The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1984 ‘ew England Shoe Bosses in Union Smashing Drive Organization of Company Union Tried in Lowell Bosses Agents Masquerade Under the Name of ‘Action Commitiee’ To Confuse Workers | By a Shoe Worker Correspondent LOWELL, Mass.—A wholesale at- tempt to break up the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union in Lowell, and replace it with a so- called independent union has been started by the shoe manufacturers and their spies in the ranks of the shoe workers. This has come about with the removal of the Merrimack Shoe Co. from this city and the threatened removal of the United Novelty Shoe Co., a branch of the dated Shoe Corp. Conos! Masquerading behind the name Action Committee, which was the name given to the temporary of- ficials of the local union till the regular officials were elected a few weeks ago, a group of former scabs and company spies called a meeting for Nov. 10 of all the former em- ployees of the Novelty Shoe Co The name “Action Committee” befuddled many shoe workers, who were unaware that the real action committee had been dissolved sev- eral weeks before, and prompted these misled workers to attend the meeting, which had been declared illegal by the General Executive Board. Working hard to form a company union were Jimmy Matarkos, Shu- gar, Chenard and a woman locally called Black Mary. Charges have been brought against these people and they surely will be expelled from the U. 8. and L. W. U. Matarkos made an impas- eech at the meeting, claim- he was working for the of the shoe workers and Jimm we School Co brother. mour Waldman of the Washington Bureau . arranged a party, and netted $35 Gegner, who promised to raise funds among his fellow-workers of the | three locals instead of one, even if/ern Shoe Manufacturers’ Associa- Sherman Cafeterias, makes good and sends $10. . the United Council of Working Women, 16, 5, 20, 4, 17, 7, 41 and 21) contribute a total of $31.29. Leaving N. Y. and crossing over to Newark, N. J., we find a $2 con- tribution from Local 1784, A. F. of Received $561.11 Previous!: 38,703.38 Total to date $39,263.49 DISTRICT 1 (Boston) A. Szezepanski 10 K. Uaskoff 10 Y. Mita 10 John Adams 10 Cecilia Miller 10 A. F. B. 1.00 ‘otal Nov. 19, 1934 1.50 Total to date $2,081.22 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) J. F. 1.00 | Brownsville Workers School, Sec. 8 131.50 William Gegner 10.00 FP. M. Goldstein 1.00 L, M. Schwartz 50 A. V. Shaw 1.00 Ridgewood Youth Club 10.50 H. F, Riddle 1.00 Arvid Olson 10.00 Four School Teachers’ Party 35, on L. P. 5 Pur Workers Ind. Union 2.90 An Irish Worker 2.00 I, W. O. Br. 799 10.55 Max Stone Collection 1.60 ‘Weismund House Party 1.50 Pen and Hammer Science Comm. 3.16 Pen and Hammer Economic Comm. 3.55 Workers Bookshop, Waldman Lecture 15.00 Workers Bookshop, Waldman Lecture 17.23 Daily Worker Med. Board United Council Working Women Council No. 16 + Council No. 5 Council No. 20 Council No. 4 Council No. 17 Council N Council N Council No. 41 Council No. 21 N.T.W.I.U. Cooper Union Coll. N.T.W.LU. Trades Board Furriers N.T.W.1.U. Stoft NT.W.LU. Staff Roumanian Workers Club Bklyn Athletic Culture Club Fender Molan Workers Lab. Theatre Movie Geo Ryder Hans Film and Photo League 5.00 Less Total Nov. 19, 1934 00.0 Total to date $20.570.73 DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) HL.D, Spencer 1.00 Harry Tillman 1.00 Total Nov. 19, 1934 2.00 Total to date $3,644.23 DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) Unit 105 Theodore Nelso Wm. Smith Earl Nelson Rey Smith Oscar Nelson K. Carlton 2 Wm. Conors Anton Lebiviteh Total Nov. 19, 1934 Total to date DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) Ohas. Lang William Hodde ‘Total Nov. 19, 1934 Total to date DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) Wm. Bremler AL W. F. Steckel Frank Minar ‘Total Nov. 19, 1934 Total to date $1,91 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) James M. 25 the community. He said that the| manufacturers will not deal with the U. S. and L. W. U., but they are willing to negotiate with an} independent local free from “out-| side” interference. | Shugar and Chenard circulated a petition for the employees to sign in favor of an independent union. So far, very few shoe workers have| done so. At this point about 35 of the 100 workers present at this meeting | arose in a body and marched out) of the hall. Many of those present | were not employees of the Novelty Shoe Co. Let me say at this point that this shop employs 500 workers | when running full time. Thus far, the large majority of | the local shoe workers stand be- hind their former decision to ac-| cept no wage cuts in any form. This | is the only way we will beat the! manufacturers and their rats in our ranks. No wage cuts! No regrading! No) reclassification! | | Al shoe workers must unite be- hind this three point program. We must ask for a 33 1-3 per cent raise instead of accepting a wage cut. $10 REWARD A $10 prize for the best answer || to the question: “Where are the Worcorrs in the $60,000 drive?” (We're only fooling, boys and girls. Who has $10?) H. F. Riddle ........ ..$ 1.00 Previously received .. 34.50 speial Police Foree Union Officials Aid Bosses By Apathy and ‘Flag Waving’ By a Worker Correspondent WINOSKI, Vt.—“A special po- lice force, numbering about 125 men, was organized at the offices | of the American Woolen Company in Winoski last night, it was learned from autoritative sources. “The newly-formed force, it is understood, is pledged to protect persons and private property and is considered generally to be a | step toward the reopening of the | woolen company mills which have | been closed by a strike for the | past three weeks.” So reads a clipping from one of the local newspapers. The American Woolen Company | is determined not to meet the de- | mands of the strikers. On Ar- mistice Day a parade of union members marched by the mill gate, with nearly every striker | marching, in answer to the news | put out by the company in regard to opening the mills to all those | who wished to work. Maine Shoe Local Flays General Board By a Shoe Worker Correspondent LEWISTON, Me. — The dissatis- faction of the membership of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union with their present reaction- ary leadership, their methods of organization in convincing the manufacturers how nice they are| and how willing to do business they are, is growing every day. It broke out openly at the meeting of j the mixed Local No. 27 in Lewis- ‘ton, Me. One speaker after another de- nounced their policies, their or- ganizational inability, and called them to resign if they could not carry on the work. They were \lies. | | Rank and File Fighting Attempts To Cut Wages and Move Shops By a Shoe Worker Correspondent | BOSTON, Mass.—The situation of the shoe workers in Boston, as well as in the other shoe centers in New England, is becoming more | and more alarming. | Most of the shops are shut down.| Thousands of shoe workers are on| the streets starving with their fami-| For the last ten weeks the| |shoe manufacturers have tried one/ scheme after another to enforce | wage cuts, Although, up to date, | the bosses were unsuccessful in putting over any wage cuts here, | they were successful in removing | many shops from Boston, Haverhill, | Lynn and Lowell to unorganized towns in Maine and New Hampshire without any great difficulty. Last week the Brunswick Shoe Co. of Boston moved its plant to Lawrence, Mass. An effort was made by the Boston officials of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union and the rank and file mem- bers to prevent this shop from moy- ing. ‘The union truck drivers were ap- proached by our shoe workers right at the shop where they started to load the machinery for removal. After they had been explained that the shop was running away from the union in order to look for cheaper labor, the truck drivers withdrew. In spite of that, on the same £ Pismiiviile Potion criticized for not calling full meet-|Hight the shop moved out to Law-/ ings of the General Board. A res-/Tence. The Lawrence local of the olution was passed to criticize our |" United” has established a picket resident G. B. committee for lack line around the shop and is not | of activity, and for not calling a|Supplying any of its members as full meeting of the G. B. to take|help to the shop. Tiis shop em- ntributes $131 At a lecture by John L. Spivak, arranged by the Brownsville Work- ers School, Mother Bloor’s appeal for funds for the Daily Worker brought in $131.50. This is the highest contribution Monday in the N. Y. District. The N. Y. Workers Bookshop, following the example of the Detroit Bookshop, arranged a lecture and did even better than its Detroit A total of $22.23 was contributed as a result of a talk by Sey- up seriously the situation in the union. It was also decided to stop the | arbitrary splitting of our small local into different crafts, and to have joint meetings. It was pointed out that the splitting was done by Zimmermann and his boys here, to make jobs for more supporters, and to create the impression that they . William | are making progress, that they have . . Four school teachers | for the Daily Worker . . . Eight branches of | it means the ruin of the whole or- ganization. It was also decided to support the resolution presented by the Boston Stitchers’ Local. This res- olution called for a fight against 5 | arbitration and wage cuts, for the 3.00 | development of a campaign to get 3.00| relief for the unemployed shoe 5.00/ workers, and for the passage of 31.75 | the Workers Unemployment and 1.850.94 Social Insurance Bill HR 7593, in | direct opposition to Mr. Bixby who L. Carpenters Rank and File. | Ed Miller John Zykin E. E. Roberts Coil. Finnish Workers Club, Republic Leah Meisner | Total Nov. 19, 1994 Total to date DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) John Novak Section 9 $35 |Opposed the passage of that bill, Chicago Heights Br., I. L. D. s.00| favoring the bill proposed by Sen- ‘Unit 704 1.00/ ator Walsh of Massachusetts. | Section 1231; Should I mention that our or- Rockford Sec. ~ 5.00 |ganizer, Mr. McKee, lost himself at | Unit 912 2.00; the sudden attacks, and declared | City Hall 700 | himself in “love” with the left Tela ‘50 | Wingers, saying that they are nec- essary, and that he was one him- Local 1784, A. F. of L. Carpenters | 300 | self? Rank and File | Section 5 | Br. 46, R. N. M.A. & 9.00 meee. — | Total Nov. 19, 1934 53.30 | Total to date 3,789.94 | t DISTRICT 9 (Minnesota) if O r e s oO North Ironwood Unit eh Superior Wisc. D. W. Comm. Duluth Unit No. 1 5.00 | orkers ut Coll. by J. H. Erickson at joint | meeting of Palo and Markham 1 70 | ‘ . innish Wkrs. Club, Bergland, Mich. 1.00) R e l ie Seri t Total Nov. 19, 1934 18.10 | Lp Total to date vet) | DISTRICT 11 (No, Dakota 3 P. King 1.00 By a Shoe Worker Correspondent a HAVERHILL, Mass.—We workers ter le Bed 1.00 | of Haverhill are facing the worst 17 | Total to date $69.35 int fan i d DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) winter we we ever experienced. Jeff Scribner 1.00 | Out of 7,000 shoe workers there are | William Tuger 1.00 | only 1,000 working full or part time. 00 2 50, Thousands —| other trades. 4soog| Yet, in face of this mass unem- | ployment, food stuffs are going sky 2.00 high, and in Haverhill the price of ___?| food is much higher than in other 3.00 | towns in the vicinity. 748-41) On top of all this, only 1,900 25 |people are on the Welfare List and | F. Jacobson Towers Unit are unemployed in Total Nov. 19, 1934 Total to date DISTRICT 18 (California) William Urdang A Riverside Sympathizer Total Nov. 19, 1934 Total to date DISTRICT 14 (Newark) Harry Muller, Sr. | unit 2 1.00! receiving so-called relief through | Russian Org. Joint Meeting 150] script. Every week we are cut off [eae Ue 255/25 cents to 50 cents and in some | Joint Affair, Bayonne 23.39 cases $1 from our checks. Re peu nerare 53) | After we fight like hell and |W. R. Rubin 200 | finally get our checks, the stores | Subscriber 1.00) where we can shop are specified Total Nov. 19, 1934 —~ye.33 | On the checks. 641.22 | Set robbed as for example, for pea In these stores we | | Total to date | DISTRICT 16 (Charlotte) | beans selling at two pounds for 17 | Danville Unit 5 1.00|cents in cash money, we pay 21 Total Nov. 19, 1984 1.00 | cents in script, coffee sells at 29 Total to date 89.66 cents a pound in cash, we pay 33 DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) | Lamboy 2.00 | Ignace Steffen | Total Nov. 19, 1934 3.00 | Total to date 540.89 | DISTRICT 19 (Denver) | Unit 3, Salt Lake City 2.00 | Total Nov. 19, 1934 2.00 Total to date DISTRICT 2@ (Houston) | | Alexander Correa 28 | | | Total Noy. 19, 1934 25) | Total to daet 27.50 | DISTRICT 22 (West Virginia) | | H. Weaver 1.00 | aoa | Total Nov. 19, 1934 Total to date 17.65 cents in script, ete. The stores are told to sell us the cheapest foods and only certain foods. To get a $5 check with a family of three children, we have to work for the street department, doing the city laborers’ work for welfare script. I know a family that was given an eviction notice. This family lived in a-small home owner's house. The landlord and the ten- ant went up to the relief depart- ment to get them to pay the rent. The city refused. This landlord, because he was pressed for his taxes, water bill and mortgages was eee Forced to tell the family to leave. Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME AMOUNT ADDRESS $ Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. The city then moved this family to an old shack owned by the bank, and the city pays rent to the bank. Two weeks ago we were waiting to get our work slips signed so that we could get our relief. Sometimes, we wait four and five hours. ™ osine, I am glad the rank and file members of the United Sho and Jcather Workers Union are or- ganizing the unemployed to better these conditions and fight for the passage of the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598. ployed about 300 workers, and has been operating in Boston a good) many years. | |_ Another shop in Boston, the| Scholnick Shoe Co., employing over | ,300 workers, has also shut down) \this week after several attempts to organize a company union and put over a 15 per cent wage cut failed. |The owner of this shop is Mr. Bra- |Verman, the chairman of the East- tion, with whom our union has signed the infamous “18 months’ | {mo wage increase agreement” last | | August 1, | | This agreement was based on the | prices handed down by the State| |Board of Arbitration as of Novem- |ber, 1933, and which in many in- | |stances carried wage reductions. | There was also a provision in this | \agreement which allows the union} {to ask for an increase in wages in| |January, 1935, “if and when the U. S. Department of Labor will re- port a material increase in the cost | jof living.” | Despite these facts the bosses are trying to take advantage of the| general unemployment situation, and the particular slack in the shoe | industry, to put over more wage ‘cuts. This situation is alarming because the membership, more and more, is losing whatever confidence they | {may have had in the union leader-| ship, local as well as general. Be- cause of pressure that was brought to bear by the rank and file mem- |bers and even by some of the local! \officials, the Resident Committee of | the G. E. B. at a meeting of joint councils in Lawrenc. on Sept. 1, was forced to take a stand against wage reductions. | | But, the general officials have not ,carried out any part of the program adopted at that meeting, which \called for strikes against wage cuts, \for a policy of following and strik- ing the shops that move out. Nei-/against our constitution, and only ‘ther did the officials carry out any | \of the actions embodied in a reso- |lution adopted at a mass meeting jin Boston on Sept. 26, which called for a thorough mobilization of the shoe workers for struggle for im- mediate relief, for E. R. A. shoe pro- ‘jects, and for unemployment insur- ance, On the contrary, the officials in Boston have even discouraged and to some extent sabotaged the |work of the unemployment commit- jtee elected by the Stitcher’s Local ‘under pressure of the Communists jand the rank and file. jing the slightest attempt to mobil- ize and prepare the shoe workers ‘for struggle, the General officials, under the leadership of General Or- ganizer Mackasey and the union lawyers, Peter Walsh of Lynn and \the Socialist Bearack, are pinning |all their hopes on Washington and ithe N. R. A. to solve the situation ‘for them in a peaceful way. | Despite these efforts on the part jof the officials and the reaction— aries in the “United,” unemployed movements and the struggle for unemployment insurance are being | developed in Haverhill and Boston by the rank and file members, both unemployed and employed. A campaign by the rank and file has been initiated and widely de- veloped for the calling of a special Emergency Convention of the “United” within the shortest pos- sible time. The main program for this convention will be: | 1. To adopt a militant program ‘ of action of struggle to meet the serious situation confronting the union. i 2. To prepare for a national strike for shorter hours without reduction in pay, for a uniform wage for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled, for unemployment re- | lief and unemployment insurance. 3. For an intensive campaign to \flag into the union, as patriotism is | While these officials are not mak- | SHOE WORKERS! SAVB YOUR UNION! | On this page today we have |/ letters from shoe workers in most || of the important shoe centers in |) New England. All of them tell one story—a gigantic conspiracy to smash the United Shoe and |} Leather Workers Union is afoot. The flag waving in Lynn, the removal of shops from Boston and other union centers, the at- tempt to organize a company union in Lowell are all part of this conspiracy. From the letters it is evident that where the union officials are not actively engaged in help- ing the shoe manufacturers, their complete apathy serves the same end. Already a movement has been started to convince the shoe workers to accept wage cuts in order to “pacify” the bosses, The failure on the part of the officials to take up the struggle for the thousands of unem- ployed shoe workers aggravate the situation. Only the rank and file under militant leadership can defeat the attempts of the bosses and their agents to smash the union, The movement for the calling of a special Emergency Convention has been initiated. It must re- ceive the support of every honest member of the U. S. & L. W. U. The letter from Boston, Mass., contains the proposals to this convention. .Every shoe worker should discuss them and rally his union brothers in the fight to have them adopted, and for the setting up of a militant rank and file committee to carry them through. 2 Shoe Locals Condemn Act | Of Stitchers By a Shoe Worker Correspondent | LYNN, Mass.—Great indignation | is being expressed among the shoe | workers of Lynn at the action of | the Stitchers’ Local of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union against a member of the local for refusing to salute the American flag on the ground that a union is not exercises. went on record as protesting the| action, and called upon the Joint Council of Lynn to put a stop to/ these tactics, which are aimed at splitting the shoe workers. A resolution was introduced in the Cutters’ Local a week ago Thursday condemning the action of the Stitch- ers’ Local. The General Organizer, | Brother Mackasey, was present at| the meeting, and when a standing vote was taken on a motion to table | stitchers, | However, the motion to table was | lost and a heated discussion took; place. One cutter told the meeting | that his grandfather died in the) Civil War, and his father in the} Spanish - American War, yet he would not approve of bringing the always the workers. Mackasey was attacked for his position. He claimed he was against this flag business, but he didn’t want to go against the wishes of a local. But, the shoe workers re- member his statement in the press on militant workers, and this is only a continuation of his policy. Although the resolution was placed on file, there was a good dis- cussion and all agreed that the ac- tion taken by the stitchers was being used against helps the manufacturers of Lynn. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS || A KEEN ANALYSIS! Mobile, Ala. Dear Comrade Editor: It is clear to all of us here that if it had not been for the crooked- ness of politics that the Communist ;candidate for the First Congress- ional District, Comrade A. M. Foss- man, would have received probably three to four hundred, or perhaps more votes. However, we know that the ruling class will steal, cheat and Kill if necessary, to remain in power. The Mobile papers printed the lying statement that the Social- ist and Communist candidates had received about 50 to 100 votes com- bined, The workers here are beginning to see that the only way out is the Communist, revolutionary way out of the crisis. E. B. NATIONAL GUARDSMAN MAKES GOOD A PLEDGE Chicago, Ill. Dear Comrade Editor: As a delegate to the Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism, from a group of National Guards- men from the Illinois Infantry, I pledged $2 to the American League Against War and Fascism to carry on its work. Perhaps this Committee thinks that such pledges are only for en- couragement, or false alarms, that the pledge would be forgotten. But it is my duty to make good. The chairman announced, “From | a sergeant of .. . Regiment, a $2) pledge!” Please inform the com- | mittee that a Bolshevik’s word stands—not as good as gold, but as organize the unorganized, | every individual member. |to say: Local Aims To Split U.S. & L. W. U. ® Some More Bally-hoo! Patriotic Drive in Lynn Wes sSpated I. I. brings the follow- ing pamphlet to our attention. It |is entitled: “Tune in for ‘The Den- | tist Says,’ Station WMCA.” etc., jetc. The introductory paragraph reads: “These broadcasts have been WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board in life he could muster for them? |Is there any sane worker who would not be economical, if he had the |money with which to be economical, | Nowhere in the pamphlet do these “distinguished” dentists and physicians even hint at the only means possible for giving workers By. a Shoe Worker Correspondent | carefully prepared by a group of | medical and dental care which they LYNN, Mass.—The Stitchers’ Lo- |‘Ustinguished dentists and physi-/need so badly. We search in vain cal of Lynn, instigated By some of |*!ans to explain in simple words|for any suggestion of a means to its reactionary officials, suspended for a year a young shoe worker, Vera Nabeshka, for refusing to |Your child deserves a fair chance | salute the American flag. The rank and file of the local are | uties to ourselves”; it speaks of | not responsible for introducing this flag business into the local. Their vote of action against Vera was not @ consciously thought out move on their part; they were simply misled. How can any honest shoe worker, man or woman, vote for bringing in such issues into our union, if we are sincerely for the building of the organization? We all know that our union, as well as other labor unions, is organized to pro- tect us from the attacks of the manufacturers, and to secure better conditions for our members. Having this aim in mind, our union does not ask its members what political party they belong to, or to which church they go. These questions are the private concern of This is very simply stated in our constitu- tion, which reads: “The United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union has been organ- ized to enable all workers en- gaged in the shoe industry, and all component parts, thereof, re- gardless of creed, color, sex, na- tionality, political or religious af- filiations, to unite under one ban- ner for the better protection of their economic interests and for the betterment of their working and living conditions.” Our union is facing a crucial a place for indulging in patriotic | period. The manufacturers are try- | | ing every way possible to smash our The Lasters’ and Ironers’ Locals | Union in order to be able to cut our | wages as they please. The reac- tionary officials at the top, the Mackaseys and Halets, who are al- ways ready to give in to the manu- facturers, would be glad to accept a@ wage cut and maintain peace in the family. But, the fear of the rank and file holds them back. Why not start the workers fight- ing among themselves? Then, it would be easy to grant one wage cut after another. This is what is the resolution, Mackasey stood up| behind this flag waving business. At | for tabling it. In other words, he|the same time, it is no secret that | transaction, Brokers who make approved of the action taken by the | fascism, imported from Germany | arrangements for the sale, get 30 and supported by the American bankers and bosses, is raising its ugly head among us. Who are the champions of the flag waving that brought the issue into the local and flagrantly vio- lated the constitution of our union? May Daphine, the former business | agent, who still can not swallow the bitter pill of having been voted out, one of those unprincipled individu- als who put their own selfish in- terests above that of the organiza- tion, It is rumored in circles close to her that one of her primary reasons for this super-patriotic stunt was the fact that her son was dis- charged from the police force of Lynn for drunkenness or some other reason. Now she gets super- patriotic fits in order to prove to the administration that she is more than a 100 per cent patriot. The second individual is Peter Walsh, the lawyer who thinks he is running the union, besides being its paid attorney. He even went so far as handing down a judgment that Vera Nabeshka should be expelled because she dared to stand up for the rights given her by our con- stitution, namely, that political be- liefs are a personal matter. This, by the way, is the same P. Walsh who was instrumental in bringing the State Board into our agreement, and who together with | our top officials granted the wage cut to the “Gold Seal.” He is spending our hard-earned money by running to Washington to knock on the doors of all kinds of boards, and we have already seen what we got from them. He is doing all this just for publicity’s sake, so he could get some politician's job to serve. the bosses. This flag waving busi-} ness is just an additional publicity stunt. : We are faced with a wage cutting campaign of the manufacturers, with shops threatening to move. Let us not be sidetracked by unprin- cipled individuals, who are, con- | sciously or unconsciously, serving the interests of the enemy. Let us all stand solid regardless of polit- ical or religious beliefs, to defeat the attempts of the manufacturers and -| their agents to smash our union by splitting our ranks. not far away). Please turn over $2 of the en- closed money order to the League. The balance goes toward the $60,- 000 drive of the Daily Worker, which is a better gun than the one I handle in the armed forces. To my friend, Mike Gold, I want “Keep up your pen, it’s good! The louder, the better. I am only a wo-ker, but I understand your pen. With revolutionary greetings, SERGEANT OF THE good as a revolution! (And that’s ILL, NATL. GUARD. |some usually preventable causes of jill health . . .” Further, it states, jin life.” It points out “Four great |“protecting the expectant mother,” jand, as a final and clinching argu- |ment, it tells “how to make dentis- | try economical.” | Now, the question arises, why all jthis ballyhoo for dentistry? Has |there been a sudden epidemic of |rotting teeth? Certainly not. Work: jers teeth are decaying as steadil as quietly and insidiously as alway Then why the sudden interest in the dental care of the masses? The answer is to be found surely jin an “epidemic,” but not of decay- jing teeth. It is to be found in an “epidemic” of chronic unemploy- ment, which the capitalist system has bred. “epidemic” of a lack of funds for medical and dental care, in the working class. With the lowering and stopping of the income of the |great masses of workers, through unemployment, the dentists and the idoctors are in a fair way to lose their “jobs” as well, For since the onset of the crisis, many dentists and physicians have had to give up their offices because patients have not had funds to seek their services. The doctor or dentist goes “unem- ployed,” while millions of workers go without medical or dental care. And 152 dentists have had to stand in the same line as their patient, waiting for their $18 weekly pay from C. W. A. officials; 400 more dentists are waiting for a chance to stand on this line. | Let us see what solution for these conditions this eager little pamphlet thas to offer. To judge from its contents, no one seems to want to give his “child a fair chance in life,” and everyone likes to be as extrav- agant as possible in paying for medical and dental care. But is there any normal worker who would not give his child the fairest chance | By ANN | | RK JAPAN, a news dispatch says, | 30,000 girls were sold to fac- tories and into the “shameful pro- | fessions” by their fathers last year. | The price they get for their daughters runs from $3 to $300. The girls, sold supposedly for a period of six years, actually be- per cent commission. This is a practice, says the dispatch, “par- alleled only in the famine areas of the interior of China.” i Raa | JN SOUTH CHINA, in many ter- | ritories where women and chil- j dren were formerly sold to textile mills and into domestic service for life, the workers and peasants drove out the foreign imperialists, their |own landowners and war lords and established Soviets. They immedi- ately issued decrees establishing the freedom and equality of women. It was no longer permitted that women | be sold as slaves. Women had equal ‘rights with men to own property. |The Chinese Communists took im-j mediate energetic measures to en- force these decrees. . re , “THREE Songs About Lenin,” a ‘ film made in the U. S. S. R. compiies a highly moving story of | emancipation of women in the So- | Viet Union, especially the women | of tribes living in the Caucasus, and in far-off territories near the | Chinese borders. “We were kept | in darkness,” the women sing now. The picture shows these women freed by the Bolsheviks, led by | Lenin. A woman throws back the veil, symbolizing her slavery, | Which her forebears have worn for centuries, : A tractor and a camel stand side by side as a Kirghiz woman emerges from under the tractor where she has been adjusting a part of the mechanism. The Kirghiz women, who could not read and write, now go to school. They are taught to be skilled work- ers, They study to be engineers. They have been freed. They, who were submerged beneath centuries of slavery and superstition, achieved much in a short space ot historical time. What great things we might gain through an October! Sade 'HE Business Office says to us, “Hurry Up!” You've got a lot to do for the $60,000 drive. There is little time left!” So we speeded up the old thought mechanism. The answer came in the twinkling of an eye. A Chicago friend of this column sent a package that was to go for the Red Press Bazaar, but which came too late. It contained nine handkerchiefs, made of dainty muslin, hand edged—and best of all stamped with the image of Little Lefty! Each day, starting Wed- nesday, for three days, to the high- est bidder, three of these handker- chiefs will go! After that, we will Chicago friend, including a lovely hand woven rag rug, and hand made collars. So you women read- ers of this column—hurry up, dig into your pockets, and you may win the prize for the day! It is to be found in an! come slaves for life with the | offer other things donated by our | \restore the workers, | and conse- quently, the dentists’ and physicians’ income. Nowheze is there breathed a word about Social and Unemploy- ment Insurance, the only way to enable a patient to “see his dentist | twice a year,” or even once in two | years. | The pamphlet and the broadcasts jare financed by the Dental Supply |Co, to boost its sales via the den- |tists and physicians who are “dis- tinguished” enough to broadcast and |thus advertise themselves. We could hardly expect this company and their “distinguished” salesmen to Jurge a fight for unemployment in« |surance; for it is these “distine |guished” dentists and physicians |who, together with their wealthy patients and the industries which they control, who will have to pay for unemployment insurance. They bark up another tree. By pretend- ing to be intérested in economical dentistry, the good health of the public, etc., they give the illusion of caring for the vital needs of the masses, while gaining the advantage of having themselves noticed. (To be Continued) THEY KNOW THEIR ONIONS The Medical Advisory Board wishes to announde that it has available for any mac. organization or group a number of excellent speakers on workers’ health. Con- ditions: that the lecture be ar- |ranged for the benefit of the Daily | Worker (100 per cent proceeds, and that the-organization guarantee an audience of at least 300—this last being very necessary, since the com- rade doctors are already extremely jhard pressed with work for the |movement. Apply New York Dis- trict Daily Worker, 35 East 12th Street, Jean Karlin. 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