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Page Four } DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JGUST 22, 1934 Stretchout Grows Steadily Worse, Writes Danville Doffer WORKERS’ HEALTH Daily Worker Med ical Advisory Board ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Prevention of Diptheria L. D., Bronx. should not not wait until your child starts going to school to have an injec- tion for the prevention of diph- theria. If you do wait you will leave the child unprotected for the first six years of life, when it is more likely to get this disease than at any other age child can be injected as ca as the sixth _month. Sores on Children 8. L., Dobbs Ferry—Those sores ‘which appear rapidly on the face and sometimes on other parts of the body in children and which are generally covered by a honey- ‘colored crust if they are not deep, do not have any hardness or sore- ness underneath them, are caused by a disease called impetigo. It is| contagious and you must try to keep en from getting it by m use separate towels fing them from the patient the face twice a day with mild soap and water. Apply 5 per Paging Dick Whittington “What ails these New Yorkers?” I wondered on first landing in the metropolis and observing the whis- kered Toms and Tabbies reigning unchallenged in every doorway. “Are they cat-crazy what?” A few months’ resicance sufficed to convince me that nothing Pils New Yorkers and not o: not cat-crazy, but what needs is 800,000 bigger and bet- ter mousers. or the town Talk about the decay of capital- ism! While house- 7777 building has fallen off to al shadow since the \ “depres sion ,’’ while architec! bricklayer, son, carpenter and hod-carrier wander the streets in despe-~ Tate seeking, or sit on benches in Yéebellious unwilling idleness: while bricks lie unformed in the clay- banks, nails unmolded in the ore- Mines, plaster unmixed in limepit, gea and sandbank (and all that stands between us and new sant- tary well-built homes is the un- achieved unity of the workers and the ever-present steel-bristled le- gions of the usurers and their suf- focating system)—while we must Teave the existing new buildings un- occupied because of their high rents, =the rodents thrive and multiply Chewing to pieces beneath our feet the battered old tenement apart- ments that still remain to us. Fight them with trap and seed cat and poison: they defy you, swarm through cupboard, waste- basket and garbage can, and remove the insides of your davenport to build nests for their young ‘uns. In the Aug. 21 issue of the New Masses appears a brief and telling article, “Roosevelt Houses the Workers,” stating, in regard to the “National Housing Act”: “Its title is quite misleading. It is not a housing act at all. On the contrary, it is nicely calculated to restrict new construction, especially low rental Housing and slum clearance.” Plowing patiently through the reams of rejoicing and ballyhoo in the bourgeois press over the fact that the “Housing Act” is function- ing at last, we find that once more the government “relief scheme means relief for bankers, morigage- holders, and all the ‘ and more misery for the have-no' Only the “building repair” part of the “program” is now functioning, the “home-building” part remaining In the dim distant future. If you have property, if you are a “good credit risk," if you have an any nual income of at least five times what you must repay yearly, if your taxes are paid, if you are not in arrears in payments on mortgage interest or amortization,—-you’ may be able to borrow from bankers from £100 to $2,000 to patch up your property. And the government will guaran- | tee to the lender repayment up to 20 per cent of the amount owed in ease you default. Another signifi- cant feature, pointed out in the New Masses articles, is that “Labor is expected to co-operate in this so- ¢lal program by patriotically grant- ing a considerable reduction in its already miserable wage-scales.” By HELEN LUKE | “The American Eagle is Building cent ammoniated mercury ointment to the face after washing. Most cases show definite improvement in | the first week If the child has a great many sores, has fever and if it gets worse or does not get well quickly, it is either a difficult case or not im- petigo and should be seen by a doctor. Piles A. G. L., Brooklyn.—You can get | rid of small piles by having them | injected by an experienced physi-| cian. Large piles can be removed | only by operation. If they do not/ make your uncomfortable, cause | pain or bleeding, you can let well) enough alone. It is wise to have | them examined to make sure that they are really piles and not some- thing more serious. See that your bowels move regularly, because a hard constipated movement irri- tates the piles and makes them | worse. A tablespoonful of min-| | eral oil before you go to bed is a od lubricant t only through their soothing and lubricating action. Its Nest,” say the placards in the | realtors’ windows. We understand. The imperialist eagle is building its nest with profits clawed out of our hide: This we know. Daily we better understand Marx's declaration that | capitalism develops a revolutionazs class, the proletariat, the workers. After battling the bosses, cops, and merchants all day, the worker re- turns wearily to the tumbledown old barracks he is forced to inhabit, and takes up the battle against the signs of life there not recorded in the census; so that if he survives the first ten years or so he emerges a hardened bifttler ready to leap to the barricades at the drop of the hat—and feel at home there, Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1970 is available in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16. Size 12 takes 2 yards 36 inch fabric and ™% yard contrasting. Illustrated | step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded, 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. “It pleased me greatly to know you will stick by me. . $15,000 International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City ZT Contribute $.....ccsereceee for and Defense. NAME Free Herndon and Scottsboro Boys! 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 have received your letter today $15,000 the Scottsboro-Herndon Appeals |the workers, with the exception of |@ short period when they were or- | violating the injunction and were | fined and sentenced to time in jail. | Dear | useful work, ‘Fight Against Barr Rubber Co. Union By a Worker Correspondent SANDUSKY, Ohio.— The rubber workers strike here lasted seventeen weeks ano was called off Wednes-| day, July 25th. The name of the/| factory is the Barr Rubber Co., and {t manufactures rubber toys of all| kinds. Previous to the strike there | wasn't any union organization of| ganized by A. F. of L. officials in a@ Federal Labor Union, affiliated with the A. F. of L. The company} refused to recognize the union, and| that fact caused a strike. Other reasons also were as fol- lows. The president of the com- pany, whose name is Dorn, organ- ized a company union, and then began to fire the workers of the Federal Union. The workers and Sympathizers, did quite effective picket work, so much so that the company union applied for an in- junction. The judge did not grant it, but later he did grant an in- junction, when the company ap- plied for one The injunction judge had a num- ber of the strikers hauled up before| him, two of whom were women, and militant. They were charged with The judge, however, changed his mind, and permitted them to go free. The strike difficulty was taken before the regional board several times, without any settle- ment resulting. The matter was also taken up with the National Labor Board without any settle- ment However on July 26th an agree- ment was entered into with the Cleveland Regional Labor Board and the walkout ended. er eee Ed. Note—This report of the worker correspondent should also include what was the agreement under which the strike ended. Did the workers win any of their demands? LETTERS FROM OUR READERS WELCOMES THE NEW HEALTH COLUMN Arverne, L, I. Congratulations on the inaugu- ration of your new health column. It’s a great idea. I don’t think there’s another paper in the coun- try that can equal it. Keep up the good power to you. work. More pO RABBI DEFENDS HITLER Philadelphia, Pa. Comrades: Religion fears change of social order. Rabbi urges Jews not to denounce Hitler, Dr. Samuel H. Goldenson, New York, President of the Central Con- ference of American Reformed Rabbis, told the 45th Annual Con- vention at Wernersville on June 14 that Jews should not spend all their time denouncing Hitler. He further said: “Let us keep some of our reserve strength for tha greater and more useful task of understanding the causes of the world confusion today ... The first duty of all of us is to remove as far as possible the forces that threaten the stability of our social order” . How can there be any more doubt in anybody’s mind that religion 1s for the preservation of the present capitalistic system which breeds wage cuts, unemployment, misery and starvation for the working class? It is no wonder that these rabbis do not stop attacking the Soviet Union which accepted the theory of Karl Marx that “religion is opium for the people.’ Religion keeps the workers from fighting for a better world right now, with the promise of “pie in the sky when you die.” And these sky pilots would much rather have fascism than a socialist system of society where they would have to do some B. B. ON TO THE FIRST MILLION New York City. Dear Comrades: TI have been a steady reader of the “Daily” for the past 18 months and while I find no fault with it I would like to offer what I feel are constructive criticisms and sugges- tions. 1. The “Daily” should strive for a minimum of ten pages for each and every edition so that all news can be fully covered. To my mind the May Day issue was perfect. I dream of seeing every issue become a May Day issue. 2. First page editorials, such as that of June 21, should become a regular daily feature. 3. In connection with this the lies and the vicious attacks of the capi- talist press upon Communists, work- ers and the Soviet Union which are made daily, must be relentlessly ex- posed and refuted. 4, An educational propaganda page; serial biographies of Marx, Lenin, Thaelmann, Connolly; an account of the revolutionary move- ment in each and every country. 5. The publishing of revolution- ary stories and stories of the Soviet Union in serial form. I venture to say that if “Red Bread” were fea- tured in connection with the circu- lation drive we could aim for a trebling of circulation, 6. It becomes imperative to es- tablish at least four branch plants throughout the U. S. in order that the Daily Worker may be bought in any part of the country “hot off he s” within 24 hours, I feel that I have written enough. * haye taken a peek into the future. nm to a combined press run of a nillion! SYMPATHIZER Robbed of Rest Time RA Speeds In Riverside Plant Negro and White Workers Will Win Better Conditions By Organizing Together | By a Textile Worker Correspondent DANVILLE, Va.—I am a textile worker in Riverside mill. I have been there a long time as a dof- fer. I can just think back years ago when one doffer did not have to doff as much in 10 and 12 hours as we do now in 6 and 8 hours. The spinner could keep up their sides because they were not stretched out and the frames were not speeded up. Then back in those days you could see the spinners and doffers sitting around talking. They all made their rest. You hardly ever saw the boss come around, because he knew that the job was easy and he knew we could run our jobs. Anybody who wanted to work could get a job. because one man, woman or boy did not have to run two or three jobs. Then the war came. Then they arted to speed up the work and retch the workers out, and they have been speeding up ever since. They could not make enough cloth, so they put in stretchers to stretch the cloth. I knew when Danville mills had the name of making the best cloth in the South, but they saw where they could fool the people by stretching the cloth. Now they say there are too many workers. It’s so if they want to put it that way, but just let them do away with the stretchout, and do away with the speed-up, Take every one who has two or three jobs and let him run one job, then see where your unemployed are. I said at the start if the N.R.A. makers wanted to make a New Deal, don’t say we are going to do some- thing. Do it. Don’t say we are go- ing to do things for the workers. If you start off making promises, you| will never get away from promises. | White workers and Negro workers cam see every year gets harder on| them. They have always made less than any other class of workers, be- cause the boss class takes white workers and fights Negro workers, and he takes Negro workers and fights white workers. Every white worker will have to learn that just as long as the boss class can work the Negro worker for less than he does the white workers, we as work- ers will also have to work for less. They tell the Negro worker that the white worker thinks he is worth more pay. Therefore he gets the Negro worker to hate the white worker. Then the boss sends his pimps to the white worker and tells him, before I would let that Negro worker have that job I would take it and work for what he does. There- fore they get the two races fight- ing against each other. The only way we can stop the slave drivers is by organizing to- gether, white and colored. So, good workers, white and Ne- gro workers, wake up and read the Daily Worker, which will tell you the truth and not Mes. It will tell you how the Negro and white work- ers are joining hands against the boss class of this grafter country, of the great man, Mr. Roosevelt, and his NRA, COC, P.W.A, A.A.A., and all the rest of his blinds to fool the workers, white and Negro. DANVILLE MILL WORKER, Boot & Shoe Officials Help Boss By a Shoe Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I am a Jlaster working in the I. Miller factory. The chairman of the fifth floor lasting department brought 100 pairs of shoes to the lasters. He told them that the boss claims that the shoes are damaged, and each worker will have to pay $1. The lasters exam- ined the shoes and found the shoes perfect and refused to pay the dol- lar, The chairman and the commit- tee decided to hold a shop meeting with the officials of the Boot and Shoe Union at the union office. At this meeting the workers stated their grievances but the B. and 8S. officials refused to do anything for the workers and told them that they must pay the dollar. They also said something about a raffle, but this is just another trick of the boss, put. over by the B. and S. officials on the workers. in Cheating There are 70 workers in that de- partment, which means that I. Mil- ler cheated the workers out of $70. Workers of I. Miller, how long are we going to stand for these con- ditions and the betrayals of the B. and 8. officials? The answer rests with us. One job is to take things into our hands. We can do this by organizing into rank and file groups and working with the opposition in the Boot and Shoe, which is a rank and file organization of workers. This is the way one can stop the sellouts of the Boot and Shoe offi- cials and thus get better conditions in the shop. - * ra | NOTE: For more information on the Boot and Shoe Rank and File group, write to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. We will get you in touch with the proper committee. A “SOCIALIST” SCAB By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Reading in the Daily Worker, August 9, that in Cambridge, Mass., an attack was made on strikers at the Massachu- setts Parlor Frame Co., led by Lieu- tenant Douglass, which brutally wounded pickets of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, I discov- ered that the leader of the scabs in that plant is a man by the name of Max Kornetsky, a member of the Workmen's Circle and the Socialist Party. I hereby find it necessary to de- clare that this stool pigeon, who dresses himself in radical colors, is a scab agent at heart, and the revo- lutionary workers everywhere should know how to act with such a per- son, The same person had already tried here in New York last March to carry on his blackleg activities, to break the Furniture Workers In- |hurts me to hear how low my dustrial Union here, but he could not get the cooperation of the boss- es, who were afraid to start a fight with the union. He was compelled to return to Boston, and there he carries on his treacherous work against organized labor in their struggle for better conditions. I hereby feel it necessary to de- clare that when reading the said news about that person, it was no shock to me personally, because I am his brother and know his past very well, but at the same time it brother has sunk. I express my deepest hate and contempt towards him and his activities, and hope that the revolutionary workers in Boston will know how to act with a scab and agent of the bosses. BENNY KORNETSKY (Signature authorized) Atlanta Bosses Try To Block Selling of the Daily Worker By a Worker Correspondent ATLANTA, Ga.— Workers in the Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills are organizing in spite of all ter- ror, On June 27 four workers were fired from the job, because they jomed an A. F, of L. union. But this did not break their fighting spirit. In this mill they work about 3,000 Negro and white workers right in the town. We must give them our best leader- ship. These workers are ready to struggle for better living con- ditions. The workers are being watched, and they have stopped two boys who were giving out the Daily Worker. The police asked these boys what they meant by giving out the paper. “We don't allow no kind of paper like this to be put out.” Some of these workers have been forced to vacate their homes, but have not yet left. Their lights have been cut off. Relief they need very badly. The bosses dread the Commu- nist Party, but we are going to organize in every place. We don't care how many cops they put on duty. We must give factories and the main industries our best leadership. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means Sell “Daily” on Busy Corners Danville Mill Worker Makes About $2 Weekly For His Wife and Child By a Textile Worker DANVILLE, Va.— My husband and I are both mill workers, but we can’t get work here or any- where else. We have one child and can't do a good part by her. She is 4! years old and can’t get the things she likes, and doesn’t eat anything hardly at all, and the Welfare won't give her milk. They say she is fat enough without drinking milk. They give my husband 15 hours of work for one week for us three to live on, and we are all naked for want of clothes, and we can’t buy any with what he makes. For it takes all of that for rent, water, and food, and then we don’t have but two meals a day, and some- times we don’t have that much. He docsn’t make but $2 and $2.24 a week. Why doesn’t everybody wake up and help us? We can’t win by ourselves. We have just got to help. Join the National Textile Workers Union and help and fight for our rights. By organiz- ing we can gain living wages. NO REST ON P.W.A. WORK (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—I work on the P.W.A. project at Rockaway Beach. It costs 50c fare every day to get here. We are forced to work hard all day, and if anyone wants to rest for two minutes, the fore- a tremendous step toward the dictatorship of the proletariat! man or supervisor says, “Better work, or you'll get laid off." Dismissals In Glass Factory) By a Glass Worker Correspondent FAIRMONT, W. Va.—in July 900 workers were employed in the Owens Illinois Glass Plant in this city. Since the beginning of Au- gust, 160 have been laid off, with the lay-offs continuing every day. And this is supposed to be the busiest season for the glass indus- try. In the past, lay-offs took place in November and December but in the year of the Roosevelt “recoy- ery” they take place in August. About 500 of the 740 still em- ployed are forced to report for work every day. Over 200 of these get but five hours of work in two weeks. The other 300 get about 10 hours a week, Only 200 of the 740 on the Pay roll work 36 hours per week. Before the N.R.A. we worked eight hours a day at 40 cents per hour, earring $3.20 a day. Under the N.R.A. we work six hours a day at 45 cents per hour earning $2.70 a day. Shortening of the working day and the increasing lay-offs resulted in a terrific speed-up. Before the N.R.A. 10 men made 10 layers in eight hours and under the N.R.A. four men are making eight layers in six hours. We have no lunch period. Because of the speed with which the workers must catch the bottles their fingers are badly bruised and swollen, Some work- ers already have misshaped fingers. Many of the 300 girls employed in the plant are working on the same jobs as the men but for less wages. We have a company union io which we must pay 75 cents dues every month. This union holds constant social entertainments to divert the minds of the workers from their conditions and struggle. Many workers are talking about the formation of our union that will fight for us. Intensify Fight For Relief In Niagara Falls By a Worker Correspondent NIAGARA FALLS, N, Y.—In spite of the fact that wages are lower here than almost anywhere else, and living is higher than in Buffalo and surrounding towns, the land- lords are clamoring for an increase in rent. The city council is propos- ing to raise the tax rate from $10 per thousand to $11.85 and in ad- dition is continuing the special $5 per thousand “welfare” tax, At the same time they are making the teachers kick back 10 per cent of their pay and they are going to re- duce the number of teachers and enlarge their classes, if they can get away with it. They are cutting all single men of F. E.R, A. work down to one day a week ($4), to force them to more diligently seek work in the factories ~—this at a time when every plant in town is laying off men! The Mayor has just turned down plans for a re-housing project — after a “careful” study of two days of a plan submitted by the govern- ment, saying it is not adapted to the needs of Niagara Falls—but fail- ing to say what is necessary, or making any proposals for replacing the lousy cockroach shacks that the Negro workers are forced to live in here, as do many foreign born also. A huge apparatus of political job- seekers and seat warmers form the administration of the relief here. A mob of “investigators” drive around spying on the workers and demand- ing to know every personal detail of their lives. Recently the men on the relief jobs and the unemployed and many workers from the various plants be- gan to organize. Over 600 joined the Niagara Falls Employed and Unemployed Protective League and have drawn up a militant program of action and demands. The American workers here used to say that if it were not for the foreign born workers they could have better conditions. But they never tried to organize them. Now they see that all have to fight to- gether, and they see that if given a chance the foreign born worker is eager to organize and fight side by side. It is the same with the Negro workers, We are learning fast. The Protective League is rank and file controlled, and the members have voted to unite with the Na- tional Unemployment Councils. Our activities so far have been to re- cruit and consolidate our organiza- tion, take up individual grievances of the members, and prepare a city- wide campaign for general increase in living conditions. Crowd Quells Nazis Who Attack Meeting By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Recently the Local of Unattached (homieless men)—af- filiated to the National Unemploy- ment Council—held a meeting at 72nd St. and Madison Ave. I was the speaker, and when I mentioned the Communist Party of Germany some Nazis in the crowd who pre- tended to be drunk started a dis- turbance. I, however, had the sup- port of the majority of the audience against these disrupters. I saw a Daily Worker agent on the corner, called him over, and turned the meeting into a Daily Worker meeting. By the time I got through IT had sold 70 Daily Work- ers from the Platform. I would appeal for 25 cents for 8 free “Dailies” for the unemployed and when these were passed out I asked for another quarter for 8 more and in this way sold 70 copies. jalan aaa EERE PARTY LIFE Comrade L. J. raises the question in the “Party Life” column of the Daily Worker in regard to the ne- cessity of raising funds for the Na- tional Training School. When our unit received the ap- peal from Comrade Browder in the name of the C. C. for donations to aid the National Training School, our unit was rather low in funds. By a strange coincidence the lu:w Masses also made an appeal at the same time for a larger distribution of the magazine. The offer was that the units will be able to obtain the New Masses at 5 cents per copy if ordered in ad- vance and money inclosed, and as it sells for 10 cents a clear profit of 5 cents will be made. In the discussion that followed cy these two appeals a thought struck me that if we were to order 40 copies and sell them we will have $2 to donate to the National Train- ing School. With that end in view motion was made and carried that this should be done, with the result that our unit, so to speak, killed two birds with one stone. I do not know exactly how many units we have in the Party, or how many responded to Comrade Brow- der’s appeal, but they must run into hundreds, and if all the units sent in $2 each, our National Training School would have a very good start. As I stated before our #nit did not have any funds, so we bor- rowed $4 from a comrade and im- mediately sent the money, this loan to be repaid to the comrade after the sale of the New Masses. Comrade L. J. states that our comrades lack interest in that re- | Detroit Unit Raises Money. For Party Training School Combines Campaign to Raise Sale of New Masses With Building of School gard, and do not take the matter seriously, but I find it otherwise, Our comrades dre sincere and are willing to help, but they need guide ance, and if explained to them core rectly the importance of any mate ter, action will follow. All it needs is initiative on the part of those comrades who haye certain ideas to explain, and if found to be good the response is gratifying. Our Party press and literature gives us an outlet whereby funds can be obtained. Workers aré clam- oring for our literature, but un- fortunately we do not bring it to their notice. Our comrades have not become conscious of the fact that our press and the literature put out by the Party plays a great role in awakening the workers. It has been my experience that no matter how long one discusses with the workers verbally, the printed word has a greater effect. BEN GREEN. Unt 1, See, 5, Dist. Join the Communist Party 3% EK. 13h STREET, N. Y. ¢. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Street City Use Violence to Block Leaflets Calling for Unity © By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The strikers of the International were all seated in the Brownsville Labor Lyceum singing “Solidarity Forever,” when two industrial knitgoods strikers quietly walked through the aisles distributing leaflets. The first striker in each aisle passed the leaflets down to his fellow workers, who took them eagerly and quit their singing and read the message of unity. One of their officials sud- denly observed our “atrocious crime.” Grabbing me by the arm she shouted: “Get out of here.” But there were still a few leaflets in my hand, so I threw them into the air where most of the strikers were seated. A man came along, grabbed me and attempted to eject me forcibly. I asked him to keep his hands off. The strikers were no longer quiet. I called to them: “Stick together and you will win.” By now the. two officials were so furious that they were on the verge of hurling me down the long flight of marble steps. The strikers be- gan to shout: “Let her go.” They tore the bloodthirsty hounds away from me. I asked my young male companion to go. Meanwhile, I walked slowly down the stairs as the officials were held back by the strikers and shouted: “We are all workers, we must not permit our ranks to be broken. Do nét permit your officials to betray you.” Later in the day two girls dis- tributed leaflets outside of the hall, but one of them had spoken to a “misleader” through ignorance. Suddenly she was confronted with a “guerilla” who threatened to do to her what they had attempted to do to me. Knitgoods workers: a chairman of an International shop told us how when a worker takes the floor to ask for a 35-hour week he is not permitted the floor at the fol- lowing meeting. He said the work- ers want 35 hours, the officials do not. How can we win 35 hours in such a case? Think only that with- out workers to back them there would be no officials. It is you who keep up these traitors.. Do not be cowed by them and their guerillas. Form solid ranks with the workers of the Industrial Union under one leadership (ghosen by the workers) and for one set of demands. Unity of the workers brings victory. MARY COWAN, Knitgoods Workers Indus. Union. (Signature authorized.) Knit Goods Strike Ranks Split by ILGWU Officials Youth Committee Not Allowed To Give Out Sandwiches By a Pioneer Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—As you all know there was a general strike of the knitgoods workers and as I am of the Youth Committee of the Re- lief and also a senior pioneer I would like to relate something of much importance that happened in Brownsville. Myself and another comrade went to bring some sand- wiches to the headquarters that is located at the Labor Lyceum (the Socialist headquarters). By the way the strikers in order to get some food have to spend money or starve. We know this and we decided to bring them some food. ‘When we arrived there, we went up in the big hall and passed. the bar. The lady from the bar grew suspicious and followed us in. We also met some other comrades in there. Then we started to give out the sandwiches they, of course, all started to take. About 15 of them were given out when a man came over to us and took all the sand- wiches away from the girls. One girl had the food in her mouth and he just pulled it right out. ‘You could have seen how hun- gry the girls were. Most of them had no money to buy their lunch and went without it. Then an- other man went over to us and told us to kindly walk out of there. Then when we were downstairs two men came down after us and told us to go back upstairs but first the other man said: “IT will go upstairs and find out if they still want food,” and when he came down, he said to the girls decided they didn’t want any food at all. They were afraid to take it. The man who took the food away, is named Abe Liebsick. This is the experience most of the young Pioneers are having now. One of the men who came down after us, also said that last year when he was on strike, the indus- trial union gave out food to the workers and he also said that the boss from one of their shops said you could join up with any union you want. In fact they were fed up with the International. But the girls were so di that they didn’t want to join any other union, NOTE We publish letters from tevtile, needle, shoe and leather workers “How to collect). First edition of Practically sold out! Contains 30 photos of Red Builders in action, and is packed with suggestions on how best to increase the sale of the Daily Worker. Indispensable to all D. W. sellers. To Districts, Sections, 1 cent (Parcel Post To individuals, 2 cents. new Red Builders and route carriers). Best Seller--- Sell the Daily Worker” this 32-page booklet (Free to all Order from DAILY WORKER CIRCULATION DEPT. 50 East 13th Street, New York City