The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1934 Police Terror Unleashed to Stem Struggles Con pany Po HeadsA.F. of L. Local Uses Police to Suppress Rank and File in Brown and Williamson Tobacco Workers Local By a Worker Correspondent LOUISVILLE, Ky There are he Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co. that get one of your good papers t and enjoy read- We would sub- ng and the ing for our liv to the A. F. of L., deduct our due: we haven't a What we want to tell all workers that read your paper the following: This company’s prod- | ucts carry the label of the A. F. of} L., Tobacco Workers Union. No worker should be fooled by that We will try to explain why they have the label on their produ fter the N.LR.A assed the is year, there were several ments in the plant that had organized strikes against wi wage scales of $ per week bosses feared this action and cailed the well known labor faker and strikebreaker, Peter J. Campbell, Secretary of the State Federation of Labor, to organize the workers | into a union that would not strike. | The company posted notices on} all their bulletin boards telling the | workers to be at the labor temple | at a certain date and time to line| up into the union. Most of them were herded into the union at that} time. Those that did not join were | forced to later on, under the threat | of being discharged if they did not. | While mentioning Peter Camp-| bell, we will remind you that he| was one of the first men in the state to call for the Tin Soldiers against the striking miners of Har-| lan County, Ky., in 1931. Also, in| 1932 as Secretary of the State Fed-| eration of Labor, he broke the strike | of the Amalgamated Clothng Work- | ers at the Sherman plant in this city by furnishing scabs that were members of the United Garment Workers. We want to compliment you and your good paper for its correct | analysis of the trend towards fas-| cism in the United States, and want | you to publish this as we believe that this state is blazing the trail by having uniformed policemen at- tend union meetings. Some time ago, at the union meet- ing of the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Workers Local, some mil- ers tried several times to get a motion by the chair, demand- ing an increase in wages. If the president likes your motion it is in if he doesn’t it is out of This was the case this time. rder. After several attempts by a worker to get the motion before the house, the president of the local had him arrested on charges of disorderly conduct. Since that time there has been a uniformed policeman at e meeting of this local. How is that for Hitlerism? Wait, you haven't heard the secret. yet. The Honorable Presi- dent of this A. F. of L. local, Mr. Soalf, is chief of the company’s police force. The main duty of the force is to search the workers as they go home after the day's work is done. They especially do a good job of shaking down the girls. Sometimes, they take them back into the plant, take all their clothes off them, to be sure they ‘have no cigarettes or tobacco in their bloomer legs and stockings. It looks now as if this same stool pigeon will be the next president of the Central Labor body in Louisville. How is this for fascism in America? We would like to hear from any one that has this beat. We would like to contact some one that can advise us where we can find a real union that to- bacco workers can join. A Group of B. & W. Workers Editor’s note: There is no other union in the field. What these workers will have to do, is to take control of the union they now have and run it in their interests. For further information on this they should communicate with Louis Weinstock, c-o A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee, 1 Union Square, New York, N. Y¥. Funds Must Be Raised To Complete $60,000 Quota LTHOUGH $4,500 was brought in Friday, more than $4,100 of this came from New York. Such districts as St. Louis, Louisiana, N. Dakota and S. Dakota are not represented. their responsibility for finishing their quotas is as great as the respon- | All these districts must realize that sibility of those districts which have already completed, or on the road to completing their tasks. smaller districts must immediately raise their required amounts. The full $60,000 must be raised, and the adopt the most powerful action to Of the language groups, the United Ukrainian Toilers 113, Detroit, contribute $8.05... Received Nov. 30, 1934 Previously recetved $43,365.28 ‘Total to date $47,932.35 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) | Section 20 PB Section 20 PB Sec 10 Unit YCL PB Sec 10 Unit 3s PB Sec 10 Unit 2 PB Sec 10 Unit 1 Cp Sec 10 Unit 45 PB Sec 10 Unit 9 PB Bec 10 Unit 7 PB Bec 10 Sub Sec PB Section 10 Sec 1 Unit 1D PB Sec 1 Unit 1D Bec 1 Unit 2D Cp Bec 1 Unit 2D PB Section 16 Sec 1 Unit 32 PB WESL Post No 1 © Carl Niki Millinery United Front Op S Bernstein Red Builders Daily Worker Med. Advisory Bd PB Left Wing Baker Group Local 507 Shirley Stein George Marion Br 192 Iwo Col at Betty’s House Party Vanguard Scientific Society YCL Unit 4 Boro Park Raised at Banquet Pe Peyeney tay woe r Boaubunann, , SSSSSSSSSRSSSSRISSNSSRSSSRSEI43& From IwO 1300.00 From Sections 1382.05 Mass Orgs. & Trade Unions 1176.49 | Change Collection 53.63 Total Nov 30 $4,139.07 | Total to date $26,706.52 | DISTRICT 3 (Phila.) | M Wedwisky $50 Chas Demetse .20) H Staudle 25 Tot Nov 30 $1.00 Geo Peter 05 Tot to date $3688.57 and the Roumanian Branch, I. W. O., Ecorse, $5.00. $4,567.07@——_— | Sympathizer | Puget Sound Power & Light Unit. | John Reed Club Fraction Carl Freeman 25) Total Nov 30 $2.25 Total to date $4197.61 DISTRICT 11 (North Dakota) Billings Sec $4.50 P © Box 246 Bismarck Op 5.00 Total Nov 30 39.50 Total to date $117.15 DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) Astoria Cp $37.40 Tacoma Cp 8.50 Aberdeen 2.00 Couer d'Alene 1.00 Portland 8.00 Salem 3.00 Portland ILD 2.00 West Dayton Bellingham 1.00 Farm Unit 1.00 Anacortes .60 Col at Plenum _7.00 Diympia 5.85 Spokane 32.60 Everett 9.30 Seattle Section Voice of Action 5 Unit 10 PB 10. Rainier Valley Unit No 4 Unit No 7 Unit No 2 Sympathizer Sympathizer Unit No 9 PB and Op YOL Madison Street Unit Op MwIU Fraction YOL in Packinghouse Union Navy Yard Unit Fisher Flouring Mills Unit Post Office Shop Unit RI ee A ae Post Intelligencer Unit Longshore Unit Unit 1 Unit 4 Unit 7 Georgetown Member-at-Large Waterfront Worker 3g3h333323333338S533233RS8%33 District 4 (Buffalo) National Lumber Workers Union 1 Onit 10 Black Rack Sec Pisherman 4 Onnnery Workers Union 2. Bethlehem Shop Unit University Unit of ¥CL 5 Totsl Nov 30 ‘Total Nov 20 3280.86 Hatel to date Total to date $682.20 DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) DISTRICT 24 (ewark) Frank Baumholtz Cp siege oe ee pee Tag Day 96 Total Nov 30 36.25 Total to date $2002.05 | ToS Day et DISTRICT 1 (Detroit) Seas Se sia W Rogers $2.60 | Passaic Unit 5.72 United Ukrainian Totlers No 18 B05 oes iris asec bi Unit 13 1.00 9 ; fond a uit at 2.09 | Hackensack Unit 7.00 Murray Local AWU sel rece 7. Mann Free Sec 5 Unit 4 1.00 | Suet GIL aad Pe Sec 6 Unit 1 5.00] ontt 6 . x00 Davison Red Builders 1.65 | Max Shigbauer reed ee Day r3g| Martin Hemstetter 1.00 Sec 4 Unit 3 2.18| Rosentinal “0 eee ota Meorse red Ereihelt Gesangs Farein 10.21 Sezer 48 Sec 6 Unit 1 PB 75), | Mr & Mrs J Howell and Seo 6 Unit 1 $00 | Mr & Mrs R Voltg 10.00 ae 300 | Jack London Club Newark $15.05 Red Builders °° | Total Nov 30 “$15.01 See ee hg 709 | Total to date $831.13 DISTRICT 2 (W, Virginia) Total Nov 30 $54.55 | Harley Weaver $1.00 ‘Total to date $2326.76 DISTRICT % (Chicago) Total Nov 30 $1.00 0! Total to date $112.15 Iwo Br 769 Here Is My Bit Teward the $60,000! ae a Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, M. Y¥. For Postum Pension Plan. By a Worker Correspondent BATTLE CREEK, Mich The General Food Corporation, of which the Postum Company is a branch, has adopted a plan for old age pension. This old age pension will be paid for by the workers through such | a premium that will force the work- ers to an even lower standard of living than they now have. The main issue is how it was | submitted to the workers, The em- ployes did not get to know any- thing about it until Nov. 16, at} | which time they were presented | |with pamphlets which described | this plan. An official called the | jemployes to a sort of shop meeting | and told them that they will have to sign, how it was not compulsory | and this plan was on now for three | months. The first check-off was | made on Nov. 1, but the company | will pay for September, October, | November and will in the future match each employe’s contribution for the general fund The employes were very disgusted and about 90 per cent were against | the plan. Next day a foreman | came around and told each worker. | “Here is the application for old | age pension, it is not compulsory | |but you will have to sign it.” | The workers have endorsed the Plan, not because they are willing, | but because they are not organized. | |Now the workers are talking of or- | ganization, not under the treacher- jous leadership of the A. F. of L.| Officials, but under the leadership jof militant rank and file workers. | Some of them have said that in | |the next election they will vote the | hammer and sickle. | | S| Cantor, Cop And Music Aid Macy Ballyhoo | (By a Macy Worker Correspondent) | | NEW YORK —On Wednesday, | |the Office Workers Union dis- tributed a leaflet about Macy’s| biggest stunt of the year, the) Thanksgiving Parade. The paper | exposed the hypocrisy of the boss and his slogan “Keep up the Ameri- | | can Standard of Giving.” | The next day, about six hundred | of us fellows were in the parade | and here is what they gave us: The | American Legion Band played | familiar war songs of the last war | to prepare us for the next war, which unlike prosperity, IS “just | around the corner.” | Eddie Cantor whose lies about | “potatoes being cheaper” while prices go up and wages go down, | | was Master of Ceremonies. His ac- companiment was Roosevelt's N.R.A. song “Happy Days Are Here Again.” | Oh yeah, for the 3,000 or more of | | us who will be fired after Christmas? | Hundreds of Valentines's cops| were around the store and dozens | of plain-clothesmen mingled with | |the crowd. Obviously, Macy’s is| | seriously concerned about the steps | which we are taking and will take | | against mass lay-offs after Christ- | |mas and for unemployment insur- | ance. Perhaps that accounts for the mobilzaton of three times as many cops as were needed to handle the crowd. We've just begun to fight. The police on Strauss’ side won’t stop | us from following the leadership of the Office Workers Union, 504 Sixth Avenue, in getting better conditions in the store. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS 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 received are} carefully read by the editors. Sug- gestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever possible are used for the improvement of the Daily | | Worker. | COMKADE BROWDER ON THE KOLE OF THE TECHNICIANS Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Comrade Editor: Comrade Browder’s address to the regional conference of the In- ternational Relations Institute, pub- lished in the Daily Worker of November 27th, makes me wish to see it in pamphlet form and given the widest distribution to profes- sionals, intellectuals and techni- cians, as well as to workers and farmers. It is a gem, and put the case very clearly. Dr. W.E.L. THE SLANDER OF THE KEPT. PRESS | Lingshire, Mont. Dear Comrade Editor: I feel that there is an urgent need in our paper of a thorough explanation of every article appear- ing in the capitalist press that tends to cast a shadow over the | Soviet government. I probably feel this stronger than most of com- rades because I am surrounded by the supporters of Roosevelt and sympathizers of Fascism. Very few workers read class lit- erature here, but they all listen to an argument, and we must be sup- plied with the answers to the slan- der, through the Daily Worker. Fascism, they say, punishes its subjects for not obeying its decrees and the Soviet government does the same. It is plain enough for me to see the difference, but the person who is not class conscious sees no difference. Enclosed is two dollars, one to go to Del’s credit, and one to the In- ternational Labor Defense, to be used for the Scottsboro defense, Denver I.L.D. Rallying Protest Against Arrests By a Worker Correspondent DENVER, Colo—Tuesday, Oct. 30 was “Bloody Tuesday” in Den-| ver. On that day, 1.500 relief work-/| ers of Denver and Arapahoe Coun- ties, on strike against relief cuts/ and starvation -wages, for a 30-hour week at union pay, and for unem-} ployment insurance, were met by) the black-jacks and bullets of the Denver police. One worker was shot and seri- ously wounded. Many were slugged | and injured severely. Some 25 of the strikers and their sympathizers | were arrested on the picket line} and in the reign of terror that fol- lowed. Henry Brown, courageous leader | of the American Workers Union in} Englewood, was shot and seriously wounded in the leg. Mrs. Pearl Bartlett, one of the Arapahoe) County strikers, narrowly escaped death when one of the policemen) yelled, “Kill that bitch in the red | dress;” and another policeman aimed his gun at her. The in- tervention of her husband. Floyd| Bartlett, saved her life, and both) were arrested. Only the militant determination of the workers pre-| vented many others from being} slaughtered. As it was, three of| the workers, an old man by the name | of Elihu Preston, Clifford Spillman, both of Arapahoe County, Ripley | Gibson, a member of the Scottsboro | Branch of the LL.D. in Denver, were clubbed into unconsciousness | by the police and afterward ar-| rested. About seventeen other work- | ers were arrested in this attack upon | the picket line. During the three days that fol- lowed the police attack on the picket line, the police of Denver unleashed a reign of terror against the work- ers of Denver and Arapahoe coun- ties, raiding the homes and union halls of the strikers and their sym- pathizers and arresting all that they found there. Nine workers were ar- rested in these raids. Those that were held after the raids were George Bardwell, a leader of the Unemployment Councils, Fred Keltz, secretary of the Relief Workers Pro- tective Union, Henry Barrie, a mem- ber of the R.W.P.U., and Charlie Sheufelt, a member of the American Workers Union of Garden Home, who was held four days and charged with “assault with intent to kill,” | | under $1,500 bond. | | What was the role of the ILD. lin this struggle? Members of the | ILD. had been on the picket line with these workers every day. Im- mediately after the police attack on Blackjacks and Guns Used {| Against Relief Strikers Capitalist Press Aids Terror Drive in Racine By a Worker Correspondent RACINE, Wis.—A week ago the W.ER.A. workers and the Unem- of Unemployed ° LECTURE R. CLAUD HEATON, prominent | Synecologist, will lecture under | the auspices of the Medical Advisory |Board on Wednesday, Dec. 5th at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and |Irvin, Place, at 8:30 p.m. The sub- | ject is a popular one: “Sterilization, |a Fascist Weapon.” Admission is 25c. WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) that all doors are closed to him be- |cause he was only fortunate enough to obtain a high school education, ‘and because right now there are |“too many doctors!” No, he (and jothers like him) might become un- duly insistent about serving a so- jciety which has no place for him, jand might begin making “unreason- able demands,” So the proper place “Bloody Tuesday,” despite the fact| ployed Workers Committee of Ac- | Proceeds go to the $60,000 financial|for his letter is in the humorous that District Organizer George Kap-| tion called for a mass meeting to|rive of the Daily Worker. lan and the Section Organizer Of} pe held in the auditorium of the} * * A the I.L.D. were arrested on the} street and held for investigation,’ workers the correct policy to use in| leaflets were gotten out protesting | against the terror, and mass pro-| | test was mobilized. After seventy-| two hours of continuous effort, the LLD. forced the reelase of the six- teen workers held on a total bond} of $20,000. All sixteen will be tried} on Dec. 11. The Strikers Defense Committee | under the I.L.D., is conducting an intensive campaign of mass protest | to back up the legal defense. Mass protest meetings are being held,| and united front solidarity actions of various sorts are being called for. Protest petitions are being widely | circulated, demanding the dismissal| Grover C. Lutter, came up and told | of all charges against the sixteen} defendants. Committees are visit- | ing all A. F. of L. locals, mass or-| ganizations and churches with pro-| | posals for full support to the de-| fense, the adopting of protest reso- lutions, etc. A public mock trial of the workers against the police, city administration and Governor} Johnson is being planned to be held | just before the real trial of the) workers. Perhaps the greatest victory for) the program of the LL.D. in this| struggle has been the successful or- ganization of a new ILD. branch,) the Henry Brown Branch, among} the members of the American Work- | ers Union in Englewood. Members| | of the A.W.U. in Garden Home are |now asking that a branch of the | LL.D. be established in their neigh- borhood. All workers and sympathizers, all | | organizations who believe in de- |fending the basic rights of the workers, should send protest resolu- tions to Governor Johnson and the District Attorney in Denver, Col., |demanding the dismissal of all | charges against the sixteen workers. | | Defense funds should be sent to} the ILL.D., Box 204, 309 Interstate | Building, Denver, Colo. Spurt in 1WO That Efforts Bring Results Reeruit 1,391 Mansbars in One Week As Sections | Improve Reer By MAX BEDACHT The International Workers Order achieved 1,017 new members last week; in addition it took in 374 children. With this grand total of 1,391 applications in this one week the section and district organiza- tions of the Order have shown that they begin to take the drive seri- ously. They have shown that real efforts always bear fruit. The first weeks of the campaign only doubled the regular routine recruiting of the Order. This was most unsatisfactory. It left the de- sired recruiting quota far behind. It also indicated weak mobilization. Efforts to arouse the responsible leading comrades in the sections to more intense efforts were often answered with alibi explanations. The comrades in practice usually evaded discussion of ways and means to make the drive more suc- cessful; they rather produced argu- ments why the drive could not be more successful. The results of last week showed that at least real work is being done. It showed that the leaders in the sections and districts have orien- tated toward serious efforts. The re- sult of these first serious efforts will | undoubtedly prove to them the possibilities of the campaign. Their self-confidence will rise and will be an inspiration for greater efforts. ‘That is why we are sure that we will continue in this path. 1,017 new members is only the start. 1,500 a week is the next goal. The final week of the drive must establish a record of over 3,000. The record figures of our Order for new mem- bers within one week up to date are 2,316 adult and 390 children. This figure was achieved in the last week of last year’s drive. This figure should be and will be doubled in the last week of this year’s drive. The detailed results of the drive last week show an all-around im- provement. The Jewish Section reached 328 and keeps first place. The English Section follows with 111. Third place is taken by the Ukrainians with 100 new members, The Italians achieved 97 and the Hungarians 79. Then follow the Slovaks and the Poles with 73 each. The Youth is next with 64 new members. The rear is brought up by the Trade Union Option with 36, and the Roumanians with 30 new members. To this date the campaign has achieved 38.6 per cent of its total quota. The various sections have re- eruited from July 1 up to November 26 the following percentages of their quota: Pereent Total of Quota Section Quota Recruited Achieved Children "3000 2554 85.1 English 2000 1426 13 Jewish 5000 3300 66.0 Youth 1500 697 46.4 Ttalian 1500 690 46.0 Roumanian 750 336 44.8 Ukrainian 2000 745 37.2 Polish 1500 506 33.8 Siovak 2000 605 30.2 Hungarian 2500 ma 28.5 Total without children 25 9656 38.6 Grand Total with children rm0 | against chaos.” In the article he de- Drive ‘Ships uiting Tempo It is clear that the sections with | less than 50 per cent of their quota | achieved will have to work very hard | to make up the remaining percent- age in the remaining 4 weeks of the | drive. But a determined effort will | achieve it. Building I.W.O. Strengthens Working Class The building of our Order is a| necessary effort to solve the work- ers’ problems. Membership of | masses of workers in the bourgeois fraternal movement is a source of weakness of the American working class. It is high time that the mil- itant workers recognize this and help in the building of a militant workers fraternal organization. 'The bourgeoisie has long recognized it. A recent article by John Sullivan, | legislative correspondent of the Modern Woodmen of America, calls the fraternal movement “a bulwork clares that “politicians may falter. Business may go bankrupt. Euro- pean governments may change and change again. But within the thou- sands upon thousands of lodge rooms of the nation .... . exists the confidence born of mutual trust, confidence and a spirit of brother- hood.” He points out how the ritual- ism of the bourgeois fraternal movement contributes to the main- tenance of religion as a source of submission even to the most miser- able conditions of starvation, Of course, he doesn’t put it into such blunt words. But he comes to the conclusion that if among other things the bourgeois fraternal movement would disappear, there would be no force left to keep the masses from efforts to solve their own problems. He calls it “keep- ing the masses back from chaos.” Although Mr. Sullivan overesti- mates the continuous ability of the bourgeoisie to use the fraternal movement for keeping the workers back from fighting against condi- tions of starvation, yet he is fully justified in pointing to the achieve- ments of the bourgeois fraternal movement in this direction. He is fully justified in pointing out that 20 to 25 million people in the fra- ternal movement under the leader- ship of capitalist politicians is a factor strengthening the existing system, Build the International Workers Order As against this service by the bougreois fraternal movement to bourgeois society a workers’ frater- nal movement must be built for service to the working class and its interests. The International Work- ers Order has raised the banner of a working class fraternal movement. It has succeeded in rallying around this banner to this date nearly 50,000 members. It needs very little effort of these 50,000 members and of the militant section of the working class in general to double this figure. All that is needed is the sufficient un- derstanding of the value of the or- ganization for the working class, Forward to 75,000 members! Garfield School, to bring to the order to get more relief. In spite of the rain, it had been raining here for over two weeks, hundreds of workers came to the school. The school is surrounded by a high wire fence in which there are four gates. These gates were guarded by policemen and detectives, and when the workers came they were refused admission to the grounds. Only one hundred workers, who came early, were able to get in. At 8 o'clock, when the room was filled and the meeting was sup- posed to start, the Chief of Police, the workers that there would not be any meeting that night. Many women were there with their chil- dren. This dirty skunk turned out the lights before the women could get the children’s coats and hats on. This is something new for the workers here. They have been mis- led by organizations like the Racine County Workers Committee, Non- Partisan League, W.E.R.A. Post 1, American Legion, V-F.W., Racine Service League, into believing that they could better their conditions by letting the fakers controlling these organizations look after their interests. The workers have had their eyes opened up by the militant struggles of the Committee of Action, At a meeting called by the Socialist-con- trolled Racine County Workers | Committee at the Racine County Relief Department, a week ago Sat- urday, the workers were attacked by a bunch of hoodlums, which event was reported by the local gutter sheet. the Racine Journal-Times, as “Vigilantes Attack Reds.” At this meeting the police and deputies were present, but when these hooligans attacked the work- ers, the police said they could not see. If the cops can’t see, it’s no reason for the workers not opening | their eyes. Hundreds of young people who have never worked since getting out of school, are learning that the poison they had learned in school about free speech and assembly is only a lot of hokum, when they try to use these rights against the bosses. The issue is here. After four and five years of misery, having their relief cut to the bone, and nothing done about it by the misleaders who tell them to keep their mouth shut and starve, the workers are looking for another way out as shown by the fact that they came to the meet- ing in a rainstorm. These militant workers have been drawing fire from the capitalist press every day for the last two weeks, These gutter sheets don’t put the truth in, but the workers are beginning to see how they dis- tort the facts. These fascist rats are trying their damdnest to pick up the leaders and stem the tide of revolt. But it has come close to the point where many workers are ready to step in to fill the breach and take leadership in the fight for bread and butter. The biggest cry of these rats is “Communism.” All the time they shout Communists this, and “Reds” that. The workers see through these gutter sheets, that it really is the “Reds” that fight the bosses and not the fake outfits, We got the ball rolling, and we must keep it rolling in spite of hell and high water. The Chief of Police told John Sekat when he lodged a Protest against the attacks of the police upon the workers, that if he (the chief) did not check the work- ers (reds) now, Racine would be the reddest town in the country, Organization Brings | Quick Results in L. A. By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES—A worker who has been wandering around looking for Roosevelt's “prosperity” and al- most starved to death doing so, met some members of Relief Workers Protective Union No. 1 and told them his story. It was Sunday and nothing could be done. This worker and his fam- ily had been to the county and the Traveler's Aid and had been dis- illusioned and turned away. On Monday, however, the R. W. P. U. organized a small committee and took the case to the S. E. R. A. office at about 11 in the morning. By two o'clock they had a home and by four o'clock they had a grocery order check and rent com- ing in a day or so. GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE! The list below is just an indi- cation of how support can be won for the Worker Correspon- dence Dept. Small but numer- ous contributions make up a good sum. And that’s what’s needed, every day, regularly! John West $25 Gust Maki . 10 Mr. & Mrs. W. Jarvi.... 25 Wayne Kent - 25 Total se 105.57 Quota, $500 | Official Medicine’s Sense of Humor iWE reprint today for the edifica- tion of our readers an extremely “humorous’(?) letier received by an Eastern philanthropic agency and printed as a choice morsel in the “Tonics and Sedatives” (humor- ous) column of the Nov. 24 Journal of the American Medical Associa- tion: “Gentlemen: I have heard of your building a hospital and doing other very widely known and | things, I don’t know exactly how to tell you or even if it is possible, but I would like to be a doctor. I have always been interested in that. sort of work, I have a high school edu- cation, and the main reason I join- ed the navy was to take a medical course. You can’t do it very well in the navy, only to a minor degree. If I had been able to, I would have gone through college and medical school. If it is possible for you to send me through medical school, I would appreciate it very much, I and give me what little money I need to live on, and keep the rest to pay for my college expenses. . . . I would be only too glad to go any- where, as for instance, South | America, to fight fever. I would like jto specialize in operations and in jexperimenting. . . . I can give you }as many recommendations as you jwant.... | give this your gravest considera- tion.” Here is a young man with an with an obviousl; real desire to be of service to society, and with per- sistence and a willingness to mort- gage a good deal of his future to attain that end. It is not enough By ANN “DIRTH Rate Increase Wanted in Germany.” That is the headline on a news story before me. The Nazis want more cheap labor for their factories. They want cannon fodder for their war plans. So they have encouraged mass marriage. They have told the young man and woman that it is their duty to marry and have children. Their leading philosophers have made statements that are actual provocations to rap- ing of women. But yet, according to Dr. Burgdoerfer, director of the Reich Statistical Office, last year’s birth rate was 33 per cent below what is needed to maintain the German population at its present | size. Dr. Bergdoerfer says the birth rate must rise by at least 45 per cent throughout the Reich, and by no less than 70 per cent in the big cities. Pease? eee 5 ND. in the Soviet Union, the birth rate is higher than in any country in the world. In the Soviet Union birth control infor- mation is available to anyone who wants it. And yet there are more children being born there every year than in any other country in the world. The Soviet men and women know a security and stabi- lity known nowhere else. They are developing their industry. The Soviet Union promises security and happiness for all of its citizens, These are valid reasons for a higher birth rate. We ARE going to publish from time to time a set of articles written by Helen Luke on things of the household. We are very glad to be able to print the first today. Helen has the floor: As some young comrades, new to the ways of keeping house, have made inquiry on the subject, we have arranged a small series setting forth some good (we hope!) advice on the subject of what is needed in arranging a home, and keeping it clean thereafter. ~ The size and arrangement of the kitchen can do much to “make or break” the ambitious young house- keeper. Many an inexperienced one nas been betrayed by one too large. Cupboard should be over the sink, so dishes need not be carried around to be put to bed. Stove should not be far from sink and cupboard, and icebox as far as possible from stove. There should be ample space for dishes, groceries, pots, and pans. There should be, if possible, a long vertical cupboard for an ironing board, broom, and other cleaning materials. If these provisions are omitted, look to see that there is at least places where these things may be kept, or cabinets placed and Shelves put in. If the place is WANTED: MORE PARTIES Betty's House Party just manages to keep Ann Barton ahead of the Worker Correspondence Dept. today. What's happened to the fine begin- nibs made by the Women’s Coun- cils' Collected at Betty’s House Party Previously received Total .. $5.05 121.36 126.41 useful | would be very glad to sign on paper | that I would have to pay you part/ of my,salary for as long as was/ necessary; or you could put me into! any of your hospitals or institutes | I am hoping you shall} ambition for a particular career,} IN THE HOME column, where his unpolished phrases, his naivete in making such @ proposition to a philanthropy, and his ambition, persistence, and other good qualities are subject to ridicule and are utilized to widen the gap |between the doctors and the less \fortunate strata of society. Thus, jalong with the economic restriction of opportunities does bourgeois in- |dividualistic virtue logically develop into fascist cynicism. In Soviet Russia today, or Soviet America tomorrow, this young man |would be put to work in a hospital |as a nurse, technician, or whatever |he is at present fitted for. He would be given wide opportunity and en- couragement to study and advance himself in his free time; and if he were particularly skillful, and earn- jest in his work, he would, no doubt, jbe elected by his trade union to be jSent to a full-time school as one most worthy and qualiled to enter the medical profession. | STILL FIGURING! | Will the High Finance Depart. ment of the Medical Advisory Board please hustle’ with its ac- counting of the Thanksgiving Eve Dance and inform the impatient | readers of the results? Total to date ... so $548.30 Quota, $1,500 “Being very ’broke’ and having already contributed $2.00 to the cause by purchasing stamps and | buying ‘picks,’ I am sending. you 25 cents in stamps. .. I am work- | ing in the public service, and so cannot give my name, obviously. I will say this, however, that the Party is gaining adherents and prestige daily among my fellow workers.” N.S. Every contribution helps toward raising $60,000 for the Daily Worker, Send yours in today. BARTON The Nazis Want More Babies otherwise satisfactory, but there are signs of insects, or if there is reason to think previous occupants had contagious diseases, fumigate the place before moving in. (We will continue Helen Luke's series next | week.) Can You Make *Em Yourself? Pattern 2082 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 16 takes 4% yards 39-inch fabric. 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