The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1934, Page 7

Pi / DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1934 CHANGE — a: WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD URING one of the Jewish holidays, the pious give praise to Jehovah for his many blessings (never men- tioning, of course, such blessings as war,. pogroms, poverty, disease, etc.). Among the catalogue of things to be thankful for, the male worshippers say, “I thank thee, O Lord, that thou has not made me a woman,” while the unfortunate females must declare meekly, “Thank thee, O Lord, for having made me as thou thought best,” or words to that effect. These prayers are thousands of years old. They come out of the ancient Oriental past of the Jewish race, when women were chattel slaves, and were bartered like sheep in marriage. All womankind once lived under this status. ‘Women made a few advances during the past few hundred years. Capitalism needed them to be exploited in industry. During the rise of the capitalist machine system in Europe and America, women were dragged out of feudalism at the cost of life and health. It was a new kind of slavery, but it was a step forward. But now the few rights won by women, the right to work in industry,” to participate in politics, to enter the professions, is being taken from them rut¥.lessly by the brutes of Fascism. And the Christian churches, Protestant and Catholics, bless this fascist lock-up of women in their ancient prison. Organized religion thrives on mass-ignorance and mass-fear. It has always preached against woman’s freedom. Masculine Soul Offended ECENTLY, in the woman’s column conducted for the Daily Worker by Ann Barton, there has appeared a letter from a woman com- rade which tells of a situation that probably prevails in the house- holds of other revolutionary workers. It seems that this comrade’s husband is a loyal Communist, as she is, too. He works for the movement, but when she shows a de- sire to, he is angry. He says that her place is in the home. He doesn’t want to help her take time off to study, to attend demonstrations, It offends his masculine soul to have her show even an interest in these things. “The Working Woman” is offering some prizes for the best letters from men or women discussing this comrade’s home problem. . . . . . Enslaved By Fear r Is indeed a serious problem, and one that should be faced by every true revolutionist. One half of the human race is made up of women. If they are kept in ignorance, it means that the general level of humanity has been lowered by half. One half of the working class movement is made up of women, If they are suppressed by their men-folk, held back from a full un- derstanding of the necessity of Communism, how can this movement grow? Many strikes have been lost because the women failed to under- stand the issues involved, and weakened the resistance of their men. In self-defence, every married Communist should try to help his wife develop into as good a Communist as he is. Otherwise he will find his personal problems overwhelming him. How will he be able to ask his@wife to share the sacrifices he must make for the cause? How can he even trust her to protect him when fascist danger is near? A man should find strength and understanding in this relation- ship of loyal man and wife. If he has allowed, instead, this relation- ship to become a poisonous source of discouragement to him, he has indeed hurt not only his wife, but his own revolutionary efficiency. And what kind of children does he expect to bring up, if he has allowed his wife to remain in darkness? The man who does not take time off to educate his wife and children is not a good Com- munist, but is breeding enemies of the working class in his own house- hold. This has happened often, and it will happen again and again. The man is generally to blame for it, though, of course, there are many women so enslaved by the fears planted in them by religion and capitalism, it is a heart-breaking job to change them. * * . Intelligent Discipline HAVE recently heard of a case where a Communist worker rules his children by beatings and terror. This is wrong, too; so wrong that it is officially a crime in the Soviet Union, for which children may send their father to jail. Children need some discipline while they are being educated and brought up; but it should be an intelligent discipline. You cannot teach a child anything by beating him. A mild spanking in rare and unusual sityations may sometimes impress a small child with certain truths. But any child who lives in constant fear of his parents has bad parents. Outside the home, they may be Communists, but inside of it, they are using the capitalist methods. Try to make friends of your wife and children. Be patient with ‘Them at first. It is difficult to lose all one’s capitalist training over- night, but you thust do it. Make your home a Communist home; a home where the man and the wife and their children are comrades, © not enemies. A home where all are united in the great working class fight; where a spirit of working class courage and intelligence prevails; where the children love their parents, and unéerstand all the fine things Communism will bring to the world; isn’t that a better home than one that is like a Nazi concentration camp? Bring literature into your home, Get your wife and kids read- ing it. Talk about the thinks you are doing in your union dr Party. Make them interested in you and your work. Argue with them quietly, as with comrades. Don't be a dictator. Be a comrade. Women and kids are as intelligent as we “superior” males, but this is a male world, and we have been given more opportunities for education, Pass on what. you know at home, ahd you will see how they respond. Take your time about it; a bad home situation cannot be cured in a week or a month. But try it. It is better to be loved than to be feared by one’s family. It is one’s duty to make a Com- munist home for oneself, instead of a Home like those dominated by the cruelty and Sigil of the church. * . BRUSH vs. PEN? Gold, despite his latest inducement of “Jews Without Money” to attract contributors, today raised only one-third as much as Burck. If this keeps up, we'll be convinced that the brush is mightier than the pen. ‘Wm. F. Miller ... 1.00 Univ. of Mich. 30 Anonymous ... 1.00 ‘Wm. F. Yoder . 10 Ocean Ave. Bridge Club... 2.00 For Boys and Girls of All Ages OUR LENIN by RutH Suaw and Harry ALAN PoTAMKIN 65 Illustrations by WiLL1AM S1EcEL @ Youngsters will enjoy et vivid story of Lenin, which sets forth his activities against the | background of world events. |ATIONAL 381 Fourth Ave., New York. 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When the Soviet | Union was recognized, the Friends | of the Soviet Union was besieged | with requests for information which we could not satisfy. Now we can | Say we are ready to answer ques- tions about the Soviet. Union of all those who inquire. | “Since our Information Bureau was reorganized, we have answered | numerous queries about different | phases of the Soviet Union. A press service representative came to our office for statistics about the prog- ress of the Soviet Union in industry and agriculture during the first eight months of 1934. A well known woman speaker on the Soviet Union wanted to disprove a statement of | the People’s Lobby in Washington that cooperatives in Russia were disappearing. Students writing theses, Izbor papers, and various in- dividuals have written for and re- ceived true facts concerning the So- viet Union. | “The most numerous requests for information arise in connection with statements in books and articles. The Information Bureau is collect- ing a file of such books and articles and is prepared to furnish material to refute lies and slanders of enem- ies of the Soviet Union. The infor- mation service is directed particul- arly to trade unions, professional | organizations and study groups, who want authentic and most recent) material on different phases of So- cialist. Construction in the Soviet Union. We are confident in our ability to answer requests, and in- vite organizations and individuals to write to the Friends of the Soviet Union, Room 234, 80 East lith St. ‘There is no charge for the service and a prompt response is assured.” ‘C.1.? No. 21 Contains Articles on United Front Moves in U. S. A. The latest issue of “The Com- munist International,” No. 21 which will appear early next week, con- tinues the discussion of the ques- tions on the agenda of Seventh World Congress of the: ‘oc. L The eight articles in this number cover a wide range of subjects of interest to revolutionary workers, as a glance at the full table of contents shows: The Seventeenth Anniversary of the October Revolution—Edi- torial. Appeal of the Communist Inter- national on the Seventeenth Anniversary of the October Revolution. The Work of the Communist Party of Great Britain since the Sixth Congress of the C, I. | —Harry Pollitt. The Historic Path of the First International—M. Zorky. Dis- cussion for the Seventh Con- gress of the Comintern. ‘The Question of Fascism —L. Madyar. The American C. P.’s Proposal for United Front with the S. P. of the U. S, A—Sam Brown. The Latest Maneuvers of the French Trotskyites—A. Boreau. Book Reviews: .The Struggle Against Unemployment and Starvation (A review of the unemployment pamphlets issued in the U. S. A.)—N. Davis. The good reception accorded the last issue of “The Communist In- ternational” should be capitalized to further raise the circulation of the magazine. The contents are such that no revolutionary worker will want to miss “The Communist International,” if only he becomes acquainted with it. Party units and workers’ organizations are urged to set themselves the task of pig eaid by 10 per cent their sale each succeeding issue. KEEP ON SWEARING! Robert Morris of N. Y. C. ad- mits using profuse profanity and pledges abstention of such terms during the drive—with a fine of 1 cent for each breach of prom- ise—all for the $60,000 fund. “I challenge Mike Gold (I think he swears, too) to make a similar pledge (money to go to your credit).” Steve Katovis Br., LL.D. $ 11.85 Previously received .... 119.63 Total to date .. Quota - $131.48 Little Leftv IN SPire OF PoLicE TERROR UNCLE JouN AND THE UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL HAVE SropPED THe ENICTION OF LEFTY'S: » NEGRO NEIGHBORS , Here 1S GoINGO BE A REAL VICTORY CELEBRATION // MEANWHILE, LEFTY AND PERNUYS HOLD ONE OF THEIR own! [Monthly Rev Review Will! Give 50% of December| Sales to Daily Worker THE MONTHLY REVIEW, cultural organ of American pro- fessionals and intellectuals, will contribute 50 per cent of the total income from December sales of the magazine, to the Daily Worker $60,000 drive. In addition, the editor has sent the fol- lowing letter to about 150 liberal, semi-liberal and literary pub- lications: November, 5, 1934. American intellectuals are by now firmly convinced that Fas- cism is not the way out for this country. They feel fairiy certain that the German and Italian middle-class was sadly misled, and they have no intention of being in their turn tricked into support of some American brand of thé same vicious political reaction. Our intellectuals and professionals, however, are becoming aware that the American ruling class uses Tascist tactics and that ruling-class newspapers are organs of pro-fascist propaganda. They are arriving at the conclusion that the Daily Worker is the only English language daily which has consistently and fearlessly defended the interests not only of the manual workers but of professionals, intellectuals and white collar workers as well. The cynical boast of the western newspapers that they broke the San Francisco strike is in itself a warning to intellectuals to join» with all other workers in exposing the machinations of the capitalist-owned press. This can by supporting the Daily Worker. be accomplished more effectively An increase in the circulation of the Daily Worker means the strengthening of the forces against hunger, war and fascism which manual worker. respect neither intellectual nor Even those who do not subscribe to the principles of the Com- munist Party should, as intelligent human beings, discard all poli- tical considerations and aid the funds, The matter is urgent. As a token of the earnestness “Daily” in its present drive for of their appeal, The Monthly Re- view, cultural organ of American professionals, intellectuals, and white collar workers, will contribute 50 per cent of the total income from the December sales of the magazine. What will YOU do? Sincerely yours, THE MONTHLY REVIEW, Joseph Koven, Editor, Questions and Answers This department appears on the feature page twice a week. All questions should be sent to Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. . . Question: The annexed clipping is from the “Sun.” Will you please explain in the Daily Worker how it is that a Communist Union, rep- resented by a Communist attorney negotiated and arbitrates with the notorious Mrs. Herrick of the Re- gional Labor Board?—-A White Collar Worker. Answer: The clipping referred to relates to the strike of employes of the Macaulay Company a New York publishing house, in June, 1934, First, the statement that the Of- fice Workers Union is a “Commu- nist Union” is incorrect, The Of- fice Workers Union is affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League which has a policy of class struggle. There are Communists in the union, some in leading positions in the union, but the members of the union include workers of all Political beliefs and all parties. Similiarly the lawyer referred to was an attorney of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, which has members of all political beliefs, Regarding the question of whether a class struggle union should negotiate with the Regional or National Labor Board. It is not correct to state that the union “arbitrated” with Mrs. Herrick or the N.R.A. Board, The union ac- cepted or signed no arbitration agreement with Mrs. Herrick of the N.R.A, The union made demands on Mrs. Herrick and the Labor Board, as well as on the N.R.A. in Washington. A worker had been | fired by the Macaulay company he- cause this. worker was active in the Office Workers Union. The fed- eral government claims that Sec- tion 7A of the the N.R.A. allows workers to join a union of their choice. The union demanded that this worker be reinstated. If the mass pressure of the workers forced the NRA. to act, this would srengthen the case of the union. If the N.R.A. upheld the firing of the union member, this would expose clearly before the workers the fact that the N.R.A. is an instrument of the employers. But the Office Workers Union, “Questions and Answers,” Daily . while making demands on the N.R.A. Boards, always used mass Pressure of the workers as its main weapon. The Office Workers Union organized mass picket lines, in which the authors as well as technical workers joined. The class struggle unions bring the mass pressure of the workers, and the threat of strike, into the N.R.A. Boards, The A. F. of L. of- ficialdom, on the contrary, works together with the N.R.A. Boards to prevent strikes and to deny the workers their demands through compulsory arbitration. For ex- ample, Gorman, far from bringing demands on the N.R.A. Boards, sent the textile strikers back to work under an N,R.A. agreement which denied the workers all their demands. Green made a no-strike agreement which lost the auto and Steel workers, their demands and prevented their strikes. What actually happened on that in the first strike of the Macaulay workers, the mass pressure of the workers forced the N.R.A. to call employers before the board and order them to reinstate the dis- charged workers. This mass pres- sure and mass picketing was the main factor in forcing the Macau- lay company to take back the dis- charged worker and win the strike for the union. If it had not been for this mass pressure, the Macau- lay company would have paid no attention to the decision of the N.R.A. board. Three months later, four mem- bers of the Office Workers Union were fired, and again the office workers struck, This time, the em- ployers ignored the N.R.A. boards and refused to appear at the N.R.A. hearings. In the second strike, as in the first, the mass pressure of the workers has been the main weapon of the union. The demands on the N.R.A. boards served to rally the workers for more effective mass pressure, through publicity, dele- gations, etc, and put the dema- gogic claims of the N.R.A. regard- ing the right to organize, on the spot before the workers, TUNING IN 7:00-WEAF—Himber Orchestra WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy Music ‘WJZ—Concert Orchestra WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:80-WEAF—Minstrel Show WOR—Larry Taylor, Tenor WABC—Jack Smith,” Songs 7:45-WEAF—Frank Buck's Adventures WOR—Dance Music ‘WJZ—Shirley Howard, Songs WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee’s Varieties WOR Little Symphony Orchestra, Philip James, Conductor; John Erskine, Piano ‘WJZ—Lumber—Dramatic Sketch WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:15-WABC—Fray and Braggiotti, Piano 8:30-WJZ—Charles Sears, Tenor; Ruth Lyons, Soprano WABC—Johnson Orchestra; Nell, Baritone; Edwin C. Hill, rator; Speaker, S. Bayard Colgate, President Colgate-Palmolive Peet ptain Henry's Show Boat ‘WOR—The Witch's Tale WJZ—Death Valley Days—Sketch WABO—Gray Orchestra; Annette Henshaw, Songs; Walter O'Keefe 9:15-WOR—Larry Taylor, Songs 9:30-WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch WJZ—Silas Strawn, former President ‘U.S. Chamber of Commerce, speak- ing of National Association of Legal Aid Societies Meeting ‘WABC—Waring Orchestra 9:45-WOR—Wayne King Orchestra 10:00-WEAF—Whiteman’s Music Hall, with Yvonne Gall, Soprano; Gregory Go- lubeff, Mandolin, and others WOR—Al and Lee Reiser, Piano WJZ—Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt, Gerard Swope and Marshall Field, speaking at Dinner Honoring Mrs. Mary Simkhovich, Hotel Roosevelt WABC—Forty-five Minutes in Holly- wood; Music; Sketches 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WOR—Variety Musicale ‘WJZ—The Consumer in Modern So- ciety—Edward A. Pilene, Merchant; E. C, Lindeman, N. Y. School of Social Work 10:45-WOBC—Fats Waller, Songs 11:00-WEAF—Berger Orchestra ‘WOR—News Bulletins WJZ—Madriguera Orchestra ‘WABC—Family Welfare, Speaker An Empty Orator! | In the WORLD| Hecker’ s Books Show of MUSIC On ‘Opera By CARL SANDS “(AN grand opera, of high artistic standards, be produced at pop-| ular prices?” asks Max Rabinoff, the | indefatigable impressario of a dozen | | operatic campaigns from Mexico to} Canada for over a quarter of a | century, and now running the Cos- |mopolitan Opera Association with seats priced from 50 cents to $1.50 at the Hippodrome. The answers are: “No,” if it is to be run as a profit-making enter- | prise; “Not for long,” if it is to be run by philanthropic contributions; | “Yes,” if it is run by the govern- ment or with civic, state or national | subsidy. _Rabinoff says he is run- | ning it the second way with hopes of jeventually launching a municipal | Opera house in New York City. Suc- cess here would win emulation by other cities. European experience demonstrates |the truth of these answers. There jare hundreds of municipal opera | houses in Europe and practically none of any other kind. America| |has no popular-priced opera houses | | but many private companies that | show a perennial record of going bust. Rabinoff’s shows here com- pare favorably with the perform- ances at the houses in small Ger- man cities, say of 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants. They would look and sound better in a smaller house. He says he is donating his time, experience and income to the proj- ect, From the size of the audience | he appears to be at least breaking |even; but of course there's no tell- | ing how long things can go on this way, nor what progress is being made toward the ultimate goal of a Municipal Opera House. * bees question whether the workers of America really want opera | houses of any kind is still debat~ | able. The galleries are almost al- | expensive seats and most of the enthusiastic applause also comes from there. ers of America should want or should be encouraged to want opera more debatable. distinct types: music-drama (the play with music), grand opera (the concert in costume) and opera comique (light opera). The first has practically no existence or fol- lowing in America outside of such fantastic absurdities as the Metro- politan the last demands a small house by itself. So we are left with the concert in costume or. grand opera as the thing that would keep a municipal house going most of the time (as it has Rabinoff’s present venture so far). Of all the vehicles for bourgeois propaganda, none is more typical and few more powerful than grand opera. Not only is the mere giving of it associated almost exclusively with conspicuous leisure, useless show and brainless time-wasting, but the plots and the manner of staging center mostly around the ideology of the royal, the noble and the very rich. The passions repre- sented are almost always those which touch least upon social reali- ties and the morals pointed are those which most support the domi- nance of the class that*buys the most expensive seats. The net result of a night at the opera tends only too often to be a certain amount of time spent day- dreaming and projecting the labor- worn imagination into foolish stage- personalities who are not, seemingly, beset by any of the real problems of life as known to us. The work- ing class, the poor, the insane and diseased are represented, but always from the upper class viewpoint— picturesque, obedient, happy-go- lucky,* vicious and punished, or pathetic. oh tine 'HE sugar pill that makes this all go down is the music. Many fine tunes, intensely moving and deserv- edly popular are found in opera (partly because opera is almost the only form of composition that pays anything to the composer, so he does his best). But how often does one not see the class-conscious worker with tears in his eyes absorbed in and tolerating the show that, were it not for the music, he would scorn and quite correctly denounce with well-supported arguments! The question of how much bour- geois propaganda gets over cannot of how much bourgeois propaganda is actually in the music is giving some musicians no little cause for thought. We cannot answer the second as positively, yet, as we can the first. The class-conscious worker should give the matter his attention, especially if he finds him- self at one of Mr. Rabinoff’s shows. As te the Municipal Opera House —when Soviet America is here, New York won't have one, but probably ten. SCIENCE BOOK OR LECTURE Just to remind you: Comrade Ramsey has offered a fine text book on general science to the individual raising the highest sum toward his $250 quota, or a lecture, if the honors go to an organization. Total to date... $41.24 ways more crowded than the more | The question whether the work- | (as it is known at present) is even | Opera is of three | be side-tracked. And the question | | ME RIGHT WAY MO START These HERE eee. 1S ~T'MAKE A BiG SPEECH- LADEES AND GENTLE- MENS — LET ME 'GPLAIN WHAT IS THE REAL SIGNIFICRLENCE| OF THiS HERE GLOW-RIOUS VICTRY USSR Uses Education To Combat neligiey MOSCOW DIALOGUE: d cussions on Red P| soph: Julius F, Hecker. John Wiley Sons. $3. RELIGION AND COMMUNISM Study of Religion id A in Soviet Russia, by J ker. John Wiley and Reviewed by CORLISS LAMONT IT is most fortunate two books, well-known in E; land since their’ publication there over a year ago, have now brought out in America. Hecker is admirably qualified write concerning the the aspects of Communism. He citizen of Soviet Russia, has there wth his family for’ thirteen years, and has been for some time} er- an official lecturer at the Un sity of Moscow. Thus he has an unrivalled opportunity, not o: for becoming acquainted with a sorts of valuable source material and original do ents, but constant intellectual cont: many of the’ present: in thought and action Soviet Union. “Moscow Dialogues” uses ymposium discussion form and ded into twenty chapters, eact one of which ‘can be treated as a unit in itself. An assorted group of American tourists is represerted as having a discussion in Moscov with Comrade Socratov, who pre. sents and defends the Mar: point of view. He is, incidentally much more certain of his own posi tion than the original Socrates of | Plato, The Americans include a Pro- fessor sympathetic to Commu h. a Banker and a Senator who are in the IN “Religion a: Hecker hans field with equ the same the. ‘Greek Ort urch in ‘Russia, ith the Ts which it naturally opposed, 2 Humanist and was practi a Reformist who admir the| ment), and achievements of Sovietism but shy | 2gainst the Revolu away from=the necessary means,| and after Bolshevik and a Rotarian who makes typical rotarian remarks. . The dialo; form of the book excellently f fills its fundamental purpose of making material which is essen- tially difficult’ more readable and more interesting. + 8 lized other’ improved religion, than the old orthodox IE dialogues cover the Tange of dialectical mater: ism, including the special fields of ligio; reactionary This is a n religion, art, ethics, education, and| especially i world revolution. Dr. Hecker’s ex-| where there position of the historical b pret Com | ganized re to the abi ground and connection of Mz philosophy, both in Russia and Ev rope as a whole, is far and ay the best I have come aci where. The relation of dialectical | materialism to Spinoza, Feuerbach, and Materialists in general and to| Kant, Hegel, and Idealists in gen- eral is carefully discussed and put) in its proper perspective. To sum the matter up in the | u words of Socratov: “Dialecti ‘cal matezialism ... is the r union of materialism and d ics, of a materialism which tofore was not dialectical with a dialectics which up to then was re- lated to idealism. The materialists, beginning with Democritus, through Hobbes, Spinoza, and the French materialists were all undialectical. The dialectians on the other hand| had their own lineage. Beginning | with Socrates, and descending) through Aristotle and: Hegel, their dialectics was founded on an idealistic basis, In Marx and En-| als gels the dialectic and materialist philosophies were elevated to aj new synthesis in dialectical ma-/} terialism. It is the highest, syn-| Toots Union will put with heavy he: | There v chapters Church and the I about Tolstoy, and about the rele tionship between the a: gion and the Ohi ‘Southern Textile Workers’ Militaney Stifled by U.T.W. The Committee to Support, Southern Textile Organization re-| ceives letters daily from militent| workers doing rank and file or- ganizing in the U. T. W. in the South. The following letter from | a Southern textile worker sh how the U. T. W. is stifling militant spirit displayed dur the strike, and preventing a re- | strike movement from taking form: | “Mrs. Dodson who is President of the lokel union of the U. T, W. has proven in the lest strike she | is not for the workers. She has also proven since the last strike that ‘she is not for the workers. Why do I say this? Jim Crews, a Iokel boy who was in the lokel who was a militant worker in the | U.T.W., why did Mrs. Dodson kick Jim Crews out. She kicked him out of the union because she thought he was a Communist. Why did she think he was & Communist? Because he was for the workers. Will say any time | any worker will fight for the workers they will call them a Communist. How come she doesn’t want me in the U. T. W. Because it is proven that I am for the workers. Now she says she is for the workers. If she is she has not proven it and she will never prove {t by kicking out militant workers like Jim Crews and myself and other militant workers. “I will do everything I can get workers to join the U.T.W. not for the U.T.W. but for the work- ers and I hope that every worker here in Danville will join the U.T.W. I know that the workers ; has not forgotten 1931 and 32. But the workers will have to realize one thing. We can’t de- feat Mrs. Dodson if we stay on the outside of the union. We will have to get on the inside, There- fore it is most important that every worker get in the union and kick out Mrs. Dodson be- cause just as long as she has any thing to do with the leadership of your union you will never get nowheres. “Will say that if Mrs. Dodson is so dum that she could not see where the workers were mis- treated by the leadership of the U.T.W. in 1931 and 1932 she is also too dum to be president of a lokel union, If we can't build a union when we charge $1 to join, it is plain we can’t build for $2 to join, Concord, N. C. charges | st. 50 to join union. Burlington, N. C. they charge $1.50. So Mrs. b del | Dedson’s lokel charges more than y | any other lokel to doin, Why. | Because Mrs. Dodsen doesn’t | want no union, has not proven it, If she does, she Now good | workers get in the union and | help kick Mrs. Dedson out so we | can have a fighting union here in Danville, Va., where the workers run and not Mrs. Dodson.” | It is obvious that such workers as the one who wrote this letter are blacklisted. In order to carry on their work they must receive every week a minimum sum to live on. | Anyone interested in helping in | this work should send contribu- | tions to the Con ttee to Sup- port Southern Tex Organiza- tion, 509 Fifth Avenue. Further | information on the work of the Committee can be gotten by writing to this address. WELL ANYWAY, LEFTY- YER DOG SURE LIKED