The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1934 Western Union in Anti-Semitic and Wage- ‘Cutting Drive Company Union Tries To Delay Aims to Stop Morri Choosing Own Unio By a R. R. Worker Caccigpenaeiik MORRIS PARK. L. I—We work- ers of the Morris Park shops of the Long Island Railroad were to have an electicn on or about Dec. 15th to cheoose an organization to repre- sent us. It is getting close to that time and the Company Union has cold feet. They are circulating a peti- tion protesting the election. This petition is being circulated so sec- retly that only members of the Compeny Union should know about it Some of the fellows say that it not a company outfit and that does not give it any then why ts {t that Posner can devote all of his time soliciting for it on company time. deing nothing on his job, and at time being paid mech- y on his time card, and beside the ten per cent on money collected? is the company support, Well, I have seen in the press that Fastman is going to ask us rail- road w ers to make some addi- tional sacrifices. This means that Eastman, the tool of Roosevelt and Wall Street, is going to put the Screws on us, squeeze more money out of our pay checks. It also means that Roosevelt has agreed to stop further restoration of our pay cut in January. It means that a strong effort being made to worsen our conditions by more pay cuts, speed-up and layoffs. What are the things we must do? First we must elect the A. P. of L, and form a strong rank and file control of its forces, so that it shall function in our own interests. _Bver ery worker should read the Elections s Park Workers from n to Represent Them Daily Worker. It is through the Daily Worker that we can keep track of our conditions and the schemes that Roosevelt, through his | agencies, is trying to put over on | rs of this country. If} ers are leary of buying the Worker off the girls at the Daily chop, they can make a point of| WaS about 7c. This didn’t even getting it at their regular news| COVer my carfare. Besides, my | stand | time didn’t mean anything to the | : Ere ASE | company, NOTE | If we fellow workers are going We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- tion and communications indus- tries—railroad, marine, surface lines, subway, elevated line, ex- press companies, truck drivers, taxi drivers, ete.—and post office, telephone, telegraph, ete. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions of work, and their strug- gles to organize. Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each week. GREENBACK LININGS WANTED! Two bits today. Even that is welcome after the long period of complete silence. However, figuring it out with pencil and paper, at this rate it will take us seven years to attain our $500 quota. We need no Biblical prophet to tell us that they are going to be mighty lean years if we proceed at this pace. Come on, you Worcorrs! Show us the rilver or greenback lining to this dark cloud! Several telegraph wkrs...$ .25 Previously received 32.00 Total $32.25 TL cutish Li. f Branch Contributes $23 to Drive No Pay for Reporting Time in Sunnyside By a R.R. Worker Correspondent SUNNYSIDE, L. I—I stayed in the paddock all day long from 8 o'clock on, Got an assignment to report on Train 103 and that was reporting 12.25 at night, dead- head. So I reported at that hour and the dining car I was assigned to had left on 147, which leaves at 9:30. That left me nothing to do but to call up the station master. He told me to call up Sunnyside. I was ordered to report there the next day. I turned the slip in and was offered 15 minutes for reporting to 103 as 4th cook, which to pay the Penn for allowing us to report for duty, where do our rights come in? What is the Brotherhood going to do about getting us paid for reporting time? Are we working for nothing? Any man is willing to hire you as long as he knows he will get paid for allowing you to work. 4 Layoffs and Pay Cuts Precede | Merger in Telegraph Industry | Conscious "i aiaieSlemitie| Employment Policy Followed By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y., Noy. 15. — About five years ago the execu- tives of the Western Union Tele- graph Company were given a rude | shock. An ambitious personnel manager, with a Y. M. C. A. back- ground, pointed out this concern had a comparatively large Jewish personnel. This was very unusual for a public utility. The electric, | gas and telephone companies were | notorious for their anti-semitic employment policy. It was easier for a Jew to go through the eye) of the proverbial needle than to| | land on their payroll. This in spite | Texas Sen, Block Attempt At Jimerowism. By a Marine Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass.—I have a bit of news regarding the discrimination against a Negro seaman in the Sea- men’s Hook on Hanover St. There had been no Negro sea- }men around the hungry hook for quite a few months. One day a Negro seamen by the name of Harry Lee Gordon dropped in from New York He was told to eat in the kitchen | “where he belonged.” Believe it or not, comrades, about six or seven men from the South, including my- | self and a ship mate from Texas, jumped up and protested against this discrimination and jim-crow- | ism. | The holy racketeering sky pilot | by the name of Thorpe based this discrimination upon the squawk of | |a cople of booze hounds or alki | artists. One mission stiff made a The Lettish Branch of the International Labor Defense of Sec. 4 | crack that he won't sleep where a (N. Y. District) contributed $23.87 on Wednesday to the $60,000 fund. | Negro slept. Some class conscious This contribution comes at a time when the Daily Worker is arousing | Seaman told him to go to sleep in mass support to the I. L. D. in t lynch execution set for December Other outstanding contributions came from the Rochester, N. which raised $21.67; and a contribution of $21 from the I. W. O. affair, Branch 84 of Newark Nearly $24,000 must be raised by the end of November to complete | Language organizations, the $60,000 quota. he Scottsboro campaign against the | Ye especially, are urged to mobilize its membership to participate in day-to-day activity to collect | funds from friends and shop-mates, come in contact. Received Nov. 14, 1934 $244.38 Previously received 36,347.52 Total to date $36,591.85 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Bection 5 5.00 Friends of German Singing Soe. 1.40 Sec. 4, Lettish Br., I. L. D 23.81 Workers Book Shop 50 Amalgamated Rank and File 5.00 5.0 Roumanian Workers Club Friends of the 2 Friends of the Worker Med 5.00 J. Zey 1.88 A Friend 1.00 Group House Par 1.80 Ation Franko, Hempstean 2.00 Boro Park Workers Club 1.90 Group of Students 80 Railrcad Workers of Morris Park and Long Island 1.00 20 25 3.00 1.00 1.00 Marine Workers Ind. Union 50.00 Total Nov. 14, 1934 134.35 Total to date 19,199.42 DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) J. Tibensky 50 35 8. Granee John Piokula Gus Kostokkz 25 | auto Wkrs. Union, Ford Group 2.78 L Sodienks 25 | Finnish Workers Soc. 30.00 Branch 2011, I. w. ©. 7 2.00 | ms i} . 1.00 ‘Total Nov, 14, 1934 3.30 | Polish I. W. O. 2.00 ‘Potal te date 3,888.58 | Yugoslov Workers Club, Dearborn 1.00 | DISTRICT 4 (Buftelo) Women's Prog. League $.60 jochester Sec. D. W. Affair 21.67 | Lithuanian 1. Boy. Unit House Pasty §.21|4. L. D. Hamtrantck 2.00 farbu 2.00 | Russian Coop. Restaurant 3.00 Alice Livingstone 36 | Russian Home 1.06 Total Nov. 14, 1934 29.38 | Lucy Parsons I. L. D. 8.06 Total to date 428.08 | See. 1, Unit 1 38 DISTRICT & (Cleveland) | Eolish Buro ev 2 50 | Siberian Bolshevik 1.00 Bioyen Nau B efit Soc., Lodge No. 4 ¥. ©. L., 12th St. Unit 1.60 SL aiskedleiaaedaaiat Shs Theatre of Action Joan Reed Club 1.00 ; | Jewish Buro 3.00 : I. W. O. Br. 43 8.30 | DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) L W. O. Br. 42 3.00 | Wm. Kuhanen 2.40 | Sec. 4, Unit 3 2.00 Ford Shop Unit 1.00 | I. W. O. Br. 80 2.00 | Bec. 5, Unit 3 3.43 | Unemployed Councils 1.00 | Roumanian Frac. 5.00 | Kaufer 2.00 | Russian Mutual Aid Soc. 2.00 | I. W. O. Br. 203 1.00 | Sec. 4, Unit 3 1.00 | Jaffee Coal Co. 1.00 | Sec. 4, Unit 3 11.90 | Kowalski 2.00 | Sec. 1, Unit 12 5.00 | Unit 13, See. 5 1.00 | Sec. 2, Unit 1 60 | Sec. 1, Unit 12 1.00 Sec. 2, Unit 11 7.35 | Tom Mooney I. L. D. 2.00 Bee. 2, Unit 4 1.92 | Cannon 1.00 —| N.Y, Purrier 1.00 Total Nov. 14, 1234 40.60 Unit 9, See. 4 2.00 | ‘Total to date 4 “Tungarian Buro 1.00 DISTRICT & (Chiengo) xetory Unit, Sec. 7 1.50 Emil, care of Glazer nu WwW. O. Br. 203 2.60 sh Senool Student 1.0 Total Nov. 14, 1974 Unti 4, See. 7 2.060 Total to dace Pioneer 38 | DISTRICT 19 (Omaha) J. J. Scheteix 1.00 ‘Total Nov. 14, 1934 1.00 Total to date 31.95 DISTRICT 11 (N. Dakota) W. J. Husa 5.00 | ¥. King 1.00 ‘Total Nov. 14, 1984 6.00 ‘Total to date 53.85 | 5 | Bulgarian Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! and other workers with whom they | DISTRICT 1% (Seattle) Jack Wilson Total Nov. 14, 1034 Total to date DISTRICT 14 (Newark) I. W. O. Br. 84 50 30 338.89 21.00 the streets if he didn’t like it. One of Thorpe’s pets went to the | extent of trying to take the chow | away from the Negro seaman, My shipmate called my attention to this, and the rest was short work After chow was over, I headed | Thorpe into a corner and asked | him, “Do you practise diserimina- | tion in any form, or let your help do so?” His answer was, “I allow no dis- |crimination against any one in any form.” I asked him why it was that a Negro seaman was made to eat in | the rear. | “T know nothing about it,” was trek exiles [ite answer. The help were asked Total Nov. 14, 1934 31.35 | about it and the answer was that Total to date $590.20 | they acted that way on orders from DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) Mr. Thorpe. as gniegoncy _*% | Now, at chow time, Gordon sits Total Nov. 14, 1984 5.00 | between my shipmate and me, with Total to date 642.12 all the slop slingers looking on DISTRICT 18 (Milwankee) ta without saying a word. Now he is c. White Total ev. 14, 1894 roo | Cting like a man, not a dog. Total to date Donations Rec'd at palty Worker Pes * eich ae “| Blackballed John Reed Club $38.13 Unit 12, Bec. & oe | | Unit 4, See. 5 | Section 5 | Sete | I or Ex osin | Unit 5, Sec. 5 q Unit 6, Sec. 5 | R M | Unit 7, Sec. 5 Uae ee. | otten Meat | Unit 13, Sec. 5 Preiheit Gesangs Ferein Armenian Fraction Polish Chamber of Labor | German A. B. C. Club Ukrainian Ed. Home Asan. | Ukrainian Women’s Org. Jewish Women’s Councils 00 | Hepep Somaeeues 333 8532888582333 Ford Factory Group New Masses Agent Busse!l Sec. 2, Unit 10 4.55 See. 4) Unit $ 2.60 ; Sec. 4, HP. 3.00 Albanian Buro a Individual 1 | A's. Magit 6 Individual contributions 6. NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT $ | oe vif Pear o off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N.Y. 8 |By a Marine Worker Correspondent | | BALTIMORE, Md.—A short time |ago a cook came to Baltimore with ja letter from John J. Daley, of | Be | the New York Sea Service Bureau, | |introducing him as the applicant | |for a second cook's job aboard the City of Hamburg of the Baltimore | Mail Line. | Ross, the company’s port steward, | réfused to place the cook stating | that he was blackballed. | Several years ago when Ross was |port steward for the American | Pioneer Line (the Roosevelt 8. 8. | Co.) he had some trouble with the | aforementioned cook about some meat which had already made sev- eral trips around the world and down to Australia and back. | It was revealed that this cook re- fused to doctor the meat until it leould be served to the crew with- lout them detecting its state of de- |terioration. Consequently the crew ‘had no meat and all kinds of hell |was raised. The cook refused to take it on the chin and told the) meat, stating that even if they it. Before the ship arrived in New| York the meat was jettisoned. The cook was fired, not for refusing to | ‘cook the meat, but for telling the, crew what the ship's steward ex- pected them to eat. ‘erew his reasons for not serving the | of the fact that over 2 per cent of | their customers were of this despised | ! race. The “seeping in,” as it was of- | \ficially termed, was originally due to the fact the chief factor in the bankers. Kuhn, Loeb & Co., who financed this concern was the pious Jew Jacob Schiff. He had insisted upon a certain percentage of the employes, at least in New York City, being Jewish. The competitive situation at the time required such a latitude. The Jewish concerns | were naturally disposed to give their business to this company in prefer- ence to the other company. | The company decided to correct | this situation. New York City was |to be the spearhead of this purg- ing. However, caution wes to be exercised so as not to expose its | hand. The present general man- ager was considered unreliable for | this task. ates Away down South’ in Georgia a fiery K.K.K. sympathizer (if not an active member) had made quite a reputation for his high handed mistreatment of his employes. He |found himself propelled up the lad- | der by his superiors into a super- intendency. He was just the man | to do the trick. He came to New | York. He first started on the mes- sengers. Fy.nding that about 70 per cent of the messengers were Jewish he ordered the employment department to hire Jewish mes- sengers on a quota basis. The same applied to the employment of clerks, operators and the filling of other positions. | With the coming of the depres- sion came a looked for opportunity. Under the guise of economy, trans- fers of Jewish managers and others in the higher brackets could be made. Others with short terms of service were furloughed, and others were placed on reduced time. Dur- ing all this time the Jewish em- Ployes with possibly a few excep- tions were unaware of this prelim- inary “readjustment” that was to end in a complete purge, sparing only a few. These exceptions can be always conveniently used as “proof” that there is no discrimina- | tion. Of course these tactics not only affected the Jewish personnel. It was part and parcel of a general plan to reduce the entire standard | of wages and conditions, Other higher compensated employes were affected in the same manner. The Jewish purge was the screen behind which the full force of fascism was |to be hurled at the workers. The company union (Association of Western Union. Employes) played and still plays a despicable role in this serious situation. The exploited messengers during the past year through organizing | into an independent union and by Western Union Incites National Prejudice By a Telegraph Worker Corre- spondent NEW YORK.—Some months ago in your paper you accused Mr. C. H. Carroll, assistant gen- eral manager, of being a K.K.K. and discriminating against the Jewish workers. There is no question about that because although I am in the traffic department I am as- signed temporarily to branch of- fices. In that way I have be- come acquainted with quite a few clerks in the commercial depart- ment. Some of the most con- scientious were Jews and now most of them are gone. In their places are new faces, Why? The Association cannot answer or won't. But the point I want to bring out is that the Jews are not the only ones to be so treated. Our chief, Col. Hough, hates the “wops,” and I am one of them. The Italians are not being hired for the last several years, Those still in the service are being let out or put on reduced time. We Italians should unite with the Jews and all workers for the protection of our rights, We are in the same boat. publicity in the Daily Worker had wrung some concessions from the seared officialdom. Events moved fast. Encouraged by strikes in other cities the messengers at a large mass meeting had voted to strike. A delegation of Western Union and Postal messengers stormed into the citadel of communications, The thoroughly frightened Mr. Carroll, forced by the potential might of the messengers, met the delegation in his private office where he listened respectfully to their de- mands. How the forces of capital went into action with the aid of the police, company union detective agencies, and the yellow press to temporarily suspend the strike is a saga of labor. In the meantime the elimination of Jewish clerks and other personnel is proceeding at a very rapid pace. For the flimiest excuses they are suspended, furloughed, put on re- duced time, demoted and their wages cut. I challenge the officials of West- ern Union Telegraph Company to Present the following figures: 1, The number of messengers that were employed since Jan. 1, 1933, and how many of these were Jewish. 2. The percentage of Jewish mes- sengers on the pay-roll Jan. 1, 1929. The percentage of Jewish messen- gers on the pay-roll Jan. 1, 1933. The percentage of Jewish messen- gers on the pay-roll Jan. 1, 1934, The percentage of Jewish messen- gers on the pay-roll October 1, 1934, and the number of non-Jews. 3. The number of Jews that were hired through the employment department conducted by Mrs. Rit- chie on the 6th floor of 60 Hudson St. since Jan, 1, 1933, | 4, The number of Jews and the | number of non-Jews that were fur- loughed since Jan. 1, 1933 separate- | ly by the commercial and traffic | departments, I also challenge the officials of ; the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany to deny that both Mr. Shotter, who hires the messengers, and Mrs. Ritchie, who hires the clerical help, were given orders not to hire Jews, | Their silence to deny these accusa- tions will only substantiate that which is now so clear to every West- ern Union employee. MOSCOW, US.S.R.—I attended |the meeting in our depot at the |Moscow No. 1 railway station, | Kursk railway, at which your let- ter was read. The railway workers of this depot are answering your |letter, But I have read it and am going to write you a few words myself. I am a member of the railway | workers union and am employed at | | the telegraph office of the Peoples | Commissariat for Transport. Our | central telegraph office employs about 400 persons, most of them women. We are getting 140 rubles a month, but as we are on piece | Payment we earn 180 rubles on the | average. We are on the six-hour | working day and work in five shifts. | After our work in the day and evening shifts we are entitled to (one free day and after the night— |to two free days. We have our own | teat room where those who come to | Work earlier than necessary, may | take a rest (the majority of work- \ers live in the suburbs of the town and have to go by trains). We face our meetings in the same room and various study-circles also meet |there. We attneded a technical |circle in the summer and_ passed our exams in the autumn. To work efficiently one should know his trade, one should know how to handle certain telegrams. The en- tire work of our transport and con- Sequently of our socialist construc- “ends on the efficient work | of the telegrapn. |the Presidium of the railway LL.D. wanted to eat it he would not cook committee which also imposed on/U, S. S. R., a toiler can never be- [me the duty of organizing workers’ | international relations, I do not know yet whether I shall be able to cope with this task but I am eager |to work and realize the importance | \of this task. Our club alloted us a room for our | No Layoffs Here, Writes Soviet R. R. Telegraphist Besides, I was elected recently to! jwork. This room will be named the |Room for International Work. We | outlined the plan of our work and | are decorating our room now. We | are going also to organize an I.L.D. corner here which will show the work of our ILD. nucleus at the! Moscow No. 1 railway station, Kursk railway. We shall read the letters | We received from our comrades |abroad in this room, organize con- sultations there, etc. Here is one more feature I for- got to mention. Telegraph appara- tus of a certain system is replaced | by telegraph apparatus of another system at our telegraph office for the purpose of rationalization. Now the apparatus on which I worked, will be used no longer and thus fif- teen workers will be freed whose qualification is no longer needed, but people are not thrown out onto | the streets in our country. The administration proposed to those who wished to, to learn the other system, During their training they | will get their average wages as well as at the beginning of their inde- pendent work. (when they haven’ yet learned how to work fast), ie. they will earn not less than before. Some decided to retrain themselves, others decided to be trained as me- chanics (they will also get their average wage although they are absolutely ignorant of the trade of a mechanic). I was also transferred to another job where I shall get 175 rubles per month plus a bonus of 35 rubles, i.e., 210 rubles. | Yes, comrades, with us in the | come useless. In conclusion of my | ‘etter I bring you my red greetings jand am looking forward to your | reply. My address is as follows: Moscow, Zemliaoni Val No, 7, Kom 22, A, Smirnova. | te |out the country to effectively stop ‘immediate abolishment of the seven |Miss Reed and state the opposition Rank and File Unions Call for Struggle | Against Attack | | By a Telegraph Worker Corre- spondent NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Western | Union Telegraph Company has be-| }gun a vicious campaign against its | employes involving mass furlough- |ing (lay-offs) of workers with many years of service, an Anti-Semitic| program of dismissals against all its | | Jewish employes, and discrimination jin nationalities among its messenger | \boys. All this with the objective | jin view of firing thousands of! | workers from the industry, in order! by application of medicines to the | |to lower the standards of living of jall its employees, and for the pur- pose of economy, to finally set the |stage for the coming merger of all communications companies. This/ jinformation was disclosed here, by) |the United Telegraphers of Amer-| fea and the Telegraph Messengers | Union. | In order to reduce the wage standards of its employes the West- jern Union, even disregarding the ‘fact that 24,000 telegraphers were furloughed since the World War, lis carrying on this policy at an un- | precedented rate today. It is sig- |nificant t6 note that their schools | for new and young telegraphers are filled to overcrowding, and that their personnel departments jare hiring these workers at lower schedules of pay, while their older employes are forced out of the in- dustry. By this vicious practice, | and by instituting a terrific speed- up in traffic, the Western Union is massing its tremendous profits at the expense of the workers. The U. T. A. claims that all employes are being terrorized into joining the Association of Western Union Employes, the Western Union company union. This terrorization is taking the form as a direct at- tack on the wages of the telegraph workers, because, “either you sign up or take the consequences!” Par-| ticularly is this scheme employed against the messenger boys, who are the most exploited in the telegraphic | industry. ‘The Western Union tactics of dis- | crimination and terrorism, does not | | stop here. They have employed the use of the Bergoff Agency, notorious | for its strikebreaking and bloody | history. to spy upon and prevent the membership of two independent rank and file unions to either grow | or to resist the attacks of the com- pany union. The coming proposal to the next | session of Congress from the Com- | munications Commission for a merger of all telegraphic companies, | | which will entail added firings of | other thousands of workers, is be- ing steadfastly opposed by the U. T. W. and T. M. U. For the sake of economy and to increase their | profits the companies are pleading poverty to the workers, despite the glaring contradictions in the recent press reports, which state clearly the tens of millions that were pooled by the A. T. and T., the I. T. and T. and the Western Union. A merger of these monopolies would create the biggest, and the most gigantic monopoly that ever existed in the United States. Both unions state that they are} preparing to send delegations of | hearings of the Communications Commission in December to protest against the merger, and to produce statistics as to why there is no need for merger and what a merger would mean to all telegraph work- ets. The U. T. A. and T. W. U. will continue to organize and pre- pare all telegraph workers through- these vicious practices of the West- ern Union Concerning the messenger boys, the Telegraph Messengers Union states that “sentiment for an or- ganized union is ripe. That the dollar weekly wage must come about, and that the next point on \the agenda of business for messen- ger boys is the $15 week, and the eight hour crs lay i‘ |Seamen ‘Fight Relief Cut in Mobile, Ala. By a Marine Worker Correspondent |8 MOBILE, Ala—The seamen on relief here in Mobile are beginning to feel their strength. This week the relief head, Miss Reed, tried to steam-roller over us the proposition of having a kitchen in the relief project, and stopping | us from eating in restaurants. However, the moment the boys | found out they were going to in- stall a galley, they called a special meeting and voted unanimously against such action. At this meet- ing a committee of 10 rank and file seamen was elected to visit of the seamen to this move. A good many seamen are getting skeptical about the director of sea- men’s relief, E. F. Spear, who had been shipping out as steward, For this reason it seems possible that there had been plans between him and other relief heads to install the kitchen and cut down on relief. Spear himself said ut a meeting last week that if a kitchen were in- stalled, he could feed for one half of what we are getting now, which would be about 25 cents per day. However, when the committee re- ported last night and informed the seamen that Miss Reed would not drop her plans the seamen were) pretty hot about it. They decided that if we could not get results here, then they would give their committee full power to take the! necessary steps to combat this move. The next step of the committee was to write to Washington, sending the names of about 99 per cent of the elegraphic workers to the open|“ WORKERS’ HEALTH | Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board Inflammation of Neck of Womb S., Bronx, N, ¥Y.—Whiie it is true * that many doctors give office | treatments just for the fee involved, | it is also true that many patients do need treatments. Assuming that} the doctor is correct in his diagnosis | of Endocervicitis (inflammation of | the mouth of the womb), some form | of electric cauterization (burning) |is advisable. Whether the inflam- | mation followed the abortions that | were done—which is not uncom-| mon—or was there in a mild form before the abortion and then be-| came aggravated, we cannot tell | from your letter. However, the in- flammation is there and must be treated. The best treatment is that which destroys the glands under the sur- face tissue. This cannot be done surface. Such medicines do not affect the deeper tissues. The best method is the use of some form of} electric treatment which burns off the surface tissue and the under-| lying glands. This should be done is impossible to estimate how many visits will be necessary. That de- pends upon the amount of inflam- mation present, the healing powers of the patient, and the skill of the doctor. are necessary is quite an involved one, In a society where the prac- tice of medicine is both a profes- sion and a business, it is easy for the doctor to play upon the igno- Trance of the patient and have her come until she gets tired of paying. | On the other hand, the patient, recognizing that doctors can put business before science, becomes suspicious of the doctor and thinks she is being fleeced when he tells her that she will have to visit him fifteen or twenty times—which, of course, need not be true. In fact, there are cases which have to be seen by the doctor as often or even more often. The viciousness of this state of affairs is obvious. The honest doctor is suspected by the patient—result, the patient does not go to the doctor and does not get the necessary treatment. The “business” doctor sells his wares well By ANN What! ADAME HELENA R RUBIN. STEIN is coming to the rescue of the Soviet Union. You surely know Helena Rubinstein? country in hundreds of expensive, highly exotic ads, indicating that her cosmetics will do for beauty what rain does to the flowers. Madame Helena Rubinstein went to the Soviet Union, espe- cially interested in the Soviet women. (Women buy cold cream.) And what did this manicured, highly polished lady see there? Did she notice how free women are to do whatever job they are fitted for? Let us see. We'll give Madame Helena Ru- binstein the floor, IN. A country where for fifteen years of reconstruction, a slice of bread has been a luxury—” (Helena has discovered her own pri- vate famine)—‘cold creams were unheard of and make-up relegated to the past!” Listen further to the miseries of the Soviet woman. “Skin roughened and weather- beaten, Noses were perpetually shiny. Wrinkles appeared before their time.” (And let me warn you, you may not be able to stand this.) “The struggle for necessities forced the abandonment of corsets! Figures lost their lines!” But Madame Rubinstein comes to the rescue. I could think of no greater privilege than to put my years of experience at their disposal.” Don’t worry, you Soviet women, everything will now be all right. Sis- ter Helena is here. I, however, can- not help wondering whether she ever has seen a movie, taken by American news-reel photographers, showing hundreds of thousands of factory women marching on May Day, or Nov. 7, I could see no trace of misery, because they had no cor- sets. In fact, they seemed to be very busy being happy because they were the owners of their own lands, their own factories, with such op- portunities as women have nowhere else in the babi ND while we are about it, here is a story told me by a friend who has recently returned from the Soviet Union, Federova was to be pensioned. She stood silently at her machine, as the factory committee told her the news. During the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, Feder- ova stood, together with other men and women who had worked in the factory in Czarist days, with drawn rifies at the gate of the factory. They defended the factory and kept it for the So- viets. During her years of vigor and activity she had been a dili- gent worker, a leader. She had put her energy into the building up of the factory. She had been a member of the shock brigade. Now, according to Soviet laws, she was to be pensioned for the rest of her life, But Federoya burst into tears. “Please,” Federova cried, “if I am too slow or too old to do the work I'm doing, put me at some other work. But don’t lst me leave the factory, My whole life is here!” The committee watched her as she looked at the looms seamen on a petition, before which she had worked only by a competent doctor—one | who recognizes both the value and} the dangers of such treatment. It) This question of how many visits} IN THE HOM Her | fame has been broadcast over the | ees the patient pays for unnec- |essary treatment. Such a state of affairs has been made impossible jin the Soviet Union, where the | practice of medicine is considered jas a social problem and not as a | private enterprise. There, the in- | terests of the doctor and the pa- | tient are mutual—the doctor is con- cerned only with the treatment of |the patient; the latter is satisfied in knowing that his, or her, iliness is being well treated; and neither of them worried about the “busi- | ness” of medicine. | . G.:—Suggestions for the treat ment of Acne have on numerous occasions been published in our medical column. We do not advise massage for this ese aatay As for diet, we suggest that you cut down the intake of | Sweets, spicy and fried foods. It is important that your bowels move | every day and if they don’t, milk of | magnesia should be taken, For local | treatment, you should get lotio alba jin any drug store, and apply it to the face every night. Leave it on | over night and wash it off in the morning with castile soap and water, If there is no improvement after two or three months you should go to a skin clinic and consult the der- matologist there as to the advisabil- ity of X-ray treatments, which are very often quite beneficial. Lectaxe, ‘Tonight |TWR. Emanuel Glick will lecture | under the auspices of the Medi- cal Board tonight at 8 p. m. at the Progressive Workers Culture Club, 134 Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, on. “The Workgrs Attitude to Sex.” Admission is 15c.. Half of the pro= ceeds go to the $60,000 drive for the Daily Worker. SPINACH DOWN In the battle between Spinach }and Art, Spinach is still on the floor. This column yields its place to Gold, who is more than $7 ahead, and to Burck as well. 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