The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1934 Florida Citrus Fruit Pickers Strike Against Wage Cut Take Action Despit Boss Terror Thre at Fruit Magnates Make Haste To Ship Frozen Crop Which Is Agricultural Worker Correspondent WINTERHAVEN, Fla.—The Flor- ida Citrus Exchange was shut down on Dec. 17 by a strike. The pickers struck because the exchange cut their m 12 cents to 10 cen vas on trees from 2 By an falling ruit they can before huts them has been Poisoned There is talk of that are caught leaflets those out the ynehing Here in Winterhaven, Chapman} came to the A. F. of L. meeting} along with Katy Farrell, Meadows, the chairman of the Haines City local, and C. S. Alfred, and asked the union here not to let Jack Walker speak to them, as there was ed-dollar reward offered for turning him over to the people who are looking for him. Bill Mock, the| thief Deputy of Sheriff Chase, the e ‘Salvation Army Shine Werheks R Swindle Bared By Transients By a Worker Correspondent JACKSONVILLE, Fila. Here I went to the Salvation Army with four other workers so we could get ena a place to sleep over the night. They BY S Shee Al caady fee 4 , Mass—At a meeting of | a pad steeper et as oe Stitchers’ Local of the United | | Shoe and Leather Workers Union in | partment, tried to send us to Camp | Boston on Dec. 19, it was reported Foster for forced labor, which paid | that the Boston Joint Council had 90 cents a week. We refused to go| Voted to grant a readjustment in after being there once and knowing | wages to the shoe manufacturers the bad condition of that govern- | which would mean a wage cut of | from 5 to 7% per cent. ment camp. Then they tried to| The local unanimously rejected send us back to the Salvation Army. | the decision of the Council and in- Stitchers’ Local Votes D Adjustment Made by Council red killer. Chase said that there| This is the way the ruling class is | | structed the Executive Board to| own Proposal for Wage | resistance to stop the shop moving campaign, did not mobilize to fol- low them and declare strike, and only relied upon the decisions of the Regional Labor Board and the N.R.A. which were in favor of the bosses. Last but not least, the General Organizer Mackasey and ‘the resi- dent committee of the General Ex- ecutive Board under the leadership of Zimmerman and his clique, adopted a sort of “hands off” policy, frozen is poisoned. are no laws to keep the Commu- | fooling the people. take all necessary action in case | leaving the whole situation in the the bosses insisted on the wage cut.| hands of the district and local offi- s Try to Stem Strike the firs back to w Yet, there to lynch all of the lead espe- cially Jack Walker, who was asked by the members to come and help them in the strike because he is known as a fighter and the bosses have been trying to get the mem- bers of the United Citrus Workers to oust him, making an offer of a hundred dollars to any member that will get Walker and turn him over to the bosses. The Polk County officers have not been called to the strike yet, but Chief Deputy Bill Mock was there and Was looking for Jack Walker under orders from J. M. Chapman, the former President of the United} Citrus Workers Union and chief red-baiter of Polk County. He has boasted that he knows what became of Norman, and that he was the man to put the finger on Frank Norman along with Harry Askew of Highland City and Katy Farfell of Haines City. Boasts of Past Terror Chapman has repeatedly boasted before the membership in the local meetings at Haines City that he was the one that had Norman kicked out of the union, and his man, the gate-keeper at the Polk Company, has said he knew where there was a house that was burned with all the evidence in it regard- ing Norman. At the last meeting in Haines City, the United Citrus Workers’ Officials said that they have the same organization to get Jack Walker as got Norman, if they can catch Walker. At this statement most of the members got up andj walked out, leaving a few who were with the chairman, Mr. Meadows, the man that made that statement. This is all of the bunch that has set out to get all the good fighters out of the United Citrus Workers | Union. They are kicking out all those that do not agree with Chap- man, who, although having resigned as president, is still the dictator in the union. This chief red-baiter in| Polk County, the officials of the| United Citrus Workers and the A. F. of L, have all united with the Polk Company to help keep the union from kicking at the code prices. They have kept the people fooled into thinking that they have gotten them their wages and have kept them from being tut to 15 cents an hour by Polk. Leaflets Expose Chapman The leaflets that have appeared on the streets of Haines City lately have showed this up, and let the people know what Chapman has been doing. Now Polk is beginning to see that Chapman can’t keep the workers fooled, and there is a hunt on for those who are putting Farmers’ Mass) Rally Demands Cash Relief By a Farmer Correspondent ¢ BLANCHARD, Mich. — On Dec. | 15 there was a mass meeting of the farmers and unemployed of Milbrook Township and the sur-| rounding territory of McCosta County. The meeting was called for the purpose of getting immediate re- lief for drought and hail stricken farmers. A committee of action} consisting of five farmers was| elected. Before we had adjourned, the work administrator of the district appeared and wanted to explain his side of the question. His idea} was to petition and make resolu-! tions, but we told him that these people must have cash relief or work within ten days. I advised the committee to go before the Relief Commissioner and | demand immediate relief. | I also got an unanimous endorse- | ment of the Workers Unemploy-| ment and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598. This is the first mass meeting of | this kind held in this part of Cen- tral Michigan but it won’t be the) last. You'll hear from us soon. | Here Is My Dollar To Put Drive Over the Top a nists from talking or doing any- thing. But he has a way with the help of his Chief Deputy and Chap- s man and the rest to see to it that there won't be any Communists left The Salvation Army has a store at 712-714 Davis Street, in the Ne- gro section, collection goods of all) classes and saying they do not sell hem but that they are for the poor. to do hing |The same fakers go to all corners ¢| every night teaching “Christianity” and taking money from the poor vorkers with the same promise, but | workers have to pay 50 cents a night !to stay there; the same as selling the goods to the poor Negroes in- unty if any efforts are made to al! the workers to strike. They are all dissatisfied with the way things have been going and have finally woke up to what the 3 trouble is. They know that Chap-| Stead of giving it to them free. man is lying to them and fooling! I have seen the officials of the them into letting him settle all dis- | Salvation Army during their con- putes through a gentleman’s agree- | ventions living in the best hotels ment with the packing bosses. The |and eating the best of food while workers are waking up to the fact | We sleep in the street and go hungry. The stitchers’ delegates on the Council had voted against the cut. | The Joint Council reached its de-| cision despite the fact that only two weeks ago the Boston shoe workers at a large mass meeting and at the local meetings voted against any wage cuts or readjust- ments in prices. The Boston offi- cials voted to grant a reduction on the pretext that more shops were threatening to move out. The union officials attempt to cover up their present betrayal by shifting the blame to the rank and file, who are supposedly “forcing” the officials to grant wage cuts to the shoe manufacturers, | berries and vegetables frozen, They that Chapman is keeping them from forcing the Polk Company to pa; the code wages. He has caused hun- | dreds to lose their jobs, and even went so far as having Charles Mc- Call and his brother fired from | Gentiles. He has boasted of this| fact to the members, saying that he, Chapman, had him fired so as to keep the good will of Gus Gentile of Haines City, Fla. Now they are shutting all of the packing houses down without any- one getting any relief. There are many people that cannot get any- thing to eat now. What will be their fate a month from now? Frozen Fruit Shipped The cold has frozen all the vege- tables as well as the fruit. Now it is warm again, and the fruit is all running and is not fit to eat. The bosses are trying to ship all that they can to fool the people into eating it, and to make all the profits that they can before they are shut down. There were 1,800 cars shipped to New York alone last week and part of this shipment was frozen. This was more fruit shipped in one week to one market than ever before in the history of Florida. This should | be a warning to all workers to look out for the frozen fruit, as it is not fit to eat. | Small Farmers Discontented The strike is going fine, and we will try to keep it going. There is| also more discontent among the/| small farmers, because all of them) have ‘been frozen out. The share- | croppers have had all their straw-| can not get any loans from | AAA. as they have to have ae Now they are praying for Roose-| Sirite Sept. 1, when the repre- Letters from Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we can 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. “ ” “ sentatives of the “United” districts ee : teased eee sea | in New England voted to reject the Deal,” at the same time the Salva-| demand of the manufacturers for tion Army pays the Negro workers | Wage cuts, the shoe workers every- $3 or $4 per week. | where supported this decision whole —— | heartedly. But, all during the time | since then, when over 12,000 shoe F | Sh | workers of Boston, Haverhill, Lynn e ortage | and Salem were thrown out of jobs, | 4 when many shoe shops closed down, when over twenty-five shops moved ThreatensRuin out from these shoe centers to the} | unorganized territories of Maine) | and New Hampshire, the officials of Of F Ar M ECL | the “United” tailed to carry out the . task of mobilizing the shoe workers | for struggle. By a Farmer Correspondent | The local and general officials of SHERMAN, N. ¥.—Conditions are | the “United” refused to develop a/ ak | struggle for immediate relief and| pretty bad up here for the farmers | unemployment insurance, and even | and cannot improve much until we | hampered and sabotaged the unem-' can havest a crop again, and that Lae eke Lee nae een a velo; y the rank and file under will have to be @ good one to d0| ine ‘teadership of the Communists much good. in Haverhill and Boston. The offi- | For two seasons this section of the| cals failed to mobilize any real! country has been hit hard by) drought, so meadows for hay are badly damaged and some will have) to be plowed up, cropped and re- seeded with clover seed $10 to $12 per bushel and Timothy at $15. | Some farmers are feeding buck| wheat straw as part of the hay) ration for their cattle, and unless a | lot of ground feed is fed, milk pro- duction must fall. Many farmers are short of ensilage (that is corn | cut fine while green, and placed in| a silo where it will heat) owing to} the poor farm crop. Pamphlet on Coughlin ity, and the sharecroppers have no | cannot have the litter changed So security and nothing to eat, and| Often; consequently, dampness will are getting $2.40 per week, with| become excessive and hens will not families of from six to nine to take | Produce so good, also sickness among | care of. Things are getting serious| them will be above normal here,; On account of the scarcity of hay | in Demand and the feeding of straw henhouses | Pi BE ay | COMRADE HOWARD’S SERIES Chicago, Ill. | By an Agricultural Worker Corre- | job with the Polk Company to or- | ganize the Silver Shirts here. ADDRESS: Ea down here | George Williams, the manager of the Exchange at Winterhaven, where the strike is on, refused to | have any one see him about the strike. He only said that a one-| armed man can pick all of the fruit | that he has to pick. This is just a bluff to fool the workers. The strikers have not been discouraged by this and have refused to move| out to let the scabs in to pick the) fruit. Borie: : Gen Union Chief Turns Fascist spondent HAINES CITY, Fla—J. M. Chap- man, former president of the United Citrus Workers Union of Florida, has admitted that he has taken a He has proceeded to do this under | orders of his boss, Polk, and has| been busy lately trying to get some of the members of the union to| join the Silver Shirts. He has got-| fen six men to join, six men whom he has controlled all along, and the| men that will go with him to fight} the Communists. He said that’s} what he’s going to do, fight Commu- nism. Despite this terror organization, | out of 1,500 members in the United Citrus Workers, he has succeeded in getting only six men to join.| This, of course, does not include the thugs that he has imported to help him fight. Most of his local supporters have quit him and will not support him any more, Some of his strongest supporters were good union women like Mrs. Burch, Mrs, Kelly and Mrs. Stribling. They see through him now, and will have nothing to do with his policy. | doesn’t fight back more than he | killing many before Spring. My own small flock of hens are $66 behind receipts since Aug. 7, and my hens| have done better than some around | here. | A good three pound broiler ten} weeks old might bring a farmer sixty cents, but the day old price of the chick and feed cost close to fifty cents, and when one figures the ones that die or are killed by hawks and weasels, etc., cost per chick raised would be above fifty cents without figuring overhead. It is no wonder so many farmers are driving old model T Fords and other old models of cars that should really be in a junk yard. Should the farmer have a car at all? Yes, he should, because under modern conditions it is a necessity. farm horse even if the traffic acci- dents didn’t claim him. One feature that is detrimental to the farmer is that so much of the business of farming has been moved off the farm to the villages and cities and is handled by busi- ness men and that part of farming that one might call the gambling part is left on the farm. For instance, chickens used to be hatched under hens or in small fifty to five hundred egg incubators. With proper incubation and fertile eggs, chicks are sure to hatch and| with little gamble about it. Now this part of farming is largely mov- ed into hatcheries with more or less capital back or them and the far- mer can devote his time to raising more of other things that comprise | the big gamble. The farmer buys the day old chick from the hatchery and then the big gamble in raising chicks starts and the farmer takes the risk and not the hatchery man. The N.R.A. protects the hatcheries but it doesn’t protect the farmer after he gets the chicks. There are other things with similar features. Tr I could spare the time from work and figure out my problems, I could write an article similar to this every little while. One wonders why the farmer does. The answer is he doesn’t even get time to fight. But the farmer is getting awful mad and there is no AMOUNT Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. telling when he will take a day off. | letters from farmers; Hard roads would ruin the average| ‘| ployed to become members of the Dear Comrade Editor: Having just finished Milton How- ard’s last installment on Father Coughlin’s exposure, I must say it | was splendid. Although T have given my Daily Workers with the articles on Cough- | lin to some of his admirers, that is not enough; it does not reach enough workers. Therefore I sug- gest that Comrade Howard write his exposure in pamphlet form so that we can expose that “holy” scoundrel to millions of workers who are being misled by him. I think even admirers of Coughlin are willing to spend two cents for a pamphlet exposing this demagogue and hypocrite. If a worker is caught speeding at the rate of fifty miles an hour with false license plates, he certainly would be suspected of being a gang- | ster and would be led to a cell. However, we haven't heard of Coughlin even being fined. I'll wager that that poor cop who gave him a ticket will have to apologize on all fours for his mistake of pinching Coughlin, or be fired. G. H. POINTS THE ONLY WAY OUT East Orange, N. J. Dear Comrade Editor: I am very pleased to see the articles in the Daily Worker analyz- ing Father Coughlin’s program from the Shrine of the Little Flower on Sunday afternoons, with the bless- ings of the heads of the General Motors, etc, However, this alone is not enough. It must be carried fur- ther by means of a small pamphlet fo sell for two or three cents a copy. In this way valuable information would be provided to a larger num- ber of honest workers who are fooled by Coughlin. Many of my friends, Irishmen like myself, think he is the Messiah for the poor and ex- ploited workers. However, I have no illusions about him, and it would be well for those honest Irish work- men to know that here as in Ire- land, when it comes to a question of better conditions, it is up to us to unite, organize, for the unem- Unemployment Councils, for those still working to become members of a trade union and fight for better conditions on the job. Fellow Irishmen, the writer of this lefter was born in the city of Limerick. I am a member of the NOTE We publish every Thursday agricultural, | cannery and lumber workers. We urge farmers and workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and efforts to organize, | | Please get these to us by Monday | of each week, ‘two halves of the life of a dying Communist Party. It has often been said that all Irishmen are rebels. If this be so, then we must come to the realization that we cannot make capitalist system hold together by Father Coughlin’s sticking plaster, not can it be cured. We know it must be cut from the very roots, cials. All during the last three and a half months the general officials did nothing to mobilize the shoe workers to fight the demands for} wage cuts and the attempts of the/ manufacturers to smash the union. Instead of preparing the workers| for a fight, thev started a campaign for the reopening of the hearings on the shoe code and thus diverted the attention of the workers from} struggle by pinning all their hopes | on the shoe code, N.R.A. and Wash- | ington. | Since the first full meeting of the GEB. on May 1-3, the resident committee refused to call another full meeting of the G.E.B. to discuss the unton’s situation nationally. The resident committee turned a deaf ear to the demand of the rank and file for a special emergency con-/ vention to prepare for a national strike, although a number of locals have adopted and submitted res-/ olutions to the G.E.B. as required | by the constitution. The Boston shoe workers do not want and certainly cannot stand any wage cuts in the face of the} steady increase in the cost of liv-| ing and because of the already low | average wage we earn at present. The shoe workers are disgusted with the way things are at present and are losing whatever confidence | they had in the leadership of the} union. A wide rank and file move-| ment is beginning to crystallize for an emergency convention to prepare for a national strike, and for the! replacing of the present leadership | with a militant leadership that will fight in the interests of the work- ers, thus strengthening and build- ing the union. Our Readers ship of the Communist Party. As a worker, I ask you to join the van- guard of the working class, the Communist Party. FF. IN DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET UNION NEW YORK, N. Y. DAILY WORKER WE FORTY YOUNG WORKERS AND STUDENTS AT A HOUSE PARTY IN THE BRONX AFFIRM OUR STAND TO DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION AGAINST THE ATTACKS OF THE ENEMIES OF THE WORKERS FATHERLAND A GROUP OF YOUNG WORKERS A WORLD CONGRESS ON UNEM-| PLOYMENT INSURANCE Barre, Vermont. Dear Comrade Editor: The National Unemployment Con- | gress promises to be the biggest congress of workers ever assembled in this country. _ Why not at once start prepara- tions on a world-wide scale for an International Unemployment Insur- ance Congress to be held in Paris or Geneva, with delegates present in large numbers from every country on earth. Let this World Congress demand that each and every country im- mediately turn over all war funds to the setting up of unemployment insurance in all lands. This would be one of the surest ways of pre- venting war, and would serve the two vital purposes of combating war and obtaining adequate insurance for the masses of workers and farm- ers and intellectuals in all countries. If such a World Congress were built up as thoroughly as our National Congress is being built, and con- ducted properly, it would not only attract world attention to the great sentiment against war and for in- surance, but also back from the World Congress would come militant workers for the demands to every territory of the entire world, to carry forward and broaden the work outlined at the Worid Congress. dW. BUT NOT HOPELESSLY Detroit, Mich. Dear Comrade Editor: Enclosed you will find my vote in favor of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). In my opinion any worker who could not favor this bill must indeed be hopelessly hypnotized by the prop- aganda of his class enemies, A. McK. LITTLE LEFTY MAKES FRIENDS New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: I want to relate here how I con- tacted recently a new house which the Daily Worker now reaches daily. For some time I had noticed that my neighbor's children were very fond of Del’s “Little Lefty” strip which they read in my house, right after school time. One morning the children happily informed me that they had found the Daily Worker stuck in the door in the morning. In the evening I went in to see the father and told him that the carrier to whom I sug- and this shall be done by the bayo- | mets of the people under the leader- in the morning. gested his name brought the paper eject Wage Cut Plan of Boston Council N. E. Council Rescinds Boston Decision By a Shoe Worker Correspondent LYNN, Mass.—Lynn officials re- | ported that at a meeting of coun- cil members of Lynn, Boston and Haverhill held in Boston on Thurs- day, Dec. 20, it was revealed that the Boston Joint Council had de- cided to grant a wage cut. This report of action taken by Boston aroused the New England Council delegates, and immediately upon the conclusion of the report by Salvaggio 2 motion was made by a Hayerhill delegate to adjourn, which meant that all officials will return to their cities and the wage cut competition between the union shoe centers would start and would probably finish with the smashing of the union. After a considerable discussion, the Boston Joint Council rescinded its decision and agreed to work with the Haverhill and Lynn Councils for joint action on prices. It was agreed that within the next two weeks the three districts must work to reach a uniform deci- sion on prices and action. Although the general officials were notified of the action of the Boston Coun- cil and of the meeting, they cow- ardly and treacherously failed to come, although they well know what such a meeting could result in. It is now the job of the shoe workers of Boston, Lynn and Hav- erhill more than ever before to re- ject any form of wage cut. The season is here. The bosses through our weak-kneed officials make their last rush to put over a cut. We must stand ready to fight against a cut, or prepare to fight for in- creases with the coming of the season. Empty Lot Is Relief Station In Hazelhurst By a Worker Correspondent HAZELHURST, Pa. — Here is a picture of the relief station in Hazelhurst. | A cold December morning. A/ crowd of workers, men, women and children, are huddled in a vacant lot. Most of them are grasping in their bare hands a postal card from the relief board, telling them to re- port at a certain hour, to give their life history, or to receive a pair of shoes or a bit of clothing that they have been waiting months to get. ‘They are stamping their feet and waving their arms in order to keep warm, and as the time draws near as specified on their cards, they be- come restless and keep glancing at the cards. The stated time comes and goes. Some of them give up and tread their weary way home. Others stick it out, and at last a car drives into the lot and stops. The motor is left humming, it is comfortable and warm inside. Another long wait, while the clerk inside the car is arranging the few articles of clothing and the blanks for your cradle to the grave history. Finally a worker is called into the car, and after a long tedious wait, he gets out and another worker is called in, and so on. The storm is getting worse and it is getting colder. More workers, without cards, have heard that the relief car is in town and are coming into the vacant lot. Suddenly, the purr of the motor increases, the car glides into the traffic. In the distance can be caught a glimpse of a vanishing tail light. The Hazelhurst relief station has left town and the workers are left holding the bag. If the workers would take a good look at the tail light and realize what the color symbolizes, we would have the use of one of the many empty halls in town, and be pro- vided with sufficient heat. though not an English reader, yield- ed to the children’s request to have ne paper delivered to them every lay. Of course, I made my neighbor understand the influence and role the comic strips in the capitalist press play in shaping children’s views on life, and he, being a reas- oning worker, grasped the problem, even overcoming the financial hard- ship. i, F. ONE FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: I wish to suggest a way to boost the Daily Worker effectively and with due credit to the sheet. It should be made a point to every comrade to carry two copies with him when reading the “Daily” in public, one from the day previous and one a late paper. The idea is to read one paper, with the other one in a hip pocket, and to leave the back number on the seat before leaving the train or car. This tactic spurs an interest in the paper. If this method is practiced by a thousand or more members, it is effective in bringing the paper to all parts of the city, and on every means of conveyance. My neighbor, —M. R. WORKER’ Lecture Tonight A lecture on Venereal Diseases and Their Cure, Prevention and Social Significance will be given to- the auspices of the Medical Advisory Street and Irving Place at 8:30 p.m. Dr, J. Alonzo will discuss the con- trol of this problem in the Soviet Union. Admission is 25 cents. All proceeds go to the Daily Worker. How the Ads Put Their Poison Across The following is an advertisement put out by the Alwin Products for their product Ambergren: “We have today received your let- ter asking for information how to correct hair troubles and how to regrow hair. “In far East India, Bal-Dava, meaning hair medicine has been used for centuries, That baldness is practically unknown to the millions of people there. In the accompanying enclosure we will tell you how we have taken Bal-Dava and prepared it for use here. We call it Ambergren. “Until now if we had hair trouble, if we had dandruff. or if our hair was falling out no one could defi- nitely tell us what to do to correct the trouble, but if you will read the information that we are sending you with this letter, vou wfl under- stand that hair troubles are now no longer a question of guessing how to correct them and how to save our hair. “Ambergren is something new and entirely different from anything you have ever had. You will be de- lighted with it. It will help you get real results. It will help put your scalp and hair in condition so that eee can function, to regrow your air.” Our Answer A patent medicine company can be fined by law if it makes claims to do impossible things. The circular you enclose describing the “Amber- By ANN An interesting letter comes from Martins Ferry, Ohio, cal feces fall my daughter entered High School, About a month later she told me that they have a@ very good teacher. I did not pay much attention to her, think- ing that she meant that he is not strict with them. But later, when she started telling me what the teacher talks about, I started to take notice. * “AJORE than once, my daughter said, ‘Mr. Stevenson talks just like you, ma. He talks about the conditions, the N. R. A., the teachers, and their conditions. Among other things he said is that it is getting so that soon the proletarian chil- dren will not be taught anything more than to write their own names. And the rich children will have separate schools. But if it was the same here, as it is in Russia, there would be no difference between the rich and the poor or their children. He does not blame the people for fighting for Communism, because that is the only way they will get freedom.’ So during every history class, he would talk about the con- ditions of today. . we. WERE real glad that our daughter was taught by a teacher like that. We were afraid that the school board would throw him out—which did happen. They fired him two months before school was ended. “Comrades! Proletarian mothers! T ask you all that if you have such teachers in the schools, do not let them fire them. We could have kept our teacher in the school here, too, if there would have been enough of us who are class conscious.” . 5 Nee report made by the Com- mittee on Education te the A. F. L, Convention not so long ago bears out what the militant teacher of Martins Ferry told his students. Look what it says about today’s education of working class children: “We ARE facing the passing of the public schools. In fact, the public schools have passed in many sections of our country. A program of retrenchment has reduced school efficiency and educational opportu- nity to the point of extinction. “Two thousand rural schools in twenty-four states failed to reopen in 1933. A like situation prevailed in the cities where the increase in school population was met, not by additional classes and teachers, but by increased enrollment in the al- ready overlarge classes. The per pupil cost of education was cut 22 per cent last year. The teachers in service were reduced five per cent. The school year has been shortened in a large number of cities. The building and repair program fund for schools in the United States has dropped 57.6 per cent in cities in the last two years. Salaries have been reduced from 10 per cent to 75 per cent.” - . It is not recorded that the A. F, L. Convention took any action pollinate ett night by Dr. Daniel Casten under| Board at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th! is why | S HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) ;gren” hair lotion gets around tnis by stating that it will “help put | your scalp and hair in condition so that nature can function, to re- grow your hair.” If this company (Alwin Products, |Inc.) claimed to regrow hair, it could be fined because there is no way to make a dead hair grow ; again and the company knows it. Notice the comma after the word “function.” This is necessary be- cause without it the phrase “can jfunction to regrow your hair? amounts to a claim for the ability to regrow hair. By putting in the comma which most people will not even notice, and by wording the sentence as they do. this group of fakers gives the reader the impres- \sion that their medicine can grow hair, and at the same time keep within thelaw. This need not sur- Prise anyone. since laws are pur- poselvy worded so that crooks, fakers | and exploiters can safely get around them, No medicine known at present can cause dead hair to grow again. Any- one who, says so is either ignorant or a faker. However, dandruff can be cleared up, but it takes a long time and much care. Use the fol- lowing lotion in the scalp morning and night. If you use it for several mbps it will clear up your dan- ruff: Resorcin—two drachms Mercury Bichloride—two gratme Beta Naphtol—ten grains Olive Oil—three drachms Alcohol 70 per cent—eight ounces, Rub the lotion in and do not wash it out. Shampoo once a week. If the hair gets too dry, rub in a little olive oil. Who said William Green is a wall-flower? Come down to Wash- ington and watch him dance with Fannie Perkins. Watch them both dance into the hearts of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Manufacturers Association. The Daily Worker tells you to what tune they dance! Subscribe to the Daily Worker! 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