The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1934, Page 4

Page 2 Page 4 { apcnaasa UY VaNAR Aas ae yr A MASARS TT tare) an rarce ae WN Reena ene en DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1934 Aspinook Textile Keller’ Cannot Stop Fight Of Paterson Workers Locking for Leadership from Rank and File in Struggle Against Wage Cuts t he is. They know m as a| breaker, and as a misleader ne working class, a betrayer at time when they needed real ng leadership to lead them to| win their strike and |) B e had the} uarters locked the day was sold out, and he he workers back te work without winning one of their de- 6 of thee oworl rike for this| itting UPD &/ the wor and to} mands, to face a wage-cut in some u Keller tried to demoralize | ers so the bosses would | win ke, instead of organiz- ng and preparing the workers to t the betrayal and sell- | ian and Co. ilk workers know Keller for Wicker: in New Bedford | Boss Effect OfGorman-GreenSellout By a Worker Correspondent Tries to Gee: nas With Paying Girls $2 For 24 Hours of Work By a Worker Correspondent Suffering from NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—The NEW YORK.—Recently at the workers here are still dizzy opening of a new addition to the Gorman and Green. World Clothing Exchange, one boss bad, not much hired something like 25 girls for the boss claims it w or'three weeks. it looks to us as if it w any better that opening. After putting in 14 hours of work the first day and 10 hours the next day, we were offered $2 bum gang.|for the two days. After a heated | Lots of misery and we can’t pay|argument with the manager and t certainly looks as ifthe big boss we persuaded them to mter will be worse than ever. cive us $3 per day. $400 Received from oe Central Committee of IWO CONTRIBUTION of $400 from the City Central Committee of the I. W. O. makes up almost half of New York's total. The sections in this district are also heavy contributors, Section 14 sending in almost a hundred dollars. New York must continue sending in amounts close to a thousand every day, if the 8-page paper is to be published after Election 1 workers’ organizations must try every means to fill their quotas t s should contribute and make collections today. Received Oct $1,104.11 | w. 8. Jones 25 G. Sams 50 Ha 17,501.65 | 4’ Maynor 25 J. Velonis 50 Taos 7¢| Dan Roger 2 Roy Smith 25 Total to date $18,605.76 | Ar wie | ag fl - DISTRICT 1 (Boston) G. Williams 1.25 4 _— : s Unit Total Oct.15, 1934 $8.00 4.2 Total to date $67.25 1, DISTRICT 1 (St. Louis) 3.75 | M. B., Arkansas 3.15 Total Oct.15, 1934 0 Brighton Unit, Total to date $5.00 Sec. 1 2.00 Lanesv'le Unit 14.00] Goll, by V. Feld- Lithuanian A.L.D ish Workers Anonymous 1401" Heine LD. Br. 714.00 a | Col by Victor Feid- Total Oct. 15, 1934 $6370 | J. Lebetz $ 25 | ‘stein, Sec 11 Dis 2 Total to date 3965.39 | A. Kleppel 28) p Hanchow 1.00 a 5 M. Lervin 28 | Rebbe pty DISTRICT 2 (New York City) i Paatinin. 26 | 8 z Sec. 16 $90 ©. Wemberex 1.00 Vanatn | W Winter 50 der Molen 75 35 | O Lauer Klippa 50 | 1.001 p. Margolis 33 | Sering Pity epoca 8! A Cottrval 1.00! Kiss | Nat Hellman (25 1.00 | M. Roman | Max Lorenz 128 on A Rothkowits (25 $00) oceans | H Skoinick 135 1.00 | J Kernptt 25 Gatrel Gora Coll. by F. Eckloff, | Vaneck 50 LW. 400.00 n Mt., Mich, | Greenberg “35 3.00 | FritzJohnson 1.0¢/ A Jacobs ‘50 35 | John Mahoney 5] & Fri 50 20 Wireen 5t| Spazi 23 15.00 Gioaccisu 31 | Geo. Noslak 25 Orvin Makie 54 | Lerner 30 Si 3.00 | Cash 128 | Metzga 1.00 D. W. Med. Ady Lite, 24 | V Feldstein 1.00 ou Be 5.00 | John Jackson 21 | F Roman 50 D. W. Med. Ady. 8. Anderson 21 | Kurth 50 Paul Peterson .24| D Roman 30 T.H.Gorman .21|G Schoenfeld 150 ci Barbi 26 | Col by Chassel, ERs Herbert Ber 10} Mich. Unit 2 eee tuts rs Coll. by Astoria, | Allie & Emil Las- Unit 13 50 Ore | sila 1 ab: aeeaaterneh v 25| John Lassila 11 2 Sam Banks 1.00 | 4 58 | Working Women’: 6 2.00 | A 3¢| Club ‘ 1.90 | E. Myntle 51 | Vieno Tormala 2.90 | V. Koskela 2\| Milgo Lassila 1.00 | B. Engstrom 2) | John Tarmala } (09 | P. Mustonen 5 | Chas. Peterson 100 | A. Piippo 54 | John Laiti 2 United Council Red Party 2.08 | A. Pikkala 31 | Mary Laiki 25 nag. Wome s E. Lippala 34| Henty Tormala .25 Sere ee D300] FV. Wyrtkaula 23 | Col ‘by John ag —_____] ©. Runttila 24| Mackay, Iron- t. 15, 192 9 | S. Mathla 28 | wood, Mich. =o. se'965.40 | 8. Koski 28 | Bessemer Woman's DISTRICT 3 Coll. by | Club 1.00 ass. $1. 0000r Z}A1L, 010 Paul Dale | John Kristo 1.00 ee * O__ | A farmer 1.09 | Wm Simo Foe. 18 $2.00 | P. Dale 1.01 | Viktor Vuorinen to date $2,506.92 | A. Sotka 5\| Henry Karju - S. Mathla 5\| Mikka Harju pin renCr & Cantal) so | J: Trepula 1.08 | Ida Huhtaia Goll. by Rach.Fec. Perini One? SoU Care -28| Jacob Lahti ‘Pag Da: $28.02 Phil Ray, Unit § 2.00) 8 yathile 23 | Edla Haanpaa Costa Unit2 3.35 Day Unit 2.00) wm. Parhu 2)| Lanna Kevari Chaney Dixon, Unit 101 1,68 bop nares a | tone unit 7 eae ae S. Mattila 54 | Col by J. Dicie- ‘otal Oct. 15, 1934 $43.02 | Coil, by Lydia | wicz, Poughkeep- ‘Total to cate $216.69 Maalta | sie, T.w.o, DISTRICT & (Chicago) No. Ironwood Sam Taub 25 JMarticek £1.90 Morris Nulsen 1.00] Women’s Club $1.08| Leo Steinman 2.90 Dr. G. 0. Vennes- B. L. Kirkpatrick No, Ironwood | & Porber “23 land 1.00 In¢ 2.00] Sec 1.00|/ A Toplansky 25 G_ Contos 3.00 ———— | Sana Lake 50) B Shames 20 ‘Tctai Oct. 15, 1934 $2.00] Lydia Maalta 36/1 Pannor 28 Total to date $1,626.61 | 1. E. Palo ‘50| J Levine as DISTRICT 9 (Minnesota) A. Jkela 25/ Sam Born 25 Shassel, Unit. $5.00 J. Mackay 4.20] Mrs, Kangas 25/3 S Werner 2.00 - —|rno Huanpou .23/I Glenn 25 ‘Total Oct. 15, 1994 $9.20] Nick Haglund .28| G_ Gontar 25 Total tod $285.00} Carl Hakari —.10 | Jos. Hawks 25 DISTRICT 10 (Omaha) A Humakka 10| A Friends 25 Carl and Laura Wicklund $. 50] J Sillanpaa 18| Jos. Diciewicz 28 ———| Sanna Kangas .16| John Syymanski .25 Total Oct. 15, 1934 8 .50| Vienna Kangas 16/1 Diamond 30 Total to date $25.60| Col, in Astoria, | Rose Pannar 50 DISTRICT 14 (Newark) Ore | Col by Rose Siman- John Smith, Jersey City $1.00] T Leine 1.00! ich, Roundup, - | John Sandberg 1.08) Mont : Pos al Oct. 15, 1934 $1.00] E Mynth 5@| Rosie Simanich .5 Total fo date $237.61| Anna Yrjana 50] J. Simanich 25 DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) E Pehkivunen 50 | Marion Siman- P. Peterson, Stratford $1.00] B Pehkivunen 84) ich 25 P. Kononoff, Torrington 2.00| Marie Jerijarvi .28) H Krogman 28 —_———| & Mynth .2\| Sam Pragacich .10 t. 15, 1994 $3.90] Marie JeriJarvi .2%| Frank Phanka .05 Total to at $231.71] B Mynth 24} John Simanich 10 DISTRICT 16 (Charlotte) John Lurna .23| Anna Nose 10 y G. Willians, Durham A Kivisto .23| Edna Romana .19 $1.25 8. Spathonis 25| Mrs. Hammer ~25| Sam Maclan 10 ‘35 A. Mann 15| Col by John Kal- | Julia & Marion 50H. Plato 25] _velis & Rosie Siman- 25 ™M. Kountis 501 Lithua: ich 30 25 J. Couch 2% LD John Simanich .25 Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! AMOUNT |s NAME ADDRESS Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER ‘50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. Y. || Lewiston Has Little Money for Teachers, But Pays yuardsmen | | By a Worker Correspondent LEWISTON, Me.—Some of the members of the school board claim it is impossible to finance the night school this winter. They claim some of the teachers are overpaid. This we know cause the city hired five regi- S of the National Guard as || Strikebreakers during the great |] textile strike. Some of the workers were forced to leave their jobs in the shops and go guard the mills for a day. There are a lot of ers very much dissatisfied with belonging to the National Guard. A lot of them had fam- ilies to support while they were out. They realize that the bosses were only ing them to fight is not true be- | Workers Defeat | Against Police and Injunction Fail to Break Strike By a Worker Cerrespondent JEWETT CITY, Conn.—Attempts of the bosses to force a 15 to 20 per cent cut down the throats of the workers at the Aspinook plant here met with strong opposition. The militant leaders of the workers fellow workers who tried to get a decent living wage. Shoe Union In Portland Expanding lidusieial- Form of Organization Wins Support By a Worker Correspondent PORTLAND, Me.—The influence of the great national textile strike left its roots right here, too. The organizational work of Local 27 of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union began to give re- sults. Two big mass meetings took place, and a considerable number of new members joined the or- ganization. The shoe workers here feel the need of a militant union to lead their battle against the N. R. A. wage-cuts, which leaves their pay 25 per cent less than last year, while profits increased. They want to avoid the fate of the local tex- tile workers who were caught in a critical moment without organiza- tion and leadership. The day is not far distant when Maine will also be organized. We are falling in line. At our last meeting we took up the question of the form of or- ganization to follow, industrial or craf:. The militants pointed out the advantages of the industrial form to the workers, as it was prac- ticed in New York, and led to get- ting higher wages, as against the old A. F. of L. form of dividing workers up into crafts. The craft system, they showed, leads to bu- reaucracy, and a bigger official machine, and also the splitting of the workers’ ranks, whereas the in- dustrial form, when controlled by the rank and file workers them- selves, means a policy of militant struggle for improved conditions. They pointed to the Lynn situation, where the Eagle reamers went out alone, without the support of any- one. The arguments were well re- ceived by the workers. Our discredited renegade, Mr. Bixby, came out with a demagogic speech, claiming to be in agreement with industrial unions in general, but asserting that the form we have in Boston and Haverhill are indus- trial, not craft unions. But he did not convince us, but rather only exposed himself as being always against new and progressive unions in the workers’ movement. It should be mentioned that our local decided, and had asked the General Board not to pay him any of the workers’ money, but it seems that Mr. Israel Zimmerman, who was appointed editor of our na- tional paper, the United Shoe and Leather Worker, by the Resident Execulive Board, and who has never been elected to any office by the rank and file workers themselves, is Bixby’s patron, and sees to it that he gets $10 every week to carry out his dirty job. When we asked the national office who sent him here, they claimed jhat nobody did. They don’t even know that he gets paid. In this way the workers’ money is wasted. But he will be forced to go soon. He is already too much discredited around here, LETTERS FROM OUR READERS FOR NEWS OF THE CHINESE SOVIETS New York City. The “Daily” gets better and bet- ter. The editorials on the textile strike were swell. I will enclose a check for five dollars. I wish it were fifty thou- sand. Would it be possible to give us news more regularly of the Chinese Soviets? They deserve world-wide mass support, and very slowly are people learning to think about them, I was shocked a few days ago to learn that Agnes Smedley's magnificent “Chinese Destinies” had sold only 500 copies. Truly we ought to be ashamed of that. H, R. F. Soe NOTE: More news about the Chinese Soviets means more space in the Daily Worker. We must work towards accomplishing this, towards building the circulation and for the success of the finaneial drive. Reviews of Agnes Smediley’s bock, and excerpts from “The Red Army Marches,” have been carried in the feature page of the Worker. “Chinese Desti- “The Red Army are recommended to every reader of the Daily Worker for a vivid, factual, inspiring pic- ture of the achievements of the Chinese Soviet Republic and the indomitable courage of the Red Army called a strike, which held 100 per cent solid, and defeated the wage cut. | The bosses used every means to crush the strike. Failing to get the | sanction of the local government to call in the militia for “protection,” | Wild Willie Broadfoot and Silly! Phil Johnson, in charge of the| plant, pulled their “ace in the! hele,” and secured a Superior Court | injunction against the workers, for- bidding picketing, “intimidation,” | etc. This little plan acted as a| boomerang, for all picket lines were tripled following its inception. The company enlisted the aid of | the State police, men paid by taxes | secured from the workers, in an} attempt to break the strike by brute force. The few scabs that went back to work following the company’s repeated pleas did nov Pickets Hold Solid In Connecticut Plant Injunction Strikers Win Removal | of General Mill | Manager | By a Worker Correspondent NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The em- ployees of the Aspinook Plant at Jewett City, Conn., struek before the general textile strike, and stayed out after the sell-out, and defeated a 10 per cent wage cut. They obtained the removal of the hated general manager, Bill Broadfoot. During the strike, H. W. Jamieson, a straw boss in the dyeing department, proved by his actions his solidarity with the strik- ing workers. Consequently, when he died this week, 150 workers went 50 miles by automobile to Providence to attend his funeral. This shows what happens when a foreman sticks with his own class, instead of licking the boots of the bossses, go in because they wanted to, but because the company had, through yeats of autocratic policies, so deeply instilled the fear bugaboo into the workers that some of them were unable to think clearly for themselves, and were herded into scabbing. MOBILE, Ala.—There was a mass meeting of seamen and longshore- ' ment Street and the river front, Wednesday, Oct. 10. This meeting j was called to take strike action. The LS.U. leaders did everything in their power to keep the indignant rank and file members from taking action. Due to the fact that we had to write leaflets with crayon, we nat- urally were not able to publicize this meeting very much. However, about 100 Negro and white seamen and longshoremen showed up. We were unsuccessful in having a good meeting because the police attacked it. We finally had our meeting in the LL.A. hall. Since the sentiment for strike was so widespread, especially among the longshoremen, they eagerly accept- ed our proposal for immediate ac- ISU Heads and Police In Mobile Block Strike By a Worker Correspondent jtion, but this action was kept back by their local leader. After two delegates. from the M.W.I.U. spoke men called at the foot of Govern-}on the spread of the strike and trike action, there was such ap- plause that the president, Thomas, said that he would fine one or two longshoremen if they didn’t “hush” their mouths. He said he would not fine them this time, but they must keep their mouths closed all during the meeting. While the rank and file were defi- nitely for strike action, their presi- dent, Thomas, kept telling them to have patience and wait for orders from Ryan. There was strike sentiment also among the shipyard workers. At the mass meeting several boiler- makers came directly from work to the meeting and were very much disappointed when they were told that the police broke up the meet- ing, By a Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass.—A concerted ef- fort is being made by the shoe manufacturers of Boston to enforce a 15 per cent wage cut, with the aim of smashing the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union. One of the schemes used by them is to starve the shoe workers, There are at present about 4,000 unemployed shoe workers in Boston alone. In New England generally there are now between 60 and 80 per cent of the shoe workers unemployed. An- other scheme the manufacturers are using is to call a meeting of their shop crews and threaten to moye out unless a wage-cut is accepted by the workers. In several shops the bosses are feverishly working to- wards establishing company unions. An N.R.A. “investigation” com- mittee from Washington is at pres- ent in New England to investigate the shoe situation. Many of the union officials feel relieved with the presence. of this “investigation” committee, because they themselves are unwilling to mobilize the shoe workers for struggle. According to the reports this committee is to carry on its “investigation” and re- port to the N.R.A. in Washington. Shoe Workers to Meet To PrepareGeneral Strike know and remember from their bit- ter experiences of the past, with the State Arbitration Board, and the famous “settlement” by Frances Perkins of the shoe strike of August, 1933, which resulted in a wage cut, that there can be no hope in such “investigations,” The demand that an Emergency Convention be called is being made by many workers not only in Bos- ton, but in many shoe centers of the “United.” such as Haverhill, Lynn, ete. The purpose of this con- vention will be: to prepare for a general strike, to establish a uni- form minimum wage for the skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled shoe workers; for shorter hours; for the struggle for immediate unemploy- ment relief, and for unemployment insurance. At present the Stitchers Local of Boston is the first one to call a meeting of its unemployed members, to organize to secure immediate un- employment relief. A committee will be elected to secure relief from the city and state for the many starving shoe workers and their families. This committee will visit the other locals and call for the election of similar committees in order to be The rank and file shoe workers in a position to carry on the strug- gle for relief much more effectively. ‘Red? Farmer By a Worker Correspondent NEW HAVEN, Conn.—In Plain- field, Conn., after the general tex- tile strike was called off, the Law- ton Mill did not reopen for a few days. The strikers, some 700 of them, were desperately hard up for food. The neighboring farmers gave plenty of vegetables, but there was no meat. So two members of the Strike Relief Committee were ap- proached by Mr. and Mrs, Hok- kanen, Communists and Finnish farmers, and they set out to find a They persuaded a farmer to sell a fine cow for $28. Then began an endless pilgrim- age from farm to farm, collecting quarters, halves and dollars at every farm. There was a lengthy confer- ence on how much they could give, and who else in the neighborhood would give. At the end of an exhausting day, the two comrades and the two strik- cow and the funds to buy her with. | Obtains Food To Support Textile Strike ers had collected $32.25 from poor farmers in a small neighborhood They bought the cow; a laundry- man, once a butcher, volunteered his services, butchered her, cleaned her, cut her up. A tremendous stew ey made and everyone was well fed. At a strike relief dance that Sat- urday, Mrs. Hokkanen, a well- known Communist, was hailed by everyone as “Hello, sweetheart!” Thus the red scare was overcome in a little New England town where during the strike everyone had been warned of the Communist menace. The strikers were more impressed by Communist actions than by the wordy alarms of the capitalist press, They learned from this instance as from the work of the Communists throughout the general strike, that the Reds are the best and most militant fighters for the interests of all workers. The Daily Worker can Better Aid Your Struggles if You Build its Circulation, 30 Delegates Sent To Anti-War Congress || From Boston District By a Needie Worker Corre- spondent BOSTON, Mass.—From this district there were about 30 dele- gates sent to the Congress Against War and Fascism in | Chicago. A few of these dele- |] gates paid their own expenses, others were sent by various or- ganizations and local unions. A delegate was to have gone from the Scandinavian Workers’ Club, but, after the money had been appropriated for his ex- penses, a delegaie from the strike came to make an appeal for funds to support the textile workers’ strike and the money ‘hat was to have been used for the delegate was given instead for the strikers. Shoe Shop Pays Even Below NRA Discharges Attempted Through Physical Examinations By a Worker Correspondent LOWELL, Mass.—In the stitching room of the Laganas Shoe Co., there is a foreman who is playing his part in the slave-driving N.R.A. There are many girls.in this room who cannot earn their minimum, no matter how hard they work. The bosses raise so much hell that the girls are afraid to ask for a time card. Of course this is just what the bosses want. However, the more advanced workers refuse to let these slaye drivers get away with this and at the end of the week the owners are forced to make up the difference in pay to meet the minimum. Nevertheless, the majority of the workers are not re- ceiving their pay allowed by the N.R.A., a8 low as that is, Com- plaints given to the union officials produce no results whatever. Yesterday the boss came out with a new trick. He told those who couldn’t make their minimum wages that they would be examined by a docter and if found “sick” they would be laid off until they re- covered sufficiently to be able to make the minimum wage. This, of course, is an attempt to speed up the workers to produce more shoes at less cost to the company. At the same time the slower operators will be weeded out by having some fake doctor declare that these workers are “sick” and need a rest. One girl has already been asked to report at the office for a physi- cal examination but she refuses to do this, and I think that the La- ganas Shoe Co, is heading for a lot of trouble if they continue these tactics, because the workers are pretty sick of being treated like slaves. Share-the-Work Plan in Lane Cotton Mill Is Not Enough to Live on By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La—aAt the Lane cotton mill here the condi- tions continue to grow worse and worse for the workers. The few that are at work have 30 hours per week for the most part, which would be all right if they were making enough to live on. The code wage is in effect in most cases, but it is not enough for the proper maintenance of one person, while there are many who are trying to support a family on wages of 30 cents an hour. In many cases, at the same time, the price of food has gone up as much as 35 per cent. Many workers are on a system of share-the-work. I work one day, and some one else will work the next day. Many of the children of the mill hands have not sufficient clothes (or the proper clothing) to attend school, and only a very few have the proper food for their growing bodies. There are numbers of people here who yet believe in the schemes ad- vanced by Huey Long—his Share the Wealth Society. There are thousands that’ do not yet know that every time the large corpora- tions are taxed, they in turn tax the people. The workers are al- ways the ones who pay. Conditions Are Worst InShop of ‘Friendly’Boss By a Shoe Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass. — Mr, Barney Feldman, the owner of the Banner Shoe Co. of Boston, poses to his workers as a radical and a friend of the workers. The truth of the matter is that he repeatedly at- tempted through many schemes to organize a company union in his shop and that conditions in his shop are of the worst kind. The workers are exploited to the limit. I want to revort on two cases of recent happening in this shop. First about one girl that he fired be- cause she dared to demand to be paid for several hours of work she performed. Second, about another case where a girl was fired because she went to the ladies’ room in another department. A few weeks ago, 15 per cent of the workers’ wages was taken out of their envelopes, and only after threats of the union to call a strike, was this returned WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board How to Write for Advice Comrade H. M. writes in as fol- lows: “Please advise what causes gas in the stomach and what remedy to employ? Thanking you in advance.” Wie a a Dear Comrade: It is impossible for us to answer your question without more information. Gas in the stomach may be caused by 4 great variety of things, ranging all the way from tumors or ulcers of the stomach or intestines, intestinal bacteria of various kinds, consti- pation, wrong eating habits, to the nervous habit of swallowing air. Quite naturally, the treatment for these conditions is equally varied We should like to know your age, Sex and general health (including significant loss of weight and strength if any). In particular, we should know whether you eat at regular hours a fairly balanced diet, taking sufficient time to chew well and to be in a fairly calm frame of mind just before, during and after eating. Are your bowels regu- lar? Any diarrhea or constipation? Does the gas tend to come up or go down? Is it associated with cramps or any other sort of pain? Is there nausea or vomiting? Does it occur usually at a fairly definite time after meals? If you will write us again, giving us more information, we shall be glad to try to answer your question. At the same time, we feel certain you will not be offended if we use your letter to point out to our readers some of the difficulties con- fronting us in conducting a health column. In the first place, there are, of course, many medical problems that even with full information we cannot help to solve; a personal visit to a good doctor, and perhaps even special tests, are necessary. Secondly, we receive a great many letters similar to yours, which we cannot answer for lack of specific information on one or several im- portant points. Workers’ complaints are so varied that we do not feel much would be gained by submitting a rigid outline to be followed. Specific details of great importance in one case would be totally irrevelant in the next. But the following points may have a distinct bearing in the individual case. 1. Age, sex and general physical build and condition of health. 2. History of any illness to which the family has particularly been subject. 3. Any past diseases or opera- tions, which might have a bearing on the complaint. 4. As accurate a description of the complaint as possible. For instance, if it is a pain, whether it is sharp or dull, brief or continuous, where it is felt and whether it shoots to any other part of the body; when in relation to time of day or to any bodily functions it is felt; how requent are attacks. 5. Any other symptoms related to the chief complaint. Any general symptoms, such as, loss of weight and strength, or any disturbance of bodily functions connected with the complaint. In this connection, negative information is frequently important; for instance, in a po- sition relating to the digestive sys- tem, as in the example above, it is important to know that other di- gestive complaints, such as pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or con- stipation, are absent, if such is the fact. In conclusion, we wish to empha- size that we don’t want our readers to feel that they must invariably write us a lengthy life history be- fore we can help them. But if they realize that giving sound ad- vice by mail is frequently very dif- ficult, we are sure they will try to give us as accurate a description of their complaint as possible, and in addition any further information which might help us out. Contributions received to the credit of the Medical Advisory Board in its Socialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, Jacob Burck, David Ramsey and Helen Luke, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$1,500. Coll. by Board .... $ 8.00 Previously received » 136.15 Total to date ... $144.15 NOTE: We publish every Wednesday letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and their struggles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of each week. Every day of the Roosevelt New Deal shows the growing need of the Daily Worker. But the Daily Worker needs $60,000 to be able to deal more fully with the strug- gles of the working class. Support the Daily Worker! Send your con- tribution today to the $60,000 drive. IN THE HOME By HELEN LUKE : An Apple a Day (And of course no offense meant to our comrades of the above sec- tion, who being good Communists all, agree that preventive is prefer- able to restorative medicine.)—As fall is here and its great variety of the old standby, the apple, with it, we print a couple of contributions for the use of those who haven't had the gas shut off yet; this one from Chicago: “May I offer a recipe for a de- licious, nourishing pudding? A loaf of raisin-bran bread, stale (the one I used was a week old!), soaked for half-an-hour and then squeezed out and flaked. Add three or four medium-sized apples cut in small pieces, a beaten egg, and a little canned milk thinned with water. If you haven't the egg, use more milk. Mix well and turn into a greased baking dish. Sprinkle with brown sugar and chopped nut meats. Bake in a moderate oven about 45 minutes. Serve hot or cold, either ‘as is’ or with corn syrup. You can’t imagine how good it is until you try it. “Another variant of bread-and- apple pudding is to add one or two sliced bananas. Also: a simple, fool- proof, uncooked frosting for cake can be made by adding two tea- spoons of hot water to a cup of confectioners’ sugar (sifted). Mix well, then add more hot water, drop by drop, until consistency is right for spreading; be careful not to thin it too much. No flavoring is necessary. The frosting is smooth and shiny and does not dry out at the edges, nor crack, “In the Home’ is a fine and in- dispensable department in the Daily Worker and I think that it should be allotted at least a quarter page once a week. If other comrades write in on this, I’m sure it will be done.—Comradely, Audrey Linn.” Comrade Natalie G. asks, “Did you_ever try this kind of apple souffle? It's swell. Bake five or six green apples, put them through a strainer or potato ricer, mix into the pulp a cup or more of sugar, and the stiffly beaten whites of three or four eggs. Bake in hot oven for about fifteen minutes. Serve plain, or with cream if pos- sible.” And Comrade Husband has a method of making a delicious apple- pancake (of eggs, milk, flour, and a pinch baking-powder and salt); you make a rather thin pancake batter, with as much egg in it as the budget will stand; stir into it a large apple, peeled, cored, cut in small slices and sauted in a little oil until lightly browned. Add also about one rounded tablespoon sugar, more or less to taste. Pour enough of this batter into small greased skillet just to cover bottom of pan, brown, turn over, and brown on other side. Place on plate and sprinkle lightly with sugar. Continue until batter is used. As there is a good deal of frying connected with this. recipe, the apples so used would probably not keep many doctors away; those with uncertain digest- ive systems would better take their apples raw or as described in the first two recipes. (But if your con- stitution can deal with them—are these pancakes delicious—with bacon!) Contributions received to the credit of Helen Luke in her Social- ist competition with David Ramsey, Jacob Burck, Del, Harry Gannes, Mike Gold and the Medical Advis- ory Board, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$500. Total to date . woe 50 Can ‘Vom Malte °Em Yourself? Pattern 1877 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40, Size 16 takes 4 yards 39 inch fabric, Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins pre- ferred) for each Anne Adams tern, THIRTY CENTS (30c) for both. Write name, address and styl number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. 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