The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1934 BLAST BALLYHOO ABOUT RE-EMPLOYMENT IN AUTO INDUSTRY Ford Police|Chrysler Letter Bares Village Board Requests” 50% Cash R By a Worker Correspondent the board did indorse the sending of a resolution to the local and State Relief Administration for a 50 per cent cash increase in relief. rsement by the board of Mr. relief policies really Garesche, in the in- el and R. R. trusts. backs the full |Unemployment Council would con- elief Increase f unemployment insurance as r-Lewis Bill or any ry forms of insur- Mr. Garesche, who has illage President for 24 years, t that he knew “very ittle” any bill and that one of the spokesmen (who he had pointed out as a Communist) would | lly know more about these nan himself. The chairman of the committee t |at the close of the meeting pointed | , |out that it would not be Mr. Roose- velt or his “brain-trust” who would mold “real”. unemployment insur- ance but it would be the worker) delegates who will attend the Con-| gress in Washington on Jan. 5, 6) and 7. He stated that the Madison | tinue to fight for the passage of | HR. 7598. | This Council is sure of at least | one delegate and are making every effort to secure and send more. Petitions are to be circulated de- manding that the Village Board go) on record for ‘real Unemployment Insurance as embodied in H, R. 7598. Rates Poor Farm After Paying County Taxes 30 Yrs. By a Worker Correspondent | HAZELHURST, Pa.—The work: | ers in this town hear a gfeat deal) over the radio and read in the Buf-| falo capitalist press, about the New| Deal, the forgotten man and the| great movements that are under | way for the benefit of the old, young d med workers. the ni this bunk was brought vividly be- fore the workers here. | This was done through the case/| of a 52-year old wi totally d and dumb from bi , who paid! t s in McKean County for 30) years, and his father who is now| dead paid taxes ten years before} him. While this worker was trying | to on a lousy $1.50 per week} fro: he relief fakers, his gas was) shut off and a short time later they shut off water. Now, they have | served him with an eviction notice, | and he has paid $1,100 on his home | which he bought for $1,400 when he | was working. c When his case was taken up with the County Commissioners, they ad-| vised sending him to the county/ poor farm to eat mush. | Several of the forgotten men here} were truly “remembered” a wet ago. They had been in the woods cutting chemical wood for several veexs, trying to make enough to their_gas turned on for the) coming cold weather, and to sget| some warm winter clothes. When they went for their pay checks, they discovered that a couple of tax buz- zards of the capitalist class, had swooped down on the boss with a garnishee and took all they had coming with the exception of a few pennies. The young workers were forced | to pay back taxes for their parents. | A few days ago a relief faker| came to this town with some winter clothing for the unemployed. After | getting out of his car, he said that the weather was too cold to pass| out any cl ing and turned around | and went b: He was dressed | warmly A few weeks before the deer-| hunting season opened, two work-| 2 with a family of three} n, and his wife preg- time, went out and ers h Hitile c nant at the killed a deer. They were ee given one hundred days in jail. You must eat according to the bosses’ calendars and not according to when you and your family are hun- gry. When the hunting season is on, the woods are just over Tun | with “sportsmen,” killing game for; the fun of it, but when a worker) et results of all| hunts in order to feed his wife and/| at the Clatsop S.E.R.A. camp. H children they throw him in jail. 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- | ters to us by Saturday of each week. Learned “Daily’s” Value INCINNATI, Ohio.—‘“About three months ago I subscribed to the Daily Worker for a year,” writes E.G. “Before that time I had been buying it from the carrier every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Reading it only three times a week, I soon learned that I was missing too many good features and too much vital news. “Now that it is being mailed to my home daily I find that I can- not get along without it. “By reading the Daily Worker | six times a week, one can know all | one needs to know about the world | scene, and what’s more important | }one gets an intelligent interpreta- |jeaye, tion of this scene. I cannot im- | agine a revolution without a paper |tervals to inject the boys with like the ‘Daily,’ nor can I even} imagine any great progress in the | | bettering of conditions for labor |made to army headquarters on the without such a periodical. “For this reason I am weight- ing my appreciation with the en- closed check for $10 toward the | present ‘Daily’ campaign. The paper’s departments, which are | engaged in Socialist competition, are all so good that I hesitate to have you credit it to any one of them at the expense of the others. Suppose you credit it to the de- partment that has raised the smallest part of its quota.” Groups Send Funds s i s istris instru-| Language organizations in the Pittsburgh district were chiefly ins' tor 4 .60 sent Saturday. From the South Slav Workers’ Club and the Ukrainian Toilers, Ambridge; the Jugoslav I. W. O. Branch, McKees Rocks, and the South Slav Workers’ Club in From Pittsburgh, the Ukrainian Toilers con- tributed $8.68; the Jewish Bureau, $3.50. ; Meeting the challenge of the national office of the Communist Party, the staff of the New York District and of the District Daily Worker office mental for the district’s total of $52. Verona, came $5 each. jointly contributed $48. Received December 8 $276.36 | Previously received 5224.77 | Total to date 52501.13 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Sec. 1 $2.00 Sec. 5 59 Sec. 11 Unit 12 1.52 Sec, 11 Unit 3 pel Sec. 11 Unit 3 5.00 Medical Ady. Board 2.10 Medical Adv. Board 1.00 Medical Ady. Board 2.00 J. Pradin 1.00 | N.T.W.1.U. Dance Group 2.00 | Staff of Dist. 2 Office and Dist. 2 | Daily Office 48.00 Anonymous 25.00 | Marcus Lipitz 1.00 15.00 | 5.00 5.00 | Editorial Staff Daily Worker 38.00 | Anonymous from Brooklyn -85 | Total December 8 178.96 | Total to date $28322.11 | DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) Col. by Glasser, Allentown 1.30 | Carl A-Ko 2.00 Total December 8 3.30 Total to date $3725.22 DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) Ukrainian Toilers, Binghamton 10.00 Zmaites 15 Zmetris 1.25 seed | ‘Total December 8 12.25 | Total to date 604.22 anguage DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) Fifth Ward Unit 1 2.00 So. Slav Workers Club, Ambridge 5.00 Yugo-Slay IW.O. Br., McKees Rocks 5.00 Homestead St. 3.00 Homestead Shop 3.00 Ukrainian Tollers 3.68 8. Slav Workers Club, Verona 5.00 S. Slav Workers Club, Coverdale 3.33 Ukrainian Toilers, Ambridge 5.00 Jewish Buro 3.50 Hazelwood St. Unit 3.00 Party at home of John Lesny 4.00 Total December 8 52.60 Total to date $925.26 DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) Matt Dranovich 35 Total December 8 Total to date $2699.54 | DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) M. Stevens 2.00 | Adam Chura 2.00 United Ukrainian Toilers, So, Side 1.00 DISTRICT 11 (North Dakota) H, J. Frenette 1.00 Total December 8 5.00; Total to date $5155.83 DISTRICT 9 (Minnesota) | Sturgeon Unit 3.00 | Total December 8 3.00 | Total to date $926.13 | | | Total December 8 Total to date DISTRICT 21 (St. Louis) Union of Friends of Ponvac Total December 8 Total to date Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. Y. |and have cots. |warmed over toast and potatoes | |men gets 30 gallons of milk a day. |day, whereas the officers, captain, | jand second lieutenant receive any- |Where from $200 a month up, ac- | Worker, 35| got worn out and gone home. |has time and again come out edi- Praises Communist Aid To Shipyard Strikers By a Shipyard Worker Corre- spondent RICHMOND TERRACE, Staten Island—I am writing to you in the hope that you will publish the reaction of the recent “Sisco” strike upon one of the welders. I admit that, had one of your men entered our headquarters in the early days of the strike, I would have been one of the first | to throw him out. But, as the strike went on, I became disil- h med. I saw A. F. of L. leaders [ working in harmony with Powell | to break the strike. I also watched | you Communists. | Your sympathy, encouragement | and advice upheld our morale | during those eight long weeks. I | know that all the food that came to our headquarters came through the Communists. Your unselfishness, your loyalty to the cause of the workers has won the respect and admiration of many of the striking welders. Many of us left this yard eight weeks ago unorganized workers and firm believers in the prophets | of the New Deal. Today we are, | in heart at least, Communists. AN ELECTRIC WELDER. 12¢ Per Meal | Ration Cut | In CCC Camp) By a Worker Correspondent ASTORIA, Ore.— Conditions in the C.C.C. camps and Transient camp here are very poor. Accord- | ing to reports a wage cut was made | At C.C.C. Camp Boyington the boys sleep in wooden bunks minus a spring. When a new recruit comes | into camp he rustles up some straw | and fixes up a mattress for himself. They sleep in a large room, where- as the officers sleep two in a room 12 Cents a Meal The ration allowance of the men is 36 cents a day, or 12 cents a meal, and at present the quality of the food is being sacrificed so that tin dishes now in use can be replaced by crockery dishes. Here is a sam- ple of breakfast: Left over meats, with coffee. The camp which has about 240 However, the men do not get the milk until the cream is skimmed | off and fed to the officers. The men in camp receive $1-a cording to reports. In order to leave camp a good reason must be had. Dissatisfac- tion with conditions at camp is not considered a good reason, If one has a job on the outside he can Speakers are sent at regular in- “patriotism and nationalism.” Once each month a report is| morale of the boys. Already the boys are being discouraged to find jobs on the outside when their term of enlistment is over. 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 RESULT OF A BAD MEETING New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: I want to join the campaign in the letters column for better or- ganized meetings and meetings that begin on time. Only I don’t think the Party is taking it seriously enough; there ought to be an edi- torial in the “Daily” and directives to all the organizations. This is what happened to me— not once but several times—because our meetings are so long and bor- ing. I took four potential comrades to hear Ben Davis at the Liberator banquet last summer. The meeting started an hour or more late. Then one speaker after another—must have been a dozen in all—got up and talked and talked: every one of them for hours. It was midnight before Ben Davis spoke. | And by that time my friends had | One of them I've won back. The other | three just laugh and kid me now. They say they don’t want to go to another one of those meetings and be “talked to death.” R. P. i THE VOICE OF THE ENEMY New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: We know the role of the press in support of the capitalist class, in spreading war and fascist propa- ganda, etc. Every capitalist paper is guilty of this, but I have been noticing of late the Daily News. It torially and in their cartoons for fascism and war. Editorially they denounce any opponent of war, even |to the extent of attacking Senator | Nye and the Methodist Church. Its |latest jingo campaign consists in |demanding guns for the C. C. C. |boys, military alliance with Great | Britain, two ships for one of Japan's, and an increased navy. | Through the use of the “Inquir- | ing Photographer,” the “Daily Car- | toon” and the “Voice of the Peo-/| ple,” it has been carrying on the | most malicious campaign for the closing of the city colleges under the guise of curbing the radical ele- Rout 6,000 Job Seekers Attack Follows All Night Vigil in Bitter Cold | By an Auto Worker Correspondent | DETROIT, Mich—Where are the jobs Ford promised us? About 6,000 of us were out there a week ago Monday looking for them. A large | number of us were there from 10 Pp. m, Sunday night till 8 a.m. Mon- day morning What did we get? We were driven away by Ford’s mounted police. They drove us away and swore at us just as a cowboy drives cattle. If we stopped to light a cigarette or speak to someone, they would wave the whip and rush their horses on us. It was cold. We were cold. We | had been there all night because we wanted jobs. It could have been much colder than it was. No matter what kind of weather it was we had | to be there in that cold open field all night. Our shoes had thin bot- toms. Our overcoats were ragged. Some had no overcoats at all, We built little fires to keep us warm. But what happened to those fires? About 5 a. m. the service men came and put them out with chem- icals that were almost as strong at tear gas. The effects of these chemicals on us were similar to tear gas. As soon as the service men would put the fires out, we would build them up again. When they saw that we were determined to have some heat, they left our fires alone and we kept them till 8 a. m. This gives a good idea of how we can win better living and working conditions from Ford and the other exploiters. The same way we stopped those service men from | putting out our fires, we can stop those bloody cops from driving us around with horses. We are not animals, we are human beings and we must be treated as such. We must stand together and dare Mr. Ford or anyone alse to deny us our rights. 6,000 workers together can raise a mighty protest. Let’s do it. Thou- sands of other workers throughout the state will help us. Let’s put a stop to these deplorable symbols of capitalist inhumanity to work- ers, The more we struggle against the capitalist the better we make our conditions. Negro and white workers! Let's start today to make our conditions better. us will get jobs, but the majority A few of) e Detroit, Michigan Dear Siri departments. requirepente will afford +0 work. te you in order thet you at once, Cut in Force for 1935 CHRYSTER CORPORATION Detroit. Michigan. U.S.A. | Tae design of our 193$ models indi- cates that in certain departsents ve will not require 4s many exployees as ve forserly have needed in those It does not appear at this tine thet our an opportunity to recall you This advance information is being given way s00k employment elsevhore Yours very truly, OMREALHE CORPORATION Supervisor of Personnel Jefferson-Kerchovel Pleat. By an Auto Worker Correspondent DETROIT.—While the Roosevelt government and the General Motors Corporation have been spreading ballyhoo about “stabilizing” em- ployment in the auto industry, the automobile companies are quietly | going ahead with plans for further reducing the number of workers. The mimeographed letter pub- lished here tells its own story (the date and the name of the worker who received it have been blocked out in order to protect him). This Labor-Saving Machinery and Speed-Up Bring Similar Results Throughout Entire Auto Industry is happening not only at the Chrys- ler Corporation but at the General Motors plants, Ford’s and all other companies. New labor-saving ma- chinery is being installed and speed-up intensified to do away with workers. At the same time wage-cuts for those employed are being introduced in various plants. This situation only adds weight to the growing demand among the masses of automobile workers for the 30-hour week with increased pay, abolition of the speed-up and genuine unemployment insurance, of us will not. This means that we will have to continue to come here and stand in this open field six or eight hours at a time in zero weather without any kind of heat. Are we going to submit ourselves to such miserable conditions with- out a protest? Our answer is “NO” a hundred times, Let’s get together and demand these three points: 1) Work for all of us. j 2) The privilege to build fires | when it’s cold. 3) Withdrawal of the mounted police. We come here because we want to go to work and keep our wives and children from freezing and starving. We must not let these mounted cops drive us away. We must insist on our rights. Let's elect a committee to go to the office to present our demands. Every person here, Negro and white, na- tive born and foreign born, must support the committee. FORD WORKER, Price of Coal Soars Upward In West Ohio By a Worker Correspondent MIDDLETOWN, Ohio.—tI wish to inform you of the worsening con- ditions in Middletown. One of the magnates in the American Rolling Mill, Inc., namely Andrew Mellon, and the sister paper mills of both Middletown and Hamilton, all have joined hands in cuttng the workers’ lite income, by raising the price of coal from $7 per ton of coal in 1933 to $9 by October, 1934. The workers have had no raise to meet the added cost. Foodstuffs have gone up in the same way, clothes and housing equally as much in proportion, and every worker in this city is facing a winter worse than | any winter in history. Many little children are out of school because they haven’t got sufficient clothing to go out into the street. Even the relief that the poor are getting here is of the cheapest kind. Junk for clothing and food found anywhere. The officials of the American Rolling Mill (Mellon Pittsburgh in- terests) are heads of the Civic As- sociation (the relief bureau of Mid- dletown) and they have all the controlling power in the City Com- mission of five, and just appointed a Hamilton man as city manager, Walter S. Braun, by name, who was defeated in the new election for county auditor by W. K. Swan. Now the capitalists of Middletown have drawn Walter J. Braun as their choice for city manager, over the wishes of the same people who showed in the last election that | they wanted none of Braun for pub- lic service. Despite over 800 pro- tests from several working class groups of Middletown, Braun was put in, I feel this is a scheme to attack further all those who are on relief and all the part time workers, who work in stores, factories, mills, roads, streets, etc, ment. The “Voice of the People,” in addition, prints constantly lynch letters and anti-Semitic letters. They also stir up race hatreds by printing letters denouncing or ex- tolling certain races. In view of the fact that it has a paid circulation of about one and a half million, which means an ac- tual reading public of about four million, we feel that something con- crete must be done to counteract its poisonous propaganda. Of course this makes us realize the value of the Daily Worker and the necessity of doing everything possible to spread it. THREE COMRADES. Four more days are left for the $60,000 Daily Worker Drive. Rush all funds immediately. Collect all lists still out. Over the top by December 15th! Force Commissioners to Endorse Jobless Bill By a Worker Correspondent TOLEDO, Ohio. — When the Lucas County Joint Action Com- mittee on Unemployment sent a committee on Nov, 24 to the County Commissioners with a list of national and local demands the Commissioners made an ap- Piontment for later in the week. The returning committee re- ceived the lip-service endorse- ment of practically all demands, which included the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill. The County Commissioners refused the part of a demand which in- cluded all war funds for the un- | employed. The Northwestern Ohio Unem- ployment Council is going to make the County Commissioners act on their endorsement by sending committees demanding the send- ing of a delegate by the County Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance in Washington, D. C., Jan. 5, 6 and 7. Annual Xmas Hokum Begun In Chicago By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill.—Mayor Kelly and his committee for Chicago’s Own Christmas benefit, composed of the city’s wealthiest department store owners such as John T. Pirie and Maurice L. Rotschild, promise to | “provide a complete outfit of warm clothing for every needy Chicago child on Christmas Day.” In their own words, they aim to raise only $200,000 to supply 50,000 children not only with clothing but also with toys. At the same time it means that hundreds of thousands of needy Chicago children will be left with hopes for some other time. While this drive for Chicago's Own Christmas Benefit is merely a scheme to pacify the suffering un- employed, a free advertisement for the Department Stores, and at the | Same time a cheap publicity stunt cf humanitarianism for the coming mayoralty elections, it can be fully utilized by the militant unemployed organizations and the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee for Relief and Social Insurance to arouse the masses of Chicago’s unemployed to ; compel the ‘committee’ to make good. not only these promises but to the extent of supplying every needy man, woman and child with warm ) winter clothes. Campaigns carried on by unem- ployed organizations will also serve to unmask the shallowness of the promises and deeds of the Chicago Tammany machine and the whole “new deal” in practice. Profits First, Safety Last, Mellon Policy By a Steel Worker Correspondent NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. —The Aluminum Company of America in this town, employing approximately 3,500 workers, is putting on its an- nual farce on the matter of safety. A few weeks ago the foreman of each department in the plant prac- tically ordered every worker to at- tend the safety meetings that were held in this town, so as to assure a big attendance and make it ap- Pear that the workers were willing to unite with the company in its “safety” campaign. The workers here know the value of safety, but the company in spite | ously covered with salt and pepper, ANDY MELLON of all its preaching, posters, safety committees, etc. shows that it really is not interested in the mat- ter of safety when it comes to prac- ticing it inside the mill. While all this talk about safety goes on, the company is proceeding with its pro- gram of speed-up. Speed-up and safety, like oil and water, just don’t mix. The workers in the plant are re- | quested to ask for changes in any instance where it will mean safer working conditions. When they do make these requests, nothing is ever done about them. When a worker is injured, only in extreme cases will he be allowed to leave the plant, for if he does it means a lost time accident. Many a worker painfully injured had to remain in the plant while in pain. The foremen in the plant vie with each other in having the best record in “eliminating” lost time accidents. The company uses this means of keeping their rate of compensation insurance down to a minimum by forcing the workers to work even when they are in no condition to do so. While all this “safety” talk goes on, they are increasing the speed- up, so that today the workers are working at a terrific pace, in total disregard of their “safety.” Say It Isn’t So! A bad day for the Workers Correspondence Department. Not a single contribution. Are we to assume that our readers aren't aware of the fact that we're the lowest in Socialist competition? Total to date $170.92 ® | i | | Kasakof- Yet Checked Up IMRADE T. J. B. of the Bronx, writes: “Recently I read an article that Dr. I. N. Kasakof of the State Disorders in Moscow, had _per- fected a new method of treating Bronchial Asthma which was very successful. The article also stated that an American doctor had worked with this scientist for seven years, and was leaving for America in August. I have been referred to you by one of the Friends of Soviet Union, who believed you could help me in finding out if this method is being used here.” Cae N examination of the medical literature of the Soviet Union for the last few years fails to dis- close any report by Dr. I. M. Kasa- kof on a new method of treating Bronchial Asthma, If the method was discovered this year, a complete report will not be available in the American and Eng- lish Medical Journals for at least three to six months. Even then, the usefulness of the method will not have been proved. A new method must be tested over a period of many months or years in different clinics or hos- pitals throughout the world before its value is confirmed. pies Care of the Teeth—Fees |. H., Julesburg, Colo.:—Your com- Plaint of sensation to hot and cold on a broken tooth is a very common one. The tooth does not conduct heat, and so protects the nerve from heat changes; con- sequently, a broken tooth lacks some of this protection. However, the nerve will-recede in time, and lay down a layer of new tooth subs- | tance, called secondary dentin, in- side of the nerve chamber. When this occurs, the tooth will no longer be sensitive to temperature changes. This also happens after a tooth has been filled. Sometimes, breaking a tooth severely injures the nerve where it enters the tooth and the nerve dies. Such teeth must be carefully observed by a dentist for | WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board |and it dies. | death of the nerve, it requires the Scientific Institute for Metabolic) at least two months. On other oc- casions, the nerve of a tooth is exe Posed in an accident of this type In the event of the treatment of a dentist to save the tooth. It is impossible for the Medical Board to quote fees. We may write at length on the subject of fees in a capitalist country and explain to you that while dentists appa- jrently set fees that are high, they are subject to exploitation by land lords, supply houses, etc. I can ad« vise you, however, to save your teeth wherever it is possible. Ar- tificial teeth can never take the place of natural ones. Very often workers must sacrifice the natural teeth, because they cannot afford to replace the missing ones, and feel their financial troubles will be over if they have all their teeth removed and get “false pearlies,” | Vitamins Added to Foods \P- D. B, New York: You ask whether Hershey’s and Nestle’s chocolate contain lead. According to the investigation of Consumers Research, they do contain lead. | It this were not true, Consumers Re- search would soon be involved in legal difficulties. You also ask whether Squibb’s Chocolate Flavor- ed Vitavose is rich in iron, vitamins Band G. The answer is yes, but what of it? Many of the common and inexpensive food products also | contain these ingredients. It is not advisable to eat bread, milk or any other foods to which vitamins are added. The ordinary human diet ; Supplies enough of these elements for the average healthy individual. Advance Notice! | Mark your calendar for Thurs- day, Dec, 27. Dr. Casten, member of the Medical Advisory Board, will speak on “Veneral Disease, Pre- vention, Cure and Social Signifi- cance.” The ‘place: Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place: Time: 8:30 p.m. Admission 25 cents. All proceeds, of course, for the benefit of the Daily Worker. Total to date $915.05 IN THE HOME By ANN BARTON “We Are Guinea Pigs” NE book you should not fail to own is the book co-authored by Arthur Kallet and F. J. Sehlink, called “100,000,000 Guinea Pigs.” Its purpose is to show that “we consumers are being forced into the role of laboratory guinea pigs through large loopholes in ob- viously weak and ineffective laws.” SS ae 'HE Chicago women the other day took steps to expose the inferior quality and harmfulness of meats doled out to the unem- ployed by the government, They took the meat back to the stock- yards from which it came, and demanded that it be analyzed. It is certain that some energetic steps must be taken to protect the health of the employed as well as unemployed workers. Let me quote a part of one chapter on meats, which, the book states, are preserved by injurious chemicals. aS Ma ore “NE of our modern national in- stitutions is hamburger. At the moment you read this, thousands of hamburger sandwiches, gener- mustard and onions, are being served in thousands of restaurants, cafeterias, ‘diners,’ and hot - dog stands; and more thousands of housewives are ordering chopped meat to transform into fried ‘ham- burger in their own kitchens. The hamburger habit is just about as safe as walking in an orchard while the arsenic spray is being applied, and about as safe as getting your meat out of a garbage can stand- ing in the hot sun. For, beyond all doubt, the garbage can is where much of the chopped meat sold by butchers belongs, as well as a large precentage of all the hamburger that goes into sandwiches. “The fresh red color you see on chpped meat may be no more na- tural than the green color of St. Patrick’s Day carnations; it may be there only by grace of a generous dosing of stale, partially decom- posed meat with sodium sulphite. This preservation not only restores the color and appearance of fresh meat, but also destroys the odor of putrefaction. Eating putrid meat is not the only risk you run when you order hamburger; the sulphite itself is one of the most severe of all digestive and kidney hazards. “Quantities of chopped meat pre- served with sodium sulphite are constantly being seized by food in- spectors in the very few States which have any effective inspection. In one State, 71 out of 76 samples of hamburger picked up by inspec- tors were illegally preserved. But so easy and profitable is the fraud, and so slight the punishment, that it goes on with little abatement anywhere.” Bien ‘HE book draws the very good conclusion that it is necessary to “Jet your voice be heard loudly and often in protest against the indifference, ignorance, and ava- rice responsible for the uncon- trolled adulteration and misrep- resentation of foods, drugs, and cosmetics.” ES Noe IERTAINLY it is a fiendish thing that a class of men makes profit out of the health and lives of thou- sands of men, women and children yearly. But we cannot expect that a class that makes wars, and sends millions of lives to feed cannons for , the murder of an extra few thou- ; Sands, unless we “let our voices be heard.” An end for all time will be put to such murder when the outraged workers depose this class, They will be putting an end to that mur- der because they will be destroying | its source, the profit system. 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