The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1934, Page 6

ae Page DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1934 Dye Striker Protests Red Scare, Urging Militant Action Ammirato Playing Bosses’ 5. P. Shyste Game in Attack on ‘Reds’ Worker Sees ‘‘Red Scare” As Bosses’ Method of Splitting Unity and Breaking Strike By a Dye Work PATERSON, N. J.—Our er Correspondent dye-house owners are proving their desperate position in the strike in their effort to break! the union. Two or three da; felt sure that the workers would not come out on strike,| closed down, throwing thousands but in spite of their attempt to prevent the workers from ice shoe workers into the streets, coming out, through open letters, leaflets, etc, we workers have shown the most splendid enthusi- asm by coming out on strike on Oct. 25. Now that they see the wonderful solidarity in our ranks, they de- cided to start negotiations with our settlement committee, which were refused before. But now they are starting to find new tricks by which to break the ranks of the strike. One method is by having paid spies in our union. Another is by rais- ing the red scare. Here I want to show" to. our fellow members that some of our.own officials are co- operating with the bosses to break the strike. How? In the following way: Our president, A. Ammirato, in a Mass meeting Tuesday morning, Oct. 30, at Roseland Hall, was talk- ing about spies and outsiders in our ranks. Whom did he mean when he mentioned some elements in_the strike? And then he said: “Last Saturday I smacked one of them.” Whom did he smack? He smacked a young fellow who was selling the “Young Worker” in the hall, as he considers this young worker an outsider or a spy. He tells you lies, because this young fellow is a member of the Young Communist League, and he and the other Communists that are in our union are the most active members on the picket lines. That is why he calls them spies and out- Siders. This is exactly whet the bosses want. Ammirato doesn’t like the Daily Worker either, because the Daily Worker exposes all the fake tricks! ys before the strike call they | of the bosses and the fake A. F. of | L. leaders. These Ammiratos and Piralos and company don’t like us| militant rank and file workers be- | cause we fight against the bosses | too much. | They also tell us to co-operate with the police, saying that the} Paterson cops are good fellows. They | forget for a moment that these| cops are paid by the dye house| owners. They are good fellows be-| cause they see the militancy and} solidarity of us workers on the} Picket line. If we were only a/} small group, they would be differ- | ent. I know that all cops are| against the workers when we try to stop the scabs from working. | Fellow workers, all this proves | that we have to be on guard against these misleaders who are working in the interest of the bosses, be-/} cause if they fight against the Communists they are fighting against us workers. We must not allow the bosses to break the strike | through tlttse fake maneuvers. I am not a ‘Communist yet, but| I.am going to be one soon, in spite | of our President Ammirato and the | bosses, because only the Commu- | nists are the real fighters. There- fore I urge all you fellow members | | who are not yet Communists to join | the Communist Party and also to} read the Daily Worker, the only true working class daily newspaper. | Fellow members, keep up your| spirit. Keep your ranks solid. That is the only way we can win, and we | will win this strike. | A DYEHOUSE WORKER. No. Dakota Becomes Active In Answer to “Daily” Call RTH DAKOTA has begun to donation—$7.25—was recorded. tinue to show determination if it activity. From Hollywood, Cal.; {to be listed on Tuesda; 's tables) | bestir itself. On Monday, another North Dakota, however, must con- wishes to make up for its past in- John Howard Lawson has contributed $10, . Recently, Comrade Lawson, Guy ~fmior and John Wexley, contributed $16 to the ‘Daily.’ The Finnish organizations in represented. The Slovak Buro in Received November 5, 1934 $478.87 DISTRICT 11 (NO. DAKOTA) Previously received 31,351.82 | Otto Harranen 50 Leslie Johnson 25 ——___ | Emil Stein ‘50 LeoJohnson —.5 Total to date $31, | Arthur Dalback 80 V.Hanninen 25 Sec. 1, Unit 3B $3.00 Adv. Board 5.00 | Gust Sivumaki (25 C.F Kirkpatrick 2.00 Sec. 1, Unit. 5.00 RNMAS, S.Fohmsom 25 H.N.Tvedt 1.00 Sec. 5 11.70 Br, 66 2.50 Bee. 5, Unit 5 20.00 tal. Wkrs. Club _.50| Total November 5, 1934 7.25 Bee. 5,Unit 13 3.00 For Burck 2.69 | Total to date 34.35 Sec’, Unit 10 15.00 F. W. 4.00 DISTRICT 21 (St. Louis) i407 Stillen lf] ER. Davis 10° Ed. Rosthowski 10 jachana Pty 5. E. W. Johnson r 0 ae Leeds and | A:Kulezymaki (39 Tune Kueaynski 50 SM. Sheppard —_.50| Anonymous ah 7 Aspamione ce 5.00 soviet Syteen 3.00 D. Kucaiynski 25° Mary Lewis 25 A chemist 1.00 | Total November 5, 1934 2.15 Unit 148, Sec. 7 6.00] Total to date $118.16 P. Stathes 50 DISTRICT 22 (West Virginia) -30| Booth West Virginia Unit 12.00 58 | Total November 5, 1934 12.00 1.00 | Total to date 76.65 " Wolfson and Previously listed under District 3 as pro- a Green 1.00 ceeds of Oct. 19 Affair: & AlexDondey 1.00] P, 0. 558 3.02 Downtown Work- - G. Lachidee 1.00|M. Yarash 5.00 ers Club 7.15 ¥ A.G. Martin 3.00 A Sliva, Balto, 25.50 Strawberry Man- Sec, 3, UnitSs 1.00 Cleo.Arkon and Atlantic City 5.00 sion Wks Club 6.00 Sec. 18 25.00 Jas. Caroledes .50|P. B. 1241 .72 Philadelphia Affair Sec. 16, Unit6 4.50 A friend 2.00) P. B. 1254 83 Oct. 19 Sec. 16, Unit 6 4.50 Registd. Nurse 1.00/P. B. 1244 5.78 West. Phila. Sec. 16, Units 25 E.R. 1.00 | P. B. 1239 2.10 Workers Club 3.00 Sne.16, Unit 21 1.00 H.Hirschorn 1.00|P. B. 1234 138 West Phila. Rose P. Stokes Herman.Spector .50|P. B. 448 3.00 Art. Clab 5.00 Br.I.L.D. 5.00 J. J.D. 5.00| P. B. 4372 2.60 Ukrainian Or- Daily Worker Med. Spartacus 2.00| Wm, Sherman 1.50 ganizations _ 13.00 plese Russian Br. 8 5.00 Total Nov. 5, 1934 gaso.03 | Ome Workers | Russian Br 110 2.00 ‘Total to date $16,694.32 | ratish Br, ILD 5.00 Connor 2:32 DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) Anton Sliva, Pe Medd F.Lambardo $1.00 F,Housepian 1,00 | Balto. ear ae Gabor Kish 25 8. Boghosian 25 | Kornfeld Oe Acie Seeastis M. Noski 25 --¥.V. Amadouri .25 | C. Slajius, ‘Mutual Aid 15.00 H. Noki 2% «= S.Kazanjian .25| Chester BO .. “Group of #atnkek Comrade Allen 25 N. Samy 25 | Unit 112 5.00 Pee 5.00 BUA 1 ee To 8.to |S Paperhaces © ‘Total November 5, 1934 $4.00 | Helen Green : Total to date $3,577.99 | Unit 604 3.00 eae ae oxi DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) ae 5.00 RNMAS. 2.00 Rochester Women’s Council 7.80 | ornfeld Hosiery || women's League locate 3e5 «Of: Strawberry ‘Total November 5, 1934 7.50 | Caruso 129. SMansior po Total to date 346.24 | -29 Womens’ League | Chester Unit 10.70 ‘Downtown 3.25 DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) Wilmington Gisek-Workaty Anonymous 10.00 | _Unit ‘Club 20, LW. ©.,Roumanian Br. 1.00 | Unit 605 :78 office Worners Chas. Eirerman .73 | Richmond Union 10. “~ | Unit 204 20.00 women's League ‘Total November 5, 1934 11.75 | Wilmington Br. of Strawberry Total to date 587.52 | _1.W.0. 5.00” Mansion 2.00 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) Br. 18 LW.O. 10.00 wow.ru. 20.00 . W. O. Doctor 2.50 | BY 48 E'W.O. 20.00 preihelt Gesangs R. Bascom 2301 Geter ewe tere ee 36.00 ae r. 169 T.W.O. 10.75 weet Phila. Total November 5, 1934 34.00 | iW'o. BT 599 Womens Leng. 2.00 Total to date $1,087.96 | "0" Amalgamated DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) aa para aes 3.75 Slovak Buro 25.00 Unit 906 1.00 | pe aya | Br. 2007, T.W.0. 1.00 Sec. 5 4948 oe Ao eee eee) SORioee ished Br. 201 I.W.O, 5.00 Eastion Sect. 25.00 Br, 2002, 1.W.0. 404 — Richd. Esser 30| Br 101 T.W.0. 25.00 Lipshit 00 Sf. 11.25 Set.Nat.Gd. 2.00) Grit gor. 800 LI $00 Pinnish Org. J, Joswoft 1.00 ce Br. 561 1.W.O. 985 A friend 5.00 Waukegan 10.50 C. Pandoff 1.00 Br, 30 L.W.0. 7.00 cep 3049 600 Finnish Org. Mike George 50 | Br. 76 T'W.0. 2500 ar 5.08 “gchicago «10.00. Mike Babiancyk 1.00| Unemployment Seetion 170,000 Sec, 9 15.00 J. Mashniff 50 nit 20 4 1 ce. Sines | comets 1.90 Unit 208 4.00 Unit 301 ‘30 MV Minka ‘3g | Susquehanna Local Unit 702 1.00 ‘Unemployment Section 3 73.00 Sec. 4 5.80 Steve Angelo 125 Couneil 3.00 Unit 605 12.00 ees 10 5.00 Geo. Elie -5| young Men's Unit 604 10.50 Ree. 3 5.00 C. Doorn 1.00 | “Parein 10.00 Shop ‘Unit ‘ oe 8 2.20 Jos. Sutts 50 School § I.W.0. 2.15 See. 6 37.50 ee Tin 7 | School 11 I.W.0. .75 Unit 602 10.00 Petal persevere 5, 1934 ‘ Pod I.W.O, School 43.00 Unit 504 16.00 024.92 | Tw.0. Sch. 10 4.00 Unit 501 5.00 DISTRICT 8 (Minnesota) LW.O. Sch. 2 2.50 Unit 502 10.09 Finnish Workers Ped., Superior 1.24/L-W.O. Sch. 8 3.50 Unit 603 6.00 — | LW.O. Sch. 3 2.00 Wilkes Barre Total November 5, 1034 1.25 | Mid City Work- Section 1.75 Total to date 238.26! ers Club 10.00 Cash Collect. 90.00 Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS: AMOUNT Chicago and Minneapolis are aiso Chicago sends $25. . . $ | Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, ¥, |facturers are utilizing this situa- | | not look good for them, when the |the town is yours! jwant for anything.” But now, I Tr) Conspires Pay Cut in Boston Lawyer for Shoe Union Has Past Record | of Betrayal By a Shoe Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass. — Shops have this is due to the seasonal unem- ployment and also to the general crisis in the country. The manu- tion to demand their “pound of flesh,” in an effort to smash the union altogether. This wage-cut- ting campaign is encouraged by the lawyer of the United Shoe & Leather Workers Union, Mr. Bea- rek, “It seems incredible,” one will} say, “how comes our own lawyer?”| But the facts are here. You see,| Mr. Bearek is a Socialist, and a| leading Socialist at that. One ot| his “comrades,” the manufacturer of the Quality Shoe Co., fired a militant union member, who was fighting for equal division of work and all other union regulations, Well, the Socialist leadership, under pressure of some of its rank and file members, felt that it would workers will get wind of it. And so they sent Mr. Bearek to settle this matter on the quiet. While Mr, Bearek was in the manufac- turer's office, the boss complained that the Harvard Co. got a cut, why can’t he. And here “our rep- resentative” the Socialist lawyer, Mr. Bearek encouraged him by saying, “You should ask the Joint Council to give you the same priv- ilege as the Harvard Shoe got.” You see, one Socialist leader help- ing out another. This is the same Mr. Bearek who} was the legal advised of the Amal- gamation Convention a year ago, that is, not the advisor of the rank and file, but of a few top bureau- crats, who tried to harness the rank and file to the wagon of the Boot _and Shoe. He, together with | the Lovestonite Zimmerman, drew} up a constitution of only 50 pages,| three fourths of which was given to the powers of the officials and | operated by Andrew G. Perice, | three women weavers were told Phoney Medical Exam elps Fire Weavers By a Textile Worker Correspondent NEW BEDFORD, Mass.— Now in the Perice Mill on Sawyer Street in this city, owned and to go and be examined by a doc- tor for no good reason at all. When two of the weavers went and were examined by Dr. Sene- sac, he did not even lay a hand upon them. He asked them all sorts of questions which were none of his business. He asked them if they could see without giasses, if they ever had any pains, and a lot more foolish questions which had absolutely nothing to do with the mill work. Then he told them, “Well, you seem to be all O.K., what's the | reason that you cannot make your $13.00 a week?” He also returned the paper to them which they brought with them from the mil! and marked it O.K. They returned | to the mill, and immediately were both fired. the rest how members should be| tried, in case they go against the Officials, So much so, that rank and file delegates from New Eng- land got up one after another and| denounced it as worse than the Boot & Shoe constitution. Led by militant delegates from New York, the convention went against it. But Mr. Bearek is true to his Principle which is the Boot & Shoe practice. This we must say in justice to him, is not only his Personal opinion, but the official opinions of the top officials of the Socialist Party as a whole, whose mouthpiece in this case is Mr. Bearek. A few weeks ago at meeting of the Joint Council and General Executive Board, he urged the Joint Ccuncil of Boston to accept a wage slash in order to retain the shops in Boston. The Joint Council this time carried out their previous decision and flatly refused. Because they know that you can't build a union on wage cuts. Although many are unemployed and helpless at pressnt, the bulk of the membership would never forgive a leadership that is taking the road of least resistance. But Mr. Bearek, the Socialist leader, sees the only solution as the Boot & Shoe, in giving wage cuts, and retain the benefits. Wage cuts will destroy the union, every shoe worker knows that. |Lovestonites Flee From Shoe Workers Desert at Crucial Mo- ment, 'Fearing Workers’ Wrath By a Shoe Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass.—William Zelig- man and Jack Aronberg, two Love- stone renegades, members of the | Boston Joint Council, who are re- | sponsible for putting over wage cuts |0n Boston shoe workers, fled the |ranks of the Boston shoe workers. It is no accident that at the pres- ent time, when our union finds it- self in a crucial moment, these fakers should disappear. They are aware that the longer they stay in | Boston the more they become ex- posed as enemies of the shoe work- ers. In this act they followed in | the footsteps of another Lovestone renegade, Sidney Jonas (now in Chicago), who, when about to be exposed for his treachery to Boston shoe workers, suddenly left Boston | under the pretense of going to school. | Mr. Mackesey, general organizer of the U. S. & L. W. U., has again | | | | *| demonstrated that his policy is not different from that of Nolan and| Mahan of the former Protective and National unions. This is ex-| emplified by the action taken by | Mr. Mackesey at the Suffolk Shoe shop meeting at Chelsea, Mass. When the owner demanded a wage | cut, Mr. Mackesey, instead of taking | | ,|@ decisive stand against it, simply made a gesture that he will investi gate. It was only after a delega tion was sent from the Joint Execu- tive Conference, held in Salem,! protesting against the action of | Mackesey and the G. E. B., that| later they changed their position. “Brother” Lawless, appearing at the Boston Cutters’ Local, “repre- | senting” the Cutters’ Local of Lynn, asked for joint action of all the cutters, irrespective of other crafts. | Does Mr. Lawless mean by this} proposal of joint action of the cut- ters to get concessions for them- | selves and to heck with the rest? | If this is so we want to warn Mr. Lawless and company that the shoe workers will not tolerate such split- ting tactics in the ranks of the union. ‘Recognition’ | ° | For Blacklist By a Textile Worker Girroupesdent| BURLINGTON, N. C. — What! Shall I do now? I have believed the bunk I read in local newspapers | and the nice speeches our “great | statesmen” made over radios until | now. Yes, it is a long story I must | tell to show you why I am the “goat,” “fool” or maybe I've just been a plain ignorant southern | worker. | Iam denied the right to work be- | cause I believed the promises of our president when he said workers should join a union and the union jMmust be recognized. That last part is carried out, for I joined the union and now I am “recognized” in every mill in this section to the extent that I am fired, and on the black- list. They all say they are “full up, don’t need any help.” Or a super may say “Come back in a couple of days,” which I learned meant he wanted a few days to wire back to the boss at home to see if I am on the blacklist. They find out I am on that list, and mark me as “En- emy No. 1.” This is all because I had the guts to stand on the picket line, say I am within my right, and face the bunch of bootleggers, ex-convicts and thugs, sworn in by our sheriff oo | to break our strike, not to mention the tin-soldiers our governor sent out with bayonets and machine guns. They always had enough moonshine licker in them so they |wouldn’t know whether they were | stabbing their brother or sister, or some other “loyal democrat” who thought he had the right to fight for a chance to live as Roosevelt had promised. . . . I can certainly tell you those |sweet promises of Roosevelt don’t buy groceries to feed my children or clothes for them this winier. Neither will they buy coal and school books. These promises have meant to me, and thousands of others like me, the loss of our jobs and the blacklist. I am also a veteran, and I see our President gives us another promise —to VETO THE BONGS BILL! |Why shouldn’t I believe this one? Because this, of course, takes away jfrom us what is rightfully ours. Of course he will keep that promise! That brings to my mind another | Promise of years ago when the bosses of America had a war and wanted us poor boys to go to an- other country and kill poor workers there. I didn’t have no more’ sense than to believe them. They said: “You boys go over there and win the war, and when you come home, You will not want, like millions of my war bud- dies. And I demand that our gov- ernment not let us starve, but give us what they owe us and a chance to work for part of the great wealth Millowners Institute Universal Blacklist By a Textile Worker Corre- spondent. BURLINGTON, N. C.—I am one of the blacklisted strikers of Burlington. There are also many more in my fix. I have been working in Burlington for the last eight years, have a fam- ily of six. Since the strike 7 went from mill to mill looking for work, and they all have the same story. They take my ap- Plication and tell me to bring written recommendations on of- ficial stationery from the last place where I worked. Of course, I can’t get that recommenda- tion, as that mill was the first to blacklist me for belonging to the union. This organized scheme of the big mill owners makes possible a universal black- list of all militant workers in the South. Our U.T.W. leadership has done nothing for our relief. All we have received has been sent here by the Workers Interna- tional Relief and the Southern Committee to Aid Textile Work- ers. The above reasons are why I have joined the Communist Party, the only party that really fights for the working class. piled up in the hands of a few bosses in this country. But these promises repeat them- selves over and over, and we, the working people, get the same re- sults if we rely on them. ‘But that brings me back to my first ques- tion, what am I to do? I tried the “elephant” and he was just a wind from Wall Street making a loud noise through the bosses snout. So now I am riding this loud-braying donkey on the last round-up! Now I have a confession to make. |I've been one big fool, I'll admit. But I have been fooled long enough. In, the recent strike while we were struggling with the bosses for a chance to live, we had a mass meeting here in Burlington. At this mass meeting a real friend of us workers put out some Communist leaflets and Daily Workers. These papers were telling the truth about how to fight our battles, and how we would be blacklisted, mistreated, if we went back to work with jnothing but promises. But I did not believe them. I gathered them up and burned them! Since then I have been reading the Daily Work- er, and if these people who were trying to help me and my fellow workers will forgive me I will prom- ise not to be such a big fool again. Now, instead of burning Commu- nist papers, I am trying to get others to subscribe. I want to join up with the Communist Party, I will do my best to carry out its pro- gram, and will try to help many other southern workers not to be as foolisi as 1 was woea I and others with me burned Communist papers. Iam wanting to do my best to eo-operate with my fellow work- ers and to duild a strong working class movement here in the South! Southern Textile Workers Pledge Aid to Communists Sellout | Won Rather Miss Meal Than ‘Daily Worker’ By a Textile Worker Correspondent BURLINGTON, N. C.—I want to tell you how much I appreciate the Daily Worker. It isn’t long since I first saw a copy of it. I was like a lot of other Southern workers and thought the Communists were all foreigners and trying to tear up our union and get us into trouble. Those were the things we were told by the newspapers down here and by the big U. T. W. speakers. They all told us not to have anything to do with the Communists. some Daily Workers and leaflets were given us by some Communists. The sheriff went around gathering them up to burn. They told us it would get us in trouble. So I gath- ered them up and burned some of them. But that didn’t stop the papers from being put out. Nearly every day during the strike I ran across a Communist paper or leaf- let_ somewhere. Finally I decided to read and see what they said. The more I read the more I saw how correct they were. I started to leok for- ward to getting a Daily Worker, every day. And now I would rather miss a meal than not get my Daily Worker every time it comes. | But I wanted to do more than read. I wanted to join the Com- munists and help carry the good news to other Southern workers who had been fooled and lied to like I had been. So, not long ago when a big Socialist speaker from New York was here speaking, I was there. After the speaking, a worker in the audience began to speak and show us how the speaker hed said things that were wrong. This worker seemed to know so much and twisted the big New York speaker up so well that we all be- gan to listen to him. He asked a few questions, he cleared up what the speaker had told us wrong about the Communists, and the speaker got mad and would not answer his questions. Then we knew that the worker must be right and the Socialist speaker was just trying to fool us done. After the meeting I went straight to that worker and told him that I wanted to join the Com- munist Party. So that is where I am, and intend to stay. I urge all workers who read this to also join the Communist Party. It is the only Party that really fights for us workers. NOTE: We publish every Wednesday letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers. We urze workers in these industries to write us cf their conditions and their efforts to organize. Please get these letters to us by Satur- day of each week, At one of our mass meetings | ii ! ike the newspapers and others had! that your editor realises how pow- erful the strip form is in conveying; | ideas, Must Grease Boss Palm to Obtain Work ty a Textile Worker Correspondent CONCORD, N. C.—I sure enjoy | ‘our paper. I am a Brown Mill | omployee here but have been dis- criminated against. I have no work now and I belong to an or- ganization that does not believe in sell-outs. The boss that I worked for is George Hettan, and if you will buy an old automobile and pay him twice its worth for it you can get work every day. Anything, so he can get a couple of dollars from you. Faker Blocks UTW Growth In Danville By a Textile Worker Correspondent DANVILLE, Va.—Some say that Mrs. Dodson is trying to build a good U.T.W. local here in Danville, but I say she is not. I heard her say that dues had been $1 in the past and she wished they could be raised. She said she would make the workers wish they had joined the union before, for now they would have to pay $2 in- stead of $1 to join, Mrs. Dodson says she would make them wish that they had joined, but that was not what she meant. She does not want the workers here in Danville to join the union. Why do I say that? She | has a small group of members that hink Mrs. Dodson is alright. This | small group and Mrs. Dedson meeis every Saturday night. If any new ‘s come in to pass on, they will wait two or three weeks. Be- fore they pass on them, they check up on these new names, and if they like the way Mrs. Dodson runs the union, they are taken in. If these workers are for the wel- fare of the workers and their fam- ilies, and don’t believe in a one man or woman leadership, if they are for a rank and file union, Mrs. Dedson will have a meeting with her small group and refuse to pass on this member. Some time ago she kicked Jim Crews out of the union, Why did she not want Jim Crews? Because Jim Crews would not let her run anything over the workers. Mrs. Dodson has worked for over four years as president of the union. All of this time she has worked in behalf of the bosses. She is a set up for the boss class here in Danville. . I hear many workers here in Danville say that so long as Mrs. Dodson is president of the local, they won’t join the union. They say if Mrs. Dodson was for the workers and not bosses, she would cut the price down for joining in- stead of raising it. I tell the workers that $2 is too much to join, But, they should pay the $2 and join and get on the inside and kick Mrs. Dodson out. I tell them if they stay on the outside, they are doing just like Mrs. Dodson and the bosses wants them to do. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS LET US NOT DISAPPOINT HER AGAIN! New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: Last Friday night, October 26, I was at the mass meeting at Rock- Jand Palace for the Scottsboro mothers, It was my first meeting and I brought my son with me. I came there right after work, at 9 o'clock. I hoped to hear the Scottsboro mothers speak. At 11 o'clock they hadn't yet spoken. Having a long way to go, I was compe2lled to leave. I was very disappointed not to hear the Scottsboro mothers. I think meetings ought to be ar- ranged so that workers can stay to the end. A NEGRO WORKING WOMAN. PRAISE FOR DEL Dear Del: As a comic stripper for a cap- italist syndicate, I have received a lot of fan letters but this is the first crack I have ever taken at writing one. I’ve read the Daily Worker for about a year and it had always puzzled me why the sheet had not taken advantage of that amazingly simple and beloved form, the comic strip, to put ideas over. In fact, there were moments when I toyed with the idea of chucking the nec- essarily skim-milk stuff I was doing and offering my services to this end. But now I am content. “Little Lefty” is a swell strip—and the best day to day feature in the paper, I don’t know what your ex- perience in comics has been but you certainly are a master of mod- ern strip technique in your writing. Your characters are corking good and it has that most valuable ele- ment—suspense. I hope the feature continues and Accept my sincerest compliments, “Little Lefty” is mly favorite comic strip. A. L. C. Contributions received to the credit of the Workers Correspond- ence Department in its Socialist competition with David Ramsey, Jacob Burck, Del, Harry Gannes, Mike Gold, Ann Barton, and the Medical Advisory Board, in the! Daily Worker drive for $50,006.! Qusin—S500, | Anon «. $19.00 Previously received . wee 12,15 | WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the ~ Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board Sleeplessness LEEPLESSNESS, or insomnia, is a widespread and distressing complaint. It is important, how- ever, to recognize that inability to sleep well is a symptom of some other disorder and not a disease in itself. Its most common cause is the ten- sion associated with emotional prob- lems, uneasiness due to difficult life situations, the failure to attain cer- tain emotional goals, etc. People suffering from such problems are said in everyday language to be “nervous.” Other, and more speci- fic terms are used to label this con- dition medically; present, other symptoms besides sleeplessness will generally disturb the patient. Some of these are un- happiness, uneasiness, loss of in- terest in things, difficulty in con- centrating, and so on. Each patient may have slightly different manifes- tations, One unfortunate aspect of the problem is that although many of our comrades suffer from this type of “nervousness” and the attendant sleeplessness, through this column to give satis- factory relief. Psychiatric treatment is required; but this, to be good, must often be prolonged, and is, therefore, financially impossible, certainly for most of our comrades. It is a tragic fact, and a bitter commentary on the present organ- ization of bourgeois medicine, that most of the clinics where psychiatric service is available are under- staffed, and give their patients too little time to obtain really effective treatment even when the doctors who are at hand have the highest qualifications. The whole object of the treatment of “nervous” patients and the causes of “nervousness” is so intimately connected with the problem of social organization and social aims that it is safe to say that not until after the social rev- olution will it be possible to organ- ize life and the treatment of its emotional disorders on a basis which will make a mass solution possible. Such an approach is being made to- day in Soviet Russia where the work of the psychiatrist is being made ideal and is aided by a state organization which seeks to make the worker at home in this en- vironment, secure, and adjusted to the demands of reality. Sleeplessness may normally occur and when it is) little can be done} for a short period under the in- creased pressure and demands of life, or special worries. It may ace company for a time certain physical diseases, like, intoxications, ence- phalitis, arid other disturbances, fa Wem EEATMENT should always be given by an experienced physie cian, preferably one trained in the treatment of nervous disorders. Certain sedatives are valuable when given for a short time to carry the patient through a difficult period when sleep must be encouraged in every possible way. Drugs sometimes lose their effectiveness when taken over a long period of time. Some person’s sleep may be disturbed by coffee and alcoholic beverages; and for these persons, even such mild stimulants as coffee should be avoided in the evenings. Hot baths, in which the patient rests for ones half hour before retiring, are some+ times effective in inducing sleep. One comrade was told to take opium or morphine, These should never be taken on the patient's own ini+ tiative, because these drugs are habit-forming and may have dan< gerous consequences. Morphine and opium are given by doctors only on special occasions and for a short time, and should not be used in the general treatment of insomnia. Many comrades become unneces- sarily disturbed because they ima- gine themselves to require a certain. fixed number of hours of sleep, People can often live comfortably on fewer, hours of sleep than they ima+ gine they need. A good deal of com- fort is possible to those who are so afflicted if they do not make them- selves more uneasy than they are, by worrying too much about the hour or two that they lose by lying awake in bed. Such time spent resting quietly is much better spent than turning and twisting about) fretfully, and getting short snatches , of sleep that are disturbed by dis-, agreeable dreams. i Contributions received to the credit of the Medical Advisory, Board in its Soctalist competition with Del, Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, Jacob Burck, David Ramsey and Ann Barion, in the Daily Wor+s? drive for $60,000. Quota—$1,5¢>. , 1, W. 0. Rumanian-Cleve..... $.25 / Josie Hallavist ‘ 59, Previously Teceived 334.61 Total to date ........+++00++-$335.38 IN THE HOME By ANN BARTON Hail Soviet Women! 'ODAY, on the seventeenth an- niversary of the Russian Revo- lution, we greet the women of the Soviet Union! We hail them joy- ously, voicing the firm resolve that we will follow their lead, forge our own Soviet land, and achieve the complete economic and po- litical freedom that they possess. Litvnioff, at Geneva, recently, signed a Bill of Rights proffered by a@ group of women,w'th the state- ment: “This does not pertain to the Soviet Union. There women al- ready have full economic and poli- tical rights!” In the current issue of the Work- ing Woman, Vern Smith tells a story of a Soviet woman. Smirnova was born into a pcor peasant family. When she was ten, she became a child slave in a cotton mill. After the Russian Revolution, that opened all doors to advancement wide, she became a weaver. She became a highly skilled weaver, then a spe- cially skilled weaver. She was elected as a delegate to assist those from her factory who had become members of the local Soviet. Smir- nova studied factory technique and management, while she was still working at the factory. She showed such promise that she was awarded a full time scholarship from the government. Now Smirnova is First Assistant Director of the Vladimir Trust, supervising protection of la- bor, statistics, promotions, etc., in all its mills. i - COOKS MUST RUN THE GOVERNMENT “RVERY cook must learn to run the government,” Lenin said. Grace Hutchins, in her book, “Wom- en Who Work,” states, “The cooks have indeed been learning to run the government.” Here are some more facis. Fifteen per cent of all government officials in the U. S. S. R. are women. About 300,000 women are members of vari- ous Soviets and executive commit- tees. More than 500,000 women are active workers in departments, com- mittees, and organizations attached to Soviets. There are 100,000 women judges, and at least one of the three judges of every court, must be a woman. pega erie WOMAN’S LIFE IS SECURE women of the U. S. S. R. may decide whether or not they: will have children. There are birth con- trol clinics and open dissemination of birth control information. She has promise of a secure future, if she wants to have a baby. If she works in a factory, she may have four months leave of absence with full pay two months bsfore, and two months after the baby’s arrival. She is given additional money for a layette for the child, special al- lowances for the special food needed by the mother. These benefits also pertain to wives of workers who are net in the factory. ie K HAILING the women of the Soviet Union on this anniver- sary of their revolution, we realize that their victory c2n only be ac- compl'shed by their participtation in the ranks of 2 strong, discip- lined Bolshevik Party. To achieve Total to date . $22.75 our own Soviet America, we must take the same read. Women of America, celebrate the seventeenth anniversary of the Russian Revo- lution by joining the fighting ranks of the Cemmunist Party. Forward to your own October! Contributions received to the credit of Ann Barton, in her Soc::'- 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. 1L.W.O. Rumanian-Cleve. Previously received Total to date .... Can You Make ’Em Yourself?’ Pattern 1935 is available in sizes 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 Size 16 takes 3% yards 36 inch fab- ric. 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