The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1935, Page 8

Ee ak CA Unies RnR ENS Sh Son Ha RICKS 8 ' Promised Pay Rise Turns Out Fraud By a Municipal Worker Correspondent SAN DIEGO, Cal—The city em- 5° you ever have a chance to|ployes of San Diego were promised watch little children (from two/a five per cent raise on Jan, 1., as to four years old) in a Nursery |a part restoration of our past pay School? It is great fun and a great cuts. but when we got our checks surprise to many who know small/on Jan. 20, most of us found out Today SLAVA DUNN writes the | promised article on children's group activity. children only in their homes. Every- thing in the school is set up for their needs and their size. Little tables, little chairs, low shelves with various kinds of play-material and books, all ¥ reach of the child. Eve: busy playing, building, ach child feels mself an equal member of the group. There is no babying or spoiling of the Child; nobody to yell “stop that” or ‘don’t touch this.’ The child is learning, in the group, all the time, how to live with other people. They eat the same food, take naps in the same kind of beds. Each child is learning how to share, to take turns, to enjoy work and play, together with the othe There may be fif- teen or more them, but there is 0! e to see that th t the best of the shy child. “It all looks easy and casual and free. But there are definite rules. There is discipline. (No group life 4s possible without discipline, and all children soon learn that through experience.) 'HIS picture of a nursery school for small children, is, in gen- eral, the same as in the Soviet Union. All the best educators of the world agree now on the im- portance and need of group life for small children. There are, of course, ideological differences in the nurs- | ery schools of the Soviet Union, but the educational principles are sim- ilar: healthy environment; varied play material that develops the chil initiative, imagination and ability to create new things. When children are together in a group like this, there is a chance for give and take. There is experience in self Teliance and independence. “The greatest difference is, how- ever, in the number of such schools here and in the Soviet Union. In this country we have some charity nurseries and a few private nursery schools, most of them in the big cities only. Some few public schools have kindergartens, but there is Mothing for children under five years of age within the public schcol system. “In the U.S.S.R. thirty per cent of all children are in nursery schools, and the number is steadily growing all the time. © “There is a great need for the nursery schools and kindergartens here in the United States. We need well developed children. We need also some freedom for the mothers | so they can engage in activities out- Side of the home. “In the next article we will dis- cuss the different kind of children’s groups in the Soviet Union, and give some suggestions as to what we here can do about group activity for children.” Has your organization sent greetings for International Women’s Day to this splendid proletarian women’s magazine? They must be sent at once if they are to appear in the March number. Ali women should help this magazine become self-sus- taining, by sending in their greet- ings and a contribution to Work- ing Woman, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Size 16 takes 4¥% yards 39 inch fabric. TMlus- trated step-by-step sewing instruc- tions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins 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. haemo |the so called raise wasn’t anywhere near five per cent. | The reason for this is that ac- cording to the law our pay can’t be increased above the maximum set annually for the various job classi- fications. So if some of us are get- ting one per cent or maybe one-half per cent under the maximum, our pay isn’t being increased the five per cent at all, but only one per cent or one-half per cent as the |case may be. Some of us got only a | dollar or two more per month, and jone fellow got only ninety-four |cents! Many who were getting the |maximum didn’t get any raise at | all! The day after payday, the local papers announced that meat prices | were up twenty-five per cent and { other food prices were going too. So we didn’t get our five per cent ‘aise and food commodities did go up, leaving us in a Worse condition than we were in. When workers went to Assistant |City Manager (Hitler) Lockwood land complained about their miser- able conditions, he told them if they did not like it to—quit. I think that would be the right thing, for | 1,300 city employes to do, go out |and quit at the same time. In March, these rats expect us to }vote for them in the municipal | elections, but they are going to be fooled. We are going to vote right, | this time. In order to get what we | want, we will have to vote for work- ers’ candidates. This afternoon a group of us rank | and filers in the City Employes As- | sociation, got together and had a |meeting. We endorsed the Work- ers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H.R. 2827, and |we demand the release of the 17 | workers held on frame up charges lot Criminal Syndicalism in Sacra- |mento. We are glad to know that j there is one attorney like Leo Gal- |lagher in the State of California, | one that can tell the truth and de- |fend workers. Tom Mooney was |framed up the same way as these workers, and therefore we rank and | filers demand the release of Bro- | ther Tom Mooney. Homes Searched To Stem Union By a Worker Correspondent LINDEN, N. J—The Simmon’s plant Linden N. J., is taking drastic measures to prevent us em- Pployees from organizing into a union of their own choice. The National Furniture Workers Industrial Union has been attempt- img to organize these workers for some time. During the strike last year of the Kenosha plant the workers began more and more: to realize the need for a union which ally protect their interests. it of the a ity of the union at that time t the Linden plant had put across on them one of the rankest steals known to workers. In the formation of the company union at that time the workers were called together to vote whether or not they wanted this union to be “theirs.” This union in which no one was expected to pay dues. For which the company would supply free, headquarters, recreation rooms for dances, etc. This union which was to protect the interest of the employe. Which never had mem- bership or even department mect- ings, was the one the workers had railroaded through on them. Militant workers showing the true character of a union like this were soon dismissed. While many work- ers in the plant thought that this was really a union in which no fakery was possible and workers had all the rights, they soon became disillusioned. Many remembered the teaching of the militant work- ers and now with the approaching busy season, organizational activ- ity is again going on. Simmon’s this time is using a much different method to discourage organization. It is now making a house to house search of all employes on the pre- text that it is looking for “stolen materials.” Since it has long been a policy of the Simmon’s plant not to permit workers in any depart- ment other than the one in which they work, at any time, and many workers’ homes have been visited who could not possibly have been near the departments from which the so-called stolen goods came from, it is very evident that they are looking for another kind of “merchandise.” It is said at the plant that if a worker does not per- mit the search he is subject to dis- missal. contest! Fifteen more workers now Workers All Over Country Join Race for USSR Trip | Sst eee Fifteen more workers have joined the Daily Worker «subscription have a chance to visit the Soviet Union at the expense of the Daily Worker! | A free trip to the land of Socialist construction, cash prizes, vaca- tion prizes—all these are open to thousands of more workers throughout |the country. Daily Worker are easy to get. All over the United States workers are turning to the Communist Party; Communism has become the popu- | Subscriptions to the [ NOTE Every Saturday we publish let- ters from mine, oil and smelter workers. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their con- ditions and efforts to organize. Please get these letters to us by Wednesday of each weck. ‘lar subject of the day. Industrial} j workers, farmers, miners, white- collar workers, workers in all cate- !gories, are ready to become regular | readers of the Daily Worker. They |need but to be approached! Nine new cities are represented among last week’s entries. Youngstown and Toledo, in Ohio; Rockford, in Ilinois; Bayonne, in New Jersey; and Helper, in Utah, are among them. They are widely separated cities. But workers in every city and state have the chance for the prizes, The Chicago District, however, is still pushing ahead of its brothers {in the number of entries. Five |more were credited to it last week. |Its total is now 17. New York remains second, with 12 contestants. But Cleveland has thrust Detroit out of third place. The Ohio district now has eight entries, one more than Detroit. But where are Philadeiphia, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Califor- nia, Washington? Surely there are workers in those districts who wish to see the Soviet Union! Can it be that the contest is not be- ing publicized, popularized enough in those districts? Or in the other districts that have not yet been heard from? The Daily Worker bids the leader- ship in those districts to make all haste to bring the contest, to bring the subscription drive to the atten- tion of all the workers in their states! i Following is the list of entries received last week: NEW YORK DISTRICT Glens Falis Homer Lazure Valley Stream, L. Rebecca Cohen CLEVELAND DISTRICT Canton, Ohio Wilma Brazelton Cleveland, Ohio: Prager Toledo, Ohio Fred V. Voelker Youngstown, Ohio John Nett CHICAGO DISTRICT Chicago, Iil.: Catherine Coolidge Matt Reinschneider | Daniel Lubin A. Cohen Rockford, Til. Peter Peterson NEBRASKA DISTRICT Davenport, lowa Rudolph Behm NEW JERSEY DISTRICT Bayonne, N. J. Antonio Puente WISCONSIN DISTRICT Milwaukee, Wis.: William Kirchner COLORADO DISTRICT Helper, Utah Adam Ostoich WHY THEY FREED THE SLAVES When Abe Lincoln was born in 1809 out in the wilderness, people back east were still marvelling over that new-fangled invention, the steamboat, that very much to every- one’s surprise managed to sail up the Hudson River. In those days the United States of America was just a piece of land along the At- lantic Coast and pretty well pop- ulated. In the South were large farms owned by rich planters. They had Negro slaves to do the work on these plantations. The slave was owned by his master for life, could not go away, or have any land of his own. In return the master gave him food and shelter all his life, but no wages. The planters grew tobacco and sugar and cotton. Soon cotton came to be the most profitable crop. The planters sold their cotton to En- gland, where there had been fac- tories for some time, and they bought finished things from En- gland that they could not make themselves. Ever since the begin- ning of our republic, these South- ern planters were the most power- ful and had control of the govern- ment. Now in the North the kind of la- bor used by the rich was very dif- ferent. Of course there were very few workers like today, because there were only a few small fac- tories. The rich people, even be- fore the days of Washington had made a lot of money by trading in rum, molasses, and the Negro Slave Trade. They built ships and sent them far across the sea. But what of the poor people? Some of them were carpenters, mechanics, shoe- makers, and made things in small SORRY¥-NO Room FOR US ToDAy WELL BE SEEIN* You NEXT WEEK Bur HOWEsST- WE THINK THE HIS Tory FOR Topay WHy D190 THEY FREE THE SLAVES IS TERRIBLY IM— PORTANT ~ THE TEACHER NEVER TEwWs U5 LIKE Tyg THINGS DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935 “This is ridiculous, Every jackass knows the depression is over.” By a Mine Worker Correspondent MAHONING CITY, Pa. — The Gilberton mine disaster which re- sulted in the killing of twelve min- ers and injuring eighty-two others was a direct result of negligence and disregard of safety rules By the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company is the charge made by the officials of the Draper Local of the United Mine Workers of America. The officials showed that six days before the disaster they had written to Martin F. Brennan, President of District No. 9, United Mine Work- ers of America, calling attention to the dangerous condition of the mine and requesting that steps be taken to safeguard the lives of the men. The total neglect of the safety of the miners came about as a result jof what the company called a “new method of mining,” which really was nothing more than an attempt to speed the men up, and at the same time cut their pay in the change from the old to the “new method.” The men had _ struck against the attempt to cut their wages ond their grievance was handed to the elaborate arbitration machinery established in the min- ing industry. The officials of the local explained the meaning of the change in meth- ods in the following words: “Under the new system of min- ing, instead of driving gangways in the vein they drive them through tock. This eliminates headings as used in the old method, resulting in practically no ventilation other than compressed air. In driving these gangways they are supposed WITH OUR YOUNG READERS shops. But most of them were farm- ers. Life was very hard for the working people. Many of the farm- ers lost their lands because they couldn’t pay their taxes. Some of the bravest of these men and wo- men packed their things and push- ed their way into the West where there was plenty of land. They cut down the trees, built log cabins, planted corn, and made their own cloth, or wore the skins of animals they shot in the woods, and worst of all had to be forever fighting the Indians, to whom the land right- fully belonged. Lincoln’s father and grandfather were among the Pioneers who cut their way into the wilderness, mov- ing always farther West, When Lin- coln was a young man and left his home in Illinois and floated down the Mississippi on a raft, the first steamboats began to chug their way up the Mississippi. Then things began to change: Trading became easier, The Erie Canal opened and _ steamboats brought people over the Great Lakes from the East. Quickly tiny villages grew into cities. Some peo- ple began to get rich. They bought up land and built railroads. Fac- tories poked their chimneys into the sky. t Lincoln was one of those who grew along with the new West. His father could scarcely read or write. But Lincoln became a lawyer and worked with the new business men of the frontier, who were very quickly growing as rich and as powerful as the older capitalists in the East. But only some of the people owned factories and banks and grew rich. There were more and more people who were forced to become workers in the mills. The Southern planters wanted new land, too, because their old land was becoming less fertile. They *|did get some new lands, where they spread their plantations and slav- ery. But the Northern capitalists were able to spread out to the West much easier because they were making more money. They could squeeze more profits out of a “free” white labor. They found free labor much cheaper. Slaves had to be fed and cared for all their lives. But the “free” work- ers could be thrown out any old time and still cheaper labor could always be found. Around 1840 many immigrants came here from Europe and filled the places left by those who went West. In Europe there was great suffering and starvation for the Local UMWA HeadsCharge Neglect Of Bosses Caused _ Gilberton Disaster to have two outlets for the men. In the method of driving rock gang- ways there js only one outlet. Where the gangways are driven through the veins there is an outlet in the main gangway and in the heading. Chutes were driven from the fourth to the third lifts as an outlet, but the gangway above was closed Where the chutes came through preventing the proper circulation of the air.” These conditions were a violation of the state mining laws which read as follows on the questions of ven- tilation: “The ventilating currents shall be conducted and circulated to and along the face of each and every working place throughout the en- tire mine, in sufficient quantities to dilute, render harmless and sweep wuway smoke and noxious or dangerous gases, to such an extent that all working places and travel- ing roads shall be in a safe and fit state to work and travel therein.” The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company is the big- gest outfit in the lower Anthracite region, and it is expected that the investigation commission set up will go through the usual routine of clearing the company. Although Brennan, District Pres- ident of District No. 9 of the U. M. W. of A., knew six days before the disaster the condition the mine was in and took no steps to immediately safeguard the lives of the men, it is quite ironic that a fellow District President of the U. M. W. of A, Michael Hartneady, who incident- ally is also State Secretary of Mines, has appointed the commission to investigate the disaster. Mr. Doughbags is taking the money he stole from his workers to the bank, is going through the woods because he doesn’t. want anyone to see him. Margie, ‘Tim and Jerry are there, though, watching him. He doesn’t see them. Do you? If you can find the outlines of all three He ; workers, and they were glad to. come to this new country where it seemed | that there was great opportunity for all. So all during Lincoln's life the Northern capitalists were grow- ing rich and stronger. Soon they were bigger and stronger than the Southern plantation owners and they wanted to get hold of the na- tional government which the South- ern owners had kept so long. They wanted to make laws that would be good for their own business. They managed to get Lincoln clected their president and the government was theirs. But the South, although it saw its power slipping, did not want to let go so easily. There seemed to be only one way out and that was war, So the Civil War was fought to see who would control the gov- ernment. The Southern planters wanted power so it could keep its old life and its slavery. The North- ern capitalists wanted power so they could make laws for the ben- efit of their new industry and busi- ness that needed free labor to make their profits. They wanted to force the Southern planters to send their cotton to the mills in the North in- stead of to England. The North won the war because of its modern methods that could easily turn out guns and ships. So the backward South, with its slavery, was con- quered, and new ways rushed for- ward. The slaves were freed not By Mary Morrow, Caildren’s editor, The Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. Coal Barons Plot Against Union By a Mine Worker Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The T.C.I. coal bosses have concocted a plan to smash the miners’ unions and to establish their own Brotherhood of Captive Miners. They plan to open two mines, the Edgewater and Docena mines, and keep the rest of the mines closed. The Edgewater and Docena mines are in the center of a wide area of company property and miners would have to trespass a consider- able distance in order to picket in time of strike. They figure it would be a good excuse for calling the National Guard and maintain a large number of gun thugs to drive off the miners, The first step of the bosses will be to open these two mines with a large proportion of scabs and picked union men. All known mil- itant union men will be left out. The idea is to win all those who go to work for the Brotherhood of Captive Miners. They also plan to force a strike to test the sentiment of the miners and get rid of those who stand for the real union. While the bosses are planning this attack on the miners the min- ers themselves are building the lo- cals of the U.M.W.A. stronger than ever and each local meeting sees the hall crowded with between 500 and 600 miners. The two leaders of the Edgewater Local, Leonard Smith, president, and Floyd Ansley, secretary (both white), have been fired on the charge of beating up a scab on company property. This is Part of the bosses’ plan to rob the miners of their militant leaders in the mine. The Communists are urging the union to force the bosses to rehire both Smith and Ansley and to prepare for a bitter battle with the bosses for the rights of the miners Grecery Salesmen Have No Protection By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The radical press of this country has revealed various abuses in all trades against wage earners, There is one class of work- ers, amounting to three thousand in this city, that little is heard about. Even the N.R.A. Codes have over- looked them. I am referring to the salesmen in the wholesale groc- ery trade. We receive no guaranteed mini- mum salary, nor guaranteed fixed commission, nor secure jobs, not even the freedom of changing our job without the good will of our former employer. You would be astonished to learn of instances where a salesman re- ceived ninety-five cents for a whole week's work. Defeat Attempt At ‘Red Seare’ By a Worker Correspondent SAN BERNARDINO, Cal.— That the S.E.R.A. workers of San Ber- nardino County are growing more militant needs no further proof than that their meetings are of the over- flow type, that their grievance com- mittees are becoming larger, better informed, and disillusioned in all the alphabetical soup and promises of the local and national admini- strations. San Bernardino has established a national ‘reputation in that it re- ceives more and better relief than any other county in the United States. This news travelling far and wide is the obvious reason for an attempt on the part of the S. E. R. A. director for San Bernardino County at raising the “red scare.” A most petty reason was given for taking offense at the San Bernar- dino Workers Club and the refusal to see a grievance committee of the San Bernardino County Wide Asso- ciation of Labor and Relief because there is an affiliation between these two organizations. The petty reason arose from an article published in the Workers’ Voice five weeks ago, but it was not mentioned until Jan. 26 at a meet- ing of the County Wide Associa- tion. The S. E. R. A. director of the Vaccination, Vivisection and Medi- cal Education in the U. S: S. R. . B., of Chicago, writes that a group of his friends at the Shelter, were discussing dietetics heze and in the U. S. S. R. with reference to the training of physi- cians in this respect. To begin with, most Medical Schools in this country have no special courses in dietetics; the doce tor is taught simply the underlying scientific laws on nutrition, but their application is not detailed. (Per- haps some embarrassing questions might come up if the Medical Schools pinned themselves down formally to a statement of what a minimum healthy diet must contain, not to mention the more difficult diets in disease). Of course, various schools here teach different things, medical education shows a wide variation throughout the country. In the Soviet Union, the medical courses are uniform throughout the land, outside of the courses in specialties. The nutritive value of foods is studied in the course on physiological chemistry. Later diet etics are studied in the course on medicine and on the treatment of disease. Great attention is paid to the last-named. county, Harold P. Thorenson, is- sued an ultimatum that if the County Wide Association did not see to it that Workers’ Club rid itself of Communist leadership, he would not receive any grievance commit- tee from the County Wide Associa- tion, Great interest was registered at the Jan. 26 meeting by the delegates and subsequently throughout the entire county. A motion to appoint a committee to investigate reds, Communists and assorted radicals in the Workers’ Club started a dis- cussion which lasted for an hour, Following this, a known Commu- nist asked for permission to speak, The role of the Communist Party was brought to the workers, as well as its relation to other organiza- tions of workers. The leadership of the Communist Party in the San Francisco and other strikes was also gone in to. He issued a challenge to the S. E. R. A. director to debate the need for Communist leadership, with rank and file control from be- low, instead of the fake leadership usually offered the workers. He also challenged any one to show a single instance where a known Communist leader did anything but carry out the wishes of the rank and file. The discussion of the workers showed plainly that they had no fear, no hatred for honest, willing, hard working Communist leader- ship. A vote was taken as to whether or not they should appoint a com- mittee to investigate Communist activities in the Workers’ Club. Three voted yes, thirty voted no. Another motion was made and car- Just lately, certain so-called lib- eral papers in this city described how one of the jobbers in this trade paid out $250,000 as bonuses to their workers on a gross business of $18,- | 000,000 for the year 1934. Why do not these liberal papers acquaint the public with the fact that this firm spent about $50,000 to break a strike of their teamsters about a year ago? ried unanimously. This motion called for the sending of a message to the S. E. R. A. director, telling him to appoint his own committee of investigation if he was so anxious to investigate. To answer the “red scare,” plans were made to build bigger and bet- ter workers’ clubs, This is surely being done, for the workers are join- ing at a rate unheard of in the an- nals of organized labor in San Ber- nardino County. of them fill them in with pencil, mail the puzzle in and you can become a member of the Daily Worker Puzzle Club. New Puzzle Club members are Julius Bel- sho, Murray Tieback, Mildred Morris, Celia Hoffman, Andonias Papas, Albert Cardinali and Herbert Schmerler. because the Northern bosses thought slavery was cruel but slavery was old-fashioned and stood in the way of the modern way of doing things. Farther and farther West the capitalists went, driving people before them, till there was none of the wilderness that Lin- coln knew. Now the people could only work in the factories that sprung up all over. Big business bought up farms and drove out the little farmer who could hardly make an existence, but as the capitalist class grew stronger just as surely did the working-class grow strong- er, Hundreds and thousands worked together in factories and mines. More and more the bosses ground down the workers and made bigger profits. The Civil War that freed the slaves from the masters changed them into slaves for wages, like their white brothers. As long as slavery existed there could be no great working class. Ever since the day of Lincoln’s death the working class has grown. stronger. And soon the day will come when both Negro and white will stop being wage slaves and throw off their oppressors. They will take the things they make and grow for the workers and poor farmers. The day will soon come that history all these years has been preparing for, the day of the work- ers’ revolution. because | Negro Veterans Fed On Leftovers By a Worker Correspondent DAYTON, O.—As I am a veteran at the National Military Home in Dayton, I want to explain the con- ditions of the vets in the home. Every month we are issued four cents worth of soap and a half pound of tobacco. There is so much red tape in getting anything that most of the men are barefooted. | There is plenty of clothing but it is not given out. The waitress for company nine and ten is getting shots for a con- tagious disease. She waits on the Negro vets. They clean up the bread from the tables of the white vets and then give it to the Negroes, |The Negro vets get all the left overs. J bles Council Formed | After Two-Year Effort By a Worker Correspondent PITTSTON, Pa.—For the last two years we have worked very hard to organize an unemployed council in Pittston and haven't been success- ful, Finally, we have held two meetings in the last two weeks and ; the thing is becoming a real success. ; Our first meeting was held on} Jan, 28, the second a week later. It | was Comrade Steve Nelson of; Wilkes-Barre who held the atten- | tion of the crowd at the last meet- ing. There are more Italians in this, town than people of any other na- tionality, and it was very hard to get them to join the unemployed council. Now they all want to have one of the largest branches. Transient Center Ousts Man in Zero Weather By a Worker Correspondent SCHENECTADY, N. Y. — John Christian, with both hands frozen | stiff, was rcfused admittance to the Transient Center in sub-zero wea- ther. He left the center and was picked up by the roadside in a serious con- The laws concerning vaccination, vivisection and drugless doctors in the U. S. 8. R., are: Vaccination: All children must be vaccinated. They cannot enter school unless the school physician certifies that the child has been successfully vaccinated. All adults are to be vaccinated during epi- demics. The same holds true for children as regards immunization against diphtheria. Vivisection: There are no anti- vivisection laws or anti-vivisection societies in the Soviet Union. Drugless Doctors: There is only one type of medical doctor in the Soviet Union, since there are only standard medical schools; only those doctors are permitted to prac- tice who have a diploma from a medical school. These schools cor- respond to the accepted, scientifia medical institutions in this country, i.e, the Allopathic schools (as op- posed to homeopathic, osteopathic, naturopathic, etc.) Every doctor has the freedom of choice of a form of therapy which in his opinion is best suitable to the case in ques- tion. Thus, one doctor may employ physiotherapy in a given disease while another may use drugs ir treating the same disease, Be om a Advice on Chronic Cough. OMRADE D. M., of New York, writes:—“Since October, 1934, T have had one cold after another, most of them being very bad coughs, accompanied with severe pain in the chest. No sooner do T get rid of one cold, than another immediately pops up, despite all precaution I take. “During the month of December I visited a physician. After a super- ficial examination, he prescribed a cough medicine and concentrated Cod Liver Oil pills. I stopped the prescribed remedies after that partic ular cough eased up. In addition he prescribed rest and to stop smoking. “The Cod Liver Oil pills are too expensive to take continually and I am afraid of gaining weight. (In- cidentally, I am not underweight by any means). It was suggested that I take sun-ray treatments. If the same is advisable, I am ready to purchase a sun-ray lamp, if they are not too expensive.” (eek yes, | Your complaints of cough and pain in the chest are evidence of more than just a head-coid. Chronic cough is due to a variety of causes, such as, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, abscess of the lung, etc. Since you are not losing weight, the two last conditions are probably not the underlying cause of your trouble. Go to a Medical Clinic where a thorough examination of your chest will be made with the aid of X-rays. You will then be treated according to what is found. By all means do not throw your money away on sun-ray lamps, no matter how low a price is asked. They cannot help you in any way. The expense attached to the dubious treatment by means of Cod Liver Oil tablets is reason enough te aveid them. Adequate rest and nourishing food will help raise your resistance to future attacks of your ailment, but it is essential that you have your chest X-rayed. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK HEALTH AND HYGIENE Medical Adisory Board Magazine I wish to subscribe to Health and Hygiene. Enclosed please find $1 for a year’s subscription MaMA Tey tie hemos MNdbesn Sec rh eico Ohya as 3 late Scottsboro-Herndon Fund dition and then taken to the Schenectady City Jail. The next day they sent him back to the camp. They put him in a two-by-four room which they call a hospital, just reeking with dirt and filth. His medical attention was poor. Now he is dead. His onpresscrs appeal for donations for flowers, Internationa! Labor Defense Room 610, 80 East Lith Street, New York City I enclose $............a8 my immediate contribution to the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense Fund.