The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Od 27, | WORKE Daily Worker Medic Advisory Board cal ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Foul Breath In the absen of serious g disease, the ca eliminated as caus begin to suspect is -due to constipa words, your as must fore, y the_ cor In teeth nose be elim to suspect to your our nose and thoroughly ex: le words or other throat should ined, for the. ..c u As for ordinary pe: 1 care of the teeth, you..are referred to the series of articles on this subject which re- d in the Health Col- it is possible that constipation ma be responsible. You have, ho doubt read in the Daily Worker, Aug. 28, Tecommendations on how to culti- vateregular bowel habits. Pad diets and yeast cakes will not help you Tumors of Male Breast Your description of the swelling in ‘your left breast is very clear. You describe a small tumor which has taken seven weeks to grow as large as a half dollar. Unfortu- nately, without seeing and feeling the swelling, we cannot tell you with certainty just what kind of a tumor We call iell you, how- we would do under the si We would go to a n Akron, where you school ou will a breast care: whether moves freely about v your der his finger ermine or whether it is anchored either to the skin above or to the muscle be- neath. He will find out whether smaller swellings you describe; either ir ame breast or in the oppo- site breast. He will look and feel under your arm, in your arm pit for small swellings. All these points help him to say uless or harmful the swell- In order to be more cer- tain, he will probably take a small piece of the tissue from your breast look at it under the miscro- This is called a biopsy. This tion is very helpful to him. will then know what to do and to do it. Harmful tumors in the male breast are rare. Harmless hard cysts or sacs are much more common. ing is. scope NOTE: We print every Thursday letters from farmers, cannery and agri- cultural workers, We urge farm- ers and workers in these indus- tries to write us of their condi- tions and their struggles to or- ganize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of each week. IN THE By HELE HOME N LUKE Sadie Van Veen Sadie Van Veen, of New York City the right of women to economic social, and political equality, candidate for N. Y. State Senator (frem the 18th District) on the Communist Party ticket. The “Van” is not misleading. Sadie is of Dutch ancestry. Her grandparents came to the United States from Amsterdam, Holland, | Vision of free adequate food and |35 years ago. in 1820, when New York was no Clothing for the school children of | y, larger than Greenwich Village. Sadie was born in New York City andat the age of 15 went to work as a clerk in a department store. At.16 she joined the “Socialist Party in Denver, Colorado. Having talent, she went to Ger- many to study drama and painting, sup- porting herself by making translations and teaching Eng- 1 c lish;. here she SapieVan Veer] became a mem- ber of the Social-Democratic Party, and here she met I. Amter. She and Amter married. (He, too, was/| at -that time a member of the S. Buk). At. the outbreak of the war in| 1914 Sadie returned to America; she left the S. D. P. at the time of the split in that party, and be- came a charter member of the Com- munist Party. To_make a survey of conditions there for women and children, she toured the Soviet Union in 1923 and “1924. In 1927, again in America, she helped to organize the miners in S. E. Ohio and West Virginia for the strike of that year; also helped to “organize the American Negro Labor Congress. She further or- ganized one of the first Unemploy- ment Councils in Cleveland (1928- 1930) and was arrested many times at unemployment demonstrations in that city. During the great na- tional unemployment demonstra- ms. on March 6, 1930, she was ent at the first unemployment ting held in Paterson, N. J. 1 1932 she toured Massachusetts, ecticut, New York and Ohio, ming for Foster and Ford, st candidates for President President. She organized the..unemployed in Schenectady, N. Y..-again suffering arrest. She has been active in Harlem, Negro sec- tion of New York City; was on the | Staff of the “Liberator” during the | first six months of its existence. | Sadie has two children, a boy of 18 Ghd a girl of 21. Gifted not only | for" artwork, she writes well too, | using this ability in a practical way | in the interest of the working class | for whom she has fought so long and uncompromisingly; is author of | “Our. Children Cry for Bread,” and | helped write “Homeless Youth” and “Seottsboro Mothers.” She has done much work for the I. L..D. and the W. I. R.; has been speaker countless times, having spoken in the textile fields as well as others. During the present elec- tion campaign she has been speak- ing.,in N. Y. C., notably in York- ville. A) After such a record, further argu- | i one of the staunchest defenders of | ments stating Sadie Van Veen’s fit- | ¥® ®7@ faced with starvation and ness to represent the interests of the workers in the Senate, are quite superflu Vote for Sadie Van Veen! Vote Communist against any cur- tailment of educational facilities, for continued and increased State aid to education; for the State pro- unemployed and poor generally. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2035 is available only in waist sizes 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34. Waist size 28 takes 2 yards 54 inch fabric. Pattern 2006 is available only in waist sizes 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34. Waist size 28 takes 1 5-8 yards 54 ach fabric. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (i5e) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for each Anne Adams patiern, THIRTY CENTS (3c) for both. Write name, ad- dress and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Illustrated step- by-step sewing instructions included with each pattern. Free Herndon and Scottsboro Boys! “It pleased me greatly to have received your letter today $915,000 International Labor Defense Room 490, 80 Hast 1th st. New York City HY contribute $...++-+++ and Defense. * fer SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON EMERGENCY FUND did receive unpleasant news a few minutes before. 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 20, 1934. $15,000 the Scottsbero-Mernden Appeals Egg Price Rise Helps Only Speculators, Says Oregon Poultry Farmer By a Farmer Correspondent SHERWOOD, Ore.—We poultry producers ruined by the A. A. A. and are trying to sell our place. Having forced thou- sands of small poultry producers out of business, curtailed produc- tion will naturally increase the price of eggs for the benefit of the packers, whose warehouses are full to overflowing with the poultry and eggs we small poul- trymen were forced to sell them last year at prices that ruined us. Now officials of the A. A. A. are congratulating themselves at the Heavy Price « Swells Relief Lists Biden! Politicians Full of Election Promises, But Only | Communist Candidates Show W ay Out by Action By a Farmer Correspondent EATONVILLE, Wash.—Yesterday I received my first check of $9 for over two years. labor must hasten to get this off before some of the enemy class will get! This is a forced or relief work check and I “improved prices” of poultry and (this. With the rest I must exist eggs. for a month, which of course no- The government should force {Pd can. z r Without the Daily Worker we the packers to return the differ- ence between today’s prices and last year’s to the producers on the farms. Instead, the huge profits to the packers will be advertised, as usual, as increased farm incomes. N.D. Farmers Exploited in Own State By a Farmer Correspondent BERGEN, N. D.—It sure is a pleasure to receive a real working mans paper where we can depend on getting the truth and facts about the workers’ and farmers’ struggle. We need the Daily Worker and the Farmers National Weekly to tell the truth and ex- pose farmers’ organizations such as the Farmers’ Union and the Nonpartisan League, which haven't brought us anything. Today, in North Dakota, | here foreclosure after years of hard toil. We men folks haven’t only | worked ourselves, but we have worked our wives and children to the bone. We came here to this new state All we saw here as the raw frames and we were filled with hope. We worked and toiled, plowed the prairies and built the barns and houses here, dug the rocks, built the roads, the school houses, the churches, and these towns to what they are to- day. We had hope that when we got the country built up we would |be independent, free from the | bankers’ debts and mortgages. But we find today that under this exploiting capitalistic system the | class that produces everything |has nothing, and the class that produces nothing has everything. But we are going to join hands | With the workers of the city and | overthrow Wall Street rule. And take over the earth and machines Oakland, Calif. Dear Comrade: | | Iam submitting this cartoon as a | worker's criticism of the use of long | or uncommon words in workers’ lit- | erature. It is my hope that a healthy | discussion will be provoked and that | a start can be made to correet this fault. It is not only long or strange words we sholld consitier. Most of our literature is written in long awk- ward sentences that makes the most difficult kind of reading. That tends to discourage anyone from reading our “stuff.” The often repeated idea that we can have one language for the workers and another for “‘ad- vanced workers” is, to me, alto- gether wrong. In helping to draw up leaflets, I find the comrades so full of the old tanglefoot that they can’t get down to earth and talk in | the language of the man on the | street. After several years, the | Party publications are still difficult | reading for me. With the best of comradely greet- | ings, I am, R. W. oS 8 oe Durham, New Hampshire Dear Comrades: Permit me to suggest that you use more simple words in the “Daily.” I note the continuous occurrence of the Russian word, “soviet,” “soviet | power,” ete, meaning, of course, workers’ and farmers’ councils or government. Why use the foreign word? It means nothing to the aver- age American worker. I notice a picture printed on the front page of the Saturday Evening Post showing a big poster from the May Day par- jade which read, in part, “For a | Soviet America.” No wonder we are criticized for apparent foreign in- fluence. There are no soviets in this country. What the American people want is a workers’ and farm- | ers’ government and they are begin- ning to realize that it must come by revolution. Another expression, meaningless to most would-be readers, I find, is “dictatorship of the proletariat,” “proletarian leader,” etc. My god, if you cannot get 100,000 readers, it’s your own fault, right in New York! I am amazed at the ex- tent of the revolutionary sentiment here in rock-ribbed New Hampshire. I find a great interest also among the college people. But most of the people never heard of the Commu- nist Party, nor of “soviet power.” | That is our job here and watch us | grow. | | | Yours comradely, . nee | New York City Dear Comrade Editor: At the International Youth dem- would have starved long ago. Some of those getting a few days work from the relief set-up must walk over seven miles to their work and seven miles back home. the check comes they again must go to this lousy job to get this money. checks for four miles each way. ‘When I must go twice for two! days work, four The politicians again have be- come active in the countryside. Just before election all kinds of prom- ises are given which never can nor | will be fulfilled by these fakers. The only ones that will receive our votes must prove by ACTION that they fight for the interest of the work- ers and poor farmers the year round. We have several of them here in this county who qualify for {and soon will be mailed to locals. this and will run on the Communist ticket, The United Farmers League of | Washington has set the date for| the State Convention at Oct. 18 and 14, 1934, to be held at River- side Commercial Hall, Everett, Wash. The call now is being printed We are determined that this Con- vention is not going to be broken up by the vigilantes, K.K.K. hordes. jaw and order outfits or any other hoodlums, opposed to militant or- ganizations, The terror throughout the West Coast spread to break the Long- shoremen’s strike had some affect to stop the militancy of the small farmers in this state. However, this militancy is returning slowly. Two} more locals were reported the last two days of the U. F, L. The poorest farmers are forced to Sell their last milk cows. They are unable to sell the milk and even their last funds have been exhaust- ed, and so, without feed and grain, they must sell, and join the grow- ing relief lines, 1934 Small Cotton Farmer Robbed by Government) PARTY LIFE Through Renting Plan | Qne Unemployment Council (By a Farmer Correspondent) OPELIKA, Ala.—I have a one- | horse farm, and I have to pay 500 pounds of cotton for rent, I rented | the government seven acres and they only paid me $2.11 an acre and it cost me $4.25 to make my crop. They only let me plant eight acres of cotton, and I can’t pay my debts at the present prices | of cotton. I am asking for 25 cents for cotton this fall, Please help us Negro farmers out through this struggle. We are asking for our rights. Help in every way you can. Starvation Stalks Where We are reprinting a leaflet dis- | tributed by the Unemployment | {Council in the Philadelphia strike areas to the textile strikers, as a| guide to the Party fractions in all Unemployment Councils in striking | | areas, | To the militant textile strikers! The Unemployment Councils of | Philadelphia greet you in your her- joic struggles against the boss’ class jand all of their agents, the police, the stool pigeons and the scabs. The Unemployment Councils, who ° ° are fighting for adequate cash re- Soil Is Fertile lief (for all employed), unemploy- ment insurance, against evictions, sheriff sales of poor farmers’ and By a Worker Correspondent workers’ homes, have from the very JUNIATA COUNTY, Pa—This is|Start of your strike placed demands one of the most fertile of counties | With the local and state authorities of the state. A county of fine herds | or Telief and cash rent for all tex- | and good crops. This is a section| tile workers on strike. of the aristocracy of working farm-| Four hundred unemployed dele- ers. Some have retired. Yet they|Sates from the entire state attend- lack many of the comforts of the |" the special legislature session city worker. No gas, no electricity,|" Harrisburg last Wednesday ino bath; no cultural life. sharply raised the demand that all Especially with the women con-| textile strikers be given relief dur- |ing the time of your strike. Our ditions are little better than they | membership stands ready to join |demanding $1 per hundred pounds | to pay nothing for work. Mr. Clift RELIEF CUT TO KEEP PICKERS’ PAY DOWN By a Sharecropper Correspondent {naked and barefooted and cry for CAMP HILL, Ala—We are the|bread. Mr. B. M. Meadow says that union workers of the black belt. We |he will not pay a dollar per hun- are writing a few lines to let other | dred pounds for picking cotton, and workers know how we are getting) Mr. G. B. Harper says that he will along. Our condition is bad. The|let his cotton rot in the field be- boss wants us to pick cotton for 40|fore he will pay a dollar per hun- cents a hundred pounds. We are dred pounds. Mr. W. B. Roos wants Woke tf for picking cotton. Some of us were getting a little relief. They cut us off to force us to pick their cotton for 40 cents per hundred pounds. We can't live at that price. Food, dry goods, is so high until we can’t buy it. Our children are hungry and of production and produce for use and the welfare of the people in- stead of for a bloody profit as is being done under capitalism and private ownership, I used to organize the Holiday Association and the Farmers Un- jon. But I found out that bank- ers and lawyers were at the head of it. I got wise to the fact that if the people are going to free themselves from war, misery and poverty, we farmers and workers got to do it ourselves. Elect our own rank and file farmers’ and workers’ leaders and do it through a militant | movement. It’s the only way. = riticise Use of Long | Meadow says he will let his cotton |rot in the field before he will pay | the price. They say that the Negroes won't work, but they won’t say that they |don’t want to pay them for their work. They want us to work for nothing. 3 Sentenced in Oregon For Strike Militancy PORTLAND, Ore. Sept. 26.— Three militant rank and file mem- | bers of the International Long- shoremen’s Association, Black, | Samuelson and Hanlon, were sen- | tenced last week to one year each in the county jail for working class | activities during the recent long- | shoremen’s strike. | Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- Our Readers Must Spread the | ing, sewing, laundering, running a nursery and kindergarten, raising chickens and tending a vegetable garden. Winter adds to the house- hold work, trying to heat a house without a heating plant, sometimes burning wood. Most houses are built for looks rather than for com- fort or convenience. There are needless steps everywhere. wear shabby clothing and eat spar- ingly. Scores of farmers are get- ting direct relief, besides those on work relief. These are not looked on by their neighbors as “bad man- agers.” Neither college training not pedigree breeding has halted the slashing effect of the new deal. The “supply and demand” slogan of politicians is playing a losing hand. Dairy products are much in demand, yet state-controlled prices get milk from prize herds at 3 cents. Dressed beef sells at 344 cents. These farmers are aware of the} existence of exploitation. | Relief jobs are placed on a purely | political basis. One farmer was sent {from one politician to another| through two counties for a pick and| shovel job. Farm organizations controlled by politicians and business men_ still hold a tight rein on the farmers. |Bankers and mortgage holders at- tend the same churches as farmers do. Collection agents are telling of | the return of prosperity. The isolation of the farm popula- tion has made it easy to deceive them into believing church philo- sophy and political demagogy. Amer- |icanism has been a great badge, The most prosperous of farmers were 100 years ago. Cooking, bek-| Witt; you on the picket lines and |and also to assist you in every way possible until the boss’ class is forced to grant every one of your demands, which we fully endorse. Fellow textile strikers! Keep up your fight! Increase your picket lines! Refuse all proposals for arbitration until all your demands are granted. The unemployed are vitally in- terested in your fight and stand ready to help you win! Long live the unity of the em-/| ployed and unemployed workers! Call at any of our headquarters, lany time. | | UNEMPLOYMENT COUNCILS. Philadelphia District. Philadelphia, Pa. . Units Should Use Initiative im Issuance of Leaflets Comrades shod be trained writing and iss \ 1g leaflets. It seems to me that we under- stimate the value of leaflets. At in FARMERS PREPARE FOR WINTER OF STRUGGLE RS’ HEALTH *s Leaflet to Textile Strikers Example of Correct Reaction to Immediate Issue Is Guide for Party Fractions to Follow unit should get out at least one good leaflet a week—on the textile strike, relief, election and other subjects of vital interest to the workers, The main thing is to act while the subject is still hot. There is so much happening now that we can’t afford to delay getting them out: New York should have been flooded with leaflets 24 hours after relief was cut off, but instead we waited for over five days. The same is true of the textile strike and the Morro Castle “Red Scare.” How many of our comrades know how to get out leaflets? Not many. We should train the unit squads by each uffit assigning one group a week to get out and distribute a leaflet. We should not depend on the sections for the mimeograph machine but have them in homes of unit members. Every leaflet should carry the slogan “Read the Daily Worker.” BB New York. 70 NOTE Party Units and Party Fractions in the textile areas: Send us copies of the | issued by your unit to the textile strikers. We want to know what the Party units and Party comrades are doing in this strike. Write brief reports of your activities and send them to us for use in this column, ORG. COMMISSION, ©. P. O. Box 87, Station D. New York City. Join the Communist Party % E. 12th STREET, N. Y. ©. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City this time every Y. C. L. and Party Threatens Croppers With Jail By a Sharecropper Correspondent CAMP HILL, Ala—The big land- lord, Mr. C. L. Pearson, is the rich- est guy in Tallapoosa County. He bosses as many as 300 tenants. This is what he says. Every damn man that lives off his land must gin their cotton at his gin mill, and if they don’t he’s going to have them put in jail; he will get their | but its value to satisfy hunger is| cotton and sell it himself. izations As a Political Task of First Importance! | ESTATIONS (Canoe | Ne |ONS ais) FASCIZATION TA “Pip) Yo < OPuisy RY NATio THE CHINESE WALL and Difficult Wards Two workers have sold some cot- ton and he said he is going to have them put in jail. He said that everybody that lives on his land has to pay him rent; if you don’t he's going to have the K. K. K. raid your home and have you killed. He said he is going to have their as great as an iron cross or a vic- tory medal, government check stopped; some of the tenants didn’t get their check. All of the people that live on his land are really out of doors. He says he and all the rest of the landlords in this county want rent; jor no Negroes on no land. His ad< | dress is Dadeville, Ala. That is what a boss did in Camp Hill, Ala. He is the postmas'er. | There were some leaflets distributed |and Mr. James Aaron wrote a poor worker a letter not to be out at | night or he’d catch him. He took this letter and put it under his doorstep himself and the poor man got unnerved and moved. This is what Mr. James Aaron did. His address is Camp Hill, Ala. The $60,000 Goal 6¢MVEAR Editor, “I used to be a Socialist who believed in Socialist theory and tactics. However, in the past year my eyes have been opened to the splendid and determined struggle that the Communist Party is wag- ing against the capitalist class. ‘I have since then become a Communist sympathizer. I would like to become a member of the Communist Party; however, I am unable to do so as I am a govern- ment employe. I fear the loss of my job if I were found to be a member of the Communist Party. I am, therefore, trying to help the friends and acquaintances of the worthiness of Communism. “I am enclosing $1 towards the $60.000 drive. Yours for a Soviet hs COLLABORATIONY en ff INTENSIFICATION eae RANDIZE (OT content with merely con- fxd tributing (they have contributed f more than $30 so far) the Tyomies Employes of the Finnish vublica- tions have challenged the workers of the Freiheit, Vilnis, Radnik, Eteenpain, Uus Ilm, Rovnost Ludu and other ianguage newspapers. * onstration several speakers made certain phrases which were not un- derstandable to a good many work- ers. It is incorrect for a speaker to as- sume that he is addressing a class- conscious audience. The phrases in question which were rightly puzzling this particular worker, a street cleaner, were: “dictatorship of the proletariat,” “soviet. power,” “class- Jess society,” “imperialistic wars” and “revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.” After explaining to the worker these phrases, he was more inter- ested in the meeting and listened very attentively to the rest of the speakers, Tn view of the fact that the elec- | tion campaign is nearing, it would be of utmost importance for speak- ers to use the simplest language in interpreting the above-mentioned | Phmases. Comradely, 8.M, NOTE: A Communist newspaper has a serious problem in making Political ideas clear in a simple Janguage. In attempting to solve this problem, the Daily Worker has made mistakes, and still has to correct many shortcomings. But in tackling the problem of simple Janguage, there are certain wrong tendencies that must be watched out for, It is wholly correct to try, where- ever possible, to substitute simple, easily understood words, for diffi- cult, strange words. For example, in the cartoon above, the words “ubiquitous,” “ratiocination,” “des- “netude,” “capitulate,” “orientate,” ete. could have been avoided by substituting such words as “ever- present,” “thought” or “logic,” “disuse,” “give in,” “prepare for.” But there are other words in the cartoon which the Communist i The success of the $60.000 drive ‘standable langu: nie ei vb Bare will be an understandable guage solicit commercial printing from firms never before approached. The printing will be done after regular hours by the printers and press- men in the Voice of Action’s own shop, Labor Press. And all money above operating expenses will go to the Daily Worker! i IN Red Granite, Wis. the Finnish Workers Club has collected $1.51 for the Daily Worker. The Gilbert, Minn., unit has sent in $1. But this is only a starter for these groups. cause by supporting the Daily He’ about the groups which Worker, New Masses and other have not yet started? Communist publications. I some- | Received September 25 ‘aS times take part in demonstrations | Previously received ghrien and also try to convince MY) Total to date 8359.97 DISTRICT 1 (Boston) Group of comrades, Bethlehem, N.H. 37.50 Total Sept. 25 71.50 Total to date ‘$671.91 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Sec 8 Unit 9 55.00 M. Greenger 2.00 Steel and Metal Mollie Schwartz 2.00 ‘Wrkrs Union, Leo Schear 1.00 Local 302 5.00 D. Palazzolo ey Wkrs Lab. The. 3.90 Brownsville Wkrs Wks Lob Thea. 7.05 Book Shop 1.00 Karl Marx Ann Apter 2.00 Study Group 3.00 Bell Fishman Camp Unity Coll, party 1.00 (Coleman) 6.50 Lena Wiener 8.80 K. Gilbert, Red Far Rockaway Builder 445 Unit Sec 10 17.47 c.W. Knudsen Dalton 1.00 Sec 7 Unit 2 10.00 G. Horaff (Mont- Tot Sept. 25 106.14 out. These are fundamental terms in the vocabulary of the revolu- tionary movement, which, even though difficult at first, must be explained to the workers and not discarded. Such words as “Sov- iet,” “parliamentary,” “chauvin- ism,” “proletariat,” are not in themselves difficult, once their meaning is made clear. In striving to simplify our lan- guage, we should always keep these two set of words separate, There is a tendency among cer- tain groups of people who wish to undermine the influence of the Communist Party, such as the Musteite American Workers Party, to call these basic revolutionary words un-American.. As a matter of fact, American workers, like all other workers, grasp quickly, on the basis of their class experience, the political meaning of these rev- olutionary terms. The workers on this paper have evolved their own way of raising DISTRICT Anonymous money. Members of the editorial staff will, in their spare time, Total Sept. 25 Total to date to the capitalist class. vale, N. J.) 25.00 Tot to date 3801.24 sda Suorsa ety DISTRICT 14 (Newark) NOTHER newspaper challenge); w.o, pr. 77, Trenton 10.00 comes from Seattle, from the | John Toth. Perth Amboy 1,00 Voice of Action. It challenges | Louis Singer, Merchantville 1.00 every publishing house in the |qota1 sept. 25 12.00 country. Total to date 91.44 25 (Florida) NAME ADDRESS Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! 50 EAST 13th St. Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER New York, N. ¥.