The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1934 PARASITES HELP SHIP LINE CUT STEWARDS’ PAY CLOTHING COMPANY Real Union WORKERS’ HEALTH |84-Hour — Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board WHY VACCINATION? (Continued) The discovery of this fact led naturally, to the belief that the presence in the body of a mild or related form of a disease did some- thing to the body to prevent an at- tack of a full and severe form of| the disease. Later work proved the | truth of this belief. by introduc’ Today, we know ild forms of ie nods. ubstances cal anti-bodies, wh subse- quently protect the body against a real attack of the disease. It is true that in those early times; vaccination often resulted in severe complications and even death. But it has been clearly shown that these complications were never the result of the disease injected, but were the result of other germs and impurities which crept ito the * used, This was inevit- of the fact that in times, they had no means of keeping impurities out. Today, with the advance of medical technique and the increase of medi- cal knowledge, vaccination against -~ How Does It Work? Thus, in the general sense of the word,- “vaccination” is the process of introducing into the body germs (vaccines) or poisons of germs (tox- ins) treated in various ways before injection, to make them harmless. By so doing, the body is put to work | Mobilizing its own army of protec- tion ... . its anti-bodies. These anti- bodies do not disappear after the effects of the vaccination are over. With some diseases like small-pox, they remain in the blood stream for as long as seven years. They remain like a-standing army, ready to de- fend the body against attack, and destroy any germs of the disease for which the body has been vac- cinated that might invade the body. This method of preparing before- hand for an attack from a disease | is called ACTIVE immunity However, when the body is in the process of being attacked, when a disease is already present, and im- munity to that disease is lacking, vaccination must produce a sort of second-hand immunity. Blood serums from animals who have al- |ready had the disease are intro- duced. These blood serums, by vir- tue of the fact that thefr previous | owners have already had the dis- ease, contain the anti-bodies nec- | easary to ‘ight ‘the disease. The) yy s Worker Gorrespondent NEW YORK—This letter should | |go under the heading: “Benefits | of The Blue Eagle.” The Pechter Baking Co. New York Branch (on Cherry Street) |employs 85 drivers who start work | at 4 in the morning and finish at 6 jin the evening. This makes an 84-hour week. Furthermore, these drivers are responsible for all ac- counts. Not only do they deliver the bread but they act as collec- tors as well; and should the cus- tomer refuse to pay the bill the driver must, or there’s no more job. Please remember that this is un- | der the N. R. A, because the Pechter Baking Co. signed the code. When this happened the | drivers demanded a union. Well, that was a cineh for the Pechter Oo. They called in the A. F. of L, which organized a Teamsters Union Local 138 with Méessrs. Brown amd Shaw at the head to keep the workers from struggle. Peehter & Oo. is paying the dues for all the men. The men are at a loss. Their resentment is tremendous but they | work of producing them is spared | the sick person. This is called pas- sive immunity. The following question might} |arise in the mind of the reader: If | this work of producing anti-bodies | can be spared a sick person, why | not spare others this work; why | not avoid the “dangers” of vaccinat- ing healthy people and wait until |the disease is already present? Be- |eause once a disease has attacked, | the body is weakened even before | passive immunity can be applied. In |such cases, second-hand immunity can act only as an assisting force | r than a chief force of defense. erience has proven that pas- ity is far inferior than | active immunity in preserving life. | For example, just as the Soviet Union stands ready with its red army to defend itset against the certain attack by the capitalist | powers, so must our bodies stand | | ready with an army of anti-bodies | to resist the certain invasion by the | germs of many diseases. | (to be continued) Contributions received to the credit | of the Medical Advisory Board in its | Socialist Competition with “Change | the World” and Harry Gannes in| the Daily Worker $60,000 drive. Quota, $1,500. |L. Pinkusson |Mro, D. J. Cronin . | Previously received Total to date... ........ Our Readers Must Spread the | Daily Worker Among the Members \of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First lami gtatacsat IN THE HOME By “The Call Which As part and parcel of the intense war preparations, and corroborat- ing the statement by Maj. Gen. Hansén E. Ely that “Women will play a greater part in future wars, recruiting of women for nurses, motor and airplane driving, etc., ids goirig on, as shown by a brochure sent us by a worker in San Diego, Cal. This highly patriotic lefiet, print- ed in red and blue on white, sport- ing pictures of a soldier, a nurse, and a woman in military uniform saluting, and starred - and - striped insignia, describes how the Carmody School of Nursing has been placed “with its equipment and teachers at the disposal of the National HELEN LUKE Is Sure To Come” course if you buy your uniform and pay the yearly dues.) The “Yeomanettes” form a divi- sion of clerical workers, etc. Under the title EMERGENCY NEED appears this appeal: “Today, this call goes out from our national and local commanders: Your | country needs you—prepared! ... | There may be—even though we hope for peace—a call to arms again! Such training as that to be had in the National Nurses’ Cadet | to our Nation. “LET OUR WOMEN BE PRE-| PARED!” In closing the brochure, Dr. Wil- | ma Carmody herself makes an “ur- | | don’t know where to turn. | Rock Crusher Workers |Yellow Dog Contract! | Corps would be of inestimable value | sisi | +) pleabhendinsincitnnticaistcnigeinsglaiabastes Pechter S| Steward Foreed to Do Longshoremen’s Work At $1.33 a Day in Order to Keep Job A.F.L. Union Chiefs do Nothing About | Conditions Here's a chance for real organi- zational work. In Kansas City Smash By a Worker Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Forty-five workers of the Centropolis Rock Crusher Co. who were locked out here for not signing a yellow dog contract have returned to work with the following gains: Pay by the ton for all tonnage exceeding 70 tons per car. Formerly | the workers loaded cars of 80 and |90 tons and only got paid for 70. Pay for loading cars that acci- dentally dump, where before when a car dumped the worker had to reload on his own time. Five and seven and a half cent raise on the hour. Recognition of the u but the company is giving men eight and sometimes ten hours. work each day and non-union men eight and sometimes ten hours. This strike was conducted by the American Federation of Labor. Workers were misled by officials to chase Communists and unem- ployed workers away from the group of locked-out workers. The Communist Party of Kansas City is glad that these gains have been made. By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — Steward depart- ment employes of the Interna- tional Merchant Marine sure have to take punishment from this com- pany. The writer of this article has completed his second and final | trip, and it was as much as I} could take. I had to push and shove around the employment office to be inter- viewed. Finally my turn arrives. Present discharges, lifeboat ticket and passport, everything in order. Gosh, wasn’t I happy to secure a slip of paper to go to work with such a fine company. I line up outside the Doctor's office. I undress, medico looks me over. “Yes, you're O.K.” Now I’m all set to go. Striped flunkey or steward looks me over. “Yes, I'm grade A,” to! him also. | Another flunkey with more stripes on him comes along and hollers | “On the Dock.” I go out to see what's the matter with the dock, and find out it’s carrying truckloads of stores aboard ship, so I spend three days doing longshoreman’s work at the big rate of $1.33 per day. Longshoremen doing similar work get around $7 per day. The Uniform Racket See a well-dressed guy talking to the chief steward. Corona stuck in his face, and a no smoking sign over his head. The well dressed guy want to know from me if I have a uniform. “No, I haven't.” Says he represents Appell & Co., tailors, Fulton street, so have to get one from him. This gent measures me physically and mentally. The suit will cost $25 along with a few accessories; patent leather shoes $4; hat $3, badge 35 cents, linen fronts $1, and I don’t have to pay for any of these circus clothes until I get back from Hamburg. That shows you how liberal Appell & Co. are, Christ! What you have to go through before they will let you serve a plate of beef-stew to a Passenger. Here I am in debt toa coneern I don’t know. All for the wages of $40 per month, and my pay-off is the big sum of $21 I'm still out $14. Appell is sure tg collect. He can’t lose. Some official has it charged to me in the ship’s slop chest. How Appell man- ages that part of the game I don’t know, so I can only guess he must stand in with some official of the company, or in other words— there’s a kick-back somewhere along the line. Am in a hell of a pickle now, so I start cursing the company and Appell. Well, I’ll take a chance and make the trip. Maybe I'll clean up on the way over. I cleaned up all right! Yes! Tell Need for Mass Fraternal Nurses’ Cadet Corps, in order to fascilitate its organization.” The National Nurses’ Cadet Corps, 4s in turn affiliated with the Veter- ans of Foreign Wars. % The leaflet has been issued to re- eruit~ women into this National \ Nurses’ Cadet Corps (incidentally > one might want to take the nursing } course, which requires three months. © Tuition $50.00.) In case you are » already a nurse or have specified | training, you may immediately join 7 the Corps—no cost except the an- i nual fees of $2.00. 4 “The object of the National © ° Nurses’ Cadet Corps,” says the bro- © chure; “is to teach and perform | Americanism—true patriotism — by t practical application.” —All. must be American citizens, must swear allegiance to the flag, uphold and protect principles and interest of the government.” [ie., capitalism—H. L.] Further, physical and mental fitness, etc., are men- tioned. As to the three divisions in the Corps: “A Cadet Nurse is one who is especially prepared to give a two- fold duty to her country—not only is she of inestimable value in times of stress”—(what do you mean, stress? —strikes, maybe?—H. L.)—“disaster or war, but she has specific service in times of peace in daily life... . She must have sufficient knowledge to intelligently nurse,” etc., etc., “She must be a permanent resident f the city in which she is located, must aitend regular organization and make a monthly Tepor:, of her activicies as long as she is a member of the corps.” Further she is made responsible to see that all the sick and indigent in her community “receive nursing at- tention when neces: have ‘had two years’ study of nurs- ing or one year plus “the special ‘course in the emergency depart- ment, of the Carmody School of Nursing in the use of Gas Masks, Military Hygiene, etc.” (Ah ha. Gas and Military Hygiene to care Goi sick and indigent—H. L.) - ‘Lastly ““she must be able to pur- ‘chase her own uniform and kit” d be “between the ages of 16 60.” ‘The members of the Motor rps must be experienced drivers { automobiles, motorcycles, or planes, who pledge themselves x their services whenever upon by the organization to ) meet emergencies, local or na- al.” (Sounds like the Ladies’ ebreal Corps if you ask us. L) assist in any worthy or patriotic affairs, or parades. Rive military discipline and have completed the course in , emergency,” ete. (a free As to qualifications of applicants | meetings of the | ” She must | gent appeal” for recruits to the Corps, saying: “Sponsor as many |as you can to take this course in | preparation for the call which is sure to come.” Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2040 is available only in 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 2% | yards 54 inch fabric. Iustrated | step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded. | Sead FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) 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. r’ 4 sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34,) IW O Head Cites Reactio The International Workers Or- der is endeavoring to beoome the mass fraternal organization of the American workers. We need such |@ mass organization. Millions of American workers are organized in fratenal organizations in America. This is the result of the workers desire to meet the dangers of their economic insecurity. The workers want to establish a continuity of their income. Their only income is wages. When they fall sick and their wages stop, they want to con- tinue their necessary income by means of sick benefits, These needs of the workers grow out of their position as members of the working class. The members of the working class depend on wages for a living. Their wages depend on jobs. Their jobs depend on their ability to work as well as on the willingness of the capitalists to hire them. This shows that the work- er does not control his life. The capitalist controls it. He can either feed or starve the worker. When the worker organizes to meet the exigencies of this social condition, it is the duty of the or- ganization to help him meet it. As it happens, the insurance which a fraternal organization can offer the worker as a remedy, is a thoroughly inadequate remedy. Tt cannot meet the problem of old age. Ti cannot solve the problem of unemployment. A workers’ fraternal organization must not only make the workers conscious of these limitations of its help; it mtist also lend itself to every | effort of the worker to find a more adequate solution of his problem. That is why a workers’ fraternal organization must help the workers in their effort to improve their earn- ing and living standards. That is why a workers’ fraternal organza- tion must actively aid the workers in their struggles for social insur- ance. That is why a workers’ fra- ternal organization, in all struggles of the workers, must be unequivoc- ally on the side of the workers. That is workers’ fraternalism. That is the aim and function of the Inter- national Workers Order. Millions of American workers be- long to bourgeois fraternal orders. These orders do not help the work- ers. They help the capitalists. They fight against the workers. This is especially evident in this period of intense class struggles. The workers have awakened to the bosses’ way out of the criss by star- vation wages and speed-up. The workers begin to strike back. They Organization Is Stressed nary Role of Bourgeois Groups, Urges Great Spread of Workers’ Order By MAX BEDACHT fight for better wages and for a chance to live. This fight of the worker arouses the ire of the capitalists. They mo- bilize their newspapers, their laws, their police, their soldiers against the workers. Since the workers fight in spite of that, they are ac- cused and treated as enemies of society. The unwillingness of the workers to starve for the profits of the capitalists is branded as red treason. All capitalist forces are mobilized to “stamp out this trea- son.” The other day the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias agreed “that the military department of the K. of P. merge with the National Guard in the event of Communist emergencies.” Now we know that every strike of workers for a living wage is called a “Communist emer- gency.” San Francisco, Providence and Carolina show that. It is clear that thus the K. of P. are offering their military help to the capitalists for the suppression of strikes. What do the workers in these bourgeois fraternal organizations Say to these activities? The Exalted Ruler of the Elks is on a 10,000 mile airplane tour to inaugurate & “pro-American” cam- paign, especially to organize “patri- otic American youth elements to serve as a bulwark against attempts to destroy American institutions.” What the Exalted Ruler hopes to protect is the American institution of the bread line, of child misery, of starvation wages and garbage can provisions for unemployed workers. Any worker revolting against these sacred capitalist American institu- tions is a terrible bolshevik and must be stamped out. That is why the Grand Exalted Mogul of the Elks starts to organize fascist storm troops. Eagles, Masons and _ countless other fraternal organizations are now engaged in this work of fight- ing the workers. These organizations do not serve the workers. They serve the capitalists, That is why the workers need their own fraternal organization. They need a fraternal order that fights for the workers and against the capitalists, The International Workers Order is that order. It is the only fighting workers’ fraternal order. We must build it into the most powerful fra- ternal order in America. Let us do it. Forward to 75,000 members in our International Workers Order! you fellows in next week’s D. W. what happened to me when I Kicked to one of the striped guys aboard the ship. Security you have none. If you say anything to one of these phony big shots, and they don’t like it, you are marked for the gang plank or dishwasher gang. Ae oa Well, it’s sailing morn and every- body’s keyed up. We are called at 6 a.m. Ship sails at noon. Why make us report at that hour in port is beyond me and lots of other fellows aboard. It’s 8 a. m.—a bugle blows. “What is that?” “Why, you sap, it’s dress parade —we go up on the promenade deck. All kinds of big shot flunkeys there. Line up here! Toe that line! Hands out! Silence! Here come the big shots from the down- | town office. We are all looked over like cattle in the stockyard. The brainy gang go into a huddle. One of them says “O.K.” and we are dismissed. I wearily walk to a stinking glory hole to think it all over. I’m sit- ting on my bed figuring it all out. A guy comes in and says, “All waiters in the dining room.” What the hell are they going to pull off now? I go up, am given a “station.” Get a family of five and make the magnificent sum of $10 on the way over. Out of that I give the glory hole steward $1 and pantry $1 and the dishwasher 50 cents. In the galley you fimally get your roast capon and mashed potatoes, and rush pell mell for your table. There you run up against the head waiter and stew- ard, trying to chisel a dollar for themselves at the end of the trip. ie en In Hamburg The ship ties up in Hamburg, and we all go ashore for a few days drunk and a red hot mamma. We are all happy ashore—free at last. To hell with the stinking ship. Give us five more beers—Gus—eh! Girls, what will you have? Hurray! We are free men once more. The writer of this letter has talked to quite a few men aboard ship, and most of us stewards and cooks are ready to stop the bulldozing tactics of heads of these departments. We intend to put a stop to all those rackets and intolerable conditions aboard ships. We are fed up with these tin horned bosses and grafters. Get up off your knees, throw the scrub-brushes overboard and demand the right to live and aet like men. The stewards on the beach are with you and will help you, so let's get together and trnst one another and the rest will be easy. $65 a month minimum. No pay for trick uniferms or white coats. Let the government sub- sidized I. M. M. supply free ail the circus clothes they want. They must be free to all the steward department. Quit working from 5.30 a.m. to 9:00 p. m. Another pretty game they have on the Frisco run. $3 for white coats. Imagine charg- ing a $40 a month man $3 for wearing coats that every other company in the world supplies free. Figure it out, what they make on the 200 men per trip. This company charges 90 cents a carton for ship stores cigarettes, and full price for smoking to- bacco. The correet price for cig- arettes to the crew on any ship leaving the Port of New York is 60 of 76 cents per carton. All other companies charge the 60 or 70 cent rate. The com says in one of their bulletins if any employee has @ grievance let him come down to their office and they will look into the matter. Well, if you do go— better wear false whiskers, If you don’t, you're out of luck. We are entitled to a place to sit down to eat. Let's quit running around the galley like dogs look- ing for a corner to gulp down our food. Stop the painting racket— let painters paint—waiters wait. Also, give the longshoremen a chance to make a dollar. These men have families and homes to keep. What's the big idea of giv- ing Seaman's House 75 cents per night when you hit the Port of New York. What's wrong with compelling the company to maintain at all times your sanitary and sleeping quarters in good condition? It’s your home while employed with the company, so see it’s fit for sleep- ing purposes while in port. Y¥. M. C. A. doesn’t need your hhard earned money, they can get along without your aid. ° Get in touch with the writer of this article at 140 Broad Street and this office will put a stop to all the abuses that we have to go through. You fellows won't have to show your hand until we give the word, so come in or drop a line to the Steward, 140 Broad Street., City. CAPTAIN TIGER. Signature Authorized. Week at CUTS IN FOR $33.35 In National BiscuitShop Sunshine Workers Are Urged to Follow Example By a National Biscuit Co. Worker NEW YORK.—To the workers of | Sunshine! From a worker of the National | Biscuit Company. I feel it my duty to inform the workers of Sunshine of the demands gained by us at the National Biscuit Co. through the strike we organized during the past summer. As you know, we had to decide to organize ourselves into a union con~ trolled by the company or a union controlled by ourselves. We decided to organize a union controlled by the rank and file with complete liberty to present to the company our demands. And these we gained by organizing a united front of all men and women workers in the fac- tory acting as one man. The following were the demands won in our fight. 1, Recognition of our union. 2. Restoration of the standard salary fixed by our union. 3. Payment for overtime. 4. No speed-up. 5. Additional rest time for all workers. Two hours relief instead of one for all oven and conveyor men, 6. Showers for women, lockers for both men and women and the right to smoke in restaurant. 7. Institution of old age pension. 8. Union now has_ established fund for mutual benefit. Union workers services, doctor and lawyer for benefit of our fellow workers, Comrades of Sunshine, what are you waiting for? Will you continue as slaves of the company controlled union or will you fight as we did to win your just demands. Organize immediately factory committees in all departments un- der workers control. Make your slogan “A UNITED FRONT OF ALL WORKERS TO SMASH COM- PANY CONTROL OF UNION.” ce Te Note: The Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company is trying by every pos- sible trick to hold the workers in the company union, Sunshine workers should compare what they have with what the workers of National got because of a rank and file union. They should re- member that whatever improve- ments they have above came after the workers in the shop began to organize in a workers’-controlled union and not before. They must continue their fight for a work- ers’ rank and file controlled union and not allow the bosses’ com- pany union to keep them from getting real good working condi- tions. Wrecking Jobs Defended By Militant Union By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—On Keller's job at State and Boerum Place, Brooklyn, Coslove and Cassidy, both racket- eering delegates, of Local 95, tried to pull members of the Independent Housewreckers Union off the job and put their men to work for 25 cents and 30 cents per hour. Also on Sept. 12, we started a new job on 5th St. and Ave. A for one of our contractors, Mr. Gross. As soon as our men started to work, Coslove and Cassidy appeared on the job and asked Mr. Gross why he was using our union men when they could furnish him cheaper men. Mr. Gross refused to consider their proposition. ‘When I met those two racketeers and asked them why they tried to interfere in our business, Cassidy informed me that we were not legally entitled to work because we did not belong to Local 95. I told Cassidy that we had our Charter and N. R. A. affiliations all in order. A great many of the present mem- bers of Local 95 are realizing that Coslove and Cassidy are selling them out. These workers are good, honest men, and they are tired of paying $5 a week assessments and getting low wages, while their delegates draw large salaries from the union. According to some of their members, Cassidy gets $75 a week salary and $25 for expenses, and Coslove gets $40 and his expenses. Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT $ Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. Y. PARTY LIFE Some Importa nt Problems Of Language Organizations Writer Points to Browd ler’s Report to 8th &. P. Convention, Urging Wide Political Advance By T. N. CARLSON Simultaneously with the rising strike wave, the role of the foreign- speaking language organizations be- comes ever more important, Very cor comes ever more important. Very correctly, our Party has taken some important measures already in order to improve the work on the lan- guage field. The Party has given tre- mendous help and guidance to our language organizations in Bolshev- izing them and bringing them closer to the Party and the labor move- ment as a whole. Comrade Earl Browder, in his ex- cellent report to the Kighth Con- vention, stated the following: “We must set for our language buros and language newspapers the task of raising the political standard of their work, to draw their mem- bership much more intimately into the main stream of the American class struggle, to activize it, to bring forward new leading cadres, and to speed the process of a Bolshevik Americanization—that is, the weld- ing of a united proletarian mass movement that transcends all lan- guage and national barriers,” Here in a nutshell, Comrade Browder has shown to us what is expected from the Party members in the language field. The next stop is how can we put these words into practical deeds. Of course, it is not an easy task. A very close cooperation of the District and sec- tion leadership is necessary in order to improve our language activities, The District Six (Cleveland) Party plenum recently dealt very sharply with this problem. Comrade Williamson, District Organzer of the Party, analyzed the whole situation very carefully and the Plenum passed a strong resolution in con- nection with our language work. “The District Plenum emphasizes the importance of work among the broad masses of language speaking workers still untouched because of the basic political and organiza- tional weaknesses of our work in the language field. . . At the same time, we are determined to overcome the present unsatisfactory situation in the language field, which results in the energies of the Party on this important sector being diverted from the central problem of lead- ing the mass struggles of the work- ers and improvement of shop, union and unemployed work. . . .etc.” What are the main shortcomings in our work among the foreign born masses? First of all, many of the language comrades, even our lead- ing members in the district frac- tions, seem to be self-satisfied with the present situation. These com- rades say that “The Party asks too much from us.” Is this correct? Of course, not. What is the Party asking from us? The Party asks us to raise “the political standard” of our work, and to bring out “mem- bership much more intimately into the main stream of the American class struggle.” But, exactly, when the Party de- mands this from us, then we say that the Party is asking “too much.” This proves that we have wide-spread opportunist and sec- tarian tendencies existing within our language organizations, and we, as the Communists, do not carry on the fight energetically enough against such wrong tendencies. We are rather feeling that it is much more “comfortable” to stay in the same groove where we have been for a few decades. And when the Party is asking us to line ourselves and to help to line up the masses of unorganized foreign-born work- ers, into the battle front of the American workers, then we resist and say that, what have the “out Siders to do with us.” Every member of the Party, every Communist knows that our Party is not an “outsider” who comes and disturbs our internal “peacé.” But, the trouble with us is this, that we do not carry on ceaseless struggle against these wrong ten- dencies, We have not uprooted the widespread federationism that is still existing stubbornly within the language organizations. This wrong tendency tekes such forms that our comrades do not keep intimate con- | tacts with their respective section and district leadership of the Party, but rather look upon their national language buro as the only leader which has the final word on every detailed question. Of course, it is evident that the national buros are very important Party committees, but on the other hand, it is wrong to have a negative attitude towards the section and district committees of the Party. Why is it that we have such strong opportunist tendencies in the lan- guage field that often these tenden- cies come open as pure anti-party expressions? One of the main rea- sons is that very seldom one finds any symptom of self-criticism, either in the lenguage press or in our meetings. Our comrades feel enjoyed, however, when they read about self-criticism in the Daily Worker, or the self-critieism im the ©. P. of the Soviet Union. But, with us, in the language field, % would be considered as an “abuse” and “{nsult,” if we should enter into such practices. This is a sort of remnant of the past that still hangs heavily upon our shoulders. We have not Bolshevized ourselves in the way of creating healthy self- criticism in the language field. This results that we have a habit of “covering up” our mistakes and shortcomings. We repeat the same mistakes over and over again and no one learns to avoid these mis- takes because they are not criti- cized in the open. How should we be able to “weld a united prole- tarian mass movement,” as Com- rade Browder advises us, to “tran- scend all language and national barriers?” It can be done only under the leadership of the Party. It is necessary to transform our words into everyday deeds. It is necessary to organize our work in the Jan- guage field in such a way that every | Party comrade can give more time | for the most important political ac- tivities of the Party. Let us have less time wasted on all sorts of un- necessary inner activities of the mass organizations by our Party members. Let us give a chance for the non-party comrades to show that they can make just as good coffee, just as good roast lamb, and take care of selling tickets and any other routine activities without having the most developed Party members to “capture” these activ- ities. Then we will see than an immediately change can be, made. I do think that in many cases, our language apparatuses are too top heavy, while the membership is rather small. Entirely too much of energy is required for the upkeep of the offices and full time func- tionaries, who are very busy mo- bilizing the membership of the Jan- guage organizations to their inner activities, instead of involving them more into shop, union, unemployed activities, etc. We have a number of instances where our language comrades have had a shop unit for several years in certain important factories (steel, automobile, etc,) and these units have not grown in size, neither in their activities, These are a few of the sore spots where the change is required very rapidly. Instead of wasting all of the time of our comrades on the inner activities of the language or- ganizations, we must be able to or- ganize our work in such a way that we have time enough to broaden our work among the new strata of un- organized workers, and also among the reactionary-led mass organiza- tions. If we are able to do that, then we can be sure that the entire outlook of the language organiza- tions will be turned towards revolu- tionary every day activities, THE $60,000 DRIVE Received Sept. 28 $440.89 Previously Received $9,648.70 Total to Date $10,089.59 DISTRICT 1 (Boston) Back Bay Unit Sec. 9 2.00 Malden Unit Sec. 3 13.00 North End Unit Sec. 1 3.25 Dorchester Unit Sec 2 1,00 Providence Unit Sec 4 10.00 Roxsbury Unit Sec 2 1.50 Total Sept. 23 30.75 Total to date 702.48 PB4.0v .... iu shrdl emfwy vbgk emfwy DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Sec 4 Unit 418 447 Sec 2 Unit 168 2.15 Sec 4 UnitSG14 3.15 Sec 2 Unit 6S 1.50 Sec 4 Unitt24 1.50 Sec 2 Unit 268 .60 Sec 4 Unit 421.50 Sec 2 Unit 365i 1.50 Sec 4 Unit 428 .75 Sec 2 Day Unit 5.00 Sec 4 Unit SG4 5.00 Sec 2 Day Unit 3.30 Sec 4 Unit SG. 2.00 Sec 6 Unit 12 8.15 Sec 4 Unit 413 3.00 Sec 6 Unit 1 9.50 Sec 4 Unit 427 2.50 Sec Unit 2 5.00 Sec 4 Unit 410 2.50 Sec 6 Unit 4 5.00 Sec 4 Unit 404 3.35 Sec 6 Unit 4 5.00 Sec .. Unit 427 4.00 Sec 6 Unit 9 5.00 Sec 4 Unit SG4 .50 Sec 6 Unit 14 5.00 Sec 4 Unit 411 1.15 See 6 Unit 16 10.00 Sec 4 Unit 411 3.15 Sec 6 Unit1 2.00 Sec 4 Unit 408 1.50 Sec 6 Unit2 5.50 Sec 4 Unit 408 5.61 Sec 6 Unit? .25 Bec 1 Unit 20 2.60 Sec 6 Unit 9 3.50 Sec 1 Unit 18 1.25 Sec 6 Unit 12 10.00 Sec 1 Unit 5 13.75 Sec 6 Unit 20 1.00 Sec 1 Unit 10 1.75 Sec 6 Sec 16 1.50 3ec 1 Unit 9 6.00 Sec 6 Unit 20 3ec 1 Unit 32 5.55 Affair 11.15 Sec 1 Unit 8 10.00 Sec 6 Unit 5.50 Sec 1 Unit 18 1.00 Sec 6 Unit 25 5.00 Sec 1 Unit 5 2.00 Sec 6 Unit 25 1.25 Sec 1 Unit 10 6.50 Ukrain. Women Sec 1 Unit 9 2.00 Org. Downt'n 5.00 Sec 1 Unit 8 1.25 Workers Center Sec 1 Unit 14 1.00 Barber Shop .65 Sec 1 Unit 17 11.15 Milinery United Sec 10 Unit 88 .46 Front PB 5.00 Sec. 4 Unit 429 5.00 Millinery United Sec 10 YCL 1.00 Front CP 1.00 Sec 10 Unit 2 2.51 Merens 2.00 Sec 10 Unit 45 2.44 L. Koaman 1.00 Sec 10 Unit 85 .80 Mrs J Silverman 1.00 Sec 19 YCL 5.00 Group of Sec 10 Unit 58 1.25 Friends 9.00 Sec 10 Unit 283.50 AK 2.00 o Sec 10 Unit 58 1.67 A & Jennings 5.00 Sec 10 Unit 1 4.41 Bec 10 Unit 2 1.00 Sec 19 Unit 18 2, 3ec 10 Unit 2 D. W. Party 19.00 3ec 2 Unit 268 5.00 not listed in error 3.40 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) Sec 2-4 OP 1.00 Ozecho Siovak Sec 2-4 PB 1.75 Fraction PB 1.50 Sec 8-5 PB 5.00 Finish ‘Wkrs So- Sec 8-4 PB 5.00 elety 5.00 Sec 9-4 Kent 2.00 Sec 2 Kay 2.88 Roumanian Wkrs Tot Sept 28 34.63 Club PB 10.00 Tot to date 448.48 DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) 8. Cone Garrison 20.00 Total September 28 29.00 Total to date 50.27 DISTRICT 14 (Newark) Slovak Workers Societ B. 2002 TWO 2.00 Total September 28 2.00 Total to date 162.51 DISTRICT 15 (New Mayen) ALDLD Hartford Carl A. Samber Total September 28 Total to date DISTRICT 19 (Colorado) ‘Unit 6 3.50 Slavic Club Unit 5 2 WESL Unit 2 2.07 Joe Ray Unit 2 21 Spis Unit 1 -80 Conf. Coli ‘Unit 7 2.00 District Unit 3 PB 1.71 Haybro., Col. Unit 5 PB 5.00 WEC 3.25 Total Sept 28 34.44 JIWwo 3.50 Tot to date 224.99 DISTRICT 20 (Houston) S E Hursl, May, Tex 1.00 Total September 28 Total to date DISTRICT 2 (W. Virginia) RNMAS Br 128 Osage Total to date * Total September 38