The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1935, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9, 1935 Shoe Union Officials Fail To Fight Discrimination Promised Protection 9°? Jobles Readily Forgotten As Worker Is Fired Militant, Who Organized Shop into United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, Finds Loss of Job Only Reward woman who had been fired for her union activities. When she returned to the shop, in accordance with the N.R.A. decision, the owner told her By a Shoe Worker Correspondent LOWELL s Mass.—Some time ago in the Daily how the crew of the Unit el Company of| that she could not work for him Lowell had out the “In-| again as she was a trouble maker. dependent” Union and signed up| So it went for some time, the ed Shoe and Leather) general officials telling her that she all ap- we be taken care of later on. I will now ex-| Some time later the crew in this behind the} shop threw out the “Independent” Union agreement and forced the nm this shop| owner to sign up with the United along for i Still this woman is out of a job. The officials failed to fight hard} enough to have her rehired when they signed up the shop. This wo- man, who is really the cause of the shop being organized, is today left out of a job, while the stool pigeons who sabotaged every move she made to organize, are now mem- bers in good standing of the U. S.| & L. W. U. | Shoe and Leather Workers Union. | | | | She even went 2 parties in her : for the wood- and she would have m the General Office ted Shoe and Leather Union present to speak to by the General Officials of the union | I would suggest to this worker) that she appear before each U.S. & L. W. U. local in Lowell to tell the rank and file members her story and have the locals force the Joint Council either haye the United| Wood Heel rehire her or call a ‘e in this shop. If the General Officials will not help workers who} are discriminated against, the rank stool pigeon be- es to the boss, he was fired. d to the ad promised in the world ubdle of this kind. 1 Office of the United Workers Union Shoe and turned her to the N.R.A.| and file must take action to pro-| which shor ed the owner of tect the best fighters in the organi- th shop he rehire this! zation Letter from Daily Worker Sellers Will Be Printed As one of the features of the present circulation drive, the Daily Worker will publish letters from Red Builders, canvassers, carriers, subscription getters and other sellers of the Daily Worker. These letters should tell the problems and experiences of those who sell the “Daily.” They should relate their difficulties in selling the paper as well as their successes—and the effective methods used. They should give experiences in selling the paper to Socialists, A. F. of L. members, women, Negro workers, white-collar and professional workers—before factories, at union meetings, on street corn = Tass meetings, in the homes. In short, the Daily Worker wants a living picture of the paper in action. Daily Worker sellers—send us your letters! Donations Received in ‘Daily’ Drive t | other time he was heard to say that As Speed-up Cuts Force By a Metal Worker Correspondent COLUMBUS, Ohio—Several years ago, the Ohio Malleable Iron Co. of Columbus, Ohio, operating at capacity, required the employment of about 1,400 men. It is now work- ing at full capacity, but only about 450 men, some of them working part time, are compelled to do the work. By the introduction of ma- chinery troduction of the speed-up, 950 CAN'T YOU DIG. UP A MORE IDEAS? I'VE Cf FRIED CUTTING WAGE! SPEED-UP, PUTTING. II NEGROES IN PLACE OF ITALIANS—EVERY =WEVE GoT TO INCREASE. NOUR. RROFITS This is one of the dite deals | Workers haye been thrown out of | handed out to the Lowell district | work to slowly starve “on relief,” to | because the location or the climate pick trash in the alleys of the city, or to take food out of the mouth of a poor relative. Last summer the company used four men on a moulding floor— now they are making two men do the same amount of work. This is just one small sample of what the | Royal Roosevelt's New Deal has done for the working class of Amer- ica. One man at Ohio Malleable makes | 0 fear of being attacked by the $5 a day. How? By laboring one- | | half hour before and one-half hour after punching the time clock, in | addition to working at a mad rate | of speed all day long. The plant requires the use of $60 | worth of coal a day in its manu- | facturing. One day recently the} would-be smart guys tried using | only $50 worth, with the result that the day’s output was ruined. Ohio | |Malleable does not pay its workmen | for spoiled materials—so the work- Jers were forced to pay for this jeneble experiment” of the efficiency | hounds. | “Boss” at Ohio Malleable has told | the workers that there will be no | |unions at Ohio Malieable. At an- | | if he had his way all “dirty foreign- ers” would be given 24 hours’ no- | tice to leave the U.S. He has also | said that he is going to replace all and especially by the in- | on N. R.A | By a Shop Worker Correspondent HAVERHILL, Mass.—For the past | few months, the shoe industry in Haverhill, Mass. has been at a | stand still. The army. of unem- | ployed has reached such a point | that to find at least a fourth of the shoe workers working could be con- sidered as one of the seven wonders of the world. In many cases, the victims of the unemployed army |have been recruited as permanent members because of the shop- moving campaign. Week after week threats of mov- ing from the city are made by the | manufacturers and those who have the money for moving are actually carrying out these threats. Work- |ers who have worked and slaved for | years in some factory are forgotten | Shop Moving Drive Hits Shoe Workers In Haverhill, Mass. Union Officials Attempt To Pin the Hopes of| Members Upon Reopening of Hearings . Shoe Code ing campaign was to compete with the small shoe centers. In other words, the workers should take wage cut after wage cut until the manufacturers were satisfied with their yearly incomes. | The officials and their followers of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union have hopes that the re-opening of the shoe code will | bring back the prosperous days to the shoe industry, But, analyzing similar codes of the N. R. A, the workers will find that the re-open- | ing of the shoe code is only another | | instrument for wage cuts. | Then, in order to further blind | | the masses of shoe workers with wage cuts, the “patriots” of the union have introduced flag saluting —® fascist idea. This scheme to strengthen “patriotism” in the junion is a step toward fastening | government control and compulsory arbitration on the unions. Further- more, this policy of flag saluting is is no longer favorable for the man-/ aimed mainly against the “reds” | ufacturing of shoes? The answer is | and “any un-American members of | | most emphatically, no. The profit- t | | making manufacti strivi j esalan.: mal urers are ing lfor a new wage cut and for the However, all these schemes and 4 ots for wage cuts and open shops establishment of the open shops. | te | These same manufacturers of the manufacturers, patriots, etc., that | ;made solemn agreements with the | and are driven out into the streets |to face poverty. But why all the noise about shops moving? Is it | have been openly exposed by the {Communist Party and militant union only ten months ago have! ronters of the U. 8. & L. W. U. } Miolated them and are trying NOW| 11's. because of the militant work- | to smash them altogether. ers that support has been won | However, these law-breakers have lagainst wage cuts in the locals of the union, It is necessary now Wrong Diet Is Relief Alibi For Stareation CHICAGO, Ill—Admitting in ef- fect to the local capitalist press that many of Chicago’s unemployed are undernourished and suffering from malnutrition, Scott E. W. Bedford, local relief head, today declared this condition to be a result of unwise spending of the pitifully small bud- gets allowed by the Relief Adminis- tration and individual lack of knowledge as to what foods furnish the most in nutritive value. Totally ignoring the fact that fruits, although a necessary part of any diet, are to a large extent de- nied relief clients because of high prices outside the range of. their meagre budgets, he announced “They are buying too many oranges and other fruits, when they should be puying fish, eggs, milk, etc,” Witn milk at nine cents the quart, eggs thirty to forty cents per dozen and fish at proportionately high prices, he neglected to state just | how these items could be purchased | within the present allowed budget, but contented himself with declar- ing they should be purchased. He also stated relief clients were not properly balancing their pur- chases against the surplus food or- ders for meat and butter furnished them in addition to their regular budgets. Considering the well known | fact that very often a relief client | must scour the city on foot to find a store supplied to fill these orders even partially, and sometimes finds it impossible to get them filled at all for long periods of time, this statement assumes its real signifi- cance as a demagogic publicity stunt to cover up recent and con- templated relief cuts. government for breaking agree- ments. On the contrary, their scheme is hand in hand with the more than ever for the class con- scious workers to point out that no “Roosevelt decentralization plan.” | This plan that supposedly is to | have the object of improving the situation in the small towns is only one of the many schemes for driv- | ing down the standard of living of | the masses and to break up the| unionized centers, The local press openly admitted that the solution for the shop mov- concession, no matter how great, will solve the problems of the shoe | workers. No manufacturer will be satisfied with one wage cut; his worship of the “profit-making god” will encourage him, through one | small concession, to ask for another and still another, Unemployment insurance must become the thought of every worker as one of the solu- tions for the problems we are facing. By a Worker Correspondent | YANKEETOWN, Fila, — The en- | Italian workers in the plant with | | Negro workers, thus spreading vicious chauvinism and attempting to set one nationality to fighting | | another. i will Wareised Jon. 7, 1988 pee Gh: cakion 1o0| These statements of “Boss” Previously received 58,247.95 | Polish Workers Club 4.00 | be answered in an interesting man- | Total to date $59,007.48 | Unit 7-09, Toledo 3.76 | DISTRICT 1 (Bosten) Bulearian Workers Club, Toledo joo (ner in the near future, ee | Harry Larkin 2.80 it 1-10 3.99 Finnish Federation, Fitchburg 15.14 ear be 1.06 tial — 2%) it Se *\N.R.A. Code | Tete] Jan. 7, 1935 66.54 | Unit 14-81 2.80 Total to date $2,872.54 | Unit piel rd DISTRICT 2 (New York City) | | I E 50 | Wierton 5.00 Brction 10 $2150 | Fittintan Workers Olub 3) 18 Excuse ection 1 1138 | Unemployment Council 3.25 | 73 | No. 2, Erie 9.86 Seetion 1 18.75 5 oa 5 a ie ‘* For Pay Cut ection 17, B. M. T. #.7| %. Baumholts 1.50 | foe 4 249| Vanguard Youth Olub, Farrell 1.00 ca : 1123 | Toledo 1143 zs : : 1 Lor Mansfeld oatian, erp, 1800, BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent $42 Columbus Hung., Croatian, Ser 1.50 - ie Ay ne Unit 18-19 1o0| AUBURN, Me.—I am a fancy | #* al Advisory Boerd 5.00 = a . W. O., Br. 4261 1% | stitcher working for the Main Shoe ae 5.00) onit 11-12 ao | Company of Auburn, Me, | Ss sd Shoe & Lesth 5.06 ee 7.| When I came to work for this Beier s Workers Industrial Union 13.43) 5 gigy. workers Club 7.50 | firm two years ago, we could still . 3 Peo Ps kron 2.80 | make about eighteen dollars a week, ea 10.00 | oes ciih in and a fast stitcher could make about, | Sue 1.08 wy) } 5-0) twenty-two dollars a week, But, for ee 335 | 8 HL. 0., No. 5 2.00 | the past year we could hardly make 2 79 . {Newey 100) a living. We work long hours and | 5 Club se I _"|our pay is not more than ten or 1 geler Neva Pees oo Total Jan. 7. 1988 195.38 | twelve dollars a week. | FN oar. Foloron 2.09 | Total to Gat RIOT + imetron) 228798 | Now, something extraordinary has| Dei Gombers 5.00] pin Heywood Branch, LL, D. soo | happened. I gave in my slip for —. Boe 35) | Lincoln Park 1.00 | $22.69 and when they paid me I got 1 Ukrainian Society 1.25 rcteost #90 only $15.89. I ran back to the win- © Paul Lesse B00 aoriga ie qj | dow and said, “Miss, you must have Drorious 24.00 | Bil Haywood Branch, 1. l. D soo|made a mistake in my pay.” She © Garr Nitredaiget Collection 2.10| 4; McKean 1.00 | said that she did not, I asked her A. Maxwell 50. Sut ee what it was all about, and she sent Gimas Youth Br. 56, I. w. 0. ig ae me to the foreman. ee 320 | Total Jan. 7, 1935 39.39 I asked the foreman why I had PR. C. Bounen 50| Total to date 3,246.79 | $6.80 less than I was supposed to rc Tsland-West End J. b. D. 5.00 | peaiates Lge & (Chiesa) rr have. He told me that they had . Sec, 20 10.99 | Section ) A Sit Case, Bag & Portfolio Makers 3.00 | Section 7 noo made a mistake in making the price “d Section 4 2.19/80 high on this work, and he took Total Janfl 7, 1935 219.32 ge Sot 2.88 | off thirty cents from each case. ‘Total to date 30,782.45 nson b DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) Branch 4234, 1 WO 245|,, 1 told him I would not stand for | Matt Diamond, Jr. 95 | Branch 4734, 1. W. O. 41.15 | it. I protested, but it did not do Party at Comrade White's house 3.60 | Italian City Committee, I. W. O. 4.14) me any good. Imagine, the old case Coll. by G. Morris and C. Rowe 20.10 ane bi) Lw.o 3.20 | was $1.30 and he took off thirty no | Be | BBowss eu AOU ihe eae ch 1443 /cents on the case, and he gave me ‘Total Jan. 7, 1935 24.98 | Section 1 .32|the argument that they were not ‘Total to date 4,676.18 | Section 8 3.18 | allowed to pay more than thirteen | DISTRICT 4 (Bpffalo) Branch 564, I. W. O. 4.00 too | dollars a week as this was the N.R.A. closed F. E. R. A. check, for only four cents, was handed to this worker in this place to purchase necessities for a week for two per- sons. The parasite bankers under the New Deal charge five cents each to Receives Faur- Cent Cheok As Two-Week Pay on FERA made for lights and water: but camping tourists are looked upon | to furnish other essentials, such as | toilet paper. The water in the town is pumped | from out of a government test | well; which was dug by the federal | engineers for the proposed cross | state canal and retailed to the city cash these government checks. Will’ inhabitants for the sum of $1.25 per | Seder Key + FLORIDA, CEDAR KEY STATE BANK 63347 EC 27 1994 (CORPORT NAME AND MOWBER OF BaMED PAT onan or OMLY FOUR ORNTS. THE SUM OF. cneorr im Kecmow 's FLORIDA EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION o reonon the benevolent relief director Mr. Hopkins please see that these bank~ ers are secured on this particular transaction. This worker has an aged mother 74 years old to support who over a year ago suffered a stroke which has left her practically helpless. This same worker was dismissed from the C, W. A. works for the crime of joining an organization of his own choosing and the political appeal board of the C. W. A. was deaf, dumb and blind to his case. His city water was turned off a few months ago on account of pe- ing unable to pay for same—with | the F. E. R. A. wages he received. Health Department Looks After Bosses Profits A report and pzotest to the State Board of Health concerning the matter, brought a reply from that department—stating that both pub- lic and privately owned water plants, had the right to discontinue water service, for non payment of same. Without water these folks have had to resort to outside toilets— which is contrary to state laws. On the face of these facts, this should make Yankeetown a very healthful vacation resort for winter visitors. Through the political machine, F. E.R. A. labor was used to clean up the privately owned camp ground |in this place—where a charge is Letters from Suggest Methods of Spreading | The Daily Worker | Ane SEN f atguies Aarne 12:90 | rule and they can’t break the rule. Total Jan. 7, 1935 ey Lone ‘ ial I asked him how it was that all eo pisrescr 5 (Pittsburgh) DH. Ashley 100 | Year around we were getting such David Todd | Branch 50, I. W. O. 445|small prices, he didn’t call that a > Abe Ajuy : Ste aan 1.00 | mistake. eee bho rig aigts eee tos oe “7s; US more, but when it came cut- bi aad {reir SOME __| ting as down, he remembered al- = DISTRICT 6 (Cleveland) Total Jan. 7, 1935 36.80 | right, |, Macedenian League 410" Total to date inweay M243 “But, T thought to myself, that I | ee ae Eieted Sieve ee eee ___ ___| could see things a bit better than ‘a year ago when the N.R.A, prom- | |ised us good wages and shorter Sig hours. I won't believe that bunk . any more. Now I can see that the j ty . only way out is a good union of 11th Anniversary and Lenin Memorial Edition SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 I send revolutionary greetings to the Daily Worker, the organizer of the American working class, the leader in the fight for a Soviet America! . Street... (All greetings, which must be accompanied by cash or money r, Will be published in the Daily Worker.) | your greetire on its Eleventh An- the workers, NOTE We publish every Wednesday, letters from textile, shoe and needle workers. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and efforts to or- ganize. Please get these letters to us by Saturday of each week. Shew your determination to support the Daily Worker against the efforts to suppress it. Send niversary! Get your friends and chepmates to become regular readers! .| Workev. | “ANSWER WALL STREET” | BROOKLYN, N. Y. | Comrade Editor: | On the occasion of your editorial | lin today’s Daily Worker, under the | caption, “Answer Wall Street,” it occurred to me that this concrete | | suggestion would heip greatly to increase the circulation of our “col- lective propagandist.” Let every | class-conscious worker take upon | ‘himself the role of a patron of our} |“Daily,” by seeing to it that the| newspaper stand on his block car- | ries two or more copies of the Daily | The mass organizations | \should be instrumental in promot- | ing this policy in their respective Jocalities azL pay for it. Electric current Is secured from the Florida Power Corp’n through a franchise for two cents per kilowatt and retailed to the consumers for ten cents per kilowatt—which nets a profit amounting to 800 per cent. Negroes Jim-Crowed and Underpaid The promoter and Mayor of the town, Mr, A. F. Knotts, issues deeds that allows no property to be owned or sold to Negroes within the town, Colored workers are hauled into the town and wages as low as $1 per day are paid them, This, despite the fact that the state P, W. A. engineer has fixed the wages for common labor on all projects, both public and private at forty cents per hour—except on road construction work, where pay was set at thirty cents per hour. The P. W. A. state engineer claims there is no one within the state empowered to enforce his wage | schedule. This is how the new deal works in this section of the country: The New Standard School Dictionary — defines the word Communism as “The doctrine of owning property in common” which is the only plausible solution for these indus- tries, which should be taken over and operated for use of all—instead of private profits for the few para- sites, who are just about as useful to society as a flea on a dog’s back. Our Readers RECRUIT SUBWAY READERS Comrade Editor: T have always made it a rule to make my copy of the Daily Worker do tiouble duty. Invariably after I finish reading my paper, I leave it on my subway seat so that someone else may be tempted to pick it up and read 1 Again and again I have noticed people react in this way and be- come aware of the existence of the Daily Worker, This is a subtle kind of prop- aganda and I believe very effective. I hope you wili urge all our readers to do that—not only with the Daily Worker but also with all other pamphlets, announcements, circulars, ete, favorable to the Sovies Union. Yours for greater Secu ion BG. wt You workers of Chicago who have tasted “oranges and other fruits” only occasionally the past three or four years, you who would only too gladly buy “fish, eggs, milk, etc.” for yourselves and your kids if you could—what is your answer to this | hypocritical and vicious attack? Will you continue to starve as you now starve, meekly and miserably awaiting even further starvation and degradation in the future—or | will you fight, fight, FIGHT and | keep fighting until you have won for yourselves the right to work and live as MEN should work and live? There is an Unemployment Coun- cil in your neighborhood to help you in your fight, workers. Get into it! It is YOUR organization, and it operates for YOUR benefit. Chicago Mayor In Political Charity Racket By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill. — Chicago's own Christmas Fund, sponsored by the Honorable Mayor Eddie Kelly and his political henchmen among the business and civic “leaders” of the community for the oft-reiterated purpose of providing warm clothing for all the city’s needy at Christ- mas time, has been clearly revealed to these thousands of people as a despicable piece of demagogery, cor- ruption and graft, and has done the good mayor no little harm politi- cally. Boxes of “warm clothing” de- livered to the unemployed workers were found in many cases to have been rifled enroute from the store- room to their miserable homes, and in some cases more than half the original contents had been removed. Since deliveries were made by Kelly policemen and minor politicians, it is not difficult to imagine by whom the rifling was done. So many complaints of this typical Kelly plundering were made that it finally became necessary for the mayor, in a desperate effort to save his political neck, to set up a “re- ception committee” whose duties are to interview complaining workers and issue orders on the store-room for stolen clothing so far as pos- sible, As a further gesture of “good-will” toward these. oft-robbed and long- suffering workers, as a further evi- dence of his unusual and hereto- fore unnoticed greatness of heart, Kelly's henchmen were instructed to present, immediately upon de- livery of each box, his petition for, the Spring Mayoralty campaign, which the receivers of his bounty were requested to sign. Many re- fused to sign, and many who did sign, casting sidelong glances at torn and rifled boxes, did so with tongue in cheek. . Shortly after Christmas, the local capitalist press carried glowing pic- tures of Kelly standing beside a ceiling-high stack of, signed peti- tions, and anno that as a result of wide-spread public “de- mand” he had finally “decided” to enter the mayoralty race. The; mayor was smiling, but somehow) the smile seemed a little forced. Per- haps he had already realized that Christmas boxes may become boom- erangs, and that when Spring rolls | around to Chicago again those stacked petitions, pushed by the hands of thousands of awakened and disgusted workers, may topple down around his ears. There are few workers left in Chicago who believe in this capitalist Santa Claus who brings hunger, misery and rifled gift-boxes, but there is day by day an increasing number who pin their hopes for next. Christmas and every other day in the year on a certain Karl Lockner, who will rm for mayor on tho Communist ticket and on his com- Operation Without a Cure R., New York City.—It is not + uncommon for symptoms of “gas” and other digestive disturb- ances to return after operation for the remoyal of gallstones. In some cases these symptoms are due to the formation of new gallstones, but more often they return because orig- inally the symptoms were not only caused by the diseased gall-bladder and gallstones. Other parts of the digestiye system when not function- ing properly may cauee “gas” and Nausea. and these parts must be in- vestigated. to state which of these two causes is responsible for the return of the symptoms, and only by a thorough examination, which includes X-rays and other tests, can the doctor find out where the trouble lies. Of course, you can not afford this expensive procedure, and we would, therefore, advise you to register at near your home, If X-rays are sug- gested by the doctors there, by all means have them taken, even if you have had many X-rays before your operation. Your condition may have changed since then, and this change may show only on an X-ray, Diet sometimes may be of benefit. Avoid fat meat, fried foods, spices, acids, fatty cheeses and rich dressings. Your complaint about your eco- nomic condition is more than justi- fied. You have a natural right to something besides sales taxes and starvation wages, and that some- thing is economic security for your- self and your dependent family of four. In the Soviet Union women who suffer from your ailment are completely cared for and everything is done to make them entirely well again. The worry about loss of your wages while sick and the utter help- lessness of your family during this period of illness and convalescense has been completely done away with in the Soviet Union. We must fight all the harder here in America so that we, too, shall gain these rights which naturatly belong to us. eS 6 Diet and Sexual Vigor . W., Brooklyn, N, Y., writes: “My age is seventeen, I am ovér- sexed, and unable to have sexual intercourse because of my inferior possessiveness to the females. There- By ANN WANTED to relax. So I bought me a Woman’s Home Compan- ion, to scan the nicely colored pic- tures, and read the stories of pleasant romance. I sat back, and there was no relaxation, The col- ored pictures were as unreal as fairy tales, with none of their charm. The stories were not pleasant romances, but ugly, vi- cious bits of anti-working class propaganda, covered up by a kind of pink and white icing, to make them attractive. Some time or other, let us discuss these magazines as a whole. But here is. the gist of one story, which will illustrate what I mean. oe re ee GIRL is terribly in love with a taxi-driver. There is the in- evitable other suitor, steady, plod- ding, but with none of the excit- ing appeal of the taxi-driver. The steady suitor is out of work. And the taxi-driver loses his job. Why? Because he would not take the wage-cut, his so thoughtful em- ployer wanted to give him. The girl is troubled. She thinks perhaps he should have taken that cut. It would be better than nothing. But loyally she keeps quiet, (You women readers of the Woman’s Home Companion are supposed to agree that in these years, wage-cuts are to he ex- pected. Any struggle against them is fool’sh, and will lose 2 man his Jeb.) ef (ee driver, who becomes increas‘ngly villainous, goes to the ext + of borrowing money from .¢ girl (which of course he will never re- pay, being the kind of villain who will dare to protest a wage-cut.) Day after day he goes to the em- ployment agencies. But soon he falls into disrepute there, because he insists on receiving a cértain wage standard. The girl becomes very weary. And now, here is where the stead- fast suitor comes in. He plays cards with the old folks. He does not ar- gue over standards of living, stand- ards of wages. He “understands” these are hard times. So he turns to whatever he can get. He washes windows at a small amount per hour (less of course than union window washers), and the house- wives, whose windows he washes, oceesionally give him a job in his own trade—roofing, or painting, or whatever it is. Of course, says he, there isn’t very much in it, but then he is meeting the changed times with no complaint. Z . 'UDDENLY the girl sees all. He, then is the heroic one. He is the one she loves—and not the villainous taxi-driver, who talks of standard of living and wages, etc. So she goes to the altar with the one who “knows how to face things,” and pocsibly, I suppose, does not live so happily ever after, on the reduced living scale, ac- cepted so checrily by both at the end of the any: i . OMANCE! There, written in pink rades in the United Front who will tun for other city offices. icing, is what the bosses these five and a half years have been at- | WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted isy the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board | (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not, Advertise) From your letter, it is not possible | a gastro-enterology clinic which is| To ae on, This taxi-| fore I indulge in auto-erotism con- | tinuously. I am emaciated and anemic, and in order to cure this Condition I've been advised to eat rich foods, as milk, eggs, etc. But, on the other hand, as to sexual exu- berance, I heard I must eat the opposite foods, such as grassy foods. This contradiction between the foods I must eat to cure my rundown con- dition and my powerful sex instinct is a serious puzzle to me.” Our Advice yoy letter raises several points. In the first place, there is little reason to think that the so-called | “rich foods” you mention will affect your sexual urge. This is one of the myths which our present system of society finds it convenient to spread. You would do well to try to improve | your general physical condition, if your circumstances permit. The | foods which you need are eggs, milk, butter, cereals and potatoes. Even if it were true that such a diet would aggravate your sex problems, and there is no good reason to think that this is true, starving yourself is a poor way to meet to situation. In the second place, the question arises as to whether or not you are really “oversexed,” as you put it. A powerful sexual instinct is perfectly natural at the age of seventeen. In most instances, the problems of sex can be definitely attributed to the false morality of religion, as propa- gated by the agents of a capitalist society, » In other words, it is unusual to | find sexual problems in individuals who are able to free themselves of bourgeois notions and traditions. ‘There is a saying among physicians that “95 per cent of men masturbate at some time in their lives, and the other 5 per cent are liars!” Eco- nomic and social factors of Amer- ican, or rather capitalist, society prevent us from adapting easily to ordinary sexual intercourse, and wé, therefore, find it necessary at times to resort to temporary expedients. No reputable physician today be- lieves that masturbation, if prac- ticed with moderation, causes any harm. As to your inability to attain sexual intercourse, because of what you call your “inferior possessive- ness,” we would strongly urge you to consider that most men do not have actual intercourse until an age somewhat greater than seventeen. IN THE HOME BARTON A Hero and Pink Icing ; tempting to get the workers to swale low—i. e., the workers must uncom- plainingly bear the burden of the crisis. What work these magazines cre- ate for class conscious women! They create the necessity of digging deep ‘into the pink icing, and exposing for masses of women to see, the dirty, black scum of anti-working class propaganda, lying hidden un- | derneath. They give the task of showing that such acceptance of a lowered living standard means eventual hunger for all—and that such magazines are deadly poison to the class interests of working class women, Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2156 is available in sizes 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12. 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