The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1934, Page 5

———— his “Change the World DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1934 CHANGE ——THE— WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD OSTON, MASS.—I was in the hall of the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union, here on the Boston waterfront, talking with some of the seamen. Dusk was coming on; and the room was dark, lit only by a lantern, since the electric light company had closed off the juice. My back was to the window that faced on the street. “If a brick or a bullet comes through that window,” laughed one of the organizers, “don’t be surprised. It’s the crimps. We've got them so worried they drop around every other night, with one of these love letters. We've started to break up their racket, and they think they can scare us.” I looked at the windows; and one did have a neat bullet hole through ft, the other a ragged gash through which a brick had crashed. One of the seamen showed me his hand. The palm had a deep wound in it, where he had been stabbed. He was sleeping in the hall the night before, and at one in the morning heard a noise in the hallway leading to the street. He ran out and fountl some thug there, carefully planting a home-made bomb. The seaman grappled with the visitor, who drew a knife and stabbed him and got away. “Maybe it’s the crimps, maybe it’s the labor fakers, maybe it’s the Italian fascists around here,” said Lambert, the organizer. “This union has made bitter enemies among all these groups of parasites, which means, of course, that we're a success.” . . . Crimps in a Frenzy 'HE Boston seamen may well be proud of their union, which is one of the most active and militant on the eastern coast. It has an honest and virile group of leaders, real rank-and-filers who know the needs of the men on the beach, and fight tirelessly and intelligently for them. ‘The reason the crimps are in a frenzy is that the union is now within sight of victory in the relief situation. As the result of a masterly campaign, they may soon compel the relief authorities to break the power of the crimps over the unemployed seamen, by giv- ing clothing, food and shelter to the unemployed on terms that do not humiliate them, or put them in the hands of racketeers. Seamen have always been amongst the most exploited of work- ers. For centuries theirs was really a slave status; they were kid- napped off the street, they were flogged and even murdered by the captains for so much as a wrong word. Their wages were stolen, their food was salt pork and moldy biscuit. It took the seamen several generations of union organizing to attain some of the stingy rights given other workers in a capitalist democracy. At present, however, between the treachery of the A. F. of L. racketeering leadership, and the depression, the conditions of American seamen receded almost to the slavery of the early 19th century. But the advent of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union has put a stop to all that. Not only has this union become powerful in its own right, but it has the sympathy of the rank and file in the other unions, as was shown in the recent strike on the west coast, and the strike in February on the coal boats in Boston. One of the young seamen in the hall had just come out of Charles Street jail. He had been arrested for distributing leafiets to the longshoremen, who are members of an A. F. of L. union. A police car chased him, and he ran over a viaduct. At the other end he saw another car coming toward him. So he jumped off the viaduct, 30 feet to the ground, and then dodged through a railroad yard. A longshoreman here chased him, and battled him until the cops came. Later, in the jail, the young seaman told one of his fellow- workers about this, The longshoremen, all A. F. of L. men, were so infuriated over the fact that one of their men was a stoolpigeon, that they have all but driven him off the waterfront. He is an outcast, a pariah, nobody will talk to him, except to curse him out. The longshoremen, despite the Red-baiting of their own racketeering leaders, think a great deal of the so-called “Red” union. One thing they know: it is honest. All through the union ranks of America these days the word “Red” is becoming a synonym for honesty. Just as sell-out is becoming another name for the N. R. A. and their labor lieutenants, . . * A Swarm of Parasites 'HERE used to be an old song that went something like this: “Strike up the band, here comes a sailor, Cash in his hand, just off a whaler, Stand in a row, don’t let him go, Jack's a cinch, but every inch a sailor.” And it is still true that along every waterfront there is an army of eager parasites waiting for the sailor to step ashore so they may fasten on him. He has been on a hard, gruelling trip, and has a natural desire for relaxation when he comes on land, and the lice swarm him. Prostitutes and tin-horn gamblers and confidence men, shopkeepers, bootleggers and the racketeers of religion, they still stand in a row when Jack comes with cash in his hand, and don’t let him go until he is cleaned out. The crimps are about the worst, probably, and theirs is a legitimate racket. In Boston, they have regular contracts with the shipping corporations to supply seamen for the boats. No seaman can get a job except through the crimps, And the crimps run lodging houses, sell liquor and clothing to seamen; and if you don’t put up at one of their places, and spend all your wages with them, you can’t get. a job. The procedure is to let a seaman run up a big bill at these places, and then give him a job for a few trips, until he works off his debt. Then the crimp collects his debts, right at the company pay window, and fires the seaman, to make room for another one of his victims. The prices the crimp charges are three to five times higher than in other places, and the seaman has to keep constantly in debt, or never get a job. It is really a form of debt-slavery, such as ofie finds among the Southern share-croppers and in,some mining towns. Some of the sailors described one of these crimp lodging houses tome. The sailors have nicknamed it the “Snake Ranch,” because it is as crowded and foul as a nest of snakes. Ten men are wedged on small cots into a single room, for which they pay $8 and $10 a week. There is no washroom in this miserable firetrap shack, and the men have to walk two miles away to wash their faces in the morning. The filthy robbers who operate these hell-holes have big expensive cars and live in the most fashionable suburbs with their perfumed wives. The union is making one of its basic demands the establishment of a Centralized Shipping Office, run by rank-and-file committees elected by the seamen themselves. This would wipe out the crimps, and they know it. Several of them have begun to terrorize the seamen by telling them that any man agitating for this shipping bureau would be blacklisted, and never get a job on the Boston waterfront. The attacks on the union hall are undoubtedly part of the crimp campaign. Nothing will stop the seamen, however, for their hatred of these blood-sucking crimps and the shipping lines that support them is too intense to be snuffed out by a few cowardly bullets. (To be continued) MIKE FALLS! Although Mike Gold’s competitors fade out of sight today beneath this imposing list of contributors, there's a fly in the consomme. With what Ramsey got today the science expert has reached one per cent above the literary man, an¢ Isads the whole field, Camp Trombenik-Affaf: 8 35.00 E, P. Spitzer . 1.00 G. Ault ..... 1.00 Mrs. Blankfort . 50 Sec. 9, Mineola Unit .. 10.00 Rank and File Painter . 1.00 H. Shuttig ... 2.45 Agnes Andrew . 5.00 Max C. Putney . 25 S. A. L. Party . 5.00 Helen Tarasky Collection «. Lis Previously Red. ++ 708.20 To the highest co\ributor each day, Mike Gold will present an autographed zopy of his novel, Bas pat Mong" or an original autographed manuscript of colt Soviet Children: Healthy and Happy | By MARTHA CAMPION Editor, New Pioneer (OLODYA is a pupil in Kharkov | ¥ who likes to monkey with ma- chines. | driven automobile, but needed an electric motor to experiment with. So he went to the Commissar of Heavy Industry, Comrade Ordjoni- kidze, and the Commissar had a motor sent to Volodya from the Kharkov tractor plant. The pupils of the school in Stalin’s old home town decided to write a letter to their former townsman. “Dear Comrade Josef Vasilievich,” He designed an electric- | Citizens in the Land of No U; nemployment rs | Experience in Practical Life Goes Hand in Han | With Accumulation of Knowledge “The future belongs to the youth,” once wrote Lenin, but for these children the future is the present. Where else in the world have children ever been so healthy and | happy, given so many oppor to express themselves and over their talents, been able to grow up | with so much self-reliance, initia- tive, self-respect? Even in the hard times, when the work? Kids don‘t like school. Given | their own way, wouldn’t they choose the “easiest” teachers, double the recess periods, and generally raise hell? Naturally there was this tendency in the beginning. Students accus- tomed to a rigorous and imposed- from-above discipline, when discipline was removed went wild for a time. But children are not this r economic, and, yes, political — of their country, even during their childhood. In the factories they inspect and criticize. They prod the shirkers and commend the shock troopers. The Pioneers of the collective farms report the kulaks who steal grain and try to become capitalists. When one examines pictures of the kids of the Soviet Union, one is Page 5 | LABORATORY- and SHOP A CHANGE IN RAILROADING Competitive pressure from buse: and airplanes hes fi 1 the railroads to begin innovations in railroading {have been possible for year: which were held up to vested interests. Among the c. By David Ramsey to the During , the brain tis- ni delicate and easily Dr. Todd pointed ous lesson for laymen is @ Guard very carefully brain of the infant during the the simple one. ‘ that are beginning to emerge is t twelve months of its life.” atru t i by ir 1 A struck first of all by their Lamia the use of giant diesel-electric | Translated into concrete terms shite dees eon are bere locomotives that are more | this means that the babies of the sturdy and muscular." It is easy't0 | owerful aiid: more economical th unemployed require proper food, explain why. As babies, they are cared for in the creches (nursery schools), where the present steam-driven engin At the Cleveland meeting of the |they began chummily, and then| progseded’ to ‘desoribe to tim the | Youns Soviet Republic was strug- conditions in their town. The school books weren't entirely satisfactory, it seemed, and they wanted very much to have a radio. Stalin answered their letter, as- sured them the matter of school books would Le AX ee | the radio also. mother who scolded and beat her. | When her fellow students discov- ered this, they decided to do some- | thing about it. Each night the | spanked child was taken to a dif- | ferent classmate’s home, while the | committee elected by the kinder- gartners took up the matter in a very serious way with the school and the parents’ council. “That is | the old way, from the Tsar’s time,” they explained. “We do not beat | children any more.” The mother received a careful explanation of | the evils of beating children, and | Promised not to do it again, i viene | WHAT kind of children are these? the children we know. And they are different. IN THE out in a long rope from the single stack. On the breakwater, a light- house with its great drop of blood. The rigging slaps in the lake breeze like the honing of a razor. Huddled up as if in a bag, a couple on a | deck bench. They cannot pay for a cabin for the night. In the hold the breeze sweeps through the hatches. The watch is being changed. The coal passer heaves up from the boiler room, thin, sucked-out. A deckhand comes over towards me for a chat. I make room for him. Just then the sec- ond mate appears. The deckhand steals off in the shadows. The oiler waits at the hatchway to the boiler room. The heat blows up and swallows you. The oiler smokes his butt feverishly. The cot- ton waste tucked into his dunga- rees makes him look as if he were ruptured. He mutters oilers are on 4 hours, off 8 hours. Wages are not so hot. His face is like a glap of paste on the steel wall against which he is leaning. Union? The union is strong: He says nothing else but that the union is strong. Strong for whom? He smokes the last life out of the butt and does not answer. He grabs hold of the guard rail and slips down the steep hot stairs. The grinding of a heel back in the hold. ‘The watchman. He cups big dark hands like lanterns around his cigaret. Hat's cocked on a head curly and square as a young bull’s. He studies the lake. “Sometimes she’s fired calm. Sometimes she’s fired rough, Winter you can’t trust her nohow. I been through 3 ripsnorting storms when We was scared she'd be fired against the breakwater, cracked like an egg. Twelve inches ice on her. Rudder cable snapped. The boat with such @ list on her a fellow on shore said he could see right down into her stack.” He says this without fear or anger, in a boasting cocky way, as if the lake is some healthy Little Lefty be taken care of, and! dren received what there w: A sun bath for workers’ child: Surely they are different from | | Sling to rebuild a country torn by | | civil war and to ward off the at-/ | tacks of the imperialist gangsters, {even in those barren years when there was a shortage of food, and a | lack of shelter and clothes for the | builders of the new world, the chil- | receive. The older ones may have A little girl in a kindergarten had a | Suffered, but care was taken to keep | practical activity. the children warm and fed and| | well. | Peer ers ND NOW—well, let the children | speak for themselves. Dozens of | letters are received weekly by the | New Pioneer, the magazine of the | workers and poor farmers’ children in the United States, from children | in the Soviet Union. | The letters tell of the life of the children in the Soviet Union. T! | tell of thair sehaols, where the chil- | dren help plan their own courses | of study, choose their own teachers, and aid in the management of the | school. They tell of their parents’ | | committee, who work with the| teachers to see that the school is| well run. But, you may ask, how does this HOLD | but a woman with whom he's been ; all the same, | | PRN Smee | E'S a Ludington man. All winter | long he worked for $25 a month. | | He’s getting $45 now. “Can't get rich on that. But it ain't so bad.| You got your grub. You got a place to slesp. This boat’s about the best “naturally” anarchistic. They tend to anarchy as a reaction from autarchy. “Naturally,” children are curious, each child is given individual care | by especially trained workers with | children. They are assured there of the proper diet, sleeping hours, ex- intelligent, inquisitive, quick, clear- | ercise, etc. When they go to school minded. They want to learn. They; they are given hot lunches and want to know. Intelligently guided, | milk between classes. they will accumulate knowledge at | In summer, they go to camps—in the same time that they follow their! the resorts formerly frequented only ae a ro 7 ren in a summer camp organized by a large locomotive construction plant in Lugansk, natural inclination for a life of | by the Tsar's family and the wealthy aristocracy. Here they bathe and In these schools, the separation of | take sun baths, play games, hike, theory and practice such as we find | and strengthen their bodies in other in bourgeois life is a thing of the | ways. past. Knowledge connected with| The photograph accompanying life—that is the keynote. So the | this article was taken in the sum- schools in the Soviet Union, run in| mer camp organized by the large part by the students, could well! locomotive construction plant in serve our “progressive” schools as | Lugansk. models of discipline, | They learn as they play in this = be es camp. They build socialist cities on IT WOULD be wrong to think of | the beach, become young gardeners, the children as the pampered pets | carpenters, architects, etc. They of the new order. They are far| collect butterflies, turtles, glow from that. They prepare-themselves | worms, bats, etc., and learn a great to be good citizens of the Socialist | deal about nature. state—those on whom the responsi-| Surely a life we would like to bility for the future welfare of the | have for our own children! Surely state rests. | a life worth fighting for so that our But they do not simply prepare | own children may grow to be free for the future. They play a very} and happy citizens of a free and important part in the life—social, | happy country! By Ben Field HE ship shivers nosing out of; woman who must get her fits and) the same morning. I just beat thej bad ashore. Maybe it’s because you Muskegon harbor. Smoke pays/| turns and make a mess of herself, band home to see my wife. They're |got a hole here for yourself, even talking of shifting ports. It'll be! if it’s only a stinking hole. kind of hard seeing her twice a| ne fireman yanks the damper month mike \chain. “Maybe.” He looks at the lake. The breeze} nw thios is a better boat than Whets the lake up like a knife. “NOW| most of the lake tubs, But she's I got all my furniture in. We're . ,|Siven them the gutache more than beginning to pay it up. She don't} ny ; - 7 like my working on the boat. It | on’: ene, Biles nen Powe vores kind of gets her sometimes. When | standing in 12 inches of water. Cold on the lake, Skipper’s a good guy.| We broke the cable that storm, she He says, ‘Please.’ He don’t boss. He | says the whole crew is like a fam- | ily. We got lots of fun. You got to| take it, Hell, there was a deckhand | on board who couldn't. He'd be} crabbing about conditions. He'd be standing up and you got behind him and just bump him back of the| knees. He had to come round, else Hed wouldn't feel so homey on the oat.” He spits into the lake. The curly mat of hair on his crest pushes through his open shirt. “Deckhand’s about the dirtiest job. You ain't got no time for yourself. Your watch is from 6 to 6. You're liable to be called on duty any time.” He knocks his hat back. “Union's pretty strong. Everybody’s in it ex- cept deckhands. They ain’t supposed to be in it. They ain’t skilled guys. That's what one of the union fellers said. They got to keep by their- selves. When the afterend’s found trying to get chummy with an of- ficer, there’s a kick in the pants for him. One of them was fired.” A sudden heel on the stairs lead- ing from the deck. The watchman slinks into the shadows. The trucks creak stacked among the shadows. The officer does not come down. Coa eee site watchman moves back again. There's a tattoo on his arm of a girl hanging on to a storm-tossed cross. “Work’s kind of hard. Be- fore a fellow’s fast asleep he’s up again. But I been lucky. We come into Ludington and sometimes I get some one to stand watch for me. ‘We get in 5 o'clock and get out 11 sat. before the radio all day and night. But we ain’t had storms like that for over a year.” The ashgun is shooting in the boiler room. I let myself down into the heat. The coal passer blinks up from a hissing heap of coal. He is a thready little fellow looking like a skinned boiled shrimp. The| pockmarked fireman hangs over the steam gauge. “The boss won’t like it if she blows off steam. Got to keep her 175 all the time.” Shorty the coal passer turns the water off in the ashgun. He climbs into the coal bunker. Great chunks clater out, Soft coal, which is easier | to fire, even smokes when you look at it. The coal dust drizzles back, over your face and clothes. The coal passer has worked the lake since he was 16. Everywhere on the lakes things are about the same. Around Duluth boats carry 9 engineers and 5 captains, so many boats tied up. Sure and the deckhands are fired. Wages cut down from 25 per cent and over. Dockwallopers fired for fighting heavy loads, the fourth sack of bran called “Wilson” sack because they added it on during the war, 6 bundles of iron pipe that. ought to be 3, a IN the heat the steam gauge bulges out suddenly like the eye of a strangling man. The fireman looks away from it for a second. He was on shore for a year once and then back to the boat. “The boat kind of gets into your blood.” Maybe it’s because things are so The Humanitarian! enough to freeze a man, And that/ time when one of the deckhands got his nose so bad frosthitten that all the stink’s gone out of the world for him. The coal passer wipes his smudged face. “Day off? Take a day off and you can have all the days off. You're fired. They don’t give a damn for you.” The oiler hurries through into the engine room. The great shanks quiver, race, pulling their knuckles of steel. The oiler leans over. He taps here and there, patting them as if to get the fire out of them. He must be quick else his arm can be yanked off easily as a fly's leg. He dibbles his oil can here and there. He screws down the grease valves. The sweat blisters his face, A wad of underwear flops in and out, churning about in a soapy pail. Weighted down, the wash is chained to the shank. As the shank moves, it raises the wash and then pounds it-back into the pail. ‘The fireman still stands in the fire alley, bloodshot eyes hammered to the gauge. Shorty spits on his hard sweaty hands and humps over the shovel. The decks are deserted save for the huddle couple. All night long the engines throb like a bad heart. In the morning you get up to find the boat knotted to the docks of the ratty Milwaukee harbor. Deck- hands are already working out in the thin rain. I do not see the couple that spent all night sitting up though 100 cabins were empty. Nor the men of the hold, “AND NOW LADIES ANO GENTLEMEN OF “The RADIO RUDIENCE,| WANT “0 PRESENT Ma.DEMMA GoGS, THE FAMOUS EDUCATOR WHO WiLL SPEAK ON "SCHOOLS AND THE Social =& ViEWPOINT. HEAD- ETC. -Ee-eTC. ES.- ET ets ere ETc. LET us DEVELOP A MORE HUMAN APPRORCH “To cucTURE! LET YEACHING BE oF SHE HEART AS WELL AS OF “THE MARVELOUS, MA.GOGG// IN BEHALF OF YOUR AUDIENCE | HANK You/ IY WAS A PLEASURE TOLISTEN TO ONE WITH SUCH A SOCIAL POINT OF View! BEEN GIVIN FREE Food = AND MR. Goss Goes BACKS || THE GoARO oF EDUCATION WHERE KE PROCEEDS 0 PUY HIS Social VIEWPOINT -MR.GOGG, Har & GOODHRRT GIRL HAS National Academy of es, Charles F. Kettering, head of the |research division of General | Motors, discussed recent work on |diesel engines in railroading. He |told of new 3,600 horse-power | Scie jdiesel-locomotives that are six times as powerful as e engine in the well known Union Pacific Streamlined flyer. The new giants |Operate at an efficiency of 36 per |cent which makes the steam loco- | es very uneconomical by com- | parison. | | The diesels are travelling power |Plents. They generate their own electric power, and equal in effi- |ciency the steam turbines that are jused at generating stations. They | |have not only made the old steam | locomotive obsolete, but have made ; unnecessary the further electrifi- cation of railroads along old- fashioned lines. The new diesels use injection pressures that are five times as | Strong as those used in other | diesels. They utilize 25,000 pounds | Pressure to the square inch instead | of the usual 5,000. In the diesel | engine the fuel oil is injected into | the cylinder where the heat of com- pressing the mixed vaporized fuel | and air explodes the mixture with- | out the use of a spark such as is | necessary in gasoline engines. No| matter what the viscosity of the oil | that is used, the pressure breaks it | up into a fine vapor that can s | through the ten-thousandth-inch | holes that lead to the cylinder. | | These diesel-electric plants have the possibility of revolutionizing the entire industry. But they are being |used mainly for show and adver- tising purposes in opposition to the publicity of the airlines, and not |for the standard work of the rail-| | reads. The diesels will only be gen- | | erally introduced if the government | subsidizes their purchase by the |Toads. Otherwise, since they threaten | | the watered stccks of the railrcads, | they will not be widely used, despite their advantages in speed and eco- |momy of operation. Oe POLARIZED LIGHT BURSTS PLANT CELLS Dr. Elizabeth S. Semmens has | been studying the effects of polar- j ized light upon plant cells. | light, consisting of one-way waves, causes certain cells on the of leaves to burst. that the polarized licht changes the | starch grains in the leaves into| sugar, and this causes so much water to flow into the cell that its | walls cannot stand the added pres- sure—so it bursts. | Polarized light is light that has | been passed through a special crys- tal in such a way that all the| | waves vibrate in one direction, and |do not spread out in all directions as is the case with normal light. Dr. Semmens reports that in many cases she has found that polarized | light changes wet starch into sugar, | both in plants and in non-living | solutions. | eae ee | A NOTE ON FEEBLEMINDEDNESS Feedlemindedness may be caused by injuries to the brain during in- fancy according to a report made by Professor T. A. W. Todd of West- ern Reserve University to the recent meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. After several years of re- search on one thousand human brains, he came to the conclusion that poor food, disease and bad liv- ing during the first year of an in- fant’s life can produce permanent mental deficiency. He found that those regions of the brain which function in reason- ing, memory and the like grow most 7:00-WEAF—Pickens Sisters, Songs WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick ‘WJZ—Amost 'n’ Andy—Sketeh WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch 7:15-WEAF—To Be Announced WOR—Marion Chase, Songs WJZ—Piantation Echoes, Mildred Robinson Orchestra Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Gould and Shefter, Piano WOR—Vecsey Orchestra WJZ—Red Davis—Sketch WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone 1:45-WEAF—Uncle Ezra-Sketch WOR--Dance Music WJZ—Dangerous, Paradis¢—Sketch WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Another Language—Play, With Mary Pickford, Actress WOR—Lone Ranger—Sketch WJZ—The Half-Way Killing—Sketch WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:15-WABC—Edwin C. Hill, Commentator 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orchestra WOR—Variety Musicale ‘WdZ—Lanny Ross, Tenor; Salter Or- chestra; Veslie Mills, Harp WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone; Elizabeth Lennox, Contralto; Mixed AGAIN and medical care. Capital- which denies adequate relief unemployment insurance to the jobless worker protects its profits at the expense of the ruined lives of babies, Todd's work has an important upon the pseudo-scientifie of the eugenicists. They. that intelligence is entirely a. of heredity.. The research of Dr. Todd indicates that like pels rickets and tuberculosis, lemindedness may in many es be due to poverty and mal- Consequently while plays a role in determins gence, the larger immee diate problem is an economic one— to progressively raise the living. standards of the population as is being done in the Soviet Union. (This item is based on material fur- nished by the Science Research Committee of the Pen and Hammer.) | MOON-STUFF Scientists of the Carnegie Institu- | tion of Washington declare that the moon's surface is made of volcanic ash and pumice. The reflected sun- light from the moon is not polar= ized. Hence the scientists conclude that it does not come from dark dense rocks which polarize light. In- stead it must be composed of light translucent rocks like the stuff found around the volcanoes on the earth. The scientists also claim thet the rapidity with which the moon drops in temperature when it is swept by an eclipse must be due to the fact that the moon's surface is largely made up of silica pro- duced by voleanism BREATH MEASUREMENT AND SOCIALIST COMPETITION With a thermocouple as “fine as a woman’s hair,” Dr. F. G. Bowman of the Carnegie Institution has beért measuring variations in the humatr breath. The instrument would be very useful up at the Daily Worker where the competitors in the social- ist competition gasp for breath as” one or the other forges ahead. At the moment the breath measure- ments of this column’s opponents would record such violent fiuctua- jtions that the thermocouple would |no doubt be ruined. The other competitors are sour. with envy as Lab and Shop climbed to 70 per cent of its quota. This is |Mo mean feat, since it did not stoop to doing intellectual cooch dancés or passing out samples of art work. The column rested upon the dignity and prestige of science, confident that truth was on its side, and that victory would be achieved despite the ballyhoo and wild claims of the rival forces. One more effort, comrades, and we will fulfill the quota that the column set for itself. Let the others rescrt to tricks. We shall conduct an honest campaign. confident of our inherent superiority. Incidentally, the column is still offering a fine book on modern science to the highest individual contributor, and a lecture to the or- ganization that raises the most money for Lab and Shop. WILL SCIENCE WIN? With today’s contributions, Ramsey leaps forward to 78 per cent, ahead of Mike Gold and |] all the rest. Phahan odes $1.50 _ Pen & Hammer Science Committee 2.00 Film & Photo League. 11.00 L. Hirsch .. 1,00 Party at Hirsc! | Store, Candy sponsored by Ave. St. John Group. Previously received Total Chorus; De Wolf Hopper, Narrator 9:00-WEAF—Pred Allen, Comedian; Jamies Melton, Tenor; Hayton Orchestra WOR—Hilibilly Music WJZ—20,000 Years in Sing Sing— Sketch, With Warden Lawes WABC—Nino Martini, Tenor; Kostéle anetz Orchestra 9:30-WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch WJZ—John Charles Thomas, Baris tone; Concert Orchestra WABC—George Burns and Cracie Allen, Comedian 9:45-WOR—Garber Orchestra | 10:00-WEAF—Lombardo Orchestra WOR—Literary Justice—Sketch WI2—Cooperation in Industrial ress—Donald Richberg, Exec Director National Emergency cil, at National Association of Mane ufaturers Dinner, Hotel Waldorfe Astoria 6% 10:15-WJZ—Beauty—Mme. Sylvia; Sally Milgrim, Stylist 10:30-WEAF—One Man's Family—Sketch WOR—Variety Musicale r WiJZ—Denny Orchestra; Harry Riche man, Songs WABC—Eva Hadrobova, Soprano; Symphony Orchestra 11:00-WEAF—Berger Orchestra y WOR—News vd WJZ—Coleman Orchestra : WABC—Belas¢o Orchestra 11:15-WEAF—Robert Royce, Tenor WOR—Moonbeams Trio 11:30-WEAF—Dance Music (Also WOR, WABO) CLIMBING THE LADDER | Not only has Little Lefty al- most caught up with Gannes total contributions, but he is second to Mike Gold in popu- larity today, having received $61.10. Associated Workers’ Clubs . Luberoff Musurale .. 4 Richmond, Ind., Unit Section 5 ... Previously received - Total . Del will present a beautiful colored portrait of his cartoon chai