The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 - Dress Union Officials Gag Protests As Bosses Pre Price Committee Changed To Boss According ’s Orders Militant Chairlady in Phila. Blouse Shop Election Counted Out by LL.G.W.U. Representative | By a Needle Worker Corre- tions. The union succeeded by high spondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The events in our own local of the In- ternational Ladies Garment Work- ers Union are probably no isolated case. In Susquehanna—a blouse shop of about 300 workers, the boss de- cided on a wage cut. However, as a preliminary step he fired one of the most militant workers of the shop, a member of the price com- mittee. The charge against the girl was a flimsy one: “She quit a half an hour too early and came in @ little late the next morning with- out asking permission to do so.” Mr, Reisberg, the manager of our Union, pretended that it was a very serious case, however, and he would have to take it up with the Manu- facturing Association and possibly with the impartial chairman. However, both the boss and Mr. Reisberg underestimated the fight- ing mood of the workers in that shop. There all but made a stop- page in spite of the intimidating and terrorizing tactics of the chair- lady, who is a perfect tool in the hands of the Union “machine.” They brought such pressure to bear on, Mr. Reisberg that this worker was reinstated within a week. But pressure methods in removing her from the price committee. | Adella Dress Shop | A similar case is the Adella Dress | Shop. Here a merger of the silk} and cotton departments took place | and the boss insisted on one chair- lady and one price committee, and | he made it clear that he wants one | of his own choosing. At a shop meeting, a sincere worker and | former chairlady of the cotton de- | partment received the majority of | votes. However, the union repre- sentative, true to the policy of al- ways pleasing the boss against the interest of the workers, miscounted the votes, refused a recount, and then walked out of the meeting. | | The workers then elected a com- mittee which was sent to the union to demand another shop meeting. Mr. Reisberg is stalling on this question. In the meantime the boss is making further attacks on the conditions of the workers in |that shop. The silk cutters who are supposed to be working 35 hours a week, are working 36 hours with the union’s consent. He re-| fuses to recgnize anyone but the |chairlady to whom the workers ob- ject and in all probability will get away with it. Stenographer Asks Even for Payless Jo By a Worker Correspondent SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—I own a small business here and a few days ago I received the following letter: Dear Sir: I have a rather unusual propo- sition to make whch I hope you will give your consideration. I am an experienced stenographer out of employment and I am willing to work two months without sal- ary if a position is available at that time. I prefer dictation but would do any kind of office work. If you are interested please drop me a line to the above address and I will call for an interview at your convenience. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1935 , Memphis Pro test Forces Improved Housing Quarters pare Attacks |Relief Officials Know How to Pass the Buck | WORKERS’ HEALTH Real Organization Could Do Much More, Worker Correspondent Points Out By a Worker Correspondent MEMPHIS, Tenn.—I have been on the Transient Relief here with Your truly, Signature. I have omitted the name and address. The address, however. was in Longfellow, a fashionable suburb of Springfield where mem- bers of the “four hundred” reside. It seems evident that the “best” of citizens are offering themselves for sale “cheap.” For your infor- mation, I have no work to offer even my own daughters, my family for about six weeks, and must say it is hell. We wait for hours, jammed in a tiny room, to-| gether with others, in foul air for} a few crumbs of relief that amount | to 89 cents a week per head. They sent us with our babies to a| small, dingy, vermin infested, evil | smelling room, with an old laundry stove in the center to heat and cook with, | Then they would not give us any | Is Betrayed By Officials relief because we would not wait ‘hours and hours together with some | diseased people to take vaccina-| tions, innoculations and get a phys- ical examination. We are sorry for | these people whose health is gone because they had no money to get | proper medical care, but it is not | right to put the healthy in contact | | with the diseased. | The social worker, Miss Poindex- | ter, had the nerve to say that the) government only wanted to take |ecare of our health. Yeah! Hun- |dreds of workers are stuck with |needles and scratched, while the| | foul air gags them, and some faint Relief Fight By a Worker Correspondent EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.—At a con- ference held here on Jan. 7 in re- | gards to the forced labor being in- and vomit from the rotten condi- she was maneuvered off the price Minimum Not Lived Up To committee. That there was an understanding between the boss and Mr. Reisberg seems to be per- fectly clear now. When this girl was sent back to | work she was not told the condi- tions, but she was told to be very grateful for this consideration Shown her. The workers in the shop were warned by the chairlady not to make any demonstrations or im any way to show their satisfac- tion, because it may hurt the boss. The following week after the enthusiasm of the workers was cooled off, a shop meeting was called and they were informed that the worker was off the committee, or else she'll be out of the shop again. Although the workers stoutly resisted such tactics and at one point even said to the union representative that next time they will want a shop committee elected they'll bring the boss to the meet- ing*and have him make nomina- In every shop in the city Some | such incidents are taking place. | The minimum is not lived up to. | In many cases the time cards of the workers are being punched by | the bookkeeper and then the work- | |ers go back to work. Militant work- Jers are being removed from shop committees or threatened with re- moval. The union leadership ignores these complaints and when they are settled it is always to the satis- faction of the bosses against the interest of the workers. Sister and brother dressmakers. It is about time you look after your |own interest instead of leaving everything to Mr. Reisberg. And the way to do this is to build a broad rank and file movement which will be a bulwark against the bosses and the union bureau- crats. Build your own union in| your own way. Demand Rank and File Control. troduced into the county, there participated the Illinois Workers’ Alliance, the Unemployment Council, | the A. F. of L. and the Progressive Trades and Labor. All fifty of the tions. These examinations must be| for war purposes, or otherwise what would the government care about Physical fitness? Fought Forced Labor | We here flatly refused to work without cash pay at union wages, and we gave them the right name for their 24 hours a week at one dollar—forced labor, We were cut | off for this as well as refusing to CAN undergo the “care for our health.” We organized a small group and| went after Miss Price, supervisor of | case workers, and she quickly changed when she saw our deter- mined and militant frame of mind. We are getting better living quar-| ters now, our groceries, and cloth-/| ing for the kiddies on top of it. It all goes to show what a little, tiny organization can do, There are no| more insults and abuses, no waiting | in line for hours and no forced | labor for our group because we are By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La.—I am a single worker on the BE. R. A. direct relief rolls. My visitor, Mary Morris, allows me $1.60 per week for all my needs. Yesterday I asked her again to increase my budget. She an- swered, “You can very easily live on one loaf of bread a week.” When I again demanded a clothes order she replied that she could | 76-year-old | suffering front a senile psychosis, | Daily W (The Doctors on + : Med Mental Iliness in the Aged I. RB. Brooklyn, N. ¥.: Your mother is apparently that is, mental illness, due to old age. As a person gets older, differ- jent parts of the body tend to, be- not open her pocket book. While telling her that if she wanted something for her own benefit she would certainly find a way of opening it, I angrily lunged at her and sent her terrified out of the house. Yet, when we go to E. R. A. headquarters, the “little Hitler” | (the name given the Parish relief director by the workers) tells us that we must see our visitors if we want anything. Passing the buck, is what I call it. fighters with a punch in us. We get the Daily Worker from the newsstands here, because we know it will help us here in Mem- phis. There don’t seem to be any-/ thing like an organization here, at least we don’t see it on the relief | lines. Some say it is because of the | police terror here and workers are railroaded to a big prison farm, the minute they open their mouths about organization. Last week, some more meat stored | away here in the auditorium for the unemployed was found to be rot- ten. That makes it 120,000 pounds | left here to rot in the last six months because they would not give it to the hungry. Now they are sort- ing it out and going to give out) some that's not supposed to be bad | yet. The most a family gets here is $7.24 in cash wages for 24 hours| per week. Out of this, large fami- | lies are expected to pay rent, heat, light, gas, clothing anc food bills. T'll say we need the Daily Worker | here. This is a city of over 250,000 population, a third of them on relief. Mill Agents in By a Textile Worker Correspondent BURLINGTON, N. C—The rank and file textile workers here in Bur- lington are just waking up to the |fact that they are being misled in | their U.T.W. local as well as by | their national officials. | During the time that six of our Gebpea tea mcsent Youn au 80: wreck. local workers were being framed up Help in ‘Dynamite’ Frameup CollegeHero-and Piles: for their budget, and that they would see that no member of any by the E. M. Holt Plaid Mill Com- | pany and the local sheriff, Stock- | of the organizations present would By a Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—'Temple, with Rosan ill, loses to New York University, 38-22.” ; Reds the playing of games, they | | are satisfied. i Coach Usilton is tearfully worried. What about? Whether or not Red: go to work until the contract was | signed by all of the delegates present. | The next day, Jack McLain,! ard, some of the company agents, who are becoming known to us, did a clever piece of work, They got one of the defendants to’ ask the local to suspend all these defend- Beneath the heading we find out | R0san would be available for the | that Reds Rosan, the star of the | Carnegie Tech game at Pittsburgh. Temple University basketball team | Isn't it ridiculous? With the boy is sick with grippe and has a high fever. He collapsed in the Hotel ONE ee Vietcria on the day of the game, and naturally was so sick that he had to stay in bed. This meant a great loss to the great name of Temple. | Now let us see what Reds Rosan Tose. About a month ago, Red Rosan | was sick with the grippe. The first | game was only a few days away, and the coach urged him to play as So0on as possible. This he did. Even though doctors tell us that playing | strenuous basketball after a case of | grippe is dangerous to the heart, | soil and may leave a young boy or man | sick in bed with the grippe, and | GO OuT THERE EVERYTHING yor with a weak heart for the rest of | with a fever of 102, the coach is | his life, the coach and the doctor | wondering if he can sends Reds into | Permitted Reds Rosan to play. a fever hot game in just three days. Why should the coach ana doc-| Isn't it a pleasure to know that tor worry about Reds Rosan? They|in the Soviet Union the govern- are interested in the great Temple | ment absolutely refuses to let a| University and in their own pocket- | sick player play until he is fully | books. Why should they worry if | recovered and in perfect health? Of Reds will have a weak heart for the chairman of the Progressive Trades | ants until the dynamite charge was and Labor, and Frank Pobts, the cleared up. This was done by some | and between the three of them they | business agent, who was formerly a state patrolman, met with Ray Goodell, relief director of the county. This Goodell is also known as a former efficiency expert of the | Granite City Steel Co. Goodell, who is eager to serve the big in-| dustrial kings of the county, had up| ill that time been unsuccessful in | getting the men to work for their | relief. With the help of these two misleaders, he has succeeded in put- | ting about seventy-five men to work in Edwardsville. The committee elected to work with the business agents was com- pletely ignored by him. These two betrayers sneaked up to Goodell, engineered the sellout of the work- | ers in the whole county. Goodell promised the Progressive Trades and Labor 128 hours a month at 77% cents an hour, with the under- | standing that the Progressive of the company spies to make it look as if their fellow workers in the U. T. W. had put the stamp of guilt on these defendants, who have been tried by a mil] company con- trolled court and have been sen- tenced to the penitentiary from two to ten years. However, the rank and file went beyond the control of the company agents on Jan. 19. The rank and file reinstated our fellow workers, and the local also went on record as supporting the Workers Defense Committee both morally and finan- cially. Eastman Ap ologizes| For MentioningEighteen Sacramento Defendants SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan, 22.—- Max Eastman, Trotzkyite, apol- Trades and Labor workers were the only ones to receive this offer. This | ogized to the members of the con- rest of his life? They are interested | course in that country they are not | | Worrying about the gate receipts. is nothing but a trick to force all|Setvative Tuesday Club here re- the other workers to go to work cently when exception Was taken to im winning basketball games, and| Amateur athletes, don’t be suck- @8 long as they can squeeze out of | ers all your life. Figura, and Francisco. Fujano, a/ | brother of Americo Fujano. They were killed by the gas which es- | caped from a jet on the water heat- er while they were sleeping. Gas Kills Six in Brooklyn Tenement Six people, who were reported to be Porto Ricans, were found dead | from gas in an apartment in the | tenement house, 181 Butler Street,| letters from textile, shoe and Brooklyn, yesterday. needle workers. We urge workers The dead were Anna Fujano and| in thees industries to write us of her husband, Americo, their son| in these industries to write us of William, Mrs. Fujano’s father Do-| ganize. Please get these letters to menico Figura, and his son William! us by Saturday of each week. NOTE We publish every Wednesday Join These Shock Brigaders _ in the Daily Worker Subscription Contest! | DISTRICT 1— DISTRICT 8— and then cnt the wages. There is a great deal of dissension "| between the workers in the A. F. of L. and the Progressive Trades and Labor. The Tllinois Workers’ Alli- ance in Edwardsville is dominated and controlled by A. F. of L. of- ficials. Frank Rogers, vice-chairman of the Illinois Workers’ Alliance, is a ‘reactionary. He refused to do any- thing about these men who are working, giving the excuse that the A. F of L, will take care of them/| in two or three weeks. He said he wasn’t going out on the job to tell those men to come off. He is afraid, _|and he has made that statement before the rank and file. When put on the spot by a few of the militant workers, he raises “the red scare.” He has on three different occasions t r i ed to frame three of the most militant, and each time he has failed. The work- |ers are beginning to see that the “red scare” is nothing but a trick to cause dissension in their ranks. Boston, Mass.: William Cacetola We are calling a large mass mect- | ing of all workers, especially A. F.| | of L. workers, where we will explain | who is responsible for the men that | Chicago, Tl: A. A. Larson Sam Hammersmark \his mention of the case of the | eighteen framed Sacramento de- | fendants. He touched on the cases in pass- ing during the course of a lecture on poetry before the rich club women and their guests. “Stick to your poetry, Mr. East- man,” Estelle Phillips, chairman of the meeting, shouted when East- man mentioned the Sacramento cases. “That’s what we paid you for.” Whereupon Eastman, Trotzkyite distorter of Marxism, turned back \to his poetry after an apology to Miss Phillips. His discussion of | poetry was so inocuous and “above” the class struggle that it drew no | further objections from his reac- tionary audience. Eastman’s apology for mentioning |the Sacramento cases is especially significant in the light of the at- tempts of the Trotzkyites to disrupt the united front defense of the eighteen workers. Get the low-down on Hearst's U.T. W. Local | This is quite a victory when we consider how this local has been run by four or five who are well known as being tools of the Mill companies. There is one, Mr. Car- nell, who has been proven in an- other local (Spindale local in North Carolina) to have belonged to a Detective Agency in Atlanta, Ga. This man poses as a Socialist leader He was seen going into the office of the Plaid Mill during the strike, From this same office came one of the vilest frame-ups during the workers’ struggle for better condi- tions (the Dynamite frame-up). From this “Socialist” misleader, Mr. Carnell, came the argument at a meeting of our local on Jan. 12 that we should write Mr. Gorman to find out what should be done about taking our loyal members back since they had been suspended. He argued that we might lose our charter by not listening to the big misleader Gorman. But, we the rank and file have got this stool pigeon on the run. At our last meeting he did not open his mouth because he saw that we were get- ing wise to the part he is playing for the Mill Company. Wodkcs cee Technocracy Be Analyzed By a Worker Correspondent SISTER BAY, Wisc. — Money 1s almost on the vanishing point up here. Never before have I witnessed such abject poverty and such a primitive miserable existence as can be seen around this countryside. To subscribe for any kind of a paper has become a luxury, which the majority of the people can not afford, consequently they are totally Jacking in knowledge of what is wrong, or of the class struggle which is raging. I have never ceased in my effort to clarify and enlighten the people, to explain what a Communist So- ciety will mean as compared to the anarchy and suffering of the pres- ent system. I am happy to know that in the last election seven Com- munist votes were cast in this town- ship, where before the people had only heard of Communism in the slanderous and poisonous way as given them in the Hearst press and by their preacher. Of late, we have got the workers on relief organized. More than 200 have enrolled in this county, but as yet they are timid and conservative here. DISTRICT 2— "” New York, N. ¥.: Dora Gausner Lorenzo Stokes Clara Reimer S. Soulounia DISTRICT 6— Cleveland, Ohio: George Stefanik Jerry Ziska Anna Schotsneider DISTRICT 7— ~~ Detroit, Mich.: he Jack Sepeld Ben Green A. Kazamihas R. Shark dvohn Klein DISTRICT 10— | Coleridge, Neb.: | Paul Burke Lincoln, Neb.: Harry M. Lux Omaha, Neb.: Calvin Kibbe | DISTRICT 14— Little Falls, N. J.: Dick Kamper a: Camillo John Calissi Benjamin Abromowitz DISTRICT 18— Milwankee, Wis.: Walter Richter Louis Powell are working. | schemes for paving the way for | fascism, in the series of exposes Help the Daily Worker drive for on “Wall Street’s Fascist Conspir- 10,000 new daily and 15,000 new | acy,” beginning next Friday. Have Saturday subs. Write to 50 East your unit order extra bundles for 13th St, sale. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK For the Medical Advisory Board Magazine I wish to subscribe to the Medical Advisory Board Magazine. Enclosed find one dollar for a year's subscription. in their leadership. The rank and file is beginning to clamor for more action, ° Also, the Technocrats have come here. They have held three meetings of late in this county and at every meeting they draw a large crowd and the people sign up with them, too. Of course, the promise of $5,000 @ year appeals to these poor people | who have no prospect of even mak- ing $500 today. | I would like to have Comrade | Gold in his column give us his | analysis of the Technocrat moye- /ment in America. | | Send your subscription now, in | time to read the Daily Wor sonsa‘’onol sories on “Wall Street's Graft Robs Guardsmen Of Wages NEW YORK.—We are several | members of the 258th Field Artil- | lery, N. Y. National Guard, who/ wish to expose some of the graft and rackets going on in our outfit. We fellows know and can prove that this graft is taking place. | Fellows are in the outfit for more than two years without getting a cent. When a fellow joins the N.G. he is supposed to get a dollar a) drill. Many of us are out of work | and a dollar a week would come in| handy if we could only get at it. Here are the methods by which they manage to get our pay away from us. First, the dress uniform for which they soak us $72. We know that the rules and regula- tions of the War Department do not call for a dress uniform; we know (because it has been priced) that this uniform is not worth more than $45 at the most; we know that the uniform is not al- ways a new one. What usually happens is this: When an enlisted man’s three years of service is up he sells his uniform back to the captain for about $10 or $15. The captain then sells these old uni- forms to the new rookies for the full price of $72. In our battery a fellow turns over $3 of every pay check if he has not. paid for his uniform in full, and $5 if he has, to the battery fund. (Where this money goes is a mys- tery to everyone but the captain.) The auditing committee is not elected by the men, nor does it ever give us financial reports. We have already started a move- ment to have the battery dues re- duced and a new auditing commit- | tee elected democratically from | among the men. After that comes | the full dress uniform. The fel- lows are backing us up and we're going strong. If we stick together, we can’t lose. GUARDSMEN 258TH F. Protest Sent To Ohrbach’s. By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The following is a letter of protest sent by the Ladies Sunday Bridge Club to the Klein and Ohrbach Department stores: “We, the Ladies Sunday Bridge Club, believe the salvation of this country depends upon the strict en- forcement of the N. R. A. We un- derstand you are not living up to the code requirements. We there- for decided as a body not to trade | in your store until you settle your dispute.. We also will use our in- fluence with similar organizations.” (Signed), EIGHT MEMBERS OF THE CLUB. Editor's Note: We commend the action of this organization in send- ing a protest to Klein’s and Ohr- bach’s. However, we certainly can not agree that “the salvation of this country lies in the enforcement of the N. R. A.” The very strike that prompted this action on the part of this club is eloquent proof of the reactionary nature of the N. R, A. The government that made the N. R. A. law, the government that can find troops to shoot down strikers, that salf-same government suddenly becomes powerless in the face of Klein. The N. R. A. has been used to confuse the mass of people while putting through the policy of the biggest bankers and industrialists. The workers at Klein’s are fighting for the right to organize which was supposed to have been guaranteed them by the N. R. A. but which they have to get not through reli- ance upon the N. R, A., but through reliance upon the same power that gave them the right to organize in the past—their organized strength and militant action. It is these things that will help bring “salva- tion” to the workers, not the N.R.A. | A. | Scottsboro-Herndon Fund | || International Labor Defense Room 610, 80 East Lith Street, New York City immediate contribution to the Fastis Seottsboro-Herndon Defense come worn out. As a result of physical changes in the brain, men- tal symptoms follow. In senile psychosis these are usually child- ishness, failing memory; more marked for things that have hap- |pened recently than for events of Jong ago; inability to think and concentrate well; a tendency to be- come irritable, stubborn and self- centered; a tendency to recall and talk a great deal about happenings from childhood. Often there is a marked degree of confusion and disorientation (not knowing where one is and losing track of time). In addition to these symptoms there may be delusions (false beliefs that are not subject to the influence of reason), hallucinations (imaginary voices, sights, smells or tastes). In your mother’s case the delusions are the most prominent features. The other symptoms may not be present as yet or may be there in minor form so that only a psychiatrist (special- ist in mental troubles) can detect them. Unfortunately your mother's ill- ness is not a curable one. She is suffering from old age of the brain, for which there is no cure. She may get a little. better for a short time and seem improved, but there Conducted by the and | ical Advisory Board iedical Advisory Board do not Advertise) not take her or if they do they will not keep her, and rightly so since they are not equipped to care for her. It is no disgrace to have a men- tally ill relative in a State Hospital, It is much more of a disgrace to let her stay home without the | proper care. Besides you must re- member that in her mental condition | she is much more concerned about | her fear of being kidnapped than | about where she is living, and as | her mental condition continues she | will have steadily less appreciation of her surroundings. At the State | hospital they will not cure her but | they will give her medicines to calm | her and will furnish other necessary treatment. | As to whether you should humour | her or try to talk her out of her |ideas, both of these methods are | equally useless. You cannot humour her because her demands will be- come too unreasonable. You cane not talk her out of them. Addresses Wanted All letters to the Board are ane swered directly and are held con- fidential. It is therefore necessary that comrades send in full names and addresses when requesting in- formation, The following comrades omitted to send complete informa- tion and their replies are ready to be forwarded when they send in their addresses: Bob Wate; S. S.; H. Mueller; Gertrude Marsh; Bill Melanson; Jerry Bremen; Eva Krauss; Paul Walton, Brooklyn. will be a steady progress in the | Bunions and Weak Feet wearing out process, and, in spite of small changes from day to day, the mental symptoms will get worse. The delusions usually tend to dis- appear as the patient becomes more childish, ‘We very strongly advise that you take her to a State Hospital. This may sound like harsh advice but you really have no choice, You will have to send her to one eyen- tually as she gets worse and in the meantime your father will be driven to distraction trying to care for her. In addition she is a definite danger in that she might leave the gas turned on without lighting it as a result of forgetfulness or do similar things. Homes for the aged will By ANN “Our Children Must From your letter we suspect that the pain which you are having is due largely to your weak or fallen arches. Bunions, as a rule do not | give rise to pain in the foot proper |but rather to pain over the bunion, Should your bunion bother you, or give you discomfort and pain, an operation is indicated. The opera- tion, in itself, is not serious but re- quires your staying in the hospital from ten days to two weeks. There- after you may have slight discom- fort in walking for another two or three weeks, The treatment for weak feet con- sists, largely, of exercises to strengthen the muscles, foot plates, and proper shoes, IN THE HOME BARTON Be Good Fighters!” THE LETTER printed a few days waukee Has been written in this way ago in this column, from a mother who wants to take her children to the Soviet Union so they can get working class training, has brought quite a few replies from column readers. Here is one from Boston, Massachusetts, * he “Dear Comrade: “THE SUBJECT of your column. of today is, in my opinion, one of the most important of the so-called “personal” problems arising in the movement—that is, the training of our children. The problem is not merely that of Pioneer-age children, but also affects those who are of Young Communist League age. $i es “THIS SICKNESS, prevalent among our close sympathizers, and even among too many Party mem- bers, of ‘leaving the child alone, he'll have to be in the struggle later,’ is one which absolutely must be driven out of the movement, tooth and nail. I maintain that this con- stitutes criminal neglect. I have seen too many comrades whose lives are bound up with the movement and whose children grow up away from us and even hostile, * * « “DRILL INTO THE MINDS OF YOUR CHILDREN from their first year, a hatred of the ruling class and everything it stands for, and a deep-growing love for their class and its history. Do not be afraid that children so young as three, four, etc., are simply parroting what you tell them and don’t really un- derstand what they're talking about. Of course they don’t—but remember, you are inoculating them against the poison that they automatically will receive in the capitalist schools. WED Sea “WE ARE IN NO POSITION to give our children an ‘ideal’ bring- ing up—to make well-rounded ‘self- expressing’ individuals out of them. We are not living under Socialisth. We are living under Capitalism. Our children must be first and foremost, good fighters and leaders of the working class. They must become better Communists than we are. Shielding them from the struggle at an early age is not going to accomplish this, but is a danger. heat iene “THE PIONEER ORGANIZATION would do a real service to initiate an ideological campaign in the movement to convince our comrades of the necessity for ‘organizing’ the children of pre-school age while they are still at home and parents have sole control over them. We are not in a position to organize pre - school kindergartens. This makes it necessary for parents to shoulder this responsibility alone, and in a determined manner.” eke Cie The February Working Woman, which will be off the press in a few days, continues Stockyard Stella’s adventures. A wave of interest in’ the story written collectively by a group of sto¢kyar* workers, has been made very apparent to the Working Woman, who invite other groups of workers to get together and write a story based on their Many women ask what to do to carry.on the work of the Washing- ton Unemployment and Social In- surance Congress. The February ‘Working Woman answers that ques- tion. The magazine promises many attractive features during the com- ing months. You should be sure of getting yéur copy (the January issue was sold out ten days after it came off the press) by subscrib- ing. Subscribe yourself, and get other women to subscribe. 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