The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1934 Daily WV orher Seated F orGuidance inFight Ammirato oak: Police Fail to eeip Newspaper Out of Hands of W orkers By a Worker Correspondent PATERSON, N. J.—The Daily Worker is creating tremendous dis- cussion among the dyers. Last week, when Mr. Ammir president of the Paterson local of the dyer: police to take the Red Builders off the picket line, many of the strikers protested, Last week, Mr. Ammirato told the Red Builders in front of | the dye strike headquarters that he | doesn’t like the Daily Worker. We Red Builders were determined that no Ammiratos, no polce, would keep the Daily Worker from the striking dyers. Rain or shine, 6 o'clock in the morning we would be with the heroic striking dyers. Many of the dye workers are be- ginning to realize that the Daily | told the sergeant of the} | Daily Worker for leadership. . The | exposure of Ammirato gave warning to the strikers to be on guard against betrayal. The appeals for solidarity to the strike have given them encourage- | ment. You would be surprised how | seriously and carefully great num- bers of the striking dyers read and weigh the words of our “Daily.” | They discuss it in the headquarters | and they bring the questions raised | in the Daily Worker to the leaders | and in the shop chairmen and dele- | gates’ meeting, and among the mem- | bership. We, Red Builders |pledge ourselves to throw all our | energy to sell and convince the mil- | itant dye strikers that this is the only paper that is putting up a fight | in Paterson, | panes Workers’ lives Endangered in Racine By a Worker Correspondent RACINE, Wis.—F.E.R.A. workers putting on an asphalt composition over the brick pavement on 6th St., downtown, were burned se- | verely when an obsolete gasoline pressure tank exploded. This gasoline apparatus was used to heat material on the job. The value that our city fathers put on a worker's life can be put at naught when they allow an obsolete, death-dealing instrument to be used. This delicate machine was dragged through the streets by a department of public works truck | to the garage to be rejuvenated, when by common horse sense it | should have been sent to the junk | man, Alpha Women Raise Level | November | sion in behalf of the dye workers. Comradely yours, | Worker is 100 per cent in support of the strike, that the Daily Worker is their friend. The striking ayers | are beginning to look toward the RED BUILDERS OF PATERSON. \ Seattle, Milwaukee and Chicago Send Only $l Chicago, the second largest district and with the second largest quota in the country, $6,500, contributed exactly $5 Friday. Seattle, with its quota of $1,000 not even half-reached, sent $5.10, and Milwaukee, with the same quota, sends even less—$1.00. Do these districts intend to finish by Dec. 1? It is up to them to correct this situation. Sections, units, fraternal organizations and trade unions must be involved more intensively in the financial drive. Personal contact by the leading Party comrades will stimulate the most action. Speed collections during the month of November and reach your quotas by Dec. 1! Received Nov. 9, 1934 $805.89 DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) Previous $33,601.55 | T. Patrash 5.10 Total t $34,407.44 | — DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Total Nov 9 $5.10 5 ti 28.41 Sec4 Un406Cp$.50 Sec 4 Unit 416 2.05 | Total to date $3: Sec 4Un 420PB5.00 Sec 4 Unit 410 5.00) DISTRICT 18 (California Sec4 Un420Cp 5.00 Sec 1 Unit 18B 6.75 | Hungarian Workers Organization $10.00 Sec 4 Un 8G13 11.00 Sec 8 Unit S17 5.00| Young Pioneers Buro 5.35 Sec 4Un413PB 2.00 Sec 1 Unit 33 5.00/ John Hamilton YCL 4.3 Sec 4 Unit 413 8.00 Sec 1 Unit 4 5.00| Coll. L. A. Cultural Center 2.40 Sec 4 Unit 427 5.00 Sec 8 Unit 7 10.13/ Unit 2 and 4, Hollywood 1,90 10 Unit 3 156| Unit 2, Boyle Heights Sec4Un427PB 1.00 Sec 4 Sec 4 Un SG4 10.00 Sec 10 Unit 4 1.04| Unit 5, Boyle Heights 1.00 Sec 4 Unit SG4 5.60 Sec 10 Unit 1 .25| Unit 6, Boyle Heights 2.50 Sec 4 Unit 431 3.00 Sec 10 Unit 1 3.44| Unit 9, Boyle Heights 7.00 Sec 4 Unit 418 1.00 Sec 10 Unit 28 4.87/ Unit 10. Boyle Heights 15 Sec 4 Unit 409 10.00 Sec 10 Unit 3 2.63| Young Pioneers Buro 5.00 Sec 4 Unit 422 10.00 Sec 10 Unit 6S 5.00] Womens Council No. 1, Boyle Heights .60 Sec 4 Un 428Cp 2.50 Sec 10 Unit 6S .08 pe cet Angeles 1.00 Sec 4 Unit 428 10.00 Sec 10 Unit 45 2.00) Young Pioneers Hey Un SG1 1.00 Sec 10 Unit 1 4.00) NTWIU 5. See oon Set goo See 10 Unit 1 111| United Council, Working Class Wom 50.00 Daily Worker Med. Board PB 5.00 | L08 Angeles Workers School 5.00 Red Builders 2100 | Frethelt Gesangs Farein 10.00 Jugo Slav Workers Club PB 5.00 | Club Nitgedaiget 5.00 ‘Worker of Coop. Shop Sec 1 6.50 | 5 Associated Workers Club 50.37 aie Br Icor 2.00 Womens Council No. 16 2.00 | Wilshire Br Icor 2.00 Office Workers Union 26.04] | Hollywood Br ILD 3.00 ee ttend Workerman’s Circle Br 983 5.00 | Olgin Br IWO 31.40 Pen & Hammer Econ. Research Comm. 5.00 Pen && Ham, Sclence Research Comm. 4.00 Sranet wines = ee p - 00 Sank Stone 00 | Lenin Br TWO 15.00 Reiier cerére 200 | Freiheit Winchevsky Br IWO, from : bs aD an Ex-Patient 5.00 eel aap | Karl Liebknecht Br IWO 7.00 M. Kopman 100 | Unit 7 Downtown 50 | ae 95 | Unit 11 Downtown 1.00 ing alk Unit 1 San Fernando Valley Class in Workers School ___ 25°] ontt 39 Goodyear Sec 9 He a | A Sympathetic Org 3.00 ey ot $288.37 | Purniture Workers Industrial Union 2.00 Total to date $18,000.11 | Poriywood Ben ace a0 ao $3.29 | Centenella Valley 10.00 Collected by Fannie Glaser, Allentown: | G00dyear Sub Sec 5.00 Louis Tapler 10 — Gottschalk, Joseph 10} Peet ats pen Oo Gaiinger a0 DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) A group of workers day] Manis oem 52.00 B Glaser 1.00 e F i Total Nov 9 $2.00 IWO Br. treasury | Bevgretidt yd Mae! : DISTRICT 16 (Charlotte) Total Noy 9 | Total to date s2,o34.0¢ | Ben Smith 00 DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) eal nor EG ieee | Total to date $72.75 Mia eaycheck | DISTRICT 17 (Birmingham) John Ponti role eS $2.00 Frank Moravecky 25 | e John J. Moravecky Bie ae Hed Macedonian Peoples League 5.00 OLeTRIOT 10: Cuiweukec) ; rie, Pa Erie, Pa. s0)| pet Meaen $1.00 G E Shop Unit, Erie, Pa. 590 real wove | 1.00 Max Pavek, Toledo 4.00 | Total to date Pi ie Fred Volker, Toledo 1.00 DISTRICT 10 ( . Unit 7-03, Toledo 120/ 5 a oe, sal ‘ er Warren, Ohio, So. Slav fall eeae a Hole Hee eee farrell, Pa., So. Slav AB's cane = eae dae Gr 128) | ch Goldberg "05 Total Nov 9 $3.3 Unit 2-21, Cleveland 260 | > cornet G6 Tot to date $347; oo ee Ed DISTRICT 26 (50, Dakota) Unit 1-02 ia $1.00 Unit 1-12 1481 | Total Nov 9 $1.00 Be 14 $3) | Total to date $13.00 Moungstown,. Ohio 6.39 | DONATIONS PREVIOUSLY LISTED UNDER Cincinnati, Ohio No. 5 335 SECTIONS AND DISTRICTS: Cincinnati, Ohio No. 5 3.65 | aa ee ie Eps City) Cincinnati No. 12 175 | Jos Smals ened 25 Unit 17-31, Cleveland | Jos Soobody 1.00 § Gottlieb 25 Unit 17-36, Cleveland 1.00 | A. Simanck 50 J Shikora 05 Macedonian Peoples League, Mansfield 6.15 hans aes ime pen Akron 6.00 | John Poe arthou Unit 3-41, Cleveland 50 cee fr = Unit 17-32 19.00 eiter f erin Sec 1, Gallick 5.00) T Aegner 50 oD Epstein Unit 3-42 11|P Hafun :35 A Sharlit Unit 7-3, Toledo LAT 2 — e re Unit 7-05 4.00 az 4 jelkin Columbus, Ohio No. 4 "34| John Schmidt .25 Goldberg Unit 16-2 3.00 | Paul Schmit 25° -'T Marimow Youngstown 2237|John Pechte 25 D Kipnis Wm. Kotz |Deuhtmeister [25 Kowal | John Wolt :25 Otto Meyer Total Nov 9 2| A Schmidt :25 J. Walcich Total to date s17o494| Ann L Aigner 10 Leon Lerkin DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) rdmann aslam Sec 4 Unit 6 PB R Kaufman 1.00 Max Schwartz Sec 5 Unit 5 Cp | Becky 10° -M Pogelman Sec 5 Unit 5 Cp Baker ‘33 -H Ziott Sec § Unit 5 Cp Tarthe 05 «J Echevarea Sec 8 Unit 4 PB Solly 05S Alicea Sec 8 Unit 5 PB | F Grossman 1.00 A Borges See 8 Affair |G Weinstein 50 R Martinez Ford Local No 2 | A Mandel :50 | -M Garris ——_| ¢ sate ‘50 E Roduguez Total Nov 9 5 | J Shindler 25 Jordanaw 5 Total to date $1,107.65 | Taunman ‘25 Frakel i DISTRICT & (Chicago) Mary Jaffe 25° Miraliile e Dr. G. O. Vennesiand $1.00} E Blomberg 1.00 M Yellen 25 Chicago Wkrs Sch & John Reed Club 4.00|A Koskinen 25 A Catansaro 25 —|K Brenzel a apman 10 Total Nov 9 $5.00| Dr H Richman .50 Rubin “35, Total to date $2,036.27| Paul Lausch 25 J’ Covathon 15 DISTRICT 9 (Minnesota) R Kenipe 28 Samson 15 J. Majheim $2.00 orshrim rkin 50 ——| J Lerine 25° M Lortner 25 | Total Nov 9 $2.00 | Solovsky 125 J Ledo 25 Total to date $253.26 S Bernstein 25 Wittenstein 35 Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! AMOUNT << L NAME ADDRESS Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. 5 | about this. Of Struggle By a Worker Correspondent ALPHA, Ill. — The unemployed | groups under the leadership of such militant workers as McNaught and | Bullock of Kewanee; Little of onstrated to the workers of Henry County the value of the struggle for higher relief. In the strike of all Federal proj- ects on gravel pits which lasted over a week, an increase of 10 per cent was gained from reluctant re- lief officials and promises of in- vestigation into Sounci’s adminis- tration of County Relief was ex- tracted after a week of camping in the relief offices in relays of six hours. At Alpha, where they raised the “red scare’ after Gould who was their representative on the county strike committee reported back for action to be taken, a split was {caused in the Illinois Workers |Association. Such reactionary lead- ers as Sec’y Paterson,, ex-mine boss, and Daddy Grace were dethroned ‘0lby the rank and file and replaced with militant and active fighters. | The women of Alpha did their bit by volunteering for duty on the sitting party in the relief offices at Kewanee. Before this they had been denied the privileges of mem- bership in the I. W. A. local, but, aroused and determined by their struggle, they marched to the meet- ing hall and demanded admittance and membership, was granted, much to the disgust of Keos, Grace, Pat- jterson, and Co. | The reactionaries are massing their forces for a counter attack after their defeat, but their efforts will remain futile and ineffective before the now able leadership of the group who have again and again displayed the ability to get what they go after for the working class, and who have the confidence | of all the unemployed, The K. K. K. is being resurrected | by the 100 percenters and terror | has been threatened to all “reds.” | When sucn people as ex-super- | visor Spivey, wo resigned when face ito face with determined workers | who demanded relief although they | were coal miners, a class he swore that would never get a bite to eat from him, and such other town dads as they have in Alpha and Henry County imagine they are big enough to stem the tide of decency and fair play which the wozkers are demanding be made the order of the new day in local circles, they only reveal how hopeless and ig- norant is their ruse to keep work- ers and unemployed befuddled | LETTERS FROM OUR READERS CAPITALIST PRESS HIDES COM- MUNIST VOTE New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: I nctice in the New York “Times” and other New York capitalist papers that the election returns are recorded only for three parties; the Democrats, Republicans and the third party of capitalism, the So- cialist Party. But nowhere in those papers can I find the returns for the Communist Party. Those of us who worked hard to try to build up a large vote for the 4 Communist Party are disappointed in this. However, there is a deeper significance to this situation and that is that the capitalist papers are trying to hide the growing in- fluence of the Communist Party. I believe something should be done I believe that demon- strations should be held before the newspaper offices to force them to ®\print the election returns for the ;| Communist Party. —L, M. | NEW DEAL OFFERS JOBS FOR STRIKEBREAKERS New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: “HELPERS, non-union, to re- place men on strike; work on trucks; must be husky; no objec- tion to older men.” This interesting want ad ap- peared today, on the anniversary of the great Russian Revolution, in the New York Times, while millions of American workers are suffering under the yoke of capitalism and are fighting against hunger and wage cuts; while millions of unem- ployed workers are hunting day by day to find meager paid jobs, only to find out that they are not wanted unless they want a job as a strikebreaker. This will undoubtedly make every honest workers’ blood boil, regard- less of what political opinion he holds, and open the eyes of those Genesis; Lawson of Woodhull and | the Gould brothers, Mason, and | — McCluskey of Alpha, have dem-} Brooklyn Edison Men VoteDown'RedScare’ Overwhelming Majority Right of Members in Brotherhood Backs to Political Belief By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — Friday evening, 2, Local 2 (Brooklyn Edison), in regular bi-monthly ses- at 307 Washington Street, Brooklyn, voted by an overwhelm- |ing majority to uphold the right of any member to his own political belief. The National Constitution of the Brotherhood of Utility Em- ployees declares that no member shall be excluded because of race, religion or politics, and this action | shows that the B.U.E. members are solidly back of such a principle. The main subject under discus- sion was the adoption of by-laws to govern the local. The newly elected Financial Secretary an- nounced that he had resigned his Office in the company union, so as to devote more time and energy to upbuilding the Brotherhood local. At the same time, certain members pointed out that most of the work- ers are in the company union and | jthat it would be wise to elect Brotherhood members of the com- pany union councils. Many brothers |feel that the attitude of limiting | the action of Brotherhood members in the company union is unwise strategy. James Donegan, chairman of the local, announced that cases of dis- charged men were before the Re- | gional Labor Board. He pointed out members would assist the cases of the men involved. No further ac- Bee was taken on this point. After adjournment, members who |had voted down the “red scare” discussed the Power Worker, organ of the Brooklyn Edison Communist | Unit. Many stated that they were looking forward to the next issue of The Power Worker which takes leadership in fighting for the unity }of all Edison workers, and the building of the Brotherhood into a powerful weapon against the utility magnates of America, Charlotte Relief List Grows, But Funds Drop By a Worker Correspondent CHARLOTTE, N. C.—I am writ- ing you in regard to the conditions that exist on the F.E.R.A. here. I am a married man with a wife | and two children. is $10 a month, I work on a F.ER.A. project 2 per hours a week at 30 cents an hour, which mounts up to $7.20 a week or $28.80 a month. At least that was what I was making before they gave me a 25 per cent cut in relief last month. One week out of every four we don’t get relief at all as you can see from the notices that are attached to our checks every month, which I am enclosing in this letter. I am also enclosing a clipping from the Charlotte News giving an official statement of Mr. Harry Hop- kins on the federal relief fund al- lotment for North Carolina, which was $1,814,000. They claim they spent it in three weeks. I am also sending two clippings of the same paper giving Mr. Hop- kins’ ‘statement that there was an increase of 6 per cent here in relief cases from August to September, 196 more families were put on the relief rolls. At the same time re- lief was cut from $45,773 to $33,728. To make a long story short, after My house rent International Workers Order adding 196 more families, they gave us a 25 per cent cut and still saved $12,045. In the United States from July to August they saved $16,137,000 with their relief cuts, while our wives and children went hungry and ragged. As everyone knows we could not live before they gave us the cuts, and the worst of it is th unless the workers protest th will be more and more cuts, We have no organizer or hall here in Charlotte. What we need here is someone to organize the unem- ployed and a hall for the workers to meet in. I also want to say that I am not a member of the Communist Party, but realize that the workers must organize and protest, to Starve and freeze to death. ATTENTION—WORCORRS! The Workers Correspondents Department boasts of more than 1,000 Worcorrs. Yet, we are | barely ahead of only one depart- ment, “In the Home.” Will you allow us to be lagging behind? | Speed your contributions, no matter how small, and push us toward our $500 goal! Total to date ...... Forges Ahead in Recruiting Some Sections Lag Behind—Members Are Urged to Become Recruiting Conscious THE fifth week of the campaign to build the International Work- ers Order to 75,000 members by May, 1935, resulted in 630 applications of adults and 133 applications of chil- dren. The leading section this week is the Jewish, with 189 new members. The English Section added 98 new members, ten of whom were re- cruited by Slovak branches. The Youth Section had a com- paratively good week with 67 ap- plications. Some of the Sections are not yet aware of the campaign. The Hun- garian Section requires a weekly recruitment quota of 252 members if it wants to achieve its accented campaign quota. As against these necessary 252 appiications, the Sec- tion only recruited 47. The Italian Section met its weekly needed quota of 125 by recruiting onlv 47 new members. The Slovak Section, instead of achieving its weekly quota of 224, recruited only 45 new members. The other sections are similarly be- hind. The major reason for these ap- parent failures is over-confidence. Confidence is a very good thing. It makes one certain of success and inspires one to do everything nec- essary that may assure the success. Over-confidence, on the other hand, relies too much on spontaneity. It puts the burden of recruiting on conditions, rather than on organiza- tion, on the leading committees, and on the activities of the members. Comrades, conditions will not build our Order. We must build it. Conditions make it possible for us to build it. But the burden of action is upon us. There can be no doubt that the last years have undermined the con- fidence of the workers in capitalist organizations, in capitalist politics and in the capitalist system. But this waning confidence does not lead these workers automatically into the ranks of the militant pro- letariat. It may lead them into demoralization and despair. The only force that can turn this wan- ing confidence of the workers in capitalism, into an active power in favor of the working class, is the activity of the militant workers; it is the effort of militant workers or- ganizations to win the confidence of these workers; it is the effort of militant workers organizations to organize these workers; it is the effort of class conscious workers to get leadership over these proletari- ans. That is why we cannot rely on conditions to work for us. We must voters who still believe in the New Deal. —F. Ww. know that conditions favor us, but that 1s all. By MAX BEDACHT The first requirement for the suc- cess of our campaign is to mobilize our members. Every one of our mem- bers comes in contact with workers every day. He meets with his fellow worker on the job; he sees his neighbor at home; he visits frierids and relatives; he meets with his fellow-members in his union. Our members must be made so “recruit- ing conscious” that whenever and wherever they do meet a fellow worker, a friend, a neighbor or a relative, they make efforts to re- cruit them as members of our Order. This does not entail any cost; one meets these people anyway. It does not entail any special efforts; one talks to these people anyway. All it needs is to have the minds of our Order members fixed on the task of recruiting new members into the I. W. O. All it needs is to convince every member of our Order that he owes the Order at least one new member during this campaign. With this debt on his conscience, the member will ask himself every day: “Why should I not pav my debt today?” Wherever his own conscience does not suffice to induce the member to do his duty and to recruit new members, the Branch, the Branch Executives and other. active mem- bers must act as his conscience. They must remind the inactive member, and remind him whenever and wherever they meet him: “You owe a new member to the Order; please pay your debt.” English Section Grows The most valuable fact in the growth of our Order is the develop- ment of the English Section. By November Ist, this section has reached 3,800 members. This is about 8.4 per cent of our total mem- bership. At the time of our last Convention in June 1933, the Eng- lish Section constituted hardly 2 per cent of our membership. While we can record this rapid growth, we still wish to point out that this growth is nothing in com- parison with the enormity of our task ahead. Millions of American workers are under bourgeois lead- ership, in bourgeois fraternal or- ganizations. The field for recruiting among these workers is unlimited. Systematic concentration on the task of building the English Sec- tion will enable us to develop this Section twice as rapidly. Only in the degree in which our English Section grows will our Order grow into a truly American workers fra- ternal mass organization. Forward to 75,000 new members in our Order! ‘ that the presence of a delegation of ; City Chisels Wages on Park Relief Jobs} By a Relief Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I am a relief worker employed in one of the city parks as a laborer, although I am a machinist by trade. We workers were receiving the great sum of $12 weekly, on which some of us relief workers have to support as high as six and seven children. Tuesday, Oct. 30th, at 12 noon the timekeeper told the men on the job to knock off because the city had no funds. We were prom- ised that we would make up the time lost, and told to report to work Thursday morning. On Thursday morning we were told we would lose the day and a half, which would be $6 less. I have formed a group on my project and we have warned work- ers on many projects about this scheme that they are trying to put over on the other shift. Ellis Island Conditions Are Exposed By a Worker Correspondent ELLIS ISLAND, N. Y.—Wednes- day evening, as I sat in lonesome room No. 213, the door suddenly swung open. In walked a “man” in plain clothes, with two more fol- lowing him. “I am the commissioner of this place. What is your complaint?” he shouts. Already used to this kind of greeting, I asked if the sum of $1.45 was forwarded here from Seattle, as I need the sum badly. My main question was as follows: “I fail to understand the bureau- cratic attitude of a few of your subordinates who treated me as if I was charged with a crime, put me inside a vermin-infested room, and isolated me from the rest of the immigrants, as if I were a leper. Many of us political prisoners here are treated as if we were so-called dangerous criminals.” | At this point Mr. Reimer, (I find this to be his name) flew into a rage. “You are a liar. You lied in your press. Where are these vermin?” the commissioner de- manded. | I gently raised a blanket from the | floor and vermin, commonly known | as cockroaches, started to run on) the floor. I further challenged him to investigate other rooms and find the same thing, but he left in a} hurry. | One hour later, I was moved with three other workers into one room and today, for the first time since Oct. 29, I had some fresh air and | exercise on the so-called porch. | Again it was shown that the voice | of the workers through the workers’ press can throw the servants of capitalism into a night-mare and fear, and that the workers can gain their rightful demands, and our voices can be heard when we speak through our representative, the Daily Worker, and the rest of the militant workers’ press. (Signed) JOHN UJICK. Negro Woman Appeals To Mrs. Patterson’ By a Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo—I see in the Daily Worker where four of the | Scottsboro mothers are appealing | to Mrs. Patterson to join with them and the I.L.D. and not to listen to | the misleaders. I was very sorry to read that about Mrs. Patterson. I am also appealing to Mrs. Patterson to stick with the I.L.D, When Mrs. Patter- son was in St. Louis at Tabernacle | Baptist Church, I heard her myself tell the story about the Ministers’ Alliance in Chattanooga, Tenn., sending this drunken attorney to defend the boys. I also heard her | say that she would always stick with the I.L.D., even if her boy was not freed. She also said that the ILD. would put up a good fight. I hope she will keep her word, for the Scottsboro boys have brought forth the struggle for the rights of the Negro people. We all know that the Negro peo- ple have never had their rights. We all know that the ILD. brought forth the rights for Negroes to sit on the jury. We also know that there are white workers who have lost their lives to save the Scotts- boro boys. I would say more of the true facts in St. Louis. The Negro pes- ple haven’t got any rights even to the misleaders of the Negro people in St. Louis, who sell the Negro people at election time to the bosses that Jim-Crowed and discriminated against them at the relief station, at 2221 Locust Street. They have a policeman there. Whenever the so- cial workers do not want to give relief, he is there to run the work- ers away. I was there one day with a relief case and a white worker was one of the committee. The policeman asked the white worker, are you 4 white man? What are you doing here with these niggers?” Some workers haven't seen their visitor for a month. These relief stations are rotten in St. Louis. When they do not want to give re- lief to workers, they call the police and bring up framed charges. I am also appealing to all workers to support the Communist Party, the only Party that stands for working class. This is from a Negro woman fighting for the Scottsboro boys and ;makes such things possible. Conducted by the Daily Worker Medi Strawberry Rash and Pregnancy ERN AND GEORGE:—You ask, will a strawberry thrown at a pregnant woman appear on the baby’s body. This is one of many similar questions that are ofte: asked of doctors. Women are ad vised not to look at animals for | fear that the child will have the form of an animal, or that a blem- | ish shaped like the animal will ap- | pear on the child. They are coun- selled against having bad thoughts, they are told to avoid being fright- ened. These, and many others, are superstitions—which, of course, are absolutely false—have been handed down from generation to genera- tion, and can be traced to the time when medicine and magic were as one. Blemishes, various types of rashes, do appear on the new born child, but they are not in any way due to any external influences on the expectant mother. They are due to irritations or injuries of the infant’s skin while it is still in the womb. People still look upon doctors as being in some way connected with miracles and things magical. Un- fortunately, not only are these ideas | held by lay people, but they are not dispelled by doctors. Many doc- | tors, instead of telling their patients | simple truths, speak very vaguely | and create confusion in the minds | of the patients. Instead of being | friendly and acting as one human being with another, they support the wall of secrecy and mystery | which has been built up around, | stand on their dignity, do every- thing to build up a class distinction between themselves and their ser | tients. We all know that a doctor is no more than a trained tech- nician—like any other trained | worker, and should sell his services | as such—not, what is commonly | done, create a racket by taking ad- vantage of people's ignorance. It | is understandable that doctors are | not to blame for this. They are the product of a society which | In a} Communist society, where. progress | in education cannot be impeded by | a ruling class, such dishonesty can- | not prevail, such superstitions as| Previously received .. were prevalent in a bourgeois world ' | will have long been liquidated. IN THE HOME By ANN cal Advisory Board Blood Spitting OMRADE W. B., of Milwaukee, writes:—“I thought maybe you could help me as you helped others, |My husband had a bad cold in his ‘hest and throat, but has recovered from it since, which is a couple of | weeks now. But for the past few days, when arising in the morning, jhe has noticed blood in his mouth and one morning found a large blotch of it on his pillow. He also spits up more in the morning, but is troubled somewhat during the day, too, and this contains some | blood also. I was told that this | might be from bad teeth, but I be- lieve it comes from the lungs or | stomach. He had his tonsils re- | moved quite a few years ago. Do you think this is from a run down condition? He works long hours, “Any advice you can give would certainly be appreciated.” Ci eae 4 Examination Necessary ‘OU are right in doubting whethe® the blood-spitting your husband complains of is due to bad teeth. It most probably comes from his lungs | and since you say he had a cold some weeks ago, it would be very advisable to have your husband ex- amined by a doctor, or, if you can’t afford one, by a clinic physician, There are many reasons for blood spitting, and only with a good ex- amination, with the aid of an X-ray | of the chest, can one diagnose your | husband’s ailment. We urge you not to neglect this, because delay sometimes makes the illness more difficult to cure. CAN IT BE? The medicos are the only ones who raise funds among themselves, as witness the contribution below. Is it because they haven't enough support from the mass of followers who enjoy their column and receive valuable counsel as well? Don’t for- get—their quota is $1,500! A Former Socialist $1.00 Advisory Comm. “5.00 350.86 Total to date ........$356.86 BARTON “Church, Kitchen, Children” ‘OMEN throughout the world have watched with growing horror the position into which the Nazis have forced the German women, especially German work- ing-class women. “Kirche, Kueche, Kinder.” (Church, Kitchen, Children.”) This is the Nazi program for women. The Nazi leaders have decided that women shall become “child- breeders” for the Nazi war ma- chine. Now, on Jan. 13, 1935, a vote will be taken in the Saar to determine | Whether or not the 800,000 popula- \tion of the Saar will remain under the direction of the League of Na-| tions, or whether it will become part of Nazi Germany. For months Hitler has sent hundreds of his brown shirts into the Saar to ter- rorize the Saarlanders, to “cam- paign” for “anschluss” (joining) to Germany. The United Anti-Fascist Com- mittee of the Saar, stoutly main- tains, “We will not have the Saar turned into another concentra- tion camp for Hitler.” This com- mittee is composed of religious groups, political parties, and other organizations. The women of the Saar know what to expect, should the Saar be- come part of Germany. They will be forced out of industry, as have the women of Germany, or they will be forced to work at new low rates. Single women will be ordered to either give up unemployment bene- |fits or submit to back-breaking la- bour on farms. Equality between the sexes, politically, economically, and socially, will be treason. “En- tertain your tired warriors!” was Goebbels command to German women. “Every spry lad willingly and gladly will make mothers of twenty-eight girls,” says a leading Nazi “philosopher.” For the anti-Fascist women of the Saar, should the Saar become part of Germany, there is the cer- tainty that husbands will be taken to concentration camps, or “shot while trying to escape.” They themselves need not expect relief. They and their children will be left to starve, so (as a leading Nazi states), “This breed must be weeded out.” We must aid the anti-Fascists in the Saar, who tirelessly, not fear- ing Nazi persecution, are going from village to village, town to town, campaigning zealously for “status quo” which means continuation un- der League of Nations administra- tion. We must provide shoes for their feet, clothes for their back. We mu provide food for their hungry wives and children. We must help the anti-Fascists, the working people of the Saar, to keep the Saar from Hitler. We have a duty also to the wives and children of anti- Fascists ,alone, and left to starve in Nazi Germany. Margaret Cowl, in the name of the Women’s Commission of the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party, calls upon all women, and especially the women of the United Councils of Working Women to support the campaign which the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism is instituting in this country. Tinned food, bags of sugar, dried beans, coffee (food that the working class people, and against the most damnable police terror, will not spoil) will be collected throughout the country, as well as clean and new clothing. These will then be shipped. Funds are needed ‘tor the shipping and for leaflets, papers, etc., for the anti-Fascists in the Saar. Detailed suggestions on | how to organize this campaign will {be printed in this column in a few days. Keep Hitler Out of the Saar! Save the wives and children of the anti-Fascists in the Saar and in Germany from starvation and Death! SPEAK TO THEM! It’s the women comrades who ; come in contact with the milkman, laundryman, and other collectors. How about asking them to contrie | bute to the Daily Worker, and there- by help us reach our $500 mark? Total to date + $24.20 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2061 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 36 takes 4% yards 39-inch fabric and 2% yards fur banding. Illustrated step-by-step sewing ine structions included, i Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pat‘ern. Write’ plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 248 West 17th Street, New York City. CY —= SARA ees SY SBI aaeie apie } ] a