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te Page Four DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1934 GREER BUILDS UP SECRET SERVICE AGENCY IN HUDSON MOTOR Answers to Questions P. B., Mohegan Lake.—The pim- | ples you have on your face and back | are called Acne. No one knows the} Cause of this dis or a good,| simple cure. It ust lasts for a few years and then goes away. It has absolutely nothing to do with| Sex. It is not serious These things will help you a great deal: (1) Regular bowel habits. One movement a day. (2) Regular meals. Avoid candies and sweets. (3) Wash face and back often with hot water and soap. Castile soap is best. (4) Get ® Lotio Alba at the drug store and Sop it on your face before going to bed. Let it dry on your face. Keep this up every night until it starts to burn, Then stop using it for a few days. (5) Sunlight is good for most cases, The ordinary case does not need | any In| more treatment than this. 2 whe: other treatments are neces- From your letter, it seems that you have a very mild case. We do not hold out much hope} for medicines for increasing height. You have six or seven years more In which to grow and you may gain quite a good deal naturally. Food, sleep, sunlight and rest will help. sary. Substitutes for Shaving | G. H., Roxbury, Mass.—Anything that takes off hair without shaving | is a depilatory. All the depilatories | “Athlete’s Foot” in our column of | we know contain strong chemicals! WORKERS’ HEALTH Daily Worker Medical | injured. Ask him | medical teatment by giving you an there are very|™ Advisory Board which dissolve the harmful to the skin. We do know the brand you mention, think it would be better to hair and stop using it and use a razor instead. Compensation A. T. 8S. Monticello—The most that can be done as far as the doc- | tor is concerned, is to get a receipt for the money from him. Notify the boss as to how and when you were authorization for treatment. Go to some other doctor and ask him to examine and treat you. Give him the authorization. He will file re- ports with the Industrial Commis- sioner (form C4). Your employer will then be sent a form C2 which he will fill out and return, Write also to the Industrial Com- ioner, 150 Leonard St. New ity and tell him about your first fee and that you have a re- ceipt. He should arrange to have you repaid by the insurance com- pany. Of course, if the other doctor should decide it is not a compensa- tion case, there is nothing you can do to get back the money. Let us know if you need more help. Celt x Athlete’s Foot L. L., Georgia.—Your question is answered in an article called Saturday, August 18th. IN THE By HELEN LUKE HOME Toward Rallying Women in the Southwest One day last week a bundie of 14 pamphlets was brought to the “Daily” offices by a thoughtful comrade, with the message: “I note by the Daily Worker that you fre- quently have occasion to send pamphlets to correspondents, some of whom, obviously, are unable to pay for them. Perhaps you might find use for these whch I have read and am through with—H.” The very next day, in response to | our notice that extra back-issues | of the “Working Woman” would be given out, came this letter from a Comrade in a large southwestern | seaport: “Please send copies of the Work- ing Woman; am enclosing 10 cents for postage . . . delay in writing was due to waiting to acquire dime. Any magazines sent will be well read and circulated and passed on | and on, among women in the con- centration section of X——, near | the waterfront and very important factories—Comradely yours, Marie |: A | So in addition to the few re- quested magazines we are sending to Marie H. most of Comrade H's donated books, including “Soviet Main Street,’ the August “Commu- | nist,” four of the Marxist study | course jessons on “History of the Working Class,” and the previously | described well-illustrated book. “Protection of Motherhood and Childhood in the Soviet Union,” by Dr. Esther Conus. The pamphlets on farm topics we reserved to send to comrades work- ng among farm women. Another comrade sent for the pamphlet on the Soviet marriage law, which we are also mailing. Some Class! The New York Times in reporting the arrival on the Ie de France of Mrs. Roosevelt, mother of Frank- lin Delano, quotes her as having Said (upon hearing that she had been described as the “best good- will Ambassador America has had since Lindbergh”)—“Isn’t that com- plimentary! Depend on the news- Papers to say beautiful things!” Quite so. That is, provided you are a mother belonging to the rul- Ing class of this oh-so-democratic republic, and can have breakfast in Suite 264 Class A, dressed in silk and wearing a black hat, large pearls at your throat, and a gold _watch at which you continually look, as the New York Post report- et—Norman Klein—describes Mrs. Roosevelt. The “beautiful things” the class-| ! conscious Mister (Kowtow) Klein has to say about the other noted mother returning on the Ie de France, Ella Reeve Bloor, veteran | labor organizer, now strenuously | . Campaignng against the imminent war being prepared by the Roose- velts and their kind, are as fol- lows: “For forty years she has pushed her noisy way through labor Strikes, saloons, mining camps and tenement slums. She is a rough- and-ready labor leader... . ” Not at all, you immediately per- ceive, like the genteel, quiet, and ‘charming mothers of our delight- fully cultured (at our expense) rul- | ing class, whose system breeds, per- petuates, and enlarges those same tenement slums through which our Mother Bloor “pushed her noisy way.” What Mrs. Roosevelt's fam- ous son is doing not to end these same tenement slums with his (Anti) Housing Act is well told in the Aug. 21 issue of the New Masses. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1955 is available in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size 36 takes 33, yards 39 inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. i955. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins prefvrred), 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. Free Herndon and Scottsboro Boys! “It 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 know you will stick by me... . Letter from Haywood Patterson, Kilby Prison, June 29, 1934. $15,000 International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City 4 I contribute $.... and Defense. | NAME .. seeees for ADDRESS SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON EMERGENCY FUND $15,000 the Scottsboro-Herndon Appeals to furnish you Steel Workers In Long Island Win Pay Raise By a Worker Correspondent LONG ISLAND, N. Y.—A stop- page which lasted one day and aj half and resulted in a victory for! the workers took place in the| American Steel Co. In this shop, although small, only a few months ago the workers did not know what the Daily Worker was. Through the initiative of one comrade, workers in this shop now read the Daily | Worker and are members of the Communist Party. The Party nucleus in this shop is | selling the Daily Worker and litera- | ture to the’ workers in other plants jin the same building. When the | Workers of this factory demanded jan increase in pay the boss in- |formed them that he couldn't see | hissway out. The workers told him | that either he comes across or there | would be a picket line in front of | the place. He wanted time to con- sider. He decided to give in. The rkers got an increase of from 15 to 20 per cent Wo: in Long Island in other factories should take an example from these workers, get together and demand better conditions and more pay. Only through organization, fel- low workers of Long Island, will you force your employers to give you more money. | Company Union Brings |Not One Improvement at Budd Wheel Plant B a Worker Correspondent | DETROIT, Mich—You remember very well, not so long ago, a picture was painted for us of the company and the company unions bringing to us a full dinner pail with good things in it. Many workers in De- troit grabbed a torch and ran after the prosperity parade. Now we find | this is only another pipe dream. At present we are fooling away at $5 per week, where we used to make $30 for a full week's work, In the Budd Wheel company, since the election of company union representatives, there hasn’t been a single improvement for the workers; it is still as much as a man’s job is worth ‘to express any dissatis- faction with the pay, or working conditions, I am reading a book called Im- perial Washington by Senator R. F. Pettigrew on the fellow who made the constitution. Page 137 quotes the interests of these men who made up the constitutional convention of 1787, There were fifty-five delegates present in the convention. A majority were. lawyers. Most of them came from towns, there was not one farmer, mechanic, or la- borer among them. Five sixths had property interests. Of 55 members 40 owned revolutionary script; 14 were land speculators; 24 were money lenders, 11 were merchants, 15 were slave holders, Washington, the big man of the Constitution, was a slave holder, land speculator and a large scrip owner. Jefferson was in France, George Washington was paid back one dollar for every nine cents that he gave to finance | the revolutionary war. (Mr. Petti- grew is not a Communist.) President Roosevelt tells you that you can organize in your own or- ganization, but when you do go on Strike the same gentleman sends troops to shoot the strikers down, The strategic position in every class war is the government. No great improvement in the life of the toiler can be accomplished as long as this institution is in the hands of our enemies. The industrial | | | struggle must be carried into the political fields. But striving® for political power must not prevent us from developing our other fighting organs to a higher degree of effi- ciency. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS BUILD L’UNITA OPERAIA New York City, Editor, The Daily Worker: L'Unita Operaia has become one} of the most effective instruments in the hands of the Communist Party and the Italian workers generally in the struggle against fascism, hunger and war. Our Party appreciates the accom- Plishments of the Italian section of the revolutionary movement in this country in its efforts to build the paper. Events are moving at a great speed. Who will reach the goal? That is the question. Shall we lag behind and permit fascism to get ahead of us, or shall we double and treble our efforts to-destroy fascism. I think we can prevent fascist Tule in America. I think we have learned lessons of great value from the Italian and German develop- ments, Therefore, the working class is opposed to fascism, butchery, ter ror and oppression that comes with it. But, being opposed to fascism alone is not enough. We must ham- mer out a unified will and political consciousness to actively fight against fascism. LUnita Operaia is the most pow- erful instrument in the hands of the working class for accomplishing this task. The growth and improve- ment of our newspaper is one of the most decisive factors in the fight against the capitalist class. It is such a paper that educates the workers in an understanding of the | insanity of capitalism and the su- periority of a socialist society, exem- plified by the Soviet Union, It gives us courage, inspiration and leader- ship in the fight against the em- loyers and the A. F. of L, bureau- | Crats. Make L'Unita Operaia a daily paper! | Spite of Greer’s brazen denials, is Forees Members to Sign Away Rights | Unemployed Excluded; Preamble in Constitution | Shows Speed-up Is Aim of Organization By an Auto Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich. — Arthur E, Greer, president of the former Hud- son local of the United Automobile Workers of America (A. F. of L.), has finally succeeded in gaining the end he has been working for since last fall. In September, 1933, Greer Was an organizer and high official of the Hudson Industrial Associa- tion, a company union. When he failed to get elected to office, and because he saw more in it for him, he moved into the A. F. of L., and made himself president of the local. In this capacity he continued to carry out the orders of his supe- riors, the Hudson bosses, by taking @ leading part in the Washington sell-out and other betrayal actions, Under his “leadership” the Hudson union, which originally had a mem- bership of 8,000, dropped to the point where only 100 regularly at- tended meetings, in spite of the fact that during the summer Greer served free beer to the membership. But even the reactionary A. F. of L. did not satisfy the Hudson offi- cials, and Greer was ordered to split away and set up an out and out company union. Ths he did, as definitely proven at the last meet- ing on Aug. 3. First of all, unemployed workers are excluded from the organization and can only gain entrance by pass- ing through a Greer-controlled membership committee’ In addi- tion those who are working have practically to sign away their right to fight for their demands. In order to enter the union you must sign an application card telling your num- ber, what department you work in, the kind of work you do, and just about your whole life’s history. With this information Greer can immedi- ately secure the dismissal of any member of the union who opposes his and the company’s policies. In this way the new union becomes a secret service agency headed by Greer, himself a former secret ser- vice agent of the U. S. government. Another point proving that the new union is a company union, in the class collaboration character of the whole constitution. The pre- amble for instance reads that “it shall be the purpose of the or- ganization to foster a high degree of workmanship on the part of its membership,” which means nothing more nor less than encouraging the company speed-up policy. When a rank and file member moved to sub- stitute for this a clause reading “‘to fight for higher wages, shorter hours, better working conditions, and abolition of the speed-up,” the suggestion was greeted with loud applause. Nevertheless, Greer would not permit the change. No Right to Change Constitution It developed that the workers were meeting as an unorganized group and had no right to change the constitution, but that Greer was submitting it for our “ratification” merely in order to try to build up a broader base of confidence in the new union. Greer has consistently opposed unemployment instrance, declaring it “only fit for lazy men.” He has had plenty of money to consult high-priced lawyers—as he did last week in order to create a legal basis for his exclusion of the unemployed —and to stage big beer parties at the end of each meeting of the lo- cal during the summer. Where does he get this money? The union financial reports do not mention it. Where should he get it but from the Hudson Motor Co. itsélf? Greer maintains that his new union is a move in the direction of industrial unionism, and in that way is more radical than the A. F. of L. The opposite is true, how- ever. Time and again the rank and file have presented a motion to unite with the other unions in the auto industry in the formation of @ real industrial union, and each time Greer has adjourned the meeting before this could be acted on. Greer has plainly showed him- self as opposed to the industrial union, and broke away from the A. F. of L. only in order to set up an even more reactionary union in line with the instructions given him by the Hudson Motor officials whom he serves, Now more than ever Greer and his company connections must be fought. This can be done in two ways. First, by building the Auto Workers Union, the only independ- ent, class-struggle union in the Hudson plant. Second, by exposing Greer within and without his new union, and by a militant battle to force him to admit all old mem- bers of the A. F. of L., employed and unemployed, without the ne- cessity of running the gauntlet of his stool-pigeon membership com- mittee or supplying him with in- formation that can be used against the militant workers, Fight for By a Worker Correspondent SOUTH BEND, Ind—The mili- tant action of the workers of the foundry of the Bendix Aviation plant of this city has won them their bonus. For some time now, it has been the practice of the bosses of this plant to tell the men when they earned a 20 or 25 per cent bo- nus that they would “bank” 10 or 12 per cent of it for them and give it to them when they did not make so much, It never materialized, however, and the workers were just out whatever the boss banked. Last night was pay night again, and once more the bosses decided the workers should “bank” 5 per cent of their 25 per cent bonuses. The men promptly shut down the line, crowded around the boss and de- manded their bonus. They got it. Now the company has cut the pay of the men. They were forced to Bonus at Bendix Aviation Co. run 82 moulds per hour in order to make 100 per cent, which would al- low them to make their base rate of 60 cents per hour. Now they must run 100 moulds to make the same amount. This means that this is the end of bonuses for the men. They cannot work this fast. As a result of the tremendous speed-up. in this plant there has been a ter- rible increase in accidents. The workers in this plant are or- ganizing themselves in order to put an end to this speed up. The work- ers are planning on slowing down on the job and refusing to work at this tremendous speed. The union grievance man in this department did not act with the workers. They plan on going to the A. F. of L. union of this plant and joining “it }the union will put some militant workers on the grievance commit- tee.” For several weeks the Young Com- munist League Unit of Jamaica has been negotiating with the Young Peoples Socialist League branch for joint action in defense of Otto Pop- ovich, militant worker sentenced for 6 months and 10 days for distribu- ting a leaflet, the Y. P. S. L. circle voted unanimously for the united front, but were awaiting the con- sent of the higher bodies. ‘The proceedings have been halted because of certain errors made by the local comrade who sent last Wednesday's story to the Daily Worker. His information was got- ten from unreliable sources. Both Y. P. S. L. and 8. P. had voted for joint action, but both re- ferred it to the city bodies for final permission, while the article says that the local bodies refused to refer it to the city committees. Also neither have as yet joined the Pop- ovich Defense Committee. Since the mistakes in the article Jamaica Y.C.L. United Front Story Corrects proposed to us a united front in the defense of Comrade Popovich. The Y. P. 8. L. has always evinced a desire to participate in sincere united fronts along the lines of proletarian struggle. Circle 2, Queens, accordingly was glad to co- operate in this local fight to pre- serve the rights of the workers and in particular to a defend a militant Communist worker who had been the object of capitalist oppression We had hoped, and still hope, that such were the objects of the Y. C. L, in making this proposal to us. We were consequently disap- pointed, to say the least, to find that our honest efforts to cooperate were utilized by the Daily Worker as a political instrument in its campaign to injure the party with which we are proud to be associated. We re- fer to the alleged news article in the issue of the Daily Worker of August 15, 1934, in which not only was the tone highly objectionable, but the tends to hinder development of united action between the ¥. C. L. and Y. P. S. L. of Jamaica—which might easily be the example for similar actions all over the city—we wish that you print this letter and thereby remove this obstacle towards unity. Forward to a united working class! Comradely yours, UNIT 1 JAMAICA, YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE. * ae The following is the letter re- ceived by the Jamaica Unit of the Y. ©. L, from the Y. P. 8. L.: Y. C. L, Unit, Jamaica, Dear Comrades: ¥. On August 9 your committee content was in a number of impor: tant respects false. We nevertheless intend to press to the utmost the possibilities of securing a united front. We hope your body will make all efforts to Prevent the yarious organizations with which you are affiliated from interposing further obstacles in the path of true unity. Yours for the world revolution, CIRCLE 2, Y.P.S.L,, QUEENS. Harold Luxemberg, Organizer. NOTE:—We are glad to print the two letters above, correcting the mistakes contained in the stery publicaed lact Wednesday, which was based on incorrect in- formation given to the Daily Worker. \ 6 ‘General Motors Plants Form Co. Unions'| By a Worker Correspondent FLINT, Mich—The General Mo- tors plants here are laying off men by the thousands and the welfare board is cutting relief at the same time. The workers are beginning to see the New Deal as it really is and not as they thought it was. The Y.C.L. has a good organiza- tion here and is growing. The Chevrolet plant here is turn- ing out trucks for the U. 8. to be used as ambulances and ammuntion trucks for war purposes. I have seen truck sides in the factory with the red cross painted on them. The A. F. of L. unions, which were organized when the big auto strike threatened to have lost prac- tically all their membership. They sold out one strike in Fisher Body No. 1. The purging of Communists is also talked about in local meet- ings here. General Motors believes the com- pany unions can serve them better than the Green-Woll machine, and is building company unions in all their shops, Many workers join the company union hoping in this way to keep their jobs, but they will soon be laid off. They should read the Dally Worker and learn how to fight these conditions. An Unem- ployed Council is being organized. Graft Extorted For Gary Jobs By a Steel Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind.—Graft is openly col- lected in the shipping yard of Bil- let Mill Department. The graft col- lection is wide open. I’ve watched workers going in the mill for 15 days and only get two days for all of the two weeks. And then again I’ve watched the other group of workers that get four ana five days weekly, after bribing the boss, Mr. J. Butch. The workers are not or- ganzed. Last week I had an opportunity to go through this shipping yard and meet some of the workers that I know, and I asked them how many days they were getting. One said four days in all for pay of two weeks. The second said he only had two days. I asked them if there was any union talk and they both answered the same way. The only union talk was about the company union. In the locomotive shop there is one known there as Walter (Bill) Hinky. This fellow does clerk's work in the locomotive shop for W. A. Egan. All the orders are made and given out by Bill Hinky, and Egan never checks up on the books as to Who is working or how they are working. So long as he has some- body on the engine it’s all right with him. There’s another grafter who gets butter and eggs, packs of potatoes, and it can be seen by a blind man that there is graft, and it can be proven by asking a few workers when they were hired. The reply was, some in June, and some in July of 1933, and they are mak- ing from 15 to 17 days to a pay. And on the other hand T’ve asked work- PARTY LIFE Tonight (Aug. 10) we set up an Unemployed Council in Salineville, Ohio, And what is significant about this? The fact of the matter is, it is the result of properly carrying out the line of the Party in the Election Campaign. Salineville, a coal mining town, has been subject to the miseries of the crisis and of course almost all of the workers have been affected by mass unemployment and hun- ger. Not even receiving relief to the meagre extent workers in other parts of Columbiana County had been receiving it, they had become a very melancholy and apathetic group. When approached to sign the petition we were circulating to get the Communist Party on the ballot, the majority exclaimed they were done with politics and did not desire to be bothered. But we very frankly admitted we were circulat- ing the Communist petition and pointed out the program of strug- gle of the Party. With very few exceptions, after doing this the worker would sign and would ex- press his approval of such a po- litical party and at the same time related the rotten conditions he had to endure for three or four years. One worker in his enthusiasm for the program volunteered to circu- late the petition where he knew many workers were loafing. One comrade accompanied him and af- ter talking to a group of workers, convinced them of the necessity of sending a delegation of workers to the County Relief headquarters, where other worker delegations would be the following Monday and at the same time prepare to set up a branch of the National Unem- ployed Councils the following Fri- day night. In accord with their convictions they were on the job at the county seat Tuesday and joined the body of the other workers from other parts of the county and fought. for the demands of all in the relief. of- fice. Partial demands were won and arrangements were completed to set up a branch U, C. on Friday night. This meeting was very seriously prepared. Hand-made posters put on telephone poles and a concen- trated verbal advertising effort. But at the meeting we were told the posters were torn down by the town marshal and that a campaign of red Scare had been started. But the culmination of the affair was that the meeting was held, the workers were, not scared and an Unemployed Council of 49 was set up. Commu- nist speakers, Fiber, Fowler, Ma- honey, spoke, and after the meeting were heartily greeted by the workers. ‘We are immediately sending to the national office of the Unem- ployment Councils for charter and buttons, and with this request we are sending the money. “With the money” means that these poverty stricken workers collected more than $2 to set up their organiza- tion and also provided enough money to pay the gas bill for the machine which brought the organ- ers that I know have been hired as far back as 1927-28, but they lost half the pay of July which was pad on Aug. 5. Their brass checks were taken away, and the answer is that there is no organizational work carried on at all. Fellow workers, exposure is all right, but unless we organize into a real union that really carries on the fight from below and above, our ex- posures don’t mean a thing to the bosses. The only way out is through organization, to create shop com- mittees and department rank and file committees of organized and unorganized workers, and this or- ganization is the fighting Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Servel Production Is Slowed When Plant Is Shown to Visitors By a Metal Worker Correspondent EVANSVILLE, Ind.—Servel never mentions the fact that they are us- ing government 30-30 rifles and gov- ernment ammunition. They only tell of the indoor range, I have never seen their indoor rifle, but from the description workers give of it it is also an army indoor 22-guage, furnished, I suppose, by the gov- ernment. I also wish to mention that Ser- vel had open house this week for all visitors, and in the meantime they cut production 50 per cent to make believe they were easy on the workers, and that there was no speed-up. NOTE We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their working conditicns and of their efforts to organize. Please get the letters to us by Friday of each week. TRIAL SUB OFFER DAILY WORKER 50 E. 13th St., New York City Send me the Daily Worker every day I enclose $1 (check for two months. or money order) Name .... Address... City Note: This offer does not apply to re~ newals, nor does it hold good for Man- hattan’ and Bronx. BOOST “DAILY” DRIVE— izers to their town. In summary, we again proclaim the significant feature of this or- ganization is the correct utiliza- tion of the Party line and the Elec- tion Campaign for the development of forces lying dormant and for the development of struggle against hunger and crisis. R. and F., East Liverpool, O. fee 3 Election Campaign Lagging in Sec. 3, Chicago District Not long ago a special Party membership meeting in Section 3, Chicago, was held. It’s purpose was to discuss the Election Campaign and to speed up the collection of signatures, which was dangerously lagging behind. The manner in which the collection of signatures was proceeding made it appear that. the workers of this territory were unwilling to sign to place the Com- munist candidates on the ballot. But, from this meeting it was crys- tal clear just why we were pro- ceeding at such a dangerous pace. The workers in the territory which Section 3 embraces, know and remember the Communist Party and especially its candidates, Class Party Election Campaigning Builds UnemploymentCouncil While Collecting Signatures, Communists Con- vince Workers of Need for Militancy battles fought in this vicinity un- der the leadership of the Party have involyed literally thousands of workers. To recall the struggles of the unemployed around the relief stations immediately brings to mind the respect and prestige that the Party has gained through leading them. Particularly through these struggles did our candidates become known. Similarly in the bakers’ strike of a year ago. Here, our Party and its leaders became so well known that a whole reign of terror was unleashed to crush the Party in this section and to sepa- rate it from the workers partici« pating in the struggle. In the cam- paign against gangsterism in the unions our Party has become known as a fearless defender of the rights of the workers. Simultaneously, the worsening conditions of the mill and factory workers, together with the threatening mass jay-ofis, are causing the masses to/look forward to the Communist flection cam- paign as one way of expressing their mood for revolutionary strug- gle. The reports at the membership meeting brought out clearly that it was not the fault of the workers that we were moving at such a snail’s pace. Instead, it was we, by our failure to go out to collect sig- natures, who were responsible for this situation. To remedy this, it was decided that every comrade must spend every single minute at their command collecting signa- tures. Consequently, this led to a decision that every campaign office or election headquarters were to re- main open all hours and particu- Jarly around supper time, since then workers could more likely be found at home. The meeting, held in sti- fling hot weather, debated for close to an hour in choosing a commit- tee, one of whose responsibilities were to be to see that this was car- ried out. But debating and acting appear to be two different things! What is the situation now after this spe- cial membership meeting? How se- rious are we in this work, which importance we claim to fully un- derstand in the present period of reaction against the revolutionary movement. Exactly a week after this decision was made (surely enough time to execute as simple a decision as this!) we still find the main cam- paign headquarters of this section closed at supper hour. For the first time a few Y.C.L. members decided to collect signatures. Involving the Y.C.L. in this work meant a good step forward. But such intentions were not to be! The center was closed, no material could be ob- tained and the Y.C.L. members were forced to slowly turn back. Surely, this does more to actually hinder the work, let alone improve it! The workers of Section 3 want the Communist Party on the bal- lot! This is proven by their re- sponse to the efforts of the com- rades who have gone out. Please, let us give these workers an oppor- tunty to elect a few Communists to office by executing simpla decisions and having strict organizational control, which can only result in obtaining far more signatures than are necessary to place our candi- dates on the ballot. R.C., Unit 304, Y.O.L. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the dictatorship of the proletariat! Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. ©. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street . City Sweaters $1; Aprons Caps 200; cash with send sizes. postprid. CHICAGO. 219 West Divsiion St. NEWARK 7 Chariton st, §.O. 5. COMRADES! Unemployed! Men! Women! Boys! Girls! Friends of the Daily Worker: Ina dozen cities new Red Builders haye shown that anyone can sell from 25 to 150 copies of the Daily Worker each day on : , street corners, at factories, trolley junc- tions, in homes—everywhere! Why don’t you get into this Parade of Red Builders? Earn expenses and at the same time help the Daily Worker in a march toward 20,000 new readers! If you live in or near the cities listed below go to the addresses given and say: “I want to help the Daily Worker, give me tay first bundle and assign me a good loca- tion.” (Each new Red Builder gets 25 copier free each day for two weeks!) If you live in or near any other city write direct to the Circulation Department, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. We'll Job at once! NEW YORK CITY 35 E. 12th St. BOSTON 919 Washington st, PHILADELPHIA 46°-N. 8th St. BUFFALO 185 Virginia st, CLEVELAND 1522 Prospect Aye, MILWAUKEE. 1110 W. North Ave, put you on the

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