The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1935, Page 4

{ *Patiern Department. 243 West 17th Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED) AY, FEBRUARY 6, 1935 HOME LIKE ar ies Leaders Desert U.T.W. Local |As Militant Stand Is Taken ; es Work: Woman has turned r this colu very vibe oan ae apt side. BY a Textile Worker Correspondent iy 2 BURLINGTON, N. C.—Workers light the freeing of William | o¢ purtington who sympathize with O'Donnell, from a Jersey jail, where | the six innocent defendants in the he was imprisoned for activities “dynamite” frame-up are made to in the Seabrook, New Jersey, agri- (| feel the power and the hatred of cultural workers’ strike. Bill | the companies. O'Donnell had been on a hunger Even while the “trial” was going strike. How the women of New /0n, the company rat Pruitt told ‘ ated in securing nis | Workers we oe auted vn rr Se m here by sman | nesses the defendants that they Giércan on the stand for the six men. Since . the trial, four of these witnesses “PVE never been in a police court yes bot iF We FIRE THEM AL, before” whispered Mrs. Hayes. “Neither have I.” whispered Mrs. | Garrett, clothing worker and mother of a fifteen months old baby “That doesn’t matter” assured Mrs. Jones. a Negro woman. “I've been here before and I expect I'll be here plenty more. I went Bill O'Donnell’s bail when he was ar- tested and they been trying to scare mé cut ever since. But I aint a-/ s7a because I don't come from *carey kind of people.” We walked into Police trate’s ofce and started to find seatr. They d us what we wanted. We walked up to the desk. ; “Wrat do you intend to do about Bill O'Donnell?” asked Mrs. Hen- derson. The Police Magistrate face got red, but with all the force he could muster he said “I have done everything I intend to do about O'Donnell, now and forever!” Magis- (He had sentenced O'Donnell to six months in jail for making a speech.) “If O'Donnell wants to commit Suicide” he shouted “it is no con- cern of mine. I have nothing more to say.” He stalked out E looked at each other. “What shall we do now? . Let's tell the newspapers. We ought to work night and day until we get Bill O'Donnell out of jail So we worked with the O’Donne”! Defense Committee night and day. circulating petitions, collecting hundreds of signatures for O’Don- nell's release. Some of us joined the International Labor Defense and helped prepare mass protest meetings. We knocked from door to door urging people to act in the O’Donne!l case. Then one night we got Mother Bloor to come to a “Free Bill O’- Donnell Mass Meeting.” An old man got up to speak. He sald for two reasons this was the happiest night of his life. First because he had always wanted to hear Mother Bloor; and second, because a telephone call had just come from the Bridgeton County Jail to say that tomo-row at ten o'clock they could come to take Bill O'Donnell home from jail. Everyone jumped up, hurrahing. “TI wonder what that Police Magistrate has to say now about his ‘Now and Forever’ asked Mrs. Jones whose confidence in the work- ers and their ability to free O'Don- hell never flagged. Mrs. Jones, 53 years old, mother of 22 children, is a fighter. She has proved she doesn’t tome from the “scarey” kind of people. She's our South Jersey Mother Bloor. Win a free trip to the Soviet Union, a free vacation in a work- ers’ camp, or cash. Join the Daily Worker subscription contest. Write to 50 E. 13th Street. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2180 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 4% yards 39 inch fabric. | Illustrated 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 mame, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE WANTED. Address orders to Daily Worker Street, Mew York City. have lost their jobs. The super said they were not needed any more. Shortly after the trial, Tom Ca- nipe, who worked for the Burling- ton Mill Company, was fired. The boss told him that the mill asso- ciation had met and decided they could’nt work him, and advised Tom to change his name if he tried to get work anywhere else. This week, a brother of Howard Overman, who worked in a nearby | mill town, was fired. Some one had left a leaflet, issued by the Workers | Defense Committee in the shop where many workers read it. The super saw it and went into fits. That same day Overman was fired on the excuse that he had been talking to a girl on a nearby set of looms. Later the super told him that if he would tell who put the leaflet in the mill, he could have his job back. Textile Workers, desperately who fought so against the rank and six innocent workers, have really shown their colors since we put a motion through to get behind the Workers Defense Committee. “Sonny” Davis, the president, and his chief lieutenants, the socialist” Carnel and a certain Tanner, are doing all they can now to sabotage the union and to break it, At the last meeting this President Davis and his lieutenants failed to show up. They did not come neer the union hall all day. Davis has “set himself up in business” here in town and seems to have lost in- terest. In addition to staying away from the union meeting without an apol- ogy, they have started the lying tale, that “the reds have gotten control of the union,” and “Gorman was going to take the charter away because the reds are in the union.” This goes to show the true colors of these company stools. Just as soon as the rank and file votes to do something which the company is against, these union “leaders” re- fuse to come near the union hall and try to start lying gossip about the union. But we rank and file workers are more determined than ever to build our union into a real workers’ union and we do not re- gret the loss of such stools as Davis, Carnel and their gang. |Workers Pay for Damaged Shoes | By a Shoe Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—It is hardly neces- sary to mention the fact that the conditions in the I. Miller shoe fac- |tory are growing from bad to worse. It has become an almost daily cus- tom of the boss to continually re- jmind the workers that the time is \ripe for a wage cut. When the boss thinks that the workers won't ob- ject, then, the blow will be struck. What shall we do? Organize! | A problem that is confronting us now is the raffling that is to take place so as to relieve the boss from the expense of the damaged shoes. In other words, we must pay for shoes which are damaged. In the turn department the workers must pay for ten pair a day. The fore- man suggested that they either pay three dollars for each pair and let the boss take the shoes, or raffle off the shoes and let the boss take jthe proceeds. This question is still undecided. In other departments, several pairs of shoes will be raffled every week. | We must organize into groups, go to the boss and tell him that if the |shoes are damaged and can’t be re- | paired, they must be sold as seconds jor gotten rid of any way he likes. The expense must not be placed up- jon the shoulders of the workers, who as a result of the vicious speed up unavoidably make mistakes. Cne of the most important ob- jectives of the day is to see that the leaders of the union (Boot and Shoe) are more active in protecting {the interests of the workers. It seems as if they are not interested in our conditions at all, and ran \for leadership in order to get soft | jobs for themselves and protect the bosses instead of the workers. We must build our own rank and file leadership and protest these con- | ditions. ShoeWorkers Back Militant Slate By a Shoe Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass—The Stitchers’ Local of Boston at a special meet- ing on Wednesday, Jan. 30, nom- inated and endorsed Fred G. Bie- denkapp for General Organizer of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union. The local also en- dorsed Ralph Holmes of Haverhill for Secretary-Treasurer, Joe Cos- tello of Haverhill and Myer Klar- field of Boston as members of the General Executive Board. Most of the other locals will hold meetings for the nomination of general of- ficials during this week. The indignation of the member- ship of the “United” was so gréat the Resident Committee of the General Executive Board that the members of the G. E. B. of terri- tory No. 1 will remain in office for another year, that the officials were forced to retreat twice. First, they announced to all lo- cals that four members of territory No. 1 will remain in ofice for an- other year, and six are to be elected. Even when this announce- ment came, which was already a “concession,” still almost all local unions of New England passed mo- tions demanding that the General Executive Board resign and a new one be elected in its place, This week another announcement came to the locals that the whole GEB. has decided to “resign” and that an entire G. E. B. is to be nom- inated and elected. There are reports from Lynn and Haverhill that several locals have nominated and endorsed Fred Bie- denkapp and Holmes for General Organizer and Secretary-Treasurer. This shows that the shoe workers are convinced that only by elect- ing a militant, fighting leadership can the union be built and strengthened. The local officials of the United | file's determination to support the} against the announcement made by | jhere, the Jefferson Hotel putting in AR. “Let the bastard hang there, Ed lunch.” Ee" \UL.TW., Official Stems Fight |. We'll have an Investigation after By a Worker Correspondent SOUTH BEND, Ind—The strike of 1,400 workers of the Oliver Farm Equipment Company is stil solid. Mayor Treyermouth called in two Notre Dame priests, and with Don- aghue of the N.R.A. Board tried to fool the strike committee into arbi- tration by disguising it as a fact finding committee. The strike com- mittee told him that their business was with the Oliver Company and that they were not there to discuss religion, The strike committee and the workers are united against arbitra- tion, and the efforts of Donaghue of the N.R.A. to get the workers to leave the settlement of the strike to a N.R.A. Board has, and will, end in failure. The workers are instead putting their faith in mass picket lines which have completely kept out all scabs, and which have also stopped all deliveries of food and bedding with which the company ! Laundry Workers Get Pay Cut By a Worker Correspondent PEORIA, Ill—A wage cut from 25 cents down to 22 cents an hour has been forced on the girls in the flat-work department of the Ideal- Troy Laundry Company here within the past week. In making the wage cut, Carl Triebel, owner of the laundry, im- plied to his girl workers that he himself had not made any salary the past two months. The Ideal- Troy some time ago lost their large contract with the Jefferson Hotel} their own laundry plant. The cut in the Ideal-Troy flat-work depart- ment, it may resaonably be as- sumed, is the first move on the part of Triebel to cut his workers in the other departments. Triebel was formerly chairman of the Peoria County Emergency Re- lief Service Committee, resigning this office on Nov. 30, 1934. Oliver Strikers Reject Arbitration; Unions Promise Sympathetic Action expects to feed and house scabs in the future, Brothers Frank Horvath and Horky made good at today’s meet- ing, calling on the workers to tighten all picket lines. The entire strike committee, which consists of rank and file workers from the Plant, is carrying out its duties in a militant manner. So far there has been no police interference. The Studebaker union of 6,700 members has pledged a strike to support the Oliver workers if they are attacked. The Bendix Brake and Aviation Plant of 4,200 work- ers is also demanding wage in- creases and union recognition. The men Will strike if the demands are not granted. There is sentiment for @ general strike if the Oliver work- ers are attacked. The Oliver workers are demand- ing a 30 per cent increase in wages, recognition of A. F. of L. Local 19086 and no discrimination. Negro Rights Fight Won in Jamaica By a Worker Correspondent JAMAICA, N. Y. — The Young Liberators of Jamaica won their fight against a case of discrimina- tion where a Negro fellow was fired from Bohack’s Store and replaced by a white worker. This Negro worker had been sick and sent someone to substitute for him. How- ever, the boss seized this as an ex- cuse to fire him and left him, his wife and child to starve. The Young Liberators and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights sent delegations to Bohack’s deé- manding the immediate reinstate- ment of this worker, A picket line was set up, with a number of workers in the neighbor- hood joining in. After a few weeks of intensive picketing right through the stormy weather in January, Bohack’s was forced to rehire this Negro worker. This shows the power By a Worker Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The com- pany union at the Avondale Cotton Mill in Birmingham has succeeded in recruiting 100 men and 45 women in the last few weeks with the aid of wholesale discrimination against the U.T.W. Comer, the owner of about twelve mills in Alabama, is Planning to start one eight-hour shift at the Avondale mill in place of the two four-hour shifts by Feb. 15 and only use workers who belong to his company union. Last week Otis Preston, a frame hand, was fired for refusing to clean his frame on his own time. Preston is a strong union man and his boss, Tom Cochran, was obyious:y dis- criminating agaist him. Wnsh Pres- ton tried to get the president of the U.T.W. local to send the grievance committee to the boss about it the president started blankly and asked “What grievance committee?” And he refused to go with Preston him- self. Preston went to the boss and Zeb Mangum, the General Super of all the mills, told him to apolo- gize to Cochran and he could go back to work. Preston used similar language on Mangum while refus- ing to apologize. Bill Ballinger was fired a short time before for telling a company suck the union would strike if Comer didn’t put on two eight-hour shifts. Ballinger is also a strong union man, The president of the union is a Against Company Uuion company man and refus to lead the workers in any militant action. A few weeks ago a strike vote was taken but the strike was delayed. When the president took office some time ago he made a statement to the effect that he had worked in mills from New England to Cali- fornia and Comer was the fairest man he had worked for. Comer is well known as the worst slave driver and union smasher in the South. Now the president of the union is keeping the workers’ hands tied while Comer is building his com- pany union and smashing the UT.W. During the general strike Comer wrote a letter to W. O. Hare, sec- retary of the State Federation of Labor, asking him to not push the union any further at that time. Hare stopped all activity and left Comer's Pell City mill half organ- ized and the other mills without help. When Hare was confronted with this letter in a committee meeting he turned white as a sheet and trembled all over. Now he doesn’t fool around these mills. He is sending other fakers to take his job. The workers at Avondale are planning to kick out the president | in the next meeting and to prepare | for a strike. Already they are ask- | ing for support from other unions. | They are determined to smash the company union and force Comer to! recognize the U.T.W. Wages Cut on City and Relief Jobs By a Worker Correspondent HAVERHILL, Mass. — Thousands of municipal and E. R. A. workers in Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell and other nearby towns are facing wage cuts and adverse working condi- tions. In Haverhill, Mayor Dalrymple, in line with the wage cutting drive of the manufacturers, is attempting to cut the municipal employes and E. R. A. workers seven and a half per cent. The pay of over a score of E. R. A. workers was held back recently when the pay dispensing office was moved to Salem. The workers were left penniless but this did not jar the city officials any. A short time ago a shed was burned, and five BE. R. A. workers lost their coats and lunch kits. The city received the insurance on the shed but “could not reimburse the workers for their loss.” They en- treated the Salvation Army to solicit some old coats, thus showing their “sympathy” for the workers. In Lawrence, Mayor Griffin, at- tempting to balance the city budget at the expense of the workers, has ordered a wage cut for all city em- ployes. The firemen, however, re- fused to accede to the cut. Because of their militant stand their pay has been held back. ‘They are seeking counsel to litigate the matter. In Lowell, an E. R. A. worker, father of five children, was sen- ,tenced to the Federal Penitentiary for “working on the E. R. A., then transferring to the P. W. A, thereby receiving two weeks wages,” accord- ing to U. S. Attorney Hurley, who lableled this worker as “the meanest man in the United States.” At Amesbury the hours of work for each worker on the BE. R. A. will be reduced to 104 per month. The above instances are typical of what is going on in Massachusetts 'for E. R. A. workers and municipal ! employes. NOTE Every Wednesday we publish letters from iextile, shoe and needle workers. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and efforts to organize. Please get these letters of mass pressure. to us by Saturday of each week. | Half of CCC Camp) Deserts By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I am not a Com- munist but I notice the Daily | Worker takes an interest in and publishes letters from fellows in the C.C.C. camps. This is what happened to us at the Iona Island Camp near Central | Valley, when the weather was ten degrees below zero. We were served cold sandwiches which we had to eat while we were on the go. They | served us frozen milk for our break- fast cereal which we could not use. | One day, three of us were “dis-| honorably discharged” because when ;our feet were almost frozen we| turned into camp and were fined| one dollar. Every day there were some fel- lows fined for refusal to work. We three were discharged because we were “instigators.” We are supposed to get so many pounds of bread in each day’s al- lowance. Part of this was turned in to the bread man in exchange for cookies and cakes, which were given to the captain. There were 206 in the camp when | I came. Inside of only two weeks there are only 100 left. Most of the men either deserted or were dis- charged for protesting bad condi- tions. | | Refused Transportation To Hospital By a Worker Correspondent JOPLIN, Mo.—Here we are again from Joplin, Mo. “the land of a million smiles,” On one of the P. W. A. projects, a young fellow worker was carry- ing a big boulder, slipped and fell with it, hurting his leg very badly. The authorities asked another worker to take this fellow to the hospital in his car. He did not have any gas, and they would not fur- nish him any. Therefore, the worker who was hurt had to get there the best way he could. Ask regular readers to become subscribers of the Daily Worker, LABOR PARTY IS IMMEDIATE POSSIBILITY IN PATERSON | The question of a labor party is |not a probability but an immediate possibility in America. The growing demand end need for a united front, the breaking away of thous- ands and millions of workers from the old two party system, calls for @ energetic utilization of the desire for such masses by our party and for the formation of a genuine La- bor Party. As Jack Stachel correctly stated, in his articles recently published in |the Daily Worker, the Labor Party | must first arise in local places fused in the program for the fight for the demands of the toiling masses. As jan example Stachel cited the city of Paterson where a Labor Party or a united Labor Ticket can be achieved. Being closely connected with the work in Paterson, I wish to enumerate the many and tremend- ous possibilities for such a political force in the coming mayorality elec- tions in November. In order to understand how this can be achieved one must know the previous history of the labor move- ment in Paterson. Paterson has been the scene of numerous labor struggles. One of the first strikes ever to take place in the U. S. | occured in this city. Militant Tradition Exists A militant tradition exists among these workers. The workers of Pat- |erson have a sensitive alertness to many important questions. This has |been sharpened and developed in numerous struggles. The strong de- gree of organization in the A, F. of L. with many large sections of the workers (silk, dye, building trades and others) 100 per cent organized, is another important factor for the possibilities of a Labor Party. The national convention of the U.T.W. went cn rocord in favor of such a labor party, : With the 1933 strikes of silk and dye workers the Labor movement of Paterson increased its strength manyfold. Our revolutionary textile union (N.T.W.U,), in an oct to organize the dyers and fight against the $13 a week N.R.A. Codes, called the dyers on strike. Fifteen thous- and workers, for the first time since 1919, were involved in a militant, heroic battle. The National Union had hegemony of the dyers through- out the major portion of the strike. At the same time the silk workers came out in a national silk strike. The U.T.W. (associated) was quite influential among this section of the workers. With the help of the NRA. Arbitration and Relation Boards, the insistence of the bosses on dealing with the A. F. of L., the help of the local politicians and Lovestoneites, (Rubenstein and Keller), the workers joined the A. F. of L. Unions. Although the ma- jority of the workers belonged to the A. F. of L, the idealogical in- fluence of the militant unions per- meated the new unions. The next important step and highly desired by all the workers was the “going over” or the merging of the small but militant union with the U.T.W. The workers immedi- ately crystallized the militant ideol- ogy that permeated the A. F. of L. into organizational opposition. The influx of militant members and known Communists heartened the workers into a militant struggle against their reactionary leaders. Then the General Strike took place. The role of Gorman in be- traying the strike is common know- ledge to all. Keller in his small Napoleonic way stifled the resent- ment of the silk workers against Gorman. He worked with Gorman to gain the “victory” which has so embittered the workers, The final drive back to the mills By by Keller after the calling off of the strike, was the end of Keller's re- gime in the Union. During the gen- eral strike the dyers were held in check against their own wishes. They were dyeing silk made by scab labor. By refusing to call them out on strike Gorman and Ammirato broke the strike since they failed to extend the strike front. Prepared for Strike A deep ferment took place among the workers in opposition to the policies of their union leaders, When the dyers contract with the dye bosses ended, they began to prepare for strike. The prepara- tions by the dyers were thorough and efficient. The demands were the wishes of all, being voted upon at all the shop meetings. They were practicable and realizable. They built a rank and file strike ap- paratus and defeated all efforts to break the strike. They scored all arbitration and won splendid vic- tory. Never was there such a victory for such a large group of Paterson workers. The strike was definitely of, by, and for the rank and file, Out of the heat of the struggle ap- peared the real rank and file lead- ers of the dyers, such as Charles Vigorito and Tony Ventura. This fact was clearly realized by the over- whelming confidence expressed by the members by electing them into office, with Vigotito as President of the Dyers Local 1733. Backed Printers’ Strike The recent 3 to 1 victory of the whole rank and file slate in the JOSEPH SHELL For the first time over a length of time a united front was built. This Conference to Aid the Striking Printers ranged from the Central Trades Council, Typographical Union, Silk and Dye Workers Unions to the S. P. and C. P. A united campaign was initiated to support the printers in their fight against the two daily scab news- papers in the city. These printers issued their own paper which has a wide circulation. The circulation of the two scab sheets have dropped considerably. The Conference has launched a drive for the establish- ment of a daily labor paper in Pat- erson. This Conference has definite- ly proved that many shades of opinion can unite around a definite object in support of the workers. Ail these developments have given great impetus to tne labor move- ment of Paterson. The Communist Party has grown in prestige and or- ganization. Our influence has pen- etrated to new groups and people where formally we were not. The unemployed movement al- though weak has great possibilities with the building of unemployed groups in the unions. With the growth of the rank and file struggle and the anti-fascist campaign, a new group (Italians, who comprise a large percentage of the popula- tion) has been drawn closer into the revolutionary movement. This is the situation which creates a favorable background for the building of a labor party in the city of Paterson and in Passaic County. broad silk department of the A. F. of L. was another highlight in the labor movement of Paterson. Down in defeat went all the reactionaries in a complete militant union ex- ecutive board! Along with these developments, the united front support of the printer's strike must be mentioned, Labor Chiefs Active Weaknesses prevail in some of our work. The major and most serious shortcoming that must be overcome Rights Bill, Scottsboro-Angelo Herndon Campaigns, for the fight against local segregation, evictions, and Jim Crowism. Another weak link in our work is the work among the youth. Before outlining the way to achieve the Labor Party, I wish to call attention to the fact that the moye for a “labor” ticket or a “fed- eration” ticket has been the topic of discussion by some labor bureau- crats and a local politician, a Mr. Joelson. Mr. Joelson, a defeated Democratic candidate for Congress, split with his party. A former re- corder (judge) in the city, he has built up a reputation for “fairness and leniency” although he has sent many workers to jail. His dema- gogic campaigns and statements fool many. He stood in high respect with many workers, particularly the dyers. He lost much of his support by injecting himself into the Dyers Strike and tried to play the good samaritan by attempting to settle the strike on decidedly unfavorable terms to the workers. He tried to build up a reputation as a labor attorney, and “friend of the poor.” In such a manner he hopes to be carried into office as mayor with the help of some “labor” officials. The question of a Labc~ Party has also been discussed in the So- cialist Party. The militant and left group of the Paterson Local has been very much in favor for such a step. The reactionary and “old- guard” fight against it, for in it they see the possibility of creating a real United Front in Paterson. In this we Communists, extend a helping and brotherly hand. The Communist Party must is the neglect in our work among the Negro people. In order to in- sure success of a labor party, work among the Negrocs must be started immediately around the Negro- launch an educational campaign on the nature of the Labor Party and how it should be formed. The pro- gram can be as Comrade Stachel designated, supplemented with local demands, as aid to the striking printers, taxation of the S. U. M. and a fight against the octopus of gas, electric and transportation, the Public Service “J. P. Morgan.” All this can and must revolve around the struggle for rank and file control of the unions. Our party has a special role in these struggles and it is not true that the C. P. will become obscure and lose its identity. On the contrary, our party will adhere to the immediate and ultimate aims of Communism. One of the prerequisites of the struggle for the attainment of the workers and farmers government is the unity of the workers. Such a genuine Labor Party will be a step forward to creating a mighty united force | for an ultimate Soviet America. | Fulfills Need The need of a Labor Party is| primarily the fulfillment of a desire | of a move already made by thou- sands and millions away from the old two party forms of parliamen- tary structure. A new form must be given to unite Labor (in conjunc- tion with the rest of the toiling mass, farmers small business men, intellectuals and students) in an} energetic fight against war and fas- cism, against company unions, for freedom of the right to organize, the fight for the rights of the Negro people, relief to the needy farmers and foremost the question of Un- empioyment, Old Age and Social Insurance. With this objective program based | on local demands workers can bring about a higher plane of struggle against the capitalists. A genuine Labor Party, when accomplished in any locelity, will be one of the bold- est steps forward to a united work- ing class. A labor ticket can be elected in Paterson this November! : | your | HEALTH | Bo Medieal Frozen Miik | Y. WANTS to know whether |~ frozen milk fs full of dangerous microbes and whether beef or pork liver are injurious to the kidney Bacteria enter milk from the cow’s Eas the milker’s hands, the con- |tainers it is put into, ete. Since |they start growing at once, most |milk contains a large number. Most of them, if not in too great num- jbevs, are entirely harmless. Bacteria grow well in warm temperature; they are almost all killed by heat- ing nearly to the boiling point (as jis done in pasteurization); they do |not grow at all, and some are killed off when milk is frozen, Thus you can see that the fact |that milk may come to the consumer |frozen has nothing to do with its |content of dangerous microbes, Tf previous to being consumed, the milk has net been contaminated with disease germs and if, previous to freezing, it has not stood around at warm temperatures long enough |for the otherwise harmless bacteria jto multiply to a very large number, |the milk is certainly all right. In |general, milk can be kept longer jwith safety in cold or freezing Weather because the bacteria do not multiply nearly so fast. Beef and pork liver are both very good food and in no way injurious for the normal person. We feel that you are confused by two popu- lar notions concerning this matter, In certain types of kidney disease, doctors believe in limiting the amount of proteins eaten; this in- cludes fish, eggs, chicken, etc., as well as “red meat.” But other types of kidney troubles should hi large amount of protein. And er= tainly, within any reasonable limit, this has no effect on the normal person one way or the other, Secondly it was discovered about ten years ago that liver in very large quantities would cure a cer- tain type of anemia; from this, the public got the idea that “live: is good for the blood” (whereas there is no evidence that it has any such effect on normal people); and liver, formerly the cheapest of meats, usually thrown to the cat, rapidly became one of the most expensive. In general, a healthy person should not worry about this diet or go in for fads but eat three nor- mally well-balanced meals a day— if in these times he can afford it, TR ka Does Birth Control Hinder Subsequent Conception? . 8. WRITES: “I have heard tell that if a young woman uses contraceptives and puts off hav- ing children for a number of years, she finds it very difficult to be- come pregnant when she later on does wsih babies; and also that when she finally does become |pregnant, the business of giving birth goes very hard with her. Is this true?” Many doctors, especially those not acquainted with the technique of birth control, offer such objections, ie. that continued use of birth con- ‘ol measures will make it difficult for the woman to become pregnant when she wants to. This statement is absolutely false and not based upon any scientific evidence. As a matter of fact, we do know that most women have become pregnant very easily when discontinuing the practice of birth control. And what makes the first state- ment most absurd, many women have become pregnant folowing only one occasion when they did not follow the method accurately. It is also just as ridiculous to say that giving birth is made more dif- ficult after prolonged use of con- traceptives. The difficulties of child birth are in no way related to birt control. Talk of Communists Frightens Relief By a Worker Correspendent JOPLIN, Mo. -- A fellow worker here had a little girl who was sick with pneumonia and had to have |a doctor right away. He went to the Welfare and asked for a doctor and they put up the excuse that they did not know what they could do about it, as they were without funds. He told them that he would have to go and get a com- mittee from the Communist Party, and right away they advised him not to, and go on home and they would see to it that he got a doctor. Before he got home, there was a doctor and a nurse both out there to his home, The nurse stayed all night with the little girl. 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