The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 Unemployed Family Provided With Home Through Supervisor's Resistance Is Smashed State ‘Experimenting’ jith Rent Relief, Says Official By & Worker Correspondent MILTON, Pa—A large delega- tion went down to relief headquar- ters and demanded that a home be obtained for Mrs. Kalemberger and her small children. The present “home” has a leaky roof which has cause the bed springs and mat- tress to rot away and the family is sleeping on the cold floor. One child has had convulsions and an- | other is very sick because of these conditions. Mr. Feister, the supervisor, re- fused to do anything about the case. Mrs. Kalemberger deter- mined to stay right in the relief office, where it was warm and comfortable, until her family was provided with a house fit to live in. Reverend Lehman, area admin- istrator, was called on the tele- phone, but he also refused to do anything, pleading that “no funds have been made available from Harrisburg.” When asked why he did not call Harrisburg and demand rent for Mrs. Kalemberger, he said, “I will call at my earliest con- venience!” This made the workers sore and they demanded that Leh- man see a committee and permit their spokesman to talk to Har- risburg, the state capitol, immedi- ately. A call was put through to Miss Margaret Brook, superviscr for cen- tral Pennsylvania. Miss Brook tried to pass the buck by saying— that: “Area 1 had not yet assumed the responsibility for rent relief although they were ‘experimenting’ with the matter in other parts of the state!” The committee demanded imme- diate attention for the Kalember- ger case, stating that when the lives and health of workers were concerned it was time to stop ‘experimenting’ and do something. When told that the Unemployment Councils would hold her respon- sible also for anything that hap- | pened, Miss Brook instructed Leh- | man to see that Mrs. Kalemberger | was provided with a house that | same evening. | With 200 workers | eviction in Danville, Pa., and hun- | dreds of workers throughout Area | 1 faced with the same problem, the demand for rent becomes the most important issue facing the workers here. Under the leadership of the Unemployment Councils an intensive campaign will be devel- | oped shortly to see that ths need is | satisified. [No New Hoes, ‘Only Robbery By Landlord By a Sharecropper Correspondent HOPE HILL, Ala—We are on a plantation here for 18 years, and} |some have been here still longer.) |The landlord doesn’t furnish any-| |thing to the tenants and on some/ | farms they get tools for plowing and |farming, but not here. In 1933, we | Plowed up all the cotton, and did |mot see paper, let alone coin money. |In 1934 we rented so muc government and they paid rental per acre. The landlord told us it was our money, but he was going to take it and buy fertilizer. We did jnot like this, and then we went to | the relief and asked for help, They | did not help any of us. | We are charged two bales rent to the farm, and we want to buy a mule to farm with, and some haven’t sown any acres in cotton, jand must pay three bales for rent, and are still being held for back |rent. Our hoes need repairing and |the landlord says he hasn’t got any |others. They need repairing bad, |and he wants the cotton every year. faced with We are tired of this way of doing| | things. | At the’ beginning of the fall, the landlord brought two blanks, one for him to trustee over us, and one saying that the tenant could be his |own boss, and saw to our signing jaway to the boss our one way to |live. And then we all got our own {gin for ginning, and he still, wants jus to give the cotton to him, and |he bosses the ticket as he wants to. Communist Candidates Are Leaders in the Fight for the Right to Organize, Strike, Picket. Boston Sends Almost h to the| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1934 18,000 Farms for Sale for Unpaid Taxes By a Farmer Correspondent LINCOLN, Nebr.—In Knox County, br., the Pennsylvania Mutual Insurance Co. has taken title or foreclosed 100 farms. A man by the name of Higgins is in charge of them. The Ne- braska Security Company of Omaha, Nebr., which is the old time Bankers Life Insurance Company of Lincoln, has fore- closed more than 160 farms in Knox County, Nebr. 50 per cent of all the farms in Knox County are in the hands of insurance companies and banks, Eighteen thousand farms and homes were advertised in the local papers for sale for taxes on Oct. 18th, U.F.L. Rallies Fight Against Foreclosure By a Worker Correspondent PORTLAND, Ore.—Pilans for our United Farmers League demonstra- tion against the Sherman Seely | eviction from the farm on which he was born, by Hawkins and Rob- | jerts, Inc., of Salem, Ore., are pro- | | gressing nicely. | We held another meeting of the | |U. F. L. Tigard local, last evening. | | A committee of five was elected to| visit all the farmers around Wil-| | sonville, where the Seelys live, and | ask them to boycott the Seely farm and the man who is trying to buy | it, in case the Seelys are forced to | go. | Tonight we are going to Wilson- | ville to start another local of the |U. F. L. The committee men going | through the country today are ad- vertising this meeting and asking all farmers to come. We expect the) School house to be crowded. The expiration of the eviction no- | tice is Sunday. Eviction is not legal on that day, so the U. F. L. of both Tigard and Ladd Hill locals and the whole countryside are go- ing to picket the Seely place be- ginning Monday. The women are |more excited about it than the men, | almost. | | Every farmer, and they attended | | last evening’s meeting from distant | |communities, will call on all his \neighbors, asking them to help picket. If necessary we'll get all |the workers in Portland. We are |mot going to give up. Oregon will have her place on the map as a “man’s country,” one in which all races, colors, sexes of the human | blackberries, which are sold. Mass Action Semi-Imprisonment, Bad Food, Ragged Clothes, | Reward for 12 Hour Day at Farm and Kitchen Drudgery ELMONT, L. I.—Unbelievable, rotten conditions exist | ‘Poor eves F wea Enforces Slave Labor Conditions | in this Jerusalem Poor Farm. There are about 200 people | living in this place. They force us to work without wages. | | Very old people, of course, cannot work. | didn’t get any wages at all, except the stool pigeons, undercover men, who were paid for the dirty work they did. | Some of us are forced to work 12 and 14 hours every day, even Sundays. Doing kitchen work, cleaning buildings, rooms and feed- ing the chickens and horses. We | |have about 65 acres of farmland. | | Food is very bad, these small po- | | tatoes which nobody would buy are fed to us. They give us only work- ing clothes. which are old and ragged. We have workers who have been working for next to nothing for six, four and three years. We have no liberty to go out, except Sunday, when we say we are going to church or to look for work. Out- side of the farm we have to be| careful of what we say and to} whom. People will wonder why we stay | here. We stay here because relief has been refussed us, we were forced to starve to death, and hunted by snarling bloodhound po- | lice, and women would be chased as street women. When we are visiting outside we are under terror, fearful of undercover men. We can talk only to most trusted of friends. A few times during the week sev- eral churches or religous people give us entertainment to turn our minds to heaven. The Institution has ice | cooling rooms in the cellar to disci- | pline us. This is a hellish place. | We raise a great deal of potatoes, | which are sold by tons, to otuside people, also we raise strawberries, We raise all kinds of vegetables, hay for the Institution’s cows, hogs. Still the statement says that each person’s upkeep costs the Town of Hempstead taxpayers, $9.23 per week. What an outrage! Here is Town Home and Farm Budget from Jan. 1, 1932, ending Dec. 31, 1932: Salary of superintendent $ 2,400 Salary of matron, his | A few years ago the officials gave us $10 per month | |for spending money. Conditions grew worse. At the tim | of the Roosevelt's New Deal we? Less estimated farm Peery pared a Less estimated steward funds obetarecond : Total Deficit ........... $66,300 We have two cooks who get paid for, and laundry workers who work every day. Even so it cannot sum | up $14,000 per year, including the | supintendent and his wife’s salaries. | We grant there are sick people and old people who cannot work and / have to be attended to. Even tak- | ing this into consideration we still come to the conclusion that here | is terrible corruption. How can up- | keep come to $9,23 per week when | most of the food is raised here and | only a few hired hands are em- | | ployed, most of the work is done | under slave-like conditions. We are raising our heart-broken cry to. outside workers, Only with their help can we get improvements. Only the workers’ papers will print | naked truth. We know this. We/| |are watching closely what happens | outside. We saw that on the 20th of August, unemployed workers had | demonstrated at Mineola and) elected a delegation, which was headed by McLoughlin, to see the | Board of Cupervisors. Charles Mc- Loughlin, who is a candidate on the Communist ticket, is a Spanish~ American War veteran. His an- cestors fought bravely on Washing- ton’s side, his forefathers fought in the Civil War. Charles, himself, shows heroism now as his ancestors did. He has fought for relief in Glen | Cove for hundreds of workers, he has been spokesman many times in | the last few years in county-wide demonstrations, when he lead dele- gations to see the Board of Super- | visors with demands. Slowly but surely, we find what is what, and who exposes grafting and corrup- tion, and fights for daily relief for | the unemployed. The Communist Party has picked the best fighters | |on their slate. | A Vote for Communist Candi- dates Is a Vote against Company “Unions.” Negro and W hite Croppers Express Need for Unity Conditions of Whites No Better Than Negroes’ (By a Sharecropper Correspondent) DADEVILLE, Ala.—Since their conditions are no better, and the poor whites see this, they are be- ginning to want to organize. We are glad to have them. I was able to meet with a white cropper this morning, and our whole talk was about the Bankhead Bill, and that the big landlord was starving him to death. At a little place called Rock Spring, all we need is a white organizer with us, to keep from be- ing spotted. Now is the time to work with the white croppers, and step in this way toward the dictatorship of the pro- letariat. If there was ever a time to work with them, it is now, and we are doing it, and they seem to be glad to be with us. On the question of relief, they have cut it off. Some who were on relief, one being a school teacher, have been given jobs. She has to teach the grown people’s school. They proclaim that the government is doing this, and some aren't pay- ing any attention to this all the time. Times are bad among white and Negro. Some haven’t had any crops. Some are living on what the relief gives them, and now they have cut them off, and the bad winter is coming on. Some have no where to stay. We are putting up a fight for them. Vote Communist for a Soviet . |race will be free of the money lend- | wife 1,500 9 S \ers, even if they have to fight hard| Nurses 2,000 | atj O ues ay § SUM x. __|_ Physician 1804 Remtmber this, my friends, this| Town home labo! 14,000 SSL ala |Tevolt was started by women. An Farm labor .. 1,800 CONTRIBUTION of $540 from District 1, Boston, comprises almost pera pcg oar ete ines General expenses 52,800 one-half of Tuesday's receipts. Of this, $200 was realized from the jtigent, and kind, honest in all his *Potal Rocpsiibed Veen Daily Worker and 15th Anniversary Celebration of the Communist Party dealings, is not going to be allowed | * is held in Roxbury, Mass., last Saturday. In addition, the Jewish Workers |to meet with the usual capitalistic | sy SEB eS at Cultural Clubs sent $83, the Working Women’s Councils $50, and the reward given to those whom they Armenian fraction bureau of New England contributed $75. Bo gages Dare ony. we tO lates In New York, the Workers School sends $95, double the amount of Seuating: d ee | its first contribution, while the Jewish Children’s Schools collected $50. The spirit of Daniel Boone,| Workers School students: take collections in class-rooms, at school | Nathan Hale and of our revolution- lectures and functions for the Daily Worker $60,000 drive! ary ancestors still lives. We'll no Previ ly Received 1 ir . foods . * eae S Slav Club, Unit 1.69 | country. Bankhead Bill Brings Total to date 20385.74| New Brighton 5.00 P Miravalle — 1.00/ Ss , f DISTRICT 1 (Boston) |e ore ease a Ook at TE | < . tarvation for Providence, R. I, Sec. 4 16.50 “Tot to dat aalU Cl Jewish Workers Cultural Clubs rea amps ee age et ‘Union 1que Both ieee 10.00 | Unit 1-02 M441 Cleveland see} rne’s School: mn of ery oe aevich ‘Bakers Local 45 25.00 | Unit 1-03 1.52 Sloboda | sed As Shoe (By a Sharecropper Correspondent) Freiheit Gesangs Farein 7.00 | Unit 1-10 1.60 Cleveland 4.00 | CAMP HILL, Ala—I am writing Weiss's Commemoration of 25 years of Unit 1-14 ‘90 © Scandinavian you ‘a few lines to let you know activity in movement 25,00 | Unit 1-18-11 5.65 _Buro 5.00 _ ‘ ve Armenian Fract. Buro, New England 75.00 | Unit 1-18-13 1.25 Conneaut, O. 5.00 Pa ut Lever how we are getting along in the Russian Fraction C.P., Boston es bo eis aie ao ony BS ie y black belt. Our conditions are grow- N.S.L. (Harvard) | Uni ~' . jul J ‘ Maynard Unit 5.00 | Unit 2-20 277 Akron 10.43 ee bee ibis abe AG Roxbury 2 Section 2 6.75 | Unit 2-21 102 Geo Williams, | By a Shoe Worker Correspondent | 8 ioe ae o aoe Workers School of Boston 10.00 | F-21 5.00 K Kapalin 10 | meeting of the “United” in Chelsea, trying to build the organization. Roxbury Unit 1 Sec. 2 S00} Cait 17-06 20.00»: & Sais 19/the union officials and the reac- eee Dare en eemene cilia ished cub of poten Sn |Unt He B Grade, 18] Llonary llque in the Tecal cervied|,Touey Me, tia find many. whit New Theatre Players of Boston 1,00 | Unit 16-1 5.00 J Stand .10|a@ motion leaving to the crew of against because they are poor, and Lawrence, cones 19.00 | Bele or 4 - A Seay te the Suffolk Shoe to decide on the | are suffering conditions like us Ne Chel: 1. Mi . Sec, 10 | Erie Uni 5 .) 5 - Ribs t Door—Aftair of 27t! 4 -01, . E, ie 2 . i Entrance Fee a! Doot—Aff. of 27th 110.75 | Toledo 90s es 6.00| The Chelsea local, in’ line with atTne spank Bil Bee canes Cash Collection on floor of 27th 79.14) Unit. 7-03, tio Upbatbesand all other locals of the “United,” many ae Scaee Rene aha coring A. J. Hallington . a y t 5 Less E: 49.39 | Cincinnati 2,63 Canton 2.00; went on record not to grant wage ange ————| Cineinnati 3 1.90 Prospect Print cuts. But the official of the local, fomnece ft Berg ved 60 hits 2 foe Total to October 30 540.10 | Cincinnati 12.80 Shop 2.50| Mr. Mitchell, one of the worst re- | #OUD? LS RLIERE A chChE Ge Total to date 1156.89 | Women’s Int'l J. Vasiliades 20) actionary officials of the United, | 2% ey are ied about the DISTRION 2 (New York tty). - | Ciuby Bteubene || Gobel MaNaa Teal has his one ipolloy, , which is, rk-| Tete eerie Lee oe es Sec 11 4.15 Boro Park Unit _| tskra Club, bee 4 % some wi ‘armers this week. They Sec 8 Unit 2 557 4 ¥.C.L. Geyeland’ Sek" tok: Cok ae aaas | Se a ean epee) bried said that the Bankhead bill was the Sec 8 Unit 3 21.50 Workers of Op- Oreski Club Tot to date 1,511.02| Wages and conditions iy worst bill they have ever been un- ILD Br. 17 2.00 timo Dress S'p 4.25 | DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) bosses want a cut they must get it| Ge, They said, “Our wives and ee eS. 10,60 | Valentino Mollie Eikind 5.00/ and the union must be “saved” for | children are suffering. We can’t do noes 11.75 Charles Peck 2.00 Frizz0 136 Tet Oct, 90 16-28 | himaelf amd his clique, Under the|, thing for them.” And they said Followers of the M 39 | H- J: Jonson RICE & UChicage) | threat of being thrown out of work| they would rather be dead than see Sal 200. Chas Lenssen Poy (A Piowedr:.. 700. eactlan-€ 2so|and intimidation, Mitchel and |their wives and children suffer. cca ener R. M. Spil- City Hall 2.00/ Company got the Suffolk Shoe I Zimmer 1.00 James Connolly 1 esay iS Gels oe eo ee They told us that they could do Anon 5.00 Br Irish Wkrs 1.00] 07744 i800 Section 8 42,98 | SHOP crew strong to this meeting| something if we would stick <up 3 Kerlin ee ee 100) On ste | to vote that each shop crew be 1.60 William Allegro 2.00 | Unit 402 SY eminem a2 with them. I told them that we a 8D Stern 1.00| Unit 1205, 430 Club PB. 20.00/ given the right to decide on the Negroes and white workers ought AH 2.00 Se Eos nol ane ree Nb ast gts | demand for wage cuts. .,_.|to get together and not fight each Jewish Childrens Tot Oct 30 237.43) Becton 5.00 r | The result under such conditions| other. They said, “That's what we ade 50.00 Tot to date 15352.78 | Sertion 13 «35.00 ‘Tot Oct. 30 209.20\of this and similar shop crew|want to do.” They said that we Ne- DISTRICT $ (Philadelphia) | Section 8 3.55 Tot to date 2,672.92 meeting is obvious. fake and Sanaa th T H Scott 1.00 8 Ross 6.00 | DISTRICT 9 (Minneapolis) ‘When the news spread to Boston, 8 poo! es are the ones Marc. Goldman 5.00 M Cook 4.25 | puluth Section Urho Hender- | en the »|who do all the work. We ought all J Rosen 50 Hietela 5.00| p. B 5.00 ‘son .o5| Lynn, Haverhill and Lowell, com-/io get into the union. ere geen $33 | Geo. Maki 10 EM: Perreault 1.75| mittees of these shoe _ centers fe) her ore . Hender- Tot Oct. 95 a Simian Puner 05 Bessie Unit 2. 5,00| ou? Meme” og Tot to date 3as7| swamped the eee oon ae Dorothy Puher | .05 DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) manding that drastic action S A Wolnock 259 Tot to Oct 30 37.99|5 Maszenas 1.00 A Friend 250/ taken to stop the Mitchell clique tters rom Jos Grossberg .25 Tot to date 3565.24/ HT. Ahrens 5.00 ‘Pot Oct. 30 13.50| from putting over wage cuts. A al DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) A Prtend. 500 Tee. te sate 288.71| gemand was made from the general ‘Unit 108 50 jewai 1 Unit 101 ——«-280—Tot to Oot 30, 00] Geo, ss aparse oo| tieials that if Mitchell's cliques} LA GUARDIA‘S RELIEF Unit 104 5.00 Tot to date 296.14| Gordon a“ 00 can't be stopped a strike be de- beret aE te. 525|Clared by the G. E. B., and offers Boh bl tee DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) Jewish Buro 7.25 Buro 5.00| Harry Dangler 1.00 Tot to date 307.41; were made by these committees to Iwo Br 601, John Reed Br DISTRICT 1s Spteatie) tao0| S84 pickets from other shoe cen- Carnegie 1.65 ILD, Ambridge 2.50 | Branch ‘pringfe . hop. It remains Jeanette Unit 1.00 Universal Br RNMAS. 2.00 a Lanees hood ei Lies! Soninitte West E Unit 3.00 ILD. 2.50 | M, Fassa 2.00 Tot Oct. 30 20.00 seen e Resi A Burkhart, Shop Johnstown W. H. Ruscol Tot to date 543.89| tee of the G. E. B. and general Unit 3.00 Section 2.00 DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) officials will react to this serious Turtle Creek Hungarian John Raimond 1.00 Tot Oct, 39 1.00) Situation. If this attempt of the Sec. Buro 00 ———__ Tot to date \s - ‘W Brownsville Women’s Auxil- | DISTRICT 21 (St. Louis) | Chelsea officials will not be ‘Unit 5.15. iary U 0, New John Babbitt 1.45 ‘Tot Oct. 30 145 topped properly and immediately TWO English Brighton 5.15 Tot to date 92.01/ ¢ might have even a worse effect Ragel 2.00 Tot Oct. 30 Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT $ Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. | on the situation of the union than the betrayal in Lowell of July last. The rank and file militants in the local have put up a strong fight against the Mitchell clique, and will continue to fight. NOTE: We publish every Thursday let- ters from farmers, agricultural and cannery workers. We urge farmers and workers in these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions and their efforts to or- ganize. Please get these letters to New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: The attacks of the administration on the unemployed and relief work- ers, forcast a month ago by police brutality and dismissal of active or- ganized relief workers, have now be- gun. Let the administration now talk about beating up the Unem- ployment Council in order to “pre- vent panic,” and dismissing Miss Dawson, an active member of the Home Relief Bureau Employees As- sociation, for “mis-statement of facts!” I am a member of the staff of the Home Relief Bureau. Within the last few days, we have been in- structed to suspend from Home Re- \lief all families where there is an |income sufficient to cover the Home Relief food allowance. This means | that thousands will have # go hun- gry in order to avoid being put on the streets. All work relief “cases,” including us by Monday of each week. the hitherto exempt white collar Fight For His Rights, Our Readers class, are to be investigated. Last summer that meant that all those with less than two dependents and all those who did janitor work for ihe rent were dismissed from their jobs. We are to force all those on Work Relief to surrender their insurance, to suspend from their jobs all those receiving less than $100 for the in- surance, and to sign dismissal slips for all those receiving $100 or more. We are to re-investigate all Home Relief clients. The members of the Home Relief staff, so far as we are informed, are still exempt from investigation, but we feel that such investigation is merely a matter of time, though we were not engaged on a relief basis. We are sure that the administration will try to ram a pay-cut down our In the meantime, we have been pre- are beyond human strength, and we are forced to do our work in to the utmost and to go into situa- sented with demands on outpui that such a way as to antagonize clients Hog Processing Tax Brings Farmers tin! WORKERS’ HEALTH By a Worker Correspondent SHERMAN, N. Y.—The effect of this hog processing tax is dis- | couraging the raising of hogs. While to all appearances the packers are reaping a rich profit | on their stores of hog products the farmer gets less for his pork. | When I first subscribed for the Rural New Yorker they used to publish retail prices in New York City. I have not seen any for a | long time. The reason seems ap- parent. The Rural New Yorker does not want the farmer to know how he is being skinned. Mill Hands, Farmers,F ace Hard Winter By a Worker Correspondent NEWPORT, N, H.—The tax bills | keep the farmers here worried. They are very high and the farmer | can barely make a living, to say) nothing about paying taxes. | The potato crop this year suf- fered great damage from rot. | Many farmers report a loss on their | crops due to this rot. I was speak- ing with a farmer one day and he said that out of 150 bushels, the rot destroyed about 35 per cent of his potato crop. Other farmers also report that some kind of disease ruined their tomato crops overnight. The east- ern farmer also was affected by the dry season, although not as badly as the farmers out west. Corn, hay, and oats gave a poor crop this year. Last year I saw beau- tiful cornfields almost everywhere, but this year it was just the op- posite. Farmers also say that the bitter cold that we had here last winter killed many pear, plum, and espe- cially apple trees. At present, textile workers in the numerous mill towns around here face a miserable situation. The mills are very slack, and workers can work only a few days at a time, and then get laid off for a while again. If the mills don’t pick up, it will be a hard winter for poth the farmer and mili werncr, as many farmers sell wood to the mill workers to make a living. Ailing Woman By City Doctor By a Worker Correspondent JOPLIN, _Mo.— The Grievance Committee took the case of Mrs. Molly Brown, an aged woman who has repeatedly been refused medi- eal aid either from the County or City. The committee, consisting of five men and two women, called upon Tom Phelps, the presiding |judge of the Jasper county court, who referred us back to the city doctor and promised aid to Mrs. Brown. There has been no action so far. | He said he had raised plenty of hell | with the city officials. I said they had to do something. He then told me the only thing one had to do was die. Dr. Obrien has an order from the county court authorizing him not to care for any more city cases. This is a very deplorable condition in this fair land of ours. Judge Phelps informed us that our city physician drew a salary of $8,600 per year to care for such cases as Mrs. Brown’s. Mrs. Brown is suf- fering from neuritis and varicose veins. These conditions will have to be remedied by the workers. Mr. Phelps said he had sent out Dr. O’Brien, our county physician, on | confinement cases and on one case where a boy had broken his arm. On either cases our city physician refused to go. The woman in this case has been a resident of this city for forty- five years. He promised to call on our Mayor, Mr. Maher, and see that she got aid from the city as he knew he could do nothing with Dr. Clark. our health commissioner, or the city doctor. He said the county doctor was to care for only cases in outlying districts and small towns, county jails, and county poor farm cases. | tions which are the concern only of the clients themscives. But the ad- |ministration hopes that we have been so intimidated that we will make no open protest. The meaning of the beatings and the dismissals within the lest few weeks should now be as clear to an as it was to many of us from the beginning. The only answer is or- ganized protest. A HOME RELIEF WORKER. A POPULAR FEATURE Mosherville, Mich. Dear Comrade Editor: In my visits to my neighbors to make Daily Worker contacts, I found in two cases that I was able to interest the young men in the home by suggesting that they read “Going East.” I was able to ob- serve, in a family in which there were four young men between the ages of 17 and 24, that, as soon as the Daily Worker comes into the house, there is a scramble for ‘t, and they at once turn to the con- tinued story, “Going East” (and so did I), which causes me to feel that story, so that it can be ° ° | without giving him any of his Itv- Denied Aid i exvenses the Daily Worker should always carry a continued story, which will throats within the next few weeks.| appeal to the youth in particular, Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board Let Us Hear From Others On This “Dear Comrades:—It has come to my attention that the space you oc- cupy in the Daily Worker can be- come a more effective means of at- tracting new readers if you begin to expose existing conditions in re- gards to workers safeguards and health. “For example, the firing of Health Department Inspectors by the City, the Compensation Insur- ance Racket (On this many work- ers will respond to any call you may make for data on same), the corporations that peddle drugs in violation of the Food and Drug Act and various other conditions which exist where such an exposure is necessary.—W. B.” (aie ame Styes Comrade M. §. of the Bronx, writes: “Would appreciate it if you would diagnose my case for me. I am af- flicted with what is commonly known as an eye sty; have a had one now and they keep on recur- ring. Am practically never free of them. The condition has been last- ing for about a year now.” May Be Attributed to Poor Health The causes of styes are varied and numerous. To begin with, if your general health is poor, which is sug- gested by your low hemoglobin (anaemic), you would be subject to slight infections, ie. styes. If it cannot be attributed to your general health, one must look for a local cause in the eyes. The commonest ‘gcal cause is an error of refraction, ie, need of glasses. If you could have both these factors investigated, the cause of your styes would probably be found. Flat Feet J. P., Hamtramck, Mich.: — The best method of relieving your feet of pain and discomfort is by wear- ing proper shoes. For your weak feet and flattened metatarsal arches a high orthopedis shoe will give you the greatest comfort. I would strongly advise you to get a high Boss Collects Debt, Takes Negro’s Crop By a Worker Correspondent CAMP HILL, Ala—A Negro in| Camp Hill made his crop and/ starved to do it. Because he owed the big boss, Sam Brummit, a debt, the boss took all his cotton away But we white workers will not let him and the rest of the bosses do shoe because it will support your ankle as well as your arch, and any- one who stands long hours on his feet certainly requires the greatest amount of support. The orthopedic shoes can be bought in any shoe store. When you buy the shoes, have the shoe- maker wedge the inner margin of both heels one-quarter of an inch, That will raise the shoe slightly on the inner margin and thus relieve the tension that generally falls on the main arch of the foot. Metal arches do not cure and re- lief weakened and flattened feet. These arches are often heavy and cumbersome and instead of reliev- ing the pain, often aggravate it. Arches have been widely advertised by their manufacturers or by ice stores simply because they bring huge profit to them. I would, there- fore, urge you to save your $6.50 by not buying any of these arches. A good method to relieve tired, aching feet is to bathe them in warm Epsom salt solution every night. Put from one-third to one- half cup of Epsom salt in a basin of warm water and keep your feet in it at least twenty to thirty min- utes. Se Ree, Prominent Adam’s Apple C. B, Paterson, N. J.—This com- rade wants to know how a promi- nent Adam's apple can be made less protruding. The Adam’s apple which is situ- ated in the middle line of the neck is formed by an angle of two wings of cartilage forming the voice box. The sharper the angle, the more protruding the prominence. To “peel” this so-called apple surgically, to make it less conspicuous would mean to endanger the vocal cords, Any other treatments are unknown. Since it is only a question of ap- pearance, one should find a way to hide this protrusion as much as pos- sible. Exercising the muscles of the neck, putting on weight is of bene- fit. Wearing a high collar, trying to hold the head forward instead of backward, would help to some extent. Many people have it and can manage to forget it. 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 Ann Barton, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$1,500. this to poor farmers. | | By ANN MMRADE NATALIE continues. today her advice on buying clothes. She says, “Don’t get tempted to buy something you have no real use \for, even if the price is a bargain. If you must have silk, try hard to get pure dye or slightly weighted pure silk. Regardless of what the salesgirl may be compelled by her bosses to tell you, you simply can- not trust any of the artificial silks, such as rayon, celanese, acetate, etc. Some are very beautiful and |some wear well, but most will not stand washing, pressing, or even dry cleaning. There is almost no | Way of telling which will, and which will not, unless you buy them in a store which will give you a guar- antee. “Wool, cotton, linen, and other materials like them are a much \safer buy. Nothing makes a dress look |more unattractive than coarse ma- chine finishing. If the material and style pleases you, but the hem, neck, sleeves, etc., are finished by ma- chine, and likely as not the seams are done with mismatched thread, by all means hunt out some friend of yours who will rip out the ma- chine finishing and refinish it by hand.” Comrade Natalie concludes with, “Fasten snappers, hooks, and but- tons well, and if possible reinforce the main seams by machine with good thread. With the addition of a bit of practical and becoming trimming, you will have a good- looking, long-wearing dress.” Thank you, Comrade Natalie, we welcome more of your contributions to this column. hy teas Women—Write! In the week that I have been ed- iting the HOME COLUMN letters have been addresse to it raising many questions. A worker wants to know what utensils he will need with which to start housekeeping with comrade wife. A woman wants to know something about hair dyes. Letiers have come in raising the question of child behavior and child training. A woman writes in to say she wishes to join the Women’s Council—how shall she go about it? Letters have come from women about conditions in their shop— others about their living conditions, and others have r2ised questions on personal relationships. If a question of personal rela- tionship arises which effects many people, then it wiil be raised in this column for discussion. All other queries will be answered within short order in this column. Many of the letters will be printed. WOMEN, WRITE TO YOUR COL- UMN! WRITE ABOUT YOUR- SELF, THE WOMEN IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, IN YOUR SHOP! Once again we invite you to use this column to exchange ex- periences, shop and household. | at least to the youth in such isolated ee Sea places as the farm or small village. The continued story should also carry frequently the synopsis of the started in Bonita from Chicago has sent for the bazaar two pairs of hand-made straw bedroom slippers, soft, com- fortable, and attractive. Comrade E. M. ‘any issue. Bonita, those slippers will receive " IN THE HOME A, H ..... . 2A Frank Witkus oe 1.00 Previously received ....$321.81 Total to date ..........$324.81 BARTON their just place of honor on the Ba- zaar tables. Contributions received to the credit of Ann Barton, in her Social- ist competition with David Ramsey, Jacob Burek, Del, Harry Gannes, Mike Gold and the Medical Advis- ory Board, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$500. Total to date ......... - $17.70 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2059 is suitable in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14, Size 10 takes 14% yards 54 inch fabric and 1% yards 36 inch contrasting. Tllus- trated step-by-step sewing instruc- tions included. “aretetetee A RSOO ERED a aren vee S * 5 1% S x on ais ae; woe SK +, x o poor Ze > % Um, R Ke rs bs 2059 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coints or stamps (coins pre= ferred) for this Anne Adams pat- 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.