The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1934, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1934 Taxes and Company Debts Heavy Burden on Chicago Hackies Face Loss of Cabs For indebtedness Taxi Workers Union Making Headway in Organ- izing Men Against By a Taxi Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Hl—Workers in few industries are suffering as severely from low wages as the cab drivers. Six or seven years ago we used to book-as high as $10 and $20 a day. we book $1.50, $2, and $2.50 a With unusual luck we may get $3 or #4 now the Public Service driv- facing not only ation of their cabs as well them own their cabs, pay- ing the company for garage stor. age, bond, the use of the company | name, telephone service and some other things. When they fall be-j hind-on these payments the com- pany. claims their cabs y.| mong the many driver-owner must meet is the tax that was put through Council. last summer by the monopoly interests. This tax amounts to a flat $50 per year per| cab and is in addition to chauffeur’s license, state auto license, gasoline tax and others. A concern like the Yellow Cab Co. eam draw upon its surplus of $5,000,000 for these things but what will a driver do who has been bled white by five years of constantly falling business and rising prices? Within the last few days notices were sent out to the Public Service drivers by the company that the three installments of the wheel tax must be paid by Nov. 20 or the cabs would “be held in lieu thereof. Think of what this means to a driver who} has his. whole fortune tied up in his| cab. Certainly their backs are against the wall, end how well they realize it. They are nervous, sore and des- perate. They want to fight back | and they have e good sensible | ideas on how to do it, too. One or two efforts have been made amongst them to organize. But nobody from the outside has shown any particular interest in their-troubles excepting the Trade Union Unity League. This organiza- tion has extended them a hand and the drivers have responded readily and with enthusiasm. The owners of the independent cabs, commonly known as street hacks, have much the same prob- lems, particularly regarding the wheel tax. The Checker owners are also in the same boat. The “Yellow Cab drivers are re- quired to turn in from 12c to 1c for every mile they roll, the exact amount per mile varying in dif- ferent-garages. This keeps a driver nervous and anxious, gives the boss another excuse to ride him and pre- vents him from going where he knows there is business. He is work- ing on commission and yet must sit around ‘and wait for business to come_to him. Just now the monopoly interests are putting the clamps on the Pub- lic Service drivers. If they get away with it; they will next attack another | from some member in your garage Monopoly Interests group; the Checkers, the indepen- | dents, the Yellows. No group is safe, and no group or individual can fight the monopoly alone. This fight of the Public Service men must not be regarded by us as their funeral. It is a threat to all} of us and we must all unite and work shoulder to shoulder. Our y must be preserved, and later, | he other groups are in dif-| may start a movement for free gas| and no mileage requirements, every | cab driver in Chicago, as a militant | union member will be ready to take his place in the solid front. | The Chicago Taxi Workers’ Union (affiliated with T. U. U. L.) invites} all cab drivers in Chicago to join| ts ranks. The membership is al-| arge. Get an application card | and come to the headquarters to sign up. Don't let a few good hard pluggers do all the work for you. They might not be able to carry! through without the support of their buddies. If you ase an honest cab driver you are one of us and we need you. on Hlinois Central By a R. R. Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Il.—As a reader of your paper I find there is plenty of facts and truth in everything printed im your paper. There is one thing I would like your paper to do for me. In the year of 1938 the Illinois Central took ten days off its employes’ salaries. The union employes did not have to give anything because their chiefs would not allow them to sign the papers. After this went through, the chief attorney of the Illinois Cen- tral was called to Washington for a conference where a decision was reached in the company’s favor. The attorney told President Roose- velt that every employe agreed to sign of his own free will. This was a lie for those that did not sign were fired. This is the truth and nothing else AS a reader of your paper, I believe in your work and I would like to see this in the paper. An old member of the Molders’ Bnion in Jersey City, N. J., got a young feliow shopmate and union brother interested im the Daily Worker. Now he is a steady reader. The other day the young worker, unsolicited, contributed a small sum for the Daily Worker, asking his friend to send it in. Once members of trade unions are made ac- quainted with the role of the Daily Worker they become steady readers and contributors. Concentrate on your fellow workers. Ask them for contributions to the $60,000 fond! Misociated Worker Club of N.Y. Sends $50 More in Drive HE ASSOCIATED WORKERS CLUB, the central organization of all English workers’ cluos in New York City, last Wednesday con- tributed the highest sum of the entire New York district—$50. This brings them almost to 40 per cent Further contributions from N. succéssful affair for the Daily Worker which brought in $38. The Workers International Relief Band collected $27. Contributions which helped build the Pittsburgh district total to $50 came from the Lithuanian Buro, A.L.W.L.A. $9.50; and 95 each from. the Daisytown Finnish Workers Branch, the Working Woman's League, and C. P. unit of Library, and the I.W.O. Branch 2050. Received Nov. 21, 1934 $565.17 Previously received 39,618.10 Total to date $40,182.27 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Bec 1,.Unit 1D $5.95 — Beach 25 Sec 1; Unit 1D 39.20 J L Miller 2.00 Sec 8, Unit 5 27.00 A Friend and Red Builders 13 Admirer — 10.00 Sec 8, Mrs. E Klein 35 Gershman 2.00 V Stella 1.00 Associated Work- E Dronlette 1.00 ers Club = 80.00 WIR Band 31.00 Friend 1.00 E Christensen 1.00 Teachers’ G Holm 1.00 Group 5.00 Banquet at Jewish © C Clark 90 | Wkrs Anniv. 13.86 Vitter. 1.00 In’t Gloak Shop, © Hollister 10.00 © Coll. by Willidnisburg J Schulman 3.25 Workers Club 3.00 Kraymo 2.00 W Allegro 200 J Brown 1.00 Joe at Manhattan ——_— Total Nov. 21, 1934 $212.79 Total to date $21,086.07 = DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) ‘Trumansburg Unit, List 3.00 ‘Total Nov. 21, 1934 $3.00 Total. to date $474.86 DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) Daisyicwh, Finnish Library Unit 5.15 Wkrs Br. $5.00 8 Slav Wkrs © H Mohl 1,00 Club, Ukon 5.00 ALWLA IWO, Br. 2050 5.00 Lithuanian R R Shop Unit, Buro 9.50 _ Hazelwood 3.00 Comrade R 1.50 - McKeesport &., New Brighton Unit 1 4.50 Unit 2.25 James Bt., Unit .50 Working Woman's Jewish Buro 2.50 League 5.00 M Pumish 1.00 ‘Total Nov. 21, 1984 350.90 Total to date $709.81 DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) Dr. GO. Vennesiand $1.60 of their $750 quota. Y.: Unit 1-D, Section 1 held a sent in $31. In Section 8, Unit 5 the Ukon So. Slay Workers Club, Total to date $3,797.08 DISTRICT 9 (Minn.) Peter Kroger $ 50 Matt E. Antelle 50 M. Jensun 68 Theo Jensen 50 Jorgen Jergensen 1 Total Noy. 21, 1934 93.00 Total to date 9204.15 DISTRICT 46 (Omeha) Mark Marvin $1.00 Total Nov. 21, 1934 $1.00 Total to date $32.95 DISTRICT 16 (California) M. Joersem $2.00 Total Noy. 21, 1934 $2.00 Total to date $752.91 DISTRICT 34 (Newark) Beatrice & John McMahon, Prdceeds trot Lecture on Soviet Union $5.00 Richmond, Ind., Unit 1 55 J. H. Roberts 5.00 Total~Nov, 21, 1934 $7.15 Geo, H. Cunningham 1.08 Total Nov. 21, 1934 26.00 Total to date $647.23 DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) Unit 1, Bridgeport, House Party $12.00 Total Nov. 21, 1984 $12.00 Total to date $684.06 DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) Sec 1, Sec 3, U-306 7.00 L Koss $1.00 Sec 3,1 WO I Pinter 25 Br 1158 1.08 W Cormey 125 Sec 5 2.92 R Klumb ‘35 Seo 5 2.08 3 Rudos 50 Sec 3, U-208 5.00 J Brown 1.00 Sec 2, Kasun 1.00 H O'Conner 1.00 Seo 1, U-109 1.67 U-108 135 Seo 1, U-101 25 v-101 45 Seo 1, U-105 150 ‘U-108 60 C White 1.00 Total Nov. 31, 1934 $27.97 Total to date $872.11 Miscellaneous $239.36 Total to date $299.36 _ Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! ADI | 50 EAST 13¢h Bt, Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER New York, N. Y. ‘Letter Boy’ Shipped Threugh I.8.U. Hall By 2 Marine Worker Correspondent | PORTLAND, Ore.—A new crit- ter has been discovered on the | S. S. Point Ancha It shipped | from the I. 8. U. hall in Portland where, the I. 8. U. has “job con- trol.” H& answers to the name of Clyde, and is a son of the Port Commissioner here. I. 8. U. mem- bers in Portland don't remember | this Clyde, or how he got past the “despatcher” in the hall. | The varmint is obviously not a seaman. He asked various mem- bers of the crew how much they paid for board and room on the ship, and to whom they paid it. Green horns, college boys and cow hands seem to have no trouble getting a ship through the I. S. U. hall, while bona fide sea- men who fought it out on the picket lines last summer sit around twiddling their thumbs till they are driven into the soup lines from laek of work, | The I. S. U. members are get- | ting plenty sore at Mr. Carter and his “letter from a friend” system, and are planning ways and means | of making the I. S. U.’s shipping racket into a Centralized Shipping Bureau before Mr. Carter turns | it into Fink Hall No. 2. No Clothes Yet, Says | Mr. Borst By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y.—A delegation from the West Side Waterfront Un- employed Council, representing the men in the Jane St. Mission, went to see Mr. Borst, relief adminis- trator, last week about clothes. He stated that some clothes were already in the store house, but that | they did not have a supply of over- coats and shoes available for dis- tribution yet. This looks like we will have to send more delegations. In his usual slick, smiling and best political manner he informed us that the relief administration is going to conduct another “noble experiment.” The said experiment to take the form of a flop house on East Houston St., where each man will have to work for his keep. This will no doubt be forced labor, so we should get busy at once and organize the seamen against this attempt to “Hitlerize” them. Té seems that Mr. Borst and his suave cronies, both here and in Washington, are determined to ex- ploit the misery of the seamen. It is about time we were getting ready for that march to the White House to let F. D. R. and the big moguls know that we are still fight- ing for the interests of the seamen. Intimidation Used to Build Co. Union By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y. — Lots of telegraph workers are demoralized and confused at the situation in the industry. They see all around them the worsening of conditions. Many are demoted, fined, suspended, speeded up, terrorized, furloughed, trans- ferred, reduced in time, with ratings cut, and suffer from all possible ways in which a supervisor or de- partment head can utilize to justify his job. We see the Association of West- ern Union Employees with the help of the officials forcing everyone to join. If you don’t join, they tie the can sooner or later. For example, a manager of the largest office on Madison Avenue was transferred to @ small office in Brooklyn and his salary was cut in half because he refused to join the company union. He stated to everyone that it is a racket and a company union. He was too long in the service to be fired, so he was exiled to an iso- lated section where employees can’t hear him, ‘However, we see no hope in any type of organization. There is none that we can turn to. At least we don’t see visible evidenee of any. We hear rumors that the reds are coming in and won’t they cause a rumpus. We would like to see it. Things have been too long like a graveyard, with the A. W. U. E. Playing the part of the undertaker. Let’s see some action. Please give us your position on this matter and ‘also if there is an organization in | the field that we can turn to. TRAFFIC EMPLOYES OF 60 HUDSON STREET. Editor's Note.—We recommend the unity of the furloughed workers and those still on the job, to strengthen the forces to fight against this evi- dent discrimination on the part of the company to kick out the older employes and get cheaper labor. Also we must fight against the con_ tinuous demotion, which is an at- tempt to introduce further wage cuts. It is necessary, however, to carry on the fight in the company union with a view to destroying this graveyard. At the same time, the Daily Worker is informed that there is in existence an independent union called the United Telegraphers of America, with offices at 63 Park Row. This organization ts now car- tying on an organizational drive among the telegraph workers. It is necessary to build up a strong union controlled by the workers in order to be able to finally defeat the company union, Gangs Gat / Below IL. Agreement on IMM Docks | By A Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y.—On Pier 58 North River, the men are supposed they earlier. These men are hired by I. Nolan in gang forms. The I. L. A. agree- ment calls for 18 men in a gang, but. they violate the agreement by only hiring 13 men, cutting the gang by 5. While the men are working they are shifted from pillar to post dur- men are hired at a quarter to any | hour. Their pay starts from the next hour. For example if they start at 8:45 a, m., their pay starts at 9) a.m. It seems that T. Hogan is not the only one doing that on the West | side. The men know of this ill treat- ment, yet they are afraid to say anything. Coming to the finishing of the) cargo, when the ship is nearly ready | for salling the gangs are reduced still further down to the two sling- | ers, and the rest of the dock gang | is replaced by the foreman or his friend. We often lose one or two days work owing te this arrange- ment by the bosses. | On the deck we have three men. | If one wants to go to the toilet, he has to ask the foreman who looks | at his watch and times him. In the | hold we have the same conditions. This also applies to the dock. If any man is caught going to the toilet too many times he will be told that he is not hired for that. That’s the way it goes on this pier. The men are pushed around like slaves. Drastic Cut In Car Crew at Kigby Shop By a R.R. Worker Correspondent PORTLAND, Me—The Boston and Maine R.R. only recently re- ceived a loan from the government, which was supposed to help increase employment, but instead a con- tinual lay-off and intensified stretch-out followed. At Kigby (railroad shop in Port- land), they cut the carmen shop crew so that now there are more bosses than workers. Last week the painters, blacksmiths and millmen were forced to do carmen’s work. The men objected, but at the of- fice of the officials tried to put the blame on the men recently laid off. They claimed that somebody sent a letter to French, the general man- ager, telling him that there were too many men loafing on the job. Anyway, the office help was cut and the stretch-out increased. When the head of the company union was approached, he used this opportunity to knock the A. F. of L. local by trying to put the blame for the letter to French on three former officials of the now dead A. F. of L. carmen’s local. The whole story of the letter was probably cooked up in the Kigby to start to work at 8 p. m. Instead, | are called 10 or 15 minutes | ing each day that they work. The | office. Now, with the help of the Speed-up and Cutting of Gangs Offsets Pay Raise on N.R. Docks Back Rank and Filer Says Member of ILA By a Marine Worker Corre- spondent NEW YORK, N. Y.—On the first Thursday of next month we will carry through the regular election of officers in our union, Local 1258, I. L. A. As far as we know there are at the present time only two candi- dates for the office of Business Agent. They are the present Business Agent, Sullivan, and Frank Kenney, a rank and file working longshoreman. Most of the brothers know all about Sullivan, so I won’t waste the space to say any more on his anti-rank and file record. The brothers are looking to Kenney to furnish them with the honest leadership they want in their fight against the count- less grievances that the Clyde- “Misery” Co. forceson them. This Kenney has promised to do, Whether he does or not is en- tirely up to the rank and file brothers under the leadership of the Rank and File Group of Local 1258, Let us get behind him and keep his memory from slipping after he is elected. Moore-Mac Ship Real Madhouse | By A Marine Worker Corespondent NEW YORK, N. Y.—On the Moore-McCormick line’s “Scanmail” now running to the West Indies, the Customs Officers found some contraband bay rum, The company slapped a 20 cents fine on each member of the crew to pay for the contraband. Four men _ protested } against this petty thievery and the Commissioner held up their pay. This is not the only chiselry going on aboard this “Scant” wagon. The company has adopted a new rating, “apprentice fireman,” for which soogey-moogey job the “apprentice” gets $15 a month. Deckboys get the same handsome pay. The dishwasher aboard the Scan- mail works 18 hours a day. Moore - McCormick “recognizes” the I. S. U. officials, and is negoti- ating with them so Olander, Brown and Axtell say the crew must not strike against this robbery and slav- ery. The crew don’t feel that way about it for they are lining up into the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and are getting ready for the big stirke to win the $75 a month wage scale, the 8 hour day for all men aboard ship, and aboli- tion of the deckboy and “appren- tice firemen” ratings, along with the Centralized Ssipping Bureau and other demands. company union, they are trying to spread suspicion and distrust among the men. At the same time, they are trying to drive the A. F. of L. union out of existence. By a Telegraph Worker Corre- spondent NEW YORK, N. Y.—Just one tragic case will indicate to what ex- tent the Western Union officialdom will go in order to prime the payroll. This, incidentally, is not an isolated case in industry, Not very long ago Harry Garvey dropped dead in the messenger wardrobe. He spent his last few years at a job which would have exhausted a much younger man, Just imagine hundreds of healthy youngsters rushing in to work in the morning, yelling for their uniforms. As they “hollered” out their num- bers Mr. Garvey would hustle to the rack containing that particular uniform. No sooner did he turn one uniform over to the messenger than he had to rush to the next number hurled at him. So it went in the morning and so it went at night, when the pressure was that much greater, because the boys were in_a hurry to get home, This Mr. Garvey for years was a valued employee and held a high supervisory job. With the coming of age he could not put over that peppy job which is expected. Down the ladder he slid, Garvey was not MANSFIELD SHOWS RESULTS Mansfield, Ohio. Dear Comrade Editor: As a result of the 500 Daily Worker Special election issues the Mansfield comrades ordered, and of which they sold 360 copies and dis- tributed 140, two units in Mansfield pledged to sell each Saturday 60 copies. Among the six comrades who sold the “Daily” it was reported that it was well received. Some workers gave more than three cents for a copy and thus paid for the many workers who did not have the pennies to pay for it, Ninety copies were sold on four short streets where the Daily Worker had never Letters from Our Readers Old Timer’s Story Belies ‘Opportunity’ Ballyhoo what he used to be. He ended up in the messenger wardrobe, where he died, and had the posthumous honor of the then president, New- comb Cariton, holding his hand. Where is that vaunted ideal that has been so long dangled before ambitious youth? Just be on time, work hard, don’t watch the clock and some day you will be president of the company. With this bosh has the capitalistic system drugged the youth of the country to give their best for the rainbow at the end of the horizon. Garvey’s rain- bow was a miserable old age and a terrible death. All the other old timers will either share a like fate or be cast out with a miserable pit- tance of a pension, if any at all. And the company union, Associa- tion of Western Union Employees, aids the Carrolls and Whites to put the finishing touch to those who have given the best years of their lives to the company, A lesson to all those ambitious, aspiring young men who now fill the places of the Garveys—think— think—and you will understand the burden of my letter. Organize in your own independent unions and down with the company union and all it represents. been sold before, A 300 per cent increase in Com- munist votes is expected in Mans- field where large numbers of work- ers heard the Communist platform for the first time. O2D, “I THOUGHT I MUST GUARD MY TALK...” Paw, Paw, Mich. Dear Comrade Editor: My brother, unemployed and a radjcal, subscribed to the Daily Worker for three months and had the paper sent to me. The sub- seription expired. I anclose a dollar, that is all I can spare just now, Later on, if I get some more dough T'll send another buck or so. If you ‘Chinee and Wa iting ; gested that he could change the Time Used to Rob Dock- | ers on United Fruit | By A Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y.—Working for | the United Fruit Company for the | past 8 years, I just want to say a | few words about conditions, | Lately one can notice new fellows coming in. All they have to do is | present a letter from somebody and the result is that they get a job. It is even rumored that the N. Y. Pa- role Board is sending men down to the United Fruit. While they raised the wages 10 cents to 15 cents an hour, the com- pany gets even by hiring less men with more speed up as you can see especially on the orange boats (es- | calator) where they cut the crew in half. Then about the chinee. It aver- | ages a half hour for every man and | ship. | Now about waiting time. You might see on the blackboard that the ship is scheduled to come in at | 8 a. m,, but if you get there at 8 a. m. you are told that it won’t be in before noon, and you are lucky if it is. Sometimes, you start work late in the afternoon or even at night after waiting all day. Conditions are not bound to get better but worse uniess we longshoremen get wise to it and start organizing. We want -more chinee. The com- pany is supposed to give us the ex- act time the ship comes in or else pay us for waiting time. We want no more difference between the coastwise and deepwater longshore- men’s pay, and we also want the 6 hour day and 95 cents an hour rate, the seme as they have it on the West Coast. New Haven RR Co. Union Changes Name By a R. R. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y.—I think you will be interested to know the latest tricks of the M. D. A. (the company union) in the New Haven R. R. at | the Van Nest shops. Several weeks ago a meeting was held and Mr. Walter Frankland, the president of the M, D. A., told us that the union he had been de- fending all these years was disgust- ing and it was necessary to get rid of it. Naturally, he could not think of leaving us without one, so he sug- name to “Brotherhood Shops Craft- men of America” and that all our troubles would be over. The true story is that the men | stopped paying their dues into the disgraceful M. D. A. and now our oLp Hooey! good president wants us to keep on paying into the same outfit with the new name. . In a way of explaining the good points of the brotherhood, he told us that it was a national union in name only, and in the remote case of a strike on the New Haven, the rest of the roads could go on as if nothing had happened. After that, he lectured to us on the danger of losing our jobs if we did not join this wonderful outfit. Under these threats, somebody made ‘a motion that we all put life into this brain child of Mr. Frank- land. A vote was taken and the motion .went over the top. can’t send it daily, please let me have the Saturday edition. I'm a Chicago union printer out since June, 1931. The only work I've had since was one month on How Often Sexual Intercourse? OMRADE D. P., of Brooklyn, writes: “Please advise me in your column how often it is normal to indulge in sexual intercourse in married life. I should also like to know why my wife does not experi- ence any orgasm, although she seems to enjoy the act.” ee ee No Rule Can Be Set IO RULE can be set as to the amount of sexual intercourse that is normal or healthful. It is a highly individual matter, depend- ing on many factors. What would infrequent for one, would be quite too much for another healthy person. Experience alone will indi- cate what is healthful for any given person, A feeling of physical well- being and vigor should follow inter- course after a suitable rest period. If this does not occur, then one may question whether the periods have not been too frequent. If it does occur, then one need not be concerned as to the frequency. Except that one must take into consideration the mate. It is quite possible that the sexual appetite of the one may be greater than the sexual appetite of the other, or, what would be healthful for the one would not be healthful for the other, When this is the case, then good-will experimentation will have to show what frequenoy is best for each under the circumstances. As to why your wife does not experience orgasm, although she seems to enjoy intercourse, it is difficult to say. This is true of many women. The reason is usually psychological: A dislike of, fear of, disgust of, resentment of the fem- inine role in sexual intercourse which she may be very little, or not at all, aware of herself. These attitudes are the result of the in- fluence of a hypocritical society during her developmental years. Sex training in a capitalistic society is damaging both to boys and girls, but particularly to girls, and leads to the great amount of unhappy, often tragic, sexual mal-adjustment that exists in all capitalist coun- tries. ae tenet | Reducing, with Special Attention to the Abdomen IOMRADE P. K., of Detroit, Mich., writes: “I am a woman of thirty years of age, hei two children, height 5 feet 3 inches, and weigh DAY we'll have a poem and a song. This column cannot print all the poems it receives from its women readers. There is the ever- present question of space, the ma- jority of which must be given over to actual conditions, problems, struggles of women. But occasional- ly we can tuck a poem or two In. And today’s the day for our poets. ies wie Mrs. Nelson, a fighter in her re- lief organization in New Jersey, wrote this one, They'll only take away a little at a time So we won’t know we're starving “til we haven't got a dime. They do it very smoothly, so we think they're doing good. And then, before we know it, we're left without our food. A little here, a little there, they chisel it away. And soon we'll all be starving in the “good old Yankee way!” Seta Be And here is the song by Ruth Gordon, from Madison, Wisconsin. It is to be sung to the tune of Irving ; Berlin’s Russian Lullaby. We are the women of this town Whose men work for relief When jobs at wages can’t be found It's we who come to grief. Chorus Rockabye my baby, Pop's fighting so this may be A land that’s free For you and me And no one's on relief. Crean ees A subscriber writes to send us a the grand jury. Right now I’m almost busted. I’m staying on a grape farm where the expenses are quite low. The farm- ers here, mostly city farmers, are all broke. They get from $20 to $30 a ton for grapes when they should receive at least $50 to $60 a ton. When their horse dies, they haven't the means to buy another. When I first came here, I thought I must guard my talk, but events were such that I got so sore I expressed my sentiments and few disagreed. I pass the Daily Worker on so it will do the most good, How- ever,I think every issue of the Daily Worker should have a few para- graphs boxed in bold face type stating a part of the Communist program, so that the new reader will at once see what the objective is, and so that we can make converts, The paper is getting better all the time, especially the different columns like “Change the World.” Here’s for wider and greater cir- culation,” —E. B, A FRIEND AT LAST This man is of the true stamp. |; He spurns our competitors as |! tinsel and puts his faith in us, || | recipe for Ukrainian Borstch, which she says her “grandmother brought with her when she came to this country some fifty years ago.” “The food necessary includes a ham bone and some beef meat or some beef bones and a piece of raw ham, a medium potato, a large onion, three or four stalks of celery, two beets, one-half of small cab- bage, two cups of tomatoes, some pearl barley. Boil the meat with the barley an hour and a half in about two quarts of water. Cut up all the vegetables fine (except the to- matoes) and boil another hour or more, Add tomatoes and boil at least a half hour. This makes a thick soup, with pieces of all the different vegetables. Heavy sour cream is floated on the top by the Russians, and gives a taste that is particularly liked by those who like at * * . Note: Women who have collected food, clothing, funds for the fam- ilies of the anti-fascists of the waar, should send them at once to the Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, 870 Broadway, POINT OF ORDER! Readers, decide. The offer of hand-made handkerchiefs and col- Jars should stimulate contributions— but as for the hand-woven rag rug, Ann Barton could have made a WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) 151 pounds. My biggest gain is in my abdomen. I'd like to know if there is a way to keep that abdomen down by some kind of exercise og some other means,” SPS Se Our Reply | RorestomeY calculated to keep your abdomen down are those which will strengthen your abdo- minal muscles, such as these: Bends ing with arms and knees stiff, ate tempting to touch toes with tips of fingers; lying flat on your back, rise to sitting position without bending the knees; lying flat on your back, raise first one leg then the other without bending the knee; later on raise both legs at the same time, Gradually increase the number of times you repeat these maneuvers, (A rowing machine is ideal for this type of exercise, but, of course, it is usually priced far beyond a work- er’s salary. However, we have re- cently seen cheap resistance springs for exercising which, when attached to the wall, would allow the move- ments of rowing to be made. In doing this exercise, sit on a low stool and stretch as far forward as possible and then pull back almost to a lying position and then repeat.) Exercise two or three times # day. You are overweight. Hf you ara able to exercise, you need not go on a strenuous diet to reduce. Simply. cut out or limit your intake of fatty and starchy foods, such as mayon- naise, butter, cream, cream cheese, olives, nuts, fatty fish, cake, candy, ice-cream, rice, potatoes, beans, lima beans, green peas. spaghetti, maca~ ron, bread, cereals and noodies. TAKE A BIG SWALLOW When “Reader” contributed $1 te this column the other day, he con- fessed “Been getting around to this for weeks and weeks. Feel greatly relieved! Medical Department might recommend it as a general tonic.” The bigger the dose, the better for our $1,500 quota! Witameburg Wirs. 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