The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 Boycott of DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935 National Biscuit Products Aids Strikers HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) Worker Protests Service of Scab Goods i Unemployed Cou neil| ij Forces City to Establish Food Station in Queens | Homeopathy vs. Allopathy homeopathy rejects E. E. writes: “I have frequent | scientific methods and is unable to Petitions and Mass Delegations Bring Pressure ‘controversies with a class conscious | demonstrate the truth of its claims, 2 a co-worker who is a staunch sup-|we must reject it. What is essen— on Department of Public Welfare |Porter of homeopathy. He claims | tial is that we must fight to make | to Concede Demands jall doctors including those who | the scientific medical knowledge |fight with the working class for a|that we possess available to all and a | better world are prejudiced towards | completely within the reach of all. By a: Worker Gopreaponanatt ‘above progressive and healthy cures. | . 2 . Rat bess id ay : The methods of allopathy are bene- | NEW YORK.—For some time, the workers of Corona | ficial, in his opinion, only in an ex-| N. L, New York City: “Painful Heights, Queens, felt the necessity of a Food and Coal Depot. tremely limited number of cases, | feet” are a problem of our modern are 3 compared with those of the ‘capi- | “civilization.” Feet have id for | The workers of that vicinity were forced to travel miles for = such stores. talistic’ allopathy, are far beyond | the social privilege of having placed The Italian Workers Club of Corona Heights, with the | talistic” allopathy, are iar beyond | Upon them ill-fitting, stlye-dictated ‘Bares Mutual in Tearoom inasmuch as Similar Action Needed by Restaurant Patrons and Housewives to Ensure Victory in Strike By a Worker Correspondent — I am working in a tea room at 32nd Most of our trade is from needle and Painful Feet NEW YORK, Street and Broadway office workers. > oth ¢ day one of our customers was eating soup | When she noticed that they were National | the benefits of allopathy. shoes. “He does not claim that homeo- | Your condition set in with an ins ——help of the Unemployment Coun- | Pathy is perfect. However, he claims | jury, Previous to this, however, cil developed a movement around | ‘tS superiority over allopathy. The | your feet were probably being weak this issue, issued a petition and | class conscious doctors are, as this | eneq by such factors as ill-fitting solicited hundreds of signatures de- | Board so often informs readers, | shoes, muscular fatigue and strain, ‘i ‘ inistra- |Gominated directly or indirectly by | ib] 1 iti | Hom that coon a dence ee mnctra” |the capitalistic institutions of leam- | Possible malnutrition and the other with cracker: Relief Neglect workers eat at tinue to With that ucts. instance to show that strikers are not al are backed is one Nabisco their fight the rest of us. I suggest that workers eating at different restaurants protest and stop eating at those places where N. B. C. products are served, and that house-wives do the same thing by protesting and stopping the patronage of stores where N. B. C. products are sold. By doing that they will help the Nabisco workers win their strike. Workers of the N. B. C., carry on the fight! We are behind you. but Negligence In Hospital | Causes Death | | By a Worker Correspondent — | LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.—On Dec. 28 my baby, George Falzone, 15 months old, was not well and seemed quite sick. Being unem-| ployed for two years, I couldn’t af- | ford a private doctor, and so dur- | ing the night I called the St. Johns | Hospital in Long Island City and asked for an ambulance. | When the ambulance arrived the doctor said it was not necessary to | take the baby to the hospital but left a perscription to be made out. | Not having the money I had to go to the Home Relief Bureau to get it filled out, At the Home Relief | Bureau they claimed that it was not | made out with the baby’s name and I had to take it back to St. John’s Hospital. It wasn’t before Thurs- day, Dec. 27, that I had it finally filled. On Friday morning Dec. 28, my baby looked quite bad and I called for an ambulance again. The doctor took the baby to the hospital and Said it would be-all right, it was | just a bronchial case. Next morn- ing at 6 o'clock I was notified that my baby died. When I got to the hospital I found the baby on a slab in the bath-room and noticed that the nose, right side of chin and forehead was black and blue. I was told that I could not take the baby home unless I had an autopsy performed to find out the cause of death and that the inci- sion would only be three inches. The doctor who took care of the ward in which my baby was, did not know of the death of baby until late in the morning. When I met! the doctor about 9:30 that morning he was surprised that the baby had died. He said, “I examined the baby at 3 o'clock this morning and the baby was fine.” When I got the baby home I opened the coffin and started to ex- amine the baby myself. I found that instead of a three inch inci- | Sion that they cut it from the top| right down to the testicles and it looked flat and empty. I could see now, why they wanted to perform an autopsy because my baby did not die a natural death | but fell out of the crib. It was a very active child My contention is that because of Jack of enough nurses to care for | the children of the poor who are forced to go to a hospital the baby was not looked after. | Although I cannot bring back my | own child I want this to reach thou- | sands of other workers to organize | and fight against such a system | that even makes money out of a| hospital at the expense of the poor | impoverished workers, to demand of these hospitals more nurses and doctors to properly care for the sick. | |and let them go home. Health Menace In Peoria, III. By a Worker Correspondent PEORIA, Ill—On Jan. 14, about one p. m., a leading comrade from | the Unemployment Council was in| the offices of the Peoria County | Emergency Relief when he was av- | proached by two ladies who recog- nized him as a member of the Coun- cil. The first lady stated she had a/ sick child at home in bed with the | measles, no coal to carry them over | the night, and husband without | work or money to buy same, The| case-worker had told her to go out | and borrow or beg the money to buy the coal until her husband could get work to bux some. | The other women called attention | to her face, which was broken out in small red blotches. She said that she had the measles herself, but, due to the fact she had not re- ceived her relief order for groceries in the mail—it was four days over- due—she had to go to the ‘relief station herself to request the order. | The Unemployed Council comrade immediately snapped into action, went directly to the suvervisor of case workers and told her in no uncertain terms that they had better take care of these two women instantly, give them their groceries He pointed | out that the gross negligence, mal- administration and actual refusal of relief to unemployed families in dire need had caused these ladies, one with a contagious quarantine case at home, the other with the disease herself, to come to the re- lief station themselves, thereby menacing the health of others at the relief station. When the suvervisor saw the mood of the comrade and knowing the past record of the Unemploy- ment Council, she hurriedly came over to the two ladies and promised immediate action. Unemployed transients in New York demonstrating against the forced labor program of tha government. ment are to set up a real network of ‘concentration’ Hitler for all single unemployed. The plans of the govern- camps a la Georgia FERA Cuts Pay to 15c an Hour By a Worker Correspondent MACON, Ga.—Grace Shepperson, Relief Administrator for the State of Georgia, on Jan. 1 issued instruetions to | all branches in the state to cut the former basis of pay on | relief jobs from the former thirty-cent an hour schedule to | the following: In counties. having no town of | more than ten thousand population, | the pay will be fifteen cents an hour | for unskilled labor and forty cents jan hour for skilled labor. In coun- | ties where there is one town of over ten thousand and not more than fifty thousand, the rate will be twenty cents for unskilled and fifty cents for skilled. Where there is a city of more than fifty thousand, U nem | ove d |the common laborers will receive Pp y: | twenty-five cents an hour, and the skilled mechanics will get the pre- Pl d t Aid | vailing union scale in the particular e€ ge oO 1 | county. The average union scale Reliet Workers By a Worker Correspondent ALLENTOWN, Pa.—-he project workers and the unemployed met a week ago Friday night for the pur- pose of organizing all project work- ers of Allentown and vicinity. More than 400 attended the meeting. The conditions under which the project workers are compelled to work for relief have become so bad that in many instances workers have walked off of the jobs, working in mud knee deep on some of the projects, without boots or rubbers, working in the rain for hours at a time. Hundreds of workers be- cause of their weakened condition are now paying out in doctors’ bills the few cents that they receive for their work. The general complaint is that the budgets that are allowed are starvation budgets, the average of which is about $11 per week. Some of the foremen on the proj- ects are real slave drivers, they com- pel the workers to sit outside to eat their lunch, while there is plenty of room in the field office for all of the workers to eat their lunch. The work of organization of the project workers is meeting with in the South for all organized labor is about seventy per cent of that in other parts of the United States. For many months the United | States Chamber of Commerce and \employers of workers everywhere, been clamoring for a modification jot the Federal Bureau rates of pay, and the Washington Administration |has been promising them that the | matter would be looked into, and adjusted. The government opened |the way for such modification by scrapping the Civilian Works Ad- ministration program some months ago. They then turned it over to the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- |ministration, in which the states | Overworked In Hospital By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — At the present resistance and many of the workers | time we have a census of over 4,000 have been warned that if they have anything to do with organization they will be fired. The HigHth Ward | Unemployed League at its last regu- lar meeting went on record to fight with the project workers, and that if any were fired for trying to or- ganize, they would help to strike the job by throwing mass picket lines around the project. DISTRICT 1— New York, N. ¥.: Dora Gausner DISTRICT 6— Cleveland, Ohio: George Stefanik Jerry Ziska Anna Schotsneider DISTRICT 7— Detroit, Mich.: Jack Sepeld Ben Green Win a Free Trip to Join These Shock Brigaders in the Daily Worker Subscription Contest! DISTRICT 10— DISTRICT 14— |patients in the Kings County Hospital which is about twice as much as its capacity. The Long Island Hospital is af- filiating here at this time, giving the nurses twice as many patients to take care of and twice as many jorders to take, one from our own |land doctors. Mr. Norman, in charge of the help, states that the city will not DISTRICT 8— Boston, Mass.: Chicago, T.: William Cacclola A. A. Larson | DISTRICT 2— Sam Hammersmark Coleridge, Neb.: Paul Burke Lincoln, Neb.: Harry M. Lux Omaha, Neb.: Calvin Kibbe Little Falis, N. J.: Dick Kamper Singac, N. J.: F. Provenzano the Soviet Union! appropriate more money for more help, and so we are just worked to death, Several days ago a new ruling came out that the orderlies who are working on the male wards take classes for two hours every day to learn how to make beds, bathe patients, and take care of the patients in general. What does this mean? That when the old building which has been condemned as @ fire trap, is going to be opened again, there will be one nurse who will take charge of the ward and two attendants working for $45 to $60 per month taking the places of nurses who should get $100 to $125 per month. The only way We should fight this is by organizing. Demand equal pay for equal work. Demand that the fire trap hospital stay closed. Since there is twice as much work | for all hospital workers from Kings County Hospital, we should demand more help. This can only be done by organizing and joining the| €*Periences in getting subscriptions and in selling the paper to Socialists, A, F. | ers, farmers, women, white-collar, Hospital Workers Union, |but especially in the South, have | |doctors and others from Long Is- | \are required to furnish a percent- }age of the funds, and have the final say as to the nature of the work and local rates of pay. Thus, the South had been pay- jing from thirty cents to a high of | fifty and sixty cents, while many other states paid almost double for the same work. With the sole ex- ception of house rent, often merely jjungle shacks, every other living jexpense is higher here than north of the Ohio River. The excuse has |been that under a_ thirty-cent jminimum, “You just can’t get a | ‘Nigger’ to do any work any more as long as the government pays thirty cents.” Of course, it hits a j|lot of poor white relatives too, but Jon the theory that the general (capitalist) good demands drastic |adjustments, the act is justifiable. There is always a “joker” in jevery bill or enactment and there is a big one in this. The catch is that there is only one county in the state containing a city of over |fifty thousand population: so the | union scale will only be paid on |Federal Works in Fulton County wherein the City of Atlanta is | located. | Aid Racket | In Maey’s i | | By a Macy Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—I have been Macy worker for the last three | | years, continuously employed during that time, a rare condition, as all| | Macy workers know. When I was first hired I signed a | |“voluntary agreement” to pay one | per cent of my salary to the Macy |Mutual Aid Association. After six | |months, during which time I paid} nothing, I was formally notified of my membership in the organiza- tion, and received a little brown pamphlet which listed the regula- | tions of the association. I read there that this is an or- | Sanization of Macy workers to pro- | vide sick and death benefits; that | membership is voluntary; that the officers are Macy workers elected by secret ballot by their fellow workers and that the top floor of Macy’s is occupied by a hospital. | But, before very long, like all | other “Macy workers, I discovered the facts about the Macy Mutual Aid Association. In the first place, |membership in the association is |not voluntary. I signed the agree- j}ment when I was hired because otherwise I would not have gotten) my job. One per cent of my wages | is deducted from my pay envelope | before that pay reaches me. Then, jall the time that I have worked for |Macy’s I have not voted for any | officers, nor for my floor represen- | tative, nor have I ever seen a secret ballot. The Board of Directors and rep- resentatives are not rank and file workers, but executives. I have never received or seen an account of the proceedings at the meetings, of changes made in the by-laws, nor | have I ever had any choice in these proceedings. Furthermore, no ac- count of the association’s income or expenditures has ever been made to the Macy workers. All I know is jthat if I am lucky enough to be sick for four or more days, I get two-thirds of my salary beginning |with the fourth day. For the first | three days I get nothing. | If I go up to the hospital too} often, I am likely to lose my job/| because I am “a liability, not an | asset.” If I should contract some | serious illness, Macy’s will conveni- | ently and gently suggest that I take | @ leave of absence, and I shall re- | turn to find my name no longer on the staff list. This is the old story of a work- | ers’ cooperative society run by the | bosses. The Macy Local of the Of- | fice Workers Union is determined to publicize these and other con- ditions in Macy's. We believe that After collecting these signatures | the workers elected a delegation, | went to Mayor LaGuardia demand- ing their petition be met. The Mayor referred them to the De-| partment of Public Welfare. There | the delegation, whose spokesman was Celia Balogh, the organizer of | the Unemployment Councils of Long | Island, demanded that such a store be opened at once. The Assistant Manager, a Mr. Daley, told them that such a store would be opened | but Celia Halogh together with the | delegation insisted that he confirm | his statement in writing so that a} definite answer can be given to a/ meeting of the Corona Heights! workers who signed the Petition. A letter to that effect was given to} the delegation signed by Mr. Daley. | The delegation demanded that the depot be opened in two weeks and that milk be sold at the store for eight cents a quart. Kresge Follows Anti-Semitic Hiring Policy By a Worker Correspondent NEWARK, N. J.—The Kresge De- partment Store of Newark is re- flecting the anti-Semitic Hitlerite campaign in this country by its at- titude toward its prospective em- | ployees. | A young worker went up to the advertising manager of the store, a Mr. Barriscale, a blue-eyed, pink- cheeked young man with a very winsome and appealing smile, and asked him, for the twentieth time, if there was yet an opening in his department. He had been told by this same (Mr.?) Barriscale to drop in at intervals to ask this question. On this occasion, Barriscale wrote a note to a subordinate which he thought the applicant could not see. But a large scrawl with a soft blue pencil on a large sheet of layout paper is easily read from a distance of four feet. So the young worker saw Mr. Barriscale write out, to the great amusement of his subor- dinate: “What shall we do with this goddamned kike?” Foolishly enough, the young worker did not sock the charming rat on the nose, but went home and | Wrote a letter to an official of the store, a Jew himself. This official, Mr. Schindel, passed the buck, and the letter was answered by a subor- dinate who assured the young man that he had been seeing things and hinted that that was no way to be- have one’s self if one expected a| job. sick benefits should be paid from | the first day of illness and should be paid entirely by the Strauses | | themselves, | Anti-Semitism permeates t he American business structure, a sure sign of what is ahead if the work- ers do not unite speedily | Dear Comrade Editor: Of my experiences in selling the Daily Worker, I wish to say the following: The Negro people are the easiest to approach. They are very hos- | pitable. The Negro workers are very | willing to learn. They ask ques- tions. They ask you to come in, to sit down, they are always ready for discussion, One Negro worker said to me: “No, I won't buy it. I don’t care for this paper.” And when I asked him to explain the reason, he said: “They criticize too much. They | criticize Rooesvelt, for instance, for | everything he does. Surely it can- |not be possible that everything he does should be wrong.” I explained that not only is it not impossible but it is very natural. Because Roosevelt is not of us poor | people, but one of a particular class; one of the rich class. And every plan he introduces is for the sole purpose of serving his class; of serving himself. Of course he is very clever and knows how to make it appear as though it is for the good of the people, but it turns out to be in favor of the rich, As an example, I pointed out to the N.R.A. I was anxious to hear what he would say when I finished. But he did not say anything. He took out three cents from his pocket, paid me for the Daily Worker, thanked me for my visit, and asked to call again. Another experience is that of a conversation with a white worker. It is rather humorous, but may serve to show our comrades how important it is to talk to workers about the Daily Worker. > Negro Workers, Writers and Daily Worker SOPHIE JACOBS, New York Red Builder, who sells the “Daily” on 42nd Street and 7th Avenue. Alert and active, she sells more than 100 papers every night, though she works only a few hours. From stores and of- fice buildings in the neighbor- hood, her customers come to her corner. She has 50 regular nightly customers. JANE WILLIAMS, Daily Worker Representative in Pater- son, N. J. Formerly one of New York’s best Red Builders. Trav- eled to California last year, her native state, and there raised hell with the capitalists in selling the Daily Worker and the Western Worker. worker asked, “There is nothing there, only strikes, strikes and strikes. No columns, no articles,” “What do you mean no columns?” said I, “there is a splendid column by Michael Gold every day. And there are—” “By whom?” He interrupted me. “Michael Gold.” “I read a book by Michael Gold, ‘Jews Without Money.’” “That's the same one,” I said, “he writes in the Daily Worker every day.” “But he is a writer,” he said to me much surprised. “Well, who did you think were writing for the Daily Worker?” “Gee, I didn’t know.” He mumbled, “I didn’t know that ‘he’ was writ- ing for the Daily Worker. I read his book, It was good.” “His articles are good too,” I as- serted. ‘Here, read this.” He sat down and read through the article I pointed to. “It's good,” he said. “It’s mighty good.” FANNY FOX. SHOCK BRIGADERS, CARRIERS, CANVASSERS, ALL WHO SELL THE DAILY WORKER, tell your | experiences to the “Daily.” We want a living picture of the Daily Worker in action—before factories, at | union meetings, on street corners, in front of workers’ halls, at mass meetings, in the homes. We want your Professional workers, of L, members, Negro work- |ing that homeopathy is sectarian and not scientific. This is his an- swer to the progressive and revolu- | tionary physicians.” Your letter raises up questions for discussion rather tian of a directy | medical nature. As our space is) limited, you will find it discussed more fully in our forthcoming Health Magazine. We will answer you here briefly. As to homeopathy vs. allopathy, we are not concerned particularly with defending any sys- tem of medicine. As you know, in a capitalistic country, the following is true: 1, Scientific knowledge may be extensive but is not applied for the general welfare because of the profit motive. 2. Knowledge may even be sup- pressed for the same reason. The large group of industrial diseases is an example of this. 3. Research is often haphazard, at times wasted, reduplicated or even meaningless. The conditions under which research is done and the motives behind it explain this. Medicine is not the knowledge of disease but rather the application of this knowledge and as such it must suffer and be open to all the short- comings and criticisms of any capi- talistic institution. However, you will admit that technically capital- ism is able to turn out an efficient airplane built on scientific prin- ciple although you would not ap- prove of the conditions of its pro- duction or its later use. The same is true of medicine. Insofar as al- lopathic medicine utilizes scientific methods, we must adhere to it and IN THE (SLAVA DUNN’S weekly article will be published regularly every Saturday after this. She asks that mothers write her questions, sug- gestions on what they would like her to take up, and criticisms, it they have any.) . 8 “HOW EARLY CAN WE EX- PECT little children to become in- dependent of the help of grown- ups? Like all other pheses of development, independence is a slow and gradual process, “Soon after the first year, a child can begin to do little things for it- self. With gentle encouragement, a child can learn at that age to hold his spoon alone, and to drink from a cup. No matter how clumsy he is at first, or how many spots there are on his bib, or on the table, it is good to praise him and not to expect a perfect job. Fee aaa “OF COURSE A BUSY MOTHER often is impatient, and instead of giving the needed encouragement to the child’s first efforts, she prefers to do the job quickly herself. Yet it pays to take time and teach the small child to do things for him- self. The earlier the child learns the fun of being independent, the easier it will be to teach him in- dependence later. Little achieve- ments, such as taking off his own shoes and stockings, or washing his own hands, teach a child self- reliance and independence from mother’s help, ee SO “CHILDREN’S SMALL MUSCLES develop later than their big ones. For that reason it is hard for them to handle small buttons, hooks, or small things of any kind. If chil- dren's clothes have large, easy but- tons, and are simple to handle, we can expect a child between the ages of three and four to take off his clothes, or even put some of them on. rie Sean ‘IT IS EASIER TO TRAIN LITTLE CHILDREN if we give them the idea that it is fun to do things for oneself. Often a joke at the right moment is as helpful as actual physical assistance. How- ever, it is wise not to insist on self- help too rigidly when a child feels tired and cranky or sleepy or sick. Children get easily fed up with too dry a routine and too much in- sistence. Such things as feeding himself, taking his shoes and stock- ings off when unlaced, washing his hands alone when a little box is provided as a step, going to the toilet without help, and partly dressing and undressing, mean a great deal to both mother and young children. To the mother it is a time-saver. To the child, it means getting ready for life among strangers where independence is necessary. “Recently I asked Mrs. Field, who has studied nurseries in the U.S. S.R., how Soviet children compare with those in America. She an- | swered that the Soviet children compare very favorably. They seem offspring of our capitalist society. We would first of all recommend exercises to strengthen the muscles and ligaments of your feet. Tlus- trated directions about these exer= cises may be found in many books in any public library. These ex- ercises must be done faithfully. In spite of your present pain even with arch supports, it is our opinion that you will need some sort of sup- port—either a new fitting arch or correct shoes. A visit to any of our better orthopedic clinies should decide this for you. ced aay Ointment for Eczema H. W. writes: “Kindly send me the formula which appeared some time ago in Dr. Luttinger’s column for an ointment for eczema. I used this formula with good results—but the eczema came back after having been gone for some time. In the meanwhile I have lost the formula and hope you will send me a formula soon, as my son has a bad attack.” One of the best salves for the treatment of “eczema” is: Crude coal tar five per cent in Anlydrons lanolin. However we do not approve treat- ing any disease without knowing what the correct diagnosis is. The term “eczema” is often a very vague condition. Visit a competent clinic or physician for the correct diag- nosis first. Volunteer help is needed by the Board. Typists who can give some time are asked to call Monday at 11 A. M. at the Daily Worker of- fice. HOME By ANN BARTON TEACHING A CHILD INDEPENDENCE dependent than children in Amere ican nurseries.” CRS SEM Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2171 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 2% yards 39 inch blouse fabric and 2% yards skirt fabric. Illustrated step-by= step sewing instructions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for each Anne Adams pattern (New York City residents should add one cent tax for each pattern order). plainly, your name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE WANTED. Scottsboro-Herndon Fund International Labor Defense Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City immediate contribution to the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense to be able to do many more things for themselves and are more in-( Fund.