The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 Expose Relief Cook In Baltimore Project By a Marine Worker Correspondent BALTIMORE, Md.—The Scratch House News, published by the Waterfront Unemployed Council has -been ge on “galley-rat been several interv ews € pry anything s guy, Duggan He was to speak about himself lly managed to He mentioned im on d him to be very care- peaks, that the rganized and al- He then invited f beer. We went and down sat { up. ‘The other peaking to a sea- to be on galley if everything I printed in the Scratch s. Even the statement I made that I have been a sea cook for twenty years was printed. What made me mad was when I read that T was ble to satisfy the seamen. T think thgt I can cook as good as some of the best.’ “*As a matter of fact I haven't been cook fi years. I was ened House Ne twenty in one of the water- s before we had any gs were tough so I used _grub. When the project Mr. Mann gave me the Here, look at these dis- of oiler’s job. was speak- d me a charge where r on the S. S. George Holding up the discharge, “This is the best ship I wa on. but most of the ships were | rotten feeders. I always had ambi- tions of getting into the galley and loser to good food. I'm going to try to ship as cook after this. This| is the way I'll solve my food prob- em. It’s a damn poor cook who can't cook and eat what he wants. Look at me today, don’t I look well) fed?’ The above is the main part of the | interview and proves that Pas | had lied. He is not a cook, but an| oiler and got the job at the project Pierce. he said through his friendship with “Ex- lax” Mann, Perhaps, this is the reason the garbage is so greasy. What can you expect when an oiler is put in the galley? He must be thinking he is oiling a hot bearing when he gets hold of a grease paint and starts |! to scramble eggs Guardsmen Protest Graft In 258th By A Soldier Worker Comeeceane, NEW YORK—One of the Com-| munist girls who gives out leaflets and speaks to us fellows after drill suggested that I write a letter to you. She told my buddy and me that the Daily Worker is going to print letters from guardsmen in a special column, once a week. My buddy and I are not Com- munists, because we don’t believe in many of your principles. But we agree with this young Communist that there is no y we can’t get together on the things that we do agree on. For instance, the leaflets we get from you people prove that there is graft going on in our regiment. | My buddy and I joined the outfit over two ago and we under- stood that we were to receive $1 for every drill. We haven't seen a cent yet. All we do is sign the payroll. The captain says the money goes to pay for our dress uniform which | costs us $72 and the rest of the money is for our battery dues. We both are out of work, so you see we could use the money for expenses. We are convinced that the cap- tain or some officers are making a racket of our drill pay. And as the girl says we have to o1 ze the fellows in our battery and do some- | g about the graft. I forgot to mention that the leaflets always say | for the fellows to investigate the | price of the uniform. They state | we are being gypped here too. So| F teld Artillery = we took my uniform to a tailor and | he said it’s only worth about $40. There are about 60 guys in our battery so you can easily see what a soft snap the “skipper” (captain) has. We have already begun to get the fellows started. My friend speaks to his pals and I speak to mine. We | expect to take some action as soon | as we get the fellows organized. | Hoping you print our letter. Two Guardsmen in the 258th F.A. | Plants on Part Time in Kansas City, Mo. By a Worker Correspondent KANSAS CITY. Mo.—Conditions are rotten for workers in Kansas City and vicinity. The P. W. A. workers of Kansas | City and Jackson County are only getting from 30c¢ to 40¢ per hour and 24 hours a week. The Democrat politicians who are | foremen on the P. W. A. jobs are lousy. They get their $30 every week, rain or shine. The P. W. A. workers are not at all satisfied. Railroading is also getting bad.| The M. P. R. R. layed off 29 men a week ago. only working one and two days a week. The packing houses are lay- ing men and women off every day. The Sheffield Steel is only working part time. ‘Daily’ Calls on Small Districts To Speed Drive EST VIRGINIA is on Wednesday’: s list with $25, a sum higher than it has sent in for any entire week, except one, since the campaign started. It puts West. Virginia abov This district, e 50 per cent of its quota. like Louisiana, Houston, St. Louis and others of the | smaller districts have been conducting the $60,000 campaign far from properly. assigned to them. determined steps to fill their quotas Buffalo is represented with onl None of these latter ones have raised half of the amounts This certainly must be changed. They must take quickly. 'y $10 while Minneapolis and Mil- Waukee are not reported for anything. These two districts have fairly large quotas—$750 and $800—and ti make all haste in finishing them. — 5 Received Nov. 28, 1934 201 Previously received 42,663.98 - - Geo. G. Allan $1.00 Total to date $42,955.75 | Werner Fors 1.00 DISTRICT 1 (Boston) | Robert Boehm $2.00 | Total Nov. 28, 1934 $2.00 Total to date $3,943.36 Total Nov. 23, 1954 $2.00 DISTRICT 19 (Omaha) Total to date $2,243.73 | Henry Bitterman $1.00 DISTRICT ? (New York City | - E st $1.00 H Ellis 98 | Total Nov. 28, 1934 $1.00 Anon 5.00 Betty $0 | Total to date $37.50 Finnish Working N F Scouts, Thael- | DISTRICT 11 (No. Dakota) Wemen 5.00 mann Troop 1.50 | Belden Section 0.00 Finnish Workers A Evanoff 1.50 | -—-— Chib 5.25 Little Lefty's | Total Nov. 28, 1934 $10.00 Leon Ehas 2.00 Westchester | Total to date $107.65 H Kaufman 1.00 Admirers _10.00 DISTRICT 1% (California) A Lopez 1.00 Spartacus A C 8.45/ Boyle Hts. Sec. 12.00 A C Miller 50 Workers c: Perry Bay Cities Sec. 7 Anonymous 2.00 Fur Dying | Pioneer Buro 5.00 A Mitchell 5.00 Shop 5.00 | Unit 7, Downtown 5 Japanese Workers. M Bedacht 5.00 | Club 1,00 House Party of | Total Nov. 28, 1934 $8.02 _ Total to date $827.53 Total Nov. 28, 1934 DISTRICT 14 (Newark) Total to date Youth Branch, R. N. M. A. 8., DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) y $2.50 Kurt Botteher 225 10.00 Abe y 5 1.00 Tom Butier | 3.00 Baltimore Esthonian Workers Clu i} 1.00 PIES, — | a 5.00 To’ Noy. 28, 1934 $3.50 | Tag Day in Paterson 10.40 Total to date $3,987.57 | Mrs, Olgo R 2.0 DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) | - oa Women’s Council of Jamestown $10.00 | Total Nov. 28. 1994 34.90 s | Total to date $71.12 ‘Total Nov. 28, 1924 $10.00 | DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) Total to date $496.88 | New London 25.00 | ISTRICT 5 (Pittsburg) | New Heven 3.00 ‘Tony $5.40 | Hartford 17.00 Peter Miravalle 1.00 | Hartford 70.09 | Total Nov. 28, 1984 $115.00 Tots! Nov. 28, 1924 $6.40 | ae xotel to date $746.61 | Total to date $814.46 DISTRICT 7 (Detrcit) DISTRICT 22 (W. Virginia) B. Thomas $1.00| Party Held in Booth, w. V. $25.00 pb oarte pani Total Nov. 28, 1934 $1.00 | Total Nov. 28, 1994 $25.00 Total to dete $2,172.21 | Total to date $111.15 he ma Worker expects them to DISTRICT & (Chicago) NAME Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! ADDRESS AMOUNT f 50 EAST 13th St. Tear off and mail immedictely to DAILY WORKER alhewrs ner rms New York, N. ¥. 1em a hand in the kitchen} The roofing plants are |W, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934 Telegraphers Union Calls Mass Meeting By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I have received a notice signed by the United Tele- graphists of America, an independ- ent organization, calling upon the workers in the telegraph industry and the general public to come to a mass meeting to be held at | Beethoven Hall, 210 East 5th St., on Friday night, Nov. 30th at 8 p. m. The notice says that this meeting will discuss the conditions in the telegraph industry — the increased | speed-up, the lay-offs and the pro- d merger in the industry. It} is clear from the notice that this| outfit is an honest one and not phoney like the Association of West- ern Union Employees. Co mpa ny Officials In AW.ULE. | By a Telegraph Worker Cor- | respondent | NEW YORK.—I am a telegraph |worker, Recently the A. W. U. E.| (company union) started a cam- sell-out organizatio: This is the iron selling point. It is to laugh when |they point out that even some of the vice-presidents and general) the union. President Welch of the traffic de-| vedeanaid being a member of the) e union with thousands of tele-/| ash workers who are walking the streets looking for work. pose he joined the union to get some of the benefits enjoyed by A.W.U.E. members. For example:—Does he get docked for all holidays as most of the jemployes do? Hell—No. Will he fight to correct this “cut in pay” |scheme? Hell—No. Will he organ- |ize his fellow workers to d®mand \full pay, increase in sick benefits| | | | | | and pensions, slackening of the) |speed-up and other improvements | jin the miserable working condi- | tions? Hell—No. | There is absurdity in this com- jradeship with the Carrolls, Titleys, Welchs, etc., who are just the ones who carry through all of the plans |to save money at the expense of the employes. If there was any doubt in the mind of any employe as to the purpose of the company union, it should be removed now. Refuse to belong to this scab outfit. If you do already belong, raise questions jat every meeting as to why certain lousy conditions are permitted to exist. In a very short time with |proper organization and effort this company union can be smashed. It's worth it and can be done. Your future demands on what interest you take in the organization that affects your job. A company union is not that organizaiton. That is clear. I and several others joined the United Telegraphers of America who as an independent organization have no strings to any enemies of labor. The N.R.A. is supposed to guarantee the right to belong to any union of your choice and even the A.W.U.E. has that clause in its N.R.A. agree- ment. Let your choice be a fight- ing union and you will win back all of these conditions that the company union officials like Bur- ton, Colao, Silverglade, Taschner and Elsden helped you lose, On- ward to a strong U. T. A. Short Dining ’ Car Crew on _"s Penna. Loop | By A R. R, Worker Correspondent SUNNYSIDE, L, I—I want to ex- pose some of the conditions on the Pennsylvania Railroad. I was in a loop called 34, with which all the workers are ac- quainted. We get paid for the actual hours we make. On this particular run we are out five days. In all | night, we have sleeping quarters but | we have to sleep in the car to save the twenty-five cents. That is not all. We work with a | short. crew of three wei and two cooks. A full crew cons'-ts of five | waiters, a steward and t™>c@ codks. |Now you can see the tcrror and | speed-up Pennsy is using in getting all of that work done by a few men. The first waiter who is in charge, | taking the steward’s place, gets ful time pay. But, after every meal he is one of the first men to check uo on the kitty and the money is| evenly divided with the rest of the waiters. | I certainly wish this matter could be brought up in the brotherhood and a fight initiated against these | deplorable conditions. We should} e to it thet th men get at least! | their full tims which consists of 240/ se the principal cities that we lay over; with the crew relative to the West | Coast strike and the present ne- gotiations taking place between the | I. S. U, officials and the shipowners. The I. S, U. members especially de- nounced the maneuvers of the I. 8. paign to force every one into this| U, officials in stalling and delaying action for better conditions. They of the chief | stated that before the seamen could get better conditions they would have to unite their ranks on the basis of the united front. lee une have become members of | men learned the value of unity by Just imagine Vice-| participating in the West Coast | P' strike. seamen can do to better their con- ditions. T SUP- | crew, half belonging to the I. 8. U. | the other half to the M. W. I. U, but they realize they are living un- der the same conditions and the only way they conditions on the pérticular ship is by joint action of the entire crew. majority of the ships, then condi- Jan increase in pay, vacation with | tions will improve considerably. Seamen Overcome Barriers Between I.S8.U. and M.W.1.U. Members of the M WIU and ISU Form Joint Ship’s Committee By A Marine Worker Correspondent | BALTIMORE, Md.—The crew. of | the S. 8. American Star are all| union members. The engine depart- | ment is organized into the Marine | Workers Inrustrial Union and the deck gang belong to the Interna-| tional Seamen's Union, The seamen on this ship, real-/ izing the necessity for unity, formed a@ ship’s committee made up of! members of both unions, to take up all grievances of the seamen on the ship. These seamen are not letting | organizational differences interfere | with improving their conditions on | board ship. Two delegates of the M. W. I. U. visited the ship and had a long talk These ‘This is a good example of what the Here we have a divided cat improve these When we see similar unity on the NOTE We publish letters every Friday from workers in the transporta- tion and communication indus- tries — railroad, marine, traction, trucking, taxi, ete—and post of- fice, telegraph, telephone, etc. We urge workers from these in- dustries to write of their condi- tions of work and their efforts to organize, Please get these letters ° Increased Cut in Working Time Offsets Pay Increase By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — I am working || on the United Fruit docks. I worked only six hours last week |) and only 13 hours the whole || month, | Last month I made nearly 100 hours before the raise. That is what the raise in pay means. The speed-up cuts us out of much work, and the little raise we got does not make up for it. If we had a union, everything would be different. We could demand the 30-hour week and the control of our own hiring. We could make the bosses grant us our rights. ‘Push-up’ on Fruit Docks By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — I wish to write about the United Fruit Company's push-up system. Escalators galore | bring out the blood and sweat which very nearly throws us to the floor. The company has thought up a new system whereby they can take from us further blood and sweat. This is done through their two rollers on the dock which does away with the two. men used in the past, and that was bloody enough. Now it furthermore makes it a bloody system for the two men in the hold who must work to keep these two rollers going. Instead of the two men who in| the past worked on the dock and put the boxes on our shoulders, we have seven to eight men on the; dock ready to grab each box as it comes off the rollers. This doubles the work for the men in the hold who have to keep up with the bosses’ push-up system of grab it and run. Last year, before the raise, each and every man carried his own box. Now, the new system has come in and they have made it worse for to us by Tuesday a4 cach week IRT Worker Chitliows Plan To Combat ‘Red Scare’ By a Traction Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—As an I, R. T. sub- way worker and member of the Transport Workers Union, Inde- pendent, I would like to say a few words in relation to Communists and the union. A certain amount of antagonism has been expressed by the I. R. T. men verbally and otherwise in re- gard to the “redness’ of the union. The Transport Workers Union has of course given its position on this} question and has tried to clear the matter up by explaining rank and file control which is the basic policy of the union, by showing the men that it is their union run by them for them, by proving to them that the bosses raise the “red scare” to split their ranks, get them fighting amongst themselves and then take the opportunity to smash the union. ‘These are valid reasons, having as I see it, only one major fault; they fail to convince. Somehow the workers still harbor doubts, still feel the Transport Workers Union |- is a “red union.” This feeling per- meates a considerable section of the rank and file in and out of the union as well as some of the leaders in the union. While nothing is done today ex- cept perhaps in individual cases here and there to capitalize or organize this feeling to the detriment and probable smashing of the union, it is my contention that something will be done in the future, no doubt inspired by the traction companies, to play on this sentiment as heavy as we have ever seen it before. In counteracting this coming ter- tific blast of “reds,” I believe the following steps are necessary in ad- dition to those which the union now follows: | the transport industry and by no individuals and groups, as to the fighting spirit, self-sacrifice, honesty of purpose, etc., that the Commu- nists who have enrolled in the union have thus far shown, A tribute should be paid to these workers, at the same time calling on the others in a spirit of fairness to discuss the desirability of having workers of that sort in the union, regardless of political belief. We should point out once more the fact that the union is run and controlled by the rank and file of one else, and if the union in the course of building itself gets in workers with Communist ideas so much the better for the union and the transport workers of New York City. If we explain boldly the role of the Communists along the lines out- lined, if we put the question of the union and the Communists in it correctly, we will have settled in the minds of a good many workers the question of the “red scare” for a long time to come. FAST STEPPING NEEDED! The Workers Correspondence De- partment reaches the $100 mark today—but they have some step- ping to do, with only 20 ver cent of their $500 quota reached! Leon Ehas ... Geo. G. Allen ... Previously received .. Total Although the quota set for the Women’s Council of Jamestown, N. Y., was fulfilled when they contrib- uted $10, they are “far from satis- fled and pledge ourselves to redouble our efforts to help put the Daily An explanation must be given, at least to some of the more advanced Letters from REPORT FROM THE NAVY YARD, Bremerton, Washington, Dear Comrade Editor: T am a little late in renewing my own sub for the Saturday issue, and am fining myself fifty cents for be- ing that way. I only wish I were able to tax myself more. I had a few contacts for subs in the yard and expected to send them all in together, but circumstancss do not permit mé to at this time. I will have them though in the near fu- ture, The depression has not hit here, as hard as other places, and of course, I need not tell you why, as you know this is a navy yard, and is pretty busy. The crisis, I am sure, will start making its way into the yard here as soon as the next Congress meets and passes a few of its (Wall Street bosses’) laws for further economy. A%éut one thou- cand men have bren laid off the} last four months, and a mcve is o2 | Worker drive over the top in its | appeal for $60,000.” Has your Coun- cil reached its quota? Our Readers foot to smash down on the wages of the craftsmen still working by making helpers do méchanics’ work. That is done openly in only one de- partment now, but we know it is the opening wedge into the other crafts. Also the next meeting of Congress we know will react to the hollering for further economy by the big money men, by wage cuts and other devious ways to lower the cost of building the Wall Street navy. We look to see the great d2mand for unemployment insurance put on the backs of the workers still holding a job. Roosevelt is still pretty strong around here, but not quite so much as in 1932. The election returns have not yet been filed, and) lit is four days since elections. This county wont 48 strong for the Com- munist Party in 1932, but we look to sé a larger vote this year, if 1S U Elects Committee | To Protest Rotten Grub in Relief Project By A Marine Worker Correspondent BALTIMORE, Md. “Ex-lax” Mann and “Galley rat” Duggan, the garbage at the project is in a hell of a mess. The seamen are getting pretty hungry, Even the I, 8. U. rank and file have now started a campaign to force the re- lief fakers to improve the food. A few days ago an I. 8. U. com- mittee elected on the union’s floor went up to see Karl Eckert, the project’s chief spitoon wrestler, to! learn what he had to say about the food situation. This indicates the resentment about the food among the seamen and their conditions. No doubt ert and Pimm can do anything be- yond referring the committee to “Clothes-line” Wooley. This we know from bitter and actual ex- perience. The top fakers are the ones res- ponsible for the rotten conditions at the project. Now is the time for all seamen to unite and put some pressure on the fakers. The I. S. U. rank and file should go further than send committees. They should force their leaders to organize the union’s membership into a mass delegation and unite all the unemployed seamen to take are suffering from rotten garbage and they should organize their | power for better relief. ‘Hungry Wagon, Says Seaman By a Marine Worker Correspondent on in my fifteen years of sailing. She is the hungriest wagon I have ever been on. comes once a week. This ship be- longs to the largest sugar company, yet all we get 1s the black sugar from the cargo hold. The reason we don't get good food is because the captain gets the food order and then decides how he can make the most graft by getting the cheapest food. There is never any fresh fruit excepting in the salon where they get everything including chicken and roast pork while we get only beans and rotten corned beef. Sometimes the crew gets the week- old leftovers from the salon. Linen is changed every 35 to 40 days with no towel or soap for the crew, while the officers get only one towel a trip. ‘The company allows twenty cents per day a man. The stewards de- cause of the rotten conditions. that it is foolish to quit the ship, but the correct thing to do is to stay aboard and organize a ship's committee elected by the .entire crew, no matter what union they be- long to, We'll stick together and make this ship and all ships fit to live on by forcing the companies to grant the demands worked out at the Balti- more Unity Conference last Septem- Fight Against Jim -Crowism In the Schools By A R. R. Worker Corespondent CHICAGO, Ill.—I am a worker on the Pennsylvania R. R, I have seen the Daily Worker sold here many times and thought it was a good thing for us workers but I never realized what a friend of the work- ers, Negro and white, it was until this happened. In Chicago, where I live, a cam- paign started to get the Negro children out of a certain school in |Morgan Park, A big company, the Shulz Baking Co., with whom the Negroes do business, went around in a big broadcasting car, yelling “Are you with us in getting the Negroes out of the white schools?” We Negroes protested. We went to the baking company, to a lot of other places, but the campaign was pretty much against us until the Communuists came in. The Communists went around to all the schools for miles around speaking. They told the Jewish neighborhood that in Morgan Park Hitlerism was starting. They told them that when they get through with the Negroes they'll start on the ‘Jewish workers. And they told them to go on a sympathy strike for the Negroes. Immedidatcly a school with 300 students went on strike. This put a punciure in the campaign and the whole thing was dropped. I can now see the power that Negro and white workers can have when they unite. I am not a Com- things against Communists, but if this is what the Communists do, fight for Negro and white workers, they will only count it. JW. | then I am all fer it. A Penn, R. 8. Worker, facto is the worst ship I have been | “coffee” would kill a mule, and tea| The crew is beginning to realize, — Between| | | | though, that subordinates like Eck- | action. All the unemployed seamen | Sugar Ship BALTIMORE, Md.—The 8. 8. De- | The stuff they call} partment changes all the time be-} | munist, and I have heard a lot of | | chloric ecid, nitric acid, soda ash Occupational Diseases BY occupational skin diseases meant those eruptions which occur in workers as a result of con- tact with certain irritating sub-| stances in tne course of their work. Generally speaking there are two| types of occupational skin diseases. One group is made up of t hose oases caused by known skin irri- tants. For instance, every one knows that sulphuric acid, hydro- is} | ete:, quicklime, alums, can injure the’ skin. Workers who’ handle these chemicals must suffer in- flammations of the skin unless proper precautions are placed at their disposal. The second group concerns those cases in which cer- tain people are for unknown rea- sons, more sensitive to a particular substance than others. For instance, in a bakery, one worker out of ten employed, may get a rash because of handling flour. We say that such & person is sensitive to flour. In some, this sensitivity shows up the first time flour is touched. In| others, it may develop after years of work with this substance. ‘This condition is a problem both for the employer and for the work- |, er. For the employer there is in- terference with the efficiency in running his plant and the cost of compensation insurance. How short- sighted: and selfish the employers’ and insurance companies’ attitude is we shall speak of later. For the workers it means discomfort and loss of work and all too often no compensation. In the many industries, workers are exposed to hundreds of poisons which cen irritate the skin ahd cause even more serious conditions resulting in death or permanent disability. Workers handling print- er’s type, compounding rubber and making grids for electric storage batteries, are exposed to antimony which can irritate the skin and cause inflammation of the lining of the mouth, nose and throat. Those engaged in the manufacture of aniline dyes and coal-tar drugs and those who spray trees and veg- etables are exposed to arsenic which can cause most serious inflamma- IN THE By ANN BARTON October 10, at 10 a. m., the 135 girls working in the Fordham Laundry, at 258 East 138th Street, New York, dropped their work and went on strike. It is now eight weeks that these girls, mainly Ne- gro, have been shown an example of solidarity and fighting blood, that has caused dismay to the owner of the laundry and to the police. There is a reason for this fighting blood. The girls are fighting for the con- tinued existence of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union in their shop. IVE of the leading girl strikers, four Negro and one white, and the organizer, Jessie Taft, told me the story of that strike. Less than a year ago, there was no union. The girls were working 50, 52, 53 hours a week, for $7 and 8, just as the boss was pleased to pay. Then the Laundry Workers Industrial Union led a department strike there which forced a minimum weekly wage of $13.95, and a work-week of 45 hours. The union forced the boss to pay time and a half for overtime. But the Laundry Owners Asso- ciation, and the owners of the Fordham Laundry, decided to break the hold of the union through a lockout. The girls or- ganized into the union, were a few steps ahead of the bosses, and three days before the lockout was to go into effect, called the entire shop out on strike, These girls have defeated the bosses’ at- tempts to form a company union, FEW days ago, the boss sent a truckload of thugs, armed with bottles, chains, bricks, to attack the ‘girls who gather every day at the corner, to support the pickets marching in front of the laundry. Bricks flew. Boitles flew. “But every- thing they threw, we threw back! We sure put them on the run!” said one of the girls enthusiastically. “Now,” said Chauncey Johnson, a tiny Negro girl, a leader of the strike, “the bess and the foreman are trying to get the girls to leave the industrial unien. But our strike stands solid!” “T know I’m fighting for my rights—and I'd starve before I’d go back without the union,” said Bella Bross, a white girl who has been working in the mangle room at the laundry... Inez Weston, a member of the shop committee is 26, and must sup- port her two children. For three years she was working at the laun- dry and has seen the changed con- ditions which the union Srought. “The Communists?” the girls re- plied in answer to a question. “ Why they help us picket,” said Jule Samuels. “Yes, the Communists want to build the union,” said Ethel Harris, ie 8 guess because they want the ng class to ke strong and Many of the girls, since the striks, have joined the Young Communist League, and the Com- munist Party. The girls seid a strike settlement is in the offing in the very ‘near future. oe ESSIE TAFT, organizer for the! Laundry Workers Industrial Union, who as the girls say “hasn't missed, a day on the picket line” calls for) WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) tion of the skin and often loss of hair. Bakelite workers often suf- fer skin irritations. Sprayers of lacquer are exposed to benzine which can injure the skin. Electro- platers very often suffer irritation and ulceration of the skin because of handling chromic acid. The skin of glass etchers, textile work- ers and laundry workers may de- uptions because of contact with hydrogen fluoride. Inflam- mation of the skin is often seen in fur handlers and dyers who are exposed to para-phenylendiamin— trade name “ursol.” Beauty-parlor wo! 's frequently suffer this type of skin disease because of handling hair dyes. Bakers handling sugar and flour, machinists handling oils, painters exposed to lead and arsenic and hundreds of others can be mentioned. It may also be pointed out that those workers who handle brass. soot, coal tar, arsenic and certain petroleum products are liable to develop cancer of the skin, (To Be Continued) Addresses Wanted 'HE following letters have been returned because of wrong ad- , dress. Will you please send in your correct addre: Peggy Paterson, the Bronx; C, Van Fricht, Chicago; Frank U. Wegner, Dearborn; Paul Sorbelio, Bronx; L. Rosner, Brooklyn; Jo Ivoff, Tampa, Fla.; C. W. Davis, Omaha, Neb. SURPRISE COMING! The doctors are waiting for the big money of their dance last night to be counted. We're all agog! Mrs. E. M. Howell... $ 5.00 B. Thomas Previously received . Total $548.30 John P. Kral, of Conneaut, Ohio, writes: “Our unit’s quota for the Daily Worker drive was set at $15. We have raised to date $22.16, with prospects of raising $10 more.” They challenge every unit in the district to beat the percentage of the Con- neaut unit. They sold one raffle book, and another is almost com- pleted. HOME By ANN BARTON “OUR STRIKE STANDS SOLID!” girls are carrying on. She urges that all sympathizers report for picket duty at 603 East 136th Street. She also asks that those who wish to donate food for the strikers, should send it to the relief kitchen at 1888 Third Avenue, New York, N. Y. “In the Home” takes second place | in the day's contributions, beating such heavy cannon as Gold, Burck and Gannes. Mrs. Olga R. New Jersey Friend . Women’s Council, $2.00 - 100 Jamestown 10. 4 Betty Previously re‘ } 107 8 MS eT, oy seoes. SIZL36 Can You Make ’Km Yourself? Pattern 2051 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44, Size 36-takes 3% yards 39 inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Mllustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. d 205! Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15¢) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adems pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATS SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker, Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th Ste suprort of the fine struggle thete New York City. WORKING WOMEN! ! i aE SEERA wae