The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 D iF E a Ann Berton He 1. THERE HAVE BEEN A FLOOD OF LETTERS to Mrs she raise Soviet Union proletarian up- “THAT WAS ROMANTIC. the bitter w Now as against a bankers’ Ameri small share of our energies should be devoted to counteract, and where necessary to supplement the public school education our children get “OUR CHILDREN ARE OF AMERICAN SOIL and should be raised here. I neglect some of my household duties, but I look the children’s school books over very carefully each time new ones are I’m never too busy fons pertaining events. Working class guard their children fluences of cheap al, trashy books, When my oldest book to read, I read to the y ones. h the New Pioneer Little Lefty to help me out, I have no dif- ficuliy ¢ my children along the right path. They see none of the sensational gutter press in the house. They very rarely see a movie. and they are yer snubbed as to their understanding. Difficult mat- ters are simplified for them, so that they are rarely, if ever, sent off with brought home. to answer their to social a “you wouldn't understand this” answer. “WITH ECONOMIC CONDI- TIONS as bad as they are all around us, it’s not difficult to give our children a working class bring- ing-up, provided we keep educating ourselves cont a in working class theory orking class mothers can’ geois women, who ha leisure. We have v and ene: and must Pp pace with bour- e servants and use Spare moment for education and Communist activity. LEAH A.” ME OR os tt | Of course this letter raises the question—how long can children be Kept away from gutter sheets and cheap radio stories, and movie thrillers—that their friends at school talk of constantly. What is the thing to do then? I believe that working class education of children mustbe concerned with fortifying the child against these things. He cannot be kept away forever, What do you think? Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2177 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38. 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 takes 3 and five-eighth yards 39 inch-fabric and 1 and one-quarter yards 6 inch ribbon. cluded. Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for each Anne Adams pattern (New York Sity residents should add one cent | ting subscriptions for the Daily | from them} Illustrated | step-by-step sewing instructions in-| p; |ship and show the workers in the | | Speed-up and Negligence Offset Safety Preac Ry a R.R. Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, I ‘While preaching safety the Elgin, Joliet Railroad forces very hazar ector and one oiler trai le as forty-five m utes. they cannot amine ev safety appliance on each car in such a short time. This not only speeds up the yard men, but endangers the lives of the train it inspectors en- in the train yards inadequate protection the rules are blue flag by day ue light by night, the switches Railroad Worker In Unity Appeal By a R.R. Worker Correspondent CINCINNATI, Ohio.—Tnere is a great deal of work that must be done in industry, railroading. We have been kept in the dark too long | by the conservative leaders of our labor unions. Our union leaders have failed us, causing thousands to give up all interest in organized labor, Thanks to the Railroad Brother- | jhood Unity Movement. This more- ment has taken hold of the small spark of life left in the railroad unions, and the Railroad Unity movement will grow and put a fighting spirit in every one of our many railroad unions. Some day, in the not distant future, the real union men and women in our in- dustry will take hold of these worn out organizations and run the in- dustry on a paying basis for the workers, so to speak One of the reasons our unions have failed us is that we, the rank and file, have electsd local and na- tional leaders of our organizations, and the minute the elections are over, those whom we elect start to | plan how they can advance their) }own interests with the railroad of- ficials by using the confidence that we have placed in them. | They aspire for official positions and fill themselves like leeches on the rank and file. The result is that we the workers, and members of the railroad unions, are forced to work like slaves and made to like it. The Grand President pumps our little local officials with Grand Lodge selloyt tactics and promises appointments and favors to them, and we, the rank and file, are given a@ good beating by our union offi- cials. We pay them with high dues and assessments and they turn against us at every opportunity. We are in a terrible mess, The general managers fill the bottle of cocain. The general super- intendents put in the needle. The supers and train masters insert the needle into the yard masters and| we, the men that move the engines and c get the squirt of all their injections of speedup. But—don't get hurt! If you get hurt, you have violated one of our most important | safety rules. We will overcome this condition, jut it will take time and then the workers in the railroad industry will take the real radical leader- other unions that the railroad work- ers can and will wake up and elect rank and file workers as officials | of our local and national unions. | Then we will have the answer to| the dream that the railroad work- ers have cried for all their lives- UNITY! Protest on Fruit Dock Improves Sanitation By a Marine Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Several weeks ago there was published in the Daily Worker a copy of a letter drawn up by a group of longshoremen on | W YORE, The Ruling Clawss hing on Railroad e not locked. Ti it enough eitt kill the inspector. Switches i derails pla rotection. under lock and workers under forema: are notified when performed, oth men w looking ld demand two inspectors and two o for each train, and adequate time to inspect the trains oO We should also n that switches should be locked and de- rails placed on the rails. | Starvation Relief | Causes Violence By a Social Worker Correspondent | CHICAGO—The fatal shooting | of two social workers ‘and the| wounding of two other employes in a Chicago public relief station last Friday by an enraged client, who | immediately afterward shot his | mother and himself, emphasizes the increasing desperation to which the unemployed are being driven in the face of inadequate relief allow- ances, This is not an isolated instance. | Threats and actual acts of violence | against case workers have been in- creasing in number, especially since last November, when food budgets were slashed by ten per cent and} the staff was reduced by twenty- five per cent. “Get the hell outa here. D’ya there’s child Jabor in America?” (By a Marine Worker Correspondent) | The causes for such violence are |», ” i Bas: |The “Morro Castle” sailed away not difficult to discover. They are For New. York she. was bound— inherent in a relief system which | Heath and destruction tock her provides starvation relief, is inade- | ; eee of quately staffed, with resultant de- es i Ae Se Se lays in investigations, stations po- | The owners now did gather lice at the offices, conducts merci- | The profits and the spoils— less investigations and suppresses | The sharpened tongued lawyers organization of the unemployed. sued and argucd The local bourgeois press at-/| And ladled out the oil. tempted to raise the “red scare” in connection with the shooting. The | Then sailed the ship “Havana” slayer was labelled a “Communist.” | And she too came to grief— | Workers know, however, that Com- | She pounded out her bottom | |munists do not believe in individual | On Mantiniilas reef. acts of violence. The possibility of increasing vio- jlence against social workers has ri a | | been — added impetus by tits | BUS their eyes on cent, | slaying. he unemployed, con-|,., we fusedly, have become bolder and | THe collar and the pound. jmore threatening in their attitude | ang now the good ship “Mohawk,” toward case workers. Their or-| she too went out in style | | ganizations, as the Unemployment By some strange chance she was The owners now were quiet You could not hear a sound, By Redfield want people to get the impression Ballad of the Cent Per Cent Hyon’ Toa] we Lg Oh men may die in fire | And men be drowned at sea— But do not halt the profits | Councils, being suppressed, they are| ‘struck and sank, | resorting, through sheer despera-| Men died from shore five mile. | tion, to individual violence. It is | important, then, to point out who | — is actually responsible for the slay- ing—the relief authorities and the ShowsH. capitalist system which they are at- tempting to maintain. | The rank and file social worker | is merely a buffer between the un- employed and the relief authorities, By a Worker Correspondent It is his role to protect the pocket- | | books of the wealthy and still the| NEW YORK. — What do our | | wrath of the cheated workers. Many | working men and women do in re- | of them, conscious of their role,| gard to the sales tax? Are they must continue because of the neces- | resisting it? Or are they submitting a Sarnae. Sameensice yen: to it? It seems to me that they are | But basically they are no differ- | doing the latter. Well, then, is there | ent from the mass of workers, em-| any wonder that the rich trample | ployed or unemployed. They suffer | Upon us? Hearts they don't have, | economic insecurity, are underpaid | and if we let them get away with and overworked. As employes, they | every inhuman deed, why shouldn't | have, together with the workers, a|they? But what a difference it ommon enemy—the employing ru!-| Would make if every working man ing class. and “woman would follow my ex- | It is high time that the unem- | ample. What do Ido? Not much. | ployed and case workers ceased |I just don’t pay the tax. How do I fighting each other. It is impera- | manage? Here are some examples: tive that they unite in a fight for| I bought a few articles in a dry- | more adequate relief, adequate un-|00ds store which amounted to | employment insurance, removal of | $1.70. “One seventy four,” the pro- | police from relief stations and ade- | Prietor said to me after he had quate staffs and decent working | “tapped up a neat little package. conditions for relief employes. “It is a dollar seventy,” I said. 2 Both must unite in the abolition) “Four cents tax.” He answere: ow to Fight Against Sales Tax Pier 7, North River, of the United Fruit Company, protesting to the Commissioner of Health the unsan- | itary condition of the toilets on the | pier. | Well, we have gotten results. The | toilets have been cleaned up for the | first time in months, if not in years. Furthermore, for the first time in the memory of any man on the docks, there is toilet paper there. Just a bit of protest gets results. However, we are going ahead to build a local of the International Longshoremen’s Association on the dock and then we will settle our other grievances such as wages, waiting for the shape-up, chinee, etc, Speak to your newsdealer; urge him to carry Daily Workers, or to increase his present order. Send his name to 50 East 13th Street. ‘Whirlwind’ This is how Whirlwind Larson | does it—Whirlwind Larson, of Chi- cago, ace subscription getter! “If you work consistently in get- ‘ax for each pattern order). Write | Worker, it is the simplest thing in Nainly, your name, address and tylenumber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE WANTED. the world to do,” he declares, “Once workers start reading the Daily Worker, I have very seldom Address orders to Daily Worker | found them wanting to stop. *attern Department, 243 West 17th | street, New York City. | Scottsboro-Herndon Fund International Labor Defense Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City I enclose §........-...a8 my ediate contribution to the itshoro-Herndon Defense “The first thing I do is list the either given to me or that I pick up when talking to people. I visit them, find their attitude to the paper, and give them a copy to read. I spend a little time with them, explaining what the paper stands for. If they agree (and most workers do) I ask them to support it by reading it. “I then ask the worker to state his own time when he will be able to subscribe. I visit him daily with @ paper, so that not a day is lost. After coming back two or three times you get the subscription, as a rule. I then ask him to give me f ? Larson Tells How | prospects I have at hand, that are | f the capitalist system. politely. it “I won't pay the tax.” School Boys Shovel “What do you mean you won't pay? It’s a law.” Snow at 25c an Hour “IT am against this law and I won't support it.’ | “Til tell you the truth I am | By a Worker Correspondent against it myself, but what can I | PORTLAND, Me—The last snow|{ ts ao» said I, “don't |Storm we had here gave the Port-|yy.» He smiled faintly, handed.me jJand Terminal Administration a/| the package and accepted a dollar chance to hire school boys to do/| and seventy cents. the snow shoveling for 25 cents an|_The next battle was a harder one. | hour, It was in a small shoe store. A | ait young girl waited on me. I bought p ineeramee cent of the shovelers | myself a pair of golloshes at the ee ollar. “Dollar and two | Of this 25 cents per hour pay, Tee ee gene | they casas five per cent for the| «you said it was a dollar.” railroad employees, and two per “ ” cent more was deducted for the old| . ign onthe wall, ne Ponted | "Cast year the administration wes| “2,don’t pay tax.” | paying 32 cents an hour for shovel- a ee neh ee eee encteshtols “Because I am against it.” “Against it? Against help to the poor?” “IT am poor myself.” I answered. “And if Mayor LaGuardia’s heart , | bleeds for the poor, why didn’t he tax the rich?” She was quiet for a moment. She seemed to be con- fused, then she said. “But if you don’t pay it, we have to pay it from our pocket.” “Maybe if you'll have to pay it out of your pocket you'll do some- thing about it too.” “But what can we do?” “Don’t pay.” Of course, she ac- cepted the dollar for the golloshes. But my satisfaction was not in saving the two cents, but the several other customers in the store listened to what I said and might learn something by it. | NOTE Every Friday we publish letters from workers in the transporta- tion and communications indus- | tries, railroad, marine, trucking, | taxi, telegraph, telephone, ete. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and efferts to organize. Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each week, | ke Ae ASO oy | the names of other workers whom \I can approach,” Of the Ward Line Companie. ‘Bares Distortion Of N. Y. Times By a.Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The New York about the mass picketing at the Garfield Cafeteria, Flatbush and Church Avenues, Brooklyn. Work- ers have been on strike here for several weeks, and as a result of an attack by a police officer upon a Negro worker, I was arrested for protesting against her arrest, In reporting my appearance be- fore Judge Sabatino for admittance to bail, the Times says, “Dr. Wil- liam Mendelson of 131 Lincoln Road, | Brooklyn, told Magistrate Sabatino that he was a customer and had taken no part in the disturbance.” This is pure fiction on the part of the reporter. My exact words were as follows, “Judge, if you saw @ woman having her arm wrenched to the breaking point by a police officer, would you not protest?” To which the learned judge replied, “I would walk away.” On Jan. 23, I was tried before Judge Mason on disorderly conduct, interfering with the arrest by a po- lice officer of the above described woman, was found guilty, and given @ suspended sentence, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935 Times of Jan. 28 carries a news item | From Factory. Mine, Farm and Offi Contrasts Individual Terror Versus Organized M ass Action By a R.R. Worker Correspondent 30, lil. - nore A machinist ti Act, a ge of to wit: employment of 1,500 men.” his worker ten a letter threatening the ives of four B. and O. officials if they did not stop lay-offs, Of| course, this threat could not force the management to gram of speed-up and offs, but it did land hi In contr: | tion, ange its pri sulting la: Jail. t to this act of desper: entative of the Ra a committee from the Lodge |agreement. He further | more men to work. the real issue (to put men to work and said nothing more until tt | Speaker had left the room. ‘Te legrapher A |Union’s Name By a Telegraph Worker Corre- | spondent a telegraph operator working at 60 Hudson St. N. Y¥. ©, and I am anxious to join a real union. Reading your correspondence page in a recent issue of the Daily Work- er, I found three articles by tele- graph workers. Now, all of these worke:s recommended the United Telegraphists of America, an inde- pendent union, I have never heard jof the United Telegraphists, but I have seen time and again several pickets in front of 60 Hudson Street from the United Telegraphers of America (independent). This or- ganization has been distributing | leaflets, picketing, etc. I would like to know which is |which. Is it the United Telegra- phists of which I never heard, or is it the United Telegraphers? Please inform me. I am ready to fight. Editor's Note: You are right. The organization is named the United Telegraphers of America. We were mistaken in using “teleg- raphists.” ‘Mechanics Paid | Helpers’ Rate | By a Railroad Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill.—When the Rock Island Railroad Company started wrecking cars at the Gresham Yards, I guess that they thought the men were so glad to get jobs that they would be willing to work at any rate. Some mechanics working here are from the 124th Street Shop and others worked here before the place closed down. They are made to use torches and do all the other work and are getting helpers’ rates. The Rock Island Association doesn’t do anything about it. A few of the men are joining the Car- men’s Union. That is what we need to do to force the company to give us our rate back, | THE ART OF WHITE WASH | Scene at the Board of Trade inquiry in London into the sinking of on Ohio Railroad is faced with a probable life sen- Daniel a thing of value, n desperation, had hood Unity Movement presented to a recent meeting of | Local 478 of the International As- | sociation of Machinists a progam | which could get men back to work. | | The speaker proposed the election of | to | j Work out a plan for fighting the | | speed-up by controlling production and also to list violations of the proposed | that this plan be presented to the local board for approval with the | view of taking all steps necessary to put this plan into effect, thus |forcing the management to pui Certain local officials, following | the “do nothing” policy of their brothers higher up, willfully de- | feated this proposal by sidetracking | |and injecting the “red scare.” One| | of these officials was asked by the| representative of the Unity Move- | ment if he had any better proposals | certain than these to make, so he sat down| pushed over a second p: However, determined efforts of | unemployed brothers and the S. S. Vestris of the Lamport and Holt Line in November, 1928. One hundred people lost their lives due to the greed of the company. The Vestris inquiry gave the cue to the inquiry into the Morro Castle | disaster and will be closely followed in the present inquiry into the wreck of the S. S. Mohawk. In all cases the guilt of the shipowners has been completely whitewashed and their insurance money protected. j a grievances before the Relief Sta-| tions, This an accomplishment st to the “do nothing” pol- “red baite-s.” B. & 0. CHIEF | GELLER President Willard of the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad. Mr. Willard’s wage-cutting, speed-up and lay-off policy has driven one of his employes to the point where he threatened Willard’s life if the lay-offs continue. This em- ploye was arrested and indicted. brothers at the meeting roposal made ne | by the speaker to elect a relief com- mittee which would represent the settle sks Law'to Deny Relief] To F oreign Born By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill—The recently in- | NEW YORK—It's got me. I am| augurated intense drive against the | |Communist Party in the United | States assumed its real significance | and revealed its true direction when |it was announced here today that legislation will be proposed Friday, |at a meeting of the American Citi- | | Zenship section of the Illinois Bar | Assiciation, which will make it a misdemeanor for any person who is |not a naturalized citizen of the | United States to apply for or to re- | ceive relief from any governmental agency. According to the provisions of this proposed law, all so-called “aliens” who have not applied for | naturalized papers would be forced to register with authorities. If any stances, applies for or receives any kind of governmental relief after having registered, it shall be con- sidered a misdemeanor and he shall be punished accordingly. Stating that there were about 5,000,000 “aliens” in this country, Brigadier-General J. V. Clinnin, who is one of the proposed law’s chief sponsors, said: “Registration is the surest way to ferret them out.” Just why it was considered necessary to “ferret them out” was clearly revealed when it became known that previous DEPORTA- TION cases involving “aliens” in need of or receiving relief had been exhumed from the files mergency Relief Administration and were being studied with keen interest. The carrying out of these Fascist economic pogroms against the for- eign-born directly, and indirectly against the native-born workers who have given much of their life to the building of America and whose toil and sweat have made idleness and luxury possible for countless overstuffed millionaires, will be thrown into the streets to depend upon almost non-existent private charity, which, of course, means actually starvation. Upon the effective action of the Communist Party alone hangs the fate of these 5,000,000 foreign-born workers and their fellow-workers among the native-born. But the Communist Party is not a per- former of wondrous miracles, nor is it a magician whose sleeve is full of aces. It is a fighting organiza- tion, and the effectiveness of its fight depends always upon the spirit and number of the workers who stand shoulder to shoulder with it. If you shall be content to witness 5,000,000 men, women and children walking and dying in our streets; if you do not particu- larly care what happens to you and your own family—then this is not your fight. BUT—if you feel a tie of solidarity and brotherhood with those millions of helpless humans; if you feel you've already had too damn much of the tactics of these murdering capitalists and _ their boot-licking politicians; if you damn well DO care what happens to you and yours, and if you can realize that a blow at ANY worker is eventually a blow at ALL workers —then this IS your fight, and RIGHT NOW is the time to get into it. | | such “alien,” regardless of circum- | of the} YOUR HEALTH sail ane Medieal Advisory Board | | Lumbago | A. D., Miles Heights, Ohio—Lum- | bago is a symptom and means pain | in the lower back. Thus, like head- | ache, it may come from a variety af | causes, Stones in the kidney, or kidney | inflammations, chronic constipation, | an enlarged prostate in the male, or inflammations or displacements of the womb, and its adjacent organs, in the female, may present pain in the back as one of the symptoms. Even weak feet may so change the | normal curvature of the spine as to induce lower back pain. Usui however, the cause is to be found in the regions which com- prise the small of the back. This area is composed of five movable Portions of the spine, known as the lumbar spine. Immediately below this, there is the immovable sacral j bone, and below this the coccyx. Both of these form the lowermast immovable, or fixed end of the | spine. | From the sacrum, sweeping | around towards the front of the | body, is the pelvis. At both meeting | portions, at this sacrum and pelvis, |are the sacro-iliac joints. The muscles about this region are |tense, firm and strong. Tears of | these muscles are not infrequent, and may cause long, continued dis- ak Add to this the fact that many large nerves spring from the ‘spine at this region, and you see how carefully pain at this spot must be investigated. That is why sci- atice, or pain along the course of {the sciatic nerve, is often an asso- | ciated condition. | The bones and joints in this re- | gion may be fractured or dislocated, | Ofttimes an X-ray will reveal just | such @ condition, which followed an injury long forgotten. Many peo- ple are born with defects or weak- nesses of the bones of the lower back. The joints here may be ine fected from teeth, tonsils or sinuses. | Tuberculosis ofttimes finds this a | likely spot for attack. Poor posture, due to rickets, long standing illness or occupation may produce pain in the lower back. The problem here becomes first | the problem of illness anywhere, | correct diagnosis. Since this often |entails money, time and _ special | straining by the physician, the suf- | ferer is apt to stop his visits to the doctor, or more important, be forced | to discontinue these for obvious fi- nancial reasons, Then the variety cults, such as osteopathy or chiro practic, get a “play.” May we summarize by saying that pain in the lower back requires ex- |act diagnosis if possible, and most cases are capable of such diagnosis, continued unrelentingly, scientific | search for the cause or causes, and complete co-operation between pa- | tient and doctor for relief or cure? Unfortunately, these standards are jimpossible for most of the people today. Obviously, it becomes necessary and urgent that all workers demand that such legislation shall be passed which will enable everybody to get the best that science can offer for the cure and prevention of disease, Passage of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H. R. 2827) and of the Workers Health Insur- ance Bill, will make possible such improvements in medical care. oo ee Muscular Rheumatism | L. P., Minneapolis, Mina.—From | your detailed description of your symptoms, you undoubtedly have a | rheumatic condition of the muscles, generally referred to and classed as | muscular rheumatism. This condi- tion is very much aggravated by your nervous, irritable, high-strung state. Overwork, worries, and lack of outdoor exercise are important causative factors. ‘The rational approach to treat- ment is a complete, thorough physi- cal examination to eliminate any focul pus areas elther in the teeth or tonsils. If any abscessed teeth are found, they should be removed, Daily bowel movements are exceed= ingly important. You should drink eight to ten glasses of water daily. Exercise in the open as much as possible. During your leisure time, be out in the open. Avoid drinking coffee, strong tea, and alcoholic bev- erages in general. Avoid spicy, canned, fried, fatty foods. Hat plenty of fresh fruits and vege- tables. Local appliction of heat, either by means of a lamp, or if that is not possible, by a hot water bag, will often give you relief. ‘Hot baths, followed by massage, with oil of wintergreen or camphor ointment, is very helpful. * Excessive Perspiration A.D.—for excessive perspiration of the arm pits accompanied by an of- fensive odor, we suggest that you sponge the affected parts with 4 2 per cent solution of formaldehyde, If this irritates the skin, stop using it. Alternately with this sponging, wipe the armpits dry and apply or- dinary talc or cornstarch. ie In New York, at a party given by Sarah Shore for Comrades Mary and Setzer, the latter made an appeal for the Daily Worker and $10 were collected. Fourteen-Hour Day On Office Job By a Worker Correspondent IRVINGTON, N. J.—Recently I answered an advertisement for a pesition as bookkeeper and typist for the H. & R. Coal Company, 45 Brandford Place, Newark, N. J. Mr. Bears, who interviewed me, told me the salary would be $18 per week and the hours from 7:30 in the morning until 9 o'clock or \ later in the evening. So you see there are still plenty of offices where 14 hours a day are considered working hours. I thought your paper might be vatpes in knowing of this condi- tion, ’ SUBSCRIPTION BLANK For the Medical Advisory Board Magazine I wish to subscribe to the Medi- cal Advisory Board Magazine. Enclosed find one dollar for a year’s subscription.