The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1934, Page 4

4 Page Four WORKE Daily RS onducted by tk Worker Medical e Board Advisory Painless Childbirth , Elizabeth, N Ss and 8 a medical profes: childbirth is a na must not inter: he of nature, is a Labor is not iffer from o the fact s labor was 1 the dignity © attend a wo- that all that} an attendant up. Doctors who work were held in| herefore, labor was} n the hands of un- es. edical profession has at deal of atten- of medicine (ob- becoming a specialty. ts being made to mage done to wo- but a great num- experiments are going on y to make labor painless. It is criminal to permit a woman to go through long hours of pain,! worry and exhaustion (the average labor in a first pregnancy lasts about 18 hours) withowt providing | relief. The damage done to women by childbirth and the horrible ex- | Periences of labor have Bgl jeff women nervous wrecks. The ideal method to ease the pains of | childbirth must have the following qualities: 1. It must not have any harmful effects upon the mother or child. 2, It must not delay the birth. 3. The mother must be relieved | of pain (analgesia) and, if possible, | not remember anything about the | labor (amnesia). | 4. It must be simple and fool- | Proof so that a doctor who has not’ IN THE Too Far miess func- | inst: By HELEN LUKE hose drugs ire considerable experie: cial training and expert judgme to administer. The general prac-| titioner, who still does the bulk of| obstetrics in this country, is there- fore reluctant to use m ri which he is not fami of the limited opportunities vanced obstetrical training. Patients | who do not r be watched v quires an i in the r i The city iS are constantly ing to cut down their bud- gets during the crisis, will therefore refuse to use analgesia because it means that their nursing staffs will have to be enlarged. If a patient is delivered in a hos- Pital by a private physician and he administers the analgesia, she must either be watched carefully by the doctor himself or by a special nurse engaged to do the watching. Many} doctors have admitted that it does| pay them to sit around for rs at a patient’s bedside and, | efore, are not anxious to give icine that compels them to keep constant watch over the pa- tient. On the other hand, during | these hard times patients cannot | afford to pay additional money for | nursing care during labor. Because otherwise, obstetrical analgesia or the relief of pain during labor has not been popularized. | The Gwathmey method of colonic | analgesia is excellent in relieving | the pains of childbirth. It consists | of giving the patient a series of in-| jections under the skin of morphine | and epsom salt, followed by placing | a mixture of olive oil, alcohol, ether survey of this section shows starv- | }and quinine in the rectum. | ministered If ad- Properly the labor will progress normally and after the ef- fects of the medicine have worn off the patient will tell you that she the labor and did not experience any pain, HOME Afield? DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1934 The picture at the left, in three scenes, shows how farmers in collective farms of the U. 8. S. R. mobilized their forces and brought the crops up to last year’s record figures in spite of the drought that swept the world. At the right a steam shovel digs a major irrigation ditch to bring great quantities of water from mountain lake to thirsty plains. At upper left, farmer boys conserve the last drop of water in their fields. Week Relief in Haines City (By a Farmer Correspondent) HAINES CITY, Fla—A recent |ing conditions. In this city there | are approximately 250 on direct re- | lief. These families average four |to the family, and their relief in- |come is 90 cents per week. They |does not remember anything about | have no other income. Out of this |90 cents per week they must pay | their house rent, buy their gro- ceries, pay their water bills, pay | their doctor bills( few who get medi- | cal relief from the doctor must pay for the prescription written out by him). The few who are working on FE. R.A, relief receive the total of $2.40 per week, The relief investigators ask ques- A Detroit comrade, pleased with the other letter tomorrow and an-| #098 concerning your family his- the recent series of articles by Dr. Luttinger on lead poisoning, writes to suggest that we confine ourselves more strictly to subjects implied by | our column heading. She says: | “Your column is entitled ‘In the Home’ and I rarely see anything pertaining to the home in it, rather | does your mind seem to lean toward | sociological problems. I hoped when your column was initiated that you were going to devote it strictly to things pertaining to the home. “I read McCann’s books and was, thrilled by the information I re-| céived from their perusal. They are | packed with a wealth of information | that the average person never comes | in contact with. It seems to mej that you could find many things in| his books to discuss . . . I should} like to have you elaborate upon} the lead phase of our food and| Wearing apparel. Lead in baking powder! Why? Lead in beer! Lead | in silk hose! | “T know a girl who was afflicted Wich an awful rash on her body} after having worn a cheap ‘silk’ | dress. The M. D. told her the rash | was the result of having contacted | her body with that . - . dress. Aren’t these things subjects for your column? I think so. It seems sociological problems are taken care of elsewhere in the paper. “I think it is a crime for those living on welfare and meagre allow- | ances to spend ten cents for a loaf of that sickly looking white bread. There is no nourishment in it other than the starch that it contains... and I imagine that even the starch ig rendered useless on account of the white flour having been bleached to make it even more sickly look- ing, ugh. “I think your column should be devoted to such topics as: nourish- ing food, the deleterious effects of | certain preservatives and colorings in food, how we are cheated on weight, how to remove spots from clothes, how to make the work | easier in the home, in fact all the things they tell us in the capitalist press. ; “I am only one and perhaps your column is going along all right now. Perhaps it is just what is wanted, 80 please consider this as a friendly suggestion for the improvement of the paper.” “Faithfully yours, “Mrs. Katherine D.” “Another letter on somewhat simi- Jar lines arrived a while ago, though most of the comrades who write Seem better pleased when we give Jess space to strictly household sub- Jécts. We'll print the main part of swer both. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1947 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34,°36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 1% yards 39 | inch fabric. Illustrated step-by- | step sewing instructions included | with each pattern, Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) 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. a ‘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 SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON EMERGENCY FUND $15,000 “International Labor Defense “Room 430, 80 East 1ith St. ~New York City =|-1 contribute $. and Defense. the Scettsboro-Herndon Appeals tory for years and years back, and it takes from one week to a month after application for relief before you receive any benefit. There is very little flour or butter given away and the relief checks do not amount }to enough to purchase groceries | with, The FER.A. workers walk two miles to worl Recently there was @ man employed by the City Com- mission of Haines City, Fla., who came out on a relief job and beat up one of the colored workmen, So far we have been unable to find out why this was done, but an investigation is going on to deter- mine the cause of this brutality by the City Commissioner. The attitude of the relief officials is that they, personally, are giving this relief. The workers here do not ge their checks in all cases on time. In many cases there are checks due workers for two or three weeks. These workers are helpless to protest in the face of the terror recently started by Major Paul Crank, Chaplain of the American Legion Post of Orlando, Fla., and other forms of terror by the Ku Klux Klan and the City Commis- sioner throughout Orange and Polk Counties, Fla. Summer is the hardest part of | the year for the workers, as there is no work in the summertime, and they depend solely on the citrus) work, which starts in October and lasts five or six months during the winter. In the winter this work runs from 12 to 18 hours per day at the rate of 20 cents per hour. Sometimes this amount is as low as 15 cents per hour. These are facts taken from state- ments of individual workers living in Haines City, Fla. New Deal Works Hard To Turn Homeless Man Into Permanent Tramp By a Worker Correspondent BIDDEFORD, Me.—The homeless man is still without a home. The tramp is still a tramp in the Roose- velt Transient Camps. And to keep you in your strata Roosevelt has a lot of flunkies of |the ex-army captains’ and leuten- ants’ rank with a few top sergeants who are working in the Roosevelt dope machine. * In Portland, Me, I go to the Transient Camp. Question after question is asked. All are foolish. Around the Shelter, as these dumps are called, are a lot of flunkies that look like the hanger- ons of the Missions and Salvation Army rat holes. ‘The reading room hasn’t even got the bosses’ paper in it, so there is plenty of room for the Daily Worker, but you have to watch or the Hitler captains will get it and burn it. The doctor gets $200 a month for looking the boys over. He don’t waste much time on them. In the morning for breakfast— mush and only a thimblefull. Even Oliver Twist had enough guts 2 hundred years ago to kick for more. I did the same. But I was cussed by the whole kitchen crew. And so he doesn’t, and for a reason, as these men who have lived on handouts and in box cars know that the Transient Camp keeps them a tramp, the same as ever. It is the duty of every class con- scious comrade on the road to zo into these camps and shelters and talk to these men and be sure you have the Daily Worker with you. The New Deal has not helped the homeless man one bit, © 90 Cents Per | of all these reasons, economic and | By @ Soviet Worker Correspondent U. 8. 8. R., Krasnodar Gorod— This is my third year in Russia, as T came over with the “O. T. Golden October, 1931, and I am so well sat- isfied with the Soviet regime and working conditions that I plan to remain permanently. I only regret that I know so little of the work and program of the Communist Party in America, since I have seen what it is doing for oppressed min- ority groups and for the laboring class as a whole here in Russia. It is simply unbelievable to me, an American Negro, that I could be given such opportunities to make good as I am receiving here. T have lately joined the group of Party sympathizers here, which, as group” of agricultural specialists in | | At lower left a wooden irrigation ditch has been built on stilts to | get water across to higher fields on the other side, Opportunity for All, Writes Negro FarmW orker fromUSSR i} > HEALTH Soviet Way, and Way of U. S. Bosses, in Fight on Drought This is a scene of cattle crowded in the Kansas City stockyards by the Federal government, and doomed te destruction because the government refuses to do anything about the drought situation ex- cept to destroy products. The workers do not benefit by the meat produced in this way, as the government prefers to bury the cattle rather than let the meat speculators lose on a price drop. The surplus hides will not even mean that shoes will be cheaper because the government is forming a cor- poration to keep the surpius hides off the market so that the price of leather will be kept as high as you know, is the first stage toward entering the Party. I should be glad to be useful in some way to the Communist Party of America. I really would like to tell my Ne- gro brothers that there is ohe place in the world where a black face isnt a disgrace and an economic handicap. I worked two years in Central Asia, and while there I gave several interviews to newspapers, telling of the oppressed conditions of Negro workers in the United States, Communism, or rather the policy of the Communist Party, has done & wonderful lot for me, and if it is possible, I should like to do a bit for the Party. JOHN SUTTON. A.A.A. Price-Fixing Ruins Small Farms (By a Farmer Correspondent) CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. — “Whenever we take anything to market it is like shovelling up part of our farm and sending it along.” These words of a Bucko County farmer are repeated by farmers in Clearfield County, Pa. Farming the farms that they helped their fathers to clear of timber, stumps, and stones, they can’t make the cost of production. New Deal control boards lower the farm prices and raise the market prices. The maximum farm price for milk is 3% cents, the maximum market price is 14 cents. “What’s to become of us?” a farmer asks, He had inherited a clear title to his farm, stock and equipment. He was milking his cows three times a day. There was plenty of demand for his produce, but at state controlled prices. Patience, instilled by political promises, grips the farmer and he accepts the “over - production” theory. His sons inherit this pa- tience andn join the C.C.C. camps or labor farms run by the Federal Editor, the Daily Worker: Allow me to make one suggestion especially for the election campaign, in the winning of the farmers to the Communist Party and the revo- lutionary way out of the struggle. In every medium size and large city there are one or more markets (so-called municipal markets) where farmers from many miles around go to sell their farm products. In- asmuch as so many farmers are collected together, it would be a valuable field in which to spread the ideology of the Communist Party, its election platform, the rev- olutionary way out, etc., very quickly and effectively. And as a supple- ment to the leaflets a copy of the Daily Worker or the official organ. of the United Farmers’ League could be given out, E. R. LET’S GO TO THE DAILY WORKER PICNIC Atlantic City, N. J. Dear Comrades: Enclosed find $1.00. Please send :me the Daily. I agree with you in all the Party policy of struggie and fight. But one essential thing you omitted—recreation for the worker and his family. The bosses’ agents know about it very well and create churches, Sunday schools, movies, saloons, dancing halls, poo) rooms, sports, and what not, The worker supports all these organiza- tions and pays heavy for it, too. Although they tax themselves freely to support all these organizations, I doubt if the working man knows what it’s all about. I realize that these activities offer them a place where they can relax and it also occupies their spare time. In writ- ing this to you, I’d propose you open “In the Home” and in the “sports” columns and also with Dr Luttinger a discussion of how, Letters from Our Readers BRING THE ‘DAILY’ TO THE FARMERS Utica, Mich, > Government to help impoverished farmers. His daughters accept work in small factories in the nearby towns; they must board at home or with relatives. The market price is no concern to the farmer, if he can get a few days on the road to supplement his lack of farm income. The farmer is to build roads in zero weather that the farm family might be fed and clothed. The pay is $1 per day. Often he is forced to mortgage his farm, stock, and equipment to get winter feed for stock. This summer’s drought en- sures the need of winter relief. The Federal Relief can be had only on good security. Newly built roads, as relief proj- ects, have raised taxes. One farmer gave 3,000 loads of stone for one project, now he faces 20 years of taxation to pay the bankers who claim they built the road. Once 90 per cent of the road tax was paid by work, now the state collects all tax in cash. An additional 10 per cent for delinquency. So there is @ tax for not being able to pay the tax. Minneapolis, Minn, Editor, the Daily Worker: Your paper’s exposure of the Minneapolis truck strike should be highly commended. You sure strike the nail on the head. The enlarged headlines of the Daily Worker is a wonderful im- provement. The people grab it quicker. I think one sheet of the paper should be used for education, so that new readers can acquaint themselves to the understanding of Communism. I just came back from the country and almost any farmer I talk with has no understanding of what Communism is. I think a great effort should be made in se- curing names of farmers in various states and send them the “Farmer's Weekly.” This I think is very im- portant. EDWARD PRENTISS, spare time and our urge for social life, in order that we may find an outlet in our own ranks for our energy and not support the capi- talist organizations. To me this seems very important. Comzadely, Ves: WORKER TELLS HOW TO BUILD THE “DAILY” New York, N. Y. Dear Comrades: Am living in a relief bureau up- town and since the appeal for a greater circulation of this great paper, the Daily Worker, have tried to do my little bit towards getting new readers and red builders, by putting 10 to 15 back copies of this paper where the men could sec them and read them each day for a period of one month. I have got four subscribers and have activized before. Ginning Tax Leaves Naught For Farmer (By a Worker Correspondent) SELMA, Ala—On the conditions of the workers and farmers here: We see the wages of the Selma, Ala., bosses are nothing at all, They work the Negroes and whites for something to eat and no money. The contractors use the welfare so as to pay low wages. They take workers out to the highway at $1 a day for 10 hours. Many of the workers refused to go to work for this kind of wages on the contracts here, In the bag mill the bosses work some of the workers and lay off some, and tell the welfare not to give them any relief at all. The wel- fare tells the workers that the bag mill boss tells them not to give any of his workers food, so that he can get them to work for low wages. The boss of the bag mill says that before he gave a Negro woman $12 a week. He will cut this down. Most of the workers are Negro women in this mill. Among the farmers the Bank- head Bill is thé talk of the day. ‘The farmers have to pay for ginning cotton a tax of 6c, and this means that they do not get anything for their work. The farmers are get- ting discontented here at this time, and we must wotk fast among them. Theale of Cattle Starving To Death In Big Stockyards (By a Worker Correspondent) KANSAS CITY, Mo—I am a World War Veteran and have been to Washington on two bonus marches. Now I am getting a lot of Negro and white vets to read this Daily Worker. As for things around greater K.C. under the N.R.A. times are getting bad from day to day. I am getting part time work here around ware- houses, in a part of town known as the West Bottoms. This is extra work unloading coal, steel, and other heavy things, You can only make $2 or $3 a week, and the price of things has gone up so high that if you spend this $3 in food for one person, that is, the best grade things, you can live for about three days. In the big stockyards in the last two weeks I have seen thousands of cattle here starving to death on foot. Now the government is buy- ing this stock. The other day pass- ing by these stockyards I counted 25 cattle that had died of starvation in the cattle pens next to the street. They had been left in cattle pens with other cattle until the smell on the street was so bad a person going by would have to hold his hand over his nose. These cattle were bought by the government at a low price. Alabama Negro Workers Forced To Drink Water From Greasy Buckets By a Worker Correspondent LAFAYETTE, Ala.—Diey Road Builders are doing all they can to cut out the Negro from work and use machines instead of the poor Negro and poor white workers. The second foreman of the job, Walt Cold, threatened to kill one of the Negro workers, Arthur Hugh- ly, just because he could not cut as much dirt as a road machine with 85 horse power. They treat Negro workers mean. They have water brought to them in greasy pails and use poison cans for dippers. And have also laid off half of the workers, wont fur- nish them with any job at all, and we can't get anything from the re- lief unless the bosses say so. did a little work towards populariz- ing the papers along these lines, the circulation would be trebled, not doubled. It took very little effort on my part to do this. I have been in the habit of buying four to six of the current issues every day for the last two months and this has sure brought results. At the same time it gives the Red Builders on the corners a little encouragement as it is very hard and monotonous work standing for hours at a stretch some of the more class conscious men. to become Red Builders. There are four of them in this particular Relief Bureau. I am sure, if ali where and which way to utilize our! Party members and sympathizers t in some street corner. Our Daily Worker is the best organizer, agi- tator and educator, just as the Iskra and Preyda were in the old Czar- ist days of Russia, sae PARTY LIFE By M. ELLISON Among the various reports made at the February Plenum of Section 3, Cleveland, District Six, the one on literature sales showed that Sec- tion 3, with a membership of over 225, had sold a total of $73.39 worth of literature during the previous six months period. Also there was an average of about sixty-five Party Organizers sold, $47.72 in old literature debts, and none of the mass organizations were selling our literature. The causes of this poor showing were many, chief of which were, there was no contact. between the units and the section, (the units having to deal directly with the District Book Shop); no check up to find out if units had literature agents; no check up on accum- ulated debts, (if a unit owed for literature, and did not have the money to pay for it, they sent some other comrades downtown to get literature on credit. This loose- ness caused some units to accum- ulate high debts, and then not being in a position to pay them, the units stopped buying literature.) Another important cause for poor literature sales was that the unit took it for granted that it was the literature agent who was to sell the literature, and not the whole unit. This meant that lit- erature was only sold at unit meetings. Also that none of the mass organizations ever saw any of our literature, The first steps towards a change in this bad situation was made with the setting up of separate litera- ture departments in each section. This brought the units in closer contact with the Section, thereby enabling them to always keep up- to-date literature on hand; making it unnecessary to travel down town for new stock; better check up on bills, both old and new, and also to involve our comrades in the mass organizations to have literature with them, There being no finances, the Sec- tion Literature agent asked for loans from the units to get a Sec- tion literature department started. This resulted in $6 coming in. Next the District Literature Department was asked to advance enough lit- erature on credit (holding the Sec- tion responsible for this debt.) to get the Section started. This they agreed to do. At the same time a drive was started to collect on the old “uncollectable” debts that had accumulated in the Section. The results of the first month showed a sale of $30.80 worth of literature; a liquidation of $15.96 in old debts; an increase in the sale of Party Organizers from 65 to 80 copies, and most important of all, the establishment of literature agents in every unit. There are 18 units in the Section, On the basis of this increase a meeting was called of literature agents and discussions took place on how further to increase the sales. The second month’s (March) re- sults were as follows: $55.18 worth of literature sold; a further in- crease in the sale of Party Organi- zers to 103 copies; another $1.25 collected on old debts, and every unit buying some literature. One bad feature was that we had to increase our debt to the Dis- trict literature department from a balance of $18.43 in February to $55.24 in March. Although we had cash on hand to the amount of $10.83, this we kept for the pur- chase of new literature. For the first two months with the same membership and territory more literature was sold than in the previous six months, Party Or- ganizers sales increased by thirty- eight copies, and old debts was brought down from $47.72 to $3051. This showed that with a little co- operation from the units, taking the matter of literature seriously results could be obtained. At the District Convention (April NOTE We publish letters from farm- ers, agricultural workers, lumber and forestry workers, and can- nery workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us letters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to su by Monday of each week. Get Subs for the “Daily” During a Fighter to Our Ranks! Means a Quickening Tempo in Class Struggle. Centralized Guidance Boosts Literature Sales by Units Cleveland Report Shows Increases Resulting From Section Direction and Check-up ist) our section was divided into three parts; we retain five units with a total membership around 70 Old debts in the new section to be. collected amounted to $5.32. In the four months since then (to August Ist) $104.61 worth of literature has been sold, including an average of 40 Party Organizers & month, (excepting May when none were issued). During these four months $15.54 worth of litera- ture has been sold through eight different mass organizations, and $35.30 worth. The Section’s debt to the District of $55.24 as of April Ist has been wiped out completely. To raise finances for our de- partment we conducted a contest in conjunction with the Section picnic, giving a 16 yolume set of the “Little Lenin Library” which netted us $22.60 clear profit. At present after paying off the $6 loans, and clearing up*our Dis- trict debt, we have accumulated in six months a literature fund of approximately $50 in cash and lit- erature. We have issued to the units at the same time a Section manual giving concrete experiences in the selling of literature and Daily Workers. In order to make the units lit- erature and Daily Worker regular letters go to the agents of the unit at least once every two weeks, Articles from the Daily Worker are clipped and sent into the units, Everything in the way of sugges- tions and other comrades’ ex- periences are utilized and brought to the attention of our units. There is still a lot to be desired, Only two mass organizations have literature agents (and that is the fault of our fractions, not raising this question in their respective or- ganizations). Very little theoretical literature is sold, only ten Commu- nists a month, one Communist In ternational and two In} rs. Most of the Party members still resist the idea that they themselves must take literature with them from their unit meeting and bring it to the workers with whom they come in contact. All literature agents have not yet learned to keep their literature up-to-date by get- ting timely literature. They must get over the idea that literature is “new” if it is just off the press. On special occasions like May 1, we try and get literature dealing with this Workers Day of Struggle into the units about April Ist, so that they have a chance to acquaint the workers ahead of time with just what May First means. We are trying to make the units responsible to cover all mass meet- ings with literature; seeing to it that all their open air meetings have literature and that comrades belonging to A. F. of L. unions al- ways carry literature with them. Where the unit buros fail in the drive to sell more literature is as follows: (1) they do not have lit- erature on the unit agenda (except to check up on sales); literature agents are never called into buro: meetings to plan out sales. (2) Many unit organizers do not turn over letters intended for their literature agents. (3) The unit buros do not take the initiative to check up on their unit territory to find out what literature is best suited for the pide living in their neighbor- We are sure if the unit buros would get a correct political under- standing as to the role literature plays in organizing the workers, and take organizational measures to sell literature at open air meetings, mass meetings, house to house can- vassing and carrying literature into the A. F. of L. and T. U. U. L meetings, the result would be a tremendous increase in sales, and growth of our Party. And this Political understanding can be ob- tained by reading our theorical organs and watching for articles in the Daily Worker dealing with the subject. Join the Communist Party 35 EK. 13th STREST, N. Y. ¢. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street, City .. tions, in If you Sweaters $1; Aprons 40c; Caps 20c; cash with order; send sizes. postpaid, CHICAGO 2019 West Divsiion st. NEWARK 7 Chariton St. $.0.5. COMRADES! Unemployed! Men! Women! Boys! Girls! Friends of the Daily Worker: Ima dozen cities new Red Builders have shown that anyone can sell from 26 to 150 copies of the Daily Worker each day on street corners, at factories, trolley junc- 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! jive in or near the cities listed below go to the addresses given and say: “I want to help the Daily Worker, give me ty first bundle and assign me a good loca- lion.” (Each new Red Builder gets 25 copies tree each day for two weeks!) NEW YORK CITY 35 E. 12th St. BOSTON 919 Washington St. PHILADELPHIA 46 -N. 8th St. BUFFALO 185 Virginia st, CLEVELAND 1522 Prospect Ave, DETROIT 5061 1ith St, MILWAUKEE 1110 W. If you live in or near any other city write direct to the Circulation Department, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. We'll put you on the job at once! the Section itself has sold retail ,