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

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1934 Thousands of Workers Wait in Vain for Jobs at Ford’s Gate Militant Expelled From Hudson Local Greer Exposes Own Connection With Secret in Initiating Anti-Red Drive Correspondent Greer had access to the company . records and whether Greer owned DETROM,: Mich—Ariur AL any stock in the Hudson company. ey ert oe me oon on Greer, replying, said he didn’t get Hudson local of the recently org@N-| tne information from the company, ized Associated Automobile Work-|put from a secret service man. Service By an Auto Worker ers of America, has launched a |Feeling himself guilty, he immedi-| i 1- | ately s at he himself wasn’t a campaign of expulsions against mil- | ately said that {tant members. At the last meet-|Secret service man and that he wasn’t getting any salary outside of ing of the local a worker was Kicked tne ynion. out by the Greer clique on the charge of being a “disrupter” and expel this worker and it was haying at one time attended @/carried, thouh a number of mem- meeting of an A. F. of L. rank and bers abstained from voting. file group. In launching his expulsion drive,|this meet ing, which showed this Greer made a vicious attack on the|company agent in his true colors, Communist Party, quoting from the|was the “slight” change the Greer red-baiting propaganda of the|clique had made in the proposals Hearst paper, the Detroit Times.|regarding wages and seniority that However, he made one slip of the|were to be presented to the com- tongue, in which he revealed his|pany. At a previous meeting the connections with secret service|membership had defeated the ef- agents. |forts of the clique to include the Greer started off with a flag-wav-| company union proposal that “in- ing speech, telling of his own “serv-| dividual skill” and “workmanship’ ices to his country” (he was in the|should be considered in laying off U. S. Secret Service during the|workers. The committee to present World War), working up to the|the demands, consisting of Greer point where he began talking about |and two of his henchmen, Doll and there being members in the organ-|Chuck Hayes, ignored the wishes | jon who are getting their or-|of the membership and stuck back na from oscow. fe then read in| this defeated proposal. At the last full one of the lying red-baiting| meeting members objected to this articles by Richard Washburn |trickery, but the Greer gang, using Child, special Hearst writer, and all kinds of demagogy, finally suc- also the so-called quotation from|ceeded in putting over this “merit | ‘Lenin which the Hearst papers have | clause” on the plea that they needed been printing almost every day.|it as an arguing point. Greer told the men they could go to any public library and find this|that Greer, who originally helped quotation exacily as stated in the | organize the Hudson company Detroit Times, despite the fact that | union, is nothing but a company the Daily Worker had exposed it as|a2ent’ who is pretending to fAght| a complete distortion of Lenin's /the a. F. of L. in the interests of words. Greer said that the A. A./the Hudson company. The mem- ects : |to his tricks and take action to de- “Taking the tip from their boss,| fenq their interests. members of the Greer clique, evi- dently by pre-arrangement, started the attack on one fellow-worker, | saying he had sold the Daily| Worker from house to house and| had called Greer a company agent. | The worker in question got up) and defended himself. He exposed the fact that when he applied for membership, Greer told him his | record with the company was not! favorable. He wanted to know how HOLDING OUT Nothing today, but in a day or two, a goodly sum has been promised by none other than the head of the Worker Correspond- ence Department who went way out to Lakewood, N. J. to appeal for the Daily Worker. Total to date $150.57 Dive Cannot Be Prolonged; ‘Daily’ Needs Funds Now RANCH 192, I. W. O. of the Florida district, sent the highest contribu- B tion last Saturday, $43. This moved the district to 60 per cent of its.$200 quota. . . . Other contributions from the I.W.O. came from Branch 1544, Pittsburgh district, $5; and from seven other branches in the Cleveland district, who contributed a total of about $25. A Thanksgiving Party in Newark netted $11 for the drive. ... From the West Side Hungarian Working Women’s Federation, Cleveland, comes | $10.10; the Canton Hungarian Workers and those of Section 17, Cleve- land, contributed $10 each, while the Jewish Buro of Sec. 2 sent the same amount. aa. The fact that the drive cannot be prolonged after Dec. 15 should achivize all readers into putting their best efforts into raising the $12,000 needed to bring the financial campaign to a successful close. $482.53 Unit 7-03, Youngstown 45.00 | WO! i ne aren an Toledo Al Unit 2-23 5.00 | uniforms, reselling discarded equip: Serpe a ae fae eae aor ony | ment and charging for lost equip- | ‘Total to date $48,37 nee ais . I know you would print g DISTRICT 1 (Boston) |W. M., Toledo 2.00 Unit 2-28 7.25 | ment, Bae me fa bul Ail Group of Readers $1.00 | Hungarian Workers Unit 2-24 5.00) IS. 8 1e ig yi ‘#H. Tarasky 50) Fed. 5.00 Unit 2-25 1.00) have a reputation for doing, pub- 3. Gil $0) Dayton No. 1 60 Jewish Buro, |lishing stuff that other papers are | ‘We Szaban 125 | Unit 11-12, Greek Sec. 2 10.00 | “feaid to touch, J. Lyicki 50| Buro 5.00 Unit 2-20 1,26 | afra 5 Mrs. F. N. Morse 1.50 | Unit 2-27 4.25 Unit 2-22 8.16 Private, 1st Class. en | Unit 2-27 70 ‘Unit 2-28 1.04 4 Total Dec. 1, 1984 $2.75 | P21 ‘30 Untt 2-27 : Totat to date $2,247.41 - | DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Total Dec. 1, 1934 $310. Fl d P Adaitoional I. Schlein 1.00 | Total to date $2,372.58.| oriaa aper “orBanquet $2.41 gin oid oe ela DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) | ‘T.cMaxwell 1.00 Mooney Troop .25| 4.1 swanson vA 9 H. Shames 1.00 A_School | Si A d. t | A. K. 200 Teacher 300 | Saag he Pak tas earsts J. Kaevsky 150 Noah Minkin bes aes i} W. FP. Archer 2.56 Sam Bernes 0 Total Dec. 1, 1934 e ry Ifa Mandel 10.00 I. Yourke 2.00 | 1 A ti R dD | ita =| Total to date ntt- e rive otal Dec. 1, 1934 $34.73 DISTRICT 9 (Minnesota) Total to date $26,698.24 | Markham Party Unit DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) Red Hat Collection $5.00 Sy 05 | Total Dec. 1, 1034 $321.13 tig oa 10 | DISTRICT 10 (Omaha) | JACSONVILLE, . Fis. The Fred Huster GE Bhs $3.00 Herald,” a Republican controlled | 6| B. ky .! Sourad ‘Buster 33 eet —_——| weekly paper, in order to oppress Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Spaeth 10 | Total Dec. 1, 1934 $6.55 | 4.00 | Total to date 10.25 | DISTRICT 12 4.00 Sec. 11 R. Feinstein Collection Day Unit, Sec. 2 i Martha Bowman | Unit 7, . 1, 1034 $24.10 | Total Dec. 1,, 1934 $2.23 ; Total to date $9,712.67 | Total to date $684.43 | Workers believe that er x DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) a DISTRICT 14 (Newark) | ‘brain Liat the New al | Ukranian Br., I. W. 0. No. 1601 $2.00 | rhanksgiving Party $11.00| Were commi 5: : ec eu 5.20 | Reis Rezenbass Col. 5.00| This paper also came out with ui eels | a 459|the statement. “The Hearst papers Total Dec. 1, 1934 ory Pres hail 240|have tied Socialism, Communism, ee teeing (oursand). re | Com seen 150|and the New Deal in a bundle ols 1.00 V. Flanders $25 Section 18 2.00 | #a77¥ Mann SS ee with the red flag of the Cincinnati Section 18 2.45 34 is | . No. 4 1.25 Canton Hungarian in ea $857.98; Mr. Coleman, we the class cons- ae og Hes hed ime a4 DISTRICT 15 (New Hayen) |cious workers know that Hearst 3 : | Max Shepanski 00 No. 2 50 Cincinnati | James ‘W. Moore {a5 controls the largest newspapers in wv. Cc. No. 1 5.95 |the world. We also know that he ee ee ee Total Dec. 1, 1934 $2.25 | went to see Hitler to learn some of comes 50) Total to date $821.71 keep the Fc 18.60, G. ‘Kormos, | DISTRICT 19 (Denver) ieee sci Pag mad iat nd West Side Hung. ¥.P. A. 5.00] pingham Unit $6.25 | Workinclass down. i ne “en ee | kee We also know that the N. R. A. en i z : tal Dec. 1, 1934 6.25, Macedonian League A. Karros ea licceat bo dats sas0as|{8_ 4 Slavery code to us ane the Canton 5.00 N. Janist 50 DISTRICT 20 (Houston) |New Deal has been made to serve Canto No. 1 3.37 Section, Aff. 5.00) raredo Unit $1.00|the interests of the capitalists and cenpd Se Sheree ————|to give them more profits which Santon P51 4.25 Erle G. E. Unit 6.70 | rotai Dec, 1, 1934 roe ike d ot Youngstown 5.60 _‘I.W.O., Br 4508 5.00 | rotal to date $28.50 |W Poor workers have to pay for. Sec. 11, Unit 2 3.71 LW.O., Br 1073 3.67 SIPEG sk addi : ‘We also know that Mr. Roosevelt mone aoe. Peewee i as = took Hoover's place and carries out Youngstown 10.00 1I.W.O., Br 2562 1.00| N. G. Platform $1.30 " 7 Freiheit Gesangs I.W.O., Br 3519 2.00 | Br. 192, I. W/O. 43.00 | the same starvation plan. Farein 3.75 1596 2.00 pee tee Sap rea | You also pray so much for ‘Unit 14-31 3.00 Y¥. 79, .W.O, 3.50 | Tota! ec. 1, $44.30 | ii ident of the Unit 3-40 45 Unit 17-31 10.00 Total to date $124.80 ) William Green, Preside Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New The Greer gang made a motion to} Another matter that came up at It becomes more and more clear | ‘W. A. doesn’t want such people in/hers of the local should get wise| N. H. 1.00 3 | and confuse the masses has been | $2.23 | Spivak’s Expose Helps Block Fascist Lecture, a 1 By a Worker Correspondent COATESVILLE, Pa. Viola Iima, ambitious young fascist, was to have spoken at the Coates- ville ¥. M. ©. A. Sunday, Dec. 2, there. Miss Ilma had chosen a mild sounding subject, “What Youth is Thinking.” Furthermore, the local publicity on her, described the | young lady as an Abyssinian Prin- | cess. No suggestion was made of | | Nazi connections. But, thanks to | the timely exposure by Spivak, folks here were completely aroused, and let their state of mind be known. Mr. Hoffman, Y. M. C. A. sec- retary, who engaged Miss Iima through the Neilson Bureau at Pittsburgh, was interviewed promptly. Spivak’s article was brought to his attention. And then, Mr. Hoffman did the | logical and correct thing. He can- celled Viola Ilma’s contract. This is an instance of mass Pressure. What was done in Coatesville can be done anywhere else, and must be done. Auditorium, | but she was not Guardsman Exposes Co. By a Soldier Worker Correspondent | | in a New York regiment, supposed | |to be one of the honest-to-good- | | Ness traditional outfits in the state. | I joined, like most of the fellows | \here, so I could have something to | do during the week, play ball with other fellows, go to dances and do all the rest of the things a young fellow likes to do. I did not join jthe Guards because I am such a jhell of a tough buy, or bloodthirsty | jor anything like that. To come to the point. This is the news: | | Just a week ago, I got together | | with four other fellows in my out- | fit who felt the same way I did about the raw rackets being run by the skipper of our company at |our expense. We don’t know ex- ;actly what we are going to do to |Stop this grafting on us but it won't ‘take long before we work out some | pretty definite ways of taking his \fingers out of our pie. Especially, when we get most of the other men to act with us. You might find it hard to believe, but in spite of the fact that most lof us were not born dumb, ow skipper manages to collect five dol. lars from every man’s pay every |three months. He says it goes for | |company dues. A baby, even a baby | guardsman, can figure out that five | times forty equals $200 every) month into the captain's pocket. | Maybe he shares it with the Looey ;Once in a while, maybe once in |six months, we have a beer racket | | which gives the captain a trick ex- | cuse to account for the four hundred | bucks. If I were not afraid of wearing out my elbow, I would tell you! the details of the other rackets he works, such as buying and selling By a Worker Correspondent | actively fighting the Communists for the past two years. This paper tried to make the | American Federation of Labor. We |begin to understand you Mr. Green |that you are serving the interests jof Wall Street and not those of | the workers. | | You always come out against the | Communist Party because it is the | jonly workingclass party. | | The Republican and Democratic |parties are ones which serve cap- |italism and the New Deal, N. R. A., | |F. E. R. A. and all the other “A's” {which have been made to mislead the workers. Under Communism |we, the workers will have a real new deal and full prosperity, Mr. Dues Racket NEW YORK.—I am a guardsman ; Lured by Promises, Are Met by Police Mechanization and Speed-Up to Increase Output With Shorter Payroll (By an Auto Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—Morning after morning during the past nine days thousands of unemployed auto workers have been down at the Ford Employment Factory for the jobs Ford promised some weeks ago. The unemployed auto workers congregate early the night before and wait hours upon hours for the employment office at Ford’s to open. They find out morning after morn-¢- ing that Ford has no jobs for them. The only thing Ford has for them are mounted police, who chase the workers away before they can be- gin to make any trouble. The un- employed workers had some hopes that Ford’s publicity stunt of hir- ing another 32,000 men was per- haps true. They have again found out that Ford is a rotten rat, that Ford has no concern about any- thing but HENRY FORD. In our statement to the DAILY WORKER, two weeks ago, it was pointed out that any auto worker who expected that Ford was telling the truth about his 1935 plan was in for a disappointment. It also stated that the Ford plant as it was laid out in 1934 was capable of manufacturing 1,000,000 cars in 1935 on a payroll of 35,000 to 40,000 Furthermore, to save costs, the old spray booths exhausted the ex- cess paint spray to the roof into the atmosphere. The new paint spray booths will draw the paint not used on the bodies down to the floor where water is continually flowing which carries the excess paint to tanks where this paint is salvaged. It is expected that 25 per cent of the paint that used to be lost will now be salvaged. If Ford | can salvage his workers’ excrement, why not paint? But the paramount feature of Ford’s efforts to cut down the cost of the 1935 cars, is the driving speed-up. Although, the factor of the automatic machine I told about, where one machine disptaces thc work of 39 men, is also important. | These instances can be multiplied | workers he Le i state. \@ auoto workers wait for hours and a hundred-fold. ‘ S| Lured by Ford’s publicity ballyhoo about hirmg 32,000, these hours at the Dearborn plant, only to be dispersed by mounted police. and that improvements of machines and speeding up of the line was already in projection for 1935 to deplete the Ford payroll of many thousands. These statements still stand. Fords Plan More Drive on His Workers For the last few years many Ford ar bodies were made in Murray jody Corporation and Briggs Body Corporation. The contract price that these companies received from Ford was so low that the Murray Body Corporation loss on the Ford contract in 1934 was $1,500,000. Brriggs’ loss in 1934 was a little Jess on the Ford contract. But this company has in some way been able |to make others pay for what they lost on Ford’s work. The contract price for 1935 Ford car bodies from both Murrays and Briggs was given at a much higher figure than formerly. Neither Mur- ray nor Briggs could continue mak- ing Ford car bodies at a loss. Con- sequently, Ford was compelled to build his own dies, lay out new assembly lines and generally build up a new department to make the bodies for the Ford car of 1935 in his own plant, The intention of Ford is to show Murray and Briggs what he can do. He proposes to build his own bodies at Jess cost than the Murray Body Corporation, who went into a $1,- 500,000 hole for Henry in 1934. Methods have been laid down to drive the men on the Ford Body assembly, throughout all the pro- cesses to the utmost limit. Many Processes have been mechanized to make workers almost unnecessary. For instance, for the paint spray- ing of bodies and parts, there were about 700 men employed in the various spray booths in 1933-1934. For the 1935 plan, a machine has been developed which can be filled with paint and set and will auto- matically spray the bodies and parts as they pass by on the con- veyors. This machine is to cut down the number of workers in the spray booths from 700 to about 100. Letters from CONTRIBUTION FOR A SPORTS COLUMN New York City. Dear Comrade Editor: The Spartacus Athletic Club, affiliated with the Labor Sports Union and located at 306 E. 149th Street, Bronx, is happy to send this contirbution to the Daily Worker, and so help in the $60,000 drive. As an athletic club, our mem- bers are very much interested to vead about sports, mainly LS.U. sport activities. We regard with regret the lack of such news, and we hope that our contribution will help towards bringing back within the pages of the “Daily” a sports column. For more workers’ sports news in the Daily Worker. Spartacus Athletic Club. ACCORDING TO H. L. HOPKINS Los Angeles, Calif. Dear Comrade Editor: I have been moved to write my reactions to a news item in a local Coleman, newspaper, The intensive competition between the General Motors Corporation and Chrysler and the Ford Motor Co. in 1935 will be taken out of the skin and blood of the auto workers of Detroit. They are all ruthless in their methods, but Ford is the father of them all. The Ford Plant in 1935 will be so inhuman that it will be hardly possible for men to stand it. Already the Ford service system senses what may happen and workers seen talking together are being suspended for one or two weeks or laid off alto- gether. Ford Intimidates His Workers Intimidation against workers is one of Ford’s pet schemes. To at- tempt to put fear into Ford work- ers, to stop any talk about what may be going on in the plant, to express what the Ford workers say is “to know nothing, to hear nothing, to say nothing.” That's Henry Ford’s ideal of a modern Ford worker. But we Ford workers are not quite so dumb as Henry thinks we look. We are determined to give Henry a tremendous job before he finishes. We are human enough to put up a fight against the drive that Henry Ford has set for us in his 1935 plan. We shall get meet- ings of Ford workers wherever we can to organize them. We shall get leaflets outside and inside the Ford plant showing up the difficul- ties of the Ford workers. We shall make definite demands on Ford. We shall show up the corrupt and grafting bosses wherever they are and no intimidation by firing or suspension will hinder us. The work of organizing and agitation will go on at the Ford plant. We shall organize groups sooner or later in every department of the Ford plant, and we shall make all our demands; at all times, in no uncertain voice and no power that Henry Ford can devise will stop us. We Ford work- ers know we have a big job ahead. The circumstances and conditions of the Ford workers demands strong action. Our Readers When a man was out of work, |which meant out of food, shelter and clothes, he was generally re- ferred to as a hobo. Recently the hobo has been elevated to the un- derprivileged and unemployed class. These hoboes used to live on what was handed to them through the kitchen door in the rear of the house. Now that these so- called hoboes are respectfully mem- bers of the unemployed and under- privileged class, they live on a dole given to them by a few cold im- personal letters of the alphabet. As the depression advances, the posi- tion of the Hobo still further pro- gresses. They are in class now. According to H. L. Hopkins, they are in the same class with those who live on dividends. You, unemployed, get your rotten food for nothing, and they get their luxurious living for nothing, too. ‘Yes, you are in class now. Next time you meet a rich man, shake hands with tim,—he and you have many things in common. You are both out of work and you are both | Ask For Raise, Get Cut! | In Birmingham Foundry By a Metal Worker Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, Ala—I am a worker in the McWane Pipe Foundry, The conditions in this shop are lousy. The sanitation is very bad as the company will not employ a man to keep the shop clean. . The moulders’ helpers have to carry rail on which they put the molds. We were working four days a week, and the local of which I am a member sent a committee to the bosses for a raise. Instead of giving us a raise, they gave us a cut. We were making 40 cents an hour. After the committee went, they added one more day, gave us a seyena hour day, and 30 cents an hour. 3 Before that we were getting 40 cents an hour. This shows why every worker should fight for rank and file control in Local 18718 of the A. F. of L. here in Birming- ham. Real Estate Boss Assails Unionism B a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Exactly two days jafter the Daily Worker had exposed its brutal oppression, and ironically, on the eve of Thanksgiving, the real estate corporation of Meyer and Steffens undertook to lecture to its service employes on the “useless- ness” of joining a union. Smiling suavely into the grim labor-worn faces of thirty of his slaves, janitors, handy-men and elevator operators, Mr. Steffens de- clared: “There is nothing to gain by join- ing a union, because the wage in- crease agreed upon by the board of arbitration (La Guardia’s) will ob- tain in union and non-union build- ings alike.” “Of course I cannot prevent you from joining a union; neither the union nor we are allowed to intimi- date workers, But, as you see, join- ing a union means paying to join and paying dues for nothing. There- fore, for your own good,” cajoled this enemy of the working class, “I ask you not to join.” In other words, this boss meant: do not strengthen the union that is now fighting for your wage increase. Instead, avoid paying dues and cripple the union. Then there would be no union. But that is nothing. you would be paid the wage that is won by a non-existing union. Mr. Steffens then dealt with the matter of strikes. “If you are in a union,” he explained, “you'll be or- dered out on what is known as a sympathy strike—like the garment workers were recently. For the days, or weeks, you are on such a strike you'll receive no pay from your em- ployer nor from the union.” “Whereas,” and Mr. Steffens beamed, “if you are not in the union, you could keep working, and I would give you enough police pro- tection.” Emulating the strikebreaking elo- quence of LaGuardia, Mr. Steffens continued: “You elevator operators are much different to, let’s say, garment workers, If the garment workers are on strike and you can’t get a new pair of socks, you can wear the old pair regardless of holes, But elevators must keep running; it is a matter of health. Suppose a strike is on and somebody on the top floor is dangerously sick, Then, what? Don’t you see how un-humanitarian an elevator strike would be?” ‘Well, some of the workers saw, and some did not. Many of them looked at the frail, sick man who has been running their elevator up and down for 23 years, who never- theless will be thrown out by mere- ly a tenant’s request, and saw not only “un-humanitarianism,” but a studied fiendish brutality. NOTE We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and their efforts to organize. Please get these let- haoltag us by Saturday of each supported—you by a dole and he by dividends. Hurray for bourgeois democracy, the equalizer of classes. M. H. CELEBRATION IN THE SOVIET UNION New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: I received a letter from a friend in the Soviet Union, parts of which I thought might interest readers of the Daily Worker. I quote: “Dear V—In general, the spirit accompanying the Noy. holidays this year, according to everyone, was more lighthearted, joyful and proud than ever before. The great cam- paign for the beautification and re- construction of Moscow gained tre- mendous impetus during the last few months of preparation for the 17th anniversary celebration. The two grandiose hotels near the Thea- tre Square stepped out of the forest of wooden scaffolding at last, proudly receiving the ‘amazed stares of Mos- cow’s millions: products of the high level of socialist labor: perfectly planned construction, enthusiastic socialist competition, complete mas- tery of the machines, the very best material that the country has with- in it. New squares were paved, broken streets repaired, houses painted outside and in, new and beautiful stores opened up with everything one can desire for sale. Hardly do products appear in the windows and on the counters than they are gone. The buying capacity here is tremendous, insatiable al- most. Nothing is too good for the worker!”—K, P.” VN. ORKERS’ HEALTH | Conducted by the Lecture on Sterilization 'TERILIZATION, a Fascist Weapon, | will be the subject of the lecture |given by Dr. Claude Heaton, under the auspices of the Medical Ad- visory Beard tomorrow evening (Wednesday, Dec. 5), at 8:30 pm., at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street jand Irving Place. Admission is 25 cents. All proceeds go to the Daily Worker financial drive. An Inexpensive Tooth Powder ©., Bronx, N. ¥.—The following fe may be used as a tooth powder and mouth wash: Mix together one cup of each of the following: Dry salt, dry sodium bicarbonate and dry borax. Mix well together, then place into jar. When used as a tooth powder, place a small portion in palm of hand and dip wet brush into it, then brush the teeth. Make the mouth wash with one teaspoon’ of the above mixture in a jglass of warm water. Rinse the mouth carefully after brushing to remove loose particles of food. Brush teeth twice daily. Rely more upon proper use of the tooth brush to keep the teeth clean than on powder, which is only an aid to the brush. No tooth powder or paste can maintain a hygienic condition about the teeth as claimed by many manufacturers of these dental preparations. Many pastes and powders are harmful, especially the powders which contain gritty substances, such as pumice and poor grades of chalk, which scratch the enamel. Very often grooves are worn in the ‘teeth by their use. Numerous of the widely advertised tooth pastes and powders contain too high per- centages of acid, soap and starch, which are harmful to the teeth and tissue. Some preparations are harmless, but at the same time use- iless. A few powders and pastes |have cleansing action similar to the mixture described above and with- out injury to teeth, but are not worth the 50 cents or 265 cents asked for them; when table salt is 5 cents a box or less for 5 pounds and broax too is cheap. Naturally, a manufacturer of | dental cleansing preparations, in- By ANN CT like ladies! Don’t picket! Limit your strike activity to making coffee and serving refreshments to | the men! HIS was the policy laid down to a meeting the other day of the wives and sweethearts of striking Los Angeles Railway employees, called by the officials of the Amal- gamated Association of Street Rail- way and Bus Workers in the Stimpson Building, Los Angeles. A story sent to the Daily Worker by Harold J. Ashe shows how nar- row is the place in the labor move- ment assigned to women by reac- tionary labor leaders. It shows how the strike itself is being weakened by the officials’ attempt to hold back the fighting energy of the women that might be used directly to strengthen the actual struggle. While their husbands were being urged to strike peacefully by P. J. O'Brien, international vice-president of the union in another hall, Mrs. | Walker, sent in by the union, was urging the same thing. of the women, The following is Harold Ashe’s story, in part. Serie n T the women’s meeting, despite friendly offers of sympathetic women’s organizations to participate, all those who were not wives and relatives of striking street carmen were barred on orders of a Mrs. Walker, bigstick, holding down the auxiliary work. “We dofi’t want any outsiders in here,” said Mrs. Walker, who is herself an outsider, having been im- ported by the international officials from Washington. No opportunity was allowed the women to discuss the strike problems freely. She cautioned them that they must not. do anything that would bring the Taw down on them. soe must all act like ladies,” she admonished the working women. “And we are not to join our hus- bands in picketing. Our picketing will consist of bringing refreshments to them!” . . . HE repeatedly cautioned the women against Communists. This while Communist leaflets were going up one aisle and down another to every woman in the audience. Real- izing that she was losing her grip on the women, she regaled them with tales of how hard she was working in their interests. She un- blushingly admitted that she had asked for police protection for the Saturday night's strike benefit dance. Later she asked all reporters to leave, because they were really going to get down to business and they didn’t want the press in on the discussions. This secretive work consisted of finding out what women had homes in which coffee could be made for pickets, and appointing of entertainment committees. is . f . NE militant woman got up and said she had gone out that morn- ing to talk to street car riders. “T told everyone that there was a strike and not to ride,” she de- clared. “If they did, I told them we would scalp them.” Mrs. Walker promptly gaveled this speech out of order. The women ousted from the aux- iNary meeting went to the Labor Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) cluding mouth washes, can buy these ingredients at even a lower price, thus insuring a greater profit, Coloring and flavoring materials, also pumice and chalk are very in- expensive; the latter two are used to make up the bulk in most tooth powders and pastes, alta Eczema of Ankles S., Greenwich, Conn.—You ask for advice for the eczema of your ankles. First of all, we must assume that your diagnosis is correct. In the second place, even if there are several possible causes for this condition. People who have varicose veins of the legs frequently develop eczema around the ankles, In these cases, injection of the veins by a physician will often cure the eczema. The eczema around the ankles may be due to a parasitic infection of the feet (athlete’s foot), and here the feet must be cured in order to clear the ankles. Some people develop eczema of the feet and ankles because of irri- tation from the dyes in colored socks. Such people should wear white cotton socks. In some cases eczema (scaling or blistering with redness) develops for no obvious reason, Such patients are probably sensitive to substances—or chem- icals—whch we cannot discover. Cold weather, too, may cause eczema. It should also be remembered that this condition may be the result of some internal sickness. For the local treatment of your eczema we would suggest that you try the fol- lowing prescription: Crude Coal Tar, 2 per cent, in Zine Oxide oint- ment. Apply it at night and clean it off in the morning with olive oil. LECTURE TOMORROW “Sterilization as a Fascist Weapon” will be the topic of a lecture dis- |cussed by Dr. Claud Heaton, proms \inent gynecologist at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place at 8:30 p.m. All proceeds will go for the Daily Worker $60,000 fund through this department. Admission 26¢c. T. Maxwell $ 100 Previously Received 548.30 Total 549.30 | IN THE HOME BARTON Mrs. Walker Says, ““Don’t Picket!’’ Tempie where the men were meet ing. There their spokesman, gain- ing the floor, pledged solidarity with the strikers and said that their or- ganizations were urging their friends and neighbors not to ride the cars. The strikers applauded for the first time during the day. WHY NOT? A slow day for “In the Home.” Why can’t a group of men and women get together, have an in- formal evening, and raise a few dollars to Ann Barton’s credit in her competition in the $60,000 drive? N. H. ‘ $ 100 Previously Received 196.41 127.44 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2083 is available in sizes | 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 24, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 16 takes 3% yards 36 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-tep sew- ing instructions included, Total Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. 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