The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1935, Page 6

‘ vy. ‘ < HOME LiFkE oo Ann Barton SLAVA DUNN vill write on the necessity of group act for chil- dren in a future column. Today she speaks on disciplining the child. “A PARENT ASKS: “Should I punish my child by ing him?” ‘There are few working class parents who have not felt at one time or another thoroughly worn out and helpless in the face of 8 misbe- having child. At such exasperating moments, few parents have self control enough to keep from siap- ping the child, or worse “A TIRED MOTHER on a twenty- four hour shift, needs most of all a change of her conditions, and an understanding of what causes them, rather than preaching about self- control. But if she really knew all the bad effects that may result from physical punishment and how little can be really accomplished by ft, she might try to change her methods. Z “With a little child, a sharp slap on the hand 3s at times necessary he repeatedly does something that might be of real danger to him — for example — taking matches, running out to the street, turning on the gas, etc. At that age, the child usually takes the slap on the hand more like a “natural punish- ment” similar to a burn when ‘touching the hot stove. This is es- pecially true if the slap comes “automatically” every time he does the forbidden thing, and without a show of anger on the part of the parent. But after the age of three or thereabouts, a child can under- stand other things, and this crude method should not be used in pun- ishing. “NO MATTER HOW YOU DO IT, it teaches cruelty to a child. He Jearns through being beaten him- self that any big and stronger per- son can hit a weaker and smaller one with impunity. To some, more sensitive children, it is quite a horrible experience, and is likely to stir up serious resentment, and even hate in a child toward his parent, which will make further training much harder. Or it might have the effect of making him sub- missive and cowardly. “BECAUSE DIFFERENT TYPES of children take things differently, there is still another danger in physical punishment. With many children, unless it is extremely se- vexe, it does not make a great im- pression, especially when often re- peated. The child actually gets used to it, and instead of strengthening the parents’ authority, it really weakens it in the child's eyes. Still another type of child might get a perverse pleasure from physical punishment. “IN THE U. S. 8S. R. they are very determinedly against beating children. All the Soviet campaigns for better and newer ways of bring- ing up children, include warnings against beating. Children in the U. S. S, R. have the right to bring. complaints to proper authorities, if they are beaten, usually to their schools. “But since one has*to have some methods of disciplining children, it 4s necessary to learn more effective and advanced ways.” Sai SNS (Next Saturday, SLAVA DUNN will discuss these better methods of torrecting the behavior of chil- tren.) Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1944 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 434 yards 36 inch fabric. Mllustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions 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). Write plainly, your name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE WANTED. Address orders to (Daily Worker) Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, ‘ See a By a Worker Correspondent WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Trapped in 3 mine level, 1,000 feet from the surface, twelve miners were killed. two were reported missing, and seventy-one injured last Monday by an explosion which tore through the Gilbertson Colliery of the Phila- delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, the largest coal company in the lower Anthracite Two hundred workers in the shaft were imperilled by the terrific blast. Most of the injured suffered from poisonous fumes that seeped to the other levels of the mine and even penetrated into neighboring mines of the Mahonay Valley coal fields in the south-western part of the An- thracite. The explosion, described by the engineers as “terrific,” tore through the sixth level of the mine, 1,000 feet from the entrance and the same distance from the surface of the earth. Most of the casualties, rescuers said, were among the sixty- Teachers Unpaid Two Months By a Worker Correspondent SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Since Nov. 26, San Diego county schoo] teach- | ers and employees have not yet received their salaries from the State. To date the new-born | “liberal” Governor Merriam's state | officials have failed to send the two | installments totaling $247,000 needed to cover the payroll. | The situation is acute in 25 county | school districts. Pay warrants are being registered. $16,000 in war- rants have already been registered. The registering of these warrants carries another burden to the shoul- ders of the working class which is | being bled by the sales-tax and the | passing of all taxes indirectly to its slim purse, to support the extrava- gant state government, for each} warrant bears 6 per cent interest, | The local paper states the banks are accepting these warrants at face value. Is this a hint to the teachers | that possibly in the future the war- rants may not be accepted at face} | value? | So far the city school system has not had to resort to registered war- | | rants, since the city school funds} are yet able to carry the salary | load. Report Increased | Terror in Cuba | By a Worker Correspondent | GUANTANAMO, Cuba. — Stop) | sending the Saturday edition of the | Daily Worker to me until further | |notice as the situation here is getting worse and worse every day. | In the last two days Captain | Foradad of this city, he and his soldiers who were drunk, went to ; all the sugar mills in the country | and broke all the workers’ unions, |hitting many workers with the machetes. They want to start the “molienda” (when the sugar mills begin producing sugar) with starva- tion wages. All these sugar mills belong to} American corporations. In the city many soldiers are| dressed as civilians in order to spy on the people. Every day the sol- diers search many houses looking | for arms. A comrade came from Santiago de Cuba and told me that they tor- tured him in Cuartel Moncada. They gave him “tortol,” that means | they compressed his testicles, \Rat Bites Infant Twelve Killed, Seventy-one Hurt As Anthracite Coal Mine Caves in | nine men working on this level | Hundreds of workers of Gilbertson | and vicinity, among them anxious miners’ wives and children, gathered | at the mine to see whether any of | the injured men were part of their family. | Rescuing work was hindered for | a while because of “after damp,” a, gas generated by the explosion. The cause of the explosion can be placed at the in-human speed-up} whieh the J. P. Morgan owned mine | makes the miners work at, and also | the improper inspecting of the mine. | It is a common thing among the} miners of the Anthracite to see| their feHow workers being carried | out injured or dead, because under | Capitalism the miner is forced to work in places where the roof is ready to come down. The miners know that if they refuse to work because it is unsafe, there are no more jobs for them, so they work until they finish the place or until it caves in. Many times, it does cave in on them. Prices Rise 33 13% In California By a Worker Correspondent SAN DIEGO, Oalif.—Thirty-three and one third percent increase in the price of meat in the past two weeks and further increases in pros- pect, is the bad news that is hitting San Diego workers this Saturday morning, SERA payday, and a shopping day. Pork, beef and lamb have ad-| | vanced 20 percent in the last 10 days alone. The survey from which these facts | - Government Heads Turn Deaf Ear have been taken, published in the | local papers, also disclosed that | prices of vegetables, dairy products and all foodstuffs would probably advance with the meat prices. These are some of the benefits which the “forgotten people” are now reaping from the “new deal” of | the master demagogue Franklin | Roosevelt. For the rise in the prices | of meat are traced directly to the | government livestock curtailment | program, which in connection with | the drouth has resulted in an acute Shortage of food livestock all over the country, so the local meat dealers state, to explain their raising | of prices. | The following comparative table | of wholesale prices as bought on the market in Los Angeles is signi- ficant: Jan. 14 Dec. 14 (Rates are for 100 Ibs.) Best Steers $6.00 $8.75 Heifers 5.00 1.75 | Cows 4.50 625 | Calves 6.00 9.00 | Lambs 7.00 875 | Actording to the meat dealers the eastern markets are advancing their prices equally with the western. | The eastern prices are important here because they are the basis for the western quotations. In the last weeks alone the price of beef cattle advanced about 33 and one third per cent. NOTE: Every Saturday we publish let- | ters from mine, of and smelter | workers, We urge workers in these | industries to write us of their | conditions and efforts to organize. | Please get these letters to us by | Wednesday of each week. | WITH OUR YOUNG READERS TIN SHACKS Philadelphia, Pa. I suppose many of you read about the strike at the Hamilton School in Philadelphia. It started | because we had to attend school in | tin shacks. Twelve years ago the In Tenement By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill—Two weeks ago | | tragedy occurred in the apartment building in which I live. The butld- ing is divided into flats of eight | rooms, with each room being oc- cupied by a family of at least three | people. | In one room there lives a family of five. Early one morning the mother woke up to find a rat biting her six-week’ old baby in the face. The baby’s face is all scarred and liable to infection, | This is due to the miserable re- lief given workers, forcing them to crowd into one room apartments. These people eat, sleep and cook in the same room. The place is run down. There are sixteen people using one bathroom to get water for drinking, dish-washing, cooking, bathing and for toilet purposes. | This particular place is at 4329 |S. Parkway Ave. | 40 Negroes Join LL.D. | At Scottsboro Rally | MAGNOLIA, N. J., Jan. 25.—-Two | hundred and fifty workers of this |tiny Negro hamlet jammed the A. | |& P. Hall at a Scottsboro protest | |rally at which Lester Carter, white | Southern youth and one of the de- |fense star witnesses, exposed the frame-up of the boys and the at- |tempts by Alabama authorities to |force himself and Ruby Bates to |help the frame-up. Carter, with | William Powells, district field or- |ganizer of the International Labor | Defense, were the principal speak- | ers. ‘The extent of the support of the audience for the mass fight for the ; Scottsboro boys was indicated when forty Negro workers joined the I. L. |D. at the close of the meeting. | Among the applicants for member- | | ship in the I. L. D. were the mayor of the hamiet and the members of the Borough Council, | | Education who tried to buy off the Board of Education built these shacks to be used “temporarily.” They also forgot to put lights in them. They were heated by old fashioned “pot-bellied” stoves and the temperature was always 60. On cold days we had to wear our over- coats, and on dark days we had to sit quietly because we couldn’t see how to read or write. Toilets are in the main building 150 feet away. My mother drew up a petition for all the mothers to sign, to make the Board put the children in the main building. There were two classes— a 3A and 5B, with 92 children. The petition was taken to the Board of committee by telling them that they would transfer their children any place they wished. The committee refused to accept. | After waiting a few weeks the strike was called. On the first day there were 68 out. The second and third days we picketed the school carrying placards and more chil- dren joined the strike. On the third day the teachers of the In- ternational Workers Order schools came to help on the picket line. | Some of the women became angry and dropped out of the strike. They went around telling people all sorts of stories in order to break up the strike. Some of us stayed out two more days, picketing the school, un- til my mother presented her final demand at the Board’s monthly meeting. As a result of our strike, the 3A | The Ruling Clawss DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1938 SS SS RS “Inform the staff they’re getting another cut—my baby is crying | for a yacht.” To Complaints of Single Jobless By a Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind.—We have here in Gary several hundred single men who are unable to find jobs that will enable them to make an honest living. ‘They are being cared for under the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration. For many months, these single men, many of them good citizens and long residents of Gary, in order to secure food and shelter, have been for¢ed by those in authority, to work thirty hours each week. Fer this thirty hours of labor they receive board, lodging and at the end of the week, one dollar in money. In the early part of the past year they received only fifty cents in money each week, Recently, these men were “loaned” to the City of Gary to clean the | | | at Indianapolis. I wrote to the Governor's Commission but re- ceived no reply. I then wrote to the Governor himself. I received no answer. Recently I wrote to the Democratic Congressman from this district, Wm. Schulte, com- plaining of this enslavement of American Citizens but received no response whatever. And so these unfortunate Amer- ican Citizens continue to work in practical slavery under the Gov- ernor’s Commission of Unemploy- ment Relief of Indianapolis, Ind. The best remedy for corruption is publicity but there is no use try- ing to get the truth published in the Gary Post Tribune which is the only newspaper in Gary of ex- tensive circulation. If you will ‘publish this letter and ‘give this damnable corruption a little airing maybe it will help to bring some relief to these enslaved working alleys of the city. It was claimed | men who are being enslaved under that the city had no money with which to pay men to clean the| alleys, so these unfortunate men on relief are forced to clean the alleys of the city without pay other than the one dollar per week. These men are bitterly opposed to this kind of treatment but are afraid to complain for fear of starvation. On July 7, last, I wrote to Harry L, Hopkins, of the Federal Relief Administration in Washington, D. C., in behalf of these men and was referred to the Governor's Com- mission for Unemployment Relief class was put in the main building, and the Board spent about a $1000 putting lights and steam heat in the shacks. If these women had not broken the strike we would have won the entire demands. There was a Democratic committee woman among them, who couldn’t sign the petition until she got “permission” from her “ward” leader, and since her child was in the 3A class, she had a good excuse to drop out of the strike and help break it. However, the fight will not be dropped. We'll try to mobilize the next class to protest against these shacks. The Race Is Getting Close! I suppose all of you who read last week’s column want to know what has happened since then in the NEW PIONEER Drive. Well, several things have hap- pened. First of all, California is still ahead, having already sent in $3.50 over its quota of $150. There must be something in these stories about how things grow faster and better in the West! It looks very much at this time as though California is going to get that $50 Bugle and Drum Outfit. It would look nice in the May Day Parade, wouldn’t it, on the broad streets of Sunny California? For that matter, it would look nice on any street of any town. Every time we mention to a New York Pioneer that it looks as though California’s going to get the Outfit, the New Yorkers get sore. “The Drive’s extended till Feb- Truary 15, isn’t it? New York can work fast when we want to, We’re getting that prize!” However, something else has hap- Governor McNutt’s Commission, | Four Dollar Weekly Pay In Up-state New York By a Worker Correspondent HERKIMER, N. Y.—Sweat shop conditions exist here as the J. C. Penny Co. of New York moved here into the Marx Mill, Most women working there re- ceive only four dollars a week. The Donlon. Glove factory closed down since New Year. Soule Pro See if you can lead the worker to a Soviet America. With your pencil draw @ path between the lines. You must not cross a line to reach the hammer and |sickle. You will find many wrong ways, i} | | | By Mary Morrow, Children’s editor, The Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St. New York City. By Redfield |Three Convicted on Riot Charge For Fighting Illinois Eviction | By a Worker Correspondent | VIRDEN, Ii]. — Three leading |members of the Unemployment | Council have just been convicted | here on charges of inciting to riot. | Five others were acquitted in this} | case that arose out of a struggle against the eviction of Galen Sut- phin last August. | On August 17, 1934 Sutphin’s | | household belongings were placed in | jan alley by the law for non-pay-| ment of rent. The house Sutphin occupied, had been bought by his} | father in 1921. In 1926 his father | took sick and borrowed $721 on the | house. By 1932 he had. paid back $324 and still owed $824 to the) Building and Loan Association. His | father died and Galen and his family of six lived in the house. Galen is a member of the Unem- ployment Council and is very active. The constable and two thugs came down to put his belongings in | the alley while his wife was to become a mother and a baby of five | was sick in bed. The Unemploy-| ment Council formed a committee to protest this action. They went to the mayor and he| said he would get a house, but he| never acted. The next day they told | the mayor that if he did not get a house for the Sutphin family, they would set their belongings in the} city park, where a picnic of the} Progressive Miners was going on with about 2,500 people present. The mayor did not say that they could not put the furniture in the park. At two o’clock they loaded a truck with the furniture and moved it to the park and placed it on the grass, There were at least fifteen cops in the park at the time but no arrests were made. However a week later | the police came to each of the lead- ers of the committee, except Galen Sutphin, and arrested them on charges of inciting to riot. | There were three carloads of thugs that made the arrests. They | picked up one man at a time and| Placed him in jail. Then they had | a hearing, pleaded not guilty, and | the bond was set at $1,000 each. | The general rumor was that nothing would happen about it. But when the court went into ses- sion, it was booked about ten days before the trial. We wrote to the} International Labor Defense and they sent a real fighter to help us win the case. ‘We were two days picking a jury.| Then the trial started. Every | worker in court room felt that a/ big frame-up was taking place. The Illinois Workers Alliance re- fused to help us. They seemed te think we did wrong by fighting for rent to be paid in this way. The state had witnesses that never told the truth and we only fought on the basis of honesty and truth. | We are now going to appeal to a| higher court to free the three that | were convicted. Five days schooling for the work- | ing class in the capitalist courts was our great gain. This trial has made | a great many more workers see the fight between capital and labor. We workers in Virden are behind | the I. L. D. one hundred per cent for their work. This gives us a chance to organize the I. L. D. in this city. We are still fighting and will keep on fighting until we have | a Soviet America. Veteran Swindled Of Relief By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I think you will be interested in the following facts: Stanley Howe, First Deputy Com- missioner, Veterans Relief Division; Miss Flora Purcell, Chief Supervisor, both of 902 Broadway, a precious pair of key-position relief officials, are doing their utmost to grind deeper into the mire the unfortu- nate dependents of disabled veterans. Their diabolical traffic in human misery is exemplified in my own case. My husband is a completely disabled veteran of the world war and I have four children, the young- est being five years of age. On these children I carried small insurance policies of five and ten cents. Commissioner Howe demanded that I surrender them to the de- partment. This I refused to do until Stanley Howe stated in writing that my small allotment of $61 monthly (for a family of six) would be “sub- stantially increased.” I surrendered the policies and immediately upon signing them over, Commissioner Howe struck us off the veterans’ relief rolls. Documentary proof of the above facts are in my possession, and yet I have faith that there are still a few humans with courage enough to raise their voice against such | horribly inhuman tactics. Discuss the Daily Worker iption campaign at every meeting! Check up on activity! er Lost but there is only one right way. If you} can solve this puzzle, mail it in to me and you can become a member of the Daily Worker Puzzle Club, pened since last week. Pittsburgh sent in $37.72, which means that this District has collected over half its quota. So Pittsburgh and New York are tied for second place. We wonder which will get that Sports Outfit? Maybe neither, because in three weeks the other Districts can do a lot if they're really determined. Connecticut comes 4th with 44 per cent of its quota raised. Then come New Jersey, with 39 per cent, Detroit, with 34 per cent, and Flor- ida, with 33 per cent. Then come Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Phila- delphia, Buffalo, Seattle, Minnesota, and Milwaukee. Their percentages are so small we really don't want to mention them. Please get busy, comrades, so that even if you don’t win any of the big prizes you will be able to feel that you've done your best for the | NEW PIONEER. Another thing! Look up the December issue of the magazine and refresh your memory about those individual prizes. Could you use a camera, or a fountain pen, or a microscope, or a copy of a good book? We've sent out quite a few of them al- ready, and we hope to send out a great many more. Well, comrades, we still have $1100 to go. Let’s go over the top! by February 15! ADVENTURES OF MARGIE, Byou RUN AHEAD- we PoP avo ME‘LL BE TIM AND TERRY LL TS A ASOT TIME You ys . SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN NEXT WEEK'S PAPER. TROUBLE TaN THES | starve, I decided to hunt. SENATOR WAGNER from New York is one of the sponsors of the Wagner-Lewis fake unemployment insurance bill, which is receiving the support of President Roosevelt in order to stall off action on H.R. 2827. Jailed for Hunting Deer To Feed Starving Family By a Worker Correspondent Iam in jail now after having been arrested on a charge of having | deer meat. The relief authorities would only give me five dollars a| week to feed my family of seven. Knowing I would have to hunt or Now i have one hundred days to serve. Please do not print my name or town, Scottsboro-Herndon Fund International Labor Defense Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City I enclose $........- aus immediate contribution to the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense Fund. YOUR HEALTH — By — Medical Advisory Board X-RAY TREATMENT FOR ACNE E. G., of Brooklyn, N. Y., writest “I would appreciate some advice on a matter that has been troubling me for the past few months. If wrote to you asking for advice for acne. You recommended Lotio Alba, and vigorous scrubbings. I followed your advice carefully. 1 also kept strictly away from sweets of all sorts — candy and cake, Though the Lotio Alba helped me somewhat, it didn’t help as much as I should like. “You see, my face is constantly breaking out in blackheads and Pimples, especially on my forehead and cheeks. I am not constipated, but I don’t get any exercise at all.” Oh ae ie Our Advice The Lotio Alba treatment for acne was recommended’ to you be- cause it is simple to carry out and requires no visits to a physician. However, we always advise that ex- ray treatments are the only means of producing a permanent cure for acne—if you can afford them. There are skin clinics in New York City which give these treatments at a low fee ($1-$1.25). If this is within your means, write in for the ad- dress of such clinic. It is unfortunate that money stands in the way of getting your face cleared up, a thing which is the right of every young man and woman to have. Your Mother’s Nervousness It is hard to advise you about your mother’s nervousness, without knowing further details of it. In general it can be said that seda- tives like bromides or pheobarbital work in a superficial way. They are of help in relieving the symp- toms without influencing the causes of the trouble. While they are taken they may make a person feel calmer and sleep better, but they do not get at the cause of the nervousness or sleeplessness. How- ever, they are often of great value in mild cases whose causes are temporary. Bromides can be bought in a much cheaper form than the ef- fervescent tablets your mother is using. Five grain tablets of sodium ‘bromide can be bought cheaply. Three such tablets are one dose, It is wise to take bromides only six days a week. This is because bro- mides may cause a rash if taken uninterruptedly over a period of time, This rash generally looks like acne. A good plan would be to take fif- teen grains of sodium bromide in the morning (six days a week) and a half grain pill of pheobarbital at night. The difficulty about taking these drugs without being under a doctor's care is that often large doses are necessary and large doses must be watched carefully to pre- vent bad effects. The best thing your mother can do is to go to a psychiatric. clinic (for nervousness). There is a good one at Mt. Sinai Hospital, 100th St. and Madison Ave., New York City, which may be attended daily at 2 p. m. If your mother is now having her menopause (change of life) a good clinic is the endocrine \clinic at Lenox Hill Hospital. Health Magazine For your convenience we carry below a subscription blank for the magazine of the Medical Advisory Board. 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