | py or: he would see what he could do} about it, and later when I asked rs Dockers’ Fight Was Split by Jim-Crowism. Longsheremen in Alabama Port Vivtimized by Company Union, But MOBILE, Ala.—Here is the line- up on the longshoremen’s strike situation in Mobie, Ala., to date, When the strike was called June 18, there were between 15,000 and | 20,000 Negro longshoremen who} struck solidly for higher wages and better conditions. However the Mo- bile Steam Ship Association, no- torious for its strike-breaking and scab herding policy, in connection with the S. S. agents and stevedores, got busy immediately gathering scabs from all over Alabama and the Gulf ports, as they had done in two other strikes before this one. It is interesting to note how these scab-herding agents used the “race question,” or the division between Negro and white workers, to help break the llongshoremen’s _ strike. These scab-herding agents seeing that the Negro and white long-| shoremen were not organized inj} the same local of the International | Longshoremen Association, started immediately herding white workers to scab on the Negro longshoremen. However, while they were suc- cessful to get some white workers to scab, (mostly from out of town) there were quite a number of white longshoremen of Mobile that re- fused to scab on the Negroes. An- other fact of importance is that the S. S. agents promised these white workers a life-time job if they would scab. Now, however after the strike has been broken these same white workers that were prom- ised life-time jobs are gradually being laid-off. It is reported that the stevedores are against employ- ing white longshoremen now that the strike is broken and the com- pany union set up. It must also be pointed out that all through the strike these agents sent scabs to the I. L. A. local to break the morale of the strikers. A clear picture of the close co- operation between the state and its agents, K. K. K., police, real estate agents, etc., and the Mobile S. S. Association, can be seen from the following: During the strike the K K. K. put out thousands of leaflets telling the Negro workers to go back to work. The contents of the leaflets were: “Negro, go back to work, Agitators and Commmunism will not be toler- ated—the K. K. K, is watching you, be careful. K. K. K. P. 0. Box 742.” This leaflet was put out not only to frighten the Negro longshoremen, but to keep them from uniting with their white fellow workers, Prepare New Struggle | By a Marine Worker Correspondent It shows that the moment any group of workers put up a militant fight for better living conditions} they are called Communists. There- fore the lesson to be drawn from this is that the Communists must be the people that are putting up the best fight for better conditions. Four days before the strike was called off, 12 cars of flat-feet (cops) went to the I. L. A. Local 1284 and tried to pursuade Negro workers to be scabs—promising them all kind of protection if they would only go and help break the strike. However, they were not successful. Monday, July 9th, the strike was called off and “peace” on the dock declared between the I.L.A. and the Mobile S. S. Association. The peace will last no longer than it takes the longshoremen to reorganize their forces and strike again! When they do, it may be quite a different strike from the one just ended, because there will be white and black to- gether. It is now July 26, and no striking longshoreman is allowed to go on the docks unless he is furnished with a ticket from the company union foreman. Now the contract of the Mobile S. 6. Association says in point number 1 that all striking employees shall be returned to their former status without ill- will or discrimination, Of course this means that they wll have to join the company union in order to go back, as the S. S. Association, point blank refused to recognize the I.L.A. It is clear that what the S. S. Association wanted to do from the very beginning is to break-up Local 1284 of the I. L. A. and establish a company union. On June 18th, the date of the strike, Local 1284 was nearly 100 per cent organized on the dock. . The fact that the strike was lost does not mean that the militancy of the longshoremen has been crushed. Their fighting spirit is still here and sooner or later they will demonstrate their strength in an organized manner. The practical lesson to be drawn from this strike is the following: 1.—Don’t depend altogether on the top leadership of the A. F. of L., Ryan, Green, Shaeffer. 2.—The rank and file must have more to say and do in the next strike. 3.—The most important point— the strike must be organized. That is, pickets, relief, leaflets from day to day on strike developments, se.) | him what he had done about it, he | said he could not do anything, that | | the men should be more careful not |to get hurt. | Bill: How could the unity group |help us in a case like that? | Jack: Well, Bill, it said in that pamphlet that the unity group | would remove from office any of- |ficer who would not do his duty. And our safety man would lose his office and his union salary if he did not improve our working con- ditions, and another thing it said, “Our union basses itself on the principle of rank and file control, unrestricted trade union democracy, | and at all times a policy of aggres- sive struggle for an ever higher standard of living.” Bill: That is what I would like to have applied to our union, but I don’t know how it can be done. can be done? Jack: By Jove, Bill, I’m with you. We'll go and find out for ourselves | what can be done to better our | conditions and get rid of the para- | sites in our union. | —A Railroad Worker of the | Southern Pacific Yards Letters from CAMP CROTON ACTIVELY SUP- |PORTS LEFT WING MOVEMENT | Croton, N. Y. In spite of its seclusion, Camp Croton, about four miles from Peek- skill, New York, has succeeded in gathering a small group of campers who appreciate the clean strong pol- icies of our Left Movement. ‘The campers have accomplished a great deal, considering the size of their group. Everyone feels him- self responsible for the success of whatever activity is undertaken. Every Saturday night an affair is run for the benefit of various organ- izations and union opposition groups. Saturday night, July 28, a Specially arranged program was suc- cessfully presented for the benefit of the Daily Worker. A net profit of $50 was set aside for the Daily Worker. Lectures, study circles, distribu- tion of pamphlets, of books, and of the Daily Worker form part of the cultural efforts of the Croton camp- ers, We succeed in selling a great number of “Daily Workers” every day to the campers and to the neighboring country inhabitants. We shall try to aid the “Daily Worker” to the best of our abilities, 8. GORDON. COMMUNISM NOT UNAMERICAN San Antonio, Texas. The Hearst papers are very hos- | tile to Communism, and take every opportunity to slander the U.S.S.R. |For one thing, the Hearst papers say that Communism is alien to | Americans, which is a lie. Of course, |there are two Americas, the past What do you say we go to the/ | unity meeting and find out how it| | By a Subway Worker Correspondent ; | As a member of the Irish race, | ;as an I. R, T. worker, as a World | War veteran, as a union man and |as a Communist, I am taking it |upon myself, my dear General O’Ryan, to drop you a few lines, As I read the account of your re- cent activity on behalf of the in- dustrialists in and around N. Y. City, such as the contemplated registration and photographing of “responsible” labor officials; the formation of a police rifle regiment with machine gun companies, etc., I was indeed impressed with your greatness as a solver of the cesspool of crime in which tens of millions of honest workers strive to exist and rear families. No doubt when you have com- pleted the organization of this mili- tary maghine within the police de- partment, one of their first acts in the interest of public safety will be the capture of Dutch Schultze, for whom a warrant was issued many months ago. Our Readers said, “Capital is only the fruit of labor and could not have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and de- serves much higher consideration. I bid the laboring people beware of surrendering the power which they possess and which, if surrendered, will surely be used to shut the door of advancement of such as they, and fix new disabilities and burdens upon them until all liberty is lost.” “To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, as near- ly as possible, is a worthy object of any government.” “This country, with its institu- tions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing govern- ment they can exercise their con- stitutional rights to amend it, or their revolutionary rights to dis- mantle or overthrow it.” This is enough proof that the Hearst papers are liars in what they say about Communism being for- eign to America and Americanism. Therefore I think that all Com- munists and all sympathizers should stop buying Hearst papers, and not only that. They should start an endless chain against the slander- ous, lying, dirty sheets. Thousands of workers have got the idea into their heads from reading those scandal sheets that Communism is un-American, and for that reason they are against Communism. We should try to show the work- ers that such is not true, but rather that to help and aid Communism is merely to extend the liberties, the freedom and justice for which our and the present. The past ended with Lincoln, who fathers fought. J.B. G. week, Létier of an IRT Worker To Police Commissioner And, of course, General, it will be mere child’s play for your new regiment to bring in the murderers in the Rothstein case. Of course, General, there are in- dividuals and organizations who fear that you are organizing this} “military police-machine” only as a weapon of the industrialists whom you serve. These folks feel that this outfit of yours will be used | solely as a mass murder machine | in breaking strikes in and around our fair city. Among those who} entertain this belief are some eight or .nine thousand Irishmen em- ployed on the I. R. T. lines, to say nothing of four or five thousand more of other nationalities, You see, General, there is a} union, an independent union, called | the Transport Workers’ Union, and| a great many of those Irishmen be- Jong to it. This union exposes and fights against the bloodsuckers who direct the system of labor exploita- tion on the I. R. T. And worse still, it insists upon educating its members industrially. | The men on this job object to their wage cut. They object to the | fake pension scheme foisted upon them at the cost of 3 per cent of | their yearly wages. They object to the yellow dog contract and the labor lice of the company union. And they are organizing into the to give voice to these objections, Well, General, forewarned is fore- armed, and you can be assured that N. Y. labor will be ready to defend itself against any fascist attack that your peculiar brain can devise. By the way, General, you must not overlook the B. M. T.—the bus lines, the Eighth Ave. subway, the street car lines, etc. The Trans- port Workers’ Union includes them all. You “heroes” of the police de- partment may be good at beating up pregnant women at relief sta- tions and cracking the skulls of half-starved unemployed “demon- strators, but take it from me, Gen- eral, 40,000 or 50,000 healthy car men present a different problem. Ask your counterpart out in Mil- waukee if you don't care to believe | me. The working conditions are lousy, my dear General, and hoping you are the same, NOTE: We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- tion and communieations indus- tries—railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- press companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, ete—and post-office, telephone, telegraph, etc. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions of work, and their strug- gles to organize, Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each , fighting Transport Workers’ Union | Pension Trickery | By a R.R. Worker Correspondent | AMARILLO, Texas.—The railroad pension act was put through Con-| gress so suddenly, with the Wall} Street changes included with the help of the Brotherhood chiefs, and | it is so cleverly worded in the usual legal style that the great majority | of the railroad workers are com-| pletely fooled by its phraseology. should immediately get active in| arousing their fellow employees to| the dangers in the bill. In the first place it contains| nothing for those employes who were not employed a year ago, even though many of them had 20 years service. Another and worse feature is the | betrayal of the older men, those| who are eligible right now. In order to use the best eight years of | their service in figuring their | average wage, they have only two! months in which to make a dect- | | sion. The suddenness of signing the bill and the clause making it necessary for them to decide within two months was a deliberate act of “slipping over a fast one.” There is so much confusion and difference of opinion that the time is much too short to decide. And many of the older men are now on one year extensions which do not expire in time to take advantage of “the best eight years figures.” The brotherhood magazines have kept Silent on this point. The bill has no strike or lock-out provisions, and no employe who is laid off any time before having 30 years service can have his contribu- tions returned. This will allow the companies to use Henry Ford’s plan of laying men off just before that | length of service. | In figuring the monthly employee contributions and then the benefits paid, it will be seen that on an average, if the worker is lucky to live so long, his pension benefits received will eat up his contribu- tions in 16 months, So that in any case there will be a very small lump sum for the widow. Wall Street has already served notice of fighting the bill and every rail worker should get actively in- terested. The 2 per cent deduction should be made the maximum, and the railroad companies should be forced to make up the rest of the| amount needed. | Railroad workers should also be exempted from payment of the various state old age pension) schemes, Telegraph Messenger Gets Two Cents Doing $14 Worth of Work By a Telegraph Worker Corre- spondent NEW YORK.—An example of| the double dealing and treachery that the Western Union Telegraph Co. is capable of is the recent swindle of a messenger on a “book” | of telegrams. The boy picked up 700 telegrams and got paid two cents for an A zone instead of $14. This swindle becomes all the more despicable when it is remembered that the company withdrew the $1 limit on “books” as a concession to the mes- sengers when they threatened to strike in April. The boy didn’t even get the $1 let alone the full amount—$14. This is the kind of economy by which the company is able to turn a deficit of half a million in 1932 into a profit of $4,000,000 in 1933, with only 8 per cent of the profit coming from increased turnover in | business. Jobs Classed to Cut Pay in Rail Yards By a R. R. Worker Correspondent LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.— I am a brakeman on the Long Island R. R. We have some jobs in Fresh Pond Yard which are classified as road jobs but are only yard switching. The Penn in classing these jobs as road jobs instead of yard jobs, saves 99 cents a day on each man. The Brotherhood has done nothing to make these jobs yard jobs. A bunch of us brakemen should get together and form unity groups in the Brotherhood, and demand that Lavin force the company to make them yard jobs. In this way we can force the Brotherhood leaders to make the Penn live up to our agreements. In Sunnyside Yards the Penn was forced to reclassify the utility switching job from a brakeman’s to a conductor’s job. This increased the pay about 42c a day. The company had been getting away with this for the last five years. The Brotherhood had done noth- ing at all about this. The Unity Committee issued several leaflets and there were let- ters in the Daily Worker exposing this abuse. The men in the Brotherhood took it up at the meeting and forced Lavin to go to the company. In this way we won increased pay. @ | of the workers generally as among PARTY LIFE Calls for Intense Election Drive for Communist Party Election Campaign Offers Great Chances for Building Party, Mass Organizations The splendid struggles carried [ through by the American workers | since the inauguration of the “New| deal” are open manifestations of| the continuation of the crisis and| This has the effect of lulling the|‘ it. employees to inactivity. Every; Toledo, Minneapolis, Alabama, | Party membér on the railroads|San ‘Francisco are outstanding | Posts in the American labor move- ment blazing a way for American workers—a way of struggle and} organization. The tremendous growth in the radicalization, of the workers ob- jecttve conditions is being further intensified. This is the setting in which the Congressional elections will take place—a setting which makes possible to bring to the mil- lions of American workers the} Party and its program, and to pile up a large working class vote. Also the possibility of electing Commu- nists not only to the State Senate and Assembly, not only to. smaller offices, but also to Congress. What e Communist Congressman can accomplish can be seen by reviewing the records of some of the Communists already elected in- to office, such as in Taylor Springs, Michigan, etc. Still there seems to be a tremendous amount of scep- ticism, not so much on the part the Party members. They do not think that Communists can be elected and some who are ready to admit that we can elect Com- munists seem to be puzzled as to what can one or two Communists accomplish in Congress or city ad- ministration, etc. These precise question were raised at some of the meetings I have attended. Some of the comrades in deal- ing with leading struggles in the neighborhoods remarked that they are willing and ready to do it, but let's wait until the candidates are placed on the balot. While an- other, when being nominated for Assemblyman, declared, “I do not want to give up work in the neigh- borhood and become a politician.” The comrades must begin to understand that it is our job to take politics “out of the hands of the special class of politicians, ward-heelers, precinct captains and the vast army of election officials, and make it the job of every worker—the interest of every toiler. In all our election work there is @ mechanical approach. A com- rade in Section 5 is opposed to spending money for a platform since we may not get on the bal- lot, so why waste all this money? In Section 9, one of the can- didates on the C. P. ticket in the/| Negro neighborhood is evicted. She is on the street for six days. The comrades prepare to issue a leaflet, stating, that this Negro worker is being victimized be- cause she is a militant fighter for the workers, because she is a can- didate on the Communist Party ticket. But this motion is defeated, instead a leaflet is issued, stating, “Negro family evicted.” Four open air meetings are arranged in con- nection with this eviction, but not at one of these meetings is there @ word said that this comrade is running on the Party ticket. But adding insult to injury, our com- rades elect a committee to go to the Democratic alderman and ask him to see that this family is ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Swelling of Right Ankle J. S.: If only one ankle swells, it is usually due to trauma (a blow or a sprain), Sometimes it is due to an inside growth on that side. You are at an age when such growths are frequent. Have your- by a reliable physiican. Curing Rupture Without a Truss A. G., Paterson, N. J.: There is no other way of curing hernia (rup- ture) than by a surgical operation. The advertisements you read claim- ing the contrary, are false. Fur- thermore, the injections they recom- mend are dangerous, besides being ineffective. A truss—made to or- der, not obtained by mail—is the self examined as soon as possible a placed back into her home. Finally, as though reminding themselves of the elections, the comrades ar- ranged an election meeting in the same neighborhood at which meet- jgrowing resistance of the workers|{ng the evicted candidate is an- |mounced to speak—days after she was put back into her home and after the struggle was over in the neighborhood on this issue. This was done under the direct guide ance of the Section organizer, who later at the Section Committee meeting attempted to justify some of these acts. Such separation of the campaign from all struggles of the Party is opportunism of the worse type. It has to be eliminated and destroyed. Improvement in Work Seen But Greater Efforts Needed Today we can note a slight ime provement in our campaign work and a somewhat better under- standing. But certainly not enough, Our signature drive is lagging be- hind. No efforts are made to draw in outside workers in the call for signatures and now we are faced with the task of placing the cam- paign on an emergency basis. We must throw all our head« quarters open for this work. They should be open not only for a few, hours a day, as some Congressional Committees do, but all day long. We should issue leaflets appealing to the workers in the neighborhood to sign petitions and help collect signatures, listing on these leafieta all headquarters. We should make ®& special appeal to all unemployed and to all young workers asking them to help collect signatures, Sighatures collected should not ba held in the pockets and homes of the comrades for weeks but im- mediately turned in to the election headquarters. Tables with appro- priate signs, appealing to workers to place our candidates on the bal« lot, must be placed in busy streets and intersections. Signatures must be collected at all open air meet« ings, picnics, at relief stations, shops, unions, etc, Such a drive we must put on immediately if we are to place our candidates on the ballot. The election campaign offers a tremendous possibility for building the Party and the mass organiza- tions. The coming in contact with hundreds of thousands of work- ers, while collecting signatures at open air meetings, all our election work, will help us bring the Party and its program to the workers. Finally, we must arouse the en- tire membership of the Party to the realization of the fact that not only can we place our candi- dates on the ballot, but we can elect them to office as well. Toe wards this aim, towards this ob- jective, we must work, Join the Communist Party 36 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. ©. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Street City only means of obtaining temporary relief. A truss does not cure. It merely prevents the rupture from getting worse (for a certain time) and from interfering with your work. The best and most econom< ical method is to operate. In thig pemeniee, the knife is a blessing, in- Diet Following Abortion H. R.: Your wife is apparently suffering from severe anemia due to the unskilled abortion performed on her. The physician you called probably saved her life by sending her to a hospital. All she needs now is rest, a diet rich in iron (spinach, liver, juicy steaks, etc.) and sun- shine. If this does not improve he# consult the same physician again. know you will stick by me. .. $15,000 International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City I contribute $.......0s0e00+f0F and Defense. NAME ADDRESS . 18 to 20 years, the bosses and derous treatment accorded me finement. is in your strength.” Free Herndon and Scottsboro Boys! ‘Jt pleased me greatly to have received your letter today if I did receive unpleasant news a few minutes before. It didn’t weaken my courage and faith whatever so long as I Letter from Haywood Patterson, Kilby Prison, June 29, 1934. SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON EMERGENCY FUND “Since the Georgia Supreme Court upheld my sentence of the pressure on me. I am deathly sick as a result of the mur- My only hopes of ever being in the ranks again Letter from Angelo Herndon, Fulton Tower Jail, June 7, 1934, $15,000 . the Scottsboro-Herndon Appeals their jail tools have increased during my two years of con-