The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1934, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934 RANK AND FILE RUN MESA ORGANIZER OUT OF BRIDGEPORT Workers Picket Relief Office Despite Threats Emotionalism, NRA Are Futile Before Aroused Workers Organization Takes On New Life After Arch Demagogue is Run File Take Over Leadership By a Metal Worker Correspondent BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—The activ- ities of J. J. C a jonal or- ening signs that it is ifficult for rank and py Griffin's retinue of petty financial every method possible. The appeal the M. E. S. A. made to the workers of Bridgeport was its so-called “educa feature, plu neces to sec- that the in- ference nt Roosevelt is now behind the workers. On his Jas visit to Bridgeport, Griffin ad- mitted that the President's program has accomplished nothing of value for the workers. Shor‘ after organizing the unit here, Griffin was called in by the home office in Detroit. They gave it out that he was being called in tion 7- to “help out in a strike situation in Det ” It developed later that he was told to return because the d not pay his salary ek. The new Bridge- had faith in Griffin's and wanted him sent back with the Bridgeport and itory would yield sufficient income for him to live on. the most important ob- jective of the “leaders” of M. E. S. A. is to produce an easy living for Civil Service Workers Organize in Cleveland By Daily Worker Ohio Bureau CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 17.— Seven hundred city employes jammed Grays’ Armory and amidst great enthusiasm organized the Cleveland Civil Service Employes Association. Disgusted with the political spoils system threatening their jobs with every change in administration they organzed to fight encroach- ment of the politicians on the civil service jobs. With 575 members al- ready signed up 100 new applica- tions were filed at this meeting bringing the number of city em- ployes organized to one third of the total. Collect dollar bills from your friends and shop-mates and help the Daily Worker reach the full amoumt of $69,000. More than 800 is still needed. ’. members of the M. E. 8. A. | Out and Rank and themselves. It quickly developed that Griffin is a “one shot” man, emotional appeal, and when he fires that one shot he is through. | The Union, under Griffin’s leader- ship was rapidly disintegrating. The| meetings continued to decline in at- tendance and interest, To try to} revive waning interest, Griffin de-| cided to call, or threaten to call, a} strike in the plant of the Reming- ton Arms Co. The result was a} joke. The officials of the Reming- ton plant had a good laugh but it was no laughing matter for the} Finally the newly organized Tor- ton Local accused someone in chiseling and that, together with Griffin's lame tactics in Bridgeport, | decided the Bridgeport rank and file | 0 fire Griffin lock, stock and barrel. | After he was voted down at a large| special meeting he gave, as a part- ing bid for further confidence, one of his typical emotional harrangues | but to no avail. He was politely smiled at for his pains. He tried every trick in his emotional bag and lost. Your correspondent has heard | many spell-binders, demagogues and labor fakers, but never in his ex- perience did he hear such a hodge- podge of insane nonsense as Grif- fin got off in his effort to get the/ workers to let him “lead” them in| Bridgeport. I could not help but} think that when the workers listen to the puerile nonsense handed out by such fellows it is no wonder that | they sometimes become confused. The appeal of M. E. S. A., under | the aegis of “education” and Roose- | velt’s 7-a nostrum, attracted a fine | class of Bridgeport's mechanics, | Their first meetings were enthu- Siastic, and a fine demonstration of the fact that the workers are willing to do something about their deplor- able condition. Most of them had been members of the A. F. of L.} but are fed up on that. After they got rid of Griffin the organization | took on new life. They have moved to new and better quarters and this | writer will go on record as saying| that they are going to accomplish something real since they have a number of men in the organization | who know “what it is all about.” ONE OF THE RANK AND FILE. SPEED YOUR DOLLAR BILLS! The Workers Correspondence Department beat the Medical Board—in today’s contributions, but require a little more speed to reach their half-way mark in the $500 quota. Joseph Solenki C, Freeman A. Loyd, Detroit. ........ Previously received .. »$ 5.00 25 2.00 211.92 Total - $219.17 New York Wotan Sehnai Sends $64 More for Drive Although the New York Workers School already reached its quota of $750 in the Daily Worker campaign, they continue to contribute addi- tional funds—$64.04 last Saturday. The Ukrainian Branch of the U. U. T. O., Hudson, N. Y., sent $11; The Ukrainian Workers’ Chorus, $: 11.50, and the United Committee of Ukrainian, Russian and Polish Workers sent $11.25, the last two from Roosevelt’s Infantile Paralysis Aid Far From Adequate To Meet Growing Need By a Worker ROCK ISLAND, Ill.—Do you r Correspondent emember last winter when dances were held all over the country to aid cases of infantile paralysis? | The President spoke over the radio and everybody thought how wonderful it was that these unfortunate children were to be cared for. Perhaps, some people even then wondered if the money would be adequate to care for all the case: family with many children, and one of the youngest got this terrible affliction. The child needs long and expensive treatment and cannot be cured locally. So the father, full of cohfidence, wrote to President Roosevelt, By a Worker Correspondent BLOOMINTON, Ill. — Blooming- | ton workers under the leadership of the McLean County Workers Alli- | ance, whose leadership is composed s. Well, here is one case of a poor || of Communist and Socialist workers |have picketed the local relief sta- tion since Nov. 24. The picket lines | culminate each evening in a dem- | onstration, and this is what the re- | lief authorities, leaders of the Amer- |atmosphere that comes from bad bers of the C.C.C. Boys Protective The reply, you might guess from my tcne, was disappointing to say the least. Not only was the request refused, but the reply stated that there were so many cases who had applied that they would nct | even go through the formality of placing the name on the waiting || list. | Such was the difference between the funds and the actual num- ber of cases needing treatment. This, in a country with an “over” supply of doctors, etc. Vivid Picture ‘News’ Covers OfConditions UpStatement In Flophouse Of CCC Boys By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — The New York “Daily News” has been conducting a very vicious campaign in which they have tried to make it appear hike was over and I was given a 2% if the boys in the CCC Camps ticket for two gruesome meals and) want guns. a slip for a bed at the Bolivar) They quoted the boys in many Hotel (flop house). | camps as saying that they wanted to the bone and 1, SUNS. In most camps, according to was sumb with cold as'T climbed | the “News” the youth wanted guns, the stairway stained with filth. a| They forget the mention the young dissipated-looking clerk grunted as Workers of ©. ©. ©. Camp No. 25 he took my slip and mumbled, near Peekskill, New York. “Sign here.” | When the #eporter drove up in a He led me up another flight of , ritzy car he walked over to a group stairs and through a musty hall to of fellows standing around the} a large store room now filled with mess-hall. He told them that he| bunks. As we passed through the was from the “Daily News.” The| door I was greeted with the odor fellows (there were thirty of them) | of many bodies mixed with a soured were about half composed of mem- By 2 Worker Correspondent —_| CLEVELAND, Ohio—‘Sign here,” | said the case worker at the Fed- eral Transient Relief Bureau, West Ninth and Superior, in Cleveland. My three hundred mile hitch- plumbing and dirt that has not League. The others backed them been exposed to fresh air for long up and they decisively told the re- periods. | porter that they didn’t want guns. I was directed to one of the forty- The “News” reporter turned pale | nine bunks and went to bed think- and rushed to his automobile. H ing that the two small windows There has been no note taken of down just one inch should be low-| this incident in the “News”, al- ered all the way, and wondered if| though they published a story that it was coal they were trying to save|the nearby Blue Mountains C.C.C. at the expense of the health of all; Camp—“want guns!” these poor unfortunates. | ican Legion and the local newspaper object to. The “Pantagraph,” newspaper of big business, “predicted” that the WW NW. Y unemployed through their picketing will “close the relief station and make the majority of innocent people suffer” as a result of it, This “prediction” was made two days be- fore the relief administration closed the relief station and through state- ments in the press blamed the picketing for it. They hoped to starve the workers into submission, and to discredit the picketing in the eyes of the workers. However, the opposite took place, as soon as the workers discovered that the relief station was closed they began a stream line to the relief station with all sorts of grievances, The relief authorities retreated, and announced that the relief sta- tion will remain closed but the re- lief orders will be sent out to the clients and that grievances can be submitted in writing. In the mean- time a mass meeting of 300 workers was held where the decision was made to continue the picketing until | their demands were granted. | The picketing of the relief station has stirred up tremendous sentiment for the unemployed. Trade unions have invited speakers from the picket line, listened to the explana- tion of the demands and the fight and several local unions have en- dorsed the demands and the ac- | tion, agreeing to broaden out the movement by calling a united front conference to plan further actions. The McLean County Workers Al- liance is busy besides continuing the picket line, going to various. work- ing class organizations, churches and veterans’ groups inviting these organizations to take part in the united front. While this is going on, the “Pan- tagraph” in its raving editorials is calling for vigilante terror against the Bloomington workers. In its editorial Saturday, Dec. 1, the Pan- tagraph states the following: “There | are in this city organizations with civic pride and stamina who will assist the sheriff's office and the police department to take care of the situation,” and already meet- ings were held between the city officials and the leaders of the American Legion where discussions were held on how to “take care of the situation.” Workers of Bloomington are not bluffed by this calling for a reign of terre against them, they have confidence in their mass support and militancy to defeat the terror- ists and forcing the granting of | their demands by the relief author- ities, j WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) No Menstruation you can do about it now. We pre- . A., So. Chicago, Il.—According sume, of course, that your comrade to your letter, you say that your is also aware of the accident. wife had an operation in which! There are several important most of the womb was removed— things for you to bear in mind: also, that she does not menstruate | First, the possibility of conception and worries about it because she is very slight. Since this is so, your thinks her blood will accumulate comrade should, as much as pos- and bother her later on. sible, forget about it. Just the fear Many women have funny notions that pregnany might have. occurred about menstrual blood. They think ‘is often sufficient to cause delay in that all poisons of the body are the onset of menstruation. Second, washed out with this blood, that|if menstruation does not occur on the blood is impure or “extra blood” | the expected day, wait until seven which they do not need. Because of more days have passed and then these notions they also think that it} have a special test for pregnancy is bad for them not to menstruate| done. In any event, do not waste since it prevents the “poisons” from |@ny money on medicines or injec- leaving the body; or, as in your) tions. There are no medicines that wife's case, that the blood accumu-!can bring on menstruation. The lates. most they do is to make you sick. It is natural for people to want ——— to know the causes of things. We Treatment of a Large Lung Cavity are all gest i learn, but un- 4. 4, Bronx, N. Y.: — From the fortunately we live in a society in notation: the nded shi which knowledge of these things is it spears that thease cavity nest only for a few. Actually there are to Tuberculosis in upper part of the so many restrictions about what jor lung. This cavity cannot be should be taught in the schools) closed by ordinary measures such that most young people leave school St peti A without having an answer to many | therapy. by pneumothorax collapse important questions. Any informa- tion in relation to sex hygiene, any | Tt’ would. be ad te) tile Oee to follow the advice of the patient’s juestions about the way our sex ‘ organs act is strictly forbidden, as| Physician and permit_an operation a result, the information is sought |0D the chest wall. This operation elsewhere and usually the informa-| ers the best opportunity for re- tion is incorrect, covery or improvement. Without the There is absolutely no sound | OPeration wis, patient may, be n= reason why a young girl at school jShould not be taught about men- struation, Then she would learn that the menstrual blood has noth- ing to do with the poisons in the body (she would also learn that there are no “poisons” in the body); that the discharge of bloody fluid during menstruation consists of good blood mixed with some of the fluids produced by the inside lining of the womb; that the blood is not valided for many years or develop new complications that would be The operation for Tuberculosis is now done in all the modern hos- pitals and sanatoria throughout the world, and can be recommended as |@ useful addition to our means of combating Tuberculosis. | = | TRIBUTE TO THE MEDICOS “I am enclosing my bit toward 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, 3-Hour Wait | In Line Nets | | Can of Fish My thoughts were quickly dis- turbed when something bit my neck. Then another and another—soon my back and arms and neck is cov-| ered with welts. Though it was) way past midnight I noticed many) of the fellows going to the wash- room and I decided to go bathe my bug eaten body with cold water. There was no tub or shower; there were two filthy toilet seats. One marked out of order, and a row of dirty wash bowls, all of which should have been marked out of order. | It must have been four o'clock before the banquet furnished to the Letters from Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Departmen can print only those that are of go interest to Daily Worker readers. However, all let- ters received are carefully read by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. COMRADE CASEY’S SHARE | Pasadena, Cal. | Dear Comrade Editor: | Enclosed please find $10 for the Our Readers true feelings of the Party members toward us as I have been. As one with the best interest for the at- tainment of your goal—of OUR goal —I suggest a wider cultivation of service men who are open to new ideas and new ideals. After all, virtually every man in the service is the son of working class parents. It is logical that they can be shown, and will be shown, bed bugs every night by the Fed- “Daily's” drive. I want it credited the way to solution of our common leral Government Transient Relief | Bureau was over and I got a little rest. I got up at seven thirty, washed }and counted the beds. Forty-three }had been slept in, and just two windows opened an inch. Large ‘hunks of plaster had fallen from | to Comrade Casey’s share. Old veaders are proud of the improved! appearance of the paper and we)! want him to know that the more| attractive lay-out helps interest workers who see the paper for the first time. | We look forward to the time, ills. A SOLDIER. IN MEMORY OF COMRADE KIROV | Hamilton, Ohio. Dear Comrade Editor: With deepest sorrow I write in! sympathy with the Russian and the the ceiling. Many beds were directly when, under Soviet power, Comrade | World working class for the loss of under great chunks of cracked Casey will have the opportunity of |Our beloved and outstanding leader, | plaster that looked as though they | turning out a “Daily” that will Comrade Kirov of the Soviet Union. | might fall any minute. I waited all morning at the Tran. sient Bureau. By the middle of the | afternoon they offered me “a gov- ernment job”—five hours a day, six days a week, thirty hours in all. At one dollar per week! I refused; they expected it. They gave me a bill on another hotel and a $2.65 meal ticket to last for six days. The next day I found my way to the Unem- ployment Council and am going to march with them in the city-wide AA heb ..) ©. P. Gzecho- Farein 15.00' Relief March on Dec. 22. Received Dec. 15, 1934 $399.57 | ‘Slovak $1.06 Jewish Schools 7.00 SEARS SAE IRS ey 1 Previously received 55,759.58 | Sec, 10, U. 10 1.00 Sec. 8, Unit 3 2.00 7s | See. 10, Unit 5 5.09 Sec. 4, Unit 6 50 | it d ‘Total ethno RNS, acogeia, Preiheit Gesangs Sec. 4, Unit 7 4.53 nemp oye 2 (New Yor! ity: | a} See, 6, Unit 3 $5.00 R. Knoer & se Total Dec. 15, 1934 $36.38 | I H f d t 25 red May Total to date $3,082.21 t Ey < ae! es a Anonymous 100) DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) on n arttor ce, 6, Uni ogisky +: Secti 3 Sect: 1 80 Nature Friends 5.00 F. ae ey Section 1 Ag 02 Bene 9 1.15 | S Vi 70 -P. Bohn " | ae 300 8. C. Gibbon 5.00 | Mek Workers | uyrainian South core ictory P. Burnis 1.00 J. Kramer 2.00] section 4 667 «Side Club 4.20 Wrkrs. School 64.04 of U.U.T. John Reed Dr. G. O. Vennes- | Sec. 8, Unit 12 4.85 . Hudson 11.00/ ciub 4.25 land 5.00| By a Worker Correspondent A. Novak 1.00 8 peeinee 00 | Section 12 1.00 C. Freeman 25' HARTFORD, Conn. — Through i vorkers Be cic: onorus rue eee 0 TAB Ds Colette 80 chavemueta dun thie yHlarttordaUnam- League M. Bernstein 1.00) Total Dec. 15, 1984 352.29 ployed League an eviction of an WwW. L. T. J. Levine 1.00 | Total to date $5,377.27 unemployed single worker was J. Solemk bets Sane . | DISTRICT 19 (Omaha) stopped a week ago Saturday. Steve on Polish Wkrs, 11.25 | Paul Burke $1.00 Nicholas, member of the Unemploy- W.ES.L,, Post Mosholu Prog. Boca tira! ____*% ed League, was threatened with No. 91 5.47 Club 70 | eviction, and a delegation, on which | Total Dec. 15, 1934 $4.60 Be eehavacts 00 H, Ruhiman 2.0 | cota! to: date 364.65 there were members of the Hart- 4 sei Ba ie Total Dec. 15, 1934 $106 78 | 0's, cs NNR ae Onto 10,99 | ford Unemployed League and rep: ‘Total to date $39,597.09 | Ae Sion resentatives of the Aircraft Indus- DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) | a5 —_——_ trial Union went to the welfare and : $2.00 | Total to date $1,047.03 they stopped the eviction. Many zealy pet DISTRICT 14 (Newark) aircraft workers have won relief Tuchman 80) enna Leiser $1.00 since they have been laid off =, | M. Kobrz 0 ee "Total Dec. 15, 1934 $4.50 | Oarl Meinke 1.00 through the efforts of the Unem- Total to date $4,644.23 | sar. L. Hauge 2.00 ployed League. DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) Vigk leon Sesae ee s1o00 | ,, Phey have announced today that . Tisly | Total Dec. 15, } w me aly Total te date $1,072.29 | they intend to carry on an inten Total Dec. 15, 1934 $1.00 Total to date DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) Start $.25 Total Dec. 15, 1934 $ 25 Total to date $939.76 DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) Women’s Br. United Ukrainian $2.50 8. R., Bedford 1.00 Total Dec. 15, 1934 $3.50 Total to date $2,714.04 DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) Here Is My Bit To Put NAME | DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) 659.74 | S. Berog $3.00 ! Total Dec. 15, 1934 3. Total to date $703.69 DISTRICT 25 (Florida) Siempre Viva Club $3.00 Total Dec. 15, 1934 $3, | Total to date $139.20 | Miscellaneous | Hector S, Barbier $1.00 | General $103.32 | Total Dec. 15, 1934 $104.32 the Drive Over the Top ADDRESS AMOUNT 50 EAST 13th St. Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER New York, N. Y¥. | sified campaign for cash relief and ; unemployment insurance during this ,Month. One of the major demands will be the abolition of the city store, where food that is not fit to feed pigs is being handed out at the | Present time. To push this cam- paign they have announced that a | series of open air meetings will be arranged throughout the city to con- clude with a mass open hearing on the question of relief, and the for- | mulation of demands for adequate | relief for’ these now on welfare. Simultaneously a campaign is | starting for the stopping of the city shelter and the rotten food that they are now giving to the unem- ' ployed single men who receive meals which the city claims cost them only 2c per person (the men claim it costs less). The Unemployed League an- nounces the opening of its new hesdquarters at the Furniture Worker Union Center, 601 Front Street. Meetings are held every ‘Thursday night, 1 ecord the achievements of the vic-| orious American working class. | A. 8. THE VALUE OF WORKERS’ | CORRESPONDENCE The Workers’ Correspondence de- partment the lowest in the com- petition! Is it possible that we readers don’t realize how indispen- sable that page is? For myself I can say this—re- cently a Socialist friend of mine, who is a convincing and impressive conversationalist, convinced several guilty of slander. None of us is a match for this Socialist and we couldn’t defend ourselves. I then wrote to you of this. But for your reply I feel that my faith in the Communist movement would have the arguments of my Socialist friend seemed to be of vital importance. A dollar is of great value to a re- lief worker like myself, but the work of your department is of far greater value. : M. P. A SON OF WORKING CLASS PARENTS New York, N. ¥. Dear Comrade Editor: Sitting in the park a few nights ago, I was approached by a man who had tickets to a workers’s party being given nearby. Since I was in uniform, I was somewhat uncertain. whether to accent his invitation, but. on his assurance that it would not Dear Comrade Editor: paired and burning spirit. of us that the Communists are| The workers understand assassin | spies are agents of our enemies, the | ror is meant to sabotage the work | of the Party. This is and will be; We stood that way until about |Woman who goes to jail is “bad,” done the world over, but it must 11:30 a.m. At that time, a scantily This is far from true. I do not New York, N, y, | uly mean to us at this time a more dressed woman fainted from the Speak of Communist women, who go esis sa) |cold. She was then admitted into to jail, of course. I think everyone It 1s true they assassinated Kirov |ihe building. We were then told knows why our women comrades go and many others. They cannot de- | stroy the Soviet Union or the Party , throughout the world. Here in America, and in all im- perialist countries, workers are Com- munists because of such terror, starvation and brutality. We find jourselves thinking alike, fighting together. | May it be long remembered by our lenemies: Let them kill one or one hundred of our leaders, we will not stop our revolutionary struggle, but | | will strike back with greater force. ! We will build and renew our cour- age and understanding, and win been badly shaken, for at the time| more and more fighters for a Soviet | America and a Soviet world. | ALMA SMITH. THE SALES TAX ON NECESSITIES By a Worker Correspondent AUBURN, Me.—I am writing this in order to expose some of the ter- , rible conditions that exist among , the workers in this supposed land of the free. On a bitter cold morning recently, I left my home, which was cold because of lack of fuel, and our food was so miserably low that I did not think we could hold out another day. I went to the government quar- ters for the free distribution of food. On arriving there at 8:30 a.m., I found the door locked and about 100 people waiting in line. I was informed that doors were not to be opened for another hour. They would not let us come inside, although there was plenty of room there and it was warm. I noticed that the workers were ; very scantily dressed for such cold weather. Little children without j stockings, coats or mittens were! there. These kiddies told me that; they had no more clothes, and that | they hadn’t eaten breakfast and | capitalists. We also know such ter-| were hoping to get something to} “The average woman who has eat here. that only three of us were to be! admitted at a time. go in. I was told that the rest barrels were in a very dirty con- dition. I was given one small can of fish after a three hour wait in the cold. Is this the New Deal? Is this what Roosevelt promised? A WOMAN READER, Steel Worker Votes ‘Yes’ Breoklyn, N. Y, Dear Comrade Editor: | The Times editor who denied that the City Sales Tax falls on the masses ought to pull down his “standard” work on economics. He will then find that he gave the Times readers the double lie. For the sales tax is not only a tax on the poor rather than on the rich. It is a tax in which. the tax rate increases as the income decreases. A flat tax, say of 2 per cent on displease those whom I was to meet, all incomes, would be unfair enough. I finally decided to go with him, {Even the Federal Income Tax is To say I was pleasantly surprised progressive, that is, the higher the is to put it mildly. Instead of hos-| income, the greater the tax rate. tile glances and short answers, as | Thus the rich, instead of 2 per cent. those in uniform have somehow might pay 20 per cent on part of been led to expect, I met with nothing but heartiest welcome and | good fellowship. Indeed I was hon- ored with much more attention than has been my lot at other places, where one is made to feel at home only if his standing is such that he may be “useful” at some later time. I especially appreciated the unreserved manner in which things were conducted. It was immediately — apparent that here were people with whom I had a common inter- est. I was accepted as one of the group as soon as I entered the hall. Consequently I enjoyed myself very much and hope to attend other such parties soon. It has occurred to me that the Communist Party is overlooking a rather important aspect of the movement in this resvect, for there are certainly many men in the ser- vice who are as ignorant ©f the | their income. The Sales Tax is clearly not a progressive tax. It is not even a flat tax. It is a regressive tax. The poorer the person, the greater the tax rate. Why shouldn't Hearst and Ochs bellow for the Sales Tax? The smaller income one gets, the larger is that part of his wages which is needed to buy necessities. Hence the poorer the individual, the greater is that por- tion of his wages which is expesed to the tax. Besides a sales tax is regressive in another way. The tax rate in- creases as the size of the family increases, The more persons in the family that have to be clothed and shod, the heavier the tax. Thus the Sales Tax strikes at the larger families of the poor. And that makes Ochs and Hearst just liars. A. B.C. * soning, On Jobless Bill | _ By a Steel Worker Correspondent ; _ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — In my diffi- culty, I would sincerely vote “yes” for the Workers’ Unemployment ‘and Social Insurance Bill, and for the same reason I would like you to send me full information about the Communist Party. It is two years since I am reading the Daily Worker, and I like it better than any other paper. I would like to tell you that in this Jones and Laughlin town, there are plenty of people in favor of the Soviet Union. A great many people say that next year they are going to throw out all the thugs that are in office now, in this town, and they are go- ing to see to it that the workers have their rights here. That's what the Amalgamated Association is do- ing now. Then, we will have a_ better chance to build the International Workers Order, and next in line to build a Communist organization. This town was built and has been controlled by Jones and Laughlin for 50 years, And there is nobody worse against the labor movement. than them. I believe the A. A. has started to break this control down and we must complete the job. We only work two to four days a pay. We can noi get any relief nohow because we draw pay. The relief directors are so rotten they won't stand for any kind of rea- At about noon, it was my turn to /“*[HE county jail here is the of the meat was condemned. The |Who are sent to the insane asylum “extra” blood; that as far as her| the $60,000,” writes Paul Burke, of general health is concerned, it! Nebraska. “It is only a dollar and makes no difference whether or not late in the day, but better late than she loses this blood. never... I wish to commend the In your wife’s case, she does not , doctors on the good work they are menstruate because most of her doing in giving honest information womb has been removed. Tell her | about sex.” not to worry. It will not affect her} Emerich $ 50 health in any way. Cc. Gore 1.00 bane Paul Burke 1,00 Wait Seven Days A Loyd, Detroit . ee | ENE, Brooklyn.—You are right in Mosholu Prog. Club ‘ 10 thinking that conception might Veral ..... occur following the accident you| describe. However, there is nothing! Total .. IN THE HOME By ANN BARTON From a Sacramento Jail «<] HAVE discovered that the aver- age woman who has never been in jail, really thinks that any woman who goss to jail is ‘bad,’” writes Caroline Decker, a young girl leader of the Agricultural Workers Union, now in jail in Sacramento, Calif- ornia, charged with criminal syn- dicalism. dreary days, was (when we were not held incommunicado) the delivering of mail. I’m sure Caroline Decker feels this way. It is a means of contact with the outside. I hope the readers of this column will flood the postoffice with letters for Caro- line. Write her at Box 646, Sacra- mento, California, me a «¢] WRITE you this from the county jail in Sacramento. Among the eighteen comrades now being tried Nothing was received today to the credit of “In the Home.” for criminal syndicalism, three of nae eee ont ae us are women, Can You Make ’Em never been in jail thinks that any Yourself? Pattern 2092 is available in sizes 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 414 yards 36-inch fabric and %4 yard contrasting. Illus- trated step-by step sewing instruc- tions included. to jail. ep ees stopping off place for women at Napa. The jail officials have admitted that this last half year) ‘has seen an unprecedented number | of women sent to the insane asylum. | ‘The majority of these women seem | to be of middle age and passing! |through their dangerous period of | life. Most of them are working women themselves. Most of them | have children. Upon questioning, | the jail officials admit that it is the “hard times” and the constant — worry of taking care of their chil-| dren, plus the lack of proper medi- eal care that finally unbalances these women. Most of them are not so unbalanced that they do not realize what is being done to them, | and to hear them cry for their, children is heartbreaking. POR ae «QOME are in for petty theft. They are usually the kind who de- fiantly tell you——‘There’s plenty, why should I starve!” It is unfor- tunate that they are forced into the wrong path to fight for their right to live. Many are prostitutes. They all come from working class families. None of the.n like the police! Most of them know the graft and corrup- | tion that goes on in their local) towns. Why shouldn’t they? They are the victims of this corruption. sre We «(AND what kind of intelligent and highly scientific type of woman matron do you think is employed to “rehabilitate” these girls and women? Mrs. Garahan at the city jail is a woman whose language to- wards the inmates is viler than any gutter language, a woman whose abysmal ignorance makes her an ideal boot-licker for the police de- partment, and finally, a woman who brazenly declares—‘All you Com- munists are sypnilitics — and the scum of the earth!’ a “But we women comrades in this Send SIXTEEN CENTS (i6c) in trial promise the women readers of coins or stamps (coins preferred) your column that we shall use that for this Anne Adams pattern. Write capitalist court to expose to the plainly name, address and style world the diseased rottenness that number. BE SURE TO STATE characterizes capitalism.” SIZE. * « g ‘Address orders to Daily Worker When I was in jail, several years Pattern Department, 243 West 17th lago, the most pleasant event of Street, New York City. SR