The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1924 PHILADELPHIA SETS UP CENTER FOR CONGRESS OF JOBLESS FINNISH WORKERS URGED TO JOIN C. P. RECRUITING ALL A. F.L. LOCALS ARE TO BE VISITED FOR ENDORSEMENTS Permanent Local Quarters Established—Italian Language Groups Plan to Reach Many Groups— White Collar Federation Also Is Active PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 19—A local arrange- ments committee for the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance, which will be held in Washington on Jan. 5-7, has been set up here with permanent offices at the Flanders Building, Room 707, 207 South Fifteenth Street. A oonférence wes held last? a _ ‘Thutsday where arrangements wer made t6 visit all locals of the Amer- lean Federation of Labor to get en- d6rsement to the congress call and lection of delegates. The Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Tech- Nicians, which is part of the local arrangements committee, met at its headquarters, 1206 Walnut Street, and drew up plans for the election of delegates from every white col- lar_workers’ group in the city. The Federation has arranged to hold a symposium on unemploy- Publisher Seen Weakening In Guild Strike NEWARK, N. J., Noy. 19.—The first sign of weakening on the part of the publisher in the strike of the editorial workers of the Newark ment insurance on Friday, Dec. 14, at the Social Service Bililding, 311 South Juniper Street, at which la- bor leaders, civic heads and others have been invited to speak. A City-wide mass meeting to send of the entire delegation from Philadelphia to the national con- gress will be held Friday evening, Dec. 28, at the Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian Streets. Workers’Enemies governmental | Ledger was in the letter recetted by William Hamilton Osborne, counsel for the Newspaper Guild, rom the attorney of the publish- ers, Meritt Lane, agreeing to confer with a committee of the Guild. The strike in which more than 75 per cent of the staff is already involved is for statement of 12 \discharged worke! and recogni- jtion of the Newspaper Guild. Osborhe answered that the nego- |tiating committee would be rea {to méet the publishers and a con- ference was set. This torning, through an editorial in the Ledg the employers proposed arbi |Five-Fold goes In Red Ballots In Glassport Town in Heart of Steel! Area of Pennsylvania Reveals Big Gains , Nov. 19.—This situated in the midst of Steel Corporation con- ties, McKeesport and Clair- | ton, pulled ninety-three straight Communist votes. The vote does represent a 520 per cent increase over the results in the 1932 election. Waltet Marcus, Communist can- didate for Legislature, Tecéived 130 votes. The additional votes given té Marcus abdve the full ticket até the result of his splendid work in the Unemployment Council. Workers in the neighboring cities which did not make a good show- ing have been challenged to arouse | themselyes, and, in a spirit of true socialist competition, they should not let the comrades in this small town outstrip them in work accom- plished. World SP. Changes Nat'l Unity Stand (Continued from Page 1) back to “democracy,” and numer- ous maneuvers were made for pro-| vocative refusal of united action. The Left pointed out, however, that is sort of “diplomacy” would prove to be catastrophic; but, in| spite of all its efforts, no basis was | established for unity of action with | the Communist International. All ; through the debates it was care- | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 18 (By Wireless). —When one remembers the orgy of ¢attlé-slaughtering which ex- tended all dufing the previous summer throughout the United States and when it is realized that this ‘criminal waste was caused by the demand for greater profits in the méat-packing monopolies, it | becomes one more sign of the de- velopment of a better, working- class wofld that in the USSR. the greatest care and foresight is exercised in increasing the meat and dairy resources, Stalin had said at the 17th Con- gress of the All-Union Communist Party that “1934 can and must be- come the yeat of a turning-point towards a rise in the entire stock- breeding field.” ‘Ss tock Breeding Shows Rapid Growth in USSR |30,000 Cattle, Pig and Sheep Collective Farms Are Organized—Vast Distribution of Cows to Farmers Carried Out, More Planned measures have been carried out in order that there be no collective farmers without cows. The number | of cowléss peasants grew in the pre-révolutionary dothtryside, |ruined as it was by the landlords |and kulaks, and néw hundreds of | thousands of peasants and farm- |Steads were impoverished yearly: |now the colléctive farmers have ré= |ceiv 900,000 heifers and more than | 1,500,000 suckling pigs in the course lot only one year. | These are the tremendous prere- |quisites which have been created jfor the speedy further development |of stock-breeding in the U.S8.R. In this connection the Council of People’s Commissars of thé U. 8. 8. R., with the object of further- ing the development of stock- | breeding, has plarined to sell to the | Although at this moment only ten months have passed since Stal- feast ae Kg ieee State in's statement, data have already | ‘arms, beginning from ) “$80,000 been compiled ‘sufficiently and (Heads of big hotned cattle, 600,000 clearly showing that the lagging | Sheep, and 250,000 suckling pigs. A behind observed on this front in décision was simultanously adopted past years has ceased, while a re- vival has begun and certain steps forward inade. Compared to 1933 | the number of heads of big horned cattle of all ages ‘incteased 10.4 per cent, hogs by 48.9 per cent, | sheep and goats 3.4 per cent. The stock-breeding state farms themselves have considerably in- creased and strengthenéd. Over 30,000 neW colléctive stock-breeding farms have been ofganised. The hetds of big-horned cattle on the farms have grown 18 per cent, hogs 35 pet cent, sheép 30 per cent. Al- ready more than 25,000,000 heads of through N, R. A. chanhels. Guild, however, counteted this with the demand that pending the out- come of stich action the discharged workers be reinstated. Exposed is going on uninter- fully defined that the question was| cattle are concentrated on 150,000 one of aiding the victims and not | Collective farms. Since the stock- the class struggle of the revolution | breeding state farms atid collective in Spain, and even this unity was|farms are the main pfodticets of | refused. jmarketable milk, meat and wool, Jafd are the base for the extended | |regarding the sale to collective |farmers from the state farms in the course of the next five months 300,000 calves, 1,200,000 suckling pigs, and 200,000 lambs, At the same tite credit has | been granted to those farmers who are unable to pay fully the cost of the calves under purchase. A plan has been furthet fixed for this same period to purchase from col- lective and individual farmers and also to sell from the collective marketing farms to cowléss collect- ive fatmets, 2,000,000 head of young milch cattles. With the object of supplementing traction power it is also planned to purchasé 500,000 steers from collective and individ- ual farmers for other collective \farms, for which purpose a credit of 25,000,000 rubles has been as- All workers and their organiza- tions are warned against the follow- ing enemies of the working class. Samuel Tupper (Miller) of New York City, former member of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, has been exposed by the City Com- Mittee of the W. FE. S. L. as an im- postor and swindler, who has falsely Claimed to be a member of the Communist Party and even a mem- ber of its Central Committee, who has misrepresented himself as an or- | ganizér of the W. E. S, L., and who has swindled money from a num- ber of workefs. Description: He is about 6 feet,, 2 inches tall; has a ruddy face, front teeth missing; car speak quite well from the platform, using a very flowery Jahguage. recenily séen Speaking on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue A. Samuel Wallach, of New York City, formérly Communist Party, from which he was dropped about six months ago, as how béen expelled from Post No. 191 of the Workers Ex-Service- men’s Leagtie as a distupter and swindler, who has slafdered lead- ing meimibéts of the W. E. 5S. L., who has been seen talking with police- Men ai demonstrations and who has stolsn various articles ftom the People with whom he was living. Description: He is about 5 feet, 3 inches in height; weighs about 150 Pounds, is dark complected, and al- most always has a stump of a ci- gar in his mouth. a member of the +5 Picketing ruptedly, and the campaign against the Ledget has reached every cor- ner of the city. Eight hundred and fifty newsdealers are schedtiled to meet tomoftow, and from all in- dications will decide to refuse to handle the paper. They have in virtually all cases given the strikers permission to hang up signs at their stands informing the public of the strike and the Guild's strike. The mechanical workers in the Ledger plant have not yet taken definite action, but have expressed themselves a mpathetic to the ike of the writers, and solidarity &etion is expected scon, membership meeting of the New York Guild will take place tonight at 8:30 at the to consider the NeWark ‘k guild voted support for the action of the Newark men at meeting last week. Film League Leader Urges Student Fight On Pro-Fascist Movie BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 19.—Stu- dents from various nearby colleges heard ‘id Platt, secretary of the National Film and Photo L e on Friday night Brooks House at Hi describe the anti-radical mov |to Arms” now being produced by Columbia Pictures. | Platt said that while officials of the company had telegraphed to the League offering to eliminate objectionable parts, it was evident from the studio’s own description that the only way to eliminate the picture's attack against labor was to scrap the film entirely. Joseph Fox, of Dawson and 163rd Sts. Bronx, is a counterman and & member of the A. F. L. Food Workers Union. He was a member of the Food Workérs Industrial Union. Has beeh expelled from the Communist Patty as a eotinter - rtvolutionary Trotzkyite, Who sheaked into the Party and pretéfided to be a sincere and loyal} Communist only for the déspicable Purpose of trying to disrupt and un- Germine the revolutionary work of the Pariy. By covering up his real charac- ter and pufpose he succeeded even in becoming the organizer of the Party unit, to which he belonged. But a& soon as he felt sure of him- Self in this important position he began to show his true colors by various distuptive actions and pro- votations, the aim of which was to bring dissension among the mem- bers of the unit and to undermine the united front work of the Party. A chafactetistic instance of this Occurted at the end of the taxi drivers’ strike, when Fox was re- sponsible for provoking a fight be- tweén Socialist and Communist workers by flinging the ugly word “liar” at a Socialist worker. ‘When he saw that this kind of action would not be countenanced by the Party, he abandoned his snéaking, undercover tactics and Came out openly as a counter-revo— lutionary Trotzkyite. | He is aged 27; dark mustache; hait, brown; eyes, brown; height, 5 feet, 4 inches; weight, approxi- mately, 126 pounds; complexion, Gark; face, long, thin sneering ex- pression; usually affects brown or The students at the meeting voted unanimously to support the protest movement against the film organ- ized by the League, and sent a pro- test telegram to Harry Cohn, pres- ident of Columbia Pictures, de- nouncing the film as “a vicious in- fluence designed to help biing on fascism and destroy civil liberties. | Misery and VI. DETROIT, Nov. 19.—Oase workers employed in the Wayne Cou Welfare Administration, a physician and dentist who are treating welfare dependents—their names for obvious reasons cannot be given—have independently told | me the same story about the De- troit relief situation. It is a rather different story from the one Wel- fare Administrator John F. Ballen- ger told me, a story written in the life-blood of tens of thousands of human beings whose labor created the wealth and power of the Fords, the Chryslers and the kings of Gen- dark gtay suits. eral Motors. Re Ed Miss A. is an investigator of Phillip Kaufman, of Brooklyn, the X. district welfare station. | N. ¥., f6rmerly a member of the Communist Party (about 10 years ego in Cleveland, Ohio, and about years ago in Brooklyn, both omly for a few months, dis- | Workers on relief often speak bit- terly of these case workers. They jare for them the living symbol of hunger rations, of inadequate an clothes, of broken health, of eppeating under serious suspicions), humiliation, of all that being de- ‘Ras now beeh exposed as a danger-/| pendent on government handouts Gusly wnteliable and ractosteering| means. The case workers, under glemnent, who has fraudulently col-| constant pressure from their sune- lected money ih the name of Un-|riors, in order to hold their jobs employed Cotiticils and has tried to} often fall in line with the game of Obtain money from a Party mem-| the government officials, the game ber under the pretext of “fixing up| of spreading the relief by r as things” for him with his landlord. | thin as possible, of giving pr es, Destription: About 37 vears of | instead of food, of artful dodging. age, about 5 feet, 5 inches in height; | But a gtowing number of case bald, fair complected, blue a Workers ate beginning to Wears glasses. For a tine he was| stand what it is ali about, to un- 4 member of the Red Front also, . undeérs | ‘derstand that between them and | The representatives of the Scan- | dinavian and English Socialist Par-| ties actually reproached the Spanish | workers for having revolted! The | lukewarm appeal of the Second In- | ternational, the delegate from Spain declared, was sheer “rhetoric” and compared it with the powerful and enthusiastic call of the Communist International. | The representative of the Ger-| man Patty, Otto Wels, sotrowfully outlined how he had saved the So- cialist Party there and completely sided with the Right group. As in| 1918 he was again prepared to “save Germany from Bolshev im,” and, | unlike Bauer. (!), he had no con-j sidétation for the will of the party | membership with regard to unity | id he would never yield to the de-/| sire for united struggle. However, | he qualified, the united front might be agreed upon “wherever fascism | threatened and whefever if had/| conquered”; but unity in all other tries must be denounced, in spite of the general capitalist of- fensive. In “L'Humanite” today Marcel | Cechin, chairman of the Central) Committee of the Communist Party of France, said that “of course the Communists would have preferred that the Executive Committee of the Second International had ac- * icepted the appeal of the Comintern | for broad united action in behalf) of Spain. This refusal will be a shattering disappointment to the Spanish wo! ” Passing then to the problem of strengthening the) Spanish action, Cachin declared | that “the positive result of the con- ference was the freedom accorded the Socialist Parties in each indi-| vidual count It is the fitst step and @ decisive result of the success | of the united front.” A Y. ©. Y. Ler eift a copy of the Daily Worker in a coffee pot: An etrand boy read it. Result. a contribution fer the Daily Worker. “Leave yout ‘Dailies’ in public places. Spread your paper! pread its $60,000 drive! |the unemployed families they visit there is a real class bond. Espé- cially since their own eécotiomic position is neither prosperous nor secure. Miss A- is one of these, “What are the chief complaints that you hear in the course of yout work?” I asked. “That food prices are going up and the biidgets aren't enough to live on; that they haven't encugh ; warm clothes for the winter; that they haven't enough blankets.” “Weren't the food budgets in- creased in August?” “Yes, but that was because they were so low that we wefe simply being deluged with complaints and they had to raise the budgets or there would have been an explo- sion. on the point of signing a petition asking that the budgets be in- creased because it was becoming impossible to face the clients any longer.” “Would you agree with Mr. Bal- lenger’s statement that the . new budgets, with the 5 per cent cut that went into effect on Oct. 19, are adequate?” “If by adequate he means just enough to keep body and soul to- gether, then the answer is yes. But if adequate means enough to keep proper health, then devidedily no. cially for the ¢hildren.” “I understand that the case work- reproduction of cattle, stringent ' signed. Young Communists Appeal for Unity (Continued from Page 1) does Comrade Medrana, secretary of the Madrid district of the Young Communist League. The toiling masses of Spain need our support! Shall we fail our comrades? Shall we stand idly by while the masses in Spain wade knee deep through blood, shed by the fascist hordes? Shall the international solidarity actions which wrested Dimitrov, Popov and Tanev from the clutches of the German fas- cists not be thrown into the breach to support the dauntléss Socialists and Commutists of Spain? We cannot, we must not com- mit such a monstrous crime against our class brothers who aré giving all they can give—théir very lives—in the fierce struggle against the hated enemy! Let us, the Socialist and Com- munist youth of the United States, unite in solidarity actions which will hearteh out Spanish comrades and strike fear into the breasts of their murderers! a united front will so inspire the youth ih the United States that tens of thousands of them will be set into motion in defense of theit class brothers. We propose: 1—Joint demonstrations for the above demands in front of Spah- ish Consulates in all cities. 2—To ndertaké a natiofial campaign to raisé funds and other material support for the revolt- tionary Spanish youth afd their families, 3—To issue a joint call to all youth organiaations to send their representatives to form 4 national committee to direct such a cam- paign of political and material support on the broadest possible scale, Comrades of the Yoting People’s Socialist Leagué! In the cof- tifluations Committee of the American Youth Congress our two Organizations have worked to- gether successfully and fruitfully sifce August of this year. Why can we not go further on the basis of ah explicit united front agreement between our organiza- tions in defense of the heroic Spanish proletariat and peas- antry? Do you not see the burning need for unity between our or- ganizations to carry out this all important obligation of interna- tional solidarity? The young So- cialists and Communists of France, Spain, Belgium and Italy have already achieved unity. Let lis Hof be behind our class com- redes in other countries in the performance of the task which Let us at once tinite thé forces of the Young Communist League and the Young People’s Socialist League to carry such actions through. A united front between our tWo organizations in defense of the fevolutionaty Spanish Unrest Rises In Spanish Army Ranks \3,000 Politicals in One Fascist Jail in Madrid MADRID, Spain—The strength of revolutionary feéling within the army is indicated by the inquiry, reported by “El Debaté,” being} made against séveral offices of thé flying éorps for refusing to drop | bombs on the Asturian miners. Court martials for “breaches of |discipline” await 50 soldiers and hon-cornmissioned Offigers, soitie of Whom afe béing tried now. How many more stith Cases exist is not |to be reckoned by the scant num- ber known. These reports explain the gov- ernment’s finally calling on the |\Foreig@n Legion afd Morrocan | tFoops. 3,000 in Ome Madrid Jail MADRID, Spain.—Thfee thous- afd political prisonets are crowded linto the jail here, Built to actomoe- ldate a maximum of 1,100 pérsons. |The frightfully inhuman crowding of prisonets like cattle is not, how- |éver, the worst feattire of the Span- |ish Fascist prison regime. Food is jinsufficient. The most rudimentary | facilities for sanitation afe lacking, and éxefcise and the stnallest of privileges are denied. SPAIN OUSTS LABORITE PARIS, Noy. 19.— from Spain and denied all opportunity to learn the truth of the Asturias upitising and the slaughter of work- ers after its defeat, Miss Ellen C. Wilkinson, former Labor Party member of Parliament, and the Earl of Listowel, British atithor, arrived here today. When they arrived at Oviedo, they declared, they were put ifi a ¢éar by Comandante Doval, to visit the local cathédral; but instead were taken for a ridé out of town, and told to get out of the country im- mediately. The two investigators had pre- viously visited Madrid, where. Presi- dent Lerroux, the benign front for the Roblés fascist regime, gave them @ letter to General Ochoa, the com- mandet of the counter-revolution- ary forces in Astttias. General Ochot directed the éxecution of hundreds of workers, This trick was utilized to get the two nearer to the French border, and then to have them deported without any opportunity of telling the world the truth of the present Situation in this center of thé work- éfs’ uprising. Massilon Unemployed Rally to Defend Three Workers Facing Trial MASSILLON, Ohio, Nov. 19.—The | Massillon Unemployment Countils have calléd upon all workers to pack the court today, tomorrow and Friday, when three unemployed Workers will come up fot trial. Today Leah Faye, organizer of | the Unemployment Councils, will be | tried for leading @ delegation of Negro and white mothers who de- manded food, clothing afd milk for their children. Willys Bray, a young Negro stu- dent, was arrested of charges of assault and battery when he re- sented the slandets hurled at him Bureau Calls on Wor kers’ Clubs to Make Communist Party Membership Drive One of Their Immediate Tasks By Hans Johnson Seoretary, Finnish Bureau, ©. P., U. 8. A. : On the basis of the decision of the eighth convention has started a recruiting driv | of the Communist Party, U. 8. A., the Central Committee e for new members into the Party. The drive started in the beginning of October. The object is to double the Party membership during this cam- Mass Pressure Brings Action On Shooting HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 19—As | a restilt of the Inass anger and or- ganized protest movement agaifist the brutal shooting of Joe Allen, le ok C. 0. G. worker, by Patroltfan William Smith, an investigation into the attack on the Negro youth has been ordered by Mayor Beach. The Mayor's action followed the visit at his office last Friday of a | delegation composed of representa- tives from nine local Negro and white organigations, including the Intéffational Labor Defense, Leagué of Struggle for Negro Rights | and the National Association for the Advancerhent of Colored People. The Hartford Negro Ministerial Alliance is holding a united front protest mass meeting tonight at the Union Baptist Church. Hartford workers are clamoring for Ben J. Davis, Jr., editor of the Negro Lib- erator and veteran fighter for the @paign which will last until Lenin memorial day, that is, the latter part of January. Will it be possible to achieve this objective during this drive? The reply is very simple and cleat. Oertainly it’s possible. The Communist Party of the U. S. A. has made itself known to thousands and tens of thousands of workers in this country as the fear< léss leader and organizer in all the struggles of the working class. The Communist Party is the only party which has fought for the organiza- tion of a united working class front of struggle against hunger, fascism and war, against wage cuts, against the attack on the living standards of the working class by the Roose- velit New Deal, for unemployemnt félief, for social anid unemployment insurance and for immediate cash | relief for the pauperized toilets, the poor fatmers in the countryside; as well as for the enactment of the “Farmers Emergency Rélief Bill.”- Relentiess Struggle In thesé numerous struggles of the workifig ¢lass and éspecially in the recent strike struggles, the Com- munist Party has proved that only by a relentless struggle against cap- italism oan the working class im- prove their conditions and put 4 stop to the lowering of their stand+ ards by the offensive of the capi- talist class, headéd by itS main reps Stottsboro boys and Angelo Hern- | don, to cote here to speak. | A conference on the proposals of { the Communist Party to the Social- ist Party for a united front on the Allén case is to be held here tomor- rom, Allen is in the Hartford Municipal Hospital, critically wounded with a | bullet in his hip bone. Witnesses | have testified that Allen was shot | down by Patrolman Smith without the slightest provocation. Smith | has & long record as a vicious” Negro-hater. : | A demand that repersentatives | of the united ffont movement be | seated on the Mayor's investigating. committee will be made om Mayor Beach tomorrow. French Police Betray | Spanish Refugees. in | Flight from Terrorism | PARIS.— Instances of violations jof the right of asylum by the | French government has come to ‘light daily in increasing numbers. | The “Humanite” has received a let- | ter from Oosta Ricardo Zalbolsa, official of the Spanish Union of | Agricultural Workers, now impris- lonéd in Madrid, in which he re- | veals his bétrayal French police bie the hands of the Spanish po- ice. | On October 21 four Spanish anti- (fascists Were arfested and handed by the relief supetvisor in refusing over to Spanish authorities, who him medical aid. Bray will bé tried promptly imprisoned them. On Oc- tomorrow at 9 a.th. |tober 28 Bucario Redin Isoate, séc- Cisal White, who will be ttied on retary of the chauffeurs’ union of charges of rapé, is the third case Pamplona, who had fled to Pat, which the Massillon steel barons | was arrested and handed over to will try this week. White, a young his pérsecutors. In the past week Even the case workers were | youth, against the monarchist- fascist reaction in Spain, for the. liberation of Caballero, Rosado, Medtana and all other anti-fas- | cist prisoners, for fratarnal suv- | pott to the fighting youth of | Spain and their families, against | all the repressive measures of the Leroux-Robles goverfment—such Hunger Stalk Detroit Stories of Relief Wo - By A. B ers are supposed to visit the clients | twice a month. Why is it that in | some cases they don’t come around | for as long as four months?” | “Of course, there may be dividual case workers who neglect | their dutiés, bit the real trouble is that we'te understaffed and over- | worked and just can’t get around as often as we're supposed to.” | She told me of the great dissatis- with their own conditions. They have had to take “voluntary” salary cuts, there is widespread discrim- ination in régard to salafies, and a Whole system of favoritism and spying that has been built up under Welfare Administrator Ballenger. Under Ballenger’s regime Negro workers, as well as whites who are overfriendly with them, are discrim- inated against. Last year the case workers de- cided to organize. At first this was bitterly opposed by the officials, but when they saw that the mood for | organization was too sttong, they adopted the maneuver of gaining control of the union and “respec- tabilizing it,” as Miss A- de- scribed it. Today the Detroit Wel- fare Employees Association—which, incidentally, excludes all clerical workers—is practically a company union. It has held only one mem- bership meeting, at which the pres- ent officers wére elected, with an administration flunkey, Paul Con+ in- | faction among the case workers | now overshadows évérything else! We await your immediate fa- vorablée reply. For unity of thé working class youth, Comradely, GIL GREEN, National Secretary, Young Communist Laague. Working Class Neighborhoods, rkers Reveal to ‘Daily’ Correspondent - MAGIL lan of the Fort Street Station, as president, es Viasean | Dr. B—— is a dentist who treats relief dependents under an ar- rangement which permits them the services of their own dottor or den- tist. Previously, he had been lim- ited to $75 worth of work a month at the rate of $1 for an extraction and $1.50 for a filling. Each pa- tient was entitled to no more than three fillings ahd tén extractions. “I had one patient,” he said, “who had 17 teeth that could be saved if they were filled. But the Welfare Department refused to allow me to do what my scientific training has taught me to do. I could fill only three, had to pull out tén others and leave the rest to rot. This experience was by ho means excep- tional.” ‘ Since Oct. 19, medical and dental aid has been cuit oné-third. As a result, even this inadequate treat- ment is being denied the uném- ployed. Dr. B—— told me that he had recieved instructions to handle only acute cases. “An acute case,” he said, “is where the tooth is so far gone that it can no longer be paved and has to be pulled out. And not even then unless the patient has a toothache. “As is well known, many diseases and ailments are directly traceable to defective teeth. The proportion of bad teeth is naturally higher among the unemployed beeauss they have had no money to look after Negro steel worker, was not in Mas- | | sillon on the day on which the al- | |leged rape was committed. He will | be tried Friday. The Massillon Unemployment Council has called upon the wWork- ers to fight these trials by mass | protests and by packing the courts and demanding that all charges against these workers be dropped. them. Neédless to say, the poor diet doesn’t help theit teeth any.” . * “Can a person be adequately fed on 21 cents a day?” Dr. C—— treats many workers on relief. Because of his professional training I thought that he was in & position to know even better than John F. Ballenger whether the Wel- fare Department's food budgets aré adequate. “No,” Dr. C—— replied decisively. “If a person is lying in bed and not expending energy, perhaps he can get along oh 21 cénts a day. Evén then he would need a greater variety of food than he can buy with that money. It is true that caloric requirements may be sat- isfied on 21 cents a day, but science has shown that caloric needs ate not the only onés that have to be Satisfied. Vitamins are equally, if not more, important in the preven- tion of disease. With food prices risifg, vitamin sources, particularly vegetables, becoie impossible to ob- tainvon 21 cents a day.” “What effects will living on 21 cents a day have on a persot’s health?"T asked. “He will ptobably be able to get enough caloric value not to lose weight, providing he is leading a sedentary life. But the lack of vita- mins would make him more liable t6 Sucenmbd to respiratory infections such as colds, conghs, sinus trouble, étc., which make the individual sus- five refugees, including a soldier, were shoved over the frontier by the French authorities. Workers’ Bookshops: Raise funds for the Daily Worker $60,000 campaign by arranging 4 “hook-review” eventhg of some populat book, or an open foram on current literature. “With the coming of cold weather I havé found # tremendous increase in respiratory infections among people on the Welfare. As a result, médicines containing vitamins, such as cod liver oil, have to be admin- istered. I was in a housé this mofn- ing treating a boy of eight who had fever. There aré sven children and everyone in the family has 4 cold, from the 11-months-old baby to the mother.” “In an ytd! in anys me, fod Ballenger said that ‘in welfare = lies undernourishment in ; runs no higher than in children of other families not on welfare.’ From your experiencé would you say that this is true?” “Perhaps they are not more un- dernourished other children, but they are certainly more mal- nourished. Malnourishment doesn’t mean lack of weight; it means lack of vitamins, lack of a properly bal- anced diet, For children this is particularly sérious. I have found that welfare children are more anemic and more susceptible to respiratory diseases than children not on the welfare. They start life with a handicap that they may never be able to overeome.” (What is the way out for the unemployed workers of Detroit? eg tighey John Pace, resentative, Roosevelt and his ad- ministration. Especially during the last five years of the crisis has the Communist Party organized the working class for a united front struggle for social and unemploy- ment inguifance and for immediate cash relief to the poor farmers. The meager rélief which so far has been given the wofkers and poor farm- ers is a direct result of the stfugs gles led by the Communist Party for these demands. Without the militant activity of the Communist Party in organizing the- toiling masses in a struggle for relief; the working class today would be ina still more miserable situation: in the citiés,as well as the toilers in the countryside. It-is in these struggles, led by our Party, that the Party has made itself known: to- scores. of thousands of toilers in the U..S. A. For this reason it is safe. to say that the objective in the ptesént recfiliting drive can surely be achiéved. But in order to be able to achieve this objective in the shortest possible time, it is necés- sary that every Party member will put his shoulder to the wheel in this drive. Each one of us Party members must immediately begin to approach and gét personal con- tacts with the militant wotkets in the workshops, factories, mines, in the unions and other mass organ- izations of the workers, in order to be able to draw them into the mem- bership of our Party. We Finns can, and must play an important role in this drive. We have thou= sands of Party sympathizers in our Mass organizations, workers’ clubs, women’s clubs, and the dozens of cooperative societies organized among the Finnish workers ‘and farmers. These sympathizers we must immediately and without hes- itation begin to draw into our Party membership. Work in Shops The Finnish Buro of the Com- munist Party urgés all our district fraction buros of the « Workers’ Clubs. the Women’s Clubs, and the Cooperative Societies as well as every ofié of our local fraction buros | immediately to begin seriously map- ping out concrete plans as to how to carry on this campaign. The district fraction buros must immediately make a survey of all the local fractions and set out spe- cific quotas of new members to be drawn in by these fractions from our mass organizations. and. espe- cially of sare Se shops, factories and minés. is drive for new members can and should be organ- ized on the basis of Socialist com- petition between the local fractions, sub district and district fractions of the Finnish Workers Federation. In this respect a detailed letter has been mailed by the Finnish Buro ©. P. to all the districts and local fractions. At the same titne as the Finnish Buro C. P. aj ches its district And local fractions this letter, we évety honest Finnish worker w kant poor farmer to strengthen the ranks of the leader of the Amer- ican working class, the Communist, Party, by joining and becoming an active membér of the Party. The Communist Party is your Party. It is calling upon you to join its ranks, By joinng the ranks of the Com- munist Party you will not only be farmers. Only this will assure the final victory of the working class. Workers’ children can raise money for the — Worker fund by holding children’s ceptible to tuberculosis, parties in the homes, in I. W. 0, oe gaat an loc ra es