The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1934 ROAD BOSSES PREPARE SHARP OFFENSIVE AGAINST WORKERS GOVERNMENT BACKS Textile Sellout| 3,000 Workers fis Sorakias RAILROADS’ MOVE Called Victory FOR MASS LAYOFFS BY 7" Communist Vote Is R. R. Workers’ Weapon to Defeat New Hunger Threats; New Deal Cut Living 50 Per Cent By a Worker CHICAGO, IlI.—800,000 lowering of the living standards of those remaining on the jand kidding about the Republicans job, through added living cos time work, is the railroad wor! As part of this general drive, the railroads have | farce. To show that it wasn’t he combined their two former national organizations into one association, headed by J. J. Pelley, open shop president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, Penn-| lodge, or if unorganized, can on any| could never get anything by voting, sylvania Railroad subsidiary. According to the Wall Street Journal, Pelley is close to Roosevelt, is hard boiled toward labor, and has been given plenty of authority to “do his stuff.” Further wage cuts, wholesale layoffs and a concerted attack against working rules which protect railroad labor, and which the roads have been trying to whit- tle away one by one, are the route to prosperity which Mr. Pelley and his associates have charted. The government has already as- sured Mr. Pelley of its support and has pledged continued R. F. C. Joans so that dividends and bond interest will be amply protected in| any reorganizations which take place. As proof of its support, Railroad | Coordinator Joseph P. Eastman, mouthpiece of railroad capital in the Roosevelt administration, is touring the country, bankers, shippers and railroad in- terests for a stronger united front against labor. His present job is to smooth out all conflicting interests and convince them that the savings to be made through further con- solidations and pooling of termi- nals and equipment will compen- sate many times over for any loss of strategic position now held by any individual road or group of cap- | italists. In a recent speech to big ship- pers and rail magnates in Kansas City, Mo., Eastman said: “$2,000,000 annually, can be saved to the roads by unification of facilities in Kan- sas City alone. The saving would be largely at the expense of labor. This is typical of what can be done all over the country.” (Railway Age Oot. 13) Leaders Surrender Strike Weapon A corrupted leadership has sur- rendered our most valuable weapon, the strike, and has substituted therefor, a policy of legislative lob- bying, mediation and arbitration. With their aid, the submission of all disputes to the mercy of adjust- ment and arbitration boards, and the acceptance of decisions has been made compulsory by law. They keep us divided into 21 craft unions and prevent unity of action that would force settlement of jevances and stop wage cutting. ‘Where strike votes have been forced upon them, they have turned strike action aside and into arbitration in the interests of the roads. 5 To silence protest and maintain themselves in control, they carry out national “Red Drives” against militant members and undertake to expel those who lead the counter- attack against the capitalist class. ‘The rank and file of railroad la- bor has within itself the power to change the situation in the railroad industry and become the most im- lining up} Correspondent unemployed and a 50 per cent | ts, reduced earnings and part-| kers’ share in the “New Deal.” | | portant fac movement. | The militant members of any | tor in our whole labor | |job organize to force settlement of jlocal grievances. They can, with a program based upon the needs of the workers, establish rank and file! }control in their lodge. They can unite all workers and lodges} of their division, of their road, in the fight against layoffs, speed up,| |wage cuts and part time work. They | |can initiate in their own surround- | jings a fight for the six-hour and! |five-day week without any decreases |in pay. They can push forward the campaign for unemployment in- |surance as embodied in H. R. 7598. |'They can join in the fight against |fascism and war and protect mili- tant members. They can elect as officers in the lodges and as dele- |gates to conventions and on com- mittees rank and file members who | will fight for a rank and file pro- |gram based on demands in the in- |terest of the men on the job. | CP. Fights for R.R. Workers’ — Demands The Communist Party of the} United States stands at the head of working class struggles in this country, on the job and at the bal-| lot box. It is made up of class conscious workers, men and women, who see through the schemes by which the capitalist class exploits the workers and maintains itself in | power. In opposition to the capitalist way out, through starvation and suppres- sion, Communists point to the way |out taken by the revolutionary Rus- sian workers. Railroad workers in the Soviet Union are organized 100) per cent into one great industrial union with full control over wages, working conditions and manage- ment. They have the six-hour day, five-day week, two weeks vacation with pay each six months, accom- |panied by numerous wage.increases. Unemployment has been abolished, and free medical care, old age pen- sions and sickness insurance are provided for. To vote for the capitalist party candidates is to vote for the capi- talist program of wage cuts, un- employment, company unions, ar- bitration, surrender of the strike weapon, suppression of all protest, for imperialist war and for grow- ing fascism at home. To vote Socialist is to vote for a bankrupt political party which has abandoned all class struggle and whose policy of collaboration with the capitalists leads in- evitably to betrayal, as in England, Germany and Austria. To vote Communist is to con- test every inch of ground with the capitalist class. It is to strength- en the fight against lay-offs, wage cuts, for full rank and file control of our unions, for unem- ployment insurance and cash re- lief for the unemployed. It is a vote against war and fascism and for a workers’ government. Chicago Leads Districts On Wednesday’s Lists HICAGO leads today—with $300. New York, which needs an average of $600 a day, if the 8-page paper is to continue after Election Day, contributes only $260. e DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) Received Oct. 24, 1934 Pi pee 42) unit 904 $5.00 Br 216 L.W.O. 6.00 Previously received ———-| Armenian Buro 5.00 3 Ut og Bee Total to date $24,002] Armenian B 1118 Br 96 1W.0. | 175 rs (Boston) “4 ir L.W.O. ay ei DISTRICT 1 $1.00 | Indianapolis Unemployed cz ‘paylor 1,00] Sec 1.75 Council No. 50 3.00 ‘Gi : aos | one at 3.00 H Batley 50 | 4, 1934 $2.00 | Unit 906 1.00 Ferd Meisel 2.00 Saat ate $1,084.06 | Unit | 916 150 Gas City Unit 2.00 " 7 4 275 A _Litvin 2.00 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Sec 3 5.00 Lithuanian Sec 14, U. 1 $16.00 Steel & Metal Sec, 3 15 Buro 12.25 Lccal 91 Opp 5.00 Wkrs Union 3.00) crn pcthizer 1.00 Okranian E Br 34, I.W.O. 20.00 Red Builders 19.00) sec 5 10.00 _ Buro 5.00 Whrs ‘of Highland Red Builders 16.07) soc 5, 19.70 Richmond, Ind. Dairies of oe eat basen a 3450 Sec 5.00 kr: *, x Hi ‘i Si 2 seninery United Sec 8 2.00] "Prec 1600 86 7 5 Front 5.00 Teen a * 30.00; BY 4505 T.w,0. 16.00 See 1 4.57 Associated * Br 129 I.W.O. 10.00 Indianapolis Wkrs Clubs 36.00 bag ead oe Br 61 I.wW.O. 10.00 Sec 38.00 Associated Br 187 1.W.O. 9.30 See 9 4.50 Wkrs Club 5,60. A _ friend 5°00 Total Oct. 24, 1934 $300.07 Associated ae ar 2 ameee ron | Total to date 92,240.41 ib pares oe «Soe 2:50 | DISTRICT 9 (Minnesota) School No 17 5.00 Bill Glusman 1.00 Newberry Workers Club $2.40 Turkish Workers House Party Tapiola Unit, Sec 9 2/50 Club 817 Collection 2.14 | Ida Haavisto 3 ders 11.25 M Vitons Total Oct. 24, 1934 $7.90 oo nae | Tottt teats $315.17 Oct. 24, 1934 $260. DISTRICT 18 (California) Fotal to date $12,140.60 | Unit 10, Downtown Sub-Sec $2.00 SerenICT 4 (Ratele) Unit 2, Hollywood Sub-Sec 9.00 trenton City $20.00 | Centenella Valley Sub-Sec 3.00 Banquet in J 100 | Unit 12, Boyle Hits Sub-Sec 5.00 Sala Harvan 25| Unit 1, Harbor Cities Sub-Sec 1.00 a 2'90| Armenian Workers Club 13.50 epee eamee Comrades 675 | Hungarian Working Women 2.00 Day Uni Coll. at Bill Dunne Forum 20.82 Total Oct. 24, 1934 oie not 24, 1934 $56.32 . 24, ‘otal to date $212.69 tal to date ‘oe DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) pres aero 14 (Newarg) Mrs, William Adler Treas Gone ak Gee Me Cc. P. Unit 1, Bellaire Total to date 349.11 Total Oct. 24, 1934 DISTRICT 16 (Charlotte) SPotal to date Total Oct, “rd, 1984 00 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) Total to date $68.25 Sec 4, Unit 3 $1.00 Finnish Wers DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) Soe .76 | Finnish Workers Sec 2, U-209 1.25 Sec 5, Unit 3 2.76 "10, Unit 8 .75| Club, Allis $5.09 Sec 2, U-207 30 Sec 5, Unit 1 5.00 3c 10, Unit 8 .71/Sec 1, U-109 1.88 Sec 1, Russian Sec 2, Unit 5 22 pinnish Wkrs See 1, U-111 27 Ukranian Sec 2, Unit 4 440 Soc 2.25|Sec i, U-118 175 TLD. 1.00 Sec 5, Unit 3 1.57 Karamikas 5.25| Sec 1, U-106 125 Sec. 1, U-110 1.00 Gzcchd Slovak 1.25 Gucy Parson 5.00/J Waclawski 50 Sec 1 1.00! J Schneider 50 Sec 4 435 Sec 1 1.00 10.00 T Lewis 23 / Sec 4 50 Sec 1, Fleisher 2.00! Dr'rcit Coop. D Peter 1.00] Sec 2 140 See 1, U-109 1.00 st 30.00 Michael Leib 5.00/ P Djakovich 1.00 Sec 1, U-117 3.73/ Pionish Wkrs Ben ¥ Kapeton 9.00|Sec 2. U-207 5.00 Sec 1, Bassett 1.70 pases John Voden 1.00| Sec 2, U-203 2.50 © White 1.00| trol Oct. 24, 1934 ss Total Oct. 24, 1994 $40.67 Total to date $932.88! Total to date $371.97 | | | omas| Worker Says Amter, Not Thomas, Shows Way Out of Crisis By a Worker Correspondent SYRACUSE, N. Y. — Norman Thomas, speaking at the Central High School, began by wisecracking and Democrats, and then asked if the country was in such a condi- tion to be entertained with such a put his hands in his pockets and grinned frequently as he told how bad things were. After telling the people that they he proceeded to tell them what he would do if elected senator. It was purely reformist, and I have heard Republicans make better promises. Outside I met a worker who be- gan talking about the meeting. “It was dull. Thomas didn’t say much.” The worker had been attending meetings at the Workers Center (Socialist), but “guessed the only way to get real Socialism was the way Russia did it.” There was one Socialist reaction for you. I could not help comparing that meeting with the one at which Comrade Amter spoke. Three or four times as many people heard Thomas, but Comrade Amter was ten times as vital in his message, ten times as earnest and sincere in his manner, ten times as definite and clear as Thomas. In answering a question about not expelling a militarist from the So- cialist Party, Thomas said that the Socialist Party was big enough to hold people of different opinions and was not like the Communist Party which had to kick out the Lovestoneites and Trotskyites. As regards the textile strike be- trayal and lack of united front he said, “Betrayal? Why, it was a vie- tory for the textile workers.” Relative to the united front he said, “If the Socialists pave the road to fascism as the Communists say, is that why they want to unite with us?” To that we could all say, “Yes! to prevent the leadership from betray- ing the rank and file into the hands of the fascists.” There is a little comment I should like to make on “before the meet- ing.” The meeting was announced very liberally with quotations and peture of Thomas for three or four days in a couple of our daily papers. In the same paper with a large pic- ture of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and @ sweet story about Mr. Thomas’ hair had grown white in the service of his party, was a full page head- line telling that Mayor Marvin was trying to throw the Communist ticket out. On all sides it becomes evident that the capitalist class has no fear of the Socialists. It is only the Com- munist Party that sticks to its pur- pose. It is only the Communist Party that the capitalists fear. NOTE: The usual correspondence for Friday from workers in the trans- portation and communication in- dustries—railroad, marine, truck- ing, taxi, subway, elevated, etc. has been omitted due to the fact that this is a special election is- sue and the space is devoted to workers correspondence on the election campaign. However on future Fridays, the page will be devoted to workers in these industries. We urge them to write us of their conditions of work, and their struggle to organ- ize. Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each week. Reject Capitalist Parties, Plan to Vote tor Communists | CommunistSpeakerRouts Democrat at Symposium Arranged Following Mass Unemployed Parade ai By a Worker Correspondent SCRANTON, Pa.— Emmett Pat- rick Cush, candidate for Goyernor for the Communist Party, State of Pennsylvania addressed a meeting of 3,000 workers at Mitchel’s monu- ment, Court House Square, Scran- ton. The demonstration of unem- ployed workers of Scranton finished in a symposium arranged by the Lackawanna Unemployment Coun- ceils. After a successful parade of over 1,000 workers who fought for various local demands and won them, as a result of two weeks pick- eting of the relief board, letters had been sent to the Republicans and Democrats and Communist Party inviting them to present their pro- grams on unemployment. The Republicans failed to send a representative but the Democrats sent Mr. MeGurren, candidate for representative in Scranton. After Comrade Cush presented the pro- gram of the Communist Party in the election campaign, the Demo- crat asked for the floor and was given a chance to speak. He pre- sented the usual line of the Demo- crats speaking about the flag, presi- dent, and country and made several promises, such as the Democrats wanted all the people to have jobs, etc. After the Democrat was through a few people applauded him when he finished. The chairman, Joe Dougher, in- troduced Steve Nelson, Communist nd Rally Party organizer, who answered Mc- Gurren and asked him a number of questions. The Democrat was in a hurry to leave but finally decided to stay. After Comrade Nelson asked him about 12 questions to which he could not give a reply to the satisfaction of the workers, al- though he was given a chance to do so. After he was thoroughly ex- posed in his rebuttal he made a statement that he has learned a lot at this meeting, stating that we should be friends in spite of the fact that we belong to different parties and did everything he could to make a safe retreat and not to suffer complete disaster. Comrade Dougher asked the 3,000 workers present to express their opinion by voting for the three Par- ties, for the Republicans, Democrats and Communists. There was not a tingle hand raised for either capi- talist Party, not even the Demo- cratic representative had courage enough to raise his hand when he saw the enthusiasm of the workers in voting for the Communist Party. This was the greatest slap the Dem- ocrats received in the county for a long time and we can rest assured that the lesson they learned is that it does not pay to come to workers meeting when Communists have a chance to speak with them on the same platform. The workers left the demonstration with great en- thusiasm and determined to vote Communist on November 6th. Battle for Free Speech In Canarsie By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Canar- sie workers are now carrying on a struggle against fascist terror for the right of free speech. Open air meetings are scheduled for every Wednesday night at 8 p.m., under the auspices of the Canarsie Work- ers Club, in conjunction with the Communist Party and the Young Communist League of Brownsville, and other sympathetic revolution- ary organizations. There was a hand to hand battle in a mobilization of about 500 fas- cists, cutnumbering our fellow workers five or ten to one. Well organized, viciously attacking work- ers around the speakers platform. Our comrades did not lose their heads, lined up one alongside of each other in unity and were ready for defense. Due to our courageous and uni- fied ranks we outbattled those fas- cists of Canarsie and they will have something to remember us by. The workers will fight for their rights of free speech and assembly, and against war and fascism. There are, however, many work- ers in the ranks of those Demo- cratic and patriotic organizations who are misled and it is our duty to clarify them in order to win them over under any cost. Now then, only through the unity of the Socialist and Communist work- ers together can we accomplish and show the strength of the working class. Unity and mass pressure of the working class only will bring victory. The Young Peoples Socialist League, realizing the power of unity in Brownsville, has invited, through he had seen and heard in the onion Thomas Offers No Solution For Conditions By a Worker Correspondent BOLIVAR, N. Y.—Norman Thomas | was the principal speaker at a meeting recently in a high school at Olean, N. Y. Mr. Thomas com- mitted the fatal mistake Lenin so often cautioned us against, telling of conditions, in this case of what fields of Ohio and in the textile strike sections of North Carolina. Lenin says: “What is the use of telling about conditions that every- body already knows, what is neces- sary is to give a remedy.” When he touched on public ownership of utilities, one could easily under- stand from his words that the capitalists will be glad to have their private property publicly distrib- uted. That’s what his words im- plied. Never once did he carry any idea we might have to fight to bourgeoisie. He loudly voiced the Socialists’ fight against fascn— and war; and how foolish it all sounded to one who knows their hedging about joing the united front with the Communists. His going left with the Revolutionary Policies Committee was due to the pressure of the rank and file members, not from choice. He did not mention the Spanish, Cuban or German situation and less the Far East or the marine strike. I call it about as tame a dissertation as one could expect. the Communist Party and at an open air meeting in Brownsville, Joseph Gilbert to speak in a politi- cal symposium at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum with a Socialist speaker. |Look F orward| To Root Party InMcKeesRock Red Scare, New Deal Ballyhoo, Hamper Activity By a Worker Correspondent McKEES ROCK, Pa.—There has been no political struggle arranged for the coming election locally by the Communist Party, and I doubt that any has been carried on to support it statewide. Of course, there has been door to door can- vassing to put the party on the bal- lot and that is as far as the workers aided. The American residential section where there is a majority of mid- die-class elements have issued the “New Deal” program here. The workers have built an American Citizens League organization for unemployed workers, and this is the way that the workers are being dis- couraged towards any workers’ po- litical economic organization that we have functioning in our town here. The working class residential section is under the influence of the bosses’ red scare, which causes most disorganization among the working class population. Here the workers are made to believe that the rank and file is helpless and cannot carry on any work, The young workers are beginning to be very difficult to approach and to make realize the coming struggles which the Communist Party is leading throughout the country. Today we are faced with hard re- lief problems and we are finding it mighty hard even to convince the former members of good standing to rejoin the struggle against these conditions. But, we are still look- ing forward to root deeper, to crys- tallize the movement, and we hope to be more able to develop the workers’ mind. Ex-Socialist Urges Workers to Support Communist Party By a Worker Correspondent EUREKA, Ohio.— September 15, at 2 p.m. in Gallipolis Park, Mr. F. G. Struklin, priest and leader of the Socialist Party delivered a “political” speech about the Demo- cratic, Republican and Socialist Parties, pointing out why the farm- ers are umable to find suitable markets for their products. No word, however, was said about the necessity and the ways of putting these markets under the control of farmers, not a word was said about the importance of organizing the workers and farmers into one strong organization for the purpose of conducting real struggles with the greedy capitalists, and struggle with them so long till the workers and farmers will become the right- ful owners of everything they pro- duce. Long live the only fighter for the cause of the working class, the Communist Party! Long live Marx- ism! Long live the Russian Bol- shevik Party, which under the lead- ership of our great Lenin built up a workers’ and peasants’ country, I end this correspondence by pledging that we, former members of the Socialist Party of Gallia County, Ohio, join the ranks of the Communist Party, will fight so long till the rottening structure of this society is shattered to pieces. We call upon all members of the A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party to follow our example. Vote Communist Against Wage Cuts. Urge Members of Your Union to Read the Daily Worker! Support of Communis' Platform Grows in Farm Areas Workers throughout the country are rallying in support of the Com- munist Party program in the com- ing elections, and are preparing to vote Communist at the polls Nov. 6, as disillusionment in Roosevelt’s New Deal grows. Letters from workers show the increasing re- sponse of the masses to the de- mands put forward by the Com- munist Party in the elections, against the Roosevelt attack on the living standards of the working class, against capitalist terror, for unemployment insurance, for the 0/ repeal of the Agricultural Adjust- ment Act, for the right to strike, picket and organize into unions of their cwn choosing, against Jim- Crowism and lynching, against the war preparedness program of the present administration. In farming regions, as well as in industrial centers, this greater re- sponse is apparent. In those places, such as Gladwin, Mich., where Communists have been elected in the past to local office, it has been proved to the workers that they are the only ones who stand in defense of the interests of the broad masses of the workers and poor and middle farmers. County Board Protests Roosevelt Program By a Worker Correspondent GLADWIN, Mich.—There are 23 members, two of which are Com- munist. I thought of writing you sbout the October meeting of the Gladwin County Board of Super- visors, which is just over. There were two very important steps taken. a panes asking him to refrain from destroying food. This went in the minutes as a form of a resolution and will be printed in the Gladwin County record. During the bank holiday the workers of this county lost very much money, so the board thought of protecting the county from now on. We have around $40,000 on hand, and a committee was sent to the local bank asking them to give securit;? and interest. They refused. The State law re- quires that the board name a bank different banks in order to get each to take up $5,000 of our money for insurance. Wicks, Meyerscough, Speak at Rally By a Worker Correspondent YUKON, Pa.—We called a mass meeting in a lot. In spite of the cold, there were quite a few work- ers present. Our main speakers were Harry M. Wicks, who is run- ning for U..S. Senator on the Com- munist ticket, also T. M. C. Meyers- cough, president of the N. M. U. Meyerscough spoke ~. the sell-outs of J. Lewis. Comrade Wicks spoke on the Communist platform and the basic demands. The Democratic Party, which is running for re-election, also had a meeting. They are making every effort to get votes. The Socialist Party issued leaflets in Italian, try- ing to get the support of the work- ers for their candidate, Holmes. The capitalists are doing everything pos- sible to gain control, using their papers. Independent Candidate Calls For No Strikes By a Worker Correspondent ROME, N. Y.—We here in Rome formed a Common Workers’ Asso- They sent President Roosevelt a ciation with George Sharpe at the or banks, so the board named eight} head of the committee or chairman. We were allied with McCabe (Pathric) of Utica, but broke off, I want to tell you about this Mc- Cabe. He came out with no strike slogan while the strike was in full swing. He said that it injures the N.R.A. program. Now he is running on the Independent ticket for As- semblyman. He registered Demo- cratic. We have indorsed the Hunger March, Large Rally Hears Communist Candidate By a Worker Correspondent IRON MT., Mich.—Frank Arvola, ; Who is running for congressman, spoke here at the St. Paul Park, The crowd who gathered to hear him speak amounted to a few hun- dred. The literature sale was good. Phil Raymond spoke here on the 24th. We made that a big meet- ing. Fitzgerald, Republican, spoke here at the Colonial Theatre and Lacy the Democrat, spoke at St, confidence in the politicians. The party hasn’t any local candidates Paul Park. The workers are losing in this coming election here. Party Weak in Coatesville, Pa. By a Worker Correspondent COATESVILLE, Pa.—In the mat- ter of political activity in the pres- ent election campaign, in Coates- ville, must say there is absolutely none so far as the Communist or Socialist Parties are concerned. Though this is mainly a Republican territory, the Demecrats are un- doubtedly going to make a good sweep this year. The Roosevelt demagogy, though it’s really helped very few, has so far been pretty effective hereabouts, This town is beginning to show a Letters Show Communist Gains Among Workers Workerkcsd-onldeabs in Program of Capi- talist Parties tendency toward Communist organ- izations at work here. Arrest Communist Candidate By a Worker Correspondent GREENVILLE, Mich.—The Demo- crats, Republicans, Socialists and a number of others here are very busy keeping the workers and farmers divided. Anything to hide the real issue. And they are especially busy in Detroit. I understand that they have our man that is on our ticket for Governor arrested and locked up for a while, just before election, to cause trouble and to side-track votes. Comrade John Anderson is a very fine young man. The com- rades should get busy and uncover that capitalist plot to blacken Comrade Anderson’s name First Communist Siate in Iron Co. By a Worker Correspondent IRON BELT, Wis.—Iron County has Communist candidates in Iron Belt, Wis. For the first time the workers and farmers of Iron Coun- ty are in a position to vote for a Communist candidate for several county offices. Everything that was promised to us by Roosevelt before he was eleged still remains only a promise, therefore we workers here are not going to let ourselves be fooled by the capitalist party politicians. Our duty now is to support the only parity of all workers and farmers, the Communist Party. Not only at the polls, but always, regardless of our political or religious opinions. Question Comrade S. M. of Bethlehem, Pa., writes as follows: “Will you please answer the following: I gave two blood transfusions to my friend. First on Dec. 15, 1933, a little over a pint, and the second on Jan. 10, 1934, another pint. I am 37 years old. Will that be of any danger to my general health? “They wanted a third transfusion on Jan. 25, but I refused and doc- tors told me that I shouldn’t be afraid, that I will gain that blood in a@ week’s time, or even in two days, if I drink a quart of milk each day.” Blood Transfusions The person who gives blood for a transfusion should not give blood for another transfusion until one month has passed. It takes one month for blood to be reformed. Furthermore, a donor (one who gives blood for transfusions) should not be used more than four or five times a year. Otherwise he himself may become ill of anemia (lack of blood). Why did the doctors say these things to you? Because blood costs money, and our hospitals haven't enough money to pay for the blood, Sterilization of Workers on Relief W. P. W., Spokane, Wash.—You write that there was nothing wrong with your wife's female organ, and yet, without consulting both of you, she was operated upon and made unfit for having any more children. The surgeon then told you that this was done by making a loop in her tubes and putting them un- der the ligaments that support the womb and that she can be righted by another operation. We cannot state whether this contention is correct. We cannot be certain whether your wife will’ be per- manently sterile or not. At any rate, tying off the tubes does not injure a woman's health, does not interfere with menstruation or sex- ual function, In view of the fact that you have two boys, we would not advise you to consider having the job undone, because there is no assurance that your wife will not be sterile after this measure. However, when we discussed the problem of sterilization in this col- umn on Sept. 20, we pointed out at that time that the ruling class. whose laws originally were supposed to give legal permission for steriliza- WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board sane, epileptics, “criminals,” etc, have been utilizing this procedure against anyone who raises his voice against war, against the procedure against wage-cuts, against anything which might cut down the profits of the bosses. Such laws are especially danger- ous in fascist countries where any- one disagreeing with fascism is con- sidered “criminal” and “unfit.” If. as vou state, they are making sterilization a general practice with people on the relief roles in your county, without consent, we are cer- tain that the authorities are not within their rights and must be stopped. We should like to have you do a bit of investigating for us. If you know of any similar instances in your vicinity, write us about them and we shall make an exposure of this damnable bit of fascist chi- canery. * If Minna Posner will send us her address, we shall be able to reply to her letter. * Twenty-Five Day Menstrual Periods A. N., New York City.—Menstrual periods every 24 or 25 days may be considered normal. Many young women have a three week, instead of a four week cycle. No treatment is required as long as the blood loss is not excessive. Small clots are of no significance, If the bleeding is prolonged or pro- fuse or there are large clots, then medical attention is required. Self- treatment is valueless. The question of vaginal discharge was adequately discussed in a recent issue of the Daily Worker, Contributions recelved to the credit of the Medical Advisory Board in its Socialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, Jacob Burck, David Ramsey and In the Home, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$1,500. Harry Batley ...... § 50 Mrs. Wm. Adler . » 1.00 M. Vitons ... 2.00 Ella Goldberg 2 ae Previously received ..... 313.91 Total to date .......... $318.41 Build Up a Daily Worker Carrier Route! Put the Daily Worker First on Your Political Calendar! tion of the unfit, such as the in- By Mrs, Elinore Herrick, head of the Regional Labor Board of the N.R.A., who has often put her political foot into it for her open expression of an anti-labor attitude, attended a luncheon of the New York Con- sumers’ League at Town Hall this week, where she came forward as | the champion of low-paid labor. She moaned, in sweet, sad horror, “In every state, women are working for tyso cents, three cents and five cents an hour at home!” She went on to state “their wage makes the wage paid Japanese labor seem quite attractive.” The conclusion she draws is that the American standard of living is vanishing “due to the destructive force of home work.” “We have taught them to live the American way,” she says of im- migrants, “yet many of these im- migrants and their children and their children’s children have been forced back into the meager, starved existence, which is the best that home work will support.” She declares home work, the “most pressing industrial issue before this State this winter.” Mrs. Herrick closes her eyes and blinds her ears. She dares to see only that which is convenient. The American standard of living has shot downward like a meteor, these N. R. A. years. But Mrs. Herrick, herself, is the principal exponent in this State of the N. R. A. codes that have made low-paid labor patriotic. The American standard of living has been propelled down- ward by direct order of the gov- ernment through the N.R.A. codes. Silk workers are striking in Pater- son, because the wages set by the code are so low that they do not af- ford the silk workers even life’s bare necessities. In order to live, workers throughout New York and the entire country are striking against the wages made legal by the N. R. A. codes. Mrs. Herrick, you may be assured that women do noi prefer working in their homes for two cents, three cents and five cents an hour. If they could get a job in a shop that paid a living wage, they would not turn their homes into swea‘shops. In _ assailing falling standards, Mrs. Herrick deftly evades the en- tire significance of the working- class misery of these years. If she faced it, as she of course will not, she would have to recognize in her- self a policewoman of a system that forces women into their homes to der to live in the all too American way. he Gita si Under the peculiarly biased title “Women Find Use for Head,” comes this story over the United Press ticker, to describe a group of women who are fighting to defend their standard of living. “Two women today used their heads to stop a train. The train was loaded with a shipment from the Chicago Rub- We are all against hunger, war and fascism, therefore we'll ‘vote Com- munist, ber Clothing Goods Co. where a strike was in progress. The women —they were pickets—lay down with IN THE HOME ANN BARTON work for four cents an hour in or- | Solicit Subs for the “Daily” Mrs. Herrick Becomes a Champion their heads on the track and re- fused to budge. The train stopped. Finally it backed up.” Contributicns received to the credit of Ann Barton 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. Comrade . 2.00 Previously received .. 12.70 Total to date ............$15.70 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2055 is available in size 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Size 12 takes 3 yards 39 inch fabric and % yard 4 inch ribbon. Illustrated step-by- step sewing instructions included. | i 2055 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins cr stamps (ccins 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.: