The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 LANCASTER, PA., FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN RESIST PAY CUT Refuse to Sign City Petition for 10% Cut By a Municipal Worker Corre spondent LANCASTER, Pa.—I am sending you a clipping from the “Lancaster New Era” of Dec. 17, also a copy of a petition sent out among the Police and Fire Departments of | wh ter I am a member. It is | just another bit of the decaying system by which we are governed. j The copy of the petition is as fol-| lows Lancaster, Penna., Dec. 18, 1934. Council of the City of Lancaster State of Pennsylvania, Municipal Building, Lancaster, Penna. Gentlemen: We, the undersigned, members of the Lancaster City Fire Dept., Lancaster, Pa., do hereby agree to accept a voluntary reduction of the ten (10 per cent) per cen- tum from our regular rate of pay | fer the period, January 1, 1935 to December 31, 1935, There were enough spaces for each membér to affix his name ac- cording to the company with which | he is affiliated. Here is the point: | December, 1932, a former administration around to us and told us that if} so much as one man failed or re- | fused to sign the petition, the city | fathers might take it from us. There were two of us who had the | guts to refuse to sign. However, and twenty hours per week. We received fifteen hundred dollars per year, During the year 1933 we went on what is called a two platoon sys- tem, our hours were thus reduced to eighty-two per week, When the petition was brought to us last year there was a slight increase in the murmur, but the boys signed just the same, and the treachery of the city council had now been exposed twice, BUT— Nazi Consul ‘Locals Overrules Official’s |A.F.L. Locals Objection to Workers’ Billl ~ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1984 - Blocks Fla. ‘ilm Showing By a Worker Correspondent JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Hit- lerite Vice-Consul in co-operation | with local authorities has dealt an- other blow at the workers. The I. W. O., with the support of other organizations, sponsored | the bringing of the Soviet film,; Maxim Gorki’s “Mother,” to a local | theatre, the Casino. The picture was to be shown at midnight on Dec. 15. | had been widely advertised through a preview at the theatre, Today, when the petition was | jeafiets and through the local press. | there was a stone wall. told the cops were all signing, but solidly with our entire platoon 1 | against the alleged voluntary sign- | was to be shown the murderous Hit- \ ing. All have vowed that if a con- | lerite Vice-Consul, Dr. E.G.Steinke, | bill was all right and that if the | brought around for the third time | Many workers were enthusiastic and | We were | anxious to see this great picture. } Therefore they worked hard to jan entire shift of the cops stand | make it a big success. But, a few hours before the film tinuance of the cut was to be in| with the help of a U. S. agent forced | force it must be taken from us by city ordinance. Young Circle League Sent Only Observers To New Haven Parley NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 23.— Youth Conference here, will report back to their organization on the decisions of the conference. The league did not send regular delegates, as erroneously reported e Chief under | Observers from the Young Circle} came | League, who attended the Regional | aiter finding that there was no fur- | in the Daily Worker of Dec. 19, and | ther sense in our holding out we| its position on the National Youth too signed, and there was a deduc- | Congress to be held in Washington, he manager of the theatre not to! show the picture. j The agent of the Hitler murder regime told the manager that he had | been to the American Legion and: the Chamber of Commerce and claimed that he had their support in demanding that this picture be stopped. This fascist agent together with | the local American fascists called this picture an Anarchist picture. We, the workers of Jacksonville, know that this is a working class! picture. We workers are beginning to realize who are our friends and who are our enemies. We have learned that the American Legion, | the Chamber of Commerce, other anti-labor organizations and the Roosevelt. government officials are linked with the bloody hand of the tion 10 per cent in our pay| checks small as they were. At this time we were working one hundred of Rend in Dollar Bilis To Put ‘Daily ESS than the top. dollar bills. Though Cleveland and Pittsburgh have still This sum can easily be Send your contribution concentrated effort by the workers in these districts can do the job in $3,000 is now needed to put the Daily Worker drive over New York reached its $30,000 quota last Friday, Chicago, Hitler agent. They are working hand in hand to oppress the work- ing class. Now, we had Jan. 4 and 5, will not be known until after the observers report back to the organization. the Congressional = Committee investigating un-Amer- jican activities. The local press writes about Communist activities which are claimed to be “discovered” by the committee with the gracious help of the A. F. of L. mis-leaders, Mr. Green and. Mr. Woll. What will they say about this? The workers of Jacksonville are uniting stronger than ever to bring such pictures here in the near future in spite of the terror. ’ Over Top’ raised if workers will send in their in today! A | LETTERS FROM not reached the finishing line. ea OUR READERS Received Dec. 1934 $809.48; P. Miravalle 1.00 ca. reviously rec 536,588.72 | —- Sahat - ——- | Total Dec. 21, 1994 $5.00 Total to date $57,368.20 | Total to date $1,018.96 Because of the volume of letters __ DISTRICT 1 (Boston) cea lee i preraicn 6 (Cleveland) sioo{ Tecelved by the Department, we 8 A. Kiss Le rF Fe "| ean print only those that are of D. Fedoruk 5.00 | Total Dec. 21, 1934 $1.00| general interest to Daily Worker Total to atin ease $2,811.73 | readers. However, all letters re- tal 21, 1934 $11.00 7 (Detroi ‘Potal teedite $2,455.61|_M. Jasmer $3.93 Sec. Flint, ceived are carefully read by the DISTRICT 2 (New York City) T. Syllzzi im ‘ ation eas ‘3 oe ee and criticisms Bec. 2, LLD., Sec | J. H. Neisch a ec, 4, Unit are welcome and whenever pos- Unit 248 $10.00 10 35.00| 8. T. ¥., Saulte See. 2, Unit 3 2.00 Oat aes 1M’ vVorwow Se. Marie. 8.35 Group’ of Young | Stole pg used for the improve- Tnit 408 5.00 Council 28 15.00 B. Rushton 50 armenian ment of the Daily Worker. Unit 1 8.00 Bakers Coun. 5.00; Bee. 5 Unit 9 45 Workers | 20.00 Init 1 10.00 Council 48 2.10| Sec. 5, Unit # Grand Rapids 16.50] 7, 7 i wa is 50 Council 32 1.60| Total Dec. 21, 1984 355.77 | LET a oarae OUR IN Unit 11s 6.62 Council 30 2.76 | Total to state nae ne $3,102.46 'GNATION 40s 1.80 Council 25 1.88 | 1ST! 8 ¢ jcago) bait 3 3.00 United Shoe & | Bulgarian Br. 69, IW.O. 3.62 Omaha, Nebr. ‘Unit 3 4.00 Lr. Wrks. $00} Buro $1.75 Br. ce Lw.o. al Dear Comrade Editor: Unit 7 5.18 United Shoe & Terre Haute Br. 2065 I.W.O. 5. Again I enclose $1 for Unit 1 592 ob. Whrs. 4.30| Section 10.00 Br, 2016 I.W.0. 1.05 witker fund ee cts a ‘Unit 408 6.10 Lewis Co. 3.00} Section 8 1.50 Sec. 4 saa pala Unit 57s 1.65 Geo. Gregory 3.00] Rockford Sec. 10. Unit 913 day, Dec. 8, on “Yellow Hearst,” did Unit 24s 1.33 M, Feldman 1.00| Sec, 3 50 Scandinavian me so much good that I want to Unit 68 2.00 H. Stelson 1.50| Bec. 4 435 Buro 7.00] send a contribution, Unit 6B 22 RK. Baw 1.00 | Sec. 2 1 Lithuanian Br. 92, | °y o Unit 6s aa J. R, Jas 5.00 | Vanguard Youth ALD.LD, — 5.00 am not much of a writer, but I Unit 4B 3.00 Utica Center 3.00/ Club 5.00 J. G. 8. D. 1.25}do take issues with the Hearst Unit 18 $.00 Lehrman & | See. 7 25.86 J. Worohey 2.00! paper here. I let them know what nit. 18s 3.00 Schreck | Bolouene m ki 3 Dit 468 «8.00.» Women's Aux. of | Total Dec. 21, 1994 $103.20 | I think about their editorials. Unit 40s 4.64 St 34.00 | Total to Gate i $5,481.72| I believe more people should write Bec. 4 ed Shoe & | DISTRICT 9 Mina.) to the yellow press and tell them Unis 422 35 L. wkrs. 5.00, Mareka Makie $1.00 ; ae Unit 408 35 United Shoe & | _______| what they think of the stuff that Unit $3 1,00 L age 2.65 ao Dec. 21, 1984 1 0 i printed. Maybe it would make Uhit 410 28 Brooklyn Study ‘otal to date $345.0 em hesitate in what they print. Unit 414 in Group 80 DISTRICT 11 (Ne, Daketa) i -” Unit 413 35 Larry Jacobs 10 C. P. Unit Williston ng|_, There are many people here who | Unti 420 35 John Ujieh, Crutt | A. F. Husa ‘24| don’t like the Hearst papers. My Bection 4 45 ees foe ly H. N. Sweet -50| daughter hates it as if it were a Bec. 4, nirto, etter- — ‘ Unit 498 «1.48 =—sman, R. Car- | Total Dee. 21, 1994 31.50 nee She gives me hell if Unit 8G4 1.05 bron .50 | Total to date 132.80 | She knows I spend money for it, but Sec. 7, Unit 3 1.25 OD. W. Med. DISTRICT 12 (Senttle) if I had $10 to spare I’d have sent Bec. 1 Board 2.00 | Everett $9.65 | it in ‘ Unit 32 3.00 0. W., Med. Ady. | Tacoma 246 | on ease tae of that article Russ. F. 8. U Board .65 | Aberdeen 4.00 ree. jr. 1.00 LL.D. South | Finnish Fed. of Ore. & Wash. 144 WB. Russ. F. 8. U i} Sk St. Unit, ¥.C.L, 85 r 1.00 E. Luiel 50 [ Unit 21B 13.20 sce, THE STRAINED LOOK OF Unit 16 5.50 fi Total Dec. 21, 1934 $32.18 HUNGER | Unit 16 50 Marcus 2.00 | Total to date $824.26 : ! Unit 5B 450 Student 1.00 | DISTRICT 18 (California) Leslie, Mich. Unit 12 1.50 3B. Segal 1.00 | J. Osmack 2.90 | Dear Comrade Editor: Unit 417 4.15 Sympathizer 2.00 | Joan » Beddy Schneider 50| They are cutting down on relief Bait 3 381M Wore 19.09 | Silenareke -35) here and people seem puzzled and Unit 5 88 © -Rusko B. 0, 2.00 | A. Root 3 4 Unit 31 2.70 Mr. and J. Auert 30 | Daffled. The strained look of the Ber. 6, Mrs. H. H 1.00|G. Kirk 2.00| Workers as they pass is becoming Unit 9 5006 A_Constant | ——~i one of desperation. Unit 1 11.90 Reader 1.00 | Total Dec. 21, 1984 $5 Dnit 25 29 Gurshman 100 | Total to date s1,087.30| 1 Sell fifteen to twenty Daily Unit 14 ino) oT, M 1.00 | DISTRICT 14 (Newark) | Workers a week. The capitalist press Unit 22 1441 B. Brown 1.00 | Passaic vale | #00! has created such a red scare about D._W., Med. Carrol Sate «1.00 | Unit 2, See. ' Boara 2.50 John Pach 2.00 | Andrew Matinga 09 | Communist papers that T have to Central Dist. Ph. G. 1.00 ——-___ | overcome it. ‘Agency’ 2.24 Social Youth Cul- ie Die a, 1984 acarene The Daily Worker is the best Pen & Hammer ture Club 6.30 | Total to date 081. ‘ Economie Re. 5.90 W. Allegro 2.00 | DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) ares poltcey Abie and I wish we Pen & Hammer, Ivan Franko Frank Peterson $1.00 | mi People here to push the Philosophy 1.25 Society .00| Br. 78, RN. M. A. 8. 5.00 | Sales of it. It is my inspiration. It “a Chalek 1.50 ua Group 10.00/ A. Copeler 1.00/ may use some big words and ex- ee 17.00 an | = Bec. 20 1011 | Marcinkevich 4.00| Total Dec. 21, 1934 yoo | Dressions, but that is a good thing Bec. 1, A. Alexander 1.00| Total to date $028.4¢| Sometimes. The Daily Worker is Unit 1D 250 ¥F. B, T. bL, DISTRICT 16 (Charlotte) worthy of study by all the working Unit 1D 4.00 v. =. 1.00 | J. Z, $5.00 class. Unit 2D 3.25 8, Hart 7.00 a aes Unit 2D ‘30 Group of Total Dec. 21, 1994 35.00 8. J. Beandinavian Workers 1.15| Total to date $96.33 | Wers. Club 35.00 4. Brenner = 1.00 DISTRICT 21 (St. Louis) ABOUT THE WORKERS’ AND rarer pagers rR parte $25|"" FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT arian soo 102.64 Total Dec. 21, 1934 $95 i Total to date , a . a, ‘ ‘Athol, Mass. DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) Total to date $205.52 Say Jos, Stott $2.00 areeg DISTRICT 25 (Florida) . ee precio pane eae 7 . Hee 5 you an article from | Total Dec 21, 1934 $2.00 ouat else acl es = the Boston Post of Noy. 28, the Toll to TSTRICT 4 (Buffalo) ° "| Total to date " Paper which carried just a little Kerpato Ruscky Br. 1542 1.W.O. $5.00 DISTRICT 26 (So. Dakota) while ago @ series of articles against F. Mokritzki ot Unit 208, Roberts County $5.00| the U.S.S.R., the only land where; ee et cection 4 Zep, Poor farmers like myself are not Polish Workers Club, Black Rock 1.00 | Total Dee. 21, 194 $5.00 City Comm.’ I.W.0., Buffalo 1.00 | Toatl to date #35.35| Tobbed and taxed out of eristence, SRE S MISCELLANEOUS ; It is of interest to note that so Total Dec. 21, 1934 $15.75 | Williams $4.15 | great an authority on Total to date $678.54 | 0. P. 42.82 tr red S poh ae hes DISTRICT 5 (Pittsburgh) Mother & Daughter, Study Olub 1.00 - at there is no Jes. Mickunas $1.00 —_ religious persecution in the Soviet Van 3.00! Total Deo. 21, 1984 $48.27' Union. NAME Here Is My Dollar To Put Drive Over the Top A FARMER, A WELCOME TO THE CHILDREN } New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: A great deal has been written lately about affairs given by Work- ers Clubs and the reports haven't all been complimentary. However, 50 EAST 13th St. Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER I attended the Cabaret Night which opened the Washington Heights Workers Center Saturday night past and the large clean hall was nicely decorated and jammed to fullest capacity, including many new ele- ments. Everybody was having a New York, N. Y. d ' By a Worker Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, Ala. A. Towns, Trades Council faker and bitter opponent of the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill, met defeat in his own union, Federal Labor Union 18388, last week on this same issué. His motion to throw the letter from the Alabama Arrange- ments Committee for the Washing- ton Congress for Unemployment and Social Insuzance into the waste basket was disregarded and a motion to read the letter and the Workers Bill was passed. After this, Towns made a speech condemning the Workers Bill be- cause it would be a burden on the tax payers who made more than $5,000 a year and because he said the bill came from Russia. Despite the big “red scare” he raised, the president of the union said that the Communists are behind it, it shows that they are fighting in the in- terest of the working people. Although the bill was not offi- cially endorsed by the union, the members say that it will be in the next meeting. C. H. Brand, vice- president of the union (Federal La- bor Union No, 18388), signed a call | to a trade union conference on the | | Workers Unemployment Insuranc® | | Bill and the Washington Congress. | | Towns is becoming increasingly | unpopular in his own union and| the movement to throw him out is growing. Now Towns is trying to get | ; the union to line up favorably with Finch, the General Superintendent of the National Casting Co. in Tar- | rant City, in order to prevent any | struggle for better conditions. | Last winter when the company | laid off many workers and prom- | | ised to take care of them without | going to the Welfare, this same | Finch told two Negro workers, whose | | families had nothing to eat, to “get | j the hell out of this line; you sons| | of bitches will work next Thursday | (two days later) and you'll draw a/ pay check.” Both the white and| | Negro workers weve enraged over | this attempt to starve honest work- ers after the company had promised to feed them. Now the workers in the union are finding out just what kind of a sneaky scab Towns is when he tries to support the starva- | | tion program of bosses like Finch. No doubt Towns will be kicked out of the union soon and will never mislead the honest militant work- | ers in Tarrant City again, Stormy Scenes By a Macy Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — Hysterical scenes and flery denunciations feature the mass Christmas firing now going on in Macy’s, No longer as in former yeats do the laid-off workers smile wanly as they are told the bad news. The Picture of want at home, and the terrible effect that the dismissal will have on their families, are too much for them to keep up the sham of politeness and hope. The excited voices of workers arguing, pleading and explaining their plight is so loud and unrestrained that listen- ing workers in surrounding offices have been very much affected by the condition. More than ever before have they seen the usually concealed suffer- ing and pain of their fellow work- ers, and tears of sympathy spring to their eyes. The management, in order to offset this effect on their morals, has arranged a pussyfoot- ing staggered system—even for fir- ing. Supervisors have been in- structed to avoid the appearance of mass firing -- to make the loss of their livelihood seem a casual thing. Reach 70% of The membership drive of the In- ternational Workers Order is now in its last stage. According to the decision of the Organization Com- mittee all applications, and only those applications, reaching the na- tional office up to and including December 31 will be counted as re- sults of the campaign. The campaign is part of a six- months plan of work from July 1 to December 31. It provided the recruiting during this period of 25,- 000 adult (including youth) and 3,000 children members. Even before the campaign got un- der way we were confronted with the inability of obtaining State licenses for the Order from the In- surance Departments of the States of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. It was required of us to cease any recruiting and any functioning in these States until the licenses were granted and entitled us to “do busi- |ness.” This removed from our pros- pects important recruiting grounds which were to net the Order 6,500 members. The total quota was never officially reduced by these | 6,500 members. The National Ex- ecutive Committee instead of ad- justing these figures, urged the various sections of the Order to make up for the loss of Pennsyl- vania and Massachusetts by more intense activities in other centers. Some of the sections did accom- plish this. The English and the Jewish Sections, and especially the Children’s Section, intensified their work in New York and other con- centration districts to a point of enabling them to reach their quota even so. The Ukrainian, Hungarian and Slovak Sections did not succeed in reorientating their work sufficiently, ‘They did not succeed in making up for the lost territory. Of course, they had a hard job on hand in trying. A large number of their most active branches are located in Pennsylvania. In order to secure a concrete and realistic analysis, we must now de- duct these 6,500 prospective but un- attainable recruits from Pennsyl- vania and Massachusetts, from the total quota. This leaves as the total aim of the recruiting drive 18,500 members exclusive of the children. ‘With two more weeks to go, the Macy’s Christmas Layoffs Drive with One Week to Go English, Jewish and Children’s Sections Lead— |) Concentration Points Weak By MAX BEDACHT Accompany However, none of these ruses fool the workers. The advertisement as to the intelligence of Macy work- ers which Straus boasts about is no overstatement. If he could hear them as we do, he would be sur- prised and perhaps frightened. It won't be long now. Their rapid calculations, and arrival at accurate conclusions would slow up his wage slashing, staggering, and hour lengthening attacks on their lives. This conversation overheard on the “lunch line” is typical. “Gee, it’s swell of them giving us free lunch.” “Well what of it, ain’t they tak- ing eight hours from us for noth- ing? How much are you getting?” “Fourteen.” “Gee, me eighteen. I guess plenty of us old timers will be dropped in the mass layoff. The “old timer” was about twenty years old! Old enough to be scrapped by Macy’s for cheaper labor. Talk about “doing something,” “getting together” and other ex- pressions are not uncommon. Go to it, girls! And you, fellows! What are we waiting for? Why don't we join the union? Quota in IWO| campaign has netted 11,997 applica- tions, not counting the children. This is 64.8 per cent of the quota. The various Sections have suc- ceeded in achieving the following percentages of their unadjusted quotas: Per Cent of Section Quota _—_ Recruited Achievement Children 3,000 8,078 102.4 English —2,000 1,831 91.5 Jawish 5,000 4,083, 81.6 Roumanian 750 459 61.2 Italian 1,500 830 553 Youth 1,500 808 53.8 Ukrainian 2,000 962 48.1 Slovak 2,000 820 41.0 Polish 1,500 61g 40.8 Hungartan 2,500 839 34.4 Total — 18,500 11,997 64.8 The grand total quota, with the children included, is 21,500. The grand total recruitment, with the children included, was 15,072, or 70.1 per cent of the total. Aside from language section as- signments, the National Executive Committee had made concrete city assignments. As concentration points were selectel Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Detroit and Pittsburgh. | With Pittsburgh eliminated, the dis- tricts achieved the following: Per Cent District Quota Achievement Achieved Cleveland 2,500 1,986 4 | New York 6,000 4471 1.5 Chicago 4,500 1,564 34.7 Detroit 2,000 586 26.8 Total 15,000 8,507 36.7 The non-concentration territories have practically achieved their quota, Originally 5,500 members were expected to be recruited through branches in non-concentra- tion territories. Reducing the total expected recruitment from 25,000 to 18,500, this left for non-concentra- : tion territories 3,500 members to recruit, The actual recruitment is 3,490, or 99.7 per cent. Without trying to anticipate, we ; can say that the drive on the whole ‘was very successful. However, the work in the two concentration dis- tricts of Chicago and Detroit was bad in one and worse in the other. A final analysis and judgment will have to wait two weeks. These two weeks must be utilized to make final efforts. Cleveland and New York must make efforts to fulfill their quotas. Chicago and Detroit must make efforts to better their show- ing. The whole Order must make efforts to push the membership to- ward its immediate goal. Forward to 75,000 members! good time but to me the highlight of the evening was the performance of the Pioneer dramatic group. It was announced as their first pro- duction and the workers assembled operation by their silence, atten- tion and the deserved applause. But I was disappointed in the matter-of-fact manner in which the performance of the dramatic group was accepted by the com- gave the young actors perfect co-! mittee in charge. The least I ex- | pected was to have one of the func- tionaries comment and welcome the spirit and work of the children in their center—their own children. I hope you publish this so that the comrades in charge of that center— and other centers—realize the im- portance of cultural work for chil- i dren and will do more to help them paens, in the future, re Back Parley Despite Heads By a Worker Correspondent NEW HAVEN, Conn—There has | | been quite a “red scare” raised here | by the officials of the A. F. of L.| over the success of the work béing | | carried on by the Sponsoring Com- mittee for the New Haven Confer- | ence for Unemployment and Social | Insurance, Mr. Tierney, president of the New Haven Trades Council, made a| statement that any A. F. of L. union daring to take part in the | Conference would be expelled. And Mr. Egan, secretary of the State! Federation of Labor, charged that the Conference was “Communistic” and had no support from the A. F. | of L. ; | He was promptly answered by L. | M. Cory, chairman of the New Haven Sponsoring Committee, who | presented facts that A. F. of L. | unions not only throughout the country, but right in New Haven had endorsed the Congress and were sending delegates. So John, Egan made another statement and | said that it was true, these A. F. of L. unions had endorsed the Co: gress, but they were “hoodwinked, they did not know at the time that it was “communistic.” Also, Mr. Egan was very much worried over the terms of the; Workers’ Bill, because under it un- employed workers would be getting more money than workers in shops. He said that the A. F. of L, was) preparing legislation for unemploy- ment insurance, but he did not state what kind of insurance. Now we all know what Bill Green’s scheme is—take the insurance right out from the pockets of the work- ers. ? I. Amter, secretary of the National Unemployment Councils spoke to 200 workers at a mass meeting and smashed Egan's “red scare.” He ex- posed Bill Green and the other fak- ers at the top leadership of the A. F. of L. and showed the workers at the meeting how they were try- ing to pass some fake unemploy- ment insurance scheme onto the workers, In. spite of all the “red scare” raised by Egan on orders from his higher-ups, we had a_ successful conference at which there were del- egates from A. F. of L. unions.| Also, the Arrangements Committee | elected at this Conference is going to work to send to Washington as big a number of A. F. of L. dele-; gates as possible, * | Unemployed Policeman | Tries Breaking Into Jail in Desperation By a Worker Correspondent HAVERHILL, Mass. — George A. Goodwin, father ef nine children, had had no steady work for more than two years. He couldn't get an E. R. A. job because two of his daughters were working. Their wages were too small to keep eleven persons. Goodwin, who had once been a policeman, consulted with an old crony on the force. A little later he appeared on the street with a revolver in his pocket and was ar- rested by Patrolman Joseph Cox. It looked like a six-months’ sentence for Goodwin for carrying a revolver without a permit. But Goodwin lost his nerve at the last minute, and asked for the case to be con- tinued. The whole story of how he had planned to eat at government ex- pense came out in court. It also came out in the papers, and that may be the means of Goodwin's get- ting some real relief. The local authorities are much afraid of the militant local organization of shoe- workers, and delight in a chance to make some demagogic gesture that doesn’t cost much, such for instance as giving a Christmas basket toj some poor devil like former cop Goodwin. So far, none of them has taken even this rather obvious chance. Seamen Pack Courtroom In Defense of Comrades By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Last Tuesday night two young seamen, members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union and the Waterfront Unemployed Council, were arrested for handing out copies of the Dog House News, organ of the W. U. C., in the Dog House (Seamens Church Institute, a holy flop house for seamen). When the Dog House thugs, a sadistic gang, nabbed the first sea- man and were going to beat up on him, his mate called upon the other seamen present to rally to the sup- port of the nabbed seaman. The bulls then grabbed the second one. ‘When the seamen came before his nibs, the judge, the court was filled with over ninety seamen. His honor did not like this and when some one in a true seamanly manner called the judge a name, which questioned the legality of his birth, his nibs’ face damn near fell to his pot belly. The I. L. D. responded wonder- fully and had two lawyers present when the case came The trial was then postponed till the next day. When the judge saw a court full of seamen the follo;ing day, he kept the case over till we afternoon, but the seamen stuck to the ship. Sentence was held over till the next day. The seamen were again present. The judge made a dema- wogic speech that he was for work- ers fighting for better conditions but, nevertheless he gave them ten dollars or two days: They took the two days. The solidarity of the seamen in the court room is a direct, result of the work of the Waterfront Un- employed Council. | easy to gather that there is as yet “Safe Period” (Continued) | HAT about this regularity? Well, we know from accurate statistics | that the normal woman does not menstruate regularly. The only reg- ular characteristic about the men- | strual periods is that they are ir- regular. A woman may be perfectly healthy and yet her periods may vary—the length of the cycle may) vary from twenty-five and thirty- five days. Naturally, if the “safe period” is determined by the length | of the cycle, and the cycle varies so| much, then the safe period cannot | be accurately measured, We know that the time of ovu-| lation is not the same in all wo- men, Although the majority of women it may occur about the middie of the menstrual cycle, it may also occur soon after or a short time before menstruation. It is also true that ovulation time will vary in the same woman. Obviously, then, we cannot depend upon ovu- | lation time for determining the safe period. Another and important factor, must also be considered—the hu- man element. Just for the sake of argument, let us assume that there is a safe period. In order for it to work, the couple must regulate their sex life so that sexual inter- course shall only take place during the prescribed days, leaving a period of eight to ten days of total abstinence. We know that short of complete absence of one partner from the other, abstinence is very unreliable—people will not abstain. From the above discussion it is no scientific evidence to prove the existence of a safe period—the ir- regularity of the cycles, and of ovu- lation time are enough to condemn the idea. Add to this the uncer- tainty of the human element, and we can say that compared to other methods of control, the safe period is NOT safe. While it is true that if intercourse takes place only dur- ing the prescribed days—if these days can be determined—pregnancy is not likely to occur and so these periods are relatively safe—it is also true that there are other methods which are much more valuable and work in a greater percentage of cases. Intercourse during menstruation is @ question of personal choice. IN THE Comrade “B” writes us from Chi- cago. “NEAR Comrade: “You ask me to write a menu for the ‘Home Column?’ A menu tonight, for the Daily Worker. Yes—breakfast, lunch, dinner. “Paper, Mrs., paper?’ A plead- ing little fellow, under ten years, bucking a blizzard, says this to me. It isn’t at all unusual in a city, to see a little child bundied up in threadbare cast-off coats, out in the cold of the night, sell- ing capitalist papers for the profit of the big millionaires. To touch a sore spot with them, just men- tion food, “Breakfast, lunch, dinner,’ I recite. The time is 9:30 p.m, It is mid-winter, December the 10th, in a great American city. Civiliza- tion, 1934. No, comrade, I can’t write a menu tonight. I haven't the irony. I can’t tell the workers how to make glorious, the withered prunes they get in their boxes. Just to look at one of these dry, shrunken prunes, I want to hold | a relief prune up to the masses as a symbol of the whole cadaver- ous hoax. I want to shout—clear away the whole debris of this life | that is symbolized by these with- ered prunes!” - EAR Comrade “B”: I know it is very hard for sen- | WORKER’S HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) There are no médical objections to it. (The End) Pe SRE Infantile Eczema Comrade B., N. Y.: Although a Positive diagnosis cannot be made, your baby is probably suffering from “infantile eczema.” This con- sists of red scaly oozing spots usu- ally on the checks, arms, legs or even over the entire body. It is very itchy and lasts a long time, The condition arises from being sensitive usually to some food in the diet. Occasionally the child may be sensitive to several foods. Local treatment: The best, simple form of treatment is to rub into the affected skin a 3 per cent crude coal tar ointment once or twice daily, The logical treatment, however, is to-discover the food causing the trouble and to remove it from the diet. Out out such foods as seem to make the rash worse. In your ease you notice this after feeding baby green peas, which may be the offending food. Ood Liver Oil, which you suspect, may possibly be at fault, although it is unlikely. As concerns a diet, start with milk, orange juice and cod liver oil. Then, as the skin improves, add a food at a time to see its effect. If there is none, it may be kept in the diet. Some cases may do poorly even on the simple milk diet. . Such a case may eventually lose its sen- sitivity to the milk. It would probs ably be asking too much to substi- tute goats’ milk for the cow’s milk on account of expense. Skin tests have not been shown to have any definite value in most. cases, so that it would be a waste of energy, time and money to sub- ject your child to a lengthy series of skin tests. Certainly an expen- sive course of tests is entirely out of the question, since the knowledge we usually gain from them equals zero, in this condition of infantile eczema. VOLUNTEERS WANTED | Volunteer typists for the ~ Worker Correspondence De- é partment are needed. Interest- | ing work, No previous experi- ence required. Report at the Daily Worker office, 35 East 12th Street, 8th floor, Monday, Dec. 24, at 10 a.m. HOME By ANN BARTON and misery. But, “B,” you cannot stop at letting suffering react upon you. You've got to see that you can bring out of this suffering, action, that will bring an end to misery. And the best way to do that “B,” is by connecting yourself up directly, with the Communist Party, whose sim you are already connected with, Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2005 is available in sizes 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 3% yards 39-inch | fabric and % yard 6-inch lace, Tlus- tions included, ‘sitive people not to be hurt these days by the cruel things around us. Yet I feel, “B,” that you have not : looked, nor seen clearly enough. This suffering little boy, should have brought to you the determined feel- ing, “I must make this workers’ movement strong—so powerful that it can wipe out the causes of the pitifulness of this little boys’ condi- tion!” It is our job to make clear to the workers, the sufficiency that may be gained, through fighting for it. It is our job, by all means possible, to reach, fight with, and influence, working men and women. In many cases, women who are just begin- ning to be class conscious, who, per- haps, won't read our “Daily” through as yet, will see in an “In the Home” column (where there are menus, household helps, material on chil- dren, etc.) something she can un- derstand. She will look for this, and so cannot help reading other things, first in the column — then, elsewhere. So her interest will de- velop in the movement as a whole, YOUR anger should be directed against the reiief or- ganizations and the capitalist press for holding out to the workers as enchanting, that withered prune— not tothe “Daily.” The menus printed in the bourgeois press, are meant to get the workers to ex- pect little—to glorify little. But we use those menus, sometimes the same menus, as a means of getting the working women to expect more. I felt I had to point these things out. It is your sensitiveness that makes you sympathetic to the Communists, ‘B,” that makes you want desperately to end suffering ” Send SIXTEEN CENTS (16c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly 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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