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Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1934 WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily W orker Medic: al Advisory Board ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Shall I Throw My Glasses Away? been sent Whenever I have t ses, I find that 1 r ones. My eyes come worse, not Recently a friend te buy the book ‘Strengthening the Eyes’ by Bernarr MacFadden. I would like very much to dis- card my glasses. Do you think this book would help me? need have be- better. advised me Our Answer N. M., Brooklyn: We advise you o throw aw he book and keep your glasses. When a person over fifteen years of age has a definite) error of refraction, he should wear} proper glasses. Below this age, if} the defect is slight and not associ-| ated with astigmatism or squint, glasses need not be prescribed. There are conditions of the eyes in which exercises judiciously em- ployed, are beneficial. Only after a full examination has been made, can one tell in which class one’s eyes belong. Exercises of the mus- | the eyes should be per-| all persons, in order to} urrence of defe of vision. These exercises should be considered from the same point of view, as exercises of any other| groups of muscles of the body, Un- fortunately, from a_ preventative | point of view, not much work in| this direction has been done. Eye defects are caused, or get progressively worse, by abuse or overuse of the eye under unhygi- enic surroundings or conditions, such as bad light, reading in hori- zontal positions or long hours with- out rest, and when the general health is run down, or during ill-| ness, Often in prescribing es, a much weaker glass must be given at first, and its strength increased | later. On the other hand, many ophthalmologists (eye doctors) give too weak glasses, even when they IN THE HOME By Many Women Candidates on Communist Ticket We are giving herewith the prom- ised New York State list of women running for office on the Commu- nist ticket. (National lists will fol- low later.) Pictures and_ stories | about the individual women will) also appear from day to day as fast as we can prepare and find space for them N. Y. State candidates: For] Lieutenant-Governor, Williana J. Burroughs; Associate Judge oi Court of Appeals, Gertrude Welsh; Comptroller, Rose Wortis. | For Justices of the Supreme Court: Grace Hutchins and Susie Busse. For Congress: Tillie Littinsky, Gussie Reed, Pauline Rogers and Louise Morrison (Yonkers). For State Senators: Margaret | Cowl, Ada Vladimir, Sadie Van Veen, and Fay Thompson (Glovers-y ville). For Commissioner of Public Wel- | fare: Leona C. Sweet (Johnstown).| For Assemblyman: Marie C, Stuart, Clarina Michaelson, Sarah Rice, Helen Lynch, Clara Bodian, Celia Balogh, Dorsetta Loew, Mar- that Stone, Bessie Polonsky, Edith Acker (Albany), and Margaret Walker (Schenectady. | Gomrade Esther K. wishes to add| some paragraphs to the recent comments on birth control: She says: “Children are a happy asset to} life: one does not know it so well until one has them and enjoys their growth into size and knowledge of things and so on “However, the working class mother always has the worry of feeding, clothing and sheltering the new baby. Those of us who have a} number of children suffer greatly because we haven’t enough rooms for them; more rooms means more rent, and we can’t afford even the cheap rentals! As the child grows it needs new clothes and toys. A young child doesn’t want to realize why another should have more toys and she shouldn’t have one, Cer- tainly children should have plenty of toys—but how to buy toys when our daily problem. is bread? “Working class women, to whom another child means more heart- ache and division of the food, it is up to us to realize that birth con- trol is an, excellent practice . . that (for the masses) it is looked upon with ... alarm by the capi- talist class because it limits the number of wage slaves and soldiers for new wars; that it is not ‘sinful’ to advocate birth control. Let us who are members of the Women’s Councils make this one of our issues, with the erecting and taking over of nurseries for the children we now have, so that we can have more time for reading, study, and the enjoyment of life. “I know there are important is- |a Tremendous HELEN sues in which we are at present involved; however, in a working hould give the full correction ONE OF 12,000,000 VICTIMS OF A.A.A. PROGRAM OF WASTE Must Run 9 hentia ease: Looms for 9.75 Week he error. such instances, th e, there will be a progress eios defect and need for stronger By a Boott Mill Correspondent) — SAAR ise tt LOWELL, Mass.—The Boott mill G. J. Cleveland: Whether your | Y=. _W® used % un’ five looms child of four and one-half years| fF $15.50 for 40 hours. Now they of age. who recently developed a|™ake us run nine looms, for which cross left eye requires an operation cannot be stated off-hand. All that the condition may need is proper glasses, and the sooner the correc tion can be made, the better. In addition, certain exercises by means of the stereoscope or other appa- ratus, may be employed If it becomes evident that treat- ment is not straightening the eye, an operation upon the muscle or muscles should be undertaken. The operation, performed by a compe- tent man, is simple, without risk, and usually successful. The de- formity is so obvious that children | suffer greatly who are obliged to} go through school life without hav- ing it corrected; and since this can be satisfactorily done, it should not be neglected. A Red Builder on Every Busy Street Corner in the Country Means Step Toward the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! An Appeal to the Textile Strikers The Daily Worker invites all textile workers to write on thetr strike activity. During the strike, first con- sideration in the publication of news and correspondence will be given to the textile strike, This invitation is extended not only to Communists, but to ALL textile workers, LUKE class organization whose interest is| the welfare of the working class| housewife, we can talk on the issue of birth control and let the mothers | of the working class know where} their interests lie and give them an| understanding of who our real we get $9.75 for 30 hours. Leno weavers have been running 14 looms for $9.75 for 30 hours. Draper looms run 24 to 30 hours for $9.75. They are paying half price. They mark on the envelope park job, $4.88,” and meantime those who can’t run 14 looms and run six to eight looms because of bad work get paid the same part time job, which is $4.88. Loomfixers. taking care of 48 Leno looms and 72 draper looms get $17.85 for 30 hours work and the company makes the workers lose their time by lining them up outside the room in the yard to} get their pay, which takes about 30 to 45 minutes. | The Lowell Textile Protective} |Union went on record to fight} against this paying system. All the Boott mill workers are urged| to attend the union meeting on this proposal. Fight together and do away with th feudal system. The union headquarters is at City Hall Avenue, Room 149, on the third floor. Pubcis ist Paper F Sold at Pienic | Close School in Bergen, N. D..,| For Milk Paid $1 PER HUNDRED [cotton Pickers Get IS UNION OF COTTON PICKERS By a Worker Correspondent CAMP HILL, Ala. — There is plenty of cotton on hand to pick.} We ask $1 per hundred. We are about to win by other comrades sticking together with us. The bosses have started a wave of terror, giving orders to the work- ers to get off their land. Mr. Henry |Meadows and Mr. B, W. Meadows DEMAND say we are the ones who are put- ting out these leaflets urging the other comrades not to pick for les: than $1 per hundred. Mr. Meadows says that we've got move this fali. He says he won't have the croppers in these places. —Share Croppers’ Union, Sec. No, 1. Watermelon for Pay By a Worker Correspondent GREENVILLE, Miss.—At Swiftwater, Miss., there is a boss named Swim who hires por Ne- gro farmers to pick cotton for watermelon. They pick five bales of cotton for watermelon and he doesn’t give them any food to live on, These Negroes are in a bad condition, If these pocr farmers don’t or- ganize and fight against the boss, they will starve to death, | Qe. a Quart | OF Farmers To Hold Anti-War Meeting To Farmers By a Worker © Gaseenonionl ROCKFORD, Ill—I am writing you in regard to a farmers’ picnic at Trask Bridge where it seemed | about 30,000 people attended. I |don’t know exactly how many, but wherever you looked you saw | people. As usual, the local demagogue knocked the Democrats, to mislead the farmers. I heard farmers in | groups all over saying that they are sick and tired of speeches. They are all the same. This shows that we have a chance to lead these farmers and workers. commercial picnic. At this picnic, I got hold of some papers. I saw fascist papers being given away and sold for 10 cents a} “The |copy. The paper’s name was | Vigilante.” The reaction to the speech was not very good. The | farmers couldn’t see anything in the Republican program. enemy is.’ At this picnic, I got hold of a Tears ‘a boy, 18 years old, that wanted to Can You eWake °Em (| sll Daily Workers on the West side downtown. Yourself? ———- Pattern 2029 is available in sizes | ‘10 Cent Relief 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 52, 44 and 46, Size 36 takes 4% yards 39 inch | fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew- ing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly mame, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE|Folk School, the leaders of which SIZE. are among the “Revolutionary Address orders to Daily Worker ound Committee” of the Socialist 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 llth St, New York City I contribute $...+s+ecceese. fOr and Defense. ADDRESS SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON EMERGENCY FUND $15,000 the Scottsboro-Herndon Appeals Orders Given Negro Jobless|_*' By a Worker Correspondent | JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Among | the Negro unemployed there have | been distributed many 10 cents grocery orders, and these are re-| |ceived not more often than once | |every month, if then. Both white {and Negro unemployed in od cases get only commodity slips for | |pork, flour, or canned beef, while | }numerous families receive no relief | | whatever. | There are many slowly starving workers but there are many militant | ones. There is now an “organiza- | | tion of about 3.000 members who | | are affiliated to the N. U. C. There | are branches in Jacksonville and| |also in the surrounding towns. This | |is a real fighting organization will- ing to go as far as Washington | with sete eels lbewedalbel Ts Official | In Tennessee Valley No-Strike Govt. Union | By a Worker Correspondent SHEFFIELD, Ala—The Tennes- see Valley authority is supposed to be the “radical” end of the “New Deal” and N. R. A. Among the Officials of the T. V. A. are several |members of the Socialist Party. Most of these S. P.’s have got their | Jobs by “pull” from Congressmen | and Senators. | A new union, the American Fed- eration of Government Employees, has just been formed. Its consti- tution says “Under no condition will we support strikes against the United States Government.” (Sec. 2, Art. 2). E. H. Shultz, Assistant in the Labor Relations Division of the T. V. A. and Socialist, was elected vice-president of this A. F. G. E., recently organized in the Y M. ©. A. of Knoxville, Tenn. Shultz is also a friend of the Highlander Of late the boss press in the Ten- |messee Valley, particularly the Knoxville Journal, has set out on |a vicious lying campaign of red- | baiting. Myles Horton. Director of the Highlanders Folk- School, refused to do anything about the lynching of a Negro 24 miles from his! “radical” school, and Dr. J. H. Danes, of Knoxville College, raised not one breath of protest against the lynching or against the refusal of Myles Horton, when he spoke at H. F. S. July 13th, even though |Danes is a Negro. | These actions of the Socialist | |misleaders are completely in line | with developing a “protection | against Communism in the ‘Tennes- | see Valley” to protect the boss’! | Powder keg for the next world war. | Get Subs for the “Daily” During | Means a Quickening Tempo in Class | Struggle. It was a! By a Worker Correspondent | BERGEN, N. D. The Bergen unit of the Communist Party an- | swered the call sent out by the) |“American League Against War} and Fascism” by organizing an anti- | war demonstration on Jan. 29. We | secured a Communist speaker, who |also was an ex-serviceman from the last World War. He explained very clearly the caues of war and |that the only way to prevent wars was by the workers and farmers. seizing power and setting up a workers’ and farmers’ government. The school children and teachers |closed the school to be present to participate in this demonstration. |There were 200 people present, which is a large crowd ‘considering that the temperature was below zero and the roads blocked with snow. Almost all had to walk to | the meeting place. Ant ‘War and Donations to the ‘$60,000 Daily Daily Worker drive must be speeded. | campaign over the top, and insure a three-edition paper, receipts must averacc | $625 per day. Districts must enter int Ant: Fascist posters were in evi-| cee everywhere. Although we are an unattached unit we feel that we have contri- | | buted something to teh revolution- ary struggles. In the short six months we have been organized we | have made a fair start in organizing By a Worker Correspondent TOUNVILLE, Pa—I __ received your papers and sold cveryone of them, I am selling the New Pio- neer. I go: ten of them and sold every one. There PARTY LIFE Communists Strive to Bring Newer Forces to the Front Older Members Should Profit by Energy of Younger, | | The question of what shall we do to attract the masses to the revo- | lutionary movement has been raised jin the National Unemployment | | Council, Some suggest that if we |cannot get them to our meetings we should form block councils and | have our meetings in our immediate | neighborhood. Some say yes, and | Some say no, and some say let them |come to the Unemployment Coun- jcil. The first suggestion seems "| more applicable Which is the best if we cannot get them to the Unemployment Council? | When the comrades have a dif- ferent opinion on Communism and in order to combat a situation like this? If a worker has only been |in the movement about eighteen | months, has bought and studied the | Little Lenin Library and Why Com- | munism? how can he give the right | directives on Communism and Len- | \inism without offending the so- {called old members who have been jin the moyement three or four |years? Through no fault of their own, they are unable to read. They | attend the various lectures of Party leaders. They will heartily applaud them, and still they are far from inism, Please enlighten me on points. H, P., UNIT 26, DISTRICT 21. St. Louis, Mo. ANSWER By I. Amter The antagonism between the older and younger members of ihe Party is sharply expressed in the above letter. This antagonism | should not exist. It is to be ex- pected that members who have been longer in the Party should | know, through education, experi- these the United Farmers League and are} he could arrest me, and I told him line of the Party is in various situ- now busy with relief struggles. Woman Sharecropper Here these farmers go to market. | Evicted for Refusing Starvation Wages (By a Sharecropper Correspondent) CAMP HILL, Ala.—I am a work- ing woman. I refused to pick cotton for 50 cents per hundred, and Mr. B. W. Meadows came down and ordered me to move. He gave me two hours to Bet out. | Box Score of 860, 000 Drive To put this © Socialist competition immediately, A daily box score of the District competitions will he published. Only nine districts are engaged in Socialist competitions for the Daily Worker $60,000 drive. This is a serious lagging. All Districts must season challenge and accept challenges from other Districts! WINNING | | 3.6 i % of Quota 25 Distictrs TRAILING “ : Py Lee 3 ga oad 4 ef 8g 2—New York | $854.16 | ae i 5—Pittsburgh | 412 | 34 j 6—Cleveland | 65.54 | 21 13—California | | $1090.17 vs. 3—Phila, | 250.00 71] « | | T—Detroit | 9146/26] “ | | | <4 z 4—Buffalo i 6.00 | 8B ! Ale 18—Milwaukee 30.55 | 3.9} " j T 5 19—Denver | 54.55 i ee Received Sept. 3 and 4, 1934 4 306.86 Previously Recevied 1662.47 | TOTAL TO DATE 1944.33 DISTRICT 1 (Boston) Halden Unit $20.00 Misc. Collect. 1.93 Nat'l Leather Total Sept. 3 25.78 Wrks Union 3.85 Total to date 269.28 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Sec. 19 Unit 2 $5.00 Orion 1.00 Sec. 10 Unit 9 5.00 Polsky 1.05 Sec. 2 ‘Unit 25 5.00 Propert 1.25 Sec 25.00 Dennis 1.00 | See 2 5.00 Rosen c-p 5.50 Sec 17 15.00 Weiner c-p 1.25 Bec 11 10.00 Cohen c-p 1.00 Sec 15 5.00 Brasolier c-p 1.00 3ec 3 5.00 Feldman cp 2.00 Sec 15 Unit 13 5.00 Freeman 1.00 L’Thompson 10.00 Miaskoff 1.00 Sec 11 10.00 Unit collection 1.00 Sec 4 1.75 IWO School and Sec H 15.70 Women’s C 2 2.40) See 1 1.00 Wm. Allegro 1.00 Sec 0 Unit col 9.00 Comrade Louis .35 Sec 3 Unit 2 3.24 H Hirschhorn 1.00 Sec 5 Unit 7 1.00 Bonfire Party 3ec 15 Unit 7 1.85 8. zolburer Sec 15 Unit 13 6.00 « 3ec 15 Unit 15 .70 Caiokythas 1.00 3ec 15 Unit 20 2.00 = Riddle Total Sept. 4 186.74 Col by Sec 8 Unit 7 Total to date 854.16 DISTRICT 8 (Phila.) ‘Total to date $250.00 | DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) | Total to date 6.05 DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) Pith Ward Un 117 Total Sept. 3 2.17| James St. Unit 1.00 ‘Total to date 41.21 DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) J.B. The Bowery Total Sept. 3 2.00! Tailor 2.00 Total to date 65.54| DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) Total to date $91.46 DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) J Baruskok 13 Total Sept. + ——— Total to date 177: 38. 15.00") Total to date ae ] 12—Seattle | a1—St, Louis | DISTRICT 9 (Minneapolis) Unit 1 Superior, ILD, Superior 1.50} ‘Wise 5.00 Joe Polin, Unit 2, Superior, Superior 2.00) Wisc 5.00 No Sec Unit 11 5.00 D Wirtanen, Unit 5, Duluth 2.50 Superior, Wisc 4.00 Total Sept. 4 25.00 Tom Mooney Br. Total to date 39.05 DISTRICT 10 (Omaha) A Hultgren 1.00 Total Sept. 4 1.00 Total to date 1.00 DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) Finnish Women’s Fed. Tigard 2.50 Total Sept. 4 TH Greenfield .50 Total to date DISTRICT 14 (New Jersey) Edwards 1.00 = Niskanen 1.00 Karl Leeman 2.00 Total to date DISTRICT 15 (Connecticut) Total to date DISTRICT 16 (Charlotte) Ben Smith 3.00 Total Sept. 4 Irving Boles 1.00 Total to date DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) 3.00 4.00 Total Sept. 4 4.00 9.00 $19.75 4.00 5.00 $39.55 DISTRICT 19 (Denver) 5. Unit 6 Cooper. Alliance .25 Unit 7 2.00 Relief Workers Unit 10 4.54 Protect. Union Unit 4 125 Local 1 1.00 Women's Educ. : Cinb 5.00 ‘Total Sept. 4 23.04 | Russ. Mut Aid 5.00 Total to date 54.55 DISTRICT 20 (Houston) Total to date 31,00 DISTRICT 21 (St. Lonis) Unit 18 p-b 5.00 Total Sept. 4 5.00 - Total to date 9.00 DISTRICT 24 (Louisiana) Total to date $1.00 DISTRICT 25 (Florida) | Total to date $5.00 TOTAL ALL DISTRICTS TO DATE $1944.33 Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! To help the Daily Worker launch its three editions, two New York Editions of 8 pages, the improved National Edition of 6 pages (8 Saturday), I enclose my contribution. NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT $ Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. |to go ahead, but I don’t think he | ations. | tried, | Some of them sell corn for 5 cents | |a_dozen and some for 10 cents or {15 cents. Here we get 2 cents a | quart for milk and in the city they | | pay 13 cents, and the profit, of course, all goes to the big guys. People here have 160 acres of ground and still they go on relief. and have no horses, Three years | we have to hoe all of our land. Here we pick berries for Parley, superintendent of a church, and he tries to cheat you. He cheated me for five cents, and in church he prays and sings that Jesus loves him. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS WHAT THE N.R.A. IS DOING FOR THE YOUTH Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor, Daily Worker: May I call your attention to ar- ticles printed in the N. Y. Times of July 1? They reveal to a start- ling degree the contradictions of the capitalist press that. prints them under the pretext of being liberal. “Nazis Renew Drive for Com- pulsory Labor.” Thus reads the headline of one of these articles. Further down, one reads that “The year of compulsory labor service is one of the major points in the Nazi program.” That this compulsory service has a military purpose is denied by the government. After reading the article “loyal” American citizens heave a sigh and thank God that in this “demo- crati country no such reforms ernment officials of Roosevelt's hold upon the freedom-loving gov- are instituted. No, fascism has no | New Deal era. But let us turn to another sec- tion of the newspaper. “Youth Seeks a Saving Hand” is the head- line of this article. Here, then, per- manently on our hands may be millions of young people who, in Commissioner Zook’s (Commissioner of Education of U. S. A.) phrase “are simply not wanted in industry or business in competition with wage-earners with families.” Although 300,000 boys are en- rolled in C. C. C. camps under army supervision at subsistence rates of $30 a month, yet this alone does not solve the problem for the over- whelming number of jobless youths. Therefore, in the name of demo- cracy the N. R. A. has evolved a plan which would help the unfor- tunate youth of the country. This “plan” would allow private em- ployers to hire boys and girls over 16 at wages averaging half the basic rates. For this privilege of starv- ing and working at the same time, “at least 100 hours of class in- struction” are guaranteed by the paternal N. R. A. But this is not all that the N. R. A. seeks to do for our youth! Another plan “is being discussed both within or without the relief administration.” Under this scheme, for a year or two after leaving school or college, the boy or girl would enter, the public service as a sort of interne at subsistence wages, dcing socially necessary work and gaining a “job technique.” How can anyone read this with- out being overwhelmed with in- digestion? How long will the pro- letariat and its jobless youth per- mit this injustice sugar-coated with phrases such as these to continue? Yours for a Soviet America, A Ge NOTE: We publish letters from farmers, agricultural workers, lumber and forestry workers, and cannery workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us let- ters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to or- ganize, Please get these letters to us by Mendy ef each week, We live on a farm of three acres | just pays one cent a quart, and yet | It must be emphasized, however, that although education is essential for the proper under- | standing and application of the} Party line, it is not sufficient in itself. Likewise mere membership in the | Party for a long period is no assur- | ance that the comrade is» following | On the contrary, the | | the right line. | whole trend of the Party is to bring new forces to the front, forces that | have arisen through the struggle, that can be trained into leadership. | In many of these cases, the com- rades are raw, know nothing of theory, but because of a good class instinct show that they possess the proper material for leadership. By | they become invaluable leaders. Mere membership in the Party for a period of years without active participation in the struggle, and without criticism of the Party work and self-criticism of one’s own ac- tivity, does not and will not make The test of old and young members is their ability to apply Leninist- | Stalinist theory to the work of the | Party among the masses. the workers in the shops, do not merely repeat the language and phrases of Communist resolu- tions and theses, but by our work apply the theory to the concrete Leninism, what shall a worker do | understanding the true line of Len- | | giving them a theoretical training, | Bolsheviks of the Party members. | Thus in carrying on work among | in the | unions and mass organizations, we | Initiative and Jobless Leader Says situation. To win the unemployed for strug- gle, we raise the demands of the the .need of relief, ctions, against discrim< ination of Negroes, for the Work- ers’ Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill, etc. In the struggle of the unemployed for these de- mands, the class-consciousness of the workers is strengthened—par- ticularly if through our leadership |we gain the confidence of the un- employed and through the educa- tional work that we carry on we clear up the doubts, hesitations and | illusions of the workers. It is the duty of Party mem! | their demands. Party members, derstanding the theses of the Ci munist International nizing that we are living in a perio |of the decay of capitalism and of | the upsurge of the masses who are pressed by their daily needs, have the Communist duty to formulate demands together with the work and to mobilize them for stru; This does not mean that we shall | wait for the workers to come to us. This would be incorrect and would jnoS show the initiative that all |Communists must manifest. Of what avail is the understanding of the world situation and the deep- {ening of the crisis, if we do not rally the workers to struggle against it? Of what avail is the knowledge and experience of the development | of fascism and of the imminence of the war danger, if we do not mo- | bilize the workers to fight against it? Our fundamental task is to work among the masses—to go among them, not waiting for them to come to us—and through our ac- | tivity and leadership gain their confidence, and thus bring them closer to the Party. Through per- is a man here that said | lence and struggle, what the correct | sonal contact then we recruit them | into the Party. Is the struggle for the immediate demands of the workers the strug- | gle for the proletarian revolution? | Objectively yes, but if the Com- munists are not on the job point- | ing out that these are not only steps | to relieve the present situation of the workers, but that the workers will gain their rights and power only through the proletarian revo- | lution, with concrete reference’ to the Soviet Union, then it will be | possible for demagogues and .fas~ | cists, also using radical and “anti- capitalist” language, to entice the | magses 4 into support of fascism and |lead them into the counter-revolu- tion—as Hitler did. | Hence Communist understanding and study, coupled with Communist | activity, is basic to the develop- ment of a Bolshevik Party. Com- munist activity among the masses |is the only basis for revolutionizing | the masses and for building a mass |Communist Party. Only through |the building of a mass Party will | we be in a position to lead the Rev- olution in the United States. There should be no antagonism |between older and younger mem- bers, but rather the older members should give the younger members the benefit of their longer training and experience, at the same time | profiting by the more energetic | spirit and initiative of the younger |members. Together they must build the mass Communist Party, Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE, Fla—Following is a copy of a letter to the relief authorities of Florida: We, the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Jacksonville Branch of the National Unemployment Coun- cil, have been authorized by all our tire membership of unemployed workers to demand your attention to the deplorable conditions of the unemployed. We charge: That the Governor has been lax in subscribing suffi- cient State funds in compliance with the Federal government re- quirements that each State supply a given per cent of the relief funds. That the Governor has not ful- filled his promises to help the “for- gotten man.” We charge: John T. Alsop, Jr., Mayor of Jacksonville, with callous- ness and lack of effort to relieve the unemployed of this city. We charge: Julius Stone, State Administrator of Relief, with tre- mendous high cost of administering the relief funds. We charge: That the relief or- ganization consists to a large ex- tent of people who are not now and have not. been in need of relief, therefore have no right to any of the relief funds. That there are a favorite few who are getting more than their share of these funds. We charge: Members of the re- lief administration with whom we come in contact with discourtesy, antagonism and indifference. Therefore we make the following demands: 1, That the Governor make imme- diate arrangements for larger State appropriations, sufficient. to bring about Federal allotments necessary for the permanent betterment of the unemployment situation. 2. That the Governor immedi- ately put in motion every force available to create jobs and supply relief to the unemployed of this State. 3. That Mayor Alsop put forth serious effort and thought to pro- vide employment and to relieve suf- fering of the unemployed of this city. 4. That the Mayor, on behalf of the unemployed of this city, per- sonally investigate and supervise to the fullest extent of his authority, the distribution of relief. local affiliated groups and the en-| Council Lists Relief Demands 5. That the Federal State Ad- | ministrator take immediate steps in arranging for ample funds to pro- vide the mass relief necessary for safeguarding the health, comfort and citizenship of the needy. 6. Immediate reduction in the cost of administration within the | State, which will make more funds available for the needy unemployed. 7. The immediate replacement of employes in the administration who have means of a livelihood other than their salary drawn from the relief funds. 8. That investigators of cases be drawn from the ranks of the unem- ployed. 9. That a system of social work- ers shall be arranged to eliminate any possible favoritism. 10. That all administration em- ployes receive clients or committees in a more courteous, affable and efficient manner, 11, That the field workers com- ply with the F. E. R. A. booklet No. 3 of Rules and Regulations and keep close contact with the clients so as to eliminate the need of. the unemployed coming to the relief of- fice every week as is the practice now. 12, That the budget system apply to all employes of the administra- tion staff in so far as practical ana the full budget allowance of each individual be forthcoming weekly, whether in the form of work or direct relief. 13, That each worker will be al- lotted the same number of work hours per week, regardless of skill or duty performed. That foremen on all projects alternate monthly, 14. That commodity depots be ‘established conveniently in various neighborhoods, manned by workers from the ranks of the unemployed, whereby the commodities will be is- sued in a more systematic manner. 15. Equal distribution of relief work or direct relief without dis- crimination, because of race, Tes ligion, color, non-citizenship, polit« ical affiliation, or because of mem- bership in any special or selected group. 16. We demand immediate in- creased mass rejief and will co- operate with the administration to the fullest extent, provided equal co-operation is granted by the con= sideration of this letter,