The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK. MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1934 Win Loud Applause Party Organization Under Way As Two Join At Meeting By a Worker Correspondent — Grar quarrymer ille is a town of top of ledges of pre- le on ta Benes best the Communi: ers u tart of the Graniteville red,” said one is was the big sign tenements and shacks, Rock of Ages Corporation. Here mate for a nation’s tomb- stones is quarried. Here a marker ¥ be carved for the New Deal Oficials Deny Relief Militant Vet By a Veteran Correspondent LOS ANGELES—I am a World War v ave been unem- ployed fo T have been forced to go to camp for $5 a month under N. R. A. New Deal I went to camp 2011 from Sacra- to four years. mento on June 1, 1934, and worked there from June Ist to July 8th, anf because of my acti in camp I was forced quit my T came back to Sacramento to demand my pay. The F. FE. R. A. in Sacramento refused to pay me, so I came to the state headquarters in Los Angeles to state my case. I was told to come back in two weeks. I did so, then they told me to come back a week later and I did that. Then they told me the third time to come back in another week's time. But I am determined to keep up my fight to the end to get results from those thieves of the New Deal for Vet. I am denied relief from Los Angeles County because I will not go back to camp to get robbed some more from the S. EB. R. A which is also as crooked as F. E. R. A. We World War vets and un- employed workers must get together and fight those thieves that are rob- bing us of our rights to live in this richest country in the world Flunkey Abusive “Go Back Where You Came From,”’ Worker Told By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y.—A little in- that happened in N. Y. Edi- n Co., Saturday, Oct. 13, 1934, n be of interest to the readers of the Daily Worker. I had gone to the N. Y. Edison to have a small matter adjusted and was told to see some one on the 9th floor. Not 1| knowing where the elevators were I where I could find take me to the 9th Immediately he became sus- picious and in very police-like tone wanted to know why I want to go ked a guard floor to the 9th floor and who sent me there. I told him I do not know the name of the young lady and didn’t think it was necessary to inform him as to the nature of my errand, it would take too long I thought and he didn’t look very bright. He became very abusive and refused to tell me where to take an elevator. I told him it was his job to inform and further more to do it in a polite way. “You god damned foreigner why don't you go back from where you come from. This country is just etc.” All this with a thick, almost as thick as his head, Irish accent which I called his attention to. He doesn’t sound very American him- self, thereby he threatened to knock all my teeth out if I dare give him any more back talk. I have, of course, made a com- plaint to the N. Y. E, which will do very little good. When it comes to underpaying and exploiting workers and overcharg- ing workers’ bills no discrimination is made as to foreigners. COLUMBUS WORKERS COLLECT FOR HERNDON AND SCOTTSBORO By a Worker Correspondent COLUMBUS, Ohio. — I will try to tell you what we are doing here be- tween fighting for enough relief and exerting every force in raising money for the Scottsboro and Hern- don cases. We had a meeting and made a good collection for both of these cases. Pait Affairs Help Bring Day’s Receipts to $800 VROCEEDS from various unit affairs, notably $23 from Unit 3, Section 2, New Yor! indeed! Of Par funds, st Wherever po: The pre: n are a powerful haye helped today's total to $800. This is a small total comes from the New York District. aid im any Daily Worker drive for be made by mass organizations and trade unions for immediate col- ctions—and that all funds at I ae and a Is at hand be rushed to the Dally Worker at| During the fight he knocked the Received Oct 19 $ 822.88) Sec 2 Unit 16 7.19 P Panos 25 s i Previously received 19297.99 | Sec 2 Unit 3 PK 109| finally rescued by his bosses. Total to date 20120.8T | Pledge 3.00 Tot Oct. 19 555.34, A report of the trouble was for- | Sele DISTRICT 1 (Boston) See 2 Unit 3 93.76 Tot to date 9847.50| warded to the Communist head-| insisted on speaking with each in- Provincetown Unit 2.00 DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) Dorchester Unit Bec. 2 115|C.L., LH, FF. Fox, Ll, $10.0 Chelsea Unit Sec. 3 1.50 | Gabor Orres Jr. 1 Chelsea Unit Sec. 3 banquet 15.00 ————| corner. The committee remained Lettish Club, Bi mn 3.00 | Total October 19 R.N.M.A.S. Br. 97, Bradford 24.50| Total to dat 2539.17) .; ; i bn eae DISTRICT 4 (Syracuse) tinued to sell the Daily Worker. By | published sales reports of the firm Total October 19 46.15 | Lean Shammus, Syracuse | Total to date $1024.79 ——— were openly expressing themselves | for the first nine months of 1934 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Total October 19 Bec 1 5.87 Sec 2 Unit 7 2.23/ Total to date i Bec 1 5 25 Sec 2 Unit 128 .83| DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) jin their effort te chase Zornes | 1933. Sec 1 Unit 7B 5.00 3 Sec 1 5.00 Workers Book from the corner. Bec 1 Unit 3B 5.00 5 2.35|Sec 1 16.37 Store 5.0 The Painter: twood, Sec 1 Unit 6 4.00 mn — §,00| Sec 12 6.50 Workers Book Spas funlad o yee ee ty Sec 1 Unit 17 2.04 168 5.00| Sec 4 1718 Store 86 _ mist Sec 1 Unit 5B 2.00 Sec 2 Day Unit 256| Sec 8 U-805 10.00 John Reed Olub 5.00, her and returned with five or six/| 3ec h a . ~ i ee pei ee es i U-801 oe Aceiealen Buro 5.00 more thugs but by this time the Sec mit 16 4.00 Sec 10 Uni ¢ it ‘en lam~ ‘ fi Bec 1 Unit 16 2.90 Sec 10 Unit 1 3.32 | Sec 11 125 mer .o9 Sentiment of the workers was too Sec 1 Unit 18 1.50 Sec 10 Unit 4 4.35) Finnish Wkre DN & RH Ash- strongly in favor of the Daily| Sec 1 Unit 10 at Sec 10 Par sue cite ae ley, Wabash, agent. Several attempts were made Sec 1 Unit 1 away Unit 5 Sup Ind. 2.52 vey y Sec 1 Unit § 25 Sec 10 ¥.CL. 1.30 Finnish wkrs ise eee to pore gai Sec 1 Unit 20 1.00 Ww Lab. Women’s Council Tot Oct 19 189.99; “1 Cetense committee, but this Sec 1 Unit 12 ped aoe ae 9.24, No 2 5.00 Tot to date 1919.19 failed when workers would imme- Sec 1 Unit 1 15 Workers Lab, DISTRICT 9 (Minn.) diately crowd around the commit- Bec 1 Unit 1 5.00 Theatre 14.05 | Proc. of Coffee Social, Ironwood, Mich. 6.50 | tea members. a Sec 1 Unit af 6.31 Workers Muste C. A. Rentfrow 1.00 | During ‘the tf ‘when the Daily Sec 1 Unit 9 4.05 ague 30 gare ime Sec 1 Unit 4 ne ies eret of aoe one Ty Nerd Worker was being attacked, several See. 1 Unit jubs ‘otal to date 902.27 ‘i i Bec 1 Unit 17 Assoc. Workers DISTRICT 13 (California) Peaiateshca pti ny Street eae proeain NERY ald i710 5. H. Lawson, Guy Endor, J. Werley 16.00] < Sec 1 Unit 11 5.00 Millinery United mass meeting. The attack on gy eee dase | THAT Ostoter 19 16.00 Zornes was obviously an attempt sei ane eng Teel todas 182.37 to provoke arrests of Communists Bec1 Unit 32.25 man med DISTRICT 14 (Newark) the . Sec 1 Unit 32 6.25 A Friends 1.00| yohanna Van Beek _ here who were active in hosiery Sec 1 Unit.18B 23.50 King 3.50| wheatre Sec. Jack London Club 3.00, mill strike. Previous to this, an un- ee ee 2 antes Mb len -28 —— successful attempt was made to Sec 4 Unit 408 2.5: erner | Sec 4 Unit SG4 5.00 Anonymous abl oer cca, aet2¢ Cause trouble when Negro work- See 4 Unit SG4 5.00 M Larken 1.00 DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) er was struck by an unidentified Se at Set aon miner” “4 55 Working Women's Couneil, Stamford 10.00 hanger-on in the crowd. A. F. of L. Gee ¢ Unit 1 af 1.90 sec 8 Unit 7 10.78 gprogiy athc stacnay = pincer’ rat eee ie onsite a Bec 6 Unit 20 af ‘eldman 0 act onto Communists, but were im- Bec 6 Un. 2 af 17.40 Frank Milton 10.09| Total October 10 18.00 ee ele: 3). 698. 6 Nance peed DISTRICT 19 (Denver) | maneuveri several workers Bec 6 Unit 2 11.14 MW 2.00 Sec 8 Un. 1 af 1285 Jack Walters 1.00 R. H. Helper, Utah 1.00 eee a Sec 8 Unit 1 .50 Workers of - ——, | A strong defense committee will Sec 8 Unit 1 183 jay Dress Sh 16.40/ Total October 19 1.00 é Sec 8 Unit 4 3.00 Jewish Children Total to date 962.32 Bs on bet job hereafter while Sec 8 Unit 5 .75 School IWO 100,00 DISTRICT 21 (S. Lowis) Zornes sells the Daily Worker on Sec 8 Unit 2 809 COGarnett 2.50) H. Duvernoy 50 this corner. In addition, many / Bec & Unit 2 .25 Vincent Phick 1.00 - her workers havi aril sh Sec & Unit 6 8.97 Med. Adv. Board, | Total October 19 heater Same ee ily of- | Sec 2 nit 38S 10.00 col fr Patients 5.00 Total to date 72.15 | fe! eir assistal 'e Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST, 13th St. ' New York, N. ¥. overrun with people like you, | J. P. Quinn On Workers Hail First Commun Speakers Edison Co. Attack on C. L and Foster Is Main Point of S.L.P. Leader Fascism, or Fight Against Imperialist War By a Worker CHICAGO, Til. — Comrades please don’t laugh! Socialist Labor Party, under Correspondent The the local police protection of Chicago held their open air meeting at Allport and W. 19th St. recently. P., J. P. Quinn. He began with political economy but no one understood him. Finally one of his comrades poked him in the ribs, stop! Then he stuck his head out and began to yell help! S. L. P. and Industrial unionism. Now that he got himself to- gether and opened his eyes he| called for questions. There were a| few questions from his own com- | rades through which he attacked the Communist International. I believe after he answered those | questions he felt better, but I de- |cided I would put the finishing touches and ask him as follows: “How long has the 8. L. P. preached the industrial unionism?” Thirty-four years. (He didn’t like me at all after that question.) “How soon will they begin to or- ganize the industrial unions?” That's when he got hot under the collar and didn’t answer me. Finally, I asked if he were a mem- | ber of an industrial union? Boy, you should of seen him then, that was the end of him! Are you surprised this boss gang- ster and his fascist agents did not mention one single word about either fascism or preparations for imperialist war in this country, or the textile strike, in his whole speech. I'm not surprised. Why? | I know the S. L. P. hasn't got it in their program to fight the capi- talist system but on the contrary to support it. | Well Mr. J. P. Quinn, suppose you come to 8. U. and deliver an- other speech, one like last time. Why, the workers in 8. U. would put you in the Moscow zoo where all the counter-revolutionists are, . The speaker wa | Note: We recommend that for a complete analysis of the Socialist Labor Party, workers turn to the pamphlet, “Capitalism Defends It- self Through the Socialist Labo by Moissaye J. Olgin, which can be secured from the Workers Bookshops, cr from Workers Library Publishers, 35 E. 12th St., New York City. AFLRankand File Defend By a Worker Correspondent DES MOINES, Ia—While Bob | Zornes, Daily Worker agent, was | defending himself against an A. F. |of L. thug, an unidentified rank | and file member of the A. F. of L. took up the papers and started selling them to the crowd of work- ers who had been attracted by the fight. Zornes had previously been or- used regularly by the units throughout the country. dered from the corner, which is |%eneral manager of the mail order le, larger affairs should be arranged by the section. state of the $60,000 drive demands that personal visits Labor A: occupied by the Trades and Union embly Hall, by the agent for the Painters Union. He was attacked when he refused to leave. -| thug down three times, who was On him for an explanation. He | quarters and a strong defense com- | dividually. He had the effrontery ‘00 | mittee went immediately to the | to explain the dismissals and lay- 11.00) on the corner while Zornes con- ness. This is flatly contradicted by 100 this time many rank and filers | showing a 15 per cent improvement 2aigs 28ainst the action of their leaders over the corresponding period of 309.26 Mediately exposed in their rotten | Subject, and therefore I would sug- | The Daily Worker will continue | to be sold to the rank and file of the A. F. of L. on this corner despite the fear of the corrupt officials. A group of workers in a ©. 0. C. | camp send $7—a sailor on a U. 8. battleship sends $l1—a worker in | Duluth sends a quarter! All cry) | that the $60,000 campaign must | succeed! It will succeed if every! reader does his part. Make collec- s National Organizer of S. L.! Relief Is. Debasing| Says S.L.P. By a Worker Correspondent NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Bo-} cialist Labor Party is holding open | air meetings on the Green once al week. It is hard to understand their Speakers. They condemn the Com- munists for going to the City Hall to get relief for the starving people. They say it only debases the work- | ers for looking for sops, and so on.| One man said to a speaker, “How am I going to live until the Rev- olution? That is the only means I have to get myself something to eat, mass action. The Communists | go over to the City Hall and force the systematizers to give us some food, and the Socialists come and eat the food as well as we do. Then they say that we are a setback to the Revolutionary movement. How js that?” Then the S. L. P. speakers say that their party does not believe in Palliatives in any shape or manner. The speaker exhorts the workers to vote for the Socialist Labor Party and none other. Now supposing the twenty or thirty thousand in this city affairs, wouldn't that be “pal- ticket this coming election, and they | would find themselves in charge of city affairs, woudin't that be “pal- latives’? It they would not do any- thing for the unfortunates, what would be the sense of voting for them? ane Bryant Fires Ten For Organizing Union By an Office Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y—Ten em- ployees with good service records |of from one to eight years have been fired from the Mail Order Division of Lane Bryant, Inc., for | organizing a union there. | Mr. Bagal, operating superintend- ent, was discovered spying upon a lating of the employees at the Office Workers Union headquarters jon 14th Stret, from a partially con- cealed position along the wall of the | | Civic Repertory Theatre across the street. Mr. Gerson Garb, assistant to the store, indulged in excessive personal abuse, threatened physical violence, and ordered his secretary to call the police when a delegation of four of the discharged employees called up- | bluntly refused to recognize the | Selected spokesman of the group and offs by claiming a slump in busi- Lane Bryant presents a first class WHY WE MUST ENROLL AND VOTE COMMUNIST Brooklyn, N, ¥, | Dear Comrade Editor: In the Daily’ Worker you have | always pointed out the possibility of Fascism in America. You have | made it clear to us that there is a great possibility for our Party to be forced underground. It cannot be denied that our Party will suffer tremendous losses if our |enemies have the lists of all our Communists and Communist sym- pathizers. This cannot be denied. Is it not playing into the hands of our enemies to tell us Communists | to register Communist? I am not | the only comrade confused on this |gest that this letter be answered |in the “Letters from Our Readers” column, 0. P, NOTE: The Communist Party calls upon all members of the Party and all sympathizers to reg- ister, enroll and vote Communist. These steps are all necessary, in varying forms in the different states, in order that the Commu- nist Party may be able to partici- pate in the election campaign, to bring before the masses the revo- lutionary program of the working class. The reason for registering is understood. In order to vote, it is necessary first to register. In registering, one is not asked to indicate party affiliation. tions, hold affairs, discuss the Daily Worker! ‘ The question of enrollment is more involved. In enrolling ® | West Side, according to the local Company Claims Business Slump When Published | Sales Reveal 15 Per Cent Increase in 1934 | | Letters from Our Readers In Boys’Patrols Fought By YCL DETROIT, Mich. — Inspector Frank A. Rode, from the McGraw Street Police Station located on the nating their rank and service pars| lunch, the work often comes down |the treatments, Packers Are Speeded Up ‘At Sunshine s All halarcae to Textile Strike, | Fascist Threat! Company Union Does Nothing To Better Conditions By a Sunshine Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—Conditions among | us packers are really getting un- | bearable. The belts move by us so | fast that we haven't time to turn |around or take an extra breath, | We can’t stop for a minute to get a | newspaper will organize Safety | glass of water, or even to go to the Patrols, made up of boys 14 years old and up. These boys will be recruited through schools, Boy! Scouts, and similar groups. | patrols will be given badges, desig- | | washroom. They used to stop the machines at a quarter after four, to give us time to wash and dress, but now | of five, with no extra pay. As for| ist Meeting in Barre Question writes: “Would you please tell me how to clear my complexion? I have pimples and blackheads and they seem to -be getting worse all the time. I have no money to spend on expensive cosmetics, but thought maybe you could give me some ad- vice.” Oa els 48 Acne Pimples and blackheads are due to a condition called “Acne Vulgaris,” or common acne. It is due to a dis- turbance of the oil glands of the skin which get plugged to form blackheads (comedones) and later pimples. The blackheads are not due to dirt getting in the pores. The best treatment today is with "These | they sometimes run up to a quarter | X-rays. This is expensive, even so- called free clinies charging fees for The next best ‘ a { |method is to express the blackheads will be presented for exceptional |S0 late, that our three quarters of | 4 c work done by patrol members. Fur-| 8M hour is cut to a half hour, and | With a “comedone expressor”. which thermore, these patrols will be sub- | ject to discipline just as patrolmen we even have to speed-up with eat- | ing so as to get back on time. | is small thin flat metal bar with a hole at either end, or one end. are and can be demoted or fired| ‘The bosses told us that if we had | The end with the hole is placed over from their positions, What can such an organization really be utilized for? There is no doubt but that these boys can be any grievances, we only had to tell shine Association, but when we tell | them these things, they don’t do| used as spies (Junior detectives) on | anything about it. | the workers—especially revolution- | ary workers. A potential fascist | youth organization, these patrols | only lack a uniform which no doub: | will be provided by some of the} small business men here. The very | fact that the strictest discipline is | to be enforced shows that the police | officials here are not going to just | fool around with only the question | of making the streets safe for pedes- trians. Further, there is no guaran- | tee against the ideo that these pa-| trols can and will be used to smash | any children’s struggles that may develop in the schools. The Young Communist Leaue to- gether with other youth organiza- | tions is planning to smash this | movement and are preparing to issue a statement and are calling upon all | the people of the West Side to pro- | test against the organizing of these | patrols by sending in protest reso-| lutions. A mass meeting will be| called soon on this issue. example of employer exploitation of employees. The management, | fully aware of the prevalent fear of | unemployment, makes little or no| attempt to conceal its porcine ar- Togance in all affairs concerning the three-hundred-odd employes of the mail order store. Wages are held down to the retail code minimum, no sick leave is granted, lighting is worse than in any modern dairy barn, equipment is so badly neglect- | ed as to be virtually worthless, freight elevator service is crippled because operators are required to do other jobs, clerks constantly do) porter’s work and dismissals are| summary and without any advance | notice or wages, } Whenever an employee complains | about any feature of working con- ditions some other low-paid worker | strike action in sympathy with those is held to blame. Officers with clear | authority to correct abuses are care- | ful never to concede their respon- | 505 and Communist Party unit 520, sibility, The buck is passed along to some helpless fourteen-dollar-a- week clerk, The Office Workers’ Union is seek- ing redress from the Regional Labor Board for the flagrant code viola- tion perpetrated by the recent wholesale dismissal. If this gets us nowhere, more drastic action will follow. We need the immediate support of all interested persons, Worker is required to state his party affiliation, In the letter printed above, the comrade raises the question of ex- posure of the names of Commu- nists and Communist sympathiz- ers, This question has been asked by many comrades, It must be answered, First, however, let ws follow through the technicalities of the legal machinery. Enrollment is necessary in order that the Com- munist Party may also participate in the primaries, which take place before the election, for the pur- pose of endorsing candidates pro- posed by the Party in the coming election and for the purpose of choosing the election machinery of the Party (state committees, county committees, etc.) as re- quired by law. In the primaries those who en- roll have the opportunity of put- ting up opposing candidates. Therefore it will be understood that unless comrades enroll Com- munist and vote in the primaries, it opens the possibility for ene- mies of the Party to go into the primaries and take over the elec- tion machinery and even to place enemies of the Party on the Party ticket. Again from the point of view of legal technicalities, it is nec- essary to mobilize every possible vote for the Party, in order that the Party may automatically go on the election ballot, without the necessity of securing petition sig- natures. This was accomplished Sometimes, we don’t get relief, | more often than once in two weeks. | When we brought this up, two of the girls said they don’t need relief. I) don’t know what kind of girls those | were. If there was any way of hel ganizing in a real union and getting | decent conditions, I’m sure a lot of | us would want to belong. But most | of the girls are so afraid of losing | their jobs, that they are willing to} put up with such conditions. I hope it won’t be long before we will have a real union in the plant. | * NOTE: The girls must form committees in the Sunshine Asso- ciation, to force the delegates to take their grievances up. Every girl who understands the need for | a workers’ union should join the | Inside Bakery Workers local, the union in the shop that is under | | workers’ rank and file control. Girls in the workers’ union should work in the company union as well to win the other girls over to workers’ union. Police Sra sh Laundry Strike. Picket Line By a Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK—The police brutally | broke up a mass picket line in front of the Pearl White Laundry, 3616 Park Avenue, and arrested Jonn Bulloff, a worker in the Oak Laun- | dry, and Jesse Taft and Julius) Schribman, organizers for the} Laundry Workers Industrial Union. As a result of their militant self- defense in court Taft and Schrib- man were acquitted but the judge fined Bulleff $10 on a disorderly conduct charge, as a face saving gesture. The strikers of the Pearl White and the workers locked out of the Oak are determined to be back with a larger picket line at 7 am, this morning, to prevent the} opening of the shop. The workers of the Fordham Laundry, a union shop, met iast night to consider already locked out and striking. Young Communist League unit one of whose members is among the strikers, are calling upon all party members and sympathizers in the neighborhood to help with the picketing for the duration of the strike, Strike headquarters are at the Washington Palace, 1379 Wash- ington Avenue, near 170th Street. for the first time in New York State in 1934 because more than 25,000 votes were polled for the Communist Party in the 1933 elections. But while it is necessary for every comrade to understand the legal machinery of the elections, the struggle to maintain the legal- ity of the Communist Party does not ultimately depend upon the fulfillment of these technical re- quirements. The struggle to maintain the legality of the Communist Party is a struggle against Fascism. The struggle against Fascism is the struggle to maintain the civil rights of the working class, the right to enroll and vote, of free speech and assembly, to strike, picket, organize, etc. The struggle against Fascism is a life and death battle for the working class. It must be waged from day to day in every issue that we face. The elections must be made an jnstrument of this struggle. The worker who yields his right to register in the elec- tions his support of the revolu- tionary party of the working class, paves the way to Fascist terror and oppression. It is, of course, a fact that Com- munist enrollment may in some individual cases result in inad- visedly exposing or victimizing comrades who, fer a special rea- son, should conceal their Com- munist affiliation, This must be taken into consideration. How- the blackhead and squeezed out by |them to our delegates of the Sun-|™aking a downward pressure. First sterilize the skin and instrument with a rubbing alcohol or 70 per cent alcohol. After squeezing out the blackheads, as directed, apply Lotio Alba to the face and wash it off the next morning. Lotio Alba is a white chalky mixture which can be bought at any drug store with- out a prescription. Cosmetics, diets which cut out sweets, vaccines and alpine light have little or no curative or pre- ventive value in acne, Roe wecie Underweight Not Sign of Til Health Comrade P. G. of New York, writes: “My brother is 29 years old, five feet 8 inches tall, weighs only 125 pounds. His subnormal weight does not interfere with the strength he is gifted with. In fact, he is con- sidered among his associates as ‘the iron man.’ “However, his insufficient weight worries him. Although he eats the best nourishing food, he cannot put WORKERS’ HEA Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board iTH on some weight. Is there any rem- Comrade D. S., of Los Angeles, | °4¥ Tiak 7m can maggot” Our Reply | You can see from your own state. ment that your brother’s low weight is not a symptom of any disease or | deficiency. It is probably a part of his “type.” Physically, there are a large number of these types known to physicians; from the very stocky, heavy-muscled specimen and the specimen who continually puts on | fat on any diet, to the slim, tall type who “eats like’ a horse” and stays slim. This last type is inclined to be energetic, quick and nervous. At- tempts to raise their weight are dif- | ficult and largely unsuccessful. It requires a stay in bed for several months, with special diets, drug in- jections, etc., and at the end of that time, the gain is slight and easily | lost again. Our best advice, so long as health and strength are good, is to stop Gf possible) feeling too self-cons- cious about what is a natural fact, to accept it like the color of one’s hair or eyes. The energy and worry so saved can be applied to a cause outside one- self like the workers’ struggle, which can use this energy and strength, Your brother may find, by a strange twist, that if he really learns to stop worrying about something in him- self of little real importance, which | he can’t change mucH and interests himself in a really important cause, where a real change can be brought about, he will even put on a little | weight without trying, and find that this over-weight won't mean any- thing to him one way or another at that time. | Contributions received to the jeredit 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 tor $60,000. Quota—$1.500. C. A. Rentfrow .... 1,00 Collected from patien: Previously received . Total to date... IN THE HOME What we speak of generally as the “women's magazines” are in ac- tuality mediums for exploiting the masses, of women directly and men indirectly, they are owned and operated by men and their families, carrying advertising of products of factories also generally owned and run by men; even the editorial boards of these “women’s” magazines are mainly men, as you can see by looking at the lists. All this is quite natural in a society based on exploitation and private property, wherein women are relegated to a subordinate position in life; equally naturally, the prime object of these magazines will be to preserve this state of affairs intact, so that profits may continue for the dynasties of publishers and advertisers. To this end, gorgeous pictures of luscious babies and beautiful women are blazoned on the covers of the periodicals as bait to induce women to swallow the re- actionary contents. As U. S. capitalism develops fas- cist methods, these magazines must trot along to the right. The Pic- torial Review is making great speed in this direction. The series of ar- ticles it has been running on the “Battle for the Babies” in various countries, has served as a vehicle to put across insidious propaganda against Communism and for Fas- cism. After the Introductory article on conditions in the U. S., the next three countries taken up were—of course! — Russia, Germany, and Italy. Why these particular three | first? A comparison of the articles answers the question. The tract on Russia, while reporting pretty truth- fully the maternity insurance, creche, clinic, and such systems, took many a sly dig at Russia and Communism. The article on Ger- many—incidentally the three editors of the magazine are Theodore Von Ziekursch, Helen Duer Miller, and Morgan Stinemetz—was a glowing account of Hitler’s fatherly love, whooping it up to the skies for Der Fuhrer. “Mussolini's Battle for the Babies” in the October issue is a fit com- panion for that article. To anyone even slightly familiar with condi- tions for the masses in Fascist Italy the article is a monstrous piece of silliness, consisting mainly of raph- sodic, sentimental description of the delightful life of the babies in the large “prize” families specially awarded gifts of a thousand lire and a house in the country. These lines must be pointed out: “But do not blame Mussolini. He is facing a world-wide slump in the baby market. Birthrates are fall- ing all over the world.” What shameless, unadulterated, wholesale lying! The “Review” itself already pointed out that the birthrate in Russia is: rising—‘alarmingly” to these fascists. There’s a laugh too. “Is Mus- solini discouraged?” (In spite of all his speeches and prizes the birth- rate goes merrily down.) “Quite the contrary. The worse the out- look the harder the fights. That’s the kind of man he is.” (Whoops, my dear!) “To each of the 2,629 couples he himself made a personal gift of an envelope containing 500 ever, the only guarantee that this persecution will be hindered from advancing against growing num- bers of workers, against the entire working class, is the fearless readiness of every comrade to mo- bilize his fellow workers for mass struggle against the menace of Fascism, under the leadership of lire, an insurance policy paid up for six months, and his photograph with a quotation from his speeches on dwindling births and decaying empires.” Uppercrust writers make a prac- tice of lumping together Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin as three “dic- tators,” so we tried to picture Stalin handing ; his photo to newlyweds } By HELEN LUKE with a speech about “falling birth- rates and decaying empires” but imagination cracked under the strain. The November “Review” carries the story of how lovely everything 4s for mothers and babes in Nor- way, Sweden, and Denmark. “The Norse babies have another great ad- vantage too—they are born into the school of adversity ... Hard? Yes, but that is what has develoned the sturdy Norse character, firm as granite ... Feel no pity for the babies born in these rugged lands. Envy them their high spiritual heritage.” Ha-Cha. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2052 is available In sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 36 and 40. Size 16 takes 13% yards con trasting for blouse. Ill step-by-step sewing instructions ine cluded. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15e) in coins or stamps (coins pre- ferred) for this Anne Adams pate tern. Write name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. 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 Advise ory Board, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000, Quota—$500. Total to date. incest equencorse soc lll