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6 Page Betraye d Texti Ann Hirlike F lays Lies of Boss Press Communist Position on Revolution Arouses Par-| ticular Enthusiasm at Mass Meeting By A Textile Worker Correspondent NEWPORT, N. H.—During the great textile strike which was set- tiled with only a sell-out to the strikers, a U. T. W. local was or- ganized in Newport with a member- ship of about 750. So far the union has failed to improve any of the conditions of the workers. This is due to the re- actionary leadership of the local U. T. W. which does nothing but take away the few dollars the tex- tile workers make and actually be- trays the workers. Realizing the miserable situation which now exists in the woolen and cotton mills here in Newport, the Communist Party unit arranged a mass meeting for the textile work- ers at which Ann Burlak was to be the chief speaker. Two other Com- muunists also made short speeche: Loud applause for these two speakers was heard throughout the crowd which numbered about 300. Then came Ann Burlak. She be- | gan her speech with a few remarks on the 17th Anniversary of the Rus- sian Revolution. She spoke from the beginning in such a manner that although there were Communists, Democrats, So- cialists, and Republicans present, everybody felt right at home. During her speech she pointed out the fact that during the last strike which involved about a half million workers, the capitalist press gave out propaganda that the Com- | munists were trying to make revo- lution. Then she said that the Com- munists don’t want a revolution. Then she said that the Communu- ists don’t want a revolution until the majority of the toiling popula- | tion of the U.S. A. are in favor of | revolution. What an applause there was after these words! Why, it made my ears ring for half a minute! This shows that the workers eve: where are beginning to realize that | they can not get permanent better living stadards until the now exist- ing corrups capitalist system is abolished. Several copies of Labor Unity) were sold and almost everybody | bought the pamphlet “Communists | in the Textile Strike” by C. A. Hath- jaway. A few Daily Workers were ‘also sold. N. y, Workers School Sends $67 for Daily Worker Drive The Workers School of New York sent the highest contribution | last Tuesday—$67. But it still has 55 per cent of its quota to go. Second, is the Associated Workers Club, the association of all English-speaking clubs. It contributed $26. As has been previously suggested by workers, if every reader of the Daily Worker sent in 50c or $1.00, the $60,000 fund would be realized by December 1, the time set by the Units, concentrate on fulfilling your quotas! Arrange unit affairs, in a hall or i Central Committee. Use the coupon books! in a home! Utilize open unit meet- ings to popularize the Daily Worker $60,000 campaign! Received Nov. 13, 1934 $252.14 Previously received 36,095.38 Total to date 36,347.52 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Sec. 1, Unit 2D Section 12 Workers Lab. Th Workers Lab. 7! Steel and Metal Ind. Union Helben Pen and Hammer Psychology Pen and Hammer Psychology Dave Lebowitz Millinery United Fr. John Paulin ‘Workers School Associated Workers Clubs Associated Workers Clubs Steve Katovis Br., I, L. D. D. G. Rendine German Workers Club Group of Girl ¥.C.L. members I. W. ©., Br. 530 Ocean Ave. Bridge Club Shendelman and Finkelstein George Joeher Anonymous G. Cobos Wm. V. Yoder SSS38883S538SR88R8338335833 “ee Me rawer ort Re Fea Brex Br. 198, I. W. O. Anon. ‘Total Noy. 13, 1934 189.47 Total to date 19,065.07 DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) E. Richar 10.00 ‘Total Nov. 13, 1934 10.00 Total to date 398.70 DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) Supreme Lodge Lithuanians of America Br. 9 10.00 1.00 Peter Miravalle Total to Nov. 13 11.00 Total to date 618.88 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) University of Michigan Freshman 30 Joe Drobnick 3 v. x 6.00 Total to Nov. 13 637 Total to date 1437.27 DISTRICT 8 (Chieago) Wm. FP. Miller 1.00 Total to Nov. 18 1.00 Total to date 3372.97 DISTRICT 9 (Minnesota) Nisula Unit 1.36 Total to Nov. 13 1.36 Total to date 258.76 DISTRICT 16 (Omaha) J. Wahtaley 35 Total to Nov. 13 35 Total to date 30.95 DISTRICT 11 (N. Dakota) Forbes Unit 8.00 Total to Nov. 18 8.00 Total to dtae 47.85 DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) Henry Kione 48 Total to Nov. 13 48 Total to date 339.39 DISTRICT 18 (California) B, Hamilton 50 Total to Noy. 13 50 Total to date 715.21 DISTRICT 14 (Newark) J Kuchtor 1.00 | Henry Samek 1.00} i Mike Shupek 2.00 snenea ‘Masley 1.09 | Contributed Previously listed as Districts | capitalist system is so rotten you Geetha as cise Gevanek .50| Allerton Workers Club 3.90 oe ice it a few feet from the viel r zechosloval Bronx Workers Club 20.31 | CO ouse. The farmers are Be tae 108 eave 72 £-00| Brownsville Youth Center 4.50|plenty dissatisfied, but are afraid Joseph DeLora .50 Tot to date 568.95) Bo ‘park workers Glub 450 |0f the fact that only through mass DISTRICT 16 (Charlotte) ba beae oes eee Bo io eae we gain i and the mey Island Workers Clu 65 | rig] ive. The courts ar H.R. Puller 91! Down Town Workers Club 1.13) us, the picked juries are 4 ber aay East New Yok Workers Club 28.08 |and’ they Le sbout ‘gi a Total to Nov. 13 91| Bast Side Workers Club 437 vey be al it us because we Total to date 83.66 | Hinsdale Workers C ub Lm one u expose the rotten cond:tiuns Harlem Workers Club 90) that exist. ee Mapleton Workers Club 35| Let's get rid of this rotten sys- M. Blackman 3.00 | Middle Bronx Workers Club 34.56 | tom that Ere Prospect Workers Club 97.79 | tem that has no respect for workers Tote! to Nov. 13 3.00 | Williamsburg Workers Club 9.89|0r farmers. Conditions will be ter- Total to date 11.25 | Collection 8.89) rible this winter. Sometimes I Individual Donations Previously Listed Under Distriets and Sections Ralph Sairio .20 The Strynkie- Mrs. M. Ram- wyck = D. Telan 50 misto 10 R. Dudak 8 Karl Latvin 15 P. Stasmtink 5 Daniel Bochrin .30 Bossancyzes 6 John Urpillo 10 2 Xelun en Victor Makela .10 M.A. 1.00 J. Kasparinos 1.00 D. E. 50 L. Yanosaitis 80 A friend 50 8. Raousky 50 A friend 50 A. Kaluzanez 50 A friend 50 | Ss. Rauule 2 A friend 25 P. V. Inuntrien .25 H. Taylor 25, J. Vitounas 35 K. Arvidson 25 John Smith 10 Ahlberg 25 Croceryman 15 Shuder 1.00 A. C. Gilbert 1B Fogel 1.00 A friend -10 D, Newman 50 A Workingman .10 David Solubchin .50 John Dilny 1.00 Rubin Schochet .50 N.N. m” B. Markowitz 25 P. Semenovich .25 3 Shiff 35 M. Shenk 25 N. Schwartz 25 J. Nakryko -95 Sol Wankind 25 M. Hanchar 15 A. DeLutts 25 D. Karbanyk 15 Samuel Young 1.00 M. Styly :20 YD, Kanner 50 W Prystayowich 05 L, Kanner 35 E Kowalevich 50 H. Kanner 135 A. Kredish 15 Jack Kanner 25 J. Weinninger .50 Steve Katovis L. Wasserstein .25 Kanner 25 | H. Marcus 35 Lenin 1.00 Harry Brody 1.00 Feldman 1.00 W. Emanuel 1.00 J. Rudbarg 50 W. Emanuel 1.00 Arcok 50 Jack Woltwitz 1.25 Boute 50 | Lilian Wolfwitz 1.50 Flaer 4 | Dr. A. Moshen- L, Kalminhoff sky 2.30 L. Itanlin Bach Arnold .75 M. ‘Takkin | Dr. A. 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Glicksman 1.00 Herman Waldin .25 | Harry Rodfeld .50 Joe Wozgin 10 Frank Kahl -50 John Gagalis 50 Rose Zwegman .50 Frank Mathias .50 Tillie Werzer 25 J. Papodele 10 Frank Uuori .50 Amos Kavmer 25 Sam Heikkila 50 C, Bikkos 125 Lauri Karimo 30 C. Lokuy 25 Frank Kuuisisto .25 Elmer Knox 25 John Ano .25 Eldrige 05 Ely Hautala 35 (J. Polich 50 Edward Saari .25 Matt Malnar 25 Eric Tevo 10 Matt Briski 25 J. Kangas 10 Frank Lackovic .25 E. Lind .25 S. Maynarict 1.00 Asker Miki :25M. Petranovich 1.00 Unit of Baie M. Zivkovic 10 de Wasai 2.80 © Joe Maynarich 50 | New York District Jewish Workers Cubs Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. | send a contribution to the Daily DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1984 — le Workers Hail Program of Communist Party Poor House Drives Inmate to Suicide By a Worker Correspondent BRISTOL, 8S. D.—The condi- tions which exist at the Day County “Poor Farm” may be judged by the actions of two of the inmates. Last, summer John Anderson, known as “Omaha John,” an aged worker, was taken to the “poor | farm.” He remained a short time | | and then ran away and came | back to Bristol where he rank a bottle of carbolic acid and died. Recently, it is reported, another inmate went to Webster, the county seat, and demanded the right to stay in jail, with the threat that he would break win- dows. This seems to me to be a “rot- ten” reward to workers who have given a life-time of labor to the United States of America,“ the richest nation on earth.” | It shows the decay of the profit system, and the necessity of a collectivized system and a Farm- ers’ and Workers’ Government. ‘Rise in Price Doesn’t Bring Wage Increase By a Laundry Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y¥.—The first | fruits of the N. R. A. on the work- jers at Cascade Laundry, with its minimum wage law and the Section 1-A Clause, which gave the workers \@ right to organize had the follow- ing effect on the wages: The minimum wage became the} maximum, while the cost of living rose out of proportion with the raise | gotten by the lower paid laundry | workers. Those getting above the minimum were cut to the minimum. Cost of production was cheapened through the usual tricks of the bosses, speed-up, firing of old work- | ers, hiring of young workers, thus making fewer workers do the same work that was done by a greater number of workers before, thus in- creasing the individual working ca- pacity. In the Cascade Laundry this is a fact. In the Prim Press Department | old workers working from 8 to 10 jyears on the job were fired, the| |same work being done by the re- maining younger workers. The Cas- | |eade bosses are already preparing |the way for wage cuts and firings. | Throughout the plant. scores of | |workers have been fired, while jothers have had their wages cut. | Through the N. R. A. the bosses are making still greater profits by their additional raise of price in ‘their services (wash), while at the| | Same time refusing to give the | workers a corresponding raise in | their wages. | | It is no secret that the workers of the Cascade are no longer sure of their jobs or safe from a wage cut. Only through organization can we laundry workers make a mini-| mum of our own to increase our | wages and decrease our working hours. We can get concessions in the Cascade providing we prepare and organize for that aim. | Struggle Wins Wage Increase For Packers By a Worker Correspondent | MOOR PARK, Cal.—The packing | |shed of the Randolph Marketing Company here was paying workers four cents a crate for packing to- matoes, when most other sheds were paying five cents. It was pay- ing the sorters 3314 cents per hour. | At the same time this company | was collecting from the small farm- ers 38 cents a box for packing their tomatoes, This is the same price they charged the small farmers when the workers got higher wages, 6 cents a crate for packers and 50 cents an hour for sorters. In other words, the big packing company is living better and better off the backs of the toilers, the workers and farmers. The men weren’t very much ac- customed to organization, but be- fore the season was over we man- aged to get enough solidarity to call a halt to the work and demand 5 cents a crate. We got 4% cents. Conditions in Drought Area Bad, Says Farmer (By a Farmer Correspondent LOUP CITY, Neb.—I live in the drought-stricken area where the think it’s a good thing because everyone will have to open his eyes and see, and if we want a change we will have to do it ourselves, I am proud of your paper, and will state that you have eliminated lots of big words that are hard for people who have not had much Schooling to understand. A REVOLUTIONARY FARMER. Now is the time for the final push in the $60,000. Every reader | between the State of Minnesota and | city, stand six miserable shacks| \prices of grain had gone down so |the farmer could not afford to pay ‘Farm Laborers Seek | Shelter in Mud Flats Miserable Shanties Reward for Life-Long Toil on Dakota Wheat Fields By a Farmer Correspondent FARGO, N. D.—The land for 20 miles or more on both sides of the slow running Red River of the North, forming the boundary line North Dakota is by nature the rich- est farm land in the United States. Here no crop failure has ever been known for the sixty or more years it has been farmed. Every year has brought a crop of grains that have gone out to feed the nation. Yet these abundant crops have not been @ profitable undertaking for the farmer. Most of the years these great yields of man’s best food stuff has been sold at a loss to the farm operator. Laborers have been lured to the Dakotas to take part in the great harvesting of the good hard wheat crops of the North. These workers have from year to year been grown attached to the farm work of the State of North Dakota, and have, after many years, begun to regard this State as their home. For the past 14 years, the farming has been @ very uncertain quantity as to profit for the farmer, and since the farmer could not make a profit on his operations, he could not pay the worker enough to keep those men during the time of the year when there was no farm work. And fur- thermore, in the last four years the men the former fair wage, hence those sturdy, hard working laborers are today found in the fol-| On the first shelf, bank of the | Red River on the west side, where two outlets of the city sewers dis-| charge the refuse from homes, fac- tories and business places of the built of boxes covered with sheet iron picked up out of the hundreds of thousands of tons of scrap iron that has for the past 12 years or more been dumped on the river bank. In these shacks, that are barely high enough so an ordinary man can stand between floor and ceiling, and large enough to hold a cot to sleep on, and a crude bench or a picked up broken chair, a rough made table, a stove built up of different pieces of iron, most of them have a small glass for a win- dow; in these six homes, the pride of capitalism lives. Seven men, all farm workers, all having worked for years trying to get ahead enough to get a home, but every year has brought them nearer and nearer down to the poverty level that most of the American workers find them- selyes in today. Thus these sturdy, hard-working men, instead of ap- plying for housing and board at the poor farms, have taken refuge for themselves during the idle times on the farms in these shacks. No, these shacks are not from Russia. These are what is destined to be the only homes that are pos- sible for a common laborer to get for himself, under the present state of affairs in our great country, the United States of America, the home lowing condition: of rugged individualism, By a Worker Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Kan—In the spring, the politicians here with the general bunch of misleaders, such as Brown, of the Citizens Workers Association, who is a very close friend of Weckliffe, Poor Commis- sioner (he usually attends their meetings and blabbers a lot with fake promises, telling the workers | to be patient, he doing his best,) promises 30 hours a week on the F. E. R. A. projects, etc.), kept this | organization from putting up a mil-| itant struggle. They circulated petitions, and it is doubtful if these ever even got out of the secretary’s hands. They asked for free lights, water, gas. Needless to say, under the leader- ship of these fakers, nothing has been accomplished for the workers. They are worse off than ever. Near- ly every other house in the Negro workers’ quarters, and in some white sections, is without water, lights and gas. The workers at the government canning factory are driven and herded around like a bunch of con- victs on a Georgia chain gang. A number of workers have had their fingers cut off on one shift, and have been forced to come back to work the next day, or be fired, and have the misery of watching their children starve. One Negro woman had her hand cut very badly. All the treatment she got was having it touched up with mercurocrome, and then had to go back to work. There is no compensation from the government on the F. E.R. A. If you talk to some of the workers about condi- tions, they say they haven’t got clothes fit to wear out in public. On most of the projects the work- ers are driven by an overbearing, clannish foreman, the very worst remnant of the K. K. K., who con- tinually tries to stir up race hatred and prejudice amongst the white and Negro workers, with the aid of a@ bunch of lackeys of the govern- ment called watchmen, You find one at every door you go through, and have to ask permission to go to the toilet. Along with that, one A BUILDER OF THE PARTY Joplin, Mo. Dear Comrade Editor: I think the speech by Comrade Browder, delivered in Brooklyn, Oc- tober 25 and printed in the Daily Worker, October 30, is the kind of material that ought to be in pam- phlet form and broadcast at all times. Here is a simple, lucid and powerful presentation of the aims of our Party—exactly what we need in building the Party. With an ad- ditional section covering the farm problem and the Negro question, it would completely cover “Who are the Reds and what do they stand for?” It should be short, as it is, and sell for two cents each. Then cartoons are important, es- pecially those showing the great wastefulness of the capitalist system and how the workers and farmers smash it. There should be one car- toon on the cover, showing the worker and small farmer in solidar- ity against the capitalist system, and at least three additional ap- propriate ones on the inside pages. Cartoons are very educational and pamphlets containing them sell a hundred per cent better because they are attractive. The pamphlet by Olgin, “Why Communism?” is, of course, good, but it is too long and too high in price, thus not lending itself very well for mass distribution. This pamphlet by Browder can be used now and also in preparation Slave Driving, Jim-Crowism In FERA Canning Factory Letters from Our Readers of them stands at the toilet door to tell you you can't smoke, ‘There are many more such facts. These are the conditions under Roosevelt's rotten New Deal, exist- ing in Kansas City. Our local Party Unit is calling on the workers to form a committee to fight against such horrible conditions and build a militans fighting unicn of the relief workers in Kansas City. Workers Will Probe Hanging of Prisoner In Buffalo Police Cell BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 14, — A| joint committee to investigate the suspicious death of Charles Will- jams, Negro worker found dead in Police Station No. 4 on Nov. 4, has been set up by the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. A mass protest meeting will also be held this Thursday evening at 313 Jefferson Street. Williams’ death is the second to occur in the same precinct within the last four months under very suspicious circumstances. Last July, Earl Wilson, Negro worker, was found hanging from a cell door. An | investigation by the I. L. D. and the L. S. N. R. at that time showed that Wilson could not possibly have | committed suicide as claimed by the | Police. District Attorney Newcomb, ghia refused to act in the mat- er. Williams died in the same man- | ner as Wilson. A significant fea- ture is the fact that while Medical Examiner De Dominicis, tool of the | local bourgeois politicians, issued a certificate of “suicide,” two other local physicians, Drs. Scruggs and Jones, refused to call the death a: suicide and stated it could have | been either suicide or murder. The fourth precinct is known throughout the city as the “bloody fourth,” and one of its officers in charge, Lieut. O'Leary, openly boasts that he is a “Nigger hater,” WORKERS ROUT FAKERS Detroit, Mich, Dear Comrade Editor: A mass meeting was recently sponsored by a few white guardist elements, who had been expelled from our working class organiza- tions, for the purpose of “exposing” the corruptness of the Communist leadership. Immediately our com- rades prepared to answer these fak- ers, and rallied workers to the meet- ing. At this mass meeting some four hundred workers gathered. At the very beginning, it was noted that the sympathy was not for these white guardists and immediately the meeting was taken over by our comrades. We elected our own chair- man and secretary and started the meeting. A white guardist, the worst kind of an individual, spoke, saying nothing but ridiculous sland- ers, such as “I saw a woman com- rade steal six eggs, all the cab- bage was eaten by these crooks,” (meaning a few workers.) This angered the workers so much that a fight threatened. The floor was then given to a few of our own comrades. A collec- tion was taken to pay for the hall and a little sum was contributed, After the expense of the hall was deducted, it was ‘voted upon to give the remainder to the Daily Worker, This met with great enthusi- asm. We are therefore enclosing two dollars for the Daily Worker, and we are hoping in the future to make for our much bigger election cam- paign in 1936. Let’s have it! Worker THIS WEEK! F. B. a bigger contribution. | Committee for the Russian 2 Hogs Net 53 Cents for Minnseota Farmer By a Farmer Correspondent ASHBY, Minn—The drought left the farmers in Minnesota without feed, and they were forced to ship their hogs for the pitiful sum named in the follow- ing clipping from the Grant County Herald: “Sauk Rapids—Otto Reimer re- cently shipped two hogs to South St. Paul. The hogs weighed 100 pounds apiece. Mr. Reiner was allowed a gross of 1 cent a pound, or two dollars for the animals. From this amount was subtracted 26 cents for yardage, 2 cents for state weighing, 2 cents for hog in- spection, 50 cents for commission, and 1 cent for fire insurance, leaving a net of $1.19. However, from this was subtracted the truckers insurance of 6 cents and the trucking fee at 30 cents a hundred, or 63 cents, giving Mr. Reimer a check for the two hogs of 53 cents, or about % of a cent @ pound.” Stretchout, Layoffs Hit LaneMillHands By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La.—Operations at the Lane Cotton Mill are again being curtailed, only the card room is running two shifts. It may be that there are some few persons at work in the machine shop, and in other places about the mill, but the number is negligible. One year ago there was somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,200 per- sons employed in this mill, while at present there is only about 1,500. So, at this one plant in the city of New Orleans, there has been something like 700 people that have lost their jobs in one year. Thos that are working do not get any thing like full time, and if they were to get full time they would not make enough to live on like they should. The cost of liv- ing in this city continues to in- crease while wages and salaries are being reduced. Every effort that is made to reduce the expenses of the city government, as well as the industries, causes the burden of the workers to increase. Reduc- tions are always made at the bot- tom, never from the top; it is the old army game of pass the buck. It is always the little guy that gets the short end. A few years ago the cotton tex- tile industry in this city was one of the major industries, but it has been demoted several grades and now is only recognized by the starving condition of the workers in the Lane Mill and some very few other smaller plants. Between the owners of the fac- tories and the cotton textile code the workers have been squeezed until they are almost in the condi- tion of the proverbial dish rag. What with the speed that they are required to maintain on the job, and the lies and propaganda of the company spies and littles bos- ses, combined with the threats and soft soap of the bigger bosses and at the same time that they are trying te listen to the spewings of the local politicians, they do not have the time to do any thinking for themselves. They are being Jed into an abnormal situation where they will be paying for years for their mistakes, unless they cor- rect them in the very near future. Only one year ago the majority of the hands at the Lane Mill al- ways changed their clothing when they were ready to leave the mill, but now there is not so many of them that do so. It is hard to tell what caused the change, not so jong ago the cotton mill hands here were as jolly a group of peo- ple as one would wish to find, but those times are gone there are not many of the workers that have a real smile on their countenance any more. Potato Crop Nets 50% Loss For Farmers By a Worker Correspondent MADISON, Me.—There’s a cold winter coming on, and potatoes are cheaper than they have been for a long time. In the northern part of the state, things are worse. acres of potatoes have not been dug, because the price per barrel is 50 cents or less, and the farmer reckons that it costs more than a dollar to raise a barrel of potatoes. The pulp wood business is now better than it has been for two years, but the pay is small, and they make the men pay their board for sitting in the camp Sundays. NOTE We publish every Thursday let- ters from farmers, agricultural and cannery and lumber workers, We urge farmers and workers in these industries to write us of their condition: and their efforts to organize. Please get these let- ters to us by Monday of each week, WORCORRS FAST ASLEEP For five consecutive days, now, the Worker Correspondence Department has had the same $32 total staring us in the face. Not one penny has been sent in to change this figure.. To add to our humiliation, it is at the very bottom rung of the Social- ist competition ladder. Wor; corrs! Wake up! We have to raise for the Daily Worker Progressive Workers Club Thousands of IOMRADE S. K.: “The following question is treated so facetiously by so many people that I hesitate to submit it lest you will think that I am be- ing the same; but I assure you I am serious and I feel that there are many other people who would like to have the question answered seriously. “Do you think the health of young women is so constituted that young men, when there are no seats avail- able in the subway, should arise and proffer their own seats? “Please treat the question as a problem of health not of etiquette.” Of the many contributions that Soviet Russia has made to human knowledge and social thought one of the most outstanding is that the old division between male and fe- male, except in the restrictive sense of procreative function, is foolish and idle and a product of bourg- geois thinking. In Soviet Russia, as no where else in the world, an in- dividual is first and foremost a human being. Scientists have long known it but to put their knowledge fully into effect in a capitalistic society which has its own reasons for wishing to continue the myth is impossible. In a workers’ society it has been pos- sible to base social conduct upon it. To judge an entire personality upon the contour of the individual's external sex organs is on its face absurd. Capitalistic societies have attempted to do this but not only |have @hey failed but they have added immeasurably to human mis- ery on the one hand and to .oss of valuable social contributions that could have been made on the other. There are women who biologically are large boned and large muscled and with an abundance of energy. To ask these women to confine their activities to “feminine” things which are usually conceived as things to be done by individuals with small bones and small muscles is to condemn them to misery and to make it impossible for them to make the social contribution they could make if permitted to work in accordance with their bio- logical structure. On the other hand, there are men who are small boned and small muscled. To ask that these men demonstrate their “masculinity” by work that requires large bones and large muscles is equally absurd. In both instances, where these demands are made, as they are in capitalistic society, each individual, who in his own right and way is capable of fine social con- tribuion is condemned to feelings of inferiority (the woman is not “feminine” as she should be and the man is not “masculine”) and to constant apology for their person- ality. In Soviet Russia this is very dif- ferent. There one does whatever one is best capable of and no apologies are necessary. The type WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board of woman described above does joy- fully and constructively large- muscled work. A large boned, larged muscled man does the same Kind of work. The small boned, small muscled woman does work in accordance with her biological structure. A small boned, small muscled man does likewise. Dif- ferences are recognized but differ- ences remain differences and are respected as such and do not be- come inferiorities. In a workers’ society what is wanted is the best from each one. An individual's best can only be contributed when the individual is free, with complete personality in- tegrity, to do those things for which he or she is structurally and by talent most capable. The difficulty of B. L.’s friend, therefore, is that she still tends to think of men and women as repre- senting two different groups of hu- man beings, with inferiorities and superiorities in the groups them- selves, whereas the only rational way of thinking is of human beings as a whole with individual differ- ences which represent neither in- feriorities or superiorities except when compared in some specific sense. “The same is true of S. K.’s ques- tion, which is not a foolish one be- cause it goes to the bottom of cap- italistic hypocracy cloaked in “chive alry.” To be a “gentleman” by in- variably giving a seat in a car to a “lady” and then to do all the other things that a capitalistic society does to women is nothing but hy- pocracy and a means of persuading women to “sell their souls for a mess of pottage.” That thousands upon thousands of women are deceived is, of course, obvious. One will differentiate here as in all other matters. One will give up one’s seat not for reasons of chivalry but for some specific rea- son—the woman (or man) is old, is obviously over-tired, is ill, or the woman is pregnant which puts her at the moment at a disadvantage. If a woman is menstruating she may or may not be uncomfortable. All women are probably somewhat uncomfortable while menstruating but most women are not seriously uncomfortable. If the woman stand- ing is obviously uncomfortable one would be justified in giving up one’s seat. The decision to do so, how- ever, is not based upon sex but upon a specific reason. Attracted by Column “My wife became interested in the Daily Worker because of the health column,” recently wrote Harry Aiken of New York City, “so you can put this small con- tribution of $1 to the credit of Quota $1,500 IN THE HOME By ANN BARTON The Greatest Moment in Her Life HE is a story which appeared in a recent issue of the South- ern Worker. ae et « must set a price on our labor, and refuse to take less,” said Leah Young, in a hearing in At- lanta, Georgia, where she and her sister were held for “distributing insurrectionary literature.” She is faced with as high as twenty years on the chain gang on the charge of distributing workers’ literature on the picket line during the recent general textile strike. She, and Annie Mae Leathers, her sister, were offered their release in ex- change for betraying their fellow- workers. Because Annie Mae would not give up her I. L. D, lawyer, John Greer, a Negro attorney, she received a beating. Leah spoke for two and a half hours to a court- room packed with Negro and white workers. In the Southern lynch court, loud and clear, she said that the greatest moment in her life was the day she heard a woman ex- plaining that the workers had to stick together. In the same city, where Ann Burlak was threatened with death for her working class activity, Mrs. Young stressed the need for unity of Negro and white workers, Tales of the militancy of women, more frequent every day, are fast proving the fact that far from be- ing .“backward,” they display ex- amples of militancy and courage . 8 E have been trying for days to use M. R.’s letter, in a column where it might fit at least part of the subject matter. And although it.is as apart from the column to- day, as it has even been, because some of our readers may find M. R.’s “sure fire” cure for roaches. helpful, we include it today. She writes “Sodium Floride costs about thirty cents for two pounds, and that amount could rid a ware- house. It is the only preparation recommended by the U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture.” HOW ABOUT IT? A group of girl Y. C. Lers col- lected $1 for the $60,000 Daily Worker drive from a small gather- ing of workers and students sym- pathetic to the movement. We hope this response is not limited only to the girl Y¥. C. Lers, How about the Women’s Councils? Group of girl Y.C.L. mem- Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2030 is available in sizes 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Size 14 takes 25, yards 54 inch fabric and 1% yards 4 inch ribbon. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- cluded. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lc) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pat‘ern. Write plainly name, number. BE SIZE. ES Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 248 West 17th Street, New York City. address and style SURE TO STATE =v