The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDN DAY, JANUARY 1 6, 1935 LODI DYE SHOP ATTEMPTS TO SNIPE AT CONDITIONS Vigila nce To Ensu Needed re Equal | | W. 0. which has helped me in the L.W.O. Assists Worker | In Time of <1, Layoffs Hit Weavers At Lane Cotton Mill By a Worker Correspondent CHESTNUT HILL, Pa.—I do advise all workers to join the I. | time of need. I joined the I. W. O. in January, Division of Work 1934. In October 1934 I was told by my doctor that I had T. B. and | By a Textile Worker Correspondent | NEW ORLEANS, La.—The weay- There is a greater difference in the living conditions of those that; New Machinery Means More Woolen Layoffs By a Textile Worker Correspondent NEWPORT, N. H—I wish to explain how simple a matter it it for the big bosses to send more people into the ranks of the un- employed. At present there are 19 spin- ning mules in the spinning room WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) | Is Epilepsy Inherited? L, S., Galva, Iil.:—In your letter jbe issued by the Medical Advisory | Board has begun. We have already had to go away soon. jers in the Lane Cotton Mill are /are dependent upon the Lane Mill| of the Gordon Woolen Co. Mill in oe received some suggestions. The i i | A Es ‘ you state that you suffer from 4 1 uynetified the secretary Bf the aes ee lb Rese eed |for a living since the advent of the| this town. I was talking to ® | 2 (ais) and you fear to have| prize is a year's subscription to the . W. hes rou! S] 3 an ie i: 7 Sy a Dye Worker Correspondent | heard the shop chairman of Mill A, 51 all T received oe pe brage has already closed down. The|N-R.A. and the National Labor) Pinner Jast night any more children. having one infant|™@sazine. The purpose of the PASSAIC, N. J—This is to let you know a little about conditions Leo Courtier, say that he will fight for whatever is in the contract and nothing else. The other officials $20 per week. Now, I am away and improving quickly and will be | home to my wife and children |hands in general are only getting | Board. six hours a day, or 30 hours per week. The rumo:s are that the mill The children of the majority of | the workers are pathetic. In pass- | | that the old mules are going to be replaced by new and bigger mules, and that it will bring the now. You are worried about the effect on yourself if you are steri- lized. magazine should be kept in mind when thinking of a suitable name, The magazine will be a monthly, di i | total number of spinning mules | i . in the Lodi Dye Shop, the United! say the same thing; it is not in the set. | eB den phate cncrraai a seca ‘oe ce ae Bae Cieughe . ae. oil “Were: slegiiiaed: ib roca | WH es) wD rasta eae Sa a Piece Dye Wo: contract and you cannot tell the ae ina- "IT TAKES GRAINS Te RUN 5 ‘i did n have no harmful physical or mental | “~ ried ava 2 Supposedly, everybody is to have boss how to run his shop. wera.) ve Liaetped bel omy S carte Once Lane Mill hands dwell, one notices Was a good idea, but he did not | have n cures and fake medicines, will a day off every week. Instead of closing down the mill for one day, I believe that is a poor attitude to take. Suppose there were no tion, I contribute $2 to the Daily Worker because of the help it has the rundown and anemic conditions | | When you think | | Of the cause of that, it is enough | of the innocents, realize that three spinners were going to lose their jobs. | Aside from preventing you from bearing children, sterilization would not otherwise affect the nor- handle in greater detail many ques- tions and topics which could be ise 5 given the I. W. 0. | | The spinners are running three | iven only limited space in the Ad- bs eae ep taieaaa ee ee a eifclcigh oreihns nice eee - ——— to make your blood boil to see the| shifts, and, as we gure it out, it | mal course of yOUr seh functions wiht Boards Saas The price ‘Now, the majority of the workers | I heard the same Leo Courtier parasites riding around in their| will mean that nine spinners will | nor of your sex reactions. of the magazine will be fifteen do not like that at all. They are plenty mad about it because they know there will be exceptions. Many will have excuses to work every day in spite of the clause in the contract which says there will be an equal distribution of work. The union officials do not want to fight that. Just Say in the course of an argument with a worker from Mill B, that if he were shop chairman in Mill B he would put the said worker in his place. What does he think he | is? A dictator? It is we workers who will help put such as he in their place if AFL Varker Relates Reasons For Dis con te n t in His Union | that will shake the world have got- | | ‘s Bi D y : yesterday I' they do not help us win battles. | yest do n ip our es. | ig a Ss | Delegate Describes | mae | win only run on current orders, | that they will not make any stock in excess of the orders, and that —The three days the orders are few and far between. By a Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass. long cars with liveried chauffeurs and in many cases with a fat Poodle, while the littie children of | the workers in the mill are clothed |in rags in many instances, and sub- | sist on a diet of red beans and rice. Those that have a piece of paper | | Saying that they own the mill, are | well clothed and feed on the fat of | the land. | Great numbers of these workers | jin the Lane Mill are still waiting for their magician, Huey P, Long | to produce prosperity and plenty | out of his hair, while the Standard have to look for another job. What other results does the re- placing of the oid mules bring? It means that the company can cut off nine pay checks from its | payroll which means more profits for the bosses. Also, becaute of the larger mule, the spinners will have to hurry more (speed-up). Nothing has been said about wages. Red Tape There are various types of steri- | lization, but by ail means the best would be to have an operation in which the womb would be tied off so that the ovum (egg) cannot reach the womb. would not interfere with the ac- tivity of the ovaries and it is this activity which controls the func-| with which you are con-} tions cerned. Regarding the question of having more children, we would strongly advise you to have no more. It was formerly thought that about This operation | cents a copy; subscription $1.50 a year. Advance subscriptions, sent before the publication of the first issue, about March 20, will be $1.00. iit ce Sweaty Feet Comrade J. F. of the Bronx, writes: — “I remember that some | years ago 1 used MUM, a patent preparation with a great deal of success. Could you send me a fore mula by which I could myself pre- pare such a cream as a deodorant? the small merchants in the vi- | Oil Company prepares to leave the | What other suggestions do you oi | ; | fort th | ten no notice in the capitalist press. | Cinity of the mill claim that their| state, throwing out of employment | q | seas eeaee Hecaninaces eee have? 8 m lepsy were hereditary. This per- 2 |In the Nation’s Capital on Jan, 5, 6| Pusiness is falling off all the time. | some 3,000 men in Baton Rouge. n VICE | cae undoubtedly very much paleo By a Worker Correspondent slave and exploit them? ‘Then why | and 7 gathered the National Con-| 3 : ony a | too high, but even if it were as low! seaeleyind oe ae cathe memberan in a cate Hong, And the Unlong, go hand ia|rem Zo Uaemolorment ma see SHOE Strike |Shoe Pay Cut | [n Hospital si sen omen ie estan we sorae outing te toc n'a ts months membership in a craft)}ana> what a tremendous infiu- | Jnsurance. sy P | your being sterilized. Even if your! per cent solution of formalin (stock union of the American Federation) ence for the good of the workers | of Labor, I have some criticism to voice as to their policies and tac- | that would be? 5. How can a man who has been in a union for years get up and Hundreds of delegates came from | all corners of the nation. Weather- | beaten cowboys from the great Is Answer Voted Down By a Worker Correspondent ing a worker and-not quite able to| children do not develop epilepsy | they might develop other conditions which occur in such families, such stitutional disturbances, solution of formalin bought in a drug store is 40 per cent—dilute it yourself to two per cent every night. t ja x : pedis . ° | NEW YORK.—One day last week| as, a very severe form of periodic | Soak only the soles, for about fif- ies. |defend the capitalist press, saying | Plains, Negroes from the South, T F id I L Ww l I: fell and sprained ankle, Be-' headache (Migraine) or other con-| teen minutes, If the solution ir- 1. I think that it is very un-|how fair it was to strikers? That Doisy New Yorkers and staid New 0 rin £ n 0 e | ne se | ritates the feet, cut down the time, reasonable that officials and some contemptible and lying mouthpiece organizers are paid $400 to $800 a|Of the ruling class! Is it not true Englanders. Doctors, lawyers, writ- ers, men and women representing | all the professions; laborers, factory | By a Shoe Worker Correspondent By a Shoe Worker Correspondent afford private medical attention, I There are other factors to be con- sidered beside the question of or dilute the solution with an equal | volume of water. In the morning, month and their travelling ex-|that the more subscribers and the ‘ we | went to a city hospital, the Mor-| whether your children would be| Place in the socks and shoes some penses. Especially, when so many | bigger the circulation a newspaper | Workers, skilled workers, unem- See ecm ee ti uit! ited Gite Sree | Ean Hospital, at 168th St. and/ epileptic. Do you want to assume| Of the following dusting powder: of us are working for $11 to 12/98 the more advertisements they |Ployed; smartly dressed delegates | Laganas Shoe Company of Lowell |trict of the United Shoe and Leather | Waren ave. ‘Barone, | the additional risk and burden of; Aluminum Chloride—three grams, Well, a week. Yet officers of the union seem to think that such salaries are not out of the way. It seems to me that when men are paid such salaries, they automatically become members of the capitalist class. 2, It seems that issues of vital importance to the welfare of the membership are either sidetracked or not even mentioned, and the time | get? who advertises in the Press? The very class of people against whom the unions are fight- jing to get a decent living. What irony! In closing, I will say that not once have I heard the Scottsboro |boys mentioned. The A. F. of L. | Paper mentions Mooney now and then, but no other class prisoners. A person who is class-conscious and and ragged ones, but all animated with one purpose—to fight for so- cial and unemployment insurance! | | Workers and professionals clasped hands in a United Front. White Southerners and Negroes walked arm in arm forgetting the age old feud, in the new found unity of) | purpose, The barriers which once | kept apart workers and professionals were broken down by mutual in-| walked out on strike Monday, Jan, | 14 because the owners of this sweat- shop fired three lasters for “putting out bad work.” The real reason for firing these three workers is because they mil- itantly opposed the fifteen per cent wage cut that Lanagas has been trying to put over. This shop is one of the worst to work in around this Workers Union, in a referendum | vote held last Saturday, rejected the | attempt of the manufacturers to | impose a wage cut of seven and a| half per cent upon thé shoe work- | ers. The vote was 461 to 58. Haverhil! also, has rejected the | | same demands by a vote of approx- | imately 863 to 810. j It was curious to note the action of some of the Joint Council mem- This is what | happened: With some aid I hobbled into the! hospital dispensary. After waiting | for about half an hour, I reached the application window. There I was notified that this particular day was for men only. (I wonder) whether they think that women get hurt on “certain” days only). After asking for any doctor or/ more children, and do you feel that you will be able to care for sych children even if they are perfectly normal? Sterilization is a valid method of dealing with certain health prob- lems as long as the patient is per- mitted to choose or reject this step freely. It is true that just as fire may be used either to warm and Salicylic Acid—three grams. Powdered Alum—ten grams. Starch Powder eighty-four grams. Roa sae Diseased Tonsils C. R., New York:—Diseased tonsils may affect other organs of the body, such as, the heart or the stomach; or cause a general toxic (poisonous) taken up with issues of a trivial : nurse to attempt to stop the pain,| comfort a man or to burn his house | condition of the body which may Politically educated sits there, terest. vicinity. | bers in Lowell when they were asked | : a si ee 5: 7 2 gaa vg bina we we through these meetings realizing The huge Washington Auditorium | Besides asking for an increase in| ‘0 give their opinion on the wage which was terrific, they referred me| Or even himself, just so steriliza-| produce weakness and giddiness. that other members should not say anvthing. It is not the talking it- self that should be considered, but what = person says when he or she talks. That's what counts. 3. In my estimation it is the lack of proper knowledge on the part of the membership that is respon- sible for the officials getting by with what they do. If the members were | only somewhat class conscious and | | the misery and injustice on all !sides. You cannot but help think what a tremendous influence for good those craft unions could be | was jammed to the roof with dele- gates and visitors. Speaker after speaker was cheered, but when Earl | Browder and Mother Bloor ad- wages, rehiring of the fired workers and other minor concessions, the workers in this shop must demand the remoyal of the two rats, Brisko | cut. Excepting two or three mem- bers who declared themselves op- | posed to a reduction of any kind, | the other members showed their) under proper leadership. | dressed the throng, pandemonium Another thing, craft unions not reigned. only split, the workers up but also| Jew and Gentile, Catholic andj |kKeep them pitted against each other. Protestant, black and white, red In- That is why I believe in industrial! dian and brown Filipino sat side unionism and Pappas, who are driving the| ‘rue colors by refusing to take a workers to madness by their dom-/| Stand for or against reduction. De- inecring methods. A | spite the Joint Council attitude, the Brisko, by the way, is the super- | workers in Lowell rejected the wage intendent of the Laganas Shoe| Cut proposal by an overwhelming | ese . Editor's Note: This worker's politically educated. then there | remarks expressing his opinion of wouldn't be any need for putting @/ the American Federation of Labor | one-dollar fine on members who fail! are very timely and his criticism to attend one meeting a month (we | just, Still, i: have four meetings a month) t y e T the solution to these problems. don't think the officers and some| He says that the evils are due to of the top officials could get away/the fact that the membership is| with some of the stuff they do. The! backward and not class conscious. the important thing is | by side and partook of food in a comradely fashion. Here there was |no race hatred—only workers united jin the struggle for security. Delegations visited the President and Vice-President, Senators andj Congressmen, heads of departments and secretaries and proudly de- manded the right to social security. | |No longer did workers cringe in |front of Company, and was recently hauled | Majority. into court charged with assault and battery upon one of the business agents of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union. Poison of Prejudice Thank goodness we have a couple | of Joint Council members who are} solid, fighting union men. Forced Labor | i right kind of knowledge in the hands of the workers will be dan- gerous to those who make their living by misleading the very class they are supposed to lead and revresent. 4. Then there is the refusal on| local of the LL.A. where the mem- | the part of the officials to cooperate with pny organizations except craft ‘unions. If a man’s home were on fire. and the neighbors came to help put the fire out, I wonder if that man heen is where he and other class conscious workers have an impor- tant role to play in educating their brothers in the unions. That this |can be done was shown by the vic- tories of the militants in the Frisco | bership voted out the old line mis- leaders and voted in a militant slate headed by Harry Bridges. Industrial unionism js one of the | oldest issues in the American labor movement. Today the marine work- representatives of the bosses; no longer could the suave, silver tongued “representatives of the people” stave off the stormy eyed workers from demanding their birth- right. They were dealing with de- termined men and women. In the dining hall, groups of en-} thusiastic workers sang songs — | songs about hunger and privation, | about picket lines and police clubs. | No longer were the workers cowed. | They were united—the workers and | professionals—marching together to |heard the breaking of glass in a Spread to Schoolboys In a Stable By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—On my way back from lunch to the school where I SAN DIEGO, Calif.—I am work- teach I came upon a group of about |ing at the S. E. R. A. sewing project 10 to 14 boys returning to their;in the Goodwill Industries at the corner of Fifth Ave. and J Street. school. As I came upon them I Every day the regular workers of \the Goodwill have to go pray a half | By a Worker Correspondent | nearby Jewish synagogue. hour, I seized one of the boys from this! Now th E. R. A. project is group and brought him to my school. | pickeicts orice te a rhs r ©". located in the same building, and There I proceeded to question him | we S. E. R. A. seamstresses have to to the emergency department. There | I also waited some time. Finally | a doctor appeared but still did noth- | ing to stop the pain. Here I was advised (it seems they have plenty of advice to give, but no action) to | go to a private doctor or go home| and try to do something for my- | self. I asked why, and this was| the answer I got. “We only treat people on relief.” I would like to know if I as a citizen and a taxpayer am not entitled to/| | What I pay for through taxes and} other means? After all this red| tape and questioning, I had to gO | to a private doctor, as little as I! could afford it. This is the service we workers get | in this great cit: In Jasper County, Mo. By a Worker Correspondent JOPLIN, Mo.—Just a line to let you know how things are progress- | ing in Joplin. We are facing relief cuts, layoffs and all the miseries forced on us by | a dying and decaying capitalist sys- | tion may be used as a Fascist poli- tical weapon against the masses or | a health measure. ee may be used as * Have You Thought of a Name? The centest for the best name for the magazine which is going to Excessive smoking or coffee drink- ing may cause a similar reaction | in certain individuals who are sen- | sitive to those products. ‘We would suggest that you go to la physician or a clinic for a ‘thorough physical examination. IN THE HOME By ANN On the P: BARTON icket Line THE NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY STRIKERS held a mass meeting last Friday night. For an | hour and a half before the doors opened, they milled around St. Nicholas Arena in New York where the meeting was to be held. A crowd of girls who were stand- ing near me were asking one an- | other, “Were vou to the picket line this morning?” “You'd better be there Monday!” “Mary, you son of a gun—if I don’t see you on the picket line—I’ll—” | more revealing than two pages of statistics. ONLY NINE MORE DAYS, and the Working Woman Contest will be over. The contest ends midnight, | Jan. 25. Have you sent to the | Working Woman, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y., a letter | telling what you would do if your husband would not let you attend working class meetings? Write a | letter today, and perhaps you will | win one of the sixteen prizes of- |fered by the Working Woman | magazine. would ask each one if they belonged | ers on the Pacific Coast are taking | tem. There are 22,500 people on re- fo a certain church or lodge before | steps in this direction through their ‘as to why he had committed this \join in the half-hour chapel. lie id Jasper County a new world, a world of security—a There was much talk going the and policies of the A. F. of L. I| guide for all militants in the A. F. | Workers started for home—for the he made selling bad meat to us raising the “red scare,” trying to in- eee Seca | h - at ; act. He was at a loss to explain! ‘Tp is | rounds between the girls to show accepting their assistance, It is no fight to set up a marine federation a ess, sale gavel and the con-| WAY, outside of the one fact that it |used peewee’ aa Fanecseeet | ae A. F or it leaders, Mr. Bardy how anxious they were to throw, Can You Make ’Em Wonder that enlightened workers to include all marine craft unions. ‘ zie was a Jewish “church” and he didn’t 5 an tT. Beebe, together with the | Ss he strike. f have so much scorn for the tactics; These examples should be the vention was over. ‘Fired but happy like Jews. ae, Poet yin geru ee Aone local authorities and the police are iceitet oemalas a as Yourself? i I took him back to his own school |San Diego folks, It’s terribly cold | THERE ARE MANY WAYS the| Pattern 2065 is ava say united we stand and divided we of L. to follow. Taebories and. 1eems: - Cowes 220 | 5 ent ttie teacher there < wilted | The | timidate Comrade Day and other mee 2 ee fall. An injury to one is an in-| Incidentally, this worker would|limics — government flop houses,| 1, Get as many of the boys in this [over because the Tent wee so cheay | Militant workers from taking action. | A: P. of L. leadership holds back |2.4 6 and 8, Size 4 takes 2% yards jury to all. I apply that not only locally, but nationally and interna- tionally. Didn’t the capitalist class throughout the entire world unite in an effort to keep the masses down so that they can further en- | have made his story more effective if he wrote what local of the A. F. of L. he was a member of. All work- |ers writing in should try to include |all the facts in connection with | what they are dealing. Jobless Block Move to Jail | duct, hoping by this to stop the fight to better our conditions. In response to a leaflet put out by the International Labor Defense about 10 transients, both Negro and bs white, jammed the court room. Six Their Leader * us testified in behalf of Murray, By a Transient Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.— Mass pressure organized with the fense won a smashing victory for transient jobless here. The transients have been putting up a swell battle against the New ‘Deal “Prosperity” policy of rotten housing, stinking food, and the four ‘ents an hour. four hours a day forced labor. ‘The transient officials with the of the “Red” ‘or rather Rat) decided to jail one of the t leaders among the transients, Joseph Murray, on the phoney cus- _tomary charge of disorderly con- |and we could have had sixty to/ | show our working class solidarity, | but the prosecution decided enough was enough and let the case be dis- | missed. Sam Levine, attorney for the International Labor Defense did ». aid of the International Labor De-| a good job, and showed the fellows i |how the workers should defend} | themselves in a capitalist court. This victory has shown us what | we can do, and we're going to keep right on organizing and struggling | to better our conditions. | Sellers of the Daily Worker: What have your experiences been in slling the paper to workers be- _ fore factories, on street corners, | at meetings, and in the home? | Write the Daily Worker. Letters will be published to stimulate | participation in the circulation campaign, 11th Anniversary and I send revolutionary greetings America! Boles ciapeecesecssntes HAIL THE DAILY WORKER! SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 ‘of the American working class, the leader in the fight for a Soviet {All greetings, which must be accompanied by cash or money Lenin Memorial Edition to the Daily Worker, the organizer «+» State C.C.C. camps and bread lines; with | |the determination to carry on the | struggle initiated on these three, memorable days — three days that will go down in history as a land- mark in the forging of the United | Front and the march toward a So- | viet America! group as possible and find out why they had done this, and enlighten them as much as possible on the question of racial and religious prej- | udice. As I see it, the incident is symp- tomatic of heightening of social and Political tension. It was an indica- over because the rent was so cheap and all they did to it was whitewash \the inside a littie and tear out the eld horse stalls, etc. We have to sew under very un- sanitary conditions. We lost one lorelady, Mrs. Brooks, who died of pneumonia. Now one of our seam- stresses is sick in a hospital with These splitting tactics will be an- swered by the workers in due time. | Be sure to have a few special offer subscription blanks with you when sp- aking to prospective readers of the Daily Worker. Get them from your section Daily Worker agent, or write to the | DEC RIES. Canoe how, during the sharpening | of the class conflict, the ideological NOTE | set-ups become overt, too, finally We publish every Wednesday | affecting, in an active way, particu- letters from shoe, textile and | larly the youth. This was the first needle workers. We urge workers in these industries to write to us | such incident that I have contacted. ‘Such an instance should be a re- | of their conditions and efforts to | organize. Please get these letters to us by Saturday of each week, minder to the Young Communist League to intensify its work among the youth. pneumonia. and the other forelady | is very sick and ready to go to the| Dally Worker, 35 E. 12th St. hospital. | saad Sere neem we This morning the regular Good- |Diego for our project and transfer |will men were scraping cement from /us over if he could get a truck. |the walls and making an awful lot This afternoon he called up he |of dust which we were forced to couldn't get a truck. We must pro- Promised he would try to get the jof this unhealthy place or we will ‘American Legion hall in East San! all catch pneumonia. | Clinics in New York and Moscow Compared @ | By a Worker Correspondent | MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R.—I once visited two New York clinics, the Eye and Ear Clinic and the Skin |and Cancer Clinic. It was a might- | mare. I recently visited a clinic here in Moscow. It was a pleasant visit. | When I walked into the Eye and | Ear Clinic in New York I saw sev- jeral long lines. I asked, “Which line for the eye patients?” “Either one,” | the attendant said. I stood in line |30 minutes until my turn came. The girl at the desk said, without looking up, “Where's your receipt? Did you pay your 50c?” “No, I have not,” I said, “the attendant told me this is the line for the eye patients.” |“You're in the wrong line, it’s own there.” I walked over to the other | ‘line. After waiting another 30 minutes my turn came. The questions they asked were as follows: Name. Ad- dress. Religion. Church. How many rooms in the apartment? How many people live in the apartir-nt? | Do you receive any relief? How |much? Is there an income? How |much is the income? From what source obtained? i After the clerk had it all down} |she said, “50e please, Go over to that line and pay She handed |me a card and a slip. If you ont | | pay. you are told to take it up,/with |Your relief agent. These clini¢s ar> ‘supposed to be free BI f I stood in line again, paid my 50c and got my receipt. I went back to the line I stood in first. I got a number there by which I would be called in to see the doctor. A Long Wait I went to the waiting room. I waited, and waited and waited. Nobody was called. I asked a young chap, dressed in white, who was hovering in and out of the room when we were to be called in and why it was taking so long. He told me the doctors don’t always come on time and sometimes don’t come at all, but when and if they come we will be attended to very quickly. I finally found myself in front of one of the doctors. “What do you think is the matter with you?” he asked in a very irritated voice. I didn’t answer at once. “Hurry up lady, I haven’t got all day,” he snapped. It took me a second to blurt out what I thought the mat- ter with me was. He took a slip, put a circle around. one of the numbers on it and told me to see the nurse sitting outside the door. He did not examine me. There were 68 ahead of me, so I had another long wait. A woman behind me sai*, “Dogs are treated better than we are.” I just nodded my head. The nurse told each of us as our turn came that the slip was for drops for the eyes. She teld us how to use them and when and pay 40c. You can’t get your drops without a receipt” she told jus. Two girls tried to share one receipt. They were told there is only enough medicine in each bottle to treat one. This is a “free clinic.” At the skin clinic the questions | and waiting lines were similar. The registration charge was a little cheaper. It was 40c. Mo aes In Moscow I visited the Mol- | chanovskaya Hospital here. As I) said before, it was a pleasant visit. My slip was made out to the wrong section of the hospital. I was told to see the Chief Doctor of the hos- | pital to have it changed. Her name, is Sophia Alexandrova. She was so friendly I forgot I was in a clinic. She not only fixed my slip but telephoned the correct department and told them I was coming. I can’t imagine the head of any free clinic in any other country taking the trouble to see a clinic patient, still less would he bother to set a pa- tient right. When I got to the right depart- | ment, Dr. Abramova and her nurse took care of me. They were as friendly as Dr. Sophia Alexandroya. | The history they took was different | |from the one taken in the New, York clinics. They were interested \in the diseases I had had and what | diseases my parents had had, if my history, I was given a thorough examination. The doctor used rub- be: gloves. (American doctors have told me that Soviet doctors do not use rubber gloves). I have never had a betier examination from aj} private doctor. I was not rushed through. When the doctor was through, she made an appointment for me with a very prominent Mos- cow doctor, who is on the staff of that hospital. The doctor treats her nurse as an equal. She did not command her to do anything, she asked her. In America, even a trained nurse is a menial. I have one more incident to show the brutal indifference of American medical and government authority. The wife of a jobless worker was in the agony of childbirth. It was useless to beg for an ambulance. He took her out on the street. He begged the policemen for help. No use. He stopped a taxi and begged the driver to take him and his wife to the nearest hospitel. The driver asked if he had any money, and told him he could not carry them free. It would cost him his job. Touched by the agony of the wo- man, the chauffeur finall:y con- sented, As they drove ofi, a police- man, seeing the meter flag down, stopped them. The driver ex- plained and pointed to the groaning women. Th? policeman reported the case, The driver was right. He ‘to come again, “Go to the cashier: any. When they were through with | ‘as fired that night, | like!” the fighting energies of the work- ing class. One of these is to hold down to the lowest minimum, wo- mens’ activities in time of strike. The wives of striking street car workers were told last month in Los | Angeles: “Stay away from the cars. Serve coffee to your men. Be lady- The leaders of the National Biscuit Company strike take the same attitude to the women. eee THERE WAS MUCH TALK ABOUT PICKETING inside the hall, “Sure,” said one of the men i icket— breath. Our paymaster, Mr. Adams, | test to Mr. Adams to move us out | ,W. ‘he sirls come down to picl the people will know women are in on this fight too.” But when Galvin, the president of the union got up to speak, he said, “Remember girls—you are to stay away from the plant! Stay away from the plant! The only picketing you do is to picket your neighborhood groceries so they will not sell National Biscuit Company products. Leave the plant to the men!” So once again, the A. F. of L. leadership of a strike tried to shift to one side an important, fighting force. Though picketing must be done at the groceries and in the neighborhoods, the place to keep scabs out is on the picket line in front of the plant. And during | these past few years, women have shown their effectiveness on mass picket lines. Sloe pee THE MOST PRESSING DUTY OF THE WOMEN STRIKERS is to show the officials that they know their place is on the picket line in front of the plant in large numbers. Groups of women sympathetic to the strikers should offer them their services for picketing in front of the grocery stores. The picket line is at 15th Strest and Tenth Ayenu2, New York City. THE PRICE OF MEATS HAVE RISEN TREMENDOUSLY this past week. 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