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

x i = we E DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935 ~@ ree Page 4 RANK AND FILE RESENTMENT IN 1.S.U. GROWS ON WEST COAST ‘Red Scare’ Is Raised — {tm Among Telegraphists Conditions Unchanged fonths After Strike ' Seamen Are Inspired by Gains of Longshoremen Under Militant Leadership | WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) NEW ROOSEVELT APPOINTEE | Unorganized Men Hail Marine Union Merger By a Marine Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The crew of the S.S. Sarcoxie, of the America-France line, are all un- organized with the exception of one fireman who is a member of || Ei Bulletin Against Communists Issued by Candidate for President of the A. R. T. A. Adults and Childhood Diseases |ache, are a combination of symptomg Re is Lan ional Seen || the Marine Workers Industrial Comrade T. ©., of New Fork, ae are seen not in one condie = By a Marine Worker Correspondent | dorsing, or ordering active coopera-|| Union. These seamen are not |) \ vitae to j _| tion, but many; and, therefore, our By a Marine Worker Correspondent | w ed the eighty-four days of Bechesacner tis ssra i: hentia are| tion with, the United States Con-|| pleased with the $57.50 agree- w Te 4 Se adults as ® en- | best advice is that you go to a good he | terrorism of the police, National certain elements in the American | sress Against War and Fascism, the || ment and curse the 18.U. off- eral rule contract childhood diseases| physician or clinic to get @ Guard and vigilantes would be con- | Radio Telegraphists Association | Atlantic Unity Conference, the|| cials when they are mentioned. | through actual contact with af-|thorough physical examination sidered & good: union man, that are attempting to raise the Telegraph Messengers Union, the || “B0z0,” IS.U. delegate, was also || flicted children. He asks further| Which will reveal the cause of your Toic battle waged aga t owners has not as yet made miserable conditions any better. The shipping companies have de cided to reco; ational Seamen's Un pokesman for the sailors. his has meant thus far is that the seamen have to Shell out an init fore they car . The I. S. U. bureaucrats are ha Py and call what is g 1 their ing ball” with the st That the shipowners are com out on top in this “ball game” is shown by the fact that the I. S. U. officials have shipped scabs to break str gles of the seamen since the West Coast strike, namely in Portland, Seatile, New York San Pedro The seamen seem to be the ball in this game between the shipowners and the I. S. U. officials. ll the developments since the the conducting of the poll by the “impartial” Arbitration Board has shown the men that the; should never place their confidence in any but trusted rank and file leaders. The seamen now see how the militant lo: remen have se- cured practica all their original demands by repudiating Ryan. While the longshoremen have been going ahead consistently through militant action, the seamen have gained practically nothing. The six months’ probationary pe- ried that every new I, S. U. mem- ber must serve is only an example of the maneuvers the I. S. U. offi-| cials have to resort to in order to keep the membership in check. One would think that a man who has The December issue of the Sea- men’s Journal, official publication of he I. S. U. reveals between the lines of us boasting that the I. S. U. officials are a bit uneasy. It seems that there are still some mil- itant seamen who are determined that thi heroic efforts shall not have been in vain. After boasting how they (the I.S.U. officials) have helped to break the strike of At- seamen, an editorial g the words of a mili- tant seaman, “If you can't lick them join them!” That is what the offi- cial pie-card artists of the I. 8. U are afraid of—the militant seamen that are fiocking into the I. 8. U. Everywhere you hear seamen asl when are we going to get re-| its, anyway? The Seamen’s Jour- replies editorially, “Generally peaking, arbitration is a slow proc- | ess, but in this instance there has | been a rapid start. The Arbitra- | tion Board has been selected (!)” | No seaman is falling for this line any longer, not even a backward one. \ ic Coast states, quoti The majority of the men don’t give a damn about arbitration. They know that they will have to fight for better conditions and the I. §. U. officials will have a hard time holding them in check as proven by the strike on the Luckenbach ships in the Northwest. The seamen are at last grasping the meaning of the | longshoremen's slogan of rank and file control. As one I. 8S. U. mem- ber said, “Those stevedores have the | right idea. If we had men like 'y Bridges, we might get some- Rinse and Palive Work Lot | | Of I. R.T. Special Officers By an I. R. T. Worker Correspondent EW YORK.—The “Special Offi- cers” on the I. R. T. are the most exploited tools in the industry When anything happens on a train or on a station, I, who am one of these special officers, am sent and thave no authority of arrest. My grey-green uniform is suposed to convince some drunk or mad- ‘mad; but, if my opponent fails to Be convinced (being wise) and shouts about it, the public comes down on me, and there is riot Then, Inspector Merritt calls me up and blames me for not being able to handle the situation petency. Oh no! M Tet me get away with such a gentle reprimand. He shouts when I get inside the door, “You're another donkey, of cour: “How long are you in this cour ” and the man tries to answer as best he can. Mer- Titt shouts again, “Too bad you ever came over.” Remember that I don’t ask for a| Bhieid. The main reason they hay shield men at all is, that } be on hand with his gun Strike duty — ike breaker. I say I don’t want a s don’t want to do work which is for & policeman, in order to saye I. R. ©. money. Not a move have we station gents seen made, so far, to set} Yight the class within class, made within the Station Department by the I. R. T., through the rates paid. We agents must start in, with the Bupport of the Transport Workers Union, to acquire full pay soon @s the platform men, who only Every man coming on the Station Department now, gets a pla man’s badge, (previously he got that | pf gateman) and after, maybe, a year they ask who wants to be an agent, So you drop your platform Police, however. are of the belief | man’s baclge to get that of an agent. | and we make a nice start to wait three years for full pay. A man toes not become an agent just be- cause he wants to, but because he knows everybody can’t be a plat- form men; cold stands at doors is| not for some men, packing heavy | traffic neither, though full pay but a few months off. Also when you take the place of a regular agent} you won't get his pay from the I.! BR. T. Well now, boys, many of you, and I. know it, spend hours and hours| arguing to know w of the agent or platform man. is the best off, but, you, with the way George Reegan| hes it fixed, could never arrive at| an ecreeable decision, without get- tine heated. This argument has made many bad friends, and it is jist. for this very purpose this! George and present dav ind tablish craft and craft, and |} still, craft within craft. When the} | mversation concludes in a fight.) RAIL T (All greetings, which must be iE DAILY WORKER! Ilth Anniversary and Lenin Memorial Edition SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 I send revclutionary greetings to the Daily Worker, the organizer Pof the American working class, the leader in the fight for a Soviet order, will be published in the Daily Worker.) they know we are not prone to unite in a union of workers. Now you know — though many reading this don’t—what causes the dissension (outside of the full wait- ing). Well the platform man is accepted as a ten-hour job, the agents twelve; so, George (who puts the finishing touch on the tricks! pays platform men more.an hour than agents, supposedly to make up for shorter time. The agents, in other words, have more working time and less pay an hour, while platform men have less working time and more an hour; one in a warm booth, the other in the cold. Can you decide it? No. You must learn not to get heated, though you are driven to it by George, who wishes to keep you from uniting as | unionists. Resort to Gun Play In Chicago Union Feud By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill—Displaying a re- grettable lack of good aim, an un- | identified gunman a few nights ago | emptied a shotgun at Edward “Red” Donovan and his companion, James Burke, a hired thug and a minor | official respectively of the gangster- | controlled Motion Picture Operators’ Union. Donovan escaped injury and Burke was wounded in the right | arm. A further development shooting was bomb a few hours later in the for- mer Banzai cafe, the cafe in which the notorious gangster “Bugs” Quin- lan wes murdered last July and in which cafe Donovan is said to be financially interested. In spite of common public knowl- edge to the contrary, both Donovan end Burke vigorously denied any | connection with the M. P. O. U./ that serious trouble has again broken out in the gangs! ridden union domineered by “Czar” Thom- as Malloy, and are working on the case from that angle. How the workers of the M. P. O. U. feel about these constant wars and counter-wars between Malloy, Donovan, Burke and the other gun- men-Officials of their union is not stated in the local capitalist press; | but it is safe to assume that they, in common with many thousands of other union workers in America. are beginning to see the light of a new day. and that one day soon there shall be a real WAR within the ranks of these unions, a war which will end once and for all time the reign of labor-fakers and ter- rorists over honest workers. T. W. 0. members should get their branches to send greetings to the Daily Worker on its Elev- enth Anniversary! <A greeting from every branch shovld be the slogan! +. Bireet........ accompanied by cash or money in the| the exploding of “4 | workers Captain George (Gold Braid) Fried, recent Master of the S. 8. Washington, who has been ap- pointed as Chief of the U. 8. Steambeat Inspection Service fol- | lowing the Morro Castle Scandal. Captain Fried, in one of his first statements of policy, spoke of the need for drawing young Americans into the Merchant Marine. The Government and the shipowners are following his advice. How this policy works out can be seen in the Luckenbach story on this Page, Mobile Seaiuen Fight Against Forced Labor By a Marine Worker Correspondent | MOBILE, Ala.—An article in the| Mobile Register of Dec, 20 was head- | lined “Transient Seamen Do Not| Like Work.” ‘The article stated further that they (the seamen) were ordered to labor if they would eat. About a week ago 175 seamen were thrown out on the street to starve or else acept forced labor at the Alabama Transient Bureau at a lousy dollar per week. How- ever, it is significant that out of the 175 seamen only 15 accepted the forced labor proposition. | The main reason the local fakers, | Spear, Miss Reid and Harmon were in such a hurry to close the soup- | | line was the determination shown by the seamen at their last meet- ing to fight ary forced labor scheme. | Work slips had already been handed | out, but at the last meeting of the seamen they were either turned in! or torn up. | Seeing this spirit, the relief fak-| lers thought it best to get rid of these “bums and tramps” as the Mobile Post, a capitalist gutter sheet that is trying to capitalize on the radicalization of the masses by | using radical phrases, calls all sea- | | men and transients. Important also, is the fact that| the local IS.U. chief, Scotty Ross, { never opened his mouth against the | seamen being thrown out. | Well, I am pretty sure that he is glad of it as there are no more | M.W.L.U, members or Communists | left (2) to expose his treachery to the seamen. W.U.Employe Calls. Xmas | A Nightmare | By a Telegraph Worker | | | Correspondent NEW YORK.—My previous letter received space in your valuable | paper, The few fellow workers who read it were very much surprised that there was a newspaper which published workers’ problems, Christmas comes as a nightmare | to telegraph workers. The speed- | | up, pressure, being bawled out on the carpet, extra hours with no pay, | insults, etc., are bad enough during | Xmas week terrible. I am even | leaving out the tremendous pressure | | to sell “greeting messagés” that | gives us the jitters before the sacred event. | ‘Very little extra help is provided the over-worked managers. The | heavy spasmodic increase in tele- | graph volume (caused in most cases | by employes, who in fear of their | fone: file their own greeting mes- sages) send the telegraph worker home in almost an exhausted con-| | dition. The counter clerks, simplex | | operators, delivery and call clerks, | one and all of the various categories, | find themselves in a vortex of a | whirling mad house of a purgatory. Holiday—kind sentiments. It is to | laugh. j Many a telegraph worker recuper- ates after the Xmas holidays by| | taking off n few days (without pay). | Others are put on furlough and re- | duced time, Tt is too bad there is no | medium at present to bring these | | vertinent facts to the eves of all telegraph workers. They must bé aroused from their stage of lethargy to action. I will write of specific conditions from time to time. NOTE: | We publish every Friday letters | from transportation and commu- nication workers; marine, rail- road, traction, truck, taxi, tele- | | graph, telephone, ete. We urge | in these industries to write us of their conditions and efforts to organize. Please get these Istters to ms by Tuesday of each week, tents, I was converted to | stand every day, “red scare” as a means of splitting up our organization. | One of these birds by the name Mervyn Rathborne, who ran for president of the ARTA in the elec- tion, has taken the initiative to issue the following slanderous bul- letin, addressed to Dollar Line Radio Operators. Sections of the text follow: “Judging from information re- ceived in New York it appears that our association, the ARTA, is in danger of being dominated and run by a small, but powerful group of Communists. | “An indication of Communist ac- tivity within our ranks is shown by an article entitled ‘The Marine Strike,” published on page 3 of the October issue of the ARTA Bulletin. | This article mentions, ‘The United Front Strike Committee, composed | of the New York Local of the ARTA the Marine Workers Industrial Union, along with unorganized sea- men, and the I. S. U. seamen who had gone over the heads of their leaders’ The existence of such a| committee indicates definitely that | close and active cooperation, if nothing more, exists between the ARTA and the M. W. T. U. Proof that the M. W.I. U. isa Communist | organization {s given in the ‘Official | Program Adopted by the M. W. TI. U. National Convention’ (April 26-27, 4 1930) which states, ‘The M. W. I. U. is affiliated with the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions which em-| braces over 16,000,000 workers or- ganized in unions, Through the) R. I. L. U., the M. W. I. U. is linked up with millions of reyolutionary workers not only in Europe (Russia) but in China, Korea, Japan, Indo- nesia. Australia and Latin America.’ | “Additional evidence that the | ARTA is swinging very far to the| ‘left’ is shown in the minutes of the ARTA National Convention, held in| New York last September. This| meeting of ARTA representatives from all sections of the country adopted numerous resolutions en- Bya Marine Worker Correspondent | BOSTON, Mass.—The Luckenbach Steamship Company, although a member of the American Steamship Owners Association, which we are told has signed the agreement with the I. S. U. negotiations committee to pay $57.50 per month for A. B.’s, is determined to keep to its policy of being the “cheapest company under the American flag” and is beginning to employ school-ship Seamen for $35 per month. This method of getting cheap labor started in Boston aboard the S._S. Julia Luckenbach. The “Julia” was laid up in Boston for the past six weeks. We know that four of this companies’ ships were struck on the West Coast and that the crew only agreed to go back to work when $50 per month was guaranteed as a basic wage for A. B.'s Ap- parently the company fears a re- petition of this action and is now replacing those seamen who refuse to sign on for $35 with students from the school-ship “Nantucket,” who are willing to be “loyal slaves” for the privilege of going to sea! In Boston, two firemen, one oiler and an A. B. refused to sign on for “Luckenbach wages.” We de- manded the same scale as men- tioned in the I. S. U. agreement— that our wages should be increased on Jan. 1, The company refused to sign us on under these condi- tions so four of us packed up! One United Telegraphers Association and others. At the Congress Against | War and Fascism (held in Chicago) Earl Browder, Secretary-General of the Communist Party of America, | stated, ‘This congress was organized | and ‘called by the Communist | Party.’ | “The adoption by the ARTA Na- | tional Convention of a resolution | that the ARTA accept mandates | from (actively organize) the Tele-| graph Messengers Union and the| United Telegraphers Association | means, in effect, an actual affiliation | of the ARTA with the Communist | Party.’ This bulletin then goes on to urge the members to investigate who is responsible for these left wing| moves and vote accordingly in the | election. It makes in part the fol-| lowing appeal, “If you believe as} .| We do, that the ARTA is an organ-| ization OF, BY, and FOR Commer- | cial Radio Men—an association that | has NO AFFILIATIONS, NO} CREED and NO POLITICAL BE- LIEFS, revolutionary or other- | wise—you will want to help stop the Communist activity within our ranks,” ee Editor's note: The quotation from the remarks of Ear! Browder at the U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism is a deliberate lie, The problem for the workers in the marine industry is to es- tablish the unity of all workers in the industry. The Marine Work- ers Industrial Union has taken a step in this direction through its recent proposal to merge with the I. 8. U. On the West Coast the marine workers are working to build a Marine Federation that would united all crafts, The “Red Scare” is a traditional means of enemies of the workers to split their ranks. At this time when the marine workers are finally on the road to uniting all their forces, every marine worker should be on guard against these people. gineer to light the fires, You | couldn’t even stretch your imagina- tion and call these men seamen, | yet they are given jobs because they are willing to accept low wages! Perhaps this is one of the reasons why so many bona-fide seamen are forced to accept government relief! Editor’s Note: This letter deals with a point that should be studied by all seamen. Although the I. S. U. agreement is not what the seamen wanted, yet even $57.50 is more than the ship- owners want to pay, particularly companies like Luckenbach. In order to get around the agreement, the shipowners are resorting to a trick used by the bosses in other industries, the creation of new helpers’ and ap- prentice ratings. The Moore- MacCormack Company had started shipping “Apprentice Firemen.” Other companies will follow suit and hire apprentice firemen, more deck boys, cadets, etc. It is im- portant that the seamen fight for a higher wage for beginners’ rat- ings that exist like deck boy, or- dinary seamen, etc, and fight against the introduction of new ratings, It is also about time. that mili- tant seamen realized that pack- ing their gear and piling off is not going to solve their problems aboard ship. The only way to better conditions aboard ship is of the newly hired school-ship fire- men had to go up and get the en- Letters from Because of the vo! ceived by the Depart: only those that are letters re- we can print general interest to However, all let- r tally read by the editors. Suggestions and criticisms are welt and whenever possible for the improvement of the Daily Wot APOLOGY TO KLEIN STRIKERS New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: I am writing to the Daily Worker to give my sincerest apologies to the striking Klein workers for buy- ing in the store by mistake, since my mother and I entered the store | through the subway and saw no pickets. I begged my mother to | return the dress, after I found out, but she didn’t, so I'm apologizing for her action, too. In order to make amends, I will do whatever I can to help in the strike. G. Z. POLICEMAN OFFERS HELP. TO REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT Chicago, Ml. Dear Comrade Editor: The writer is a member of the capitalist Chicago police force. While serving in this capacity for the past nine years, I happened to pick up a copy of the Daily Worker about five years ago on a seat in a train, and after reading the con- Commu- nism. Since that time I purchase a copy of the Daily Worker at the news- and also have taken a solemn pledge to be an in- side man for the working class. In fact, among my best trusted friends, by -staying on, organizing and fighting the shipowners. Our Readers Iam proud to say there are mem- bers of the Communist Party and Unemployment Councils. Whenever there is a workers’ or farmers’ con- | vention held in Chicago, I usually manage to house about six workers and get a big thrill out of doing my part. I read with vital interest the workers’ correspondence columns in each issue and was vastly concerned pose of Father Coughlin, the High Priest, and his cure-all; also the letters of comment from the work- ers. I am vitally concerned about this reverend faker, as I am an ex- fourth-degree member of the Knights of Columbus and at present. a third-degree member, but thor- oughly disgusted with this holy of holies outfit. It is just another money-making racket, and I have quit paying dues into it for the past five years. I am. declaring dividends myself from all the dough I paid in by exposing the Knights of Columbus. It is like the A. F. ef L, and American Legion. It has all big shots running it and is not rank and file controlled. I too, would earnestly implore you to have a pamphiet issued to sell for a few cents, exposing Father Coughlin. I'll buy plenty and spread ‘em around. j 5 c. ON YOUR METTLE, PIONEERS! | New York, N. Y. |the Seamen’s Church Institute is) |M. W. I. U. there are about fifteen Luckenhaih fc: Deterinined | To Maintain $35 Wage Scale with both the Daily Worker's ex-| denounced as a scab-herder for his “finky” activities during the October strike. | The crew of the Sarcoxie term the wage agreement as a “rank || injustice” to the American sea- men and state, if they are forced to join the 1.8.U., they will strug- gle to make it a rank and file organization and use their union || rights to kick oui all the racket- eers from the “grand old faker,” || meaning Andy Furuseth, on down || to “Rat Jones.” When the possible merger of the two unions was mentioned, this crew discussed it with en- thusiasm and one fireman said: “That is the most practical plan I’ve yet heard. Under these con- ditions I would gladly join the union, but it goes against my grain to have someone tell me I have to join their union in order to make my living. Is this the program of the ‘New Deal’ and part of the N.R.A.?” | | | | | MWIU Gains | Support from | Licensed Men By a Marine Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK. — I don't believe | that in all my life I have ever seen | a place that is hated so much as by the seamen. Most of the hatred is caused by the treatment they hand out to us. The only love they have for us is| for our money, and they use all | seamen for bumming purposes. | The M. W. I. U. has done lots of good and is still doing good. While there are not so many members here in the officers’ section, still if any one says anything against the fellows right on his neck defend- ing the union. There are about 200 mates and} engineers here and I don’t believe | over five would take a ship in case the M. W. I. U. called a strike, I know the union I belong to is not worth a damn (M. E. B. A.).! They don’t try to. do anything and they get no more dues from me. I give you and the M. W. I. U. credit for being fighters and doing good things. ae Dam Editor’s note: This worker has | the wrong idea on what is to be done about the union he belongs to. Quitting it won’t help make it any better either for him or the organization. There are many honest licensed men in the M. E. B. A. who are willing to put up a fight for better conditions. This worker should get together with these men and fight to | eliminate from leadership those people who are keeping the or- ganization from becoming a | fighting one. We would propose | to the licensed men that they follow the example of the M. W. I. U. and raise in their respec- tive unions the question of amal- gamating all licensed men’s or- ganizations, RR Dining Car Workers Hail ‘Daily’ for Aid By a R.R. Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — We commend you for the vigorous and clear way your columns have spoken up for the betterment of our working con- ditions in the Pennsylvania Dining Car Department at Sunnyside Yards, Through your stories of the struggles of the workers, you have stimulated many of us to join the Brotherhood, pointing to this as the means through which our grievy- ances could be heard. As a result, the management has already made a few changes. We remember the hurried cleaning up | of the reporting room. You now have a semblance of order and a better sanitary atmosphere. We see how you have guided the men through your knowledge of the mis- leaders who seek to profit from our miserable earnings. We see that the Daily Worker is interested only in the betterment of conditions and fights against oppression and for a higher wage scale. We ask you to continue to fight and struggle in our behalf. A GROUP OF DINING CAR WORKERS. ployment Insurance Bill ballots, sent in by a Pioneer Troop of the 1.W.O. Juniors. All week we have been working to get as many votes as possible. So far we have only a few, but we will send more as soon as we get them signed. We suggest that you make an appeal to other Pioneer Treops to do the same as we are doing. Pioneers are always successful and will do a great deal to aid the Daily Worker in | getting the maximum number of votes for the H.R. 7598. Dear Comrade Editor: \Bnelosed are the Workers Unem- whether the parents of a sick child are more susceptible than adult vis- itors. | Whether adufits contract child- hood diseases through actual con-| | tact depends upon where they aye and whether they have had any of these diseases during their own childhood. | Most adults, especially those hav- | ing lived in thickly populated cen- ters are immune to childhood dis- | eases inasmuch as the greater | number of them pass through these diseases as children. If such in- dividuals did not develop these con- ditions as children, they either had | natural immunity or acquired it. It is a well-known fact that indivi- | duals who have been born into and have been brought up in scattered, outying country districts possess ittle or no immunity to many of the childhood diseases. Such in- dividuals as adults frequently de- velop serious forms of these child- hood diseases when they move into more densely populated areas. This was dramatically brought out in the army cantonments during the last War when very serious outbreaks of measles, German measles, chicken- pox, epidemic meningitis occurred in camps where a large proportion of the recruits originated from farms. In general we can say that in cities the greatest proportion of parents or adult visitors are not Susceptible to these diseases, ies ee oe Nervousness, Fatigue Z.N. P., New York, N. Y.: Nerv-| ousness, fatigue, sleepiness, back- IN THE (Continued) (Yesterday we told how Stella, stalled by the relief organization for three months, finally decided to ask | the Unemployed Council to help her | get coal. Barvage, organizer, said to the members of the Council then in the hall “How about it boys, do we go?”) Che ates “QURE!” said old Kogos. “Sure!” said Pitras, “Sure!” “Sure!” “Tl go get Murphy!” one said.) “And I'll get Stanislawsky!” “We'll have a big delegation for Stella!” “We'll all meet here in 20 minutes.” Twenty minutes later, twenty men and women stood with Stella. “All right, people—tet’s go,” Barvage | said. Grouping into pairs and. threes, talking, laughing, the delegation walked through the swirling snow towards the relief. “Gosh! This cold slaps you in the face” said young Mrs. Miller. They arrived at | the door of the relief building. “Stop, you can’t go in there!” said the tall guard at the door. “Who said so?” one of the husky ex-miners said—and brushed him aside. A man came hurrying out to meet the delegation, pale, but all oily smiles and sweetness. He said “Why, what can we do for you?” The men and women lining the entrance hall waiting to be “in- vestigated” looked on curiously, He smiled at Stella “Mrs. Petrofsky, what are you doing here again?” Stella did not look at him. eer oa “JERE from the Unemployed Council,” the spokesman said brusquely “and we've come to see that Mrs. Petrofsky gets the coal she’s been asking for these three months.” “Yes, and she’s going to get it.” “What do you mean making her wait so long?” “You don’t care if her children freeze to death!” the delegation broke in. “Now, just a minute—pleeeeeze” the man said softly “Come into the next room all of you. Then we won’t disturb the people in here, you see.” He steered the del- elegation into the next room. The man at the desk looked at them curiously. The first man said with cool emphasis, “This is about Mrs. Petrofsky’s coal. It’s sent out al- ready, isn’t it? They needn’t have come at all!” Stella burst out indignantly. | “Sent out! When was it sent out? | An hour ago, T was home.” “Oh, it was sent out, a little while ago,” said the man at the desk. “You didn’t have to bring all these people here!” “Now, looka here,” said one of the women, “after we leave here, we're going right back to Stella's. And we're going there to see if what you said is true. And if the coal isn’t there by the time we get there — we'll come back!” The others burst in to agree. The man said nothing as the group filed out. “Them fakers,” said Stella hotly, “it won't be there.” “Don’t you worry, Stella—it’ll be there. They don’t want to fool with us,” Steila’s heart was beating fast, as she hurried with all of them to her tumble down house. Just as they got to the corner, they saw « corel wegon draw np in front of I.W.0, JUNIORS OF T1J, Pioneer Leader, the door, “Oh,” Stella cried, and complaints, if there is any physical basis for them. It is possible that both the backache and constipation are the result of damage to the pelvic organs received during your last pregnancy. If you have not yet tried it, you should take @ tablespoon of mineral oil every night and try to cultivate correct bowel habits by sitting down ta stool for at least fifteen minutes every morning after breakfast. Only too often, however, such symptoms as you describe have. n¢ Physical basis, and are to be ex« Plained by the dullness, drabness, drudgery, uncertainty and hopeless- ness of life under the capitalist system, which leads to nervousness, | fatigue, sleepiness, ete, There is only one answer to such a problem: Join in the struggle car- ried on by workers throughout the world—in the struggle to so change society as to make it possible for all workers to enjoy life. Join the Communist Party—the only Party which through day to day struggles js actively attempting to bring about such changes and preparing the workers for a complete overthrow of the capitalistic form of society, for the development of a classless society. Bring up the question of greet- ing the Daily Worker on its Eleventh Anniversary at the next meeting of your organization, See that your organization gets on the Honor Roll by sending the greeting as quickly as possible! HOME By ANN BARTON How Stella Got Coal wagon. The rest of the delegation laughed and followed her, * . * “WAIT a minute” said the organ- izer loudly. The man looked up quickly. “Would you tell us when you got the order for that coal?” The driver grinned. “Oh, just about ten minutes ago,” he said, “There was a big crowd down about it, And it was marked RUSH!” There was much laughing over their success then. Stella was ra- diant. “Come in, come in,” she said to the delegation. “Tea doesn’t cost much! 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