The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 27, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1934 MAJESTIC BOSS FORCED TO COMPLY WITH UNION. AGREEMENT Strike Threat Forces Rehiring of Worker Demands on Hourly and Daily Rates in Piece Work Departments Also Conceded © By a Metal Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—Once more in the Majestic Metal Shop the workers showed the boss that a union} agreement is not to be taken | lightly, This was in the case of a worker being fired on a flimsy ex- cuse, and the refusal of the boss to take her back upon the demand | ot the Shop Committee. Therefore the case was taken up with the Steel and Metal Workers’ office, and the boss knew from his that hop was been every single worker in the ready for a stoppage, and expecting one for the last few days since the girl had been fired, he and his henchmen grew pale, and before we had a chance to take the elevator down, they called us back and quickly agreed to that demand, Also, after some more discussion he promised to pay the hourly and daily rates in the Picket Jobs Offered to Insure Dues Rake-Off By a Worker Correspondent RACINE, Wis—Just a line on how the A. F. of L. works here. Here in Racine we have had some | strikes where the A. F. of L. could have done some good work for the/ workers. When it was against the} big companies, they hold those on | strike to take care of themselves. | When it comes to picketing a little | stool pigeons that we meant it, and) one man barber shop, the A. F. of L, gets members from Nash's who j have no work, to go and picket these one horse barber shops for one dollar per day. This is the scheme these fakers use to keep the members in good standing. They have a waiting list and those that have no money to pay dues, they let them picket jenough to pay their dues. | One Nash worker who has a sick Induhtrial Union lawyer and that/piece work departments, and all|child needed a hot water bottle and of the boss, and when the boss and|those that had not been getting it| the foreman wanted to drag the| case out, the Shop Committee|/was signed in March, the slips are|not have walked out of the office with the| decision to have a stoppage the next day, and as many days as nec- essary until we won not only that demand, but all other demands that the boss had agreed to, but} had not carried out in such as the hourly and daily piece | work rates in the pol ing and stamping departments, lesser demands. Well, wnen we walked out of that and a few up till now, since the agreement to be checked over and the money to be paid them. The lesson is clear. until we showed them we meant busin that we had the soli- darity of the workers behind us in They stalled practice; | whatever the Shop Committee de-| cided to do, and that was to stop work until they granted our de- mands. SHOP COMMITTEE MEMBER. a sial Insurance Fight Gains in Detroit A. F. of L. By A Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich.—Why is it that | Frank X. Martel, President of the Detroit Federation of Labor is is- suing attacks against the local AF. | of L, Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief and its mem- | hers? For the past two years this gentleman has followed the policy of | Squashing any discussion or pub- licity that the committee may have| received through discussions in the | Central Body or local unions, and professing ignorance of any such | committee. The reason that he has not changed his tactics is linked up directly with the drive against the Communuists, initiated by Green ‘and the Executive Board of the A. | F. of L. | The local A. F. of L. Committee | for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, taking into consideration the eritical relief situation in the city, the vicious slash in relief to work- ers. on projects and direct relief, | decided to call a conference to take “concrete action on this burning is- | sue. The call for the conference was sent out to all local unions and mass organizations, The response was very pleasing. At a meeting of the Central Body of the AF.L., a week before that, charges had been placed against one of the members of the A. F. L. Committee, Allen, Baker's Local 20, and these charges were of such a flimsy nature that this prov- ovocative attack was obviously meant to provoke this worker, who was a delegate to the Central Body, and if possible, secure further evid- ence against him. The issuing of the red scare by Martel in this -meeting fell completely flat, instead ; «the response was in favor of the relief conference which the local A. F. of L. Committee had called for Nov. 11th. Not satisfied with threatening the delegates that night about send- ing delegates to the conference, this leader of organized labor used the Hearst Press (Detroit Times) to is- sue a vicious statement against the local committee, besides running articles in the Labor News. On | Thursday, Nov. 8th, the Labor News was held up from going to press so that a special article by Martel, be in it, once again threatening any delegate of any local union, who participated in the conference. Also at the meeting Wednesday the 7th, Martel preferred charges officially against Allen of Baker’s Local 20, in which he is accused of speaking in a Communist hangout, slandering the leadership of the A. F. of L. Martel stated that Allen would be called before a Trial Board which Trial Board was picked by Martel, The Conference Sunday, Nov. 11, proved the fact that the rank and \file of the A. F. of L. are rebelling against the local bureaucracy. Nine- teen local unions were represented with donations from some to sup- port the conference and its work. The second meeting of the Detroit Conference for Unemployment In- surance and Relief will be held some time in December where a report of the activity from the time of the last conference, Nov. 11th will be given. Reports of the interviews of the Committtee of 25 that was elected at the Nov. 11th conference, with John M. Ballanger, Welfare Director and the Wayne County Welfare Commission, and Common Council, will be given. Also reports of the drive to ob- tain delegates to the National Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance in Washington, Jan. 5th, 6th, and 7th, will be given. And final plans and organizational methods will be worked out. Chicago Language Dis Contribute Language Buros, particularly in $41 to Drive the Chicago district, are among the highest contributors of Saturday’s receipts. They realize that support for the Daily Worker is imperative if the paper is to continue leading the struggles of the native and foreign-born workers. Every language group should speed contributions between now and December 1, so that the $60,000 drive can come to a successful close. Units, trade unions and mass organizations: 486.45 41,078.24 Total to date $41,564.69 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) “Received Nov. 24, 1934 Previously received Sec. 11 See. 11 15.84 . Unit 2 5.10 Sec. 17 «Unit 5 32.29 = Unit 3 50 See, 11 3.36 “Unit 6 22.00 See. 11 21.96 — Unit 12 50 Sec 15 Sec. 17 2.50 Unit 1 2.00 Sec. 17 19.24 . Unit 20 50 Sec. 9, Hunt- Unit 5 25 ington Unit 4.80 Unit 10 2.00 Lerner 2.00 Unit 15 :50 Mapleton wkr. Unit 17 1.00 Club, Brooks 1.00) Unit 6 10.00 ‘ob Fradin 1.00 Unit 21 1.00 Wkrs, Lab. Th. 5.00 Unit 22 20.00 Wkrs. Lab. Th. 6.95 Unit 18 1.50 W.E.S.L.Post 35 2.00 72 Unit 19 2.70 Red Builders 1.00 Sec. 15, 1.00 A. Alexander 2.00 3ec. 15 22.50 Wagner 1.00 Sec. 11 Ave. St. John <--Unit 8 8.00 _ Group 5.00 Unit 2 20.00 PLN. 3.00 Unit 3 5.00 Allen Shields 3.00 Unit 10 10.00 Com. of Butchers onit 5 50 Dept.,F.W.1.U. 5.00 Seb. 11 665 Mrs. A. P. de M. M. F. Total to date 2,053.05 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) District 37.51 Ishpeming Unit 4.10 Total Noy. 24, 1934 41.61 Total to date 2,100.26 DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) Workers School 5.00 Pen and Hammer 5.00 Pen and Hammer 50 Section 3 12.00 | Section 1 9.52 Section 1 10.75 Jugo-Slav Buro 21.00 Czechoslovak Buro 9.50 Russian Workers Dram. Group 20.00 Section 11 3.66 Workers School 2.84 Bulgarian Buro 12.00 Br. 2104, I. W. 0. 3.00 Section 7 5.00 K. Ko, Nature Friends 1.00 Section 10 10.00 R. Wiegele 50 T. Herrmann 50 M. Semkus 50 F. Mende 1.00 L. Reuter 1.50 Total Nov. 24, 1934 134.77 Total to date 3,932.36 DISTRICT 9 (Minnesota) ‘Total Nov. 24, 1934 278.58 | Axel F. Johnson 25 Total to daet 21,863.28 | T. Richter 1.00 > DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) ul. 5 | Total Nov. 24, 1934 1,235 —— | Total to dae 307.63 8.74 DISTRICT 10 (Omaha) e 1.15} Wm. J. Boda 1.00 Total Nov. 24, 1934 7.59 | Total Nov. 24, 1934 ‘Total to date 3,669.17 | Total to date 34.95 i DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) DISTRICT 16 (Charlotte) Units 1 and 2, Wyoming, Pa. 13.15 | Anonymous from Norfolk, Va. 1.00 Total Nov. 24, 1934 13.15 | Totl Nov. 24, 1934 1.00 Total to date 729.96 | Total to date 7.35 DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) DISTRICT 19 (Milwaukee) Ruth Baker 1.50 | J. E. Bischoff 1.00 John Pulkkinen 5.00 _ r — | Total Nov. 24, 1934 1.00 otal Nov, 24, 1934 6.50 | Total to date 576.11 Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT 50 EAST 13th St. Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER New York, N. Y¥. went to the relief department to ask |for one. They told him he could one. He then went to the union to ask for a picket job so he |could earn two dollars to buy a hot |water bottle. They did this in- stead of getting a committee to- |gether from the union to force the relief officials to come across with a hot water bottle. Of Relief Hit By Seamen By A Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—For some time past seamen on relief in the Jane St. Mission have been forcibly ejected and barred for falling foul of a minor official by the name of Sharp. This Sharp has the full support of the manager, a Y.M. C. A. Secre- tary, named Ricketts. A week ago Monday, a young sea- men asked Sharp’s permission to return to his room for his seaman’s papers which by oversight he had left in his locker room, which was unlocked. This worthy, happy in the advantage he had over a seamen who had once opposed him in an act of thuggery, refused. The seamen, being worried over what to any seaman is his most valuable possession, asked another official who complied. Ricketts, who had witnessed all this, met the seamen but said noth- ing, leaving the active part to his agent Sharp who came forward in @ menacing manner, The seamen, having had acquaintance with Sharp's methods, immediately cal- led Ricketts to mediate. Instead, Ricketts turned on him with a tor- rent of abuse and said, “You've heen here too God Damned long!” and threatened him with ejection. The seaman then left the building under protest and notified the Waterfront Unemployed Council. The W. U. C. held a mecting that night.and elected a delegation to visit the Y. M. C. A. headquarters in the Graybar Building. The chief, Mr. Diott, being absent, a Mr. Billheimer received them af- ter stipulating that they must give their names. This form of intimi- dation was followed by another when he threatened them with jail. The men, however, refused to be intimidated and demanded that Sharp be removed as his very pre- sence was a source of danger, that Ricketts be disciplined and that seamen be reinstated in Jane St., should he choose to go back. They also demanded that clean linen be supplied to each newcomer, and that the food scale be improved to that of other relief projects until such time as the seamen take over their own relief from Y. M. C. A. and billet unemployed seamen in restaurants and boarding houses. Mr. Billheimer was somewhat sur- prised at the ingratitude of the sea- men to the “Y.” One of them de- clared, “You are giving up nothing but what you are paid for, and we are getting nothing but what work- ers have produced.” Bill then tried to assert that the “y” had lost $250 last month on Jane St., but the seamen know from experience that the quality of food and lodging in Jane St. has been such as to justify no greater estimate than $75 daily of the $200 allowance of the Government. Mr. Billheimer made some evasive promises about ‘“investigatioin” which did not achieve their aim as one seaman said, “Mr. Bullheimer, do not think that we seamen are a lot of jettisoned humanity out there on the waterfront. We are united, and should this delegation receive no satisfactory answer, we will come back again and again with larger delegations.” RESPONSE AT LAST Well, it looks like the Worker Correspondence Dept. has not entirely been forgotten. Now these contributions make up, partly, for the lean days when we couldn’t muster any support, but we're still the lowest in the Socialist competition. So keep it up, comrades, and see us through! Geo. Vukadinovic! $ 1.00 Joe Hap . e 1.00 John Vinich 1.00 John Sipa 50, Frank Furar 23 Nick Vilenvic .. 50 Jone Blahut 10 Roman Neckevic ... 1.00 Joseph Spitek Pay Mike Vukovich . 25 Geo, Kusich 5 Mike Jukovic! 20 Steve Hary 25 Geo. Gudlin 25 John Gudlin S. Sara fs Battistsa agi Bob Kuczyniski Chas. Simpodizer . Previously received Total Quota—$500 Workers in War Industries | Wait Two We eks for Pay on Bombing Plane Job By a Worker Correspondent FARMINGDALE, L. I—I have| been working in the Kirkham En-| gineering and Manufacturing Co., Farmingdale, L. I, for about 3 months making bombing planes for a South American government. For the past month, we have had our wages paid behind schedule. | Sometime we waited two weeks for Ss BuiLo— Desrroy/ BE WORKER: ye Bosses our wages which range from 30c¢ an hour to about 65¢ an hour for skilled workers. On Nov, 14th about 4 p. m, a half hour before quitting time, a notice was posted saying that on account of financial difficulties and so on the place would close until such time as they could get a gov- ernment loan Most of the workers had two weeks wages due, but did not get a cent, They were told to come back in a few days, or perhaps next week before they would get their money. I would like to have you print this in your columns and also some information on where workers can get advice on what to do abut get- ting their wages. Editor’s Note:—We would ad- vise this worker and the others involved to get in touch with the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union, 35 E. 19th St., N. ¥. C. Relief Racket Aids Unsanitary Housing By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Just a few lines to make known a racket of the Home Relief officials of which the victims are the tenants who pay rent with relief checks in the house No. 142- 144 W. 113th St. A few days ago I went there to see a friend of mine. I really be- came sick at the terrible odor that permeated the entire house. I questioned my friend as to why he agreed to live in such terrible conditions. He replied that he was not able to move from there as the landlady had too much pull with the Home Relief investigators of the 124th St. and Lenox Ave. station. If any one intended to move, they would lose their relief, I think that the Department of Sanitation should investigate this house which is inhabited by human beings under such deplorable con- ditions with the rent being paid by the Welfare Department. I believe that if the rent was given to the tenant in the form of cash instead of a ticket it will be of great benefit. Those on relief are in many cases receiving the worst type of abuse from the land- lords in the form of higher rent, bad service and lack of efficiency in any respect. Because of the volume of letters received by the Department, we can print only those that are of general interest to Daily Worker readers, However, all letters re- ceived are carefully read by editors. Suggestions and ci cisms are welcome and whenever possible are used for the improve- ment of the Daily Worker. YOUNG READER EXPOSES RED CROSS New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: I would like to tell you an incident that happened in class 7A, Public School 95, Norman and Sedgwick Avenues, the Bronx, on November 21, 1934. A few days before today, the teacher asked us to bring money for the Red Cross. I and three other girls told the class not to bring any money because we found out that the money is used for war funds. Most of the class believed us, and only seven brought money, To- day the teacher asked for more money, so one girl told the teacher that I told her the money was used for war funds. The teacher asked me why I said so, and I said that I heard it was so. Immediately my friends raised their hands and told about John Spivak’s article in the American Mercury showing up the Red Cross. The teacher told us the article was only one man’s opinion, and we shouldn't believe him. Anyway, we're not going to bring money because our older sis- ters and brothers read the article, and said that John Spivak proves what he says very well. Later the teacher wrote a letter to the prin- cipal about this. YOUNG READER M. W. I. U. IS ON THE JOB New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: The circulation of the New York Daily Worker must be increased in the trade unions if we expect to put the New York Daily on its feet and jestablish it. The best method to ' ‘lief Board. Report Pay Delay. Safety Sham Bared By Navy Yard Worker By a Navy Yard Worker Cor- respondent NEW YORK.—The Brooklyn Navy Yard is listed as the dirtiest Navy Yard in the country. Each year, the Navy Depart- ment conducts an inspection of all the yards. These inspections have become a real joke. Two or three days before inspection, everybody is told to clean up. In the machine shop most of the machines were painted and attempts were made to put all sorts of jigs, bolts and hun- dreds of other contraptions that are usually thrown around in any old place into certain def- inite places. This attempt at cleanliness lasts about a week after inspection and then every- thing is again thrown around. Similar things happen just before a safety inspection. Guards are put around ma- chines, coverings are put around gear, etc. All this activity is carried on only for the benefit of the in- spectors and not with the ob- ject of safeguarding the health of the workers. We must de- mand that these conditions exist always and not just before inspections. WrecksHouse To Force Eviction By a Worker Correspondent READING, Pa.—The avarice and brutality of capitalist landlords knows no bounds. Nor are the landlords of this city an exception. The activities of local organizations of the unemployed have brought to light within the past few days a terrifying example of this fact. In an effort to force his eviction, efforts of other character having failed to produce the desired (by the landlord) results, the owner of the house heretoforce occupied by the family of Charles Cunnius, 222 Washington St., Reading, removed the doors, broke the windows (his own property), upset the dining table set for a meal and took off the lid of the cook stove (a coal stove). ‘The family was made to go hun- gry, its dinner having been spread around the floor and rendered un- eatable, and the worker's wife, his child and himself left exposed to the cold. The most that the local relief body could do was to propose that the wife and child go to the Sal- vation Army for the night and they referred the husband and father to the Poor Board. The lat- ter was, of course, “helpless,” with the result that the man spent the night in his delapidated “home.” Upon the application of some pres- sure from the organized unem- ployed, the Poor Board found it Possible to pay one month’s rent ($15) on another house, which, the worker reports, “is a ‘pig-pen.’” Cunnius, unemployed for a long time, was employed for a few months ending last May on so- called “work-relief” projects of the C W. A. and State Emergency Re- Since that time his family of three has been “living” on a $2.95-a-week food voucher. He owes seven months rent. Letters from Our Readers secure more financial support for the New York “Daily” is to get it into the hands of the workers through the trade unions. If work- ers don’t read the “Daily,” naturally it is hard to go to them for support. \ Every trade union should make it its duty to see that the New York “Daily” is sold among its members and workers in the industry. The New York Daily Worker can ; be sold. On the waterfront, where the majority of seamen are broke, a member of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union who has been as- signed by the union to sell the Daily among the seamen, sells on an average of 48 to 50 daily. When there is extra marine news, more than this amount is sold. During the recent strike, besides the free distributions, an average of 200 copies were sold daily. Not that this is enough, but the sales are improving, and the Daily Worker is recognized by the seamen as their paper. The M. W. I. U. hereby challenges other unions to write into the Daily Worker telling what they are doing to increase the sales of the New York Daily Worker. A MARINE WORKER. SPREAD THE SCOTTSBORO APPEAL Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Comrade Editor: With the need for Scottsboro funds now more than ever, I recall an experience I had last summer. I was on a job in Wildwood, N. J., a seashore resort, when your Scotts- boro appeal reached me. Since I knew but few people in Wildwood, I decided to walk across the rail- road tracks to the section where the Negro workers are segregated, and inquired my way to the home of the local Negro minister. It was unnecessary for me to explain to him about the Scottsboro case; he and his congregation were aware of the frame-up. In reply to my re- quest that he appeal to his congre- gation to help the defense of the Doves he assured me that he would lo so. Speed-up |New Naval Construction Carried Through Under Intense Speed-Up By a Navy Yard Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—There has been a lot of talk about the nearness of war lately. Well, if the way they are working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard means anything, it certainly looks like the Govrenment is get- ting ready for something big. At present there are being built, or about to be built, seven ships. And how are they being built? You'd think It was a private ship yard the way the men are being speeded up. In every shop the men are turning out the work two or three times as fast as they used to. New machines have been intro- duced in the shipfitter shop, mach- ine shop, sheet metal shop and sev- eral others. What the machines don’t do, the men are forced to do. It is about time we Yard work- men got wise to the fact that we are doing the dirty work for Wall St. . The ships we are building will be used against workers just as in the last war. Not only this, but the offivers are trying to turn out ships much faster and cheaper at our ex- pense. The A. F. of L. locals don’t do anything about it. In fact, all the officials ever do is collect the dues regularly. The whole trouble is that a lot of the men have taken a dis- gusted attitude and stay away from meetings. Let's make the A. F. of L. do something about our shop condi- tions. The more money for wages and better conditions means less money for battle ships that kill workers. $5 A Month On Dangerous Relief Jobs By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES.—Transient work- ers by the score are hitting the highways for Los Angeles from the Mojave forced-labor camps of the Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light. Work is extremely hazardous, yet | |the workers get only the usual transient camp $5.00 monthly and then only provided they stay out the month, One worker says that many of them are leaving the camps after only four or five days stay, due to the intolerable conditions, This jSame worker declared that regular! city water department employees doing essentially the same work | are getting $5.00 daily, as contrasted with the transient workers’ $5.00 monthly and “found.” “Why should we be forced, be- cause of our helplessness, to perform the same identical labor as that done by regular city employees for only «$5.00 monthly?” asked this worker. “It seems to me that if Officials really were interested in eliminating unemployment and rais- ing the standard of living for work- ers that they would employ ALL workers at this rate.” This worker stated that Mexican and Negro transient camp workers are segregated from white workers and every effort is made to keep the workers from organizing and getting together, The principal job at which the transient camp workers are put is cleaning out the aqueducts and creosoting them inside. This is dangerous and brings on festering sores from creosote burns. When workers protest, the bosses tell them to “shut up or hit the road.” “The camps are particularly ill- equipped, even for transient eamps,” said this worker, “and food is terrible.” “It’s hazardous wors,” said C. A. Billig, director of the service. “The men have to wear gas masks on ac- count of the paint fumes and are lowered into the line through man- holes.” The transient camp worker in- terviewed, however, declared that no gas masks were supplied the work- ans and, apparently most of them do not know that such negligence will result in lead poisoning for all those in the pipelines. Billig, how- ever, does know it, hence his declar- ation that gas masks are provided. “Before the men go out on the | job they sign agreements that they understand they are virtually re- ceiving only maintenance instead of wages or contract pay, The gov- ernment maintains the men and the water department supplies the tools, equipment, camps and supervision,” explained Billig. - What he didn’t explain was that the men are not informed of the nature of the job or the unusual hazards to life and health, before shipping out on thé job. Until this year, according to H. A. Van Norman, chief engineer of the water department, men were paid $4.00 daily, common labor pay, for such work. Thus, the depart- ment is saving at least $20,000 monthly on the basis of the present crew of 235 men. When I saw him later he had taken the matter up with his fol- lowers, and they had collected three dollars, mostly in nickels and dimes. TI added another $1.50 and the min- ister sent the money to the I, L. D. with the assurance that he would collect more later on. I relate this because it shows that WORKERS’ HEALTH | Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) Dance Until Dawn Time: Tomorrow Night. Place: Savoy Ballroom, 146th Street and Lenox Avenue. Tickets can still be gotten at the Workers Bock Shops, 50 East 13th Street, New York City; 699 Prospect Avenue, Bronx; and 369 Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn. Tickets bought in advance will mean that much more money for the Daily Worker. sigs Wi ih Guilt and Sex MRADE B. M., of New York, writes:—“Your excellent article on the physiological effects of sexual activity prompts me to ask the following question: Why do insects manage to prolong their lives two or three times by refraining from the act of procreation during the breeding period? Why do I experi- ence psychical dullness and slow- ness after wet dreams? How can I overcome my shyness and great fear of manifesting frank sexual desires?” a ate OUR question as tp insects we cannot answer off hand. It is an interesting question and we would check up on it were there time, but we are sure you will real- ize how pressed we are to answer the large number of questions that come to us. The implication that lies in the asking of the question— that what is good for insects ought to be, or might be, good for human beings, we do not believe holds true. The answer to your second ques- tion: Why do you experience phys- ical dullness and slowness after wet dreams, we believe lies in the third question: How can I overcome my shyness and great fear of manifest- ing frank sexual desire? You should not feel any physical dullness after wet dreams. Wet dreams are a perfectly normal pro. cess and should cause no ill effects: on the contrary, they should have a good effect in relieving sexual tension. If you feel dull afterwards, it is because of your attitude toward them—a hang-over of a boyish at- titude of fear or guilt or disgust of sexual things. That this is prob- ably true is shown, you see, from your third question, where you ad- mit shyness and fear. That as a boy you should have felt fear or guilt or disgust at sexual things, is no fault of yours. It was a part of the air you breathed, It was fed to you like food by a hypocritical society. It is up to you to fight both —both the hypocritical society that damages growing boys and girls and the damage that has been done to you in the form of these feelings of guilt and fear. There is nothing guilty, fearful or disgusting about sex. Sex is healthful, fine and desirable. Do not feel yourself responsible in any way for the feelings you now have: but recognize them as a boyish hang-over from earlier training. Throw them overboard, as you have many of your other boyish ideas, and adopt an entirely new attitude toward sex based upon your knowl- elge as a man, and a man, we take it, who is interested in building a new society of which sexual hypo- crisy will not be a part. es ge Convalescense after an Operation B., Bichnell, Ind—To build up a patient’s strength and blood following an operation is usually simple under the proper conditions. In Soviet Russia patients who are operated on, are given ample time for recovery at convalescent homes without worry over jobs or money, At these homes they are fed prop- erly and given good medical care and that is all that is necessary in most cases. In your case, all that is necessary probably is an ample diet if you can afford it. Plenty of milk, eggs, green vegetables, liver about two or three times a week, a good amount of rest, and you will shortly regain your strength. GRAND BLOWOUT TOMORROW Remember the Big Event tomor- row—the Thanksgiving Eve dance at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, where Prof. Yosel Cutler will hold forth with the assistance of . Dr. Puppet. There’s a surprise in store for you! Ruth Baker J. E. Buschoff Previously rece Total .. IN THE HOME By ANN BARTON “An Unintelligent, Bigoted, Man!” SPENT some time the other day, locking over some of the letters that have come to the Working Woman Contest. It was interest- ing to note how many types of working-class women had sent re- plies to the question raised in the contest. From North, East, South and West, letters were received, each representing an individual point of view on how to deal with a husband who would not let his wife attend working-class meet- ings, but who himself has other interests. The replies were from women working in mills, from housewives, wives of silk workers, wives of miners, wives of farmers, school teachers, Communists, non- Communists, class conscious wo- men, and women new to the revo- lutionary movement. Many of them based their replies upon personal experience. ee ee i lane sixteen valuable prizes offer- ed would alone be an incentive in the prize letter contest,” a woman from Ohio writes. “But this, to- gether with the realization of this question being deeply involved in the problem of drawing more work- ing class women into activity should bring a flood of letters into the office of the Working Woman maga- zine.” And see what a wife of a silk worker from Paterson, N. J., has to say! “The problem mentioned is typi- cal of an unintelligent bigoted man. If I were the woman in question I would arrange with wives of other working men who belong to the group I wished to join, to plan a meeting at my home. In that way, I would show him married women with children have the right to have nights off for this purpose!” cen em, WOMAN from a small town in Pennsylvania, the mother of seven children, indignantly writes: “I think the woman who writes the letter in the November maga- zine should get some freedom, and if she can’t get it by talking to her husband nicely, then it is time that she just gets out when she knows it is her place to be at a workers’ meeting.” Still another woman, this time from Maine, suggests “If both of you cannot go on the same night on account of the children, then you should take turns.” One woman suggests that the weman should just announce she would like to go to the meeting, and if the husband says “no,” she should go anyway. “When you ceme home” says this woman, “tell him all about it. If he doesn’t want to listan, don’t pay any at- tention to him, and when the next meeting comes, do the same thing again. I think he will grad- ually: understand.” wee F YOU want to try for one of the sixteen really attractive prizes, write directly to Contest Editor, Working Woman, 50 East 13th St., New York, N. Y. Say what. you would do if you had a husband who would not let you attend working class meetings, even though he has people in small towns follow the Scottsboro case and are willing to help if approached. MF. other interests outside his job. The prizes include a Westinghouse ad- justable heating electric iron, a hamper of White Rose canned goods, a linen luncheon set, initia- tion and three months dues pay- ment into the I.W.O., and subscrip- tions to various publications. The contest ends at midnight, January 25, 1935. SONS SHOW HOW “I am a housewife in a working- class home. I have two sons, both in the Young Communist League, who have continually been trying to make me see the necessity of a publication of the working class... . 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