The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1935, Page 4

HOME LIFE — By — Ann Barton is a letter on whith ud be difficult for the ruling to comment. The facts are standing like a huge rock of reality in the midst of the it itable — fantastic fairy tale world that the vould like to have the eve is the world ih ve urgeois litera- e virtues of the ture broach American home that it is nauseating tO one with even a remote connec- tion with ‘greatest of American institutions.’ I quote my perisnices in this regard “I am the son of an iron miner fh a Minnesota city of 8,000 or so people. During the 22 years of my existence, have moved our ‘home’ exactly 19 different times. In other words, thirteen months on an average life’ for us in a certain neighbor- hood. Thén there has alwavs come the inevitable gathéring of our few pieces of furnitureé—and we go to another ‘home.’ “I remember three years ago when I returned from a few months ih the woods ahd I couldn’t find my home. Two days previously the family had been forced to move. I inquired from neighbors and friends, finding that my new ‘home’ was on the other side of the city. ore oe own ex- s “NJOR is it an easy. matter to be classed among the ‘jumping jack’ tenants. Once rubber-stamped with this name, the bankers are leary about renting néw ‘homes.’ Of ccurse it goes without saving that these miserable hovels aren’t worth the powder to blow them to hell, Still the bankers and rich property owners exnect monthly payments in advante—and at such exorbitant rates! “A Young Communist League member once asked me why I always addrezsed my letters to a post box address. I replied: ‘I haven't a home addtess that I can be sure about!’ Seviet power is the only Way out! “h, B.” FRIEND of mine wrote home during a visit to the Soviet Union. “Nowhere have I seen such faces, such people as here. The Way they walk; the way they hold their heads; their animation is dif- ferent from anything I have seen ‘They are a free and jovous people!” Tf makes one wonder what change Will take place in the American worke: hen after many struggiss, they have become masters of their own land. What sort of new Being will this American Soviet sys- tem create? The gnawing fear of insecurity will be an unknown thing. There will be an end to exploita- tion and oppression; thére will be shelter, food, work, security for all Who toil. It is a hadpy picture. Tt 18 one which will some day be an actuality. Soviet power is a complete solution. But to achieve means to teach the r strength in the or- 4 r unemployment and Social insurance (H. R. 2827), in ore ganization for higher wages, for un- employment relief. Then when the struggle for Soviet power is on the immediate order of the day, the workers will be in a position to win. Get your club, fraternal or mass erganization to elect a committee to plan activity among the mem- bership in the Daily Worker drive for 19,000 new daily and 15,000 réw Satutdny subs. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2092 is available in sizes 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 414 yards 36-inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Il- lustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included, FIGHT ANTI-PICKET ACT | By a Shoe Worker Correspondent HAVERHILL, Mass.—Becausé the | they wére innocént and “didn’t real- | manufacturers’ scheme for a twelve | ize it had such far reaching effects,” | ig }after the union officials began to| and a half per cent wage cut being met with opposition by the hoe workers, the loéal City Coitn= cil tried to put one over on the workers. The City Council passed the folloy ig ordinance: That it shall be the duty of police officers to move persons who hall stand, loiter, remain, walk about or congregate in any street or way or on any premise abutting thereon, and in the event such order is not obeyed forthwith the officers shall arrest such offenders.” As soon as this ordinance ap- peared in the press, Brother Porro and other agents of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, organ- ized themselves with the District Count¢il to protest against this “fas- cist injunction agaifst the workers,” as Brother Porro called it. Agent Tom Collins arranged for special meeting with the City a constituted ‘home | council to take wp this whole ques-| cil to withdraw this vicious anti- tion. At this meéting Mayor Dal- en oT Exposure Praised |Hub Cloakmakers B yl.MillerWorker By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—This is the first time I have ever written to the | Daily Worker. I probably wouldn't have written this letter if I hadn't seen the letter from a shoe worker in I. Miller in last Wednesday’s Daily Worker. This letter hit right where it hurts most. If there is one thing |that burns me up in this lousy | shop, it is being forced to pay for |damaged shoes. All day long, day if and day out, it is rush—rush— tush. You have to rush in ofder to make the few dollars you do. How {can you hélp making a few mis- takes whén you are working under such damnable speed-up? I. Miller certaifly has us where he wants us right now, and he is putting the screWs on us. But it seems to me that the only reason they can get away with it is be- | | yet. We workers do not realize our own stretigth. Look what happened when the Paterson dyers struck. Under solid, well organized rank and file lead- ership they won. The one day strike of the teamsters against the union smashing injunction made them sit up and-take notice. That is what we need to Win, a union—a strong, | Well organized rank and file union. We have the Boot and Shoe Union. It is lousy now because of | its leaders. It is up to us to make it better by running it ourselves for ourselves. Also I can say that I intend to look more thoroughly | papers and the bosses said. ing that they were workers like myself, who were fighting for the interests of the workers, I have seen that the Communists are for us, and so I am for them. Relief Heads Stab 'At Ames Strike By a Worker Correspondent SELMA, Ala.—The conditions at the Ames Beg Mill are getting worse and worse. The five girls are still out of work that were in the strike at this mill. Another girl and I got a job out in the city and Ames had us fired off | the job. He said that we will not | work in any place in Dallas County as long as he lives, and he will see | to it that the relief doesn’t help us. One of the girls went to the re- ‘\ lief to see whether he had stopped them from helping her. The relief woman told her that she ought to be beaten for not going back to the Ames Bag Mill. She also said that the rélief wasn’t going to help het or hér mother or brother. This girl's mother is uriable to do any kind of | work. One of the girls out of this fivé has ten-in the family and she is down with T. B. The relief only gave her eight cans of beef, ten pounds of white potatoes, two pounds of butter, that was all. For her three children they gave her one siweater and two pairs of | overalls for the two boys. They work her sister in the quilt- |ing department of the relief, with- | out any fire no matter how cold it is. They speak to her as if they were speaking to a dog. She only gets $4.95 a week. Slave-Driving Bosses Vacation in Florida By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK. — The Pechter Brothers of the Pechter Baking Company are now spending their winter in Florida. They are stop- |ping in the swankiest hotels. In | the summer they go to Europe. Why not? Business is good for the Pechter Brothers, thanks to the N. R. A. It meant a seven-dollar cut for all their drivers. It meant getting up three in the morning and knocking of at six. It means that these driv- ;ers work about eighty-four hours a week for about twenty-five dollars |So that the Péchter Brothers may | |spend their winter in Florida and | | their summers in Europe. None of the drivers have ever sot- | cause we are hot well organized as | jtymple and all the Aldermén said | expose this as intimidation. The aldefmen tried to provoke an argument with the Communist workers such aS Marino Brandolini who answered, “You afé directing this against Workers like myself, but that doesh't solve the problem of the shoe workers who are trying to | better their conditions.” | All locals of thé union and the} | Unemployed Council at the Unem- ployed Mass Meeting have sent | resolutions protesting the city or- jdinance and demanding that it be | withdrawn. | In the City of Lowell, also, the | Mayor hes declared himself openly in favor of using violence “if neoés- sary” against the pickets of the Legannis Shoe Co. Heré in Haverhill, the union is working for a spécial “town meéet- | ine” ih order to force the city coun- | ufiionh measure. The Ruling Clawas Under Attack | By a Needle Worker Correspondent | BOSTON, Mass.—Since the Inter- | national Ladies Garment Workers | Union officials of Boston did not ask | |for the improvement of the condi- | tions of the workers, the manufac-} |turers did ask the leaders for a Worsening of conditions. Tt is a well known fact that due to the rotten class collaboration | policies of the Dubinskys and Kra- | mets, the union shops have open | | Shop ¢ofditions, the N. R. A. mini-| mum has bétome the maxiinum, and thé speed-up on the little work | there has increased. | Heéfe are some remarks of a cloak- | | maker: “Last year we worked about | five months. Our scale is $49.50. | Off hand it looks like a lot of money | | doesn’t it? Well figure out the fol-| | lowing: The majority are getting| $31.50. Average it up for a year and |it amounts to about $50 a month. | There you have your N. R. A. with its high scale of wages.” These are | the well paid workers in the trade. | When you get down to some of the | other crafts, they don’t even average | that. The agreement expires Feb. | The union officials are stalling. The | | employers are pressing to make con- | ditions even worse, to introduce the |open shop. They are demanding a) 10 per cent cut, no legal holidays, | | reorganization (which means piecée- work) and tefrific speed-up. They | want apprenticés. They also want | to change the date of the eéxpira- | tion of the agreement to Jan. 1, 15. , “Poor Rodney's vacation i rnined—his 25,000 coal minérs want living conditions.” | | | | By a Worker Correspnodent TARRANT, Ala.—A strike of re- lief workers against working in a boots worn by other péople was won last Tuesday and all the men Were assigned to anothér project. Israel, @ foreman, claimed the white workers were not doing enough work whefe théy were so it was atranged to take the Negro workers cut of thé ditch and send the white workers down there. When the white workers got to the ditch they refused to go to Work. The men immediately elected a committee to see Joiner, the top foreman. Oh the way to see Joiner the committee stopped to tell other workers on the other projects about it and the Negroes promised 100 per cent support if the white work- ers called on them. The committee first met Sholtz, a superintendent, who acted angry | at first but was cooled down by the men. Sholtz took the committee to | |See Joiner and he wanted to argue | every point and réfuse to give in to | when there is a slack in the indus- no apprentic ArmstrongCorkCo.Head On Fascist Gang By a Worker Correspondent LANCASTER, Pa.—H. W. Prentis, Jr., president of the Armstrong Cork |Co., has gained distinction in the jfact that he is identified among the 25 known as the Committee for the Nation, selected by the National Association of Manuiacturers. | His gesociates back home, doubtedly have, and will congratu- late him for this distinction in this nation-wide recognition as a captain of industry. But the workers in his domain will have no reason for rejoicing at his appointment on this committee. Even though Mr. Prentis claims he is a friend of the workers, his work on his committee will be primarily anti-labor. A SCHOOL By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R.—The flood lights went on, showing a couple of acres of glittering, smooth ice. The | Red Army Band struck up @ march. Hundreds of kids shouted from the grandstand of the Pioneers’ own Stadium in Moscow. A graceful fig- | ure shot like an arrow out to the | center of the ice, raised a mega- phone, shouted, and a procession | began. In columns eight wide, 400 | school children skated out, halted, | faced the grandstand. With the pe- culiar distance eating shuffle of ex- perienced skiiers, other columns moved along the snow covered sides of the fields. These were the champion winter sports teams of the schools of 23 | cities, scattered all over the Boviet |Union, They had been given free transportation and keep by the Bu- preme Council of Physical Culture, | a branch of the government, to take |part in a mateh for All-Union | championships. I was seeing the jlast of three days of it. Behind me, in the audience, a | little girl, perhaps ten years old | finished her argumént with her | mother and dashed down to get her Place in the ranks. The argument went like this: | | bring my Pioneer tie?” “Where would you wear it, over your sweater?” “Td wear it somewhere!” The 23 teams stand rank on rank, eech dressed in the athletics color | Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins ten a day's vacation and some of | Of its city. I can see Moscow's red, or stamps (coins preferred) for each Arne Adams pattern (New York Gity residents should add one cent tax for each pattern order). Write plainly, ‘your name, address and stylt number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE WANTED. Adéress orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department: 243- West 17th Sireet, New York City. area un- | 6 “Mama, Mama, why didn’t you | anything. This slave-driver, Joiner into the program of the Commu-|try. Only after the manufacturers | Claims that he is a union man and nist Party. Up till now 1 allowed | made known their demands did the Yet refuses to recognize the prin- myself to the bulldozed by what the | union present the following de-|ciPles of trade unionism. The men . But | mands: Four legal holidays, a 10 | Jet Joiner know that he was nothing | after seeing some of them and see- | per cent increase, week work, and |but 4 D.P.W. scab as far as they were concerned and they would _AppealEndangered | In‘Dynamite’ Case By a Textile Worker Correspondent DANVILLE, Va—The necessary funds for getting the evidence copied in the Burlington “dynamite” case have not yet been raised, This week we just learned that they had raised the amount from $300 to $440. This places the Workers De- fense Committee in an urgent sit- uation. The money must be in by Feb. 20. We must get this evidence or no appeal can go forward, I am a worker from Danville, Va., but also a member of the Workers Defense Committee. I am urging every worker who reads about this case to do what he can to publicize it, popularize it among the work- ers, and tty to get & little money names: right in front of me is Kazan, and holding it the Tartar children, with Mongolian faces. Don Levine Lies Across the field is a picture of Stalin...I think of the article by Isac Don Levine that I have just read, in the New York American, Dec. 16, in which he tries to prove by “authoritative information” that “Rustian youth is on the move, against the Soviet government!” It is ridiculous. Here is the youth, before me, all around me, eager and care free. A voice shouts over the loud speaker. It is Khachinka, of the Supreme Council of Physical Culture, one of those “agents of Stalin” that Levine talks about as the special objects of hatred of the “Russian youth.” The voice says: “You are building your bodies to | faithfully build socialism, to defend | your workers’ fatherland—Are you ready?” And a rolling chorus answers from the children, the watchword of the Pionters, but shouted by all, Pio- neers or not: “Always ready!” A rocket shoots up, a brilliant fireworks display begins, and the last round of the three days’ contest begins too. Faney Skating Three little girls and a boy, all in blue coats and white tights, whiz out and perform complicated figures on the ict, baautifully balanced as | they spin on one foot, glide that wey in complicated maneuvers, waltz together, They are from the i them have worked there for ycars.| befitting the capital of the révolu-| school of the Dynamo sports club, | Not one of them can afford to send | his family on a vacation. | hasn’t done an: | conditions. |the dues for the are the organizer: know from nuthi i tionary proletariat of the world. There is Leningrad’s blue, like the On the banners, though 2 set ¥ Leningrad. Alabama Relief Workers Win Strike! As Negro and White Act Jointly ditch full of water and wearing | HOLIDAY IN THE SOVIET UNION Next a group of boys in blazing Oh yes, they have a union, but it! waters of the Neva. There is the) scarlet, from the school of the Mos- thing to better their! white of Kharkov, like the snow | cow Piones. Stadium, do other and Pechter Brothers pays covered steppes of the Ukraine. And | more difficult maneuvers. The Len- nen. Brown and there are all the colors of the rain-| inzrad youngsters were aged eight Union Local 136) bow and ceveral besities, I don't to tweive years, the Mescoy group! line, something thet rou do when t they “don’t | knety what all of them sttnd for. 13 older, ud to sixteen, strike to have him fired if he didn't watch his step. The men didn’t gét any satisfac- |tion then so they called a mass | | meeting of men from the jobs. About oné hundred attended (50 | Negro and 50 white workers) and voted unanimously for a citywide | strike if thé démand Was not won the next morning. The next morning Joiner sent | word that he wantéd to ste Dave Smith, the leader of the strike, at the City Hall. The rumor spread that Joiner would have Smith ar- rested as an agitator. The workers elected another committee to see Joiner and all the men pledged that if Smith was put in jail they would get him out damn quick. When the Committee got to the | City Hall they met Abbott and | Sholtz, two D.P.W. officials, as well ag Joiner. They seemed very anx- ious for a settlement and Sholts | {let the cat out of the bag. The | Relief workers in Kimberly had struck and won a $9.60 a week wage. They didn’t want anything like that to develop in Tarrant. The Relief Workers League has many new members as a result of | ) the strike and the fact that Dave | Smith, the président of the League, \was the strike leader. The mén are | Planning further action for other | (demands in the near future. | Which is so desperatély needed right now! We are doing what we can here in the local committee. We have raised $150 of the amount already. But it looks like unless we get help from other workers we won't be able to meet the full $440 by Feb. 20. Workers are urgéd to write or | send funds to Workers Defense Committ2e, Box 27, Graham N, C. 22 Boys Fired SALAMANCA, N, Y. Feb. 12.— ‘Twenty-two C. ©. ©. boys, siationed in Camp 57 at Allegheny State Park near her, were discharged after a protest against rotten food. Camp Commander Lieutenant Low- man said that the boys were ring leaders im the protest against breakfast. Bernard Mooney, one of those fited, said that the meal con- sisted of two cold pancakes, oatméal and milk. $6-$7 A WEEK IN MILL By & Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La.—t have just returned from a visit in the neigh: | borhood of the Lane Cotton Mill. | ‘The mill is now tuning on two shifts, or rather on one and a half, as the second shift does not get in @ full week, The first shift usually gets 30 houfs a week, while the second shift only gets from 22 to 24 hours. The rate of pay is only 30 cents per hour, so the hatids on the seeond shift make from $6.60 to $7.20 a week. While the cost of living rises steadily the pay of the workers is falling. The management of the mill is slowly but steadily reducing the force. Although the reduction is slow, if it continues until June 1, there Will not be enough people in the mill to make a noise. This entire state is going from bad to worse. In New Orleans for example, half the population are members of the “Old Regular’ Walmsley faction, while there are about half that are membets of Huey Long’s “Share Your Wealth Society.” Every time that éither Long or Walmsley moves there are several hundred people that lose their jobs. There is another small group known a8 the Square Deal Associ- | ation, which by the tone of the Joeal press, se6ms to be backed by! Standard Oil, that is almost in| opeh warfare With the state ad-| ministration. The state capital is under the protection of the Netional Guards. | We can't decide yet who is goifig | to get it, thé citizens of the state | or His Royal Highness Huey, Huey is trying to get the Negro popula- | tion to register as votets atid to} vote for him because he is going to rin for president of the United States in the next election. He thinks Negro workets have forgotten that statement that he made at the State Capitol last Au- gust When a delegation from New Ofleans went to ask him t6 do something abotit the 15,000 people that had been cut off the Federal relief rolls, He said that “thate had never been A Nigger in the State Capitol and that there never would.” There was also & delegation that weht to thé Roosevelt Hotel to try to persuade Huéy the Great to use his influence in behalf of the aged and crippled in the state. This group of people was also denied the opportunity of seeing Senator Long because there was amongst them a few “Niggers.” (Huey’s words.) | | Passaic Chamber’s| Fascist Appeal By a Worker Correspondent PASSAIC, N, J.—Thé Passaic Chamber of Commerce has issued | a vicious anti-union, strikebreaking cirewlar, In big bold fate type the heading reads, “Mote than 5,000) NEW JOBS, 43 NEW COMPANIES | —Our Improved Labor Record | Brought Them Here.” | The circular goes on to say: | “Not 86 many years ago, Passaic’s | labor reputation Was bad. Result— | industriés, Moved otit afd wofkers | Jost their jobs. “Today Passaic’s labor reputation is better. That’s why we have been able to bring more than 40 new companies here during the last year—companies in which 5,000 of your friends and neighbors have found work. “Needless labor troubles can spoil the fine reputation Passaic 1s building up. If that reputation is hurt we can’t bring more mills to Passaic because manufacturers won't move to a city which has a record for strikes and labor trouble.” Why is the Chamber of Com- meéreé issuing such a pamphlet? I know the answer and so do other workers. It is because the hand- kerchief workers and the woolen workers are beginning to organize. The Chamber of Commerce is try- ing to keep the workers away from | unions. | Where are those 43 concetns that | moved into Passaic? None of my friends or neighbors has found work | in these concérns. I believe there | are more people on relief now than | last year. I know of one slipper factory that.came to Passaic from Clifton, @ neighboring city, and not because of labor trouble either. They brought their help with them. By the way, the woolen and handkerchief workers work only three to four months a year full time. The rest of the year they make only a few dollars a week. NOTE: | Every Wetinesday we publish | letters from textile, shoe and needle workers, We urge work- ers in these industries to write ws of their conditions and efforts to organize. Please get these letters to us by Saturday of each week. Help the Daily Worker secure 10,000 new daily and 15,000 new instructors, from Moscow give an | exhibition, to set a high matk for | thé youthful sportsmen. They swoop and slide, flashing skates and swinging arms: the girl suddenly hooks both heels around the neck of the man (don’t ask me how it is done) and, standing erect, he spins round and round like a top swinging the girl in great circles—then, as suddenly, she is on her feet again and skating in curves like those of a swallow in flight. And 80, on ahd on, into the night it goes, on the glittering ice, re- fiecting the floodlights, the Army band playing like mad, the spec- tators, old and young, shouting en- couragement. The affair finally ended with a great masked and costumed carnival on skates. The temperature was about zero, but the audience of workers and workers’ children, in padded coats, and fur caps and felt boots sat on snow-covered wooden steps and watched—as for the contestants, they were probably tco busy to feel cold. Anyway, the “Russian youth” that Levine feels so sorry about is | pretty sturdy. High Marks Set They made pretty good records during the contest. A boy named Gorinzev was first out of a field of 55 in the 100 meter skating, with a time of 12.3 seconds. The All-Union record for adults is a 104. A girl named Chistakova, from Moscow, made the 100 meters in 13 seconds | flat. The All-Union record for adult women is 12.4. When these young- sters Used up, those records will fall. must be remembered that outside of the physi¢al culture di- rectors, there are no professionals, and no wealthy amateurs who do nothing but take part in sports. The contestants até workers, or workers’ children, with whom sport is & side Ninety-two competed in the five kilometer skeeing race in Sokolniki Park. The Tula team won, then Petrozavodsk, where are a lot of American Finns. Third was Arch- angel. However, Archangel won the three-day contest as a whole, with Moscow second, Smolensk third, Physical sports are not the only things that interest Soviet school children during their two weeks mid-winter vacation. At Kiev, 1,000 children are participating in a con- test in painting, sculpture and graphic art. In Moscow a new “House of Artistic Upbringing” has just been opened, with dr’matic, art and sculpture, and literary cir- cles, and a children’s symphonic or- chestra. But at these ages, athletics is the main thing, and in countless cities and villages, local matches are go- ihg on, watched as eagerly as the Moscow children and their adult friends and parents wateh the All- Union contests. Ippolitov, Honored Master of Sport, spoke to the contestants and his story indicates the differences be- tween the attitudes of a capitalist society to athletics for workers’ children and the attitude of a S0- viet society. He told how, when he was @ child, in the Russia before the Revolution, he used to sneak over the fence into a skating rink, and quite frequently be chascd out ignominously on discovery. He did most of his skating on one skate in the ertisted snow of the streets. On days of real competitions, he stcod outside the fence, with his face glued to & crack, and cried because he could hardly distinguish the out- lines of the competitors, heroes of his childhood dreams. Impolitov is now A teacher in the school of skating at the Young Pioneers’ | your regul® work or studies are Two adults, “acters of sport,”| through for the dey, | 8he is strong for the union. Company Union Head Defied By a Worker Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— Mts. Bill Ballinger was kicked out of the Women’s Club at the Avondale Mill last Thursday by Old Lay Malone, the woniel's organiser for the com- pany “inion.” Bill Ballinger was fired a féw weeks ago for union ac- tivity, and now they are trying to get his wife out of the mill because Mrs, Ballinger was going to beat up Old Lady Malone bit’ some of the stools protected thé scab organ- izer. It got so hot that the police were called. The police advised Mrs. Ballinger to quit the club because it Was no good. Mrs. Ballinger-agreed that the elub Was no good but she wouldn’t let Old Lady Malone kick her out. Mrs. Ballinger said she would beat up Malone the first chance she got so now Malone has a bodyguard of scabs. Carl Mangum, the superintendent, said he wasn’t going to have Old Lady Malone run over like that, and threatened to call Mrs. Ballinger to the office, most likely to fire her. However, a Communist leaflet on another issue aroused so much sén- timent among the mill hands that: Mangum didn’t dare call her in the office, and so far he has not both- ered Mrs. Ballinger. Red Cross Looks For Scabs By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I am a Communist and stay at the Veterans’ Canton- ment. I went to the Red Cross Building at 315 Lexington Avenue, looking for a job. But they sent me down to the National Biscuit Company at 14th Street and 10th Avenue, to take a striker’s place and be a seab on a fellow worker. I refused to go, and I was put out of the Red Cross building as fan undesirable veteran, Minister Uses Misery As Basis for Profits CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 12—How a home for unmarried mothers was used as a front for the most shame- less exploitation of human misery, is b€ing brought to the light in the exposure of the conditions at the Beulah maternity home here. Warrants are out for the arrest of “Daddy” Edward L. Brook, Con+ gregational minister who operated | the home. | Babies, it is charged, were sold for adoption, regardless of the mothers’ wishes in the matter. | That great numbers of the babies died and were buried illegally, is another charge. Many of the bod- ies brought for free burial were de- composed, and on that ground were | refused by medical authorities who use unclaimed cadavers in their work, Brook deposited thousands of dol- lars to his own bank account from | the profits of this miserable ex- ploitation. Youth Congress Hears Goy. Olson in St. Paul ST. PAUL, Minn, Feb. 12—A | united front Youth Congress with | more than 930 delegates from seven midwestern states opened its ses-_ sions here today. A program to unite all youth groups on a common platform of Strugale similar to that adopted at the American Youth Congress is being discussed. Among those who have already spoken are John Strachey, Floyd Olson, Governor of Minntsota, Levine, member of the national committee of the United Parmers League. Buffalo Cab Drivers Call General Strike BUFFALO, N. Y¥., Feb. 12.—A gen- eral strike of taxi drivers against lon_ working hours took effect hore today with taxi service virtually crippled. The strike was called yes- terday following a meeting of Local 153 of the Taxicab Chauffeurs Union. 2% Cars of the Van Dyne and the Fifty-Fifty Companies, two of the Stadium. The new generation of \ workers’ children does not have to sneak over the fence, standstill. Railroad stations, largest operators, are at a complete | om HEALTH — By — Metical Advisory Board t Facial Paralysis in Young Giri . L., Cleveland, Ohio: You writa for advice concerning paralysis | of ome side of your fate, following complications from an infected tooth four years ago. There has been considerable but not complete recovery. All the muscles of the body are controlied by nerves. In your case the nerve supplying the muscles of the laft side of the face were sév- erély damaged by the infection, which probably was hot confined to the jaw. There has been inesm- plete fécovery of the nérve, and therefore, the contro! of the muscles is imperfect, causing them to sag. AS regards the question of curé, this is a difficlt problem. We would strongly advise yot not to waste your monéy on éléectrical de- viees, and the other forms of fake cures which are so abundant in capitalist Society, where the only Object in manufacture is to make monéy. The best thing for you to do wotlld bé to go t6 the néurologic dispensary connected with the Uni- versity Clinic at Cleveland. Bale Chiropractors in the Soviet Union OMRADE F. M. of New York asks what is the siatus of chiroprac- tors in the U. 8. 8. R. We quote from ah article by C. V. Smith, a chiropractot who has just returned from @ tour of study of medical in- stitutions in Europe, especially in the U. S. S. R.: “In Soviet Russia medicine has a complete monopoly of the healing art, évén to the extent that dentists as such do not exist. They are medical graduate who come under the “tufativé preventive” branch of Socialized Medicine. Needitss to say, further, that all eye work like- wise comes under the aegis of medicine. Thete are no stich things as chifopractic, osteopathy, optom- etry, etc, in Russia today. The various adjuncts used commonly by drugiess healers, suéh as, massage, hydrotherapy, etc. are handled in a vefy scientific manner by these same medical Goctors.” Is Syphilis Cutable . S New York City: Syphilis is curable. Regardless of whether the blood tests are negative early in the course of treatment, the latter should be given for at least three years. At least four courses (ten injections each) of salvarsan ahd four courses (fifteen injections each) of bismuth of tmeteury should have been received by the patient before stopping treatment. After to years more of symptom free observa- tion, whieh ineludes negative spinal fluid examination, the patient can tatty. If your friend follows this course of treatment and is still free of Symptoms or signs of syphilis at the end of five years, there is no reason why you should not have children who are ftée from the | disease. As to whether he will ever go in- sane because of this disease, we be- lieve thé above rules apply here too. He will not, if he follows the above- prescribed course of treatment and remains free of the disease under the above-named conditions. The chancfe appears in the first stage of the disease, that is, within a month after exposure to abee: tion. In women it is quite often overlooked because of its frequent location within the vagine. The second stage, which is characterized by the rash, occurs in the month following the chancre. Here too the rash may be so mild as not to be noticed. For yourself, would sug- gest a blood test done every six months for the next few years, ef- tirely aS & measure of precaution and safety. ; Addresses Wanted ROM now on we will be forced to ignore letters that come in without addresses. We wish to as- sure you that all letters are held in strictest confidence and are an- swered personally, Will the follow- ing comfades please s¢nd in their addresses: E. Bond; T. T. Dana; Ashamed; . &; B. A, Bronx; J. M, New York; Larry; Irving Goodman; Betty Mermelstein; A comrade (Jan. 14, date of letter); A Victim (Epilepsy); Harry Lieberman; “Reader”; Bill Roberts. Get your club, fratermal or mass organization to elect a committee to plan activity among the mem- bership in the Daily Worker drive for 10,000 new daily and 15,000 new Saturday subs. 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