The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934 R. fe. Man Shows Green’s Cites Green’ s Actions At A.F.L. Conventions | Against Workers’ Bill Refutes Statement of Brotherhood Organ That Green Favors Insurance With No Contributions By a R. R. Worker Correspondent | DETROIT.—The Nov. 6th edition | of LABOR, the official mouthpiece of the Railroad Brotherhoods, brazenly misleads the rank and file in an article headlined, “Green and Writer Say Boss Must Pay for Job | Insurance; Hold No Part of Con- tribution Should Come Out of the Workers.” | The article may not lie technically | when it says, “Wm. Green wrote .. .| warning The fundamental prin- ciple of unemployment compensa- | tion is that the necessary funds should be raised as a charge upon | industry itself. No part of the con-| tributions should be paid out of the | wages of labor. They should be | paid by management as one of the | costs of production.” | This last sentence means, and| Green knows it, that the manu-| facturer wguld simply add the cost | to the sacticle and some other} worker would have to pay it. And where ‘is any protest that Green| has ever made against any of the state schemes, that take deductions | from the workers pay envelopes? | ‘This article in LABOR practically les to the rank and file, as LABOR 11 knows that Wm. Green does Title of Manag Covers Many Other Jobs : | | book of 100 messages (by luck) and By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—! am a manager of a telegraph office. That is, my title} is manager. Really I am the porter, operatoz, stenographer, delivery clerk, call clerk, express agent, avia- tion agent, money order agent, package clerk, typist, telephone op- erator, secretary, accountant, book- keeper, time clock salesman, tele- graph salesman, counter clerk and a/ thousand and one other positions too many to enumerate. And, no| exaggeration, I attend meetings, too. My morning mali is brought in a| truck. There are bundles to deliver, | magazines to collect money on, some with receipts and some without. I send the messengers out with tele- grams and packages to deliver and| at the same time I am receiving | and sending telegrams over the sim-/ plex, answering phones and smiling | sweetly at some customer at the front counter. By the way, I must | inspect the messenger’s uniforms at the same time to make sure the wardrobe attendant did not let a boy go by with a spot on his pants. Let me go on. It may give you an idea what speed-up has taken place and how many jobs have been elim- | inated. The first thing I find in my morning mail is short checks. That From Labor not favor non-contributory insur- | ance and that he has repeatedly endorsed State schemes. LABOR also knows that Green has never endorsed the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, the House of Representa- tives bill which provides for NO} contributions from the employed, | and this being the only bill which | contains this provision. | In conventions at Vancouver, | Cinncinnati, Washington and San/| Francisco, Wm. Green refused to isten to delegations demanding this type of unemployment insurance. | LABOR forgot to mention that Wm. Green did not endorse non- contributory unemployment insur- ance at the San Francisco conven- tion just held. He has expelled members of local unions who have repeatedly demanded his co-opera- ; tion and support for this insurance. Many central bodies of the A. F. of L., several Internationals, hun- dreds of fraternal organizations, and over 2,400 locals of the A. F. of L. have endorsed the Lundeen Bill, H. | R. 7598, and LABOR well knows) that Wm. Green and his henchmen in every city have tried to “ride” any local that does endorse this legislation. or ia We why should not I? Let me continue, for if you are dizzy reading this, you can easily | understand how the poor overworked managers feel about it. In the meantime the telephone rings. The superintendent’s right hand man demands to know immediately why the ratio of expense has fallen only 2 per cent in the last month. In the meantime a patron comes in at the front counter. Between the devil and the deep blue sea. After I am through with this pest, in walks an inspector. Out goes his book and he wants to know why the blanks are crooked on the front counter. Another letter wants to know why a certain message was delayed. Another wants to know why I don't sell more express and money orders. | Another wants to know when I will send in 20 delayed reports that I have forgotten about and most like- ly so has the superintendent. A scribbled note from the boss states that I ought to hang around a little later at nights to catch a few stray messages over the counter. Another circular says that the credit and collection department has too many uncollected bills. (So have I.) T look at the clock and I know the relief will be here in a few minutes. I am then to put on my tuxedo and means that many weeks ago I over- charged or undercharged one cent) on a message while I was busy on | the numerous tasks I mentioned be- | forehand. The next are bulletins from various departments. For ex-/| ample, one says that daylight saving | time has been abolished in the Zulu | Islands, another says that the cable rate to Borneo has been increased, | another says that there is censor- call on some accounts and plead for the poverty-stricken Western Union. These pleas are nauseating, but what can you do, The 2859's must be made out. Pep meetings are held. The only one with the pep is the only talker, Mr. Carroll. Yes, our old friend Mr. Carroll. He certainly has the pep, and we sit in our seats while he throws out threat after threat. ship on messages in the interior of | We then know that there will be a India, another reads that a messen- ger’s bicycle had been stolen, an- other claims that I failed to send in a report due six months ago, an- other one says that my sign outside is not illuminated very clearly at night. The money order depart- ment takes me to task in that I fell down on my quota for gift orders, another says that a manager sold a few more vacancies tomorrow. The shadow before the coming events. If only us telegraph workers could have the same pep in fighting for our rights as Mr. Cayroll has in ruling the roost for the company, how different things would be. Hope to see this in Friday’s paper and more to follow. A “GLORIFIED” MANAGER. Workers! Send Every Penny The Press League of N. Y., an organization whose main purpose is to gain support for the revolutionary press, sent the highest contribu- tion last Wednesday—$100 . . . The Received Dec. 12, 1934 $494.40 Previously received 53,330.50 Total to date $53,824.90 DISTRICT 1 (Boston) | E. West $1.00 A. Jokinen 28 | J. Palin 30K. Karpl 25 J. Hill 25 F. Lagreu 25 R. Korpela ‘253. Aaltanen 25 J. Urpilo 25. Murnin 35 W. Laht! 25 (J. Aptaker 35 | T. Hirvela 35) «I. Carmen 1.00 | Total Dec. 12, 1934 $5.25 Total to date $2,344.12 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) 8. L. $.10 Research 18.00 Spartacus A.C. 2.00 Pen & Hammer Section 3 25.00 Science Section 19 431 Comm. 7.00 Press League 75.00 Press League 25.00 Hotel & Rest. Wkrs. Union 3.35 Medical Board 5.00 Medical Board 1.75 Medics] Board 2.50 United Shoe & ther U. 2.00 Allerton Workers united Shoe & Club 20.00 Leather U. 1.00 John Green 2.00 United Shoe & Vassar Stud. 10.00 Leather U. 5.00 Business Office Pen & Hammer Staff Daily Economic Worker 35.10 . 12, 1934 $241.86 Total te date $29,106.42 | DISTRICT 8 (Philadelphia) Bilton Clyman $1.00 ‘Total Dec. 12, 1934 $1.00 Total to date $3,727.27 DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) Lithuanian Frac., Rochester $18.25 Collected by Chaney, Rochester 1.75 W. E. 6, L., Rochester 1.87 R. N. M. A. 8, Rochester 3.05 Bection affair 3% Total Dec. 12, 1934 $28.37 Total to date $650.84 DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) P. Miravaile $1.00 Total Dec. 12, 1934 $1.00 Total to date $939.51 DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) Bection 1 $12.11 Women’s Mutual Jewish Buro, Chicago sends $35.91. Section 4-408 2.00 Br. 4505, I. W. 0., Unit 906 5.00 Roumanian Theatre Coll. .50 _ Branch 5.00 Lakeview Seand., Indianapolis W. 0. 5.50 Section 2.25 Jewish Buro 35.91 Simon Horvat 1.00 Rockford Sec. 10.00 Workers School 3.50 Unemployment Jewish Buro 3.25 Council 47 98 Section 3 4.00 | Waukegan Br. 1011, See. 10.00 LW. a 5.00 Bec. 2 50 Section 8 3.80 iec. 7 4.50 Lithuanian Russian Prog. Buro 13, Total Dec. 12, 1996 $138.05 Total t odate $5,305.98 DISTRICT 11 (North Dakota) Jimmie F. s. Total Dec. 12, 1984 Total to date DISTRICT 12 (Seattle) Astoria $13.68 Renton Aberdeen 7.00 Seattle Yakima 5.00 Ketchikan, Port Angeles 2.00 Alaska Total Dee. 12, 1934 Total to date DISTRICT 14 (Newark) E. M. Howell Pauline Keyseco Steve Haregyof Total Dec. 12, 1934 Total to date DISTRIOT 15 (New Haven) A. Sackal Total Dec. 12, 1984 Total to date DISTRICT 20 (Houston) H. ©. Schad Total Dec. 12, 1934 Total to date DISTRICT 22 (W. Virginia) Harley Weaver Total Dec. 12, 1984 Total to date DISTRICT 26 (80, Dakota) Frederick Working Women's Olub Total Dec. 12, 1984 Section, 4-416 6.50 Ald 3.75 Total to date Elect Co. Union Heads | work. So their jobs depend upon | dues, and two and one half per | cent Lab | oo| the president, White, and all the rest of his staff get exorbitant wages, jleopard change Fight Against Jobless Insurance Under Firing Threat By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La.—The In- dependent Longshoremen Union (company outfit) will had election on Dec. 3rd. The slogan for the election is that all the present officers must be re-elected. The men have been instructed that if they vote for any one else, that they will be fined, or that | they will not be allowed to do any their voting for the company of- ficials. ‘The Negro longshoremen are re- quired to pay $1.50 per quarter as of their salaries to their) foremen or they are not allowed to do any work. This longshoremen’s organiza- tion was organized by and for the shipping interests. It is the same organization that Ryan, Green & Co. tried to give the charter of the old I. L. A. to. or Chiefs’ Collaboration Policy Hit By a R. R. Worker Correspondent DETROIT.—In a recent issue of | LABOR, a paper published for the} railroad brotherhood men, there was a rather lengthy article ex- posing the Bergoff strike-breaking agency. LABOR quoted Bergoff as saying that his biggest job had heen with the Erie during the shopmen’s strike, and that he had also fur- nished strikebreakers and gunmen for other railroads. As usual LABOR. simply recited a few of the wrongs inflicted on the workers. Tt} failed in this case to point out the) fact that our labor chiefs are now collaborating with these very same railroad presidents who do not hesitate to hire thugs to murder men on strike. The article did ex- pose the heartlessness and ruthless- ness, of the railroad bosses ond to what lengths they will go to defeat | the employees. | It failed completely, however, to point out that the railroad labor chiefs are all in favor of meeting | these same railroad bosses in pleasant conferences, under com- pulsory arbitration laws which they endorse. Is it to be assumed that | these railroad bosses, who do not hesitate at murder, will concede the employees any benefits at a con- ference table knowing the workers do not intend to strike? Does “the its spots” under such circumstances? The article should have pointed out that the parasites who control the roads will go to any lengths to keep the men down, and that there can be no such thing as arbitration with them, and that compulsory arbitration will not win a thing for anyone ex- cept the labor chiefs who help to put ft across. Punch Clock On 15 Minute Lunch Period: By a Telegraph Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Inspired by the letters I have seen in your paper from telegraph workers, I am writ- ing you on conditions of telegraph operators at the Western Union main building, West Broadway and Hudson Street. Operators get 16 minutes for lunch and a 15-minute rest period. ‘They must punoh a clock, and this takes time off the lunch period. If they leave the room, it ts de- ducted from their salary. | Fear Repetigion of Seab| | Shipment by I. S. U. | Officials By a Marine Worker Correspondent BALTIMORE, Md.—This is one of the ships that you heard so much | abou during the West Coast strike, the S, S. Illinois, California Eastern Steamship Co., States Line. During the strike she managed to get away from Portland, Oregon, on July 15th. The skipper and three mates who scabbed during the strike are still aboard. The engineers who helped break the strike all got fined $160 by the M. E. B. A., and later got fired when a new chief engi- neer came aboard. Conditions aboard the “Illinois” are very bad. The food is poor and the ship is cold, There is no heat in the foc’sle, messroom or wheel- house, and we ave all willing to yo on strike if we can have it guaran- teed that the I. S. U. officials will not ship scabs in our places. We read about the East Coast strike and how the I. S. U. shipped scabs, For this reason we think it better to wait until we get around to Frisco where we know that we will get the backing of the longshoremen, who will not handle cargo while any ship is on strike. Several individual ship strikes have been won since the last big strike! We are all dissatisfied with the way the Arbitration Board is work- ing for the interest of the ship- owners, and we doubt if we will get any benefits at all without going back on strike. The most of the crew are I. S. U. members, but there are six members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union aboard. Our ships ‘committee was busted up when we came around to the East Coast; most of them got off. But we are going to make another one up immediately. The foc’sle is a big room which originally had 18 bunks, but since the shipowners began to underman there are only 8 of us in the foc’sle, 6 A. B.'s and 2 Ordinaries. The car- penter gets $55, bosun $50, A.B.’s $45 and Ordinaries $30. We are not going to continue to work under these conditions. By a Worker Correspondent STATEN ISLAND, N .Y. — We read with interest your article on the settlement of the Paterson Dye Strike. It has been a great victory, and due chiefly to the militant element that retained control throughout the strike, and it should be held up as a model for the American labor movement, However, the danger in the dye- ing industry lies in the action the companies will take in the next few weeks. Last year I took part in two strikes of the dye workers. Of course we won both, but of what value were the “gains” we made? I will cite this as one example: One clause of the strike settlement called for an equal division of work. In other words, there were to be no Letters from Our Wacetinen THANKS! New York, M. ¥. Dear Comrede Editor: Congratulations on the qualty of the “Daily”! May I suggest: 1, A feature column—Simple Facts About Communism. 2. That too many high-pressure headlines result in failure of em- They are the real money getters | phasis. for the firm, and are treated like slaves, while the ones holding soft jobs higher up get big pay for crushing these busy workers. They even shout and sweat at the oper- ators during rush seasons. ‘They are also kept up until mid- night on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, with no police protection when leaving the place at such a late hour in such a deserted section. Will you please bear these condi- tions in mind when writing again about this corporation? Something ought to be done about these poor workers. They have had their salary cut to the bone, while OVER THE $200 LINE Aided by the Daily Worker staff members, the Worcorr Dept. has already raised $200. What we would very much like to get comrades, is $250, at least! Section 3 .... Business Staff . Editorial Staff . Previously Rec'd. Total .. 3. That the front page is usually too black, hard to read, 4. More headings between lines of one-column articles, shorter sen- tences and paragraphs, would raise level of readability, o. B.S. THE GLORIOUS HISTORY OF ASTURIAS New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: The workers and farmers of Asturias, who put up one of the bravest fights in revolutionary his- tory against fascist reaction in Spain, have a rich revolutionary tradition extending as far back as the Roman era. In glancing through Gibbons’ “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” I came across a section that dealt with the battles which the people of Asturias took up against the Roman imperial juote Gibbons, “The re- Spain, Galicia and the Asturias, Biscay and Navarre, Leon and the two Castilles, Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon, con- tributed to form the third and most considerable of Roman ents. Of the natives, the Celtibereans were the most powerful as the Can- tabrians and the Asturians proved the most obstinate” (obstinate to Gibbons). “Confident In the strength Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT Ba Sy Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. rker’s A Americanism | New United | Fruit Farce By a Marine Worker Correspondent | | NEW YORK.—The United Fruit | ; Company must be Christian Scien- tist. It believes that “right think- ing” is profitable, and their kind of | right thinking is certainly profitab! for the United Fruit Company. The Fruit Company has signs posted on the S.S. Peten saying, “Think American, talk American.” ‘These signs are meant for the crew. The company thinks only in| “profits.” The crew is to think “American,” not of organization or better conditions. The company is to think “profits,” and that keeps 65 out of its 94 ships under foreign flags. The only ones that fly “Old Glory” are the ones that get profits | out of mail contracts. Meantime, the two city firemen put aboard the Peten as a camou- flage to make the passengers feel “safe” are wondering if their $80 a month is worth the health risk in eating the rotten chuck. They are growling. The crew is wondering what the hell is the use of electing “delegates” each trip to “consult the manage- ment” when the food gets no better. ' They are beginning to think that organization and action is much better than United Fruit American- ism, | Pay Delay Practiced At Morris Park Yards By a R. R. Worker Correspondent MORRIS PARK, L. I.—We want to bring to light another gag prac- ticed by the officials of the Morris Park yards. Their latest scheme is to cut the agreed upon two week wage by sev- \ eral dollars. What are Mr. Casey and his pals doing, imposing a pri- vate sales tax on us? We want full pay on time, and/| none of this chiselling and handing us the rest of the amount a week late. What we need is a good rank and file grievance committee in the A. F. of L. to see that this practice 'is discontinued. dvice layoffs during slack periods, but rather an equal division of such work as there was. This was looked upon as One of our greatest gains, but what actually did happen? I was employed in Fairlawn, in the mechanical department of one of the largest dye houses. Within @ month of the strike settlement, about 30 of our force of 100 were Jaid off, and there was no slack period at that time. In fact, the layoff caused some jobs to actually stop and others were given to out- side contractors. Yet no action was taken by the officials of Local 1733. I know that this had a demoralizing effect upon the workers. It will be necessary for the present leaders to be con- stantly on the alert during the next few weeks because they are fight- ing a powerful organization, of their mountains, they were the last (Asturians) who submitted to the arms of Rome and the first who threw off the yoke of the Arabs.” Of course Gibbons, the historian, underestimates the militancy of the Asturians by saying that it was the “strength of mountains” rather than the strength and valor of the na- tive Asturians in their fight against the Roman and Arab rulers. The march of history continues, and again the staunch and brave Asturians have raised aloft the banner of revolution in Spain, this time, of course, on a much higher and conscious level, for the power of the Soviet State. What a heroic record! \ The first province of Spain to set up the Asturian Workers and Farmers Soviet and the last to sub- mit to the yoke of Spanish fascist reaction, ‘The eyes of the world proletariat are still fastened on our brave pro- letarian brothers and sisters of As- turias. We take our hats off and congratulate them. Although crushed, they will again gather their brave forces and be as impregnable as their mountains. The next period in Spain will see the flag of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin raised not only in Asturias but throughout Spain. Their fight has not been in vain and the next time our Asturian brothers will remain in power and will not be moved, History has repeated itself again and the proletariat of Asturias have written a glorious page in the his- tory of the working class, ae GUIDANCE FOR THE NEW READER Flushing, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: I would like to make a suggestion which I feel would be of great bene- fit to our cause, The difference between the Daily Worker and any capitalist paper is so great that sometimes a new reader cannot understand it and soon falls back to reading the cap- italist paper. Therefore, I think that if you had a small column every day in which you welcomed the new reader and explained to him in simple language what Com- Sane is—its purpose, its desire | doing, we are forced to work under |S. S. Florida Is A Cold,| Undermanned, Hungry Tub By a Marine Worker Correspondent | BALTIMORE, Md.—The S.S. Flor- ida of the Record Steamship Com-/ pany sure has the record for rotten ; conditions. While the I. 8S. U. officials are taking plenty of time to negotiate r arbitrate or whatever they are the most miserable conditions and live in an ice-box. The foc’sle aboard this ship is in the lazarette and the storm-door is sprung so badiy that it cannot be closed enough to keep the wind out. At night when we go to bed, in- stead of taking our clothes off, we have to put more on to keep warm. The bunks are lashed with rope and wire to keep them together. The mattresses are old, thin and filthy. The only time we get clean sheets, which are made of heavy blue cloth, is when we first come aboard, It’s impossible to keep a steady crew on this tub on account of the conditions. I have been aboard since the second of December and no one has been here longer than 18 days During the 8 days I have been here I've already put in 26 hours over- time. This ship is plenty under- manned! We have only 4 A.B.’s and 2 Ordi- naries. We get $50 and the Ordi- naries $35. The bosun gets $55. Most of us were in the East Coast strike and we saw the I. 8. U. offi- cials shipping scabs in the places of striking seamen. This ship is cer- tainly ready for strike, and we would go on strike right here in Baltimore if the Centralized Ship- ping Bureau was still in operation, but we know the I. 8. U. (officials) would propably ship scabs again. It seems unreasonable to think that a union would ship scabs, but it’s the truth! Eventually we wil! go out again, and it’s going to be a battle. We must be organized strong enough to get over the 1.S.U. (official) barrier. There is no ques- tion in any of our minds that before we can win higher wages from the shipowners we must first defeat the sell-out policies of Furuseth, Olan- der, Scharrenburg and Axtell, who are known to the seamen as strike- breakers and scab-herders! NOTE We publish every Friday letters from workers in the transporta- tion and communication indus- tries; marine, railroad, traction, trucking, telegraph, telephone, etc. We urge workers in these indus- tries to write us of thelr condi- tions and their efforts to organ- ize. Please get these letters to us on Tuesday of each week, Mass Layoff Of Telephone Employes By a Telephone Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—With all the money the telephone companies are mak- ing, they have thrown out about one-third of their employees. Those forced out find it extremely difficult to get new jobs because their work in the telephone field is specialized and their experience is valuable only in telephone work, under em- ployment conditions as they exist today. ‘We have a company union, which of course does not help those who are employed, and, so far as I know, there is no real workers union being organized. Most of the technical employees have had to take cuts and many with higher ratings were demoted to lower jobs and have to do the same work. I think the employees of the tele- phone industries are sufficiently hard pressed to take easily to any union organized to put up a stiff fight for better pay and working conditions. Such a union would also help the telephone employees forced out of the telephone monopoly by making {it possible to demand that the telephone interests reinstate them. If there is such a union being or- ganized, I would be very glad to become a member. If not, I would like to hear from telephone men through your columns who would like to start such ® union, : Editor’s Note.—To our knowledge no union in the field as to improve the conditions of the workers—that this column would do much in making new readers and in getting new sympathizers. M. L, TRIBUTE TO POETRY Chicago, Tl. Dear Comrade Editor: In Tuesday's Daily Worker I read Comrade Rolphe’s poem, “Unit As- signment.” It makes me see the way clear again; eager to work as an. organized Party member. We can spike Hearst’s and the other boss-class lies about our Party by LS. U, OFFICIALS BLOCK FIGHT WORKERS’ HEALTH OF SEAMEN ON THE EAST COAST When Is Gonorrhea Considered Cured? (OMRADE L. R., of New London, Conn., writes: — “At one time when I was young, I had the “clapp” and was properly cured by a leading New London physician at a cost of worrying whether it will ever come back...” . * * can be cured if the proper treat- ment is carried out. Once cured it is impossible for it to recur, except by being exposed to infection again. The question is, however, whether or pletely cured. To be considered cured there must not only be a complete absence of discharge, but in addition, three successful prostatic smears should be negative. The patient should also have the canal dilated and stretched with sounds to make sure that no stricture is present. When these conditions are fulfilled, there should be done a so-called provocative test. strong solution of Silver nitrate into the canal and examining the result- ing discharge, for gonorrhea germs. If this test is also negative, the patient is considered cured. In the male, once the cure is es- tablished by the above methods, there is no reason whatsoever to fear a recurrence. he. Is Gonorrhea Contagious COMRADE E. R. of Philadelphia asks: “Is it possible to have in- tercourse without affecting ny wife when ‘clapp’ in its dormant (sleep- ing) stages is present. Would the child be affected?” AT no time should a patient with gonorrhea, whether active or in- active (so-called dormant stage) ever have intercourse, There are two reasons for this. In the first place, there is the ever-present dan- ger of infecting the innocent part- ner in the sexual act, and this can occur at any stage of gonorrhea. In the second place, indulging in sexual relations does irreparable By ANN Mrs. Roosevelt, has been fan- fared throughout the country for many months now, Both Frank- lin D. and Eleanor have heen pictured by the press, as a “new” type—“close to the people.” They have been desoribed as “very American,” simple,” “informal.” “8 K THIS tradition, the New York Times of December 9th, carries a story called “Simple Fare For the White House,” It says that Mrs. Roosevelt, among a circle of her intimates, goes so far in the direc- tion of democracy, as to scramble, with her own First Lady's hands, the eggs for Sunday night’s supper! She drops the eggs, we are told, in the hot chafing dish, with a little butter, punctures the yolks, and adds a little cream. She stirs until they are creamy. The fore- going is supposed to make you feel that “we are women—both of us. Both she and I scramble eggs for Sunday night’s supper.” It tells us, further, that the Roosevelt formal dinners have merely six courses these days. . * Tr menu most typical of the new administration, we are told, is Mrs. Roosevelt's buffet supper. “A plain American buffet supper,” the writer calls it. “A cocktail of fruit or tomato juice, a hot dish of chicken a la king, or creamed shrimp, or crab meat served on toast or in patty shells; @ green vegetable, peas or string beans; hot rolls or biscuits, a veg- etable or fruit salad; a dessert, perhaps ice cream or Bavarian cream, and coffee. Just a plain American buffet supper!” bse ion ja in case you are not yet satis- fied that the Roosevelts are at one with the people, living like an “ordinary American family,” look here, and be silent for all time. Perhaps you have read that the Roosevelts are buying a new set of dishes. Very democratic. We need dishes too, Let’s read the description given of that set of new dishes. There will be “not less than 1,000 pieces of ivory china, each having @ narrow gold edge, outlining a wider band of deep blue, dotted with forty-eight gold stars, and below in light gold tracing a formal design, which includes the rose and triple feathers of the Roosevelt coat of arms!” There, you have it. Not too democratic to possess a coat of arms—insignia of old time rank! Dear Mrs. Roosevelt—scrambling eggs, just as you and I. It’s just too, too something or other! wh OR One i bg have been many requests for material on children, their food, their education, their recrea~ tion, We will introduce, tomor- row, Slava Dunn, a comrade who has done a great deal of work with children, She is a mother herself, and has directed chil- dren’s schools, We will print an article every week by Comrade Dunn. Write her through this column, ask her whatever you wish about your child, except of course, anything doing with chil- dren’s ills, which is still the Med- ical Board's province. She will be building the Party bigger and stronger in the way that you de- scribe, M. 0. glad to answer through this col- umn. And while we are about it, _“In The Home” is anxious to hear from you, your comments, sug- Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) $100. Now I am wondering and; HERE is no doubt that gonorrhea | not the individual has been com-| This consists of injecting a fairly | damage to the patient. As to child-bearing, you should under no circumstances allow your wife to become pregnant until you are cured, because otherwise you may infect her with the disease, Gonorrhea in the female was at one time one of the most common | causes of blindness in new-born children. At the present time this is usually controlled by prophylactic measures at the birth of the child, consisting of the instillation of silver nitrate into the infant's eyes, FIR ep The Cross-Eyed Child COMRADE R. 8. of New York writes about her nine months child who squints and whom she has taken to several eye doctors. Your child is so young that you are doing a great deal of unnecassary worry- ing. Most children at this age ap- pear cross-eyed, they tend to squint | in learning to use their eyes, Later this is overcome. Wait at least until the child is one year old before you worry about this, Both Doctors whom you have con- sulted have utilized the accepted practices in the treatment of cross eyes in the infant. Our personal opinion is that the use of drops in the good is is, however, more effec- tive than the periodic patch, for the following two reasons: (1) Most children will not wear a patch even for a short period of time; (2) There is always the lack of certainty that the child is not peeping around the sides of the patch. When drops are used caution should be taken to keep the drops from running into the child’s nose, This can be done by applying pres- sure over the inner angle of the lower lid, which is held compressed for two or three minutes after the instillation of the drops, OVER $900 MARK Although the Medical Board raised only $2.10 today, it never- theless is second in total sum col- lected in the drive—about $40 less than Michael Gold. S. L. 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