The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1934 GRANGE MASTER OFFERS NO SOLUTION TO FARMERS’ PROBLEMS In Taber’s Address Speech at Annual Grang dictions and Empty Hopes | By a Worker Correspondent HARTFORD, Conn.—The address of Louis J. Taber, Master before the National Grange Annual Session in Hartford, Conn., was full of un- solyed contradictions, glaring mis- COticeptions, and tacit but surpris- ‘Ing admissions. However, he pointed out some very important facts. He said ‘American agriculture has suffered more than 13 years of continuous agricultural depression. Gross farm income declined from $17,000,000,000 in 1919 to aproxi- mately $6,000,000,000 in 1933. Over f million farmers in the United States have lost title to their dhomes through tax sale, foreclosure, bankruptcy smd Mquidation,” Mr. ‘Taber seems ¥% have no answer to this problem. “On the whole,” he Says, “the agfic' al picture is en- touraging.” Master Taber is “sick at heart” when he learns through the recent disclosure of the committee investi- gating munitions and armament manufacturers that a few greedy armament manufacturers made mil-} lions of dollars murdering millions Of people because they were devoted patriots. Instead of denouncing the economic system which causes this | unthinkable loss of life and wealth, the Master talks vaguely about having “no profit motive” in the munition business. The Master further said: “It is a-tragedy that thousands of schools and millions of the nation’s youth are having their educational oppor- tunities greatly curtailed because of the shortage of funds.” Yet his only answer to this problem, vague talk about the “contribution that extension has given.” Some statements in the address clearly have the earmarks of fas-' cism. He tries to dismiss both Com- munism and Fascism with an equ- ally lusty kick. But close exami- ‘nation of his statements shows that he has a hatred for Communism, but a subtle admiration for Fas- cism. He said: “Communism in Russia may have benefited a large portion ‘of its people,” and then: “The Brown Shirt philosophy of Germany has awakened their nationalistic e Session Full of Contra-| | spirit and has given a mighty people |new courage and new hope... .” Reluctantly and doubtful he admits | the benefits to the Soviet Union; | but his language is certain when he| describes the benefits of Fascism to| Germany. | He bewails “the suffering, priva- tion, and hardship almost un- equaled in the annals of history” when referring to the Bolshevik revolution—suffering mainly caused incidentally by the presence of for- eign armies fighting the Red Army in 1918 on Russian soil. Yet the only fault he finds with the Ger- man Fascist revolution is that “it has destroyed liberty, crucified con- science, and made the individual the ' pawn of the state.” Nothing is said about the suffering of workers, So- | Cialist as well as Communist in the concentration camps, or the suffer- | ing of the Jews. And there were no| foreign armies on the soil of Ger- many either, Mr. Taber! | | The major part of the speech is | full of contradictions. At one time he warns the farmers not to look to Washington for help. Later, he} congratulates Roosevelt for his A.A.| A. program. At one point he states that corporation farming is un- American, again he points out that the corporation is here to stay, we have merely to humanize it. The intensity of modern nationalism is lamented, yet, Hitler’s nationalism is a blessing. “We must... .estab- lish constructive and broad-gauge land retirement programs in the area of seasonal and restricted rain- fall,” but “only God can make it rain.” JAPANESE AF! IR SUNDAY All out for the Daily Worker Affair at the Japanese Workers’ Club, 212 East Ninth Street, N. Y. C., this Sunday, Nov. 25, at 8 p.m. There'll be Japanese food at reasonable prices, enter- tainment, and a play, “Man- chukuo,” written by members of the club. One reason why you should be there: proceeds will be credited to the Worker Corre- spondence Department. Total to date covets SOS Quota—$500. Receipt of Only $353 Shows Districts Are Not Speeding Though little more than a week remains to Dec. 1, only $363 came 4n- Tuesday. Of this money, New York sent $302. Twenty-five districts were represented with only $51. It is easy to see that such poor work is bringing the Daily Worker into the greatest jeopardy. table. Chicago, for instance, the district with the largest quota in the country next to New York's, sent nothing. Pitts- | ‘burgh, another concentration district, sent $1. Nor is Cleveland on the Now is the time for every district to make the supreme effort to -g0 over the top. result must not be repeated. Every district must strive to se ‘week! Not one must wait a minute longer. Today’s small nd a substantial sum every day this | per hour on the forced labor jobs. mattress factory is the carding de- |partment. 00 ling December, 39 |f0r the needs of the rural county 2 Out of 600 Get Old anee Checks By a Worker Correspondent CENTERVILLE, Iowa. — Fifty thousand families in this state are on. relief. In this state we have an old age assistance act. Out of 600 applicants, two already got checks, which leaves only 598 to get them in this county. The men are getting 35 cents The number of hours they get is according to their “needs.” Just about enough so that he can keep himself alive. Every Daily Worker we get goes like hot cakes in a hungry family. We are doing the best we can to show the workers the way out and no doubt we will have results soon. Reduce Force, Increase Speed In FERA Plant} By a Worker Correspondent JACKSONVILLE, Fla—The PE. R.A, has thrown a number of fami- lies off their rolls and these fami- lies have been put back on county and local relief. The county and local officials plainly state that they have no funds whatever for relief work. There is a F.E.R.A. mattress fac- tory and a canning factory in Jack- sonville, Both employ women prin- cipally. Because of more steady work in the canning plant, many women who have been working in the mattress factory have been, transferred, leaving either room for work for more women in the mat- tress factory or more steady work for the ones remaining there. The largest department of the From 50 to 55 women have been working at the carding tables. Now there are from 30 to 35 women. This is extremely dis- agreeble work. The cotton is carded by hand and there is no protection for the carder from lint or clay dust which settles over the | whole body and is inhaled into the lungs. Clothes seem to be no pro- teection at all. Up until these changes took piace! the average amount of cotton carded a day was 1,400 pounds. With the shortage of help the bos- ses expected the same amount. The result was a terrific speed-up. Many women who were not used to it became very ill, The others were driven to the last ounce of strength and speed they possessed. The amount of cotton carded on the first day of change was about 850 pounds. We were told we must make up the loss the next day and besides reach the 1400 mark also. The supervisor went from table to \table, telling each that they were’ the slowest ones of all. He is an! old man and the full time work in the lint and dust is making a phy- sical wreck of him. He used to be very pleasgnt and friendly but bad |health has made an old grouch of him, From Boulder, Colo., Eugene T. contributes $1 to the Daily Work- er drive. ‘I wish more people— especially students—were inter- ested in helping you. If you don’t | make the mark, please keep up a weekly.” The expression of gen- uine concern should spur feaders to put all their extra time into raising money to insure publica- tion of the Daily Worker during the coming period. Wilmington Relief Funds Inadequate By a Worker Correspondent WILMINGTON, Del.—¢97,000 is the barest minimum amount set by an executive of the Relief Commis- sion to care for rural relief needs of New Castle County, Delaware, dur- January, February and March. Miss Mullen, the executive, said that the commission will have an urgent need for funds to meet re- lief funds in rural New Castle County during the coming winter and that the appropriations of the Wilmington City Council were voted only for use within the city limits. Miss Mullen also pointed out that the recent additional appropriation amounting to $20,000 will only care till the end of the present month. The total amount is approximately half of what is required for the needy of Wilmington during the coming winter. It has been also pointed out that the Negroes are heavily discrim- inated against throughout the en- tire state in their efforts to get re- lief and secure employment on public projects. However, it is ex- pected that action will not be taken by the relief authorities. concerning the discrimination as this has been called to our attention before. Received Nov. 20, 1934 $353.61 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) Previously received 30,264.49 | syonroe Unit 3.00 R. H. Lattner ry Total to date $39,618.10) » King 20 DISTRICT 1 (Boston) Boe Po Ellgene Mann $150 | Ge ce a ; ap | & Priend 05 “Total Noy. 20, 1934 1.50 | Walter Narain ‘0 ‘Potal to date 2,082.72 Steve 108 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) iA Lage AE 2 Section 12 5.00} 5am, > . Sec. 4, Domestic Workers Union 5.00 Nik Teodoroft “06 gal gob hid 4-00 | Nick Vangeloft “10 Sec. 7, Navy Yard Unit 30 |e eeereen = pee y Weraharo 1.00 | James Micholle 138 ‘Sec. 20, Unit 202 iho | gene - Section 20 1.25 ‘A Friend “35 Section 20 7.10 Steve C. “08 Saeed 239 | Eli, Minchott ‘05 ‘Section 3 5 “10 mens om Mike Krehoft ag Lo Seger a 3.00 | Total Nov. 20, 1934 5.31 eect 5.65 | Total to date 1,856.25 eee id DISTRICT 11 (North Dakota) waged $0 | Mrs. D. K. Georgeft 1.00 Sec. 5, chee = 5.00 | Vance M. Ardeune 1.00 ae suit 38 5.25 | Richard Nikkola 1.00 Sec. 5, Unit 17 5.00 ae Total Nov. 20, 1984 “4 a 10°29) Total to date 73.35 (Sjekeoaged DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) “Section 5 S50 5g race me "Sec. 1, Italian Workers Center Lon] V4.6 es) Sec. 3, Unit 2 7.00 _ Total Nov. 20, 1934 35 Rigger 3-06 | Total to date 440.34 are Chore Fees DISTRICT 18 (California) ooh adage 5.00 | A Subscriber 2.50 Prances Park 1.00 J. Logano 00 Zeeil Bolton the ae Greidenberg of bE 3.50 Glass-Conscious Chemist 1.00 Be boyited 1934 ae ee ar No eed DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) eecone Hirschhorn ed Morris L. Cohen ri) a 300 | North End Unit, Waterbury 5.00 John Borgnis 28 1.00 agp | Total Nov. 20, 1934 3.5 86. 9.00 Total to date 672.06 1.00 DISTRICT 17 (Birmingham) Ec 00) 3. B.C. Chattanooga 1.00 “Total Nov. 20, 1934 302.55 z Total to date aber | Cacet Hevea ee a DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) DISTRICT 18 (Milwankec) risburg Unit and Sympathizers 6.10] Elmer Anderson 33 — | Marengo Uni y ‘otal Noy. 20, 1934 6.10 piiloh: Total to date 3,650.33 | Total Nov. 20, 1934 3.25 é DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) Total to date 5444 R. A. Stohr 1.00 DISTRICT 22 (West Virginia) Br. i5, RN. M.A. 8. 13:45] Ukrainian Br., I. W. 0., Benwood 5.00 “Total Nov. 20, 1934 14.45 | Total Nov. 20, 1934 5.00 “Total to date $471.86 | Total to date : $62.65 DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) CANADA P. Miravalle 00 | Jack Slapack 20 » Total Nov. 20, 1934 1,00 | Total Nov. 20, 1934 20 $658.91 | Total to date 4.25 Total to date NAME a Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! ADDRESS AMOUNT 50 EAST 13th St. Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER New York, N. ¥. NOTE We publish every Thursday letters from farmers, agricultural and cannery and lumber workers. We urge farmers and workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and their efforts to organize. Please get these let- Unit 14, with only 12 members, raised $100 and won the Middle Bronx Section (N. Y.) banner in the $60,000 drive. If a small unit like this can raise such a large sum, every other unit in the Party ters to us by Monday of each week. | By a Worker Correspondent CHARLES CITY, Ia.—One farmer had this experience: He was strug- gling along on a rented farm that was heavily mortgaged and which reverted back through the hands of several speculators to the original owner. The farm renter, who must move always does his moving on {March 1 and, naturally, in order to make arrangements, he must know January. In latter February, came the landlord saying he had made a deal with a large landowner of the neighborhood, a man who is a strong churchman, and who. calls himself a Christian. This latter landlord told the renter he would have to move as he intended to farm the land himself. The renter had about two weeks to get another farm. He succeeded in getting one, but this was owned by a family living in the town and , they held him up for high rent. In his extremity, the farmer moved on this place. In the deepening depression the crops did not pay the rent and the poor farmer lost all his best milk cows and some of his machinery to the landiord. This left the farmer starving since without his cows he had no income, which, though small, had been dependable, with which to buy groceries. landlord who calls himself a ‘“‘Chris- tian.” He had adopted a half-grown orphan boy from an asylum, who does much of his hardest work for nothing, thus saving his own son, and also saving a hired man’s wages. He rented the house on the newly acquired place to tenants. One of these tenants was a painter him to move down into the town, and he had decided upon this move in the fall. His Christian landlord, however, told him that he would have to pay his house rent up to March 1, whether he moved in the fall or not. He found a new renter under the whether he must move or not by | I will bring the story back to the; who eventually found it best for; Robbery By Seniious Landlord Receives Double Payment from Govern- ment and Tenant for Same Aereage ‘on the field. following agreement: for the use of the house and a small piece of ground, about an acre, he was to do 85 days of work for the land- lord, throwing in the use of his team of horses also. The other days of work had to be found hap- hazardly among the other farmers. Such possessions as this tenant had were those which happened to be left him after a previous land- lord had taken his best stock for rent of another farm. This latter landlord, by the way, owns untold numbers of farms in Iowa and Minnesota. It is said here that all of this man’s renters are staying on their respective farms for next year because they are so heavily in- debted to the landlord that if they moved they would have nothing! left to take away. Back to the Christian landlord! The last tenant has been notified by said landlord that he must find himself another home. He discov- ered that his successor was to be a preacher, kept by the so-called Christian to preach in a local rural church. It leaked out that the landlord has said that he wanted more “Christians” in the neighbor- hood. The “Christian” landlord has received money from the govern- ment for retiring so many acres of land and not raising so many hogs in the corn-hog reduction program. When it became known that the drouth would ruin the cattle feed, the government gave orders through the county agent. that a crop to} take advantage of the later rains could be sown on this retired land. The tenant planted soy-beans. Now the Christian landlord, besides get- ting the government money for the retired acreage, also asks rent of the tenant for the crop of soy- beans. One can easily see that the ten- ant will get nothing for his work You can imagine that nothing would please the tenants so much as to have these landlords and all that goes with landlordism wholly eliminated. By a Worker Correspondent EVANSVILLE, Ind.—While work- ing on an FERA project cutting wood for widows on direct relief and unable to gather their own wood out of the river I had the “honor” of seeing the jingo mem- orial for the first American soldier killed in France, James Bethel Gresham, a boy born and raised in Evansville, Ind. Saturday, November 3, 1934, the morning was very cloudy at six o'clock; the FERA workers were hurrying up the street in old dilapi- dated cars and trucks hurrying to get to work at 6:45, many wearing oid army clothes, saved from the days of ’17 and ’18, The weather and day looked very much like France during the war. Cold, rain and hunger. When I arrived at the Locust Hill Cemetery where we were to cut wood, the keeper informed us that the Legion would be there to have a doing, today is the seventeenth anniversary of his death, This brought remarks from my buddies, many who had been in the war. “Gresham, the first to die for the interest of Wall Street in the big game of chess,” said one. . “I guess if he had a wife she would no doubt be on the relief and get some of this wood,” re- marked another. “The Gold Star Mothers’ organi- zation built a home in Garvins Park for Mrs. Dodd (his mother), and she lived there till she died and today he is a national hero and people come from everywhere to see his grave,” put in one, who is a very active member of the Young Democratic Club. “Yeah? Well, that’s allright, but he don't know anything about it and he is a long time dead,” an- swered an old coal miner, who had A SUCCESSFUL MEETING New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: of meetings more like the one at the Coliseum, celebrating the Rus- sian revolution—and once again we can bring sympathetic people along without having to apologize. The meeting was orderly, speeches were short (though I thought Comrade Browder -hould have spoken more about the Russian revolution and less of America) and it ended at 10:45. Ss. K. A VOLUNTEER FOR THE PICKET LINE Brooklyn, N. Y. Gear Comrade Editor: I have been reading the New York Times for eighteen years, a newspaper that carries a slogan on its first page, “All the News That's Fit to Print.” I am going to ask their editors why they do not print the result of the elections for the Communist Party as they report for the bosses’ parties, namely the Democratic, Re- publican and Socialist parties. I am in agreement with the cor- respondent “L. M.” who wrote on should have raised its quota by this time, November picket any newspaper that claims it Discussion at Grave of First Soldier to Die in France j explosion at the mine and a piece of steel in his leg, brought back from France. The first to arrive was an old Ford sedan with some working- class people in it who, I judge, must have been members of the Gresham family, because they were the only ones to shed any tears at the mem- orial. Then came the Legion, all in big cars, about eight with about twenty people in them, After hurriedly placing the flags, and the occupant of a big Ford sedan, a big guy with a bald head, read a prayer and then they fired three rounds over the grave. A photographer took their pictures and they all went home. They had done their duty. Their duty, of course, did not call for any deaths so, of course, they did not have the opportunity of being the first to die for their country at the Gresham Memorial. ‘When they were all gone and the boss was not looking I walked over and took a look at the memorial spot. It was just like the rest of the soldiers’ graves with a plain Pvt. 1st cl. “Looks like they would give him a bigger one, as being the first to get killed,” said the young demo- crat. “Well, in the army all men are equal even in death, that is unless he is a general or an officer or his folks are rich or something. Then, of course, they make a show,” an- swered the one-armed water boy sadly. “Looks like they are going to start another war. Well, if they do I know two guys that ain’t going. That's me and the guy they send after me,” cried the old coal miner powder marks on his face from an bullet in his leg. Letters from Our Recdan You see—it can be done. A couple ,¢"s’ candidates under the emblem ; chaotic, 12, that we ought to tioned. with the powder burns and the represents the community and at the same time withholds the re- |Sults of the elections of the work- of the hammer and sickle. I volunteer to picket the New York Times or any other newspaper to force them to print the vote of the Communist candidates as well as publish the Communist ballot as they are originally given out by the Election Board without erasing their emblem when printing it. So let’s prepare now and organize for the future so that those “re- spectable” newspapers and their editors will not scab on New York workers in the next election, Who will join me on the picket line? J, 8. SHARP CRITICISM AND A SUGGESTION New York, N. Y. I am increasingly disturbed by the indifference, the laxness, the lack of efficiency which character- izes our mass meetings. They in- variably begin an hour or two after } them. We lost about $80 worth Insanity Scare white stone with these words: ithe books was a secret between the JAMES BETHEL GRESHAM (state and its clients. November 3, 1917 | Loses $80 in Sale of Four Heifers By a Farmer Correspondent TOWNVILLE, Pa.—We bought four heifers when we came here and paid $80 for them. We kept them two years. We took them to ! a sale and got the same price that we bought them for. Just think of that, a person don’t get anything for raising of feed on them. We thought we would get more than that, so we could buy a team of horses, but we didn’t have even half the money for the team. The milk here we sell for a dollar a hundred and in the city it is 13 cents a quart. That profit goes to the big guys and it is not pure milk. That is all I have to say this time. Used Against Sokol Worker’ By a Food Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y.—Some weeks | ago you had a letter in your columns dealing with conditions in Sokol’s Cafeteria, Pitkin and Rockaway Ave., Brooklyn. I would like to let you know some more of what hap- pened in there. Right after the story appeared in the Daily Worker, Mr. Sokol began picking on a worker by the name of Jack Stein, saying that he sent the story to the Daity Worker. He kept driving Stein all the time, piling all kinds of work on him. Finally, Stein couldn’t stand it any longer and one day went to the cashier and asked for a nickle to make a phone call. Mr. Sokol understood that he wanted to call the union (Local 325, Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, A. F. of L.), and would not let him. Stein insisted on calling up, and Sokol became very abusive. He told one of his flunkeys to call up the Kings County Hospital to get an ambulance for Stein saying that he would put Stein away in the psy- chopatic ward. Stein then tore himself away in his working clothes and went to the union. Nothing has been done about this case by the union yet. This worker has always been a good union man, and that is the only reason he received such treatment from Mr. Sokol. Sokol has been getting away with all kinds of things. I think it is about time to put a stop to it and show the power of the union. With the newly elected leadership, if the rank and file pushes the issue we can stop Sokol’s bull dozing tactics and really turn his place into a union house. Relief Head Blocks Probe Into Books By a Worker Correspondent RACINE, Wis.—At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors in the} court house packed with workers, it was agreed that a committee of ten, five supervisors and five work- ers were to go to the Relief De- partment and check over the books. When they got there Mr. L. T. Vance who is in charge of relief refused to let this body look over the books. His reason was that in Immediately a drastic cut in re- !lief went into effect. This can mean lief, fearing the workers’ wrath, are ,trying to straighten up their books by way of the workers’ stomachs. ence. They repeat each other, Bad speakers talk endlessly. The good speakers come on when the audience is ready to pass out. The collec— tions are interminable and badly organized. The entertainment which should offer variety and counter- balance the heaviness of the speak- ers is usually disregarded or shelved until it is too late. Newcomers who could be easily enthusiastic are smothered in a torrent of indigestible verbiage. They are repulsed rather than at- tracted. There is no sense in the conduct of our affairs of audience psychology—no_ theatrical appeal. The movement needs a stage man- ager!—a stage manager with theo- retical knowledge, to plan and run its meetings, to start them on time and end them on time—to arrange them so that they hold an audience, so that they go swiftly and build to a climax and send the listeners out enthusiastic rather than tired. RM. A LONE HAND GATHERS STRENGTH Bassett, Va. Dear Comrade Editor: I am a young man who has been an active sympathizer for years working in the I. L. D. and the American League Against War and Fascism. I am at present in the C.C.C. camp at the above address. There is good opportunity here foy revolutionary work but I am a lone hand here. I am trying to educate a few National Guardsmen as to the class struggle and their strike- breaking role. All I have been able to do here so far has been to organize our com- pany (240 men) in a strike for bet- they are scheduled to begin. They end two or three hours after a rea- sonable bedtime hour. They are repetitious, badly propor- The speakers amble on without regard fc. time or audi- ter food. The boys struck and stuck together splendidly—winning better food, temporarily at least. It was no more than those in charge of re-{ WORKERS’ HEALTH | Some More Baily-hoo! (Continued from Yesterday) However, there are many physi- cans and dentists, not so “distin- guished,” who are learning why workers are really refraining from medical and dental care. These physicians and dentists who depend for their income upon workers of all fields, realize that there is more ;than enough medical work to oc- cupy every member of the profes- sion, especially now that crisis con- ditions have worsened the health of workers. . These medical men realize that before a worker can “regard the dentist as a pzofessional ser- vant” (to quote the pamphlet), the system requires that the workers have the means to pay his “profes- sional servant.” (“Professional” servants must also pay rent, eat and clothe themselves. These rank and filers of the medical professions are carrying their realization of these facts into action. They are organizing and bringing their or- ganized support to the working class in its struggle for Unemploy- ment Insurance. In this united struggle, these physicians and dentists are learning and will learn with increasing conviction, that their interests are bound up vitally with those of the working class. Thus, the working class, with iis new-found ally, the rank and file physicians and dentists, will carry on their struggle for the restoration of their incomes at the expense of the ruling class. And once their in- comes are restored, they will need no “distinguished” medical “sales- men” to assist them in the expendi- ture of that income. Colds and Cod Liver OW M.,, of Boston, writes: “My bey, * 25 months old, is susceptible to colds and sneezing. Still he has a good appetite, and has a normal, healthy appearance. Would a con- tinuance of giving Cod Liver Oil aid in preventing colds, or could the Cod Liver Oil be discontinued? In view of the fact that it did not prevent the susceptibility to colds last winter.” Our Repiy 'HE theory has been advanced by some scientists that one of the Conducted by se Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board [ vitamins contained in Cod Liver Oil, namely, Vitamin A, is a pree ventative against infections of the upper respiratory tract (the common cold). The truth of this contention has not as yet been established to the satisfaction of the great majors ity of medical observers. You have had the same experience and, theree fore, the answer to your question it would be a waste of your pais) money to administer Cod Liver Oi for the purpose of preventing colds. On the other hand as a fattening agent, it is excellent. cesta, Teer Scaling Hands B,, Brooklyn, N. Y.: Scaling is * a symptom of many diseases and without further information intelligent advice is difficult to give, In your case the scaling is limited to the right palm and this is not infrequently found associated with ringworm disease of the feet (ath- lete's foot). Your feet should, there fore, be examined for the presence of scaling or blisters on the skin or discoloration and thickening of the toe-nails. In these cases, suc cessful treatment of the feet will cure the condition of the hands. Another possibility in your oase is contact with some irritating sub- stance. The handling of chemicals like cleaning powders, paints, etc., can cause such a condition. In these cases it is necessary to con- sider all the chemicals which you may handle and, if the cauge is not obvious, to test your skin these substances, CUTTING UP One week to go—for the biggest, most tre-men-dous affair which is one of the Medical Board schemes to beat Gold, Burck and the rest of the competitors. The Thanks- giving Eve dance, of course, at the Savoy in Harlem, where Professor Yosel Cutler and Doc Puppet will hold forth. Keep that date open! Mrs. W. J. Smith’... J. B. C., Chattanoogi Previously received Total OY WHITLEY, a leading figure in the recent general textile strike, around Concord, North Carolina, gave some very graphic pictures, the other day, of women textile workers in North Carolina. “The women who can get work, come home at night after working all day in the mill, cook supper, put the children to bed. And most families have five or six children. By that time they're so tired, they’re glad to go to sleep. The next day, it’s the same thing all over again. They have nothing outside of work, worrying how to feed the children, and sleep. No movies. The textile workers don’t get enough so as to pay 25 cents for a movie. The women, doing skilled work, get $13.60, which is $2 to $3 less than the men. It’s the women who do the nightwork. Sometime husband and wife see each other only a few minutes a day. “Why, the women were so mad at their conditions, that most of them were more anxious to strike than the men!” oe. ae € OY WHITLEY described one woman who “could surely speak.” She’d get up and say, “I read that down in Alabama, the Negroes and ; White are picketing together, hun- dreds and thousands of them. That’s what we got to do! We got to mass picket! Mass picket!” Whitley explained, “There’s no hospital care for the women, no clinics. The only time a woman sees the doctor is when she’s going to have a baby. And then the doc- tor only delivers the child, and comes to see her once after that. There’s no care of her before she’s had the baby.” ee bine | “HE children in the mill villages } don’t get fruit, nor milk. My own family never sees milk.” Whitley, who worked untiringly during the textile strike helping to organize mass picket lines and leading the fights against the U. T. W. bureaucrats, has eight chil- dren, “Milk there runs from fif- teen cents to seventeen cents a quart. The code didn’t help prices none. Before the code, fatback (the almost plain fat on which children and adults live) was five cents a pound. After the code, it was twelve cents a pound. And after Roosevelt’s hog-killing pro- gram, the cheapest grade was fif- teen cents. “Most of the kids don’t go to school. Not that we don’t want them to get an education. We do! But there isn’t the money to buy school books. And the kids don’t have shoes. Once they brought @ parent to court, because his kids did not go to school. But the things brought out in that trial about conditions of the workers, their wives and children, exposed ihem that brought to trial, and caused them to call things off. And they’ve never tried to arrest “We've got to get the women organized down there! They're plenty sore! Once we do, we'll see some real fighting!” ee ee 'HAT about other working wom- en’s clubs? 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