The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 —————- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1934 CREDIT UNION PLAN PUTS RELIEF LOAD ON WORKERS 12% I. nterest Charged On Loans to Jobless McCormick Company Uses Scheme to Get Rid of | Older Workers and Dodge Responsibility By a Metal Worker Correspondent cause we will not owe the company CHICAGO, Ill.—At the last safety | any money but to the Credit Union meeting of the McCormick workers |in case we borrow any money. the discussion took place about the Credit Union. This is the best way to get rid of _.| the old workers. The reason they| hand out as political patronage. What kind of a Credit Union is} want to get rid of the old workers Detroit Postal Jobs By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich. — Thousands of unemployed Detroit workers who thronged the postoffice when it was announced that 3,000 would be taken on for Christmas work are now discovering that they have been hoaxed. The Detroit Free Press, Repub- | lican newspaper, in its Nov. 3 | issue exposes the fact that these | jobs were allotted several days | before toDemocratic Congressmen | and congressional candidates to | Postmaster Roscoe Huston, has | Pay lo the ordecot stpty 48/100 = 2 ee = By an Auto Worker Correspondent , DETROIT, Mich — Forty - eight that? When you join the Credit/is because they are not as strong | admitted that 3,200 special ap- | cents for two day’s work! | Union you pay 25c. On the money and fast as young workers and can-| plication blanks were distributed | you save in the Credit Union you|not produce as much for the com-| get 6 per cent interest. If you bor- | | If you are laid oft two years or cent interest. They also tell us that | over you lose all your rights. And | the company has nothing to do with | we have to start as new workers. | the Credit Union, that the workers | Some of us have been employed by | Yow money you have to pay 12 per control this union themselves, that there is only one man on the pay roll and that is the treasurer. Who started the Credit Union? Some of the company agents did so that the company doesn’t have to loan you any money when you are laid off. When we received a loan from the pany. | the company for 20 years or over. | When we started to work again | they hired us as new men. So it | means we lost all our pension rights, etc. This is what is facing us with | the Credit Union. We must support the Workers’ | | Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. Each of these blanks will bear the | being filled out by one of his sup- Porters. hours in the cold for these jobs the World War has wired a protest { to President Roosevelt, declaring that press publicity had given the This is the experience of one} among the Democratic congress- | Detroit automobile worker who got | company made the worker wait al- men a congressional ckaatten. |@ job at the Hupp Motor Car Co.,| most two months for his 48 cents. but was laid off after working two| $6.98, but the company deducted | | $6.50 for goggles that he required | ing for relief, because as long as | ands who waited long | for his work and gave him a pay | they have any pay coming to them, re tee oad toa e |check for 48 cents. ‘These goggles | the Welfare Department will not} have practically no chance of get- | Te generallly suppliled by the com- ' place them on the relief rolls. ting in. The Disabled Veterans of | — Pressure Gets Pearl Button 48ec for 2 Days’ Work Fail to Materialize | Detroit. Mis + Sa 7598), which is before Congress, company last time they had to put | originally proposed by the Commu- us to work so that we could pay|nist Party and endorses by inde- back what we borrowed. In this way | pendent unions and American Fed- they won’t have to put us back be-/ eration of Labor unions all over Boas’ Negligence Hurls Worker Into Mixer Pit By a Steel Worker Correspondent | When the engine approached the it whistled three short ) Signals. The worker putting in the light got so excited that he made GARY, Ind.—One of the fellows in the number 3 open hearth mixer pit, a crane operator known as Nick, noticed that some of the electric lights had burned out. He went to see the electrical crew and reported that he needed a light in that particular place. The elec- trical crew told him that they were busy somewhere else, and gave him the bulb to put in since he was go- ing there anyway. He took the bulb and went to put it in the mixer pit. But, fellow workers, what hap- pened then is a sad story. First, I would like to tell you about the location of the mixer pit tracks. These tracks lead straight south, | and on the west side of the tracks there is a walking platform about ten feet wide. If an engine comes along, the worker has no chance | to get out on the side. At the very moment that this | fellow was doing his work, the en- gine came along with hot metal. building, a dive down. Instead of diving on the platform, however, he dived in- to the mixer pit which is ten feet deep and full of steel scrap. | What happened then fellow! workers? Well, Ill make a long story short, this worker has heaps impression that veterans would receive preference for these jobs. Duquesne _ Jobs Drop Steadily By A Steel Worker Correspondent | McKEESPORT, Pa.—Things are very slow in Duquesne. Out of 26 | open hearth and 2 blast furnaces | there are only 4 open hearth and 2| blast furnaces working part time. The open hearth furnaces usual- ly shut down at the end of each week. The average worker get if not longer. ers. emergency. ' accidents. But, | of broken bones and is laid up in the hospital for at least six months Now the bosses are building a |fence around the mixer pit, after | this worker got crippled for life. | They'll do everything to put the |blame on the switchmen’s should- Well, they can not put any- thing over on the switchmen, and they never will, man goes to work ready for any fellow workers that’s not enough. Unless we are organized into a workers’ union we | won't be able to really cut out these for the switch- Johnston City, N. Y., Banquet : Raises Total to Sum of $85) JOHNSON CITY, N. Y., the sole contributor from the Buffalo district (No, 4) last Saturday, sent $20. This sum, proceeds from the thira banquet arranged by the Communist Party for the benefit of the Daily Worker drive, brings the Johnson City total to $85. | If more sections in Buffalo (and this applies to the rest of the; routes can be used to stimulate country as well) followed the comrades of Johnson City, it would be a | interest in the $60,000 drive. Speak great aid to fulfilling the district quotas by Dec. 1. William Allegro, of New York City, who has been contributing his about 2 days a week. I have been | a bit more fortunate than that, get- | ting 7 turns.a pay, up until the last pay; and that will contain only 5 turns. Our stripper cranemen were | granted a raise because the com- | pany union representative put the} petition through. The company rep- | resentative also told me the mill/ | wrights and the inspectors will probably get a raise of a few cents, though I am not sure about that. | I joined the A. A. as I am going | |to build a real opposition in the | Fort Duquesne Local. I think one | of the trustees is going to be with me, as he doesn’t like the bureau- cratic metkods in the local. The last meeting was more like a De- mocratic: rally than a union meet- ing. About 13 union men were laid off | from the mill last week. These men were chippers and the mill has in- | stalled a new chipping machine | which replaces these men. | Red Builders! Your carrier to your readers about the impor- | tance of supporting the we $2 as regularly es the tradiiqnal clock, offers to increase his| Worker. Ask them to contribute self-assigned quota to $3 if someone will undertake to take over the | today. $2-a-week quota. Surely a proposition like this to help the Daily Worker | |children. It calls upon all workers | Daily | will demonstrate for immediate win- Quick Chicago Relief Orders. By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill.—The unemployed workers of Chicago are putting up @ militant struggle to obtain imme- diate winter relief and to defeat the attack of the Democratic Ad- ministration on the relief standards in Cook County. At the Humboldt Park District Relief Station on the Northwest Side of Chicago, the assembled workers inside the relief station were able to win immediate issuance of 50 coal orders, winter clothing, as; well as additional food. The Humboldt Park station, su- pervised by “Lady” Evelyn Byron, is one of the stations in Cook County where workers are systematically and cold-bloodedly denied the mini- mum relief standard. Last Saturday about 200 workers | inside the relief station found that they were all there for the same things, food, clothing and coal. Act- ing as a united body, refusing to be intimidated by six carloads of police and detectives, they forced “Lady” Byron to agree immediately to their demands. A special desk was put up, and the workers lined | up and put in their demands, which were at once granted. The doors were locked to keep out additional workers. But the locks were not strong enough to with- stand the enraged workers who were locked out. After the main body of workers had left, with a promise | that the relief would work overtime to fill orders, the police were able to arrest one worker ,and it took all of them to do that. The International Labor Defense will defend this worker’s right to demand food for his wife and five to help in this fight. We are rallying the workers to make the Noy. 24th demonstration the mightiest Chicago has seen. We ter relief, cash relief, the building of subways, schools, and hospitals, and for the Workers’ Unemployment em ee a panies free; they can be bought in stores for about $2. In addition to robbing him of nearly all his wages, tle Hupp! This is a common practice among | signature of the politician after | days. His pay was supposed to be/the auto companies; in this way workers are prevented from apply- Bosses’ Union Is Squelched' By a Worker Correspondent MUSCATINE, Ia.—This letter is to inform you about the strike in the French Water Pearl Button | Factories in Muscatine Iowa, This strike was called by joint action of union and non-union | workers and lasted 9 days, (from | Oct. 1st to Oct. 10th), This strike | was brought on because of des- | perate labor conditions in this in- dustry, Th> strike was not well | organized due to the lack of or- ganization among the workers in this industry, but it did prove to the workers that a rank and file organization is the only hope of the button workers to better con- ditions in this industry, A new organization has been} formed here composed of the rank and file of all the different un- ions and parties. And we believe that this new organization will! soon be strong enough to compel the manufacturers to pay a better wage. An attempt was made by the Iowa Pearl Button Co. to form a company union after the strike, but we were successful in breaking it up before it realy got a start. The employes of the Iowa Pearl did not want a company union but they would have been forced into it had we not helped them to break it up. | The Iowa Pearl and all the other button companies have a number of stool-pigeons in their plants that try to line the workers up and get | them into company unions. If a worker dares to oppose one of these stools or makes any complaint about the job, he is promptly dis- charged. ‘ Labor conditions in this industry are the rottenest that we have ever seen. The button manufacturers regard the code as a joke, and the | N.R.A. makes no attempt to en- force it. Hundreds of workers duction has been increased per man and per machine under this code, and still the N.R.A. does |Nothing about it. When a worker is thrown out of a job here and goes to the relief for aid, he is stalled off for a week ,and then is given a $1.25 grocery | rder*for a week. The button man- | ufacturers seem to also dictate the policies of the relief organizations : and Social Insurance Bill. ought to bring responses not from one but many supporters. Who's M E Ss 4 Hea d s first? Write to Bo Se comes Rutitors 80: Rahs, Wea. Stree | 4 |" _ DIMES+-NICKELS=$2 Bay stoctved 82440744 | ° The Lowell Workers Center Total to date $34700.70 DISTRICT 16 (Charlotte) T r To S tl 1 e was recently credited with a $2 DISTRICT 1 (Boston) | Sook pid contribution. “Wish it could be Wellman $ .15Total Nov 1 “ | more,” wrote Alfred Christian. ———Tot to date $2007.85 | Total Nov. 10, 1934 . Ch . F . h | A 4 % Total to date “I collected this from comrades DISTRICT 2 (New York City) | ' " 4 Whitegoods Col Mike Gold 1.38 | oso), Pring ge ried 4) cag ) ig t by dimes and nickels.” Smal Workers Cl pase ace — 433 | v-403 ‘32 See 1, I Kos change mounts up, if the col- Gm Allegro 2.00 Total Nov a0 sa7.ia | U-408 me By ai Metal: Worker: ©: dent| lector is energetic. We need Carl Offord 3.37 ‘Tot to date $1117.23 | U-404 EBOOK: Cesena x 18,00 | BY 8 De ete. oon more like him for the $500 quota. DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) | Becton, 5 nashaee :-O.anetonen’ 5 60 | CHICAGO, 1-—The Mf, ©. 8: A.) Total te date ..... AS ee $32.00 Y. Zuntries—John City banquet $20.00 | Henry F Auger $1.00 Mocaly Peano ay | DISTRICT 2% (Houston) merica) Socialis ership Total Nov 10 a Johnson must be exposed for failure Total to date $383.70 | Total Nov. 10, 1984 #100 |JOHNson mu: ‘po: r DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) Total to dati 14.25 |to act in the interests of Local 23, gies sum Saetcegs | caeapa ME Ehago, tters from ant x fl ie Paukett 1.00 papas t $50) MES.A. mempers were locked out |!—____ P Matuizyk 1.00 Total Nov 10 $7.50 | Total Nov. 10, 1984 $ 50 |at Rock Ola slot machine company, (Because of th lume of lettes " Angelo ae ‘ Guo saa aeial t ae $3.05 | 625 Jackson Btvyd. No action was pled Se Degatinent: es peg | ONS PREVIOUSLY LISTED UNDER only those that are of general interest Te Peck 1.00 Sec 7 501s pene ae ae oe his eoiarades t bp pulling a one-man | editors. “Surreatice Merge tree Sherr chwartz am Coe 10 = editors, Suggestions and criticisms are a = pes ko z $35] Jonn Javarny 110 Knpansky ‘50| strike, saying that he could not| welcome and whenever possible are used Sec 8 S915 Bulent: Bary) 1.00 | Seen eee bag 100 | work under such conditions. But out See enc mprawement) ot, tBe;/ Daly Sec 6 1433 See 5 9.05| Walter Sax 80 ‘Kis Miklos "99 | best union men took these jobs pur- a oe HG A eae gag | H Mitzler 50K Gelousay —1.00| Dosely to organize this shop. He CORRECT! Slovak Sec TWO 6.50 Wkrs Sch PB 5.00] Karl Warnicke .50 Luisi Bedotty 25 | refused to call a shop meeting until Blovak Sec IWO2.66 Sec 7 Boley tage od LS die leetiaed 3\the rank and file members de- New York, N. Y. Sec 1 Se eee 250 | Geo Kestler 25 Jacob Lerman '50| manded action. We were com-|Dear Comrade Editor: Greek Workers ws 250 F Store -25 J Bornbaum —50| pelled to expose ourselves to the| 1 am a steady reader of the Daily ee om Ww Crabtrel Lop | Mountes “35° Samuel Hyman .25/ posses. The two best men who or-| Worker and a very close sympa- a ies a ee ieee 3 piskoiee 2 pipe sc e. ganized the shop were fired and|thizer of the Communist movement. Albany Park ies Tot to date $3215.35 | 5) Packman 10 A Moshlak ‘25; then when the shop meeting was| for @ number of years. But the Woms eign It. (N. Dakets) | M Zelnick 1.00 GKrywenho 1.00 called, the bosses acted quickly by | Sldiers and sailors never seemed to ¥ Fiman 30, Geeereemne’ toy Sree ‘30 | firing the entire tool room, both day | € eke the Nile Bore Be Ys | Abe Zelnick 50 Starry ‘so| and night shifts. ment. a matter of fact, we al- oa shcas | Sam Zelnick (80 Boydak 25; Now the Smith-Harrison machine | W8Ys seemed to be looking with posi- ° Rrnicnibe 18 (Hediste) Morris, Zelniek 4 gue eS ated = is coming to Chicago to spill some| tive contempt at a soldier. Clarence Hellonen $ ed B Zelnick 3 oh Konk "05 ore pre on the a and file = pale that the Daily Worker €arriam Chapman 10. Ted Dortch -25 Mineola Unit 1.09 and also try to put over a deal with| should have articles more often, | cara Adler 35 -E Pukowski 1.00| the bosses, supposedly to sign up| showing the close unity that ought ond erie. Pope pee aa ret ba $9) some jobbing shops. to exist between the soldiers and I zur . ‘ “8 DISTRICT 13 (California) | now Paver 1.00 A Steiner ‘so! Every time the Smith leadership; workers. For after all, who are J Fortanian $1.90 Andy Melick 10} Jim's Coffee Pot .25 Abrahamson 50 come from Detroit they tell us|the soldiers if not unemployed & Bosalish De seonea as ¥ noscosen See berg eee x: 33 | every thing is hotsie totsie, $1.05 an| workers? The bulk of them come G. Montell 35 —|B Mo 102 Jack Duboski 5 hour in Detroit and $1.25 for good| from tenant farmers, poor farmers Total er 202008 , Bates Pikman 100 Welter Hayman = aie Gein ae a mis- | and see Pld class families ‘Tot la Tubman © ax ern 2 leading ad in the june for men | generally. en we meet a soldier, DISTRICT 14 (Newark) Grumen 50 New Deal Co .25 Hallowe'en Party held by New Bruns Erving Kraft 80H Lazarowitesky (25 2 Rete Be On he peur, wane oe mpage ruhteeill as and Stelton t Grubman M_Herpem 25] Wae 5 Sam Reed 3.56 Shater cia 50 z e a ed eebges ae out most militant work-| brains.” We should say, “Here is en Ketrowit el 26) ets, if possible, out of Chicago into|a worker who could not get any ee ia, eel ee Sant ‘$0| the promised land, leaving the rest | work, that is why he is wearing a DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) B Zweiber :25. Baby 8 Kammer .50/ Under the illusion that there is work | uniform. They too feel the class J.Solberg $2.50 | Pets rosa # pag Bod - = here in Chicago. struggle, but they have been t erg 3 Jo! Inskt Total to dete 15.14' HG Campbell (10 ver Jesgereie to keep our union a rank! Their salaries have been reduced, an le progressive movement.|and they are discouraged from y Those who fail to adopt a marrying and raising families. Ev Here Is My Bit Toward the rying ¢ families. Even of action to reinstate the 50 locked|if they were not discouraged, can out tool and die makers and to or-| they do it on $18.90'a month? The NAME ADDRESS: ganize the production workers must | officers not only can afford to have be exposed. We must also demand | wives, but even so-called “love & eogind from the N.R.A. Labor| nests.” Naturally, this makes the | Board. private think. A private finds out very early in the game that he 4 — Students: Speak to your class- has no chance of becoming a general Tear off and mail immediately to mates about the role of the Daily | or even a captain, Let us turn our eo Worker in organizing against | attention more closely to the private DAILY WORKER military training, and for freedom and understand that he is part of political expression in the | and varcel of the working class and 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. schools. Ask them to contribute | treat him as such. to the $60,000 fund. My interest in the sokHers’ situa- here. Our Readers a) tion came about suddenly. Another girl and myself were selling the Daily Worker. In one home that we entered, we found a few soldiers. Well, we were stuck. We did not seem to know what to do. But after talking to them for a while, we found them very interested and keen on knowing what is going on in the world. They know that they will be the first ones to die when war is declared. They know that it is not glorious to die to protect Morgan's millions. They know that they won’t benefit by a war, and they are the last ones who want wer. We should invite soldiers to our dances, lectures and generally accept them as fellow workers. The units should also have discussions on the role of the soldier in the class struggle. —E. W. FOR A UNITED FRONT OF THE WORKING CLASS Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Comrade Editor: Burck is a darn good cartoonist, but it did me no good in trying to switch a local Socialist Party branch to decisive united front action. I’ve worked for several weeks there and was about to get action, when up stands a Socialist Party . worker, flashes the cartoon with the S. P. emblem on the skeletal figure of the capitalist system, shouting at me, “If we are supporters of capi- talism, why the h--- do you want a united front with us. You're fakers,” etc., etc. Now for the love of mike, if the Communist Party wants action, why don’t you cut out the provocation. If you're stigmatizing S. P. mis- leaders, ok; but don’t provoke the rank and file. You can't bulldoze those S. P, workers into action. Help Wages Cut | way to use FERA funds ‘to help a have been forced out of jobs, pro- Big Families Elevator Strikers In Militant Parade By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—A grand display of militant workers showed their strength to the New York citi- zenry, when on Friday at noon Negro and white striking elevator operators and service men pa- raded through the garment and fur centers of Manhattan. s Little mention was made in the newspapers of the fine support and cooperation given us by var- ious unions. The Fur Workers Union and the left wing mem- bers of the LL.G.W.U. immediate- ly printed leaflets urging all mem- bers to support our strike. Our leaders called the strike off, claiming victory in recogni- tion of the union and temporary wage increases of about two dol- Jars. I am sure that under reyolu- tionary leadership, with such mil- itant workers as there are in Local 32B, a minimum wage of at least $25 for a 40 hour week could have been attained had the strike con- tinued two days more. By FE.RA. Maneuver By a Worker Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The F.ER.A. canning factory is plan- ning to cut off the laundry wash- room force, which now consists of | about 40 workers. The workers are | getting $2.80 a day for four days | a week. | The factory is going to send the | work to private concerns where the workers only get 22 cents an hour | "RING AROUND THE LAUNDRY* MAC. (NRA wages.) They expect in this | business man, who has the right politics, at the expense\of the work- ers, That’s the way relief money is | used in politics. The workers on this job are not asleep. We have already held an in- " formal meeting and plan to circu- | late a protest petition. By organiz- | ing an FERA Workers’ Association, | and fighting in unity with the) laundry workers we can defeat this scheme. in Danville Get Little Relief By a Textile Worker Correspondent DANVILLE, Va.—President Roose- velt has declared that his N.R.A. would put an end to slavery and starvation, but we workers know this has not proven itself to be true. For an example, I wish to state here the true conditions in which I found two families to be. In a family of ten, five children and five adults, only the father was working, making an average weekly wage of $7.20. Out of this he had to pay $8.00 per month for rent, $2.40 for insurance, and $1.75 for water and lights. This left him $1.91 a week to buy food and clothes, 19 and one-tenth cents per person for food and clothes. The only fuel he has is wood, picked up or fished out of rivers. Once when the relief job wasn’t open, one of the men was forced to work for 15 cents an hour, 27 hours a week, payable in the form of a grocery order for four dollars and five cents, issued to a high priced store. Lecture on “Sex Attitudes as Factors in Mental Hygiene” | TOMORROW night Dr. Frank- i wood E. Williams will lecture under the auspices of the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board on Sex Attitudes As Factors in Men- tal Hygiene. The lecture will be held at 8:30 o'clock in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place, New York City. All pro- ceeds to go toward the Daily Worker $60,000 financial drive, Per hen Sodium Perborate and Mouth Washes 'OMRADE H. B., of New York, writes:—“I should like to ask a | question about Sodium Perborate. This was recommended to me by a doctor, as a preventive for trench mouth and pyorrhea, and I have used it for some time. “In the U, S. Dept. of Agriculture Notices of Judgment, under the Food and Drugs Act for August, 1934, there is a notice of a seizure of a quantity of scdium perborate. The following are quotations from it: “Analysis of a sample . . . .showed that it consisted of Sodium Per- borate flavored with spearmint oil. Bacteriological examination showed that it was not antiseptic when used as a mouth wash. The labels alleged that the article was mis- branded in that the following state- ments .... were false and mis- leading, since the artiele would not be effective as an antiseptic mouth wash when used as directed: Anti- septic Mouth Wash .. . Approved antiseptic for a daily mouth wash + « + One teaspoonful sodium per- borate in a glass of warm water. Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that the following statements on the label, regarding the curative or therapeutic effects of the article, were false and fraudu- lent: Recommanded as a prophy- lactic for the teeth and gums, help- | ful in the treatment of pyorrhea, trench mauth, and Gingivitis .... especially helpful in cases of sore or infected gums.’ “I find it hard to understand whether this means that all sodium perborate is useless, or whether the phrasing applies only to this one particular shipment. I shall be very grateful for a reply.” By ANN ERE are two examples of how women live under Roosevelt’s’ -R.A., and one instance of what women are doing to defend their standard of living. The Federated Press reports on a survey made by the Women’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor. Its report states “Glar- ing wage discrimination against women under N, R. A. industrial codes is revealed in a survey made by the Women’s Bureau. Minimum wage rates of 30 per cent to 6.3 per cent below those provided for men are fixed in 135 N.R. A. codes of the 533 that had been approved up to Sept. 1, 1934. In 35 codes which do not fix wage rates by sex, there are provisions which actually result in a lower rate for women. pea ee phe ERE are some facts from a sur- vey of home work in Phila- delphia, conducted by the same Women’s Bureau. One woman who was working on a three-piece knit suit, they found, would have to work 66 hours a week, for a month, in order to complete the suit. She then would receive $22.75 wages for her month’s work. Out of this she would have to pay for spoiled ma- terial, were there any. She would have to pay carfares to get and deliver her work. This knitted suit would retail for $100. Sixty-nine women were visited during this sur- vey, and more than half earned less than $5 a week. More than half the women worked from 40 to 60 hours a week. One-third of those working 60 hours a week or more, made less than $5 a week. oe Tf Chicago women are taking action to fight against rising food. prices. They have formed a United Women’s Committee Against the High Cost of Living. At their last delegate’s meeting, He had a chance to get a job elswhere and went to see about it, missing the forced labor for that week. When the mother applied for a grocery order on Wednesday, she had absolutely nothing left to eat for those ten people. She was told that because the man had not worked, they could get no help at all. She had to get a little bit of food from friends and neighbors, and by each helping a little, she managed to get by till Saturday. ‘They were then in such a desper- ten women were eiected to go to the packing-houses with demands for a reduction of 25 per cent in the prices of all foods sold by the packing houses. The final meeting of the dele- gation before they present their demands to the packing houses will take place Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 3214 Wentworth Ave., Chi- cago, at 7:30 p.m. All Chicago women ri this announce- ment. should be at that meeting to support the delegation and par- ticipate in the work the Commit- tee is doing. ate plight that even the hard-boiled relief cfficers could not ignore them further. They were then given a pittance for relief. This condition is widespread and these people must still struggle for existence. This is another example of Roosevelt's N.R.A. prosperity. A family of nine, of whom six are able to work, but only one (the mother) is working. The father had worked in the mills for over a quarter of a century, but when the speed-up and stretch-out increased his machine load to such an extent that he could not do the work, he was laid off. ‘This weman makes an average of $12 a week, out of which she must. and don’t hinder. H.R, P. NOTE: Yes, even in cartoons, it is necessary to distinguish be- tween Socialist leaders and So- cialist workers.—Editor, pay monthly $12 house rent, $2.25 i for water and lights, $4.00 for in- surance, and $4.00 for wood and $2.00 for cazfare. This figured out “The sending of a delegation to the packing houses will mark the beginning of a real struggle against the high cost of living.” Women throughout the country can learn from Chicago, and plan similar actions in connection with big food wholesalers. Delegations, picket lines, solid organization is the machinery of fight learned from working class struggles through the years. They can also be applied to fighting the high cost of living. ey ae E'VE had very few menus be- cause of lack of space. Today, Mrs. B. hands us her recipe for spinach soup. She says, “Into five glasses of salted boiling water, put. two peeled potatoes which have been sliced into several pieces. After ten minutes, add one-half pound of leaves $5.93 a week with which to feed and clothe nine people. spinach. Let it all cook for ten minutes. Drain and save the water. wv WORKERS Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board IN THE HOME HEALTH Our Reply JURE Sodium Perborate has a des cided beneficial action in the treatment of Vincent infection, otherwise known as trench mouth, The action of this drug is to liber- ate the organisms, “germs,” that produce this particular disease. It has no other beneficial action, as in cleaning teeth or being helpful in the treatment of pyorrhea, etc. Be- cause of its unpleasant taste, it is often flavored, which in no way ef- fects its medicinal value. The Med ical Advisory Board recommends its use in the treatment of Trench Mouth only, not as a general mouth wash. * * * Bleeding from the Rectum . F.:—The diagnosis of the'cause of rectal bleeding is almost im- possible without an examination by @ competent physician. There are many causes for rectal bleeding, some of which are, hemorrhoids or “piles,” fissures or ulcers of the rec- tum, cancer of the rectum, polyps or tumors of the rectum, inflamma- |tion of the bowel, or colitis. Some of these conditions cause pain, such as, fissures or inflamma- tions; others, such as cancer, may |mot. Some may cause constipation, while others cause diarrhea, while some cause both diarrhea and con- Stipation. Because of the impossibility of making a diagnosis without exami- nation and the danger of overlook ing any important condition, any patient who notices blood in the stool should immediately consult a Physician. Coe J. N. MARTIN: Will gladly send the answers to your questions, if you will send us an address. M. W., Bronx. Would you please send your address so that wecan send you the answer. “FINE AND VALUABLE” “Your column is fine and val- uable to us. Keep up the geod work,” writes C. R. Stone of Bremerton, Wash. 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