The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1933 WORKERS EXPOSE MWCORMICK’S JOB SELLING SWINDLE Bohs Sold to Raw farm Hands for $20 Neglect of Breaking in New Workers Results in Increase of Accidents Correspondent By a Metal Worker CHICAGO, Il , office acciden that th ung man was working for being hired by M grinding a mus chisel. Hi: in Dept. 66 tin shop ¢ days after He was ead on a caught be- tween the eme: is for 1 from a farn help. out e when accident ppened to these new There are a large num- hurt daily, in especia Some of us have spent all our with McCormick. We have families and now when Terror Used To Smash U.C. In Evanston By a Worker Correspondent EVANSTON, Jl.—December 12th a.committee.from the newborn Un- “employed Council of Evanston took a@ worker who had been refused re- lief up to the relief station to de- mand that he and his family should Re given their order. Instead of gving food to this worker the relief officials called the cops and the Whole committee was arrested. At the trial the cha: were dismissed against all of them A couple of days later every one of these workers were picked up in their homes, and charged with in- citing to riot and disorderly con- duct. Jury trial was demanded, and the case will come up the 28th of January. All cf the arrested are out ‘on bail. Fya is the of the big millionaire In the shadow of the Palatial mansions of the parasites we have a big number of workers. A great percentage of these are Negro w 1,700 families are on relief rolls in Evanston today. There is only one relief station, and this station has to take care of workers living as far as twenty miles out of Evanston. The unem- | Ployed workers from Palantine, | twenty miles off, have to either walk or hitch-hike early in the morning, and in most cases sit in the relief station all day before they get their order. In some cases we have re- Ports that they were sent home and told to come back the next morning. Des Plaines and Winnetka are both eight miles from Evanston, and in these towns cuite a good number of workers are on relief. Before the big 1 ff of case Workers about a month ago, each case worker’ had to handle more than 300 families a month. Sir the lay-offs naturally the load is higher. One case worker reported to one of the members in the Unem- ployed Council that Miss Buford, the supervisor of the relief station, some times keep the workers wait- ing for the fun of it. One day she had 8 orders laying cn her desk ready to O.K., which can be done im fifteen or twenty minut She waited to close to six o'clock before the orders were given to the work- | rs. The workers had to spend all that time waiting just because it happened to look good to Miss Buford. In Evanston the Unemployed Council is growing, and leading struggles of the unemployed work- ers. A mass meeting in protest against the arrests and finger print- ing the relief committee and for, better relief and more efficiency at! | by the controlling class. The unem- | ers installed in their places, HAIL THE DAILY WORKER! Jith Anniversary and Lenin Memorial Edition SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 I send revolutionary greetings to the Daily Worker, the organizer the Américan working class, the leader in the fight for a Soviet are old enough to go to work work. We asked Kieffer for a job for our ers. His answer wa i be lucky that worker out he an application said let your son fill blank so when there is a job he will | be called to work. One day later a bunch of new} fellows were put to work and our sons are still waiting for the call. | It was too dangerous for Mr. Kieffer to ask $20 or $25 from our sons as he did from new workers. When Mr. Kieffer was finally | caught in this swindle he was not | fired. But, instead he is given a job in the tractor works. All of us workers should demand | that Mr. Kieffer be fired immediate- | ly for good. Fellow workers: The only and the best, way to get rid of these money | swindlers, and accidents will dis- apear when the workers are organ- ized into a militant fighting union This union is non other than the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, No c le ih jis g For Transients In Indiana By a Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind.—I am not, as yet, a Communist. However, I have for a long time realized that the working people of the U. S. did not have a newspaper that conveyed to them) other than news which those who! own the industries and the banks want them to have. Therefore I am glad to know of the Daily Worker. | Conditions, such as are in vogue in the Indiana Transient Bureaus, | should be remedied by those who | inhabit them, and workers who be- | cause of the unequal distribution of | money, should not allow themselves | to be further misguided in the be-| lief that they will again have jobs | and live other than they exist at | present. There is every indication | that the unemployed are being pre-! pared for living as they are, and become accustomed to the newly ar- | ranged poor-house, the Transient | Bureau. Men become docile, lose ambition. When this Bureau becomes over-| crowded, and there is only room on the floor to sleep, about 25 are! loaded into a truck and transported | like live-stock to a camp 25 miles in | the country. Bosses around these institutions are selected from those of the inmates who are of the types that you would find scabbing on a job in case of a strike. If a man at one time has stayed at another one of these Indiana! poor-houses and leaves and applies for “relief” at another Indiana poor-house, he is denied food or shelter as a penalty and is cast out to beg, steal or kill. The horrible conditions should be changed. They will not be changed ployed workers and the workers| that still have a job should see that these institutions are institutions of | working class thought and manage- ment and the present bootlickers dethroned and class conscious work- Notice | was received today (12-19-34) that | thé State is out of clothes and shoes and none to be on hand until late in January. Good news for the thinly clad workers. | Rush greetings in for the 11th Anniversary of the Daiy Worker and organize for a mass sale and | distribution of the special edition on Jan. 19. the relief station is being held. At | this mass meeting the question of | electing a delegate to the National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance will be taken up. \ier's till a dime, This page on Tuesday Is re- served for correspondence from steel, metal and auto workers. In glancing over today’s page it can be seen that there are only three letters from workers in these in- dustries. Certainly this is not so because the workers in these industries are not confronted with grave problems or that nothing is hap- pening in these industries. In the automobile and steel in- dustries the bosses are making desperate efforts to force com- pany unions upon the workers. Countless incidents have occurred in both these industries showing how th eworkers are resisting this campaign of the bosses. In the automobile industry, the so-called “season” is about to start. We have had some fine jJetters from Ford workers on what the 1935 season will mean in the Ford plant. We want more such letters from the other large auto plants. In the steel industry the A. A. is conducting an organizational campaign. The rank and file movement within the A. A. is Atmosphere o By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich—The so-called |Cadillac plant elections carried through on December 19th in De- troit by the Automobile Labor Board fell far short of the expectations of the open shop auto manufactur- ers who engineered the whole busi- ness. | The employers wanted to achieve two results from the poll: (1) Pile up an overwhelming vote for the company union—the Cadillac Em- | ployees Association, and (2) Regard- less of how the vote turned out to establish the company-union “works | council,” based on proportional rep- tive of the employees in collective bargaining. The employers failed to achieve the first point and succeeded, at | gaining strength. Still, these de- velopments thus far have not been reflected in the columns of the worker correspondence page. We appeal to all workers in steel and auto as well as the various metal crafts to write us of the developments in their in- dustries and thus help the Daily Worker become a more effective weapon in their struggles. Transients’ Conditions Are Depicted By a Worker Correspondent LEBANON, Pa. — The idea that only through combined and mass | action will they secure some relief from their misery is penetrating the conscience of the people of our backward community, The grievance committee of the Lebanon Unemployed Council is compelled periodically to visit in a mass the Relief Board and demand coal, clothing and food denied to many on the slightest pretense. The Council is usually successful. But we have in town hundreds of des- titute families, who, because of their ignorance or timidity are ap- plying for relief individually and are usually denied the meager hand-out. But, miserable as is the condition | of hundreds of workers’ families who have to depend on relief or part-time work, the condition of the people who belong to other/| communities, transients looking for work, is still more appalling. It is not an exaggeration to declare that a stray dog is treated more human- ly. The police are always on the watch for strangers shabbily dressed, and they are promptly chased out of town if they cannot prove any means of a livelihood. Many of them perish but nobody cares. Po- lice and the press are usually anx- jous to see that ‘he public should not be aware of these cases. Once in a while, though, a corner of this heavy blanket of silence is lifted up and the public can see the grue- some, rotten view of our capitalistic “civilization.” A couple of months ago a hitch hiker dropped down in Cornwall, a suburb of Lebanon. He was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital, where he died on the second day. Diagnosis—starvation. From his be- longings it was discovered that he came from New England looking | for work. Here is a recent case. A young | man from the South graduated high school only a few years ago. He was full of hope and belief in him- self and the world. But the country had nothing to offer him. He started to travel looking for work and was stranded in our vicinity for the past month. No matter how he tried he could find no employ- ment. A stranger in town, starved, without a home, in desperation he decided to compel our state to take j care of him the only way he knew how. Thursday night, on Dec. 20, he broke in the railroad station of Myerstown, grabbed from the cash- went with it to the only policeman in town and told him to arrest him for it. And now when our solid citizens on Christ- mas in church, beam at each other of “Peace on earth, good will to man,” this young man in our Leb- anon prison is musing on the irony of it. Fortunately, the element that will eventually pull us out of this quag- | mire is becoming more active in our town too. Just now we are getting ready for the Social Insurance Con- | gress in Washington. Societies are addressed, money to cover the ex- penses are collected. We expect to send delegates from the Commu- nist Unit, Unemployment Council, ILD. and we understand that the Socialist Branch is going to send one also, and so We will be well represented considering the size of our town. We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every Tuesday, We urge workers in these industries to write us of their con- ditions and their efforts to or- ganize. Please get these letters to us by Saturday of each week. Collect greetings from your _ shopmates for the 11th Anniver- _ sary of the Daily Worker. | these fellow-workers to become Ask subscribers, least for the time being, in putting resentation, as the sole representa- | APPEAI Caditlac Election Is | | Blow at Co. Unionism Only 152 Voted for Company Union Despite f Intimidation | ballots were reported cast. The fol- lowing is the picture of the vote: | No designated union affili- | ation ......: ses 1,176 | Absent from the poll..... 707 | Blank and void ballots... 143 Cad. Employees Assn. (Co. | Union) os «69-4 A.cE, Of GL, 94 Soc. Designing Engineers CAD int A ees Auto Workers Union .... 1 2,300 This election was carried on in- | side the plant. The atmosphere of | company coercion and fear of losing | the job hung heavily over most of the workers, Yet despite this the company could only muster 152} votes for their own pet company | over the second point. “As far as Cadillac is concerned,” writes Athel | F, Denham, Detroit Editor of Auto- | |motive Industries, the employers’ | | magazine, “the question of propor- | tional representation versus majority | representation (ie. company union- |ism ys. real unionism) is a dead issue as long as President Roose- velt’s automobile settlement of last | spring stands.” But even the poll | itself clearly shows that the issue’ | of real unionism is very much alive in the auto industry. It is true that the President’s settlement still stands but it already has one foot | jin the grave and the other foot jon a banana peel. Under mass| | pressure, even the arch reactionary, | Francis J. Dillon, representative of | | the A. F. of L., had to recently come out against the President's settle- ment. | In examining the Cadillac vote | | we must keep in mind that all the |bona-fide unions protested against |the poll and the A. F. of L. and | Mechanics Educational Society of America called for a boycott of the | election. We must also keep in mind that the Cadillac plant has the most favorable set-up for the |employers or they would not have |picked it for the first test in the “works council” elections. | Sociation) out of the 1,593 ballots |union to support or feared to ex- union (the Cadillac Employees As- which were cast. Some of the work- | ers showed their contempt for the poll by voting for such people as Babe Ruth and Herbert Hoover. The bona-fide unions, according | to the official report, received a vote | of 122. But according to direct re- ports we have received we can safely declare that the number of workers | who consciously boycotted the poll was far greater than the number who voted for the company union, | The conscious boycott vote was an expression for bona-fide unionism in this poll. One thousand, one hundred and seventy-six workers showed they were not for the com- pany union, but they also indicated that they had not yet made up their minds as to which bona-fide press their real opinion on this mat- ter in an election conducted inside the plant. Tf this Cadillac plant election is a big victory for the company union or in any way settles the question of company unionism versus real unionism in the auto industry, then let the employers make the most of it. They will be grinning on the other side of their face when they are once again confronted with | mass picket lines against the un- Out of 2,300 eligible voters, 1,593 By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—I want to write a brief letter on the present condi- | tions in Robins Dry Dock. I belong jto the nucleus of the Communist |Party that has concentrated there for the last two years. We have been successful enough |to draw into our nucleus a few |workers working in that yard, and |I am glad to say, that it seems we lately have made some headway, al- | though I think that, according to | the long period of concentration and the many favorable possibilities, we should have progressed consider- ably more than we have, not only |for one but for several reasons. | For instance, there was a time, | when we held open air meetings once or twice a week outside the dry dock. At these meetings we dis- | tributed leaflets, Daily Workers and | literature. The trouble was, how- | ever, that very often the assigned | speaker did not show up which, of | course, discouraged the comrades assigned to carry the platform, flag, Daily Workers and literature in vain. Lately we have held very few open air meetings. I will again em- |phasize that the comrades assigned to speak should carry out their as- \Signments for the future open air meetings. Our only form of activity in Robins Dry Dock, at present, with exception of an open air meeting | now and then, is personal contacts, and the sale of the Daily Worker. The conditions in Robins Dry Dock are and have been for the last 5-6 weeks worse than ever, with |more speed-up, more discrimination, and especially more and more fir- |ing of workers. At every shape-up, which takes place three times daily, |namely, 7 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., !hundreds of workers, the majority of whom have worked in the yard for years, “shape-up” regularly in hope of getting hired. The usual result is that only a handul of the most “privileged” get hired, while the great majority of workers whom the big cheeses made profit on dur- ing the years they toiled in the shipyard, leave in disgust with ab- solutely no guarantee of the big cheeses, who have made huge profits on them, ever again diving them a chance to earn a living. We have discussed these various questions in our nucleus, and have come to the conclusion that some concrete demands must be raised in favor of the bulk of workers who eagerly, but in vain, “shape-up” for work day after day. The main demands, should therefore be: 1. A shorough investigation of all ships, as to their sea-worthiness, 2. All ships not found in proper seaworthy condition should not be permitted to go to sea before a thorough overhauling and repair. ‘We know that hundreds of ships leave the Port of New York which are absolutely not seaworthy. This we thing, Dry Dock Waker jobiless | As Ships Sail Unseaworthy bearable conditions in the industry. ment among them, we feel sure that we, with the support of these workers, will be able to put up a militant fight, which in a compara- tively short time will enable us to get relief for all the unemployed dry dock workers. | So comrades, let us as workers ourselves prove to the Dry Dock | workers that we are capable, cour- | ageous and sincere, not only in| fighting for them, but in fighting side by side with them to win these | demands for our fellow workers in| Robins Dry Dock. 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. ANOTHER “NEW DEAL” STUNT Faribault, Minn, Dear Comrade Editor: In the December issue of the Daily Worker, Comrade S. R., of New York, suggests the issue of a one cent pamphlet on Coughlin, to be distributed all over the United States—say a million copies. I be- lieve it would be one of the best pamphlets for educational work. There is no doubt that this hypo- crite and agent of the Wall Street bankers, and the Roosevelt criminal N. R. A. “New Deal,” is one of the greatest stunts ever pulled in order to keep the workers divided, to lead them to Hitlerism, and to finally jJead them in front of the Czar to be murdered off by the hundreds of thousands and thus cause another Bloody Sunday. If such a pamphlet is printed, we could use five thousand here as a starter. Le us hear from some of the other comrades on this matter. EF. CREDIT TO THE DOCTORS Coleridge, Nebraska. Dear Comrades: I am enclosing my bit toward the $60,000 drive. It is only a dollar would not only give plenty of work to dry dock workers, but would also mean safety to human lives. In behalf of the hundreds of Dry Dock workers who in vain daily are Spending their last nickels and dimes for carfare, in hove of land- ing a few hours job, we have de- cided to hire a hall nearby the yard, for registration of all the unem- ployed shipyard workers. In this way, we hove to build a strong un- employment council right in the heart of Robins Dry Dock. And since there is such great unemploy- and late in the day, but better late than neyer. Please credit it to the doctors. I wish to commend them on the good work they are doing in giving honest information about sex, P, By PAVING THE WAY WITH A ‘ PAMPHLET McKeesport, Pa. Dear Comrade Editor: I have been following those six articles by Milton Howard telling about Father Coughlin, and the Letters from Our Readers Pechter’s Committee Is Stool Pigeon Agency By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Some time ago I wrote to you of conditions in the Pechter Baking Co. Well, conditions haven't im- proved any in the least since then. | The drivers still work 84 hours a | week and are still responsible for unpaid accounts, which very often means about $20 for an 84-hour week. Oh, yes, Mr. Pechter saw my letters in the Daily Worker and decided to do something for the workers. He organized a commit- tee of four among the workers to settle grievances. He picked four “faithful” workers, and so far this committee has assisted Mr. Pech- ter in firing the less faithful ones. With those about whom he is not very sure he has adopted dif- ferent tactics. Every evening he personally drives one of the work- ers home in his own car. There is a swell boss for you! My previous letter stirred the workers a bit, most of them read it in the Daily Worker. They are wise to Mr. Pechter’s “rides” and to his “committee.” All they need is a little organ- ization and they can force Mr. Pechter to slice about twenty-five hours off the working week and raise salaries by at least ten dol- lars, just as their fellow workers in the Bronx branch of the same company did. Wage Cut Is Xmas Present In FERA Job By a Worker Correspondent PONTIAC, Mich.—The Oakland County F, E. R. A. workers were handed a very fine Christmas pres- ent from the F. E. R. A. when they went to work on the morning of Dec. 20—a six-dollar cut in their monthly budget. This is the second cut for most of these workers. On Nov. 8 most of these workers were cut $3 to $12 per month. The next day, the big layoffs started, and left only about 150 workers on the pro- jects in Pontiac. In order to create jealousy among the workers, no two budgets are alike.» Some with five in the fam- ily may ge more than some other worker under identieal conditions. The purpose of this, obviously, is to get the workers fighting among themselves instead of against the administration. Here is a sample budget for a family of five: Old Budget eee + $23.68 Milk 4.50 Shelter 5.00 Oil and gas seseeee 1.26 Household necessities ... 5.25 Total » $39.69 Earnings a Sibaisheien ve tide Oa $39.00 New Budget Food Milk Shelter Earnings for 4-weel period The work of those still on F. E. R. A. projects (labor) is paid for at the rate of fifty cents an hour for a six-hour day. The condition of those of us on relief is about the same as of those on F. E. R. A. jobs. There has been| a cut in this direct relief but it seems to have been only for the larger families as the check for two people still remains at $5.80 for fif- teen days. news in them was just to my liking. But if you want to do something for us comrades out in the remote fields, why just print a small book- let covering those six articles and link them up with fascisra. A pamphlet like that would be a help in exposing the little Poison Priest. When one has people come to the house asking to pledge for Cloudy Urine Comrade E. F. writes: “I have been worried for some time, because my urine appears cloudy and seems to contain little bodies. sible that I have cotracted gonhor- | rhea, although I have never had a | discharge?” ge rset | Our Reply It would have helped us in an- swering your question had you given us your age and sex, and stated the Presence or absence, now or in the past, of any other urinary com- plaints. In the first place, cloudiness’ is significant only in freshly passed urine, since any normal urine will turn cloudy in time due to the | WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board Is it pos-| (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) tion in the formation of a bunion, such as you have, is the factor of | irritation. That usually comes from {shoes that fit improperly at just that particular point. If this bunion bothers you a great | deal, whether you wear a shoe or |not, it is advisable to have it re= moved by the knife in a competent physician's hands. To prevent it from coming back, correct shoes can be worn only after three weeks have passed after the operation. A correct shoe in your case should be one where there is a broad or | bulldog “toe box,” that is in the |front of the shoe where all the | toes must have enough room. Then see that the shoe is long enough. Length should be measured from | the heel to beyond the longest toe, | which may be the second and not | the first toe. The top of the shoe | should be of soft leather to give the growth of bacteria and the precip- | toe a chance to spread when walk- itation of the salts it contains.| ing or standing. Most important, Freshly passed urine may be cloudy | however, is that the inner part of when passed soon after a meal, but | the shoe, runing from the inner side this may be due to any number of | of tht heel to the large toe, should causes, as well as gonorrhea. It may be due, in a woman, to the presence of a vaginal discharge; in a man, to mixture with seminal fluid, follow- ing sexual activity or excitement. Aside from such contamination with other bodily secretions, it usually means an obstruction or infection somewhere in the urinary tract. If you are a man, and have never had an acute discharge, it is almost certain that the case is not gonor- rhea; if you are a woman, it is quite improbable, but one cannot be cer- gonorrhea in the female occasion- ally gives practically no symptoms. Especially if you are much wor- ried, or if you have other urinary complaints, we advise you to see a local doctor or clinic and have your urine examined, to rule out any serious cause and put your mind at rest. eer 6 Bunions Comrade H. C. of Santa Barbara, Calif., writes: “For the past ten years I have been suffering from pain over an enlarged joint on the big toe,” Our Reply From your description you seem to be suffering from a bunion. For the treatment of the bunion itself there are a number of remedies. However, the important considera- By ANN 'HERE are no “old maids” in the Soviet Union! This is the very decisive statement made recently by Elias Tobenkin, novelist, and former instructor at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin, after traveling extensively through the U. S. S. R. Teobenkin states that students of the family and marriage are flock- ing to the Soviet Union to see how the dictatorship of the pro- letariat affects these relationships. These students of the ways of the Soviet Union, Mr. Tobenkin says, find much to grow enthusiastic about. oe te “SOR two persons to marry” says Mr. Tobenkin, “all that is re- quired is that they love each other and that they be eighteen years of age. When these requirements have been met, nothing can keep them apart, neither family, nor money, nor school, or any other author- ities.” aS Sea) “No young man in Russia,” he goes on to explain, “would think it neces- sary to postpone his marriage to the girl he loves in order first to Save up something for their future —a nest egg.. “The economic considerations — and drawbacks—which enter into the marriage question elsewhere are unknown in the Soviet Union. Mar- riage involves no serious rearrange- ment of one’s economic status. Hus- this and that and join the Union of Social Justice and such stuff, it would be good to pave the way with @ pamphlet. R. B. UNITED, ORGANIZED STRUGGLE OF NEGRO AND WHITE LED BY COMMUNIST PARTY AGAINST FASCIST TERROR Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: The capitalist press uses every opportunity to slander our moye- ment. When a lynch mob in Ten- nessee burned a court house, a Negro hotel, and terrorized the Ne- groes of the town, the boss press chanted, “See, Mr. Citizen, how ter- rible and brutal a mob is. This is what the Reds are teaching us to do. We must rid ourselves of Reds and save our country.” Now! Anyone who has studied Lenin and knows the program and tactics of the Communist Parties everywhere, knows first, that the revolution will be waged against the bourgeoisie and not against Negroes who are our fellow workers, but with them. Second, a proletarian revolution is organized and disci- plined. It is not a mad, drunken riot. Its purpose is to seize power and any blood that will flow will be caused by the counter-revolution- ary forces. We will not kill, save when it is necessary for the success of the revolution. It is slanderous (and bitter, too, when it comes from Socialists and labor leaders) to compare us to a lynch mob, we who are fighting with all our strength to save the workers and farmers from such fascist terror, M. E, band and wife each go on with their former work and routine. “Very many university students are married, and even in secondary schools, marriage is not uncom- mon.” ee She an interview with him, upon his return, Tobenkin showed how the Soviet Union makes these conditions possible. That men and women need not worry about unemployment, we already know. The women of the Soviet Union have every possible protection, If there is to be a child, a system of “industrial and maternity insur- ance provides the women with the necessary comforts for herself and with clothes for her future in- fant. There are homes for such Prospective mothers, where they may stay (with full pay—A.B.) for two months prior to the birth of the child, and two months after.” Of course there is the physician who looks after the mother's health, and sees that everything possible is done, to make sure the coming baby will be healthy. Tobenkin speaks of “a chain of nurseries, kindergartens, day homes, clubs, and sanatoriums, that look after the child. Ae §S the January issue of the Work- ing Woman will show, these con- ditions under the dictatorship of the proletariat, are very different from the conditions prevailing in Czarist Russia, where women married to become a slave to her husband, to live” a conditions of degrada- tion, hunger, and “sub- mission, No wonder, then, that \ tain without an examination, since | ; be a straight line, not bent as in | “pointed” shoes. Some shoes have 2 | special bunion pocket if more room is required. Chilblains C. C., Maspeth, N. Y.:—In those | who have a poor circulation of blood there sometimes appear dark red | patches, usually on the heels, bor- ders of the feet, toes, fingers, ears or nose. These parts are cold to the | touch, tender and when exposed to warmth they are apt to burn and itch intensely, In extreme cases the parts are of a purplish red color, and blisters and ulcers may form from ordinary rubbing. The condi- tion is brought on by exposure to cold and usually improves in the warm months—though not always in the severe cases, There is, of course, no seasonal relief for those who work in butcher shops where they are always exposed to the low temperature of the refrigerators. Warm woolen socks should be worn and the feet should be washed daily in hot water, rubbed briskly and quickly dried and powdered with talcum powder. The wearing of warm shoes—such as sheep-lined | Ones— is very helpful. For the re- lief of the intense itching and burn- ing, apply calamine lotion. 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