The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1934 Negro and White RR W WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Pamphlets on Gencrrhea F. K., Deroche, British Columbia. —The cause of gonorrhea is a germ called the gonococcus, usually spread by sexual contact. The disease is treated by the injection of antis tic solutions into the lining of the canal of the sexual organ. Different solutions can be used according to} the judgement of a competent doc- tor. The ons most often used are ar protargol, acriflavine, | * and pota: Mm perr ganate. Self reatment for gonor is not ad- isable since it may be harmful. It | is best to trust to treatment by a} competent physician or clinic. | Treatment by herbs, diets or elec- tricity for the usual case of gonor- | rhea is useless and may even be | jurious | Information about venereal dis- | eases may be secured from the Ul d States Public Health Servic w D. C. They have pamphlets the subject. You can get a copy of Medicine” by writing to the Litera- ture Department, Communist Party, fifth floor, New York City, en- closing $1.50. The book will be mailed to you. Diagrams of the sexual organs | and their function may be found in} any book on sex or physiology. | iscussing all phases of Bronchitis Curevble for the Bourgeoisie C. S., Providence:—Since you have had an X-ray of the chest and you were told that your lungs are in good condition, it is probable that tuberculosis is not the cause of your chronic bronchitis. It is impossible to say from your account whetvex | vaccine treatment will help you. in- fection of the nose and sinuses sometimes cause chronic bronchitis. In such cases vaccine treatment may help. It would be wise to remain under your doctor’s care and take the treatment throughout the fall and winter. Anybody with a chronic infection of the lungs or bronchial tubes will | bronchitis, but it is hardly likely “Red |} T.M.U. Wins In Fight To Rehire 3 By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I work for the Western Union in the Times Sa. |district. I have been a member of that you have the means to change|the Telegraph Messenger Union your residence. In the event that|Since April. Conditions in our you can, it would be advisable to|ice are continually _ growing first consult your doctors about a/¥0'S®, and if it keeps up this pace le climate. In Russia, t we will soon receive a “salary’ know how to.care for workers that will leave us enough money to troubles like yours. The Crimea, or come to work and buy lunches, Tre the shores of the Black Sea, one of |W U: is using all the latest tricks the most famous cure resorts for |'® Sive us cuts, and at the same diseases of the lungs, in the world, | UM stifle anybody who makes a is set aside for the cure of workers jkick. This follows the catering and with lung trouble. In America there Penonaes they made to us, pleading are places with similar climate ac- jby means of. their managers ane ae iy iy teak isi jother lackeys, that we be consid- cupied only by rgecisie. |erate and not do a rash thing like }going out on strike. At that time | they went so far as to give us in- creases in wages, Now many mes- engers are beginning to see these tk Ss. Also at this time the union just won a tremendous victory. first time, a messengers’ union has forced the company to take back |three fired messengers, and this lowed after mu htin; Comrades R. B. and Philadelphia: |{ovo "cr net much Hehing on tad Your answers are ready, but We | for 10 weeks, and final: . , ly forced the don’t Know where to send them./j. R. A. to make this decision. Please send us your names and ad-/ when the fellows’ in my office re- dresses. ceived this leaflet announcing the victory they forgot about their messages and grouped outside the office discussing with high confi- dence the news of the victory. Talk be greatly improved on a diet that includes plenty of milk, butter, eggs, fruit juices and liver. A tablespoon- ful of cod liver oil every day and at least nine hours sleep a night will also help a great deal. A change in climate is very use- ful to some sufferers from chronic Gelatin Not Fattening ke, it was stated recently a polysaccharide, and ning as othe: gal in is not a polysaccharide, but tein substance and not fat- Thank you Comrade P. B wark, eee * Addresses Wanted A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means | a tremendous step toward the | dictatorship of the proletariat! rn | Square and G. C. district. The T. NOTE: |M. U. has just completed one step, We publish letters every Friday |in the organization of the messen- from workers in the transporta- gers, and that is to break through IN THE By HELE New Issue of “Working Woman” Out “In Saylesville during the vicious attack on the pickets by the Na-| tional Guards, women led the| charge of unarmed strikers into the | barbed wire. Vomit gas, bullets, | clubs spared women no more than / they spared men and boys. It was a girl worker who reformed the | lines, went from group to group with messages and orders, organ- ized workers’ self-defense.” This is a paragraph taken from the stirring tribute to the courage of the women textile strikers, by | Merle Colby, appearing in the Oc- tober issue of the “Working Woman’”—another fine issue equal- | ing that of September, the great improvement in which resulted in | Many new subscriptions. The short story, “Water,” by Myra Page, follows up her “Let Them Meters Be” of the previous issue. There are other short stor- ies, letters from a Carolina mill worker and Negro workers of both North and South. Grace Hutchins’ “You're Telling Me!” page deals with the girl strikers’ battle against the bosses and the housewife’s battle against the High Cost of Living. Sasha Small does another sharp and amusing piece, this time on “Love Leads the Way, or, Why Girls Leave Home.” There’s ad- vice on treatment of colds and care of skin; and a piercing thrust at bourgeois “philanthropies” and fas- cist ideas on the place of women in life, by Judith Bloch. Elba Chase, candidate for Goy- ernor of New Hampshire, tells “Why I am a Communist,” and there are brief articles concerning the election campaign, textile strike, and Women’s Councils. In short, a varied and interesting table of contents. One fault with the maga- zine though—there’s not enough of it! This can be remedied only by getting funds and more subs into the hands of the editors, so that following issues can be bigger and still better. We venture to say that this new issue will sell easily, as the previous one did. (P. O. Box 87, Station D, New York City.) | Meanwhile, here on the home | grounds, we are girding for the ar- | ranging of that new double-bar- | reled column we promised, catch- | ing the contributions as they come in, and desperately hoping that we shall not have to bring up the rear | in the in‘er-columnar socialist com- | petition, as we did last time. | ‘There’s another forty cents come | over the plate—that makes one-| forty for us so far. (Our quota’s | $500.) | know you will stick by me. . $15,000 International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East llth St. New York City I contribute $.. and Defense. . for ADDRESS 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 oe room for scrub-out, that is, general Letter from Haywood Patterson, Kilby Prison, June 29, 1994. SCOTTSBORO-HEKENDON EMERGENCY FUND N LUKE tion and communications indus- | the terror of the companies. Mean- press companies, truck drivers, | issues any calls for action. industries to write us of their these letters to us by Tuesday of | Endorse spondent the railroad labor chiefs, is Con- tries—railroad, marine, surface | while, the T. M. U. is girding up to lines, subway, elevated lines, ex- {prevent the company split, when it telephone, telegraph, etc. | —A MESSENGER. We urge workers from these wt NS : ° conditions of work, and their | H d struggles to organize. Please get | nion reads each week. | By a Railroad Worker Corre- DETROIT.—One of the candi- |dates endorsed for re-election, by gressional representative Carl M. Weideman, of Michigan. When the Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2043 is available only in sizes 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16. Size 12 takes 3 yards 36 inch fabric. Illus- trated step-by-step sewing instruc- tions included, | strike, Weideman butted into the | situation. was given much public- ity, and by alternately running to the company, then the strike com- | mittee and to the City Hall, he did |most effective work in helping to break the strike. Since being en- |dorsed by the labor chiefs he has been repudiated by the workers of Detroit, and is now talking recount while negotiating with the Farmer- Labor Party. During the auto strike, the Auto Workers News printed a letter from a scab agency to a tool and die shop, the first paragraph reading as follows: “During the recent tool and die strike this agency was called upon for several men to protect their property . . . two of these shops have now appealed to us for under cover men. These undercover men can turn over a lot of information that would be very valuable to their employer. If a strike is brewing the employer would know who the lead- ers are from the undercover men.” This letter was from the Dawn Patrol, a spy agency, and one of the four members of the board of directors listed on the letterhead of the circular was Carl M. Weide- man! !! ! This may not be sur- prising though, with D. B. Robert- son, president of the Locomotive Firemen, a member of the board of directors of the National Civic Fed- eration, another scab agency (on @ national scale). OY For the | lis spreading rapidly over the Times | jauto workers of Detroit were on| e |By a R. R. Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo.—I am a Pullman worker and have been for 10 years. |Today I am doing the work of 3 }men. Ten years ago I was blowing |4 cars and today I am blowing 10 jand 12—just one man. The conditions are going from |bad to worse—we are speeded-up and work 5 days a week. I am so tired when night comes, that sometimes I can't go to my organ- ization and lodge meetings. Two per cent of our wages each month is taken out for insurance and 2 for old age pensions. If a worker loses his job he never gets this money back, The Pullman employees were cut 10 per cent 3 years ago. ‘The fore- men and skilled mechanics have }gotten theirs back, but us poor blowers and cleaners, haven't got- ten a thing back as yet. Now with the high cost of living, we ought to get a 10 per cent increase. How are we ever going to get better condi- tions unless we organize? Up until now, we have been the victims of the Blue Book (Com- pany Union) which has never done anything for us workers, The men are fed up and dissatisfied. About 2 weeks ago a mass meeting of the Pullman workers was called at which 150 Negro and white work- kers Join to Fight Prepare Militant Struggle As Pay Cuts, Speed Up, Increase ers were present. own interests, company. After a warm a committee of instructed to examine a number of union and bring in a report. quite a demand for an independent union with a militant program of struggle to fight against jim- crowism, discrimination, for higher wages, more men, no speed-up. But we workers have got to work fast The bosses’ agents will work hard to shove the company union down our throats. Our agreement ex- pires by Oct. 31st, and if we don’t defeat the company union, conditions will be still worse. I know that the Communist Party is the vanguard and the leader of the working class. I find that only the Daily Worker brings to light the sufferings, striv- ings and struggles of the workers, and as the organ of the Commu- nist Party, it shows us the way out. All Pullman workers should read it and use it as their beacon light. By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO. — The Yellow Cab Company of Chicago, one of the most vicious exploiters of labor, has everything down to perfection when it comes to robbing the workers. This multi-milion dollar concern has an abundance of high-priced direc- tors who regale in splendor and lux- ury, while the cab drivers slave 12 to 14 and in many instances, 16 hours a day for as low as 8 to 10 dollars a week. The “cabbies’ em- ployed by the Yellow Cab Company, enjoy no regular wages, a commis- sion of 37% per cent of the fares are the remuneration given the drivers and manifold are the schemes this robber outfit employ to still further chisel down the mis- erable pay. Each cab driver must daily bring in a minimum of $7.15 for total mileage, rain or shine, summer or winter, this is an unbreakable rule, and with.the thousands of cabs playing the streets of Chicago this in many instances becomes a prac- tical impossibility. If for any rea- son this amount is not brought in, the driver is deprived of work the next day, and 5 per cent of that week’s wages is automatically de- ducted, to still further fatten the salaries of the directors, and fill the | coffers of this Wall Street controlled corporation. The impossibility of bringing in $7.15 total mileage daily can best be illustrated by the following: If a driver should be fortunate, in many instances, un- fortunate to get a trip, say of 20 miles out to a suburb, this at first glance would indicate a lucky break, but a closer analysis will prove otherwise. For the question of dead mileage immediately arises when the fare leaves the cab. The problem of getting a fare back to the city is the driver's, and late at night to get somebody from a suburb to go back to the city is by no means easy. Nevertheless when the cab driver checks in, 15 cents a mile travelled must be accounted for—one of the many nefarious schemes used to cut the wages. All gasoline used by the driver, the driver pays for, himself, high priced uniforms must be bought. Company Sports N.R.A. Sign As Drivers Get $8 Weekly from the company, To pilot a cab through Chicago for 14 hours a day when the thermom- eter hovers near the century to bring home $150 or $1.75 for your day’s effort and toil are, we can all agree, the height of indig- nity. . * These conditions of labor and wages received, of course, the blessings of the Biue Eagle and the N.R.A., whose emblem with the inscription “We Do Our Part” are prominently displayed on each cab, to the mockery and chagrin of every Yellow Cab driver, No effort has been made, by the officials of our Local and the Inter- national of Teamsters and Chauf- feurs Unions, where the cab drivers belong, to alleviate these ter- rible conditions and to organize these workers. Here is a condition which beggars Men with families to support, sweating and toiling 14 to 16 hours a day for 8 to 10 dollars description. a week and not a finger is lifted to help these unfortunate men in the clutches of this Octopus from Wall Street. pee eae We hope that our International President, Daniel Tobin, with his $25,000 a year salary enjoys his three months leave of absence with pay, secure in the feeling that every- thing is well in the Teamsters move- ment in Chicago, both organized and unorganized. At least Brother To- bin could have sent in an organizer before he left on his rejuvenation trip, to find out if these cab drivers were still alive or already dead from hunger and starvation. In the mean- time we advise all our brothers in the Yellow Cab Co., to organize rank and file groups in their re- spective garages. Talk to your fel- low driver about the miserable con- ditions under which you work, he is no doubt thoroughly digusted, the same as you, and ready for ac- tion. Get together in small groups and talk things over, organize a union with a rank and file leader- ship to fight for a decent livelihood. A Chicago Truck Driver. The bosses of course had their agents there to try and enforce the company union, but the majority of the workers ex- pressed determination for a union of their own. They are no longer afraid of their jobs. They want a union that will be fighting for their and not for the discussion, 7—4 white and 3 Negro workers—were elected and contracts and agreements There was our mark will tax any man’s strength, but Pullman Company Union be ‘Centralia Railroad Fires 400 By a Worker Correspondent CENTRALIA, Ill.—Exemplifying the slogan, all the news that’s fit to print, the daily paper at this @int, three weeks ago, gave three }inches space to stating that the C. B. and O. Railroad had “put on 12 men” in their car repair de- partment at Centralia. However, although the Illinois Central lines here gave notice on last Tuesday to 400 of their car builders that they would be laid off indefinitely on Friday of this week, and today is the Sunday follow:ng, no men- tion has yet been made in the lo- cal papers of this decrease in the force. Nor has anything been said about the fifth round house man laid off 10 days ago. The Barnes shoe factory is mov- ing their equipment to St. Louis and dismantling their plant. In of commerce - herewith enclosed you will note the chamber claims that only about 60 of the 500 em- ployees so “intimidated” the other 440 that they were afraid to re- main at work. Conversations at random with a dozen or more workers at their homes disclosed that all but one was in favor of re- sisting the company’s demand that it be allowed to hire and fire as it chose, dispensing with those who could not do their piece work under the daily schedule of $2.40 for wo- men and $2.80 for men, Therefore reverse the figures and make it 60 against union policies and 440 for it, and the story reads correctly. Asks Soviet Workers To Help in Fight By a Railroad Worker Correspondent LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.—I am a worker on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The bosses have been very successful with their red scare, mainly that one about the Soviet Union lining any worker up against the wall and shooting them if they have an accident. The workers compare the rail- roads of the Soviet with our roads which are more highly developed, not considering that they are about 200 years behind us in development; that when the Soviets came into power, the railroads were still using hand brakes, not yet having air brakes. The workers do not con- sider that the road beds were very much neglected and the rolling stock completely antiquated. Per- sonally I can realize that consider- ing what the Soviets had to work with, they are progressing wonder- fully. They are not handicapped like us under a capitalist system, that if we see a way of doing our work in less time and an easier way, we can’t show it to our boss because if we did he would make us do that work and then give us some work for his own profit and probably lay off some of ‘Us. Even if the government does take over the radio it wouldn’t solve our problems of unemployment and star- vation wages. The railroad workers had a taste of government (capital- ist) ownership of roads during the last imperialist slaughter (world war). While all other workers were making higher wages by fighting for them, the government was able to keep the wages of the railroad workers down. I think the Daily Worker should set up correspondence between the American railroad workers and the railroad workers in the Soviet Union. At least if we could not help them Solve all their problems, they could show us here just what a Soviet government would mean to railroad workers in better conditions. By a Worker Correspondent | I was a waiter aboard the Morro | Castle when it burned. I’ve been | reading a lot of stuff in the papers about the Reds burning the ship and about the cowardice and inef- ficiency of the crew. I’m writing this letter in order that workers can know what conditions are aboard these boats. I made four trips aboard the Morro Castle and before that I worked on other boats. The Ward Line had a hard job getting men to sign up because the Morro | Castle had a reputation as a slave | ship. I took the job because I ’ needed the money and it was all I could get. My salary was $40 a month. | We were called from our bunks | in the glory-hole at 5:30 am. We | went immediately to the dining- AG em OASE Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE IZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th Street, New York City. (clean-up of the dining room and | the surrounding alley-ways. Then | We set the tables for the passen- | gers’ breakfast. We worked in the |dining room until 7, then we had |@ half-hour in which to wash our- | selves and dress and eat our own | breakfast. The glory hole where |the crew, the stewards and the waiters had their sleeping quarters had only one steward to take care | of it, and, since we never had time | to clean, it was always pretty dirty. | We also had to use this half-hour |to lay out but‘er, water, napkins, etc, on the passengers’ tables so $15,000 the Scottsboro-Herndon Appeals Slave Pay and Conditions on Morro Castle; Waiter on Ship Blames Owners yor Disaster ¢ Breakfast was supposed to last from 7:30 until 10 a.m., but lots of the passengers came down after 10 and we had to be there. As soon as the last passenger was finished, we began cleaning the tables and re-laying them for lunch and an- other scrub-out lasting until about 11:30 a.m. We were then supposed to have about a 15-minute rest period, but as passengers came late to breakfast this so-called rest period was shortened. We had to be back in the dining room at 11:45 to get ready for lunch, which began at 12. The first sitting was from 12 to 1:30, the second from 1:30 to 3, but again late passengers would be there until 4. Then another general clean-up and scrub out lasting until about 5. We were supposed to have a rest period from then until 5:30, but there were always special jobs like helping to serve tea, and so forth. You may wonder when we were supposed to eat lunch. Well, we had to squeeze lunch in any time we could after the passengers were finished. We ate what was left after the passengers were finished. If there was much left over, we were lucky. If there wasn’t, we were out of luck. We were out of luck loads of times. At 5:30 we had to be pack at our posts. It was supposed to be 5:45, but there were always menus and ship news to be fixed up and distributed, be- sides the regular table lay-out to be | breakfast could begin at 7:30 sharp. made. This all had to be ready before 6, when dinner began. The ; first setting was from 6 till 7:30. The second setting lasted until 10, instead of 9, when it should have been over. Then general cleaning again until about 11, and then we gulped down our own dinner, which naturally we had to serve ourselves. If we were lucky and were not given extra duty, like helping in the bar, we could crawl into our bunks about 11:30, and let me tell you, fellow-workers, we were too tired to think about anything but sleep, so that we could be up at 5:30 the next morning. This kept up day after day, ex- cept that the day before docking in Havana or New York, we had io! work harder and faster. We docked at New York about 8 a.m. We had to get up @ half hour earlier and we worked continuously until 11 am., fixing the dining room so that new passengers would get a good impression of the ship. Then we were allowed to go ashore. We had to be back on board at 1 p.m. That meant we had about two hours to see our families. If we missed the 1 p.m. muster, we were fired. As soon as we got back on board ship, the grind began again. This is the way we waiters lived aboard the Morro Castle, work, work, work, continuously, always rushing. If you complained you were called a Red, and if you tried ‘to organize the workers for better conditions, you were fired, the way Alagna, the radio operator, was slated to be fired. They blamed the fire on the Reds. | They say the crew was inefficient. Well, I say, the whole fauli was the owners’. All they wanted to do was to make more money. They drove everybody, from the deck boys to the captain. We were sup- posed to attend fire drills on Sun- days during the rest period. Can you blame us if we grumbled about it. How can you expect co-opera- tion from men who were treated like slaves. And, in spite of that, I know that the crew did all it could to save passengers. From the time I was awakened by the fire alarm at 3 a.m. until 4 p.m., when we were forced to abandon ship, I saw no officers and received no orders, yet another seaman and myself fought the fire with hoses, and, when the fire got too hot, we got all the pas- sengers we could and went over the side of the boat. As a worker aboard te Morro Castle, I want to protest against the attempts of the Ward Line to take the blame off their own shoul- ders, where it belongs, and putting it on the Reds and on the crew. I can say that in spite of the fact that the crew was dissa‘isfied be- cause of over-work and under-pay, it did all it could. As long as ship- owners think only of profits, there are bound to be disasters at sea. the statement of the local chamber | PARTY LIFE Birmingham District Plans To Recruit sent to all members of the Birming- ham District: “Dear Comrades:— “At the recent meeting of the Central Committee it was again stated that the South is ripe for building a mass Communist Party. We all see the Southern masses in action against the hunger and lynch drive of the New Deal. Al- most a quarter of a million South- ern textile workers are striking with real militancy for better conditions. In the Alabama Black Belt we see the Share Croppers’ Union leading croppers and farm workers in a small but historic cotton pickers’ strike. Labor solidarity between white and Negro toilers is growing. At the same time it is clear t even the blind that great struggles of the unemployed, of the farmers, and bigger strikes are ahead of us in the South and in our district. The steel workers and miners of the T. C. I. are preparing struggles that will shake the capitalist class in our district. “The Communist Party must lead these struggles. We can not allow ourselves to be as weak in the big struggles ahead as we find ourselves in the textile strike. The way to lead the struggles of the masses, and the only and best way to fight the police terror is to build the Party. “The Central Committee resolu- tion on the lessons of the recent strike struggles in the U.S. A. says: “We must everywhere undertake in connection with our struggles, to build the Party and the Y. C. L.; to raise the level of the Party mem- bership; to develop their initiative and to prepare them to function under attack; to prepare the Party apparatus to be able to work and be connected with the masses under the increasing fascist terror now developing the country over.’ . “And, furthermore, the Central Committee letter of July 16 told us that: “‘A yeal drive must be made to recruit new members, especially workers from the heavy industries, and, above all, from the concen- tration points. A serious drive to win the most militant Negro and white workers and strikers must get jigderway.” “1, For these reasons, the Dis- trict Buro has decided on a mem- bership drive to last three months, from Oct. 1 to Jan. 31. The plan is to win 750 members, to be recruited and distributed as follows: “Birmingham, 350—Section 1, 20; Section 2, 40; Section 2-a, 20; Sec- tion 2-b, 20; Section 2-c, 20; Sec- tion 3, 30; Section 3-a, 40; Section 4, 20; Section 5, 20; Section 6, 50; Section 6-a, 50; Section 8, 20. The following letter has been, 750 Members Letter to All Communists in District Declares South Is Ripe for Building Mass Party Bessemer, 80; Tallapoosa, 75, Selma, 60; Montgomery, 40; Mobile, 30; Memphis, 20; Oxford, 15; Niota, 10; miscellaneous, 30, Challenges District 19 “This membership drive is to be a planned and enthusiastic drive. First, we are challenging our brother district, 19, which covers Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The comrades in this district are very active, and we will have to work hard to get more members than they in this three months’ drive. “At least 100 of these new members must be white workers. The Southern white toilers are drawing closer to the Party. They re in a fighting mood, as is seen in the textile strike. The winning of these white workers is one of the biggest jobs of the whole drive. “We have set ourselves the task of getting 200 women into the Party in this period. We are also setting the quota of 250 new members for the Y. C. L, It is up to the Party to put this over. “The whole drive must be carried out on the basis of our concentra- tion plan. It means that our job is to win the white and Negro workers in the steel mills, mines, railroads. Above all, we must over- come our weakness among the tex- tile workers, and bring these mili- tant fighters into the Party. At least 300 of the new members are to be members of trade unions, be- cause the main mass work of our Party is the work in the trade unions and big industries. In addi- tion to this every Party member who can is to become a member of a trade union, All those who can- not join a trade union, like the unemployed, are to be active in un- employed work, unless their main work is elsewhere (I.LD., etc.). We must tlsa bring in the best fighters among the farm laborers and crop- pers. “In order to do this we must tighten up our own ranks, and con- solidate our forces. This means every old member is to be made active, to help carry on the Party tasks. In those few cases where it is impossible to activize comrades, they shall be dropped from ihe Party. All Party members must have their dues paid up to date. ‘ No one shall be brought into the Party who does not agree to attend meetings, to be active and disci- plined, and to pay his dues reg- ularly. “Comrades, in the sections and units, discuss how to carry out this plan. It can and must be carried out. “DISTRICT BURO, DISTRICT 17.” Seamen! Longshoremen! The Daily Worker urges all seamen and longshoremen to write about all developments connected with the approaching strike, the sentiments among their fellow workers, actions to establish one united strike front of seamen and longshoremen along the entire Atlantic and Gulf Coast, and so to prevent any sell-out or arbitration scheme of the International Seamen’s Union leaders. Write about everything that you dis- cuss with your fellow workers. This will make it possible for us to help in organizing and win- ning your struggle. Before and during the strike first consideration in the pub- lication of news and corre- spondence will be given to the marine strike. Communists Win Place on Vermont Ballots By a Worker Correspondent BARRE, Vt.—Yesterday the Party went on the Vermont ballot, as an- nounced in the capitalist news- papers, with Comrade Thomas Boyd of South Woodstock running for governor, The Barre Unit obtained a gross of 1700 signatures in two months of which 1350 were certified. This means that everyone in the unit worked evenings, after their day’s work was over, along with many other activities, such as the I. L. D. drive for membership, establish- ment of Marx-Lenin classes, granite fraction work, and party member- ship drive, demonstrations for Ne- gro rights, mass meetings and rais- ing money for the Daily Worker, selling 160 Labor Defenders leat month, and house-to-house sale of the Daily Worker. Total October 3 ‘Total to date 22.24| Total to October 3 1 THF $60,000 DRIVE ived October 3 180.25 DISTRICT 6 ((leveland) Previously ‘Received 12,697.80| Br. ¥ 119 I.W.O., Bellaire Total October 2 ‘Total to date 12,878.05 | Total to date x DISTRICT 2 (New York City) DISTRICT 8 (Chicage) Section 1 Unit 5 .00| Section 3 7.5 H Williams 2.13| Section 12 12.85 Rene, Gus, Herman & Benny 4.00| Section 9 5.00 K Ryder 1.05 | Section 9-916 3.00 Harry Cohen 1.00] City ‘Hall 1.00 Red Builders .15|Gary Sec, 3 P B 15.00 Don. for Change the World 2.00| Scandinavian Prac. 5.00 A booster .95 |, Section 1 10.00 Bronx White Collar Worker 1.00] ‘Section 1 19.00 Mr, Platter 1.00 | George Exhoras 3.00 Anonymous 5.00| Total October 3 80.80 Total to date es 1148.34 tober 3 23.18 DISTRICT 9 (Minneapolis Total to dete 5610.39|S T Y¥ Courses 2.03 DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) ce a on . Anna Wilkens al ate t ree ee PISTHIOT. 12. (Henttte) ae 1 October 3 1.00 | Section x Total to date 2255.92 | Unit 15, Tigard, Ore, 2.00 DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) OF reticle At) hoff .00 | Total e ‘ hse eriaat DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) Total October 3 1.00/I L D Lithuanian . Total to date 80.62|'Total to October 3 2.00 DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) Total to date Johnstonw Unit 1.25 DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) LW.O. Br. 584 fais ve 1.00 Coration Workers Club 2. Pils is Jewish Buro 4.10| Total to October 3 1.00 Tannehill Local Unemp. Council 3.00] Total to date 198.70 Slovak Br. I.W.O. 2056 2.00 DISTRICT 22 (West Virginia) East Liberty 1.94 | District 30.00 Total to date NAME 50 EAST 13th St. Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! ADDRESS AMOUNT ee a Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER New York, N. ¥.