The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1934 Seamen Express Resentment Against ISU, Unorganized In Condemning Treachery of I Post Office Bosses Try i Stalling Off Action by Subs| Luckenbach Crew Flays Drop From $75 | To $57.50 By a Marine Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — I just ed reading an article in the} of Commerce about the I. . Officials completing their ne-} with the shipowners for ie crew here aboard the Luckenbach is disap- | o learn of the drop from 0. weeks ago, when I joined S. U., I was told that in the ire I would be getting $75 for thi: ason I took an A. B.’s Lillian. The com- k name among is the first one I have worked hat w I know the truth. le is back aft near the ne room and the noise ion is terrible. There are ight of us in one small room, six A. B.’s and two ordinary seamen. We A. B.'s get $35 a month and the ordinaries get $25. We work two watches, 12 hours a day which with overtime amounts to ninety hours a week. The sky-light leaks badly so we have to lash a piece of canvass over it. The door cannot | be closed tightly and is always | rattling. The one small radiator is | not sufficient to keep us warm. It was very cold in Boston and we/ lay awake and shivered all night! | Bed-bugs are plentiful. When I} went ashore one of my shipmates | ed two bed-bugs off my coat collar. The bath room is small and filthy -—only one man at a time can wash clothes. | The seamen keep getting on and | off in every port. Nobody wants | to stay for a complete trip, which | js fifty-eight days. We get no con-| sideration at all from this com- pany. We don‘t even get sheets for | our beds, nor are there any showers | for bathing. We are forced to} SU Heads Standard Tanker Crew! Wins Overtime Pay Through Unity PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Last Sat- By a Postal Worker Correspondent | regulars, is being cut down to the| urday, Dec. 15, when the Standard NEW YORK.—Conditions in the Post Office are going from bad to worse. | barest minimum. Many bosses want | | to make a record of saving money, | so they take it out on the men. | The same condition exists among | Oil Tanker “Tiger” arrived in Paulsboro we were immediately told of the sell-out of the I. S. U. Officials. Most of us were not sur- Speed-up is becoming a national | the clerks, who are also victims of | prised to know that the officials institution in the Post Office and in New York it is worse than any- where else. In the past few weeks | two postal workers, one a sub-car- rier and the other a Negro clerk, committed suicide due indirectly to these intolerable working conditions. The carriers especially are driven at amad pace and many that I know personally are suffering from nerv- ous strain and physical ailments. When they get through with the day’s work which begins at 6 a. m., they are virtually falling off their feet. Instead of filling the thousands of vacancies, the bosses are absorbing and spreading the work among the carriers and clerks, making two men (partners) do the work of three and four, and maintain schedule. Aux- iliary time, which is allowed the the speed-up. The prison guards; | (foremen) are continually at the | | heels of the men, hounding them, | | watching every move and making | | their life miserable. | | The subs, who have been the| | biggest victims in the Post Office | are continually being strung along | by the bigshots who tell them to be | patient, not to kick because appoint- | |ments to regular jobs are coming. | In New York, the huge sum of five | regular appointments was promised Dec. 15th. | The subs are a militant bunch and that’s why the department head | tries to pacify them by stringing | | them along. The Christmas season | is now at hand and the subs will be | worked virtually to death, 20 hours | |a day. The big shots will say, “See, the subs are getting plenty of work.” Not a word of protest is being | heard from the various big shot unton officials against these condi- tions. All their time is spent arrang- ing rackets, smokers, conventions and last but not least collecting | dues. The local officials, especially the President of the Carriers’ Local, | Douglas, aspire to become national officials and get a large slice of the ie. ‘4 The men are getting wise to them |and are beginning to attend their meetings, taking an interest in union affairs, and finally trying to | better their own conditions. The N. R. A. is a mockery to most. | of the men because they see their own conditions worsened. The Post Office has justly been characterized as “The Big House,” and only under a Soviet America can we finally un- bathe out of a greasy bucket and| bosses to supply subs to help the | loosen the steel bars. the food is poor. The Luckenbach Company is working us under the| severest system of exploitation. Ij believe that old Edgar Luckenbach | would actually coin our life’s blood into gold if he could! | Some of the crew think that} $57.50 will be a great increase over | $35. But the question is $75—this | is what we want and this is what | the I. S. U. officials promised. There | are only three-members of the M. W. I. U. aboard, and now I know | everything they have been telling demand from arbitration. We must | join the Marine Workers Industrial | Union and prepare to strike! The| black gang is also going to join up. | The I. S. U. officials have now | clearly proven to us that they are | no different today than they were | fourteen years ago! Now, I realize | y of proper organization | especially the importance of | Editor’s note: We wish to point out to this worker as well as to other members of the I. S. U. that it is not necessary for them to leave the I. S. U. in order to fight for better conditions, They have | a big job to perform right in the I. S. U.—that of kicking fakers like Axtell, Olander, Sharrenburg and the rest of them the hell | out. The rank and file in the I. S. U. must fight to take over control of the union and use it | as a weapon in their interests. Interboro News Clerk Urges Organization | By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK —I read the letter written by a “worker correspondent” last week exposing the racket and the rotten conditions which the sales clerks for the Interboro News Company on the Eighth Ave. Sub- way, have to endure. I wish to) verify every fact exposed by the | writer as I have worked for the In- | terboro under the same conditions. | I have learned that not long ago| an attempt was made by the A. F. | of 1. to organize the clerks.) ‘Whether they are still doing it I do} not know. Meyers, the bigshot boss, came upon the scene when one of the} organizers was speaking to a clerk. He asked the organizer to come up- stairs and talk it over. The result | was that a few minutes later the organizer came down and continued his work. No doubt, Meyers will choose other methods to coerce his employes. I wonder whether it would be possible to get in touch with this “worker correspondent.” During my period of employment with the In- terboro News Company, I found that the possibility exists for organ- ization, and would like to cooperate in any such movement. Editor’s note: We advise this worker to communicate with the Trade Union Unity Council at 799 Broadway. Other workers in the Interboro News System should also get in touch with the T. U. Uc. .R. Man Replies to Lamont | On Workers’ Health Problem By a R. R. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—This is in reply to a letter I received from the New York Tuberculosis and Health As- . | sociation, 386 Fourth Ave. of which us is right. We cannot get our $75| the treasurer is none other than! Thamas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan and Co. This firm of bankers is di- rectly responsible for conditions that exist in the Harmon Shops of the New York Central Railroad, where I am employed, as well as in many shops throughout the country. In the Harmon shops, we have to work in water and acid up to our ankles, with a Simon Legree on our Marine Workers Industrial] necks all the time. If you slip and | on . are hurt, you are told that you broke some rule and layed, off for a while. One of the men ruptured himself, |and also lost one of his fingers in the shop, He was taken out of serv- | ice about two weeks ago, just thrown |on the scrap heap like a piece of junk, In the past six months at least | eight men fell sick due to the rotten | conditions existing here. The tally is three dead, three still sick, the | fellow with the rupture and another | who js still on the job for a little | while. All of these men had or have heart trouble, or some other industrial disease. I mention these facts because in the letter from the Tuberculosis As- sociation, there were enclosed two sheets of Christmas seals which are supposed to be sold among us work- ers. It says the money is to be used to keep us workers in good health, but it says nothing about correcting or bettering conditions of the workers. Mr. Lamont, we are not depend- ing upon you or any one like you. Whatever we have won we have} won through struggle. That is what we have to do again. We must dig | ourselves out of the hole our yellow | union leaders have put us in. Brothers, we must go to our | unions and have them endorse the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, and have them send delegates to the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance to be held in Washington, D. C. on Jan. 5, 6 and 7. This is the only insurance bill before Congress that will give us security. This is our way of digging our- selves out of the slums, the only way. Longshoremen Hit Unsanitary Pier Condition By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The following is a | copy of a letter sent by a group of longshoremen off the United Fruit Piers to the Commissioner of Health of New York City: “We want to call your attention to the rotten lavatory conditions on Pier 7 N. R., United Fruit Docks.” “The lavatory on Pier 7 is on a big wooden bench, the opening of which leads straight to the river. The bench is very unsanitary. Also, the toilet has never known a dose of disinfectant which it sorely needs. Flush toilets is what the dock needs in the Winter to protect our health from the cold, damp air from the toilet opening.” “When ‘taken short’ a fellow has to scout around the dock in search of paper, which when found is prob- ably dirty and germ-laden. This endangers a person’s health.” “Now we ask, Mr. Commissioner, that you immediately have this situation on Pier 7 investigated and see that good toilets are put in and they are kept clean.” E “Lots of men on the United Fruit docks are watching what will be done about this.” Here Is My Dollar To Put Drive Over the Top NAME ADDRESS Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. Y¥. ‘Mass Rally ‘Demands Vote ‘On Agreement By a Marine Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—At a large | mass meeting of seamen where most of the men on the beach here were present the $57.50 agreement arrived | at between the officials of the I. S. | U. and the American Steamship | Owners Association was discussed. | The seamen displayed their re- sentment to the sell-out of the I. S. U. officials by voting 100 per cent for immediate preparation for strike | action to force the shipowners to grant our original demands which were presented to them on Oct. 1, | 1934. | The following resolution was unanimously adopted and sent to Victor Olander, Secretary-Treasurer of the I, S U., and Lloyd Garrison of the N. R, A.: We seamen, gathered in a mass meeting in the City of Philadelphia on the evening of Dec. 17, to dis- cuss the proposed settlement of the Arbitration Board and the officials of the International Seamen’s Union, demand that this settlement be put to a referendum vote of all rank and file seamen, organized and unorganized, so that they can de- cide for themselves on whether or not this proposed settlement is what they want. We also demand the right to join a union of our own choosing. NOTE: We publish every Friday letters | from workers in the transporta- tion and communication indus. tries; marine, railroad, transit, trucking, telephone, telegraph, | Post office, ete. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and efforts to or- | ganize. Please get these letters to | us by Wednesdax of each week. settled for $57.50. The question of the negotiations were discussed aboard the “Tiger” from time to time and the crew showed its indifference to the I. S. €; aa on U. officials by denouncing them as labor racketeers. The majority of us have been go- ing to sea for a number of years, and we haven't any confidence in any I. S. U. official. They have always been against us seamen. They are all wealthy men and we workers know that all wealth is created from our labor. These parasites are intimate friends with W. C. Teagle, Standard Oil Mag- nate, and will always favor their friends first. The seamen realize that through inflation and devaluation of the dollar that $75 a month is very reasonable. Today our dollar is only worth fifty-nine or sixty cents, and for this reason our wages must be increased to equalize its pur- chasing power! The “Tiger” has a good union crew aboard her. Saturday, when we finished our day's work, the skipper wanted us to turn to and bring stores aboard. It was neces- sary for these commissary stores to be brought aboard immediately be- cause we were short of supplies. We had to make eighteen days supplies last twenty-five days, so you can see we ran short. But when the skipper told us to work overtime on the stores, we told him that we wanted an extra day’s pay. He wanted to know who our leader was and we told him we were all lead- ers — we lead ourselves under the rank and file! Still thinking about the sell-out deal between the I. S. U, officials and the shipowners, I got sore and said, “We don’t need any phony leaders like Olander or Axtell. We are the ones who sail the ships and we know what we want and if you start firing any- body you better fire the whole crew. We will not touch the stores and work overtime unless we get an extra day’s pay for it.” We were given the extra day’s pay, but only through the knowl- edge of our Unity! We know the value of organized power, and when all seamen use their organized power, we will be treated like human beings instead of slaves! Former Bell Employe Asks For Advice By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—After being out of work for three years and planning what to do, I have decided to ask you for information and advice. I, and thousands of others, worked for the Bell Telephone System. I also worked for the Western Elec- tric Co. When times got bad they laid us off. As we are all experts on telephone construction and maintenance work, and have put in the best years of our lives to learn the trade, we do not know any other line of work and our old com. pany doesn’t want us any more. The other day I met two foremen who were getting good money, but now they are without work in spite of their twenty years experience and comparatively young age (37 and 40). In the same boat there are sev- eral thousands who know that they will never get back their jobs and they feel pretty bad about it. Don't you think we could fight and do something with your as- sistance and help to organize all the ex-employes of Telephone and Telegraph Systems so that we would not be treated like dirty rags for no reason at all. As I am writing this alone to you I don’t know anything about the right or wrong ways of proceeding in organizing and also lack the abil- ity to do so. That’s why I am writing it to you. Besides, I am sure they are at least.a couple of thousand men, ex-telephone and Western Electric employes waiting to join the ranks of fighters for their livelihood. ir an Editor’s note: We advise this worker and hundreds of others in similar circumsances to contact the Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York, at 799 Broadway. * It has also been called to our attention that an organization does exist for unemployed as well as employed chemists, technicians, ete., known as the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians. Former Bell employes that fall in this category should contact this organization. | | ell-Out Agreement and MWIU Seamen J oin IRT Co. Union Locals Repudiate Agreement By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The transit trust of Greater New York is filled with the spirit of Santa Claus, Under a smoke screen of ballyhoo, the I. R. T. has just presented its work- ers with a Xmas gift in the form of | By a Marine Worker Correspondent | a rubber check. Knowing full well that the men are not in the mood to be defied, and that the best of them are or- ganized in the Transport Workers Union (Independent) and are ready to struggle for better conditions, the I, R. T. hastens to conclude a new contract with its company union labor fakers, and then proceeds to hand this gold brick to the workers of the I. R. T. as a “raise.” What kind of a raise is it that results in a reduced pay check? Maybe my mathematics are all wet, but according to my figures, all I need is one more raise like that, and I'll be fully qualified to break into the poor house. As a matter of fact, this raise will not cost the I. R. T. a dime. In some depart- ments the company actually saves money by this generous raise. It does not in any way meet the de- mands of the men, and has been vigorously denounced and repu- diated by the rank and file of the biggest locals of the company union. During the past two years, the company has picked our pockets to the tune of seven million dollars. The fake raise does not return a penny of the loot. Many relics of the old contract cling to the new one. Men will still put in 12-hour tricks; others will still put in a 7- day week. The fake pension graft is continued. The hated beaky sys- tem is still in operation to spy upon and frame anyone that has the courage to expose the company and its labor racketeers in the company union. > This entire contract was arrived at without allowing the workers to have a word to say about it, in di- rect defiance of their demand that no new Working agreement be con- cluded without first submitting it to the men for discussion and ap- proval. Let the I. R. T. record the fact that in all the principal locals of its company union the whole swindle agreement was rejected by the rank and file workers, and un- animous votes of non-confidence were recorded against the delegates of the company union. The men of the I. R. T. are con- scious of the fact that even these pitiful crumbs, would not have been forced from the company, were it not for the fact that their organ- ized strength in the Transport Workers Union made it impossible for the I. R. T. to continue its old agreement, The company may think that the struggle for wages and conditions is over, but on the contrary it has just begun. Our union has a set of demands, These demands are sane and reasonable by any measure- ment. The workers of the I. R. T. will continue the fight to realize these demands, and will not be sidetracked by any form of fake raise that the company can invent. We already have the “best of the workers,” from now on our slogan must be te get the “rest of the workers,” and then we will go about the business of throwing the present agreement into P. J, Connolly’s ugly face. Join the only bona fide union of transit workers in Greater New York, join and build the Transport Workers Union! I. R. T. Agent. By a R. R. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—At St. John’s Ter- minal, 347 W. Houston St., the New York Central Railroad has a freight terminal. About a hundred men are crowded into a room, waiting for Bill, the foreman, to put us on, Most of the men are members of the Freight Handlers Union of the A. F. of L. These men know what misery is. They shape up all hours of the day and they come with their last nickel. Many are without aoe Rarely does anyone get a job. The gangs have been cut down from 4 to 3, and in some cases two are now doing what was once done by four. Railroad dicks walk back and forth among the boxes and crates, guarding zealously the profits of the railroad magnates. The rat- tling of band wagons and hand trucks continues day after day. We are chopped off on short time and sent home. No time is allowed un- less we work, A BALLOT FOR THE YOUTH TOO Superior, Wis. Dear Comrade Editor: This is just to inform you that the Youth Section of the Finnish Daily, the “Tyomies,” is determined to participate in the campaign of helping in the collection of a mil- lion votes for the Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill. Because of the fact that there are cases where the Daily Worker does not reach the workers, and particalarly the youth, we decided to carry a Ballot, similar to the one in the Daily Worker, in the Youth Sec- tion of the paper. In this way we can reach, and especially at this time, popularize the Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill among the hundreds of young workers and farmers who read our Youth Sec- tion. The votes, nevertheless, will be sent to the Daily Worker. Comradely yours, For Youth Section, —M. A DISAPPOINTED SYMPATHIZER New York, N. Y, Dear Comrade Editor: As a non-Party worker who at- tended the meeting held on Sun- day at the New Star Casino, I should like to register a very sharp protest on the conduct of that meeting. After reading the criticism and Suggestions made for improving the conduct of the meetings in the units, it was a sad experience for me to go to a meeting organized by the Central Committee and the District Committee of the Party and find such a poorly planned and Poorly executed program. I need not s# much about that, for cer- tainly had the meeting been plan- M. ned in the way that it has been suggested that units plan their meetings, surely it would not have been necessary to dispense with the collection and limit speakers to fifteen minutes only because one speaker consumed more timé than was apparently allotted to him. As far as I am concerned, such an unfortunate thing would not drive me away from the revolu- tionary movement, but I know that in my limited experience not fewer than three workers told me that if the leaders of the Communist Party arrange affairs such as these, surely it is not the disciplined organization they had hoped to join. Finaily I would say that it was an addetl disappointment in view of the fact that the program pre- sented for the Lenin Memorial Letters from Our Readers Wait for Jobs in Vain At St. John’s Terminal No attempt is made by the union leaders to compel the company to allow us reporting time. We remain till the noon hour. Some eat, while others less fortunate, stare blankly into the empty future. At 11 o'clock, Bill snaps his finger for a man. A rush is made. A husky fellow is selected and follows the foreman to the freight plat- form, A man near me says that the husky brother is going to work a shift on an empty gut. And so, day after day these men are com- pelled to shape up without any hope of a job. There is only one cure for this evil. We must make the company give us a time allowance whether we work or not. A guarantee of four hours for reporting and a full day’s pay for five hours or more must be our object. These questions must be raised in our unions and the leaders must be forced to act. We have no other choice. Either we act now, or we, like thousands .of others, will starve. meeting seemed to be one which would answer the many objections that have been raised to our meet- ings, and this, a meeting arranged by leading Party comrades, cer- tainly indicates a lack of respon- sibility on the part of certain people. I should like to see some change in the public approach made by the Communist Party to the work- ers, L.M. SCIENCE VS. PROFITS Bristol, 8. D. Dear Comrade Editor: I have been speculating in my mind on the "silence” of the press ; WORKER’S HEALTH. Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) Arguments on Circumcision Comrade D. W. writes in as fol- lows: “The other evening we were discussing the “ideology” of circum- cision. The writer has been led to believe that circumcision is an aid in combatting disease, is generally hygienic, and is not “pure religion.” Another comrade maintains that the act is an invention of the rab- binate, and therefore, is just an- other moldy bit of “the opium of the people.” We consider this ques- tion quite controversial, and ask you to settle our argument.” Our Reply The origin of circumcision is rit- ualistic, Le. it was not (and is not, among Semitic peoples) done for hygienic reasons; rather it was a tribal rite, connected with the sex- ual customs of the group, and found in many modifications among the most primitive races. About it cluster ideas of initiation, etc. That it should be hygienically wise is a pure co-incidence. Many of the ancient tribal rites were often harmful (as knockng out the teeth, etc.) The knowledge of its medical ad- vantages is recent. Many a person who belongs to @ group that does it for religious (tribal) reasons, but does not like to admit that is the Teason, frequently rationalizes it and says the rabbinate had great wisdom, etc., and “knew” the med- ical value of the operation. This is nonsense. The rabbinate were the tribal custodians of a rite which enhanced their prestige, and which they did not even invent, since cir- cumcision is mentioned in the bible before the period of the priesthood of Aaron and certainly long before the rabbis came on the scene. When circumcision is advised to- day, it is endorsed by physicians . only because of certain hygienic | advantages it has. . Treatment in Clinics 'OMRADE H. S., of Chicago, Il, writes in as follows: “A woman comrade was ordered to get herself examined at the N. W. University Medical Clinic. She had to undress herself in a room which had no more than about 60 degrees, on ac- count of a draught from the win- dows. The workers there have to stand barefooted on a cement floor! with no covers of any kind. When! the doctor tried to extract blood} from her arm for a blood test, he jabbed her twice in the right arm! and once in the left arm and still did not get any blood. Any kind of jackass is good enough to prac-} tice on workers, There are plenty. of well-trained physicians who can take proper care of people if they } are hired for decent wages.” I . { * { We APPRECIATE your criticism of treatment in clinics. Un- fortunately, even with the indignity and difficulty of treatment, some ! of these clinics are competent in diagnosis and treatment, Also, it sometimes happens that the most experienced doctor encounters a vein in the arm that is hard to get blood from and he must try several times. When we recommend a clinic, we . can only do so on its medical mer- its, not on the handling workers get | there. : | Against such handling as patients | get in clinics, they must fight by organizing together and demanding | better facilities, more attention and the best skill available that the city and State can give them. The whole situation is bound up with the status of medical practice to- day, What you write is still an- other reason for organizing behind the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, . * Lecture by Doctor Casten Dr. Daniel Casten will lecture un- der the auspices of the Daily Work- er Medical Advisory Board on Venereal Diseases, Prevention, Cure and Social Significance, Thursday, December 27 at 8:30 p.m. at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Admission is 25c. All proceeds to the Daily Worker. Dr. J. Alonze will discuss the control of the prob- Jem in the Soviet Union, An increased circulation of the Daily Worker will develop more powerful struggles on the part of workers for adequate winter re- lief, against lay-offs, and for bet- ter working conditions. Get new readers, and ask them to stb- scribe to the paper. IN THE HOME By ANN BARTON Of Life and Death Importance MELESS girls sleeping in the municipal flop-houses—jobless women and girls, unwilling to bear the misery of being a burden upon impoverished families com- mitting suicide — single women, unable to get relief in their home towns, exposed to the dangers of the road, landing in many cases because of nervous and mental strain in hospitals and asylums— mothers in mortal fear of bringing into the world more hungry mouths to feed. This is a birds- eye view of the situation con- fronting unemployed women and girls, . Gs ae HERE is there stability? Where is there the assurance of know- ing what tomorrow will bring? No- where in this capitalist world. Only in places where unemployed women are organized do these women con- stitute a positive force. In these cases fight and organization. have won relief, food and shelter. In Harlem, for instance, where the Un- employed Council has fought to take the girls out of the flophouses, does the relief administration pay for a Toom and food for these girls. “The in regard to conditions in the So-j Unemployed Council tries to see viet Union reported by Professor Hansen of Brookings, S. D., who recently returned from there, and who, because of his many trips to Russia, both before and after the revolution, is able to fairly compare the conditions there now with those of the Tzar’s regime, It is a well known fact that the “kept press” does not remain silent, when some enemy of the workers and farmers, who perhaps spent a few days in the Soviet Union, and with no attempt at honesty or fair comparison spreads poison lies about the Work- ers and Farmers government. After listening to Professor Hansen speak over the radio from Brookings the other day, it was easy to see why the kept press keeps its deep silence. Nothing else would be consistent with their lying policy. As Professor Hansen compared the free-handed and liberal finan- cial support given by the Soviet Union to its scientists, in their ef- forts to use science to better the living conditions of the workers and farmers, with the practically-tied and niggardly supported scientists of this country, prevented from us- ing science for the betterment of living conditions of the workers and farmers because it would interfere with capitalist profits, I realize the envy a man as able as he is, who has had the major portion of his forty years of efforts wasted “on the altar of private profits,” must feel. As he said, “You cannot ef- fectively experiment on an Inter- est Table.” This is just another reason why we American workers and farmers must put forth more militant effort that the city lets the girls live like human beings,” says Freda Jackson, the organizer of the Harlem Unem- ployed Council, which is composed almost entirely of women. It is only on the basis of organizing together on a program of militant struggle that these women may _ expect changed conditions. . . * HE National Congress for Un- employment and Social Insur- ance in Washington, D. C., Jan. 5, 6 and 7, a large united front, is setting out to develop a mass campaign for unemployment and social insurance. It will lay down a campaign for maternity insur- ance for women, for the granting of mothers’ special benefits before and after birth of her child, with special provisions safeguarding her health and that of her baby. A women’s sub-session will take up, besides the question of relief for single and married women, the very vital question of the re- peal of Section 211 of the Federal Laws, which forbids the giving of birth control information. * LL women’s organizations must themselves send delegates to this Congress, and exert the utmost per- suasion and pressure upon other women’s organizations to send dele- gates. 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