The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 UTW CHIEF HELPS NEW BEDFORD MILLS TO INCREASE SPEED-UP WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Interstate Council |Nashua Shoe Binns Orders Workers On Discrimination Growing By a Worker Correspondent TAFTVILLE, Conn. The third regular meeting of the Interstate | nination and _ Stretchout 1 was held in Taftville, Conn., on Sunday, Dec. 9th. Over 40 dele-| gates, representing U. T. W. locals in Connecticut and Western Mass- achuse' ssembled here and de- feated attempts of Nicholas the Danz, President of the Connecticut State Federation of Labor, to split up the Council by sectional divisions, | although Mr. Danz threatened the locals participating in this revolt} against stretchout and blacklisting with the revocation of their charters. | The Council adopted the resolu- tion that a delegation consisting of he executive committee and regu- arly elected delegates from each U. T. W. local should be sent to Wash- ington early in Janu ion uvon the complaints of the extile workers. The object of the jelegation will be to interview mem- bers of the Winant Boards, Mr. Green, Mr. Gorman, Congressmen of the New England States, and to make a final plea to President Roosevelt to speed the report of the Winant Board, and to call for im- mediate legislation which will stop | the killing stretchout and discrimi- nation, and to demand adequate re- lief and housing for the victimized strikers. | Members of the press are invited to hear the final arrangements and | plans adopted on this action at the} aext meeting of the Interstate| Council to be held Dec. 23, in Thimpsonville, Conn. The last meeting was addressed |industry is at hand. in Strength by Louis Weinstock, representing the A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment and Social In- surance taking place on Jan. 5, 6 and 7, in Washington. Arrange- ments are under way for the U. T. W. Interstate Council delegates to greet this Congress while in Wash- ington. The Council is meeting with op- position, it is reported, from the in- ternational officials, and possibilities exist that the revolting textile work- ers will move to oust all opposition, since the U. T. W. members believe that they must have an interstate set-up to combat effectively the or- ganization of textile operators. The current sentiment among the members of the U. T. W. locals is that the late strike settlement, pro- |claimed a “victory,” has turned out disastrously for the textile workers, but that Mr. George Sloan’s boast that the strike was a “three weeks vacation without pay” may turn out to be not so profitable for him after all Mr. Gorman has stated in recent interviews that the possibility of an- other general strike in the textile The textile workers of New England believe that their local unions must be strength- ened to prepare for another gen- eral strike action if the evils against | which they have fought are not cor- rected very shortly. That is why the Interstate Council Against Dis- crimination and Stretchout was set up by rank and file members and leaders in the locals, and is becom- ing the rallying point for the set- tlement of their burning grievances. Wend What Vou Can to Put ‘Daily’ Over Top In the effort to raise the balance of over 3,400 still needed to bring | the Daily Worker to the $60,000 goal originally set, the New York district | last Monday sent in $124.79, Cleveland $96.69, and Pittsburgh, $74.20. the last district, the Daily Worker committee in Ambridge raised $19. | and the Russian Mutual Aid, Branch Receive Previou: Total to di DISTRICT 1 (Boston) Lettish Workers Club, Roxbury New Bedfor Lithuanian District Buro Total Dec 17 Total to date DISTRICT 2 (New York City) Sec 4 Unit SG Sec 6 Unit 12 No 4 $2.00 Ovryn 10.69 Sec 17 Unit 15 1.00 Sec 6 Unit 12 Sec 17 Unit Ovryn 14.29 1102 ¥CL 1.00 Lost a bet 1.00 Sec5 Un4 PB 50 A Milmin 5.25 Sec 5 Un 24 7.00 Council No 23 Sec 5 Un 24 PB 34 = UCWOW 6.00 Sec5Un24Cp 1.50 1 Borenstein 1.00 Sec 5 Un 30 10.00 Film & Photo Sec 5 Un 9 PB 25 League PB 5.19 Sec 5 Un 20PB 2.00 Ellen Parker 16.00 Sec 5 Un 20PB 1.50 Sailor Joe Sec 5 Un 12 6.60 —_Loorich 2.00 | Sec5 Un7PB .75 4 Rothenberg .50 See 5 Un i2 PB .78 Red Izzie 4.15 | Sec 5 Un 13 PB 10 P Yaeger 50 Sec 5 Un 2 PB .35 M Overbeck 0 Sec 5 Un 10 PB 5.00 Co-op Opticians 4.55 Sec 5 Un 24PB 2.88 H Chestnut 2.00 Sec 5 Un 24 8.00 A Beth Israel Sec 5 Unit 5 1.00 00 Sec 5 Un 3 PB 1.20 1.00 Sec 5 Un 21 PB 5.00 1.00 Schick Gussman Wsrs 5 Un 18 PB .75 5 Un 18 PB Sec 1.00 Hpope ‘Un 13 PB Sec 5 Un 20 PB 1.09 action 1.76 Section 15 426 Spartacus 2.00 Sec 17 PB 44.90 Polish. Chamb Sec 17 Cp 2.35 of Labor Club Sec 20 PB 1.15 No 83 Hemp- Sec 20 Cp 50 stead, NY Sec 16 Cp ‘25 (Correction) 10.00 Sec 11 Un 5 Cp 50 Sec 19 Unit 1 Sec 11 Un 7PB 3.60 ‘Finnish Wkrs Sec 11Un12P81.55 Club Total Dec 17 Total to date $29,661.81 DISTRICT 3 (Phila.) Berne & Thomas $5.00 | Total Dec 17 $5.00 | Total to date $4,649.23 DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) E Mignon A Mignon John Nazarian Fallia Cordoro Total Dec 17 $1.05 Total to date $660.79 DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) George Close $ Rochester Unit William Goske IWO Br 601 Wilkin TWP Unit Braddock Unit Varsalles Unit 4.00 | Russian Mutual Aid Br 8& 15.00 RNMAS Br 8 Cp 75 | RNMAS Br 6 3.75 | Woods Run Unit 60 | Glassport Finnish Workers Club 4.00 | Monneson Finnish Workers Club 1,00 James St Unit 1.00 Duquesne Unit 5.00 APLA C C Lith Buro 4 H Musser Cp Daily Worker Committee Ambricige M Stanovich Miners Wilkensburg Unit L Channas Total Dec 17 Total to date DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) Bridgeport $5.00 Bridgeport 5.00 Wom Coun 1 5.00 Unit 14-32 2.44 IWO Sec 14 1.00 = Unit. 18-11 2.50 Unit 14-31 2.30 §9 Slavs, Day- Unit 14-31 5.00 ton 5.00 ‘Unit 2-25 7.00 Erie No 1 So Slavs Cleve 1.00 Finn Fed Erie 5.88 Scandinavian Erie No 7 7.50 Buro 2.00 RNMAS Erie 5.00 ‘Unit 18-16 2.07 Russian Edve Unit 3-42 35 Club Erie 5.00 UC, Cincinnati 1.00 Polish Buro IwO No 172 150 Sec 16 2.00 Cincinnati 18 3.16 Section 16 4.25 Cincinnati 1 1.00 Unit 16-04 2.63 Red Arrow Section 1 50 Youth Club 2.00 G W Murphy 2.00 Columbus 20 W McCaske 80 So Slavs Can- - ton 1.60 Total Dec 17 $96.69 Canton 1.86 Tot to date $2810.73 | Total to date |G Osterberg In 8 contributed $15. DISTRICT 7 (Detroit) Sec 6 Un 1Cp$.50 Sec 8 Un 6 Cp 1.00 Sec 2. Un 2 Cp .60 Budenny Troop Sec 2.Un 10 10.23 YPA 1 Sec 2 Un 14 .45 Total Dec 17 $14.48 Sec 2 Un 4 .70 Tot to date $3046.69 DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) J Holmin | Anton Novik | Total Dec 17 | Total to date $ | DISTRICT 10 (Omaha) | Robert Burleigh | Paul Gardner | Unit 4 Unit 4 Total Dec 17 Total to date DISTRICT 11 (North Dekota) DISTRICT 22 (West Virginia) Harley Weaver Total Dec 17 DISTRICT 25 (Florida) Total Dec 17 $1.00 Total to date $140.20 PROCEEDS OF VICTORY BANQUET DISTRICT No. 3 (Continued from Dee. 14, 1934) Unit 503 $1.00 School 1 IWO 1.00 1.00 Individual 1.00 1.00 Unit 103 1.00 1.00 8-9 Sec 1 1.00 | 1.00 Unit 308 1.00 Unem Coun 1.00 Unit 108 1.00 | Unit 053 1.10 Section 1 1.00 | Unit 306 3.50 IWO Br 101 1.00 Unit 306 1.00 IWO Br 169 1.00 | Unit 306 1.00 Unit 306 2.00 | Br 535 1.00 Unit 501 1.50 | S-c No1Sec 61.00 S-c Sec 1 1,10 | S-c No 1 Sec 6 3.00 Unit 307 1,00 | Unit 104 1.00 Nature Friends 3.35 S-c No 1 Sec 6 1.00 Unit 306 1,00 U: 102 2.54 Unit 308 1.00 Unit 604 1.00 Unit 504 1, Unit 106 1.30 School 1 Iwo 1 Unit 501 1.00 Freiheit Ges- Wom League angs Ferein 1 No 5 1.00 School 3 IWO 1 S-7 Sec 1 1.00 Unit 503 1, Russian Youth Unit 303 1.00 Br No 1 1.00 Unit 308 1.00 Unit 503 1.00 Greek Wkrs Br 30 IwO 2.02 Club $5.00 |Br 76 IWO 1.00 Unit 601 1.35 Arbetisgemein- Unit 109 1.00 00 Malinke 2.00 Arbetisgemein- IWO Br 30 4.95 shaft 00 School 1 IWO 1.10 Freheit Ges- Unit, 602 1.90 angs Farein 1.00 Br 30 IWO 1.20 |W Phila W Cl 5.65 Fretheit Ges- | Millinery Gr 1.00 angs Farein 2.00 |S-1 Sec 1 1.00 Unit S-a Sec 1 1.00 | NTWiU 1.05 Unit 303 1,00 | Pretheit Ges- ILD 1.00 angs Farein 1.00 Unit 107 1.00 -b Sec 5 1.15 School 10 IWO 1.90 Sec 1 Sec 6 1.00 Amalgamated Freiheit: Ges- Rank & File 1.00 | angs Farein 1.00 Unit 102 1.05 Unem Coun 1.00 Unit 104 1.00 ILGWU Rank Millinery Wkr ‘1.00 and File 1.00 Unit 106 1.00 S-B Sec § 1.00 School 5 IWO 1.00 Unit 101 1.00 Nature Friends 1.20 Unit 101 1,00 Unit 201 1.00 You 1.00 Unit 102 1.00 Unit 101 1.00 ILGWU Rank Br 581 IWO 1.00 and File 2.00 Ital Org 410 Nature Friends. 1.00 School 1 IWO 1.00 Br 95 IWO 1.00 School 2 IWO 1.00 Russian Br 2.90 School 2 IWO 1.00 Nature Friends 2.25 Sec 6 1.00 Here Is My Dollar To Put Drive Over the Top. NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT — as Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. Y. 3 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1934 Loeal Endorses Workers’ Bill By a Worker Correspondent NASHUA, N. H—At a well-at- tended meeting held Friday, Dec. 7, the Nashua Local of the United |Shoe and Leather Workers Union| |(500 membership), who are now on| |strike against the Fletcher and| LaSalle Shoe shops, endorsed the National Congress for Unemploy- | jment and Social Insurance and the} Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, | They also voted to order 100 | Stamped sheets to help defray ex- |Penses for the Congress. A commit- tee was elected to arrange for a special meeting on the question of |a@ delegation to the Congress. The} |sentiment of the rank and file is overwhelmingly im favor of sending delegates to the Washington Con- gress. | | Dan McBain of the Concord Granite Cutters Union and the} State Sponsoring Committee for the |settlement, Binns told us that it was| Congress, spoke at the invitation of | the rank and file of the shoe local and outlined the call for the Con- gress and the need for the enact- |ment of the Workers Bill, Mass Action forHarzigian’s Release Urged By a Textile Worker Correspondent | LOWELL, Mass—Simon Harzig- ian, militant worker who was ar- rested in Lowell during the General | Textile Strike, was found guilty on three charges of assault and bat- tery on “loyal” workers and not guilty on a charge of disturbing the peace, The case was postponed un- til January for sentence. | The judge, in instructing the jury, ordered them to bring in a verdict) of guilty on the charge of disturb- ing the peace at a public assembly. The judge claimed that Harzigian had shouted, “Down with Gorman!” “Down with organization!” when no| | such evidence was brought out by| the witnesses. However, the jury| brought back a verdict of not guilty | on this charge. | Now is the time for all militant | Workers and organizations to send protests to Judge James, Cambridge Superior Court, Cambridge, Mass., demanding the immediate release of Simon Harzigian. Especially should the rank and file of the United Textile Workers Union protest the action of Mal- lory, local organizer of the U.T.W., i who testified against Harzigian. P King $1.00 éapeltnmpbonia. | J Morisette 50 | Total Dec 17 $1.50 S 4 R li | Total to date $131.30 | DISTRICT 13 (California) crip ette i John Hamilton $3.36 Herbert Holtz 50 S = dl B. d G. E. Hamilton 1.00 | im» Jwindte bared) | Total Dec 17 $4.86 Total to date $1,051.89 | DISTRICT 18 (Milwaukee) By a Shoe Worker Correspondent bee gate ue $0| HAVERHILL, Mass.—Below is a | Sec 1 U-103 2:09 | Price list of foods showing the dif- aaa ~——— |ference between the prices we have | Total Dec 17 $6.25|to pay for food i i Total to date $709.94 | relief ‘scrip. et eeu DISTRICT 20 (Houston) i ; + Lean ti penile s1.00| Butter—29e a Ib. in cash, 33¢ in ln Pyne ——_—| scrip: Ham—l5c a Ib. in cash, 22 ‘otal Dec 17 $1.00} ii 3 iik— it abt iat eee | ae serip; 4 cans of milk—23c in cash, 18¢ for 3 cans in scrip; Peas — 9c a Ib. im cash, 13¢ in serip. At Home Circle stores, it is even worse. There you have the follow- ing price list with relief scrip: Butter—38ce; 3 cans of milk—24c; Hi HH} |||, COUNTER | | MN) i nl unt | AHIR 5 Ibs. of sugar—30c; 2 lbs. of lard— 22c; etc. We pay from 10 per cent to 20 per cent more for food here through scrip, and most of the time we cannot be very fussy about the quality we get. I am glad our unemployed council is putting up a good fight for cash relief. Did you ever see such a crazy System as we have here? We are forced to work to get these “checks.” | Some fellows work 312 days to get $7.50, others work two days for ee and still others two days for I know a fellow worker who was hurt on an E. R. A. job, two weeks ago. They did not provide him with a doctor or give him relief. When he was able to get up, he went to City Hall to see whether he could get his pay, but they told him, | “You will have to go to work first.” This fellow’s leg is still in a serious condition. The quicker we can get the Work- ers Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill H. R. 7598 passed, the quicker we will put an end to all these _phonev relief systems. STAFF SCORE IN DAILY WORKER DRIVE Quota $500 $1.000 $500 Gannes $500 Gold $1,000 Medical Board $1,500 Ramsey $250 Worker Corr. $500 Total $ 345.59 776.76 573.76 || 497.41 1,060.54 970.15 304.40 236.93 Barton Burck Del Total 84,765.54 |this resulted in a loss for the com~- junion eaders as Batty and Binns, Not to Fight Bosses Scolds Textile Workers for Winning Gains Through Strike By A Textile Worker Correspondent NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Two weeks ago about 100 of us weavers of the Nashawena Mill, one of the largest in this city, went out on strike against an increase of two looms per man and a 25 per cent wage cut. We all stayed out on both shifts and went down to see Binns of the UTW. After four days, through our solidarity and unity, the boss was forced to take off the speed-up and proportionally increase our wages per 100,000 picks. At a mecting of these weavers that we had where we voted on the | not the best thing we could do when | we walked out on strike first and then went to see him. He said that pany, and that in the future we should first see him before going out. Some of us thought this pretty raw. If we had followed his advice, we would not have gained anything. He would have gone and warned the boss. The boss would have laid off a few of us active ones and by the time that Binns and the boss had got through negotiating, this special order, which is good for only two more weeks, would have run off and we would have been S. O. L. In any future trouble in the mills, we Nashawena workers advise all to follow our example. Organize your own strike, stick together, and you will win. It is time that we got rid of such who always shed tears for the prof- its of the mill owners and never think of us workers who pay them their fat salaries. A WEAVER FROM THE NASHAWENA MILL. NOTE: We publish every Wednesday letters frdm textile, needle, shoe and leather workers, We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and their efforts to organize. Please get these letters to us by Satur- By Resisting Pay Cuts Says Additional Looms) Are Necessary to Keep up Profits | By A Textile Worker Correspondent NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—About two months ago the silk and rayon weaving department of the Hath-/ away Mill was closed down, throw- ing close to 600 weavers out of work. The excuse given us was that this mill could not compete with other rayon mills, and therefore had to stop production. But, this was only a stall. We found out the real reason two weeks ago when news was spread around that the rayon and silk department of this mill was to start up again. ‘The overseers went around and told us to come back to work. We weavers were very glad to get this news. But when we came to the mill we were told that if we wanted to; work we had to run eight plain looms, with a 29 per cent cut per 100,000 picks, whereas before we had six only. “While most of the men were dis- satisfied, we took the eight looms and went to the union to see Binns, who is secretary of the local weavers’ union. He told one worker a story that since the company has a lot of money invested in this new order we had better take eight looms and get work or else they will have to lay us off. The men were not satis- fied with this, and insisted that he do something to carry out the so- called agreement that was entered into by the Winant Board, that) there shall be no additional speed- up till February, The following day Binns did show up at the mill. He looked around | ers think he went to the boss to complain about? That the light was poor, and so the boss installed a number of additional lights. But we still have eight looms to run. Every weaver should join the union, go to the union meetings and kick Binns and other fakers out of the organization. I'm well convinced now why the radicals here call the UTW officials agents of the mill} owners within the ranks of the day of each week. workers. Out with them! By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I have a message that should reach every worker in New York City, employed and un- employed. This is based on my two years’ experience as a worker in the Home Relief Bureau, investi- gating and reading cases, Many of us, if we lost our jobs as clerks and investigators, would also have to ask for relief. We therefore feel like one of you, our “clients.” but we are on the inside. We understand your difficulties, and we try our best to help you as much as possible. We also know how much you can help us get more and better relief for you. When you as individuals complain to us at your homes, or when you come to the reception clerk, and ask for a greater food allowance, for rent, coal, clothing, special diet allowance, etc., we bring your com- plaint to our aide, who brings it to some other supervisor and so on up the line. Seldom do we get any immediate action, if any at all. . We on the inside then fight for your requests and try to satisfy them for you. It takes hours and sometimes days before we get ac- tion. We are also told very fre- quently that we cannot give what you request. But when an organization makes a complaint—oh! then the fur flies. Letters from Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we ean print only those that are of general 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. WORK FOR THE N. S. L. New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: I am enclosing my money order for one dollar, and hope that this together with many others, will help fulfill the quota for the “Daily,” so that it can continue its good work in its task of educating the masses so that they can make this world a better world to live in. I am attending the Mechanics In- stitute (44th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues), which is a school for for craftsmen. I believe you will be performing a great ser- vice if you could, in.some way, or- ganize a Students’ Council body here to educate these young men in the class struggle. I feel you have very fertile ground here and wish you success in your aim. K. D. THE CAUSE OF THE WORKING CLASS Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Comrade Editor: I received a letter in appeal for the defense of the Scottsboro case from the International Labor De- fense. I enclose $1, the best I can do at present. I am unemployed. My Organized Unemployed Get Action, Says Relief Clerk When the Unemployed Council files their complaints, backed up by a mass demonstration, our bosses see red! The stern faces of the dele- gates, demanding immediate action, force the administrators to act im- mediately. We investigators receive these complaints, typed on little slips of white paper, glued to large orange sheets of paper, and are ordered to act at once! The mass protest of the Unem- ployed Council burns through the red tape and warms our hearts, The unemployed, through mass ac- tion, have won another victory! The administration fears these mass ac- tions of the Unemployed Council, but we welcome them. Workers, employed and unem- ployed. join the Unemployed Coun- cil. Fight in concert for increased and better refief. We know the} Unemployed Council gets results— wins victories. That is why Hopkins, LaGuardia, Corsi and the bankers of New York hate the Unemployed Council, fear it and try to smash it with brutal police force. Your insurance for continued relief is to build and strengthen the Unemployed Council in your neighborhood. Join the Unemployed Council! Fight for the passage of the Work- ers Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill, H. R. 7598. A SOCIAL WORKER. Our Readers husband works a couple of days a week in a hotel. We are hardly ex- isting on what he is getting, but still I have always helped a good cause if I do suffer myself in doing sO. the I. L. D. to help me. I have been persecuted just for buying the Daily Worker from the carrier who leaves it at_ my home every day. A month ago I nearly got licked for taking the Daily Worker. It is my favorite newspaper. I have been reading it for three years. c.N. A PAMPHLET IS NEEDED New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: My work brings me in contact with many native American skilled on Work Relief construction pro- jects. I find that lately they have been falling very hard for Father Coughlin. Besides exposing him in the Daily Worker, a cheap pamph- let, for one or two cents, should be gotten out which we can hand to these misled workers when we meet. them. They are especially impressed by | his “financial genius.” his solution of the depression by manipulating gold, silver, inflation, etc. Of course they don’t understand the financial solution mixed with his demagozy, but they are swept off their feet | by his “erudition.” e . B, UT W Loailees) Some day I may have to call on} Shown As Real Disrupters By a Textile Worker Correspondent NASHUA, N. H.—The United Textile Workers local union has been organized in Nashua since the} General Textile Strike in Sep-| tember. The A. F. of L. leadership, during the strike, carried on a campaign against militant workers, injecting the “red scare” poison into the} ranks of the strikers under the; slogan, “Stay away from reds!) Stay away from Communists!” Stella Maskwa, who was sent here as an organizer, proved to be a well-trained faker and notorious red-baiter. At the .strike mass meetings, she lied about the Com- munists, misrepresenting them as disrupters in the labor movement. Stella Maskwa and Horace Bru- lette, a pupil of the well-known! strikebreaker, Horace Riviere, bit-| terly opposed the election of a/ broad rank and file strike commit- | tee, and continued to carry out the! sell-out policy of Gorman and Riy- iere, dictating to the appointed strike committee. With the red-baiting propaganda, they confused the strikers and suc- ceeded for a time in whipping up a hatred against the militant group, thus splitting the unity of the workers and blocking the mass ac- tion of all textile strikers. They sold out to the Nashua Manufac- turing Co. the heroic struggle of the Nashua textile workers. Who Are the Disrupters? Horace Brulette and Stella Mas- kwa, carrying out the orders of Riviere and “General” Gorman, ordered the strikers back to work, shouting the slogans, “Vicory is ours?” “We won the strike—our President, Mr. Roosevelt, will fix everything for us,” “There will be no discrimination!” etc., etc. As soon as the workers went back to work, the most militant strikers were discharged by Mr. Whipple. with the A. F. of L. leadership, is fixing a 10 per cent wage cut which will affect about 1,000 mills in the country. Almost three months have passed since the strike, and the conditions are worse than before the strike. | The local officials continue their splitting policy, dividing the ranks of the local and threatening the militant workers with expulsion and deportation. The most conscientious tool of Stella Maskwa and the mill owners, one who energetically carries out the disruptive work, is another red- baiter and fascist, Constance Ger- asis, also known as “Charlie.” At an open mass meeting of the strik- ers, he put out two comrades, shout- ing: “They are reds, Communists, throw them out!” A few weeks ago, this same Char- lie, in a discussion at the union headquarters, brazenly boasted, “If I want to, I can break this union in 48 hours.” At the U.T.W. local meeting that was held on Dec. 8th, where the election for the Local Executive Board took place, Charlie made the following statement publicly: “We don’t want no Communist agitators. All the foreigners who are trying to carry their dirty work into this union, we will round up and drive them out of the country.” When one of our comrades de- nounced Charlie as a tool of the bosses he came to fight it out. Being accused of breaking the union, he brazenly denied his disruptive work in the union, and when cornered ran out shouting: “I will bring the police and run you out of town right away!” “Charlie” Gerasis had been ex- pelled from the Communist Party a few years ago by the Nashua unit. for being an opportunist and a phoney. He degenerated very quick- ly, getting into the camn of the enemies of the working class, giv- ing his staunch support to fascism and serving the mill owners. The members of the Nashua local of the U.T.W. should organize a broad shop committee and shop council of rank and file workers in spite of the bosses and their lack- eys, and put all their energy into a fight for their discriminated and discharged fellow workers, and also the demands for which we were fighting in the last strike. Gosnold Card Room Pay Cut in Many Ways By a Textile Worker Correspondent NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—Before the last general textile strike we workers got paid 30 cents for a hank. Now we get only 24 cents. On top of this, we have to work with Arizona cotton, which runs very bad and breaks often. This is ee card room No. 1 of the Gosnold Mill. Before, when we were short of bobbins or roving we got paid half time for the period lost in waiting. Today we get nothing for such lost time. It’s time that we workers got together and put a stop to these abuses, GOSNOLD MILL CARD ROOM WORKER. GOOD WORK, WORCORRS! The Worker Correspondence Department for the second time received the highest contributions today—$17.76. Considering the fact that the worker correspond- ents entered the Socialist com- petition fully two months after the others, the total of nearly $240 raised speaks well for this department. Ellen’ Parker <......... $16.00 Turkish Workers Frac. 1.76 Previously received 219.17 Total +» $236.93 (The Doctors on the Medical A SKIN DEEP, by M. C. Phillips (of Consumers Research) 272 pp. New York—The Vanguard Press, $2.00. LMOST all women use some cos- metics, but few know just exact- ly what they are using. In this book the author has presented an interesting account of some of the investigations of well-known cos- metics conducted by the Consum- ers Research. It is not the author's intention to debunk all cosmetics. She has, instead, plausibly shown that most powders, creams, soaps, lipsticks, over-priced and that some of these can be compounded much more cheaply by honest pharmacists. Some “beauty aids” are definitely dangerous to the health and life of those who believe and follow every- thing they read in the advertise- ments. Serious illness and death have resulted from the use of Ko- remlu (a depilatory), Lash-Lure (an eyelash and eyebrow dye) and dini- trophenol (a weight reducer). The author has given the names of all the advertised products which were examined. So avaricious are the manufac- turers for profits and so powerful are their lobbies that at the present time there is no governmental agency which can prevent the sale of poisons in the form of cosmetics to a helpless and gullible public, The Federal Food and Drug Act of 1906 does not include cosmetics ex- cept where they are labeled with claims for prevention, mitigation or cure of disease. The Federal Trade Commission has no power to stop the sale of a product but it may succeed in getting the advertising claims modified if they are too fan- tastic. It is because of this lack of control that hair dye manufac- turers can claim that their products are harmless. That this have seen many cases of serious burns of the scalp and face from these dyes. By ANN “New York City. “TEAR COMRADE: “Wednesday, Dec. 5, in “In The Home,” there appeared an article entitled “Take Out Your Lipstick.” In it, you speak of certain types of girls and women who, after joining the Party, cease to pay attention to their dress, cease to use powder, lipstick, and neglect their friends who as yet have not been swept into activity. As a reader of the Daily Worker, may I venture a comment? ieee sek “IT SEEM to me that such behav- ior on the part of some women in the movement is due to the fact that these women are still con- sciously or unconsciously clinging to the old idea that a shiny nose indi- cates a mind occupied with “bigger things,” that a face free of cos- metics speaks for “seriousness,” and, since revolution is a serious busi- ness, away with powder. Not so many years ago, makeup was a thing of shallowness. This is a hangover from the old days. I, for one, don’t see why our women can’t be revolutionaries, even though their lips are as scarlet as their convic- tions. And also why is it that we sympathizers with the movement lose our attraction for our friends when they join the Party? What is that ‘something’ in our friends’ eyes that makes us want to apologize for being alive? Unfortunately most of us humans have touchy little egos, and a scornful attitude may not prove a very effective method of attracting new members into the Party. “MRS. L. Z.” 4 ee ERE is another article in the series on setting up housekeep- ing, by HELEN LUKE. This time it takes up the necessary utensils for the new housekeeper, and gives a general rule, as follows: aes “(\N THE best material for con- struction of cooking pans, there is some disagreement. Various ma- terials have their points and draw- backs. For example, copper lined with chromium is beautiful .and chemically ideal—but, oh the price! Graniteware, also chemically safe, may chip and lose dangerous par- ticles of granite into the food, also exposing the metal base. Glass bak- ing wear, chemically safe, is ex- pensive and breakable. Aluminum, while it doesn’t chip or break easily and will stand intense heat, tends to turn some foods dark and is held in suspicion chemically by some people. Iron is good, but heavy and subject to rust. “Perhaps, then, the best solution is a mixed selection. SUGGEST the following assortment as a cheap, satis- factory minimum fer a small fam- ily of two to four members: “A double-boiler of granite, which may be had in the dime stores (for cereals, mustards; both parts may be used separately for boiling vegetables, meats, etc.); another samall granite pan with a long handle, for similar use; a very large granite or aluminum pot for spinach, soups, ete. Try to have granite or aluminum lids for all these pans. Tin lids rust very quickly. other items fairly satis- factory in the dime-store grade are: a very small aluminum skillet for cooking one or two eggs, melt- « ny} i Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board rouges, nail polishes, etc., are much | is false; the looms, and what do you work- Now, Mr, Roosevelt, in cooperation |is known by all dermatologists, who IN THE HOME dvisory Board do not Advertise) All women should be protected from the dangerous cosmetics sold on the market, This seems so ob= vious and yet our “disinterested” and impartial government appears to be powerless to control the glar- ing and vicious abuses which , abound in the cosmetics industry. The reason for this is not made , Clear enough by the author. She might have pointed out that the government and big business are so intertwined that they are practi« ‘cally one. | The real sufferers of the over- | Pricing of the harmless cosmetics are the women of the working class. They sit in shops all day and can- not afford “plenty of good food, sunshine and exercise” which are undoubtedly the best aids to beauty, For a semblance of health and “good looks” they must resort. to rouges, powders, lipsticks, etc. So skillfully are the advertisements written that these poor workers are made to feel that only by buying the cream used by Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and Queen Marie can they too Have lovely skins. They do not know that they can get the same cream for 60 cents a pound at’ any department store by simply asking for cold creams, The author of “Skin Deep” has rendered a distinct service in expos- ing the frauds in the cosmetic busi- ness. It is a pity that the book is not priced cheaply enough to reach all the working class women. | Contributions received to the credit of the Medical Advisory Board to raise the balance needed to put the drive over the top. Council 23. ..... seeeeeees $6.00 J. Holmin .. tek » 100 A Beth Israel Nurse - 1.00 | Red Iazie .... pees | | Previously received ........ 957.40 | bse $970.15 BARTON More About Lipstick ing oil, ete.; a low granite pan without any handle, for baking; a gelatine mold or molds, and small pyrex or glazed earthen- ware custard cups.” (We will finish the article on household utensils tomorrow.) Contributions received to the credit of “In the Home:” Women’s Council No. 1, Cleveland $5.00 Lost a Bet > L. Sherwin Previously received Total .... » $345.59 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2093 is available in sizes 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12. Size 6 takes 1% yards 36-inch fabric and 1 yard con- trasting. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions included. = Send SIXTEEN CENTS (16c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern, Write plainiy name, address and style number, BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address order to Daily Worker, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. 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