The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1934, Page 7

ax — CHANGE ——THE-— || WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN ORD comes from California that Langston Hughes, famous revolutionary poet and novelist and president of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, has been driven from Carmel, Cal., by a vigilante group which calls itself the “Citizens’ International Defense Committee,” consisting of 200, This same committee, it appears, has also taken upon itself the job of “watching” the John Reed Club of Carmel. The “anti-red” drive in Carmel is an extension of the attacks upon workers’ organizations in San Francisco and all along the Pacific Coast which began part of the campaign to break the General Strike. In the arrests which followed hundreds of leading militants and rank-and-file workers were seized in a general dragnet. Among these was Tillie Lerner, a 21-year-old Communist organizer. It is interesting to note that the World-Telegram on Thursday de- voted almost a full column to her case because of the special cir- cumstances that she also happened to be a writer. There’s Profit in “Early Genius” OBERT CANTWELL, author of “The Land of Plenty,” one of the best labor novels published in years, in a review of “little maga- zines” in the July 25th issue of the New Republic, had singled out Tillie Lerner’s story, “The Iron Throat” which had appeared in Par- tisan Review, organ of the John Reed Club of New York, as “the work of early genius.” Cantwell selected this piece out of 200 stories published in the magazines covered in his survey. As was to be expected, publishers, ever on the alert for “early genius” that can be exploited commercially, began to flood Cantwell and Partisan Review with letters and telegrams in a frantic effort to locate Tillie Lerner. The mystery of her whereabouts was finally solved by the receipt of a letter from her to Partisan Review which revealed that she had been arrested in the raids on workers’ head- quarters in San Francisco and that she had just been released on bail. Further light on the mystery was cast when Harry Hansen, book critic of the World-Telegram, published a letter from Robert Cantwell which gave full details of her arrest and trial, and which called upon: writers “to help convince the court that she is not a vagrant but a writer of high talent.” An interesting sidelight on the young writer’s trial is found in Cantwell’s letter. He writes: “She was locked up for a couple of weeks. Judge Steiger, the fire-eating Judge who said, after handing out a bunch of sentences, ‘If only George Washington could see us now!’ called her a mental case because she wouldn't answer his questions and demanded a jury trial. Judge Golden asked her if she had become a Communist after benefiting from our marvelous educational system. ‘No,’ she said, ‘but I've become pretty well con- verted since my residence upstairs—meaning the jail. She is out on bail now, and her trial comes up soon.” . . . Letters From a Revolutionary Writer TLLIE LERNER’S letters to Partisan Review gives us an idea of the new type of revolutionary writer which the Communist move- ment is producing. Here is no sophisticated, jaded, hot-house product of the Tess Schlesinger variety, whose novel, “The Unpossessed” is so popular among bourgeois critics and nice old ladies of Womrath’s lending library, eager for a malicious bit of nose-thumbing at the leftward-moving intellectuals. Tillie Lerner was born and reared in Nebraska. Her father was for many years the state secretary of the Socialist Party in that state, but she is an active young Communist, who despite her youth, has already found time to work as a tie-presser, housemaid, model, ice-cream packer, book clerk and hack writer. She has written since the age of 10, she says, “when I grinded out an Eddie Guestian ode to ‘Gene Debs who dandled me on his knee.” Robert Cantwell’s high praise for Tillie Lerner’s work threw the bourgeois publishers into a fever. But. Tillie Lerner, unlike so many of our literary hangers-on, did not become intoxicated with the flat- tering proposals of the publishers. She was more interested in hav- ing her novel reach the masses who cannot afford to pay the stiff prices bourgeois publishers charge for their books than she was in winning the approval of the Van Doren trust and their amiable “literary guilds.” In a letter she writes: “... But what I'd like best of all would be to have it pub- lished in a very cheap edition so the people I really want to read it would get a crack at it.” * . Novel of Life in a Coal Mine Town Yes novel which Tillie Lerner is now completing deals with the life of coal miners, and, judging by the excerpts already published, it promises to be an original and imaginative contribution to. pro- letarian literature. She is also writing a piece of reportage on the General Strike and the vigilante raids which will appear in the next issue of Partisan Review, expected off the press the last week in August. I am looking forward to her personal account of the San Francisco events. John Reed Clubs throughout the United States should follow the example of the New York club in sending telegrams to the California authorities demanding the release of all prisoners jailed during the raids and the cessation of attacks upon the John Reed Club of Carmel and other California cities. I learn, too, that the New York organization is planning a protest meeting to be held next week at which prominent writers will be invited to speak. Absentee Fault-Finders IN RECENT months, especially, members of the various John Reed Clubs have found themselves in the front ranks of the workers’ struggles, and many of them have landed in jail in the process. Right now, Jan Wittenber, an outstanding artist of the Chicago club, is behind the bars in Hillsboro, Ill, for helping to organize the unem- ployed. Readers of the Daily Worker are already familiar with the valuable work of John Howard Lawson, noted playwright and mem- ber of the New York John Reed Club, whose trial for “libel” is soon to come up in the Birmingham, Ala. courts. Lawson’s “libel” con- sists in his having sent dispatches to the Daily Worker on the ore miners’ strike and on the treatment accorded Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro boys. The firs; John Reed Club was formed in New York nearly five years ago. Since that time more than 20 other clubs have sprung up throughout the country. It has become fashionable among some of the “arrived” writers to dismiss, with a contemptuous shrug, the writers active in the John Reed Clubs as “party line” people who are “not capable of creative work.” To those aloof writers it ap- parently seems that creative work is reserved only for those who have but yesterday been writing fugitive little poems and book reviews for the bourgeois liberal magazines—that pay. I, for one, am not interested in giving a clean bill of health to the John Reed Clubs, which, of course, have made many mistakes. But it is obvious thatthe criticism of these superior people, who to attend the organizational meetings of the club and who take no active interest in its work, must necessarily be of a sterile kind. The fact is that it is in these young writers who have grown, up and are functioning actively within the movement in a disciplined way that proletarian literature can place its most genuine hopes, { \ 5,000 Communist and| Socialist Workers in United Front By HOWARD BOLDT AR more than a full week New Orleans, under partial martial law, saw one side of the City Hall barricaded by National Guardsmen, called out by Huey Long to protect his share of the loot—appointments to city jobs, graft from the city treasury, gambling houses and houses of prostitution. On the other side were arrayed 840 police armed with machine guns, and re-inforced by 500 deputies sworn in to protect Mayor Walm- sey’s right to the loot. While these two factions. of the Democratic Party, the party of the Roosevelt New Deal of hunger, fought for the major share of the graft and plunder, unemployed workers by the thousands were driven further, and further into starvation. Federal Emergency Re- lief administrator Harry J. Early announced that 15,000 “unemploy- ables,” sick, blind, crippled, thou- sands of expectant mothers, and children would be cut off relief on Aug. 1, unless the state provided funds. On Aug. 6, about 5,000 workers massed in the square facing the City Hall, and demanded immedi- ate relief, demanded that the city administration, which could find funds to equip the National Guard and the police with machine guns, immediately appropriate funds for the jobless Negro and white work- ers. While the city, state and federal officials agreed that none of them had taken any steps to feed the 15,000 “unemployables” and to pro- vide adequate relief for the other thousands of jobless, Lafayette Square rocked with the demands of the unemployed in a huge united front of unemployed workers. The mobilized forces of the state were hurriedly armed with tear gas guns, gas grenades, side arms and Protest Expulsion of Langston Hughes from Carmel by “Vigilantes” NEW YORK.—A vigorous protest against the expulsion of Langston Hughes, noted Negro writer, from Carmel, Cal., was sent to Gov. Mer- riam of California yesterday by the John Reed Club of New York. The protest at the same time de- nounced the reign of terror against militant workers’ organizations, the mass arrests and the raids by the vigilantes and the police, and de- manded the immediate release of all jailed workers. A pfotest meeting against the terror in California and the per- secution of revolutionary writers and artists will be held at the John Reed Club headquarters, 430 Sixth Ave., Friday evening, Aug. 17th. Prominent writers will speak. Reactionary Educators of California Forming New Capitalist League By a Teacher Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal.— Recently | candidates for assembly and state senate received a questionnaire from the “Committee of 1934 of the California Civic League.” This league claims to be an organization sponsored by a group of educators whose “chief object is to join all teaching groups in one united effort to maintain the best in edu- cation for the children of Cali- fornia.” In order to carry out this laudable purpose {t proposes To “Anvestigate” the stand taken by the various candidates for office and will back those who promise most. Let’s have a look at this high- sounding organization. Clarence R. Briggs is chairman jand |Georgia B. Parsons secretary. Last year Briggs was sent by the Associated Teachers’ Organizations of Los Angeles to lobby at the state legislature. He was supposed to do his utmost to see that no bills un- favorable to teachers were passed. Now you will recall that at this legislature one of the most vicious bills, namely the special application of the criminal syndicalism law making it possible to dismiss any teacher who is un-American enough to think or talk about prescht con- ditions, was passed. Where was our “friend,” Mr. Briggs? Oh, he was there all right. The bill was nothing for him to worry about. So much for Mr. Briggs. As to Georgia Parsons, formerly presi- dent of the L. A. Teachers’ Club, it was she who conceived the bright idea of trying to collect a list of all teachers who had con- tributed financially or otherwise to the recall of the “reactionary three” on the L. A. board of education. This list was to be posted conspic- uously in the clubrooms (for the benefit of principals, supervisors and members of the board of edu- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1934 Louisiana national guardsmen taking possession of the New Orleans registration office when Governor 0. K. Allen, puppet of Huey Long, proclaimed martial law in the fight against the Walmsley forces. machine guns as the workers streamed into Lafayette Square. po day tice See the first of the year, all relief funds for the state of Louisiana have come from federal funds. Totally inadequate the federal grants to Louisiana, where 22 per cent of the population is on the relief lists, allowed average re- lief payments of only twenty-two cents a family a day. With rising militancy, the Ne- gro and white workers have united in the common fight for adequate relief. Early in the summer, one hun- dred Negro women, asking only bread with which to feed their starving families, marched on the relief offices, Knocked down by the police and relief officials, ten of the Negro wo- men were jailed. An Aug. Ist, 1,000 Negro and white workers in a meeting against the Roosevelt New Deal of Hunger, fascism and war, demonstrated be- fore the relief offices demanding unemployment relief, Pear a IN AUG. 6th, while city, state and federal authorities agreed that None of them had done anything to provide relief for the 15,000 “ui employabies,” five thousand work- ers massed before the City Hail where Senator Long's troops and Mayor Walmsley’s police and depu- ties faced each other with machine guns. Socialist and Communist workers, workers mobilized by the League for Industrial Democracy, the Marine Workers Industrial Union and the Unemployment Council, cheered when speakers denounced the encroaching fascism of the Roosevelt New Deal, and pledged a united fight against hunger and war. Louise Jessen, secretary of the Socialist Party, turned to the police and National Guardsmen arrayed before the City Hall, and declared “Both Long and Walmsley have money to spend for bullets, but nothing for bread,” and invited them to throw down their guns and fight with the Unemployment Coun- cils for relief. While the unemployed massed at the City Hall, city, state and fed- eral officials variously placed the burden for relief on each other. Said Governor Allen: “No state funds are available for their relief.” Said Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Early: “It’s up to the parishes, since the state didn’t do anything about them.” Said Mayor Walmsley: “The state has passed no laws by which the city could levy taxes for the un- employed.” Meanwhile, as all relief food was exhausted, Mary Raymond, director of the municipal welfare depart- ment, stating that the unemployed were applying in increasing num- bers for relief, declared: “I am advising the unemployed to attempt to get aid from neighbors, churches and relatives.” * IN THE heart of the lynch South, in the very stronghold of the jim-crow party of Roosevelt, Negro and white workers massed together in a united front of Socialist and Communist workers, raising the de- mand for equal rights for Negroes. The demonstration called attention to the fact that the state legisla- ture, which has adjourned, refused to make any provisions for the state’s unemployed. When. the jobless demanded ap- propriations for relief, Governor Allen declared that the state could do nothing. Mayor Walmsley, con- cerned only with the fight for poli- tical spoils said that he could do nothing. Both factions of the Democratic Party united on one thing—decreeing starvation for the L. R.A. Fxposes By GRACE HUTCHINS INDUSTRIAL home-work with {ts notoriously low wages continues despite the prohibition of such tene- ment work in the needle trades and certain other NRA codes, according to evidence submitted by Labor Re- search Association in a letter to Nathan Straus, Jr., New York State director of the National Emergency Council under NRA. In New York State, where the greatest amount of home-work is found, it has now been legalized in a new law effec- tive July 1, 1934, providing that each home-worker shall be licensed. A recent estimate by Industrial Com- missioner Elmer F. Andrews places the number of home-workers at 30,000 in New York State, and 1,000,000 in the country as a whole. By special order of the National Recovery Administration, in coop- eration with the U. S. Department of Labor, sent out to New York firms by Commissioner Andrews, “sub-standard” permits will be is- sued allowing industrial home-work forbidden by N. R. A. code. This order reads in part: reads in part: “If your industry is one in which home-work has been prohibited, you are entitled to make application for such sub-standard permits but only when one of the following condi- tions exist.” NRA’s special order then provides for three important loopholes which, in effect, legalizes a large amount of. hhome-work. If the home-worker has some physical defect, not con- tagious; if the home-worker’s serv- ices are absolutely essential at home to care for an invalid or someone cation). Even the members of the City Teachers’ Club, who are in many respects politically unborn, ‘booed down this suggestion. Fellow teachers, this organization is just a new disguise for the A. T. O. L. A. which in turn is part of the larger and more insidious California Teachers’ Association. Wake up before it is too late! If you really want candidates who will fight for your best interests, along with those of the rest of the working class, vote Communist. If you have not registered Commu- nist and are afraid to do so, re- member you can still vote Com- munist in the general election. Vote Communist and give back to the teachers of California freedom of thought, speech and action, who is “bed-ridden”; or if the home-worker was always accus- tomed to the earning of a living by hhome-work and is too old to adjust in factory routine—under any of these conditions a special permit for a sub-standard worker may be pissued. Sub-standard workers, of course, are not paid even the mini- mum code wage rate. Mothers with dependent children are not at present included in the permissive class, but a determined campaign to include them is being waged by the Home-Work Protec- tive League, organized by manufac- turers who wish to continue profit- ing from the low wage rates paid for home-work. Pay at 4c an Hour Ho’ low wage rates persist in home-work in the flowgy and feather industry, for example, was shown in a report of the National Child Labor Committee submitted to the NRA in May, 1934. Minimum’ wages specified In the code for this industry are $15 per week of 40 hours, or at the rate of 8746c an hour. Here are a few ex- amples of actual earnings per hour in the home-work ‘that is common in this industry: Parchment or cellophane flowers, 50c a gross; 12 hours to make a gross by one person—about 4c an hour. Roses, $1 a gross complete takes one person 11 hours to make a gross; about 9c an hour. Preparing wind flowers, 6c a gross; one person takes an hour to 1% hours to make a gross; 6c an hour. Carnations for Mothers’ Day, 20¢ @ gross; one person makes a gross in two hours; 10¢ an hour (this is an experienced worker after 10 to 11 years in the trade). Cellophane fleur-de-lis, 85c a gross; workers make 10c to lic an hour. In crocheting hats, it was found that the rate was 50c a dozen, and a woman could make only a half- dozen in a day. Not only are wages in tenement- home-work the lowest to be found in the industrial world, but other that the worker is at the mercy of the contractor, Among these spe- cial problems are the following: 1. No possibility for collective bargaining, picketing, or other forms of activity by which workers are able to organize and protect them- selyes as in factory labor. Home- workers work separately and indi- vidually. 2, In home-work workers must provide overhead expenses of light, heat, machinery, space and other items. 3. Enormous: burden put upon taxpayers to provide inspection of tenements, as to sanitation, etc. 4. Economic necessity has drives these home-workers to accept work at these low rates. Only social pro- visions for care of young children, for illness, unemployment and old page, will enable the worker's wife and adult members of the family either to go out to work in a fac- tory under better conditions or to stay at home without the burden of long hours on home-work paid at such low rates, difficulties about such work mean| Thousands Demand Relief As Huey Long, Walmsley Factions F ight for State Graft | Officials Threaten Cut 15,000 from Relief Rolls | workers. Both factions united in| dropping the “unemployables” from the’ relief rolls.’ Both factions are united in discrimination and jim- crow against the Negroes. Both factions have in mind the fight for control of the spoils—graft, control of political appointments, and the loot from the houses of prostitu- tion. The demonstration of the Negro | and white workers of New Orleans is an inspiration to the millions of | unemployed throughout the country. The demands raised send a ringing call to all the jobless—“Bread and milk for children—adequate relief for all unemployed—no discrimina- tion against Negroes—against the Roosevelt. program of hunger, fas- cism and war—for the right of the New Orleans workers to strike, to picket, and to organize.” to) Paris Anti-War Meet | Featured in New Issue of The Working Woman) NEW YORK—The Negro women | strikers shown on the August cover of the “Working Woman” are shoy- ing away burly policemen and/| | "Them Women Sure are Scrappers!” Their story told by ‘Vivian Dahl, young strike leader, inside, tells of the workers’ struggle for higher wages, on Seabrook’s Farm in New Jersey where children are taken out of school and rewarded for heart- breaking work with pay of 5c an hour. A special feature is a number of short biographies of a few of the 35 women delegates to the Women’s World Anti-War Congress just held in Paris, France. Women are un- questionably taking their part in the fight against war and fascism. ; “General Johnson’s ‘Robbie’” is by Marguerite Young of the Daily Worker Washington Bureau. It seems that Frances M. Robinson, Johnson’s $6,000 a year girl assist- ant has declared: “Do not feel the world owes you a living—Pull is the ; Bunk—Push and Merit are all that count.” (P, S—She got the job on pull). Each month Sasha Small is dis- secting a different magazine of the| “popular” kind. This month it is “Day by Day in the Saturday Eve- ning Post,” last month it was the Ladies Home Jorunal. There is also, the first part of a two-part serial by Paul Vaillant- Couturier, well-known French work- ing class author, called “How Cheng the Peasant Became Red,” and the other features, such as a doctor’s page and the popular “You're Tell- ing Me!” and interesting articles on women’s part in current struggles throughout the world. Chicago C. P. Opens New Workers’ School In Center of City (Dally Worker Midwest Bureau) HICAGO, Aug. 10.—New quarters for the Chicago Workers School have been obtained near the heart of the city as the first step in the realization of the expansion pro- gram adopted at a conference a month ago. Located at 505 S. State Street, the new school building will be easily accessible from all parts of the city. Beatrice Shields, diretcor of the school, announced that other planks in the school program will be car- ried out, including the strengthen- ing of the branch school system in various heavy industrial centers. in and near Chicago. Bill Gebert, District Organizer of the Commmunist Party, comment- ing on the®* new school building stated: “The District. Committee of the Communist Party enthusiastically greets the opening of the new workers educational center, and pledges its full support to the ex- pansion program of the Chicago Workers School. The realization of the program will give to the workers of Chicago an improved educational system to train them to be better fighters in the class struggle.” TUNING IN 7:00 P.M.-WEAF-—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick ‘WJZ—Stamp Club—Capt. Tim Healy WABC—Mary Eastman, Soprano; Concert Orchestra 7:15-WEAF—Homespun—Dr. William H. Foulkes WOR—Danny Dee, Commentator WJZ—Flying—Captain Al Williams WABC—Jones Orchestra 7:30-WEAF—Martha Mears, Songs WOR—Robert Bedell, Organ WJZ—Bestor Orchestra WABC—Jones Orchestra 7:45-WEAF—To Be Announced ‘W3Z—Rochester Centennial Celebra- tion; Rochester Civic Orchestra, Guy Fraser Harrison, Conductor ‘WABC—Fats Waller, Songs 8:00-WEAF—Madriguera ‘Orchestra WOR--Little Symphony Orchestra Philip James, Conductor; Marguer- ite Fales, Contralto ‘WABC—Dance Orchestra 8:30-WEAF—Canadian Concert WdZ—Northern Lights—Dramatic Sketch; Major L. Richardson, Nar- rator WABC-—Philadelphia Summer Concert Orchestra From Robin Hood Dell, Failmont Park, Philadelphia; Fritz Reiner, Conductor 9:00-WEAF—One Man's Family—Sketch WOR—Van Ruzer Orchestra ‘WJZ—Variety Musicale 9:30-WEAF—Chicago Symphony Orch., Henry Hadley, Conductor WOR—Della Baker, Soprano; Wil- Ham Hargrave, Baritone WJZ—Goldman Band Concert at Prospect Park, Brooklyn 10:00-WEAF—Ray Knight's Cuckoos WOR—Stuart Orchestra 10:15-WEAF—Denny Orchestra 10:30-WOR—Dantzig Orchestra ‘WJZ—Barn Dance WABC—Michaux Congregation 10:45-WEAF—Siberian Singers, Directing Nicholas Vasilieff, Tenor 11:00-WEAF—Lombardo Orchestra WOR—Weather; Berrens Orchestra Page Seven LABORATORY AND By DAVID RAMSEY What You Eat IN A profit economy of food products to jeopardize or kill a dozen people to gather in a few extra per s. More than two decades ago People of the United States w shocked by the news that they w eating diseased, spoiled, vermi and adulterated food. Food law: were passed designed to remedy ti evil. But the interpretation and administration of these laws “have completely nullified the content of the statutes as far as the well- being of the people is concerned Today the pure food and drug laws serve almost solely as a means by which one unscrupulous: manufac- turer can make trouble for and hence hamper the market-exploit- ing activities of another. The worker is probably confronted by worse conditions in the matter of food and other products for family and personal use than those which the muckrakers exposed. Arthur Kallet, co-author of “100,- 000 Guinea Pigs,” and an expert on foods and drugs, recently has written a terrific indictment of the malpractices of the food manufac- turers in The Annals of the Amer- ican Academy of Political and Social Science. According to Kal- let, State inspection of meat is al- most unbelievably bad. “Many car- casses so. obviously diseased that they are not likely to be passed by even the most lenient Federal in- spector are held within the safe bounds of intra-state commerce.” About a third of the meat sold is never inspected at all. Putrid meats are treated with chemicals to restore their color and odor. Ac- cording to the Massachusetts De- partment of Health, 15 out of 26 samples of hamburg steak examined during the second quarter of 1933 contained sulphur dioxide. Obvi- ously government inspection of meat is but a mask that deceives the consumer. Though milk is easily contami- nated at every stage from milking to delivery, Kallet reports that “at no stage is reasonable sanitation maintained in most areas.” The milk control boards are in the hands of the dairy trust and their only interest is to raise prices. Apparently little or no effort is made to assure freedom from dis- ease (even tuberculosis or syph- ilis) in milkers and other attend- ants. Sanitary conditions are very bad: filthy floors, unclean contain- ers, and so on. The Board of Health of Indiana—a typical milk state — inspected 415 dairies in October, 1932. Only ten dairies could be rated “good”—and not one could be put in the “excellent” column. One hundred and thirty six dairies were rated only “fair: 186 as “poor;” and 86 actually “bad.” None of the dairies were shut down, nor were they penalized. here seri the makers never hesitate e tess report of the Massachusetts Department of Health for 1930 indicated that nearly a million per- sons in the state were getting milk from potentially tubercular herds; and according to recent reports from the New York State Agricul- tural Commissioner Charles H. Baldwin, probably 250,000 of New York's cattle, most of them in the dairy districts, were tubercular. As a final word on milk condi- tions, it should be noted that de- spite the big price difference be- tween grades A and B, it is known that with some companies—includ- ing one of the largest—both grades come from the same dairies and the same vats. Kallet points out that thousands of people go to their graves each year because of diseases traced to contaminated meat and milk. That the number is greater is due to the resistance of the human organism— and not to the meat packers and dairy interests. Notes on Science and Technology SHOP | In order to protect | vegetables from the rava sects, lead arsenate and o' fruits and of ine er ifs | secticides that are poisonous to man |are used. These poisons can be removed with inexpensive chamical shes. Novertheless, due to the t for profit, a dozen different ruits and vegetables are sold that |bear enough insecticide residue of |arsenic and lead to constitute » serious hazard. | Despite the efforts of growers to, |minimize the danger of the situa- tion, there have been many deaths. |from eating produce carrying in- secticide residues. More than 100 persons were poisoned, some of them fata in California during the past few months. The con» sumer does not keel over from a” single apple, but he does store up sufficient amounts of arsenic and jlead to do serious damage. The Food and Drug Administra- tion once stated that it would not’ permit lead residues to be used on foodstuffs. A Department of Agri- culture chemist issued a warning that a certain exceedingly small amount of lead injected daily would ultimately cause chronic poisoning. Nevertheless the Administration has legalized a lead residue twelve times as strong as the amount the gov= ernment chemist said would leat? to chronic poisoning. In bakery products low quality. has become the standard rule. The dried and frozen eggs that are used’”” are in all stages of decomposition. The butter is so dirty that no groce?’ would dare sell it. The shortening materials intended to protect the’ product from weather and tem- perature make it indigestible. All these serious and pressing hazards to the great body of the people will continue to exist as long as the food, advertising and publishing interests can prevent *~ even a discussion of their malprac-. tices. They wlil be abolished when’ the food racketeers and the system of which they are an integral part are destroyed. . Hy * Radio for Navigation IGNOR GUGLIELMO MARCONI, like his friend and patron, Mus- solini, is a well known blow-hard. He has a tendency to make an- nouncements of epoch-shaking dis- coveries which turn out to be either fizzles or modifications of existing techniques. Tt is difficult to see how his much heralded invention for the blind... navigation of vessels in a fog dif- fers from any of the ultra-wave. radio beacons used in landing air- | planes by blind flying. Marconi uses two radio transmitting sets, located on buoys 300 feet apart, one on either side of the ship's chan- nel. The incoming vessel finds the halfway mark between the two» transmitters where the signal in+~ tensity is the same from both sources. It then sails along the line of signal equality. Marconi — has also put a loudspeaker nearby from which there issue two notes—, one of low and the other of high pitch. The line of the channel is where these two notes are of the same intensity. In America, airplane landing beacons use a comparable method. Two transmitters give off either short or ultra-short waves on the landing field. They project radio beams at an angle with the ground. The pilot finds his line of equal intensity, just as in Marconi’s “method,” and then “rides” down the line of slope. If Marconi uses the comparison of two notes of different pitch {0 determine the line of channel, he~* is going back to worse methods. ~ It has been shown that it is more difficult for the ear to compare two different notes for the same’ intensity, than it is to compare. two notes, each of the same pitch,... coming from different sources. AMUSE MENTS GREED” First American Showing of Soviet Talkie!. 66 HOUSE Novel, OF ACME Thea., 14th St. and Union Sq. — Always Cool- BASED ON FAMOUS RUSSIAN “GENTLEMAN GOLOVLEV” By Saltykov-Schedrin With V. Gardin ~ (OF “SHAME") ENGLISH TITLES Flatiron Bidg. League Against War & Fascism. SHOWBOAT CRUISE with unusual entertainment and dancing Friday Evening, August 17th on board the “Ambassador” sailing up Long Island Sound From Pier 1—The Battery at 8 P.M. Tickets 65 Cents in Advanee On Sele: Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St.; New Masses, 31 E. 27th St.; American League Against War & Fascism, 213 4th Ave.; World Tourists, Auspices: Comm. for Support of Southern Textile Org., M-W.LU,, Amer. 95c at the Pier Chartered thru World “Tourist. New Theatre & Film & Photo League present 3 films “Kameradschaft” Pabst's stirring anti-war film @ “SOVIETS SING AND DANCE” @ Charlie Chaplin in ‘THE COUNT’ Thurs, New School, 66 W. 12th st. Aug.16 “3'so'p Me ST AP4 Adm. 35 cents. Tickets at Workers Bookshop. TADIUM CONCERT! Lewisohn Stadium, Amst.Ave.&138 St." PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY Symphonic Programs Sunday through Thursday Nights, 8:30 Conducted by VAN HOOGSTRATEN — Opera Performances with Star Casts Friday and Saturday Nights at 8:30 Con led by Si is }—Prices: 25e-50c-$1.00(BRadhurst 2-2626)- Help the “Daily’s” Drive! Keep this date open! SUNDAY AUGUST 26 WABC—Sylvia Froos, Songs -WABC—Gray Orchestra )-WEAF—Whiteman Orchestra WOR—Trini Orchestra W mbarde Or 1: 1s DAILY WORKER DAY CONCERT and MASS MEETING To Celebrate the Opening of MORRIS LANGER LIBRARY as a Memorial to our Martyr Comrade Mortis Langer Thursday, Aug. 16, 7 P. M, 4 CLARENCE HATHAWAY, Editor “Daily Worker’ will speak on “THE GERMAN SITUATION” Also a Fine Musical Program IRVING PLAZA asin et